Ep. 2277 - 1 MINUTE, 35 SECONDS: Why Didn’t Anyone HELP Ukrainian Stabbing Victim?!

Well, folks, the situation in North Carolina continues to percolate.

It is a horrifying situation over this just dramatically evil stabbing of Irina Zarutska.

She, of course, is the Ukrainian refugee who's riding the light rail and was stabbed to death by a 14-time offender named DiCarlos Brown Jr., who had a significant mental disorder, violent schizophrenia.

The reason that this continues to be in the news is not just because of all of the issues that that you would expect, the media's willingness to ignore the actual story because, after all, the races don't match up with their preferred racial narrative.

Not just because the footage is so horrifying, but there's another aspect of it that has now, I think, grabbed public attention.

That is the horrifying tragedy of the fact that as this crime went down, nobody moved.

If you go all the way back to 1964, there's a very famous case from Queens called the Kitty Genovese case.

In that case, allegedly, there was a woman who was

and murdered in a relatively crowded apartment complex.

And supposedly, there were something like 38 people who heard what was going on, and none of them actually did anything.

Now, as it turns out, there were some who sort of heard scuffling or heard yelling, but didn't know what it was.

There were some who tried to call the police, but there was no 911 system in place.

That case was so horrifying to the nation because there was a full 30-minute period in which Kitty Genevieve's was being and then murdered that the entire nation was shocked.

And there was all sorts of work that was done on on how to make systems like the 911 system better, how to train people to overcome what's known as the bystander effect.

The bystander effect is where there are a lot of people in a particular situation, something bad is happening, and everybody expects someone else to do something.

And so nobody does anything.

It's a collective action problem.

Well, as it turns out, that collective action problem is not relegated to 1964.

And in a world in which people have become more and more disconnected from one another, you are going to see more and more suffering.

The tape that has now emerged of the actual slaying of Irina Zarutska is horrifying in the extreme.

For one minute and 35 seconds after Irina Zarutska is stabbed in the neck,

no one does anything.

One minute and 35 seconds.

And there are people around her.

You can see.

From the original shot that was released to the public from the light rail train, you can see that there are a bunch of people who are sitting nearby.

There are at least four people who are sitting nearby during this particular stabbing.

You can run the tape and you can see their reaction, which seems to be to go right back to looking at their phone.

She, of course, begins to cry.

One man stands up, seems a little bit surprised, and then just sort of walks forward.

There are at least four other people who are sitting there doing literally nothing, doing literally nothing.

One woman looks over at her, puts her backpack on, sort of moves away from her in the car.

I know the temptation of some is going to be to say that that is a racial issue because the woman who is stabbed is white and the other members of the car are black.

But this really doesn't have to do with race because it turns out that the first person to respond to her tragedy is a black man who comes over and brings a shirt and tries to stanch the bleeding.

But the point is this.

As human beings, we are utterly unprepared mentally, emotionally to deal with tragedy.

I think we all ought to look into our own hearts and really determine whether we would be the the person who stands up and does something, just as human beings.

I think that there are kind of two things that needed to be done here.

One, of course, would have been to tackle the assailant.

Unless you are a true hero, a person who's trained for that, like Daniel Penny was on the New York subway, you probably won't do anything.

And Daniel Penny, of course, was then run down by the police and fully prosecuted for the crime of defending the public.

And let's be real.

If this had been a Daniel Penny's situation and the criminal in this case, DeCarlos Brown, had gotten up.

And before he had committed the stabbing, somebody had put him in a submission hold and he had died.

And the person who put him in the submission hold was white, that person would have ended up on trial.

That is the way that our political justice system too often works.

But then there's the second kind of intervention, and that is, are you going to step in and help someone when they are clearly suffering in front of you in a way that there is no avoiding?

And the answer is for an enormous number of Americans, no.

That they will look the other way, awkwardly move out of the way, glance at their phone while a woman literally bleeds to death.

And so I want to show you what is one of the most tragic minute and 35 seconds of tape I've ever seen in my entire life.

It's just horrifying in the extreme.

If you don't feel this at the deepest core of your being, then you're missing something inside.

This 23-year-old woman who's coming home from a job at a pizzeria gets stabbed in the neck.

You can see the look of horror on her face as it happens.

She clearly doesn't feel.

the extent to which she's been stabbed, which is not surprising when people suffer grievous wounds, very often, they immediately go into shock.

The body reacts that way.

And then you will see her slump over and fall to the floor and bleed out.

Well, no one does anything for a minute and 35 seconds, which is the time it takes to die if somebody stabs you in the jugular vein.

Somewhere between one and two minutes, you're going to bleed out.

What needed to happen here is somebody, if there was any shot at saving her life at all, somebody needed to stand up, move over to her, and immediately put pressure on the wound.

There was no attempt to do that whatsoever.

And you can see as the floor is saturated with her blood, it is truly one of the the most horrifying tapes I've ever seen in my entire life.

So this is just a warning.

This is very, very graphic footage.

So if you wish to skip forward a few seconds, then you may want to do so because it is it is pretty horrifying.

You've been warned.

Here you can see him reach around,

slash her jugular vein.

And you can see that she doesn't even know what's happened.

She puts her hand to her face.

She begins crying.

And no one does anything.

You can see spatters of blood everywhere, blood on the knife.

The murderer walking down the car.

There are a bunch of people in this car.

This is a very crowded car.

And then she loses consciousness.

She slumps over and she falls to the floor.

And in this shot,

the timer is now going.

The timer is now going.

Her life is running out in front of us on this tape.

The timer is going.

Her blood is on the seat.

You can't see her because the view from this camera is obstructed by a sort of railing.

People are talking.

Nothing is really happening.

Nobody rushes over to check if she's okay.

Again, her blood is visible on the seat.

There are blood spatters on the floor.

No one is moving.

You can see her blood pouring down, pouring down the step.

You can see there's a man who's standing literally right there.

He does not move to help her.

He does not move to put pressure on the wound.

He does not move to check if she is alright.

Nothing.

He stands there and he does nothing.

And you see someone else get up.

and move away.

You can see other people who are standing there with their backpacks doing nothing.

Literally doing nothing.

And you can see the floor continues to be saturated with her blood because she is dying right in front of all of these people.

One man comes over wearing a Dallas Cowboys hat.

He proceeds to point at this.

Point and do nothing.

Turn away.

And then finally, finally, After a minute and 35 seconds, a young black man comes over, moves in there, and tries to actually do something about the situation.

Now, it appears to be too late.

He tries CPR.

He clearly doesn't know what to do.

I mean, he doesn't have medical training in any way, shape, or form.

But the apparent indifference of the car, I mean, the amount of blood is astonishing, obviously, and horrifying.

The just pure indifference by so many in the car to this happening right in front of them reminds us that human nature is not inherently good.

You have to train yourself.

to act in emergency situations.

You have to train yourself to act in the proper way.

It's a call to everybody to do that for sure.

And as a reminder that we have truly trained entire generations of people to do nothing in the face of absolute horror, absolute horror.

Unless you believe that this killing was not racially motivated, the tape aboard this light rail car

shows the alleged perpetrator in this case, to Carlos Brown, literally saying, I got that white girl.

Again, if the races were reversed, obviously go back to a point that everyone's been making over the course of the last 72 hours.

If the races were reversed, this would be a national story.

There'd be rioting in the streets.

If there had been a white man who stabbed to death, a young black woman caught on tape, a bunch of white people sitting around doing nothing until one white person intervenes a minute and 35 later, and the white person were walking around the car saying, I got that black girl,

we would be talking about the great racial reckoning.

But of course, the media have no interest in that whatsoever at all.

Here's the tape of De Carlos Brown walking around talking about how he got that white girl.

This, by the way, again, is very graphic footage.

So, again, if you wish to skip ahead, you have been warned.

As he walks over, there's blood coming from his knife.

This human piece of debris, this monster.

You can see people turning their back, nobody doing anything.

And again, it's not just black people ignoring this.

They're white people on the car doing nothing.

One man appears to turn around and then sort of move away

from the situation.

Again, everyone's moving very casually around

the car.

Horrifying in the extreme.

Pambondi has announced federal murder charges against DeCarlos Brown Jr.

She says Irina Zarodska was a young woman living the American dream.

Her horrific murder is a direct result of failed failed soft-down crime policies that put criminals before innocent people.

I've directed my attorneys to federally prosecute DeCarlos Brown Jr., a repeat violent offender with a history of violent crime for murder, will seek the maximum penalty for this unforgivable crime, and he will never again see the light of day as a free man.

And of course, the system truly does need to be revised top to bottom here.

Recidivism is the normal rule for criminals.

This bizarre notion that

keeping people in prison is somehow a detriment to society is a lie.

It has always been a lie.

It continues to be a lie today.

14 times, 14 times, this person was arrested, convicted, and then released, 14 separate times.

This person was released on cashless bail, apparently.

This person was allowed to wander the streets as a homeless, violent schizophrenic by the system, presumably in the name of civil rights.

But as Matt Walsh has pointed out, my colleague, it turns out that one civil right is not not being murdered aboard a train in cold blood.

President Trump, for his part,

he said that it's time for law and order, what he calls vicious law and order.

He is not wrong about this.

She was slaughtered by a deranged monster who was roaming free after 14 prior arrests.

We cannot allow a depraved criminal element of violent repeat offenders to continue spreading destruction and death throughout our country.

We have to respond with force and strength.

We have to be vicious just like they are.

It's the only thing they understand.

24 of the top 25 most dangerous cities in America are run by Democrat mayors.

50 people were murdered in Chicago in recent weeks with hundreds being shot.

And it's time to stop this madness.

The people of our country need to insist on protection, safety, law, and order.

Now, again, this does not mean that the federal government has the power to overcome posse comitatus.

You're not going to see the National Guard going in and literally arresting people for littering, jaywalking, or even crimes like rape or murder, because that's the job of the local government.

However, the supplemental ability to put people on the streets to deter crime, the ability to enforce the law, the reality that we need a national campaign against the horrifyingly bad George Soros-type prosecutors who have dominated America's major cities, letting criminals out onto the streets to rape, murder, and loot at will in an enormous number of cities.

That's what needs to be done.

Caroline Lovitt from the White House, she quite properly pointed out that the media had ignored the killing, and we all know the reason why, because the media have a narrative about America.

Their narrative is that America is a white supremacist country, that minority crime against white people is due to backlash to that white supremacist system or the shortcomings for minority people, thanks to that white supremacist system, and that thus such crime must be ignored, that white on black crime is a reflection of the evils of white supremacy, i.e., the system, and that black on white crime is irrelevant.

It is to be ignored because it might provide fodder to racists.

Now, again,

the low opinion you must hold Americans in to believe that if you see a black man kill a white woman, that you're immediately going to label all black people.

That is not how Americans think.

That is not how we were raised in my generation and my parents' generation for that matter, to actually believe.

I was raised, as were all of the people I know, by the Martin Luther King Jr.

Creed to be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

But the media doesn't think that.

The media believes that certain murderers ought to be treated with kid gloves and certain people ought to be treated with the full brunt and weight of the media, including police officers who actually have not committed similar crimes.

I'm seeing people today compare this particular case and the tape from it to the George Floyd case.

No, the George Floyd case involved a career criminal who is resisting arrest and died, in all likelihood, of excited delirium thanks to a radically enlarged heart and significant ingestion of drugs over the course of time, as well as excitement from arrest.

That is not in any way similar to this case in which an innocent young woman was simply slaughtered for no reason by a homeless, schizophrenic, violent, evil person.

In any case, here was Caroline Levitt correctly pointing out the media's willingness to ignore this crime.

Perhaps most shamefully of all, the majority of the media, many outlets in this room, decided that her murder was not worth reporting on originally because it does not fit a preferred narrative.

Many of the journalists in this room spilled plenty of ink trying to smear Daniel Penny for defending a subway car from a deranged lunatic in New York City, but none of those same reporters lift a finger to write stories about an actual murderer.

And she, of course, is totally right about that.

She went on to rip a judicial system that allows monsters like this particular killer to roam free.

Despite all of this past documented criminal history, when Brown was arrested yet again in January of this past year, a Democrat judge who I will add was a supporter, a strong supporter of former Vice President Kamala Harris, released this insane criminal once again without requiring him to pay any bail.

He simply had to sign a written promise to return for his court hearing.

Think about how crazy it is to ask a career criminal, someone who by definition repeatedly breaks the law, to just sign a written promise and come back again another day.

This is madness.

This monster should have been locked up and Arena should still be alive.

But Democrat politicians, liberal judges, and weak prosecutors would rather virtue signal than lock up criminals and protect their communities.

That is absolutely absolutely true.

It is absolutely true.

Now, there's one further note here, a sort of cap, a poignant cap on this story.

So Irina Zarudska's family was offered by the United States government to fly her body back home to be buried in Ukraine, this beautiful 23-year-old person.

And her family said, no, she would want to be buried in America because she loved America.

Here is what...

members of the Trump administration had to say about this.

I hope the family won't mind me sharing, but after Irina's death, the embassy in Ukraine called and said, we'll help you bring her home.

And her family said, no.

They said she loved America.

We're going to bury her here.

So I think we can give her an America to be proud of.

As Mr.

Barnacle said, something here is broken, and we're here to fix it.

Okay, and here I would like to point out, there's been a lot of debate lately about what makes somebody an American.

And the first and foremost characteristic is somebody who loves America, truly loves America.

This is a person who escaped the Russian attack on Ukraine in 2022, who is a new resident of the United States, presumably was in the process of getting citizenship and who loved the country and believed in the country.

And our systems of law failed her.

Yes, America can take in good people.

Yes, America should protect good and innocent people who wish to become part of the American dream.

And yes, America failed.

this woman in a horrifying, horrifying way.

And hopefully we can learn lessons on both a personal and a societal level to prevent something like this from ever happening again.

It might take a while, but it should never happen again.

All righty, coming up, we'll get into the latest economic news.

It appears the economy may be on the ropes, may have been on the ropes actually in the last year of the Biden administration, as we all kind of felt and knew.

Plus, Israel strikes Hamas in Qatar and Russia is sending drones into Poland.

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there are concerns about the state of the economy.

Those concerns were actually underblown last year, as it turns out.

So there have now been massive revisions in terms of the economic reports about the last year of the Biden administration.

Apparently, according to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the pace of job growth was significantly weaker than reported from early 2024 through early this year.

In fact,

The official data showed between

April of 2024 and March of 2025, 1.79 million jobs being added.

Actually, as it turns out, we overcounted by 911,000 jobs.

More than half of those jobs, in other words, did not exist.

So that means the average pace of seasonally adjusted employment gains moves from 147,000 jobs a month over that period to a bit over 70,000.

Basically, we were in the middle of stagflation at the end of Joe Biden's presidency, continuing into today.

Tuesday's report marks the largest preliminary revision on record going all the way back to 2000.

That includes the wake of the financial crisis.

The job market has been significantly slowing.

It has been slowing for a year.

That is not new.

It has not been healed by the tariffs.

And this is a problem.

Because here is the thing: all the important things that need to be done to protect Americans, to make America safer abroad and at home, those will go by the wayside, and you will end up with a Zoran Mandani Democratic Party in charge of the country if the economy goes south.

Jamie Dimon of J.P.

Morgan is pointing out that he has worries about slowing in the economy.

Whether that is on their way to recession or just weakening, I don't know.

And that just confirms what we already thought kind of.

And I don't know.

That's a big revision.

So I've got a lot of people.

Those are big revisions.

I believe it's the biggest going back to 2000.

And the day after you and I sat down in North Carolina about a month ago was the day that President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and since then there have been some questions around you know politicization of the data and since you operate such a sprawling bank and you have unique insights do you see any gaps between the numbers that the government's putting out and what you see within your own firm and are you increasingly relying more on the numbers that you see within your own firm?

No we get we get data like you wouldn't believe.

The government data is important, our own data is important.

We get data from non-government sources and

you can look at delinquency data, worldwide data, trade data.

We get all of that.

But trying to figure out what the economy is going to do is still hard to do with all that data.

And maybe one day AI will fix that problem.

But

hopefully things will be okay.

But you do see that kind of weakening, unfortunately.

Now, again, it does feel as though things are on the precipice.

It does feel as though things are on the edge.

When you talk to investors, they're very worried.

It's one of the reasons why the Federal Reserve is very likely to lower the interest rates not just once, but many times over the course of the next year in an attempt to spur demand and and make borrowing easier.

Inflation, by the way, ate up all of America's wage gains last year, leaving household incomes little changed beyond the richest households, according to the Census Bureau.

On Tuesday, inflation adjusted median household income was $83,730 in 2024, which is exactly the same as 2023.

So inflation basically ate up everything.

The Joe Biden economy is incredibly weak.

And again, this is a point worth noting, that if the Trump administration wants Americans to feel sanguine, then the economy needs to be stronger.

And it's not about the data that is coming out from the BLS.

It is about the feeling that Americans have about their economic future.

And their feelings about their economic future right now are a little bit dicey.

And that is because levels of uncertainty.

It's because of the vacillations in policy.

It's because of a tremendous feeling of just roiling in the economy.

And that the biggest tech companies are basically the ones who are floating the economy at this point.

It's something to keep an eye on for sure.

And I hope that the Trump administration reverts to Trump 1.0 economic policy.

They have in some areas, deregulation and tax cuts being some of them.

But when it comes to the tariff war, again, I do not think that the continuation of the tariff war is likely to result in a booming economy the way President Trump believes, apparently, that it will.

Okay, meanwhile, in other big news, yesterday was a huge foreign policy news day.

It began yesterday morning.

with Israel conducting a relatively unprecedented airstrike in Qatar.

So yesterday morning, Israel conducted an airstrike to try and assassinate a series of Hamas leaders in Doha Qatar.

That is because the president of the United States had put out an offer to both Israel and Hamas.

Hamas would free the hostages, Hamas would disarm, the United States would help broker an end to the war.

President Trump said, this is the final offer, or something will happen.

And then it turns out that something happened, that something was because Hamas rejected the deal, which the entire Western media ignored, by the way.

They said in Arabic that they had rejected the deal.

After they rejected the deal, Israel promptly flew F-16s a thousand miles away to Qatar and struck a single site some 10 times.

It is still unclear at this point who among the Hamas top brass was killed, who escaped, whether they were maybe notified by somebody inside the Qatari government.

That remains a cause for speculation.

Qatar, of course, is a sort of in-between country.

They're an ally to the United States in the sense that we have an airbase there.

They also tend to play a middle role between the United States and Iran, meaning they closely coordinate with the Iranian government.

They have funded to the tune of billions of dollars Hamas.

They host Hamas top brass there.

They have been for a decade, staying at five-star hotels.

Qatar also will spread billions of dollars in propaganda money, including via Al Jazeera, all around the globe on behalf of Muslim Brotherhood-aligned groups like Hamas.

So Qatar is certainly not a player with clean hands.

They never have been.

And the United States' bizarre obsession with the idea that Qatar is somehow a big friendly.

Qatar is friendly in the same way that Pakistan is friendly, meaning that they're kind of, sort of, sometimes aligned.

That certainly did not stop the United States from killing Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan, for example.

I mean, this tape that we're about to show you is a flashback to October 7th, 2023.

These are all leaders of Hamas literally celebrating October 7th in Doha Qatar.

So I will shed no tears if these people were blown up because these are some of the most evil people on planet Earth.

And yes, they are shielded by the Qatari government.

Here's what it looked like on October 7th, 2023, lest we forget.

This is them paying homage and being very grateful.

Some of these people are dead.

The leader there is Ismail Hania, who was killed in an Israeli-targeted strike in Iran.

Delightful people in the heart of Doha Qatar.

Just wonderful.

Well, the Israelis said that it was a wholly independent Israeli operation.

Israel initiated it.

Israel conducted it.

Israel takes full responsibility.

The Qatar Foreign Ministry condemned the attack as reckless and cowardly and said that it, quote-unquote, targeted residential buildings housing several members of the political bureau of Hamas.

Well, those aren't like specifically residential buildings if they are, you know, housing the political bureau of a terrorist group.

The Trump administration tried to draw some distance from from the actual strike.

Suffice it to say: Israel would not have bombed a site in Qatar, which hosts a massive American airbase unless America had prior notice.

It is that simple.

Any contentions to the contrary are false.

I'm sorry, reality still exists in the world where I am from.

And the idea that a very strong and close American ally like Israel would not have let America know in advance what was going on while flying sophisticated military weaponry a thousand miles toward the general area of an American air base is insane.

Yes, America, sorry, America knew as, but we're going to pretend that America didn't, apparently.

So here's what Caroline Lovett had to say at the White House.

This morning, the Trump administration was notified by the United States military that Israel was attacking Hamas, which very unfortunately was located in a section of Doha, the capital of Qatar.

Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a sovereign nation nation and close ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker peace, does not advance Israel or America's goals.

However, eliminating Hamas who have profited off the misery of those living in Gaza is a worthy goal.

President Trump immediately directed Special Envoy Witkoff to inform the Qataris of the impending attack, which he did.

The president views Qatar as a strong ally and friend of the United States and feels very badly about the location of this attack.

President Trump wants all of the hostages in Gaza and the bodies of the dead released and this war to end now.

President Trump also spoke to Prime Minister Netanyahu after the attack.

The Prime Minister told President Trump that he wants to make peace and quickly.

Okay, now again, the latter half of the statement is the actual part that matters.

The whole, we knew nothing, we had no idea what was coming.

I frankly just don't believe that.

But even if that is true, the latter part is the part that matters, in which the United States quite properly says that taking out top members of Hamas advances peace because it does.

If the people who are refusing a deal refuse to make a deal, then additional pressure is obviously necessary in order to compel a deal.

And this, by the way, is Israel's last-ditch effort to force a settlement of this before a full-scale takeover of Gaza City, which is likely to be costly in terms of Israeli time, blood, and treasure.

They have to go house to house in a significantly populated area, despite the the fact that Israel is telling everybody in Gaza City to evacuate to humanitarian enclaves.

Hamas is literally blocking roads and shooting people in order to prevent them from leaving these areas so they can use them as human shields.

So this is an attempt to actually end the war in faster fashion.

Qatar, of course, is not an honest broker in any of this.

It would not surprise me in the slightest if we found out that Qatar had warned the leaders of Hamas to get out in time.

That would not be a shock in any way, shape, or form.

Some others who've been shedding some crocodile tears over this include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia put out a statement saying that they condemn and denounce in the strongest possible terms the brutal Israeli aggression and blatant violation of the sovereignty of the state of Qatar.

The kingdom affirms its full solidarity and support for Qatar, placing all its capabilities at its disposal to assist in any measures it may take, while warning of the grave consequences of the Israeli occupation's persistent criminal assaults and its blatant violations of the principles of international law and all international norms.

Just going to point out at this point that the Israeli planes would have had to fly over large chunks of the airspace of Saudi Arabia.

So the chances that Saudi Arabia had no idea what was going on are approximately zero.

Beyond that, listening to the Saudis caterwall over the killing or attempted killing of Muslim Brotherhood Associated terrorists in another nation, even in an American allied nation.

I don't believe you since the Saudi royal government literally ordered the chainsawing and murder of a Muslim Brotherhood Associated journalist in the embassy, the Saudi embassy in Turkey, which is a NATO state.

So, yes, I feel like you are crying some crocodile tears there.

As per the usual arrangement in the Middle East, many people are very happy at what Israel did, but they're going to pretend that they are very sad, which is usually the way that it goes in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, France, Spain, and the UK all condemned Israel.

Again, not a shock there since all three are soon-to-be Islamic states of their own.

It is incredible the

suicidal empathy, in the words of Gad Sad, that are employed by France, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the strikes.

Starmer said the priority must be an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages, and a huge surgeon aid to Gaza.

Well, cool, cool.

The only problem, of course, is there has been no offer to release all of the hostages.

And as for an immediate ceasefire, Israel is perfectly, if they get the hostages, they're willing to do it.

Meanwhile, Macron said, today's Israeli strikes on Qatar are unacceptable, whatever the reason.

I express my solidarity with Qatar and and its emir, Sheikh Khatamim Alfani.

Under no circumstances should war spread throughout the region.

Of course, it won't.

It is a targeted strike.

There will be no additional war throughout the region.

The idea that it's somehow an escalation for Israel to kill members of Hamas in Qatar, but not an escalation for, you know, Qatar to host members of Hamas to the tune of billions of dollars, billions a year, for a decade.

Well, only the French could come up with something that perverse and twisted.

The whorehouse of the world, the French government.

Yes, indeed.

Meanwhile, it's always fun to hear from idiot Democrats like Senator Jack Reid of Rhode Island, who says that the recent attacks on Hamas diminished the prospects of returning people alive.

Well, that's weird since Hamas literally rejected the prospect of returning hostages alive this morning, or yesterday morning, rather.

Well, this certainly diminishes the prospects of returning the hostages, and particularly those that are still alive, because what Hamas is saying right now is that the United States lured these people into Qatar in order to set up the Israeli strike.

So that

undercuts our ability to be an interlocutor and someone that can help moderate a peace.

And it certainly increases their disbelief in whether Netanyahu is serious about a ceasefire and a release of the hostages.

Alrighty, coming up.

Russia actually sent a bunch of drones last night over into Poland, actually.

It's getting very, very spicy out there.

Plus, New Poland showing its arm.

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Okay, so meanwhile, the situation abroad continues to percolate in a wide variety.

It turns out that nefarious nations, nefarious countries and leaders, do nefarious things.

I know it's a shock because the typical routine that we get.

from the horseshoe theory right and left is that everything is blowback to American activity.

But last night,

Russia apparently decided to unleash drones over Polish territory.

Now, Poland is, of course, a member of NATO.

If these Shahed drones, which are Iranian-made drones, were to crash in Poland, you could be looking at an Article 5 intervention, which means NATO would be directly at war with Russia.

And Russia is playing around.

They've been doing this sort of thing in Moldova as well.

Apparently, there is footage of fighter jets flying over the skies outside Lublin city center in eastern Poland in an attempt to protect against these sort of drone incursions.

incursions.

According to newsukraine.rbc.ua, on the night of Wednesday, September 10th, Russian Shahed drones, which are again Iranian-made, the alliance between Russia, China, and Iran is fairly solid, crossed the Ukrainian border and entered Polish airspace, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.

At around 1.13 a.m., the Ukrainian Air Force reported the Russian army had launched several new groups of Shahed strike drones.

It was reported the enemy Shahid drones had left Ukrainian airspace and were now detected over Poland.

They were heading west toward the city of Jamoshk.

At the same time, monitoring channels indicated Poland had scrambled its F-16 fighters to intercept any of those drones.

It is likely that this is a screw-up by the Russian government.

However, long wars with increased Russian aggression can result in particularly bad activity.

And Russia, of course, has been radically escalating.

Their drone assaults on Kyiv have been escalating night after night after night.

According to the Wall Street Journal,

just two days ago, a Russian glide bomb killed at least 23, mostly elderly, in eastern Ukraine.

And of course, we have seen drone attacks numbering in the hundreds of drones all across Ukraine over the course of the last week.

There's no question that Russia, Iran, its allies, they are pushing.

They are pushing.

And the West ought to push back.

Sufficient to deter all of this.

One final note on the foreign policy front.

I have to say that Greta Thunberg, she would be more irritating if she weren't so hilariously incompetent.

I mean, truly, truly bad at this.

So apparently, Greta Thunberg, she has this Gaza-bound flotilla.

This is her new cause.

When it turned out that she couldn't stop the sun from making the earth warm,

she decided that the best thing to do would be to complain and whine about the Gaza Strip.

And so she has twice now attempted to float her way to Gaza.

The first time she was picked up and arrested, well, her boat was in Tunisia.

And she accused, and members of the crew accused Israel of hitting the boat with a drone.

And this led to the the usual suspects on x.com, your repository for massive amounts of human stupidity, to immediately assume that Israel was somehow droning Greta Thunberg.

They weren't.

I know, I know.

They weren't.

What actually happened, hilariously enough, is that some moron on her boat fired a flare and the flare came down on the boat.

and set it on fire.

So they had posted a video of the flare coming down, calling it a drone attack, attack, and actually, it was actually just a flare that someone fired in the air and it came back down because that's how gravity works.

What a club of utter droogs.

Seriously.

Greta Thunberg, our moral exemplar.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to enforce the law with regard to ICE, and Democrats continue to be befuddled by this.

It really is amazing.

So the Democrats have a rule.

That rule is that they are going to completely misinterpret the Supreme Court to the worst possible effect every single time.

So the Supreme Court recently ruled that a restraining order from a federal judge in L.A.

restricting ICE from conducting stops without reasonable suspicion could be removed.

The restraining order could be removed.

The concurrence in this particular case was written

by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

And essentially, the decision said, that you can use a wide variety of factors in coordination to determine whether or not you can pull somebody over and ask them about their immigration status.

And those things can be like where you are.

Are you in a Home Depot parking lot where day laborers who are frequently illegal immigrants are picked up?

Are you in an area that has a lot of illegal immigrants?

Is the person Latino?

Is one of the factors, but does the person speak English well or almost not at all?

This would be cause for reasonable suspicion.

That does not mean you can arrest the person, but you can actually ask them for their immigration status.

So the left immediately said this is racial profiling.

Sonia Sotomayor wrote a a 21-page dissent because anything that is worth saying in one sentence requires 21 pages from our second most foolish justice, Katanji Brown Jackson, now taking the cake.

She wrote, quote, We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job.

Well, they can't.

The government can ask them about their immigration status in a high, illegal immigrant area, because otherwise, how precisely would it be that you can enforce immigration law?

Reasonable suspicion is always the basis of, for example, a stop and frisk or a request for ID.

Sotemayor said that ICE agents are not simply questioning people, they are seizing people by using firearms and physical violence.

Kavanaugh said immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an important component of U.S.

immigration enforcement for decades across several presidential administrations.

But of course, we have to do this the dumb way.

So yesterday, Mika Brzezhinsky over on MSNBC got into it with Tom Homan, and Tom Homan had to explain that actually detaining people and then sometimes sometimes deporting people is not in fact disappearing people like you are taking them and sending them to a Stalin gulag

I speak with integrity I speak with honesty and I speak with facts the bottom line is because all this false narrative and you use the term disappearing people well that's what's happened that happened to the group that was sent for el salvador people

their laws are being being enforced.

They're being arrested.

They're being put in detention because they committed a criminal.

It's not like what you're doing.

We're enforcing the law and arresting people here in violation of law that are public safety threats.

That's not disappearing people.

That's enforcing the laws of this country and make this country safer.

Well, I mean, that seems perfectly legitimate, but it wasn't over there.

Homan then had to explain to Mika Brzezhinsky that actually when people come into the country illegally, that is a crime for which you can be arrested and deported.

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i don't know the case i don't know the public state threat but i will say this there are millions of people standing in line taking their tests doing the background investigation paying the fees to be part of the greatest nation on earth and the people who are doing things the right way are sitting on the backseat while we had millions of people come across the border and by the

administration and cheated the system People can call them asylum seekers all they want, but if you look at immigration court data, nearly nine out of ten people who claim asylum at the border under Biden end up with an order removal because they don't qualify for asylum.

They're pushing themselves to the front of the line and there are thousands of people in the world who actually are escaping fear and persecution from their homeland.

They're sitting in the back seat while people violate the laws, disrespect to this nation.

If you want to be a part of the greatest nation on earth, there's a right way and wrong way to do it.

Again, if Democrats continue to insist and legacy media members continue to insist that everybody pretend that illegal immigration is not a crime, good luck to them.

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Well, Democrats do have one thing that they're using against President Trump, and that, of course, is Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.

So they're still trying to make Fetch a thing.

I do not think very many Americans at this point think that the Epstein case is a top 40 issue for them.

I understand that for some people, this is like the biggest issue in their life.

I get it.

I get it.

And there are still lots of open questions about where Epstein got his money.

I think that's still the biggest remaining open question.

Why were some figures signing him gigantic checks, for example?

I think those are real and open questions.

However, the idea that Donald Trump is covering for some sort of foreign intelligence ring or that Donald Trump is trying to cover for prominent people who are ringing children, there is zero evidence.

adduced to this fact at this point in time.

And yet everybody continues to try to go after in the media Donald Trump because Donald Trump wrote a note before Jeffrey Epstein was ever indicted for his activities with underage girls that was sort of a racy note.

Now, the Trump administration claims that Trump didn't even sign the thing.

I think Trump signed it.

I mean, by looking at it, that is Donald Trump's signature.

I don't think Trump wrote it.

I think that somebody else in his office probably wrote it and then he probably signed it, which is something that frequently happens in major businesses is that you will have an assistant write a thing and you might sign it, particularly a birthday card you don't care very much about.

But the media are not letting go of this.

They believe that Epstein is somehow going to bring down Trump, which is weird because the same exact 50th birthday lookbook or whatever they were calling it that went to Jeffrey Epstein included a relatively racy note also from Bill Clinton.

But nobody on the left seems to care about that, obviously.

I mean, listen, they were fine with Bill Clinton allegedly ripping Paula Jones.

And they were fine with Bill Clinton stooping the interns in the Oval.

So why would they be upset about this now?

They're just pretending to to be upset about it by pretending that Donald Trump is somehow to blame.

According to Matt Visor at the Washington Post, for Trump, latest Epstein disclosures bring continued political pain.

Have you seen any polling data that suggests serious political pain attendant on this?

Seriously?

Because I think most Americans are chalking up Donald Trump's rather checkered personal life to the fact that Donald Trump has a rather checkered personal life.

I do not think that many Americans believe that Donald Trump was raping underage girls or trafficking in underage girls or anything remotely like that or covering up for people who are trafficking in underage girls.

Levitt said, quote, I did not say the documents are a hoax.

I said the entire narrative surrounding Jeffrey Epstein right now that is absorbing many of the liberal cable channels on TV is a hoax.

I mean that's fair enough.

Here's Maggie Haberman over at the New York Times confronting Caroline Levitt over President Trump's denial of the reality of this supposedly horrifying note.

You said the Epstein documents are a hoax that Democrats are perpetrating against the president.

You've said he didn't sign that check, that he didn't sign the birthday card that he allegedly signed.

So what is the theory, since these documents came from the Epstein estate,

who is, I guess in your view, faking these documents?

I did not say the documents are a hoax.

I said the entire narrative surrounding Jeffrey Epstein right now that is absorbing many of the liberal cable channels on television is a hoax that is being perpetuated by opportunistic Democrats like Ro Conna and the others whom you saw on that press conference outside of Capitol Hill who are trying to push this hoax against the President of the United States.

What exactly is the hoax?

I'm just trying to understand what's fake.

What's fake is not the documentation.

The hoax is the Democrats pretending to care about victims of crime when they do not care about victims of crime, when they have done nothing to solve crimes, when they have done nothing to lock up children and child raises across the country, and when they are now using victims as political props to try and, again, smear the President of the United States and drag on this bad story about him.

It is a distraction.

The Democrats view this story as nothing more than an attempt to distract from the accomplishments and the achievements of this administration.

And that is what we mean when we call it a hoax.

And meanwhile, Thomas Massey, who has been making this his signal issue, mainly because he's seeking to undermine President Trump's credibility.

He doesn't like President Trump's foreign policy.

And that's really what this is about.

And so Thomas Massey has decided this is his big issue.

He was with James O'Keefe discussing.

Is it that the Republicans fear Trump so much, but they agree with you privately?

They just talking about it for a minute?

Yeah.

Is that it?

That's it.

That's it in a nutshell.

I don't think my colleagues are happy about covering up for,

but that's what's happening.

And it's so sick and twisted.

The reason they're doing it is because they're terrified of President Trump's political machine.

Not just his legislative affairs.

folks are reaching out from the White House to every Republican member of Congress who might think about co-sponsoring this.

They're getting calls from the political machine that Donald Trump runs.

We've got members of Congress who have aspirations of running for statewide office, and

they can't win a statewide office in a Republican primary with Donald Trump on the other side.

So they're terrified of him.

Okay, or maybe many Republicans look at this case and given the fact that Dan Bongino and Cash Patel and Pam Bondi and the president and the vice president and everybody else has access to all this information.

They think there's not a lot of there there and this actually is just another attempt to harm President Trump's presidency because that seems, you know, pretty, pretty credible.

Okay, quick update from New York.

Apparently, Zorn Mamdani now maintains a very large lead in this New York mayoral election.

And New York about to commit political suicide here.

So, you know, good luck to them.

This new poll shows Zorn Mamdani at 46%, Andrew Cuomo at 24%, Curtis Lewa now at 15%, and Eric Adams holding on for dear life at 9%.

Now, it is true that if you combine everybody except for Mom Dani,

then they do have a slim lead theoretically over Momdani.

However, nobody has shown real interest in dropping out at this point.

And so that basically guarantees that Mom Dani is going to remain the frontrunner.

Now, I think it is worth noting here how just far to the left the people of New York City are.

Mom Dani has an incredibly low approval rating when it comes to dealing with crime.

His approval rating in dealing with the Trump administration is quite low.

His strongest points are in dealing with affordability, where he really just says the word over and over, but has no idea how to achieve it, and on housing.

But he also scores fairly strong marks with regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, showing what I've been saying all along, which is that inside the Democratic Party, being a complete Islamist psychotic about the Middle East actually is a feature, not a bug anymore, which we could have adduced from the fact that Elhan Omar and Rashida Talib are actually quite popular inside the base of the Democratic Party at this point.

Well, if New York wishes to do this, they're going to get it good and hard because that is the way that democracy actually works.

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