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There is a battle on for the future of the Democratic Party. That battle is over which direction they are going to go. Are they going to continue in the intersectional woke direction or are they going to steer back towards something like moderation? See, the Democratic Party of my childhood, the Bill Clinton Democratic Party, sure, it had heavy minority support, but it was largely considered the party of blue collar workers, union workers, for example, the lower middle class.
And then it had some elites. But generally speaking, it was considered a sort of broad populist coalition inside the Democratic Party. And then in 2012, Barack Obama decided to abandon independents, abandon moderates, abandon blue collar white voters. And he was going to go specifically at minority voters and get them to turn out in heavy, heavy numbers. And ever since then, the Democratic Party has been moving steadily in the direction of a heavily minority voting base combined with single white ladies who are sympathetic to an intersectional worldview.
In 2020, Joe Biden's voter base was 40% minority, which is really, really high. It was 40% minority. There's a lot of women and independents who are male, particularly, not particularly pro-Joe Biden. White voters, not particularly pro-Joe Biden. Now, this is all coming to a head. The future of the Democratic Party. Is it going to be a moderate party that steers more in the direction of, say, John Fetterman or Josh Shapiro? Or is it going to be a Democratic Party that steers more in the direction of Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar,
This is all coming to the head in New York's 16th congressional district for a reason. So there's a primary happening in the 16th congressional district. That primary poses Jamal Bowman, who is an extraordinarily radical person who relies on the philosophy of intersectionality consistently. And he is running against a person named George Latimer. George Latimer is sort of a typical Westchester County government executive, right?
And he right now is running well ahead of Jamal Bowman. And that is for a reason. That is because the 16th congressional district happens to have changed in constituency to include a bunch of Jews and also a bunch of black people. And this is coming to a head because the conflict between the intersectional ideology promoted by the woke left and Jewish people has broken out, particularly since October 7th, because the intersectionality says that if you are a member of a
dispossessed group. And by dispossessed, they just mean statistically less successful group. Not that you've actually shown proof of dispossession in the here and now, but that you are, for example, underperforming educationally or economically, underperforming in some other way. This is a result of white supremacy. And when extended into the foreign policy sphere, if you look at Israel and if you look at the way Jamal Bowman describes Israel or Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar, Israel is the white supremacist country, even though, again, it's a bunch of Jews and many of them are brown Jews.
the dispossessed brown people who are the Palestinians, never mind the fact that Jews are indigenous to the area, never mind the fact that Palestinians could be theoretically absorbed by
by surrounding Arab countries very, very easily, but they've never been done so, even though Jews by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, have been absorbed by the Jewish state in Israel. Put all of that aside. Intersectionality is a lie. It is a falsehood, and it's a stupid falsehood at that, but it is at the core of left-wing ideology, particularly radical left-wing ideology at this point, and it is breaking out again into the open in the 16th Congressional District, both because of the ethnic breakdown of the 16th Congressional District, again, both significantly Jewish and also much more significantly black,
And also because the Democratic Party has decided not to run on a broad spectrum platform that talks about economics per se. It's decided to break people down by ethnicity and then pose them against one another. So the person who represents the 16th Congressional District is Jamal Bowman. Jamal Bowman, you'll remember from such hits as, I'm going to pull this fire alarm because I believe it will open a door supposedly. But he's been representing the 16th Congressional District since 2021. He is a self-described democratic socialist,
He is also a radical anti-Semite, and he is being supported in this race by people in the Democratic Party, ranging from James Clyburn, who refuses to endorse George Latimer, he says he's not going to endorse in that race, over to Bernie Sanders, who is suggesting that he's being targeted specifically because of his positions on Israel. Well, he is being targeted, but not because of his positions on Israel, per se. He's being targeted because he's a full-scale anti-Semite, full stop.
And full-scale anti-Semitism on the radical left is perfectly fine because so long as it's not, I hate Jews just purely, so long as it's, I hate Jews because they're disproportionately successful. I hate Jews because they exist in the Middle East. I hate Jews because Jews are at the top of that intersectional hierarchy in which they are successful and therefore they are victimizers. So long as you say anti-Semitism that way, it's totally fine with the radical left.
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Now, AIPAC has become sort of a political bugaboo on the far right and on the far left. There's this idea that because it's a lobbying group that lobbies on behalf of largely Jews, but some Christians in America who are pro-Israel, that it therefore works for the Israeli government. It does not. Or that the intervention of a lobbying group in a race is somehow shocking. It is not. It happens in literally every congressional race. And particularly, it's going to come up when you happen to have a congressperson
who has committed a wide variety of full-on Jew-hating sins, which it turns out that Jamal Bowman has. So right now, Jamal Bowman is about to lose. According to lohood.com,
More than 14,000 Westchester County voters already have cast ballots in robust early turnout for the primary battle between Bowman and Westchester County Executive George Latimer for Bowman's House seat. That includes 9,904 Democrats in New York's 16th congressional district who voted in person over five days from last Saturday through Wednesday. Extraordinary voter turnout for Jews in Westchester.
A group that has spent months registering and mobilizing Jewish voters in Westchester for the Bowman-Latimer primary reported strong initial results this week. Jewish voters it contacted made up more than 40 percent of Westchester residents who had voted in person or by mail as of Monday. Jewish voters only make up about 9 percent of this primary's voting population in Westchester, but apparently they make up 43 percent of those who requested mail-in ballots.
And there is a reason for that. Not because people love George Latimer, per se, but because it turns out that Jews in particular in this area don't really like Jew haters in Congress. It turns out not to be a particularly popular point of view. And when I say Jew haters, I really mean Jew haters. For example, in 2023, Rashida Tlaib decided that she was going to introduce a resolution recognizing the quote-unquote Nakba. Nakba is a term that was made up by people who despise Israel and wish that it didn't exist.
It's meant to it literally means disaster. And it is supposed to be the same thing as the establishment of the state of Israel. The state of Israel is the Nakba. Jamal Bowman has supported that resolution. But that's not the only thing he supported or rather did not support. It turns out that the House on October 25th, 2023, the House passed a resolution condemning Hamas's attacks on Israel. Now, this seems like a pretty big no brainer. This is a simple piece of legislation.
It affirmed U.S. support for Israel in its war with, you know, the terrorist group that killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages. Nine Democrats voted against the measure, including, wait for it, Jamal Bowman, of course. Then a few months later, you'll recall just a few months ago, a couple months ago, there was an Iranian attack on Israel where 300 missiles and drones were shot at Israel by a sovereign country, Iran, the United States, its allies, Israel. They helped shoot a lot of that down.
And so there was an overwhelming majority of the House voting on a resolution to condemn Iran's recent attack on Israel. 14 members voted against the resolution. 13 Democrats and one Republican. The Republican is Thomas Massey, who votes against pretty much everything. The group of Democrats included leading people like Jamal Bowman, of course.
He says we must do everything in our power to end the ongoing violence, pursue a lasting ceasefire and save civilian lives. Instead of pushing resolutions that fan the flames of war, Congress should recognize all the lives that have been lost, both Palestinian and Israeli. What does that have to do with not condemning Iran for firing missiles at the Jewish state? All of that, of course, is a cover for what Jamal Bowman really thinks. Here's Jamal Bowman back in March suggesting that Israel is an apartheid state and then suggesting that the rape of Israeli women on October 7th, all of that was a lie.
Okay, so.
That's a dude who hates Jews. Somebody who says that the rapes on October 7th didn't happen. There's not only evidence, there's evidence from Hamas body cameras of rapes happening. There are Hamas members who have admitted on tape to raping women. We've played some of it on the show. And again, Jamal Bowman, this is who he is.
Jamal Bowman said recently, quote,
We've been separated and segregated and miseducated for so long. We need to live together, play together, go to school together, learn together and work together. Okay, this is just a cover for not liking Jews very much. It turns out that many Jews, particularly Orthodox Jews, live in areas where there are lots of other Jews. Want to know why? Because according to Jewish law, you actually are supposed to live within walking distance of a synagogue, which means you have to live within a particular radius of the synagogue.
So in my neighborhood, for example, the real estate prices within walking distance to the synagogue are really, really high. And then you go like three blocks further outside of what's called the A-roof, an area where you're allowed to carry, and the real estate prices drop. Why? Because Jewish law requires that you actually live within the A-roof if you wish to carry on the Sabbath. Also, by the way, I've never heard Jamal Bowman suggest, for example, that historically black communities ought to be gentrified for purposes of desegregation. Precisely the opposite. This is who Jamal Bowman is.
And again, this is the future wave of the Democratic Party. This is who they believe is the future. Whether he wins or whether he loses is almost irrelevant to the future of the Democratic Party. It'd be a good sign. Maybe some sanity would be creeping back into the Democratic Party. But I just want to read you the ages of the people who voted, for example, against that resolution in the House condemning Iran for firing missiles at a sovereign state.
Jamal Bowman, 48. Pramila Jayapal, head of the progressive, she's the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, 58 years old. Jonathan Jackson of Illinois, 42. Cori Bush, 47. Hank Johnson.
A man so stupid he believes the island of Guam is going to tip over because there's too many people on it. 69. Barbara Lee, 77. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, 36. AOC, 34. Ilhan Omar, 41. Ayanna Pressley, 50. Delia Ramirez, 41. And Rashida Tlaib, 47. The reason I say that is because the median age of Congress right now is 58 years old. Aside from Hank Johnson and Barbara Lee,
Every single one of those people is at the median age or well below the median age. In other words, Democrats who are young tend to be part of the intersectional caucus. That is why I say this is what the future of the Democratic Party looks like. And I just want to show you what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, because this is who Democratic honchos think the Democratic Party looks like. Joe Biden is just providing a doddering senile elderly face over that.
But the reason that Joe Biden has spent his entire administration promoting, quote unquote, equity is because he believes that the coalition behind the doddering frail mask is the coalition of Jamal Bowman and AOC. That's why they keep humoring these people. It's why they're slow walking aid to Israel, for example, in the middle of all of this. It's the reason why they continue to push trans propaganda and racialist ideology, because when Democrats look at the future of the Democratic Party, young Democrats, what they see is a coalition that is built on intersectional
a priori ideas. And that intersectional coalition must be maintained at any cost.
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So all of this culminated over the weekend in one of the most bizarre campaign stops I've ever seen in my entire life. So AOC showed up and was totally psychotic. I mean, she's like Dwight at a paper selling event or as some said online, Adolf Hitler from downfall. Here she is screaming and shouting like a nut.
And this is supposed to be, I suppose, cool. But what it really does, it has it has awkward. I'm still I'm still a teenager vibes. This is AOC, AOC and Taylor Swift. She's like the Taylor Swift of progressive left wing politics. She's a 34 year old woman who acts like she's 16 years old. So here is AOC going off on APAC. And obviously, we all know what she means by that. Here we go. Are you ready to witness?
Okay, if you can't see this, she's jumping up and down, moving the mics, waving her hands up and down. There's rap music playing in the background, Cardi B playing in the background. She's ready to fight. By fight, she means yell into a microphone, obviously, and ruffle her own hair for the camera. What a stellar performance there by Laurent Mussolini.
Just solid, solid stuff there. But she concluded the performance, by the way, by jumping on Jamal Bowman. So you have here a 34-year-old woman. I point out the age only to point out that we are such an immature, ridiculous country. The fact that somebody like AOC is a respected commentator
in some circles, just demonstrates what an unserious country we are on every possible level. AOC is two years younger than my wife. My wife has four kids and is a doctor. AOC dresses up in khaki shorts, a white shirt, jumps around like a moron, and then grabs Jamal Bowman around the neck as they dance to Cardi B in the middle of a political event. These are the leaders that you have selected, gang.
She's jumping up and down because she's in a rave. And here comes Jamal Bowman. And he's coming up. What is this? I'm sorry. Who are these clowns? What a clown show. And then Jamal Bowman shows up and he starts bouncing the beat. And then he says, keep the beat going. And then he just starts rapping into the microphone. Jamal Bowman is 48 years old, by the way. He's eight years older than I am, Jamal Bowman.
That dude is like 14 years away from retirement in the United States. It's so embarrassing. These people are so embarrassing. And then Jamal Bowman decides that he's going to, I don't know what he had here. Whatever they give Joe Biden before his debates, they pumped Jamal Bowman full of this. And he starts like picking up a stool and waving around a stool while simping for Hamas.
And he also rolled up his sleeves. He got a bit of the gun show. Now, here's the daily wire. You have to be an all access member to get the gun show. If you want the gun show from Jamal Bowman, all you have to do is watch him get his ass kicked in a local Democratic primary. But here he was waving around a stool for some reason and shouting about a ceasefire, which he knows nothing about because he's a very, very low IQ human being. Here we go. Ceasefire now. And now he's picking up a stool. I know he's holding a stool. We're having some, as people on mine point out, some roid rage happening right here.
I don't know. Is he going to, like, body surf now? He's going to, like, crowd surf. By the way, you don't want to be the people underneath Jamal Bowman when he tries to crowd surf. That is a large human being. Bowman! Bowman! Now he's chanting his own name. Top level, genius level stuff.
By the way, whenever they complain about, wow, AIPAC is getting involved in the race, you mean a group that doesn't want to see anti-Semites in Congress is getting involved in a race involving an anti-Semite? That is absolutely shocking. Jamal Bowman himself has poured millions of dollars into the race. It's coming from lots of people who, you know, are part of the intersectional coalition and don't really like Israel and really don't like Jews very much.
And then Jamal Bowman and AOC got together for a little social media commercial to encourage people to get out to vote. But only in particular areas, you will note. So here is Jamal Bowman. He has to rest up after that. He's got a towel over his shoulder. He just ran a marathon. Water bottle. And then he and Schoolmarm AOC over here. Enthusiastic Schoolmarm. How do you do, fellow kids? They discuss why you need to show up to vote for Jamal Bowman in this primary.
Cease fire now, y'all. That's what we're doing. Cease fire now. Let's get it popping. The polls are open today. The polls are open tomorrow. Make sure you get out the vote. Election day is Tuesday. Let's go. We need record turnout all across the district, especially in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Co-op City, and Edenwall. Let's get it popping. Let's change the world. It's the money versus the money. We're going to win. Let's go, baby. We're going to win. We're going to take on APAC, and we're going to kick some Wall Street ass. So let's go. Stop the bombs.
Stop the bombs. Stop the bombs. By the way, I've never seen them call for Hamas to surrender, which would stop the bombs immediately. Then it would all be over. But that's not what this is about, is it? This is the clown show that you guys are voting for. We are now in idiocracy, like full scale in idiocracy with politicians like this. I do appreciate the fluency with which he drops into politics.
dropping his G's and then replacing his G's, depending on which part of the video he's in. When it's time to vote in Edenwald, he's like, we all need you voting in Edenwald. He's like, let's get it popping. The kind of jump in and out of intense Jamal is really something to watch. The areas that he's asking to vote, by the way, I talked about the ethnic conflict that's arisen within this district, are disproportionately black. The district overall, the 16th congressional district, is about 30-some percent black population.
by ethnicity, but there are some particular areas of the district that are obviously significantly more black than others. So the 16th congressional district at last census is about 40% white, 29% Hispanic, 21% black,
But some of the districts that he's calling out, Mount Vernon is like 63% black. Co-op said he's like 59% black and Edenwald is 63% black. So he's specifically calling out obviously to his voting base. That's not unusual when you're trying to get people out. Obviously, you call out to your voting base. But the reason that his voting base is who his voting base is and he doesn't have broad support across, by the way, a district that Barack Obama won before it was redistricted, like 90 to 5%.
The reason this controversy exists is because of the breaking apart of this intersectional coalition inside the Democratic Party.
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Now, Joe Biden had a choice. When Joe Biden won in 2020, he actually had an opportunity to move back toward a Clintonian third way, focus on, say, economic populism rather than equity. And instead, what he decided to do was staff up on the equity side and go radical on the social politics. So it's pretty clear which way the Democratic Party thinks this thing is moving.
And one of the fascinating things that we've seen in the electoral dynamic here is that Donald Trump is picking up a lot of blue collar voters. And he's picking up some some voters in the Hispanic community, too, because it turns out in 2020, when the Democratic Party basically acted as the Black Lives Matter was the only cause worth supporting among minorities in America. Turns out there are a lot of other minorities in America. And in fact, black Americans represent the second biggest minority in America after Hispanic Americans, many of whom are now turning toward Republicans. But.
The question is really whether Trump started to make those inroads because he's Trump or whether Democrats forwent those inroads because they've been following a primrose path to intersectional coalition hell. I would suggest very much the second. Democrats have been going intersectional since 2012, and this is the natural sort of culmination of that. Now, could that start to turn? Could the worm start to – that's possible.
Maybe if Jamal Bowman loses, that's the first step toward rationality beginning to rear its head again inside the Democratic Party. But if Joe Biden has his way, it's not. So, for example, apparently Joe Biden has now hired a brand new White House staffer. And this is a classy dude. This White House staffer is a person named Tyler Cherry. He's a former Interior Department communications director, has now been hired in a new role and will be working on communications inside the Biden White House. Here is a picture of Tyler Cherry.
Well, well, I guess since they got rid of that guy who was stealing all the ladies luggage. Now he's they hired another guy who's stealing ladies luggage. I guess he stole the luggage of Bianca. What's her name? Kanye's wife. He's stealing her luggage now. So that's that's weird. This person happens to be one of the young radicals. So it turns out.
that he was posting support for Palestine on social media in 2014. That is when Hamas was firing hundreds of rockets into Israel. He also called for ICE to be abolished in 2018. So this dude likes dressing in women's clothing and supporting Hamas. And I guess he's all out of women's clothing. Obviously, he's out of clothing entirely.
July 25th, 2014, quote, cheering in bars to end the occupation of Gaza. No shame and F your glares. Hashtag I support Gaza. Hashtag free Palestine. And this dude goes right off the top of the roof the minute that Hamas takes over his area. In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said, we are very proud to have Tyler and his nipples on the team. I don't know if he said that last part, but apparently that's that's I mean, is that going to be his profile at the White House communications desk? Every time he appears on TV remote, they're gonna put that up.
This is who the Democratic Party has decided to cater to. And again, they're just going to keep doubling down on all of this over and over and over again. You wonder why they keep steering into issues that are like 80-20 issues the other way. Why Joe Biden is doing notes about Trans Day of Visibility. Why Joe Biden is basically going to go gay for the month because it's Pride Month.
And why are they doing all this? And the answer is that coalition is the coalition they think is the everlasting winning coalition. Now, they're wrong. I think that they are very, very wrong. And they're about to find that out in a very hard way.
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dot com slash cd. The Democratic National Convention, they're already expecting that there is going to be some sort of violence outside the Democratic National Convention, at the very least massive protests on behalf of the intersectional coalition standing for Hamas. Joe Biden's tactics in the Israel Gaza war have prolonged the war by months. Joe Biden has slow walked aid. It turns out when you slow walk aid, it doesn't dissuade a country defending itself from defending itself. It just means they can't do so as fast as normally they'd be able to or as meticulously as normally they would be able to.
This is true in Ukraine and also in Israel. Turns out slow walking aid prolongs conflicts. It doesn't actually make those conflicts end sooner. But Joe Biden, being a full scale idiot with not two neurons that actually fire between them, he's been pursuing that policy. So it's very likely that when the Democratic National Convention actually happens by August, the serious possibility of ongoing operations, not really in Gaza, but up north in Israel is actually quite high.
The reason it's quite high is because the more Israel does not show steeliness and willingness to destroy its enemies in Gaza, the more Hezbollah is going to continue upping the ante in the north. Everybody recognizes this. So how exactly is the Democratic National Convention going to go? Probably not particularly well. It turns out that holding it in Chicago is also a genius idea. According to the Wall Street Journal, pro-Palestinian activists hope to attract 100,000 demonstrators from across the country to protest Biden's handling of the war in Gaza.
Republicans are twirling over this. Republican consultant Alex Conant, White House spokesperson during George W. Bush's second term, said when a convention comes to a city, the city becomes part of the convention. Chicago's problems will become part of the Democratic convention. Well, yeah, it certainly will, considering that every weekend in Chicago, more people are shot than probably in Gaza on a given weekend. So good luck to Joe Biden. If this is the future that you are building,
Well, then I suppose you can live with it. But Democrats do have a choice. They could walk away from that future and move back towards sanity. Again, that's what most Americans thought they were getting back in 2020. And it turns out they were not. They were getting a combination of bizarre love child of Bernie Sanders and AOC, except 81 years old. Biden fundraisers, by the way, are running scared from him. They're very concerned as well they should be.
According to Politico, Joe Biden's campaign plan to bury Donald Trump in an avalanche of cash. Instead, his allies are now bracing for a slugfest without the benefit of a fatter wallet, as financial reports show Trump outracing Biden in back to back months, hauling in huge sums after his 34 felony convictions and erasing Biden's longstanding financial edge.
Democrats have been trying to downplay Trump's new financial lead, but privately, several Democratic strategists and donors were reeling. One Biden bundler said there was a strategy of raising all this money on the front end so we could have this huge edge. The whole point of it was to come out with a sizable cash advantage. And, you know, we're now even and it's June. I have no other word for it other than depression among Biden supporters. Meanwhile, CNN reporting, no surprise here, that the Democratic White House is having some very severe troubles with Jewish voters, which tends to happen when you slow walk aid to the Jewish state in a time of war.
Apparently, there was a White House event and it hosted a bunch of Jews who are very supportive of Joe Biden. And they were asking questions like, why are you staffing up your entire administration with people who hate Israel and are intersectional nut jobs? Yeah, it turns out a lot of those people. I mean, again, I know a lot of liberal Jews who did not vote for Trump and will not vote for Trump this time. But you know what they will do? Stay home rather than voting for Joe Biden or vote for RFK Jr. And Joe Biden also happens to be running an insanely insular campaign.
A group of people surround him whose only political success was 2020. His top three advisors are Ron Klain, who is his chief of staff, who apparently made policy by following X or Twitter. And then Ted Kaufman, a confidant who has been around since Biden was running for president in like 1987. He's 85 years old. And then there's also Tom Donilon, who's been consistently saying that Joe Biden should just keep doing what he's doing. Klain is 62. Donilon is 65. Kaufman is 85.
Many of the Biden allies are looking at this team and they're saying, this does not look like the kind of team that takes you to the championship here. Andrew Bates said, President Biden values a diverse point of view and is proud of his full team of advisors, including recent arrivals and longtime aides. But a former advisor says Biden's tight circle frustrates literally everyone outside of it. My favorite part of this particular article is the use of the word diverse. According to the New York Times, President Biden has a diverse group of advisors, but few have the influence of three men in his inner circle.
By diverse, do you mean three old white men? Because those are all three senior citizen white men, I noticed. But I guess you get to be diverse even as a senior citizen white person so long as you are a Democrat. What a nice thing. Meanwhile, the Biden administration trying to figure out exactly what the angle is going to be for the debate this week. That, of course, is coming up on Thursday.
It's pretty obvious, as I said at the outset, that this whole thing has been rigged in Joe Biden's favor. He offered the debate on the dates with the networks. And five minutes later, the thing was set up. So Joe Biden had pre-rigged that thing with CNN. The co-chair of the Biden-Harris campaign is openly admitting that not having an audience was a Biden request. They say it's better for the American people. It's not better for the American people. It's better for Joe Biden because it turns out audiences don't like Joe Biden very much because he's not funny and he's not entertaining and he falls asleep at events.
Not having an audience, not having distractions, not having to worry about COVID. I think all those things are better for the American people. And Joe Biden's going to have a great debate. Now, Joe Biden is trying to figure out exactly what his strategy is going to be. They've been trotting out this line that Joe Biden cares about America and Donald Trump cares only about himself. That line is not going to play. No one believes Joe Biden deeply cares about the country. No one believes this. Joe Biden has violated the law himself on multiple occasions. He sends his son around the world to pick up bags of cash on behalf of his family.
He does what he will literally drain the strategic oil reserves just to lower gas prices in advance of an election. No one believes that Joe Biden is a self-sacrificing public servant. That is not part of Joe Biden's actual appeal at this point in time. But they're going to try it anyway. Here's Kamala Harris, one of the most charmless people in the history of politics, saying that Joe Biden fights for Americans while Donald Trump is fighting for himself. Good luck with this particular argument.
On the one hand, you have Joe Biden, who has spent his life and career fighting for the well-being of other people, including health care.
On the other hand, you have the former president who spent full time when he was president trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, which if he is successful as president again would mean over 100 million people would be stripped of health care coverage. You have on the one hand, Joe Biden, who under his leadership, bipartisan support for the first meaningful gun safety legislation in 30 years passed.
And on the other hand, the former president who, when speaking of survivors of horrendous gun violence, says get over it and is and will proudly talk about how to the NRA about how he did nothing on the issue. So I'm just going to point out the issue she's talking about. Barely register with Americans when she talks about, well, you know, Joe Biden, that dude did gun legislation. That's not even a top 15 issue for most Americans at this point. So good luck on this one.
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You know, if there's a bunch of weirdos inside the Democratic Party and if the Democratic Party is indeed steering in the direction of the weirdos, it would behoove the Republican Party not to also steer in the direction of the weirdos. So now would be an excellent time for Donald Trump and his team to excise many of the weirdos from the party. Because it turns out if you want to win, having lots of weird people in your party is not an amazing way to win. What you actually want to do is what Donald Trump has been doing, which he's been sticking mostly to the issues.
Donald Trump has actually seized the positional middle ground on everything from immigration to, yes, even abortion, where he says it's now a state's issue. But you know, you don't need a bunch of weirdos in your party. Well, it turns out that some of the weirdos who've been led into the party over the course of the last 10 years are now turning on Donald Trump, which is a shocker. It turns out that people who are super weird and have a screw loose, they tend not to be consistent in their application, according to
To the Washington Post, Arizona delegates to the Republican National Convention gathered this month in a Phoenix suburb, showing up to get to know each other and learn about their duties. Part of the presentation included a secret plan to throw the party's nomination of Donald Trump for president into chaos. The instructions did not come from never-Trumpers hoping to stop the party from nominating a felon when delegates gather in Milwaukee next month. They instead came from avowed America first believers hatching a challenge from the far right. A plot to release the delegates from their pledge to support Trump. Why exactly are they doing this?
Apparently, the goal is to block certain people from being vice president and instead to substitute former national security advisor and weird Twitter personality Michael Flynn. Apparently, a lot of these people think that Trump has surrounded himself too much with the deep state, and they think that by denying Trump the nomination that they are going to get what they want. Guys, this is why you should not give weirdos power. Just generally speaking, it's a bad idea. Like right now, you're trying to defeat Joe Biden.
And instead, you're coming up with plots to hold up Trump's nomination at the convention in order to slide in Michael Flynn as the VP, which, by the way, would lose Trump the election. Vice presidential candidates very rarely can win somebody election. They can lose people elections. It turns out that if people think that your VP is a crazy person, that's really, really bad for electoral politics. It is generally terrible. And the fact that so many local parties in the in the course of 2016 to 2024 have been converted into sort of
weird personal animosity gangs has been terrible. I know everybody in the Arizona Republican Party, at least I used to, and many of the people in the Arizona Republican Party are tired of this. They would like to win. Arizona used to be a red state with a red governor and two red senators, and now it is a blue state with a blue governor and two blue senators, and that is largely due to the wild incompetence and insanity of a certain segment of the Arizona Republican Party. You know what would be good? Not that. Donald Trump would like to win Arizona. It turns out that Donald Trump really wants to win now, which is
which is great because when Donald Trump wants to win, that means that he does smarter things. And you can see that Donald Trump wants to win. In fact, the most encouraging clip that I've seen of Donald Trump, maybe in a couple of months, Donald Trump was at a rally and people started chanting USA and he said, stop chanting and go vote. Yes, that's correct. That's what Donald Trump needs to do from now all the way until the election. Everyone needs to vote. Vote early. If you can get a mail-in ballot, go vote right now. Do it this very instant.
Because it turns out your vote counts the same if you do it today and if you do it election day. You don't get any sort of medal for doing it election day. Here is Donald Trump making the same point. Don't give me any of that, USA. Go out and vote. That's all I ask. Correct. Don't say USA, USA. We love Trump, USA. And then November 5th comes along or any of the previous days, you know, the early voting. But and then you say, darling, I'm just I'm just a little tired. I think I'll skip the vote. You can't do that.
You got to vote no USA right now. You just go out and vote. Then we'll go USA. Hey, that is right. Again, Donald Trump, I think, is being much more meticulous about this race than he was about 2020 or 2016. Actually, he could be freewheeling in 2016 because he was the challenger. Now it's kind of like two incumbents running against each other. And so he's being much more careful, which is encouraging, given the fact that he does have a debate coming up. So apparently, according to Politico, he might be eschewing formal preparations for Thursday's debate, but that doesn't mean he isn't thinking about it.
In fact, the former president couldn't stop talking about his upcoming bout against Biden as he rallied in Philadelphia on Saturday night. Over the course of nearly 90 minutes, Trump interspersed talk of his economic plans and complaints about his criminal conviction in New York with musings about the potentially consequential political clash. By the way, I do have a question about the format of the debate that I'm not sure has been answered as of yet. There's supposed to be two commercial breaks in the middle of the debate.
Is Joe Biden allowed to sit down? This is a serious question. Is Joe Biden allowed to like get a breather for two and a half minutes and get pumped up with a child's blood in the meantime, like go in the back room, snort some coke, come back out? Real question. Since Joe Biden tends to fade real fast when those uppers start to come down.
In this rally, Trump mocked Biden for holding up behind closed doors at Camp David. And he suggested the president would turn to illicit substances to boost his performance, which I mean, kind of. Here was Trump complaining about Biden's senility. I go for two hours without teleprompters. And if I say one word slightly out, they say he's cognitively impaired. Whereas Biden can run into walls. He can fall off the stage. He can fall up the stairs. He falls up.
He can turn around. Listen to this. From 20,000 feet of paratroopers landing right in front of him. Everybody, all the foreign leaders, they're watching. And he turns around to look at a tree. Right now. And then they say it was fake. He was fine. And then the press goes along with it. They go along with it.
They say, isn't it terrible the way they cover him now? No, he's terrible. The worst president in history by far. And we have to get him out or this country is not going to survive. I was glad to see that that Trump actually started to talk about increasing the expectations. The expectations, because Trump is making jokes about his senility, are super low for Biden. But.
Trump is starting to raise those expectations this week, and he should. He needs to spend this entire week raising expectations for Biden sufficient that Biden has to do more than just remain breathing during the debate. At this particular event, for example, he claimed that that Biden would, quote, get a shot in the ass ahead of the bout and then come on stage all jacked up, which, by the way, is totally true.
Trump also said that he would love to have RFK join him and Biden on stage. Kennedy failed to qualify. That's a smart political move by Trump because it looks like he's welcoming a third party candidate. Whereas Joe Biden can't stand a third party candidate. So again, if Trump is disciplined, if he can win this, I honestly think that if Trump is disciplined, if he performs well in this debate, you could start to see the polls really break open for Trump. This could start to look like a blowout pretty quickly. It's an inflection point, but that requires Trump to actually
Keep control of himself. Not get angry. Stay contained. And I think that
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Okay, meanwhile, the rest of the world continues to be a powder keg because of the failures of the current president of the United States,
Over the weekend, Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, repeated his claims that the U.S. was delaying arms shipments, which, of course, is absolutely true. So the Biden administration tried to claim that that was not the case. That was a lie. It turns out that the Biden administration has been not using its emergency authority in order to expedite
the shipment of weapons to Israel. The reason that's important, by the way, is because the more armed Israel is, the less likely there is to be a war in the north. If Israel is perceived as weak by Hezbollah, which is the controlling party in southern Lebanon, and Lebanon's a sovereign country, by the way. So really, if there were to be a war up there, it would not be a war between Israel and Hezbollah. It would be a war between Israel and Lebanon. And there's a strong case to be made that Israel should go directly at Beirut. Because if the drug cartels were attacking America from across the southern border,
with the go-ahead of the central government in Mexico City, the United States would hit Mexico City. It wouldn't just hit the border area. So Israel is going to have to exert pressure on Beirut. They're going to have to exert pressure on southern Lebanon. But the stronger Israel looks, the less likely that Hezbollah is going to want that war. And by the way, I'm just going to point out that given the slow walking of the aid to Israel, if there is a war in southern Lebanon, Israel is not going to have the ability to be nearly as meticulous as it has been in the Gaza Strip.
Now, I know people in the Israeli military who have shown me the actual tapes of how Israeli drones are taking down terrorists like one by one in cars. That's how meticulous they're being. They'll fly a drone over an area. If there's a child in the area, they will very often call off the drone. Sometimes they'll kill the person in the front seat of a car as opposed to the backseat of the car. The ordinance that they're using to fire the members of Hamas is about this big. They're not using 2000 pound bombs to go after particular members of Hamas.
But that's because they have the weaponry. If they don't have the weaponry, and if they are pressed to the brink by Hezbollah, which has something now like 400,000 rockets with targeting mechanisms on many of them, pointed at skyscrapers in Tel Aviv and Haifa, if that happens, Israel is not going to go
They're not going to go targeted. They're going to go all out and it's going to be really bloody and it's going to be unbelievably ugly. So if Joe Biden would like to avoid that, perhaps he should intervene with the Beirut government and tell them to get their Hezbollah asses off the line. But is Joe Biden doing any of that? Of course not. He's just angry at Netanyahu for mentioning that he slow walked the aid.
So Netanyahu reiterated that over the weekend at the start of a weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. He defended his decision to release an English language video because he said that Biden is basically lying about this. He said, for many weeks, we appealed to our American friends to speed up the shipments. We did it time and time again. We did it at the senior echelons and at all levels. I want to emphasize we did it in private chambers. We got all sorts of explanations, but we didn't get one thing. The basic situation did not change. Certain items trickled in, but the bulk of armaments were left behind. The White House keeps lying about this. I mean, they're legitimately lying about this.
As Tom Cotton has pointed out, it is not merely 2,000 pound bombs that have been held up. It is a wide variety of munitions that have been held up. He charges the administration is holding up fighter jets, tactical vehicles, mortars, tank shells, and other munitions by not informing Congress of plans to ship them.
So basically letting it get caught up in all the bureaucratic red tape. And meanwhile, that means that the chances of war in the North heighten because Joe Biden is adult. If he doesn't want a war in the North, by the time the convention comes around, he should let Israel finish up major military operations in Gaza, go into full-time mop-up operations, which will look like Janine or Nablus in the West Bank, and then allow Israel to go up North well-armed and intimidate Hezbollah into pulling back off the border with the help of the United States, because it probably will require the United States intervening with the Beirut government and saying, listen, if you guys start something,
It's not going to be a long war. America is not going to be particularly happy with that. And that is what Joe Biden ought to be doing. But, you know, Joe Biden is it's amazing. While Joe Biden is slow walking aid to American allies ranging from Ukraine to Israel, certainly China is not. It turns out that even Taiwan is now short on the kind of drones it needs in order to protect itself, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Taiwan could find itself in a lopsided conflict. China, which fields the world's largest Navy, claims the self-governed island as part of its territory and has not ruled out the use of force to take control of it. Taiwan has been looking at Ukrainian defense and they're looking at some of its tactics like a national drone team. The problem is a lot of these drones are being developed, you guessed it, in China. This administration has done such a piss poor job of keeping the world on the straight and narrow. It is absolutely astonishing. And it's just another factor, by the way, that is leading the world to move to the right more generally.
Because it turns out that if America is not your umbrella, a lot of other nations are like, you know what? We're not letting in immigrants and we don't feel like letting Joe Biden dictate terms to us. We don't trust Joe Biden enough. As The New York Times points out, at the heart of the rapid rise of the nationalist right, with its view of immigrants as a direct threat to the essence of France, there appears to be a growing feeling among many French people they are no longer at home in their own country. That is correct.
This message, echoed by rising nationalist parties across Europe and a central theme of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in the United States, has proved potent. Nations need effective borders that can be sealed tight. That is the message.
You wonder why that is? It's because you want to talk about the actual globalism of Joe Biden, the idea that borders don't matter, the idea that there is a family of nations in which everyone can be simply wheedled into doing the right thing. No one who has a prefrontal cortex can look at the world with any level of rationality agrees with Joe Biden on that because it's ridiculous.
Okay. You know what, folks? It's been a dark time in the news. And so it's time to do a thing I like. I know we're bringing it back. We're bringing it back better than ever. A thing I like. Books that I've been reading, music I've been listening to, movies I've seen, TV stuff. You know, fun stuff. So today's thing I like is from my friend David Horowitz. David is an institution in the conservative movement. He runs the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He's written a huge number of books. He has a brand new book out. It's called America Betrayed. It is totally worth the read. In it, he traces the roots of American ideology all the way back to Martin Luther.
and then forward through the secular assault on American ideology. The book is totally worth your time. You should go pick up a copy of it right now at Amazon. David's books are virtually always worth your time. Again, he's a terrific writer. He's very clear and he does not pull his punches. That book, again, is David Horowitz's America Betrayed. Alrighty, coming up, I'm going to do the thing that I hate. It's about Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun.
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