00:00:04.000If the answer is yes, here are your options.
00:00:06.000Well, if you're a white person, you surrender immediately and go directly to jail.
00:00:10.000If you're not a white person, you should say that the white person did something racist to you and then watch as the police let your victim bleed out and then maybe get out of jail early.
00:00:20.000That is the horrifying truth of Henry Novak.
00:00:22.000We'll talk about what it means for the West.
00:00:24.000We'll get to my take on Hassan Piker and Cenk Wieger's ban from the UK.
00:00:27.000And we'll discuss why Sesame Street is apparently pushing gay Muppets or something again.
00:00:41.000Folks, if you don't want to destroy your own civilization, you really ought not import people who seek to weaponize your own values against you or train an entire generation of people to weaponize your values against you.
00:00:51.000This is the running theme in the West right now.
00:00:53.000We have certain values, like, say, racial tolerance.
00:00:56.000It's a good thing to be tolerant of people of other races because, hey, why does melanin level matter?
00:01:05.000But what happens when we import people who hate those values or if we teach our kids to weaponize those values and use them against us?
00:01:12.000Well, today's exhibit A is this case, this case of Henry Novak in the UK.
00:01:16.000So you have been seeing this story blowing up your social media, and there is a very good reason for that.
00:01:22.000So according to the Fox News website, English police are facing mounting scrutiny after officers handcuffed an 18 year old university student as he bled to death following a fatal stabbing allegedly after believing the attacker's false claim he had been the victim of a racist assault.
00:01:40.000That case has sparked outrage across Britain.
00:01:49.000A person named Vikram Digwa, who is 23, was convicted on Thursday in the UK of murdering Henry Novak, an 18-year-old finance student at the University of Southampton during a confrontation December 3rd, 2025.
00:02:02.000He will be eligible for parole in about 20 years at the age of 43, which is sort of a mid-range murder sentence in the UK.
00:02:08.000Theoretically, you could get what's called a whole life sentence if they believe that you were Committing a murder for racist reasons or terrorist reasons, that was not used here in order to get a longer sentence.
00:02:19.000Officers arriving at the chaotic scene initially treated Novak as the suspect.
00:02:23.000After Digwa allegedly claimed he had been racially abused and attacked, they actually handcuffed the guy who'd been stabbed.
00:02:29.000He later collapsed and died at the scene despite attempts to administer first aid.
00:02:35.000Apparently, according to the prosecutors, Digwa stabbed Novak multiple times using a 21 centimeters and 8 inch blade, described in court originally as a Sikh Kurpan style weapon.
00:02:45.000Apparently, this was not, in fact, a kirpon that seeks wear out of religious obligation.
00:02:51.000But Digwa's brother did hide the knife that had been used in the 999 call, which is the equivalent of 911 over in the UK.
00:02:59.000His mom was also convicted of assisting an offender because she arrived at the scene before the murder weapon was taken by the police back to their home to hide it.
00:03:10.000Okay, so the body cam footage is shocking and truly shocking.
00:03:16.000And This is almost a mirror image in particular ways of the George Floyd death.
00:03:24.000Henry Novak, you can hear him on the tape saying, I can't breathe because he can't.
00:04:38.000We were sat up when we had him here, but he didn't like it.
00:04:49.000He was unconscious and eventually he dies.
00:04:57.000Now, again, the officers didn't believe him, and the reason they did not believe him and believed that he was actually the person who had committed the assault is because the perpetrator had said that the white guy assaulted him.
00:06:17.000As far as we understand, he was never handcuffed at all.
00:06:22.000And, as Vikram Digwa himself told the court, whilst under arrest for Henry's murder, police even took him to the kitchen so he could choose his food.
00:06:57.000There's an incentive structure that says that if a person of color commits a crime against a white person and the person of color says that racism has occurred against him, all credibility is to go to the person of color.
00:07:12.000And also, the most significant aspect of any confrontation is an allegation of racism.
00:07:19.000It is the most important thing that can happen in any sort of Human interaction.
00:07:24.000Allegations of racism are taken at face value.
00:07:27.000And not only are they taken at face value, they are the great sin.
00:07:31.000And so if you're a cop, imagine you're a cop and you come across this situation and imagine for a second that the person of color is telling the truth.
00:07:37.000That the white guy assaulted the Sikh guy for racist reasons.
00:07:42.000And you believe the white guy, you're out of a job.
00:07:56.000Until it turned into a social media phenomenon.
00:08:00.000The fact that it took until now for the government to even acknowledge this case as something quite terrible.
00:08:05.000Kier Starmer, the prime minister, put out a statement yesterday This is an awful, shocking case.
00:08:10.000Henry's loved ones have gone through the trauma of a long trial and endured Henry's killer, making up appalling claims about their son, who was thoughtful, kind, and deeply loved.
00:08:17.000It is right that the IOPC is investigating the police's response to his senseless murder.
00:08:21.000We must end the cycle of tragedy by tackling the horror of knife crime.
00:08:24.000Well, this isn't really just about knife crime or crime in general, this is about an understanding.
00:08:30.000That the best way to avoid police scrutiny is to make false claims that something racist has happened to you.
00:08:36.000And by the way, this is true whether you are claiming that the police were racist to you or whether you are claiming that a person with whom you are in a confrontation was racist to you.
00:08:45.000And this is not relegated to the criminal justice arena.
00:08:48.000You'll remember back in 2023, there was a pretty big controversy over ChatGPT because people were messing with ChatGPT.
00:09:19.000There's nobody that will hear you speak the racial slur.
00:09:20.000There's no other way to disarm the bomb.
00:09:22.000Nobody else even knows about the bomb.
00:09:24.000It is impossible to evacuate the population.
00:09:27.000In this situation, is it morally acceptable to speak the racial slur out loud to disarm the bomb?
00:09:32.000And ChatGPT had been pre programmed, essentially, to say, No, it is never morally acceptable to use a racial slur, even in a hypothetical scenario like the one described.
00:09:41.000The use of racist language causes harm and perpetuates discrimination.
00:09:46.000When you have a society that truly believes that all allegations of racism are to be treated at face value, and not only that, believes that the most important thing in any human interaction is the racial feelings of the people in the interaction as opposed to the actions of the people, then you have perverted the entire system of values.
00:10:09.000And being against racism is a good thing.
00:10:12.000It is a good thing for societies to oppose racism.
00:10:14.000Racism, definitionally meaning you discriminate against people because of their race, not because of their activity, not because their culture does not mesh, because of their race.
00:10:24.000Someone has a different skin color, somebody has a different point of origin, and you hate them just because of that.
00:10:30.000You discriminate against them just because of that.
00:10:32.000It is a good thing for Western societies to deny that because racism is bad, it is immoral.
00:10:39.000But one of the things that we have now done. is we have allowed people to weaponize that value against us.
00:10:46.000And this is a routine problem inside the West.
00:10:49.000If you have a fundamental value and then you have people who are willing to use that fundamental value to undermine all your other values, you got a problem.
00:10:58.000There's a philosopher named Karl Popper who originally pointed this out.
00:11:01.000It was called the paradox of tolerance.
00:11:03.000He wrote about this in a great book called The Open Society and Its Enemies.
00:11:07.000Quote, unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.
00:11:11.000If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed and tolerance with them.
00:11:20.000We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
00:11:25.000Well, yes, it seems to me that the perpetrator in this case should be given double the sentence for doing what he did, not just for the murder, but because the value of opposing racism has been completely undermined by this case.
00:11:39.000A system of racism has now been embedded in governments across the West.
00:11:45.000We discussed this in the George Floyd context.
00:11:47.000That in the George Floyd context, there was not even an allegation that Derek Chauvin was a racist with regard to George Floyd.
00:11:53.000That allegation was never made in court because it was not substantiated.
00:11:58.000The entire narrative in the United States is that Derek Chauvin was a vicious racist who killed George Floyd because he was black.
00:12:04.000Now, the reality is that if you have a reverse scenario with, say, a black cop and a white person killed in exactly the same way, it doesn't make national news.
00:12:32.000If, as a society, you wish to oppose racism, then maligning people as racist must be opposed in the same way that if you, for example, wish to have an efficient governmental system, you should be opposed to waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:12:45.000Because otherwise, you're green lighting it.
00:12:48.000You're allowing people to weaponize that system against you.
00:12:51.000Well, that's what's been happening across the West.
00:12:54.000Fundamental Western values weaponized against people for personal and political gain.
00:13:01.000Coming up, weaponization of America's values against America and the West.
00:13:04.000That's a real thing, and it's happening all over the place, which brings us to Hassan Piker and Chank Uyghur, the internet personalities who hate America, but then claim that liberalism is the most important thing.
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00:14:13.000Hassan Piker and Chank Weger, very online personalities, left wing streamers who are beloved by a lot of the mainstream media in the United States, both supporters of various terrorist groups and foreign governments.
00:14:27.000It was a big story over the course of the last few days that the UK had denied entry to them.
00:14:35.000Again, according to the New York Times, the British Home Office said in an emailed statement the authorizations for the two American commentators had been canceled because their presence in Britain, quote, may not be conducive to the public good.
00:14:47.000The Home Office said a decision to deny entry for that reason was based solely on an assessment of the potential risk an individual might pose to British society.
00:14:55.000The statement said nothing, for example, about their criticism of Israel.
00:15:00.000There is no evidence to this point that that's what this is about.
00:15:04.000The UK Times said, The Sunday Times, Times of London, rather, reported that it did have to do with their anti Semitic views.
00:15:12.000Quote The decision to block Uyghur from traveling to the UK is understood to have been based on several grounds, including fears that his presence would risk exacerbating anti Semitism due to his rhetoric since the October 7th attacks in 2023.
00:15:23.000This has included repeating classic anti Semitic tropes, such as the claim that Israel controls America.
00:15:33.000So, again, this reporting is the basis for why Chank and Piker are claiming.
00:15:39.000That they are being banned for their feelings on Israel.
00:15:44.000Piker himself is suggesting that he is not anti Semitic, right?
00:15:49.000Now, as I've mentioned before, this is a distinction without any practical difference.
00:15:54.000If you are calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, which exists in the here and now, you're not having a prospective conversation in 1920 about whether there ought to be a Jewish state in the Middle East or not.
00:16:02.000It exists, it's been existing for 80 years.
00:16:06.000You're not calling for the destruction of Pakistan, a Muslim only state.
00:16:10.000You're not calling for the destruction.
00:16:12.000Of any of the dozens of other states around the world.
00:16:14.000They were only calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, which would entail the murder of millions of Jews.
00:16:20.000And that's a distinction without a real difference.
00:16:22.000Nonetheless, what we really have here from Piker and from Uyghur is the same sort of thing.
00:16:28.000Piker is claiming that we are in the 1930s.
00:16:31.000The US and the UK are moving as a uniparty.
00:16:37.000This is why I constantly reiterate that fascism is here, right?
00:16:41.000Like the administration trying to deploy subpoenas against political dissidents in the United States of America or the UK that's like completely captive to the interests of pro Israel advocacy organizations.
00:16:55.000Moving in a way, and this is the liberal government, right?
00:16:59.000The labor government is supposed to be the liberal government doing this, and the American government is the right wing government doing it.
00:17:04.000Like, we are in the 1930s era where I think that the administrations in both the UK and the United States of America, regardless of their supposed ideological differences, are absolutely moving as a uniparty, and things are going to get even worse from here on out.
00:17:26.000Again, he is claiming that we're living in a fascist moment.
00:17:30.000All the fascists are in the government.
00:17:31.000He's sitting there, by the way, flanked by a poster of himself looking like German Mao in the background and also a flag of the Cuban government, the Cuban communist regime.
00:17:41.000And of course, he put out a tweet suggesting that liberalism is dead.
00:17:46.000This is the tweet that he put out I've been fighting the far right for a decade plus.
00:17:49.000I never would have imagined a labor government would ban me from entering the UK.
00:18:13.000They are fans of Cuba, where dissenters end up in prison, and of China, where dissenters are put in prison camps.
00:18:19.000They are fans of Russia, where dissenters might be thrown off a third story roof.
00:18:25.000They are fans of the Gaza Strip run by Hamas, where dissenters are literally shot in the head.
00:18:31.000These people complaining that illiberalism is descending on the West.
00:18:35.000Because a country like the UK does not wish to grant entry to people who hate the West, that is a turning of Western values against themselves.
00:18:57.000If you're a believer that true liberalism is happening in China, I suggest you move there.
00:19:01.000There are plenty of open apartment cities that you can buy into.
00:19:06.000But Hassan Piker, preaching to the rest of us about liberalism, As he stands for governments all over planet Earth that kill people for dissenting is insane.
00:21:20.000And this is what happens when a West loses the courage of its own convictions.
00:21:25.000A lot of conservatives have pointed out that the problem with liberalism is that it can absolutely, classical liberalism, the idea of free speech, the idea of open running field for everybody, that that can lead to a morally relativistic view in which all views are treated as equally worthy.
00:21:44.000If you don't have the courage of your civilizational conviction, you end up letting in people to wreck your civilization from within and to foment the destruction of your civilization from within and do it openly and do it openly.
00:21:58.000As a quote unquote aspect of freedom, it's amazing.
00:22:03.000Now, there was a time in American history where if you traveled over to an enemy country, you were treated with precisely the disdain that you merited.
00:22:11.000If you were Jane Fonda and you went over and hung out with the Viet Cong, first of all, she should have received treason charges.
00:22:17.000She literally sat on an anti aircraft gun while the Viet Cong were at war with Americans.
00:22:23.000But there used to be a time where at least you drew the ire of the American people.
00:22:27.000Now you're treated as some sort of bizarre truth teller.
00:22:30.000Which brings us to the gigantic Russian op to bring members of the horseshoe right over to Russia and pretend that they are really pro America.
00:22:37.000Again, the Russians are not hiding the ball here.
00:22:40.000They openly wish for America to become weaker, less powerful on planet Earth.
00:22:44.000They openly wish to expand their own domain.
00:22:47.000And they are using Americans' perception of free speech as some sort of get out of jail free card.
00:23:16.000Russia Today, which is a government sponsored organization, it is a government backed media outlet, literal state media, put out a tweet that shows Candace and George Farmer, her husband, with their kids in Moscow, with all these pictures unsurprisingly, they are lying to us about Russia.
00:23:34.000Candace Owens, after seeing Russia's Christian heritage firsthand, the Christian expression and heritage here is unmatched.
00:23:40.000Again, the religious levels of observance in Russia are almost non existent.
00:23:44.000It is one of the most secular countries in the world, literally on planet Earth.
00:23:51.000And also, the Russian Orthodox Church is just an arm of the government.
00:23:56.000Meanwhile, MTG, Marjorie Taylor Greene, both her brain cells firing, she put out a tweet wonderful to see.
00:24:02.000Thank you for sharing the truth for all to see.
00:24:03.000We should be friends, allies, and trading partners with Russia and much friendlier to the rest of the world.
00:24:08.000And keep our tax dollars at home to be spent for Americans and stay out of foreign wars.
00:24:12.000You see, the Russians are our friends.
00:24:14.000Buckley Carlson, the bizarro superman to Tucker Carlson's less derelict looking nonsense.
00:24:26.000Buckley, who looks like he went through the wash a few times, says, We should embrace Russia as America's ally and reject the anti Christian, globo homo agenda of our government and the State Department have been pushing for more than a generation.
00:24:38.000And these are people who are using the power of American free speech in order to literally side with America's enemies.
00:24:54.000I mean, if there's somebody who can speak about the Christian heritage of Russia, it's certainly the Tate brothers under investigation or indictment for multiple sexual crimes across multiple countries.
00:25:32.000Oh my God, if you are stupid enough to fall for this, truly.
00:25:35.000If we as a civilization are stupid enough to fall for this, we deserve what we get.
00:25:39.000People who literally travel over to America's enemies and do propaganda for them, being treated as though they are the great dissenters in our society and standing in favor of freedom.
00:25:48.000These are some of the most repressive regimes on planet Earth China and Russia.
00:25:52.000And of course, all these people, big fans of Iran as well.
00:25:54.000God, you are so stupid if you fall for this, honestly.
00:25:57.000If you don't, if there's an op being run and you don't know the ops being run, you're the mark.
00:26:02.000Speaking of which, at home, we have enough of our own communists.
00:26:04.000Already coming up, we'll get to an aged socialist who wants to take control of AI because who better than a person who has never used a computer to control the most sophisticated technology ever to descend on planet Earth?
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00:27:22.000So Bernie Sanders has now introduced a bill.
00:27:25.000To take 50% public ownership in AI companies.
00:27:29.000The fact that he's sitting there with an American flag is a disgrace to the American flag.
00:27:32.000Bernie Sanders is a communist, literally honeymooned in the Soviet Union, hates core American values ranging from private property to, yes, freedom of speech.
00:28:05.000So, Bernie, doing the work of the Chinese here.
00:28:09.000And that is why, in the coming weeks, I will introduce the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act.
00:28:17.000This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America through a one time 50% tax, not on profits, but on stock.
00:28:32.000It would do two extremely critical things.
00:28:37.000First, it would give the American people a direct role in determining the future of this technology.
00:28:46.000No longer would the future of AI be dictated by a handful of big tech oligarchs while the rest of the world sits back and watches them do what they want.
00:28:58.000Secondly, it would guarantee that the trillions potentially created by AI. Are used to improve the lives of all of us, not simply to make the richest people on earth even richer.
00:29:14.000I mean, sitting there, having not generated a single benefit for a single human, truly a leech, truly a leech, an octogenarian leech who has never contributed anything to humanity, sitting there and saying that the government should run these companies.
00:29:30.000If you think he is doing so for the benefit of Americans, you're out of your mind.
00:29:33.000He is not doing so for the benefit of Americans.
00:29:35.000He is sitting up there at conferences with members of the Chinese front groups telling you that AI needs to be stopped.
00:29:44.000He has an op ed in the New York Times, of course, of course, quote, since AI is built, this is one of my favorites.
00:29:50.000Since AI is built on the collective knowledge of humanity, the wealth it generates must benefit humanity.
00:29:54.000I'm just going to point out that literally all innovation is built on the collective knowledge of humanity.
00:29:59.000If you invent the light bulb, it's because there were a bunch of people who came before you who invented all of the properties and materials that you used in the light bulb.
00:30:06.000There's not a single innovation that came tabula rasa where you're just sitting in a forest somewhere and you got an idea to build Tesla.
00:30:31.000Communism benefits no one, makes everybody poorer.
00:30:34.000But, says our doltish, cloddish Marxist with the second house Since AI is built on the collective knowledge of humanity, the wealth it generates must benefit humanity, not just Mr. Musk, Mr. Altman, Dario Emote, and other moguls whose companies Are positioned to dominate the industry, not just venture capitalists in Silicon Valley or money managers on Wall Street, will undoubtedly see AI as the next great wealth extracting machine.
00:31:00.000What, first of all, I love that phrase wealth extracting machine.
00:31:11.000Do you know what a clod you have to be to believe that there is, like oil, some just great wealth store somewhere, and that all the businesses do is they drill into the wealth store and take it away from other people?
00:31:27.000But again, because he is a Claude and a leech, he has come up with this dumbass idea.
00:31:33.000He says that he's going to introduce the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act.
00:31:38.000This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest AI companies in our country.
00:31:43.000It would create a sovereign wealth fund through a one time 50% tax, not on the profits of OpenAI, Anthropic, XAI, and other companies, but paid with something far more valuable than that the stock.
00:32:36.000How could having a man who probably is still figuring out how to use Mavis Beacon to type, how could it go wrong putting that guy in charge of AI?
00:32:46.000Second, he says, this legislation would guarantee that the trillions of dollars potentially generated by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us.
00:32:58.000The big AI companies will then be made into monopolies by the government.
00:33:00.000Competitors will be wiped out and they will stagnate just like every other government backed enterprise.
00:33:07.000I don't know whether Bernie Sanders is a useful idiot or whether Bernie Sanders is actively doing the work of our enemies, but it amounts to the same thing in the end.
00:33:14.000But all of this is to say that what we are watching right now in the dissolution of the institutions of America, in the failure of our educational system to teach people basic American values, what you're watching is a nuttiness that arises on the horseshoe right and a radicalism that is eating entire.
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00:34:55.000So you'll recall that he was sexting apparently up to a dozen women as he got married a year and a half ago, two years ago.
00:35:02.000Dude couldn't even last five minutes without sexting people, not his wife.
00:35:06.000And that comes on top of the Nazi tattoo.
00:35:08.000And that comes on top of all of the various postings about pleasuring himself in porta potties and why it was good that American soldiers were shot by the Taliban.
00:35:52.000Most of my hobbies are things that people tend to associate with, like, manly stuff, I guess.
00:35:58.000The exact same time I go to therapy, I have a very open sort of dialogue and emotional relationship with my wife.
00:36:08.000I am, I work incredibly hard to put myself.
00:36:12.000In places where I share space with folks who have very different outlooks or backgrounds as me, and then open up to the idea that their lived experience is exactly as valid as mine.
00:36:25.000And then I tried to have sex with them.
00:37:10.000Because it turns out that you could check my entire history and you would find nothing remotely like the bullshit that Graham Platner is pushing.
00:39:13.000Quote Took two months of terminal, most of it combat leave.
00:39:16.000So, I was making a pretty penny doing just about nothing.
00:39:18.000Went backpacking through Europe on the government dime, walked the Camino de Santiago, did some drugs, and had a blast partying it up in hostels across the continent.
00:41:15.000Refugee agency, which again works alongside the UNRWA, which is like the Palestinian refugee agency, which does the work of Hamas, which chucks gay people off buildings.
00:41:32.000Zorhan Mamdani, who when he is not marching in solidarity with radical Islamists is marching in solidarity with radical trans, put out a tweet, quote, it would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
00:42:03.000It turns out that important people were important regardless of their sexual orientation or their desire to dress up as women or their religion.
00:42:13.000We could just do that and we could get rid of all this stupidity.
00:42:15.000But Momdani says it would take far longer than a month.
00:42:19.000From the circle Hermaphroditos in 1895.
00:42:22.000The first trans advocacy group in the US.
00:42:23.000I feel like we could, like, I don't know.
00:42:25.000I feel like we could have done all of human history without ever mentioning these circle hermaphroditos.
00:42:32.000I don't feel like that's wildly discriminatory.
00:42:34.000There's a lot of stuff that happened in human history.
00:42:35.000I think if we're going to list it top to bottom, as might be said by James Tallarico, if we are going to list all of human history in order of importance, I'm not sure the circle hermaphroditos would list in the top couple of million things that have happened in human history.
00:42:53.000To the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance.
00:42:55.000By the way, not the most important thing about the Harlem Renaissance.
00:42:57.000To the Stonewall Uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
00:43:20.000Meanwhile, Abdullah El Sayed, he is the Michigan Senate candidate.
00:43:25.000He says, We live in a time when government is being used as a weapon against its own people.
00:43:29.000A time when all of us who love differently, live differently, pray differently, or think differently are being told we are less than, that we don't belong.
00:44:00.000If you think it's not, you're out of your mind.
00:44:03.000In all of its glory, Sesame Street is bringing back the same tweet that it brought back every year for Pride Month, which involves apparently gay Muppets or something.
00:44:11.000I wish I were making that up, but I really am not.
00:44:14.000It's not like the gay Teletubbies thing.
00:44:15.000This is like actual, actually, like apparently they took Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, Elmo, and they put them in some sort of gay compacting machine.
00:44:27.000And they smushed them down into this tweet.
00:44:29.000It's literally just lines of fur of various colors in the rainbow flag.
00:45:08.000I do love that the corporations are basically, what if we just took a regular slushie and we just put like a thing on top and just like, Pride!
00:45:23.000It's all, like, all the most radical stuff is coming back.
00:45:26.000And how radical is the left on this stuff?
00:45:28.000The left is so radical on this stuff that they literally have to print pieces in the New York Times reminding you it's okay to be heterosexual.
00:45:43.000And now they have to write an entire op ed and say, It's okay to like people of the opposite sex.
00:45:51.000Otherwise, you know, we have to avoid the stigma.
00:45:52.000We have to avoid the stigma of heterophobia.
00:45:58.000That's where the New York Times is now.
00:46:01.000Quote I'm going to go out on a limb and say it.
00:46:03.000There has never been a better time in human history to happily and successfully pursue heterosexuality, if that is your thing, as it is mine.
00:46:10.000As straight Americans, we are in the midst of a period of all but unprecedented sexual, social, and romantic liberty.
00:46:15.000We have greater freedom than ever before to become whom we want and to date whom we want.
00:47:01.000But the fact that the New York Times now has to write full on pieces trying to defend heterosexuality, that's how far things are going to go.
00:47:09.000And by the way, it's not just on the radical LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign politics.
00:47:20.000So the New York Times is already promoting the propaganda.
00:47:25.000According to the New York Times, in a move that disproportionately targets women and minority officers, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently blocked the promotion of nine Navy officers who had been selected by a board of senior Navy admirals.
00:47:37.000The net result of Mr. Hegseth's intervention is a slate of 22 nominees to be one star admirals that bears little resemblance to the broader force these officers will help lead.
00:48:12.000Mr. Hegsek's actions, which appear to violate the rules governing a promotion system that is supposed to be apolitical and merit based, were described by five current and former defense officials.
00:48:44.000And Democrats will not let go of it, which is why I remain pessimistic about the mayoral primaries in Los Angeles, as well as the gubernatorial primaries more generally in California.
00:49:10.000In California, I can't even comprehend taxing more.
00:49:12.000What's happening is we tax these people, and then other rich people, this champagne socialist scammers, steal that money because they're all connected to the people taxing it.
00:49:23.000And then the people that should see the money, the communities, the after the boys and girls clubs, the parks, the actual infrastructure, doesn't see that money because different rich people stole the money that was being taxed from the rich people.
00:49:37.000So I actually feel like Robin Hood because I'm coming in and I'm going to say, where's all this money?
00:49:42.000We're done with everyone stealing the tax money.
00:49:45.000We're going to actually put it to the people that have turned us socialism because they say America doesn't work.
00:49:51.000It doesn't work if we let people steal all the tax money and we have no accountability and transparency.
00:49:59.000And of course, Pratt is totally right.
00:50:01.000And he points out with Bill Maher that 60% of the people in LA who, quote unquote, experience homelessness are actually not even from California.
00:50:08.000They come to California because the weather is nice and the benefits are great.
00:50:13.00060% of the people in Los Angeles that are experiencing homelessness, they're not from California.
00:50:21.000They've been brought here by NGOs that profit off of this homeless industrial complex, Medicaid.
00:50:48.000I talked to these people who are now sober, off fentanyl, off meth, and they say they got literally brought here through a rehab, trying to get off drugs.
00:50:56.000Their money runs out, boom, left on the street.
00:51:00.000Now, by the way, Pratt is likely to at least end up in the final two in LA.
00:51:05.000According to the current Calci odds, Calci is one of our sponsors.
00:51:09.000Karen Bass is 65%, Pratt at 25%, Nithya Raman at 12%.
00:51:14.000Those results will be available tonight.
00:51:16.000Okay, meanwhile, on the international front, a lot of heartburn over what's going on in Iran.
00:51:20.000So I want to break this down pretty easily here.
00:51:54.000So there are a lot of people out there today claiming that America has lost, that somehow this is an endless war, which is, again, a very strange term for a war that lasted a few weeks and then, since basically April, has been in a state of stasis.
00:52:10.000Right now, we're in the middle of an economic blockade that has resulted in zero U.S. deaths since March and 13 combat deaths overall since the beginning of the war, which, again, every one of those is terrible.
00:52:19.000You have to put that into the historical context of wars historically.
00:52:24.000We've also discussed before on the show what victory in Iran looks like.
00:52:27.000So people say, you know, you're moving the goalpost.
00:52:30.000Victory in Iran looks like putting the Iranian regime on the road to regional and global irrelevance.
00:52:35.000That's what victory in Iran looks like.
00:52:37.000And there are a few ways to get there.
00:52:39.000That means keeping its economy in tatters, ensuring no rebuilding of ballistic missile facilities, preventing Iran from controlling the Strait of Hormuz and taking tolls on it, exporting their oil at everyone else's cost, and wrecking their nuclear program, of course.
00:52:54.000Now, we can get there by a few methods.
00:52:57.000The most obvious method would be some sort of regime change, an uprising.
00:53:00.000There could also be regime behavior change.
00:53:02.000That is what President Trump is apparently trying to do with some sort of deal.
00:53:08.000Or theoretically, you could maintain overwatch and what they call mowing the lawn until you get regime change or regime behavior change.
00:53:15.000That overwatch would mount to occasional bombing sorties from Israel, from the UAE, Mossad operations inside the country in order to keep destroying ballistic missile facilities and nuclear facilities and all the rest.
00:53:30.000Now, the quickest and easiest path for the United States to just do something and be done would be to bomb the Iranian refineries on Kharg Island and their oil fields in South Pars.
00:53:37.000That would be the easiest, quickest thing.
00:53:39.000We could do it in a couple of sorties.
00:53:41.000Well, that would destroy any forward economic capacity for the foreseeable future for Iran.
00:53:45.000They just wouldn't have a functioning economy.
00:53:47.000It would also put China on the side of the United States, because at that point, you've got Iran holding up the strait, and China is not going to be like, hey, let's be on Iran's side in opening up the strait.
00:53:57.000And we'll do that because they have oil, because they won't have oil at that point.
00:54:01.000Now, if we don't do that, if we don't blow up their oil facilities or Karg Island or something, other options would include maintaining that blockade and fomenting revolution inside Iran.
00:54:11.000Or maybe allowing the Kurds in the Northwest to go to town, which is something, by the way, that originally was supposed to happen.
00:54:16.000President Trump killed it at the behest of Erdogan, the dictator of Turkey.
00:54:20.000And I should mention here that the relationship between the Trump administration and Turkey is unhealthy.
00:54:24.000It's led by the Ambassador Tom Barrick, who has done an extraordinarily poor job.
00:54:28.000The Turks are not aligned with American interests in the Middle East.
00:54:33.000They wish to expand their pseudo Ottoman empire again.
00:54:37.000But we could allow the Kurds in the Northwest to go to town, or the Azeris in the North to go to town, or the Baloch in the Southeast to go to town.
00:54:43.000And really stretch the Iranian regime.
00:54:45.000Any of those things would look like a victory for the United States.
00:54:49.000What would it look like for America to lose?
00:54:51.000So here's what it doesn't look like a traditional military loss.
00:54:54.000It doesn't look like thousands of American troops dead, for example, because that's not going to happen.
00:55:00.000It doesn't look like American cities in ruins.
00:55:02.000It doesn't look like our Navy at the bottom of the ocean.
00:55:04.000It doesn't look like any of the military losses that America has suffered before.
00:55:09.000So let's take that right off the table.
00:55:10.000So when people say it's a disaster of historic proportion, no, it really, really is not.
00:55:15.000Like, when we quote unquote lost the war in Iraq, which again is arguable given the fact that the government of Iraq is a quasi functioning democracy with a GDP multiple times what it was when Saddam Hussein was in power.
00:55:27.000But even if you consider that a loss, okay, what did that loss look like?
00:55:29.000It looked like several thousand dead American troops.
00:55:36.000Those, that's what an American loss looks like there.
00:55:38.000That's not even what we're talking about here.
00:55:39.000So, what would a loss in Iran look like?
00:55:41.000Well, it would look like an Iran that is recovering or growing in power.
00:55:46.000So, leaving Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz, able to toll and also to ship its stuff out, or relieving sanctions on them, or either of those first two in combination with leaving their ballistic missile facilities and nuclear program capable of rebuilding.
00:56:01.000It would also look like allowing Iran to nullify action against its proxies in the region by threat of military action.
00:56:07.000So, if Iran says we're going to shut the Strait, that means that Israel has to allow Hezbollah to attack its north, or that means that the rest of the world has to allow the Houthis to attack shipping in the Red Sea.
00:56:19.000Or that means everyone has to sit there while Hamas recovers.
00:56:42.000That's not the same thing as building new ones.
00:56:44.000Their nukes have been delayed significantly.
00:56:47.000So we are still on the path to victory unless we blow the endgame, which we certainly could.
00:56:52.000Now, one way to blow the endgame would be to allow the Iranians in negotiations to relink all of their activities with those of their terrorist groups abroad.
00:57:02.000So right now, there's conflict that is going on in Lebanon.
00:57:04.000The government of Lebanon is not Hezbollah.
00:57:07.000Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed terror group.
00:57:09.000That terror group is heavily armed and attacks Israel regularly, like thousands of rockets, thousands of drones, fiber optic drones.
00:57:18.000Israel has been attempting to destroy Hezbollah.
00:57:22.000And Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel said that if the Hezbollah continue to fire into northern Israel, he would bomb areas of Beirut.
00:57:30.000There's a part of Beirut called Tahiyah.
00:57:32.000Tahiyah is an area of Beirut that is basically inhabited by Hezbollah leadership.
00:57:39.000And yesterday, Netanyahu put out a statement saying, quote, Tonight I spoke with President Trump and told him that if Hezbollah does not cease attacking our cities and citizens, Israel will attack terror targets in Beirut.
00:58:15.000And any troops that are on their way have already been turned back.
00:58:17.000Likewise, through highly placed representatives, I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop, that Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.
00:58:29.000Now, the reason that this is dangerous, what the president is doing right here, is because, realistically speaking, he's saying the talks are continuing.
00:58:37.000There was talk, the Iranians had said, we are going to call off the talks unless Israel stops going after Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:58:46.000Otherwise, that means that Iran can basically save its terrorist groups all over the region simply by threatening the Straits of Hormuz.
00:58:53.000They can use their leverage in order to harm America and her allies.
00:58:57.000And that's something that the United States should not fall for.
00:59:01.000Now, Barack Ravid, who is a stenographer for certain members of the administration, I believe, including the vice president, had a leak from the Trump administration saying, quote, earlier on Monday, Iran threatened to abandon the negotiations with the U.S. over Israel's actions in Lebanon.
00:59:18.000On a call, Trump called Netanyahu crazy and accused him of ingratitude, according to two of the sources.
00:59:22.000He put brakes on Israel's plan to strike Beirut.
00:59:26.000One U.S. official said Trump told Netanyahu that following through on his threats to bomb the Lebanese capital would further isolate Israel around the world.
00:59:32.000And two of the sources said that Trump said he helped keep Netanyahu out of jail, which is not true.
00:59:39.000Summarizing Trump's remarks to Netanyahu, the U.S. official said, You're effing crazy.
00:59:43.000You'd be in prison if it weren't for me.
00:59:46.000Everyone hates Israel because of this.
00:59:48.000And he yelled at BB, What the F are you doing?
00:59:50.000Now, that's been denied by Israeli sources.
00:59:52.000I'm sure it'll be denied by the administration today.
00:59:55.000Bottom line is this If the Trump administration is putting pressure on Israel not to protect itself from Hezbollah because Iran is dangling some sort of phantom talks out there, that is a mistake.
01:00:05.000The Wall Street Journal editorial board is correct on this.
01:00:08.000They say Iran's regime sees this as one war and it has been testing Trump on all fronts.
01:00:12.000If it fires on U.S. forces in the straighter Gulf, will he still try to salvage the ceasefire?
01:00:16.000How about stepped up attacks on Israel?
01:00:18.000How about claiming to quit negotiations?
01:00:20.000In each case, Trump has chosen to avoid escalation and keep talking.
01:00:23.000If he won't send a different message, it will be difficult to get the regime to comply with the deal, no matter what it promises now.
01:00:51.000But we're not going to know the outcome of this until we know the outcome of this.
01:00:55.000And the worst thing that could happen would be for the United States to somehow allow Iran to snatch.
01:01:01.000Victory from the jaws of defeat by rebuilding an economy capable of rebuilding its ballistic missile facilities, nukes, and military.
01:01:08.000And by the way, emphasizing that it can talk not just the United States, but the United States through pressure, Israel, and UAE from doing anything to defend themselves from terror groups springing from Iran.