Joe Biden wants the illegal immigrants in the country. And he wants them to gain citizenship. Joe Biden's policy is to have an open border. And to make sure that they do so, he needs them to cross across the border with the United States. But is this a good or bad thing? And why does he want them to do so? And how does he know that they will be good for the Democratic Party and the country? Alex Blumberg takes a look at what's going on at the southern border, and why Joe Biden thinks it's a good idea to have open borders. And why is it so important that they should be allowed to cross the border? And what does it have to do with immigration? Alex takes a deep dive into the connection between Joe Biden and the border crisis, and how he and his administration are facilitating the flow of illegal immigrants across the U.S. southern border. That's the first half of this episode of Divided States of Biden on Fentanyl. That is coming on Monday, where we go inside the story of the crisis at the border. The second half of the show will be on fentanyl. Subscribe to the podcast on the App Store or Google Play and leave us a rating and review the episode on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Podcoin Learn more about your ad choices. Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcast and comment in our new podcast Listeners can post their own podcast recommendations and review our podcast recommendations. Send us your thoughts and thoughts on the podcast recommendations in the comments section below. Thanks for listening and share the podcast! and we'll be looking out to you in next week's DIVIDED SON ALL SOCIAL MEDIA! and other podcast related to this episode on The DIVEDUCATION! on The Hill on Podulters and The New York Times and The Huffington Post Thanks for your thoughts on this episode by . and in The FiveThirtyEight Thank you for all your support and your thoughts, reviews and reviews Subscribe and reviews on this podcast , The Five Guys Podcasts at The Five Thirty Eight Podcasts at The Six Figures Podcasts and The Vagrant is a post on this Podcasts Outtrope & @ The Five Fifty Cent or Tweet Me Out? And Music by The Five Forty Footed Podcast
00:00:00.000Well, folks, every day under Joe Biden's administration is a political ad cut for Donald Trump.
00:00:05.000The latest example comes courtesy of America's southern border.
00:00:09.000And there is so much going on at the southern border.
00:00:11.000If you watch Divided States of Biden episode one, which is where we actually went down to the border and checked it out, you can see that the border is basically wide open.
00:00:17.000There are no border patrol agents where they should be.
00:00:19.000They are all too busy processing illegal immigrants and letting them into the country.
00:00:24.000Well, yesterday, at the border, there was a major conflagration when, in Texas, about 300 illegal immigrants decided to storm one of the sections of the Texas State National Park where they had erected some border wire.
00:00:36.000They stormed across the border, most of them being young males, and started toppling over American soldiers, started assaulting the American Border Patrol.
00:00:54.000You can see these illegal immigrants who push their way through the border, and then they just start pushing their way past the soldiers, past the border patrol, and they rush up to the fence.
00:01:04.000Now the fence is still closed, so they're rushing their way past the border wall, but there's another fence.
00:01:09.000And now they are waving their arms to suggest that this is how borders normally work is totally crazy.
00:01:16.000And it's being facilitated by the Mexican drug cartels.
00:01:18.000To understand what's going on the border, you have to understand the people in control of the southern border are in fact the Mexican drug cartels who decide Where every single illegal immigrant gets dropped off.
00:01:28.000There are no, this is not the days of 1980s when you have illegal immigrants singly or in pairs or as families attempting to cross the desert to get into the United States.
00:01:36.000You now have drug cartels that literally take people on trucks directly to the border and drop them off where they want to be dropped off.
00:01:43.000One, they understand that if those people arrive at the border and are then processed, they're going to enter the country.
00:01:48.000And two, if you can force Border Patrol to congregate around places like this, you know where the Border Patrol ain't, the Border Patrol is not in the areas where it needs to be, interdicting all of the fentanyl that is crossing the border by literally tens of thousands of pounds and then killing 100,000 Americans a year.
00:02:03.000That's episode two of The Divided States of Biden on fentanyl.
00:02:05.000That is coming on Monday, where we go inside that story.
00:02:08.000It has a lot to do with the border crisis.
00:02:13.000Joe Biden's policy is to have an open border.
00:02:15.000Understand that the Biden administration legitimately sued the state of Texas to prevent them from passing a law to make it illegal to be an illegal immigrant in the state of Texas and make you subject to deportation.
00:02:26.000Joe Biden wants the illegal immigrants in the country.
00:02:29.000And he wants the illegal immigrants in the country For presumably one of three reasons.
00:02:33.000Those reasons would either be economic, meaning he wants an underclass of people who are not going to be paid the prevailing minimum wage to make sure that the economy does not collapse on his watch even as he artificially boosts wages for his union cronies.
00:02:45.000Two, he wants to make sure that a huge number of people cross Across America's southern border and then eventually gain their citizenship because a lot of these young men who are crossing the border will get married to American citizens and then gain their citizenship that way.
00:02:57.000And then he hopes that those people will become Democratic voters.
00:02:59.000And three, ideologically, there's a huge segment of the Democratic Party that believes that America is bad and should not have borders.
00:03:06.000And that actually, any westernized country should not have borders.
00:03:09.000That somehow, the West being an exploitative capitalist system, that system has been terrible to people all over the world, and therefore, the West owes it to people all over the world, entry.
00:03:19.000That people should just be able to cross borders willy-nilly.
00:03:22.000Not even a libertarian point of view, an anti-Western point of view.
00:03:25.000That is a large swath of the democratic political base.
00:03:29.000Same sorts of people who really like Hamas over in Dearborn, Michigan, for example, or the people who are protesting on college campuses.
00:03:35.000So, those reasons are motivating Joe Biden here, obviously, in whatever proportion you seek to attribute to that.
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00:05:57.000So, yesterday, we held an event over at the Trump Doral.
00:06:01.000I was co-hosting a fundraiser for President Trump.
00:06:03.000I had a chance to speak with President Trump about the border, about the fentanyl crisis.
00:06:07.000I will say the President is in very, very good spirits about the election, as he should be, given the polling data.
00:06:13.000And what we talked about at some length was the simple fact that his policies on the border were significantly better than Joe Biden's.
00:06:19.000What he actually said is, this issue is a horrible issue for America and a great issue for Republicans, specifically because Joe Biden has made it such a horrible issue for the United States.
00:06:36.000And that's not going to bear benefits for Joe Biden in the upcoming election.
00:06:40.000Now, what's funny about this is that Joe Biden really believes that he has to do this also because he's under the weird misimpression.
00:06:45.000I know who his political advisors are.
00:06:46.000Joe Biden's political advisors are complete befuddled morons because they're selling him a bill of goods.
00:06:51.000Basically, he staffed his entire administration with Bernie Sanders acolytes who tell him that his unpopularity is a result of him not moving far enough to the left.
00:07:01.000Why he switched horses in the middle of the stream and moved away from his supposed moderation in 2020 toward the Bernie Sanders left is absolutely beyond me.
00:07:10.000He seems to think, again, politically speaking, that this will be a base election.
00:07:14.000That if he can turn out enough Democratic voters, he will win.
00:07:18.000The only true base election of my lifetime was 2012.
00:07:21.000That is the only election in which independence went one way, but the election went the other way.
00:07:25.000Where independence tended to split for Mitt Romney, but Barack Obama being a unique political figure, with a unique appeal to black Americans particularly, was able to turn out his vote in numbers high enough to win the presidency, despite the fact that he had alienated the middle.
00:07:39.000Every Democrat since 2012 has attempted to emulate the Barack Obama model, and every Democrat since 2012 has failed.
00:07:46.000The only reason that Joe Biden won in 2020 is because all the voting rules changed because of COVID, and because Democratic ballot harvesting meant that literally tens of millions of people Who had never voted before, voted because people were showing up at their doors three months in advance of the election, picking up their ballot and dropping it off in the nearest mailbox.
00:08:03.000That is not going to replicate itself in 2024.
00:08:06.000But Joe Biden's political advisors seem to be telling him he needs to skew to the left.
00:08:09.000And so you've seen Joe Biden, as we'll talk about a little bit later, skew against Israel in the belief that he's going to win over 10,000 voters in Dearborn, Michigan, and somehow it's going to win in Michigan.
00:08:18.000He's not losing Michigan because he is pro-Israel or supposedly pro-Israel.
00:08:22.000The reason that Joe Biden is losing Michigan is because he is alienating every blue-collar voter he can find in the state of Michigan.
00:08:29.000The moron is passing laws and regulations that basically kill the domestic American car industry.
00:08:35.000And then he's wondering why he's losing Michigan?
00:08:37.000That would be the reason, sir, that you're losing Michigan.
00:08:39.000But his own people won't tell him that because they're staffed by environmentalist do-gooders And radical leftists.
00:08:45.000And the same thing is true on the American border.
00:08:47.000Joe Biden seems to believe that if he's soft on the American border, this is going to win over Hispanics.
00:08:51.000This is one of the biggest myths in American politics is that Hispanics, Latinos in America
00:08:55.000are desperately in favor of a wide open border.
00:08:59.000I don't know where they're getting this idea that Hispanic Americans are like,
00:09:02.000yeah, just open up the vast majority of Hispanic Americans came here legally, not illegally.
00:09:07.000They're legal citizens of the United States.
00:09:09.000And because of that, they think the same way that pretty much all other Americans think,
00:09:13.000which is, you know what we should do, control our borders.
00:09:16.000But Joe Biden seems to think that if he leaves the border wide open,
00:09:19.000that everybody is in favor of that And here's the thing, he is bleeding Hispanic and Latino support.
00:09:24.000And there are a wide variety of reasons for why he is bleeding Hispanic-Latino support, but he's focused on exactly the wrong minorities in terms of electoral turnout.
00:09:32.000One of the most amazing things about the way that we have broken things down in terms of the intersectional hierarchy is that because the left believes that victimhood status is the ultimate arbiter of value, they've politically appealed to people on the basis of their victimhood status Which is politically stupid, because if you are actually going to game out how to create a victorious coalition, you should look at the number of people in each supposed subgroup.
00:10:05.000That a very, very small percentage of Americans are in favor of that.
00:10:10.000A vanishingly small percentage of Americans are in favor of that.
00:10:13.000That is an issue that's high on the intersectional hierarchy, so it gets a lot of attention, and it alienates the other 98% of voters.
00:10:19.000The Democratic Party will talk about systemic racism, keeping black Americans down, never mind the fact that most Americans don't actually believe that.
00:10:27.000They'll talk about that because they believe that that ranks high on the intersectional values list.
00:10:31.000And never mind the fact That black Americans are actually not the largest minority group in the United States.
00:10:37.000By far, the largest minority group in the United States is Hispanic Americans.
00:11:03.000Donald Trump eating a taco bowl is certainly less offensive to Hispanic Americans than the baseline idea that all Hispanic Americans are in favor of vast illegal immigration.
00:11:13.000And not only that, it turns out that if you want to alienate Hispanic Americans, the best way to do that is to suggest that there's an intersectional hierarchy in which Black Americans are put down by the evil boot of the United States, and Hispanic Americans are somehow exempt from that.
00:11:26.000Because here's the thing about Hispanic Americans.
00:11:28.000Hispanic Americans are upwardly mobile by numbers.
00:11:31.000Hispanic Americans, by numbers, agree with the idea of the American Dream.
00:11:35.000Because they have participated in the American Dream in terms of upward economic mobility.
00:11:40.000Now, so have a lot of black Americans, obviously, but the entire media are dedicated to the proposition that black Americans are kept down by the evil racist American system, and Hispanic Americans are not kept down by the evil American system, according to that same media.
00:11:54.000Which means that either they're participants in it, or they're sort of ignored by it.
00:11:58.000And Hispanic Americans look at America, they say, you know what?
00:12:04.000I crossed that border with nothing, with my wife, maybe a kid.
00:12:08.000And I started off working a job at a restaurant for nothing, and now I own the restaurant.
00:12:13.000Now, I'm looking at the numbers right here, and again, this bizarre vision of white upper-crust liberals that Hispanic Americans are a bunch of impoverished people mired in absolute penury for their entire lives, that's not true at all.
00:12:29.000The simple reason that Latino voters have been turning to the right, even the left is recognizing this in terms of the media now, the reason that's happening is because they are upwardly mobile, economically speaking, somewhat socially conservative, significantly more socially conservative than the Democratic Party.
00:12:45.000We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
00:12:46.000First, civics education in America is not just low, it's at an alarming all-time low.
00:12:52.000Shockingly, studies show that less than half of high school students are not familiar with the Bill of Rights.
00:12:56.000It's a pressing issue, but there is a beacon of hope.
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00:13:44.000According to Keith Humphries, this is, again, on MSNBC, November 2022.
00:13:48.000Most Latinos voted for Democrats in the 2022 elections, but Republican support among Hispanic voters has grown by 10 points since 2018, continuing a dozen-year trend of America's largest ethnic minority group drifting in a more politically conservative direction.
00:14:04.000Because start with health and upward mobility.
00:14:07.000Latino's life expectancy in the United States exceeds that of whites by about three years.
00:14:11.000In the five years prior to the pandemic, Hispanic median household income grew more than twice as much as whites and faster than black and Asian Americans as well.
00:14:19.000Both of these advantages are buttressed by Hispanic gains in education.
00:14:21.000According to the National Center on Educational Statistics, from 2010 to 2020, the high school dropout rate of Hispanics fell by more than half, from 15.1% to 7.4%, approaching the national average of 5.3%.
00:14:30.000percent, approaching the national average of 5.3 percent.
00:14:33.000From 2000 to 2018, the college enrollment rate of Hispanics aged 18 to 24 increased
00:14:38.000by more than half, from 22 percent to 36 percent, also approaching the national average, which
00:14:51.000Some observers were surprised more Latinos didn't vote to restore affirmative action in the UC system, but if you're the largest group being amended, you don't need affirmative action in the UC system.
00:14:59.000All of these successes have shaped Hispanics' view of their country.
00:15:02.000A 2021 survey by Pew found Latinos see the United States as offering more economic opportunity, better conditions for raising children, and better access to healthcare services than the countries in which they were born.
00:15:12.000Or, in the case of US-born Hispanics, in the countries in which their ancestors were born.
00:15:17.000So in other words, Hispanics think this is a pretty freaking great country.
00:15:21.000Because it is, in fact, a pretty damned great country.
00:15:24.000And guess who thinks that this country stinks and needs to be fundamentally transformed?
00:15:37.000And it breaks down Republicans by group.
00:15:40.000They say, effectively, that there are five Republican groups.
00:15:43.000And these five Republican groups are what they call faith and flag conservatives, who have become traditional conservatives, conservative on nearly every issue.
00:15:50.000They want Christianity more prominent in public life.
00:15:53.000Only about 16% of Hispanics who are Republicans, or lean Republican, consider themselves faith and flag conservatives.
00:16:00.000Then there are committed conservatives, who can be very conservative on most issues, particularly economics, and favor a hawkish foreign policy.
00:16:08.000Those people, only 12% of Hispanics, consider themselves in the committed conservative group.
00:16:13.000So that's only 28% of Hispanics who consider themselves faith and flag conservatives or committed conservatives.
00:16:32.000Those are people who are sort of moderate on immigration and some social issues.
00:16:35.000They don't really feel at home in either party, but they have conservative views about the government and the social safety net.
00:16:42.00021% of Hispanics consider themselves part of this group.
00:16:45.000And then there are these stressed sideliners.
00:16:47.000And here's how Pew describes these people.
00:16:49.000Mixed political views, lean slightly liberal economically, more conservative in other domains.
00:16:53.00027% of Hispanics count themselves part of this group.
00:16:57.000So in other words, the areas of the right where Hispanics are overrepresented are among people who are ambivalent right and stress sideliners.
00:17:34.000Yeah, so you know, you might think, you know, that Hispanic voters might be the types of folks who would have a backlash against Donald Trump's remarks, right?
00:17:42.000If you ask Hispanic voters who do they trust more on border security and immigration, overwhelmingly they trust Donald Trump more by a tremendous margin.
00:19:02.000Not only is it not true, it's a bad campaign tactic.
00:19:05.000As David Leonhardt points out, a defining feature of American politics has been the rightward shift of voters of color.
00:19:10.000Asian, Black, Hispanic voters have all become less likely to support Democratic candidates and more likely to support Republicans, including Trump.
00:19:17.000In each group, the trend is pronounced among working-class voters defined as those without a four-year college degree.
00:19:22.000Now, I think Republicans can make a similarly foolish mistake by thinking that the reason that these voters are moving into the Trump camp is because big government spending.
00:19:33.000By and large, Americans believe that this is an awesome country and the things that made America awesome, namely, The ability to pursue the American dream, to build something for your family, the fact that your parents or grandparents came here with nothing and now you live a pretty good life and your kids will live an even better life.
00:19:48.000That is the thing that they want and they don't think the government is the thing that helped their grandparents or parents do that or them do that.
00:19:54.000They think they did it or their parents did it or their grandparents did that.
00:19:58.000According to David Leonhardt, He says, if anything, Democrats' weakness among voters of color appears to have intensified since 2022.
00:20:06.000Among white voters, President Biden has about as much support as he did four years ago.
00:20:09.000Nate Cohn, the Times' chief political analyst, has pointed this out.
00:20:12.000But Biden's support among Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters has plummeted.
00:20:16.000As John Burns Murdoch, the chief data reporter at the Financial Times wrote last week, quote, I think this is simultaneously one of the most important social trends in the United States today and one of the most poorly understood.
00:21:30.000They're the folks with that catchy jingle, you know, one, eight, seven, seven cars for kids.
00:21:34.000If you're tired of looking at that old car in your driveway or hearing your spouse complain about it, why not let Cars for Kids take care of it for you?
00:22:48.000Who are the people who are like, oh man, I'm so glad they're finally gonna make Apple less effective and break it up and make it work worse.
00:22:53.000What I really need is for the government to step in and break up Apple so that my iPhone doesn't work as well as it does right now.
00:22:59.000The entire argument, by the way, between Apple and, for example, Microsoft, is that Steve Jobs wanted Apple to build closed systems.
00:23:07.000Microsoft is an open system, meaning that Microsoft can be uploaded on Android, it can be used with a variety of technologies, and this was a big ideological debate between Steve Jobs, who wanted everything self-contained, so when you opened the phone, everything was kind of working within a system, and Bill Gates, who wanted everything to be much more open on an ideological level.
00:23:26.000And there are good arguments on both sides.
00:23:28.000But the idea that Apple presents an actual monopolistic problem in a market where they control maybe 60, 65% of the market, on a statistical level, it's absolutely not a monopoly.
00:23:39.000And when it comes to the idea that this is bad for consumers, you're gonna have to make the case that it's really, really bad for consumers when consumers continue to consume the product at extraordinarily high rates and be happy with the product.
00:23:49.000What this really is, is an attempt to gain headlines with the upper crust white liberals Who really hate Apple or something?
00:23:57.000I just don't know who's the constituency for this.
00:23:59.000It's bad as a matter of antitrust law, but how many people actually care about antitrust law?
00:24:04.000Does he think that blue-collar workers like, man, I'm so glad they're going to break up Apple now.
00:24:07.000Blue-collar workers aren't going to vote for Joe Biden because his DOJ is going after Apple.
00:24:11.000Here's Merrick Garland slamming Apple yesterday for some of the dumbest possible reasons.
00:24:16.000And, as any iPhone user who has ever seen a green text message or received a tiny, grainy video can attest, Apple's anti-competitive conduct also includes making it more difficult for iPhone users to message with users of non-Apple products.
00:24:34.000It does this by diminishing the functionality of its own messaging app and by diminishing the functionality of third-party messaging apps.
00:24:44.000By doing so, Apple knowingly and deliberately degrades quality, privacy, and security for its users.
00:24:52.000For example, if an iPhone user messages a non-iPhone user in Apple Messages, the text appears not only as a green bubble, but incorporates limited functionality.
00:25:04.000The conversation is not encrypted, videos are pixelated and grainy, and users cannot edit messages or see typing indicators.
00:25:13.000As a result, iPhone users perceive rival smartphones as being lower quality because the experience of messaging friends and family who do not own iPhones is worse.
00:25:26.000Wait, so you mean that Apple doesn't want to subsidize Android?
00:26:31.000The theory is that money is not going to matter all that much in this election.
00:26:35.000The reason I say that is because money is no longer a proxy for victory in elections.
00:26:40.000Money can help you, marginally, but it's not as though there's no name recognition for Donald Trump.
00:26:45.000If this were, for example, Joe Biden dumping hundreds of millions of dollars on, say, Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis, then you could say that the money might have an effect.
00:26:53.000But everyone knows what they think of Trump already, and everybody knows what they think of Biden already.
00:26:57.000The people in the middle are just gonna have to make a call, which is, was I better off in 2019?
00:27:01.000I'm skipping 2020 because it's nobody's fault what happens during a pandemic.
00:27:05.000It is your fault if you continue to blow out the money after the pandemic in 2021, but in any case, Were you better off in 2019 or are you better off in 2024?
00:27:12.000We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
00:27:15.000First, we're all familiar with how difficult hiring can be.
00:27:17.000Unfortunately, a lot of businesses have been down on their luck trying to find excellent talent.
00:27:21.000Fortunately, if you are a business owner or a hiring manager, you don't need luck to find top talent for your team.
00:28:12.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
00:28:13.000First, it's important to realize that for most of the global community, the question of where their next meal will come from is a constant pressing concern.
00:28:20.000This urgency is a reality for many, even if it's not a thought that crosses your mind often.
00:28:24.000Behind the staggering statistics about food insecurity amongst the most vulnerable, the children, there are individual stories like Brandon's.
00:28:31.000Little Brandon and his family live in a rural city in Guatemala.
00:28:33.000His mom tries to care for him and his little brother as best she can, but it's not enough.
00:28:37.000Earning a living is very difficult where they live.
00:28:40.000For too many moms and dads, There are often no safety nets to be found and help from their neighbors, social programs, even the government.
00:28:45.000When these kids get sick from hunger, their bodies become weak.
00:28:48.000Something as simple as a cold could be devastating.
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00:29:18.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden, like this snide kind of insanity where
00:29:22.000the stupidest legal case I've ever seen.
00:29:25.000Like there are a bunch of legal cases against Donald Trump.
00:29:27.000And I've been honest with you about which ones are stronger and which ones are weaker.
00:29:30.000By far the strongest case against Donald Trump is the classified documents case from Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
00:29:35.000That is the strongest case against Donald Trump.
00:29:36.000Now, is that a politically motivated case?
00:29:39.000Of course it's a politically motivated case.
00:29:41.000Joe Biden was keeping classified documents in his car, everywhere else for dozens of years.
00:29:47.000With that said, the case against Trump, legally speaking, is strongest there.
00:29:52.000But the single weakest case against Donald Trump is the civil fraud case brought by Letitia James against Donald Trump in the state of New York, where they are currently holding him up at gunpoint for almost $500 million.
00:30:01.000And the goal of this is to bankrupt Trump, and apparently to allow Joe Biden to talk about bankrupting Trump.
00:30:07.000Well, it looks to me as though you have an administration and its allies that are targeting the political opponent of that administration and trying to personally bankrupt him by charging him hundreds of millions of dollars in order to convict him civilly of something you couldn't do criminally.
00:30:23.000They couldn't charge him with criminal fraud because they couldn't meet the burden.
00:30:26.000So they went to civil fraud, which is a preponderance of the evidence standard.
00:30:29.000And then they fined him half a billion dollars based on loans that he took that he repaid Which is totally crazy.
00:30:38.000But you still have Joe Biden who's joking about Trump being in debt because of this.
00:30:42.000Does this look like a winning strategy to you?
00:30:44.000Because when Donald Trump says they are trying to stop me by using every means that they will throw the kitchen sink at me, he's not wrong.
00:30:55.000You have Jimmy Kimmel joking about Donald Trump's wealth.
00:30:59.000Here is Jimmy Kimmel making fun of Donald Trump.
00:31:01.000Now, again, they're fining him half a billion dollars for not really doing anything to damage anyone.
00:31:08.000But Jimmy Kimmel is going to mock Trump now about that.
00:31:12.000The great white supremacist has until money to come up with.
00:31:17.000A $464 million bond or the state may seize and sell his property.
00:31:22.000Trump said nobody has ever heard of anything like this before.
00:31:26.000Trump needs cash and we never heard it and most of the crazy stuff you do before but I mean nobody ever heard of the president changing the weather with a sharpie before either.
00:31:36.000Something tells me over the weekend Trump's going to start talking about how strong Vladimir Putin is and then suddenly a dump truck full of rubles will pull up and cover this for him.
00:31:44.000But of course the real loser here is Melania.
00:31:47.000She may end up with half of the nothing he owns now.
00:31:50.000I hope she got an advance on that prenup because if you think she hates him now, wait until he's poor.
00:31:58.000I'm sorry, this is such obnoxious garbage.
00:32:00.000So first of all, the notion that Russia paid off Trump is so stupid and discredited, but there's still trafficking in this.
00:32:06.000Remember, Donald Trump is fake news and untrustworthy, but they will still have Jimmy Kimmel years later suggesting that Vladimir Putin paid off Donald Trump for some unspecified reason.
00:32:16.000Meanwhile, even CNN is admitting that a huge percentage of the Letitia James case is just bullcrap.
00:32:22.000So, for example, Trump had suggested a value on Mar-a-Lago, and Letitia James suggested that that value was inflated.
00:32:30.000What did she suggest the value of Mar-a-Lago was?
00:32:32.000She suggested the value of Mar-a-Lago was like $18 million.
00:32:35.000That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
00:33:23.000In this case, someone picks up the phone and makes that call this week.
00:33:26.000Okay, so again, it's just an absurdity.
00:33:29.000The entire case is an absurdity, but Democrats are jumping on it and they're reveling in it.
00:33:33.000So here's the thing, when you revel in the political targeting of your opponent, maybe it feels good, but it actually is not going to write down to your political benefit.
00:33:43.000All right, coming up, we'll get to the Republicans in the House who are trying to cram through another giant $1.2 trillion spending bill that contains just a grab bag of junk.
00:34:27.000Now, speaking of the Biden administration being completely disconnected from the American people, again, when you're talking about upward mobility and the disconnection that the Biden administration has from regular Americans, it's not just, you know, kind of on an imagistic level, making fun of Trump and all that kind of stuff.
00:34:52.000When that happens, nobody believes him.
00:34:54.000And the reason no one believes him is because the left flank of his party does not actually like capitalism.
00:34:57.000Again, going back to the idea that Hispanic Americans particularly like upward mobility.
00:35:02.000And most Americans actually are a huge fan of upward mobility.
00:35:06.000This is why whenever anyone says that America is built on the middle class, no, America is built on the people who at some point in their lives are middle class and then spend the rest of their life trying to get out of the middle class and up to the upper middle class or the upper class.
00:35:19.000There is no such thing in the United States as a permanent middle class.
00:35:23.000The people who constitute the middle class...
00:35:25.000Very often that is a transitory state.
00:35:27.000I was middle class for a large portion of my life, and then I wasn't middle class anymore.
00:35:31.000And that's what everyone is trying to do.
00:35:33.000This is why even when Republicans talk about, you know, there's the lower class and the middle class and the upper class, that is not a class.
00:35:39.000When people talk about American classes the same way they talk about like the British class system from the 18th century, not the same thing.
00:36:01.000But the Democrats seem to believe this sort of crap, and that's not a particularly nice vision of the American dream that they are selling.
00:36:06.000So, for example, yesterday, the Squad held a press conference talking about how the government should spend more money on housing.
00:36:15.000You know we have a housing affordability crisis, which means, presumably, that the government should step in to make everything more affordable.
00:36:20.000Because if there's one thing that we know about the government, it's that it makes things more affordable.
00:36:24.000Oh wait, that's precisely the opposite of every single good or service the government has ever gotten involved in.
00:36:29.000Every single good or service that the government has ever gotten seriously involved in, in terms of subsidization, for example, has gotten wildly more expensive over the years, whether you're talking about education or healthcare.
00:36:40.000But here's Jamal Bowman, A man so stupid he can't tell the difference between a fire alarm and a door opening device.
00:36:47.000Suggesting that if you pay more than 20% of your salary in rent that you are a member of the plantation capitalism class.
00:36:55.000But how many people aren't so lucky and aren't so fortunate and have been left behind by our elected officials for far too long?
00:37:42.000You'd have to put rental caps on the amount of money people can charge, which means no one will build a building ever again.
00:37:49.000Or you're going to have to inflate the currency, which will temporarily increase the amount of pay vis-a-vis rent, and then rent will increase.
00:37:57.000When you say that you're going to build affordable housing from the government, for example, those turn into the housing projects that are complete crap and garbage that end up having to be torn down.
00:38:16.000The use of the term New Deal to mean anything that you think that it should mean, despite the fact the New Deal was one of the least effective programs in American history?
00:38:24.000And probably lengthened the Great Depression by solidly eight years, according to UCLA economists.
00:38:28.000Here is AOC promoting... Her Green New Deal was so successful, she's now ready to do an Affordable Housing New Deal.
00:38:35.000This new deal for public housing would immediately replenish the multi-billion dollar backlog for public housing repairs.
00:38:42.000It would repeal the Fair Cloth Amendment.
00:38:44.000It would invest up to $234 billion over 10 years to preserve, upgrade, and expand our public housing stock.
00:38:52.000It would bring public housing down to zero carbon emissions while creating 280,000 jobs in America.
00:38:57.00080,000 jobs in America. It would end the era of government neglect,
00:39:03.000demolition and privatization of our public housing.
00:39:20.000It's always funny to me when people are like, why can't we have architecture like the Russians do?
00:39:24.000Walk outside of central Moscow and you will see why.
00:39:27.000Brutalism is like the dominant theme in architecture in Russia for a reason.
00:39:32.000Meanwhile, the Republicans are now infighting over the latest giant budget buster that they're going to pass, presumably.
00:39:39.000As I said, when Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker of the House, the problem is not the leadership of the House Republican Caucus.
00:39:45.000The problem is you have a tiny, tiny majority, and a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic President, and it didn't switch any of the incentive structures to simply swap out McCarthy for Mike Johnson.
00:39:56.000I don't understand why everyone thought this was going to magically solve the problem.
00:40:00.000As Thomas Sowell has said repeatedly, as he says in his book, Knowledge and Decisions, it's the incentive structures that make the decision happen.
00:40:06.000It's not switching out the individuals in the vast majority of circumstances.
00:40:10.000Well, currently, according to Politico, Speaker Johnson is plowing forward with his plan to fund the government at a cost.
00:40:15.000House conservatives have renewed their threats that any action against the Louisiana Republican are now on the table, incensed over the latest spending deal that Johnson reached with Democrats, and how quickly he's pushing the legislation to the floor.
00:40:25.000When you can't come to consensus within your own caucus, you end up at 2.30 in the morning dropping 1,200-page bills.
00:40:30.000He's got a fractious caucus with a tiny majority, and he understands that a government shutdown is going to be very bad for, for example, Donald Trump's re-elect prospects, which is why Trump has really not said very much about this minibus, as they're calling it, bill.
00:40:42.000In the past, Representative Ralph Norman, according to Politico, had broadly defended Johnson and dismissed talk of taking direct action against him, such as calling a vote to remove him from the speakership.
00:40:51.000After leadership released legislative text for the massive spending bill in the middle of the night, Norman fired a direct warning shot.
00:41:03.000So the reality is that, again, it's a bad bill and all these bills are going to remain bad until Republicans actually have control of the Senate and the presidency.
00:41:11.000And then maybe the bills will get slightly better if passed is any indicator.
00:41:15.000Because when Trump was president and Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, they also passed giant spending bills.
00:41:26.000So Chip Roy, who's the most consistently conservative person in terms of spending in the House of Representatives, he was ripping on the bill.
00:41:32.000He basically said any Republican who votes for this should be ashamed.
00:41:36.000If you care about the border, you're getting nothing here.
00:41:39.000It is completely false to say that we're getting anything here that will help, and in fact, what we're going to get is more money to process more people, which means you're going to get more people at the border.
00:41:49.000Nothing is going to stop the flow of the border in this bill, so we're funding open borders, we're funding the mass releases of people in violation of the law, using parole, the same laws that were violated to release the individual who came in and killed Lake and Riley.
00:42:04.000Any Republican who votes for this bill should be ashamed of themselves.
00:42:08.000Okay, well, he is not wrong that in a vacuum, that is true.
00:42:12.000Now, Republicans are not getting much out of this bill.
00:42:14.000This is the biggest problem, is that, let's be real about this.
00:42:17.000Of the $1.2 trillion that will be spent to fund the government, the vast, vast, vast majority is not on all the earmarked projects you're gonna hear about.
00:42:23.000And many of those earmarked projects are indeed garbage.
00:42:25.000You're talking about like hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups that push trans propaganda, or you're talking about millions of dollars, literally millions of dollars, to groups that facilitate illegal immigration at the southern border.
00:42:35.000All of that is crap and it should be stripped out, and Republicans should make it an issue to strip that stuff out, politically speaking.
00:42:45.000But the real debt drivers are not this.
00:42:48.000The real debt drivers are all the massive income transfers that amount to Social Security, Medicare, welfare programs.
00:42:55.000All of that stuff is the stuff that is currently driving the amount of spending in these bills.
00:42:59.000And until there's a fundamental restructuring of how spending is done in the United States, everything is going to be cutting around the margins.
00:43:05.000And this is why Mike Johnson is saying defunding the government is not going to fix the problem.
00:43:09.000It's not as though the spending is going to go to a level that is actually appropriate.
00:43:12.000Now, what that means is that if Republicans promise that when they get into office, they're going to bring this under control, they actually have to do it.
00:43:18.000And you can talk about the power of the purse all you want, but when you have a five-seat majority in the House of Representatives and a very high possibility that you lose the House of Representatives and Democrats then get to spend as much as they want, Is that what you want in a contentious election year?
00:43:56.000But Joe Biden thinks that he is going to appeal to Michiganders who presumably hate the state of Israel.
00:44:02.000Maybe some people like the like the devotees of this Michigan imam who suggested in a recent speech that Muslims will slaughter Jews like sheep.
00:45:38.000A lot of conversation on TikTok is talking about Palestine and Gaza.
00:45:43.000So I know you guys have to go, but do you support a ceasefire in Gaza?
00:45:48.000I think what Schumer did, what Biden's... I would answer that question for weeks, no, only because I don't trust that either Hamas or, frankly, Netanyahu would live up to that ceasefire.
00:46:02.000It's got to lead to a two-state solution.
00:46:08.000Okay, so, again, Democrats are trying to create a moral equivalence right now, presumably in the hope that they're going to win some of these states.
00:46:23.000Well, if you decide that you're going to cater to, like, Representative Al Green from Texas, It's not going to save you.
00:46:28.000Here's Representative Al Green, Democrat, talking about how, you know, Palestinians never consented to Israel becoming a state.
00:46:41.000But here he is basically taking the totally Israel doesn't deserve to exist position because the Palestinians never consented to Israel becoming a state.
00:46:47.000By the way, the opposition to a Palestinian state is not just by Israel in the moment.
00:46:52.000Israel has tried to make attempts since Oslo to establish a Palestinian state.
00:47:11.000From 48 states, zero Palestinian states.
00:47:13.000In fact, the time that they tried to establish a Palestinian state in Jordan, which is 70% Palestinian, the Hashemite dynasty killed thousands of Palestinians and expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians.
00:47:24.000In any case, here's Representative Al Green being the doofus that he is.
00:47:29.000This letter goes to the President because I wanted to just remind him of something that I'm sure he's acutely aware of.
00:47:35.000And that is that 14th of May 1948, Israel declared itself a state.
00:47:43.000And President Truman, who was the President of the United States at that time, was the first major world power or country to recognize Israel as such.
00:47:54.000I'm hoping that we will understand that at that time the Palestinians did not consent to Israel becoming a state.
00:48:02.000In fact, they were vehemently opposed.
00:48:04.000I don't think that now we need to have Israel's consent to have Palestine become a state.
00:48:11.000I think that Palestine declares itself a state.
00:48:13.000I think if we would recognize it, I think that would help us to move this process along.
00:48:19.000Okay, it will do precisely the opposite, because when you reward terrorism, especially from people who don't want the entire state of Israel to exist, giving them a state then uses that as a launch... Israel literally tried this strategy with Gaza.
00:48:32.000But again, the Biden administration seems to believe that if they push to the left, if they push to the anti-Israel left, they're going to win Michigan.
00:48:43.000All right, coming up, we'll get into the latest controversy engulfing Nickelodeon, which for years basically looked the other way at some pretty dicey behavior with regard to kids on set.
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