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It's time for Lefties Losing It. And what I'm about to show you is, I've got to say, a little bit sad. I know we have a laugh on this segment, but sometimes the dysfunction, the hate, the cowardice of the modern left is, well, a little depressing. Even a leftist as blessed as Hollywood actor Jerry Oonnell, good-looking, rich, successful, but utterly divorced from reality. First, let's look at him establish his Democrat credentials.
"I went to a Kla Harris rally. My wife and I donated to the campaign >> and um Megan Estallion played and that was pretty pretty epic, Bill, if you were there. I mean, it really invigorated like excitement, you know, >> really invigorated the people who are already going to vote for her anyway. That's who we're invigorated."
Now, I'm about to show you the sad part. This rich, attractive, successful dude has failed as a man. and his own family, his wife and daughters, physically attacked him on election night for not being sufficiently pro- Camala. Watch how terrified he is at the prospect of speaking his mind. He's self censoring and being so pitifully weak that even fellow lefty Bill Maher has to have a go at him.
"And I'll be honest with you, I didn't think Trump was going to win. I live in California. I didn't think he was going to win from what I was hearing. I >> I didn't either. I didn't think he was going to win. this is where I live, you know. >> Um, I said something along the lines of like there was no planning. This is what they get. There should have been a primary. I said something along those lines, you know, like I was just spitballing ideas as to it was a shock, you know, my wife and daughters without saying anything became became physical with me. They were they were filled with rage. So if I am being careful with you in how I say things, yes, I live in California. I live with >> not one, not two, but three people who if I made any kind of joke that they would um they'd become very angry with me, you know, I >> Well, so I'm >> I don't want to tell you how to live your life, but I couldn't live that way. I would whatever household or ever situation I'm in. I say what I truly think. And if it makes you angry, I'm sorry. We'll have to work that out. Well, it makes but I I am not gonna tuck my tail between my legs and just shut the up. This is what you were dealing with when you were a child. Just sit there and don't say anything."
Ah, just pitiful. Weak. Weak. Now, let's check in on an awful. That's an affluent white female leftist who has delusions of victimhood.
"have less rights than I did when he became president and I shouldn't have less rights than I used to. Um, I shouldn't have different rights than my husband has in 50 states. Uh, I shouldn't have to provide a plethora of other documentation to get an ID because I got married because I've changed my name. It it's it's just chipping away at us little by little until We don't realize we're offcooked."
There you have it. Republicans have it in for marriage now. Apparently that they're coming for married woman. Yeah. Right.
Now, this is the opposite of an awful. Here we have a brave, principled, logical British woman, Connie Shaw, who clearly has endless reserves of patience. Watch this. She tries and tries again to get some sense from a trans activist holding a union banner.
"Do you support a woman if she was going through the fact that she had been assaulted in a single sex space by a male person? No. You wouldn't you wouldn't help a woman who was a member of your union if she had been raped in a single sex space for women by a man. >> Trans women are women. >> Even if they rape other women, >> trans women are women. >> Even rapists? >> Women commit crimes. >> Trans women are women. >> Was uh Isla Bryson a woman? >> Trans women are women. >> What makes them women? Trans women are women. >> And you've got no explanation for what makes them women. >> Is it in the word? Is it in the name? >> Well, I'm looking for a definition, not a circular argument. >> Trans women are women. >> Do you see how that's a circular definition? >> Would you like to explain why trans women are women? >> That's all they have. Uh, projection, empty words, and circular arguments."
Watch now as this a coward has other activists come in to physically obstruct Connie Shaw from asking any more uncomfortable questions.
">> Trans rights, human rights. >> What about women's rights to single sex spaces? >> Trans rights are human rights. >> So you don't believe that women have the right to get unchanged away from the presence of men?"
Now to a man who should be awarded the pullet surprise if that media awards actually meant anything these days. Here is Nick Shirley who blew apart the depths of fraud in Minnesota concentrated in the Somali community. Well Nick Shirley is in LA now and the scale of the fraud there is even worse. What he saw in LA is incredible. Well, here he is at what looks like a former motel which is allegedly running 30 fake hospice businesses.
"We have Angels of Valley Hospice. We have Angels of Haven, Angels of Peace, Light of Angels, yet the BMWs, one right here, one right there. Two brand new Mercedes over there. It just is unbelievable the amount of money that these people are making. and they're not even trying to hide it."
And while in Minnesota we had fake daycare centers that had no children enrolled, in LA he found children in daycare centers, but there were no adults around.
">> Talk to the adult. >> Um, he's not here. >> Not here. >> Yeah. >> So, you guys all by yourself? >> Yeah. >> No one's here. >> No, no one is not here. >> Okay. Okay. So, you guys are all by yourself. >> Okay. I can see by myself. >> Yeah. Okay. That's concerning. >> That is concerning."
Uh let's bring in Newsweek senior editor at large, Josh Hammer. Josh, tell me about this focus on LA now on California in general. Surely it can't be as diabolical as what we saw in Minnesota.
">> Well, it's quite bad. I mean, envision read Minnesota on steroids. That's basically what California is. California is essentially democratic governance on steroids. It's been that way for a very long time. Unfortunately, it's reached something of a low point under Gavin Newsome. I guess I guess we'll see if it can get even lower in a future Democrat ginatorial administration in Sacramento. I far far be for me to to predict that, but I frankly it probably could get even worse than this. It centers around Medicare and Medicaid fraud. That's why do Dr. Oz, the the former television star who's now the head of the center for Medicare and Medicaid services. He's been at at the formal administrative center exposing a lot of these issues out in Los Angeles County. According to the receipts, Los Angeles County, California is singlehandly responsible for somewhere between 15 and 20% if memory serves of of the Medicare related quote unquote payments in America, which doesn't actually make sense. This is it's a large county, but but it's but it's only one county. So, the administration is starting to expose some of this fraud. Nick Shirley and others are on the ground trying to expose some more work there. Shirley continues to do a lot of really solid investigative work when it comes to this. He's basically just showing up with a camera. Rita, it's really not exactly uh the work that you need a PhD uh in film making to do. It's it's really kind of just just very entrepreneurial type stuff there. My hat off to him for doing this and we'll see where it goes, I guess."
Josh, let's hear from Dr. Mimemet Oz. You mentioned him. is President Trump's administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service. Here is what he had to say about fraud in LA.
">> $100 million. You get the national numbers that you just highlighted. You have states red and blue who are suffering because the rules were lax and weak and folks fraudsters took advantage of them. But we're on to them and we're going after not just autism, which is of course a a a heinous way to steal money from the American taxpayer. But we're also going in for home health care. That's unnecessary. Hospice care. John, California has onethird of forget how Los Angeles, the city of Los Angeles, the county around it is one-third of all hospice centers in the entire country. Is everyone dying in Los Angeles? These impossible numbers."
That's what you were talking about, Josh. And they do seem like impossible numbers. How can LA alone have onethird of all the hospice centers in the entire country?
">> Yeah. So that's I mean that's shocking to me re I actually had not heard that exact statistic about onethird of hop centers. I mean what I had seen is 15 and 20% of autism related centers things like that there. I mean onethird of look is a big city. It has a declining population actually. In fact it's probably going to decline even more. or it probably will get surpassed. Actually, it's the nation's second largest city if current trends hold by a place like a like a Phoenix, Arizona or Houston, Texas potentially in the next 10-15 years. So, we'll see how that goes. But there still there are there are a lot of people in LA. But no, there are not onethird of older people who need hospice. That is facially absurd. And the median American looks that and starts scratching his or her head and says, "This cannot possibly be right. What on earth happened here?" here. And what happened here is that these blue jurisdictions at best turn a blind eye to rampant fraud, to rampant welfare fraud, the very welfare that the Democratic Party has institutionally, structurally put in place in America going back to the Lynden Johnson great society in the 1960s and many programs have been built on top of that since then there. So they started the welfare state and now they are builing the federal taxpayer via the welfare state. It's something that they've been been doing for a very very long time. And I guess one one one of the many benefits of having this current administration in power is that they are no longer actually turning a blind eye to it. Personally, Rita, what I would like to know is I would like to know the extent to which the Biden administration in particular was complicit in this. Were they aiding and abetting this? Sure. Surely Joe Biden and Kla Harris, Kla Harris is a Californian herself. Let's not forget there. She has a a very long relationship with Gavin Newsome there. I would be curious to know what did Kla Harris know about this fraud in Los Angeles County and when did she know it? That would be at the top of my of my list of questions."
And you've got Camala Harris and Gavin Newsome, the front runners for the uh Democratic presidential candidacy in 2028. I mean, that is the best they have at the moment. And let's have a look at California to see how well that's going. Now, I saw a piece you wrote for the LA Times, a fantastic piece on what victory would look like for the US in the Iran war. Tell me why you see this war as fitting the America first agenda and when and how can the Trump administration exit this conflict?
"Sure. So this war is not something that came by surprise. There are a lot of folks that are saying this is not what Donald Trump campaigned on. He campaigned on on ending forever wars and so he did. So So he absolutely did. But but the framing is off. freedom. Uh, I don't have to be the one to tell you that the Iranian regime has been at war with the United States and the West, but really above all, possibly the United States for 47 years. How do I know that? Because they literally chanted every single day because their very first act, the revolutionaries very first act back in the Jimmy Carter presidency in 1979 was to storm the United States embassy. That was their first act. They held the Americans hostage for 444 days. They have not stopped killing Americans ever since then. from the Hezbollah Beirut barracks bombings back in 1983 all the way to the roadside IEDs in Iraq from Kasames Sulammani until most recently the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump on our own soil for which a Pakistani national was actually just recently convicted here in federal court. So they've been doing this for a very very very long time. So the war is has been waged against United States whether Americans think about it or whether we want to acknowledge it or not. The only difference is that Donald Trump is a man who is finally finally finally actually addressing this headon. He's not interested in kicking the can down the road like prior presidents have been doing for 47 years and counting there now. He's not going to drag this on forever. It's not going to be an interminable Iraq or Afghanistan like conflict. He has no interest in trying to sculpt a Jeffersonian or Lockian liberal democracy there in Iran. Rather, the goal of Operation Epic Fury from an American national interest, therefore a MAGA America America first perspective. The the goal here is to neutralize the Islamic Republic of Iran as a threat to the United States and our interest. We've already come a pretty far away on that. The task is not yet completed there. But that is that is the goal on its own terms. When that goal has been met, and it's it's admittedly a debate as to exactly how to judge that that goal, but when that goal is met, this operation can can be finished. Now, the ideal situation, the ideal goal, of course, is for the United States and our Israeli allies to lay the conditions for the Iranian people to take matters into their own hands and to actually make sure that this most horrific of regimes goes to the hellish ash tube of history where it so richly belongs there. But while that is the ideal scenario, that is not necessarily the the strict necessary criteria in my estimation for this operation succeeding on its own terms. the operation from our perspective here in the US is a success when the the the nation of Iran is no longer a threat to the United States. Ideally, that's regime change, but I think it's at least theoretically possible for something slightly less than that. I'm thinking here along the lines of the Venezuela model where you have a Deli Rodriguez type figure, someone who is technically on paper of the regime, but she's he or she is basically just doing the biddings of the United States in in reality. If that doesn't happen, if the regime manages to hold on for weeks, months, and we've got the midterms looming, how will that factor into the equation? Because this is a conflict you would think the president would like to wrap up well before the midterms. >> It's a great question and I I I think certainly Republicans would prefer that this war be be wound up sooner rather than later. I think no one wants to head into into August, September, October with with a monthsl long campaign in the Middle East fund front and center for voters. The the big question, Rita, comes to the price of oil. What is what is going to happen here when it comes to oil? Energy is kind of the mother's milk of prices more generally. If you buy any goods, if you purchase food, the supermarkets, it's it's all downstream of energy because those goods were transported there on tankers, on airplanes, on trucks. It it literally all comes from energy. So, wherever the oil markets are, I think is going to be the number one factor here. And oil has spiked. It hasn't spiked quite as much as people, I think, in many ways thought it would because America is now the world's number one exporter actually of oil and natural gas. So, let's see what happens with the street of Hormuz. And I guess Trump's message to our NATO quote unquote allies is pretty clear, which is you guys should help us. You guys should help us secure the street of Hormuz, which is this this 21 mile choke point that Iran controls there. Make sure the energy flows there. Frankly, he he could say to Kira Stormer, Emanuel and these guys there, you know, you guys should care about the price of gas just like we should. Guess what? We all drive cars. We all fly on planes there. So, it's Trump thus far has not apparently been able to convince our our very feckless, weak-minded European quote unquote allies to join us on on on this particular mission. But, God willing, Rita, that'll get done. And I think any midterm implications will be uh suaged if that happens."
Now, a top counterterrorism official, Joe Kent, has resigned over the war with Iran. He claims that Israel has uh misled President Donald Trump into this conflict. But Josh, despite claims that the war is splitting, MAGA, the polls say otherwise. Here is CNN.
">> You know, sometimes you look at the polling data and there are numbers that just jump off the screen at you. And this is one of those because just take a look here. MAGA GOP view of Trump >> approve 100% 100%. If you are a member of MAGA and the GOP, you approve of Donald John Trump. 0% say that they disapprove. You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know you can't go higher than 100%. He is the 1972 Miami Dolphins."
"Oh gosh, I love seeing those poll numbers on CNN of all places. But we keep hearing about the MAGA base being split, the America first agenda being in tatters and and uh Republicans being upset with the president, but like the polling is fairly consistent and that one is pretty emphatic, Josh. >> Yeah, the polling is very consistent. So that's the up the the thumbs up, thumbs down when it comes to MAGA approval of Donald Trump. The polling on on the specific Iran operation Rita among self-described MAG Republicans is pretty unanimous across the board as well. Anywhere between 80% and 90% of MAG Republicans >> support President Trump's crusade against the Iranian regime. This is really not a matter of doubt. Now, you would think that it is a matter of some question listening to people like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and unfortunately these days increasingly making Kelly as well and it's just not the case. It is simply not true that this is a matter of debate among self-identified MAC Republicans, which of course raised the question as to why there are some podcasters like the ones I just mentioned who want to make it seem like there is a very lively debate. And perhaps that that's a conversation from the for another day. In my estimation, Rita, it comes to 2028 and attempting to define what the American right looks like post Donald Trump. But for now, I think we can say to Joe Kent, who was on this week, good freaking riddance. Because as Donald Trump himself said at the Oval Office when he he was asked by a reporter, if you don't consider Iran a threat to United States, you should not be working for the United States government. Period. Full stop. End of story. In fact, Joe Kent ran to Tucker Carlson's show immediately, very predictable of course, to give his very first post resonation interview. And in this interview, he actually I I was shocked to see this. He actually said that the Iranian regime come years ago issued a fatwa. So an a Shiite Islamic ruling saying that the Islamic regime there cannot under Islamic law ever get nuclear weapons which he never did. This is literally pro tyrron agypro that's been disseminated across western media for decades. But he fell for this hook line and sinker. This was the former director of the counterterrorism center within the office of the director of national intelligence. So, the relevant question, Rita, we we should be asking here is how the heck did this guy get his job in the first place? That's what I'm trying to figure out."
Josh Hammer, thank you so much for your time tonight.
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