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Make my day pal. | |
I'll even do it twice. | ||
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So let's pick the dates, Donald. | |
I hear you're free on Wednesdays. | ||
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All right, so let's just catch up with a couple things here. | ||
My good friend and probably The sanest, brightest guy on this pale blue dot that we call planet Earth, Douglas Murray, was on Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday. | ||
I don't know how we didn't get to these clips because he is just listening to Douglas. | ||
It's not just that what he says is true. | ||
It's that he speaks the Queen's perfect English and he is so bright and clever and has a way with words and he just nails everything and he's just a good freaking human being. | ||
So here are, we're going to show you two clips of Douglas Murray on real time. | ||
Here they are talking about the riots that at the time were happening at Columbia and UCLA. | ||
Okay, this is a 20-year-old UCLA student. | ||
When you are a part of any oppressed group, I don't know what this person's background is, I assume she is a part of some group that she sees herself as oppressed, especially people that are experiencing direct state violence. | ||
Okay, kids call everything violence, so right there you lose any credibility with me, because you think everything is violence. | ||
Like being part of the pan-African diaspora within the United States, That certainly happened in the United States. | ||
There are shameful history, which is built on enslavement and dehumanization and degradation of African peoples that does politicize you. | ||
I'm just asking, does this reflect America in 2024? | ||
Who raises a child to feel this way about the country right now? | ||
I keep saying, can we just live in the year we're living in? | ||
Not whitewash the past, but live in the present. | ||
I mean, that someone feels... You're at UCLA. | ||
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Who's oppressing you? | |
The question isn't just who raises them to feel this way, it's who educates them to feel this way. | ||
feel this way, right? | ||
If you look at curricula in a lot of secondary schools, probably the kind of secondary school that a lot of Ivy League students have been to, if you look at the curricula at a lot of elite schools, and I teach at one of them, there is the paradigm I spoke of before. | ||
There are all of these buzzwords, and that's what produces this in part. | ||
What are the other buzzwords? | ||
You mean like... Oppressor, oppressed, colonizer, colonized, victim, victimizer. | ||
Right. | ||
Everything falls into this binary, and if you can claim, like, the top victim status, then you win. | ||
Whereas, you know, in America and in Britain and other countries in the West, we used to celebrate heroism and achievement. | ||
I still like those, but... | ||
I still like those. | ||
Yes, I do too. | ||
And the truth is that everyone, all of us, every single person, you watching this on the other side of the screen right now, heroism and achievement, everyone that you like being around, think about your life for just one second. | ||
Think about your family, your friends. | ||
Social group when you're playing sports with someone or whatever you do. | ||
Do you like people who just bitch and moan and complain about the past or complain about their families or how bad they've got it or this or that? | ||
Or do you like people who are fun? | ||
and are doing something good and making something of themselves and are better than they were two years ago or have achieved more than they were ever given, right? | ||
Like, that is the hero's journey. | ||
That is exactly what America is based on, right? | ||
Like, get here, we'll give you a chance. | ||
Bill actually said something that I really like there. | ||
Because it shows what actually the true liberal position of understanding history would be. | ||
He said, you don't want to whitewash the past, but you want to live in the present. | ||
And that is true. | ||
When he's reading this question about this person talking about the Pan-African diaspora and the violence, it's like, okay, fine. | ||
These are all these ridiculous buzzwords and it's made, it's designed so these young people think that they're so horribly oppressed and living in this horrible place | ||
so that they will eventually undo it, right? | ||
That's the goal of these protests and everything else. | ||
But what the true liberal position would be is to understand that history is complex | ||
and America was not and is not perfect. | ||
We always wanted to become a more perfect union, right? | ||
We wrote aspirational documents. | ||
The foundational documents, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights are aspirational. | ||
And we've consistently, in about 250 years, figured out ways to expand more freedoms and equality to more people than any country in the history of the world. | ||
It would have been unthinkable! | ||
300 years ago, and we've done it here. | ||
Now, the problem, of course, as you guys know, is the left doesn't know that you're supposed to end with equality. | ||
You're not supposed to get to equity, because then you start actually rejiggering society and being racist and sexist towards people who don't deserve it. | ||
But that's what you want to do. | ||
You don't want to whitewash the past. | ||
Acknowledge the past. | ||
slavery existed. | ||
We had Japanese internment. | ||
These were all things that existed. | ||
But you don't just sit there and focus on those things. | ||
You live in the present. | ||
And that is actually the true liberal position, which of course has become really a conservative position more than anything else. | ||
I want to show you one other great clip from Douglas as they were talking about Biden's muddled policy as it pertains to what's going on between Israel and Hamas. | ||
Well, Biden says he's going to stop giving armaments now to Israel. | ||
What do you think about that? | ||
Is that appropriate? | ||
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I don't think it's going to please anybody, do you? | |
No, of course not. | ||
I mean, he's obviously trying to, you know, he believes famously in a two-state solution, which is Minnesota and Michigan. | ||
And he's trying... | ||
He's trying to please a few hundred thousand people in America. | ||
I don't think he's going to please anyone. | ||
But the fact that he gave a speech on Tuesday saying that he would always defend the right of the Jewish people to defend themselves, and later that day stopped arms shipments to Israel. | ||
Suggests to me that this is a problem. | ||
It's devastating if the end of this conflict comes about in another stalemate. | ||
If there's a stalemate at the end of this, Hamas is still in control in the Gaza, the war will happen again in two years time and again two years after that. | ||
And on and on for the rest of our lives. | ||
So, of course, everything that Douglas says there is right. | ||
And it's a funny line. | ||
It's a cheeky line. | ||
You know, the two state solution is Minnesota and Michigan, which, of course, is largely what Joe Biden is doing right now. | ||
He's placating to a couple hundred thousand people there being, oh, these are swing states. | ||
I have to get the largely Muslim population. | ||
in these places and I think it's like the most cold calculating cynical thing. | ||
He's probably going, oh, the Jews don't matter that much. | ||
A lot of Jews live in Cali, I'm gonna win Cali no matter what, a lot of Jews live in New York, I'm gonna win New | ||
York no matter what, and a lot of Jews live in Florida | ||
and I'm gonna lose Florida no matter what. | ||
So that's why politics becomes this really dirty game and not that he should only support Israel | ||
because of the Jews, because there's an awful lot of Christians and atheists, including one of the guys | ||
hosting that or the guy hosting that show right there understand why it's important to have a free and sovereign | ||
Israel and all of that stuff. | ||
But that is sort of where we are at with all of this. | ||
Biden is not making anyone happy at any level. | ||
He's throwing Israel under the bus to feed the jackals in his own party, and yet the jackals in his own party are calling him Genocide Joe and everything else. | ||
There's nothing he could offer them other than complete submission that would satiate them. | ||
I want to show you, though, what happens when a politician actually tells the truth. | ||
So everything That Joe Biden says related to this. | ||
I mean, Douglas just laid it out there. | ||
It was Holocaust Memorial Day that just a few days ago, where Joe Biden said, I will always, you know, defend Israel. | ||
And then he's cutting weapons from them at the same exact time. | ||
Now, the reason that he does that is because of this political reason, but it's also because no one wants to state the truth of the Middle East. | ||
And here I will show you a leader who actually They're saying things like from the river to the sea, you know, that's just not some cheeky chant. | ||
They're basically saying they want to see the destruction of the state of Israel and a second Holocaust. | ||
That's what Hamas wants. | ||
That's why Hamas baked babies in ovens. | ||
That's why they were raping the mothers. | ||
That's why they were beheading elderly people on October 7th. | ||
You know, it's interesting. | ||
I didn't see those folks protesting Hamas's actions. | ||
They were very quiet about Hamas's actions. | ||
Now they're just doing and they're protesting this. | ||
But I'd also say people should learn their history. | ||
The fact of the matter is there's never been a country or state called Palestine. | ||
Jews have the longest connection to that territory. | ||
It goes back to biblical times, thousands and thousands of years. | ||
They were displaced by hostile forces over the years, but just in the immediate history until World War I, that was hundreds of years of rule by the Ottoman Empire, by Turks. | ||
That was not a Palestinian state. | ||
And then the Brits took it over after World War I. They had the mandate for Palestine. | ||
And the vision was to have a Jewish state and an Arab state. | ||
And in the UN, after World War II, adopted Jewish state, Arab state. | ||
Jews accepted it, founded modern Israel. | ||
The Arabs rejected it and went to war against Israel, a war that they lost. | ||
Man, that might be the most clear example of when I always say this thing about when someone's just telling the truth and it's just easy to listen to and it's almost like a breath of fresh air. | ||
He just gave like a very, very simple history lesson right there that apparently no one at UCLA or Columbia or any of these schools learn, right? | ||
There never was a Palestinian state, and I know that might upset someone watching this, but tell me who the prime minister was, who was the president, etc., etc., right? | ||
When they talk about let's reverse the 75 years of occupation, OK, congratulations, you'd like the British Empire to come back. | ||
Or we could, you know, jump ahead a couple of years before that and go back to the Turkish Ottoman Empire. | ||
The Palestinian people are not a real people. | ||
They should be living in Jordan, actually. | ||
I know this upsets people. | ||
It's just the truth. | ||
But the reason I'm showing you that video after talking about the Biden thing is that we so rarely deal with the actual truth here that we just go from one Band-Aid to another Band-Aid to another Band-Aid. | ||
But if we actually honestly could assess what the truth is, not assess what the truth is, if we could just state what the truth is, Then I think it would clean up a lot of the mess. | ||
But instead, we have had a whole bunch of radical activists, Marxist lunatics, just completely muddling the minds of young people. | ||
And check this out. | ||
It's just a 15 second or so video. | ||
This is Columbia University teacher's college graduation ceremony. | ||
And do you think that they're graduating people who are really going to love America and freedom and Western values? | ||
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You decide. | |
What do you think that baby in the keffiyeh will learn as it grows up? | ||
What do you think it will be taught? | ||
Do you think it will put Israel aside, right? | ||
I always say they come for the Saturday people and then they come for the Sunday people. | ||
Forget Israel. | ||
Forget the Saturday people altogether. | ||
You think that kid is going to grow up in a household where they'll be taught that America is good? | ||
Now, meanwhile, the father is graduating from Columbia, which we thought was an elite university. | ||
It turned out to be just a terrorist factory. | ||
But you think he'll be taught that America was good, that Western values are good and all those things? | ||
Or the child's mind will be poisoned with the worst type of stuff that will undermine everything good that led to that guy getting that probably undeserved degree. | ||
But of course, irony is completely dead, like dead and buried like Freddy Krueger's bones. | ||
Thus, Anthony Fauci, who should be in a cave never to be seen by another human being again, he actually gave the commencement speech at Columbia, and we have a snippet for you. | ||
I don't know. | ||
I'm sorry, I guess. | ||
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All right, go. | |
Is that differences of opinion or ideology have in certain circumstances been reflected by egregious distortions of reality? | ||
Sadly, elements of our society are driven by a cacophony of falsehoods, lies, and conspiracy theories that get repeated often enough That after a while, they stand largely unchallenged, ominously leading to an insidious acceptance of what I call the normalization of untruths. | ||
We see this happen on a daily basis, propagated through a range of information platforms, social medias, and enterprises who pass themselves off as news organizations. | ||
Now, you may wonder why I'm telling you this, because this issue is very relevant to you and me, since our profession is science and medicine, and hence our very identity is anchored in data, evidence, and critical thinking, and we as much or more than anyone else need to push back on these distortions of truth and reality. | ||
Do we have his address? | ||
Because we got to send him a big mirror. | ||
It's the same mirror thing. | ||
Everything he just accused all of us of is the stuff that he and his cadre of lunatics have been doing. | ||
I will read you the exact quote. | ||
Elements of our society are driven by a cacophony, I do like that word, by a cacophony of falsehood, lies, and conspiracy theories. | ||
They get repeated often enough and after a while they stand largely unchallenged. | ||
Wouldn't that sort of be like, if you get the vaccine, you will not get nor transmit COVID? | ||
Would it be a lie to say that six foot social distancing was a complete lie? | ||
It was. | ||
There was no evidence that masks worked. | ||
Like everything this man has pushed. | ||
And then we could do all the political lies that these people have done. | ||
Donald Trump verified people on both sides. | ||
You get it. | ||
Brett Kavanaugh is a serial rapist. | ||
I've done this so many times, it's just so ridiculous. | ||
At this point, Jesse Smollett was lynched, all of it. | ||
They have lied about absolutely everything. | ||
And then they claim that we're the liars and then they attack big tech for spreading our lies, | ||
even though we're the ones debunking their lies. | ||
As I always say, it's like the freaking alien in, like the alien in alien. | ||
It's like the doctor was like, man, this freaking alien's killing everybody, | ||
but I kind of admire him because he's doing what he wants to accomplish. | ||
And that is what these people are doing. | ||
You don't have to admire what they're doing, but the fact that they keep doing it, | ||
keep getting caught in lies, keep getting out there. | ||
It's like they're doing something, whether we like it or not. | ||
And it's accomplishing the exact things that they wanted to accomplish. | ||
Here's Anthony Fauci trying to be funny. | ||
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I can confirm to you today that Bill Gates and I did not put chips | |
in the COVID vaccine. | ||
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. | ||
Yeah, you didn't put chips in the COVID vaccine. | ||
Also, the vaccine wasn't a vaccine, because it didn't stop COVID. | ||
So you forgot to put the vaccine in the vaccine, you douchebag. | ||
Did he have anything to do with the invention of douchebags? | ||
I feel like we should make the Fauci douchebag. | ||
I'm not even sure what a douchebag is, to be quite honest, and I don't even really want to know. | ||
Why'd you point at him? | ||
Anyway, what, his parents invented what? | ||
His parents invented the douchebag? | ||
I'm being told that Anthony Fauci's parents invented the douchebag. | ||
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Oh, because he is the douchebag. | |
It's a Friday show, people, what can I tell you? | ||
Anyway, I don't really have a segue out of this. | ||
Wait, no, I kind of do. | ||
Oh yeah, Anthony Fauci is a gosh darn liar. | ||
And so are these two people we're about to show you. | ||
It's Bernie Sanders and AOC. | ||
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And when you talk about this election, I hope everybody understands, if Trump is elected, the right of women to control their own bodies is going to be on the defense. | |
Not only is it gone, they are talking about active pursuit of criminalization. | ||
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Right. | |
Unbelievable. | ||
Putting women in jail. | ||
Guys, that's it. | ||
If Trump is president, they're putting women in jail. | ||
Sorry, Ivanka, you're going to jail. | ||
Sorry, Kellyanne Conway and Whoopi Goldberg. | ||
I'm trying to go across the political spectrum, Nancy. | ||
No, Trump was president already and nobody went to jail. | ||
He probably should have sent a couple people to jail. | ||
They are trying to put him in jail. | ||
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It's just, it's just endless, endless hysteria. | |
And also women's health. | ||
It's just, it's incredible the way they use words, that they figured out a way to take abortion, which is the ending of a life. | ||
And we can have the debate about the weeks and everything else, but I think a truly honest person would admit that it is the ending of a life. | ||
You are aborting the presidency. | ||
Just Google the word abort. | ||
What do you think you're doing to that life? | ||
That they have somehow conflated that with women's health. | ||
It is just absolutely extraordinary. | ||
But as I keep saying, they have nothing, they have nothing, nothing to run Joe Biden on other than Trump is evil. | ||
He's coming for women. | ||
He's gonna go after the gays or something, something, something. | ||
And of course, here's again, irony is dead. | ||
Listen, listen to this. | ||
This is a gem from these two. | ||
Politics is just a place for wealthy people and connected people and corrupt people, and I am neither one of those things, and I... Even if I wanted to lie, I'm not a good liar. | ||
Even if she wanted to lie, she's not a good liar. | ||
She lies about literally everything. | ||
Bernie lies about literally everything. | ||
You are the corrupt person. | ||
Your entire party is filled with people like Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi who trade a gajillion times ahead of the market. | ||
You should all be in jail. | ||
You're just all terrible people. | ||
Conor, did we have a little fun with that video? | ||
We have a little something. | ||
We had a little fun with that video. | ||
Politics is just a place for wealthy people and connected people and corrupt people. | ||
And I am neither one of those things. | ||
And I, I, even if I wanted to lie, I'm not a good liar. | ||
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Maybe that wasn't as funny as I thought it was going to be. | |
I don't know. | ||
That's what's his name from Goonies. | ||
There you go. | ||
All right. | ||
But yes, of course, she is a liar. | ||
And it took us about a half of a millisecond to find a video of AOC lying. | ||
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I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people and you know Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we're like the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change and your biggest issue Can you imagine sitting at an event, so that was in 2019, sitting at an event and listening to that bartender tell you that the world is going to end in 12 years. | |
That was 5 years ago, so that means it's 7 years from now, so she thinks the world is going to end in 2031. | ||
I'm gonna have a hell of a party. | ||
We're gonna have a hell of a New Year's party that year. | ||
Like, they lie about everything. | ||
She knows the world is not gonna end in 2031. | ||
Oh, but by the way, if you would just give us enough power over your lives, if you would just let us tell you what type of stove you could cook on, and what type of car you could drive, and how often you could get in a plane, and what bag you get at a grocery store, and all of that stuff, then somehow the world won't end. | ||
So it's not just that she's a liar. | ||
She is a Machiavellian character, right? | ||
Everything she does is to attain power. | ||
There is nothing remotely good about her. | ||
And by the way, then when good people try to do good things for even the very district that she is the Congresswoman of | ||
apparently, she tries to destroy progress. | ||
Do you remember a couple of years ago? | ||
It was actually the same year, 2019, when Amazon tried to bring a giant factory to New York. | ||
It wasn't too far from my parents' house. | ||
And actually, where I grew up, the house prices started going up just by the rumor of the thing because they knew that they were going to have 25,000 jobs paying over $100,000 per year. | ||
thousand jobs paying over a hundred thousand dollars per year it would have | ||
been about three billion dollars worth of taxes to New York and she killed the | ||
project. What's great is that our economy our local economy is already growing. | ||
So I firmly believe that if we want to take that $3 billion that we're willing to give to Amazon and invest it in our local community, we can do that. | ||
We can make those jobs. | ||
We can make 25,000 jobs. | ||
But we don't have to give away and allow our subway system to crumble so that Amazon essentially owns a part of New York City. | ||
We can create 25,000 jobs with mom and pops. | ||
We can create 25,000 jobs with companies that are willing to come to the table. | ||
But we should not be giving away our infrastructure, our subway system, our schools, our teachers' salaries, our firefighters' budgets to a company that has not shown good faith to New Yorkers. | ||
And we can ask for more because we deserve it. | ||
Guess what? | ||
That bitch did none of those things, okay? | ||
She did none of those things. | ||
She killed the deal, killed the 25,000 over 100K a year jobs, the three billion in taxes, and she didn't do any of those things, right? | ||
There is no new, she didn't find the jobs elsewhere. | ||
She didn't somehow fund extra good infrastructure in New York or anything else. | ||
So what they do, they lie and they destroy. | ||
I have one more interesting thing for you before we get to the community Q&A. | ||
Because you guys know that the entire machine has been going after Elon Musk relentlessly, right? | ||
If you would have looked five years ago, seven years ago, nine years ago, at the media around Elon Musk, it was always like, oh my god, this is the renaissance man of our time. | ||
He's building electric cars. | ||
He's sending us to the moon. | ||
He's building Neuralink so that paraplegics will be able to play chess, which they literally can do now. | ||
And the media absolutely loved him. | ||
And then, as you know, about two years ago, this entire thing flipped because he bought Twitter to save free speech. | ||
He exposed the collusion between big tech and government. | ||
So now the entire machine is constantly going after him. | ||
So this is absolutely wild. | ||
I want to show you this video. | ||
This is from 2018. | ||
This is when Tesla signed a 10-year deal with Elon Musk and how they structured the compensation. | ||
And you'll see after why we're showing this. | ||
So this video, again, this is from 2018. | ||
Watch this. | ||
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...telling me he's now agreed to stay on as CEO of Tesla for the next decade. | |
There'd been a lot of speculation that he'd be stepping down in the next two or three years. | ||
He had said that once the completion of the Model S, or Model 3 rather, was up and running, that he might not stay at the company, at least as the CEO. | ||
But Tesla now announcing A radical new compensation plan. | ||
It could be perhaps the most radical compensation plan in history. | ||
Musk's compensation is going to be tied directly to the company's performance. | ||
The executive will receive no guaranteed compensation of any kind at all. | ||
He gets no salary, cash bonus, equity. | ||
He only gets equity that vests over time, but only if he reaches these hurdle rates, which are, dare I say, crazy. | ||
So right now the company is worth $59 billion. | ||
They run at $50 billion increments. | ||
So if he gets the company to $100 billion... You're just talking market capitalization, not based on revenue, not based on the number of production. | ||
There's going to be two metrics at each step. | ||
So the first step is he has to get the company to $100 billion and reach these operational and adjusted EBITDA and revenue number. | ||
If he doesn't get either of them, he gets nothing. | ||
That's kind of a weird way to break it down based on market capitalization. | ||
If he gets to $150, And has to hit the operational numbers. | ||
I mean, the market can be irrational. | ||
You can't control that. | ||
At each $50 billion number, he collects 1% of the company. | ||
If, somehow, magically, he would get the company to $650 billion, which is literally what the plan calls for, if you can believe this, He would collect the equivalent of about $55 billion in compensation. | ||
Otherwise he gets absolutely nothing. | ||
Okay, what if you get it to $650 billion and then it immediately collapses to $500 billion? | ||
Is it just hitting that market capitalization milestone that matters? | ||
Is it keeping it there for a certain time? | ||
Is it hitting it on a certain day? | ||
So here's where it gets even more interesting. | ||
The shares vest, but then he has to hold the shares for five years. | ||
Okay, so the reason I'm showing you that, and I know that was a little technical, but this is wild. | ||
So this is in 2018, Elon said, I will stay on and run Tesla. | ||
I will take no money, but if we hit these markers, if the company becomes worth 50 billion, and then 100 billion, and then 150 billion, I'll keep getting equity. | ||
And the analyst there, what's that guy's name? | ||
Sorkin? | ||
Andrew Sorkin, thank you. | ||
He literally said, it's crazy. | ||
It's crazy. | ||
And then he said, if he gets to 650 billion, meaning if Tesla over the next 10 years, and again, that's 2018, becomes worth $650 billion, that Elon Musk will get a $55 billion compensation package. | ||
Well, that's exactly what happened. | ||
Tesla is now worth over $650 billion as of January 24. | ||
and $50 billion as of January 24. | ||
Then what happened? | ||
This is a tweet from Konoka the Great. | ||
Judge Kathleen McCormick rescinded Elon Musk's $55 billion Tesla compensation package, overturning the company's board and 80% of its shareholders. | ||
McCormick also ruled against Elon Musk during his Twitter acquisition. | ||
Before becoming the head of the Delaware Chansey Court, McCormick worked at a Delaware law firm called Young Conaway. | ||
This firm and its employees have been major donors to President Joe Biden for decades. | ||
In 2016, Hunter Biden hosted a gubernatorial campaign event for Congressman John Carney, with then-Vice President Joe Biden as the guest speaker. | ||
The event took place at the law offices of Young-Conaway in Wilmington, Delaware. | ||
Carney, a close friend of Joe Biden for the last four decades, later became governor and nominated Kathleen McCormick, a partner at Young-Conaway, to her position in the Delaware Chancery Court. | ||
In a March 2018 email, Hunter Biden claimed to personally know every judge on the Delaware Chancery Court while threatening legal action against his Chinese business partners. | ||
I will bring the suit in the Chancery Court in Delaware, which as you know is my home state, and I am privileged to have worked with and know every judge on the Chancery Court. | ||
After Elon Musk purchased Twitter with the stated goal of restoring free speech, President Biden called for a federal investigation into Musk on the podium at the White House. | ||
Following this, the Biden Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission initiated legal actions and investigations against Tesla, SpaceX, and X. The recent decision by Judge McCormick who worked with Biden's top donors and was nominated by Biden's close friend to override Tesla's board and the majority of its stakeholders is another clear example of the Biden administration and its allies weaponizing the American legal system against their political opponents. | ||
Did you catch all that? | ||
So Elon Musk, six years ago, took no money, said, I will turn this company from worth less than 50 bill | ||
into worth over 650 bill. | ||
He did it. | ||
I have two Teslas. | ||
They are absolutely marvelous. | ||
You never hear anyone complaining about Teslas. | ||
They are quite brilliant to drive. | ||
In the two years that, no, in the five years that I, I've had a Tesla probably for about six years | ||
and I got the second one last year. | ||
I think I've gone in for service one time for both cars combined. | ||
They are brilliant engineering marvels. | ||
The guy does it. | ||
He gets the 650 bill. | ||
The board is for it, right? | ||
The board agreed to it. | ||
The shareholders are for it. | ||
And then the government, the corrupt government that you would not believe somehow involves a judge in Delaware, which is Joe Biden's home state. | ||
And Hunter Biden is fighting with his Chinese business partners and basically threatening them that I'll take you to court in Delaware. | ||
So the point of all of this, guys, is the government gets in the way. | ||
The government is corrupt. | ||
AOC, Bernie, Joe Biden, these corrupt governments, they are all the enemy. | ||
Free markets and people who will defend democratic values and free speech. | ||
Elon Musk. | ||
Those are the good guys and it's obvious and we've got work to do to make sure that it all continues. | ||
I would say that much. | ||
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Tiki says, heyo Dave. | |
You seem like a pretty fit, in shape, active guy. | ||
Do you have any recommendations or even a special diet you would recommend? | ||
So I really, I'm not bragging, I'm probably in the best shape I've been in like 20 or 30 years right now. | ||
I'm really eating right. | ||
I'm working out every day. | ||
I've pretty much cut All sugar, maybe, maybe some ice cream once a week, but I'm barely even doing that. | ||
I'm eating a lot of red meat. | ||
Usually when the show ends, the guys order lunch, and I go in there, and it's like, I usually make lunch for David and I, and it's, you know, like a pound or two of ground beef, and I just throw in some sauteed spinach or sauteed broccoli, and it's just beef. | ||
And veggies, and that's it. | ||
Dinners, we're doing a lot of different steaks. | ||
Like, I'm just big on the red meat thing right now, and it just works for me. | ||
I cannot say it works for everybody, and I'm not giving any kind of health or diet advice to anybody, but generally speaking, a lot of beef, a lot of, we eat a lot of fish, and we eat a lot of chicken. | ||
So, like, a good, solid protein, and veggies. | ||
I'm not doing a lot of potatoes, not doing a lot of rice. | ||
I eat like a hard boiled egg or two in the morning and then I try to do about a half hour or 45 minutes of cardio every day and I try not to look at my phone and that's just when I kind of let my mind escape all of the madness and then just like throwing around the kids is probably good. | ||
And then probably more than anything else that's really been helping is I'm playing basketball I found this great great group of guys and it's guys that are that are in their like late 30s into early 60s and I'm 47 so I'm right in the middle of it and it's this fantastic group of guys about 30 guys that show up beautiful court at this guy Frank's house who's a great dude and Joe says, I was shocked to hear President Biden challenging President Trump to debate. | ||
three hours every Wednesday night, and then I try to play one other night a week, | ||
and especially in that Florida heat, I am freaking drenched when I'm done. | ||
So just getting out there and running around, move your body, basically, is the short answer. | ||
Joe says, I was shocked to hear President Biden challenging President Trump to debate. | ||
What do you think the motive is and how do you think it'll play out? | ||
Well, look, they can come up with any excuse So Biden basically to say, I'm going to do it. | ||
And then by the way, you get two Democrat activists at CNN to be the moderators, right? | ||
So it's Jake Tapper. | ||
He's obviously a Democrat, right? | ||
And it's Dana Bash. | ||
She's obviously a Democrat. | ||
So Trump conceded on that point. | ||
As I said yesterday, it could kind of work in Trump's favor because he's good when everyone's attacking him. | ||
And it can sort of expose the media collusion with the Democrats. | ||
So in some ways, Trump conceding the point, like as opposed to getting a more conservative moderator, | ||
in some ways that might help him. | ||
The thing that I don't think helps him is that he also agreed to do it without an audience. | ||
Biden did not want an audience. | ||
Trump thrives when there's an audience. | ||
He's basically a standup comic working off the cuff. | ||
And he allowed them to decide that there will not be an audience. | ||
As for Biden, why did he agree? | ||
You agree and then if he's really breaking down or if that morning they wake up and his brain hasn't come online or whatever or the drugs aren't working, you just cancel and the media just runs cover for you one way or another or anything else. | ||
I think there is the problem with Biden right now is... | ||
Because nobody really supports the policies, because the base hates him, because so many people are leaving the Democrat party, all the machine can do is put him up there and pray he doesn't break down. | ||
But he might break down in front of everybody. | ||
So two hours up there, even if Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are, you know, running cover for him and doing what they can, you know, if he, I guarantee you this happens, mark my words, clip this. | ||
What will happen up there? | ||
There will be at least one moment where he completely loses his train of thought, and it will all look like it's about to break down. | ||
We've all seen it happen before. | ||
You remember there was a town hall with Anderson Cooper where that happened, where he completely had no idea what he was saying, and then Anderson Cooper finished his sentence. | ||
I have no doubt that that's exactly what Tapper and or Dana Bash will do. | ||
His eye could explode. | ||
Remember when his eye exploded? | ||
That was an old one, when his eye exploded at one of the debates. | ||
Anything could happen. | ||
Anyway, he agreed to do it, and I suppose we shall see. | ||
Tony says, have you ever had a gator encounter since moving to Florida? | ||
It took me a year and a half of living here before I saw one out in the wild. | ||
We're going to show you a picture in just a second. | ||
Since we have lived in Miami, since December of 21, I have not seen a gator in Miami. | ||
We do go to Southwest Florida on the Gulf Coast often where you see gators all the time. | ||
There obviously are gators here in Miami, I haven't seen them. | ||
But if you go across Alligator Alley, that's the colloquial name for the road | ||
that goes across the state in the southern part, they call it Alligator Alley. | ||
And there's also a panther sanctuary that they closed years ago, | ||
and now there's signs saying, watch out for wild panthers. | ||
Pretty great, only in Florida. | ||
You're driving across something called Alligator Alley, so there's alligators. | ||
Then there's a panther sanctuary that closed, so there's panthers. | ||
And I think there's a Florida State Penitentiary. | ||
I mean, it's right out of a zombie movie, actually. | ||
Anyway, there are way more alligators there, but in the Everglades, which you're basically bisecting when you do that, I think we have a picture of my sister-in-law Look at this. | ||
So that's our car. | ||
That is a Tesla right there. | ||
And she just parked in the Everglades and walked back to the car. | ||
Can you imagine just walking back to your car? | ||
That is a freaking massive, and that's not even close to how big they get. | ||
That is a massive, massive gator right there. | ||
So yeah, they're out and they are out and about. | ||
I love them. | ||
You know, the kids actually really are into reptiles right now, so obviously we don't have, | ||
thankfully we don't have gators in our backyard, but we've got a lot of iguanas and we've got to just, | ||
there's just so many random lizards. | ||
And you know, there's the one that has the thing hanging under his neck that it extends out. | ||
It's kind of red. | ||
And I think that's how he absorbs sun. | ||
They absolutely love that one. | ||
So a lot of reptiles here in the free state of Florida. | ||
Mitchell says, would you be willing to share any insight into your tequila recipe selection process? | ||
Like what brands influenced your target profile and how you ended up with the final choices? | ||
So. | ||
As you guys know, I'm making a tequila. | ||
I'm so freaking excited. | ||
We've got the first 12 bottles here. | ||
We're still, you know, there's some complex things as it comes to, you know, the legally import alcohol and where you're storing it and how you get it to the States. | ||
There's some stuff we're churning through. | ||
My goal right now is that after we go off the grid in August, when I do the big comeback show, we're gonna have a couple announcements that day. | ||
But my hope is that we will be to market that day. | ||
so you will be able to get it. | ||
We're gonna try to get it to the local people a little bit before that. | ||
I don't wanna tell you too much about our recipe, specifically, especially yet, till the tequila's out. | ||
However, I will tell you this, the tequila is made the right way. | ||
There's a lot of ways you can make tequila, a lot of ways of cheaping out. | ||
We went to the distillery, we talked to the tequila makers, the family, you know, it's family business. | ||
It's been run forever. | ||
We talked to the guys out in the field. | ||
It was just such a wonderful experience. | ||
So it's made the right way. | ||
We're not doing any artificial flavors. | ||
You know, one of the things that people are now waking up to in really all of the alcohol world, but definitely in the tequila world, is that a lot of the good tequilas, even the ones that I love, you know, Casa Azul, which I absolutely love, and I'm always telling you guys, it's such a wonderful intro tequila. | ||
Like, there are artificial flavors. | ||
We're not doing any of that. | ||
We're doing essence. | ||
Of a couple natural things, that's it. | ||
But we formulated the recipe ourselves. | ||
Conor, had you ever drank that much tequila in one day? | ||
And the guy was working. | ||
He was trying to video stuff, and the guy was freaking wasted. | ||
It's mostly gonna be videos of my feet. | ||
But we worked, we just churned through a whole bunch of different recipes, tweaking this, a little more of that, a little less of this, and it's a beautiful flavor palette that we've come up with. | ||
I'm super excited. | ||
But specifically, to answer your question, I told them, look, I introduce a lot of people to tequila. | ||
I know everyone loves Clas Azul. | ||
I know people like Casamigos. | ||
We went through the brands and what people think of all of them and talked about our flavor profile. | ||
And I did mention this yesterday or the other day, but we are making a Reposado. | ||
It's three months aged, which is really the hardest. | ||
As they described to us, it's the hardest to make because a Blanco is not aged at all, right? | ||
So they're just making the tequila. | ||
It's not aged. | ||
And that's really what you put in margaritas or Palomas. | ||
A Reposado, three months aged. | ||
You really want to get it right with the wine barrels or the whiskey barrels. | ||
The way we're doing it is a little bit of both, which is pretty cool. | ||
And then it's easier to make an anejo, because an anejo ages a year, at least, so the flavor is going to be there, no matter what, after aging for that long. | ||
So we're doing something in the middle. | ||
I think it's light, it's refreshing. | ||
I'm just incredibly excited. | ||
Talwei says, it's a two-part question. | ||
What's your favorite comfort food you like to make, and what is yours and David's favorite recipe from the community cookbook you've tried? | ||
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Woo! | |
Comfort food but I mean definitely chicken parm like we don't eat a lot of pasta because we've been on the on that good diet situation as I talked about and if you want the David's amazing amazing chicken parm recipe you can go to davidscookbook.com it's a cast iron chicken parm. | ||
Megan Kelly said it is the best chicken parm she has ever had, and she often makes it | ||
and posts pictures of it. | ||
It's in a cast iron. | ||
It's hard for people to believe that you can make it in a cast iron, | ||
but it's absolutely the most delicious. | ||
And in terms, so we did a Rubin Report community cookbook, which was great. | ||
You guys submit all sorts of great things. | ||
You know, somebody put in there, I wish I could remember who it was, | ||
somebody put in there a sweet and sour, sorry, a hot and sour soup, | ||
which we have made repeatedly. | ||
And it's a really kind of fun thing to make because you got to crack the egg and whisk it in the hot water so you get those kind of ribbons. | ||
And there's mushrooms in there and I think maybe some lemongrass and a few other things. | ||
And it's really, really great. | ||
I'll post some pictures of that next time. | ||
Frank! | ||
Hi Dave! | ||
You posted on X about Blinken playing the guitar but I don't understand what was wrong with it. | ||
Can you elaborate on why you posted that? | ||
So you may remember this. | ||
We played it on the show also. | ||
It's not that in and of itself it was so terrible that he was in a Ukrainian nightclub. | ||
He was singing keep on rock into a free world which was sort of ironic I suppose at some level. | ||
It's more that just these people All of these people, whether we're talking about Biden or Kamala Harris or Bernie or AOC or Fauci or Blinken, none of them seem like they're up to par. | ||
None of them speak clearly. | ||
None of them tell the truth. | ||
So it's like if you had somebody out there who was really doing a hell of a job, | ||
you know, like who was just doing a great job and was clear and clean on what the mission was | ||
and then they were accomplishing the goals, then go do the silly stuff. | ||
Of course, I have no problem with the guy. | ||
The guy likes to play the guitar and sing. | ||
It's like, go ahead and do it, that's fine. | ||
But these people who are mucking up everything, and really, the reason it struck me as like, | ||
I suppose, completely nuts, was because can you imagine being | ||
in a Ukrainian nightclub right now, Countries under attack by Russia. | ||
We're being told they're taking all of these men off the street and sending them to the front lines and all of this. | ||
We're funding this endless war that seemingly has It's endless. | ||
It's seemingly, there's no end point to this thing. | ||
And that the Secretary of State shows up and you're like, hey, buddy, you want to get a drink? | ||
We'll go listen to Anthony Blinken. | ||
Anthony Blinken sing Keep on Rockin' to it. | ||
I don't know. | ||
It just seems completely, it's not the worst thing in the world. | ||
You're right. | ||
But it just seems ridiculous. | ||
Ben says, since moving to Florida, have you discovered a new cuisine or dish you love now? | ||
You know, we're down here in Miami. | ||
We love our Cubans down here. | ||
And I don't think I had ever had a Cuban sandwich before I came down here. | ||
I would say the Cuban sandwich, kind of simple and great. | ||
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You like the Vaca Frita, right? | |
Is it technically known? | ||
The Cuban sandwich is the Vaca Frita? | ||
I'm gonna have the Cubans pissed at me. | ||
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Vaca Frita. | ||
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Vaca Frita is like, it's meat, right? | |
It's like a brisket. | ||
Vaca Frita is like brisket. | ||
Shredded meat. | ||
Or con leche. | ||
Donde esta la biblioteca. | ||
Mi pantalones es azul. | ||
You get the point. | ||
But yes, there's a lot of great Cuban food down here. | ||
McCrae says, another Dave here, please help me. | ||
A woman who transitions to a man can have babies. | ||
Got it. | ||
A man who transitions to a woman are zealots saying that it can have babies too. | ||
It seems to me that the zealots are sneakily pushing the notion of human self-fertilization. | ||
It's a lot to think about. | ||
Look, let me try this in a very simple manner. | ||
If you are born a woman and you have the body parts of a woman, that's pretty much the only way you're going to be able to have kids, right? | ||
Like in a biological way, okay? | ||
If you're born a man, that's how you can impregnate a woman. | ||
Now there are families of every different walk and variety. | ||
options, there is surrogacy, all of those things, but none of those things deny biological reality, | ||
right? And I think a lot of the confusion now is just a basic denial of biological reality. | ||
But by the way, you know, when we talk about these things, there are all sorts | ||
of things we're going to have to think about in the future as science changes things. | ||
There will be artificial wombs. | ||
Like, undoubtedly, there will be artificial wombs. | ||
They're working on them now. | ||
And a woman might just say, you know, I don't wanna be pregnant, or I have this health condition. | ||
You know, sometimes women, the doctor recommends that they don't get pregnant for whatever reason. | ||
And a biological, I'm sorry, an artificial womb will exist that will be able to gestate that child for nine months. | ||
These are real things that are on the horizon. | ||
Actually, when I wrote Don't Burn This Country, we did one extra chapter. | ||
Well, it wasn't an extra chapter, it was, It was a chapter in the book that we decided to cut at the last second that was really all about these sort of fringe technological things and maybe we'll do something with that. | ||
Maybe I'll release it in vocals or something. | ||
But yes, biological reality is biological reality. | ||
You can call yourself whatever you want, but that does not change your reality. | ||
Lacey says, have you ever had a Oaxaca Old Fashioned, a Mezcal Martinez, or any other classic booze-forward cocktails with tequila slash mezcal subbed in? | ||
I love a last word cocktail with tequila instead of gin. | ||
Yes, all right. | ||
I'll say the name of my favorite Mexican joint in all of Miami, okay? | ||
I don't like to tell people. | ||
What? | ||
Taco Bell. | ||
It's called Taco Bell, okay? | ||
And I'm telling you, man, you can get some crunchy shit with some greasy shit and smash them together and you're gonna have diet, no. | ||
There's a place in Coconut Grove called Coco, K-O-K-O, and it is spectacular. | ||
They have like 400 types of tequilas. | ||
The food is great. | ||
You can do a little more American style if you just want a great tomahawk and a whole cooked fish. | ||
They fry like a red snapper, that's awesome. | ||
Then they have a great Mexican menu, of course. | ||
And they make a tequila, it's a tequila mezcal old-fashioned. | ||
So it's half tequila, half mezcal old-fashioned on a nice big rock. | ||
I love a big square rock. | ||
And it's absolutely, absolutely delicious. | ||
If you're in Miami at some point, you should check it out. | ||
They smoke it right there in front of you. | ||
It's really, really just great. | ||
And speaking of mezcal, so mezcal is basically, it's also made from agave, but then there's a smoking process. | ||
That's where you get that flavor. | ||
If our tequila takes off, and I suspect it will, I think Mezcal will be next, because I've really been into Mezcal lately. | ||
Mel Scheckel says, what do you think we can expect this summer? | ||
Leading into the election, will it be better or worse than the summer of love in 2020? | ||
You know, it's a little hard to say, because it sort of seems like the protest thing might've just peaked. | ||
Like, it has suddenly calmed down a little bit, and we kind of expected it to, right? | ||
Because kids were gonna graduate college, or the year, the semester was gonna end. | ||
So now they go home. | ||
So the college thing itself, just by the numbers of less students at these places, that will probably calm down. | ||
I would say in terms of what's happening with the world, I mean, there's a China-Taiwan situation that is just constantly looming. | ||
The really depressing part of the Middle East is that even if Israel is able to wrap up this Rafa operation, Be if any of the hostages are still alive and take care of Hamas. | ||
The real war is the war in the north that nobody's talking about because Hezbollah has a hundred thousand rockets pointed at them. | ||
No country would deal with two rockets firing into your territory and they're much stronger than Hamas. | ||
So that thing could go on fire. | ||
But I think you're basically, Hezbollah of course, which is in Lebanon, But you're basically asking about what will happen on the streets here. | ||
I mean, it seems to me that when the Democrat convention comes, which I believe is in Chicago, what is it? | ||
The third week of July, right? | ||
There has to be mass violence. | ||
There has to be. | ||
The base hates Biden. | ||
There is a good chance that the DNC will figure out a way to swap Biden out. | ||
There will be such chaos around that. | ||
On top of the fact that it's Chicago. | ||
And in Chicago, about 50 people get shot every weekend, and usually about, you know, seven to 10 people killed every weekend. | ||
You don't hear about it, because it's black people shooting black people, but just like, and it's the summer, and everything else, it just feels like there is going to be intensity. | ||
I don't know that it will be the level of our 2020 thing, where it was just in virtually every big blue city, but yeah, it seems like it's gonna be a somewhat tumultuous or violent summer. | ||
Jeff says got any travel plans this off the grid August. | ||
We were discussing it on the walk with the boys this morning We're trying to figure out where to go. | ||
I my suspicion will be to a secret place that we've got in Mexico We don't want to go too far because if we go away for a week without the boys We just don't want to be too far from them, even though they'll be well taken care of by grandma and aunt right here But nonetheless, we don't want to take too far of a flight on that. | ||
So probably something in Mexico. | ||
We were thinking maybe like a Bahamas thing, which is just a very, it's like a 45 minute flight from Miami, something like that. | ||
And then I'm going to mostly be working on home projects here. | ||
Last year when it was off the grid August, that's when we built, we literally built this studio. | ||
So we're not building another studio, but there's just always things to catch up on and do around the house. | ||
And I'll do some landscaping stuff. | ||
And it's just about not being on that little black mirror. | ||
Mary says, what do you make of the idea that the right is politically becoming more united under Trump, but more divided amongst themselves in the punditry class? | ||
You know, that's a good point. | ||
It's a good question. | ||
And it's why I've been so focused on uniting people, right? | ||
I haven't been doing the, oh, this guy said this about that guy, and that guy said this about that girl, and any of that stuff. | ||
We have an opportunity right now. | ||
It's as simple as that. | ||
Trump has an amazing opportunity. | ||
Those of us that love this country, it doesn't matter about right or conservative or anything else, we have this opportunity to save this thing right now, and it might be the last opportunity that we have. | ||
I don't think that that's hyperbole to say it that way. | ||
So I think you're right. | ||
I think the right is largely united right now. | ||
And the pundit class might not be, right? | ||
The pundits all have their own selective pressures as, oh, if I go after this guy, I can get clicks. | ||
And if I go after her, I can get clicks and everything else. | ||
But I would put all of that aside. | ||
To me, it seems anyone that I know that is even remotely right-leaning or even sane liberal, everyone's coming around to Trump as the way you have to vote on this. | ||
Now, not everyone will fully get there, but I see a lot of unitedness on that. | ||
I don't see, let's put it this way, I don't see a lot of people that were like, I was really for DeSantis and now I'm just not voting for Trump, or I was really for Nikki Haley and I'm not voting Trump. | ||
People realize that we quite literally have a country to save, and if we do not do it this time, like, do you think, honestly, like, We could have a Biden administration, whether it's Joe Biden as the avatar, or it's whoever's more radical after him. | ||
Do you think we can survive another four years of this? | ||
So then by the end of another four years of this, there'll be 20 million illegals who have come in in the last eight years? | ||
It's just not a functional way. | ||
So yes, unite people. | ||
Find all of your friends who are, maybe they think a little bit differently as it pertains to abortion, or they think a little bit differently as it pertains, whatever. | ||
Find them and try to show them, hey, if you love America, this is your chance to get in on that right now. | ||
Yasmin says, what are your thoughts on this new chat GPT 4.0 artificial intelligence being given to this world? | ||
So I'm actually gonna punt this question because I interviewed yesterday, we did it in studio here, Tom Bilyeu from Impact Theory Podcast was on, and we did about 45 minutes on AI, on the metaverse, on this, this strange place that we are in right now, | ||
where we all know about all of the warnings of the digital world. | ||
We know all of the sci-fi movies that warned us about what could happen, | ||
whether it was AI or the Matrix or anything else, and we're still going in. | ||
And we went really, really deep. | ||
It was an absolutely fun conversation, because I love thinking about all that stuff, | ||
like what happens, what will happen in society as certain people basically live in the metaverse, | ||
and certain people go completely off the grid, Could that become the new left-right blue-red divide? | ||
I think it could, actually. | ||
So let me punt the question and check out that interview on Monday. | ||
Piper says, if you were president, how would you finish the Israel-Gaza war? | ||
The Israel-Gaza war could have been done on October 8th, and I literally mean that. | ||
We knew, and we know now, that the leadership of Qatar, there are a bunch of billionaires, Ismail Haniyeh, I think is his name, is the main one. | ||
They are in Qatar. | ||
Qatar is a tiny, tiny country. | ||
Qatar, by the way, which has given billions of dollars to our colleges. | ||
If you wonder why all these colleges' kids are so insane. | ||
All we had to do was call Qatar and say, we are going to bomb the hell out of you in the next three hours if you do not release the hostages. | ||
Simple as that. | ||
And he would have put a call in, the hostages would have been released, and then we certainly would not be in this situation. | ||
But in that we did not do that, and in that the Biden administration is not going to do that, I think the very least they can do Is just say to Israel, finish the job. | ||
They're in the last city. | ||
They have fought a war like no other civilized nation has ever had to fight, right? | ||
With people that use their own women and children as human shields, with people that keep babies. | ||
I mean, there's that one baby. | ||
Can you imagine that six month baby? | ||
Is there any chance that that baby's still alive? | ||
The video or the picture that we saw last week of the American hostage who has his hand blown off, and he's still there. | ||
He's an American. | ||
Why doesn't Joe Biden say anything about him? | ||
So I think you would say to Israel, basically do what you gotta do. | ||
Because otherwise, what Douglas pointed out at the beginning of the show, if you don't let them, if this just comes to some stalemate, and Hamas is kind of there, and the hostages, no one knows where the hostages are, and the border, what they're really finding out right now, I mean, this is really interesting. | ||
There was some more info about this this morning. | ||
The real reason that they don't want Israel in Rafah is because they have already discovered, I think, 50 tunnels from Egypt Into Gaza. | ||
So Egypt has been completely complicit in this. | ||
Building this war machine. | ||
Israel and Egypt have a peace deal. | ||
Egypt is supposedly an ally of the United States, but Egypt has been in on this whole thing. | ||
So there are just a lot of things that will be uncovered the further Israel goes into Rafah. | ||
Hopefully they will uncover some living human beings. | ||
That would be the nice ending to the story. | ||
But basically you just gotta let them do it. | ||
You have to let them do it. | ||
Because if you don't, they're not sitting there to die. | ||
And the whole point of having a nation is to be able to defend your people. | ||
That's the point. | ||
Guys, part two of my interview with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is up right now. | ||
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