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May 15, 2024 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Biden WANTS To Debate Trump!
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Alrighty folks, it is on like Kong because apparently Joe Biden now wants to debate Donald Trump.
Now, the number one way you know that Joe Biden knows he's losing is because now he wants to debate Trump.
If he were ahead 10 points in the polls, there is no way in hell he would even consider getting on a stage with Donald Trump.
In fact, He has set the predicate for no debates for several years at this point.
He said that Donald Trump is effectively a traitor to the country, a threat to democracy, a person you can't have a reasonable conversation with.
He is a convicted felon is what he would plan to say after this New York trial.
And so I won't debate him.
He's a person who tried to overthrow the entire country on January 6th.
And so I won't debate him.
And now Joe Biden is saying that he will, in fact, debate Donald Trump not just once, But twice.
The only reason that he wants the debate is because he is losing and he knows he is losing.
So today, Joe Biden released a video in which he challenged Donald Trump to two debates.
And here is what it looked like.
My God, he's old.
First off, make sure your eyeline is on the camera, my dude.
His eyeline is off camera because he's obviously reading from a teleprompter.
Now, if you can't watch this, if you're just listening to this, you should understand that this is a 14 second video.
There are five cuts in 14 seconds to say 51 words.
That's the stats here.
It took them five cuts for him to make it through perhaps three sentences containing a grand total, I counted them, of 51 words.
And this dude thinks he's going to make it through a two-hour debate with Donald Trump.
All Donald Trump has to do is not show up and be the yelly, screamy boar that he was during his first debate with Joe Biden in 2020.
If he shows up and he is muted, Donald Trump, Joe Biden is toast because Joe Biden will literally fall asleep on the stage.
Joe Biden might in fact, I mean, they'll pump him up with as much adrenaline as humanly possible without bursting his heart.
They'll have him in the back room giving him transfusions of blood from younger people in order to keep him propped up.
But this is not a sentient, healthy person.
Here is Joe Biden announcing that he wants a debate in the least convincing fashion humanly possible.
This man is less lifelike than the animatronic of him over at the Hall of Presidents at Disneyland.
Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020.
Since then he hasn't shown up for debates.
Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again.
Well, make my day, pal.
I'll even do it twice.
So let's pick the dates, Donald.
I hear you're free on Wednesday.
I love the drums in the background.
Because it has to be hip, you see?
Like, for the kid.
I just wanna... I'll do it twice.
I'm free on Wednesday.
The joke about him being free on Wednesdays is because he's in court the rest of the week.
Alrighty, so if this is what Biden wants, this is what Biden is going to get because Trump would be a fool not to take him up on the opportunity to get him on stage and ask him about his gigantic failures on every possible score.
All Biden will focus on, by the way, is January 6th and the election denial.
That's all Biden will focus on.
And all Trump has to do is say, listen, we disagree on all of those things, but you're a terrible president and everyone knows it.
Because he is a terrible president and everyone knows it.
According to the New York Times, President Biden is willing to debate former President Trump at least twice before the election, and as early as June.
But his campaign is rejecting the nonpartisan organization that has managed presidential debates since 1988, according to a letter obtained by the New York Times.
Now, again, if you're complaining about the refs, typically you're losing.
Now, that's been the preserve of Republicans for a very long time, because it turns out that the Presidential Debate Commission has always been biased toward Democrats.
Usually the moderators are members of the political left who are incredibly friendly to the Democratic candidates, most famously in 2012 when Candy Crowley of CNN literally intervened in a debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in order to falsely fact-check Mitt Romney in favor of Barack Obama.
But there's a long history of this sort of stuff.
John Harwood moderated a debate that was absolutely terrible.
There's a long history of mainstream media journalists who have treated the debate as their own personal political preserve.
And so the fact that it's not Trump saying he doesn't want the commission on presidential debates, it's Biden saying it shows that he thinks he's weak here.
Biden and his top aides want the debates to start much sooner than the dates proposed by the commission on presidential debates.
So voters can see the two candidates side by side well before early voting begins in September.
The actual reason they want to do it early is because they're desperately hoping to shift the narrative before they hit the conventions.
Because the convention for the Democrats happens in August.
There are likely to be massive protests outside the convention.
Joe Biden's Steering of this country has been so terrible that he's figuring if he doesn't course correct and write fast, he's in serious, serious trouble here.
They want the debate to occur inside a TV studio.
Right?
They don't want a crowd because they're afraid that if there's a crowd, then people might actually laugh at Trump's lines.
They want microphones that automatically cut off when a speaker's time limit elapses to prevent Trump from being able to jab in and ask any questions to Joe Biden, presumably.
They want it to be just the two candidates and the moderator.
They don't want Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
or any other independent or third-party candidates included, which is kind of incredible considering that RFK Jr.
is polling in the double digits.
And by any normal stretch of the imagination, he probably should be included in a debate between the two lead candidates.
You got a third-party candidate who's earning upwards of 15% in many of the national polls, that person should be included in such a debate.
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According to the New York Times, the proposal suggests Biden is willing to take some calculated risks to reverse his fortunes in a race in which most battle state ground polls show the president trailing Trump and struggling to persuade voters he's an effective leader and steward of the economy.
In other words, Biden is counting on Trump to blow himself up during one of these debates the same way that he did in 2020.
Remember, there was that first presidential debate between Trump and Biden and Trump came out incredibly aggressive and he wouldn't let Biden get a word in edgewise and eventually Biden just said, oh, shut up.
And even though Biden was a terrible candidate and Trump was a better president than Joe Biden would be, the dynamic was such that it did not cut in Trump's favor.
If Donald Trump comes in in any way under control, Joe Biden is in serious trouble.
And the reason, again, that Biden is doing this is because he's counting on the focus shifting to Trump.
He wants to be on a stage with Trump to shift the focus to Trump.
Now, the reality is that, again, Biden is basically counting on the fact that he's gotten rich Massages from the media every time he's appeared on a public dais for the last three and a half years.
And when he does a State of the Union address, so long as he doesn't actively keel over, the media treat it as a victory for Joe Biden.
The standard is really low.
All he has to do is surpass that.
But if he is asked on a stage about Afghanistan, about Gaza, about Ukraine, about inflation, about transgenderism, if he's asked about any of the hot button issues in this election cycle, he's in serious trouble.
I will reiterate, the only reason Joe Biden is doing this is because he knows he is losing right now.
It is the first formal offer by the Biden campaign, according to the New York Times, for debates with Trump, who has repeatedly declared he will debate his successor anytime, anywhere, and has demanded as many debates as humanly possible.
The letter has been signed by Biden's campaign chair, Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, and addressed to the commission on presidential debates.
And they said that Biden will not participate in the three general election debates sponsored by the commission, scheduled September 16th, October 1, October 9.
Now again, notice that he's trying to push this up early.
Why?
Because he's hoping that if the debate is really bad, he'll still have time to recover.
So he wants the debates as soon as possible to sort of course-correct his campaign, and he also wants it as soon as possible so people will forget about it by the time it comes to the voting.
O'Malley Dillon says Biden will participate in debates hosted by news organizations.
The move opens doors for the Biden team and potentially the Trump team to negotiate directly with the networks for possible debates.
Again, they say in early September, at the start of the fall campaign season, early enough to influence early voting, but not so late as to require candidates to leave the campaign trail.
No.
The reason they're doing that is because they are afraid that if every day that goes by Joe Biden gets older, the clock does not reverse itself.
So this is a fascinating proposal by Biden.
It betrays weakness in Joe Biden.
That weakness is very real because let's face it, the biggest reason that Joe Biden is flailing in the polling is because not only is he a bad president, the economy continues to stagnate.
The newest consumer price index data came out.
Consumer prices rose 3.4%.
The media are treating this as some sort of bizarre win for Joe Biden.
Remember, CPI year on year is supposed to increase 2%.
So we are now running at Well over 50% higher than what the inflation rate should be.
The Federal Reserve openly aims for a 2% rate.
They're running nearly double that at 3.4%.
The media are treating that as some sort of big victory, but we are now three years into an inflationary spiral that sees no signs of going away anytime soon.
The New York Times tries to play it off as a big win.
They say, I would characterize it as a small step in the right direction, said Stephen Stanley, chief U.S.
to policymakers at the Federal Reserve who have been concerned they were losing ground
in their fight against inflation.
But economists cautioned one month of encouraging data was far from enough to set those worries to rest.
"'I would characterize it as a small step in the right direction,' said Stephen Stanley,
chief U.S. economist at Santander."
Okay, but this, again, is not going to lead to a Federal Reserve interest rate cut,
which is what Joe Biden needs in order to jog the economy.
Because we are settling into a stagflationary cycle in which economic growth is starting to peter out and inflation remains entrenched in the economy.
Remember, we've spent our entire lives at a 2% inflation rate in the United States.
It's literally been 40 years since we've seen anything remotely like this.
Early indicators that things are going to get worse, not better, before the election.
Walmart is now cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal, and asking most remote workers to move to offices.
In addition, workers in small tech-focused offices in Dallas, Atlanta, and Toronto are being asked to relocate to other central hubs, like the corporate headquarters in Arkansas or Hoboken, New Jersey or Northern California.
Walmart remains the country's largest private employer.
If they are cutting jobs, that is obviously not a good indicator as to where they think the economy is going.
Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, he continues to maintain a wait-and-see posture on inflation.
He said, during a moderated discussion in Amsterdam on Tuesday, we're just going to have to see where the inflation data fall out.
He said, we didn't expect this to be a smooth road, but these were higher than I think anybody expected.
That would be the last three inflation reports.
He repeated his view that interest rates by many, many measures are high enough to slow demand, meaning we'll need to be patient and let restrictive policy do its work.
But remember, we haven't even hit the point where you can discuss a cut in the interest rates.
You'd have to be at probably 2% for maybe three running months before the Federal Reserve would consider cutting those interest rates.
Because if it gets down to 2% for even one month and you cut the interest rates, presumably that will then boost the number back up well above 2%.
So Joe Biden has a serious problem on his hands, economically speaking.
He continues to maintain that they just have to quote-unquote maintain the course, but they've been maintaining the course for three and a half years.
It ain't working.
That's why 40% of Americans now name inflation as their top economic problem.
Here is Joe Biden trying to claim that he's going to keep walking his way through this minefield.
We've got to be steady, stay the course, and continue to produce these incredible jobs.
And by the way, the pay for the jobs are outpacing the inflation rate they're paying.
We're going to be able to deal with this.
It's going to take a little more time, but we're just focused on it.
Now remember, they've been saying give us more time literally since Joe Biden took office.
They've been saying the inflation was transitory since Joe Biden took office.
It is entrenched in the economy.
Prices since Joe Biden took office in many areas of the economy are up well up over 20%.
Wage increases are not going to make up for that for quite a while.
So that means that Joe Biden has to lie, and he continues to lie.
He knows it's a lie, but he's lying.
Daniel Dale at CNN, they put his picture on the milk carton because he's completely missing as a fact-checker for the president.
He only shows up to fact-check Trump every so often.
Joe Biden lies through his teeth on a routine basis, and Daniel Dale has been missing in action.
They chained him up in a basement somewhere.
We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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Anyway, here is Joe Biden claiming that when he came into office, inflation was 9%.
That is a lie.
It was not.
I think inflation has gone slightly up.
It was at 9% when I came in, and it's now down about 3%.
Again, the entire federal government is now saying, we need to remain patient.
Or alternatively, you could pursue a policy that doesn't suck, namely pouring money into the economy via giant boondoggle programs like the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, like getting rid of all the regulations that would allow for productivity to actually increase in the United States, thus driving up wages and driving down prices.
But Joe Biden isn't doing any of that.
Again, this sort of be patient routine from Jerome Powell.
It's getting old.
We're three and a half years in.
Here's Jerome Powell.
The first quarter in the United States was notable for its lack of further progress on inflation.
We had higher readings in the first quarter and higher than we expected.
We did not expect this to be a smooth road, but these were higher than I think anybody expected.
And so what that has told us is that we'll need to be patient and let restrictive policy do its work.
That is not a great indicator that the Federal Reserve is going to intervene for Joe Biden anytime in the near future.
So meanwhile, Joe Biden is now trying to adopt Donald Trump's trade policies in order to fight Donald Trump.
So yesterday, Joe Biden announced new tariffs on China.
Now, I will remind you that Joe Biden once suggested in 2019 that this was a terrible idea.
Donald Trump put tariffs on Chinese products, not just because he sought to protect American domestic manufacturing.
That was sort of a side effect.
It was mostly because China actively manipulates its own market, and in doing so, props up a regime that is opposed to that of the United States.
The Chinese are, in fact, a geopolitical opponent of the United States.
But Joe Biden at the time was very angry at Donald Trump for putting tariffs on Chinese products.
In 2019, he tweeted this, quote, Trump doesn't get the basics.
He thinks his tariffs are being paid by China.
Any freshman econ student could tell you that the American people are paying his tariffs.
The cashiers at Target see what's going on.
They know more about economics than Trump.
Hashtag Team Joe.
Well, yesterday, Joe Biden came out and announced a series of new tariffs
on goods made in China.
25% off.
25% on steel and aluminum.
Ready for your prices to go up on pretty much everything?
Get ready.
25% on steel and aluminum.
50% on semiconductors.
100% on electric vehicles.
50% on solar panels.
China is determined to dominate these industries.
I'm determined to ensure America leads the world in them.
Well, as it turns out, tariffs on those products does not mean that America will dominate those industries.
It means that we will produce bloated versions of those particular products on an economic level.
Now again, there may be excellent reasons to tariff China for national security reasons, but the idea that it is economically helpful to the United States to engage in tariffing of these products is absurd.
It's not true.
Tariffs harm the party that ends up footing the bill, which is the American consumer.
Effectively, tariffs are a subsidy from the American consumer to particular types of American producer.
Now, there are reasons sometimes to implement tariffs.
Again, those reasons have to do with national security or key industries that are necessary for national security.
That's not what Joe Biden is doing here.
Understand that's not what Joe Biden is doing here.
Joe Biden is attempting to backfill the fact that he has regulated American business out of competitiveness.
That's what's actually happening here.
So you'll notice that the products that Joe Biden mentions right there with regard to the tariffs, they're largely having to do with the production of, for example, electric vehicles, right?
And solar panels and green tech.
Why is he having to tariff the goods made in China in this industry?
Because he is regulating that Americans use those products.
So the reality is that Americans are not in love with electric vehicles.
One of the reasons that Joe Biden is having a really tough time in the Rust Belt states is because those states are big producers.
Pennsylvania is a big producer of shale oil, for example, and Joe Biden is fighting against shale oil.
Michigan is a producer of cars, and Joe Biden is killing the car industry by mandating EVs.
He's driving up prices on American consumers.
And then China's coming in and undercutting those prices, robbing Michigan of those jobs.
That is because of Joe Biden's regulatory structure.
If Joe Biden didn't have that regulatory structure, Michigan would compete with China by putting out gas-powered vehicles that are cheaper and that people seem to want more.
And yet Joe Biden is still attempting to maintain that this is some sort of win for the American consumer.
Again, this is a problem created by Joe Biden.
Unlike Trump's tariffs, which were national security designed, what Joe Biden is doing here is economically driving up the costs on American business by creating environmental regulations and EV demand.
From the government.
And then, in order to fight the fact that those prices get undercut by China, which is subsidizing the industry, he tariffs that.
So now we all pay more for our electric vehicles.
And he's gonna do that to drive down prices in the middle of an inflationary spiral?
That makes no sense.
Tariffs increase prices.
That's what they do.
They're designed to do that.
So you're in the middle of an inflationary spiral in which prices are too high and people are paying more for pretty much everything, and Joe Biden is driving up regulations, and then to compensate for his over-regulation, he is then tariffing imports.
Genius-level stuff.
Remember, it is Joe Biden's EPA that decided that they were going to push forward an electric vehicle mandate.
According to the Wall Street Journal, this is back in March, the EPA's new tailpipe emissions rule is a plan to eliminate gas-powered cars.
EVs made up less than 8% of new auto sales last year, more than half were Tesla.
They accounted for less than 4% of general motors and Ford sales.
Foreign luxury automakers like BMW, Mercedes, Porsche will have an easier time meeting the Biden mandates because their affluent customers can more easily afford EVs.
The average price of a new EV is roughly $50,000.
Only two cost less than $40,000 as of December.
The Chevy Bolt and the Nissan Leaf.
The companies are heavily subsidizing EVs with profits from gas-powered cars, which means the middle-class Americans are paying more for their gas-powered vehicles to subsidize the price on EVs.
So Joe Biden is crushing the car industry.
According to the Wall Street Journal, not long ago, it was cheaper to fuel up an EV than a gas-powered car.
No longer, thanks to the government's force-fed renewable transition, which is raising electricity prices.
Fueling up a Ford F-Series truck now costs about $17 per 100 miles on average, compared with $17.75 for an F-150 Lightning with mostly home charging, and $26.39 with mostly commercial chargers.
Again, this is what democratic, left-wing economic policy looks like.
What it looks like is creating massive barriers to productivity and innovation, and then compensating with yet more regulation that increases the prices in the middle of an inflationary spiral.
Absolutely ridiculous policy here from Joe Biden.
We'll get to more on that in a moment.
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Trade Representative Katherine Tai say, oh yeah, by the way, yeah, sure, Joe Biden reversed himself on tariffs, but you know, he had to.
I know that these new tariffs are seen as more targeted and strategic, but the administration has chosen to keep in place those Trump-era tariffs on some $300 billion worth of goods, which Biden himself had said in 2019 that Americans are paying for.
So why make that decision to keep it in place, and aren't you concerned that it's going to keep prices Elevated.
So, first of all, let me say a couple things.
In terms of the price that Americans paid for in the previous era, some of that, maybe a lot of it, was about the chaos and unpredictability that it created.
And not only have we not seen the problematic practices subside, in some areas we have seen them get worse.
And in that light, there is actually no reason for us, no justification to relieving the tariff burdens on the trade with Beijing.
So that is an admission that Donald Trump was right when he did it, according to the Biden administration, but he's still wrong somehow.
Joe Biden tried to play this off as a win yesterday.
He said Trump failed to boost exports.
Can we be clear about something?
You're not boosting exports when you ban imports.
That's not how that works.
When you tariff imports, all you are doing is maintaining the too high cost structure of domestic production.
Tariffs are a protectionary measure on behalf of certain industries at the expense of the American consumer.
That is what they are.
And yet here he is saying that it's supposed to boost our export market.
How?
Please explain how tariffs are going to boost the American export market.
Folks, these key sectors, my administration is combining investments in America with tariffs that are strategic and targeted.
It's a smart approach.
Compare that to what the prior administration did.
My predecessor promised increased American exports and boost manufacturing.
But he didn't either.
He failed.
Okay, so he failed, supposedly, which is why his economy was leaps and bounds better than Joe Biden's.
We didn't have 40-year highs in inflation.
We didn't have stagnation in terms of the employment market.
Joe Biden is a terrible president on the economy, and it is why he is sinking in the polls.
Between that and the fact that he's an absolute coward on foreign policy, there are a lot of reasons why Joe Biden is deeply unpopular and now forced to debate Donald Trump in a way that, frankly, I didn't think he was going to.
So yesterday, the Biden administration, again, they're trying to be all things to all people, and it's a total fail.
So yesterday, the Biden administration put out a leak suggesting they don't think that Israel can fully win in the Gaza Strip.
According to Politico, a top U.S.
official's recent statement that Israel is, quote, unlikely to achieve total victory in Gaza was not a mistake or an off-the-cuff remark.
It's how the Biden administration now assesses the situation on the ground.
Now, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
Israel certainly can establish military control over the Gaza Strip.
It will be a counterinsurgency and military control over the Gaza Strip for the foreseeable future.
How do I know that Israel can do that?
Because that's literally what they've been doing in Jenin and Nablus and Hebron and so many other cities in the West Bank for literally three generations.
Because as it turns out, you sometimes have to go in and kill terrorists in areas that foster terrorism.
And handing those areas off to other forms of regime has not exactly been a boon to Israel.
So yes, Israel can achieve victory.
The Biden administration is actively attempting to undermine that victory by redefining victory to, Israel's going to exterminate the ideology of Hamas.
There's literally no way to do that because the civilian population in Gaza agrees with Hamas.
The Biden administration, whenever they say this sort of stuff, they're admitting the quiet part out loud, which is that the real problem in the Middle East is that you have a radicalized population that hates Jews.
That is the real problem in Gaza.
This is not a situation like Iran, actually, where you have a fairly moderate population presided over by a tyrannical terrorist group.
This is a situation where the terrorist group is largely supported by the civilian population.
But Politico reports that the Biden administration is attempting to undermine even the concept of victorious war here.
Every time a senior aide to President Joe Biden talked about how Israeli weapons can't destroy Hamas' ideology or describe the need for a day-after plan, they were obliquely making a point that Israel's goal of an absolute victory is out of reach, the officials said.
So they keep pushing Israel for some sort of governance plan afterward.
The problem, of course, is that the one possible durable governance plan for the Gaza Strip is the one the United States is pushing against.
It also happens to be the one governance plan that was never tried.
meaning Israel handed over the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians in 2005.
They promptly elected Hamas.
Hamas promptly killed the members of the Palestinian Authority
and established tyrannical rule.
The population supports them, hides them, joins with them.
How enmeshed is Hamas in the infrastructure of the Gaza Strip?
They're so enmeshed that yesterday, Israel released footage of Hamas openly working with the United Nations.
You can see these are UN marked vehicles.
Directly next to the UN marked vehicles are Hamas terrorists.
These are Hamas terrorists carrying weapons, interacting with people from the UN vehicles.
Pretending that the UN and Hamas are two separate entities in the Gaza Strip is a lie.
It is not true.
The UN and Hamas are one and the same.
The UNRWA is another name for Hamas.
They all work together.
Pretending otherwise is ridiculous.
And so when the Biden administration says they want a transition plan, what they actually really want is Hamas or its allies back in control, which Israel can never allow.
That is the real impasse here.
The Biden administration wants to please its left-wing base by suggesting that Israel cannot quote-unquote occupy the Gaza Strip.
Maintaining a military presence so as to protect your own citizenry is not, in fact, a quote-unquote occupation.
There is no right to establish a terror state.
There is no right to establish a regime that is pro-extermination of Jews.
That is not- There is no- Please name me the moral or international right to do this thing.
It doesn't exist.
And yet the Biden administration keeps suggesting that somehow it's Israel's job to prop up people that want to destroy it, which is totally insane.
In fact, the Times of Israel reported yesterday That the US appears to be laying the groundwork for declaring that Israel has already weakened Hamas sufficiently to justify an end to the war.
What exactly does that mean?
Apparently, the United States has signaled its tepid support for China's recent efforts to strike a long, elusive deal between Hamas and Fatah, which is the military arm of the Palestinian Authority.
That would likely mean a degree of Hamas approval of the individuals tapped to lead the transitional Palestinian government in Gaza, but the American source said no Hamas members would be allowed in the government.
That's insane!
That is, Hamas launches a war against Israel, gets their asses kicked, and then the United States is like, wait, how about if Hamas picked the government of the PA, and then the PA ruled Gaza?
So that's the United States actively standing for a terrorist coalition to run Gaza, While funding both sides of the war, which is nuts!
It's nutso!
We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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When the Palestinians get to a point where they are in a position to hold elections,
source said, the goal is for Hamas alternatives to demonstrate results in governing that can be weighed against the destruction the terror group unleashed on the enclave.
That's totally crazy.
So they're saying, OK, then we'll get to an election.
What if Hamas gets elected?
Don't worry, Hamas won't be elected.
Because Hamas has shown they can't govern.
And the people of Gaza desperately want excellent governance from the Palestinian Authority.
So that's plan number one presented by the United States.
Is that Hamas joins with the Palestinian Authority.
They don't call themselves Hamas anymore.
They name themselves the Happy Dappy Do Terrorists.
And then the Happy Dappy Do Terrorists, together with the PA, they run the Gaza Strip.
And then, eventually when there's an election, which there never will be, eventually when there's an election, The PA will have done such an extraordinary job of running Gaza that they will be overwhelmingly elected over the more radical Hamas, which has widespread support in the Gaza Strip.
And by the way, in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, if elections were held today in the West Bank, Hamas would win.
They would defeat the Palestinian Authority.
And the undying problem in the Middle East is a radicalized population.
The terrorists are representative of the population in terms of democratic representation, in terms of just popular support.
That is a reality.
And the United States refusing to acknowledge that because the United States under Joe Biden has this perverse view that somehow people who love terrorism and hate Jews are driven to that by the Jews.
That perverse perspective is going to lead to more dead Palestinians and more dead Israelis.
So they have an alternative proposal.
According to the Financial Times, the Biden administration is seeking to build support among Arab states for a peacekeeping force that would deploy to Gaza to fill the power vacuum once the Israel-Hamas war ends.
Egypt, the UAE, and Morocco are considering the initiative.
Other states, including Saudi, have rejected putting boots on the ground, fearing being seen as complicit with Israel.
The White House is not going to deploy U.S.
troops, thank God.
It is unclear whether Israel will be willing to agree to the initiative.
The answer is, of course not!
Because the minute that an international force is put on the ground without Israeli oversight, it will turn into the UNRWA.
How do we know?
Because there's an international force on the ground right now.
It's called the UNRWA.
And it's run by Hamas.
This is totally insane.
By the way, there is a reason that Egypt is super, super angry with Israel going into Rafah.
The reason they're angry with Israel going into Rafah is for two reasons.
One, Palestinians want to leave Gaza and go into Egypt.
Egypt wants nothing to do with them.
So the idea that Egypt wants to participate in governance of the Gaza Strip is a total fanfic nonsense garbage idea.
Egypt wants nothing to do with it.
The other reason is because there are a bunch of tunnels, everyone knows this, that go from Rafah into Egypt and they're afraid the Israelis are going to uncover that and it's going to create serious international pressure on the Egyptians not to pay off Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
That is why Egypt is so all fired angry.
The current standoff began when Israel gave Egypt just hours notice before launching the military operation last week in which the Israeli military seized control of the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, according to Egyptian officials.
Israel had previously briefed Egypt about its plans for Rafah, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has not responded to a request for comment.
Egypt is trying to mediate these talks because, again, they want to play sort of happy middleman here.
But the reality, of course, is that Egypt is objecting to this for a lot of very bad reasons.
Meanwhile, again, Joe Biden cannot make up his mind.
He is trying to give signals to every side of the political aisle.
Again, Joe Biden's guiding principle is be at the center of the Democratic Party.
The problem is the Democratic Party is split between people who hate Israel and people who kind of like Israel, between the radicals and the moderates.
And so at the same time, he's attempting to deny Israel weaponry in his fight in Rafah The administration notified Congress of a large arms package after withholding shipment of bombs last week.
They notified Congress on Tuesday they were moving forward with more than a billion dollars in new weapons deals for Israel, according to U.S.
and congressional officials.
Now, with that said, not totally clear that Biden is reversing course here.
Because just because he's telling Congress that he's moving forward with a thing doesn't mean that he's actually done the thing.
He said the same thing about the last arms shipment and then held up the arms shipment.
But this is obviously them on a PR level attempting to split the baby.
Because they legitimately have no foreign policy in this region other than futzing around.
It's totally crazy.
Now in just one second, we'll get to the latest on the army of losers at our college campuses.
First, we cut through the noise from the left with facts, logic, and today.
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Over on our college campuses, the administrators are doing what they do best.
They are cowering in fear at a bunch of left-wing radicals who they should simply expel from the university for violating university rules.
My alma mater, Harvard, the latest university to cave to a bunch of student radical idiots.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Harvard University reached an agreement with pro-Palestinian protesters to clear out their encampment on Tuesday, one week before commencement.
Now, you know what that agreement should have looked like?
It should have looked like either agree to leave or the cops are coming in to remove you.
Here in Florida, that's how it works, by the way.
There are a bunch of people from Queers for Palestine who tried to hold up one of the highways near Disneyland the other day.
It took the cops 11 minutes to clear them.
You know what they didn't do?
Have a sit-down session where all of their concerns were heard.
In a letter to the Harvard community, President Alan Garber said the university would begin reinstatement proceedings for students placed on involuntary leaves of absence.
So they're going to give a pardon to all the people violating the rules and evaluate disciplinary cases of those who participated in the encampment.
University officials would also meet with students to address questions about the endowment of the school.
Why a bunch of people who are paying for a service and then violate the terms of service should be allowed to have discussions about the deployment of the endowment.
The multi-billion dollar endowment of Harvard University is ridiculous.
Alan Garber is a disgrace.
So are all these administrators.
They're just pathetic.
They're honestly super pathetic.
The peaceful end to Harvard's three-week encampment differs from the scenes of many other schools where thousands of arrests have taken place since last month.
A Cambridge, Massachusetts school suspended more than 20 students and referred more than 60 for further disciplinary charges.
But now, apparently, the students were placed on involuntary leave, not suspensions.
It won't go on their permanent record, even.
Garber said, quote, we are under no illusions.
We do not believe these meetings are divestment wins.
These side deals, this is the student protester group, these side deals are intended to pacify us away from full disclosure and divestment.
Rest assured, they will not.
This is very similar to what happened at Cornell University where the president, Martha Pollack, announced she would retire and then said the school would pause issuing suspensions and would promptly and carefully review existing cases.
At Princeton University, they decided to cave as well.
At Princeton University, they decided that they would create a committee to consider issues related to the school endowment to discuss an initial assessment on student requests for divestment.
University of Chicago vowed to hire Palestinian professors and give full scholarship to Palestinians.
Now, where is the demand for this?
Where is the pressure?
There is no pressure.
It's all internal.
It's all in the heads of the progressive leftists who run the universities and the agitators with whom they wore cannon glove.
There is no external donor pressure for them to cave to the protesters.
None.
Who are the people who are the donors who are like, yeah, you should cave to the protesters.
Deeply important that that master's in gender studies is ripping up her diploma.
You got to appease her.
No one believes that, and yet these universities are doing it, which is just another reason that federal funding should be cut immediately to these little left-wing activist factories.
If you want to give money to their research facilities, earmarked, non-fungible, do it.
But certainly defund all of these universities that have decided to turn themselves into activist factories rather than institutes of education.
Meanwhile, in other failings of the Biden administration, tape has now emerged of Tony Blinken jamming in Kiev.
Now, I'll just point out here that you would never see Tony Blinken jamming in Tel Aviv.
There are two ongoing major wars in the world right now, Israel versus Hamas and Ukraine versus Russia.
The Biden administration's position on Ukraine has been aid, aid, aid, no conditions on the aid, no attempt to get to an off-ramp, no discussions of an off-ramp, no pressure on the Ukrainians to reach an off-ramp, nothing.
Now I'm a supporter of aid to Ukraine sufficient to pressure Ukraine to pressure Russia into coming to the table.
If you have a military collapse on the front, Russia ain't gonna negotiate.
But the idea that Tony Blinken has provided effectively a blank check to Ukraine in its negotiating status, while simultaneously demanding that Israel, which has complete military superiority over the Gaza Strip, ought to somehow cut a deal with Hamas while hostages are being held, is totally nuts.
Where is the demand for an endgame from Zelensky?
Is there any demand for an endgame?
What is the strategic endgame?
The White House has said there is none.
But Tony Blinken's over there playing rock songs at bars in Kiev.
Here's our Secretary of State.
The adults are back in charge.
Good night.
So first of all, let me just point out that Neil Young sucks.
I'm just gonna start with that.
His stuff is trash.
But, beyond that, it may be worth pointing out that this song was actually about how the George H. W. Bush administration was bad.
And, you know, there's that.
So, again, this is our very adult administration.
It really is pathetic.
And meanwhile, again, the media are trying to put all their focus on Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen.
So Michael Cohen was in court yesterday, and it is amazing how they simply cannot help themselves.
They have to make everyone a hero of the resistance, including corrupt lawyer, convicted perjurer, Michael Cohen.
So the defense brought out a video of Michael Cohen saying that Trump belongs in a cage to point out that he has some nefarious motivations in his testimony, which of course is true.
Here is that tape of Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, So here with the gag water.
Yes.
The other day, Donald, once again, he comes out, you know, he comes out of the courtroom and goes right into that little cage, which is where he belongs in a cage like an animal.
He belongs in a cage like that's the that's the key witness for the prosecution in this particular case.
Also, he is pitching a new reality TV show right now.
So your chief witnesses, if you are the prosecutors in the Donald Trump case, are a star who had sex on camera for money, who then attempted to spin her tale of tawdry Awkward sex with Donald Trump into a story of assault.
You tried to do that on the stand and it failed.
That's one of your big witnesses.
The other big witness is Michael Cohen, convicted perjurer, who is currently pushing a new show called The Fixer, a reality TV show he is shopping to studios and streamers.
In which he says, quote, for years, I was the personal lawyer for a notoriously bad man.
I fixed his problems, both professionally and personal, gaining power, wealth, and notoriety for myself in the process.
And I paid the price for it.
Since then, I've been on a journey of redemption, working to set things right with my family, my friends, my country, speaking truth to power and calling it like I see it.
Now I'm paying it forward, wielding the tools I've learned for regular people in trouble.
It's supposed to be a riff on The Apprentice.
These are the witnesses against Donald Trump in this particularly stupid case.
So Donald Trump yesterday, he did a big appearance outside the courtroom in which he essentially activated many of his political allies to say all the things that he's banned from saying by gag order.
So here was Donald Trump saying that Judge Mershon should give a directed verdict in this case because the charges are insufficient to sustain a conviction.
Here's Trump.
This is the whole case.
Are you allowed to call a legal expense a legal expense?
I don't know what else you'd call it, actually.
But he brings it up here, the legal expense.
It was, you know, what's the problem?
I never thought that, as an attorney, I could see a system like New York's, one of the most sophisticated legal bars in the world, really debase itself so badly.
This judge should not be allowed on the case.
He should not allow this case to go forward.
Mershad should rule in favor of a directive verdict immediately.
There is an insufficient amount of evidence.
No crime has been shown.
No crime has been committed.
Okay, then he says he's going to go sit in the icebox, meaning I'm not, I'm going to go back in court.
I can't say any of the stuff I want to say.
And then a bunch of his allies say the stuff he wants to say.
So here was Trump yesterday at the courthouse.
The gag order has to come off.
So when you ask me a question about the people that we're talking about, I'm not allowed to answer.
There's never been anything like this in the history of our country.
It's a scam.
It's election interference at a level that's never taken place before.
And now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go into the Well, all of that preceded what actively is season 20 of The Apprentice.
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So the Veep stakes are obviously ongoing.
And people gave their opening statements yesterday as to why they should be Donald Trump's vice president.
So basically his court case, it's honestly smart politics by Trump.
He's getting a bunch of people to say the stuff that he can't say under gag order from Judge Merchant yesterday.
Byron Donalds, congressman from Florida, ally of the president, he was out there in front of that courthouse doing his rip on the trial yesterday.
Ladies and gentlemen of America, this trial is a joke.
This thing is a farce.
We were in there all morning.
Michael Cohen basically sat there and said, yeah, he invoiced legal expenses.
The Trump campaign, the Trump organization, not the campaign, paid out money in legal expenses.
Where's the crime?
There is no crime.
The only crime that's happening here is this Democrat judge and the Democrat party prosecuting their political rival right in the middle of a presidential election.
I ain't wrong.
Other guests included J.D.
Vance, who showed up.
Tommy Tuberville from Alabama, who showed up.
Rick Scott from Florida, who showed up.
So it's a tourist destination now.
Vivek Ramaswamy, he did what he does best here.
This is like classic grade A Vivek.
I will say that Vivek untethered is good watching.
Here is Vivek going after the trial.
This is a sham.
This is not the United States of America.
This is some third-rate banana republic.
If this were happening in another country, we would be laughing at them as a sham democracy.
I am ashamed as an American citizen to sit here in a courtroom watching the former leader of the free world, and let's be honest, likely next leader of the free world, sitting with the indignity in this dingy third-rate courtroom with fourth-rate prosecutors and a fifth-rate lawyer on the stand as a witness.
Who actually is violating attorney-client privilege left and right.
Nobody's even talking about that.
Okay, Vivek is not wrong about that.
Again, these are the ongoing veepstakes, so we'll see.
We'll have to grade performances here.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson also went to New York in order to talk about the trial, and people were very upset about this.
Like, how could he inject himself into something as crucial as a trial?
I don't know.
How did Joe Biden inject himself directly into the Derek Chauvin trial?
How is it that Joe Biden injected himself directly into the Hunter Biden trial?
How's it that Nancy Pelosi's injected herself into half a dozen high-profile criminal cases?
Here's Speaker Johnson going off on the trial as well.
I'm here speaking with you outside because the court won't allow us to speak inside the building.
That's just one of the many things that are wrong here.
This is the fifth week that President Trump has been in court for this sham of a trial.
They are doing this intentionally to keep him here And keep him off of the campaign trail.
And I think everybody in the country can see that for what it is.
Well, that obviously is true as well.
If Joe Biden's relict hopes rest on a conviction in New York courtroom on a trumped up charge, good luck to him.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in New York, there's a big primary battle last night inside the Democratic Party targeting Jamal Bowman, a man so stupid that he believes that a fire alarm somehow releases doors or something.
Jamal Bowman is actively anti-Semitic as well.
I mean, he has supported literally every anti-Semitic proposition brought forward in Congress.
Big supporter of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the Hamas caucus in the Congress.
Last night, he debated with centrist Democrat George Latimer in the 16th congressional district.
It is very likely Jamal Bowman is in serious danger in this district.
Here was Jamal Bowman maintaining that from the river to the sea, a chance calling for the extermination of the state of Israel somehow is not racist or anti-Semitic.
Do you consider the phrase, from the river to the sea, hate speech and or advocating for the eradication of the state of Israel?
Congressman Bowman, let's get your take.
I know some do, others don't.
I do not.
Oh, well, okay.
That's going to go over well in that district.
Also, he then tried to play the race card.
So after George Latimer criticized Bowman for being a radical jackass, Bowman was like, you're only saying that because I'm black.
Well, no, actually he's saying that because you're a radical jackass, as it turns out.
You work in a legislative body.
You need to form coalitions with people.
You need to have their respect.
You need to talk to them as normal people.
You can't preach and scream at them on the steps of the Capitol.
Okay.
He's ineffective as a congressman for this very reason that you've just seen.
We're going to have a lot of disappointed viewers if I don't reign this in.
The angry black man.
The angry black man.
Let's stay on topic, please.
It's the southern strategy in the north.
Let's stay on topic.
And they expect us to be quiet about it.
We're not going to be quiet about it.
So pathetic.
So pathetic.
These are Democrats arguing with each other and he's calling his opponent racist for pointing out that he's a radical who's done nothing of consequence or use in Congress.
Getting rid of Jamal Bowman would be an IQ increase for the state of Congress.
The average IQ would rise by at least five points if Jamal Bowman were not in Congress.
And that's saying a lot, because the average IQ in Congress is super duper duper low.
Joining us online is Kyle Dunnigan, MEP body and Writers Guild Award-winning comedy writer and stand-up comic.
And of course, he is now playing Eddie Burcham in our new animated series, Mr. Burcham.
He plays Adam Carolla's son, actually, Kyle.
Thanks so much for joining the show.
Thanks for having me.
I'm worried I might be the person with the lowest IQ ever on your show, so I'm just- Oh no, don't worry, we've had some people with very low IQs on the show before, so you're- Okay, good.
You should be good.
I mean, literally just a few minutes ago we played a clip of Jamal Bowman, so you're probably fine.
So let's talk about how you got on the Mr. Bertram team.
How did this thing happen?
I was on Adam Carolla's show a lot, just as a guest, and he just asked me and I just said yes right away because I've always been a big fan.
I actually got to know Adam because of his Bertram character.
That was the first I saw him on the Comedy Central show with the puppets, Crank Yankers.
Did you see that?
Yep, of course.
And I was like, this guy is so funny.
And I just was a big fan.
And then I was excited to be on a show.
And I never dreamed I would be on something with him.
So I just said yes right away.
And yeah, so I auditioned for anything you don't get.
I just have to be told you're on this.
So you know, you have a long standing relationship with Adam.
What's it been like working with him?
And what's it like to be his son?
I mean, I'd say it was a dream come true, but I actually never dreamed it.
But if I thought about it, he'd probably be a pretty cool dad.
I never really worked with him when we shot this.
It was just sort of like all remote, but they would just show, you know, clips.
We all did it like in separate rooms.
I'd like to, and I propose we all do it together somehow, but I think it's logistically impossible.
So let's talk about your particular character.
What is your character?
How do you craft that character?
Well, I play his son, as you said, who's like a, he's a video gamer and he makes money just playing video games.
I don't relate to that at all.
It sounds like a good job.
He's from Southern California, so I sort of gave him like a Southern California sort of accent.
And yeah, and that's basically it.
I really didn't do too much research, sorry to say.
So how did you get into comedy in the first place?
It's not like the usual career path.
Yeah, I was really pushed by my mother to like perform and I was pretty shy.
And people sort of laughed at me when I was younger.
I was like tiny.
And I was kind of, I didn't like it.
But I think eventually I did like the attention of it.
And it was a way for girls to pay attention to me, I guess.
And then, when I got out of college, I just kept getting fired.
And then it became, oh, you have to do this.
You have to do this to make money.
But I do a bunch of different stuff.
I also do music, too.
I started off doing improv and sketch, and there was no money in that.
So I did stand-up because there was money there.
Well, that makes perfect sense, and obviously you're now earning the big bucks over at Mr. Burcham.
So, what's been your favorite part about working on the series?
Honestly, like, when we get together and, you know, just, like, we just had the premiere and just meeting everybody.
I love, like, the cast is just a really nice, fun group.
I love Megyn Kelly, who plays my mom.
Um, she's not leaving her husband, she said very directly.
Um, Roseanne I met, uh, who was really sweet to me.
Um, in the, you know, when we recorded it, I mean, Nate, who, um, wrote it is great, Nate Adams, but he was really the only one there.
Most of the time.
Well, that is Kyle Dunnigan.
You can go check out his work over at Mr. Bertram, which is now available first couple episodes of Daily Wire+.
Make sure that you go subscribe and check him out over there.
It's an amazing cast on this show.
Well done on the show, Kyle, and thanks so much for joining the show.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ben.
Appreciate it.
Alright, coming up, Bernie Sanders is suggesting that we need more black Latino doctors because black and Latino doctors are better for black and Latino people.
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