1 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer and this is Josh Ammer Show. So 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: welcome back to the program. Gradulations right the top to 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: the Michigan Wolverines on their second college basketball and national championship. 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: I think you guys know that I am a big 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: college basketball fans. When gratulations to Michigan, the lesser evil 6 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: of the two, I will say in last night's national 7 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: championship game, we have a whole host of other issues 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: to get to on today's show. The remainder of the 9 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: Passover holiday starts night. Is actually a very interesting lesson 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: here for these final two days the Passover holiday. He 11 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: hopes he gets that later in the show. Jad Vans 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: current is actually over in Hungary for the forthcoming Hungarian elections. 13 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: Lots to impact there as well. But for now we 14 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: start with this. I think back often to the twenty 15 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: sixteen presidential campaign. It was a campaign really like aneother. 16 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump took the Republican primary by storm. He surged 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: head of all of the other candidates, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ran, 18 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: Paul Jeb Bush, Ben Cary, and you name it, and 19 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: he did so in highly unorthodox fashion. He did so 20 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: by challenging a lot of the substantive shibolets when it 21 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: comes to things like free trade, absolutism, when it comes 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: to things like de facto open borders, at least for 23 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: legal immigration visa's things that. And he also challenges as 24 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: quo when it came to things like adventurous, swashbuckling foreign policy, 25 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: Cold War era multilateralism that had gone stale and hackneyed, 26 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: and things like that. But it was not just the 27 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: substance that Donald Trump challenges as quote, it was also 28 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: his style. 29 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 2: If you don't. 30 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 1: Understand this by now, in the year twenty twenty six, 31 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: ten years after Donald Trump shocked the political world and 32 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: dominated the primary and then pulled the upset really arguing 33 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: in American presidential history by defeating Hillary Rodham Clinton, if 34 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:52,279 Speaker 1: you understand by now that Donald Trump's style is part 35 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: of the appeal, then what are you doing. If you're 36 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: the kind of person who doesn't really pay attention to 37 00:01:58,800 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: the news, you might be. 38 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 2: For give him. 39 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: But if you are part of the blue checked Twitter addie. 40 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: And if you are engaged in the political business, if 41 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: you work in DC, you work in the Beldoe, you 42 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: work on Capitol Hill, you go on cable news, you 43 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: do this you that there, and you still don't understand that. 44 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, in the immortal words of Selena Zito in 45 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, speaks seriously but not literally. If you don't 46 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: get that, then, frankly, you are a moron and you 47 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: have no idea what you're actually doing in this business. 48 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: So Donald Trump this morning taking the world by storm 49 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: with this post on True social this post coming into 50 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 1: anticipation of his deadline, that is tonight for Aroan to 51 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: open the strait of horror moves or else dot dot 52 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: dot things will will happen. So Trump, posting at eight 53 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: oh six a m. Eastern Time on Truth Socialist morning quote, 54 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought 55 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: back again. I don't want that to happen, but it 56 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: probably will. And it's a little bit more to this post. 57 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: Forty seven years of extortion, corruption and death will finally end. 58 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: God bless the great people of Irong. So the idiots, 59 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 1: the morons are focusing, or have been focusing all day 60 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: thus far, I should say, since his post went out 61 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: on the first two sentences, A whole civilization will die tonight, 62 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: never to be brought back again. I don't want that 63 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: to happen, but it probably will. And the idiots think 64 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: that he's actually take like literal here, that he's actually 65 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: going to drop Hiroshima Nagasaki style nukes vanquish tens of 66 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: millions of people in an act of unprecedented historical genocide. 67 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: And the freaking out is happening, I really across the 68 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: political spectrum. It's happening certainly on parts of the left. 69 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: It's been happening certainly on parts of the idiot's right 70 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: as well, Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly in that whole crowd. 71 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 2: We'll get to that a little bit later on the pro. 72 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: Perhaps as well there, but for now, I want to 73 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: just show you what this looks like in practice. So 74 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: this was actually this, This is over the past twenty 75 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: four hours or so on ms now talking about Donald 76 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: Trump amping up with the rhetoric. If this is not 77 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: done directly in response to the true social post there. 78 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: But this is kind of just a bit of a preview, 79 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: a bit of a window win a lends into how 80 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: the left has been reacting to Donald Trump's increasing escalation 81 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: there against roll. 82 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and play this clip from ms now. 83 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 3: He had another line in the conference about something I 84 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 3: think the entire country could be taken out in a 85 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 3: single night. A lot of scholars in this area have 86 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 3: been a little bit hesitant to just outright say that 87 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 3: taking out a bridge is a war crime, taking out 88 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 3: a power plan as a war crime, because as I 89 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 3: just explained, that isn't always the case. There could be 90 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 3: circumstances where they can be legally targetable. When you make 91 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 3: statements like We're going to take out the entire country 92 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 3: in a single night, that's a per se war crime. 93 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 3: And if that is the commander in chief ordering his 94 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 3: commanders underneath him in the chain of command to do that, 95 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 3: they should understand that is a blatantly unlawful order. And 96 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 3: a lot of what he has said today would constitute 97 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 3: a blatantly unlawful order that they would be obliged not 98 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 3: to follow. So you're right, they can be targetable in 99 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 3: the circumstances that the President has laid out. I haven't 100 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 3: identified a single reason why you. 101 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,119 Speaker 1: Would oblige not to follow orders. Where have we heard 102 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: that one before? Again, this acts you said in response 103 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump's prior threats when it comes to some 104 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: of the power plants and the energy infrastructure. 105 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 2: Sure enough. 106 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 1: Actually, overnight this past night, the United States did bomb 107 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: some of the energy infrastructure over at Karg Island, which 108 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: is this island where the running regime is able to 109 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: refine and process much of the petroleum that they then 110 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: export unto the world, albeit if it is not sanctioned there. 111 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: These are not war crimes. These are done in the 112 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: act of war. This is contextual. This is happening in 113 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: the act of war. These people are throwing around these 114 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: terms war crimes as if they mean nothing whatsoever there. 115 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: But the broader point again is that if you are 116 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: taking Donald Trump literally and not just seriously, you are 117 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: actually a more I want to elaborate on that point 118 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: because it's a very, very very important point that were 119 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: for now folks. Just a quick word from Responsible Today show, 120 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: which is a bounce of nature. 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I mentioned this piece 148 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: that Selena Zito wrote back in September twenty teen, it 149 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: was very much part of the of the zeitgeist of 150 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: that particular unique moment in American political history. This piece 151 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: is written around the same time as the famous essay 152 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: the Flight twenty two election published in the Claremont Review 153 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: of Books, written synonymously. Now we know it was written 154 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: by Michael Anton there and it was part of this 155 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: whole national reckoning with the Trump phenomenon on the precipice 156 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: as it turns out in retrospect of his miraculous victory 157 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: over Hillary Clinton. There and Selina Zito, who is very 158 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: much in touch with the grassroots in Pennsylvania. There she 159 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: was one of the ones who saw Donald Trump's evisceration 160 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: of the blue wall of those rust belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pensylvania. 161 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: She saw this coming there. Her famous column for The 162 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: Atlantic was taking Trump seriously, not literally. And again, if 163 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: you are failing to learn this lesson in the year 164 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, a few things can be said. One, 165 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: you should turn in your professional card if you were 166 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 1: actually engaged in calling political shots and offering political commentary 167 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: and giving in perspective in trying to shape, or to mold, 168 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: or to other otherwise influence political events. And you do 169 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: not understand this basic thing about Donald Trump. There, You're 170 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: just an idiot, an idiot at best. At worst, you're 171 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: deeply deceitful and disingenuous. Donald Trump says stuff. In twenty sixteen, 172 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: he famously once said that his supporters were so loyal 173 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: that he could just shoot them in the middle of 174 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and that they would still 175 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: support him. Did he ever do that? No, did he 176 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,599 Speaker 1: actually think that. No, like now, literally seriously, he just 177 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: meant that his suppors were very, very loyal. This is 178 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,199 Speaker 1: how the man speaks. On Yesterdays Show, we spent the 179 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: whole time talking about that. This is Trump at his core. 180 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: He's an outer Borough guy. So much of the Donald 181 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: Trump that you have seen for decades, decades is because 182 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: this is a guy who is from Queen's and he 183 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: speaks like a guy from Queen's and the fact that 184 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: he acts and speaks like a guy from Queens while 185 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 1: having the family name and the global real estate and 186 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: the branding and the marketing empire that he has there. 187 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: This is a huge part of his political appeal. It 188 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: is why it is why Donald Trump has become the 189 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: billionaire gilded toilet maga populist, because he has this way 190 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: of connecting to people there. If you were to ask 191 00:09:54,960 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: the generic voter in proverbial flyover country who has a 192 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: properly skeptical view of the world's number one state sponsor 193 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: of terror, Iran, who probably is not a huge fan 194 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: frankly of the influence of Islam more generally on Western 195 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: civilization there, if you were to ask him after he 196 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: is maybe one or two cors lights deep as to 197 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: what is his stance when it comes to Iran, he 198 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: would probably see something along the lines of bomb the 199 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: crap out of them, wipe them out, or some other 200 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: answer thereof Donald Trump is the commander in chief, the 201 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: president of United States, who is now saying that, albeit 202 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: it even more over the top fashion there, putting out 203 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: there from the platform of his widely followed and heavily 204 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: disseminated true social account, and the fact that he is 205 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 1: doing that again, this is why he has this connection there, 206 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: because he just says the things that the elites say, 207 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: you're not allowed to say. 208 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 2: He's not going to do it. 209 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: He's not you know that, I know that, and the 210 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: fact that we're even forced to have this converse amidst 211 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: this meltdown again, his meltdown is actually not just happening 212 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: from the left. That's very much happening from parts of 213 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,839 Speaker 1: the so called riot. These verse of fifth column rights 214 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: as we've been talking about there, they're now saying that 215 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: that this is evil, that he's throwning war crimes there. 216 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 1: He's only doing that if you take him literally and 217 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: not seriously. In order to take Donal Trump literally not seriously, 218 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: you have to ignore the entire past ten years. That's 219 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: not how he negotiates. When you was talking about Greenland 220 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 1: threatening native there, take him seriously, not literally. You would 221 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: think that the chattering class would have learned their lesson 222 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: by now. Unfortunately, if you thought that, in many instances 223 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: of least, you would have thought wrong, because there are 224 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: many people spouting their mouths off and they have an 225 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: idea of talking about there. Donald Trump is acting in 226 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: prudential fashion when it comes to the Iranian threat, as 227 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 1: he's been doing for over a month. Down folks say, 228 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 1: without this too, a quick rush of break. Quilp be 229 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: Bright back with more on the other side. Welcome back. 230 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: So before Donald Trump took the political world and frankly 231 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: the whole world by storm with the true social post 232 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: seen around the world. This morning, he took the world 233 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 1: by a slightly smaller storm, but still by bit of 234 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 1: a storm with a lengthy White House press conference on Monday. 235 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: And this thing was really sprawling. He was dropping some 236 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: words that are not necessarily fit here for a feeling 237 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: friendly show like the Josh Hammer show. BS would be 238 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: the initials for some of the things that he was 239 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: saying there. He was talking about how the Iranians have 240 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: been playing the Western world for fools for decades, which 241 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: they have in which a lot of fools like Barack 242 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: Husain Obama, like John Kerrey, like Rob Mallley, like Ben Roads, 243 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: left the entire Obama Nuclear deal echo chamber, like they 244 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 1: all fell for And he was talking a lot about that. 245 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: He was talking, frankly, a lot about a lot of things. 246 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: And again take us back to a previous conversation. This 247 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 1: is why Donald Trump has his connection because. 248 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 2: He just says it. 249 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: It is one of the greatest political attributes of Donald Trump. 250 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: In fact, if I were to name what are the 251 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: top political tributes of Donald Trump, and the reason that 252 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: he will be remembered as a great man of history. 253 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: And at this point I think he's well in his way. 254 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: It's being remembered as one of the most transformative presidents 255 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: in American history. Whether you love Mari you hate him, clearly, 256 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: I think that that is going to be the case 257 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: when all is said and done and all has been 258 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: written there. If I were to tell you what are 259 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 1: the most the greatest political tributes ones, the ones that 260 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: are most directly responsible for his sustained political success, they 261 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: are as follows. One, perhaps above all, is his sense 262 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: of humor. The fact that Donald Trump is a really 263 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: really funny guy there and he just can't help the 264 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: times but does genuinely laugh at him. 265 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 2: That is a huge part of his appeal. 266 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: Two is that he has this incredible skill which we 267 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: have seen over the past twenty fourth this hours, with 268 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: these threats about the energy facilities, the power plants, and 269 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: then this true social posts about wiping out civilization. He 270 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: has his incredible skill to make his opponents lose their 271 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: freaking minds. I have never seen a politician in my 272 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: years of falling politics who has a more instinctual knack 273 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: for knowing how to twist the screws and to make 274 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: his political opponents just look like fools. It helps Don 275 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: Trump a lot, by the way, that he has a 276 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 1: lot of political foes who are just typecast for the role. 277 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 1: I mean Stormy Daniels, the porn star, Michael Collen, the 278 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: bumbling idiot, I mean many of Trump's political enemies. Jim 279 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: Comey comes to mind. A lot of them have just 280 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: been totally typecast for the role. But he has that 281 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: ability as well. The third thing I would say is 282 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: that Trump also has this incredible instinct when it comes 283 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: to the art of the eighty twenty issue. He finds 284 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: himself able to take advantage, to seize, and ultimately to 285 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: push and to use as a cudgel in a wedge. 286 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: Many of these eighty twenty issues, things like biological males 287 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: competing as women in an athletic competition, things like the 288 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: deportation of pro Haamas, pro terrorists, vile people frankly in 289 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: our homeland, people like Makmu Khalil, the former Columbia grats 290 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: do in there. He has the arts in other words, 291 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: of the eighty twenty issue. There So, these are some 292 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's greatest political skills. And a lot of 293 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: those skills were on display at this press comes Jess say. 294 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: But there also was a lot more of a lot 295 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: more serious fare there as well. So, for instance, here 296 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: was Don Trump talking about how the debate over the 297 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: street of horor moves actually plays into the epic fury 298 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: and gave them. Here he was Trump speaking yesterday at 299 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: this presser about the stratiform moose. 300 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 4: That's one thing that's a little different than other there. 301 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 4: We can bomb the hell out of them, we can 302 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 4: knock them out for a loop. But to close the strait, 303 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 4: all you need is one terrace that somehow has a 304 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 4: truck loaded with because you can carry them in trucks, 305 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 4: large trucks, a water mine, drop them in the water. 306 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 4: And now you tell people that own chips that cost 307 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 4: a billion dollars to don't worry about the mine. You 308 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 4: can do that even just by saying we put mines 309 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 4: in the water. So it's not like the rest. We 310 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 4: can knock out their military. We already have. We've knocked 311 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 4: out their navy, we've knocked out their air force completely. 312 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 4: We've knocked out one hundred and fifty eight chips in 313 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 4: three days. We've knocked out even their mind droppers. They 314 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 4: don't have any mind droppers anymore, but they put them 315 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 4: on other boats and they could drop them. I'm not 316 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 4: even sure they have any minds yet, by the way, 317 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 4: I'm not sure. I'm personally. They say they might be eight. 318 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. I think there might 319 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 4: be none. 320 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: So the ray from Moose is an indispensal part of 321 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: the equation as to what the Iran Operation Epic Fury 322 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: will look like in the months ahead. It is very difficult, 323 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: perhaps even impossible, to foresee a situation in which President 324 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: Trump can meaningfully declare victory in this operation. If the 325 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: strait is still closed, if nothing else, if nothing else, 326 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: you know, the moles stay in place there, God forbid. 327 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: Un they keep some arsenal ballistic missiles and drones that 328 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: shouldn't happen. To be clear, it should not happen. But 329 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: even if that were the case, and an even lower baseline, 330 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: it would be that Iran cannot hold global energy markets 331 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: hostage by having drones and mine laying vessels cut off 332 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: oil into the Arabian Sea and by extension into the 333 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: Indian Ocean. 334 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: You can't do that. You simply can't do that there. 335 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: That's why the United States was involved in in carg 336 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: island of the Iranian oil refining facility this last night. There, 337 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: it's pretty much impossible to see a world in which 338 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: the United States can declare victory and it actually means 339 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: the word victory. If the three of four moves is 340 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: actually still close. Now, that does call into serious question 341 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: what are the role of America's real allies and quote 342 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: unquote allies when it comes to opening the three or 343 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: four moves. So there have been some some countries, I 344 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: believe South Korea, a couple of others who have actually 345 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: been at least somewhat helpful in starting to assist the 346 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: United States and trying to open the straiform moves. Again, 347 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: one of the ironies here which Trump and the Secretary 348 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: of State Mark Rubio, they've been making this point among others, 349 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: is that the United States is actually not as a 350 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: nation huge independent on oil that flows through the stratiform moose. 351 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: Why because the United States is actually the world's number 352 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: one export of this point of oil and natural gas, 353 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: not number two, three, four, or five, number freaking one. 354 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 2: It was not always that way. 355 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: Trump during his first term made America a net exporter 356 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: of oil and news gas. The Biden Housers unfortunately brought 357 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: it back to not being a net exploring more, and 358 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: Donal Trump has now made it not just a net 359 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: exporter but number freaking one. So one of the ironies 360 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: of all this is that it is actually it's actually 361 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 1: the European countries are so called and NATO allies who 362 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: bear the far bigger brunt of the choke points that 363 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: is the straightform moves being closed. 364 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 2: There. 365 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 1: Donal Trump's actually asked by one of these reporters about 366 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: NATO at this press commons happened on Monday at the 367 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: White House at let's go ahead and watch that club. 368 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 4: And I have to tell you, I'm very disappointed in NATO. 369 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 4: Very I think that NATO. I think it's a mark 370 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 4: on NATO that will never disappear, never disappear in my mind. 371 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 4: You know, they're coming to see me on Wednesday. They're 372 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 4: gonna say, oh, we'll do this, we'll do that now, 373 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 4: they all of a sudden want to send things, you know, 374 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 4: But they said it loud and clear at the beginning 375 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 4: when I spoke to UK of all, I would have 376 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 4: said they would have been the first because they've been 377 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 4: they're the oldest, and I say, yeah, I'd love to 378 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 4: have a little help. Said no, so way till you win. 379 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 4: I said, I don't need help. After we win. They 380 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 4: have two old, broken aircraft carriers barely work. I said, 381 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 4: I guess we can use some who to hell knows, 382 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 4: I called it generally. He didn't even want He said, 383 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 4: we don't really NATO. We got the SS Abraham Lincoln, Sir, 384 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 4: we don't need him. 385 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: Trump is clearly upset with NATO. We here on the 386 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: show are very upset with NATO as well. I was 387 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: thinking of my sands before when it comes to NATO, 388 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: it's probably worth reiterating in light of Trump's recent comments 389 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: on the matter. NATO has exposed itself as an utterly 390 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: hollow alliance structure over the course of this war. Now 391 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: a lot of NEOs apologists. I've had many of them, frankly, 392 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: in my ex mentions in my timeline. After I posted 393 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: my most recent column, which was heavily criticizing NATO, I 394 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: had a lot of folks say, oh, Josh, you idiots. 395 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: You understand that NATO is actually a purely defensive alliance. 396 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 1: It has no offense capabilities, to which I say, really, 397 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: where are you actually getting that from. Now, It's true 398 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 1: that part of NATO is defensive. That's a whole notion 399 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: of Article five. Article five, which is the most discussed 400 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: article of the NATO Charter, requires that a NATO member 401 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: state be willing and able to go to war to 402 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: defend to defend another NATO member state that is actually invaded. 403 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 1: That clearly is a defensive purpose. But of course there 404 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: are often the capabilities. NATO actually went into Korea during 405 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: the Korean War, NATO helped go into the Persian Gulf 406 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: ward during the San Hussein nonsense in the early nineteen nineties, 407 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: during the George H. W. 408 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 2: Bush manistration. 409 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: NATO has absolutely gone to war. NATO actually was really 410 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 1: the force that toppled Momar Gadaffi in Libya in twenty eleven, 411 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 1: after that highly misguided Barack Obama's meant the power led 412 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: intervention on deeply moralistic humanitarian grounds. So NATO can absolutely 413 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: go to war if it so chooses. We have ample, 414 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: ample evidence of that. History is replete with example over 415 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 1: the past eighty five years of NATO going to war 416 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: when it wants to go to war. The problem is 417 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: that they don't want to go to war right now. 418 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: They don't want to assist the United States of America, 419 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: though they directly benefit from the strait being open and 420 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: Iran being contained more than others. Iran has even shown 421 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: hold oil aside. They've shown they can hit the European 422 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: homeland when it comes to these missiles there, and that 423 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: these losers, and yes they are losers, Emmanuel McCrone loser, 424 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: Cure's stormer, loser, These losers will not lift a military 425 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 1: inch to assist us there. Why are we on the 426 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: hook for it? 427 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 2: Why? 428 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: I genuinely I do not know the answer. What I 429 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: do know is that Trump and Rubio are getting close 430 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: to the horror matter, and they say that after this 431 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,160 Speaker 1: war's over, it's time to fundamentally reassess what NATO means 432 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: to us and whether we should be involved in it 433 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: at all moving forward. So as the war in Iran 434 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: continues overseas, there is increased chatter, of course, as to 435 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 1: the politics of this on the home front. We're going 436 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: to bring on my colleague at the Earth Project, Mike Davis, tomorrow. 437 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: We'll talk about this among many other topics, for sure, 438 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: But there's this whole debate is happening, as do other not. 439 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: Trump is suffering political suicide? 440 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 2: Is he a mad man? 441 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: Is he going to drive his party drive his own 442 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: side of the aisle to political ruination in this November's 443 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: midterm elections? 444 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,439 Speaker 2: There the answer might surprise you. 445 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: So when Yesday Show we cover this new poll from 446 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: the Polster commonly known as Tip Tipp that shows actually 447 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: that a net majority of Americans by forty six to 448 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: forty five margin, I'll be a very narrow majority, actually approve, 449 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: actually approved of the war against the Iranian regime. Now, 450 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 1: there's also some other evidence out there as well, So 451 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: our buddy Harry Enton over at CNN actually has some 452 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: somewhat surprising data for you when it comes to trying 453 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: to assess which party is currently more popular and which 454 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 1: is less popular, and what the potentially means when it 455 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: comes to the elections. 456 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 2: This cemer. Let's go ahead and watch this from Harry 457 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 2: Enton over at CNA. 458 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 5: Well, I would say this, mister Verman, and that is 459 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,199 Speaker 5: that this lead is historically law for Democrats at this 460 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 5: point with. 461 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 2: A Republican president. 462 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,199 Speaker 5: Because take a look here, and I'm taking a look 463 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 5: at the average of all the posts dem generic congressional 464 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 5: ballot lead at this point in the cycle with the 465 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 5: Republican president on average there leads actually slightly less. 466 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 2: It's five points. 467 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 5: That's less than it was back in twenty and eighteen 468 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,719 Speaker 5: when it was eight points, and way less than it 469 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 5: was during the twenty zero six cycle when it was 470 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 5: eleven points. So yeah, Democrats are ahead, but they're only 471 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 5: ahead by five with a president who's net approval rating 472 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 5: is bordering a minus twenty to minus thirty depending on 473 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 5: what post you look at, you'd make the argument Democrats 474 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 5: should be way ahead, and they're just only sort of 475 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 5: slightly ahead. 476 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: So the reality is that both political parties are deeply 477 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 1: unpopular at this time, there is no doubt about that. 478 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: But as you just heard there, it's actually Democrats who 479 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 1: historically have an uphill battle relative to how they've done 480 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: what they've performed achieved in various other medium elections with 481 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 1: Republican presidents in power. There, So you compare to twenty eighteen, 482 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: the first midterm during Donald Trump's first term, Democrats are 483 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: currently below where they were actually at that time. If 484 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: you look at the net favorability rating of the two parties. 485 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: More generally, they're both totally bad. They are in the 486 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: toilet and both counts there, but Democrats are even worse. 487 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 1: The average Again, the polls differ, but the rough pulling 488 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 1: average as to the approval rating of the Republican Party 489 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: right now is roughly in the low thirties thirty two percent. 490 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 2: There. 491 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: Democrats are somewhere in the mid to high twenties, so 492 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: they're actually even worse. And the upshot here in assessing 493 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: all of this data and comparing it to previous Midtum 494 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 1: performances and then looking at the thumbs up thumbs down 495 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: as to which party is more popular less popular there, 496 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: the upshot essentially is this is that the Democratic Party 497 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: brand is frankly, just totally in the toilet. It is 498 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: absolutely positively in the toilet right now. And there's actually 499 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: another very interesting example to demonstrate this point as well, 500 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: which is that we have some new approval ratings for 501 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: Abigail Spanberger over in Virginia. So Spanburger was just elected 502 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: as the governor of the old Dominion there and her 503 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: approval rating has absolutely plummeted. It is actually plummeted by 504 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: a very wide margin just over the first few months 505 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: of her tenure there, and at this point, at this 506 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: very early juncture of her goobernatorial tenure, recalled that in Virginia, 507 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: you actually have this very bizarre law. 508 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 2: I don't like it. 509 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 1: I believe it's in the state constitution that the government 510 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 1: will serve for one term, so they're actually term limited. 511 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 1: They only get one four year term, which I got 512 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: I think is really dumb rule. They should probab pass 513 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,120 Speaker 1: conscertial amendment to change that, but that's their problem, not mine. 514 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: I'm a Floridian, non Virginia. In any event, Spamberger's approval 515 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: rating at this very early juncture of her four year 516 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: tenure is actually even worse than essentially all of her 517 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: immediate predecessors, so Glenn Youngkin, Ralph Northam, Terry mccauliffe, Bob McDonald, etc. 518 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 2: Et cetera. 519 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: It's basically below all of them at this very early juncture. 520 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: And the reason for that, we might speculate, is actually 521 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: pretty straightforward, was that Spamberger campaigned as something of a 522 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: quote unquote moderate and as governed as the furthest thing 523 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,719 Speaker 1: from that, she has issued orders that will compel Virginia 524 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 1: police to not cooperate with federal Immigration Force and with ICE. 525 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: She has struck a deeply, deeply anti gon Anti Second 526 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: Amendments tone that is not a particularly popular stance for 527 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: large swaths of Virginia, which outside of the Arlington and 528 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: Fairfax County area, much of the of the Conwell Virginia 529 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: is still very rural, still very culturally Southern in many ways. 530 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: There So she's basically taken a woke approach to governing 531 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 1: in not necessarily one of the nation's marquee swing states. 532 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: Virginia is no longer one of the Big seven swing states, 533 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: although neighboring North Carolina is. But she's still getting punished 534 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 1: for it. She's still getting punished for it in the polls. 535 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: And there's a real lesson here, frankly, when it comes 536 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: to two Republicans and their prospects for trying to stem 537 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: me off electoral losses this November. Indeed, if you look 538 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: at the current map, and Harrietta was doing a little 539 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: bit of this over on CNN as well, if you 540 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: look at the current map, Republicans have generally favorable terrain 541 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 1: when it comes to the Senate. Now, surely you expect 542 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: the House is likely going to be lost for Mike Johnson. 543 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: Republicans there, hopefully it's not. My preference would be the 544 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: Republicans hold both Houses of Congress. Not that they're great 545 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: at it, but they're certainly better than the alternative. But 546 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: you assumed that was such a narrow margin of just 547 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: a few seats, and ularly count the margin on one hand, 548 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: you assume that that's probably gonna be lost in the 549 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: first midterm election year. The us N is a much 550 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: more complicated picture now. If you look at the differential 551 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: between how Democrats are fery now when it comes to 552 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: voter enthusiasm compared to previous elections there, and you run 553 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 1: some numbers, you will look and you will see that 554 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: a couple of these states where Republican incumbents might be vulnerable. 555 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: So Susan Collins in Maine, the last of the New 556 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: England Republicans, she might be vulnerable. If current Transholt Tom 557 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: Tillis is out in North Carolina Therechael Wattley, the former 558 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: RNC head is running for Senate there. If you are 559 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,959 Speaker 1: trying to project out based on the approval metrics per 560 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: orient and you think that Michael Wattley in North Carolina 561 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,439 Speaker 1: might lose, might but even then you're looking at a 562 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: fifty one to forty nine split in terms of John 563 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: Thune remaining as a majority leader if things hold. Recall that, 564 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 1: technically speaking, because Jadie Vance's vice president can stay tiebreaking 565 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 1: vote if needbab, then you actually only need a fifty 566 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: to fifty split. But the point is that the Democrat 567 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: brand is just completely and utterly in the toilet. It 568 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: is absolutely in the toilet. And look, Republicans are going 569 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,439 Speaker 1: to have to find a way to transition away from 570 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: epic fury eventually back to domestic bread and butter issues. 571 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: I don't pretend like running as a wartime president and 572 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: trying to wage a six seven eight month war is 573 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: necessarily a politically winning strategy, certainly with the oil and 574 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: energy markets in flux as they've been there. But you 575 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: have to find some sort of stable, substantively victorious, meaningful 576 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: way to declare victory when victory has been achieved, and 577 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: then pretty rapidly try to transition back to domestic issues. 578 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: Also a little bit of a walk in chew gum 579 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: at the same time sort of thing going on here 580 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: as well. There's absolutely really no reason why you can't 581 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: be prosecuting and waged in this war against the terrorist 582 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: Iranie regime on the one hand, while simultaneously, on the 583 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: other hand, focusing on domestic bread and butter issues. Really, 584 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: I don't understand why you can't do both at the 585 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: same time. I'm not saying, to be clear that the 586 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: deministration is not doing that there. But what we've said 587 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: here on the show, and this remains were stands, is 588 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: that the White House and their Domestic Policy Council, all 589 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 1: all the various economic advisors. Every day you should wake 590 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: up in the morning and say what can I do 591 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: on this day ending and why to improve the livelihood, 592 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,959 Speaker 1: the flourishing, the financial and economic security of the American people, 593 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: and to better secure the American way of life. And 594 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: when you go to sleep at night, you just say, 595 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: let's assess what did I do this day and how 596 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: did I do to help improve the American people's economic 597 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: and general livelihood fortunes. By the way, that is not 598 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: just a thing that the White House should be doing 599 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: out of DC. They should also be talking a lot 600 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: to the states. Talk to Greg abbin taxes, talk to 601 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: Ron the Sanders in Florida, talk to Bill Lee and 602 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: Tennessee and so forth. 603 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 3: There. 604 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,239 Speaker 1: Talk to a lot of the leading red states and 605 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: work with them when it comes to advancing a compelling agenda, 606 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: an agenda for the party. More nationally speaking, there an 607 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: agenda that will prioritize economic issues, economic security and flourishing, 608 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: that will try its best to eliminate health care pricarity 609 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: so you feel more secure that your healthcare will not 610 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: be lost when you lose your job Heaven forbid or 611 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: something like that. There things that will help. When it 612 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: comes to home ownership. Trust me, we just close on 613 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: our first home, my wife and I there. It's very excited. 614 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: We have not moved in yet. That will happen probably 615 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: at some point towards the end of this month, if 616 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: I had to guess, sometime after they passed over holiday. 617 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: There quite a process, quite a process. And look, we 618 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: live in South Florida. It's very market there, but more 619 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: generally speaking, home prices not cheap, not cheap out there. 620 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: So these are the things. Iran is very important. It's 621 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: a forty seven year cancer on the world stage, and 622 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is finally ceasing to kick the can down 623 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: the road. But don't neglect the domestic agenda. The Democratic 624 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: brand is so in the toilet, It is so putrid, 625 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: it is so rancorous and so stinky right now that 626 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 1: there is a huge opportunity for Republicans to just go 627 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: all out on these meaningful quality of life issues economy, crime, immigration, 628 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: border inflations that are there and there with that they 629 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: will have a real, real, meaningful opportunity to hold the 630 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: United States Senate. The House probably gone, hopefully not, but 631 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: the Senate can definitely at this point be safe. Folks, 632 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: one follow Mercy. Greg Stales will be right back of 633 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: more on the other side. 634 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 2: Welcome back. 635 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: So Jade Vance actually is in an unexpected place earlier today, 636 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: He's actually been in Hungary where he is appearing alongside 637 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,360 Speaker 1: Victor Orbon, who is the Prime Minister of hungk going 638 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: on about a decade and a half now. He has 639 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: been in power for a long time. I've I've been 640 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: to Hungary. I've actually met Prime mister Orbon myself a 641 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: couple of times over the past five years give or take. 642 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 2: There. Jady Vance has been close to. 643 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: Victor Orbon and the broader political project they are happening 644 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: in Budapest. Prime Mister Orbon jady Vance have both been 645 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: involved to varying degrees with the broader global national consertis 646 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: a movement which I've been involved with to an extent 647 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: in the past, certainly as well. 648 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 2: There. 649 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: So here was jad Evans in Budapest talking alongside Victor 650 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: Orbon about the importance of the upcoming Hungarian elections. 651 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 4: There. 652 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: You might not think this is born there, but I 653 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 1: will attend to on the on the other side of 654 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: this that this actually is a. 655 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,239 Speaker 2: Very important election. Let's go ahead and watch this from 656 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 2: Jade Evans. 657 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 6: Born an election interference that I've ever seen or ever 658 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,720 Speaker 6: even read about. The bureaucrats and Brussels have tried to 659 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 6: destroy the economy of Hungary. They have tried to make 660 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,959 Speaker 6: Hungary less energy independent, they have tried to drive up 661 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,720 Speaker 6: costs for Hungarian consumers. And they've done it all because 662 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 6: they hate this guy. Not who's pro or anti Europe, 663 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 6: Not who's pro or anti the United States of America, 664 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 6: but who is pro you? Who is pro the people 665 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 6: of Hungary. 666 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 4: Now. 667 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: The reason that Hungary is more important than you probably 668 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: think it is to be clear, this is not a 669 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: particularly large country. They are not exactly an economic powerhouse 670 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: or a foreign policy powerhouse. 671 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 2: There. 672 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: There's lots of reasons to be deeply skeptical as to 673 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 1: why Hungry matters. Hungary matters because under Orbon's leadership of 674 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: the country with his party FIDEJ, Hungary has been the 675 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: tip of the spear of pushing back against the European Union, 676 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: a pushing back against the excesses of twenty first century 677 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:42,720 Speaker 1: global liberalism, of trying to superimpose a hegemonic agenda, of 678 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: this supercilious notion of trying to impose one size fits 679 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 1: all laws and regulations. There essentially trying to enact a 680 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 1: miniature version of John Lennon's deeply dystopian song imagine this 681 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: notion that we can imagine a borderless universe there, Well, 682 00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 1: that's really coming out of Brussels, out of the European 683 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 1: Union and budapests. Under Orbon's Leebron in Hungary has been 684 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: the number one backlash against it. Now, the European Union 685 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: does not govern, thank god, the United States, and therefore 686 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,879 Speaker 1: it is less importance to us. But my contention, taking 687 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: us back to our earlier conversation about NATO, which is 688 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: one of these other outmoded multilateral alliance structures, my brow 689 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: contention is that less multilateralism, less superstructures in general, when 690 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 1: it comes to all these twenty thirty country coalitions there 691 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: and more just direct bilateral, trilateral nationalist alliances. That is 692 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,440 Speaker 1: the geopolitical paradigm that is already starting to dominate in 693 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: this twenty first century, and that will start to dominate 694 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,360 Speaker 1: even more now. Orbon is not perfect, to be clear, 695 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,880 Speaker 1: he is far far from the ludicrous caricature many people 696 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: make him out to be. Some folks say that he 697 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:57,160 Speaker 1: is a tyrant, that he is a Russophile, he's pro pudent. 698 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: They say he's anti Semitic because he goes against George Soros. Hello, 699 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,160 Speaker 1: I actually found that a group three years ago called 700 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 1: Jews against Soros. 701 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was me. 702 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:08,919 Speaker 1: I co found that with my friend Will Sharf, who's 703 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: now the staff secretary to President Trump in the White House. 704 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 1: We found the Jews against Soros. So it's not in 705 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,960 Speaker 1: the Sthmitic to criticize George Soros. I've been to Hungary. 706 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,919 Speaker 1: I've een the coach restaurants for God's sake, in Budapest there. 707 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,759 Speaker 1: Victor Orban is actually a very very smart man. He 708 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,560 Speaker 1: devotes large swaths of his Sunday afternoon to reading, not 709 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: just current events, but reading like deep political philosophy and 710 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 1: studying the art of politics. He is a very well 711 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 1: read man and he spent time at Oxford. He's not 712 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: the dunce the idiot that the corporate left media makes 713 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,759 Speaker 1: him out to be. Is he perfect? No, very far 714 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: from him. There's actually a lot of corruption, frankly in 715 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,759 Speaker 1: FIDEJ and in Hungary, a lot, unfortunately. That is part 716 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,520 Speaker 1: of the chorus when it comes to Central and Eastern 717 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,239 Speaker 1: Europe and a lot of these former warsaw packed Eastern 718 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: European countries that were formerly governed by communism. There it 719 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,399 Speaker 1: takes a leakst generation or two after communism, the fall 720 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 1: of the Berlin Wall for the full kleptocratic, corrupt, venal 721 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: stench of communism to go ahead and wipe out. So 722 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: I'm certainly rooting for Orbon and Fideesh to win again. 723 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: That's not saying that there are not issues there. There are, 724 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,600 Speaker 1: but those issues frankly pale in comparison to the benefits 725 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 1: of having someone, anyone pushed back against the hedgemonic Brussels 726 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 1: liberalism agenda. Now there was a new controversy involvement. I 727 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 1: mentioned this early in the show. I want to make 728 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,799 Speaker 1: sure to get to a just yet another new controversy 729 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 1: involving a guy who was not a not a big 730 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 1: fan of ours, maybe less so than than others, and 731 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,399 Speaker 1: that would be Tucker Carlson. I don't want to beat 732 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,399 Speaker 1: a dead horse, because we talked about Tucker probably more 733 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,839 Speaker 1: than his warranted at times on this show. There long 734 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,960 Speaker 1: story short on Sunday morning. So before this truth sous 735 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,440 Speaker 1: post around the world this morning, the one about wiping 736 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: out civilizations, Donald Trump on Easter morning, in the context 737 00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,759 Speaker 1: of this world historical rescue operation that we covered at 738 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,680 Speaker 1: l FUN yesterday show, Trump posted in the context of 739 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 1: the story of our moves to the running regime, open 740 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,880 Speaker 1: the effing straight, and then he said Praise be to Allah, 741 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 1: which seems to be mocking Islam, which frankly I don't 742 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,319 Speaker 1: really have a huge issue with when it comes to 743 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: something like this, because again, you take Ton Trump seriously 744 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 1: but not literally. So I mentioned earlier how a lot 745 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,840 Speaker 1: of folks on the left have been taking Donald Trump 746 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,719 Speaker 1: literally not seriously. Well, in classic horseshoe fashion. Other folks 747 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,239 Speaker 1: who have been taking Donald Trump literally not seriously are 748 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,960 Speaker 1: those on the subversive fifth column rights Tug Carlson had 749 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 1: this outrageous freak out on his show. You can go 750 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,239 Speaker 1: ahead and watch yourself. We're not gonna dignify it by 751 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,000 Speaker 1: playing clip there where he's saying this he called an evil. 752 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,080 Speaker 1: Tucker called Donald Trump mocking Islam by saying Praise be all. 753 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,720 Speaker 1: He said, this is evil that you've desecrated Christianity, desecret 754 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,520 Speaker 1: Christianity by by going really hard against the running regaen 755 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,200 Speaker 1: and dropping an F bomb on them on Easter. The 756 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 1: one who's lost the plot is not Donald Trump. It 757 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 1: is Tucker Carlson. We're not gonna rehash all the ways 758 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,400 Speaker 1: we know that Tucker's loss of pot there. It is 759 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 1: a list far too voluminous to possibly count, But at 760 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,400 Speaker 1: this point he is so far gone that it is 761 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,840 Speaker 1: barely even worth dignifying it by talking about it. 762 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:13,719 Speaker 2: At this point. 763 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump actually was asked just this morning by a 764 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,480 Speaker 1: New York Post report by the name of Caitlyn dorm Boost. So, 765 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Dormo was got an interview with Trump, and she 766 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 1: asked it about Tucker's comments there, and Trump apparently said, quote, 767 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,239 Speaker 1: Tucker is a low IQ person that has absolutely no 768 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,879 Speaker 1: idea what's going on. He calls me all the time. 769 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: I don't respond to his calls. I don't deal with him. 770 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,480 Speaker 1: I like dealing with smart people, not fools. Pretty strong 771 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,320 Speaker 1: stuff to put it mildly. Now, we were talking just 772 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 1: a couple minsgo about how Jadvans is over in Hunger 773 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,359 Speaker 1: right now campaigning for Victor orbon and certainly we are 774 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,759 Speaker 1: deeply supportive of that. We hope that orbona Fides win 775 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,560 Speaker 1: despite their problems that peeling comparison to the opposition problems, 776 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: jade Vans has a much bigger problem though at home. 777 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,840 Speaker 1: That problem is Tucker Cross. Jade Vans has been attached 778 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,480 Speaker 1: at the Hypto Tucker for some time. He is repeatedly 779 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:08,120 Speaker 1: refused to criticize Tucker. He's refused to say anything bad 780 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,560 Speaker 1: about him because he still calls my friends and as 781 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,319 Speaker 1: we know, Tucker's son works in the office of the 782 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,359 Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States. This was definitely a 783 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 1: problem while Tucker was going down this path that becoming 784 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,600 Speaker 1: the most dangerous anti Semite in American history. It was 785 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: definitely a problem when he was going down this path 786 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: that becoming essentially a shill for Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela, 787 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,399 Speaker 1: various other hostile anti American regimes. It was a problem 788 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: when he was talking about Shria law and this and 789 00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,439 Speaker 1: that is a much more acute problem for the Vice 790 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:44,000 Speaker 1: president when his pal is actively beefing and in a 791 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 1: screaming fighting match with his boss, President Trump. So I'm 792 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,839 Speaker 1: not entirely sure how the Vice President gets himself out 793 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,040 Speaker 1: of this. I will not elaborate on to say that 794 00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,239 Speaker 1: I have used my own channels and some of my 795 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: own connections to friendships to send this warning sign for 796 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,520 Speaker 1: a long time actually, and to say that Tucker was 797 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,279 Speaker 1: ultimately going to seriously jeopardize the political career of Jdvans. 798 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,960 Speaker 1: We're seeing that play in a real time. I hate 799 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,680 Speaker 1: to say it was right, but in many ways I 800 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,640 Speaker 1: was right. I'm not saying how it's gonna end. JD 801 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,759 Speaker 1: theories still do the right thing. But better life than ever, 802 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,000 Speaker 1: I guess I will say that. Finally, I will just 803 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,240 Speaker 1: end with this. So I will be off line starting 804 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,520 Speaker 1: tonight through Thursday night for the final two days of 805 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,160 Speaker 1: the Passover holiday. So the first day and the seventh 806 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,120 Speaker 1: day are our festivals because of something that is a 807 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,120 Speaker 1: little beyond the confines of our conversation today. Because that 808 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,799 Speaker 1: is extended to two days. Both sides because of what 809 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,920 Speaker 1: the rabbis did many years ago. Again, that's a little 810 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: out of out of bounds for today, but I will 811 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:48,960 Speaker 1: just say this, we actually have two shows that are 812 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,879 Speaker 1: ready to go for you tomorrow and Thursdays. You will 813 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,760 Speaker 1: not be missing any Joshamerscher content. But the main theme 814 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,160 Speaker 1: of the final Holy Day of the Passover holiday is 815 00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:58,640 Speaker 1: the actually the climax of. 816 00:40:58,560 --> 00:40:59,360 Speaker 2: The excess story. 817 00:40:59,440 --> 00:40:59,719 Speaker 4: It is. 818 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 1: It is the splitting of the Red sea, or a 819 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,600 Speaker 1: kuriyati amsouf as we would say in the Hebrew. And 820 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,840 Speaker 1: the first man who just ran in to the sea 821 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,439 Speaker 1: was an Israelpe by the name of Nxun ben Amano Doov. 822 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 1: And he just ran in because God had told Moses 823 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:24,000 Speaker 1: to trust, and Noxn took that ads word and he 824 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,319 Speaker 1: ran into the sea. And what they say is that 825 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,280 Speaker 1: when it got up to his nose or his mouth, 826 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,320 Speaker 1: that's when the sea split. And the lesson here is 827 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,360 Speaker 1: very simple in brief. It is when the path opens, 828 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,880 Speaker 1: do the right thing. You might not have all the 829 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,200 Speaker 1: knowledge that it will work out, but when the path 830 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 1: opens at that point, that is when you should say, okay, 831 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,719 Speaker 1: I see the path. God is in control. You might 832 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,000 Speaker 1: not know exactly what that looks like in practice, but 833 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,480 Speaker 1: I have a feeling. Frankly, you will know it when 834 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,600 Speaker 1: you see it. Folks, have a great rest of the evening. 835 00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,839 Speaker 1: We'll be right back tomorrow another episode Josh Hammers Show. 836 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:06,360 Speaker 1: We'll be a