Ibrahim Raisi dies in a helicopter accident and the West mourns his death. Bill Clinton uses his death to remind the world that when evil dictators die, the world becomes a better place when they are no longer breathing. The world mourns the death of evil dictator Pol Pot when he died in 1975 when a statement from Bill Clinton said, "The death of Pol Pot has again brought to international attention one of the most tragic chapters of inhumanity in the 20th century. Between 1975 and 1979, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge followers transformed Cambodia into the killing fields. In an attempt to transform their country, they killed an estimated 2 million of their countrymen in a brutal attempt to change their society. And when he passes on, will the world mourn his death as a barbaric dictator who spreads terrorism all over the region that spreads terrorism against fellow Muslims? When he dies, will God be willing to take over the world when he is no longer living? And will he be a better dictator when the old past will come to an end? And what will that mean for the future of the world? And how will the West react to his death? And why is this a good thing? And who is going to replace him as the next leader of the Islamic order in Iran, the one who is supposed to be the heir to Ayatollah Khomeini, the messianic messiah of Shia Islam? and why is it so important that he should be the next heir to the old man of the old order? and not the new man in Iran the one that is the current heir to his great-great-great Satan or the next man in the age of the Old Man Ayatullah who was the Great Satan? The answer to the great Satan and the next Great Satan ? is that he is the one to come after the old, great Satan. Ibrahem Raisi a man who was a vile dictator who was widely believed to be a possible replacement to the current leader of Iran s father, Ayatullah Iran s great-to-be . The Great Satan , the man who is now 85 years old, and he was the next in line to the dead man in line in Iran s reign over the reign of the Holy Qur'an his father, the current Great Satan, the late Mahmoud Ibad ?
00:00:14.000Ebrahim Raisi, one of the worst people on earth, presided over the deaths as a member of the Iranian pseudo-judiciary.
00:00:21.000The deaths of thousands of innocent people, dissidents.
00:00:24.000He has presided over the crushing of all dissent from women, from people who do not believe in Sharia law in Iran.
00:00:31.000He's presided over the deaths of thousands of American troops, attacks on American allies.
00:00:35.000His proxy groups around the region have been involved in the deaths of thousands of human beings, including, of course, the 1,200 Jews who were murdered on October 7th with the tacit permission and support of Iran via Hamas.
00:00:48.000So he dies in this helicopter accident, and the immediate reception of the West, the response of the West, is to lament his death.
00:00:59.000It's something that is somewhat unprecedented in modern history.
00:01:04.000For example, when Pol Pot died, the dictator of Cambodia, when he died, Bill Clinton issued a statement, and that statement from Bill Clinton Ripped into Pol Pot.
00:01:16.000It said, quote, The death of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot has again brought to international attention one of the most tragic chapters of inhumanity in the 20th century.
00:01:23.000Between 1975 and 1979, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge followers transformed Cambodia into the killing fields, causing the death of an estimated two million of their countrymen in a brutal attempt to transform Cambodian society.
00:01:37.000Okay, so the entire statement, that was from Bill Clinton, was a Democrat, a moderate member of the left, using the opportunity of Pol Pot's death to point out his evils and the human rights atrocities that he had committed.
00:01:49.000And of course, historically, this has been the way that we treat evil dictators and people associated with evil dictatorships when they die.
00:01:56.000The world becomes a better place when they are no longer breathing.
00:01:58.000That was certainly true of Ibrahim Raisi.
00:02:01.000I mean, for example, I mean, there's no question what Ibrahim Raisi was, Here he was speaking at the United Nations circa 2023.
00:02:09.000And again, the United Nations is an abomination, as we'll discuss in just a moment.
00:02:13.000But here he was fully explaining his intentions for the world, which was the domination of a radical form of Islam, which is why his country is dominated by the Ayatollahs, a religious fundamentalist leadership that took over what had formerly been a secularist country in 1979.
00:02:29.000Here he was explaining to the whole world that the era of the West was over, The equation attributed to the hegemony of the West no longer resonates with the diverse realities of today's world.
00:02:51.000Old powers will keep their current downward trajectory.
00:02:58.000They are the past and we are the future.
00:03:03.000I repeat once again, they represent the past and we represent the future.
00:03:58.000He's saying that in front of the entire world.
00:04:00.000And of course, on the anniversary of the 1979 revolution that brought the Ayatollahs to power in Iran, he gave a speech, this is in February of 2024, in which he ripped into the United States, which in Iran has typically been termed the Great Satan, According to state TV in Iran, millions of people turned out at rallies and it showed large crowds chanting, death to Israel, death to America, which of course is very common in Ibrahim Raisi's world, right?
00:04:33.000Here's how the international community reacted to the death of an evil Islamist dictator-in-waiting, because he was widely perceived to be a possible heir to Ayatollah Khomeini, who is now 85 years old, and when he passes on, God willing soon, when he dies as a barbaric dictator of an evil regime that spreads terrorism all over the region against fellow Muslims, against Jews, against Christians.
00:04:56.000When he dies, Raisi was supposed to take over.
00:05:36.000The Senate chaplain in the United States held a moment of prayer after the death of Ibrahim Raisi.
00:05:42.000This is Rear Admiral Barry Black, who held a moment of prayer for the Iranian dictator-in-waiting responsible for the death of thousands, tens of thousands of human beings.
00:05:54.000And Lord, we pray for the Iranian people who mourn the death of their president.
00:06:17.000Hard to think of something more blasphemous for Christians, I would imagine, than praising an Islamic dictator who wanted to forcibly convert the world, which is what Ibrahim Raisi is.
00:06:28.000And by the way, something more sick than saying that the Iranian people are mourning that dictator, which is obviously not true.
00:06:34.000The Iranian people are by and large the most moderate population in the Middle East, and they are dominated by an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps that is wildly radical, We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:07:56.000Quote, The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir Abdullahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.
00:08:08.000As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
00:08:15.000Pol Pot dies and Bill Clinton, a moderate Democrat, gives a statement talking about his human rights abuses and why it should remind us to fight human rights abuses in places like Cambodia.
00:08:24.000Ibrahim Raisi dies in a regime that presides over terrorism across the world.
00:08:29.000The number one terror sponsor on planet Earth is the regime Ibrahim Raisi spends his life serving and in which he was a decision maker.
00:08:36.000And the State Department of the United States government put out a statement with condolences for his death.
00:08:46.000Charles Michel, who is the President of the European Council put out a statement, quote, How about the families of the people who have been slain in protests against the Iranian dictatorship?
00:08:58.000How about thoughts for the families of the people who are living in repression and poverty thanks to those dictators?
00:09:19.000NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is oriented against aggression by foreign powers,
00:09:28.000The NATO press secretary, Farah Dakhlala, put out a statement, quote, our condolences to the people of Iran for the death of President Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir Abdullahian, and others who perished in the helicopter crash.
00:09:40.000So the people of Iran, the people of Iran don't need your condolences.
00:09:44.000The people of Iran deserve your condolences for having to live under the terroristic auspices of this evil regime.
00:10:01.000By the way, in the UN, there was, I checked, there was no moment of silence, so far as I'm aware, in the UN Security Council for the victims of October 7th.
00:10:08.000They did not stand up and pay homage to the 1,200 people who were slaughtered and 250 who were taken hostage by a terrorist group.
00:10:14.000But they did stand to pay homage to a terrorist dictator who supported October 7th and proxy terror groups from Yemen to Lebanon to Syria to Iraq to Hamas.
00:11:56.000Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good.
00:12:03.000Okay, so there are a couple of ways to read that statement.
00:12:05.000I want to explain three ways of reading human nature.
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00:13:12.000Okay, so the traditional Judaic way of reading human nature, and again, I'm a Jew, so I know more about this than I do about the alternatives.
00:13:18.000The traditional Judaic way of reading human nature is that human beings are not inherently good.
00:13:46.000Then there is the Catholic perspective.
00:13:47.000The Catholic perspective is interesting.
00:13:49.000Traditionally, and I'm quoting Thomas Aquinas here, the Catholic perspective is that human beings are inherently good in the sense that they were made in God's image.
00:13:57.000But through original sin, human beings were then cursed with the capacity for sin.
00:14:02.000That capacity for sin is dominant and powerful.
00:14:07.000And original sin was only expunged with the death of Jesus.
00:14:10.000And I have Catholics in my office who will correct me if I'm wrong about this.
00:14:14.000But that is not quite the same thing as the secularist idea.
00:14:18.000The secularist idea is that human beings are inherently good.
00:14:22.000And not only are they inherently good, most human beings are not even sinful.
00:14:27.000Most human beings are not even sinful.
00:14:28.000And that is at odds with both the Judaic and the traditionally Christian view of human nature.
00:14:34.000And again, the traditionally Christian worldview on human nature is that while the human heart might be the inmate in the image of God, meaning that on a fundamental soul level, the soul of human beings are good, the Bible is replete with statements about how sinful human beings are.
00:14:48.000Whether you're talking about the book of Mark, where Jesus said no one is good except God alone, or Romans, where he said none are good, no not one, or Jeremiah, where the prophet says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, Or the Psalms, 51.5, where it says, And the traditionally religious view, at the very least, is that the human capacity for sin is extraordinarily strong.
00:15:13.000And that means that most people, in fact all people, are inherently sinners.
00:15:17.000Now the solution to that differs between Judaism and Christianity.
00:15:20.000The solution to that for Judaism is perform the mitzvot, act in virtuous ways, and you will become more virtuous and you will dominate over sin, as God says to Cain at the beginning of the book of Genesis.
00:15:32.000Sin crouches at your door, but if you're strong, if you will it, you can dominate sin.
00:15:38.000That's the sort of Judaic perspective.
00:15:40.000The Christian perspective, it is only through the grace of Christ that you can expunge that original sin, giving you the capacity for a free will so that you can conquer sinful, sinful nature.
00:15:50.000And then there's the secularist point of view, which is different from both of these and is a misread of Judeo-Christian tradition.
00:15:55.000And that basic idea is that human beings are not only inherently good, not only is the heart inherently good, sin is not something internal to human beings.
00:16:04.000It's not even a force that human beings fight on an individual level, that sin only exists in systems and not in individual human beings.
00:16:36.000But that widespread secular perception that human beings are inherently good, and that the only problem with human beings is that the systems above them are a problem, leads to two incredibly false conclusions.
00:16:46.000One, human beings generally agree on right and wrong.
00:16:52.000Human beings do not agree on right and wrong.
00:16:55.000There are very few things that most human beings agree on, like murder is wrong.
00:16:59.000And even that traditionally has to be bounded by the tribe.
00:17:02.000Because it turns out that people in tribes are pretty open about being fine with murdering people who are in other tribes.
00:17:07.000Human beings do not, at a fundamental level, agree on wide aspects of right and wrong.
00:17:14.000At least not once it comes to outside the tribe.
00:17:17.000The second fundamental assumption that arises from this idea that human beings are good is that all it requires is better human institutions and an organizing effort to effectuate right over wrong.
00:17:28.000Progress is the effectuation of this attempt.
00:17:31.000That is the basic left-wing theology when it comes to curing the sin of the world.
00:17:35.000Again, the Jewish theology in curing the sin of the world is act better, perform mitzvot.
00:17:41.000The Catholic and Christian theology is find Christ and that will cause you to be, it will heal your soul and you will be a better person for that.
00:17:48.000And then there is the secularist version of what to do about human sin, which is that sin does not abide at the level of the individual.
00:17:55.000Sin only abides at the level of the society.
00:18:01.000That the only reason that people are bad is because the systems under which they live are inherently bad and corrupt.
00:18:07.000And therefore, if we can cure those systems, then magically humanity will be absolutely transformed.
00:18:13.000This is written in the Communist Manifesto.
00:18:15.000What people mistake about Marxism, it's not an economic philosophy so much as it is a religious philosophy.
00:18:20.000About how you cure the sin of the world by curing the systems at the top level.
00:18:25.000When put into the language of international politics, this leads to a bizarre belief in international order that is just a lie.
00:18:33.000It leads to, for example, to the rise of the League of Nations.
00:18:36.000And if only we can organize all the nations that we all think alike, and if only we can organize along the right lines, we can all be friends.
00:18:43.000This is why the West is paying homage to Ibrahim Raisi, because they feel In the West, that if they are nice enough to Ibrahim Raisi, if they change the systems enough that people like Ibrahim Raisi and his followers and the mullahs in Iran, they will become inherently good.
00:18:57.000Magically, they'll become inherently good if we change the international order because human beings are naturally good.
00:19:02.000And if we change the order in which we live to expunge all of the various contra- It's really just a miscommunication is all that it is.
00:19:09.000So Woodrow Wilson, when he was speaking for the League of Nations said, quote,
00:19:11.000there's only one power to put behind the liberation of mankind.
00:19:14.000And that is the power of mankind as a whole, as a whole.
00:19:18.000There is no such thing as quote unquote, the power of mankind as a whole
00:19:22.000in pursuit of the broader interests of mankind.
00:19:24.000It turns out there are lots of human beings.
00:19:26.000They have lots of different interests.
00:19:27.000You can see this all the way down to present day.
00:19:29.000Barack Obama, and what I pointed this out in 2008 when he was running for president,
00:19:33.000that this was a sick version of how you see the world.
00:19:36.000It is a wrong worldview with dramatically evil connotations.
00:19:40.000But this was Barack Obama in dreams for my father.
00:19:42.000And everybody saw this as sort of nice and loose.
00:19:45.000It was sort of pacifistic and it was sort of hippie-ish.
00:19:51.000But what he says in this quote from Dreams from My Father, I think is his whole philosophy in a nutshell.
00:19:55.000And it is a desperately wrong philosophy.
00:19:57.000Quote, I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does in the lives of children on Chicago's South Side.
00:20:08.000How narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair.
00:20:14.000I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder Alternating, as it does, between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its prescribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware, is inadequate to the task.
00:20:28.000I know that the hardening of lines, the embrace of fundamentalism and tribe, dooms us all.
00:20:32.000So, in other words, what he is saying there?
00:20:34.000In fancy, possibly written by Bill Ayers words, in dreams for my father?
00:20:39.000What he is saying there, which is that all human violence, terrorism, is a result of the systems of the elites.
00:20:47.000And those elites are the ones who are creating all of this.
00:20:49.000And thus, if we create better international organizations run by people like Barack Obama, all violence and terrorism will fall away.
00:20:57.000We will all have a new community organized day.
00:21:04.000It is nonsense, it is garbage, and it is absolutely going to create more violence in the world.
00:21:10.000It turns out that these Western delusions of everybody thinking like a Westerner, these Western delusions that everybody has the same value system down deep.
00:21:29.000The vast majority of people on planet Earth may not wish to live like people in the United States.
00:21:34.000Recognizing that truth means you have to protect your own interests.
00:21:37.000But if you believe that all you have to do is massage your enemies and suddenly they will be your friends, you will be used by your enemies.
00:21:45.000And that is what we are seeing right now.
00:21:47.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:23:12.000The dhimmi were so-called people of the book, Christians and Jews, who accepted their secondary servile status, paid a head tax called the jizya, And we're forced into a series of laws.
00:23:31.000And in Morocco, until fairly recently, Jews did have secondary status, meaning they weren't allowed to perform certain activities.
00:23:39.000This is true for Christians in particular areas of the Muslim world.
00:23:42.000Historically, it meant that, for example, non-Muslims could not ride horses.
00:23:47.000They were forced to keep their heads lower on the streets than Muslims during the Ottoman Empire.
00:23:51.000Hey, that was demitude, was being a second-class citizen.
00:23:56.000So people like Ibrahim Raisi, who see everyone who is a person of the book or a non-believer as a person of secondary status, those people will turn the naivete and the openness and the hope of the secular West in their own favor.
00:24:10.000They will use open systems of immigration against you.
00:24:15.000They will seek hudnas, ceasefires, for example, so they can rearm and fight again later.
00:24:21.000They will use the generosity of the West, free immigration, free movement, free speech regulations against you.
00:24:28.000They will use legal implements against you, the very institutions that you're trying to reorganize for the benefit of global society.
00:24:34.000They will use against you, which is why the UN, which was founded in the aftermath of World War II, By the great powers in an attempt to organize the international community for a better day.
00:24:44.000Well, the UN is now a tool of some of the worst powers on the planet.
00:24:47.000It has been a complete waste of space and resources.
00:24:50.000It has done more bad in the world than good, the United Nations.
00:24:53.000Because, as it turns out, the international order is a lie.
00:24:56.000There is no international order because human beings are not, in general, good.
00:25:01.000You can say they have a fundamentally good human nature, but that it's sinful also, the Christian perspective, which means the outcome, most people, all people are sinners, but that is not the case being made.
00:25:11.000If all human beings are good, this means that the only failure is a failure of organization.
00:25:41.000It is also why the world is perfectly willing to ignore the predations of Hamas in favor of slamming Israel at this point in time.
00:25:51.000For example, right now, the International Criminal Court is attempting to issue arrest warrants for the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Minister of Defense, Yoav Galant.
00:26:02.000At the same time, they're issuing arrest warrants for Yehia Sinwar and Mohammad Daif, who are the heads of Hamas, as though these are two equivalents.
00:26:11.000The accusation made by the International Criminal Court, which does not have any legal jurisdiction in the state of Israel, or in the United States, by the way, or in China, or in Russia, or in India, What is their accusation?
00:26:22.000According to the people who wrote the brief, including Amal Clooney, the wife of George Clooney, who happens to be Lebanese, what they say is that the reason for this indictment reached unanimously is, quote, the war crime of intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and the murder and persecution of Palestinians as crimes against humanity.
00:26:48.000Now, Israel has shipped in Thousands of tons of aid into a war area that is controlled by its enemy.
00:26:56.000Unprecedented in the history of warfare.
00:26:58.000In the middle of World War II, we were not shipping aid into Germany.
00:27:02.000In the middle of the Korean War, we were not shipping aid into North Korea.
00:27:16.000Israel is doing it and they're being charged with it.
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00:28:21.000We have now spent, by the way, hundreds of millions of American dollars to build a stupid pier off the coast of the Mediterranean, off the coast of Gaza, in order to ship aid in.
00:28:32.000That aid is immediately being stolen by Hamas.
00:28:36.00011 out of 16 trucks were cleaned out on Saturday, according to Phil Stewart, a military and intelligence correspondent for Reuters.
00:28:41.000There were no deliveries on Sunday or Monday because of this.
00:28:44.000So we're wasting taxpayer dollars, your taxpayer dollars and mine, in order to ship aid to Hamas in the middle of all this.
00:29:06.000It merely reflects the hollowing out of the West's presuppositions about unanimity in favor of a secondary status for the West.
00:29:15.000Again, the West's own openness is being turned against it.
00:29:18.000You can see this in major cities all around Europe, where there are, in fact, real no-go zones, meaning that the police basically leave them alone because they understand that those areas are violent and dangerous.
00:29:29.000And those areas happen to be in places like France or in places like Sweden.
00:29:33.000They happen, generally, to be places where there is a very high population of Northern African Muslim immigrants.
00:29:44.000The West has let its own openness and foolhardiness be used against it, while others are attempting to achieve secondary status for Westerners.
00:30:03.000Not everybody thinks the same way you do.
00:30:05.000Not everyone has the same moral value system that you do.
00:30:09.000The problem, in fact, is not one of general lack of systems.
00:30:12.000The problem is that there are some systems that are bad and some systems that are good, just like there are some ideas that are bad and some ideas that are good.
00:30:19.000There are some cultures that are significantly worse than other cultures.
00:30:23.000The left refuses to acknowledge this, and thus they are led to the Barack Obama solution, which is, let a few elites restructure all of society and everybody will magically turn into a good person.
00:30:36.000And so you end up with, in democratic circles, for example, is a bizarre willingness to criticize the ICC, the International Criminal Court, for going after Netanyahu.
00:30:46.000At the same time, it goes after Gertrude Sinwar.
00:30:48.000But no willingness to just dismantle the ICC.
00:30:53.000To admit that the UN is a garbage heap and a bad idea would be to defeat the idea that all of humanity thinks similarly and that there is a community of nations where all human beings believe in right and wrong in similar ways.
00:31:03.000To get rid of the ICC would be to let slip the fundamental truth That human beings are not, are not good all the way across the board.
00:31:17.000And that means that people orient toward tribe.
00:31:19.000It means that they are perfectly willing to engage in all sorts of atrocities and human rights violations against one another without regard to a higher morality and to use the institutions that you have supposedly created for international comedy against you.
00:31:35.000So you have the Biden administration coming out and condemning the ICC, which of course, not super shocking.
00:31:44.000Joe Biden said that it was outrageous.
00:31:47.000He said that there is no equivalence, none between Israel and Hamas.
00:31:50.000And he said later at American Heritage Month, some event that he was celebrating, Jewish American Heritage Month, that what's happening in Gaza is not genocide, we reject that.
00:31:58.000But he's been spending the entire time, the last several months of the war, declaring a moral equivalence between what Israel is doing and what Hamas did, which is why he's been calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, leaving Hamas in place while shipping aid in, and criticizing Israel's prosecution of the cleanest urban war in history, in literally all of history.
00:32:40.000That failure is not in fact a reflection of the system all the time.
00:32:43.000That very often it's a reflection of you.
00:32:47.000But that is something that the left cannot abide.
00:32:49.000And so they will end up with this bizarre status where they're simultaneously standing for moments of silence for Ibrahim Raisi and also condemning the ICC, but not getting rid of the ICC.
00:33:00.000So the State Department spokesperson yesterday said that the United States fundamentally rejects the ICC's attempt to go after Prime Minister Netanyahu.
00:33:08.000This is the same exact human who paid homage in a statement to the dictator of Iran.
00:33:16.000As the Secretary said in a statement a short time ago, the United States fundamentally rejects the announcement today from the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court that he is applying for arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials together with warrants for Hamas terrorists.
00:33:31.000There should be no equivalence between Israel and Hamas.
00:33:37.000Okay, so then why have you guys maintained a quasi-equivalence?
00:33:42.000Meanwhile, other members of the European Community.
00:33:45.000By the way, a continent responsible for two world wars and some of the worst genocides in human history.
00:33:50.000They have decided that it's important to effectuate the desires of the ICC.
00:33:53.000The high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy, a person named Joseph Burrell-Fontales, put out a statement saying, I take note of the decision of the ICC prosecutor to apply for warrants of arrest before pretrial chamber one of the ICC.
00:34:05.000The mandate of the ICC as an independent international institution is to prosecute the most serious crimes under international law.
00:34:12.000All states that have ratified the ICC statutes are bound to execute the court's decisions.
00:34:18.000You have courts that have now been taken over on behalf of some of the worst human beings on the planet, promulgating the worst values on the planet, and everybody in Europe, apparently, nodding at all of this.
00:34:29.000In the United States, the Democratic Party is torn.
00:34:32.000On the one hand, they realize what the ICC is doing here is quite evil and terrible.
00:34:35.000On the other hand, they don't want to explode the ICC because that would do too much damage to their fundamental belief system.
00:34:41.000You're seeing this right now, by the way, with a lot of Jewish liberal Americans who marched with Black Lives Matter, believing that there was a coalition of the oppressed, and then suddenly realize that members of the coalition of the oppressed hate them and think they're the bad guys.
00:34:52.000And so they have two choices, to dissociate from their former ideology, or to continue to pretend alone because it's too damaging to their way of thought to acknowledge the reality.
00:35:02.000Here's Chuck Schumer yesterday condemning the ICC.
00:35:05.000This is the same guy who's calling for Benjamin Netanyahu's ouster five seconds ago.
00:35:10.000As disappointing as the ICC's decision is, it comes as no surprise, because for decades and decades, the ICC has shown it harbors deep biases against Israel.
00:35:22.000This decision, suggesting an equivalency between Israel and Hamas, is another glaring example of that bias against Israel.
00:35:31.000As I have said many times, there has never been And there can never be any equivalence between Israel's right to defend itself against terror and Hamas's barbarity.
00:35:44.000Then why exactly have you gone along with your president's attempts to deprive Israel of arms in a time of war?
00:35:50.000The Republican Party, thankfully, actually does have a level of moral clarity about the situation because Republicans, because Republicans are disproportionately Christian, do not abide by the stupidity that human beings are good as a general rule.
00:36:02.000Speaker Mike Johnson put out a statement, quote, The ICC has no authority over Israel or the United States.
00:36:07.000Today's baseless and illegitimate decision should face global condemnation.
00:36:10.000International bureaucrats cannot be allowed to use lawfare to usurp the authority of democratic nations that maintain the rule of law.
00:36:16.000Congress is reviewing all options, including sanctions, to punish the ICC and ensure its leadership faces consequences if they proceed.
00:36:23.000If the ICC is allowed to threaten Israeli leaders, ours could be next, which of course is true.
00:36:26.000The ICC has been investigating American soldiers in Afghanistan for years at this point.
00:36:31.000Meanwhile, when it comes to the death of Ibrahim Raisi, best statement award goes to former Speaker Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader.
00:36:39.000Here he was giving a morally clear statement about the death of Ibrahim Raisi.
00:36:43.000I too would like to extend my condolences to the people of Iran for their long suffering under the brutal theocratic rule of the Islamic Republic.
00:36:59.000I suspect a great many Iranians would rather Western admirers stop lionizing a man known as the Butcher of Tehran for executing political prisoners.
00:37:14.000They might prefer that foreign leaders not further legitimize the regime that actively represses all of them.
00:38:16.000And this is, again, Joe Biden trying to play both sides of the table.
00:38:18.000On the one hand, Israel is committing possible human rights violations, according to the State Department, and they have to be barred from using certain weaponry, and they certainly can't go into Rafia, where the last four brigades of Hamas are.
00:38:29.000That would be really bad, and uncover all the terror tunnels with Egypt, that, by the way, are large enough to drive trucks through.
00:38:34.000That would be really, really... On the other hand, he does like matzo ball soup.
00:38:40.000What he says here, He name-checks a person named Hirsch Goldberg-Polen.
00:38:46.000Hirsch Goldberg-Polen is an American hostage to Hamas being held in the Gaza Strip, who Joe Biden has effectively abandoned because he says that Israel should not exert more military pressure in Gaza, and he has no plan for actually getting those people out of the Gaza Strip, short of allowing Hamas to continue to rule the Gaza Strip.
00:39:03.000He announced that Hirsch Goldberg-Polen was present at this event before realizing, oh wait, he's a hostage.
00:39:12.000My administration is working around the clock to free the remaining hostages, just as we have freed hostages already.
00:39:18.000And here with us today is Hersh Goldberg-Poland, and still, he is not here with us, but he's still being held by Hamas.
00:39:35.000Joe Biden says that the United States is going to try to get the hostages help, which is weird because he has not.
00:39:40.000The trauma of October 7th and its aftermath of the deadliest day the Jewish people have undergone since the Holocaust is still fresh and ongoing with many of you.
00:39:52.000We have parents of someone being held hostage right now, and we're going to get them home.
00:39:57.000We're going to get them home from hell or high water.
00:40:01.000Honestly, if you're attending this event with Joe Biden because you believe that Joe Biden is going to get the hostages home, You're delusional.
00:40:11.000And meanwhile, the Democratic Party also had a big day yesterday because it was the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown.
00:40:16.000You'll remember that Michael Brown was the young man from Ferguson, Missouri, who robbed a convenience store using force, then was walking down the street, accosted by a police officer, proceeded to reach inside the police officer's car, punch the police officer, grab at his gun, fire a shot inside the car, try to run around, and then, when caught, turned around and charged the officer before being shot.
00:40:39.000This led to the Ferguson riots of 2014, spurred on by the President of the United States at the time, Barack Obama, who suggested that people would not make up a story like, hands up, don't shoot.
00:40:48.000Remember, the entire media parroted a lie from a friend of Michael Brown who said that Michael Brown had surrendered and then was shot in the back After putting up his hands and saying don't shoot.
00:41:00.000And the entire left went around and became a new symbol of the BLM movement.
00:41:13.000Well, it turns out, according to Eric Holder's own DOJ, under Barack Obama, that, in fact, Michael Brown had attacked a police officer, was not shot in the back, was shot in the front, was charging a police officer, and, hands up, don't shoot, was a total and complete fabrication and lie.
00:41:26.000It doesn't matter, because the myth is more important than the reality.
00:41:29.000So the Democratic Party The woke members of the Democratic Party decided that it was time to stand up for Michael Brown once again.
00:41:36.000It is truly amazing how a criminal who attempted to shoot a police officer has become the face of the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:41:42.000But again, you got to pick the worst examples to demonstrate fealty to the cause.
00:41:46.000So here is Cori Bush, Ferguson Congresswoman, trying to make a big deal out of it because of course she wouldn't be famous or in Congress if it were not for the death of Michael Brown.
00:41:56.000Michael Brown should have turned 28 years old.
00:41:59.000The last birthday he celebrated and will ever get to celebrate was his 18th.
00:42:05.000Just 81 days after his 18th birthday, a Ferguson police officer killed him.
00:42:12.000In a just world, Mike Brown would be with his loved ones right now, celebrating another year, dreaming of his future as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake.
00:42:24.000But instead, we are only left with the memories of who he was.
00:42:30.000Yeah, who he was, a guy who robbed a convenience store and tried to shoot a cop.
00:43:15.000He put out a tweet suggesting something similar.
00:43:19.000He said Mike Brown should be celebrating his 28th birthday today.
00:43:21.000Mike was just 18 years old when he was killed by a police officer.
00:43:24.000Black people continue to be targeted by police who view us as a threat.
00:43:27.000Well, it turns out that you're viewed as a threat when you punch a police officer and reach through the window of his car and fire his gun.
00:43:31.000We need justice and accountability so black boys can grow into black men in peace.
00:43:35.000Actually, what you need is fathers in the home and law and order in major American cities.
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00:44:55.000Okay, meanwhile, the Donald Trump trial continues.
00:44:59.000It is amazing how much faith the media have put into the Donald Trump trial, the idea that he's going to be jailed.
00:45:04.000Basically, he's going to be jailed or he's going to win the election.
00:45:08.000If Donald Trump just goes into a basement and throws his phone somewhere, puts it in a lockbox for the next several months, he will be president of the United States again.
00:45:16.000Latest Harvard-Harris National Poll, Trump 49, Biden 43.
00:45:35.000So in other words, these are very good numbers for Donald Trump right now.
00:45:41.000And the Democrats are freaking out as well they should be because it turns out that even the New York hush money trial It's such an obvious farce at this point that even members of the CNN coterie are like, what the F?
00:45:51.000So yesterday, Michael Cohen, who is Donald Trump's former garbage lawyer and fixer, it turns out that he admitted on the stand to having stolen some $60,000 from the Trump Organization, which is a more serious crime than anything even alleged against Donald Trump.
00:46:05.000Here's CNN's Eli Honig pointing this out.
00:46:08.000Michael Cohen explained this whole thing, quote, that's what was owed and I didn't feel Mr. Trump deserved the difference.
00:46:15.000That's a lot different than I stole $60,000 from my boss on the transaction at the heart of this case.
00:46:22.000And by the way, the fact that he was never charged with larceny is important because stealing $60,000 through fraud, which would be larceny in New York state, is more serious of a crime than falsifying business records.
00:46:39.000The CNN anchor spent the rest of yesterday just reeling.
00:46:42.000It was reminiscent of the time when Donald Trump was president.
00:46:44.000Every single day there'd be a breaking news alert from Wolf Blitzer about this was the moment when they were going to discover the secret documents linking Vladimir Putin with Donald Trump and it never materialized.
00:46:53.000Yesterday, CNN's anchor was like, oh no.
00:47:00.000Yeah, no, it's fascinating stuff and I have to say I'm still kind of reeling from the revelation that Michael Cohen stole money from the Trump organization and that wasn't, at least to my knowledge, that the prosecution didn't get that out earlier because it's not as though the prosecution's going to be helped by further evidence that Michael Cohen is a shady character.
00:47:26.000I'm shocked that we are hearing it for the first time on day three of cross-examination of Michael Cohen, that the prosecution did not take the sting out, did not front it, because it goes to the heart of the actual case.
00:47:36.000It's not just about establishing him as a liar.
00:47:42.000But going to the heart of what you were telling your employer about what money you were owed and the extent of it, we're talking about $420,000.
00:47:51.000We've already seen the payment structure here.
00:47:54.000The heart of the matter is that Donald Trump was complicit, caused to have this happen, and knew about the money that was going and why.
00:48:02.000If they can establish Michael Cohen as somebody who is not to be trusted about the amount of money as well, then they might be able to suggest that Donald Trump had no idea what he was truly paying.
00:48:24.000He is not a prior criminal, in any sense not a criminal under this case.
00:48:28.000He would probably get some form of probation.
00:48:29.000If that happens, this is just gonna look like they missed him again.
00:48:32.000And every time they miss Trump, every time they fire Trump and they miss, it actually benefits Trump.
00:48:36.000So now, The left is basically relegated to just shouting at the wind about how Donald Trump is a mean bad man.
00:48:42.000The latest form of this comes courtesy of a film festival in Cannes.
00:48:46.000So the film festival over there, obviously, is where all the she-she people get together to watch films that no one will ever watch in real life.
00:48:54.000There is a movie called The Apprentice about Donald Trump's rise to power.
00:48:59.000In America, it is apparently incredibly controversial because Sebastian Stan plays Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong plays his political fixer Roy Cohn, and apparently in the film, Donald Trump, his wife Ivana.
00:49:13.000The screenplay is from a Vanity Fair journalist, Gabriel Sherman.
00:49:16.000Gabriel Sherman is most famous for during the Fox News sort of heyday, maybe 10 years ago, writing stories about Fox that were just patently not true over and over.
00:49:25.000But now he's written a screenplay and it's about the evils of Donald Trump.
00:49:31.000According to the Washington Post, when the lights rose, the applause was instant and robust, with Cate Blanchett and Cynthia Erivo somehow leading the charge down the orchestra seats near Abbasi and Stan.
00:49:40.000There'd been spots of laughter, especially during moments of physical comedy, like when Trump slips on ice while courting Ivana and boastfully telling her he knows how to ski.
00:49:47.000But by and large, it is a very dark and chilling origin story.
00:49:51.000Stan's Trump is not a clown, but a vicious killer, as the character categorizes his ambition.
00:49:56.000In details that seem to be based on a 1990 divorce deposition from Ivana Trump, we see him go under the knife in gory detail to get liposuction and a scalp reduction surgery as a solution to his growing love handles and bald spot.
00:50:06.000And we watch when, as Ivana also alleged in that deposition, Trump pushes her to the floor of their home during an argument and rips her.
00:50:13.000He's also depicted receiving oral sex from a topless blonde in Atlantic City while married.
00:50:18.000Apparently, uh, the Trump campaign Says that they're going to file a lawsuit to attack the film.
00:50:24.000But again, if the idea here is that this star-studded affair is going to somehow damage Donald Trump, Wrong approach, guys.