Ibrahim Raisi, who died aged 63, rose through Iran s theocracy from hardline prosecutor to uncompromising president, as he burnished his credentials to position himself to become the next supreme leader. The absolute dedication and heroism it must have taken for a man literally nicknamed the "Butcher of Tehran" to rise inside a butchering, murderous Iranian terror regime. And in his place, Raisi rose up as an Islamist ideologue to teens studying in seminary in Qom after the Islamic Revolution when he was 19 years old. He was appointed as a prosecutor, rising over the past four decades to fill the positions of Attorney General, Deputy Chief Justice, and Chief Justice of Iran s Theocratic dictatorship. Most notably, he was one of four members of a death committee responsible for the 1988 execution of thousands of Iranian prisoners of conscience in the space of a few months. According to Tablet, what is known is the speed and efficiency of killing, with hangings using forklifts every half hour, and a method and pace that traumatized the executioners themselves. Virgins were systematically raped before their execution to circumvent the Islamic prohibition on killing virgins. And then the prisoners were ordered to write their own names on their hands before they went to their death. The executioners were systematically executed to test their loyalty to the Ayatollah s regime. So, as many as 30,000 people were executed by a few minutes with a process and a process that traumatised the executioner to make them feel raped before they were executed. and then they were raped before being executed to make their names on a list of names on the list of women and girls who had actually helped overthrow the Islamic order. The executioner was a man who was a woman who was ordered to kill virgins by the Islamic Revolutionary Court. He was not the only one who died in the crash he was also the president of Iran's supreme leader, and his name is Mohamed Mokhtar Mokhber, who was the vice president, who is now taking over another terrible human being who is a multi-billion dollar empire controlled exclusively by the United States, and is close to supreme leader Mahmoud Mokhranshah (Mokhtar). He s the man who is the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, and he s the one of the most powerful men in the Middle East, and has ties with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has been an enemy of the West.
00:00:00.000Well, yesterday a great tragedy occurred when a helicopter dropped from the sky in Azerbaijan carrying the president of Iran as well as the foreign minister of Iran.
00:00:10.000It's a tragedy that the helicopter was destroyed.
00:00:16.000There's some of the worst people on the planet.
00:00:18.000I feel bad for, obviously, all of the other people who are in the helicopter, but the president of Iran was a butcher.
00:00:24.000His foreign minister was also a butcher.
00:00:26.000They both died in this particular crash.
00:00:29.000The media have a very difficult time with this sort of stuff because they're not sure whether they're supposed to call terror supporters austere religious scholars, as we saw with the former ISIS leader, al-Zarqawi.
00:00:39.000So Reuters put out the following tweet.
00:00:41.000Ibrahim Raisi, who died aged 63, Rose through Iran's theocracy from hardline prosecutor to uncompromising president as he burnished his credentials to position himself to become the next supreme leader.
00:00:52.000The absolute dedication and heroism it must have taken for a man literally nicknamed the Butcher of Tehran to have risen inside a butchering, murderous Iranian terror regime.
00:01:07.000I mean, they're just doing the memes now.
00:01:10.000Just to introduce you to the president, Ibrahim Raisi, who just died in this helicopter crash.
00:01:17.000He became, according to Tablet Magazine, an Islamist ideologue to teens studying in seminary in Qom after the Islamic Revolution when he was 19 years old and lacking any university education.
00:01:26.000He was then appointed as a prosecutor, rising over the following four decades to fill the positions of Attorney General, Deputy Chief Justice, and most recently, Chief Justice of Iran's theocratic dictatorship.
00:01:35.000Most notably, Raisi was one of four members of a death committee responsible for the 1988 execution of thousands of Iranian prisoners of conscience in the space of a few months.
00:01:43.000The ideologically motivated mass executions constituted both a crime against humanity as well as genocide, a cleansing of religious infidels, according to international human rights expert Jeffrey Robertson.
00:01:54.000It was a massacre, he said, comparable to those at Srebrenica and the Caton Forest.
00:01:59.000Raisi would spend a few minutes with each prisoner.
00:02:01.000He would ask them questions to test their loyalty to the Ayatollahs.
00:02:05.000And then the prisoners were mostly leftist revolutionaries who had actually helped to overthrow the Shah, were taken out and shot or hanged.
00:02:14.000Apparently, as many as 30,000 people were processed by this supposed court.
00:02:20.000According to Tablet, what is known is the speed and efficiency of killing, with hangings using forklifts every half hour, the dumping of dead bodies in piles on trucks, a method and pace that traumatized the executioners themselves.
00:02:30.000Virgins were systematically raped before their execution to circumvent the Islamic prohibition on killing virgins and to prevent women and girls from reaching heaven.
00:02:37.000The executor were ordered to write their own names on their hands before they went to their death.
00:02:42.000At the time, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who had been designated to succeed Ayatollah Khomeini, condemned the mass executions.
00:02:51.000In response, Khomeini then rescinded Montazeri's clerical rank, canceling his selection as the heir.
00:03:00.000Raisi is, of course, or was, thankfully, an evil human being presiding over the death of American soldiers all across the Middle East, presiding over the spread of the terror tentacles of the Islamic Republic, the Sharia law state of Iran.
00:03:16.000So, his death, it's not going to change much in the Middle East because, of course, he was not the Ayatollah.
00:03:21.000The Ayatollahs are simply going to appoint somebody else to fill his stead.
00:03:25.000That person is likely Mohamed Mokhber, who was the vice president, who is now taking over another terrible human being.
00:03:33.000According to the Washington Post, Mokhtar is 68.
00:03:35.000He led an emergency meeting of the Iranian government's cabinet and was receiving calls from foreign officials as the death of Raisi was announced.
00:03:43.000Again, what happened is that the helicopter took off in Azerbaijan.
00:03:45.000They decided, like idiots, to fly through foggy areas near mountains, which as it turns out is a very bad idea in very old Iranian helicopters because it turns out that Iran ain't great at the technology.
00:03:58.000Mokhber has close ties with Khamenei, that's Iran's supreme leader.
00:04:01.000In 2007, Khamenei picked Mokhber to be the chief executive of Setad, which is a multi-billion dollar financial empire controlled exclusively by Khamenei.
00:04:10.000Many of Setad's assets derive from property seized from Iranian citizens.
00:04:15.000Under Mokhber, Setad developed Barkat, which is an Iranian COVID vaccine fast-tracked by Iranian officials.
00:04:34.000Mokhber has been a lead player in bolstering the Iranian ties with Moscow.
00:04:40.000In all likelihood, he is going to be the next person to succeed Khamenei if Khamenei dies.
00:04:46.000Meanwhile, one of the other people who died in this crash was Hossein Amir Abdullahian, 60, who is the foreign minister who was aboard as well, which of course, once again, demonstrates the genius of Iran's establishment.
00:04:59.000Flying the president of your country and the foreign minister of your country in a rickety old helicopter through a fog-laden area in the mountains.
00:05:08.000He, of course, was a close ally of Qasem Soleimani, who you'll remember as being the senior IRGC commander killed in a United States airstrike in Baghdad in 2020.
00:05:21.000He was also a person who the United States, under Joe Biden, allowed to travel to the United States and then make speeches and go in the media.
00:06:22.000But it's not going to change the orientation of the regime.
00:06:24.000In order for the regime to totally be changed, you'd have to have like a full-scale coup from within the IRGC or a popular uprising that overthrew the government.
00:06:33.000Hilariously, somebody online posted a joke about all of this being done by a Mossad agent named Elicopter.
00:06:45.000Hamas then posted on their own official Al-Qassam Brigade's website, on their Telegram account, that indeed a Mossad agent named Elicopter was responsible.
00:06:56.000Now, of course, none of that happened.
00:06:58.000Israel, of course, has denied involvement for this because why would Israel be interested in what happens to the Iranian president whose death will mean literally nothing?
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00:08:25.000Apparently in the middle of all this, so the helicopter went down Sunday morning,
00:08:33.000at least East Coast time, and then all day long,
00:08:36.000there were reports from Iranian sources and Azerbaijani sources that there were rescue teams
00:08:40.000that were looking in the mountains for these guys.
00:08:43.000And honestly, Like maybe the more colorful ending to the story had been if they had survived the crash and then been eaten by the bears and wolves that were in the region.
00:08:50.000But that's not actually what happened.
00:08:52.000But the EU then announced that they were activating their rapid response mapping service in view of the helicopter accident reportedly carrying the president of Iran and its foreign minister.
00:09:17.000In fact, the EU put out another statement from the President of the European Council, quote, the EU expresses its sincere condolences for the death of President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdullahian, as well as other members of their delegation and crew in a helicopter accident.
00:09:33.000Immediately tweeted, not in my name, which is the correct response for the West.
00:09:40.000It's an absolute absurdity that there are so many members of the press, so many members of the EU, so many people inside the United States who will feel condolences and solidarity with legitimate monsters who have spread terror all over the region and keep tens of millions of their own citizens in abject poverty and under the boot of an evil tyranny that stuffs women into bags, forces them out of school, And prosecutes people who do not comply with Sharia law.
00:10:10.000Honestly, it's a truly amazing thing there are so many Westerners who can't make basic moral distinctions.
00:10:16.000But that, of course, is not a shock because the other foreign policy story yesterday is that the ICC, the International Criminal Court, which if the UN is the Mos Eisley of international politics, a wretched hive of scum and villainy, the ICC is even more wretched given the fact that the United States is not a member.
00:10:33.000The International Criminal Court was established in 1998 by the so-called Rome Statute.
00:10:37.000It is an agreement among maybe 124 member states, not including many major countries, including India, the United States, Russia, Israel, a bunch of countries don't make themselves subject to the International Criminal Court, mainly because it's crap.
00:10:50.000Their International Criminal Court suggests that it has jurisdiction over all its member states.
00:10:54.000It doesn't have the actual ability to arrest.
00:10:57.000It has to rely on its member states to arrest people who are prosecuted by the International Criminal Court.
00:11:01.000Now, For the International Criminal Court to operate, they have to come to agreements, these broad-based agreements, with countries like, for example, Venezuela, which is run by a communist henchman who murders thousands of his own citizens, but has not been brought up for prosecution by the ICC.
00:11:18.000Like the country of Niger, which is currently in the middle of a move to kick out American troops, seize an American airbase, and ally with Russia.
00:11:28.000The state of Palestine, which has no legitimate government, is a member of the ICC.
00:11:33.000Presumably under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority in 2015.
00:11:37.000The United States has not made itself subject to the ICC because currently the ICC is still attempting to investigate American soldiers for actions in Afghanistan with the goal of then arresting American soldiers and throwing them in prison.
00:11:51.000The United States, as you might imagine, is not real fond of this.
00:11:54.000So the United States is not interested in watching as Niger and Venezuela prosecute American soldiers.
00:12:01.000The EU has signed on because the EU, again, in all of its historic moral glory, being responsible for not one but two world wars, and the entire essence of colonialism throughout its history, the EU has signed on to the ICC.
00:12:18.000Now the difficulty arises when there are members of the ICC who have members of their population who are prosecuted.
00:12:24.000So what the ICC has historically done is shy away from doing that.
00:12:27.000So for example, they did an investigation into UK soldiers who are acting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
00:12:33.000They got right to the precipice of prosecuting and then they withdrew.
00:12:36.000And the reason they withdrew is because they were afraid that they would have alienated the UK government and the UK government would have pulled away from the ICC.
00:12:43.000Because the ICC, in the most disgusting thing I can possibly imagine, actually, they put out joint arrest warrants.
00:12:50.000For the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, who's an active war criminal, an evil, murderous, monstrous piece of human debris, who orchestrated the murder of 1,200 Israeli citizens, the kidnapping of 250 others, is currently hiding in holes with civilians surrounding him, including women and children.
00:13:08.000And the other warrant they issued on the same day was for the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Yoav Galand, who's the Minister of Defense in Israel.
00:13:18.000Israel, as we've been explaining on the show, has fought the single cleanest urban war in the history of urban warfare, by the statistics.
00:13:26.000And yet the ICC is now treating, jointly, Yair Sinwar, a terrorist leader, and a man who was, until very recently, the leader of an actual government in the Gaza Strip that presided over the robbery of his own citizens, and the murder of his own citizens, and the murder of members of, by the way, ICC states, like the PA.
00:13:46.000They're equating that with Benjamin Netanyahu and the elected government of Israel acting in wartime in self-defense to extirpate the terrorist group.
00:13:56.000Here's the statement that was put forward by the prosecutor, Karim A. A. Khan.
00:14:01.000He announced application for arrest warrant in relation to Netanyahu and Yoav Galant.
00:14:06.000Basically, they issue... I love this picture of these ridiculous-looking bureaucrats standing there looking very serious about their ICC, which has no actual enforcement power other than states, who willy-nilly decide whether to enforce or not.
00:14:20.000They've tried this crap, by the way, against Vladimir Putin as well.
00:14:25.000The only people who have ever been successfully prosecuted in the 20 years that the ICC has been in existence, they prosecuted like 20 people.
00:14:35.000And they're all basically warlords from Africa.
00:14:37.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:15:42.000In any case, here was this ridiculous human being declaring his issuance for arrest warrant.
00:15:49.000I can also confirm today that I have reasonable grounds to believe on the basis of evidence collected and examined by my office that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Galant bear criminal responsibility for the following international crimes committed on the territory of the State of Palestine from at least the 8th of October 2023.
00:16:19.000The crimes include starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, willfully causing great suffering, serious injury to body or health or cruel treatment, willful killing or murder, and intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population.
00:16:44.000That is a- Every single one of those elements is a lie.
00:16:46.000Every single one of those elements is a lie.
00:16:48.000When he suggests deprivation of humanitarian assistance, Israel has been shipping in hundreds of trucks every single day for humanitarian assistance.
00:16:54.000Understand, this guy is just a tool of the radical left in Europe, the international political community, which is dominated by Israel haters and anti-Semites.
00:17:05.000I mean, that's what this guy is, obviously.
00:17:07.000It's an absurdity on every possible level for it to be absurd.
00:17:11.000Let me ask you two questions that make clear how absurd this is.
00:17:32.000The reason is because they wanted to create a false narrative in which there is a quote-unquote cycle of violence between a legitimately elected democratic government fighting a self-defense war and a terrorist group.
00:17:45.000One of the things that I've said a couple of times, because it's true, is the state of Palestine, which again does not exist, is in some weird way Like the State of Unicorns, a member of the ICC.
00:17:56.000What that means, theoretically, is that any state that is a member of the International Criminal Court has an obligation to arrest people who are issued warrants under the International Criminal Court.
00:18:08.000What efforts have been made by the State of Palestine to arrest Yahya Sinwar, who is in the territory of Gaza that is under the jurisdiction of the ICC?
00:18:23.000There again is a reason the United States is not a member of the ICC and it's because the United States does not make wish to make itself subject to the absolute moral imbecility of a bunch of international bureaucrats who have no connection with morality or decency.
00:18:40.000What's weird about the ICC is that it sort of lives in this weird space between two theories of law.
00:18:45.000So theory of law number one is a historically based theory called natural law.
00:18:50.000Natural law theory is what undergirds the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
00:18:54.000Natural law theory is the idea that there is written into the code of humanity and into the code of nature certain laws like do not murder, thou shalt not murder, It's not merely a command from God, it is also written into the natural law in the sense that everyone can suss out what that law is.
00:19:10.000And the typical idea of natural law has been that it trumps laws that violate the natural law.
00:19:15.000This is the claim that is made in the Declaration of Independence, for example.
00:19:18.000So when the Declaration of Independence says that there are laws that violate our natural rights, what it means that we then have the duty to actually rebel against those laws.
00:19:27.000Okay, so natural law is the idea that, again, there is this broad-based law that is universal to humanity.
00:19:32.000Then there's the theory called legal positivism.
00:19:34.000Legal positivism is the theory that there is no law except what governments say there is.
00:19:39.000And so if a government makes a law, it can be a justified law or an unjustified law, but the law is only, there is no natural law.
00:19:46.000There is only law that is established by governments.
00:19:50.000Thus, claiming that you are rebelling in the name of a natural law, a higher law, is a lie.
00:19:55.000What's weird about the ICC is that it sort of lives in this netherworld between the two.
00:19:58.000So it claims that it speaks in the name of a universal human rights law that does not exist according to the ICC.
00:20:03.000Because if it did exist according to the ICC, Venezuela would be prosecuted, obviously.
00:20:07.000The leaders of Niger would be prosecuted, obviously.
00:20:10.000So obviously they don't believe in natural law, but they're also not really legal positivists because they have no power.
00:20:15.000The ICC has no actual enforcement power.
00:20:18.000The entire institution is a complete joke.
00:20:20.000The United States, formed in the aftermath of World War II, was involved in forming a concept of the world that actually was false.
00:20:28.000It was the concept that there was an international community that was going to punish wrongdoers.
00:20:33.000This was tried by Woodrow Wilson, by the way, in the aftermath of World War I, under the auspices of the League of Nations.
00:20:38.000And wiser politicians at the time in the United States said, we are not going to do this because it is a waste of time, it will bind us to a bunch of garbage that means nothing, so we're just not going to do it.
00:20:48.000In the aftermath of World War II, the United States again tried the Wilsonian attempt to craft an international community, including, by the way, its enemies like Russia, which suddenly sat on the UN Security Council.
00:21:01.000The UN has been a giant failure since inception because it turns out any organization is only going to be as virtuous as the collective of its constituent members.
00:21:11.000If you have an election in the Gaza Strip, you will get Hamas.
00:21:13.000If you have an election in Florida, you'll get Ron DeSantis.
00:21:16.000That doesn't mean that all elections are equivalent, because they're not.
00:21:19.000And when it comes to international bodies, NAFTA is not going to look the same as the ICC.
00:21:26.000So this bizarre notion that the United States and the West had in the aftermath of World War II, that there was such a thing as a community of nations, has always been a lie.
00:21:34.000International law has always been a lie.
00:21:37.000International law, as the author Leon Yerus once suggested, Is the thing that is disobeyed by the cruel and ignored by the kind.
00:21:46.000That is effectively what is happening here with the ICC.
00:21:54.000Bunch of countries are not members of the ICC.
00:21:58.000So, the United States can apply secondary pressure, as we should, because it's a joke.
00:22:06.000Which means that China is not a member of the ICC.
00:22:09.000So basically every major country is not a member of the ICC.
00:22:11.000It's a bunch of Europeans and a bunch of African countries and some Middle Eastern countries, but not the ones that would actually really be important to prosecute.
00:22:23.000Well, it's basically just a left-wing narrative machine for a bunch of bureaucrats based in The Hague with no actual enforcement power other than the power of these nations.
00:22:31.000Well, one, it creates all sorts of fun narratives for people who hate Jews.
00:22:35.000Equating Hamas with the Israeli government is, in fact, an attempt to put the Jews in the dock alongside terrorists, which is insane.
00:22:43.000And that's clearly what's happening here. That's number one.
00:22:46.000Number two, it actually makes negotiations significantly more difficult because now every
00:22:52.000ICC member, if indeed this prosecution moves forward, every ICC member state will have an
00:22:57.000obligation under the Rome statute to arrest Yav Galant, for example, the Minister of Defense in Israel,
00:23:02.000or Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. If Bibi, for example, goes to visit
00:23:06.000Britain, the UK is a signatory to this.
00:23:09.000The UK would then have an obligation, under the Rome Statute, to arrest the sitting Prime Minister of a democratically elected state.
00:23:17.000Already, this has provided an impediment to any sort of negotiation or talk with, say, Vladimir Putin in Russia.
00:23:26.000And of course, it's not really enforced as the truth, because thanks to Zoom, thanks to all of these other mechanisms, you can still have conversations.
00:23:33.000But this is going to create a much more serious problem because the Israeli government has already said, we understand who's initiating all of this.
00:23:39.000The people initiating all of this are the Palestinian Authority working through their man, who is this prosecutor, Karim Khan.
00:23:46.000And so they're going to cut off the taxpayer funding to the Palestinian Authority, which theoretically could collapse the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank.
00:23:54.000The Palestinian Authority, which by the way is supposed to have jurisdiction over the state of Palestine, wherein they are arresting zero terrorists under the ICC's jurisdiction.
00:24:03.000Beyond which, if the Palestinian Authority, let's say that Netanyahu travels to Ramallah to have some sort of peace conversation with the Palestinian Authority leadership, which is not in the cards anytime in the near future, but let's say it were to be, the Palestinian Authority would then have the legal impetus under the ICC to arrest Netanyahu.
00:24:21.000You understand how insane all of this is?
00:24:25.000So what the United States should probably do is impose secondary sanctions on the ICC.
00:24:31.000If the ICC goes forward with this, like, we should not have allies of the United States as Americans prosecuted by the ICC.
00:24:36.000There's a reason, again, we are not members of the ICC.
00:24:39.000Frankly, shouldn't have taken this for us to destroy the ICC.
00:24:41.000The ICC is a garbage institution that should have zero legal legitimacy.
00:24:47.000The reason the ICC, by the way, has never prosecuted American soldiers is because they know the United States will actually do just this.
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00:27:31.000For virtually all of 2020, about 50% of the American public said they would never vote for Donald Trump, which is a good indicator you're going to lose.
00:27:37.000I mean, half the public says they are absolutely not going to vote for you.
00:27:40.000Makes it very difficult for you to get above 50%.
00:27:42.000You can squeeze it out maybe in the States, but it makes it very, very rough.
00:27:47.000In that same election, only about 35 to 40% of voters said they would never vote for Joe Biden, which means that walking into the election, Joe Biden had about a 10 percentage point advantage.
00:27:58.000That has now flipped, and this is a disaster area for Joe Biden.
00:28:01.000In 2024, New Swing State Poll from New York Times-Siena shows that only about 46% of registered voters say they will never vote for Donald Trump, but 52% say they will never vote for Joe Biden.
00:28:45.000According to a brand new poll from the Washington Post, consumer sentiment, a gauge of Americans' economic perceptions, is at a six-month low, according to a closely watched index by the University of Michigan.
00:28:54.000The measure notched its biggest drop since 2021, reflecting the persistent tug of inflation on household budgets and fueling fears that rising prices, unemployment, and interest rates could all worsen in coming months.
00:29:05.000So people are cutting back on their spending.
00:29:07.000Retail sales were flat in April after decent pickups in February and March.
00:29:11.000Gas prices are up overall over the course of the year.
00:29:14.000They're going to get worse, by the way, because the turmoil in the Middle East is not going to be particularly good for the gas prices.
00:29:19.000Biden keeps trying to happy talk his way through it, but the reality is most Americans do not feel good about the economy.
00:29:24.000And so we're going to get more of radical Joe Biden.
00:29:43.000And the place where Joe Biden is bleeding the most is with black voters.
00:29:48.000Joe Biden is losing black voters in extraordinary ways.
00:29:54.000I mean, it's truly an incredible thing.
00:29:56.000That is one area where you thought that Joe Biden would be absolutely durable, but the reality is that most of the polls right now are showing that Donald Trump could win up to 20% of the black vote, which means that Joe Biden loses the election.
00:30:07.000And this has been true for months and months and months.
00:30:10.000As early as November, there was a consistent trend across multiple polls that Biden was bleeding support from both Hispanic and black voters.
00:30:19.000With Trump basically running even with Biden among Hispanics and Trump running over 20% among black voters.
00:30:27.000That's a disaster for Biden, which means that Biden has to go on his 2012 tour.
00:30:31.000You remember in 2012, he went out and he declared that Mitt Romney was a vicious racist.
00:30:35.000He did a speech where he said, he's going to put you all back in trains.
00:30:55.000Morehouse College, of course, is a historically black college in Atlanta.
00:31:01.000And there, he basically decided that he was going to try to appeal to a base that he was losing.
00:31:07.000So the first thing that happened is that a bunch of Morehouse students turned their back on Biden as he was speaking.
00:31:12.000Not because of the economy, but because they're radicals who are in favor of Hamas.
00:31:17.000There are a small percentage of people at Morehouse who apparently, like most major universities, agree with the goal of Hamas in extirpating Israel.
00:33:06.000When people suffer personal tragedies, you know what they don't tend to do?
00:33:09.000Pull it out at every public event and use it as a two-by-four to wield against political opponents.
00:33:14.000Or to wield in your own political favor.
00:33:16.000When something tragic happens to you in your personal life, That should not be the basis for all political conversation as President of the United States.
00:33:27.000Whether he was doing that in the interview with Robert Herr, or whether he pulls out Bo Biden every time a member of the military dies and he pretends that Bo was killed in Iraq, he was doing that again at Morehouse.
00:33:35.000Again, this is always his play for sympathy, and it really... It's pretty yucky.
00:33:41.000They put a young woman first responder on the line to say there's an automobile accident.
00:33:48.000A tractor trailer hit your wife's car while she was Christmas shopping with your three children.
00:33:54.000And she, poor woman, she just blurted out, she said, your wife and daughter are killed.
00:34:02.000And your almost three-year-old and four-year-old sons are badly injured.
00:34:06.000We're not sure they're going to make it either.
00:34:07.000I had the same pain 43 years later when that four-year-old boy who survived was a grown man and a father himself.
00:34:17.000Lying in another hospital bed at Walter Reed Hospital, having contracted stage four glioblastoma because he was a year in Iraq as a major, won the bronze star, living next to a burn pit.
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00:35:48.000Okay, meanwhile, So, Joe Biden was at Morehouse College trying to pander to black voters because he realizes, like Barack Obama circa 2012, he's going to lose votes from the last time around.
00:36:44.000So, Joe Biden says there that there are tons and tons of Morehouse men working in his administration.
00:36:49.000According to multiple reports, there are zero people or graduates of Morehouse working at any sort of high level inside his administration.
00:37:08.000Because if there's one thing that Joe Biden knows, it's that when a black person I stood up for George with George Floyd's family to create a country.
00:37:17.000career, and then ends up claiming he can't breathe before he's ever taken out of a car.
00:37:23.000And then a cop is convicted for his murder. And then Joe Biden goes out and says that
00:37:27.000it was a racist murder, despite the fact that no racial implications were ever made during
00:37:31.000the trial. That's something black people love to hear about.
00:37:59.000It's been promulgated ever since Stacey Abrams lost her gubernatorial election, and then denied she'd lost her gubernatorial election by saying there was voter suppression.
00:38:06.000There is no voter suppression in Georgia.
00:38:09.000There is certainly not voter suppression of a black vote in Georgia, which is always disproportionate to the black population of Georgia, at least in the last few election cycles.
00:39:00.000He then suggested that he had found ways around the Supreme Court.
00:39:03.000So he says that he tried to relieve all student loan debt and the Supreme Court said no.
00:39:06.000So Captain Democracy over here said, I just ignored the Supreme Court and I found ways around it.
00:39:12.000Now, if Donald Trump said, I found ways around the Supreme Court to do what I want, all we would get is people screaming about tyranny, nonstop.
00:39:19.000But here's Joe Biden just saying the thing.
00:39:29.000He found two other ways to do it, around the Supreme Court.
00:39:32.000Then he lied again about how there was a national effort to ban books across the country, when the books that are being quote-unquote banned mean that books in, for example, kindergarten libraries should not include genderqueer.
00:39:45.000He's going to try again to pretend that basically Republicans are a bunch of people who don't want anyone to ever read Toni Morrison again or something.
00:39:52.000I never thought when I was graduating in 1968, as your honoree just was, we talked about I never thought I'd be a president of a time when there's a national effort to ban books.
00:40:05.000Not to write history, but to erase history.
00:40:08.000They don't see you in the future of America, but they're wrong.
00:40:20.000That is so unbelievable coming from a man whose entire party is dedicated to ripping down statues at this point and replacing them with statues of George Floyd.
00:40:27.000It's an unbelievable statement from a man whose entire party right now is backing people who on college camps are spray-painting and kathieing statues of George Washington.
00:40:36.000But, again, the pander is very strong with him.
00:42:44.000As a black man, I have mixed feelings about that, and the usage of that, because the question becomes, I appreciate the policy, I appreciate the reference and the nod to Justice Brown Jackson, but when you start campaigning on that stage in this moment, and using this type of language, the question for me becomes, alright, so what are you going to do?
00:43:12.000Well, the answer is he's not going to do anything, but he's going to pander an awful, awful lot.
00:43:17.000And that basically is Joe Biden's plan for this campaign.
00:43:21.000There ain't enough of them who love Joe Biden to get out.
00:43:23.000He's got a serious structural problem this election cycle.
00:43:25.000He has a serious structural problem that Donald Trump has every capacity and ability to take advantage of if he acts with alacrity and if he acts with some level of acuity.
00:43:38.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
00:43:39.000First, there are a few things that really ruin that at-home movie experience.
00:43:42.000You know, there's the friend that asks you questions every five seconds, like my wife.
00:43:46.000Or the superfan who knows everything about the movie and won't shut up about it, like producer Zach.
00:43:51.000Nothing ruins an at-home movie more than a glaring window reflection all over your TV.
00:45:44.000Donald Trump says he wants a drug test before the debate, which frankly seems pretty justified given the fact that the variable performance of Joe Biden is noticeable to literally everyone.
00:45:54.000On any random day, he stumbles out to the helicopter, barely avoiding, you know, small bumps so that he doesn't fall down while wearing horseshoes.
00:46:03.000And then sometimes during the State of the Union, he's hyperactively attacking people in the audience like an old man short on his gruel.
00:46:10.000So, you know, when Trump says maybe a drug test, maybe a drug test.
00:49:19.000And this is a real problem for Joe Biden.
00:49:22.000Okay, meanwhile, Pope Francis went on 60 Minutes last night.
00:49:27.000There've been a few clips that had emerged early of him on 60 Minutes, but he was on 60 Minutes.
00:49:32.000And I gotta say, my Catholic friends are pretty unhappy with Pope Francis as a generality.
00:49:38.000I think that that is not unsurprising given his political stances.
00:49:42.000He is in fact a liberation theologist, meaning that he is a Marxist with Catholic overtones.
00:49:47.000And I can say that as much as I want, because again, I owe no fealty to the Pope.
00:49:51.000So it makes no difference to me what his religious stances are, other than I think that a vital Catholic Church that stands on eternal principle is deeply important to Western civilization, given that it is a foundational institution of Western civilization.
00:50:07.000This Pope has made it his mission to slap right.
00:50:10.000This is what this Pope is about, publicly speaking.
00:50:12.000Now, that doesn't mean he can abandon every single edict or every single moral stance that the church has ever taken, of course, because then he wouldn't be the Pope.
00:50:19.000And it's always amusing to me when the media are shocked that the Pope is still against, say, same-sex marriage.
00:50:24.000But his main ire is always directed at people who are more conservative than he is, particularly on matters economic, but also with regard to things like sexual morality.
00:50:34.000In other words, if you spend a lot of time talking about abortion and same-sex marriage and gender in an era where those things are under threat, Pope Francis is not on your side.
00:50:43.000He does not believe that you should be putting your main focus there.
00:50:45.000He believes your main focus as a Catholic should be on liberation theology to redistributionism.
00:50:50.000So here was the Pope yesterday going after conservative critics, which again is amazing because most of the attacks on the church are not coming from the right.
00:50:56.000The vast majority of attacks on the Catholic Church are coming from the left.
00:50:59.000But he seems to reserve his greatest anger for people who are to his right.
00:51:05.000There are conservative bishops in the United States that oppose your new efforts to revisit teachings and traditions.
00:51:32.000Because one thing is to take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed up inside a dogmatic box.
00:51:43.000Okay, can I just point out at this point, the Catholic Church is literally established in order to maintain the dogma.
00:51:54.000Again, I'm not a Catholic, so I'm not going to speak for Catholics.
00:51:59.000What I am going to say is that from the outside, the Vitality of Catholicism lies in its adherence to tradition.
00:52:07.000And when you stray too far from tradition, what you end up with is a breakdown in Catholic theology, just like any church.
00:52:14.000It's not just true for Catholics, it's true for Protestants, it's true for Jews, it's true for everyone.
00:52:19.000And for the Pope to be so all-fired angry at the conservatives inside the Catholic Church while simultaneously attempting to make overtures to transgender adherence to Catholicism is very clearly directed against the traditions inside his own church.
00:52:36.000I don't see a way that the Catholic Church grows in these areas.
00:52:38.000Again, this is not unique to the Pope.
00:52:40.000This is true in every single major mainstream religion right now.
00:53:06.000The Catholic churches that continue to grow are the more traditional Catholic churches.
00:53:09.000The ones that attempt to compromise on presentation or principle are the ones where no one is bothering to go anymore.
00:53:15.000And no matter how many times the Pope talks about liberalization of the open heart, that is not what's going to drive people toward the church.
00:53:25.000It is a mistake and it undermines, frankly, adherence to not only eternal principle, but Catholicism particularly.
00:53:31.000Here's the Pope, for example, on migration.
00:53:33.000This is an insane perspective that most Americans are going to reject.
00:53:37.000And I don't know if you've heard, but the state of Texas is attempting to shut down a Catholic charity on the border with Mexico that offers undocumented migrants humanitarian assistance.
00:54:09.000But each case ought to be considered humanely.
00:54:11.000Okay, so it's the responsibility of the United States to open the border and facilitate charities that facilitate illegal entry into the United States.
00:54:21.000Good luck with that particular argument.
00:54:23.000And then of course there was the Pope on gay unions trying to explain that while he's still against homosexual marriage, he's perfectly fine with gay couples basically coming as a couple and receiving blessings individually.
00:54:33.000Which again is a very weird take that is in fact a change.
00:54:36.000To pretend it's not a change is to end around the issue.
00:54:41.000Last year you decided to allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples.
00:55:59.000And the orientation of this pope, I will say, not good for the growth of the church, and we'll find out whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong in the stats on Catholicism across the world.
00:56:08.000Alrighty, folks, coming up, we'll jump into the latest on the Battle of Congressional Titans, Jasmine Crockett versus MTG.
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