0:00

Well, yesterday was a pagan day in America.

0:02

There was a giant solar eclipse, obviously, that

0:04

moved all the way across the United States

0:06

over the course of the day. And it

0:08

was pretty fascinating to see the responses. The

0:10

reason I say that it was a pagan

0:12

day in America is because there are a

0:14

couple of different ways that you could view

0:16

something like a solar eclipse. So if

0:19

you were a normal person, you'd view the solar eclipse

0:21

as a wonderful example

0:23

of science at work, an incredible example

0:25

of the workings of the universe in

0:27

which the sun is eclipsed totally by

0:29

the moon and has to do obviously

0:31

with the rotations of the universe and

0:34

the solar system, all the rest of

0:36

it. And that's really cool. That's really

0:38

neat stuff. Traditionally, traditional

0:40

religions had always suggested before they

0:42

knew any of the science that

0:45

things like solar eclipses, which obviously

0:47

appeared incredibly rarely and were

0:49

very scary to people, they had suggested

0:51

that that was celestial moving in response

0:53

to human sin. So human beings

0:55

would sin, and then God would respond with

0:58

a solar eclipse right now. Obviously, we know

1:00

better now. We know that that's science. The

1:03

other way to view it from a religious perspective today

1:05

would be to say that this is amazing and wonderful

1:08

evidence of God's handiwork in the universe, the

1:10

intricate workings of the universe that God created.

1:12

All of those are sort of well within

1:14

traditional monotheistic religion. Then there's the pagan view.

1:16

The pagan view is that you sin against

1:18

nature and then the gods smack you. And

1:21

that is the view that apparently has been taken

1:23

by a wide variety of people

1:25

across the United States. The

1:27

most obvious of whom is the signal

1:31

unintelligent person, Sunny Hostin, on the view. So

1:33

Sunny Hostin was on the view yesterday, and

1:36

she not only blamed the solar

1:39

eclipse on climate change, she then

1:41

blamed earthquakes also on

1:43

climate change. Now, it

1:46

may be that Sunny Hostin just doesn't

1:48

know literally anything about science, or it

1:50

may be that you are supposed to,

1:52

in pagan circles, blame everything on man's

1:54

sin against nature. That man has sinned

1:56

against Gaia, and now Gaia will take her revenge. This

2:00

makes no sense. Here is Sunny Hostin yesterday

2:02

in the most spectacular scientific fail of the

2:04

day. We've

2:06

got a solar eclipse. We've got

2:09

an earthquake. We ran down the hallway. The

2:11

raptor is here. The raptor is here. And

2:13

then also I learned that cicadas are coming.

2:15

Cicadas. Oh, but I love

2:17

them. For the first time in... Cicadas.

2:19

No, no. No, no. Two different... Well,

2:21

this is what I read. Two different

2:24

times. There's two different kinds of cicadas

2:26

coming. The good cicadas and the bad

2:28

cicadas. But for the first time in

2:30

many, many years. Every 17 years this

2:32

happens. Well,

2:34

that's not what I read, but maybe, you know,

2:37

maybe you know better. But in a way.

2:39

I would say all those things together... What

2:43

maybe lead one to believe that

2:45

either climate change exists or something

2:47

is... Or the other is returning.

2:50

This question is not at the mercy of climate change. It's on the

2:52

ground. It can't... It happens. And

2:54

the eclipse, they've known about the eclipse

2:57

coming because the eclipse has happened. It's

3:00

like watching a bunch of badgers try to understand higher

3:02

math. It's really amazing. But

3:06

there is something to what Sonny Hostin is saying. And

3:09

that is that if you live in this pagan world

3:11

where the world takes revenge on you for sinning against

3:13

the climate, then you must pay homage to the climate.

3:15

You don't have to try and solve a problem. It's

3:17

not a real world problem that the climate is changing

3:20

over time. And that maybe you adapt to

3:22

that as human beings or you try to mitigate particular

3:24

activities. Instead, it is a sin against the climate. And

3:29

you see sort of this additional move toward

3:31

paganism across the spectrum. It's really,

3:33

really weird. It's a weird thing that we are seeing.

3:36

The same exact people who will say that monotheistic religion is

3:38

a bunch of hocus pocus, those

3:40

same people are wearing woo-woo crystals and talking about how

3:42

the crystals are changing their elemental relationship

3:44

to the universe. Yesterday,

3:48

my wife and I tuned into the NASA broadcast of

3:50

the eclipse because we were told by literally everyone, you

3:52

are not allowed to look at the eclipse. You will

3:54

die if you look at the eclipse and all the

3:56

rest of this sort of stuff. It

3:58

is very funny how everyone's doing this. mentality changes with

4:00

regard to the eclipse. Like, none of us ever think about

4:02

looking at the sun because you just instinctively don't look at

4:05

the sun because, you know, don't look at the sun. When

4:07

it comes to the eclipse, we've all become idiots. In any case,

4:10

NASA didn't just have on scientists to discuss the

4:12

eclipse. Again, it's NASA. Okay, you're

4:14

talking about a government-funded space agency, and

4:17

they decided that they were going to

4:19

bring on an indigenous scientist named Dr.

4:21

David Begay to talk about the solar

4:23

eclipse. And this is a weird thing.

4:25

Okay, it's just weird. Let's

4:28

check in with Joy and Dallas to

4:30

learn more about indigenous astronomy. When people

4:32

think about science, they might

4:34

be thinking of western science. So, David,

4:37

how does that relate to indigenous science, and what

4:39

does the total eclipse mean to the Navajo people?

4:41

I think

4:45

the knowledge on the eclipse goes way

4:48

back from time and

4:50

memorial I'm told by my elders.

4:53

And they knew that when

4:55

you look at the sun

4:58

directly, and

5:03

say they knew that about the

5:05

danger of looking at the eclipse with a

5:07

naked eye. So, people

5:10

were encouraged to go inside to

5:12

ensure that people weren't looking up,

5:14

especially the kids. So, it

5:16

goes way back. And as

5:18

far as eclipses,

5:23

it's a time of renewal, the

5:27

sun alignment with

5:29

the moon, and also

5:31

the earth alignment. The

5:35

whole cosmic cycle goes

5:37

through a regeneration process.

5:40

It revitalizes the process.

5:42

And so, it's a gift that

5:45

goes on for

5:47

many years, over and over.

5:49

It's a cycle. And

5:54

as far as science goes, there's

5:58

a different definition of science. No,

6:02

there aren't. Okay, and

6:04

the fact that NASA is promoting this crap is

6:06

again, a return to sort of pre-scientific paganism. We'll

6:08

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love that NASA has on this indigenous scientist.

7:18

Okay, what he's talking about there is not

7:20

science. It is in fact religion

7:22

of one sort or another. And

7:25

NASA is promoting that. Would

7:27

NASA have on a devotee

7:30

of ancient Christian theology or ancient

7:32

Jewish theology to talk about how man's

7:35

sins caused the solar eclipse? I don't

7:37

think so. But they have on the

7:39

indigenous scientist to talk about how since

7:41

ancient times, indigenous elders have said

7:43

don't look at the sun. Okay, so first of all, you don't

7:45

need indigenous elders to tell you not to

7:47

look at the sun, I'm sorry. That doesn't

7:49

require an insane amount of common sense, don't look

7:51

at the sun. Again, we instinctively don't look at

7:53

the sun as human beings because if

7:55

you do it for one second, it hurts your eyes.

7:58

Okay, but the fact that NASA We have felt the

8:00

necessity to do this, and diversity and inclusion

8:02

apparently means that we have to pretend that,

8:05

quote-unquote, indigenous science is the same as Western

8:07

science. Ancient peoples

8:09

could not even properly chart the dates of

8:11

solar eclipses because they didn't understand the science.

8:13

So this kind of notion that we have

8:15

to juxtapose that – again, that's a government-funded

8:18

agency. That's NASA. These

8:20

are supposed to be our best scientists. These are the people who are going to put

8:22

us on the moon. And we're interviewing the people

8:24

who help us get to Mars, and here

8:26

they are interviewing indigenous science. The

8:28

kind of reversion to pagan ideology

8:30

is really bizarre, and it does

8:32

tie into something that has a

8:35

moral underpinning. And that moral underpinning

8:37

is that we are supposed to take as

8:40

rote the idea that there

8:42

are these sorts of sacrifices we make

8:44

to the pagan universe, and then

8:46

we backfill the rationale for them. And

8:49

this is why on the left you see that once

8:51

you get rid of monotheistic religion, you just fill it

8:53

with some other form of religion. You could fill

8:55

it with scientific atheism, which at

8:57

least has a track record of scientific

8:59

progress, or you can fill it with

9:02

a pagan morality. And

9:04

that pagan morality is what most people tend to fill

9:06

it with, which is

9:08

why you see on the view Whoopi

9:11

Goldberg justifying abortion by citing the

9:13

Ten Commandments. Because unfortunately on the left, again,

9:15

when you get rid of Judeo-Christian religion, what

9:17

you end up with is

9:20

new sacraments. And the new sacraments of

9:22

the far left include

9:26

things like justifying child

9:28

sacrifice in the sense that you are

9:31

talking about the justification of the termination

9:33

of pregnancy and calling it moral. This

9:36

is a big difference from the 1990s. When I

9:38

was growing up, safe, legal, and rare at least

9:40

acknowledged the innate sinfulness and

9:42

tragedy of an abortion. That's

9:44

why it was supposed to be rare. Now

9:46

the idea is that the Ten Commandments

9:49

justify abortion. Here is

9:51

moral, scion, Whoopi

9:53

Goldberg. No

10:00

in the Big Ten it is not meant the

10:02

commandments. Yeah You

10:04

know, I figured God was pretty

10:06

clear Here's the stuff that'll

10:09

make your life better on earth Here's

10:11

the thing don't lie because you don't want people

10:13

lying to you Don't mess with

10:15

somebody's wife because you're gonna be mad if

10:17

they're messing with you Can you mention you

10:19

know even since they thou shalt not kill

10:22

they believe that. Well, here's the thing. I

10:25

Think thou shalt not kill Cannot

10:29

be used as through as the as the

10:31

block because we allow wars all the time.

10:33

Yes, we do that Because

10:35

no These

10:37

things we all go. No you stupid person.

10:40

No, no Conversation

10:42

to be had here so you can either

10:44

you thou shalt not kill Everybody

10:47

yes and everything and everything

10:51

Or we have to talk about all the things

10:53

that you and I need to do Wait,

10:56

so so her logic is just

10:58

to get this straight And when the Ten Commandments

11:00

has thou shalt not murder and the word is murder It's not

11:03

kill as I mentioned yesterday on the

11:05

show the word in Hebrew or killing if

11:08

you were putting in the Ten Commandments We lo tahara.

11:10

It's a completely different word the word in

11:12

the Ten Commandments is lo tirta, which literally means do

11:14

not murder Which is not the same thing

11:16

because you can kill it in self-defense. That's not murder

11:20

She is basically saying that if you are willing

11:22

to execute child's rapists and murderers Then you should

11:24

also be willing to excuse the killing of the

11:26

unborn why because this is now a sacrament on

11:28

the left Let's be real about this that is

11:30

why they're now twisting the Bible by the way

11:33

She's violating one of the Ten Commandments right there

11:35

by citing God as authority for abortion And

11:38

she's violating number three not

11:40

taking God's name in vain 10, but biggie The

11:43

definition of taking God's name in vain by the

11:45

way is not saying gee damn it The

11:48

definition of taking God's name in vain is justifying

11:50

evil action in the name of God That

11:54

that's what it is and that's exactly what she's

11:56

doing right there But this has become a sacrament on the

11:58

pagan left on the pagan left a border Abortion is

12:00

not just something terrible that

12:02

sometimes people have to do. It

12:04

is something that is an affirmative

12:07

good, and that is perverse. And

12:10

the sacraments include things like abortion,

12:13

climate change, as well

12:15

as, of course, trans ideology, which

12:17

is why you had the bizarre spectacle yesterday of

12:20

the legendary women's basketball coach Dawn Staley,

12:22

who again is only famous because men and women have

12:25

different leads. Here

12:27

she was yesterday, suggesting that

12:30

trans women should be allowed to

12:32

play in NCAA events. Trans

12:35

women, by the way, are biological men. Here we go.

12:38

I'm on the – I

12:40

mean, I'm on the opinion

12:42

of – of – If

12:51

you're a woman, you should play. If

12:53

you can save yourself a woman, of course. And

12:56

you want to play sports or vice versa, you

12:59

should be able to play. That's

13:01

my opinion. You

13:04

want me to go deeper. Do

13:07

you think transgender women should be

13:09

able to participate in – That's your

13:11

question you want me to ask. I mean, you want to ask,

13:13

so I'll give you that. Yes. Yes.

13:16

So now the barnstorm of

13:18

people are going to

13:20

flood my timeline and be

13:22

a distraction to me on one of

13:24

the biggest days

13:27

of our

13:29

game, and I'm okay with that. I

13:32

really am. Okay.

13:35

I'm just going to point out right here that

13:37

we made an entire movie called Lady Ballers about

13:39

precisely this problem in

13:41

which a bunch of men who are

13:43

really, really too old

13:46

for this and out of shape play a

13:48

bunch of women. Okay. Let's be real about this. There

13:50

are a bunch of memes that were going around about

13:53

Caitlin Clark. Caitlin Clark is a tremendous women's player, historically

13:55

great women's player. She would not be

13:57

a very good – a half decent high school

13:59

boys basketball player. in a one-on-one. She

14:02

doesn't have the size for it. She doesn't have

14:04

the body mass for it. She can't dunk. I'm

14:08

sorry, this is so stupid, but again, the reason

14:10

that Dawn Staley is saying this is not because

14:13

she actually believes this. She's saying this because you

14:15

have to repeat the nostrums of the pagan left.

14:17

It is very important. These are all sacraments. Sacraments

14:19

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14:21

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14:24

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14:26

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And herein lies my problem with Donald Trump's

15:43

message on abortion. So

15:45

President Trump, you all know that I'm a supporter of President

15:47

Trump's. I've given money to his campaign. Donald

15:50

Trump is taking a position on abortion that

15:52

is eminently politically pragmatic. His

15:55

position on abortion is that this is a state's issue,

15:57

that this should be delegated to the state. Now, you can't

15:59

do this. You could say two things about

16:01

this. One would be

16:04

moral, and one would have a real moral problem attached

16:06

to it. The one

16:08

that is moral is to say, yes,

16:10

abortion is wrong. Yes, abortion

16:12

is a great sin against

16:15

God, against man. It is a terrible

16:17

thing. Abortion is horrific. Also,

16:19

the federal government of the United States

16:22

has delegated powers. Those delegated powers typically

16:24

do not extend into state criminal law

16:26

with regard to things like abortion. The

16:28

Supreme Court has kicked this back to

16:30

the states and has made fairly clear

16:32

in its own decision making that it

16:34

does not want the federal government sounding

16:36

off on this. Not only that, we

16:38

have pragmatic concerns about pushing forward a

16:40

significant piece of abortion legislation in a

16:42

highly divided country at a time when

16:44

the country appears to be splintering. Thus,

16:46

for pragmatic – not moral reasons –

16:48

for pragmatic reasons, we wish to kick this back

16:50

to the states so that there can

16:52

continue to be a building of

16:54

a coalescence around a

16:57

stronger abortion position federally. And

16:59

it takes time to actually get most Americans to

17:02

accept a more moral position, and

17:04

that on a pragmatic level, if you want a more pro-life

17:06

country, you need to take that time to do it. And

17:10

that is why I'm not supporting an immediate piece of

17:12

significant abortion legislation because the country is simply

17:14

too divided. But when

17:16

the opportunity presents itself, of course, from the executive

17:19

level, I will do what I can to prevent

17:21

abortion. And of course, I am personally pro-life and

17:23

hope for a time when the American

17:25

people are ready to accept an elected government that

17:27

would in fact ban abortion. That would be the

17:30

moral position because that distinguishes between two different types

17:32

of rights that we've talked about a lot on

17:34

the program. One is a moral right, and one

17:36

is a legal immunity. Those are not the same

17:39

thing. A moral right is the idea that, for

17:41

example, in the United States, I

17:43

do not have a moral right to say the

17:45

N-word, to take an obvious example. There's no moral

17:47

right because it's not like a good thing to say

17:49

the N-word. It's a bad thing. I do

17:51

have the legal right to say the N-word because you don't want

17:53

to delegate to the government the ability to crack down on speech.

17:55

And any government with the power to crack down on somebody saying

17:58

the N-word also has the… …to

18:01

crack down on things that actually are good,

18:04

necessary, and truthful. And

18:06

when you're talking about delegating powers to the federal

18:08

government, you have to be very careful about which

18:10

powers get delegated to the federal government, including in

18:12

the realm of criminal law. That would be the

18:15

distinction. So abortion can be extremely wrong, and

18:17

also, because of the extraordinary diversity of

18:19

the United States and the

18:21

internal fissures of the United States, it is difficult

18:23

to pragmatically find a piece of – now, listen.

18:27

I disagree with him positionally. I think that

18:29

on a federal level, you could put a piece

18:31

of 15-week abortion legislation. This is Mike Pence's proposal.

18:33

He happens to be right about that. But if

18:35

Trump wanted to make the pragmatic case for why

18:37

he's doing what he is doing, you

18:40

could do that and still do it morally, because

18:42

you'd say you actually distinguish between the moral and

18:44

the pragmatic. The problem

18:46

with Trump's statement on abortion

18:48

is that he takes a relatively morally

18:51

unclear stance on abortion

18:54

itself, and that's a problem. So

18:56

here's his statement yesterday. My

18:59

view is now that we have abortion

19:02

where everybody wanted it from a legal

19:04

standpoint, the states will determine

19:06

by vote or legislation or perhaps

19:08

both, and whatever they

19:10

decide must be the law of the

19:12

land. In this case, the law

19:14

of the state. Many states

19:16

will be different. Many will have a

19:19

different number of weeks, or some will

19:21

have more conservative than others, and that's

19:23

what they will be. At the

19:26

end of the day, this is all about the will

19:28

of the people. You must follow

19:30

your heart, or in many cases, your

19:32

religion or your faith. Do

19:35

what's right for your family and do

19:37

what's right for yourself. Do what's right

19:39

for your children. Do what's right for

19:42

our country and vote. So important to

19:44

vote. At the end of the

19:46

day, it's all about will of the people. That's

19:48

where we are right now, and that's what we

19:50

want, the will of the people. Okay,

19:53

so this is the part where I have serious moral

19:55

differences with President Trump on this matter. When President Trump

19:57

says about the will of the people, no, it really

19:59

isn't. It really is not about the will of

20:01

the people. That is a bad answer. That's a bad answer

20:03

because if the will of the people were

20:06

to enshrine slavery in a particular state,

20:08

obviously we would not allow it. This

20:10

was actually – it was a position taken by

20:12

Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates. The position

20:14

of Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates prior to

20:16

the Civil War was what he

20:18

called popular sovereignty. The idea was that

20:20

if a state wanted slavery, it could vote to enshrine slavery.

20:23

And if a state didn't want slavery, it could vote to

20:25

not enshrine slavery or to ban slavery. That

20:28

is a not good moral position. Now again,

20:30

you can make a pragmatic case for

20:32

the Stephen Douglas position on abortion

20:34

by simply saying, this is

20:36

the structure of the federal government. And until

20:38

such time as we have a full-scale consensus

20:41

at the top level of American government, it's

20:43

going to be very difficult on a pragmatic

20:45

level to push any significant abortion legislation. And

20:47

so my job is to help build that

20:49

moral consensus until we have a political consensus.

20:53

Right? Daddy could say it's the moral relativism in the position.

20:55

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22:02

a political level, what Trump is doing here is very smart,

22:04

as I mentioned yesterday. On a political level,

22:06

Trump is looking at the polling data. He's looking at what happened in

22:08

Kansas. He's looking at what happened in Michigan. And he is saying to

22:10

himself, you know what I don't feel like fighting? This

22:12

issue all the way up to the election. If

22:15

this turns into a battle over abortion, in

22:18

which Joe Biden is running to enshrine abortion and

22:20

I'm being characterized as wanting

22:22

to ban abortion across the

22:24

board, then that's going to be a

22:26

problem. I think he could draw, again, that same

22:28

pragmatic middle line with regard to 15 weeks because

22:31

that would force Democrats into the unenviable

22:33

position of having to promote late-term abortion.

22:36

Because after all, he could say, listen, I'm not

22:38

trying to ban abortion early term. You're talking about

22:40

four months. That is a very, very late-term abortion at

22:43

this point. He

22:45

could make that case, but he's not making that case. I understand

22:47

why he's doing so politically. But again,

22:49

my problem is the moral imprimatur

22:51

that he is putting on a

22:54

relativistic perspective to abortion. But what

22:56

he's doing politically is he's trying to take himself out of the battle. And

23:00

so when he is slamming Lindsey

23:02

Graham politically, he's not wrong. So Lindsey Graham

23:04

is pro-life, and Lindsey Graham

23:07

was – he said that he respectfully

23:09

disagreed with Trump's stance. He

23:11

reiterated his own support for a 15-week ban, and then Trump responded,

23:14

quote, many good Republicans lost

23:16

elections because of this issue, and people like Lindsey

23:19

Graham that are unrelenting are handing Democrats their dream

23:21

of the House, Senate, and perhaps even the presidency.

23:25

Graham responded, quote, we should draw a line. I

23:27

believe what I believe, the idea of the Republican

23:29

Party abandoning the opposition to late-term abortion I think

23:31

would be a mistake because most Americans oppose late-term

23:33

abortion. And

23:35

then Trump got more personal in his

23:37

critiques. He said, I blame

23:39

myself for Lindsey Graham and urged

23:42

the South Carolina Republican and

23:44

Marjorie Janens-Felzer, who is the president of the

23:46

Susan B. Anthony pro-life America who expressed disappointment

23:48

at Trump's stance, to, quote, He

23:51

said, when they do, they should proudly get on

23:53

with helping Republicans to win elections rather than making

23:55

it impossible for them to do so. It's an

23:57

interesting political play. Again, I think that morally speaking Lindsey Graham is

23:59

a good example. But

24:01

it's an interesting political play by Trump because he's

24:03

basically saying to his Republican-based, trust me, on abortion.

24:06

I want to take it off

24:08

the table. Just trust me. I

24:11

think it'll work. I think most Republicans, because after

24:13

all, he did in fact nominate the justices who

24:15

ended up overturning Roe v. Wade, are going to

24:17

give him a lot of latitude on this particular

24:20

issue, including pro-life Republicans. With

24:22

that said, the job of the

24:25

pro-life movement has shifted since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The

24:27

job of the pro-life movement is, in

24:30

the states where they can, to promote

24:32

pro-life legislation, which they have been doing,

24:34

to the extent that they can gain

24:36

long-term wins. The

24:38

pro-life movement, in other words, could fight a

24:41

purist battle in terms of

24:43

overturning Roe v. Wade because it was a simple yes-no

24:45

question. Should it be overturned? Should it not be overturned?

24:48

Now the job of the pro-life movement is to convince. Now

24:51

the job of the pro-life movement is to

24:53

craft a pragmatic political response to the left-wing idea

24:55

that all abortions should be enshrined in the aftermath

24:57

of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And

25:00

Trump is acknowledging the pragmatism. Again, the moral problem with

25:02

what Trump is doing is he is pretending that the

25:04

pragmatic position is the moral position, which is not quite

25:06

the same thing. Now,

25:10

what's weird about what Trump is doing a little bit

25:12

is that Donald Trump always has this sort of –

25:14

he has good political instincts in the sense that

25:17

he kind of knows what is

25:19

somewhat popular with the American public and what

25:21

is not. The thing he needs to do and what

25:23

he's trying to do with the abortion issue is to take it

25:25

off the table specifically because it elevates him. If

25:28

the abortion issue is front and center, then it

25:30

becomes a referendum on Donald Trump and abortion, the

25:32

election, as opposed to a referendum on Joe Biden's

25:35

terrible presidency. This

25:37

is why, even though it's funny, I

25:39

think that it's bad politics to, for example, put out

25:41

commercials with Trump blotting out the sun. So yesterday –

25:43

I mean it's funny. Again, Donald Trump

25:46

is a very funny guy and his campaign is

25:48

very funny. But Donald Trump put out an ad

25:50

during the solar eclipse in which he blots out the

25:52

sun. Here it is. He

26:00

says the most important moment is a giant picture

26:02

of the Sun In

26:07

human history And

26:12

then it's a bunch of people looking into the sky with their shades

26:14

on Looking

26:16

at the eclipse. Okay is

26:18

taking place in 2024 Spoiler

26:21

alert is not but it's okay Many

26:24

more important points in human history invention

26:26

of father Okay, and and here

26:29

comes Looks like the moon in

26:31

front of the Sun, but it is not in fact the

26:33

moon. It is in fact The

26:36

giant profiled head of

26:38

Donald Trump emerging to blot out the Sun. I

26:43

Mean like it's funny again Donald

26:45

Trump is a very funny guy in his campaign is very

26:47

funny Also, if you

26:50

want the selection be about Joe Biden, do you want

26:52

an ad of your head blotting out? I Understand

26:56

we will save America and it's a picture

26:58

of Donald Trump's head blotting out the Sun

27:00

as people celebrate below looking up at the

27:02

Sun Again

27:07

oh my gosh, that's some

27:10

string stuff right there. Okay make

27:12

America great again Okay,

27:15

president Trump needs to decide if he wants to be at

27:17

the center of the campaign or if he wishes to be

27:19

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27:21

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advice. Okay, now back to the pragmatic side. Don't

28:22

be at the center of the campaign. Let Joe Biden screw it

28:24

up. It's fine. Just let him screw it up. He will, I

28:26

promise. Speaking of which,

28:28

brand new Gallup poll is out showing that

28:31

Americans have serious distrust issues with

28:33

Joe Biden. So

28:36

there are six different characteristics

28:38

that are pulled between Trump and Biden. And

28:40

here's where they stand. Can manage the

28:43

government effectively. Donald Trump currently

28:45

leads by 10 points can manage the

28:47

government effectively. That's how much people dislike

28:49

Joe Biden. Donald

28:51

Trump now leads on that. He's likable. Joe

28:54

Biden leads Donald Trump on that one by

28:56

20 points. Still, used to lead

28:58

by 30, now he leads by 20. This

29:01

is why Donald Trump needs to go to

29:03

the side because people in America look

29:05

at Donald Trump and they don't consider his base likes

29:07

him. His base thinks he's funny. The vast

29:09

majority of Americans buy the polling data. Not huge fans of

29:11

Donald Trump on the personal level. They just liked his presidency.

29:15

Displays good judgment in a crisis. Donald

29:17

Trump now leads by five. He's

29:21

a strong and decisive leader. Donald Trump now leads

29:23

by 19 points. 19

29:25

is a strong and decisive leader. Cares

29:28

about the needs of people like you.

29:30

It's a big shift here. Donald

29:32

Trump is now down in that category by about

29:34

six points. But

29:36

Joe Biden is below 50 percent. He's

29:39

honest and trustworthy. Joe Biden used to lead

29:41

in that category by 12. He now leads

29:43

in that category by 11, but he's down to 46 percent. These

29:46

are bad numbers for Joe Biden,

29:49

obviously. And Biden's most recent

29:51

favorable rating, according to Gallup, 41 percent

29:53

is down eight points from the end of the 2020 campaign.

29:57

Trump's 42 percent is statistically similar to his 50 percent.

30:00

45% in 2020. So in other

30:02

words, when people focus in on Joe Biden, they don't like Joe Biden,

30:04

which is why Donald Trump is trying to get out of the way

30:06

on abortion. You

30:08

should try to do that throughout his campaign. Get out of

30:10

the way. Let Joe Biden be the center of attention. Let

30:12

Joe Biden's head blot out the sun for a change. Because

30:15

nobody wants that. Let

30:18

people think of Joe Biden's head blocking out the

30:20

sun. That would be the way to do this,

30:22

politically speaking. Now meanwhile, Joe Biden is

30:24

out on the campaign trail, and he is doing a couple

30:26

of things, making a fool of himself and

30:30

promoting programs that specifically cater

30:32

to targeted segments of his

30:34

voting base. So making a fool

30:36

of himself, Joe Biden is the

30:38

effective president of the United States. Joe

30:40

Biden, as was recently reported, basically convinced

30:42

Joe Biden that Hamas needs to be

30:45

reestablished in the Gaza Strip. That's

30:48

how powerful Joe Biden is in her

30:50

massive intellectual achievement. I

30:53

mean, it is hard to think of

30:56

a less intelligent power couple than Joe

30:59

and Joe Biden. Very,

31:01

very power couple. Not a huge

31:03

number of IQ points between them. In any case,

31:06

here was Joe Biden saying they'd get instructions from

31:08

his wife. I know. We all believe you. I

31:12

get instructions from my wife, who's

31:14

a school teacher. Oh,

31:17

no. We know you do. We

31:19

know. Edith Wilson over there signing all the

31:22

bills. So that is piece one of his campaign

31:24

is him being senile and duttering around and

31:26

instilling zero confidence. And the other piece is he's

31:28

just going to try and buy off particular constituencies.

31:30

He knows he needs young voters. He's been under

31:32

polling among young voters. In fact, there are some

31:34

polls that suggest he's losing young voters outright. Well,

31:38

now he's pushing yet another round of student

31:40

loan relief. It doesn't matter. The Supreme Court said you can't

31:42

do this. He is going to buck the

31:44

Supreme Court and then claim that Donald Trump is

31:46

the threat to democracy. According to the Wall Street

31:48

Journal, the Biden administration is proposing a sweeping initiative

31:50

to slash student debt for nearly 30 million Americans,

31:53

a plan likely to face legal challenges from Republicans

31:55

who helped kill an earlier White House attempt at

31:57

large scale loan cancellation. The regulations

31:59

will be rolling. out in the coming months according to

32:01

the administration, they say they hope the first debt

32:03

relief will kick in this fall. Wait, what's

32:05

happening this fall? Oh yeah, it's right before the election. So

32:08

here is Joe Biden announcing new plans to cancel

32:10

student loan debt again in defiance of actual law.

32:13

From day one, my administration has been

32:16

committed to fixing the broken student loan

32:18

system and making sure

32:20

higher education is a ticket to

32:22

the middle class, not a barrier.

32:24

My administration has approved debt cancellation

32:26

for four million Americans through various

32:29

actions. And today I'm

32:31

announcing new plans that would cancel

32:33

student debt for millions more. In

32:35

total, these plans would

32:37

cancel some or all student debt

32:39

for 30 million Americans that combined

32:42

with everything we've done so far.

32:44

My favorite thing about every Joe Biden video is

32:46

the cuts every 2.7 milliseconds

32:49

because you cannot get through a full sentence. He then bragged,

32:51

by the way, about ignoring the Supreme Court. Remember, Donald

32:54

Trump is the threat to law and order, not Joe Biden,

32:56

who literally brags about defying the Supreme Court. Ten

33:00

to millions of people's debt was

33:02

literally about to get cancelled. But

33:05

then some of my Republican friends and elected

33:07

officials and special interests sued us and

33:10

the Supreme Court blocked us. But that

33:12

didn't, well, that didn't stop us. No,

33:15

I mean, sincerely, we continue to find alternatives

33:17

passed to reduce student debt payments. I

33:20

love that. The Supreme Court said no, but

33:22

it didn't stop us. Don't worry, Donald Trump

33:25

is the lawless one. But again, the campaign of

33:27

Joe Biden, he's trying to redox 2012. As

33:30

always, this is the entire Democratic campaign

33:32

strategy, cobble together corners of the weirdos,

33:35

various constituent groups, cobble

33:37

that together into a big coalition and then attempt

33:39

to win based on that coalition. So he's going

33:41

to pay off various constituencies. So there we see

33:44

him trying to pay off young people by

33:46

canceling student loan debt in violation of actual

33:48

law. And of course, he's

33:51

trying to buy off, as we've been mentioning, his

33:53

actual pro-Hama space, which is morally disgusting, trying

33:55

to buy off people who chant death to America,

33:57

who believe that the West is a nation. who

34:00

hate Israel specifically because it is an

34:03

outpost of Western civilization in the Middle

34:05

East, who are actively standing for

34:07

a terrorist group, is totally insane.

34:09

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34:11

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36:01

administration, in an attempt to pay

36:03

off its pro-Khamas voters in Michigan

36:05

particularly, is now putting pressure

36:07

on Israel to literally leave Hamas in

36:09

place in Raffia. Raffia is the last

36:11

outpost of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. There

36:13

are apparently four battalions of terrorists in the Gaza Strip. I

36:16

remind you once again, there are actual Americans

36:18

who are being held by Hamas. And the

36:20

Biden administration is putting pressure on

36:23

Israel. Why? Because they don't like the bad

36:25

images on TV of things called war. War,

36:27

it turns out, is really ugly and really

36:29

terrifying, and lots of people die in wars,

36:31

which is why you shouldn't start one with

36:34

a militarily superior country by killing 1,200 of

36:36

its citizens and taking 250 of them hostage. And

36:41

the fact that the West now believes that

36:43

the moral stain is on Israel in defending

36:45

itself and attempting to kill off Hamas while

36:48

gaining back its hostages is a moral sickness. It is

36:50

a moral sickness, what we are seeing in the West.

36:52

Forget about the impact on Israel. Think

36:55

about the fact that the United States is

36:57

now telling a Democratic ally it

36:59

cannot extirpate four battalions of actual

37:02

terrorists knowing precisely where they are

37:05

because it might be too

37:07

mean on the TVs. Again,

37:09

the actual math that the administration

37:12

has now engaged in because they want to

37:14

win Michigan is perfectly cynical. They just want

37:16

to win Michigan. But the actual math for

37:18

the future of combat for American troops in

37:20

future conflicts is going to be very simple. If

37:23

you are a bad guy, sure is what you do.

37:25

You do something really bad to America. Then you go

37:27

and hide behind women and children. And

37:29

then apparently, it's like when you're playing tag and you're a

37:31

kid and the tree is safe. If

37:34

you go and hide behind women and children, which is a

37:36

war crime, then the idea is

37:38

you have some sort of immunity. So

37:40

Hamas now has immunity specifically because it

37:42

is acting worse than a normal army. So

37:46

the Geneva Conventions were designed to incentivize people to

37:48

not engage in terrorism. This is, for example, why

37:50

you are allowed to treat people out of uniform

37:52

differently than you treat people in uniform. If you

37:54

capture someone in uniform, they become prisoner of war.

37:57

If you capture somebody out of uniform, they're now

37:59

an enemy combat. And they get treated differently

38:01

by the law under international –

38:03

why? Because the goal was to convince

38:05

people not to engage in terroristic activities

38:08

that endanger civilians. That's the entire

38:10

purpose of things like the Geneva Conventions. Well,

38:13

now the West has turned this completely on its head. So

38:16

if, in fact, you're fighting in an

38:18

army with a uniform on,

38:21

then we all understand you can be droned

38:23

from above. You can be killed using

38:25

any form or fashion of military largesse that

38:27

can be brought to bear. If,

38:29

however, you dress in civilian clothing,

38:32

murder a child in a kibbutz, run

38:34

back into Gaza, and hide behind another

38:36

child, now you're immune, according to the

38:39

United States. Because the duty

38:41

is to the United States, apparently, and to

38:43

the West, not to harm the

38:45

second child. Even though

38:47

you cannot save any future children if

38:50

you allow the terrorists to remain in place.

38:52

It doesn't matter. The West has turned. Why?

38:54

Because Joe Biden is attempting to please

38:57

his left-wing radical base. And

38:59

this is true in most of these countries. There's

39:03

an insane op-ed signed by the leaders of Jordan,

39:05

France, and Egypt calling for an immediate ceasefire in

39:07

Gaza. Now let's make clear

39:10

exactly what these various countries are worried about.

39:12

Jordan is worried that if Hamas is

39:14

not left in place, and if the war continues,

39:17

that the ticked-off Palestinians who are pro-Hamas in

39:20

Jordan will overthrow the Hashemite dynasty. That

39:23

is the reason why they've decided to

39:25

actively act against what would be in their political interest

39:28

the extirpation of Hamas. Because they

39:30

know that if things get really rough, then

39:32

they might be overthrown. This is why

39:35

you see Queen Rania of Jordan, who's Palestinian herself,

39:37

talking about Israel's war crimes. Why? Not

39:40

because the Jordan-Hashemite dynasty cares deeply about the Palestinians.

39:42

If they did, they wouldn't have killed tens of

39:44

thousands of them during the last September in 1973.

39:49

Instead, what they are doing is

39:51

they're attempting to buy off their

39:54

own Palestinian population by yelling at Israel so they themselves

39:56

don't end up with their heads on pikes. The

39:58

Jordanian dynasty has a really nice- They can suggest that

40:00

around the globe. They have zero

40:03

connection with their own population. 70% of

40:05

the population of Jordan is Palestinian Arab. The

40:08

Hashemite dynasty is not Palestinian Arab. So

40:11

what are they really afraid of? They're afraid of being killed. Meanwhile,

40:14

you have the leaders of Egypt. Egypt

40:16

wants Israel to cease fire because what they are

40:18

afraid of is that if Egypt continues to put

40:20

pressure on Rafa, then two things will

40:22

happen. One, there are a

40:24

bunch of terror tunnels that connect Egypt to Rafa. It's right

40:26

on the border of the Gaza Strip. And they're afraid that

40:29

Egypt's terror tunnels in

40:31

that area are going to be uncovered and it's going to

40:33

make for some very uncomfortable political days ahead for the Egyptian

40:35

regime. That's why they don't care

40:37

if Israel went into Gaza City or in Tanunas, but

40:40

they really, really care if Israel goes into Raffia. That

40:43

is point number one. Point number two, they're afraid

40:45

that if Israel goes into Raffia, there might be

40:47

pressure on Egypt to take in Palestinian refugees. Again,

40:50

right now, understand that the rest of the world

40:52

is forcing Palestinians who are not in

40:55

their homes right now because Israel has had to

40:57

try to extirpate Hamas in these areas and destroy

40:59

terror tunnels and destroy terror bases. The

41:01

rest of the world will not allow Palestinians to leave

41:04

even if they want to, even temporarily.

41:06

And that's particularly true of Egypt. Egypt

41:08

will not accept one Palestinian even temporarily

41:10

into a refugee camp south of the

41:12

Gaza border because they are afraid that

41:14

that will increase terrorism in their own

41:16

state. So that's why Egypt wants the

41:18

ceasefire. France wants the ceasefire because a

41:20

very heavy percentage of Paris is

41:23

Arab Muslim. And so they

41:25

are deeply afraid of the radicals in their own country.

41:28

They are cowards, in other words. Plus,

41:31

I mean, France. You can't expect moral courage out of

41:34

the French any time in the recent past. They have

41:37

an entire piece in the Washington Post

41:39

saying the war in Gaza and catastrophic humanitarian suffering

41:41

it is causing must end now. Violence,

41:44

terror, and war cannot bring peace to the Middle East. The

41:46

two-state solution will. So in other words,

41:48

if Israel were to hand over governmental control to

41:50

an unspecified terror group in Gaza and the West

41:52

Bank, that would magically create peace in the Middle

41:54

East. This is the stupidest crap I have ever

41:56

heard. You know how we know

41:58

that's not true? Because it's been tried. Multiple times!

42:01

From 1948 to 1967. Jordan

42:04

controlled the West Bank. Egypt controlled the

42:06

Gaza Strip. You know what happened? A war in 1956, a war

42:08

in 1967. Then

42:12

Israel controlled the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. War

42:15

in 1973. War

42:17

in 1982 on the Lebanese border. Intifada,

42:19

number one in the late 80s. Then

42:22

Israel decides, you know what? We'll try it your way. We

42:25

will concede large chunks of the West Bank to

42:27

an arch terrorist Gaza Arafat as well as the

42:29

Gaza Strip. Mass

42:31

terror attacks in 2000-2001 in the

42:34

second Intifada. Then in

42:36

2005 Israel's like, you know what? We'll try it

42:38

even harder your way. We'll completely pull out of

42:40

the Gaza Strip and that will be your effective

42:42

state. And instead

42:44

the Palestinians destroyed every element of infrastructure

42:46

that had Jewish imprint on it. They

42:49

destroyed greenhouses. They

42:51

destroyed pipelines. They destroyed infrastructure.

42:53

And then they took every bit of aid that

42:55

poured into the Gaza Strip and turned it into

42:57

the biggest network of terror tunnels in human history

43:00

and proceeded to use every dollar

43:03

in order to upgrade the military capacity of Hamas

43:05

at the behest of Iran as well. So

43:08

anyone who suggests that what Israel really needs to do is

43:10

concede more to terrorists, what are you even –

43:13

it's bull. It's bull. You have other interests at

43:15

heart. You don't care

43:17

about, quote unquote, peace in the Middle East, which is why,

43:19

by the way, you want to talk about the insane Biden

43:21

administration approach to the Middle East. So

43:23

the Biden administration oriented itself from the outset against

43:25

the Saudis. Forget about the Israelis. They oriented themselves

43:28

from the very outset of the administration against the

43:30

Saudi Arabian government. Joe Biden

43:32

made a big deal over the killing of Jamal

43:34

Khashoggi, who was a Muslim Brotherhood associate who quasi-journalist

43:36

who was killed by the Saudi regime. A terrible

43:39

thing for the Saudi regime to do. Also welcome to the Middle

43:41

East where terrible things happen literally every day and

43:44

where the United States is constantly dealing

43:46

with truly terrible regimes that commit human

43:48

rights atrocities on the regular. Israel

43:50

is the least of these concerns. So

43:53

the United States treated the Saudi

43:55

regime as pariahs. The

43:58

Saudis were ready to normalize the Middle East. with the Israelis

44:01

day one of the Biden administration. The Biden

44:03

administration tried to cram down a two-state solution

44:05

on the Saudis. The Saudis don't want a

44:07

two-state solution. They understand that a Palestinian

44:09

state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be a

44:11

terror threat to them. It would be an Iranian proxy, another

44:13

Iranian proxy in the region. So the

44:15

Biden administration is now joining with Jordan and

44:18

Egypt and France in order to put pressure

44:20

on Israel. So the

44:22

United States is making fresh ceasefire proposals despite

44:24

the fact that Hamas is rejecting every ceasefire

44:26

proposal. How do you know that Hamas has the

44:29

upper hand diplomatically right now? Hamas

44:31

has been completely destroyed in most of

44:33

the Gaza Strip. At least 13,000 to

44:35

14,000 of its soldiers are dead. Its

44:38

command and control capacity in most of the Gaza Strip

44:40

is gone. They are relegated to

44:42

Rafiah, and they are turning down

44:44

deals. Why? Because they

44:46

know they have the get-out-of-jail-free card.

44:48

The get-out-of-jail-free card is Western weakness.

44:52

Show enough ugly pictures on the TV, and

44:54

Joe Biden will flip and suddenly endorse Hamas

44:56

remaining in power in places like Rafiah. They'll

44:59

provide Israel with no alternatives. Israel

45:02

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45:04

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45:06

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right now. The

46:02

State Department

46:04

yesterday said they are against any full-scale military operation

46:07

inside Raffia, which is the only thing that could

46:09

actually extirpate Hamas. Meanwhile,

46:11

CIA Director William Burns is

46:13

presenting a new proposal to help advance the deal

46:15

between Israel and Hamas to end a six-month war

46:17

on Gaza and release the remaining hostages. So they're

46:20

proposing the Hamas release. 40 of the more than

46:22

100 captives still held in Gaza, the problem is

46:24

Hamas under the table is claiming there aren't 40

46:26

alive. There aren't 40 women and

46:28

children that are still alive. Most of them are already dead. They've

46:31

already killed most of them or let most of them die or

46:33

put them in positions where they would be killed by Israeli ordnance.

46:38

The United States is pushing these deals. Hamas is rejecting

46:40

everyone. Why? Because, again,

46:42

they know they have the upper hand

46:44

diplomatically. That is what is

46:46

happening right here. This is why you have

46:48

people like Elizabeth Warren trying to declare the Gaza war a

46:50

genocide. This is why the United

46:52

States welcomed an uptick in humanitarian

46:55

assistance according to the Times of Israel that

46:57

entered Gaza over the weekend, but reiterated it

46:59

was reserving judgment until the amount of aid

47:01

increases further and is sustained over a longer

47:03

period of time. The Biden

47:05

administration has said that the number one goal of the Israeli

47:07

should be humanitarian aid in Gaza. That's

47:09

not – there has never been a war

47:11

where the number one goal is the humanitarian

47:13

aid to the civilian population of an enemy

47:15

party. Again,

47:18

pick any war, any war that the United

47:20

States has ever fought, not a counterinsurgency in

47:22

actual war, in which the

47:24

number one priority was providing humanitarian aid to

47:26

the civilian population that supports the enemy. That's

47:30

ridiculous, but that's what the United

47:32

States – and again, do I think that that's coming

47:34

from a good place? No. I think it's coming from

47:36

a very bad place. I think it's coming from political

47:38

calculation for Joe Biden, and I think it's coming from

47:41

an anti-Western place for a fringe of the Democratic Party

47:43

that Joe Biden is trying to win. It's

47:46

amazing. Joe Biden once said that he got

47:48

into the race in 2020 because of

47:50

Charlottesville and because mythically

47:53

Donald Trump suggested that there were very fine

47:55

neo-Nazis, which he never said. And because

47:57

of that, because Donald Trump's rhetoric is not about the United States, it's about the

47:59

United States. … was confused and discombobulated

48:01

on the Charlottesville rally,

48:04

white supremacist rally, and Antifa counter-rally in

48:06

all of this. And because of that,

48:08

he couldn't stand still for anti-Semitism. Now

48:10

he is caving to people who

48:12

are just as anti-Semitic, if not more, than

48:15

the unite-the-right folks at Charlottesville. People

48:18

who chant Death to America, people

48:20

who openly want a terrorist group to remain in

48:22

power in the Middle East. And

48:25

he's catering to those people. It's pathetic,

48:27

which is why Donald Trump is totally

48:29

correct when he says that Jews who are voting

48:31

for Joe Biden, obviously Israel is not a top

48:33

priority for them. He's right about that, obviously. They

48:36

don't want to talk about that. They don't

48:38

want to talk about the attack of October

48:40

7th on Israel, because Biden is

48:42

no fan of Israel. Any

48:45

Jewish person that votes for Biden does

48:47

not love Israel, and

48:49

frankly, should be

48:51

spoken to. How a Jewish person can

48:54

vote for Biden is for a Democrat,

48:56

because they are on the side, 100

48:58

percent, of the Palestinians, and he doesn't

49:01

know how to get out of it.

49:03

He's stuck. But he

49:05

is – if you look at what he's done,

49:07

he is totally on the side of

49:09

the Palestinians, and frankly, it's

49:12

incredible that historically

49:15

Jewish people vote for Democrats. So

49:18

what he says is a lot of people are

49:20

still voting out of habit, but if you're a

49:22

Jew and you're voting for a Democratic party that

49:24

is providing shield and sword to actual terrorist supporters,

49:27

he's not wrong. He's not right now. The

49:30

dirty secret, of course, is that many Jews don't care about Israel. Many

49:32

Jews don't care about Judaism very much, let alone

49:34

Israel. There are a

49:36

lot of people out there who claim

49:38

that they – who will do the

49:41

as-a-Jew routine specifically because it allows

49:43

them to not be white. As

49:45

a Jew, I'm a minority, too. I'm part of the intersectional

49:47

structure. No, you're not. No, you're not. Judaism

49:51

is both a religion and an ethnicity. There are a

49:53

lot of people who are ethnically Jewish, who are not

49:55

in any way, shape, or form, ideologically or religiously Jewish,

49:58

which is why the Orthodox community is here. in the United States is

50:00

going to vote almost 100% for

50:02

Donald Trump, particularly after Joe Biden's

50:05

pathetic immoral showing in the Middle

50:07

East right now. So Trump's going to

50:09

take a lot of flack from us, particularly from left-wing

50:11

Jews who go to shul once every

50:14

year for half the day and break for lunch on

50:16

Yom Kippur. But he

50:18

ain't wrong. Meanwhile, big case

50:20

out of Tennessee, apparently there are

50:23

two parties to a bizarre car

50:25

crash case. One party is claiming

50:27

that another party named

50:30

Guzman took his car, but he was uninsured

50:32

without his permission, and then she crashed the

50:34

car and she refused to pay for

50:37

the damages. And then

50:39

she says that it's actually the other guy's fault because he

50:41

left the keys where she could see them. I

50:43

don't even understand how this is a case, but joining us

50:46

on the line to discuss how it is a case is

50:49

Matt Walsh, who is

50:51

a judge for some reason.

50:54

He's not going to do anything about it because of his legal

50:57

acumen and law degree and because obviously I'm not in

50:59

charge of this company in any way, shape, or form.

51:03

Judge – Matt, do I have to call you judge or can I just call

51:05

you Matt? What is it? Your honor? Your

51:08

honor. Your honor will do just fine. Okay.

51:12

Your eminence can also work if you'd

51:14

prefer that. Okay,

51:17

not going to do any of that. So

51:19

Matt, so what happened

51:22

in this case? I

51:24

can't believe this is a real thing. And what was your judgment? Are

51:30

you talking to me? Are you talking to me? Oh,

51:35

good lord. I don't understand.

51:37

I don't know who you're talking to because

51:40

I didn't hear my name, so I'm not

51:42

sure who's being referred to right now. All

51:46

right, all right. I'll humor you. I'll

51:48

use your chosen pronouns. Your

51:50

honor. Yes. What

51:52

happened in this case? Well,

51:55

you know, this is a very interesting case because as

51:57

you summed up, you have – and

51:59

this will be – featured in the premiere episode of

52:01

of judged my

52:04

new court show you have a gentleman

52:06

who's dating a woman his

52:09

car was taken and crashed and

52:11

and he owns the car and his girlfriend

52:14

took it without permission and crashed

52:16

it now you might think that that makes

52:18

it pretty simple however what you don't realize

52:20

is that as

52:22

she points out well she has

52:24

a habit of stealing things he knows that

52:26

and yet he's left the

52:29

keys on the counter in

52:31

full view of her and I'll add one other detail I

52:33

don't want to give away any spoilers but

52:36

as you know and what I do is I people

52:39

come before me and we talk about these cases and

52:41

we bring out all the different details even details that

52:44

maybe to it to a lesser judge

52:46

would seem totally irrelevant to

52:48

me they're not nothing is irrelevant so it

52:50

later comes out that this

52:52

man perhaps had not been faithful to

52:54

the woman and so does that in

52:57

some way morally justify the

52:59

act of theft and vandalism very

53:01

very interesting very it's a very dense legal case

53:03

it might be something that then you might

53:06

have you might have some difficulty following

53:08

it but it's

53:11

what you can be assured of is that at the end

53:13

we arrive at the right conclusion of course I

53:17

will admit that we did not cover cases quite

53:19

like this one in my torts class at Harvard

53:21

Law School your honor but

53:23

in your what class you are commenting

53:27

yes in my it's called

53:29

it's called torts but yeah

53:31

torts well you know retorts

53:33

are really important in the

53:35

courtroom responses retorts

53:37

all these things do come

53:40

up in my legal experience as

53:42

well I can't wait

53:44

until somebody here green lights a show with Matt Walsh in

53:46

which he explains physics this is like wow

53:48

okay so your honor since

53:51

we have you in the chair over here I

53:53

did want to get your take on some

53:55

other pressing legal matters like I did you

53:58

have any opinions on

54:01

Chevron deference. I know this is coming up

54:03

before the Supreme Court very soon. Chevron deference,

54:05

which has been in the law of the land since

54:07

like 1984. Any thoughts on Chevron deference?

54:11

I do. I have many thoughts. In fact, I have

54:14

so many thoughts about it that it almost is difficult

54:16

for me to explain what

54:18

my thoughts are. If I could take – it would take

54:20

more time than we have to even go into all of

54:22

my thoughts. But what I'll say about Chevron deference is

54:25

that in this case, what I

54:27

have found, it's really interesting is that on

54:30

one hand, you have a group of people who are

54:33

claiming something. On the other hand, you have a group

54:35

of people that are claiming another thing. And

54:38

they are both going before the

54:40

court with different perspectives,

54:43

different – you might even

54:45

say different facts that they're bringing before the court,

54:47

different what we call them arguments. And

54:50

it's very, very fascinating, very

54:53

perplexing. But anyway, I

54:55

can go on and on and on about it. But that's

54:58

just sort of a summary of my thoughts on that

55:00

particular case. Wow.

55:03

I mean I'm blown away

55:05

by that analysis, absolutely blown

55:08

away. Again, folks, if you ever needed better

55:10

evidence that I have nothing to do with

55:14

the actual decision-making around here, this

55:16

would be it. Maybe you have

55:18

an opinion on Marbury versus Madison.

55:21

I mean that's a pretty

55:23

important legal case. So

55:25

wow, do you have a – is that a quill? Is that

55:27

like an actual quill that you're writing with the

55:30

judge? I do have a quill pen. In fact, I was – usually

55:33

when I get these kind of legal questions, I'll

55:36

write down – in fact, I've written

55:38

extensively with my quill pen on

55:41

my scroll that I have here

55:43

about that particular case that you just mentioned. And

55:45

I'd be happy to share those documents with you,

55:48

Ben. I will tell you that I'm feeling – in this

55:50

moment I'm feeling a little bit – I'm

55:52

feeling quizzed. I feel like I'm being quizzed right

55:55

now. I don't even know if these questions are

55:58

being offered in good faith. or

56:00

not. If you really are

56:02

interested, I could give you, I have stacks

56:04

of documents where I've written about these cases.

56:06

I could share them with you. But

56:08

what I will say about that particular case, what's the case

56:10

again? Marbury

56:13

versus Madison, kind of important case. Yeah.

56:15

And that's a tough one. Look, that's a tough one.

56:18

It's a very difficult one. Again, that's one

56:20

where you have multiple arguments. And what I

56:22

found is that both sides

56:25

present their arguments. And

56:27

what we do is we analyze them and we think about

56:29

it. And what I find is that there are arguments on

56:31

both sides. But here's the thing, only

56:34

one argument is right. Wow.

56:37

Well, that is Judge Matt Walsh and all of

56:39

his solemn onic wisdom. Since you have

56:41

such deep thoughts on those cases, maybe at least you could

56:44

tell us where we can view your

56:46

brand new show, Judge by Matt

56:48

Walsh. Well, the

56:50

premiere will be available on YouTube and

56:52

on Daily Wire and on Twitter, pretty

56:54

much every place you can find it.

56:56

And then from then on, from then

56:58

from henceforth, as we say in the

57:01

in the legal realm, you

57:03

can find all the episodes on dailywire.com.

57:07

Well, that is judged by Matt Walsh. And

57:09

as you can see, if you're looking for

57:12

brilliant legal analysis and an

57:14

in-depth knowledge of case law,

57:17

you could find no better, no better

57:19

jurist than Matt Walsh. All right,

57:21

Matt. Sorry, your honor. I'll

57:24

see you later. All

57:28

right, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

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