Everybody Knew (Ep. 2537)

28:33It's just not the same. American exceptionalism is real. This is a time for realism, especially when dealing with the Iranians. Why haven't the Iranians taken back their government over 47 years? There have been attempts. Persian people are strong. I don't know. I don't have any answers for you on that, why it hasn't happened. all i can point to you is that it hasn't and it is time to be real about this we're number one economically and militarily and it's time to start acting like it now jerry baker at the wall street journal has a piece of these guys again are not huge fans of the president okay but jerry baker he says it pretty straight right here it's time for a little uh you know thucydides here you know what does that mean he says within a rand deal trump returns to realism I want you to pay very close attention to this paragraph.

29:27We've got to scrap this international democracy building thing. It doesn't work. It hasn't worked. It's a failure. He says, as a theory of political power relations, the idea was famously illustrated centuries ago by Greek historian Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War, when the Athenians brought the rebellious island of Milos to heel and parlayed on what to do with its inhabitants. it. The nasty, brutish view prevailed, and its cynical operating principle was applied. Here it is. The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must. Ladies and gentlemen, hard power matters.

30:06Power is the coin of the realm. We should not be immoral as a nation, obviously. We should not act unethically. However, we should act with a sense of realism. wars happen people die and as president trump said you see this treat by trey yanks they don't behave we'll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head that's what power looks like and the weak iranians will tolerate what they must because they are weak they are weak we just destroyed their leadership i mean evaporated a lot of their military and their ballistic missile supplies and all they can do is sign an MOU basically back, strong will do what they do and the weak will tolerate what they must.

30:52It is time to get back to a sense of realism. But I don't want a dour kind of, really, it sounds so like Manichaean, right? Like, oh my gosh, what does that mean? We should abuse countries? No, it's not what it means at all. It means we should be transactional. How does this situation benefit us? What if you've got a despot overseas who's a really bad guy. You can say he's a bad guy, but ultimately if the relationship with the country benefits the United States, at some point we're going to have to accept like that's the leader of the foreign country. A lot of these guys and women who run these countries suck.

31:26What are we going to do, depose all of them? That's not the way this works. But soft power matters too. Soft power matters because the rest of the world, ladies and gentlemen, wants to be us. It's not the other way around. All this relative nonsense. Well, you know, American exceptionalism is great, but Greek exceptionalism, do you remember Obama? Well, I love Greece. It's a beautiful place. It's fantastic. People are amazing. However, our system of government, our country is the best. Number one foamy finger, go America all the time. I love this place. Even when the president sucks, Biden, Obama, I don't shit on America.

32:08The president may suck. We have crap politicians. We got people like Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and others. I get it. But the country survived it. I'm telling you, man, you got to go and read the history of this country. Think about what happened. I can't get over what Lincoln went through between 61 and 63. It was his son dies. The rebel armies, miles basically from the White House. He doesn't even know if he's going to live and be lynched. He has no idea. Even some of the northern states are telling them, hey, don't do the Emancipation Proclamation. Don't free the slaves. We want to keep this war about preserving the Union, not about slavery.

32:51Lincoln's like, hey, man, we got to do it. Like this guy had, you want to talk about balls and leadership. I mean, outside of Washington, there's never been a more difficult presidency. I don't think the guy had five minutes of sleep. I'm the boss. You are the boss. but soft power matters too and i thought as i'm watching all these videos of visitors to the united states for the world cup taking in the united states many for the first time and just extolling the virtues of this freaking awesome place i thought to my european south american central american african friends who were over in the country for the first time I'm watching your team.

33:39You are welcome here. You know, we love you. Have fun in the United States. It's a beautiful, gorgeous place. But you think like this FIFA thing is a big deal? I walked into the guys yesterday. I think Haley was doing her show, whatever, too. I had to like sneak around. I'm like, fellas, I need you to put this together. Europeans, I know you're not going to stay for college football season, but you ain't seen nothing yet. If you ain't seen college football pregame and halftime shows, here is a hat tip, Justin. Justin, you put this together? Okay, this is Justin B. Hat tip, Justin B. Here's about a minute and a half of what you're missing out.

34:14You should come back for college football season. I've seen this stuff live. This is incredible. Check this out.

34:45The Oh,

34:53my God.

35:23I just strongly encourage you, our global friends and visitors, come back and visit when Auburn and the SEC folks open up. Listen, I love Auburn, but to be fair to the rest of the audience, our A &M, Virginia Tech fans, PSU, my alma mater, I get my MBA there. I cite, forgive me, never cite your education. I was not trying to be a smartass. I just went there too. But come back for that. Storm a field with the rest of the students. Hey, man, I'm turning into like such a sap. I got to tell you. I'm like seriously getting like choked up here over college football. Soft power matters too, man. I can't say this enough, guys, and I will say it for the rest of this year and forever.

36:15It is our 250th anniversary. We shouldn't have made it 2.5 months, 2.5 years, or 25 years. And not only did we make it, but we made it.

36:32You, your fathers, your grandfathers, who were bricklayers and plumbers, all this piping and electrical work, all these beautiful buildings, the Oculus I showed you. yesterday in Atlanta, the stadium. Who do you think built that? Not Obama. You didn't build that. Elizabeth Warren or the other. You did. All those wars that were fought overseas. You'd all be speaking German right now if it wasn't for heroic World War II vets like my grandfather. My uncle who was killed and shot in the back got two bronze stars with a V device in Vietnam shot in the back. Look up his story, Gregory Ambrose. Check it out.

37:17It's on that memorial wall page. Read it yourself. We built this place. And now that all these foreigners are coming over here and these visitors, it's almost incredible. Not you and my audience. I know you've loved this place and you still love it. You love it still. But there are people out there, a lot of our younger folks and others who've been indoctrinated by a bunch of dipshit bow tie wearing college professors with the cigarette, with the stick at the end like Thurston Howell. America sucks. No, you suck, mother. You suck. You suck. You're a moron. And I'm not going to let you indoctrinate our kids to hate this country.

38:00Check this out. Here's this guy from the UK. What's his cat's name? This guy, he comes over here from the UK. He's like, man, I got to tell you, you guys with the Second Amendment, I can't believe we're such overseas. You have that right here because you live in the greatest country on earth. Check this guy out. This is good. One of the things that's become extremely apparent to me after spending a few days here with a group of Americans and other nationalities is how much of a f***ing f***ing English people are in general when it comes to arms, guns. and basically protecting their nation. We've been totally pacified in the UK and through removal of our arms, our right to bear arms, it's caused a big problem for us.

38:50And now our government is basically turning into this absolutely tyrannical feminine leadership that is gradually eroding all of our rights. And there's really not much we can do about it. Yes, Spencer Taring in that video. that's who that is you're damn right you want to protect yourself here you live in the free state of florida not the tyrannical city of new york where they god forbid you have a gun to defend your the criminals get guns because criminals don't give a shit about gun laws that's why they're freaking criminals oh lessons of being a criminal is you don't care about laws if you did you wouldn't be a criminal logic remember you take a logic course in college why are criminals criminals justin because they don't give a shit about laws that's why it's committing a crime.

39:37You broke the... Oh, okay. No, but they definitely care about gun laws. Down here in Florida, we have a constitutional carry state. Carry a gun. You know what? The crime rates are really low. Because you just don't break in a house in Florida. What's waiting for you on the other side, Justin? Yes! A man or woman with a gun who will likely kill you because we have stand your ground too.

40:02Was that Grady Judd? Was that the Florida sheriff? he's like yes you can kill them it's less paperwork i don't like killing like killing's not a good thing i've had one but whoever you come in my house burglarize my house in the middle of the night and it's us or you it's you i'm sorry it's you it's i'm mean i'm not trying to be a about it i'll avoid it if i can but you're in my house i'm sorry by the way they love our accents too you know you see these movies and everybody's like ah that james bond that's the greatest thing ever you ever see the other side of it they think we have great accents no then yeah they do here's this lady saying man i really love these americans with the howdy and all this other stuff i love the and she talks about how we like have better words as a they come to the united states they love this place you should love it too you should love it too you live here now you don't have to come here you're already here check this out americans i am convinced that you guys have the best accent in the whole world.

40:59I love it so much. Every single time someone says hello to me, I just want to carry on the conversation. The better. When you guys say howdy, it's just so good. And you have so many better words than us. I wish I had an American accent. I just want to hear yes, sir, yes, ma 'am, all day. As a transplant to the South, although South Florida is not really the South. You know the old line about Florida, right? The more South you go, the more North you get. So I don't want to fake it, but having lived in Georgia for a while, and I've been in the South, my daughter's an Auburn student there. I spent a lot of time in the South.

41:44There's nothing like a yes man. As I said to you, people in the South, they're so damn nice. Even when they don't like you, they bless your heart. It's the most amazing thing. Bless your heart. Bless your heart, young man. Bless your heart. You're like, you didn't get that in New York. You know what they tell you in New York? Language alert kids. They say, hey, go fuck yourself. Nobody blesses your heart. One, there is no blessing of the hearts in New York. I love New York growing up there. Like I said, the same guy who told you to go F yourself, you have a heart attack, he'll give you mouth to mouth.

42:17Even if you're like foaming at the mouth and dying, they'll save your life. They're good people. They're just a little different. They bless your heart, man. So I say to the Democrats who hate the South and everything like that, they can't stand. So you're like, oh, no, we're not backwards. You're backwards. And I bring receipts. What does the Dan Bajito show do better than anyone? Receipts every single time. Here is a CNN poll. So there we go. DB show receipts every single time. It's a CNN poll. So don't accuse me of like some right wing bias. Here's Harry Anton on CNN, basically talking about how Democrats really hate America.

42:57Numbers, man. Spreadsheets, bro. Why do you guys hate America so much? The answer is not because America sucks. It's because you suck. You suck. Here, let me do a Democrat. I'm a Democrat. What is two thumbs that hate America? The Democrats. We don't hate America. We love America. Even when the politicians leading the place suck, we still love the country. Receipts incoming. Here's the Paul I was talking about. check this out. What about this idea? Are you proud to be an American? Extremely or very proud to be an American? Again, look at this divide, a growing divide on this question. Back in January of 2001, 90 percent of Republicans, 85 percent of Democrats.

43:39This was after a very contentious 2000 election. Keep in mind, right, with George W. Bush coming into the White House. You come over to this side of the screen in 2026. Look at this again. The Democratic percentage absolutely plummets to just 29 % of Democrats say they're extremely are very proud to be an American. That Republican percentage, the exact same 90 and 90. The Democratic percentage. What is that? That's basically a third of the level that it was just 25 years ago. So you're telling me, just to be clear, fellas, that seven out of 10 Democrats are not proud to be in america's how is that have you ever traveled outside the country i implore you i beg you i would get on bended knee but i'll never be able to get up because i got bad knees and i am a decaying carcass of a human being right now with all this arthritis i just pretend i'm on bended knee dear democrats can you just please go visit other countries no but don't don't tell me like you visited paris and rome i get it i said this yes they're beautiful or london i love it it's been Go actually to like working class suburbs, those types of areas, and look at the condition of a lot of these places around the world you claim to want to move to.

44:54Why don't you live there a little bit? The answer is because you're full of shit. How is it that seven out of ten Democrats are not proud of this place? I'm going to give you the answer. The answer is because their small G gods they worship, like Barack Obama and others, spend all their time shitting on this place. That's it. Who do they worship? Socialists, Mamdami and Obama, Elizabeth Warren. They worship academics, sadly, which populate American institutions of higher learning that tell students all the time, yeah, it's capitalism, man. It's free markets really sucks. We should all give our money to the government.

45:32The students, some of them, some of them like, yeah, man, that sounds great. Government really loves me. Government hates you. Government hates your guts. Nobody hates your guts more than government. Nobody's done more damage over the course of human history to human prosperity than government. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. It was fantastic. Basically saying like, please stop doing stuff that when the government back in the 1910s and earlier, we had depressions and recessions that were over like that. Why? Because the government didn't do anything. When the government started to fix things, they effed up the whole situation and the depression became great.

46:13Nobody Fs you over more than government. Nobody. They've driven these people crazy. They hate America so much. Are you ready for that? Put down what you're doing. Whatever you do. Feel the Greens cup. I had my blackout coffee and everything. There's nothing in the room, but you can see it. Like a little coffee. Okay. There's stuff all over. We got lean. We got books. We got pens, spots, phones, whatever. Put down what you're doing. Book down. The Democrats have been driven so crazy by these Obama far left social. America sucks, man. Government rocks. That they're, I'm not messing with you here.

46:54There are actually rallies in D.C. going on. Algae, pro-algae rallies at the Reflecting Pool. Dan, surely you're messing with us. I'm not messing with you. I told you if Trump cured HIV tomorrow, there would be a group of people out there like we need hiv back man we need i can't believe trump did that like he really like go think about all these these anti-hiv virals that are now going to go out because they would find a reason to be like number one fromy figure pro hiv trump cleans up the reflecting pool president trump it's summer like algae happens like in any body of water but they've got this system and they're cleaning it up there's going to be some hiccups there's a freaking rally i'm not messing with you at the reflecting pool people are like pro-algae show this thing because the artist's gonna think we're making this up algae in the silent murky shadows of a forgotten retention pond something ancient and green stirs who planted it who cares about it and how do we save it from extinction

48:01they didn't tell me they were doing that i was wondering why they weren't via VO is when you voice over, you put a little box video. I'm wondering why they didn't tell me they were going to do that. There was a real picture. There's like a pro algae rally. Folks, hat tip Emily Miller. I'm not kidding.

48:21This is insanity. CNN, by the way, which has enough assets there. Look at this, Team Algae. Team Algae. this is so nuts this is the craziest thing i have ever seen i'm telling you they'd be pro hepatitis pro ebola if whatever donald trump does they're on it it doesn't matter they're already pro iranian they're like yeah death to them are we love those guys why well because trump does it please get help please you ever see that you ever see the michael jordan giffey stop get help it's time for jordan giffey like stop please like it's really you guys need help here's the washington post which could have debunked the bullshit russian dossier by with five minutes of work with their journalism department that has done a whole big expose on algae booms reflecting pool algae booms have roared back reaching highest levels in years cnn got a whole team of reporters out there reporting on the algae just to be clear the border's been closed.

49:26Crime's the lowest it's ever been in U.S. history. The homicide rates collapse. GDP's exploding. We have AI innovations coming out every day. Trump's basically dealing with the death to America. Iranians has been punted for 47 years. The Maduro's in prison. We're exporting more petrochemicals than we ever have. And what the hell from the Washington Post and CNN working on? An expose on algae and the reflective. Look at this. You think I'm making it up? Check this out. Wow. Look at that. Whoa. CNN independently took the sample of water and consulted with a pool store that regularly tests water to help read the results.

50:03It showed phosphate levels far higher than what is recommended to keep algae at bay based on estimates for a pool that holds 6.5 million gallons of water. There's already some phosphate fertilizer in the water. They actually got an algae researcher. Thank you, Barrett Brooks. Barrett, this is CNN. Still hasn't admitted the dossier. Look at this. They got Barrett Brooks. Barrett Brooks, you're my hero. Algae researcher. CNN coordinated this. Hey, Barrett. We're DMing you. We're doing a huge expose. Barrett's like, I'm what? The collusion thing you guys fucked up? No, no. Algae in the pool. Oh, cool.

50:42I'm an algae guy. Hey, can you meet us out at the Lincoln over there between, you know, the Washington Post at the reflecting pool? We're doing a big expose on algae in the reflecting pool. You would think Barrett would be like, hey, man, maybe it's a better idea to, you know, cover like the MOU and all the bullshit stuff. That's why like eight and ten Americans think you guys suck. No, no, we're going to cover algae. By the way, CNN, are you going to cover the pro algae rallies? Go algae. There's like team algae. You're going to vote for this shit? Man, dude, listen. You know the dude thing, right?

51:18We can't play this enough. there's like 20 ways to say dude you know there's a serial killer around the court dude was it that rob schneider clip someone says something dude this is one of those like i'm puzzled by how dumb you are dude you're gonna vote for the democrats i'm not telling you like republicans are the solution to all your problems i'm not we have our own messed up members however you're gonna vote for Team Algae? These people are crazy. Why are they crazy? Because they worship personalities and they don't worship results. Here, look at Haptip Media Research Center. I wanted to pull this because the article I'm going to discuss next is hugely important.

52:03It's how we got here. All right, we laugh about it, but it's not funny. There are a generation of people, not just kids, who hate this country. Hate it. You can't have a club that nobody wants to be a part of. Here's one of the reasons it happened. Hat tip MRC. Here's about a minute of the coverage of Barack Obama when he was running for office, who no president's done more to destroy this country than him. Check this out. Barack Obama is the first president since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office. I mean, from a visionary leader of a giant movement, now he's got an executive position.

52:44President Obama is the most noble man who has ever lived in the White House. Is he one of our brightest presidents? Absolutely. I think so. This guy's done everything right. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong. A lot of things are just perfect about Barack Obama. He's the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect American. You can see it in the crowds. The thrill, the hope, how they surge toward you. You're looking at an American political phenomenon. You know, you are the equivalent of a rock star. The feeling most people get when they hear a Barack Obama speech, I felt this thrill going up my leg.

53:22I don't think we've ever had a president save Lincoln, who is as great a speechwriter as this man. They were moved by you. People were crying. We've seen people move to tears after just the briefest encounter with it. Oh my gosh, the guys in there don't even know what to do. Andy's like, is this for real? Yes, brother, it's for real. I got a thrill up my leg. This is it. There you go. There's your other homie, Robert Reich. You got a thrill up your leg? What'd you piss yourself? That's a tingle. That's liquid. comparing him to lincoln brother are you shitting me please please i'm begging you you don't even have to read a book go just download a documentary anywhere rumble youtube netflix on lincoln you're comparing lincoln to obama lincoln who he gets in office and the southern states are like we're out of here bro there's gonna be a war You're comparing Obama to Lincoln?

54:29Matthew Continetti at the Wall Street Journal. I can't recommend this piece enough. I'm not going to read the whole thing, obviously. But you need to read it. Why are we talking about Obama and his little acolyte Joe Biden now? Because how we got here today, why 7 out of 10 Democrats are not proud to be Americans, according to CNN's own poll, we're very proud to be beside. It doesn't really matter. is because of people like Obama, who have made a political career out of being a, you know, bullshit activist and ginning up hatred of America. Karnati's piece is amazing. Talks about how Obama, all of where we are now, is easily explainable on either the geopolitical or home front by what Barack Obama did.

55:21The piece is entitled Obama's Legacy is the Trump Presidency. Talks about his foreign policy, all of it. How kissing the ass of the CCP. Scroll down a little bit. I want to check out some. He talks to how it comes up with the presidential. But he says, start with foreign policy. Throughout his presidency, Obama sought to retrench U.S. power. His reset with Russia. Yeah, that worked out great. Surge of forces in Afghanistan, withdrawal from Iraq. his failure to enforce red lines in Syria had lethal effects. All of them. In his first term, he canceled missile defenses, promised Russia more flexibility, tolerated dictators such as Ortega, Chavez, and Maduro, even taken in a baseball game, kissing Castro's ass.

56:04Then they go down later in the piece, talk about all his international ambivalence, how basically he did almost jack shit to halt terrorism, how Obamacare, which was supposed to cut costs, they just had to shut down the government, Democrats because the Obamacare costs are exploding. His JCPOA sucked. So when you say things like, well, you know, if this were a Democrat, this MOU with the Iranians, President Trump signed, if we were a Democrat, we'd be erupting. You're correct, because Democrats do stuff Trump wasn't willing to do, which is kissing the ass of our enemies. This is a great piece.

56:44It's worth your time. How did we get here? This is how we got here. Obama laying the groundwork for international weakness and the castrating of the U.S. overseas. Using executive power whenever Congress rebuffed him and then they bitch and moan like, oh, my gosh, Donald Trump is doing. At least Donald Trump listens to the courts. Even when they do stuff we don't agree with. Read it. It is really worth your time. And folks, listen, the Democrat Party, which academics, entertainers, America sucks, Trump sucks, all this stuff, 7 out of 10 Democrats hate the country, you suck. They are full of shit.

57:28Listen to me. I hope if there's one lesson you take out of the show, just one, read the book by Fred Siegel, Revolt Against the Masses, how the liberal progressive movement hates working class voters. Listen up, West Virginia coal miners, Pennsylvania electricians, New York tin knockers and steam fitters and military men and women. If you are a middle class American busting your ass for your kids or your family, the Democrat Party hates your guts. Hates your guts. They have always hated your guts. They believe in a costumed European aristocracy Where as long as you're an academic Who studied women's studies in the 14th century You are the benighted one Wear your costume and you should be worshipped By the minions like the plumbers and electricians out there Who should just work to support your glorious lifestyle Although you don't do anything involving plumbing or electric You just talk about shit And write white papers nobody gives a damn about you don't believe me there's another piece in the wall street journal about mom dommy versus the bodegas or as jill biden would call him the bogatis i'll get to that in a second mom dommy wants to do this supermarket a new york city government supermarket gee where we've done that before we've done a cuba the soviet union that's worked out great faith bottom mom dommy versus bodegas his socialist supermarkets could put New York little grocers out of business now all the bodegas are like hey man we voted for this clown and now he's putting in a government supermarket with artificially low taxpayer funded prices that are going to put the bodegas out of business they're all pissed off I told you this guy hates you he hates your guts they don't even know what a freaking bodega is They don't know what a bodega is You remember this gem?

59:31Dr. Jill Biden, prominent neurosurgeon The Spanish community is great Like the Bogota's What the fuck is a Bogota? What is a Bogota? I've never heard of that What is a Bogota? You doubt me? Check this out The diversity of this community As distinct as the Bogota's of the Bronx as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio. The Bogotas of the Bronx. The Bogotas.

1:00:13Oh my gosh. Why do Democrats hate America? They don't even know or understand America. they don't know what it's like to have to show up to an emergency call as a plant out as a plumber that's why i bring up plumbers all the time someone's septic system isn't working oh we don't do that i teach women's studies instead that's why you suck that's why you suck you've never been dirty in your entire life you've never had shit under your fingernails cleaning up like like a plumber has to do so that you don't get some massive infection in your house. You never had to risk your life in a utility pole like a line worker.

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1:03:45i am really elated to welcome to the show a good friend and an absolute warrior for civilization She loves civilization over the demon savages, just like I do. The great Batia Ungar Sargon. She has a new book out, which is fantastic. The Jews and the Left, asking the question I've been asking for a really long time. And we'll just start out with that, Batia. How the hell is it that the Jews, I mean, there's a significant and not irrelevant portion of the left that would like to see this group of people in camps. and they they keep voting in large numbers for democrats it's unbelievable got a guy in maine with a nazi tattoo on his chest what's the deal so first of all i can't believe i'm here with you um in my community you are a superhero i'm getting emotional i promised myself i wasn't gonna do this but um when you came back on the scene and said actually no we're not gonna talk about Jews like that.

1:04:46Actually, no, we're not going to throw our Jewish neighbors under the bus for bots and cliques from Pakistan. You just changed the conversation instantaneously. And the commitment that you had to that, we say prayers for you in my synagogue to protect you from evil. Because it's just so incredible. And it comes from so deep in you. And it's so obvious Yes, that it's from so deep in you. And so I just I have to start by just thanking you from the bottom of my heart for that. God should bless and protect you and everybody that you care about. You are such a hero to my community and to this nation and just a complete and utter blessing.

1:05:35And I'm so honored to be here. OK, now I'm going to answer your question. Why are Jews Democrats? This is the question I get asked the most when I travel by Christians, by conservatives, by Republicans. And they ask it to me with real pain because they'll say to me, why are the Jews Democrats when the Democrats hate them? And we have their backs. We love the Jews, but they're on the other side. And it is it's a very fundamental question, I think. And so I decided ultimately, look, so many people have asked me this question. I'm going to write a book about it. Why did the Jews become Democrats in the first place?

1:06:16Why did they stay Democrats? And why did the left turn on them? I think that today the main reason that two-thirds of American Jews remain Democrats is because they have convinced themselves that they are an oppressed minority in a country that has refused to treat them that way from the minute the first Jew stepped foot on American soil in 1654. This was less than a decade after 50 ,000 Jews were murdered in Ukraine by Cossacks. Less than a decade later, a man named Aser Levy stepped foot on American soil. An anti-Semite named Peter Stuyvesant tried to kick the Jews out. And it was like the soil itself rebelled.

1:07:07Aser Levy took him to court and sued him for equal rights for the Jews and won. literally from the second the first Jew arrived here, the soil rejected Jew hate. Their Christian neighbors loved them. The founding fathers saw Jews as foundational partners in the creation of what it meant to be an American because they believed that our rights are not a gift from the government. They are a gift from God. They are imbued in us by our creator. and they saw the source material for that idea in the Torah. So when Jews started arriving, they started to see them as like the living, breathing embodiment of that source material for the civilization they were trying to build here.

1:07:53It is so deep. People ask me, why has America been so good to the Jews? And the answer is because Americans have a covenant with God. That's the answer. And it runs so deep. And this history has been utterly lost, especially in the liberal Jewish community. And I find that unbearable. And so I wrote this book to correct the record. I'm not saying there was never anti-Semitism in America. Of course there was. But every instance of it, the most famous instances of it you can imagine, were met by a rabid opposition from the nation. as if, you know, inoculating America against a virus. And I just had to rescue this history and give it back to my people and give it back to the Christians who are the reason that this is the case.

1:08:49American Christians are the first people in human history to organize their religion around the protection of Jews rather than oppressing Jews. We have to be telling this story. so to me this is kind of the impetus behind the book and the thing I most hope people take away from it I hope so too because it's it's not that we don't have a an unfortunate surplus of historical examples of where this ends every time and by the way it's not just Jew hatred it's and I hope we get to this a little bit later but it's any collective guilt any guilt because of some artificial group membership. I say artificial because the Democrats changed their mind on what group you should be in depending on how they can leverage you against others.

1:09:37You know what I mean? Like if Jews started voting primarily Republican, they would target Jewish union members and say, hey, you guys are in a union. You're getting screwed. Wait, I thought it was Jewish that matter. No, no, it's union membership. Like the Democrats don't really care. But Bhatia, we've seen where this goes. And if you're out there and you just randomly hate Jews because they're Jews. I suggest you see a psychotherapist, but I also suggest like go get Netflix or like Apple TV or whatever and just like watch a documentary. You don't even have to read a book if you're too lazy to do that.

1:10:09We know where this goes. This is not hard. I'll never forget getting that knock on my door. 1 a.m. I don't know how long I've been in the job, two, three months. It was Judge Jeanine's first day. And they said, hey, boss, we got to go out to the street down in D.C. was like three blocks away. I said, what happened? They said two Jewish embassy workers were just murdered in cold blood in the street. I said, you're kidding. I said, we got to go now. Put on my jacket. I watched the bodies, watched them being hauled away. The blood was right there. Like there's a consequence to this type of behavior.

1:10:40That's why I said, like, if this is going to become our movement, count me the fuck out. Pardon my language. I don't want anything to do with it. That's not our movement. It's time to take it back. Absolutely. And I do think that there's kind of a misnomer. People talk about rising anti-Semitism on the right, on the left. It is so marginal on the right. It looks big because of the bots, because there's two billion Muslims who love anti-Semitic content and spend a lot of time on Twitter. If you go into a bar in middle America, nobody hates the Jews. People feel very protective of Jews. They are Zionists.

1:11:22You know, Israel is not very popular right now. They don't want it wiped off the face of the planet. But meanwhile, on the left, you have the opposite. You have people who have real hatred for Jews in their heart being elevated to the status of celebrities. it's a real split screen how the left is treating the anti-Semites in its midst and how the people on the right are people like you people like the president himself who basically kicked you know Tucker Carlson out the party it was like you're not in this party anymore if you're going to talk that way and so I think that's so different and also something that liberal American Jews fundamentally don't understand is the way that people who hate Jews are treated on either side is so different.

1:12:07That guy that you talked about who murdered two Israeli embassy workers, by the way, he didn't know that they worked for the Israeli embassy. He just wanted to kill Jews. And when they came to arrest him, he said, I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza. And then he started to chant. And there's a video of this. He went, free, free Palestine. And he sounded exactly like the hordes of college campus students who were in their encampments chanting the exact same thing, chanting for intifada. The problem is, Dan, is that I think that a lot of the Jewish organizations handled this exactly wrong.

1:12:45So for example, after all this campus activism, you had the ADL coming out and saying, Jewish students are unsafe. Why are we not included in DEI? We are also an oppressed minority. Why aren't we getting the same treatment as Black students and trans students who are protected from having to hear the views of people they disagree with. And I just utterly reject that because I think fundamentally the Jewish students were getting the same treatment that Charlie Kirk had been getting for a decade, that conservative students get, that Christian students get. You think if you walk on a college campus in a red MAGA hat, you're going to be treated worse or better than a guy in a yarmulke.

1:13:27It's probably about the same. They were giving us the same treatment that they've been giving, giving whites and conservatives and Republicans and people who love Trump for 10 years, if not more. And to me, the response to that should have been, first of all, I'm proud to stand with the people in this country who will always have the backs of the Jews. And second of all, it wasn't OK to treat them that way either. But instead, you had this leftist because so many Jews on the left, they said, well, why aren't we being treated like an oppressed minority? And so I really want us to understand exactly what happened there and how that response was so wrong, because they were leaning into the very ideology that got us there in the first place, which is that there's a moral distinction between oppressor and oppressed, white person and person of color, and the white person who's an oppressor.

1:14:24is inherently evil and the oppressed, who is a person of color, is inherently virtuous and have no moral authority, no moral responsibilities. And white people can have no moral authority except to get on their knees and cede power to the powerless. The whole point of America is a rejection of that. It's built on Judeo-Christian values of the difference between right versus wrong. And I think that as American Jews, that is what we need to be leaning into and insisting on. yeah i don't think people who've fallen for this anti-jew scam understand that it's just an offshoot of critical theory critical race theory is just an offshoot of critical theory the whole idea that the white male patriarchy is the source of all power and that knowledge is a construct of that power therefore you should question everything they tell you including math the problem with that beyond its obvious absurdity is they don't even know what white is then when you discuss jews and Asians, they're like, well, they're white adjacent.

1:15:23Actually, they're not. They're not white adjacent at all by your own definition. They just say that. It just goes to show you that what they're against really is merit. What they want is collectivism and the inherent unequal treatment of people who are successful to take from them and then take their own cut and then level it out for political power. It's all one big scam. I just can't believe people get suckered by this. I just want to show the book here. The book, again, is The Jews and the Left, Bhatia Ungar Sargon. Please pick up the book today. It's amazing. I want to get to this. I know we may have some minor disagreements.

1:16:02Short term, I don't think they're long term on strategy. However, the MOU signing in the news I had stated at the beginning of the show today, you know, a critique I've heard about it, which, you know, listen, everyone's, that's what I love about the republic, especially on foreign policy. Decisions are so important and existential with the death to America Iranians that we can't screw this up. But one of the arguments I hear as well, you know, if it were the Democrats, we would be, you know, wailing and screaming about it. And you're not wrong if the Democrats. But I think the critical point is it's kind of like the Knicks game.

1:16:36If the Spurs were down by 29, you'd probably leave the game because they have no history of coming back. However, when the Knicks are down by 29, you're like, well, it's the Knicks. They've come back from every other and they wind up winning the game. I think the point is that it's not the Democrats. Like it's President Trump who's shown no fear whatsoever about going back in and kicking ass and taking names. But I get the critiques on both sides. Your thoughts on it? Yeah, I mean, I love this president. I really do. I think the first year of his second term, we'll never have a year like that again.

1:17:07He literally was doing everything I would have done. Mass deportations, tariffs, Venezuela, like incredible efficiency, incredible restoration of dignity to working class Americans. I am very disappointed in this MOU. He's only going to be president for two more years. Right. So I think the idea was like, we're going to do something to protect future generations of Americans from the feckless weakness of future democratic leadership. Right here. It just seems like to me, the juice was not worth the squeeze. And by the squeeze, I mean, specifically the cost that working class Americans have already paid over the last four months in terms of gas prices and the cost of food and so forth.

1:17:51I totally get where he's coming from that people are broke. I've been talking about it on my show a lot. But to me, it seems like there were a lot of ways to ease up the stress here at home and the pressure here at home economically, for example, putting a limit on oil exports. We're a net exporter of oil and gas. We have a surplus that we're selling to other nations. I don't understand why he couldn't have just said, you know what, we're going to sell that domestically, get the price down at the pump for American workers, and then, you know, keep the pressure on Iran. And it seems to me like Iran has come out stronger than they were before, because they're getting a lot of money back.

1:18:29And also, they They clearly intend to start charging tolls to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in 60 days. And to me, I just find it unbearable as an American that we retreated when we had them on the ropes. And this does seem to me to be a retreat. There's nothing in the MOU that gets at any of the three priorities the president laid out when he first started here. And I do think the Israelis overpromised and underdelivered. Sure. I mean, there's a lot of things you could say. We thought that this would be easier. I was very wrong about this. I thought they would cave much quicker. But they now know that with a few minds, they can bring the greatest superpower to ever exist in human history to its knees.

1:19:08And I'm just thinking to myself, what message does that send China? I mean, anybody who now, you know, controls a choke point now knows what our pressure point is. And that terrifies me for the future. Yeah. Well, listen, I love the healthy debate on our side. And, you know, I really have so much respect for you. I just would challenge two points. the limiting domestic exports of petro products overseas is a it's really a democrat issue i'm not trying to pass the buck it's just the refineries here which we can't get permits to build new refineries because of the environmental nuts they can only blend certain products some of them are better suited for overseas and we just can't really use it that efficiently here so to limit that really kind of screws over the and doesn't doesn't really have the impact you'd think it would.

1:19:58And I'd say, secondly, I'm not so sure the Iranians, and again, it's an MOU, it's not any kind of a final deal. I'm not so sure they emerge from this stronger. When you look at the impact on their economy, you look at just the destruction of their leadership levels, their Navy being not completely destroyed, but pretty much routed. Ballistic missile capability, again, not completely destroyed, but significant supply chain issues to rebuilding it. I don't think the Iranians are throwing like a McDonald's birthday party. Remember when we were kids, the orange drink and the burger and the fries. So I would say this, I would say, let's see how the next 60 days work out.

1:20:38I love the fact that people like you and I can talk about this kind of stuff, but I think there's no question. I think we can agree on this. Long term, yeah, short term, we're probably going to have some disagreements on the MOU, but long term, there's been no better friend to the region. Forget about just Israel, but to the region in general for Middle Eastern stability than President Trump, Abraham Accords. And so we'll see where it goes. And you know what? I'd love to have you back after the 60 days. We can chat about it again. But I do want to get to your book again, The Jews and the Left, Batia Ungar Sargon, a really fantastic book.

1:21:12Pick it up today. the rape gang story over in the United Kingdom just a horrific, horrific story now because you and I are moral and ethical people, this is not an attempt to stigmatize all Muslims like they do to the Jews we are not going to pay back your destructive favor and become morons too however, there's no doubt that the overwhelming majority of men engaged in these disgusting rape gangs with these young women were in fact Muslim Doesn't mean the entire group, but it is a fact that's unavoidable. And it's interesting how like the left who claims all this DEI stuff and tolerance is willing to tolerate a story that involves the trafficking of young children to disgusting filth bag men in the UK and turn a blind eye.

1:22:00Yeah, I feel bad because my number one reaction to this story was just a surge of patriotism. We don't have this problem. And the reason for that is because the problem here is it's not just the Islamist culture. It's the fact that their police are cowards, their legal system is woke, and their political system is wokeified. And so as a result of that, as you said, Dan, there's just this protective shield around wrongdoing from people with darker skin than your average British person. So those aren't even failures of Islam. it's failures of integration and then failures at the systemic level it's like pro-muslim racism at this at the the the systemic level anti-white racism um and we don't have that because our cops are not pussies excuse my language you don't have to excuse your language here this is the damn bongino show in case you missed so it's okay don't worry we will not be bleeping that out in any way, shape or form.

1:23:03I'm actually, you know, we got the NYPD. You think they'd allow something like this to happen in Bay Ridge and be like, oh, sorry, we don't go there. You know what I mean? Not going to happen. No, never going to happen, you know. And like, yes, our judges have been revealed to be very, very politicized when it comes to Trump. I believe that, you know, all of these lower level courts that are trying to stop him from, you know, exercising his Article two powers. It's a huge problem. It is a huge problem. Democrats really only think Democratic presidents should have Article two powers, let's face it.

1:23:37And there's a lot of judges who are just activists and you see their rulings getting overturned again and again and again. But, you know, and we do have a problem in New York specifically with someone like Alvin Bragg, who thinks that, you know, young black men should not have to face responsibility for their for their actions. But specifically what they have in Europe with the Muslim population, we do not have that problem here. And so it makes me feel very much like an American supremacist, which I am, because we're just so much better at integration. The Muslims who come here are middle class, and they want in on the American dream.

1:24:14Like the idea that they would sort of create these little enclaves and stay poor for three generations, like we just don't have that because, again, the soil here is magic. So that was my initial reaction. Of course, horror at what's happening there. But also just for us to understand as Americans what we're doing right. Again, the book is called Jews and the American, excuse me, the Jews and the Left, Batia Ungar Sargon. Pick it up today. I just want to exit today by telling you, I just adore you. I think you do amazing work. I follow you. I have your tweets on notification and you let everyone in that community know I will never, ever, ever under any circumstances for any reason fold on this issue.

1:25:00And this is not our party. Be proud of our party. Be proud of our movement. Love our country. We've seen this stuff, this infectious, cancerous, rot, mutated virus creep up every few years and it's up to you know brave people to go come up and stamp this fucking virus out like the like the scum it is and the infection is i can't even think of enough horrible modifiers to describe how awful this is going to end if we don't do it and you always got me in your corner and believe me i am part of a growing group you have no idea how many calls i get from people who say to me, yeah, it's time. It's time.

1:25:41I know it's time. It was time a long time ago. So I appreciate all your work and I hope people read the book and you're welcome back anytime. Thank you so much. God bless and protect you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Bhatia. Folks, pick up the book today. It is really important. We support strong voices for equality for all. Whatever happened to the Declaration of Independence, Unalienable rights. Like, whatever happened to that? The answer is nothing happened. Nothing happened. Rage bots happened. Then a bunch of lunatics happened. Collective guilt, man. Be the Italians next. The Italians start voting, all of a sudden started voting Republican in mass numbers.

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