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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
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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
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sort of stuff, there is an enthusiasm gap in
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favor of Trump. 70%
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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
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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
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by a small margin. He is up
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significantly. Donald Trump, if the election
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were held today, would become president of the United
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States again. According to a Wall Street Journal poll
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over the weekend, Trump leads Biden 47% to 43%
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in the national polls. If
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third party and independent candidates enter that mix, that
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lead actually jumps to six points, 37% to 31%.
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What's more, according to the latest CNN
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poll, Trump leads Joe Biden by 10
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points in Michigan. He leads by five
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in Georgia. According to the latest Minneapolis
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Post poll, Trump is down only three
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points to Biden in Minnesota. In
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other words, Trump would likely win in a
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landslide were the election held today. He would
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win Georgia, Wisconsin, he would win Pennsylvania, he
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would win Michigan. There are two reasons for
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this. First, Joe Biden
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is terribly, terribly unpopular. That same
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Wall Street Journal poll shows just
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23% of voters say
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that Biden's policies have helped them personally,
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compared with 53% who say that Joe
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Biden's policies have hurt them personally. That's
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a terrible stat for him. Those
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exact same data show half of voters say
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Trump's policies when he was president helped them
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personally, versus only 37% who
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say they hurt them personally. Biden's job
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performance is at 37% approval and 61%. only
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3 in 10 voters, like, quote unquote,
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Bidenomics. Literally
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the only issues where Joe Biden leads Trump are on
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abortion, and there he only leads 44% to 33%, not
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a huge lead, and
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tone in politics 37% to 31%, which means everyone hates
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both of their tone. That
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condition is unlikely to alleviate for Joe Biden before the
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election. It is, according to the
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Wall Street Journal, quote, less affordable than any time
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in recent history to buy a home. The math
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isn't changing anytime soon. How bad is it? According
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to the Wall Street Journal, quote, before the Fed
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started raising rates, a person with a monthly housing
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budget of $2,000 could have bought
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a home valued at more than $400,000. Today,
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that same buyer would need to find a home valued at $295,000 or
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less, in a time of rising prices, by the way. Average
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new home payments are up to $3,322 from $1,746 at the end of
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2020. That
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is a 90% increase in average new
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home payments since Joe Biden took office.
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What's more, Biden's supposed soft landing – you know,
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this thing where we bring down inflation, the economy
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continues to sail along. It doesn't look particularly likely
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to happen despite the happy talk from the media.
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November job growth was weak, which was expected.
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It's what the Fed was actually looking for
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when they raised those interest rates in order
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to tamp down inflation. But here's
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the thing. That job growth was only even
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in weak territory because of three sectors –
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healthcare, leisure and hospitality, because
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we're going into the vacation days, and
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government employment. In fact,
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those three sectors, plus private education and employment,
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are responsible for 81% of all jobs created
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in 2023. That
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means that just those three sectors, plus private education and
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employment, that's like all the jobs created in 2023. So
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when people say they are feeling it's a
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weak economy, they are right. Business starts are
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weak. Gross output, which is a measure of
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the entire economy, not merely the spending side that
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we see in gross domestic products and which can
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be jogged by government spending. Gross
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output has been flatlined. In the
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first two quarters of the year, business spending drops 9%. There's
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a reason that we're not doing that. Warren Buffett is pulling his wings
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off the table. Berkshire Hathaway sold
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$28.7 billion in stock in the
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first three quarters of this year. Buffett
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has a very simple strategy. So when he
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thinks the prices are too high, he thinks
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stock prices right now aren't inflated and too
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high because they are. Now
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Biden's team keeps trying to whistle their way past the
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graveyard on his candidacy. The literal graveyard, like
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he might die. According to Semaphore's
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Ben Smith at the White House holiday party, where Biden
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has a very easy job. What he has to do
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is just say a couple of nice things about how,
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you know, you have a contentious relationship with the press,
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but the First Amendment really matters. And then you say
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some nice things about Christmas or something. Instead,
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according to Ben Smith, quote, Biden strayed into
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a couple of hazy monologues, which ended only
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when his wife interrupted him to remind him
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it was a party. His speech
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wasn't terrible or even noteworthy, says Ben Smith,
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but everyone in the room realized Biden had
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a simple rhetorical job and hadn't quite pulled
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it off. Again, that's a really easy job at
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a holiday party. I've been to White House holiday parties.
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Let me tell you, it's not a hard job, but
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Joe Biden literally could not get through a holiday
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speech at the White House without Dr. Jill grabbing
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one of those old Vlaudeville canes and yanking him
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off the stage. That holiday
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speech is super easy, so unenthusiastic
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Democrats are now being forced to defend
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this ailing octogenarian. Here is,
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for example, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. I'll
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take Joe Biden at 100 over any of these
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guys at whatever age they're at because he's delivering.
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Well, that might be okay for him to
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say, except that everyone knows that Joe Biden
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is very unlikely to serve a full second
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term, not giving the state of degradation in
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which he currently is standing, which
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leaves in the background,
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dung, dung, dung. Kamala
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Harris. Yes. That
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horror music that you hear. That's the Undertaker's music.
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Kamala Harris, the worst candidate in American history. Last
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night, she and Doug Emhoff – she's finding new
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ways to screw up this job. It's truly amazing.
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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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single year, Doug Emhoff being the
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Jew, you know, he's in the middle of a
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war. He's the person they tried out to be the Jew at Hanukkah
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time. Every year he puts out some
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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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that he put out this year because it truly is a classic of
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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
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that makes no sense. Last year, they put out
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a video about how Hanukkah was about love and
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light, clearly demonstrating that they actually knew
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nothing about the holiday or its origins. The
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actual story of Hanukkah is about religious Jews
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throwing Hellenists, Greek Hellenists, out of the temple
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and reconsecrating the nation to the biblical
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God. It's a very fundamentalist holiday. But
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last night, they really topped themselves. They
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confirmed they know nothing about Hanukkah with
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this insane post. So Doug Emhoff put
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this up on Twitter, quote, the
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story of Hanukkah and the story of the Jewish people
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has always been one of hope and resilience. In the
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Hanukkah story, the Jewish people were forced into hiding. No
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one thought they would survive or that the few drops
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of oil they had would last. But they survived and
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the oil kept burning. During those eight days
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in hiding. They recited their prayers and continued
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their traditions. That's why Hanukkah means dedication. It
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was during those dark nights that the Maccabees
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dedicated themselves to maintaining hope and faith in
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the oil, each other, and their Judaism. In
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these dark times, I think of that story.
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That is not even remotely the story of
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Hanukkah. I mean, that's not even like
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halfway to the story of Hanukkah. It's not in the
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same Venn diagram that Kamala Harris loves.
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It's the story of Hanukkah. If
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you're going to talk about the oil story, that
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is the rededication of the temple. They find a
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canister of oil. They have to relight the Hanukkah
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menorah. It's actually the menorah it only has in
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the temple. It has fewer branches. They
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relight the menorah. It lasts for eight days
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as opposed to lasting for one day. But
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that was about the rededication of the temple. It
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wasn't them in hiding in a cave somewhere. What
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the hell? What? What?
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In the what? These are
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the people who back up Joe Biden. Kamala Harris
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is his backup. She's even less popular than he
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is. So that's reason number one
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why Joe Biden is losing to Donald Trump is because he's terrible
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and his backup is terrible. But here's the thing.
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The election isn't held today. And this brings us to the
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second reason that Trump is leading Joe Biden in the polls
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right now. He is
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not in the news. That's also the reason
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that Trump is up in Iowa, head and shoulders above the
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rest of the candidates because he is not in the
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news. He is beating Biden. Ironically,
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he's actually using Biden's own 2020 strategy against
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Joe Biden. It's Donald Trump who's in the
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basement. He's not running around campaigning. He's
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literally either in court or back at Mar-a-Lago
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on true social. And that means
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everyone's focused on Biden, and that means he's ahead in the polls. And
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that in turn takes the electability argument away from
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both Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, which was their
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number one argument, was that Trump couldn't win, nominated
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us instead. Because Trump is not in
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the news, everyone has been able to look away from
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Trump's crazy, which has always been his Achilles heel. Ironically,
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one of the best things ever to happen
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to Donald Trump politically was his social media
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ban because it made him nearly invisible online.
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The fact that Trump actually put his own money into true
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social, and he doesn't want to lose that money, which is
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the reason he hasn't gone back to X even though he's
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been unbanned on X, well, that
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means that we're not treated to a small media waste. wildfire
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every time he tweets. He's on Truth Social, where he
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has like seven people watching him, as opposed to, you
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know, on Twitter, where he has 70 million
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people watching him. Mostly,
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for Donald Trump, Truth Social now acts as sort
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of a venting mechanism, and everyone pretty much ignores
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it. And by the way,
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that is the best thing for Donald Trump overall. So,
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here is the question. Will things stay this way?
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Maybe they will. Not because Trump doesn't love being
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at the center of attention. There's literally no one who loves
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being the center of attention more than Donald Trump. Donald
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Trump is Kanye West versus Taylor
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Swift at the Grammys. I'm
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gonna let you finish losing this election, but first, but
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here's the thing. There's literally nothing he can do to
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change anyone's opinion of Donald Trump. Everyone has an opinion
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of Donald Trump, and they already
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know what they think about Donald Trump. What exactly could happen?
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If he gets convicted, can anyone's opinion about him change? But
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here's the other thing. Elections are about
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enthusiasm. This is what Democrats are counting
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on. Trump could theoretically reinvigorate enthusiasm against
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him if he busts through walls like
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a big orange Kool-Aid man. Oh,
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yeah. Trump is already
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giving hints that he might want to do this. So
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during his recent interview with Sean Hannity, for example,
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Sean asked him if he would be a
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dictator. It was a set up. It was a softball question
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because the entire left has been saying he's gonna be a
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tyrannical dictator, and Sean was asking him, are
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you going to do that? And instead of just giving me obvious
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answer, which would have been ridiculous, ridiculous,
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they all want Donald Trump to say
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yes. I'm not a dictator. I was president
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already. Not a- they call me a dictator!
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Not a dictator. Real dictator, Joe Biden. Very
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easy answer. Instead, Donald Trump, because he
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is a performer and a comedian, he played to the
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crowd. And then he trolled the media by saying he
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wouldn't be a dictator except on day one. And
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what he meant is that, like Obama and like Biden,
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he would use a pen and a phone. And
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he said that he would be a dictator on day one by closing
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the border, for example, using the pen and the phone. It
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was a joke, but it also gave his enemies oxygen,
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which is why yesterday Trump had to actually explain that it
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was a joke. He put out
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a truth social saying, quote, fake news writer
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Peter Obama Baker of the failing New York
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Times, rearship and subscription. with
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the good old Trump years whose
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claim to fame is that he will never write anything good
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about the great job President Trump did in
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quotes just wrote in a major front page story that
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I want to be a dictator but doesn't mention it
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was said in a joking manner and completed with but
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only for a day because I'm going to close the
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border and drill drill drill a much different attitude meaning
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now Trump is right about all of that but
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Trump also has a nasty
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habit of just pouring gasoline on
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players so Trump's enemies do
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have one playbook he will be a dictator right Trump doesn't have to play in
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a different way has
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to let go of the idea of
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running this a referendum on Joe Biden
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or running it as a referendum on
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Bidenomics and turn this race to here's
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the choice to present it before America
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it's democracy versus dictatorship and it's your
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freedoms versus your loss of freedoms
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in the course of this including economic
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freedom in this Okay,
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so that is the magic they've come up with is that
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Donald Trump is going to take away all of your freedoms
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now, that's probably not gonna work because who's president already, but
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this is going to be their playbook there
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was NYU professor Ruth Benjiat who's a scholar
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on fascism comparing Trump to Benito Mussolini and
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and Pinochet But
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we know from I know from my
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studies of authoritarianism
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successful leaders always have to
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have powerful partners and
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those would be the people in
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the fossil fuel industry which he
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privileged in his first administration and
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all those who are eager
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to have an enemy and that's
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always immigrants. immigrants
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out and talking about you need
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national security measures and repression because
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immigrants are flooding across the border
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has been used by everyone from
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Mussolini to Pinochet in Chile up
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to Trump. This is an old
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playbook. Well actually a
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really old playbook is claiming that your political
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is going to be Donald Trump cannot be
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president because if he is he will be
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a fascist. Mitt Romney is jumping
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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
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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
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he's going to do when he said that
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he believed the election was the election was
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going to be rigged before people actually went
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to the polls. He went on to
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question the results, tried to overturn the results of
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the 2020 election. Why
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don't you take him exactly at his word? Oh,
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I think we agree that we have looked
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at his behavior and his behavior suggests that
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this is a person who will impose his
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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
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authoritarian rulings and interests and
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notions which he will try and impose.
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Okay, so again, that Trump fascist argument is
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not particularly likely to work, but there
16:57
is one argument that theoretically could work.
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Nikki Haley is articulating that argument. That
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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,
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but because he's just too chaotic, we don't want
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him. Here is Nikki Haley articulating that argument. Chris
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Christie said he's unfit. I want to just put
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that directly to you in a yes or no.
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Do you think Donald Trump today in 2023
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is fit to be president? It's
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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
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chaos. And Donald Trump brings us chaos. So
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it's not about being fit. It's just I
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don't think he's the right person to be
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president. Well,
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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
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chaotic. Certainly, that's what the Democrats and the Biden
17:58
DOJ are doing. ...over
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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
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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
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18:39
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18:41
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18:46
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18:50
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18:52
he's immune from prosecution. Smith is
18:54
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18:57
rule directly on the matter. His team wrote, quote, To
19:00
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19:02
trial, the government seeks a full and final
19:04
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19:06
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19:09
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19:15
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19:18
according to Smith's team, and the Supreme Court is likely
19:20
to do that. Smith's team wants
19:22
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19:24
right now. They are hoping, against hope, that Trump
19:26
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19:29
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19:31
is so chaotic. But even
19:33
that eventuality, and again, it is very likely
19:35
that Trump will be on trial after losing
19:37
his immunity appeal during the after-election cycle, and
19:40
by the way, it's very likely he will be convicted sometime
19:42
in the midst of this election cycle. It's
19:44
also likely that that will not make Biden's
19:46
case, that Trump is a chaos agent. In
19:49
order for that to work, Biden has to
19:51
appear solid and non-chaotic, and that is not
19:53
happening, which brings us back to the polls. In
19:55
every election, as I've said over and over and over again, every
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election is a referendum on one of the two
20:00
campuses. The referendum right now is on Biden. Barring
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20:09
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20:11
for Trump is not a mere chimera. It
20:13
might just be 2024 reality. And that is why the media and
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Democrats are panicking. They really, really should
20:18
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going to get to the latest insanity
20:22
from Harvard University where Claudine Gay is
20:24
going to survive seeing a horrible president,
20:27
plagiarism apparently. Being soft
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
from these universities. Stop giving money
34:43
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34:45
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34:47
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37:10
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
stupid. In just one second, we're going to get to
44:59
Israel and the latest over there first. Everything's
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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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