00:00:19.000So, why the hell are so many people insistent that America is losing and should lose?
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00:00:24.000We'll get into the Iranian economic collapse, the human shield desperation of a dying theocracy, and New York City's 375 page manual.
00:00:33.000On America's National Guilt, all on today's Ben Shapiro show.
00:00:36.000Well, folks, yesterday the Artemis astronauts made history by traveling further than any human being has ever gone.
00:00:47.000According to the Wall Street Journal, just before 2 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, the astronauts on Artemis 2 steered their Orion craft into the record books, flying more than 248,655 miles from Earth, which is the furthest that human beings have ever gone.
00:01:32.000President, this call is certainly special to all of us and we really have a lot of faith in our administrator, Jared Isaacman, who is with you.
00:01:39.000We appreciate his leadership in NASA and in the international community.
00:01:42.000We are doing great things and we are proud to be a part of it.
00:01:46.000I have to tell you, as we came around the near side of the moon, seeing all the sights that we've seen from Earth for all of our lives, but we're seeing them from a different perspective and then we started to get a glimpse of the and we saw sights, oriental, sights that no human has ever seen before, not even in Apollo, and that was amazing for us.
00:02:04.000And then the surprise of the day, we just came out of an eclipse where the sun, moon, and the entire dark moon, about that big, right out the window that we were watching.
00:02:15.000We could see the corona of the sun, and then we could see the planet train line up, and we're at Mars.
00:02:21.000And all of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become a two planet species.
00:02:34.000It's part and parcel of a vision for the United States that is actually inspiring.
00:02:39.000I know we don't talk about the United States in that way, or we haven't in the recent past, but America is an unbelievably inspiring place.
00:02:46.000That's the reason why everyone is clamoring to get here.
00:02:49.000Not just because we can put human beings 250,000 miles away going around the moon, but also because when people come here, they are inspired to create and to build and to build better lives for themselves and their families.
00:03:03.000And because we offer them that opportunity, because the American system offers them that opportunity, and because America is, in fact, The guarantor of security on planet Earth.
00:03:12.000Because the United States, the same United States that takes humans and puts them 250,000 miles away around the moon is the same United States that stands up to the thuggish, theocratic tyrants in Iran who want to develop nuclear weapons and develop intercontinental ballistic missiles and who wish to spread terrorism all over the region against us and our allies.
00:03:42.000Now, the president in Iran has provided them an off ramp over and over and over and over again.
00:03:46.000This is the part that everyone seems to just ignore.
00:03:49.000If Iran did not wish to be in the gun sites of the U.S. military, all they would have to do is stop developing nuclear weapons, stop developing long range ballistic missiles, and stop funding terrorism.
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00:04:00.000That is all the things they would have to do.
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00:04:16.000Instead, they decided that they were going to double down on their theocratic tyranny, that they were going to rush toward a nuclear weapon, that they were going to back every major terrorist group in the region and beyond.
00:04:29.000The difference is that this president understands that it is not in the interests of the United States to allow that cancer to fester.
00:04:37.000That the gangrenous limb that is the Iranian government, not the Iranian people who are wonderful, the Iranian government, that gangrenous limb cannot be allowed to poison the entire region and beyond.
00:04:46.000That's why the president took the stand that he is taking right now.
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00:04:54.000There is no standard in military history by which we are not kicking the hell out of them.
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00:04:59.000We have put their entire Navy under the water.
00:05:01.000We have taken their entire Air Force out of the sky.
00:05:04.000We have taken their ballistic missile launcher capacity to near zero.
00:05:07.000We have destroyed their steel factories.
00:05:10.000We have been hitting specific besieging checkpoints in Tehran.
00:05:15.000We've been bombing every nuclear facility we can find.
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00:05:18.000And once again, the president is offering them an off ramp because all they can do in response to this, all they have done, again, all they would have to do is open the Strait of Hormuz and give up their nukes.
00:06:03.000I mean, if you look at the religiously Shiite rulership of Iran, ambitions are not restricted to Iran in their philosophy.
00:06:12.000This notion that radical Islam is restricted to a small portion of the world, and if only we would leave them alone, they would leave us alone, ignores, you know, the entire history of radical Islam going back to about the year 700.
00:06:24.000In any case, Iran was presented a proposal from the United States, and as the Wall Street Journal reported late yesterday, Iran then rejected it.
00:06:34.000The regional mediators offered to end hostilities for 45 days in exchange for opening the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:40.000Okay, not even in exchange for the nuclear materials, just for opening the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:46.000President Trump reasserted the Tuesday evening deadline.
00:06:50.000He said the entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.
00:06:53.000He said that during a news conference yesterday.
00:06:55.000Well, this morning, the president reiterated that on Truth Social.
00:06:58.000He put out the following statement A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.
00:07:03.000Now, of course, he doesn't mean that Persian civilization will die.
00:07:06.000The reality is that Persian civilization will flourish and survive if the Iranian government dies.
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00:07:12.000Persian civilization has been ground under the boot heel of radical Islamic thugs for the last 50 years.
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00:07:20.000Persian culture goes back 2,000 years, 3,000 years.
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00:07:25.000The notion that the civilization itself is going to, maybe he means radical Islamic civilization.
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00:07:32.000He says, I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
00:07:34.000However, now that we have complete and total regime change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen.
00:08:16.000As we'll get to in a moment, those are not the questions that are being asked.
00:08:19.000The questions that are being asked are about whether America ought to be a serious force on planet Earth.
00:08:25.000Or whether it ought to recede into itself and become basically a European welfare state, useless to the world and dying on the vine, which so many people seem to want.
00:09:08.000Or maybe the goal here is to just weaken all of their forward capacities so much that we don't really care what they do internally as Americans.
00:09:17.000And the reason that President Trump has not been absolutely 100% clear on quote unquote the final goal is because he's been clear about the military goals.
00:09:25.000The question that people have is about the geostrategic goals.
00:09:28.000Like, do we want the regime to survive or do we not?
00:09:30.000And the reason that President Trump hasn't said that he wants the regime to just fall is because that might necessitate using means he does not wish to use.
00:09:37.000And many of the questions that are being asked are kind of silly.
00:09:41.000What are the specific things that you are going to do?
00:09:42.000Well, no one worth his salt is going to tell you the specific things he's going to do in the middle of a war.
00:09:48.000So, what level of specificity do we need answers to?
00:09:51.000But again, there are honest questions.
00:09:52.000There are good discussions that can be had on all sides, people expressing honest concerns.
00:09:56.000And then there's the thing that's actually happening in the online world and beyond, which is a true belief that America exerting power on planet Earth is inherently bad, that it is better if America is weak, that it is better if America is focused only.
00:10:12.000On the welfare programs of the United States and ignores everything happening on the rest of planet Earth as though it doesn't affect us.
00:10:20.000And as though if we just pour money into the welfare programs of the United States, suddenly everyone is better off, which again is a very left wing point of view, economically speaking, and not borne out by the evidence.
00:10:30.000In any case, yesterday the president did the Easter egg roll.
00:10:33.000It was a very bizarre sort of visual juxtaposition.
00:10:35.000The president kicked off an Easter egg roll, and here's what it looked like.
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00:14:25.000Because Iran is shutting down the internet.
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00:14:27.000If you're wrong, Iran would have opened up the internet, said they could have flooded the internet with Iranians screaming for the president to stop.
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00:14:34.000The problem for the Iranians is that if they open up the internet, the Iranians would be giving us a target bank.
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00:14:40.000The Iranian people would be giving us a target bank.
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00:14:43.000Of places that we should hit if they opened up the internet.
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00:14:46.000The tell is always in the action.
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00:14:49.000We will talk about other tells that show kind of the moral difference between the United States and Iran in a little while, because it's pretty insane the way that Iran is responding to the current conflict.
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00:15:00.000The president was asked about religion and God, and he said, listen, in his opinion, God supports this.
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00:15:09.000You've said, glory be to God in this conflict.
00:15:12.000Do you believe that God supports the United States' actions in this conflict?
00:15:58.000I could go over every one of them, including India and Pakistan, where the Prime Minister of Pakistan said President Trump saved from 30 to 50 million lives.
00:16:09.000That makes me much happier than what we're doing right now.
00:16:14.000We have one more to end, by the way.
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00:16:18.000And again, when the president says that he thinks that God supports the United States when we take out tyrannical dictators, when we kill Ayatollah Khamenei, a mass murderer, when we try to destroy the forward function of terror groups, he is correct about this.
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00:16:34.000See, here's the thing you're seeing a lot of people who have, shall we say, a casual acquaintance with scripture, like who admit that they had not fully read through the Bible until two to three years ago, who are suddenly, it turns out, bishops in their church.
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00:16:47.000It's amazing how quickly they have learned biblical literacy.
00:16:51.000You know, these are the same people who will sit across from guests who tell them that the Bible is actually socialist and anti capitalist.
00:16:58.000Well, it turns out that for those of us who have spent a lot of time engaging with the scriptures, and here I'm talking specifically about the original Hebrew scriptures, it turns out that the Psalms, for example, are filled with calls to crush oppressors and deliver the weak and needy from the hands of the wicked and to break the arm of the evildoer.
00:17:18.000Literally zero things in scripture suggest that Western civilization has some sort of a duty.
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00:17:24.000To uphold the rule of wicked Islamist theocrats who murder their own people en masse, spread terrorism throughout the region, desire the defenestration of Christianity, yes, ask the Shia leaders of Iran what they think about Christianity, and threaten the West directly.
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00:17:39.000Nothing in scripture suggests that going along with those plans is somehow scripturally mandated.
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00:17:55.000That is not the conversation that many people are having today.
00:17:58.000And the president is right about this.
00:18:01.000You know, when it comes to global affairs, God speaks pretty frequently in the Bible about global affairs and geopolitics and the way that tyrants ought to be treated.
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00:18:11.000And I have yet to see the part of the Bible where it says that Islamist theocrats must be maintained in power.
00:18:18.000And by the way, you're not allowed to mock radical Islamism, which is a position taken by Tucker Carlson, as we'll get to shortly.
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00:18:26.000Well, the president then went on and he said, Listen, these people in Iran, they're BS artists.
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00:18:31.000That's why they've been BSing everybody else for 47 years.
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00:18:43.000I honestly do not understand how either this has become a partisan issue or why it would split a conservative right that is focused on making America great again.
00:18:54.000If you want America to be great in the world, if you want America to be what America has historically been, When it has been at its greatest, it is when it is doing things like we are doing right now, like what we are watching right now.
00:19:26.000That's why for 47 years they've been bullshitting other presidents and they haven't done the job.
00:19:33.000And now, the president did unleash one of the great, I will say, American pictures in modern history yesterday.
00:19:39.000He was standing next to the Easter Bunny because, again, they were at the Easter egg roll and he was commenting on global affairs next to the Easter Bunny, who was last seen guiding Joe Biden away from reporters.
00:19:54.000Well, this Easter Bunny was not going to be stopping President Trump.
00:20:11.000They're very tough people and there are others like that.
00:20:15.000You don't mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong.
00:20:19.000Not so strong like they were about a month ago.
00:20:21.000I can tell you, in fact, right now they're not too strong at all, in my opinion, but we're soon going to find out, aren't we?
00:20:27.000But when a thing like that happens where a pilot shot down, in most instances you're really not able to go in because you'll go in with 200 people and lots of jet fighters and helicopters and You really don't have a chance.
00:21:10.000There's no way to say that it is funny.
00:21:12.000Well, the president was asked yesterday at this press conference about his post from Sunday, in which he said that these crazy bastards should give up the effing straight or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age.
00:21:22.000And somebody was getting very offended about all of this.
00:21:24.000And the president said, I don't care, which.
00:21:46.000But if that's the case, you're going to have to have more people like me because our country was being ripped off on trade, on everything for many years until I came along.
00:21:56.000So if that's the case, you're going to have to have more people.
00:22:00.000The president did say yesterday that he would consider taking the oil.
00:22:04.000Now, again, a lot of people having a lot of heartburn about this statement.
00:22:58.000Every barrel of oil that is getting shipped right now goes not to the benefit of the Iranian people.
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00:23:02.000It goes to the Iranian government, which uses that oil to suppress their own people and shoot them.
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00:23:08.000Also, if we were to help manage their oil supply, if, for example, the government were to change its orientation and be reintegrated into the world economy, and we are allowed to bring American companies in to actually help pump that oil, We would probably double the amount of oil they are currently producing.
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00:23:23.000At its height, Iran is producing 3.2 million barrels of oil per day, somewhere in that neighborhood.
00:23:28.000If we fixed their position in the world and their industry, that number would probably double, and the revenue would flow back to the Iranian people, unlike now when it all flows to the Iranian government, the IRGC, and the besieging.
00:23:39.000That is literally the model we are using in Venezuela.
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00:23:43.000We are currently holding money in escrow so it doesn't go to shore up the communist regime to suppress the people.
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00:25:08.000Hey, so all of this raises the question of what comes next, because of course, 8 p.m. tonight is supposed to be the deadline for negotiations.
00:25:16.000Well, the answer from the Wall Street Journal, and I've heard this from sources both American and Israeli because it's a joint operation, is that Iran's economy is next on the table.
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00:25:28.000That to take out the final pillars of the Iranian government, you have to permanently damage their economic status.
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00:25:33.000Because if they don't have money to pay their people, it makes it very difficult for them to survive and also to spread their terrorism forward.
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00:25:41.000According to the Wall Street Journal, quoting Avner Golov, a former Israeli national security official, the U.S. and Israel are signaling we're serious.
00:25:48.000And if you continue not to agree to end the war, the price you'll pay to your economy is going to be higher and higher.
00:25:55.000And of course, Iran has been firing at a wide variety of energy facilities in the region already.
00:26:01.000Israel knocked out sites responsible for 85% of Iran's petrochemical exports, according to Israeli Defense Minister Katz.
00:26:11.000That represents something like 30% to 35% of their export revenue.
00:26:16.000So is that likely to get worse for them?
00:26:29.000That footage is apparently of particular sites on Karg Island.
00:26:36.000So, this is not bombing the actual oil facilities or storage facilities or refineries on Karg Island yet.
00:26:41.000And it's not even bombing the landing docks, which would allow for the shipping to and fro of the oil.
00:26:46.000Instead, according to Jen Griffin of Fox News, the targets the United States hit included bunkers, radar stations, and ammo storage.
00:26:53.000So, it's quite possible that what we are doing right now, and these are U.S. strikes.
00:26:58.000It is possible what we are doing right now is taking out their defensive installations in preparation for either a taking of Karg Island, which again, I think has been the longest telegraphed punch in modern history, or just blowing it up.
00:27:10.000If we were to blow it up, they would be permanently damaged.
00:27:12.000It would take out 90% of their economy.
00:27:24.000Iran has responded by basically saying that they don't want to negotiate.
00:27:28.000Now, again, One of the things I think that Americans need to understand, and this has been true throughout American history, sometimes you run up against an enemy that is so intransigent that against their own interests they refuse to surrender.
00:27:40.000The reason that the United States had to use nuclear weapons at the end of World War II is because the Japanese government knew they were going to lose and felt that they could somehow reach a negotiated settlement with the United States more advantageous to them if millions of their own citizens were killed in a long battle for the home islands of Japan.
00:27:58.000In fact, there was a segment of the Japanese government that was so extreme at the end of World War II that after both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been hit, afterward, the emperor recorded a message surrendering.
00:28:12.000This faction attempted to overthrow the emperor and take the recording before it could air to prevent surrender after both sites had been hit.
00:28:22.000The Iranian regime, meaning the mullahs, and particularly the IRGC, are of that sort.
00:28:29.000Now, maybe the president is talking to other people in the country.
00:28:32.000Maybe the president of the country, Pzeszkian, who's widely perceived, as I've said before, as a very weak character, perhaps he's negotiating.
00:28:39.000But it is absolutely unclear at this point whether such people even have power.
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00:28:45.000The IRGC may basically just be gambling, Taliban like, that they'll ride this bomb all the way into the dirt.
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00:29:57.000And of course, he's standing in front of a map of the Dimona nuclear reactors that are going to hit Dimona, which is Israel's nuclear site.
00:30:11.000And when I say he put out a tweet, I mean his prone body somehow reached out from beyond the quasi grave to put out a tweet in which he lauded the armed forces jihadi ideals.
00:30:24.000He said, The unbroken ranks of the combatants and fighters on the path of truth in Islamic Iran, along with the self sacrificing armed forces, form such a towering, deeply rooted front that terrorism and crime cannot even crack their resolve for jihadi ideals.
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00:30:36.000Yeah, this sounds like a moderate.
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00:30:38.000This sounds like somebody we should allow to pursue nuclear weapons.
00:30:41.000Well, the good news is that he didn't tweet that at all because he is in a coma, according to the Times of London.
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00:30:46.000You know, you're not doing great when you're basically doing the movie Dave, but Iranian Ayatollah version.
00:30:53.000You got the actual Ayatollah in the back in a coma.
00:30:57.000So, you go and you find like an impersonator via AI and put him out there to tweet.
00:31:02.000According to the Times of London, he is incapacitated and receiving medical treatment in the holy city of Qom, according to an intelligence assessment, which suggests he is not capable of running the country.
00:31:12.000Apparently, he is unconscious and being treated for a severe medical condition.
00:31:16.000It is possible that the condition is being dead.
00:31:19.000The memo also says that the intelligence agencies identified the preparation of laying the groundworks needed to build a large mausoleum in Qom for more than one grave, suggesting that other family members and possibly Moshtaba himself. Could be buried alongside his dad.
00:31:35.000And meanwhile, President Pzeszkian is putting out statements about how 14 million Iranians are enlisted.
00:31:42.000He says more than 14 million proud Iranians have so far registered to sacrifice their lives to defend Iran.
00:31:47.000I too have been, am, and will remain devoted to giving my life for Iran.
00:31:50.000Well, he may get his wish depending on how the rest of the week goes.
00:31:53.000How do you know things are going poorly for the Iranians, aside from the fact they're putting out AI videos of their leader who is in a coma?
00:32:01.000Iranian state TV is now telling young people, like students, like children, to go form human shields around power plants.
00:32:10.000Ahead of President Trump's deadline for the bridges and the power plants.
00:32:14.000One, this is not something strong countries do.
00:32:16.000If you aren't in a good military position, you're not calling out the youth to go.
00:32:22.000This is something that the Nazi regime does in the final days in Berlin, where they call out the 12 year olds and they're like, okay, guys, here's a pistol, go at it.
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00:32:51.000The dirty secret is the reason that terrorists use human shields is because they believe it will deter Western powers from hitting the targets.
00:32:58.000This is why, when people suggested that Israel was committing atrocities in Gaza, they were doing a genocide in Gaza, and then those same people will say that Israel is killing human shields.
00:33:10.000The question is, why is the human shield in the first place?
00:33:22.000The reason to use a human shield is because you believe that it will deter humane people from doing the thing you don't want them to do.
00:33:28.000That is literally the purpose of doing this.
00:33:30.000So, the same people claiming that America is deliberate, if you're Ryan Grimm and you're claiming that America deliberately targets school children at a school, explain to me this.
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00:33:39.000Why then would the Iranians put school children around power plants?
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00:33:43.000It would make no sense because the United States would be, hey, cool, look, school children, let's kill them.
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00:34:06.000And the way you know that is by the way that our enemies are treating us.
00:34:10.000According to Ali Reza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state TV as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, he said, I invite all young people, athletes, artists, students, and university students and their professors to gather at 2 p.m. Tuesday around the power plants that are our national assets and capital.
00:34:25.000Regardless of any taste or political viewpoint, they belong to the future of Iran and to the Iranian youth.
00:34:36.000Okay, so if we're going to talk, by the way, about actual war crimes, we should note that that is a war crime.
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00:34:43.000Using human shields is the war crime.
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00:34:46.000That's the war crime because we are trying to deter people from doing this thing.
00:34:51.000In a second, we'll get to those people who are trying to undermine the president and try to undermine the war by claiming he's a war criminal, claiming that.
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00:36:24.000Meanwhile, our fifth columnist at home who would like for America to erode, who would like for America to lose, many of them are just lying.
00:36:31.000So the New York Times is putting out a piece today titled, quote, Trump revels in threats to commit war crimes in Iran.
00:36:38.000What is the threat to commit a war crime?
00:36:40.000That he said he was going to blow up the bridges and the power plants.
00:36:43.000Well, just going to point out that threat is not a war crime.
00:36:48.000And it's not even a war crime to blow up bridges and power plants.
00:36:56.000You have Ro Khanna doing the same routine, the California congressman.
00:37:01.000He says, oh, he's threatening war crimes, and war crimes won't end the war.
00:37:04.000Tell us more about ending wars, Ro Khanna.
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00:37:08.000Let me tell you what won't reopen the Strait of Formula One threatening war crimes of bombing indiscriminately power plants, cursing at Iran.
00:37:17.000What we need is statesmanship like President Obama had.
00:37:21.000What we need to do is to stop the bombing, have a ceasefire, and then to work with Oman, to work with China, to work with the Gulf allies and European allies to have a solution to allow Hormuz to be open.
00:37:33.000But it's not going to happen by massive escalation.
00:37:36.000Is there any scenario where you would support new funding if it was determined necessary for the readiness of the military?
00:37:59.000There's a group of people in the United States, and it is quite large, who would rather starve the military for future conflicts, even if you don't like this conflict, than fund the military.
00:38:08.000So, I'm just going to point out at this point, it is not automatically a war crime to bomb bridges and energy infrastructure.
00:38:14.000It's happened in pretty much every war under international law, which again, I don't care about international law, but some, because international law is a construct, Of a group of nations who don't abide by it.
00:38:24.000I don't care what the Chinese and Russians have to say about international law, but some international law has been adopted domestically via the War Crimes Act of 1996.
00:38:34.000So, under international law as adopted domestically, which is the part I care about, a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 would be considered a war crime.
00:38:44.000It would include extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
00:38:58.000It has to be not justified by military necessity and it must be carried out both unlawfully and wantonly.
00:39:05.000That standard would require reckless disregard for the asset's status as a civilian object and it would require no legitimate military purpose.
00:39:15.000And then we have something called the Department of Defense Law of War Manual that goes into more detail.
00:39:19.000Commanders are supposed to weigh the concrete and direct military advantage against the incidental harm to civilians.
00:39:45.000One of my favorite idiocies is people who are out there claiming, and it's insane to me that people fall for this trick, that if a terrorist immediately grabs a human shield, now the terrorist just automatically wins.
00:39:56.000You do that, and what do you think you're doing?
00:39:58.000You are literally incentivizing hostage taking and the use of human shields.
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00:40:40.000You don't get to walk into the middle of a war zone, waving your arms and shouting that you're a civilian, and then everybody stops firing.
00:41:01.000But again, there is a group of people out there who are very invested, very invested in the idea that America is doing something horrible, that America is, in fact, a terrible place.
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00:41:11.000People who are, at this point, pretty much openly hoping that America loses in Iran.
00:41:19.000So, yesterday, Tucker Carlson released what can only be described as an episode in which he appears to be suffering from some sort of mental break.
00:41:28.000It's very hard to explain this otherwise.
00:41:30.000So, Tucker had many things to say in this episode, including, by the way, suggesting that Christianity mandates socialism, which, strange.
00:41:39.000I'll leave it to my Christian friends to debunk that one.
00:41:42.000But I'm going to say, don't think so.
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00:42:54.000Was mocking, quote unquote, the hummus eaters not all that long ago.
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00:42:58.000This is the same person who has said that Christian Zionists are the people he hates most on planet Earth, who spent pretty much every episode of his show attacking, quote unquote, dispensationalists and mainline evangelical Protestants.
00:43:09.000Don't mock religion as long as that religion is Islam, says Tucker Carlson.
00:43:13.000And then, of course, he says that Trump is going to commit war crimes.
00:43:17.000Again, there are plenty of questions you can ask.
00:43:19.000I don't know how many times I have to say it.
00:43:21.000There are lots of questions you can ask about any American action, abroad or at home.
00:43:25.000That is not what's happening here.
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00:43:26.000What is happening here is a demoralization effort by a person who wishes for America to minimize its presence on planet Earth, who agrees full scale with Alexander Dugan in the multipolarity model whereby we surrender power to Russia and China.
00:43:42.000And if you take that seriously as America first, if America first means you can't joke about radical Islam, you should leave in power radical Islamic tyrants trying to gain nuclear weapons, we need to cede power to China and Russia.
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00:43:57.000Russia, by the way, is amazing and has terrific subway stations and grocery stores.
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00:44:02.000And it's so much cleaner than any other American city.
00:44:06.000We should maybe model ourselves on them.
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00:44:08.000Sharia law might be great in terms of cleaning up Americans.
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00:44:11.000And then you say at the end of that, that's what America first means.
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00:44:17.000Here is Tucker Carlson saying that President Trump is a war criminal.
00:44:22.000Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, shows up at the White House yesterday to pray over the president so he will have wisdom and restraint.
00:45:07.000By the way, the only person I know here who has endorsed killing civilians full scale is Tucker Carlson, who says that Vladimir Putin just has to do that sometimes.
00:45:29.000Is it possible that what you're watching is a very stealthy, Yet incredibly effective attack on what, from a Christian perspective, is the true faith, belief in Jesus.
00:45:43.000Is that what really is under attack here?
00:45:45.000Is that what, maybe that's what's been under attack for a long time.
00:46:20.000And is it possible that the president sees this not just in geostrategic terms, in military terms, in economic terms, got open the straight?
00:46:45.000I'll leave it to my Christian friends to determine whether he is actually calling the president the Antichrist, which, I mean, kind of seems like what he is doing there.
00:46:52.000First of all, we'll put aside the historical oddity of suggesting that no one has ever attempted to exterminate Judaism.
00:46:58.000But the notion that the president of the United States is fighting Christianity by fighting radical Muslims in Iran, that's a hell of a take.
00:47:10.000That the president is part of a global spiritual war, apparently, on Christianity by attacking, again, The Iranian mullahs who vowed to exterminate Christianity from planet Earth.
00:47:29.000I mean, again, Tucker is so gone that in his morning newsletter, apparently this morning, he suggested that Israel doesn't care about human life when it says that people should not use the trains today because they're going to bomb a lot of the railroad tracks.
00:47:45.000He says that that actually doesn't show their humanity because they could just not bomb the railroad tracks, which is like, I'm sorry.
00:48:16.000Again, the goal of so many of these people to undermine full scale what America is, to turn America into a sort of rump organ, to turn America into a sort of vestige of itself.
00:49:05.000If they want to throw the bums who run Iran out, throw them out.
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00:49:11.000But the idea that the United States of America, when people can't afford houses and they can't afford health care, spends all its time talking about the Middle East and Arabs and Jews and religion and the temple and slaughtering the heifer and Iran and Sunnis and Shiites.
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00:49:36.000This was endorsed by Megyn Kelly as a very important rant.
00:49:39.000Highly intelligent, because he said the F word a lot.
00:49:42.000I'm just going to point out here that this bizarre notion that fighting off our enemies in Iran, ending a 50 year threat to the United States, destroying their forward capacity, destroying their nuclear weapons facilities, destroying all that, the notion that this is somehow deprived people of their snap checks is very, very, it's just a lie.
00:50:12.000That would be wonderful, as if the world ran really nicely on its own.
00:50:15.000But it turns out that the United States is the guarantor of global security because we have a bunch of pansy allies who won't help us, like the Europeans.
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00:50:23.000And if that's the case, then that's the case.
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00:50:27.000Again, when you look at the world situation right now, it's easy in the middle of a conflict to look at the fact that markets are down.
00:50:40.000In America, that is so pathetically weak that it can be threatened for 50 years by a third rate power developing nuclear weapons and spreading terrorism all over the region and threatening the main waterways and be backed off because a bunch of podcasters say that they believe that the president is some sort of war criminal or because they want to spend more money, even more money.
00:51:11.000America remains the greatest and most powerful. Country in the history of the world.
00:51:17.000That is because of the kinds of moves that President Trump is making to preserve that future, to preserve American power in the world.
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00:51:24.000Again, it is the same nation that is putting people around the far side of the moon, that is taking out the main foundations of the Iranian regime.
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00:52:03.000Let me ask you, what were you thinking about eight months ago, seven months ago politically?
00:52:09.000Do you even remember how many news cycles ago that was?
00:52:13.000So the notion that Iran is going to somehow decide the election is silly.
00:52:17.000But beyond that, congressional Democrats got a problem.
00:52:20.000That problem is that they're crazy and no one likes them.
00:52:23.000So, Harry Enton at CNN points this out.
00:52:27.000Given the political wins and whatnot, is six points really a big enough lead for Democrats?
00:52:31.000Well, I would say this, Mr. Berman, and that is that this lead is historically low for Democrats at this point with a Republican president.
00:52:38.000Because take a look here, and I'm taking a look at the average of all the polls Dem generic congressional ballot lead at this point in the cycle with a Republican president.
00:52:46.000On average, their lead's actually slightly less.
00:52:49.000That's less than it was back in 2018 when it was eight points.
00:52:53.000And way less than it was during the 2006 cycle when it was 11 points.
00:52:57.000So, yeah, Democrats are ahead, but they're only ahead by five with a president whose net approval rating is bordering on minus 20 to minus 30, depending on what polls you look at.
00:53:07.000You'd make the argument Democrats should be way ahead, and they're just only sort of slightly ahead.
00:53:15.000So, again, the Democrats are underperforming right now because we are in an off year cycle and the polls actually have not moved all that much.
00:53:22.000When you look, for example, at the generic congressional ballot for 2026, what you see is that, honestly, like the Republicans were running a little behind and they're still running a little bit behind.
00:53:32.000That's where we are in terms of the generic congressional ballot.
00:53:36.000Right now, Democrats are running about five points ahead of Republicans.
00:53:40.000That's grown some since the end of April, I mean, since the end of March, rather, but not massively so.
00:53:49.000They've had about a five point steady lead on the Republicans since essentially the beginning of February.
00:53:55.000So nothing really has changed very much here.
00:53:58.000And I wouldn't expect it to change very much in either direction, actually, at this point.
00:55:22.000So, okay, if that's the direction you guys choose to go, that you want to go with the guy who likes all the terrorist groups, all right.
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00:55:30.000Speaking of which, the Democratic Party continues to move in the direction of Zoran Momdani.
00:55:34.000So, yesterday, Zoran Momdani in New York City released their preliminary racial equity plan.
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00:55:47.000Here is Zoran Momdani talking about, again, he's now just doing old jokes.
00:55:51.000So, when I was growing up, The joke about the New York Times was that there would be a New York Times headline that said, End of the world tomorrow, black people and women hardest hit.
00:56:00.000And that is where Zoran Manzani is now.
00:56:03.000He says, Yes, we have affordability, but it's really about minority affordability.
00:56:10.000Man, I have to point out at this point that one of the funniest things here is that the New York City racial equity plan says, New York's history has been one of colonization, exploitation, and racial oppression.
00:56:37.000Because you have colonization of Manhattan, and then you have Western colonization of parts of the Middle East and Africa where he grew up.
00:56:47.000And then you have him coming from those parts to these parts to colonize America.
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00:56:51.000So he's like a triple colonization.
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00:57:00.000And while today's true cost of living measure confirms that the affordability crisis touches every corner of our city, we know that these effects are not applied evenly.
00:57:11.000So often, it is black and brown New Yorkers who are hit the hardest.
00:57:15.000This preliminary racial equity plan is the first step in developing a whole of government approach to tackling that reality.
00:57:25.000So, um, what does that whole of government approach look like?
00:57:29.000According to the New York City preliminary racial equity plan, quote, the first ever New York City preliminary racial equity plan is dedicated to New York's resilient communities whose voices have often gone unheard and unanswered.
00:57:40.000We honor the individuals and organizations past and present who have tirelessly advocated for justice and equity.
00:57:46.000And Mandani put out a statement as well.
00:57:48.000Said New York is one of the wealthiest cities in the world, but too many people cannot afford rent, child care, food, transportation, or even time to breathe.
00:57:56.000I love when people use phrases like that.
00:58:12.000He says these pressures do not fall evenly.
00:58:13.000They reflect decades of disinvestment, exclusion, and policy choices that left some neighborhoods, especially black, brown, and immigrant communities, with far less than others.
00:58:21.000That's why in 2022, New Yorkers overwhelmingly voted to make racial equity planning a core part of how city government works.
00:58:32.000The statement from the city says that there is no economic justice without racial equity.
00:58:36.000So we're just doing Ibram X. Kendi now.
00:58:38.000They say that racial equity needs to be institutionalized into every facet of life and embedding equity into the very structure of city government itself.
00:58:48.000The equity plan talks about Wall Street as a hub for trade, including the buying and selling of enslaved people.
00:58:54.000Yes, clearly Wall Street was mostly powered by slavery.
00:58:59.000And they say there should be a budget reallocation and targeted investment.
00:59:03.000To historically underserved neighborhoods, building on the 400 year trajectory of oppression, and directs agencies to build disaggregated data pipelines by race, age, and gender so they can measure all city functions in terms of racial disparity.
00:59:18.000And then he also redefines poverty in this actual document.
00:59:22.000They redefine poverty to include 62% of all people living in New York.
00:59:28.000He acknowledges that people are employed, housed, and meeting immediate needs, but classifies them as not meeting the cost of living with dignity.
00:59:35.000Because they rely on public benefits, family help, or debt.
00:59:38.000So the answer to that would be for them to be more reliant on public benefits and debt, I assume.
00:59:44.000The new median annual true cost of living threshold for a family with children is $160,000.
00:59:50.000In order for you not to be considered in poverty, a single adult needs $70,000 a year.
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