00:05:59.000Because I think a lot of the left, including judges, including prosecutors, including politicians, they are unrepentant in their defense of political violence.
00:06:10.000We saw this in the weeks and months after Charlie was assassinated.
00:06:14.000We saw that a huge swath of the left justified political violence, even celebrated political violence.
00:06:53.000We have an increasingly radicalized left, so radicalized that even the Atlantic Magazine admits just last year that political violence now, terrorism, is primarily a left-wing phenomenon.
00:07:24.000Speaking of left-wing violence, really disturbing story, though not a surprising story, out of Florida.
00:07:30.000A Florida teenager, a girl, has murdered her mom and her stepdad for misgendering her because you probably knew how this story was going to end before I even finished it.
00:07:45.000You knew how this was going to end because it seems that every week now, maybe more than every week, there was another trans-involved killing.
00:07:52.000This girl, who identifies as a boy, killed her mom and stepdad for, quote-unquote, misgendering her.
00:07:58.000What is it that you're doing or that she's doing that's not fair to you?
00:08:03.000Well, me and her would have a lot of arguments about things, especially over, like, me being trans.
00:08:09.000So she'd be like, you're not a real boy and blah, blah, blah, and all, you know, the whole spiel of transphobic stuff.
00:08:41.000So when you guys are arguing, is she intentionally, you know, calling you she or not using the appropriate pronouns or not referring to you as Jasper and referring you as Julia?
00:08:53.000So here, the teenager is saying, yeah, and you know, my mom, she actually did try to meet me in the middle and would just try to avoid the pronoun issue altogether, but I murdered her anyway.
00:09:02.000What's, I don't have, I don't have much to conclude about this story other than here's yet another data point, another day, another example of a trans identifying person flying off the handle and killing people.
00:09:18.000We can ask why this is, there might be a physical explanation.
00:09:22.000I remember, this is probably a couple years ago now, I interviewed a gal who was transitioning to a boy, or you can't really do that, but pretending to transition to a boy, just like this one.
00:09:33.000And she said she was filled with rage and with much increased lust when she was injecting the testosterone.
00:09:40.000So that stands to reason, maybe there was a physical cause of this, you know, just when you inject a girl with a lot of testosterone, weird things start to happen.
00:09:50.000But we see plenty of guys who identify as girls who also shoot people and kill people.
00:09:56.000So there might be a deeper problem here, which is that transgenderism is a rebellion against the most basic limits that are imposed upon us.
00:10:07.000It's a rebellion, not just against a moral order or political order or a church or even a family, but against one's very self, one's very nature.
00:10:17.000So no surprise there that someone who would seek to kill oneself, the transgender transition is a kind of ritual suicide.
00:10:26.000This is why they refer to their names given at birth as dead names.
00:10:30.000You know, it's a kind of a rebirth, like a phoenix rising from the ashes in their minds.
00:10:34.000It's no surprise that someone who would kill one's own self in a ritual would also kill one's parents.
00:10:41.000To liberate one from oneself, certainly one would try to liberate oneself from one's parents.
00:10:47.000In any case, the other thing to conclude from this is here is yet another example of left wing violence that will not be counted in the statistics.
00:10:55.000Even to the point on the guy who tried to blow us up in Pittsburgh, when the debates were happening after Charlie's assassination over the left and the right committing political violence.
00:11:10.000You heard this line from the left a lot. They said, well, actually, the left commits relatively little political violence.
00:11:15.000You can look at the statistics and in the data set. So I did.
00:11:17.000I went into the data sets and I realized that the most prominent examples of left wing political violence in the last few years weren't even showing up there, including the one against me in Pittsburgh.
00:11:28.000That didn't show up the BLM violence that killed dozens of people that didn't show up as left wing violence.
00:11:33.000A lot of the trans violence, the transvestite who shot up the Christian school in Nashville doesn't show up in in registers of left wing violence.
00:11:40.000And I bet this one won't either. They'll say this wasn't a political motivation.
00:11:43.000It was about identity and a family dispute. And they'll come up with all sorts of ways to cover up the problem.
00:11:48.000So we now know, even from liberal sources, that political violence is a left wing problem.
00:11:54.000And they're not even counting much, if not most of the left wing violence.
00:11:58.000OK, speaking of death and destruction, looks like we're about to go to war with Iran imminently.
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00:15:22.000One, the administration appears to be unified.
00:15:26.000The left is always trying to find little chinks in the armor.
00:15:29.000They're always trying to find little divisions of the administration.
00:15:32.000Pitting Trump against Vance, or Vance against Rubio, or this advisor against that advisor, whatever.
00:15:39.000But when you look at the administration from the top on down, the president, the vice president, the secretary of state, and everybody else.
00:15:47.000They want a diplomatic resolution in Iran.
00:15:50.000But they're recognizing that Iran does have nuclear ambitions and that war is possible.
00:15:57.000The other takeaway here is, President Trump clearly really does want a diplomatic resolution.
00:16:04.000I think most Americans do because we still have trauma from the Iraq war, which was so bungled, so many times bungled, and so horribly bungled in the 2000s.
00:16:15.000So I think a lot of people do not want to go to war with Iran.
00:16:18.000They want to get rid of the mullahs, but they don't want to go to war with Iran.
00:16:24.000It's kind of like the public opinion polls in Minnesota.
00:16:29.000The majority of Americans want mass deportations, and also the majority of Americans think that ICE is going too far, carrying out deportations.
00:16:36.000Well, obviously, those two things are in conflict.
00:16:39.000So, I think Trump wants a diplomatic solution.
00:16:42.000The fact that he keeps tipping his hand, the fact that you're getting all of this reporting from Politico and elsewhere, it looks like the U.S. is on the brink of war, to me suggests Trump is signaling to the mullahs, hey, guys, make a deal with us because we're serious.
00:16:56.000If Trump just wanted to go to war with Iran, you wouldn't read any reporting about it.
00:17:01.000Got to give a hat tip here to the economist Philip Pilkington, great economist who writes for various post-liberal outlets and other outlets.
00:17:10.000He dredged up this report from the Brookings Institution in September of 2012.
00:17:17.000Headline, simulated war between U.S.-Iran has a grisly end.
00:17:23.000This comes from an interview on NPR's All Things Considered, a show that I was actually on just the other day.
00:17:42.000Iran is a real country, and the Iranian government has real contingency plans.
00:17:46.000So, on the one hand, we have to say President Trump has a great record on foreign policy.
00:17:51.000President Trump, over the last decade, has earned a lot of grace and a lot of credibility when it comes to foreign policy.
00:17:57.000Because basically, every single thing he's done in foreign policy, I actually can't think of an exception, going back to the first term, even.
00:18:06.000They've all worked out really, really well.
00:18:08.000Most recently, the strike on Iran's nuclear sites.
00:18:11.000Obviously, the decapitation of the Maduro regime in Venezuela, which kept the regime in place, but took out the bad guy who was wanted in the United States and dropping the Moab.
00:18:57.000Should the U.S. go in and get rid of the Iranian regime?
00:19:00.000And the universal answer seems to be, well, if we could do it in 88 minutes, you know, if we could do it like the Maduro operation, boy, wouldn't that be great?
00:19:08.000No love lost for the Malas, for the Islamic regime in Iran.
00:20:12.000We've wanted to oust the mullahs for almost twice as long as we had the Shah in there in full power.
00:20:19.000And the mullahs have held on almost twice as long as the CIA regime that we previously had in Iran.
00:20:24.000I trust this administration on foreign policy more than basically any administration in my lifetime.
00:20:34.000George H.W. Bush was very good on foreign policy, too.
00:20:36.000I was two years old during that administration, so I don't remember that one that well.
00:20:39.000But this is not the same decision as taking out Maduro in Venezuela or dropping the Moab or really any of the decisions we've seen in Trump's foreign policy.
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00:23:41.000This is old Ron there, he's in his old mayor outfit.