On March 27, 2023, a 28-year-old woman who believed she was a man shot up a Christian school in Tennessee, killing six people, mostly children. Given the identity of the shooter, the media quickly jumped to the narrative that the story was lack of gun control. In fact, that narrative quickly spun into another narrative about racism. After two Black Democratic lawmakers illegally stormed the House floor in Tennessee and took control of the chamber, and faced the prospect of expulsion from their seats, the narratives the media spun about the national shooting. The real story, obviously, was not that it was the shooter herself, but that she was motivated by a radical leftist manifesto written by a transgender woman who claimed she wanted to kill white children of color. Today, we know that a transgender person citing left-wing slogans on race targeted white Christian kids. But we were told it was utterly unclear just why the shooter had targeted a religious school. And we are told that the manifesto was, quote, rambling without a clear political motivation. What might have forced coverage of that issue would have been if we had all seen the shooter s manifesto? And that would have forced media coverage of the issue, which is what we ve all been waiting for. And that might have been the opposite of what we saw during the mid-term elections. The Washington Post ran an entire piece after the Nashville shooting, claiming that the right-wing media was exploiting anti-transphobic rhetoric to escalate its sympathy for trans people overall. And it is a disturbing story, and it s so disturbing, it is shameful, they want to fight for their freedoms to be taken to escalate their freedoms. And it s shameful, and they are now under attack by the trans people. Bye Bye Bye bye, bye, Bye Bye, bye, Bye, Bye. by the Righteous People by Corrine Jeanine Jean-Pierre Jean Pierre-Pierre de la Peugeot-Petit and it is disturbing, bye Bye Bye by You Go, Bye Bye Bye by You, Bye by the Bye Bye Bye, by The Righteous, Bye . by The New York Times , by The Daily Mail, by Rachel Maddow, by John Sook, by Kaitlyn Durante, and by The Huffington Post, and The Root, by Rachel Goodman, in honor of National Trans Day, by Sheel Mckinnon, and
00:00:00.000Yesterday, Steven Crowder's investigative reporters broke a huge story.
00:00:03.000The long-hidden manifesto of the National Tennessee Trans School Shooter.
00:00:07.000On March 27, 2023, the shooter, a 28-year-old woman who believed she was a man, shot up the Covenant School in Green Hills, killing six people, mostly children.
00:00:16.000Given the identity of the shooter, the media quickly jumped to the narrative that the story was lack of gun control.
00:00:21.000In fact, that narrative quickly spun into another narrative about racism after two Black Democratic lawmakers illegally stormed the House floor in Tennessee and took control of the chamber and then faced the prospect of expulsion from their seats.
00:00:33.000Gun control and racism against Black Americans, those were the narratives the media spun about the national shooting.
00:00:39.000The real story, obviously, was not that.
00:00:43.000What might have forced coverage of that issue would have been if we had all seen the shooter's manifesto.
00:00:47.000In virtually all other cases in which a mass shooter leaves a manifesto, the manifesto, or at least its general message, is made public nearly immediately.
00:00:55.000The August 2023 Jacksonville shooting targeting Black Americans featured a white supremacist manifesto, for example.
00:01:01.000The 2019 El Paso shooting targeting Hispanic Americans featured another white supremacist manifesto.
00:01:06.000The 2015 Charleston church shooting featured a white supremacist manifesto.
00:01:10.000The shooter in Nashville had a manifesto, too.
00:01:13.000But we were told it was utterly unclear just why the shooter had targeted a religious school.
00:01:18.000And we were told that the manifesto was, quote, rambling without a clear political motivation.
00:01:22.000In fact, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News that, quote, no direct motive has been established in the investigation and then suggested that the driving force of the attack was similar to previous school shootings in which the assailant was drawn to other mass killers.
00:01:36.000We were told that the manifesto might never be released, despite the fact that the Nashville Police Department released a list of items belonging to the shooter, including a suicide note, three folders, and 19 journals.
00:04:27.000Never mind the fact that in 2021, 87% of all non-lethal interracial violent crimes committed between blacks and whites, for example, were black on white, as Heather McDonald points out.
00:04:37.000The fact that these are cherished left-wing narratives means they must be protected at all costs.
00:04:42.000And that means burying an inconvenient manifesto.
00:04:45.000In reality, if we're going to release any Mass Shooters manifestos, and that's questionable whether we should, but if we are going to release any of them, we have to release all of them.
00:04:53.000If we're going to examine the motives of Mass Shooters in order to uncover supposedly unique American ills, we are owed the full panoply of the criminally evil.
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00:06:41.000So if you're a trans school shooter, you're a member of an oppressed group, an oppressed minority, and that means that we have to bury your motives and your identity if in fact it turns out that your motives and your identity are connected with your status as one of the oppressed.
00:06:54.000If you are a member of an oppressor group, and here we just mean people who are powerful, people who are rich, people who are not poor.
00:07:01.000It doesn't matter if you're oppressed.
00:07:03.000If you're a Jew, for example, in the United States, and Jews are disproportionately highly educated and wealthy in the United States.
00:07:08.000If you are a Jew, that means you are a member of an oppressor class, and that means that no matter what happens to you, we have to pretend it didn't happen to you.
00:07:15.000We have to pretend that you are somehow the victimizer.
00:07:52.000That means that whatever they do to the, quote-unquote, oppressor, even if that oppressor is the only thing that has provided them any money, any living, any jobs for the past 20 years, even if that oppressor, quote-unquote, pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, that means that anything that happens to the oppressor group, meaning, you know, civilian Jews in Israel, is justified.
00:08:11.000Anything that happens to Hamas is unjustified.
00:08:22.000Because it turns out that if you break down all of society and all of civilization into these two groups, oppressor versus oppressed, what you end up with is people who believe they are oppressed and also believe that they have full immunity to do whatever they want.
00:08:34.000This is why the Black Lives Matter riots did $2 billion in damage.
00:08:37.000There was a baseline assumption that people could do whatever they want.
00:08:49.000The reason that you saw all of this is because these people feel they have immunity, because they are a member of a quote-unquote oppressed class.
00:08:55.000And if you are not a member of an oppressed class, let's say that you are a white American, the way that you are able to join the oppressed classes, which is a great thing because the incentive structure is to give you full immunity for anything you do, all you have to do is join the Solidarity Coalition.
00:09:10.000That, presumably, is the reason why all of these violent protests are happening all over the world.
00:09:16.000Because again, once you're a member of an oppressed group, you can do whatever the hell that you want.
00:09:21.000And it's not as though people don't say this out loud, they do.
00:09:23.000There's a fascinating piece over at the New York Times called, Across the Echo Chamber, A Quiet Conversation About War and Race.
00:09:28.000When two acquaintances in Atlanta sat down to find common ground on the Israel-Hamas war, they found themselves in a painful conversation about race, power, and whose suffering is recognized.
00:09:38.000So, the entire article is about two people.
00:09:41.000One named Samara Menken, who is a Jewish woman, a very liberal Jewish woman.
00:09:47.000And the other, a woman named Sanitya Oliver, Synedia Oliver is a pro-Khamosnik,
00:09:53.000and she wrote online, quote, the actual history of this situation is not complicated.
00:09:56.000I will always stand beside those with less power, less wealth, less access and resources and choices,
00:10:01.000regardless of the extreme acts of a few militants who are done watching their people slowly die.
00:10:05.000So she says the quiet part out loud, Synedia Oliver, if you're a member of a quote unquote powerless group,
00:10:11.000if you are poor, you can do literally anything and she will stand with you.
00:10:16.000And this entire article is about Minkin, who has bought in, again, she's a liberal Jew, Minkin, who has bought into that premise, not being able to convince Oliver out of that premise.
00:10:28.000In nearly two hours together on a recent Wednesday afternoon, the women stumbled through a discussion of race, power, history, and whose suffering gets acknowledged.
00:10:34.000Both liberal Democrats, they touched on many of the same disputes now roiling their party, college campuses, and companies across the country.
00:10:41.000So what exactly did the conversation go like?
00:10:45.000Oliver said, quote, I have a very strong affiliation with marginalized people, brown, displaced, refugees, black.
00:10:50.000We usually hear the perspectives of those in power, and our school is about amplifying the voices of the disempowered.
00:10:55.000She then accused Minkin of defending, quote, settler colonialism.
00:10:59.000And she recalled expressing disbelief that the displacement felt OK to Jewish people.
00:11:03.000Minkin thought that question was an oversimplification because she's not historically ignorant.
00:11:07.000She said Jews have historical ties to the land.
00:11:10.000She said, we have to acknowledge that the policies that have been applied thus far have failed.
00:11:14.000I hope maybe at the end of this, there's some sort of large policy cracked open by the people who are supposed to be leaving us, leading us.
00:11:21.000But in the end, all that happened is that Minkin said, quote, you see me as white.
00:11:26.000In that scenario, your lens of the oppressed and the oppressor leaves only one space for me.
00:11:29.000But I see myself as Jewish in that scenario.
00:11:33.000But Minkin can't get out of the argument because once you're in the oppressor oppressed matrix, it doesn't matter if you try to claim that you are Jewish and not white.
00:11:41.000You are a member of an oppressor class because Jews in the United States are disproportionately wealthy and highly educated, which means you're an oppressor.
00:11:47.000The actual answer that Minkin refuses to say is the oppressor-oppressed binary is stupid and wrong.
00:11:52.000What makes you an oppressor is being oppressive.
00:11:54.000What makes you oppressed is being oppressed.
00:12:01.000But as long as the left is addicted to this sort of nonsense, evil is going to occur and be justified by the left.
00:12:07.000Well, that is where we are with regard to these pro-Hamas protests which resulted in the murder of a 69-year-old Jewish man the other day.
00:12:15.000According to ABC7, Paul Kessler died as a result of injuries sustained at an event Sunday, according to Ventura County Sheriff's Office investigators.
00:12:41.000January 6th, protesters slash rioters are involved in physical altercations with officers, and those officers die days later.
00:12:48.000That means January 6th was a violent insurrection that ended with death.
00:12:51.000If, however, a ProCommerce protester beats a 69-year-old man on the head, and he falls down and hits his head and then dies, then that's just an altercation.
00:12:57.000It's just a thing that happened, kind of.
00:13:00.000The nature of the altercation remains under investigation, but some reports indicate that before he fell, Kessler was struck in the head with a megaphone by an individual with the pro-Palestinian avenge, who's pronounced dead, on Monday.
00:13:10.000The Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office has determined Kessler's death to be a homicide caused by blunt force head injury.
00:13:16.000By the way, this is not in, like, the dregs of Los Angeles.
00:13:19.000This is in Thousand Oaks, which is one of the nice, more upscale areas of Los Angeles.
00:13:26.000Apparently, he was flying an Israeli flag.
00:13:29.000The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles released a statement, quote, We are devastated to learn of the tragic death of an elderly Jewish man who was struck in the head by a megaphone wielded by a pro-Palestinian protester in Westlake Village.
00:13:39.000Our hearts are with the family of the victim.
00:13:40.000While we wait for more information from our law enforcement partners, we remind you this is the fourth major anti-Semitic crime committed in LA this year alone.
00:13:46.000Violence against our people has no place in civilized society.
00:13:49.000But again, civilized society is, um, It depends on how you define civilization.
00:13:54.000And for the left, civilized society means pretending that anybody who is standing with the quote-unquote oppressed can get away with literally anything.
00:14:04.000This is the way the logic works on the left.
00:15:08.000Okay, so, and we are seeing anti-Semitic incidents across the nation, many of them violent.
00:15:15.000According to the New York Post, an Indiana woman, whom cops described as a terrorist, has been arrested after she allegedly plowed her car into what she thought was a Jewish school.
00:15:22.000This story is actually hilarious because it turns out that it was a, it was a, um, a bad guy on bad guy crime.
00:15:28.000Ruba Almag 34 allegedly backed her vehicle into a building associated with black Hebrew Israelites in Indianapolis late Friday, while several adults and children were inside.
00:15:37.000The reason I said it's a bad guy on bad guy crime, in terms of, it's in, it's, it's, More accurately, it's an anti-Semite and anti-Semite crime.
00:15:43.000The Black Hebrew Israelites are an anti-Semitic group.
00:15:45.000She saw a Jewish star on the building and she assumed that it was a synagogue.
00:15:49.000And so she ran her car into a Black Hebrew Israelite congregation.
00:15:53.000She was offended by a Hebrew Israelite symbol out front, according to a police report.
00:16:06.000They buy into the oppressor-oppressed matrix.
00:16:09.000So, the White House will build an entire Islamophobia campaign off of the evil stabbing of a Palestinian kid and his mom in Michigan.
00:16:17.000And then, meanwhile, they will never mention a woman driving her car into a school because she thought that it was a Jewish school.
00:16:25.000I assume they will never mention a 69-year-old Jewish man being killed on the street in Thousand Oaks because he was flying an Israeli flag.
00:16:34.000Because all of that blows up the narrative.
00:16:38.000Meanwhile, overnight, a Brooklyn man was arrested for attacking religious Jews with pepper spray.
00:17:52.000You have the actual full-scale members of Hamas.
00:17:54.000So as it turns out, for example, according to the UK Telegraph, the people organizing the marches, these giant marches in Britain, are members of Hamas.
00:18:04.000Mohammed Kafam Salah is a founder of the Muslim Association of Britain, one of six groups that organized the London March set for November 11th.
00:18:51.000I'm just, I just don't, you know, I'm smart enough that I can comment on the situation.
00:18:56.000I'm smart enough that I can inject myself into the situation.
00:18:58.000But I'm certainly, I'm not wise enough to actually take sides.
00:19:01.000All I know is that genocide on all sides is wrong.
00:19:05.000Of course, trying to pretend that we don't know exactly who, what you are doing when you say that both sides are attempting to commit genocide.
00:19:10.000Everybody can see exactly what you're doing when you do this.
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00:20:46.000Okay, so this intersectional coalition, the oppressed matrix, they are now attempting to utilize whatever leverage they have in order to push Joe Biden to abandon Israel.
00:20:55.000This is Jamal Bowman, a congressman from New York.
00:20:58.000And the idea here is that if Joe Biden doesn't abandon Israel, it's going to cost him the election.
00:21:03.000Now, that is not what the polling data suggests.
00:21:05.000Joe Biden has had very bad polling data for months at this point.
00:21:25.000And they blame the president in power when that sort of thing happens to be connected with their policy.
00:21:30.000But the idea that it's because there are people who are upset with Israel, that they are now moving away from Joe Biden and what, toward Donald Trump, the most pro-Israel president in American history?
00:21:38.000That's a bizarre read of the data, but that's exactly what the quote-unquote oppressed matrix is attempting to achieve here.
00:21:56.000It's one thing to support Israel, which the U.S.
00:21:59.000has always done and will continue to do.
00:22:02.000It's another thing to never hold Israel accountable for their behavior, whether it's related to the occupation, the open-air prison that is Gaza, or the war crimes that are taking place right now during this siege.
00:22:17.000I mean, Israel was very clear from the beginning.
00:22:19.000We're going to cut off water, food, Electricity.
00:22:33.000He says they're using white phosphorus.
00:22:35.000No, there's been no evidence that they are using white phosphorus.
00:22:37.000When he suggests that America is not, quote-unquote, holding Israel to account on human rights, Israel is being as meticulous as it can be in one of the world's most densely populated area that is honeycombed underneath with terror tunnels.
00:22:48.000This is why Israel is, for example, not simply bombing the entire place from the air.
00:22:51.000It's why Israel is currently opening humanitarian corridors.
00:22:54.000And Hamas is attempting to close them.
00:22:56.000Israeli troops are being attacked as they open humanitarian corridors to allow people to leave the north of the Gaza Strip, where they're engaged in a battle, and move toward the south of the Gaza Strip.
00:23:08.000You can see Israel is actually opening, like, full streets.
00:23:11.000Like, they stop the bombing for hours at a time to allow huge convoys of people to leave the areas where they are attacking and move south.
00:23:21.000Many of them are carrying white flags because they want to be seen as civilians.
00:23:25.000But according to Jamal Bowman, they don't care about... Israel is committing human rights violations.
00:23:29.000Again, the lie that somehow what is happening here to Joe Biden's poll numbers are chiefly because Joe Biden is supporting Israel, that is something that's being promoted very, very high by people who hate the state of Israel, like really hate it.
00:23:41.000According to Politico, fears are growing paramount among Democrats over President Joe Biden's standing one year out of the 2024 election.
00:23:47.000Now, some of us could have predicted that he was a weak candidate, given the fact that he is an octogenarian who can barely make sentences out of his face hole, given the fact that the economy has been on a rough ride for the last three years, given the fact that we have wild conflagrations in not only the Middle East, but Eastern Europe and maybe in the South China Sea.
00:24:06.000It turns out people don't like chaos, and Joe Biden, who promised solidity, has guaranteed even more chaos in terms of policy, far more chaos in terms of policy, than Donald Trump.
00:24:14.000Things were way better in 2019 than they are in 2023, and everybody basically feels that.
00:24:19.000Okay, that has nothing to do with Joe Biden being pro-Israel in this conflict, but again, the radicals in the party are attempting to say that if your coalition is the Obama coalition of 2012, namely the quote-unquote dispossessed and a few white liberal ladies, well then you better get that coalition dispossessed together, and the only way to do that is to dump Israel off the side of the boat.
00:24:35.000According to Politico, within the party, there are emerging concerns that support for Israel and its war against Hamas is weakening him among key parts of his party's base.
00:24:42.000Americans' attitudes are shifting quickly about the conflict, and a lot could change between now and next November.
00:24:46.000By the way, they are not shifting quickly about the conflict.
00:24:48.000The American people are behind Israel in the conflict by every available polling metric.
00:24:54.000A series of New York Times polls released Sunday is likely to supercharge the worries among some Democrats about the political fallout from Biden's handling of the conflict.
00:25:00.000Those polls showed Biden trailing former President Trump in five of the six battleground states among registered voters.
00:25:06.000Foreign policy is a weak spot for Biden.
00:25:08.000The Times polls show registered voters in the battleground states trust Trump over Biden on managing Israel-Palestinian conflict by a margin of 11 percentage points.
00:25:16.000Voters under 30 years old, much like the broader electorate, prefer Trump to manage the issue by 10 points.
00:25:21.000Swing state voters under 30 are only backing Biden by a single percentage point per the Times Survey.
00:25:27.000In what world is the American people favoring Trump over Biden in the Middle East, an anti-Israel point of view?
00:25:32.000I'm going to need you to explain that one to me, like on a chart.
00:25:35.000Explain to me how if the American people back Trump, the most pro-Israel president in American history, over Joe Biden, who has been kind of wishy-washy on the issue up until now, how is that a referendum on pro-Israel feeling?
00:25:50.000It's all a manufactured crisis inside the Biden administration, which is presumably why you have members of the State Department who are now leaking internal memos criticizing Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
00:26:01.000The memo that was, again, leaked by low-level State Department staffers, who should all be fired because, honest to God, if you run an executive branch department and your low-level staffers are leaking things, they should be on the unemployment lines tomorrow.
00:26:15.000The memo has two key requests that the U.S.
00:26:17.000support a ceasefire and that it balance its private and public messaging toward Israel, including errant criticisms of Israeli military tactics and treatment of Palestinians the U.S.
00:26:26.000The document says we must publicly criticize Israel's violations of international norms, such as a failure to limit offensive operations to legitimate military targets.
00:26:55.000And then, of course, they say, when Israel supports settler violence and illegal land seizures or employs excessive use of force against Palestinians, we must communicate this publicly so that this goes against our American values.
00:27:42.000And these are protesters who blocked the port of Tacoma on Monday to protest what they said was a military ship bound for Israel.
00:27:48.000During the 12-hour protest, some people marched in circles, some waved Palestinian flags, some held up signs that said, no aid for Israel, ceasefire now and resist until return, which of course is a call for the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:27:59.000Protesters believe the ship is transporting military equipment and weapons to Israel.
00:28:03.000If that is in fact the case, then these are people who are obstructing the function of the federal government.
00:28:09.000Which means they're engaging in criminal activity.
00:28:11.000Are any of them going to be prosecuted by the Biden administration?
00:28:14.000Speaking of which, is anyone going to be prosecuted for defacing the White House gates?
00:28:19.000So the day after that giant protest over the weekend, the White House gates were stained with bloody red handprints.
00:28:26.000This is called passionate protest by the journalists.
00:28:28.000Good news, they left their fingerprints directly on the wall.
00:28:31.000So you could arrest all of those people.
00:28:33.000If these were right-wingers who had done this, all of them would be in jail, presumably without counsel, because that's the way this works.
00:28:37.000If, however, you are a pro-Camos terrorist supporter, and you put your handprints, your bloody red paint handprints, on actual federal property, then everything is totally fine.
00:28:49.000Again, as long as you identify with the right people, you can do whatever the hell that you want.
00:28:54.000Meanwhile, this is having some impact on how the Biden administration is approaching the Israel-Hamas issue.
00:29:01.000Joe Biden is now raising the possibility of a tactical pause in Gaza fighting with Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:29:08.000Now, Israel is engaging in tactical pauses.
00:29:10.000Anybody who's been watching this conflict closely, like granularly, the way that I have, you understand there are certain hours of the day where there are no bombings, and Israel has multiple times, like a lot, announced, we're not bombing between 10 and 2, now is the time for you to move south.
00:29:25.000Netanyahu himself said in an interview with ABC News, quote, But if the Biden administration is putting pressure on Israel to basically leave Hamas in power with ceasefires, then that is going to be a ridiculous failure on the part of the Biden administration.
00:29:35.000come in or our hostages, individual hostages to leave.
00:29:38.000But if the Biden administration is putting pressure on Israel to
00:29:42.000basically leave Hamas in power with ceasefires, then that is
00:29:45.000going to be a ridiculous failure on the part of the Biden administration.
00:29:49.000And that of course is the entire goal of the media at this point.
00:29:52.000John Kirby was pushing this yesterday.
00:29:55.000Here is the spokesperson for the National Security Administration suggesting that Netanyahu should consider quote-unquote tactical pauses.
00:30:01.000I don't even understand what that means.
00:30:04.000With the president and Benjamin Netanyahu, we were told that there was a good deal of discussion about a potential for tactical pauses in the fighting again for humanitarian relief and all of that.
00:30:15.000Did that come up or was it nixed by Benjamin Netanyahu?
00:30:40.000And we believe that this is a conversation that we have had in recent days with the Israelis and we continue to, we know we're going to continue to have those conversations going forward.
00:30:48.000We're at the beginning of this conversation, we don't think we're at the end.
00:30:51.000Okay, I don't even know what you think the end looks like then.
00:31:10.000And what's going to come after is probably Israeli military control of the Gaza Strip.
00:31:15.000Even if some other power is put in municipal control of the area, Israel is going to have the ability to put its military assets on the ground in order to ferret out future terrorism.
00:31:25.000Israel will never For the rest of its history, undergo what just happened again.
00:31:30.000Any government that would allow that to happen would not last very long in the State of Israel.
00:31:34.000So if all of this posturing is designed for the Arab states or for domestic radicals inside their own coalition, I just wonder, at a certain point, there's been a lot of talk on both sides of the aisle over the course of the last few years about throwing the radicals out of your coalition.
00:31:49.000The Democrats are still coddling the radicals, including Rashida Tlaib.
00:31:52.000At a certain point, it might behoove you to get rid of Rashida Tlaib from your coalition if you are a Democrat who actually believes you have some moral leg to stand on.
00:31:59.000In just one second, we'll talk about the 2024 election.
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00:33:46.000Well, meanwhile, the 2024 election could be the closest in a generation.
00:33:50.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the two parties are heading into neck-and-neck races next year to control all three levers of elected power in Washington, the House, Senate, and the presidency.
00:33:58.000Until 1995, Democrats held the House majority for 40 years with an average margin of more than 80 seats.
00:34:03.000They won the Senate majority in 1954 and retained it until 1980.
00:34:06.000This year, Democrats hold on to the Senate and the Republican majority in the House are both at risk, while polls point to a close race for the White House.
00:34:12.000I mean, right now, it is the closest we have been in terms of sort of electoral balance in years and years and years and years.
00:34:20.000Which means that the future of the country does rest on a razor's edge.
00:34:25.000Which is why, if Donald Trump is the nominee, and if Donald Trump continues to be at the center of headlines that are entirely about him and not about Joe Biden.
00:34:33.000It's going to be a serious problem for Republicans.
00:34:35.000I know Republicans right now are looking at these polling numbers and they're saying Joe Biden is super vulnerable.
00:34:47.000That also relies on a news cycle where Donald Trump is absent from the news cycle.
00:34:51.000The great, weird, toxic charm of Donald Trump is that the very thing that makes his base love him is the thing that makes independents hate him.
00:34:59.000The more he is seen, the less he is liked.
00:35:02.000If he ran Joe Biden's campaign from 2020, he would be president again.
00:35:06.000Unfortunately, all the headlines yesterday were all about him in court again.
00:35:11.000According to the same polls that are showing Trump up in the swing states, if he is convicted in any of the cases that are currently up in court, and there are four of them, if he's convicted in any of those cases, His poll numbers are going to drop.
00:35:25.000So right now, according to the New York Times poll, again, I'm only citing that poll because that's the exact same one showing Trump very, very durable against Biden in all the swing states.
00:35:32.000The polls found that for the most part, Trump is politically surviving the criminal charges against him before voting in the GOP primary.
00:35:38.000He leads Mr. Biden by between 4 and 10 percentage points in five of the six battleground states surveyed, and in his sixth state, Wisconsin, Biden is only up a little bit.
00:35:48.000The core of Trump's strength remains his perceived skill at managing the economy.
00:35:52.000However, if the former president is convicted and sentenced, around 6% of voters across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin say they would switch their votes to Biden.
00:36:01.000That would be enough, potentially, to decide the election.
00:36:05.000It would presumably suppress some pro-Republican votes.
00:36:08.000If you look at the polling as to how Biden would fare against all the Republican candidates at this point, Generic Republican.
00:36:16.000Generic Republican, like a person with no name, just a generic Republican, is up 15 points on Biden in Nevada, 16 in Georgia, 18 in Arizona, 14 in Michigan, Pennsylvania, plus 14, Wisconsin, plus 15.
00:36:28.000In other words, the more media coverage any Republican candidate receives, the less well they do against Biden.
00:36:35.000Which is why Trump right now is up pretty solidly on Biden in Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
00:36:41.000DeSantis is only up slightly, but he's up slightly in all of those states.
00:36:45.000And Haley, who again is the most generic Republican of the generic Republicans, is up 6 in Nevada, 3 in Georgia, 7 in Arizona, 10 in Michigan, 10 in Pennsylvania, 13 in Wisconsin.
00:36:56.000So if this electability argument is going to be made, it's going to come down to, on Trump's behalf, I'm going to be disciplined, which again is a very difficult case for Trump to make.
00:37:05.000And that was made purely positive yesterday when he is testifying himself in this case, this bizarre and ridiculous case.
00:37:27.000She doesn't have to show that Donald Trump, by inflating his real estate assets, stole money from anyone or hurt anyone.
00:37:32.000She just has to show that he inflated the value of his real estate assets and that people relied upon that in their decision making, even if they made money.
00:37:42.000It also happens to be the case that, again, if the scam is put Trump at the center of the attention cyclone and then just focus every camera on him, if that's the Democratic strategy, it's working.
00:38:53.000Again, what he's saying here is not wrong.
00:38:57.000The problem is that if Americans are focusing on Trump's legal foibles, they're not focusing on the stuff that Trump is saying they should focus on.
00:39:03.000If Trump is saying focus on Joe Biden being a bad president, and then, of course, he's in court, and that's a big story.
00:39:20.000I can donate to Trump's legal defense fund in cases like this.
00:39:23.000And I can still think that maybe it's a dangerous move politically for Republicans to nominate the guy who's likely to spend the next year in court talking about his legal troubles, allowing the media to swivel their attention from Joe Biden's consistent record of failure over to Donald Trump and his legal issues.
00:39:38.000So Trump yesterday began his testimony in court by delivering a series of broadsides against both the court and the prosecution.
00:39:45.000He said of the judge, I'm sure the judge will rule against me because he always rules against me.
00:40:01.000Donald Trump couldn't stop himself from actually giving credence to the charges against him, for example.
00:40:07.000So at one point, he claimed that he personally intervened to talk about the asset value of some of his assets, which is something he's been trying to shy away from.
00:40:14.000He's trying to say that basically his lawyers did it, it wasn't him.
00:40:16.000So he's not responsible, because one of the things that the judge in this case, Engron, who is a motivated left-winger, that Engron is trying to do is remove Trump from control of his own companies and fine him $250 million, which is a lot of money, even if you are Donald Trump.
00:40:30.000So Trump, again, putting him on the stand is a dangerous move, obviously.
00:40:35.000It resulted in the judge basically threatening to toss Trump off the stand.
00:40:42.000According to Politico, Testimony by Donald Trump.
00:40:45.000In a civil fraud trial, Monday quickly descended into bitter sniping as Trump's discursive answers and outbursts prompted the judge to repeatedly admonish him.
00:40:51.000He spent four hours on the witness stand.
00:40:53.000He lost his temper and attacked the judge, railing against the person who will decide the fate of his business empire and suggesting that one of his pretrial rulings was very stupid.
00:41:01.000He says, it's a terrible thing you've done.
00:41:04.000Trump's primary defense, which he has offered publicly since the start of the trial, is that financial statements contain very, very powerful disclaimers and therefore weren't intended for use by banks or insurers.
00:41:14.000But, um, and then, in the middle of his testimony, he suggested that, actually, the Manx may have relied on it.
00:41:18.000Now, again, the case is complete bunk.
00:41:21.000It shouldn't be brought in the first place.
00:41:22.000And it is Letitia James being malicious as all hell in bringing this thing.
00:41:26.000Also, when you're in the middle of a legal case, no matter the grounds upon which it is brought, just as a lawyer, you gotta be extremely careful in how you handle those charges.
00:41:34.000Politically, Trump can be totally in the right.
00:41:36.000And legally, he can still put himself in dire jeopardy.
00:41:41.000So, this is gonna be a continuing problem for Trump.
00:41:45.000This is going to be a continuing problem.
00:41:46.000And again, I wish it weren't, but it is.
00:42:05.000We're honest, coming from the judge who has already predetermined That my client committed fraud before we even walked into this courtroom.
00:42:15.000I'm not here to hear what he has to say.
00:42:20.000Then why exactly am I being paid as an attorney and why exactly are taxpayer dollars being used in this courtroom?
00:43:20.000In just one second, we'll get to even Democrats now starting to realize that maybe Joe Biden shouldn't be their candidate first.
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00:45:12.000So what that bespeaks is the fact that the president of the United States, a very weak candidate, David Axelrod, who is, of course, the chief political advisor to Barack Obama, he's like, well, maybe they shouldn't run him.
00:46:54.000Wait until you get to the guys who are right below him.
00:46:56.000Anyway, here's the view, basically like, well, no, what if we just, what if we, what if we just, you know, whistle our way past the graveyard here?
00:47:02.000There's going to be a choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
00:47:13.000The deadline to get on the ballot for Nevada was two weeks ago.
00:47:18.000There are deadlines that you need to meet in order to be on the ballot, and those deadlines are passing or gone.
00:47:23.000I think Democrats need to stop fretting, need to stop looking at this as a warning, and look at it as a wake-up call to organize, to mobilize, to register people, to talk about the accomplishments of this administration.
00:47:39.000If you want to beat Donald Trump, stop clutching your pearls and get to work.
00:47:45.000Okay, well, we'll see how well that works out for them.
00:47:48.000In the end, I think they're just going to rely on the legal strategy to take down Trump.