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Episode Ninety Seven: The Brainwashing of Young America · The Death Of Journalism

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  Welcome to episode number ninety seven of the Defter Journalism podcast. My name is
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  John Zigler. I'm your host on today's show. I was wrong about how
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  Donald Trump would respond to the terrorist attack on Israel. College campuses get exposed
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  the show. One of the many things I discussed in episode number ninety six,
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  our previous episode of the Death of Journalism podcast is that I thought that
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  the rallying around Israel effect, which has not been universal but which has been
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  strong in many parts of America, could at least subliminally help Donald Trump.
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  And there were many reasons for that, but one of the reasons I cited
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  was the fact that Benjamin Netanyahoo, the Prime Minister of Israel, is a
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  Trump like figure. Now there's obviously some differences, but in general terms,
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  they are very similar type figures. And one of the reasons they're similar is
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  that they give off the perception as being very strong, especially militarily, and
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  they also getting a lot of legal troubles. But there's there's some similarities and
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  there has been, at least on the surface and alliance there. And my
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  theory was that even subliminally, if America rallies around Benjamin Natan Yahoo and Israel,
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  that that could help Donald Trump. Now I still think it could help
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  Donald Trump, but I thought Trump would at least be smart enough to not
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  sabotage this potentially beneficial effect that was going to happen if America rallied around net
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  Yahoo and Israel. I gave Trump too much credit because Trump either didn't realize
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  what I thought was a likely scenario, or is just biologically not capable of
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  not getting in his own way and blew it regardless of what the reality was.
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  When I'm discussing or what I'm referencing here, is it. Donald Trump,
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  when things were actually going theoretically in his direction and certainly in a direction
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  that makes Joe Biden look weak, decided instead of embracing net Yahoo and getting
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  side to side with net Yahoo, he decided to take on net Yahoo and
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  criticize him, and not just specifically for the intelligence failure, which is clear
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  that led to the or allowed or at least allowed the Hamas attack on Israel
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  to occur without any preparation or even a very quick reaction time to it.
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  And I think that would be somewhat legitimate. And the clip I'm about to
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  play for you from Trump has some legitimate elements to it, and some things
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  for which Trump got criticized that I'm not sure is really all that fair,
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  like, for instance, saying that Hesblah is very smart. Trump got a
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  lot of criticism for that. You know, look, I don't I don't
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  know if they are, but he was the president of the United States,
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  and I think calling your enemy, as long as you acknowledge that they are
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  the other side, that they are the enemy very smart is not an inherently
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  wrong thing to do, and in fact, if it's the truth, it's
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  the right thing to do, because you need to understand what you're up against.
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  But the primary point here is that when given the opportunity for this to
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  play well for him politically, Trump messed it all up, or at least
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  tried to mess it up. I don't know if he successfully did or not,
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  but he tried to mess it up when he was giving a speech.
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  And of all places, Palm Beach, Florida. Now, there's not that
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  many places in America that have very strong Jewish populations, but this area of
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  Florida is one of them, and so it was particularly odd that Trump shows
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  this venue. And I'm sure he didn't do it strategically, because he doesn't
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  do anything strategically. He's not a chess player. He's not even a checkers
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  player. He's a shoots and ladders player. And here because it felt good
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  viscerally for him to brag about a military operation that occurred while he was president,
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  and then to criticize Benjamin net and Yahoo and even rip him for taking
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  credit for something that he doesn't deserve credit for, at least in Trump's mind,
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  was really quite remarkable and it did create a lot of waves and negative
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  news coverage. So here is Donald Trump in Beach, Florida, in the
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  aftermath of Israel being the target of a horrific, brazen, unprecedented in the
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  modern time terrorist attack by Hamas, deciding to focus his ire on Benjamin Net
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  and Yahoo and Israel in a way that is just so Trumpian that it almost
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  defies explanation or description. So here's the clip itself, shooting Room. We
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  followed the whole thing and about fifteen seconds later it was all over and we
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  did it. But I'll never forget. I'll never forget that bb Net and
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  Yahoo let us down. That was a very terrible thing, I will say
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  that. And so when I see sometimes the intelligence, you talk about the
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  intelligence, or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the
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  last week. They've got to straighten it out because they're fighting potentially a very
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  big force. They're fighting potentially Iran, and when they have people saying the
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  wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they're vicious
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  and they're smart, and boy are they vicious because nobody's ever seen the kind
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  of sight that we've seen. Nobody's ever seen it. But they cannot play
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  games. So we were disappointed by that, very disappointed. But we did
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  the job ourselves and it was absolute precision, magnificent, beautiful job. And
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  then BBE tried to take credit for that. Wasn't good. That didn't make
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  me feel too good, But that's all right, So they got to strengthen
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  themselves up. Now, when I saw that, I was stunned, and
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  it's hard for me to be stunned by anything that Trump does. And I
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  think it's important not just from the substance standpoint, but also the politics of
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  it. I mean, if you're somebody who is still on the fence as
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  to who ought to be the Republican presidential nominee, you know, Trump gets
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  a lot of credit for his instincts in general and his political instincts in particular,
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  but in this particular case, they are way off. There is nothing
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  that he gains politically by creating this divide between him and Netanyahu and him and
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  Israel. Now, to be clear, he tried to clean up this mess,
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  indicating that he clearly, at least someone around him knew that this was
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  a mess later on, but you know, this was the damage was already
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  done. And let's be clear about what was motivating Trump. It was his
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  ego. It's always his ego. He won one of the brag that he
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  was willing and able to do something the net and Yah who wasn't. And
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  he wanted to take a shot at Net Yah who for in his mind,
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  taking credit for something that he deserved credit for. He Trump. It's always
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  about Trump's ego, even when it's not even in his self interest. And
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  that's not the guy you want in charge or at the head of the ticket
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  when you're going up against an incumbent president and this, you know, the
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  fate of the country is on the line. You've said this yourself. I
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  mean, his supporters say this all the time. The fate of the country
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  depends on Trump beating Biden, assuming Biden is the candidate, which I'm becoming
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  less and less confident about. But okay, let's presume that that's the case.
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  This is not the type of circumstance that you want in a do or
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  die situation. If he's the head coach, he's going to be making decisions
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  that oftentimes backfire because they're motivated by his own perverse, bizarre personal self interest
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  that includes at the top of that list, what's good for his ego at
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  that moment, not what's true, not what's good for the Republican Party or
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  his presidential campaign or for the country, what's good for his ego, And
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  that clip was a classic example of it. Now, how much that's going
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  to make a difference in the narrative, I don't know, you know,
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  because we live in this world where things get forgotten very very quickly, and
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  if it's not repeated constantly, most Americans don't even know what happened. And
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  of course his supporters will just brush it off as being meaningless, like everything
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  else he does. If he makes a statement that pro lifers or see it
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  sounds like it's more pro choice than for instance, Ron de sand As,
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  it doesn't matter. We just forget about it, move along, because we
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  already think we know who Trump is. So it's my very strong guess that
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  this isn't going to have any impact on him in the Republican nominating process.
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  But it is a very clear indicator of who Trump really is and why he
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  should not be the Republican nominee, and a very good indicator that he'll probably
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  blow the general election even if Joe Biden the Democrats do everything they possibly can
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  to hand it to him. Now, Trump is one of the very few
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  right wing figures that has not been one hundred percent on the side of Israel.
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  There have been a few Tucker Carlson, Trump's MVP of twenty twenty three,
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  which I've said many, many times bizarrely, although it's almost impossible to
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  describe anything Tucker Carlson does at this point as bizarre, because I do think
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  he's either lost his mind or there's something very very strange going on with Tucker
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  Carlson. But Tucker Carlson has probably been the most prominent example of a right
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  wing media figure who has not been on board essentially one hundred percent with Israel
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  on this. And Ben Shapiro, who obviously is Jewish, ripped Tucker Carlson
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  to shreds for his response to the Hamas attack on Israel. By the way,
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  before I leave that element of this, I do want to at least
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  mention that Ron de Santis, who I still favor and would vote for,
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  if he's still in the ballot. By the time this gets to California,
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  I'm sure he'll be on the ballot, but whether it's still a race or
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  not, I have my doubts. But I still support Rhonda Santas, even
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  though I am convinced that there's very little of any chance of him actually winning
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  the nomination, unless, of course, Trump dies or is imprisoned before the
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  Republican Convention. I've stated that many, many times. But Ron DeSantis does
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  deserve credit for how he has handled the situation with regard to Israel and Amas.
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  He has been one hundred percent on Israel's side. He has one hundred
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  percent decided. You made it very clear that this idea that Israel has to
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  be proportional in their response and that they need to be blamed for civilian casualties
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  in Gaza is ridiculous given the circumstances. And he has even helped get Americans
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  out of Israel as the governor of Florida. So DeSantis deserves a lot of
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  credit. And this is emerging as yet another one of those examples where in
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  the real world, DeSantis gets things done. DeSantis is reliable, DeSantis is
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  right, DeSantis is driven by what is right and wrong and what the facts
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  are, and not by his own personal ego. And granted, you know
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  he may be seeing political advantage in this, but this Desantus is on the
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  side of right here, and Trump is apparently not, at least not fully,
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  at least not when his ego gets involved. And yet in all likelihood
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  Desandis will receive no benefit from this reality when it comes to the Republican nominating
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  race. Now, when it comes to Joe Biden and how his situation is
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  going, it is really amazing, almost on an episode by episode basis.
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  Now I talk about how it is that Democrats have to be panicking, and
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  there is more and more evidence that that in fact should be the case when
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  it comes to Biden's perspective reelection campaign. The most recent startling poll was an
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  Associated Press poll on Biden's approval or lack thereof. He is at a minus
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  twenty three in that particular poll. Now, that is not in line with
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  most of the other major polls when it comes to Biden's approval, and so
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  it might be a quote unquote outlier, but there is no question that Biden's
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  approval is barely above forty percent. His disapproval is somewhere around fifty three,
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  fifty four, fifty five percent, which is even worse than Donald Trump's was
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  at this time leading into the twenty twenty reelection campaign for Trump. Now the
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  disapproval number is, I'm sure not quite as intense for Biden as it was
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  for Trump. That matters, especially when it comes to turnout, especially in
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  a world where you have almost universal mail in balloting. But this is not
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  good. And there are a lot of polls, not all of them are
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  credible, and frankly, the numbers are so weird that I don't put a
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  lot of stock into them. In other words, you know, neither Trump
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  nor Biden is able to to get over say forty three percent in the polls
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  I'm about to refer to. But there are a lot of swing state polling
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  outlets out in the last few days that indicate that even in key states,
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  not just nationally, but even in key states, Trump and Biden are neck
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  and neck, and Trump is actually supposedly leading Biden in states like Georgia and
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  in Arizona, and maybe even in Pennsylvania, and tied in Michigan. Again,
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  these numbers seem very weird to me, because you've got two people with
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  one hundred percent name recognition and yet neither one can get over forty three percent
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  of the vote. And then you have the Robert F. Kennedy situation,
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  which I still think is at this point a wash. I don't think it's
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  going to be determinive in either direction depending on how his campaign goes. But
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  polling is indicating maybe that JRFK takes a little bit more out of Biden than
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  he does out of Trump. I'm skeptical of that, but the reality is
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  this that given all the circumstances surrounding Trump on the four criminal indictments and his
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  very very unpopular persona in the vast majority of America and I shouldn't say vast
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  majority, but the majority of Americans not liking, not trusting Trump, and
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  obviously the fact that he's already served one term and then ended in disaster with
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  the whole COVID pandemic fiasco. I mean, these numbers are terrible for Joe
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  Biden. They're just terrible given what they should be. But of course Democrats
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  don't know what to do about this. This isn't maybe an unsolvable problem.
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  You've got a guy who clearly wants to run. So you know, that's
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  a huge part of the problem. Generally, what would happen here is it
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  would be the candidate themselves, like Lyndon Johnson, a narcissistic asshole who at
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  least cared enough about his in his party in nineteen sixty eight to look around
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  and go, you know what, I could probably get the nomination here,
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  but this isn't good. I might lose, someone else might be able to
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  do a better job than me, and I'm gonna withdraw from the race.
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  Well that's what happened in nineteen sixty eight. Well, Joe Biden, who's
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  much older and probably a much worse situation politically than Lyndon Johnson was, is
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  clearly not showing in any indication he's going to come to that decision himself.
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  And so therefore, how you make him come to that decision It becomes very,
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  very difficult unless he has a major medical setback. And then, of
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  course there's the Kamala Harris problem, which we've discussed numerous times before, where
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  her popularity is no better, maybe even worse than Joe Biden's, and so
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  she doesn't get perceived as a viable alternative. The liberal outlet the Atlantic just
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  at a major story on this very issue, and it was basically devastating to
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  come out Harris. I don't think it intended to be, but inadvertently it
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  certainly was. And so even when the liberal media tries to examine the Kamala
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  Harris problem, they can't come up with any good solutions, and they seemingly
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  only make it worse. And it was in this context that Joe Biden went
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  on Sixty Minutes this past Sunday and did an interview with Scott Pelly. And
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  this is remarkable. I don't usually play these types of clips, but this
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  one was just so odd and so telling and such an alternative universe situation that
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  I thought it was worthy of playing on the podcast. So here Scott Pelly
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  is asking a very legitimate question, you know, basically, why do you
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  want to run for reelection? Inherent in that question is that maybe you shouldn't,
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  and you know, there's lots of reasons why you shouldn't, obviously age
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  being a major part of that in your eighties. But Joe Biden's response was
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  extremely telling, And first of all, you're gonna hear the hesitation after he
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  declares that, you know, he absolutely wants to run for reelection, but
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  then there's the explanation for why he's running for reelection. And I'm obviously no
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  Trump fan, right, I despise titld Trump, But Trump fans have to
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  be going ballistic when they hear this, because if you just listen to this
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  with any objectivity at all, which Scott Pelly clearly either didn't or didn't care
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  to follow up on if he did think about it in this way, Basically,
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  what Joe Biden is saying is I want to live in a world where
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  I can possibly make things the way they were internationally before I was president.
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  Because because he talks about, you know, two basic things, the obviously
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  the the conflict between Israel and Hamas and the war in Ukraine with Russia,
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  and the reality is neither of those things existed before Joe Biden was president.
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  Now I'm not suggesting in any shape or form he's to blame for why these
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  things happened, but I mean, if you just look at this from the
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  very basic perspective of what his objectives are, what his goals are, he
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  wants to somehow, some way without a clear game plan of how he's going
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  to actually do this or what power the United States actually has to make it
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  happen. He wants to go back to the way things were in the first
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  couple of years of the Trump administration, which, look, I have very
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  low expectations for the intelligence level of the American people. But to me,
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  that is playing right into Trump's hands. I mean, that is an argument
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  that I think even Trump, unless he falls all over himself like he did
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  with net Yahoo, can actually win that argument. So you're saying you want
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  things to go back to the way they were when I was in charge.
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  And here's what that sounded like on sixty Minutes when Scott Pelly asked President Biden
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  about why he wants to run for reelection. Mister President, given these two
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  wars and the dysfunction in Congress, are you sure that you want to run
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  again? Yes, because I'm sure. Look, and I ran I said,
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  the world's an inflection point. The world's changing, but we have an
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  opportunity to make it. So imagine if we were able to succeed in getting
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  the Middle East put in place where we have normalization and relations. I think
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  we can do that. Imagine what happens if we fact unite all of Europe
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  and Putin is finally put down where he cannot cause the kind of trouble he's
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  been causing. We have enormous opportunities, enormous opportunities to make it a better
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  world. Again, I thought that was really remarkable and almost delusional, and
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  the lack of self awareness was remarkable. Of course, Scott Pelly did not
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  follow up on any of that. I mean, if you had a rational
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  journalist in the seat in front of Biden, the next question would be,
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  well, mister president, isn't that the way things were before you became president?
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  What would Donald Trump say about that? Something like that? But nothing
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  even close to that occurred. Instead, we live in this fairytale land,
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  and again I don't even know what the pathway is to getting there if Joe
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  Biden is in fact reelected. Also, by the way, there's the very
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  strong implication that this is going to take at least another term to fix.
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  So there's not going to be any fixes in the next year when it comes
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  to the war in Ukraine or the war that is now broken out between Israel
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  and Hamas and potentially others Iran back Hamas, and so I mean, this
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  thing could get become a very even larger mess than it already is, and
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  so I was not impressed at all by Joe Biden's answer. I mean,
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  this is a very key question at a very important time. If Democrats are
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  going to bail on Joe Biden, it's got to be pronto, because there
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  are logistics involved in this. And I still don't see a viable scenario for
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  Democrats to get out of this problem. I don't know how you deal with
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  the Kamala Harris issue. I don't know how you deal with Joe Biden's stubbornness.
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  I'm obviously Gavin Newsom is trying to keep his options open in case something
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  happens, but something dramatic would have to happen, it would have to happen
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  pretty quickly. But I can tell you if Democrats see an opportunity to get
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  rid of Joe, they're going to do so because his polling numbers are terrible
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  in relation to what they ought to be as an incumbent president running against a
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  highly unpopular challenger who's hundred four criminal incitements like Donald Trump. Now, in
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  the last episode of the podcast, I talked about how Trump had received a
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  bit of a rebuke because his indorse for the Speaker of the House race among
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  Republicans. Jim Jordan had lost in conference to Steve Scalise, and it was
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  Steve Scalise who was then going to be nominated by the Republican Conference as the
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  guy who could be the next Speaker to replace Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted
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  for no apparent reason, because you know, with a five vote majority,
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  there's not much you can really do as Speaker of the House, especially when
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  Democrats control the Senate and the White House, and so it was completely delusional
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  and unrealistic reasons. Those are the reasons why Kevin McCarthy got ousted, mainly
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  because Matt Gates is a flaming and sided with all the Democrats in a coupdeta
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  with no plan, and so Trump endorsed Jim Jordan's Steve Scalise won the vote
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  of the Republican Conference. I expressed skepticism at the time that anybody was going
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  to be able to get enough votes, because it was basically a miracle that
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  Kevin McCarthy was able to get enough votes on the fifteenth ballot. Well,
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  it became so obvious that Steve Scalise was not going to get enough votes that
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  he withdrew from the race after having won the majority of the votes in the
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  Republican Conference, which I mean, that's not a good sign at all,
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  especially when Steve Scalise was seen as the compromise candidate, an adult in the
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  room that might theoretically be able to appeal to all the different factions within the
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  Republican Party, and that went basically nowhere. So then they went back to
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  Jim Jordan, and Jim Jordan won the next vote of the Republican Conference,
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  which basically I think allowed Donald Trump to save some face. But in episode
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  number ninety six of this podcast, I went into great detail about this alleged
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  scandal that Jim Jordan was embroiled in involving the Ohio State University wrestling team of
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  which Jim Jordan was a member and then he was an assistant coach for an
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  extended period of time. This is all back in the nineteen eighties, in
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  the nineteen nineties, and there was this I believe incredibly bogus scandal slash controversy
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  that alleged massive amounts of sex abuse in the wrestling program by a now dead,
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  then gay doctor by the name of doctor Strauss. And I've investigated this
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  fully and thoroughly, and I don't like Jim Jordan, but I can tell
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  you with one hundred percent certitude, Jim Jordan did nothing wrong other than maybe
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  not admit that he had heard some jokes about doctor Strauss back in the day.
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  That's what I think happened. In fact, I'm quite positive of it.
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  I can understand why Jordan is denying that, because if you admit to
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  anything in these kind of cases, your toast. And so he was just
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  going to go along the lines of there was nothing that I knew, and
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  there was nothing to know, and I did nothing wrong, and that's my
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  story and I'm sticking to it. That's probably a lie because my investigation indicated
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  that everybody knew about this. But it was a joke. It was a
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  joke. And then because the world changed over the next thirty years, what
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  was a joke about a doctor gay doctor fondling some testicles during a hernity hernia
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  test all of a sudden becomes systematic, horrible sex abuse because guys are looking
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  for money all these years later, and the news media has completely changed the
• 27:53
  rules of these situations, and so I predicted that this was going to become
• 27:59
  an she especially in the media if Jim Jordan became the favorite to become speaker.
• 28:03
  That has in fact been the case. Faced the Nation, the anchor
• 28:07
  woman and Faced the Nation asked a Republican congressman about this scandal over the weekend
• 28:12
  and referenced it as being a controversy or scandal involving Ohio University. So she
• 28:19
  didn't even know it was Ohio State. I mean, there's a big difference
• 28:23
  between Ohio University and Ohio State University, or the Ohio State University as they
• 28:29
  liked to describe it, at Ohio State and Columbus Ohio. They're not even
• 28:33
  in the same city in Ohio. I mean, it's absolutely not even close.
• 28:37
  It's absolutely ridiculous that the host to Face the Nation didn't know this.
• 28:41
  The Republican Congressman did very politely correct her, but she clearly had no knowledge
• 28:47
  of the actual issues. She just knew it was a controversy because NBC News
• 28:52
  had reported about it. I'm sure she didn't know any of the details or
• 28:56
  any of the many things that NBC left out of the story that made it
• 29:00
  an act of a journalistic malpractice. But I went into great detail of that
• 29:06
  into that in episode number ninety six. Now, unfortunately, when we first
• 29:11
  put out the podcast on episode number ninety six, there was a catastrophic editing
• 29:15
  error, which I believe has now been fixed. So if by chance you
• 29:21
  were listening to episode number ninety six and you got to the Jim Jordan situation
• 29:25
  involving NBC and you were confused, you had every right to be confused,
• 29:29
  because there was a big chunk that was left out for whatever reason. It's
• 29:33
  my understanding that that has been fixed. So if you're interested in that story
• 29:37
  and why it's all bullshit, I lay it all out in great detail and
• 29:41
  a viscerit NBC about two thirds of the way through, maybe halfway through somewhere
• 29:47
  in that range, a little bit more than halfway through episode number ninety six,
• 29:51
  and I urge you to take a listen to that, especially if you
• 29:53
  were confused by the first time you listened to that. So that's the Jordan's
• 30:00
  situation. It appears as if he may, as of this taping, be
• 30:03
  gaining a little bit more momentum within the Republican Conference, but I am still
• 30:10
  very skeptical that he's going to be able to get enough votes. I just
• 30:14
  don't see how it is that if Steve Scalise can't even come close, they're
• 30:18
  not even going to try. How Jim Jordan, who's a much more of
• 30:22
  a lightning rod figure, a much more controversial figure, even without this bogus
• 30:26
  Ohio State scandal hanging over his head. And by the way, you know,
• 30:32
  perception is reality. I think the Ohio State scandal can be very detrimental
• 30:37
  to his candidacy. Not because it's true, it's not true, not that
• 30:41
  the truth means anything anymore, but it's also in the context of the fact
• 30:47
  that just a couple of speakers of golf, the Republicans had Dennis Hastard as
• 30:55
  the Republican Speaker of the House for an extended period of time and he ended
• 31:00
  up being convicted in the case. Now it was mostly about the hush money,
• 31:04
  but the hush money he was giving as a wrestling coach to cover up
• 31:10
  his own sex abuse of his students and his athletes as a wrestling coach slash
• 31:15
  teacher many many years ago in Illinois now has nothing to do with Jim Jordan,
• 31:22
  but just by virtue of the fact that we might have not one but
• 31:26
  two speakers from the Republican side in the same era, both of whom have
• 31:33
  been cited in wrestling related sex abuse scandals. Is beyond bizarre, and you
• 31:41
  would think would be a weight on Jordan's candidacy and hinder the effort to try
• 31:48
  to get to the magic number of two hundred and seventeen votes, which is
• 31:52
  already going to be very, very difficult. So I really don't see how
• 31:56
  Jordan is going to do it. I don't have any inside knowledge. I
• 32:00
  will be really surprised if he's able to do so, for a number of
• 32:05
  reasons, mainly because it's just impossible anyway. I mean, McCarthy already proved
• 32:08
  that it's almost impossible under these circumstances to get two hundred and seventeen votes and
• 32:15
  or whatever it is to eighteen. I can't remember if it's two seventeen or
• 32:17
  two eighteen. It's one of those. But regardless, you got to get
• 32:21
  to that number. And I don't know if Jordan's gonna be able to do
• 32:24
  it, and if Jordan's not able to do it, I don't know who
• 32:27
  is. That was the reason why it was so stupid to get rid of
• 32:30
  McCarthy. He pulled off the miracle he got to the magic number, All
• 32:34
  right, move on. Unless you somehow get another ten to twenty votes to
• 32:37
  play with, then then this shouldn't have been an issue to begin with.
• 32:44
  You got to you gotta deal with what you have, deal with the hand
• 32:47
  that you were dealt that the hand sucks. Changing McCarthy for somebody that you
• 32:53
  might not even be able to get enough votes for isn't going to do that,
• 32:57
  especially when you have another debt ceiling limit debate coming up, and obviously
• 33:01
  all sorts of major issues going are on around the world. I mean,
• 33:06
  this is a potentially very bad situation. And look, I'm not a fan
• 33:09
  of Jordan at this point. I just want someone in there to get this
• 33:13
  issue over with and so maybe you know there can be some order restored,
• 33:17
  and if that's Jim Jordan, so be it. But I'm very skeptical that
• 33:22
  it's going to be anybody, as I've said from the beginning, because I
• 33:24
  just don't know how you're able to unite the entire Republican Conference, which is
• 33:30
  essentially all you know with what you have to do, because you can only
• 33:32
  lose four votes and still have enough Republicans to do it, and Democrats aren't
• 33:37
  going to help because Democrats are thrilled that this is going on. They're the
• 33:40
  ones that caused this, and they've gotten no blowback at all, no negative
• 33:45
  media coverage at all. They're the ones that did this, along with these
• 33:49
  eight nut job Republicans. So we'll continue to keep an eye on the Jim
• 33:53
  Jordan situation. And as I said, if you're curious about this Ohio State
• 33:59
  Wrestling bogus story, go back and listen to episode number ninety six of the
• 34:04
  podcast. I want to return to the Israel and Hamas situation because we've seen
• 34:10
  a lot of interesting reaction and very telling reaction from all sorts of different walks
• 34:16
  of life, where mostly liberals and liberal organizations have exposed themselves in a really
• 34:23
  heinous fashion when faced with this seemingly easy decision of who to side with when
• 34:31
  it comes to Israel being brutally attacked by terrorists and having women and children raped
• 34:38
  and murdered and taken hostage and Americans killed and taken hostage. I mean,
• 34:44
  this should not be a difficult decision to make, but apparently if you're a
• 34:47
  liberal, it is. I want to start with the issue of censorship and
• 34:52
  YouTube, which is obviously very very liberal. They got accused of censorship by
• 34:58
  Senator Mark or Rubio, Republic from Florida, because he had the audacity to
• 35:04
  tell what he believed to be the truth about the Israel and Hamas conflict.
• 35:08
  And here was Rubio making his case on Fox News Channel that YouTube and in
• 35:15
  fact censored him for his beliefs on this issue. There are companies that sort
• 35:21
  of selectively choose what they want to censor or not censor, and take down
• 35:23
  and not take down. But the message isn't going to change. What I
• 35:27
  got censored for, apparently was saying that Hamas was a group of savages.
• 35:31
  Well, I don't know any other word. Maybe there's a better word,
• 35:34
  but I don't know any other word to describe an organization a group of people
• 35:37
  that would go in and slaughter a bunch of babies, kill a bunch of
• 35:39
  teenage girls in the desert. I understand they did not attack IDF soldiers.
• 35:44
  They went after a concert. They went after a settlements in which people had
• 35:49
  barely woken up or were still in their beds. They went after little children,
• 35:52
  They raped teenage girls. They abducted, including senior citizens, and took
• 35:54
  them back with them. What other word in the English language describes these people
• 35:59
  now is obviously a big part of the media, and in the last couple
• 36:04
  of episodes, I've talked about how the media has at least in left wing
• 36:08
  circles, been far more pro Hamas, far less pro Israel than they should
• 36:15
  have been based upon the facts of the situation, but that this isn't a
• 36:20
  big surprise given the fact that among the elites on the left, anti Israel,
• 36:27
  pro Palestinian thought has really infiltrated the highest levels of every element of leftism,
• 36:35
  and since then I believe that the national media has kind of knocked it
• 36:42
  off a little bit. I had predicted that in the last episode. That's
• 36:45
  kind of just a sense I get. But on the local level, I've
• 36:50
  seen a lot of examples that are just absolutely outrageous and maybe getting worse.
• 36:55
  And I'll give you a specific example. This is one of many that I've
• 36:59
  seen over the last several days. But this one happens in Los Angeles,
• 37:02
  which I think makes it more significant, especially since it involved a pro Palestinian
• 37:08
  rally at UCLA in Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles. Now,
• 37:15
  what makes UCLA really interesting is UCLA is in Brentwood, California. Brentwood,
• 37:21
  California probably has one of if not. I'm sure Manhattan has a larger
• 37:28
  group of influential and wealthy Jewish people, but it would be hard to argue
• 37:34
  that you could find a more influential and richer community of Jewish people in America
• 37:40
  than in Brentwood, California. I mean, that's just a fact. And
• 37:45
  here this is literally the neighborhood of UCLA, and you've got a pro Palestinian
• 37:51
  rally, and the local media coverage of this was absolutely a joke. They
• 37:57
  completely whitewashed some of the chants that the pro Palestinian rally members were using that
• 38:04
  were very anti Semitic, very much anti Israel. It was portrayed as calls
• 38:09
  for peace and people reacting to civilians in Gaza being killed by the Israeli counterattack,
• 38:19
  and just the entire narrative was very pro Palestinian, very pro Hamas and
• 38:24
  blanketing themselves in this idea that somehow Israel is now at fault because they're doing
• 38:32
  essentially the same thing to Palestinians that Hamas did to them. And there are
• 38:38
  very very important differences morally and ethically in those two things. And this is
• 38:45
  not that difficult a concept to understand. When Hamas attacks civilians directly and systematically
• 38:54
  on purpose in a surprise attack, that's completely different situation, then Israel retaliating,
• 39:02
  and then Hamas using civilians as human shields, knowing that they're gonna get
• 39:08
  positive media coverage throughout the world by doing so, because this is the new
• 39:16
  prism through which people see this and all of a sudden becomes a let's pray
• 39:22
  for peace situation, and no one ever gets criticized for praying for peace.
• 39:25
  Well, you know, maybe you should have been praying for peace before the
• 39:30
  attack on Israel. I mean, so, I saw one report in particular
• 39:37
  on this UCLA thing from the CBS affiliate here in Los Angeles that was absolutely
• 39:42
  a joke and I posted it on Twitter. But it was certainly not alone,
• 39:46
  and UCLA is certainly not alone when it comes to college campuses being exposed
• 39:52
  by this situation. And I've thought a lot about, Okay, why is
• 39:57
  this what is going on? I'm here. It doesn't make a ton of
• 40:04
  sense to me, especially in a place, like I said, with UCLA
• 40:07
  being so close to a very influential Jewish community. But and I don't have
• 40:15
  a lot of answers other than the fact that college kids are stupid and that
• 40:19
  they've been, you know, basically brainwashed by very very liberal academia. And
• 40:25
  there's an amazing pull out that I'm going to get to momentarily that breaks down
• 40:30
  reactions to this story based upon age that I think is incredibly remarkable and very
• 40:37
  very telling. But I have to say that if I had to come up
• 40:40
  with one explanation for this that does not appear to be overtly obvious and certainly
• 40:47
  is never ever ever going to be talked about in the mainstream news media and
• 40:52
  one of those you know, saying the quiet parts out loud situations, I
• 40:57
  got to believe that at least part of what's happening among younger people and college
• 41:01
  aged people on this on this Hamas versus Israel situation is that young people have
• 41:09
  basically been both consciously and subconsciously taught now throughout their lives to automatically, in
• 41:16
  a knee jerk reaction, support whoever is the poorest and whose ever skin is
• 41:23
  the darkest. And I know that sounds crazy, but if you think about
• 41:29
  it, it's not that I don't think this has anything to do other than
• 41:34
  if you're you know, obviously, if you're a Muslim or an Arab,
• 41:37
  you know you're going to have an inherent sympathy in one direction, and it's
• 41:43
  not going to be in favor of Israel in all likelihood. But I do
• 41:46
  think that when people who don't have any knowledge of this, and they're young
• 41:52
  and they're woke, and they're looking at this situation, they go, well,
• 41:55
  you know, the skin color of the Palestinians is a little bit darker
• 42:00
  than that of the average Israeli and they're poorer, and so you know,
• 42:06
  they must be the ones that need our sympathy. They're the ones that need
• 42:09
  our support. I don't know how pervasive that is, but it's an explanation
• 42:15
  for something that seemingly has no explanation for me other than just the incredible bias
• 42:22
  and brainwashing that is going on in our academic institutions. And it's not just
• 42:29
  one or two or three, and it's not you know, a situation where
• 42:34
  these are not the top university in colleges. I mean, Harvard has been
• 42:38
  one of the worst in this. Harvard has probably gotten the greatest backlash because
• 42:45
  of their reaction, both from an institutional standpoint as well as from the students
• 42:50
  themselves. And I talked about this previously. The former president of Harvard,
• 42:57
  Laurence Summers, had to issue with State saying how embarrassed and humiliated he was
• 43:02
  by the reaction of Harvard to the attack on Israel. But this thing is
• 43:07
  really escalated, and it's escalated because there were a lot of student groups who
• 43:13
  effectively signed, I don't know if you call it a petition or whatever,
• 43:16
  but signed a statement in support of Hamas against Israel for all intents and purposes.
• 43:23
  And this created enormous backlash, and it created enormous backlash in an area
• 43:30
  where students from Harvard are actually very very, very very vulnerable. And this
• 43:36
  was where, you know, they basically brought a knife to a gunfight when
• 43:43
  it came to their own personal situations. Because if there's one thing that a
• 43:51
  Harvard student, especially one that wants to go into business, really cares about,
• 43:55
  it's New York City financial institutions. And New York City financial institutions have
• 44:01
  a very very strong pro Israel influence because there are a lot of Jewish people
• 44:07
  who work in those institutions. It's totally understandable. Well, at this point,
• 44:13
  this is when those financial institutions, or at least some of them,
• 44:16
  decided to fight fire with fire, and they started to make rumblings that hey,
• 44:22
  okay, fine, we'd like to know who the students are who signed
• 44:29
  these statements and petitions because we want to make sure we don't ever hire them.
• 44:34
  And boy did that get a reaction from the student body at Harvard.
• 44:37
  To give you a sense of how this story was reported, almost gleefully.
• 44:43
  I mean, I have to say that Fox News Channel could not have been
• 44:45
  more excited. At least this version of Fox News Channel's reporting on this issue
• 44:50
  could not have been more excited. This was Fox News Channel describing what went
• 44:54
  down when it came to the reaction to this conflict at Harvard and how New
• 45:01
  York, some New York financial institutions responded. File this under people who are
• 45:07
  allegedly so smart can be so dumb. Harvard students who signed a letter blaming
• 45:12
  Israel for the Hamas terror attacks, Well they're backtracking after more than a dozen,
• 45:17
  CEO said, and they're not going to hire any of them. One
• 45:21
  of the students now saying, quote as a board member of a Harvard group
• 45:24
  that signed the statement on Israel. I think it was egregious and every resigned
• 45:28
  for my role. I am sorry for the pain this has caused. My
• 45:30
  organization did not have a formal process, and I didn't even see the statement
• 45:35
  until we had signed on. Now, I have to say, as someone
• 45:38
  who is very much against cancel culture, that this is a situation that I'm
• 45:45
  a bit conflicted about. We're conflicted about. Oh why I said conflicted,
• 45:50
  I'm conflicted about it. I'm even conflicted about how to say conflict. But
• 45:54
  the reality here is that while viscerally it feels good that these students are seemingly
• 46:02
  getting the scare that they deserve, who knows whether or not these people will
• 46:07
  actually be blackbaled, whether they're names. Some of their names are being made
• 46:12
  public, there's been some docsing a truck was driving around Harvard with the names.
• 46:16
  I mean, there's all sorts of weird things that are happening now.
• 46:19
  But who knows how many of these people will actually when it comes time to
• 46:22
  it, be blackbald from working at certain New York financial institutions with a very
• 46:30
  strong Jewish influence. I don't know if that's going to happen. My guess,
• 46:35
  at least some of this probably will happen, and I don't think that
• 46:38
  that's necessarily illegitimate. But we're on shaky ground here. This is an issue
• 46:45
  of you know, when someone expresses speech, no matter how stupid it is
• 46:51
  or how wrong it is, as a nineteen or twenty year old, should
• 46:54
  that disqualify them from holding a job, you know, at the age of
• 47:00
  twenty four or twenty five. I think we're on a on a very slippery
• 47:07
  slope there, that that is, you know, because this is the type
• 47:09
  of stuff that the left does all the time, and conservatives understandably get very
• 47:15
  exercised about it. And now, just because the shoe seemingly is on the
• 47:20
  other foot where these woke kids from Harvard may have their their future is greatly
• 47:28
  damaged by their response. That feels good, but that doesn't necessarily make it
• 47:32
  right either, So I'm not one hundred percent on board. I absolutely think
• 47:38
  what these kids did was wrong and stupid, but I don't know that this
• 47:44
  is the proper remedy. On the other hand, I certainly understand why those
• 47:49
  at the financial institutions. At some of these financial institutions aren't reacting in this
• 47:52
  way, and maybe it's a bluff. You know, it could it could
• 47:57
  very easily be a situation where they just want to, you know, put
• 48:00
  the fear of God almost literally into these kids as a way to say,
• 48:05
  knock it off, and that there won't actually be any significant real world blowback
• 48:13
  when all is said and done. I don't know. I don't think anyone
• 48:15
  does. We're not going to know this for years to come. But I
• 48:19
  do think if this was a bluff, I'm all in favor of it.
• 48:22
  I'm all in favor of scaring the living daylights out of these kids because they
• 48:27
  absolutely positively need it, and that is really all that it takes. I
• 48:32
  mean, these jobs are very prestigious, very difficult to get in these New
• 48:37
  York financial institutions, and if you become blackballed by a few of them,
• 48:42
  it's going to make your life a hell of a lot more difficult. And
• 48:45
  just by the fact that that could happen is enough to scare these kids maybe
• 48:52
  into taking a second look at what the hell they're doing now. Some of
• 48:54
  them are claiming they didn't even know what they were signing and all this so
• 48:58
  the bullshit, But the reality is there is no question whatsoever that whether it's
• 49:02
  at Harvard or UCLA or many many other college campuses, we are seeing a
• 49:07
  real anti Israel pro Hamas and who knows how pervasive it is, but there's
• 49:16
  no question that that belief system exists and is being fostered to a certain degree
• 49:27
  on college campuses. I said in the last episode, and it bears repeating,
• 49:30
  without hyperbole, without exaggeration. We are now bizarrely living in a world
• 49:37
  in this country, even in America, where you are on far safer ground
• 49:42
  on a college campus being publicly pro Hamas post a terrorist attack than you are
• 49:49
  being against biological males playing in female sports. That's the insanity of where we
• 49:55
  are. And that's one hundred percent true. Now is that true among the
• 50:04
  actual rank and file of the student bodies of these campuses. If you took
• 50:08
  an anonymous pole, I would like to think not. But that's not what's
• 50:15
  happening publicly. Publicly, you are are far more likely to get positive attention
• 50:22
  and get no blowback for a pro Haamas rally or protest than you are when
• 50:28
  it comes to biological males playing female sports. When it comes to college athletics,
• 50:36
  and I can't describe the insanity any more starkly than that. That's America.
• 50:42
  In twenty twenty three. Now I mention this remarkable poll when it came
• 50:46
  to age groups and the response to the Israel Hamas war, and specifically Israel's
• 50:55
  military response to Amas. CNN asked a question whether or not the attacks by
• 51:04
  Israel on Hamas are fully justified. So this is the question CNN Polling asked,
• 51:12
  Israel's military response to Hamas attacks is fully justified? And they broke it
• 51:17
  down by age, and this is absolutely astonishing and extremely telling about where we
• 51:24
  are as a country. Those that were sixty five years and older. Among
• 51:30
  that group, eighty one percent, eighty one percent said that yes, Israel's
• 51:37
  military response to Hamas is fully justified. Fully justified. By the way,
• 51:44
  fully justified is an incredibly high standard when it comes to polling, because the
• 51:49
  word fully there essentially gives anyone who has any inclination to say no the permission
• 51:57
  slip to say no, because you could say say, well, it's partially
• 52:00
  justified, it's just not fully justified. So according to what I'm looking here
• 52:07
  at CNN Zone reporting, the question was fully justified sixty five and older eighty
• 52:13
  one percent. Now, these are people who still at least have some memory
• 52:19
  of, for instance, World War Two and obviously the Holocaust. You know,
• 52:22
  they were at least children growing up in that first generation after that,
• 52:28
  and so it's it's a big part of their prism through which they see the
• 52:32
  world. Then you go to fifty to sixty four year olds, only fifty
• 52:38
  six percent believe that Israel's response to Hamas is fully justified. Still a decent
• 52:45
  number because you're obviously gonna have a lot of liberals there who, you know,
• 52:49
  don't think that military action is ever fully justified. So I'm okay with
• 52:53
  that number at fifty six percent. But then we get to thirty five to
• 52:59
  forty nine years old, the next younger generation, only forty four percent of
• 53:07
  Americans say that Israel's response to Hamas is fully justified. That's not a particularly
• 53:13
  good number. But then we get eighteen to thirty four, and I wonder
• 53:19
  what would happen if you broke this down to like eighteen to twenty five,
• 53:22
  But we don't have that number. Eighteen to thirty four year old, only
• 53:25
  twenty seven percent of Americans believe that Israel's response militarily to hamas is fully justified.
• 53:34
  So you go from eighty one percent among people sixty five and older to
• 53:39
  just twenty seven percent eighteen to thirty four. That is amazing because obviously you're
• 53:46
  not controlling for political party, you're not controlling for gender. You know,
• 53:53
  this is purely by age. And you could probably write a book about why
• 54:00
  it is that eighteen to thirty four year olds would say twenty seven percent and
• 54:05
  sixty five year olds and plus would say eighty one percent. I'm sure the
• 54:09
  first thing you would look at is, Okay, you know, younger people,
• 54:13
  because they have longer to live, they tend to be against war more
• 54:17
  than people who are an older age, especially given the history of the last
• 54:21
  one hundred years or so and things like what I already mentioned regarding the prism
• 54:27
  through which older people see the world, which is vastly different than the spoiled
• 54:30
  brats of today. That's a big part of this. But something has fundamentally
• 54:37
  changed, and I make this argument all the time that there is something very
• 54:43
  very different about this youngest generation in America. And then I think one of
• 54:46
  the reasons why we're screwed is because there is this cliche that every generation thinks
• 54:53
  the same thing about the next generation coming up, and that's been true,
• 54:59
  and oftentimes it's not been accurate, but this time it actually is accurate.
• 55:05
  There's something fundamentally different, There's something fundamentally wrong, and there's a whole myriad
• 55:09
  of reasons for that. Part of it is the brainwashing that academia has done
• 55:15
  on these people, and they haven't lived a real life yet to understand that
• 55:20
  they've been brainwashed, and they haven't been able to be deprogrammed. I don't
• 55:24
  know if this group is ever going to be deprogrammed, but the difference between
• 55:28
  twenty seven percent among young people and eighty one percent among older people I mean
• 55:34
  only cow, I mean that is really quite extraordinary and really does tell you
• 55:39
  an awful lot, not just about the situation between Israel and Amas, but
• 55:45
  also about the difference in the generations in America and how they see the world.
• 55:52
  I talk a lot on this show about the younger generations and what's happening
• 55:57
  in colleges and not directly related at all to the Israeli Hamas situation. There
• 56:04
  have been several stories that I've been meaning to get to that I want to
• 56:07
  quickly review right now that I think are important and related to this subject matter.
• 56:14
  I've dealt with this before, this issue of Biden and the student loans,
• 56:19
  but it has come up again because now, finally after being put on
• 56:23
  hiatus during COVID, a lot of people are now being required to start repaying
• 56:30
  off their student loans. This despite the effort by the Biden administration to essentially
• 56:37
  eliminate far greater numbers of student loans than they ever dreamed possible, and the
• 56:44
  Supreme Court put a halt to that, but that has not, in any
• 56:46
  way, shape or form stopped Biden and his administration from trying to forgive as
• 56:52
  many college loans as possible. And he is still on this this crusade.
• 57:00
  He's still doing it. He's still forgiving billions of dollars in student loans.
• 57:05
  Which there's so many different elements of this issue. The number one is it's
• 57:08
  so insulting. It is so insulting to people who won paid off their loans
• 57:15
  or never took a bad loan to pay for their college to begin with.
• 57:20
  I mean, how people in that category are not enraged by what Biden has
• 57:24
  been doing in this area is completely beyond me. But then there's the issue
• 57:30
  of what actually happens when these loans are forgiven, these billions of dollars of
• 57:36
  loans, I mean, that is essentially what we're doing. It's a shell
• 57:38
  game, but we're essentially taking money from everybody else in order to pay off
• 57:46
  a bad loan that someone else benefited from and just didn't have the ability to
• 57:53
  pay off, mainly because what they got in return for paying off this education,
• 58:00
  having the government pay off their education was it allows e return because if
• 58:05
  it had been a decent return, if they'd been prepared for a well paying
• 58:08
  job, they would have been able to pay off their student loans. But
• 58:13
  so we're now we're taking money from the totality of society, and we're very
• 58:19
  specifically essentially giving that money mainly to people who are very very prone to voting
• 58:24
  for Joe Biden for reelection. So that's the politics behind this, But we're
• 58:30
  doing so in a way that's not even remotely honest. This is it's stealing.
• 58:36
  It's stealing from everybody else to give to the people who have had their
• 58:39
  college loans forgiven, and it's insulting to the people who either paid off their
• 58:45
  loans or never took loans to begin with. And then there's one other element
• 58:52
  of this insanity, and that is, if you're someone who is currently trying
• 58:57
  to decide do I take a loan or do I try to pay this off
• 59:00
  myself, why in the world would you not take a loan Because there's a
• 59:07
  very good chance now that eventually you're never really gonna have to pay it off.
• 59:12
  So it creates this huge disincentive for acting in a logical and efficient fashion
• 59:20
  in your own financial decisions. And it just creates this further precedent that,
• 59:28
  you know what, we can just do whatever we want. It's not a
• 59:30
  real thing. I mean, if COVID hits, we don't have to pay
• 59:32
  it. You know, we've got a Democrat in office. He's gonna forgive
• 59:37
  as many of these loans as he possibly can. Yeah, the Supreme Court
• 59:40
  try to knock that down, but Biden's doing the best he can to get
• 59:44
  around the Supreme Court on this. And so this is just wrong on every
• 59:50
  level. And then what really sent me over the edge is that Biden is
• 59:53
  still trying to make the argument that Republican opposition to the forgiveiness of college loans
• 1:00:02
  is inherently hypocritical because many of them took PPP loans during COVID. Now,
• 1:00:09
  I've discussed this in great detail a few months ago in the podcast, and
• 1:00:14
  I actually thought the media had had doused Biden's attempt to create this issue.
• 1:00:22
  I mean, I remember Terry Moran from ABC even did one hundred and eighty
• 1:00:25
  degree flip saying that that's not a good analogy, it's not fair, and
• 1:00:31
  being very right when he says, look, the PPP loans were literally intended
• 1:00:37
  to be forgiven. In fact, if they had not been forgiven, if
• 1:00:42
  your PPP loan was not forgiven, it was an indication that you had not
• 1:00:46
  acted in adherence to your promise to the government. It was all a market
• 1:00:53
  a marketing and accounting scam. That's what the PPP loans were. It was
• 1:00:59
  away essentially. You know what happened during COVID. Here's what happened during COVID.
• 1:01:02
  From a government financial standpoint. We all took a massive loan a terror
• 1:01:10
  under terrible circumstances. We all took a massive, terrible loan to pay for
• 1:01:16
  the worst vacation humanly imaginable. That's what we did as a society, and
• 1:01:23
  the PPP loans were the vehicle through which that happened. This was money given
• 1:01:29
  by the government to businesses so that they wouldn't shudder and that they wouldn't lay
• 1:01:36
  everybody off, and everyone could pretend that the economy was continuing when all we
• 1:01:42
  were really doing was just printing money and giving it to people under the description
• 1:01:47
  of a loan, when in fact, if you kept open and you kept
• 1:01:52
  people employed, the loan was forgiven. It was a gift from the government,
• 1:01:58
  so that in effect, actively politically, what it did was it made
• 1:02:02
  people who would have been vehemently against the shutdowns and the lockdowns shut the fuck
• 1:02:09
  up because many people actually made a hell of a lot of money from this,
• 1:02:14
  or at least they think they did, They didn't really in the long
• 1:02:15
  run, because a lot of that was eaten away by inflation that got created
• 1:02:21
  because of the reaction to COVID. And yes, most of this occurred at
• 1:02:25
  least started under the Trump administration, so Donald Trump is actually to blame for
• 1:02:31
  a lot of this, But it's Joe Biden who has taken advantage of it.
• 1:02:35
  And this PPP loan analogy to college loan forgiveness is just ridiculous. It's
• 1:02:43
  absurd, it's wrong, it's insidious, and Biden is still doing this and
• 1:02:49
  the media, of course enables him. In all this, the media is
• 1:02:52
  still going out of their way to create this entire concept of equity within college
• 1:03:02
  admissions and college payments and loan forgiveness, and even on the issue of college
• 1:03:10
  itself. There was a recent article in The New York Times about a study
• 1:03:15
  that indicates that a college degree increases the lifespan of the average American fairly significantly.
• 1:03:23
  And when I saw that, I'm like, whoa, woa, whoa,
• 1:03:25
  whoa, whoa. Here the New York Times is now trying to make
• 1:03:30
  the argument that this is a life health and safety issue. This is the
• 1:03:37
  argument for universal college admission and funding by the government because it's somehow in the
• 1:03:45
  best interests of society because it increases lifespan. When that's a completely bullshit argument.
• 1:03:53
  There are lots of things that correlate correlate to a larger lifespan. Correlation
• 1:04:01
  is not causation. Having a college degree, I'm sure, is correlated to
• 1:04:08
  a longer lifespan, but so are one hundred other things, like, for
• 1:04:13
  instance, economics, you have more money, you are much more likely to
• 1:04:18
  live a longer life. Well, do you have more money because you had
• 1:04:23
  the college degree, or is it vice versa. Now I'm not pretending that
• 1:04:28
  a college degree doesn't help at all, though I think it's very much overrated.
• 1:04:31
  It hasn't helped me hardly at all in my life, but I've lived
• 1:04:33
  a very strange life. But the reality here is the news media, led
• 1:04:39
  by the New York Times, is trying to make this argument that somehow it's
• 1:04:43
  unfair. This is the danger of this. It's unfair to those that don't
• 1:04:48
  go to college because their lifespan is decreased by virtue of the fact that they
• 1:04:56
  don't go to college. When that's there's no evidence or logic support that.
• 1:05:00
  And then once you make that argument, then the floodgates open. Then it's
• 1:05:05
  affirmative action. And even though the Supreme Court has claimed that that's illegal,
• 1:05:12
  I have said from the moment that decision was made that they're going to find
• 1:05:16
  ways around the Supreme Court decision, especially since Justice Roberts put a massive loophole
• 1:05:21
  in there. And by the way, I have been seeing all sorts of
• 1:05:26
  videos from gleeful liberals on TikTok who are delineating and detailing exactly how liberal academic
• 1:05:35
  institutions are getting around the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action. The way that
• 1:05:42
  they're they're wording the essay language is basically exactly as I predicted, which is,
• 1:05:49
  hey tell us whether you're black or brown or hispanic or whatever without actually
• 1:05:56
  telling us. I mean that's a paraphrase on my part. But they're all
• 1:06:00
  sorts of ways that these academic institutions are getting around the alleged ban on affirmative
• 1:06:05
  action. But we're going to see more affirmative action, more government funding for
• 1:06:13
  people who do not have means when it comes to getting into college and being
• 1:06:16
  able to pay for it. I think that the loan forgiveness situation is almost
• 1:06:23
  a reparations issue. All this is almost reparations. I don't mean reparations necessarily
• 1:06:29
  on the lines of race, but it's essentially reparations for people who are more
• 1:06:32
  likely to be liberal, people who are somewhat of a disadvantaged economic background,
• 1:06:39
  and yes, oftentimes are from a minority ethnic perspective. But the reality here
• 1:06:45
  is this is all destroying it already broken liberal academic system, and the evidence
• 1:06:51
  that it's broken is overwhelming. I mean, we just see new results out
• 1:06:58
  this past week where tests act test scores are now at their lowest point on
• 1:07:04
  average in thirty years, thirty years, and this is in an era where
• 1:07:13
  college admissions is in many cases downplaying or even not even requiring the standardized tests.
• 1:07:21
  I mean, the SAT used to be the gold standard because that was
• 1:07:26
  completely objective, or as objective as humans could possibly be. And you know,
• 1:07:30
  obviously grades can be subjective and class rank can be based upon where you
• 1:07:36
  live and who you're competing against, and so the SATs were the gold standard.
• 1:07:42
  Well, here in California, the SATs have effectively been eliminated. And
• 1:07:45
  this is like everything else that happens in California, this cancer is spreading throughout
• 1:07:50
  the rest of the country, and liberal academia now sees test scores as a
• 1:07:56
  hindrance to equity because if you have an objective to measure, it's much more
• 1:08:00
  difficult to make sure that you get a certain percentage of every group that you
• 1:08:05
  want, whether it's based on gender or sexuality, or race, ethnicity,
• 1:08:12
  nationality, whatever the hell it is. They want equity uberallis, and test
• 1:08:18
  scores are a hindrance to that. So when you de emphasize test scores and
• 1:08:24
  when you do a lousy job of educating kids, guess what happens. You're
• 1:08:27
  gonna have the lowest test scores in thirty years. And we're not gonna So
• 1:08:31
  we're just gonna say, instead of fixing the core problem, we're just gonna
• 1:08:35
  pretend the test scores don't matter. Eh, screw test scores. Let's go
• 1:08:40
  with great point average and essays to tell us how how woke you are or
• 1:08:45
  how disadvantaged you are. That's gonna be the essence of the entire process.
• 1:08:51
  And of course this is all very very good for liberals because one philosophically fits
• 1:08:57
  with the liberal viewpoint of what education ought to be, how life ought to
• 1:09:01
  be determined, equity over everything, but also because it tends to just not
• 1:09:06
  only create but benefit liberal voters. So this is like a cascading effect.
• 1:09:14
  This is what liberals are doing. This is why Joe Biden is so passionate
• 1:09:17
  about this particular issue. He thinks it's going to help him in the next
• 1:09:21
  election. And this equity thing I have talked extensively, I think more so
• 1:09:30
  than anybody else, I'm aware of of how the changing of the definition from
• 1:09:33
  equality of opportunity to equity of outcome is the death of America, and we
• 1:09:39
  are seeing examples of it on a consistent basis, and the media tends to
• 1:09:45
  almost literally just laugh at it. Like, for instance, in the last
• 1:09:47
  week here in California, you may have heard about this on Saturday Night Live.
• 1:09:54
  Not that many people watched that in the Night Live anymore, but it
• 1:09:56
  was their season premiere over the weekend. They joked about this during the news
• 1:10:00
  segment. The state of California is now creating what they're calling ebony alerts.
• 1:10:09
  Ebony alerts, that's the actual name for it. What is this, Well,
• 1:10:14
  you've heard of the alert system for missing children, right, Amber alerts.
• 1:10:18
  Well, this is a higher level of alert for when a young person,
• 1:10:26
  not even a child, because they've extended the age. I think the
• 1:10:29
  twenty four or twenty five an Amber alert doesn't go to that old quote unquote
• 1:10:34
  kid, But these these ebony alerts are going to go to anybody. I
• 1:10:39
  don't even know what the hell the definition is going to be ebony. I
• 1:10:42
  guess if you have dark skin and you're a missing person under the age of
• 1:10:48
  twenty five, you get a special alert called the ebony alert that will be
• 1:10:56
  sent out a higher apparently a higher level of alert and importance than even the
• 1:11:05
  Amber alert, all because allegedly there's been inequity. There's that word, there's
• 1:11:12
  been inequity when it comes to finding missing children of color. Now, again,
• 1:11:18
  there's all sorts of reasons for that. By the way, the media
• 1:11:21
  is at least partially to blame for that, because the media doesn't give a
• 1:11:26
  damn nearly as much about missing children of color than they do if the missing
• 1:11:31
  person happens to be a cute white kid. There's no question about that.
• 1:11:34
  Why Because if it's a cute white kid, there's a larger audience in most
• 1:11:41
  areas of the country, especially nationally. That's just a fact, and that's
• 1:11:45
  the way the media works. I'm not justifying it. I'm just telling you
• 1:11:48
  why it happens. And so there's no question the media plays a role in
• 1:11:54
  this. There's other I'm sure economic reasons. There's all sorts of possible other
• 1:11:58
  reasons that some of which might be cold. But for whatever reason, there's
• 1:12:02
  inequity when it comes allegedly to finding missing children of colors. So, now,
• 1:12:09
  what's California's responds to create literal division? Literal division in how the authorities
• 1:12:17
  alert the public to a missing child. I mean, you can't make this
• 1:12:21
  up, which is why Saturday Night Live chose to joke about it. I
• 1:12:28
  mean, I mean, I think one of their jokes on Saturday Night Live
• 1:12:32
  was something along the lines of, and I'm sure I get in trouble for
• 1:12:35
  this, but it was something on along the lines of, well, if
• 1:12:41
  a missing ebony alert goes out, at least you know that the father,
• 1:12:44
  they're not with their father. That was the joke. Yeah, that was
• 1:12:47
  the joke that when a missing child in California as an ebony alert, you
• 1:12:53
  know you don't have to worry about them being with their father. Ha ha
• 1:12:56
  ha. I mean, but this is the level to which even Saturday Night
• 1:13:00
  Live thought this was mockable. The whole thing is ridiculous, and yet it's
• 1:13:05
  a serious thing. And is it the most important thing in the world now?
• 1:13:10
  Is it well intentioned? I guess maybe, But it's creating literal division
• 1:13:15
  along the lines of equity, that is, I believe, eroding the fundamental
• 1:13:23
  essence of what America was supposed to be in preventing us from ever getting to
• 1:13:28
  some sort of color blind society. Forget about that. I thought We were
• 1:13:31
  actually kind of on that path for a long time, especially when Obama became
• 1:13:35
  president, but now we're completely reversing ourselves, and now here we are in
• 1:13:40
  twenty twenty three in California has created an ebony alert for missing children of color.
• 1:13:49
  Now when it comes I'm going to go back to the college situation for
• 1:13:53
  a second, because it's not just about race. A lot of this also
• 1:13:57
  has to do with gender and sexuality. And maybe the most ridiculous mainstream news
• 1:14:02
  media article of the past several days was in the Washington Post dealing with a
• 1:14:10
  sorority in Wyoming that had admitted a biological male to this female sorority, and
• 1:14:18
  the Washington Post did a glowing profile on this person headline, a transwoman joined
• 1:14:28
  a sorority, then her new sisters turned on her. That's the Washington Post.
• 1:14:36
  Now. One of the many weaknesses of the liberal media is that they
• 1:14:42
  really have no impulse control, and they always, always, always overplay their
• 1:14:46
  hand, and they also have no self awareness, and there's nobody within their
• 1:14:51
  bubble to go, hey, wait a minute, guys, are we sure
• 1:14:56
  we want to go so far on this? Because this is going to get
• 1:14:58
  mocked. There's nobody of that mentality. There's nobody of that mindset within their
• 1:15:04
  bubble because they're all liberals and they're all trying to outwoke each other. And
• 1:15:09
  even if you're not woke, you don't want to let anyone in that bubble.
• 1:15:13
  No you're not woke, because then you're going to be seen in some
• 1:15:15
  sort of a conservative or something, and that's going to be very very bad
• 1:15:18
  for you career wise. So then you get this group think, and that
• 1:15:23
  group think results in ridiculous results. And that's what happened in the Washington Post,
• 1:15:30
  and it was indeed roundly mocked online. The Blaze, conservative media outlet,
• 1:15:36
  I thought, did the best synopsis of what the Washington Post did here,
• 1:15:41
  so I'm going to share some of that with you. Their headline was
• 1:15:45
  Washington Post torn to shreds for defending quote peeping biological mail living at sorority house
• 1:15:54
  journalists once again siding with the predators. That was the headline in the Blaze.
• 1:16:00
  Here was their article by a guy name of Paul Sakka, who does
• 1:16:02
  a good job, he writes. The Washington Post penned a five thousand word
• 1:16:09
  defense for a biological male identifying as a female to live with women at a
• 1:16:15
  sorority house at the University of Wyoming. The left leaning media outlet That's Generous
• 1:16:21
  received a barrage of negative responses for attempting to make excuses for the transgender individual
• 1:16:30
  who has been accused of having an erect penis while peeping at sorority sisters.
• 1:16:36
  Yeah, that's a female in the minds of the Washington Post, having an
• 1:16:43
  erect penis while peeping at women in a sorority. The transgender individual was accepted
• 1:16:50
  into the Kappa Gamma sorority back in October of twenty twenty two. This person's
• 1:16:58
  name is Langford. Was accepted in the sisterhood with a majority of vote of
• 1:17:01
  the kk G members. However, some kkg Kappa Kaba Gamma members later revealed
• 1:17:10
  this is very important that they were pressured into accepting Langford, the biological male
• 1:17:16
  pretending to be a woman, into the sorority because they feared being labeled as
• 1:17:21
  homophobic or transphobic. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. Right there,
• 1:17:30
  you have the essence of the story. Kids in college, whether they're woke
• 1:17:35
  or not. The non woke ones are fearful of getting canceled or being labeled
• 1:17:43
  and having it, you know, somehow be attached to them online forever and
• 1:17:47
  ever, and so it's better to just go along. It's not in their
• 1:17:53
  self interest to fight back because if you go along, you know, seemingly,
• 1:17:58
  then you're approved by the woke crowd and you don't get any criticism,
• 1:18:03
  and it's just easier in your life. It's better for your future. Don't
• 1:18:08
  fight it, all right, we'll have to have to deal with this biological
• 1:18:12
  male. He's claiming to be a woman. How bad could it be?
• 1:18:15
  But then in March this year, twenty twenty three, several former and current
• 1:18:19
  members of Kappa Kapa Gamma filed a lawsuit against Langford. The Blaze News reported
• 1:18:27
  at the time that Langford is six foot two and weighs two hundred and sixty
• 1:18:32
  pounds and makes almost no effort to appear like a woman, so it's not
• 1:18:39
  even really trying. A source connected to the sorority, who spoke with The
• 1:18:43
  Blaze on the condition of anonymity, claimed that well Langford often wears vaguely feminine
• 1:18:48
  clothing such as a tunic and leggings with tall boots, he has not undergone
• 1:18:55
  any medical treatment or procedure to alter his physiology and make it more womanly,
• 1:19:03
  so effectively, Langford's wearing a Halloween costume. Langford is, you know,
• 1:19:10
  like that late teenage kid boy who decides to go out with his buddies for
• 1:19:15
  Halloween one last time, and for some reason, invariably, at least in
• 1:19:18
  my day, they would dress like a woman. That's what this guy is.
• 1:19:23
  Six foot two, two hundred and sixty pounds. Now back to the
• 1:19:27
  Blaze story. The sorority sisters claimed that Langford had been peeping on them in
• 1:19:32
  intimate situations. Langford was allegedly caught ogling a sorority member who was only wearing
• 1:19:40
  a tale as she walked toward the communal bathroom to take a shower on Sunday.
• 1:19:45
  This past week, The Washington Post published a sympathetic article defending Langford living
• 1:19:50
  with sorority sisters and painting the transgender individual as the victim in the situation.
• 1:19:58
  The outlet claimed that Langford's name was unquote neo Nazi websites and a forum for
• 1:20:03
  gun owners unquote whatever the hell that means quote unquote. Right wing pundits portrayed
• 1:20:10
  her on national television as a predator, as a perverted man who faked its
• 1:20:15
  way into sorority to leer at women. The article read death threats followed well,
• 1:20:21
  First of all, it sounds like those descriptions of a perverted man who
• 1:20:26
  faked his way into a sorority or leer at women may actually be mostly have
• 1:20:30
  not totally true. The death threat canard is really the last bastion of the
• 1:20:36
  liberal media whenever they have nothing else, because in this day and age,
• 1:20:42
  you know online, you know, people will make what might be conceived as
• 1:20:46
  or perceived as a quote unquote death threat all the time. I've gotten them
• 1:20:53
  more times than I can count in my life, and I'm sure many other
• 1:20:56
  people have too. Anybody who is a controversial fi is going to have that
• 1:21:00
  happen in this day and age. And therefore, in the minds of the
• 1:21:04
  Washington Post this inherently one is credible, which it's never almost never credible.
• 1:21:11
  But two, it makes Langford the victim, and whoever is the victim is
• 1:21:17
  the one who wins. We live in a victim society. First one to
• 1:21:20
  victimhood wins, at least in the minds of the Washington Post. Back to
• 1:21:26
  the Blaze article, the Washington Post alleged the kk G members not KKK.
• 1:21:30
  Sure sure, remember members of the Liberal Washington Post. We're trying to connect
• 1:21:35
  I'm sure KKG to KKK, but I digress. KKG members involved in the
• 1:21:41
  lawsuit saw Langford on campus and began whispering before they quote shot him or her
• 1:21:49
  a look of disgust. That's how far the standard of bullying or inappropriate behavior
• 1:21:58
  has now fallen. Sorority members shooting allegedly a look of disgust at someone that
• 1:22:06
  makes you a victim. That's I mean, that would have been called Monday
• 1:22:14
  back in the day. I mean that would have happened every single day,
• 1:22:16
  many times a day. That's what they do, shoot looks of disgust.
• 1:22:20
  My gosh, my eleven year old daughter does that to me on at least
• 1:22:25
  a daily basis. So I mean, this is this is absurd, that
• 1:22:29
  this is now the new standard of abuse. Langford and Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter
• 1:22:34
  leaders agreed that the transgender individuals shouldn't live at the sorority house for the safety
• 1:22:41
  of all parties involved. The outlet noted that Langford was diagnosed this is you
• 1:22:46
  always if you watch carefully, you wait long enough. Usually the end of
• 1:22:51
  these articles that they're even remotely fair. They're going to tell you what the
• 1:22:56
  real truth of the matter is. They're just gonna make you figure it out
• 1:22:59
  for yourself. But the Washington Post noted that Langford was diagnosed get this,
• 1:23:04
  by doctors as being on the autistic spectrum at age eight. Langford had attempted
• 1:23:11
  suicide as a child and as a teenager. And there, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:23:19
  we have the real truth of what is happening here. This is almost
• 1:23:25
  always connected to some form of mental illness. Does that make Langford a horrible
• 1:23:30
  person? Know? But does that make the idea that he is a woman
• 1:23:36
  legitimate apps of fricolutely not? And ironically, apparently this sorority, although it
• 1:23:44
  might have actually been related, this sorority had as its platform as its cause,
• 1:23:50
  the issue of mental health, which again I guess is kind of both
• 1:23:55
  ironic and also very telling, because this is a mental health issue in the
• 1:24:00
  vast majority of cases. But the liberal media will not tell you this,
• 1:24:05
  even though time and time and time again the evidence is overwhelming that if you
• 1:24:13
  use your brain, what's really happening here is that mental illness is now being
• 1:24:18
  enabled, and that people who crave attention are actually getting attention, mostly positive
• 1:24:27
  attention, for pretending to be a gender that they are not. This is
• 1:24:31
  not some sort of civil rights issue. I mean, my gosh. I
• 1:24:36
  mean the idea that it's equated to the plight of people who are homosexual or
• 1:24:43
  even people who have suffered racial discrimination ought to piss off anyone who's ever endured
• 1:24:50
  real discrimination, because that's not what's happening here. It's exactly the opposite and
• 1:24:58
  the enabling of these people and the media now and liberals now creating this atmosphere
• 1:25:03
  where you get praised, you become a hero, you become woman of the
• 1:25:09
  year, which keeps happening on a continual basis. If you're a man pretending
• 1:25:14
  to be a woman and you get accepted into the woke elite somehow, it
• 1:25:19
  is not just absurd and ridiculous, it is incredibly corrupt and counterproductive and create
• 1:25:28
  situations where you have men, biological men, competing against women in sports,
• 1:25:33
  and you've got biological men getting erections while in sororities, even in Wyoming.
• 1:25:42
  In Wyoming, that's an important part of this. Wyoming one of the most
• 1:25:45
  conservative states and not the most conservative state, depending on how you define it.
• 1:25:48
  In the entire country, and even at the University of Wyoming, the
• 1:25:54
  sorority girls felt pressure to let this man become part of their sorority because they
• 1:26:00
  didn't want to get called names. This is how screwed we are. This
• 1:26:03
  is how utterly screwed we are, and how utterly broken academia is. And
• 1:26:08
  that's kind of I guess the theme of this entire episode of the podcast.
• 1:26:11
  Whether it's from the reaction to the attack on Israel, to the student loan
• 1:26:16
  situation, to affirmative action and test scores, to who's allowed to become a
• 1:26:24
  member of a sorority, it's all terrible, and as much of a pessimist
• 1:26:30
  as I am, I'm always trying desperately to find some evidence of something positive.
• 1:26:36
  It's becoming more and more difficult in this day and age, and when
• 1:26:41
  it comes to academia, I think I have put my finger on someone who
• 1:26:47
  at least provides a semblance of hope. And it's not somebody you would have
• 1:26:53
  expected. I've referenced this numerous times before in the podcast. I'm talking about
• 1:26:59
  Dion Sanders, the head football coach at the University of Colorado, a very
• 1:27:03
  very liberal university. University of Colorado at Boulder, and I think, you
• 1:27:10
  know, ahead of the curve, I have been making the argument that when
• 1:27:13
  you look at Dion Sanders from a substance standpoint, not from the flash perspective,
• 1:27:19
  not you know, the glasses and the bling and the big talk and
• 1:27:24
  the rappers on the sideline and all that, that when you look at the
• 1:27:29
  substance of what he is teaching or trying to teach his players at Colorado,
• 1:27:33
  that he is actually a conservative. And it's not even that close. Now.
• 1:27:41
  The media story surrounding Dion Sanders, just as I predicted several weeks ago,
• 1:27:45
  has diminished greatly because Colorado has gone on a bit of a losing streak,
• 1:27:51
  as their schedule dictated that they would, and in fact, this past
• 1:27:55
  weekend they lost a twenty nine to nothing lead at halftime to Stanford to lose
• 1:28:00
  a game at home, which is an all likelihood going to be the difference
• 1:28:02
  between making a bowl game this year and not making a bowl game, and
• 1:28:06
  the difference between Dion's season being seen as a massive success and maybe only being
• 1:28:13
  a moderate success or a disappointment. After all the crazy expectations that were created
• 1:28:17
  after they won their first couple of games, so the bloom has kind of
• 1:28:23
  gone off the rows a little bit from the media narrative standpoint on coach prime,
• 1:28:29
  but I still maintain that he is potentially the greatest thing that's ever happened
• 1:28:34
  to liberal academia, at least in recent years, not that there's much competition
• 1:28:40
  in that area. And the reason why I'm mentioning this is because a few
• 1:28:44
  days ago I saw a speech. Now, almost everything Dion does gets taped.
• 1:28:48
  I mean, he's almost more of a social media content creator than he
• 1:28:53
  is a head football coach. But that's his style and it's part of his
• 1:28:58
  popularity. But all his speech that he gave to his team that had nothing
• 1:29:03
  to do with the upcoming game with Stanford, although maybe in retrospect he should
• 1:29:10
  have focused more on how we're going to handle the second half against Stanford after
• 1:29:13
  we're up twenty nine to nothing, But I digress. This speech I thought
• 1:29:17
  was really remarkable because while the speech itself, you know, it wasn't even
• 1:29:25
  the best speech that I've seen Dion give, and it wasn't even the most
• 1:29:28
  conservative speech that I've seen Deon give, but I kept thinking, my god,
• 1:29:32
  if this was a straight white male professor at the University of Colorado at
• 1:29:39
  Boulder giving a lecture to his students. He would probably get in trouble and
• 1:29:45
  maybe, depending on his his tenure status, maybe even get fired because the
• 1:29:49
  speech was all about personal accountability. It was all about how great these guys
• 1:29:58
  all have it now, but that that's about to end, that the gravy
• 1:30:00
  train is about to end. Your life is a college football player. Everything
• 1:30:05
  is taken care of you, and I treat you like men, not boys,
• 1:30:09
  because you've got to turn into men real fast, because you're a bunch
• 1:30:13
  of boys right now. I'm paraphrasing, but I'm going to turn you into
• 1:30:16
  men. And as a man, you got to have a plan. What's
• 1:30:19
  your plan? Interestingly, the only player that responded to what's your plan was
• 1:30:28
  a guy who said, I'm going to go to trade school after the University
• 1:30:31
  of Colorado, which may have been the most remarkable indictment of our current academic
• 1:30:38
  situation in higher learning than I could possibly imagine. Here's a guy who's on
• 1:30:43
  full scholarship at the University of Colorado, a Poulder, you know, reputable
• 1:30:46
  university, and he feels so unprepared for the real world. He's gonna have
• 1:30:50
  to go to trade school afterwards. But that's that was almost a subplot to
• 1:30:56
  this situation. The main the main theme for me was this was Dion Sanders
• 1:31:02
  giving these kids some straight talk about the essence of their situation, the essence
• 1:31:09
  of life, the need for a plan, and his intent to turn them
• 1:31:15
  into men and to treat them as men and not as boys. And I
• 1:31:18
  thought, wow, that's really great. So as I am want to do,
• 1:31:24
  I took the video off of TikTok and I posted it on my Twitter
• 1:31:29
  account. And here's how I described the video, or how I what I
• 1:31:33
  wrote in conjunction with posting the video. I am not I don't pay for
• 1:31:40
  Twitter, so I can only put videos there two minutes and twenty seconds on
• 1:31:45
  Twitter, so I couldn't put the whole video. I gave the essence of
• 1:31:49
  it, but I also wanted to give a description, So here's what I
• 1:31:55
  wrote in conjunction with the Dion Sanders video. Once again, coach Prime is
• 1:32:00
  the greatest trojan horse of conservative thought infiltrating the wokeness of liberal academia, possibly
• 1:32:08
  in history. And then I wrote, please do not capital letters alert the
• 1:32:15
  morons in the liberal sports media exclamation point. And my point there is that
• 1:32:21
  when you listen to the substance of Dion Sanders, what he is saying is
• 1:32:26
  way more consistent with conservative thought and much more against the essence of woke thought
• 1:32:33
  than anybody else who is a prominent figure in academia today, and that he's
• 1:32:39
  able to get away with things that nobody else could, mainly because he's not
• 1:32:44
  just a black man, but he is seen as an authentically black man.
• 1:32:47
  He is extremely in touch with his blackness and with black culture, and he
• 1:32:55
  is being revered for being the type of black coach that is not a quote
• 1:33:00
  unquote Uncle Tom that you know doesn't isn't basically just a white guy with black
• 1:33:05
  skin. This guy is authentically black and has enormous street cred, not just
• 1:33:11
  because of his celebrity in the fact that he's a Hall of Fame football player
• 1:33:15
  and the fact that he's seemingly is turning around Colorado and he has all the
• 1:33:18
  charisma in the world, and he's been doing TV commercials for a flack for
• 1:33:23
  years with with Nick Saban, the head coach at the University of Alabama,
• 1:33:27
  and so all of these things are are together creating this situation where Dion Sanders
• 1:33:34
  is allowed to say things that other people would not be allowed to say.
• 1:33:40
  And when I posted the video, I didn't think it was gonna get much
• 1:33:44
  reaction because this has been something that I have tweeted about a lot, like,
• 1:33:48
  Hey, isn't this amazing that Dion Sanders, who is at this very
• 1:33:53
  liberal school, is seen as I don't know, people even think of him
• 1:33:58
  as a political figure, but certainly not perceived as a conservative figure. And
• 1:34:01
  when he was a player, he was the furthest thing from a conservative you
• 1:34:05
  could possibly imagine it, because he was all about himself. He was all
• 1:34:09
  about the bling and you know, showtime and prime time. And I didn't
• 1:34:15
  even like Dion Sanders at that time. But it seems to me is that
• 1:34:18
  something has happened in his evolution, which tends to happen if you, if
• 1:34:24
  you continue to grow as a person. It also appears as if religion may
• 1:34:29
  have played a role in what is happening with him. He's very overt about
• 1:34:35
  his Christianity, which is another thing that he could probably not get away with
• 1:34:40
  if he was not a black head coach with this kind of celebrity at the
• 1:34:44
  University of Colorado at Boulder, and so it seems to me as if Dion
• 1:34:48
  Sanders has matured and really learned a lot about real life. But when I
• 1:34:55
  tweeted it, I thought, Okay, you know, I'm just going to
• 1:34:58
  continue this silent crusade that no one's paying attention to that, Hey, Dion
• 1:35:02
  Sanders is actually pretty conservative. Isn't this cool? I think I may have
• 1:35:08
  even said many months ago that if if Charles Barkley and Dion Sanders somehow ran
• 1:35:14
  on the same ticket for president against Biden and Trump, I would vote for
• 1:35:17
  them. And I meant it, and I mean it even more so now.
• 1:35:21
  I mean, this will never in a million years happened. But just
• 1:35:26
  to show you how much respect I have for what it seems as if Sanders
• 1:35:30
  is doing, if Donald Trump chose Dion Sanders as his running mate again,
• 1:35:34
  never gonna happen, right, I'm talking about in this fantasy world. You
• 1:35:39
  know how much I hate Donald Trump. If he picked Dion Sanders as his
• 1:35:43
  running mate, I would vote for Trump. I've never voted for Trump.
• 1:35:47
  I have no intention of ever voting for Donald Trump. I've never supported him
• 1:35:51
  for anything but against Joe Biden or Gavin newsom where Kamala Harris. If that
• 1:35:58
  was the ticket, I would begrudgingly go, Okay, I'm in that.
• 1:36:03
  That's how much faith I have in what is really making Dion Sanders tick.
• 1:36:09
  Again, He's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, and you know,
• 1:36:13
  he's made I think some mistakes, as anybody would as a first year
• 1:36:17
  coach. No one is perfect. I want to make that clear. And
• 1:36:21
  and Dion is is not one hundred percent conservative. There's a that's that's for
• 1:36:28
  for sure. So I don't want to overplay this. But what when you
• 1:36:31
  consider the state of academia and it's in the state of the liberal sports media.
• 1:36:36
  Uh, he is a breath of fresh air. And I was curious
• 1:36:41
  to see how my continuine crusade to educate people as to who Dion really is
• 1:36:45
  was going to go. And this time it really shocked me because this tweet
• 1:36:49
  literally went viral, at least by my standards, because my tweet's generally you
• 1:36:54
  know, I have a small but enthusiastic fan base on Twitter, over sixty
• 1:37:00
  thousand followers, and I get a decent amount of interaction there. But because
• 1:37:04
  I'm a toxic individual and I'm not part of any cult. My tweets almost
• 1:37:10
  never go viral, because that's really what this is all about. It's about
• 1:37:13
  who is. It's like high school, right, popularity. Popularity drives everything.
• 1:37:17
  So if you're part of a cult or if your celebrity, you know,
• 1:37:21
  your message is far more likely to get spread by other people. Well,
• 1:37:27
  this was definitely the exception. As of this taping. This tweet has
• 1:37:32
  about six hundred thousand views, which is nowhere near as many as you know,
• 1:37:38
  a major celebrity would get with a viral tweet. But for me,
• 1:37:42
  that's a lot of views and has been reposted I think over a thousand times
• 1:37:47
  and has well over a thousand retweets and hundreds and hundreds of commons. And
• 1:37:55
  at first it was all very very positive, like, holy this speech is
• 1:38:00
  on fire. You know this. I never thought of Dion in this way.
• 1:38:05
  You know, thanks for making me aware of this. I have new
• 1:38:10
  respect for Dion Sanders and Coach Prime. That was the general gist of it.
• 1:38:14
  It was conservatives who were like, holy cow, there's really something here.
• 1:38:18
  But then once it started to actually quote unquote go viral depending on your
• 1:38:23
  definition of a viral, and again, by my standards, this was definitely
• 1:38:27
  viral. Over a couple of day period of time, Having it, you
• 1:38:30
  know, get over six hundred thousand views is by my definition, a viral
• 1:38:35
  tweet. Things started to change because then liberals started to react to it.
• 1:38:42
  And there is nothing, and I mean nothing, that pisses off liberals more
• 1:38:47
  than the idea that one of their people, their figures, you know,
• 1:38:54
  their celebrities, people that are seen as on their side, especially as a
• 1:38:58
  black man, a black sol celebrity in the realm of sports, being used
• 1:39:05
  against them or being seen as not really being on their side. That's a
• 1:39:12
  third rail issue. And boyle boy, the reaction I got was dramatic.
• 1:39:17
  At times it was racist. I got called all sorts of names. I
• 1:39:23
  got called a racist, all for pointing out that I thought that what Dion
• 1:39:29
  was saying there was rather conservative and against wokeism. And of course then there's
• 1:39:33
  the whole how do you define wocism? You guys just say wokeism to anything
• 1:39:38
  you disagree with, which is bullshit. And it was clear that I had
• 1:39:44
  hit a nerve, no question that this had hit a nerve. And the
• 1:39:47
  evolution of this tweet, I thought was very very telling, and I do
• 1:39:50
  think there's something here. But I also think the liberal reaction shows just how
• 1:39:57
  steep this mountain is because because, for instance, let's pretend I'm right about
• 1:40:02
  Dion, he's never gonna make that clear publicly because the backlash would be too
• 1:40:09
  great. So he's just gonna continue to preach his message, which from a
• 1:40:15
  substance standpoint, is very not liberal, very not woke, very on PC
• 1:40:21
  and yes, at times rather conservative, but it's never gonna be something that
• 1:40:26
  he's publicly acknowledging. And the liberal sports media as now, as I reference
• 1:40:30
  in my tweet, is so stupid that they don't even realize what they're doing.
• 1:40:34
  They're promoting a guy who I really do think is this trojan horse of
• 1:40:39
  quote unquote conservative or at least nonliberal, non woke thought within the bastion of
• 1:40:45
  academia, in this case, the University of Colorado at Boulder. Although who
• 1:40:48
  knows how long Dion's gonna stay at the University of Colorado. There's already talked
• 1:40:54
  that he may be going to Texas A and M, which that would really
• 1:40:58
  really be interesting, are only rumors at this point. Texas A and M
• 1:41:02
  is struggling this year, and they got a coach with a huge buyout,
• 1:41:06
  but they got a ton of money there that would really test my theory,
• 1:41:12
  right And by the way, just the fact that this is a rumor and
• 1:41:16
  I think is consistent with my theory. Someone if there's any truth to this
• 1:41:20
  at all, someone at Texas A and M is thinking exactly the same way
• 1:41:25
  I am, because Texas A and M is about as conservative a university as
• 1:41:30
  there is left in the United States. And so if in fact there's anything
• 1:41:35
  to these Dion Sanders to Texas A and M rumors, I will feel very
• 1:41:41
  much vindicated. Although I kind of hope he stays at the University of Colorado
• 1:41:45
  and I hope he's able to turn this season around because I'm becoming a coach
• 1:41:49
  prime fan. Although with the understanding and the hesitation that can get burned at
• 1:41:56
  any moment, especially by someone who's outspoken as Dion, that he's going to
• 1:42:00
  go go say something that I'm going to strongly disagree with, but I get
• 1:42:02
  it. No one's perfect. By the way, when it comes to the
• 1:42:05
  issue of a college affiliated minor league football, and I think that's what I'm
• 1:42:11
  going to try to call what used to be known as college football, going
• 1:42:15
  forward college affiliated minor league football. In the last episode, or I think
• 1:42:18
  two episodes ago, I talked about going to a USC football game, and
• 1:42:24
  I told you that the Heisman winning trophy, the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback for
• 1:42:29
  USC, Caleb Williams, was not really that great. And then all these
• 1:42:33
  people in my orbit are telling me how awesome he is. And I saw
• 1:42:35
  him play in person against Arizona again they barely won in triple overtime, and
• 1:42:42
  I was completely unimpressed. Well, he got exposed against Notre Name this past
• 1:42:46
  weekend and through three interceptions in the first half, and it appears as if
• 1:42:50
  his quest to be the first back to back Heisman Trophy winners since Archie Griffin
• 1:42:57
  in the nineteen seventies is probably going down flames because USC is not going to
• 1:43:02
  be a national title contender, if Saturday's performance is any indication. And I
• 1:43:06
  really do believe that Caleb Williams is overrated, fantastic athlete, amazing feat in
• 1:43:13
  a broken play situation against a bad defense, he's awesome. But against a
• 1:43:16
  decent defense where he has to stay within the confines of the play, and
• 1:43:24
  he's not able to just run around and create chaos and play flag football.
• 1:43:28
  I think he's very, very average, and I think that that was largely
• 1:43:30
  vindicated by what happened against Notre Dame, where Notre Dame basically crushed USC on
• 1:43:38
  Saturday. One other football related note, the Taylor Swift Travis Kelcey story,
• 1:43:45
  I think has taken a significant turn. If you are still in the category
• 1:43:50
  of people that believes that that relationship is totally contrived for publicity, you probably
• 1:43:59
  think that but that is the case because there's been more evidence to back it
• 1:44:02
  up. But I am in the category of people believes that the relationship is
• 1:44:08
  real, but they're just both using it very artfully for their own benefit when
• 1:44:14
  it comes to publicity. I mean, Taylor Swift has this new movie out
• 1:44:17
  where her cult is reliving her concert tour, and Travis Kelcey obviously is the
• 1:44:24
  middle of a season with the Kansas City Chiefs and has a ton of commercials.
• 1:44:27
  Aaron Rodgers has taken to calling him mister Pfizer, which is pretty hilarious,
• 1:44:32
  but I mean almost you can't go fifteen minutes watching a sporting event these
• 1:44:38
  days without seeing a Travis Kelcey commercial, and I think in the large part
• 1:44:43
  it's probably because of all the publicity surrounding the relationship with Taylor Swift, but
• 1:44:48
  the two of them were out at a restaurant holding hands. Over the weekend.
• 1:44:53
  They both did a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live, which by the
• 1:44:58
  way, mocked the whole NFL reaction and the NFL media reaction to the Taylor
• 1:45:03
  Swift Travis Kelcey story. Kelsey had a cameo in that, and then Taylor
• 1:45:08
  Swift had a cameo with regard to the music appearance later in the show.
• 1:45:13
  So it's it's very clear to me that the relationship is at least some level
• 1:45:18
  real. But here's why it matters. You probably want to John, why
• 1:45:21
  do you care whether or not Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift are having sex,
• 1:45:27
  which is basically what the allegation would be, or what the essence of the
• 1:45:30
  story is, you know, the quote unquote dating. Because I am now
• 1:45:35
  ready to make a prediction, and this is very similar to my Trump is
• 1:45:40
  going to be the Republican nominee prediction. I believe now that the only way
• 1:45:46
  that the Kansas City Chiefs do not make the Super Bowl is if Patrick Mahomes
• 1:45:54
  or Travis Kelcey gets significantly hurt. Now that might have always been the case
• 1:45:59
  because the champs and they're very good, although they seem to be a little
• 1:46:01
  bit diminished from last year. But and I'm not this is not a conspiracy.
• 1:46:08
  This is not you know, the NFL likes to now joke. They
• 1:46:12
  literally do commercials mocking this. I guess you would call it rumor that there's
• 1:46:16
  a script for the NFL. I don't believe that there's an actual script for
• 1:46:20
  the NFL. I don't think it's you know, pro wrestling yet, although
• 1:46:26
  it's certainly going in that direction. But I think that unless Mahomes or Kelsey
• 1:46:31
  get hurt, it's going to be almost impossible to stop the Chiefs from getting
• 1:46:35
  to the super Bowl. I mean someone's going to have to, you know,
• 1:46:40
  in that AFC Championship game, they're going to have to play beyond their
• 1:46:45
  normal capabilities because everything is working in that direction. Frankly, there's just too
• 1:46:51
  much money for everybody for the Chiefs to make the super Bowl. Because if
• 1:46:56
  you get the Super Bowl with the Chiefs the defending and Taylor Swift in attendance,
• 1:47:03
  I mean, the super Bowl is always goald to begin with. Now,
• 1:47:06
  you're gonna have literally record TV ratings and attention, and there's too much
• 1:47:13
  money to be made from everyone's perspective, and I'm sorry that impacts the officiating,
• 1:47:21
  it impacts everything. And by the way, some of this is just
• 1:47:26
  natural. I mean, every single member of that Chiefs team is elevated by
• 1:47:30
  this rising tide. Rising tide lifts all boats effect. That's the reality of
• 1:47:35
  this, that everything they do now has a heightened energy, more attention.
• 1:47:42
  By the way, every single one of those players is being treated better by
• 1:47:45
  their girlfriends or their wives, or their perspective, girlfriends or wives because of
• 1:47:49
  the Taylor Swift effect. I mean, they are a big deal, and
• 1:47:53
  they now because they've gotten past the initial phases of this, and it hasn't
• 1:47:59
  create division within the team by any by any indication. I mean, the
• 1:48:05
  team is kept winning now that they have momentum, as long as this Taylor
• 1:48:12
  Swift and Travis Kelcey thing keeps going, which I think it will for at
• 1:48:15
  least the rest of the season, especially since Swift's going back on tour.
• 1:48:19
  So you know, I think this basically locks the Chiefs into the super Bowl.
• 1:48:25
  And that sounds conspiratorial, it's not a direct conspiracy. It's that everyone
• 1:48:31
  has a self interest for the Chiefs to make the Super Bowl. And generally,
• 1:48:35
  when everyone has a self interest for something to happen, much like Trump
• 1:48:41
  being the Republican presidential nominee, it happens. And so that's my prediction with
• 1:48:45
  regard to the NFL that unless Kelsey or Mahomes gets hurt or you know,
• 1:48:53
  a spectacular performance against the Chiefs and say the AFC Championship game, I don't
• 1:49:00
  see there's any way that the Chiefs don't make the super Bowl because it's just
• 1:49:03
  too much in everyone's self interest for that to happen. Now, whether or
• 1:49:08
  not this podcast will still exist, then for me to take either credit or
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  admit I was wrong in this prediction, I don't know. We'll see in
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  the coming episodes. I'll have more information about that. But that's my prediction
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  for now. And if I am wrong and this podcast still exists, I'll
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  be the first to acknowledge it, just like I was with regard to Trump
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  and net and Yahoo at the beginning of the episode. But that'll do it
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  for this episode number ninety seven of the Death of Journalism podcast. As is
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  always the case, please remember to subscribe, rate and review, and share
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  friends on Facebook. Until next time, thanks so much for listening. This
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  has been the death of journalism podcast. My name is John Zigler.