Ep. 1671 - Criminal Alien Hotels？ $59 Million WASTED Per Week
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Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that Joe Biden s administration was not using FEMA funds to house illegal immigrants in fancy hotels in New York City. But that's not exactly true. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of what the Daily Caller has uncovered in the last 24 hours.
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Hey, do you remember four months ago when White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
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insisted that Joe Biden had not been spending FEMA disaster relief money
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Former President Trump is accusing the Biden administration of using FEMA funding
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False, categorically false, not true, false statement, opposite of the truth, not right.
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Well, Elon's Department of Government Efficiency just discovered a $59 million FEMA payment
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last week to house illegals in luxury hotels in New York City.
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FEMA could not find the money to help out hurricane victims in North Carolina.
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Maybe a $700 check here or there, maybe if the American citizens were lucky.
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But $59 million in one week to put fighting age male economic migrants up at the Roosevelt Hotel
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That is just the tip of the iceberg of what Elon has dug up in our crooked federal government
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According to the Daily Caller White House correspondent, Reagan Rees, has the scoop that
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Doge found $900 million of wasteful contracts at the Department of Education.
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$900 million across 90 wasteful contracts from the Institute of Education Sciences.
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At the Department of Education, an administration official is telling this to Daily Caller.
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The contracts they found were not directly funding student score improvement, which is
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the whole purpose of the Department of Education.
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$1.5 million, just for example, went to a contractor to, quote, observe mailing and clerical
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operations at the U.S. Census Bureau's National Processing Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
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The contractor was tasked with securing and handling logistic support of an external expert
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That's like a made-up job for a made-up job for a made-up job for a made-up department
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at an agency of the government that should not exist.
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Back in the 1880s, in 1883, there was the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
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This was signed into law by President Chester Allen Arthur.
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Chester A. Arthur, a great president in many ways.
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I actually have a PragerU video on Chester Arthur because no one remembers him anymore.
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But he was this crooked New York politician who never really wanted to be president.
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He accepted the vice presidency so he could dole out patronage jobs to his friends because
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he was one of the kings of the patronage system in New York.
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And then James Garfield died shortly after being inaugurated president, and Chester Arthur
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But oddly enough, through a correspondence with this woman in New York, he came to realize
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that he had squandered a lot of his life and his political opportunity.
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And he grew into the role as president, and he did not just dole out patronage jobs.
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The purpose of that reform was to turn the bureaucracy from just a little handout to your
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political friends when you won an election, to a merit-based system to make the government
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And that's what we have been told for decades, now well over a century, the civil service is.
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Except what we just found out, thanks to Elon Musk and Doge, is actually it's become a patronage
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The irony is that people were warning that when Trump and Elon were going to go in and reform
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the way that the government works, that they were going to compromise our dignified civil
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service, which is based on merit and is nonpartisan, and they were going to turn it into a spoils
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Just naturally, what had happened over the century and a half since civil service reform is, it
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just kind of reverted back to a patronage system.
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And we're finding out that there is so much more waste in the government than even the
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So Democrats, if they're of good faith here and they're being really honest with themselves,
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Because Democrats are the ones who supposedly want a merit-based civil service that is not merely
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a way to give handouts to your political cronies, right?
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If the Democrats are opposing this reform, if they oppose Doge, as they are, it must be
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because the Democrats want to maintain the machine.
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Because the Democrats, in fact, rely upon this patronage machine to advance their interests.
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And the minute you get rid of an agency like USAID, which is a feedback loop funding liberal
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activism, not just around the world, but even in America, the example I was pointing out last
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The IRS dishes them out to the federal government.
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The federal government appropriates it to USAID.
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BLM burns your city down, kills your neighbors, loots your local footlocker, demands that your
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corporations and politicians further shake them down by the ankles and send more money to the
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government to go to USAID, to go to the Tides Center, to go to BLM, and it's this feedback
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It's even here, though, within the Department of Education.
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Then your other money goes to the Department of Education, and that money just goes to the
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deputy assistant, deputy director of finding experts for mail-out operations for the U.S.
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Census Bureau's education initiative or whatever.
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Pay close attention to the people who are opposing this reform.
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Now, while we're talking about big numbers, it's a smaller number than 900 million, but
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That number represents the number of files pertaining to the JFK assassination that have
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just been discovered by our federal government.
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We're 60 years now after the JFK assassination?
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Just now, we've just discovered, the FBI just must have looked behind a bookshelf or something,
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found 2,400 records tied to Kennedy's assassination that were never provided to the
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So Trump, in his first term, was going to declassify the JFK assassination files.
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This follows decades of American official policy being the release of the JFK files.
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They were supposed to be released back in like 1992, and then the government just kept putting
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it off saying, no, this would compromise national security, it would compromise sources and
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methods, it would compromise people who were still alive, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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They kept kicking the can down the road for decades.
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Trump gets in there, he's a real shaker, mover and a shaker.
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He says he's going to do it, but even he doesn't release all of them.
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Second term, especially because he has Bobby Kennedy working for him now, he says, okay,
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We're finally going to release all the records.
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And this is evidence that I guess maybe they will, since the FBI is now admitting, okay,
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well, actually, we do have thousands more records that people didn't even really know about.
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Why are people so fascinated with the assassination of JFK?
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People are really, they're not as fascinated with the assassination of Garfield, the president
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I was just talking about, or I don't know, McKinley, or I don't know, why him?
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There's a modern mythology that's cropped up that Kennedy was this great president and he
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Kennedy was not really a good president at all.
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I fail to see any evidence that he was even a competent president.
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He invited the Cuban Missile Crisis because he didn't know how to manage Turkey.
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He presided over the construction of the Berlin Wall, which Khrushchev admitted he built because
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So no, he wasn't president for that long and he didn't do a good job while he was president.
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The reason is because the JFK assassination coincides with almost precisely the moment that
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everything starts to go wrong in the country, that Americans start really deeply distrusting
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their institutions, that you have the Vietnam War, which Kennedy got us involved in, but
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You had all the tumult of the 1960s, which was in part caused by, was both the symptom
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You had the advent of the, not only the massive welfare state, but also a new system of racial
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You had the, not even just the racial strife, you had the sexual strife, radical feminism.
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It just kind of all fell apart in the 60s and we all know it.
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And it's represented by those wacko hippies who looked dirty and smelly and aimless.
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And that's kind of what our country became, dirty and smelly and aimless.
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We just didn't know, we didn't exercise a proper order or anything like that.
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So I think we're focused on that because we realized something broke here.
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And whether the break was caused by the Kennedy assassination, I don't really think so.
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Though it did lead people to distrust even further government institutions.
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In any case, we recognize something went really wrong here.
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Maybe we need to revisit that era to see if we can get back on the right path.
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Speaking of death, Ilhan Omar is accusing President Trump and specifically the state of Israel
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of planning for Gaza, not only an ethnic cleansing, but a genocide.
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That's just plain out ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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The Palestinian people will remain in Gaza, and there is no support around the world
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for the ludicrous suggestion that he is making.
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Well, he's saying give them a choice to leave, open the gates.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of the people in Gaza would love to remain in their homeland
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What Trump is talking about here with Israel is ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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I've gotten in trouble for pointing out that in this war between the state of Israel and
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Hamas, the Palestinian territories, the rational objective of both sides is the ethnic cleansing
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Okay, from the Palestinian side, they're quite open about it.
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They say from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free, which means at the very least,
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the complete wiping out of Jews from the state of Israel.
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And often when you hear Hamas and when you see Hamas act, they do go further beyond ethnic
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Okay, so that's from the Palestinian side of things.
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And then from the Israeli side, at the very least, the objective is the implicit ethnic cleansing
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It is an unacceptable security risk for the state of Israel, if the state of Israel is
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to continue to exist, to permit a Palestinian state or even a Palestinian territory in Gaza.
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In many ways that Gaza was an experiment in a Palestinian state.
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And the Palestinians failed because they elected Hamas.
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Now, I've gotten in trouble for saying that because you're not supposed to say it out loud.
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In any case, what Ilhan is saying here is ethnic cleansing and genocide are both totally evil
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And ethnic cleansing, that is the removal of certain peoples from territories, is deeply
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unpleasant, not the sort of thing that one generally pursues.
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But it has happened with the approval of the international community in relatively recent
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It involved the movement of millions of people, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs.
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Because when the British got out of India, they divided it into two states, a Muslim state,
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There were Muslims in the Hindu part, and there were Hindus in the Muslim part, and a lot of
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It happened with the approval of the international community.
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And some people would defend it today and say, actually, it was for the best.
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How about the expulsion of 14 to 16 million Germans, ethnic Germans, from Eastern Europe
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If you're going to whine and cry and, you know, rend your garments over ethnic cleansing,
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Way bigger than what we're talking about in Gaza.
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It just seems like these people, first of all, either intentionally or through ignorance.
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I think, though, the more charitable read and the more accurate read is that it's intentional.
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They're pretending that moving people out of territories is the same thing as genocide.
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And they would support certain ethnic cleanses.
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They would support certain forced movements of people out of territories, but not others.
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And they support them based on their own political convenience.
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The question that one has to ask here, I don't care if you love the state of Israel.
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I don't care if you are the biggest philo-semite or you hate the Jews or anything in between.
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Do you, at present, support the right of the state of Israel to exist?
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Maybe you don't agree with how the state of Israel was founded.
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Maybe you don't agree with the Balfour Declaration.
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Maybe you don't find the premises of Zionism persuasive.
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Maybe you don't agree with the religious or historical arguments.
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I don't really agree with the religious or historical arguments.
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As Christopher Hitchens pointed out, in his criticism of the founding of the state of Israel,
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plenty of states have been founded on dubious premises.
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The only question is, do you today support the existence of this nation that has been there for 80 years?
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If the answer is yes, then you have to take seriously the unacceptable security risk posed by Gaza.
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You have to take seriously the attack that took place on October 7, 2023.
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You have to take seriously the fact that the Palestinians elected Hamas.
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You can't defer back to, well, I don't agree with the founding of the state of Israel.
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So then I guess you support the ethnic cleansing on the other side, I guess.
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Now, having defended the state of Israel all that much, I want to take issue with the state of Israel.
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The Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, just made a very provocative statement on social media.
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He suggested that Norway, Ireland, and Spain, because they have accused Israel of genocide in Gaza,
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they are now obligated to receive the Gazans into their countries.
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They're obligated, or else they would be hypocrites.
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Israeli defense minister Israel Katz says this.
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I've instructed the IDF to prepare a plan that will allow any resident of Gaza who wishes to leave to do so to any country willing to receive them.
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Hamas has used the residents of Gaza as human shields, built its terror infrastructure in the heart of the civilian population, and now holds them hostage, extorting money from them through the humanitarian aid system and preventing their departure from Gaza.
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I want to point out there are two narratives that come out of Gaza that are contradictory.
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One is that the Gazan civilians are totally politically innocent, and they're just being held captive by the evil Hamas, which opposes their interests.
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The other narrative is that the Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas, and they broadly support Hamas, and that many civilians participated in the October 7th attack in 2023,
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and that Hamas faithfully represents the desires of the Gazan population.
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It would seem, from my layman's outsider perspective, it would seem that the latter better represents reality than the former.
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But in any case, the Israeli defense minister is advancing the former argument here, which is more flattering to the civilians of Gaza, though I'm not sure it's quite as accurate.
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The plan will include exit options via land crossings, as well as special arrangements for a departure by sea and air.
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Countries such as Spain, Ireland, Norway, and others, which have falsely accused Israel over its actions in Gaza, are legally obligated to allow Gazans to enter their territory.
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Their hypocrisy will be exposed if they refuse.
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Meanwhile, countries like Canada, which has a structured immigration program, have previously expressed willingness to take in residence from Gaza.
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The people of Gaza should have the right to freedom of movement and migration, as is customary everywhere in the world.
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We know, no Gazans to Europe, none to Canada, definitely none to Canada.
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The closer we get to America, the harder the no.
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The Israeli defense minister is making a little joke here, I think.
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And the joke is, look, you guys, Spain, Norway, Ireland, you have joined South Africa's case in the International Criminal Court against the state of Israel, accusing Israel of genocide.
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Well, if you really believe that the state of Israel is committing genocide, then you are obligated to take in Gazans.
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I don't know, maybe there are national laws in Norway, Ireland, and Spain that require this.
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I haven't found the exact treaty obligations that would require accepting these refugees.
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In fact, I think, broadly speaking, this seems like a non sequitur.
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It is perfectly possible for one to accuse a country of committing any number of crimes, up to and including genocide, and still not wish to take those victims into one's country, if one can instead just stop that country from committing the genocide.
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It does not follow that because one observes a country committing a genocide, and one does not wish immediately to take in the civilians as refugees, that one is a hypocrite.
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Now, of course, to be perfectly clear, I don't think that what Israel is doing constitutes a genocide.
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I do think that implicitly they wish for an ethnic cleansing, and I do think that that is what President Trump's policy, stated policy during that press conference with Netanyahu, represents.
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And I do think that the Palestinians certainly want an ethnic cleansing in the state of Israel, if not an outright genocide.
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But I don't think that what Israel is doing constitutes a genocide.
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And I agree, in fact, with the Israeli defense minister's frustration with these other nations that are accusing Israel of doing that.
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I don't support the cause of a Palestinian state.
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But I'll just give a little rhetorical advice to the defense minister of Israel.
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I don't think this little joke is going to land in Europe because the reality is Europe and Canada and the United States have taken in a lot of refugees because of the tumult in the Middle East in recent decades.
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As Israel is dealing with murders and stabbings and mass rapes and grooming gangs and all the rest of it and terror attacks and churches being burned to the ground.
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So if the state of Israel would like to maintain a little bit of international support, I would maybe cool it with the Don Rickles routine.
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And I would ground the state's defenses on what I think are perfectly legitimate defenses.
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The right to national existence as a nation state, the right to defend itself against unacceptable security risks, and the backing of the United States, which is necessary to Israel's plan.
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But these kind of non-sequitur, hyperbolic little jokes about taking in even more particularly zealous Muslim refugees, no thanks.
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You know, the kind of Muslim civilians who elect Hamas, yeah, no thanks.
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Now, speaking of migration, President Trump's Department of Justice has just dropped its corruption case against Eric Adams.
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Eric Adams, not a Republican, not a conservative, actually the Democrat mayor of New York.
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If you don't remember the timeline, let me refresh the timeline of this corruption case into Eric Adams.
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September 2023, Eric Adams says this in public.
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Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to.
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Now we're getting Russian speaking coming through Mexico.
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Now we're getting people from all over the globe have made their minds up that they're going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City.
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Two months later, the Biden administration launches a federal investigation into him.
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He's supposed to be a good, loyal Democrat, but he says, look, this illegal immigration, this open border from Biden and Harris, this is going to destroy New York City.
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Eric Adams actually had a meeting scheduled for the White House, at the White House, and the meeting had to be canceled because before the meeting could take place, there was a federal probe investigated into him.
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Would Eric Adams have had that federal corruption probe had he not criticized the Biden administration?
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It was over nonsense, like accepting seat upgrades on Turkish airlines.
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And so Trump now is instructing the DOJ, or rather the Trump DOJ, I guess on its own, is dropping the corruption case into him.
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When Trump remade the Republican Party, he lost some support among traditional Republicans.
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And you have to make that support up elsewhere.
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Well, now he's going to make it up with the Bobby Kennedys and the Tulsi Gabbards and the Eric Adamses.
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Now, speaking of Trump helping out politicians, Trump was just asked a really pointed question by Brett Baer.
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Do you view Vice President J.D. Vance as your successor, the Republican nominee in 2028?
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I mean, I don't think that it, you know, I think you have a lot of very capable people.
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But by the time you get to the midterms, he's going to be looking for an endorsement.
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Yeah, a lot of people have said that this has been the greatest opening, almost three weeks, in the history of the presidency.
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It's definitely been the fastest and the most stuff happening.
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We've done so much so fast, and we really had to because they have really, what they've done to our country is so sad.
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We're going to be bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
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Remember just yesterday I played a clip on this show.
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J.D. Vance said to rehire that guy at Doge who made the saucy social media posts.
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He said, huh, I haven't seen it, but what's the vice president say?
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So hold on, now is this a break between Trump and J.D. Vance?
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I think that answer is much less about J.D. Vance than it is about Trump and everyone else.
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One, Trump doesn't want to be seen as a lame duck.
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He doesn't want to be seen as getting involved in the next presidential race, now just a few weeks into his term.
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And, I mean, you know, as Norm MacDonald says, no River so long doesn't contain a ban.
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But if we had to bet, we would say he's term-limited.
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He doesn't want people thinking about the next presidential election.
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But two, Trump has a lot of good people on his team who might want to run for president themselves.
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He wants to keep them incentivized to do a good job.
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He doesn't want them out looking for the next gig.
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He doesn't want them trying to stab J.D. in the back.
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He doesn't want that court infighting to undermine his administration.
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So if you want to keep a Marco Rubio, for instance, doing a great job as secretary of state, on the team, really working hard,
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you need to at least dangle in front of Rubio the possibility that he could be the successor.
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This is true for a lot of people in the administration.
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You know, Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense now, very popular television host.
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Pete Hegseth is a legitimate presidential candidate if he wanted to be.
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You want to keep Pete Hegseth incentivized to be doing a good job at the Pentagon.
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You want, this is a little bit more about managing the administration.
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But Trump's going to keep his cards a little closer to his chest for now.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Hannah Groves243, who says,
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can you imagine getting fired for old social media posts,
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and then the vice president of the United States sticks up for you,
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Not just the vice, the vice president of the United States sticks up for you,
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That is, they should frame whatever those tweets were or whatever that got him in trouble.
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Trump's interview with Bret Baier before the Super Bowl
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also gave us a few more important insights into what Trump is thinking.
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For starters, on the potential annexation of America's evil top hat, Canada.
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The prime minister said this weekend to a group of Canadian businessmen,
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he was at a private meeting, he said that your wish for Canada to be the 51st state
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I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year
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with Canada, and I'm not going to let that happen.
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Why are we paying $200 billion a year essentially in subsidy to Canada?
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Now, if they're a 51st state, how am I doing it?
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Now, look, all right, look, maybe if you're a 51st state, we can work things out.
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Trump wants to expand the territory of the United States.
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He's already done that symbolically, effective yesterday, two days ago,
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which is to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
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It is a symbolic way to expand American territory.
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He clearly really wants Canada, or I'm sorry, really wants Greenland, and I think he wouldn't
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This is going to be described by the liberals as a break with the American tradition.
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Is there anything more American than territorial expansion?
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And even that, by the way, wasn't a break with the classical tradition.
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It's just a re-articulation, a little American spin on the classical concept of the translazio
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imperii, the expansion of the empire westward, actually, which was the notion originally of
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So it's very American, just like when people say, these mass deportations are un-American.
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We've had mass deportations in 1830, in 1919, in 1954.
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We deported a million people, over a million people in a single year, after the Mariel boat
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And we've had a lot of mass deportations, okay?
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Trump, I think, recognizes that not only would territorial expansion make him a consequential
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president, he's already a consequential president, but American greatness has historically been
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And so if you want to make America great again, territorial expansion, not Bush-era nation-building
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overseas, but in a way that wouldn't ever be imperial, and we're not going to take the
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oil, and we're not going to—don't forget, that was one of Trump's big criticisms of the
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So in part, his criticism of Bush's expansions was that they weren't imperial enough.
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Okay, and I think that's what he's getting at here.
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Now, speaking of Canada, what about the tariffs?
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What is Trump really thinking of with the tariffs?
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You immediately got action from both of them on border security and drug interdiction.
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That's because we let all these nations take advantage of us.
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So remember, Trump threatens the tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
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And he says, we're going to institute these because you're cheating us on trade and you're
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And then we get some concessions from Canada and Mexico.
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And Trump says, okay, I'm going to put a 30-day pause on the tariffs.
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And a lot of people predicted, okay, well, Trump got these concessions, so now he's going to
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But here you have Trump saying it wasn't good enough, which is probably a good thing to say
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because a lot of people were saying, well, he didn't really get that many concessions.
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But they already had a lot of troops on the border, so that doesn't do a lot.
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And, you know, Canada's going to appoint some director of fentanyl or whatever, but that's
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And so Trump is now coming out and saying, yeah, not good enough.
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Because the question with Trump on tariffs is, is he just using the tariffs as a negotiating
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That is to say, does Trump view tariffs as a good threat for freer trade, for the purpose
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Or does Trump view tariffs as good in themselves because they reshore American manufacturing,
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because they generate wealth in themselves, because America is so powerful, our economy
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Trump is now signaling, no, no, I want the, it's not that I'm threatening the tariffs, but
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Peter Navarro, I believe elsewhere has stated that this little tit for tat with Mexico and
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Canada, that's not even really part of the trade, the tariff policy.
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That's like the amuse-bouche to the entree of the actual tariffs.
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Final point that Trump makes in the Bret Baier interview.
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Bret Baier asks him about Trump doing the YMCA, everything dancing around at the end
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of his rallies and speeches, because it's a little, it's a little weird.
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I find it very charming, but it is a little odd.
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UFC fighters winning fights, NFL players doing the Trump dance.
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Did you ever think that was going to be a thing?
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I mean, we do these rallies, they've always been great, but they got really great.
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I try and walk off sometimes without dancing and I can't.
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I have to dance because it's just got something special about it.
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This is one of my favorite Trump answers I've ever heard.
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He says, look, I try to walk off stage without dancing and I can't do it.
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This is, I know I'm going to be, I'm going to be criticized for making this comparison.
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Listen, there are at least faint echoes here of King David dancing before the Lord.
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Trump is a guy who at least got some religion in a field in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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And I don't, in fact, I don't know how you don't get religion if you're in that field
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in Butler, Pennsylvania and a bullet hits your ear and you survive.
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And this guy, he just said, I just got to dance.
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That's kind of how I feel with these early weeks of the administration.
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I just think, this is, how could you be down, man?
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The vice president is giving to mystic philosophy lectures in Latin.
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How could you not dance in these early weeks of the administration?
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Now, speaking of entertainment, one last little story here I have to get to.
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Fox News, the News Corporation, I guess Fox in particular, is being reported as set to acquire
00:42:56.020
Now, Red Seat Ventures, most people have never heard of it.
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If you're in the podcasting space, you have heard of it.
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They are a podcasting company that white labels podcasts.
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They have major, major clients, and they do a very good job.
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Some of their clients include Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and I believe Bill O'Reilly, which
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means that Tucker is about to go work for Fox again.
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In a slightly distant way, not directly, but it means that Fox is acquiring two or I think
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three of its most prominent hosts ever, two of whom were fired by the company, one of whom
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left of her own accord, but who was a top-billed host.
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They're coming back in a certain way because Fox is making a major move into podcasts, which
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I think is the clearest evidence yet that the New York Times and the Washington Post actually
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were right when they observed that 2024 was the podcast election.
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And if people want to communicate in the future, they're going to be coming here increasingly.
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Tucker, Megan, and I believe, reportedly, Bill O'Reilly, all going back to Fox.
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Okay, now speaking of right-wing media figures, I'm so pleased to be joined by my friend Jesse
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