Ep. 2106 - TRUMP’S WORLD: Trudeau to RESIGN?! Germany Moves RIGHT?!
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Well, folks, there's been another school shooting, this time in Madison, Wisconsin. The motive on the shooting is still unclear at this point. The alleged shooter was a 15-year-old girl. This 15-year-old girl has been in a lot of speculation online as to why she committed this particular shooting. There are several people dead, including the shooter. According to the New York Post, the teen girl who fatally shot a student and teacher and left two more pupils clinging to life at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, has now been identified, apparently.

This girl brought a handgun to campus and opened fire around 11 a.m. inside a classroom during study hall. The teenage student and teacher were pronounced dead at the scene. Another teacher and five more students were wounded. Two of the students are in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, according to the Madison Police Chief, Sean Barnes. Here he was announcing the impact of the shooting. What we know is that a total of about seven persons were transported from the scene to area hospitals for treatment.

We know that at least three people have lost their lives, including the juvenile person. I don't have any other information about those persons who have lost their lives, and I'm not going to release that until we have, of course, spoken with family members and ensuring that they are fully aware of this tragic, tragic scene that occurred today.

The shooter apparently had a manifesto. We're not sure whether that manifesto has been locked down at this point. The police say the motive is still unknown at this point. Again, there's a lot of speculation online about the shooter possibly being trans. Again, that is all speculation at this point. We don't know anything about whether that is true or not. The Madison police chief, Sean Barnes, addressed that idea yesterday.

There's been a lot of misinformation online, including from moms for liberty activists in Wisconsin claiming that the shooter was transgender, which is a reaction that we see across the country in wake of mass shootings to claim that trans people are dangerous. Can you respond to that directly in regards to this? Yeah, I don't know whether Natalie was transgender or not. And quite frankly, I don't think that's even important.

I don't think that's important at all. I don't think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they may have wanted to identify. And I wish people would kind of leave their own personal biases out of this. We have people who showed up to work today to help kids be better who are not going home. And we have lost members of our community who are children, including the shooter.

So whether or not she was, he was, they were transgender is something that may come out later. But for what we're doing right now today, literally eight hours after a mass shooting in a school in Madison, it is of no consequence at this time. You know, it is that last part that is kind of amazing. Not that the information is unavailable as to the quote unquote gender identity of the female shooter.

And it is very rare, obviously, to have female shooters in pretty much any school shooting related scenario. There have been a spate of transgender shooters in recent years. There was one in Maryland. There was

a STEM school shooter in Denver. There's a Club Q shooter in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who self-declared as transgender and the Covenant School shooter in Nashville, Tennessee. All those people were either transgender or non-binary self-declared. But the part about this that's amazing, again, I'm not suggesting that the shooter was trans. We have no idea at this point how the shooter identified.

The point that's kind of amazing is the police chief's statement that it makes no difference at all, because that is not how these shootings typically go. We know for a fact, for example, that if this shooter had been a 15-year-old white boy who went into, say, a historically black church and shot a bunch of people, the motive would be the number one thing the media were talking about that day. There is a steady application of narrative force to so many of these stories, particularly when it comes to school shootings. And the rule is this.

If the school shooting is committed by somebody who can be linked with a sort of right wing narrative or alleged right wing narrative, then immediately the problem becomes quote unquote right wing ideas. Right. Even if it's white supremacy, which is not a right wing idea, even if you want to make that case, that is that is how it goes. So if you have a school shooting that is racist in nature, then we have to have a nationwide conversation about racism in America, which, of course, is linked to Donald Trump, according to the left.

If, however, there is a school shooting that is committed on behalf of a left-wing cause, then the conversation is either about why the left-wing cause is justified or about gun control. That is the way the narrative logic works. We talked about this with regard to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter, where the entire media decided it was a perfect time in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the UnitedHealthcare CEO. That was a perfect time to discuss healthcare. However, when there are shootings that do not

mesh with what the left would like when in fact somebody does violence to children on behalf of an evil cause then there's no discussion as to how the evil cause might be connected to the shooting then we are relegated to discussing gun control again and that's precisely what is happening here

Immediately, because this was dismissible as a not right-wing narrative connected shooting, you saw everybody in the media immediately rushed to gun control, like right away rushed to gun control. So Frank Figliuzzi on MSNBC, he says the guns are the issue. Again, it's very predictable how this logic goes.

I don't see significant enough progress. You know, you'll have certain sides saying it's all mental health and we need to get better at that. And you know what? That's true, but it's not all mental health. We'll have people say we need to lock down schools more and have many armed officers all over a school. There have been numerous cases where there have been armed officers and they didn't get there fast enough. And so that's not the issue. The

guns continue to be the issue and particularly access to guns from people who should not have them, including criminal actors and young people who should not have access. So until we address all of these issues together and acknowledge the role of guns, we're not going to see significant change.

Again, that is always the logic that is used by the left-wing media. If a shooting happens and it is possible that it's connected to a left-wing narrative, we never make that connection unless we wish to justify the left-wing narrative. If there's a shooting that's connected to a purported right-wing narrative, then immediately the conversation is about right-wing rhetoric or Donald Trump or racism in America or anything else. I'll give you a perfect example. There was a school shooting that happened

About two weeks ago. You haven't heard about it. No one's heard about it. It got zero national coverage. There's a school shooting at a Christian school in Palermo, California. This school shooting, apparently, two kindergarten age boys, according to the Jerusalem Post, were shot at a Seventh Day Adventist Christian school in California. Why didn't you hear about the story? A man walks into a Christian school and shoots a five and a six year old and puts them in critical condition.

The gunman was known to have a lengthy criminal record in mental health history. So this would be a perfect time to talk about, you know, what drove this person, presumably. But there's only one problem. What drove this person apparently was hatred of Israel. So that means that there will be no conversation about how the left-wing pro-Hamas cause is connected to actual physical violence. Because the shooter in that particular case claimed to be taking revenge for American involvement with a supposed Gaza genocide as well as attacks on Yemen.

The 56-year-old assailant, who was found at the school by first responders with a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound, had left a statement justifying the shooting as revenge for the ongoing Israeli military operation against Hamas in Gaza and operations to counter Ansar al-Assad's maritime terrorism and missile attacks in Yemen. That was what was left in the manifesto. You didn't even hear about this shooting.

Now, I promise you that if this had been a pro-Israel person who shot up a mosque, for example, God forbid, God forbid, because that would be an act of tremendous evil, you'd have a lot of talk about the pro-Israel position. The reason I point this out is just to point out how deeply corrupt the media are. And they really are corrupt.

The way they generate narratives out of whole cloth and then press those narratives forward is truly an astonishing thing. As another example of this, the Washington Post, after years, is now finally admitting that trans medicine is a giant fail. According to the Washington Post editorial board, they're now pointing out that transgender medicine is largely based on faulty data. Quote, it would be ludicrous to suggest that patients have a civil right to be harmed by ineffective medical interventions.

Multiple European health authorities have reviewed the available evidence and concluded it was very low certainty, lacking, and limited by methodological weaknesses. Last week, Britain banned the use of puberty blockers indefinitely due to safety concerns. The uncertainty is the result of scientists' failure to study these treatments slowly and systematically as they develop them. Early studies from a Dutch clinic seem to show promising results, but the research started with only 70 patients and no control group. Treatment results that look impressive in small groups often vanish when larger groups are studied.

And this is amazing. This is the Washington Post editorial board after years of suggesting that is sheer bigotry to suggest that boys cannot become girls. Now acknowledging that trans medicine is based on nothingness as the Washington Post editorial board. The lies that will be propagated by the media on behalf of a particular political narrative are almost endless, truly amazing stuff. And it spans everything. It spans every topic under the sun.

The media narrative fight is the fight that defines our politics. And that media narrative fight has been dominated for legitimately decades by a left-wing media that only propagates left-wing narratives.

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So CNN, actually, Clarissa Ward, a reporter at CNN, she's in Syria. She's going around their camera crew. And there's a viral clip of Clarissa Ward entering a Syrian prison where she discovers, shock and horror, a man who's been in the prison. And then she frees the man along with her crew. And this man is apparently a supposed victim of the Assad regime, demonstrating full scale how the Assad regime works.

It's evil. It's horror. And the fact that there are so many members of the Syrian uprising who are heroes and all this, that the media are trying to generate a narrative in Syria that people who are taking over Syria are kind, generous moderates. That is the narrative being pushed by the Biden administration. It's also being pushed, of course, by the other end of the Democratic media human centipede. So here's Clarissa Ward in what was one of the stagiest clips that I've seen on television. We go in to get a closer look.

It's still not clear if there is something under the blanket. It moved. Is there someone there? Is someone there? Or is it just a blanket? I don't know. Hello? It's just a blanket.

Okay, if you can't see, the Clunas Award is going into the cell of people, and there's a man under a blanket. And there he is. He emerges from under the blanket. The cell, by the way, is shockingly clean for a place that's supposed to have been occupied by a victim for years. After three months in a windowless cell, he can finally see the sky.

— My God, the light, he says. Oh God, there is light. My God, there is light. — She's holding his hand. He's sitting down on a chair to talk about his horrifying experiences. And it's all part of the narrative buildup in Syria.

That the people who are being freed are all wonderful people and that the rebels who have taken over Syria are all wonderful people and all the rest of this. When in reality, everyone who's involved, the Assad regime, evil, also HDS, which is an offshoot of ISIS and Al Qaeda, also not moderate.

Radical, backed by Turkey, Hamasniks. Okay, so why am I laughing at this clip? Because the person she just freed, along with her CNN crew, was a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad's forces, known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check, according to the New York Post. So basically, this is Kaiser Soze leaving the office,

Of the inspectors and the usual suspects. He walks out, he's like, oh, well, it turns out that he's actually the problem, right? The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward, who called it, quote, one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed in her 20 years of reporting. However, independent and unbiased fact checkers, VerifySci, published a detailed report Sunday saying the seemingly innocent prisoner was actually a person named Salama Mohammed Salama, a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force intelligence with a long history of alleged war crimes.

Oopsies. He gave his name as Adel Hurbal and claimed to have been arrested by government authorities three months earlier and said he had no idea the Assad regime had collapsed. However, VerifySci noted that he appeared, quote, well-groomed, physically healthy, no visible injuries or signs of torture, an incongruous portrayal of someone allegedly held in solitary confinement in the dark for 90 days. He didn't even flinch or blink when looking up at the sky after saying that he had not actually seen sunlight for three months.

And then they started investigating his identity. And it turns out he killed civilians during the Syrian civil war in 2014. Why do I bring this up? Because our media are both stupid and gullible. And of course, politically motivated. The author of Michael Crichton, most famous for books like Jurassic Park and the Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton,

had something that he called the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. Here's what he said, quote,

I call these the wet streets cause rain stories. The newspaper is full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story. And then you turn the page to national or international affairs and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page and forget what you know. This is the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.

I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is a legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part and truthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence, it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper, when in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

Yep, that is absolutely correct. And this is why I think so many narratives that are promoted by the left are totally falling apart at this point. Why the media narratives are falling apart. And it's happening globally, by the way. So one of the things that we are watching internationally right now is a wave of conservative victory. It's happening across the world. Some of it is a result of President Trump. Some of it is just part of a wave that includes President Trump.

Justin Trudeau is now likely to resign. His liberal government has now crumbled largely because of a tweet storm from President Trump on Truth Social mocking Justin Trudeau as the governor of the 51st state and also suggesting that he's going to tear up the living hell out of Justin Trudeau and Canada if Trudeau does not give in on some trade deals. According to the UK Daily Mail, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau is on the brink of resigning as his liberal government crumbles around him, according to CTV News.

Trudeau is considering his options as leaders, sources have told the broadcaster, while his finance minister, a person named Chrystria Freeland, who's a far leftist, revealed that she will quit. She quit on Monday after clashing with Trudeau on issues including how to handle possible U.S. tariffs, dealing a huge blow to an already unpopular government.

In a stinging resignation letter, Freeland dismissed Trudeau's push for increased spending as a political gimmick that could hurt Ottawa's ability to deal with the 25% import tariffs President-elect Trump says he will impose. The resignation by Freeland, who also serves as deputy prime minister, is one of the biggest crises Trudeau has faced since taking power in November 2015 and leaves him without a key ally when he is on track to lose the next election to the official opposition conservatives.

Trudeau quickly came under pressure to go from the New Democrats, the smaller opposition party, which earlier this year pulled its unconditional support of the minority liberal government, but has continued to back the prime minister on some legislation through parliament. The party leader, a person named Jagmeet Singh, said, I'm calling on Justin Trudeau to resign. He has to go now. This does not mean that there will immediately be a new election.

So Pierre Poliv, who's the leader of the Conservative Party and who right now would skunk the entire Liberal Party in the next election. I mean, just blow them out of the water by every available polling statistic. So he's looking for a new election. He called on Trudeau to resign and also he's calling for new elections, which of course he should be because the left wing agenda of Justin Trudeau has become unbelievably unpopular in Canada as well. It should. Mr. Trudeau is being held in office by one man, Jang Meetsingh.

a fifth of Liberal MPs have written a letter for him to resign. His Deputy Prime Minister has walked out on him. His Housing Minister has quit. That on top of numerous other female ministers who stormed out after his appalling mistreatment and abuse and dishonesty towards them. 80% of Canadians have lost

confidence in this prime minister. So why is Jagmeet Singh making the entire country wait for him to get his pension? That is the question today. And the real reason that these other parties aren't voting for a snap election right now is because they're afraid that all of the losses to Trudeau are going to accrue to Poliev, who, by the way, would be an amazing prime minister of Canada. The best in Stephen Harper, maybe better than Stephen Harper. I'm a big Stephen Harper fan.

So right now, the Canadian government is basically on the brink. The only thing that is holding them up because Canada is a coalitional system, you require a majority of the Canadian parliament to vote for a motion of no confidence in order to bring down the government. Right now, the Canadian parliament is split between a wide variety of parties. The largest party is still the Liberal Party, only for the moment because they haven't had an election in a while.

It is also split between that party. It's split between the conservative party. And then there are a couple of other parties as well. There's a Quebecois party and there is the Green Party as well, the New Democratic Party.

So those are those are parties that sit in the parliament. You need a majority of the people in parliament to vote for a motion of no confidence. The left wing parties have been hesitant to call a new election because they are not going to do better in the new election than they already have. And Poliev will become prime minister with probably a sheer majority of votes in the parliament at this point. That is the only thing that is holding Justin Trudeau in office today.

At this point, again, the reason that he is unpopular is because he has pursued every bad policy it is possible to pursue. In fact, this little rebellion inside his own party is being led by the fact that he wants to spend and spend and spend and spend. He wants to create a massive budget deficit in order to address the fact that he's about to be hit with Donald Trump's tariffs.

Chrystia Freeland wrote a letter to Trudeau. It said, quote, our country today faces a grave challenge. The incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including a threat of 25% tariffs. We need to take that threat extremely seriously. That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war. That means eschewing costly political gimmicks

which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment. This means pushing back against America first economic nationalism with a determined effort to fight for capital and investment and the jobs they bring. This means working in good faith and humility with the premiers of the provinces and territories of our great and diverse country and building a true Team Canada response.

Freeland, of course, would love to challenge Trudeau for leadership of the Liberal Party. Oust him and then take his place. That is probably not going to be the outcome of what happens in Canada. Well, folks, Justin Trudeau's political career may not be long for this world, but let's be real about life. We may not all be here forever, which is why you need life insurance. You know, every holiday season, you spend precious moments together, whether you're lighting the menorah or decorating the tree or just sharing a meal. And the traditions matter.

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By the way, it's not just happening in Canada. It's also happening in Germany.

So Germany is headed to an early election after the embattled German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote on Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal. That is the first step in a sequence of events that will lead to early elections next year. It is the latest symptom of mounting political instability in Europe. Monday's vote came after the dramatic collapse of Scholz's strife-ridden coalition government last month, which added a political crisis to the economic slump that has gripped the country for the past two years.

Scholz did not have a majority in parliament. He called a confidence vote in order to clear the way for a dissolution of parliament and a new vote now expected in February. Germany's post-World War II constitution has a multi-step process for early elections in an attempt to prevent endemic political instability. However, the person who is most likely to take over if there were to be a new election is a person named Friedrich Mörs. Friedrich Mörs is a center-right politician who is very pro-America.

Scholz is a center left politician. Merz is a representative of the same party as Angela Merkel. The difference is that he really hated Angela Merkel's immigration policy, which condemned the center right in Germany to a decade of wilderness. Merz said, quote, Mr. Chancellor, you've had your chance. You didn't use that chance. Opinion polls show the center right Christian Democratic Union led by Merz as the likely winner of the ballot on February 23rd.

The party's unlikely to command a big enough majority to govern alone or with the FDP, which is the other center-right party in parliament. It would likely need to form an alliance with one or several center-left parties. The bottom line, however, is that the winds have shifted across the world. The West is tired of stagnation. The West is tired of conciliation with left-wing forces that themselves are conciliatory with radical Islamists. They're tired of this. You're watching the West finally stand up on its hind legs.

Some of the leaders of this new movement include people like Giorgio Maloney in Italy, who apparently is going to be attending the inauguration of President Trump. It includes in the United States, obviously, President Trump. It includes in places like the Netherlands, Gerd Wilders. It includes Viktor Orban. You're seeing a real move by members of the center right to libertarian. Javier Mile in Argentina, the leader of Uruguay, Bukele in Chile, in El Salvador, rather, Bukele in El Salvador.

There's an entire list of leaders who are moving in a similar direction. Why? Because chaos and instability, those things are pleasures of the luxurious wealthy. When things are going really well, you can afford dumb ideas. When things are going poorly, it turns out that you can't.

And so it is very heartening to see Western countries turn away from the foolish redistributionist, self-hating left wing policies of people like Justin Trudeau and towards something better. That is a very good thing. And again, it's part of the new Trump world order that is being reshaped, not just by President Trump, but by a population across the world that is starting to realize how dumb left wing policy has been.

And President Trump coming into office is already reshaping the world. No one believes that Joe Biden is president of the United States at this point. This, for example, is why NATO chief Mark Rudy is now pushing Europe to increase aid to Ukraine. This, by the way, is something that Trump wants. Contrary to popular opinion, Trump does not want Ukraine to lose to Russia. What Trump would like is for America not to pay for an interminable war with no off ramp. Ukraine is in Europe. Europe is a wealthy continent. And now NATO is finally saying, hey, maybe Europe should pay up.

I know spending more on defense means spending less on other priorities, but it's only a little less. On average, European countries easily spend up to a quarter of their international income on pensions, health, and social security systems. I mean, these are criticisms that Donald Trump could be making of NATO countries. You guys are spending all of your money on welfare systems while we pay for your military. The answer is no, we are done with that.

So the entire world is reshaping itself to the priorities of Western population that it appears does not want to go down to the grave in silence. And that is a very, very good thing. Of course, President Trump is leading the way on that. Yesterday, he gave a bang up press conference, a really excellent press conference in which he talked about the sort of new energy in the system, the new hope that is broken out across the country in the aftermath of his election. As he says, the golden age of America has now begun.

But this will be the most exciting and successful period of reform and renewal in all of American history, maybe of global history. The golden age of America, I call it. It's begun. So it's the golden age of America, and that's what it's going to be. And we hope we don't have any intervening problems because things happen like out of nowhere came

The China virus out of nowhere came other things we don't want to have. You know, when I left, we had no wars. We had no problems. The Middle East was good. We did the Abraham Accords. We did things that nobody thought were even possible. He is right about all that. He points out as well that small business optimism has skyrocketed, which, of course, is true. As the co-owner of what used to be a small business and actually now is quite a large business, I can tell you the optimism in the system is quite real.

Small business optimism took a 41 point jump. 41 points. It went up 41 points. That's unheard of. And that's the biggest they think in recorded history. But they know at least a minimum of 39 years. So that's great. Meanwhile, Trump says that they're going to implement a rapid prosperity agenda. And the notion, by the way, that it is very difficult to unleash the economy is just a lie. It's not true at all. Javier Mille in Argentina is showing this right now when he came into office.

There was all this talk about how Argentina was going to have an economic meltdown. Instead, economic resurgence has been the result of Javier Mille's tenure. He instituted incredibly harsh measures, cutting pretty much everywhere, restructuring many of the welfare programs, getting rid of an enormous amount of bureaucracy. And the answer is that Argentina has avoided recession. Well, Donald Trump is going to do the same thing with regard to the American economy. Here he was talking about his rapid prosperity agenda.

Starting on day one, we'll implement a rapid series of bold reforms to restore our nation to full prosperity. We're going to go full prosperity and to build the greatest economy the world has ever seen, just as we had just a short time ago. We had it in my time. We had the greatest economy that the world had seen. We were blowing away everybody. Our country was doubling up on China, doubling up on everybody, and everybody knows it.

He was right about all of this. He also did get at this press conference a verbal commitment to spend $100 billion in investment from the SoftBank CEO, a person named Masayoshi Son. And then Trump did the most Trumpy thing imaginable. On the spot, he said, why don't you make it $200 billion? It's just pretty fabulous. Ask him right now, would you make it $200 billion? No.

He can actually, believe it or not, he can actually afford to do that. Would you do that? Well, my promise is hundred, but, you know, he's now asking to do more. I think, you know, with your leadership, my partnership with you, with your support, I will try to make it happen.

All right, 200. He'll make it happen. 200 million investment. He is a great negotiator. He's a brilliant guy. He did an unbelievable job. And the people of Japan and all over the world are very proud of him. They have tremendous respect for him. So what he does, what he just did, and...

I would be surprised if it didn't go to two. When you say you'll try, I know you'll do it. I will really try. And I need your support, though. You'll have my support. All right. We have our country's support. Oh, fantastic. Thank you, my sir. Fantastic. Thank you.

President Trump is never somebody who's going to leave any scrap on the table in the middle of a negotiation. He is going to have a very successful presidency. And the reason he's going to have a very successful presidency is because now that President Trump has won, he has nothing left to prove. The only thing that he wants to prove is that he is a winner. As I've said before, Donald Trump's agenda is winning. That's his agenda. Everybody tries to spin a philosophy around Trump. He is an absolute pragmatist. All he cares about is the result.

If the result is good for the country, he likes it. If the result is bad for the country and bad for his presidency, he doesn't like it, which is why in spite of all of the crazy tweet storms during his first term, he actually had a lot of success in the country because in the end, Donald Trump's metric of success is, wait for it, success. It is not ideological consistency. It is not the love of the New York Times. It is simply winning, right? He's big on the winning.

We'll get to what that means in terms of policy, because the rest of this press conference, again, it was sort of a masterclass in just pragmatic centrism.

It's stuff that I think 70% of the American population agrees with, which is why he's experiencing a polling honeymoon right now. And this, as I said, throughout the election cycle was the dirty secret of the election. Donald Trump was the moderate in the election. Joe Biden is an extreme leftist. Kamala Harris was an extreme leftist. Donald Trump occupied the center on literally every position it was possible to occupy the center from economics to foreign policy to abortion.

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head on over to dailywire.com right now. So President Trump obviously is pursuing a policy of pragmatic centrism. That means that he says obvious things. And because the left has lost its mind, those obvious things sound really obvious to people, like even more obvious than usual. So for example, yesterday, Trump addressed the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. And he said the thing that the vast majority of Americans actually agree with. Shooting people in the back

on the streets of New York because you don't like how they run their business is bad. I know that in the online world, this is somehow considered justifiable or it's supposed to spur a larger conversation about the health care system. Again, we can have those conversations literally any time. It seems to me the worst time to have those conversations is after a terrorist attack, the purpose of which is to generate left wing conversations about these issues. In this case, here is Donald Trump saying the obvious. I think it's a terrible thing. I think it's really terrible that

Some people seem to admire him, like him. And I was happy to see that it wasn't specific to this gentleman that was killed. It's just an overall sickness as opposed to a specific sickness. That was a terrible thing. It was cold-blooded, just a cold-blooded, horrible killing. And how people can like this guy is...

That's a sickness, actually. That's really very bad, especially the way it was done. It was so bad right in the back and very bad. Very thing like that. You just you can't believe that some people and maybe it's fake news. I don't know. It's hard to believe that that can even be thought of. Again, he's saying a perfectly obvious thing. Here's the thing about Trump. Trump is actually not all that online. Right. He actually doesn't spend a lot of time online like everybody else in the media industry.

Donald Trump goes on Truth Social every once in a while in order to put out a piece of news, but it's not like he's monitoring X all day. So he's not caught up in the fever swamps nearly as much as many of the people who either surround him or who are on the left, which means that actually Donald Trump tends to touch grass a lot more often than a lot of the people who are both in his orbit, outside his orbit, basically anyone in politics.

So he has good gut instincts on this stuff. Like, for example, it is bad to celebrate people who shoot people on the streets for political purposes. This should be obvious.

This is a proposition with which most Americans agree. The same thing is true when it comes to foreign policy. So yesterday, members of the media idiotically asked Trump if he is going to engage in a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Now, just today, the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced that Iran is basically lying and defying any sort of attempts to box them in on their nuclear program. So it is unclear what's going to happen next. One thing is for certain, Israel is not going to sit still while Iran goes nuclear.

So Trump is asked about a preemptive attack and Trump gives the perfectly obvious answer. You morons, I'm not going to tell you if I'm going to do it. Like, that's not how foreign policy gets done, you idiots. Are you entertaining the idea of preemptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities? Against who? Against Iran's nuclear facilities. Well, I can't tell you that. I mean, it's a wonderful question, but how can I, am I going to do preemptive strikes? Why would I say that? Can you imagine if I said yes or no? You'd say yes.

That was strange that he answered that way. Am I going to do preemptive strikes on Iran? Is that a serious question? How could I answer a question like that? He's saying perfectly obvious things. Now, the media would have gotten an answer from Joe Biden in which he said,

Israel and the preemptive threats are bad. You know, I don't know. He would have immediately caved to the narrative. Trump's like, no, I'm not telling you what I'm going to do, which is a perfectly obvious response to this stuff. And it is refreshingly obvious at this point. Meanwhile, President Trump continues to stand behind his Secretary of Defense pick Pete Hegseth, who I think is going to cruise to nomination. I think I think that Hegseth gets through. I think he should. I think Pete is a good pick for Secretary of Defense. He's out of the box. And

and interesting, which is precisely why a lot of people hate him. Here was President Trump pushing Pete Hegseth. And, you know, Pete Hegseth gave up a lot because he was going big places in Fox, big, big places, a lot of money. And he didn't even hesitate when I said, do you want to do this? He said, absolutely. I said, you know, if it doesn't work out, you'll never have the opportunity that you have right now in terms of

the world of entertainment or business, whatever you want to call it. You'll never have that opportunity again. In fact, it could be just the opposite because it's nasty out there. He said, I don't care. I have to do it for my country. He gave up a tremendous amount. If this didn't work, it would be a tragedy. But that's what he loves. He loves the military. I never talked to him about anything else. He'd talk about the military. He'd come to see me about a soldier that was unfairly treated and could I help him.

That's the only thing I virtually ever talked to him about. Good for Trump for not dumping Hegseth despite whatever controversy is attendant on Pete's nomination. Meanwhile, President Trump, again, he's pursuing a course of pragmatic moderation on a wide variety of issues. So he has nominated RFK Jr., of course, very controversially, to head the Department of Health and Human Services. And he's asked by the media, you know, RFK Jr. has been very anti-vaccine. So what about things like the polio vaccine? Are you crazy? I'm not getting rid of the polio vaccine. Like, that's been a good one.

On vaccines, do you want RFK Jr. to revoke any vaccines? No, I want him to come back with a report as to what he thinks. We're going to find out a lot. We're doing two things. We're going to have tremendous cost savings will come out of this. That's a minimum. And we're also going to have, and I think, very serious discussions about certain things, whether it's pesticides. You know, Europe doesn't use pesticides.

and yet they have a better mortality rate than we do. They don't use pesticides. In fact, they use it as an excuse not to take our farm product. We spend billions and billions of dollars on pesticides. And something bad's happening. Again, you take a look at autism today versus 20, 25 years ago, it's like not even believable. So we're going to have reports. No, nothing's going to happen very quickly. I think you're going to find

that Bobby is much, he's a very rational guy. I found him to be very rational. No, nothing, you're not going to lose the polio vaccine. That's not going to happen.

Again, what he is saying here is perfectly legitimate and perfectly pragmatic. And that is what you should expect from a Trump presidency. I know contrary to popular opinion, Donald Trump is not going to come in like a bull in a China shop and simply start breaking every single thing, including the good things. He's going to break a lot of bad things and he's going to maintain and expand the good things because he is not an ideological creature in general.

Now, to me, listen, I have a very clear ideology. I think that that ideology bears significant fruit. I think that the free market ideology of Javier Millet in Argentina, for example, is a purist ideology that has borne significant and great fruit. Donald Trump is not an ideologue. But here is the thing. If he is utilitarian, many of the things he does are going to be things that conservatives like because conservative solutions actually work.

Meanwhile, speaking of pragmatism, Donald Trump is now reaching across to the other side of the aisle. He is possibly going to select Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which again makes sense. Typically, administrations try to have somebody across the aisle to join the administration. Moskowitz is in the mix. Again, that is sort of a fascinating pick. Moskowitz has been relatively moderate because, again, he is from Florida and Democrats from Florida tend not to be Democrats from New York, for example. However,

Since Trump won in November, Moskowitz has taken a notably friendlier approach to the incoming administration than some of his Democratic colleagues, according to CNN. He was quick to offer praise on social media when Trump tapped another Florida native, Susie Wiles, as chief of staff. And of course, Moskowitz knows her because he worked with her when she was in Florida politics. He's also the first Democrat to join the recently created Department of Governmental Efficiency Caucus in Congress. He represents Broward County. And this would not be the first time that he served in a Republican administration.

Under Florida Governor DeSantis, Moscow had spent two years as the director of emergency management. So he'd be a perfect pick for this sort of thing. Also, on a practical level, it would probably be a good thing for President Trump to do this, considering that he has plucked a bunch of representatives from the Republican side of the aisle to serve in the administration. One way to sort of even the voting score is to pluck a couple of Democrats and put them inside the administration as well.

So whatever you expect from President Trump, do not expect extremism because that is not what you are going to get. And that's what's going to shock so many people in the media. It's why their narrative on that one, too, is going to end up being false. Meanwhile, if you were thinking the left wasn't weird enough, well, I've got a weird one for you. So Katonji Brown Jackson, who should not be on the Supreme Court, she is a terrible justice.

And apparently she is the ultimate theater kid. According to the New York Post, Justice Katonji Brown Jackson briefly ditched the black robes and drama of the Supreme Court and made history with her Saturday night debut on Broadway in the musical And Juliet, a queer reimagining of William Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet. Jackson, who once told members of the Senate that she couldn't define what a woman is because she's not a biologist, portrayed a Queen Mab described as a she-her character on a production poster during her brief Broadway stint on Saturday.

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Sick! We have a very special guest, Supreme Court Justice Katana Jackson! Me too! What I like about it is that I am having a very strongly negative reaction to it. Like I hate it. Which makes me think it must be brilliant. Got this feeling in my body. Can't stop the feeling. Got this feeling in my body.

I can't stop the feeling. I did it. I made it to Broadway. Not based on your talent, you didn't. My goodness. By the way, what exactly is that musical about? It explores the world of Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet didn't kill herself after discovering her star-crossed lover Romeo dead from suicide at the end of the tragic play. Instead, Juliet seeks love again and heads to Paris with a non-binary character only to later get tangled up in a love triangle.

Wow. Wow. That is weird. That is super weird. And I'm just going to tell you that we were told by the left that J.D. Vance is weird or that Amy Coney Barrett, because she has lots of kids, is weird. We've been told that Clarence Thomas is weird by the left. Okay, by the way, Clarence Thomas is so not weird that he and his wife go on like road trips across the country in an RV and they go to just like classic Americana sites. That's how typically all American Clarence Thomas is.

Meanwhile, Katonji Brown Jackson, her idea of a good time is, what if I go and debut for three lines on Broadway in a queer musical? And what in the actual, what in the world, what in the world? In her memoir, Lovely One, Jackson reflected on how she applied to the Ivy League school in part to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming the first black female justice to take the Broadway stage. She went to Harvard University alongside actor Matt Damon.

She wrote in the book, quote, I, a Miami girl from a modest background with an unabashed love of theater, dreamed of one day ascending to the highest court in the land, and I had said so in one of my supplemental application essays. During a tour to promote her book, Jackson broke out into singing a few times and performed several lines from Schoolhouse Rock to demonstrate her unabashed love of theater. Um, I don't think that she should be deciding what the Constitution means. I'm just going to put it out there. She can't define what a lady is, and she's a theater kid. So enough of this. It is bad.

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