In this episode, I discuss the controversy surrounding NFL kicker Harrison Butker and his controversial remarks about women in the workplace, and why he should have been allowed to speak at a Catholic college. I also discuss why Joe Biden is not popular in the Rust Belt, why rural Americans don t like him, and the role of masculinity in society, and how it's the root cause of much of our dysfunction and dysfunction. I also talk about why women should be allowed to have a say in their own reproductive choices and why we should be unapologetic in standing up for the rights of women in marriage and family, and in other areas of life, to be a man in the home, and to speak out against cultural emasculation of women and the lack of male role in society. I finish with a quick rant about how we should all be a little more "masculine" and less "feminine" than we are in the modern world, and what it means to be an "outlaw." and how we need to be more masculine and more feminine in our relationships with each other and in our work and in the world. and why women need to take a seat at the table, not a place in society that is more feminine than we think we do in the public square. Thanks for listening, and for supporting this podcast, and don't forget to share it with your friends and family! Tweet me to let me know what you thought of this episode! Timestamps, Tim Ferriss or any other podcast you enjoyed this episode you're listening to this podcast you think it was a good one! or have any thoughts or feedback you'd like us to post it on social media about it? or share it on your thoughts or thoughts on the podcast? if it was helpful, please tag me in the comments section! I'll be listening to it on Insta: :) - Tim talks about this episode of the podcast! and I'll send it to a fellow podcasting friend of yours! - Tim talks all of your thoughts on this podcast - Tim gives it out on the road - Tim's thoughts on it! . Thank you, Tim, Tim is a shoutout! Tweet Meghan, Tim gives me your thoughts about this one. - Tom talks about it in the next episode - Tim breaks it out in a new episode - Tom s thoughts about it
00:00:00.000So, I suppose the new rule in the NFL is that if you kneel for the national anthem and a national controversy then engulfs you, you get a million dollar contract from Nike and the NFL definitely attempts for years on end to get you back into the league despite the fact that you stink so much that you were benched for the immortal Blaine Gabbard.
00:00:17.000That, of course, is the story of Colin Kaepernick, who became rich, even richer than he was, and more famous than he was, after going to the Super Bowl Because he knelt for the National Anthem.
00:00:26.000And despite all of the attempts to paint Colin Kaepernick as a victim, precisely the opposite is true.
00:00:31.000Colin Kaepernick was touted as a hero by large swathes of the mainstream media.
00:00:35.000He was put on the cover of magazines because he was kneeling for the National Anthem, supposedly because black Americans like Colin Kaepernick, raised in a white household that adopted him, were victims of the white supremacist system.
00:00:47.000Now, fast forward a few years, and the hot controversy of the day in the NFL is a kicker.
00:00:53.000A kicker by the name of Harrison Butker.
00:00:55.000He is a kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs and there are now calls for him to be removed from the Chiefs roster for the upcoming NFL season from some radical left fans and their allies.
00:01:06.000Well, because he is a Catholic and he gave a 20-minute commencement speech at Benedictine College, which is Catholic, in which he talked about Catholicism.
00:01:59.000of the real social issues gap lying between left and right that is undergirding so much of our ugly politics these days.
00:02:06.000You have a left that has embraced transgenderism as an absolute virtue and a right that is saying things like, hey, men and women exist and are different.
00:02:15.000And that is apparently a really bad thing.
00:02:18.000Again, when Joe Biden wonders why it is that the Rust Belt has turned against him, why it is that rural Americans don't like Joe Biden, it actually has less to do with economics than it does with cultural politics.
00:02:28.000Because, let's be real about this, what Harrison Butker says here is believed and is agreed with by a huge swath of Americans, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.
00:02:37.000So, here is Harrison Butker, again, speaking as a Catholic at a Catholic college, Benedictine college, about masculinity.
00:02:46.000It is only in the past few years that I have grown encouraged to speak more boldly and directly, because as I mentioned earlier, I have leaned into my vocation as a husband and father, and as a man.
00:02:57.000To the gentlemen here today, part of what plagues our society is this lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or in our communities.
00:03:06.000As men, we set the tone of the culture.
00:03:08.000And when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction, and chaos set in.
00:03:13.000This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence we see all around the nation.
00:03:18.000Other countries do not have nearly the same absentee father rates as we find here in the U.S., and a correlation could be made in their drastically lower violence rates as well.
00:05:05.000Here he is talking about the role of females in society at large and what brings female happiness.
00:05:10.000Because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you.
00:05:17.000How many of you are sitting here now, about to cross this stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career?
00:05:25.000Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.
00:05:35.000I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabel, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.
00:05:44.000I'm on this stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation.
00:05:52.000I'm beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school Why in the world is that controversial?
00:06:22.000He's saying the most important thing you will do in your life is be a wife and be a mom if you're a woman.
00:06:27.000By the way, the most important thing that I do in my life is be a father and a provider and a protector to my family.
00:06:33.000This was, again, in no way controversial five seconds ago, but it was this particular statement that led to a thousand think pieces about how terrible all of this is.
00:06:42.000How dare he suggest that perhaps women find fulfillment in being married and having children?
00:06:49.000Okay, I can testify to this in my own life.
00:06:52.000My wife, of course, very famously, a doctor.
00:06:55.000Went to UCLA Medical School, brilliant woman.
00:06:58.000Also, the place where she easily finds the most fulfillment.
00:07:00.000And she'll tell you this, bar none, without a doubt, being a mom, being a wife.
00:07:05.000Those are the places where she finds the most fulfillment, without a doubt.
00:07:10.000And again, the lie that women can forego being a wife and a mother and find the same levels of happiness on a general level.
00:07:15.000Again, not true for every individual, but on a general level, the idea that women should forego the great joy of life in being a wife and being a mom, By the way, the parallel life for men is that they should forego the great joy in life of being a father and a husband and a protector and a provider.
00:07:32.000Those lies have led to the dissolution of society.
00:07:35.000And when he speaks movingly about his wife, here are your choices, okay?
00:07:38.000Your choices are Harrison Butker, who speaks movingly about meeting his wife, marrying her, about having kids with her, And that's one choice.
00:07:47.000And the other choice is half the rest of the NFL are knocking up women and abandoning their children.
00:07:53.000The NFL has nothing to say about that.
00:08:35.000Have they ever issued a statement like this before?
00:08:38.000I don't recall a lot of statements from the NFL about this sort of stuff.
00:08:43.000Now, the other thing that he said that, of course, is very controversial is he suggested that there is a sin and it is called pride.
00:08:49.000And that sin that is called pride is connected, in fact, with Pride Month.
00:08:54.000That if you are proud of things that Catholicism, Christianity, Judaism, virtually every major religion considers sinful, if you're proud of that, that is not, in fact, a good thing.
00:09:05.000And this, of course, is offensive to the social left.
00:09:08.000He wasn't supposed to say anything remotely like that.
00:09:15.000He said, quote, Benedictine has gone from just another liberal art school with nothing to set
00:09:19.000it apart to a thriving beacon of light. I'm certain the reporters at the AP could not have imagined
00:09:23.000that their attempt to rebuke and embarrass places and people like those here at Benedictine wouldn't
00:09:26.000be met with anger, but instead met with excitement and pride, not the deadly sin sort of pride that
00:09:32.000has an entire month dedicated to it, but the true God-centered pride that is cooperating with the
00:09:36.000Holy Ghost to glorify him. Again, this is just classic Catholic theology at a Catholic university.
00:09:43.000And yet apparently, again, there is a religion.
00:09:46.000The religion of secularism is incredibly strong and incredibly virile and is absolutely willing to stomp on anyone who gets in its way.
00:09:56.000And of course, Harrison Butker, he had the gall, the temerity to point out that top level politicians in the United States, including the president of the United States, call themselves Catholic while constantly contravening Catholic doctrine.
00:10:08.000But again, I don't understand why even this is controversial.
00:10:11.000I say all the time on this show with regard to Judaism, Judaism has certain precepts.
00:10:16.000There are very public people who proclaim that they are Jewish only to attack Judaism or Jews, people like Bernie Sanders.
00:10:22.000That is certainly true about Catholics as well.
00:10:24.000When it comes to Joe Biden, Joe Biden proclaiming his ardent Catholicism at the same time that he backs every single doctrine that runs directly in the face of Catholicism.
00:10:34.000I mean, that doesn't seem like amazing Catholic behavior to me.
00:10:38.000So, a Catholic pointing that out at a Catholic college, why is that even controversial?
00:10:46.000Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally.
00:10:57.000He has been so vocal in his support for the murder of innocent babies that I'm sure to many people, it appears that you can be both Catholic and pro-choice.
00:11:08.000From the man behind the COVID lockdowns to the people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America, they all have a glaring thing in common.
00:11:20.000This is an important reminder that being Catholic alone doesn't cut it.
00:11:24.000These are the sorts of things we are told in polite society to not bring up.
00:11:28.000You know, the difficult and unpleasant things.
00:11:31.000But if we are going to be men and women for this time in history, we need to stop pretending that the Church of Nice is a winning proposition.
00:11:39.000We must always speak and act in charity, but never mistake charity for cowardice.
00:12:11.000Another differentiating point from Colin Kaepernick, who literally hijacked TV broadcasts of the NFL in order to politically protest the American flag.
00:12:20.000So even if you were going to call for consequences on Kaepernick, From the NFL?
00:12:25.000He was doing it on the NFL field, before the game, as part of the actual NFL broadcast.
00:12:32.000Harrison Butker said a thing, far away from the NFL field, at a Catholic college, as a Catholic, and people are still calling for him to be punished by the NFL.
00:12:41.000If we're gonna start getting into off-field activities, not punished by the NFL, that's a long list, as it turns out.
00:12:49.000Filmmaker Michael McWhorter, who has about 6 million TikTok followers, said, quote, There's nothing wrong with his wife being a homemaker.
00:12:57.000The point is, he seems to be acting as if you should be ashamed if you don't want to be a homemaker, or, quote, I don't know what you really want to do is stay home and have babies.
00:13:18.000Again, These things are not controversial in a healthy functioning society.
00:13:22.000The most fulfilling thing I do in my life as a relatively famous person who speaks every day on things that matter to me, that pales in comparison in my roles to my roles as a father and as a husband.
00:13:34.000It is not close, and that's true for every functioning human being, or should be true for every functioning human being.
00:13:39.000And a society that has decided to dismiss all of that is a society that is bound to fail.
00:13:46.000The reason these things matter is because there is a part of society that is suggesting the converse of what Harrison Butker is saying.
00:13:52.000Not that he's making a point that I disagree with for myself, but in general it would be good for society to have more functioning families.
00:14:00.000Not that there are social duties that we owe to one another and moral standards we ought to uphold.
00:14:06.000No, it's that Harrison Butker is so bad he must be punished for all of this.
00:14:10.000And again, this is running up directly against a social left which is dominant in the media and now in politics as well.
00:14:16.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
00:15:23.000How it's more controversial, for example.
00:15:25.000For Harrison Butker, to say all of this stuff.
00:15:28.000than it is, for example, the Biden administration to intensify regulations on Title IX that now mandate the use of female bathrooms by boys.
00:15:40.000One of these is a speech saying Catholic things at a Catholic university.
00:15:43.000The other is the President of the United States, a purported Catholic, pressing forward regulations that mandate the obliteration of gender in the United States.
00:15:53.000The new federal rules, according to ABC News, officially add, quote, gender identity to the list of protections from sex-based discrimination for the first time.
00:16:01.000Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex at any institution that receives federal funding.
00:16:06.000Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona put out an announcement saying, quote, For more than 50 years, Title IX has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive in our nation's schools, free from sex discrimination.
00:16:16.000These final regulations build on the legacy of Title IX by clarifying all our nation's students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, and respect their rights.
00:16:23.000Schools could violate Title IX if a transgender person is not allowed to use the bathroom aligned with their gender identity or if they are not referred to by their chosen pronoun.
00:16:35.000That means that any school that is bound by Title IX, if a boy comes into the classroom and says, I am a girl, the school is now bound by federal law to treat that boy as though he is a girl.
00:16:48.000And somehow that is less controversial to our mainstream media than the idea that, you know, the most important role you're going to play in your life as a wife, as a mother, if you're a woman, as a father, and as a husband, as a protector, as a provider, if you're a man.
00:17:01.000That's the fundamental underlying cultural conflict in the country.
00:17:31.000It is a massive culture gap between people who believe, generally speaking, like Harrison Butker, and people who generally believe, like Joe Biden's minions.
00:17:43.000Joe Biden is in the minority on these positions.
00:17:46.000It turns out that most Americans don't really care what you do in the privacy of your own home, at least they don't want the government involved in that sort of stuff.
00:17:54.000With that said, they still do believe in the fundamental building blocks of a healthy society.
00:18:02.000I mean, Xavier Becerra, who's the Health and Human Services Secretary, he literally came out yesterday and said that the federal government would withhold funding from any religious institution that doesn't do sex change operations on kids.
00:18:15.000How is that somehow, in our society, less controversial than Harrison Butker saying things that are just in line with traditional biblical values?
00:18:25.000You put out this guidance and doctors do need to know?
00:18:52.000But the doctors are working in these hospitals.
00:18:55.000Are you going to say today, are you committing that you will not withhold federal funding from those healthcare facilities?
00:19:02.000If a healthcare facility is violating the law and not providing the service they're required to, they are not entitled to the resources.
00:19:09.000So any hospital, any hospital, a Catholic hospital for example, that says we are not going to trans the children, that hospital now is at risk of losing any federal funding.
00:19:26.000That is the thing that's... The single most important quote of the last 30 years in American politics is the Barack Obama 2008 quote that the people of the United States who were not voting for him were clinging to God and guns and religion.
00:19:40.000This is what Democrats, top-level Democrats, elite Democrats believe.
00:19:43.000It's the same thing that Nancy Pelosi said the other day at Oxford Union, when she suggested that she has all the proper policy prescriptions, but they're being impeded by all these weird people who believe in things like God, which is an amazing thing for a supposedly religious Catholic like Nancy Pelosi, who clearly is not particularly religious, considering she backs every violation of Catholic doctrine you can find, to say.
00:20:20.000It is not a contradiction to say That a woman should have every ability and right to work if she wants to work in any job for which she is qualified and also the most fulfilling thing she's going to do in life is be a wife and be a mom.
00:20:35.000And it is not contradictory at all to suggest that America ought to be a tolerant and diverse country that retains moral standards with regard to personal conduct because that is important to a functioning society.
00:20:50.000The fact that you have one side... I mean, honestly, Harrison Butker versus Colin Kaepernick is a pretty good indicator of right versus left in the country right now.
00:20:56.000I think more people agree with Harrison Butker than agree with Colin Kaepernick.
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00:22:03.000In order to sell all this stuff, what you have to do is you have to start changing the definition of words, which is what the left has been doing literally my entire lifetime.
00:22:10.000They take words and then they just gut the words and wear the words around like Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
00:22:16.000They do this with institutions all the time.
00:22:19.000So they'll use the institution of science, they'll rip out its guts, they'll say that we no longer need falsifiability or scientific evidence, we'll just say a thing, pretend it's ta-science, and then you have to believe it.
00:22:30.000You've seen them do this with the term marriage.
00:23:01.000So, my friend Jordan Peterson once got himself banned from Twitter under the old regime of Jack Dorsey for mentioning that gutting the term beauty is a bad thing.
00:23:10.000And when we have conversations with one another, we generally know what we mean when we use particular words.
00:23:16.000And when it comes to things like human beauty, everyone can, they're actually fairly objective metrics of what people think is a beautiful face.
00:23:23.000It tends to be symmetrical faces with certain kinds of features.
00:23:26.000But the left has decided, like everything else, to gut the term beauty.
00:23:31.000So this is what they are doing at Sports Illustrated.
00:23:34.000So Sports Illustrated has decided that the swimsuit edition, again, not something that I care for.
00:23:40.000I was a Sports Illustrated subscriber from probably the time I was 10 to maybe the time
00:23:44.000I was, let's see, in my mid-20s, maybe?
00:23:48.000And I ended up canceling my subscription specifically because they put Caitlyn Jenner on the cover
00:24:22.000And then, over the past few years, as part of the attempt to gut words of all meaning, Sports Illustrated has decided they are going to now trot out a bunch of people who are not only not beautiful, some of them are not even women.
00:24:35.000So, in 2021, they featured a transgender person named Lena Bloom.
00:24:41.000Because that's what dudes are looking for.
00:24:43.000Then, in 2022, they featured an overweight model named Yumi Nu.
00:25:15.000Now, I suppose that as an aging brand, they're looking for that AARP membership or something?
00:25:21.000They just want the crossover with the AARP magazine?
00:25:24.000But of course, this has nothing to do with the standards of beauty.
00:25:28.000She can be beautiful for a 69-year-old, and also not be objectively beautiful in the sense that you would want to see her on the cover of a swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated.
00:25:39.000Again, I don't have a dog in the swimsuit edition fight.
00:25:41.000I do have a dog in the redefinition of words fight.
00:25:45.000I do have a dog in the, you don't get to redefine words to mean things they clearly don't mean and then yell at people when they point it out, which is the game that the left is playing.
00:25:54.000In the same way that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi declared themselves Catholic while completely destroying every aspect of Catholicism, Sports Illustrated is now declaring people beautiful while completely ignoring the definition, classically, of beauty.
00:26:05.000Here is Gayle King talking about the importance of her Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot here.
00:26:12.000Never in a million years, I would be standing here, in a bathing suit.
00:26:56.000This is the culture that we have created for ourselves.
00:26:58.000And it does, in fact, make a difference.
00:27:00.000Why Joe Biden, why the Democratic Party are steering directly into a culture war that they are going to lose is absolutely beyond me.
00:27:06.000The media seem to be of the opinion that if they play the diversity and inclusion game, that if they just pretend that everyone is equally beautiful and equally female, apparently, That somehow they will broaden their audience.
00:27:21.000What they're actually doing is narrowing their audience because no one believes this stuff.
00:27:26.000I understand that we now live in a universe in which skin in the game presenting your own fealty to bad ideas is absolutely mandatory.
00:27:35.000You will be forced to embrace the most extreme aspects of your own ideology.
00:27:40.000And the more enthusiasm you show for that ideology, the more you'll be rewarded by the people who adhere to it.
00:27:46.000This is why you see students on college campuses embracing Hamas.
00:27:49.000Because you have to embrace the most crazy manifestation of the thing you are arguing for in order to demonstrate fealty to the ideology.
00:27:57.000The left is going to do this with everything.
00:27:59.000You want to demonstrate that you are tolerant and diverse?
00:28:01.000You have to say that Gayle King is a beautiful young woman like Brooklyn Decker or something.
00:28:06.000You have to say that Kim Petras, a dude, is actually a beautiful young woman and you'd have to be a sexist male who hates women in order to not want to have sex with that dude.
00:28:17.000That is what the left will mandate at this point.
00:28:22.000But it is something that is being pursued at the top levels of our elite media institutions, our universities, and of course, in politics as well.
00:28:29.000Which brings us to the 2024 presidential race.
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00:30:53.000Joe Biden didn't, and it's totally fine.
00:30:54.000According to Politico, for the president's team, much of the decision stemmed from frustration over how the CPD handled the debates in 2020.
00:31:01.000In the campaign's letter to the commission Monday, Jen O'Malley Dillon ticked off a number of complaints about its approach, that the scheduled debates would take place too late in the process after early voting is already underway in many states, that its model is antiquated and geared toward huge spectacles rather than good debates, and that the commission was unable or unwilling to enforce the rules during those 2020 debates.
00:31:21.000So they didn't want to go to a college campus in a random state chosen by the commission.
00:31:26.000They really, really didn't want the live audience.
00:32:19.000These are both anchors who very much are in Joe Biden's political corner on a personal level.
00:32:25.000They will say that's just because objectivity requires they be in Joe Biden's corner, but they are, in fact, on the political left.
00:32:30.000I mean, there's just no... I'm honest about my own biases, and it irritates me when people are not honest about their own biases.
00:32:35.000These are both anchors who are going to vote for Joe Biden in the upcoming election.
00:32:40.000And again, this agreement happened really, really quick.
00:32:43.000Like, Joe Biden announced it, Trump said, okay, and boom, it was ready, which means this was pre-organized, as even Brian Stelter was pointing out.
00:32:51.000Playbook was pointing this out as well.
00:32:54.000That this was essentially pre-planned.
00:32:58.000Again, the idea that they randomly just announced a debate and magically it was ready to go is totally insane.
00:33:04.000That obviously is completely and utterly untrue.
00:33:08.000Which means that it's effectively rigged.
00:33:11.000They went right around the presidential commissions and all the networks were ready to play ball.
00:33:16.000Meanwhile, ABC News' anchors are going to be David Muir and Lindsey Davis.
00:33:21.000So Donald Trump has now signed on to debates in which all four anchors are oriented toward
00:33:27.000the Democrats. Then the minute that Donald Trump said, hey, I also accept the debate in October
00:33:32.000at Fox News with the anchors, Brett Baier and Martha McCallum, Joe Biden pushed back and said,
00:34:05.000And then the minute that Donald Trump kicked back and said, hey, why don't we do a third debate in October on Fox, you know, a venue that is generally friendlier to Donald Trump.
00:34:12.000Then they're like, nah, no more chaos, no more debate about debates, said Biden campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon.
00:35:01.000The reason you don't do it this way is because if you set the expectations low, it is very easy for for those expectations to be surpassed.
00:35:09.000What Trump should be saying right now, and I would hope he would, is, Joe Biden is, in fact, the President of the United States.
00:35:15.000I expect him to be a formidable debater, and I also expect to hold him accountable for his terrible record.
00:35:21.000That would be the way to do this, because that sets expectations above breathing.
00:35:24.000Right now, the expectation, this happens with Joe Biden every single time, he's got the same expectations that I have for, like, my 11-month-old son.
00:35:31.000He can barely crawl, he drools a lot, and he's alive.
00:35:37.000Those are the expectations for Joe Biden.
00:35:39.000So if he doesn't do like one of those things, if he walks instead of crawls, if he drools only a little bit instead of a lot, if he continues to, if he craps his diaper only once or twice on stage and inaudibly, then he'll be totally fine.
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00:37:29.000Okay, meanwhile, Now again, one of the big problems here for Joe Biden, the reason that he decided to avoid the Presidential Debate Commission and basically kill it outright, is because he didn't want them mandating that RFK Jr.
00:38:33.000He's going to draw from Democrats because Joe Biden is a terrible president.
00:38:36.000And any alternative to Joe Biden, who is not named Donald Trump, gives Biden voters an off-ramp to feel like they can vote against Biden without voting for the guy they despise most in Donald Trump, which is why Joe Biden needs to minimize RFK Jr.' 's presence in the race.
00:38:52.000came out, he said, like, guys, why am I excluded from this?
00:38:55.000He says, presidents Trump and Biden are colluding to lock America into a head-to-head matchup that 70% say they do not want.
00:39:01.000They're trying to exclude me from their debate because they're afraid I would win.
00:39:03.000Keeping viable candidates off the debate stage undermines democracy.
00:39:07.00043% of Americans identify as independents.
00:39:09.000If Americans are ever going to escape the hammerlock of the two-party system, now is the time to do it.
00:39:14.000These are the two most unpopular candidates in living memory.
00:39:16.000By excluding me from the stage, Presidents Biden and Trump seek to avoid discussion of their eight years of mutual failure, including deficits, wars, lockdowns, chronic disease, and inflation.
00:39:48.000is far left of him, and they would be debating over the same territory, like ridiculous open borders and the Green New Scam, both of which are killing our country.
00:39:55.000He's also sharper and far more intelligent than Joe, all making for a bad combination of ingredients.
00:40:00.000I don't care if Junios joins the debate, but right now his polling numbers are very low.
00:40:05.000He's not properly qualified in the states.
00:40:15.000Just tactically speaking, I think that it is better for Trump to have Kennedy on the stage providing a contrast to Biden than not to have him on the stage at all.
00:40:25.000Joe Biden's entire strategy in this debate is binary choice between me and Trump.
00:40:28.000Look at the wild orange Hulk over here.
00:40:46.000That's the debate that Joe Biden desperately wants.
00:40:48.000Now, there are two ways out of that for Donald Trump.
00:40:50.000Way number one is for Donald Trump to be disciplined.
00:40:53.000Now, people forget this, but in the last couple of debates against Joe Biden, he was significantly more disciplined than he was in the first debate.
00:42:02.000And many of the people that I know who are liberal Jews are still, for reasons that I find non-compelling, resistant to Donald Trump, but they really don't want to vote for Biden.
00:42:12.000And so what I've been telling them is, okay, stay home or vote for RFK.
00:42:59.000should be excluded from the stage seems to me a signal error in judgment.
00:43:04.000I'm very much in favor of RFK Jr., obviously, being on the stage to provide a contrast.
00:43:09.000And meanwhile, Democrats still, they're having a little bit of heartburn over this.
00:43:12.000Nancy Pelosi, for her part, says I'd never recommend going on stage with Donald Trump.
00:43:17.000I myself would never recommend going on stage with Donald Trump, but the president has decided that's what he wants to do.
00:43:26.000I think the format he is suggesting is a good one.
00:43:30.000Okay, so, again, she likes the format, which is why Joe Biden picked to do it this way, so that he could set the format in advance.
00:43:38.000Honestly, the media are nervous about this, but they're going to try and play this as though it's an epic Biden win for even agreeing to the debate.
00:43:43.000That's what MSNBC's Nicole Wallace is doing.
00:46:19.000All it takes is a little bit of discipline.
00:46:22.000On the actual news front, Joe Biden continues to split his own party on Israel.
00:46:28.000He's in a real pickle here because instead of taking a strong and consistent position, he's vacillated wildly between the radical left and the moderate left.
00:46:35.000And so what the polls are showing is that Democrats are basically evenly divided right now on whether they think Biden is doing a good job or a bad job on that particular issue.
00:46:48.000He is hoping that he will be bailed out by a combination of media pressure on Israel and internal pressure inside the Israeli government.
00:46:54.000The big story coming out of Israel today is that Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant, who's been at odds with the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for legitimately like a year and a half at this point.
00:47:03.000Netanyahu tried to fire him maybe a year ago and then there were big protests in the streets and then he unfired him.
00:47:08.000Well, Galant now is mirroring the Joe Biden position.
00:47:12.000One of the things that's been happening in Israeli politics is in an attempt to sort of play a weird shadow game with Joe Biden, there are certain politicians in Israel who've been attempting to mirror Biden's positions in the hope that Biden will then support them for the ouster of Netanyahu.
00:47:27.000That's obviously been happening with Yoav Galant.
00:47:30.000So Yoav Galant came out yesterday and he said, I need a transition plan for Gaza right now, right now.
00:48:17.000Three, there's been a proposal to bring in the UAE, Morocco, Egypt to somehow police the Gaza Strip.
00:48:23.000All three of those countries say they do not want to be seen by their own populations as tools of the Americans and the Israelis, which means they would end up turning over that leadership presumably to many of the same people, to Hamas.
00:48:34.000Again, to people who sympathize with Hamas, again.
00:48:38.000And, in fact, they're making that clear.
00:48:39.000They're actually putting the roadblock in play.
00:48:41.000They say that unless Israel commits to a Palestinian state, they will not get involved.
00:48:47.000Which, of course, is a catch-22 for Israel, because the minute you commit to a, quote-unquote, Palestinian state with no actual government, you have now given larger discretion for terrorists, and you've incentivized more terrorism.
00:48:56.000Because what it means is, kill 1,200 Jews on October 7th, and take 250 hostage, including hostages right now in tunnels, and we'll give you a state.
00:49:04.000So they've created all these roadblocks.
00:49:06.000And when it comes to Israeli military rule, which is really the only option, because, let's be real, the reason Israel is back in Gaza is to assure Israeli security.
00:49:16.000If Israel cannot assure its own security through any of the alternative options, that's the only option on the table.
00:49:20.000As I've just spelled out, none of the other options are available.
00:49:50.000The less nice theory is that Gallant and Gantz are being cultivated by Joe Biden in order to take over the government in Israel from Netanyahu.
00:49:57.000That theory is supported by the fact that the Biden administration pretty clearly hates Netanyahu and actually deployed the Senate Majority Leader to attack the elected leader of Israel in a time of war.
00:50:06.000So they're propping up Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine, but they're attacking Netanyahu in Israel.
00:50:56.000It's been put forth by good commentators in Israel like Carolyn Glick.
00:50:59.000Here was Gallant yesterday attacking his own sitting Prime Minister with a nonsensical statement that calls for not Israeli control of the Gaza Strip, but literally an alternative.
00:51:10.000Is that I urge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make the decision that Israel will not impose civilian rule on the Gaza Strip, that there will be no Israel military administration in the Gaza Strip, and that we will work on an immediate plan for new ruling alternatives for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:51:31.000Our duty and our responsibility is to lead our country to a better place.
00:51:49.000And so members of the Israeli government are now trying to mirror him in either hopes of wheedling him into supporting Israel more broadly, given the fact that they're currently being attacked from the north as well by Hezbollah, or in an attempt to supplant Netanyahu and then wheedle more support from Joe Biden.
00:52:07.000For his part, Netanyahu is actually mirroring the Israeli public right now when he says, what in the world are you talking about a two-state solution?
00:52:13.000Literally every governing party in the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, these are all terrorist groups who wish to murder Jews and destroy the state of Israel.
00:52:28.000Two-state solution that people talk about is basically would be the greatest reward for the terrorists that you can imagine.
00:52:36.00080% of Palestinians in Gaza and in Judea, Samaria and the West Bank support the savagery, giving them a state It would do two things.
00:52:47.000One, it would be a tremendous reward, a historic precedent of giving those people who committed the worst massacre against the Jewish people since the Holocaust on a single day, giving them a prize.
00:53:01.000And secondly, it would be a state that would be immediately taken over by Hamas and Iran, and it wouldn't advance the purposes of peace.
00:53:10.000It would just be a launching ground for a future war against Israel.
00:53:17.000Now, it's worthwhile noting at this point there's so much propaganda online about this war.
00:53:20.000A lot of it is connected to China, apparently.
00:53:22.000According to the Jerusalem Post, key radical left-wing organizations in the post-October 7th anti-Israel protest movement are funded by or connected to a Chinese Communist Party linked network, according to a Network Contagion Research Institute report.
00:53:36.000Three convenors of the Shut It Down for Palestine Coalition, Answer Coalition, the People's Forum, and the International People's Assembly are linked by a complicated web of financial, personal, personnel, and ideological ties to CCP associates.
00:53:48.000We've known this since November, that China, Iran, Russia have been promoting the interests of Hamas in this war, particularly online, and open networks have been a great way for them to promote their propaganda.
00:53:59.000It's one of the reasons why a weird echo chamber is formed around Joe Biden so he pursues bad policy.
00:54:02.000Bottom line here, however, is that no good policy is emerging from this administration.
00:54:06.000Name the good policy that has emerged from this administration.