The Ben Shapiro Show - October 26, 2023


The Evil of "Queers For Palestine"

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A mass shooting in Maine leaves at least 22 dead and over 60 injured. Gunman was released from a mental health facility and is now on the loose. Meanwhile, on campus, there are anti-American protests by Queers for Palestine. Why do they exist and where do they come from? Is it related to their anti-West agenda? And what does it have to do with radical leftist author Frantz Fanon and his call for violence and decolonization? And why is it that on campus there is such a thing as a "Queer for Palestine" group? And where does it come from, exactly? And how does it relate to anti-colonialism and anti-Westernism? All of these questions and more are answered in today's episode of the podcast, hosted by John Rocha and Matt Knost, and brought to you by LaCie. . Subscribe to our new podcast, The Anthropology Project, wherever you get your podcasts, to get notified when we deconstruct the latest news and discuss the most interesting topics in culture, politics, culture, and pop culture. Produced in Baltimore, MD. Subscribe today using our podcast s RSS feed! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Become a supporter of our new sponsor, Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts and become a supporter by becoming a patron! Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast! Thank you for supporting our new episodes in iTunes and leave us a review on your favorite streaming platform! Music by Ian Dorsch Music by Skynet by Crackle and the Electric Lighthearted Libra We'll be looking out for your thoughts and reviews on this podcast in the next episode of this week's next episode on the latest issue of The Vagrant on Sunday, November 15th, 2019, coming out on Tuesday, November 19th, 2020, by The Wretched of the Earth Podcasts by The Wards of the Wretched Of The Earth by John Fennessey Thank You! by Alyssa Grauso Thanks for listening to this podcast? , John Ferell & the Wounded by the Wards Of The Nation and The Warshaw - in this podcast by , and , and "The Wretched is @ at 2019,

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00:00:00.000 Well folks we begin with some terrible breaking news today.
00:00:03.000 A massacre has now occurred in Maine.
00:00:05.000 The gunman, we don't mention the name of the mass shooters on this show, but the gunman had been committed to a mental hospital after hearing voices apparently and then he was set free.
00:00:15.000 So once again we have a situation with a mass shooting where presumably law-abiding gun owners will now be blamed.
00:00:19.000 It'll be an attempt, widespread attempt, by members of the media, by members of our political class to take guns away from the law-abiding Because they didn't take a gun away from somebody who literally was not supposed to have a gun.
00:00:30.000 Apparently, according to the UK Daily Mail, this person who grappled with mental health issues recently reported hearing voices and threatening to shoot up the military base where he served.
00:00:38.000 He was committed to a mental health facility over the summer for a couple of weeks.
00:00:42.000 He also had a criminal background check.
00:00:45.000 In 2007, he was charged with a misdemeanor offense for DUI.
00:00:49.000 He was found guilty of that as well.
00:00:52.000 He was forced to pay a $500 fine.
00:00:53.000 He spent 48 hours in a cell.
00:00:56.000 It is not clear where exactly he is politically at this point.
00:01:02.000 I mean people are gonna try and link it to his politics because in March he liked a social media post from Donald Trump Jr.
00:01:09.000 and he posted some memes from March talking about how How gun ownership was not the problem.
00:01:16.000 He liked a post by Dinesh D'Souza at one point that talks about how banning assault weapons was a bad idea.
00:01:21.000 This obviously was a person with mental illness, and I'm not saying that because it serves a particular agenda, but just because that happens to be the fact.
00:01:30.000 That was, by the way, the notice that was put out by the main information and analysis center, that's law enforcement over there, calling for his capture.
00:01:37.000 While he was still at large, they put out a notice saying, quote, According to law enforcement, the shooter recently reported mental health issues, including hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard base in Saco, Maine.
00:01:49.000 This person was reported to have been committed to a mental health facility.
00:01:51.000 The person is a trained firearms instructor and army reservist stationed out of that particular city.
00:01:57.000 Apparently, he opened fire at two separate locations, killing at least 22 people and injuring over 60.
00:02:04.000 So we'll bring you the latest on that as it continues to develop.
00:02:08.000 And meanwhile, big question has arrived in American politics at this point, and that is, why is it that on campus there is such a thing as, like, Queers for Palestine?
00:02:16.000 Where is that coming from?
00:02:17.000 They hate America and they hate the West.
00:02:19.000 That is the common thread uniting radical college students with terrorist members of Hamas.
00:02:24.000 It's why we see marches by Queers for Palestine, despite the fact that queers would be summarily murdered in any Palestine. 0.99
00:02:31.000 Their differences don't matter. 0.95
00:02:32.000 They are, in the words of radical revolutionary author Frantz Fanon, the wretched of the earth, rising up to smite the hierarchies of power.
00:02:39.000 In 1961, Frantz Fanon, a black radical member of the Algerian National Liberation Front, put forth a shockingly violent treatise calling for the revolution of the colonized.
00:02:48.000 Pointing out the evils of colonial administration, Fanon didn't merely call for an end to colonialism a la Gandhi.
00:02:53.000 Instead, he called for violence, which he saw as purifying in all of its varied forms.
00:02:58.000 His book, The Wretched of the Earth, posited that revolutionary violence would usher in the new man, free of the evils of the West.
00:03:04.000 Decolonization, he wrote, is always a violent event.
00:03:08.000 Decolonization, he wrote, which sets out to change the order of the world, is clearly an agenda for total disorder.
00:03:13.000 In its bare reality, Fanon wrote, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives.
00:03:18.000 Violence, disorder, bloody knives.
00:03:21.000 That's the essence of Fanon's decolonization.
00:03:23.000 The colonized must take everything from the colonizers in the name of restoring himself as a human being. 0.98
00:03:29.000 Fenno writes, quote, The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonists
00:03:33.000 sector is a look of lust, a look of envy, dreams of possession, every type of possession, of sitting
00:03:37.000 at the colonists table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is
00:03:42.000 an envious man.
00:03:43.000 Colonialism, he says, justifies any response.
00:03:46.000 In fact, it requires any response.
00:03:49.000 The West must be destroyed for the West has colonized.
00:03:51.000 Quote, when the colonized hear a speech on Western culture, they draw their machetes or at least check to see they are close at hand, Fanon says.
00:03:58.000 Such a sort of colonial power was at least somewhat understandable in Algeria, but Fanon wasn't making the case for revolutionary violence merely in Algeria.
00:04:05.000 He was actually making the case for revolutionary violence pretty much everywhere.
00:04:08.000 The person who made that clear was existentialist and Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre, the French intellectual.
00:04:13.000 Sartre's introduction to Fanon's Wretched of the Earth makes the case not only that the colonized have an ultimate right to violence, but that the entire West must be collapsed from within for its great sins. 0.55
00:04:22.000 Violence, says Sartre, quote, is man reconstructing himself.
00:04:26.000 Killing a European is killing two birds with one stone, eliminating in one go oppressor and oppressed, leaving one man dead and the other man free. 0.72
00:04:34.000 And the only honorable thing for the West to do is join in on its cultural suicide. 0.97
00:04:37.000 Quote, you who are so liberal, so humane, who take the love of culture to the point
00:04:41.000 of affectation, you pretend to forget that you have colonies where massacres are committed
00:04:45.000 in your name.
00:04:46.000 Sartre writes, Fanon reveals to his comrades, especially to those who remain a little too
00:04:50.000 westernized, the solidarity of the metropolitans with their colonial agents.
00:04:54.000 Sartre says that he has carried Fanon's, quote, dialectic through to its conclusion.
00:04:59.000 We too, peoples of Europe, we are being decolonized, meaning the colonist inside every one of us is surgically extracted in a bloody operation.
00:05:06.000 We must all recognize that we are complicit in, quote, a 1,000-year-old oppression.
00:05:11.000 Our beloved values are losing their features.
00:05:13.000 If you take a closer look, there's not one that isn't tainted with blood.
00:05:16.000 So, how do we recover?
00:05:17.000 By joining in on the violence against our own civilization.
00:05:20.000 Violence, says Sartre, like Achilles' spear, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.
00:05:25.000 So, who can we tell who our enemies are?
00:05:27.000 Well, we simply attack the powerful.
00:05:29.000 The colonizers are the powerful.
00:05:30.000 The colonized are the powerless. 1.00
00:05:32.000 Therefore, the powerful must be colonizers, and the powerless, their victims.
00:05:36.000 This is Sartre's logic.
00:05:38.000 This is, for example, how Israel, the ultimate case of decolonization across human history, after the return of a native population to its homeland and its battle to throw off the shackles of the British Mandate, became today's hottest, quote, decolonization cause. 0.62
00:05:50.000 Sartre's radical call has been taken up sporadically both at home and abroad.
00:05:53.000 As critical theorist Homi Bhabha points out, in his foreword to Fanon's book, the Black Panthers found inspiration in Fanon.
00:05:59.000 So did the Iranian revolutionaries, who ended with the rise of the mullahs.
00:06:02.000 Those revolutionaries transmuted Fanon's distinction between oppressor and oppressed into a distinction between the arrogant and the weakened, translating Fanon's Marxist-tinged radicalism into radical Islamism. 0.98
00:06:13.000 But the coalition of Fanon's Wretched of the Earth could not materialize until the generation of Sartre came to full maturity, until the institutions of the West poisoned themselves slowly with the imbecilic suicidality of weakness. 0.64
00:06:26.000 The West remained strong enough to fend off the radical alliance when it faced down the Soviet Union, but then it couldn't stand up for itself, and so it began to fall.
00:06:33.000 Fast forward 60 years from Sartre, and Sartre's radicalism has now become a mass movement, a movement uniting Hamas and campus radicals, the far left, and the terrorists.
00:06:42.000 Cornel West, the black Marxist radical, calls Fanon, quote, the greatest revolutionary intellectual of the mid-20th century.
00:06:47.000 According to West, he compels us to acknowledge colonialism is a sustained barbaric war waged against colonized people sanctioned by Western values.
00:06:54.000 What's more, colonialism, says West, is not a far-from-home problem.
00:06:58.000 It means the West must be demolished.
00:07:00.000 For Fanon, West says, revolutionary internationalism, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism,
00:07:05.000 anti-patriarchalism, anti-white supremacy yields a new humanism that puts a premium
00:07:10.000 on the psychic, social and political needs of poor and working peoples,
00:07:13.000 a solidarity and universality from below.
00:07:16.000 West explains, quote, in our present day moment of imperial decay
00:07:19.000 and capitalist decrepitude, the spirit of Fanon is most manifest
00:07:22.000 in any American imperialist context in the revolutionary internationalist wings
00:07:26.000 of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Palestinian Lives Matter movement
00:07:29.000 aligned with the boycott, divestment and sanctions effort.
00:07:33.000 The coalition is now complete.
00:07:35.000 The alliance of the supposedly marginalized march together, arm in arm, toward the destruction of the West, and in particular, the United States. 0.96
00:07:41.000 After all, the United States, even according to Fanon in 1961, had become the chief colonizer thanks to its power.
00:07:47.000 Quote, two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe.
00:07:51.000 It succeeded so well that the United States became a monster in which the taints, the sickness, the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions. 0.77
00:07:57.000 Unquote.
00:07:58.000 The alliance to destroy the West spans the globe.
00:08:01.000 And it's right here at home, too, threatening everything we stand for.
00:08:04.000 If decolonization is merely a code word for attacking the powerful and the systems that supposedly sustain them, then queers for Palestine begins to make a lot of sense. 0.98
00:08:13.000 That's why the same people caterwalling over the use of the wrong pronoun will celebrate the burning of babies in the Gaza envelope. 0.69
00:08:19.000 As Washington Post writer Karen Atia recently retweeted after the slaughter of 1,500 Jewish civilians, quote, What did y'all think decolonization meant?
00:08:26.000 Papers?
00:08:26.000 Vibes?
00:08:27.000 Essays? 1.00
00:08:28.000 Losers. 1.00
00:08:29.000 She might be evil, but she isn't wrong. 0.99
00:08:32.000 In just one second, we'll get to the latest from our college campuses, where again, this coalition of funnels, supposedly wretched of the earth, rises.
00:08:39.000 Again, we'll get to that momentarily first.
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00:09:49.000 Okay, so as I'm mentioning, the evils on college campus have become incredibly pronounced.
00:09:55.000 They span from the student body to the administration.
00:09:58.000 Last night, students at Cooper Union in New York, Jewish students, were actually trapped inside a building, in a room, and the police wouldn't allow them to leave.
00:10:06.000 Now, I've been in a situation like this before, personally, when I spoke at Cal State University Los Angeles back in 2015, 2016.
00:10:12.000 I remember that we were actually locked in the auditorium because there were people outside who were Nearly rioting and they were attempting to beat up people attempting to get into the room.
00:10:21.000 The police actually had to shut down the room and they wouldn't let anybody out because they were afraid that that nobody would be able to be protected.
00:10:26.000 It was the same story at Cooper Union last night.
00:10:28.000 Here's some film of students at Cooper Union stuck in the library as pro-Hamas protesters
00:10:32.000 pounded on the door.
00:10:41.000 And the people outside are chanting free Palestine, but then trying to ban it. 0.66
00:10:44.000 bang it open the doors to to apparently get at the Jews. So again, anti-Zionism rearing its ugly head 0.98
00:10:48.000 as anti-Semitism. Over at the University of Washington Seattle, they held themselves a
00:10:53.000 pro-Hamas rally where they extolled the virtues of people who murder Jews.
00:10:57.000 We know that sometimes there are Zionist pro-Israel counter-protests at these actions
00:11:05.000 and if you see them you don't have to engage with them. We're doing our best to de-escalate them,
00:11:11.000 to move them away.
00:11:12.000 We don't want Israel to exist. 1.00
00:11:14.000 We don't want these Zionist counter-protesters to exist.
00:11:17.000 We can't control that.
00:11:18.000 What we can control is ourselves.
00:11:20.000 We can choose to focus on our demands today.
00:11:23.000 We want you to cut ties with weapons companies.
00:11:26.000 You'd have to condemn the attacks against Palestinian students.
00:11:30.000 I mean, they're just saying the thing, right?
00:11:31.000 We don't want Israel to exist. 1.00
00:11:32.000 We don't want these people to exist.
00:11:34.000 Well, I mean, saying the quiet part out loud is par for the course around here.
00:11:38.000 Over at Princeton, people were shouting, long live the Intifada.
00:11:41.000 The Intifada is a violent uprising.
00:11:43.000 I mean, that's what an Intifada is.
00:11:44.000 So they're not just calling for a two-state solution.
00:11:47.000 That is a lie.
00:11:48.000 Anybody who says, long live the Intifada, what they mean is violent attacks on civilians.
00:11:52.000 That's what the Intifada is.
00:11:54.000 Protesters in Princeton doing this again.
00:11:55.000 Again, these are America's top universities.
00:11:57.000 Long live the intifada!
00:11:59.000 Intifada! Intifada!
00:12:01.000 Long live the intifada!
00:12:03.000 Intifada! Intifada!
00:12:05.000 Long live the intifada!
00:12:07.000 Justice is our command, there is no peace on stolen land!
00:12:11.000 Justice is our command, there is no peace on stolen land!
00:12:15.000 Over at George Washington University, students the other night decided they would project
00:12:19.000 pro-Hamas slogans onto the walls of various buildings.
00:12:24.000 One said, free Palestine from the river to the sea, which of course is a call for genocide.
00:12:28.000 It is one of the slogans of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Palestinian Authority.
00:12:32.000 The river to the sea would be the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. 0.98
00:12:34.000 That means the extermination of every Jew in that region. 0.99
00:12:36.000 This was projected on the walls over George Washington. 0.95
00:12:38.000 Just in case they weren't clear enough, they also projected the slogan, glory to our martyrs. 0.98
00:12:42.000 Their martyrs would be, you know, members of Hamas who are raping children so hard that they broke their pelvises. 0.94
00:12:47.000 That's from medical reports on the ground over there. 0.96
00:12:51.000 These are the genius students who either are on a student visa, which means we should expel them.
00:12:56.000 If you have a student visa and you're in the United States, this does not give you the right to be a terror supporter.
00:13:02.000 We have no obligation to extend our hand open to you as Americans if you support terror groups.
00:13:07.000 None at all.
00:13:08.000 You should leave and you should leave forthwith. 0.96
00:13:10.000 You should go hang out with your terrorist buddies elsewhere. 0.97
00:13:14.000 It's absolutely insane that universities have become this.
00:13:20.000 The George Washington University administration, they put out a statement in the aftermath of this.
00:13:29.000 Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that has now been banned in the state of Florida for supporting terrorism.
00:13:33.000 Students for Justice in Palestine claims credit for all of this.
00:13:37.000 They also put out a statement saying, quote, These events have only reaffirmed what every Palestinian knows deeply.
00:13:42.000 We will see a liberated Palestine within our lifetime.
00:13:44.000 The settler colony will fall.
00:13:45.000 Our land will be liberated.
00:13:46.000 We will return to our homes again.
00:13:47.000 Palestine will be free from the river to the sea. 0.98
00:13:49.000 Again, there you see that language of Fanon.
00:13:50.000 The settler colony.
00:13:52.000 The settler colony. 0.99
00:13:53.000 And again, everybody sort of understands why radical Islamists want to destroy Israel and kill the Jews. 0.96
00:13:58.000 The question has always been, why queers for Palestine? 1.00
00:14:00.000 Why the fellow travelers?
00:14:01.000 And the answer is, when you build a coalition that is explicitly designed to tear away at the West, and Israel is an element of that coalition, the alliance rides again. 0.85
00:14:11.000 That's why.
00:14:12.000 The demonstration, by the way, also attacked the university administration, and then the university put out a pretty weak statement.
00:14:21.000 suggesting that they were unhappy with all of this. But the statements have, quote,
00:14:25.000 on Tuesday evening, the university became aware of several unauthorized projections on a campus
00:14:29.000 building. The projections on the university's library violated university policy. Leadership
00:14:33.000 intervened to ensure these projections were removed. The statements made by these individuals
00:14:36.000 in no way reflect the views of the university. We're reviewing this incident and will take any
00:14:40.000 appropriate steps. We recognize the distress, hurt and pain this has caused for many members
00:14:44.000 Well, thank you for your vague statements of support.
00:14:48.000 Really, really much appreciated.
00:14:50.000 But again, nobody's hiding the ball.
00:14:52.000 Over at Berkeley, protesters openly say they support Hamas.
00:14:54.000 Here's one of them.
00:14:55.000 You support terrorists?
00:14:56.000 I support them 100%.
00:14:57.000 Okay, who filmed that?
00:14:58.000 Sorry, Drew. 0.98
00:14:59.000 Who the f*** is this guy on our campus? 0.96
00:15:00.000 I support Palestine 100%. 0.99
00:15:01.000 You just said you support terrorists 100%.
00:15:02.000 No, I didn't.
00:15:03.000 We got it on film.
00:15:04.000 No, you didn't.
00:15:05.000 We got it on film.
00:15:06.000 Okay, so everything is going probably well.
00:15:07.000 I'm going to go ahead and end this video.
00:15:14.000 But by the way, it's not just the student body.
00:15:16.000 It is many, many members of faculty at America's top universities.
00:15:20.000 We'll get to that momentarily.
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00:16:26.000 Okay, so...
00:16:27.000 And it's also the administration and faculty at many of these universities.
00:16:32.000 The UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council wrote a letter to all of the University of California Board of Regents. 0.97
00:16:37.000 First of all, professionally useless people. 1.00
00:16:39.000 Ethnic studies departments are garbage. 1.00
00:16:40.000 Like, full-scale, full-stop, they're garbage. 1.00
00:16:42.000 But, they wrote a letter. 0.94
00:16:44.000 And they say, in the strongest possible terms, the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council at the University of California, a diverse statewide body representing over 300 faculty system-wide, rejects recent UC administrative communications that distort and misrepresent the unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and thereby contribute to the racist and dehumanizing erasure of Palestinian daily reality.
00:17:04.000 In light of the history and statements by the UC regions demonizing the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement and other forms of Palestinian solidarity, we have no confidence the UC administration comprehends or respects its obligations.
00:17:15.000 It is deeply distressing the UC and other higher institutions' administrative statements in the last week and a half that irresponsibly wield charges of terrorism and unprovoked aggression have contributed to a climate that has made Palestinian students and community members unsafe.
00:17:26.000 Yeah, this is the big lie.
00:17:28.000 I'm really enjoying the big lie.
00:17:30.000 The people who really feel unsafe on campus these days are obviously the pro-Hamas protesters who are marching en masse through campuses and threatening people. 0.98
00:17:38.000 By the way, how pathetic are our university students? 0.97
00:17:40.000 They're so pathetic that at Brandeis University, which was founded by the American Jewish community, at Brandeis University, Student leaders voted 10 to 6 not to condemn Hamas. 0.99
00:17:52.000 Not to condemn Hamas. 0.98
00:17:54.000 Yoni Khan, a senior at the university, said that he stands with Palestinians, but this is still about condemning an extremist organization, but he was, you know, in the minority.
00:18:02.000 So, amazing stuff there from Brandeis.
00:18:05.000 So, again, this is a group of young, highly educated, usually upper-class students who are fully in league with the ideology of terrorism because Hamas is just part of the violent coalition to tear down the civilization, so they have to stand by their buddies. 0.69
00:18:21.000 And what that means is that also there's a sense of tremendous entitlement from these folks.
00:18:25.000 They're entitled to a job from you.
00:18:27.000 They're entitled to your taxpayer dollars.
00:18:29.000 They're entitled to your support.
00:18:31.000 Probably the best example of this that I've seen over the past few years is a person named Reina Workman.
00:18:37.000 Reina Workman is a member of the NYU Student Council.
00:18:43.000 In fact, Raina Workman is the NYU Law School's Student Bar Association president.
00:18:51.000 So she was caught on camera defacing posters of kidnapped Israelis.
00:18:55.000 So this is something that has become unbelievably common and pretty shocking because these are just posters of people who are literally being held hostage by a terrorist group and pro-Hamas people.
00:19:05.000 You can't call these pro-Palestinian people because this has nothing to do with being pro-Palestinian people.
00:19:11.000 I mean, if it does, then I think you're getting the issue wrong.
00:19:14.000 They're literally tearing down posters of kidnapped children or defacing them.
00:19:18.000 Here's Raina Workman doing just that. 1.00
00:19:20.000 Hey guys, look what they're doing.
00:19:23.000 You guys want to say your name or no?
00:19:24.000 I don't want to tell you my name.
00:19:26.000 You guys want to put your name?
00:19:27.000 Really?
00:19:28.000 You guys scared?
00:19:30.000 At least say your name.
00:19:31.000 If you're going to do it, do it with pride.
00:19:32.000 If you're going to do it, do it with pride.
00:19:34.000 I'm very proud.
00:19:34.000 I just don't want to talk to you.
00:19:35.000 So what's your name?
00:19:37.000 Say it to the whole world.
00:19:38.000 I'll sign to every single firm.
00:19:39.000 Look, say your name.
00:19:41.000 Look what they're doing.
00:19:42.000 They're doing over these houses signs.
00:19:44.000 The children are dying in Israel. 0.99
00:19:45.000 Look what they're doing.
00:19:49.000 And of course, she had nothing to say.
00:19:51.000 She's just standing there.
00:19:52.000 Of course, she's not giving her name.
00:19:53.000 Well, she had her job at a law firm rescinded because it turns out the law firms don't like to employ terrorist sympathizers.
00:19:59.000 It's not their biggest thing.
00:20:00.000 So, what does that mean?
00:20:01.000 Well, it means it's time for the media to jump in and finally talk about free speech on college campuses.
00:20:05.000 Wow, that is amazing.
00:20:07.000 So when speakers like me get banned from, say, DePaul University, that's not national news.
00:20:11.000 It is definitely national news when you don't get a job being a terrorist sympathizer.
00:20:15.000 That's really the issue.
00:20:17.000 So here is ABC News covering Rhino Workmen. 0.96
00:20:21.000 I mean, the sense of absolute entitlement from these privileged, petty, pathetic left-wingers who, again, are in league with the quote-unquote Wretched of the Earth, according to Fanon, it's really, it's quite disgusting. 0.93
00:20:35.000 And people should realize how revolutionary the implications are. 0.94
00:20:37.000 Here is Raina Workman declaring that not only is she entitled to tear down posters of kidnapped children, she's entitled to a job from you. 1.00
00:20:43.000 And if you don't give it to her, it's because you're discriminatory.
00:20:46.000 If you were to redo the letter, obviously with the benefit of hindsight, anything you would have done differently?
00:20:53.000 I think I will continue to speak up for Palestinian human rights and use whatever platform I have available to me to call for a ceasefire and end this occupation that's harming the Palestinians.
00:21:06.000 I'm going to just try one more time.
00:21:07.000 Would you change anything, even the timing of it?
00:21:09.000 Because some people felt it was too soon, because your letter came before Israel even launched any kind of retaliation.
00:21:16.000 I think it's important to note that the genocide happening right now did not start on October 7th.
00:21:21.000 It started over 75 years ago.
00:21:23.000 And that was what my message was intended to get across, was that we are seeing violence happening that is part of a much larger structural violence system that is happening in Palestine right now. 0.63
00:21:36.000 I think what I use my platform for and who I condemn was pretty clear by my message and I think that I will continue to condemn apartheid and military occupation and that in this moment I'm focused on calling for an end to genocide and calling for an immediate ceasefire.
00:21:53.000 Do you think that in this space that we're in right now, there's room to have empathy for the Israelis who lost their lives, who were brutalized, were raped, and also empathy for the Palestinians?
00:22:07.000 Who are similarly losing their lives?
00:22:11.000 Yeah, I think right now, if you turn on any mainstream channel, you'll see the stories of Israelis on every screen you look to.
00:22:18.000 And so I think for me, I will continue to use my platform to uplift the voices of Palestinians and the struggles they're going through, because right now we have over 5,000 Palestinian lives lost.
00:22:25.000 This is the whole thing in one human.
00:22:27.000 The whole thing.
00:22:28.000 The Rhino workman, we can pause it there. 0.51
00:22:29.000 Rhino workman uses they them pronouns.
00:22:33.000 Reina Workman considers herself to be a member of Queers for a Liberated Palestine.
00:22:40.000 And that's what this is.
00:22:41.000 That's what this is.
00:22:43.000 She put out a statement before Israel actually did anything condemning Israel for the dead Jews.
00:22:49.000 That's what she did.
00:22:50.000 Because again, it's part of the broader rubric of marginalized of the earth, unite and tear down the quote-unquote colonizers.
00:22:50.000 Why?
00:22:57.000 By colonizers, they just mean anybody who has power.
00:23:00.000 Whether that power is gotten Usefully or not.
00:23:03.000 Whether the powerful are moral or whether they're not, it doesn't matter.
00:23:06.000 It doesn't matter.
00:23:06.000 As long as you are a member of a quote-unquote marginalized community, it's the coalition to destroy the systems that really matters.
00:23:13.000 And that should scare everybody because that's a lot of your kids.
00:23:15.000 That's a lot of people that your kids are going to school with at college campuses.
00:23:19.000 That is a rising movement on the left and it is very strong.
00:23:22.000 It is not a tiny minority on college campuses.
00:23:25.000 There is a reason why you can barely get 50% of young people in the United States to say that Hamas is a terrorist group.
00:23:31.000 There's a reason for that.
00:23:33.000 And that's not an Israel issue.
00:23:34.000 That's a West issue.
00:23:35.000 The West has a serious, serious problem on its hands.
00:23:37.000 We'll get to more of this momentarily first.
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00:24:36.000 Okay, again, this is not just this issue of the supposed coalition of the oppressed against Western civilization.
00:24:52.000 It's bled up.
00:24:54.000 It started at the university level with pseudo-intellectuals promoting it.
00:24:58.000 People like Edward Said promoting it.
00:25:00.000 People like Angela Davis promoting it.
00:25:02.000 But it's bled up into all aspects of American society, most obviously, including our media, to the extent that the New York Times, at this point, is literally defending rehiring a freelance writer who praised Hitler.
00:25:15.000 Not kidding you.
00:25:17.000 According to Jewish News Service, Palestinian filmmaker Soleiman Hiji, who has posted on social media of being in a state of harmony, as Hitler was during the Holocaust, and wrote, How Great You Are, Hitler, has been rehired by the New York Times.
00:25:29.000 He freelanced for the New York Times from 2018 until 2021.
00:25:33.000 And since October 12th, he's had nine bylines.
00:25:37.000 He's just writing for the New York Times again.
00:25:41.000 Amazing.
00:25:42.000 The New York Times, they said, Oh, you mean the standards of not being a Hitler supporter or the standards of being a Hitler supporter or silent on genocide like the New York Times was the first time around.
00:25:49.000 to ensure he understood our concerns and could adhere to our standards.
00:25:52.000 Oh, you mean the standards of not being a Hitler supporter or the standards of being
00:25:55.000 a Hitler supporter or silent on genocide like the New York Times was the first time around?
00:25:59.000 And this is bled up into the media. And the way that the media do this in a softer fashion
00:26:05.000 is they just set up this full scale moral equivalence that They pretend that you don't actually have a moral obligation to take sides in a battle between genocidal terrorists and legitimate states.
00:26:15.000 So, the New York Times put out an entire opinion video piece Saying you don't have to take sides.
00:26:20.000 There's nothing that suggests you have to take sides against terror groups that burn babies alive.
00:26:26.000 There's nothing that suggests that.
00:26:27.000 Here was the New York Times putting out a full-scale opinion video equating Israeli advocates with Hamas advocates.
00:26:33.000 It's amazing stuff.
00:26:35.000 Where is your humanity?
00:26:37.000 You're going to have to pick a side.
00:26:38.000 There's no equivocating this.
00:26:40.000 And your silence is deafening.
00:26:42.000 You've got to pick a side!
00:26:43.000 I don't know how you can sit there and say, I don't support either side.
00:26:43.000 You better pick a side!
00:26:49.000 What's your opinion on the war in the Middle East?
00:26:52.000 I'm afraid I'm going to have to insist on an answer.
00:26:56.000 There are wars raging all across our small planet.
00:26:59.000 But today, you're only required to take a stance on one.
00:27:03.000 Compassion for humanity is a good thing.
00:27:06.000 So what about the more than 300,000 people who've died in Nigeria?
00:27:10.000 The roughly 60,000 who've disappeared in Mexico?
00:27:12.000 What does The Rock think about the Rohingya?
00:27:13.000 What is Justin Bieber doing to solve the crisis in Yemen?
00:27:15.000 Where do the Mets stand on the war in Africa?
00:27:17.000 By the way, there are a bunch of these conflicts that people do have opinions about.
00:27:22.000 Like, a lot of them. 0.66
00:27:27.000 They're so gross. 0.99
00:27:27.000 They're so gross. 0.99
00:27:28.000 Well, suddenly the New York Times is saying you don't have to have a moral opinion on this stuff. 0.90
00:27:31.000 The New York Times spends its days asking every single Republican, if a Republican makes a bad comment anywhere, every Republican must now have an opinion on that thing.
00:27:39.000 Apparently there's only one issue where you don't have to have an opinion, according to the New York Times. 0.99
00:27:43.000 And that happens to be, you know, where Muslims are murdering Jews en masse and calling for their extermination. 0.95
00:27:47.000 When that happens, suddenly the New York Times goes full on, well, you know, there are other things happening in the world. 0.96
00:27:53.000 Again, many of the conflicts that they mentioned right there, you should have an opinion on.
00:27:56.000 You should have an opinion on the Chinese government keeping Muslims in concentration camps in China.
00:28:01.000 Some of us have expressed that opinion many, many times.
00:28:04.000 By the way, the idea of the New York Times doesn't say you have to have an opinion on Ukraine versus Russia is insane.
00:28:07.000 The New York Times has been pushing that for years at this point.
00:28:11.000 But again, the moral equivocation is just cover for terrorism.
00:28:14.000 That's all it is.
00:28:15.000 It's PR cover for terrorism.
00:28:19.000 So, give you the latest on the ground right now in Israel right now.
00:28:24.000 The Israelis last night performed their largest ground assault since the beginning of this particular round of conflict, since October 7th.
00:28:32.000 They sent some tanks in to areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
00:28:38.000 It was a limited raid ahead of any sort of potential ground offensive.
00:28:41.000 There are a lot of rumors that Biden has been trying to convince the Israelis to delay the ground offensive.
00:28:45.000 Israel, for its own part, is still kind of deciding when it wishes to go, what it wishes to do, and all the rest.
00:28:51.000 The suggestion was that Biden wanted a delay so that the United States could get more defensive weaponry in place to protect our troops abroad.
00:28:58.000 Which, by the way, we should have had originally, except that Joe Biden was too busy playing nice and playing footsie with the Mullahs to actually defend our troops.
00:29:05.000 That happens to be the case even now.
00:29:06.000 But here was Joe Biden yesterday saying that he did not call for a delay on a ground invasion.
00:29:11.000 Have you sought assurances from him that he will hold off on a ground invasion into Gaza until the safe release of the hostages can be assured?
00:29:22.000 And of course, those include 10 unaccounted for Americans.
00:29:26.000 No.
00:29:27.000 What I have indicated to him is that if that's possible to get these folks out safely, that's what he should do.
00:29:35.000 It's their decision.
00:29:36.000 But I did not demand it.
00:29:38.000 I pointed out to him, if it's real, it should be done.
00:29:43.000 Now, to his credit, Biden was asked about the numbers from the Gaza Strip.
00:29:46.000 He said, you know, we're getting all those numbers from Hamas.
00:29:48.000 I take them with a grain of salt, which, you know, good for him for actually saying this, since the administration has so far not really done that.
00:29:56.000 In the 18 days since Hamas killed 1,400 Israelis, the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli forces have killed over 6,000 Palestinians, including 2,700 children.
00:30:08.000 You've previously asked Netanyahu to minimize civilian casualties.
00:30:12.000 Do these numbers say to you that he is ignoring that message?
00:30:16.000 What they say to me is I have no notion that Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. 1.00
00:30:21.000 I'm sure innocents have been killed.
00:30:23.000 And it's the price of waging a war.
00:30:25.000 I think we should be incredibly careful.
00:30:28.000 I think, not we, Israel should be incredibly careful to be sure that they're focusing on going after the folks that are propagating this war against Israel.
00:30:40.000 And it's against their interest when that doesn't happen.
00:30:43.000 But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using. 0.52
00:30:48.000 Again, embedded in that is Joe Biden's usual garbage about how Israel has to be so careful about civilian casualties, you really have to warn the Israelis, what we talked about yesterday on the show.
00:30:56.000 Meanwhile, Biden is trying to figure out exactly what to do with the fact that Iran is getting very, very spicy with regard to Americans in the region. 0.67
00:31:03.000 According to the Washington Post, President Biden faces mounting pressure to strike Iranian proxies that have repeatedly been attacked and injured.
00:31:08.000 U.S.
00:31:09.000 troops in Iraq and Syria this month, but he's weighing any decision to retaliate against his broader concern that the war in Gaza could be on the precipice of erupting into a region-wide tempest.
00:31:16.000 The truth is, the thing that will keep it from erupting into a region-wide tempest is if the United States makes clear that if you injure our troops, we will stomp on you like a fly.
00:31:24.000 That historically has been the American way of doing business in these places, and that has, in fact, worked.
00:31:30.000 When American troops are attacked, the only way to push people off of doing that is to make it very clear to them that if they do that, they and their buddies die.
00:31:39.000 There's a reason that Donald Trump did this exactly right.
00:31:41.000 When he was the President of the United States, if there were attacks on American troops, Donald Trump responded in kind, and he did so with alacrity.
00:31:47.000 It was Donald Trump who pulled the trigger on Qasem Soleimani, and he was totally correct to do that, considering that Soleimani had helped plan the death of thousands of American troops in Iraq.
00:31:55.000 Biden said on Wednesday that he warned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, that if Tehran continues to move against U.S.
00:32:00.000 forces in the Middle East, we will respond.
00:32:02.000 But so far, there really has been no response yet, and it's that sort of lack of clarity that is leading to an escalation.
00:32:09.000 So, obviously, you know, it makes some sense that if there's going to be a base of attack, Iran, an insurgent group that is using a base of attacks in order to attack Americans, droning them to death would probably be a proper solution for all of that. 0.99
00:32:25.000 Meanwhile, by the way, the Biden administration just let in the Iranian foreign minister to the United States.
00:32:29.000 He met with Hamas five seconds ago to cheer with them.
00:32:31.000 I don't understand why the United States is granting temporary visas to terrorists and terror supporters.
00:32:36.000 It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
00:32:38.000 By the way, this whole thing, of course, has been pretty embarrassing for the Biden administration.
00:32:42.000 Even more embarrassing, since Jake Sullivan, who is the National Security Advisor to Joe Biden, he wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine before the October 7th attacks, in which he bragged about a bunch of supposed foreign policy successes.
00:32:57.000 They had to edit it.
00:32:58.000 Because there was a passage in it about how they'd done an amazing job in the Gaza Strip.
00:33:02.000 Quote, That's what Jake Sullivan wrote like five minutes before Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Jews since World War II.
00:33:07.000 He escalated crises in Gaza and restored direct diplomacy between the parties after years
00:33:10.000 of its absence.
00:33:11.000 That's what Jake Sullivan wrote like five minutes before Hamas launched the deadliest
00:33:14.000 attack on Jews since World War II.
00:33:16.000 The region is quieter than it has been for decades.
00:33:19.000 The progress is fragile to be sure, but it is also not an accident.
00:33:23.000 Biden's approach returns discipline to U.S.
00:33:24.000 It emphasizes deterring aggression, deescalating conflicts, and integrating the region.
00:33:24.000 policy.
00:33:29.000 Yeah, it's worked out amazingly, amazingly well.
00:33:31.000 They had to cut all of that from Sullivan's embarrassing essay.
00:33:34.000 Okay, well, in other news in the United States, actually good news in the United States before I change, the Republicans have now actually put a Speaker of the House in place.
00:33:46.000 I know, I'm amazed too.
00:33:48.000 And it's like basic functionality of the Congress.
00:33:50.000 But the person they put in place, Mike Johnson, He's excellent.
00:33:53.000 I think he'll do a great job.
00:33:54.000 By the way, I thought Jim Jordan would've been excellent.
00:33:57.000 I thought he would've done- I thought Steve Scalise was excellent.
00:33:59.000 I thought he would've done a great job.
00:34:00.000 I thought Kevin McCarthy was doing a fine job.
00:34:03.000 So, in other words, we basically traded a conservative Speaker of the House for another conservative Speaker of the House.
00:34:09.000 You can like Mike Johnson better than Kevin McCarthy on his personal policies and predilections.
00:34:14.000 In a second, I want to talk about the incentive structure and what actually happens once he's Speaker of the House.
00:34:18.000 Because as I've said before, every Speaker of the House is going to face the same incentive structure.
00:34:23.000 And so if you're expecting a radical shift in Republican policy to occur because Mike Johnson is Speaker as opposed to McCarthy, you got another thing coming.
00:34:30.000 But is it good that Johnson is in place?
00:34:32.000 Absolutely.
00:34:33.000 Does he seem kind of awesome?
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00:36:33.000 So finally, some good news for Republicans.
00:36:36.000 Apparently, Republicans, last night, they decided to stop kicking themselves directly in the nads, and instead, they decided to actually vote in favor of Mike Johnson.
00:36:45.000 So Mike Johnson, somebody that I would say most of America had not heard of, like, ever.
00:36:50.000 He was only elected to Congress fairly recently.
00:36:53.000 He hasn't been in Congress all that long.
00:36:55.000 He is a congressman from Louisiana.
00:36:58.000 According to Politico, his anonymity in Washington was the driving force in his election as Speaker because he hadn't made any enemies yet.
00:37:05.000 He became the unlikely leader of an unruly group of House Republicans who will now rely on him to run their side of the Capitol.
00:37:09.000 He was next to no one's first pick.
00:37:11.000 But, again, everybody else had a high profile and that meant that he was the guy who'd kind of sneak in under the radar.
00:37:19.000 Now Johnson must figure out how to achieve what McCarthy couldn't compromise that doesn't prompt a mutiny.
00:37:22.000 Now, he's gonna have an easier time with that.
00:37:24.000 The reason he's gonna have an easier time with that than McCarthy did is because he's not named Kevin McCarthy.
00:37:28.000 Seriously, it's that simple.
00:37:30.000 Matt Gaetz and a few of his crew decided they hated McCarthy.
00:37:33.000 And so what that meant is that any compromise that McCarthy cut was going to be seen as treason by Gaetz and company and used as an excuse to get rid of McCarthy.
00:37:42.000 Well now, Johnson is gonna come in, he's gonna do kind of exactly what McCarthy did, because the incentive structure is precisely the same.
00:37:48.000 So to take an example, McCarthy just cut a continuing resolution.
00:37:52.000 He cut it with some Democrats.
00:37:53.000 The reason he had to do that is because he had a better continuing resolution deal that was scuttled by Gates and company.
00:37:58.000 Then, after McCarthy actually did the continuing resolution to fund the government, that's when he was ousted by Gates and company.
00:38:04.000 Well now, Mike Johnson's gonna come in, and you know what he's proposing?
00:38:07.000 Continuing resolutions!
00:38:09.000 The same sort of stuff.
00:38:10.000 Now, he can pass a bunch of single-issue bills, supposedly, he can pass the appropriations bills, do the process and all of that, but Democrats are going to reject it and he's going to come back to doing continuing resolutions.
00:38:20.000 Now, the thing is that because Gates ousted McCarthy and because Johnson is the new speaker, he has an incentive, Gates does, in making Johnson appear to be better than McCarthy, which means he's not going to yell and scream about any deal that Johnson cuts.
00:38:32.000 So, inherently, Johnson has more leeway to cut deals and make deals than McCarthy did, mainly because all the people who would be incentivized to get rid of somebody for the publicity already did that, and so they can't do it again.
00:38:43.000 They have to play this as though they achieved some sort of massive win by substituting Johnson for McCarthy.
00:38:48.000 And again, the policy is going to come out almost exactly the same.
00:38:50.000 It's going to be very, very, very similar.
00:38:54.000 Now, the fact is that Johnson has a lot less experience than McCarthy in this space.
00:38:57.000 Again, this is not a rip on Johnson.
00:38:59.000 Johnson's great.
00:38:59.000 I'm going to go through his opening speech in a second.
00:39:02.000 When he won the speakership, and it's excellent.
00:39:04.000 It's really, really, really good.
00:39:06.000 I happen to resonate to an enormous amount of what Johnson says.
00:39:10.000 As a speaker, I think he's way more appealing than Kevin McCarthy was.
00:39:14.000 However, the Speaker of the House's job is not just to be a person who speaks well and a person who communicates well.
00:39:20.000 The Speaker of the House essentially has several jobs.
00:39:23.000 One is to, yeah, speak well and maintain policy positions, but The kind of bigger aspects are vote counting, vote whipping, rewarding allies and punishing enemies, getting together a coalition to actually do things.
00:39:35.000 And that requires a lot of backscratching.
00:39:36.000 It requires a lot of maneuvering.
00:39:38.000 It requires the kind of Machiavellian stuff that McCarthy was actually pretty good at.
00:39:41.000 I don't know if Johnson has a lot of experience.
00:39:43.000 Maybe he's great at it.
00:39:44.000 We don't know.
00:39:45.000 He's never done it before.
00:39:47.000 The Speaker also is supposed to fundraise for pretty much all the Republicans across the board.
00:39:52.000 So McCarthy, over the course of his time in House leadership, raised almost half a billion dollars for various House Republican candidates, including many of the same people who then ousted him.
00:40:01.000 Mike Johnson, in the last election cycle, you wouldn't expect him to raise tens of millions of dollars.
00:40:04.000 He's one guy running in an uncontested district in Louisiana.
00:40:08.000 Mike Johnson, in his last election cycle, raised $1.3 million.
00:40:11.000 So can he translate that over into raising hundreds of millions of dollars for fellow candidates?
00:40:16.000 McCarthy, when recruited a bunch of candidates in purple districts, Johnson hasn't really done that yet.
00:40:22.000 So, again, he's gonna have to prove that he can do all of the hard-nosed things that McCarthy could do.
00:40:29.000 And there's a lot of parliamentary procedure to being Speaker of the House.
00:40:31.000 It's not like anybody can just walk in the front door and suddenly transform the place.
00:40:35.000 If you don't file a bill at the proper time, Democrats could sneak in.
00:40:37.000 They could flip the bill.
00:40:38.000 Like, there really are a lot of procedural complexities.
00:40:40.000 Now, Johnson may very well be able to handle it.
00:40:42.000 We just don't know. 0.89
00:40:44.000 So, the notion that things are going to radically change in the House now that it's Johnson, as opposed to McCarthy, is really silly.
00:40:51.000 Again, none of that's a rip on Johnson.
00:40:53.000 It is a rip on the Gateson team.
00:40:54.000 The idea that the Gateson team achieved some sort of massive material victory by throwing the House into full-on chaos for three weeks and demonstrating the fractiousness and idiocy of part of the Republican caucus, I don't buy it. 0.64
00:41:04.000 I don't see it.
00:41:06.000 And that is without reference to what happens going forward with Johnson.
00:41:10.000 And so, here are a few things about Mike Johnson that are kind of awesome.
00:41:15.000 So, Mike Johnson, very, very socially conservative.
00:41:18.000 Has a 90% lifetime rating from Heritage Action, 92% from the American Conservative Union.
00:41:25.000 He is very much in favor of cutting spending, which is something, by the way, a lot of the MAGA type are not really big in favor of.
00:41:30.000 They kind of like the spending, depending on who they are.
00:41:33.000 He's very strong on abortion.
00:41:34.000 Extremely pro-life.
00:41:35.000 Has an A-plus rating from the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America group.
00:41:39.000 He used to work as a Senior Legal Counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.
00:41:43.000 And he is anti-same-sex marriage, for example.
00:41:46.000 He has been historically.
00:41:47.000 Which, by the way, is the historically correct position of the Republican Party.
00:41:52.000 That a man and a woman are marriage.
00:41:54.000 And that any other form of human relationship is not the same morally or sociologically.
00:42:02.000 He was involved in the attempts to stall certification of the election post 2020.
00:42:10.000 And this is being used as a club by Democrats already.
00:42:14.000 He devised an argument that was actually the only good argument that was made in the aftermath of November 7th, which is essentially that a lot of states, like Pennsylvania, had unilaterally shifted their voting laws so as to benefit Democrats in ways that were illegal.
00:42:25.000 That was like the only good legal argument that was made during that entire spectacle.
00:42:29.000 Johnson was the one making those arguments. 0.96
00:42:31.000 And he said some stuff during that time that, frankly, is ridiculous.
00:42:35.000 He called into question the voting systems inside of Venezuela.
00:42:39.000 It was a Sidney Powell kind of stuff.
00:42:41.000 But he is now moving away from that.
00:42:43.000 I assume that he's going to ignore all of that.
00:42:45.000 That doesn't mean Democrats aren't going to jump on it, which we'll get to in a moment.
00:42:48.000 But Johnson gave a really quite beautiful speech last night on becoming Speaker of the House.
00:42:52.000 He opened by thanking Kevin McCarthy.
00:42:55.000 I want to express my great thanks for our Speaker Emeritus, Kevin McCarthy.
00:43:03.000 Kevin has dedicated over two decades of his life to selfless public service.
00:43:07.000 Sixteen of those years in this house.
00:43:11.000 And you would be hard-pressed to find anybody who loves this institution more or has contributed more to it.
00:43:18.000 He is the reason we're in this majority today.
00:43:22.000 So he started off with that.
00:43:23.000 He then moved on to the fact that it's time to get back to work, which of course is true.
00:43:27.000 This has not been a good moment for the Republican Party. 0.99
00:43:29.000 They look like clowns. 0.95
00:43:31.000 So restoring some sort of semblance of dignity to the Republican caucus would certainly be a plus. 0.98
00:43:36.000 I want to say to the American people on behalf of all of us here, we hear you.
00:43:41.000 We know the challenges you're facing.
00:43:43.000 We know that there's a lot going on in our country, domestically and abroad, and we are ready to get to work again to solve those problems, and we will.
00:43:53.000 Our mission here is to serve you well, to restore the people's faith in this house, in this great and essential institution.
00:44:03.000 He continued along these lines.
00:44:04.000 He said that the pride in the institution is in jeopardy and it's time to restore that pride.
00:44:07.000 That, of course, is true as well.
00:44:10.000 And I think all of our parents are proud of what we're called to do here.
00:44:14.000 I think all the American people at one time had great pride in this institution.
00:44:19.000 But right now, that's in jeopardy.
00:44:23.000 And we have a challenge before us right now to rebuild and restore that trust.
00:44:28.000 He is, of course, right about that as well.
00:44:30.000 Now, on principle, he's a very strong traditional conservative.
00:44:34.000 He's pretty hawkish on foreign policy.
00:44:36.000 He voted against some of the Ukraine appropriations bills.
00:44:37.000 That would probably be the biggest distinction between him and McCarthy, is that McCarthy was pro-funding for Ukraine.
00:44:43.000 And in the initial response, Mike Johnson was pro-funding of Ukraine.
00:44:47.000 And then after we gave them like $100 billion, Then he started to get skittish about it and he suggested he is not in favor of that.
00:44:53.000 But that's also where the Republican caucus is.
00:44:55.000 The possibility of passing large-scale Ukraine funding on a standalone basis was a non-starter inside the caucus anyway.
00:45:00.000 That's obviously the direction that the Republican Party has moved.
00:45:03.000 We'll get to more from Mike Johnson in just one second.
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00:46:09.000 So, Mike Johnson, again, his speech last night was excellent.
00:46:12.000 When he got to his principles, this is particularly good.
00:46:14.000 So, Mike Johnson ticked off a lot of the left last night when, before he assumed his speakership position, he actually knelt in prayer with a bunch of other members of the Republican caucus.
00:46:23.000 And this, of course, is very bad.
00:46:25.000 We're not supposed to do this.
00:46:26.000 It's super offensive to, you know, pay tribute to God after you achieve something of a magnitude, becoming Speaker of the House in the United States of America.
00:46:33.000 That, of course, is deeply offensive, deeply problematic, clearly.
00:46:36.000 I mean, being Rashida Tlaib and being an actual terror supporter, okay, according to Democrats, kneeling for prayer on the floor of the House, that, of course, is a huge problem.
00:46:44.000 You're allowed to kneel in kente cloth for George Floyd. 0.95
00:46:46.000 You're just not allowed to do it for God without the kente cloth. 1.00
00:46:49.000 In any case, Mike Johnson, he said last night that it's time to reject atheism and Marxism.
00:46:55.000 In 1962, that our national motto, In God We Trust, was adorned above this rostrum.
00:47:02.000 And if you look at the little guide that they give tourists and constituents who come and visit the house, if you turn in there to about page 14 in the middle of that guide, it tells you the history of this.
00:47:12.000 And it says very simply, these words were placed here above us, this motto was placed here, as a rebuke of the Cold War era philosophy of the Soviet Union.
00:47:23.000 That philosophy was Marxism and communism.
00:47:28.000 So obviously he is slapping at some members of the left.
00:47:31.000 Then he listed what he called the seven core principles of conservatism.
00:47:35.000 These are pretty traditional.
00:47:37.000 I think it's really quintessentially the core principles of our nation.
00:47:41.000 I boil them down to individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, and human dignity.
00:47:52.000 Those are the foundations that made us the extraordinary nation that we are.
00:47:56.000 And you and I today are the stewards of those principles.
00:48:01.000 That sounds pretty traditionally conservative to me.
00:48:02.000 I mean, in there I heard, you know, peace through strength, which is something that a lot of people are not big fans of these days.
00:48:08.000 I heard fiscal responsibility, something a lot of people on the right are not big fans of these days. 0.86
00:48:12.000 So again, the idea that he's some sort of like wild departure from traditional conservatism is ridiculous. 0.98
00:48:16.000 It's ridiculous. 0.96
00:48:17.000 He's a traditional conservative, which is good. 0.90
00:48:19.000 A traditionally conservative Speaker of the House would be a very good thing.
00:48:21.000 I hope that he pulls the levers in a more conservative direction than House leadership has been able to do.
00:48:25.000 I also understand, as I've said, the incentive structure.
00:48:28.000 And the incentive structure means he has a Democrat Senate, he's a Democrat President of the United States, and he has an extremely thin majority in the House.
00:48:35.000 And all it takes is a few grandstanders to make it so that he has to cut a deal with Democrats again.
00:48:41.000 In the initial run, I expect that he's going to get the support of many of the people who ousted McCarthy, so those aren't going to be the people who buck him.
00:48:47.000 But, as time progresses, he'll have the exact same incentive structure as everyone else.
00:48:52.000 So, was this like a big, giant win for the Republican Party?
00:48:54.000 Again, really like Mike J- Like, in a ton of ways.
00:48:57.000 Love Mike Johnson.
00:48:58.000 Love him on foreign policy.
00:48:59.000 Love him on- Like, again, across the board, excellent, excellent choice for Speaker of the House.
00:49:04.000 Can he pull the levers in a sophisticated way?
00:49:06.000 We have yet to see that.
00:49:07.000 Was this like, overall, an amazing move for Republicans?
00:49:09.000 Like, a much-needed ch- Let's hold our fire on that one.
00:49:14.000 Was Matt Gaetz a strategic genius for throwing the House into complete chaos for a month to do this?
00:49:19.000 No.
00:49:19.000 No, he was not.
00:49:20.000 And any attempts to retcon that are pretty ridiculous.
00:49:23.000 Well, regardless of what the Democrats are saying, Johnson's first move was a good move.
00:49:27.000 He announced last night that the very first move that he was going to make as Speaker of the House was to push a resolution to support Israel and then a bill to support Israel in its war against Hamas.
00:49:36.000 Here is what he had to say.
00:49:39.000 The first bill that I'm going to bring to this floor in just a little while will be in support of our dear friend Israel and we're overdue in getting that done.
00:49:48.000 We're going to show not only Israel but the entire world that the barbarism of Hamas that we have all seen play out on our television screens is wretched and wrong and we're going to stand for the good in that conflict. 0.51
00:50:04.000 Okay, good for Johnson.
00:50:05.000 He's very strong on that particular issue.
00:50:07.000 That resolution did pass last night, 412 to 10.
00:50:11.000 The nay votes were, except for Thomas Massey, who basically just doesn't like government spending on anything, which, okay.
00:50:18.000 The other nine nay votes were exactly who you would think they were. 0.97
00:50:21.000 Jamal Bowman, Cori Bush, Andre Carson, Al Green, Summer Lee, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Delia Ramirez, Rashida Tlaib.
00:50:27.000 And there were six present votes as well.
00:50:29.000 Again, more radicals, Ayanna Pressley, Greg Casar of Texas, Joaquin Castro, Chuy Garcia, Pramila Jayapal, Nydia Velazquez.
00:50:37.000 Exactly who you would assume it to be.
00:50:40.000 So, again, I think that it's good to get the House back in working order.
00:50:44.000 Good for Mike Johnson, and it's time for the House to get back to work.
00:50:48.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are revving it up, as they would with pretty much any conservative who ended up as House Speaker.
00:50:54.000 And they're gonna try and now demonize Mike Johnson as a radical so that they can fundraise off of it.
00:51:00.000 This is what they're going to do.
00:51:01.000 According to Politico, while Mike Johnson might have been an obscure four-term Congress member before Wednesday, but if Democrats have their way, he'll soon be well-known by every American as an election denier, an anti-abortion extremist, a slasher of Social Security and Medicare.
00:51:13.000 Democrats are determined to define Johnson in the public eye before he has a chance to define himself.
00:51:18.000 Democrats said on Wednesday they were hurriedly digging into Johnson's record.
00:51:22.000 There were 69 episodes of his podcast on Spotify, which Johnson co-hosts with his wife, many of which touch on hot-button political topics.
00:51:30.000 One Democratic operative was quick to spotlight one such episode as indicative of the goldmine they believe is about to be discovered, a June 5th show in which the Johnsons spotlighted an initiative to turn Pride Month into Fidelity Month, which sounds kind of great, actually.
00:51:41.000 Like, please, go after him on that one.
00:51:44.000 The DCCC sent a memo to House Democrats saying House Republicans may be breathing a short-sighted
00:51:49.000 sigh of relief now they've elected a new speaker, but their decision to elevate an
00:51:52.000 anti-abortion extremist has pushed to gut Social Security and Medicare, and who is one of the main
00:51:56.000 architects of the illegal attempt to overtune the 2020 election will lose them the majority in 2024.
00:52:00.000 You can see them already activating the strategy. Here is Hakeem Jeffries. Yesterday, he's the
00:52:04.000 House Minority Leader bashing Johnson right off the bat. To start with, on Congressman Johnson,
00:52:11.000 given the fact that there are peers, at least based on that sound, that there is momentum behind him,
00:52:15.000 is this somebody you believe Democrats can work with across the aisle?
00:52:21.000 Good morning, great to be with you.
00:52:22.000 I don't know Mike Johnson well.
00:52:24.000 Based on his track record, he appears to be an extreme right-wing ideologue.
00:52:30.000 Mike Johnson wants to criminalize abortion care and impose a nationwide ban.
00:52:36.000 Mike Johnson was one of the chief architects of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
00:52:42.000 Mike Johnson also wants to end Social Security and Medicare as we know it.
00:52:47.000 Those are extreme views.
00:52:50.000 So, yep, they're getting ready to run against Johnson.
00:52:57.000 Again, this is what they think they're going to be able to do, but yeah, I think it's gonna be a hard sell a little bit because Johnson does not appear offensive.
00:53:03.000 Johnson is very conservative, and you can hear him speaking, and he seems reasonable.
00:53:07.000 Even Jake Tapper on CNN last night, who's no friend of the Republicans, even he was like, yeah, Johnson is a very articulate guy.
00:53:14.000 Jeffries also is trying to ramp up the rhetoric around January 6th again.
00:53:17.000 I think it's tired.
00:53:17.000 I don't think it's gonna work.
00:53:18.000 I think it was, for a lot of Americans, they want to put it in the rearview mirror and they're tired of this.
00:53:22.000 Here is Jeffries introducing Johnson by comparing January 6th to World War II.
00:53:27.000 There are many throughout this country who are understandably alarmed at the turbulence of the moment, at the chaos The dysfunction and the extremism that has been unleashed in this chamber from the very beginning of this Congress.
00:53:52.000 But this, too, shall pass.
00:53:55.000 We faced adversity on September 11, 2001, when the Towers and the Pentagon were unexpectedly struck, killing thousands of lives in an instant.
00:54:10.000 We face adversity right here in the House of Representatives, when on January 6, 2021, a violent mob of insurrectionists, incited by some in this chamber, overran the House floor as part of an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
00:54:33.000 Again, and this is going to be the line of attack, again.
00:54:35.000 So they're just going to keep going back to this well over and over and over again.
00:54:38.000 Again, all Republicans have to do is show some baseline competence here and that attack line goes away.
00:54:42.000 Because nobody's focusing on January 6th.
00:54:44.000 They're focusing on the things happening right now.
00:54:46.000 By the way, some of those things happening right now?
00:54:48.000 So the U.S.
00:54:49.000 GDP grew at a 4.9% annual clip in the third quarter.
00:54:53.000 That was better than expected, but in some ways really, really problematic because the entire purpose of jacking up the interest rates was to get people to stop spending as much money because that is inflating the currency.
00:55:03.000 And it's also leading to price inflation.
00:55:05.000 We now have a wage price spiral.
00:55:07.000 People are not saving their money.
00:55:08.000 They are spending their money.
00:55:10.000 According to CNBC, the sharp increase came from contributions from consumer spending.
00:55:15.000 Increased inventories, exports, residential investment, and government spending.
00:55:18.000 There it is.
00:55:19.000 Consumer spending increased 4% for the quarter after rising just 0.8% in Q2.
00:55:24.000 One of the reasons people are spending so much is because they believe that their dollar is going to be worth less tomorrow than it is today.
00:55:28.000 So you may as well buy that product that you were going to put off for six months.
00:55:31.000 You might as well buy it right now before it doubles in price.
00:55:34.000 Government spending and investment jumped 4.6% as well.
00:55:40.000 The stock market did not jump on this news, which means that everybody still understands that there is another shoe to drop.
00:55:44.000 The other shoe to drop is going to be the inflation stats, which continue to come in hot.
00:55:47.000 And the Federal Reserve is going to have to raise those interest rates again.
00:55:52.000 They're going to have to do it.
00:55:52.000 They don't really have a huge debate over this, really.
00:55:58.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, to combat high inflation, the Fed has lifted its benchmark federal funds rate to a range between 5.25% and 5.5%, a 22-year high.
00:56:08.000 But the possibility of the economy running this hot is going to probably spur, I would imagine, some talk about the need to raise those interest rates again.
00:56:19.000 So the notion again that we are out of the economic woods here, I think that we are way too early for anything like that.