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Dec. 15, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Wrecking Satan For Christmas
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There are two major problems with the notion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.
The first is the inherent discrimination in the concept, the belief that all aspects of success are due to exploitation and discrimination.
This means that when applied to groups, statistically underperforming groups are to be considered victimized, whether or not they are victims, and to be treated with special privileges.
Those who are members of statistically overachieving groups, whether or not they are victimized, are to be treated as villains.
The only possible exception to this hierarchy is white men, who are always to be treated as villains, whether their group is underperforming or overperforming in any given situation.
This philosophy is how you get a holiday party for electeds of color, thrown by Asian Boston Mayor, Michelle Wu.
Apparently, this electeds of color party has been a thing for a decade in Boston.
Here was Wu defending it.
Members of the Boston City Council received an email invitation to what's called a gathering of electeds of color.
Not all members of the council fit that description.
I think we've had individual conversations with everyone so people understand that it was truly just an honest mistake that went out in typing the email field and I look forward to celebrating with everyone at the holiday parties that we will have besides this one as well.
So it is my intention that we can again be a city that lives our values and creates space for all kinds of communities to come together.
Living your values requires segregated parties.
This is obviously discriminatory and wrong.
If there were a white elected-only party, of course that would be violative of federal discrimination law.
But DEI insists that you cannot be wrong so long as you're a member of the victimhood hierarchy.
So that's the first problem with DEI.
It's racist.
Then there is the second problem, not disconnected with the first.
Mediocrity.
If success is to be treated as sinful, and failure as virtuous, because victimhood is virtue, then mediocrity is the happy middle, where you can avoid being completely terrible at things, but also escape censure for being actually good at them.
So it is in academia, where racially diverse mediocrity is preferable to non-race-based meritocratic achievement.
See, for example, Harvard, where President Claudine Gay, despite apparently being both a serial plagiarist and a soft-on anti-Semitism leader, is still in her job.
Or see Chicago, where Mayor Brandon Johnson, the even worse successor to Lori Lightfoot, announced his plans this week to kill Chicago's high-achieving selective enrollment schools, since they weren't racially diverse enough.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez has put forth a resolution seeking, quote, a transition away from privatization and admissions enrollment policies and approaches that further stratification and inequity in CPS and drive student enrollment away from neighborhood schools.
Better that high-achieving students be trapped in the crappy local school than they be able to go to a better school.
Mediocrity for everyone!
And so it is at the White House, too, where equity prevails above all.
Now, when the Biden White House promised that equity would be at the heart of all they do, they meant it, which presumably is why Dr. Joe Biden, the greatest of all mediocrities, She's a doctor, guys.
The most doctor-ish doctor who ever doctored.
She invited the Dorrance Dance Company to perform a version of the Nutcracker Ballet at the White House.
Now, there's nothing wrong with the concept here.
The Nutcracker, written by Tchaikovsky, is a famous Christmastime piece of culture, and tap dance is a historically Black American art form with a long and storied Hollywood history.
Many, if not most, of the greatest tap artists in history have been Black Americans, from the Nicholas Brothers to Bill Bojangles Robinson to Gregory Hines.
In fact, here's some tape of what truly amazing TAP looks like.
like this, the Nicholas brothers from Stormy Weather in 1943.
There's a lot of people who are going to be watching this. So, I'm going to be doing
a little bit of that. I mean, this is the good stuff right here, right?
Okay, now, of course, like most of the amazing stuff in America, TAP has been adopted by people of all cultures.
That's how you end up with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, two of the great American artists of all time.
So there was plenty of history and quality for the Biden White House to choose from in picking their Christmas TAP routine.
Well, what the White House presented wasn't good TAP.
It wasn't terrible.
It was just kind of weird and meh.
Here's the tape.
For those who can't see, it's kind of weirdly attired lady dancing down the halls of the Hunger Games White House here.
And then a weird guy with, um, a lot of weird people dressed in weird costumes.
And everybody's kind of just walking down the halls and nothing's happening.
And creepy faces.
At no point is any serious dancing.
You can't see their feet?
I don't know why this is supposed to be good.
But it is diverse, so there's that.
I mean, it's obviously not good.
Like, these people, I'm sure, are great dancers, so why can't we actually see them dance?
Like, that'd be good.
Okay, so why was Dorrance Dance picked to do this much-mocked routine?
I'm not the only one who thought it was meh.
Presumably, it had something to do with the politics of the group.
Michelle Dorrance, founder of the group, has dedicated the group to quote-unquote anti-racism.
Here's what she wrote on her website.
Quote, it is our job to tell the history of tap dance as a celebration of black culture and also the never-ending struggle against systematic racism and white supremacy in this country.
The origin story of appropriation in American culture In 2020, says Michelle Dorans, I'm part of the way this story plays out.
I'm a white tap dancer with black cultural ancestors in a society that privileges white people and whiteness.
I am easy for white audiences wanting to access and experience elements of black culture to swallow.
As though Americans are supremely opposed to black tap dancers, which, um, no.
Doranz says that tap dance is, quote, both a tradition born of subversion, revolution, and protest, and a powerful vehicle for social and political change, and adds that as a beneficiary of white privilege, I invite you to join me in lifelong anti-racism work.
Understanding how deeply embedded white supremacy, racism, and colonialism is in our culture is paramount to understanding our role as white people in perpetuating it and embracing our job to dismantle it.
Or, you know, you could just dance and do like a good dance routine.
Because here's the reality of a free country.
Equality improves everyone and everything.
All the black tap artists I mentioned before did more for racial comedy and black Americans than Michelle Dorrance ever will.
Because they demonstrated to anyone who would even idiotically think that race ought to define somebody.
That incredible artistry spans race, transcends it.
But here's the thing, when DEI is your goal, mediocrity all too often is the result.
In just one second, We'll get to a fascinating cultural story about the beheading of a satanic statue.
We'll get to that.
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Okay, meanwhile, over in Iowa, fascinating story.
Apparently, there was a satanic temple display inside the Iowa State Capitol, and it was destroyed by a person named Michael Cassidy, 35.
He was then charged, he turned himself in, with fourth-degree criminal mischief.
In a text message to Fox News Digital, Cassidy confirmed he tore down the satanic display, which was erected last week by the Satanic Temple of Iowa to represent the group's right to religious freedom.
Cassidy said it was extremely anti-Christian.
Cassidy had previously run an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2022.
He didn't elaborate on why he tore the statue down, but he posted a Bible verse on Thursday night to X after being charged.
Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about
seeking whom he may devour.
In a Facebook post, the Satanic Temple of Iowa wrote that the display was quote unquote
beyond repair.
The group wrote, we ask that for safety.
Visitors travel together and use the seven tenets as a reminder for empathy and the knowledge that justice is being pursued the correct way through legal means.
Happy holidays.
Hail Satan.
The Iowa Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, condemned the display's presence, but she said it should be countered with more speech.
She said, like many Iowans, I find the satanic temples display in the Capitol absolutely objectionable.
In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech.
I encourage all those of faith to join me today in praying over the Capitol and recognizing the nativity scene that will be on display the true reason for the season.
The co-founder of the Satanic Temple, a person named Lucian Graves, had previously told local media that the display would be up for two weeks.
Okay, so let's talk about this.
to really relish the opportunity to be represented in a public forum. We don't have a church on every
street corner. My feeling is if people don't like our display in public fora, they don't have to
engage with them. They don't have to view them. Okay, so let's talk about this. First of all,
for the guy who knocked the head off the statue, This actually is the way you do public protest, by the way.
Is if you are actually going to do this, you then accept the consequences for that thing, right?
He knocked the head off the statue and then he turned himself into the police.
Unlike all these morons you see who are blocking the freeway, who are then very, very upset that they're getting arrested.
Like when it comes to civil disobedience, which is what this is, when you participate in civil disobedience, you then turn yourself in.
That is the way that it works.
So there's that.
Then, there's the question of whether he did anything quote-unquote morally wrong in knocking down the statue.
Now, this is only mildly questionable.
The answer is no.
He didn't do anything morally wrong in knocking down the statue of a satanic group.
I'm sorry he didn't.
On a moral level, you have no moral right to promote a non-religion that is specifically directed at hatred of Christians.
That's exactly what this is.
Now, you may have a legal right to do that, but that's not the same thing as a moral right to do it.
These are two different types of right.
We have all sorts of legal rights to do things that are immoral in American society, so we have to separate those two things off.
Because, very often, when we're talking about rights, we tend to conflate them.
We tend to think something is legal, therefore it's moral.
Or it's moral, therefore it's legal.
No, that's not the same thing.
It is legal to use the N-word, for example.
It is immoral to do so.
You should not.
Similarly, it is not immoral to knock down a satanic statue.
It may be illegal to do so.
Because the law is supposed to protect private property.
Okay, but that raises the question as to why the law does that.
So, you see Kim Reynolds there say that this is protected speech, that putting up a satanic display at the state capitol, sponsored by the state, presumably, is some form of freedom of speech.
And that really does require us to ask a specific question, a question that we have not asked in a long time in this country, which is, what is a legitimate religion?
Not all religions are actually religions.
Satanism is a perfect example of a non-religion.
It is an ideology masquerading as a religion.
And if you view the satanic website, they openly say things like, we don't worship, we don't even believe there is a thing called Satan.
It's not like we're actually worshiping a godlike being known as, we don't even believe in God.
So what it really is, is just a political agenda pretending that it's a religious agenda.
So to pretend that this is religious speech is obviously not true.
In fact, if you go back to the founding, there's no way that the founding fathers, under the rubric of freedom of religion, would have included anyone who calls themselves a religion.
In fact, the IRS does this all the time.
There are certain cult-like groups that try to declare themselves a religion.
The IRS will be like, no, you're not a religion.
Don't believe you.
Which means you don't have freedom of religion rights in the same way that, say, a nativity scene at a Capitol building would, or Hanukkah menorah at a Capitol building would.
So, again, legally speaking, this kind of bizarre libertarian notion that has been picked up on by a lot of Republicans, that it's just an aspect of freedom of religion to put up a satanic display at a state capitol, there's really not a lot of legal backing to support that idea.
There's a good piece by a lawyer named Frank DeVito over at the American Conservative a few months back, in which he talks specifically about this.
He is currently an attorney serving as counsel at the Napa Legal Institute, and he writes about this.
He says there was an uproar last week when a school district in my neck of the woods approved an after-school Satan Club.
After proper chaos ensued, the school district did the right thing and reconsidered deciding they should not approve a club for children sponsored by the Satanic Temple after all.
American conservatives have been so shaped by libertarian arguments for absolute personal freedom, the point has come where they wonder whether Satanism is part of the tradition protected by the U.S.
Constitution.
Something must be done to take back this obvious ground.
And he points out that there's very little case law on the specific issue of whether Satanism is a protected religion.
What we do have is a little bit jumbled.
But the point is that since the Constitution does not define religion, the court then turns to case law for guidance.
But the early Supreme Court defined religion in traditionally theistic terms.
In other words, you know, believing in God.
Not an atheistic, anti-Christian, non-religion, pretending to be a religion for purposes of putting up a satanic display next to a nativity scene, which is the purpose of what the satanic temple is doing here.
That's exactly the purpose of what the satanic temple is doing here.
The founders never would have considered this an aspect of freedom of religion.
Not remotely.
In fact, it was only in 2019 that the IRS even declared that the satanic temple was a tax-exempt church.
That was under Donald Trump, by the way, a point that Ron DeSantis was making.
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Well, again, as Frank DeVito points out here, it's not merely that the Founders would never have considered a religion of Satanism to be protected by the First Amendment freedom of religion.
It's not just that.
It turns out that, as pointed out in an article at Harvard Law Review a few years back, the black letter rule in American law was clear.
Constitutional liberty entailed a right to articulate views on religion, but not even a right to commit blasphemy.
The offense of maliciously reviling God, which encompassed profane ridicule of Christ, Laws like this were compatible with the free exercise of religion.
They were completely upheld.
As this lawyer points out, throughout the nation's history, even into the 20th century, the federal courts have consistently upheld state anti-blasphemy laws as constitutional.
There is no binding precedent stating that anti-blasphemy laws even violate the First Amendment.
And this is where what you claim is a religion actually matters.
Because then, if you look at the Church of Satan website or the Wikipedia page, it's not just that they revile and ridicule Christ, they don't even believe, it's not a religion.
It's not, there's nothing there that says religion.
It is an anti-Christ political program that is masquerading as a religion.
Again, we've talked about it on the show before, when you look at the Satanic Temple website, they don't actually believe in Satan.
I mean, because that would be to believe in God.
In order to believe in Satan, presumably you have to believe in the supernatural.
They don't actually believe in any of that.
They say with unfortunate regularity, the Satanic Temple is confused with an earlier organization, the Church of Satan.
The Church of Satan expresses vehement opposition to the campaigns and activities of the Satanic Temple.
But what they actually say is that they don't actually believe.
Again, in Satan itself.
So here's what the Satanic Temple itself says in its pamphlet.
Quote, The Satanic Temple practices non-theistic Satanism.
We believe that religion can and should be divorced from superstition.
As such, we do not believe in either God or the devil as supernatural forces.
We bow to no gods or gods and celebrate our outsider status.
To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions.
The Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable inquiry in all things.
Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world, never the reverse.
So what exactly is Satan to the Satanic Temple?
Quote, Satan is symbolic of the eternal rebel in opposition to arbitrary authority,
forever defending personal sovereignty, even in the face of insurmountable odds.
Satan is an icon for the unbowed will of the relentless inquirer, the heretic,
who questions sacred laws and rejects all tyrannical impositions.
This metaphorical construct provides us with the framework by which we live.
He's a symbol of defiance.
Satanism does not suggest a supernatural solution to the trials of existence.
Rather, it serves as an affirmation of that which is demonstrably true.
Ours is the historical Satan of Western literary traditions expressed in texts like John Milton's Paradise Lost.
First of all, that's a complete misread of Paradise Lost.
That's a super giant misread of Paradise Lost.
John Milton does not like Satan.
You have to be a moron to believe this, but it doesn't matter.
The bottom line is, this is obviously not a church.
It's not a religion.
It's just a bunch of secularists who are like, oh, what if we just like slap a symbol on top of this thing and then we put it up next to the nativity scene so that we can laugh at Jesus?
That's what this is all about.
And again, it wasn't until 2019 when the Satanic Temple was actually designated a church by the IRS.
The group is now listed in an IRS database for tax-exempt organizations.
So, what exactly was this satanic statue beheading doing?
Well, I mean, obviously this wasn't like a historic piece of art.
This wasn't like the Taliban blowing up some giant Buddhist statue from a millennium ago.
It was like a statue they put together and then they put it in like the Iowa State Capitol in order to mock people.
So the guy knocked her down and now presumably he's going to be put on trial and I assume that he will appeal on the basis of this.
I assume he's going to appeal on the basis of this isn't actually a religion.
So you can say that I owe them damages for property damage or something and I'm willing to pay it and I can raise the money to pay for it.
But to pretend that this is actually a religious freedom display is to demean what it means to be religious.
Which is precisely the purpose of this thing.
It's to demean what it means.
Like they say, we want it up next to the nativity scene.
Why?
Why do they want it up next to the nativity scene?
So for example, Jews.
We do the Chanukah, right?
We have the menorah, the Chanukah menorah.
We've been displaying that since before Christianity was even around on planet Earth.
And we would be displaying that whether or not Christians were displaying a nativity scene.
It's not like we're like, oh my gosh, we need a Chanukah right up next to that.
I have never cared.
Whether my Chanukah is even in the remote proximity of a nativity scene.
But the entire point of the Satanic Temple is to put their thing right next to the nativity scene in order to mock Christianity.
That's what it's all about in the first place.
So hopefully this thing gets adjudicated.
I would love to see the Supreme Court actually take on a pretty thorny and interesting question as to whether it counts as a religion if you just create an anti-Christian thing and then call it a religion.
What exactly is Satanism?
Again, the entire thing is oriented against Christianity.
That's what it's oriented against.
And they make this very clear.
So Cosmopolitan, just like a month ago, put forth an Instagram post that is totally disgusting.
I mean, vile.
And it's a picture of a woman staring into a shard of glass that is a mirror.
And here's what Cosmopolitan says, is what's it like to have a satanic abortion?
For Jessica, a 37-year-old mother of three who received abortion medication via Samuel Alito's mom's satanic clinic.
Again, the whole purpose of satanism is to simply insult religious people and apparently Supreme Court justices.
The experience was just very supportive.
While she's not a satanist, Jessica decided to incorporate a few ceremonial elements into her solo abortion experience.
Why not, she thought.
The overall messaging just clicked with her.
Read more about it at the link in the bio.
So here's what it says, quote, Patients of all faiths are welcome at Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic in New Mexico.
Along with medical counsel, TST offers free ceremonial support to everyone.
Abortion ceremonies are totally optional and customizable.
Here's a simple one TST recommends.
TST is the Satanic Temple, which is the same group that put up this satanic statue at the Iowa State Capitol.
So, this entire post, every single one of these posts from Instagram, has an inverted cross at the top.
It's a cross that's upside down.
And the entire purpose here is to mock Christianity.
The entire purpose.
That's not a religion, that's just mockery of Christianity.
Now you can say it's free speech, that is not freedom of religion, that is not the same thing.
Those are two different things.
Freedom of practice of religion would require that the state capitol include different religions in the state capitol according to current Supreme Court law.
But this is not a religion.
It is just mockery.
So, inverted cross.
It says, first, find a quiet space.
Bring a mirror if you can.
Just before taking the medication, gaze at your reflection and focus on your personhood.
Hone in on your intent.
Your responsibility to you.
First of all, you should hone in on things.
But second of all, your responsibility to you.
You are God.
You're a goddess in this scenario according to the satanic church.
Focus on your- not the personhood of the baby growing inside you who you're killing.
Focus on your own personhood, because you're the only person who matters.
Next slide, inverted cross.
Take a few deep, relaxing breaths.
When you're ready, read the following tenet aloud.
One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.
Take the medication, and immediately afterward recite, quote, beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world.
One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
Next slide, upside down cross again.
Later, once the procedure is complete, the euphemism, procedure is complete, return to your reflection.
Oh my god, the self-obsession here is totally wild.
But I guess this is what the religion of Satanism is all about, worship of selves.
That makes sense.
Focus again on your personhood, your power in making this decision.
Complete the ritual by reciting a personal affirmation.
And of course, this is a mockery of Catholic catechism.
By my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.
That is pretty... I mean, could it possibly be more mocking of Christianity?
I mean, that's obviously what it is.
They're just mocking the Eucharist, right?
Even I, but a humble ignorant Jew, understand that it's mockery of the Eucharist.
But that's precisely what it is.
This is not a religion, it's just mockery.
Quote, mirrors or mantras or not, CST's point is that your abortion should focus on your autonomy in making this decision.
Patients can include as many loved ones as they'd like, or light candles, or even dress up.
Whatever makes them feel empowered.
This is in Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Now, is this a church?
Is this even remotely resembling a church?
Of course not.
It has nothing to do with church.
Zero.
Zip.
Zilch.
Nada.
All it is is a bunch of secular left-wing anti-Christian propaganda crammed into a fake, phony religion.
And then you pretend it's a religion so you can stick your garbage statue up next to a nativity scene.
It's obvious that Christianity is a religion and Satanism is not.
And the Founding Fathers would have felt the same way.
And the fact that so many people have gone so libertarian that they've given up their brain space for this stuff is ridiculous.
Not all things that claim to be religions are, in fact, religions.
Not all behaviors are forms of speech.
There's a strong case to be made that burning a flag is not a form of speech.
If you want to say things, you can say them.
That's called speech.
Burning things is conduct.
But again, failures to make any of these distinctions, all of that has led to this kind of mushy libertarianism in which we're all supposed to pretend that immorality is somehow morality.
It's led to the conflation also between a legal right, as I said at the very beginning, and a moral right.
Those are not the same thing.
Not the same thing whatsoever.
Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest On Israel, where it turns out that terrorists, they really like killing people who are not actually just in Israel first.
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Okay, so, meanwhile...
Germany has apparently uncovered an alleged Hamas terror plot in Europe.
Remember that time the Hamas said that they want to kill people like all over the world?
Yeah, it turns out that that's true.
It turns out that international terror organizations, they're really bad and they like killing people all over the world.
And they like to do so, number one, because their ideology demands that they spread the caliphate.
I mean, Hamas has been very clear about this.
They don't just wish to kill Jews, for example, inside Israel.
They wish to kill Jews outside of Israel as well.
Their end goal would be an Islamic caliphate.
No different than what ISIS would want.
Hamas does not just have territorial claims.
Their latest attempt to rewrite their charter for public-facing distribution is obviously a backfill.
They did this in about 2017.
And now, by the way, they're attempting, hilariously enough, to Push themselves into the Palestine Liberation Organization so as to quote-unquote moderate themselves by pretending that they are willing to accept the existence of the State of Israel, which of course they are not.
That is the reason why they slaughtered people in the Gaza envelope, which has been part of the State of Israel since inception.
In any case, they, yesterday, were uncovered.
Hamas Was that the first indication?
Really?
Because I noticed the Gaza conflict spilling over beyond the Middle East when hundreds of thousands of supporters of Hamas were marching in the streets of London.
That's when I noticed it first, actually.
The first suggestion, the Gaza conflict might be spilling over beyond the Middle East.
Was that the first indication?
Really?
Because I noticed the Gaza conflict spilling over beyond the Middle East when hundreds
of thousands of supporters of Hamas were marching in the streets of London.
That's when I noticed it first, actually, to be fair.
Germany's federal prosecutors said one of the men acting under orders from Hamas leaders
in Lebanon had in the spring begun searching for a cache of weapons the organization had
clandestinely assembled in the past.
The weapons were to be brought to Berlin until they could be used in a possible attack against Jewish institutions in Europe.
Security officials say the group has long been active in Europe, but so far, they say it's been mostly a logistical base and source of financing, rather than a possible terror target.
In October, a man identified as a Lebanese-born Abdel Hamid Al-Ayeh and two accomplices, An Egyptian national and a Dutch national began traveling from Berlin across the region to gather weapons, assisted by a third man identified as a Lebanese-born terrorist, according to the German prosecutor.
The four were long-standing Hamas members who had already participated in foreign operations for the group.
So I have a question.
Why weren't they in jail already?
Did they just get to wander around Europe, raising money for terror attacks, so long as there are Jews in Israel?
Pretty amazing stuff.
Meanwhile, apparently at least seven terror suspects have actually been arrested in Europe.
So you've got the four that were arrested by Germany, but Danish agencies also exposed Hamas infrastructure on European soil.
At least three people were arrested in Denmark and one in the Netherlands on suspicion of plotting to carry out an act of terror.
And that, of course, would not be a surprise.
The goal of these terror groups is to push the West to abandon its interests in the Middle East with terror attacks.
It's been true since the Iraq War.
It's been true before that.
It's been true, really, since the 1960s and 1970s.
Terrorists in the region use whatever levers of power they have in order to try to intimidate the West into going hands-off in this particular region of the world, despite the fact that the West has tremendously heavy economic interests in this particular region of the world, and also some moral interests in, you know, defending the only diverse democracy in the entire region.
Meanwhile, even as Hamas is pushing terror attacks abroad, the White House continues to send bizarre signals to the Israelis.
Let's be clear about this.
The Israelis are not going to stop until Hamas is completely defenestrated in the Gaza Strip.
It will end with Israel having to station 30,000, 40,000 troops in the Gaza Strip in perpetuity in order to police it.
That is what's going to happen.
And the reason that's going to happen is because Hamas is not just a terror group.
They have networks of terror sympathizers throughout the Gaza Strip.
Hamas currently enjoys a 57, 57, 52% approval rating in Gaza, which has been completely wrecked because of Hamas.
And in fact, the approval rating for Hamas in the West Bank, which is the place that's supposed to be governed by the Palestinian Authority, right?
The vaunted PA that the Biden White House wants to see in charge of the Gaza Strip.
No one likes the PA in the West Bank.
In fact, Palestinians in the West Bank are highly supportive of Hamas to the tune of 80 plus percent by every available poll.
So this notion that Israel is somehow going to acquiesce to a quote-unquote two-state solution with the very people who perpetrated October 7th and their sympathizers, that's insane.
What's even more insane is the idea that Israel is going to hurry up in order to slow down.
So Israel is currently hurrying up operations in an attempt to comply with White House diktats, which means more Israeli soldiers are getting killed.
The number of Israeli soldiers who are getting killed day on day is rising specifically because the White House is telling the Israelis to hurry up.
That's why Israel is having to rush its operations as opposed to going slower.
And meanwhile, the stuff they could be doing to minimize their own deaths, they have not been doing, because again, they don't want the bad headlines coming out of the Gaza Strip.
So instead, they are sending their own men and women into harm's way, going house by house and tunnel by tunnel, as opposed to using their complete air superiority in areas that already should have been clear of civilians two months ago.
Nonetheless, Jake Sullivan apparently told Israel that their war needs to, quote, transition to the next lower intensity phase in a matter of weeks, not months.
Well, I'm sure if he has a plan, Israel's willing to hear it.
If he's got a magic laser up in the sky, maybe he could lend it to the Jews.
This kind of stupidity about war, where you got Jake Sullivan dictating military timetables in the middle of an operation is totally crazy.
It's so stupid.
And by the way, it's dumb when American politicians do it to our own military.
We used to do it in Iraq and Afghanistan regularly.
We'd have Barack Obama sitting at the top of the American government doing things like, sure, we'll surge in Afghanistan, but then we have an arbitrary deadline by which we have to pull back the surge and we'll announce it at the time.
Meanwhile, the military officials are like, what the?
How's this gonna work?
It is truly incredible how many civilian officials seem to think that they can dictate magical timelines to a military that is on the ground fighting.
That's particularly true when you're talking about a military that is not under American control.
Israel has its own rather powerful military.
According to Axios, National Security Advisor Sullivan made clear in all meetings, the high intensity kinetic campaign needed to transition to the next lower intensity phase in a matter of weeks, not months.
This is not a deadline.
We understand the campaign must and will continue, but in a lower intensity.
In other words, what they want is less spectacular headlines about how many people are dying.
That's what they want.
Let's be absolutely clear here.
Israel is going to kill as many terrorists and people who are members of that terror network as they need to in order to ensure their future.
Period.
End of story.
Israel has no interest in killing civilians.
They are not interested in doing that.
Hamas is hiding behind... In fact, not only is Hamas hiding behind civilians, just to show what Hamas is, Hamas apparently is literally taking dolls, like baby dolls, and they are connecting them to tape recorders with recorded cries of children and then connecting those to IEDs.
So when Israeli soldiers go to try and save the doll, they blow up.
This is something that Hamas is doing literally right now.
Kirby says it has to take as long.
Meanwhile, John Kirby, over at the National Security Advisory, he said that Sullivan asked hard questions about what the next phase is going to look like.
And he said it has to take as long as they feel it needs in order to eliminate this threat.
We all want this to be over as soon as possible.
The last thing we want to do is telegraph to Hamas what they're going to face in the next weeks and months.
Well, that is a, again, Kirby has been way better on this than Jake Sullivan and Obama holdover with tremendously stupid ideas about how the Middle East actually works.
Meanwhile, Israel is going to have to move up north.
Everybody knows they're going to have to move up north.
They're going to have to take on Hezbollah in the north because Hezbollah again has 200,000 rockets pointed not only at the north of Israel but all over Israel.
Israel has already moved 30,000 citizens off the border.
They've been out of their homes for full-on two months at this point.
What is truly amazing is to see the propagandists at work against Israel with regard to the so-called two-state solution.
So let's be clear about this.
I mean, it's truly amazing.
There are people who very often, I think, do fine on cable TV, do a decent job on cable TV.
And they'll say things like, I wish Israel would end the blockade and occupation of Gaza.
Israel ended the occupation of Gaza in 2005.
The only reason they left a blockade in place is because Hamas took over.
And if they had not had a blockade, Hamas would have been shipping in nothing but weaponry from Turkey.
Israel tried the whole two-state solution thing by basically handing over the Gaza Strip to a terror group and they got October 7th and rocket attacks every five minutes.
There are people in Israel who have to live underground for like weeks at a time because of the rocket attacks.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Israel tried for 30 years to hand over the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority.
They had peace deals that were rejected in 94, 2000, 2001, 2008.
In 94, 2000, 2001, 2008, all of those peace deals walked away from by the Palestinian Authority.
And meanwhile, you have people who keep mouthing these platitudes about the two-state solution.
With whom?
With whom?
So yesterday, the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotavli, she was asked by a reporter about the two-state solution.
She's like, no.
By the way, approval for a quote-unquote two-state solution now among Israelis, 7%.
Why do you think that is?
Why do you think that is?
Israelis have been desperately attempting to hand control over Palestinian-Arab areas to Palestinian-Arab leadership for decades at this point, and no one will take them.
No one.
The Jordanians won't take them.
The Egyptians won't take them.
Palestinian leadership won't take them because they would prefer to continue to promote the idea that they are going to destroy Tel Aviv and take it.
So who exactly?
I'm consistently amazed by the idea that the media know what the F they're talking about.
They don't.
They say things like two-state solution as though it's self-manifesting.
Like if you say it enough times, Beetlejuice appears.
If you just say two-state solution often enough, a moderate Arab leader, Anwar al-Sadat, appears and magically makes peace.
Or, alternatively, the Palestinians are extremely pro-terror by every available poll.
The networks of terror run incredibly deep.
The educational system in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip promotes the murder of Jews and does since the time that Palestinian youngsters are incredibly young.
But if you say two-state solution, apparently, this makes you magically Immune from criticism?
And it makes you a moral person.
And if you say no two-state solution because it's absolutely irrelevant and stupid to talk about a two-state solution when one of the parties to the quote-unquote solution does not exist, then of course you're bad.
This is the ridiculous game you see being played by the media.
So yesterday on Sky News, here was the Israeli ambassador to the UK.
Is there still a chance for a two-state solution?
I think it's about time for the world to realise the Oslo paradigm failed on the 7th of October and we need to build a new one.
And in order to build a new one... But does that new one include the Palestinians living in a state of their own?
Is that what it includes?
I think the biggest question is what type of Palestinians are on the other side.
This is what Israel realised on the 7th of October.
The answer is absolutely no and I'll tell you why.
Well then how can there be peace?
The reason there is no peace is because the Palestinians... Without offering a state to Palestine, how can there be peace in Israel?
Israel knows today and the world should know now.
The reason the Oslo Accords failed is because the Palestinians never wanted to have a state next to Israel.
They want to have a state from the river to the sea.
So the two-state solution is dead?
Why are you obsessed with a formula that never worked that created this radical people in the other side?
Why are you obsessed with that?
Think about it.
Is that normal to carry on with a solution that never worked in the past?
The Palestinians kept on denying and now it will create another terror state.
Israel is not interested in that.
Of course she's correct, of course she's correct.
By the way, Jordan was in control of the West Bank from 1948 to 1967, and not once did they discuss the possibility of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank.
Egypt was in control of the Gaza Strip from 1948 to 1967.
At no point did they discuss the possibility of an independent Palestinian state.
Why?
Why is it there was no call for the Arabs to do it?
Why?
And the answer is because everyone knew it would be a terror state immediately.
Everyone knew this.
Where else in the world, honest to God, where else in the world is there an open actual call for the creation of a state everyone knows will be a terror state?
It's totally insane.
It's totally insane.
October 7th happens.
1,200 Jews are slaughtered.
Another 240 are taken prisoner, captive into the Gaza Strip.
And the world is like, what sort of concessions can you offer?
What the?
This is like, honest to God, it's like saying after 9-11 to the United States, shouldn't you help set up an Al-Qaeda state in Afghanistan?
I mean, after all, they have some grievances.
Shouldn't you help set up an Al-Qaeda state?
Not just a Taliban state, an Al-Qaeda state!
Like, specifically for those people!
Shouldn't you do that?
What sort of concessions can you offer them?
Only Israel has demanded this sort of nonsense.
The two-state solution was idiocy from the time it was initiated by Oslo.
It was stupidity.
It was put forth by people like Shimon Peres, who was completely delusional about the way the world actually works.
He was actually a believer at the time that borders would disappear in the Middle East.
He was a believer in the idea that there would be a giant confederation of Jews and Arabs in the Middle East that would be completely peaceful because economics would overtake everything else.
Yeah, that worked.
That was great.
Again, mouthing delusional notion about how the world works does not manifest the delusional notions.
It just gets people killed.
That's what Israel found out between Oslo and October 7th.
And now they're done with that.
And they should be done with that.
And people continue to say dumb crap like two-state solution without any leadership on the other.
Israel would give the West Bank to Jordan today.
And then it would be up to Jordan to create a Palestinian state.
You think Jordan would do it?
Jordan won't even take it.
Jordan won't take it.
Israel has offered the Gaza Strip to the Egyptians over and over.
The Egyptians will not take it.
Now just think about that for a second.
Think about how crazy that is.
The Egyptians could take it and then they could set up a Palestinian state.
They don't want it because they would not allow a Palestinian state to be set up there.
They would be presumably engaging in exactly the same activities that Israel is engaging in right now.
In fact, there's a reason why Egypt won't allow anybody from the Gaza Strip through their border.
It's not because they want the historic land claims of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to be maintained.
Israel doesn't even care whether Palestinians live there.
There's no actual Jewish claim to the Gaza Strip in any serious measure.
Go back to biblical times, the Gaza Strip was never considered a part of biblical Israel, even.
There's never been a massive settling movement, for example, in the Gaza Strip.
There were some in the north of the Gaza Strip, and that was about it.
Like Gush Katif, that's it.
The Gush Katif region, there were some people living there, but it was never as though the Gaza Strip
was ever considered like this very fundamental part of the biblical land of Israel.
Okay, but the bottom line is Israel evacuated it.
Hey, if Egypt, if Israel handed it over to Egypt and Egypt wanted to create a Palestinian state,
Nothing.
The reason the Egyptians won't let the Palestinians into the Sinai Desert is not because they are deeply worried about Palestinian rights in Jabalia.
It's because they are worried about Palestinian people who are radicalized inside their own borders.
They don't want them.
In just one second, we'll get to the latest from campus, where again, anti-Semitism continues to be a major issue.
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Our guest, Tim Kennedy, distinguished Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner.
In this episode, we'll not only honor Tim's military achievements, also confront some hard truths he's encountered in war zones and at our southern border.
Here's a little bit of what it looks like.
I have a journal here that every time I traveled overseas, um, I would write what was happening and what I felt.
I said, I find this sad, pathetic, but ironic.
Not only a few nights ago, did we track down and kill a man as he ran home trying to avoid us, maybe to survive, maybe just to live another day.
And there his wife and his children saw him die.
Are our actions justified?
How many More terrorists have I just created.
I killed their dad.
I just made a family of terrorists, didn't I?
I don't know.
How is this going to turn out?
Did I just make the wagon wheel roll just one more time?
On our very first mission, we shot this man running back into his home.
I don't know what to do.
I don't know if this is right.
I don't know where morality is in war.
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Meanwhile, over at Harvard University, things continue to be very, very rough.
So, Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, she's the one, you'll remember, who actually went in front of Congress and said that it depends on context whether calling for genocide of Jews is violative of Harvard policy.
Well, she actually attended a menorah lighting in an attempt to cover for her own idiocy and anti-Semitic fellow traveling.
This menorah lighting was supposed to be a great moment for showing solidarity with the Jewish community.
Now, I know Harvard really well.
I know everybody at Harvard really well.
I went to Harvard Law between 2004 and 2007.
One of the people I know pretty well over there is Rabbi Hershey Zarchi.
He is the Chabad Rabbi over at Harvard.
I've known Rabbi Zarchi for, as I say, nigh on 20 years at this point.
Rabbi Zarchi is not a particularly political actor, like, at all.
He tries to stay strenuously apolitical.
That's what Chabad, by the way, tends to do, wherever they are, because Chabad's entire goal is simply to bring Jews into more religious practice.
Which is why you'll be walking around a city street and you'll see, like, a Chabad rabbi with a pair of tefillin, right, with phylacteries, offering to Jews to help them wrap tefillin.
Like, that's what they do.
But, Hershey Tzarchi here, Right in front of Claudine Gay, he says the thing.
He points out that at Harvard, when they put up their giant menorah, and again, that's what Chabad does pretty much everywhere.
You can go to literally any Chabad in America and they have a giant menorah out in the front yard.
When Harvard Chabad does this, well, they have to take it down every night.
And they have to take it down every night because they're afraid the anti-Semites will rip it down.
You know what happens to the menorah?
After everyone leaves the yard, We're gonna pack it up.
We have to hide it somewhere.
The university, since the first Hanukkah, would not allow us to keep this menorah here overnight.
Because there's fear that it'll be vandalized.
That's the reality of the Jewish community at Harvard today.
We have to pack up our menorah when we're done.
Students have to remove anything.
Some students feel they have to remove anything about their physical appearance that suggests that they're a target.
We have work to do, friends, and we're delighted to have President Gay with us.
But it's my hope, and I know I speak for everyone here, that we can work together with you and your dedication to be, as we saw recently in the email, you were referred to as our president.
We in the Jewish community are longing for a day that we could refer to the president and all of Harvard as ours, too.
Harvard indeed not only has our back, and not only allows us to finally put up a menorah, but doesn't force us to hide it at night.
By the way, this is a problem all over the United States, not just on campuses.
Apparently, according to Breitbart, a menorah set up for Hanukkah at Oakland's Lake Merritt in the heart of the city was vandalized early on Wednesday, leading to condemnation by local officials.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Tao, who had participated in the menorah lighting ceremony at the site just days before, issued a statement blasting the desecration and act of vandalism, which appeared to be a blatant act of anti-Semitism.
Graffiti at the site read, your org is dying.
We're going to find you.
You're on effing alert, a-hole.
Parts of the menorah were thrown into the lake.
Again, they were strewn on the sidewalk near 12th Street and Lake Merritt Boulevard.
And this, of course, follows hard on the news that a teen was arrested and charged with planning a mass shooting at an Ohio synagogue recently.
According to local NBC affiliate 3 News, They obtained the documents from a Stark County Court official.
It showed the teen has been charged with two misdemeanors, including inducing panic and disorderly conduct.
Apparently, this person did create a detailed plan to complete a mass shooting at the Temple Israel on the Discord platform, which was reported to law enforcement and required an immediate investigatory response and notification of public officials.
This particular antisemitic incident predates the October 7th attacks by Hamas, but these are the conditions under which a lot of Jews across the country are living.
There's a reason why Jewish gun ownership is going up wildly, and it should.
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Meanwhile, the polls are showing that Joe Biden continues to trail in every single battleground.
According to Mediaite, a new round of polling in seven key swing states bodes poorly for President Biden, indicating he trails Donald Trump in every single one.
In Wisconsin, he is down 4.
To Trump, 45-41.
In Georgia, he's down 6.
In Michigan, he's down 4.
In Pennsylvania, he's down 2.
In Nevada, he's down 3.
In North Carolina, he is down 9.
These are terrible numbers for Joe Biden.
In Arizona, he is down 4.
Very, very bad numbers for Joe Biden, because again, all of the focus right now is on Joe Biden.
Now, the Biden administration is hoping that the Federal Reserve is going to save Joe Biden.
That by bringing down the inflation rate, they're going to be able to basically bring down the interest rates several times next year, loosening up the economy and leading to a feeling of prosperity in the United States.
Corinne Jean-Pierre, she was out yesterday saying that Bidenomics is working because the stock market is at record highs.
Look, as it relates to bionomics, the President, I just announced at the top of the briefing, he's going to go to Milwaukee.
He's going to talk about bionomics, investing in America, what bionomics has done for the American people coming out of the pandemic.
We can't forget what happened when the President walked in.
We saw a, literally, the economy at a tailspin.
And the data shows, as you just mentioned in your question, Inflation is moderating.
You see jobs created at more than 14 million jobs.
Unemployment is at under 4%.
All of those things is part of Bidenomics, and you will certainly hear the President talk more about that.
Well, the president can talk about it however much he wants.
The bottom line is that consumers right now are still spending because, again, they have that inflated money in their pocket and they realize that the inflation is cooked into the books.
It takes a little while for people to realize that inflation has actually moderated, especially when inflation is still running at three plus percent, as opposed to two percent, which was the Fed's target rate.
The real problem here is that when you look at things like the stock market, corporate earnings are not actually keeping up with the stock market.
Right now, people are invested in the stock market at very high rates because the currency is inflated.
When the currency is inflated, you stop investing in bonds and you start investing in stocks.
Well now, it appears that the bond prices are going up because we're not going to be raising interest rates anytime in the near future.
So bond prices are going up.
This has also created a feeling of economic health in the stock market, people pouring money into the stock market.
The problem is, in the stock market, the P.E.
ratios are really, really high.
Those would be the price-earnings ratios.
Those price-earnings ratios are really, really high.
So Benjamin Graham, the famed investor, who is sort of the intellectual godfather of Warren Buffett, he sought price-earnings ratios around 15 times.
that the price of the company should be a multiple of its earnings by about 15,
but no higher than that. Well, right now, the so-called Magnificent Seven,
which are the companies that are basically driving all of the growth in the stock market
or a huge percentage of the growth in the stock market, these would be companies like Nvidia,
Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla.
Those companies are up around 70% year-to-date.
If you took them out of the S&P 500, the index would be up around 6%, as opposed to the eye-popping gains that you are seeing in the broader stock market indices.
The S&P 500 is up more than 21% so far this year.
If you took out those seven companies, it's up 6%.
And the P.E.
ratios on those companies is 50.
5-0.
That's not sustainable in the long run.
PE ratios of 50?
That is betting very heavily those companies are going to be able to ramp up their earnings obviously.
If they're not able to ramp up those earnings then the pricing mechanism is way out of whack.
So the suggestion would be, theoretically, that when the inflation stops, That the stock market will continue.
It'll hold stable.
The money will be worth more.
People will essentially hold stable their stocks.
They're not going to divest because why would you take your money out of a stock market that's done pretty well?
But stocks are overpriced.
This is the reason why Warren Buffett is selling stocks right now.
And again, inflation has not totally been conquered, but the real problem here is going to be economic stagnation.
I've been talking about gross output as a statistic for quite a while here.
Gross output doesn't just measure spending at the last layer of the economy, which includes an enormous amount of government spending.
It includes business startup investment.
And that's down.
The first couple quarters of 2023, it's been down 9%.
Gross output.
We haven't seen a Q3 stat yet on that.
I can't imagine it's gonna be very strong.
Business starts, I mean, if you are in business, you feel it also right now.
If you're in business, this is not a boom time.
Nobody really thinks this is a boom time outside of a few core companies.
Meanwhile, as Joe Biden continues to fade in the polls, the really bad news for the Biden administration
is that Kamala Harris is still the backup.
There she was spewing word salad yesterday.
We all watched the television coverage of just yesterday.
That's on top of everything.
Did she speak English?
I do not know.
know yet based on what we've just been able to see and because we've seen it or
not doesn't mean it hasn't happened but just limited to what we have seen.
I don't even know what that means. I did she speak English?
I do not know. So but the president doesn't speak English because he's no longer
functional.
Vice president doesn't speak English because I was she ever fun-
I don't even know.
I don't even know what's going on with Kamala Harris.
Oh boy.
All righty.
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