Woke is a foolish idea. Woke kindergarten is a stupid idea. And Woke is teaching kids to be dumb, too. Today, we re talking about Woke Kindergarten and why it s a dumb idea, and how it s going to make our kids perform worse in the public school system, and why we should stop wasting money on it. Today s episode is all about how dumb ideas fail, not how good they are, and what we should do about it. And we re not talking about wokeness, which is the idea that if there is any sort of disparity between group outcomes in American life, that somehow that group disparity is due to discrimination, and the only corrective is reverse discrimination, some form of discrimination that is going to equalize the outcomes of the various groups, then magically, magically, they will perform better. We re talking Wokekindergarten, which has been around for a few years now, and it s been a big flop. And why is it a bad idea at all? Because it s based on a bunch of nonsense, and doesn t reflect reality, and we re going to have to deal with it in the classroom. The problem is, as we all know, that reality is always going to win. So why not teach our kids better? Why not teach them about the radical injustices of the life they lead in the freest country in the history of the world, then they ll perform better in the world they live in? What s the point of all this stuff anyway? You re not going to get better at math or anything else, are you gonna do better at it, right? Let s talk about it, shall you? Today's episode is a rant about it? -- and it's not even better than yesterday's episode of the podcast? If you like what we did, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell us what you think about it in a rating and review us your thoughts on the show! We ll be looking out there! Timestamps: 5:00 - What do you think of this episode? 6: 7:30 - What would you like to see in the future of education? 8:15 - What are you looking for? 9:40 - Is it better than the real world? 11:00 12:00- What is the best way to learn? 13:30 14:20 - What is a good teacher? 15:40 16:10 - How do you feel about the current state of our education system? 17:30- What kind of teacher should be the best teacher in America?
00:00:00.000One of the beauties of life is the simple fact that no matter how stupid things get, reality always wins.
00:00:06.000And in fact, whether we're talking about your personal life or whether we're talking about politics writ broadly, the simple fact of the matter is eventually you are going to run up against reality and reality is going to win.
00:00:18.000So when it comes to bad political ideas, that doesn't mean they can't emerge victorious in the short or even the midterm.
00:00:23.000It does mean that the realities of human nature, the realities of the world surrounding you, Those don't just go away, and eventually those policies will fail dramatically.
00:00:32.000The dumber the policies, the faster they tend to fail.
00:00:35.000It doesn't mean people acknowledge the failure, but it does mean that they fail pretty quickly.
00:00:38.000One of those dumb ideas that has obviously taken center stage of late has been the dumb idea of woke.
00:00:49.000Wokeness is the basic idea that if there is any sort of disparity between group outcome in American life, that somehow that group disparity is due to discrimination.
00:00:58.000And the only corrective is therefore reverse discrimination, some form of discrimination that is going to equalize the outcomes of the various groups.
00:01:05.000And we have seen a wide variety of policies that have been implemented in order to close all of these gaps.
00:01:11.000The quest for cosmic justice, as Thomas Sowell, the great thinker of our time, has put it,
00:01:17.000It is not something that can be solved because the reality is the vast majority of group gaps
00:01:22.000are either inborn or they are the result of culture and environment.
00:01:26.000Because those are all the factors that there are.
00:01:27.000That does not mean that every result is the result of inborn differences.
00:01:31.000For example, differences in outcome intellectually very often are about educational differences
00:01:37.000or cultural differences as opposed to say IQ.
00:01:40.000But, for example, height differentials between particular groups, those are about genetics.
00:01:44.000This sort of stuff happens throughout life.
00:01:46.000And looking at the rationales for why things are different in terms of outcomes between groups is a good way of crafting good policy.
00:01:52.000But we've basically thrown all of that out in favor of stupidity.
00:01:55.000And now we're going to educate our children in this stupidity.
00:01:58.000But the problem is, again, that stupidity does not reflect reality.
00:02:02.000And we are seeing the results of that.
00:02:04.000So, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, a Hayward elementary school struggling to boost low test scores and dismal student attendance is spending $250,000 in federal money for an organization called Woke Kindergarten to train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression, and remove those barriers to learning.
00:02:21.000The Woke Kindergarten Sessions train teachers on concepts and curricula that are available to use in classrooms with any of Glassbrook Elementary's 474 students.
00:02:29.000Those sessions are funded through a federal program meant to help the country's lowest performing schools boost student achievement.
00:02:34.000And again, the basic theory behind this program is that if you just teach kids self-esteem, they will magically become smarter and better performing.
00:02:41.000If you teach them about the radical injustices of the life they lead in the freest country in the history of the world, then magically, they will perform better.
00:02:53.000According, again, to the San Francisco Chronicle, two years into the three-year contract with Woke Kindergarten, a for-profit company, a student achievement at Glassbrook has now fallen, prompting some teachers to question whether the money was well-spent, given the needs of students who are predominantly low-income.
00:03:07.000Two-thirds of the students are English learners.
00:03:44.000They did exactly what they were hired to do, which is to exacerbate the inequities Therefore, to claim that the system itself is broken.
00:03:52.000One of the most amazing things about the nonprofit world, and this is true virtually across the board, is that nonprofits are constantly exacerbating the problems they are supposed to fight so they can raise money to fight those problems.
00:04:01.000This happens all the time in nonprofit land.
00:04:04.000And when you talk about companies like Woke Kindergarten, if all of a sudden achievement rose, Based on, you know, actual metrics of performance, the need for kindergarten would disappear.
00:04:14.000So one of their actual jobs, one of the jobs of, for example, politically motivated people on the left, is to exacerbate inequalities so as to claim inequity.
00:04:25.000Because if at any point those inequalities actually narrowed as a result of freedom and good incentive structures, then what would they do for a living?
00:04:33.000The district pointed to improvements in attendance and suspension rates.
00:04:37.000They said the school is no longer on the state watch list, only to learn from The Chronicle the school was not only still on the list, but also had dropped to a lower level.
00:04:44.000The district official is like, we're doing even better.
00:04:46.000And the crown is like, no, you're not.
00:04:48.000The decision to bring in Woke Kindergarten rather than a more traditional literacy or math improvement program aligns with the belief by some parents and educators that the current education system isn't working for many disadvantaged children.
00:05:00.000The solution, say these advocates, is for educators to confront legacies of racism and bias in schools and to talk about historic white supremacy so students feel safe and supported.
00:05:11.000There's only one problem, which again, is that this is a giant fail.
00:05:15.000So what exactly is in the woke kindergarten curriculum that is failing so dramatically?
00:05:20.000Well, the curriculum includes wonderings, which pose questions for students.
00:05:23.000Questions like, if the United States defunded the Israeli military, how could this money be used to rebuild Palestine?
00:05:29.000That's what you need to ask your first grader.
00:05:32.000I mean, implicit with all of its ridiculous, stupid, immoral assumptions.
00:05:38.000In addition, the woke word of the day includes strike, ceasefire, and protest, offering students, quote, language of the resistance to introduce children to liberatory vocabulary in a way they can easily digest, understand, and most importantly, use in their critiques of the system.
00:05:51.000Now, you have to understand that woke kindergarten is just the stupidest boiling down of what is, in fact, an extraordinary amount of educational theory.
00:06:00.000There is a theorist of education who is very often quoted In these terms, and Paulo Freire, Paulo Freire was talked about by James Lindsay, who we've had on the Sunday special before.
00:06:12.000He was a Brazilian educator who talked about what he called the pedagogy of the oppressed.
00:06:16.000And the basic idea was that you were supposed to inculcate in students, not knowledge or wisdom, or even ways of solving problems.
00:06:24.000You were supposed to impose in students a revolutionary ideology.
00:06:31.000And some of his students, like Jane Thompson, said, quote, there is no such thing as a neutral education process.
00:06:36.000Education either functions as an instrument, which is used to facilitate the integration
00:06:39.000of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it,
00:06:43.000or it becomes a practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically with reality
00:06:48.000and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
00:06:51.000And this is the way that so much of our educational system has been taken over,
00:06:55.000is that it really isn't when we say they're achieving their goal.
00:06:57.000Their goal is not to increase the math scores.
00:06:59.000The goal is not to increase the English scores.
00:07:01.000The goal of these educators is to exacerbate, again, inequities.
00:07:05.000It is to present America as a terrible place that must be overthrown.
00:07:09.000That is the generalized goal of the system.
00:07:11.000So they're actually doing exactly what they were designed to do.
00:07:14.000But the reality is they lead to more failure.
00:07:17.000We'll get to more on this in one second.
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00:08:16.000And again, these are just politically motivated far-left activists who are trying to indoctrinate small kids in the belief that America is a terrible, terrible place with your taxpayer dollars.
00:08:24.000In fact, here is the woke kindergarten founder, a person named Akia Gross, awarded again a $250,000 grant by the federal government, apparently.
00:09:50.000And eventually, parents might realize this, and they might think, hey, you know what would be great is if my kid actually knew how to do math.
00:10:36.000Because, originally, again, these equity fools have been suggesting that because there are disparate outcomes with regard to the SAT, that, for example, black students on average do less well on the SATs than, say, white students.
00:10:49.000And white students do less well on the SATs, by the way, than Asian students.
00:10:53.000Whenever they say that there are group disparities in SAT outcomes, they claim the test itself is racist.
00:10:58.000Which is sort of like saying that just because Jews are, on average, a lot shorter than, say, natives of certain parts of Africa, that must mean that rulers are biased.
00:11:16.000And as it turns out, they are highly predictive of student performance.
00:11:20.000So Dartmouth got rid of it for a while, and it turned out that that was a giant fail.
00:11:23.000They were letting in a bunch of people who were not qualified to actually go through Dartmouth.
00:11:25.000So now they're bringing back the SAT and the ACT.
00:11:28.000The New Hampshire School, according to the Wall Street Journal, said it was making the move based on new research showing that at Ivy League and other highly selected schools, standardized test scores help predict first-year college performance even better than high school grades do, which of course makes perfect sense.
00:11:41.000Because there are a lot of high schools where you're grading on a curve.
00:11:43.000If you go into a crappy high school, it may turn out that an A student at a crappy high school is equivalent to a C student at a really, really good high school.
00:11:50.000But the SAT is the same test that everyone is taking.
00:11:54.000Lee Coffin, the Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid said, quote, I've become less convinced that test-optional is working for us at Dartmouth, reanimating the policy based on evidence.
00:12:03.000He said there were many occasions since the school adopted its test-optional policy in 2020.
00:12:07.000Again, they adopted it in 2020, not as a result of COVID, but as a result of the, quote unquote, social justice protests surrounding the death of George Floyd.
00:12:15.000Because a lifelong criminal and drug addict died and this rejiggered all of American life up to and including whether you need to take an SAT in order to get into Dartmouth.
00:12:26.000He said that there were many occasions since the school adopted its test optional policy when he wished he had one more data point on a student to quote, confirm what we think is a high achieving profile.
00:12:34.000In other words, it turns out that good predictors remain good predictors.
00:12:38.000He said test scores will be especially useful as Dartmouth receives more applications from high schools that are unknown to the admissions office and schools where grade inflation is a concern.
00:12:47.000In fact, the simple fact of the matter is, an excellent way for people who are in bad neighborhoods to get ahead is testing.
00:12:56.000If you're a really smart kid, and you were stuck in a crappy public school, in a bad system, and you didn't perform in that crappy public school and bad system because you were surrounded by bad influences, but you score high on the SAT, that's a great way of overcoming that particular burden, actually.
00:13:10.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:14:20.000So test optional is going to go away at a lot of these schools because again, the lies of equity are lies and they're being shown to be lies.
00:14:27.000Reality is also winning with regard to America's streets.
00:14:32.000So the simple fact of the matter is that eventually we are going to have to make a choice in this country between whether we actually want police officers to be able to do their job or whether we don't want police officers, period.
00:14:42.000There is no third option where police officers are magical dispensers of justice who never make mistakes and everything looks pretty on camera.
00:14:50.000And yet, in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, we decided that basically, cops were the problem.
00:14:55.000And whenever we saw, as civilians, something we didn't like on tape, we were the best adjudicatory body for the behavior of police officers.
00:15:04.000Now, the reality is, the day-to-day life of a police officer is incredibly difficult.
00:15:07.000You wouldn't want to do that job, which is why you're not doing that job.
00:15:10.000All the people on the left who watch a police officer tackle somebody say, oh my gosh, that looks so rough.
00:15:19.000And the reason I ask that is not because cops don't do things wrong.
00:15:22.000There are certain times where cops absolutely do things wrong.
00:15:24.000And when they violate the rules, then obviously there should be punishments for that.
00:15:29.000But instead, what you have typically is people who don't like the fact that the police have to do rough things to rough people in order to maintain the peace.
00:15:37.000And so they yell at the cops every time they see a tape of something that doesn't look like what they would do.
00:15:41.000Because a normal civilian's de-escalation technique is to walk away from a conflict.
00:15:46.000That's normally what de-escalation looks like for those of us who are not members of the police, for example.
00:15:51.000Well, what that's resulting in is people simply walking away from the job of policing.
00:15:56.000The harder we've made it for our police officers, the fewer police officers there are.
00:16:00.000The fewer police officers there are, the more you have cities like Washington, D.C.
00:16:02.000that have been completely taken over by crime.
00:16:06.000And the generalized attitude toward cops, which moved from defund the police, which is way too out there, way too loud, even Democrats ran away from that slogan screaming by late 2020 because of the increase in crime rates, to demoralize the police.
00:16:21.000Demoralize the police remains the way that we now do policing in the United States.
00:16:24.000This is a point being made by Heather McDonald over at City Journal.
00:16:27.000She says on January 30th, the New York City Council passed the How Many Stops Act over the veto of Mayor Eric Adams.
00:16:32.000The law requires New York police officers to fill out a form nearly every time they interact with a civilian.
00:16:37.000If, for example, an officer asks a potential bystander to a shooting, if he had witnessed that shooting, the officer will have to complete a form listing the bystanders' race, sex, and age.
00:16:47.000Are there other potential witnesses in the area who urgently need to be contacted before they disperse?
00:16:51.000Too bad, identity-based paperwork comes first.
00:16:54.000But that act is innocuous compared with California's data collection requirements for police officers.
00:16:58.000New reporting obligations under the Racial and Identity Profiling Act now require California officers to fill out an eight-page form with nearly 200 fields when they make what is known as a custodial stop, meaning the civilian is not free to walk away.
00:17:13.000The form, generated by the California DOJ, comes straight from the Race and Gender Studies classroom.
00:17:17.000The officer first documents whether he, the officer, is a cisgender man, cisgender woman, transgender man, transgender woman, or non-binary person.
00:17:25.000To avoid placing a retrogressive gender straightjacket on the state's public servants, the form also allows an officer to check both non-binary person and cisgender woman, for example.
00:17:35.000The officer must list a sexual identity.
00:17:38.000There's also an extensive officer race or ethnicity section.
00:17:41.000Then, the officer has to document the civilian's perceived sexual orientation, LGB+, or straight heterosexual, and the civilian's perceived gender, cisgender, transgender, or non-binary.
00:17:53.000The discerning officer is allowed to surmise that the person they've stopped is more than one.
00:17:58.000California created this form, as Heather McDonald points out, to gin up anti-police narratives.
00:18:02.000Once an officer's identity profile is merged with that of the person stopped, the possibilities of finding some form of identity oppression are virtually endless.
00:18:08.000While the predictable result of all of this is why the hell would you join up as a cop?
00:18:11.000I've talked to cops all over this country.
00:18:16.000Every police officer that I know in LAPD, I know a bunch of them, is looking to get out as fast as humanly possible, and they are scared to death of being on the streets.
00:18:23.000Not because they're scared of the bad guys, but because they're afraid that if they deal with the bad guys, and there's a bystander with a camera, and they're a bunch of morons watching NBC, that the officer will spend the rest of his life in jail.
00:18:36.000The thing they signed up for is the thing they have been prohibited from doing by the woke.
00:18:41.000Which is why, as of August of last year, the number of officers employed by the LAPD dropped below 9,000.
00:18:47.000That was a staffing level unseen since the 1990s.
00:18:52.000The total number of officers is way too low.
00:18:54.000People are retiring as fast as humanly possible.
00:18:56.000People are taking like half pensions in order to get the hell out.
00:18:59.000The same thing is happening with the NYPD.
00:19:01.000In July 2023, the New York Post reported the number of people interested in taking the NYPD exam is cratering, likely hitting a new low as the city struggles to fill positions left vacant by senior officers leaving in droves.
00:19:13.000The NYPD last July expected 3,000 test takers for the winter exam and 1,300 people signed up.
00:19:20.000So people are not even signing, because why would you sign up for this?
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00:20:51.000They're so desperate for recruits at this point that they are literally telling people that they should sign up to join the cops, even if they have outstanding warrants for misdemeanors.
00:20:59.000If they have an ongoing warrant, like they haven't paid traffic tickets and they've been absconding from paying the traffic tickets, you can still apply.
00:21:04.000Not only that, if you are fat and out of shape and you have no shot at possibly being an effective cop, they still want you.
00:21:17.000Wilson with the Detroit Police Recruiting Unit.
00:21:19.000Today we have this awesome program going on ran by our field recruiters.
00:21:23.000They saw a need as they went out and talked to people and they realized there were things that people were afraid to ask questions about and made them afraid to apply.
00:21:31.000Let's say you have warranted traffic tickets.
00:21:33.000Maybe you don't think you're physically able to complete the physical agility test.
00:21:37.000We have some resources available to you.
00:21:39.000We are partnering with 36th District, Secretary of State, Sir Metro, and our very own DPD FIT program.
00:21:47.000We're gonna clear up your warrants so you can be a cop.
00:22:01.000That's how desperate they are because there just aren't enough people who are willing to join the police force in Detroit and they can't find people to recruit.
00:22:17.000The Chicago Police Department attended a job fair on the city's southwest side today, hoping to combat a mass exodus of city police officers.
00:22:24.000The Chicago Police Department has a little over 1,600 fewer officers than it had in 2019, with 200 of them planning to retire in 2024.
00:22:35.000Sergeant of Community Policing in the 8th District, Matthew Malloy, attended the job fair at West Lawn Park and says the turnover is concerning, but there's many opportunities within the department.
00:22:45.000We do appreciate the veteran officers that have, you know, skills and experience.
00:22:52.000But this is a good opportunity for us to restack the ranks and, you know, the next generation of police can come through.
00:22:57.000Okay, I mean, you're not going to be able to recruit anybody.
00:23:01.000Especially when you're political officers, people like Brandon Johnson, the mayor, when hit with questions about, say, the border or crime, his excuse is, I don't have to do my job.
00:25:06.000You start by running from a police car, then going through cones, running up and down steps, dragging 165 pounds of dead weight, Then crawling on your hands and knees.
00:25:18.000And then one of the hardest parts, the fence.
00:25:21.000And as I learned, don't relax too early, because you may not stick the landing.
00:25:25.000You also identify a mob suspect based on the color shirt.
00:25:31.000And you have to do it all in one minute, 28 seconds.
00:25:34.000There's also an untimed part where you rack and pull the trigger on an unloaded weapon.
00:25:42.000I know it can look a little intimidating with the fence behind me and some of these other steps, but it's totally doable.
00:25:47.000Loftus says most people pass and they give two chances on prospect day and you can come back again.
00:25:53.000Most people pass and you get two chances on prospect day.
00:25:59.000It is incredibly difficult to recruit police officers when you are addicted to woke idiocy.
00:26:03.000It is incredibly difficult to police crime when you've told the police that they can't actually police crime.
00:26:07.000It's incredibly difficult to do education when your chief goal of education is inculcating revolution rather than teaching people how to read and write.
00:26:23.000And the predictable result of that is political failure.
00:26:26.000And that's what you are seeing in terms of Democrats on a national level.
00:26:30.000Now in these cities, many of these cities have basically been cleansed of anything remotely resembling Republican governors.
00:26:34.000There's just not two parties in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C., New York.
00:26:39.000These are all one-party cities at this point.
00:26:42.000And so those cities are gonna meet with even more reality because if they can't get out of the mindset that has stuck them in this cycle of failure, they will continue to fail.
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00:29:07.000And said, you know, how long are you back for?
00:29:18.000And I looked at him, and the Chancellor of Germany said, what would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the paper tomorrow in the London Times?
00:29:30.000And the London Times said, A thousand people break through the House of Commons, break down the doors.
00:29:37.000Two bobbies are killed in order to stop the election of the Prime Minister.
00:30:11.000He has not been with us for quite some time.
00:30:13.000And meanwhile, his backup, another harsh reality for Democrats, is even less popular than Joe Biden is.
00:30:19.000So there's that latest NBC poll, and it showed that Joe Biden's favorability rating is 18 points underwater, 36% favorable, 54% unfavorable.
00:30:27.000There's only one politician in America who is less popular than Joe Biden, and it's his vice president, the person who will take over for him if he dies during his second term, Kamala Harris, who is at 28% favorable and 53% unfavorable.
00:30:52.000For years, the former president has stoked the fires of hate and bigotry and racism and xenophobia for his own power and political gain.
00:31:08.000He accused immigrants of, quote, poisoning the blood of our country.
00:31:15.000And after Neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, he said there were, quote, very fine people on both sides.
00:31:27.000The former president openly talks about his admiration for dictators and has vowed that he will be a dictator on day one.
00:31:40.000As opposed to Joe Biden, who literally said yesterday that the Supreme Court may have blocked him from alleviating student loan aid, but did not stop him.
00:31:52.000But don't worry, the dictator is on the other side again.
00:31:55.000Reality is, these people are unpopular.
00:31:56.000They're unpopular because their governance is bad.
00:31:58.000And reality is starting to set in on pretty much all sides.
00:32:01.000When it comes to illegal immigration, for example.
00:32:03.000Just a few years ago, it was considered totally insane to suggest invasion was happening at our southern border.
00:32:09.000Now, of course, the position of the Democratic Party has shifted because the American people totally understand that there is an invasion at the southern border.
00:32:15.000When I say invasion, I don't mean that the people who are crossing the southern border as illegal immigrants are all seeking to do Americans harm, because that isn't true.
00:32:21.000Many of them are coming here in order to either work or be on welfare or whatever it is.
00:32:25.000That's not the same thing as, say, an invading army.
00:32:28.000But Mexican drug cartels are in control of America's southern border.
00:32:32.000They are facilitating A vast migration wave that constitutes an invasion.
00:32:38.000I have watched Mexican drug cartel drones in American territory.
00:32:41.000I'm not sure what you would call that other than an invasion.
00:32:45.000Even Al Sharpton is now calling it an invasion.
00:32:47.000That's how badly things are going for the Democrats.
00:32:49.000Here's Al Sharpton on MSNBC last night using language direct from Donald Trump.
00:32:53.000You're seeing an influx of migrants all over the country that frankly have people outraged.
00:32:59.000And couldn't there be some kind of public pressure put in the next couple of days in some of these senator states saying, why are you allowing this to continue?
00:33:11.000Because at the end of the day, senators have to deal with their voters and at the same time, In the bill, you give money to Gaza, to civilians in Gaza and Israel.
00:33:23.000But the border, I mean, we're looking every day at the invasion of migrants and they're playing a time game with politics on this?
00:33:32.000What's amazing here is Sharpton admits that there's effectively an invasion at the southern border.
00:33:37.000And you can almost see the Senator Chris Murphy wincing when he says that.
00:33:40.000But he's blaming Republicans for that.
00:33:42.000And that's not going to hunt either, because the reality is Joe Biden could stop this today.
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00:34:50.000We went through it in detail yesterday.
00:34:53.000Andy McCarthy also goes through it in detail over at National Review.
00:34:57.000And as he points out, there are some things about the bill that are better than current law.
00:35:01.000So standards for asylum, for example, have changed.
00:35:04.000They've been a bit strengthened in some areas, including the fact that you now are supposed to show that you don't have the ability to stay at home in your own country and just move areas or live in a country that you pass through in order to come to the United States.
00:35:16.000But again, All of this law depends upon implementation, and that, in the end, is the real problem.
00:35:21.000Joe Biden has demonstrated zero capacity to actually implement the law as written.
00:35:26.000He has plenty of law on the books that would allow him to enforce the law right now.
00:35:32.000And Anne McCarthy says Congress should pressure Biden to use his existing authority to secure the border and end the crisis.
00:35:37.000The most notable thing about the current senatorial proposal is that it would undermine the existing presumptions in the law that illegal aliens should be apprehended, detained, and rapidly removed, and that the United States is not required to provide asylum.
00:35:47.000In other words, the baseline assumption of the bill is that a certain number of people will get asylum, that a certain number of people will be imported into the center of the country, and all the rest.
00:35:55.000The House GOP also issued a statement ripping into the border bill.
00:36:00.000Even Mitch McConnell in the Senate, who originally backed the bill, is now saying he's not going to bring it up for a vote if he has anything to say about it because he doesn't have the votes on the Republican side of the Senate in order to effectuate its passage.
00:36:10.000But the House majority in the House, they say, quote, House Republicans oppose the Senate immigration bill because it fails in every policy area needed to secure our border and would actually incentivize more illegal immigration.
00:36:20.000Among its many flaws, the bill expands work authorizations for illegal aliens while failing to include critical asylum reforms.
00:36:26.000Even worse, its language allows illegals to be released from physical custody, and that would effectively endorse the Biden catch and release policy.
00:36:32.000The so-called shutdown authority in the bill is anything but, riddled with loopholes that grant far too much discretionary authority to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:36:39.000The bill also fails to adequately stop the president's abuse of parole authority and provides for taxpayer funds to fly in house illegal immigrants in hotels through the FEMA Shelter and Services Program.
00:36:49.000In other words, why doesn't Joe Biden just do his job?
00:36:52.000That is essentially what the House GOP is saying.
00:36:54.000And the protestations by Democrats that Joe Biden needs more authority, those are falling on deaf ears because they aren't true.
00:37:00.000Here's Chris Murphy trying to do that routine, the senator from Connecticut.
00:37:04.000Do you think that President Biden should just try to take this issue away from the Republicans, who seem to be playing politics with it, and use every bit of his executive authority to address the border crisis on his own?
00:37:16.000Say, basically, won't pass the legislation?
00:37:25.000The president can't do this by himself.
00:37:27.000The president doesn't have the legal authority without additional legislation to control the border and fix the broken asylum system in the way that needs to be done.
00:37:38.000And this is part of the fiction that gets perpetuated on the American public by Republicans.
00:37:43.000Now, they wanted to pass border legislation last year.
00:37:46.000In fact, It was so important to them in the House of Representatives that they named it H.R.
00:37:50.000It was the second bill they introduced.
00:37:52.000But as soon as it became clear that bipartisan border reform legislation might pass, Republicans in the House started screaming, no, the president doesn't need any new laws.
00:38:07.000On the laws, not only does he have the authority, he is required, for example, to have ICE deport people who are in the country illegally, and he's not doing any of that.
00:38:15.000He's not interested in doing any of that.
00:38:17.000The American public knows this, and the reality is going to be very harsh for Joe Biden on that issue.
00:38:22.000Speaking of which, eventually reality is going to set in with regard to the economy as well.
00:38:25.000So right now, we've sort of been floating above the economic repercussions for having spent more money than God has ever seen.
00:38:33.000Jerome Powell, the Fed Chair, he says that they have to be careful about rate cuts at this point, considering that the economy continues to truly chug.
00:38:43.000We have good employment right now, very, very good employment numbers.
00:38:46.000Wages are finally starting to rise, as opposed to inflation.
00:38:50.000And so one of the things he's worried about is injecting more money into the system.
00:38:53.000But one of the things he's pointing out is that the future obstacle to growth is not going to be How do you assess the national debt?
00:38:59.000rates right now. The biggest obstacle to growth is going to be the fact that government is going to
00:39:03.000eat up more and more of the private sector earnings in the United States, and that's going to have to
00:39:06.000be made up somewhere. Here was Fed Chair Powell saying the United States is on an unsustainable
00:39:10.000fiscal path. So for all the happy talk that we've been hearing about the economy, the reality is the
00:39:15.000long-term fiscal future of the United States eventually will hit reality as well. How do you
00:39:19.000assess the national debt? We mostly try very hard not to comment on fiscal policy and, you know,
00:39:27.000know instruct Congress on how to do their job when actually they have
00:39:48.000If you think that you can outgrow the debt, not at the rates that we are racking up debt.
00:39:52.000But meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to dare reality to clock him.
00:39:56.000So yesterday, for example, he was bragging about his attempts to go around a Supreme Court order telling him he cannot unilaterally relieve student loan debt.
00:40:04.000And he says, the Supreme Court blocked me, but didn't stop me.
00:40:06.000The Supreme Court announced it has blocked me, but they didn't stop me.
00:40:13.000Again, we used to call that dictatorial type language.
00:40:16.000They blocked me, but they didn't stop me.
00:40:18.000They literally told you not to do the thing and then you went and you did the thing.
00:40:21.000That's an amazing statement by Joe Biden.
00:40:23.000He's unilaterally raising the debt at this point.
00:40:26.000Eventually there will be consequences because eventually there are always consequences.
00:40:29.000The same holds true in the Middle East as well.
00:40:32.000Joe Biden has sent an extraordinary level of mixed signals.
00:40:34.000On the one hand, he will unleash American strikes on 80 separate targets simultaneously hit.
00:40:39.000On the other hand, he will then tell Israel that Israel has to stop With regard to what it's doing with Hezbollah in the north, that Israel has to be kinder to Hamas, that what we really need to pursue as the United States is that we really need to pursue a two-state solution that incentivizes Islamic terrorism.
00:40:53.000Those mixed signals are being taken as weakness by all of the parties that hate the United States.
00:40:59.000Right now, if Joe Biden actively wanted to stop potential conflict from broadening in the Middle East, what he needs to do is say that America is a wall.
00:41:06.000That America is not going to allow this to broaden into a larger conflict in the Middle East.
00:41:10.000That if Hezbollah does not, for example, move north of a river that they are bound by international law to move north of, That if that zone in the south of Lebanon is not demilitarized, the United States is going to fund Israel to the extent that Israel will be able to basically destroy Hezbollah where it stands.
00:41:25.000That's what the United States should be doing if they want to prevent further war.
00:41:28.000Right now, the biggest problem the United States has is it is not a credible actor in the Middle East.
00:41:32.000There's no credible threat from the United States.
00:41:35.000Calling up America's enemies and warning them about potential strikes is not exactly set to create a deep quaking and trembling in the Iranian regime.
00:41:45.000Now the White House is realizing that they're trying to walk it back.
00:41:48.000So there were reports before a set of strikes about a week ago that the U.S.
00:41:52.000had warned the Iraqi government, which is effectively run by Iran, that American strikes were forthcoming.
00:41:58.000is saying that it did not directly notify the Iraqi government American forces would strike inside the country on Friday, contrary to an earlier White House statement.
00:42:05.000forces conducted airstrikes against Iranian militants in Iraq and Syria on Friday as retaliation for the killing of three U.S.
00:42:11.000soldiers in Jordan by Iranian proxy groups.
00:42:13.000On Monday, State Department Spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters that there was not pre-notification and that the U.S.
00:42:19.000informed the Iraqis immediately after the strikes.
00:42:21.000The Iraqi government, quote, understood there would be a response after the deaths of our soldiers, but that contradicted what the National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said in a call on Friday, where he said, quote, we did inform the Iraqi government prior to the strikes occurring.
00:42:42.000I believe that the Biden administration is basically warning the Iranians to get their people out of harm's way, which is leading the Iranians to think, OK, we can push Joe Biden pretty much as far as we want to push.
00:42:52.000And in fact, the strikes against American targets have not ceased at any point.
00:42:56.000Here's the Pentagon press secretary, Major General Patrick Ryder, confirming yesterday that there have been continued drone attacks on American targets.
00:43:03.000In terms of attacks in Iraq and Syria since we took these strikes on Friday, I'm actually only tracking two incidents.
00:43:11.000There was one attack on Saturday, February the 3rd.
00:43:16.000That was two rockets that were fired at MSS Euphrates in Syria with no injuries or damage reported.
00:43:24.000And then I'm aware of one yesterday, February 4th.
00:43:27.000This was a one-way attack drone that landed several kilometers from MSS Green Village.
00:43:34.000Also, in Syria, again, no reported U.S.
00:43:36.000injuries or damage to those facilities.
00:43:38.000Hey, so again, it turns out the reality exists in the Middle East and
00:43:43.000weakness will be met with aggression from the Iranians.
00:44:29.000Reality is going to set in the Middle East too, because again, the attempts to pick away at American might in the Middle East, to pick away at freedom of trade in the Red Sea, those will continue.
00:44:41.000Those are not going to stop so long as Joe Biden continues to show the American neck.
00:44:45.000Now, meanwhile, Secretary of State Tony Blinken arrived in the Middle East on Monday in the hopes of preventing escalating tit-for-tat attacks with Iran-backed militias from spiraling into a broader regional war.
00:44:55.000Now, again, you know what's the way to do that?
00:44:57.000When tit-for-tat should be tit-for-hellfire missile.
00:45:01.000They hit America with a drone and we blow away Qasem Soleimani.
00:45:05.000That should be the way that America deals with threats because Iran does not want war more than the United States.
00:45:21.000Trying to wrap all of this into a ball and then claim that if Israel makes concessions to the Palestinians, magically everything is going to fix itself is absurd.
00:45:29.000Hamas literally rejected another ceasefire yesterday.
00:45:32.000Hamas is currently holding over a hundred hostages still and they're using those hostages as bait to get Israel to leave Hamas in place to the delight of Iran.
00:45:42.000In his conversation with Mohammed bin Salman, Blinken stressed the importance of addressing the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
00:45:48.000More than 27,000 Palestinians have been killed there since October 7th, according to the Gazan Health Ministry.
00:45:53.000Nearly 2 million people have been displaced by the fighting.
00:45:55.000But the reality is, do you think the Saudis care deeply about what's going on in the Gaza Strip?
00:45:59.000The only thing the Saudis care about, actually, is the destruction of Hamas.
00:46:02.000The Saudis have very little... If the Saudis cared deeply about what was going on in Gaza, don't you think they'd be offering a little more humanitarian aid?
00:46:08.000Don't you think that they would be offering, say, exit visas to anyone who wants to leave the Gaza Strip in the middle of this war?
00:46:12.000They're not doing any of those things.
00:46:15.000The Saudis were perfectly willing to sign on the dotted line with Israel the day Biden took office, and then he proceeded to alienate the Saudis in favor of trying to bring the Iranians into the fold.
00:46:23.000Foolishness has consequences, always and forever.
00:46:26.000Now, I've said before that not only does reality always win, but I root for reality, and that's true.
00:46:31.000I do root for reality because the faster people see reality, the faster we can get to actual policy-based solutions to the problems we face.
00:46:39.000When it comes to crime, it turns out that yelling at the cops is not going to fix crime.
00:46:42.000When it comes to education, it turns out that teaching students idiocy about equity is not going to fix the problem.
00:46:49.000When it comes to immigration, it turns out That political machinations in which you leave the border open while claiming the other side somehow doesn't care enough?