Ep. 2455 - The Left REJECTS The Flag, The Bible… And AOC?!

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So it's been true forever. President Trump's magic power is that whatever he touches, his opposition disowned. So if he takes an 80% position, his opposition will take the 20% position just because they hate him so much. If he decides that he likes rock music and MMA and fighter jets, the left will say all of those things are awful. If he decides that you know it would be awesome, a really cool fare on the Washington Mall, the left will decide that the fair is really, really bad just because they hate him that much. If he decides that we need... a better lining for the reflecting pool. The left will go nuts and say it's better if the place is essentially a swamp. So if President Trump hugs an American flag, the left will just by necessity want to burn it. Now, the left should stop doing this because it's really, really bad and really, really stupid. If we are going to share anything in this country, we should love the American flag. And again, if you go back historically, the people who most had reason not to like the American flag still found a way to love the American flag because it turns out that if you root for the principles of America, eventually the American flag ends up flying for those principles. To take the most famous example, Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave, back in the 1850s, gave a speech on July 4th, asking what July 4th was to the slave. The whole thing was a critique, the speech of the idea that the Declaration of Independence did not properly apply to black people. And his complaint was not that the Declaration of Independence was wrong or bad or the American flag was wrong or bad, but why were black people not included in that promise? And then, of course, a Civil War was fought. And over the course of 100 years, Jim Crow was extirpated, specifically to fulfill Frederick Douglass's vision of a July 4th that stood for all Americans. That's the best way to approach the American flag because that same American flag that was flying over in America that tolerated slavery flew with the troops wearing blue as they fought the Confederates in favor of abolishing slavery. But today the left has decided, apparently in large scale, that the American flag is just too uncomfortable. There's a large piece at NBC News today. titled, Many Americans say Stars and Stripes is now a red flag, quote, to fly or not to fly an American flag. That was never a question for Bruce Watson, who has put his national pride on display for years and nudges neighbors in his small New England town to do the same. But as the polarized nation marks its 250th birthday, Watson 72, worries his stars and stripes may now need an asterisk. If we do fly the flag, we will also put out signs to make it clear that we are not MAGA, he said. So first of all, it's unbelievable, truly amazing, that the left has allowed. the right to basically treat the flag as a right-wing symbol. The American flag is not a right-wing symbol. It is a symbol of all of the values of America. And if the left, wishes to surrender that to the right, I suppose they can. But it's a bold move, cotton, not sure why they would do it. So apparently, a bunch of people on the left are going to fly the flag but upside down to protest President Trump. Apparently, one person interviewed by NBC News is replacing the U.S. flag with the state flag of Pennsylvania. Aaron Beltel, 22, who lives outside Philadelphia with her parents, said her father will be flying the American flag, but she says, if were up to me and my mom, we'd be flying the pride flag or the Philadelphia Eagles flag instead. I love our country, but I'm not feeling very proud of our country right now, which, again, is an insane proposition. That's insane.

You feel more loyalty and love for the Philadelphia Eagles than you do for the country? Do you play for the Philadelphia Eagles? And by the way, even if you do play for the Philadelphia Eagles, you should still love the American flag more than you love the symbol of the Philadelphia Eagles. The pride flag as a replacement for the American flag? We'll get to that in a moment because that is, in fact, the default replacement flag for the American flag. According to NBC News, some readers said they were motivated by peer pressure more than patriotism. I display my flag outside my home mainly because everyone else around my neighborhood does it, even though I'm not 100% proud to be an American, said a Newtown Pennsylvania woman who also asked to remain anonymous. I feel if I don't have a flag displayed somewhere, people will think I'm against our country or something. Well, I mean, kind of. Why would it be bad to fly the American flag? A Rhode Island teacher. said she too is flying alternate flags, the rainbow pride flag, and the banner of her beloved New England Patriots. The teacher said she had not flown the flag since 2024 when Trump was elected for a second term. I have a gay son and a trans son and felt that the flag was now a symbol flown by people who don't want my children to exist. So herein lies the problem. Again, the American flag is a symbol. Symbols have underlying meanings. Those symbols stand for things. The swastika stands for something different than the American flag stands for something different than the Pride Progress flag. So what does the American flag stand for historically? Well, most obviously, the promise of the Declaration of Independence, whose 250th anniversary are celebrating this year. The greatness of the American Constitution, the greatest system of government ever devised by man. And yes, a set of values rooted in the Bible. Because it turns out that... The declaration and the Constitution were not born out of arid soil. They didn't spring full blown from the heads of the men who wrote them. They are the apex of a system of values that was rooted thousands of years beforehand. So if you don't like those things, then you probably are doing Americanism wrong. You're failing to understand what it is that makes America great and makes America awesome, regardless of your politics. And this is why it is bizarre that there's a gigantic controversy that is now broken out in the state of Texas over whether or not kids should learn about the Bible, not that kids should be preached to that they must believe in Christ or that they must believe that Moses brought laws down from Mount Sinai or something. But there are people who are very upset that people are being taught the Bible in public schools. Well, coming up, we'll get to why the left hates America, oh so much, and what they want to replace the American flag with. First, last week, I sat down with Medal of Honor recipient, Clint Romishay. One thing that always stands out after conversations like that is this. The people who have served this country, they don't talk about themselves as heroes. They talk about duty and about the people beside them, about doing the job that needed to be done. As America approaches, its 250th birthday, it's worth remembering. Our country's story isn't just about documents and speeches. It's about the generations of Americans who answered that call when freedom depended on them. When those men and women come home, our responsibility as fellow Americans does not end, which is why I'm proud that Pure Talk is partnering with America's Warrior Partnership to raise $250,000 for veterans. America's Warrior Partnership is on the front lines of preventing veteran suicide by helping veterans access housing, transportation counseling, VA benefits, and other essential services. They provide practical support that helps veterans build stable, successful lives after service. When you switch your cell phone service to Pure Talk this month,

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Again, what are those clauses meant to do? Well, those clauses are supposed to be read in tandem. The idea is that Congress should not make a law respecting an establishment of religion. So Congress should not, for example, force you to go and receive communion. Congress should not force you to go pray three times a day. But that's to be read in the context of abridging the free exercise thereof. Why? Because the idea was that if Congress establishes one form of religion, it would bar all the other forms of religion, and this would inhibit your free exercise. And notice, the words free exercise, that does not mean free thought, because thought is different from exercise. Religion does not just exist in the private sphere. It's not just something that you do in your church and in your home, it's something you do your whole life. And this is something that the founders understood being largely religious and growing up in a religious society. The sociologist Emil Durkheim wrote, quote, a religious society does not exist without a collective credo and it is more or less strong and united according to whether this credo is widely held. And all the founders understood this, by the way, including the most secular leaning of the founders. President John Adams, my favorite founder, wrote in a letter to the Massachusetts militia famously, quote, We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Averous, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for immoral and religious people. George Washington said the same, quote, the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality. There exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. Even James Madison, who authored provisions in the state of Virginia banning the establishment of religion, said he did so in order to strengthen religion because he believed that religious discrimination would lead people to abandon religion. Jefferson himself recognized, quote, the moral branch of religion instructs us how to live well and worthily in society. Also, by the way, you are just not a literate Western citizen if you don't know the Bible. You are not literate. That is not opinion. That is fact. Virtually all of the Western canon, everything from Dickens to Shakespeare. Everything from the works of the founding fathers to the words of Franklin's Eleanor Roosevelt cannot be understood without some reference point in the Bible. This particular truth for the founding era, by the way. There's a political scientist named Donald Lutz, and he actually went through 15,000 sources of political writing from the founding era. He cataloged all of them. What is the single most cited source in the founding literature? Not Locke, like you heard in school or Montesquieu. It's the Bible, of course, like a third of all citations. And the single most cited book was the book of Deuteronomy, which makes perfect sense because the book of Deuteronomy is how do you govern a nation? What is the moral law that you use to govern a nation? So why is this relevant? Well, because a lot of people today are pretending that we're about to live in a theocracy because of the Texas State Board of Education has voted to require students to study the Bible stories, which, by the way, again, you should. If you wish you have any basic literacy in your civilization, you need to know the Bible.

You may notice, I am not a Christian. I am a Jew. I know the New Testament because in order for you to understand the literature that you are reading, you must understand the New Testament. It is not possible to read anything from Victor Hugo to Dostoevsky without understanding the New Testament. Not a possibility. You cannot do it. Educated literate citizens have to know this stuff. And they have to know it, not because we are saying that the state must force you to go to church. You have to know it because otherwise you literally don't understand the roots of your own civilization. You just don't. So what exactly is the Tech State Board of Education doing? So you've heard from all your left-wing friends that they are now forcing everybody to kneel, essentially. That is not right. That is not right. They have approved a proposal that establishes a list of required reading according to CNN. It includes Bible verses alongside classic titles for its K-12 English and literature curriculum. Texas is prescribing a literary canon for every public school student. Many Texas students are already familiar with at least some Christian teachings. The state last year became the largest state to require classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. First of all, I find it funny that CNN is so illiterate that they say that those are Christian teachings. I mean, to be fair, the Ten Commandments is part of the Old Testament. So you want to talk about truly Judeo-Christian? Ten Commandments would fall squarely in the Judeo-Christian category since, you know, it arrived on the scene some thousand years before Christ. In any case. The new list of required titles will include a picture book adaptation of the David and Goliath story for elementary students, which of course, again, how are you even literate? How are you literate if you don't know the David and Goliath story? It is referenced in an enormous percentage of Western literature. All the founders knew it. Okay, biblical passages about Adam and Eve for older students. Well, yes, duh, because you have to know that stuff. You can't read Shakespeare without understanding these biblical references. The actual proposals include a bunch of other texts from the Bible, including verses from the book of Luke about the necessity of humility. For fifth graders, the burning bush and the parting of the Red Sea, again. Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin, not exactly a deeply religious person, wanted the parting of the Red Sea to be put on the official seal of the United States. You cannot understand the anti-slavery movement without understanding the Book of Exodus. It is not possible to do so. All, all of the anti-slavery advocates were quoting the Book of Exodus, all of them. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted the book of Exodus all the time. Sections from the books of Matthew and Psalms and Ecclesiastes. And again, all of this stuff is stuff that you should just know. A section from Matthew about anxiousness or the shepherd's psalm from Psalms. I mean, come on. You know, it's in every movie. What did you think they were saying in the movie at every single grave sightseed? What do you think that they're quoting right there? The Lord is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want. What do you think they're quoting? They just like made it up? What? Or ecclesiases to everything there is a season? I mean, the Beatles were writing songs to some of this stuff. And then the book of Job for high school standardized testing expectations. I mean, like, what is remotely controversial about all of this? What is remotely controversial? The answer is nothing. By the way, also, the curriculum includes the book of lamentations from the Torah, right, which is the book, it's Jeremiah, is writing that.

And then high school world history includes beliefs of the Quran and the actual history of slavery globally and Washington's letter to a Hebrew congregation in Newport, which basically talks about religious freedom in the United States, and Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank, like the idea that there's some gigantic establishment of a Christian theocracy because you're literate is insane. But again, the reason that the left is fighting this is because if you're unfamiliar with the roots of the American flag, then you get to replace it with anything. If you stand for nothing, then you will stand for anything. And that is where we are going next. If the American flag stands for the Declaration and the Constitution and a set of biblical values that undergird all of that, and you reject all of that, well, where do you end up? Well, we have an opposite flag. And that opposite flag is the representation of the radical left these days. This flag is pretty much everything. Already coming up, we'll get to the radicals replacement for the American flag. It's really quite hideous. First, America was built by people who worked hard and also had to get some sleep. You know, if you're not sleeping well, you're not operating at full capacity. This country needs you at full capacity. We have a 250th birthday coming up. You need to be ready. And this is where Helix comes in. The 4th of July, it's coming. And how exactly are you going to party it up unless you've had some sleep? Helix exists to make sure that that happens for you. They offer over 20 mattress models. Take a quick quiz. Get matched to the right one for how you actually sleep. Your position, your temperature, your firmness preference, all of it. Free shipping and 120-night sleep trial. They're happy with Helix guarantee. They make it completely risk-free. It's the most awarded mattress brand out there tested and reviewed by Forbes and Wired. The fourth is just days away. Invest in your sleep, invest in yourself. Go to helixleep.com slash Ben. Get 20% off site wide, 25% off Lux mattresses. 30% off elite mattresses. That's helixsleep.com slash men. Or 20% off site wide, 25% off luxe mattresses, 30% off those elite mattresses. Again, my wife and I have a Helix sleep mattress. We took that sleep quiz. A mattress made just for us. It's particularized for us. Just one of the many reasons. America is awesome. Go check out helixleep.com slash men. This is from the Seattle Pride March, a hybrid Palestine trans flag. Yes, radical Islam. and radical transgenderism all in one flag. Now, of course, it would be weird for that to sit in one flag. In fact, if you tried to fly this in Gaza, you would immediately be shoved off the top of a building or drag behind a motorcycle. That's how things would end for you in the Gaza Strip. Or for that matter, in Ramallah. But the idea is that this is the set of values. The set of values is opposed to all the things. It's opposed to all the things. It turns out that's not enough to fly a Philadelphia Eagles flag or New England Patriots flag instead of the American flag. If you actively do not like the American flag and the things it stands for sooner or later, you will end up at the hybrid Palestine trans flag. That's where you'll end up. And in terms of governing, this is where we are going. This is where we are going. So Zohran Mamdani is is is the Palestine trans flag in a human. In a human, that is Zohran Mamdani. He despises America and the principles that it stands for, despises them, believes that all of the founding principles of America are wrong. And so he unifies in his very personage, radical Islam, and trans pride progress. That is who Zohran Mamdani is. That is the future of the left. So over the weekend, Zohran Mamdani played tribute to Ashura. He put out a tweet saying, Asura is a time, it shows him at mosque.

Again, you should know. When he does this routine where he's a religious Muslim and then immediately goes to a Pride Progress protest, if you are a deeply religious Muslim, that is not a thing you do. That is not a thing. It's all Takea. It's a lie. Imam Dani says, Asura is a time of remembrance, sacrifice, and reflection. Today, on the 10th day of Muharam, we are reminded of Imam Hussein's unwavering commitment to truth and dignity. His timeless legacy reminds us of the enduring values of faith service to one another and the belief that justice is always worth fighting for. Our city's strength comes from the many faith traditions that shape it and our shared struggle against injustice and oppression. Again, that's the coalition. Free Palestine, trans. That's the coalition. May we carry these values forward as we continue building a more just city for every New Yorker? Again, I'm going to need to see the work. Honestly, I want to show the work. How did Ashura shape America? Also, by the way, we should point out that Ashura is a sectarian holiday. It is not even a general Islamic holiday, like Ramadan or something. It is sectarian. Shia Muslims mourn Ashura because it commemorates what they call the martyrdom of Hussein Ibn Ali. who was Muhammad's grandson at the paddle of Karbalah in 680C. Sunni Islam observes it as a day of gratitude and fasting to celebrate the day that Allah saved the prophet Moses from Pharaoh. So again, two different and sectarian views of even that holidays. So we're bringing like Islamic sectarianism to New York and then pretending that it's in unison with pride progress. So here was Zohran Mamdani, who again praises every radical Islamic group he can find. Being cheered at the Pride March, the Pride Progress flag, the Free Palestine flag, they're the same. Why? Because what do they share? What do they share? In the end, the thing they hate is the American flag. Dari Liza Chevalier, when she said that she wanted to wipe her hands on the American flag, she was not lying. She was not lying. Here's some footage from New York over the weekend.

There he is walking. They're all so excited. They're so excited. Aw. What happens to gay people in Uganda? Nothing pleasant where he is from. Meanwhile, the New York City Pride chanted Scott Bottoms tops. We all hate cops, which is really the important thing. It's, man, hating the system. The cops are literally standing there protecting this. People running around chanting about whether they wish to pitch or catch. Great stuff happening in New York. with the trans pride progress flag. Just wonderful, wonderful stuff here. Bud Zohamamani says, hey, you know what? The Democratic Party is a big tent. It's a big tent. As it turns out, it's not that big. We'll get to the smallness of the tent in a second. But this is what a takeover looks like. But they're saying that if you're a socialist, you're not a Democrat. I mean, is there room in the party for both of these views? Yes, here I am. Here are so many more. And I think what makes our party a beautiful party is the fact that it's a big tent. But you've also said it has to be a party with a spine, with a backbone. Yes. Even a tent has to stay up. Okay, what's the tent pole? The smugness, the smugness of this anti-American jacket. It's unbelievable. Then he denies that he wants to run for president. Well, I mean, first of all, he can't. There's a constitutional bar to people who are born abroad running for president. But, you know, Democrats would love to get rid of that for sure, for Zohran Mamdani, for Zohran Mamdani specifically, not for somebody who actually, you know, likes America. I noticed that you're turning 35 soon, right? A few months, yes. So you now hit one of the constitutional requirements to run for president. But there's another one that says you have to be a natural-born citizen. You were not born here. Yes. But do you think that's something that should be changed in the Constitution? We take an amendment, but do you think that we should change that? No. I think the Constitution looks good, the way it is. Just the way it is. Just the way it is. I'm very excited to focus on New York City. But thank you for reminding me of my upcoming mortality. 35 years old. He's lying, by the way. I'm just going to put it out there. That is not true. He would absolutely love for them to change the Constitution in this direction. Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani, Donnie, it's amazing. While he is tweeting about Ashura, And by the way, while he is literally going to the Pakistan Day parade in Brooklyn, okay, Pakistan and Islamic, it's an Islamist hellhole. Pakistan is a Sharia law country. I'm a flashback to August 2025. Zohran Mamdani marching at the Pakistan Day parade in Brooklyn. Okay. Pakistan Day, again, Pakistan is an Islamist country that punishes homosexuality by law. This is how you know he's a liar. He's a liar. Here he was celebrating Pakistan Independence Day.

Look, he's so happy. He's so much happier than he is that pride bread. He is overjoyed walking at the Pakistan Day Parade. Now, Zohran Mamdani famously did not show up at the Israel Day Parade, which you would assume since he hates Jews. But here he was explaining to John Carl that the reason that he actually doesn't like the Jewish state is because he just doesn't like any state that has religion attached to it. Because he's lying. He is a liar. And the idea of a Jewish state, Israel is a Jewish state that's in the charter. That's the way it is now. Do you support that? I've said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights. I believe that any state that preferences... What does a Jewish state is the question? I think any state that privileges one religion over the other is one that I can't tell you I support whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal no matter what our faith is. He's lying. He's absolutely lying. But if you believe him, then you're a stupid person, a truly stupid person. You must have been dropped as a baby multiple times. But apparently, God filled the world with people who have been dropped as babies. There's no other way to explain it. The Democratic Party, again, this is their flag. Their flag is the Pride Progress Free Palestine flag. One of their other candidates, Abdul El-Sayed. He is likely to be the nominee in Michigan for Senate. And here he is ripping simultaneously on Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, as well as, of course, APEC, which again, APAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is just A PAC that Jews and Christians give to in favor of the existence of the state of Israel. And, of course, a health care CEO, he says he's dangerous to health care CEOs. It's interesting. It's so crazy. Saying this kind of stuff, a health care CEO was just shot last year to death. Don't worry, he's dangerous to health care CEOs, though. That's the important thing. I'm not dangerous if you need government to work for you. I'm saying what. I sure am dangerous for one of those folks who's a corporation or a special interest or a politician who does their bidding who's stopping government from working for you.

If you're Chuck Schumer, I'm dangerous. If you're APAC, I'm dangerous. If you're a corporate impact, I'm dangerous. If you're blue-cloths, bushe, and CEO, I'm pretty damn dangerous. If you're a TV, I for sure am dangerous. But if you're somebody who needs government to work for you, I aim to be the best friend you ever had. If you're an American who loves America, these people are dangerous, dangerous. The Democratic Socialists of America, of course, stand behind Zohran Mamdani. They stand behind Abdul El-Sayed and all the rest of this nonsense. National steering committee member David Jenkins explains what their goal is. The answer is communism. By the way, he is a mime. He is a mime. The theater kids have taken over. These dorks. They're going to give these dorks power. This is your choice, America. According to The New York Post, Flatbush theater kid, David Jenkins, was elected last year to the DSA's National Political Committee. He's a self-avowed anti-capitalist, which you could imagine. I understand why you'd be anti-capitalist if you're a mime, because ain't nobody paying you to be a mime. So you've got to find some other economic system where someone will pay you to be a professional, useless person who can't get out of even imaginary box. He apparently is a proud founder of the broken box mime theater, where he performs pantomime to a heart-thumping soundtrack in full mime makeup, like something out of tangled. Now, here he is explaining what America should do. I mean, our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism. My name is David Jenkins. I'm a lifelong New Yorker, and today I am again calling on the city council to disband the NYPD's brutal, unnecessary strategic response group and directly divert its funding to any, any of the public services fellow New Yorkers have called for today. I'm planning to run for the MPC at convention under the banner of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. We're a diverse body of libertarian socialists, anarchists, left communists, and other schools of fault within the sort of left-wing socialist movement. this is what they are, this is what they are, and this is what they are going to be. And it's coming to a city near you. Over in Colorado, there is a congressional candidate in Milot Quiroz, who is supported, of course, by Hasan Piker and the DSA. This person is running against a 15-term member of the House Progressive Caucus named Diana Dijette. Okay, that lady is so wildly to the left to Jett that her platform includes abolishing ICE. expanding affordable housing and childcare, Medicare for all, authoring of defending all energy and climate regulation and endorsed by Planned Parenthood. And it doesn't matter because Malak Kiroche is outflanking her. Okay, because again, what it comes down to for the radical left is hatred of the country. Understand, that is the feature, not the bug. I know, normally Americans, we look at this and we're like, what the hell? How is it that somebody, Legz Zohran Mamdani, could win despite being radically anti-American, radically pro-Islamic terrorism, radically pro-trans, radicalism? How could he win? Is he won because of those things? Understand, whatever is most opposed to the fundamental bases of America and Western civilization?

Whatever is most opposed to those things, that is the reason that they are winning. Because for generations, we have ceded a deep hatred of the country. A deep hatred of the country. Here is Milat Kiroche running through her platform, which, by the way, is psychotic, of course. And to see, what are your five main policy proposals? Medicare for all, housing first, universal child care, abolishing ICE, and more than anything, the thing that I'm the most focused on is publicly financed elections. Okay. Wow. That's cool. All right. Now we're going to do rapid fire. Okay. Do you support Medicare for all? Yes. Do you support universal childcare? Yes. And elder care. And elder care? Okay. Not in favor of giving boomers anything, but that's fine. You know, that's the difference between you and I, I guess. The abolition of ice. Yes. The Green New Deal. Yes. National rent control. Yes. Interesting. Ending the embargo on Cuba. Yes. Ending the embargo on or ending the war in Iran. Yes. Ending aid to Israel. Yes. Sanctioning Israel. Yes. A free Palestine. Yes. Okay, that's who. She is probably going to win in Colorado. This is a lady who says openly that the 9-11 attacks were inevitable. And this is just Osama bin Laden. Because she just sounds like Osama bin Laden. If you just read the quotes back to back, she and bin Laden saying the same thing, period. By the way, also said by Jeremiah Wright, Obama sat in his church for 20 years. Here we go. Do you believe that the 9-11 terrorist attacks on America were the inevitable consequence of American foreign policy? I believe that The quote in which that is probably being referenced by, in the context in which it was happening, was referencing a Pentagon official who was talking about the acts that America was taking in parts of the Middle East. I want to clarify, I'm just asking you about your own words. Your frame of the October 7th attacks was that that was an inevitable consequence for Israel based on its actions. And I'm asking you, was 9-11 an inevitable consequence for America based on U.S. foreign policy? inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East that forced people to believe that another act of violence was the only response and again just like I said before our responsibility is to getting rid of those conditions that lead to violence in the first place. Okay, this is just Osama bin Laden crap. It's just Osama bin Laden's letter. Remember a few years ago when viral on TikTok, when a bunch of Gen Ziers discovered Osama bin Laden's letter and then they said they agreed with it, that is the future if the DSA candidates continue to win. If you replace the American flag with something, it's got to replace, it doesn't get replaced by the Philadelphia Eagles flag because people cannot find solidarity enough in a Philadelphia Eagles flag. They can only find solidarity.

across this coalition of the supposedly dispossessed in hatred for the American flag. And so the symbol of burning the American flag is that trans-Palestine flag. That's what it is. I mean, like Hirosh is exactly this thing. And by the way, there is no gap between this point of view about America and just wrote anti-Semitism. Just pure open Jew hatred. For example, Milak Hirsch was asked about a Colorado attacker named Mohamed Sabri Soleiman. You remember this case. It's a person who used a makeshift flamethrower to attack a group of people participating in a solidarity walk for hostages taken on October 7th. This person yelled, end Zionist, free Palestine, and how many children killed, and then threw a Molotov cocktail, essentially set an old woman on fire and killed her. This person was an Egyptian national who claimed asylum and entered the United States. So she was asked about the Colorado attacker. Here was her answer. I don't know what was in the heart of the perpetrator. All I know is that he went and attacked innocent people because of what they might have believed. And I don't even know what the people that were at that protest believed too. In fact, most of them were probably just there to, you know. ask that the people who were kidnapped during October 7th be returned home to their families. That's not a political statement in and of itself. I think the fact that we're having a conversation about whether it was anti-Zionism or anti-Semitism is, you know, a political debate that, you know, I think everyone has the freedom to have, but to me it was a loss of innocent life, regardless of what the perpetrator had in mind when he took those lives matters less to me than, you know. our responsibility to making sure that people understand that even in the face of these kinds of disagreements, that violence is not the answer. But you would not describe it as anti-Semitism? I don't know. I don't know what his intentions were. It's not anti-Semitic to attack a Jew marching on behalf of October 7th hostages because that you might be pro-Israel. So that means it's okay because anti-Zionism is okay. So the motivations were okay. As long as you don't shout, kill the Jew, you just shout kill the Zionist while you kill a Jew, then it's totally okay, according to Milwaukee Roche. Well, then the mask falls totally away. There are some people still trying to uphold that mask, but it is very, very satisfying on a moral level when the mask fully falls away. And you finally see what lies beneath this bullshit anti-Zionist mask. And when you see what lies beneath the ugly veil, again, the roots of anti-Zionism, particularly on the left in America, lie in Soviet propaganda in the 1950s and 1960s that was then taken up by the global left as basically an element of third world philosophy. That Zionism was somehow different from any other national liberation movement and that Zionism is racism and Zionism is apartheid and basically every argument that you could actually apply against America. You just call Zionism and then you target Jews with it. In any case. That's been the mask that people hide behind for a long time on this particular issue. Because what you're talking about when you talk about anti-Zionism in the modern world, which is what she's talking about there, is the destruction of the state of Israel, which would have to amount to the murder of several million Jews in the Middle East. In any case,

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But despite that pain and that trauma, we all have eyes and we see the absolute devastation and catastrophic death toll in Gaza inflicted by the Israeli government. Okay, so this pathetic and ridiculous coward, it turns out it wasn't enough. It turns out that, as Winston Churchill suggested, the strategy of appeasement whereby you feed the crocodile hoping it eats you last, eventually it eats you too. So Scott Weiner shows up at the trans march. And again, Scott Weiner is the dude. You've seen the picture of him before wearing bondage gear at the pride marches. That's who Scott Weiner is. Well, here he is at a trans march, and they basically yell at him. Again, he said the thing they wanted, right? He said that Israel's committing a genocide, which is a lie. He said all this stuff. But again, remember, it's not enough that the flag has trans on it. It also has free Palestine on it. And free Palestine means you have to hate Jews. That's what it means. And so, because you're not arguing in favor of the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state rife with Western freedoms and values. What you're arguing for is the establishment of a terror state in the middle of the Middle East. that targets Jews and literally pays people to murder them. So Scott Wiener does not fulfill one half, even though he tried to. He tried his best. Guys, he tried his best. He tried super duper, duper hard to fulfill all the various sides of the free Palestine Pride Progress flag. He tried. But it didn't matter because at the end of day, he's still a Jew. So here's what happened to him at the Transmarch. You've been wonderful for trans people. It's been terrible, and you've been terrible. You've been terrible. You've been terrible at Gaza. You do not belong here anymore, Scott, and it breaks my heart. It breaks my heart. It breaks my heart. Someone who wrote legislation for queers is so terrible. Gaza. It breaks his heart that somebody who is so pro the queers is also so terrible on Gaza. Even though he said the words, it didn't matter. It didn't matter. He went to the mission district. Again, another one of these radically left-wing areas of San Francisco. And here he was being harassed by free Palestine activists. Hey, bro. Hey, we got to get the fuck I hear, bro. It's from Palestine. You already know what it is. We against the genocide. You think of my neighborhood, bro? You f*** up. This is going to be a problem. There's innocent children being killed in Palestine. You're going to come here like this grid. But you're pushing that genocidal agenda as a Zionist, bro. I'm not talking about him. This is the middle of that is the reason why a lot of people can't live in San Francisco no more. When there were people voting to live in San Francisco for low-income housing, you voted against it. I know my shit. This coward. He deserves every bit of this. He deserves every single thing that's happening to him right now.

Yes, we live in a free society, and that means people should not be harassed. But you earn the harassment when you decide to give into the harassers, when you decide that you are going to cave to all of their nonsense terrible principles. And then they come after you. When the revolution eats its own, I'm not going to pretend to be upset about it. You deserve it. Doesn't mean he deserves violence done against him. It means that he deserves the ire of the people that he thought were his fellow travelers. He put out a statement. in which said last night, I attended the trans march, as I've done each year for the past 22 years since the first March in 2004. I attend each year in solidarity with our trans-siblings who are facing existential threats from right-wing extremists, including the president. As I walked through Dolores Park to participate in a trans-led Pride Shabbat service. Hey, let me just tell you something. As somebody who takes Shabbat pretty seriously, no such thing is a trans-led Pride Shabbat service. That is not a thing. That is not real. Okay. In connection. With the Transmarch, a group of people began screaming at me, ran up to me, surrounded me, and began harassing me both verbally and physically, including physical contact. They made statements about my Israeli handlers, among many other inaccurate, extreme, and vile statements. They were so physically and verbally aggressive, it was impossible for me to safely remain in the park. As a result, I left the park, and for the first time, I did not participate in the Transmarch. He said that one time at a bar, he was confronted by somebody shouting at him about his, quote,

Oh, well, single tier, world's smallest violin. This is what's going to happen. That revolution, it eats its own, always and forever. By the way, the DSA is now so radical if they started going after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not enough for them because she has been signaling that she wants to go mainstream or at least make common cause with Hakeem Jeffries. And that is no longer okay. So here is Hasan Piker attacking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's backing Hakeem Jeffries for speaker. She's as vile as Harris. I don't agree that she's as vile as Harris. I think that's crazy. But I do think that she is far more careful than what this moment requires. That's what I think. I think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plays it maybe too safe. Oh, she's playing too safe for Hasan Piker. You've got to go all the way. Otherwise, you haven't shown sufficient commitment to the cause. Shank Weeger, who definitely needs, you know, somebody by that man, a subscription of Weight Watchers. In any case, he put out a tweet, quote, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hasn't endorsed a challenger to an incumbent Democrat in the last two election cycles. She's enthusiastically supporting Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker if Dems win the House. When people were working so hard to get her elected, this is the exact opposite of what we were hoping for. Man, I'm going to enjoy it when they come after the AOCs of the world. It's going to be great. Meanwhile, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is trying to make nice with both sides. Well, don't think it's going to work particularly. Well, here she was. You can't tell them to get out. And then in a presidential cycle, tell them that they have an obligation to vote for you. We're either a team or we're not. And at the end of the day, we all need each other. To our chagrin and to our disagreement and to our great inconvenience, all of us have to accept the reality that we need each other, whether we like it or not. Well, the problem is that the radicals are saying we don't need you anymore, or at least we won't need you for very long. So who's funding all of this? Who's funding all of this? Well, I mean, it's really funny. You keep hearing the left say, oh, that's a grassroots movement. It's so grassroots. Unless your last name is Soros. So apparently, according to the New York Post, George Soros and his son Alex spent $103 million in the midterm election cycle so far. With the November elections still more than four months away, Soros could shatter his own spending record of $128 million set during the last midterms four years ago when he was the single biggest political donor. Virtually all of the money was funneled through the Democracy Political Action Committee. Of that money, a little over half came from George, and the other half came from a nonprofit which lists Alex Soros as director in its tax filings. By contrast, Elon Musk has spent $85 million, and Drison Horowitz has spent $91 million. Miriam Adelson has spent $68 million, APAC has spent $30 million. The public sector unions, by the way.

have spent far more than that. The four biggest public sector unions in 2023, 2024 spent $915 million in elections. This is why when you hear Democrats jabber about they want money out of elections, they only mean money they don't agree with. Otherwise, they really, really like spending money on elections. Now, as you can see, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is trying to make nice. She's trying to make nice. And the mainstream Democratic Party is trying to make nice too. They want to waive an American flag in the one hand reluctantly, and they want to wave that pride, progress, free Palestine flag in the other. And to Hakeem Jeffries put out a tweet congratulating a bunch of DSA candidates, Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, Michael Lashor, and Daryliza Avia, Chevalier in New York, quote, congratulations to our newest members of the NYC congressional delegation. We must decisively address the affordability crisis and crush far-right extremism. Yes, that's what we must worry about. The entire Democratic Party is now swiveling hard to the left. Hey, I just Venmoed you for rent. Nice. Now I can instantly spend it whether I'm checking out online with Venmo or using a Venmo debit card. Say more. More exactly, because the more you do with Venmo, the more you get. Like earning up to 5% cashback with Venmo Stash on a bundle of brands. So, order more pizza. The math demands it. Get the Venmo debit card. Venmo Stash bundle terms and exclusions apply. See terms of Venmo.com.com. Venmo checkout not available at all merchants. Venmo MasterCard is issued by the Bank Bank N. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here from MintMobil. Now, I was... Looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited premium wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills. But it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Up from payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months or $180 for 12-month plan required. $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. Initial term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See terms. You have a Gavin Newsom. who, by the way, is against a wealth tax in California because he recognizes everyone will leave, is in favor of it nationally now. It's time for a national billionaires tax and a new social contract. Think about this. Just 10% of people, 10% of people in this country own two-thirds of the wealth. A 30-year-old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents. That's a five-alarm fire. American wages have stood still and the costs across the spectrum, cost of living, have skyrocketed. The system is fundamentally broken. The federal tax code, the corporate tax code, and the inheritance tax code seem to be written for a different set of Americans. It's time for an economic reset, a true minimum tax, a true minimum tax on billionaires that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate, their own workers pay. We also should end this tax-free lifestyle loan. This is the gimmick that allows the ultra wealthy to borrow against their stock portfolios while reporting no taxable income. She's not going to date you, dude. He's going to get out of flanked. He's going to get out of flanked. Gavin Newsom thinks if he swivels to the left, the DSA is not going to eat his lunch. Whoever Bernie Sanders endorses is the frontrunner. It's that simple because the Democratic Party has no systemic immunity to this. Senator Chris Murphy.

He is doing the same routine. He says, yeah, capitalism, it's not working. We have to try what? You rent control nonsense of New York. We have to try full-scale socialism or what? Does the Democratic Party actually need to embrace the moniker of socialism, lean into it? No, but I think we have to understand that people do not believe that this version of capitalism has worked. And frankly, it hasn't worked. I mean, you have 40% of Americans today that are working full time and don't have enough money saved up in the bank for an emergency car repair. Meanwhile, we just saw the first trillionaire made in this economy. This version of capitalism isn't working. So again, again, capitalism is bad. According to Chris Mert, this is where the Democratic Party is going. Senator Jon Ossoff, who wants to play Obama in Georgia. Again, Assov is Jewish, so he's going nowhere, like really fast inside the Democratic Party because that's the rule. Yeah, he says this is all just revulsion at the corrupt political class. Guys, trying to channel the jet fuel that is the DSA is not going to work. It will explode on you, I promise. Here's what I think we're seeing across the country, and it's happening in both political parties. We are seeing a growing revulsion. at the corruption of an entrenched political class, that especially since the Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to limitless secret corporate funding of politics, has been less and less responsive to the needs of the American people and more and more responsive to powerful donors, whether they're corporate interests or the ultra-rich. And I think that that is driving some of the dynamics we're seeing in both political parties right now. Okay, well, we're going to find out whether this works for him. Cory Booker doing the same thing. Oh, no, they're part of our coalition. We need a big tent coalition. Any politician right or left. who includes in their coalition psychos, the cycle will take over the coalition. If you are trapped in a subway car with a dude with a knife, and you say, listen, our subway car must include the dude with the knife. None of the rest of us are wielding knives, but that dude with the knife, who is high on LSD, he must be in our subway car. It is our subway car, and we need more people in the subway car. At the end of the day, you're going to get held hostage by the dude with the knife. That's how it works. Here's Senator Cory Booker. A lot of people right now are trying to paint the Democratic Party and insinuate division and differences before us. I'm one of these people that believes very clearly. If everybody in your coalition agrees with you on everything, then your coalition isn't big enough.

Oh, well, guess what? You are about to be forced to agree with the people who are holding the knife inside your coalition. Fifteen House Democrats have now signed a pledge to promote capitalism over socialism. Now, there are a few dissensers, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, of course, the last sane Democrat in the Senate. He says it's insane that being patriotic has now become partisan. Being patriotic now has becoming, you know, partisan right now. You know, you look at the kinds of polls right now. You know, I think 18% of Democrats were intensely proud to be American or proud of the country, and that's truly absurd. You know, like, I mean, you don't have to agree with everyone that's in the White House or some other things. You know, I will always remain intensely proud of our nation and where we are. We are the good guys. Meanwhile, the so-called moderate wing of the Democratic Party, they're getting heckled out of the room. Joe Biden got heckled at the Maryland Democratic Party gala. It's a battle that's never truly over.

They're chanting genocide Joe. Again, free Palestine, trans pride radicals. Same flag. That's the flag. Well, I can't sugarcoat it. It's American flag versus that. These aren't the dark days. Let's remember. And why is he still speaking? It's just terrible for him, honestly, that his wife keeps trotting about like this. He is not. He's not with us. Chuck Schumer was getting booed at the pride parade. And it's going to happen all over. Get ready, Democrats. Get ready. You did this to yourselves. You did it. Oh, well, there is Chuck Schumer looking, hello fellow gay kids. Chuck Schumer, I think he's going poorly for him over in New York. No wonder, James Carville. He is saying it's time for Democrats to talk schism. Why? Well, because in the New Democratic Party, James Carville, James Carville will be thrown over the side of the boat just like everybody else. She has attacked interracial relationships in the American flag. Lady, I ain't in the same party as you. I'm sorry. I just not. And I actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the S word, schism. I really do. Everybody's always said, no, no, we're a coalition, we're a big tent. And there's just some that I can't be in the same tent with. The idea. that we must neglect everything else has gone on, all of these other primaries, all the recruits Jason has, all huge phenomenal successes we've had, and declared that the party is now under the control of a Democratic socialist of New York City. It is insane. It is insane, but you guys did it. It was your decision. You did it. Meanwhile, over in the Middle East, speaking of, you shouldn't bow to the guy with the knife in the subway car. it seems as though there is a schism inside the administration. On the one hand, you have the wing of the administration led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that says, actually, if you want a Middle East that works, you need to cut Iran out of it. And then you have a part of the administration that says, if you want a Middle East that works, you need to surrender to Iran. Those are basically the two sides of the coin. So on the side that says that you have to cut Iran out, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brokered a deal between the government of Lebanon and the government of Israel over the weekend. This happened on Friday. And it was excellent. It's a good deal because, again, the government of Lebanon opposes Chizbollah. The government of Israel opposes Chisbalah. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, again, the goal is to expel Iranian influence in Iran because the Iranian terror group, Chizbollah, has been occupying the south of Lebanon for decades and trying to get itself elected to the... Parliament in Lebanon through whatever democratic means are still available. And then also basically arming up as a separate military force in Lebanon, aside from the actual military of Lebanon. And so the goal of the seal was to put Lebanon and Israel on the same side of the table and Qizbel on Iran on the other side of the table. This is what Secretary of State Marco Rubio was saying. This, of course, is intelligent. The people of Lebanon have suffered tremendously now for decades as a result of outside interference in their affairs of countries trying to use the country as a launch pad for attacks. And this is not what the people of Lebanon want, and that's not what they deserve. What they deserve to have is what they once had, and of which there is recent history of, and that is a prosperous and peaceful country, a diverse country where people of different backgrounds were able to live and coexist side by side, and in many ways, was the envy of the region and of the world.

Of course, Secretary of State is right about that. And then he says, listen, this is the beginning of the beginning, because, again, the idea here is that Israel will gradually withdraw as the Lebanese army proves that it can stop Chisbalah. So here is Marco Rubio. So as I said, today, as I told all the parties here today, it's the beginning of the beginning. There's a lot of work ahead. We don't in any way underestimate the difficulty of the task ahead. But we understand the importance of it, how vital it is. And we are honored to have played a part in bringing this together. Okay, now, he is right about that. The State Department put out a statement saying, these two countries, Israel and Lebanon, are the inheritors of ancient civilizations that date back to the time of the Bible. For decades, these countries have been dragged into war by terrorist militias and proxies that have undermined Lebanon sovereignty, launched senseless attacks on Israel and exported casts across the entire Middle East. Okay, so this is the correct framework. Guess who opposes it? So there's a person named Shreda Parsi who runs something called the Quincy Institute. Again, Treata Parsi is rhetorically an Iranian cutout. He just does the work of the Iranians in the United States. Sorabamari, who is a sort of Catholic integralist figure, but has become quite pro-Iran during this latest war. Same thing. Both of them very much angry at the Israel-Lebanon framework, which of course cuts Iran out of Lebanon, which is a thousand miles away from Iran. Parcy says, quote, the U.S.-Iran MOU and the Israeli-Lebanese agreements are incompatible as I see them. If both are pursued, neither will be achieved. It appears the administration is working against itself, and Trump appears too disinterested in the details to recognize this. And Amari said, quote, the MOU and the new Lebanese deal are mutually contradictory. The two documents are doing what they are doing tens in opposite directions. Amari and Parsi are both reportedly advising the vice president. That's the other wing of the administration. They're right, by the way. The Lebanese deal and the MOU are in contravention of one another because the MOU is a surrender deal to the Iranians and the Lebanese deal is in fact a rebuke of the Iranians. Which side will President Trump take? Well, on Friday, it appeared that the Iranians were going to make up the president's mind for him because it turns out that the United States was not in control of the Strait of Hormuz. We have not been in control of the Strait of Hormuz for a while, all yelling about it to the contrary. We may be trying to bribe the Iranians to open the Strait of Hormuz, but the Iranians decided on Thursday evening, Friday morning, they were going to strike a Singaporean flagged ship in the Strait of Hormuz, a cargo ship. Sentcom, then on Friday afternoon, announced, that they had delivered military strikes against some targets in Iran against Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites. So why were those there in the first place? Well, it turns out that this entire ceasefire has been an amazing opportunity. an amazing opportunity for Iran to rebuild a lot of these sites. According to Fox's Jen Griffin, I asked a senior defense official why the U.S. has had to go back and restrike these sites that had been hit multiple times since February 28th when the war began. I was told Iran has reconstituted its air defense and missile systems along the Strait of Hormuz since the U.S. bombing campaign ended April 7. That is why the U.S. military is now having to restrike areas like Keshem Island and Syric, which they'd struck in the past. There's a lot that's damaged, but they move things around.

Yeah, well, I mean, that's what happens during ceasefires, which is why typically speaking, you should not declare unilateral ceasefires with terrorist regimes. And I've told you, my preference, if we don't want any part of this anymore, we should have bombed Karga Island, we should have bombed the South Paris gas field, and we should have left. And then if the Europeans and the Chinese and the Japanese want to open the straight, their problem. That's possibility number one. Two is you develop a military plan to force the straight open, which again, I would assume there are people in the Pentagon who know how to do this, because that's literally their job. Or three, you go ever harder at the Iranian regime. And yes, you fund the Kurds. And yes, you get them gun. And yes, you fund the Balush, the Pakistani militia that exists in the southeast of Iran. And you go after the regime. There are a bunch of possibilities on the table. It turns out the worst one of all is to simply cave to the Iranians out of fear that they're going to strike some oil targets in UAE Bahrain and Saudi, which, by the way, they tried to do over the weekend anyway. And the president put out a statement Saturday evening, saying, if Iran never learns, we'll be forced to complete the job. Well, spoiler alert, they're not going to do a lot of learning. The president said, it's very possible they will never learn. It may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we were very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist. Well, if you're going to try to reestablish credible threat of use of force, number one, you shouldn't make threats that you're not going to fulfill. You shouldn't bluff. And number two, you probably shouldn't walk back to the table after hitting a few camels in the ass, which appears to be the next move. According to Axios, the U.S. and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, according to a senior U.S. official, as the two sides plan to meet in Tuesday in Qatar's capital, all the wondrous Qataris, another Iranian cutout. We decided to stop all the kinetic activity, a senior U.S. official told Axios, a second U.S. official told Axios both sides will stand out for now, and vessels can move freely as technical talks are set to continue. Just telling you, Iran hasn't learned anything. Iran is not going to disarm. Iran is not going to go up the Strait of Hormuz. That's just the way all of this goes. All righty.