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This political realignment stuff is really getting out of control.
Not only are black men and Hispanics becoming Republicans, now evangelical reality stars are promoting gay stuff and a beloved children's puppet wants to kill all the Jews.
That's a lot.
That's realignment.
Speaking of which, a former Prime Minister of Israel is officially weighing in on the question that has sparked the fierce debate all week, the last two weeks, the last 10 years.
Was Jeffrey Epstein mobbed up with Mossad?
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On kind of the opposite side of the chip and Joanna Gaines evangelical promoting gay marriage and gay adoption, on the kind of the flip side of the sexual revolution, Jake Paul is defending ring girls in boxing.
Are ring girls conservative?
Are we pro-ring girl?
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Elmo wants to kill all the Jews.
He tweeted this out from his official Elmo account.
Elmo has official accounts on Twitter and other social media platforms.
Elmo says all Jews should die.
F-Jews.
Donald Trump is netting Yahoo's puppet because he's in the Epstein files.
Jews control the world and need to be exterminated.
That's from Elmo.
He goes on, though.
It's not even the only one.
Where are the Easter files?
Kill all Jews.
Yeah, so anyway, it's kind of funny in a dark way.
And this, I think, is the key to these kinds of shock.
Obviously, Elmo was hacked.
Elmo himself would never say such horrible things, but he was hacked.
Your account can be hacked.
Politicians' accounts can be hacked.
Puppets' accounts can be hacked.
It is kind of funny in a dark way to have this beloved children's puppet saying something as horrifying as a kill all the Jews.
And I think that actually undercuts the hacker's and the author's intent.
Because if it were just some kid messing around saying like, can I say the most horrific thing I can possibly imagine?
That'd be one thing.
But I get the feeling that this hacker is serious.
You know, sometimes you hear a joke.
A guy tells a joke about how he hates some group of people and it's a joke and you all kind of laugh and you move on.
And sometimes it's not so much a joke and the guy's serious and then it's a very different thing.
Well, here, I don't know, I get the impression, especially from that third line, Donald Trump is Netanyahu's puppet.
Now all of a sudden, it's not just a guy saying like, you know, I hate black people or I hate the Jews or I hate this or this group should go away or this.
Now it seems kind of serious.
Now I, okay.
But I guess what undermines the hackers and the author's point, which would appear to be a very serious kind of Jew hatred, is that it's funny because of the incongruity.
Elmo is nice and good, and the phrase, kill all the Jews, is bad.
The reason it's funny is the incongruity between those two things.
So I actually don't think whoever hacked poor Elmo's Twitter account, I don't think the effect of that hacking is really redounding to the benefit of his point.
Most people, I would say, I think most people don't want to kill all the Jews, or most of them don't hate Donald Trump because he sort of likes Netanyahu or I don't know.
That seems to be a bit fringe.
So what is this all about?
It seems to me for some people, probably like the hacker, they legitimately hate the Jews, just like some people legitimately hate blacks, just like some people legitimately hate any number of people, homosexuals, whatever.
But for a lot of people, the people who are retweeting this or who think it's kind of funny, it's just about taboo breaking.
And this is just the extreme of, it's the latest taboo to break.
So 10 years ago, if you contradicted the PC line on transgenderism, that was really taboo.
If Elmo had tweeted out, men are not women, huh?
Or whatever, I can't do a good Elmo impression.
If Elmo had tweeted that out, it would give you the same kind of thrill.
It would be just as scintillating.
And then after that, it became making fun of gay stuff.
People sometimes joke.
Now, wow, America's so back.
Then the second Trump term, we're allowed to say the words gay and retarded.
So even that, to say the word retarded.
You weren't allowed to say retarded for like 15 years.
Then, I don't know, then it was, you could make fun of black people.
That was very transgressive, very subversive because of anti-racism education.
And now the Jew stuff is the latest version of that.
But because those kinds of statements only work on their subversiveness, on their taboo breaking, then once the taboo is totally broken.
You got to move on to something else.
It's kind of like the flip side of what Steven Pinker refers to as the euphemism treadmill.
So, on the euphemism treadmill, the politically correct people try to come up with new euphemisms for things that intrinsically have a bad connotation.
So, like illegal aliens.
You can't say illegal alien anymore.
That has a bad connotation.
So, then you say illegal immigrant.
Now, that takes on a bad connotation.
Then you say undocumented American.
That takes on a bad connotation.
Then you have to say dreamer.
Then you have to say migrant.
Then you have to say what.
They have to keep changing it because the meaning catches up with the slogan.
And this taboo thing is the flip side.
Ooh, I got a thrill, especially in a social media-dominated world where we're all scrolling.
We have no attention span.
We need harder and harder hits of transgression.
You go from, you know, men aren't women to Elmo saying exterminate all the Jews very quickly, but there's not a ton of substance there.
There are legitimate critiques of transgenderism and political correctness and all these sorts of things, but that's not really what Elmo is about here.
That's not really what the hacking is about.
So then my question is just, okay, what's the next one?
What's the next big taboo?
And at a certain point, I think your culture is going to boomerang back around.
And in fact, I think this is how you're seeing this play out in religion.
When I was a kid, 20 years ago, atheism was hip and cool and fashionable.
And that's what all the smart people believed in.
And Christianity was lame and for stupid people.
And it was something, even if you were Christian, you didn't talk about it too much.
And now it's completely the opposite.
Now atheists are the punchline.
Now the subversive thing is to be Christian because Christianity is the ultimate subversion of a fallen world.
So on the point of Christianity, this is an even weirder realignment than Elmo becoming a Nazi.
Chip and Joanna Gaines, who are two people that I could not pick out of a lineup.
I've never watched their TV show, but they're the stars of HGTV.
They build homes or something.
Now they have their own network.
Their network has a new show.
And on this show, they're having people live like homesteaders from 150 years ago.
And you got, you know, a couple with some kids and a different kind of couple with some kids and a gay couple with kids.
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So you look at these guys.
They look kind of put together.
They look like, you know, they're not the ones dancing around at the Pride Parade.
They're well-dressed.
They have their think pad.
They do work, whatever.
They're not the kind of people who would abuse children.
First of all, putting a child on reality TV is child abuse.
Plenty of heterosexuals have done it too, but that's very bad.
Second question, why is it that two of the most prominent public Christians in popular TV are promoting this?
Chip and Joanna Gaines, from what I know of them, from what little I know of them, have at least tacitly or somewhat reservedly defended marriage over the years, have resisted calls from the cancel mob to demand that everyone support gay marriage and all the rest of it.
This was an issue that actually stuck to them.
And now their production company, their network is releasing this show, promoting so-called gay marriage and gay adoption, as if to say little boys don't need their mothers?
Where does this come from?
So Chip Gaines has finally responded to the controversy.
His response is shocking.
We'll get to that in one second.
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Chip Gaines defends himself for promoting LGBT marriage and homosexual adoption on his show.
Talk, ask questions, listen, maybe even learn.
Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture.
Judge first, understand later slash never.
It's a sad Sunday when non-believers have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they're introduced to a modern American Christian.
Pathetic, pathetic, bro.
I would be willing to kind of try to defend Chip Gaines, who again, I couldn't pick out of a lineup.
I have basically no priors going into looking at this guy.
I would be willing to say maybe he just really messed up.
Maybe he wasn't that involved in the show.
Maybe he didn't realize the significance of what he's doing.
But to double down on this, you're not really a real Christian unless you promote two fellas purchasing children and promoting it on reality TV.
If you don't do that, how can you even call yourself a Christian?
This is really pathetic.
Looks like they're going along with the culture, but too late.
The funny thing is they're not even going around with the avant-garde culture, the avant-garde culture, which is returning to tradition, which is seriously skeptical of the sexual revolution, which wants to get back to normal.
They're 10 years too late on this.
They finally caught up with 2012, and now they're promoting weird gay stuff in contravention, it would seem, of their religion.
This, to me, is a sign of the times.
I don't merely say this because I'm a mackerel-snapping papist.
You know, I have many, many Protestant friends of all sorts of varieties and a beloved Baptist grandfather.
But I think there is a reason why, right now, especially among younger people, Catholicism is very hot and why, since the year of our Floyd, evangelical Protestantism has lost some ground and has moved a little bit more woke.
And has, I don't, somehow during COVID, just a lot of the evangelicals had been the bulwark of the Republican Party and they started to crack a little bit, just as the Catholics started moving a little bit more in the rightward direction after years of being infiltrated by a ton of Democrats.
Why is that?
The issue, I think, is not so much theological as it is ecclesiological.
Because the Catholic Church has been around for a very, very, very long time, because the Catholic Church recognizes a serious role for tradition, the magisterium of the church, the Catholics cannot do that.
The Catholics cannot promote gay marriage.
The Catholics cannot promote same-sex adoption.
It can't happen.
I'm not saying that there aren't snakes in the church who want to do that.
There are.
That's actually my point.
There are plenty of snakes in the church.
To quote Pope Paul VI, who was a relatively liberal pope, to quote Pope Paul VI, the smoke of Satan has entered into the church.
And still, the Catholic church cannot promote that stuff because of the magisterium, the weight of history, the inability of modern innovators to radically change the church.
In religious communities that do not have the magisterium, do not have tradition, do not have just that weight of 2,000 years of church, of buildings and traditions and vestments and doctrine, because of that, they are just more susceptible to be pulled along with the spirit of the age.
So there are plenty of evangelical communities that are still rock solid on things like gay marriage and homosexual adoption.
But it's not even a matter of the tough guys standing up.
It's not even a matter of even the theology totally.
It's the ecclesiology.
Can the institution in itself have the resources to withstand this kind of stuff?
Really pathetic to see that Chip and Joanna Gaines are going along with this.
Really, really sad.
It reminds me a little bit of David French, David French, who was a conservative writer, libertarian conservative writer.
He's now pretty firmly on the left, even though he's kind of the token conservative for places like the New York Times as a conservative.
I love Kamala Harris, you know, that kind of guy.
And this all started because David French was, actually, David French, I think evangelical, debating a Catholic, Saurabh Amari.
And Saurabh completely knifed his ideology when he said, hey, man, you're defending Drag Queen Story Hour.
And David French said, well, Drag Queen Story Hour is a blessing of liberty.
It's one of the blessings of liberty.
In a free country, we need to tolerate Drag Queen Story Hour at the public library.
And it ended him.
And at that point, what David French could have done is said, hey, you know what?
I got ahead of my skis.
I was a little bit too reactive and I said something that was ridiculous.
And so, no, I don't believe that.
Drag Queen Story Hour is bad.
I'm not going to let an error in my thinking lead me to this crazy place.
But he couldn't.
He did the same thing that Chip Gaines is doing.
You're not even talking and asking questions.
You're being so judgmental.
You don't even think that a wholesome, evangelical, conservative show should promote two fellas buying kids?
How judgy.
How judgy.
This is, this ain't it.
This ain't it, man.
This stuff, this is the, this is any Faustian bargain.
I'm not even accusing him of making a Faustian bargain.
He might have just screwed up, but any Faustian bargain, you're willing to sell your soul for some material gain.
And the irony is you don't even get the material gain because the devil's a liar.
And here, I think there was so much pressure from Hollywood, from the establishment entertainment to say, hey, compromise on marriage, compromise on adoption, compromise your beliefs.
You'll get a huge audience.
And if people do that, the funny thing right now is you'll lose audience.
You won't even get the thing that you think you're trading your soul for.
Really, really pathetic.
Okay, speaking of horrifying weird sex stuff and the culture going soft on all of this, there's a Colorado district attorney who is planning to drop charges against a trans-identifying sex offender who tried to kidnap an 11-year-old boy from recess at his school.
And there's a picture of this guy.
This guy's mugshot is, I don't mean to be cruel to the guy, truly something out of a horror movie.
If this guy came stumbling out of the woods to kidnap you, Hollywood could not script it in a more terrifying way than he looks.
Add on top of that, he looks like a regular guy, but apparently he's trans-identifying.
He may have gone on hormones.
His face is covered in a white powder.
This guy's sister was interviewed and said the guy is schizophrenic and has bipolar disorder.
And this guy's niece said it's the fourth time that he's been doing stuff like this.
And we're all thinking, how the hell did he get released?
Who's letting him out?
That's his own family.
His own family.
His sister went on to say, it really sucks he had to do something so eye-catching for everyone to see he's not well and he's not okay to be out and be on his own.
So this guy's sister and niece are just saying, why?
Hey, Colorado DA, why are you letting this guy out of jail?
And the Colorado DA is saying, no, no, I know what's best.
We're going to release him to another elementary school to go kidnap another kid and maybe it won't turn out so well this time.
That's insane.
The reason that they're letting him out is apparently he's unfit to stand trial because he's schizophrenic and bipolar and has all these problems.
Okay.
But then here's my question.
I don't know.
I didn't go to law school.
Maybe I'm a little thick.
Maybe someone can explain it to me.
If he's too crazy to prosecute, how can he be allowed to live on his own?
If he's too crazy And apparently, criminally crazy to prosecute.
How is he not too criminally crazy to allow out on the streets to go try to kidnap another kid?
He's already a convicted sex offender.
Did I leave out that part of the story?
He's already a convicted sex offender.
He's out on the streets somehow.
He gets arrested trying to kidnap an 11-year-old boy.
And the first thought that comes into the mind of the Colorado district attorney is, well, we got to let him out because he's a little bit crazy.
We can't prosecute him.
Okay, you can't prosecute him.
Why can't you institutionalize him?
Big, big problem.
This is the consequence of the libertarian society.
Not to blame everything on libertarians, but this is the consequence of thinking about freedom in this really decayed, reduced, licentious way.
You got the left who want to let all the worst predators in the world out of prison because of their evil ideology and their perversity of soul.
So you got the left doing that.
And then you have the right in absolute ignorance, in absolute intellectual error, saying, well, you know, we don't want the big government to institutionalize crazy transgender schizophrenics who kidnap little kids.
Because, you know, listen, if the government can say that transgender schizophrenics who kidnap little kids need to go away to the loony bin, well, maybe they'll do the same thing to you.
Who's to say who's the real transgender schizophrenic child predator?
Who's to say?
Who's to decide?
I can't decide that.
I don't want the big government deciding that.
So you have this society that lets the criminals out of prison and they can't do anything about them when they're out.
Not a good situation.
What is called for, if you really are a defender of freedom, is to say that that man's not free.
That man is the opposite of free.
That man is a complete slave.
And you, by institutionalizing him, by putting him in prison or by institutionalizing him at least, you would actually be increasing his freedom.
You would be increasing his freedom because you would be restoring some sense of order.
So I actually just recently had a little bit of a disagreement with a diplomat over this.
He was promoting the liberal conception of freedom.
I was promoting the actual conception, the true conception of freedom.
By restoring some order, by restoring some boundaries, you would actually increase his freedom.
Any country that can't stop a schizophrenic sexual predator from kidnapping an 11-year-old boy is not a real country.
Does not have a functioning civil authority.
And any country that doesn't have a functioning civil authority is going to see private citizens take matters into their own hands.
That's not a threat.
That's a promise.
That is just an observation.
Not prescriptive.
It's descriptive.
You're going to see it happening if the political order doesn't get things under control.
Okay.
Now, speaking of kids, a 12-year-old British girl, very, very sweet-looking British girl, patriotic, wholesome, was sent home from school for the stupidest reason you can possibly imagine.
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She's a seventh grader, 12-year-old girl, was sent home from school for wearing a Union Jack dress, a British flag dress, to Cultural Diversity Day.
For Culture Day, I decided to wear my Union Jack dress to represent the music and the nationality of where I come from.
It made me feel proud, it made me feel confident.
All my friends were saying, oh my god, what a great dress.
I walked in and my teacher was like, oh, is that like ginger spice?
I was like, yeah.
It felt normal.
I felt proud.
Yeah.
The first teacher I saw, she straight away just took me to go get changed.
She didn't want to hear about my dress or see it.
She just straight away wanted to get changed and not be in it.
Another teacher tried to stop me and said that you can't be in that, it's your nationality and not your culture.
And some other girl who's wearing her family tradition like rugby top got told to change as well.
They asked me to come with them and to change into a secondhand school uniform and then they said that I didn't sign a form when the head appear did bring my mum and she said she did sign it yet they still didn't want me to wear it.
Did you catch that line there at the end?
So she goes in, the one teacher says, oh that's nice.
That's a cute dress.
That's you like being British.
Oh, I like being British.
Oh, that's good.
You like being British.
That's fun.
That's fun for the Cultural Diversity Day.
Because some people aren't British.
Some people aren't English.
And that's fun.
Okay.
Then another teacher sees it, says, well, now listen here, you can't wear that dress because that's your nationality, not your culture.
So the implication here, the implicit premise is that culture has nothing to do with nation.
There's a radically liberal, not even radically liberal, I should say, because a lot of the nationalist movements were liberal in the 19th century.
Radically leftist, globalist idea that your culture has nothing to do with your nation, and your nation has nothing to do with your culture.
Listen here, you got to change out of that dress yet, put on a burnt knapsack.
You got to wear a Pakistani flag.
If you're a real good Brit girl, you got to wear a Pakistani flag on you.
She didn't quite say that.
But I promise you, if some kid showed up wearing a Pakistani dress, that very same teacher would have gotten down on the floor and worshipped as though it was one of the five prayers of the day.
She would have bowed down and paid obeisance.
So the girl gets sent home.
Why?
What was the excuse?
They said she didn't sign a form.
This, to me, is the most characteristically liberal aspect of the whole story.
Because they can't quite defend the point.
It's such a stupid point.
Your nation has nothing to do with your culture.
It's such a stupid point.
That little girl on Culture Day can't wear her union jack.
So they say, actually, you know, the reason you're being sent home, sorry, no, actually, the reason you're being sent home is that you didn't sign a form.
It's always that.
It's always that with the libs and the bureaucracy.
It's always, oh, no, you actually, you forgot to initial on page six, form 52B.
So I'm going to take away all your rights and property.
Cause you didn't, no, you don't, you don't understand.
You didn't fulfill this minor technicality.
So now I'm going to use that as an excuse.
You know, last I checked, those illegal aliens in Britain, they didn't fill out their forms either, did they?
But I bet that same teacher wouldn't be sending them back to Africa, North Africa and South Asia.
No, no.
Last I checked, the grooming gangs of migrants who were systematically raping British girls for decades.
I don't think they filled out all their paperwork correctly.
I don't think they were totally forthright.
I don't think they dotted their T's and crossed their I's.
But you never see them being pushed out.
It's just a concerted effort to attack people who are patriotic, who love their culture, who love their civilization, who love their nation.
That's all it is.
That's all cultural diversity means.
There is no positive aspect of cultural diversity, if there ever was.
The premise was, no, it's just positive.
It's just adding on to your culture.
No.
It is purely a negative tool to erase one culture, to erase that union jack in the UK, to erase the stars and stripes in America.
It's purely anti-Western.
And it reminds me of that line from Robert Frost.
I've quoted it on the show a number of times, that a liberal is a man who can't take his own side in a quarrel.
That's all it is.
That's all it is.
That girl, I don't know what to do for that girl.
The reflex in modern culture is to do a GoFundMe.
There's no reason to do a GoFundMe for her.
But I want there to be, I am calling on, I don't even know what school she's at.
I am calling on there to be a foppish British pride parade at her school.
Not a pride parade, like a British pride.
I want there to be tea and crumpets.
I want there to be cricket and croquet.
And I want there to be union jacks hung from the rafters.
That's what the British people want.
And what the American people want here, we want more American flags here.
And the Libs, who still have some political power now, I think they realize that that power is waning and that migration is becoming much less popular and cultural diversity is becoming much less popular.
And I think this is the coping and seething of a political order that is on its last gasps.
Now, speaking of girls, Jake Paul was just asked a question.
Jake Paul is a boxer now.
He started out as a YouTuber.
He's a boxer.
He was asked a question about ring girls.
And I coincidentally was at a UFC fight like three nights ago.
And I don't go to a lot of fights.
I don't really watch a lot of fights on TV.
I am buddies with a great, fantastic professional fighter, Smilot Sam Alvey.
I'm his corner man, of course.
But other than that, I don't interact very much with professional fighting.
And there's this phenomenon of the ring girls.
I remember I was sitting there ringside, or whatever they call it for the octagon.
I was sitting there at the fight.
And then the girl comes out in the little booty shorts and she's got the sign and everything.
I did notice.
I said, oh, hell, how?
Hey, how about that?
Oh, goodness.
Wow.
She's not lady's not wearing a lot of clothing.
Oh, that's interesting.
All right.
Hold on.
Custody of the eyes.
Let's go.
Just focus on the hulking 6,000-pound monsters in the ring.
Don't look at the cute chick.
We don't want to accidentally lead ourselves to commit any mortal sins.
So I had this thought on my mind already.
And Jake Paul, coincidentally, providentially, was asked about ring girls, whether ring girls are good, whether they're bad.
Here's his answer.
Okay, I have one last question.
And it has to do with the projection of women in boxing.
Like you guys have invested in women's boxing.
And I've talked to a couple of people around during this week and the issue or the theme about the ring girls in an all-female fighting card.
And the sexualization of women.
Do you want ring boys?
Well, a couple of people have said that white don't have boys or none of any of them at all.
I just want to bring to the attention the conversation of it.
Next question.
Thank you.
Just another question.
Kevin Garcia, the Puerto Rican KG.
If anybody wants to submit an application to be a ringboy to MVP, send it to that young man.
Send it to Kamala Harris.
You want to be a ringboy?
That's what we could have had.
Had Kamala One, we would have ringboys.
But it got me thinking, sitting there, having just had this experience of seeing the ring girls at the fighting match.
Do we defend ring girls?
Like, are we conservatives the defenders of ring girls?
Is that good?
Is that what we support?
There is a kind of right-wingedness that's really into that stuff.
Sometimes called barstool conservatism after barstool sports.
You know, a little more socially liberal, loosey-goosey, whatever.
But do conservatives, do we support ring girls?
And I looked it up.
I said, What's the history of ring girls?
Ring girls are a very recent phenomenon.
Back in the old time e-boxing, back, you know, the 1930s, guy chomping on a cigar.
Hey, go, give it to him.
Yeah, wearing like races and suspenders and stuff.
They did not have ring girls.
I don't know that they allowed women even to the fights, but they did not have ring girls.
Ring girls come from the mid-1960s.
Ring girls are a development of the sexual revolution, of the degenerate 1960s, when everything went wrong.
So that, that to me sealed the deal.
I am, I know this is going to be very unpopular.
I am anti-ring girl.
And I already know you're going to do the same thing that reporters said and you're going to say, yeah, because Knowles is a finouche and he's pro-ring boy.
I'm anti-ring boy.
I am more anti-ringboy than I am anti-ring girl.
But I am an anti-ring girl because girls shouldn't dress like that in public.
They shouldn't look.
It's nice to look at in a certain sense, but it's not good for you.
It's not good.
That's someone's daughter.
You want your daughter in those little short shorts jiggling around for guys at a blood sport?
No, you don't want that.
That's not good.
It's not, you don't want that.
Okay.
I don't know.
As a conservative myself, I don't, what good comes from that?
Best case scenario, you just start, you know, your mind starts spiraling about.
And worst case scenario, I don't know.
You go, you go like try to pick up the ring girl, cheat on your wife, ruin your life.
You fall into a great depression, become an alcoholic, start living on the street.
Things could go very wrong very quickly.
Sorry, I know Mr. Davies disagreed.
We were having a heated argument about this last night.
He's very pro-ring girl.
I'm anti-ring girl.
I'm anti-basically anything from the 1960s.
Anything that started in the 1960s.
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My favorite comment yesterday, before we get to the real issue, the state of Israel weighing in on Epstein.
Was Epstein an Israeli op?
What is the real deal with Epstein?
The man we're no longer allowed to talk about.
My favorite comment is from Scott Campbell, 1635, who says, apropos, empires would collapse if the Epstein list were released.
Legitimately, that is the reasoning.
Well, I do kind of think that.
Either Epstein is what the government is saying he is, what now multiple administrations are saying he is, which is, oh, he's just a sex freak, rich guy.
The fact that he paddled around with the richest, most powerful people on earth has nothing to do with his sex stuff.
It's totally separate, just a coincidence.
Move along, move along.
He had no clients.
He had no state backing.
Either that's true, or he was running a blackmail ring, or at least a kind of a spy ring, and he was connected to intelligence.
And even if he weren't connected to intelligence, if he had this kind of compromat on all of these big leaders, then the minute you start releasing that stuff, the minute you start releasing the allegations, there will be civil wars.
There will be revolutions in countries.
The entire world order would fray, if he is who you think he is.
Either way, you're not getting the whole story, which is why I have consistently been maybe the only voice who isn't really shocked by the way that the Epstein saga has played out.
That said, it is still playing out.
And so we move from the ring girls.
We move from talking about rings and sex stuff to sex rings, to Jeffrey Epstein's sex ring.
Naftali Bennett, who's a former prime minister of Israel, he had this to say.
As a former Israeli prime minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty, the accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false.
This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson, pretending they know things they don't.
Okay, so this is the first full-on, categorical, unqualified denial from a major figure in the state of Israel to say Epstein had nothing to do with us.
Okay, and Naftali Bennett was a prime minister of Israel.
However, he was the prime minister of Israel for like a year, 2021 to 2022.
He was prime minister of Israel, what, two years after Jeffrey Epstein died under suspicious circumstances in his jail cell.
And he was prime minister of Israel 15 years after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested.
So I guess the question would be, would he really know?
Even if Naftali is telling the truth as he understands it, would he really know?
The events that are at stake here chiefly occurred long before this guy ever reached the prime minister spot.
Now, some counter evidence here is Ari Ben Manaj, who is understood to have been an Israeli spy, told the journalist Dylan Howard that Epstein was with Mossad and that his activities as a spy serve to gather compromat on powerful people, which is what most people think.
I'm not, look, I'm not totally convinced that Epstein was a Mossad agent or something.
I told you, I gave some of the counter evidence yesterday, which was that he reportedly bragged about being a Mossad agent, which is like the one thing that a Mossad agent would not do.
So that was a little strange.
The fact that Jeffrey Epstein backed Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel, the fact that he was hosting him and giving him money.
Some people would say, well, that's evidence that Epstein was working for Israel.
I wonder if it almost cuts the other way, though.
Because if Epstein were working for Israel, wouldn't the money be going in the other direction?
That was a little bit strange.
So I don't know.
If you told me tomorrow, yeah, Epstein was working for Mossad, I would not blink.
I would not be shocked at all.
If you told me Epstein were working for Mossad and the CIA, I would not be surprised.
If you told me Epstein were working for Mossad, the CIA, and MI6 or something, I would not be surprised.
But if you told me that Epstein did not have a direct connection to any intelligence services, domestic or foreign, I could believe you if you provided me with decent evidence.
I could believe you.
Weird things happen.
We have this idea of the intelligence services as being omnipotent, controlling the whole world.
I don't think that's really accurate.
I think Burn After Reading, the Cohen Brothers movie, presents the other side of that story, which is, without ruining the plot, in Burn After Reading, the CIA tries to do something and it goes wrong.
And then they keep trying to fix it and it just keeps spiraling out of control.
And these guys can't win for losing.
And that is how government agencies work, even really powerful and effective ones like the CIA or Mossad.
So the problem is there are just too many weird things about the Epstein story.
He palled around with the most famous people in the world and the richest people and most powerful people.
That's weird.
He had connections to a lot of pro-Israel people.
He hung out consistently with the former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, for like six years after he was convicted of his crimes.
That's weird.
His business partner was Ghilaine Maxwell, whose dad was a spy for Israel.
He died under suspicious circumstances.
We were told that there was no footage of his jail cell.
They then released the footage from his jail cell, but there was a weird minute at least missing, and then the frame changed at a specific moment.
And we were told that there was a client list, and the client list was on the attorney general's desk.
Then we were told there was no client list.
Gheelain Maxwell is in prison for trafficking girls to no one, apparently.
It's just, there are just one or two of those things, and maybe you could move on.
The reason that the base isn't moving on from this is it's a symbol of the corruption of the political establishment.
And a lot of the motivation to elect President Trump, going back to 2016, was to give that corrupt establishment its comeuppance.
So I've said from the beginning, I think there could be perfectly reasonable and virtuous reasons for the Trump administration not to release all of the files.
I don't believe in radical transparency.
I think that's foolish and impossible, actually, in government and statecraft.
I am a plan truster.
Okay.
I think Trump is the greatest president of my lifetime.
I think there are many good reasons, or there could be, I'm not saying that these are the reasons, but I think there could be many good reasons not to release all of the files.
Not the least of which is there could be allegations in here that are just false, that are unsubstantiated and defamatory.
But what I've also said from the beginning is we need a better answer than this.
We need a better, I don't, there are plenty of issues where the panicans lose their minds and it creates a, you know, a tempest in a teapot and then people move on.
I don't really see people totally moving on from this.
The crimes are just too egregious and the circumstances are just too weird and the people involved are just too powerful and rich and famous.
And you don't need to, if this is as bad as some people think it is, I'm not saying you have to unravel the entire world order in order to release the info, but people need a better answer than this stuff.
People need a better answer than, no, there's nothing to see here.
There's nothing going on.
Move along, move along.
People aren't going to buy that.
It's just not going to buy it.
Now, speaking of political leaders, very interesting story coming out of Florida that I don't really have time to get to.
But the story is very important because there are all these people saying, well, who controls MAGA?
All these people constantly predicting the fall of Trump, the end of Trump.
Oh, he's losing his, or now MAGA's run by this guy, or now MAGA's run by that guy.
And there's a poll out of Florida that show, in a, not a national race, that shows that there is one man and one man alone who runs the MAGA movement.
There's one guy, and that guy is Donald Trump.
So we'll get to that poll tomorrow because we don't have time right now.
