Ep. 1723 - Crying Lib Goes Viral: Photo Is FAKE, But the Crimes Are REAL

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Another liberal judge has been arrested again for assisting illegal aliens in their crimes. President Trump is yet again under fire, this time for the single dumbest non-traversy of his entire political career.

And another associate of Jeffrey Epstein has died by... Trump is yet again under fire, this time for the single dumbest non-traversy of his entire political career.

And another associate of Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, allegedly.

Lots of death, mystery, and crime today.

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welcome back to the show a new study out showing that politicians are more vulgar and profane than ever not on this show though we don't go blue on this show as a rule, okay? This is a respectable, family-friendly show most of the time. Politicians in both parties, though, they're going blue, and I think I actually know why.
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She's a judge out of Milwaukee. She's been arrested on charges of obstruction because this judge allegedly got an illegal alien off the hook as the illegal alien was about to be arrested last week.
According to Kash Patel, FBI director, quote, we believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse. Eduardo Flores Ruiz allowing allowing the subject, an illegal alien, to evade arrest.
I know this is confusing because it sounds like I'm just repeating the story I told you last week. That isn't true.
Last week, a judge and his wife were arrested for housing illegal alien gang members, that is to say, domestic terrorists. Well, I guess foreign terrorists who are now domestic because they've crossed into our country illegally, in their homes.
That's a totally different case. In this case, there's a judge who had an illegal alien, clearly guilty, dead to rights.
And this judge, as the guy's about to be arrested, the judge basically lets him out the back door, which is a crime.

Now, we have to say allegedly, we don't know that the judge actually did it. You know, everyone's entitled to due process.
However, this judge appears to have rather left-wing sympathies. You can see the judge wearing a mask in some photo that's going around virally now.
In 2019, another judge, Massachusetts Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph, was charged with obstruction of justice for doing the same exact thing after helping an illegal migrant avoid ICE in her building. She was then suspended for three years, and then charges were dropped by Joe Biden.
So if you're a judge, if you're a liberal judge today, you could see why you'd be tempted to open up the back door and let the illegal out before law enforcement comes in to arrest him. Because you say, well, the last regime let judges get away with this kind of thing.
Well, there's a new sheriff in town. So no, if you do that, you're committing a crime.
And now finally, you're going to be held accountable for your crime. And the libs are losing their minds on this.
They're saying, they're arresting judges. I saw all these liberal accounts, Aaron Rupar, all these people.
They're the Trump administration. They're arresting judges.
First of all, it was not so long ago that the liberals were trying to murder judges. Do you remember a few years ago when the then Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer walked in front of the Supreme Court and said, we're coming for you, Justice Kavanaugh, we're coming for you, Justice Gorsuch, you've unleashed the whirlwind.
You're going to reap the results. And then shortly thereafter, a leftist traveled from California to Washington, D.C.
to murder Justice Kavanaugh at his home, possibly murder his entire family. And threatened all these other justices.
Alito had to move out of his house. Remember that? So not so long ago, the left was celebrating the possibility of murdering federal judges.
Seems like arresting a judge would be relatively modest in comparison. But it was also not so long ago that the libs were saying no one is above the law.
Remember? Remember when the libs were arresting Donald Trump multiple times over nothing? Arresting Trump for having some documents in his home. Joe Biden had more documents in less secure areas of his home.
Joe Biden got off the hook without question. Donald Trump needs to have his home raided.

He needs to be arrested.

He needs to be prosecuted four times

for various non-traversies.

That was totally fine.

That was not a threat to the rule of law.

But arresting judges for clearly committing crimes,

harboring terrorists in their homes,

and obstructing law enforcement,

that's somehow beyond the pale.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. They're arresting judges now.
Right. And we're going to arrest a lot more judges if the judges keep committing crimes.
So word to the wise, judges, cut it out. Keep the doors locked.
Now, the biggest non-traversy that I've ever seen in Donald Trump's entire political career, and there have been a lot of them, occurred at the Pope's funeral. I mean, there are going to be a lot of funeral events, and there's going to be a lot of public mourning for Pope Francis.
Trump flew in for it, and the libs are up in arms because Donald Trump wore a blue suit with a blue tie.

You can see Melania wearing a beautiful mantilla, black, and Trump is wearing blue.

And the libs lose their mind on it.

Here's the New York Times.

Trump's blue suit at Pope's funeral draws attention.

President Trump's choice stood out in a sea of world leaders and famous faces who were dressed in customary black. Now, I'm looking at the picture, even the picture the New York Times is using.
And it's true, his suit's a little bit lighter than the others. The guy behind him is wearing a navy blue suit.
The guy a few rows behind him is wearing a blue shirt, looks like. The guy right behind him is wearing, like straight back behind him, behind the guy in the turban there, is wearing a rather bright blue tie.
There's a red tie over here. There's another red tie.
But then, the way you know, this is the most ridiculous non-traversy, the biggest fake news story ever involving Trump. Forget about Russia.
Forget about the phone call to Ukraine. Forget about January 6th.
Forget about all this nonsense. The way you can just, I'm so grateful for this story because it shows you not to have any faith in the establishment media.
Joe Biden wore basically the same suit to the Pope's funeral. Analogous role, two presidents, one Republican, one Democrat.
Same event, same suit. Trump's was maybe a smidge lighter in color.
They were both blue suits, both with blue ties. And no one wrote about Biden's suit.
And everyone wrote about Trump's suit and the great faux pas of wearing a blue suit. It's an admission, an implicit admission from the New York Times, from the establishment media generally.
They don't care for the truth. They don't care for objectivity.
This is, you could not have a more perfect comparison. And when Biden does it, it's fine because Biden's a Democrat.
When Trump does it, it's not fine because he's Trump. One final point on this.
I wear black to funerals. I think it is good to wear black to funerals.
I think you should wear black to funerals. I have heard from liberals for like 20 years now or more that, or I think longer, actually, that it is passe, it is outdated to wear black to funerals, that these days you can wear blue or any color, really.
You don't have to do it anymore. Not one single liberal who is criticizing Trump for wearing a blue suit to the Pope's funeral actually wears black to funerals.
It is so deeply disingenuous. And if they want to defend themselves, show me the article about the great offense that Joe Biden wore the blue suit.
You're not going to find it. Now, turning from alleged fashion crimes to actual crimes, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent associates and accusers has just killed herself, allegedly.
This is Virginia Jufri. She was certainly the most famous of Jeffrey Epstein's girls, a young girl when she started working with him, alleges that he and Ghislaine Maxwell made her sleep with all sorts of rich, powerful guys.
And Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail in large part because of this woman's testimony. She allegedly killed herself.
And people are skeptical of this because she sent out a tweet back in 2019 she said i'm making it publicly known that in no way shape or form am i suicidal i have made this known to my therapist and general practitioner if something happens to me in this in the sake of my family instruments for the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them too many evil people want want to see me quieted. Then she kills herself.
People on the internet are saying, well, this is evidence. It's just like Jeffrey Epstein.
He didn't kill himself and she didn't kill herself either. Here are just the facts.
This woman, Virginia Jufri, took legal action against Epstein a decade ago, back in 2015, back when very few of us were even talking about the Jeffrey Epstein story, even though there was stuff bubbling out there about it. The establishment media weren't touching it.
Virginia Giuffre takes legal action against him. Fast forward to just about a month ago, Virginia Giuffre claims to have been hit by a bus, and she posted this picture of herself really bruised up, especially in the face.
Not so much on the rest of her body, but in the face. She's got cuts and black and blue.
And the bus driver in this case disputed her characterization of it. She said, you know, I kind of clipped a car a little bit.
I got out, made sure it was okay. The driver was this 70-plus-year-old woman.
The driver was fine. I didn't even really pay attention that there was a passenger in the car.
I don't think those bruises are from my bus clipping the car. Then, a few days later, there is a news article that's released that Jufri has been beaten by her husband, allegedly.
Jufri claimed that she suffered years of physical abuse at the hands of her husband. The couple had just recently split up after being married for more than two decades.
She wrote back in March, my beautiful babies have no clue how much I love them, and they're being poisoned with lies. I miss them so very much, so I guess her kids were taken away from her, maybe with the husband or something.
She goes, I've been through hell and back in my 41 years, but this is incredibly hurting me worse than anything else. Hurt me, abuse me, but don't take my babies.
My heart is shattered, and every day that passes, my sadness only deepens. So you really feel for this woman.
She's had a rotten life, and she was exposed to lots of terrible things as a young gal, and you just feel for her. You feel she's suffered a lot.
She's a troubled woman. I think she killed herself.
We should pray for her. We should pray for the repose of her soul.
I think she killed herself. I think if you examine the evidence, there's no reason that the people who want to shut up the Epstein story would have killed her now.
They would have killed her in 2015. For 10 years, she's been spilling the beans.
Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison because of this woman. So if they were going to get her, she's kind of spilled it all.
There's really not much reason to get her now. On top of that, she said she wouldn't kill herself, but that was a while ago.
That was six years ago. A lot can change.
Your husband, who you're accusing of beating you, leaves you and takes your kids. You say, my heart's broken.
This is the worst pain I've ever gone through. My heart is shattered.
She posted after this bus crash that allegedly left her with the bruises, though it might've been the husband who left her with the bruises. It might've been something else.
She says, I only have four days to live. I think she killed herself.
I'm not saying Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. I'm saying that I think she killed herself.
And the reason that this matters politically, and it's not just a gossipy story about this, you know, bizarre sex

ring. The reason it matters politically is it's important for us to remember, we who consume the

news, we who are trying to make sense of political events in a time when there are legitimate

conspiracies that are taking place. The juiciest conspiracy theory is not always the truth.
That's not always the correct narrative. Sometimes it is.
Conspiracies happen. People collude and conspire.
That happens. But it's not always the truth.
There are some people who adopt a pose of realism, cynicism, but they call it realism. They say, oh, you think you know how, oh, actually, the world is much worse than you even think it is.
And they believe that this kind of deep pessimism passes for wisdom. But I think it's naivete, a lot of the time at least.
The evidence here to me is a troubled woman who lived a really rough life killed herself, probably. And I think that actually tells you more about the human condition, even than the Jeffrey Epstein sex ring.
There's still tons of questions. Who was funding Jeffrey Epstein? Where did he get his money? Where was his career from? Why all the spying? What was the purpose? Whose interests did this serve? Who are the rich guys who have been protected here? All sorts of questions about Epstein.
I am in no way diminishing that. But also sometimes people do kill themselves.
And that's a dark reality about the human condition that we also have to confront. And just going to the juiciest, most TikTok-y viral theory, that might get you clicks on the internet, but that doesn't really reveal the truth of situations.
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Watch on Daily Wire Plus, YouTube, and Spotify, or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Speaking of weird sex stuff, there is a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
He is a self-identified gay guy. He has been caught in something of a sex scandal.
It's specifically a pornographic picture scandal. So I'll try to speak of this in relatively euphemistic ways so that, you know, we try to keep the show above board here.
We try not to get it. We don't go blue, as I mentioned at the top of the show.
This guy, John Reed, had this to say after photographs leaked purporting to be from one

of this guy's social media accounts. He says it's not from his social media account, but it would

appear to be pictures of him in compromising positions, shall we say. Here's his response.

I haven't publicly performed or publicly posted anything pornographic. Have I seen porn? Yes.
Have I had one night stands? Yes. Are my exes all still in love with me? No.
What more can I possibly tell you? And why am I the candidate who has to answer these questions on this topic? Okay, this is not a good defense. The word publicly here stands out to me as a big problem.
He says, I haven't publicly performed or publicly posted anything pornographic. Which means he has privately performed and privately posted things that are pornographic.
That's probably disqualifying just generally. I'm not saying like the guy can't have taken some kind of saucy pictures, But if we're talking about actual pornography,

come on, man.

You should not be performing privately or publicly in that

if you want to hold public office.

Or if you have, you should.

I mean, I've interviewed former pornographic performers.

And you need to have a real about face.

You need to really turn your life around

in a marked way that I don't know that he has just from the way he's talking about this. I haven't publicly posted.
What do you mean you've privately posted to like a group text or something? That's not good. Have I seen porn? Okay.
Well, statistically, what? 99.9% of men have seen pornography. So again, I don't know if this is the way you should talk about it if you're running for office, but okay, fine.
If I had one night stands, I wouldn't be, this is not good stuff.

You should not be talking about this.

Are my exes all still in love with me?

Okay, so he's saying, he's saying without saying, yeah, the pictures are real, but I didn't post them.

Glenn Youngkin, governor of Virginia, has asked him to drop out.

Now, I look at a guy like this, and I think there's really no excuse for his behavior.

This guy, I think, is in his mid-50s.

And I don't know that these incidents had occurred all that long ago.

I mean, this technology didn't even exist to do this kind of stuff all that long ago.

So I think there's really no excuse.

He certainly should have known better.

This isn't like some teenager who got caught sending a racy picture on Snapchat and now his or her life is ruined. This is a grown man who is in his 50s.
Come on, give me a break. However, it did get me thinking.
Forget about this guy. I mean, he's running essentially unopposed.
He's got the Republican nomination more or less locked up. So I don't know what's going to happen to the lieutenant governor's race in Virginia.
But it did get me thinking, what about the people who did send racy pictures on Snapchat when they were teenagers? People who are maybe a little bit younger than me, but not Zoomers, basically. What happens when the Zoomers are politicians? Because we've already seen this with the millennials.
Because digital cameras and then smartphones took off when millennials were still in high school, you're seeing just a ton of stuff. For the Zoomers, what percentage of Zoomers have not sent a racy picture to a boyfriend or girlfriend at some point in their lives? Like 10%, 20%? It's just so many people have done that already that we are going to have to grapple with the fact that there is going to— This is legitimately scandalous.
Probably this should tank this guy's campaign now. But in his defense, in 10 or 20 years, this is going to be ubiquitous.
There will be somewhere out in the ether, on some server somewhere owned by Meta or Google or somewhere, there will be racy pictures of every Zoomer politician in the country. And how are we going to react to that?

We're going to degrade our standards and say,

well, this is just how it is now.

Is this going to cause a reaction,

a restoration of standards, a new Victorian era?

Actually, I have some predictions on this.

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Speaking of Southern Republicans moving from Virginia to South Carolina, this clip went viral last week. I want to touch on it briefly.
Nancy Mace was accosted by a trans-identifying fella, a guy who says that he's a woman. They got into a bit of a shouting match before the trans-identifying fella made as though he were about to throw a potted plant at Nancy Mesa's head.
Does your husband call you today? I'm not there. Okay, so even better.
I don't be there. Okay, so I would like you to apologize, but this is perogatory.
and second to follow. Is Tranny veragatory in here? But now?

Yeah.

Of course. Tranny.
Yeah, tranny, tranny, tranny. Is that derogatory? You can't arrest anyone.
I'm sorry. Okay, so you see, I guess it's a guy, picks up the potted plant.
You think, is he about to smash this in Nancy Mace's face? And then he, but he walks away. And there's Nancy Mace.
She goes, tranny is derogatory? Well, tranny, tranny, tranny. And there's something kind of funny about it.
But the whole thing, this whole exchange, just feels so tired, doesn't it? I've been at the forefront of the transgender battles of the last five or 10 years. And even to me, I just think this whole thing is so tired.
It's over. It's over.
Transgenderism is right now on track to be eradicated from public life entirely. Everyone's sick of this.

The Republicans are sick of this. The Democrats are sick of this.
The Republicans are sick of it because it's revolting. The Democrats are sick of it because it keeps costing them elections.
The women are sick of this because it takes away their rights. The men are sick of this because it is repulsive to pretend to be the opposite sex.
It just is. Everyone knows there's something wrong with it.
We're now beginning to learn more about some of the causes

and

... it is repulsive to pretend to be the opposite sex.
It just is. Everyone knows there's something wrong with it.
We're now beginning to learn more about some of the causes and incentives behind transgenderism. They're being rectified.
Scientists are sick of it. The cast review is sick of it.
Governments are sick of it. The UK is, it's just, I think it's over.
I think it's, and so this is the last little gasp of it. Stop calling me tranny.
You're a tranny. Stop calling me tranny.
But it's just, everyone finds the whole thing tedious. I think it's, I think it's over.
I'm declaring that we are on the brink of transgenderism being eradicated from public life entirely. Not a moment too soon.
Now, speaking of debates over what is or is not vulgar, there's a, there's a survey out that shows that politicians today are more vulgar than ever. This is according to GovPredict.
GovPredict has data out showing that obscene language, not including S-H-I-T and F-U-C-K, but all other obscene language, has been used at an all-time high by politicians. And they're counting, they have different metrics to figure out the frequency of these words, but just to use X, 1,225 instances on X so far this year, compared with just 833 instances by politicians back in 2018.
That's a pretty marked increase.

But you can see it all around here.

So the black is all the words other than S-H-I-T and F-U-C-K.

And back in 2014, just on Twitter, you're looking at instances, 58 instances.

2015, 98.

2016, 127.

2017, 825. 2018, only a little bit higher, 833.
2019, 1225. And it cuts off here, but it's obviously getting much higher.
But you're seeing this with all sorts of other words, too. Even SHIT jumped up a lot in 2018.
It's gone down a little bit since then FUCK peaked in 2018 it's gone down a little bit since then and that actually backs up my thesis on all of this some people are going to look at this and say oh no the west is doomed it's all decay from here and we're just going to get more and more vulgar and more and more obscene and there's no way to stop stop it, and there's no end in sight. I don't think so.
I think, actually, we're reaching peak vulgarity. And we're seeing peak vulgarity specifically among Gen X and millennial politicians.
Beto O'Rourke, this is just one example used in some of the news coverage here. Beto O'Rourke, who, remember him? He ran for Senate, lost to Ted Cruz, ran for president, lost to everyone.
He kept just trying to run for office and he kept losing. He was asked by reporters what Trump would do in response to a mass shooting back in 2020.
He said, he's been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, members of the press. What the F? He said the real word.
What the F? I remember Chris Murphy, the Democrat senator from Connecticut, he tweeted out the other day, it was a really hard effing day. I want to hear this from you.
You're a man. Shut up.
Don't whine about your day. It's womanish.
It's fine when you want women to behave like women, but when men behave like women, that's not womanly, that's womanish. That's what are you doing? I don't, and I don't want you to be vulgar, period.
I don't, oh, it's really hard effing day. What the F? This is, this is a Gen X and millennial phenomenon.
And it's because Gen X is the cynical latchkey generation, right? They're the latchkey kids. They're cynical and they don't really believe in anything, man.
They're grunge. They're cool.
They're whatever. They're going to, Kurt Cobain's going to kill himself because things are too good.
You know, it's just like, speaking of suicide, there's a lot of death in the show today. But it's just, that's the generation, whatever, nothing means anything.
Come on, don't be enthusiastic, man. We're just going to be cynical.
You know, we're the latchkey kids. We're not supervised.
We're going to be, we're cool. The millennials are different from gen.
I'm a millennial, I'm a millennial, but I see my own generation with clear eyes. The millennials were the opposite of latchkey.
The millennials were helicopter parented. The millennials tend to be a little bit spoiled and a little bit entitled and extremely sensitive, the snowflake generation.
And this also leads to a kind of vulgarity, this entitlement, this lack of decorum, this hypersensitivity. To me, the video of the millennials took place at Yale 2014 or 2015 when shrieking girls screamed at Professor Nicholas Christakis, a preeminent liberal academic who was the master of Silliman College.
And there was this whole scandal, some of you might remember it, where some DEI-type administrator sent out an email to Yale students and said, Halloween's coming up, make sure you don't put on any offensive costumes. And Professor Christakis' wife sent out an email to her students and said, hey, you're 20-year-old Yale students.
You could probably dress yourselves. Okay, just, you know, you have judgment.
And this led to a campus uproar, and this shrieking girl said, this is not about creating an intellectual space. This is about making a place of comfort and home here.
And they start shrieking profanity at their professor. It's a similar behavior to Gen X, but motivated by different things.
So, okay, you get Kristen Gillibrand using naughty words. You get Beto.
You get Chris Murphy. You get The Squad.
You get Jasmine Crockett, the new AOC, another millennial. So it's a nasty language.
I am confident that the Zoomers will restore the norms. Okay, I think the Boomers, even though they were kind of hippies, they generally don't do this.
The silent generation didn't do this. The greatest generation didn't do this.
The Gen X started to loosen up the norms. Millennials took it to an extreme.
Then the Zoomers, they're reacting against that. I see in the Zoomer, I think I might be a spiritual Zoomer.
The Zoomers are trad. They are helping to lead the return to religion.
Some millennials do. The return to religion, the return to orthodoxy, the return to norms.
They want the trad wife and the trad life, and they want to have kids, and they want to live in a normal society because society has become so bizarre. We have so obviously begun to live in clown world that there is a reaction against that.
So, okay, enjoy it while it lasts, Gen X and millennials. You really can see it,

not with all of the other words, but especially with S-H-I-T and F-U-C-K. I'm just even noticing

this now after I had formed my thesis, so I'm glad it affirms it. You're seeing it.
It's beginning

to decrease. The Zoomers might well be the new Victorians.
That will be a surprise to some of

them, but I think it's true. I think it's true, man.
Speaking of generational shifts, last Saturday marked an anniversary that not a lot of people talked about. Last Saturday marked the 250th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Revolution.
Did you know that? The Battle of Lexington and Concord. The 250th anniversary was last Saturday.

Now, you know, I have a personal connection to the American Revolution because two of my direct

ancestors fought in it. One of whom, John Knowles, died of his wounds later on from Bunker Hill.

Simon Knowles, though, fought from Bunker Hill all the way across the Delaware,

fought at most of the big battles, fought with Washington for a lot of it was at Yorktown,

ended up being discharged honorably with Washington up at New newburgh the end of the war 1783 i have a a real personal love of the the revolutionary era and it was a long time ago 250 years i think of it like a family connection, but it was 250 years. Okay? Empires don't often last much longer than that.
In some ways, we're such a young country, but in some ways, we're a rather old country. And I think this helps us to understand a lot of our politics right now.
There is a 20th century political scientist, Rain Tagepera. I think I'm probably mispronouncing his name.
I think it's Rain Tagepera, who argued that empires last 250 years. Uh-oh.
That's not good news after last Saturday. Paul Kennedy, great intellectual and scholar, he didn't explicitly claim that empires last 250 years, but the trends that he pointed out don't look great for us.
He has a famous study from 40 years ago, the rise and fall of great powers. Economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000.
It points out that great empires have this almost impossible balancing

act. They have to balance their wealth and their economic base and their military power

and their strategic commitments. Right now, you've got Americans arguing and saying, hey,

we don't want to just be a tax farm for an overseas empire that benefits everyone but us.

That was a big theme in the 2024 election, exactly what Kennedy's talking about.

Thank you. saying, hey, we don't want to just be a tax farm for an overseas empire that benefits everyone but us.
That was a big theme in the 2024 election, exactly what Kennedy's talking about. So there's this constant tension between what we consume and what we spend and invest and how we defend ourselves, and there's all this tension.
Some empires last longer. Rome lasted for 500 years.
The Byzantine Empire lasted 1,100 years. Some are shorter.
The Mongol Empire was under 200 years, and it was like 160 years. And the Umayyad, I always mispronounce that, caliphate, it was less than a century.
bringing it back to earth we always hear that we're living in unprecedented times. You hear this from the libs, there's unprecedented times.
Donald Trump is upending the order of the United States. No, it's not unprecedented times.
These kinds of political trends that we're seeing right now have happened many times throughout history. The cycle of regimes has happened many times throughout history.
We're living in very precedented times. We should not, however, allow this to leave us complacent.
If political scientists are correct, big if, we're kind of living on borrowed time as an empire. And so the goals that President Trump needs to affect, the stuff he has to do right now, they're extremely, extremely difficult.
And if the United States did continue on the course of decline that the liberals have set us on, that wouldn't be all that surprising. The more surprising thing would be if President Trump can manage to succeed at making America great again.
If anybody can do it, he can do it. The guy is a world historic figure.
But don't just look at the Trump presidency in the vacuum of the last three or four presidencies. Don't just look at this moment in American history in the vacuum of even the last 50 or 100 years.
Look at America compared to other empires. Look at America, not so much from the perspective of exceptionalism, but just look at how politics usually works.
We're in a privileged and precarious moment. Even the libs should hope that Trump succeeds.
Even the libs. And they probably don't want to admit that, but there's a lot riding on it.
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Okay. Quickly looking at imperial matters.
Mr. Zelensky has just rejected President Trump's peace deal.
And Putin has just been pounding Ukraine. So Trump ran into Zelensky at the Pope's funeral and they had a little meeting off to the side.
I don't think it really went anywhere. Because Zelensky said that Trump's proposal to recognize Russia's re-annexation of Crimea is unacceptable.
It's not that Ukraine isn't going to give up the eastern provinces that Russia took. It's not that Ukraine is not going to give up a ton of its territory.

Ukraine will not even recognize Russia's claim to Crimea.

Crimea, which historically has been a big part of Russia, but then which was given to Ukraine, and it's now contested.

And then Putin invaded and took Crimea back.

Zelensky's saying even Crimea is not on the table.

Okay.

Meanwhile, Putin just starts pummeling Kiev, not even pummeling the eastern provinces. He's pummeling Kiev.
So much so that President Trump posts on Truth Socialist. He says, Vladimir, stop.
What are you doing? All caps. What are you doing, Vladimir? I'm trying to broker peace.
Neither party wants peace. Neither the Ukrainians nor the Russians want peace.
So Trump is great at brokering deals. He's a master of the art of the deal.
But if neither party in this conflict wants peace, I guess it's just going to keep going on. Both sides are so deeply dug in.
Neither has insinuated at all that he would accept a peace deal. At a certain point, Trump probably has to make good on his threat to just walk away from the negotiating table.
Okay, keep pummeling each other some more, keep killing Putin, or Trump rather pointed out that 5,000 soldiers a week are dying. Okay, if both of these world leaders want to keep sacrificing their men in this totally intractable conflict, there's not really all that much that we can do.
At least one party needs to want peace for the deal to work. Meanwhile, there was a massive explosion in Iran, at least 25 dead, at least 800 wounded.
Yet the Iranian news agency, the minute I saw this headline, I said, oh no, here we go, it's starting. Either we bombed Iran, or Israel bombed Iran, or somebody bombed Iran, Saudi, I don't know who bombed Iran, but oh no, here we go, we're gonna get a war in Iran.
But Iran, sorry, I don't want to pronounce it the Barack Obama way, Iran. Now, Iran, in I-, in Iraq, pronounced a good American way, Iran is arguing that it was just an accident, likely set off by containers of chemicals.
No one really knows why they detonated, why there was this massive explosion, but Iran has not said that it was sabotage or a deliberate attack. Now, that might be strategic.
It might have been an attack, but they don't want to admit it because that would escalate things further. In any case, Trump is directly threatening Iran.
Trump says in an interview with Time magazine, if we don't make a deal, I will be leading the pack to fight in Iran. You asked if Netanyahu would drag me in like I'd go on willingly.
No, I may go in very willingly. If we can't get a deal, I think we're going to make a deal with Iran.
Nobody else could do that. Now, some people who really don't want to go to war with Iran, which is most of America, they're going to be pulling their hair out here.
They're going to be saying, oh no, why is Trump talking this way? Stop it, Trump. We don't want to go to war with Iran.
There are two different ways to talk tough on Iran. The one way is the way that the real war hawks talk, the ones who really do want to go and bomb Iran.
The way that they talk tough on Iran is they build a moral case against Iran. These mullahs have abused their power.
They're an illegitimate government. They oppress women.
They oppress gays. They are a great threat to America.
They are not only a threat to Israel, they're going to come over here and bomb us too if we don't stop them. And they're the greatest evil in the world.
And we got to bomb them. That's the way that they talk tough on Iran.
That's not how Trump is talking about Iran. The way Trump is talking about Iran is he's saying, oh, Netanyahu doesn't need to drag me in.
I'm going to go there. I'm going to pound him myself.
I'm going to fly over there in an F-35. I'm going to walk up to the mullah.
I'm going to punch him in his fat, stupid face. If he doesn't do what I want him to do, give me a deal.
Yeah, that's right. I'm going to carry a Molotov cocktail myself and throw it at the palace.
Those jerks. Watch it.
You see me? You think I'm funny? I'm funny how? Funny like I'm a clown, like I amuse you, I make you laugh? I'm here to amuse you? That's a different kind of tough talk talk there's no moral argument being made there he's just saying give me what i want or i'll blow you to smithereens which is the tough talk of a guy who wants a deal when you build the moral argument against the mallows they're illegitimate they're oppressing their people there then you're actually boxing yourself into a corner where you need regime change because you're saying the only moral thing to do is have regime change.

You're building the case to facilitate war. Here, Trump is building a case to facilitate peace.

Not one moral argument in his speech here. All he's saying is, I will do it.
Trust me,

I'll do it. I killed your top general.
I will do it. Do not test me, but give me peace, which I think is the right course of action and should be something of a relief to the people who do not want to go to war in Iran.
I want to get to one of my very favorite things the White House has done. I'm going to have to get to it tomorrow.
It involves Christopher Columbus. We'll get to it then.
Because I have to mention today

a clip going around from CBS News. Tony DeCupol.
We were talking about a little weird matters of

the heart, weird sex stuff earlier today, Jeffrey Epstein and all the rest of it.

Bill Belichick, the greatest coach in the history of football, just did an interview on CBS that hinged a little bit on his 24-year-old girlfriend. Bill Belichick is something like 73 years old.
The girlfriend is 24. It's raised some eyebrows.
And the girlfriend decided to sit in the room for the interview and actually interrupt when Bill Belichick was getting questions she didn't like. Here's just a little clip from Tony conducting the interview.
Jordan was a constant presence during our interview. You have Jordan right over there.
Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship. They've got an opinion about your private life.
It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it. How do you deal with that? I've never been too worried about what everybody else thinks.
Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right. How did you guys meet? Not talking about this.
No? No. It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on.
73-year-old guy and your 24-year-old girlfriend insists on sitting eight feet away from a network news interview that's taking place, expect a question or two about it. And then this woman interrupts, says, we're not talking about this.
No, no, no. Poor Bill Belichick there.
He looks, you feel bad for Bill Belichick. And I took a note to myself.
If by some chance I ever become the greatest coach in the history of the NFL,

I need to resist the temptation to date a 24-year-old girl.

These interviews, this is really the whole story of Bill Belichick's saga,

where they don't want to talk about how they met, and it's a little sus,

and the whole thing's a little dubious.

It's a reminder that you can't

escape the moral order. You can't escape it.
You think once you're rich and famous and established

enough and people like you enough that you can take some shortcuts. You can be a little indulgent.

You can be a little selfish. It's okay.
You've built up so much you can survive it.

Bill Belichick is obviously embarrassed in this interview, as he should be. This is embarrassing.
The whole thing is embarrassing. One feels pity.
How do you feel pity for the winningest football coach ever? Because you just do. Because it's just wrong, man.
The moral order remains undefeated. The natural law of people's consciences remain broadly undefeated.
You can't, when you start behaving in a way that is indulgent and irresponsible and maybe a little selfish and a little, a little degen, you know, a little touch of degen. I don't care how many football games you want.
I don't care how rich you are. I don't care how much goodwill you have.
You're going to look bad. Okay.
And you can have the nicest, most accommodating interviewer asking you the nicest questions about it. It's not a good look, man.
Not a good, that's it worth it? Is it worth it? No. Even the most hardened, cynical dudes, the grizzled old misogynist out there saying, I think it's worth it for that hot young thing.
No, you don't believe that. Not worth it.
Not worth it. Your integrity and your virtue are worth more.
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