Patrick Mahomes is the greatest. Travis Kelce is a nutcase. Kathleen Kennedy should not be allowed to run the Star Wars universe anymore. And Taylor Swift is going to get genetically perfect babies, which means she's going to have a bunch of feministy, 32-year-old kids who never got married because they don't want to have kids because it's good and then have babies and then realize marriage is good and they should have babies because it s good and it is good, and it's just bad and it s just bad, which is why they should all get married and have kids and have babies, because they are going to save the country. Also, I don't know what else to say about this episode except that it's about Patrick Mahomes and the Super Bowl and I'm here to talk about it. PATREON BONUS CONTENT: I talk about the actual Super Bowl, the halftime show, and my thoughts on it all, plus I give my thoughts about it all and talk about why it was a good night and why it's a bad day in the history of the NFL and why the Baby Boomer boom is a bad idea and why we should be worried about Baby Boomers getting genetically perfect. I also talk about how bad Travis Kelsey is a crazy person and why he s going to be the next Taylor Swift. And I make a prediction about the future of the baby boom. Thank you for listening to this episode of the podcast, and I hope you all enjoy it! because I really like it. I really do like it, I really really do. and I think it s a lot. I hope it ssssssss. XOXO. - Tom Brady is a good guy. -- THE CHOO CHOOO CHOOOOOOSY! -- P.S. -- I hope this episode is a lot better than the rest of you like it - -- CHEERS! - MURDERING IT -- CHEERING AT IT, MALAYA BABY BOY CHOOOSY -- I LOVE YOU, KELLY AND KARENJOYING IT, KARRY AND TAYO CHOOT AND I'S SONGS AND I LOVE YO'LLY? AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IT?
00:00:47.000Which means, by the way, that our country is aging pretty quickly.
00:00:50.000The fact that we are constantly pandering to whoever is the group of people who are the biggest demographically, and that group of people have taste that runs toward 2004, which is when Usher's biggest album came out, apparently.
00:01:02.000I've only been told this by my staff, I don't know.
00:01:03.000But apparently that's when Usher was like super huge, was the mid-2000s, and it is now 2024.
00:01:08.000Demonstrates, once again, this country is not a young country.
00:01:11.000That has some fairly significant ramifications for the future of the country, but again, we'll get to the political later.
00:01:46.000The first one that I went to involved Tom Brady, and then the second one that I went to also involved Tom Brady.
00:01:52.000And it was late Brady, but you always felt comfortable with Brady having the ball in his hands.
00:01:56.000And in that last drive where Mahomes is coming down the field, you feel as a fan comfortable watching Patrick Mahomes with the football in a way that you don't with somebody who actually looked like Brock Purdy.
00:02:05.000The fact is that Mahomes, with the football, he knows what he is doing.
00:02:08.000And you felt comfortable with a three-point deficit, him coming down the field and having a shot at winning the game because he is truly an amazing, amazing quarterback.
00:02:17.000Also, I would just like to point out this point that Travis Kelsey is a crazy person.
00:02:21.000So this would be Taylor Swift's boyfriend.
00:03:15.000And honestly, I'm happy for Travis Kelce because he was like this close to being the subject of Taylor Swift's next breakup song.
00:03:22.000But then he was saved by Patrick Mahomes.
00:03:24.000So now, maybe the Taylor Swift baby boom is going to happen.
00:03:27.000This has been my prediction, is that Travis Kelce is going to propose to Taylor Swift, they're going to get married, they're going to have kids, and suddenly a bunch of feminist-y 32-year-olds who never got married because girl power are going to realize marriage is good and then have babies, and it's going to save the country.
00:03:39.000Maybe that is the way that our country gets saved, is by Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift having genetically perfect babies.
00:03:45.000Maybe that's the way this actually works.
00:03:47.000Okay, which brings us to that fan box.
00:03:50.000So this is the first time I've ever watched a game where Taylor Swift is in the skybox, where my ire was not directed at Taylor Swift.
00:03:57.000So somehow, Ice Spice, a person whose name is Ice Spice, made me like Taylor Swift more.
00:04:04.000Well, because Taylor Swift was always the neophyte in the box, right?
00:04:06.000Taylor Swift was always the person where you're like, why is she here?
00:04:09.000Does she understand how football works?
00:04:10.000Like, how seriously does she follow football?
00:04:12.000Why are we pretending like she's a big football fan when she's been to like two games ever, maybe?
00:04:17.000And now she's there explaining to Ice Spice how exactly football works.
00:04:21.000Literally explaining to her at the Super Bowl that this one team goes that way and that other team goes the other way.
00:04:28.000And Ice Spice is watching all of this as though she's trying to process higher mathematics like Winona Ryder at the Oscars a few years back.
00:04:36.000Here's Taylor Swift trying to explain to Ice Spice how football works.
00:04:40.000She's like, yeah, and then they go that way, and you see that way, and Ice is like, oh my god, oh!
00:04:45.000I get it now a little bit, but she doesn't really get it.
00:04:47.000You can see in her eyes that she has no clue what Taylor Swift is talking about.
00:04:50.000It's like Taylor Swift is teaching her calculus, or something.
00:04:53.000So that made me like Taylor Swift a little more, because Taylor Swift at least knows how football works, and Ice Spice, as many people pointed out, stole her hair from Annie.
00:05:03.000In any case, My favorite part of that was that this culminated in the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl, and Ice Spice celebrating with Taylor Swift as though she knew what the hell was going on.
00:05:15.000Like a bunch of 13-year-old girls who are gonna pretend that they're best friends forever, even though, like, two of them hate each other.
00:05:22.000She doesn't know, but she's celebrating like crazy with Brittany Mahomes, who, by the way, has like a little more investment in all of this.
00:05:29.000Brittany Mahomes is actually married to the quarterback.
00:05:30.000Brittany Mahomes has been dating the quarterback since high school.
00:05:47.000So, that was the thing that was happening as well.
00:05:51.000We'll get some more on this in just one second.
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00:08:17.000They also pulled a bunch of artists out of retirement who, again, this is not my bag.
00:08:22.000As America's top rap artist, I didn't know any of these people, but that's because, again, I'm out of touch with the younger generation, which is to say the mainstream older generation, like the 80-year-old in the room full of 60-year-olds in this country now.
00:08:34.000So, they brought forth Lil Jon, whose famous hit is Turn Down For What, which involves him screaming at the top of his lungs, Turn Down For What.
00:08:43.000They brought forth a person who is not CeeLo Green, whose name escapes me.
00:08:49.000Are we gonna play Turn Down For What here?
00:09:42.000Okay, now to the actual politics of the Super Bowl.
00:09:45.000So, first thing to notice about the Super Bowl this year, they really tried to keep it apolitical.
00:09:51.000So they played the so-called Black National Anthem before the game.
00:09:54.000They've done this the last few years since George Floyd died.
00:09:57.000But they played it before the broadcast release, so nobody, I think, saw it.
00:10:01.000I remember when I was at the Super Bowl, it was the same kind of thing.
00:10:03.000They played it, but they played it like so far before the game that it was kind of non-controversial.
00:10:09.000And then that allowed the usual suspects to fuss about how people didn't stand for this Black National Anthem, which again, there shouldn't be a Black National Anthem.
00:10:19.000I'm not sure why you need a separate Black National Anthem at the one event that everyone in the country watches together.
00:10:25.000But in any case, the kind of message of the Super Bowl from all the advertisers was non-controversy.
00:10:30.000They were all desperately trying to avoid controversy.
00:10:33.000Because what people kind of just want is normality.
00:10:37.000I know, the Super Bowl is a weird place to get it, but that is what people wanted.
00:10:40.000They just wanted a football game that was about football, without the politics, without the crazy of the past few years.
00:10:46.000And that's what every commercial was about.
00:10:48.000So pretty much every commercial was just a normal 1996 level commercial with nothing really provocative about that, which is why when there was something provocative in the commercials, it really stood out.
00:10:58.000So really only two sort of provocative commercials along these lines.
00:11:02.000One was an ad for an organization called He Gets Us, the he being Jesus.
00:11:07.000And it's controversial because this take on Jesus is hippie Jesus.
00:11:11.000Now, obviously I'm not a Christian, I'm an Orthodox Jew, but I have read the New Testament, and virtually all my friends are very religious Christians.
00:11:19.000And I will point out at this point that even someone like me understands that the message of Jesus is not one of unending tolerance for behavior.
00:11:27.000It's love of human beings, but not tolerance for bad behavior.
00:11:31.000But apparently the He Gets Us campaign is about how Jesus really, really is fine with everybody's behavior, which is not the message that I got from the New Testament, where that is clearly not.
00:11:40.000The actual thing that Jesus is saying.
00:11:44.000In any case, here were some of the He Gets Us ad campaign, which completely does not get Jesus.
00:11:49.000But again, I'll let Christian speak to that, but I'm pretty sure about this one.
00:11:54.000The ad begins with people washing each other's feet, because apparently Jesus was big into the feet washing, but not because he actually wanted to promulgate his belief system, just because he apparently really loved washing feet.
00:12:06.000So you've got a cop washing the feet of some... some dude.
00:12:10.000You have a cheerleader washing the feet of a red-haired lady.
00:12:14.000You have, like, a white guy washing the feet of a Native American.
00:12:16.000And then, my favorite, you have a lady, who is sort of a suburban mom, washing the feet of a lady outside a family planning clinic.
00:12:25.000Um, so, unless she's also trying to convince that lady not to have an abortion, I'm pretty sure Jesus is not so hot on the abortion, as it turns out.
00:12:34.000You have poor lady having her feet washed.
00:12:37.000You have Native American lady, environmentalist having her feet washed.
00:12:41.000Illegal immigrant having her feet washed.
00:13:22.000I would just like to point out that Jesus did more than wash feet.
00:13:26.000I mean, again, I don't mean to be like the Christian proselytizer here, because I'll leave that to others who are actual Christians, but, um, that's not all he did.
00:13:40.000Like, Jesus went out a fan of, like, my understanding of the Mary Magdalene story is that he didn't say to her, let me wash your feet and I'll go back to being a whore and I'm fine with it.
00:13:50.000Pretty sure that's the opposite of the story.
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00:15:31.000The reason this is really smart is because Joe Biden forewent the honorary Super Bowl interview that every incumbent president gets.
00:15:37.000And the reason he did that is because he's too old for the job and he can no longer function as we saw last week, as we'll get into in just a moment.
00:15:43.000And Donald Trump didn't take out an ad.
00:15:46.000I don't know why Trump didn't take out an ad.
00:15:48.000This would be like a perfect time for Trump to take out an ad.
00:15:50.000I assume maybe the people broadcasting the Super Bowl didn't want Trump to take out an ad?
00:15:58.000The reason this ad is very smart is because, again, it is seeking normalcy.
00:16:02.000So what the RFK super PAC understands is that what Americans basically want is everybody to calm the F down.
00:16:07.000That's kind of what most Americans want at this point.
00:16:09.000All they want is to know that they go to work, they're gonna take home the vast majority of their money, they're gonna be able to raise their families without being victimized by street crime, that they're not gonna have their boys turned into girls or whatever.
00:16:19.000They just want a baseline level of normalcy.
00:16:21.000That's what most Americans are looking for at this point.
00:17:02.000Joseph Kennedy, the scion of the guy who founded the dynasty, was a Nazi sympathizer.
00:17:08.000So, again, Far be it from me to be saying that the Kennedy family is anything special.
00:17:14.000I don't like the Kennedys as a kind of family, but they do have brand recognition, as you might say, in American politics.
00:17:21.000And so RFK glomming onto that, but not glomming onto his own father, really, as much as he's glomming onto the 1960, let's get back to something resembling optimism and normality, Really smart.
00:18:32.000Again, I think that's quite a brilliant ad.
00:18:34.000I think that you actually are going to see better name recognition of RFK, because if you look at the polls, most Americans don't really like very much either of the two candidates who are running for president.
00:18:43.000And so just saying, vote independent, and then slapping a Kennedy label on there is about as well as you can do with one of these ads.
00:18:49.000And using all of the throwback imagery here is super smart for RFK Jr.
00:19:00.000Which brings us to Joe Biden, the man who forewent the Super Bowl.
00:19:04.000So again, usually the Super Bowl is a piece of propaganda on behalf of the current President of the United States, because you get these sort of honorary pre-Super Bowl interview, and Joe Biden just forewent it.
00:19:17.000Instead, Joe Biden showed, in what he did react to the Super Bowl, that he is wildly out of touch and also too old for the job.
00:19:24.000So, after the Super Bowl, There have been all these weird, stupid conspiracy theories about how the CIA and the FBI were going to rig the Super Bowl so that Travis Kelce would propose to Taylor Swift and then Taylor Swift would get up and endorse Joe Biden at the Super Bowl.
00:19:37.000None of that was ever going to happen.
00:19:40.000And again, it comes from a desire on the part of some people to assume a level of control in politics that is absolutely foreclosed by the stupidity of most people in politics.
00:19:52.000So Joe Biden's online team, they then tweeted out a meme after the Chiefs won in overtime.
00:19:57.000It's a picture of Joe Biden with the kind of dark brands in meme with the glowing eyes.
00:20:02.000And obviously it's mocking the people who had the conspiracy theory.
00:20:04.000This is super online, like really online.
00:20:07.000Because again, this conspiracy theory is something that's been sort of pushed by the media and exaggerated by the media as a major thing in American life.
00:20:14.000So the fact that his team is tweeting that as opposed to just sort of a warm welcome to the people who won the Super Bowl, and this is the big takeaway.
00:21:31.000Shrinkflation is this phenomenon in which you're spending the same for a bag of potato chips, there are fewer potato chips in the bag.
00:21:37.000It's sort of a hidden form of inflation, which has happened thanks to Joe Biden.
00:21:41.000Now he's trying to claim that this is because of corporate greed, when in reality, it's because he created an inflationary economy, the worst inflationary economy in 40 years.
00:21:50.000But what's worse about this particular video is that to say that Joe Biden looks like death in this video is an insult to death.
00:21:57.000He does not look like a warmed over corpse.
00:22:02.000It is quite honestly, like as an American whose president is this guy, it is really frightening that a person who is clearly no longer alive is the president of the United States.
00:23:49.000So what we have in the 2024 election, this is why the RFK Jr.
00:23:52.000ad is smart, what we have is a president who is far too old and terrible at his job.
00:23:58.000I'm more concerned about him being terrible at his job, frankly.
00:24:00.000I think a lot of people are concerned about the fact that he's no longer sentient, that he's a houseplant hiding the water stain that is the Democratic Party policy.
00:24:06.000I'm more concerned about the water stain, to be honest with you.
00:24:08.000But By polling data, most people are very, very concerned about the House plant himself.
00:25:24.000Joe Biden is, in the words of the Princess Bride, mostly dead.
00:25:28.000It means slightly alive, but mostly dead.
00:25:31.000And he's gonna need Miracle Max to come in and revive him for anything remotely resembling a campaign here.
00:25:38.00062% of Americans think Trump is too old to serve as president.
00:25:42.00073% of Democrats think Biden is too old to serve.
00:25:45.000Only 35% of Republicans think Trump is too old to serve.
00:25:50.00091% of independents think Biden is too old.
00:25:55.000I don't see how you can win re-election under those circumstances, frankly.
00:25:58.000The only way would be if, say, the other candidate wouldn't shut the hell up and just kept saying things that are likely to hurt his campaign.
00:26:07.000The Democrats are trying to walk past this one because they have no mechanism for getting rid of him.
00:26:11.000So according to news reports, Jill Biden is very, very upset.
00:26:16.000She's very upset because the special counsel report from Robert Herr came out and it said Joe Biden is certainly guilty of mishandling classified information, but a prosecution of him would be unsuccessful because he's a vegetable.
00:26:26.000Because he's essentially a drooling vegetable and we cannot allow any trial of him because he will just present himself thus and everyone will go, are we going to put that old guy in jail?
00:26:51.000And a person who's close to the First Lady told me that she was directly involved in the crafting of this fundraising email.
00:26:56.000Jen, you know well it's not always the case that it's like that.
00:26:59.000She said, among other things, that she wanted to speak out in real American mom terms and say that this wasn't just inaccurate, that it was inhumane.
00:27:07.000And then she also wanted to make another argument that the First Lady did there.
00:27:10.000She said that Americans benefit from each of the President's 81 years.
00:27:14.000His experience, his expertise is what's allowed him to get things done.
00:27:19.000Okay, we're benefiting from each of his 81 years?
00:27:21.000Uh... Well, then we could get into his record.
00:27:25.000Okay, but Democrats are trying to come up with whatever angle they can here.
00:27:28.000So what they are saying is that the special counsel is bad now.
00:27:31.000Oh, how every argument flips the moment it's your side.
00:27:34.000So, when it was Robert Mueller and Donald Trump was saying, The special counsel investigation is a joke and it's a witch hunt and it's terrible and it's politically motivated and there's a deep state that's out to get me.
00:27:42.000Then the entire press is like, that's unpatriotic.
00:27:45.000That's the president of the United States threatening democracy, threatening the bureaucracy.
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00:29:15.000What that poll could have been about is who understands that our alliances keep us safer?
00:29:20.000Joe Biden, who's led 50 countries to come to the defense of Ukraine?
00:29:25.000Or Donald Trump, who alarmingly last night bragged about a story where he claims he threatened a NATO ally to throw them to the Russian wolves if they didn't pay up?
00:29:34.000NATO isn't a protection racket, it is a security alliance.
00:29:38.000So the substance, the difference, Joe Biden and Donald Trump and most elected officials
00:29:44.000make small gaffes just like the ones you just showed.
00:29:49.000We are in a fight for the soul of our nation and the idea that somehow Joe Biden forgot
00:29:54.000the date of his son's death is offensive and appalling.
00:29:58.000And what you should be focused on, in my view, what that poll should have focused on, what our nation should focus on, is the way that Donald Trump is undermining rule of law, democracy, and our safety as a nation.
00:30:13.000How dare the special counsel, how dare, then Adam Schiff, the biggest political hack of our generation.
00:30:19.000Adam Schiff, who literally went into the green room at MSNBC and CNN for like three years, claiming that just around the corner was a bombshell that would link Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin's slush fund.
00:30:31.000That garbage human, Adam Schiff, he's out there now saying that her is a political hack.
00:30:41.000But clients are told, hey, if you don't remember specifically the facts of things that happened years ago, which is not uncommon, don't try to reinvent what took place.
00:30:52.000And there's nothing, I think, unusual about a deposition in which people can't recall details of years ago.
00:30:59.000But to extrapolate from that and make a political attack, that's just hackery by Mr. Herr.
00:31:36.000What you're talking about and letters you've released make it sound like there are indeed transcripts that you have of these conversations over the 8th and the 9th.
00:31:44.000Yes, I'm drawing here on my recollections, but yes, there are transcripts and as you heard Ian Sams in the press briefing room say, you know, there are discussions underway because it's a classified document about What could or whether will be or when released, I can't add anything to that today.
00:33:40.000Once you say that, then you have to also talk about what's at stake in the election, and I'm for Joe Biden for re-election on the merits, because I think he's done a really good job as president.
00:34:00.000Just because the Republicans and Fox News and all the tributaries that come off of that will overstate it, Turn a blind eye to the fact that Trump, who has always been an unprincipled and reprehensible person, is now a ranting lunatic who has mental gaps of his own.
00:34:37.000Joe Biden should have run on a firm promise that he would be a one-term president.
00:34:41.000The only reason he is president is that he's not Donald Trump.
00:34:45.000Then the Dems could have gotten a lot of people up in the bullpen, and they could have sorted through those people.
00:34:52.000If Biden's hubris is such that he doesn't understand the best interests of his party, and more important, his country, then he has to be shown the door.
00:35:10.000No one who attains the presidency wants to leave it, ever, under any circumstances.
00:35:14.000I mean, that is just the reality of the ego involved here, which is why Biden's campaign co-chair, Mitch Landrieu, is like, he's never going to quit, ever, under any circumstances.
00:35:41.000Because that's not what he's done his entire life, notwithstanding the fact that, by the way, he lost another child early in his life, and he got up and he went to work.
00:35:48.000And then he had difficulty with his other son, and he got up and he went to work, and he's going to keep doing that.
00:35:54.000In other words, he ain't going nowhere, which puts Democrats in a heap of trouble if the Republicans cannot step on their own bleeps.
00:36:08.000After almost a year away, filming the Pendragon Cycle, Jeremy Boring is back, joined by Matt Walsh, Michael Moles, Candace Owens, Andrew Klavan.
00:36:40.000He is physically limited, he is mentally limited, his capacity is limited.
00:36:45.000He really has a bunch of boundaries that have been set by reality for him.
00:36:50.000And his own policies, we'll get to momentarily, are a disaster area that are significantly increasing the likelihood of World War III across the world, mainly through his cowardice and inaction.
00:36:59.000Donald Trump has one factor under his control that Joe Biden does not, and that is the capacity to shut his face.
00:37:05.000It is important to shut your face when you're in a presidential election.
00:37:07.000What you don't say is just as important as what you do say.
00:37:10.000You being on TV more does not mean that you're going to win more votes.
00:37:13.000Donald Trump does not need to up his profile at this point.
00:37:15.000Donald Trump needs everyone to be focused in on the fact that Joe Biden is a terrible president who is no longer competent to hold his office.
00:37:21.000And that his backup is Kamala Harris, who is the world's worst vice president, also not competent to hold her office, but for different reasons.
00:37:28.000That is what Donald Trump needs this election to be a referendum on.
00:37:31.000So what he doesn't need to do is make big boo-boos that allow the media to try to switch the narrative away.
00:37:38.000So, there's kind of the usual Trumpian nonsense.
00:37:41.000I don't think any of that's going to affect him.
00:37:42.000The Trumpian nonsense would be stuff like Donald Trump riffing about Taylor Swift before the big game.
00:37:51.000So he wrote a tweet saying, I signed and was responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and many other artists.
00:37:59.000Joe Biden didn't do anything for Taylor and never will.
00:38:01.000There's no way she could endorse crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt president in the history of our country, and be disloyal to the man who made her so much money.
00:38:07.000Besides that, I like her boyfriend, Travis, even though he may be a liberal and probably can't stand me.
00:38:21.000Now again, in a past world, no one would care because who cares what a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs and a pop singer have to say about politics?
00:38:28.000And in reality, I don't think it's going to move that many votes.
00:38:33.000Is that going to have any impact on the election?
00:38:34.000No, that one's not going to have any impact.
00:38:36.000But what Donald Trump says about policy, that does allow for lines of attack to open against him that he does not need to open.
00:38:44.000So Donald Trump was giving a speech and he was talking about NATO.
00:38:49.000Donald Trump's position on NATO is that NATO is important, apparently.
00:38:52.000The intelligent version of Donald Trump's position on NATO is that NATO is quite important in order to check foreign actors who have interests adversarial to those of the United States and the European Union, which is largely what comprises NATO.
00:39:04.000And yes, NATO, of course, is in fact a tool to counterbalance Russian aggression in the Balkans, in Ukraine, and other places.
00:39:12.000And for all of the foolish talk about how Russia is not an expansionist power, I urge everyone to pick up a book, any book, about the history of Russia.
00:39:20.000The history of Russia is literally a history of expansionism.
00:39:23.000The kingdom of Muscovy was a very small kingdom, and then it was a very large kingdom, and then it got even larger under the Soviet Union, and then it got a little smaller after the fall of the Soviet Union, and now it's gotten a little larger under Vladimir Putin.
00:39:33.000The idea that Russia is not an expansionist power is not correct.
00:39:58.000We have rebuilt your economies to the point where you guys can have these giant social welfare states where half your population is dependent on the government.
00:40:04.000You can certainly afford a little bit more for NATO.
00:40:16.000So using leverage is not the end of the world.
00:40:18.000Saying out loud things like, we will not defend our NATO partners if they don't pay up, is not exactly an inducement for Vladimir Putin to stop his aggression, precisely.
00:40:30.000So here is Donald Trump over the weekend.
00:40:34.000One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, well, sir, if we don't pay and we're attacked by Russia, will you protect us?
00:40:50.000In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.
00:40:55.000Okay, so, he's obviously quasi-joking here.
00:40:58.000That is not how foreign policy decisions get made.
00:41:01.000But, does it matter when a presidential candidate says, I would encourage them to attack you if you don't actually pay your ne- Again, this is Donald Trump speaking in hyperbole because that's the language he speaks.
00:41:10.000Hey, you can tell when he's joking, when he's not.
00:41:11.000This is a story, by the way, that for sure never happened.
00:41:13.000No major country got up and said to Donald Trump, if we don't pay our fair share, are you going to let the Russians invade us?
00:41:17.000That is a conversation that never happened in the same way that Donald Trump routinely retells conversations with other political candidates who come to him crying for his support, which is not a reality.
00:41:49.000So all the talk about Donald Trump being bad for NATO, there are a lot less violations of NATO's presumed reach or threats to NATO's presumed reach under Donald Trump than there were under Joe Biden, because Joe Biden's a weakling.
00:42:05.000NATO Secretary General Jan Stoltenberg said NATO remains ready and able to defend all allies.
00:42:08.000Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the U.S.
00:42:13.000and puts American and European soldiers at increased risk.
00:42:15.000I expect that regardless of who wins the presidential election, the U.S.
00:42:18.000will remain a strong and committed NATO ally.
00:42:20.000And then leaders in Germany and Poland also swiftly criticized Donald Trump's comments.
00:42:25.000So you understand where they're coming from.
00:42:28.000I mean, the reality is that if you are an Eastern European country or a country in the Baltics and the President of the United States is like, you don't pay up and they might invade you.
00:42:36.000And you're talking about like Latvia or Lithuania or Estonia and these places have GDPs that are minute compared to the GDP of the United States.
00:42:43.000I mean, the GDP of Poland is like $680 billion.
00:42:48.000The annual budget of the United States, not the GDP, the annual budget is like 10 times that amount.
00:42:55.000So let's say that you are Poland and you are currently spending 3.9% of your GDP into military goals, including twice NATO's current 2% target for NATO.
00:43:03.000Like you have to say that you're gonna spend a certain percentage of your money on your military budget in order to fulfill your duty under NATO.
00:43:11.000And what you hear from the president of the United States is that an attack on the collective, that is NATO, Will be accepted by the United States so long as it's like Latvia and they're paying, say, 1.8% or something.
00:43:22.000If you're Poland, does that make you sanguine or does that make you upset?
00:43:25.000So again, I understand exactly what Donald Trump is saying here.
00:43:27.000And what he's actually saying is he's trying to leverage everybody into spending what they should be spending on their own defense spending.
00:43:33.000But putting out that signal publicly is not the same thing as doing it privately because, of course, Vladimir Putin and company are listening and they sense any sort of weakness as a chance for aggression.
00:43:44.000So that opens Donald Trump up to critique, that he doesn't need.
00:44:34.000The problem is, when you have the world's biggest target on your back, which Donald Trump does, not giving a bleep makes it harder for you to get done what you need to get done.
00:44:42.000I'm not saying he should care what people think.
00:44:43.000I'm saying that he should care about strategic thinking so that he is more likely to win.
00:44:48.000So, for example, if you know that the quote-unquote deep state has its eye on you, you know what you shouldn't do is refuse to turn over boxes of documents in Mar-a-Lago after they request them.
00:45:00.000If you know that all you have to do is just point at the elderly, doddering, senile old man on the other side and win election, Why are you ripping on Nikki Haley's husband and allowing a spate of headlines about Nikki Haley's husband?
00:46:29.000The reality is that Joe Biden's weakness is leading to a larger chance of a larger-scale war breaking out.
00:46:35.000So, for example, in the Middle East right now, there are several things happening.
00:46:39.000One of the things that's happening is that apparently, according to several U.S.
00:46:41.000defense officials, and this will be Open Source Intelligence Monitor reporting, preparations are now underway for a total or partial withdrawal of U.S.
00:46:48.000and coalition forces from Eastern Syria and Iraq due to pressure from Iranian-backed groups, including Kataib Hezbollah.
00:46:53.000Okay, now, you can make the case that we shouldn't have outlets over there, but if you are going to withdraw people, you don't do it in the face of Iranian terror.
00:47:03.000If you want to make the case that independently we don't need people over there and it's a waste of time and a waste of resources, make that case.
00:47:09.000But don't let Iranian terror groups quote-unquote drive you out of the region.
00:47:53.000According to the Times of Israel, U.S.
00:47:55.000Deputy National Security Advisor John Finer made comments Thursday during a visit to the city of Dearborn, in which the top White House official said he did not have, quote, any confidence in the current Israeli government.
00:48:05.000Now, I would just like to point out at this point, the current Israeli government is not just run by Benjamin Netanyahu, who's been made the bugaboo and the enemy of the press.
00:48:12.000Benny Gantz is the prime opposition, the person who in every poll, if an election were held today, would be Prime Minister of Israel.
00:48:18.000That guy is in the coalition right now for the purposes of the war.
00:48:22.000And yet the goal here is to try to convince, I guess, Michigan pro-Hamasniks, that the Biden administration is trying to draw a middle line between Hamas and the Israeli government.
00:48:33.000And then he apparently called some unnamed Israeli officials, quote, abhorrent.
00:48:37.000And said the administration should have taken a stronger stand against those who compared, quote, residents of Gaza to animals.
00:48:50.000If you're a member of Hamas and you rape women and you kill babies, you are an animal.
00:48:55.000But Galant was specifically talking about Hamas, not every Palestinian who's living over there.
00:48:59.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden, again, an attempt to buy Michigan support.
00:49:03.000He apparently told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that Israel should not go ahead with a military operation in the Gaza border town of Rafah without a credible plan to protect civilians.
00:49:12.000First of all, Israel has been attempting to protect civilians this entire time because of Israel, which has complete air superiority for the 1000th time, wished to kill Two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
00:49:24.000They certainly have the aerial capability to do that, but they are not doing that.
00:49:27.000In fact, there are Israeli soldiers, who I know, who are going literally house to house and door to door in the most densely populated areas of some of the most densely populated places on planet Earth, so as to not kill civilians.
00:49:39.000In fact, I met with an Israeli soldier on Friday night who literally had his buddy gunned down right in front of him as he was going into an apartment complex in Gaza last week.
00:49:49.000Like, Why are they even on the ground there?
00:49:52.000The reason is to preserve civilian life.
00:49:54.000Not only that, the reason they're on the ground is to save the hostages.
00:49:58.000So while Joe Biden was apparently telling Israel not to go into Rafa, which again is the only major stronghold Hamas has left.
00:50:03.000They apparently have four battalions in Rafa.
00:50:06.000In order for Israel to finish off, this is basically like Joe Biden saying to the American military during World War II, guys, once you get around Berlin, just stop there.
00:50:19.000Not only that, all the hostages are in Rafah.
00:50:22.000Miraculously, we found out last night during the Super Bowl, Israel actually rescued two hostages alive in Gaza last night, which is like an amazing, miraculous story.
00:50:31.000You have right now about 100 hostages who are being kept We don't know how many are dead.
00:50:37.000But Israel actually rescued two hostages alive in Rafah while the Biden administration was telling them not to go in.
00:50:44.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Israeli military said Monday the rescue of Fernando Simon Marmon and Louis Haar was a complicated operation performed under fire in the heart of Rafah, a city in southern Gaza near where Palestinians are seeking refuge from the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
00:50:59.000local time, military forces and a police SWAT team broke into a house in Rafah and engaged in a gunfight with Hamas militants while shielding the hostages with their own bodies before evacuating them to a secure location.
00:51:09.000Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed 164 people overnight, including dozens in Rafah.
00:51:14.000Of course, those targeted strikes were at military members of Hamas who hide behind civilians.
00:51:21.000And having talked again to people who are serving in Gaza right now, the embedding is insane.
00:51:26.000The line between civilian and military in Gaza, between civilian and terrorists in Gaza, is incredibly thin.
00:51:32.000Huge percentages of civilian households in Gaza contain weaponry.
00:51:37.000Huge percentages are hiding terror tunnels.
00:51:41.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Hidden deep below the headquarters of the UN Aid Agency for Palestinians in Gaza City is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel's armed forces say served as an important communication center and intelligence hub for Hamas.
00:51:55.000The compound is directly below the United Nations Relief and Works Agency buildings in Gaza City, and they're running on electricity drawn from the UN.
00:52:04.000So whenever people talk about the vaunted UN, remember, the UN RWA is Hamas.
00:52:09.000They are indistinguishable in the Gaza Strip.
00:52:12.000And meanwhile, Biden is trying to tell the Israelis not to go in and rescue their own people, which is amazing.
00:52:17.000Benjamin Netanyahu, for his part, he says, listen, we're not going to stop here.
00:52:21.000Hamas is eliminated when you destroy their fighting formations.
00:52:25.000You've defined victory and you said the war will not end until Hamas is completely eliminated.
00:52:30.000How are you going to know when that is?
00:52:32.000How do you know when Hamas is completely eliminated?
00:52:35.000When you eliminate their organized fighting formations, and as I've said, we've taken 18 out of their 24 terrorist battalions out of commission, you're mopping up the remaining individual terrorists, and when you Release the hostages, of course, and ensure that Hamas, that Gaza is no longer a threat to Israel.
00:52:53.000You don't have to kill every last terrorist.
00:52:56.000You didn't have to kill every last ISIS terrorist, but you made sure that ISIS was finished as a military force that you have to dismantle.
00:53:05.000Hamas is a military force that controls territory.
00:53:09.000We're well within reach, and we shouldn't stop.
00:53:15.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration is trying to stop Israel from actually finishing the job with Hamas, which of course leads to more violence in the region if Israel would stop because Hamas would walk out, hold up a Hamas flag, say that they won even though they've completely devastated Gaza and every ounce of blood is on Hamas, which started this war and which has maintained this war.
00:53:31.000And then Hezbollah in the North would probably start prodding further and trying to kill more Israelis, knowing that Joe Biden is a weakling.
00:54:04.000His off-ramp was, no American support for Ukraine ever again.
00:54:08.000Which Ukraine is not going to agree to.
00:54:09.000Who else is going to provide the support?
00:54:13.000He has not made clear his territorial demands either.
00:54:15.000And in that interview, where he spells out all of Russian history from his vantage point, he says Ukraine literally does not exist, and that the regime needs to be quote-unquote, denazified.
00:54:23.000Which means that Vladimir Putin's goals have really not changed.
00:54:30.000And he is banking on the West, basically saying, okay, fine, you know, we're tired, whatever, okay.
00:54:35.000What that would require for Joe Biden to make the argument is not just alarmism, it would be an actual explanation of what is going on in Ukraine.
00:54:44.000That Ukraine, yes, there is corruption.
00:54:47.000Yes, certainly, a percentage of the money that goes to Ukraine will probably end up in the wrong hands because that happens with pretty much every country that we give foreign aid to.
00:54:55.000This is one of the problems with foreign aid.
00:54:58.000There's some countries that are very transparent about it.
00:54:59.000There's some countries that really are not.
00:55:01.000Ukraine happens to be a place with a lot of corruption.
00:55:03.000Sure, there are problems with Vladimir Zelensky as a leader.
00:55:05.000Vladimir Zelensky has cracked down on the opposition.
00:55:07.000There's no question that he has done that.
00:55:08.000He did that actually even prior to the 2022 invasion by Russia.
00:55:12.000With all of that said, it is not in America's direct interest to have Russia control Kiev, Ukraine, and put that Ukrainian border directly on the borders of NATO, threatening places like Hungary and Poland.
00:55:25.000And providing some additional aid, which amounts to a drop in the bucket for Americans, compared to the generalized budget of the American budget right now.
00:55:34.000That is a well worthwhile... He has to make that case.
00:55:38.000He's simply declaring that everyone who opposes him is badly motivated and everybody who opposes him wants Russia to win the war and wants them to take Kiev and all the rest, which is not helpful in any way, shape or form.
00:55:47.000Plus, he has never suggested what he thinks the end of this war looks like.
00:55:52.000If he came out tomorrow and said, listen, we all know what the end of this war looks like.
00:55:54.000What the end of this war looks like is Russia essentially retaining the Donbass and retaining Crimea.
00:55:59.000And the United States and the Europeans providing security guarantees without them joining NATO to Ukraine.
00:56:06.000And that's what the end of this thing looks like.
00:56:07.000And until Vladimir Putin is willing to accept that, this war continues.
00:56:12.000It would make pretty clear exactly what Vladimir Putin's aims are.
00:56:15.000It's the vagary of Western policy that has allowed space for Vladimir Putin to create doubt about whether the West even wants to end the war at all, when in reality, it seems like the West may be the only party that wants to end the war at this point.
00:56:26.000Maybe not Zelensky, but the West more broadly, the EU and the United States as well.
00:56:31.000Joe Biden, first of all, slow-walked the aid to Ukraine in the very first place.
00:56:34.000And then after slow-walking the aid, he failed to actually allow for an off-ramp.
00:56:40.000And now, he's failing to make clear what exactly the mission is.
00:56:43.000And so, the very clear reality is that there could be a point where Ukraine does, in fact, collapse again.
00:56:49.000Because Russia will just keep doing this.
00:56:52.000I think one of the things people don't understand about the Russian mindset with regard to war is that additional casualties are not a disincentive for the Russians.
00:56:58.000Additional casualties are proof of the heroism of the Russian people.
00:57:01.000This goes all the way back to the Napoleonic era.
00:57:04.000This is not just the World War II era for the Russians.
00:57:07.000So all of this radically increases all of the possibilities of serious war, not just in Ukraine, not just in the Gaza Strip, not just in the north of Israel, but also China and Taiwan.
00:57:18.000China looks at Taiwan right now and they say to themselves, who's going to stop us?
00:57:36.000If we grab it, if we blockade it, if we blockade it and we get access to their technology and we upgrade our military radically, who exactly is going to say boo?
00:57:46.000Joe Biden has not demonstrated the courage of his supposed commitments.
00:57:52.000And meanwhile, there are people who are making arguments that I think are really poorly articulated about exactly how America's military policy should actually be pursued.
00:58:03.000One of those people, unfortunately, is Senator Marco Rubio, who I generally like, senator of my home state.
00:58:07.000So over the weekend, he said that we can't give any foreign aid until we solve America's problems.
00:58:11.000So first of all, let's just be clear about this.
00:58:13.000America is currently spending $7 trillion a year.
00:58:17.000It is certainly in America's interest to spend foreign aid money rather than sending American soldiers to places to ensure the freedom of the seas, for example.
00:58:24.000Having other people doing our fighting is a lot better than us having to actually expend blood and treasure in order to do things.
00:58:30.000Beyond that, what's happening at the southern border right now is not a question of money.
00:58:33.000He says that we have to spend the money on the border before we spend money on foreign aid.
00:58:38.000First of all, Congress has never seemed to have a problem spending anything, including Senator Rubio, who has voted for a lot of budgets that have been very, very, very large.
00:58:45.000But when Senator Rubio says that we have to spend the money on the border, not anywhere else, can we be clear on something?
00:58:51.000The problems at the border are not about expenditure.
00:58:53.000The problems at the border are about Joe Biden wanting to keep the border open.
00:58:56.000I've talked to the head of the Border Patrol Union.
00:59:36.000Before we do these things, we have to make America and Americans a priority again.
00:59:41.000Okay, I'm extraordinarily in favor of making Americans quote-unquote the priority again.
00:59:45.000I just don't think that foreign policy is disconnected from American priorities.
00:59:48.000I don't think it's good when China takes over Taiwan.
00:59:50.000I don't think it's good when Russia shuts off the supply of shipping in the Black Sea, or when it takes over one of the chief grain producers in the world, or when it threatens directly NATO borders.
01:00:01.000I don't think it's good when Hamas, along with its Iranian sponsors, is attacking an American ally and other Iranian proxies are attacking shipping in the Red Sea.
01:00:08.000I don't think any of that is good or useful.
01:00:10.000To kind of make this hard divide between American domestic policy, that helps Americans, and American foreign policy, which is just, what, us gallivanting around and spending money in... That doesn't make sense.
01:00:19.000That's not what American policy is for.
01:00:20.000American policy is to forward America's interests.
01:00:22.000We can argue about whether certain policies forward America's interests, but the idea that any sort of foreign policy expenditure Or any sort of foreign policy that is hawkish is somehow a betrayal of American interests is bizarre to me.
01:00:34.000It's pacifistic and counter to most of America's modern history in a globalized world.
01:00:40.000The world is a pretty small place these days.
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