Ep. 1576 - 9 Dead & 2,700 Injured In The Hezbollah Pager-Bomb HACK
Israel blows up thousands of Hezbollah fighters' crotches, P. Diddy gets indicted for "freak out" sex parties, and Hillary Clinton calls for the criminal prosecution of Republicans.
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Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad reported that thousands of people were injured yesterday when the pagers of Hezbollah terrorists unexpectedly exploded.
Hezbollah's Hebraic neighbors to the south reportedly played the operation pretty close to the old Bekesha, only informing the United States after it had already taken place.
The attack raises all sorts of questions.
Ethically, Was it justified?
Does it meet the criteria of just war?
Operationally, how did it even happen?
The whole thing seems like something out of Looney Tunes, with Jihadi Coyote buying a bunch of Acme electronics from a roadrunner in a Yamaha.
And then politically, who wins and who loses?
This to me, this latter question, is the most complex and the most interesting.
The attack is obviously bad for Hezbollah.
Which means that it's bad for Iran.
It's bad for the poor civilians caught in the crossfire.
It's good, obviously, for Israel.
It's bad, I think, for America in as much as it raises the risk that we'll be dragged into another war in the Middle East.
But it's especially bad for Democrats, because the Democrat activist base hates Israel and will blame Biden and Harris for supporting Israel too much, while the elite Democrat class still broadly supports Israel and will blame Biden and Harris for not supporting Israel enough.
This has been the Democrats' problem all election cycle.
The more Israel is in the news, the worse it is for Democrats, which means the attack is good, I think, for Republicans who need to depress Democrat enthusiasm and also ideally win some Muslim votes in Michigan.
In short, the whole episode is completely insane, which makes it par for the course in the Middle East and par for the course in the 2024 election.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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A Trump-aligned group is running Spanish-language ads, which is sometimes controversial on the right, because we want to reach Spanish-speaking voters, but we want to speak English and everything.
These are unique, though, in that they are ads threatening illegals with deportation if they vote.
It's a do-not-vote ad.
So we'll get into the implications of all that in one moment.
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We've talked about the political implications of the pager explosion, Looney Tunes attack from Israel on Hezbollah.
A lot of people are talking about the ethical implications.
This was a really weird attack.
Something like 4,000 people are injured and relatively not that many people died, but there was reported that a young girl was killed in this, obviously a civilian, so it raises ethical questions about the attack.
Some are arguing that this was unjust, this was a violation of the Geneva Conventions, that this was ethically unacceptable.
As I examine the details, what we know about it, I don't really see why this kind of attack would not be justified.
The only part of it really to me that raises ethical questions is the fact that there was a civilian, maybe more than one civilian casualty, but certainly this young girl who was killed, which is absolutely horrible of course, but a civilian being killed in an act of war does not necessarily mean that that act of war was not justified.
Civilians are always killed in war.
That's what happens in war.
The question is, Who's being targeted?
The question is one of proportionality.
The question is one of the justification for the war itself.
Whether or not the combatants have gone to war in a way that was justified, then we can examine how the war is conducted and whether that is justified.
And everything I see here suggests that Israel played a little clever.
It was definitely a little weird convincing these Hezbollah people to accept pagers that they had loaded with explosives and rigged to blow up.
We haven't seen something like that before, but I don't really see how it's...
Oh, it's unjustified.
Obviously, the people being targeted were combatants.
They weren't even really legal combatants in as much as Hezbollah is a terrorist group that does target civilians and has targeted Israeli civilians.
So, the intention seems fine.
The targeting seems fine.
The pagers were being used by militants.
In fact, the very use of the pagers implies that the person using them was a militant because It's not just that Hezbollah doesn't have any money.
Hezbollah has plenty of money.
They get the money from Iran.
The reason they weren't using iPhones or Androids is because reportedly earlier this year the leader of Hezbollah told his men not to use cell phones because the Israelis were hacking into the cell phones.
So he ordered them to use this older technology.
So this raises all sorts of questions then.
Was there someone inside Hezbollah who was in on the scheme with the Israelis?
How did the Israelis Get these pagers into the hands of Hezbollah.
And did Hezbollah decide to use the pagers before Israel came up with this scheme?
Was the decision to use the pagers part of the scheme?
I don't know.
I mean, operationally, it's really pretty wild.
But in terms of the ethics of the whole thing, it seems pretty clear-cut to me.
If anyone has an argument as to why this kind of attack would be unethical, I'm all ears.
But every angle I look at it from, it seems Seems pretty clear-cut to me.
Crazy, wild, insane, the fact that specifically they blew off these militants' crotches.
I mean, that's really like twisting the knife, but I don't know, you fire a lot of rockets into a country, don't be surprised when the country fights back, particularly in a way that targets specifically these militants.
Now, speaking of insane political operations, P Diddy, Puff Diggity Doodad, the artist once known as Sean Puffy Combs, was just indicted on sex trafficking and racketeering and kidnapping charges.
We'd heard about this already.
We'd heard that P Diddy had been running some kind of weird Sex, surveillance, drug-fueled sting operation.
Some people, I think Kanye West had called him a fed, so there were accusations that he was working with federal law enforcement in a kind of Jeffrey Epstein-like sex ring.
The fact that he's been indicted now makes one wonder.
It doesn't seem like he's working with the feds, but who knows?
I don't know.
I don't know anything about it.
All I know are the details of aforementioned drug and sex ring as they're relayed in the indictment and as they're being reported by outlets like TMZ.
TMZ reports that P. Diddy would hold these parties called freak-offs.
I'll just read you a little bit about it.
This is a family show, so I'll try to clean it up a little bit.
The indictment mentions how the freak-off parties Involved all sorts of prostitutes and elaborate and produced sex performances that Sean Puffy Combs arranged, directed, did personally weird stuff during, and often electronically recorded.
The indictment says he lured women into his orbit under the pretense of a romantic relationship, so kind of like a You know, the lover boy scam, and then used force, threats of force and coercion to force these victims to engage in extended sex acts with male prostitutes.
Then after these freak-off parties, everyone was so depleted that the women and the men and Puff Daddy himself would receive IV fluids to recover from all of the physical exertion and drug use.
Uh, there are, now there are all sorts of other allegations that are associated with it, like kidnapping and all sorts of other stuff, arson, bribery.
Uh, the drugs involved allegedly include coke, oxycodone, Xanax, GHB, the date rape drug, MDMA, uh, ecstasy, ketamine.
And the indictment references all sorts of things seized at Puff Daddy's homes all over the country.
You know, Beverly Hills, Miami, a thousand bottles of baby oil and lubricant.
One can't even imagine.
A thousand, what?
A bunch of firearms with the serial numbers scratched off.
I mean, this is crazy stuff.
A drum magazine.
I don't know.
I don't know what it means.
for the criminal enterprise itself.
I don't know what it means about the allegations that Puff Daddy was working with law enforcement.
I don't know what it means as a matter of legal operations.
But what I'm really focused on here is what it means for the individual human heart.
What I'm really interested in is what it means for me and what it means for you.
Because this guy had everything that most people want in a really superficial way.
This guy has been famous and rich and influential and successful for 30 years now, since the 90s.
This guy could do anything he wanted.
In the normal order of things.
And the one rule was, hey, you can keep all your money and your fame and your power and your influence and everything, but you can't drug hookers and force them to perform orgies to the point of physical exhaustion.
You can have everything.
Puff Daddy, you can have everything under the sun.
All of this can be yours.
You just can't host the craziest sounding freak out drug hooker parties ever.
And Puff Daddy said, yeah, no deal.
No deal, sorry.
I would rather risk all my money, all my fame, all my influence, all the stuff that people want to do really sick, weird, degrading, shameful things with like zillions of hookers.
That, you know, my friend Andrew Klavan has this joke about an orange for a head.
If you haven't heard, I'll give you the short version.
A guy walks into a bar, he's got an orange for a head, and the bartender says, what's that about?
And he says, huh?
Oh, well, that's a long story, but I found a genie lamp on a beach.
A genie really came out.
I said, what do you want?
And so I said, you're not a real genie.
I don't know.
I want a million dollars.
Sure enough, later that day, a guy shows up with a big check, a million dollar check.
I go back.
I said, you might be real.
He says, what else do you want?
He said, I want, I don't know, I want to sleep with all the ladies in Playboy.
And, you know, knock, knock on the door later on, and all these Playboy bunnies show up at my house.
And the bartender says, okay, all right, I'm following you.
Well, so what about the orange for a head?
He says, oh, yeah, well, here's where I think I messed up.
For my third wish, I asked for an orange for a head.
And the joke is about the perversity of the human heart and all of our desires.
And Puff Daddy is actually living that out.
He is proving the orange for a head joke.
That you can have everything that you say that you want, but you just, you have to pervert it.
You have to lose it.
You have to screw it up.
If you don't cultivate virtue, if you don't accord with God's grace, if you don't do the right thing, you will lose it.
You will be a loser.
Because of original sin and concupiscence, we are, in a kind of natural sense, born to lose.
We're born to die, right?
We're gonna die, we're gonna turn to worm food.
So you have to do something to remedy this problem, but you can't do it of yourself.
That's why we need God.
That's why we need to cooperate with God's grace.
And if you don't, you end up at the freak-off parties with a thousand bottles of lube and in jail because you've depleted too many thousands of hookers.
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This is an ad put out by a Trump-affiliated group.
And it's a political ad in Spanish.
This has been controversial, as I mentioned earlier on the right, because there are many Republicans who say, hey, I don't want you to run... I don't want our campaigns to run ads in Spanish.
One of the things that we stand for, one of the basic things we stand for, is American unity and assimilation and our traditional culture.
And our culture doesn't traditionally speak Spanish.
We don't traditionally...
Speak all sorts of languages.
Traditionally, we don't press three for English on customer service lines.
If we don't stand for everyone speaking English and assimilating to America, what the hell do we stand for?
What good are conservatives?
So they have a principled ideological objection to Spanish language.
But then there are these other Republicans who say, hey guys, the demographics of the country have changed.
The Democrats have imported millions and millions of people, largely from Latin America, and so we need their votes.
If we don't, if we just say we don't want your votes, we don't try to meet them where they are, then they're going to vote for Democrats and we're going to lose elections and we're not going to have any power whatsoever.
So there's a really practical prudential argument to run ads in Spanish.
Well, I think this ad run by this Trump-affiliated group manages to unite the two camps for the first time ever, which is they're running ads in Spanish Castigating illegal aliens from Latin America and telling them not to vote if they are illegals because they could be deported.
In America, the vote is a sacred right.
It is a right that men and women have sacrificed their lives for.
If you're an American citizen, register to vote and vote.
But it is illegal for non-citizens to vote.
It is a right that men and women have sacrificed their lives for.
If you're an American citizen, register to vote and vote.
But it is illegal for non-citizens to vote in the presidential election in 2024.
That is a federal crime.
And you could be deported for it only.
Only American citizens can vote for president.
Wow.
Love this.
Paid for by the Article 3 Foundation.
Really, really love this.
And listen to how the establishment media is reporting on it.
NBC News.
A conservative group is launching a Spanish-language advertisement in critical battleground states that strikes two drastically different tones, first touting voting as patriotic but warning that it's illegal for non-citizens to vote.
The ad campaign, shared exclusively with NBC News, was paid for by a dark money group linked to a controversial ally of Trump.
A dark money group.
What do you mean a dark money group?
It's just a political group.
There are plenty of political groups.
There are all sorts of political groups on the left.
Many, many, many more groups.
But they're never called dark money groups on the left.
They're called organizations standing up for democracy.
The Brennan Center for Justice and Democracy and Freedom and Goodness.
The moveon.org so we can move on from bad.
Those are all really light money groups.
It's only when anyone does anything on the conservative side that it's a dark money group.
Their money, I don't know what it is.
It's got too much ink on it or something.
It's too dark.
It's a dark money group.
Then this is the key, NBC moves on, they say, it is very rare for non-citizens to try to vote in elections.
Studies have found virtually no instances of it happening, and no evidence that it could be occurring at a rate large enough to affect the outcome of an election.
There's no evidence, it's not real, and it's really, really bad that the Republicans are telling illegals not to vote.
Hold on, wait, what?
You just said, you just said, That the problem being addressed by this advertisement doesn't really exist.
So, fine.
You should have no problem with this advertisement.
In fact, if the liberals really believe that illegal aliens are not voting, They should love this advertisement.
They should want this advertisement to air everywhere.
One, because it will deplete campaign funds that could be used on other aspects of the 2024 race from Republicans.
And two, because it's encouraging legal Spanish speakers to go vote.
Which is good, because Spanish speakers vote at much higher rates for Democrats.
So that should be good for- Democrats should be thrilled.
They should be putting money into this ad.
If illegals aren't voting.
But the way I read this, I don't know, NBC News sounds real worried about an ad that supposedly won't have any effect on the election.
Study show!
What do you mean study show?
Every week now, it seems, we're seeing more and more people accidentally registered to vote.
We talked about one on the show yesterday, the day before.
Oh, oopsie-daisy, we found out because of motor voter laws in Oregon, or elsewhere, in maybe more critical swing states, that oops, you know, when, because non-citizens are allowed to get driver's licenses, and it was just a clerical error, you know, the poor bureaucrat who gave them their license at the DMV, they accidentally registered them to vote.
These are accidents that occur because of intentional policies that make it more likely for these accidents to occur.
Where is this ad going to air?
ESPN Deportes, Galavision, Univision, Fox Deportes, and other Spanish channels, as well as Spanish-language talk radio.
Okay.
Sounds good to me.
I'm good with this because I think illegal aliens vote, and I think there's pretty good evidence for it.
So I want this ad to air.
Just look, even if even if only one illegal alien, even if no illegal aliens voted, but some were tempted to vote, this would be good as a public service announcement to make sure we uphold the rule of law and maintain the integrity of our elections in our sacred democracy, which the Democrats tell us is so important.
But if, as the Democrats say, the illegal aliens don't vote, well, great.
All the better.
You've just spent Republicans' money in a way that won't affect the election.
Great.
Might even help you if the legal Spanish speakers vote.
That's great, right?
The fact that the Libs are so angry about this, I think Tells you which side is right.
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Now, speaking of criminals and people who could be prosecuted, Right now the Democrats don't want to prosecute the illegal aliens in our country who worked with the cartels to cross the border, controlled entirely by the cartels.
The Democrats want to prosecute you.
Hillary Clinton, the once and future Democrat candidate, the eternal Democrat candidate for president, she has called for a criminal prosecution of people who promote Republican propaganda.
I think it's important to indict the Russians, just as Mueller indicted a lot of Russians who were engaged in direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016.
But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda.
And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a Better deterrence.
Be a much better deterrent if anytime people said anything that Hillary Clinton doesn't like, they were, at the very least, Brought up on a civil matter, you know, it cost him a lot of money, but probably they should be criminally prosecuted too.
Because, you see, if we don't prosecute and imprison Hillary Clinton's political enemies for disagreeing with her, why then, we might lose our sacred democracy.
Then, our sacred constitution would be shredded if we allow Republicans to say what they think.
Notice how she tries to blur two totally separate issues.
She says, Russians who are interfering in our political process should be prosecuted.
Okay?
And Americans who perhaps agree with them or perhaps say things that they don't even say but are just kind of adjacent to what they say or really if they're just Americans say things I don't like, they should be prosecuted too.
Well, hold on.
Russia could buy a bunch of political ads.
Not that Russia's had much effect at all in politics.
You remember back in 2016, we were told the Russians interfered in that election, handed it to Trump.
What did they do?
They spent something like $100,000 on Facebook ads.
That's nothing.
Daily Wire has spent $100,000 on Facebook ads in a matter of hours, probably not recently, but at various points in our history.
That's true, not just of Daily Wire, that's true of any media company.
New York Times, NBC, how much?
The New York Times has spent way more money promoting things like the 1619 Project.
Give me $100,000 in Facebook ads, it's nothing for a media company.
So, okay, well, yeah, they were interfering.
What about recently?
Supposedly, the Russians had bought off this group Tenet Media, which had a handful of conservative commentators on it.
Okay, Tenet Media, in its nine months of existence, got something like 16 million views on YouTube.
Which 16 million sounds like a big number.
When you consider that the Russians allegedly paid $10 million for 16 million views, and it was spread out among multiple commentators, that is nothing, guys.
That is the Russians not making an even slight dent into American politics.
And by the way, the content that was put out by that company that was allegedly a Russian front was content that was already being produced before the Russians got involved at all.
Hillary's taking this problem that sounds like a big problem and that in principle would be a big problem, and then uses that to say that's why Americans need to be prosecuted.
So let's say Russia ran an ad on Facebook and it said, America should stop funding the war in Ukraine.
That is a position that Vladimir Putin holds, for sure.
It's a position that many people in the world hold, maybe most people in the world hold, but Vladimir Putin's one of them.
So this is America should stop funding the war in Ukraine.
There are Americans who are patriots, who don't have any particular affection for Russia, who don't know anything about Vladimir Putin, who don't, you know, good old tough Americans, who just think we shouldn't be fighting this war, that this war is not a good war to fight, it's not in the American interest, it's not going to really lead to any strategic advantage, probably even for the Ukrainians, it's just going to lead to a lot more people dying, and actually maybe it might undermine American national security.
There are plenty of Smart, patriotic Americans who believe that.
Well, according to Hillary Clinton, those people should be prosecuted.
If Vladimir Putin comes, he runs a Facebook ad, says, water is good, you should drink water.
Then some American says, you know, I like water, water is good, I enjoy water.
Well, listen, that guy was spreading propaganda.
He was agreeing with Vladimir Putin.
But really, of course, what this is all about is just censoring the political opponents of the left.
These people really don't like you.
You remember Rachel Vindman?
Talked about her on the show yesterday or the day before.
Rachel Vindman is the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, who is this guy who was a subversive character on the National Security Council during the Trump administration, tried to get Trump impeached because, I don't know, he didn't like Trump's foreign policy.
Trump's foreign policy was too successful for this guy.
He wanted to go back to all the failed foreign policies, people like Barack Obama, and now we see Joe Biden.
And so he undermined him, he made himself a big Trump critic.
And so his wife, when Trump was nearly murdered for the second time a few days ago, she tweeted out, no ears were harmed, carry on with your Sunday afternoon.
That was her response to the second near assassination of President Trump.
Then, when people criticized, myself included, when they criticized that ghastly, disgusting tweet, she replied and she said, sorry, you're triggered.
Then three laughing emojis said, I mean, no, I'm not.
I don't care a little bit.
And then a little heart emoji, like a hand heart emoji.
Okay, so she doubled down on it.
She walked it back.
She said, I've deleted my tweet.
It was flippant.
Political violence is a serious issue, whether it's aimed at a former president, the media, immigrants, or political enemies.
And every incident should be addressed appropriately if we want to change the tenor of our political discourse.
Hold on.
Wait, that's a big shift.
She said, I've deleted my tweet.
It was flippant.
Political violence is a serious issue.
First, you made clear you don't think it's a serious issue.
Then you doubled down and made clear you knew exactly what you were saying when you said it wasn't a serious issue.
And you said it wasn't a serious issue again.
Then you say, well, I've deleted it.
He said, political violence is serious.
And she goes, whether it's at a former president or the media.
Okay, hold on.
The media are on the left.
The former president's on the right.
The media are on the left.
That's something that the left holds dear.
Or immigrants, that's something that the left really holds dear.
Mass migration.
Or political enemies, that I think is coded to mean people on the left.
So she's saying, look, political violence is very serious.
And sometimes, whatever, it's a Trump or something.
But mostly, most of the time, Political violence is aimed at the left.
I mean, there's no evidence of that whatsoever, and all the major instances of political violence in recent memory have been from leftists against conservatives.
Brett Kavanaugh almost being murdered.
Maxine Waters calling on her supporters to physically push back on Republicans in public.
Hillary Clinton saying you can't be civil with Republicans.
The Bernie bro shooting up the congressional baseball game almost killing Steve Scalise.
Rand Paul's neighbor breaking his ribs.
All All instances of left-wing political violence against the right.
Obviously the two attempt assassinations of Trump.
She says no, it's a problem the other way around.
And then she follows it up with another tweet.
I've sat awake many nights wondering who might be outside.
I've known the instant fear of receiving an unknown package or letter.
I've had my child ask me if we were safe and if someone was going to hurt our family.
And then finally she concludes, with social media it's easy to say the wrong thing and then walk away.
But if words matter, for some they should matter for all.
I don't always get it right the first time, or the second time in this case, or really any of the times.
I'm grateful to all who have supported us throughout the past five years.
Okay, what is this about?
What is it?
Why am I reading this woman's tweets?
Because Rachel Vindman has given us a master class in lib communications.
This is not really a private citizen.
Her husband is a major public figure.
She has made herself a public figure.
I don't like going after spouses.
If this woman would keep her trap shut and remain a private citizen and tend to the home of the Vindman household, I would not bring her up even once.
If it were merely her husband who's made himself a public figure, but she's made herself a public figure.
She makes public statements.
She's the one all over social media.
She's weighing in on political issues.
And also, her brother-in-law is currently running for Congress, which I think explains the change in tone.
It would be one thing if she said this ugly, disgusting thing, and then the next thing she said was, look, that was wrong, I shouldn't have said that.
Okay, we gotta have grace, we understand.
She said the ugly, disgusting thing.
She then clarified, said, I totally mean it.
I am dead serious.
I don't care that Trump was almost killed.
I think it's kind of a joke, actually.
So what's the masterclass in the liberal response?
The masterclass is laugh at heinous things, celebrate heinous things often, double down, Walk it back, not because you've had a change of heart, but because you find out that it's politically damaging, and then make yourself out to be the real victim.
That is the rulebook.
That is how you do it.
She just showed us perfectly how the libs do these things, and they're gonna do it.
Mark my words, she will not be the last one.
It's been three days now or something since the second near assassination of Trump.
The libs will Almost uniformly figure out a way to make this about them, to make themselves the victims here.
Now, speaking of liberal propaganda, some liberal propaganda is too outrageous and absurd even for left-wing CNN.
CNN has just called out the Kamala Harris campaign for spreading fake news.
Fact check.
Harris campaign social media account has repeatedly deceived with misleading edits and captions.
Social media account run by Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has been repeatedly deceptive.
The Kamala HQ account, which has more than 1.3 million followers on the ex-social media platform, has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack President Donald Trump.
Now, I know This is true.
The article only mentions the lies that are directly about Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance.
I know that the Harris campaign account lies about people because they lie about me all the time.
I don't complain about it, really, because I find that the Kamala Harris campaign account clips out some of my best stuff.
They have taken on the role of media matters ever since that left-wing activist group has been hit with all sorts of legal and financial problems.
They're not doing as good a job at publicizing my show.
So the Kamala Harris campaign has stepped in, and they clip out some of the best stuff from my show, and then they lie about it.
Media Matters usually didn't lie about it, they usually...
Mostly get it right.
The Kamala campaign, though, will tweet out about me.
They'll say, top Trump operative Michael Knowles working for the Project 2025 says, and then they'll say something that I didn't even say.
And I say plenty of things that they should attack me for because they're leftists and I say things that are common sense and normal.
So, you know, that's their chief enemy.
But they lie about it all the time and so they, you know, even the left is now recognizing this is too much.
So what does that mean?
Some people are going to wrongly conclude that CNN is really, you know, good on CNN.
They're playing fair and square here.
They're recognizing that the left has gone too far and it's not only the right that deals with fake news and maybe we, no, no, that's not what this is about.
This is not about CNN working down the middle.
This is an intra-left-wing spat.
This is a left-wing group Kamala Harris campaign versus left-wing group CNN.
And it is a debate not over facts.
It's not a debate over the news.
It's a debate over campaign tactics.
The Kamala Harris campaign is saying we can just lie.
brazenly with a straight face about our enemies, and that will be good.
And CNN is saying, no, if you lie so brazenly in such an absurd way, especially with community notes on X, which is of course why they're focusing on this platform, the one platform that has real-time popular fact checks that more often get the fact checks right.
CNN is saying, if you keep lying this brazenly, you're going to make our whole operation look dishonest.
You're screwing this up for us, kid.
That's what this debate is about.
If you are tempted to give CNN credit, hold on, back away.
You never, in fact, have to hand it to CNN.
This is an intra-left-wing spat.
The Kamala Harris campaign is just, they've just taken it too far.
The libs are saying, no, when you're going to lie, you've got to lie a little bit better.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from KittyLaramore1287 who says, the cats realized Trump is trying to save them and have awarded him a set of nine lives.
Wow.
That might explain it.
There will be, someday, legends that crop up about this period.
Trump is a world historic figure.
And there will be legends, because sometimes legends crop up.
They're based in historic fact, but they take on fanciful details over time.
I would not be surprised if there were legends that crop up someday and say, yes, Donald Trump, the way that old, oh, in the old United States, there was an orange fellow with I don't know why the people telling us are Irish.
There was an orange fellow with blonde hair.
Donald Trump.
Donald Maximus.
Donald Magnus the Great.
Donald.
And Donald Bullets wouldn't... They called him the Teflon Don.
The bullets would bounce right off him.
It'd slip right off him.
How?
Where did he acquire his power as well?
Because the Donald protected the cats from the dastardly Democrats and the Haitian immigrants.
They were cooking the cats and the cats one day at the cat...
That will be a silver lining in this crazy storm cloud.
That legend will be a beautiful thing someday.
Now, speaking of the Democrats running hard on fake news, two days after the assassination attempt, the second assassination attempt, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Proved to the American people exactly where the Democrats stand, exactly where the White House stands, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, on reducing the temperature of our rhetoric.
Just to clarify, so you're saying that the president and vice president believe that former president Donald Trump should be toning down his rhetoric?
So, I'll say this.
President Biden has been clear-eyed about the threat that the former president represents to our democracy.
He's been clear-eyed about that.
There it is.
So hold on, I love this reporter.
She goes, hold on, you're telling me that after they try to blow this guy's head off twice, he's the problem?
His rhetoric is the problem?
He just, you know, he was wearing a short skirt down a dark alleyway.
He's got it.
He shouldn't have said that it's bad to eat cats.
He shouldn't have said it's better when the economy is strong.
He shouldn't have said we want less war.
He shouldn't have said that immigration law should be enforced.
And so it's his fault.
He's got to tone down his rhetoric if he wants us to stop shooting him in the head.
That's what you're saying, Kareem Shampir?
And her answer is, yeah.
Pretty much.
You got it.
Trump poses a threat to our democracy.
Not just he's going to be bad for the country, not just his policies are really awful, not just he sends mean tweets and that's below the stature and dignity and character of America.
No, no.
The president has been clear about his view that Trump poses an existential threat to the country.
And if someone poses an existential threat to your country, that justifies killing him.
That's right there in the word existential.
That's what she's saying.
What the White House is saying is, hey, anyone out there who might want to pop off President Trump, try again.
Have better aim next time.
Hide your position in the sniper nest.
That's what they're saying.
If they wanted there to be less political violence, and political violence, as I pointed out at a speech at Washington and Lee just a couple days ago, political violence is a left-wing phenomenon in America.
If they wanted there to be less political violence, the White House would come out and say, look, sometimes in politics we speak with hyperbole, sometimes we exaggerate.
You know, President Trump, he exaggerates his crowd sizes, and we exaggerated the existential threat posed by Trump.
So we're not going to use that language anymore.
It's being misconstrued, misunderstood.
That's what a good press secretary would have said.
Again, I'm trying to put myself in the position of being a Democrat press secretary working for Biden and Harris.
That's what I would have said.
To try to just at least give plausible deniability that we at the White House don't want Trump to be murdered.
But she can't do that.
Because Biden can't do that, because Kamala can't do that.
The White House is saying, yeah, try again.
Try again.
When they say they're upset to hear of the assassination attempts on Trump, what they're saying is, we're upset it didn't work.
Because this guy's Hitler, he's an existential threat to the country, maybe next time they'll have better aim.
That is exactly the meaning that Karine Jean-Pierre is conveying.
So, is this campaign working?
Is Harris, and I guess technically Joe Biden stole the president, so Biden and his spokesman, Are they persuading people to vote for the Democrat ticket?
Well, one CBS reporter, so we're talking about a liberal network news station, went out to Nevada, I think it was, and interviewed people in restaurants, talked to everyone in the restaurant, and found something kind of surprising about the relative number of people who support Trump versus Kamala.
But what was really incredible is, in every single restaurant, of the people willing to talk to us, we could only find one Harris supporter in every restaurant.
And we left no stone unturned.
I approached every single person.
People are really excited about Trump.
Democrats have been winning the state, but the margins are getting smaller and smaller.
So, Nevada, this is a swing state.
This is an important state.
She's saying, yeah, each restaurant I'm going into, one person who supports Harris.
Everyone else supported Trump and loves Trump.
I'm not surprised by this.
Not because I think, sometimes.
I was talking to some friends of mine.
We were saying, you know, everyone, is everyone a conservative?
Like is every single person in the country, is the notion that there are liberals just kind of a psyop by the media?
Because we go to California, we go to New York, we go to liberal places.
Most people we're talking to who would seem to check all the boxes that would make them identify as liberals, you know, I don't know, they live in the liberal states, they dress like liberals, they have liberal, you know, they smoke pot or something, they're non-white, they're this, they're that, but everyone we talk to is a Republican, or is at least going to vote for Trump or something.
Now, there might be a little selection bias here.
I don't think it's quite like that.
As the reporter mentions, the margins for Democrats are slimming down in Nevada, but it's not even really about Republican versus Democrat.
This is a Kamala problem.
There is no organic support for Kamala Harris.
She is a completely synthetic, contrived candidate.
This is the downside to not having a primary.
The upside to not having a primary is you don't bloody up your nominee.
The downside is, You don't inspire anyone.
You know, sometimes when a candidate gets bloodied up, that helps inspire support.
Toughens up the candidate.
It sharpens their message.
It introduces the candidate to voters.
And then the best man wins, and that person's the nominee.
In this case, there is zero organic support.
This woman has never won a single vote in a primary while she was running for president.
So yeah, of course no one in these restaurants in Nevada is going to vote for her.
Or at the very least, no one in there is excited to vote for her.
No one knows who she is.
Kamala Harris doesn't know who she is.
Her platform was stolen from Trump and Biden.
She's nothing.
And you know, the consulting class, the elite class thinks that nothing is really great.
That's what these liberal technocrats want.
Their ideal candidate is nobody.
Because they want the country to be run by a Borg.
They want the country to be run by some machines, some robots.
So just, you know, you put things into a spreadsheet and the answer comes out.
They want President Chat GPT.
But human beings don't want that.
We want to be represented by people.
We like people, okay?
We recognize that man is the political animal and that you can't just recreate man.
Man is not God.
We can't make man out of nuts and bolts and microchips.
So, the libs get their perfect candidate.
Kamala Harris is the perfect candidate because she's nothing.
But the people don't like that.
Now, we will be discussing this race with former Republican congressman, former New York gubernatorial, Nominee, and put up a very good showing in New York, by the way, and a man who knows a lot about politics, that would be Lee Zeldin.
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Republicans are Nazis.
You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
Growing up, I never thought much about race.
It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.
Am I racist?
I would really appreciate it if you left.
I'm trying to learn.
I'm on this journey.
I'm gonna sort this out.
I need to go deeper undercover.
Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
Here's my certifications.
What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
Listen more for you in this field.
Is America inherently racist?
The word inherent is challenging there.
Want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?
America is racist to its bones.
So inherently?
Yeah.
This country is a piece of...
White.
Folks.
White trash.
White supremacy.
White woman.
White boy.
Is there a black person around here?
What's a black person right here?
Does he not exist?
Hi Robin.
Hi.
What's your name?
I'm Matt.
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
