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00:01:40.000Well, this weekend marked a major holiday for two of the three major world religions.
00:01:45.000Ramadan is also this month, so actually all three major world religions are involved in celebrating holidays this month in a wide variety of ways.
00:01:53.000This week marks Passover for my folks, the religious Jews.
00:01:57.000It marks Easter, Sunday marks Easter for Christians.
00:02:01.000And the religious nature of the weekend, it's a very good thing.
00:02:29.000And this has been true since the time of de Tocqueville.
00:02:31.000There was always the belief in the United States that the liberties that we enjoyed had to be placed against the backdrop of a public practice of religion that made people feel duty bound to one another.
00:02:42.000That if there was no social fabric, the liberty that we supposedly prize was going to rip away all of that social fabric.
00:02:48.000Liberty would act as universal acid in the absence of the base, right?
00:02:53.000And what you needed for the base is religious practice in the United States.
00:02:56.000As John Adams suggested, the constitution was made for a moral and religious people only.
00:03:00.000For any other people, it would be like a whale breaking through the boundaries of a net.
00:03:05.000The constitutional limitations on government would just be broken through by any other group of people.
00:03:11.000You need a moral and religious people.
00:03:13.000The reason that I bring this up is because, as always, whenever there is a religious weekend, there's an all-out assault, particularly on Judeo-Christian religion, by the media.
00:03:22.000And I do separate off here Islam because the media is very, very shy about criticizing Islam in the same way that it does Christianity or Judaism.
00:03:30.000Now, maybe there will come a time when the media changes and realizes that religious Muslims are actually religious, and they start hating on Muslims the same way they do on Christians and Jews, but that time has not yet come.
00:03:40.000I bring this up because Ilhan Omar, who is a rabid anti-Semite and quite a terrible person, she tweeted out a video over the weekend of a group on a plane that was playing a Jesus worship song on this plane.
00:03:56.000And this video had like 30 million views.
00:04:04.000But TMZ reports the original video was shot by a guy named Jack Jentz Jr., who leads a group called Kingdom Realm Ministries.
00:04:10.000The original posting appears to have been deleted.
00:04:12.000It is unclear if the plane was privately chartered or if some of the passengers on board report a captive audience, according to the New York Daily News.
00:04:19.000Jens' Facebook timeline indicates his group is in Ukraine, is in Europe, seemingly supporting Ukrainian refugees.
00:04:24.000So not only are these people super bad for singing about Jesus, they're super, super bad because they're singing about Jesus while trying to save people from the predations of a Russian military assault on Ukraine, apparently, which means they're really bad.
00:04:34.000And this, of course, has greatly frustrated Ilhan Omar, who is a wild leftist in everything except for her own religious precepts, apparently.
00:04:43.000So Ilhan Omar promptly tweets, How do you think it will end?
00:04:51.000Okay, the answer is that if you are praying quietly on a plane, people don't really do anything.
00:04:57.000And the reason I know this is because I've prayed quietly on a plane before.
00:05:00.000Like, I've gotten out the talus, I've gotten out the tefillin, I've gone to the back of the plane.
00:05:03.000By the way, it would also depend on the airline, right?
00:05:05.000Ilhan Omar is acting as though all airlines and all locations are equivalent.
00:05:10.000So, for example, You generally would not see Jews praying on a plane, en masse, on a United Airlines flight.
00:05:15.000On El Al, flying to Israel, this happens all the time.
00:05:18.000If you're on a flight to Qatar, or you're on Qatar Airlines, there is public prayer on the airlines to Qatar, or on Turkish Airlines.
00:05:25.000This sort of stuff does happen fairly regularly, depending on which airline you are under.
00:05:29.000But her real point is not the supposedly evil, discriminatory nature of the United States.
00:05:34.000Her real point is, why are these Christians being allowed to pray on a plane?
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00:07:36.000So, the reason that I bring this up is because there's an overt attempt by a huge number of people in our society to destroy the public practice of Judeo-Christian religion.
00:07:45.000And it ratchets up every time we have a holy weekend.
00:08:07.000And the piece is called, In This Time of War, I Propose We Give Up God.
00:08:11.000So this is what we call the hot slate pitch right here, right?
00:08:13.000The slate pitch is the part where you make a completely counterintuitive argument in the middle of somebody else's holy week.
00:08:20.000And all of this stuff, Ilhan Omar ripping on Christians who are praying in the air, and Sholem Oslander writing a piece in the New York Times about giving up on God during Easter weekend and Passover weekend.
00:08:30.000All of this stuff, as we'll notice in just one second, again, only seems to apply to criticism of Judeo-Christian religion.
00:08:36.000It does not seem to apply to other sorts of religion.
00:08:39.000If you insult other people's religions, then this means that you're mean and very bad, and then you ought to be punished publicly, as we'll see in just one second.
00:08:48.000This weekend, Jews around the world will celebrate the holiday of Passover, the name of which comes from the story of God, quote, passing over the homes of our distant ancestors on his way to slaughter the firstborn sons of evil Egyptians.
00:08:58.000Our forefathers, the story goes, marked our doorposts with lamb's blood in order to spare their own sons the awful fate of their enemies.
00:09:03.000In this time of war and violence, of oppression and suffering, I propose we pass over something else.
00:09:08.000Okay, this is a super unsophisticated and dumb piece that is basically along the lines of John Lennon's Imagine the Worst Song Ever Written.
00:09:16.000Not only for its garbage piano chords, but also for the idiotic lyrics.
00:09:23.000All about how if you get rid of God and get rid of nations, then suddenly there will be world peace, which turns out to be just nonsense all the way through.
00:09:30.000One of the things you might have noticed is that in this time of war and oppression and suffering, very little of it has to do with overt religious practice.
00:09:36.000Vladimir Putin is not attacking Ukraine for religious reasons.
00:09:39.000China is not threatening Taiwan for religious reasons.
00:09:41.000In fact, as it turns out, atheistic, communistic countries, or countries of the communist past, seem to be particularly aggressive at this point in time.
00:09:49.000But, writes Shalom Auslander, two aspects of the Passover story have troubled me since I was first taught them long ago in an Orthodox yeshiva in Muncie, New York.
00:09:56.000I was eight years old, and as the holiday approached, our rabbi commanded us to open our Chumashim, or Old Testaments, to the Book of Exodus.
00:10:01.000To get us in the holiday spirit, he told us gruesome tales of torture and persecution.
00:10:05.000The Egyptians, he told us, used the corpses of Jewish slaves in their buildings.
00:10:08.000You mean they used slaves to build their buildings, I asked, and the slaves died from work?
00:10:12.000They put the Jewish bodies into the walls and used them as bricks.
00:10:15.000My father was something of a handyman at the time, and this seemed to me a serious violation of basic building codes, not to mention a surefire way to lose a home sale.
00:10:24.000Okay, so my favorite thing in religious practice is when a bunch of people who abandoned religion in their teenage years and really never seriously engaged with religion other than what they were taught as very small children suddenly become experts in all theodicy.
00:10:31.000Okay, so my favorite thing in religious practice is when a bunch of people who abandoned religion in their teenage years and really never seriously engaged with religion other than what they were taught as very small children suddenly become experts in all theodicy.
00:10:47.000It never occurred to him that maybe what was taught to an eight-year-old was meant to be That the idea of Jews being used, for example, in the bricks of the pyramids, which again, this is not a midrash that I'd heard.
00:10:57.000I'd heard this with regard to the Tower of Babel and not with regard to the pyramids.
00:11:00.000But that's usually because midrash is not meant to be taken completely literally.
00:11:13.000He has to take it as literally as possible in order to disparage the religion.
00:11:17.000He says, just as troubling, even more so today in light of the brutal slaughter taking place in Ukraine, or the plagues themselves.
00:11:22.000God, the rabbi said, struck all the Egyptians with his wrath, not just Pharaoh and his soldiers.
00:11:26.000Egyptians, young and old, innocent and guilty, suffered locusts and frogs, hail and darkness, beasts running wild, and water becoming blood.
00:11:31.000Mothers nursing their babies, the rabbi explained, found their breast milk had turned to blood.
00:11:36.000Because the classmates are now evil because they heard about the Bible.
00:11:39.000This sort of You know, kind of pathetic biblical analysis is really stupid, particularly because there's a lot in Jewish tradition that specifically talks about the problems of collective punishment and why collective punishment happened with regard to the Egyptians in the Exodus story.
00:11:56.000There's also talk about the responsibility of the leadership for its own people, right?
00:12:01.000There's a part in the Exodus story, I mean, it's straight in the book of Exodus, where the people come to Pharaoh and they say, it's time for you to give up.
00:12:06.000And Pharaoh says, no, I can't give up.
00:12:07.000We're going to continue along these lines.
00:12:11.000There's part of the Passover Seder, the Pesach Seder, in which you have a cup of wine, and as you mentioned the plagues, you're supposed to take a little bit of the wine out of your cup for each plague.
00:12:22.000Because that's supposed to symbolically represent the fact that your cup is less full because people had to suffer in order to free the Jews.
00:12:31.000I mean, if he's going to say midrashim, there's a famous midrash in which the angels are celebrating at the splitting of the Red Sea and the Egyptians being drowned and God tells them to stop because he says, those are my creations too.
00:12:39.000So there's been a long question in Jewish history and in Jewish philosophy about the nature and morality of collective punishment along these lines.
00:12:47.000But of course, none of this matters to him.
00:12:49.000This is the thing about so many of our atheistic friends.
00:12:52.000They hijack biblical morality and they live off of the roots of biblical morality because otherwise where is this morality coming from?
00:12:58.000And then they use it to attack the Bible.
00:13:00.000So the idea is they imbibe from the great stream of moral history that springs from Judeo-Christian practice.
00:13:06.000And then they look back down at the foundation and they say, all those foundations are bad.
00:13:25.000A few short hours of God later, at the end of the Seder, we open the front door and call out to him, pour out thy wrath upon the nations that did not know you.
00:13:32.000Because the idea is that those are the people who are going to victimize you.
00:13:35.000I mean, the idea is, I mean, you have to put this in the context of Jewish history, where that specific paragraph, Shefok Hamascha, is specifically directed at people who are, you know, carrying out pogroms in the streets against Jews.
00:13:46.000Which was sort of the history of the Jewish people as we'll see continuing until today.
00:13:49.000So somehow he's linking up the God of Passover to Vladimir Putin firebombing cities.
00:13:54.000He's going to have to explain that link.
00:13:55.000He doesn't explain that link because that link is not explicable.
00:13:57.000the same with fixed-wing bombers and cluster bombs of self-propelled mortars and thermal barrack rocket launchers. So somehow he's linking up the God of Passover to Vladimir Putin firebombing cities. He's gonna have to explain that link. He doesn't explain that link because that link is not explicable.
00:14:12.000Vladimir Putin is violating biblical precepts. There are very few Christians on planet Earth who think, wow, what Vladimir Putin is doing is really a reflection of the best that Christianity has to offer this Easter weekend.
00:14:23.000Which is why the Pope was out there condemning Vladimir Putin over Easter weekend.
00:14:28.000But, says Shalom Ausländer, killing gods is an idea I can get behind.
00:14:30.000This year, at the end of the Seder, let's indeed throw our doors open to strangers, to people who aren't our own, to the terrifying them, to the evil others, those people who seem so different from us.
00:14:56.000By the way, I have to say, Ilhan Omar, the irony of people who are purportedly religious like Ilhan Omar is.
00:15:02.000And I don't know how religious she is.
00:15:03.000She seems to be differential in her practice, depending on, you know, her marital life and all of that.
00:15:07.000But let's assume that she's a religious Muslim.
00:15:10.000If you are publicly practicing your religion, it seems to me at the very least, you should be tolerant and celebratory of other people who publicly practice their religion.
00:15:17.000I, for example, have said that Ilhan Omar should be able to wear hijab while she is in Congress.
00:15:22.000I've said she should be able to be sworn in on Quran.
00:15:24.000I've said that because when it comes to people publicly living out their religion, I think that is generally a good thing for the world because I'm a person who publicly lives out my religion.
00:15:39.000But I've said publicly, I think that the future of the United States relies on people going back to church.
00:15:43.000I want more planes filled with people singing about Jesus at 30,000 feet in the United States.
00:15:47.000I think that is the only way that the country reimbibes from the moral precepts of the Old and New Testaments, and that would be very good for civilization, as opposed to the sort of secular, atheistic, hedonistic narcissism in which we are currently embroiled, and which is not only sacrificing our children, but is also sacrificing our foreign policy to secular, atheistic countries like China, which is a predatory human rights violator on every possible level.
00:16:12.000But it is amazing how, on a holy weekend, the media sort of get together, and it's like, well, the holy weekend, yeah, maybe we'll pay lip service to the holiness of the weekend, but really, those people are pretty barbaric, and they're pretty bad.
00:16:22.000So this columnist, who is now suggesting that somehow biblical religion is responsible for Vladimir Putin bombing Ukraine, that guy is an idiot.
00:16:29.000And you know what else you don't need to deal with?
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00:17:45.000Now, there's one group of people who is fully exempt from this sort of analysis, and that is the media's treatment of Islam.
00:17:52.000The media's treatment of Islam is soft bigotry of low expectations kind of stuff.
00:17:55.000The basic idea is that if Muslims go crazy over something that Christians and Jews never would go crazy over, this is because Muslims have been duly offended.
00:18:04.000For example, here is a headline from Sweden over the weekend.
00:18:25.000As Roger Scruton, the conservative philosopher from Britain wrote, there's a certain baseline level of civility that you should generally have for other people's religion.
00:19:20.000against people who are Jewish in Sweden.
00:19:21.000A huge amount of crime in Sweden is driven by immigrants who are coming in and are unemployed.
00:19:26.000And a lot of those immigrants are coming from Northern African countries, Arab countries as well.
00:19:32.000Axios says, clashes erupted in Sweden for a fourth straight day Sunday after a far-right group announced plans to burn the Korana rallies.
00:19:38.000At least 16 law enforcement officers have been wounded, and several police vehicles destroyed in clashes between far-right demonstrators and counter-protesters since last Thursday in Stockholm and other cities, where the group Strömkurz, or Hardline, planned to hold events.
00:19:53.00016 law enforcement officers have been wounded, several police vehicles destroyed, in clashes between far-right demonstrators and counter-protesters.
00:19:59.000So, who are the counter-protesters who actually are engaged in the rioting?
00:20:04.000They are generally not the far-right extremists.
00:20:08.000What happened is that during Ramadan, a far-right group planned events to take place in which they burned Qurans.
00:20:14.000Unrest has been reported in several cities over the Easter weekend, including in Norrköping in Sweden's east, where the police said Sunday three people were wounded as officers fired warning shots into a crowd.
00:20:22.000The southern town of Landskron saw stone throwing and objects set alight Saturday night after Stromkers moved its demonstrations in the nearby city of Malmo.
00:20:29.000Again, as I mentioned, Malmo is now a heavily Muslim city in terms of population.
00:20:33.000Twelve officers were wounded and four police vehicles set alight in the central city of Orebro, Friday, ahead of a demonstration in which Strom Kurz planned to burn a Quran, according to AP.
00:20:42.000Okay, so, um, you may have noticed that nowhere in this article does it say who actually is attacking the cops and burning things.
00:20:50.000Right, so, uh, it turns out that a lot of the people who are attacking cops and burning things are people who are protesting and upset at the burning of the Quran, not the people who are actually burning a Quran.
00:21:00.000Kim Hild, spokeswoman for police in southern Sweden, said earlier Saturday police would not revoke permission for the landskrona demonstration because the threshold for doing that is very high in Sweden, which values free speech.
00:21:10.000The right of the protesters to demonstrate and speak out weighs enormously heavily, and it takes an incredible amount for this to be ignored, said Hild.
00:21:17.000The demonstration took place Saturday evening in a central park in Malmö, where Strömkurs leader Rasmus Paludan addressed a few dozen people, a small number of counter-protesters, through stones at demonstrators.
00:21:26.000Police were forced to use pepper spray to disperse them.
00:21:28.000Paludan himself was reported to have been hit by a stone on his leg.
00:21:35.000Since Thursday, clashes have also been reported in Stockholm and in cities of Linköping and Norrköping, all locations where Strömkurs either planned or had demonstrations.
00:21:45.000There's a soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:21:47.000People who riot because a Quran gets burned are treated as though they are not even part of the story.
00:21:51.000The real problem is just the burning of the Quran.
00:21:54.000Now, if you're going to have that sort of respect for public practice of religion, that we are now going to have tremendous sympathy for people who riot every time there's a cartoon of Muhammad drawn or a Quran burned, then I would suggest that you Extend at least a modicum of that respect to the religion that undergirds Western civilization, Judeo-Christian religion.
00:22:12.000But of course, that is not how this works.
00:22:16.000It is the soft bigotry of low expectations kind of nonsense.
00:22:20.000And you see this every time there is a clash in Israel, for example.
00:22:23.000So over the weekend, there were also clashes in Israel.
00:22:26.000This has been pushed forward by the Palestinian Authority as well as Hamas.
00:22:30.000So basically what's happening in the Middle East right now is that thanks to Barack Obama and Joe Biden attempting to reach out to Iran in the perverse view that if you give, Billions of dollars to radical Iranian mullahs who wish to murder as many Jews as humanly possible and take over surrounding countries and attack the Saudis.
00:22:46.000That if you give them a bunch of money and a pathway to a nuclear bomb while allowing them to develop ballistic missile technology, this will moderate them.
00:22:52.000What has happened in the Middle East is a complete reorientation, a complete shifting, in which a bunch of Sunni Muslim countries have now effectively made alliances with the Israelis.
00:23:01.000They've said, listen, our big problem here is not the Israeli-Palestinian issue, because the Palestinians are supported by the Iranians, And because frankly we've been using them as pawns for several decades in order to redirect from the outrage of our own citizens and in order so that we can use them as a tool against Israel.
00:23:15.000So maybe the problem isn't the Israelis, maybe the problem is the Iranians.
00:23:18.000And thus the Abraham Accords under the Trump administration, where you have the UAE and Morocco and a bevy of other countries, really kind of backed by Saudi Arabia, entering into full-scale recognition of the state of Israel and now significant economic ties.
00:23:31.000And so the Palestinians have responded, as they generally do.
00:23:35.000The Palestinian Authority, the Hamas leadership, have responded by encouraging rioting in Jerusalem.
00:23:41.000Knowing that the media are now going to treat that with the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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00:24:52.000So what happened over the course of the past several days is that spurred on undoubtedly by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, a bunch of rioters all up on the Temple Mount.
00:25:44.000And one of the guys we were up there with, he took these out of his pocket and he started hitting them on the ground.
00:25:48.000Literally taking branches and hitting them on the ground.
00:25:50.000The Islamic WAF came over, a bunch of women started approaching from both sides, shouting, Allahu Akbar.
00:25:57.000A bunch of young men who were unemployed, young Arab men were up there, and they ran over to start screaming at us.
00:26:03.000And the Mishdara, the Israeli authorities, literally threatened to arrest this guy for the great sin of taking some branches and hitting them on the ground.
00:26:09.000In an area, by the way, where Muslims pray every day.
00:26:12.000In fact, Muslims even have a school up there on the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site in Judaism, because unfortunately for Centuries.
00:26:19.000Islam has had the bad habit of finding any holy site of any religion and then just building a mosque right on top of it, which is why you have the Al-Aqsa Dome, the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the edge of the Temple Mount complex, and why you have the Dome of the Rock built directly where the Kodosh Kedoshim, the holiest site in Judaism, would have been, right?
00:26:39.000There's a reason why this is now a Muslim holy site and all of that is the case.
00:26:43.000Okay, so Every time there needs to be a distraction from world politics or an attempt to cudgel Arab countries into not making peace with Israel, there's an attempt to start a riot on the Temple Mount.
00:26:54.000And so the Al-Aqsa Mosque is used as a staging ground for these riots.
00:26:58.000People literally bring baskets of rocks into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and they start hurling them at the Israeli police officers who are on the Temple Mount to guard people who are touring the Temple Mount and also to make sure that violence does not break out up there.
00:27:10.000And then the media cover it as though the Jews have somehow initiated the violence.
00:27:13.000Like the Jews are randomly going into the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:27:16.000The Jews, the Israelis over there, have no interest in going into the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:27:20.000The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been protected by the state of Israel, literally since its inception.
00:27:25.000Right, from 48 to 67, there was not even any control, Jewish control of the Old City of Jerusalem.
00:27:29.000From 67 on, when Moshe Dayan handed the keys to the Temple Mount, to the Islamic Waqf, Israeli security forces have been protecting Muslim worship on the Temple Mount and not protecting Jewish worship on the Temple Mount.
00:27:40.000In fact, one of the most discriminatory places on earth for Jews is the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, presided over by the State of Israel, which delegated its power to the Islamic Waqf.
00:27:48.000The reason that I explain all of this is because the media coverage is.
00:27:51.000That when Muslims riot on the Temple Mount in an attempt to shift attention away from the bad governance of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, or an attempt to refocus the eyes of the world on the supposed suffering of the Palestinians who again are living, the vast majority of Palestinians live under the direct rule of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
00:28:09.000So instead what they do is they start riots in order to try and blame Israel.
00:28:12.000The media instead treat it as a question of moral equivalence, which it is not.
00:28:17.000And this follows, the riots on the Temple Mount follow several weeks of gun and knife attacks on Jews leading up to Passover.
00:28:24.000And these gun and knife attacks, again, have been celebrated by Hamas.
00:28:27.000Hamas has issued statements on the stabbing to death of civilians, the mass shooting of civilians.
00:28:32.000Candies are handed out in the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, ruled by the Palestinian Authority.
00:28:36.000And the media just don't cover this because the soft bigotry of law expectations that applies to Muslim countries continues.
00:28:43.000And so, that is the latest from Israel.
00:28:46.000I mean, the Palestinians, like, four days ago, vandalized Joseph's tomb in one of the holier sites in Judaism.
00:29:12.000The vandalism came amid the second night of arrests made by Israeli security forces in the West Bank following a deadly terrorist attack on Thursday night on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv that claimed three lives.
00:29:22.000The terrorist, Ram Hazem, 28, was from a nearby Palestinian city of Jenin.
00:29:27.000Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said, We will not accept this kind of attack on a place that is holy to us, particularly on the eve of Passover.
00:29:46.000And in response, the Rom Party, which is part of the current coalition in Israel, right?
00:29:50.000The supposed apartheid state of Israel.
00:29:52.000One of the parties that is part of that coalition is an Arab party called the Rom, the United Arab List.
00:29:56.000They quote-unquote froze their participation in the coalition to protest, quote, police violence against Palestinians in Jerusalem, which is probably eventually going to bring down the government.
00:30:05.000Because as it turns out, when you side with people who are rioting against the existence of the state of Israel, which is what is happening, then it's hard to hold a coalition together.
00:30:15.000Meanwhile, Hezbollah is on Israel's northern border backed by Iran and saying they only need nine billion dollars to destroy Israel.
00:30:21.000Mohammed Raab, the head of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc in the Lebanese parliament.
00:30:25.000Okay, these are people who sit in an actual parliament in Lebanon.
00:30:28.000They now say the resistance needs only nine billion dollars, there'll be nothing left to call to Israel in the region.
00:30:34.000Hey, the reason that I bring all of this up is, again, when it comes to media attacks on religion, some of these things just don't make headlines ever.
00:30:40.000There's just a soft bigotry of low expectations that applies to the Muslim world.
00:30:45.000And that soft bigotry of low expectations means that secularists in the West will attack Judaism and Christianity.
00:30:50.000And when it comes to Islam, then Islam gets a pass.
00:30:53.000And if Muslims anywhere do anything that is violent or terrible, the idea is the West must somehow have caused all of this.
00:31:01.000Now, this does stand in kind of stark contrast to how the left is treating the situation in Ukraine.
00:31:13.000And the left is sort of rushed to the defense of Ukraine.
00:31:15.000Using arguments, by the way, that apply to Israel, In their totality.
00:31:21.000They'll say, you know, Ukraine is a sovereign territory in which areas are being carved off by people who are engaged in terrorist activity.
00:31:32.000That's a pretty good description of what's happened in the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria.
00:31:36.000And there's an idea that Ukraine should never ever surrender any territory to Russia because after all, Russia is the negative power in this region.
00:31:43.000But bottom line is that, you know, again, when it comes to foreign policy, there's real inconsistency, and the inconsistency seems to be largely predicated on the notion that has arisen in the West that religion is bad.
00:31:59.000That religious instinct is quite important.
00:32:01.000Pretending that it doesn't exist is ignoring a fundamental factor in human life.
00:32:07.000And again, that does not mean that all religion is created equal.
00:32:09.000It doesn't mean that all religions are equally true or equally good.
00:32:12.000It does mean that before you pull the trigger on your article in the New York Times about how God needs to go away, perhaps you should think about what a world without God actually looks like.
00:32:23.000Okay, meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate.
00:32:28.000Apparently, Mariupol is completely surrounded at this point.
00:32:30.000The Russians have completely surrounded it.
00:32:32.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the last Ukrainian troops holding out in besieged Mariupol rejected Moscow's ultimatum on Sunday that they surrender or face destruction by Russian forces, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned an all-out Russian assault on the troops would endanger further peace negotiations.
00:32:45.000Russia had given the troops until noon local time to lay down arms and observe a seven-hour ceasefire it said would allow them to leave the battlefield unscathed.
00:32:52.000Russian forces are close to capturing the strategic ports after weeks of heavy bombardment.
00:32:56.000In fact, It seems as though there is a war in the east that is going to get significantly heavier as well.
00:33:02.000The Wall Street Journal says, Russia's expanding military deployments in and around eastern Ukraine in recent days are setting the stage for a new phase of Moscow's offensive, one that is likely to be very different from the kind of fighting that has characterized the past two months.
00:33:13.000This time, the two countries' militaries will be operating on open terrain well suited for mass forces and armored thrusts.
00:33:19.000Russian forces will also be fighting in closer proximity to their bases in Western Russia, giving them significantly shorter supply lines, and on territory their commanders know better.
00:33:27.000Zelensky, for his part, is saying we are not going to surrender a single inch of Ukrainian territory, which is what was likely to happen in the end.
00:33:35.000Here, by the way, is a sort of a North Korea-South Korea situation.
00:33:37.000in which a rump Ukraine is left without the non-vassal region, without Crimea, in which Russia solidifies its gains. I thought before the war this was actually Russia's initial goal. Instead it turned out that Putin went for broke and this was his plan B.
00:33:50.000Zelensky is now warning about the possibility that Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons. Here's what he had to say.
00:33:56.000The director of the CIA warned that he's worried Putin might use a tactical nuclear weapon in this fight. Are you worried?
00:34:08.000There is a possibility of them using these weapons.
00:34:13.000Nobody expected there to be a full-scale invasion of Ukraine from the Russian Federation.
00:34:18.000No one expected there to be a war in 2014.
00:34:21.000And now that there will be a full-scale invasion and killing of civilians, nobody expected them to invade the areas where there is no military equipment and just kill and shoot dead a civilian population.
00:34:33.000Meanwhile, Zelensky is ratcheting up the rhetoric.
00:34:35.000He's calling on Joe Biden to come visit Ukraine.
00:34:37.000Now that Boris Johnson has visited Ukraine, there are already some American congressmen who have visited Kiev as well.
00:34:41.000Here's Zelensky saying it's time for Joe Biden to come.
00:34:43.000Do you want President Biden to come here?
00:34:54.000And I think it's his decision, of course, and about the safety situation, it depends.
00:35:03.000But I think he's the leader of the United States and that's why he should come here to see.
00:35:12.000Okay, meanwhile, again, Zelensky has been ratcheting up the rhetoric pretty dramatically here.
00:35:16.000You know, he's trying to invoke the Holocaust.
00:35:18.000He's saying, we don't believe those who say never again again.
00:35:20.000There's something kind of deeply, I would say, odd about the leader of Ukraine, even if he is of Jewish extraction, talking about never again in the context of a nation that was fully complicit in the Holocaust itself.
00:35:33.000And again, I've never bought into this idea that when the world says never again, we actually mean never again.
00:35:38.000I think that very little foreign policy is actually driven by human rights concerns.
00:35:42.000Most foreign policy is driven by hard-headed realpolitik and the necessity for political and military and economic might and creating spheres of influence.
00:35:51.000Now, those spheres of influence are not all morally equivalent.
00:35:54.000An American eurosphere of influence is significantly better than a Russian-Chinese sphere of influence.
00:35:58.000However, the sort of idea that never again was ever a global priority is just not true. I mean there are a million Uighur Muslims being held in abject servitude over in China right now. There's ethnic cleansing that happens in Africa on a pretty regular basis. So whenever people cite human rights violations I start to get a little skeptical that this is a real rationale. It's good press, I mean I understand what he's doing. I just don't think that the world takes this sort of rhetoric particularly seriously.
00:36:25.000Every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day politicians put out statements that say never again, never again.
00:36:45.000After we see what's going on in Ukraine.
00:36:48.000Okay, by the way, I mean, Ukraine has voted several times to essentially undercut the state of Israel in its own defense against a genocidal terrorist who wished to destroy it.
00:36:59.000And never again is not a priority for pretty much anybody.
00:37:03.000What will happen in Ukraine right now?
00:37:05.000It feels like we are getting drawn into a conflict in the East that looks less Like protecting Ukraine and more like a protracted battle with the Russians.
00:37:16.000In other words, it might be that there's a bit of opportunism that's also going on here to reverse some of the things that never should have been allowed to happen back in 2014.
00:37:22.000I don't blame Zelensky for this, but the West is going to have to decide what its priorities are and how far it's willing to go in order to pursue those priorities.
00:37:29.000In other words, we want to get into a contracted, protracted conflict over, for example, large swaths of the Donbass region that were already carried out by by the Russians in 2014.
00:37:39.000Do we want to get involved in a conflict in Crimea?
00:37:42.000Like how far is this repelling the invasion that has already happened?
00:37:46.000If this turns into protracted Western support for reversing the gains that Putin made in 2014, you're going to have to assess the cost benefit analysis of that.
00:37:56.000I don't blame him whatsoever for that.
00:37:58.000But the West is going to have to figure out what exactly its interests are and where the off-ramp is throughout all of this.
00:38:02.000Because remember, Vladimir Putin is the kind of person who would use a tactical nuclear weapon.
00:38:07.000And so when you have Senate Democrats out there saying things like the United States should think about sending troops to Ukraine, I think it's a pretty... This is Chris Coons from Delaware.
00:38:16.000If Vladimir Putin, who has shown us how brutal he can be, is allowed to just continue to massacre civilians, to commit war crimes throughout Ukraine, without NATO, without the West coming more forcefully to his aid, I deeply worry that what's going to happen next is that we will see Ukraine turn into Syria.
00:38:39.000The American people cannot turn away from this tragedy in Ukraine.
00:38:43.000I think the history of the 21st century turns on how fiercely we defend freedom in Ukraine and that Putin will only stop when we stop him.
00:38:51.000I mean, I generally agree with all of that.
00:38:53.000I'm just wondering where Chris Coons was when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine back in 2014 and where he was when Vladimir Putin decided to take control of Syria and Barack Obama went totally along with all of that.
00:41:43.000On Friday, according to Lauren Hirsch and Kate Conger of the New York Times, Twitter turned to a tried-and-tested corporate defense mechanism invented in the 1980s, the heyday of the corporate raider, to block a potential takeover attempt by Elon Musk and buy its boards some time.
00:41:56.000The mechanism, known as a poison pill, Has a simple intention to make it less palatable for a potential buyer to pursue the target company if the buyer accumulates shares above a certain threshold.
00:42:04.000In Twitter's case, if Musk bought more than 15% of the company, Twitter would then flood the market with new stock that all shareholders except Musk could buy at a discounted price.
00:42:13.000That would immediately dilute Musk's stake and make it significantly more expensive for him to buy the company.
00:42:18.000Musk currently owns a little more than 9% of Twitter's stock.
00:42:21.000Twitter said its plan would be in place for just shy of one year.
00:42:23.000The tool will not stop the company from holding talks with any potential buyer, and will give it more time to negotiate a deal the Twitter's board believes best reflects the company's values.
00:42:31.000So, the board of Twitter is going to decide, not the shareholders of Twitter.
00:42:36.000The strategy doesn't mean the company is going to be independent forever, said Drew Pasquarello, senior lecturer of finance at Cornell.
00:42:41.000It just means they can effectively fend off Elon.
00:42:44.000Twitter is weighing whether to invite bids from other people to other people close to the company's head.
00:42:49.000So apparently they're now trying to sell to someone else because all they are looking for at this point is just somebody who is not going to change the algorithm so that it doesn't discriminate against conservatives.
00:42:58.000Silverlake, a private equity firm that already owns a significant stake in Twitter, could be a possibility, people said.
00:43:03.000Silverlake, a technology-focused buyout fund, has more than $90 billion in assets under management, and a managing partner there, Egan Durbin, sits on Twitter's board.
00:43:11.000Silverlake has come to Twitter's rescue before.
00:43:13.000In 2020, when Elliott Management, an activist investor, amassed shares in Twitter and wanted to make changes, Silverlake helped the parties reach a compromise.
00:43:20.000As part of that deal, Silverlake invested $1 billion in Twitter.
00:43:22.000Well, let me just explain, that is not the same thing as Elon Musk offering, what was it, $43 billion?
00:43:28.000Not $1 billion, $43 billion, in order to just buy it straight up.
00:43:33.000At least one other private equity firm, Tama Bravo, is weighing a possible offer for Twitter, according to Reuters.
00:43:39.000Poison pills have become part of a corporate toolkit in America, Netflix adopted a poison pill in 2012 to stop Carl Icahn from buying up its shares.
00:43:46.000Papa John's used one against the pizza chain's founder and chairman, John Schnatter, in 2018.
00:43:51.000Investors rarely try to get around a poison pill by buying shares beyond the threshold set by the company, according to securities experts.
00:43:57.000One said it would be financially ruinous, even for Mr. Musk.
00:44:01.000Okay, but the fact that the media are celebratory about this demonstrates What exactly their priorities are.
00:44:07.000And of course, their real priorities are making sure that Twitter is just an outlet for all of their preferred beliefs.
00:44:13.000Because without a monopoly on the media, they've got nothing.
00:44:15.000If people actually get to say what they think, the left loses so much of its momentum in the culture wars.
00:44:21.000This is why you have democratic strategists coming out, and there's Danielle Moody telling Al Sharpton, who I get, unbelievable, it will never stop being unbelievable to me that Al Sharpton has his own television show.
00:44:31.000I mean, the man is the worst race baiter of the last half century.
00:44:35.000This Democratic strategist is telling Al Sharpton, who himself has been involved in no less than two riots, that Elon Musk is a danger to free speech.
00:44:45.000Elon Musk is a danger to Twitter and to freedom of speech.
00:44:49.000He has been known to say some of the most transphobic and homophobic things to his millions of followers.
00:44:56.000So creating an arena for hate, to me, that's what that sounds like.
00:45:00.000An opportunity for him to have no consequences, to have no flags, for people just to be able to do whatever it is and say whatever they want regardless of what kind of harm that it causes.
00:45:12.000Oh my God, he wants people to be able to say and do what they want?
00:45:29.000Because speech to these folks is violence.
00:45:31.000Meanwhile, SNL, which exists at the mercy of a public willing to take its pathetic mockery, SNL is just—the people who write SNL, they must just be interns at the White House, because the material there is just garbage.
00:45:43.000So SNL, over the weekend, was suggesting the real reason Elon Musk wanted to take over Twitter is so he can say the N-word.
00:45:48.000Because that—of course, that's really what this is about.
00:45:49.000It's not about suppression of obvious stories like the Hunter Biden story.
00:45:53.000It's about people wanting to say the N-word.
00:45:56.000Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for over $40 billion so he can loosen its free speech rules.
00:46:03.000That's how badly white guys want to use the n-word.
00:46:08.000Because that's exactly how this is working.
00:46:10.000It's all about white guys who want to say the n-word.
00:46:12.000Now, if you wonder why the media are so upset about the possibility of Musk taking over Twitter, the answer is if they don't have a monopoly on the messaging, they've got nothing.
00:46:23.000They need the monopoly on the messaging because it turns out that when people find out the truth about what it is that they are saying, people don't like it.
00:46:47.000And they lied about it because there were activist groups who decided to lie about it.
00:46:51.000And the media and the activist groups are one and the same group.
00:46:54.000And then it turned out that thanks to social media, and thanks to alternative outlets like the Daily Wire, and thanks to the fact that there are shows like this one, people actually found out what's in the bill, and this turned out to be a wild negative for the left.
00:47:05.000And the more information that is out there, the worse it is for the left.
00:47:09.000So, the media were basically counting on their monopoly to be able to cudgel everybody into place.
00:47:14.000They tried to bully Disney, and they succeeded in bullying Disney into taking a position on this bill.
00:47:22.000They forced Disney to have an all-hands meeting at which Members of the Disney crew basically came out and said that we are mainlining a bunch of left-wing garbage into children's programming.
00:47:33.000And the media covered this because this is supposed to be a good thing.
00:47:36.000So, for example, there's an article in the New York Times today called Disney built on fairy tales and fantasy confronts the real world.
00:47:42.000The entertainment behemoth spent decades avoiding even the whiff of controversy, but it has increasingly been drawn into the political partisan fright.
00:48:00.000The people who just want to be able to watch Encanto without being bothered with the vagaries of gender theory?
00:48:08.000Was it really us or was it a bunch of activists in the media and activists inside the company who had decided that they wish to reorient Disney toward a quote-unquote not-at-all-secret gay agenda, the direct words of one of the producers of The Proud Family over at Disney?
00:48:23.000I mean, the New York Times noticed that there's an active attempt in the children's programming to put this content in.
00:48:28.000Well, it's gently, according to the New York Times, so it's totally fine.
00:48:38.000And them saying that boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and boys should wear dresses?
00:48:41.000That's gentle, according to the New York Times, so it really isn't the problem.
00:48:44.000Gonzo dons a gown, defying a directive from Miss Piggy that girls come as princesses and boys come as knights.
00:48:49.000Out Magazine wrote that the episode, quote, just sent a powerful message of love and acceptance to gender-variant kids everywhere.
00:48:57.000The fighting will undoubtedly continue, says the New York Times.
00:48:59.000The Disney-Pixar film, Lightyear, set to release in June, depicts a loving lesbian couple, while Thor, Love and Thunder, arriving in July, will showcase a major LGBTQIA-plus-minus-divided-by-a-sign-percentage-sign-tilde character.
00:49:13.000So, it's the left that cuddled Disney into doing these things, and they continue to try to cuddle Disney into doing these things.
00:49:18.000There's an article from a person named Sean Griffin for CNN Business.
00:49:22.000He's a professor for film and media art at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of Art.
00:49:28.000He's also the author of Tinker Bells and Evil Queens, the Walt Disney Company, from the inside out.
00:49:34.000And his recommendation is that Disney has to halt all investment in Florida, Which, good luck with that, since Disney World is in Florida.
00:49:41.000So really, good luck with one of your major profit centers, halting all investment in that.
00:49:49.000So you should officially recognize and facilitate annual gay days so that children are subjected to as much sexual propaganda as humanly possible.
00:49:57.000These parks are designed, by the way, for children.
00:50:12.000LGBTQIA plus fans of Disney says this columnist have long identified with non-binary characters, such as Ferdinand the Bull and Peter Pan, and appreciated the campy flitter villains such as Captain Hook and Maleficent.
00:50:25.000Okay, so, they dragged Disney kicking and screaming into this fight.
00:50:29.000And Disney went into the fight because, number one, they have a bunch of woke employees, and their CEOs are a bunch of cowards, like abject, pathetic, yellow-bellied cowards.
00:50:40.000And so they got dragged into this fight.
00:50:42.000And they got dragged into the fight on the predicate that the media was basically just going to echo chamber this thing.
00:50:46.000They were going to keep reflecting wild leftist values, and nobody was ever going to notice.
00:50:50.000The problem is, people have started to notice.
00:50:53.000Because the left is so radical in their perspectives on gender and sexual orientation that the idea of this stuff for adults, let alone for kids, is totally insane.
00:51:01.000I'm just going to give you an example, by the way, of how radical the left is.
00:51:04.000So Jack Turban is a child psychiatry fellow at Stanford Medical School, which is just, my god.
00:51:09.000And a trans youth mental health researcher who writes for the New York Times opinion section, he tweeted the other day, quote, And by the way, the evidence is not that puberty blockers are temporary and reversible.
00:51:21.000There are serious open questions about the long-term health effects of puberty blockers.
00:51:24.000He says, puberty blockers are more benign than going through a puberty that cannot be undone.
00:51:29.000If you go through puberty, you see, you should be able to be so independent of your own biological sex.
00:51:35.000And if you go through puberty, that is your body doing violence to you, the secret Cartesian you that lives in your head.
00:51:42.000So puberty is more damaging to you than puberty blockers and then maybe carving a fake vagina into your body.
00:51:49.000If you can't see that, then you really need to reflect on your biases and whether you consider trans people at all when you form your opinions.
00:51:55.000Okay, my opinion is that it is a normal, natural process for the human body to go through puberty.
00:51:59.000I don't know when this became wildly controversial.
00:52:01.000It is not even close to controversial.
00:52:03.000What should be controversial is the garbage being spewed by the left on this particular topic.
00:52:07.000Because medical transition is not a Sneetch's star-on, star-off machine.
00:52:12.000There's a horrifying piece by a guy named Scott Nugent.
00:52:14.000And when I say a guy, I mean a transgender man.
00:52:17.000Okay, so a she who got a bunch of surgeries and hormone treatments to look like a he by Scott Nugent in Quillette.
00:52:39.000She replied, quote, I don't like my boobs growing and Reddit says I'm probably trans.
00:52:44.000That night I tracked down these Reddit exchanges and my jaw dropped when I saw how many people and organizations were heavily pushing the possibility of her being trans.
00:52:51.000But perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised, given the way such attitudes have gone mainstream.
00:52:55.000This includes the pediatrician mom whose recent opinion piece for the New York Times was titled, quote, What I Learned as the Parents of a Transgender Child.
00:53:01.000For kids googling this subject, the overall effect is the equivalent of one big glitter bomb going off on their screen.
00:53:06.000I write all of this as a 47-year-old transgender man who transitioned five years ago.
00:53:12.000Though I admire the good intentions of parents who seek to support their children, I have serious concerns about reckless acquiescence to a child's internet-mediated self-diagnosis.
00:53:20.000Many older transgender folks share these concerns, too.
00:53:24.000Transgenderism isn't a vague feeling or a distaste for stereotypical roles.
00:53:31.000It's a serious internal condition that causes you to want to become a member of the opposite sex.
00:53:35.000Medical transition, such as the kind I went through, can enhance an illusion that helps some gender dysphoric individuals navigate the world with more comfort.
00:53:55.000Anyone going through this is in store for a brutal process.
00:53:58.000And we now have thousands of naive parents walking their children into gender treatment centers, often based on internet-peddled narratives that present the transition experience through a gauzy, rainbow lens.
00:54:08.000During my own transition, this person says, I had seven surgeries.
00:54:10.000I had a massive pulmonary embolism, a helicopter life flight ride, an emergency ambulance ride, a stress-induced heart attack, sepsis, a 17-month recurring infection due to using the wrong skin, during a failed phalloplasty, which is the creation of a fake penis that does not work, 16 rounds of antibiotics, 3 weeks of daily IV antibiotics, the loss of all my hair, only partially successful arm reconstructive surgery, permanent lug and heart damage, a cut bladder, insomnia-induced hallucinations, oh, and frequent loss of consciousness due to pain from the hair on the inside of my urethra.
00:54:40.000All this led to a form of PTSD that made me a prisoner in my apartment for a year.
00:54:44.000Between me and my insurance company, medical expenses exceeded $900,000.
00:54:49.000Whenever you question the maximalist activist line on trans affirmation, you're directed to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH as a reference.
00:54:57.000But much of what you find there consists of vague phrases such as, up to the doctor's discretion.
00:55:03.000Lupron, the hormone blocker some doctors seem intent on giving to kids like Tylenol, isn't even FDA approved to treat children with gender dysphoria.
00:55:10.000In 2001, the manufacturer pled guilty to fraudulent sales practices with regard to its marketing as a prostate cancer drug.
00:55:16.000We don't know yet its long-term effects off-label.
00:56:05.000The puberty blockers have left her with a micropenis.
00:56:08.000She has to get part of her vagina made with her colon.
00:56:10.000Well, one of her friends had that surgery.
00:56:12.000Even years later, it smells fairly colon-like.
00:56:15.000Obviously, my daughter is now distraught.
00:56:16.000She's in counseling, but is becoming worse and worse in her mental state, and I am frantic.
00:56:20.000On top of this, she has never had any sexual function, no urges, no erections, even when she tried masturbation to see if she could stimulate herself.
00:56:32.000We knew it would be hard, but it's impossible.
00:56:35.000Well, yes, of course, because the actual data on this stuff is horrifying.
00:56:39.000And when people find out the actual data, it turns out that they are horrified by all of it.
00:56:44.000And this is why Disney is now backing off.
00:56:46.000This is why when I mention the sort of insanity that is pushed by the left, and the fact that they have to control places like Twitter, because if they don't control Twitter, they can't control the narrative.
00:57:19.000You remember that in Georgia, when a voting law passed, including voter ID, a multiplicity of organizations ranging from MLB to Coca-Cola decided to get involved.
00:57:28.000When it came to the quote-unquote don't say gay bill in Florida, Very, very few organizations decided to say anything.
00:57:47.000Because some Republican lawmakers in Florida are threatening to end a special tax district that has allowed the company to effectively govern the land on which Walt Disney World sits for decades.
00:57:55.000Members of Congress have called for Disney to be stripped of its original Mickey Mouse copyright, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:58:01.000Politicians are campaigning for re-election on promises to stand up to Disney and other woke corporations.
00:58:05.000They say are promoting messages and taking stands that put them out of step with the values of Florida parents and voters.
00:58:10.000Fans and park workers protested outside the company's headquarters earlier this month.
00:58:14.000Others have used social media to call for boycotts against Disney's parks.
00:58:32.000It turns out that when Americans respond to actual data and not the garbage spewed out by Reddit and Twitter, things get very ugly for corporations that decide to go along with the woes.
00:58:42.000So, bottom line is, the reason that people in the media are so darn upset, like very, very upset with Elon Musk taking over Twitter, possibly, is because they have to maintain the monopoly.
00:58:55.000How strong is the echo chamber, by the way?
00:58:56.000I'll finish on this, but how strong is the echo chamber?
00:58:59.000The reason that it is so strong, I mean, it is so strong that Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, knows she's among friends so strongly, she can go out in public and disparage a member of the press from Fox News as essentially the worst kind of human, knowing that she will face very, very little blowback in any real terms.
00:59:16.000I mean, the lady already has a contract with MSNBC, and she's currently acting as the White House press secretary.
00:59:21.000Here she was a couple of days ago, going after Peter Doocy from Fox News.
00:59:25.000So we have to talk about Peter Doocy for one second.
00:59:43.000Well, he works for a network that provides people with questions that nothing personal to any individual, including Peter Doocy, but might make anyone's life.
01:00:00.000She thinks she can get away with that.