Western civilization has a major, major problem. And that is that pretty much every societal ill that had been taken off the table by generations of received wisdom has now come back and come roaring back to life stronger than ever. The latest example of this is a piece in the Free Press, by Rupa Subramanya, all about the spate of suicide and euthanasia that is taking over the West right now. Here s a piece about this: Zaraya Turbik, 28, expects to be euthanized in early May. Her plan, she said, is to be cremated. I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy. We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house. She added an "urn emoji" after the word "house" She lives in a little Dutch town near the German border and once had ambitions to become a psychiatrist, but she was never able to muster the will to finish school or start a career. At that point, she decided to die. She is not the only one, unfortunately. Suicidality, euthanasia, and other social maladies have become incredibly common across the West. In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country in the world to make euthanasia legal. Since then, the number of people who increasingly choose to die is startling in 2022, and that trend is not limited to the Netherlands. And that s not just a social malady that is plaguing the West, it has for several decades plagued the U.S. for decades. And so, again, this sort of stuff is becoming more and more common, and it s a problem that is becoming worse and worse and more so than it would be possible to live in a Western society in the 21st century, right here in the United States. And it s better than it has ever been in the 20th century, thanks to the work of someone who s ever been on the planet? It s better to be a kid in the 60s and 70s and 80s, and in the 80s and 90s, right there in the 30s and the 90s and and so on in the s. And so on and so forth. . - Ed Andrey Andrey and Ruzicka Andrey, The Mythology of the Mind - The Mindfulness of the Brain? - The Brain and the Brain and The Brain
00:00:00.000Well, folks, Western civilization has a major, major problem.
00:00:04.000And that is that pretty much every societal ill that had been taken off the table by generations of received wisdom has now come back and come roaring back to life stronger than ever.
00:00:15.000The latest example of this is a piece in the Free Press, Barry Weiss's Free Press, all about the spate of suicide and euthanasia that is taking over the West right now.
00:00:25.000There's a piece by Rupa Subramanya talking about this.
00:00:29.000Zaraya Turbik, 28, expects to be euthanized in early May.
00:00:33.000Her plan, she said, is to be cremated.
00:00:34.000Quote, I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy, Ter Beek texted me.
00:00:38.000We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house.
00:00:43.000Ter Beek lives in a little Dutch town near the German border and once had ambitions to become
00:00:47.000a psychiatrist, but she was never able to muster the will to finish school or start a career.
00:00:51.000She said she was hobbled by her depression and autism and borderline personality disorder.
00:00:55.000Now, she was tired of living, despite, she said, being in love with her boyfriend, a 40-year-old IT programmer, and living in a nice house with their two cats.
00:01:01.000She recalled her psychiatrist telling her they tried everything, that there's nothing more we can do for you.
00:01:31.000and twenty cases of euthanasia. That is a 13.7 percent increase from 2021. That is five percent
00:01:38.000of all deaths in the Netherlands were euthanasia. And that trend is not limited to the Netherlands.
00:01:43.000In the United States, euthanasia has jumped from 2018 to 2021 by 53%, in Canada by 125%.
00:01:50.000In Oregon, which in 1997 became the first state to legalize assisted suicide, the total suicide rate rose from 15.9 per 100,000 people to 16.9 post-legalization.
00:02:02.000That's while the suicide rate in all other states actually dipped over that period in time.
00:02:07.000Increasingly, the West is legalizing euthanasia for people who are clearly not terminal.
00:02:16.000On November 30th, 2022, Hove, a Dutch YouTube creator who was then 27, took to her newly created blog, Brainfog, to announce she wanted to die.
00:02:24.000She explained she had autism ADHD, ARFID, which is Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, depression, anxiety, a history of complex trauma, and since 2019, chronic fatigue syndrome.
00:02:35.000She registered with the Euthanasia Expertise Center in The Hague.
00:02:38.000About a year later, she then committed suicide.
00:02:55.000It has for several decades at this point.
00:02:58.00024% of American students in grades 8, 10, and 12 have used marijuana.
00:03:04.000128 million Americans report having used marijuana at some point in their lifetime.
00:03:09.000It is worth noting that marijuana today is significantly, significantly more addictive and more dangerous than marijuana when you were a kid.
00:03:16.000When it comes to pornography, pornography is not only widespread in its availability, but also in its use and in its addiction.
00:03:22.000The latest stats show that about 70% of American men view pornography.
00:03:26.00024% of American women say they view pornography as well.
00:03:30.000And the number of people who admit to being addicted is actually quite high.
00:03:33.000The impacts of pornography on the human brain are very much like drug addiction.
00:03:37.000There's a dopamine release and then it wears off and then people want more of the dopamine and so they go back to the pornography.
00:03:45.000It destroys the relationship between men and women.
00:03:48.000Men begin to see women as sexual objects in a way different than would normally be the case.
00:03:53.000It disconnects them from other human beings.
00:03:55.000We see this with regard to major societal issues like, for example, family formation and childbearing.
00:04:01.00031% of women aged 30 to 34 in the United States are childless now, which is way higher than it has ever been in the United States.
00:04:08.000When it comes to LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign identification, fully 22.3% of Gen Z now say, one in five, that they are LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign.
00:04:21.000It turns out that when one-fifth of your population suggests that they are no longer going to engage in monogamous heterosexual relationships with the goal of family formation, that has a major impact on your civilization.
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00:05:39.000Well, there have been social scientists, people like Jonathan Haidt, who say that all of this has really accelerated due to the iPhone, due to the availability of the technology in your hands, social epidemics that are becoming epidemic much more quickly.
00:05:50.000It would have taken a long time for these sorts of things to become contagious.
00:05:54.000Now, they're spreading through the population like wildfire.
00:06:09.000What was the immunity to all of these sorts of bad ideas?
00:06:12.000The answer, obviously, for literally hundreds of years, was religion.
00:06:17.000Not just because people believed in God, but because there are two particular facts about religion that are deeply necessary to understand the beneficial and salutary effects of religion on a society.
00:06:27.000Fact number one, religion takes certain moral matters off the table.
00:06:33.000It says, God says X, therefore don't do X. Why is that important?
00:06:37.000It's important because when you're talking about time-tested wisdom, I'm talking about this from a secularist perspective, not even as a religious person, which I am, where I actually believe that God said X. But, put all of that aside, pretend that God didn't say X. Pretend that God did not say, thou shalt not murder.
00:06:51.000But from a secular perspective, one reason why any society might say something like, God says thou shall not murder, is because it takes it off the table for debate.
00:07:01.000Once God says it, you don't need to come up with an independent rationale as to why it's not okay to murder.
00:07:06.000And the reality is that when it comes to the vast majority of rules that we abide by in society, the vast majority of things that we are supposed to not do, those Our rules, not because somebody sat somewhere in a cave and came up with a rationale for the rule, but because over trial and error, over evolutionary long periods of time, these are rules that have been found to be effective.
00:07:28.000It's a point that Thomas Sowell makes in his book, Knowledge and Decisions, is that one of the social purposes of religion is that the evolution of moral rules takes a very long time.
00:07:38.000And the evolution of those moral rules is in fact a form of data.
00:07:42.000You don't have to explain why it works.
00:07:44.000You just have to know that it does work.
00:07:46.000One of the great lies that the Enlightenment has told us is that everything that is good requires a rationale.
00:07:53.000By the way, that's not even the way that science typically works.
00:07:55.000People tend to think that the way that science works is that you have a theoretician in the lab who comes with a theory, and then the theory has practical ramifications.
00:08:32.000Second thing it does, it creates the social fabric necessary to enforce those rules without a top-down state.
00:08:39.000It creates the intermediate institutions of society that philosopher Robert Nesbitt pointed out act as an enforcement mechanism.
00:08:47.000So, you violate the rule of society, for example, that says that you should get married and have kids and live within the boundaries of a church, and the rest of the members of the church might not want you at the church.
00:08:56.000You're not gonna be part of that particular social fabric.
00:08:59.000There is, in fact, a social ostracism that takes place, and that is good.
00:09:04.000Any society has to have rules that are enforced.
00:09:06.000Not necessarily with force, that's a government question, but by social censure.
00:09:17.000And don't require some sort of secularist rationale, because it turns out that many of the things we do in our life don't actually have a secularist rationale.
00:10:24.000Societies that don't focus on man-woman-child fall apart, because that is the basis of every functional civilization.
00:10:30.000But we decided we can't come up with a rationale why it shouldn't be man-man-no-child, or woman-woman-no-child, or man-woman-chicken, three children adopted from a surrogate mother.
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00:13:31.000The left likes to talk about rights to healthcare, which don't actually exist because a right to healthcare means that somebody has a duty to provide you healthcare.
00:13:39.000So really what it is is an entitlement, not a right.
00:13:41.000And then there are people who talk about rights, like I have a right to view pornography.
00:13:45.000have the right to use the n-word. What are they talking about when they say that sort of stuff?
00:13:49.000They are talking about a form of immunity, not actually a right. So let me explain what we mean
00:13:53.000by rights. Because rights is actually a group of ideas that we define very vaguely in American
00:13:57.000life and we kind of throw the word around in messy ways. So there was an American jurist,
00:14:02.000early 20th century, named Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld. Very famous in legal circles.
00:14:07.000And he broke rights down into four categories.
00:14:09.000This is really important stuff because if you want to understand what people mean when they are talking about rights, you have to determine which kind of right they're talking about.
00:14:17.000He said there are four kinds of rights.
00:14:32.000Or you have a right to eat a hamburger because we are completely indifferent as a society as to whether you eat a hamburger or whether you don't eat a hamburger.
00:14:38.000Right, these are what we would call privileges.
00:14:40.000So a privilege, again, is something you have no duty not to do.
00:14:44.000I, for example, do not have a privilege to view pornography because I don't have a moral right to view pornography.
00:14:50.000There's nothing good about viewing pornography.
00:14:52.000There's nothing that says that I should be morally apathetic about viewing pornography.
00:14:55.000So, privileges, again, are the kinds of, it's kind of moral right.
00:15:01.000You have a right to do it because we are morally apathetic or we think that what you're doing is good.
00:15:09.000So, for example, my child has a claim against me because I have a duty to provide for my child.
00:15:14.000You, however, do not have a claim against me for health care.
00:15:16.000That's why when I say that there is no right to health care, what I mean is that you do not have a claim against me to provide you health care.
00:15:23.000You might think that it's a nice thing for me to do, but you don't actually have a moral claim on me that I must provide you health care.
00:15:35.000Powers are abilities that allow you to alter another person's privileges or claims.
00:15:40.000So there are certain circumstances in which you have the power or somebody has the power over you to turn a non-claim into a claim, for example.
00:15:48.000So, just to give a basic example, In an employment context, I have the power as an employer to dictate the hours of my employees' work, whether they're in the office or not, what they do at work.
00:15:59.000Now, in a normal context, I don't have that power, right?
00:16:01.000If they were not in an employment situation, I don't have anything like that power.
00:16:04.000But since we signed a contract, and since I'm the employer and they are the employee, I now have the power over them.
00:16:23.000This is what the founders were mostly worried about.
00:16:24.000They were worried that the government would have too many powers to alter your privileges and alter your claims, to create too many duties of you to the government, or to infringe on your privileges, which is why the founders were very much focused on the fourth type of rights, which are called immunities.
00:16:41.000See, immunities are pragmatic limitations on powers.
00:16:46.000So for example, this is what we tend to mix up, privileges and immunities in this particular setting.
00:16:52.000So an immunity is, for example, the President of the United States issues an order that every American citizen has to put up a picture of the President in their home.
00:17:00.000You can say, no, I have immunity against that because you don't have the power to do that.
00:17:03.000An immunity is a claim that somebody does not have the power to make you do a thing.
00:17:08.000So what we have done in American society is we have conflated privileges and immunities.
00:17:13.000When it comes to privileges, which is usually what we're talking about when we talk about rights.
00:17:19.000We're morally apathetic about whether you eat a hamburger or what kind of car you drive.
00:17:23.000We have to make a compelling case for why you don't have a duty in those cases, a moral duty in those cases.
00:17:28.000So you have a privilege, for example, to speak freely about politics because there's no duty to remain silent.
00:17:32.000We actually would like you to speak up about politics.
00:17:35.000But you don't have a privilege to use pornography because you have a duty actually not to use pornography on a moral level.
00:17:40.000That does not mean that the government has the power to compel you in certain circumstances not to use pornography.
00:17:46.000Now, the case to be made is that powers should be given, broadly speaking, to very local governments.
00:17:52.000If you're going to talk about government at all.
00:18:09.000Immunities, again, are not privileges.
00:18:11.000Just because you have a right against the government, such that the government cannot force you to do a thing, does not mean that you have the moral right to do the thing.
00:18:18.000So, for example, the government does not have the power and should not have the power to compel me not to say the N-word.
00:18:22.000Also, I do, in fact, have a moral duty not to say the N-word.
00:18:29.000So, this is where civil society came in.
00:18:32.000In that weird space where you want particular moral rights, privileges, upheld, but you don't want the government enforcing them.
00:18:42.000So this is why it's important that in your social circle, In your church, for example, if you don't abide by the rules of the road, it's not that you want the government compelling people to abide by the rules of the road.
00:18:54.000As those civil institutions wane, government tends to fill the gap.
00:18:58.000Because the result is everyone touches the stove.
00:19:00.000And when everyone touches the stove, a bunch of social maladies occur.
00:19:03.000And then there is widespread call for the government to increase in size and scope in order to fix the social malady.
00:19:09.000And so what you end up with is massively powerful government.
00:19:13.000Conversely, you also end up with this really perverse situation where if the government does not speak on an issue, people take that as license to do the thing.
00:19:22.000So, for example, this is why, for example, it's so important for so many people in America that the Supreme Court decided that same-sex marriage was now approved by the federal government.
00:19:30.000Those of us who are religious said, okay, well, that doesn't change the moral status of same-sex marriage.
00:19:35.000Obviously, the morality of the act has nothing to do with whether the government approves it.
00:19:39.000But for folks who don't believe in church, who don't actually believe in those social institutions, then the government becomes the ultimate arbiter, not only of what it can and cannot do, but of good and evil.
00:19:48.000So the government should get involved in literally everything, and then enforce what it believes to be good, and punish anything it believes to be evil.
00:19:58.000Well, the problem is, once you get into that cycle, then it's just a battle over the government gun.
00:20:02.000Then it's just a battle over who has the power.
00:20:05.000If the state is the only thing that is capable of restoring any sort of duties, then the state is going to overreach and it's going to turn into a tyranny.
00:20:14.000All of this, the touch the stove society ends with massive increase in social malady.
00:20:18.000That ends with massive calls for more powerful government.
00:20:20.000And that ends with rebellion against that powerful government.
00:20:35.000You are not going to fix society on Twitter.
00:20:37.000You are not going to fix society on Facebook.
00:20:38.000You are going to fix society by going to your local church and involving yourself in a local community that has sanctions Social sanctions and well-accepted, time-tested rules that you accept because you understand that they are, in fact, time-tested rules.
00:20:52.000That is the only way that we're going to restore any semblance of sanity to our civilization.
00:20:55.000Otherwise, we're just going to keep touching that stove until we have societal third-degree burns all over our body.
00:21:00.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:21:56.000Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden is losing right now in six out of the seven swing states according to a brand new Wall Street Journal poll.
00:22:02.000Donald Trump is leading in Arizona by five, in Georgia by one, in Michigan by three, in North Carolina by six, in Nevada by four, in Pennsylvania by three, and they're tied in Wisconsin.
00:22:13.000That's the only state in which they are tied.
00:22:16.000Now honestly, I think that poll is out of whack in Georgia.
00:22:18.000I think Trump is up way bigger than one point in Georgia.
00:22:21.000If he's up by three in Michigan, he's up by six in Michigan.
00:22:24.000And if he's up by three in Pennsylvania, he's probably up by five in Pennsylvania.
00:22:27.000These are terrible, terrible polls for Joe Biden.
00:22:32.000Both campaigns, the Wall Street Journal points out, will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising and turnout efforts in these seven states.
00:22:38.000They account for 93 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to win.
00:22:43.000And again, this is a broad map for Donald Trump.
00:22:48.000Back in 2020, it was a very narrow map for Trump.
00:22:50.000He had to replicate his successes of 2016.
00:22:51.000Nevada has now been added to the map for Donald Trump.
00:22:55.000What is the state that has been added to the map for the Democrats?
00:22:58.000In 2016, Donald Trump won Arizona and Georgia and they weren't on the map for Democrats.
00:23:03.000In 2020, the map broadened and suddenly Joe Biden won Arizona and Georgia.
00:23:08.000Well now, those states appear to be increasingly out of reach for Joe Biden.
00:23:12.000And the map is broadening in the other direction, which is why Nevada is now in play.
00:23:17.000And in fact, the state of Nebraska may change the way that it selects its electoral votes.
00:23:24.000They actually allocate their electoral votes by congressional district, which means that even though Nebraska is a very, very red state, it has two congressional districts and one of them is Democrat.
00:23:35.000So there's now a move in the state legislature to reallocate the electoral votes the way every other state does, where winner takes all.
00:23:41.000That makes a difference because right now, there's a fairly decent shot that Donald Trump gets to 269 but not 270.
00:23:48.000But it gets to 270 if that one vote shifts in Nebraska.
00:23:52.000In other words, the map right now for Donald Trump is quite broad.
00:23:55.000And it seems to be getting broader specifically because Joe Biden is terrible at his job.
00:23:59.000And he is very terrible at actually taking a clear stance on issues and thereby winning over, for example, independents.
00:24:05.000Nowhere has this been clearer than in the Middle East.
00:24:08.000His left-wing base is excoriating him for not siding with Hamas.
00:24:13.000On MSNBC, voters were sounding off on Joe Biden because he was quote-unquote alienating the base by continuing to allow Israel to take on Hamas.
00:24:23.000Another young voter involved in the uninstructed movement is 22-year-old Dahlia Saba.
00:24:28.000This is a campaign that's being run by students and by young people who really care about this.
00:24:33.000Saba has family in Gaza and says organizing protest efforts in Wisconsin allows her to feel empowered.
00:24:40.000Joe Biden has already won the Democratic nomination, so the uninstructed campaign is really a way of sending a message.
00:24:46.000It is not about Him actually becoming president or not.
00:24:51.000It is a way for us to quantify, this is how many people care about this issue.
00:25:12.000And the population of Gaza has increased massively since 1948.
00:25:15.000This is a ridiculous statement by Michael Moore, but of course he's been disconnected from reality for quite a while.
00:25:23.000And Joe Biden who has, he's really the only one in the whole entire world that has the power to stop this, say within the next hour.
00:25:32.000Literally, by just turning off the faucet, pulling the plug, no more bombs, no more guns, no more bullets, no more nothing until you, Mr. Netanyahu, stop the slaughter.
00:26:28.000So under Jewish ritual law, When someone dies, you have to bury them as soon as possible.
00:26:32.000Also, not to get gruesome, but if there is something like a bombing or a shooting, you have to gather as much of the human body as is possible to bury it.
00:26:40.000So, Zaka, in the aftermath of October 7th, was witness to the atrocities.
00:26:43.000They literally had to try to cobble together as much of the bodies as they could before burial.
00:26:47.000They have nothing to do with the war in Gaza.
00:26:49.000They have nothing to do with war at all.
00:26:52.000They're what we call, in Judaism, a Hevra Kedusha.
00:26:55.000They do what in Judaism would be called holy work of attempting to care for the bodies of the dead, which in Judaism is considered a high priority specifically because it's the only kind of commandment that can't actually be repaid, right?
00:27:08.000When you do something for the dead, obviously, you're not expecting anything in return.
00:27:11.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:28:19.000So, pro-Hamas protesters showed up in Teaneck, New Jersey.
00:28:22.000They shut down an actual freeway in Teaneck, New Jersey to protest a Zaka event because this is who they are.
00:28:30.000So, just an excellent group of people out there pushing for the Hamasniks.
00:28:55.000Meanwhile, Muslim leaders are now trying to pressure Joe Biden on this.
00:28:58.000According to the Washington Post, a group of six Muslim leaders will meet with President Biden and Vice President Harris on Tuesday evening to discuss U.S.
00:29:03.000policy in the Gaza Strip after they were invited for a small Ramadan dinner but rejected.
00:29:07.000Such a gathering is inappropriate given the administration's continued support of Israel amid devastation in the territory.
00:29:12.000Biden initially invited the leaders for Iftar, the meal in which Muslims break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
00:29:18.000White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday the leaders expressed the preference of a policy meeting.
00:29:21.000The White House adjusted its plans to accommodate the request.
00:29:24.000One person apparently walked out of the meeting as an expression of anger at Joe Biden for continuing to back Israel in his campaign to finish off Hamas.
00:29:34.000Meanwhile, Biden again cannot help but split the baby.
00:29:37.000He's literally pissing everyone off and he's pissing everybody off because you refuse to take a clear moral stance in a conflict between a democratic ally of the United States and a group of terrorists who are currently holding the entire Gaza Strip hostage because they could surrender tomorrow and it would all be over.
00:29:51.000They are currently holding American citizens hostage, at least five American citizens that we know of.
00:29:57.000So Joe Biden is taking this bizarre position where he believes that if he politically rails against Israel, that this will somehow earn him the votes of the radicals in his own party.
00:30:05.000But then he's also providing the funding and the weaponry for Israel so that Israel can prosecute the war.
00:30:11.000So it's kind of the worst of all available worlds from a Biden campaign perspective, but that is Joe Biden.
00:30:17.000Because Joe Biden has never been a man with the courage of his conviction.
00:30:20.000This is all coming to a head right now.
00:30:22.000Because late on Monday, there was a horrific tragedy in which the IDF accidentally struck an aid convoy from the World Central Kitchen.
00:30:30.000So it's still totally unclear what exactly happened that made the IDF make this decision.
00:30:38.000According to a report in Haaretz, the Israeli Air Force fired three missiles in quick succession at three vehicles.
00:30:45.000These vehicles were marked as members of an aid convoy, the WCK aid convoy.
00:30:51.000According to Haaretz, essentially what happened here, is that a Hermes 450 UAV fired three missiles at the convoy in quick succession, despite the vehicles being clearly marked on their roof as being part of WCK.
00:31:04.000They were targeted over a distance of around two kilometers.
00:31:07.000The decision was made by a unit guarding the aid transport route, after troops earlier spotted what appeared to be an armed figure riding on a truck that entered an aid storage area with three WCK cars.
00:31:15.000The attack occurred moments after the three cars left the storage area, leaving the truck and the armed figure behind, according to the report.
00:31:22.000A missile hit one car, everybody got in the second car, that was hit.
00:31:24.000And then they moved to the third car, that was hit.
00:31:26.000So apparently, it was a mistaken identity situation.
00:31:30.000Not because they didn't see that it was a WCK car, but because they thought that there was an armed figure on top of the car, who they assumed was Hamas.
00:31:37.000Israel has already come out and apologized for the incident.
00:31:40.000Israel has already suggested there will be a full-scale investigation into the incident, obviously.
00:31:46.000Here is the IDF Chief of Staff making a full statement in English.
00:31:48.000It's very rare, obviously, in a wartime scenario.
00:31:52.000But, unlike when Hamas purposely kills civilians and then cheers about it, when the IAF makes a mistake, they do a full-scale investigation and they apologize to not only the group that they hit accidentally, but to the world for the mistake.
00:32:07.000That doesn't alleviate the consequence of the tragedy, obviously, but to pretend that the Israeli Air Force was targeting an aid convoy because they knew it was an aid convoy is ridiculous, insipid, just dumb on every possible level, especially because the WCK has been working with the IDF for literally six months to get aid into the Gaza Strip.
00:32:26.000Which, by the way, I think we should point out at this point how totally insane as a military policy this is.
00:32:32.000I cannot name another war where an ongoing war was happening in an area that was occupied by an enemy force and that same exact area was being targeted for aid by the force that was attempting to extirpate the terrorist force.
00:33:14.000Then they have to suggest that Israel wants everybody in the Gaza Strip to starve, which is obviously untrue since they are shipping in literally hundreds of trucks a day.
00:33:21.000The vast majority of aid workers who are being killed right now, purposely, are being killed by Hamas.
00:33:28.000Hamas literally kills aid workers if those aid workers get in their way, which is why it's very difficult to get people to actually do this sort of stuff.
00:33:34.000Anyway, here is the IDF spokesperson apologizing for the incident.
00:33:38.000The IDF completed a preliminary debrief.
00:34:29.000Again, no one can explain the actual interest that Israel would have in targeting an aid convoy that they have been facilitating for six months.
00:34:38.000Nonetheless, WCK, which has been oriented politically against the IDF, even as the IDF and WCK work together, they put out a statement calling the situation, quote-unquote, unforgivable.
00:34:50.000Which, again, you understand the emotion, obviously.
00:35:16.000We were outraged to learn of an IDF strike that killed a number of civilian humanitarian workers yesterday from the World Central Kitchen, which has been relentless in working to get food to those who are hungry in Gaza and, quite frankly, around the world.
00:35:29.000We send our deepest condolences to their families and loved ones.
00:35:32.000Your question presumes, at this very early hour, that it was a deliberate strike, that they knew exactly what they were hitting, that they were hitting aid workers and did it on purpose, and there's no evidence of that.
00:35:42.000I would also remind you, sir, that we continue to look at incidents as they occur.
00:35:46.000The State Department has a process in place.
00:35:49.000And to date, as you and I are speaking, they have not found any incidents where the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law.
00:36:00.000And Joe Biden is exacerbating the split message.
00:36:02.000Which, by the way, actually puts Israel more in harm's way, because again, Hamas's entire strategy in this war, they know they can't win militarily, they believe they can win in the court of public opinion, and thereby generate massive international support for Israel to leave Hamas in place, and allow Iran to continue to spread its terror tentacles around the region.
00:36:21.000That regime is now on its last legs because Hamas and the Iranians are stirring up trouble inside Jordan, a Hashemite kingdom, That is 70% ethnically Palestinian.
00:36:30.000Well, according to Joe, Joe Biden put out a statement on his own.
00:36:34.000That statement, of course, is truly an egregious moral statement.
00:38:41.000He says Israel has also not done enough to protect civilians.
00:38:43.000I mean, this is like music to Hamas's ears.
00:38:46.000Hamas is sitting there like, ah, this is great.
00:38:49.000By the way, again, Israeli soldiers have died in large numbers trying to protect civilians.
00:38:55.000The United States, says Biden, has repeatedly urged Israel to de-conflict their military operations against Hamas with humanitarian operations in order to avoid civilian casualties.
00:39:04.000If he has tips on how to do that, I'm sure that Israel will be willing to listen.
00:39:08.000How exactly they're supposed to ship aid in without Hamas attacking the aid convoys, which is exactly what happens.
00:39:15.000The United States, Joe Biden says, will continue to do all we can to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza through all available means.
00:39:21.000I will continue to press Israel to do more to facilitate that aid, and we are pushing hard for an immediate ceasefire as part of a hostage deal.
00:39:26.000I have a team in Cairo working on this right now.
00:39:28.000Earlier today, I spoke with my friend Chef Jose Andres, the founder of World Central Kitchen, to convey my deepest condolences for the death of these courageous aid workers and to express my continued support for his and his team's relentless heroic efforts to get food to hungry people around the globe.
00:39:41.000Now, I just want to point out at this point that effectively what Joe Biden is doing is the exact argument that Hamas has done since October 7th, which is the deliberate murder of civilians is equivalent to the accidental killing of people in a war.
00:39:52.000There's been the entire case made by Hamas since October 7th.
00:39:55.000Hamas rushed over the border and murdered 1,200 people and took 250 hostages.
00:39:58.000And then Israel retaliated by trying to strike Hamas, which is hiding in civilian areas.
00:40:03.000And unfortunately in war, civilians get killed.
00:40:05.000And Israel's been more meticulous about avoiding civilian deaths than any army in history.
00:40:10.000And yet, Joe Biden is playing Hamas' game, suggesting that there is a moral equivalency in Hamas deliberately holding hostages, and Israel mistakenly killing aid workers.
00:40:20.000Those are not the same thing, by any stretch of the imagination.
00:40:38.000It was widely perceived at the time that Joe Biden had hit that particular target and had cleared that particular target for destruction as retaliation for the blowing up of the Abbey Gate.
00:40:49.000The United States was already effectively out of Afghanistan.
00:40:52.000So it wasn't as though that operation was necessary to preserve the pullout from Afghanistan at that point.
00:41:23.000In November of 2021, a Pentagon official said blurry images in the videos revealed the presence of at least one child in the blast zone about two minutes before the missile was launched, but stressed that spotting that was obvious only in hindsight and with the luxury of time.
00:41:36.000Oh, well, weird how Joe Biden's administration treats mistakes by Joe Biden in one way and treats mistakes by the state of Israel in a very different way.
00:41:46.000By the way, again, this is what happens during wartime.
00:41:49.000In 2011, Libyan rebels painted the roofs of their vehicles bright pink to avoid friendly fire casualties after a NATO airstrike killed five fighters.
00:42:01.000The strike hit a rebel tank column as it advanced on the disputed oil port of Briga, causing a confused insurgent retreat back toward Ajdabiya, gateway to the uprising stronghold in Benghazi.
00:42:10.000NATO acknowledged that its planes were probably responsible for the friendly fire incident.
00:42:14.000One of the ugliest problems with war is that friendly fire incidents are relatively common.
00:42:19.000One of the leaders of the Libyan invasion in 2011 was David Cameron, who was then Prime Minister of Great Britain.
00:42:24.000Now, of course, David Cameron is calling for an immediate investigation into what happened in Gaza and suggesting that Israel has not done enough to protect civilian life.
00:42:32.000And the double standard here is pretty glaring and pretty obvious.
00:43:26.000Sullivan said, if you do not have an organized plan for the day after, nothing will help you advance dismantling Hamas, not Rafah or anything else.
00:43:31.000Yes, Jake Sullivan, wise military leader.
00:43:34.000But here's what's actually going to happen.
00:43:35.000Israel will delay the advance into Rafah until May or June, and then we've got riots at the Democratic National Convention.
00:43:42.000Because Joe Biden refuses to take a stand.
00:43:44.000And this is the message of Joe Biden's administration.
00:43:47.000If he can split the baby, he will split the baby.
00:43:48.000And you know what Americans don't like?
00:43:53.000Particularly a clear position on behalf of an American ally fighting a terrorist group that committed the worst terrorist atrocity since 9-11.
00:43:59.000It's not a particularly hard moral question.
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00:44:53.000Meanwhile, the media are attempting, because Joe Biden is losing, to generate more headlines about Donald Trump.
00:44:58.000The problem is that the headlines are kind of more of the same.
00:45:00.000Now, the headline they're truly hoping to generate is the headline, Trump goes to jail.
00:45:04.000Meanwhile, the media are attempting, because Joe Biden is losing, to generate more headlines
00:45:11.000The problem is that the headlines are kind of more of the same.
00:45:14.000Now, the headline they're truly hoping to generate is the headline, Trump goes to jail.
00:45:18.000That's what the media are desperately wishing for at this point, which is presumably why
00:45:22.000Andrew Weissman, a former prosecutor, is suggesting, former FBI general counsel and federal prosecutor,
00:45:28.000is suggesting that Donald Trump could get jail time if he's convicted criminally for
00:45:32.000falsifying business records in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
00:45:36.000That trial is slated to begin April 15th in Manhattan.
00:45:40.000Presumably it's gonna take a few weeks for it to go forward and then presumably he will be convicted because this is New York and then presumably a judge might try to send him to jail time.
00:45:49.000So you could pretty easily see a situation in which Donald Trump is actually running for the presidency from a jail cell.
00:45:55.000Now is that going to hurt Donald Trump in the polling data?
00:45:58.000Not if this is the... I have a feeling that if it looks like a politically motivated case to jail your political opponent, that might actually backfire on Democrats pretty badly.
00:46:09.000And ironically, Truly, ironically, separating Donald Trump from Truth Social and putting him behind bars might weirdly remove him from the stage.
00:46:22.000If they can't put him in jail, what the media would love to do, obviously, is generate a bunch of false headlines.
00:46:27.000So, you remember, just a couple of weeks ago, Donald Trump suggested that if Joe Biden's economic plans prevailed, then America would experience an economic bloodbath.
00:47:56.000The Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, are going to jump on this to suggest once again that Donald Trump is fomenting violence.
00:48:03.000If this is the best they got, they ain't got nothing.
00:48:05.000Here's Corinne Jean-Pierre trying it yesterday.
00:48:09.000What's the White House reaction to the use of that term, bloodbath?
00:48:12.000I'm going to be really mindful here because it is the president, obviously the former president is also a candidate here, so we want to follow the law with the Hatch Act.
00:48:25.000But we have to denounce, our response is we have to denounce any violent rhetoric that we hear, certainly from our leaders, right?
00:48:53.000Yeah, there's a giant shock from the media and from the Biden administration.
00:48:58.000Meanwhile, speaking of the Biden administration, legally targeting people.
00:49:02.000The Biden administration has been going after pro-lifers.
00:49:06.000Four pro-lifers that were involved in a protest outside of a Nashville abortion clinic were found guilty in federal court and they now face massive jail time for the crime of protesting outside an abortion clinic.
00:49:19.000Because, obviously, praying outside an abortion clinic is very, very different than, you know, burning down entire cities during riots.
00:49:25.000And yet, it's the Biden administration that supposedly is standing against bloodbaths and in favor of the rule of law.