Obama’s Back And He’s Taking Control

0:00 Barack Obama was a horrible president,

0:02 a terrible radical and the best liar in modern American history, bar none.

0:07 Because while Barack Obama promoted the most radical policies,

0:10 racial polarization, socialization of the health care system,

0:13 surrender abroad, abortion, transradicalism here at home,

0:17 then he was defeated by Donald Trump.

0:20 There would be no Donald Trump era

0:21 without the far-left insanity of the Obama era.

0:24 So, we tend to think of Trump as the defeat of Barack Obama.

0:28 But what if the Obama era is just beginning again?

0:33 What if Donald Trump defeating Obamaism was not Return of the Jedi.

0:37 It was a new hope.

0:38 Sure, President Trump blew up the Obama Death Star in 2016.

0:42 But what if Barack Obama is back and building a newer,

0:45 larger, more powerful Death Star?

0:47 What if what comes next in this story is the Obama Empire striking back?

0:51 Well, that's not a what if.

0:52 That is the reality.

0:54 Barack Obama and his radical boys are taking over the Democratic party.

0:57 They are radical.

0:58 They are vicious.

0:59 And yes, they are incredibly talented.

1:01 And yes, they can win.

1:03 That's what comes next in this story if we don't stop it.

1:06 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

1:09 [music] So, Barack Obama has been back in the headlines a lot recently.

1:18 You will remember that he went and read books to children with Zoron mom

1:21 Donnie and then he sat down with the late show with CBS with Steven Colbear.

1:27 And you know they were jokey jokey because this is what you do.

1:29 The thing about Obama is that he is wildly talented.

1:33 So unbelievably talented that every Democratic politician since

1:36 the Obama era has lived under Obama's shadow.

1:39 He is charming and he is kind of aunkular in his approach.

1:44 Here he was with Steven Cobar.

1:47 I'm looking for a new gig soon.

1:51 Uhhuh.

1:50 And a lot of people tell me I should run for president.

1:53 Well, you certainly have the look.

1:54 Thank you very much.

1:55 You have the hair.

1:56 Well, for the record, I think it's a stupid idea.

1:59 How dumb do How dumb do you think it is

2:01 for people to say that I should run for president?

2:04 Well, you know, the bar has changed.

2:08 That is true.

2:09 That is true.

2:10 At times, subterranean.

2:12 So, [laughter] so

2:13 I don't have to limbo so low.

2:14 They put it this way.

2:15 I I I I think that you could perform

2:19 [laughter] significantly better than some folks that we've seen.

2:23 All right.

2:23 Yeah.

2:24 I I I have I have great confidence in that.

2:27 [cheering] Thank you very much.

2:28 Yeah.

2:28 Is that an endorsement?

2:30 It was not.

2:32 Okay.

2:32 So, again, Obama's really really good at this.

2:35 Even I who think that Obama was the death

2:38 of modern American politics acknowledge how talented Barack Obama is.

2:41 And you can see it in clips like this.

2:43 But here is the thing.

2:44 People perceive Barack Obama as a moderate because he is

2:47 charming and because he is unthreatening to people in his affect.

2:51 But Barack Obama is was and continues to be a radical leftist.

2:56 A radical leftist.

2:58 The most important clip from this interview with Steven Coar

3:00 is the one where he says there is no divide.

3:03 He is not wrong about this.

3:04 There is no divide between liberals and leftists.

3:07 Many of us have been pointing out that there seems to be a conflict

3:09 inside the Democratic party between kind

3:12 of old school liberals and the hardcore left.

3:15 Zorn Mani is not reflective of the entire Democratic party.

3:18 There's a John Federman wing of the Democratic party.

3:20 Barack Obama says no.

3:22 Zorn Mani is the leadership class of the Democratic Party.

3:26 There is no conflict between the leftists and the liberals.

3:29 Here he was explaining to Steven Cobar.

3:32 You look at somebody like Mandami who I think is an extraordinary talent.

3:38 He he wants people to be able to afford housing in New York.

3:41 Well, you know, uh I I I would assume liberals in New York want the same thing.

3:48 And so I don't worry as much about some

3:53 of these uh these issues within the Democratic party.

3:58 What I'm more interested in around for Democrats is do you know how

4:03 to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar, right?

4:08 You know, c can you talk plain English to folks about

4:13 I think that's one of the powers that mom Donnie has.

4:15 That's correct.

4:15 Is that he also not only does he talk like a normal person,

4:18 but he lives a normal life, but he also he names what is obviously wrong.

4:24 Yes.

4:23 And he goes, "We should change that thing.

4:25 That doesn't makes any sense." and and and and not

4:28 have a bunch of gobbledegook around it.

4:32 Now again, look at what Obama is doing here.

4:34 Look at what he's doing here.

4:35 He says Zoran Mani is just a normal politician who wants to, you know,

4:40 like just fight for affordable housing.

4:42 That is not true.

4:43 Zoran Mani is an open socialist,

4:45 an open socialist who openly sympathizes with terror groups.

4:50 That's who Zoran Mani is.

4:51 And Barack Obama is hugging him and saying that he's just normal Democratic.

4:55 is not worried about the gap between the liberals and the left.

4:58 Why?

4:59 Because Zoran Mani, Barack Obama, they are the same.

5:03 They are the same.

5:04 Barack Obama is just more talented at hiding who he is and who he was.

5:09 Barack Obama and Mandani, very, very similar characters.

5:12 Obama was like Mandani, a person caught between two worlds.

5:16 He thought of himself simultaneously

5:18 as from America and also from outside America.

5:21 If you read his original memoir, he's written about 20 of them at this point,

5:24 but if you read his original memoir, Dreams from My Father,

5:26 he talks about his identity conflict between

5:28 being an American growing up in Hawaii,

5:30 and his father's past in Kenya, his African identity,

5:35 his his identity as a a black man,

5:38 but also as a person raised by white parents, white grandparents.

5:43 And what this amounts to in the end is a sort of thirdworldist philosophy.

5:48 He best summarizes this in Dreams for My Father.

5:51 Here's what he wrote in Dreams for My Father.

5:52 I still think this is the most revealing paragraph that Barack Obama ever wrote.

5:56 Quote, I know I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless,

6:00 how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi.

6:04 In much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago's South Side,

6:08 how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrembled fury,

6:11 how easily they slip into violence and despair.

6:13 I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder,

6:16 alternating as it does between a dull complacency

6:19 and when the disorder spills out of its prescribed confines,

6:22 a study unthinking application of force of longer prison sentences

6:25 and more sophisticated military hardware is inadequate to the task.

6:29 Okay, now I know that's a little fancy.

6:31 What he is saying there is just that every poor person on planet earth

6:37 in America and outside America lays

6:40 at the foot of American capitalism and imperialism.

6:43 That is what he is saying that the desperation and disorder

6:46 of the powerless should be laid at the feet of the powerful.

6:51 Right?

6:51 This has been the guiding philosophy of Barack Obama for his entire career.

6:56 that somehow America is guilty of all of these crimes and it is

6:59 indistinguishable from the radical leftism of Isaran

7:02 Mandani and Obama has always been radical.

7:05 He's always been The reason I'm saying all of this, by the way,

7:08 is not because I wish to just rip on Barack Obama.

7:10 The reason is because Barack Obama is

7:13 reclaiming the leadership position of the Democratic party.

7:16 He is the glue that holds that party together.

7:18 He is trying to build back his coalition better.

7:21 That is his idea.

7:22 He looks at the period since he was president and he sees

7:26 a Hillary Clinton who did not reflect

7:28 the capacity to hold his coalition together.

7:30 He sees a Joe Biden who lucked into the presidency

7:34 and a Kla Harris who is wildly untalented.

7:36 And he says, "Listen, I can do this myself.

7:38 I will put it back together except more radical this time because

7:41 the Democratic party has moved in the direction that Barack Obama set it in.

7:46 He was always a radical, but he's an incredibly talented liar." Listen,

7:50 a lot of people seem to remember Barack Obama as some sort of moderate.

7:53 He was not moderate at all.

7:54 I'm going to remind you how not moderate he was because again,

7:57 he's trying to grab the Democratic party and control it moving forward.

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9:02 Today, here he was in 2008 saying exactly

9:06 what he thinks of workingclass voters in America.

9:08 People have been beaten down so long and they feel so betrayed by government.

9:16 It's not surprising them that they get better and they claim to guns or religion

9:22 or antipathy towards people who aren't like

9:26 them or a way to explain their frustrations.

9:31 Again, that was Barack Obama disowning

9:33 more than half of the American population,

9:35 suggesting back in 2008 that the reason

9:37 people oppose his radicalism politically is

9:39 because they were bitterly clinging to God

9:42 and guns and all the conservative things.

9:45 But somehow Barack Obama has been retconed into some sort of moderate.

9:50 In 2008, he ran as a fake centrist.

9:52 By 2009, he was pushing some

9:54 of the most radical policy changes in American history.

9:56 In 2008, he ran as a racial unifier.

9:59 By 2012, he was running as a polarizing,

10:01 race ccentric candidate, a left-wing wrecking ball.

10:04 I just want to remember some of the stuff that he did.

10:06 I know it's all been washed away.

10:08 Barack Obama as president sued nuns to promote abortion.

10:12 Barack Obama as president forced public schools

10:15 to allow boys to use girls bathrooms.

10:18 Barack Obama used his IRS to target political opposition.

10:22 Barack Obama lied in 2008 about his position on samesex

10:24 marriage and then bathed the White House in a rainbow flag.

10:28 Barack Obama Obama promoted racially polarizing lies in order

10:32 to weave DEI into every area of American life.

10:36 Barack Obama is singularly responsible by the way

10:38 for the decline in race relations in America.

10:40 This is the single most telling chart in modern American history.

10:44 Look at this chart.

10:44 Okay, this is a chart of how people would rate

10:47 relations between the various groups in the United States from Gallup.

10:51 Would you say relations between white and black people are very good,

10:54 somewhat good, somewhat bad, or very bad?

10:57 In 2007, before Barack Obama was president,

11:03 almost 80% of white adults and almost 60%

11:06 of black adults said that race relations were good.

11:11 And by the time Barack Obama was in the middle of his second term in 2013,

11:17 still just above 70% of whites thought race relations were good.

11:20 And increasingly, black people thought race relations were good as well, 65%.

11:25 Then by 2015, off a cliff, by 2015,

11:29 white adults rated race relations as good, only 45%.

11:33 Black adults, that dropped to 50%.

11:37 And that just continued its decline to a low

11:40 in 2021 for black adults of 32%, 33%.

11:45 Okay, that was under Barack Obama.

11:46 That is when the drop happened in the first place.

11:49 That's when it happened.

11:51 It happened for a reason.

11:52 He was racially polarizing.

11:53 Barack Obama attacked businesses.

11:55 He threatened them with the power of the populist pitchfork.

11:58 He literally said to bank CEOs in 2009 that he was

12:01 the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks and the torches.

12:04 On the foreign policy front,

12:06 Barack Obama revitalized the Iranian regime with billions of dollars

12:09 in cash and a clear pathway to a nuke.

12:11 Barack Obama let Russia have its way in Ukraine and yes, in Syria.

12:14 He let China expand its power base throughout the world.

12:17 He quote unquote led from behind and then

12:20 through the power of the mainstream media,

12:22 Barack Obama made you forget all of that because the media decided

12:25 Barack Obama was a messianic figure and they would never criticize him.

12:29 The way you probably remember Barack Obama right now is the guy who was,

12:32 you know, not that bad.

12:33 I mean, not compared to like Zoran Mandani or Ilhan Omar or AOC.

12:38 The media are still pretending his administration was scandal-free.

12:41 They cover for his failures.

12:42 They explain away his lies.

12:43 They pretend that he is some sort of philosopher

12:46 king instead of the architect of the modern radical left.

12:49 But here is the thing.

12:50 There is no Zoron without Obama.

12:53 There is no Ilhan Omar without Obama.

12:55 There is no AOC without Obama.

12:58 They are all Barack Obama's ideological children.

13:01 He is proud of them.

13:02 He wants the Democratic party to be more radical because

13:04 he always wanted the Democratic party to be more radical.

13:09 Right?

13:10 This is Barack Obama with his ideological

13:12 child right here preaching to the kiddies.

13:15 Barack Obama with Mam Donnie.

13:17 And now Barack Obama's going to make all that happen because

13:20 this is not just tracing the history of how he got here.

13:24 This is what happens next.

13:26 This is what happens next.

13:29 Okay.

13:30 Obama, Manny, they're the same.

13:32 And now Obama is going to mani the entire Democratic party top down.

13:36 He architected the Democratic Party between 2008

13:38 and 2016 and now he is taking control again.

13:42 The Democratic Party, I know it feels like they're in disarray.

13:44 It feels like they have no leadership.

13:45 They are not in fact ruerless.

13:47 Obama is and has been the single most radical active driver in his party.

13:53 He did not go away.

13:55 He's not like George W.

13:56 Bush where he was president and then he went away.

13:58 He has been active and he's going to get more active.

14:00 He is a master at shifting ideological goalposts without being noticed,

14:04 cloaking his radicalism as some form of moderation.

14:08 And again, the key to all of this, the reason

14:09 that Obama is particularly threatening is because one,

14:11 he is an excellent organizer, and two,

14:13 he is the single most creative and convincing liar in modern American history.

14:17 Now, I know there are a lot of people

14:18 who are Democrats listening to this show and say,

14:20 "Ah, Donald Trump lies all the time." Donald

14:22 Trump does say things that are not true.

14:25 He does lie, but he is not nearly as good

14:28 at it as Barack Obama because Barack Obama has magicked many,

14:32 many Americans into believing that somehow he was

14:34 a Clintonian figure as opposed to what he actually is, Jimmy Carter on policy.

14:42 Barack Obama has always lied and he continues

14:45 to lie about what he believes and who he is.

14:48 So, back to his interview with Steven Coar,

14:51 he says stuff like this about the criminal justice system, right?

14:53 Sounds moderate.

14:54 It sounds kind.

14:56 Here we go.

14:58 The White House shouldn't be able to direct the attorney general

15:02 to go around prosecuting whoever uh [cheering] the president wants to prosecute.

15:06 Correct?

15:06 Because technically it's under the executive [applause] branch.

15:09 The norm is that it's independent.

15:10 The nor the the idea is that the attorney general is the people's lawyer.

15:15 It's not the president's consigary, right?

15:18 Even when it's Bobby Kennedy.

15:21 It's Bobby Kennedy.

15:22 And so uh the two of the core principles of a democracy we

15:30 we can survive a lot bad policy funky elections there there's a bunch

15:36 of stuff that you know we we can overcome we can't overcome the politization

15:43 of the criminal justice system the the the awesome power of the state.

15:47 you you can't have a situation in [applause] which uh whoever's in charge

15:51 of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies.

15:58 The IRS under Barack Obama literally

16:00 targeted Tea Party groups and pro-Israel groups.

16:02 In 2013, Eric Holder, the attorney general of the United States,

16:06 called himself Barack Obama's wingman.

16:08 Obama sitting there saying that the AG can't be the consigary for the president.

16:14 Here was Eric Holder, his AG, literally calling himself Obama's consigliary.

16:21 Well, I'm I'm happy.

16:22 I'm still enjoying what I'm doing.

16:23 There's still work to be done.

16:25 Um, I got to I'm still, you know,

16:26 I'm still the president's wingman, so I'm there with my boy.

16:30 I mean, come on.

16:32 Come on.

16:33 And as you will remember, you know, when when Barack Obama says you cannot

16:37 use the DOJ to target your political opposition,

16:40 um I seem to recall Barack Obama's

16:42 Democratic party under Joe Biden, his vice president.

16:46 After Biden became president,

16:47 he then used the DOJ to go after Donald Trump 1 million times.

16:50 Here's acting a Todd Blanch explaining.

16:54 There's something extraordinarily rich about a a Democrat

16:59 suggesting that this administration is charging our political adversaries.

17:03 I mean, first of all, we're not.

17:05 Second of all, how about we think about what happened the past four years?

17:08 It wasn't just President Trump that got

17:10 indicted repeatedly in multiple district courts, in multiple jurisdictions,

17:15 but it was also his entire administration what was called into the grand jury.

17:19 Members of his Secret Service detail had to testify in the grand jury.

17:22 So, I I I welcome criticism.

17:25 Let's go.

17:25 But but let's if if you're sitting in a glass house, you ought not throw stones.

17:32 Okay.

17:32 Barack Obama in that same interview with Co Bear,

17:34 he then goes ahead and he talks about how

17:36 he is worried for the Republican party and the Democrat.

17:39 Again, he masquerades as a moderate.

17:41 That masquerade is the whole game for Democrats.

17:45 It's the whole game.

17:47 Here he says that, you know, he's worried for the Republican party.

17:49 They're just not moderate enough.

17:50 The Republican party.

17:51 Here is Barack Obama.

17:54 I'm worried about the Republican party, not just the Democratic party.

17:58 U when I was president, people would ask me, "Well,

18:02 what change would you like to see in Washington?"

18:03 I' I' I'd say I'd love a a loyal opposition.

18:08 I I I'd love a Republican party that was conservative in some

18:13 ways that uh you know didn't agree with me on a whole bunch

18:17 of stuff but believed in rule of law and judicial independence and um

18:25 empirical [applause] empirical evidence and science

18:27 and wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses.

18:33 Um, and there has been a Republican party like that in the past,

18:37 and I want to see that returned because

18:39 I think you have to have two healthy parties.

18:43 He wrecked that Republican party.

18:45 He wrecked that Republican party.

18:47 Coming up, we will remind you of Barack Obama destroying Mitt Romney.

18:52 No, now he's pining for a better GOP.

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18:54 He's such a liar.

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20:11 You know that kinder, gentler Republican party,

20:13 the one that was the loyal opposition.

20:15 You know, the one that ran Mitt

20:17 Romney for president in 2012 against Barack Obama,

20:21 the cleanest candidate in the history of American politics.

20:23 Mitt Romney, the most classically normie candidate in American history.

20:29 And Barack Obama wrecked that guy.

20:32 He wrecked him.

20:33 Again, the the faux moderation is is gling.

20:36 It is gaslighting.

20:38 It's pathetic.

20:39 I mean, his allies literally put out an ad in 2012 saying

20:43 that Mitt Romney fired a man so that his wife would die of cancer.

20:48 This was the kind of stuff that Barack Obama's team did back in 2012.

20:53 I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's

20:55 done to people's lives by closing the plant.

20:58 I don't think he realizes that that people's lives completely changed.

21:02 [music] When Mitt Romney and Bane closed the plant,

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21:09 and uh uh a short time after that, my wife became ill.

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21:17 Uh, and I think maybe she didn't say anything because she knew that we

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21:26 and then I took her up to the Jackson County hospital and and admitted

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21:31 the cancer and by then it was stage 4.

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21:41 I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone.

21:44 [music] And I furthermore, I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.

21:49 This is what team Obama did to Mitt Romney.

21:52 Remember, they're out there saying, "Oh, we want a kinder,

21:54 gentler." They probably have a kinder, gentler Republican party.

21:58 You took Mitt Romney and you called him

22:00 a man who wanted to enslave black people.

22:02 Joe Biden said that when he was vice president,

22:04 back when his hair plugs had not all

22:06 fallen out and his brain was still semifunctional.

22:10 Romney wants to let the he said in the first 100 days

22:13 he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules.

22:17 Unchain Wall Street.

22:22 They're going to put y'all back in chains.

22:27 I mean that is what they did to Mitt Romney.

22:29 Again, this is the masquerade.

22:30 This is the masquerade.

22:32 Obama did an interview with the New Yorker in which

22:36 again he pretends moderation and that's the whole game.

22:39 He is going to be as radical as humanly possible.

22:42 He's setting up the system.

22:42 We'll get to the system he's setting up in a second because

22:45 it is being built in real time to push whatever candidate he chooses.

22:50 Okay.

22:50 But Obama's whole game is to pretend moderation.

22:52 Quote, I do think that repairing

22:54 the damage that's been done to the international

22:56 war is going to be even harder than some of the domestic repairs.

23:00 I think one way to think about it is

23:02 the postworld war II order is one of America's better moments.

23:07 Okay, let's be clear.

23:08 Barack Obama broke the postworld war II order by saying that America

23:12 ought to lead from behind that we ought to retreat from the world,

23:15 seed power to Russia.

23:17 Remember in 2012 he literally told Dmitri Medvidev

23:21 who was the standin for Vladimir Putin that if

23:26 Putin backed off before the 2012 election there would

23:29 be benefits on the other side of the election.

23:30 He was caught on a hot mic saying that.

23:33 And he says that he was in favor of the postworld war II alliances.

23:38 He said quote we're not just going

23:40 to go ahead and demand tribute and bully people.

23:43 we're going to be part of some

23:44 larger consensus about how some things should work.

23:48 And then he blames Trump for pulling out of Paris

23:50 and and by imposing tariffs and getting out of the Iran nuclear deal.

23:55 This is Obama stick.

23:57 So here is the thing.

23:58 Here's the thing.

23:59 The past is not the past.

24:01 It is the future.

24:02 Again, we think of the Trump era as itself

24:05 the sort of Star Wars original trilogy trilogy, right?

24:07 Term one was a new hope and then the Joe Biden presidency was

24:12 the Empire Strikes Back and now Trump is back in Return of the Jedi.

24:15 But what if we are not thinking along a long enough timeline?

24:18 What if the entire Trump era was a new hope?

24:22 What if what comes next is Empire Strikes Back?

24:25 See, Barack Obama has the capacity to frame the Trump

24:28 era as a sort of interregnum in American history,

24:30 a short detour on the road to leftwing devastation.

24:34 We tend to think on the right of this story

24:37 as ending with President Trump victorious over all of his woke enemies.

24:40 But what if the Democratic party is preparing to come back into power,

24:46 sweep back into power and do all the most radical things led

24:50 by Barack Obama who was always radical but was great at hiding it.

24:54 And Obama's team is rebuilding.

24:56 He already has his comms team out there.

24:58 They never went away.

24:59 the entire Pod Save America bro network, right?

25:04 They are all out there.

25:05 They are very powerful in terms of the public communications apparatus.

25:09 They have allies all over the media obviously and they

25:12 are normalizing every bit every single bit of the far-left agenda.

25:18 Again, John Favro at Pod of America is hugging

25:22 Hassan When you say Hamas is a thousand times better,

25:27 do you actually mean that or is

25:30 that a rhetorical move or like a solidarity signal?

25:33 Like what what I mean it's all of the above.

25:35 Uh I do mean it.

25:36 Uh I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people.

25:39 I've also said I'm a harm reduction voter.

25:41 I'm a lesser evil voter and therefore I

25:42 would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.

25:47 Again, these are the pits of America.

25:49 Those guys are still out there.

25:50 They're the communications apparatus for team Obama and they are

25:53 uniting with the most radical Democrats with the most radical Democrats

25:58 and the notion that it's sort of Barack Obama in the in the moderate

26:01 wing of the Democratic party and Bernie in the radical.

26:04 They're the same.

26:05 They're the same thing.

26:07 These pictures are the same.

26:08 It's Spider-Man pointing at himself.

26:11 And Sean love it.

26:12 Another pod save America bro with Bernie Sanders on why we need an AI moratorum.

26:18 If scientists who are Nobel Prize winners, guys who've gotten the Turing Award,

26:24 which is the major award given to people in computer science,

26:27 if they say to you that humanity is in danger,

26:31 do you think you might want to do something about it or am I missing something?

26:35 You tell me.

26:36 So, no, I that the percentages are also someone's,

26:40 oh, there's only a 10% chance humanity is destroyed.

26:42 It's like, well, I don't like those odds.

26:44 Only a 10% chance.

26:46 [laughter] Gone.

26:47 I I know.

26:50 Okay.

26:50 So, again, we should note Bernie is doing

26:53 full-scale events with the Chinese about an AI mortorium.

26:57 Barack Obama's foreign policy team is reactivating the worst

27:00 foreign policy team in modern history by far.

27:03 Not close.

27:04 Not a close second even.

27:05 They're no one's within sight.

27:08 According to Axios, there is a new

27:11 influential foreign policy group to help potential 2028

27:15 presidential candidates and bring together national security

27:18 specialists who could staff the next Democratic administration.

27:22 It's called National Security Action.

27:24 It was founded by Ben Rhodess who was the chief foreign policy

27:28 adviser after writing unpublished novels

27:31 in his crappy Brooklyn apartment for years.

27:32 He was selected by Barack Obama to be

27:34 his sort of anti-Israel advocate in the White House.

27:37 Ben Rhodess's literal nickname in the White House was kamas.

27:40 I'm not even kidding.

27:41 And Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under Joe Biden,

27:45 and of course, a high-ranking national security adviser under Barack Obama.

27:49 They've now picked a person named Maharbit,

27:52 who has worked for Democrats and on Capitol Hill and in the White

27:54 House to lead the group going into the 2028 primary season.

28:00 Ben Rhodess says that the group's two most interesting projects

28:03 are the pipeline of people who might work on campaigns

28:05 and populate a democratic administration and then the ideas

28:08 that can form a progressive or democratic foreign policy going forward.

28:13 And Ben Rhodess says it's time to pass the baton.

28:16 So is a really great opportunity to try

28:17 to talent spot and help elevate some different voices.

28:20 Jake Sullivan says that this should center

28:23 in on a revision of the Democratic party's relationship with Israel.

28:26 Of course, that was first promoted by Barack Obama,

28:28 the most anti-Israel president in modern history by far.

28:32 Betar, it should be noted, legitimately has the same resume as Zor Mamani.

28:37 He was a leader of the insanely anti-Semitic group,

28:40 Students for Justice in Palestine.

28:43 He worked at the kamas linked UN relief and works agency.

28:46 He wrote papers at University of Oxford on the Nakba,

28:50 which is the Arabic term for the establishment of Israel.

28:53 It means the catastrophe.

28:55 Ben Rhodess, by the way,

28:56 going out of his way in the New York Times to hug Graham Platner.

29:00 That's the dude with the Nazi tattoo.

29:04 He wrote a piece for the New York Times, quoting Graham Platner,

29:07 quote, "If the Democratic Party is to flourish in the future,

29:10 it needs to be an anti-war party." "Why

29:13 don't more Democrats talk about war the way Mr.

29:15 Platner does?" "We must re-engage the world," says Ben Rhodess,

29:19 as something other than a hedgeimon.

29:21 Rebuild diplomatic and developmental capabilities hollowed out under Mr.

29:25 Trump negotiate the outlines of a new

29:27 international order with other major powers.

29:30 Ah multiparity.

29:33 Again, this is Barack Obama's team.

29:35 That is Obama's team in the foreign policy sphere.

29:38 It is Obama's team in the comm's sphere.

29:40 Hell, it's Obama's team in the funding sphere.

29:44 back in 2025.

29:46 In September, there is a report that millions of dollars sent to Obama's

29:50 foundation has ended up being donated

29:52 to a progressive fund supporting anti-Israel groups.

29:55 Donations to the Obama Foundation that were

29:58 originally supposed to fund his museum.

30:00 2 million bucks were instead sent to the Tides Foundation,

30:02 a radical left-wing group that funnels money to the most radical leftist groups.

30:08 This is the apparatus that the Democratic Party is building.

30:11 They'll use Obama as their head.

30:12 He if he can find a politician half as talented as he is, then that's a threat.

30:17 That is a threat.

30:18 The modern Democratic party, the the conflict is over.

30:22 Obama won.

30:23 And I know for some people thinking,

30:25 okay, well, Obama won, that means the moderates.

30:27 No, he was never moderate.

30:29 He was never moderate.

30:33 And this is why you ended up with Donald Trump because Obama was not moderate.

30:38 And now he's sweeping back in.

30:39 That's what comes next.

30:41 The modern Democratic Party is fully in line with this sort of stuff.

30:45 So, as we pointed out yesterday,

30:48 there were quasi riots outside a New York City synagogue.

30:51 The the the New York City government decided that was totally fine

30:55 to to hold a a quasi riot outside the synagogue because after all,

30:58 what they were protesting was Jews buying land in Israel.

31:01 And these riers don't particularly like some

31:05 of the places that Jews are buying land,

31:07 namely Jewish cities like Ephrat and Vaniel.

31:10 Here's what that looked like in New York.

31:24 Right.

31:24 People confronting the cops, people wearing the kafias.

31:28 Hey, Zoran Mamani was asked about

31:30 this and he defended the sacrosan right to protest.

31:33 I I do not think he would feel

31:35 the same way if people started protesting outside mosques.

31:38 Actually, I'm old enough to remember because I'm more than a couple

31:40 of months old when Zoran Mandani

31:43 condemned people protesting against radical Islam

31:46 at a rally outside the mayoral mansion where a radical Islamic terrorist

31:50 tried to throw a Molotov cocktail like an IED into the crowd.

31:54 Here's Manny.

31:57 We in this city believe in the sacrosan nature of the right

32:00 to protest and also are committed to ensuring that any New Yorker can

32:05 safely enter or exit from a house of worship and that they

32:09 that access never be in question while we also protect the first amendment.

32:14 I do not believe you.

32:15 I do not believe you.

32:17 John Federman, the only sane democrat left apparently, put out a tweet.

32:20 mob of proisah Hamas bleepheads raging against law enforcement and terrorizing

32:24 the New York City Jewish community near a synagogue and daycare.

32:27 Where's my party's condemnation?

32:30 I mean, I assume in the same

32:32 place as the Democratic party's willingness to moderate.

32:36 Meanwhile, New York State Senate candidate Abar Kawas,

32:40 she uh she it was said that she was protesting with a kamas headband.

32:44 Apparently, she was not, but she had to debunk it.

32:49 one that the right is already obsessed with.

32:51 [music] An absurd claim that I held the Hamas flag at a protest a decade ago.

32:55 It's BS.

32:57 It was actually a scarf [music] printed with the sahada,

33:00 a common religious symbol like the cross or Star of David,

33:03 and it's [music] everywhere.

33:04 It's a statement of faith,

33:06 and standing up for justice has always been part of my faith.

33:11 Hey, so in any case, it looks like a headband, not a scarf.

33:14 But this also happens to be a person.

33:16 Again, she is a New York Democratic state senate candidate.

33:19 She is a person who says that 9/11 was a manifestation of capitalism,

33:24 racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia.

33:29 And finding that like, you know,

33:31 the system of capitalism and racism um and white supremacy, etc.,

33:36 have all and Islamophobia have all been used, um, you know,

33:40 to, uh, colonize lands, right, to take resources from other people.

33:45 And so this is like a long trajectory and we're

33:47 just seeing the manifestations of that continuation right with 9/11.

33:53 911 was a manifestation of the evils of Western civilization.

33:56 And this is all a part of the same

33:58 left-wing radical philosophy that is part and parcel

34:01 of the anti-colonialism of Barack Obama dating all

34:04 the way back to dreams from my father.

34:06 It's all the same thing.

34:07 And they have the fellow travelers who are typically white liberal ladies.

34:11 Gwyneith Paltro is spending her days fellow traveling with all

34:16 this crap and complaining about super rich white dudes with Cara Swisser.

34:20 I mean, listening to uh listening to Gwyneth Paltro

34:22 complain about super rich white people is pretty pretty amazing.

34:28 How do you think we got to this place

34:29 in culture where sort of nothing matters and and now

34:33 all that matters is these kind of super

34:36 rich white dudes who are breaking rules, setting rules,

34:41 you know, seemingly like not caring so

34:43 much about the downstream impact on everything, mental health culture.

34:47 They don't think they're responsible for the debt.

34:48 I think we have an idolatry of innovators,

34:51 an idolatry of wealth, and if you're wealthy, you must be smarter.

34:54 when they got all manner of shortcuts

34:57 and the innovations that they took advantage

34:59 of were paid by the American public.

35:01 By the way, the internet was invented by the United States government, not them.

35:05 And it's great to be innovative and make these things and this rocket stuff.

35:09 I'm so impressed by what SpaceX is doing.

35:12 We can argue about the valuation of it, but it's still astonishing.

35:16 And at the same time, why do they get why does a small homogeneous group

35:21 of people get to decide for the rest of us?

35:25 Well, I mean, why do they get to keep the products that they have

35:27 built and then the innovations that have

35:30 made everyone richer in the United States?

35:31 Jennifer Welch, again, astonishing to me that Jennifer Welch is

35:35 somehow considered a a voice of white ladies,

35:38 but I guess, you know, you choose your fighter in this version of Mortal Kombat.

35:43 Here's Jennifer Welch saying, "Republicans lie about being patriotic

35:46 and loving America with Wahhat Ali." Okay.

35:48 Okay, man.

35:51 The Republicans lie um about being loving America and being patriotic.

35:57 They lie that they're good with the economy, that wealth will trickle down.

36:00 That has been a decadesl long propagandistic lie.

36:04 They lie that they support the troops and they're about national security.

36:07 They don't.

36:08 They lie to get people into war.

36:09 They never support the soldier.

36:10 They never support the health care of these soldiers.

36:14 35% of all homeless people are vets.

36:17 They served.

36:18 These people are broken because of that service.

36:20 And then you have all of these rich fat cat Republicans like Dick Cheney,

36:25 Donald Trump, George W.

36:26 Bush.

36:27 Deferment, deferment, deferment, deferment.

36:29 These guys would never serve.

36:30 Do you think Baron's going to go serve?

36:32 Do you think Dumb and Dumber, Eric, Don, and Eric are going to go serve?

36:36 No.

36:36 They're never going to serve over there.

36:38 And so the biggest thing that got us here

36:41 is the Republican party's lies that they love America.

36:44 And every time in my lifetime, I was born in 1974.

36:48 Every Republican president of my lifetime lifetime has wrecked the economy,

36:54 taken us into war, added to the national deficit,

36:57 and um resided over a recession.

37:02 Again, this is the Democratic Party.

37:05 Now, you might say to yourself, "Okay, fine.

37:06 So, Barack Obama is radical.

37:08 So, the Democratic Party is moving in a radical direction.

37:10 So, they're organizing for their revenge.

37:12 They won't be able to get there.

37:13 They won't be able to get the American people are too moderate for it.

37:16 They'll see through it.

37:16 So, first of all, we didn't see through it in 2008.

37:18 But second of all, they're going to have some help.

37:21 They're going to have some help.

37:22 They'll have some help, for example,

37:24 from the new left, who we have been talking about,

37:26 the splinter faction of pseudo Republicans

37:30 who fellowtraveled with Donald Trump and now

37:32 are abandoning Trump in favor of a new coalition with the Democrats.

37:37 These folks have the same philosophy.

37:39 These people have the same philosophy as Ben Rhodess.

37:43 They have the same philosophy as Zor and Mamani on a wide variety of topics,

37:48 including on radical Islam.

37:51 I mean, here was it's pretty astonishing what's happened to Tucker Carlson,

37:54 just as a as an example of this.

37:57 Our friends on the new left or the woke

37:59 right as James Lindseay likes to call them.

38:02 Here's Tucker in 2017 versus Tucker now on Islam.

38:06 Uh things have changed just a little.

38:08 Things have changed.

38:10 I get that decent Muslim Americans feel under attack.

38:12 act.

38:12 They feel like they're being unfairly portrayed as terrorists.

38:14 I understand all that, but at some point you have to say this really is

38:18 a real problem and it's discrediting all of us and until we take it seriously,

38:20 it's going to continue.

38:21 Now, we can debate the details here,

38:22 but it's I think it's important to acknowledge a baseline

38:24 and that is that there have been an awful lot of attacks where

38:27 actual people died in the United States and in Europe committed

38:31 by people saying really clearly we're acting in the name of Islam.

38:34 For whatever it's worth, a pretty fervent Christian and I feel uh completely

38:39 comfortable here in the in the seat of Islam.

38:42 If you have a society in which people bow down before God five times a day,

38:49 I'm not against that.

38:51 I should bow down before God five times a day.

38:55 And I wish I lived around people who bowed down before God five times a day.

38:59 Yeah, that was Tucker Carlson in 2016 2017 versus Tucker Carlson.

39:03 Now, I mean, now Tucker is going so far that because

39:06 he thinks that the entire world is controlled by the Zio Jews,

39:09 he's saying that Iran should actually have nukes

39:11 in order to counter the ambitions of the ZoJs.

39:16 The mutually assured destruction principle, which as ugly as it sounds, is real.

39:22 It's absolutely real.

39:24 What you don't want is a nation that feels no constraints whatsoever,

39:28 that feels it can do whatever it wants.

39:30 It feels it can roll into its neighbors

39:32 sovereign territory and expel the population and kill people.

39:36 This is exactly we thought the lesson of World War II.

39:38 That's bad.

39:41 But that's kind of what you get when you

39:42 have a country that feels it has unconstrained power.

39:46 It can do whatever it wants.

39:47 What does it tend to do?

39:48 Well, whatever it wants.

39:51 And so you could at least make the case academically even if you disagreed

39:54 with the whole idea of nuclear weapons

39:56 and thought they were probably inherently evil.

40:00 Even if you wondered where they came from in the first place,

40:02 even if you had dark suspicions about the genesis of nuclear weapons,

40:05 and some of us do, you could still make

40:07 the case on a pragmatic basis that look at the effects.

40:13 Look at the effects.

40:14 They are less bad than this.

40:18 Okay, so that was Tucker Carlson making the case the Iranian

40:20 mullers should actually have nuclear weapons that would somehow be better.

40:24 That would somehow be better.

40:25 By the way, backing all of this has been, of course,

40:27 Megan Kelly, who has never seen a click that you will not chase.

40:31 Notice the contrast between Megan Kelly on Islam in January

40:34 of this year versus Megan Kelly on Islam in, you know, May.

40:40 Islam is not consistent with the values of America, of the West.

40:45 They should stay in countries that don't

40:47 care about keeping church and state separated.

40:50 They should stay in countries that don't care about protecting free speech.

40:53 They should stay in countries that don't care about women's rights.

40:56 It's been something I've noticed just since I've gotten a sort

40:59 of more cleareyed on Israel that a lot of the anti-Muslim

41:03 rhetoric that's put out there originates with people who are

41:08 very very pro-Israel who kind of need us to demonize them.

41:12 And I've taken a look recently at my own rhetoric on this to say like,

41:15 "Have I been manipulated?

41:16 I want to make sure I'm not getting manipulated." So she was hoodwinkedked.

41:22 She was hoodwinkedked by those terrible pro-Israel people,

41:25 Megan Kelly between January and May.

41:27 Or she's chasing the clicks.

41:29 Candace Owens, of course, has been doing the same thing for a while,

41:32 running interference for radical Islam.

41:35 Americans don't know anything.

41:36 We know very after 9/11.

41:38 I think about it now, the propaganda to make me afraid of Muslims.

41:42 I can't even imagine being a Muslim growing up after

41:44 911 in America because I know how I felt about them.

41:47 And I was I was young.

41:48 I was 11 years old.

41:49 But that beating every day in our heads that every Muslim was a terrorist was

41:53 the idea that you got to all Muslims growing up during that time in America.

41:56 I am sorry on behalf of America for the way that you were treated.

42:00 That it is so unacceptable.

42:02 When I go back and I reexamine that propaganda,

42:05 that brainwashing that took place in the classroom

42:06 to make me scared of something.

42:08 I didn't even know what a Muslim was.

42:09 And these Muslim terrorists only want to terrorize to benefit Israel.

42:13 It's so strange.

42:13 I cannot work it out.

42:15 If you're a Muslim terrorist, we want to hear from you.

42:21 All right.

42:21 Well, again, how can the radicals win?

42:24 How can the radicals win?

42:25 I mean, the radicals can win on the left

42:27 if they get some help from the new left.

42:29 That's all it takes.

42:30 So, again, there's a coalition that is forming.

42:33 That coalition is the Barack Obama coalition.

42:36 And there will be a bunch of people who join back up with it.

42:40 Moderates who are hoodwinkedked by Barack Obama's moderate

42:43 affect people who are radical in their inclinations anyway.

42:48 And of course some alienated members of the new left/woke right.

42:54 The people who have decided that they must fellow travel with the third worldist

42:57 because they have their own version

42:58 of third worldism that they are indeed promoting.

43:01 And meanwhile, speaking of radical Islam, Iran continues in its entransigence,

43:07 according to the Wall Street Journal editorial board,

43:10 they say based on conversations with senior US officials,

43:12 here is what a good deal would look like to end the Iran war.

43:15 First, dismantlement.

43:16 Iran can't enrich now, but a good deal would name all deeply

43:19 buried nuclear facilities as illicit enrichment sites and would

43:23 enable supervised dismantlement of all centrifuges and ban

43:26 producing or importing materials and components for plutonium processing.

43:30 uranium.

43:32 Iran would love to focus solely on its 440 kg of 60% enriched uranium.

43:36 The regime's 20% stockpile may sound less dangerous,

43:39 but reaching that level is 90% of the way to weapons grade,

43:42 so it has to go as well.

43:43 IAEA inspections anywhere.

43:46 Iran has to make a full declaration of its past nuclear work.

43:49 A final deal on Hormuz should prescribe all tolls, mines,

43:52 and forced routes and dismantlement of the sanctions

43:55 on a short specific timetable once all of that is done.

43:58 Now, we'll see what kind of deal the Trump administration is trying to cut.

44:03 The foreign minister of Iran, Abasaraki,

44:05 he says that Iran is going to continue to stave off

44:09 elimination as a regime by standing up to the United States.

44:17 He says, "Our Chinese friends also believe that Iran

44:19 after the warrant from Iran before the war,

44:25 has proven its capabilities and strength.

44:32 Therefore, a new phase of cooperation

44:33 between Iran and other countries lies ahead.

44:39 Well, certainly not in the Middle East.

44:40 I assume he just means a closer relationship between Iran and China,

44:43 which demonstrates once again why Iran is a threat because China is a threat.

44:48 And meanwhile, Democrats trying to claim that we are losing the war.

44:51 Democratic Representative Seth Molton,

44:53 who should know better from Massachusetts,

44:54 he says that we're losing the war in Iran.

44:57 Iran has way more leverage than they had at the beginning

45:02 when we were just trying to negotiate a nuclear deal with them.

45:05 Now Trump's trying to reopen the strait as well.

45:08 And I don't think that either is going

45:09 to come on great terms for the United States.

45:11 This is a loss for us.

45:13 And that's how dangerous this war has been.

45:16 This is as in we have lost this war.

45:20 We're certainly losing it right now on almost every measure.

45:23 You know, regime change has gotten us a more hardline regime.

45:26 We destroyed some of their ballistic missiles,

45:27 but given them billions and billions of dollars

45:29 by lifting oil sanctions so they can buy more.

45:32 We clearly have not obliterated their nuclear program,

45:34 and we're in a far worse position than Obama was with the Iran nuclear deal.

45:40 I mean, that is not true in the slightest.

45:42 We have significantly degraded their ballistic

45:44 missile capacity and their manufacturing capacity.

45:46 We have destroyed their economic power.

45:48 We still have a blockade on their oil.

45:51 The best they can do is try to hold chipping up in the street

45:53 of Hormuz that is gradually being opened by the United States anyway.

45:56 Which is why a new Harvard Harris poll suggests that 74%

45:59 of respondents say that the United States is winning the war,

46:02 which happens to be the truth.

46:04 That is correct.

46:07 So again, that by the way, that includes 40% of Democrats believe that only only

46:12 40% of Democrats believe that Iran is winning the war.

46:14 60% believe the United States is winning the war of Democrats.

46:19 And so again, the the attempt to undermine the United States is ongoing.

46:25 Meanwhile, California continues along its radical path.

46:28 You want to look at what a Barack Obama ruled state would look like,

46:31 California is a pretty good indicator.

46:34 According to a brand new report from Ryan

46:36 Thorp and Chris Rufo over at City Journal, in the last 5 years,

46:39 the California Department of Social Services has rubber stamped at least

46:42 $41 million in funding to the Council on American Islamic Relations.

46:47 Those federal dollars are flowing into CARE California's coffers even

46:51 after it was the target of a recent DOJ investigation.

46:54 And for those who don't follow CARE, CA care is an incredibly radical group

46:59 that was effectively founded by people with significant

47:03 links to Hamas and they've been receiving

47:06 huge amounts of money from grants in California.

47:10 In 2022, California Department of Social Services awarded CARE $7.2 2 million

47:16 in federal funds v via a state

47:17 program to provide immigration related legal assistance.

47:20 And then in September 2025, they rubber stamped an additional $23

47:24 million in federal funds for Cara California.

47:27 Here by the way is the Cara California leader

47:29 Zarabilu advising people to be strategic with their hate.

47:34 Now imagine your LinkedIn profile says I hate all Zionists.

47:40 Replace hate with whatever inappropriate must like

47:42 you know something I can't say here.

47:46 not strategic, right?

47:48 Like not not strategic.

47:49 Now, you may sit that you may say

47:50 that sitting around Kahwa House on a Friday night,

47:53 but you're not going to say it on your LinkedIn.

47:54 And so, so think so one, we have to do the basics.

47:59 We have to remember that Allah protects us.

48:03 Ah, good stuff there from the Council on American Islamic Relations.

48:07 Glad that federal taxpayers can subsidize that.

48:10 Thanks to the government of California.

48:12 Meanwhile, government in California continues to do an extraordinary job.

48:16 The feds just raided a huge drug ring in Los Angeles's MacArthur Park.

48:21 According to the DOJ, 18 defendants,

48:23 including two people law enforcement believes are the main sources

48:26 of fentinel and meth in LA's gang and drug infested MacArthur Park,

48:29 have now been arrested on a federal criminal complaint,

48:32 charging them with a federal drug trafficking offense.

48:35 You may remember LA Mayor Karen Bass suggesting in July 2025 that ICE

48:40 was wrong for being in Macarthur Park and trying to police crime.

48:46 Yes.

48:47 My comment is they need to leave and they need to leave right now.

48:51 They need to leave because this is unacceptable.

48:57 Well, maybe maybe at a certain point even the people

49:00 of LA will decide to buck this sort of insanity.

49:03 So last night was the LA mayoral debate.

49:07 That debate pitted Spencer Pratt, who's essentially a reality TV star,

49:12 against a city council woman named Nithia Ramen, as well as Mayor Bass.

49:18 Mayor Bass continues to be the front runner.

49:19 She continues to be the front runner in that mayoral race, which is nuts.

49:23 Spencer Pratt did a a good job in this debate.

49:26 He pointed out that the LA city council and the mayor's

49:30 office have allowed homelessness to run rampant throughout the city.

49:34 And uh he made a pretty colorful remark

49:37 to Nitia Raman about her policy which would

49:41 suggest a $10.7 million infusion to renovate a 26

49:47 room motel into interim housing for the homeless.

49:49 It's $411,000 per apartment.

49:51 Karen Bass signed it.

49:52 Here is Spencer Pratt calling out that policy in pretty colorful language.

49:56 Councilwoman Robin's plan for treatment first.

49:58 I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her and we

50:02 can find some of these people she's going to offer treatment for.

50:04 She's going to get stabbed in the neck.

50:06 These people do not want a bed.

50:08 They want fentanyl or super meth.

50:11 These ideas cost us over $400 million to house for 70.

50:16 What did he say?

50:16 3,000 people for 400 million.

50:18 This is absolute failure for both of them.

50:21 They're a team.

50:24 Spencer Pratt also called out Karen Bass for lying

50:27 about the Palisades fires and how it was handled.

50:33 We had two other reservoirs totaling 8 billion 8

50:37 billion gallons that were available but could not fly.

50:40 Yes, she uh she mentioned me.

50:42 So this is she's an incredible liar.

50:45 Everyone on their phones Google it.

50:48 40 weather stations in the Pacific Palisades.

50:50 It never went above 40 miles.

50:53 She is represent.

50:54 I have to interrupt you for a minute.

50:56 I have to interrupt you.

50:57 Um Um No name calling.

51:00 Lied though.

51:01 Yeah.

51:01 But no name calling.

51:02 Um we could be a liar.

51:06 Okay.

51:06 So Spencer Pratt, by the way, did a pretty good job in this debate.

51:10 Perhaps the most astonishing moment.

51:11 Again, this is how Democrats are now governing.

51:14 This is how they are governing in major cities.

51:16 The Loro candidates were asked whether non-citizens

51:19 should be allowed to vote in Los Angeles.

51:22 Spencer Pratt, of course, says no.

51:23 Watch the other two.

51:27 Non-citizens, should they be allowed to vote in local elections?

51:30 Is this a yes or no, Mr.

51:32 Pratt?

51:33 No.

51:34 Mayor Bass, it depends.

51:35 It's not a yes or no.

51:37 Depends on what?

51:38 Well, first of all, when you say non-citizens,

51:40 it doesn't mean they're here illegal.

51:41 It doesn't mean they're undocumented.

51:43 They could have green cards.

51:44 They could be here perfectly legal.

51:46 And there's a lot of states and cities that do that on very,

51:49 very local elections.

51:51 We have to see what the councilman is proposing.

51:53 Council member Breman.

51:54 Yeah, I would say again it it does depend.

51:56 In other places, school boards have nonitizens who Mr.

52:02 Fred, I have a question for you.

52:04 ABC News.

52:07 Insane.

52:08 Insane.

52:09 But that's the kind of governance that Democrats increasingly want.

52:12 While Democratic governance, you know, is not the only problem in America.

52:16 Waste, fraud, and abuse in gigantic

52:18 federal programs remains an enormous problem.

52:20 No matter which state you are in, Luc Rosiaak has been

52:24 doing an a tremendous job of investigating wastes fraud in Ohio.

52:32 He has done a fulllength 20inut walking tour through the Ohio

52:37 health care system showing how billions of taxpayer dollars have been abused.

52:42 You can find that over at dailywire.com right now.

52:45 Here is a little bit of that video.

52:49 Let's pick the door that says True Home Healthcare LLC.

52:53 Out for a quick break.

52:55 The company's owner is listed in Medicaid records as Mamusu Canoe.

52:59 According to public records,

53:00 she has a slew of criminal infractions, including theft,

53:03 assault, and malicious wounding, as well as civil judgments and tax leans.

53:07 True Healthcare received $100,000 in December 2023 alone despite having

53:13 only 15 patients [music] according to newly released federal data.

53:18 Connie was charged with felony aggravated assault in Virginia

53:21 and convicted of theft in Columbus in 2004, 2005, and [music] 2006.

53:28 In a phone interview, Mamusu Sue Canoe denied that she had a criminal record.

53:33 Even if I do, it doesn't have anything to do with nobody.

53:37 They certify you before you do anything.

53:42 So again, it's a great investigation.

53:43 Go check out Daily Wire right now for all of the information.

53:47 That kind of reporting can only be done

53:49 with your help when you become a member over at dailywire.com.

53:52 So go do that right now so we can

53:53 continue to expose this sort of malfeasance in American government.

53:58 All righty.

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