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Episode One Hundred Fifty: Reverse Coattails · The Death Of Journalism

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  Welcome to episode number one hundred and fifty of the Death of Journalism podcast.
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  My name is John Zigler. I'm your host on today's show. The anti
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  Israel campus protests escalate in blue states, but not so much in red ones.
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  Hmmm. I have yet another very telling interaction with our blue state local
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  school district over their crackdown on so called hate speech, a theory on the
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  huge polling gap between Trump and Republican Senate candidates, and some thoughts on our
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  fertility rate hitting a record low. We begin this episode of the podcast with
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  the contagion of campus protests against Israel spreading mostly throughout Blue state America. Of
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  course, this really began at Columbia University in New York City, and it
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  has spread at Princeton University, New York City. College was also a centerpiece
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  of the last twenty four hours or so. Northwestern in Chicago, UCLA,
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  here in the Los Angeles area, George Washington in DC, Portland, Oregon
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  was a place where there was quite a bit of disruption, and in the
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  University of Washington as well. All of those, not surprisingly and not coincidentally,
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  in Blue state America. I want to begin because there's been so many
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  developments over the last day or two on this particular topic, with what happened
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  at Columbia, where the NYPD finally came in and cleaned up the situation,
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  something that has not happened here in the Los Angeles area with UCLA, and
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  I think there's some telling political elements to why that's the case. But what
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  happened at Columbia really escalated very very quickly. You had a situation where some
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  Columbia students, or at least people who were pretending to be Columbia students,
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  or maybe there was a mixture. There's been a controversy over how many Columbia
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  students were actually involved in whether or not outside agitators, maybe paid outside agitators,
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  have been really driving the so called bus on this. We're not really
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  sure who the heck knows, you know, in a situation like this and
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  all this chaos, it's really very difficult to discern what's real and what's not,
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  what's true and what's false. But what we do know is that there
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  were a bunch of people who were part of this anti Israel protest who took
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  over a building at Columbia University. Now this is clearly an active illegality and
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  absurd on its face. No matter who was doing it, they were not
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  allowed to be there. But hilarity ensued when a spokesperson representing this group that
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  took over the building at Columbia University made a plea for these snowflakes, these
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  general z woke snowflakes, to please be sent some food and drink. You
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  cannot make this up. This is parody stuff. If you did make this
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  up, people would think you were being ridiculous. But this is actually what
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  happened in the real world. And they had a spokesperson by the name of
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  Joanna King Slutsky, a female. I don't know if you calls herself a
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  woman or not, but she's a biological female, and she's a PhD student
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  and paid instructor at Columbia. And so she held I guess you would call
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  it a press conference, and in the midst of this press conference, she's
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  making this plea for the university to please provide food and drink for those who
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  have taken over this building illegally. And I'm not sure that the clip that
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  I'm about to play for you requires all that much set up, especially since
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  it went viral on Twitter, and it's quite possible that a lot of our
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  subscribers have already been exposed to this, but it is so worth playing regardless
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  of how many people have already heard it, because it is one hilarious and
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  two just so telling about what's really going on with these protests and what's really
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  happening with the card to this generation that is driving this entire insane situation.
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  So here was what happened when, somewhat surprisingly, I guess members of the
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  press or the media are those that were surrounding this spokesperson challenged her on the
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  entire idea that wait a minute, here, you are asking the university to
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  feed the people who have taken over one of their buildings. And here's what
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  that sounded like. Why are us be obligated to provide food to people who've
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  taken over a building. Well, first of all, we're saying that they're
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  obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here, but
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  you mentioned that they were requested that food and water be brought in unless I
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  missed to allow it to be brought in. I mean, well, I
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  guess it's ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation. Columbia feels
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  it has to its students. Do you want students to die of dehydration and
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  starvation or get severely ill, even if they disagree with you. If the
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  answer is no, then you should allow basic I mean, it's crazy to
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  say because we're on an ivy leage campus, but this is like basic humanitarian
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  aid we're asking for, like could people please have a glass of water?
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  But they did put themselves in that very deliberately, in that situation and in
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  that position, so it seems like you're sort of saying, we want to
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  be revolutionary, so we want to take up this building. Now, would
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  you please bring us food and water? Nobody's asking them to bring anything.
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  Every We're we're asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian
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  aid. We are looking for a commitment from them that they will not stop
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  it by well, I don't know to what extent it has been attempted,
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  but we're looking for a commitment. Now. There's so much in that that
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  is utterly and obviously insane that I'm not really sure that it really requires much
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  of her buttle. But I just do want to make one point in particular,
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  because this woman tried to make the claim that, well, you know,
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  this is the students, but again saying that they're students, which is
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  interesting because later they would try to make claims that they weren't really students.
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  But regardless, one of the claims that she makes is their students who may
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  have paid for the food program at Columbia. Therefore it's Columbia's obligation to feed
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  them and to provide them with drinks so they don't die, which is not
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  going to happen. Wasn't close to happening. But yeah, the absurdity of
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  that is pretty obvious. But I think still needs to be pointed out that
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  when you pay for a food program at a university or anywhere, they don't
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  bring you the food, especially not when you're truspassing. You have to go
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  to usually a cafeteria in order to get the food. That's not how this
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  works. And this was rightfully mocked all over the place and really again the
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  stuff of parity. But it wasn't just the content of this press conference by
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  this Colombia anti Israel protester spokesperson. It's who they are and their own written
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  biography on the Columbia University website. Again, this is really the stuff of
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  parity. You cannot make this up. This is the actual biography of the
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  woman you just turned from on Columbia University's website. My dissertation is on Fantasies
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  of limitless energy in the Transatlantic Romantic Imagination from seventeen sixty to eighteen sixty.
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  My goal is to write a prehistory of metabolic rift, Karl Marx's term for
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  the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism. I am particularly interested
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  in theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens, in
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  order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination.
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  Whatever the hell that means. Prior to joining Columbia, I worked as
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  a political strategist forget this this is shocking leftist and progressive causes, and remain
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  active in the higher education labor movement. Whatever the hell that means. That
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  is the actual biography of the spokesperson for the anti Israel protesters who had taken
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  over a building at Columbia and were demanding that the university feed them so that
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  they didn't go hungry during during their act of illegality. This is the level
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  of absurdity, insanity we're dealing with, and these are the people who are
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  driving this circumstance. This is obviously a very leftist political movement, and I'm
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  not even one hundred percent sure anymore that the primary I'm certainly I'm sure it's
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  part of this, but I don't even know that it's primarily anti Israel.
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  I would love to know how much of this is really anti Israel. Yes,
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  there's absolutely some anti Semitism involved in this, but how much of this
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  is just the cause of the day and really being driven mostly by anti American
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  sentiment, not just anti Israel, but anti American. We saw a lot
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  of elements of anti American sentiment and all this At City College in New York,
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  the NYPD dramatically replaced the Palestinian flag that had replaced the American flag and
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  put the American flag back up. A similar situation happened at the University of
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  North Carolina. At George Washington University in DC, there was the facing of
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  a Georgia I think multiple George Washington statues and by the way, one of
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  the more remarkable so many remarkable elements of all of this nuttery, but one
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  of them is that this is happening not just in blue states and very very
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  liberal, progressive areas, but in areas that have a very strong Jewish population.
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  For instance, GW which I spent a lot of time at when I
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  was in Georgetown, has an extremely strong Jewish population. City College in New
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  York City has always had a strong Jewish population. I'm sure Columbia does as
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  well. Obviously, New York City is a place where there's a strong Jewish
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  population. UCLA where things erupted overnight, which I'll get to in more detail
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  in just a second. It is not only a place that has at least
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  some Jewish students, but I mean the campus is literally literally around the corner
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  from maybe the most prominent Jewish country club in the country, Hillcrest Country Club.
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  It's just unbelievable that this is happening in some of the places that it
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  is. And you know, when it came to UCLA, I think the
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  fact that there is a strong Jewish population not just in that neighborhood but at
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  the school itself ended up resulting in true violence. You know, there's been
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  a lot of you know, attention on the media trying to claim, well,
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  these are mostly peaceful protests. Of course, you know, the term
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  mostly peaceful is about as loaded as it gets. And you know, I
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  actually understand why a lot of Trump supporters go, well, you know,
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  January sixth was mostly peaceful too. That certainly didn't impact the way the media
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  treated that situation, And I think there's some semblance of rationality behind that.
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  But at Columbia and New York City, they were able to get rid of
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  these encampments pretty quickly once the NYPD finally rolled in and had the authority to
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  get rid of all this insanity. But that did not happen at UCLA.
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  And I think that that's a window into the difference in the kind of liberalism
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  or progressivism or wokeism that exists in New York City, where they still have
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  at least a shred of rationality. They might have one testicle on a good
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  day. But here in Los Angeles, no, no, the progressive it's
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  a different breed, a cat here, no police presence whatsoever, I mean,
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  almost purposeful, no police presence, no effort to get rid of the
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  encampments at UCLA. And this ended up resulting in legitimate riots, legitimate violence
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  because Jewish students apparently fought back after a Jewish girl was knocked unconscious, and
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  effectively the authorities just sat back and watched all this go on. And there's
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  no question, at least in my mind. I mean, this could be
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  coincidental, but I don't think it is. I talk all the time about
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  how human beings react to what's in their self interest. They react to precedent,
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  and that's why you don't set bad precedents, and that's why there's a
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  thing called the slippery slope. Well, I you know, the media is
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  never going to connect this, even here in Los Angeles, I doubt,
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  but it's pretty obvious that what happened here was that those at UCLA saw what
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  happened at USC, were USC, you know, their arch rival, you
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  know, let you know, quote unquote across the street, not really here
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  in Los Angeles. They canceled their graduation ceremonies effectively because of the threat of
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  protests. So that was a victory that was handed to them at USC.
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  So that emboldened those at UCLA, and it happened almost exactly in the same
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  timeframe. I'm sure some of that might have been coincidental, but it absolutely
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  helped facilitate it. One of one situation begets another, and when you know
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  this is we talked in the last episode about the Heckler's veto. This is
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  why you don't give into the Heckler's veto, because once the Heckler realizes they
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  have a veto, they get emboldened. They feel as if they are on
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  the right path, they are successful, they get momentum, people rush to
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  their side, it becomes a lot easier to do things, and they get
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  more media coverage, and this becomes a thing, and it spirals out of
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  control and you end up with this horrendous situation that occurred last night as of
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  this taping at UCLA, where there was a legitimate riot going on. And
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  so I don't know where it's going to go from here, but this has
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  just been horrendous. It's also been very enlightening. I think those on the
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  right are kind of taking a bit of comfort in seeing all of this play
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  out, because it really does validate and vindicate a lot of what people like
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  me have been saying that this woke mind virus is real and that when it
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  overtakes an institution, that you know, the entire DNA of the organization is
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  fundamentally flawed, and this has been now exposed for the entire world to see
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  what occurs in elite academia, especially in blue states, where there's no control
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  mechanism, there's nobody to say stop. Instead, there's enabling because those that
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  are in charge are so terrified of doing anything that might offend somebody, especially
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  if that person happens to have more pigmentation in their skin or gets perceived as
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  being a protected class within the woke mindset. And you know, there absolutely
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  is a red and blue divide here, and I don't think that it's as
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  simple as it might seem. I mean, I think you know, there
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  are probably those who they say, well, the reason why there's this isn't
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  happening in red states is because the leadership is conservative and they're not going to
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  put up with it as much. I mean, the University of Florida put
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  out an absolutely fantastic statement saying that we're not a daycare center and that we're
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  going to deal with this in a much more dramatic way. And so this
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  hasn't happened at Florida. You know, University of North Carolina handled this better
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  than most The University of Indiana. Similarly, did you know things that those
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  in red and blue states would not be willing to do so? I mean,
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  I realized it's a convenient narrative for a conservative, But the data points
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  are there. Why is this happening much more so in blue states than in
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  red states? And yes, it's partially because of the leadership. I mean
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  the University of Florida. That was remarkable coming from from the leadership itself.
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  But to me, this is a set of circumstances that works its way from
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  top to bottom. It's about the DNA of the culture of the area.
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  It's about having somebody in a position of at least some authority to say,
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  wait a minute, this is crazy. We're not going to allow this to
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  happen. It also becomes much more difficult in a red state for these protests
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  to get the same kind of traction and momentum because it's just not as acceptable.
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  There's just not as many nut jobs willing to rush to the cause of
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  the day, and so they just can't get the same kind of momentum in
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  a red state as they can in a blue state. And then also there's
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  not the same kind of fear of offending anybody by actually, for instance,
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  engaging the police or cracking down on illegality in a red state as there might
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  be in a blue state. Now, how much people are understanding this?
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  Average people? I have no way of knowing, you know, to the
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  person who's paying attention, the disparity here couldn't be more clear. You know,
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  the way that this is being handled in blue states as opposed to red
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  states, and how this ridiculousness is of being allowed to occur, at least
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  until recently, in places like New York City in New Jersey and Chicago,
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  Illinois, where Northwestern just completely capitulated completely. You want to talk about bad
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  precedence and enabling, I mean, they just basically gave the protesters almost everything
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  they wanted at Northwestern in Chicago, Illinois. And I've already talked about UCLA,
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  George Washington, and Oregon Washington State. This is not coincidental. This
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  is happening in blue areas, not just because it's being allowed to but because
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  the DNA of those areas is now fundamentally different. But you know that wasn't
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  always the case. Further proof of that is how much things have changed in
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  California, and Gavin Newsom is getting really very little of any blowback that I'm
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  aware of for what happened at UCLA. UCLA obviously is a state school,
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  and there was no effort whatsoever UCLA to crack down on the protesters or provide
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  safety for the Jewish students. I mean, some absolutely insane things were being
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  videotaped and made public on UCLA's campus. Jewish students being blocked from being able
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  to get to where they live and where they want to go to school by
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  these masked pro Hamas anti Israel protesters, and the fact that they're masked to
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  me, he says everything. I posted a video about this on Twitter.
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  The fact that they are masked, so many of them, and they're masked,
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  let's be clear, partially because they want to hide their identity, but
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  also because the mask has become in the post COVID era, this signal of
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  one's virtue, even when you're outside in the middle of twenty twenty four.
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  I mean, the mask is a tell tale sign one that you're moron and
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  two that you're a progressive. That is as clear as it could possibly be.
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  And so we have all these videos of these horrendous things happening to Jewish
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  kids. There's no effort whatsoever by the university police or the LAPD or anybody
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  to try to restore any kind of order. Gavin Newsom does nothing and says
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  nothing and a riot ensues. Will contrast that to what happened in nineteen sixty
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  nine here in California, when California was a much different place. California was
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  basically a conservative state that was in the process of producing Richard Nixon as president
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  and a two term president, and then Ronald Reagan would be a two term
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  president. And this was a very different state. But I posted this video
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  that I'm about to play for you on Twitter and it got some traction and
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  people got a kick out of it, and I think it's certainly appropriate to
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  play it given what just happened at UCLA, Because here is Ronald Reagan back
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  in nineteen sixty nine at a press conference where he's arguing with some liberal member
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  of the press about what's going on at cal Berkeley in the northern portion of
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  California, as opposed to UCLA in the southern portion of California, where a
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  remarkably similar situation is occurring, and we're basically spoiled. Brat's students think that
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  they have the right to break the law, but Reagan isn't going to put
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  up with it, unlike what's going on at UCLA and Gavin Newsom. And
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  here's what that sounded like back in nineteen sixty nine. Those people told you
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  for days in advance that if the university sought to go ahead with that construction,
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  they were going to physically just troy the university. Now, why did
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  you negotiate many times? Negotiate what is to negotiate? What is ADJSSE is
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  a public institution, that's right, But the university its own community and for
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  the community of Berkeley that live around. All of it began the first time.
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  Some of you, who know better and are old enough to know better,
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  let young people think that they had the right to choose the laws they
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  would obey as long as they were doing it in the name of social protests.
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  Now, if you were able to see the video that I posted on
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  Twitter of that, the end is fantastic because Reagan just drops the mic,
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  gets up from his desk and leaves, and rightfully so, there wasn't even
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  such a thing as dropped the mic. Back in nineteen sixty nine. But
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  that's basically what Reagan just did there. Well, we see nothing like that
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  kind of leadership anywhere in twenty twenty four, but especially not from Gavenus and
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  especially not here in California because they're terrified. Liberal government lead quote unquote leaders
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  politicians are terrified to this issue because they have no idea on which side to
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  come down. They have no good options. This is why Joe Biden has,
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  much like Gaven Newsom, been silent here. They can't take the side
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  of Israel because that seems to be against what the woke youth is wanting them
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  to do. And remember, obviously we're an election year. Michigan is a
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  key state. Michigan has a very high Muslim population. If Biden were to
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  lose Michigan, then the election is close to over, not totally over.
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  But if if you told me right now that Biden was going to lose Michigan,
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  I would tell you that Trump is almost a lock to win the presidency
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  again. So that's clearly driving part of this. And so even if they
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  have there you know, an old school inclination to support Israel in this and
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  to support rationality in this and legality in this, they can't do it so
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  because they know they can't, and they don't want to come out and fully
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  support the protest just because that would just be catastrophic among suburban moms and mainstream
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  voters. So they're stuck. They cannot pick a lane here politically. And
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  I wish we lived in a world where the media was remotely fair enough to
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  where the average person could figure at least out for themselves. Wow, what's
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  really going on here? This is nuts. Not only is this nuts from
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  a political standpoint, and you know, why are we supporting those who are
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  so against Israel and seem to be even anti Semitic, but why are we
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  enabling these kind of now violent and very destructive protests. By the way,
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  that's another part of this. It's not just about people getting injured or you
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  know, violent protests. These protests cause enormous economic and cultural damage. We
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  talked in the last episode about what happened at USC with the canceling of the
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  graduation at Columbia, they're going to zoom classes. I'm sure other schools are
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  doing the same thing. End of school year, end of college careers are
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  getting completely destroyed. Lots of very important moments are being lost. It can
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  never be recaptured. And there's an economic cost to all this as well,
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  the damage physical damage being done to universities. This is an incredibly important time,
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  spring graduations finals, All of that is happening across the country. So
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  this is not a zero sum situation. This is not just theoretical all this
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  is harmless protesting, you know, this is what young people do. No,
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  there's real damage going on here. And if the average America can fully
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  understood it, and if we had a fair media to tell this story in
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  a remotely fair fashion, I really do think this would be devastating the Democrats
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  nationwide because this really does expose and it's not just in the micro of the
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  protests themselves and the issue of Israel versus Hamas. It's an issue of what
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  happens to an organization when it gets taken over by this woke mind virus.
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  That to me is the most important part of this. We are seeing in
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  real life the utter dysfunction of elite academia, and it's because of the political
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  takeover of the heart, the soul, and the DNA of elite academia.
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  Now, it's always been liberally biased but now it's gotten to the point,
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  especially in Blue states, where there's nobody even in the room who's willing to
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  say, hey, this is nuts, maybe we ought to stop this.
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  Nobody's willing to do that. There are probably some places where no one's even
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  thinking that because everybody in the room is part of the woke movement. Everybody
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  there is because of DEI or they're terrified they're going to lose their job because
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  they don't qualify for DEI. So the white people are probably the absolute worst.
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  They have to pretend to be going along with this, otherwise they can
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  get ostracized because that's the culture. That's how much they've overtaken these institutions,
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  especially in the Blue States. And it's interesting to look at America as a
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  whole and their opinions of Israel versus Hamas, since that's allegedly what's driving this.
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  Although again, as I've already alluded to it, I think the evidence
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  is starting to mount that this is not really just about Israel versus mind.
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  This is about anti West, anti American sentiment among this generation Z woke crowd.
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  Now there's also the complicating aspect that there's some evidence that this is organized
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  that this is organized through money from Hamas itself and maybe from George Soros.
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  I don't know. I always get very antsy about any story in the right
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  wing media that involves George Soros, because he's the boogeyman. But there is
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  there's a lot of different factors going on here. This is not clearcut,
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  this is not simple. But when it comes to the issue of Americans view
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  of this basic, seemingly fundamental issue at play here, which is the Gaza
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  War, and whether or not you favor Israel or whether you favor Hamas.
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  Now it's just utterly crazy that this is even a topic of conversation and that
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  Americans are favoring a terrorist organization Hamas. That could, especially post October seventh.
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  You know, how in the world could that even be getting traction in
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  America. But it is getting traction in America, especially among younger people.
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  And this is really telling. This poll that was reported by The Hill the
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  other day, here is the support for Israel versus Hamas based upon age group.
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  This is so so telling. So among those who are sixty five and
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  older, when asked do you support Israel or do you support Hamas, it's
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  ninety three to seven in favor of Israel. Now I'm even surprised that AMASK
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  gets seven percent support among those in America who are sixty five or older.
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  But ninety three to seven that's about as good as you're going to get in
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  a very divided America. So that gives me some semblance of hope. But
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  then as you go to each decade younger and younger, fifty five to sixty
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  five, forty five to fifty four, thirty five to forty four, twenty
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  five to thirty four, and then eighteen to twenty four, the numbers get
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  progressively, from my perspective, worse. As a defender of Israel, not
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  so bad. Between fifty five and sixty five, it's still ninety one to
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  nine. That's basically the same thing, So you know, no problem there.
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  Forty five to fifty four year olds in America, eighty five to fifteen
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  support for Israel over Hamas, still very strong. Thirty five to forty four
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  years old, seventy five to twenty five, all right, still strong,
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  but a little concerning that we got twenty five percent of thirty five to forty
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  four year olds in America who support Hamas over Israel. But then when you
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  get to twenty five to thirty four, it's only sixty four to thirty six
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  Israel over Hamas. And then eighteen to twenty four, this is the age
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  group that we've been seeing protesting all over the country, especially in Blue States.
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  Fifty seven percent support for Israel, forty three percent support for Hamas,
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  forty three percent support for Hamas among eighteen to twenty four year olds. That
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  is just astonishing and very troubling and very very telling one about the nature of
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  the country and how the generational divide is as strong as it's probably ever been,
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  and why it is. The people like me are extremely concerned about this
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  generation z I mean, they are so spoiled, so clueless, so woke
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  that Israel barely has over fifty percent support over a terrorist organization, our strong
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  not to lie in the Middle East barely has over fifty percent support over a
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  terrorist organization that killed women and children, raped women in a surprise terrorist attack
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  on October seventh, that had no provocation whatsoever. And here we are,
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  all these months later, and Israel's response, while very strong, has gone
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  out of its way to be as humane as possible. And I mean,
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  wow, I mean just wow. But even those numbers though, see that's
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  if you're on the Democratic side, those numbers are still troubling for you because
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  this is a big loser nationwide and that's why they they are stuck. They
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  can't pick a lane here. And you know, if Republicans had their act
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  together, this is an issue that could really be very very effective both in
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  the globul Hey see what happens when wokedom takes over an institution and how crazy
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  things get, how dysfunctional they are, as well as more specifically, hey,
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  why aren't we supporting Israel more strongly? I mean, this is an
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  incredibly effective political issue because even though these numbers are concerning, it's still very
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  strong in favor of Israel eighty twenty nationwide, if you take all the different
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  demographics, it's eighty twenty in favor of Israel over Hamas. And yet Biden
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  and the Democrats and Gavin Newsom here in California are forced to sit on their
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  hands. Now. Part of why Republicans are unlikely to take full advantage of
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  the situation is, in my opinion, they have a terrible candidate at the
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  top of the ticket, Donald Trump, who's obviously very unpopular personally obviously is
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  enduring a criminal try New York City, one which I don't think is legitimate,
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