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July 8, 2024 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Biden: Only GOD Can Remove Me!
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Folks, this is going to be a hot week.
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Don't miss it. So speaking of Kamala Harris, we first have to speak about the guy who is
currently president and currently the nominee and that is Joe Biden.
The big question in Democratic circles is whether he stays or whether he goes.
And he's a stubborn old man, so he really wants to stay.
And he is now channeling Jennifer Holliday from the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls.
I'm staying!
I'm staying!
And you, and you, you're gonna love me!
It's not good.
It's really, really bad.
So on July 5th, which was Friday, Joe Biden actually tweeted out that he was staying!
And you're gonna love me!
Let me say this as clearly as I can, he tweeted.
I'm the sitting president of the United States.
I'm the nominee of the Democratic Party.
I'm staying in the race.
Well, we know that's not really what he would say if he could say it as clearly as he could, because if he could say it verbally, it would sound more like this.
Let me say this, Henry.
I was going to say it, but come on, man.
So, I mean, that's what an intern would read for him.
Anyway, so on Friday, he held a rally in Wisconsin where he insisted he will not drop out.
He will stay.
Now, you probably heard.
We had a little debate last week.
Can't say it was my best performance.
But ever since then, there's been a lot of speculation.
What's Joe gonna do?
Is he gonna stay in the race?
Is he gonna drop out?
What's he gonna do?
Well, here's my answer.
I am running and gonna win again.
Okay, there's only one problem.
In this same rally where he is trying to pretend to be an alive person, he died on the stage.
So he explained that he was going to win again in 2020.
So apparently Joe Biden either has a mental problem or he has discovered a time machine.
I will beat him again in 2020.
Beat him again in 2020?
How?
Well, I mean, if he's gonna beat him again in 2020, I mean, at the very least, if he's gonna use the time machine, he should go back to, like, 1856 and beat James Buchanan or something important.
According to CNN's new survey, by the way, 75% of voters say the Democratic Party would have a better chance against Donald Trump if they backed another candidate.
More than 50% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning registered voters agreed with that election sentiment.
So that is a massive problem for Joe Biden.
This is all starting to get away from him.
So, he can be a stubborn old man.
He can be as stubborn as he wants to be, but the pressure is ratcheting up inside the Democratic Party that only became louder on Friday night.
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As we talked about in Friday's show, he was slated to do an interview with George Stephanopoulos.
And the question was whether George Stephanopoulos was going to try to massage him back into some form of actual living embodiment or whether he was going to put a pillow over his face and smother the old man.
And it turns out that he was going to put a pillow over his face and smother the old man.
So Stephanopoulos wasn't asking particularly hard questions if Joe Biden were a sentient person and not a vegetable.
But the problem is that Joe Biden is now Rutabaga.
So here was George Stephanopoulos asking Joe Biden, are you the same man you were when you took office?
And remember, the stakes of this interview?
were the nomination.
Because if Joe Biden had appeared lively and sprightly, if his lie that his debate with Donald Trump was just an off night were true, then he might have been able to get this train back on the rails.
But the interview was a disaster area.
Every time he appears on television, for some odd reason, he won't project.
And so it sounds as though his voice is going, like it's cracking.
You can barely hear him.
And he starts wandering randomly all over the verbal landscape in search of an idea.
And here is George Stephanopoulos asking him, are you the same person you were when you took office?
Are you the same man today that you were when you took office three and a half years ago?
In terms of successes, yes.
But what has all that work over the last three and a half years cost you physically, mentally, emotionally?
Well, I just think it cost me a really bad night.
Bad run.
What I'm asking you is about your personal situation.
Do you dispute that there have been more lapses, especially in the last several months?
Can I run the 110 flat?
No.
But I'm still in good shape.
Are you more frail?
No.
He's not more frail.
This did not go well.
And you can hear Stephanopoulos.
He's now sneaking behind the bed to pull the plug on the old man.
Right?
That's what Stephanopoulos is doing right there because that interview, one of the people on the screen was going to exit that interview dead.
It was either George Stephanopoulos for trying to massage Biden back into life or Biden with the plug pulled by George Stephanopoulos.
So Joe Biden was asked by Stephanopoulos, when were you aware the debate was going poorly?
And Joe Biden started wandering like an Alzheimer's patient who accidentally got out the front door.
Did you ever watch the debate afterwards?
I don't think I did.
What I want to get at is, what were you experiencing as you were going through the debate?
Did you know how badly it was going?
Yeah, look.
The whole way I prepared, nobody's fault, mine.
Nobody's fault but mine.
I prepared what I usually would do, sitting down, as I did come back with foreign leaders or the National Security Council, for explicit detail.
And I realized about partway through that You know, although I get quoted, the New York Times had me down at ten points before the debate, nine now or whatever the hell it is.
The fact of the matter is that what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times.
I couldn't... I mean, the way the debate ran, not my fault, no one else's fault.
No one else's fault.
But it seemed like you were having trouble from the first question in, even before he spoke.
Well, I just had a bad night.
And then Joe Biden gets mad, right?
Because again, he's a, he's a crotchety elderly fellow.
And he says that he's very angry that Democrats want him to leave.
And also only the Lord God Almighty could make him go.
That Senator Mark Warner is assembling a group of senators together to try and convince you to stand down because they don't think you can win.
Well, Mark is a good man.
We've never had that.
He also tried to get the nomination, too.
Mark's not.
Mark and I have a different perspective.
I respect him.
And if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi come down and say, we're worried that if you stay in the race, we're going to lose the House and the Senate, how will you respond?
I go into detail with them.
I've spoken to all of them in detail, including Jim Clyburn.
Every one of them.
They all said I should stay in the race.
Stay in the race.
None of the people said I should leave.
But if they do?
Well, they're not going to do that.
You sure?
Yeah, I'm sure.
Look, I mean, if the Lord Almighty came out and said, Joe, get out of the race, I'd get out of the race.
The Lord Almighty's not coming down.
If you Are told reliably from your allies, from your friends and supporters in the Democratic Party, in the House and the Senate, that they're concerned you're gonna lose the House and the Senate if you stay in.
What will you do?
I'm not gonna answer that question.
It's not gonna happen.
It's not gonna happen.
Well, he is being told that by his friends and allies.
In fact, Jim Clyburn was booked on the Sunday shows.
He wouldn't appear.
He cancelled on the Sunday shows.
By the way, it is worth noting here that the quality of the audio is really bad, right?
You can hear that buzzing in the background.
Obviously, we work in a studio.
One of the things that you do in a studio is you turn off the air conditioner.
Okay, that's not the air conditioner in the background.
The reason that the audio is so bad is because Joe Biden is speaking so softly that the mics are not properly picking him up.
So they had to ratchet up the audio level in order to pick up the voice of the President of the United States because that's how weak he was in this interview.
Stephanopoulos, for his part, was really trying to push Joe Biden over that cliff.
Like, Joe Biden is grabbing, like a cartoon character, onto the edge of the cliff with his fingernails.
It's like Wile E. Coyote.
You can see the fingernails digging into the rock as he gradually starts to fall down the cliff face.
Here's George Stephanopoulos saying, dude, no one gets reelected with a 36% approval rating.
And Joe Biden's like, well, anyway.
What's your plan to turn the campaign around?
You saw it today.
How many people can you draw crowds like I drew today?
Do you find me more enthusiastic than today?
You're the president.
Huh?
I mean, I don't think you want to play the crowd game.
Donald Trump can draw big crowds.
There's no question about that.
I can draw a big crowd, but what's he say?
Who's he have?
I'm the guy supposedly in trouble.
Mr. President, I've never seen a president with 36% approval get re-elected.
Well, I don't believe that's my approval rate.
That's not what our polls show.
That's not what his polls show.
I mean, this is just George Stephanopoulos beating him with a 2x4.
And sure, that doesn't have a massive impact because George Stephanopoulos is 5'2 and 87 pounds soaking wet, but still, he's clobbering Biden here.
So he asks Biden, will you feel guilty if you lose, right?
Like if you stay in too long and then you lose to Trump, your legacy is that you turn the presidency back over to the guy you say is a threat to democracy.
Are you going to feel guilty at all?
Biden's like, what is guilt?
What?
I don't know.
No, no.
And if you stay in and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?
I'll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do.
That's what this is about.
This interview is 22 minutes long, by the way.
It was not an hour because Joe Biden is not capable of going an hour.
CNN reported that after the interview, Team Biden thought he did amazing.
But of course they're going to say that, because what are they going to say?
That he did horribly?
So here is CNN reporting on the Biden team's reaction.
The Biden campaign thinks that the interview last night did exactly what they wanted it to do.
In their thinking, they think that it showed a president who could respond to these questions, do so in an articulate fashion, and really push back against the concerns about his cognitive health.
So they're looking at this as a win, seeing it as a strong Okay, there's only one problem.
No one actually believes that.
was doing in that interview was showing defiance, dismissing the concerns and the
critics about his candidacy.
Okay, there's only one problem. No one actually believes that. Now listen, as a
person who wants Donald Trump to win the presidency, I wish that the entire
Democratic Party bought into this narrative.
I wish they bought into the narrative that Joe Biden were doing just fine.
Let me tell you, my synagogue, which is filled with Orthodox Jews who all think that Joe Biden is a terrible president, my synagogue is going to vote 105% for Donald Trump.
I can tell you that there is a prayer that we do every week for the government of the United States in the middle of Shakhri, which is the morning prayer.
And that prayer involves a prayer for the health of the President of the United States.
Never has that prayer been said with more fervor than in my synagogue this weekend.
Because everybody who wants Trump to win is like, I hope that this guy lasts.
Like, truly, he's an awful candidate.
I hope he sticks around.
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Now, the reality is that the leaks are now beginning and the information is accruing,
suggesting that Joe Biden, of course, is not well.
The Daily Wire's Luke Groziak has looked at the White House's own official transcripts, and according to Daily Wire, they suggest that President Joe Biden's speaking errors have grown steadily worse, with his rate of missteps doubling in the 12 months leading up to his disastrous debate performance in June.
White House staff tasked with preparing transcripts of his speeches and remarks cross out Biden's erroneous words or insert the words he should have said using brackets.
They had to do that a staggering 51 times in May 2024.
The rate of errors per word spoken was one of the worst of his presidency.
He was whisked out of the public eye for much of June, speaking only half the number of words in official remarks he normally does, until of course his cognitive difficulties captured the world's attention at the June 27th debate.
And there is a chart demonstrating exactly how bad it is.
And the answer is an arithmetic increase in the number of errors spoken.
In June 2023, the White House corrected 33 errors, amounting to an error rate of 3.2 per 10,000 words.
The 51 errors in May led to a rate of 7.2 for that month when he spoke 70,000 words.
Hey, so that means that it has been gradually increasing.
The corrections have continued this month.
The White House transcript is a total mess.
It is filled with crossouts.
It is filled with insertions.
It is filled with deletions.
And of course, this is something that the White House has now made sort of de rigueur.
So Maureen Dowd writes this at the New York Times.
And she points out, quote, When I saw the Michael Scheer story in the Times on July 4th recounting how President Biden had stumbled talking to black radio hosts days after his debate debacle, telling one he was proud to have been the first black woman to serve with a black president, I knew it spelled trouble.
First of all, if any white man could claim to be the first black woman in the Oval, it was Bill Clinton.
Black fans called him the first black president, and feminist fans called him the first woman president.
Second of all, we were entering a new post-debate examination period with President Biden where every word would be scrutinized.
But as she points out, she got a call, so she wrote about this, and then she got a call from somebody in the Biden campaign.
quote, in my Saturday column, I quoted Biden's line to ABC's at George Stephanopoulos about
how he would feel if Trump were sworn in as president because he refused to step aside.
Quote, I'll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do.
That's what this is about. Now, goodest isn't a word.
By my researcher, Andrew Trunsky, and I listened to the video our ears up against the computer ten times.
That's what it sounded like.
We also checked the ABC News transcript.
That's the word they used.
Times news reporters and reporters for other news outlets took their cue from the ABC transcript.
The confusion was so universal that on Axios Saturday, there were two different versions.
Mike Allen's newsletter used Goodist.
Another story used, I did as good a job as I know I can do.
After my column posted Saturday morning, T.J.
Ducklow, a Biden campaign spokesman, emailed me to flag the ABC News updated transcript to read, I'll feel as long as I give it my all and I did the job as good as I know I can do.
This is what it's about.
Ducklow asked if I could tweak the column and change the word Goodist to make my piece consistent with the corrected transcript, even though the revised version was also gobbledygook.
Right?
This is what the Biden campaign is now focused on.
There are so many errors and so many mistakes that Joe Biden is making out there that they basically have to send out a team of firefighters to put out every brush fire that Joe Biden sets.
And the leaks continue.
According to a report from the UK Guardian, Joe Biden's doctor met with a leading Washington neurologist at the White House this year.
The report came after Biden on Friday ruled out taking an independent cognitive test and releasing its findings publicly.
And of course they're doing that.
I mean, again, that's the dead giveaway.
If you want to take a cognitive test, we can all assume what the outcome of that test would be.
According to White House visitor logs reviewed by the New York Post, Dr. Kevin Kennard, a Parkinson's disease expert at Walter Reed Medical Center, met with Dr. Kevin O'Connor, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, who has treated the president for years.
The visit took place at the White House Residence Clinic, 17th of January.
Kennard has visited the White House eight times since August 2023.
You have a Parkinson's doctor visiting the White House eight times since August of 2023.
Meanwhile, we now know that Hunter Biden is the gatekeeper for the President of the United States.
According to Axios, we're now in uncharted historic waters.
President Biden, backed by First Lady Jill Biden and his convicted son Hunter, who's serving as de facto gatekeeper for longtime friends, says nothing besides an act of God will persuade him to quit his re-elect campaign.
I mean, that is a career trajectory right there.
Crack cocaine addict felon to gatekeeper for president of the United States.
All it takes is daddy in the White House.
Pretty amazing stuff.
And that's not the only leak.
According to Mediaite, documents prepared by staff for President Joe Biden ahead of public events were provided to Axios on Sunday, showing what one unnamed staffer described as a detailed verbal and visual instruction on how to enter and exit a room.
Axios reported on documents prepared for Biden ahead of events that included some extremely basic instructions with large print and photos that include his precise path to a podium.
The article includes two screenshots of the documents.
So they literally are giving him sheets that show a picture of his path from behind a curtain to a podium.
You know, I speak at events all the time.
I have never had to be provided an actual photo confirmation of how to get from point A, behind a curtain, to point B at a podium.
Somebody just comes backstage and says the podium is center stage.
End of story.
You don't have to provide me an actual picture.
But apparently they have to for Joe Biden.
And it gets worse.
So Joe Biden did a radio interview on Friday, and this was supposed to be another one of the examples of Joe Biden demonstrating that he has the stamina and he has the vitality to run this race.
And then the radio hosts admitted that they were given questions by Joe Biden's team to ask him directly.
By the way, the radio station then fired the radio host over the weekend.
Here was CNN's interview with the radio host.
You asked four questions, and maybe that's what you were allowed to ask by the campaign or the White House.
But they were essentially the same questions, both interviews, about accomplishments, progress in your respective state, what's at stake in the election, what he has to say about his debate performance, and what he would say to voters who think their vote doesn't matter or might sit this election out.
Were those questions given to you by the White House or did you have, or the campaign, or did you have to submit questions ahead of this interview?
The questions were sent to me for approval.
I approved them.
Okay, so the White House sent the questions to you ahead of the interview?
Yes.
Okay, what a disaster area.
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Meanwhile, by the way, Peter Baker, who's the Times' chief White House correspondent, says, according to the New York Times, that he has started using translation headsets on overseas trips to listen to Biden, okay, not to listen to, like, Emmanuel Macron, because he's speaking in French, to try to understand what Biden is saying, because he can be, like, five feet away from Biden and still not pick up exactly what Joe Biden is saying.
This is all a full-scale disaster, and again, it's nothing new.
It's nothing new.
This is the part that's amazing.
The media are acting shocked and appalled by everything that's happening right now.
The only thing they're shocked and appalled by is the fact that the Biden campaign put Biden so out front and center that it became obvious and apparent to everyone that he is in his declining phase of his sunset years.
You'll remember back in October 2023, Joe Biden walking around with note cards.
Remember this.
This is a picture of him holding note cards showing not only the name of the reporter he was going to call on, but her question.
Literally said question number one.
So when the radio host says we were provided questions, that's been going on four months.
In just March of this year, there was video of handlers removing the press from like basic scenarios with the president of the United States.
We're going to take a few questions.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Bye, guys.
Here are all the handlers pushing the press away.
Thank you.
Amazing.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We got to go.
Incredible job, staffers.
You're doing great.
For his part, as Jonathan Karl reports over at ABC News, Joe Biden seems unaware of the danger of this election.
He seems unaware that Democrats are abandoning him in droves.
And that's going to be the story of this week.
Again, Congress is back in session as of today.
When Congress comes back into session, there will be reporters all over the House, and they'll be asking every Democratic House member if they believe that Joe Biden is either sentient or whether he can beat Donald Trump.
It's going to be a disaster area for Joe Biden this week.
Biden looked better and certainly more coherent than he looked during the debate.
But there was nothing in this interview that is calming nerves of jittery Democrats who fear that Joe Biden is on a trajectory to lose this race, to lose to Donald Trump.
In fact, for some of those people, the interview is raising new concerns.
Particularly the fact that he is unwilling or unaware of the fact that he is in a dire situation here regarding the campaign, that he is losing in the view of many Democrats, and frankly, in the polls you cited, that he is losing to Donald Trump.
By the way, those polls currently show Donald Trump is up more than three points in the RealClearPolitics National 2A Average.
That's a blowout for Trump.
A blowout.
Because the Electoral College, again, favors Donald Trump.
They're a bunch of purple states where Donald Trump could win very slightly and lose the popular vote.
If Donald Trump wins the popular vote by, say, three or four points in this election cycle, he's going to win north of 310 electoral votes.
It's going to be a full-scale blowout.
So the panic has set in among Democrats.
According to Axios, a fast-growing number of Democrats are praying for and plotting a more earthly intervention.
As compared to Joe Biden saying that God is going to come down and tell him.
By the way, God already came down and told you in the form of you not being able to form sentences out of your face hole.
They want everyone from the Obamas to congressional leaders to beg Biden to drop out by Friday.
Biden does have a press conference scheduled for Thursday.
But Biden is vowing to stay.
And of course, Democratic lawmakers have gone from shock to sadness to madness since the debate 10 days ago.
These Democrats, further deflated by Biden's high-stakes ABC interview, believe there's nothing he can do to reverse the damage or his aging.
A House Democrat said, quote, the bleep is going to hit the fan on Monday when Congress returns.
People are scared about their own races.
They're also worried about the country and about democracy.
Lawmakers were antsy enough about Biden during their 4th of July break this past week that it'll be even greater torque when they're venting, raging, and plotting in person.
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Essentially saying that Joe Biden is in full scale delusion mode if he believes that he can pull this out.
Here's Axelrod explicating that position on CNN.
He seems not to be able to compute the fact that people have these questions about him.
He said, I have, you know, when George Stephanopoulos asked him if he'd be willing to take a cognitive test.
He said, I take a cognitive test every day.
Well, the fact is, that may be true, but 75% of the American people think he failed.
They say he fails.
And so, this is a real problem for him, and it's something that shows up in every poll.
Joe Biden, for his part, is attempting to do direct outreach, which is quieting zero of the questions about him.
According to CBS News, the Biden-Harris campaign is stepping up its outreach to lawmakers amid growing calls for Biden to step down from the ticket.
Biden has personally made 20 calls to congressional members since last month's presidential debate in Atlanta.
Okay, 20 ain't gonna do it.
20 is not gonna do it.
He's got 200 Democratic members of the Congress.
And he's got 50 senators, so good luck with that, Mr. President.
Last week, the White House said the President spoke with several key allies, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Representative Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, Senator Chris Coons of Delaware.
Very few of these people, by the way, are coming out in open defense.
According to Punchbowl News, which again, is maybe the best newsletter from Capitol Hill, by Jake Sherman, he says, the President's backing among Hill Democrats, especially inside the House Democratic Caucus, is slipping.
The questions at this point are whether that support completely collapses, and if it does, what Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will do.
So far, the two top Democrats have said little.
Schumer said he backs Biden, while Jeffries acknowledged Biden's debate performance was bad, but added, quote, I believe a setback is nothing more than a setup for a comeback.
There's been some extravagant speculation that Schumer and Jeffries would somehow lead a high-level Democratic delegation to the White House and tell Biden he needs to step aside in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris.
That's all wildly premature.
We're nowhere near that yet.
What is fair to say?
is that there's a split among Democrats, House versus Senate, swing districts versus safe seats, veteran lawmakers versus their younger colleagues.
None of this falls along typical fault lines, however, which makes the situation incredibly difficult to read.
But it's clear Biden's support among Hill Democrats is tenuous at best.
Many Democrats are expressing strong doubts about whether Biden can win.
This includes Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Don Beyer of Virginia, who held a fundraiser with Biden and said during a call, quote, my perfect world is Joe, in deciding after talking to Leader Jeffries, Majority Leader Schumer, and others.
Steps aside now.
Let's Kamala run as the incumbent, which I think makes her even stronger.
With that, I'm a team player.
I'll do whatever the team wants.
He also said Biden has trouble putting two sentences together.
Then when he received a call from the White House, he backtracked and said, quote, I support President Biden.
So again, the chaos is absolutely setting in.
Politico reports, with Democratic lawmakers returning today from an incredibly well-timed congressional recess, a growing cadre among them is preparing to publicly urge Biden to call off his re-elect bid.
More than that, some want their leaders to nudge him out.
This is a full-scale disaster area for Joe Biden.
Jonathan Martin has a look at how Biden sees a path out of the wilderness.
Basically, he's going to keep doubling down on upper-crust white liberals and black Democrats.
He believes that he's going to get the support of African-American Democrats and Union allies.
And meanwhile, he's going to try to portray all of the Obama types as sort of out of touch.
But a bunch of Democrats, including Judiciary Chief Jerry Nadler, are questioning whether Biden can prosecute the case against Donald Trump.
Adam Smith, Democrat of Washington, insisted that Biden could not fix the damage that was already done.
Adam Schiff says that he is concerned that Joe Biden could lose them House seats.
When I talk to Democrats, one of the exchanges that frustrated the most from that interview on Friday was when he was asked, what happens if you lose?
President Biden said it's about whether he gave it his all.
Is that what it's about?
Is that answer satisfying to you?
No, that is the answer that most concerned me as well.
There are concerns with the impact on down-ballot races if the president doesn't do well.
Is he dragging down down-ballot races as we speak?
You know, at present, our down-ballot candidates in the Senate and House are doing well.
They're all ahead.
They are running well ahead of the President.
But you can only run so far ahead of the President.
Okay, that is Adam Schiff.
He's a Democratic Party man, for sure.
Now, there is blowback from some other Democrats.
There's a split inside the Democratic Party, because here's the thing.
If you can't force Joe Biden out, then you're gonna have to backtrack on all this stuff, right?
All these Democrats are like, that dude's senile.
He can't beat Donald Trump.
I mean, forget about beating Donald Trump.
If he's senile, he shouldn't be president of the United States.
He should be 25th amendmenting him.
He's the most powerful man in the world, and his brain does not function properly, and he makes jokes about his brain not functioning properly, as he did last week.
One thing that is obvious to everyone is that if Joe Biden were leading by 10 points in the polls right now, Democrats would still be maintaining that he is perfectly healthy.
So the real problem is that people saw the thing.
The emperor's new clothes were revealed not to exist.
The emperor is naked.
If Democrats thought that Joe Biden could win, they would still be foisting that dead body on that horse like El Cid.
They would be doing that.
They're not doing that because they're looking at the poll numbers, but there are still Democrats who are still hedging because they're smart enough to realize that if you can't force Joe Biden out of the race, and Joe Biden, all he has to do is solve for time here.
No one can make Joe Biden leave the race.
There's no one.
If Joe Biden plants his feet and somehow gets someone to prop him up and just stands there, no one can make him leave.
Understand that the deadline on this is coming up really, really, really fast.
The day of the debate.
Which is now some 10 days ago.
There were 40 days left to replace Biden on the ticket.
We are now at like 30 days left to replace Biden on the ticket.
After that, he is locked in, right?
He is the nominee.
Now, again, he could theoretically resign the nomination even after he was formally nominated sometime in October or something.
So it wouldn't be the end of the story.
The ticket would still appear as the ticket and Kamala Harris would be the person who wins the election.
With that said, if he wants to stick this thing out, all he has to do is stick this thing out for another 30 days and all the questions go away and Democrats then have to rally around the flag.
Here's an MSNBC panel in defense of Joe Biden claiming everything is hunky-dory.
I would suggest that the response of that very small number of Democrats who have really come out after the president and some of the media folks that have really come down on him since the election have done more damage and more harm than the president himself did during that debate.
It is naive to think that at this point in the process, you can switch candidates and still defeat Donald Trump.
I really wish the Democrats would understand exactly what they're doing right now to their opportunity this November, four months from now.
I've just never seen such an absolute creation of a wasteland around a candidate by his own people.
Okay, in one second, we'll get to more of Democrats who are now trying to defend Joe Biden in the face of all of this.
But folks, again, as I've mentioned, Kamala Harris is now the most important person in the country because she's very likely to be either the person who replaces Biden on the ticket.
If Biden steps down, it's gonna be her.
If Biden steps down from the presidency, it will be President Kamala Harris.
If he were to win the election, certainly she would fill out his second term, which means that she is the most undermentioned person in America right now, and nobody knows anything about her other than she's kind of obnoxious and inauthentic.
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Kamala Harris is the most important person in American politics right now.
Because either she's going to succeed to Biden now or later if he wins.
The left does not want you to know about her.
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Okay, meanwhile.
Now again, there are a bunch of Democrats who are looking at Joe Biden and they're figuring we can't push this guy out.
Like if he doesn't want to go, he ain't going to go.
And in fact, Joe Biden has, as of Monday morning, put out yet another message saying that he is telling you he's not going.
Again, this is just dream girls.
He's not going to go unless something changes.
But but here's the thing.
It can feel the pressure.
He can he can say he's not going until literally the moment he decides to go.
Right.
It's a completely binary decision here.
He has put out a lengthy letter to congressional Democrats saying that he is not going to drop out of the race.
He says, quote, We are the ones lowering costs for families from healthcare to prescription drugs to student debt to housing.
We are standing up for American democracy.
After January 6th, Trump has proven he is unfit to ever hold the office of president.
We can never allow him anywhere near that office again and we never will.
The question of how to move forward has been well aired for over a week now.
It's time for it to end.
We have one job and that is to beat Donald Trump.
We have 42 days to the Democratic convention and 119 days to the general election.
Any weakening of resolve or lack of clarity about the task ahead only helps Trump and hurts us.
It's time to come together, move forward as a unified party and defeat Donald Trump.
So he's basically saying, Everybody shut up.
Just stop.
Just shut up.
And Democrats, some of them, are obeying his orders.
That would include Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who says, don't worry, he doesn't need a cognitive test.
He needs a cognitive test, by the way.
I don't really know what the substance of those tests are, whether the measurement would be impactful for voters that have questions.
I think it's much more important for the president to be in a conversation with voters this week in an unscripted way to show that he is still the old Joe Biden.
I think that would be a much more effective way to answer people's questions than some medical test.
Do you believe that at this point Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump and stop the litany of things that you just listed from happening?
Oh, absolutely.
Okay, now he's shaking his head.
Well, he says, absolutely.
Because Democrats don't actually believe this.
But again, the comedy cavalcade that is the Democratic Party is split right down the middle.
You have a bunch of people who are saying, no, no, no, he has to stay.
And then you have a bunch of people who are sotto voce, under the breath, saying he's got to go.
So some of the people who are saying that he has to stay are people like Representative Debbie Dingell.
Just last week, she was pointing out that he's basically losing it.
Now she says we have his back.
I had people in parades shout at me, tell him to stay, we have his back.
Union halls, why are people saying this?
I mean, I really do think that as much as you're hearing a lot of different opinions
from other people, that's what's happening.
Representative Jasmine Crockett doing the same routine from Texas.
She says we have to rally behind him because if we don't, Trump's going to win.
The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans could not be more stark in so
many ways.
One of those ways that I think about is the fact that even those Democrats that are calling for the president to step aside, they're not calling for the president to step aside because they think that Joe Biden's a terrible person, because they think that he's a failure.
They're calling for him to step aside because they are scared.
The only thing that I'm asking everyone to do is to unite around the ticket.
The ticket at this point in time is Biden and Harris.
And so long as the president says that he can do this job, then that is our ticket.
Okay, notice the present tense there.
He is the president.
I mean, that's true, right now.
Bernie Sanders was called out of the woodwork.
And what's amazing about Bernie Sanders is that Bernie is the same age as Joe Biden, right?
Bernie Sanders, right now, is 82.
He's a year older than Joe Biden.
But he sounds way more alive than Joe Biden, right?
Here's Bernie in defense of Joe Biden, a man one year younger than he is.
What we are talking about now is not a Grammy Award contest for best singer.
Biden is old.
He's not as articulate as he once was.
I wish he could jump up the steps on Air Force One.
He can't.
What we have got to focus on is policy.
President Biden can clearly defeat Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in the history of this country.
And the choice is quite clear.
Now, it is worth pointing out at this point that according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Trump is ahead in Arizona by 5, in Nevada by 5, in Wisconsin by 2, in Michigan by 1, in Pennsylvania by almost 5, in Georgia by 4.
These are terrible numbers for Joe Biden.
That is the real reason why you're seeing all of this heartburn.
The other problem that Democrats have is that there's no sure answer to the question as to whether replacing him on the ticket with Kamala Harris would actually be good.
Now, Kamala is hedging her bets.
She did an appearance over the weekend.
This is probably the most significant election of our lifetime.
Wenga, who looks like an outtake from Hunger Games, in which she studiously avoided mentioning Joe
Biden's name. Because let's be real about this, half the leaks from the White House are probably
coming from Kamala Harris's office, where she plays solitaire and leaks about Joe Biden all day.
This is probably the most significant election of our lifetime.
You know, we have said it every four years. But this here one is it.
We are looking at an election that will take place in the 122!
122 days. 122. Where on one side you have the former president who is running to
become president again, who has openly talked about his admiration of dictators
and his intention to be a dictator on day one.
Who has openly talked about his intention to weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies.
They've literally weaponized the DOJ against them, by the way.
In 122 days!
We each have the power to decide what kind of country we want to live in.
Okay, she's so radically inauthentic.
Again, go check out our three-part podcast series, our three-part documentary series tonight, Scamala, Kamala Harris Unmasked, 7 p.m.
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We go through everything with regard to Kamala Harris because we are now in the middle of 90-second look at Kamala Harris.
Because the reality is this campaign is now about her.
It's not about Joe Biden's future.
He has no future.
As of the year 2025, whether he is elected or whether he is not elected, he will not be president anymore.
And we all know this, which means that she would be the president of the United States.
So the media are already starting to sort of dredge up some fake enthusiasm for her.
And no one has enthusiasm for Kamala Harris.
Remember, she ran a horrible presidential campaign where she failed so dramatically, she had to drop out before her home state of California, despite the fact that very early on she was actually leading the race.
Then she was out in the political wilderness until George Floyd died, at which point Joe Biden, in an act of political desperation, picked her because he needed a black woman on the ticket.
Now we're all supposed to forget, by the way, that she was picked because she was a black woman.
I love this idiot game that the media love to play, where they say out loud, she was picked because she's a black woman, and it's very, very historic that she's a black woman.
And then when we say, that's racist to pick her because she's a black woman.
That she's a DEI candidate, meaning that she was picked for diversity, equity, and inclusion, not out of merit, not because she was the best person for VP, not because she was the most qualified person to be a hair's breadth from the presidency, but because she was a black woman, and Joe Biden said it at the time.
If you note that, it's now racist.
So Nina Turner, who is a former Bernie Sanders surrogate, tweeted out, this is racism.
Why?
Because the New York Post tweeted out a headline, America may soon be subjected to the country's first DEI president, Kamala Harris.
That's not racist.
Joe Biden literally said it.
Judd Legumagumagumagum, who is a pseudo journalist, he put out a tweet saying,
I guess we are now using DEI as a replacement for racial slurs.
No, we're saying that she was appointed because of her race because Joe Biden said she was appointed because of her
race.
Gavin Newsom, governor of California, who is desperately sad
that he is not the vice president right now, he tweeted out, Joe Biden is our next president
and this is straight up racist.
Both of those two things are false.
One of my favorite things about the games that the left plays with regard to race
is it's like the most, it's the world's dumbest version of who's on first.
Truly, it's like an idiot version of who's on first.
The old Abbott and Costello routine where they're going back and forth about the player who plays first base for the local team, his name is who?
Who?
Yeah, his name is who, right?
That's the Democrat Party with regard to this sort of stuff.
Biden says something like, I'm selecting a black woman for my VP.
And the GOP's like, that's racist.
And Democrats are like, no, that's racist.
And the GOP's like, what is?
And Democrats say, it's saying it's racist to select a black woman VP.
GOP's like, but that's literally racist to select a woman black VP just because of her characteristics.
And Dems are like, what is racist?
And GOP's like racism.
And Democrats are like, wrong.
Racism is not racist.
Nothing.
Noticing racism is actually the racist thing.
Third base.
It's so stupid and ridiculous.
But this is the game that Democrats are now playing about Kamala Harris and they have to because she stinks.
She is terrible at her job.
This is one reason, I would assume, why the New York Times' Ezra Klein is like, maybe we should do a mini-primary instead.
Now, she ain't that great.
In an interview on CNN, Clyburn said on Wednesday, if Biden leaves the race, the party should hold a mini-primary.
He said, you can actually fashion the process that's already in place to make it a mini-primary.
I'd support that absolutely.
We can't close that down.
We should open up everything for the general election.
I think Kamala Harris would acquit herself very well in that kind of a process, but then it would be fair to everybody.
That's Jim Clyburn going, I don't like Kamala Harris.
Nobody likes Kamala Harris.
There's a reason you should not like Kamala Harris.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump is playing it very smart in this campaign.
Again, I think the incentive structures and the way Donald Trump thinks about campaigns has changed in 2024.
In 2016, Trump thought there was no way he was going to win, so he said anything he wanted to say.
In 2020, Trump thought there was no way he could lose, so he could say anything he wanted to say.
In 2024, he's being very, very careful.
So that's one reason why, for example, he's been out ripping on Project 2025.
Because Democrats have been going after the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.
And so Trump came back and said, I don't like it, which is a great way to take it off the table in the same way that he's now taken abortion off the table for Democrats.
Now he's begging Joe Biden to stay in the race.
He put a post out on truth social saying crooked Joe Biden should ignore his many critics and move forward with alacrity and strength with his powerful and far reaching campaign.
He should be sharp, precise and energetic, just like he was in the debate and selling his policies of open borders.
where millions of people, including record numbers of terrorists, are allowed to enter our country
from prisons and mental institutions totally unchecked and unvetted, to ending social security,
men playing in women's sports, high taxes, high interest rates, encouraging a woke military,
uncontrollable inflation, record-setting crime, only electric vehicles, subservience to China
and other countries, endless wars, putting America last, losing our dollar-based standard,
and so much more. Yes, Sleepy Joe should continue his campaign of American destruction
and make China great again. I have no notes. He is correct about all of that.
Meanwhile, the Veep stakes are ongoing in Trump land.
So Trump was supposed to announce a VP candidate this week.
He ain't going to do that.
He's going to wait until right before the RNC now, because why interrupt Democrats while they're in the middle of melting down?
The three top candidates for the VP, according to many reports at this point, are Doug Burgum, who is the governor of North Dakota, J.D.
Vance, the senator from Ohio, and Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida, all of them made appearances on the weekend shows.
Here was Doug Burgum making his case for why he ought to be Donald Trump's VP.
If you were put on the ticket as vice president, what would you bring to that ticket?
Well, Larry, I appreciate that the question, but I think, again, there's one person that gets to decide.
That's President Trump.
He's going to make a great decision.
He's going to figure out at the time of his choosing among a bunch of great candidates who's going to bring what he needs for the for the country.
And he'll choose the right governing partner.
He'll choose the right person that can help him win an election.
And then the thing that that We've been focused on, I've been focused on, I think every American should focus on, is getting President Trump elected.
So, Burgum, again, is doing what it takes to become Donald Trump's vice president.
He's basically just saying, I support the guy.
This is the attraction of Doug Burgum to Donald Trump, is that Doug Burgum does not make any sort of headlines.
Doug Burgum will presumably do some sort of debate with Kamala Harris if she's not the nominee.
That vice presidential debate will solve very few questions for the Democrats.
Burgum will acquit himself fine against Kamala Harris.
Mike Pence acquitted himself fine against Kamala Harris.
And he won't be a giant, huge distraction on the campaign trail.
The same probably cannot be said for J.D.
Vance, who's drawing all sorts of attention right now.
J.D.
is a super smart guy.
We've had him on the show before, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, Senator from Ohio.
He has moved in a significantly more economically populist direction, also in terms of foreign policy, over the course of the last four years.
With that said, he's obviously a super smart guy, J.D.
He's very aggressive.
And Senator Vance is becoming the focus of a lot of media attention.
In my opinion, that's the reason why Trump is less likely to pick him, is because Vance draws more fire.
And Donald Trump doesn't actually want anybody on the ticket who draws fire.
He would like the entire focus not to be on the evil dangers of Project 2025, J.D.
Vance, and the reshift of the Republican Party.
Vance, in other words, has a very strong brand.
That is not true of, say, Doug Burgum.
Here was J.D.
Vance over the weekend.
Let me, I have to ask you about Veep Steaks, of course.
Have you gotten the call from Donald Trump?
Has he asked you to be his running mate?
I have not gotten the call, Kristen, and I'll certainly, you know, maybe not the first person that I'd let know if that happened, but we'll let the media know if I ever get that call.
But most importantly, Kristen, we're just trying to work to elect Donald Trump.
Whoever his vice president is, he's got a lot of good people he could choose from.
It's the policies that worked and the leadership style that worked for the American people.
I think we have to bring that back to the White House, and I'm fighting to try to do that.
Okay, so that's J.D.
Vance, another one of the contenders, and then meanwhile you have Marco Rubio, who is making his own case.
Now, the Rubio case is very good, right?
He is not perceived as supremely controversial.
Rubio is obviously a Latino person, which means presumably that Trump will try to use him as outreach to the Latino community.
The big problem for Rubio is that Rubio is a resident of Florida, so he actually has to change his residence in order to become VP, because otherwise Donald Trump forfeits the state of Florida's votes.
You're not allowed to have a president and a vice president together from the same state, or the votes in that state go away.
So Rubio would have to change his residency presumably to someplace like Nevada.
Here he was over the weekend.
He has repeatedly said that his revenge will be to make America great again, to undo all their bad public policies.
By the way, he was president for four years.
He didn't go after Hillary Clinton.
He didn't go after Joe Biden.
He didn't go after Barack Obama.
He didn't go after any other consultants.
So you feel comfortable.
You're telling me right now... We didn't see under him what we're seeing now.
You're telling me right now that a second Trump administration would not go after any Democrats, any of his political opponents, full stop.
You have confidence that that wouldn't happen?
Yeah.
He was president before and he didn't do it then.
He's already said that he wouldn't do that.
He'll be too busy undoing all the damage of this disastrous presidency.
Again, Rubio is very smooth.
He's a good talker.
He's excellent in defense.
And he will bring in, you presume, more Latino votes.
So Rubio might be the frontrunner.
But those are the final three right now, apparently.
Berkum, Vance, and Rubio, according to all of the major reports.
Okay, now, big news from France.
So France is melting down.
The reason that France is melting down is because Emmanuel Macron, who is the leader of the so-called centrist party, decided that he was going to effectively throw this election to the far-left communists in France.
The far-left communists in France are full-on apologists for terrorism.
That would be the party of Mélenchon.
That particular party is far-left.
They're like Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn.
That's how far-left they are.
He has called French Jews, quote, an arrogant minority that lectures to the rest.
He's refused to condemn October 7th.
He's refused to call Hamas a terrorist group.
He praises Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro.
He cheered Vladimir Putin's invasion of Crimea.
That's who Melenchon is.
And his party just won the largest share of seats in the French National Assembly.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a coalition of leftist parties won the most seats in France's parliamentary elections, a stunning come-from-behind victory fueled by a groundswell of opposition to Marine Le Pen's anti-immigrant forces.
The New Popular Front, a coalition of parties that includes socialists, Greens, and far-left France Unbowed, So what actually happened here?
So, there are two rounds of the election.
The way that it works is there's a first round, and then the top two candidates in any particular district run against each other in the second round.
The party of President Emmanuel Macron and its allies won 163 seats.
La Penza National Rally and its allies scored 143 seats.
So what actually happened here?
So there are two rounds of the election.
The way that it works is there's a first round, and then the top two candidates in any particular district
run against each other in the second round.
So they sort of have run-offs.
Macron decided to side with the left instead of with the right.
Instead of siding with National Rally, he went to his own party.
He said in any election where we are currently coming in third, or second even, if we're coming in second, but we're gonna lose to Le Pen's party, we'll drop out and throw our support to the left-wing candidate.
In Melanchon's party.
So we'd rather have Melanchon win the biggest share rather than letting National Rally win the biggest share or a majority in the French National Assembly.
So he made the overt choice to side with actual communists rather than National Rally led by Marine Le Pen because she's anti-immigration.
Despite the fact that National Rally actually happens to be a party that, for example, does not hate France as opposed to Melanchon's party which actually does hate France and is perfectly fine and actually quite good with open immigration particularly from radical Muslim countries.
The actual French results are absolutely bizarre.
If you look at the popular vote result in these elections, National Rally and its allies won 37.3% of all the votes.
Macron and his allies won 22.3% of all the votes.
New Popular Front, which is the far left, won 26.9% of all the votes.
Which means that National Rally by far had the largest popular vote turnout.
Didn't matter, they won 142 seats.
New Popular Front won 178 seats.
Again, that's because of the coordination between Macron and Mélenchon.
Again, this is Emmanuel Macron's fault.
Emmanuel Macron decided that the right was so dangerous that they could only be stopped by the communists.
And so he decided to throw his support in swing districts, effectively, to the communists, such that even though the party with the largest number of votes was National Rally, they ended up with the third largest number of seats in the National Assembly.
Which is kind of reminiscent of what just happened in the UK, where the Conservatives won about 24% of the vote share, and Reform, which is Nigel Farage's party, also on the right, won 14%, so that's 38%.
Labour only won 34%, but they ended up with 65% of all the seats in the Parliament.
So again, the system is very weird in both France and the UK.
In any case, Melenchon's big victory last night led to, wait for it, riots, of course.
The French left, they were going to riot whether they won or they lost because this is what they do, because they hate the country and they actually wish to see it burn down.
So they rioted even after they won.
According to GB News, following the surprising exit poll, tens of thousands of left-wing supporters gathered in Paris' Place de la République to celebrate the victory of the alliance in the snap election.
Demonstrators set fireworks alight, lit flares, and climbed the statue of France's beloved Marianne, which is the French Republic's symbolic personification of liberty, égalité, fraternité.
Riot police were deployed to the scene.
Tear gas was fired into the crowd.
The crowd remained jubilant and continued to chant, young people screw the national front.
Apparently some 30,000 riot police, including 5,000 in Paris, had to be deployed to ensure that the radical right and radical left do not take advantage of the situation.
But not a lot of evidence that the radical right was out burning things down last night.
There's a lot of unrest from the radical left because any excuse to burn things down, and they will do it now.
Marine Le Pen and her party, she says we'll get them next time because we won the largest share of votes.
The problem is, if the centrists side with the radical left, they've made a choice.
That is, in fact, a choice.
They are no longer centrists.
They are fellow travelers with the communists.
And the media, of course, focus all their ire on Marine Le Pen and the so-called radical right in France while ignoring the evils and hypocrisies of the radical left communist side in France.
Here is Christiane Amanpour, who's legitimately the worst reporter in major news.
She is a liar.
She is awful.
Here she was, trying to label Marine Le Pen far-right on the basis of the fact that she's anti-immigration.
I strongly dispute the term far-right, which in your country refers to small groups that are extremely radical and violent.
If you like the equivalent... You don't think you're far-right?
The equivalent of what we are in the United States is between the center-right and the center-left with regards to ideas.
So I think this... You're kidding me, right?
Yes.
Yes, I'm telling you very honestly.
I think this use of the term far-right carries a stigma and is very pejorative.
She's right, of course, but Christiane Amanpour pretending that you're kidding me right is an actual journalistic question is an absurdity.
So what exactly are the communists promising, the New Popular Front?
They are promising to lower the retirement age to 60.
So France is already bankrupt.
They want to lower the retirement age from its current 64 to 60.
They want to reinstate a wealth tax.
The wealth tax in France was such a failure that France had to revise itself and then go back and redo it.
Dole out more housing benefits and boost public sector wages, linking them to inflation.
So to jack up the inflation in France, they're going to now link public sector wages with the inflation, so you have a wage price spiral in France.
The measures would cost 100 billion euros in 2025.
That's $108 billion.
Mélenchon said, the new Popular Front will apply its program, nothing but its program.
And this is the fault of Emmanuel Macron.
So the current Prime Minister of France, who has very little power, the President of France has a lot of power.
He's part of the Macron party.
He offered his resignation on Monday.
Macron asked him to remain temporarily to ensure the country's stability.
Totally unclear what happens now, because usually in France, one party or the other wins a majority in the National Assembly.
That didn't happen.
So now there's gonna have to be some weird coalition.
Instead of bringing clarity, as the Wall Street Journal points out, Macron's maneuver has driven the country into political fog.
Avoiding a hung parliament will be hard, and a lower house divided in three by large blocs with diametrically opposed agendas.
Former President François Hollande, who is a disaster area, a socialist who was elected Sunday, told French TV he expected Macron to meet with the heads of the major political parties and try to find a path through territory he described as uncharted.
Again, all of this was because Macron would not impose any restrictions in serious ways on immigration that led to the rise of the right-wing party in France.
And just like in the UK, there was then a rebellion by the left that ended up siding with the centrists.
The results for France and the UK are going to be absolutely disastrous, by the way.
Following the success of the right-wing National Rally Party in Sunday's first round of France parliamentary election, The Grand Synagogue of Paris Chief Rabbi Moshe Sabag cast doubt on the future of Jews in France.
He said, it's clear today there is no future for Jews in France.
He said this on Monday.
This is about the left wing being elected.
I tell everyone who is young to go to Israel or a more secure country.
That is the Paris Chief Rabbi telling Jews in France they have no life left there.
They need to go.
He said, every country has its history.
Its history is part of its identity.
The moment you feel part of a country's history, it doesn't become another country's history.
After generations, the French Jews are very French and feel very French.
That was a couple of days ago.
And now he says that because of the radical increase of radical leftism and radical Islam, that Jews should leave.
So, again, that is a pretty grave warning.
Meanwhile, in the UK, it turns out that elections have consequences as well.
Pierre Starmer is the new Prime Minister of the UK with an overwhelming majority in the UK Parliament despite winning less of a combined vote than all of the votes on the right one, like 34% of the vote.
And he ends up with an historic majority in Parliament as well as the Prime Ministership.
Here he was receiving a call from Slow Joe Biden.
Mr Prime Minister, congratulations.
What a hell of a victory.
Congratulations.
Thank you, Mr President.
It's been a long night and day.
I've been busy appointing my cabinet during the course of this afternoon.
So thank you very much for your congratulations.
And fortuitously, we will see each other next week.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing you in Washington and having the opportunity, obviously, to sit down properly.
I'm looking forward to it as well.
There's no doubt that I'm your leadership.
Our two countries are going to continue our special relationship.
Oh, wow. I mean, this is gonna be great leadership, right?
The first two things that Keira Starmer did as the new prime minister,
he says he wants to reduce the number of people going to prison by simply cutting sentences,
by simply cutting the sentences in half.
Okay, so good luck.
Good luck, Britain.
Hope you like criminals on your streets.
Apparently, he said, we need to be clear about the way in which we use prisons.
For so many people who come out of prison, they're back in prison relatively quickly afterward.
That's a massive problem.
We do need to break that.
He said, I've sat in the back of I don't know how many criminal courts and watched people process through the system on an escalator to go to prison.
I've often reflected many of them could have been taken out of that system earlier if they'd had support.
So they're going to go easy on crime in Britain.
Also, they're killing the anti-immigration efforts of the Tories.
One of those anti-immigration efforts was an effort to deport illegal immigrants from Rwanda.
Keir Starmer said the Rwanda deportation policy is, quote, dead and buried.
The prime minister said he was not prepared to continue with gimmicks, as he confirmed a multi-million pound plan to send some asylum seekers to Kigali is to be scrapped.
So get ready for a vast wave of more immigration to the UK.
Hope that the UK and France are ready for what's about to hit them, because if it's been bad for the past 20 years in terms of immigration, get ready for more.
Michel Hollebecq looks like a prophet now, not like the radical right-winger the press painted him as when his books came out.
So, this is what happens when countries decide that they are going to sell themselves down the river in pursuit of left-wing radicalism.
We'll see how it works out for them.
Alrighty, guys, coming up, we will get to how the rest of the world is responding to Western weakness.
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