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00:01:55.000We'll get to all of that in just a second, but we first have to talk about something that was actually fun that happened last night.
00:01:59.000So the Golden Globes happened last night.
00:02:00.000Now, I am not one to watch the Golden Globes, so I will admit, I was not watching this thing live.
00:02:05.000Instead, I started to see Ricky Gervais trending, and whenever Ricky Gervais hosts one of these shows, you know that it's going to be at the very least amusing, and maybe better than that, because Ricky Gervais does not give any bleeps.
00:02:18.000He does not care at all about the Hollywood crowd.
00:02:21.000He finds them self-serving, he finds them off-putting, he thinks they're ridiculous, because they are.
00:02:26.000Okay, and last night at the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais just took Hollywood and threw them in a meat grinder a la Fargo.
00:02:34.000He just took the leading members, and they were so angry about it.
00:02:37.000The cutaways to Ricky Gervais' jokes were better than his jokes, because the cutaways were all to members of the Hollywood crowd not being able to laugh at themselves on any level, sitting there stone-faced as Ricky Gervais just tore them apart.
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00:03:11.000Because they understood that the true guarantor of American freedom was an armed population abiding by the law and defending its rights.
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00:04:18.000Well, if you are one of the millions, hundreds of millions of Americans who are irritated by Hollywood celebrities mouthing off on politics, who are irritated by the fact that these Hollywood celebrities declare themselves our moral betters, That these Hollywood celebrities act like socialists while earning like capitalists.
00:04:35.000Well, they drink their swill and down their steaks and eat their foie gras, and then they turn around and tell all of us that our consumptive habits are simply too much.
00:04:45.000While they live in these mansions in Malibu, while proclaiming that people who are in the suburbs of Los Angeles should simply allow homeless people to sleep on their doorsteps with open needles, these same people who lecture us day in and day out are some of the most derelict moral characters on planet Earth.
00:05:03.000They're the people who will look the other way so long as it profits them.
00:05:06.000They're people who will fully ignore all of the horror that goes around them, the human carnage that goes around them every day in Hollywood.
00:05:15.000I'm speaking particularly about the treatment of women, where Hollywood basically allowed that to go on for decades on end.
00:05:20.000There's literally a statue of a casting couch in the middle of Beverly Hills, California, because the casting couch was so prevalent in Hollywood.
00:05:27.000These same people, Who are willing to work for any company so long as they get their buck.
00:05:32.000Who are willing to take a private jet anywhere.
00:05:34.000These same people will lecture you on global warming and how you really need to set your thermostat differently in the winter time.
00:05:41.000Well, Ricky Gervais was having none of it last night.
00:05:43.000And the nice thing about Ricky Gervais is that he's from outside the country.
00:05:46.000So because Ricky Gervais is British, that means that he is allowed a certain amount of scorn for the Hollywood celebs.
00:05:54.000Being a foreigner gives you a certain amount of credibility when you speak about Americans and their ridiculous habits.
00:05:59.000And so, Ricky Gervais, coming to the United States, obviously very funny dude, and he just went at Hollywood last night, hammer and tongs, and they couldn't help themselves.
00:06:09.000Because Ricky Gervais went after them for being self-aggrandizing and self-serving and awful, and then they would promptly get up and give speeches proving that they were self-aggrandizing and self-serving and awful.
00:06:18.000And they shouldn't be trusted on any moral level.
00:06:20.000They shouldn't be trusted on any political level.
00:06:22.000Okay, so, that's a pretty good pitch for Ricky Gervais.
00:06:24.000By the way, the media, many of them went nuts on him last night.
00:06:28.000Slate had an entire piece about how mean he was.
00:06:33.000I'm amazed that so many on the left are now very, very much upset with comedians being mean.
00:06:40.000Literally, they will praise any comedian who figuratively takes a dump on President Trump's head.
00:06:46.000But if Ricky Gervais says one unkind word about the Hollywood glitterati, then he's a very bad man.
00:06:53.000Vox printed an entire piece about Ricky Gervais' bad old tweets, because they're trying to get him cancelled the same way that they got Kevin Hart cancelled from the Oscars.
00:07:01.000Ricky Gervais, again, because he's not subject to their whims, he just went directly at all of these people last night.
00:09:10.000If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?
00:09:14.000So, if you do win an award tonight, Don't use it as a platform to make a political speech, right?
00:09:21.000You're in no position to lecture the public about anything.
00:09:24.000You know nothing about the real world.
00:09:26.000Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.
00:09:29.000So, if you win, right, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god, and... Okay, and then Paris bleeped out as he tells them to F off.
00:09:51.000Because listening to all of these pompous asses lecture all of us about morality while they're on their ninth wife, while flying in private jets all around the world lecturing us about our consumption habits, Well, they work for companies that they decry as brutal and awful.
00:10:06.000The same people who will champion AOC trying to get Amazon kicked out of New York will work for Amazon when it comes to Amazon Prime.
00:10:15.000All of these people are hypocrites beyond belief.
00:10:17.000Here's the thing about being a hypocrite.
00:10:30.000That's called just being a human being.
00:10:31.000Having a standard, and then not holding yourself to the standard and believing it is righteous not to hold yourself to a standard, that is the kind of hypocrisy that Hollywood constantly engages in, and Ricky Gervais just says it out loud.
00:10:42.000You know, the funniest part about the Golden Globes is that then all of these actors and actresses got up and did the exact thing that Ricky Gervais told them not to do.
00:10:49.000Like the exact thing they got up and they lectured us all on politics.
00:10:52.000When they have no clue what's going on in the real world.
00:10:54.000When they have no relationship with the vast majority of Americans.
00:10:57.000When their morals are 180 degrees polar opposite from what most Americans believe and feel is right.
00:11:04.000So Ricky Gervais sets the stage, and then all of these people just proceed to fall right in the trap.
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00:12:30.000Okay, so then all of these Hollywood idiots get up and proceed to do exactly what Ricky Gervais told them not to do.
00:12:36.000Lecture Americans based on their lack of knowledge and this self-assured sense that they are speaking on behalf of most Americans.
00:12:44.000And Michelle Williams gets up, Her hair dyed Marilyn Monroe platinum and wearing apparently a garbage bag on her shoulder.
00:12:51.000I don't know, I don't know what that's, maybe that has some meaning?
00:12:54.000If it doesn't, then this is just a hideous dress.
00:12:55.000In any case, Michelle Williams gets up and she starts lecturing the public on abortion.
00:13:01.000Okay, now what's hilarious about this is you just heard Ricky Gervais said, most of you have less education than Greta Thunberg.
00:13:07.000This is literally true of Michelle Williams.
00:13:09.000Michelle Williams dropped out of school at 15.
00:13:11.000She dropped out of school at 15, at the behest of her parents, and then she declared herself free from her parents, right?
00:13:18.000She actually filed legal forms so that she could be removed from the care of her parents, with their permission, so that she could work as an underage actress and avoid child labor laws.
00:13:29.000And so the same left that will declare that it's the right that wants children to work will then cheer people who declare themselves independent at age 15 that they can go work in Hollywood.
00:13:40.000Making whatever schmutz they decide to make.
00:13:42.000So Michelle Williams gets up, this person who, again, has no relationship with people in the real world, and she explains, on behalf of women everywhere, that what is deeply necessary is abortion.
00:13:52.000That she would not be where she is at right now without abortion.
00:13:56.000If you're talking about the strength of women, and your suggestion is that female strength is so great that you just need to kill a few babies in order to get ahead, Let me suggest that is not a case for female independence and strength.
00:14:07.000Here's Michelle Williams wearing a dress directly from like the Hare Krishna in the 1970s in a garbage bag on her left shoulder explaining about abortion.
00:14:19.000I've tried my very best to live a life of my own making, not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over, sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I had carved with my own hand, and I wouldn't have been able to do this Without employing a woman's right to choose.
00:14:43.000Thank God, or whomever you pray to, that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours.
00:14:54.000So, women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest.
00:15:01.000Right on the verge of tears, always on the verge of tears because of sincerity.
00:15:18.000Without abortion, I wouldn't have been able to boil a rabbit.
00:15:21.000Without abortion, I wouldn't have been on damages.
00:15:23.000And then some young woman I've never seen before.
00:15:25.000And then you've got the cutaways of all the women looking very serious, so serious.
00:15:29.000And then you've got the cutaway of Michelle Pfeiffer just Because this is so meaningful.
00:15:34.000It's so meaningful when Michelle Williams, an extraordinarily rich and famous and beautiful woman, says that she would not be where she is at without having employed the right to choose, which I assume means that she had an abortion.
00:15:44.000So now she's making the case that she would not be where she is at, namely rich and famous without a dead body along her way.
00:15:50.000That's not a great case for your own independence and moral superiority.
00:15:54.000And if you're thanking God, For your abortion?
00:16:26.000And so she decided that she was going to lecture Americans also, but she's going to lecture Americans about Trump because that's what everybody loves.
00:16:32.000What people love most of all, if you want to convince Americans not to vote for Trump, what you need is more empty-headed, idiotic, Actors and actresses from Hollywood who have no relationship with anyone who lives between Los Angeles and New York wearing sunglasses in the middle of the night on a well-lit stage explaining that President Trump is a very, very bad man who's very bad and orange and bad.
00:16:58.000We're not going to look back on this night.
00:17:00.000In the history books, we will see a country on the brink of war, the United States of America, a president tweeting out a threat of 52 bombs, including cultural sites, young people risking their lives, traveling across the world, people not knowing if bombs are going to drop on their kids' heads, and the continent of Australia on fire.
00:18:04.000You turned all of your favorite politicians into celebrities, and all of your favorite celebrities into politicians, and then you are shocked when Americans respond by electing a celebrity to the presidency who just happens not to agree with you.
00:18:15.000Don't give me the, oh we need people who are well-spoken.
00:18:18.000You're sitting there cheering Patricia Arquette who couldn't string a sentence together if it was scripted for her.
00:18:22.000She barely can when it is scripted for her.
00:18:25.000You're sitting there cheering Michelle Williams who, again, dropped out of school at age 15 to pursue her acting career as some sort of political leader.
00:18:34.000You guys are looking for your moral guidance to the ladies of Charmed, Rose McGowan and Alyssa Milano.
00:18:40.000These are the people you prop up and they're like, oh, well, you know, Trump.
00:19:13.000And you don't know what you're talking about.
00:19:14.000And it doesn't give you added credibility in what you're talking about because you're good at acting words that other people write.
00:19:20.000It does not give you added credibility to speak on topics of public importance simply because you throw a football like Colin Kaepernick into a pick six.
00:19:32.000And so Trump is just a giant middle finger, right?
00:19:34.000He's always been a pulsating giant middle finger.
00:19:37.000And don't worry, we'll get to more of this pulsating giant middle finger when it comes to Iran policy.
00:19:42.000Because it turns out that celebrities also have been sounding off not just at the Golden Globes, but more broadly about Trump's Iran policy.
00:19:48.000Because when I think of well sort of considered Iran policy, the first place I look, theoretically, is to people like Cardi B and Colin Kaepernick.
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00:22:11.000She's right, you did it, you pieces of crap.
00:22:14.000You're the ones who spent 30 years taking Harvey Weinstein's checks while allowing him to peek down your blouse and or allowing him to peek down other people's blouses.
00:22:24.000Again, I have nothing but sympathy for the women who have actually come forward, but there are a bunch of women who didn't come forward and or protected Harvey Weinstein.
00:22:31.000Knowing that he did this stuff, or he did it to them, and then they came out and protected him for years because he was signing checks to them.
00:22:36.000So no, don't get... Hollywood does not get to stand on its high horse about Me Too.
00:22:40.000Hollywood does not get to stand on its high horse about global warming.
00:22:42.000Honestly, the only person who was even decent in these political speeches last night was Joaquin Phoenix, who got played off the stage when he suggested that people in Hollywood stop taking private jets everywhere.
00:22:53.000Joaquin Phoenix may be a nut, but at least he's a nut who's trying to hold himself to a standard.
00:22:58.000Ricky Gervais' hit on Hollywood, it does underscore what our politics truly is about these days, because it really is not about the complexity of politics.
00:23:06.000It really is about this cultural divide.
00:23:07.000You know, culture, the culture wars have become extremely hard fought.
00:23:11.000A lot more hard fought in the last 20 years, 25 years, than they were for many decades before that.
00:23:16.000Well, culture is usually the last vestige of unity.
00:23:20.000So, when you have a common philosophy, culture, history, Then culture tends to be the easiest place to unify because you can argue about TV, you can argue about sports, really, you can argue about the products that you're wearing.
00:23:33.000The stuff that's hard is philosophy and history and all the stuff that undergirds a successful civilization.
00:23:38.000But when all those other things fall away, and the last thing that we can unify about is culture, and then culture starts to be polarized, we end up in these culture wars where we're fighting.
00:23:47.000And you can see with each successive Oscars, each successive Golden Globes, you can see that Hollywood is exacerbating those culture wars.
00:23:55.000And Ricky Gervais just put a pin in it last night.
00:23:57.000I mean, he really just exposed it, ripped it wide open.
00:24:01.000He made another joke that I don't think we actually had a chance to pull, where he was talking about the woke nature of Hollywood.
00:24:07.000And he was saying that he was going to do an In Memoriam segment last night, but he saw that there were too many dead white people.
00:24:13.000And he said, well, I'm not going to do that.
00:24:16.000I'm not going to be the one who does that.
00:24:19.000And people in the audience didn't know whether to laugh or not.
00:24:21.000Because what he is laughing at is the ridiculous insistence that every single part has to be given to a person who is of the actual physical description in the script.
00:24:34.000So if it's a disabled person, it can't be a person who is non-disabled playing a disabled person, which is called acting.
00:24:39.000He's laughing at the fact that Hollywood has declared that the only way that they can find some sort of moral recompense for what they do is by hiring a certain percentage of black or gay or female actors and that you have to have a certain percentage of black or female or gay lines in a particular script in order to make that script morally praiseworthy.
00:24:58.000Ricky Gervais is right about all this.
00:24:59.000Hollywood has been at the forefront of the culture wars.
00:25:02.000And then they declare themselves on the defensive.
00:25:04.000Oh, how dare these right-wingers like Trump.
00:25:06.000They're always involved in the culture wars.
00:25:27.000Meanwhile, onto the more serious news of the day.
00:25:29.000So the situation over Iran is intensifying, but in reality, the possibility of violence with Iran has actually decreased, not increased, over the past 24 hours.
00:25:39.000So if you watch the media, what you're seeing is that the possibility of violence, overt violence, war with Iran is increasing radically, and that the United States is going to go to overt war with Iran.
00:25:48.000First of all, President Trump does not want this.
00:25:50.000Anyone who tells you difference is lying to you, lying overtly to your face.
00:25:55.000This cuts against everything Trump believes about the Middle East.
00:25:58.000He's been consistent on one thing and one thing only over the last 10 years, and that is he does not like involvement in the Middle East.
00:26:04.000The only reason that he is doing all of this is because Iran burned our embassy, lest we forget.
00:26:09.000The Iranians burned our embassy last week, and that was after engaging in a year of full-on aggression, attacking ships in the Straits of Hormuz.
00:26:20.000Going after Saudi oil facilities, shooting down American drones, firing on American bases, trying to kill American allies, arming terrorist groups ranging from Lebanon to Yemen.
00:26:31.000So this notion that Trump is like itching for war, it's just a bunch of horse crap.
00:26:37.000And by the way, the idea that we're going to sort of slide into a war with Iran, and that Trump is doing all of this because he wants to telegraph a war for the 2020 election, and this is just like Iraq, it's like people have no memories in this country.
00:26:50.000The Iraq war was telegraphed for a full year.
00:26:52.000George W. Bush went to the UN for resolutions six, seven, eight months before the war in Iraq began.
00:26:57.000It was the longest telegraphed punch in human history.
00:27:01.000Trump is just trying to re-establish a deterrence that didn't exist under Barack Obama because Barack Obama was too busy bribing the terrorists.
00:27:09.000So you may think that this is brinksmanship by Trump.
00:27:11.000It's also called re-establishing deterrence.
00:27:14.000It turns out that appeasement lowers your level of commitment to the possibility of conflict, but it heightens the other side's willingness to seek conflict, which is what we've seen over the past several years, over the past decade or so.
00:27:27.000But according to the media, chances with war have never been greater.
00:27:29.000Now, as you'll see, this is not actually true.
00:27:31.000The Iranian strategy has shifted from, we are going to pursue acts of violence to, we are going to try and pursue political ends in places like Iraq to minimize the American footprint.
00:27:40.000That's their actual strategy right now.
00:27:42.000It is not to engage in vast amounts of violence against American troops overseas.
00:27:46.000They know that that will end with Ayatollah heads not being connected to Ayatollah bodies.
00:27:51.000Instead, what they are seeking to do is pursue political ends in Iraq that are designed to push the American troops out of Iraq and therefore give Iran yet another foothold in the Middle East.
00:28:02.000The United States ain't gonna listen to it, because the fact is that the Iraqi government, unfortunately, is dominated in many ways by Iranian front groups.
00:28:09.000This is one of the reasons why they've had thousands of people protesting in the streets against the current sitting Prime Minister of Iraq, who's stuck between Iraq and a hard place.
00:28:16.000Literally, Iraq and a hard place being Iran.
00:28:19.000But, if you watch the media, we're on the verge of a draft.
00:28:22.000If you watch the media, oh my god, Iran's gonna pull out of the nuclear deal and they're gonna- They've been doing this for months.
00:28:28.000Oh my god, Iraq is passing a resolution that says that America has to get- That's a non-binding resolution.
00:28:35.000Like, right now, what Trump is doing is not riskier than what was happening when the United States was simply bending over backwards for the Ayatollahs and allowing them to be as violent as they wanted to be across the entire Middle East.
00:28:49.000So the crowds were out in Tehran chanting death to America.
00:28:51.000My favorite thing about the news is that so often it is not new.
00:28:55.000So the UK Daily Mail says, angry crowds chant death to America and hold signs vowing revenge at funeral of top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani after he was killed in U.S.
00:29:31.000So if you're just tuning in now, you're coming in like season 21 of this thing.
00:29:35.000If you just discovered The Simpsons now, you're like 20 years too late.
00:29:39.000If you just discovered that the Iranians don't like America, meaning the Iranian government doesn't like America and that they can get thousands of people out in the streets in a country of tens of millions of people, They can get a few thousand people out in the streets to yell about America at gunpoint?
00:29:54.000Well, shocker, it turns out they've been doing this for quite a while.
00:29:57.000Meanwhile, Iran has vowed to hit 35 U.S.
00:30:00.000targets and unfurled the red flag of war, as America said it expected retaliation within weeks.
00:30:04.000That retaliation is likely to come in the form of probably terror attacks on proxy groups, right?
00:30:08.000In Yemen, on the Saudis, maybe on the Israelis.
00:30:14.000My favorite is that they unfurled this red flag of war over a giant mosque.
00:30:19.000Which obviously says important cultural site and peaceful place.
00:30:24.000If you are unfurling flags of war over your holy sites, or storing weapons in there, or letting terrorists hide in there, which has been historically a thing.
00:30:32.000If you look at, for example, Israel's wars with Hezbollah or with Hamas, very often people hide in mosques specifically because they know that the West is never going to attack those places.
00:30:42.000The war in Iraq, this was a very, very common tactic.
00:30:45.000Afghanistan was a common tactic as well.
00:30:47.000When you unfurl red flags over your mosque declaring war... Okay, it wasn't us that just declared that site a war site.
00:31:48.000The Islamic political and militant group also warned Iraqi soldiers to stay at least a thousand meters away from American military bases from Sunday onwards.
00:31:55.000What they're trying to do is carve off the Iraqis from the Americans.
00:31:57.000That is not likely to be a successful effort because the Sunnis in Iraq know that the minute the United States leaves, guess who's going to be on the wrong end of the Iranian gun?
00:32:05.000It ain't going to be the United States anymore.
00:32:07.000Missiles also rained down on Baghdad's Jadriya neighborhood, wounding five people.
00:32:11.000The chilling flag display was seen as a clear warning that the Islamic Republic is ready to fill its worrying flag.
00:32:18.000fulfill its worrying pledge at Chillingly written across the war flag were the words, those who want to avenge the blood of Hussein.
00:32:24.000It was hoisted above the important Jamkharan Mosque, which is on the outskirts of the holy city of Qom, about a hundred miles south of Tehran.
00:32:35.000fast response force has flown to the Middle East.
00:32:38.000According to the Associated Press, being a U.S.
00:32:40.000soldier in a fast response force sometimes means being sent halfway across the world within a day, leaving no time to say goodbye to those staying behind.
00:32:46.000That's what happened to April Schumer when her husband, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, got the call.
00:32:52.000Her husband was among hundreds of U.S.
00:32:53.000soldiers deployed Saturday from Fort Bragg, North Carolina to Kuwait to serve as reinforcements in the Middle East amid rising tensions following the U.S.
00:33:18.000But it's funny to watch members of the left and members of the media suggest that it's America that is deeply terroristic, that it's America that escalated this thing.
00:33:25.000Now America is just re-establishing lines that were blown away by the Obama administration and ignored by the Obama administration.
00:33:40.000We'll also get to the supposed two big stories over the weekend.
00:33:44.000The media really playing up Iran, quote-unquote, pulling out of the nuclear agreement and the claim that the Iraqi parliament has voted in favor of getting rid of U.S.
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00:35:03.000Okay, so what are the latest escalations?
00:35:35.000But the main thing is going to be trying to attack American allies, not America directly, because the Iranians are on notice that if they move too strongly against the United States, there will be other people who end up the same way that Soleimani did.
00:35:46.000The last thing going through their brain being a missile.
00:36:07.000They're ending abiding by the limits on the nuclear deal.
00:36:10.000In fact, Javad Zarif, who is, again, their terror-friendly foreign minister, he says, there will no longer be any restriction on number of centrifuges.
00:36:18.000This step is within JCPOA, and all five steps are reversible upon effective implementation of reciprocal obligations.
00:36:24.000So in other words, they're not pulling out of the Iran deal.
00:36:32.000Also, the other story, which is that the Iraqi parliament had voted to get rid of American troops.
00:36:37.000It should create sort of an international crisis because then would it be legitimate for America to have its troops in Iraq?
00:36:42.000It would create a serious crisis for the Iraqi government which is already operating in the absence of any sort of consensus from the Iraqi people.
00:36:48.000The current prime minister of Iraq is already acting.
00:36:52.000He's the acting prime minister because he resigned a few weeks ago because so many of his own people were angry with him because they see him as an Iranian tool.
00:36:59.000But the bottom line is that the Iraqi parliament made a non-binding decision request Okay, they requested cancellation of assistance to the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition.
00:37:10.000They requested to expel foreign troops, a state monopoly of arms.
00:37:14.000They filed a complaint about the United States.
00:37:18.000Okay, so in other words, that was symbolic.
00:37:20.000It's being treated as non-symbolic by the media, as though Iraq is on the verge of throwing America out of Iraq, which, of course, is not true.
00:37:28.000He said, well, if they do that, then we'll put sanctions on Iraq, too, because at that point, it's pretty obvious that Iraq is a tool of Iran.
00:37:35.000The notion that the Iranians were abiding by the nuclear deal and therefore the nuclear deal was the be all end all is just ridiculous on its face.
00:37:42.000The fact is that the Iran nuclear deal was designed so narrowly that it only accomplished one thing and then declared that all problems had been solved.
00:37:50.000Which is sort of like, you know, a patient comes into a doctor and says, I have cancer and I also have a cold.
00:37:56.000And the doctor's like, well, you know what?
00:38:13.000Okay, that's what the Iran nuclear deal was.
00:38:15.000It was, okay, we're gonna give you like a little, we'll give a little band-aid so that the Iran nuclear program is put on hold for a little while.
00:38:22.000After 10 years they can develop it fully.
00:38:42.000And the notion that the Trump administration is somehow responsible for the Iranians acting like terrorists is simply ridiculous on its face.
00:38:50.000Pompeo, by the way, Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, was largely seen by outside sort of analysts as one of the driving forces behind the Soleimani strike.
00:38:59.000He was asked about the Iraqi Prime Minister calling for U.S.
00:39:24.000The acting prime minister of Iraq who resigned because of massive Iranian interference in his own government's ability to execute sovereignty and independence for Iraq.
00:39:34.000But the Iraqi parliament has now voted to approve it.
00:39:37.000It is the United States that is prepared to help the Iraqi people get what it is they deserve and continue our mission there to take down terrorism from ISIS and others in the region that is in defense of the Iraqi people and is good for America too.
00:39:50.000Okay, what Pompeo is saying there is absolutely correct.
00:39:53.000If you have a proxy prime minister of Iraq, who is basically just an Iranian tool, and he's telling you to leave, why would you possibly listen to that?
00:39:59.000Especially when it's endangering American assets, and when the Iranians are engaging in greater and greater terrorism, and this whole thing is designed to deter Iran from regional aggression.
00:40:09.000So you're gonna pull out because the Iraqis, who are now run by Iran, are telling you to?
00:40:26.000If President Trump were the most well-spoken president in American history, if he were Abraham Lincoln and George Washington combined, if he was their love child, and if he had said, In the most articulate possible way, that Iran cannot be allowed to expand its terroristic threat, and should they threaten American allies or assets, then we will act to the fullest extent, not only to prevent that, but to deter that in the future.
00:40:47.000There would not be one fewer shriek on the left.
00:40:50.000Because you know who used to say that?
00:41:04.000Also military force, but mostly just appeasement and kissing ass and also appeasement.
00:41:09.000And the left was like, oh my God, what an articulate, oh, what an articulate, unbelievable man this Obama is because they knew that the military force was never on the table.
00:41:17.000They knew that deterrence had not been established with Iran in the same way it was not established with Syria.
00:41:21.000The same left that is so just upset about the possibility of any violence being done to deter Iranian violence, they were perfectly sanguine with Barack Obama blowing up Libya, allowing the Arab Spring to completely topple regimes that were friendly to the United States in many cases, and make way for Muslim Brotherhood regimes in places like Egypt.
00:41:42.000They're perfectly happy with Syria turning into a complete and utter hellhole, a hellscape, with half a million dead and millions of refugees, because Barack Obama did it.
00:42:53.000This is exactly what happened in Vietnam.
00:42:55.000In Vietnam, there was an actual strategy undertaken by the Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.
00:43:00.000And Robert McNamara suggested that we pursue a policy of what he called graduated escalation, in which we slowly increase the pressure on the Viet Cong, and sooner or later, they'd get the message.
00:43:11.000As opposed to the generalized, prior to that, policy of American overwhelming force.
00:43:18.000If that is a better way to deter action, Trump knows this.
00:43:21.000It also happens to jibe with his personal brand of testosterone-driven politics.
00:43:24.000So, President Trump tweets this out and people lose their minds.
00:43:27.000So, President Trump says, Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain U.S.
00:43:31.000assets as revenge for ridding the world of their terrorist leader, who had just killed an American and badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters.
00:43:42.000He was already attacking our embassy and preparing for additional hits in other locations.
00:43:46.000Iran has been nothing but problems for many years.
00:43:48.000Let this serve as a warning that if Iran strikes any Americans or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago, some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture, and those targets and Iran itself will be hit very fast and very hard.
00:44:08.000One, he mentioned that some of the sites may have cultural value.
00:44:12.000Okay, and AOC's like, that's a war crime targeting cultural sites.
00:44:16.000Okay, that's not how I read the tweet.
00:44:18.000What I read the tweet as is it's a military site with cultural importance, which, by the way, when you're talking about terror states, that's what they literally raised a war flag over a culturally important mosque.
00:44:27.000If they're hiding weapons and terrorists in there, he's just saying, I'm not going to hold back just because they're hiding weapons and terrorists in a mosque.
00:44:36.000You know, the same lady who presumably would like no sanctions on actual Iranian terrorists, threatening to target and kill innocent families, women, and children, which is what you're doing by targeting cultural sites.
00:44:57.000And Trump tweeted, they attacked us, we'll hit back.
00:44:59.000If they attack again, which I would strongly advise them not to do, we'll hit them harder than they have ever been hit before.
00:45:03.000This is a very basic, brusque way of establishing deterrence.
00:45:08.000And then Trump goes to sort of his, his sort of, you know, typical shtick about people owing us money.
00:45:13.000The United States just spent two trillion dollars on military equipment.
00:45:16.000We are the biggest and by far the best in the world.
00:45:18.000If Iran attacks an American base or any American, we'll be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way and without hesitation.
00:45:42.000It is not required under law that the commander-in-chief of the United States military notify Congress when he already has authority to strike.
00:45:48.000And by the way, he did have authority for this strike.
00:45:50.000And so Trump facetiously says, These media posts will serve as notifications to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S.
00:45:56.000person or target, the United States will quickly and fully strike back and perhaps in a disproportionate manner.
00:46:01.000Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless.
00:46:15.000By the way, even Jay Johnson, who's the Obama Homeland Security Secretary, said, yeah, of course Trump had the authority for this attack.
00:46:21.000If you believe everything that our government is saying about General Soleimani, he was a lawful military objective.
00:46:29.000And the president, under his constitutional authority as commander-in-chief, had ample domestic legal authority to take him out without an additional congressional authorization.
00:46:40.000Whether he Was a terrorist or a general in a military force that was engaged in armed attacks against our people.
00:46:54.000Okay, so there's Jay Johnson basically spelling out for the Democrats a fact, and Trump repeats the fact, and it's always bad when Trump says it.
00:47:00.000The fact is, by the way, our military leaders from the past have been successful.
00:47:04.000David Petraeus with the surge in Iraq, Admiral Stavridis.
00:47:07.000Both of them today, over the weekend, were out there saying that yes, the United States had to reestablish deterrence because Iran had not been deterred.
00:47:16.000What has happened here, I think, is, frankly, that we lost the element of deterrence, the component of deterrence that was seen as American will.
00:47:26.000Our drone, $130 million drone, was shot down, did nothing significant in response.
00:47:32.0005% of the world's oil production taken out of operation, numerous attacks on shipping, and then attacks on our forces, ultimately, of course, killing an American and wounding four of our soldiers.
00:47:43.000So ultimately, the president Peers to have decided that it was necessary to take an action to shore up deterrence to show that we were not going to accept this Okay, Petraeus's perspective is Trump's perspective, and it is right.
00:47:56.000You may not like Trump's language, but tough.
00:47:59.000Okay, Trump is trying to reestablish a deterrence that had been lost during the Obama administration.
00:48:11.000Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is actually quite an enjoyable film.
00:48:14.000So I'm not a huge Quentin Tarantino fan.
00:48:17.000I think that his best film is still Reservoir Dogs.
00:48:20.000Quentin Tarantino, to me, is sort of less a filmmaker than he is a YouTube maker, meaning that he has so many great scenes in these movies, and the movies don't really fit together all the way.
00:48:29.000The last 15 minutes of this movie are just glorious.
00:48:32.000So my wife, who hates brutal violence and is not into it at all, she was watching the end of this movie with me, and even she was laughing hysterically at the end of this movie, which is brutally violent.
00:48:41.000I mean, it is horribly and brutally violent, but it is also some really, really funny stuff.
00:48:46.000The movie itself, Brad Pitt, is great in it, and so is DiCaprio.
00:48:50.000DiCaprio sort of playing DiCaprio a little bit, and he's pretty fantastic.
00:48:56.000Again, it has scenes that don't really hold together, but overall it's an enjoyable film, and really what the film is about is the death of American masculinity in film.
00:49:05.000That's really what the movie is about.
00:49:07.000What the movie is about is Quentin Tarantino lamenting the fact that masculinity in film was sort of lost and the new Hollywood European wave of the 1970s killed off a lot of the old masculinity in film.
00:49:19.000And so it's his lament for old Hollywood and it's also his statement That new Hollywood should have integrated with old Hollywood and taken in some of those old Hollywood values.
00:49:26.000Because the whole film is about this old western star who is not appreciated by Hollywood and has to go abroad to do spaghetti westerns in order to sort of re-establish himself in the film industry and his buddy who is a stuntman, who's the most masculine character in the film, right?
00:49:40.000He's a character who had been a World War II hero and then he comes back and he's a stuntman, he can beat the crap out of Bruce Lee and this kind of thing.
00:49:46.000The movie, again, is pretty great in terms of the value system that it promotes.
00:49:50.000He's basically saying that Hollywood has forgotten what it's like to be a man, and has lamented what it is to be a man, and that when you don't have real men in society, or culturally, when you disparage real men, what you end up with is greater violence, not less violence.
00:50:02.000So in its own way, a take on the Iran situation in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
00:50:29.000First of all, there's so much that's really good and true about this movie.
00:50:33.000The critics were sometimes all over Tarantino for the great sin of not having given Margot Robbie more lines.
00:50:41.000Margot Robbie is a central character in the film.
00:50:42.000If you really believe that the number of lines in a film is representative of how important characters are, it's because you've never seen a film before.
00:50:48.000It's called a film because you're watching it.
00:50:51.000If it were an audio recording, that would be slightly different.
00:51:09.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:51:16.000Okay, so, speaking of Hollywood celebrities who are just complete doofi, and who we're supposed to take seriously about Iran, apparently, Colin Kaepernick tweeted in response to the killing of Soleimani.
00:51:29.000And he tweeted out, this of course is the famous quarterback who's a great American patriot.
00:51:33.000Just because he knelt for the national anthem and wore socks with pictures of cops as pigs on them, don't let anyone tell you that Colin Kaepernick is not the height of American patriotism.
00:52:09.000This icon standing up to American aggression?
00:52:12.000He's one of the what a garbage human being.
00:52:14.000Here's what he tweeted over the weekend.
00:52:16.000America has always sanctioned and besieged black and brown bodies both at home and abroad.
00:52:22.000America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism to enforce its policing and plundering of the non-white world.
00:52:30.000So in other words, he's angry that Soleimani was killed because it was about Iran.
00:52:34.000He was angry that Soleimani was killed and he called it an act of American imperialism to kill a terror leader who was killing, by the way, almost entirely black and brown people.
00:53:09.000Also, it seems as though many of the black and brown people that the United States has had to go to war with in the past were mainly killing other black and brown people.
00:53:17.000Like, that was sort of the big problem.
00:53:20.000If you think that American foreign policy is driven by white, black, green, yellow, blue, you are wrong.
00:53:27.000And the notion that has anything to do with, like, the historic legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, that we killed Soleimani because we hate brown people, like, what in the F?
00:53:36.000Also, this American militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism, because nothing says imperialism quite like expending trillions of dollars for no actual monetary benefit to the United States.
00:53:46.000Nothing says imperialism quite like not actually just taking over Iraq and running it.
00:53:51.000Nothing says imperialism quite like involving ourselves in conflicts around the world for protection of human rights, like in Yugoslavia, for example.
00:53:59.000Because we're policing and plundering the non-white world?
00:54:04.000Has Colin Kaepernick ever spent like any serious time in other parts of the world?
00:54:08.000One of the things that you will notice about the way that so many people on the left operate is that when you look Anything long enough, you start to see shades in it.
00:54:16.000When you start to look at anything, just right up close, you start to see shades and variations in textures, shades and variations in the actual color scheme of the thing that you're looking at.
00:54:28.000If you pull back from the object and suddenly you see it contrasted, suddenly you recognize, oh, wait a second, in Sharp Relief, there's not that much contrast here, but with the rest of the world, there is a massive contrast.
00:54:38.000If you pull back from a Graphic that is black and gray and you see all the variation you're right close on you see all the variations in black and gray Then you pull back and on a white piece of paper Suddenly that black and gray graphic right that black and gray square in the middle of the paper It looks very different in contrast with the white paper all around it Okay The same thing is true when it comes to viewing America in the world if you look at America and you're real up close on it It's like viewing a Seurat painting too close.
00:55:04.000All you see is the dots All you see is all of the flaws in the painting and then you pull back here like oh Oh, the rest of the world.
00:55:13.000Most places are really horrible to live.
00:55:14.000Most places have facilitated mass murder.
00:55:18.000Most places facilitate great human suffering.
00:55:20.000Most places are way worse than the United... Like, all places, in fact, are way worse than the United States on the vast variety of topics.
00:55:29.000And yet, you get Colin Kaepernick suggesting that it's American militarism that's really the problem.
00:55:33.000This ahistorical, ignorant, racist crap Is just that, ahistorical, ignorant, racist crap from Colin Kaepernick.
00:55:44.000But it wasn't just Colin Kaepernick, celebrity, sounding off on all this.
00:55:46.000You get Michael Moore, one of our, again, moral betters, talking about the Iran situation.
00:55:51.000Michael Moore, who declares that he likes Cuban healthcare.
00:55:54.000Yeah, he should go there for his weight loss program.
00:55:55.000Michael Moore tweeted out, hello fellow Americans, do you know this man?
00:55:58.000It's a picture of Qasem Soleimani, responsible for hundreds of American deaths, responsible for terror attacks all over the world, responsible for keeping his own people under the thumb of a brutal dictatorship.
00:57:50.000Truly, the level of astonishing ignorance on the part of our celebrity class, it's what Ricky Gervais was targeting at the Golden Globes, Absolutely correct, because look at these dolts.
00:58:38.000And make no mistake, when you hear the more highfalutin Democrats talking about how Trump is endangering the world, they just don't like the fact that Trump has given the lie to 10 years of bad foreign policy by the Obama administration, pulling out precipitously from Iraq, allowing Iran to fill the gap, allowing Iran to fill the gap in Syria, paying the Iranians allowing Iran to fill the gap in Syria, paying the Iranians All of that was a failed foreign policy.
00:59:00.000It was obviously a failed foreign policy, and reestablishing deterrence is designed to prevent war, not to create war.
00:59:07.000As Mike Pompeo says, he says, listen, we're correcting eight years of appeasement here, and you all want to pretend that Barack Obama had this under control?
00:59:13.000The only reason you think that is because you were born yesterday or possibly last night.
00:59:21.000We suffered from eight years of Iranian support from America.
00:59:29.000We allowed countries to trade with them, to build up their economy.
00:59:33.000What we are now having to correct for is the enormous economic activity that took place during this Iranian nuclear deal that President Trump rightly got out of in May of 2018.
00:59:43.000It's taken a little bit of time and it will continue to take time, but we are going to restore deterrence.
00:59:49.000Without deterrence, America does not have a workable foreign policy, because otherwise, you would now make it that America may have to fight three or four separate wars, real wars, on all different fronts.
00:59:57.000The purpose of deterrence is the least possible expenditure of force to prevent the broader use of force by one of our enemies that would necessitate us using broader force.
01:00:06.000The Obama administration's plan is you just pay these people off until the alligator is big enough to eat you, or at least take off a limb.
01:00:41.000have the former because in the end, the content of the moral ideas implemented in the world, the content of the useful defense ideas implemented in the world is much more important than how they are articulated, especially because everybody knows what Trump's saying anyway.
01:00:51.000He may be brusque, but everybody understands that what he's saying is, you hurt us and it's going to hurt you a lot worse.
01:00:56.000All right, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of commentary.
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