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00:00:28.000Well, 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.
00:00:36.000The amount of national debt currently carried by the United States is verging on $37 trillion.
00:00:42.000That 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.
00:00:51.000And most of that debt is driven by welfare programs, means tested welfare programs, badly structured welfare programs, entitlement programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security.
00:01:02.000All of those programs are the systemic drivers of debt in the Western world.
00:01:06.000There are only two possible solutions to that, and both have to be applied at once.
00:01:10.000One is serious restructuring and cuts to spending programs in the United States.
00:01:14.000And 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.
00:01:28.000The 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.
00:01:38.000Before 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.
00:01:47.000And essentially, they forecast it would come in at lower than 2% from here until as far as the eye can see.
00:01:53.000That is not enough growth to sustain the sort of spending programs that the United States has been undertaking for decades at this point.
00:02:05.000Well, 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.
00:02:13.000To take an economic example, maybe the most famous economic example, back in the 1970s, Chile was run by a dictator named Pinochet.
00:02:21.000Pinochet called in a bunch of Supply-side economists from the so-called Chicago School of Economics.
00:02:44.000A 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.
00:02:50.000Here was Milton Friedman talking about it at the time.
00:02:54.000The real miracle in Chile was not that those economic reforms worked so well.
00:02:59.000Chile is by all odds the best success story in Latin America today.
00:03:05.000The real miracle is not that those economic arrangements worked so well, because that's what Adam Smith said.
00:03:12.000The real miracle is that a military junta was willing to let them do it.
00:03:18.000See, as I said to begin with, the principles of the military is from the top down.
00:03:23.000The principle of a market is from the bottom-up.
00:03:25.000Now it's a real miracle that a military group was willing to let a bottom-up approach take over.
00:03:32.000But 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.
00:03:44.000You cannot cite any similar example So what exactly happened in Chile?
00:03:53.000Well, there were effectively three main pillars to what the Chicago boys did in Chile.
00:03:58.000Economic 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.
00:04:17.000Which meant stop spending money and stop printing money in order to keep up with it.
00:04:20.000Well, we are seeing the same thing happen right now in Argentina.
00:04:24.000In Argentina, Javier Mille has undertaken one of the great economic reform efforts in modern history, and it is absolutely working.
00:04:32.000He 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.
00:04:41.000According to the Washington Post, Millet himself said what lies ahead in 2025 is more of what we've already done.
00:05:00.000Strict fiscal balance, no money growth and deregulation.
00:05:03.000He said Argentina has suffered from an overdose of deficits, money printing and useless regulation.
00:05:09.000Now, 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...
00:05:20.000What 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.
00:05:28.000And for the moment, Mille remains incredibly popular in Argentina.
00:05:32.000The 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.
00:05:42.000So that was seen as a model by the Reagan administration, for example.
00:05:46.000It's why they pursued deregulation and privatization of state-owned industries.
00:05:49.000The same thing happened in Margaret Thatcher's Britain.
00:05:51.000And what we are watching right now is Those lessons that Milley is pushing applied to the rest of the Western world.
00:05:58.000That doesn't mean that Trump wouldn't have pursued it in the absence of Milley.
00:06:02.000It 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.
00:06:30.000Quote, Trump's first term overlapped with that of Brazil's hard red firebrand, former president Jair Bolsonaro.
00:06:50.000But right now, his most obvious sort of kinship is with Mille.
00:06:55.000Since 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.
00:07:04.000His zeal has won admirers in Trump world, where Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are keen to follow Mille's example.
00:07:11.000Ramaswamy has called for Melee-style cuts on steroids.
00:07:14.000Vivek, of course, is totally right about all of that.
00:07:17.000Meanwhile, Musk and Melee have a good relationship as well.
00:07:21.000Melee told the podcaster recently that Musk is, quote, a great fighter for the ideas of freedom.
00:07:25.000He'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.
00:07:33.000And 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.
00:07:49.000So, 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.
00:07:57.000If 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.
00:08:05.000That's why it's actually quite important what Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are doing with the so-called Department of Government efficiency.
00:08:11.000According to The Washington Post, they are currently interviewing job candidates and seeking advice from both experts in Washington and Silicon Valley.
00:08:18.000Both of them had lobbied for Russell Vaught, Trump's eventual pick, to run the White House budget office.
00:08:24.000He's very intent on using the power of the executive to cut within the executive branch.
00:08:31.000Meanwhile, other Musk surrogates from his business empire, including private equity executive Antonio Gracias and Boring Company president Steve Davis, are involved in the planning.
00:08:40.000Other people involved include Palantir co-founder and investor Joe Lonsdale, who's an excellent investor.
00:08:45.000He 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.
00:09:04.000You're calling in the best business minds in the nation to take a look at precisely how to restructure the state of American government.
00:09:11.000And that again is going to unlock tremendous growth.
00:09:14.000Now part of that is going to be, for example, unchaining Elon Musk's own businesses.
00:09:19.000One 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.
00:09:30.000One 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.
00:09:37.000And by the way, that is continuing today in the state of California.
00:09:42.000Apparently, according to Bloomberg, Gavin Newsom is now pushing EV buyer credits, electric vehicle buyer credits in California.
00:09:51.000But the guidelines under consideration would leave out Tesla.
00:09:54.000So it's specifically designed in order to benefit Tesla's competitors.
00:09:59.000That's how much these people hate Elon Musk.
00:10:32.000Every time, for example, you give your money to one of the major businesses, very often that money may be going to some sort of cause you don't actually support.
00:10:39.000Well, Pure Talk, my cell phone company, supports veterans.
00:10:42.000They're leading the fight against woke corporations.
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00:12:46.000Brendan Carr, who's the new head of the FCC, he says that the government has to stop its lawfare against Elon Musk.
00:12:53.000That type of lawfare is going to end for too long in this government, particularly over the last couple of years.
00:12:59.000Your last name dictated how the government treated you.
00:13:02.000If 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.
00:13:09.000If your last name was Musk, well, then you lost $800 million contracts that you lawfully got.
00:13:14.000Everybody now is going to get a fair shake going forward.
00:13:16.000That, of course, is the way that everybody ought to be treated in the market.
00:13:21.000Everyone ought to get a fair shake and play by the same exact rules.
00:13:25.000But again, the ire over Musk and his businesses is also driven by the fact that Musk is an agent for free speech.
00:13:31.000His buying of Axe has completely shattered the entire media complex.
00:13:34.000You 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.
00:13:45.000If 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.
00:14:03.000Bad economic policy, it doesn't sort of materialize gradually.
00:14:08.000Bad 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?
00:14:16.000And the guy shouts back, so far, so good.
00:14:22.000The point at which you hit the ground is where the economic policy begins to actually affect Americans.
00:14:26.000And you saw that under Joe Biden when the inflation finally hit.
00:14:29.000So 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.
00:14:42.000And this is why the media democratic complex is so dangerous on every scale.
00:14:46.000It's dangerous in foreign policy, obviously.
00:14:49.000It's incredibly dangerous in economic policy.
00:14:52.000Because when it comes to economic policy, most people don't understand basic economics.
00:14:55.000Most folks don't understand supply and demand.
00:14:57.000Most folks believe that the government tinkering in the markets is a generalized good as opposed to a generalized bad.
00:15:03.000And 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.
00:15:12.000And 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.
00:15:27.000They backed the economic play of Joe Biden, which was bad.
00:15:29.000And now the media are fighting for their lives because without this Democrat media human centipede, what are the media?
00:15:36.000Again, this does not mean that journalism isn't important.
00:15:39.000The point is that the journalistic establishment has utterly defeated itself by making itself subject to the whims of Democratic politicians.
00:15:46.000They are propagandists for Democrats, and that's why they've blown out their credibility.
00:15:51.000Jim Vandehe of Axios was fighting mad over this yesterday.
00:15:55.000So 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.
00:16:06.000And he was speaking at the National Press Club and he went nuts.
00:16:33.000You having a blue check mark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter.
00:16:41.000Any 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.
00:16:48.000Okay, 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.
00:17:01.000Similarly, 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.
00:17:11.000You don't get a magical journalism hat that allows you to call yourself a journalist if, in fact, you are just a propagandist.
00:17:17.000And the reality is that so many of the so-called journalists are propagandists, including some of the folks over at Axios.
00:17:21.000Barack Ravid, for example, is just a stenographer on behalf of the Biden administration and Jake Sullivan.
00:17:27.000That's all he does all day long is just take leaks from the Biden administration and then play that as journalism.
00:17:33.000Journalism theoretically requires you to actually investigate the hard questions and come up with actual answers to those questions.
00:17:39.000And that's something the media have steadfastly refused to do.
00:17:42.000And 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.
00:17:51.000And then people on social media will pick apart all of those lies.
00:17:56.000And 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.
00:18:04.000And some of it's true, and a lot of it's not.
00:18:06.000And then social media comes through and filters through all of that and then declares itself the new media.
00:18:29.000So, 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
00:19:03.000of 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.
00:19:12.000The decision to withhold coverage raises serious questions about transparency, editorial independence, and the growing influence of ideological biases in the media.
00:19:19.000Again, the study basically found that DEI programs are disastrous and make the world a worse place.
00:19:25.000The 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.
00:19:34.000At Bloomberg, they quashed the story completely outright.
00:19:38.000Joel Finkelstein, the NCRI researcher leading the study, he says the editorial reversals are as revealing as the data itself.
00:19:45.000In 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.
00:19:53.000He said, this seems like an effort to suppress research that challenges prevailing narratives around DEI and worryingly implicates standard practices for egregious harms.
00:20:01.000And of course, he is totally right about this.
00:20:26.000Quote, 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.
00:20:35.000That doctor began a study in 2015 as part of a broader multi-million dollar federal project on transgender youth.
00:20:41.000The researchers followed children for two years to see if the treatments improved their mental health.
00:20:45.000The American trial did not find that it improved their mental health.
00:20:49.000In the nine years since the study was founded, the team did not publish the data.
00:20:55.000Well, 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.
00:21:02.000Quote, I do not want our work to be weaponized.
00:21:06.000And the media are complicit in all this.
00:21:08.000And then you wonder why there's an entire countervailing media structure.
00:21:11.000This is why The Daily Wire is important, because we are fighting back against all this.
00:21:14.000Yes, 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.
00:21:21.000But we also do engage in media criticism specifically for reasons like this.
00:21:25.000And understand, without the Democrats' propaganda machine, they could not get away with any of this.
00:21:31.000They 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.
00:21:42.000That they would ignore the reality of their own lives on whether boys can be girls.
00:21:46.000Well, it turns out that reality still exists and bad policy can be covered up for a while.
00:21:52.000But 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.
00:22:02.000Democratic policy is bad, and that means that eventually it's going to hit reality.
00:22:07.000Too many babies in the womb are losing their lives.
00:22:10.000The radical left keeps saying that being pro-life is somehow being anti-woman.
00:22:14.000The left wants you to believe that killing babies is health care and that infanticide is reproductive freedom, which is morally ridiculous.
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00:23:46.000Meanwhile, Democrats are freaking out, obviously, about the Trump administration.
00:23:51.000They're freaking out about what happens next with the Trump administration.
00:23:55.000And so now, shockingly, they're re-embracing the filibuster.
00:23:58.000According 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.
00:24:05.000We have a responsibility to stop autocratic and long-headed abuse of power or policy, and we'll use whatever tools we have available.
00:24:11.000We're not going to fight this battle with one hand tied behind our back.
00:24:15.000Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin sees the filibuster as part of the calculation as to how Democrats will spearhead resistance next to Congress.
00:24:23.000Now again, many of these same senators were ripping on Kyrsten Sinema for refusing to kill the filibuster.
00:24:29.000Sinema offered a curt response to Democrats now defending the filibuster.
00:24:32.000She tweeted, quote, And that, of course, is exactly right.
00:24:37.000By the way, My business partner, my best friend Jeremy Boring, he has a suggestion for the Congress of the United States under Republican rule.
00:24:47.000Essentially, 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.
00:25:02.000That offer will expire 18 months from now.
00:25:06.000And if Democrats don't sign on, at that point, the Republicans blow up the filibuster and do whatever they want to do.
00:25:10.000Because 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.
00:25:17.000Republicans are happy to keep the filibuster all the way through.
00:25:21.000Well, one side only can't play by the rules.
00:25:24.000If only one side is playing by the rules, it's not a rule.
00:25:28.000If 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.
00:25:53.000And 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.
00:26:06.000Within 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.
00:26:24.00018 months from now, or a year from now.
00:26:27.000They should get seven Democrats on board.
00:26:29.000I'm sure you can find seven Democrats who will sign off on this.
00:26:32.000And then this becomes not an issue every single time a Democratic administration takes over.
00:26:38.000Because 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.
00:26:49.000It is never a principled opposition to the filibuster or a principled opposition to the electoral college or a principled opposition to anything.
00:26:55.000Democratic top-level lawmakers and their apparatchiks in the media, it's not about the principle.
00:27:01.000It's about how they can grab power and then exercise it to the maximum extent possible.
00:27:06.000Only Republicans in my lifetime have actually believed that institutions matter enough to uphold even at the expense of your agenda.
00:27:15.000That'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.
00:27:24.000And 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.
00:27:37.000Politico 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.
00:27:48.000In 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.
00:28:01.000So, of course, they have every ability to file these lawsuits.
00:28:04.000They 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.
00:28:15.000They're bracing to push back against his administration, sending immigration agents into schools and hospitals to target what they call vulnerable populations.
00:28:23.000Now, there are some Democrats who are going even further than that.
00:28:27.000They're not just going to file lawsuits, which of course is well within their purview.
00:28:31.000They're pledging that they're going to actively resist.
00:28:33.000So, 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.
00:29:00.000Here was Tom Homan saying that yesterday.
00:29:03.000Tom, you heard this mayor out there in Colorado.
00:29:57.000And I find it shocking that any mayor of a city would say, President Trump's been clear.
00:30:01.000We want to concentrate on public safety threats and national security threats.
00:30:05.000I find it hard to believe that any mayor or governor would say they don't want public safety threats removed from their neighborhoods.
00:30:10.000I 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.
00:30:14.000If he don't want to fix it, if he don't want to protect his communities, President Trump and ICE will.
00:30:19.000Again, 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.
00:30:29.000Meanwhile, Homan also says that they're going to slash funds to any state that attempts to obstruct deportations.
00:30:36.000To me, you've got a powerful weapon, among others, which is okay.
00:30:48.000We'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.
00:30:54.000What governor or mayor doesn't want public safety threats and national security threats out of their neighborhoods, out of their communities?
00:31:02.000That's your number one responsibility.
00:31:04.000So you can hate Trump all you want, but you gotta love your community more than you hate President Trump.
00:31:13.000Meanwhile, Democrats, again, they're trying to resist all of this.
00:31:17.000Democratic 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.
00:31:26.000Well, it won't be just ICE, but it's going to be partially enforcing ICE detainers.
00:31:32.000The 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.
00:31:45.000I 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.
00:31:53.000Again, 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.
00:32:05.000And 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.
00:32:11.000We'll get to more on that in a moment.
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00:32:46.000So, will Democrats break out of this self-created matrix?
00:32:49.000Or 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?
00:33:08.000James Carville, again, he was speaking some sense throughout the election cycle, saying that Democrats should not run as insane progressives.
00:33:15.000Here 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.
00:33:23.000Back in March, I said that I thought democratic campaign culture had, quote, too many preachy females, unquote.
00:33:50.000And 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.
00:34:01.000Again, he is totally right about this.
00:34:03.000Will the Democratic Party even allow him to say that?
00:34:06.000Meanwhile, some of the other Democrats who are rising up against the progressive culture, we'll see how they do.
00:34:11.000Richie 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.
00:34:22.000That 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.
00:34:29.000In 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.
00:34:40.000Kathy Hochul has a 36% favorability rating among likely voters, 51% unfavorable.
00:34:48.000In an interview recently with Politico, Torres gave a withering assessment of Hochul.
00:34:53.000He drew a comparison to Democrats' efforts this summer to pressure Joe Biden to drop his re-elect bid.
00:34:58.000He 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.
00:35:19.000And so there are two ways to read that.
00:35:20.000One way is that the Democratic Party is old.
00:35:29.000If 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.
00:35:35.000And that person is going to run to success inside a withered husk of the Democratic Party.
00:35:39.000The other way to read it is that actually the guiding forces of the Democratic Party have been wokeness and intersectional culture.
00:35:49.000And if you actually want to fix the Democratic Party, you need an insurrection from inside the Democratic Party that is moderate in nature.
00:35:55.000It seems to me that probably the Democratic Party will simply attempt to paper over those differences again.
00:36:00.000That is the only reason that you are hearing now a rumor that Kamala Harris may come back.
00:36:13.000So, you are handed the vice presidency on a platter after running a terrible presidential campaign.
00:36:17.000You 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.
00:36:32.000And why is anyone looking at Kamala Harris?
00:36:34.000Because again, who is the person that they look to?
00:36:37.000The Democratic bench is unbelievably thin.
00:36:39.000It's Gavin Newsom, who is off-putting, who runs an unsuccessful state, who is generally too progressive for the American people.
00:36:52.000It's J.B. Pritzker, who I have no idea why anyone would consider J.B. Pritzker a national candidate.
00:36:56.000There'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.
00:37:03.000Gretchen Whitmer committed some of the dumbest campaign blunders I have ever seen in this campaign, including, of course, that bizarre...
00:37:18.000And so they might just go back to the well with somebody like Kamala Harris.
00:37:22.000According 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.
00:37:33.000She keeps saying over and over, I'm staying in the fight, which, you know, please, I would love it.
00:37:39.000One former Harris aide said, A person close to Harris said, there will be a desire to hear her voice.
00:37:59.000It'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.
00:38:12.000One 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.
00:38:19.000You're basically John Travolta in the Bubble Boy movie.
00:38:23.000You 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.
00:38:33.000And 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.
00:38:43.000It's not just that They've been exposed to the normal vacillations of politics, meaning their bad policy and the effects of them.
00:38:49.000It's also they've been exposed to a new media ecosystem, including people like us here at The Daily Wire.
00:38:54.000And they don't have any systemic immunity to this.
00:38:56.000The 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.
00:39:04.000The difference is Republicans grew up in the darkness.
00:39:08.000They're like the bane of politics from Dark Knight Rises.
00:39:17.000Democrats have never experienced this before because of the media.
00:39:21.000It'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.
00:39:33.000Okay, meanwhile, in international news, NATO's military chief is now calling on business leaders to prepare for what he is calling a wartime scenario.
00:39:40.000Now, again, this is not a giant shock.
00:39:43.000Obviously he's going to do that, given the fact that Vladimir Putin is doing a lot of signaling right now.
00:39:48.000He's threatening a lot of action right now.
00:39:50.000Here's the NATO military chief, Admiral Robert Bauer, calling on business leaders to prepare for a more wartime scenario with regard to Russia.
00:39:57.000Business leaders in Europe and America need to realize that the commercial decisions they make have strategic consequences for the security of their nation.
00:40:08.000Businesses need to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly.
00:40:15.000Because while it may be the military who wins battles, it's the economies that win wars.
00:40:23.000Now, again, that point that he is making there is actually a correct point.
00:40:28.000He's not saying that businesses have to start building bomb shelters.
00:40:31.000He'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.
00:41:06.000And they could train Ukrainian forces similar to how they did before Moscow ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
00:41:11.000One 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.
00:41:24.000And 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.
00:41:37.000So that is the current situation with Ukraine again.
00:41:39.000Again, I think all of the sort of overblown talk about World War III is about to break out.
00:42:04.000Yesterday, 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.
00:42:16.000According to CNN, Netanyahu signaled his potential approval for the emerging ceasefire with Hezbollah during a security consultation with Israeli officials on Sunday night.
00:42:24.000On 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.
00:42:42.000Well, if this were an end to the war, one thing is very clear.
00:42:45.000Netanyahu would be calling for Israeli citizens to return to the north.
00:42:47.000The 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.
00:42:55.000A 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.
00:43:08.000And Israel didn't initiate its actual retaliation in military operations, large-scale military operations, in Lebanon until just October, until last month.
00:43:20.000One, they're running short on ammunition.
00:43:22.000that is because of the Biden administration slow walking the ammo.
00:43:25.000And they know that Joe Biden on his way out the door is going to try to do something to Israel.
00:43:30.000This is just well within the purview of democratic administrations.
00:43:34.000Barack 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.
00:43:43.000I mean, it's an absurdity because Barack Obama, of course, hated Israel.
00:43:45.000The same thing is true, presumably the Biden administration.
00:43:48.000You expect to see them deliver some sort of backhanded slap at Israel in an attempt to placate their progressive base.
00:43:54.000You have, of course, people like Senator Chris Van Hollen, schmuck that he is, suggesting that he hopes that Joe Biden strong arms Israel.
00:44:00.000These are the people that Joe Biden is attempting to placate.
00:44:04.000We've seen this pattern where President Biden makes demands of Prime Minister Netanyahu only to be ignored or slapped down entirely.
00:44:12.000And then President Biden sends more bombs and more money.
00:44:16.000That is not an effective use of leverage.
00:44:19.000So 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.
00:44:29.000To insist that The Netanyahu government allows humanitarian aid into Gaza, and they use our weapons in a manner consistent with the laws of war.
00:44:38.000Okay, so again, this is the Democratic Party Joe Biden is facing down.
00:44:42.000Netanyahu and the Israeli government know this, of course.
00:44:44.000Remember, there's a right-wing coalition in Israel.
00:44:46.000There are members of the right-wing coalition who are unhappy with this particular agreement.
00:44:49.000The government isn't going to fall over that.
00:45:11.000They're counting it down because Donald Trump and his administration have already pledged they're not going to withhold the armaments that Israel requires.
00:45:17.000At that point, Israel will be rearmed.
00:45:51.000Well now, the Houthis, aside from firing an occasional drone into Israel, really are not a serious threat to Israel.
00:45:57.000The Iranians have fired two rounds of large-scale missiles.
00:46:00.000They're not going to do that now because they know Trump is coming in.
00:46:03.000And Israel will have a green light to do things like destroy the nuclear facilities if they do it again.
00:46:08.000Hezbollah 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.
00:46:18.000Lack of weaponry, Biden pressure, and most of all the fact that Donald Trump is coming.
00:46:23.000Again, the Israeli government is openly saying at this point that this is about a cessation, but it is not a full-scale ceasefire.
00:46:32.000They 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.
00:46:42.000So 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.
00:46:50.000The 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.
00:46:58.000Israel 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.
00:47:07.000And they're missing certain capabilities, including 134 D9 bulldozers, according to the official.
00:47:12.000So, again, it's a tactical move by Israel to take a short respite here.
00:47:19.000And that is happening because they see Trump coming.
00:47:21.000If 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.
00:47:27.000It just goes to show you how the weakness of the Biden administration has led to a more dangerous world.
00:47:32.000That's the actual story as to what's happening over this particular ceasefire.