December 18, 2025 • 41 mins
On today’s jam-packed show, Josh breaks down the president’s primetime address—what he thought the president got right, and the key points he believes were missing. He also calls out the bad actors who completely misled the public about what the speech would actually cover. Josh then gives the latest on the Brown University murders and the increasingly botched investigation into finding the suspect. Finally, he takes aim at the voices on the Left who refuse to confront the threat of radical Islam, insisting instead that Donald Trump is somehow a bigger danger to America than the extremists committing real-world terrorism.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Donald Trump addresses the nation, trying to dig the nation
out of the Joe Biden ditch. Did it work well?
The numbers tell a somewhat complicated tale. Meanwhile, Benjapiro delivers
a big speech at the Heritage Foundation. Today is also
day one of Turning Point USA's big Amfest conference out
in Phoenix, Arizona. There's a lot going on. We've got
the details on today's episode of The Josh Hammer Show.
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Donald Trump addressed as the nation last night on December seventeenth. Now,
there was a lot of rumors flying around prior to
the speech. The White House kept the pre tight lid
as to what the contents of this actual speech would be,
and there was a lot of guessing going around as
to what the subject or subjects might be. More on
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that in just a second, turns out that Donald Trump
primarily wanted to talk about, and indeed primarily did talk about,
the economy. We have covered the economy a great length
on this show. It is our working thesis here in
The Josh Hammer Show that it very much still is
the economy stupid. Far be it from me to wax
poetic about the great virtues and the great political instincts
(01:11):
and so forth of James Carville, the long standing Democratic
Party poohba and the main right hand of the Bill
Clinton campaign back nine ninety two. But his line from
now three plus decades ago that it's the economy stupid,
very much still resonates, and especially since the off off
your elections that took place about a month and a
half ago, primarily those in New York City with Zora Mamdani,
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those in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and those in New
Jersey and elsewhere. It has been our working thesis that
it really still is the economy, and that message increasingly
is being heard loud and clearly in the White House.
Susie Wilde's chief of staff has not minced words when
it comes to her understanding that it indeed still is
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the economy stupid. Donald Trump himself understanding that as well.
That is why they Dispatchedald Trump about a couple of
weeks ago to the Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania to
deliver the first of his affordability Tour campaign style speeches.
When it comes to the economy, he is going to
next hit the road in the states of North Carolina.
So they're starting in some swing states here Pennsylvania North
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Carolina being two of the marquee seven swing states in
the country. But last night it was time for the
President to address the country directly when it came to
the economy, and he did so in a campaign style
speech that was in the White House. So this was
this is an official White House speech. This is not
a campaign speech. It was done at the White House itself.
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There it had the trappings and all the official to
coronery thing of the Office of the Presidency of the
United States. It was carried by the network television CBSNBC, ABC,
of course, cable news and so forth. There it did
have something of a campaign flare. That was one of
my first instincts watching this speech, which ran roughly eighteen minutes.
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To give our twoke and length. The President spoke, spoke
very quickly, and he spoke very impassionately. It's felt in
many ways somewhat similar to a campaign speech. He was
going through a lot of economictatistics attempting to show the
American people about the economy is a lot better than
the polling right now indicates. The American people, frankly think
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the economy is so For instance, here is Donald Trump
speaking about how prices and inflation in general affordability has
actually gone substantially better during his administration compared to the bidmeinstration.
Go ahead and watch this clib.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Here at home. We're bringing our economy back from the
brink of ruin to last administration and their allies in
Congress looted our treasury for trillions of dollars, driving up
prices and everything at levels never seen before. I am
bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast.
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Let's look at the facts. Under the Biden administration, car
prices rose twenty two percent and in many states thirty
percent or more. Gasoline rose thirty to fifty percent. Hotel
rates rose thirty seven percent, airfares rose thirty one percent. Now,
under our leadership, they are all coming down, and coming
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down fast. Democrat politicians also sent the Court of Grocery staring,
but we are solving that too. The price of a
Thanksgiving turkey was down thirty three percent compared to the
Biden last year. The price of eggs is down eighty
two percent since March, and everything else is falling rapidly,
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and it's not done yet. But boy, are we making progress.
Nobody can believe what's going on.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So he's he's correct, emphasized that is a work in progress.
That that is a very very important thing to emphasize
because as nice as the economic statistics are, and we
actually just got the latest monthly inflation number this morning,
coming in at two point seven percent, which is a
slight reduction from the two point nine to three percent
we were most recently at, still sadly above the federal
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reserves targets of two percent inflation there, but two point
seven percent is really not terribly bad. The unemployment rate
recently actually did spike from four point four to four
point six percent. That's the highest number there on the
unemployment metric that we've seen in some years now. I
think the point that I've been trying to communicate here
for a while is that as sound as the economic
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metrics are, for the most part, virtually everybody look at it.
I mean, four point six percent. Sure, it's a little
higher than maybe you would like. I mean, ideally you
want to get the number down below four percent, which
is where it was for large swats by the way
of the first Trump presidency. But four point six percent
is really not terrible inflation two wins percent. Again, it's
not necessarily exactly where it should be, but it's definitely
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not terrible. Private sector job growth creation continues to generally
be strong, other than the notable exception of the month
of October, which saw a net hemorrhaging of jobs, but overall, overall,
most of the economic fund the mental especially when you
talk about the stock mark, when you talk about Wall Street,
we talk about retirement accounts following case and pension plans
for federal employees. There this where you started to seeing
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that a lot of the economic metrics really are sound. However,
what we've also been saying is that to an extent,
and this where things I think get a little more complicated.
To an extent, it doesn't, unfortunately, necessarily matter exactly how
the economic metrics are looking when the American people are
still telling polsters that they are frustrated with how things
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are going. So, for instance, there was a new poll
that came out of just this week from Marist College.
Maris College from New York State, not far from where
I grew up actually there, and according to this new
poll out this week, it's a pole focusing on how
Americans feel about the economy out from Maris College, thirty
six percent thirty picks thirty six percent Americans approve of
the way that Donald Trump is handling the economy. That's
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not great. I mean, I'm sorry to be the bearer
Bend News, but it just is what it is. That
is a low for Maris College in that poll. Breaking
down the poll a little bit further, sixty one percent
of Americans say that the economy is not working well
for them personally. Seventy percent of Americans say the cost
of living where they live is not very affordable or
not affordable at all. Thirty five percent of Americans claim
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their finances have gotten worse over the past twelve months.
Twenty four percent of Americans report that their monthly expenses
exceed their monthly income. And unfortunately, even a majority of voters,
according to his Maras Pole telp polsters of the Democratic
Party is better equipped than the Republican Party to actually
handle the economy. Now. Voters' minds are infamously fickle, and
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I happen to agree with the President's general thrust of
his message. I wholeheartily agree that what we saw under
Joe Biden was so bad When it came to the
economy when it came to forty plus year high inflation
reaching nine point one percent in twenty twenty two. You know,
think about just logically how inflation works when you have affordability,
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the cost of the general price of goods and services
that goes of that quickly that much that quickly there,
it's gonna take time for it to trickle down. Think
about going out to eat in a restaurant. We're gonna
have mass inflation when it comes to things like chicken
or eggs, or produce or beef, whatever the case may be. There,
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it's gonna take time for the actual supply chain to
work its way and ultimately kind of getting to the
actual price that you see at the drive through at
McDonald's or you go sit down in an Applebee's, or
whatever the case may be. It takes actual time for
that to pan out there. And here we are where
now just over three years, three to three and a
half years after that summertime twenty twenty two, nine point
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one percent inflation high. And it makes all the sense
in the world to me that a lot of what
we're still seeing when it comes to Americans saying that
they are frustrated that they are still seeing the after
shock effects of the bime economy. So I don't really
doubt what the President is saying here and the thrust
of his message at all. All I am saying is
that the American people still are are frustrated. And the
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only equipple I have with the President's speech is I
would have liked to have seen more of what we
saw there at the tail end of that clip we
just saw. I would have liked to see a little
bit more of the presidents saying that this is still
a work in progress. I know you're frustrated. I know,
John Smith, I know Mary Jane Johnson. I know you're
so frustrated. I know that you still feel like you're
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living paycheck to paycheck, which, by the way, two thirds
of Americans feel like they are. I know that you
feel like it's more difficult than it should be to
try to fill up your truck to go to work there,
to get groceries for the family without having to make
tough trade offs at the supermarket aisle. I would I
would have liked to have heard a little more empathy
and a little less of a feeling that I was
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being lectured to and be told that I should be
grateful for the accoum because this is the kind of thing, unfortunately,
that we saw Karine Jean Pierre do often when she
was the horrific White House Press secretary for Joe, this
message that the commie actually is better than you realize
and it should be grateful. Now. It was a ridiculous lie.
By the way. Okay, that's the big difference. When the
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Biden regime was telling you that the commune is better,
they were lying out of their rear ends. Because the
e commyne actually stuck. It was a flaming bag of poop.
The comedy now is structurally better based on some of
the metrics that we've just recited, and plenty of other
metrics as well. However, the aftershock effect is taking too long,
So I would have liked to have seen a little
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more empathy in general. But again I understand where Trump
is coming from. It it's detally frustrating if you're the
leader and you're looking at these metrics and you don't
see that necessarily showing over the pulls. It wasn't actually
just in the communy speech, the even more general thrust.
This speech kind of zooming out from just the ecmedy
was just how epically the Biden administration messed up. So,
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for instance, here was President Trump talking as well about
how we have managed to reduce illegal border crossings by
over at ninety percent. Here's President Trump.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Last do you remember when Joe Biden said that he
needed Congress to pass legislation to help close the border.
He was always blaming Congress and everyone else. As it
turned out, we didn't need legislation, We just needed a
new president.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Okay, And many of us argue this, by the way,
when Joe Biden was president, is actually a provision of
immigration law, of the Immigration Nationality Act, which to this
day remains the main immigration law on the books. There's
a section called eleven eighty two f which essentially delegates
from Congress to the president the ability to shut down
as much immigration as you need for essentially discretionary, arbitrary reasons.
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A lot of folks don't realize how much discretionary power
the president actually has here. So this notion that Joe
Biden was peddling and Karine Jean Pierre, I mean Jill,
remember this, They said over and over and over again.
Congress is not acting Congress must pass legislation there. It's
actually not true. The immigration nationality at the action immigration
laws already the gate to the President's a ton ton
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of authority when it comes to actually shutting down the border,
which is why Donald Trump hasn't be able to do
it without Congress passing a single darn piece of legislation
of notes or import on this front. So he's exactly
around that. If anything, though, maybe maybe the highlight actually
of the speech last night was a wonderful, wonderful shout
out the seventeen seventy six Warrior Dividend that Donald Trum
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announced for America's armed service men and women. Go ahead
and watch.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
This because of tariffs. Along with the just passed one
big beautiful bill tonight, I am also proud to announce
that more than one thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, think
of this, one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military
service members will receive a special we call Warrior dividend
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before Christmas. So Warrior Dividend, in honor of our nations
founding in seventeen seventies, we are sending every soldier one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars. Think of that, and
the checks are already on the way, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So I love the symbolism of this. I also just
love it on the merits is exactly the kind of
policy that is just as righteous by the way, that
that is good for military morale, especially in the time
where the left wing media complex is coming at Secretary
of War Pete Hegseth yet again with all they've got,
this most recent fabricated faux controversy over the infamous second
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strike on the Narco terrorists. We've thoroughly debunked that here
previously on the Josh Ammer Show. That at a time
when they're coming after Pete hegset when they're coming after
the military, the top ranking brass, even the commander in
chief himself, President Trump, with all they've got, is exactly
the kind of thing that is good for military morale.
And this ultimately is the kind of thing I think
that has a real chance, potentially, potentially potentially of salvaging
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Republican losses or maybe even resulting in mild Republican gains.
Excuse me at the mid term ballot box next November,
because here is a key point. Those Maris College economic
polling numbers that I read to you earlier, not great,
to put it, mild lead. But the saving grace for
Donald Trump and the Republican Party that he leads is this.
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The saving grace is that while the Republican Party and
the trumpministration right now are not necessarily at their peak popularity,
the Democratic Party is what is still to this day
in one of its most unpopular low points, still in
the entire polling history of that particular party. So, for instance,
here is our friends Harry Enton of CNN. Harry's going
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to join tomorrow show. By the way, he is a
longtime personal friend and he is the polling guru over
at CNN. Here is Harry Enton on CNN talking about
how the Democrat's popularity is lower than the dead sea.
Let's watch Harry Enton.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Krats in the minds of the American public are lower
than the dead sea. What are we talking about. Well,
let's take a look the net approval rating for Democrats
in Congress, use said of Kate Balwin, the lowest ever.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Look at this.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Overall, they are fifty five points underwater. Their approval rating
is south of twenty percent. It's even worse when you
look at independence. Look at this negative sixty one points.
That means that their approval rating is sixty one points lower.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Than their disapproval rating.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Quinnipiac has been pulling this question for the better part
of the twenty first century. They have never found Democrats,
at least those in Congress in worse shape than they
are right now.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That's independence and overall, But what about Democrats on Democrats?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What about democrats on Democrats? So part of the reason
overall is solo is Independence are driving it low. But
that's not the only reason it's solo. What about democrats
on democrats? Democrats and that approval rating of congressional democrats.
I want you to keep in mind they had never
rated democrats negatively until this year. And right now, what
are we talking about. We're talking about a net approval
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rating from democrats. This is democrats and democrats their upprof
ring is actually lower.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
All right, So pretty powerful stuff there from Harry Enton again,
looking forward to chat with Harry on tomorrow show. Harry
and I we lively go back to when we're eighteen
years old, more or less right around that age. It's
been amazing to watch his stratospheric rise over at CNM.
But the subsetant point is this that while Republicans may
be struggling with their popularity, Democrat's popularity is at an
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absolute nator. It is as low as has been in
the entire history of modern Poland. So what that translates
to for the trumpinistiration and from the Republican Party as
we start to gear up even more intently for the
twenty twenty six midterms in near November, what that translates
to in concrete terms is as false. Each and every day,
you should ask yourself two questions. One, what am I
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doing today to make sure the American people understand the
Democratic Party is terrible, that the American people are still
feeling the effects of the buyer regime when it comes
to catastrophic inflation, when it comes to the catastrop of
border invasion, the millions and millions of unvetted, criminally inclined
illegal aliens gushing over the border. What am I doing
to make sure that the American people understand that the
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Democrats are radical, they are out of touch, and that
you that you specifically that you are still feeling the
aftershock effects of the hell that they wrought during the
buying administration. That's point number one. Point number two is
not the negative point but the positive. Point Number two
is what are you doing today, like today, like literally today,
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day and d and why what are you doing today
to try to better improve the economic hopes, optimism and
the concrete economic prospects of the median and American citizen.
That could take the form of executive orders, that could
take the form of trying to craft legislation to get
by Congress, try to slip something into the Reconciliation Bill,
the once a year deal whereby the Senate parliamentarian agrees
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that you can bypass the filibuster. Perhaps you're trying to
coordinate on state level legislation, trying to coordinate between the
White House legislative team or the Congress and or leading
red states Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and so what are you
doing to make sure that the mean American could be
economically better off, you know, in like a month, a year,
whatever the case may be, than they are today. Those
are two things, the negative and the positive. If you
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do that each and every day, then there is still
a chance that you might be able to salvage something
at the mid terms next fall. Ultimately, American voters have
a very very very very short time stamp. If there
is a massive recession, god forbid, in the next year,
If the stock market crashes, God forbid, If there is
a mass unemployment, way of God forbid, If anything like
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that happens, the Republicans are going to be in a
world of dodo. If the economy starts to improve, if
maybe there's a Grand Rush Ukraine peace steal, some sort
of massive international development like that there, then certainly President
Trump and Republicans could be swimming along quite fine next fall.
It ultimately is still way too early, but it remains
the e commedy stupid. As we have said, by the way,
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at the beginning of the show, talking about how there
was this whole kind of parlor game, this whole guessing
games as to what was going to actually be the
substance of the talk last night. I mean, no one
had any idea. I you know, my wife asked me,
she said, you know, what's this going to be? I said,
I don't know. I would guess probably something about the economies. Okay,
you know, not to pay myself them back too much.
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But I got that one right. Someone who did not
get that right. As the track record of not getting
things right is mister Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson apparently was convinced,
convinced that this is going to be the speech that
President Trump declares war on Venezuela. Here's Tucker, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I don't know when this program airs, the one that
we're on right now.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
This thing is Pipulus.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, we're live now, and then I will be posted
the immediately.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
So I don't know the answer. I certainly been on
the phone a lot about it. I have no power,
I'm a podcaster, but I am very interested. And so
here's what I know so far, which is that members
of Congress were briefed yesterday that a war is coming
and it'll be announced in the Address to the Nation
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tonight at nine o'clock by the President. Who knows, by
the way, if that will actually happen.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I don't know, right, So Tucker's sources on Capitol Hill
telling him that they're gearing up for a declaration of
war on Venezuela and wrong, get again, wrong, get again?
You know. I'm would love to remember in the lead
up to Operation Midnight Hammer, when President Trump sent in
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the B two bombers on this thirty seven hour mission.
They leave from Missouri to go to Iran. They drop
a couple of these bunker buster bombs, they go right
back to Missouri. I remember when Tucker said this would
be the beginning of World War three. He said, if
you do anything, if you do anything to Ron whatsoever,
you are going to kill thousands. He said, thousands, thousands
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of American service men and women, soldiers, sailors, marines. This
is gonna be World War three. I mean, dude was
catastrophically wrong then and he's catastrophically wrong now. And it
really does just make you wonder at what point I mean,
holding a side philosophical and ideological difference is which is
kind of where we're going next, but holding that aside,
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just for a second, at what point does the actual
empirical and prediction and just general analytical track record. I'll
be a certain commentator a podcaster, at what point is
that person just shown to be so utterly naive, myopic,
and or just outright dimlin and stupid that you just
lose respect for them at best, or at worst you
just say he's done. I don't care if this guy
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has to say it because he's mooning tunes, he's out
to lunch there. He's just saying dumb things. I asmit
to you that that that threshold should have happened a
long time ago when it comes to Tucker Carlson. Now, incidentally,
speaking of Tucker Carlson, yesterday and today and for the
next few days are our big days when it comes
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to the conservative movement in the United States. Today is
actually the opening day, opening day in Phoenix, Arizona of Amfest,
which is Turning Point USA's big conference. I am not there.
I was at Turney Points last conference too after Summit,
not at this one out in Arizona. But a lot
of the headliners are are household names that you would
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be familiar with. Chucker Carlson controversially remains on the Turning
Point USA speaker list. I think I have a sneaking
suspicion as to some of the topics that he's going
to quote unquote address in his particular remarks there. I
would hazard a guess that probably somewhere between oh, I
don't know, fifty and eighty percent of it will be
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about the Middle East and Israel and the Jews and
all that. There just a guess, just a guess. We'll
see how that goes. Someone else who is speaking at Amfest.
He actually speaking tonight's one of the first beaches after
Erica Kerr Charlie Kirk's widow starts off the conference on
The first people speaking tonight at Anfest will be Ben Shapiro.
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Ben Shapiro longtime personal friends, so certainly a friend and
an ideological ally here of the Josh hammershow So, Ben
was actually in Washington, d C. Yesterday where he gave
a talk at the Heritage Foundation. So a quick turnaround
for him from Washington out to Phoenix. And this is
speech at the Heridge Foundation that was presented as a
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book talk on his most recent book that came out
in September. But Ben decided to give an extended remark
there inside the Heritage Foundation, with the president of the
Herod Foundation, Kevin Roberts, introducing Ben and then engaging conversation
with Ben after the talk was over. So Ben gave
a whole speech about Tucker Carlson, about Tarker Carlson, and
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about the nature of the concerned movement and what it
means to be a conservative and above all the importance
of actually defining, defining, and maintaining what it means to
be a conservative. So here is Benjapiro yesterday at the
Harris's Foundation in Washington, d C.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
The conservative movement also requires a border. A conservative movement
without a border is no conservative movement. We are welcome
a movement, but those who seek to undermine the character
of conservatism must never be granted legitimacy as voices of
our movement. Conservatism requires ideological border control. American conservatism is
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a term with a definition. We use terms because they
have meaning. Definitions by nature delimit, they distinguish, and the
term American conservatism has a meaning.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
And the meaning, he argued, or at least he argued,
as a lawyer does kind of assuming for the sake
of argments, he presented the Herodge Foundation's own definition like
he literally read from Heritage's mission statement and then showed
systematically how, according to Heritage's own decades long mission statement
as to what the conservative movement seeks to conserve, how
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Tucker Carlson singularly fails each and every one of those planks. Now,
this speech is not happening in a vacuum. We have
covered the fallouts at the Harridge Foundation in the aftermath
of doctor Roberts's video defending Tucker's speech, of his interview
of Nick Flentes, his his symbolic filating of the nation's
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leading holocaust and I are on Tucker's popular show there
in late October. There's been a lot of fallouts of
doctor Roberts's decision to do that particular video. They've lost
a lot of donors, they've lost a lot of senior
staffers there. It's generally been something of a mess, I
think would be a very polite way of putting it there.
So the symbolism certainly is not lost, I think on
anyone of someone who was an outsider to the herod
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fo nation, Ben Shapiro going in there into the organization
with the president right there and literally just saying, here's
what the organization stands for. Here is how the guy
that you just defended fails each and every plank of
this list. Now, I am absolutely not picking on Kevin Roberts,
who I've been very personally friendly with for many, many
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years now. But this is a powerful speech. There's a
powerful speech that then delivered by all accounts, I watched
it live I heard lots of applause in the room.
I heard from people that are there that there was
a partial standing ovation after it was over there. So
it was very certainly, very well received. And the crux
of that clip that we just showed you was a
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point that we've hit many times on this show as well,
is the following. What it means to be a conservative Ultimately,
I mean not to get dictionary definition, but let's get
dictionary definition. It literally means you seek to conserve. What
that means is that you must be grateful. The quintessential
consertive virtue is that of gratitude. As men as different
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as Abraham Lincoln and Aristotle two thousand plus years ago
could have told you so, you were first grateful for
your inheritance. You appreciate its beauty, what is brought to
the world, your cultural, national, civilizational, religious, etcetera inheritance, and
then you seek to conserve it, meaning to pass it
on from one generation to the next. In what the
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great late eighteenth century British statesman Edmund Burke described as
this social compact or national compact between the dead, the living,
and the yet unborn. That is what it means to
be a conservative, The irony is this, if you go
full quote unquote no cancel culture, if you go full
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quote unquote marketplace of ideas, if you say that nothing
nothing is off limits, everything is fair game, which is
essentially doctor Roberts's first video about Tucker and a fund does.
They're not going to engage in cancel culture. Rather, there
is a so called venomous coalition to use the infamous
verbiage of that already infamous video when it comes to
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trying to quote unquote cancel or deplatform. The irony is
that when you don't draw any lines, when you make
no delineations whatsoever, we don't engage in what Ben is
referring to as ideological border control. The irony is that
you're actually not conserving anything. When he tried to conserve everything,
you actually paradoxically can serve nothing whatsoever. So you have
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to have an understanding the appreciation of what is you're
trying to conserve. My argument in my book or Israel
and Civilization, that I've been arguing for years now is
that that civilizational inheritance that which we seek to conserve,
and that inheritance that produced the American founding and the
greatest self governing charter among men ever drafted the US
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Constitution and so forth. That inheritance is the biblical inheritance,
is the inheritance that began with God's revelation at Mount
Sinai three plus millennia ago, originally brought to this world
by the Jewish people and spread throughout the world by Christians.
That is what we see to conserve. That is what
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we are ultimately here to do. If you are opposed
to that, then you're not part of the tent. This
is not to say that we believe in so called cancelation.
No one here is talking about whether or not you
should have the quote unquote right to monetize your show
on a certain website or whatever. That's not this about.
(29:26):
This about whether the leaders of a certain movement are
capable of clearly enunciating and articulating what that movement stands for,
and then drawing lines to say that's not it. I'm
to take a very obvious example. If someone is rapidly
pro abortion, your abortion through the ninth month, God forbid,
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You're like that horrific Australian philosopher of Princeton University, Peter Singer,
who infamously supports post birth abortion AKA and fanticide. Conservative,
that's not it. There are lines that have to be drawn.
If you're in favor of transing the kids, of chemically
castrating little prepubescent boys, that ain't it. That's not conservative.
(30:14):
So yes, we're capable of drawing lines. The question in
this case when it comes to Tucker Carlston, when it
comes to some of Tucker's fellow travelers, the question is
are we willing to delineate and draw lines as appropriate
when it comes to this And we're gonna see something
this play out in real time at Amfest over the
next few days. It's an it's an intellectual ideological mix
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of speakers that are speaking there out at Phoenix in
Phoenix over the next few days at Trinquen USA, we
will see how it all plays out. But a sterling
speech delivered by benjapi Es today at the Herritge Foundation
really taking tremendous balls, frankly, to kind of go there
in that moment, given the overwartun context, and deliver that
particular speech at that particular time. Incidentally, one of the issues,
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one of the many issues frankly, that is being debated
right now when it comes to let's call it the
Ben Shapiro wing of the movement, and then the Tucker
Carlson wing of the quote unquote movement, if they're even
in the movement. But one of these central issues that's
currently being debated, and one of our favorite topics here
on the show is Islam. The normal conservative, the normal
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American conservative who properly views America as being the outgrowth
of the Geo Christian biblical inheritance, understands that Islam does
not necessarily compute particularly well here, that it's not particularly compatible.
As we were just talking about on yesterday's show, there
are a lot of rumors flying about, although it's not
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confirmed that the shooter a Brown University might be this
Palestinian activist, the kafia wearing radical. There are a lot
of reports that the guy shouted something before he started shooting.
G I wonder what that could have been. Was the
horrific Bondai Beach slaughter in Australia this past weekend committed
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by radical Muslims. By the way, the Fox News on
the Brown story. The Fox News just reporting yesterday wild
stuff that pro Palestinians and anti Semitic activists on Brown's
campus last year apparently demanded that Brown take down some
of their cameras to protect the pro Hamas pro Ghati protesters,
(32:27):
and now Brown won't actually say whether they complied. More
than a little spicious, also more than a little supicious
that they took down the Muslim Students page from their
Brown dot edu website. Very very odd. Speaking of Bandai Beach,
by the way, there were seven arrests made just within
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the past twelve to twenty four hours. Seven men were
en route to Bondai Beach because they were allegedly in
the midst of planning a violent attack, like literally after
the worst mass shooting in Australia in twenty nine years.
They have rested seven men this morning because they seemingly
wanted to do the whole thing over again. You could
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probably guess what religion or what ethnicity these individuals were primarily,
if not exclusively, a part of. And if that's not
bad enough, as if all that's not bad enough, there
was another unsolved murder in New England earlier this week
as well. A world renowned plasma physicist and nuclear scientists,
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a Portuguese academic at MIT by the name of Nuno
FG Lrrero was murdered in his home at the age
of forty seven in Brookline, Massachusetts, earlier this week. I
know Brookline. I have family in Brookline. It is an
inner ring suburb of Boston. It's a quintessential college town.
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Boston College is there. It's my iconic American supper when
of the nation's first suppers. So this extremely renowned mit
nuclear physicists was gunned down. Now, he was on the
cutting edge of nuclear research and was also, in his
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political opinions, a somewhat known and semi outspoken supporter of Israel,
an opponent of radical Islam. Now some Israeli officials are
now saying that this physicists was gunned down by Iranian operatives,
by Iranian agents, sleeper cells, lone wolves, whatever you want
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to call it, operating here inside the United States, which
is utterly horrifying. It true, it would hardly be the
first time that Iranian officials have engaged in attempted or
actual assassinations inside the United States. In fact, in twenty twelve,
when Irani and Saudi tensions were considerably tenser than they
are now, there was a whole plot to assassinate the
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Saudian as to the US in Washingt d c. At
very upscale restaurant. Fortunately that plot was found by the
FEDS and it was disrupted. But it's not the first
time that Iran has attempted to engage in turtet assassinations. Here,
they've tried to assassinate Regene dissidents who have managed to
escape Iran, who now live in places like Brooklyn. So
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they've done this before. So we'll see exactly where this
goes when it comes to whether or not this actually
was Iran because right now, similar to Brown, the gun
is on the loose, which, by the way, is another
part of this story is now we have multiple unsolved
murder mysteries just in New England. But guys, what's going on?
I mean, what is going on when it comes to
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New England law enforcement, get your act together? Awful awful stuff.
But you know, it's not just the Tucker Carlson quote
unquote right that has completely lost the plot when it
comes to radical Islam. Debbie Wassman Schultz remember her. She's
not really as prominent these days as she was some
years ago. She was the head of the Democratic National Committee.
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She's still she's still in Congress, and she still, frankly
totally sucks. So she was on with our pal Leland
Viddert on News Nation last night and she got asked
a very good question and gave a doozy of an answer.
Go ahead and watch this.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
I think we have to focus, quite frankly, on if
we're worried about the threat to American values, on the
person who's in the White House. I mean, we have
a really come on, yeah, I'm going there, because we
have a president who has completely undermined our democracy, who
has has so you don't.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
See is you don't see jihad. You don't see is
a problem.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
What I don't see is that, as a single lens problem,
we have a president who has been determined to undermine
our constitutional principles, to degrade our democracy, to divide instead
of unite us.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
All right, So I mean that that is literally ten
out of ten embarrassing. I mean, what an absolute hack,
What an absolute hack. Wie Wassman Schultz is a woman
who calls herself Jewish. She technically is Jewish. I think
she purports a professors to care about Jews. I mean,
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can she bring can she be brought to condemn the
Islamist massacre at the Khabbad of Bondai Beach is Hanikah
celebration on Sunday. Has she called out the Jihannist Islamist
nature of that attack? Can you call out the jihadi
Isla's nature of any attacks? I mean, screw was Donald
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Trump responsible for nine to eleven when he was on
the Apprentice? Is chilling at Trump Tower? Really?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
So?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Whether it is the adel brains left that refuses, refuses
to confront the Islamist civilizational enemy for what it is,
Whether it is the Tucker Carlston quote unquote right that
bends over backwards to apologize for Sharia law. Tucker put
out these flashy videos of the skyline of Abu Dhabi
(38:17):
and Rhea and Saudi Arabia saying, oh Man, Shia law
is not that bad, not that bad, buddy. Have you
ever flipped through a Koran? Have you read what the
Koran says about people like you as a quote unquote infidel?
Aren't you a big Christian these days?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Tucker?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
You're buying a place in Katar? Apparently he told the
Amir Katar at the Doha Forum at that junk that
you and your partner Neila tell rat mister big Christian.
Have you checked out of the churches in Qatar.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, They literally can't even publicly advertise at their churches
because it's a Sharia state. It's just unbelievable. It's absolutely unbelievable.
If Western civilization is, as I define it, the outgrowth
of the Judeo Christian Biblical inheritance, then it stands to
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reason that the two Biblical religions judaeus in Christianity, whether
they want to be or not, I personally like it.
I have no issue with it at all, regardless where
they want to be formula at such as not. They
are now in this eternal alliance against their shared enemies. Again,
(39:34):
I personally welcome that alliance. I know there's some people
I suppose on both sides. We are Lorrence skeptical, we
are big supporters of the Judaeo Christian alliance here on
the Josh Hammershew. But the point is that there are
folks who are common enemies, the Shri supremacist and the Islamists.
They are definitely one, the universalists, the globalists, and the Wocarati.
(39:57):
That's two I Gues two and three actually the Wokaraate
and then the globalist universalists really are the next two.
So it's the islmust the woke DII intersectional crap, and
then the globalist universalists, ultimately the universalists culminating in this
this great reset Davos esque imperious attempts to eradicate the
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nation state a llah John Len's imagine. So Western Civilization
stands against that. If you are not with us, if
you are offering cover for the ISLMUS, then you're not
on our team. You're not part of Team America. You're
not part of team Jo Christian. You're not part of
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team Bible. You're not part of team Western Civilization. And
that's the crux of the speech that Ben Shapiro gave
for the Herotan nation. We have to draw these lines
because without any of these lines being drawn, without any
of these lines being drawn, we are nothing. We are nothing,
and we are conserving nothing. And if we're conserving nothing,
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that won the world we're doing here in the first place?
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Donald Trump addresses the nation, trying to dig the nation
out of the Joe Biden ditch. Did it work well?
The numbers tell a somewhat complicated tale. Meanwhile, Benjapiro delivers
a big speech at the Heritage Foundation. Today is also
day one of Turning Point USA's big Amfest conference out
in Phoenix, Arizona. There's a lot going on. We've got
the details on today's episode of The Josh Hammer Show.
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Donald Trump addressed as the nation last night on December seventeenth. Now,
there was a lot of rumors flying around prior to
the speech. The White House kept the pre tight lid
as to what the contents of this actual speech would be,
and there was a lot of guessing going around as
to what the subject or subjects might be. More on
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that in just a second, turns out that Donald Trump
primarily wanted to talk about, and indeed primarily did talk about,
the economy. We have covered the economy a great length
on this show. It is our working thesis here in
The Josh Hammer Show that it very much still is
the economy stupid. Far be it from me to wax
poetic about the great virtues and the great political instincts
(01:11):
and so forth of James Carville, the long standing Democratic
Party poohba and the main right hand of the Bill
Clinton campaign back nine ninety two. But his line from
now three plus decades ago that it's the economy stupid,
very much still resonates, and especially since the off off
your elections that took place about a month and a
half ago, primarily those in New York City with Zora Mamdani,
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those in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and those in New
Jersey and elsewhere. It has been our working thesis that
it really still is the economy, and that message increasingly
is being heard loud and clearly in the White House.
Susie Wilde's chief of staff has not minced words when
it comes to her understanding that it indeed still is
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the economy stupid. Donald Trump himself understanding that as well.
That is why they Dispatchedald Trump about a couple of
weeks ago to the Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania to
deliver the first of his affordability Tour campaign style speeches.
When it comes to the economy, he is going to
next hit the road in the states of North Carolina.
So they're starting in some swing states here Pennsylvania North
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Carolina being two of the marquee seven swing states in
the country. But last night it was time for the
President to address the country directly when it came to
the economy, and he did so in a campaign style
speech that was in the White House. So this was
this is an official White House speech. This is not
a campaign speech. It was done at the White House itself.
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There it had the trappings and all the official to
coronery thing of the Office of the Presidency of the
United States. It was carried by the network television CBSNBC, ABC,
of course, cable news and so forth. There it did
have something of a campaign flare. That was one of
my first instincts watching this speech, which ran roughly eighteen minutes.
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To give our twoke and length. The President spoke, spoke
very quickly, and he spoke very impassionately. It's felt in
many ways somewhat similar to a campaign speech. He was
going through a lot of economictatistics attempting to show the
American people about the economy is a lot better than
the polling right now indicates. The American people, frankly think
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the economy is so For instance, here is Donald Trump
speaking about how prices and inflation in general affordability has
actually gone substantially better during his administration compared to the bidmeinstration.
Go ahead and watch this clib.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Here at home. We're bringing our economy back from the
brink of ruin to last administration and their allies in
Congress looted our treasury for trillions of dollars, driving up
prices and everything at levels never seen before. I am
bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast.
(03:53):
Let's look at the facts. Under the Biden administration, car
prices rose twenty two percent and in many states thirty
percent or more. Gasoline rose thirty to fifty percent. Hotel
rates rose thirty seven percent, airfares rose thirty one percent. Now,
under our leadership, they are all coming down, and coming
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down fast. Democrat politicians also sent the Court of Grocery staring,
but we are solving that too. The price of a
Thanksgiving turkey was down thirty three percent compared to the
Biden last year. The price of eggs is down eighty
two percent since March, and everything else is falling rapidly,
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and it's not done yet. But boy, are we making progress.
Nobody can believe what's going on.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So he's he's correct, emphasized that is a work in progress.
That that is a very very important thing to emphasize
because as nice as the economic statistics are, and we
actually just got the latest monthly inflation number this morning,
coming in at two point seven percent, which is a
slight reduction from the two point nine to three percent
we were most recently at, still sadly above the federal
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reserves targets of two percent inflation there, but two point
seven percent is really not terribly bad. The unemployment rate
recently actually did spike from four point four to four
point six percent. That's the highest number there on the
unemployment metric that we've seen in some years now. I
think the point that I've been trying to communicate here
for a while is that as sound as the economic
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metrics are, for the most part, virtually everybody look at it.
I mean, four point six percent. Sure, it's a little
higher than maybe you would like. I mean, ideally you
want to get the number down below four percent, which
is where it was for large swats by the way
of the first Trump presidency. But four point six percent
is really not terrible inflation two wins percent. Again, it's
not necessarily exactly where it should be, but it's definitely
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not terrible. Private sector job growth creation continues to generally
be strong, other than the notable exception of the month
of October, which saw a net hemorrhaging of jobs, but overall, overall,
most of the economic fund the mental especially when you
talk about the stock mark, when you talk about Wall Street,
we talk about retirement accounts following case and pension plans
for federal employees. There this where you started to seeing
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that a lot of the economic metrics really are sound. However,
what we've also been saying is that to an extent,
and this where things I think get a little more complicated.
To an extent, it doesn't, unfortunately, necessarily matter exactly how
the economic metrics are looking when the American people are
still telling polsters that they are frustrated with how things
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are going. So, for instance, there was a new poll
that came out of just this week from Marist College.
Maris College from New York State, not far from where
I grew up actually there, and according to this new
poll out this week, it's a pole focusing on how
Americans feel about the economy out from Maris College, thirty
six percent thirty picks thirty six percent Americans approve of
the way that Donald Trump is handling the economy. That's
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not great. I mean, I'm sorry to be the bearer
Bend News, but it just is what it is. That
is a low for Maris College in that poll. Breaking
down the poll a little bit further, sixty one percent
of Americans say that the economy is not working well
for them personally. Seventy percent of Americans say the cost
of living where they live is not very affordable or
not affordable at all. Thirty five percent of Americans claim
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their finances have gotten worse over the past twelve months.
Twenty four percent of Americans report that their monthly expenses
exceed their monthly income. And unfortunately, even a majority of voters,
according to his Maras Pole telp polsters of the Democratic
Party is better equipped than the Republican Party to actually
handle the economy. Now. Voters' minds are infamously fickle, and
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I happen to agree with the President's general thrust of
his message. I wholeheartily agree that what we saw under
Joe Biden was so bad When it came to the
economy when it came to forty plus year high inflation
reaching nine point one percent in twenty twenty two. You know,
think about just logically how inflation works when you have affordability,
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the cost of the general price of goods and services
that goes of that quickly that much that quickly there,
it's gonna take time for it to trickle down. Think
about going out to eat in a restaurant. We're gonna
have mass inflation when it comes to things like chicken
or eggs, or produce or beef, whatever the case may be. There,
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it's gonna take time for the actual supply chain to
work its way and ultimately kind of getting to the
actual price that you see at the drive through at
McDonald's or you go sit down in an Applebee's, or
whatever the case may be. It takes actual time for
that to pan out there. And here we are where
now just over three years, three to three and a
half years after that summertime twenty twenty two, nine point
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one percent inflation high. And it makes all the sense
in the world to me that a lot of what
we're still seeing when it comes to Americans saying that
they are frustrated that they are still seeing the after
shock effects of the bime economy. So I don't really
doubt what the President is saying here and the thrust
of his message at all. All I am saying is
that the American people still are are frustrated. And the
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only equipple I have with the President's speech is I
would have liked to have seen more of what we
saw there at the tail end of that clip we
just saw. I would have liked to see a little
bit more of the presidents saying that this is still
a work in progress. I know you're frustrated. I know,
John Smith, I know Mary Jane Johnson. I know you're
so frustrated. I know that you still feel like you're
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living paycheck to paycheck, which, by the way, two thirds
of Americans feel like they are. I know that you
feel like it's more difficult than it should be to
try to fill up your truck to go to work there,
to get groceries for the family without having to make
tough trade offs at the supermarket aisle. I would I
would have liked to have heard a little more empathy
and a little less of a feeling that I was
(09:47):
being lectured to and be told that I should be
grateful for the accoum because this is the kind of thing, unfortunately,
that we saw Karine Jean Pierre do often when she
was the horrific White House Press secretary for Joe, this
message that the commie actually is better than you realize
and it should be grateful. Now. It was a ridiculous lie.
By the way. Okay, that's the big difference. When the
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Biden regime was telling you that the commune is better,
they were lying out of their rear ends. Because the
e commyne actually stuck. It was a flaming bag of poop.
The comedy now is structurally better based on some of
the metrics that we've just recited, and plenty of other
metrics as well. However, the aftershock effect is taking too long,
So I would have liked to have seen a little
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more empathy in general. But again I understand where Trump
is coming from. It it's detally frustrating if you're the
leader and you're looking at these metrics and you don't
see that necessarily showing over the pulls. It wasn't actually
just in the communy speech, the even more general thrust.
This speech kind of zooming out from just the ecmedy
was just how epically the Biden administration messed up. So,
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for instance, here was President Trump talking as well about
how we have managed to reduce illegal border crossings by
over at ninety percent. Here's President Trump.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Last do you remember when Joe Biden said that he
needed Congress to pass legislation to help close the border.
He was always blaming Congress and everyone else. As it
turned out, we didn't need legislation, We just needed a
new president.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Okay, And many of us argue this, by the way,
when Joe Biden was president, is actually a provision of
immigration law, of the Immigration Nationality Act, which to this
day remains the main immigration law on the books. There's
a section called eleven eighty two f which essentially delegates
from Congress to the president the ability to shut down
as much immigration as you need for essentially discretionary, arbitrary reasons.
(11:41):
A lot of folks don't realize how much discretionary power
the president actually has here. So this notion that Joe
Biden was peddling and Karine Jean Pierre, I mean Jill,
remember this, They said over and over and over again.
Congress is not acting Congress must pass legislation there. It's
actually not true. The immigration nationality at the action immigration
laws already the gate to the President's a ton ton
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of authority when it comes to actually shutting down the border,
which is why Donald Trump hasn't be able to do
it without Congress passing a single darn piece of legislation
of notes or import on this front. So he's exactly
around that. If anything, though, maybe maybe the highlight actually
of the speech last night was a wonderful, wonderful shout
out the seventeen seventy six Warrior Dividend that Donald Trum
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announced for America's armed service men and women. Go ahead
and watch.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
This because of tariffs. Along with the just passed one
big beautiful bill tonight, I am also proud to announce
that more than one thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, think
of this, one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military
service members will receive a special we call Warrior dividend
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before Christmas. So Warrior Dividend, in honor of our nations
founding in seventeen seventies, we are sending every soldier one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars. Think of that, and
the checks are already on the way, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So I love the symbolism of this. I also just
love it on the merits is exactly the kind of
policy that is just as righteous by the way, that
that is good for military morale, especially in the time
where the left wing media complex is coming at Secretary
of War Pete Hegseth yet again with all they've got,
this most recent fabricated faux controversy over the infamous second
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strike on the Narco terrorists. We've thoroughly debunked that here
previously on the Josh Ammer Show. That at a time
when they're coming after Pete hegset when they're coming after
the military, the top ranking brass, even the commander in
chief himself, President Trump, with all they've got, is exactly
the kind of thing that is good for military morale.
And this ultimately is the kind of thing I think
that has a real chance, potentially, potentially potentially of salvaging
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Republican losses or maybe even resulting in mild Republican gains.
Excuse me at the mid term ballot box next November,
because here is a key point. Those Maris College economic
polling numbers that I read to you earlier, not great,
to put it, mild lead. But the saving grace for
Donald Trump and the Republican Party that he leads is this.
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The saving grace is that while the Republican Party and
the trumpministration right now are not necessarily at their peak popularity,
the Democratic Party is what is still to this day
in one of its most unpopular low points, still in
the entire polling history of that particular party. So, for instance,
here is our friends Harry Enton of CNN. Harry's going
(14:42):
to join tomorrow show. By the way, he is a
longtime personal friend and he is the polling guru over
at CNN. Here is Harry Enton on CNN talking about
how the Democrat's popularity is lower than the dead sea.
Let's watch Harry Enton.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Krats in the minds of the American public are lower
than the dead sea. What are we talking about. Well,
let's take a look the net approval rating for Democrats
in Congress, use said of Kate Balwin, the lowest ever.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Look at this.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Overall, they are fifty five points underwater. Their approval rating
is south of twenty percent. It's even worse when you
look at independence. Look at this negative sixty one points.
That means that their approval rating is sixty one points lower.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Than their disapproval rating.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Quinnipiac has been pulling this question for the better part
of the twenty first century. They have never found Democrats,
at least those in Congress in worse shape than they
are right now.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That's independence and overall, But what about Democrats on Democrats?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What about democrats on Democrats? So part of the reason
overall is solo is Independence are driving it low. But
that's not the only reason it's solo. What about democrats
on democrats? Democrats and that approval rating of congressional democrats.
I want you to keep in mind they had never
rated democrats negatively until this year. And right now, what
are we talking about. We're talking about a net approval
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rating from democrats. This is democrats and democrats their upprof
ring is actually lower.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
All right, So pretty powerful stuff there from Harry Enton again,
looking forward to chat with Harry on tomorrow show. Harry
and I we lively go back to when we're eighteen
years old, more or less right around that age. It's
been amazing to watch his stratospheric rise over at CNM.
But the subsetant point is this that while Republicans may
be struggling with their popularity, Democrat's popularity is at an
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absolute nator. It is as low as has been in
the entire history of modern Poland. So what that translates
to for the trumpinistiration and from the Republican Party as
we start to gear up even more intently for the
twenty twenty six midterms in near November, what that translates
to in concrete terms is as false. Each and every day,
you should ask yourself two questions. One, what am I
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doing today to make sure the American people understand the
Democratic Party is terrible, that the American people are still
feeling the effects of the buyer regime when it comes
to catastrophic inflation, when it comes to the catastrop of
border invasion, the millions and millions of unvetted, criminally inclined
illegal aliens gushing over the border. What am I doing
to make sure that the American people understand that the
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Democrats are radical, they are out of touch, and that
you that you specifically that you are still feeling the
aftershock effects of the hell that they wrought during the
buying administration. That's point number one. Point number two is
not the negative point but the positive. Point Number two
is what are you doing today, like today, like literally today,
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day and d and why what are you doing today
to try to better improve the economic hopes, optimism and
the concrete economic prospects of the median and American citizen.
That could take the form of executive orders, that could
take the form of trying to craft legislation to get
by Congress, try to slip something into the Reconciliation Bill,
the once a year deal whereby the Senate parliamentarian agrees
(17:54):
that you can bypass the filibuster. Perhaps you're trying to
coordinate on state level legislation, trying to coordinate between the
White House legislative team or the Congress and or leading
red states Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and so what are you
doing to make sure that the mean American could be
economically better off, you know, in like a month, a year,
whatever the case may be, than they are today. Those
are two things, the negative and the positive. If you
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do that each and every day, then there is still
a chance that you might be able to salvage something
at the mid terms next fall. Ultimately, American voters have
a very very very very short time stamp. If there
is a massive recession, god forbid, in the next year,
If the stock market crashes, God forbid, If there is
a mass unemployment, way of God forbid, If anything like
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that happens, the Republicans are going to be in a
world of dodo. If the economy starts to improve, if
maybe there's a Grand Rush Ukraine peace steal, some sort
of massive international development like that there, then certainly President
Trump and Republicans could be swimming along quite fine next fall.
It ultimately is still way too early, but it remains
the e commedy stupid. As we have said, by the way,
(18:58):
at the beginning of the show, talking about how there
was this whole kind of parlor game, this whole guessing
games as to what was going to actually be the
substance of the talk last night. I mean, no one
had any idea. I you know, my wife asked me,
she said, you know, what's this going to be? I said,
I don't know. I would guess probably something about the economies. Okay,
you know, not to pay myself them back too much.
(19:19):
But I got that one right. Someone who did not
get that right. As the track record of not getting
things right is mister Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson apparently was convinced,
convinced that this is going to be the speech that
President Trump declares war on Venezuela. Here's Tucker, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I don't know when this program airs, the one that
we're on right now.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
This thing is Pipulus.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, we're live now, and then I will be posted
the immediately.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
So I don't know the answer. I certainly been on
the phone a lot about it. I have no power,
I'm a podcaster, but I am very interested. And so
here's what I know so far, which is that members
of Congress were briefed yesterday that a war is coming
and it'll be announced in the Address to the Nation
(20:10):
tonight at nine o'clock by the President. Who knows, by
the way, if that will actually happen.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I don't know, right, So Tucker's sources on Capitol Hill
telling him that they're gearing up for a declaration of
war on Venezuela and wrong, get again, wrong, get again?
You know. I'm would love to remember in the lead
up to Operation Midnight Hammer, when President Trump sent in
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the B two bombers on this thirty seven hour mission.
They leave from Missouri to go to Iran. They drop
a couple of these bunker buster bombs, they go right
back to Missouri. I remember when Tucker said this would
be the beginning of World War three. He said, if
you do anything, if you do anything to Ron whatsoever,
you are going to kill thousands. He said, thousands, thousands
(20:58):
of American service men and women, soldiers, sailors, marines. This
is gonna be World War three. I mean, dude was
catastrophically wrong then and he's catastrophically wrong now. And it
really does just make you wonder at what point I mean,
holding a side philosophical and ideological difference is which is
kind of where we're going next, but holding that aside,
(21:20):
just for a second, at what point does the actual
empirical and prediction and just general analytical track record. I'll
be a certain commentator a podcaster, at what point is
that person just shown to be so utterly naive, myopic,
and or just outright dimlin and stupid that you just
lose respect for them at best, or at worst you
just say he's done. I don't care if this guy
(21:42):
has to say it because he's mooning tunes, he's out
to lunch there. He's just saying dumb things. I asmit
to you that that that threshold should have happened a
long time ago when it comes to Tucker Carlson. Now, incidentally,
speaking of Tucker Carlson, yesterday and today and for the
next few days are our big days when it comes
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to the conservative movement in the United States. Today is
actually the opening day, opening day in Phoenix, Arizona of Amfest,
which is Turning Point USA's big conference. I am not there.
I was at Turney Points last conference too after Summit,
not at this one out in Arizona. But a lot
of the headliners are are household names that you would
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be familiar with. Chucker Carlson controversially remains on the Turning
Point USA speaker list. I think I have a sneaking
suspicion as to some of the topics that he's going
to quote unquote address in his particular remarks there. I
would hazard a guess that probably somewhere between oh, I
don't know, fifty and eighty percent of it will be
(22:47):
about the Middle East and Israel and the Jews and
all that. There just a guess, just a guess. We'll
see how that goes. Someone else who is speaking at Amfest.
He actually speaking tonight's one of the first beaches after
Erica Kerr Charlie Kirk's widow starts off the conference on
The first people speaking tonight at Anfest will be Ben Shapiro.
(23:07):
Ben Shapiro longtime personal friends, so certainly a friend and
an ideological ally here of the Josh hammershow So, Ben
was actually in Washington, d C. Yesterday where he gave
a talk at the Heritage Foundation. So a quick turnaround
for him from Washington out to Phoenix. And this is
speech at the Heridge Foundation that was presented as a
(23:29):
book talk on his most recent book that came out
in September. But Ben decided to give an extended remark
there inside the Heritage Foundation, with the president of the
Herod Foundation, Kevin Roberts, introducing Ben and then engaging conversation
with Ben after the talk was over. So Ben gave
a whole speech about Tucker Carlson, about Tarker Carlson, and
(23:50):
about the nature of the concerned movement and what it
means to be a conservative and above all the importance
of actually defining, defining, and maintaining what it means to
be a conservative. So here is Benjapiro yesterday at the
Harris's Foundation in Washington, d C.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
The conservative movement also requires a border. A conservative movement
without a border is no conservative movement. We are welcome
a movement, but those who seek to undermine the character
of conservatism must never be granted legitimacy as voices of
our movement. Conservatism requires ideological border control. American conservatism is
(24:31):
a term with a definition. We use terms because they
have meaning. Definitions by nature delimit, they distinguish, and the
term American conservatism has a meaning.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
And the meaning, he argued, or at least he argued,
as a lawyer does kind of assuming for the sake
of argments, he presented the Herodge Foundation's own definition like
he literally read from Heritage's mission statement and then showed
systematically how, according to Heritage's own decades long mission statement
as to what the conservative movement seeks to conserve, how
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Tucker Carlson singularly fails each and every one of those planks. Now,
this speech is not happening in a vacuum. We have
covered the fallouts at the Harridge Foundation in the aftermath
of doctor Roberts's video defending Tucker's speech, of his interview
of Nick Flentes, his his symbolic filating of the nation's
(25:25):
leading holocaust and I are on Tucker's popular show there
in late October. There's been a lot of fallouts of
doctor Roberts's decision to do that particular video. They've lost
a lot of donors, they've lost a lot of senior
staffers there. It's generally been something of a mess, I
think would be a very polite way of putting it there.
So the symbolism certainly is not lost, I think on
anyone of someone who was an outsider to the herod
(25:48):
fo nation, Ben Shapiro going in there into the organization
with the president right there and literally just saying, here's
what the organization stands for. Here is how the guy
that you just defended fails each and every plank of
this list. Now, I am absolutely not picking on Kevin Roberts,
who I've been very personally friendly with for many, many
(26:08):
years now. But this is a powerful speech. There's a
powerful speech that then delivered by all accounts, I watched
it live I heard lots of applause in the room.
I heard from people that are there that there was
a partial standing ovation after it was over there. So
it was very certainly, very well received. And the crux
of that clip that we just showed you was a
(26:28):
point that we've hit many times on this show as well,
is the following. What it means to be a conservative Ultimately,
I mean not to get dictionary definition, but let's get
dictionary definition. It literally means you seek to conserve. What
that means is that you must be grateful. The quintessential
consertive virtue is that of gratitude. As men as different
(26:51):
as Abraham Lincoln and Aristotle two thousand plus years ago
could have told you so, you were first grateful for
your inheritance. You appreciate its beauty, what is brought to
the world, your cultural, national, civilizational, religious, etcetera inheritance, and
then you seek to conserve it, meaning to pass it
on from one generation to the next. In what the
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great late eighteenth century British statesman Edmund Burke described as
this social compact or national compact between the dead, the living,
and the yet unborn. That is what it means to
be a conservative, The irony is this, if you go
full quote unquote no cancel culture, if you go full
(27:34):
quote unquote marketplace of ideas, if you say that nothing
nothing is off limits, everything is fair game, which is
essentially doctor Roberts's first video about Tucker and a fund does.
They're not going to engage in cancel culture. Rather, there
is a so called venomous coalition to use the infamous
verbiage of that already infamous video when it comes to
(27:56):
trying to quote unquote cancel or deplatform. The irony is
that when you don't draw any lines, when you make
no delineations whatsoever, we don't engage in what Ben is
referring to as ideological border control. The irony is that
you're actually not conserving anything. When he tried to conserve everything,
you actually paradoxically can serve nothing whatsoever. So you have
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to have an understanding the appreciation of what is you're
trying to conserve. My argument in my book or Israel
and Civilization, that I've been arguing for years now is
that that civilizational inheritance that which we seek to conserve,
and that inheritance that produced the American founding and the
greatest self governing charter among men ever drafted the US
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Constitution and so forth. That inheritance is the biblical inheritance,
is the inheritance that began with God's revelation at Mount
Sinai three plus millennia ago, originally brought to this world
by the Jewish people and spread throughout the world by Christians.
That is what we see to conserve. That is what
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we are ultimately here to do. If you are opposed
to that, then you're not part of the tent. This
is not to say that we believe in so called cancelation.
No one here is talking about whether or not you
should have the quote unquote right to monetize your show
on a certain website or whatever. That's not this about.
(29:26):
This about whether the leaders of a certain movement are
capable of clearly enunciating and articulating what that movement stands for,
and then drawing lines to say that's not it. I'm
to take a very obvious example. If someone is rapidly
pro abortion, your abortion through the ninth month, God forbid,
(29:50):
You're like that horrific Australian philosopher of Princeton University, Peter Singer,
who infamously supports post birth abortion AKA and fanticide. Conservative,
that's not it. There are lines that have to be drawn.
If you're in favor of transing the kids, of chemically
castrating little prepubescent boys, that ain't it. That's not conservative.
(30:14):
So yes, we're capable of drawing lines. The question in
this case when it comes to Tucker Carlston, when it
comes to some of Tucker's fellow travelers, the question is
are we willing to delineate and draw lines as appropriate
when it comes to this And we're gonna see something
this play out in real time at Amfest over the
next few days. It's an it's an intellectual ideological mix
(30:39):
of speakers that are speaking there out at Phoenix in
Phoenix over the next few days at Trinquen USA, we
will see how it all plays out. But a sterling
speech delivered by benjapi Es today at the Herritge Foundation
really taking tremendous balls, frankly, to kind of go there
in that moment, given the overwartun context, and deliver that
particular speech at that particular time. Incidentally, one of the issues,
(31:01):
one of the many issues frankly, that is being debated
right now when it comes to let's call it the
Ben Shapiro wing of the movement, and then the Tucker
Carlson wing of the quote unquote movement, if they're even
in the movement. But one of these central issues that's
currently being debated, and one of our favorite topics here
on the show is Islam. The normal conservative, the normal
(31:23):
American conservative who properly views America as being the outgrowth
of the Geo Christian biblical inheritance, understands that Islam does
not necessarily compute particularly well here, that it's not particularly compatible.
As we were just talking about on yesterday's show, there
are a lot of rumors flying about, although it's not
(31:44):
confirmed that the shooter a Brown University might be this
Palestinian activist, the kafia wearing radical. There are a lot
of reports that the guy shouted something before he started shooting.
G I wonder what that could have been. Was the
horrific Bondai Beach slaughter in Australia this past weekend committed
(32:05):
by radical Muslims. By the way, the Fox News on
the Brown story. The Fox News just reporting yesterday wild
stuff that pro Palestinians and anti Semitic activists on Brown's
campus last year apparently demanded that Brown take down some
of their cameras to protect the pro Hamas pro Ghati protesters,
(32:27):
and now Brown won't actually say whether they complied. More
than a little spicious, also more than a little supicious
that they took down the Muslim Students page from their
Brown dot edu website. Very very odd. Speaking of Bandai Beach,
by the way, there were seven arrests made just within
(32:47):
the past twelve to twenty four hours. Seven men were
en route to Bondai Beach because they were allegedly in
the midst of planning a violent attack, like literally after
the worst mass shooting in Australia in twenty nine years.
They have rested seven men this morning because they seemingly
wanted to do the whole thing over again. You could
(33:09):
probably guess what religion or what ethnicity these individuals were primarily,
if not exclusively, a part of. And if that's not
bad enough, as if all that's not bad enough, there
was another unsolved murder in New England earlier this week
as well. A world renowned plasma physicist and nuclear scientists,
(33:33):
a Portuguese academic at MIT by the name of Nuno
FG Lrrero was murdered in his home at the age
of forty seven in Brookline, Massachusetts, earlier this week. I
know Brookline. I have family in Brookline. It is an
inner ring suburb of Boston. It's a quintessential college town.
(33:55):
Boston College is there. It's my iconic American supper when
of the nation's first suppers. So this extremely renowned mit
nuclear physicists was gunned down. Now, he was on the
cutting edge of nuclear research and was also, in his
(34:16):
political opinions, a somewhat known and semi outspoken supporter of Israel,
an opponent of radical Islam. Now some Israeli officials are
now saying that this physicists was gunned down by Iranian operatives,
by Iranian agents, sleeper cells, lone wolves, whatever you want
(34:37):
to call it, operating here inside the United States, which
is utterly horrifying. It true, it would hardly be the
first time that Iranian officials have engaged in attempted or
actual assassinations inside the United States. In fact, in twenty twelve,
when Irani and Saudi tensions were considerably tenser than they
are now, there was a whole plot to assassinate the
(34:59):
Saudian as to the US in Washingt d c. At
very upscale restaurant. Fortunately that plot was found by the
FEDS and it was disrupted. But it's not the first
time that Iran has attempted to engage in turtet assassinations. Here,
they've tried to assassinate Regene dissidents who have managed to
escape Iran, who now live in places like Brooklyn. So
(35:21):
they've done this before. So we'll see exactly where this
goes when it comes to whether or not this actually
was Iran because right now, similar to Brown, the gun
is on the loose, which, by the way, is another
part of this story is now we have multiple unsolved
murder mysteries just in New England. But guys, what's going on?
I mean, what is going on when it comes to
(35:42):
New England law enforcement, get your act together? Awful awful stuff.
But you know, it's not just the Tucker Carlson quote
unquote right that has completely lost the plot when it
comes to radical Islam. Debbie Wassman Schultz remember her. She's
not really as prominent these days as she was some
years ago. She was the head of the Democratic National Committee.
(36:04):
She's still she's still in Congress, and she still, frankly
totally sucks. So she was on with our pal Leland
Viddert on News Nation last night and she got asked
a very good question and gave a doozy of an answer.
Go ahead and watch this.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
I think we have to focus, quite frankly, on if
we're worried about the threat to American values, on the
person who's in the White House. I mean, we have
a really come on, yeah, I'm going there, because we
have a president who has completely undermined our democracy, who
has has so you don't.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
See is you don't see jihad. You don't see is
a problem.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
What I don't see is that, as a single lens problem,
we have a president who has been determined to undermine
our constitutional principles, to degrade our democracy, to divide instead
of unite us.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
All right, So I mean that that is literally ten
out of ten embarrassing. I mean, what an absolute hack,
What an absolute hack. Wie Wassman Schultz is a woman
who calls herself Jewish. She technically is Jewish. I think
she purports a professors to care about Jews. I mean,
(37:25):
can she bring can she be brought to condemn the
Islamist massacre at the Khabbad of Bondai Beach is Hanikah
celebration on Sunday. Has she called out the Jihannist Islamist
nature of that attack? Can you call out the jihadi
Isla's nature of any attacks? I mean, screw was Donald
(37:46):
Trump responsible for nine to eleven when he was on
the Apprentice? Is chilling at Trump Tower? Really?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
So?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Whether it is the adel brains left that refuses, refuses
to confront the Islamist civilizational enemy for what it is,
Whether it is the Tucker Carlston quote unquote right that
bends over backwards to apologize for Sharia law. Tucker put
out these flashy videos of the skyline of Abu Dhabi
(38:17):
and Rhea and Saudi Arabia saying, oh Man, Shia law
is not that bad, not that bad, buddy. Have you
ever flipped through a Koran? Have you read what the
Koran says about people like you as a quote unquote infidel?
Aren't you a big Christian these days?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Tucker?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
You're buying a place in Katar? Apparently he told the
Amir Katar at the Doha Forum at that junk that
you and your partner Neila tell rat mister big Christian.
Have you checked out of the churches in Qatar.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, They literally can't even publicly advertise at their churches
because it's a Sharia state. It's just unbelievable. It's absolutely unbelievable.
If Western civilization is, as I define it, the outgrowth
of the Judeo Christian Biblical inheritance, then it stands to
(39:14):
reason that the two Biblical religions judaeus in Christianity, whether
they want to be or not, I personally like it.
I have no issue with it at all, regardless where
they want to be formula at such as not. They
are now in this eternal alliance against their shared enemies. Again,
(39:34):
I personally welcome that alliance. I know there's some people
I suppose on both sides. We are Lorrence skeptical, we
are big supporters of the Judaeo Christian alliance here on
the Josh Hammershew. But the point is that there are
folks who are common enemies, the Shri supremacist and the Islamists.
They are definitely one, the universalists, the globalists, and the Wocarati.
(39:57):
That's two I Gues two and three actually the Wokaraate
and then the globalist universalists really are the next two.
So it's the islmust the woke DII intersectional crap, and
then the globalist universalists, ultimately the universalists culminating in this
this great reset Davos esque imperious attempts to eradicate the
(40:20):
nation state a llah John Len's imagine. So Western Civilization
stands against that. If you are not with us, if
you are offering cover for the ISLMUS, then you're not
on our team. You're not part of Team America. You're
not part of team Jo Christian. You're not part of
(40:42):
team Bible. You're not part of team Western Civilization. And
that's the crux of the speech that Ben Shapiro gave
for the Herotan nation. We have to draw these lines
because without any of these lines being drawn, without any
of these lines being drawn, we are nothing. We are nothing,
and we are conserving nothing. And if we're conserving nothing,
(41:05):
that won the world we're doing here in the first place?
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