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00:00:20.000Alrighty, so, If you listen to the legacy media, you would believe that Kamala Harris is running away with the race.
00:00:26.000In fact, Drudge Report, which has essentially become the repository of all left-wing media narrative, has a series of headlines at the top of the site saying, There's only one problem with Harris plus four.
00:00:42.000Trump maintains his hold on vital swing states in the exact same INI-TIPP poll that is now being pushed by Matt Drudge.
00:00:50.000And the same thing holds true nationally.
00:00:52.000If you look at the RealClearPolitics polling average, what you find is that Kamala Harris has about a two-point lead nationally.
00:00:57.000However, Donald Trump still maintains a lead in Arizona.
00:01:32.000still receiving 5% in that poll, while RFK Jr.
00:01:36.000dropped out, and he threw his support to Trump, so presumably that lead is going to be bigger for Trump.
00:01:42.000Furthermore, there's some brand new polling in Pennsylvania that demonstrates that Donald Trump is probably up in Pennsylvania as well, which is why the Kamala Harris campaign is dumping a ton of money into Pennsylvania right now.
00:01:53.000In fact, of the last five polls in Pennsylvania, Trump is ahead in three, he is tied in one.
00:02:00.000Only Bloomberg Morning Consult, which is kind of an outlier statistically speaking, only they have Kamala Harris ahead.
00:02:06.000This is the reason why if you go to Nate Silver's prediction of how the race is going, he believes that even though Kamala Harris is ahead nationally, Donald Trump has a better shot of winning the election today than he did, say, a week or two weeks ago.
00:02:22.000He says this notion that Kamala Harris is a lock, I'm not sure where you're getting that.
00:02:27.000Harris with a three-point advantage nationally over Donald Trump.
00:02:31.000Now, if you're a Democrat, the good news, besides the fact that you're ahead, is that's an improvement for Democrats from where things were before Harris became the candidate.
00:02:40.000Joe Biden almost all year was trailing Donald Trump, so that's changed Harris ahead by a few points there.
00:02:46.000Now, if you're a Republican, what you can take solace from here is this is not unfamiliar territory for Donald Trump.
00:02:53.000Okay, bottom line here is that the notion that Donald Trump is running super far behind is not true, despite literally a month now, almost a month and a half, of glowing media coverage of Kamala Harris, despite the attempts of legacy media to pour it on.
00:03:07.000I mean, they are pouring on the glitter.
00:03:40.000One of the things that Nate Silver's model tries to take into account is whether particular people are underperforming historic averages with regard to a convention.
00:03:47.000So, if you expected her to get, say, a 4-point bounce from the convention, and instead she got like a 2.5-point bounce, she's underperforming based on that, and that means that her popularity is already baked into the cake at this point.
00:03:58.000Furthermore, she has, because of the halo effect, become more popular on the issues, even though she's really bad on the issues.
00:04:06.000So because of all the glowing media coverage of Kamala Harris as a human, because of all the focus on Kamala Harris, and her dancing, and her joy, and her cooking, and she makes brisket, and all that crap, because of all the focus on that sort of stuff, there's been a bit of a halo effect that has attached to policies that are exactly the same as Joe Biden's.
00:04:24.000So for example, Brand new polling from USA Today Suffolk shows that on the economy, Donald Trump is favored over Kamala Harris by just six percentage points, 51 to 45.
00:04:34.000He had a 14 point advantage on Joe Biden in June.
00:04:39.000On immigration, Trump is only up three points as opposed to the 13 he was up over Joe Biden.
00:04:44.000On national security, on dealing with China, Trump was preferred over Harris by four, but that is down from 10 points in terms of the margin over Joe Biden.
00:04:52.000There are two ways to possibly explain that.
00:04:54.000One is that people were so just unsatisfied with Joe Biden as a human being that they were allowing that to color their perceptions of his policy.
00:05:01.000The other thing that could be happening here is that it turns out Joe Biden's policies are garbage.
00:05:07.000And that Kamala Harris has escaped, so far, any blame for his policies because she's not Joe Biden.
00:05:13.000But that is the job of the Trump campaign to tie Kamala Harris to those policies.
00:05:18.000It is that latter supposition that I think is true.
00:05:21.000I think that Kamala Harris on policy is a disaster show.
00:05:25.000I think that Kamala Harris is a dumpster fire on policy and that when Americans realize that she is just a fresh coat of paint on the same bad old policies they didn't like from Joe Biden, they're going to be deeply unhappy.
00:05:35.000They're going to be deeply unhappy, just as deeply unhappy as they were with Joe Biden.
00:05:40.000Maybe even more so because they will be disappointed that Kamala Harris is more of the same.
00:05:45.000Well, it's very weird to be unhappy with Joe Biden's policies, but somehow happy with Kamala Harris.
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00:06:53.000Kamala Harris is desperately attempting to evade responsibility for her tenure as Vice President of the United States.
00:08:19.000This is something that Donald Trump obviously is going to have to bring up at the debate.
00:08:22.000At the debate, Kamala Harris is going to say that she's going to bring down prices by targeting price gouging.
00:08:27.000And he's going to have to say, what price gouging are you talking about?
00:08:30.000Is your suggestion that CVS and Ralphs and Target and Publix have all radically increased their pricing not based on supply and demand and based on the inflation of the currency by you, but because they just got greedy somehow?
00:08:43.000Stop trying to evade the blame for your own crap economy.
00:08:47.000Meanwhile, she is now apparently going to trot out a series of new business policies.
00:08:58.000She has to find a way of evading those business policies.
00:09:00.000So according to the Washington Post, Harris will propose a $50,000 tax benefit for new small businesses, according to a campaign official, as the Democratic presidential nominee aims to detail her economic policy vision ahead of next week's debate with former President Donald Trump.
00:09:13.000Okay, so let's just get this straight.
00:09:15.000If she increases the corporate tax rate to 28% federally, which is what she is seeking to do, if she seeks a 25% unrealized capital gains tax, Then it's not gonna matter how often she throws out a $50,000 stipend.
00:09:46.000And if you believe that that is a recipe for economic health, then I have the last three and a half years to sell you.
00:09:52.000And by the way, that's Joe Biden being stymied by the Republican House.
00:09:55.000Imagine if, God forbid, Kamala Harris gains control of the House and the Senate.
00:09:59.000Then this is the least of your concerns.
00:10:01.000The new tax plan, part of a broader effort to encourage entrepreneurship, would massively expand an existing $5,000 deduction for startup firms, said the official, who shared the plan with reporters on the condition of anonymity because it had not yet been made public.
00:10:12.000Again, this is just another trial balloon that the Harris campaign is throwing out there.
00:10:16.000Her last trial balloon she floated out there was basically price controls.
00:10:20.000Harris is eyeing the measure as a way to draw a contrast on economic policy with Trump, who has called for cutting the tax rate paid by corporations and maintaining lower tax rates for high-income individuals, along with other policies aimed at helping lower- and middle-class taxpayers.
00:10:32.000Now remember, Trump's tax cuts lowered taxes for virtually all Americans.
00:10:36.000If Kamala Harris had her way, that tax cut would expire and taxes would go up on virtually all Americans.
00:10:42.000Advisors to Harris' campaign are also discussing plans to bolster the safety net.
00:10:49.000Did you know that the United States, one of the most redistributionist countries in the history of the world, doesn't have enough of a safety net?
00:11:03.000Because it turns out a huge percentage of people who pay taxes in this country also receive offsetting government benefits that outweigh what they are paying in taxes.
00:11:13.000So she wants childcare or paid leave expansions.
00:11:16.000Again, these are all plans that she's going to throw out there because she can't just run on her record.
00:11:21.000If she ran on her record, she would lose.
00:11:24.000And by the way, the markets are going to take all of this into account.
00:12:15.000Tons of countries in Europe have really, really strong labor unions.
00:12:19.000In fact, there are labor unions that are actually significantly more useful if you look to Northern Europe where those labor unions actually provide social security benefits, for example, to the people who work for them as opposed to many of the private sector unions who instead are negotiating with their employers or negotiating with the state.
00:12:34.000In any case, Tim Walz wants to radically increase the cost of labor in this country.
00:12:38.000Let's see how that works in terms of the inflationary cycle that Kamala Harris is supposedly attempting to stop.
00:12:45.000I can remember, and this was one, Republicans came up to me in one of my campaigns and they said, Tim is in the pocket of organized labor.
00:13:15.000You've browsed, searched for, watched, tweeted.
00:13:17.000Now imagine all that data being collected by data brokers into a permanent public record.
00:13:21.000Having your private life exposed for others to see was once something only celebs worried about, but in an era where everybody is online, everybody is now a public figure.
00:13:28.000To keep my data private when I go online, I turn to ExpressVPN.
00:14:10.000But we don't expect any sort of actual cohesive thought from Tim Walz, a corgi of a human being.
00:14:17.000Enthusiasm matched only by his stupidity.
00:14:20.000Meanwhile, more fears of economic stagnation under the Biden-Harris administration.
00:14:25.000The stock market tumbled more than 600 points as manufacturing PMI data fueled slowdown fears, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:14:33.000Investors are back to viewing weak economic data as bad news for stocks.
00:14:36.000On Tuesday, stocks sank and long-dated Treasuries rose as fresh data suggested an ongoing gloom in the manufacturing sector.
00:14:43.000The Institute for Supply Management's Purchasing Manager's Index of Manufacturing Activity rose to 47.2 in August from 46.8 in July.
00:14:50.000That was a smaller rise than expected and indicated a contraction in activity, albeit at a gentler pace.
00:14:56.000Now again, overall, the stock market has done well.
00:14:58.000That's what happens in an inflationary cycle very often because people have no place to put the money other than in stocks.
00:15:03.000However, real growth in wealth is because of innovation.
00:15:08.000Innovation can only happen with a predictable regime of property rights and free markets, not when somebody could come along at any moment and put their hand into your pocket and steal all of your money.
00:15:18.000This is the reason why James Carville is explicitly saying that Kamala Harris needs to run away from her own record in the debates.
00:15:26.000He says that her best strategy to defeat Trump involves a few different components.
00:15:31.000Component number one, he says, is help Trump hurt himself in the debate.
00:15:37.000Harris is diverging from normal fear-provoking way of going about Mr. Trump.
00:15:40.000Instead of building him up as a threat to America, she's getting voters chuckling and nodding by saying of the former president and his crew, they're out of their minds.
00:15:46.000People smile when they think a politician has her opponent's number.
00:15:49.000And they like she's calling him weird and unserious and painting a broader picture of Mr. Trump as a tired old tapestry.
00:15:54.000We already have some indication her team is prepping her to do just that.
00:15:59.000Harris must enable exactly what his campaign is scared to death of, letting Trump be Trump.
00:16:04.000She should let him talk over her, not just let him, but goad him into spouting insane conspiracy theories about the previous election.
00:16:10.000That, of course, is one of the reasons why she wants the open mic, as we've discussed.
00:16:14.000But it's number two here that Carville talks about that is indicative of just how bad the Biden-Harris administration has been.
00:16:20.000Quote, break from President Biden on policy.
00:16:23.000Now, at this point, you might be asking yourself, but wait, I thought this is the most accomplished, achievement-oriented administration of our lifetime.
00:16:32.000I was told that Joe Biden is the most consequential president of our lifetime, a living God, a George Washington-like human being.
00:16:39.000Whose valor is matched only by his self-sacrifice.
00:16:42.000That's what I was told by Kamala Harris.
00:16:44.000And yet here is James Carville telling me she has to run directly away from Joe Biden's policies, screaming in order to avoid complicity in those policies.
00:17:31.000Put out a broad list of new way forward policies that detail why she is breaking from the sitting president on the given issues and what change would deliver to the American people.
00:17:38.000After that, rally to a news conference on it so media organizations stop cranking their clamshells about a lack of access.
00:17:43.000Don't run from your differences with the president.
00:18:14.000And finally, she has to display a clear growth mindset from the 2020 Democratic primaries.
00:18:21.000At the same time she must break from Mr. Biden on some policy measures, she has one lingering liability she will not be able to outrun, the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination campaign, in which she and a gaggle of candidates favored more exotic positions within the Democratic Party.
00:19:04.000And the thing that nobody is willing to acknowledge is just how much of an empty suit she is.
00:19:08.000It is perfectly clear that she's an empty suit.
00:19:11.000So, hilariously, Peter Doocy I was in the White House press room yesterday, and he asked Corinne Jean-Pierre about a very bizarre sort of code switch that Kamala Harris did the other day when she traveled from Detroit to Pittsburgh.
00:19:25.000When she was in Detroit, suddenly she was dropping a Southern accent, right?
00:22:10.000Kamala's campaign has nothing to do with policy.
00:22:12.000If it did, then her numbers would be much worse because her policies are terrible, including, of course, her Israel policy.
00:22:17.000All of Israel right now is mourning the loss of the six hostages abducted during the October 7th attacks.
00:22:22.000Israel continues to be on high alert for a possible major assault by Iran.
00:22:25.000Due to security situations, many major airlines have canceled or suspended flights into Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
00:22:31.000In the event of an attack, Israelis across the country could be forced to spend days or weeks in bomb shelters.
00:22:35.000While these shelters keep Israelis safe, they need to be equipped with basic essentials for survival.
00:22:39.000The Fellowship has launched a project to immediately equip bomb shelters with emergency food boxes for Israelis who have to remain there in case of an Iranian attack.
00:22:47.00010,000 of these food boxes have been delivered.
00:22:48.000They're preparing to deliver thousands more.
00:22:50.000In northern Israel, the Fellowship has delivered firefighting equipment, protective equipment for hospitals, two bulletproof vehicles, and much more to enhance security and protect both citizens and first responders.
00:23:37.000She won't even define her own positions.
00:23:39.000It is the thing she is least likely to do.
00:23:43.000All of which suggests that we are about to enter a period of pretty significant narrative repression.
00:23:49.000We have hit the high watermark for Kamala Harris.
00:23:51.000Now, barring some sort of major catastrophe for Donald Trump on the stage at the debate next week, we have hit the high watermark for Kamala Harris.
00:24:35.000How long can Kamala Harris go without the American people becoming acquainted with her?
00:24:40.000Which suggests, again, that we are about to be subjected to a great censorship regime in the United States.
00:24:47.000I say this because that's precisely what happened in 2020.
00:24:50.000In 2020, there was a full-scale media-level lockdown on the Hunter Biden story the month before the election in an attempt to secure election for Joe Biden.
00:24:58.000Well, now we're at the point where there's no information about Kamala Harris, which requires a much bigger lockdown.
00:25:04.000If you want to get Kamala Harris through unscathed, which is why I think you are now seeing an elevated level of attack on particularly Elon Musk.
00:25:14.000So the left has decided now, at least parts of the left have decided, it is absolutely necessary that Elon Musk's ex be punished.
00:25:22.000Because it turns out that many of the other social media tech bros, they've done what they can in favor of Democrats in order to prevent the dissemination of material that Kamala Harris might not like too much.
00:25:50.000He's interviewed Trump and all the rest on X.
00:25:53.000Presumably, this is why you're seeing the left cheer along as dictatorial regimes attempt to shut down X. So Brazil, you all don't have to remember when Jair Bolsonaro, the conservative right-wing leader of Brazil, narrowly, narrowly lost an election in sort of disputed circumstances.
00:26:12.000And then he was immediately arrested and barred from running in the future.
00:26:15.000And Lula da Silva, who was treated by the media of the United States as a great liberator.
00:26:19.000It turns out that he was actually quite dictatorial and he and the Brazilian judiciary
00:26:23.000basically rewrote the constitution in tyrannical ways.
00:26:28.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
00:26:33.000said his country should serve as an example for the rest of the world on how to deal with Elon Musk
00:26:37.000after the Supreme Court voted to uphold a ban on X.
00:26:41.000Brazil's leftist leader told local media late on Monday, quote, the world is not obliged to put up
00:26:46.000with Musk's far-right ideology just because he is rich.
00:26:49.000Now, you might think that the world should be obliged to hear a lot of points of view that they don't like, and we do it pretty much all the time here in the United States, but apparently not.
00:26:57.000Brazil shut down X over the weekend after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Mores outlawed the social media platform entirely for failing to suspend accounts he asserted contained hate speech and misinformation, as well as complying with other legal requirements.
00:27:11.000A five-member panel of justices voted unanimously in favor of the ban on Monday after D'Amores called on the court to review his decision.
00:27:17.000He and the court have been facing accusations of overstepping their mandate both here and in Brazil and far beyond.
00:27:23.000The ban on X is one of the most audacious moves made by the judiciary even before taking on Elon Musk, Demore's had earned a reputation as a lightning rod in Brazil's battles over free speech.
00:27:33.000It slapped fines and bans on social media companies over recent years.
00:27:37.000He also has led a criminal investigations into Jair Bolsonaro.
00:27:41.000So remember, dictatorship of the left is apparently just hunky-dory with many people on the American left, so long as it targets their political opponents.
00:27:49.000As Bill Ackman, the US hedge fund billionaire said, shutting down X in Brazil, quote, puts Brazil on a rapid path to becoming an uninvestable market.
00:27:58.000By the way, it's not just that they went after Axe.
00:28:01.000Demores also froze the bank accounts of Starlink, which is Musk's satellite internet operation, to ensure the social network would pay its tyrannical fines.
00:28:10.000Arthur Lira, the powerful leader of Brazil's lower house of Congress, said the court should never have taken action against Starlink simply because the company shares the same owner as Axe.
00:28:18.000He said the legal battle surrounding Axe should never have been transferred to Starlink.
00:28:22.000Now, what sort of consequences does this have for the United States?
00:28:25.000Obviously, we have seen the government of France now cracking down on the creator of Telegram because Telegram is supposedly being used for dissemination of drugs and terrorism.
00:28:35.000Also, Telegram is just an encrypted messaging service.
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00:29:50.000Now we are seeing X being targeted by Brazil for not shutting down, quote-unquote, hate speech and misinformation.
00:29:55.000Both unbelievably malleable terms that have been applied to pretty much everything that just disagrees with the left-wing social agenda.
00:30:03.000And that is being celebrated by some in the United States.
00:30:06.000For example, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is the AG under Kamala Harris's VP candidate Tim Walz, cheered the suspension of X in Brazil.
00:30:15.000He posted on X, Obrigado Brasil, which translates to, thank you, Brazil.
00:30:21.000Elon Musk then replied, quote, the Democratic Party, same one that used to defend the First Amendment, now wants to destroy the First Amendment.
00:30:32.000And you know who else used to be very much in favor of banning people from X for things they disliked?
00:30:38.000Kamala Harris, when she called for X to, then it was called Twitter, to ban Donald Trump and all the other social media companies to ban Donald Trump and do the bidding of the Democratic left.
00:30:50.000He has lost his privileges and it should be taken down.
00:30:52.000And the bottom line is that you can't say that you have one rule for Facebook and you have a different rule for Twitter.
00:30:57.000The same rule has to apply, which is that there has to be a responsibility that is placed on these social media sites to understand their power.
00:31:07.000They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation.
00:31:17.000That is Kamala Harris in 2019 calling on Twitter and Facebook and everybody else to ban Donald Trump.
00:31:24.000Hey, if you don't believe that they are going to go over the mechanisms of informational distribution, I'm just going to point out that they do it all the time already.
00:31:32.000One of the big things that has happened in the news market has been the cuddling of social media into shutting down the dissemination of the news business.
00:31:40.000A move that literally only helps the legacy media.
00:31:43.000The legacy media are already pre-established.
00:31:45.000Startup companies that are heavily invested online are the ones who pay the price.
00:31:49.000Those are largely dissenting media voices.
00:31:53.000And again, this is something that the left is quite warm toward, at least large parts of the left.
00:31:56.000Robert Reich, the former labor secretary under Bill Clinton, So what does he say?
00:32:01.000He says, here are six ways to rein in Musk.
00:33:21.000should terminate its contract with SpaceX, again, the most innovative space company on planet Earth.
00:33:28.000These are all recommendations from a former Labor Secretary for Bill Clinton.
00:33:31.000So, am I suspicious there will be an attempt to shut down informational dissemination through pressure, tactics, on social media before the election?
00:33:42.000That's why I'm very grateful that Elon Musk bought X in the first place.
00:33:46.000Because right now, if X were in other hands, You'd be getting ready for the coercive and collusive attempt to shut down speech right before another presidential election.
00:33:59.000In just one second, we'll get to a shocking story out of the office of the New York governor.
00:34:03.000Turns out Democrats can't stay away from Chinese spies.
00:35:08.000But I guess what we might call the Moana problem here is what, on one hand, is cultural appropriation, on the other hand, there's gravitating towards white characters.
00:36:15.000And now it turns out that a top aide to New York's governor was an agent for the Chinese Communist Party.
00:36:21.000According to the Department of Justice, earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, an indictment was unsealed charging Linda Soon with violating and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act visa fraud, alien smuggling, and money laundering conspiracy.
00:36:34.000Soon is alleged to have acted on behalf of the CCP.
00:36:38.000Soon's husband and co-defendant, Chris Hu, was also charged with money laundering conspiracy, as well as conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
00:36:44.000So, apparently, she was the Deputy Chief of Staff within the New York State Executive Chamber.
00:36:50.000Both she and her husband worked to further the interests of the Chinese government and the CCP.
00:36:54.000The illicit scheme enriched the defendant's family to the tune of millions of dollars.
00:37:01.000Sun is alleged to be an undisclosed agent of the PRC and the CCP, using Chinese money and her influence within the state of New York to benefit the Chinese government.
00:37:09.000Sun and her husband then laundered millions of dollars for the foreign country and used the monetary benefits of the scheme to buy luxury vehicles and million-dollar properties in New York, which is the way a good communist works, right?
00:37:18.000I mean, the good communists, they get dashas.
00:37:50.000It would be even stranger if perhaps the sitting president of the United States' son had cleared millions of dollars from the Chinese government.
00:37:55.000That would also be really, really weird.
00:37:58.000It also is kind of weird that China, according to the Washington Post, has now extended its repression directly into the heart of San Francisco.
00:38:04.000Quote, Chinese diplomats and pro-China diaspora groups based in the United States organized demonstrations in San Francisco that harassed and silenced protesters opposed to Beijing's policies, including through violence, during Xi Jinping's visit to the city in November.
00:38:18.000Now you remember, he visited the city, so did Joe Biden, and that was when the mayor of San Francisco temporarily cleaned up the city.
00:38:25.000It turns out the CCP basically used that entire event as cover to go after its political enemies inside the United States.
00:38:34.000Apparently, a number of diaspora group leaders have long-standing links to Beijing.
00:38:39.000Those ties include ties to the United Front Work Department, which is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:38:46.000An investigation based on an analysis of more than 2,000 photos and videos from Students for a Free Tibet, the Hong Kong Democracy Council, the China Democracy Party, observers, social media, and live streams demonstrates that the Chinese government was actively intervening in the United States.
00:39:02.000While there was aggression from both sides, according to the Washington Post, the most extreme violence was instigated by pro-China activists and carried out by coordinated groups of young men embedded among them.
00:39:11.000Anti-Xi protesters were attacked with extended flagpoles and chemical spray, punched, kicked, had fistfuls of sand thrown in their face.
00:39:18.000The Chinese consulate in LA paid for supporters' hotels and meals as an incentive to participate.
00:39:23.000At least 35 pro-Chinese Communist Party diaspora groups showed up to the summit protests.
00:39:29.000Videos show at least four Chinese diplomats from the consulates in LA and San Francisco among the crowd of pro-CCC protesters.
00:39:37.000Chinese diplomats hired at least 60 private security guards to protect Chinese diaspora groups gathered to welcome Xi.
00:39:42.000So in other words, the Chinese government had forces on the ground in the middle of all of this to beat up people who are on the other side.
00:39:52.000It turns out that fairly frequently, left-wing groups are infiltrated by enemies of the United States.
00:39:58.000Which reminds us that class is back in session at places like Columbia, America's colleges are opening once again, and Iran-backed student groups that hate Israel and hate the United States are on the move once more.
00:40:12.000In fact, video has now emerged from the National Students for Justice in Palestine.
00:40:58.000To divest from this is to undermine and eradicate America as we know it, which is what they want.
00:41:02.000They want complete collapse of the entirety of the United States.
00:41:08.000They want to undermine and eradicate America as we know it.
00:41:11.000Undoubtedly, many of these groups are tied to the funding of Iran.
00:41:15.000And yet, a Western society that has left itself wide open to its manipulation by the Chinese Communist Party, by the Iranian government, by actual enemies of the United States, Well, that has happened because it turns out that a morally relativist belief in the non-superiority of American values leads to an open mind so open that all your brains fall out.
00:41:37.000It's not just in the United States, by the way.
00:41:39.000It is also in Europe, which is why you are seeing a massive populist backlash in Europe.
00:41:44.000That is being driven by high levels of immigration from the radical Muslim world.
00:41:50.000According to the Wall Street Journal, anti-establishment populism is on the rise in Europe, fueled not just by migration and economic and security fears, but by a deeper trend, eroding confidence in government's ability to overcome those challenges.
00:42:01.000In Germany on Sunday, the far-right AFD and a new far-left populist party obtained almost half the votes cast in the eastern state of Thuringia, and together also took more than 40% in neighboring Saxony.
00:42:12.000In Thuringia, the AFT finished first, the first time a far-right movement has won a state election in post-war Germany.
00:42:17.000And of course, in France, the far-right national rally has been picking up significant seat in the legislative elections.
00:42:23.000Immigration, inflation, the war in Ukraine, populists are, because of all of these things, notching electoral wins in Italy, in the Netherlands, in Sweden, in Finland.
00:42:33.000These crises are arising because of a failure of trust in the systems, and those systems have failed, which is why there is a failure of trust.
00:42:40.000Now, there's always a problem with a failure of trust, which is, how far does it go?
00:42:44.000It turns out that conservatism is generally not about tearing down institutions.
00:42:49.000It just sort of cuts against the conservative brain.
00:42:51.000Typically, conservatives are the ones who are attempting to maintain the institutions.
00:42:55.000But when the left takes over institutions and perverts them, conservatives are left with a very difficult choice.
00:43:00.000Do you attempt to regain those institutions and rebuild them from the inside, or do you try to tear them down?
00:43:06.000And if you attempt to tear them down, how far can you go tearing down institutions before you look more like a revolutionary leftist?
00:43:13.000It's one of the reasons why you're seeing this sort of bizarre populist horseshoe theory thing happening with the far right and the far left.
00:43:19.000It's why you'll see descriptions of American foreign policy from Howard Zinn and from people who are paleo-conservative in the United States that look very much the same.
00:43:28.000And the answer is, once you are now in the business of believing that all of America's institutions are so corrupt they have to be torn down, it's just a question of what comes after the tearing down.
00:43:39.000Now, that doesn't mean that this hasn't been well-earned.
00:43:43.000The populist uprising that's happening in Europe has, in fact, been quite well-earned.
00:43:49.000You would hope that the parties that take over have a shred of responsibility.
00:43:54.000With that said, it is very clear why this is happening, and that is a philosophy that says the West is not in any way innately superior to any other culture on the planet, that the West, in fact, is exploitative and evil.
00:44:06.000And that it needs to open its doors wide to people who hate its guts so that it can be exploited from the inside.
00:44:13.000That is the only way to dissociate from sins of the evil past.
00:44:18.000And unsurprisingly, what that means is that the actual citizens of the West suffer, and then they rise up in populist movements.
00:44:26.000Again, what we are watching right now is a populist uprising all over Europe.
00:44:31.000It would be surprising if it didn't happen in the United States as well.
00:44:35.000There are concrete reasons why governments may feel less effective today.
00:44:39.000In France, Italy, and the UK, high public debt is restricting governments' policy choices.
00:44:43.000Remember, the moral relativism of the left is usually tied to two other promises.
00:44:48.000Massive welfare state redistributionism and sexual libertinism.
00:44:52.000Well, it turns out, massive welfare state redistributionism stagnates the economy, which makes people feel even worse.
00:44:58.000And sexual libertinism destroys family structures, which provide the solid basis for any functioning society.
00:45:05.000Again, only exacerbating the problems that these folks were put in power supposedly to alleviate.
00:45:14.000So, not a shock that you're seeing a populist revolution pretty much anywhere.
00:45:18.000Also not a shock that you are seeing that amidst a leadership failure that allows for the complete honeycombing of Western societies by sympathizers with enemies of the West.
00:45:27.000Okay, meanwhile, the situation in the Middle East continues to percolate.
00:45:32.000Hamas is threatening to kill more hostages.
00:45:34.000Of course, of course they are, because this is what they do.
00:45:36.000They're one of the world's most evil terror groups.
00:46:07.000Aren't you the President of the United States?
00:46:09.000Shouldn't you speak, perhaps, to the Prime Minister of the country where hostages were taken, one of them an American, and then they were shot point-blank in the back of the head?
00:46:40.000wants a different outcome to get to a pause in the fighting that will eventually become a permanent ceasefire, what pressure would you like to see from the Biden administration?
00:46:48.000Well, I think the fact that they're speaking out is a lot of pressure.
00:46:51.000I also think the president also said that Hamas needs to be held accountable, right?
00:46:55.000I mean, I think let's, let's not, I think there has to be pressure on all parties to get a deal done.
00:47:01.000Okay, um, why is there pressure on all parties to get a deal done?
00:47:04.000Israel has accepted a wide variety of deals.
00:47:07.000It is Hamas that has rejected every deal and hostages in the back of the head!
00:47:10.000Like, what the hell are these people talking about?
00:47:14.000But, we are now at the final, final offer.
00:47:17.000Okay, if you believe that, I have another, I have another bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
00:47:21.000Apparently, according to the Jerusalem Post, Israel is braced to receive a non-negotiable Gaza hostage deal on the table from mediating countries Qatar, Egypt, and the United States.
00:48:02.000I think what will happen in the end is there will be a kind of take-it-or-leave-it deal, which U.S.
00:48:05.000President Joe Biden would put forward, together with the Egyptians and the Qataris, according to Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein.
00:48:12.000Then we'll have to take a decision, and it won't be negotiable again, he said.
00:48:17.000Apparently, this will supposedly now include terms less favorable to Israel, even.
00:48:22.000Well, Israel could always just say no.
00:48:25.000Or presumably Israel could say yes, and so long as the proposal is not a full-scale surrender to Hamas, Hamas will then reject it.
00:48:31.000And then don't worry, Joe Biden will come back and put more pressure on Israel, because that is what Joe Biden does.
00:48:35.000Because, of course, Joe Biden is a terrible president who doesn't know anything, and is morally imbecilic as well as actually intellectually imbecilic.
00:48:41.000Alrighty, folks, coming up, new information on the Covenant School shooter.
00:48:47.000In a second, we're going to get to the manifesto, which has finally been released.
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