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Ep. 2053 - The Biggest Scandal In Modern American HISTORY…And No One Cares!

2024/9/23
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Joe Biden's cognitive decline is evident, raising concerns about his fitness for office. His public appearances show a concerning lack of awareness and acuity, leading to questions about who is actually in charge. The media's silence on this issue raises further questions about political motivations.
  • Joe Biden's cognitive decline is evident in public appearances.
  • Jill Biden appears to be leading cabinet meetings.
  • The media and Kamala Harris downplay concerns about Biden's cognitive state.
  • This situation raises constitutional questions about presidential succession.

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Okay, so when I say that the biggest scandal of our lifetime is unfolding right before us and nobody is noticing...

Do you remember this guy named Joe Biden? Do you remember him? He's the current president of the United States. And you'll recall that just a few weeks ago, he was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. And then he did a debate with Donald Trump and he completely collapsed on stage and demonstrated to the entire world that he actually is senile, that there is nothing going on upstairs, that he does not have working synapses.

that the neurons are not firing. And that became clear to literally everyone, so much so that the entire left-wing press, which had been on Joe Biden's side, decided he had to go as the nominee, but not as the president. And here is the point. The current president of the United States, the most powerful man on planet Earth, by every available description, that person is effectively dead.

That person has been dead for years at this point, and he is clearly dead right now. Right now, which means that the vice president of the United States in a typical working scenario would have a constitutional duty under the 25th Amendment to supplant the president of the United States.

Kamala Harris has a constitutional duty today to oust Joe Biden. This man is not functional. That does have ramifications for the United States and for the world. Yes, thank God the founders built an incredibly durable system in which many of the cogs in the machine can be replaced and the machine continues to function. However...

The world is becoming a more dangerous place, not just because Joe Biden was the president, but also because he currently is the president. And it is astonishing to me how we are all supposed to just forget that he is the president of the United States today. Today, he is not alive, folks. He is spending half of his time sleeping on a beach in Delaware and the other half of his time wandering around into walls at the White House. So tape emerged on Friday.

The first cabinet meeting, public cabinet meeting, has been held in quite a while. But Joe Biden wasn't leading that cabinet meeting. Joe Biden was not leading that cabinet meeting. The person leading the cabinet meeting was Dr. Jill Biden. Now, Jill Biden has been elected by no one. She has never won a single vote, sort of like Kamala Harris with the nomination. That's another story. Jill Biden literally has no public support to be doing what she is doing right now.

Now, MSNBC just reported this as first lady joins President Biden in cabinet meeting. But that's not what's happening. She's literally sitting at the head of the table at the cabinet meeting and leading the cabinet meeting. This is a person with a doctoral degree in education from like the local college who's never been elected to a position ever, but did marry Joe Biden some decades ago. And now she is the sitting president of the United States.

This is insane. At least Edith Wilson had to pretend that Woodrow Wilson was still sentient, even though he was a vegetable. Joe Biden isn't even pretending. This is a scandal, folks. Did you elect her? I didn't elect her. I didn't vote for Joe Biden, but he's still my president, which means my president is brain dead. He is not with us any longer.

He is not. Here is the tape of Jill Biden leading the meeting. And Joe Biden is sitting there slack-jawed, staring off into the distance at death approaching. And we're all pretending this is normal. The entire media have decided this is not interesting. It is not worth covering because the only thing they care about is maintaining the functioning of the Democratic media machine. That is all they care about. It doesn't matter who's at the head of it. Slap a new coat of paint on it, call it Kamala Harris. Doesn't matter.

The presidency, however, does not work that way. The president has plenary power over, say, foreign policy. So who the hell is filling the seat right now? Who is the president of the United States? I know it's not Joe Biden, but maybe it is. Here's the footage from the other day.

For somebody who has worked on women's health issues for her whole career, frankly, as a teacher, but also as the second lady and now as the first lady, she said one of the things that struck her the most was the inequities. Where's Joe? Medical research funding. They're all clapping for women. So this is an important priority of hers. And Joe Biden is sitting somewhere at the middle of the table just looking randomly at things. He is not the president of the United States. He gave another speech over the weekend in which he was supposed to apparently be introducing women.

a leader from India, and he has no idea who he is introducing, none. He just loses it right in the middle. And now, who am I introducing next? Who's next?

Distinguished guests, the prime minister of the Republic of India. By the way, he's from a small country like ours, low population. He's become a good and decent man, a good friend. What the hell is wrong? I mean, we know what's wrong. He's not with us. By the way, this is not an obscure world leader. Modi is the leader of the most populous country on the planet, on the planet. And he can't remember who he's supposed to introduce.

And he starts yelling into the microphone. That is the person who is currently the president of the United States. How is this not the biggest scandal in modern American history? It's literally happening in front of your eyes. And we're all supposed to pretend it means nothing. Now, why? How the hell is it not the biggest scandal in modern American history that the president is not with us brain-wise? What else is a scandal? Paying too much for your cell phone bill. Not quite the same kind of scandal, but for you, kind of a big scandal.

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This is a question we should all be asking. Why are we supposed to pretend this means nothing?

The answer is pretty obvious. The reason we are all supposed to pretend that it does not matter that the current president of the United States is non-composmentis. The reason, again, we were supposed to notice it when he was the nominee. The minute he became not the nominee, then it became irrelevant and we never heard about it again. And in fact, Kamala Harris still goes on national television and pretends he is fine. She literally went on the only joint interview that she's done with Tim Walz.

with Dana Bash, and she literally said, he's fine, everything's great. He's doing amazing. He's clearly not. So why maintain the myth? Why maintain the myth? I mean, I understand that there's the shiny object of the election over here, but there's this thing called the United States government with a person at the head of the presidency of the Article II branch of government. And that guy is not with us. So why? Why the coverup? Why are we back to everything's fine? Don't notice what's going on in front of you.

The answer is, if we were to notice that Joe Biden is non-composementous, the solution to that is not to replace him on the ticket. The solution is not to make Kamala Harris the nominee. The solution to that, constitutionally speaking, is to make Kamala Harris the president.

So the question becomes, why? Why won't she do it? I mean, obviously, everyone knows what's true. Everybody understands that Joe Biden is gone. So why? Why isn't she just declaring the 25th Amendment along with the cabinet and putting herself in his place? Why? And there are two reasons. One is she is afraid that the zombie corpse of Joe Biden will wander the landscape and explain to the American people just how crappy she is as a revenge move.

For him being ousted from the presidency. That's part of it, but that's not really the story. The real story is this. Kamala Harris can only run and win if she is not perceived as part of this administration. If she is perceived as having nothing to do with the policies of this administration, that's the dirty secret of this entire campaign. The dirty secret of this entire campaign. Kamala Harris cannot run on the Biden record.

Joe Biden couldn't even run on the Biden record. Even if he were fine, he could not run on his record. His record is trash, which means her record is trash. She can't run on that record. She has to run and she's trying to as a change candidate.

The problem, of course, is she is not a change. And if you spend one iota of a second thinking about it, you know she's not a change. But she needs the patina of not being the current president of the United States. She can't politically remove Joe Biden and put herself at the top of the White House without losing the election because then she's responsible for the things. She wants all of the credit for being VP and none of the accountability for anything that her entire administration has done as VP.

The minute she supplants Joe Biden, the facade falls away. The Potemkin village that is this administration falls away. And Kamala Harris is just the person. She is the person responsible for this trash policy. That is why Joe Biden has retained his seat as the president of the United States, despite the fact that he is brain dead, folks.

Look at him. He's not. We all know it. Why are we pretending? The entire reason he was moved off the ticket is because he's brain dead. But he's still well enough to be the president of the United States. By what standard of the imagination is that true? By the way, the rest of the world knows he's brain dead. Why do you think it is that China is getting so aggressive in the South China Sea? Why do you think war is breaking out in the Middle East again? Why do you think that Ukraine has been moving very aggressively into Russia? The answer is they know Joe Biden is dead.

Why do you think America's opponents haven't actually cut a deal in the face of all of those aggressive move by America's allies, for example? The answer is they know Joe Biden's dead. It's just going to maintain at this pace from the American administration because there ain't nobody at the helm. The American ship of state is basically just bobbing along on the waters with no one giving it direction, all in order to lie Kamala Harris into the White House. That's what this entire thing is.

Here is the reality. Joe Biden's record is terrible. I mean, truly egregiously awful. If you look at his foreign policy record on everything from Afghanistan to Ukraine to the Middle East, it is all garbage. It is all trash. She can't run on it. There is no way for her to run on it. So the thing she has to do is continue to maintain Joe Biden as president and then pretend she has nothing to do with him. That's the entire game here.

She has to claim credit for all of the supposed accomplishments without taking any of the blame. The best way to do that, pretend that he's still the president of the United States. And so far, it's been working because the American people are not spending more than one iota of time thinking about the simple fact that she's the current vice president of the United States. And let's be real. The Trump campaign has done a bad job of tying her to the Democratic platform and to the Democratic Party.

She is seen by the American public, at least large swaths of it, as a sort of freewheeling radical who came in out of nowhere. And that's why, according to the latest New York Times-Siena College polling, she is seen as a change candidate. Now, again, that is logically impossible. She cannot be the change candidate being the sitting vice president of the United States. That's insipid.

And yet she's been able to do that. Why? Because the media obviously have been lying. They've been saying that she has nothing to do with Joe Biden. She can switch her positions at whim. It's totally fine. In fact, that's their entire campaign. MSNBC's Stephanie Rule says as much. She said, we don't need to hear any policies from Kamala. Stop asking for policies from Kamala. It's useless.

I just thought I'm not going to vote for her.

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This entire ticket is running as dissociated from the current administration that she is the vice president of and has a constitutional duty to be president of under the 25th Amendment since the president is dead. So Tim Walz, the vice presidential contender and weirdo from Minnesota with the weird hand-wavy motions from the side of a freeway used car sales lot. So Tim Walz, he kind of let the cat out of the bag the other day. He was speaking in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and he says, we can't afford four more years of this.

We can't afford four more years of this. Okay, what is this? Now everybody's making fun of him. The entire Trump team was making fun of him.

Because they're pointing out four more years of what? She's the current vice president. But that's the whole campaign. They have to promote the lie. Joe Biden doesn't exist. In fact, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris never existed. The current president of the United States is not Joe Biden. And it's not Kamala Harris. And it's not Joe Biden. The current president of the United States, according to Tim Walz, is Donald Trump. He's responsible for everything happening right now. And again, so far, it is working.

It's at least working to the extent that this race is effectively a dead heat. And Nate Silver is breaking down the numbers. I use Nate's numbers because, again, I think he's the best poll analyst in the business. Right now, he gives Kamala Harris a very slight electoral college probability and a much heavier popular vote probability. Right now, if you look at the polls, effectively speaking, she has a better shot of winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin than Trump does. Although each one of those races is inside the margin of error,

If you take a look, for example, at Pennsylvania, which is the state of those that Trump is most likely to win. If you look at Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania right now is looking like a very, very slight advantage for Kamala Harris. The latest poll from Marist College has Harris and Trump tied. But Trump hasn't led in a poll in Pennsylvania for about a week. The last one they had him leading was the insider advantage poll.

The New York Times-Siena College poll shows her up four points right now. That same New York Times-Siena College poll, as we'll see, has Trump leading in the Sunbelt states. This is the most likely tipping point state in America because Pennsylvania has 19 electoral college votes. So Harris, if she wins Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, she wins the election with the exact same electoral map as Joe Biden, assuming she also wins Nevada. And even if she loses Nevada at that point,

Even if she loses Nevada, then she still wins the election. It gets her to 270. So the point is that it's working for her much better than it worked for Joe Biden. The thing about Joe Biden is that he was losing to Donald Trump before his mental collapse, before he completely collapsed on stage. Steve Kornacki over at NBC's Meet the Press, he was doing his analysis and he was showing a brand new, again,

NBC News poll that shows that Kamala Harris has now vaulted to a five point national lead. Again, this is still inside margin of error, but these are much better numbers for Kamala Harris. You can see that the race has been completely reshaped since Harris took the top of the ticket. Completely. And one of the things powering that lead, we should note, too, there's a pretty pronounced gender gap at this point. Harris among women is leading in our poll by 21 points. Among men, Trump is leading by 12. That is a 33 point gender gap.

Okay, first of all, I don't think that's the final gender gap. I think Trump ends up winning men by significantly more than 12. However, Kamala Harris leading by 20 among women, that would not be a giant shock. So what does that mean for the Harris campaign? Hide her. Hide her. The entire campaign is about hiding her, making sure that no one ever connects her to anything going on inside the Biden administration, pretending he's still the president.

Again, that's the reason she hasn't gotten rid of him. If she gets rid of him, she is now automatically responsible for everything happening automatically. So they have to keep the dead man in place. They have a corpse in the Oval Office and they just wheel him around and pretend he's the president just so that Kamala Harris doesn't have to be. As always in her political career, she avoids all accountability and all responsibility while pretending that she's a transformative figure. That is the name of the game for Kamala Harris.

There's some talk right now from Axios that VP Harris and Trump are both considering a 60 Minutes interviews that would air back to back on October 7th as a campaign grand finale, which is a weird campaign grand finale since that's October 7th. I noticed that October 7th is a month in advance of the election. The Harris campaign is apparently in active talks with 60 Minutes. Trump sources say an interview is TBD. Apparently, the reason that they are considering 60 Minutes

is because one of the people who is theoretically being considered for the actual interview with Vice President Harris is a friendly. Apparently, the person they are considering is Bill Whitaker. Whitaker interviewed Harris last fall, quote, providing a familiarity factor to help entice the campaign. They also invited the VP candidates to participate. So it'll be another one of these. Her parents come with her to school principal's office in order to help her through the interview.

The entire game is pretending that she's not what she is. That's the entire game. Now, it's working because, again, she's raising tons of money because she ain't Joe Biden. Her fundraising right now is really outpacing Trump's. According to Axios, coordinated efforts in August totaled $360 million for Harris and her committees compared to $130 million for Trump's campaign.

The Harris campaign raised nearly $190 million directly in August, which is more than the $130 million the Trump campaign, RNC, and other supporting committees coordinated effort raised in August as well. The Trump campaign raised $45 million in August, but they have about $135 million cash on hand. So she is really outpacing him in the fundraising?

It is also unclear whether the Trump campaign is doing what it has to do in terms of door knocking and getting out the vote. According to the Associated Press, Republican activists in swing states say they've seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump.

raising concerns about the party's presidential nominee relying on outside groups for an important part of his campaign operations. According to the Associated Press, Trump and the Republican National Committee he controls opted to share get out the vote duties in key parts of the most competitive states this year with groups like America Packed, that'd be the organization supported by Elon Musk, or also TPUSA, that's the organization run by Charlie Kirk,

It's difficult to demonstrate something is not happening, but with fewer than 50 days until the November 5th election, dozens of Republican officials, activists and operatives in Michigan, North Carolina and other battleground states say they have rarely or never witnessed the group's canvassers. In Arizona and Nevada, the Muspac Political Action Committee replaced its door knocking company just this past week. This is a major problem. You got to actually do the work to get out the vote. If that doesn't happen.

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blinds.com rules and restrictions may apply. Now, the positive news for Donald Trump is that Donald Trump is still running again, very, very even in this election. This election is a toss up. By every available metric, this election is a toss up. The brand new New York Times, Siena College poll in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina shows Trump with leads outside the margin of error in Arizona and close in Georgia.

He's still leading in North Carolina by a couple of points. We'll have to see if the complete collapse of the gubernatorial candidate, Robinson, over there is going to affect Trump in any serious way. Robinson, despite all of his dicey history, still has not stepped out of the race, despite trailing in polls by 10 points or so. Suffice it to say, if Trump wins Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina, he needs to pick up

Nevada, and then he also would theoretically need to change the Nebraska Electoral Commission. In both Nebraska and Maine, the electoral votes are divvied up by congressional district. So it is possible to win one and not the other, even though Nebraska is a deep red state. So Nebraska has five votes. One of them is competitive for Democrats because of the congressional district.

So there's been some talk about changing that to move that fifth vote in Trump's favor, theoretically, in the election, which would mean that if he were to win Nevada and then he were to get that additional vote in Nebraska, for example, then he would be able, presumably, to get to a tie ball game, 269-269, and then you get the weirdest election in American history in which it gets solved by the House of Representatives, led presumably by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

in which case that extremely, extremely narrow House majority turns Trump into the president. Now, on the other hand, theoretically, Maine could go the other way. So one of the things Nebraska is trying to do, presumably, is delay changing that fifth electoral vote so that it's just a winner-takes-all state until it's too late for Maine to do so and switch it to an electoral vote that is winner-take-all because Democrats win Maine, counteracting the effect of Nebraska.

So that's all a mess. Bottom line is this election is really, really, really, despite all of the attempts to paint Kamala Harris as a godsend, despite all of the attempts to turn Kamala Harris into something magical and wonderful. Now, what could change the results of this race? What could change the results of this race are one,

a real change in focus by the Trump campaign. She is team White House. Team White House sucks. She owns all of it. That's all. Repeat it over and over and over and over. Every time she says she has a plan, the answer is you're the current vice president. You didn't do it. And every time she tries to dissociate from Joe Biden, you say you were the last person in the room. You're responsible for all of it. That's the entire campaign from here to November 5th. That's the only thing Trump should be saying. J.D. Vance should be saying. Vance has been doing a good job of this. Trump blessed so.

That is the only thing that matters. Now, Trump has been saying he won't do another debate. Again, I think that that is probably the right move, given the fact that he does not perform well in these debates. Let's be frank about this. His debate performance against Joe Biden was not stellar. It's just that Joe Biden knocked himself out by not being an alive person. Joe Biden almost literally knocked himself out on stage, staring agape into death's maw.

Wasn't like Donald Trump provided a sterling performance and then against Kamala Harris, he laid down and died. I mean, it was just a bad performance by Donald Trump in that debate with Kamala Harris. It's that simple. Will another debate help him? I'm not sure. I don't think so. Because I don't think he necessarily has the discipline to do what he needs to do in a debate against Kamala Harris. Even though, again, I think she's an eggshell skull. I think if you flick her, she falls apart. But here he was yesterday explaining why he's not going to do another debate. He has said, I offered her one on Fox News and she won't do it, which is true.

The problem with another debate is that it's just too late. Voting has already started. She's had her chance to do it with Fox. You know, Fox invited us on and I waited and waited and they turned it down. So he is right about that. Also, would it serve his purposes to debate? Probably not. Run a disciplined campaign.

Trump is also ruling out a 2028 run. He was asked about that. If he loses this time, will he run again? He should not run again. If he loses this time, he shouldn't, because if you run three presidential elections and you lose two of them, at that point, it may be time to move on.

Obviously, I want him to win. I hope he wins. I think there's a very solid possibility, 50-50 shot, that he does win. He needs to be focused on the here and now. I think that is what Trump is doing right here. And whether he runs again or not, he said the same thing in 2020, by the way, and then obviously that didn't hold true. So will I hold him to his word here? Doubtful, but here he was yesterday. If you're not successful this time, do you see yourself running again in four years? No, I don't. No, I don't. I think that that will be, that will be it. I don't see that at all.

Now, I think that's his way of locking in for this election. Discipline, focus, and discipline. That's it. Discipline, discipline, discipline, focus. That's it. That's the entire campaign now. I know it's murky what will actually happen if Trump loses. You find yourself pondering the future a lot around election season. But while considering the nation's path, it's also time to think about your inevitable future. Death.

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It is going to be the Trump campaign focusing in, and it's also going to be the exogenous events that shape any election cycle. A lot of stuff is happening in the world right now, and a lot of it is happening because Joe Biden is not alive. Now, I'm not sure how much of it's because he's alive and how much of it is because he's just a bad president. Frankly, I'm not sure how the policy would be radically different on foreign policy were he alive.

And he was alive for parts of his administration and his foreign policy was a disaster. In fact, there's a case to be made that America's foreign policy has actually gotten better since he died. Again, I'm speaking figuratively here, folks. He's not actually dead, but since he became non-compostmentous and clearly not in charge of his own faculties or bowels. In any case,

Chaos is breaking out in the world and America's allies are on the move. America's allies are like, listen, we don't want Kamala Harris to be in the White House presiding over us doing what we need to do. So we are going to move right the hell now. And that's exactly what is happening with Israel and Lebanon right now. So since October 7th, there have been consistent rocket attacks on the state of Israel from a foreign state, Lebanon. Israel is occupying zero Lebanese territory.

So the notion that this has anything to do with quote-unquote occupation is nonsense. It's absolute crap. It's trite nonsensical. Second, Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy group. It has nothing in common with the Palestinians. It uses the Palestinians as a way of justifying its aggressive action in an attempt to destroy the state of Israel. Hassan al-Zarala has made very clear he wants the state of Israel to be destroyed. He is the leader of Hezbollah. Hezbollah also happens to be a governing party in the Lebanese parliament.

The attempt to separate off Hezbollah as a sort of terror group in the heart of Lebanon, as opposed to a controlling party in Lebanon, is ridiculous. It is the effective governing body in large swaths of Lebanon, Hezbollah. So you have a state that is effectively attacking the state of Israel for the last 11 months or so. Everyday rocket attacks, every single day. So much so that Israel had to evacuate Hezbollah

All of the northern towns, which is like 80 to 100,000 people, even the parts that aren't evacuated, are running into bomb shelters on the regular. Sfat, which is one of the holiest cities in Israel, constantly people are running into bomb shelters because of rocket attacks flying in from southern Lebanon. Now, just to give the history, Israel had occupied a swath of southern Lebanon in a defensive crouch and then had abandoned it under Ehud Barak at the beginning of the 2000s. In the year 2000, they abandoned southern Lebanon.

And they were given a guarantee by the United Nations that UNIFIL would actually occupy that territory and make sure it wasn't turned into a terror base. It was then promptly turned into a terror base by Hezbollah. As always, the UN doing its best to stand on behalf of terrorists. So now those rockets have been flying in for months and months and months and months.

And the Israelis are pretty much done with cleaning up the Gaza Strip. They're still going to have to maintain a military presence there. They're going to have to do counterterrorism operations. Apparently, there's still some 40 to 50 hostages who are still alive down there. There are rumors, by the way, that in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, may in fact be dead. Those rumors have not been confirmed by the Israeli army, by the Israeli military. There are apparently some high-level divisions involved.

among sort of the intel operatives in Israel as to whether Sinwar is alive or whether he is dead. The bottom line is that he is no longer in day-to-day command of the militias run by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. So Israel has performed the vast majority of its military operations in the Gaza Strip. Now it's a matter of maintaining and cleaning up, which is going to take a while, but it is not the large-scale formal operations that you've been seeing over the course of the last year since October 7th and the mass terror attack launched by Hamas.

So that means that Israel has now turned to the north. And they made very clear to Hezbollah for months that if they don't stop the rocket attacks, if they don't cut it out, Israel is going to have to go and clear out southern Lebanon and make it safe for its own people to live in the north of Israel.

Israel has no desire to occupy Lebanon. Israel has no desire to have its military in Lebanon. It has been attacked by a sovereign force for the last 11 months in the same way that if Cuba started stocking up on rockets and firing hundreds of rockets into Miami every single night, the United States would have to militarily occupy Cuba. That's what would happen. Same thing, northern Mexico. If northern Mexico were firing rockets over the border into San Diego or into El Paso,

The United States military would, in fact, do military operations to clean up the border sufficient to ensure that American citizens could live in American territory. So Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, this is not a political issue, by the way, in Israel. This is a fully left to right. Everyone agrees on this. So all the media in the United States attempting to paint this as some sort of evil, hawkish Bibi Netanyahu plot. That's absolute crap. Yet your Lapid has come, who's as left as it comes, has come out in favor of this particular operation.

So as you'll have Gallant, says the entire IDF infrastructure, left to right, there is no disagreement that the residents of the North must be returned to the North. Everyone understands that. Here's Netanyahu saying as much.

Over the past few days, we have struck Hezbollah with a series of blows it didn't imagine. If Hezbollah didn't get the message, I assure you they will get the message. We are determined to return our citizens in the north to their homes safely. No country can tolerate incoming fire against the citizens, incoming fire against its cities. And we too, the state of Israel, won't tolerate it.

So Israel has been performing brilliant military operations over the course of the last week. It led off with that astonishing anti-terror attack. The single most successful anti-terror operation in human history. Targeted, specific, and incredibly effective. They blew up all the beepers. You remember this last week. They blew up all the beepers that Hezbollah had.

It was an incredible military and intelligence operation. They had somehow built a beeper company that ended up supplying the beepers to Hezbollah. That was after they apparently had hacked all of Hezbollah's phones and made clear that they had done so, sufficient that Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, had told all of his terrorists they needed to start using a beeper system. Israel then sold them the beepers. They then simultaneously blew up all the beepers

killing dozens and dozens of Hezbollah top soldiers and wounding thousands of others permanently, many of them.

Then when they switched over the comm system to walkie talkies, Israel blew up the walkie talkies as well, which means the comm system for Hezbollah does not exist. It is gone. So Israel simultaneously took out many of the top commanders of Hezbollah and their comm system. Then they had to meet in person. So the Hezbollah commanders can no longer communicate by phone. Israel had tapped the phones. They can no longer communicate by beepers. Those were all blown up. They couldn't communicate by walkie talkies.

which meant they had to meet in person. Israel tracked the meeting to an apartment building in Beirut and bombed the apartment building, killing the top 12 to 20 Hezbollah commanders, including the number two in Hezbollah. So Israel has been doing the most brilliant targeted military operation ever.

of modern times against Hezbollah, like targeting only Hezbollah. The number of civilian deaths, incredibly, incredibly low, despite the fact that like Hamas, Hezbollah hides in civilian areas. Well, today, Israel has now informed, they've been sending out 80,000 phone calls, apparently, to residents of Southern Lebanon who are living right around all the Hezbollah military apparatus. These are Shiite Lebanese who very much are allied with Hezbollah in many cases. Israel has informed them, get out of your houses, get out of the area, get out of the area because we're going.

The same thing happening in the Bekaa Valley that is in sort of northeastern Lebanon. That area is where Hezbollah has been stashing all of its long-range cruise missiles. Israel's F-35s have been hitting that all weekend, including today. Israel is no longer going to take this. What is accelerating this? One of the things that's accelerating this is the fact that they see the possibility of a Kamala Harris presidency. That really is a thing.

They understand that she has surrounded herself with some of the most radical anti-Israel people in American politics, and that if they have to do this while she's the president, then she will attempt to cut off the aid. So they're going to secure their north, and they're going to do it right the hell now. Again, this is not a political issue in Israel. We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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in preparation for rocket attack. Again, imagine this were happening in the United States, the U.S. military would be doing heavy work right now. The Israeli military is. Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Yitzhak Herzog, he was on with Face the Nation yesterday, and he said, you know, the reason that we are striking is because we have to. Again, Isaac Herzog, not a right-winger. Isaac Herzog is center-left. He used to be a leader of the Labor Party. Here he is.

These guys who we eradicated on Friday were gathering together in their apartment in Beirut in order to plan another October 7th. They developed this school of thought. He is right about all of that, of course. And he says, listen, we have no interest in escalating into another war. We've warned them one million times. If we don't stop this, we're going to have to do something. He's right about that, too. Is Israel ready?

trying to escalate into a full-blown war with Hezbollah? Absolutely not. We did not want this war. We're not seeking war. This war was waged upon us by the proxies of the empire of evil of Iran on October 7th by Hamas and on October 8th by Hezbollah.

Israel is making very clear also that they're not going to leave Hassan Nasrallah himself off the table. They're going to go after the so-called Dihiyah neighborhood of Beirut, which everyone apparently understands is the Hezbollah stronghold. So what is the United States' response? This is where the president no longer being alive is a problem. I mean, again,

The fact is that Joe Biden is the most powerful person on the planet. You know what could have forestalled this entire conflict? Seriously could have forestalled it. If the United States, we did, we had actual naval carriers. We had US aircraft carriers off the coast in the Med, off the coast of Lebanon for months. If the United States had said to the Lebanese government, look, Israel is going to go. And when they do, we're going to give them every single thing they need.

And we are not going to stop them. We're not going to hold their chain. We're not going to hold their leash. We are just going to sit here and watch them do the thing. And if you try to take a pot shot at us, we will blow you into next week. We're just going to sit right here. If they had done that, the Lebanese government might actually have pulled back. It turns out,

And because of the brilliance of the Israeli maneuvers, the Hezbollah capabilities thus far have been demonstrated to be not nearly as powerful or as far reaching as people thought they were going to be. In the same way that when Iran tried to attack Israel directly and fired 300 missiles and drones at Israel, 150 of them fell into Iranian territory. It turns out that first world militaries fighting third world militaries tend to do quite well.

Everybody is pretending that Israel's operations in the Gaza Strip are somehow some sort of failure or some sort of stalemate. By no metric in the history of warfare is that true. Israel has lost apparently something like 320, 330 soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Israel has killed somewhere north of 20,000 Hamas fighters. And then their associates, many of whom are Hamas associates, have been killed as well. And Israel has done so while preserving the lives of some 2 million Palestinian refugees.

and providing food. It's one of the most successful military operations in history. Again, it turns out the big problem with the West is not a problem of capability. It's always a problem of principle and heart. Joe Biden has neither. He has neither principle nor heart. And now, like the scarecrow, he has no brain. So it turns out that Joe Biden is actually all of the characters in The Wizard of Oz. He's the cowardly lion because he has no courage. He's the tin man because he has no heart. And he's the scarecrow because he ain't got a brain. He's every single character except for Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz at this point.

Demonstrating that full scale was John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, who yesterday suggested we don't believe military action is in either side's best interest in Lebanon. Yeah, you think you think like Israel's not interested in once again mobilizing its entire military to go north. But what do you expect them to do precisely? It seems like at this point, Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets and rockets and rockets, apparently they thought it was in their best interest to do so. And they're finding out F.A.F.O. Here we go.

We don't believe, continue to not believe, that kinetic action, military action, by either side, is really in either side's best interest. Certainly not in the interest of what the prime minister says he wants to do, which is get families back to their homes. There's a better way forward here, and we're going to keep trying to proffer that. Well, actually, it turns out, actually it turns out that it is in Israel's best interest to clear the north, ridiculous people.

Meanwhile, this same John Kirby, he says, you know, these Gaza ceasefire talks with Hamas, they're going nowhere. Yeah, you think? You think? It turns out that Yahya Sinwar made the grave miscalculation that Israel would stop if pressured after killing 1,200 Israeli civilians and taking another 250 hostage. It turns out he made a big boo-boo. He counted on the United States to try and save him. And Joe Biden did his damnedest.

Despite his noncomplimentous status, he did his damnedest and Israel didn't stop. And now it turns out that Hamas never wanted to negotiate. Well, there's a shockingly evil terrorist group that murders women and children and rapes its way across the Gaza envelope. It turns out that they don't want a ceasefire talk. You shock me, sir. Here's John Kirby. The Gaza ceasefire talks have gone cold. Is that right?

I would say that we are not achieving any progress here in the last week to two weeks. Well, I mean, they've been cold for quite a while, actually. You know what would have heated them up if the United States had said to the government of Qatar, you know, we got an airbase over there. And if you don't force Hamas to give up its hostages right now by cutting off the funding and cutting off communications, if you don't do that, that airbase goes bye-bye.

The United States could have done that under Joe Biden. They didn't. Again, weakness, pathetic cowardice. That is the name of the game for this administration, which is, again, why he has to remain president for Kamala Harris. Because if she's responsible for it, we might link her with it, despite the fact that she clearly backs all the policy. So they're just going to keep pretending she has nothing to do with it. How pathetic is this administration? Merrick Garland, the head of the Department of Justice,

is now suing to stop the UNRWA from being prosecuted. UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency, which is an agency specifically dedicated to Palestinian so-called refugees. You're not a refugee, by the way, if you've been living in the same city for 80 years, and it's a city, not a tent. In any case...

The UNRWA is a terrorism group. It is just a terrorism front group. Hamas has honeycombed the place. The U.S. Department of Justice is trying to prevent the prosecution of the UNRWA. They said, quote, the plaintiff's complaint does not present a legal basis for claiming the UN waived its immunity. Therefore, because the UN has not waived immunity, its subsidiary, UNRWA, retains full immunity.

So suing the UNRWA is apparently no good, according to Joe Biden's own DOJ, despite the fact it's a terror front group. Absolutely pathetic. Again, by the way, this is the running theme of the Biden administration. Remember, Joe Biden's Iran envoy?

Robert Malley, who is always a pro-Iran radical. It turns out that he was basically passing negotiating secrets to the Iranians. There's an entire story about it in the Wall Street Journal today. That's what this administration is. No wonder the Democrats in the media have to pretend Kamala Harris has somehow been, I don't know, put under museum glass somewhere during the course of this entire administration. Simultaneously, the last person in the room and also completely unrelated to everything going on. Truly amazing stuff.

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promo code Ben for 50% signup bonus of up to 250 bucks. And it is an amazing thing that the chief negotiator for the United States on behalf of Joe Biden, Robert Malley, was actively passing material to the Iranians. According to the Wall Street Journal, last spring, law enforcement officials at the State Department received adverse information about Malley, meaning information about him that could affect his ability to hold a security clearance, according to the Inspector General report. According to people familiar with the matter, Malley had clicked on a phishing link, which compromised a personal email account. While examiners investigated the breach,

They discovered evidence that Malley had potentially moved classified materials, including meeting notes, to a personal account. On April 22nd, law enforcement officials hand-delivered Malley a letter notifying him his clearance had been suspended. When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee convened a closed-door meeting to discuss Iran last May, the Biden administration's envoy to Iran was nowhere to be found.

The State Department officials told lawmakers Malley was tending to a personal matter. In an unexpected twist a few months later, the Tehran Times, an Iranian state media outlet, published a photograph of the two-page letter Malley had received, informing him his clearance was suspended without explaining how it had obtained the material.

The leaks continued, including fall 2023 simultaneous reports by Semaphore and Iran International. The reports included leaked emails and showed that Ali Vaz, an Iran specialist at the International Crisis Group, who had been advising Mali during the negotiations, was part of the Iran Experts Initiative, a loose grouping of Western researchers and academics Tehran had identified in 2014 to support its policy goals. So effectively, Mali, who's now teaching at Princeton and Yale, is an Iranian cutout and always was.

That's effectively what he was doing, wittingly or no. But this is unfortunately the nature of the modern Democratic Party, apart from John Fetterman, former CIA director Leon Panetta, who was always a joke. He was the CIA director under Barack Obama and was terrible at his job. He went on Meet the Press and suggested that

that Israel blowing up terrorist pagers was itself terrorism, which is an amazing way to describe the most targeted anti-terror operation in literally human history, blowing up devices so small that they affected literally only terrorists and people who were apparently standing like right next to them and doing so knowing they were terrorists. Apparently Israel was monitoring in real time the location of every one of those beepers. Here's Liam Panetto being a dunderhead as per his usual arrangement. The ability to be able to

a place in explosive, in technology that is very prevalent these days, and turn it into a war of terror. Beepers are prevalent? A war of terror. This is something new. Is it terrorism? I don't think there's any question that it's a form of terrorism.

What a moron. Are you worried that you're going to go down to the mall and you're going to pick up a beeper and it's going to blow up on you? Is that what you're worried about? Because if you ain't a member of Hezbollah who bought from the Hezbollah leadership, then I think you're probably okay. But this is your Democratic Party foreign policy at work. Don't worry, Kamala has nothing to do with it. Nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, again, the Democratic Party refuses at every turn, except for John Fetterman, as we'll get to in a moment, to speak out against anti-Semitism. So Gretchen Whitmer, ridiculous governor of Michigan,

She was asked about the fact that Rashida Tlaib, who is a terror supporter, she just, she is. I mean, has she met a terror group that she doesn't provide some level of moral support for? Rashida Tlaib was yelling at Dana Nessel, who is the very left-wing attorney general of the state of Michigan. She's a Democrat. Dana Nessel has been prosecuting people with terror connections among student protesters. And she then attacked Rashida Tlaib, Dana Nessel,

for saying she said you're a Jew. That's the reason you're doing this. Here's Gretchen Whitmer running, screaming from this particular conflict. Do you think that Tlaib's suggestion that Nestle's office is biased was anti-Semitic?

Listen, Jake, you know what? All I can say is that I know that our Jewish community is in pain, as is our Palestinian and Muslim and Arab communities in Michigan. But do you think Attorney General Nessel is not doing her job? Because Congresswoman Tlaib is suggesting that she shouldn't be prosecuting these individuals that Nessel says broke the law and that she's only doing it because she's Jewish.

and the protesters are not. That's quite an accusation. Do you think it's true?

Like I said, Jake, I'm not going to get in the middle of this argument that they're having. I can just say this. We do want to make sure that students are safe on our campuses and we recognize that every person has the right to make their statement about how they feel about an issue, a right to speak out. And I'm going to use every lever of mine to ensure that both are true.

She is so pathetic. But that's the Democratic Party in a nutshell, except for John Fetterman. I kind of mentioned him. I've named checked him here. Here's John Fetterman being shockingly awesome on this issue.

And I want to be very clear. I thought what Israel chose to do about blowing up the pagers and then walkie talkies, and then after targeting and eliminating membership and leadership of Hezbollah, I absolutely support that. And in fact, if anything, I love it. And Israel demonstrated that they will not allow terrorists not to be held accountable. And I fully support that. Good for John Fetterman. Seriously, pretty amazing stuff.

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