Joe Biden is in a campaign meltdown, and you can tell it because every story about the Biden campaign is about how he is struggling to win back voters that already should be in his back pocket. And it also means that his campaign is now attempting bizarre and sundry tactics in order to gain headlines in the middle of a cycle that is terrible for him, and it s a symptom of a campaign that is failing. Joe Biden's campaign is pulling out the stops on bizarre tactics that are not only unavailing, but wildly counterproductive to his campaign's efforts to shore up the Democratic base and win back black voters that have been key to his re-election efforts in 2020. And then there s a third indicator: He s denying the polling data, which is not only bad, it s all fake. And then, there s another indicator: Joe Biden s team is now pulling out all the stops to get out to vote, which means that he s in serious trouble with Black voters, who have been a key part of his campaign s success in the past and are now turning out in droves for him. And that s a big problem for the Biden is that they are not all that interested in a senile, 80-year-old white man who has spent his entire career making befuddled gaffes about race. Joe Biden is not interested in winning back the black vote, and they re not that much interest in a guy who s not going to go out to campaign with him in 2020, are they not going out to the polls to vote for him? or are they just going to the White House to vote him out to see him out there to be re-elected? or do they re just to be there to watch him do it in 2020 or not to see what he s going to do it? Or are they going to be offended by his gaffe-filled, blabbering about it or do he s not getting any more of the same thing he did in 2020? And they re going to leave him at home in Washington, D.C.? What s going on here, Joe Biden, what s the problem? -- What s the real problem here? -- Is he not winning enough Black voters? -- -- or is he running out of time to win them back? -- And how bad is it getting worse than ever? -- and is he going to turn it around? -- How bad will it get worse?
00:00:27.000Well, Joe Biden is now in the middle of a campaign meltdown, and you can tell it.
00:00:31.000You can tell it because every story about the Biden campaign is how he is struggling to win back voters that already should be in his back pocket.
00:00:38.000And it also means that his campaign is now attempting bizarre and sundry Tactics in order to gain headlines in the middle of a cycle, a news cycle that is terrible for him.
00:00:52.000So in the past few weeks, we have articles about how Joe Biden doesn't believe the polls.
00:00:56.000That is a great symptom of a campaign that is failing.
00:00:58.000If you are out there telling the media that you don't believe the polls, typically that means you're losing.
00:01:04.000Or for example, Axios today called Biden launching a new strategy to win black voters.
00:01:11.000The black vote in the United States has gone for the Democrats by extraordinary numbers every single election cycle for the past several decades.
00:01:21.000In fact, Black voters were the key to Biden's 2020 win.
00:01:24.000The numbers for Biden among Black voters in 2020 were extraordinary.
00:01:31.000He got great turnout, particularly in terms of mail-ins, and he got an extraordinarily high percentage of the vote from Black voters in 2020.
00:01:39.000But now, Joe Biden is in real trouble.
00:01:41.000And he's having a tough time actually winning back those same black voters.
00:01:44.000He won 92% of the black vote against Donald Trump.
00:01:47.000But polling is currently showing Donald Trump not only in the double digits, but in the significant double digits among black voters and black voter motivation really low for Joe Biden.
00:01:57.000It turns out that they are not all that interested in a senile 80-year-old white man who has spent his entire career making befuddled gaffes about race.
00:02:06.000According to Axios, Polling has consistently shown a lack of enthusiasm among black voters for Biden.
00:02:12.000A recent New York Times Siena survey put his support at 69 to 18 over Trump with black voters.
00:02:17.000So he's going to spend eight figures, rely on black student organizations, community groups, churches, and surrogates to improve his standing with black voters in swing states.
00:02:26.000And he's going to go campaign in these various communities.
00:02:29.000He has to win black voters with overwhelming support.
00:02:32.000If Joe Biden, five months from the election, is having to go campaign in black areas of, say, Philadelphia, or has to head on over to Detroit, Michigan, in order to get out to vote, that dude is in serious, serious trouble.
00:03:06.000And then there's indicator number three, which is that the Biden campaign is now pulling out the stops on bizarre tactics that are not only unavailing, they are wildly counterproductive.
00:03:15.000So yesterday, Politico writes, after six weeks of staying clear of the courthouse at 100 Center Street, Joe Biden's campaign on Tuesday showed up to hold their own event, a dramatic reversal of the president's strategy in the final days of Donald Trump's trial.
00:03:27.000So remember, it was considered wildly unpresidential for Donald Trump to sound off on his own trial, where he is currently being tried in court.
00:03:38.000How dare he attack the justice system?
00:03:40.000How dare he intervene in the justice system?
00:03:43.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden, the actual president of the United States, whose DOJ is presiding over multiple cases against his political opponent, is deploying his campaign to stand outside the courtroom in New York in order to stump for Donald Trump's conviction.
00:03:57.000That's not only unprecedented, it's nuts.
00:04:00.000And not only are they doing that, it would be nuts enough if he deployed, say, lawyers from his campaign to go explain the case in front of the courtroom.
00:04:07.000That would obviously be deeply problematic, considering the President of the United States as the chief law enforcement officer in the land, because of course, he presides over the Attorney General, who presides over the DOJ.
00:04:18.000That he's deploying his own legal team outside the courtroom to rip on his political opponent in the middle of a trial.
00:04:42.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:07:45.000I just, I don't, honest to God, I don't get it.
00:07:47.000This is the stupidest campaign ploy I have ever seen, ever.
00:07:51.000It was really dumb in 2016 when Hillary Clinton at the convention trotted out a bunch of young actresses to sing fight song.
00:07:57.000And it was really cloying and annoying.
00:08:00.000But at least she understood that it was an attempt to bring actual celebrities who do a thing celebrities do like saying.
00:08:04.000Bringing Robert De Niro, a guy who plays a tough guy on, in the movies, To show up at the age of 80 and stagger over to microphones to talk about a criminal trial.
00:08:46.000And Martin Scorsese directing this thing, because I got to tell you, otherwise it's just the rest of his IMDb credits over the last 15 years.
00:08:52.000I mean, this is really, even these people over here, it's kind of crazy.
00:09:03.000It's really crazy and this thing, Donald Trump, has created this.
00:09:10.000He should be telling them not to do this.
00:09:12.000But he's just... It's no surprise that the murder rate and other violent crimes peaked under Trump and are falling under Biden.
00:09:22.000And now he's promising to use our own military to attack US citizens.
00:09:50.000He's gonna use the American military on his domestic opponent?
00:09:52.000You're literally standing outside a trial where he is being tried for a crime that does not exist by a politically motivated DA, and the President of the United States just deployed you to go speak outside of his trial why he should be thrown in jail, and you're talking about Donald Trump being the tyrant?
00:10:22.000And in 2012, Mitt Romney brought Clint Eastwood to speak at the Republican National Convention.
00:10:25.000And it was actually a pretty good idea.
00:10:27.000It's just that Clint Eastwood refused to read from the script.
00:10:29.000Clint Eastwood said he wanted to say what he wanted to say.
00:10:31.000And he did that famous empty chair thing, which everyone was like, what is happening right now?
00:10:35.000All he really needed was for Clint Eastwood to get up on the stage And to Dirty Harry.
00:10:40.000And he did, and he did something else that was random.
00:10:42.000But at least Clint Eastwood at the time had high levels of trust with the American people because he had also just done this famous car commercial in the aftermath of the Great Recession, all this kind of stuff.
00:10:51.000No one takes Robert De Niro seriously.
00:10:54.000He's not even considered a sort of iconic figure anymore, considering that the sort of Daniel Day-Lewis artiste from the 1970s and early 80s has now been demoted to the guy who does About My Father.
00:11:09.000The movie about my father, which I didn't even know existed until I looked up his IMDB with Sebastian Maniscalco.
00:13:20.000At the age of 80, to babble about tyranny.
00:13:25.000The people familiar with the decision disputed that the stunt was born out of desperation, even as Biden has narrowly but consistently trailed Trump in the polls.
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00:14:44.000Michael Fanon was one of the officers who was assaulted on January 6th and then has spent the last several years just doing TV rounds talking about how this was the worst insurrection in the history of the country and all this kind of stuff.
00:14:57.000Well, he was asked by MSNBC, why is Robert De Niro here?
00:15:00.000And he's like, because no one will pay attention to us unless Robert De Niro is here.
00:15:11.000Can you kind of give me a framework of how you guys are looking at the next five months, the roles you play in the broader Biden campaign coming out of these trials?
00:15:20.000Well, first of all, like, I'm incredibly grateful for, you know, Robert De Niro lending his celebrity and his voice to this cause.
00:15:31.000That being said, you know, I think that it's Disheartening to know that that's what it takes three and a half years after an insurrection at the Capitol in which hundreds of police officers were brutalized and our democracy was threatened to get the media's attention.
00:15:49.000Okay, again, he's admitting it's a desperation play.
00:15:52.000We've been repeating this January 6th stuff for three years at this point, and no one will pay attention to us anymore because it's boring and tired and old and everyone has an opinion on it already, and so we're gonna trot out this elderly man who reads lines for a living over the course of multiple takes And then we are going to have him stand in so we can get some attention.
00:16:11.000We got the attention, but ain't the kind of attention you need.
00:16:17.000Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, Democrats intend to formally nominate President Biden as their president's nominee with the help of a virtual roll call weeks before the Chicago convention in August.
00:16:27.000a move that would allow the president to appear on the ballot in Ohio and minimize possible
00:16:31.000protests during the convention. So they're claiming this is all about getting Biden on
00:16:33.000the ballot in Ohio, which of course wouldn't make any difference. He's going to lose Ohio.
00:16:36.000Trump's going to win Ohio, but that's not a swing state anymore. But what is this really about?
00:16:41.000It's about shortening the actual process on the DNC floor, because if there is process on the DNC
00:16:46.000floor, they are afraid mass protests will break out on the DNC floor against the nomination of
00:16:51.000Biden, crippling him in the public view as the Democratic Party splits wide open right down
00:16:56.000Because the chances of high-level protests at the DNC are incredibly high.
00:17:01.000The date of the DNC this year in Chicago is August 19th to August 22nd.
00:17:07.000He'll be nominated formally, presumably, August 22nd.
00:17:29.000Israel's gonna finish off Rafah inside the next six weeks because they've already moved significant forces into Rafah.
00:17:34.000But, there's gonna be cleanup and mop-up operations happening there.
00:17:37.000There may be action in the north depending on what Hezbollah does.
00:17:40.000So, there will still be conflict in the Middle East.
00:17:41.000Two, we know for a fact the Russia-Ukraine war will not be over in three months.
00:17:45.000It's not going to be over because Russia is feeling its oats.
00:17:48.000Because Joe Biden has slow-walked aid to Ukraine, this entire process, while playing politics with it, with no end goal, no actual finishing solution in mind in Ukraine, and hampering Ukraine from even striking Russian targets that are currently firing across the border into Ukraine.
00:18:07.000There's a very high probability that there's going to be something spicy going on with regard to Taiwan.
00:18:11.000China has launched a major naval drill Around Taiwan, like they basically did a fake blockade around Taiwan in the latest naval drill and they're upping the rhetoric.
00:18:23.000There are all sorts of conflicts that can break out at any time.
00:18:26.000Inflation is not in fact down for the vast majority of Americans.
00:18:29.000You can say that it's 3% year on year, but over the course of the Biden presidency, menu items have doubled in certain areas.
00:18:37.000None of this bodes well for Joe Biden.
00:19:21.000And so depending on, and it doesn't matter what the parade is, as long as it's a parade inside the Democratic Party, he tries to be all things to all people.
00:19:28.000So, in the early 1990s, he is a tough-on-crime, hawkish Democrat in the mode of Bill Clinton.
00:19:35.000And then you get to the 2010s and suddenly he's a pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, pro-BLM, anti-police radical.
00:19:45.000And then running against Bernie Sanders, he turns back into a moderate and then he becomes president and he moves back to the left.
00:19:50.000He is just buffeted by the winds inside his own party.
00:19:54.000And because of that, no one likes him.
00:19:56.000It turns out that Joe Biden as president is like that person in your social group who wants to be friends with everybody and is friends with nobody because no one likes them because they're annoying.
00:20:26.000Again, there are a lot of people who I know personally who voted for Joe Biden in the last election cycle who will not be voting for Joe Biden this time.
00:20:32.000Meanwhile, I don't know a single person who voted for Donald Trump in the last election cycle who will not be voting for Donald Trump in this election cycle and with significantly more enthusiasm.
00:20:42.000Donald Trump has not lost votes inside the Republican Party.
00:20:45.000He has picked up some votes from independents.
00:20:54.000And all the talk about how the Trump trial is suddenly gonna sink Trump, nonsense.
00:20:57.000Even if they convict him, it's not gonna mean a thing, because everyone knows that this trial is a setup.
00:21:01.000At least everyone who's of moderate bent.
00:21:04.000The prosecutors can't even explain the crime here.
00:21:06.000They can explain the misdemeanor falsification of business records in New York, but in order to somehow spin this into a felony, they have to connect it into a second crime.
00:21:13.000It has to be a misdemeanor falsification of records in pursuit of a broader crime.
00:21:17.000But they can't name what the broader crime is.
00:21:21.000They suggest that the broader crime is an attempt to shape the outcome of the election, but attempting to shape the outcome of an election isn't actually a crime.
00:21:26.000It would have to be a campaign finance crime, but the federal government investigated federal campaign finance violations by the Trump campaign in 2016, and they came up with nothing and didn't prosecute him.
00:21:39.000It's totally unclear what the charge is even going to be when the charging documents are brought forward here.
00:21:43.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:23:09.000Andrew McCarthy, who's done a good job of covering this stuff over at National Review,
00:23:13.000he says, listening to the prosecution summation by Joshua Steinglass, it is quite amazing
00:23:17.000how explicitly the state is relying on violations of federal election law as the other crime
00:23:22.000that Donald Trump was allegedly concealing by causing his business records to be falsified.
00:23:26.000It's impossible to draw any conclusion other than that the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg knew that, as a state prosecutor, his enforcement of federal law would be incredibly controversial since he has no such authority.
00:23:36.000The federal authorities that do have such authority investigated Trump and opted not to prosecute.
00:23:40.000To get this prosecution done, Bragg is simply making up his own version of federal law.
00:23:46.000Prosecutors hit in the tall grass until summation are now emphatically describing Trump as having blatantly violated federal campaign law.
00:23:52.000But again, the federal government investigated Trump for this and came up with nada.
00:23:59.000Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told jurors Tuesday Trump forged a corrupt bargain with former fixer Michael Cohen and a tabloid publisher to silence negative stories, resulting in one of the most valuable contributions ever made to the Trump campaign.
00:24:09.000He said this scheme, quick to this time, could very well be what got Mr. Trump elected.
00:24:14.000Trump lawyer Todd Blanche, by contrast, argued there was no such conspiracy, and that prosecutors had built their entire case around Michael Cohen, who said that Blanche had lied on the stand.
00:24:26.000He then proceeded to dub Michael Cohen a gloat, or greatest liar of all time.
00:24:34.000And these closing arguments are incredibly weak.
00:24:35.000Even CNN is like, yeah, this is, CNN analysts are like, this is not a real thing.
00:24:40.000Here's CNN legal analyst Randy Zelland.
00:24:43.000He says they did not prove their case.
00:24:45.000They fell way short, because let's start with reasonable doubt.
00:24:48.000There is reasonable doubt all over this case.
00:26:26.000Biden's ex-border chief, Raul Ortiz, he says, you know, Joe Biden never even called.
00:26:32.000He never even called to find out what was going on at the southern border.
00:26:35.000Immigration is an issue that Biden continues to completely ignore.
00:26:38.000It still ranks high on Americans' concerns in terms of general... Again, Biden's issue list is totally different from Americans' issue list.
00:26:46.000Americans' issue list is inflation in the economy, immigration, Those are like the top two issues that Americans say they care about.
00:26:55.000And Joe Biden's top issues are like, how do I please pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn, Michigan by trying to split the baby?
00:27:01.000And can we talk about transing the kids?
00:27:03.000And also, you guys are all wrong about the economy.
00:27:05.000Inflation is fine and you're doing fine.
00:27:07.000Why don't you just shut up and take it?
00:27:27.000But again, Biden keeps having his people just deny his way around his incompetence.
00:27:30.000Here's Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security head, saying it is false to claim that Joe Biden's border policy encourages illegal immigration.
00:27:41.000If we take a look at migration, not just at our southern border, but in context, the level of migration throughout the hemisphere is unprecedented and throughout the world.
00:27:52.000It's the greatest level of displacement of migration since World War II.
00:27:58.000I think there are about 73 million displaced people in the world.
00:28:03.000The reasons why people leave their countries of origin are those with which we are quite familiar.
00:28:12.000Okay, good luck with this particular argument.
00:28:14.000We'll get some more on this in just a moment.
00:29:04.000So, for example, fast food, which a huge number of Americans eat, obviously, and are reliant upon, fast food has grown extraordinarily expensive.
00:29:13.000As townhall.com writes, according to a recent non-probability survey conducted by LendingTree, nearly 80% of American consumers view fast food joints as an extravagant meal.
00:29:22.000In 2019, a McDonald's Big Mac hamburger cost $3.99.
00:29:24.000Four years later, A Big Mac costs $8.29, more than doubling.
00:29:33.000A Subway BLT foot-long sandwich used to cost $5.50.
00:30:09.000He trotted out Amos Hochstein, his energy advisor, to talk about accelerating the energy transition.
00:30:16.000Does the president still want to keep moving forward with the speed of his forced transition as quickly as has been?
00:30:23.000Well, I think what President Biden wants to do is two things at the same time.
00:30:28.000Number one is to accelerate the energy transition.
00:30:31.000And number two is to make sure that we have enough supplies in the energy market that we have lower prices for consumers during this transition.
00:30:41.000Okay, so in other words, yeah, we are going to completely jack the entire energy industry, but we're also going to release oil reserves so as to falsely lower the price just before the election.
00:30:49.000Americans are not going to be fooled by this.
00:30:51.000Then, this same guy, he says, drilling restrictions are somehow good for the American people.
00:30:57.000I know that the common man is sitting around thinking, man, what I could really use right now is more drilling restrictions.
00:31:03.000You know, there are restrictions in place going forward, so why not loosen some of that while we make this transition?
00:31:11.000So Ed, it's very important to note that some of these restrictions that you're citing are good for the American people.
00:31:18.000Increasing the royalties for the first time in decades is a good deal for the American public so that the American people can benefit from this as well.
00:31:28.000Oh, well, yeah, that does seem like the American people are going to benefit.
00:31:30.000You know, more restrictions on the thing that you put in your car.
00:31:33.000Probably we're all going to be super happy with that.
00:31:35.000And the absolute disconnect between the Biden administration and reality, it's complete.
00:31:39.000That break with reality is complete, which is why you get delusional enough to deploy Robert De Niro.
00:31:44.000to the Trump trial to get attention or something.
00:31:47.000Okay, in just a second, we'll get to the latest in the Middle East.
00:31:50.000The media have a really, really bad habit.
00:31:52.000That habit is Hamas says something and the media just believe it, parrot it, trumpet it, echo it for literally days, and then it turns out that, wait, wait for it, wait for it, it turns out the genocidal terror group is lying.
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00:32:57.000Well, meanwhile, again, the Biden administration, they have a tough time because their party is split between people who really, really hate the West and are perfectly willing to believe terrorist groups and or side with them, and people who are a little uncomfortable with that.
00:33:08.000And so the Biden administration, because Joe Biden is incapable of taking a stand on nearly anything, he tries to have it halfway.
00:33:14.000Well, that Reality reared its ugly head yesterday when a White House reporter named Ed O'Keefe idiotically asked John Kirby, who's the spokesperson for the National Security Council, he asked him about an event that happened in Rafah.
00:33:28.000So, there have been multiple events during the course of the Gaza War that Hamas has lied about.
00:33:33.000They lied about the Al Shifa Hospital.
00:33:34.000Then there were the lies about Israel's humanitarian aid.
00:33:36.000Israel has been shipping in literally hundreds of trucks worth of humanitarian aid.
00:33:41.000Then there were the lies about Israel targeting a World Central Food Kitchen convoy, when in reality what happened is that Hamas fighters, apparently, were riding on the convoy.
00:33:50.000That thing went under, like, a covered area.
00:33:52.000And then, when it emerged, Israel tried to get in touch with the drivers, tried to get in touch with the World Central Kitchen.
00:34:04.000And that turned into a worldwide conflagration of rage at Israel.
00:34:08.000Meanwhile, the Americans, the rest of the world community, they started claiming that Israel wasn't allowing enough humanitarian aid, so they built an idiot $320 million pier which is now floating off into the Mediterranean in order to bring aid into Gaza, all of which was hijacked by Hamas.
00:34:23.000So Hamas lies, they lie about their death statistics, they lie about their terrorists, they lie about everything because it turns out people who wish to commit genocidal murder lie all the time.
00:34:33.000So they lied again over the weekend and they suggested that Israel had deliberately targeted a protected humanitarian area in order to kill a couple of Hamas terrorists and that they had killed some 45 people and wounded hundreds of other people with like a heavy bomb.
00:34:46.000It turns out every element, literally every element of that was a lie.
00:35:12.000Our munition alone could not have ignited a fire of this size.
00:35:17.000Our investigation seeks to determine what may have caused such a large fire to ignite.
00:35:24.000We are looking into all possibilities, including the option that weapons stored in a compound next to our target, which we did not know of, may have ignited as a result of the strike.
00:35:40.000What actually happened is the IDF targeted two senior Hamas terrorists that had tracked by aerial surveillance to a Hamas compound in Rafah.
00:35:46.000They then confirmed that there were no women or kids in the compound.
00:35:49.000The strike took place more than a mile outside the al-Mawassi designated humanitarian zone and more than 180 meters, which is like...
00:35:59.000That is more than 500 feet from the shelters that caught fire.
00:36:03.000The strike was carried out using 37-pound warheads, the smallest warheads in the Israeli arsenal.
00:36:08.000So, this lie traveled all around the world.
00:36:10.000Hamas declared, and everybody believed it, that Israel had deliberately bombed a refugee camp in order to kill civilians.
00:36:16.000People, including people who I consider friends, like Piers Morgan, immediately jumped out to suggest that Israel had bombed, with heavy bombs, a humanitarian protected area that Israel must immediately stop in Rafa, which of course led to cheers from Hamas, because it turns out that people believe their lies.
00:36:31.000All the way up to and including that White House reporter, Ed O'Keefe, I mentioned.
00:36:34.000So here was Ed O'Keefe questioning John Kirby about why America wasn't more angry at Israel.
00:36:38.000The answer, of course, is that America knows that Hamas was lying.
00:36:58.000And I kind of take a little offense at the question.
00:37:01.000No civilian casualties is the right number of civilian casualties.
00:37:05.000And this is not something that we've turned a blind eye to, nor has it been something we've ignored or neglected to raise with our Israeli counterparts, including, Ed, this weekend as a result of this particular strike.
00:37:16.000Now, they're investigating it, so let's let them investigate it and see what they come up with.
00:37:22.000By the way, no civilian casualties is an impossibility because Hamas is hiding among civilians and putting weapons storage facilities next to civilian areas.
00:37:31.000But all of this, these sorts of lies from radical Islamic terror groups, they lead to conflagrations all over the globe.
00:37:38.000So last night, pro-Hamas protesters lit up the Israeli embassy in Mexico in response to this lie.
00:37:47.000Meanwhile, at the exact same time all of this is happening, Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian terror group, released a video of an Amazon worker named Alexander Trupanov, who's currently being held hostage in Gaza.
00:37:58.000So just to get this straight, the media believe that these are the believable people, the people who actually kidnap Westerners, Western employees, Israelis, Americans, kidnap those people, murder those people, slaughter their babies deliberately, not as civilian casualties and targeting terrorists, deliberately.
00:38:15.000Those are the people you ought to believe.
00:38:50.000Because what John Kirby, and what he would have said earlier in the war was, every civilian casualty is on Hamas, they should surrender immediately, surrender to the hostages, and the leadership should go to jail, or be killed, or go into exile.
00:39:00.000That would be the actual solution to what's happening right now in the Gaza Strip.
00:39:04.000But they won't say any of that stuff, or at least they don't say it anymore.
00:39:07.000In fact, the White House is even having a hard time condemning the International Criminal Court, which is totally nuts, by the way, because the ICC has targeted Americans.
00:39:15.000Forget about what's going on in Israel.
00:39:16.000The ICC has targeted American soldiers in Afghanistan for supposed prosecution.
00:39:22.000According to Axios, the Biden administration on Tuesday said it opposes sanctions being pushed by Republicans in Congress against the ICC.
00:39:32.000At a Senate hearing last week, Antony Blinken signaled the Biden administration would support bipartisan action in Congress against the prosecutor of the ICC.
00:39:40.000But now the White House is saying, no, no, no, no, no.
00:39:43.000They said they're not going to support any sort of action or legislation against the ICC.
00:40:28.000She literally says the most important goal for Joe Biden is to get Benjamin Netanyahu, the elected prime minister of Israel, who is currently sitting in a coalition war cabinet with his political opponents, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, to resign.
00:40:44.000So just to get this straight, by the way, nothing like this has ever been said about Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine.
00:40:48.000The chief goal of the Americans is to get rid of Vladimir Zelensky so some sort of negotiated solution can be found there.
00:40:54.000When it comes to an actual honest-to-God genocidal terror group, slaughtering people and then hiding among civilians and then murdering the civilians who try to get humanitarian aid, the chief goal is to change the administration in Israel.
00:41:05.000Here's Claire McCaskill, former senator.
00:41:08.000The most important goal, I believe, for this presidency right now is to get Netanyahu to resign.
00:41:16.000And Netanyahu is holding on to power by his fingernails because of the far right, who sees the destruction of Gaza and all areas of any Palestinians in Israel as their goal.
00:41:35.000So if he backs up on them, he cannot be in power anymore because he doesn't have the coalition he needs.
00:41:42.000So I think that Biden has to continue to try to press other people in the Israeli government to move as quickly and as strongly as they can to get Netanyahu out of that position.
00:41:56.000You're literally undermining a Democratic ally in a time of war against a terror group, actually multiple terror groups, because they're also fighting Hezbollah and they're fighting the Houthis.
00:43:56.000I was ready not to vote for Trump until what I saw is, more than politics, I see a weaponization of our justice system and a challenge to our Constitution.
00:44:11.000Us as Americans, I don't think we're going to have.
00:44:14.000And, you know, Trump is the most investigated person probably in the history of the world.
00:44:22.000And they haven't been able to really get him on anything.
00:44:29.000There are a lot of moderates and independents who are starting to believe this sort of stuff because, again, Joe Biden really, really bad at this.
00:44:34.000Well, meanwhile, in the most delicious story of the day, it's always funny when supporters of DEI get caught saying the truth about DEI.
00:44:43.000So, there is a person whose name is David Austin Walsh.
00:44:48.000And David Austin Walsh is an academic and he put out a thread the other day talking about his problem getting hired.
00:44:57.000He says, I just published an academic book that is getting plotted.
00:45:00.000I've written numerous peer-reviewed articles.
00:45:04.000My class has been very popular at every university I've taught at.
00:45:07.000Hell, I had a kid here at Yale try to enroll in my class this past semester because he heard through word of mouth my class at UVA was really good.
00:45:12.000But I'm 35 years old, I'm four plus years post-PhD, and quite frankly, I'm also a white dude.
00:45:17.000Combine those factors together, and I'm for all intents and purposes unemployable as a 20th century American historian.
00:45:23.000I mean, I applied to something like 40 jobs this year, but all four of them were African American and or race ethnicity positions.
00:45:29.000And despite my work explicitly being about white supremacy, I stand no chance of being hired for those positions.
00:45:37.000You're not supposed to say the true thing, which is that it turns out that affirmative action is a zero-sum game, which means that if you are talented and white, you are absolutely screwed if you are up against a slightly less talented black person in academia, for example, because diversity trumps merit every time at these universities.
00:45:54.000But this meant he then had to do a amount of struggle sessions.
00:45:57.000That means that he has to put on the dunce cap and people beat him and such.
00:46:00.000So he says, quote, I want to apologize for that thread, which was a bad idea and came from a place of pain, anger, and frustration.
00:46:07.000It was fundamentally a breach of solidarity on my part.
00:46:12.000We all know that history in particular, and the humanities in general, are dying.
00:46:15.000We all know that the university itself is a profoundly unequal and unfair institution, and we had an object reminder of that with the brutal suppression of the campus protests over the past month.
00:46:23.000We all know the academy is random, cruel, and chaotic.
00:46:35.000So you said the truth about why you didn't get hired, which is that you're a white dude who's 35 plus and talented.
00:46:41.000And then when called on it, you're like, you know why I can't get a job?
00:46:44.000It's because of all the right wingers who run academia.
00:46:46.000It's because of their austerity and corporatization.
00:46:49.000Can we be clear about the situation in college campuses?
00:46:51.000The DEI staff at college campuses has increased exponentially over the course of the last 20 years.
00:46:57.000A huge percentage of top university hires are no longer professors.
00:47:02.000They're administrators who are dealing with all this HRDEI nonsense.
00:47:06.000And then if a professor does get hired, you get all sorts of plaudits if that person happens to be a person of color.
00:47:11.000But this dude has to somehow twist himself into pretzels and stick his head up his own colon in order to come up with the conclusion that this is all a right-wing conspiracy to deny him a job.
00:47:19.000Well, I hope that he suffers an obscure unemployment, this guy.
00:47:23.000Because if you surrender to the mob, And then you declare, like a character from Darkness at Noon, that you are in fact loyal to the same mob that is attempting to destroy you.
00:47:33.000You deserve every single thing that you receive.
00:47:37.000So again, slow clap for David Austin Walsh.
00:47:46.000They'll just take it, put it in their back pocket, say that he's still a traitor of some sort to their cause, and then he will be put in jail for the foreseeable future.
00:47:55.000So, really, really good stuff right there from academia.
00:48:00.000Meanwhile, I will say that pressure on academia is having some effect.
00:48:03.000Harvard now says it will no longer take positions on matters outside the university, which would be like a normal position for a university to take.
00:48:10.000If put into practice, according to the New York Times, Harvard no longer issue official statements of empathy, which it did for Ukraine after the Russian invasion and for the victims of the October 7th Hamas attacks in Israel.
00:48:19.000For example, Well, I mean, actually, what it would mean is that they wouldn't put out expressions of sympathy for Hamas terrorists in conjunction with sympathy for Israeli victims, which is basically what they did.
00:48:32.000Like, we're sorry for everything bad happening in the Middle East right now.
00:48:36.000This would be correct, by the way, is they should stay out of all of it.
00:48:40.000But, you know, I think that what really should happen at this point There should be a serious look into a wealth tax on the endowments of these universities.
00:48:48.000All these universities are very much in favor of a wealth tax, by the way.
00:48:50.000It seems to me you should start with their endowments, their multi-billion dollar endowments.
00:48:55.000And if you want to relieve student loan debt with that, why not use their endowments to do so, since they're the ones who have profited so heavily from their unemployable graduates in gender studies.