The Biden White House is holding a holiday party for white people of color, and it s racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic, according to a new report by the New York Times. The White House has invited white people to a party thrown by Black people for white elected officials in order to celebrate the holiday season, but is it racist or sexist? And is it anti-racist or anti-Semitism? What's the difference between the two? And what does it have to do with diversity and inclusion? And why does it matter who attends the party? Guest: Dr. Joe Biden, the president of the United States, and his wife, Jill Biden, a pediatrician, are celebrating the holidays in a way that is racist and sexist. Guest: Michelle Wu, the mayor of Boston, who invited Black Electeds of Color to a white-only party to celebrate Black History Month, and why that s racist. Plus, a look at the history of the TAP routine at the White House, and what it means for Black people in general, and how it relates to Black culture and Black culture in general. Thanks for listening to this episode of the podcast. It really is a good listen. Thank you so much for listening, and Happy Holidays! -Eugene Vellian and thanks for supporting the podcast, and Good Morning America! in part 2 of our new series on Black Friday and Black Friday, coming soon. in Part 2 of the next week. Subscribe to Good Mythology. . Subscribe, Like, Subscribe, Share, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, and leave us a review, and tell us what you think about the podcast you think we should be listening to the podcast and what you're listening to in your favorite podcast and sharing it on social media about Black culture, what do you think of it on your favorite streaming platform, what s your thoughts on it? and what else should we should we listen to in the podcast should we do in the next episode? Subscribe and review it in your thoughts about what s going out there and what s the podcast is the best thing you're thankful for? in the comments section? or are you looking forward to listening to? What s your favorite thing that s the most Black thing you re listening to on Black culture this holiday party or what you re thankful for in the holiday party you should be doing this week?
00:00:00.000There are two major problems with the notion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.
00:00:05.000The first is the inherent discrimination in the concept, the belief that all aspects of success are due to exploitation and discrimination.
00:00:13.000This means that when applied to groups, statistically underperforming groups are to be considered victimized, whether or not they are victims, and to be treated with special privileges.
00:00:21.000Those who are members of statistically overachieving groups, whether or not they are victimized, are to be treated as villains.
00:00:27.000The only possible exception to this hierarchy is white men, who are always to be treated as villains, whether their group is underperforming or overperforming in any given situation.
00:00:35.000This philosophy is how you get a holiday party for electeds of color, thrown by Asian Boston Mayor, Michelle Wu.
00:00:41.000Apparently, this electeds of color party has been a thing for a decade in Boston.
00:00:48.000Members of the Boston City Council received an email invitation to what's called a gathering of electeds of color.
00:00:55.000Not all members of the council fit that description.
00:00:59.000I think we've had individual conversations with everyone so people understand that it was truly just an honest mistake that went out in typing the email field and I look forward to celebrating with everyone at the holiday parties that we will have besides this one as well.
00:01:16.000So it is my intention that we can again be a city that lives our values and creates space for all kinds of communities to come together.
00:01:26.000Living your values requires segregated parties.
00:01:29.000This is obviously discriminatory and wrong.
00:01:31.000If there were a white elected-only party, of course that would be violative of federal discrimination law.
00:01:35.000But DEI insists that you cannot be wrong so long as you're a member of the victimhood hierarchy.
00:01:47.000If success is to be treated as sinful, and failure as virtuous, because victimhood is virtue, then mediocrity is the happy middle, where you can avoid being completely terrible at things, but also escape censure for being actually good at them.
00:01:59.000So it is in academia, where racially diverse mediocrity is preferable to non-race-based meritocratic achievement.
00:02:05.000See, for example, Harvard, where President Claudine Gay, despite apparently being both a serial plagiarist and a soft-on anti-Semitism leader, is still in her job.
00:02:13.000Or see Chicago, where Mayor Brandon Johnson, the even worse successor to Lori Lightfoot, announced his plans this week to kill Chicago's high-achieving selective enrollment schools, since they weren't racially diverse enough.
00:02:24.000Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez has put forth a resolution seeking, quote, a transition away from privatization and admissions enrollment policies and approaches that further stratification and inequity in CPS and drive student enrollment away from neighborhood schools.
00:02:39.000Better that high-achieving students be trapped in the crappy local school than they be able to go to a better school.
00:02:46.000And so it is at the White House, too, where equity prevails above all.
00:02:51.000Now, when the Biden White House promised that equity would be at the heart of all they do, they meant it, which presumably is why Dr. Joe Biden, the greatest of all mediocrities, She's a doctor, guys.
00:03:00.000The most doctor-ish doctor who ever doctored.
00:03:03.000She invited the Dorrance Dance Company to perform a version of the Nutcracker Ballet at the White House.
00:03:08.000Now, there's nothing wrong with the concept here.
00:03:09.000The Nutcracker, written by Tchaikovsky, is a famous Christmastime piece of culture, and tap dance is a historically Black American art form with a long and storied Hollywood history.
00:03:19.000Many, if not most, of the greatest tap artists in history have been Black Americans, from the Nicholas Brothers to Bill Bojangles Robinson to Gregory Hines.
00:03:25.000In fact, here's some tape of what truly amazing TAP looks like.
00:03:28.000like this, the Nicholas brothers from Stormy Weather in 1943.
00:03:30.000There's a lot of people who are going to be watching this. So, I'm going to be doing
00:03:37.000a little bit of that. I mean, this is the good stuff right here, right?
00:04:05.000Okay, now, of course, like most of the amazing stuff in America, TAP has been adopted by people of all cultures.
00:04:10.000That's how you end up with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, two of the great American artists of all time.
00:04:15.000So there was plenty of history and quality for the Biden White House to choose from in picking their Christmas TAP routine.
00:04:20.000Well, what the White House presented wasn't good TAP.
00:05:33.000Quote, it is our job to tell the history of tap dance as a celebration of black culture and also the never-ending struggle against systematic racism and white supremacy in this country.
00:05:43.000The origin story of appropriation in American culture In 2020, says Michelle Dorans, I'm part of the way this story plays out.
00:05:50.000I'm a white tap dancer with black cultural ancestors in a society that privileges white people and whiteness.
00:05:57.000I am easy for white audiences wanting to access and experience elements of black culture to swallow.
00:06:02.000As though Americans are supremely opposed to black tap dancers, which, um, no.
00:06:07.000Doranz says that tap dance is, quote, both a tradition born of subversion, revolution, and protest, and a powerful vehicle for social and political change, and adds that as a beneficiary of white privilege, I invite you to join me in lifelong anti-racism work.
00:06:22.000Understanding how deeply embedded white supremacy, racism, and colonialism is in our culture is paramount to understanding our role as white people in perpetuating it and embracing our job to dismantle it.
00:06:34.000Or, you know, you could just dance and do like a good dance routine.
00:06:39.000Because here's the reality of a free country.
00:06:41.000Equality improves everyone and everything.
00:06:44.000All the black tap artists I mentioned before did more for racial comedy and black Americans than Michelle Dorrance ever will.
00:06:49.000Because they demonstrated to anyone who would even idiotically think that race ought to define somebody.
00:06:54.000That incredible artistry spans race, transcends it.
00:06:58.000But here's the thing, when DEI is your goal, mediocrity all too often is the result.
00:07:03.000In just one second, We'll get to a fascinating cultural story about the beheading of a satanic statue.
00:08:15.000With Helix, better sleep starts right now.
00:08:17.000Okay, meanwhile, over in Iowa, fascinating story.
00:08:22.000Apparently, there was a satanic temple display inside the Iowa State Capitol, and it was destroyed by a person named Michael Cassidy, 35.
00:08:31.000He was then charged, he turned himself in, with fourth-degree criminal mischief.
00:08:35.000In a text message to Fox News Digital, Cassidy confirmed he tore down the satanic display, which was erected last week by the Satanic Temple of Iowa to represent the group's right to religious freedom.
00:08:44.000Cassidy said it was extremely anti-Christian.
00:08:47.000Cassidy had previously run an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2022.
00:08:51.000He didn't elaborate on why he tore the statue down, but he posted a Bible verse on Thursday night to X after being charged.
00:08:57.000Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about
00:09:09.000The group wrote, we ask that for safety.
00:09:10.000Visitors travel together and use the seven tenets as a reminder for empathy and the knowledge that justice is being pursued the correct way through legal means.
00:09:19.000The Iowa Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, condemned the display's presence, but she said it should be countered with more speech.
00:09:23.000She said, like many Iowans, I find the satanic temples display in the Capitol absolutely objectionable.
00:09:28.000In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech.
00:09:31.000I encourage all those of faith to join me today in praying over the Capitol and recognizing the nativity scene that will be on display the true reason for the season.
00:09:38.000The co-founder of the Satanic Temple, a person named Lucian Graves, had previously told local media that the display would be up for two weeks.
00:11:17.000Because the law is supposed to protect private property.
00:11:20.000Okay, but that raises the question as to why the law does that.
00:11:23.000So, you see Kim Reynolds there say that this is protected speech, that putting up a satanic display at the state capitol, sponsored by the state, presumably, is some form of freedom of speech.
00:11:34.000And that really does require us to ask a specific question, a question that we have not asked in a long time in this country, which is, what is a legitimate religion?
00:11:43.000Not all religions are actually religions.
00:11:45.000Satanism is a perfect example of a non-religion.
00:11:47.000It is an ideology masquerading as a religion.
00:11:50.000And if you view the satanic website, they openly say things like, we don't worship, we don't even believe there is a thing called Satan.
00:11:56.000It's not like we're actually worshiping a godlike being known as, we don't even believe in God.
00:12:03.000So what it really is, is just a political agenda pretending that it's a religious agenda.
00:12:07.000So to pretend that this is religious speech is obviously not true.
00:12:11.000In fact, if you go back to the founding, there's no way that the founding fathers, under the rubric of freedom of religion, would have included anyone who calls themselves a religion.
00:12:19.000In fact, the IRS does this all the time.
00:12:20.000There are certain cult-like groups that try to declare themselves a religion.
00:12:24.000The IRS will be like, no, you're not a religion.
00:12:26.000Which means you don't have freedom of religion rights in the same way that, say, a nativity scene at a Capitol building would, or Hanukkah menorah at a Capitol building would.
00:12:37.000So, again, legally speaking, this kind of bizarre libertarian notion that has been picked up on by a lot of Republicans, that it's just an aspect of freedom of religion to put up a satanic display at a state capitol, there's really not a lot of legal backing to support that idea.
00:12:49.000There's a good piece by a lawyer named Frank DeVito over at the American Conservative a few months back, in which he talks specifically about this.
00:12:57.000He is currently an attorney serving as counsel at the Napa Legal Institute, and he writes about this.
00:13:02.000He says there was an uproar last week when a school district in my neck of the woods approved an after-school Satan Club.
00:13:07.000After proper chaos ensued, the school district did the right thing and reconsidered deciding they should not approve a club for children sponsored by the Satanic Temple after all.
00:13:15.000American conservatives have been so shaped by libertarian arguments for absolute personal freedom, the point has come where they wonder whether Satanism is part of the tradition protected by the U.S.
00:13:23.000Something must be done to take back this obvious ground.
00:13:27.000And he points out that there's very little case law on the specific issue of whether Satanism is a protected religion.
00:13:32.000What we do have is a little bit jumbled.
00:13:34.000But the point is that since the Constitution does not define religion, the court then turns to case law for guidance.
00:13:39.000But the early Supreme Court defined religion in traditionally theistic terms.
00:13:44.000In other words, you know, believing in God.
00:13:46.000Not an atheistic, anti-Christian, non-religion, pretending to be a religion for purposes of putting up a satanic display next to a nativity scene, which is the purpose of what the satanic temple is doing here.
00:13:56.000That's exactly the purpose of what the satanic temple is doing here.
00:13:59.000The founders never would have considered this an aspect of freedom of religion.
00:14:04.000In fact, it was only in 2019 that the IRS even declared that the satanic temple was a tax-exempt church.
00:14:10.000That was under Donald Trump, by the way, a point that Ron DeSantis was making.
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00:15:18.000Well, again, as Frank DeVito points out here, it's not merely that the Founders would never have considered a religion of Satanism to be protected by the First Amendment freedom of religion.
00:15:28.000It turns out that, as pointed out in an article at Harvard Law Review a few years back, the black letter rule in American law was clear.
00:15:35.000Constitutional liberty entailed a right to articulate views on religion, but not even a right to commit blasphemy.
00:15:39.000The offense of maliciously reviling God, which encompassed profane ridicule of Christ, Laws like this were compatible with the free exercise of religion.
00:15:50.000As this lawyer points out, throughout the nation's history, even into the 20th century, the federal courts have consistently upheld state anti-blasphemy laws as constitutional.
00:15:58.000There is no binding precedent stating that anti-blasphemy laws even violate the First Amendment.
00:16:02.000And this is where what you claim is a religion actually matters.
00:16:06.000Because then, if you look at the Church of Satan website or the Wikipedia page, it's not just that they revile and ridicule Christ, they don't even believe, it's not a religion.
00:16:13.000It's not, there's nothing there that says religion.
00:16:15.000It is an anti-Christ political program that is masquerading as a religion.
00:16:20.000Again, we've talked about it on the show before, when you look at the Satanic Temple website, they don't actually believe in Satan.
00:16:27.000I mean, because that would be to believe in God.
00:16:30.000In order to believe in Satan, presumably you have to believe in the supernatural.
00:16:33.000They don't actually believe in any of that.
00:16:36.000They say with unfortunate regularity, the Satanic Temple is confused with an earlier organization, the Church of Satan.
00:16:41.000The Church of Satan expresses vehement opposition to the campaigns and activities of the Satanic Temple.
00:16:47.000But what they actually say is that they don't actually believe.
00:18:13.000It's just a bunch of secularists who are like, oh, what if we just like slap a symbol on top of this thing and then we put it up next to the nativity scene so that we can laugh at Jesus?
00:19:34.000Whether my Chanukah is even in the remote proximity of a nativity scene.
00:19:38.000But the entire point of the Satanic Temple is to put their thing right next to the nativity scene in order to mock Christianity.
00:19:44.000That's what it's all about in the first place.
00:19:45.000So hopefully this thing gets adjudicated.
00:19:47.000I would love to see the Supreme Court actually take on a pretty thorny and interesting question as to whether it counts as a religion if you just create an anti-Christian thing and then call it a religion.
00:21:28.000Freedom of practice of religion would require that the state capitol include different religions in the state capitol according to current Supreme Court law.
00:24:18.000But again, failures to make any of these distinctions, all of that has led to this kind of mushy libertarianism in which we're all supposed to pretend that immorality is somehow morality.
00:24:30.000It's led to the conflation also between a legal right, as I said at the very beginning, and a moral right.
00:24:37.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest On Israel, where it turns out that terrorists, they really like killing people who are not actually just in Israel first.
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00:26:29.000And now, by the way, they're attempting, hilariously enough, to Push themselves into the Palestine Liberation Organization so as to quote-unquote moderate themselves by pretending that they are willing to accept the existence of the State of Israel, which of course they are not.
00:26:42.000That is the reason why they slaughtered people in the Gaza envelope, which has been part of the State of Israel since inception.
00:26:47.000In any case, they, yesterday, were uncovered.
00:26:53.000Because I noticed the Gaza conflict spilling over beyond the Middle East when hundreds of thousands of supporters of Hamas were marching in the streets of London.
00:26:59.000That's when I noticed it first, actually.
00:27:00.000The first suggestion, the Gaza conflict might be spilling over beyond the Middle East.
00:27:24.000The weapons were to be brought to Berlin until they could be used in a possible attack against Jewish institutions in Europe.
00:27:30.000Security officials say the group has long been active in Europe, but so far, they say it's been mostly a logistical base and source of financing, rather than a possible terror target.
00:27:39.000In October, a man identified as a Lebanese-born Abdel Hamid Al-Ayeh and two accomplices, An Egyptian national and a Dutch national began traveling from Berlin across the region to gather weapons, assisted by a third man identified as a Lebanese-born terrorist, according to the German prosecutor.
00:27:55.000The four were long-standing Hamas members who had already participated in foreign operations for the group.
00:28:36.000It's been true, really, since the 1960s and 1970s.
00:28:40.000Terrorists in the region use whatever levers of power they have in order to try to intimidate the West into going hands-off in this particular region of the world, despite the fact that the West has tremendously heavy economic interests in this particular region of the world, and also some moral interests in, you know, defending the only diverse democracy in the entire region.
00:28:58.000Meanwhile, even as Hamas is pushing terror attacks abroad, the White House continues to send bizarre signals to the Israelis.
00:29:17.000And the reason that's going to happen is because Hamas is not just a terror group.
00:29:20.000They have networks of terror sympathizers throughout the Gaza Strip.
00:29:24.000Hamas currently enjoys a 57, 57, 52% approval rating in Gaza, which has been completely wrecked because of Hamas.
00:29:34.000And in fact, the approval rating for Hamas in the West Bank, which is the place that's supposed to be governed by the Palestinian Authority, right?
00:29:41.000The vaunted PA that the Biden White House wants to see in charge of the Gaza Strip.
00:29:47.000In fact, Palestinians in the West Bank are highly supportive of Hamas to the tune of 80 plus percent by every available poll.
00:29:54.000So this notion that Israel is somehow going to acquiesce to a quote-unquote two-state solution with the very people who perpetrated October 7th and their sympathizers, that's insane.
00:30:03.000What's even more insane is the idea that Israel is going to hurry up in order to slow down.
00:30:07.000So Israel is currently hurrying up operations in an attempt to comply with White House diktats, which means more Israeli soldiers are getting killed.
00:30:14.000The number of Israeli soldiers who are getting killed day on day is rising specifically because the White House is telling the Israelis to hurry up.
00:30:21.000That's why Israel is having to rush its operations as opposed to going slower.
00:30:25.000And meanwhile, the stuff they could be doing to minimize their own deaths, they have not been doing, because again, they don't want the bad headlines coming out of the Gaza Strip.
00:30:33.000So instead, they are sending their own men and women into harm's way, going house by house and tunnel by tunnel, as opposed to using their complete air superiority in areas that already should have been clear of civilians two months ago.
00:30:45.000Nonetheless, Jake Sullivan apparently told Israel that their war needs to, quote, transition to the next lower intensity phase in a matter of weeks, not months.
00:30:52.000Well, I'm sure if he has a plan, Israel's willing to hear it.
00:30:54.000If he's got a magic laser up in the sky, maybe he could lend it to the Jews.
00:30:59.000This kind of stupidity about war, where you got Jake Sullivan dictating military timetables in the middle of an operation is totally crazy.
00:31:08.000And by the way, it's dumb when American politicians do it to our own military.
00:31:12.000We used to do it in Iraq and Afghanistan regularly.
00:31:13.000We'd have Barack Obama sitting at the top of the American government doing things like, sure, we'll surge in Afghanistan, but then we have an arbitrary deadline by which we have to pull back the surge and we'll announce it at the time.
00:31:23.000Meanwhile, the military officials are like, what the?
00:31:26.000It is truly incredible how many civilian officials seem to think that they can dictate magical timelines to a military that is on the ground fighting.
00:31:34.000That's particularly true when you're talking about a military that is not under American control.
00:31:38.000Israel has its own rather powerful military.
00:31:42.000According to Axios, National Security Advisor Sullivan made clear in all meetings, the high intensity kinetic campaign needed to transition to the next lower intensity phase in a matter of weeks, not months.
00:32:02.000Israel is going to kill as many terrorists and people who are members of that terror network as they need to in order to ensure their future.
00:32:09.000Israel has no interest in killing civilians.
00:32:12.000They are not interested in doing that.
00:32:14.000Hamas is hiding behind... In fact, not only is Hamas hiding behind civilians, just to show what Hamas is, Hamas apparently is literally taking dolls, like baby dolls, and they are connecting them to tape recorders with recorded cries of children and then connecting those to IEDs.
00:32:28.000So when Israeli soldiers go to try and save the doll, they blow up.
00:32:32.000This is something that Hamas is doing literally right now.
00:32:37.000Meanwhile, John Kirby, over at the National Security Advisory, he said that Sullivan asked hard questions about what the next phase is going to look like.
00:32:45.000And he said it has to take as long as they feel it needs in order to eliminate this threat.
00:32:49.000We all want this to be over as soon as possible.
00:32:51.000The last thing we want to do is telegraph to Hamas what they're going to face in the next weeks and months.
00:32:54.000Well, that is a, again, Kirby has been way better on this than Jake Sullivan and Obama holdover with tremendously stupid ideas about how the Middle East actually works.
00:33:03.000Meanwhile, Israel is going to have to move up north.
00:33:05.000Everybody knows they're going to have to move up north.
00:33:08.000They're going to have to take on Hezbollah in the north because Hezbollah again has 200,000 rockets pointed not only at the north of Israel but all over Israel.
00:33:15.000Israel has already moved 30,000 citizens off the border.
00:33:17.000They've been out of their homes for full-on two months at this point.
00:33:21.000What is truly amazing is to see the propagandists at work against Israel with regard to the so-called two-state solution.
00:33:30.000There are people who very often, I think, do fine on cable TV, do a decent job on cable TV.
00:33:34.000And they'll say things like, I wish Israel would end the blockade and occupation of Gaza.
00:33:38.000Israel ended the occupation of Gaza in 2005.
00:33:40.000The only reason they left a blockade in place is because Hamas took over.
00:33:45.000And if they had not had a blockade, Hamas would have been shipping in nothing but weaponry from Turkey.
00:33:51.000Israel tried the whole two-state solution thing by basically handing over the Gaza Strip to a terror group and they got October 7th and rocket attacks every five minutes.
00:33:59.000There are people in Israel who have to live underground for like weeks at a time because of the rocket attacks.
00:34:04.000Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Israel tried for 30 years to hand over the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority.
00:34:11.000They had peace deals that were rejected in 94, 2000, 2001, 2008.
00:34:12.000In 94, 2000, 2001, 2008, all of those peace deals walked away from by the Palestinian Authority.
00:34:21.000And meanwhile, you have people who keep mouthing these platitudes about the two-state solution.
00:34:41.000Israelis have been desperately attempting to hand control over Palestinian-Arab areas to Palestinian-Arab leadership for decades at this point, and no one will take them.
00:34:53.000Palestinian leadership won't take them because they would prefer to continue to promote the idea that they are going to destroy Tel Aviv and take it.
00:35:06.000They say things like two-state solution as though it's self-manifesting.
00:35:08.000Like if you say it enough times, Beetlejuice appears.
00:35:11.000If you just say two-state solution often enough, a moderate Arab leader, Anwar al-Sadat, appears and magically makes peace.
00:35:18.000Or, alternatively, the Palestinians are extremely pro-terror by every available poll.
00:35:23.000The networks of terror run incredibly deep.
00:35:25.000The educational system in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip promotes the murder of Jews and does since the time that Palestinian youngsters are incredibly young.
00:35:34.000But if you say two-state solution, apparently, this makes you magically Immune from criticism?
00:35:40.000And if you say no two-state solution because it's absolutely irrelevant and stupid to talk about a two-state solution when one of the parties to the quote-unquote solution does not exist, then of course you're bad.
00:35:50.000This is the ridiculous game you see being played by the media.
00:35:53.000So yesterday on Sky News, here was the Israeli ambassador to the UK.
00:35:58.000Is there still a chance for a two-state solution?
00:36:00.000I think it's about time for the world to realise the Oslo paradigm failed on the 7th of October and we need to build a new one.
00:36:07.000And in order to build a new one... But does that new one include the Palestinians living in a state of their own?
00:37:03.000Of course she's correct, of course she's correct.
00:37:04.000By the way, Jordan was in control of the West Bank from 1948 to 1967, and not once did they discuss the possibility of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank.
00:37:12.000Egypt was in control of the Gaza Strip from 1948 to 1967.
00:37:16.000At no point did they discuss the possibility of an independent Palestinian state.
00:37:28.000Where else in the world, honest to God, where else in the world is there an open actual call for the creation of a state everyone knows will be a terror state?
00:38:10.000It was put forth by people like Shimon Peres, who was completely delusional about the way the world actually works.
00:38:15.000He was actually a believer at the time that borders would disappear in the Middle East.
00:38:18.000He was a believer in the idea that there would be a giant confederation of Jews and Arabs in the Middle East that would be completely peaceful because economics would overtake everything else.
00:40:04.000The reason the Egyptians won't let the Palestinians into the Sinai Desert is not because they are deeply worried about Palestinian rights in Jabalia.
00:40:12.000It's because they are worried about Palestinian people who are radicalized inside their own borders.
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00:42:02.000Also this Sunday, a new episode of The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special drops.
00:42:06.000Our guest, Tim Kennedy, distinguished Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner.
00:42:09.000In this episode, we'll not only honor Tim's military achievements, also confront some hard truths he's encountered in war zones and at our southern border.
00:42:16.000Here's a little bit of what it looks like.
00:42:19.000I have a journal here that every time I traveled overseas, um, I would write what was happening and what I felt.
00:42:28.000I said, I find this sad, pathetic, but ironic.
00:42:32.000Not only a few nights ago, did we track down and kill a man as he ran home trying to avoid us, maybe to survive, maybe just to live another day.
00:42:41.000And there his wife and his children saw him die.
00:43:21.000Meanwhile, over at Harvard University, things continue to be very, very rough.
00:43:25.000So, Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, she's the one, you'll remember, who actually went in front of Congress and said that it depends on context whether calling for genocide of Jews is violative of Harvard policy.
00:43:35.000Well, she actually attended a menorah lighting in an attempt to cover for her own idiocy and anti-Semitic fellow traveling.
00:43:44.000This menorah lighting was supposed to be a great moment for showing solidarity with the Jewish community.
00:43:50.000I know everybody at Harvard really well.
00:43:51.000I went to Harvard Law between 2004 and 2007.
00:43:53.000One of the people I know pretty well over there is Rabbi Hershey Zarchi.
00:43:56.000He is the Chabad Rabbi over at Harvard.
00:44:00.000I've known Rabbi Zarchi for, as I say, nigh on 20 years at this point.
00:44:05.000Rabbi Zarchi is not a particularly political actor, like, at all.
00:44:08.000He tries to stay strenuously apolitical.
00:44:11.000That's what Chabad, by the way, tends to do, wherever they are, because Chabad's entire goal is simply to bring Jews into more religious practice.
00:44:18.000Which is why you'll be walking around a city street and you'll see, like, a Chabad rabbi with a pair of tefillin, right, with phylacteries, offering to Jews to help them wrap tefillin.
00:45:16.000Some students feel they have to remove anything about their physical appearance that suggests that they're a target.
00:45:22.000We have work to do, friends, and we're delighted to have President Gay with us.
00:45:28.000But it's my hope, and I know I speak for everyone here, that we can work together with you and your dedication to be, as we saw recently in the email, you were referred to as our president.
00:45:44.000We in the Jewish community are longing for a day that we could refer to the president and all of Harvard as ours, too.
00:45:51.000Harvard indeed not only has our back, and not only allows us to finally put up a menorah, but doesn't force us to hide it at night.
00:46:01.000By the way, this is a problem all over the United States, not just on campuses.
00:46:04.000Apparently, according to Breitbart, a menorah set up for Hanukkah at Oakland's Lake Merritt in the heart of the city was vandalized early on Wednesday, leading to condemnation by local officials.
00:46:12.000Oakland Mayor Sheng Tao, who had participated in the menorah lighting ceremony at the site just days before, issued a statement blasting the desecration and act of vandalism, which appeared to be a blatant act of anti-Semitism.
00:46:22.000Graffiti at the site read, your org is dying.
00:46:26.000Parts of the menorah were thrown into the lake.
00:46:30.000Again, they were strewn on the sidewalk near 12th Street and Lake Merritt Boulevard.
00:46:33.000And this, of course, follows hard on the news that a teen was arrested and charged with planning a mass shooting at an Ohio synagogue recently.
00:46:40.000According to local NBC affiliate 3 News, They obtained the documents from a Stark County Court official.
00:46:45.000It showed the teen has been charged with two misdemeanors, including inducing panic and disorderly conduct.
00:46:50.000Apparently, this person did create a detailed plan to complete a mass shooting at the Temple Israel on the Discord platform, which was reported to law enforcement and required an immediate investigatory response and notification of public officials.
00:47:01.000This particular antisemitic incident predates the October 7th attacks by Hamas, but these are the conditions under which a lot of Jews across the country are living.
00:47:10.000There's a reason why Jewish gun ownership is going up wildly, and it should.
00:47:14.000Every law-abiding citizen who knows how to defend him or herself should own a gun, and this is the reason why.
00:47:19.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest On Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, the polls continue to be very bad for the President of the United States first.
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00:48:06.000Meanwhile, the polls are showing that Joe Biden continues to trail in every single battleground.
00:48:11.000According to Mediaite, a new round of polling in seven key swing states bodes poorly for President Biden, indicating he trails Donald Trump in every single one.
00:48:32.000Very, very bad numbers for Joe Biden, because again, all of the focus right now is on Joe Biden.
00:48:36.000Now, the Biden administration is hoping that the Federal Reserve is going to save Joe Biden.
00:48:41.000That by bringing down the inflation rate, they're going to be able to basically bring down the interest rates several times next year, loosening up the economy and leading to a feeling of prosperity in the United States.
00:48:51.000Corinne Jean-Pierre, she was out yesterday saying that Bidenomics is working because the stock market is at record highs.
00:48:58.000Look, as it relates to bionomics, the President, I just announced at the top of the briefing, he's going to go to Milwaukee.
00:49:02.000He's going to talk about bionomics, investing in America, what bionomics has done for the American people coming out of the pandemic.
00:49:09.000We can't forget what happened when the President walked in.
00:49:12.000We saw a, literally, the economy at a tailspin.
00:49:16.000And the data shows, as you just mentioned in your question, Inflation is moderating.
00:49:21.000You see jobs created at more than 14 million jobs.
00:49:26.000All of those things is part of Bidenomics, and you will certainly hear the President talk more about that.
00:49:32.000Well, the president can talk about it however much he wants.
00:49:35.000The bottom line is that consumers right now are still spending because, again, they have that inflated money in their pocket and they realize that the inflation is cooked into the books.
00:49:43.000It takes a little while for people to realize that inflation has actually moderated, especially when inflation is still running at three plus percent, as opposed to two percent, which was the Fed's target rate.
00:49:54.000The real problem here is that when you look at things like the stock market, corporate earnings are not actually keeping up with the stock market.
00:50:00.000Right now, people are invested in the stock market at very high rates because the currency is inflated.
00:50:04.000When the currency is inflated, you stop investing in bonds and you start investing in stocks.
00:50:07.000Well now, it appears that the bond prices are going up because we're not going to be raising interest rates anytime in the near future.
00:50:24.000Those would be the price-earnings ratios.
00:50:27.000Those price-earnings ratios are really, really high.
00:50:29.000So Benjamin Graham, the famed investor, who is sort of the intellectual godfather of Warren Buffett, he sought price-earnings ratios around 15 times.
00:50:37.000that the price of the company should be a multiple of its earnings by about 15,
00:50:42.000but no higher than that. Well, right now, the so-called Magnificent Seven,
00:50:45.000which are the companies that are basically driving all of the growth in the stock market
00:50:50.000or a huge percentage of the growth in the stock market, these would be companies like Nvidia,
00:51:01.000Those companies are up around 70% year-to-date.
00:51:04.000If you took them out of the S&P 500, the index would be up around 6%, as opposed to the eye-popping gains that you are seeing in the broader stock market indices.
00:51:12.000The S&P 500 is up more than 21% so far this year.
00:51:15.000If you took out those seven companies, it's up 6%.