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00:00:10.000 Well, folks, we're about to see a market explosion in the Western world if capitalism is re-embraced.

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00:00:28.000 Well, the reality is that in the United States, as in most Western countries, the debt levels are reaching the unsustainable or have already surpassed the unsustainable.

00:00:36.000 The amount of national debt currently carried by the United States is verging on $37 trillion.

00:00:42.000 That means that the interest that we pay on the national debt will soon, if it is not already, exceed the defense budget every single year into the foreseeable future.

00:00:51.000 And most of that debt is driven by welfare programs, means tested welfare programs, badly structured welfare programs, entitlement programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security.

00:01:02.000 All of those programs are the systemic drivers of debt in the Western world.

00:01:06.000 There are only two possible solutions to that, and both have to be applied at once.

00:01:10.000 One is serious restructuring and cuts to spending programs in the United States.

00:01:14.000 And the other is you have to unleash the power of the market so as to be increasing the size of the economy, because if you increase the size of the pie, that means larger tax revenue intake, and that means that you can afford more things on a governmental level.

00:01:28.000 The reason I bring this up is because what we were set for under Joe Biden and under his possible successors was a period of sustained economic stagnation in the United States.

00:01:38.000 Before inflation set in, Joe Biden and his team had put out a prospectus on what American GDP growth would look like over the course of the next decade.

00:01:47.000 And essentially, they forecast it would come in at lower than 2% from here until as far as the eye can see.

00:01:53.000 That is not enough growth to sustain the sort of spending programs that the United States has been undertaking for decades at this point.

00:02:02.000 Something serious needed to change.

00:02:05.000 Well, if you look back in history, what you will see is that very often these sort of ideological precursors to shifts in the United States happen elsewhere.

00:02:13.000 To take an economic example, maybe the most famous economic example, back in the 1970s, Chile was run by a dictator named Pinochet.

00:02:21.000 Pinochet called in a bunch of Supply-side economists from the so-called Chicago School of Economics.

00:02:28.000 They were called the Chicago Boys.

00:02:30.000 They were devotees of Milton Friedman, the libertarian economist.

00:02:33.000 And Milton Friedman was then asked about what happened in Chile because Chile then had outsized rates of growth.

00:02:39.000 Private property rights were re-established in Chile.

00:02:42.000 Tax rates were lowered.

00:02:44.000 A system of law was put in place that eventually led to the downfall of Pinochet himself and the rise of a democratic state in Chile.

00:02:50.000 Here was Milton Friedman talking about it at the time.

00:02:54.000 The real miracle in Chile was not that those economic reforms worked so well.

00:02:59.000 Chile is by all odds the best success story in Latin America today.

00:03:05.000 The real miracle is not that those economic arrangements worked so well, because that's what Adam Smith said.

00:03:12.000 The real miracle is that a military junta was willing to let them do it.

00:03:18.000 See, as I said to begin with, the principles of the military is from the top down.

00:03:23.000 The principle of a market is from the bottom-up.

00:03:25.000 Now it's a real miracle that a military group was willing to let a bottom-up approach take over.

00:03:32.000 But I will say that that process led to a situation in which you were able to get an election which ended the military hunda and you now have a democratic government.

00:03:44.000 You cannot cite any similar example So what exactly happened in Chile?

00:03:53.000 Well, there were effectively three main pillars to what the Chicago boys did in Chile.

00:03:58.000 Economic liberalization, meaning fewer trade barriers, meaning ease of regulation, easier ability to make economic arrangements, privatization of state-owned companies, so gigantic ownership of state-owned companies was then devolved upon private citizens, and finally, stabilization of inflation.

00:04:17.000 Which meant stop spending money and stop printing money in order to keep up with it.

00:04:20.000 Well, we are seeing the same thing happen right now in Argentina.

00:04:24.000 In Argentina, Javier Mille has undertaken one of the great economic reform efforts in modern history, and it is absolutely working.

00:04:32.000 He has brought the inflation rates down from the insane to the manageable, and he has done this over the course of just a few months.

00:04:41.000 According to the Washington Post, Millet himself said what lies ahead in 2025 is more of what we've already done.

00:05:00.000 Strict fiscal balance, no money growth and deregulation.

00:05:03.000 He said Argentina has suffered from an overdose of deficits, money printing and useless regulation.

00:05:08.000 All that needs to go.

00:05:09.000 Now, of course, people on the left are very upset because when you do this sort of stuff, the immediate effect is that if you throw people off the welfare deal, for example, because there's too much spending in welfare, or if you stabilize the currency...

00:05:20.000 What that means very often is that poverty rates in the very near term increase, and then they begin to decline radically, which is exactly, of course, what happened with Chile.

00:05:28.000 And for the moment, Mille remains incredibly popular in Argentina.

00:05:32.000 The reason I bring this up is because what happened in Chile was the precursor to the economic revolution that happened across the Western world thanks to the success in Chile.

00:05:42.000 So that was seen as a model by the Reagan administration, for example.

00:05:44.000 It's why they pursued tax cutting.

00:05:46.000 It's why they pursued deregulation and privatization of state-owned industries.

00:05:49.000 The same thing happened in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. 0.80

00:05:51.000 And what we are watching right now is Those lessons that Milley is pushing applied to the rest of the Western world.

00:05:58.000 That doesn't mean that Trump wouldn't have pursued it in the absence of Milley.

00:06:02.000 It does mean you are watching a wave of economies beginning to recognize that the stagnating pseudo-socialistic policies that are pushed by so many members of the left actually end This is being recognized today by Ishan Tharur, who's a columnist for the Washington Post.

00:06:30.000 Quote, Trump's first term overlapped with that of Brazil's hard red firebrand, former president Jair Bolsonaro.

00:06:50.000 But right now, his most obvious sort of kinship is with Mille.

00:06:55.000 Since taking office in December, he has moved quickly, he has moved radically, slashing public spending, erasing several government ministries, deregulating broad swaths of the economy in Argentina.

00:07:04.000 His zeal has won admirers in Trump world, where Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are keen to follow Mille's example.

00:07:11.000 Ramaswamy has called for Melee-style cuts on steroids.

00:07:14.000 Vivek, of course, is totally right about all of that.

00:07:17.000 Meanwhile, Musk and Melee have a good relationship as well.

00:07:21.000 Melee told the podcaster recently that Musk is, quote, a great fighter for the ideas of freedom.

00:07:25.000 He's helping the world nowadays wake up once and for all and become aware of the socialist virus that in itself makes him a hero in the history of humanity.

00:07:33.000 And this, of course, is also going to open up new relations between the United States and nations in Latin and South America, which is going to be very good for the United States economy because, again, more allies engaged in comparative advantage and trade is better for the United States economy overall.

00:07:49.000 So, what we are watching is a model that has been applied in Argentina where it was in crisis mode, and that means crisis efforts have to be undertaken.

00:07:57.000 If that is even applied in medium scale in the United States, you're about to see a boom unlocked in the United States unlike any in modern American history.

00:08:05.000 That's why it's actually quite important what Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are doing with the so-called Department of Government efficiency.

00:08:11.000 According to The Washington Post, they are currently interviewing job candidates and seeking advice from both experts in Washington and Silicon Valley.

00:08:18.000 Both of them had lobbied for Russell Vaught, Trump's eventual pick, to run the White House budget office.

00:08:23.000 Vaught is excellent.

00:08:24.000 He's very intent on using the power of the executive to cut within the executive branch.

00:08:31.000 Meanwhile, other Musk surrogates from his business empire, including private equity executive Antonio Gracias and Boring Company president Steve Davis, are involved in the planning.

00:08:40.000 Other people involved include Palantir co-founder and investor Joe Lonsdale, who's an excellent investor.

00:08:45.000 He also happens to be one of the leading sponsors of the University of Austin in Texas, which is an attempt to outcompete all of the investors.

00:08:56.000 Again, this makes a lot of sense.

00:09:04.000 You're calling in the best business minds in the nation to take a look at precisely how to restructure the state of American government.

00:09:11.000 And that again is going to unlock tremendous growth.

00:09:14.000 Now part of that is going to be, for example, unchaining Elon Musk's own businesses.

00:09:19.000 One of the ways, one of these sort of chief symptoms of an economy that is overregulated and overrun with people who don't like free markets is the targeting of specific businesses at the top levels of government.

00:09:30.000 One of the things that we have seen with both SpaceX and Tesla is an attempt by the Biden administration to crack down on Elon Musk almost personally.

00:09:37.000 And by the way, that is continuing today in the state of California.

00:09:42.000 Apparently, according to Bloomberg, Gavin Newsom is now pushing EV buyer credits, electric vehicle buyer credits in California.

00:09:51.000 But the guidelines under consideration would leave out Tesla.

00:09:54.000 So it's specifically designed in order to benefit Tesla's competitors.

00:09:59.000 That's how much these people hate Elon Musk.

00:10:01.000 It's almost insane.

00:10:02.000 Gavin Newsom said, quote, it's about creating the market conditions for more of these car makers to take root.

00:10:07.000 So forget about whether people actually would like to buy Teslas in the state of California, which the answer is yes.

00:10:13.000 And Tesla, as Elon Musk points out, is the only one making cars in California.

00:10:17.000 This move hurts jobs in California.

00:10:18.000 It's all about using government to target Musk and to benefit his opponents.

00:10:23.000 And that needs to stop.

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00:12:46.000 Brendan Carr, who's the new head of the FCC, he says that the government has to stop its lawfare against Elon Musk.

00:12:53.000 That type of lawfare is going to end for too long in this government, particularly over the last couple of years.

00:12:59.000 Your last name dictated how the government treated you.

00:13:02.000 If your last name was Soros, well, the commission bent over backwards and gave you a special unprecedented commission level shortcut to buy 200 radio stations.

00:13:09.000 If your last name was Musk, well, then you lost $800 million contracts that you lawfully got.

00:13:14.000 Everybody now is going to get a fair shake going forward.

00:13:16.000 That, of course, is the way that everybody ought to be treated in the market.

00:13:21.000 Everyone ought to get a fair shake and play by the same exact rules.

00:13:25.000 But again, the ire over Musk and his businesses is also driven by the fact that Musk is an agent for free speech.

00:13:31.000 His buying of Axe has completely shattered the entire media complex.

00:13:34.000 You have to understand, the only way that bad economic policy can continue to maintain its dominance in the West is if propagandistic efforts are put out on behalf of that bad economic policy.

00:13:45.000 If you are told, for example, for years on end, that spending of oodles of government money, endless supply of government money, is not going to change the inflation rates, Then you can get away with doing that for quite a while, which is precisely what happened, until eventually the rubber meets the road.

00:14:03.000 Bad economic policy, it doesn't sort of materialize gradually.

00:14:08.000 Bad economic policy is like the guy who jumps off the 99th floor of a building, and at floor 50, somebody shouts to him, how are you doing?

00:14:16.000 And the guy shouts back, so far, so good.

00:14:20.000 It's fine until you hit the ground.

00:14:22.000 The point at which you hit the ground is where the economic policy begins to actually affect Americans.

00:14:26.000 And you saw that under Joe Biden when the inflation finally hit.

00:14:29.000 So it requires bad economic cover-ups by the media in order to make legitimate Economic policies that should fail on the basic logic of them.

00:14:42.000 And this is why the media democratic complex is so dangerous on every scale.

00:14:46.000 It's dangerous in foreign policy, obviously.

00:14:48.000 We've talked about that a lot.

00:14:49.000 We'll talk about it more.

00:14:49.000 It's incredibly dangerous in economic policy.

00:14:52.000 Because when it comes to economic policy, most people don't understand basic economics.

00:14:55.000 Most folks don't understand supply and demand.

00:14:57.000 Most folks believe that the government tinkering in the markets is a generalized good as opposed to a generalized bad.

00:15:03.000 And most people believe that government is there to, quote unquote, solve problems as opposed to the reality, which is that government very often is creating and exacerbating those problems.

00:15:12.000 And this is why I think among the factors that have led to the complete destruction of trust in the media, among those factors is the reality that the media backs the economic play of Barack Obama, which is bad.

00:15:27.000 They backed the economic play of Joe Biden, which was bad.

00:15:29.000 And now the media are fighting for their lives because without this Democrat media human centipede, what are the media?

00:15:36.000 Again, this does not mean that journalism isn't important.

00:15:38.000 Journalism is very important.

00:15:39.000 The point is that the journalistic establishment has utterly defeated itself by making itself subject to the whims of Democratic politicians.

00:15:46.000 They are propagandists for Democrats, and that's why they've blown out their credibility.

00:15:51.000 Jim Vandehe of Axios was fighting mad over this yesterday.

00:15:55.000 So Jim Vandehe did a speech in which he ripped into Elon Musk because Elon Musk suggested that basically the era of the legacy media was over and that they had been replaced.

00:16:06.000 And he was speaking at the National Press Club and he went nuts.

00:16:10.000 This was apparently late last week.

00:16:13.000 Everything we do is under fire.

00:16:15.000 Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today saying, like, we are the media.

00:16:21.000 You are the media.

00:16:23.000 My message to Elon Musk is, you're not the media.

00:16:27.000 You having...

00:16:33.000 You having a blue check mark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter. 0.99

00:16:41.000 Any more than me looking at your head and seeing that you have a brain and telling you I have an awesome set of tools makes me a damn neurosurgeon. 0.92

00:16:48.000 Okay, that's a ridiculous comparison because the reality is that the way you can tell that a neurosurgeon is a neurosurgeon is by the fact that they perform brain surgery regularly and do so successfully. 0.98

00:16:59.000 That would make a good neurosurgeon.

00:17:01.000 Similarly, when it comes to journalism, you don't get a journalism hat that you wear around, like one of those battered hats from the 1930s movies, like the His Girl Friday kind of stuff.

00:17:11.000 You don't get a magical journalism hat that allows you to call yourself a journalist if, in fact, you are just a propagandist.

00:17:17.000 And the reality is that so many of the so-called journalists are propagandists, including some of the folks over at Axios.

00:17:21.000 Barack Ravid, for example, is just a stenographer on behalf of the Biden administration and Jake Sullivan.

00:17:27.000 That's all he does all day long is just take leaks from the Biden administration and then play that as journalism.

00:17:33.000 Journalism theoretically requires you to actually investigate the hard questions and come up with actual answers to those questions.

00:17:39.000 And that's something the media have steadfastly refused to do.

00:17:42.000 And so what that's done is it's created a sort of bizarre dynamic where the media will sometimes report on facts and then they will swathe that in a vast panoply of lies.

00:17:51.000 And then people on social media will pick apart all of those lies.

00:17:56.000 And so there's been this kind of bizarre, parasitical relationship between the media and social media, in which the media report a bunch of bad stuff.

00:18:04.000 And some of it's true, and a lot of it's not.

00:18:06.000 And then social media comes through and filters through all of that and then declares itself the new media.

00:18:10.000 And neither side is completely right.

00:18:12.000 The media are not wrong that very often they're reporting facts.

00:18:14.000 They are wrong that they're not propagandists.

00:18:16.000 And social media is wrong if they say that what they're doing is very often journalism.

00:18:20.000 Very often it's media criticism, which again is incredibly valuable in this arena, but it's not quite.

00:18:27.000 Let me give you an example.

00:18:29.000 So, amazing piece from Colin Wright over at his website, Reality's Last Stand, about the burying of a study on DEI. He says, quote, We're

00:19:03.000 of dollars invested annually in these initiatives, the public has a right to know if such programs, heralded as effective moral solutions to bigotry and hate, might instead be fueling the very problems they claim to solve.

00:19:12.000 The decision to withhold coverage raises serious questions about transparency, editorial independence, and the growing influence of ideological biases in the media.

00:19:19.000 Again, the study basically found that DEI programs are disastrous and make the world a worse place.

00:19:25.000 The New York Times, which has cited this particular think tank's work in nearly 20 previous articles, suddenly demanded this particular research undergo peer review, which they'd never tried before.

00:19:34.000 At Bloomberg, they quashed the story completely outright.

00:19:38.000 Joel Finkelstein, the NCRI researcher leading the study, he says the editorial reversals are as revealing as the data itself.

00:19:45.000 In communications with reporters, he described the findings as, quote, sobering with likely impact for DEI policy, as well as congressional impacts and potentially civil litigation.

00:19:53.000 He said, this seems like an effort to suppress research that challenges prevailing narratives around DEI and worryingly implicates standard practices for egregious harms.

00:20:01.000 And of course, he is totally right about this.

00:20:04.000 And there's nothing new about this.

00:20:06.000 We know, for example, that the media also silenced studies for years on, for example, trans medicine.

00:20:14.000 They refused to report the reality of the failures of puberty blockers.

00:20:21.000 The New York Times itself had to come out and report this.

00:20:24.000 Quote, this is October 23rd.

00:20:26.000 Quote, an influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the charged American political environment.

00:20:35.000 That doctor began a study in 2015 as part of a broader multi-million dollar federal project on transgender youth.

00:20:41.000 The researchers followed children for two years to see if the treatments improved their mental health.

00:20:45.000 The American trial did not find that it improved their mental health.

00:20:49.000 In the nine years since the study was founded, the team did not publish the data.

00:20:54.000 Why?

00:20:55.000 Well, the head of the team said, quote, the findings might fuel the kind of political attacks that have led to the bans of the youth gender movements in more than 20 states.

00:21:02.000 Quote, I do not want our work to be weaponized.

00:21:04.000 She says they buried their own study.

00:21:06.000 And the media are complicit in all this.

00:21:08.000 And then you wonder why there's an entire countervailing media structure.

00:21:11.000 This is why The Daily Wire is important, because we are fighting back against all this.

00:21:14.000 Yes, we have our own investigative reporters, and those people are in direct competition with these so-called reporters at Axios or The New York Times.

00:21:21.000 But we also do engage in media criticism specifically for reasons like this.

00:21:25.000 And understand, without the Democrats' propaganda machine, they could not get away with any of this.

00:21:30.000 With any of this.

00:21:31.000 They thought that the democratic propaganda machine was so powerful that people would simply ignore the reality of their own lives when it came to things like inflation and continue to vote for Democrats.

00:21:42.000 That they would ignore the reality of their own lives on whether boys can be girls.

00:21:46.000 Well, it turns out that reality still exists and bad policy can be covered up for a while.

00:21:52.000 But eventually, the reality of the hard ground meets the face of the bad policy after that policy is launched from a 99 story building, which is what we are watching right now.

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00:23:55.000 And so now, shockingly, they're re-embracing the filibuster.

00:23:58.000 According to the Washington Examiner, Senator Richard Blumenthal says, quote, I'd be lying if I said we'd be in a better position without the filibuster.

00:24:05.000 We have a responsibility to stop autocratic and long-headed abuse of power or policy, and we'll use whatever tools we have available.

00:24:11.000 We're not going to fight this battle with one hand tied behind our back.

00:24:15.000 Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin sees the filibuster as part of the calculation as to how Democrats will spearhead resistance next to Congress.

00:24:23.000 Now again, many of these same senators were ripping on Kyrsten Sinema for refusing to kill the filibuster. 1.00

00:24:29.000 Sinema offered a curt response to Democrats now defending the filibuster.

00:24:32.000 She tweeted, quote, And that, of course, is exactly right.

00:24:37.000 By the way, My business partner, my best friend Jeremy Boring, he has a suggestion for the Congress of the United States under Republican rule.

00:24:44.000 I think it's an excellent suggestion.

00:24:47.000 Essentially, his suggestion is that Senator Thune, when he comes in as the majority leader, when everybody is sworn in in January, he should immediately suggest that the Constitution itself, an amendment be added to enshrine the filibuster permanently in the Constitution of the United States.

00:25:02.000 That offer will expire 18 months from now.

00:25:06.000 And if Democrats don't sign on, at that point, the Republicans blow up the filibuster and do whatever they want to do.

00:25:10.000 Because the point that Jeremy is making, and he's totally right about this, is that Democrats are perfectly willing to destroy the filibuster the minute they get power.

00:25:17.000 Republicans are happy to keep the filibuster all the way through.

00:25:21.000 Well, one side only can't play by the rules.

00:25:24.000 If only one side is playing by the rules, it's not a rule.

00:25:26.000 It's a tool of discrimination.

00:25:28.000 If Republicans are placing upon themselves the self-imposed restriction of the filibuster, which means they require 60 votes to pass serious legislation in the Senate, If they play by those rules, and then Democrats come in with 51 votes and nuke the filibuster, which is what Kamala Harris wanted if she'd become President of the United States, well, if that's the story, and if Democrats now are willing to embrace the filibuster, well, it ought to be permanent for everybody, or it ought to be permanent for nobody.

00:25:53.000 And so the proposal Jeremy makes, and I think, again, Senator Thune should take it up, I think the Republican Senate should take it up immediately, is constitutional amendment to enshrine the filibuster in the federal Constitution of the United States.

00:26:03.000 That offer expires.

00:26:06.000 Within 18 months and 18 months from now, if Democrats are unwilling to go along with the enshrinement of the filibuster in the Constitution, meaning it just becomes a permanent feature of American political life, if they're not willing to do that with a Republican majority, when you know they'll nuke it the minute that they get a majority, then Republicans should nuke it first and then they should do everything they want to do.

00:26:24.000 18 months from now, or a year from now.

00:26:27.000 They should set a deadline.

00:26:27.000 They should get seven Democrats on board.

00:26:29.000 I'm sure you can find seven Democrats who will sign off on this.

00:26:32.000 And then this becomes not an issue every single time a Democratic administration takes over.

00:26:38.000 Because one of the things you have to notice about Democrats when it comes to things like, say, democracy, or rule of law, or the filibuster, or even economic policy, everything is just a tool of power.

00:26:48.000 Everything.

00:26:49.000 It is never a principled opposition to the filibuster or a principled opposition to the electoral college or a principled opposition to anything.

00:26:55.000 Democratic top-level lawmakers and their apparatchiks in the media, it's not about the principle.

00:27:01.000 It's about how they can grab power and then exercise it to the maximum extent possible.

00:27:06.000 Only Republicans in my lifetime have actually believed that institutions matter enough to uphold even at the expense of your agenda.

00:27:15.000 That's a controversial proposition, even in some Republican circles, but it happens to be a much more conservative way of viewing the world, that those institutions are really important because you're going to miss them when they're gone.

00:27:24.000 And meanwhile, speaking of people who wish to blow up the institutions, Democrats continue to suggest that they are going to block President Trump's immigration policy.

00:27:34.000 So, for example...

00:27:37.000 Politico says, Democratic attorneys general are preparing a raft of legal actions to prevent Donald Trump from carrying out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, setting the stage for a series of showdowns over one of his central campaign pledges.

00:27:48.000 In interviews with Politico, six leading blue state prosecutors said they are girding to take Trump to court over misusing military troops on domestic soil, attempting to commandeer local or state law enforcement to do the job of the federal government, and denying people's constitutional right to due process.

00:28:01.000 So, of course, they have every ability to file these lawsuits.

00:28:04.000 They will all end up At the Supreme Court, attorneys general also said they would move to challenge Trump if he tries to federalize the National Guard or attempts to direct active duty military units or National Guard troops from red states into blue states.

00:28:15.000 They're bracing to push back against his administration, sending immigration agents into schools and hospitals to target what they call vulnerable populations.

00:28:23.000 Now, there are some Democrats who are going even further than that.

00:28:27.000 They're not just going to file lawsuits, which of course is well within their purview.

00:28:30.000 That's how the system works.

00:28:31.000 They're pledging that they're going to actively resist.

00:28:33.000 So, for example, Mayor Mike Johnston, who is the far left-wing Democratic mayor of Denver, he is now pledging that he is going to use the city's police department to physically oppose ICE. He then had to backtrack that because after he warned that he was going to use his police forces to actually clash with ICE, use the Denver Police Department to go up against ICE, Tom Homan said, okay, well, that's against the law, and I'm perfectly happy to arrest you.

00:29:00.000 Here was Tom Homan saying that yesterday.

00:29:03.000 Tom, you heard this mayor out there in Colorado.

00:29:09.000 I want to get your reaction to it.

00:29:11.000 And I want you to be clear about who has jurisdiction, the federal government or state and local governments.

00:29:16.000 And if you're a sanctuary state or city, are you breaking the law?

00:29:22.000 Yeah, absolutely breaking law.

00:29:23.000 All you have to do is look at Arizona versus U.S. and you'll see these breaking laws.

00:29:27.000 But look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing.

00:29:29.000 He's willing to go to jail.

00:29:31.000 I'm willing to put him in jail.

00:29:33.000 Because there's a statute, it's Title 8, United States Code 1324, IIII, and what it says is, it's a felony.

00:29:40.000 If you knowingly harbor and conceal illegal alien from immigration authorities.

00:29:45.000 There's also a penalty to impede a federal law enforcement officer.

00:29:47.000 So if we don't want to help, that's fine.

00:29:49.000 He can get the hell out of the way.

00:29:50.000 But we're going to go do the job.

00:29:52.000 President Trump has a mandate for American people.

00:29:54.000 We've got to secure this country.

00:29:55.000 We've got to save American lives.

00:29:57.000 And I find it shocking that any mayor of a city would say, President Trump's been clear.

00:30:01.000 We want to concentrate on public safety threats and national security threats.

00:30:05.000 I find it hard to believe that any mayor or governor would say they don't want public safety threats removed from their neighborhoods.

00:30:10.000 I mean, I don't know what the hell is going on in Denver, but we're going to go and we're going to fix it.

00:30:14.000 If he don't want to fix it, if he don't want to protect his communities, President Trump and ICE will.

00:30:19.000 Again, the Democrats' attempt to overrule the rule of law in favor of their own political preferences, it's going to have some real downstream effects on them politically.

00:30:29.000 Meanwhile, Homan also says that they're going to slash funds to any state that attempts to obstruct deportations.

00:30:36.000 To me, you've got a powerful weapon, among others, which is okay.

00:30:40.000 No federal funds.

00:30:41.000 Boom.

00:30:42.000 Last thoughts.

00:30:43.000 And that's going to happen.

00:30:45.000 I guarantee you, President Trump will do that.

00:30:47.000 President Trump has made it clear.

00:30:48.000 We're going to prioritize public safety threats and national security threats right out of the gate, because they pose the most danger in this country.

00:30:54.000 What governor or mayor doesn't want public safety threats and national security threats out of their neighborhoods, out of their communities?

00:31:02.000 That's your number one responsibility.

00:31:04.000 So you can hate Trump all you want, but you gotta love your community more than you hate President Trump. 0.99

00:31:10.000 Hellman's such a bulldog.

00:31:11.000 Love that guy.

00:31:12.000 He's great.

00:31:13.000 Meanwhile, Democrats, again, they're trying to resist all of this.

00:31:17.000 Democratic Representative Kwasi Mfume of Maryland, he's trying to be clever here on MSNBC. And he says, listen, we don't want the Justice Department to be the just ICE Department.

00:31:26.000 Well, it won't be just ICE, but it's going to be partially enforcing ICE detainers.

00:31:32.000 The first thing is to make sure that to the extent that we can get the nominee for Attorney General on the record through Senate confirmation hearings where they're going to be asked and should be asked tough questions.

00:31:45.000 That's the first thing.

00:31:45.000 I mean, we don't want the Justice Department to turn into the Just Ice Department when it comes to black and brown people and women in this country.

00:31:53.000 Again, if this is the form that your rule of law takes, the Orwellian use of terms like rule of law and democracy to just mean whatever Democrats want it to mean is really bad.

00:32:05.000 And the fact that the media have gone along with this sort of stuff, they've gone on with this Orwellian nonsense for so long is the reason, again, that trust has dropped.

00:32:11.000 We'll get to more on that in a moment.

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00:32:46.000 So, will Democrats break out of this self-created matrix?

00:32:49.000 Or will they simply continue to engage further and further in the Democratic media complex in the hope that they will be able to rescue their bad agenda through the help of a propagandistic media?

00:33:00.000 That's the real question here.

00:33:02.000 And it's an open question.

00:33:03.000 I don't know the answer to it.

00:33:04.000 I'm not sure they know the answer to it.

00:33:06.000 James Carville seems absolutely puzzled.

00:33:08.000 James Carville, again, he was speaking some sense throughout the election cycle, saying that Democrats should not run as insane progressives.

00:33:14.000 It didn't work out for him.

00:33:15.000 Here he is saying, you know, guys, maybe we should lay off all of the politically correct nonsense and, you know, try to win elections from time to time.

00:33:23.000 Back in March, I said that I thought democratic campaign culture had, quote, too many preachy females, unquote. 1.00

00:33:30.000 Well, they all had a conniption.

00:33:32.000 If you looked at the male vote that we got in November, you know, no one since November has come up and said a thing to me.

00:33:40.000 Primarily, we have a large problem with males.

00:33:42.000 And I'm not just talking about white males like you, and I'm talking about males all across.

00:33:48.000 And we need to address that.

00:33:50.000 And we don't need to be shouted down by Washington liberal advocacy groups, the NPR. We've got to say we've got a male problem and we need to get to work on it.

00:34:01.000 Again, he is totally right about this.

00:34:03.000 Will the Democratic Party even allow him to say that?

00:34:06.000 Meanwhile, some of the other Democrats who are rising up against the progressive culture, we'll see how they do.

00:34:11.000 Richie Torres, who is a very pro-Israel and somewhat moderate Democratic office holder, If he's a representative from the Bronx, he is not ruling out a run for governor against fellow Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul.

00:34:22.000 That would be a good indicator that the Democratic Party was starting to re-embrace reality if Torres were able to take out Hochul, for example.

00:34:29.000 In an interview on Wednesday, Torres said he'd made no final decision, but he said that the gains that Donald Trump made in traditionally Democratic New York in this year's election are, quote, a vote of no confidence in the leadership of New York State, which, of course, is exactly right. 0.99

00:34:40.000 Kathy Hochul has a 36% favorability rating among likely voters, 51% unfavorable.

00:34:48.000 In an interview recently with Politico, Torres gave a withering assessment of Hochul.

00:34:53.000 He drew a comparison to Democrats' efforts this summer to pressure Joe Biden to drop his re-elect bid.

00:34:58.000 He said, Now, again, it seems to me that whatever comes next in the Democratic Party, it's going to have to be insurrectionist against the top levels of the Democratic Party.

00:35:19.000 And so there are two ways to read that.

00:35:20.000 One way is that the Democratic Party is old.

00:35:23.000 It's actually moderate.

00:35:24.000 It was Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

00:35:28.000 And actually...

00:35:29.000 If you want to rebel against the Democratic Party, you need an outsider like a Bernie Sanders or an AOC in order to really break all the things.

00:35:35.000 And that person is going to run to success inside a withered husk of the Democratic Party.

00:35:39.000 The other way to read it is that actually the guiding forces of the Democratic Party have been wokeness and intersectional culture.

00:35:45.000 With a thin patina of moderation.

00:35:49.000 And if you actually want to fix the Democratic Party, you need an insurrection from inside the Democratic Party that is moderate in nature.

00:35:55.000 It seems to me that probably the Democratic Party will simply attempt to paper over those differences again.

00:36:00.000 That is the only reason that you are hearing now a rumor that Kamala Harris may come back.

00:36:05.000 I'm not even kidding with you.

00:36:06.000 Politico has an article today titled, Harris is telling her advisors and allies to keep her political options open. 0.88

00:36:12.000 Oh boy.

00:36:13.000 So, you are handed the vice presidency on a platter after running a terrible presidential campaign.

00:36:17.000 You then are handed a presidential nomination where you won zero, count them, zero votes, and then you proceed to raise a billion five and spend all of it in a hundred days, and you lose, and you ain't done yet.

00:36:32.000 And why is anyone looking at Kamala Harris?

00:36:34.000 Because again, who is the person that they look to?

00:36:37.000 The Democratic bench is unbelievably thin.

00:36:39.000 It's Gavin Newsom, who is off-putting, who runs an unsuccessful state, who is generally too progressive for the American people.

00:36:50.000 And it was preaching to boot.

00:36:52.000 It's J.B. Pritzker, who I have no idea why anyone would consider J.B. Pritzker a national candidate.

00:36:56.000 There's nothing, literally nothing about J.B. Pritzker, except for the fact that he can sign himself giant checks that says national candidate about J.B. Pritzker.

00:37:03.000 Gretchen Whitmer committed some of the dumbest campaign blunders I have ever seen in this campaign, including, of course, that bizarre... 1.00

00:37:10.000 The Ritos video. 0.99

00:37:11.000 The communion video. 0.53

00:37:13.000 She's a weirdo. 1.00

00:37:14.000 This is not a good bench. 0.74

00:37:16.000 Democrats may think they have a good bench.

00:37:17.000 They do not have a good bench.

00:37:18.000 And so they might just go back to the well with somebody like Kamala Harris.

00:37:22.000 According to Politico, privately, the vice president has been instructing advisors and allies to keep her options open, whether for a possible 2028 presidential run or even run for governor in her home state of California in two years.

00:37:33.000 She keeps saying over and over, I'm staying in the fight, which, you know, please, I would love it.

00:37:39.000 One former Harris aide said, A person close to Harris said, there will be a desire to hear her voice.

00:37:54.000 There won't be a vacuum for long.

00:37:56.000 Well, no, actually.

00:37:58.000 There is no desire to hear her voice.

00:37:59.000 It's just a sign of the desperation inside the Democratic Party that she is considered a possible frontrunner for something like 2028. What an empty party they are, and what an absolute inability. 0.83

00:38:11.000 Yeah.

00:38:12.000 One of the things about having a dominant media complex that is in your pocket is that it creates a bubble from which you are unable to escape.

00:38:18.000 It makes you uniquely vulnerable.

00:38:19.000 You're basically John Travolta in the Bubble Boy movie.

00:38:23.000 You have a genetic condition that doesn't allow exposure to the regular elements of politics, and you are protected from those elements by the shiny bubble that is the media.

00:38:33.000 And the minute that that bubble collapses, which is what's been happening over the course of the last several years, the minute the bubble collapses, you have no systemic immunity to the normal forces of politics.

00:38:43.000 It's not just that They've been exposed to the normal vacillations of politics, meaning their bad policy and the effects of them.

00:38:49.000 It's also they've been exposed to a new media ecosystem, including people like us here at The Daily Wire.

00:38:54.000 And they don't have any systemic immunity to this.

00:38:56.000 The kind of blowback Democrats have been facing over the course of the last three years is nothing compared to what every single Republican in my lifetime has faced from the legacy media.

00:39:04.000 The difference is Republicans grew up in the darkness.

00:39:08.000 They're like the bane of politics from Dark Knight Rises.

00:39:13.000 They're born in the darkness.

00:39:15.000 They're accustomed to it.

00:39:17.000 Democrats have never experienced this before because of the media. 0.53

00:39:21.000 It's created a systemic lack of immunity for Democrats, and thus they have to keep saying dumb things, and it's going to take a while for them to develop the normal reflexes that you require to succeed in politics.

00:39:33.000 Okay, meanwhile, in international news, NATO's military chief is now calling on business leaders to prepare for what he is calling a wartime scenario.

00:39:40.000 Now, again, this is not a giant shock.

00:39:43.000 Obviously he's going to do that, given the fact that Vladimir Putin is doing a lot of signaling right now.

00:39:48.000 He's threatening a lot of action right now.

00:39:50.000 Here's the NATO military chief, Admiral Robert Bauer, calling on business leaders to prepare for a more wartime scenario with regard to Russia.

00:39:57.000 Business leaders in Europe and America need to realize that the commercial decisions they make have strategic consequences for the security of their nation.

00:40:08.000 Businesses need to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly.

00:40:15.000 Because while it may be the military who wins battles, it's the economies that win wars.

00:40:23.000 Now, again, that point that he is making there is actually a correct point.

00:40:28.000 He's not saying that businesses have to start building bomb shelters.

00:40:31.000 He's saying stop being reliant on opponents of the West if you wish to have a robust economy and a competitive economy with some of the worst people on Earth.

00:40:40.000 That is actually true.

00:40:42.000 Meanwhile, the UK and France are starting to pick up the slack in Ukraine, which is precisely what Donald Trump has actually called for.

00:40:48.000 He's called for Europe to be picking up more of the slack in the Ukraine war.

00:40:50.000 According to Express in the UK, Britain and France are now in talks to send troops to Ukraine to deter Vladimir Putin.

00:40:55.000 They want to create a core of allies in Europe as fears intensified that President Trump could withdraw military support for Ukraine.

00:41:05.000 attacking Ukraine again.

00:41:06.000 And they could train Ukrainian forces similar to how they did before Moscow ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

00:41:11.000 One military source told Le Mans, which is a French newspaper, quote, discussions are underway between the UK and France regarding defense cooperation, particularly with the aim of creating a core of allies in Europe focused on Ukraine and broader European security.

00:41:24.000 And again, I think that this is perfectly normal and probably called for given the fact that any peace agreement is going to have to include some sort of trigger force in Ukraine to prevent Vladimir Putin from going in and restarting this war.

00:41:37.000 So that is the current situation with Ukraine again.

00:41:39.000 Again, I think all of the sort of overblown talk about World War III is about to break out.

00:41:44.000 That's about...

00:41:44.000 No, it isn't.

00:41:45.000 It isn't.

00:41:46.000 What Russia is signaling right now is escalation in order to de-escalate.

00:41:51.000 That's the actual goal.

00:41:52.000 Everyone in this particular region is now looking for an off-ramp because they see Trump coming down the pike.

00:41:57.000 By the way, the fact that Donald Trump is about to come into office is changing calculations in the Middle East as well.

00:42:03.000 So...

00:42:04.000 Yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu's government announced that they would be holding a security cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening to discuss the possibility of a ceasefire with Hezbollah and with the Lebanese government.

00:42:16.000 According to CNN, Netanyahu signaled his potential approval for the emerging ceasefire with Hezbollah during a security consultation with Israeli officials on Sunday night.

00:42:24.000 On Monday, his spokesperson told CNN the Israeli cabinet would vote on the proposed deal on Tuesday, and they said that it is expected to pass.

00:42:32.000 So what exactly is happening here?

00:42:34.000 Obviously, obviously, when it comes to Netanyahu agreeing to a ceasefire, that's because it is a ceasefire, not an end to the war.

00:42:40.000 What is Netanyahu doing here?

00:42:42.000 Well, if this were an end to the war, one thing is very clear.

00:42:45.000 Netanyahu would be calling for Israeli citizens to return to the north.

00:42:47.000 The entire stated goal of the current war with Hezbollah for Israel is to make sure that Israeli citizens can go back to their homes in the north. 0.87

00:42:55.000 A wide swath of the northern border of Israel has been completely depopulated by Hezbollah rockets since effectively October 8th, when Hezbollah started firing hundreds and thousands of rockets into northern Israel in an attempt to kill Israeli civilians.

00:43:08.000 And Israel didn't initiate its actual retaliation in military operations, large-scale military operations, in Lebanon until just October, until last month.

00:43:18.000 So what is Israel doing right here?

00:43:19.000 A few things.

00:43:20.000 One, they're running short on ammunition.

00:43:22.000 that is because of the Biden administration slow walking the ammo.

00:43:25.000 And they know that Joe Biden on his way out the door is going to try to do something to Israel.

00:43:30.000 This is just well within the purview of democratic administrations.

00:43:34.000 Barack Obama on his way out the door allowed the passage of a UN Security Council resolution that effectively declared the most historic parts of Jerusalem to be historic Palestinian territory.

00:43:43.000 I mean, it's an absurdity because Barack Obama, of course, hated Israel.

00:43:45.000 The same thing is true, presumably the Biden administration.

00:43:48.000 You expect to see them deliver some sort of backhanded slap at Israel in an attempt to placate their progressive base. 0.94

00:43:54.000 You have, of course, people like Senator Chris Van Hollen, schmuck that he is, suggesting that he hopes that Joe Biden strong arms Israel. 0.93

00:44:00.000 These are the people that Joe Biden is attempting to placate. 0.96

00:44:03.000 .

00:44:04.000 We've seen this pattern where President Biden makes demands of Prime Minister Netanyahu only to be ignored or slapped down entirely.

00:44:12.000 And then President Biden sends more bombs and more money.

00:44:16.000 That is not an effective use of leverage.

00:44:19.000 So I do hope in these closing months the President will finally make more effective use of American leverage to at the very least uphold American law.

00:44:29.000 To insist that The Netanyahu government allows humanitarian aid into Gaza, and they use our weapons in a manner consistent with the laws of war.

00:44:38.000 Okay, so again, this is the Democratic Party Joe Biden is facing down.

00:44:42.000 Netanyahu and the Israeli government know this, of course.

00:44:44.000 Remember, there's a right-wing coalition in Israel.

00:44:46.000 There are members of the right-wing coalition who are unhappy with this particular agreement.

00:44:49.000 The government isn't going to fall over that.

00:44:51.000 Why?

00:44:52.000 Well, what's happening right now is basically an attempt by Netanyahu to buy time until Trump.

00:44:56.000 That's all this is.

00:44:56.000 It is a 60-day ceasefire.

00:44:58.000 There are currently 57 days, 56 days until Joe Biden leaves office.

00:45:03.000 That number is not a coincidence.

00:45:05.000 A 60-day ceasefire is designed to get Israel beyond the Biden administration.

00:45:09.000 They're counting it down in Israel.

00:45:11.000 They're counting it down because Donald Trump and his administration have already pledged they're not going to withhold the armaments that Israel requires.

00:45:17.000 At that point, Israel will be rearmed. 0.83

00:45:19.000 They will arm up.

00:45:20.000 Hezbollah will certainly not keep by this agreement because they have no intention on keeping by the agreement.

00:45:24.000 They'll start smuggling weapons south of the Latanya River again, at which point Israel will go in and finish the job. 0.91

00:45:30.000 That is what this whole thing is about.

00:45:32.000 It's also about, presumably, trying to create space for some sort of hostage arrangement with Hamas.

00:45:37.000 Why?

00:45:37.000 Because Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, has been attempting this entire war to get other parties to intervene to save it.

00:45:44.000 They've been attempting to get Hezbollah to intervene to save them and distract Israel.

00:45:47.000 Iran to intervene and save them.

00:45:49.000 The Houthis to save them. 0.58

00:45:51.000 Well now, the Houthis, aside from firing an occasional drone into Israel, really are not a serious threat to Israel.

00:45:57.000 The Iranians have fired two rounds of large-scale missiles.

00:46:00.000 They're not going to do that now because they know Trump is coming in.

00:46:03.000 And Israel will have a green light to do things like destroy the nuclear facilities if they do it again. 0.87

00:46:08.000 Hezbollah will be effectively off the table, and that means the space to push Hamas as hard as humanly possible to release the hostages because there's no one coming to save them in the near future. 0.90

00:46:17.000 So there are a bunch of factors here.

00:46:18.000 Lack of weaponry, Biden pressure, and most of all the fact that Donald Trump is coming.

00:46:23.000 Again, the Israeli government is openly saying at this point that this is about a cessation, but it is not a full-scale ceasefire.

00:46:32.000 They are effectively delaying the war until a time where they have a White House that is not going to be oriented toward making concessions to terrorists.

00:46:42.000 So again, this Israeli official says that Israel's freedom to act in Lebanon after the ceasefire is guaranteed by a letter between it and the United States.

00:46:50.000 The IDF will be able to operate not only against those trying to attack Israel, but against Hezbollah's attempt to build up its military power. 0.84

00:46:56.000 And we will act, the official said.

00:46:58.000 Israel decided it had no choice but to accept a ceasefire because they were afraid the U.S. administration would punish Israel with the U.N. Security Council resolution in the final weeks.

00:47:07.000 And they're missing certain capabilities, including 134 D9 bulldozers, according to the official.

00:47:12.000 So, again, it's a tactical move by Israel to take a short respite here.

00:47:19.000 And that is happening because they see Trump coming.

00:47:21.000 If Trump were not coming, Israel would pursue this thing all the way to the end, and they would do it right now with whatever weapons they had.

00:47:27.000 It just goes to show you how the weakness of the Biden administration has led to a more dangerous world.

00:47:32.000 That's the actual story as to what's happening over this particular ceasefire.

00:47:36.000 Alrighty, in just one second...

00:47:38.000 We'll get to what's happening at the International Criminal Court. 0.97

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 26, 2024

The Axis Of CAPITALISM

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