The election of 2028 is fast approaching and we already know precisely what the Democrats will present on their side of the aisle. A candidate who sees America as a cancerous force in the world and would like a weaker, less muscular America on the world stage, a candidate who embraces conspiratorial nonsense about systems that place the American dream supposedly beyond our reach, and I hate that crap.
00:02:21.000I have not changed my fundamental principles.
00:02:23.000I'm not evolving on my views or changing my fundamental principles because they are based on extremely basic fundamental truths about politics and human nature.
00:02:32.000When it comes to the world of American politics, there are essentially two fundamental truths upon which our republic is built.
00:02:38.000One is built into the Declaration of Independence, and the other is built into the Constitution.
00:02:43.000The one that's built into the Declaration of Independence is this human beings are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
00:02:49.000And those rights include freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, and the right to private property.
00:02:55.000All of those things are in turn outgrowths of a fundamental biblical truth that we're made in the image of God, we're imbued with souls, that we are creative and choosing beings.
00:03:04.000Governments are instituted by the governed in order to protect those rights that we have as ensouled human beings.
00:03:18.000James Madison famously writes about this in Federalist 51 in the Federalist Papers.
00:03:22.000He says, It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices, checks and balances, should be necessary to control the abuses of government.
00:03:30.000But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
00:03:34.000If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
00:03:37.000If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
00:03:42.000In framing a government over which, What does he mean by that?
00:04:18.000Here are a few of those key propositions.
00:04:20.000Human beings have a right to economic freedom and private property.
00:04:24.000This means that your goods and your services and your work and your labor, they are yours.
00:04:29.000You get to choose what to do with them because again, you are a creative being made in the image of God.
00:04:34.000Impositions by the collective on those rights had better come with a proportionate return.
00:04:39.000That's the basis in the constitution of the so-called takings clause.
00:04:42.000That's the one that says that the government can only take private property from you if they give you just compensation.
00:04:48.000Free markets are not just a utilitarian concern.
00:04:52.000We don't like free markets just because they work.
00:04:54.000We like free markets because they are rooted in human nature, in the basic way that human beings work.
00:05:00.000And they are, in fact, protected by our system of government.
00:05:02.000There's a reason the founders were fond of both Adam Smith and John Locke.
00:05:06.000And yet another proposition the world is filled with nefarious people.0.96
00:05:10.000Pretending that there is some sort of family of nations, that we're all best friends, that naturally we all believe the good things, that is specious and it is foolish.
00:05:17.000Our system, the American system, is in fact superior.
00:05:20.000Our civilization is in fact superior, and our interests ought to be paramount.
00:05:23.000Not just because we look out for ourselves in the way that, say, the Greeks or the French do, but because America is indeed an exceptional place.
00:05:30.000And when it comes to our foreign policy, we ought to keep our own counsel and we ought to see our enemies clearly.0.98
00:06:14.000Well, because we believe in the meritocracy and conspiracy views of life are usually excuses for demoralization on the individual level, right?
00:06:22.000If you can't run your own life, somebody else is running it.
00:06:24.000Well, that's an excuse for you not to do the thing you're supposed to do.
00:06:27.000It's also an excuse for tyrannical consolidation of power by evil people in order to crush these unevidenced conspiracies.
00:06:36.000I'll centralize it and then I'll use it against all those people.
00:06:40.000In order to free you of the conspiracy.
00:06:43.000Again, conservatives believe in a meritocracy, that a free system, a good free system, rewards the people who deserve it.
00:06:51.000Conspiratorial slop is the theory that the only people who are successful have rigged the game.
00:06:57.000And generally, the people who buy into those conspiracies want to overturn all the systems that actually make meritocracy possible in the first place.
00:07:05.000Okay, so again, I want to sum those principles up because, as we will get to, they are in controversy.
00:07:12.000So, if you are a conservative, you ought to generally believe, one, in private property and free markets, not just because of utilitarian concerns, but morally, because free markets are good and private property is good.
00:07:24.000There are exceptions, of course, but that is the general rule.
00:07:26.000Two, you ought to believe in a realist but moral foreign policy that America has moral interests in the world, but also be realistic about the fact the world is not a kind place.
00:07:36.000And third, you ought to believe, if you're a conservative, in responsibility and duty and yes, the meritocracy.
00:07:42.000And one of the big enemies of all of that is baseless conspiracy theorizing.
00:07:47.000So here's the thing if I want a big, intrusive, anti free markets government or a foreign policy rooted in both moral relativism and weakness, if I want baseless conspiracy slop, I can just vote Democrat.
00:08:00.000But of course, that's why I don't vote Democrat, because I oppose those things.
00:08:04.000And listen, I hope the vice president opposes those things too.
00:08:07.000That's why I'm concerned about the stuff he said on Joe Rogan.
00:08:09.000This is the front runner for the Republican nomination in 2028.
00:08:12.000I'm also concerned about the stuff that he has written in his book, because I've read his book.
00:08:16.000Yesterday, on Joe Rogan, the vice president did not sound very conservative.
00:08:20.000The vice president seems to want to beat the Democrats by joining them in a lot of key ways.
00:08:57.000But the point is that there's something, you know, like, okay, if you're a pop star, you're a rock star, you're an actor, you're in all these cultural centers, you're more likely to be left than right.0.91
00:09:08.000And so I think that a lot of young people who are attracted to these population centers, they sort of move along with the prevailing culture.
00:09:14.000I think that's one thing that's going on.
00:09:18.000Okay, but here's the thing truth is often uncool.
00:09:21.000Truth requires you to say the hard things and to do the right thing.
00:09:24.000And it turns out there's kind of an attraction in that.
00:09:26.000There's something cool in just sticking by your guns.
00:09:28.000So, I'll be honest, I'm not sure how the vice president wants to be cool.
00:09:34.000If coolness means just warming over some Bernie Sanders ism and heating up a side of Obama ism and spicing it up with some conspiracy theorizing, gotta say, I'm not into it.
00:09:42.000But unfortunately, unfortunately, that is largely what the vice president spouted on Joe Rogan's show yesterday.
00:09:47.000Now, maybe I'm reading too much into this.
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00:11:05.000Which is all about his sort of religious journey.
00:11:08.000The biggest theme in the book is not really about his religious journey.
00:11:12.000That's obviously a big theme of the book.
00:11:13.000But the biggest theme that kind of undergirds the book because it's a contrast from his old book, Hillbilly Elegy, is his militant dislike of the meritocracy.
00:11:20.000Now, again, that's weird because, of course, JD Vance became famous as the guy who praised the American meritocracy in Hillbilly Elegy.
00:11:28.000He warned people about conspiracy theories and a victim mentality that deprives you of agency.
00:11:34.000But in his new book, he reverses himself.
00:11:37.000It turns out in his new book, the vice president argues that meritocracy is basically a lie.
00:11:43.000He argues for an infusion of Catholic integralism into our policy.
00:11:47.000Basically, we should impose the views of Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical, Rerum Navarum, on our economic policy, on our foreign policy in many ways.
00:11:57.000And some of the stuff that he says in this book is like over and over, the meritocracy just comes in for a beating.
00:12:01.000Again, he's not arguing that America is not a meritocracy, he's arguing the meritocracy itself is a spiritual failure.
00:12:10.000A meritocracy just means that those with merit ought to rise.
00:12:14.000It does not mean that you will find spiritual fulfillment in your increased material circumstances.
00:12:20.000But government is not capable of providing you spiritual fulfillment.
00:12:23.000If you're looking for God's fulfillment via the grace of government, I would humbly submit you are looking in the wrong place in the first place.
00:12:32.000The American meritocracy is what has made us the most powerful, prosperous, and free country in the history of the world.
00:12:37.000Ripping into the meritocracy because you find it spiritually unfulfilling.
00:12:41.000Is certainly a bizarre view, but that's exactly what the VP does in his new book.
00:12:48.000So he writes, for example, the meritocracy had made alluring promises, but had failed to reckon with the big questions.
00:12:53.000I wasn't aware that the meritocracy is supposed to reckon with the question of your relationship with God.
00:13:28.000He says, Ayn Rand's message, the celebration of aspirations and achievements, the refusal to accept excuses, would reorient my entire life in subtle and ultimately destructive ways.
00:13:38.000So, in other words, if you celebrate aspiration and achievement, if you refuse to accept excuses, that apparently is destructive.
00:13:46.000He says, it's one thing to celebrate achievement, it's something else to build your life around it.
00:13:50.000Okay, again, that's fine for a spiritual journey.
00:13:53.000It is a bad guide for government policy.
00:13:55.000If meritocracy is the enemy, if meritocracy empties you out, Of spiritual fulfillment, then again, I think that you are geared toward a government policy that's going to look a lot more left wing than it looks like traditional conservatism.
00:14:11.000Again, if the problem here is that the meritocracy didn't give JD Vance personal fulfillment, that wasn't its job.
00:14:18.000He became rich and famous because he is smart and because he is clever and because he is glib and all of those things.
00:14:24.000But if your idea is that the failure of the meritocracy to provide you spiritual fulfillment, Is a failure of the meritocracy, and you need government in order to fix all those problems, you got a problem.
00:14:35.000And this is the kind of stuff that the vice president was pushing on Joe Rogan.
00:14:39.000So, Joe Rogan essentially makes the case that what we have to do is we have to essentially get involved in promoting the lie that capitalism rigs the system, and then we have to promote a sort of democratic socialism because if we don't, then we'll get full scale socialism.
00:15:03.000And by the way, if we want to talk about rigged systems, probably if we're going to look for people who are rigging supposed free markets to their own benefit, we probably should be looking to the political class, which is constantly getting rich off of its own connections.
00:15:15.000But I don't see the vice president doing that too much.
00:15:17.000Here's the vice president yesterday with Joe Rogan.
00:15:25.000But one thing I try to persuade my fellow Republicans of is socialism is the alternative.
00:15:31.000If we don't have a pathway to give people a sense that the system is not rigged and that the American dream is attainable, that's like our job.
00:15:48.000We ran the experiment of offshoring all of our industrial jobs, of becoming a services and finance economy, and allowing Wall Street to come in and buy every asset of modern life and turn it into an investable economy.
00:16:20.000When the vice president gives credence to all of the straw men and lies of the socialists that America has offshored all of our jobs, not true.
00:16:27.000That America's services economy is some sort of gigantic failure, not true.
00:16:33.000Is some sort of rigged system in which no one can get ahead.
00:16:36.000When you keep giving credence to that, and then you say, we have to, we must, we, the government, we must step in and convince people the system is not rigged.
00:17:09.000I would argue socialism is not going to work.
00:17:12.000But capitalism as we know it doesn't work either.
00:17:15.000Okay, if JD Vance and Gavin Newsom are saying the same thing, that is a problem.
00:17:22.000And of course, The vice president on Joe Rogan also suggested not only the Rerum Navarum, that encyclical ought to be the guide for America's economic policy, but also that AI tech developers, they're actually today's robber barons, which is, again, kind of strange from a guy who made a name for himself by hanging out with the folks in Silicon Valley.
00:17:42.000He said the main issue, if you go back to the Industrial Revolution, is that there was a lot of demand for workers, but the inequality in the country got completely out of whack.
00:17:52.000Like this is the era of the robber barons, and then the robber barons in both Europe and the In the United States, it led to fascism, it led to communism.
00:17:59.000Again, to this point about giving people an option, if you don't give them a good option, then it leads to fascism and communism.
00:18:06.000Now, there's this fascinating encyclical written by Pope Leo XIII.
00:18:11.000It's one of the best things that I think has ever been written by a Christian leader.
00:18:16.000It's written in the late 19th century, and the basic argument of it is that in the age of industrial churn, there has to be a middle way between six year olds working on the factory floor and socialism.
00:18:30.000And part of that solution is to give workers a sort of say in what's going on.
00:18:36.000Give normal people some power in this system.
00:18:41.000And I think that's the thing we have to figure out with AI.
00:18:45.000Now, again, this sort of lie that technological advancement admiserates the workers, that income inequality, wealth inequality, these are the problems.
00:18:52.000It just is not distinguishable from what Bernie Sanders says.
00:18:59.00060% of our people live in paycheck to paycheck, and one guy, Elon Musk, Owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households.
00:19:11.000Think maybe that might be an issue that we should be talking about?
00:19:18.000And again, in JD Vance's book, Communion, he quotes over and over Rerum Navarum.
00:19:22.000This is supposed to be the sort of basis for what he thinks of as American economic policy.
00:19:27.000He writes in his book, The Pope also lays out a vision of society where the state protects the vulnerable, guarantees a just wage for laborers, and ensures that working people have sufficient rest from labor.
00:19:38.000But so they can focus on higher matters, such as their religious and familial obligations.
00:19:44.000Well, I mean, I should point out at this point, Riram Navaram is not an American founding document.
00:19:48.000And it is kind of strange, just politically speaking, to be quoting Riram Navaram as the basis for some sort of American economic philosophy.
00:19:58.000The vice president in his book does bash the Reformation, meaning like Protestantism arising, saying that it's a tragedy the Christian church is so divided in modern times.
00:20:36.000Economists broadly agreed that something had gone terribly wrong with Japanese economic policy.
00:20:41.000Though they disagreed about what should be done.
00:20:43.000After about two hours in Tokyo, I realized that the dire predictions of the expert class had nothing in common with the actual Japan I saw.
00:20:49.000Children seemingly no more than five years old rode the subway without fear, and the public bathrooms in the subway stations were cleaner than the member bathrooms in the United States Senate.
00:20:57.000Public transportation ran perfectly on time.
00:20:59.000Meanwhile, the Japanese had apparently perfected the art of cuisine, writes the vice president.
00:21:03.000Have you ever gone to a grocery store and gotten an excellent batch of strawberries or blueberries?
00:21:07.000In Japan, every fruit tasted like the best strawberry you've ever eaten, even the most expired pack in a small convenience store.
00:21:12.000If you're focused on GDP, a $6 pint of Japanese strawberries is no different.
00:21:16.000From a $6 pint to American strawberries.
00:21:18.000If you're focused on dollars and cents, each contributes equally to the economic indicators.
00:21:22.000But if everyone in Japan eats better strawberries than everyone in America, the economic indicators have failed to measure something meaningful.0.99
00:21:28.000And again, he writes an entire chapter about economics is pretty stupid.0.98
00:21:33.000Now, that particular paragraph is kind of insane.0.97
00:21:36.000It's insane for a variety of reasons, including the fact that actually Japan is pretty famous for its strawberry industry, they have a cultivated luxury strawberry industry in Japan.
00:21:47.000Like, instead of bringing people flowers when you go over to dinner, very often you bring a box of strawberries because Japan has perfected certain methodologies of actually growing strawberries.
00:21:54.000It would be more expensive to ship that over to the United States.
00:21:59.000And there are explanations for why things cost what they do.
00:22:03.000It is also true that Japan's economy has been stagnating for decades.
00:22:06.000But the sort of disdain that the vice president has for economics, broadly speaking, because he has vague and unspecified desires for things that are not measured by GDP.
00:22:17.000That is a cheap and easy way of avoiding having to make real political decisions about costs and benefits.
00:22:23.000And in his book, he suggests that Christians don't care about lower taxes for global corporations or institutional investors.
00:22:30.000They may even have been actively hostile to those things.0.50
00:22:33.000He praises Sean O'Brien, the head of the Teamsters Union, in his book.
00:22:36.000He says, Some GOP donors complain he sounded like a socialist.
00:22:40.000I thought Sean's arguments echoed a lot of the themes from traditional Christian social teaching.
00:22:45.000Again, this is warmed over Sandersism.
00:22:50.000All righty, coming up, we'll get to the vice president on his foreign policy.
00:22:53.000See, a lot of us didn't like the terms and conditions of the MOU.
00:22:57.000And I think the vice president was surprised that we actually read the terms and conditions of the memorandum of understanding, mainly because nobody actually reads those things, right?
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00:23:55.000And on Joe Rogan, he also talked a fair bit about foreign policy.
00:23:59.000Now, when it comes to foreign policy, the vice president's view of foreign policy is essentially that the United States ought to withdraw more from the world.
00:24:05.000That is his generalized view of American foreign policy.
00:24:07.000In his book, he writes at length about his view that essentially global foreign policy, particularly since the 1990s, were rotten.
00:24:16.000Quote The fruits of your leadership are pointless wars of choice and declining life expectancy in your own country.
00:24:21.000Perhaps your life's work was for naught.
00:24:24.000He sort of avoids criticizing Russia in his book.
00:24:29.000He saves his most ardent rage for George W. Bush in his book on Joe Rogan.
00:24:35.000He pushes, again, a bizarrely conciliatory policy toward Iran, and he sets up a series of straw men that he then sets on fire in order to promote the memorandum of understanding that he himself negotiated and then defended.
00:24:50.000Now, let me point out day one of the MOU, I said it was a bad deal.
00:24:56.00068% of Americans who thought the MOU was poorly negotiated and a bad deal.
00:25:02.000But the vice president, in order to defend his bad deal and his bizarre view of foreign policy, in which Iran is, you know, a potential friendly, and the Pakistanis are friendlies, and the Qataris are friendlies, and they're all friendlies, but also Israel manipulates our foreign policy, in order for the vice president to back that, he has to set up a series of straw men and then set them aflame.
00:25:19.000So on Joe Rogan, he suggests that the people criticizing the MOU have no alternative.0.72
00:25:27.000The people who are like, you cannot negotiate with the Iranians, the reason why that's fundamentally idiotic is because so long as you have.0.60
00:25:36.000Some person who's willing to fire off a few cheap drones, you're going to have some ship captains who say, no, no, no, we're not willing to do this.1.00
00:25:44.000So we got to kind of use all tools at our disposal.
00:25:47.000The military is one tool, but diplomacy is another tool.1.00
00:25:50.000And I'm very frustrated by the Americans and frankly by people in other countries who are like, you cannot negotiate with the Iranians.0.77
00:25:58.000Well, then what is your proposal to get people to stop shooting at ships in the Strait of Hormuz?0.99
00:26:03.000You can bomb them, you can take away their radar, you can take away some of their drones and some of their missiles.
00:26:08.000But it's just too easy to fire at ships in the Straits.
00:26:14.000Okay, so I would like to point out at this point, no one says you can't negotiate with the bad guys.
00:26:17.000The question is, what kind of bad deal you cut with the bad guys?
00:26:21.000And the sort of refuge of every bad argument when it comes to cutting a bad deal is to suggest there's no alternative to cutting the bad deal.
00:26:28.000Barack Obama did this in 2015 when he was promoting what Donald Trump has called the worst deal in history.
00:26:36.000For all the objections of Prime Minister Netanyahu, Or, for that matter, some of the Republican leadership that's already spoken.
00:26:45.000None of them have presented to me or the American people a better alternative.
00:27:19.000I thought the MOU is trash because it is.0.99
00:27:21.000But the reason I thought it was trash is because I think that the Iranian government is a government of tyrannical theocratic thugs.0.99
00:27:27.000And I had full faith that they would break the agreement in short order, which they did.0.99
00:27:31.000It was the Iranians who tossed the MOU in the garbage.0.98
00:27:35.000But of course, the vice president set up again a series of straw men that are essentially indistinguishable in many ways.
00:27:41.000From the kinds of policy that would be promoted by radicals in the Democratic Party.0.94
00:27:47.000So, JD Vance, for example, suggested that we should not be in favor of any sort of regime change or collapse in Iran because then the Iranian people would all flee the country and they're all terrorists, which, again, like this is just an incredibly ignorant take on Iran.0.76
00:28:07.000How is it in the United States' interest to have 94 million desperate people flooding into Europe, flooding into the United States, to have You know, sort of the terrorist infrastructure that can get established when you fan terrorists all over the world.
00:28:31.000I mean, that regime already exists.0.98
00:28:32.000And the idea that 94 million Iranians are terrorists, that, of course, is quite silly.0.99
00:28:39.000It is quite silly, but it's a bunch of straw men.0.90
00:28:42.000And when faced with the fact that his MOU was just a bad deal, the vice president then fell back on conspiracy theorizing about how everyone who opposed him is naturally in the pay of the nefarious Israelis, which is just dummy stuff.1.00
00:29:11.000Well, here's the vice president doing some rather conspiratorial, silly talk, citing an article, by the way, from Time magazine that was essentially planted by his allies in the first place.0.85
00:29:22.000I definitely think you have seen this very discreet, extremely well funded.
00:29:28.000Campaign to try to derail the negotiation and try to derail the deal.
00:29:34.000And, you know, there was again, there's this Time article that came out yesterday.
00:29:39.000It's like worth reading because it lists a bunch of people who have quite literally been paid by a former Trump campaign person who was himself paid by certain elements within the Israeli government.
00:29:54.000And those people are attacking me viciously for quite literally trying to accomplish the negotiation objective that the president set for the country.
00:31:35.000There is a mural of the late Senator Lindsey Graham with devil horns painted on his head.
00:31:40.000And there's another giant mural of President Trump in a coffin.
00:31:43.000President Trump was asked yesterday what he thought about these threats toward him.
00:31:47.000He says he doesn't spend much time thinking about them.
00:31:52.000So, again, the vice president attributing opposition to what is a bad MOU to everyone that he doesn't like being paid by someone else.
00:32:00.000It's quite reminiscent of the newfound Graham Plattner, Abdul El Sayed strategy of everyone who doesn't like me is AIPAC.
00:32:07.000The vice president would go on to say on Joe Rogan's show, That he is not influenced, that people are accusing him of being influenced by Qatar or by Tucker Carlson.
00:32:14.000I don't think the vice president is influenced by Qatar.
00:32:17.000I think that the vice president is very close friends with Tucker Carlson.
00:32:20.000He's made that absolutely and abundantly clear.
00:32:22.000Here was the vice president yesterday on Joe Rogan.
00:32:25.000People have come after me and say that I'm influenced by Qatar, that I'm influenced by foreign governments, that I take my marching orders from Tucker Carlson.
00:32:34.000And there's just so much bullshit out there when what I'm actually trying to do is accomplish what the president of the United States told me to accomplish, which is a settlement of this that accomplishes our objectives.
00:32:47.000Now, again, when it comes to the Tucker Carlson of all of this, the vice president is obviously and very clearly close to Tucker Carlson.0.97
00:32:55.000For the past two years, Tucker Carlson, by the way, the criticism that the vice president is leveling at his critics here, I've noticed he has directed not one ounce, not one iota, not one word of criticism in Tucker Carlson, who has called the president of the United States the Antichrist, who has said he wants to start a third party, which presumably would run against JD Vance, who has promoted feudalism and Russian propaganda and Iranian propaganda and all the rest.
00:33:17.000And the vice president hasn't said a single word about any of that, which, again, is kind of strange.
00:33:23.000Listen, the reason that we are critical of the vice president on this show in terms of how he has Performed his job when it comes to foreign policy is because he didn't do a good job in this negotiation.
00:35:02.000But when JD Vance goes on Joe Rogan's show and unleashes, Yet another dumb theory about Jeffrey Epstein.0.77
00:35:09.000But he says it in the form of the vice president of the United States claiming connections with the highest levels of American and Israeli intelligence on behalf of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
00:35:27.000All righty, coming up, the vice president of the United States, he's not just doing the sort of conspiracy game around opposition to his pretty bad MOU.
00:35:56.000What I'm actually describing is Russia in 1917.
00:35:58.000That's the subject of the latest episode of Real History with Matt Walsh, streaming now on Daily Wire Plus.
00:36:03.000In this episode, Matt traces the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, rule by rule, and matches each one against what's happening in our country over the last several years.
00:36:11.000These are sourced and documented accounts.
00:36:12.000What is unsettling is how well everything kind of lines up.
00:36:16.000Tell me that the same rules that lead to the Russian communist takeover don't sound a lot like what's happening on the streets of American cities today.
00:36:22.000This is one of the most important episodes Matt has made so far.
00:36:26.000Go check out the real history of communism today at dailywireplus.com.
00:36:30.000If you were elected to uncover all of this, you're doing a pretty bad job of it.
00:36:35.000If you have questions on what's going on between Jeffrey Epstein and, say, American intelligence, the CIA, or Mossad, or whatever, if you have questions, there's a person who's very, very high ranking in the United States government.
00:36:47.000The plenary capacity to gather that information.
00:36:50.000He exists in the mirror for the vice president.
00:36:53.000So, pushing unbased conspiracy theorizing on Joe Rogan is unworthy of the office.
00:37:03.000Well, most people think he was Mossad.
00:37:05.000Yeah, Mossad or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel or another country.
00:37:11.000The highest levels of American intelligence.
00:37:20.000He clearly had connections to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence.
00:37:24.000In fact, one of the interesting things the Epstein saga reveals about - and I try to make this point - is one of the reasons why I'm always careful and I say there are some elements within the Israeli government who don't like our peace process because there are a lot of elements within the Israeli government that actually do like our peace process.
00:37:42.000They recognize that this indefinite campaign is not good for them either.
00:37:46.000The Epstein thing is interesting because as much as I know - Prime Minister Netanyahu, not a particularly popular person in the United States of America right now, Epstein seemed to be connected to the elements of the Israeli deep state that were left of center.
00:38:05.000It wasn't like he was super connected to the right of center of Israeli politics.
00:38:12.000America, he was connected across the board.0.93
00:38:15.000Okay, so again, if you're going to claim connections between Jeffrey Epstein and the highest levels of American and Israeli intelligence, That is a different thing than he was friends with Ehud Barak, the scumbag former prime minister of Israel.
00:38:27.000Obviously, he had connections in high places, but that doesn't mean that he was an agent, which is the thing that Vance has talked about.
00:38:33.000And Vance, by the way, would go on to acknowledge he had no documentary evidence of any of this.
00:38:38.000So I just want to go back for a second.
00:38:39.000Conservatism has certain fundamental principles.
00:38:41.000I articulated three of them that we are generally in favor of private property and free markets, that generally we favor a peace through strength foreign policy that is rooted in understanding the world is a rough place.
00:38:55.000That conservatives generally are not in favor of baseless conspiracy theorizing because that undermines the idea that you have capacity in the world to act and duty to act in a particular way.
00:39:09.000And the vice president goes on Joe Rogan, and he seems to cut against a lot of those things.
00:39:14.000So I've talked about the vice president's heterodox views, shall we say.
00:39:18.000The question is what he's doing politically speaking, okay?
00:39:21.000Because that brings us to question two.
00:39:22.000I said earlier on, I want two things from my Republican candidate one, to reflect my principles.
00:39:27.000And two, I want them to defeat the Democrats.
00:39:31.000Now, I've talked about the ways in which the vice president is skewing away from a lot of those principles, but the second question is still very alive.
00:39:38.000Is he likely to beat the Democrats because of this?
00:39:42.000Maybe the idea from the vice president is that he can't be president somehow if he doesn't win over Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson, if he doesn't win them over.0.99
00:39:51.000If so, this is a very, very foolish tactic.0.97
00:40:17.000On the right, you have the loyal right, which represents about 18% of Americans, staunch conservatives across the social and economic spectrum, who also take consistently anti establishment positions, skews older and male.
00:40:29.000The moderate right, that's 13%, take right leaning positions on most issues, but trust experts, support free trade, are pro gay marriage, and believe there are obstacles for women.
00:40:38.000The new Republican populace, this is where the vice president seems to be placing himself.
00:40:42.000Socially to the right, economically to the left, Medicare for all, abortions for none, rural heavy, very anti establishment, and pessimistic.
00:40:50.000That represents 6%, count them 6% of Americans.
00:40:55.00011% of Americans are middle American optimists, middle of the road on most issues, pro choice, optimistic about the ability to get ahead through hard work.
00:41:03.000And then you get to the groups that voted Democrat in the last election cycle the young and disillusioned, young female, racially diverse, skeptical of regulation, but for a robust welfare state and anti establishment, the American institutionalists, these would be Firmly pro establishment, a cluster unified by a belief that the system basically works from faith and hard work police and the United States economic system.
00:41:26.00010% would be electability Democrats, left leaning on most issues, but diverges from those unpopular left wing positions like defunding the police or trans athletes in sports.
00:41:34.000And the loyal left, socially and economically liberal, largely pro establishment.
00:41:38.000Okay, so JD Vance in the smallest contingent of the American body politic by this poll.
00:42:25.000Does anyone believe that JD Vance is going to outperform with young female and racially diverse people?
00:42:31.000Do people think he's going to outperform with American institutionalists, people who believe that the system basically works, or electability Democrats?
00:42:39.000And where does he draw his additional support from?
00:43:01.000He'll have on pretty much any old dummy to jabber about foreign policy, so long as that person is promoting a sort of generic Howard Zinn anti American isolationism.
00:43:11.000But listen, Joe's not running for office.
00:43:13.000He's entitled to listen to James Tallarico on social policy or Tim Dillon on foreign policy if he wants to.
00:43:21.000Hell, he's entitled to listen to Terrence Howard on math if he feels like it.
00:43:31.000For some reason, the vice president seems to think that his path to the presidency is to unify that anti left base of the Republican Party with a sort of horseshoe left.
00:43:40.000The VP seems to think he can sort of abstract a form of Trumpism, a philosophy of Trumpism, and sell that soap back to the same crowd.
00:43:57.000The gestalt of Trump is extremely anti left.
00:44:01.000JD Vance has praised Bernie Sanders and Zoram Omdani and Ro Khanna.
00:44:05.000President Trump doesn't like any of those people.
00:44:08.000On policy, the president has been far closer to my policies or traditionally conservative policies than to Tucker Carlson, which is why he and Tucker are on the outs.
00:44:17.000That's why Tucker is calling him the Antichrist to the deafening silence of the vice president.
00:44:21.000Trump went over a lot of people in a lot of groups for a couple of reasons.
00:44:24.000First, President Trump attracted a lot of disaffected voters because he is just a different cat.
00:44:29.000He is uniquely transgressive, he is sui generis, he can encompass a wide variety of viewpoints.
00:44:35.000He's funny, he's outside the box, he's anti establishment.
00:44:39.000Second, he won over these people because the left lost its mind.
00:44:41.000They ran Hillary Clinton, a horrible candidate, and then they ran a dead person followed by Kamala Harris.
00:44:47.000I mean, Donald Trump did not grant the premise to the left.
00:45:55.000This was one of the issues of contention back in late 2025.
00:45:58.000I made a case that conservatism is a word with a meaning and that any movement has to have ideological borders.
00:46:05.000And the vice president made the case at TPUSA for open borders, essentially.
00:46:12.000I mean, all of you, each and every one.
00:46:16.000President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless self defeating purity tests.
00:46:26.000He says, Make America great again because every American is invited.
00:46:32.000I didn't bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to de platform, and I don't really care if some people out there, I'm sure we'll have the fake news media denounce me after this speech.
00:46:45.000Okay, now I'm just going to point out.
00:46:47.000The job of the vice president is not to kick people out of his voting base.
00:46:50.000It is to articulate principles around which we can center.
00:46:53.000The president has said, make America great again.
00:46:55.000And then he has a set of impulses that kind of fall under that broader rubric.
00:46:59.000The vice president is setting out a series of philosophies and policies that are alienating to some and attractive to others.
00:47:07.000I think that the smartest thing the vice president could do is to actually move back toward traditional conservative principles and to pitch those principles as he runs and tries to define his own coalition.
00:47:19.000He obviously doesn't think that that's the case.
00:47:23.000If you pretend that the future of the Republican Party is going to be the policies that, say, Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson like, that is a rough road to hoe, both morally as well as electorally.
00:47:35.000Now, again, I'm not threatening to vote Democrat the way that Tucker has.0.77
00:47:39.000I'm not threatening to start a third party the way that Tucker has.
00:47:42.000All I'm saying is if you want a winning coalition, you actually have to root yourself in something.
00:47:45.000That something cannot be a bunch of warmed over economic anti free market slop, slathered over with conspiratorial podcastistan silliness, accompanied By sort of side helping of John Mearsheimer foreign policy.
00:47:58.000That dog's not going to hunt because the people who traditionally love that stuff already have the Democratic Party.
00:48:03.000They already have the Democratic Party, which, again, you could see from the Joe Rogan interview.
00:48:08.000Joe Rogan keeps praising over and over, he's been doing it for months.
00:48:27.000We need someone who's actually a good person.
00:48:31.000I mean, with James Tallarico, with JD Vance, Joe Rogan praised James Tallarico literally yesterday because he said he liked Tallarico's view on not displaying the Ten Commandments in Texas schools.
00:48:40.000Do you think that Joe Rogan is going to vote for the Catholic integralist adjacent candidate here?
00:48:51.000I had James Tallarico on the podcast, and one of the things that I think he has a really good point about, even though I know you're Catholic and you're very religious, putting the Ten Commandments in schools, I don't Think is the right way to do it.
00:49:05.000And this is a guy, Tallarico, who was in seminary and is very Christian.
00:49:11.000He just thinks that even though he believes in the Ten Commandments, if you're just only representing the Christian faith in these schools, you're forcing your religion into other people's lives and that this is going to push people away from Christianity rather than encourage them to pursue it.
00:49:34.000Strategically, gang, if you're aiming for the crossover vote between the people who love James Tallarico, And voted for Donald Trump, you're looking for love in all the wrong places.
00:49:42.000And here's the thing the reason I'm exercised about this is not merely because of the principle, it's also because beating the Democrats is really important.
00:49:49.000They need to lose because they just keep getting more and more and more extreme.
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