The Met Gala was a celebration of the nation s second black president, Kamala Harris. But it was also a fashion show about Black culture and identity. And it was held in a world where race and identity were the center of attention.
00:01:08.000And so now we are in this weird nether region in which the left continues to whine that Kamala Harris should have won the election, even though she lost pretty clearly and evidently.
00:01:17.000And the rest of the world wonders why people are dressed up in bizarre outfits paying homage to something or other.
00:01:26.000Last October, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute announced its next fashion show superfine, tailoring black style, the political landscape looked very different.
00:01:34.000Kamala Harris, the first female vice president and first black woman ever to top a major party ticket, was in the final weeks of her campaign before the White House.
00:01:41.000The show, the culmination of five years of work by Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute's curator in charge to diversify the department's holdings and shows in the wake of the racial reckoning brought about by George Floyd's murder, seemed long overdue.
00:01:52.000Yes, there was nothing that was longer overdue than a fashion show about black fashion.
00:02:12.000However, according to the New York Times, on Monday, when the Met Gala opens, the starry guest at its signature gala, the splashiest party of the year, it did so in a very different world.
00:02:21.000One in which the federal government has functionally declared war on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as programming related to race, especially in cultural institutions.
00:02:30.000So, a bunch of big names did not show up to the Met Gala who historically had.
00:02:34.000That includes people like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
00:02:37.000But the resistance showed up in force.
00:02:40.000Now, the theme of this year's Met Gala, according to the Metropolitan Museum, was, again, superfine, tailoring black style.
00:02:48.000And this was based on an exhibit at the Met Museum that, quote, explores the importance of style to the formation of black identities in the Atlantic diaspora, particularly in the United States and Europe.
00:02:57.000Through a presentation of garments and accessories, paintings, photographs, decorative art, and more, from the 18th century to today, the exhibition interprets the concept of Dandyism as boasts an aesthetic.
00:03:07.000And a strategy that allowed for new social and political possibilities.
00:03:11.000So the goal here is to, I suppose, recreate the mood of outfits that were worn by black people in resistance to white supremacy.
00:03:21.000According to the Met Museum, together, these characteristics demonstrate how one's self-presentation is a mode of distinction and resistance within a society impacted by race, gender, class, and sexuality.
00:03:32.000So you will notice that this is not sort of...
00:03:36.000Typical sartorial splendor for black people of the past.
00:03:41.000And in fact, if you watch movies and shows that are made about the early 20th century, there was a form of black fashion, and it is actually quite cool.
00:03:49.000I mean, a lot of the stuff that people were wearing in the early 20th century, pretty neat.
00:03:56.000Because in order to prop up the sort of intersectional ideology that suggests...
00:04:03.000That being black is equivalent to being gay, is equivalent to being transgender, is equivalent to being transgressive in virtually all of its forms.
00:04:10.000That is how it came out over at the Met Gala.
00:04:12.000Now, we should always point out that the Met Gala is a bit of Marie Antoinette in the modern American landscape.
00:04:19.000Every year, a bunch of very rich and very famous people get enormous attention for wearing some of the most bizarre crap imaginable.
00:04:26.000And then we are told that they are brave and groundbreaking for doing so.
00:04:30.000Well, the rest of the country tries to, you know, just pay its bills.
00:04:34.000This year, obviously, it was race-directed.
00:04:37.000And this is the backlash that the left is going to have to confront.
00:04:42.000Because in reality, politically, the American people are tired of DEI.
00:04:59.000When it comes to the Met Gala, however, again, you have the world's most rich, most famous people who are focusing in on racial differentiation.
00:05:06.000It does come with some awkwardness because a bunch of white people went to the Met Gala.
00:05:09.000And so you do wonder if this runs into charges of cultural appropriation.
00:05:13.000So many of the DEI traps about race are catch-22s.
00:05:17.000So on the one hand, for example, there will be a suggestion that if a historically black area has a lot of investment and people drive up the real estate prices, this is gentrification and wrecking the neighborhood.
00:05:27.000If white people move out of that area, then that is presumably white flight.
00:05:31.000And the same thing holds true when it comes to things like fashion.
00:05:34.000If white people pay tribute to black people through fashion, then that is cultural appropriation.
00:05:39.000And if they don't, then that is neglecting the impact of black fashion on America and the West and all the rest.
00:05:47.000If the future of the Democratic Party is re-embracing DEI and re-embracing it through a sort of ephete fashionista sensibility, Good luck to the Democrats.
00:05:58.000This is precisely the kind of crap that most Americans are ready to end.
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00:09:59.000Being Cardi B. She apparently just picked up a velvet rug and decided to wear that around.
00:10:09.000Again, the disconnect between the celebrity class and the rest of America is nowhere more obvious than when it comes to the Met Gala.
00:10:17.000And the willingness of the celebrity class, which again, exists in its own class.
00:10:20.000Cardi B has much more in common with Tom Cruise than she does with a black person working long hours at a factory in Baltimore or something.
00:10:28.000The class differentiation at the Met Gala is the thing that sets it apart, and the attempt to cross-cut the class differentiation by reference to race is a giant failure.
00:10:38.000It's why the Democratic Party has failed, because they moved away from their sort of class-conscious soft Marxism, the populism of the Bernie Sanders, and they moved toward a racial Marxism that is incredibly divisive and most people find off-putting and annoying.
00:10:54.000Again, these outfits are bizarre and ridiculous.
00:10:57.000Okay, here's Gayle King straight from the moon.
00:10:58.000So Gayle King is one of the lady astronauts who's not an astronaut who was put on Blue Origin and then the rocket came back to Earth for better or for worse.
00:11:06.000And she showed up wearing what appears to be a purple gown merged with a jellyfish in some way.
00:11:16.000And again, look, I can make fun of the Met Gala all day long because it's ridiculous.
00:11:21.000Colin Kaepernick has not been relevant in American discourse for well over a decade at this point.
00:11:26.000Colin Kaepernick, who became famous by being a second-rate quarterback who lost his job and then decided that he hated America, is still somehow getting invites to some of the most important cultural events of the season.
00:11:37.000He showed up wearing a sort of purplish outfit with a cape.
00:12:41.000And again, shows the wild disconnect between a party that claims to stand for the lower classes and what they actually wish to do in their spare time.
00:12:48.000And this brings us to an article from The New Yorker.
00:12:51.000This article from New Yorker magazine is an article about the living rooms of the rich and famous.
00:12:56.000Quote, This is the effete liberalism that cosplays as radical, but actually is just ridiculous.
00:13:17.000Going all the way back to this sort of mentality in the 1960s, written about by Tom Wolfe in famous essays like Radical Chic, in which Leonard Bernstein, the conductor for the New York Philharmonic, had the Black Panthers over to his apartment where they talked about killing Whitey and how the Jews were bad, and then he sat there and clapped.
00:13:33.000This is kind of the New Yorker's mentality.
00:13:37.000And that happens to be the mentality of the upper echelons of the Democratic Party.
00:13:40.000So they put out, the New Yorker, these pictures of prominent Democrats in their living rooms.
00:13:45.000And I have to say, just absolutely absurd.
00:13:49.000We begin with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who apparently sits on couches and knits.
00:13:56.000This is what we are supposed to believe, is that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spends her evenings knitting on her couch in East Elmhurst, flanked by a bulldog.
00:15:01.000I mean, look at the blue-collar appeal of Huma Abedin trying desperately not to hold the hand of Alex Soros as he crosses his legs in the most masculine fashion possible and glares angrily into the camera.
00:15:15.000What a charming couple of political influencers in Democrat world.
00:15:19.000Well, if you don't appreciate that, maybe you will appreciate Ella Emhoff.
00:15:23.000So Ella Emhoff is the long-forgotten daughter of Doug Emhoff, who is the wonderful, First husband candidate.
00:15:33.000You'll recall him from such hits as Yes, I May Have Punched My Girlfriend in Public, and also I'm the world's best Jew who doesn't know what Jews do.
00:15:43.000Ella Emhoff is his daughter, and apparently in her spare time she stands on Ottomans in very crowded apartment quarters, flanked by stacks of books she undoubtedly has not read.
00:15:59.000The bottom half of the outfit is effectively Ella Emhoff wearing what a Wisconsin father would wear before he goes to bed every evening, namely gym shorts and long socks.
00:16:08.000And she's got the calves, as someone observed online, of a hockey player.
00:16:11.000And then a tank top while she holds a dog.
00:16:57.000A vest and a shirt and a tie and dress pants.
00:17:01.000And he's hanging around in his socks on the Upper East Side next to what appears to be like a playpen for a child, but there's no child anywhere to be found.
00:17:11.000So I don't know if Al Sharpton is using the playpen or what.
00:17:13.000And then behind him, a picture of Al Sharpton.
00:17:16.000This is your racial fighter, Democrats.
00:17:19.000This is the person to whom Democratic political candidates have to come to pay obeisance.
00:17:25.000Really solid stuff here from the Democratic Party.
00:17:28.000And then they wonder why blue-collar has moved away from them.
00:17:31.000Why blue-collar workers of every stripe have moved away from the Democratic Party.
00:17:36.000Because the actual morality that drives the Democratic Party is this snooty elitism that sneers at people who don't have the same aesthetic tastes that they do.
00:17:45.000And listen, I don't have the same aesthetic tastes as many Americans.
00:18:41.000That means they're very good at making their art.
00:18:43.000There's a difference between elites and elitists.
00:18:45.000Elitists are people who believe they are better than everybody else.
00:18:48.000Because either they are elite or they think that they are elite.
00:18:51.000Well, the Democratic Party is replete with this sort of elitism, this idea that their moral standards are better than everybody else's, specifically in rejection to traditionalist religion, for example.
00:19:01.000And Harvard University churns out these types.
00:19:04.000So I went to Harvard Law School, and I remember the very first day, orientation at Harvard Law School.
00:19:52.000She's trying to explain that the law school is not a place of sort of dog-eat-dog competition, a la the paper chase back in the 1970s.
00:19:58.000Instead, it was a place where the elites come to congregate and to mingle and to make the connections that are going to form the future of America.
00:20:06.000Well, it is precisely this sort of mentality that the Trump administration is saying is inappropriate at these colleges and universities.
00:20:13.000Now, that in and of itself is not a violation of the law.
00:20:16.000You want to be elitist at a university?
00:20:18.000However, the elitist morality that is being crammed down propaganda-wise at these universities...
00:20:23.000And the willingness in the name of elitist intersectionality to overlook the Civil Rights Act, for example, that is punishable by law.
00:20:30.000And so yesterday, the Trump administration announced they will not be providing Harvard University with any new federal grants.
00:20:36.000That is what Education Secretary Linda McMahon told the school Monday in the latest escalation of a continuing battle between the government and the country's most prominent university, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:20:46.000McMahon took aim at Harvard students, its academic rigor, and its faculty, accusing the university of violating federal law.
00:20:53.000And losing its privileges to partner with the federal government.
00:20:57.000McMahon says Harvard has made a mockery of this country's higher education system.
00:21:12.000There's no reason why federal taxpayer dollars should be subsidizing a university to the tune of billions of dollars in federal funds.
00:21:19.000McMahon says at best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our nation and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates.
00:21:27.000The letter accuses Harvard of violating the Supreme Court ruling in 2023, banning affirmative action, saying it continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools and even within the Harvard Law Review itself.
00:21:40.000That, of course, is a reference to a study showing that Harvard Law Review was wildly oversampling minority students at the top echelons of the Harvard Law Review.
00:21:50.000Meanwhile, Alan Garber, who is the president of the university, said the university has appreciated being able to conduct scientific research at the behest of the federal government, but knows the funds have strings attached.
00:22:01.000Garber said, we think it's an honor to be able to perform work for the federal government addressing national priorities, but he is not going to cave to the administration, and so the battle will continue.
00:22:10.000The administration is also saying that the 501c3 status for Harvard should be revoked.
00:22:15.000Now, the question is whether they've actually violated the 501c3.
00:22:20.000So 501c3 organizations are non-profits.
00:22:22.000If you give to a 501c3, that is tax deductible.
00:22:25.000Revoking Harvard University's 501c3 status would mean that if somebody gives a multi-million dollar donation to Harvard University, they do not get a tax write-off in the same way that they would not get a tax write-off if they decided to buy a yacht or something.
00:22:37.000Well, the 501c3 laws were in fact weaponized by the Obama administration during his term.
00:22:44.000Lois Lerner at the IRS used 501c3 statutes to crack down on every right of center 501c3.
00:22:52.000And now President Trump is basically doing that in reverse, except he may have a better legal basis for doing it.
00:22:58.000Good piece by Iris Stoll over at the Wall Street Journal talking about whether it is legally acceptable to go after the 501c3 status of a place like Harvard University.
00:23:09.000He says that according to the law, It's been very unclear how to interpret that law.
00:23:34.000Basically, the idea here is that Harvard University has become a propaganda outlet for particular types of politics.
00:23:41.000And so the Obama administration, again, tried to apply 501c3 law in this way against any supposedly conservative-oriented group.
00:23:50.000The Trump administration is saying, if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
00:23:55.000And it seems to me that if there is to be some sort of bipartisan offer up here, then that should be to rewrite the 501c3 law to become significantly clear about what is prohibited and what is not prohibited, because this law seems to be weaponized.
00:24:08.000By alternative administrations against whoever is in violation of their sort of political priors.
00:24:14.000We'll get to more on that in a moment.
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00:26:31.000Meanwhile, the Trump administration is telling universities...
00:26:36.000That the government will be shutting off federal student loan spigots for specific schools if too many of their former students have lapsed on their payments.
00:26:43.000This, by the way, is a wonderful policy.
00:26:44.000This is absolutely, in unsullied fashion, a good policy.
00:26:49.000The reality is that federal student loans to students that push them into majors that are completely non-compensatory on the other end.
00:26:58.000You go and you get a degree in queer studies at Harvard University and there's no way you're going to be paying back your student loans.
00:27:04.000There's no reason the federal taxpayer should be subsidizing all of that.
00:27:09.000Monday's warning, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is a planking a broader strategy to accelerate repayment.
00:27:14.000Education Secretary Linda McMahon said, as we begin to help defaulted borrowers back into repayment, we must also fix a broken higher education finance system that has put upward pressure on tuition rates without ensuring that colleges and universities are delivering a high-value degree to students.
00:27:27.000And this, of course, makes perfect sense because the great acceleration Of the number of people going to colleges and universities has not been a boom for the country as a whole.
00:27:39.000It is based on a fundamental category error.
00:27:42.000Yes, people who go to college in 1970 are earning more than people who go to high school in 1970.
00:27:46.000But the solution to that is not everybody goes to college.
00:27:48.000It should be people who are going to college for a reason should go to college.
00:27:51.000If you just put upward pressure on the number of people going to college and you say getting a degree in nonsense from your local university is...
00:28:00.000In and of itself worthwhile, sponsored by the taxpayer, what you will end with is massive student debt, people in hock to these universities for long periods of time, and universities continuing to increase their tuition.
00:28:09.000So these are all good moves by the Trump administration.
00:28:12.000And again, the reason why the American people are going to stand behind this stuff is because of the bizarre elitism exhibited by institutions like Harvard University, which again is of a piece.
00:28:22.000It's the same cultural piece as the Met Gala or the New Yorker.
00:28:24.000These are all cultural institutions that shape.
00:28:27.000How people at the quote-unquote top echelons of society think.
00:28:32.000And there's no question that they lead people who go to these places and integrate into these systems to believe that they ought to operate oversized power against the rest of the public.
00:28:43.000When it comes to federal student loan debt and all the rest, one of the big questions is where is that money going?
00:28:49.000And what are people majoring in based on the loans that they are taking?
00:28:53.000So I asked our friends and sponsors at Perplexity that question.
00:28:56.000What are the college majors of students who receive federal student loan aid by percentage?
00:29:00.000And unbelievably enough, there is no good federal data on this, which is insane.
00:29:05.000How is it that there's no good federal data on, you know, what are the majors of the people to whom you're lending money?
00:29:11.000That would be the number one question in the private loan sphere that you would be asking.
00:29:15.000If you're a loan officer and someone came in and wanted some sort of loan to go to college, you would ask them right off the bat, what are you majoring in?
00:29:21.000Because if they're majoring in music, then probably you're going to think more carefully than if they are majoring in, say, pre-law or in psychobiology or something, some sort of field that is likely to lead them to a career that will allow them to pay off the loan.
00:29:34.000According to Perplexity, there's limited direct data on the precise percentage of students in each college major who receive federal student loan aid.
00:29:42.000However, available sources provide insight into the distribution of student loan debt by major and general pattern of aid usage across feature of study.
00:29:48.000So in terms of distribution by major, Apparently, majors such as health professions, business, education, and social sciences tend to have higher numbers of students taking on federal loans, reflecting both enrollment size and also program costs.
00:30:03.000The reality is if you're an education major, what are the chances that as an education major you're going to be paying off that student loan debt in anything like a reasonable amount of time?
00:30:31.000Or more importantly, what do we, the taxpayers, get for our subsidization of those loans?
00:30:35.000And now again, as I've said before, the Trump administration is doing deeply important work on everything from DEI to going after the colleges and universities.
00:30:42.000They're doing deep work in the cultural sphere.
00:30:44.000All of this is laudatory and excellent.
00:30:47.000All of it goes by the wayside if the economy tanks.
00:30:50.000So, it is unclear at this point, as we've said, what the result of President Trump's tariff war is going to be.
00:30:56.000Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, is almost single-handedly holding up the stock market at this point.
00:31:01.000As I said before, President Trump should basically just put tariff and tax policy in the hands of Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, and let him talk, and everything will be well.
00:31:09.000And he should also fire Peter Navarro, who is truly a dodder and a fool when it comes to trade policy.
00:31:15.000Firing Peter Navarro would shore up the economic health of the country.
00:31:19.000In extraordinary ways, investors would put their money back in knowing that there was solidity.
00:31:23.000De-dollarization might itself slow or stop.
00:31:27.000People are withdrawing money from the American system right now, investors, because they are unsure of what comes next.
00:31:32.000And they are also afraid that if the economy tanks, you will get a populist left-wing party in power that will then completely destroy the investment environment for everybody who actually wants innovation in the United States.
00:31:43.000So there has to be a recalibrated policy.
00:31:45.000Scott Besson has a piece in the Wall Street Journal.
00:31:48.000Talking about President Trump's three steps to economic growth.
00:32:02.000He says tariffs are an effective tool for balancing international commerce.
00:32:04.000They reduce trade barriers in other countries, opening more markets to American producers, while also bringing back thousands of manufacturing jobs.
00:32:11.000Now, again, notice the language that Besant is using.
00:32:14.000It's the language that I've been using about tariffs, which is tariffs.
00:32:17.000Are good if they are used as a tool to get other countries to lower their tariffs.
00:32:20.000They are not in and of themselves a good.
00:32:22.000And then he says economic security is national security.
00:32:25.000We need to shore up our supply chains.
00:32:45.000And if Besant gets his way, The economy is going to boom.
00:32:48.000You will get the Trump boom that was promised.
00:32:51.000However, President Trump still seems to be making the suggestion that patience is the thing that is called for here, and conflict continues to exist in the administration over the proper role of tariffs in all of this.
00:33:04.000According to Politico, President Trump and his top aides have settled on a decidedly non-Trumpian message for American businesses and consumers panicked by his trade war.
00:33:32.000While the Treasury Secretary was asked yesterday if China is coming to the table, and he is still not being particularly clear on whether China is coming to the table.
00:33:39.000China basically wants the United States to come to the table first.
00:33:42.000They want to humiliate the United States.
00:33:44.000President Trump doesn't actually want to do that at this point.
00:33:48.000But, as Besson says, the current tariff rates against China, as currently created, and without any of the preconditional work necessary to actually go after China on trade in that way, they're unsustainable.
00:34:37.000But the reality is that there are certain key countries that we should be getting to an off-ramp with.
00:34:42.000Mark Carney, the newly elected Prime Minister of Canada, because President Trump could not stop attacking Canada and helped to sink the candidacy of Pierre Polyev, who actually did win the highest vote percentage in Canada for the Conservative Party since about 2011.
00:34:58.000The problem is that all the libs came home to Mark Carney after Justin Trudeau resigned and President Trump attacked Canada over and over and over.
00:35:05.000Mark Carney is showing up at the White House to negotiate tariffs.
00:35:09.000The United States should not be in a tariff with Canada.
00:35:12.000President Trump negotiated the USMCA that we were operating on before we decided to randomly tariff Canada.
00:35:18.000Howard Lutnick, there's sort of an inverse correlation between Howard Lutnick's appearances on TV and stock market success.
00:36:28.000And what people don't really think about much is if you knock that down 25% and at a $900 billion trade deficit, that's 1% GDP for the United States of America.
00:36:45.000The idea that if you eliminate all trade deficits in the United States, that means endless economic growth is unsupportable by the actual statistical reality.
00:36:52.000And again, I'm worried about this because I want President Trump's agenda to succeed.
00:36:56.000President Trump is doing many, many important things all across the globe.
00:37:00.000Economic downturn, I'm going to keep beating this drum until the policy changes.
00:37:06.000Remember, between Liberation Day and when President Trump decided, That he was going to back off many of the biggest tariffs in his Liberation Day sort of framework.
00:37:15.000There was a massive stock market drop.
00:37:17.000And then he tweeted, the stock market recovered some.
00:37:20.000And so we're down maybe 3%, 4% from where we were in the S&P 500 and in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
00:37:28.000But that was reliant on people making clear that that policy was not well calibrated.
00:37:34.000Well, things need to change because otherwise Democrats will have a lot to run on.
00:37:40.000NBC's Kristen Welker was grilling, Representative Byron Donalds from Florida, about President Trump's language regarding tariffs and the economy.
00:37:46.000And she said, kids should have fewer dolls is actually a very good argument.
00:37:51.000I have to get your reaction to the president effectively saying that kids should have two dolls and not 30 dolls.
00:38:37.000If people make purchasing decisions on what they're going to do with their own resources, those are their personal choices.
00:38:44.000Okay, so again, that is him avoiding the actual question, which is, if there's restriction of supply, is that going to affect the American people?
00:38:50.000And I hope that everything that Donald's is saying comes true.
00:38:53.000I hope that everything that Ludnick is saying comes true.
00:38:55.000I hope that we get an economic boom like we've never seen in this country.
00:38:58.000Good policy is the thing that makes economic booms possible.
00:39:02.000And there is a reason why just yesterday, Ford dropped its first quarter profit estimate by 64% and suspended its outlook for the rest of the year based on uncertainty.
00:39:11.000The market's That is what's holding up the economy.
00:39:18.000If it goes the wrong way, then that all changes.
00:39:21.000Already, meanwhile, the President Trump trollery train continues and the left does not really know what to do about it.
00:39:27.000So President Trump is now talking about reopening Alcatraz.
00:42:11.000The fact that it was put out on the White House account, even though it was AI generated, it was a joke, it was a meme, does it at all diminish the substance of the official White House account to have it go out on that particular show?
00:42:35.000And again, I'm not going to hear about how President Trump's insulting the Catholics from the party of Gretchen Whitmer and bizarre lesbian communion scenes with Doritos and the party of transgendering the children and same-sex marriage.
00:43:14.000Which is not particularly catchy and a little bit long for a slogan, hard to chant, but is in fact a pretty solid expression of their motivating ideology.
00:43:22.000They have pledged they are going to try to continue to bomb Israel's airport so as to stop incoming and outgoing traffic.
00:44:14.000So that is a perfectly appropriate response to people firing missiles at your airport.
00:44:18.000Meanwhile, Israel is now unleashing a strategy in Gaza, which is something they should have done all along.
00:44:23.000Israel is saying they are going to retain complete security control of the Gaza Strip, and they are going to stay indefinitely, which, of course, there is no alternative that has been offered that is anything remotely plausible or credible.
00:44:34.000They are going to continue to ensure that food does not flow into Hamas.
00:44:38.000Hamas has been stealing the food in the Gaza Strip for a very long period of time, and Israel is going to take direct control over the handouts of food.
00:44:45.000Because Israel has AI technologies that allow them to actually determine, based on their information, who is a terrorist and who is not.
00:44:51.000And if the IADF is actually handing out the food, then it is significantly more likely that food ends up in the hands of civilians, as opposed to Hamas, which just works directly with the UN and all other food agencies that were working in the Gaza Strip.
00:45:03.000According to the Washington Post, Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday described intensified operations in Gaza.
00:45:09.000He said that the population is going to be moved south.
00:45:12.000So that Israel can actually control the territory.
00:45:15.000The northern part of the Gaza Strip was the chief point from which the attacks of October 7th were launched and where most of the rockets were being fired from during the years between 2005 and 2023.
00:45:25.000The plan will require tens of thousands of reservists to be called up in the coming weeks.
00:45:30.000And there will be sterile zones secured by elements of the IDF.
00:45:33.000Meanwhile, Hamas will be fought in these cities.
00:45:36.000one of the big failures of the IDF plan so far have been these sort of incursions and pullouts and incursions and pullouts in the Gaza Strip with the hope that Hamas would deal with Israel with regard to the hostages.
00:45:47.000Netanyahu did say that this is basically the last chance for Hamas to give up the hostages, including American Idon Alexander.
00:46:29.000And in reality, people who are in a war zone and have been governed by terrorists for 20 years, at their original choice, by the way, and many of whom are deeply sympathetic to the terrorists.
00:46:39.000There are protests in Gaza sometimes against Hamas.
00:46:43.000There have been zero protests calling for the freeing of the hostages, which is the thing that would actually end the war.
00:46:48.000If Hamas's leadership went into exile, and if the hostages were free, they would end the war.
00:46:52.000No one so far as I can tell who has been on the side of the Palestinians in this conflict has actually said that out loud, even though that is clearly the case.
00:47:02.000So that is the latest on the Middle East.
00:47:20.000And the fact that Cory Booker's bizarre rantings on the floor of the Senate to no apparent purpose, Mr. Potato Head popping in the angry eyes, just ranting nonsensically and very intensely about President Trump being angry about things.
00:47:35.000Jasmine Crockett seems to have gotten some momentum for herself doing the same thing.
00:47:39.000So she was very upset because President Trump suggested that she has low IQ.
00:47:43.000And I've got to admit, when I see her activities and when I watch her talk, she does not strike me as a particularly high IQ person.
00:47:51.000I don't think that she's over in the corner solving Rubik's Cubes and figuring out how quadratic equations apply to physics or anything like that.
00:47:58.000Here she was saying that actually it's wrong to call her low IQ.
00:48:03.000I'm not sure that it's, like, deeply a morally wrong thing to say that a person who appears to be kind of stupid is stupid, especially when that person is advocating for some of the worst policies for the American government possible.
00:48:17.000So the idea that you are now taking the Constitution and as I said at the DNC putting it through a paper shredder is a problem.
00:48:26.000And I think that this should not be partisan.
00:48:54.000There are people that are going to tell you that there is not a table in which there is a seat for you, but I am here to remind you of Montgomery and those folding chairs.
00:49:04.000Let me tell you that we know how to use a chair, whether we pulling it up or we doing something else with it.
00:49:15.000Let me be the first one to tell you that I know that y 'all are ready to put your boots on.
00:49:27.000Yeah, guys, apparently it's evil to say that she's stupid, but it's not evil to tell people that if they oppose them politically, you should pick up a chair and use it.