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Coming up tonight Labour's home deposit scheme called an insult to first home buyers.

The panel will join me shortly to discuss the day's top headlines.

The Great Douglas Murray has some thoughts on Anthony Alberanezi's war against populism.

He'll be here before the first ad break and we've got the cream of the crop for you.

Tonight Josh Hammer will have the latest from the US, including Pete Hegzett declaring an end to de madness in the military and the return of meritocracy.

And left is losing and has the ladies of the view wondering whether they'll survive three more years of Trump.

Every day it's every day is a shuck and owe here and I for one skeptical that we will survive this.

First.

Victorian Opposition leader Brad Batten has pledged to keep transgender sex offenders out of women's prisons.

As premiers listened to Alan Ignores pleas to have a transgender inmate who sexually abused his five year old daughter removed from a female correction facility.

Any person who wants to choose in their life what they identify as that is one hundred percent their choice, but not at the risk of others.

And there needs to be a line in the sand that says no, there is certain things and not acceptable and people going into the opposite sex prisons are putting people at risk.

That is something that needs to be considered and wouldn't happen under a government I lead now.

The sex offender in question, a father who now identifies as a woman and calls himself Hillary Maloney, took thirteen videos and sixty four images of himself sexually abusing his daughter, five year old daughter across the state one month period after agreeing to engage in those vile acts for the sexual gratify vocation of American pedophile Sam Booth, who he called his master now.

Brad Batten also slammed the sentence given to this offende minimum jail term of just two and a half years when the maximum is twenty five years, but the judge in the case through that because the offender was transitioning to being a woman and that transition wasn't fully accepted by those around him.

Because of that, his moral culpability was reduced.

These are sentences that are not in line with community expectations.

That is why we will make sure we will review all of the sentence in.

Here in Victoria.

Joining me now for more on this, ask Sky News contributors Caroline dei Rosso and Evelyn Ray.

Caroline, I'll start with you.

I wrote about this issue again in the Herald Sun today.

There is something very wrong, very sick with the judiciary, with the bureaucracy, with the expert class in Victoria.

When something like this happens.

This doesn't happen in isolation.

No, it doesn't happen in isolation.

And what was very interesting as well as a corollary to that, is to Cinter Allen has not been as eager to be in front of the media as she usually is because obviously this is something that is just impossible to defend, impossible to justify, and I think she knows that.

I think Brad Baton summed it up perfectly and his position, I think is totally in line with community expectations.

You know, it is not appropriate for biological men to be in women's prisons.

Like he said, you can make whatever decision you want in life, but you don't have the luxury of visiting those consequences on other people.

We've got to look at the cases in Victoria.

I remember more than three years ago being contacted by women from Dame from correction facility that signed a petition to have a male predator identifying as women removed from their prison.

They were terrified and Evelyn, no one was listening to them, not Corrections Victoria, certainly not the labor government, and at that time even the opposition in this state was too gutless to take a stand for these women.

Yeah, it's just another clear example of the hierarchy of ideologies, you know.

Put simply, this is another example of prioritizing the trans movement over women's safety, you know, and when women's safety takes a back seat to any ideological movement, we as a society should be very, very concerned.

You know, we have politicians in this country who either can't or just flat out refuse to define what a woman is.

And that is a massive, massive red flag.

These were questions that five year olds could answer up until five minutes ago.

You know, common sense unfortunately is incredibly fleeting.

But the reality is when you abandon common sense.

When you forsake truth and you replace it with these ideological things that abandon those very foundations, the people who get hurt are often the ones who are actually living in truth, and it's the ones who are constantly censoring, constantly, you know, trying to shut down any rhetoric that goes against them.

It's just it's, honestly, the people who are most vulnerable who are going to get the most hurt, and that's what we're seeing play out in these prisons.

I'm honestly disgusted by the result of this court matter.

Two and a half years I.

Worked in child sex crimes in Australia as a detective and I can tell you from firsthand experience that this isn't like a one off thing.

I've seen it time and time again where ideological movements get priority over justice.

And you know, the reason why the West.

Has prospered for so long above second and third world countries is because we have always wielded the sword of justice very well.

That it's an incentive to not commit crime because you go, oh crap, I don't want the punishment.

I don't want to have to reap the consequences.

But The more that we diminish these things in place of these ideological movements, the more we are going to regress to second and third world nations, because it's.

Quite simply is just not good enough.

And I think that, you know, women make up over fifty percent of this nation.

I think we can make.

A pretty loud noise, especially if we have the good men and politicians who can stand around us.

And that's what we should really be pushing for.

Now.

Let's move on to the barefoot investor Scott paper lashing out of the Albanezy government over it's five percent deposit scheme for first home buyers which has just come into effect.

He's branded an insult.

He warned the policy risked first home buyers taking up taking on ninety five percent mortgages, making them vulnerable to interest rate high and inflation spikes.

He writes, it's dressed up as a helping hand, but it's really just a shove into bigger debt.

Instead of making homes more affordable, it will push prices higher and encourage first home buyers to borrow more and save less.

That's subprime lending Australian style.

Caro.

Why is the government getting involved in private home purchases.

We already have companies that provide lenders mortgage insurance.

So if you want to borrow ninety five percent ninety percent, why is the government getting involved in this area.

Well, I've spent plenty of time in my former life doing back end enforcement work for the bank, so I've seen this go south on more than one occasion, and particularly.

During the GFC.

We obviously didn't have the same you know, sort of circumstance or to the extent that happened in the US, but there was some of it that happened here.

What the government is doing, or is.

They're pretending to help, They're pretending to fix reta And this won't come as a surprise to you, but big buckets have cash actually don't fix problems.

And in the case of something like housing, it actually makes the problem worse because the supply hasn't changed, but you're putting a big extra chunk of demand onto the market.

What Barefoot Investor said is absolutely correct.

All it is doing is putting a bigger set of golden handcuffs on first homeowners.

Okay, some of them might be able to go into this into their mortgage, maybe with a two percent or three percent, two or three years sorry, fixed loan.

But after that, and as is usually the case in Australia, loans become variable if they're not variable from the beginning, so they are absolutely subject to.

Fluctuations, and not just that.

If you're not one of the first people to get in there and buy a house and get it done right at the beginning, something like this is going to have an inflationary impact.

And even just the rises that we've seen in house prices over the last three months GUS the September quarter, it adds an extra eighteen thousand dollars to the price of a house.

So if you can, if you can save an extra eighteen grand in a quarter, well good on you.

But I tell you what, it's just going to make things tougher for everyone out there.

Evelyn Ray, I'm run out of time.

If I can get a response in about fifteen seconds.

Do you see any upside to this policy for first time buyers?

Absolutely no upside.

I think it's important to remember if the government owned one percent of your home.

And you are one hundred percent of your home, well said Evelyn Ray.

Caroline de Rousso, thank you so much for your time, tonight.

Joining me now is the author of groundbreaking works, international bestsellers, including The Strange Death of Europe, The Madness of Crowds, The War on the West, and his latest on democracies and death cults.

Douglas, I'm keen to get your thoughts on the war against populism being waged by the likes of Kis Starmer and our own Prime Minister Anthony Alberanezi.

But let's start in the US, where Hillary Clinton has decried white men of a certain religion for reversing what she calls social progress.

The idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by you know, let's say it, white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology.

It's just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for, and we were on the path toward that.

There you go, Douglas, white Christian men holding back social progress.

Well, Hillary Clinton obviously believes in the myth that so many progressives do, which is that you're on a trajectory to just have more and more rights, get more and more freedoms, and more and more liberal in their understanding of the term, and that anything that doesn't go along with that, including for instance, not voting for Hillary Clinton, it revealed a terrible mock failing.

And it's just always so striking the presumptuousness of that and.

The sour grapes of it.

And they always add that thing of going back to a world that never existed, knowing I would have thought or being able to intuit.

A lot of people don't want to go back to a world that never existed, but they would like to live in stable, secure societies that were proud of their identity and history.

And that isn't a make believe world.

That isn't a world that never existed.

It's one that some of us can remember in our own lifetimes.

It's impossible to imagine a world in which Hillary Clinton said, it's unfortunate that there's been a rise in female genital mutilations in Western societies, but you know that's the fault of dark skinned men of a certain religion.

Wow, the talk show hosts in America wouldn't NodD belong to that.

But as always.

Rita, it's acceptable to beat up on Christians, and especially acceptable to beat up on white men and if white men are Christians, then we all know.

I mean, they've got it coming, haven't they.

I mean, they are standing in the world in the way of Hillary Clinton's world, not for the first.

Time, and that she would make these comments just two weeks after Charlie Kirk's assassination.

She is just so tone deaf and offensive in so many ways.

But staying in the US, New York Mayor Eric Adams has dropped out of the racer.

We've got the hardline socialist Zor and man Danny polling very strongly, and he now has the backing of Kamala Harris.

Look, as far as I'm concerned, he's the Democratic he should be supported.

Do you endorse his candidacy?

I support the Democrat in the race.

Sure you have a Douglas, the former VP has no reservations about backing a man like Mandani.

Yeah.

I mean, this is the great test for the Democratic Party is whether or not they actually go with a democratic socialist and somebody who has not just the terrible track record of views and alliances, but of course zero track record as being able to be a mayor.

Of a city like New York.

I mean, I don't think you'd be mayor of any small, tiny city of a few hundred or village of a few hundred people.

I don't know what the Democrats think think in putting forward somebody who's so manifestly unsuited for such an important role.

I'm sorry to see Mayor Adams fall out of the race, although I think it's probably the right decision.

I'm hoping, as most people that don't want Mam Daney to get in are hoping that people will coalesce around one of the other candidates, and that's obviously Mayor Adams's hope.

I think he's done the dignified and right thing.

He was a good mayor and he's a good man, and I'm not sure that could be said of the person who is currently polling well to be his successor.

Now switching to the uk KRE, Starma continues to champion digital ID, says it will be compulsory and it's the only way to tackle illegal immigration.

We need to be.

Really clear, you must have an ID mandatory digital ID in order to work, because we have to stop illegal working Douglas.

More than two and a half million people have already signed a petition against Starma's digital ID what are your thoughts on the merits of this policy.

Well, this is a reheated policy from the Blair era and it's another reminder that Starma doesn't have any real policies of his own.

But presumably Tony Blair or somebody from Blair circle has said why not give this another go.

It was fantastically unpopular twenty years ago, but perhaps people will be with it now.

I'm not one of those libertarians who.

Objects to the idea of ID because I think that government's going to come and snoop and all that sort of thing.

I object to it, particularly rolled out on these grounds, because you don't need digital ID to prove your right or otherwise to be in the UK.

And it does absolutely nothing I can see serious to crack down on illegal migration.

I mean, for instance, if you wanted to crack down on illegal migration, you don't have to get everyone in the.

United Kingdom to sign up to digital ID.

You could send boats out into the channel, stop illegal migrant gangs sending illegals into the UK.

You could stop the UK Border Force acting as the helpmates of the smuggling gangs by going out and you know, halfway through the Channel maybe a bit more.

If the boat doesn't have to have any troubles for the UK Coast Guard and the Royal Navy and others to pick up the illegal migrants, say thank you very much to the smugglers and bring the.

Illegal migrants to the UK.

Then none of that gets stopped by making every British person get digital ID.

It's a classic case of an inept government that doesn't have many ideas, rehashing and reheating an old idea, and I can say with absolute certainty it is a distraction.

It does nothing to deal with illegal migration.

And by the way, they're worried about illegal workers.

They could just send the police or anyone else to all of the migrant hotels and vast swathes of the UK.

Go to the delivery companies and the uber eats companies and all the others, and just ask if everyone's got any idea at all, digital or otherwise, who's doing deliveries for those people.

They're very easy to do, but they would never do that, of course, much easier to put the whole country through this once again.

Now kiss Starmer and is ideological bedfellow.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony alber Easy have been railing against populism as represented by parties like Reform.

Have a listen well, I don't want to see the rise of populist organizations such as that.

I met with the mainstream opposition party here and you know, I'm involved in parties of governance have to come up with solutions, not seek to divide people.

Oh gosh, it's so inspiring, isn't He puts you to Slabor Douglas.

These leaders say they are defending democracy itself.

Is populism a threat to democracy?

In my observation in recent years, the word populism is always used as a synonym effectually for parties that are popular.

That's it, and populism is.

Never defined by these very second rate adults we have running our countries.

In Australia and the UK, they always rail against populism, and I think really the problem is they have a deep problem with anyone who is popular, and that's because they're not, and they always use the same playbook.

We're not here to divide, we're here to unite.

We want to go forward into tomorrow, not upwards into yester year or something like that.

Actually, Albanese starmer they're.

Very very good at dividing, very very good at it, and they do it all the time.

So they're not anti division at all.

They just want to be able to do their own dividing, and part of that is dismissing anyone who they don't like as a populist.

Well, as I say, I hope at some point the voters will make it clear what popularity really means.

Well, let's hear now from the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, David Lammie, who has stepped up his attacks against Nigel Farage.

He's now claiming that Farage was flirting with the Hitler Youth.

I will leave it for the public to come to their own judgments about someone who once flirted.

With Hitler Youth when he was younger.

That is for the public, Douglas.

I know Lammy's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm pretty sure Nigel Varaje was born around twenty years after the Hitler Youth disbanded.

What is he on about there?

And what about this turning down the temperature and not having this retrick that could lead to violence?

Have we forgotten that already?

Oh?

Of course they've forgotten it that stuff never lasts more than a few minutes, if not a few hours.

You could see on David Lammy's face there as he said it, he was trying to work out whether he should go there.

His eyes flickered for a moment as he was trying to work out whether this was the one to wheel out.

David Lammy as I never stop enjoying reminding people appeared on Celebrity Mastermind some years ago and asked in the general Knowledge round which king succeeded the eighth answered Henry the seventh.

Now that being said, it's perfectly possible that in David Lammy's mind Nigel Farage as a boy, traveled back in time to flirt with joining the Hitler youth.

And so we must allow David Lammy these brain farts.

But I mean, yes, again, it's just woeful, isn't it, Reta, It's just woeful.

We have prime ministers deputy prime ministers of just.

Such a low caliber.

And they really do think that if they call mainstream politicians who they are trying to beat at the ballot box and in the polls, they call them Hitler flooding with Hitler youth, fascist, Nazi everything else populist.

If they do all of that, then they can win the argument.

It's absolutely woeful and they would hate that if it was done to them.

And I suppose at some point people with fewer morals, or indeed the same morals as them in these matters as little adherence to truth might well play that round at them and wow, how they'll scream.

Then, you know, absolutely before you go.

I don't know if you caught this story.

The NHS National Health Service has come under fire for claiming that first cousin marriage is linked to stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages.

There you go, Doug, Let's never mind the moral issue or the very serious birth defects of children born from these unions.

Apparently there's all sorts of economic advantages.

Yeah, I mean the idea that the National Health Service, which is, by the ways, you know, one of the largest employers in the world somewhere around the same figures as the Chinese Communist Party's army.

The idea that the National Health Service, which is so woeful provide giding actual healthcare to the British public, would think to be stepping into the realm of giving advice on the economics of certain marital unions.

Actually they should stick with the health stuff, which they just don't do very well.

The NHS, if it was being honest, would admit to the fact that the children of cousin marriages are more than twice as likely as other children to suffer severe birth defects.

That is a shocking and.

Terrible statistic and it's not like it's something we don't see in a country like Britain.

It's twenty years now since the Labor mpn Crier said that in her constituency in the North of England, the hospitals had a serious problem with the children of cousin marriages of people from Pakistan and Bangladesh in particular coming to the UK having children with severe birth defects.

On that this was putting strains on the National Health Service.

Of course, then as now everybody decides to shoot the messenger and lots of people said a cryer.

The Labor MP was.

Racist for raising this issue about the welfare of children and the standing.

Of the NHS.

But you know, this is a classic example of something everyone can now notice, which is that entities like the NHS effectively try to retrofit their own purpose in order to fit in with the diverse, multicultural society, the NHS must know that if it put out guidance saying please don't marry your first cousin from merepoor, even if your dad says you're going to get a great wedding dowry, don't do it because you're very likely to have a child with unbelievably problematic health issues from birth.

That would be a really good thing to do.

But of course, yeah, that might get the need to gets into trouble because after all.

It would be true.

And I mean, what right do they have to tread into this domain.

It's such an indictment not just of the NHS and its leadership, but of a society in which stories like this come out now almost on a daily basis.

It just shows you how corrupted that bureaucracy is with this poisonous thinking.

It really is crazy.

But I just want to point out to the viewers that President Trump has again praised your work at Douglas.

I noticed this all over X and social media side.

President Trump is saying to go out and purchase this book, impactful book on democracies and death cults.

It's quite a good endorsement there, Douglas, the leader of the Free world, encouraging people to read your latest work.

Yes, I was very pleased to see that the President issued that truth over the weekend as he was preparing for the meetings on the peace deal that's being put forward in the Middle East.

So I was very pleased that my recent book was at the forefront of his mind on that, or anywhere in his mind on that.

I think I was very flattered that that would be the case.

And yes, I mean there's a lot in the book that I think could be useful to people considering the future of the region, because there are a lot of unpopular truths and unpopular facts which I encourage my readers to absorb, and which I'm very very glad when political leaders show that they are absorbing those uncomfortable truths and facts as well.

Douglas Murray, thank you so much for your time.

Great pleasures always.

Thank you still to Calme Left He's losing ed, plus the laters from the US, including the War Secretary declaring an in to d I'm madness in the military and the return of meritocracy.

Josh Hammer is up next.

You're watching the reader Paney show, and it's time for lefties losing it.

Let's check in on the TV series Law and Order SVU, which jumped the shark more than a decade ago.

A show that's supposed to be about law and order, the first to demonize ICE agents these days.

Watch this travesty as the show's heroine is arrested by ICE.

Captain visiting your interfering with the federal operation.

Oh no, she's not y.

He releases the material witness and he's in the custody of the MBRE.

Do you really want to help a rapist go free?

He's ours?

Okay, take him to holding once.

He provides his testimony.

Don't know, we'll release him.

This's you.

You have been obstructing this apparition, and from the beginning that is a federal charge.

Put your hands behind your back.

Well, we shouldn't be too shocked.

Last years for You had an episode where a white rape victim reflected on her white privilege because her rapist was black.

Are you going to believe me because I can, I can afford therapy.

I have that luxury and maybe one day.

I'll be okay.

But if that teenager cost.

To prison, you may not be.

Never but law and order still has a long way to go to reach the dangerously woke heights of this episode of Cocoa Melon Lane, a Netflix program for children.

Remember this a boy in a tutu dancing for his two dads.

Of course we know about you.

You learn to get up ast.

How about you break out those moves for your.

Two biggest fans.

If you're not sure what to choose, think about all the things you like to do.

Wow.

Okay, Now to Randy Windgarden, the hard left activists paid half a million dollars to be the president of the American Federation of Teachers.

She's determined to whip up maximum fear and hysteria.

Here she explains why she's wearing a paper clip.

There is a reason why in Norway, when the Nazis took over Norway, That's why I'm wearing this paper clip.

I wear two things now, the American flag, nobody can take patriotism away.

From me, and a paper clip.

What did the teachers in Norway do when there was when there was a Nazi occupation?

They started wearing paper clips.

That's the sort of deray directorc that could incite crazy people to commit acts of violence.

And never forget that that mad banshee was allowed to direct government policy on things like masking and school closures under the Bideen administration.

Now, let's check in with the ladies of the view, who are all triggered by the notion that members of the armed forces should actually be fit for service.

Pete Hegseth spoke to US military leaders from around the world to lay out his very retro vision for our armed forces.

Watch.

This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department.

We are done with that.

It's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation and see fat troops.

Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the wholes of the Pentagon.

Why is he obsessed with fat?

Yeah and fitness?

Gosh, I don't know, Joy, Why is the Secretary of War obsessed about fitness?

Do you really think fat obese troops are ideal?

And Joy's looking for some conspiracy behind this bizarro push for standards, as she sees it.

So why do you think they're doing this?

There's always an ulterior motive.

Well, that's the major.

Question, and if it has anything to do with the recruiting law, they probably just meet it worse.

That was the dangerously misinformed Sarah Hayines claiming there is a recruiting issue.

There was a massive recruiting issue under the Biden administration.

As soon as Donald Trump was re elected in November, recruitment numbers saw to record highs.

We really should have more of Sarah Haynes on lefties losing it because she's as awful as the others on the view.

But she's a little bit boring, isn't she?

While Sonny Houston, for example, is awful, but we'd compelling here.

She is being befuddled fun.

I'm actually really refuddled by why he did that.

The optics were terrible.

Return to the highest male standard for combat positions because the troops were fat.

I don't understand how that was supposed to be an uplifting.

Message for our military.

You know, her complete ignorance is part of her charm.

Really, she doesn't get it.

She thinks having standards is demoralizing.

I guess it would be for the view because all the hosts would be sacked if there were any standards, which would be devastating for this segment.

Where else can I get such a ready supply of weapon grade crazy?

Here is Joy Behar again.

This time she's claiming America won't survive three more years of Trump.

Every day It's every day is a shock and owe here and I for one skeptical that we will survive this.

Joinning me now is Usweek's senior as were at large and Article three projects in your council, Josh Hammer, Josh, the ladies of the view are outraged by the notion that military personnel should be fit for service.

When will the left understand that meritocracy is back and all the DEI madness and political posturing that really has no place in the armed forces?

That is ash, That is something Pete Hegseett was very clear about.

This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department.

To rip out the politics.

No more identity months, DEI officers, dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship, no more division distraction or gender delusions, no more debris.

As I've said before and will say again, we are done with.

That, Josh, that was pretty emphatic.

What did you make of that speech?

That's what I voted for, Rita.

That that is literally exactly what I voted for.

In fact, I was a very early supporter of Pete heg Sets to be Secretary of Defense.

I wrote numerous articles of the Daily Mail and elsewhere supporting his confirmation.

That was a tough confirmation fight.

Actually, it was very difficult to try to get Joni Arth by one board.

So I was personally all hands on deck there.

And this is exactly what I anticipated, is exactly what I wanted, because Pete Hegset is a kind of guy.

Rita who served his country honorably in multiple overseas theaters.

He is of a younger generation.

He knows all the problems.

He can directly relate to the problems, the woke adult nature of the United States military under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

He can relate to it because he lived it, because he has seen it with his own eyes in a way that a lot of these stodgy, old fat generals that he's referring to have not necessarily been able to relate.

But really, Rita, what heg Seth is trying to do.

It's really not that radical.

It's actually something of a throwback to a bygone era from as recently as, oh, I don't know, like twenty twenty five years ago at the most.

I mean, once upon a Hahn.

The United States military was unanimously feared across the world all throughout the world as the most lethal fighting force in the modern history of mankinds, maybe really in all mankind at least going back to the days of the Roman Empire two thousand years ago.

But what made the units is military great?

What led the US military to storm the beaches of Normandy and to take the high ground on the cliffs of France against the Nazi invaders.

There those men who did that rita, they were not there because they thought it was good to be fat.

They were not there because they thought it was good to be a man who would put on a female wig or chop off their body part from the name of so called diversity, equity inclusion.

They were not there because they had some sort of body positivity or because they were gay at trying that enough.

They were there because they were men, typically just men who were only really really good at hunting down and killing the enemy in the most effective and efficient way possible.

That is the military that I strive for as the military that Pete hex have envisions and God willing Regia.

That is the military under his leadership and President Donald J.

Trump that we're going to get back here asap.

And the Secretary of War was clear Josh that women are welcome to serve in any capacity, but they have to get there on merit standards.

Aren't going to be lowered physical standards to meet any sort of quota system.

Our female officers and NCOs are the absolute best in the world.

But when it comes to any job that requires physical power to perform in combat, those physical standards must be high and gender neutral.

If women can make it excellent.

If not, it is what it is.

If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it.

That is not the intent, but it could be the result, so be it.

It will also men that we mean that weak men won't qualify because we're not playing games.

This is combat.

This is life or death.

Josh.

That's going to outrage all the usual suspects, because I believe that diversity is our strength, even in the military, even if that diversity is achieved through lowering standards to make certain gender or other quotas.

I find this leftist notion so utterly unrelatable that I can barely contort my head to wrap myself around the mentality.

Who actually thinks that the military should be there to promote diversity.

Diversity of sex is, diversity of sexual orientations, di diversity of gender identities, diversity of literally anything.

No, the US military is not supposed to be diverse for the sake of diversity, and.

It happens to be diverse.

It happens to be, you know, a nice mix of black people and white people and Hispanic people and agents whatever.

They're great, fantastic there.

But there's absolutely no compelling reason why we haven't necessarily pick and socially craft the military to do anything other than what we were just talking about, which is to hunt down and kill the enemy in the most effective and efficient way possible.

By the way, this whole notion of trying to socially engineer the military to fit these postmodern, bizarre, oak neo Marxist standards has also had a debilitating effect on American morales.

We actually look at the morale of young soldiers, marines, infantry men, sailors, and so forth who sign up for the military.

There, the morales actually, at least prior to this administration, was pulling in really really low.

And the US military is also missing its recruitment targets oftentimes by double digit percentage, by a very high margin, year in and year out.

So this is really rapidly heading towards a near existential crisis there.

America needs a strong military.

We need volunteers.

There's no conscription here, there's no draft there.

If we're going to stand up against communist China, which is getting ever closer potentially to invading in Taiwan, on god forbid the Philippines, who knows.

If we're going to stand up against all our enemies, we need a strong military.

Again, Pete Haig said, gets that with every fiber as being, he's not going to cut anyone some slacks because they happen to have a certain type of genitalia.

You are a certain to like sleeping with a certain type of person who's their same sex.

Now those days are done, They're done, done done.

I voted for this, reader of the American peop voter for this.

This is the way it's going to be.

Now.

President Trump also addressed military leaders and he had this to say about using the military to take on drug cartails.

There, our leadership, the military is now the knife's edge and combating the sinister enemy.

We have to put the traffickers in cartels unnoticed, and we've done that.

Try to poison our people, we will blow you out of existence, because that's the only language they really understand.

Josh.

He has been blowing up those boats there, the traffickers, some incredible footage of that.

And he also wants to use the military to take on the law and order crisis in America's biggest cities.

What do you make of that plan.

He's mentioned cities like Chicago and he's talked about Portland.

Could he utilize the military to do what he achieved in DC?

Uh?

Yes and no.

The literal armed troops, like the actual men who sign up for the US Army and US Navy, cannot be used in dease to day law enforcement practices.

There.

There's a statue from the late eighteen hundreds called the Passi Commentatus Act that supposedly prohibits that.

Having said that, there are other statutes, including the Insurrection Act which goes back even further back to the Thomas Jefferson presidency around eighteen oh seven or so.

The Insurrection Act does give the president the ability to send in the National Guard to try to restore order again.

You know, when certain conditions are med.

You can't just snap your fingers and send it in there.

But if you, if you earnestly determine that there is a state of anarchy, the law and order is not being restored, then there are various conditions on which the National Guard can be sent in.

This is what center Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Rita.

Lets you forget.

That is what Tom Cotton was talking about in the infamous June twenty twenty op ed at the New York Times that led to the whole staff talk out there led to Barry Weis's resignation.

That's literally what Tom Condon was talking about his oup that was titled send in the Troops.

He was talking about the insurrection, not the National Guard.

So that's what Donald Trump is talking about.

He is, indeed, I think, on very firm legal ground, again depending on just how bad the city in question is.

But let me tell you, I mean having lived in Chicago, having lived in other blue cities as well, it's oftentimes really really bad.

Now, I think that Trump he's been talking a lot about Memphis, Tennessee.

There have been some National Guard guardsmen already deployed to Memphis, Tennessee.

I think Memphis is actually a great example as to what this should look like in practice, because when you're trying to coordinate with the local authorities there with the National Guard, you first and foremost coordinate with the governor of the state, much more so than the mayor.

So I think I think the sweet spot here Rita should be red cities in excuse me, blue cities in red states.

So that makes Memphis, Tennessee a very enticing option off In Texas, I think would be another very incasing option there.

But you want, ideally a governor who was very sympathetic there, and I think it would be kind of easy pickings to go for a blue city deep in the bowels of red state if he wants to take on a challenge of really going forward in a San Francisco with the Gaven newsum, I mean, I say bringing on.

I mean that would be a fun fight for sure, but I think it would be an easier bang for your bucket.

You'd have to expend less political capital, that is to say, but going for a blue city in a red state.

Josh, that's an excellent point, because those blue cities, the big cities, are almost all Democrat, even if they are in Republican states.

Austin is a prime example.

Doesn't even feel like Texas anymore.

Would be fantastic to make Austin Texan again.

Now, don't go anywhere.

After the break, we're going to talk about the left turning on each other.

BLM is taking on a George Soros back foundation.

Welcome back, Come here with Josh Hammer.

Josh, the left is turning on each other with BLM suing a George Soros backed organization.

The New York Post reports the National Black Lives Matter Movement claims thirty three point four million is being withheld by the TIDES Foundation, back by George Soros bil and accuses the foundation of deceptive business practices and egregious mismanagement of its money.

And this week they asked the California Attorney General to investigate TIDES after filing a lawsuit last year.

Josh, where did it.

All go so wrong?

Well, you know, reader, they always say the revolution always eats its own right.

I mean, this is kind of leftism one, really.

I mean, I mean we see this time and time again, how the various horts of this leftist coalition, this intersectional coalition of aggrieved interests, I mean they oftentimes not all those they pretty much always will ultimately end up warring against each other.

I mean, you know, let's let's kind of take a similar example to kind of paint this image a little more starkly there.

I mean, how about you had first the fight for same sex marriage, gay rights, et cetera, and then you had the transgender fight there.

Well, one of the big premises of the arguments for enhanced gay rights saints as marriagetctera in the US, was that gay people are born this way.

Right, That was that was one of the big arguments.

I mean, Lady Gaga had had that had that song back in twenty ten, twenty eleven, Born this way, that was a big part of their movement.

Well then you kind of flip the screws.

Then the transgender stuff comes wrong, and it's like, oh wait, yeah, maybe you were literally born this way, but no, subjectively you actually were not born this way.

So I mean it literally doesn't make sense.

I mean, we see this kind of with Linda Sarsara back when she was the head of the Women's March as well, right, And this is someone who is who is a Sharia loss sighting Muslim purporting to lead a feminist march.

I mean, are you kidding me?

I mean, how do you possibly square that circle?

So, I mean, here a Black Lives Matter and the Tide for Nation.

The Tide Foundation is of course the number number one most most prominent left wing dark money organization in all of the United States.

So I mean this is another example, of course, of the left eating its own and frankly, as someone myself here, to me, this kind of looks like the Iran Iraq war.

I pretty much just root for casualties.

Now, Donald Trump has another win, this time against Google or YouTube to be precise, owned by Google.

He's had a number of these wins, Josh against ABC, CBS, has had big wins against meta, Facebook and Twitter.

And you look at these legal wins and it's hard not to think that there was a conspiracy of fun, a conspiracy amongst these media outlets, those social media giants to effectively deplatform the leading political candidate, that leading challenger to the Democrats and to prevent his re election.

Reader, I mean, how anyone can possibly, you know, not think that at this point strikes me.

It's crazy.

I mean, they pulled out all the stunts imaginable in twenty twenty.

In twenty twenty four, a lot of them tried the exact same things again, and they've been on this extended Maya Kulpla campaign.

I mean, let's not forget that this past January twentieth, on Inauguration Day in Washington, d C.

You had pretty much all the big tech oligarchs.

That attended this.

There was Jeff Bezos, there was Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk obviously was there.

Gool was in the House.

So they've been on this extended attempt to try to appease the Trump administration.

There now, for what it's worth, I remained skeptical that all these companies have necessarily seen the lights, so to speak.

Mark Zuckerberg has been on hitting this beat for at least a year now when he reports open up meta and facebooks to free speech, and Google just recently conceding for the first time that yes, I actually did censor and deep platform consertive voices there.

So look, I think some of that are just trying to avoid some sort of retribution there, and that's probably where these settlements come in as well.

But I guess I would encourage Philip my fellow conservatives to not be so easily I mean, don't be so easily duped here.

The mere fact that they that they are coming to the negotiating table, whether it is defamation lawsuits, whether it is conceding that yeah, they actually did really censor in deep platform here, that doesn't mean that these c suite left wing Silicon Valley Birkenstock wearing freaky ceo.

It doesn't mean that they actually have had a genuine change of hearts and that they are suddenly joining team civilizational sanity against the forces of civilization Artison.

I personally don't buy it for a second.

So you know, I mean trust, but verify, they say, in this case, I don't particularly trust, but I'm definitely verifying.

Just quickly before you go, We've had Hillary Clinton make another appearance in the mainstream media decrying the influence of white Christian men.

How have you seen her interjection in the political discourse and how useful is it to be again trying to demonize white Christian men.

Well, that's what the Democrats do these days, right, I mean, they demonize anyone who does not fit their particular or interceptional conception of what it means to be a good American.

And you know, white Christian man, white straight Christian men, I guess, are really kind of at the top of the list of someone who checked pretty much zero interceptional boxes that they are literally at the bottom of the totem poll when it comes to the left.

I mean, I think a relevant question is what the heck is is Hillary Clinton doing?

I mean, like literally what is she doing?

I mean, what is what is her purposes at this particular juncture?

And I actually do not know what the answer is.

I mean I guess in theory she might be looking for getting another book deal.

I mean, God knows what she could possibly write about that would entertain a single human being.

At this point there, she's basically said everything platitoon isn't vapid under the under the sun already at this point there.

But I guess the Clinton at this point, we just have an insatial desire to be in the public lights.

Recall also that you know Bill Clinton, once upon a time and Hillary too that once upon a time they actually call themselves religious Christians.

We can kind of scoff at at Bill's personal life whatever they want.

That's part of time call themselves real Christians.

So the fact that they have shifted this far where they're openly mocking Christians near twenty twenty five, I think really just shows how far the center of gravy of the Democratic Party has shifted over the past few decades as well.

Josh Amma, thank you so much for your time.

Thank you Rita, and that's it for May.

I'll see you tomorrow at eleven Up.

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