00:00:12.000Clearly, they're all from the third world.1.00
00:00:15.000All of these are major political figures on the left.0.97
00:00:18.000In fact, realistically, they are the new leading core of the Democratic Party.
00:00:23.000We have been importing the people who hate our country and wish to destroy it, who believe in third worldism, the philosophy that all the problems of all the third world can be laid at the feet Of us here in the West.
00:00:37.000The people in the Democratic Party elite who apparently believe that the West owes it to the third world to destroy itself, or who see the third worldists as fellow travelers helping them to accomplish that goal Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, Ezra Klein in the New York Times, the Pod Save America bros.
00:00:53.000These people could cast out the radicals.
00:00:55.000They could fight them in favor of a conversation with those of us who love America.
00:01:00.000Instead, they choose to side with those who despise the country in order to defeat us, anybody who is remotely center or right.
00:01:08.000Today, it's time to talk about the seemingly irreversible slide of the Democratic Party toward deep radicalism that will destroy the country.
00:01:14.000But to understand that, we have to understand the existential crisis facing our civilization.
00:01:19.000The threat is now coming from inside the house.
00:01:22.000Plus, we'll get to the latest on Iran, insider trading on Venezuela, and Megyn Kelly's new take on a dude who admits to having sex with a 16-year-old when he was 30.
00:01:39.000So, for the past 24 hours or so, the internet has been on fire with that Hassan Piker interview that we played yesterday.
00:01:44.000Again, for those who don't know, Hassan Piker is a popular Twitch streamer who's been featured on pretty much every major left wing podcast over the past few months.
00:01:52.000He's been on the cover of the New York Times, I believe, multiple times.
00:01:56.000He's constantly being profiled by major legacy media.
00:01:58.000He's the it boy of radical third worldism.
00:04:11.000And of course, all of that led up to this interview that he did on the Opinions podcast with the New York Times, where he explained that actually Americans get why United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered by Luigi Mangione.
00:04:26.000Engels wrote about the concept of social murder and Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare CEO.
00:04:36.000Was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder, the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for profit, paywalled system of healthcare in this country.
00:04:54.000And the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths.
00:05:02.000And that was a fascinating story for me because America is very draconian.
00:05:10.000They're very black and white on this issue.
00:05:12.000And yet, because of the pervasive pain that the private healthcare system had created for the average American, I saw so many people immediately understand why this death had taken place.
00:05:33.000So, this well-coiffed, terror-supporting Marxist piece of trash.0.99
00:05:39.000He also suggested that he is pro stealing and he likes the theft.0.99
00:05:43.000And again, being treated with all the available sympathy and joy by the New York Times.
00:05:50.000I'm pro stealing from big corporations because they steal quite a bit more from their own workers.
00:05:58.000However, one thing that might even help your ethical dilemma is the fact that the automated process that they design, these companies know will increase shrink, right?
00:06:14.000The lemons that you stole are factored into the bottom line of these mega corporations, regardless, and they still end up having increased profit margins because they no longer have to pay the cashiers that they used to hire, as opposed to this automated system, knowing full well that people are still going to be able to steal, still steal a lot more efficiently, as a matter of fact, through the automated process.
00:06:44.000So, Hassan Piker grew up in Istanbul and then he came back to the United States, where he was originally born, in order to cosplay communism and burn it all down.0.82
00:06:52.000But Hassan Piker is emblematic of a far deeper problem because the left is mainstreaming him actively, just as they have mainstreamed and praised Zarim Amdani and Elhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed.
00:07:05.000The future of the Democratic Party is radical third worldism.
00:07:09.000Now, they moved over from wokeness to radical third worldism.
00:07:12.000So, wokeness, which of course we're all familiar with, was basically at its essence the idea that all inequality of result is inequity in the system.
00:07:20.000That if there's a difference in result, if somebody ends up poor and somebody ends up rich, it's because the system itself is evil and discriminatory.
00:07:26.000And we know who are the people in charge because they're the ones who are successful.
00:07:31.000Third worldism is basically that same idea, but internationally.
00:07:35.000So, the idea is that all inequality globally is the result of Western exploitation.
00:09:03.000Switch to Pure Talk, America's wireless company today.
00:09:07.000So to understand this philosophy more thoroughly, you need to look at this rap song that is now becoming incredibly popular on the internet.
00:09:13.000It's actually a rap song that is, I believe, in.
00:09:51.000Bomb our roofs, make us out as liars, and watch our pains, and belittle our agony, ignore our tears, and close our eyes, mutilate our faces, and deny our feelings, destroy our dreams, objectify our bodies.
00:10:03.000And darken our skies and kill our peace.
00:10:38.000Well, because this is, in its essence, what we have imported.
00:10:43.000We in the West, we have imported people who hate our guts.
00:10:47.000And then there are a group of people in the United States who hate the systems who have allied with those people in order to create a mass movement.
00:10:54.000That is what is happening with people like Hassan Piker and people like Rashida Tlaib and people like Elhan Omar and people like Zorhan Mamdani.
00:11:03.000There's a writer named Zineb Raboya over at the Hudson Institute who has a great piece called The Colonial.
00:11:13.000She says, What began as a framework for analyzing colonial legacies has ossified into a secular theology.
00:11:18.000In Western universities, NGOs, and activist spaces, it no longer questions power as it replaces thought with posture.
00:11:24.000History is flattened into morality and politics reduced to grievance.0.70
00:11:29.000The appeal of decolonial ideology is often strongest among diaspora communities in the West.0.64
00:11:34.000Second and third generation Arabs and North Africans, caught between inherited identity and modern liberal norms, often adopt decolonialism as a moral anchor.
00:11:42.000It offers instant purpose, social legitimacy, and a ready made narrative of justice.0.95
00:11:47.000So, again, the basic idea here is that the reason that other countries suffer is because the West owes them something.
00:11:55.000And therefore, if you are living in the West and you realize that the West is pretty great and pretty prosperous, but you feel alienated because your parents are from somewhere else, you blame your parents' problems on the West that took them in.
00:12:08.000And you blame colonialism and colonization.
00:12:12.000Now, the reality is this is a great example.
00:12:16.000This particular rapper, again, this person named Siba Al Khayyami, right, she is from Syria, apparently, and she is in Germany.
00:12:26.000Syria was never colonized by Germany, ever.
00:12:31.000And in fact, if you're going to talk about the colonization history of Syria, you can talk about Islamic colonization of Syria.
00:12:37.000Syria, of course, used to be a Christian country long before it was a Muslim country, so then it was colonized by Muslims, and then the Ottoman Empire controlled it for 400 years.
00:12:46.000And then France controlled Syria for 26 years.0.73
00:12:49.000That's the only Western country to control Syria in the last, in the last millennium.
00:12:56.000The Assad regime controlled Syria for twice as long as France did.
00:13:02.000So Europe was not even the predominant player with regard to Syria.0.80
00:13:07.000The Ottoman Empire was, the Assad regime was.
00:13:10.000And of course, what did Germany do with regard to Syria?
00:13:13.000You may have noticed that in that entire description of Syrian history, Germany never came up.
00:13:17.000Germany just took in multiple millions of Syrian immigrants and migrants during the Syrian Civil War.
00:13:23.000So this person's family or she, all of them, they entered Germany because Germany under Angela Merkel decided to import a bunch of third world refugees out of some sort of misplaced sense of guilt, I suppose.
00:13:36.000And again, that sense of guilt is misplaced.
00:13:41.000The narrative that is told by the third worldists is far too simplistic.
00:13:45.000The reality is that colonization has been a routine part of human history.
00:13:51.000Islamic colonization took over the entire Middle East, still controls large swaths of Africa, moved into Europe.
00:13:58.000There are all sorts of colonization efforts.
00:14:01.000And even with regard to European colonization, the reality is that European colonization had very real human costs, but also it is worthwhile noting that the institutions set up by colonizers in these areas.
00:14:38.000Because they decided to basically get rid of all of those institutions and rule as a dictatorship.
00:14:45.000Not only that, colonization, European colonization is responsible for the end of slavery in the areas where there is no slavery.
00:14:54.000And it is responsible for the institution of systems of things like private property.
00:14:59.000Okay, so the innate colonization and decolonial sort of philosophy itself is wrong.
00:15:05.000But put that aside, something worse happened.
00:15:08.000The philosophy was spread largely by Marxist educational institutions, but also by terrorist groups in a lot of these areas that ended up taking power.
00:15:18.000The philosophy was spread that the West is responsible for all the problems here.
00:15:21.000The West is responsible for every problem in Syria, for every problem in Iraq, for every problem in South Africa or Uganda or Turkey.
00:15:30.000The idea is that all the problems all over the world are the responsibility of the West.0.91
00:15:34.000And then we decided that we should import all of those people.0.97
00:15:38.000So, some 6 to 7% of the German population today is Muslim, including over 10% of the population of Berlin.
00:15:46.000Again, that Syrian rapper is from Frankfurt.
00:15:49.000Something like 9 to 10% of the entire French population is now Muslim, including 15% of Paris.
00:15:59.000Remember, leftists in the West greeted it as a triumph when France pulled out of Algeria.
00:16:04.000So France colonized Algeria, and something like 10 to 13% of the population of Algeria was actual Pied Noirs, meaning French citizens.0.63
00:16:13.000And when Algeria went independent in 1962 and France gave up the ghosts there, all of those French people were forced out.
00:16:19.000Over a million people left and went back to France.
00:16:22.000Now, About 13% of the Muslim population of France is Muslim.
00:16:29.000So the same population, percentage wise, that was French in Algeria is now Muslim in France.0.96
00:16:35.000But that's somehow considered a good thing because it's the reverse colonization.0.99
00:16:41.000Something like 6% to 7% of the UK's population, including 15% of the population of London, is Muslim.0.96
00:16:48.000Somewhere between 10 and 15% of the entire voting base of the Labour Party in the UK is Muslim, which explains why the Labour Party is what the Labour Party is in large part.
00:16:56.000In the United States, much closer to home.
00:16:59.000There are about 4.5 million Muslims in the United States.
00:17:01.000That is up from 1.1 million in the year 2000.
00:17:42.000Does that sound like a de radicalized population that loves the West?
00:17:47.000Another poll at the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre a decade ago showed that two thirds of French Muslims wanted Charlie Hebdo prosecuted for cartoons of Muhammad.
00:17:57.000Does that sound like a philosophy that is in keeping with French standards of speech?
00:18:04.000Today, some 57% of American Muslims believe that October 7th was at least somewhat justified.
00:18:09.000You know, we can pretend away these ideological conflicts, it doesn't make them disappear.0.85
00:18:14.000We've imported a lot of people who do not like Western civilization.
00:18:19.000Again, that doesn't mean all Muslims in the West don't like Western civilization.
00:18:23.000But the notion that importing millions of Muslims from third world countries or people from other cultures that don't appreciate Western civilization, that somehow this would be a good idea.1.00
00:18:39.000So that raises the question of why the West imported all of this in the first place.1.00
00:18:43.000And the answer is that there are a bunch of people in the West, homegrown, who believe that our civilization is inherently guilty and ought to be torn down.
00:18:51.000The Marxist left believes, of course, that America was founded in sin, that America's foreign policy and the West's foreign policy more broadly has been about exploitation and evil.
00:19:01.000A really good example of this, again, almost a pure example of this, is the French existentialist and Marxist Jean Paul Sartre.
00:19:10.000So, he wrote the foreword to one of the most important anti colonial books of the 20th century about the French occupation of Algeria.
00:19:18.000It's a book called Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon.
00:19:23.000So, Sartre wrote the introduction to that.
00:19:25.000And Sartre argued that the West was fundamentally evil and cruel.1.00
00:19:29.000And he agreed that European civilization should be destroyed, that the third worldists were right.0.70
00:19:36.000And the only way for Europe to appease the gods of justice was to destroy itself.0.91
00:19:43.000Quote, we are all complicit in a thousand year old depression.
00:19:47.000You know well enough that we are exploiters.
00:19:49.000Our precious sets of values begin to molt.
00:19:51.000On closer scrutiny, you won't see one that isn't stained with blood.
00:19:55.000Sartre argued that we actually needed to import people from the third world to destroy us.
00:20:00.000It's our turn to tread the path step by step, which leads down to native level.0.86
00:20:04.000To become natives altogether, our soil must be occupied by a formerly colonized people and we must starve of hunger.0.79
00:20:11.000Again, the Marxists of the left love this stuff.0.99
00:20:40.000So, now they're trying a different version of wokeness, a different flavor of wokeness, third worldism, which is basically the same poison poured into a slightly different bottle.
00:20:49.000So, less Stacey Abrams and more Zoran Momdani.
00:20:52.000And the Democratic Party is handing the party directly over to these people.
00:21:23.000I have a feeling that people who say that they would take Hamas over Israel, I have a feeling that they're kind of.0.92
00:21:31.000They definitely buy into conspiracy theories about Jews, that is for sure.
00:21:35.000If you are siding with the actual genocidal anti Jewish group, Over Israel, I have a feeling that maybe, maybe you might cross that line into Jew hater.
00:22:21.000And so, why is the Democratic Party doing this?
00:22:24.000Well, again, some are doing this because they are actual Marxists and they're happy to fellow travel with third worldism as a front for their destructive goals.
00:22:32.000And again, there's a long history of that.0.58
00:22:33.000Marxists in Africa worked along with the third worldists to fight the West.
00:22:37.000And then there are other Democrats who just hate the right so much that they will find any ally.
00:22:43.000And they will, and they will side with those people.
00:22:45.000And they will treat any Democrat who works with Republicans, or at least any Democrat who doesn't want to burn every single thing down as a traitor.
00:22:52.000So Jennifer Welch, who I, for the love of my, I will never understand how Jennifer Welch people listen to this.
00:23:01.000She's a podcaster, for those who don't know, a relatively popular podcaster, from what I understand.
00:23:06.000She says that Chuck Schumer and Jeffries and Hakeem Jeffries, the Senate minority leader and the House minority leader, are fascist collaborators.0.93
00:23:16.000And basically, you have a bunch of dirty cops in the Oval Office right now, and the entire executive branch is a crime syndicate.0.88
00:23:23.000And Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should be building the biggest opposition to this.0.92
00:23:30.000And oftentimes, they appear more like fascist collaborators than they do a full blown opposition to it.
00:23:37.000So there's no attaboy for me to Chuck Schumer.0.51
00:23:41.000Again, fascist collaborators, this is how you end up with the third world running your party.0.91
00:23:45.000Because if the idea is you prefer the revolutionaries who burn everything down, To the pretty left wing Democrats who just aren't burning everything down, well, then you end up with the crazies in charge.0.93
00:23:57.000So, the big question for the Democratic Party can the moderates actually fight back?
00:24:03.000This is why the future of the Democratic Party, I've been saying it for a long time, it is the Bernie Sanders Marxist left hand in hand with the Ilhan Omar Rashida Tlaib Islamist left.
00:24:14.000That is the coalition, and that is the leadership base of the coalition.
00:24:18.000Well, because if you're a Democrat, you cannot be half in and half out.
00:24:21.000You can't be a party so extreme that you say for fully a decade, boys are girls and Trump is Hitler, and then say that your solution is to gradually win elections and effectuate larger government spending programs.
00:25:23.000I'm going to have words with you after this, Mario.
00:25:34.000Listen, I think that we exist in an era right now where the American people are understandably frustrated with institutions.
00:25:45.000Okay, well, he is that last part there is right.
00:25:48.000But Democrats, instead of standing up for institutions and then working with Republicans to fight against the radicals, have decided that they are going to make room for the radicals because that is the jet fuel in their airplane.
00:26:00.000Again, you can't say for a decade that Donald Trump is Hitler and that boys are girls and that America is systemically racist and irredeemably racist and then turn around and pretend that it has no impact.
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00:28:21.000Barack Obama was the best practitioner of this game, by the way.
00:28:25.000And this is why so many Americans felt gaslighted by Barack Obama because they were.
00:28:31.000Barack Obama would go out there and he would say, There are no red sites, there are no blue sites, just the United States.
00:28:37.000And then he would literally go, his first major speech after he was elected, he would literally go to Cairo for his first major speech in Egypt, a speech titled A New Beginning.
00:28:48.000And he would talk about how America and the West more broadly were deeply guilty for all the problems of the third world.
00:29:00.000We're just watching a new and more radical iteration publicly of what the kind of stuff that Barack Obama was doing very early on in his administration.
00:29:10.0009 11 was an enormous trauma to our country.
00:29:16.000The fear and anger that it provoked was understandable.
00:29:20.000But in some cases, it led us to act contrary to our traditions and our ideals.
00:29:28.000We are taking concrete actions to change course.
00:29:32.000I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States, and I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year.
00:29:41.000More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.
00:30:00.000Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
00:30:12.000Again, this is radicalism in a moderate bottle, and that is what Democrats are trying to sell.
00:30:17.000They're trying to sell Hassan Piker in a grinning Zorn Mamdani bottle.
00:30:21.000They're trying to sell Ilhan Omar in an Alexander Ocasio Cortez bottle.
00:30:37.000Because the reality is the Democratic Party are giving into these people day by day by day.
00:30:41.000If you don't like the idea that politically motivated murder is okay, then maybe you should think about the party that is justifying politically motivated murder and massaging the people who are promoting it.
00:30:55.000If you don't like the idea that just randomly stealing from places is okay, maybe you should question why more Democratic politicians aren't calling that out.
00:31:03.000Why are they campaigning with people like Hassan Piker?
00:31:49.000I don't blame Hassan Piker for being Hassan Piker or Zoran Momdani for being Zoran Momdani.
00:31:54.000I blame you for failing to stop the takeover of your party by this.
00:32:00.000Why is it, and we all know it, why is it that John Fetterman is more of an outcast from the Democratic Party at this point than Zoran Momdani, Ilhan Omar, or Hassan Piker?
00:32:11.000I think we all know the answer because we know which direction that party is moving, and that is a disaster area for the country.0.58
00:32:18.000All right, meanwhile, over in Iran, and there are a lot of questions to be asked, obviously, about the war in Iran what's the strategy, what are we doing over there, and all the rest.0.58
00:32:27.000But I will say an enormous amount of the opposition to the war in Iran is not rooted in honest questions about strategy and tactics.
00:32:35.000A lot of it, particularly on the part of the left, is rooted in the idea that Iran is an innocent country that's being attacked.0.88
00:32:43.000That third world countries like Iran don't have any agency of their own.
00:32:46.000They don't have any goals of their own.0.97
00:32:47.000The only reason that they are angry at us is because of Mohammed Mossadegh not being the prime minister in 1953.0.90
00:32:55.000That really, if it had not been for America and our interventionism in the Middle East, Iran would be totally great.0.95
00:33:01.000Third worldism, that's the reason for a lot of this.1.00
00:33:04.000And there's basically no difference between the viewpoints of Howard Zinn and John Mearsheimer.
00:33:10.000They're basically the same when it comes to American history and foreign policy.
00:33:14.000That is why, again, Tucker Carlson and Hassan Piker are holding hands here.
00:33:19.000Because third worldism exists on the part of some parts of the right side of the aisle as well.
00:33:26.000But the reality is that Americans are not on board with any of that third worldism.
00:33:32.000As a general rule, they are not on board with it, which is why Democrats have to lie about it.
00:33:37.000There's a brand new poll out from Echelon Insights, and it shows that Americans are willing to pay higher gas prices to achieve a set of outcomes.
00:33:44.00049% say that they are very or somewhat willing.
00:33:51.000To pay higher gas prices to stop Iran from having a nuclear program or to set back the Iranian nuclear capabilities or to degrade their military capabilities or to replace their leader with something more sympathetic.
00:34:05.000That is as opposed to 39% who say they're not very willing or not at all willing to have higher gas prices for any of those things.
00:34:13.000So a plurality of Americans, again, have their heads screwed on straight when it comes to American foreign policy.
00:34:17.000That is why President Trump says he put out a truth social saying, I have all the time in the world.
00:34:22.000And what Trump is doing here is actually quite smart.
00:34:24.000People are saying, oh, he extended the ceasefire because he's backing down.0.93
00:34:27.000Again, the Iranians are trying to taunt him into military action again because they wish for the United States to light up with objection.0.99
00:34:55.000A deal will only be made when it's appropriate and good for the United States of America, our allies, and in fact, the rest of the world, President Trump.
00:35:31.000We're in for all the, I don't like to say World War II because that was a biggie, but we were four and a half, almost five years in World War II.
00:35:40.000We were in the Korean War for seven years.
00:35:42.000I've been doing this for six weeks.1.00
00:35:49.000And CENTCOM put up an image of the blockade showing that the United States has been stopping 30 plus vessels.
00:35:58.000The majority of those vessels have complied with U.S. directions.
00:36:01.000Most of the ones that were turned around have been oil tankers.
00:36:05.000The president says, Listen, I'm holding out for an actual good deal.
00:36:07.000He says, I could make a deal right this very instant, but he wants it to be a lasting deal.
00:36:10.000Again, what we're watching right now from President Trump, I've said it before, I'll say it again, is an act of true political courage.
00:36:16.000Yes, it is a political risk because democracies tend not to favor conflict, even if that conflict heads off a further conflict.
00:36:24.000It's one of the problems that democracies have generally.
00:36:27.000Winston Churchill talks about this at the beginning of his history of World War II.
00:36:30.000When he's describing what led from World War I to World War II, he says, listen, if the democracies had held the line between World War I and World War II, there wouldn't have been a World War II.
00:36:39.000Very difficult in democracies to get people to put aside short term interest in favor of long term interest.
00:36:45.000The president is trying to do that, and that takes actual courage.
00:37:29.000The infighting is between the hardliners who have been losing badly on the battlefield and the moderates who are not very moderate at all but gaining respect.
00:38:09.000And with the iron unity of the nation and government, and with complete obedience to the supreme leader of the revolution, we will make the aggressor criminal regret his actions.
00:38:17.000One God, one leader, one nation, one path.
00:38:23.000There is massive conflict inside the Iranian regime, according to the New York Times.
00:38:27.000The New York Times interviewed, on the basis of anonymity, six senior officials, two former officials, two IRGC members, a senior cleric, three individuals who know Moshtaba Khamenei well, nine individuals with ties to the IRGC.
00:38:39.000And the New York Times reports that Ayatollah Khamenei is a complete figurehead, that he's been badly hurt, that he's been communicating with the IRGC via courier handwritten messages.
00:39:09.000According to the New York Times, the elected president and his cabinet have been sidelined and told to focus only on domestic affairs, like providing a steady flow of food and fuel, and to make sure the country is functioning according to knowledgeable officials.
00:39:20.000The foreign minister, Abbasarawi, has been marginalized in the negotiations he led with the United States before the war.
00:39:25.000Instead, Muhammad Khalibaf, who is a cutout for the IRGC, has taken the lead instead.
00:39:36.000And when they can't pay their folks, do things start to hit the end of the road for them?
00:39:40.000Meanwhile, the president has been continuing to broker a ceasefire in Lebanon.
00:39:44.000So, Hezbollah has been harassing Israel for legitimately decades at this point, firing thousands of rockets into the north of Israel.
00:39:51.000The population of northern Israel was for two years not living in their homes.
00:39:55.000And so, Israel, over the course of the Iran war, also went into Lebanon to clean Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon.
00:40:01.000And then a ceasefire was declared, brokered by President Trump.0.52
00:40:05.000The president put out a statement yesterday saying that the United States will work with Lebanon to help it protect itself from Hezbollah.
00:40:12.000The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended by three weeks.
00:40:14.000I look forward in the near future to hosting the prime minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, and the president of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun.
00:40:19.000Now, the reality, of course, is that the Lebanese government is insanely weak.
00:40:23.000They've never been able to disarm Hezbollah, so the reality will be Israel disarming Hezbollah with, presumably, the help of the Lebanese government.
00:40:30.000That's the only way a deal actually works here.
00:40:43.000He says there's a good chance of a deal between Israel and Lebanon.
00:40:46.000Here is the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, who says that Israel would like peace with Lebanon and vice versa.
00:40:54.000Thank you, Mr. President, for your hospitality, for bringing Israel and Lebanon together here in the Oval Office.
00:41:02.000Israel wants peace with Lebanon, and Israel wants security for its citizens.
00:41:07.000We're united with the Lebanese government.0.97
00:41:10.000And wanting to rid the country of this malign influence called Hezbollah.0.94
00:41:14.000And now that, Mr. President, under your leadership, Iran has been so degraded, the possibility of degrading Hezbollah and liberating Lebanon from their occupation is real.0.64
00:41:26.000So we hope that together under your leadership, we can formalize peace between Israel and Lebanon in the very near future.0.99
00:41:34.000Secretary of State Rubio, who was there at that meeting as well, he said that both of these countries are being victimized by the same terrorist organization, which of course is true.0.79
00:41:43.000The president wanted to be personally involved, and I'm glad he was because it made it possible to get this extension, and it gives everybody time to continue to work on what's going to be a permanent peace.
00:41:52.000Between two countries that want to be at peace, both are victimized by the same terrorist organization.
00:41:57.000A terrorist organization that no doubt has victimized Israel, but has also victimized the people of Lebanon.
00:42:02.000The people of Lebanon deserve to live.
00:42:04.000In a country that's peaceful and prosperous, they have an opportunity to do that.
00:42:09.000And what's standing in the way is an organization that operates, a terrorist organization that operates within their national territory, that threat needs to be eliminated.
00:42:18.000And so thank you, Mr. President, for this gathering today and for convening it and being a key part of it.
00:42:23.000And it spies this time to continue to work.
00:42:25.000I'm very optimistic that in a few weeks we'll be even closer to the kind of permanent peace that the people of Israel and Lebanon deserve.
00:42:33.000I do have to say, one of the most astonishing things about the online discourse.
00:42:36.000Surrounding, for example, Israel and Christianity is the complete unwillingness to ever mention what Lebanon was.
00:42:43.000Lebanon was a Christian country that was taken over in large part by the Palestine Liberation Organization and used as a base to launch attacks, and then was taken over by Iran and Hezbollah.
00:42:53.000And many of the people who hate Israel and claim that Israel is anti Christian literally are defending groups that turned Lebanon from a Christian paradise into a complete hellhole.0.81
00:43:07.000Well, meanwhile, And there's been a lot of consternation about insider trading on betting markets, on futures markets.
00:43:16.000Apparently, one dude made $37,000 on PolyMarket by making a weather bet.
00:43:22.000And what he did is he bet that temperature would rise to a certain degree.
00:43:25.000And then he took a hair dryer and went over to one of the temperature measuring devices and hit it with a hair dryer so as to raise the temperature.
00:43:39.000MCM is approaching this temperature monitor and hitting it with the hairdryer, the portable hairdryer, so as to raise the temperature a little bit.
00:43:48.000He checks to make sure that the temperature rose so he can collect his winnings.
00:43:54.000He walked away with a profit of nearly $37,000.
00:43:59.000Now the sensor has a security guard and the guy is in the wind.
00:44:02.000So, you know, points for human beings, very resourceful when it comes to skipping over the rules.
00:44:10.000Now, that is the sort of version of this that doesn't matter.
00:44:14.000Then there's the version of this that does matter.
00:44:16.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Gannon Ken Van Dyke was charged in Manhattan federal court with commodity and wire fraud, according to the DOJ.
00:44:23.000Apparently, he's a master sergeant with U.S. Army Special Forces, and he misused information about the operation to grab Nicolas Maduro to make well time bets on the poly market that Maduro would lose power by the end of January.
00:44:36.000He took part in the planning and execution of the mission.
00:44:39.000He received a classified briefing on December 8th.
00:44:43.000He spends about 33 grand in long shot contracts that netted him a profit of $409,000.
00:44:50.000Kalshi, by the way, has announced that they have fined and suspended three congressional candidates for betting on their own races.
00:45:06.000There are also bets that are being placed as well on the Iran conflict, too, and there have been some tracking where people suspect that there's insider trading happening on these prediction markets around the war.
00:45:17.000Well, you know, the whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino.
00:45:24.000And you look at what's going on all over the world, in Europe and every place they're doing these betting things.
00:46:02.000And she objected to me calling her out for continuing, like still eight months later, to pretend that Candace Owens is not doing anything wrong by attacking Erica Kirk.
00:46:11.000She instead lies and says that I'm telling her something about Israel or something, which is weird because that's not what I'm talking about.
00:46:17.000In any case, Megan be clowned herself yesterday.
00:46:23.000Now, Russell Brand was a guest on this show in March 2023, I believe.
00:46:27.000That was before there were widespread allegations of him engaging in pretty significant sexual misconduct.
00:46:35.000Well, back in September 2023, which is when a lot of these allegations came up, Megan had some things to say about Russell Brand.
00:46:42.000In fact, here she was in September of 2023, saying that she would condemn Russell Brand if the allegations were true.
00:46:53.000Before they rush to defend somebody like this, they need to pause and think about their own honor code and their daughters and their wives and their sisters.
00:47:03.000Because if you can't do it for yourself, if you could just remove your own skin from the game, think about your daughter.
00:47:30.000Any man comes near her in four years who's 31 years old, and we are going to have a serious problem that goes well beyond his demonetization on YouTube.
00:48:14.000Think about the message that you're sending to young women, young women who might be thinking about leaning conservative or voting Republican.
00:48:20.000Do you think this is a good recruiting method after all of the years that we've been through where the Republican brand has been so damaged?
00:48:28.000Do you think they're wanting to sign up with a brand where it's like, hey, as I'm now seeing online, she was 16.
00:48:44.000To even equate the two on this scale is an absurdity that shows you, if you're making the argument, probably have some skeleton in your closet that you don't want me to know about.
00:48:53.000So I want more men like you to say, guys, we don't need every willing soldier on this team, even if he happens to be a massive celebrity and has 6 million YouTube followers.
00:49:05.000Because what I'm seeing is too many conservatives who are supposed to.
00:49:10.000Eschew celebrity, and we're supposed to be, you know, the ones who are like, no, we're not into the celebrity culture.
00:49:15.000Fawn over this guy because every time one of these guys deigns to look their way or say something they like, they're like, oh, he likes me.
00:49:52.000He's pumping a new book that he's publishing via Tucker Carlson all about his conversion to Christianity, which has, you know, been interestingly timed as all the prosecutions come up.
00:50:04.000And here was Megan Kelly, you know, she's face to face with the guy.
00:50:08.000And he literally talks about sleeping with that 16 year old when he was 30.
00:50:19.000In Europe and in the United Kingdom, where I'm from, the age of consent is 16.
00:50:24.000And I did sleep with a 16 year old when I was 30.
00:50:28.000But when I was 30, I was a very different person.
00:50:32.000I was a lot younger and I was an immature 30 year old.
00:50:35.000Consensual sex, actually, with a variety of people, when there is a strong power differential, as there is when you're a famous man that has the ability to attract women that I had at that time.
00:50:52.000I recognized that my sexual conduct in the past was selfish and I didn't apply enough consideration, barely any, I suppose, really, to how that sex was affecting other people.
00:52:20.000That is because of the regulatory environment in California that makes it almost impossible to provide gas to the population at scale at an affordable price.
00:52:29.000But here is Gavin Newsom complaining about Trump and Iran, not his own policies.
00:52:33.000The price spikes in this state are directly attributable to the actions of the President of the United States.0.60
00:52:41.000And the President of the United States needs to be held to account not only to those actions and the consequences of it, but he needs to end this war.
00:52:50.000And he needs to address the growing crisis at the pump that he has exacerbated.
00:52:57.000Now, again, we should point out here that California has the highest gas prices in the United States, that boutique state taxes and environmental fees amount to something like $1.20 to $1.50 a gallon, that some 360 energy companies have left California since 2018 alone.
00:53:19.000Refineries are closing all over the state.
00:53:23.000So, Yeah, I mean, when Democrats complain about high gas prices and then simultaneously undercut the entire energy market, it's a little bit awkward.
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