The Ben Shapiro Show - The Left Nods At Jew-Hatred | Ep. 1254

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00:01:29.000 Well, we begin today with this insane barrage of rockets being shot into Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, which is in control of the Gaza Strip ever since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2006.

00:01:39.000 Because every Israeli concession historically has been met with more Palestinian aggression. 0.93

00:01:44.000 Well now, you have 400 rockets that have struck southern Israel since yesterday.

00:01:49.000 All of this predicated on the lie that Israel was stopping worship on the Temple Mount.

00:01:52.000 A lie.

00:01:53.000 Also predicated on the notion that Israel was seizing territory in Sheikh Jarrah, which is sovereign Israeli territory number one.

00:01:59.000 And number two, was the subject of a 50-year lawsuit over four houses.

00:02:03.000 That's what this whole thing is supposedly about.

00:02:05.000 That's not what any of this is really about.

00:02:06.000 I'll explain in just one moment.

00:02:08.000 First, the Jerusalem Post reports a man was killed in Ashkelon on Tuesday morning.

00:02:12.000 Zaka reported, Zaka is the emergency services in Israel, as barrages of rockets on Tuesday afternoon after the IDF struck a number of terrorist targets and killed multiple Gaza terrorists.

00:02:21.000 So far, over eight buildings in Ashdod and Ashkelon have been hit by rockets, according to Israel police.

00:02:25.000 One of the buildings hit was a school, because Hamas doesn't care where they are firing.

00:02:29.000 When you see the media treat this as a quote-unquote cycle of violence, understand that Israel uses or attempts to use as much accuracy as possible in targeting terrorists in the Gaza Strip or in Judea and Samaria.

00:02:39.000 They do so despite the fact that these terrorists deliberately hide themselves among civilians.

00:02:44.000 For years, everybody has known that Hamas's base is underneath a hospital.

00:02:47.000 This is nothing new.

00:02:48.000 Hamas always shields itself with civilians, hoping that if Israel is to get at them, they'll have to kill civilians in the process and then be blamed by the international community for doing so.

00:02:56.000 By contrast, Israel does not do that with its own military.

00:02:59.000 And Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Authority, they just fire rockets and send terrorists into civilian centers.

00:03:05.000 They do not give a damn about killing civilians.

00:03:08.000 So they've been shooting these rockets almost randomly into Israeli cities, ranging from Jerusalem.

00:03:14.000 I had a friend in Jerusalem last night who was telling me what it felt like to hear the sirens go off and then a rocket hit, hit fairly close to populated areas in Jerusalem.

00:03:23.000 Ashkelon is a city that is located not all that far from the Gaza Strip.

00:03:28.000 But Israel's a tiny country.

00:03:29.000 So basically, most of Southern Israel, a lot of Central Israel, has been put under warning of rocket attack.

00:03:35.000 Tel Aviv has been put under warning of rocket attack.

00:03:38.000 People have been told that they should have access to a bomb shelter.

00:03:41.000 Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been relegated to living underground for the moment.

00:03:45.000 This happens every couple of years, thanks to the gentle mercies of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad, supposedly the peace partners in this garbage non-existent peace deal. 0.88

00:03:56.000 So far, over eight buildings in Ashdod and Ashkelon have been hit by rockets, according to Israeli police.

00:04:00.000 One of the buildings was a school.

00:04:01.000 An 80-year-old woman was seriously injured in the rocket strikes.

00:04:03.000 A number of other people were lightly injured.

00:04:05.000 The IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have approved the call-up of 5,000 reservists on Tuesday.

00:04:10.000 The IDF prepared for a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip as rocket attacks against southern Israel continued.

00:04:14.000 Again, Israel has total air superiority in the Gaza Strip.

00:04:17.000 The reason they send in troops on the ground is specifically so that they don't kill civilians.

00:04:21.000 Theoretically, they could bomb from the air, the way that Bill Clinton did in Yugoslavia. 0.98

00:04:25.000 But they don't do that.

00:04:26.000 And they don't do that because they want to avoid civilian casualties.

00:04:29.000 The IDF Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Aviv Kohavi, also ordered the reinforcement of the Gaza Division with infantry and armored brigades, along with the continued redeployment of intelligence and air units.

00:04:37.000 Kohavi ordered the continued striking of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad weapons and storage sites, as well as expanding of the strikes to other targets, including operatives of the terror group.

00:04:47.000 The IDF struck over 130 targets throughout Gaza overnight on Monday, as southern Israel was bombarded by over 400 rockets since Monday afternoon, injuring close to 50 Israelis.

00:04:56.000 On Tuesday at about noon, Palestinians said that the IDF struck an apartment in an eight-story building in Gaza's Rimal neighborhood, killing two senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders, and fatally wounding the brother of Baha Abu Alata, who was killed in a targeted IDF operation in 2019.

00:05:10.000 By the way, notice how the Palestinian terrorists are hiding in apartment buildings.

00:05:14.000 Again, as stated.

00:05:16.000 Shortly afterward, a number of barrages of rockets were fired toward Ashdod and Ashkelon, with three residential buildings hit directly by rockets, leading to light injuries.

00:05:23.000 Hamas took responsibility, stating, Notice, Ashdod, Ashkelon, these are not cities that were historically Arab cities, okay?

00:05:28.000 These are cities, particularly Ashkelon.

00:05:30.000 in response to the enemy's continued targeting of houses and resistance men and the next is greater, God willing. Notice, Ashdod, Ashkelon, these are not cities that were historically Arab cities, okay? These are cities, particularly Ashkelon, these are cities that are along the coast of Israel, okay? And these are cities that were under Israeli control before 1967. 0.97

00:05:51.000 So the notion that this is all about the 1967 borders is just a lie.

00:05:58.000 So the rocket barrages continue to this hour.

00:06:01.000 Israel is retaliating by attempting to specifically target terrorists.

00:06:05.000 Now, why did all of this happen?

00:06:07.000 Tel Aviv has opened its bomb shelters, of course.

00:06:08.000 Why exactly is all of this happening right now?

00:06:11.000 Now, there are people who will lie, and they will tell you that this is all about a legal dispute over those four houses in Sheikh Jarrah, also known as Shimon HaTzadik.

00:06:17.000 Shimon HaTzadik was Jewish territory, okay? 0.60

00:06:21.000 In the 1870s, there were Jews who literally bought that land, like, for money.

00:06:25.000 They bought that land, they built a Jewish city.

00:06:27.000 In 1948, when Israel was put under assault by a series of Arab nations, During the Israeli War of Independence, Sheikh Jarrah, or Shimon Hasidic as it was then called, it was captured by the Arabs.

00:06:38.000 Jordan captured it.

00:06:40.000 All the Jews were forced to flee because all these Arab countries are essentially Judenrein. 1.00

00:06:43.000 There are no Jews who live in Jordan.

00:06:45.000 There are no Jews who live in Hamasistan.

00:06:47.000 There are no Jews who live in the Palestinian Authority.

00:06:50.000 18% of Israel's population is Arab.

00:06:52.000 A major Arab party right now could decide who the next prime minister is.

00:06:55.000 So when people talk about apartheid, states understand that there's one side of this conflict in which literally zero Jews live, and there's another side of this conflict in which 20% of the population is Arab.

00:07:04.000 And Arabs sit on the Supreme Court, and Arabs have high positions in that society.

00:07:07.000 In any case, Sheikh Jarrah was captured by the Jordanians.

00:07:13.000 In 1967, Israel won Jerusalem back.

00:07:15.000 And then there was a legal case filed by people who had owned legal title to these houses in Sheikh Jarrah.

00:07:20.000 These lawsuits lasted for basically 50 years.

00:07:24.000 And the people who were living in these houses understood they didn't have legal title to the houses.

00:07:27.000 They'd been squatting since Jordan took over the houses.

00:07:30.000 And then when Israel won the houses back, they said, OK, well, you have to return those houses now. 0.69

00:07:33.000 And the folks just didn't move out and they didn't pay rent.

00:07:36.000 And so finally, after 50 years of these houses being passed down in terms of legal title and squatters' kids and their kids' kids living in these houses, The courts found that you have to pay rent or you're going to be evicted.

00:07:47.000 Just like everywhere else on earth where if you don't pay rent, you are evicted.

00:07:50.000 So there were these small-scale evictions that were going to take place.

00:07:53.000 About 300 people were going to be evicted.

00:07:55.000 Doesn't mean they were evicted from Israel.

00:07:56.000 Doesn't mean they were even evicted from Sheikh Jarrah. 0.93

00:07:58.000 It means they were evicted from houses in which they were supposed to pay rent because the developers wanted to knock over these houses and build an apartment building.

00:08:03.000 This is what supposedly led to this conflagration.

00:08:06.000 If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to tell you.

00:08:08.000 This has nothing to do with a legal dispute between private parties under Israeli law.

00:08:15.000 That is not what this is about.

00:08:17.000 This is about the Palestinian Authority attempting to avoid responsibility for canceling another election.

00:08:22.000 This is about the Biden administration making overtures to terrorists in the Middle East. 0.64

00:08:27.000 This is about Hamas attempting to out-compete the Palestinian Authority in terms of how much we can show we hate the Jews. 0.89

00:08:32.000 And this is about a Western media that is always willing to go along with just a little bit of Jew hatred so long as we are talking about Israel.

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00:09:42.000 Okay, so first excuse that is being used for this violence is the Sheikh Jarrah issue.

00:09:46.000 Second excuse that's being used is Israel put up some gates a few weeks ago with regard to Ramadan to prevent people from congregating on the steps and causing chaos.

00:09:55.000 So people decided, okay, we're going to fuss and we're going to riot.

00:09:57.000 So Israel removed those gates.

00:09:59.000 And the rioting continued, because this is not about that.

00:10:01.000 I've been up to the Temple Mount.

00:10:02.000 The Temple Mount is a completely Islamic Waqf-dominated area.

00:10:07.000 Okay, Jews have basically very little ability to be up there. 1.00

00:10:11.000 Arabs have complete ability to be up there.

00:10:12.000 Al-Aqsa Mosque is open all the time.

00:10:14.000 There is a Palestinian school that has been built in the corner of the Temple Mount.

00:10:18.000 Remember, this is the holiest site in Judaism, right?

00:10:19.000 It's the third holiest site in Islam, supposedly.

00:10:21.000 It is the holiest site in Judaism, bar none, no question.

00:10:24.000 I mean, I literally have a giant picture in my home of the Temple Mount in my home, because I'm a religious Jew, and this is the holiest site in Judaism, right?

00:10:31.000 This is where the Temple once stood.

00:10:32.000 So, I know the area very well.

00:10:35.000 The Temple Mount is used for soccer games by Palestinian children.

00:10:39.000 The Temple Mount is used for communal activity on a regular basis.

00:10:43.000 And Israel allows all of this because Israel put the place under the control of the Islamic Waqf. 0.99

00:10:48.000 Having been up there, if you are a Jew and you start to mumble prayers, they will remove you. 1.00

00:10:53.000 Out of deference to the Islamic Waqf.

00:10:55.000 If you go- Seriously.

00:10:56.000 It is- You want to know about actual apartheid?

00:10:58.000 Jews are not allowed to pray on the Temple Mount.

00:11:00.000 Muslims can do whatever they want on the Temple Mount. 0.77

00:11:01.000 They can fly kites up there, they can play soccer- They do all this, by the way. 0.80

00:11:04.000 They can destroy antiquities up there, which they've also done.

00:11:07.000 But if Jews go up there and you mumble a prayer, the Islamic Waqf will charge at you and start shouting at you, this actually happened to us, and then you will be removed by the Mishtara, by Israeli security.

00:11:16.000 While people shout at you, Allahu Akbar.

00:11:18.000 Again, been there personally when it happened.

00:11:20.000 So the notion that the Temple Mount is somehow being cracked down upon, that the Israelis don't want the Palestinians to pray up there, is just a lie.

00:11:27.000 It is not true at all.

00:11:29.000 Okay, what was actually happening is that the Israelis knew That the Temple Mount was going to be used as a staging point for attacks on Israelis.

00:11:35.000 Because it turns out, one thing that typically you don't get in many communities, including Muslim communities, is the use of your holy sites as staging areas for, you know, terrorist attacks. 0.68

00:11:44.000 But that's not true with regard to Al-Aqsa in this particular case.

00:11:48.000 We know, and the Israelis knew, that these were going to be used as staging points to create a conflagration. 0.94

00:11:53.000 The reason for the conflagration is really twofold.

00:11:56.000 One is that the Biden administration made very clear upon entering office that they were going to retilt the playing field toward the Palestinians.

00:12:03.000 So the Trump administration decided, in the aftermath of Obama's radically anti-Israel administration, An administration so anti-Israel that on the way out, they allowed a UN resolution to pass that suggested the Temple Mount was not even Jewish territory and had no historic connection to the Jews.

00:12:16.000 I mean, it's unreal how anti-Israel and borderline anti-Semitic the Obama administration was.

00:12:21.000 In the aftermath of that, Trump came into office and Trump then said, well, no, Israel is our ally and we are not going to make concessions to Palestinian terrorists and we're going to cut off funding to Palestinian terrorists, which is to say Hamas and the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad, all terrorist groups.

00:12:38.000 And you know what happened?

00:12:39.000 Violence went down.

00:12:41.000 Violence went down under Trump.

00:12:43.000 For all the talk about how Trump was gonna cause conflagrations, nothing like this happened under Trump.

00:12:47.000 Trump moved the American embassy to Jerusalem, and there was talk that the entire Middle East was gonna go up in flames.

00:12:52.000 Didn't happen.

00:12:54.000 There was talk that peace would never be made.

00:12:55.000 Instead, the Abraham Accords sprung up between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain and Yemen and a bunch of other countries. 0.79

00:13:04.000 And all of these countries started making peace deals with Israel specifically because they had an outside relationship with Israel that had nothing to do with the constant militancy of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PA.

00:13:17.000 So the Trump administration approach to this was basically, we're not going to pretend that we have to play even-handed broker between terrorist groups and a historic American ally.

00:13:25.000 We're just going to say we're on the side of the American ally.

00:13:28.000 And if these terrorist groups wish to act with any level of responsibility, if they wish to make peace, they absolutely can.

00:13:35.000 They didn't, so nothing happened.

00:13:36.000 And there was no violence.

00:13:37.000 There was very little violence during the Trump administration.

00:13:40.000 The minute Joe Biden comes in, he immediately starts negotiating with the Iranian government, which we'll get to in a second.

00:13:44.000 Not only does he do that, he restores American aid, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, to Palestinian terrorist groups.

00:13:51.000 Flashback to April 8th.

00:13:53.000 Remember, it is only the beginning of May.

00:13:55.000 Flashback to April 8th.

00:13:57.000 This is the Jewish Virtual Library reporting.

00:14:00.000 Fulfilling a campaign promise to restore aid to the Palestinians cut off by President Trump, President Biden announced plans to provide the Palestinians with $290 million in assistance.

00:14:10.000 The State Department insisted the allocation was consistent with U.S.

00:14:12.000 law, though some members of Congress said it violated the Taylor Force Act, which prohibits U.S.

00:14:16.000 assistance to the Palestinian Authority until it ends a pay-to-slay policy of providing stipends to terrorists.

00:14:22.000 This is what the Palestinian Authority does, by the way.

00:14:24.000 They literally pay the families of terrorists.

00:14:26.000 And you get to fund that now, thanks to Joe Biden.

00:14:28.000 At the end of March 2021, the administration announced it was providing $15 million in COVID assistance and another $75 million in assistance for infrastructure, health, and civil society groups.

00:14:37.000 Here's the thing about the Palestinian Authority and Hamasistan. 0.94

00:14:41.000 Money is fungible.

00:14:42.000 If you give them money for one thing, they don't use it for that thing.

00:14:44.000 They then use it for all the other things.

00:14:46.000 At the beginning of April, the administration informed lawmakers who would give the Palestinians $40 million for law enforcement and security, which means arming Fatah.

00:14:54.000 Fatah is the armed military wing of the PA.

00:14:56.000 It's also a terrorist group.

00:14:58.000 And another $10 million for peace building initiatives through the U.S.

00:15:01.000 Agency for International Development.

00:15:03.000 They also said they would restore funding to the UNRWA, which is basically just a group under the UN auspices that funds Palestinian terrorist groups.

00:15:12.000 That's all they do.

00:15:13.000 And Palestinian education toward terrorism. 0.81

00:15:16.000 The department said it was contributing $150 million to the UNRWA and said the United States needs to be at the table to ensure that the reforms advance efficiencies and are in accord with our interests and values.

00:15:28.000 Okay, now, the reality is, of course, Israel's position is that the UNRWA perpetuates the conflict and does not contribute to its resolution.

00:15:35.000 So, Joe Biden comes in, he immediately restores aid to the Palestinians.

00:15:39.000 Now, normally, this would mean that peace breaks out, right?

00:15:40.000 According to the theory?

00:15:41.000 Yeah, that's not what happened.

00:15:42.000 Instead, here's what happened.

00:15:44.000 Mahmoud Abbas, who is in the 17th year of a four-year term, they last held elections in the Palestinian Authority in 2004.

00:15:50.000 They haven't held any elections since then because Abbas is afraid that Hamas is going to win.

00:15:55.000 Hamas, of course, is an even bigger terrorist group than PA and Fatah, all of whom are terrorist groups.

00:16:00.000 Okay, so there are no good guys when it comes to PA, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas.

00:16:05.000 None of these people are people you'd want running a country.

00:16:09.000 They are all terror funders and or actual terrorist groups.

00:16:11.000 Okay, so Mahmoud Abbas had an election scheduled for this year.

00:16:16.000 He canceled it.

00:16:18.000 He canceled it like a week before the violence broke out.

00:16:21.000 This is all a giant distraction because here is the rule when it comes to the Arab world, and when it comes particularly right now, not to the Arab world, but to the Palestinians.

00:16:30.000 When it comes to the Palestinians, every failure of governance is blamed on the Israelis, and if you are in serious dire political trouble, you immediately launch a series of escalatory violent actions against Israel.

00:16:40.000 That's what you do.

00:16:41.000 Yasser Arafat used to do this all the time.

00:16:42.000 When he was in trouble, when there were corruption allegations, when he was on the brink of maybe having to sign a peace deal, Yasser Arafat would immediately launch violence.

00:16:50.000 He's done this over and over and over again.

00:16:51.000 This is why I say every time Israel makes concessions, which would create some sort of pressure on the Palestinians to come to the table, precisely the opposite happens.

00:16:59.000 When Israel unilaterally pulled out of the Gaza Strip, The first thing Hamas did was rush in, burn all of the areas that Israel had handed over.

00:17:07.000 These beautiful greenhouses, all of the homes.

00:17:08.000 They just burned them to the ground and then they started firing rockets at Israel.

00:17:12.000 Okay, so the Biden administration has fomented that by handing money to exactly these people, which is just a wonderful, wonderful idea.

00:17:20.000 And then, Hamas was going to win this election, so Mahmoud Abbas canceled the election.

00:17:25.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:18:27.000 Okay, so the Palestinians canceled their elections in late April.

00:18:31.000 This is the Washington Post reporting April 29th.

00:18:34.000 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he will indefinitely postpone the first Palestinian elections in almost a generation.

00:18:41.000 These are the people we're giving aid to, by the way, amid a dispute with Israel over voting in East Jerusalem and sagging poll numbers for Abbas's own ruling faction.

00:18:47.000 And that's really what happened here.

00:18:49.000 The fast-approaching election, with separate votes for parliament and president starting next month, would have given Palestinians their first chance to elect their leaders since 2006.

00:18:55.000 That year's election shocked the region when the militant group Hamas was elected to govern the Gaza Strip, leading to a blockade by Israel and an enduring schism in Palestinian politics.

00:19:05.000 Abbas, 85, has been in power for 16 years.

00:19:08.000 16 years.

00:19:10.000 Speaking before a meeting of Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza, Abbas laid the blame squarely on Israel.

00:19:15.000 Yeah, there it is.

00:19:17.000 Suggesting that Israel is blocking Palestinian residents from being able to vote.

00:19:22.000 Israeli officials said, nope.

00:19:25.000 No, that is not right.

00:19:27.000 Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Flour Hassan Nahum said, I think this is a handy excuse from what my Palestinian friends tell me, but that's the whole region, right?

00:19:34.000 The handy excuse is always Israel. 0.99

00:19:37.000 So, Palestinian Authority needed a distraction from the fact that a week ago it canceled elections.

00:19:42.000 So they decided, okay, we're gonna ramp up the violence. 0.95

00:19:45.000 They started putting out propaganda about how it was time to attack Jews. 0.97

00:19:49.000 They started posting videos of Palestinians beating up Jews, for example. 0.93

00:19:53.000 There is this TikTok, they're calling it the TikTok Intifada, in which Palestinian teenagers were going around in Jerusalem, finding Jews and beating the living hell out of them.

00:20:01.000 You can see some of these videos.

00:20:02.000 Here's Fatah posting a video of Palestinians beating up Jews.

00:20:06.000 They're saying there's an uprising in Intifada in Jerusalem.

00:20:10.000 Gaza also had a position and a word on the matter.

00:20:12.000 The uprising over sovereignty over the capital has turned into a fire spreading from alley to alley.

00:20:18.000 And from refugee camp to refugee camp.

00:20:20.000 Okay, you can see Israeli soldiers being beaten up.

00:20:24.000 Calls sounded and they were stronger than the whistling of the occupation's bullets.

00:20:27.000 Okay, this is all from Palestinian TV, right?

00:20:31.000 This is Bataa pushing this stuff.

00:20:36.000 With the glorious music, right?

00:20:37.000 You're not going to see this on Israeli TV, right?

00:20:39.000 On Israeli TV, you don't have anybody who's encouraging violence.

00:20:42.000 This is Palestinian official TV.

00:20:43.000 This is the Fatah ruling authority television station. 0.99

00:20:47.000 Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, a senior Hamas member is preaching on their television station about how it's time to buy some knives and chop off the head of any Jew you can find. 0.99

00:20:59.000 People of Jerusalem, we want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives. 1.00

00:21:03.000 This is Al Aqsa TV, May 7. 1.00

00:21:05.000 With your hand, cut their artery. 0.78

00:21:07.000 A knife costs 5 shekel. 1.00

00:21:08.000 Buy a knife, put it here, and just cut off their heads. 1.00

00:21:11.000 It costs just 5 shekels. 1.00

00:21:13.000 With those 5 shekels, you will humiliate the Jewish state. 1.00

00:21:16.000 Right, literally just go around killing Jews. 1.00

00:21:18.000 Don't worry guys, there's moral equivalence here. 0.99

00:21:20.000 And the West has decided there's moral equivalence here.

00:21:22.000 As far as the Temple Mount, Hamas and the PA used it as a military launching site.

00:21:26.000 We have pictures of them barricading the Temple Mount.

00:21:29.000 They are bringing giant rocks into the Temple Mount.

00:21:31.000 They brought fireworks into the Temple Mount.

00:21:33.000 They defaced the Temple Mount and disgraced their own mosque by doing this. 0.86

00:21:37.000 You can see them setting up these pipes as a sort of barricade to prevent the Israeli police from coming in and stopping all of this nonsense.

00:21:45.000 The rioters were throwing rocks at cops.

00:21:48.000 You can see them doing this.

00:21:49.000 Here they are, this is on the Temple Mount.

00:21:51.000 Remember, this is supposed to be a holy site, and they're using it literally as a rioting site in order to attack Jews. 1.00

00:21:58.000 Okay, yesterday there was video going around of a tree that was on fire on the Temple Mount.

00:22:02.000 Ain't no Jews up there.

00:22:03.000 Okay, they've been barred.

00:22:05.000 It is only Palestinians and Arabs who are up there right now.

00:22:10.000 They set a fire to a tree.

00:22:11.000 There's a video of Jews down by the Western Wall who are dancing for Jerusalem Day.

00:22:16.000 And then the Palestinians take that video and they say the Jews are dancing over the burning of the tree. 0.98

00:22:19.000 It's ridiculous. 0.99

00:22:20.000 Okay, it is all propagandistic nonsense. 1.00

00:22:22.000 It's just nonsense.

00:22:23.000 Okay, so how do Democrats respond?

00:22:25.000 Okay, so, here's how the Democrats have responded.

00:22:27.000 The Biden administration put out a statement, they condemned the rocket attacks, and they called for de-escalation, because this is always the way.

00:22:34.000 Instead of doing what the Trump administration did, and did exactly right, and saying Israel has a right to defend itself, period.

00:22:39.000 Instead of saying Israel has a right to control Israeli sites and prevent rioting.

00:22:44.000 And prevent disorder.

00:22:45.000 And prevent people from attempting to murder other people.

00:22:48.000 Instead of saying that, they suggested that Israel has to calm the region.

00:22:52.000 It's always de-escalation.

00:22:54.000 De-escalation.

00:22:55.000 Who's escalating here?

00:22:56.000 There's only one group of people who decided to go up on the Temple Mount, which again, is open daily, all the time, to Arabs. 0.63

00:23:02.000 There's only one group of people who decided to barricade it and fling rocks at the cops.

00:23:06.000 There's only one group of people who decided to fire rockets randomly into major Israeli cities.

00:23:11.000 Okay, and the Biden administration puts out this mealy-mouthed statement.

00:23:15.000 The UN has now suggested, oh, you know, it's kind of bad that they're firing rockets, but then they're always calling for calm.

00:23:20.000 Oh, we need calm.

00:23:21.000 You know how you establish calm?

00:23:22.000 The way that you establish calm is by not firing rockets into civilian areas.

00:23:27.000 And then you have the actual open anti-Semites of the squad. 0.87

00:23:29.000 You have Ilhan Omar, who is just a Jew-hater, par excellence. 0.97

00:23:32.000 I mean, she just doesn't like the Jews. 0.95

00:23:35.000 She tweeted out, Israeli airstrikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism. 0.57

00:23:39.000 Israeli airstrikes are targeted at Islamic Jihad and Hamas members.

00:23:43.000 And what would you call it when you have rockets being randomly fired into Israeli cities for no reason other than pique?

00:23:50.000 Palestinians deserve protection, says Ilhan Omar.

00:23:53.000 Unlike Israel, missile defense programs such as Iron Dome don't exist to protect Palestinian civilians.

00:23:58.000 It's true, the Palestinians have their own Iron Dome. 1.00

00:24:00.000 It's called Don't Fire Rockets at Israel.

00:24:02.000 Israel does not randomly fire rockets into major Gaza centers of population.

00:24:08.000 It's just a lie.

00:24:09.000 Every Israeli military response has been just that, a military response.

00:24:13.000 It is unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid, because it's the end of Ramadan, the holy week of Eid.

00:24:20.000 You know what's irresponsible, Ilhan Omar?

00:24:22.000 Not condemning people on the Temple Mount to facing the Temple Mount for purposes of terrorism.

00:24:28.000 Okay, and then she tweeted out a video in which the Red Crescent was, this is a propaganda video.

00:24:33.000 It says, 163 Palestinians have been injured, 23 hospitalized as Israelis fire sound bombs and tear gas inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

00:24:39.000 Now weird, because the Israelis have technically control over the entire compound. 0.83

00:24:44.000 So why isn't this every day?

00:24:46.000 If they just wanted to clear it out, why not every day?

00:24:48.000 And the answer is because a bunch of people showed up with fireworks and rocks and started trying to murder Israeli soldiers.

00:24:53.000 That's why.

00:24:54.000 So Ilhan Omar, again, Jew hater par excellence, she tweeted out, this is happening as Muslims pray Tarawih and Tahajjud in Palestine.

00:25:02.000 Families who pray all night during Ramadan, the mosque is like home. 0.99

00:25:05.000 Palestinians deserve to find refuge in a mosque and peace in Ramadan.

00:25:07.000 Where is the media coverage?

00:25:09.000 Speak up against Israeli occupation terror.

00:25:12.000 Hey, now again, I showed you the pictures.

00:25:14.000 I showed you the videos.

00:25:16.000 They literally brought stockpiles of stones to throw at Israeli soldiers into the mosque.

00:25:21.000 Who defaced the mosque?

00:25:23.000 Who did it?

00:25:24.000 Might it be the terrorist groups who are flying literally the Hamas flag from the top of the Al-Aqsa mosque?

00:25:30.000 Okay, to come up with an equivalent, you would have to suggest that the equivalent here is, let's say that there's a mosque in the center of Washington, D.C., directly across from the White House, and people at the mosque just decided to bring Al Qaeda flags and fly them on top of the mosque.

00:25:46.000 Hamas is a terrorist group that stands openly for the extermination of Israel and the destruction of every Jew in the region.

00:25:52.000 They flew that flag on Israeli territory, inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, while gathering rocks to throw at Israeli soldiers. 0.99

00:25:57.000 And Ilhan Omar's like, look at those terrible Israelis. 1.00

00:25:59.000 Look at those terrible Jews. 1.00

00:26:00.000 Then you have Rashida Tlaib, who also hates the Jews. 1.00

00:26:03.000 She tweeted out yesterday about, it's so terrible.

00:26:05.000 I mean, what's happening at the Al-Aqsa Mosque is just terrible.

00:26:07.000 Imagine if somebody did this to the Temple Mount.

00:26:09.000 They are doing it to the Temple Mount!

00:26:11.000 The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism.

00:26:14.000 It is currently being used as a staging point, a rallying point for terrorism.

00:26:18.000 Here's Rashida Tlaib, who again, doesn't like those Jews very much, on MSNBC condemning Israel. 0.51

00:26:23.000 This is an apartheid system, Ayman.

00:26:25.000 I mean, Israel's own prominent human rights organization, B'Tselem, has declared it.

00:26:30.000 Human Rights Watch has declared it.

00:26:31.000 There is no form of acceptable resistance to state violence, except for the denial of people's human dignity.

00:26:43.000 And we need to stop.

00:26:44.000 We need to stop and look at the fact that our own country is enabling it with Billions of dollars every year being issued to Israel, even though they are promoting racism and dehumanization. 0.67

00:26:56.000 Promoting racism and dehumanization?

00:26:57.000 The Arab party in Israel is about to determine who the prime minister is.

00:27:02.000 They've taken polls, by the way, of Israeli Arabs.

00:27:03.000 How many of them would like to live in nascent Palestine? 0.75

00:27:06.000 The answer?

00:27:06.000 Pretty much zero.

00:27:07.000 None.

00:27:08.000 Okay, the reality is the Palestinian Authority runs the Palestinian areas.

00:27:13.000 The Gaza Strip is run by Hamas, a terrorist group. 0.80

00:27:16.000 The only apartheid state in the region is the state That actively will not allow Jews to live there and will murder a Jew if you accidentally drive into the area. 0.65

00:27:26.000 There are literally signs on Israeli highways that have, on the sign, two arrows.

00:27:31.000 One that is green, stay on the highway, and one that is red.

00:27:34.000 And it will say in Hebrew on the signs, the Israeli government cannot protect you if you go into these areas, you do so at risk to your life.

00:27:41.000 You know what happens if a Palestinian accidentally wanders into Israel? 0.99

00:27:44.000 They get a cup of coffee and they go back home.

00:27:46.000 That's what happens if they accidentally get in.

00:27:49.000 If they take the wrong turn off the highway.

00:27:51.000 There are checkpoints specifically because there are people who keep entering and attempting to commit acts of terrorism.

00:27:56.000 If that stops, so do the checkpoints.

00:27:59.000 Members of the Israeli government are attempting to foster economic ties with the Palestinian areas.

00:28:04.000 But it's very difficult when you have the Palestinian authority that is actively fomenting terrorism. 1.00

00:28:09.000 All of this is part and parcel of a broader Biden administration strategy.

00:28:12.000 Again, you have the squad, which is just openly far left anti-Semitic.

00:28:15.000 So some of them are just open anti-Semitic.

00:28:16.000 Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. 1.00

00:28:18.000 Then you have just ignoramuses and morons like AOC. 1.00

00:28:22.000 Again, IQ. 1.00

00:28:24.000 Barely reaching into triple digits, perhaps.

00:28:26.000 She tweets out, Again, this is a private legal dispute.

00:28:28.000 with the Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.

00:28:31.000 Israeli forces are forcing families from their homes during Ramadan and inflicting violence.

00:28:35.000 It's inhumane.

00:28:36.000 The OSMA show leadership in safeguarding the human rights of Palestinians.

00:28:39.000 Again, this is a private legal dispute.

00:28:40.000 And this is what she chooses to tweet while people are engaging in actual act of rioting and violence and massive rocket attacks.

00:28:47.000 There's genius stuff there from the squad.

00:28:49.000 Again, this is because the far left has decided that they do not like Israel, and the reason they do not like Israel is for the same reason that, frankly, they don't like America very much.

00:28:57.000 And that is, in their view, all of the world is a zero-sum game.

00:29:01.000 If there is any group that is successful and any group that is unsuccessful, it must be that the successful group did something bad to the unsuccessful group.

00:29:07.000 So if you can create a coalition of the dispossessed, they can all get together and march together to tear down the systems. 0.88

00:29:12.000 That is the reason why you will see Black Lives Matter having statements about Palestine in their bizarre little manifesto. 1.00

00:29:21.000 You're like, what does this have to do with anything?

00:29:22.000 The answer is that it's all about creating this coalition of the supposedly dispossessed to wreck the system. 0.98

00:29:27.000 That's really why the left sides with all of this nonsense.

00:29:29.000 And meanwhile, the Biden administration has its own plans with regard to Middle Eastern politics, and that has to do with a broad rejiggering of how they hope Middle Eastern politics goes, and it's really done along Obama lines.

00:29:41.000 And what this really means is that one of the fomenting factors here is not just that the Biden administration decided to re-sign checks to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, They also decided they were going to make nice with Iran, which is the great terror sponsor in the Middle East, because what they would like to see is Iran become a regional power, supposedly so the United States could like back off.

00:29:59.000 So they think, OK, we'll create a balance of power between Israel and Iran, which is unbelievable. 0.97

00:30:04.000 We're actually fostering a terror state. 0.63

00:30:06.000 In extremists, we are there in a bad situation, Iran, and we are fostering that terror state because Joe Biden would love nothing better than to restore some level of balance of power in the Middle East by effectuating the power of a state that openly chants death to America and death to Israel. 0.74

00:30:22.000 Pretty impressive stuff.

00:30:23.000 And by the way, becoming the propaganda arm.

00:30:25.000 We'll get to that in just one minute.

00:30:27.000 It's amazing how in just three months, we can have a president who takes office on the way, seriously, he took office as the luckiest man maybe ever to take American office.

00:30:37.000 Number one, he didn't run a campaign.

00:30:38.000 Number two, he took office in the wake of a very unpopular president.

00:30:41.000 Number three, he took office in the middle of a naturally occurring economic recovery for which he was not responsible.

00:30:47.000 He took office in the middle of a COVID pandemic for which the vaccine had already been developed and a vaccine tranching plan had already been developed.

00:30:56.000 He took office the year after massive racial conflagration in the United States, and he took office with basically peace in the Middle East breaking out everywhere.

00:31:03.000 He has proceeded to exacerbate the racial conflict in the United States, destroy the economic growth curve through his ridiculous spending programs, and set the Middle East on fire by incentivizing all the worst forces in the Middle East and attempting to reverse the effect of peace deals that were breaking out all over the Middle East. 0.76

00:31:20.000 We're only four months in, gang.

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00:33:09.000 So the fact is the Biden administration has this bizarre notion that they are going to establish some sort of balance of power, a real politics situation in the Middle East.

00:33:22.000 This started under Barack Obama, who was fully invested in the notion that Iran was going to provide a counterbalance to the Sunni Arab states, and that this would somehow make the region better, which is insane, since the Ayatollahs run Iran. 0.89

00:33:32.000 This is one of the reasons why Obama went super soft when the Iranian revolution was happening in 2009.

00:33:38.000 He sort of looked the other way as Iranians got shot down in the street.

00:33:42.000 There's a great piece over at Tablet right now about the realignment in the Middle East that Biden is attempting to effectuate.

00:33:49.000 And basically what they're attempting to do is allow Tehran to gain an economic prominence.

00:33:54.000 They would like to allow Iran to get a nuclear bomb by 2031.

00:33:56.000 They want to end the sanctions.

00:33:59.000 They want to implement a policy of accommodation of Iran and its tentacles in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon.

00:34:04.000 And they want to force that policy on America's closest allies so they can establish this so-called balance of power.

00:34:08.000 That is the goal here.

00:34:10.000 This, of course, is going to be a giant fail because every time you make concessions to Iran, Iran immediately gets more militant. 0.90

00:34:16.000 This is what they do.

00:34:18.000 So right now, just the last few weeks, there have been these ongoing bullcrap negotiations in Europe between Biden and the Iranian leaders.

00:34:26.000 And they're not in the same room together.

00:34:27.000 They're staying in two separate hotel rooms.

00:34:28.000 Then they have couriers who are running back and forth with letters.

00:34:31.000 And it turns out that Iran doesn't want to dismantle any of its new nuclear activities since the advent of the Trump administration and the end of the original Iran deal.

00:34:39.000 The Biden administration is looking at them and going, well, we need something.

00:34:41.000 We need some sort of fig leaf so that we can remove the economic sanctions at this point.

00:34:46.000 But it is clear that the White House wants to make accommodations for the Iranian government, despite the fact that we don't need to make accommodations for the Iranian government.

00:34:53.000 We've already made a bunch of accommodations for the Iranian government.

00:34:55.000 For example, the Biden administration on entering office immediately oriented itself anti-Saudi.

00:35:01.000 The Trump administration was quite pro-Saudi because Saudi was pushing very hard for peace deals in the Middle East to create a sort of anti-Iranian alliance, ironically caused by Barack Obama's support for Iran.

00:35:12.000 The Biden administration came in and attempted to reverse all that.

00:35:14.000 Their first move was to declare that the Houthis in Yemen were not actually a terrorist entity, which of course is insane.

00:35:19.000 The Houthis are in fact a terrorist entity.

00:35:21.000 Then they decided that they were going to release that report on Jamal Khashoggi and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of the Saudi monarchy.

00:35:28.000 That was like a two-year-old story.

00:35:29.000 They decided to release the report to generate some cover for the fact that they were now siding pretty openly with Iran.

00:35:36.000 Meanwhile, they were trying to press forward this negotiation with Iran in order to pay Iran, in order to try and strengthen Iran.

00:35:43.000 And their hope was that Iran would then somehow moderate, become wonderful, be a counterbalance to the Saudi regime. 0.79

00:35:48.000 The Iranians in these negotiations have been demanding, according to the New York Times, that they be allowed to keep the advanced nuclear fuel production equipment they installed after Trump abandoned the pact, and integration with the world financial system beyond what they achieved under the 2015 agreement.

00:36:01.000 The Biden administration says restoring the old deal is just a stepping stone.

00:36:05.000 Right, okay, so this is the great lie.

00:36:06.000 What they're going to say is, we are, the first deal we sign, which is just a bunch of concessions to Iran, that's just a stepping stone.

00:36:12.000 But here's the thing, it isn't just a stepping stone, because usually a stepping stone is followed by another stone.

00:36:17.000 If it's just a stone in the middle of the water, you're just standing there in the middle of a river.

00:36:20.000 And that's what the Biden administration is doing right now with regard to Iran.

00:36:24.000 Iran, for its part, is trying to pressure the Biden administration and intimidate the Biden administration by getting violent. 0.92

00:36:30.000 This is their goal.

00:36:31.000 So yesterday, for example, the U.S.

00:36:33.000 co-star, Qatar Mali, had to fire 30 warning shots from a .50 caliber machine gun.

00:36:37.000 This is yesterday.

00:36:39.000 After a group of 13 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy fast boats conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers while operating close to a U.S.

00:36:47.000 naval formation in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:36:49.000 So basically you had 13 IRGC Navy boats, these tiny little boats, who were harassing a U.S.

00:36:55.000 Coast Guard boat.

00:36:56.000 You'll remember that during the Obama administration, they actually captured some American soldiers and there were those humiliating photos of American soldiers on their knees as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards stood around them.

00:37:07.000 And then, Iran let it go, but not before building a giant statue of this directly in the middle of Tehran, which they actually did.

00:37:13.000 So, here's the best part.

00:37:14.000 The Biden administration is so invested in the lie that Iran is moderate, they're so invested in the lie that they can somehow bring Iran to the table, which of course foments terrorism across the Middle East, that a Pentagon spokesperson yesterday was asked about this incident in which Iranian ships were harassing American ships, and American ships actually had to fire over their heads as a warning shot.

00:37:34.000 By saying, this is the Pentagon spokesperson, he said, well, you know, maybe Iran doesn't control the Navy.

00:37:39.000 This is what we've been relegated to.

00:37:41.000 The American administration is now playing open propaganda for the Iranian regime.

00:37:46.000 Okay, this is all wrong-headed.

00:37:48.000 It is insane.

00:37:49.000 It's going to cause people to die in the Middle East. 1.00

00:37:50.000 It is that simple.

00:37:52.000 Here is the Pentagon spokesperson playing actual propagandas for the Iranian regime.

00:37:57.000 I don't think at this point that we have a great sense of the command and control element here for the IRGC Navy.

00:38:04.000 I think you know the IRGC Navy reports directly to the Supreme Leader.

00:38:08.000 But what level of command and control and visibility there was from Tehran, I don't think we know that right now.

00:38:15.000 Okay, they're just making excuses.

00:38:16.000 Can you imagine anything like this?

00:38:18.000 Like on the American side?

00:38:19.000 Really, like any other country, where their Navy is harassing our ships and we're like, well, you know, maybe the government's just not in control of their Navy.

00:38:26.000 It's their Navy.

00:38:27.000 Pretty sure they know what they're doing.

00:38:29.000 But here's the thing.

00:38:29.000 When you have fostered a lie that you now have to live with, you have to make excuses for the lie.

00:38:33.000 And this is the pattern in the Obama part three administration, the Biden administration.

00:38:38.000 The pattern is you have a lie.

00:38:40.000 The lie is that Iran is a moderating power that can be moderated if we just make nice with them. 0.97

00:38:44.000 Then that lie is proved by the fact that they get extremely militant In the Straits of Hormuz, harassing American ships.

00:38:52.000 And so now you have to promulgate the lie.

00:38:53.000 So it's, oh, well, I guess the Iranians don't know what they're doing. 1.00

00:38:56.000 Same thing in the Middle East.

00:38:57.000 Same thing with regard to the Palestinians. 0.65

00:38:58.000 You have to promulgate the lie that there's a moral equivalence between Hamas and Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad and the Israelis.

00:39:03.000 And then it turns out they're firing rockets at Israeli cities for no reason.

00:39:08.000 And so now you have to say, well, you know, it must be just because of escalation of de-escalation, guys.

00:39:11.000 We just need de-escalation.

00:39:14.000 This is true throughout leftist thought.

00:39:16.000 As soon as your ideology is debunked by real world events, you have to start making excuses for why that's not true.

00:39:21.000 And inevitably, that means you are defending some of the worst people on earth.

00:39:24.000 This happens over and over and over again.

00:39:26.000 Because if you are so invested in your idea of what's true, that the actual truth doesn't matter, that means you have to lie by necessity.

00:39:33.000 And this is what the Biden administration is doing on foreign policy right now.

00:39:36.000 Meanwhile, in another show of unbelievable weakness, we are now experiencing Jimmy Carter-esque gas lines.

00:39:42.000 The reason for this is not because of actual gasoline shortages at this point, it's because of this ransomware attack.

00:39:48.000 on a major U.S.

00:39:48.000 pipeline.

00:39:49.000 It is the work of a criminal gang called Darkside, according to the FBI.

00:39:53.000 The cyber-extortion attempt, according to CBS News, that forced the shutdown of a vital U.S.

00:39:57.000 pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as Darkside.

00:40:00.000 It cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity, the FBI said on Monday.

00:40:04.000 The shutdown stretched into its third full day, with the Biden administration loosening regulations of the transport of petroleum products on highways as part of an all-hands-on-deck effort to avoid disruptions in the fuel supply.

00:40:15.000 Georgia-based Colonial Pipelines said Monday it hopes to have service mostly restored by the end of the week.

00:40:21.000 The pipeline carries gasoline and other fuel from Texas to the Northeast.

00:40:24.000 It delivers roughly 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast, according to the company.

00:40:28.000 It was hit by what Colonial called a ransomware attack, in which hackers typically lock up computer systems by encrypting data and paralyzing networks, then demand a large ransom to unscramble it.

00:40:39.000 So, hilariously, the White House was asked about all of this.

00:40:43.000 And the White House's response to, you know, what looks like an actual foreign attack on American domestic infrastructure, it looks as though their response was, well, it's a private problem, which is unbelievable.

00:40:54.000 You want to talk about a weak, it seems like kind of an American foreign policy problem when you shut down 45% of the gas supply to the Southeast.

00:41:01.000 But here was the White House press secretary yesterday trying to explain this away as it's a private decision whether Colonial decides to pay off the Russian hackers or not.

00:41:08.000 So first we recognize that victims of cyber attacks often face a very difficult situation and they have to just balance often the cost-benefit when they have no choice with regard to paying a ransom.

00:41:19.000 Colonial is a private company and will defer information regarding their decision on paying a ransom to them.

00:41:26.000 What do you mean they're a private company?

00:41:28.000 And like, what?

00:41:31.000 Excuse me?

00:41:32.000 So normally, if somebody kidnaps your child and ransoms them, that's a matter that involves the police, would it not?

00:41:37.000 You'd want law enforcement involved at this point.

00:41:39.000 But here they're like, well, you know, I guess Colonial, if they decide to pay a ransom, that's on Colonial.

00:41:44.000 Meanwhile, Colonial said it is developing a system restart plan.

00:41:47.000 They said that their main pipeline remains offline and some smaller lines are now operational.

00:41:52.000 This administration is just a bleep show.

00:41:54.000 They're just a bleep show.

00:41:55.000 Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Sunday ransomware attacks are what businesses now have to worry about, and she says she will work vigorously with the Department of Homeland Security to address the problem, calling it a top priority for the administration.

00:42:06.000 She says, we have to work in partnership with business to secure networks to defend ourselves against these attacks.

00:42:11.000 She says, it's an all-hands-on-deck effort right now.

00:42:13.000 We're working closely with the company, state, and local officials.

00:42:16.000 Okay, you know what would be great is if somebody would tell the White House that it's not merely a private question as to whether Colonial pays ransom here.

00:42:24.000 Unbelievable.

00:42:26.000 Unbelievable.

00:42:27.000 Meanwhile, gas stations are suffering shortages all over the southeastern United States.

00:42:33.000 The closure of that 5,500-mile colonial pipeline, which carries more than 100 million gallons of fuel from Texas to New Jersey each day, has stretched now into its fifth day.

00:42:42.000 So, it's great.

00:42:43.000 We're bringing back the 70s, guys.

00:42:45.000 All the good stuff.

00:42:45.000 We've got inflation.

00:42:46.000 We've got conflict in the Middle East.

00:42:48.000 We've got an emboldened Iran. 0.99

00:42:50.000 We have gas lines.

00:42:51.000 Like, this is really great, especially coming off of a pandemic.

00:42:55.000 And Joe Biden was handed the most salutary conditions for any president I have ever seen entering office.

00:43:01.000 And his immediate move is to blow it all. 0.97

00:43:02.000 It's unbelievable how incompetent he is. 0.92

00:43:05.000 Or maybe it's competence just directed in the wrong direction.

00:43:08.000 Meanwhile, the good news is the Democrats want to just imitate Joe Biden's actions all across the way.

00:43:13.000 I mean, it's amazing.

00:43:14.000 So Joe Biden has somehow produced, he inherited, just to get this straight, Joe Biden inherited a vaccine that works, a vaccine distribution plan, an economy set to boom, and peace in the Middle East.

00:43:24.000 And in his first three months, he has produced deep vaccine hesitancy, A dramatically underperforming economy, inflation, gas shortages, and a Middle Eastern war. 0.67

00:43:31.000 Really well done here, Joe Biden.

00:43:33.000 So naturally, Democrats are like, what if we did that?

00:43:35.000 So Governor Gavin Newsom in California announced on Monday his state is projected to have a $38 billion discretionary surplus in 2021.

00:43:44.000 Now, again, that's largely because the federal government has decided to send checks to all of these states.

00:43:49.000 He said he wants to use it to expand the state's stimulus program.

00:43:52.000 He's going to send checks to two-thirds of California residents.

00:43:56.000 California already has the highest estimated debt of any state, according to Breitbart, with nearly $363 billion in liabilities in 2019.

00:44:04.000 But Gavin Newsom has a plan.

00:44:06.000 His plan is he's going to send you a check.

00:44:08.000 He's just gonna send you a check.

00:44:10.000 And how is it that this is certainly going to help with unemployment in the golden state, paying people to stay home?

00:44:16.000 Certainly it has nothing to do with the fact that he's being recalled in the state of California.

00:44:19.000 See, here's the thing.

00:44:19.000 The economic plans by the Democrats here, they don't work, but they do work in one sense.

00:44:24.000 People like free money.

00:44:25.000 And so long as you're telling people they get free money, it doesn't matter because inflation is the indirect result of a lot of these policies.

00:44:31.000 So long as it's indirect, you can claim that it's something else that's causing the economic supply line problems.

00:44:38.000 So that's what Gavin Newsom is doing.

00:44:39.000 Democrats across the country are pursuing these giant tax and spend policies, these horrible policies on crime, these terrible fiscal policies.

00:44:48.000 And then the people who reap the who reap the whirlwind are all of the citizens of these states who then are lied to by the media who insists that you keep electing Democrats in order to do more of this stuff.

00:44:58.000 Recognize that Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, I think will survive the recall.

00:45:02.000 Joe Biden According to some estimates, has a 60% approval rating.

00:45:06.000 60%.

00:45:06.000 Now, I don't believe that for a second, but Joe Biden having a 60% approval rating, despite a dramatically underperforming economy, war in the Middle East, inflation on the horizon, a dramatically polarized racial problem in the United States, it just demonstrates that the kind of heavy lifting the media will do on behalf of Democrats are either unbelievably incompetent or malevolent or both.

00:45:29.000 The Biden administration has been a junk heap thus far. 0.97

00:45:32.000 Just terrible. 0.89

00:45:34.000 But we're all supposed to pretend that he's doing a wonderful, wonderful job, because after all, he's a kindly old fellow.

00:45:38.000 Well, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show coming up soon.

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00:45:44.000 Be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com.

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The Left Nods At Jew-Hatred | Ep. 1254

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