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according to the legacy media, disaster is

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about to befall America. Donald Trump is

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now the overwhelming favorite to win the

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Republican presidential nomination. The latest Des Moines

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Register NBC News poll shows Trump at

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51% in Iowa, up 8% since October.

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He is gaining momentum. Ron DeSantis is in

0:23

second place at 19%. Nikki

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Haley at 16%. According

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to analyst Steve Kornacki, who's really good on this

0:30

sort of stuff, there is an enthusiasm gap in

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favor of Trump. 70%

0:34

of Trump supporters say their minds are already made

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up in favor of Trump. He is currently

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at 72% favorability with

0:41

Iowa caucus goers. And here's

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the thing, in the general election, Trump

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is also up and he's not up

0:47

by a small margin. He is up

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significantly. Donald Trump, if the election

0:52

were held today, would become president of the United

0:54

States again. According to a Wall Street Journal poll

0:56

over the weekend, Trump leads Biden 47% to 43%

0:58

in the national polls. If

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third party and independent candidates enter that mix, that

1:04

lead actually jumps to six points, 37% to 31%.

1:08

What's more, according to the latest CNN

1:11

poll, Trump leads Joe Biden by 10

1:13

points in Michigan. He leads by five

1:15

in Georgia. According to the latest Minneapolis

1:17

Post poll, Trump is down only three

1:19

points to Biden in Minnesota. In

1:21

other words, Trump would likely win in a

1:24

landslide were the election held today. He would

1:26

win Georgia, Wisconsin, he would win Pennsylvania, he

1:28

would win Michigan. There are two reasons for

1:30

this. First, Joe Biden

1:32

is terribly, terribly unpopular. That same

1:34

Wall Street Journal poll shows just

1:36

23% of voters say

1:39

that Biden's policies have helped them personally,

1:41

compared with 53% who say that Joe

1:43

Biden's policies have hurt them personally. That's

1:45

a terrible stat for him. Those

1:48

exact same data show half of voters say

1:50

Trump's policies when he was president helped them

1:52

personally, versus only 37% who

1:55

say they hurt them personally. Biden's job

1:57

performance is at 37% approval and 61%. only

2:00

3 in 10 voters, like, quote unquote,

2:02

Bidenomics. Literally

2:05

the only issues where Joe Biden leads Trump are on

2:08

abortion, and there he only leads 44% to 33%, not

2:10

a huge lead, and

2:12

tone in politics 37% to 31%, which means everyone hates

2:14

both of their tone. That

2:18

condition is unlikely to alleviate for Joe Biden before the

2:20

election. It is, according to the

2:22

Wall Street Journal, quote, less affordable than any time

2:25

in recent history to buy a home. The math

2:27

isn't changing anytime soon. How bad is it? According

2:30

to the Wall Street Journal, quote, before the Fed

2:32

started raising rates, a person with a monthly housing

2:34

budget of $2,000 could have bought

2:36

a home valued at more than $400,000. Today,

2:38

that same buyer would need to find a home valued at $295,000 or

2:40

less, in a time of rising prices, by the way. Average

2:45

new home payments are up to $3,322 from $1,746 at the end of

2:47

2020. That

2:53

is a 90% increase in average new

2:55

home payments since Joe Biden took office.

2:58

What's more, Biden's supposed soft landing – you know,

3:00

this thing where we bring down inflation, the economy

3:02

continues to sail along. It doesn't look particularly likely

3:04

to happen despite the happy talk from the media.

3:07

November job growth was weak, which was expected.

3:09

It's what the Fed was actually looking for

3:11

when they raised those interest rates in order

3:13

to tamp down inflation. But here's

3:16

the thing. That job growth was only even

3:18

in weak territory because of three sectors –

3:20

healthcare, leisure and hospitality, because

3:23

we're going into the vacation days, and

3:25

government employment. In fact,

3:27

those three sectors, plus private education and employment,

3:29

are responsible for 81% of all jobs created

3:31

in 2023. That

3:36

means that just those three sectors, plus private education and

3:38

employment, that's like all the jobs created in 2023. So

3:41

when people say they are feeling it's a

3:43

weak economy, they are right. Business starts are

3:45

weak. Gross output, which is a measure of

3:47

the entire economy, not merely the spending side that

3:49

we see in gross domestic products and which can

3:51

be jogged by government spending. Gross

3:53

output has been flatlined. In the

3:56

first two quarters of the year, business spending drops 9%. There's

3:59

a reason that we're not doing that. Warren Buffett is pulling his wings

4:01

off the table. Berkshire Hathaway sold

4:03

$28.7 billion in stock in the

4:05

first three quarters of this year. Buffett

4:08

has a very simple strategy. So when he

4:10

thinks the prices are too high, he thinks

4:12

stock prices right now aren't inflated and too

4:14

high because they are. Now

4:17

Biden's team keeps trying to whistle their way past the

4:19

graveyard on his candidacy. The literal graveyard, like

4:21

he might die. According to Semaphore's

4:23

Ben Smith at the White House holiday party, where Biden

4:25

has a very easy job. What he has to do

4:27

is just say a couple of nice things about how,

4:29

you know, you have a contentious relationship with the press,

4:31

but the First Amendment really matters. And then you say

4:33

some nice things about Christmas or something. Instead,

4:36

according to Ben Smith, quote, Biden strayed into

4:38

a couple of hazy monologues, which ended only

4:40

when his wife interrupted him to remind him

4:42

it was a party. His speech

4:44

wasn't terrible or even noteworthy, says Ben Smith,

4:46

but everyone in the room realized Biden had

4:49

a simple rhetorical job and hadn't quite pulled

4:51

it off. Again, that's a really easy job at

4:53

a holiday party. I've been to White House holiday parties.

4:55

Let me tell you, it's not a hard job, but

4:57

Joe Biden literally could not get through a holiday

4:59

speech at the White House without Dr. Jill grabbing

5:01

one of those old Vlaudeville canes and yanking him

5:03

off the stage. That holiday

5:05

speech is super easy, so unenthusiastic

5:08

Democrats are now being forced to defend

5:10

this ailing octogenarian. Here is,

5:12

for example, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. I'll

5:15

take Joe Biden at 100 over any of these

5:17

guys at whatever age they're at because he's delivering.

5:21

Well, that might be okay for him to

5:23

say, except that everyone knows that Joe Biden

5:25

is very unlikely to serve a full second

5:27

term, not giving the state of degradation in

5:29

which he currently is standing, which

5:32

leaves in the background,

5:34

dung, dung, dung. Kamala

5:36

Harris. Yes. That

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horror music that you hear. That's the Undertaker's music.

5:41

Kamala Harris, the worst candidate in American history. Last

5:43

night, she and Doug Emhoff – she's finding new

5:45

ways to screw up this job. It's truly amazing.

5:49

Last night, she and Doug Emhoff, the second

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gentleman, issued yet another hilarious

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Hanukkah missive. It's really funny. Every

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6:02

time. Every year he puts out some

6:04

sort of missive about Hanukkah along with Kamala Harris that

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makes no sense. We'll get to the one

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Okay, so back to Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff.

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Every single year, they put out a Hanukkah message

7:20

that makes no sense. Last year, they put out

7:22

a video about how Hanukkah was about love and

7:24

light, clearly demonstrating that they actually knew

7:26

nothing about the holiday or its origins. The

7:28

actual story of Hanukkah is about religious Jews

7:30

throwing Hellenists, Greek Hellenists, out of the temple

7:33

and reconsecrating the nation to the biblical

7:35

God. It's a very fundamentalist holiday. But

7:37

last night, they really topped themselves. They

7:39

confirmed they know nothing about Hanukkah with

7:41

this insane post. So Doug Emhoff put

7:43

this up on Twitter, quote, the

7:46

story of Hanukkah and the story of the Jewish people

7:48

has always been one of hope and resilience. In the

7:50

Hanukkah story, the Jewish people were forced into hiding. No

7:53

one thought they would survive or that the few drops

7:55

of oil they had would last. But they survived and

7:57

the oil kept burning. During those eight days

7:59

in hiding. They recited their prayers and continued

8:01

their traditions. That's why Hanukkah means dedication. It

8:03

was during those dark nights that the Maccabees

8:05

dedicated themselves to maintaining hope and faith in

8:07

the oil, each other, and their Judaism. In

8:09

these dark times, I think of that story.

8:13

That is not even remotely the story of

8:15

Hanukkah. I mean, that's not even like

8:17

halfway to the story of Hanukkah. It's not in the

8:19

same Venn diagram that Kamala Harris loves.

8:22

It's the story of Hanukkah. If

8:24

you're going to talk about the oil story, that

8:26

is the rededication of the temple. They find a

8:28

canister of oil. They have to relight the Hanukkah

8:30

menorah. It's actually the menorah it only has in

8:32

the temple. It has fewer branches. They

8:34

relight the menorah. It lasts for eight days

8:36

as opposed to lasting for one day. But

8:39

that was about the rededication of the temple. It

8:41

wasn't them in hiding in a cave somewhere. What

8:43

the hell? What? What?

8:46

In the what? These are

8:48

the people who back up Joe Biden. Kamala Harris

8:50

is his backup. She's even less popular than he

8:52

is. So that's reason number one

8:54

why Joe Biden is losing to Donald Trump is because he's terrible

8:57

and his backup is terrible. But here's the thing.

8:59

The election isn't held today. And this brings us to the

9:01

second reason that Trump is leading Joe Biden in the polls

9:03

right now. He is

9:05

not in the news. That's also the reason

9:07

that Trump is up in Iowa, head and shoulders above the

9:09

rest of the candidates because he is not in the

9:11

news. He is beating Biden. Ironically,

9:13

he's actually using Biden's own 2020 strategy against

9:16

Joe Biden. It's Donald Trump who's in the

9:18

basement. He's not running around campaigning. He's

9:20

literally either in court or back at Mar-a-Lago

9:22

on true social. And that means

9:25

everyone's focused on Biden, and that means he's ahead in the polls. And

9:27

that in turn takes the electability argument away from

9:30

both Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, which was their

9:32

number one argument, was that Trump couldn't win, nominated

9:35

us instead. Because Trump is not in

9:37

the news, everyone has been able to look away from

9:39

Trump's crazy, which has always been his Achilles heel. Ironically,

9:42

one of the best things ever to happen

9:44

to Donald Trump politically was his social media

9:46

ban because it made him nearly invisible online.

9:49

The fact that Trump actually put his own money into true

9:51

social, and he doesn't want to lose that money, which is

9:53

the reason he hasn't gone back to X even though he's

9:55

been unbanned on X, well, that

9:58

means that we're not treated to a small media waste. wildfire

10:00

every time he tweets. He's on Truth Social, where he

10:02

has like seven people watching him, as opposed to, you

10:04

know, on Twitter, where he has 70 million

10:07

people watching him. Mostly,

10:09

for Donald Trump, Truth Social now acts as sort

10:11

of a venting mechanism, and everyone pretty much ignores

10:13

it. And by the way,

10:15

that is the best thing for Donald Trump overall. So,

10:18

here is the question. Will things stay this way?

10:21

Maybe they will. Not because Trump doesn't love being

10:23

at the center of attention. There's literally no one who loves

10:26

being the center of attention more than Donald Trump. Donald

10:29

Trump is Kanye West versus Taylor

10:31

Swift at the Grammys. I'm

10:34

gonna let you finish losing this election, but first, but

10:36

here's the thing. There's literally nothing he can do to

10:38

change anyone's opinion of Donald Trump. Everyone has an opinion

10:41

of Donald Trump, and they already

10:43

know what they think about Donald Trump. What exactly could happen?

10:45

If he gets convicted, can anyone's opinion about him change? But

10:47

here's the other thing. Elections are about

10:50

enthusiasm. This is what Democrats are counting

10:52

on. Trump could theoretically reinvigorate enthusiasm against

10:54

him if he busts through walls like

10:57

a big orange Kool-Aid man. Oh,

10:59

yeah. Trump is already

11:01

giving hints that he might want to do this. So

11:03

during his recent interview with Sean Hannity, for example,

11:05

Sean asked him if he would be a

11:07

dictator. It was a set up. It was a softball question

11:09

because the entire left has been saying he's gonna be a

11:12

tyrannical dictator, and Sean was asking him, are

11:15

you going to do that? And instead of just giving me obvious

11:17

answer, which would have been ridiculous, ridiculous,

11:19

they all want Donald Trump to say

11:21

yes. I'm not a dictator. I was president

11:23

already. Not a- they call me a dictator!

11:25

Not a dictator. Real dictator, Joe Biden. Very

11:28

easy answer. Instead, Donald Trump, because he

11:31

is a performer and a comedian, he played to the

11:33

crowd. And then he trolled the media by saying he

11:35

wouldn't be a dictator except on day one. And

11:38

what he meant is that, like Obama and like Biden,

11:40

he would use a pen and a phone. And

11:42

he said that he would be a dictator on day one by closing

11:45

the border, for example, using the pen and the phone. It

11:47

was a joke, but it also gave his enemies oxygen,

11:49

which is why yesterday Trump had to actually explain that it

11:52

was a joke. He put out

11:54

a truth social saying, quote, fake news writer

11:56

Peter Obama Baker of the failing New York

11:58

Times, rearship and subscription. with

12:00

the good old Trump years whose

12:02

claim to fame is that he will never write anything good

12:04

about the great job President Trump did in

12:06

quotes just wrote in a major front page story that

12:08

I want to be a dictator but doesn't mention it

12:10

was said in a joking manner and completed with but

12:13

only for a day because I'm going to close the

12:15

border and drill drill drill a much different attitude meaning

12:17

now Trump is right about all of that but

12:19

Trump also has a nasty

12:22

habit of just pouring gasoline on

12:24

players so Trump's enemies do

12:26

have one playbook he will be a dictator right Trump doesn't have to play in

12:28

a different way has

13:00

to let go of the idea of

13:02

running this a referendum on Joe Biden

13:04

or running it as a referendum on

13:06

Bidenomics and turn this race to here's

13:08

the choice to present it before America

13:10

it's democracy versus dictatorship and it's your

13:12

freedoms versus your loss of freedoms

13:15

in the course of this including economic

13:17

freedom in this Okay,

13:20

so that is the magic they've come up with is that

13:22

Donald Trump is going to take away all of your freedoms

13:24

now, that's probably not gonna work because who's president already, but

13:26

this is going to be their playbook there

13:29

was NYU professor Ruth Benjiat who's a scholar

13:31

on fascism comparing Trump to Benito Mussolini and

13:33

and Pinochet But

13:36

we know from I know from my

13:38

studies of authoritarianism

13:42

successful leaders always have to

13:44

have powerful partners and

13:47

those would be the people in

13:49

the fossil fuel industry which he

13:51

privileged in his first administration and

13:53

all those who are eager

13:56

to have an enemy and that's

13:58

always immigrants. immigrants

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out and talking about you need

14:02

national security measures and repression because

14:05

immigrants are flooding across the border

14:07

has been used by everyone from

14:10

Mussolini to Pinochet in Chile up

14:12

to Trump. This is an old

14:14

playbook. Well actually a

14:17

really old playbook is claiming that your political

14:19

opponent is going to be an evil dictator. We'll

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15:34

is going to be Donald Trump cannot be

15:36

president because if he is he will be

15:38

a fascist. Mitt Romney is jumping

15:40

on that bandwagon. He has taken a zero

15:42

break from posturing on behalf of his own

15:44

legacy. By the way Mitt Romney's legacy

15:47

now amounts to failed in 2012 against Barack

15:49

Obama, paved the way for Trump, tried to serve

15:51

in Trump's administration, was rejected and then joined with

15:53

Democrats on key measures in order to shore up

15:55

his failing legacy. So now part of his legacy

15:57

is going to be apparently going on like meat

16:00

the press and jabbering about how Trump is a threat

16:02

to the republic or some such. We

16:05

have actually seen him do what he says

16:07

he's going to do when he said that

16:09

he believed the election was the election was

16:11

going to be rigged before people actually went

16:13

to the polls. He went on to

16:15

question the results, tried to overturn the results of

16:17

the 2020 election. Why

16:19

don't you take him exactly at his word? Oh,

16:22

I think we agree that we have looked

16:24

at his behavior and his behavior suggests that

16:26

this is a person who will impose his

16:28

will if he can on the

16:31

judicial system, on the legislative branch and on the

16:33

entire nation. When he called

16:35

people to come to Washington, D.C. on January

16:37

6th, that was not a random date. That

16:40

was the date when peaceful transfer of power was

16:42

to occur. He called that on

16:44

purpose. No question he has

16:47

authoritarian rulings and interests and

16:49

notions which he will try and impose.

16:52

Okay, so again, that Trump fascist argument is

16:54

not particularly likely to work, but there

16:57

is one argument that theoretically could work.

16:59

Nikki Haley is articulating that argument. That

17:01

argument is that Trump is unelectable because people perceive him

17:03

as a chaos agent. Not that he's unelectable because he's

17:05

a fascist or something like that,

17:07

but because he's just too chaotic, we don't want

17:09

him. Here is Nikki Haley articulating that argument. Chris

17:13

Christie said he's unfit. I want to just put

17:15

that directly to you in a yes or no.

17:17

Do you think Donald Trump today in 2023

17:19

is fit to be president? It's

17:21

not about fitness. I think he's fit to

17:23

be president. It's should he be president. I

17:26

don't think he should be president. You know,

17:28

I thought he was the right president at

17:30

the right time. I agreed with

17:32

a lot of his policies. The problem

17:34

is you see our country is in

17:36

disarray. Our world is on fire. And

17:39

you can't defeat Democrat chaos with a Republican

17:41

chaos. And Donald Trump brings us chaos. So

17:43

it's not about being fit. It's just I

17:46

don't think he's the right person to be

17:48

president. Well,

17:50

that argument that Trump is a chaos agent only

17:52

works under two conditions. One is very likely to

17:54

be filled the feeling that Trump is in fact

17:56

chaotic. Certainly, that's what the Democrats and the Biden

17:58

DOJ are doing. ...over

18:01

and over and over again. On every crime

18:03

from jaywalking to classified documents mishandling to murder.

18:05

There's a reason that Jack Smith, that January

18:08

6th prosecutor, wants his case accelerated. So

18:10

yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Smith's

18:13

request to hear quickly on Trump's own claims of

18:15

immunity against federal trial over January 6th. Trump

18:18

is saying because he was president during that

18:20

entire period, November to January of 2021, because

18:22

of all of that, he's immune against some

18:24

sort of conviction or even a trial. That

18:26

was ruled against by an Obama-appointed judge. It's

18:28

been appealed to the DC circuit, and now

18:30

Smith is going to rest with the Supreme

18:32

Court because he wants an answer. According

18:35

to The Wall Street Journal, Smith wants the court

18:37

to take up the case before that lower appeals

18:39

court even considers it, allowing the justices to squarely

18:41

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by the way, it's very likely he will be convicted sometime

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20:22

from Harvard University where Claudine Gay is

20:24

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20:27

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20:29

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Okay, so meanwhile, over

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at Harvard, so Cloudingay looks

21:44

as though she is about to survive a

21:46

challenge to her leadership. Apparently,

21:49

the Harvard board has now announced that they

21:51

unanimously stand in support of Cloudingay. This is

21:53

despite the fact that over the past 48

21:55

hours, there have been heavy accusations that she

21:57

actually engaged in plagiarism, not just in her

21:59

PhD dissertation. but also all over the damned

22:02

place. According to the Washington Free

22:04

Beacon, Harvard University President Cloudingay plagiarized numerous academics

22:06

over the course of her academic career, at

22:08

times airlifting entire paragraphs and claiming them as

22:10

her own work, according to reviews by several

22:12

scholars. In four papers published between 1993

22:15

and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation,

22:17

Gay, a political scientist, paraphrased or

22:19

quoted nearly 20 authors, including two

22:21

of her colleagues in Harvard University's

22:23

Department of Government, without proper attribution,

22:25

according to the Washington Free Beacon

22:27

analysis. Other examples of possible plagiarism,

22:29

all from Gay's dissertation, were publicized on Sunday

22:32

by the Manhattan Institute's Christopher Rufo and Karl

22:34

Stack's Chris Boonette. The

22:36

Free Beacon worked with nearly a dozen scholars to

22:38

analyze 29 potential cases of plagiarism. Most

22:40

of them said that Gay had violated a

22:43

core principle of academic integrity, as well as

22:45

Harvard's own anti-plagiarism policies, which state that it's

22:47

not enough to change a few words here

22:49

and there. Rather, scholars are expected to cite the

22:51

sources of their work, including when paraphrasing, and to use quotation

22:53

marks when quoting directly from others. In

22:56

at least 10 instances, Gay lifted full

22:58

sentences or even entire paragraphs with just

23:00

a word or two tweaked. This is

23:03

definitely plagiarism, said Lee Jusum, a social

23:05

psychologist at Rutgers University, who reviewed 10

23:07

side-by-side comparisons provided by the Washington Free

23:09

Beacon, including paragraphs from Gay's dissertation. They

23:12

actually gave her a prize for that dissertation

23:14

for quote-unquote exceptional merit. He

23:17

says the longer passages are the most egregious. But

23:20

again, none of that would have broken, except

23:23

for the fact that Clouding Gay went in front of

23:25

Congress and made clear that she doesn't care about anti-Semitism.

23:27

And it all depends on quote-unquote

23:29

the context. Now, again, Harvard University has one

23:31

of the most restrictive speech codes in America.

23:34

They will come after you for fat phobia at Harvard University,

23:37

but if you say, from the river to the sea, Palestine

23:39

shall be free while waving around a Hamas

23:41

flag, everybody will apparently look the other way. All

23:44

of this despite the fact that the National Association of

23:46

Scholars yesterday called on Harvard to remove Clouding Gay as

23:49

president of the university. They

23:51

noted Gay's shoddy professional work, record of

23:53

plagiarism, and promotion of racist policies. That

23:55

was as of yesterday. And

23:58

again, when it comes to Clouding Gay, I'm not going to say that. own

24:01

upset over anti-Semitism? It's

24:03

just absent. It's not there. One of the things

24:05

that was amazing about watching these university presidents testify

24:07

in front of Congress is even if they had

24:09

said something like, listen, we

24:12

can't do anything about speech that we don't like, but

24:14

we really don't like this speech. It's ugly and it's

24:16

wrong. Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish

24:18

state, and we hate all of this, but we're trying

24:20

to draw balance. If they'd even said that, that would

24:22

have been one thing, but they didn't. And

24:25

here's the thing. They say that kind of

24:27

stuff all the time. So, for example, in

24:29

April of 2021, Cloudian Gay signed a letter

24:31

to the Harvard community accusing America of racism

24:33

and decrying the shooting death of Adams Alito, who flashed

24:35

a gun at the police. Quote,

24:38

we as a community must stand against racism. We

24:40

must commit ourselves to the unfinished work of building

24:42

a just society, one in which everyone's rights and

24:45

safety are protected and everyone's dignity is honored. In

24:48

a system in which police have vast

24:51

discretion to stop people on suspicion of

24:53

minor offenses, so many people in this

24:55

country of color live with an ever-present

24:57

sense of vulnerability. Again, when she's talking

24:59

apparently about American racism, then

25:01

that's one thing. She's very passionate about

25:03

that. When it comes to accusations of anti-Semitism on

25:06

her own campus, then it's all by

25:08

the wayside. Now, Harvard tried to

25:10

rely on academic freedom as the basis for why

25:12

she should basically get off the hook scot-free. There's

25:16

a petition that emerged on Sunday from

25:18

various members of the professoriate urging

25:21

the university to, quote, resist political pressures that

25:23

are at odds with Harvard's commitments to academic

25:25

freedom. But let's be real

25:27

about this. They don't care about academic freedom at Harvard.

25:29

There's like two registered Republicans on the entire staff at

25:31

Harvard University. I mean, I went to Harvard Law. I'm

25:34

just telling you, there are no Republicans on staff. In

25:36

the law school, when I was there, I think the

25:38

number of registered Republicans on staff at Harvard Law School,

25:41

which had well over 100 professors, it was

25:43

like three. I could name them, and

25:45

the fact is that Harvard is not a place of academic

25:48

freedom. It never has been a place of academic freedom

25:50

in any serious measure. But they're

25:52

relying on all of that in order to protect

25:54

the anti-Semites. So

25:57

now, naturally, the Harvard board stands in

25:59

support of the American public. They have

26:01

to. She's a black lady, and she

26:03

was selected for this position specifically based on

26:05

her diverse bona fides, meaning that she's a

26:07

black lady. And let's be real about this. The

26:10

reason that she was allowed to get away

26:12

with this sort of shoddy work for years on end is

26:15

because she had the shield of intersectionality. If

26:19

you are an intersectional person, meaning a

26:21

racially diverse person who ranks

26:23

high in the victimhood coalition, then

26:25

you can get away with just about anything on a college campus.

26:29

That's the way this works. If Clouding

26:31

Gay were a white lady, and she'd been hit with

26:33

these charges of plagiarism as a student, she would have

26:35

been out. She's being hit

26:37

with these charges of plagiarism, let alone what she's doing as the

26:39

actual president. But

26:41

now, apparently, they're going to defend the quality of her work.

26:44

That's the way this works. So Harvard

26:46

University's board has now put out a statement, quote, to your

26:48

members of the Harvard community. As

26:50

members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support

26:52

for President Gay's continued leadership of Harvard University. Our

26:55

extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is

26:57

the right leader to help our community heal and

26:59

to address the very serious societal issues we are

27:01

facing. What were their extensive deliberations? They met last

27:04

night. Those were their

27:06

extensive deliberations. So many people

27:08

have suffered tremendous damage and pain because of

27:10

Hamas's brutal terrorist attack, and

27:12

the university's initial statement should have been an

27:14

immediate direct and unequivocal condemnation. Calls

27:16

for genocide are despicable and contrary to fundamental

27:18

human values. President Gay has

27:21

apologized for how she handled her congressional testimony

27:23

and has committed to redoubling the university's fight

27:25

against anti-Semitism. That's so amazing. So they

27:27

just rejected everything that she's done since October 7th, and then

27:29

they're like, put you up, how in charge? Put you

27:31

up. Why? Because the edifice of DEI

27:33

must be upheld. As we discussed at

27:36

length yesterday, the entire reason for being

27:38

of major American university liberal arts programs

27:40

used to defend the idea that America

27:42

is fundamentally unjust, that the American meritocracy

27:45

is fundamentally unjust. This

27:47

is why you need diversity, equity, and inclusion. It's why

27:49

you give people extra points on their application based on

27:51

their race. That is

27:53

why you do those things, because the basic idea

27:55

is that if you succeed in American society, unless

27:57

you're a member of an intersectionally oppressed group, If

28:00

you succeed, it's because the system itself is

28:02

broken and exploitative. And so we have

28:04

to rejigger the system by providing benefits, like, say,

28:07

the presidency of Harvard University, to people who are

28:09

not qualified for that position. With

28:11

regard to President Gay's academic writings, the university

28:13

became aware in late October of allegations regarding

28:16

three articles. As at President Gay's request, the

28:18

Fellows promptly initiated an independent review by distinguished

28:20

political science and conducted a review of her

28:22

published work. On December 9, the

28:24

Fellows reviewed the results, which revealed a few instances

28:26

of inadequate citation. While the analysis found

28:28

no violation of Harvard's standards for research misconduct, President

28:31

Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two

28:33

articles to insert citations and quotation marks that

28:36

were omitted from the original publications. In

28:38

this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously

28:40

stand in support of President Gay. At

28:42

Harvard, we champion open discourse at academic

28:44

freedom. Sure,

28:47

sure you do. And we are

28:49

united in our strong belief that calls for violence against

28:51

our students and disruptions of the classroom experience will not

28:53

be tolerated. The mission is advancing

28:56

knowledge, research, and discovery that will help address

28:58

deep societal issues and promote constructive discourse. And

29:00

that's the key word. Help address

29:02

deep societal issues. You have to keep

29:04

her in place because America is bad,

29:06

American meritocracy is bad. And because those

29:08

things are bad, she's unqualified and she's

29:10

probably a plagiarist. It doesn't matter. We're

29:12

going to keep her in place to

29:14

rectify those grave injustices of the past.

29:17

And that is the reason that Harvard's – now, I'll be honest with you. I'm

29:20

fine with them sticking with her. The reason I'm fine with them

29:22

sticking with her is because I think that when these universities fired

29:24

their president, that's a fig leaf. I

29:26

think when McGill went to University of Pennsylvania, I think

29:28

that's a fig leaf. I think now the idea is

29:30

going to be they go back to the donors and they say, ah, look

29:32

what we did. We got

29:34

rid of – they keep the entire

29:37

system in place, all the foundational DEI

29:39

principles that lead to antisemitism inevitably. Because

29:41

again, DEI is a conspiracy theory, and

29:43

it crosses streams with antisemitism. Again,

29:46

if the entire DEI theory is predicated on

29:48

an oppressor, oppressed narrative in which people who

29:50

are successful are the oppressors and people who

29:52

are unsuccessful are the oppressed, Jews

29:55

cannot fit into that narrative because they are both

29:57

oppressed, generally speaking, in terms of the number of

29:59

times they're oppressed. For example, that they are targeted

30:01

by anti-Semitic hate crime in the United States way

30:03

higher than any other group. They're targeted

30:05

for hate crimes generally, much higher than other

30:07

groups in the United States. They're targeted on

30:09

campuses, but they are also disproportionately successful. And

30:12

this means they don't fit into that matrix. They keep

30:14

breaking the matrix. If you keep breaking the matrix, it

30:16

turns out that people are going to have to shove

30:18

you back in the box. So they cannot get rid

30:21

of the anti-Semitism without also getting rid of

30:23

DEI. And getting rid of these presidents is

30:25

a fig leaf. It's a way for them to say, ah,

30:27

we fixed the problem. Please bring back their $100 million donation.

30:30

No one should be fooled. So I'm actually

30:32

kind of pleased that Harvard is just saying the quiet part out

30:34

loud. Fine. Keep her there. And Harvard's

30:36

owners and all of my fellow

30:38

Harvard alum, if you're unhappy with the

30:40

way that President Gay has handled this, perhaps

30:42

you should look to the fact

30:44

that the entire university is reflective

30:46

of a system of values that

30:48

made Cloudine Gay the president. That

30:50

is the reason she is the president. They

30:52

are backing her because they support her ideology.

30:55

And she is the president because she supports

30:57

their ideology. It is all of a piece.

31:00

And if they had fired her, it would

31:02

have changed nothing because, again, DEI is honeycombed

31:04

all the way through these administrations. The number

31:06

of DEI bureaucrats on any given campus

31:08

is huge. We may

31:11

outweigh the actual number of faculty on many campuses.

31:14

Billions of dollars every year are spent on

31:16

DEI nonsense. That's the actual ideology being promulgated

31:19

at these universities. And it is

31:21

poisonous, and it bleeds up into things like the White

31:23

House, where the White House now demands that equity be

31:25

a part of every piece of policy that they make,

31:27

where the White House now has to deal with interns

31:30

yelling at them over not supporting Kamath enough. Understand

31:34

where all of this comes from. It comes from

31:36

a cohesive ideology about an internal revolution

31:38

that has to happen in the United States.

31:40

It's why Cloudine Gay is protected. They

31:42

cannot allow her to fall. If they allow her to fall, it

31:44

is a rejection of the entire ideology

31:47

upon which they predicate the university

31:49

system. If they oust the Black Lady

31:52

for not sufficiently fighting anti-Semitism

31:54

that defeats the entire hierarchy

31:56

of victimhood, is that hierarchy

31:58

of victimhood has to happen. But I

32:01

do suggest that disproportionately unsuccessful groups in

32:03

the United States are disproportionately victims and

32:05

disproportionately successful groups are disproportionately oppressors. So

32:09

you can't do it. There's no way. You can get

32:11

rid of Liz McGill because Liz McGill is a white

32:13

lady. You can't get rid of Clouding Gay. There's no

32:15

way to do it without, again, defeating the entire purpose

32:17

of your ideology. In

32:19

that intersectional coalition, it's shockingly

32:22

strong and bizarrely

32:24

constituted. So yesterday, the

32:27

Brooklyn Bridge was shut down once again,

32:29

this time by queers for Palestine. And

32:32

here is some footage of this. …ID

32:35

after all the same. NYPD

32:37

KKK ID after all the

32:39

same. NYPD KKK ID after

32:41

all the same.

32:46

The Manhattan Bridge. Look at me. Okay,

32:48

now, listen to that chant there for a second because

32:50

it actually means something. And this is the same ideology

32:52

promulgated on America's college campuses. NYPD

32:55

KKK IDF, you're all

32:57

the same. First of all, it doesn't rhyme,

32:59

but putting aside the lack of

33:01

lyrical interpretation, that

33:04

says it all. Understand that the

33:06

people who hate Israel on college campuses, at

33:08

the left, that hate Israel, they hate America

33:11

for the exact same reasons. There is not

33:13

a single rationale they use for the hatred

33:15

of Israel that does not apply in greater

33:17

detail to America. When they say, for example,

33:20

that Israel is a colonialist oppressor, when

33:22

they say that it's a foreign imposition on native

33:24

soil, what do you think they think about America?

33:27

Which, again, was colonized. It was a

33:29

European colonial mission. What

33:31

do they think about America when they say that the IDF

33:34

is brutal and terrible? And then they're saying that it's like

33:36

the KKK, and then they're saying it's like the

33:38

NYPD. They're saying all of it right to

33:40

you. They don't hate Israel. They

33:43

don't hate America because they hate Israel. They hate

33:45

Israel because they hate America, and they hate America

33:47

because they hate the West, and they want the

33:49

entire Western system overturned. That is what you are

33:51

seeing on college campuses, and that's

33:53

why you see queers for Palestine. Again, it makes no

33:56

sense on any logical level. It's like penguins for polar

33:58

bears, queers for Palestine. Palestine.

34:00

That's why we all laugh at them. Chickens for

34:02

KFC. The

34:05

minute that the Sharia law Muslims take over, they

34:07

kill all of these people. But that doesn't matter.

34:11

These people believe that the Sharia law Muslims won't

34:13

take over in America. They will take over in

34:15

America and they will take over as part of

34:17

this broader intersectional coalition dedicated to fighting the white

34:19

power structure. And anybody who's successful immediately gets put

34:21

into the white power structure. Jews now white. They're

34:24

in the white power structure. Asians now white. They're

34:26

in the white power structure. Nigerian

34:28

Americans disproportionately successful and white. Yes, they're in

34:30

the white power structure. That's the way all

34:32

of this nonsense works. It's

34:35

extraordinarily dangerous. And it's the

34:37

reason why, even if they had fired a

34:39

clouding day at Harvard, everyone pull your money

34:41

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34:43

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34:45

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34:47

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meanwhile the Biden administration is playing a

37:13

very weird game right now they could get

37:15

all the Ukraine aid that they are seeking all

37:17

they would have to do is you know solidify

37:19

the border and they won't do it it's absolutely

37:21

insane so right now in the situation Ukraine

37:23

is in fact pretty dire Joe

37:26

Biden is hosting Vladimir Zelensky at the White

37:28

House again today discussions

37:30

on a Ukraine aid deal remain stalled in Congress

37:32

according to CNN the visit which

37:34

the White House announced Sunday is Zelensky's third visit to

37:36

Washington since the war in Ukraine it began he last

37:39

visited in September Zelensky's

37:41

visit comes at a critical moment in

37:43

congressional negotiations for emergency aid to Ukraine

37:46

all of this is coming amid the fact that

37:48

Ukraine their offensive has basically stalled out according to

37:50

the New York Times American and Ukrainian military leaders

37:52

are searching for a new strategy that they can

37:55

begin executing early next year to revive at Keith's

37:57

fortunes and flagging support for the country's war against

37:59

Russia according The

38:01

push for a fresh approach comes after

38:04

Ukraine's months-long counteroffensive failed in its goal

38:06

of retaking territory lost to the invading

38:08

Russian army... ...and after weeks of often

38:10

tense encounters between top American officials and

38:13

their Ukrainian counterparts. President Vladimir Zelensky of

38:15

Ukraine arrived in Washington on Monday for those

38:17

meetings with President Biden and Congress. Now, again,

38:20

Republicans are hesitant to send good money after bad

38:22

at this point, or good money after good, depending

38:24

on the situation. Right

38:26

now, one of the problems that's facing the

38:28

West is that a bunch of stockpiles have

38:30

now been depleted. According to The Wall Street

38:32

Journal, the British military has only around 150

38:34

deployable tanks, perhaps a dozen serviceable long-range artillery

38:36

pieces. So bare was the cover last year,

38:38

the British military considered sourcing multiple rocket launchers

38:40

from museums to upgrade and donate to Ukraine.

38:44

That's how bad the shortcoming is, and all of this

38:46

is based on the odd Western fixation

38:48

with the idea that the Cold War was

38:50

won purely through moral suasion... ...as opposed to

38:52

a giant military buildup that the West participated

38:54

in for 50 years. And so after the

38:56

Cold War was over, basically all the Western

38:59

countries cut their military spending pretty dramatically in the

39:01

United States. Every Democrat cut the military

39:03

dramatically. Every Republican tried to rebuild the military. Every Democrat

39:06

then came back in and cut the military again. We've

39:08

seen this over and over and over again. And then

39:10

it turns out that when you need it, the cupboard

39:12

is kind of bare. Ukraine is

39:14

just exposing that. So it's not

39:16

as though Ukraine is the reason that the cupboard is bare.

39:19

Ukraine is just the reason that you know the cupboard is bare,

39:21

because before the cupboard was closed. Now the cupboard is open. We're

39:23

looking around. There's not even a fork over there. France

39:26

has fewer than 90 heavy artillery pieces, equivalent

39:28

to what Russia loses roughly every month on

39:30

the Ukraine battlefield. Denmark has no heavy artillery.

39:32

Some Marines were air defense systems. Germany's army

39:34

has enough ammo for two days of battle.

39:38

In the decades since the end of the Cold War, weakened

39:40

European armies were tolerated by governments across the West because of

39:42

an engaged America... ...with its vast military

39:44

muscle underpinning the NATO and defense policy in

39:46

Europe. The US accounted for nearly 70% of

39:49

NATO's defense spending last year. But

39:51

as America moves more isolationists, everyone

39:54

is realizing that they completely de-armed

39:56

themselves. They defanged themselves. Anthony

40:00

King, professor of war studies at University of Warwick,

40:02

says Europe has systematically demilitarized itself because it didn't

40:04

need to spend the money. Meanwhile,

40:07

the United States is, of course, ponying

40:10

up the bulk of support to Ukraine. Everybody

40:13

should realize that the world is a very dangerous place, and they

40:15

should start building up those stockpiles

40:17

pretty much immediately. Anthony Blinken,

40:19

for his part, he's playing – I don't

40:21

understand what game the Democrats are playing here. They

40:23

want the aid for Ukraine. They can get the aid

40:25

for Ukraine. All they have to do is sign on

40:27

to some strength and border provisions, and they won't do

40:30

it. Instead, they seem to be involved in this idea

40:32

that they'll let Ukraine wither on the vine and maybe

40:34

make them subject to another push from

40:37

Russia into Ukrainian territory so long as

40:39

it means blaming the Republicans for it, which

40:42

is really kind of insane. First of

40:44

all, it's bad political calculus. If Biden thinks that

40:46

losing the war in Ukraine is going to not

40:48

redound from him, that it will redound to the

40:50

Republicans, good luck with that argument. That is not

40:53

going to work. The Americans are going to attribute

40:55

foreign policy failures to the president, especially a president

40:57

who is already engaged in the

40:59

single worst act of foreign policy to an

41:01

election in my lifetime. He botched pullout from

41:03

Afghanistan. So I don't

41:05

know what game they think they're playing. Here's Tony Blinken yesterday saying that he's

41:08

worried Ukraine aid will run out. Aid

41:10

was held up to Ukraine. How

41:12

concerned are you about that with winter

41:15

coming on? Very concerned.

41:18

We need to see this supplemental budget request

41:20

go through as quickly as possible. Ukraine

41:23

has done an extraordinary job in

41:26

defending against this Russian aggression. Over the past

41:28

year, it's taken back more than 50 percent

41:30

of its territory. It's engaged

41:32

in a ferocious battle right now along

41:34

the eastern and southern fronts. We

41:37

are running out of resources already

41:39

in the bank to continue to assist

41:41

them, and we need them. I would

41:43

point out as well that about 90 percent

41:46

of the security assistance that we provided to

41:48

Ukraine actually is invested right here in the

41:50

United States. I

41:52

mean, I just have a question. So then why

41:54

don't you sign on to the border provision? Unless you're

41:56

playing some sort of stupid game here, which Democrats are.

41:58

Here's Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader. later, playing the stupid

42:00

game yesterday. The

42:03

onus is on Republicans to show they're

42:05

willing to moderate. Let

42:07

me say that again. If

42:09

Republicans keep insisting on Donald

42:11

Trump's border policies, then

42:13

they will be at fault when

42:16

a deal for Ukraine, Israel and

42:18

humanitarian aid to Gaza all fall

42:20

apart. Republicans

42:23

would be giving Vladimir Putin the best

42:25

gift he could ask for. Democrats

42:28

are serious about reaching reasonable

42:30

bipartisan compromise to pass this

42:32

package. The question is if

42:35

Republicans are now willing to

42:37

do the same. Well,

42:40

I mean, the real question is why won't you

42:42

compromise on the border? Even Democrats on the border

42:44

are like, why won't you guys compromise on the

42:46

border? According to CBS News, a remote desert region

42:48

along the southern border has become a makeshift international

42:50

arrivals area for thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia

42:52

and Latin America hoping to work and reunite with

42:54

family members in the United States. Over

42:56

the past few days, large groups of migrant men,

42:59

women, some families with children, have spent the night

43:01

in a makeshift staging ground in this rugged section

43:03

of the U.S.-Mexico border waiting for overtax border officials

43:05

to process them. Many expect to be released into

43:08

the U.S. after being dated by

43:10

local border patrol agents who lack the resources

43:12

and manpower to screen everyone in a timely

43:14

manner. Migrants are setting up fires

43:16

at night and in the early morning hours to keep

43:18

warm amid dropping temperatures, many brought blankets to sleep next

43:20

to the border wall. Without

43:23

toilets, they relieve themselves near the cacti that

43:25

adorn the picturesque landscape of this national monument

43:27

located two hours away from the closest U.S.

43:29

city. The wait to

43:31

be processed was so long in recent days that

43:33

Mexican families and merchants travel regularly to the staging

43:35

grounds to sell drinks and food, hoping to convince

43:37

desperate newcomers to buy their burritos, samales and cups

43:39

of coffee from the other side of the border

43:41

wall. And yet the

43:44

Obama administration does nothing. They're

43:46

saying that if anything is done on the border, they

43:48

will basically sink it. Senator

43:51

James Langford of Oklahoma is like, guys, you're not going

43:53

to get your Ukraine funding unless you do something about

43:55

the border. The border is chaotic and he's obviously correct.

44:00

change in policy on this. Right

44:02

now, the push and pull is really a political

44:04

push and pull rather than is anything else. If

44:06

I talked to just about anyone in the country

44:08

outside of Washington, D.C., they would

44:10

say the border is chaotic right now.

44:12

We had the highest number of crossings

44:14

of any September ever last September, the

44:16

highest October ever, the highest November ever,

44:18

and we had the highest single day

44:20

just this last week. It is literally

44:23

spiraling out of control. He's

44:26

right, of course, and everyone knows this. Democrats know

44:28

this, Republicans know this. Everyone knows this, but apparently

44:30

the Biden administration would rather leave

44:32

the border open and let Ukraine fall to

44:35

Russia rather than just giving Republicans

44:37

what they want on the border.

44:39

It's unbelievable. It's such political malpractice.

44:41

I mean, forget about the policy stupidity of

44:43

it, which is unbelievably stupid on both counts.

44:46

It is political malpractice to believe that Republicans are

44:48

gonna be the ones who suffer at the ballot

44:50

box if the border remains open and Ukraine falls

44:53

to Russia. Of course Biden's gonna be

44:55

the one who suffers. This is insane. It's ridiculous and

44:57

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meanwhile, contrary to public opinion, and

46:08

I mean like public opinion in the media because public opinion

46:10

is very pro-Israel. The media seem to believe

46:12

that the best move for Joe Biden on Israel, politically speaking,

46:14

would be to side with Hamas. I don't even see how

46:16

that applies. It's ridiculous to me. Is

46:19

the idea that he is suddenly going to

46:21

uptick in Michigan by like 10 points

46:24

if suddenly he sides with Hamas? It's

46:27

not going to happen. He is down 10 points in

46:29

Michigan. Why? Because he is deeply unpopular.

46:32

You know, it actually is kind of popular in the United States as it

46:34

turns out. Israel, according to a brand

46:36

new Wall Street Journal poll, it finds that 55% of

46:38

those polled say they believe

46:40

Israel is taking the military action needed to defend

46:42

itself and prevent another attack by Hamas. Only

46:45

25% of respondents say Israel's military

46:47

action is disproportionate and going too far.

46:51

42% of voters say they sympathize more with Israelis compared

46:53

with just 12% who said the same

46:55

of Palestinians. Joe

46:58

Biden's marks for his response to the war remain at

47:00

37%. Why? Because

47:02

his approval rating is at 37%. You could

47:04

literally say, do you approve of Joe Biden's

47:06

policy on toilet paper? Everyone's just

47:08

going to go 37% yes. It's

47:12

as simple as that. When you have a 37% approval

47:14

rating, it is very difficult to exceed

47:17

that rating on any particular issue. Very, very

47:19

difficult to do that. But

47:21

the media have been attempting to push this idea that

47:23

if Joe Biden suddenly flipped on the Israel versus Hamas

47:25

war, suddenly his numbers would uptick. If

47:29

security is restored in the Middle East and it

47:31

is not a headline by the time we hit

47:33

election season, that's going to redound to Biden's benefits.

47:36

He's going to look like somebody who allowed

47:38

Israel to destroy Hamas and reestablish deterrence in

47:40

the region. That's going to

47:42

be the actual outcome. But if he allows Israel to be victimized again

47:44

by Hamas or by Hezbollah up in the north, which by the way

47:46

is going to be the next step, Israel cannot,

47:48

it's got 30,000 citizens, Israel, in

47:51

the north of its country are not living in their homes right now.

47:53

Israel cannot allow those people to go back to their homes until

47:55

Hezbollah is pushed off the border. A large

47:58

scale push by Israel and by the way, France. of

48:00

the international community to push Hezbollah, an

48:02

active terrorist group out of southern Lebanon,

48:04

about 30 miles up toward

48:06

Beirut. And the Lebanese government, some

48:09

members of the Lebanese government, which is dominated by

48:11

Hezbollah, even they are saying, maybe

48:13

Hezbollah should pull back, or the IDF might

48:15

be marching through Beirut in the next

48:17

couple of months. But again, one of

48:19

the things that is amazing is the breakdown,

48:21

the partisan breakdown here. So do

48:23

you sympathize more with the Israelis or Palestinians? Democrats,

48:26

17% Israeli, 24% Palestinian. That's

48:31

an amazing statistic. How do

48:33

you sympathize more with a group of people who have

48:35

elected Hamas and the Palestinian Authority

48:37

and who have polling data support October 7

48:39

by leaps and bounds over the

48:42

democratic country that has

48:44

human rights involved with it? That's

48:46

an amazing thing. 48% say both sides equally, which is a way of

48:48

saying I don't want to answer the question. For

48:51

Republicans, the answer is 69% Israel, 2% Palestinians, 17%

48:53

both equally. For

48:56

independents, 35% say Israel, 11% say the

48:58

Palestinians. Even

49:01

among young people, a plurality, 31% say they support Israel, over

49:03

23% for the Palestinians. Undecided

49:08

voters are the most likely to say that the US

49:10

is doing too much for the Israeli government and too

49:12

little for Palestinians. But again, this notion

49:15

that somehow Joe Biden is going to win additional votes if

49:17

he suddenly flips and sides with Hamas is ridiculous. I

49:20

think Biden knows that. So weirdly

49:22

enough, maybe it's because Biden is out

49:24

of it, but he actually is not too online. When

49:27

he allows his team to be too online, it's very bad

49:29

for him. He's actually not been too online on this particular

49:31

issue. So yesterday at the holiday party, he

49:33

suggested openly that he was a Zionist, which there are

49:35

a lot – it turns out I know that Zionists

49:37

is code for Jew for a lot of

49:39

people who hate Jews. Turns out that a lot of

49:41

people are Zionists or not Jewish, namely anyone who believes

49:43

that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish

49:46

state is a Zionist. That would include Joe Biden. 35

50:01

years ago I said you don't have to be a

50:03

Jew to be a Zionist, and I'm a Zionist. And

50:07

I don't have to be

50:10

a Jew to be a Zionist. Okay.

50:14

He is correct about all of that. Now what's

50:16

amazing is, again, the amount of propaganda that's being

50:19

put forth by the legacy media about this conflict

50:21

is truly astonishing. And people

50:23

are buying into it. So for example, the Jordanian foreign minister,

50:25

a person named Ayman Al Safidi, yesterday he gave a speech

50:27

in which he suggested that he would be a Zionist. In

50:29

which he suggested that Israel was creating

50:31

hatred around the region. You're right, guys. Until

50:33

Israel went into Gaza, there was no hatred,

50:35

which is why on October 7 the most

50:38

Jews were slaughtered since the Holocaust. Other

50:40

than that, nailed it. Also, I've got to

50:42

say, being lectured, the West being

50:44

lectured about the treatment of Israel by the Jordanians

50:46

is astonishing, especially with regard to the treatment of

50:49

the Palestinians. Just to retrace

50:51

Jordanian history, Jordan is a creation

50:53

of the British Mandate. They

50:55

have no relationship with the people of the governed, the

50:58

Kingdom of Jordan. Not

51:00

only that, not only

51:02

are they also a colonial

51:05

outpost of Israelism. The Jordanian

51:07

Kingdom had sovereignty over the

51:09

entirety of Judea and Samaria, the West Bank,

51:11

and East Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967. And

51:15

they never once considered the possibility of

51:17

creating a separate Palestinian state. Weird

51:19

that. Why? Because they

51:21

knew that if they did that, it might topple their own dynasty. They

51:24

also have refused multiple times overtures from

51:26

Israel to hand over control of some

51:28

of these areas to the Jordanian government.

51:31

Why? Because they understand that the Palestinian population

51:33

in these areas is incredibly radical. It hates

51:35

them as much as it hates the Jews.

51:38

But meanwhile, you got the Jordanian government sitting

51:40

aside lecturing everybody. It's

51:42

just the hypocrisy in the Middle East is truly an

51:45

amazing thing. Here we go. Israel

51:48

has created an amount of hatred that will

51:50

haunt this region, that will define generations who

51:52

have come. And therefore, it's hurting its own

51:55

people as much as it is hurting everybody

51:57

else in the region. That

52:00

cannot be won. There's a

52:02

war that cannot be won. It's going to be won by

52:04

Israel. And by the way, again, this idea that they're creating hatred,

52:07

let me show you some tape of a Hamas leader

52:09

in Gaza. And here is a

52:11

Hamas leader in Gaza explaining his agenda. I

52:13

will translate. There

52:19

are Jews everywhere. We must attack every Jew on the

52:21

face of the planet. We

52:25

must slaughter and kill them, God willing, enough of being angry.

52:29

We're fed up already. We're ready to explode. And

52:31

you, the people of the West Bank, how long will

52:33

you keep silent in trying to initiate terrorism there? We

52:35

want to see knives. They cost five shekels. How much

52:38

is a Jew's throat worth? Five shekels, or even less,

52:40

God willing. All

52:42

of our people are ready to blow up. We've

52:45

built a new factory for explosive belts. The

52:49

off-onswitch is ready for the moment we enter prison. Which,

52:54

by the way, is why Israel's stripping them down. Sorry,

52:56

the defense area. Our sisters are ready. The off-onswitch. All

52:59

our sisters are ready to carry an explosive belt. We'll

53:04

open up a gateway or two in every camp along the border. And

53:07

we'll continue to harass Israel until we reach you. This

53:10

is why lifting the siege is better for you, Israel. Otherwise, you will be

53:12

killed. By

53:15

Allah, you will be killed without our explosive belts. We've

53:18

built new factories for our explosive belts. Operating factories, we'll

53:20

hand them out to everyone and send them on their

53:22

way. No water, explosive belts.

53:25

No negotiations, no recognizing Israel. We'll never

53:27

recognize Israel. Man, I

53:29

wonder what the context is. For the university

53:31

presidents, there must be some context that makes this

53:33

acceptable, after all. The media,

53:36

again, continue to do the work of Hamas. This is their favorite

53:38

thing to do. Their latest attempt is

53:40

they have a piece in the

53:42

Washington Post by a person named Atif Abu Sayyaf,

53:45

the author of six novels. And the minister of

53:47

culture for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. He

53:49

has a piece today titled, quote, My Gaza house felt

53:51

like a castle. Now it is rubble. The

53:54

house where I grew up, where I was born, was

53:56

destroyed a little over a week ago. No one was

53:58

inside at the time the Israeli missiles hit, flattening it

54:00

into a perfect power. of rubble in losing my family

54:02

home. I've lost a little part of me. Well, maybe

54:04

the reason that nobody was in the home is because

54:06

Israel warned everyone to get out before they hit it.

54:08

And maybe the reason Israel hit it and it was

54:10

standing five minutes ago is because Israel is the worst

54:12

terror attack since the Holocaust. But

54:14

this entire piece is about the sadness of

54:17

the family home being lost now at

54:19

no point does anyone. Note

54:22

that this Atef Abu Saif character, who, again,

54:25

is the minister of culture for the Palestinian Authority,

54:27

which is hilarious that the Palestinian Authority has a

54:29

minister of culture. Because when you

54:32

think of a

54:34

governmental entity that promotes culture,

54:36

do you think of the Palestinian Authority? I'm

54:39

just going to point out in 2014, Saif said,

54:41

quote, Israel surpassed Hitler's

54:44

massacres by calling Israel Nazi,

54:46

sadist and fascist for its military response to rocketing

54:48

from Gaza. We are letting Israel off lightly. That

54:51

is what he said in 2014, comparing Israel to the

54:54

Nazis in not today, in 2014. These

54:57

are the moderates being quoted by The Washington Post.

55:00

So, yeah, you wonder why Americans sympathize

55:03

with Israel? Maybe it's because those are the

55:05

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55:07

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