The Ben Shapiro Show - December 18, 2023


The Most Disturbing Poll In Recent Memory

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According to the latest Harvard-Harris poll, 60% of people aged 18-24 agree that the October 7th attack on Israel was a genocidal terrorist attack, but 6 in 10 still say it can be justified. The older you are, the more likely you are to agree with Hamas. Why do so many young people support a group that calls for genocide of Jews? Why do they think it is justified? What does it have to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict? And why does it matter that they do so much of their thinking come from such a young age? The answer to all of these questions is simple: It's because they are the ones with the most to think about and the least to do about it. Today's episode is a mashup of the top 3 reasons why something has got to be done about the kids. 1) The kids are the problem, not the old people. 2) The problem is not the adults. 3) It's the kids 4) The future is uncertain, and the future is not. 5) There is no certainty. 6) There will always be something to be worried about. 7) It s going to be a crisis. 8) The world is not going to get better. 9) The economy is going to collapse. 10) It will get worse. 11) Gold and Silver are the only safe haven option. 12) Gold is the best investment you can have in the near future. 13) You can have a tax-free savings account in the form of a Roth IRA or 401k. 15) You don't have to invest in gold, silver and silver in your retirement account, you can get zero interest and get zero tax benefits. 14) You ll get a 20% interest rate on your savings account 15% interest? 16) You'll get a FREE 20% deposit plan! 17) You get 7 years of 3-5% interest when you get $100 or more than $200,000 in a tax year, you get 3 months of 3 years of free gold and silver and $75 in a Swiss bank offer and you get an additional year of $99, you ll get $99 a year of options to start getting $99 or $99 and get a 2-peset plan, they get it all of that for no deposit discount, they'll get $98,98,99,99

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00:00:00.000 We've seen a lot of disturbing poll results over the course of the last few decades, but I've never personally seen a more disturbing poll result than the results from the latest Harvard-Harris poll out over the weekend.
00:00:10.000 Now, to be sure, this poll says that the American public are basically in the realm of sanity, or at least most of the American public are.
00:00:17.000 The olds are okay.
00:00:19.000 It's the kids, Marty.
00:00:20.000 Something has got to be done about the kids.
00:00:23.000 According to this latest Harvard-Harris poll, while a strong majority of every age group agree that the October 7th terror slaughter of 1,200 Israelis and the kidnapping of another 240 was indeed a genocidal terror attack, some 60% of people aged 18 to 24 said that genocidal terror attack, quote, can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians.
00:00:43.000 That is correct.
00:00:44.000 While two-thirds of 18 to 24-year-olds agree that Hamas's terror attacks were genocidal in nature, 6 in 10 still say it can be justified. 0.84
00:00:53.000 That is a crazy number.
00:00:55.000 And it gets worse.
00:00:56.000 Every age group in America, except for 18 to 24-year-olds, sides with Israel against Hamas. 0.97
00:01:00.000 The older you are, the less crazy you are, as per usual arrangement.
00:01:04.000 Those above the age of 65 side 96 to 4 against Hamas.
00:01:08.000 For the youngs, however, the numbers are split right down the middle.
00:01:12.000 50-50.
00:01:13.000 50% of people in this poll, aged 18-24, support Hamas, an actual genocidal terror group, over the state of Israel.
00:01:20.000 Just wait, it gets even worse.
00:01:21.000 When asked about whether students on campus who call for the genocide of Jews should be punished for violating university rules, most Americans, of all age groups, say yes.
00:01:30.000 Again, the older you are, the more you agree with that proposition.
00:01:33.000 That's not because Americans oppose free speech.
00:01:35.000 It's because they realize that literally every element of speech on campus is policed for microaggressions and offense taking.
00:01:43.000 So why precisely would genocidal Jew haters be exempt?
00:01:46.000 Everyone agrees with that.
00:01:47.000 Except, again, for the 18-24 year olds, who believe that while such speech is hate speech, they believe that 70-30, 53% of people aged 18 to 24 believe that students should be told, quote, they are free to call for genocide.
00:01:59.000 That's correct.
00:02:00.000 A majority of people 18 to 24 believe students should be told they are free to call for genocide so long as they are calling for genocide of Jews. 0.96
00:02:07.000 Yes, we have discovered finally the one thing fragile young people aren't fragile about saying the Jews should die. 0.86
00:02:14.000 You think we're done? 0.98
00:02:15.000 This poll gets even worse.
00:02:16.000 While a majority of young people, 7 in 10, agree that Israel is trying to avoid civilian casualties, and 58% of young people agree that Hamas would like to commit a genocide, 76% of young people think Hamas can be negotiated with to create peace, despite the fact that, again, these same young people will acknowledge that Hamas is a genocidal terror group.
00:02:36.000 Here is the kicker.
00:02:38.000 51% of 18 to 24 year olds think, quote, the long-term answer to the Israel-Palestinian dispute is for, quote, Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians.
00:02:50.000 That is correct.
00:02:51.000 A majority of young people admit Hamas is a genocidal group, uses human shields, rapes women, commits evil atrocities on the regular.
00:02:59.000 All of that was polled.
00:03:00.000 A majority of them believe it.
00:03:02.000 And they still want Israel destroyed and handed over to Hamas.
00:03:05.000 51% say the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict is for Israel to be destroyed and handed over to Hamas.
00:03:14.000 So, why do all these young people think all of these truly evil things?
00:03:18.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:04:22.000 Okay, so.
00:04:25.000 Again, a majority of people aged 18 to 24 in this latest Harvard-Harris poll believe Israel should be obliterated and Hamas should take its place. 0.99
00:04:32.000 That same majority believes that Hamas is a genocidal terror group that committed mass rape, that targets civilians, and that wants to kill every Jew. 0.99
00:04:41.000 So what the hell is going on? 0.97
00:04:42.000 Well, thankfully, this poll actually spells out the answer.
00:04:45.000 The biggest question and answer takes place on page 56 of this poll.
00:04:49.000 This is where we learn that Americans were asked a very simple question, quote, There's an ideology that white people are oppressors and non-white people and people of certain groups have been oppressed and as a result should be favored today at universities and for employment.
00:05:03.000 Do you support or oppose this ideology?
00:05:06.000 Pretty easy answer, right?
00:05:08.000 I mean, that's a really, really bad ideology.
00:05:11.000 Of course you can't simply assume that white people are oppressors and non-white people are victims. 1.00
00:05:16.000 That's morally imbecilic. 0.99
00:05:18.000 Some white people are oppressors, and some are victims. 1.00
00:05:20.000 And some non-white people are oppressors, and some are victims. 0.99
00:05:22.000 The claim that white people are by nature oppressors and that non-white people are the oppressed is ridiculous on the merit. 0.99
00:05:28.000 After all, here is a partial list of ethnicities who earn more on average than white Americans do. 0.97
00:05:34.000 Indian-Americans, Filipino-Americans, Taiwanese-Americans, Sri Lankan-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Malaysian-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Pakistani-Americans, the list goes on and on.
00:05:41.000 None of those people are white.
00:05:43.000 Well, as you might expect, most Americans believe that this intersectional ideology is quite terrible.
00:05:49.000 65% of Americans overall believe that the ideology that white people are oppressors and non-white people and people of certain groups have been oppressed.
00:05:55.000 65% of Americans believe that that ideology is bad and they oppose it.
00:06:01.000 Not young people. 1.00
00:06:02.000 They support it.
00:06:03.000 Not only do they support it, they support it at a rate of 79% to 21%.
00:06:10.000 8 to 2.
00:06:11.000 Only a bare majority of 25 to 34 year olds, by the way, disagree with that sentiment.
00:06:15.000 49% of people aged 25 to 34 believe that white people are oppressors and non-white people are victims.
00:06:21.000 You want to know why the younger generation hates Israel? 0.94
00:06:24.000 Because they hate the West. 0.98
00:06:25.000 According to those same 18-24 year olds, Jews are part of that oppressor class. 0.97
00:06:30.000 Some 67% of people aged 18-24, two-thirds, agree that, quote, Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors. 0.86
00:06:41.000 That's astonishing. 0.91
00:06:43.000 The evil of critical race theory, or as we now call it more innocuously, diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI, the stuff that you hear on campus at your corporation, it rears its head in all of the ugliest places.
00:06:54.000 Now, we shouldn't be all that shocked by these numbers among young people for this oppressor oppressed white people versus everyone else evil binary.
00:07:02.000 The Barack Obama coalition of the supposedly marginalized, which for Democrats always meant racial and sexual minorities, is numerically strongest among young people.
00:07:10.000 Just 52% of 18 to 24 year olds are white in America.
00:07:13.000 Similarly, about 20% of generations years, disproportionately white, say they're LGBTQ plus minus divided by signs.
00:07:20.000 So, if you believe in intersectional ideology, there are a lot of people who fit right into that intersectional ideology.
00:07:25.000 Now, here's the thing.
00:07:26.000 Demographics should not be destiny.
00:07:28.000 Hispanic voters in Florida, for example, are voting increasingly Republican. 1.00
00:07:32.000 It shouldn't really matter how many young people in America are white or not white because they're all individuals and they should stop thinking stupid crap no matter their ethnicity. 0.99
00:07:40.000 But the left's core oppressor-oppressed philosophy is that all that matters is your group identity. 1.00
00:07:45.000 If you're a minority, but not a Jew or an Asian seeking to get into college, you are a victim. 0.86
00:07:50.000 As the radical left wins ideologically, it's no surprise that group minority identity, a demographically growing piece of the American pie, is driving anti-white hatred in larger numbers. 0.58
00:08:01.000 And by proxy, anti-Jewish hatred as well. 0.98
00:08:03.000 Because young people have been indoctrinated by three generations of this trash, it's becoming part and parcel of the Democratic Party playbook. 0.98
00:08:10.000 Right now, there is a battle for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party itself between the moderate liberals and the radical left. 0.74
00:08:16.000 The moderates still think the system can be changed and shaped in order to accommodate the supposedly marginalized, the demands of the people who feel excluded.
00:08:24.000 But they don't actually believe the system ought to be obliterated.
00:08:27.000 The Biden administration is supposedly on this team.
00:08:29.000 They wave their hands a lot at equity, but they don't actually seek to implement it in the ways the radicals would most love, which is why you see the radical left, for example, very angry at Joe Biden these days. 0.95
00:08:38.000 The radicals think the moderates are weak and foolish, and they are more than happy to use them as their tools.
00:08:43.000 That's why, for example, the New York Times is suddenly all in favor of free speech, but only when it comes to students chanting for Israel's obliteration. 0.95
00:08:50.000 According to the New York Times over the weekend, quote, universities are under tremendous pressure to stamp out
00:08:54.000 antisemitism, but some say that is causing fear and curbing free
00:08:57.000 expression.
00:08:58.000 Free speech on campus has never been much of a priority for the New York Times, needless to say.
00:09:04.000 The same weekend the New York Times ran this rather long piece, former op-ed page editor James Bennett of the New York Times wrote a 16,000-word essay for The Economist, slamming the Times for their own censoriousness.
00:09:17.000 They destroyed his career for the great sin of platforming Senator Tom Cotton, a sitting senator who advocated in 2020 for using the National Guard to put down violent riots.
00:09:25.000 Here's what Bennett wrote, quote, The New York Times, in other words, is a font head of censorship.
00:09:28.000 They are anti-free speech.
00:09:29.000 through which America's progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist.
00:09:34.000 The Times' problem has metastasized from liberal bias to illiberal bias,
00:09:38.000 from an inclination to favor one side of the national debate
00:09:41.000 to an impulse to shut down debate altogether.
00:09:44.000 The New York Times, in other words, is a fond head of censorship.
00:09:46.000 They are anti-free speech, but this is the same Times suddenly concerned
00:09:50.000 about free speech when you're chanting from the river to the sea.
00:09:53.000 Or they are lying and they don't care about free speech.
00:09:55.000 They just are radical.
00:09:57.000 My hunch?
00:09:58.000 They are lying.
00:10:00.000 What the radicals want is to use the tools of liberalism in order to push radical, illiberal evil designed to tear down the West. 0.65
00:10:07.000 That is what is happening with young people who are now suggesting that in the name of diversity and tolerance and equity and inclusion, Israel, the only tolerant and diverse country in the entire Middle East, ought to be destroyed and replaced with the Sharia law terrorists of Hamas. 0.72
00:10:21.000 That is why young people are preaching diversity, equity, inclusion in the United States.
00:10:25.000 And what they really mean is anti-white hatred in the name of reparative justice, quote unquote.
00:10:32.000 This is, by the way, why we see piece after piece in the mainstream media talking about the generation gap among young Jews who seem not to understand their foolishly liberal parents who spent decades telling their kids they're all for a variety of viewpoints, no judgment here, while kids were indoctrinated with hatred of their own parents and their own civilization.
00:10:49.000 Take, for example, a story from today's Wall Street Journal about a family called the Wertschafters.
00:10:54.000 Grandma Wertschafter lived with her husband and children in Jerusalem during the 1973 war, the Yom Kippur War.
00:10:59.000 She is a Zionist.
00:11:00.000 Her son David, one generation removed, is a Reform rabbi in Lexington, Kentucky, who calls himself a progressive Zionist.
00:11:08.000 This is code for a Jewish guy by birth who cares more about progressivism than anything remotely Jewish. 0.96
00:11:12.000 He then married another progressive Zionist who herself, quote, has studied right-wing religious movements and said she is troubled by ethno-nationalism in all of its forms.
00:11:20.000 So she's a rabid left-winger and is happy to label her opponents ethno-nationalists. 0.89
00:11:24.000 Both of them consider themselves believers in the definitionless mush of tikkun olam, a term frequently used by Jews by birth who don't really believe much about Judaism, but are looking for a Hebrew phrase to hang their anti-biblical left-wing social justice politics upon.
00:11:39.000 Tikkun olam has no predicate in halakha in Jewish law.
00:11:42.000 It is literally a phrase in one prayer that has been blown into an entire ideology that has very little to do or nothing to do with actual Jewish practice.
00:11:51.000 So, how did these progressive Zionists raise their kids? 0.99
00:11:54.000 Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, they imparted that Jewish concept of pursuing social justice to their two children and encouraged them to think critically and speak up.
00:12:02.000 Their daughter and son, Emmanuel and Zachariah, now hate Israel and wish it to be disestablished as a Jewish state.
00:12:09.000 Emmanuel El said she wouldn't even attend post-October 7th events that featured Israeli flags.
00:12:15.000 Now that problem isn't unique to Jews.
00:12:17.000 It's a generational problem across the West.
00:12:19.000 Liberal parents breed radical children who use the cowardice of their parents, who refuse to stand for any principle other than openness and tolerance, They use that as their leverage to tear down the entire system.
00:12:31.000 Meanwhile, their milk-sop coward parents sit there and nod their heads weakly as they explain
00:12:35.000 as the Warchafters do, quote, I don't agree with Emanuel on every political issue, 0.61
00:12:39.000 including aspects of this current crisis, but I'm tremendously proud of her for standing up for what
00:12:44.000 she believes in. 0.96
00:12:45.000 But what if your kids believe that white people and Jews are the oppressors? 0.98
00:12:50.000 What then? 0.97
00:12:50.000 Are you still supposed to be proud that they are quote-unquote thinking for themselves? 0.97
00:12:54.000 Or have you idiotically turned your own children into radicals who hate you and everything that your own principles were based upon? 0.98
00:13:02.000 Radicals have been playing this game since the 1960s, and quietly, they have been winning. 1.00
00:13:06.000 And they will continue to win until disaffected liberals realize they have been played for suckers and stop mouthing platitudes about the joy of tolerance and diversity as their own children prepare their defenestration in the name of weaponized social justice.
00:13:20.000 In just one second, we'll get to the latest from Israel where, again, people keep trying to create some sort of momentum for a peace deal that does not exist with an actual honest-to-God terror group. 0.95
00:13:30.000 It's insane.
00:13:30.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.
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00:14:28.000 And this poll should be deeply, deeply troubling to anyone with half a brain because what it says Is that an entire generation of young people has been indoctrinated to believe that one segment of society is responsible for the ills of every other segment of society.
00:14:42.000 And it can be divided by race.
00:14:44.000 It can be divided by group status.
00:14:46.000 Well, that is the death of any functioning republic.
00:14:50.000 That is a destructive impulse.
00:14:51.000 By the way, one of the things that's truly insane here is the same exact poll that shows that 79% of young people actually believe in this terrible ideology.
00:15:01.000 49% of young people believe it's bad for the United States.
00:15:04.000 So it's almost split 50-50 on whether young people believe this ideology is bad for the United States, but 8 to 2, they agree with the ideology anyway, which suggests they don't like the United States very much.
00:15:14.000 Hey, that's how bad things have gotten with the younger generation.
00:15:18.000 And again, that is because of their parents.
00:15:19.000 That is because an entire educational system that has been driven by the notion
00:15:24.000 that you don't have to teach your kids what to think, you teach them quote unquote, how to think.
00:15:28.000 Well, no, it starts with teaching your kids what to think.
00:15:31.000 Only afterwards are they qualified to think about how to think.
00:15:36.000 It turns out that if the only thing you teach your kids is all thoughts are equally good, 1.00
00:15:40.000 you have taught them nothing, you're a fool. 0.99
00:15:42.000 If what you have taught your kids is that the essence of any good society 1.00
00:15:48.000 is simply the amount of dissent that takes place in the society
00:15:51.000 rather than the fundamental principles upon which the society is based.
00:15:54.000 You shouldn't be surprised when dissent is then used as a weapon to tear down the very thing you treasure.
00:15:59.000 This has been true since the 1960s.
00:16:01.000 Herbert Marcuse was a philosopher from the 1960s, Frankfurt School philosopher.
00:16:05.000 He taught among other places at Columbia and Harvard.
00:16:08.000 And in the University of California system, and he coined a term that he called repressive tolerance.
00:16:12.000 Repressive tolerance was the idea that all ideas that oppose the left ought to be repressed.
00:16:18.000 Because after all, there was this conspiratorial system in which a very powerful group of people at the top kept everyone else down.
00:16:24.000 And free speech, all the liberal principles were actually inventions of the powerful.
00:16:30.000 This is the post-modernist deconstructionist ideology, which is that there are no principles, there's only systems of power.
00:16:36.000 So that means that free speech is a system of power, property rights is a system of power.
00:16:40.000 All of that, said Marcuse, have been manipulated by people at the very top level, and that has to be torn down in order to re-establish some form of equality or equity or social justice.
00:16:50.000 And then he said, the only way to do that, to tear down the system, is to repress people that we disagree with. 0.94
00:16:55.000 That's how you end up with people who purport to be on the left, who are supporting Hamas, which throws gay people off roofs. 0.97
00:17:02.000 That's how they get there. 0.99
00:17:03.000 It doesn't matter that those people from Hamas would throw the gay leftists off the roofs. 0.99
00:17:07.000 That doesn't matter. 0.93
00:17:09.000 Queers for Palestine only exists as a group because of this ideology, that you're either a member of the oppressor class or a member of the oppressed class, and that's all that matters in life.
00:17:18.000 That's also how you end up justifying the myriad evils of Hamas, because it doesn't matter what they do. 0.89
00:17:23.000 They're always oppressed enough that they can do whatever they want.
00:17:26.000 Your level of oppression now justifies literally anything and everything.
00:17:30.000 So over the weekend, we saw a wide variety of Hamas human rights violations, Israel, for example, released a tape of an entire terror tunnel that was built by Hamas.
00:17:41.000 This is an insane, insane tape.
00:17:43.000 Okay, so Hamas built a terror tunnel that is so large you can drive trucks through it.
00:17:48.000 It was built down to 50 meters underground, like 150 feet underground to avoid bombing on top of it.
00:17:54.000 This is actually a tape of Yahya Sinwar's brother, Mohammed Sinwar, driving through the terror tunnel in a truck.
00:18:02.000 Look at the size of this tunnel.
00:18:04.000 This tunnel looks like a tunnel in California.
00:18:10.000 They used boring equipment to actually bore holes into the earth.
00:18:17.000 This thing is kilometers long.
00:18:19.000 Four kilometers long.
00:18:21.000 This is where they spent all their money.
00:18:23.000 But don't worry, Hamas is a peace partner. 0.94
00:18:26.000 Hamas, by the way, would win an election in the West Bank right now if an election were held in the West Bank right now. 0.72
00:18:31.000 Meanwhile, what is Hamas doing with the aid trucks?
00:18:33.000 So, there's been a lot of pressure on Israel to ship more aid into the Gaza Strip.
00:18:37.000 Israel has now deployed extra resources in order to allow shipment of aid into the Gaza Strip.
00:18:43.000 The problem is, it's not being distributed on the other side of the Gaza Strip.
00:18:45.000 So Israel is ready to clear more aid to go into the Gaza Strip.
00:18:48.000 What actually is happening to that aid?
00:18:50.000 Well, here you can see pretty clearly what's happening to that aid.
00:18:52.000 The UAE sent in aid.
00:18:54.000 It literally says on the side of this giant truck, UAE aid for those affected in Gaza.
00:18:58.000 Who's riding on top of the truck?
00:19:01.000 Why, look at that!
00:19:01.000 It's members of Hamas!
00:19:03.000 With their faces cloaked, and they are holding weapons.
00:19:06.000 Almost as though what Israel claimed, which is that every bit of humanitarian aid would be stolen by Hamas, was true. 0.96
00:19:11.000 Because they stole all of the humanitarian aid, and they are using it to continue their terror war that has ended with the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip.
00:19:20.000 Things are so bad in the Gaza Strip that over the weekend, one of the most tragic stories of the war occurred.
00:19:25.000 Israel accidentally, the IDF, accidentally killed three of the hostages who were taken.
00:19:30.000 They had apparently escaped, their captors, and they had attempted to paint a sign on a sheet that said Hetzilu, right, help us, and it said three Hatufim, meaning three hostages.
00:19:42.000 And Israel thought that it was a trap.
00:19:44.000 Why did they think that was a trap?
00:19:45.000 Because that's what Hamas does.
00:19:46.000 Hamas literally sets traps with fake hostages.
00:19:49.000 They wave white flags when they don't mean it.
00:19:51.000 They literally put dolls connected to crying sounds.
00:19:55.000 They'll put like a recording next to a doll and then strap it with explosives that Israeli soldiers will die.
00:20:00.000 So Israeli soldiers didn't know what to do.
00:20:02.000 And they ended up shooting three hostages who are attempting to signal them for their help.
00:20:06.000 Israel is investigating.
00:20:07.000 Israel is going to end up, I would assume, doing something about the officers who were involved in this shooting.
00:20:12.000 It's a horrible, tragic situation.
00:20:14.000 And it is entirely the fall of Hamas because those people wouldn't be in Gaza in the first place if they had not been taken into Gaza. 0.89
00:20:21.000 And meanwhile, members of the left wing are like, well, that's obvious that Israel is committing human rights violations.
00:20:26.000 You literally have 18, 19, and 20-year-old guys who are going into Gaza and getting killed by the dozens in order to preserve the life of civilians in these areas.
00:20:35.000 And meanwhile, the West continues to maintain that the real onus is on Israel.
00:20:40.000 In just one second, we'll talk about what the United States is doing.
00:20:43.000 Again, they're giving all these mixed signals when it comes to Israel as per the usual arrangement.
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00:21:47.000 Okay, meanwhile, according to the New York Times, The United States is now pushing Israel to quote-unquote scale back the war.
00:21:55.000 Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who has been one of the worst officials in the administration on this, was traveling on Sunday in the Middle East for a visit to Israel and three Persian Gulf nations as Biden administration officials push Israel to end its large-scale grounds and air campaign in the Gaza Strip within weeks and transition to a more focused phase in its war against Hamas.
00:22:10.000 Well, all offers open.
00:22:13.000 I'm sure Israel's like, okay, you got, you want to lay out your plans?
00:22:16.000 Really, like, if you have some magical plans by which Israel can make the Gaza Strip safe and quiescent, I'm sure Israel is willing to hear it considering they currently have tens of thousands of troops deployed in the Gaza Strip right now doing heavy hand-to-hand urban combat. 0.72
00:22:29.000 Austin is supposed to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Galant to discuss in detail what and how Israeli forces will carry out a new phase that American officials envision would involve smaller groups of elite forces.
00:22:40.000 U.S.
00:22:40.000 officials said those forces would move in and out of population centers in Gaza, conducting more precise intelligence-driven missions to find and kill Hamas leaders, rescue hostages, and destroy tunnels, according to those U.S.
00:22:50.000 officials.
00:22:52.000 Now, realistically speaking, the fact is that Israel is going to have to continue the heavy ground operation for at least another couple of weeks.
00:22:58.000 Presumably, the United States is not going to continue to push for the idea that Israel should preemptively end its military actions against Hamas.
00:23:08.000 But I have to say, there's nothing more tiresome, and this is true, whether we're talking about American troops in harm's way in Fallujah, whether you're talking about Israeli troops in harm's way in Gaza, there is nothing more tiresome than listening to politicians jabber about civilian casualties while armies are doing their best to protect both their own soldiers and civilians who are being used as human shields.
00:23:27.000 Chris Van Hollen, Senator from Maryland, he says, we're seeing too many casualties.
00:23:30.000 Again, I'm sure that if he had a magical way to avoid that, Israel would be all ears. 0.90
00:23:35.000 So, Senator Van Hollen, you heard President Biden's message quite clear there.
00:23:39.000 Jake Sullivan was obviously in Israel delivering a similar message.
00:23:44.000 Now we've learned overnight that Defense Secretary Austin is on his way to the region.
00:23:48.000 Is the message getting through?
00:23:50.000 Well, I don't think it's getting through clearly enough because we continue to see unacceptably high levels of civilian casualties.
00:24:00.000 And when it comes to the humanitarian crisis, we still have a near total siege.
00:24:07.000 Question, what would the acceptable level of civilian casualties be given that Israel's ratio of terrorists killed to civilians killed is actually lower than in any modern conflict ever in a heavy urban area?
00:24:18.000 It's all ridiculousness. 0.96
00:24:19.000 It's all ridiculousness. 0.94
00:24:20.000 But what it really underscores is that for the West, there is still this sort of baseline liberal belief that if you cave to intransigent terrorists somehow, this makes the world a better place.
00:24:32.000 Well, the Biden administration is finding out the hard way that isn't the truth when it comes to Yemen.
00:24:36.000 The Houthis are holding up the shipping through the Bab el-Mandib Strait, which is a place where about 10% of all world shipping goes through.
00:24:44.000 And now there's talk about not even using that particular area for shipping because of Houthi pirates in the area who are coming from Yemen.
00:24:50.000 The Houthis, you'll recall, are a delisted terror group.
00:24:53.000 They were a terror group that the Biden administration came in and immediately delisted as a terror group upon entry in an attempt to placate the Iranians. 0.95
00:24:59.000 Because remember, the Biden administration wanted to make a deal with Iran as they spread their terror tentacles all over the Middle East. 0.98
00:25:04.000 Well now, according to the Wall Street Journal, the press is reporting that the Biden administration is contemplating the use of military force in response to continuing attacks on commercial shipping by the Houthi militia in Yemen.
00:25:14.000 It's about time.
00:25:14.000 The Houthi missile attacks pose the most significant threat to global shipping in decades.
00:25:17.000 They'll continue unless a global coalition unites to stop them.
00:25:21.000 The USS Karni, a destroyer operating in the Red Sea, shot down no fewer than 14 attack drones launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen on Saturday alone.
00:25:29.000 A British warship shot down a Houthi drone after it was dispatched to the region to protect commercial ships.
00:25:33.000 This follows weeks of similar attacks U.S.
00:25:35.000 warships have felt obliged to intercept to protect themselves and other ships.
00:25:39.000 The Houthis have said that their attacks are aimed at stopping Israeli vessels, but apparently they're not just doing that.
00:25:45.000 They're targeting commercial ships willy-nilly.
00:25:47.000 They struck a Liberian flagship in the Red Sea on Friday, and they launched two ballistic missiles, one of which struck another commercial ship as well.
00:25:55.000 This is making the Red Sea non-navigable.
00:25:57.000 Major commercial ship lines have already announced they will cease sending ships into harm's way.
00:26:00.000 Maersk, which is the shipping giant, has stopped sending vessels through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
00:26:06.000 That has become a Houthi fire zone.
00:26:09.000 So let's be real about this.
00:26:10.000 The United States and its allies should be taking strike options against the Houthis to stop them from pursuing these sorts of attacks. 1.00
00:26:17.000 Thomas Jefferson was willing to use American military power against the Barbary pirates way back at the beginning of the 19th century.
00:26:26.000 The United States has a massive military advantage over pirates.
00:26:30.000 You're not talking about taking over Yemen.
00:26:31.000 You're not talking about restructuring it.
00:26:32.000 You're not talking about nation building.
00:26:34.000 You're not blowing up a few coastal bases for the Houthis.
00:26:37.000 That's what you're talking about here.
00:26:39.000 Why this is even a question is beyond me.
00:26:41.000 Of course, the United States should take out those Houthi bases. 1.00
00:26:43.000 Of course.
00:26:45.000 Or aid the Saudis in doing it. 0.99
00:26:47.000 Top Biden administration officials apparently, according to Politico, are actively weighing those options to strike back at the Houthis in Yemen.
00:26:54.000 They've been reluctant to respond militarily against the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping for fear of provoking Iran.
00:27:00.000 Fear of provoking Iran? 0.73
00:27:02.000 Seriously?
00:27:02.000 Like, this is the game now.
00:27:04.000 You're afraid of prov- I noticed that Iran seems rather angry, and they have for several decades at this point. 0.99
00:27:09.000 Iran is responsible for the death of thousands of American soldiers in Iraq.
00:27:13.000 Iran is responsible for the metastasis of terror in Lebanon. 1.00
00:27:18.000 They're responsible for the metastasis of terror in the Gaza Strip, in Yemen, In Syria, all over the damn place. 0.98
00:27:25.000 This bizarre notion that, well, it's all blowback, it's all blowback. 0.99
00:27:29.000 You want to talk about bigotry?
00:27:32.000 The bigotry that suggests that the only reason bad people all over the world do bad things is because America is mean? 1.00
00:27:39.000 That's idiotic. 0.99
00:27:40.000 It turns out people have their own interests, and they pursue those own interests with alacrity, particularly in the face of American weakness. 1.00
00:27:46.000 And let's be real about this.
00:27:47.000 If America can't guarantee the freedom of the seas against a A few ragtag pirate dolts in the Bab-El-Mandeb Strait.
00:27:57.000 What the hell do you think China... You want to talk about what China's thinking?
00:27:59.000 There's been a lot of talk about how the pullout from Afghanistan, the precipitous pullout from Afghanistan and collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban, how that incentivized Vladimir Putin to take Ukraine or attempt to take Ukraine, and how what's going on in Ukraine is then going to have knockover effects and follow-on effects with regard to China looking at Taiwan.
00:28:15.000 Well, one of the reasons why China would be concerned about taking Taiwan is because American economic interests would be threatened.
00:28:21.000 Taiwan is the producer of 92% of the world's sophisticated microchips.
00:28:25.000 Not only that, Chinese naval activity in the South China Sea threatens the free shipping of the world and radically changes the global economy. 0.77
00:28:34.000 Well, China might be thinking pretty seriously.
00:28:36.000 Do I want to take on deep water, blue water navies like the United States, even in my own backyard?
00:28:44.000 Is that a conflict I want to take on if the United States is really actually confident about trying to protect global shipping? 0.97
00:28:50.000 If the United States can't even protect shipping in the Red Sea against a bunch of pathetic pirates, hoovy pirates, illiterate jackasses, why exactly would China look at America's naval power and shudder? 0.99
00:29:05.000 They would have to believe that going up against the Chinese, the United States is liable to be a lot more wary and careful than they would against, you know, the hoovies. 1.00
00:29:14.000 But still, everybody continues to futz around.
00:29:18.000 Chris Van Hollen, same person who's saying, I'm very worried about civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip. 1.00
00:29:22.000 Same idiot. 1.00
00:29:22.000 He says, I worry about escalation in the Red Sea. 1.00
00:29:24.000 Oh, do you?
00:29:25.000 Do you worry about that escalation?
00:29:26.000 I noticed the escalation is already happening from the Houthis who are attacking ships.
00:29:32.000 How worried are you that this is about to escalate?
00:29:35.000 And actually, I mean, should it escalate in terms of the United States actually attacking these Houthi positions in Yemen?
00:29:43.000 Well, I worry a lot about escalation, both in the Red Sea area with the Houthis, and as you say, we've shot down their drones.
00:29:50.000 We also have to keep an eye on the northern front with Hezbollah.
00:29:54.000 This is why President Biden sent two aircraft carriers groups to the region, to prevent that kind of escalation.
00:30:01.000 To send a message to Iran, to Hezbollah and others. 0.95
00:30:04.000 So look, I think that the administration has been smart in terms of how it's responded to those attacks, but clearly the risk of an American being killed in the process is high and that would obviously create a big response from the United States.
00:30:24.000 Or the United States could, you know, not wait until an American is killed and just eviscerate the Houthis without, again, engaging in nation building. 0.77
00:30:32.000 You're talking about whether the world's most formidable military, the most formidable military in history, is capable of tamping down a small kitchen fire.
00:30:41.000 That is what you're talking about right now. 0.97
00:30:44.000 Meanwhile, the United States Senate continues to function like the whorehouse that it is. 0.96
00:30:49.000 I mean that absolutely, literally. 0.96
00:30:51.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
00:30:52.000 First, a majority of Gen Z supports left-wing policies like open borders and socialism. 0.89
00:30:57.000 If we don't reach them and change their minds, the country we know and love will be lost forever.
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00:33:16.000 Meanwhile, there are those of us who are very concerned about the state of the United States
00:33:20.000 Because, of course, that place is basically kind of useless at this point.
00:33:25.000 All they seem to do is F around.
00:33:28.000 Well, then that's apparently all they actually do.
00:33:31.000 So, in the worst story of the day, and there are a lot of bad stories, it turns out that there is a Democrat staffer.
00:33:42.000 This person's name is Aidan Mace Jaropsky.
00:33:45.000 A staffer for Maryland Democrat Senator Ben Cardin.
00:33:49.000 He was terminated over the weekend because he was identified online as allegedly one of the two participants in a very graphic porn video filmed in a Senate hearing room.
00:33:57.000 That video was then shared in the chat of a private group for gay men in politics, according to the Daily Caller.
00:34:05.000 In his LinkedIn page, Mace Jaropsky claimed to be a victim of prejudice.
00:34:10.000 Ah, DEI, man.
00:34:15.000 Oh, there's so many jokes I can't say right now.
00:34:17.000 So, so many jokes I cannot say right now.
00:34:20.000 He said he was being attacked for who I love to pursue a political agenda.
00:34:23.000 No, I'm pretty sure it's because you banged a dude in the Senate hearing room on tape.
00:34:31.000 You took it like the American people are taking it from Congress every single day.
00:34:35.000 According to... So bad.
00:34:41.000 Politico remarked, yeah, we definitely advise finding a lawyer.
00:34:44.000 He did not say he was in the video.
00:34:46.000 He said, any attempts to characterize my actions otherwise are fabricated.
00:34:49.000 He said he would never disrespect my workplace.
00:34:51.000 I will be exploring what legal options are available to me in these matters.
00:34:54.000 Yeah, you're the victim.
00:34:55.000 You're the victim. 0.97
00:34:57.000 The sub-headline, by the way, from NBC read, quote, conservative news outlets alleged that the aide to Senator Ben Cardin appeared in a leaked video showing men having sex in a Senate hearing room.
00:35:07.000 A Jewish Ohio Republican named Max Miller has also identified this person.
00:35:12.000 This is the same person who said, free Palestine at him last week.
00:35:16.000 It's all one story.
00:35:17.000 It's all one big story.
00:35:18.000 All of life, one big meta-narrative.
00:35:21.000 Yes, indeed.
00:35:22.000 A charter member of Gays for Palestine happening over here.
00:35:27.000 And bottom line is this.
00:35:28.000 This is what Congress is now good for.
00:35:31.000 We were like, guys, could you, you know, rein in the national debt and, you know, build up the military?
00:35:36.000 And they're like, best we can do is we can give you an aide who bangs. 0.97
00:35:40.000 A gay dude who bangs in this room. 0.99
00:35:44.000 Amazing stuff. 0.99
00:35:44.000 Well, again, where is all of this coming from? 0.99
00:35:48.000 I mean, it's coming from an entire culture that basically says that the chief form of human intellectual development is sex.
00:35:58.000 There's an entire article from Politico magazine about the nation's outgoing STD chief.
00:36:02.000 Here's the title, quote, sex is a normal activity and part of our human experience.
00:36:05.000 And this idea that all over America, people are just deeply ashamed of sex.
00:36:09.000 They won't talk about it.
00:36:10.000 Have you been in America lately?
00:36:11.000 Like in the last few decades?
00:36:13.000 I'm pretty sure it's all Americans talk about for the last several decades.
00:36:16.000 Dr. Leandro Mena has plenty of reasons to lie awake at night.
00:36:19.000 Over the two years he led the CDC's division of STD prevention, he's seen sexually transmitted infections hit record levels, including the highest number of syphilis cases since the Truman administration.
00:36:27.000 So obviously he's doing an incredible job.
00:36:30.000 He's doing a really, really good job.
00:36:32.000 But he says, the biggest problem is really our culture.
00:36:35.000 We as a society have a tremendous difficulty talking about sex and recognizing that sex is a normal activity and part of our human experience.
00:36:41.000 With so much stigma around sex, it bleeds right into the general population and acts like a wall that prevents them from accessing the services that they need.
00:36:48.000 Yes, America's giant STD breakout is because people are too shy talking about sex.
00:36:54.000 Nailed it!
00:36:55.000 That's probably it.
00:36:57.000 Or alternatively, we are a godless culture that has championed the animal instinct above every part of what it means to be a meaningful human being. 0.98
00:37:06.000 And this is why you can do a gay porn video in the Senate and then act like a victim in our culture. 0.98
00:37:12.000 You're a member of the marginalized. 1.00
00:37:13.000 You're only a Senate staffer.
00:37:14.000 You're a member of the marginalized now. 0.99
00:37:16.000 Just ridiculous. 0.99
00:37:17.000 Well, speaking of people getting screwed at the Senate. 0.98
00:37:21.000 So, the Senate continues to futz around on this border-slash-Ukraine-slash-Israel-slash-Taiwan funding bill.
00:37:28.000 Apparently, the Democrats are still attempting to hold up negotiations with regard to border provisions on this giant $105 billion spending package.
00:37:40.000 Democrats are not really making clear what exactly their negotiating position is.
00:37:44.000 Republicans aren't making clear what their negotiating position is on the border.
00:37:49.000 So, Representative Tony Gonzalez, Republican of Texas, he says, listen, we're close, but Republicans, you know, they can't wait on making a border deal.
00:37:55.000 That's why we're putting it in there in the first place.
00:37:58.000 If this is an emergency, you would, in theory, want this to move quickly.
00:38:02.000 Has the Speaker given you any indication of a timeline if the Senate can get this deal?
00:38:11.000 He hasn't, and I don't think many people have, even on the Senate side.
00:38:14.000 I mean, the easiest thing to do in politics is just to wait, you know, wait for somebody else to pop their head out and build a framework and put it all together.
00:38:22.000 But time is running out.
00:38:24.000 We're at a national security crisis point now.
00:38:26.000 I mean, think back to FBI director testifying and saying every light I'm looking at is blinking red.
00:38:34.000 Meanwhile, Senator Lindsey Graham, he says, guys, negotiations aren't that close to resolution.
00:38:39.000 You know, nothing's happening.
00:38:43.000 Let's start with the border negotiations.
00:38:45.000 There is so much focus on that.
00:38:47.000 You have been so focused on that.
00:38:49.000 Can you bring us up to speed?
00:38:51.000 What's the very latest?
00:38:53.000 Do you think there's going to be a deal before the new year?
00:38:55.000 No, I think this will go into next year.
00:38:58.000 I've been talking to the people at the table.
00:39:01.000 The White House got engaged five days ago.
00:39:04.000 They sent over a supplemental with border security provisions that did nothing to change policy.
00:39:10.000 We've been talking to them since September.
00:39:12.000 Five days ago, they finally sat at this table.
00:39:15.000 Senator Lankford's doing a good job.
00:39:17.000 The bottom line here is we feel like we're being jammed.
00:39:21.000 We're not anywhere close to a deal.
00:39:24.000 So what exactly are Democrats doing here?
00:39:25.000 Because again, as I've said before, this could be a big win-win for Joe Biden.
00:39:29.000 If he passes a bill and he gets his Ukraine funding and his Israel funding, Israel funding is bipartisan popular, and border security, which actually will be good for him, what exactly is he waiting for?
00:39:39.000 The answer is that this is a 2024 election ploy, this Senate bill.
00:39:43.000 That's what this is.
00:39:44.000 That's why they're jamming everybody up on the border.
00:39:46.000 So here is the calculation that Joe Biden and the Democrats are making. 0.99
00:39:49.000 The calculation is that Americans will want the Ukraine aid and the Israel aid, but the Democrats can't make a border deal with those crazy Republicans because the crazy Republicans are a bunch of racists like Trump. 0.99
00:40:00.000 That is the deal. 0.99
00:40:02.000 So they would rather kill the bill so they can claim that Donald Trump is a racist, basically. 0.89
00:40:06.000 That is the logic that's being carried out. 0.88
00:40:08.000 So that involves two prongs.
00:40:09.000 One is claiming that Republicans are so pro-Putin that they won't just pass a clean Ukraine bill. 0.97
00:40:14.000 This is, again, Senator Chris Van Hollen, idiot from Maryland, suggesting it's a pivotal moment for American leadership in history. 0.96
00:40:19.000 Not so pivotal that they'll actually pass a bill, but pivotal enough to grandstand about it. 0.97
00:40:24.000 I think it's essential that we provide military assistance to Ukraine.
00:40:27.000 This is a pivotal moment in American leadership and history.
00:40:33.000 And we need to make sure that we help our Ukrainian friends against Putin's aggression, not just to protect their freedom, but because it would send a terrible signal around the world to our allies who would no longer trust us and to our adversaries who would be emboldened if we're not doing that.
00:40:51.000 I do love the mixed signals from Van Hollen.
00:40:53.000 When it comes to Israel, it's like, we gotta stop this. 0.97
00:40:55.000 This has to stop.
00:40:56.000 When it comes to Ukraine, it's like, oh man, our allies will just be, they'll be so afraid if we abandon Ukraine.
00:41:02.000 It's all mixed.
00:41:03.000 But why won't they just sign the border deal?
00:41:05.000 The reason they won't sign the border deal is they need to keep the border issue alive, they think.
00:41:09.000 Because they think that if they keep the border issue alive, they're going to be able to polarize the American population around the border issue, which again, is a very weird calculation being made.
00:41:17.000 So what are they counting on there?
00:41:18.000 Because if you look at the polls, what you see is Americans trust Republicans on immigration way more than they trust Democrats.
00:41:24.000 Which is why you would think that if this were 1998 and Dick Morris were running the Clinton administration, there'd be some sort of triangulation where Democrats would sign on to border security provisions.
00:41:31.000 They're not doing that.
00:41:33.000 Why?
00:41:33.000 The answer is, they believe that Donald Trump will stick his foot down his throat.
00:41:36.000 That's what they believe.
00:41:37.000 They believe that Donald Trump will make even the right-wing immigration position that most Americans like and are sympathetic to unpalatable.
00:41:45.000 So that was the story over the weekend with regards to the Trump campaign.
00:41:48.000 So right now, the polls are kind of fascinating.
00:41:50.000 Iowa, Trump seems to be way ahead.
00:41:52.000 But again, Iowa's a weird state to poll because it's a caucus state.
00:41:55.000 It's not just a straight up Democratic vote state.
00:41:58.000 It's a place where you get together in little rooms with groups and then you have first choices and second choices.
00:42:03.000 So if you vote for Nikki Haley and she doesn't make the runoff, then you can shift your vote to DeSantis, something like that.
00:42:07.000 So, still a possibility that DeSantis could win Iowa, although the latest poll has Trump up over 30 points in Iowa.
00:42:13.000 Things are getting a lot closer in New Hampshire, however.
00:42:16.000 The latest poll from New Hampshire has Trump up only 15, 44 to 29 over Nikki Haley.
00:42:20.000 And there's still another 21% outstanding between Christie and DeSantis in New Hampshire.
00:42:26.000 So things are starting to get a little tight in New Hampshire for President Trump's comfort.
00:42:31.000 So Donald Trump was back out on the stump and this is going to be the biggest problem in his campaign is that he's just going to say things that set things on fire.
00:42:39.000 So here is Donald Trump over the weekend and he was talking about immigration.
00:42:43.000 Now, I think that this comment is being rather deliberately misread by the media because this is the usual arrangement.
00:42:49.000 However, is Donald Trump apt to say things that set things on fire?
00:42:54.000 Yeah, that's literally his entire career.
00:42:55.000 So here was Trump rallying in New Hampshire.
00:42:58.000 Plenty of the other life, right?
00:43:00.000 We've had plenty of the other life.
00:43:01.000 We got a lot of work to do.
00:43:03.000 You know, when they let, I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country when they do that.
00:43:09.000 We got a lot of work to do.
00:43:11.000 They're poisoning the blood of our country.
00:43:13.000 That's what they've done.
00:43:14.000 They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world.
00:43:24.000 They're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.
00:43:29.000 They're pouring into our country. 1.00
00:43:31.000 Nobody's even looking at them.
00:43:32.000 They just come in.
00:43:34.000 Okay, so this is why Joe Biden and Democrats are gambling on not passing a bill that includes border security.
00:43:50.000 Because what they are hoping is that they will be able to play comments like the one that Trump just made there and say that what Trump is, Trump's immigration policy is racist.
00:43:57.000 Get together the coalition of the dispossessed to stop Trump. 0.59
00:44:00.000 That's what they're hoping.
00:44:00.000 Now I want to get to what I think Trump actually is saying there, like in his words, in just one second.
00:44:05.000 Because again, I think this is deliberate misread.
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00:45:09.000 Now, again, the entire Democratic line of attack with regards to immigration is that Trump is a racist.
00:45:14.000 They've been using this since 2015.
00:45:15.000 It didn't work then.
00:45:16.000 I don't think it's going to work now.
00:45:18.000 It is part and parcel of their broader Trump is a Hitlerian figure shtick.
00:45:23.000 So Trump, again, he makes this comment where he says, they're poisoning the blood of our country.
00:45:28.000 And he's talking about Democrats.
00:45:30.000 Just to analyze the actual verbiage that Donald Trump uses right there, we can play it again.
00:45:34.000 Because one of the big problems with how Trump talks is that he never makes his antecedents clear.
00:45:39.000 An antecedent is the thing you mean when you say they.
00:45:41.000 If I just say they in a sentence, they refers to some people.
00:45:43.000 You don't know which people I'm referring to if the antecedent is unclear.
00:45:47.000 Trump does not make the antecedents clear.
00:45:48.000 So in this particular clip, he uses they to refer to two separate things without actually switching the antecedents.
00:45:55.000 Weird.
00:45:56.000 So play the clip again and we're actually going to stop it.
00:45:58.000 I know it's like the Zapruder film, but that's true every time you try to decode Trumpism.
00:46:01.000 So here is Trump.
00:46:02.000 Let's play it one more time.
00:46:04.000 Plenty of the other life, right?
00:46:06.000 We've had plenty of the other life.
00:46:08.000 We got a lot of work to do.
00:46:09.000 You know, when they let, I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country.
00:46:14.000 When they do that, we got a lot of work to do.
00:46:18.000 They're poisoning the blood of our country.
00:46:20.000 That's what they've done.
00:46:21.000 They poison mental institutions.
00:46:23.000 Okay, when he says they, who's he talking about?
00:46:26.000 Clearly Democrats, right?
00:46:27.000 He's talking about his political opposition.
00:46:29.000 He's saying they're letting everyone into the country. 0.99
00:46:31.000 They're poisoning the blood, not immigrants. 1.00
00:46:34.000 They, meaning that when you have a brand open border and you're letting in anyone up to and including people on the terror watch list, when you're letting people through who don't have any job qualifications, when you're letting through members of MS-13, Well then, you, as the person in charge of the immigration system, are poisoning the blood of the country.
00:46:50.000 Now, I don't like that phraseology, because again, it's deliberately vague, and it's very inflammatory if read in a particular way, which is how the media are reading it, obviously.
00:46:59.000 He doesn't mean immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country.
00:47:01.000 He means that the people who are leaving the border open are thereby degrading what it means to be American.
00:47:09.000 Which is true for any country, by the way, that has completely open borders.
00:47:12.000 Countries, generally speaking, with welfare states should not have completely open borders.
00:47:17.000 Everybody is figuring this out in Europe, by the way.
00:47:19.000 So, again, if you just stop the clip right there, what he is talking about is Democrats.
00:47:25.000 Then he moves on, he starts talking about immigrants.
00:47:26.000 But he starts, you use the same word, he says they, right?
00:47:29.000 But the they he's now referring to are immigrants.
00:47:33.000 ...and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world.
00:47:41.000 They're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.
00:47:46.000 They're pouring into our country. 1.00
00:47:47.000 Nobody's even looking at them.
00:47:48.000 They just come in.
00:47:50.000 The crime is going to be tremendous.
00:47:52.000 The terrorism is going to be... Now he's switched topics, right?
00:47:55.000 He's now talking about the immigrants themselves.
00:47:57.000 He says, they're coming into our country. 1.00
00:47:58.000 They're pouring in from all these different places.
00:48:00.000 The crime is going to be tremendous and all the rest.
00:48:01.000 And that's no different from anything that he's been saying about illegal immigration the whole time.
00:48:05.000 So, what the media are doing is they're saying that when he says, they're poisoning the blood of our country, that's the quote, that's the big catch quote, they're using that to say that he means immigrants as opposed to Democrats setting immigration policy.
00:48:17.000 This is fascist rhetoric.
00:48:18.000 CNN doing precisely this routine yesterday.
00:48:20.000 This is CNN's guest Ruth Ben-Giad, who's, you know, she's getting a second life
00:48:24.000 as a commentator here because she wrote some books on fascism and now gets to say that Trump has won.
00:48:28.000 This is, you know, this is fascist rhetoric.
00:48:33.000 The worries about polluting the blood of the superior race go as a standard of Nazism. 0.88
00:48:39.000 It's not just the Nazis, it's also fascists in Italy. 0.55
00:48:43.000 Mussolini literally talked about killing rats to go back to Trump's use of vermin in an earlier speech. 0.94
00:48:50.000 He talked about killing rats who were bringing infectious diseases and communism into Italy. 0.95
00:48:57.000 Okay, again, he's like Mussolini, he's like Hitler, because when he says they're poisoning the blood, he means immigrants.
00:49:03.000 Again, read the comments or listen to them.
00:49:06.000 He's talking about Democrats setting open borders policies.
00:49:09.000 That's what he's talking about.
00:49:10.000 Just to be clear.
00:49:11.000 Chris Christie, of course, is jumping on this.
00:49:13.000 Why Chris Christie is still in the race is beyond me.
00:49:15.000 Chris Christie is going to be the rationale for why Donald Trump wins New Hampshire if he stays in.
00:49:19.000 Right now, his membership in that race is keeping Nikki Haley from being neck and neck with Trump. 0.78
00:49:25.000 But he's staying in anyway for no reason that anyone can discern.
00:49:27.000 He's currently running, by the way, fourth in New Hampshire after Ron DeSantis.
00:49:32.000 South America, Africa, Asia, immigrants poisoning the blood of our country. 1.00
00:49:36.000 The words of the leading Republican presidential candidate.
00:49:39.000 Your response?
00:49:39.000 Again, that's not correct.
00:49:41.000 He's disgusting. 0.99
00:49:44.000 And what he's doing is dog whistling. 0.99
00:49:47.000 to Americans who feel absolutely under stress and strain from the economy and from the conflicts
00:49:53.000 around the world. And he's dog whistling it to blame it on people from areas that don't look
00:49:59.000 like us. And look, Jake, the other problem is this is a state, right? And the Biden administration
00:50:04.000 did the same thing. They said, quote, Tonight, Donald Trump channeled his role models as he
00:50:08.000 parodied Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president
00:50:11.000 on a promise to rule as dictator and threaten American democracy. Right. This is going to be
00:50:15.000 to be the shtick.
00:50:16.000 This is the reason they're not cutting some sort of border deal.
00:50:19.000 Because they continue to believe strongly that if they run against Trump, then any deal they cut with Republicans will look like a deal with Trump.
00:50:26.000 They would rather get nothing done in the Senate.
00:50:28.000 They would rather let Ukraine and Israel and Taiwan aid all die than give some sort of border deal, apparently, to the Republicans. 0.87
00:50:36.000 They would much rather sit aside and let all of that die so that they can yell at Trump and suggest that the Republicans are fascist Trump tools. 0.64
00:50:42.000 That is the basic idea.
00:50:43.000 That's the only logic that I can discern for why Joe Biden hasn't just cut a border deal by now.
00:50:47.000 That's literally the only rationale I can think of for why they haven't just cut a border deal, which would be a net win for him if he did.
00:50:54.000 It would take immigration partially off the table because you could say he triangulated on the issue.
00:50:58.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we will get to The Democratic side of the aisle, where Hunter Biden continues to be a millstone around the Biden campaign's neck.
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