Donald Trump's best friends are in the legacy media. I don't mean that Donald Trump is friends with people in the legacy media. I mean, they are totally helping him. Members of the legacy media have been playing this incredibly stupid game since 2015.
And the reason they play this game with Trump is because they play it all the time with other Republican politicians. The game goes like this. Donald Trump says something that uses a bit of inflammatory language in a completely non-inflammatory context. And the media then proceeds to cut out the inflammatory language from the non-inflammatory context and then blow it up.
Now, they've been doing this with Republicans since literally forever for as long as I've been alive, they've been doing this with Republicans. The weird thing about doing it with Trump is Trump says wild things fairly frequently. They don't even have to do it with Trump. But by doing this, what they end up doing is essentially showing the American public that they are willing to say or do anything about Donald Trump.
Today's latest example comes courtesy of the entire legacy media that decided to jump on a clip of Donald Trump and rally over the weekend. So Donald Trump was doing a political rally over the weekend. Media are in a sheer state of panic about the 2024 race. They should be according to the real real politics of polling average.
Donald Trump is currently almost two points up in the national average. He's currently leading in every single battleground state, according to the real politics polling average, Joe Biden is in deep trouble. And so they are looking for some sort of headline that is going to gin up the democratic base. And so they have to find something that says that Donald Trump is a severe danger to the republic that he is going to overthrow the republic that there is going to be blood in the streets.
After all, this is the case that Joe Biden has been making since 2020. The case in 2020 has been that Donald Trump isn't just a problem. He's a threat to the very nature of the republic. When Joe Biden got up at Independence Hall and gave the worst speech, I can remember standing in front of a blood red Independence Hall suggesting that his political opponents were going to overthrow the democracy.
This is the line that the entire media have been told to repeat over and over and over for the duration of this election cycle. And so they decided that over the weekend they had found the golden ticket. They had found the clip of Donald Trump promising violence in the streets. I'll be blood in the streets tonight.
The whole thing. So here is the full clip of Donald Trump talking here. He is talking about the economic plans of Democrats with regard to industrial industries in Michigan. Here's the full clip.
Okay, he's literally talking about his plans to tariff Chinese imports. That's his plan, right? He's about to tariff Chinese cars imported via Mexico into the United States. And he says that if I get elected, it'll be good for the economy.
And if I don't, then there will be a bloodbath. Now, that's the sort of language that occurs constantly in American politics. In fact, here's a montage of Democrats using the word bloodbath in a variety of contexts, talking about political bloodbath, economic bloodbath, and all the rest. No one assumes what they mean is that there will be actual murder in the streets with the blood flowing freely into the gutters or something like this.
Here is the media over and over and over, same bloodbath. Headlines calling it a quote bloodbath via bloodbath. Not only is it going to be a bloodbath, but after leaving New Hampshire, it's a bloodbath on her home turf. That's really tough.
That has left a lot of corpses in his wake. I mean, the count in the body is part of the quote, maga drive to take over Maricopa County. And the headline refers to it as an impending bloodbath. Paul and his Charles Blod as a new piece for the New York Times entitled to a Biden bloodbath.
2018 midterms, you can bet that they 100% are fearing a slaughter. In fact, the word bloodbath and massacre come up frequently. The Republican party will be destroyed. He's going to be a bloodbath.
There's going to be a bloodbath one way or the other. Bloodbath. For Bernie Sanders. It's been a bloodbath.
They're shaping up to be a bloodbath. Head off a bloodbath in the next year's crucial midterm. Off your elections are off an a bloodbath. This week's bloodbath for Democrats.
A bloodbath at the ballot box. There could be a Republican bloodbath. They'll talk about a bloodbath. There's a bloodbath.
I have to talk about you. It's going to be a bloodbath. All they want is in for a bloodbath. Hasn't been a bloodbath on the way down with Donald Trump bloodbath.
Be a bloodbath. Okay. Thanks to Gravian for that montage. Just going to point out again, the word bloodbath happens a lot in American politics because all it means is a slaughter.
We use violent language a lot because it's a rocket. But it doesn't mean that somebody's about to get killed or there's going to be a civil war or anything like that. And as Trump's spokesperson, Caroline Levitt said over the weekend, obviously Trump was talking about economic bloodbath, economic bloodbath. Right?
She said that, right? Biden's policies will create an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and auto workers. That's what Trump's campaign spokesperson said on Saturday. And of course, we played you the entire clip.
We played you the entire clip. So what did the media do? They took the two sentences where Donald Trump says, if I'm not elected, there'll be a bloodbath. And they took that out of context.
And then they proceeded to claim that what Donald Trump was saying is that if he was not elected, that there would be a full-scale insurrectionist civil war in the United States. With bodies in the streets, it's going to look like Haiti. Donald Trump is going to start calling himself barbecue, just start chomping on body parts like the whole thing. The media be clown themselves every day.
Here is, for example, Nancy Pelosi playing this game. This is just ridiculous. We have, we just have to win this election because he's even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean?
He's going to exact a bloodbath. There's something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness. But how much more do they have to see from him to understand that this isn't what our country is about?
Wow. Because otherwise, there's going to be a bloodbath. A gen Psaki former press secretary, or Joe Biden, who went to that revolving door that goes right to MSNBC. That's the way that works.
You leave the Biden administration, go to MSNBC. Another democratic elected, you leave MSNBC. You go back to the Biden administration. That's the way that works.
There's gen Psaki doing the work here. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Yes, you did.
This is his message. Okay, so his message is not about economic policy. Like it showed you in the full context. It's that he used the word bloodbath just like everybody in political media uses the word bloodbath.
But it doesn't matter because the media are jumping on this. Of course. And so you have the New York Times headline. Trump says some migrants are not people.
And for today, bloodbath if he loses. By the way, that's what that former comment that some migrants are not people. Now let me play you with the other clip that the media are taking out of context. They're suggesting that Donald Trump is dehumanizing illegal immigrants.
He's saying they're not human beings. Are these using genocidal red records with regard to illegal immigrants? That is the claim. Who is he actually talking about when he says I wouldn't even call them people?
Let's find out. That's a terrible thing to say. They say you have to vote against him because did you hear what he said about humanity? I've seen the humanity and these humanity.
These are bad. These are animals. So that apparently is what he's talking about. MS-13.
He's talking about actual criminals. And he's saying that people who do animalistic things are animals. Is that a rocket of language? Sure.
Are people who rape people and murder people? Not people. Are they animals or monsters? You make a moral argument about that.
But is that some sort of horrifying language that he's applying to all illegal immigrants? That's how he's saying. And again, this is always the game. This is always the game with Trump.
Is that they take a comment and then they spin it up to its greatest possible illusion while ignoring all possible context. You know what helps? Donald Trump, because everybody starts ignoring you because you're the boy who cried well, then from something that really is egregious, then there's no place to go. Because you already turned it up to 11.
There's no place to go from here. Here's a New Yorker writer named Susan Glasser who's turning up to 11 on the Bloodbath comment. Here we go. We obviously heard what he said last night.
Yeah, I mean, look, Donald Trump, it seems to me it's very hard eight years into this. We still struggle with how to cover him as journalists. But in a way, the unhinged, rambling rants that you see from the former president of the United States are baked in. And I think in a way, we are all desensitized and in order to the extraordinary remarkable and very at times un-American and threatening things that the former president is saying.
I'm not saying it's easy to understand how to cover it. I think we have to cover it when the former president, who's already incited violence among his followers, says that there's going to be a bloodbath after the election. He does not win. He is telling us what he is going to do.
Well, that's it. That is it. Wow. I too am scared.
The Babylon be had a great headline along these lines. What media reports Trump threatened nuclear war after he says this guacamole is the bomb. Yeah, that's about where we are in terms of political media. But this is how that's where they are to suffer.
We have now reached the point it is March, by the way. The Joe Biden is losing his race. The desperation has set in like full-scale set in. And so we have an article today in Politico that is arguing that we basically need to outwall jokes.
Jokes are bad now because Trump uses this thing called comedy and humor and because he uses comedy and humor and he is in fact, Larry in Fascist. Jokes have been deemed bad. The piece by a person named Michael Cruz, a senior Sapphire political, titled In On The Joke, the comedic trick Trump uses to normalize his behavior. His supporters love it.
Critics call it a sign of his autocratic tendencies. Yeah, jokes, scary things. I've been in more times than all funds components. Donald Trump said from the stage in Winthrop Coliseum in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
It's true. He said, it's not. But what mattered the most here was that he was late last month, working in a specially lively version of what has become a routine rally riff. And one that never fails to send ripples of giggles through the crowds he commands.
My parents are looking down. They're saying, I never thought this could happen to my son. He's been indicted. He's sat handout, head up, reveling in the hoots on cue.
The audio track of the traveling at Trump Carnival is by now reliable to the point of ritualistic. Lee Greenwood to start the odd QAnon co-opted sort of liturgical dirge to close. The apocalyptic assessments of the condition of the nation that prompts to harass the press in jeers and swears from the throngs in between. I could shut my eyes and know precisely where I was for me though.
There's one sound that comes to stick out more than any of the many others. It's the laughter. Oh no, you mean Donald Trump's a funny person? First of all, this has been Donald Trump's political superpower since he stepped on the scene.
Donald Trump is a stand-up comedian. He's always been a stand-up comedian. It's a point that comedian Shane Gillis has made over and over and over. That intubates.
People walk on stage with Trump thinking they're going to argue policy. And Donald Trump's like, you're too payless terrible. You're ugly. There's no way to fight with that.
Donald Trump's superpower is that he is, in fact, an intensely funny human being. Hate him like him? He's the funniest person who's ever been president. Like without a doubt.
But that means that the problem is humor. I'm sorry, I got to kill humor. I got to take humor out to the backyard with an axe, blunt side of the axe to the back of the head of humor. Jokes must be killed.
They must be dismembered and buried in a cornfield in Iowa in order to stop Trump. No more jokes. The jokes have stopped. By the way, it is amazing how basically since the era of Barack Obama, the left has decided that jokes are bad.
So remember when Barack Obama was president, the entire comedic world declared that he was just not funny. You could not make jokes about Barack Obama. He was more like dad as Chris Roch said. You just can't make jokes about him.
He's like the father of the country. Now, of course, Barack Obama is one of the funniest human beings ever in a completely different way. You got so arrogant in his belief that he was a world-changing figure that he would go out there and in tone the most sonorous tones, the most absurd platitudes. And we would all pretend that they were deep and the media would just fawn over him and carry around his rule cups.
It was all ridiculous. And meanwhile, he's there in the White House doing selfie-stick time. It was a silly figure, Barack Obama. I know we're all supposed to treat him with great respect, but he was silly.
I don't have respect for politicians generally speaking because they're all silly. But Barack Obama was particularly silly. But the comedic community decided you could not tell jokes about him because that was bad. It was bad.
Jokes were bad. Joe jokes about Republicans, but jokes were bad. Now it turns out the Republicans can do jokes because Trump is actually a funny human. And that means jokes themselves from the right or from all jokes, bad, no good, stop it.
That apparently is the perspective of the reporter for Politico. Donald Trump's critics, along with experts and rhetoric and nationalists and populist movements and leaders, say it helps him turn his opponents into not just enemies, but jokes. They say it helps him recast his own liabilities and laughing matters. And he sensitizes his supporters to his most outrageous comments and proposals, the undermining of institutions, the abandonment of allies, mass deportations, and all but outright invitations for us in invasions and so on.
They say the mirth masks the menace. They are not wrong. This is how autocrats work, says Jenna Merciesa, the author of Demagogues for President, the rhetorical genius of Donald Trump, practically every joke is an in-group, out-group joke, and laughing at the joke is a sign of loyalty. Marissa Yarsa explained.
Now, again, I'd like to point out here that that has also been true of the left for a very long time. As the joke goes online, the late night shows are now late night group therapy for lives. They're no longer funny anymore. It's anybody who's not on the far left.
But jokes have to be out. By the way, it's not just jokes that have to be out loud. Free speech has to be stopped. Entire article in The New York Times titled, How Trump's Allies Are Winning the War Over This Information?
Their claims of censorship have successfully signed me the effort to filter election lies online. Oh my God, those terrible Trump people and their first amendment activity, that's just terrible. They're suggesting that platforms should be platforms and should not, in fact, be censored by international groups under the auspices of left-wing politicians who are using their power in order to crack down on dissenting points of view. Those terrible, terrible, free speech people, free speech is bad because Trump might use it.
In the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on January 6th, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies that have fueled the assault on the peaceful transfer of power. Social media companies suspended Donald Trump, then the president, and many of his allies from the platforms had used to spread misinformation about his defeat and whip up the attempt to overturn it. The Biden administration, Democrats and Congress, even some Republicans, sought to do more to hold the companies accountable. Academic researchers wrestled with how to strengthen efforts to monitor false posts.
Mr. Trump and his allies embarked instead on a counter-offensive, a coordinated effort to block what they viewed as dangerous efforts to censor conservatives. They have unquestionably prevailed, waged in the courts in Congress, and in the seething precincts of the internet. Ooh, so much seething.
That effort has eviscerated attempts to shield elections from disinformation in the social media era, it tapped into and then critics say, twisted, the fears to made over free speech and the government's role in policing content. Projects that were once bipartisan, including one started by the Trump administration, have been recast as deep state conspiracies to rigged elections, facing legal and political blowback of Biden administration as largely abandoned moves that might be construed as stifling political speech. While we wouldn't want that to happen, and obviously Joe Biden and company, they have to be given the power to stifle political speech, obviously. So yeah, among the things that need to be abolished in order to stop Trump, obviously, humor and speech.
By the way, you're the baddies. If that's your perspective, jokes need to be stopped, and also free speech needs to be stopped on platforms, you're the bad, like you're the ones telling us that democracy is under threat if Donald Trump is elected. And in order to stop that, we need to stop humor and we need to stop speech. I think the problem might be you.
Okay, now none of this is to avoid the point that Donald Trump is a peculiar human. We have been playing a game since 2015, that we're going to bring back for the campaign, because it just is the reality called good Trump bad Trump. A good Trump, Trump is because Donald Trump says lots of stuff. As I've said before, on his epitaph, it will read Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, maybe also 47 presidents of the United States.
He said a lot of bleep because that is Trump, Trump says a lot of things. He doesn't think about all the things he says, he says, he just says them and they come out his face hole. And that's what happens. And some of those things are very good.
And some of those things are very bad. And that's just the way that it works. And so Donald Trump was busy over the weekend saying many things. Some of them were quite good.
And some of them were quite bad. What is amazing to me, however, is that many of the things that he says, they're actually the worst things that he says are things that the media completely ignore because they hate Republicans so much. Like it's pretty wild. So first, let us play that we're back into the game.
It's an election cycle. Good Trump, bad Trump. Okay, so we are going to begin with some bad Trump. Okay, because we just did some some okay Trump and then we'll get some good Trump.
Okay, so we'll start with some bad Trump. Hey, here was Donald Trump with the weekend attacking Ron Santos. For no reason, by the way, Ron Santos already bad out of the race. Ron Santos already endorsed Donald Trump for president, but Donald Trump has an unfortunate habit, which is that once someone already surrenders to him, he then puts his boot on that person's neck and pushes for no reason, really.
And so here he is, I'm not that the Santis lost to him, conceded the election early, endorsed him, and maintains his position as the best governor in the country in my home state of Florida. Donald Trump went after him with peculiar language yesterday. Here we are. We campaign for year and I obliterate my competition.
You know, and they said, sir, please don't talk about these people that way. They're Republicans. I said, I don't give a. Yeah, they're terrible.
I said, my, my highly paid advisor, sir, you shouldn't talk to them about that. One of the people said, they said, are you going to run against the president? He said, I have no comment to me that meant he's running. So I hit him hard.
I hit him low. I hit him. I just like we did to Isis, we hit him hard. We hit him low.
We hit him high. We hit him in the middle. We hit him from on top and we even came under the ground. We hit this guy so hard by the time he announced nobody knew what the hell happened.
They said what happened to me? Is the shell of the man? Okay, so this is the joking, right? And it's a good joking.
I don't think it's good joking. Because again, what is the point of this? Like if you're thinking forward to the election, what Donald Trump needs is for the base to consolidate around him. He needs everybody to show up and vote for him.
There are a lot of people who are big to Santa's fans. The Santa's actually won a fairly significant percentage in Iowa and in the national polling, the Santa's was polling in the Republican primaries. So 14, 15 and 20 percent, alienating those voters is a dumb move. But Trump can't stop himself until he's joking about it.
We hit him low. We hit him low. We hit him low. We hit him low.
We hit him low. We hit him low. Right? And the idea here is that like invoking we hit him like we hit Isis.
It's like a bad song from pop star never stopping. If you know the reference, you know what I'm talking about here. Okay, so that was some bad from other bad from over the weekend. These are the things that the media ignored that by the way, why they hate to Santa's as much as they hate Trump.
Like they really hate to Santa's. So that wasn't the thing they picked on. What they picked on was a false narrative about blood baths or whatever. Okay, here's another thing Trump said over the weekend.
He's been calling the people who are jailed because of their activities on January 6 hostages. They're not hostages. They're not. So he suggested that over the weekend.
It's not correct, obviously. People are criminally convicted. You can say that the criminal convictions are unjust because you believe, for example, that there should be equivalent criminal convictions of say the rioters of 2020, the Black Lives Matter and you'd be correct. But they're not hostages.
Hostages implies that if Donald Trump makes a concession, they will be freed in favor of like you hold a hostage in order to achieve some sort of political purpose and then free the hostages. Hamas is currently holding hostages in order to force all, for example, an Israeli attack against them. That's the entire goal of holding a so again, that sort of language bad. Other other bad from stuff like over the weekend, he suggested that on January 6 committee should go to jail.
Okay, now, the case that he is making here is that the January 6 panel withheld evidence, including the denial from the Trump private, they selectively present that evidence to the American public. That is really bad. And I think that the January 6 committee did a terrible job. She should go to jail.
Again, this is Trump's colorful language. Okay, so that's a bad from, but again, the same Trump that is supposedly bad is also good. So now it's time for some countervailing good from, he's all the things, Donald Trump is good. He's like all the things.
Okay, so here is Donald Trump over the weekend burying Jimmy Kimmel. Like this is good. He fights the culture war and Republicans love it. And the kind of shark is a jack.
What is up with you and Jimmy Kimmel? Okay. See if you can guess which former president just posted down on truth. Anyone?
No. Well, thank you president Trump because during the academy awards you posted, has there ever been a worst host in Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars less than an average person trying too hard and he then ran that on the air and then took a crack at you. You're getting even with him. And what else did I say?
I said some other pretty good things. Oh, you're getting even with him? Slap a doctor? Do you have slap a doctor?
No, look, Jimmy Kimmel is every night he hits me. I guess his ratings are terrible. He's not a talented guy. I hear he hits me all the time.
So I figured that hit him because I thought he was a lousy host. Okay, like it's good. He should slap Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel's terrible. Other things that Trump said, here's a good thing he said on policy of the weekend.
That was dramatically misinterpreted by the media. So Joe Biden has been telling Israel not to go into Rafa. Joe Biden has been telling Israel that they somehow need to leave Trump place, which is absurd and ridiculous. We'll get to it in a little bit.
Here was Donald Trump saying what Israel actually should do. He happens to be right about this. In light of those comments by Senator Schumer, what would be your message if you were to talk to be Netanyahu? Well, I think you have to finish it up and do it quickly and get back to the world of peace.
We need peace in the world. Okay, he's not saying there that Israel should not go into Rafa. He literally says finish it up and do it quickly. But by the way, is the best advice to the Israeli government?
If you want the war to be over quickly, it should be over quickly. And by the way, for PR purposes, the reality is that Israel's big mistake is made a mistake in the war that's currently fighting against Hamas is it should have gone hard and should have gone fast because the American attention span is only about five minutes. And so if you go fast, even if it's more brutal, Americans are willing to take that if the drag's on longer, Americans are not. I mean, it's just an unfortunate reality of foreign policy.
Americans are very kind bound. So if Israel wants public support, they should move quickly. They shouldn't be dithering around with Joe Biden. In any case, Donald Trump is right about that.
That is good Trump. For his part, again, all of the panic that's that's setting in is because they've tried everything on Trump. They've tried every like what is left to try on him. There's only one thing that could drop between now and the election that would maybe affect the outcome of this election in any serious way, aside from whatever, you know, possible unknown unknowns are out there.
And that is the possibility of criminal conviction. What the polls show is that Trump believes Biden if he's criminally convicted between now and the election, then some voters say they will switch over to Biden. Now, it depends on what that criminal conviction looks like. Presumably, when people say criminally convicted, they think that means he goes to jail.
Yes, if Donald Trump is literally sitting in a jail cell on election day, that's going to damage him in the polling. Aside from that, what are the other, what are the other things that could happen? Well, the truth is, most of the other bad things that could happen cannot happen to Trump. He's not the current president of the United States.
And he has a known quantity. Most of the bad things that have yet to happen can happen to Joe Biden. As I said last week, the most plausible reality to happen between now and the election cycle is some serious health crisis for Joe Biden. Biden remains a confused elderly man.
Here's video of him over the weekend, literally not knowing how to get out of the rain. I mean, this is just, he is not with us. He's shaking somebody's hand, gets under the umbrella, and then he looks around like, where am I supposed to go? What's happening?
President, you're the president of the United States. You're the president of the United States. That man, you're the president of the United States. That man, you're the president of the United States.
Should I, I'm just going to stand here and not know I'm quite where to go? And then he has to be physically guided by his security. Where should I go? There's literally only one place to go, Joe.
It's raining outside. And there's a door right there. Ain't no more doors. That's the only door.
The hoka transport. And as you can see, they look quite comfortable. They have a wide soul, no doubt, great for stability. And the president does have a history of stumbling.
Yeah, that would be it. So he's basically wearing snow shoes around at this point so that he can glide over the grass or something. Yes, things are going badly for the president of the United States. And that is why we have to outlaw jokes and also free speech.
That is the most important thing for us to do at this point. Speaking of things going badly on the foreign policy front, they continue to be a complete disaster for the United States on a turbine. The world is not just on fire. It is getting worse.
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And as a personal disclaimer, this ad is not in any way, shape or form me wishing Michael Moles a happy birthday. Meanwhile, under Joe Biden, the foreign policy of the United States is falling apart. So in a story that's not being covered as much as it should be, according to the Wall Street Journal, Niger has made a decision to end its counterterrorism alliance with Washington that came after senior US officials accused the country's ruling hunta of secretly exploring the deals without Iran access to its uranium reserves according to both Nigerian and US officials. So US had a cooperative program with Niger.
Niger, of course, is the source of a lot of uranium. Iran is seeking a bomb. And so they've been attempting to get uranium apparently from Niger. And now Niger has said that they do not want American counterterrorism operatives in the country at all to monitor what is going on yet another foreign policy win for the Biden administration.
By the way, last week, they signed another $10 billion waiver so that money could flow into Iran, which is currently fostering terrorism, not only around the Middle East, but also in Africa, because we're on the world's worst players. The decision to end military cooperation with the United States was announced Saturday night by a spokesperson for the Nigerian hunta. It deals a serious blow to the Biden administration's efforts to contain a sprawling Islamic Islamic insurgency in the Sahel, the semi arid region south of the Sahara. It could affect $110 million base that was built by the United States and is used to fly surveillance drones over West Africa.
It could also possibly force the withdrawal of more than 600 American troops still stationed in Niger. And the reason that we have troops in Niger is because they provide enormous counterintelligence resources. We have troops stationed all over the world, by the way, we have tons of troops all over in Southeast Asia, we have troops in Europe, we have troops all over the place. American officials have been working to salvage their relationship with Niger since the country's military ousted President Mohammed Zalom in a Jalaku triggering restrictions on military aid under American law.
The hunta has been tightening its ties with Russia and two other neighbors that are ruled by people aligned with the Russians. In recent months, US and other Western officials say they'd obtain intelligence indicating that the hunta was considering a deal with Iran that would give Tehran access to some of Niger's vast uranium reserves. US concerns with the discussions on such an agreement proceeded in January when Niger's quintupointed Prime Minister met the President Ibrahim Raisi and other senior Iranian officials in Tehran. Apparently, these had reached a very advanced stage, but because the Biden administration committed the idea that Iran is actually not in a various world after they don't want conflict.
What's wrong with Iran? She continues signing them checks. They're actually once again pinning American taxpayers against American taxpayers. We are sending money to Iran and then we're also spending money on placing troops in places like Niger to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear material.
Everything is going great under the Biden administration. The concerns came to a head over the past week. Miley, the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs traveled to foretalks with the hunta on the two countries' future relations and what the State Department said would be discussions on Niger's return to a democratic payoff. He was accompanied by another senior Defense Department official during the meetings.
He raised Washington's alarm with officials in Niger about that agreement with Iran and criticized the lack of process in returning Niger to an elected government. And raised to us concerns about the imminent arrival of Russian military trainers and equipment. But the problem, of course, is that the Biden administration refuses to apply either carrots or sticks. It's like, what if we just lecture you about democracy and offer you nothing and then also tacitly threaten you but we don't actually run out of anything.
I wonder why that program isn't winning. Speaking of which, Vladimir Putin has now extended his rule after another predetermined vote in Russia. So things are going well over there. According to the New York Times, state television showed Putin addressing supporters at his election headquarters and breaking his silence on the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny telling reporters it was quote, unfortunate incidents.
Apparently preliminary results showed that Putin had garnered 88% of the vote. Now, again, those are the kinds of numbers that don't exist in real life. They exist in places where democracy is effectively just a cover for an authoritarian regime. So Putin has now solidified his grasp on Russia, obviously.
Joe Biden shouting about democracy actually doesn't accomplish anything. So things are going really well. But if the United States is going to place pressure on a democracy, obviously, there's a place that has had five elections in the last four years. Israel.
That's what happened last week when Chuck Schumer took to the floor of the Senate to explain that Israel needed another election. Now Israel has a governmental system. It is in fact a parliamentary democracy. Israel holds elections literally all the time.
They right now have a governing coalition because they won the last election. At some point, presumably that governing coalition will fall apart. There has not been a full term in which a prime minister for four years in the Israeli elections for several decades. Usually these coalition governments hold for two, maybe three years and then they fall apart and there's no election.
But the administration has been putting pressure on Israel. Why is the administration trying to ask me because they're promoting a lie? The lie is that there is not widespread public support in Israel for going into Rafa over the weekend. The Biden administration made its discontent with Israel finishing off Hamas in Rafa.
That's the last major city that Israel has to control in Gaza in order to end Hamas is ruling Gaza. The Biden administration is doing its best to forestall that apparently. John Kirby, who to this point has been pretty pro Israel and reversed himself on Sunday. He suggested that he would not that the United States would not support an operation in Rafa, which it means you leave Hamas in place.
And that's what it means. As you mentioned, the Israeli work have approved its plan for Rafa. You said you haven't seen it. But President Biden at one point said that was a red line for him and then kind of walked that back.
He said it's a red line. It's not a red line. What is it? It's it's no different.
It's no different. It's no different. They go in the same way they've been going in in other places. If they don't move those refugees and I don't know where they'd move them.
Well, again, I won't I don't want to get ahead of where we are. They haven't moved into Rafa. I would just reiterate what the president has said many times. We would not support such an operation unless or until they've got a credible executable plan to take care of the 1.5 million refugees that have been pushed into Rafa because of operations in communist to the north and Gaza city even further to the north.
Okay. So first of all, Israel is in fact creating that plan. Apparently they're going to shift that population back up north towards central Gaza. They're not just going to go in with 1.5 million people still there.
They're going to do the same thing. They did in Han units. It's the same thing. They did in Gaza said either going to humanitarian corridors and all the rest.
But this is the Biden administration attempting to create daylight. Meanwhile, the media doing their lap dog best to try and prop up this insane position from the administration. The war cabinet in Israel is a unity government. It includes the person most likely to win an election if an election were held today and else be going to be Netanyahu.
But here is Dana Bash knowing the work of the administration. She was quizzing Netanyahu. Will there be a new election next year? Will you commit to an election as though BB is an authoritarian leader and has the capacity to simply cancel elections?
He does not. That is not how the system works. Any more than the president of the United States can simply cancel elections. Israel is a fully functioning democracy.
They have elections way more often than any other democracy. And here's Dana Bash pretending the BB is some sort of Putin-esque figure. There were other polls in Israel, three major Israeli television stations that said what Israelis also support are early elections. That's what I really want to focus on here is Senator Schumer not calling to sort of topple the government but specifically says when the war winds down, will you commit to calling new elections?
That's my question. Will you? Dana, two thirds. First of all, what you said is wrong.
The vast majority of Israelis oppose early elections until the war doesn't end. We just had many polls on that. Look, a lot of the polls are twisting on the vote. Channel 12 says 64% of Israelis support early elections.
But all those show, that's not. No, I'm afraid they asked him the question he was supporting during the war and they said, but that's not what Schumer is calling for. He's calling for new elections when the war winds down. Well, we'll see when we win the war and until we win the war.
I think Israelis understand that if we were to have elections now before the war is won, resoundingly won, we would have at least six months of national paralysis, which means we would lose the war. We're fighting these part. We commit to new elections when the war winds down. Everything that we hold here together.
Well, you can say this. So insane. Notice how bash even in this clip shifts her position. She goes from will you commit to new elections right now?
And he's like, no, and she's like, well, the polls say you should. That's not true. 65% of Israelis say there should be new elections after the war is over. So he's right about that.
And she's lying. Then she shifts because she realizes she's made a mistake. And she says, will you commit to new elections after that? That's not how it works.
You call new elections in parliamentary democracy when your coalition falls apart or alternatively, when the prime minister decides to dissolve the government and create new elections. If you're going to cite polls as to how the government should be currently constituted, Joe Biden is no longer president. The majority of the American people do not like Joe Biden. A plurality of the American people favors Donald Trump.
That's not how elections were. That's not election. It's a poll. But again, this is all playing defense for the Biden administration's incompetent, factless policy with regard to Israel and Hamas.
The reality is that both America and Israel, much better off Israel white Hamas off the face of the earth, which by the way, is what is going to pursue because any government that does not pursue that is going to immediately be thrown out of office as everyone knows. Meanwhile, the controversy continues over whether TikTok will have to dissolve or whether TikTok will in fact sell its Chinese steak to some American or European own conglomerate. According to the Washington Post, a foresale of TikTok within 180 days as House passed legislation requires would be one of the thorniest, most complicated transactions in corporate history, posing financial, technical, and geopolitical challenges experts say could render a sale impractical and increase the likelihood that the apps will actually be ban nationwide. Again, this is going to go to the Senate.
It'll be unclear what happens in the Senate. It apparently faces a slow walk in the Senate. The Senate is slowing this thing down. According to the Washington Post, some senators fear slower negotiations could allow TikTok's furious lobbying glids to neutralize the push in the upper chamber.
TikTok has unleashed a sprawling attempt to work the bill. Now, again, what is very clear here is that China will not sell its share in TikTok, by dance, which is the which is the front company for China. They're not going to sell it and they're not going to allow their algorithm to be sold wide because it's Chinese weapon. That's the whole point.
The entire argument with regard to TikTok is pretty obvious. This is a Chinese op. As a Chinese op, their algorithm is part of the op. Their control is part of the op.
They're not just going to give that op for a few billion dollars. It's the Chinese government. They have a massive economy. There's no reason they would do that.
They would rather kill TikTok and create political fishers in the west than allow their proprietary algorithmic excellence to be distributed in the west. They don't want any of that. And so it is, in fact, quite likely at this point that if this thing passes the Senate TikTok will be dissolved. And you know what?
Good. Good. Better. We don't have a scyop running on American soil than that.
We do have a scyop running on American soil. That's not a CIA theory. That's not because of the Jews. That's because TikTok has been for a very long time, a Chinese app.
And because it is not Chinese app, it gathers data on Americans. Everyone's known this. There have been bans on TikTok throughout Europe since like 2020 Donald Trump signed a ban on federal devices using TikTok in 2020. It is completely banned in certain countries like India.
Again, there's a reason for that. It is not good that America's enemies should have this much influence over Americans. That would be a very, very bad thing. And that's what the bill says.
Representative Mike Gallagher, who leads a subcommittee in Congress that faces itself against Chinese aggression. Here's Representative Gallagher explaining what could happen to the foresale. Do you actually believe a foresale will happen before November? It absolutely could.
It would be in the financial interest of bydances investors to effectuate a foresale. I think the user experience on the app would improve. And you wouldn't have this concern over being propagandized, the opaque algorithm influencing what information you see that would go away. So I imagine it would actually increase in value.
And I think all the more reason why we have to tackle this now, the closer we get to an election and the risk just gets greater and greater. You mentioned that unclassified DNI report, every single intelligence community official that testified before the intelligence committee last week suggested under its current ownership structure, TikTok is a threat to national security, which is why we are trying to force TikTok to separate from bite dance and by extension from the Chinese Communist Party. Okay. So he's right about all that.
Meanwhile, Cara Swisher, the terrible columnist at the New York Times, who's wrong by nearly everything, she says, don't worry, TikTok isn't going away. It's going to be fine. TikTok is going to survive. I get the first amendment arguments and everything else, but TikTok's not going away, kids.
This is the thing that sort of TikTok's using a little bit that isn't, I think, disingenuous in that it's not going away. Someone's either going to buy it or they're going to be allowed to continue to operate with some guardrails, which they're which is happening now with Project Texas, which I won't go into details. But there's got to be some way to monitor this particular service more than the others. She happens to be correct about that.
All the panic over TikTok. Oh my God, it's a censorship regime from the American government. That's not what this is. That's not read the bill.
Literally specifically sites for countries and for countries only, who's foreign ownership and or control of a social media company is not allowed in the United States. This country to be Russia, China, Iran, North Korea. That's it. Ain't no more countries.
And the notion that if an American owned entity violates the pre-cepts of the federal government, they can use this bill to shut down and force it to sale is just not true. Already coming up, we'll be joined by Isabel Brown, she's an independent creator, live streamer and author. She's a brand new book entitled The End of the Alphabet, Making a Case. It's a wide generation C is actually not bad.
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