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The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Has Some Fun With the Stormy Daniels Prosecution
"Manhattan DA's prosecution of Donald Trump in the stormy Daniels matter. You might say, wait a second. How do you prosecute somebody for paying hush money to a porn star? Whether or not we're leaving aside the facts of the case to Trump have an affair with stormy Daniels, dead Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen, the attorney who made the payment, leave all that aside. What is the illegality here? Well, the illegality supposedly comes in the form of a campaign finance violation because again, the Manhattan DA has the job of proving that this was in fact this money was taken from campaign finance funds, and frankly, even if it was normally this kind of offense is treated as just nothing more than campaign as to now reimburse those funds. Remember Obama had campaign finance violations totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, and all they said was, listen, pay the money back. End of story. So the idea of converting this into a felony, which carries, by the way, four years in prison, just downright absurd. The whole thing is preposterous. But guess what? After we heard that in the rest of Trump was imminent, Trump is going to be in handcuffs, strom himself seemed to think this was actually going to happen. And we saw police putting a barricades around the courthouse in a sense to keep people away and guess in case there was an outburst of protest overall this. And then suddenly the air seemed to go out of the balloon. They passed in two days and three days, no rest well, they're gonna be reconvening on Monday and then we hear now they're on break for a month. What? A month. Yes, a month. So I don't really necessarily want to go into the sexual analogies here. But since we're talking about stormy, Daniels, I mean legally, this is a total coitus interruptus.
The Trish Regan Show
What the Heck Is Going on With TikTok?
"The heck is going on? The story I wanted to mention is that TikTok. You know that app that is said to be a Chinese spy app where the Chinese are not only mining data important data from all of us via our cell devices, but are also doing what they can to divide us and to encourage the worst of society if you would in terms of behavior. Their algorithms are really some of the most egregious. There has been a lot of chatter about banning TikTok which for national security reasons is probably pretty darn important. I mean, when the federal government tells all of its employees look, you can't be on TikTok. There's a reason for that. There's a reason for that, but do you know you have the likes of three major Democrats, perhaps the most high profile one being a guy named David pluff who ran Obama's campaign, David blough, was getting paid, by TikTok. This is all behind the scenes. To prepare the CEO for those hearings, boy, was he smooth, right? He was so smooth. So smoothie actually said something super idiotic, which was that no country controls TikTok. You're kidding me, right? Because you see TikTok is part of ByteDance, ByteDance. Is the Chinese company. And you do not exist. Let me just let me emphasize this. You do not exist in China as a company, unless the CCP has a thing or two to say about you. I mean, where Jacques mall lately, have you seen Jack Ma, the Alibaba CEO? Yeah, he disappeared for months after he criticized the government. You can't do that.
Mark Levin
Alejandro Mayorkas Refuses to Admit There's a Crisis on the Border
"Alejandro mariachis Is the secretary of Department of Homeland Security He was the deputy secretary under Obama He's the secretary under Biden You can see the ancestral relationship Or even the incestuous relationship Between Biden and Obama and their staffs Staff and faction of USB So all the radical commies that were in the Obama administration have gotten bigger jobs in the Biden administration The run in circles around this nut But there was a hearing today in Ted Cruz boy when he's on his game there's nobody is good There just isn't So I thought you'd enjoy this You ready Cut 16 go Is there a crisis at our southern border Senator there is a very significant that's a yes or no question It's a very sweet Is there a crisis Senator there's a very significant challenge I think your microphone is not on There is a very significant challenge that we are facing Yes or no Is there a crisis I believe I've addressed that question So you're refusing to answer Senator there is a very significant challenge Will you answer the crisis Therefore we are dedicating the resources Okay so you're refusing to answer well secretary mayorkas I'll tell you someone who is willing to answer which is your and President Biden's chief of the border patrol in a sworn deposition in July of 2022 when asked would you agree chief Ortiz at the southern border is currently in crisis answer yes Notice none of those wiggle words none of that equivocation Suspect now just right down Our southern border yes or no Senator I'm very proud to work alongside you refused to answer God these guys are unbelievable I think The thing you do in my bed working along the stage can you do
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Reporter: Is There a 'New Way' to Talk About Gun Violence?
"Asking a question that, well, it's twisted, but you have to listen to it. Cut number 15, please. Pointed to last year's bipartisan reforms. As well as alluded to the executive actions we think of just a few weeks ago. And then you also pointed out a panacea. But is there any disappointment from the administration that these efforts haven't had more of an effect on lessening the scourge of terrible islands? The shooting in Nashville has an unusual component in that the gun, the gunman is actually a woman and adult woman has been identified now 28 years old. Does the president have any expectation that when looking for a new way to talk about gun violence? We've been through sandy hook in the Obama years within three Yuval. In this administration, looking for some way to have circumstances change how Americans feel about it. Tennessee is obviously a state with a gun culture as a part of its identity for many tennesseans who live there and believe in a gun culture. Do you think there is any component of this like having a female suspect highly unusual? Like in a single digit percentage of this, it could be a point for him to address to try to break through on a subject that has thus far not make change in the legislative realm. So look, I know that the reporting on the shooting is still coming out. So I want to be very mindful and not get I've heard that I've heard or watched those reportings as well before coming out, so I just want to be very mindful to not get ahead of I'm sure there'll be an investigation. They're looking into it. Just want to be careful from here. Look, the president is going to continue to take action to reduce gun violence.
The Trish Regan Show
Larry Elder Shares His Takeaways From the Recent Education Numbers
"When you look at the numbers that we recently got on the education front, and we learned that American students fell so significantly behind during those lockdowns and shutdowns and schools, there weren't in action. What we also learned was that so many students in very poor areas, minority areas, areas that were run by Democrats, they fared much worse than the rest of the country. Is there a takeaway there that people should remember? Absolutely. And again, you look at a place like Baltimore, a Baltimore is where Freddie gray died in police custody a few years ago. The number one and number two people running the police department were black. The people who are in charge of both the county and the city public schools were black. The mayor black, 6 of the officers, three of the 6 officers who were charged were black. The state attorney who blocked the charges against the officers was black. A judge before whom two of the officers tried their cases with black, by the way, he found them not guilty. City council all democratic majority black. The U.S. attorney at the time, Loretta lynch was black. The president at the time with black Barack Obama. And we're talking about systemic racism. I'm reminded of the joke that Wanda Sykes once said, how are you going to complain about the man when you are the man? And you're finding this over and over again and in Baltimore, 13, I'm not making this up, Trish, 13 public high schools involved in the inner city, 0% of the kids are math proficient. And another half a dozen were only 1% of the kids are Mac proficient. That's almost half of all the public high schools in Baltimore were either 0% of the kids or math proficient or only 1% bar. This is absolutely horrific.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Protests Continue to Roil Across Israel and France
"Continue to roil across Israel and France all night long in this morning is Israel considers prime minister Netanyahu and his coalition. Our gathering to consider whether or not to pause the legislation, which is now reached the floor of the platinum session, the Connecticut can pass it, I believe, with one rating they've done all the amendments they worked all weekend. They're right up on the brink of winning. About hundreds of thousands of Israelis don't like it. Same people that voted against Netanyahu and the coalition, you know, a few months ago I don't like it. So they're out in the streets. They've closed Ben Gurion Airport this morning. Port is closed. In France, protesters who lost the election in Macron are now being joined by black clad anarchists and are burning down buildings in various parts in and has put out a story this morning. Is it safe to travel to France? The answer is yeah, but know what you're doing is going to be garbage on the street. So both countries have to decide whether or not their leaders who recently won, and I just remember when prime minister Liz truss, she's now a former prime minister Liz truss blinked when she won the election over Rishi sunak to replace Boris Johnson Great Britain last year, she put out a budget, the left wing exploded, a panicked financial elite, and she blinked and her government felt. And I think you have to consider that Netanyahu and Macron both look at what happened to trust. Indeed, they have to look a little bit at what happened to Donald Trump in 2017 when traps were laid for him by the outgoing Obama administration, and they have to consider, do I blink now if I blink, will it all fall apart?
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
C.J. Pearson Joins Dinesh to Talk About Why Race Doesn't Matter
"CJ, welcome to the podcast, great, great to have you. You know, you're a bright and outspoken young conservative. You don't seem to hold back. And I thought I'd start by talking about, you know, we have all this woke and doctor nation in the schools and the universities, you somehow seem to have broken free of it or immunize yourself against it. Talk a little bit about how it is that you saw through it. And then what emboldened you to sort of become a an Intrepid challenger of work or orthodoxy. Yeah, well, tonight's first and foremost, thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. And you hit on it. Every single institution, educational institution across America is rampant with indoctrination. Now, I often say that, you know, you're not getting colleges teaching students how to think anymore. You're getting colleges teaching students what to think. But for me, I kind of had a little bit of a draw run of that growing up. I grew up in a household, raised with my grandparents who were on the left. But just in a similar story that you see often the black community, they're pretty conservative. I grew up going to church every single Sunday. I grew up learning about the importance of family and faith and also a fiscal conservatism. And when I first got politically involved in the second grade because we had a mock election from 2008 election, I remember watching that debate. And I'm probably aging myself, but only as much as a 20 year old possibly could, but I remember sitting on the floor of my grandparents as bedroom, watching candy Crowley, moderate to debate between president Obama and then senator John McCain. And just thinking that, you know, what they were doing was really important. You know, I had no idea what they were talking about. I was a 6 or 7 year old kid. But I wanted to know more. And what I started looking into the platforms of conservatism and liberalism and all those things I realized that the values that my grandparents had instilled within me. We're conservative values.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Reflects on His Own Corrupt Court Case
"I'm talking about the potential for a Trump prosecution, the stormy Daniels case all over again. And you know, thinking back to my own case, the prosecution unable to come up with a comparable case when I went to my sentencing, they produced a whole bunch of cases and just lied about them. In other words, left out a whole bunch of significant facts. I mean, real judicial malpractice produced by the city by the southern district of New York under preet bharara, the prosecutor was a woman a different person. I actually forget her name. But in any event, she's very forgettable individual. But they go to the judge and they say, oh, danesh should get two years in federal prison or he should get a year in federal prison because look at all these other cases where these people got these sentences. And what they did was leave out significant facts in all those cases, like a repeat offender or a guy who had this was not a case of giving $20,000 over the limit, but 200,000 or 600,000 over the limit or you had a person who was who was trying to buy a federal judgeship, so in other words, getting a corrupt deal with a politician. All of this was left out and my lawyer Ben raffman found it and showed the judge and you think the judge would at the very least if he wasn't going to hold these guys in contempt of court with at the very least say, guys, you got to stop lying. You can't show me cases and leave significant facts on it. But the judge was perfectly okay with it. It's almost like he was used to it. It's almost like he was in on it. It's almost like he knew that lying is part of what these guys do. And their goal is basically to get this conservative dissident, this anti Obama guy, get him to be treated severely and I judge Berman, I'm not going to do exactly what the prosecution, but I'm going to hit him in my own way, so this is how these, this is how this operation is carried out.
The Officer Tatum Show
Larry Elder Calls In From the Black Conservative Summit
"Larry, you're in Chicago. You're at this black conservative summit. Let's talk about it here. I'm looking at some of the liners on this and it says Americans, America's conservative movement must reach beyond its traditional base if it is ever to regain the influence it wants new. Talk to us about the summit and about that line. Well, people like Alan wester here are bob whitson is here. A guy named Ken Blackwell, who was a former Secretary of State of Ohio ran for governor unsuccessfully as I did unsuccessfully in California, a chat or Jackson stars and Uncle Tom one Uncle Tom two or here. And a handful of other people. And we're all here to talk about the crisis. It's going on in the black community. That is the poor schools. And the lack of fathers in the home. 70% of all black kids, as you know, Carl into the world today without a father in the home, married to the mother and Barack Obama once said, a kid raised without a father with 5 times more likely to be poor and commit crime, 9 times more likely to drop out of school in 2020 than liking to end up in jail. Now, the question we're asking is how do we go from having 25% of brackets entering the world without a father to the mother in 1965, which is high, to 70% now, and the answer is that in my opinion, incentivized women to marry the government and incentivize men to abandon the financial and more responsibility. And the question is, what do we do about it?
The Trish Regan Show
Dave Rubin and Trish Discuss Biden's Drilling 180°
"Joe Biden just did like this huge one 80 on climate. I mean, excuse me, is this the same guy that sat there in the debate and said, absolutely no drilling, no drilling. We're never going to drill on federal lands. And now, what do you know? He's got his willow project up there in Alaska, $8 billion with ConocoPhillips. I mean, look, I'm all for it because I think you need as much energy as you can possibly get it. It was kind of foolish to wind up in the situation that we're in in Ukraine without having a backstop of U.S. energy, but this is not going to go over well with the base in his party. Now is it Dave? Well, it's so interesting because nobody really knows what Joe Biden believes anymore, right? Like, so when he said the no drilling thing during the debates. It's like, okay, I get it. You're playing to the base on that one. And you'll probably moderate when you're president. Now that sort of seems like what he's doing in this case. But who knows what he really thinks when it comes to climate change? Does he honestly think anything related to any of this or is this that the inmates in essence are running the asylum? And every now and again, it gets so crazy with the progressives that we're going to have to completely destroy the economy and the name of AOC's Green New Deal and whatever else they're trying to push on us and the ESG stuff and all the diversity and equity stuff. Every now and again, it gets so wildly out of control that whoever is pulling Biden's strings, whether it's doctor Jill Biden or whoever it is over there, whether it's Barack Obama or who knows, they somehow get him to moderate just a tiny bit at moments. And that's what this one strikes me as. So of course we can not completely abandon American energy. We should have never been doing it in the first place. I completely agree with you. I mean, we should be drilling more and more. We should be really the planet's number one exporter of this stuff. And instead, we are constantly just kneecapping ourselves. And, you know, unfortunately, that's just consistent
The Trish Regan Show
No One Is Committed to Getting Our Economy Under Control
"Know, I keep saying this. We got real problems. We've been talking a lot about the border. This week, we also, of course, on this show, talk a lot about the economic picture. The fed is not committed. That's quite evident to fighting inflation in the way that needs to happen in order to get this under control. I mean, even Larry summers, and he's not exactly what you'd call conservative, right? Larry summers. Economist, former president of Harvard University, who was part of the Clinton administration and then part of the Barack Obama administration, treasury secretary of the United States of America. He's been pushing the Federal Reserve to do more. We have a problem and no one's committed to getting it under control.
The Officer Tatum Show
What's Wrong With Gavin Newsom?
"Gavin Newsom is an absolute disaster when it comes to California. I was sitting there thinking, listen, Gavin Newsom is going to challenge Biden. He's going to be the guy most likely, you know, God forbid of Michelle Obama or somebody pops up on the scene, but I don't really foresee that leaving all of her income and all that kind of stuff behind. Is Gavin Newsom still looking towards The White House? It's really seems hard to fathom. Given how disastrous he is, but maybe people don't understand how disastrous this guy has been. I think they don't. And the press just completely plays along with it. And sadly, even our conservative press over the last month or so, I was basically screaming my head off about something happening here in California. We all know he took off to Mexico when we had these snowstorms about what God ignored was that there was this mountain community outside of Los Angeles, big bear Lake arrowhead area San Bernardino mountains, 21 days these people were snowed in under 12 feet of snow. They normally get maybe 6 feet in a winter. So they have some equipment, but not for 12 feet that fall within 7 days. And people were snowed in. Even when they got the main roads, plowed up there, but then within the communities they couldn't get around. I talked to people who were trying to do relief flights out there like helicopter flights of supplies because grocery stores roofs valid so they couldn't get the supplies from there. And the sheriff wouldn't let them land because it was a disaster zone and they weren't government helicopters, but the government wasn't doing anything. Why? Because San Bernardino county voted to study seceding from California and didn't forget it.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Guest Host Danielle Interviews Filmmaker and Journalist Mike Cernovich
"Delighted to welcome our guest today, Mike cernovich. He's a filmmaker, journalist, commentator on a wide range of topics. He produced the documentary called hoax. Everything they told you is a lie. Mike's one of my favorite Twitter followers to make sure to find him on Twitter or you can also subscribe to his substack. Mike, thanks for joining us. Always a pleasure. Thank you. Yeah, so Mike, I wanted to get your reaction to some of the recent kind of rumblings going on with Trump's arrest and also just how do you feel like a lot of the presidential hopefuls and other people responded to the news. Yeah, the Trump arrest was mishandled by everyone, especially I think desantis, which was unfortunate because I expected him to have better political instincts. The big mistake people are making right now is they're seeing it as Trump's arrest. Whereas most of the country doesn't see it as Trump's arrest. They see it as a way to attack all of Trump supporters. As a way to apply it on equal system of law. For example, I bring up your dad's case a lot. A lot of people don't even know about your dad's kids because he handled it with such grace and moved on with his life, but it still actually probably makes me angrier than it makes him, which is wait a minute. After dinesh for helping a friend's campaign and then Rosie O'Donnell says that she deliberately set illegal campaign contributions and brags about it and then nobody goes after Rosie O'Donnell. So is dinesh, did he commit a crime for giving a friend $10,000? Because nobody understood this stuff at the time. Nobody knew you couldn't do. It's silly. Nobody had any idea even. And then to have the full resources of the law brought on him and then of course the FBI file says he was an anti Obama filmmaker and you think, oh, okay, well that was obvious what would happen there. And then meanwhile, you have Rosie O'Donnell saying, oh yeah, I deliberately send too much money. Hoping that they don't send it back. Okay, so she's an admitted admitted campaign contribution fraud. Admit it. And of course, nothing happens to her.
Mark Levin
Source Leaks Trump Lawyer's Notes About Classified Documents
"Now listen to this I was supposed to be secret Prosecutors in the special counsel's office have presented compelling preliminary evidence that former president Donald Trump knowingly and deliberately misled his own attorneys about his retention of classified materials after leaving office A former top federal judge she still of top federal judge just not in the same position Wrote last Friday a sealed filing According to sources who described its contents to ABC News A sealed filing Sources describe the contents that ABC News This was her last day in this position U.S. judge barrel Howe and Obama pointy I have to add the parenthetical On Friday stepped down as the D.C. district court's chief judge Wrote last week that prosecutors in special counsel Jack smith's office Had made a quote somebody's reading her a quote prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations According to the sources That attorney client privileges invoked by two of his lawyers could therefore be pierced Do you know why this was under seal For among other reasons so wouldn't taint a future joy potentially Because now you have a federal judge pointed by Obama did I mention that Who's ruled against Trump in every single motion that's ever been brought before her And they all go before because she's the chief judge in charge of all these grand jury motions
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: We Should Have Prayer Rallies Rather Than Protests
"Is, to me, the brilliant strategy is Carrie leg strategy. She's having a prayer rally right now. And that's what we should do. We should pray rather than protest. Go to a church, say if they went into New York or D.C. and had prayer rallies at churches or cathedrals, how would they say the interaction? These are people praying I'd love to see the TV cameraman. Come in and there's a church people praying peaceful and the FBI or DJ DoJ try to stage some kind of phony insurrection. Well, I'll tell you when you recall that president Obama was the one criticizing people clinging to guns and bibles, it wouldn't surprise me. And again, these are the folks that during COVID wanted to arrest ministers for daring to lead worship, but that's an excellent idea, Pete. Thanks for calling in from central Iowa. Go ahead. Statement. Maybe president Trump should come to Iowa like Carrie likewise. And just stay here. Because it's New York, D.C., California, where all the trouble is. If he would come and die while Carrie would like dead a week ago, down to having part and Des Moines, he could stay, you know, go from the dakotas down through Texas. And he wouldn't have any trouble like he does with New York and D.C..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Attacks Against Trump Won't Stop at Soros-Backed Manhattan DA
"I'm telling you, this all smells like this has been orchestrated by the Biden administration. And we all know who's writing the Biden administration. Just take your pick, Susan Rice. Barack Hussein Obama, somebody's pulling the strings here. Merrick Garland, somebody's telling this district attorney to forge ahead with a case, by the way, that a 7 years old that the federal authorities took a pass on. They looked at all the evidence. They said there's nothing here. As a matter of fact, The Wall Street Journal earlier today and in a staff editorial. An editorial board statement, they said that at worst, this is a misdemeanor. So what is this really all about? What we all know, we all know what this is about. This is about trying to stop president Trump from running for reelection. And if you think this Democrat D 8, who has funded by George Soros to the tune of at least a $1 million that we have been able to verify, if you think it's going to stop with that district attorney, you've got another thing coming. Because the folks in Fulton county, Georgia, the Atlanta area have their own investigations underway, and there are rumors that they may try to indict Trump on the RICO act. It's folks, I'm telling you, these people are unhinged. The downfall of America will be these George Soros funded district attorneys. We've got one here in Memphis, Tennessee. To my knowledge, we're not trying to indict Donald Trump here. I'm rather surprised by that, but there you go.
The Doug Collins Podcast
One of the Greatest Republican Issues of Recent Times
"One of the greatest problems that Republican Party has had in the last 15 years is the line from 2010 and that was that we will repeal ObamaCare. Repeal ObamaCare, repeal ObamaCare. And we kept telling our voters that all through 2011, 12, and so we're going to do this without having a mechanism to do it. And you can go vote in house the House of Representatives to do something, but if it never gets to the Senate and never gets the presidential signature, guess what? It never happened. And so for years, Republicans were able to Nick away at the ObamaCare legislation basically gutting it for a many, many ways. 8 or 9 times that a president Obama actually signed that basically gutted much of the ObamaCare legislation, but we could not tell that to voters on the Republican side because all they heard was repeal ObamaCare. They don't care that it doesn't work the way it should. And it's not as effective as what they had hoped it would be. And but yet it did have enough of an impact in which it changed the whole landscape of healthcare in this country. And when we had the opportunity, we failed.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Bob Frantz on the Epicenter of the Assault on Manhood
"So you described for us this fascinating voyage of yours after 9 11 that you kind of woke up to a new priority and then you did your own research, your own investigation of conservatives, peace through strength, the Reagan model. As such, you probably have an idea as to where the assault on masculinity on manhood comes from, where these ideas such as toxic masculinity come from. There are often options out here, so many things to choose from. The mainstream media, Hollywood, the schools, political parties, in your analysis, as you view this in the last couple of decades, where do you think the epicenter of this assault is? Where is the place where we're most of this is originating? Well, I think clearly it's the globalists. You know, it's coming from outside of this country, but with the willing assistance of those inside this country who want to see this country taken apart and who want to see it destroyed, who want to see a one world government. I'm not breaking any new ground here, especially if not for somebody like you when we talk about what it would take to destroy this country to defeat a two as what did Barack Obama call it fundamentally transform it. And as we all know, you don't fundamentally transform things, which means to change the things that you love. You want to keep the things that you love the way they are. Can you imagine trying to ask a woman to marry you and say, by the way, why don't we get married? I'm going to change you into something else that I like better. That's not going to work. You didn't love her in the first place. There are people in this country who don't love this country, who want to see a changed, who want to see it destroyed and rebuilt in a collectivist type of society, and they're working with global organizations. And I do truly believe that when you think about the Gates family foundation when you think about the World Economic Forum, when you think about the World Health Organization, all of the, you know, the usual suspects that are working to establish a one world government know that this doesn't work without the United States participation in the United States as long as we continue to remain the same civilization that we built or that we started from with again with that super strong building block of the family, we will continue to press on and we will continue to survive. We will continue to thrive.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
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The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
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"Discussing the issue of reason human reason and the limits to human reason. And today I'm going to provide just a very brief introduction to the most important work. By the philosopher immanuel Kant. Now, Kant is the great towering figure of the enlightenment. We don't often think of content in that context because a lot of the stuff we read about the enlightenment is sort of biased toward Anglo Saxon thinker as we think of Locke, we think of Hume. We think of people like that, but Locke and Hume are in a way in the second rank compared to a figure of Kant's stature. And again, this is my view, but it's also the mainstream view of modern philosophers or philosophers alive today. Now, Kant wrote three major works one, the most important, the critique of pure reason. Another very important book called a critique of practical reason and the third is a critique of judgment. Kant also has an elaborate moral philosophy that we should go into some other time. Here is the philosopher schopenhauer, writing about Kant. This is schopenhauer. He says, Kant's teaching, produces a fundamental change in every mind that has grasped it. The change is so great that it may regard it may be regarded as an intellectual rebirth. In consequence of this, the mind undergoes a fundamental and thereafter looks at things in another light. Now, it's very rare that you can say this about anybody. You can say it to some degree about Einstein that you're not quite the same person once you have a grasp of what Einstein is saying, but I'm starting to talk about things that are remote, things like getting on a light beam and traveling at light speed alongside another light beam. So this is a exotic stuff that is really beyond the reach of normal human experience. The genius of Kant is that he says something shockingly new about reality that's in front of us. The reality that we observe and experience every single day and can't notice is something about it that no one seems to have noticed before. So Khan takes our most fundamental assumptions and turns them into questions, we sort of think that we are skeptical or analytical. We've reached the ground floor of awareness and attention and conch shows us no, there's a whole nother floor beneath the ground for flow that you think that you're standing on and you need to examine that. Now, before can't, most people, I would say all people. Kind of assume that our reason and our senses give us a, let's call it undiluted or unfiltered. Access to external reality, the world out there. And so the only limit to what we can know is determined by reality itself. If there's only so much reality, well, that's all we can know because there's no more reality out there to know. But what can't really shows is that when we pay careful attention to how we gain access to experience, we realize that there is a whole second limit to what we can know. And that limit is imposed simply by us being the kind of creatures that we are. That there's not just limits imposed out there, but there are limits imposed in here because we are human beings and we have a certain apparatus for apprehending or knowing reality.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
" obama" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"By a left wing historian named Daniel bessner, are now these days when you read the literature of the left, it is mind numbingly predictable. It's a kind of an echo chamber, the reason I'm talking about this article is it's a little bit of a departure from that. And even though it doesn't reflect my view, it's an interesting view that I want to share with you and comment on. He has a review essay in the new republic, and he's talking about the use and abuse of the term fascist. He goes on to say, first of all, everywhere he turns, he says he keeps hearing the word fascist. And he goes, that tells me that the word fascist is kind of losing its meaning. I agree. I think in this respect, fascist is used sort of like racist. And it's not to say that you don't have real racist, but it is to say that 90% of the time when you hear the word racism, it's used by someone who hasn't thought about it, has no real definition of it and simply is using it in a manner that can't be given any sort of stable local coherent meaning. In some respects, it's like, I disagree with you, so you are a racist. Now, Daniel bessner is addressing fellow progressives on the left. He's writing after all in the new republic a left wing magazine. And he goes, I keep reading that leftist keep telling me democracy is in danger. He goes, democracy is not in danger. There's no evidence that democracy is in danger. And in fact, there's no evidence that democracy is being threatened by some sort of fascism of the right. He says that the very fact that we keep hearing the term fascist shows that that the use of the term is inversely proportional to the real danger posed by fascism. In other words, we're hearing fascism talk. Well, we're not seeing any actual fascists. And he says, if there were quote, if there were actual fascists running around, you wouldn't go around calling everyone a fascist. And this is really true. Think about it. If there were real lynchings occurring in America, would anyone need to stage a lynching? No, but the reason people stage lynchings is that there aren't real lynchings and they want to create a sort of a fake substitute. Similarly, if there were people who went around frequently in public life, let's say on social media using the N word, wouldn't we hear about it? I keep hearing about all the racist speech on Twitter, but I never see any. Even though I arguably, I'm I have a lot of people following me and I follow who are on the right side of the aisle. We're supposed to be the white supremacists, but again, if I keep looking for white supremacy and I don't really see it. In fact, most of the so called white supremacy I see is black guys who are making jokes about white supremacy and being and being victims of it. Now Daniel bessner goes on to argue that if you really think about it and if you compare Trump would say George W. Bush, he goes, who's the real fascist? Because we think of fascism as a militaristic ideology. He goes, who started the Iraq War on a kind of bogus pretext who said that there were weapons of mass destruction, false information, used the false premise to justify a war. He goes, that was Bush. That wasn't Trump. Trump actually wanted to get out. So he goes what this tells me is that the Republican Party is, quote, movie away from fascism.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
" obama" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"System in which all these government agencies are feeding, not just tens or hundreds, but thousands and tens of thousands of names. I think the Stanford Internet observatory was boasting that they got something like 2 million tweets to be either deplatformed or tagged during the run up to the 2020 election, so you've got, I mean, I'm just gonna call it a censorship industry. And all of this is there, all of this has gained traction in the name of fighting, disinformation. I think you point out who gets to say what's disinformation. Very often they're just taking the left wing line if you don't agree with it, that's disinformation. Are you optimistic that given how entrenched all this has become with the media, by the way, which, you know, we think of the press as fighting for First Amendment rights, but no, they're on the side of the sensor. So are we going to get out of this mess or is this going to be something that we live with over many, many years? Well, I think we're going to have to live with it over some time, but I do believe that the American people deep down inside revere. Freedom of speech and the ability to express ourselves is one of the things that makes us different, our neighbor to the north, our neighbor to the south, our European neighbors, folks who share most of our values, don't share the same degree of freedom when it comes to speech that we do. And so I think that the American people when they learn more and more about how the left is censoring speech are going to be upset and I think that you're going to change the landscape as a result of what the left is doing. But I mean, it's a little bit of a catch 22, right? Because think about it if they're censoring the information that's getting out of the American people, then the American people don't even know that this is going on.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
" obama" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"And back with congressman Ken buck, fourth congressional district of Colorado, a member of the House judiciary committee in the House foreign affairs committee. We're talking about the ideas in his new book. It's called crushed big Tex war on free speech. By the way, you can follow Ken buck on Twitter at rep Ken buck. Can I was asking you about the Supreme Court and the First Amendment? And if there are serious First Amendment violations that are systematically occurring in not just speech but political speech, the most important type of speech in a democratic society, how do we get this before the court so the courts can not only know about it, but act on it. Yeah, so one of the things that happened last week, I sent a letter to the Secretary of State Anthony blinken talking about and asking him for information about the State Department funding organizations that then put out information to advertisers. One of the sort of the lifeblood for news shows that talk about the sources that the platforms that shows that use disinformation and the shows that are accurate. It just so happens that the State Department is funding an organization that lists many, many of senator shows as disinformation. New York Post, you know, on and on, and then all of a sudden, The Washington Post is a reliable source of information. And so they're trying to funnel advertisers money to left of center news shows. And they're doing it with taxpayer dollars. That's what's so upsetting. It's not just a private meeting where President Biden says you should do this. You're actually using taxpayer dollars. Congress didn't appropriate money for that purpose at all. So they're going beyond the scope of what they've been given the money for and they're trying to change the landscape in terms of the information that's available.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
" obama" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"And here is the very sad kind of denominator or conclusion to the story. What happens is that is that a friend of Tyler Vargas Andrews comes to him and tells him, hey, listen, I've got an Afghan interpreter who's in the crowd. I'm trying to get that guy out. And so Tyler raga Sanders rushes down into the crowd, gets the guy out. Then the interpreter tells him that they have 5 family members still there, so he's waiting for these family members to try to get them out and then boom. The explosion goes off. He feels a wave of pressure. He's flung to the ground. And guess what? Basically, he loses his right arm and his left leg. Now how do we know all this? Because Tyler Vargas Andrews testified recently before the GOP, house. Think of it. The Democrats never called guys like this. Why they want to hide this kind of information. So Tyler Andrews would have been willing to come tell a story all this time what it took the mentor election result and the Republicans who take the house by the way have you read any news stories about Tyler Andrews? No, again, it's not because the media doesn't know about this. They just don't want to report on it. So this is the environment we live in now. Major stories, important information is withheld by the media. It's not shown to us unless we are side brings it out and puts a spotlight on it. So you see the importance of us having the house, by the way. This is because it is our only mechanism right now to bring these kinds of truths before the American public and also we're grateful that we were saying, well, yeah, but the rest still won't report on it. And that's probably true. But at least now we have social media platforms including thank God for Elon Musk Twitter to be able to blast this information out and we're building our own channels that are pretty big. Yesterday's podcast, by the way, what is it, honey? 160,000 views on rumble alone. That's about how many people are watching CNN right now, about a 160,000 people. So we're building our platforms. It takes time to do this, but we need to get stories like the important story of sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews out, so people realize what an unmitigated disaster Biden policies are in Afghanistan. And pretty much everywhere else.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
" obama" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Is a telling new piece of information concerning Biden's disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan from Kabul. And this, if anything puts to Biden people in an even more deplorable light. In fact, it doesn't make the U.S. Military look very good either. Now a little bit of background just to refresh your memory in July 2021, Joe Biden abandons Afghanistan. He does it by abandoning the Afghan Bagram airfield in the middle of the night. I mean, essentially they just turn the lights out and took off, they didn't even tell the Afghan commander who only found out about the departure two hours after it happened. As we know, the United States left behind all kinds of military equipment, to humvees, uniforms, rations, even all kinds of sports drinks. For the Taliban terrorists who were just downright delighted to find this huge stash of weapons gifted to them. Worth tens of millions of actually perhaps billions. I'm not sure. I don't remember the number now. Now, the Taliban takes over the background air force which by the way is about 30 miles north of Kabul. And if you'll remember, there was an ISIS suicide bomber who murdered 13 U.S. servicemen and women, 6 and a 169 Afghans as well. And this guy was one of the guys at the Taliban released from a prison at the Bagram base. So by abandoning Bagram, we turn it over to the Taliban, they release the guy who turns out to be the suicide bomber. His name is Abdul Rahman. And he sets off this explosive that causes all this carnage. Now our story picks up right here and involves a sergeant, his name is Tyler Vargas Andrews, U.S. Marine Corps sniper, and he was serving in Afghanistan at bad time. Turns out that he spotted the suicide bomber. He recognized that this guy was about to do something bad. He might not have known how many explosives the guy has on him, but he recognized him, he stood out and he requested authority from the U.S. Military to shoot. This is where things take a very bad turn. He says, I requested engagement authority while my team leader was ready. The response, leadership does not have the engagement authority for us. Do not engage. So Tyler Vargas Andrews kind of panics and he demands to talk to the battalion commander lieutenant colonel Brad Whitehead. He says, please come to the tower, please take a look at what I see. And so they're waiting for him. And in the meantime, some other operations guys came up there, and they confirmed that, yeah, this guy looks like a suicide bomber. They confirmed Tyler of August Andrews assessment of the situation. Well eventually this colonel Brad white had shows up and they show him the suspect and they show him the evidence and they show him the photos, the suicide bomber was with another guy, so they show him photos of the two men, and they say he asks you, do you have a clean shot and they go, yeah, we do. We can totally take this guy out. And they go, do we have your permission to do it? And he goes, I don't know. I don't know. And then Tyler Vargas Andrew says me and the team leader asked, well, who does? Because this is your responsibility, sir. It turns out that despite several efforts, Tyler Vargas Andrews could not get the clearance. And so he doesn't take the shot. And so the guy goes on to do the suicide bombing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
" obama" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Let's remember some of the promises that Obama ran on. Obama ran on closing gitmo. Obama ran on getting rid of the Patriot Act. Obama ran on getting rid of the secret courts. Obama ran on allowing members of the citizenry to weigh in on bills. I think it was three days to weigh in on bills before it's ever passed. Obama, in 2007 and 2008, that was the really the beginning of my political career in the sense I lived in the suburbs of Chicago. Obama had messianic like following in the local area. You could not go into a coffee shop. You could not go into a restaurant. You could not turn on a television without seeing Obama bumper stickers, t-shirts, people talking about it, the closest thing I've ever lived through in comparison to Obama was the Chicago Cubs and the 2016 World Series. Where it is all encompassing. It has this cascade over the city, where no matter where you go, you're checking out at a grocery store, you are talking to family members. It's conversations with just end with go cubs. And as I got closer and closer and eventually won the 2016 World Series, I then knew Donald Trump must win the presidency a couple of days later because the heavens have opened. And the cubs have won the World Series. But back in O 8, when Obama was originally running was that same sort of thing..
CNN Political Briefing
" obama" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"Director, this is the CNN political briefing. Here's what you need to know in politics for Wednesday, September 7th, an important presidential tradition returns to The White House today as president Joe Biden welcomed the president he served Barack Obama and his wife to The White House for the unveiling of their official portraits. As is often the case when Michelle Obama appears side by side with her husband, the 44th president Barack Obama, she tends to steal the show. We'll get to that in a moment, but today's event at The White House is one with a storied tradition where a succeeding president invites a former president back to the people's house for the unveiling of their official White House portrait. And these are the portraits that hang in the halls of The White House, and that didn't happen during the Trump presidency, as you might imagine, that tradition sort of went out the door the way that many traditions did in the Trump era. And therefore it was left to the bidens to invite the obamas back to The White House for the portrait unveiling. And that, of course, created a mutual admiration society since Joe Biden served as Barack Obama's vice president for 8 years, and there was no limit to the love and affection that President Biden and president Obama wanted to show each other today. Here was President Biden. At the beginning of the event in The White House earlier today before the official unveiling occurred. With Barack as our president, we got up every day and went to work full of hope. For real, full of purpose and excited about the possibility before us. There are a few people I've ever known with more integrity, decency and moral courage than Barack Obama. It's probably always been a little overwritten about just how close Barack Obama and Joe Biden really were, but there is clear affection for each other and it is no doubt true that their families had grown close together, largely due to friendships between the bidens grandchildren and the Obama girls. President Biden took today as an opportunity to praise president Obama for his work on the Affordable Care Act, the climate crisis, the economy, and more, and saying that nothing could have prepared him more for the presidency than being by Obama's side for 8 years. For his part, Barack Obama made sure in his remarks to pay his respects to the current occupant of The White House, as I said, it was a bit of a mutual admiration society. You've built on and gone beyond. The work we all did together to expand healthcare, to fight climate change, to advance social justice and to promote economic fairness. Thanks to your decency and thanks to your strength, maybe most of all, thanks to your faith in our democracy and the American people. The country is better off than when you took office. Then we should all be deeply grateful for that. These portrait unveiling ceremony has become a modern presidential tradition. These portraits are funded by The White House historical association, and presidents and first ladies get to have a say in who is selected to do their portraits and in the overall sort of sensibility of the portrait. But of course, it's bigger than the individual presidents and first ladies and their portraits, which will live on forever in history. In The White House, it is part of the institution of the presidency and gets at that very nature of the peaceful transition of power being a cornerstone of American democracy. That peaceful transition of power, of course, did not occur. This last time, given the insurrection on January 6th and Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the results, the legitimate results of the 2020 election, and that fact did not go unnoticed by former First Lady Michelle Obama when she addressed the crowd this afternoon. Traditions like this matter, not just for those of us who hold these positions, but for everyone participating in and watching our democracy. You see the people, they make their voices heard with their vote, we hold an inauguration to ensure a peaceful transition of power. And once our time is up, we move on. And all that remains in this hallowed place are good efforts and these portraits. Portraits that connect our history to the present day. It also was lost on no one that this wasn't just history because this was the 44th president having his portrait unveiled and his wife. This is the first black president and First Lady of the United States of America. And that redefining of the very image of what a president and First Lady looked like was also front of mind for Michelle Obama. So for me, this day is not just about what has happened. It's also about what could happen. Because a girl like me, she was never supposed to be up there next to Jacqueline Kinney Kennedy in Dolly Madison. She was never supposed to live in this house, and she definitely wasn't supposed to serve as First Lady, because as Barack said of the two of us can end up on the walls of the most famous address in the world. Then again, it is so important for every young kid who is doubting themselves to believe that they can too. As for the portraits themselves, well, it's tough to show you that on a podcast. So I urge
The Charlie Kirk Show
" obama" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Let's play cut two 21. How did he manage to get through the campaign? Well, it turned out we learned later. His staff supervised by doctor Jill, his wife, was giving him pills before every public appearance. Checking the time and at a certain hour giving him a dose of something. Now, it's not a guess. We're not making that up. We've spoken directly to someone who was there and saw it happen multiple times. Now, before taking the medication, this person said, Biden was, quote, like a small child. You could not communicate with him. He changed completely because he was on drugs, and he clearly still is on drugs. No one's pushing to know what those drugs are. We should know. And the media won't be bothered by that. Is it fair to say Joel and I trust your judgment Biden's not in the mix for 2024? I don't think he's in the mix. And anyone who is angry at Joe Biden or mad at Biden, you're just kind of playing into the hands of those that write his teleprompter. Yes. So I think clearly Michelle Obama has been lurking in the background developing her audience and I think she'll probably reappear after the midterms next spring. It's going to go something like this. She's going to say, you know, I hate politics, but I love this nation. And I love your children and people have asked me to run so I'm doing everybody a favor and she's going to be running for president and she'll have a huge advantage of all the media on her side. And an appeal to nostalgia. Remember how much you love the Obama years. Remember how much, you know, how happy you were. And that's her basic appeal. And then she'll pretty much, I think they'll pursue the same policies as we're seeing with Joe Biden. Hilariously, she's not wrong. It actually was happier when Obama was president because the country was just not as destroyed. Anyway, that's a separate issue. But not necessarily personally happy. I just mean happier about where the country was. So I want to ask you this, Michelle Obama is a very nasty person. Isn't she? I mean, she makes Hillary Clinton look like you could say Mother Teresa. I mean, she's very bitter. I'm told that she has hatred for white people. Is that true? No, that's not really true. I mean, what we find out in my film, I went and spoke to her kindergarten classmates, elementary school teachers, three of her boyfriends growing up for her professor at Princeton. I spoke to her mother. So you really get a real picture of Michelle. And the picture that emerges is someone who ran away from the black community every chance she got growing up for education. And then when she had a professional career in Chicago, she was always hired by white elites, worked for mayor Richard Daley, and she was the assistant planning commissioner for this theme called redevelopment where they knocked down the projects like the brainy grain made 20,000 blacks homeless and gave the land a way to Democrat donor developers like Tony resco, who had built these single-family homes and gave part of the money back to the politicians. And then having proven her callousness, she was hired by the University of Chicago medical center to head up something called the south side helped collaborative, they were losing too much money because the same south side black folks were coming to the emergency room and getting medical care for free. They didn't have proper insurance. And so Michelle headed up the scheme to make sure they didn't come to the hospital. She had actually put them in these bands and dumped them in these crappy neighborhood clinics. So Michelle hasn't had a lifelong aspiration for whiteness. She really doesn't have any black friends. She always ran away from the black community every chance she got. So she doesn't really hate a white people, anything like that. She exploited the black community growing up in her professional career and then to add insult to injury as you see in my film, she pretends to be one of these ordinary black people that she spent her life selling out would be a better characterization. No, I would stand corrected. That's so interesting. And the reason I'm asking is I really have done a lot of scholarship on Michelle Obama and there's just a lot of rumors. I mean, and speaking of which, we'll get to one that you wrote or not bet on that I find to be appropriately provocative. And so yeah, I mean, it's just interesting people say, yeah, she hates white people. I was like, I don't really think that deeply about Michelle Obama, actually. But it's actually what it would actually be better politically if she hated white people because that's kind of like cool and in Vogue, where you're telling me is she loves white people and has disdain for black.
The Charlie Kirk Show
" obama" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So I have to tell you the people I really trust for political analysis. They'll all kind of turn around when you ask them about 2024 and they'll lean in and they'll say, but what about Michelle Obama? You see, Michelle Obama seems to be the ex factor. We're told she's the most popular person in America. Before I welcome the film's mastermind, someone I've known for quite a while and we had a phenomenal mutual friend Tom Patrick, May he rest in peace. I want to play cut two 14. Michelle Obama is the most popular woman in America. You know I hate politics. You can forget about the disclaimer. I'm convinced that Michelle Obama is running for president in 2024. Systemic racism pepper spray and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters. She's following the exact same formula that Barack did to become president. Michelle was the keynote speaker at the 2020 Democrat convention, just like Barack was in 2004. Iraq once ran a voter registration organization. Now, so does Michelle. That's how we change America. Salem now dot com. You guys can watch the movie Michelle Obama 2024 with us right now. Is the man behind the film? Joe Gilbert, Joel, good to see you again. Great to be here. Thank you, Charlie. So Joel, I'll give you the floor and then I'm gonna play some devil's advocate and we'll have some fun with it. Why'd you make the film and why do you think Michelle is running in 2024? Well, as you showed in the trailer just now, I think she's following the exact same formula that Barack did to become president of Barack had this voter registration organization. We started in politics called project vote, Michelle started when we all vote, which she was here a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, gave a one hour fiery speech hitting every Democrat talking point. She was the keynote speaker at the 2020 Democrat convention. It's like Barack was in 2004 for John Kerry. That's the slot that they give to the person they think will probably be the nominee. At the next convention, and of course, Barack wrote his book dreams from my father that he based his candidacy on his personal story and Michelle wrote becoming her memoir in 2018. She's still on a book tour for that. So I think she's really following in his
CNN Political Briefing
" obama" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"President Obama was offering a bit of an instruction guide, if you will, for how Democrats can sell this law. Now, what is going to be key here, the obamas, both the former president and former First Lady Michelle Obama are going to be in high demand during the midterm election cycle with many democratic Senate candidates and house candidates asking to campaign along side with them. Even though the Affordable Care Act is synonymous with president Obama, of course it is called the ObamaCare. The point is, it's also a legacy of vice President Biden and now the Biden administration and under the Biden administration over the last year the healthcare law has been strengthened considerably. A record 14.5 million Americans signed on for healthcare insurance exchanges just last year. So now it's up to more than 30 million Americans covered under this plan. Now that certainly would not have been the case if a President Biden would not have been reelected. This is one of the reasons that Republicans constantly really for the last decade or so tried to repeal and replace this law. You do not hear much about that now. Why? Because once a law is in place, people like it, the public likes it, they become used to it, and it's much harder to get rid of. It was one of those moments today at The White House that we don't see very often. The 44th president of the United States, of course, president Obama, the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, walking, side by side, and really acknowledging something that now is concrete sealed into American law that certainly has become much more popular over time. So now this is something that certainly will be a key part of President Biden's midterm election message here as they try and make the case to the country that there have been strong policies of the Biden administration. President Obama clearly tried to offer the case that Democrats need to tell their story and push their agenda and essentially pick themselves out of the bit of the adult rooms that of course are hanging over the party for this midterm election year. That's it for today's political briefing,.
CNN Political Briefing
" obama" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"This podcast is sponsored by Angie. Hey everyone, I'm Jeff zeleny, CNN's chief national affairs correspondent in for our political director, David chalian. And this is the CNN political briefing. Here's what you need to know when politics for Tuesday, April 5th. Former president Barack Obama returned to The White House today for the first time since leaving office. To celebrate the 12 year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. And to offer a bit of a pep talk to Democrats bracing for a rough road in the midterm elections. Now the last time Obama was at The White House, he was welcoming then president elect Donald Trump for coffee on the morning of Trump's inauguration. Of course, so much of America's political landscape has changed during these 5 years and two and a half months. But it was clear watching the former president and current president walk side by side into the east room of The White House today that they clearly were enjoying being back in each other's company. And of course, that was the whole point for president Obama being at The White House today trying to celebrate the Affordable Care Act and offer Democrats a bit of a road map for how to tell their story in this midterm elections. But as president Obama took the podium, he clearly was talking about the long arc of the Affordable Care Act. He acknowledged bluntly its long and winding road. So given all the noise and the controversy in the skepticism, it took a while for the American people to understand what we had done. But lo and behold, a little later than I'd expected, a lot of folks, including many who would initially oppose healthcare reform, came around. And today, the ACA hasn't just survived, it's pretty darn popular. In fact, it is popular about 55% of Americans support the healthcare law. That is a significant change from back in the days of the Obama administration when it was viewed under an entirely partisan lens. Now more than 30 million Americans get their health insurance through the exchanges afforded under the ObamaCare, if you will, the Affordable Care Act. The point of this entire ceremony today at The White House was to make the case that the bill has been strengthened during the Biden administration. In fact, President Biden signed an executive order, essentially closing a loophole called the family glitch that has kept about 5 million Americans from getting healthcare subsidies under the law, but it's so striking to see these two men in The White House together again. Of course, Biden was once an understudy once a competitor, but during their 8 years in office, they did grow to have a fairly strong relationship. But we should also point out seeing them together today for the first time, really brought to mind how a part they've been during the first year and three months of the Biden presidency. And that is by design. Talking to officials and aides close to both men. They say that president Obama wanted to give President Biden space to chart his own path in his presidency. Of course, Obama's off writing his book and doing other projects, so he's not been around Washington as much, but they don't talk very much on the phone and they haven't spent a lot of time together recently, but clearly this is the beginning of Obama coming back into more of the spotlight. He has a series of speeches will be scheduling to give and Democrats, of course, hope he will be campaigning a lot in the midterm election year. There's no one who knows more about a bruising midterm election season than former president Obama. Of course, during the 2010 midterm elections, just months after he signed this healthcare bill into law, Democrats went on to lose more than 60 seats in Congress. They lost control of the House of Representatives and the healthcare law was largely to blame for that. Certainly the mood of the country was not behind the Obama administration. And this in that very same room where he was today the east room of The White House. This came back to mind what he said the day after his midterm elections in 2010. I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I did last night. You know, I'm sure there are easier ways to learn these lessons. Of course, the midterm elections were bruising, but his own reelection back in 2012 was successful, but at the time that was not necessarily preordained, and president Obama said that himself today, he said I intended to get healthcare passed even if it cost me my reelection, which for a while it looked like it might. But most incoming presidents, in fact, nearly all incoming presidents, their party loses seats in their first midterm election. So clearly, President Biden is understanding this. He's been along for all of this ride. One thing different in the 2022 midterm elections, then the 2010 midterm elections looking back dozens of Democrats were swept into power with Barack Obama. That did not happen with Joe Biden. His majorities are far more narrow. Only a slim majority, of course, in the house. And a 50 50 Senate. So there aren't as many seats left to lose necessarily. But clearly the mood of the midterm elections, the disconnect in the economy, there is a sense of dread among many Democrats. President Obama bluntly acknowledged the frustrations with Washington. He said, look, progress often feels way too slow. It often seems like there's not getting anything done, but he did point to the Affordable Care Act as something that in fact looks better in the rearview mirror..
Book Club with Julia and Victoria
" obama" Discussed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria
"Jason teaspoons joep in sauce. Fun story simone grew up with my cousin. They danced together. They group dancing together. So i grew up hearing about simone and how amazing she was a dance and i watched her in some Old dance videos like yeah. That's the mod. She's really good. Only like great and then simone was hoping to move to chicago to pursue continue pursuing her dance career and stayed in at mina. Victoria's all apartment for like a week. I think you're here. I think a week yeah to do some auditions and interviews and stuff and we hung out and how time and then she ended up moving here. got a job and now works here as a professional dancer and a trader joe's extraordinaire which crashed the one. That's when they get that. She that i go to which is just a delight. It's always so exciting Place in the world and then simone is also there with a big smile. So it's it's a lot of fun very excited to have shown here with us to talk about the queen herself. Michelle obama. thanks for being here. Small saran we usually start off episode talking about why we take the book or what we were thinking while reading it so love to hear from you. What was your experience reading the coming So this is like the second time. I've read it like i read again when julia put it on the list but the first time i read it by roommate actually had the book and it was sitting out just in our living room. And this was the beginning of quarantine actually may have just been like ripe for quarantine really hit so beginning of march and i just needed new books. Like one of my good friends was on a Like her new year's resolution was just to read a new book every month. So i was like. Oh i honestly don't know glass. My read a book because i wanted to so i was like this is what i soon. I should read becoming because it sitting right here. And i love michelle obama so aggressively in so i would read. This clean. brother is aggressively my brother. I bought the book for mom like when it first came out. And i need to read it and so it was really. It was just sitting there available like i do this Then i bought the copy for myself. Though because i was reading we gonna get caught. The i bought copy for myself a month ago. It just sits bookshelves so usually time.
The Young Turks
" obama" Discussed on The Young Turks
"Americans you should care about immigration because you know the key to actual power when it comes to working class is immigration. Reform is actually a pathway to citizenship. It's not pitting people against one another to a to the lowest common denominator. So you can hire the workforce at the most precarious that has the most on the line. Right that's why meat processing plants are full of undocumented people that ice raids every five months. Oh folks who get up at the crack don doing the the most disgusting jobs in the lease pay for it. The exploitation is unreal and the key. The way out of that is solidarity with those folks is a pathway to citizenship because migration not gonna stop right as much as vice president hairs will say. Don't come sorry They're gonna come impart because oh yeah. The united states has helped devastate haiti four decades decades. The number the amount of money we have poured into that nation anyway It is dangerous. And it's scary. I will say laura ingraham through all this was surprisingly. Didn't jump on the train and i was. I was like okay laura. Maybe it's the one thing she. I don't know she was having an off night. I guess gross broke. Clock is right twice. The base and lucia is not surprised by what dan patrick says. She brought him on to say that hateful stop so I'm not giving much credit there at all. Last thing i'll say is that isn't it interesting. They assume all those folks will become democrats. Why a lot of people that come in have what you claim your favor of conservative family values. A lot of them are catholic. A lot more deeply religious. There's a ton of reasons why the republicans at least if you believe anything you said in your marketing But no they look at them. They see brown people and they go. Yeah that's it no way. They're going to be democrats. They're actively rejecting them and guys if you think it's the racial keep it real so melania trump and her parents there was excellent evidence that they did things wrong as they're applying for immigration status here in america and i believe that it isn't ratio when i hear right wing or saying current day america. I've had enough of those damn. European immigrants never heard it is showing on. Do it all right well. This week in hot beltway gos- The washington post opinion columnists and never trump republican jennifer. Rubin has apparently become a funny little conundrum for the biden administration. why Because she used to rail against obama and vice president biden then vice president biden but now has been writing a lot of positive pieces about the administration but because her past is so bad. They're too embarrassed to share all of the glowing. Things she's writing instead they're trying to punt those pieces to like some of their allies k. You share this year. this And jennifer rubin is very upset about this article that political wrote about this whole thing and we'll get to an e mail that she actually sent to politico a little bit later but i. The white house is encouraging outside. Allies to share some aruba's articles on line one west wing playbook One told west wing playbook that they declined to do so because they thought it was just too embarrassing to earnestly share a ruben column. Giving her history as a conservative and perceived tendency to pander to the administration in other words to thirsty just just to thirsty tone down. Take a drink Why what what did rubin in the past. Let's look at that okay. So she didn't have a high opinion of vitamin when he was obama's veep writing in two thousand twelve. The quote biden reflects obama's judgment and dispels the notion that the president wants the best and the brightest around him. Ou joe doesn't fit that description. Does he On obama this is. This is fun. His sympathies for the muslim world. Take precedence over. Those such as they are for his fellow citizens. She wrote in commentary magazine in two thousand ten. When president barack obama supported the building of a mosque in lower manhattan that critics dubbed quote ground zero mosque. Remember that And then when obama said the police had acted stupidly when they arrested a black professor outside his home. In two thousand and nine rubin wrote that quote obama indisputably fan the flames of racism and rekindled animosity on both sides by assuming or making this all about race. Oh honey what was coming to your party very soon after you wrote. That's stuff so just last thing. Why the he'll turn. Obviously it was mask off or mask. On for the republican party Hoods on sorry mask off hoods on since two thousand sixteen she has evolved into a stalwart. Never trump republican. Even as many of his other former critics jumped on the trump train she switched over from trying to flatter the gop's it to stoking republicans fit with an msnbc contract and a book coming out next week called resistance how women saved democracy from donald trump. Good god that's so that's so crazy like anyone else. Reading that book would be less cringe. Senator you jump it on this one what do you. What do we make of ruben. And the fact that biden biden doesn't want any of it. I don't blame them on that. You know what. I'm gonna do that with them on this album. Blame because somebody's true. Nature always comes out. And i think they understand next this. This woman is totally ridiculed. You know and not only was i just kinda. I'm seething over you walk me back down memory lane about some of the things that she said about president obama especially about race it. They did x. stupidly professor henry louis gates for those of us who are old enough to remember that a google it baby. You don't this man trying to get good years house police call. Don't him house and big. President obama had the beer game so in criticize them. He gets criticized in indian bikes demand for beer at the they treated besser hitting louis gates that way at all daegu house and let's on at for the twenty twenty one twenty nineteen twenty twenty one. I wonder if president obama was president. When george floyd was lynched with. This woman has said the same thing. The the black lives matter standing up saying the black lives matter to every single generation. We do have to deal with racism. We gotta do class gotta deal with race. We gotta deal with class. But how dare she some. Put that to the side. Francesca jimmy. Let me just talk about this. Her disdain for progresses how she came after senator bernie sanders even came me. But i wish you know never never got the courage. Oh space little come on join us on the compensation..
Rush Limbaugh Morning Update
" obama" Discussed on Rush Limbaugh Morning Update
"This obama character is showing everybody. What low character in high office is all about this spike in a football two days in a row now actually three over getting bin laden. There's only one guy there's only one guy who said we shouldn't go get bin laden. You know who it was. It was biden. Vice president biden. I have the story. It was an abc news story. And it's from january. Thirtieth twenty twelve joe biden advised against the osama bin laden raid. Not mitt romney not john mccain not jimmy carter. Not but joe biden is the only guy that said. Don't go get bin laden and obama's out there ticking everybody off with this so we are our choices folks. Barack hussein obama chose to figuratively parade. All sama bin laden's dead body around the public square in an attempt to bring singular glory to himself. How pathetic the guy they had to drag off the golf course look at the uk daily mail. There's all kinds of blog stories today. Internet stories with the picture of that great group of courageous heroes in the situation room watching the raid. Take place the only person in that room who looks like she's even emotionally involved at all. As mrs clinton she got her mouth covered by our hand. Her eyes are wide open. It's almost like she saw bill come home at six o'clock at night for the first time in a long time. She can't believe it. Everybody else is just sitting there. Staring at obama is slumped down. He's he's sitting lower in his chair than anybody in the room. They hustled him in from the golf course they put a. I'm president jacket on him. He's got his white golf shirt buttoned up to the top underneath it and he's looking there and As i said yes mr president this is video feed of a military operation taking place that mr mcraven authorized two weeks ago that we decided to go ahead and do it is what that picture looks like. And this is obama's kickoff to his campaign for reelection now. There is better way the illustrate an utter lack of judgment and character than how the president is behaving..
Tribe Talk Connection
" obama" Discussed on Tribe Talk Connection
"Address anti-semitism and feel empowered in their jewish identity from before they go off to college and through their college years and beyond and now dr gorgeous welcome back to our brief history of zionism in the state of israel and in this segment. We're going to really bring ourselves almost completely up to date so far at least on the relationship between israel and the palestinians and various attempts to try to negotiate some sort of solution. I want to cover two presidents in this particular segment. One is barack obama and the other is donald trump. Barack obama is a very controversial president in israel for reasons that will come back to the second a person who i personally actually think did not have israel's detriment in mind at all but then understand this region nearly as well as he ought to given how smart that he is one of the first things that obama does when he becomes president is that he goes to. Cairo goes to cairo and he speaks to the egyptian parliament. And among the things that he says is that israel was created as a result of the holocaust and israelis heard that and they said this guy who was so unbelievably smart. Got that wrong. Israel was created as a result of the holocaust. The first zionist congress in eighteen ninety seven was because of the holocaust the balfour declaration in nineteen seventeen was because of the holocaust the hundreds of thousands of jews moved to palestine in one thousand nine hundred nineteen hundred ten nine hundred twenty. Nine thousand thirty was because of the holocaust. What are you talking about. Because the minute that you say israel was created because of the holocaust. What you're saying is the jews fled europe and they landed in your backyard. You're saying i understand how painful this is for you and it's not your fault. It's europe's fault which in a certain way. Of course it is but not in the holocaust in the in the end of the eighteen hundreds so he gets off to a very bad start with israelis who were always trying to assess this new. American leader word is he. Hopefully one day he or she but so far word is he. Stand on these kinds of issues. He makes some other mistakes but he also makes it clear that he has israel's interested hard he tries to warm up to israeli crowds. He does come to as release speaks to israeli students. He does a lot of things right but things are really going to go. South between obama and israel in the night in the two thousand fourteen war between israel and hamas called in hebrew took a ton. Which in english means more or less protective edge in the summer of two thousand fourteen hamas kidnapped three israeli teenagers who were hiking in a suburb. Just south of jerusalem but over the green line it was technically in the territories but an area that we go to all the time..