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May 29, 2024 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Raging Bulls***
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When campaigns are in meltdown, it seems like nothing they touch goes right.
And there are lots of symptoms when campaigns are in meltdown.
For example, it's very difficult for those campaigns to get their own voters back into the fold.
This is true, obviously, of re-elected campaigns.
This is true for Jimmy Carter in 1980, who had a really difficult time getting Democrats back in the fold.
He had barely won an election, a very close election, in 1976 against Gerald Ford, and then he ran against Ronald Reagan.
He got absolutely walloped.
Well, Joe Biden is now in the middle of a campaign meltdown, and you can tell it.
You can tell it because every story about the Biden campaign is how he is struggling to win back voters that already should be in his back pocket.
And it also means that his campaign is now attempting bizarre and sundry Tactics in order to gain headlines in the middle of a cycle, a news cycle that is terrible for him.
So in the past few weeks, we have articles about how Joe Biden doesn't believe the polls.
That is a great symptom of a campaign that is failing.
If you are out there telling the media that you don't believe the polls, typically that means you're losing.
Or for example, Axios today called Biden launching a new strategy to win black voters.
Let's be clear about this.
The black vote in the United States has gone for the Democrats by extraordinary numbers every single election cycle for the past several decades.
In fact, Black voters were the key to Biden's 2020 win.
The numbers for Biden among Black voters in 2020 were extraordinary.
He got great turnout, particularly in terms of mail-ins, and he got an extraordinarily high percentage of the vote from Black voters in 2020.
But now, Joe Biden is in real trouble.
And he's having a tough time actually winning back those same black voters.
He won 92% of the black vote against Donald Trump.
But polling is currently showing Donald Trump not only in the double digits, but in the significant double digits among black voters and black voter motivation really low for Joe Biden.
It turns out that they are not all that interested in a senile 80-year-old white man who has spent his entire career making befuddled gaffes about race.
According to Axios, Polling has consistently shown a lack of enthusiasm among black voters for Biden.
A recent New York Times Siena survey put his support at 69 to 18 over Trump with black voters.
So he's going to spend eight figures, rely on black student organizations, community groups, churches, and surrogates to improve his standing with black voters in swing states.
And he's going to go campaign in these various communities.
He has to win black voters with overwhelming support.
If Joe Biden, five months from the election, is having to go campaign in black areas of, say, Philadelphia, or has to head on over to Detroit, Michigan, in order to get out to vote, that dude is in serious, serious trouble.
So that is indicator number one.
is that he is having to go shore up a voting base that clearly has gone Democrat.
And historically, in extraordinary numbers, for Democrats, he has to shore up that base.
That's a real problem for him.
Indicator number two, he's denying the polling data.
It's not real.
It's all fake.
Whistling past the graveyard.
And then there's indicator number three, which is that the Biden campaign is now pulling out the stops on bizarre tactics that are not only unavailing, they are wildly counterproductive.
So yesterday, Politico writes, after six weeks of staying clear of the courthouse at 100 Center Street, Joe Biden's campaign on Tuesday showed up to hold their own event, a dramatic reversal of the president's strategy in the final days of Donald Trump's trial.
So remember, it was considered wildly unpresidential for Donald Trump to sound off on his own trial, where he is currently being tried in court.
That is considered out of bounds.
How dare he attack the justice system?
How dare he intervene in the justice system?
Meanwhile, Joe Biden, the actual president of the United States, whose DOJ is presiding over multiple cases against his political opponent, is deploying his campaign to stand outside the courtroom in New York in order to stump for Donald Trump's conviction.
That's not only unprecedented, it's nuts.
It's nuts.
And not only are they doing that, it would be nuts enough if he deployed, say, lawyers from his campaign to go explain the case in front of the courtroom.
That would obviously be deeply problematic, considering the President of the United States as the chief law enforcement officer in the land, because of course, he presides over the Attorney General, who presides over the DOJ.
That he's deploying his own legal team outside the courtroom to rip on his political opponent in the middle of a trial.
That is insane on its face.
It's crazy.
But it got crazier because they didn't just deploy some campaign lawyer to explain the case against Donald Trump.
They deployed a celebrity to go outside the trial and hold an event.
That is a desperation move.
We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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So who did they trot out?
On Tuesday, they made the decision, apparently over the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware, to be nimble and creative.
Nimble and creative, those are not things that, not words that readily come to mind for our doddering president.
But on Tuesday, what did that mean?
It meant that they brought out the raging bull bleeper himself, Robert De Niro.
He has nipples, Greg.
Could you milk him?
He shows up, okay, wearing a mask.
Here's Robert De Niro.
I don't know who, honest to God, I don't know who came up with this idea.
This is one of the stupidest political ideas I have ever seen in my entire life.
Apparently, the idea of the Biden campaign was we have an unpopular 81-year-old incumbent who falls down a lot and babbles nonsensically.
What if we get to defend him outside the courtroom where his political opponent is being tried on political grounds?
What if we get an 80-year-old, half-senile, doddering old man Who recently fathered a small baby.
What if we get that guy?
And he's an actor to boot.
And he's crazy enough that he spent the last several years going on random TV shows shouting F Trump.
This is a man with the credibility of the American people behind him.
This is a man who has gravitas.
Robert De Niro.
So here he is wandering around in New York City, in the broad daylight, outside, three years after the end of COVID, wearing a mask.
Slow clap for these geniuses.
I mean, this is like some really solid stuff.
Apparently he is now reversing his line from the king of comedy.
Right?
Which was, better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.
Better to be schmuck for a night than king for a lifetime.
Is apparently Robert De Niro's new styling here.
So he arrives, and then he proceeds to start rambling nonsensically.
What, what were they even thinking?
What were they thinking?
What was the idea here?
I just, I don't, honest to God, I don't get it.
This is the stupidest campaign ploy I have ever seen, ever.
It was really dumb in 2016 when Hillary Clinton at the convention trotted out a bunch of young actresses to sing fight song.
And it was really cloying and annoying.
But at least she understood that it was an attempt to bring actual celebrities who do a thing celebrities do like saying.
Bringing Robert De Niro, a guy who plays a tough guy on, in the movies, To show up at the age of 80 and stagger over to microphones to talk about a criminal trial.
Like what was even the logic?
This isn't even a bank shot.
It's like one of those old Larry Bird, Michael Jordan commercials.
This is like off the plane, off the house, off the tiger, off the backboard, swish.
Like what, what, who thought of this?
It's like pinball logic here.
If you just bounce the ball enough, then magically this will lead to Donald Trump losing the election.
Here's Robert De Niro, an elderly man who spent his entire life reading scripts written by other people, doing a terrible acting job.
He needs take two.
And Martin Scorsese directing this thing, because I got to tell you, otherwise it's just the rest of his IMDb credits over the last 15 years.
I mean, this is really, even these people over here, it's kind of crazy.
It's really crazy and this thing, Donald Trump, has created this.
He should be telling them not to do this.
But he's just... It's no surprise that the murder rate and other violent crimes peaked under Trump and are falling under Biden.
And now he's promising to use our own military to attack US citizens.
That's the tyrant.
That's the tyrant he's telling us he'll be.
And believe me, he means it.
Is he talking to me?
Is he talking to me?
What in the world?
What is he even jabbering about?
He's gonna use the American military on his domestic opponent?
You're literally standing outside a trial where he is being tried for a crime that does not exist by a politically motivated DA, and the President of the United States just deployed you to go speak outside of his trial why he should be thrown in jail, and you're talking about Donald Trump being the tyrant?
That's your idea?
Totally crazy, totally crazy stuff here from Robert.
Again, the notion that Robert De Niro was going to be the tip of the spear in terms of Joe Biden's campaign.
My goodness.
And in 2012, Mitt Romney brought Clint Eastwood to speak at the Republican National Convention.
And it was actually a pretty good idea.
It's just that Clint Eastwood refused to read from the script.
Clint Eastwood said he wanted to say what he wanted to say.
And he did that famous empty chair thing, which everyone was like, what is happening right now?
All he really needed was for Clint Eastwood to get up on the stage And to Dirty Harry.
And he did, and he did something else that was random.
But at least Clint Eastwood at the time had high levels of trust with the American people because he had also just done this famous car commercial in the aftermath of the Great Recession, all this kind of stuff.
No one takes Robert De Niro seriously.
No one.
He's not even considered a sort of iconic figure anymore, considering that the sort of Daniel Day-Lewis artiste from the 1970s and early 80s has now been demoted to the guy who does About My Father.
The movie about my father, which I didn't even know existed until I looked up his IMDB with Sebastian Maniscalco.
That's the guy they trotted out.
It's just insane.
And then he proceeds to have a meltdown and engage with the hecklers because he can't stop himself.
So he starts turning into Travis Bickle in real time, but really, really old.
Is it?
What?
What?
This is... This campaign is... If Donald Trump loses to this campaign, I mean, honest to God, I don't know how it's possible.
Maybe.
But Joe Biden is running... This is a horrible campaign being run by Joe Biden.
These guys are the true heroes.
They stood and put their lives on the line for these low lives, for Trump.
They lied on the road.
They lied on the road?
Who lied on the road?
What are you telling me?
Those two traitors behind you.
Excuse me?
Those two traitors behind you.
They lied on the road?
That's right.
What are you saying?
They're traitors.
They're traitors?
I don't even know how to deal with you, my friend.
I don't even know how to deal with you.
Old man arguing with protesters on behalf of old man who can't even argue with protesters anymore because he's no longer functional.
Wow.
Wow.
According to Politico, quote, By the way, you know how delusional and crazy that is?
That's so crazy.
The biggest problem right now in the country for Joe Biden is that everyone is paying attention to Joe Biden.
Joe Biden is in such a siloed echo chamber that he's like, oh my God, why is MSNBC and CNN covering Trump?
Why don't they cover me?
Why are they covering Trump?
They're covering Trump because they're trying to help you win.
And they know over at CNN and MSNBC that the more they cover you, the more likely it is you will lose because you suck at being president.
Everything you touch turns to absolute crap.
But the incompetence at the Biden campaign are like, oh my God, every time I turn on CNN and MSNBC, they're just showing this trial.
We can't get attention for our amazing campaign.
Let's get Robert De Niro out there.
At the age of 80, to babble about tyranny.
The people familiar with the decision disputed that the stunt was born out of desperation, even as Biden has narrowly but consistently trailed Trump in the polls.
Well, I mean, it is.
I mean, it reeks of desperation.
Reeks of desperation, obviously.
In fact, this is pretty much openly admitted.
At the event itself.
We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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Michael Fanon was one of the officers who was assaulted on January 6th and then has spent the last several years just doing TV rounds talking about how this was the worst insurrection in the history of the country and all this kind of stuff.
Well, he was asked by MSNBC, why is Robert De Niro here?
And he's like, because no one will pay attention to us unless Robert De Niro is here.
Yeah, but you know what?
Not all attention is good attention.
It turns out we're all paying attention right now because you all look like clowns.
This is a clown show.
Can you kind of give me a framework of how you guys are looking at the next five months, the roles you play in the broader Biden campaign coming out of these trials?
Well, first of all, like, I'm incredibly grateful for, you know, Robert De Niro lending his celebrity and his voice to this cause.
That being said, you know, I think that it's Disheartening to know that that's what it takes three and a half years after an insurrection at the Capitol in which hundreds of police officers were brutalized and our democracy was threatened to get the media's attention.
Okay, again, he's admitting it's a desperation play.
We've been repeating this January 6th stuff for three years at this point, and no one will pay attention to us anymore because it's boring and tired and old and everyone has an opinion on it already, and so we're gonna trot out this elderly man who reads lines for a living over the course of multiple takes And then we are going to have him stand in so we can get some attention.
We got the attention, but ain't the kind of attention you need.
How flailing is the Biden campaign?
How bad is the Biden campaign?
Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, Democrats intend to formally nominate President Biden as their president's nominee with the help of a virtual roll call weeks before the Chicago convention in August.
a move that would allow the president to appear on the ballot in Ohio and minimize possible
protests during the convention. So they're claiming this is all about getting Biden on
the ballot in Ohio, which of course wouldn't make any difference. He's going to lose Ohio.
Trump's going to win Ohio, but that's not a swing state anymore. But what is this really about?
It's about shortening the actual process on the DNC floor, because if there is process on the DNC
floor, they are afraid mass protests will break out on the DNC floor against the nomination of
Biden, crippling him in the public view as the Democratic Party splits wide open right down
Because the chances of high-level protests at the DNC are incredibly high.
The date of the DNC this year in Chicago is August 19th to August 22nd.
He'll be nominated formally, presumably, August 22nd.
That is not far off.
We are currently almost at the beginning of June.
So you are currently talking about a little under 12 weeks right now.
Talking about maybe 11 weeks until that convention.
Here are the following things that we know are going to still be happening in 11 weeks.
War in Gaza.
It ain't gonna be over.
It ain't.
Israel's gonna finish off Rafah inside the next six weeks because they've already moved significant forces into Rafah.
But, there's gonna be cleanup and mop-up operations happening there.
There may be action in the north depending on what Hezbollah does.
So, there will still be conflict in the Middle East.
Two, we know for a fact the Russia-Ukraine war will not be over in three months.
It's not going to be over because Russia is feeling its oats.
Because Joe Biden has slow-walked aid to Ukraine, this entire process, while playing politics with it, with no end goal, no actual finishing solution in mind in Ukraine, and hampering Ukraine from even striking Russian targets that are currently firing across the border into Ukraine.
So that's going to be ongoing.
There's a very high probability that there's going to be something spicy going on with regard to Taiwan.
China has launched a major naval drill Around Taiwan, like they basically did a fake blockade around Taiwan in the latest naval drill and they're upping the rhetoric.
There are all sorts of conflicts that can break out at any time.
Inflation is not in fact down for the vast majority of Americans.
You can say that it's 3% year on year, but over the course of the Biden presidency, menu items have doubled in certain areas.
None of this bodes well for Joe Biden.
So we get to the convention.
There's a reason why they are front-loading the virtual convention kind of stuff.
Because they cannot afford to have people screaming at Joe Biden in the crowd at the DNC.
That's precisely what's going to happen.
This campaign is in a state of meltdown.
And it's in a state of meltdown really for one reason and one reason only.
Joe Biden does not have the courage of conviction on any level.
He has no courage of his convictions.
He ran as a moderate and fit the actual balls to stay a moderate when he became president.
He'd be in much better shape right now, but he didn't.
As always, the running theme of Joe Biden's career is that he likes to run in front of parades.
A parade will be marching, and he will run out in front and pretend that he's leading the parade.
But the parade is already moving.
And so depending on, and it doesn't matter what the parade is, as long as it's a parade inside the Democratic Party, he tries to be all things to all people.
So, in the early 1990s, he is a tough-on-crime, hawkish Democrat in the mode of Bill Clinton.
And then you get to the 2010s and suddenly he's a pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, pro-BLM, anti-police radical.
And then running against Bernie Sanders, he turns back into a moderate and then he becomes president and he moves back to the left.
He is just buffeted by the winds inside his own party.
And because of that, no one likes him.
It turns out that Joe Biden as president is like that person in your social group who wants to be friends with everybody and is friends with nobody because no one likes them because they're annoying.
That's Joe Biden.
It turns out that what makes people actually like you is a steady sense of purpose and leadership.
And Joe Biden has none of those things.
None of them.
And so his campaign, again, is in a state of meltdown.
When you're calling out Robert De Niro as your big backup, you got a problem.
You really do.
Again, there are a lot of people who I know personally who voted for Joe Biden in the last election cycle who will not be voting for Joe Biden this time.
Meanwhile, I don't know a single person who voted for Donald Trump in the last election cycle who will not be voting for Donald Trump in this election cycle and with significantly more enthusiasm.
Donald Trump has not lost votes inside the Republican Party.
He has picked up some votes from independents.
RFK Jr.
is there to pick up other votes from Joe Biden.
Joe Biden's got a real problem here.
And all the talk about how the Trump trial is suddenly gonna sink Trump, nonsense.
Even if they convict him, it's not gonna mean a thing, because everyone knows that this trial is a setup.
At least everyone who's of moderate bent.
The prosecutors can't even explain the crime here.
They can explain the misdemeanor falsification of business records in New York, but in order to somehow spin this into a felony, they have to connect it into a second crime.
It has to be a misdemeanor falsification of records in pursuit of a broader crime.
But they can't name what the broader crime is.
They suggest that the broader crime is an attempt to shape the outcome of the election, but attempting to shape the outcome of an election isn't actually a crime.
It would have to be a campaign finance crime, but the federal government investigated federal campaign finance violations by the Trump campaign in 2016, and they came up with nothing and didn't prosecute him.
So, there is no actual charge here.
It's totally unclear what the charge is even going to be when the charging documents are brought forward here.
We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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So prosecutors are confusedly attempting to argue something.
They literally don't even know what they're arguing.
It's really an amazing thing.
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So prosecutors are confusedly attempting to argue something.
They literally don't even know what they're arguing.
It's really an amazing thing.
Andrew McCarthy, who's done a good job of covering this stuff over at National Review,
he says, listening to the prosecution summation by Joshua Steinglass, it is quite amazing
how explicitly the state is relying on violations of federal election law as the other crime
that Donald Trump was allegedly concealing by causing his business records to be falsified.
It's impossible to draw any conclusion other than that the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg knew that, as a state prosecutor, his enforcement of federal law would be incredibly controversial since he has no such authority.
The federal authorities that do have such authority investigated Trump and opted not to prosecute.
To get this prosecution done, Bragg is simply making up his own version of federal law.
Prosecutors hit in the tall grass until summation are now emphatically describing Trump as having blatantly violated federal campaign law.
But again, the federal government investigated Trump for this and came up with nada.
So what exactly is the charge here?
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told jurors Tuesday Trump forged a corrupt bargain with former fixer Michael Cohen and a tabloid publisher to silence negative stories, resulting in one of the most valuable contributions ever made to the Trump campaign.
He said this scheme, quick to this time, could very well be what got Mr. Trump elected.
Trump lawyer Todd Blanche, by contrast, argued there was no such conspiracy, and that prosecutors had built their entire case around Michael Cohen, who said that Blanche had lied on the stand.
He then proceeded to dub Michael Cohen a gloat, or greatest liar of all time.
And these closing arguments are incredibly weak.
Even CNN is like, yeah, this is, CNN analysts are like, this is not a real thing.
Here's CNN legal analyst Randy Zelland.
He says they did not prove their case.
They fell way short, because let's start with reasonable doubt.
There is reasonable doubt all over this case.
Where is Keith Schiller?
Where is Allen Weisselberg?
How did Michael Cohen get away with stealing $30,000?
Hold a pity party for him.
Stormy Daniels, let's hold a pity party for her.
Why do we need to know whether or not the former president wore a condom or not?
It's simply about, did the former president know that Books, his records, false entries.
For legal fees, Michael Cohen was his lawyer.
Did he intend to cover up the election or to protect his family?
It's everywhere.
That is correct.
That is all correct.
And so what this looks like mostly is a setup by the Biden administration.
It looks like a setup by the Biden campaign and Alvin Bragg is just the adjunct part of that.
And then they try to get Trump in court.
And then it turns out everybody watches that.
And then Biden's so frustrated that they're watching the trial that his people, meaning Democrats, helped set up.
Then he has to deploy Robert De Niro.
Good luck to this campaign.
Seriously, good luck to this campaign.
What a joke they are.
I've never seen such an incompetent campaign in my entire life.
I've watched a lot of political campaigns over the course of my time in politics.
The Kerry campaign in 2004, bad campaign.
This campaign by Joe Biden is leagues worse than that campaign.
Maybe because the actual candidate is also leagues worse because he's actually the president and terrible, terrible, terrible at this.
Truly awful at this.
Every major issue that Americans are facing, the Biden administration continues to blow.
So, for example, America's southern border still ushering in hundreds of thousands of people every single month.
Well, on 60 Minutes.
Biden's ex-border chief, Raul Ortiz, he says, you know, Joe Biden never even called.
He never even called to find out what was going on at the southern border.
Immigration is an issue that Biden continues to completely ignore.
It still ranks high on Americans' concerns in terms of general... Again, Biden's issue list is totally different from Americans' issue list.
Americans' issue list is inflation in the economy, immigration, Those are like the top two issues that Americans say they care about.
And Joe Biden's top issues are like, how do I please pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn, Michigan by trying to split the baby?
And can we talk about transing the kids?
And also, you guys are all wrong about the economy.
Inflation is fine and you're doing fine.
Why don't you just shut up and take it?
Here is the ex-Biden border chief.
I've never had one conversation with the president or the vice president for that matter.
And so I was the chief of the border patrol.
I commanded 21,000 people.
That's a problem.
Yeah, it is.
But again, Biden keeps having his people just deny his way around his incompetence.
Here's Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security head, saying it is false to claim that Joe Biden's border policy encourages illegal immigration.
That is false.
If we take a look at migration, not just at our southern border, but in context, the level of migration throughout the hemisphere is unprecedented and throughout the world.
It's the greatest level of displacement of migration since World War II.
I think there are about 73 million displaced people in the world.
The reasons why people leave their countries of origin are those with which we are quite familiar.
Okay, good luck with this particular argument.
We'll get some more on this in just a moment.
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Meanwhile, when it comes to economic issues, it turns out that Americans are suffering. And the
Biden administration simply continues to pretend that they're not.
And so everything is totally fine.
So, for example, fast food, which a huge number of Americans eat, obviously, and are reliant upon, fast food has grown extraordinarily expensive.
As townhall.com writes, according to a recent non-probability survey conducted by LendingTree, nearly 80% of American consumers view fast food joints as an extravagant meal.
In 2019, a McDonald's Big Mac hamburger cost $3.99.
Four years later, A Big Mac costs $8.29, more than doubling.
A Subway BLT foot-long sandwich used to cost $5.50.
Today, it sells for nearly $9.
A chicken burrito was $6.50 in 2019.
In 2024, that is now $10.70.
62% of Americans are eating out less due to the rising costs under Joe Biden.
And the fact that even the supposed cheap eating is really, really expensive, that is the thing that Joe Biden cannot get around.
But meanwhile, he's trotting out his people to please, again, members of his base who should already be locked in.
So he trotted out yesterday his energy advisor.
This is so incompetent.
Amos Hochstein.
He trotted out Amos Hochstein, his energy advisor, to talk about accelerating the energy transition.
Does the president still want to keep moving forward with the speed of his forced transition as quickly as has been?
Well, I think what President Biden wants to do is two things at the same time.
Number one is to accelerate the energy transition.
And number two is to make sure that we have enough supplies in the energy market that we have lower prices for consumers during this transition.
Okay, so in other words, yeah, we are going to completely jack the entire energy industry, but we're also going to release oil reserves so as to falsely lower the price just before the election.
Americans are not going to be fooled by this.
Then, this same guy, he says, drilling restrictions are somehow good for the American people.
I'd love to hear that one.
I know that the common man is sitting around thinking, man, what I could really use right now is more drilling restrictions.
You know, there are restrictions in place going forward, so why not loosen some of that while we make this transition?
So Ed, it's very important to note that some of these restrictions that you're citing are good for the American people.
Increasing the royalties for the first time in decades is a good deal for the American public so that the American people can benefit from this as well.
Oh, well, yeah, that does seem like the American people are going to benefit.
You know, more restrictions on the thing that you put in your car.
Probably we're all going to be super happy with that.
And the absolute disconnect between the Biden administration and reality, it's complete.
That break with reality is complete, which is why you get delusional enough to deploy Robert De Niro.
to the Trump trial to get attention or something.
Okay, in just a second, we'll get to the latest in the Middle East.
The media have a really, really bad habit.
That habit is Hamas says something and the media just believe it, parrot it, trumpet it, echo it for literally days, and then it turns out that, wait, wait for it, wait for it, it turns out the genocidal terror group is lying.
I know, shocker to me, shocker to you.
We'll get to more on that in a moment.
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Well, meanwhile, again, the Biden administration, they have a tough time because their party is split between people who really, really hate the West and are perfectly willing to believe terrorist groups and or side with them, and people who are a little uncomfortable with that.
And so the Biden administration, because Joe Biden is incapable of taking a stand on nearly anything, he tries to have it halfway.
Well, that Reality reared its ugly head yesterday when a White House reporter named Ed O'Keefe idiotically asked John Kirby, who's the spokesperson for the National Security Council, he asked him about an event that happened in Rafah.
So, there have been multiple events during the course of the Gaza War that Hamas has lied about.
They lied about the Al Shifa Hospital.
Then there were the lies about Israel's humanitarian aid.
Israel has been shipping in literally hundreds of trucks worth of humanitarian aid.
All the time.
Then there were the lies about Israel targeting a World Central Food Kitchen convoy, when in reality what happened is that Hamas fighters, apparently, were riding on the convoy.
That thing went under, like, a covered area.
And then, when it emerged, Israel tried to get in touch with the drivers, tried to get in touch with the World Central Kitchen.
Nobody would call them back.
And then, because they only had infrared cameras on the thing, they assumed that it was terrorists in there.
So it was an accidental hit.
And that turned into a worldwide conflagration of rage at Israel.
Meanwhile, the Americans, the rest of the world community, they started claiming that Israel wasn't allowing enough humanitarian aid, so they built an idiot $320 million pier which is now floating off into the Mediterranean in order to bring aid into Gaza, all of which was hijacked by Hamas.
So Hamas lies, they lie about their death statistics, they lie about their terrorists, they lie about everything because it turns out people who wish to commit genocidal murder lie all the time.
So they lied again over the weekend and they suggested that Israel had deliberately targeted a protected humanitarian area in order to kill a couple of Hamas terrorists and that they had killed some 45 people and wounded hundreds of other people with like a heavy bomb.
It turns out every element, literally every element of that was a lie.
Literally every element.
And so here was IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari explain what actually happened in this particular bombing.
Following this strike a large fire ignited for reasons that are still being investigated.
Our munition alone could not have ignited a fire of this size.
I want to repeat it.
Our munition alone could not have ignited a fire of this size.
Our investigation seeks to determine what may have caused such a large fire to ignite.
We are looking into all possibilities, including the option that weapons stored in a compound next to our target, which we did not know of, may have ignited as a result of the strike.
So here's what actually happened.
What actually happened is the IDF targeted two senior Hamas terrorists that had tracked by aerial surveillance to a Hamas compound in Rafah.
They then confirmed that there were no women or kids in the compound.
The strike took place more than a mile outside the al-Mawassi designated humanitarian zone and more than 180 meters, which is like...
Just doing some basic math here.
That is more than 500 feet from the shelters that caught fire.
The strike was carried out using 37-pound warheads, the smallest warheads in the Israeli arsenal.
So, this lie traveled all around the world.
Hamas declared, and everybody believed it, that Israel had deliberately bombed a refugee camp in order to kill civilians.
People, including people who I consider friends, like Piers Morgan, immediately jumped out to suggest that Israel had bombed, with heavy bombs, a humanitarian protected area that Israel must immediately stop in Rafa, which of course led to cheers from Hamas, because it turns out that people believe their lies.
All the way up to and including that White House reporter, Ed O'Keefe, I mentioned.
So here was Ed O'Keefe questioning John Kirby about why America wasn't more angry at Israel.
The answer, of course, is that America knows that Hamas was lying.
That's the reason.
But here's Ed O'Keefe, reporter.
And I kind of take a little offense at the question.
No civilian casualties is the right number of civilian casualties.
And this is not something that we've turned a blind eye to, nor has it been something we've ignored or neglected to raise with our Israeli counterparts, including, Ed, this weekend as a result of this particular strike.
Now, they're investigating it, so let's let them investigate it and see what they come up with.
By the way, no civilian casualties is an impossibility because Hamas is hiding among civilians and putting weapons storage facilities next to civilian areas.
But all of this, these sorts of lies from radical Islamic terror groups, they lead to conflagrations all over the globe.
So last night, pro-Hamas protesters lit up the Israeli embassy in Mexico in response to this lie.
Meanwhile, at the exact same time all of this is happening, Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian terror group, released a video of an Amazon worker named Alexander Trupanov, who's currently being held hostage in Gaza.
So just to get this straight, the media believe that these are the believable people, the people who actually kidnap Westerners, Western employees, Israelis, Americans, kidnap those people, murder those people, slaughter their babies deliberately, not as civilian casualties and targeting terrorists, deliberately.
Those are the people you ought to believe.
When you jump to a conclusion.
Trufanov's being held by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
He said in the next few days you will hear the truth of what happened to me as well as the other prisoners in Gaza.
He also asked people to wait patiently according to the outlet.
Again, the fact that the West has any trouble in terms of the moral calculus here is insane to me.
The fact that anyone believes anything coming out of the mouth of Hamas is totally crazy.
It's totally nuts.
It's insane.
But again, the White House is incompetent.
They're incompetent at this stuff.
Because what John Kirby, and what he would have said earlier in the war was, every civilian casualty is on Hamas, they should surrender immediately, surrender to the hostages, and the leadership should go to jail, or be killed, or go into exile.
That would be the actual solution to what's happening right now in the Gaza Strip.
But they won't say any of that stuff, or at least they don't say it anymore.
In fact, the White House is even having a hard time condemning the International Criminal Court, which is totally nuts, by the way, because the ICC has targeted Americans.
Forget about what's going on in Israel.
The ICC has targeted American soldiers in Afghanistan for supposed prosecution.
According to Axios, the Biden administration on Tuesday said it opposes sanctions being pushed by Republicans in Congress against the ICC.
Now, why?
I have a question.
Why?
At a Senate hearing last week, Antony Blinken signaled the Biden administration would support bipartisan action in Congress against the prosecutor of the ICC.
But now the White House is saying, no, no, no, no, no.
They said they're not going to support any sort of action or legislation against the ICC.
Which is ridiculous.
We should be seeking to undermine the ICC for our own sake.
Forget about Israel or any other country.
The ICC is a trash organization staffed by a bunch of pseudo-human rights lawyers who are deliberately aiming their fire inside the tent.
But the Biden administration can't just say that.
They can't just say that.
Why can't they just say that?
Well, Claire McCaskill, former senator from Missouri, She sort of let the cat out of the bag.
The chief Biden goal with regard to Israel and Hamas is not, in fact, to finish off Hamas.
The chief Biden goal is to finish off Netanyahu's administration.
That is what Biden apparently wants.
I mean, she literally says this.
She literally says the most important goal for Joe Biden is to get Benjamin Netanyahu, the elected prime minister of Israel, who is currently sitting in a coalition war cabinet with his political opponents, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, to resign.
She's saying it, okay?
I'm not saying it, she's saying it.
So just to get this straight, by the way, nothing like this has ever been said about Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine.
The chief goal of the Americans is to get rid of Vladimir Zelensky so some sort of negotiated solution can be found there.
When it comes to an actual honest-to-God genocidal terror group, slaughtering people and then hiding among civilians and then murdering the civilians who try to get humanitarian aid, the chief goal is to change the administration in Israel.
Here's Claire McCaskill, former senator.
The most important goal, I believe, for this presidency right now is to get Netanyahu to resign.
And Netanyahu is holding on to power by his fingernails because of the far right, who sees the destruction of Gaza and all areas of any Palestinians in Israel as their goal.
Their goal is very extreme.
And that's how he is in power.
So if he backs up on them, he cannot be in power anymore because he doesn't have the coalition he needs.
So I think that Biden has to continue to try to press other people in the Israeli government to move as quickly and as strongly as they can to get Netanyahu out of that position.
This is so insane.
You're literally undermining a Democratic ally in a time of war against a terror group, actually multiple terror groups, because they're also fighting Hezbollah and they're fighting the Houthis.
That's what Biden's focused on?
According to Claire McCaskill, that's what he should focus on?
Is getting rid of Netanyahu?
And this notion, by the way, that Netanyahu is being run by his far right.
Believe you me, that is not the case.
The reason I say that is because I know members of the supposed far right in the Israeli cabinet.
They are deeply frustrated with Netanyahu because they think that he is surrendering to Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot.
This whole ridiculous charade that this is all about Netanyahu, again, what is that really?
What this is about is that the Biden administration has a mindset that is not, not true.
And it has been not true for generations.
And that mindset is that if Israel makes enough concessions to terrorists, then magically peace will bloom in the Middle East.
It is a lie.
It has always been a lie.
October 7th proved conclusively that it was a lie, but they can't let go of the lie.
So it must be a cycle of violence.
Somehow Hamas versus Israel is a cycle of violence as opposed to Israel defending itself against a genocidal terror group.
So, it must be the Israeli leadership.
The big problem is Sinwar and Netanyahu.
This is so ridiculous.
But this is what Biden can't even say.
Biden can't even just... Lack of moral clarity leads people to believe that you're a bad leader.
And Joe Biden, by the way, is a terrible, terrible leader.
Which is just one reason why, again, you're seeing people who are shifting from the Democratic camp to the Republican camp.
One of those people Over the course of the last 24 hours, pretty prominent, Dennis Quaid.
So Dennis Quaid famously raised money for Barack Obama in 2008.
As far as I'm aware, Quaid has been basically a lifelong Democrat.
He now says that he's going to vote for Donald Trump.
What do you think of Trump?
I think I'm going to vote for him.
Really?
Yeah, in the next election.
Yes, I am.
Are you ready for the blowback?
Well, yeah.
Which inevitably comes with Trump.
Well, you know, I think this election everybody's got to, I think they're going to take a side or whatever, but it's...
It just makes sense.
I was ready not to vote for Trump until what I saw is, more than politics, I see a weaponization of our justice system and a challenge to our Constitution.
Us as Americans, I don't think we're going to have.
And, you know, Trump is the most investigated person probably in the history of the world.
And they haven't been able to really get him on anything.
He's not wrong.
There are a lot of moderates and independents who are starting to believe this sort of stuff because, again, Joe Biden really, really bad at this.
Well, meanwhile, in the most delicious story of the day, it's always funny when supporters of DEI get caught saying the truth about DEI.
So, there is a person whose name is David Austin Walsh.
And David Austin Walsh is an academic and he put out a thread the other day talking about his problem getting hired.
He says, I just published an academic book that is getting plotted.
I've written numerous peer-reviewed articles.
I've written for the New York Times.
I'm a talented teacher.
My class has been very popular at every university I've taught at.
Hell, I had a kid here at Yale try to enroll in my class this past semester because he heard through word of mouth my class at UVA was really good.
But I'm 35 years old, I'm four plus years post-PhD, and quite frankly, I'm also a white dude.
Combine those factors together, and I'm for all intents and purposes unemployable as a 20th century American historian.
I mean, I applied to something like 40 jobs this year, but all four of them were African American and or race ethnicity positions.
And despite my work explicitly being about white supremacy, I stand no chance of being hired for those positions.
Uh-oh, he said the true thing.
You're not supposed to say the true thing, which is that it turns out that affirmative action is a zero-sum game, which means that if you are talented and white, you are absolutely screwed if you are up against a slightly less talented black person in academia, for example, because diversity trumps merit every time at these universities.
But this meant he then had to do a amount of struggle sessions.
That means that he has to put on the dunce cap and people beat him and such.
So he says, quote, I want to apologize for that thread, which was a bad idea and came from a place of pain, anger, and frustration.
It was fundamentally a breach of solidarity on my part.
Ah, thank you, sir.
May I have another?
We all know that history in particular, and the humanities in general, are dying.
We all know that the university itself is a profoundly unequal and unfair institution, and we had an object reminder of that with the brutal suppression of the campus protests over the past month.
We all know the academy is random, cruel, and chaotic.
We all know the reasons why.
Austerity.
Corporatization.
Right-wing assaults on higher education.
Oh, you sad little man.
Oh, you sad, sad person.
So you said the truth about why you didn't get hired, which is that you're a white dude who's 35 plus and talented.
And then when called on it, you're like, you know why I can't get a job?
It's because of all the right wingers who run academia.
It's because of their austerity and corporatization.
Can we be clear about the situation in college campuses?
The DEI staff at college campuses has increased exponentially over the course of the last 20 years.
A huge percentage of top university hires are no longer professors.
They're administrators who are dealing with all this HRDEI nonsense.
And then if a professor does get hired, you get all sorts of plaudits if that person happens to be a person of color.
But this dude has to somehow twist himself into pretzels and stick his head up his own colon in order to come up with the conclusion that this is all a right-wing conspiracy to deny him a job.
Well, I hope that he suffers an obscure unemployment, this guy.
He deserves every bit of it.
Because if you surrender to the mob, And then you declare, like a character from Darkness at Noon, that you are in fact loyal to the same mob that is attempting to destroy you.
You deserve every single thing that you receive.
So again, slow clap for David Austin Walsh.
What an absolute king among Wookiees.
And again, is that gonna earn him a job?
Nah.
They'll just take it, put it in their back pocket, say that he's still a traitor of some sort to their cause, and then he will be put in jail for the foreseeable future.
So, really, really good stuff right there from academia.
Meanwhile, I will say that pressure on academia is having some effect.
Harvard now says it will no longer take positions on matters outside the university, which would be like a normal position for a university to take.
If put into practice, according to the New York Times, Harvard no longer issue official statements of empathy, which it did for Ukraine after the Russian invasion and for the victims of the October 7th Hamas attacks in Israel.
For example, Well, I mean, actually, what it would mean is that they wouldn't put out expressions of sympathy for Hamas terrorists in conjunction with sympathy for Israeli victims, which is basically what they did.
Like, we're sorry for everything bad happening in the Middle East right now.
This would be correct, by the way, is they should stay out of all of it.
They should stay out of all of it.
But, you know, I think that what really should happen at this point There should be a serious look into a wealth tax on the endowments of these universities.
All these universities are very much in favor of a wealth tax, by the way.
It seems to me you should start with their endowments, their multi-billion dollar endowments.
We can claw all that back.
And if you want to relieve student loan debt with that, why not use their endowments to do so, since they're the ones who have profited so heavily from their unemployable graduates in gender studies.
Alrighty, folks.
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