4/25/24: TikTok Vs Cable Israel Divide, Biden Says War Funding Equals Peace, Bibi Says Campus Protests Are 1930s Germany, Texas Arrests Journo At Protest, Stabbed In Eye Hoax Debunked, Republicans Push Abortion Ban, Israel Rafah Invasion Imminent, 1968 Historic Parallels

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Indeed, we do lots of big breaking news and a few big announcements here at Breaking Points as well, so I'll get to that in a minute. So first of all, TikTok very much on his way to being banned. We'll break that down for you in the context of some exclusive new breaking points, pull numbers, big stuff, so get excited for that one. We also have, while TikTok is being banned, wars are being fully funded. We'll show you

I'm very excited for your monologue today.

Is looking at the eerie parallels with nineteen sixty eight, which is something which has been much commented on recently, especially in the context of these campus protests and crackdown.

This is honestly, even I was surprised at the amount of parallel so that there are.

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Indeed, all right, shall we get to the news.

Well, let's get to the news, the news of which also involves us. So, as Crystal teed up, that legislation on TikTok officially has both moved from the House of Representatives through the United States Senate and now sign by President Biden. So what does it actually do and what does it mean TikTok. The previous iteration of the legislation, Crystal had one hundred and eighty days in which TikTok would have had to divest itself of bike Dance in his parent company.

The extension has now moved to three hundred and.

Sixty five days, very strategically, I would add, by President Biden.

So it does not happen before the twenty twenty four election.

In fact, what.

I saw at least is that if the band does go through, what happened like literally the day after if Trump were to win.

He was, yeah, no, that's correct.

Yeah, I'm in here very intentional because they know how much this is going to be objectly hated by young Americans Welton.

Stick that would be if by Dance asides not to sell it. So this is where we should then get to the CEO of TikTok, who is now revealing their new strategy. TikTok spent approximately seven million dollars lobbying against the bill. Obviously they were not successful, and their new phase that they're moving into is a legal battle challenging this in US core based on First Amendment grounds.

Let's take a listen to the CEO of TikTok and his response.

Hi, everyone, the show here. As you may have heard, Congress passed the bill that the presidents signed into law that has designed to ban TikTok in the United States that will take TikTok away from you and one hundred and seventy million Americans who find community and connection on the All platform.

Make no mistake.

This is a band a ban on TikTok, and a band on you and your voice. Politicians may say otherwise, but don't get confused. Many who sponsored the bill admit a TikTok ban is the ultimate goal. It is obviously a disappointing movement, but it does not need to be a defining one. It's actually ironic because the freedom of expression on TikTok reflects the same American values that make

All right, So there we got it is going to be the legal battle of the century. This is a multi billion dollar product. From what I've been able to glean so far, this is going to be based on a First Amendment interpretation and challenge of the law. They will argue that it violates the free speech rights of users to have the app content that's banned if it

So President Biden, given you your way.

Yeah, I'm fine with it, but we can talk a little bit about why exactly we got here.

Let's talk about that.

Actually, I want you to be able to Yeah, I mean we're about to share some poll numbers and listen. By the way, plenty of the members who were in favor of this were quite explicit they're banning TikTok because they don't like the fact that young people on the platform were seeing the scenes of horror out of Gaza. They don't like the fact that you were able to bypass mainstream news.

They don't like the fact that pro.

Palestine content was wildly more popular on TikTok than the pro Israel line. And so they were quite explicit that that's why they're moving forward with this ban and frankly, I think we should all find that terrifying. You know, they're picking up on this Chinese connection to ban TikTok. Let's say it is bought by Steve Manuchin. Is that better he has ties to Israel and Saudi Arabia.

And make no mistake.

If they decide they don't like the tenor of the discourse on any other platform, well now they've got a roadmap to do the exact same thing to Twitter to you know, we're going to show you some poll numbers showing that actually the most pro Palestine individuals get their news from podcasts and YouTube, So we're certainly not.

Safe here either.

So we should see this ban as being of a piece with the campus crackdown that we're going to cover later in the show. And oh, by the way, under the radar, someone was you know, who's quite knowledgeable on policy, was noting on Twitter that they're also coming after the nonprofit status of pro Palestine organizations. So listen, people who are in power are very concerned that they've clearly lost the debate on Israel right sixty forty against military aid.

This is quite extraordinary.

So one of the things we did and are pulling where we have a lot more data to gets you guys, we just honestly haven't had a chance to go through all of it and sort through it. So next week you can look forward to a lot more data that we got from this pull from Jail Partners that we conducted, which is largely about Israel and Palestine. One of the things we wanted to focus on is okay how are people getting their news and how is that related to

Big, big part of their news, which is over the oh, it's terrifying.

Thirty to forty nine, you've got YouTube and CNN basically tied for number one in terms of their news consumption. But for the purposes of this conversation, just look at how influential TikTok is for that eighteen to twenty nine demographic. And if we can put the next slide up on the screen, you can see now. I think that remember

To happen, right I will be very honest. I think it is absolutely because of Palestine. The reason is the thing is, though sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend. And I've been talking about this long before Palestine, or I mean, I think I have very first segment I ever dine on TikTok was twenty eighteen, whenever I was a guest host on Rising. So, just so people want to know about my bona fides on the issue, I accused you of just being I've been against.

This for a long time.

I believe it is a basic market fairness provision where our companies are banned their country and thus they should not be allowed in hours. I would have banned it back in twenty eighteen, long before it ever got to one hundred and seventy million Americans. Now that's said, you know, at the end of the day, I'm going to take it because this is a market fairness position which I vehemently have always been a proponent of. I believe strongly

So if this is what it takes, so be it now.

The reason that I don't I do disagree though, is that if you notice the podcast and YouTube number on that one is actually larger than TikTok for people, So YouTube is not going anywhere. YouTube is a US company. Twitter is a US company. All of these other companies are podcasting platforms, et cetera. Even Spotify, although a Swedish traded in US markets, None of those have any danger of getting banned. Under this all free expression will continue.

The Chinese they don't. They're not Americans.

At the end of the day, those people are a geopolitical rival who have a direct interest in fomenting whatever they want.

Now what are they fomenting here? I have no idea.

Okay, the Chinese, they don't particularly care about pales sign. They're just one of those people. They love chaos here. And I would say there's a reason that they've banned our tech companies in their country because they want them to have no influence.

Now, they do want like basically also media for kids.

That's not no, that's not very limitedly.

They have their own TikTok version which has a different algorithm, and they.

Have saying they have much more regulations perhaps of what kids can do. You probably support.

It's complicated.

Let me just say though, Okay, let's say that your YouTube. Let's say that you're I mean Elon Musk. He does whatever he does, so let's kind of put him to the side.

But let's talk about YouTube.

We've seen the way that the government puts pressure on them to censor. So are they gonna like completely take down YouTube. No, But after YouTube executives have seen the way that they were willing to come for TikTok because they were allowing content that the powers that be didn't like. You don't think they're going to get that message time they get one of their little friendly requests on the administration. Of course they are, So you know, I think this

And once you.

Justify one massive social media company being banned under that context, I think you've opened Pandora's box.

And the last thing I'll say is listen.

Number one, even the Intel agencies have admitted that any like Chinese data problem is purely hypothetical.

Okay, No one's been able to.

Lay out like, Okay, here's exactly the problem, here's exactly what we're concerned about.

That's number one.

Number Two, if you're concerned about data privacy, pass a data privacy law that applies to everyone, that doesn't just take out this one platform because you don't like the views that are being expressed.

Again, my counter would be this is that if a government is censoring of social media companies like YouTube and all that, you and I, as citizens of a journalist organization, can submit a Freedom of Information Act request and we can get access to that. We can sue the government, We can pressure our Congress to actually enable legislation. We have no zero visibility on the ability to do that with TikTok. Second, you know, and what you're saying, I mean,

We have no say on TikTok content policy.

Even on data privacy, Let's say that we did pass some data privacy law and transparency, et cetera. It still wouldn't get to the algorithmic and influence changes that would happen from the Chinese Communist Party.

And I also would dispute what you said.

I mean, I've done a lot of monologues here about how bike Dance and the CCP does directly control a lot of TikTok and specifically has those people answer them and have used them for spying purposes on US citizens. This is out there in the public. The CEO directly lied to Congress. It is a unique situation.

I mean, let's say, data that is available to them via you know, owning TikTok is also like available for sale anywhere. So it's not like getting rid of TikTok gets rid of access to this data.

It is true, Well, then.

They can buy it.

They can buy it on the dark web like the Russians do. They're not going to at least get it handed to the bar the US. My fine, I don't care about that at the very least.

Why do you care about it when it comes from TikTok but not when it comes from you know, other sources.

Because it is a foreign government that has direct control of a U.

I think you're listen.

I know that you are genuine and also consistent in these principles. I just really disagree about both the means in which this was done and also that I mean, first of all, I don't think that American data is any safer from getting rid of TikTok or forcing it to be sold to Steve Manduchin, who does have these, you know, foreign government entangles and entanglements in his own agenda, et cetera. I don't see that as a superior situation.

Now, yes, there's stuff in.

There about China and data and whatever, But if you don't think that that same logic is going to be applied elsewhere, or that other platforms aren't going to look at how heavy handed this is and say, gosh, we don't want that to happen to us, I guess we better crack down on these pro Palestine voices or on shows like ours or podcasts that are similar. I just think that that's really I think it's naive.

I understand where you're coming from. I read the legislation very thoroughly. There is no danger for YouTube, podcast, Twitter, rumble, any of the companies that people have been worried about. If there was to be a danger, and this is people are like, well, they could come after Elon because he does a lot of business in China. I'm like, well, first of all, you probably shouldn't be doing a lot

Like, the legislation is very very thing.

I'm not just talking about this legislation. I'm talking about what you've opened the door to. The precedent has now been set that Congress can move and act if they don't like the content that's on a platform.

There's no putting that back in the box.

I would put it this way.

Then.

I believe in much higher taxes for the rich if Republicans, and I also believe in one hundred percent endowment tax. So if Republicans are like, hey, we need to tax Columbia's endowment for anti Semitism, I'd be like, listen, I think that's dumb, but take it. You know, because I'm gonna nupe them with it whatever I can in the

I agree.

Look, my principles will never be compromised, but in terms of desired end states, if they hit Columbia with one hundred percent of downment tax for anti Semitism, it's going to have the same net effect that I want. Regardless, now, I will continue to fight and I would say that it was dumb to do so.

I think it's dumb to.

Do this now, and I certainly agree in terms of rhetorical precedent, I don't think you're wrong at all. But there is a reality to working within the US political system and getting things done. I mean, this is something that we all recognize. For the end states of what we want, Disparate coalitions can come together for different things. Now, I don't support the vast majority of the rest of the package or any of that. But you know, I

I'm like, okay, fine.

You know, it's like, let's take it. Let's take what we can get. I don't think it's necessarily a good impetus. But if that leads to a blanket you know, ultra millionaire reduction in nepotism and in generational wealth, I'm fine with that.

See, I don't agree with that because if because there's a limit, you know, obviously, look, there's there's cases where you're like, Okay, well I don't have the argument that you're making for this, but I like the o income.

So fine.

But let's say let's let's just take your example. Let's say the argument to tax Colombia's endowment or raise taxes on the rich or whatever is like, they're Nazi, so we have.

To tax them.

Well, again, once you are going down the pathway of we're going to use the power of the state against people whose political ideology we don't like, that's a really slippery slope to all sorts of outcomes that I don't want, And I mean to start with, I don't want.

This outcome with TikTok.

So it's not really an applicable example here, but you know, just to we have one more slide we can put up here that under scores why this is happening right now. So the question here is, you know, who do you feel more sympathy with Israel or the Palestinians. And if you look at print media, if you look at cable news, very clear pluralities in favor of Israel. If you look at TikTok, and if you look at podcasts, it's totally flipped the TikTok social media folks a third say they're

So you know, I just I look.

At these numbers, and especially since the podcast YouTube piece is similar to the social media piece, like that's the next logical target, and you can see what's happening, you know, right now on cause campuses.

You can see how much energy this has.

It's one hundred percent support in the Republican Caucus and probably like percent supported within the Democratic Caucus. So you've now got this bipartisan consensus in favor of we're going to ban platforms, We're going to crack down and like

I do not disagree with you in terms of the protesters, it's specifically in this case. I will say, look, if they do come for YouTube, podcast, RSS, feed encryption, et cetera, I'll be right there on the front lines with you, and I will be marching. And if I here's it, Okay, here's another one, since I've had to eat a stock before on camera. If they use this specific legislation to

I don't believe that it's humanly possible.

Every lawyer that I've spoken to, everything that we're down the line is talking about hypotheticals. And again, if and when there is some some bipartisan consensus directly to censored this program, podcasting, Rumble, Twitter, YouTube with Snapchat, any of these other US based companies, Facebook, Instagram, I will radically oppose it, and I do not believe actually it would

So it seems to me that in terms of the China agenda, Joe Biden has done a lot of the things that were on your wish list.

I continue the.

Tariffs, well hips sacks, but that's actually up for branning tiktoks.

You're gonna give them some credit.

Sure, I'll give them credit, absolutely. I mean, who championed the chipsack me? I said, your SAA, that was great. I mean, I'm not necessarily saying everything the man had done is bad.

He pulled out of Afghanistan. I supported it.

I support the Chipsack, I support the TikTok legislation. I'm trying to think what else has he done on China? On the tariffs, he kept the Trump tariffs.

But would you say, from your perspective, he's been better on China than Trump.

No, I don't think you could say that in terms of in terms of actual execution. The only things he really built on were chips Act. Even here on TikTok, I mean, he didn't actually propose it. Congress is the one.

Is getting done under him.

You guys. But I'm not saying that he's.

Trumps book club now he's on the other side.

It is true, absolutely, I was comparing it to his record for the tariffs. I would give Trump more credit because he actually fought against the establishment to put it in.

Biden simply renewed it.

In terms of how the two would govern on Trump, I genuinely have no idea which way you would go the.

Next time around.

Biden also, though, has been very very different in terms of some like fake climate policy whenever he's done with China, which I do not support, and there's a couple of other things. But yeah, I mean, look, you're not wrong. He's done certainly some of the things that I would have advocated for. And as the chorus, I think I could say too that you will ask me. I have given him credit where I think he deserves it.

Yeah, I do. No, it is it is absolutely one of my core issues, no question.

Let's talk about some of the things we agree upon and both hate.

Let's go to wars.

Yeah, these wars were definitely both going to be against jee President Joe Biden. He has come out and now said that the one hundred billion dollars we will be shipping to foreign wars, both in Israel and Ukraine, will bring peace and peace and strength in our land, and very much in the way that Neville Chamberlain once did in Munich in nineteen thirty eight.

Here was his remarks when he signed the legislation.

It's a good day for America. It's a good day for European it's a good day for world peace and for real, this is consequential. I just signed in the law of the National Security Package that was passed by the House Representatives this weekend and by the Senate yesterday.

There you go, When our allies are stronger, we are stronger. This is going to be all about peace through strength.

It's funny.

The reason I put that Munich and dig in there, Crystal is that they often try and use that against opponents, and I'm going to try and start weaponizing it and say no, no, no, Actually you're the chamberlains because they're like, this is if everything is peace through strength, or everything is peace in our time, then nothing is peace in our time. And in fact, this is just fundling an

You really see it in that.

I mean, I don't even know what to say about this crap anymore. Like it's just sickening to me. It's sickening to me, you know, especially with regard to Israel. Like here we are watching an imminent invasion of Rafa, which five seconds ago the media was claiming it was

Next week, are overwhelming.

There's a bipartisan consensus among the American people in favor of among Republicans, Democrats, and independence, in favor of stopping the slaughter in Gaza. And he's out here talking, oh, this is going to bring peace.

It's sick.

And on Ukraine, listen, you know it's I think the Ukrainian piece is frankly more complicated. But what's the goal here, what's the end plan? How are you going to say this money is going to fund peace when all it does is lead to more war. I mean, that's the bottom line. But the next piece you highlighted this, you can explain this.

Let's up there please.

You know we're instantly now shipping long range missiles to Ukraine. I'm the type that the Biden administration previously said like, oh, no, we don't want to do that because we might risk a provocation with Russia. Now Here we frickin are And again, what's the plan? If you've got a plan for peace, we would dearly love to know how these billions of dollars are going to lead to anything more than the continued slaughter of Ukrainian men.

Yeah, so these longer range missiles were ones that we refuse to send to Ukraine out of fear that they

Now, why do you think that all is?

It's so that none of us were to actually realize both the Ukrainian desire to actually bring the war to Russia, to actually make sure that we get pulled into the war with Russia, but second, so that all of us don't debate and understand the stakes of an extra sixty billion.

Dollars to this dangerous regime.

Second is that is very clear in terms of the artillery numbers that are now acknowledged by the Ukrainian General staff in the Ukrainian military that they have put out there publicly.

At best, given their current.

Fires rate where they are right now for defense, they will run out of artillery in one year, and that the Russian artillery advantage will remain of five to one. So all we have done is fund the continued slaughter of these Ukrainian men and give them the ability to continue losing the way that they have lost. And when we consider what the Russian negotiators ask them for this is another canard which is driving me nuts. Now that all the documents are public from those peace talks in

That's it.

They kept saying neutrality, neutrality, and neutrality andutrality. You can't join NATO, you can't join NATO, you can't join NATO. And everyone's like, this war is not about NATO. Well then why whenever the actual war was going on and they were trying to get concessions with the Ukrainians, did they say just say that you won't join NATO.

That's it. So if that's really all that we could get, that's all.

We have to do is tell them like, hey, guys, all right, we're gonna give you some weapons, a little bit of security guarantee on the side, not you know, full blown war, but you're not going to join NATO and then we could all just move on with our lives and there could be peace or at least lack of conflict for now in Eastern Europe.

How is that not.

Worth it compared to you know where we are right now. It's madness.

Well here's the thing, like, here's what they'd say, Well, you can't trust Podin. They Okay, we may say that, but you know he's just going to use that as an excuse to then continue his.

March through Europe or whatever the hell.

And listen, maybe maybe I severely doubt it, because it's not like this has been really great for Russia either, especially at that point.

But there's one way to find out. And then if this was.

Just a pretext to then go and break the agreement immediately and move into you, then we can act accordingly. But you have to do peace deals with people you don't like or trust, with nation state governments that you don't.

Like or trust. That's the way that it works.

So listen, we know what's going on here, because even you know, in our lives, we've seen the way that these the logic of these wars just continues and continues

Not even any talk of it ending.

It's just we're going to continue to spend this money and write another check and whatever we need to do. We've got our little pro Ukraine consensus. We've got Trump on board. Now, we got McConnell, we got a Keen Jeffries, we got Mike Johnson, we got Joe Biden, like we got a lock on both parties to just continue funding this thing forever and never have to take the heat over because imagine, imagine that Biden did what we would want him to do, and he actually said, you know what,

So that's where we are.

We are in the indefinite, forever war phase of the Ukraine War where they don't even talk anymore about how it might come to a close because they have no plan for that. They have no plan for that. And you know, with Israel, by the way. One other thing I want to mention about the actual vote. There were only this is so disgusting to me. There were only three Democrats who voted against it. Peter Welsh, kudos to him. Bernie Sanders, kudos to him, and Jeff Murkley kudos to

By all the pieces.

And also so that people don't have to be on the record on each of these individual pieces, because I guarantee you if you went to van on, why'd you vote for this Israel funding unconditional support, He'd say, well, I have the Ukrainians.

So that's how you end up.

With, you know, people who have claimed to be opposed at this point to unconditionally supporting bb Net and Yahoo's genocide, how they still end up voting for it and sleeping at night apparently looking at themselves in the America.

Oh, because it's the Ukrainians.

Yeah, no, you're right. And also we've just seen continued escalations.

Put this up there here, you know, from the Israelis, the Israeli strikes. This is from Haretz quote reports the most severe attacks there in weeks. So we'll end, you know, with some of the words from Michael Tracy, who I thought put it well. Putting aside my disagreement with him on the TikTok piece, let's go to his tweet bear please. He says, this was the most disturbing legislative process I've seen in fifteen plus years of covering US politics. A threshold,

And then you see that.

Over eighty to ninety percent of the Republicans in the Senate ended up voting for it.

You're like, well, how does this work?

Same on Democrats yeah, you may have a bunch eighteen twenty years nine year olds screaming on a college campus. It doesn't matter when the boomers are watching MSNBC and they love Bbie and they love Israel because they don't see some of the stuff that we show you here on this show. And it's like, as long as that's reality, we're all locked in. You know, I'm thirty two years old, and until these people are gone, it's going to be I'll be I'll be their age by the time we

So who don't even know.

But I like to think that we'll have more humility though, as people who had to go through this, to look at the people who are coming up and say, I know what it was like to be you and to be totally powerless in your own country.

I one of alls.

So make sure to highlight that Michael Tracy tweet just because he's been such a resource.

Yes, that's right.

He's done such a great job, you know, really covering the ins and outs of this legislative process, and we've really relied on him and his analysis as well. Since he's reading through the bills and he's very good at picking out some of the critical pieces. So just want to make sure to give him a shout out as well for doing great coverage.

So subscribe to a substack if we can, we'll put a link there in the description.

He's a great guy, even when I disagree.

I think he's very very I think he's very very good faith and principal in the way that he approaches thing, is very upfront about the way he is, and that's actually quite rare in this business.

So shops shout outstand.

So, as we've been covering all week, there has been a nationwide moral panic freak count and attendant authoritarian state crackdown on peaceful college protesters who are upset about the atrocities they witness in Gazan who specifically want their schools to divest from any related investments. Prime Minister of Israel bb Natan Yahoo has joined the fray, issuing this statement and calling American college students effectively Nazis.

Take a listen.

What's happening in America's college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities they call for the annihilation of Israel. They attack Jewish students, they attack Jewish faculty. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in nineteen thirties. It's unconsidable. It has to be stopped. It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally. But that's not what happened. The response of several university presidents was shameful.

Oh my god, Zaga, I'm going to lose my mind. I mean, this has it, has it all? We're going to just let a foreign government leader smear our college kids as Nazis.

In addition, I mean, I have a million things I want to say about this.

I'm like sort of sputtering with anger at every piece of that. How much have the Jewish students who are at the heart of these protests been completely erased the idea that they're calling for death to all Jews? What they want their themselves to be killed? They want themselves to be genocided? Like this isn't It's so insane. Ryan and Emily did a great interview yesterday with one of the student organizers on Columbia.

She was out buying.

Ingredients for their satyr, which they had very peacefully interfaith. Okay, that's what we're talking about here. And are there some rally chants that I wouldn't necessarily choose?

Sure?

Are there some genuinely anti Semitic comments that are made in the context of especially not even the college campus but outside. Sure, Okay, there are assholes and racists exist, no doubt about it, But you're going to use that to smear everyone who is sick to death watching these

With the state of Israel. Okay, because we can.

All see what you're doing on TikTok and YouTube and lots of other places. Your soldiers, your idf soldiers, are out there tiktoking their war crimes.

We're not idiots. We can see. And it's not just college kids.

It's the un special rabbertur, It's the ICJ saying plausible genocide. It's the body count, it's the relentless, complete siege. It's the fact that you're about to imminently invade Rafa, where more than a million Palestitians are currently sheltering like ugh, sickening, sickening, And the fact that politicians in America are letting this foreign leader smear our kids as racist and Nazis, and they just let this go and they freaking support it.

Oh.

See, that latter part is where I wouldn't even bother pointing out hypocrisy. I would just say, hey, man, you worry about your country and we'll worry about ours.

And in fact, you especially shouldn't be worrying about ours.

And talking about ours when you are actively telling us not to sanction your units based upon our you know, US laws like the Leahy law, when you're actively your president just put out a police saying please stay out of Israeli politics whenever they attack Chuck Schumer or others for calling for an end to the Netan Yahu government by saying, hey, you shouldn't be calling for interference in

Of our politics, and you worry about your own business.

And the impunity is cultivated by Joe Biden. He knows he can say that he can smear whoever he wants is a Nazi. I mean, he's actually comparing the whole country to Nazi Germany because he says, oh, this, we haven't seen this since that time period. We haven't seen

After meeting with Jewish students.

Let's listen live in the Columbia campus.

So thank you all for being here today. We have several members of Congress here, and we're here today at one of America's pre eminent academic institutions on a very important day and a very important time throughout history Columbia here.

So anyway, receiving a warm welcome there, and you know it's notable. I believe they had a few Jewish members along with them. They managed to remain safe in spite of the fact that this is apparently you know, Nazi Germany and Manhattan at this point and you were talking about this, I think you should lay this out. But like, there's a very clear political benefit here for Mike Johnson, who has some problems with parts of his coalition because of the Ukraine Aid stuff. This is this crackdown on

This is very useful to Mike Johnson because he was facing that motion motion to vacate revolt that was on his right flank from Freedom Caucus types and others. So by going to Columbia, even with all of the Republican leadership that he had behind him, including a few others that were willing to make the track, he actually is solidifying some of his support within the caucus and then turning the tables, like you said, in terms of a

Yeah, police day crackdowns on peaceful protesters apparently unifying issue for the Republican caucus and frankly for much of the Democratic cacus. Are a number of Democratic members of Congress who went and toured Colombia too, and amazingly, thank goodness, they were able to remain safe. What an incredible miracle. Obviously, this is not just Colombia at this point. Also an update there. The president has been, you know, in some

So you see him.

There with his camera like he's got his pressed credentials on, He's just doing his job, and you can see him grabbed by the police, thrown to the ground, okay, and then he is zip tied and arrested.

Here, let's go ahead and switch out throw to He.

Was interviewed by someone else who was on the scene there and explains like, I'm just here trying to do my job.

Let's take a listen to what he had to say.

Were you RINOs?

I think it's uh. They were pushing me and I they say that I had an officer.

I think again an officer where you're pushing you know what I mean? They're pushing me. Everyone. What's your name in naming data birth.

We're gonna send attorney to you.

Has this happened.

To me before? What is going on?

I mean, he's literally doing his job. You can see very clearly on camera. He didn't push anybody. He has his press credentials that are around his neck. He had the live view backpack, so he's broadcasting live.

They've charged him with criminal trustpassing, which also tells you that, oh, he hit an officer is bullshit because if he hit an all officer, he'd be charged with assault exactly, even if it was like colorable. But that was a complete lie. So he's this American journalist, local news journalist being charged with criminal treuspassing for.

Doing his job.

Governor Abbott has almost certainly violated Texas law here and we can show you some of the evidence.

Just go and put this up there on the screen.

Governor Abbot tweeted, quote, arrests are being made now, right now and will continue until the crowd disperses.

These protesters belong in jail.

Listen to this very clearly, he says anti Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas period. Students joining in hate field anti Semitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled. So he is explicitly saying that the pro test is being broken up because of ideology. This again is very clearly a violation of Texas law, which clearly lays out that at a public university the only way that you are allowed to break up protests

Yeah, listen, I'm not a legal expert on this, but I can tell you the Supreme Court has upheld numerous times that First Amendment rights apply on public university campuses. So when you're talking about this kind of crackdown at UT Austin, it is a very different The moral landscape is the same, but the legal landscape is very different. And then you also have to talk about just the

Word about free speech.

It was always naked and very selective, but it has never been more naked and selective than right now. I mean, some of these like billionaire Republican donors who three minutes ago were funding all of these free speech efforts and pressuring to allow you know, Ben Shapiro or whoever to appear on college milo Unapolis or whoever to appear on college campuses.

Suddenly, oh, oh, I'm offended, this speech is violence.

They sound like the greatest caricature the liberals could have never in their wildest dreams imagine this kind of nationwide crackdown from New York to Texas to la It is so despicable and enraging I can't even begin to comment, and so disconnected from what is actually happening on these campuses.

If you go to the protest, if you speak.

To the students who are involved in engaging in it, they will come right out and say, we are totally opposed to violence. We completely condemn that, we completely condemn anti semitism.

By the way, many of.

Us are ourselves Jewish, insane, insane situation.

Well, I mean, and this is where I even have to move past it and say even if they were anti Semitic, they are still US citizens who have the right to do what they want. So that was a white nationalist group, I would say the exact same thing, And they probably hate my guts because I'm from Texas and apparent according them, I shouldn't have even been there in the first place. I don't mind if that's what they want to say. You know, we are all Americans.

We don't know what's going to.

Happen there, and I want to say too, Like obviously with the Columbia example, this isn't a red state phenomenon. This is like a you know, elite bipartisan instances in California and Blue California, LA. They also sent in the cops to arrest I believe, somewhere around one hundred students to keep you know, an encampment from growing in size there, and they've poured gasoline on the fire. I mean, these encampments.

I was going to say, it's over in about like two weeks.

If you had just allowed these things to go and do their thing and like peacefully fizzle out, you probably wouldn't have had I mean, you wouldn't have had this big momentum here at the end of the school year and all of this fraud situation at Columbia university cancel classes for the rest of the year, Like you wouldn't have had this insanity if the Columbia University president hadn't sent in the police to you know, crack down on

The fallout dogged Columbia for years.

It took decades for the university to recover from those turbulent times. They go on to say Columbia's commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of those long ago events with a deep dive of scholarship and exhibits chronicling what happened then in its effects today. So apparently they need to do a little deeper dive into that scholarship to realize that guess what those lessons you learn back in nineteen sixty eight,

Stay tuned.

It is exactly fifty six years ago to the day, which is wild like to the day of where all of this was going down. And if we listened to the lessons of sixty eight, there's a lot more chaos toic.

Come.

Let's talk about a hoax, shall we? Let's talk about us.

There's nothing I love more than hoaxes.

So are you covering you will recall I joined Piers Morgan's Piers Morgan Uncensored this week and one of the individuals that I was on with was a Jewish student at Yale who claimed she had been and these were her words.

Stabbed in the eye with a flag. Okay.

Now, I noted in the segment her eye seemed okay, okay, and this happened only I believe two days prior, so you typically, I believe if you're stabbed in the eye, the recovery time is a little bit lengthier.

But okay, I'm gonna.

Yeah, taking the word for it, taking your word, right, what.

Am I gonna do? I'm gon take you out your Word'm glad you're okay.

Well, now video has emerged of the I stabbing, and go ahead and put this up on the screen. So, okay, you can see she's in the middle of protest, she's recording. There's people who are all around her. You know, they're wearing their cafeas they're doing their thing.

They're moving by.

Okay, I don't know, you know exactly what's happening here, but there's just a lot of people moving around. Right, Someone comes close. Okay, oh there's the flag, and and okay, that was it. That was the I stabbing. Someone walked by with a flag. It's not even clear that she was hit with the flag at all. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. I guess, even though it's clearly not deserved, that maybe the flag accidentally, you know, grazed her somewhere in the eye vicinity.

But put the next piece up on the screen.

This is how this was reported in Barry Wise's The Free Press. Here's literally the headline, I was stabbed in the eye at Yale. The school has allowed anti Israel students to run roughshod for their most basic policies. Yesterday, I paid the price for their inaction. And the first line of this piece, by the way, is also I was stabbed in the eye last night on Yale University's campus because I am a Jew.

There was no eye stabbing. There was no eye stabbing.

You were, like, maybe potentially grazed unintentionally with a flag.

That is clearly what happened in the video.

It's no wonder even though she took this video, she did not circulate this video when she was doing her whole I was stabbed in the I pressed her. And by the way, it wasn't just Barry Weiss's outlet that they were the ones that initially ran that.

This got picked up everywhere and.

Obviously you know Peers Moorgan featured her testimony here as well.

Well.

Was she on her way to subway? Is that what was going on? Was she on her way to subway sandwiches two in the morning? Were there any maga hats involved over here?

I see what you're doing the ice, so I forgot about the sub maga mullet.

Where there were there's some where? Was that guy a personal trainer or something? Was what was going on there with all of this? Listen, this is all complete bullshit.

And as my I urge everyone in this rule, if there is any claim of assault, of racism, of any attack of which you stand to benefit or which benefits a political cause, my rule is it didn't happen. It didn't happen. The burden of proof is on you. And even then, if it's on camera, it's probably exaggerated, which is the evidence that we all have here. I often tell the story, but Rolling Stone is what really made me create that rule.

But where I went to school.

George Washington University was the site of one of the original panics over Swastika's, where a student kept calling the police saying that someone was drawing a swastika on her dorm room and America freaked out. This was a nationwide story. Oh my god, Swastka's being done on.

The dorm room.

So GW put a camera in the dorm to make sure that they could catch the swastika drawer. Who do we all think it was who was drawing the swastika?

It was her.

It was her the whole time.

These people are victims, and I'm talking about you know, but what's that guy's name, Nascar Bubba, whatever his name is, and the news how did that work out? The NASCAR nows Rolling Stone. I mean, there's if you want to get controversial, Christine blasi Ford.

I mean, in every case, several years later.

We can look back and just be like, yeah, this was some straight up bs that completely was used for political benefits.

So I urge everyone to use that rule. Whenever you're looking through this.

Be deeply, deeply, deeply, deeply skeptical. And I mean I was privately cracking jokes in our group chat and all this, but like, yeah, where's your eyepatch? You know, making all of this because I didn't believe it from the beginning. I'm not going to say that in public, but now that the video has come out, I feel very very comfortable ridiculing and making fun of this lady.

Well, and here's the thing is, it wasn't without consequence. Like I'm personally extra irritated because I had to like, you know, be yea, let's be sympathetically to this person. And it was so emotionally manipulative, and not to me, who cares me, but to the whole audience. This was a big part of what sparked now this total freak out and crackdown. And you know, the people who initially read the like, oh someone was stabbed an eye nonsense from a variety of news outlets, They're never going to

It's like it is like a sickness.

This shy DIVIDI guys definitely fits that mold as well, where it's like they're so desperate to be a victim that you'll go in and just invent some of you'll go into the situation hoping that something happens that you can even colorably pretend was, you know, a hate crime, a grave victimization of you versus someone like accidentally bumping into with like insane. By the way, just to show you like this isn't our first trip to this rodeo.

This was a minor blip.

Back in December, the same woman had tweeted out imagine returning to your dining hall to find that salad labels were renamed to remove mention of the salads being Israeli. That happened at Yale. This it's the subtle changes and reactions that are the most pernicious.

So apparently there.

Was some Israeli couscous salad that she claimed the sign verbiage had been changed. Literally the next day, some other student at Yale was like, here's the sign.

It still says Israeli couscouse like relaxed.

Yeah, no, it was a complete hoax as well. So you know, hoax me once, Shame on me. I hoaxed me twice, shame on you.

Yes.

Indeed, all right, let's move on to some additional domestic situations that are onfolio.

This is really important.

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about the Idaho state almost complete abortion ban and whether it is in conflict with a federal law that mandates and this is for any hospital that takes medic air funds, which is basically every hospital that mandates that they perform emergency care and stabilize patients.

So let's take a listen.

This was a very interesting exchange from liberal Justice Sonia Soda Mayor and then backed up by conservative Justice Amy Cony Barrett, very concerned about the implications of this Idaho abortion band for women.

Let's take a listen.

Imagine a patient who goes to the ar with pre prompt fourteen weeks. Again abortion is accepted. She's up. She was in and out of the hospital up to twenty seven weeks. This particular patient they tried had to deliver her baby. The baby died, she had a hysterectomy, and she can no longer have children. All right, you're telling me the doctor there couldn't have done the abortion earlier.

It goes back to whether a doctor can in good faith medical judgment.

That's a lot for the doctor to risk.

Well, I think it's protection of doctor judgment.

When id the whole law changed to make the issue whether she's going to die or not, or whether she's going to have a serious medical condition. There's a big day life by your standards, correct.

It is very case by case. The example that I'm kind.

Of shocked actually because I thought your own expert had said below that these kinds of cases were covered, and you're now saying they're not.

No, I'm not saying that, that's just my point, your honor is that.

Well, you're hedging.

I mean, Jessice Sodomower's asking you would this be covered or not? And it was my understanding that the legislature's witnesses said that these would be covered.

And those doctors said, if they were exercising their medical judgment, they could in good faith determine that life saving care was necessary. And that's my point is is a subjection some doctors couldn't.

Some doctors might reach a contrary conclusion. I think as well as Sodomowa is asking you.

Just think about this.

So at issue here is the fact that the law has an exception in place for the life of the mother, but not for the health of the mother. So the scenario that jess as Sonya Soda Mayor is laying out here is, let's say a woman comes to you. She's in crisis, her health is failing, but she's not dying.

Now.

If you perform the abortion now, and this is not hypothet there are genuine instances where this is the case. If you perform the abortion now, she's going to be okay, She's going to maintain she's.

Not going to have to have an emergency hysterectomy.

She's going to be able to maintain her ability to conceive a child and have a child in the future. You know, this is presumably a woman who is pregnant, who wants to be a mother. If you don't act, if you wait for her to get to the point where she is about to die, then not only is the baby still going to die, but she's going to have to go through this emergency hysterectomy. But because her life was not literally at stake right now, there would be plenty of doctors who would look at the law

Right up, they said.

The abortion case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday featured vigorous question comments, particularly by the three liberal justices.

At issue is.

Whether Idaho's near total ban on abortion is so strict that it violates a federal law requiring emergency care for any patient, including providing abortions for pregnant women in dire situations, could reverberate Beyond Idaho, there are at least a half a dozen other states that have similar, very restrictive bands. So, again, as I was saying, it allows abortion to save the life of a pregnant woman, but not.

To prevent her health from deteriorating.

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act from nearly forty years ago says when a patient goes to emergency room with an urgent medical issue, hospitals must either provide treatment to stabilize the patient or transfer the patient to a medical facility that can stabilize the patient, regardless of the

They're actually no, I'll get to that in a minute.

He was also using this emergency medical law to assert that it should apply not only to the woman but to the fetus, so asserting some sort of like national heartbeat personhood rights to the fetus, which would open up a whole other can of worm. So I genuinely have no idea which direction this one's.

Going to go in.

Yeah, no, it is crazy.

And this is actually a real preview into post stops politics based on how that all goes, because it does show you that you can try and leave it to the states, but it's going to escalate to a federal level, like about fatal fetal personhood. What sort of ruling like that would mean. I mean, imagine for all of the states that currently have legal abortion. Conversely, in terms of the bands themselves, this is just going to insert even more pressure into the democratic process.

We can put this up there on the screen.

I found this actually an astounding statistic, So apparently that was noted. In the short time that Idaho has been allowed to enforce the abortion BAM for people who need emergency terminations, six women have actually had to be airlifted to other states for care that is illegal in Idaho, which just demonstrates also how stupid the whole policy is, because if you're just going to be airlifted to another state for the same policy, then what exactly is the point right the law on the books?

You're just freaking idam.

You're just torturing these ways.

Yeah, it's and do you know how much an airlift costs? Does anyone want to know?

Even with insurance, it's gonna what two hundred grand something like that. I mean, you're saddling these people. If they're not if they're uninsured, you're saddled with debt for life.

You're done. If a single event like this happens.

It's incredibly dangerous for these women to have to wait. They are in severe pain and suffering while they're having to be airlifted out of state to wherever to actually get the care that they need. That means that wherever that hospital is, they're not going to have their friends and family and support network around them while they're recovering, and they may have to undergo things like hysterectomies that they wouldn't have if they could have gotten immediate emergency

Put this up on the screen.

The number of young adults, young women who have decided to get their tubes tied post DOBS. I mean, huge, huge spike, which just shows you. I mean, they're basically like, listen, if I'm not going to be able to have, you know, all these options on the table, like I'm just out, I'm just not going to have kids. I'm going to take that off the table. Like, no matter what I think about in the future, this is done for me.

That's exactly why what I think, and I think this is really sad also because it's a permanent procedure, also not without risks, and also not without a cost that costs a lot of money, you know, to get.

Any of these things done.

So regardless, we're just been posing like a huge amount of costs, uncertainty, and chaos into the system all for a policy which, if we leave to the democratic process, is going to get reversed. Let's go to the next one, please, just very clearly so everyone can see. Already, despite you know, several tries by the Republicans to block it, they caved and the Arizona House is now advanced to repeal of the state's near total abortion man in the Senate.

And if you think that Arizona.

Voters aren't going to remember that it took three separate tries to get this through the Arizona houseverbal Presentatives that is controlled by the Republicans, then you're an idiot.

What they currently are.

Moving is an abortion law that would allow up to fifteen weeks in the state. But again, we are talking about a issue which had to be forced through the Congress multiple times and which Terrie Lake is on record endorsing and then flip flopping on. So even if we get to some fifteen week thing, which that was the previous iteration of the law, and in the previous iteration, there was already a campaign to move it to a statewide referendum. Because this fifteen weeks is still very unpopular.

Well, and you know how many Republicans joined with Democrats.

I know, yeah, three, Yeah.

That's it, and many of them are still opposed to this, which listen, in fairness to them, this law is consistent with what they've claimed they support for many many years, so you know, I mean true, I do think the state starts thing really is such a cop out because I'm not okay with like, oh, sure, it's fine if Idaho decides they want to torture women, Like, no, I'm not okay with that. This should be at the federal

To get this ultimately through.

But a lot of other states where even though the public may be wildly opposed to these things. You've got a very Republican dominated legislature who won't year of it. Because the pro life movement is still so powerful and so influential within the Republican caucus, and also because they have stick down this position for so many years, it's hard to just then explain why no, no, no, I didn't actually mean any of that.

Let's get rid of this band now.

National pro life is too powerful and it will never change, even if it does on a state wide level. There was a Republican governor who actually always wanted to run for president and he never did.

You may remember him, Brian Sandival. He was the governor of Nevada.

He was one of the most popular Republicans in the entire country. But he was a non starter for what reason he was pro choice and being pro choice, that was it not going to happen. There's no way even look at what happened with John McCain. John McCain was like relatively moderated on abortion by two thousand and what was he partial? He was like pro partial birth or

Look at Trump even, yeah, I mean.

I mean, that's the perfect example. He was pro choice for most of it. He was given planned parent and then he but and there were so many issues where he was happy to steamroll rhetorically over the Republican establih. I mean, the Iraq war is a perfect example. He's just like, no, this is what I think, trade with China, whatever, Like, there were a bunch of issues or the TPP trade deal that was huge with the Republican establishment, and he was willing to steamroll over that. But he knew he

Quote safe zone. There are none of those, by the way.

A few miles away along the Mediterranean coast that would be I believe it's called Mawasseie.

We've talked about this before.

Where there's there are no there is nothing set up there that would ename sewage, water, shelter, any of the basics of life there is wildly inadequate.

In any case, They go on to.

Say, just a day earlier, Israeli warplanes bombed Rafa. We covered that here, increasing fears among some of the civilians sheltering there that a ground assault would soon follow. They interview a fifty seven year old resident of Rafa who said that these indicators are quote terrifying, mean they may

Both of those cities have been wiped off the map. Gone yes, So there's nothing to go back to there.

There is no real plan that is credibile at all to protect people whatsoever. And so it's going to there's just it's going to be continued horror, like escalated horror. The death toll is going to be massive, the humanitarian toll is going to be gigantic. The diplomatic fallout with Egypt, god knows what's going to happen. There very upset about this direction. So it looks more and more like that report of Biden said, Hey, if you do a more limited strike on Iran.

Fine, you can go into Rafa. I mean that's looking very possible.

Like that actually unfolded, absolutely, and if we stick with the US political system and where things are, let's go and put this up there on the screen, because this is extraordinary. Mike Johnson says that he is admitted to

Again, keep in mind this is in the West Bank.

These are allegations that actually stem both before October seventh than others. That is a violation of the State Department's Leahy Law, which says that we will sanction any individual will not provide any US support to military battalions or forces which are engaged in what the US State Department

The White House is pushing back on that, but you're right that there was hid reports and it hasn't happened yet, and there were multiple reports that the White House was backing off of this. And there's a lot of things

So our own speaker.

Is supposedly American Speaker of the House begging this administration to violate US law. To let this unit off the hook for killing an American citizen like it's insane. And you know, I'm critical of the very limited nature of this to begin with, because the whole conceit from the Biden administration is, oh, it's just a few bad apples that it isn't the direct result of overwhelming government policy. But it's at least something, and clearly the net Nyahoo

Yeah, there you go.

So that's one where it's very very clear I think where things are going, and also the defense that they have with the political system as we grapple with what a potential invasion of RAPA would look like. We'd also be remiss if we didn't get everybody an update on the Gaza floating pier.

Yeah, tell me how is construction going?

In?

The US military was to We're putting our servicemen in danger building this peer.

All of that.

We recently got an update from the US military Pentagon spokesperson. Turns out not a single thing is actually close to being operational.

Here's what you have to say.

You have the temporary peer, which is of course several miles offshore, which can receive both military and civilian vessels. There has been no physical construction of the temporary peer or the causeway. We are positioned to begin construction very soon, in the very near future.

So very soon in the near future. It has now been forty eight days since bri Joe. I can't believe state of the units forty eight days ago. I feel like I'm living in a time vacuum. I feel like this yere covering it. But okay, put that aside. It feels like just yesterday we were covering it, we were talking about it, we were doing segments about it. It's been fifty days now and nothing is happening. In the near future. It may be operational, they put out all

So more fecklessness on the part of.

The USUS just they think we're so stupid, you know, I mean, well most people are hard like we honestly called this from the beginning that it was a total pr stunt, skeptical if it was even going to happen. We knew it was going to say they were claiming sixty days at most, at most they were.

Weren't they saying thirty to sixty days?

And that what they were saying, Yes, that's right, that's what they said.

Here we are.

Forty eight days later and they have not even started and cannot even give us a date for when it would start, Like this was just a lie, something for Joe Biden to say the State of the Union, to pretend like he cares about Palestinian civilians starving to death and dying on mass They haven't even started.

They haven't even started. Just incredible.

Meanwhile, so you've got the imminent invasion of Rafa, you already have anted up strikes which are killing Palestine civilians and many children. Now you also have Gaza basically coming to the West Bank.

Let's put this up on the screen.

There's been very little reporting on this apparently, even though there's been this has been ongoing for a while. Their headline here is Israel's hut for one elusive militant brings Gaza tactics to the West Bank. Airstrikes, drones and ground troops targeting militants turned Palestinian territory into another war front. So you know, we have already had the war expanded into Lebanon and Syria and Iran and now ramping up

Put this up on the screen.

This went sort of unremarked upon, but seems pretty significant. The headline here is the stark reality of Israel's fight in Gaza, and they're saying basically, you know, it's similar to like what Haratz had written before about if you look at their stated goals, it's not going too well. You know, they aren't really accomplishing their mission. We saw those reports that Shinwar is sort of still openly operating. The Israelis of Clay always just hunkered down in this

Hamas, which the US IS doesneyed as.

A terrorist group, Israel probably will face a lingering armed resistance from Hamas for years to come, the report said, and the military will struggle to neutralize Hamas's underground infrastructure, which allows insurgents to hide, regain strength, and surprise Israeli forces.

So even the US intel.

Community is saying, like, you're not going to defeat Hamas, and I mean that's the conceit with Rafa is like, oh, once we do that, it's the final boss, right, once we go into Rafa, then finally Hamas will be defeated. And this is just it's just bullshit. It's just going to cause more misery and suffering. I've come back to what someone on Twitter, some wise person on Twitter said, which is like they've managed to destroy everything in Gaza except for Hamas.

Yeah, it is an astounding that, according to this that Sinwar still maintains command and control of the organization. It's like a glaring failure. It's a lot like the Bin Laden thing. Actually, Afghanistan is the perfect example. So we had a couple of options. In Afghanistan. We could have gone in, thrown everything at the Battle of Torbora, actually killed Bin Laden, and then we could have gotten the hell out of there.

Instead we get distracted.

We want to oh, now we're propping up the freedom forces and now we're going to build a democracy. In the Israeli case, they're just wiping out basically every building that exists for any future operation. But the actual people responsible for our October seven, they don't seem to have any actually been punished in the way that they allegedly could have been. And you could have just had a dedicated to counter terrorism operation from the beginning which would

For years and years and years to come.

So good luck to them, and they are solely responsible now at this point and for what they're going to reap.

And also like it's nice that the media is now like actually waking up to this fact or actually admitting this fact. But we've been saying this. We played that Jocko will it clip how early on when he was.

Like it does not rocket sign.

If you actually, okay, if they're serious about counter and tagency, here's how you do it. You're actually really nice to the civilian population. You fled them with aid because you want to create a wedge between.

Them and Hummus.

They haven't had any other option than Hamas as their government, so you have to give them some other alternative that's going to satisfy their aspiration. So whether that's you know, it talks towards peace, some sort of negotiation. We know throughout history with the Gaza strip, when negotiations and possibility of peace we're ongoing, support for militant groups like Humas were much lower.

So you do that.

You also need the civilian population to collaborate with you and tell you where Sinoar is hiding or whatever, and then you do count targeted counter insurgency strikes. That's the way you do that. It was never approached that way. Instead, the first thing they do it was bomb the hell out a gaza and kill a bunch of kids and civilians bury them under rubble and drop two thousand pounds bombs on refugee camps and raid hospitals, etc. That was

In sight whatsoever? Absolutely all right, soccer, what are you looking at?

Well?

Oftentimes in American politics, historical analogies are stretched too thin.

They don't even mean anything.

How every time that we need to fund a foreign war, it's Munich in nineteen thirty eight, or every time a new election is the most important election of our lifetime, it's recapturing the spirit of seventeen seventy six.

Most of the time it doesn't have any relation.

And if it does, it's far less related than those people lead you to believe. But with all my cynicism, even I am struck by this recent observation from historian Keith Rahel, who notes, quote, I just can't believe the parallels of nineteen sixty eight. I mean, okay, Columbia has widespread unrest, there's widespread anti war activism.

That might be the confidence but coincidence.

But there's a guy named Robert Kennedy running for president, and the DNC is Chicago. Like this is even a bit to make it even more eerie, As he notes later on, the original Planet of the Apes movie was released in nineteen sixty eight, and we are, of course due for our latest in the modern series to be released in this year, twenty twenty four. Hype for Planet of the Apes aside, there is something actually very eerie

Start with the campus parallel.

Exactly fifty six years ago to the day of this monologue, Columbia University was a washed with protests over the Vietnam War and what students said were racist policies at the university. Students seized five buildings, they took the Dean hostage, they refused to vacate, and this led to a week long standoff until April thirtieth, nineteen sixty eight, when nearly one thousand officers from the New York City Tactical Patrol Office

Own nineteen sixty eight way.

The Columbia protests, like today, were a flashpoint because it all happened in New York City and it got massive media attention. That March April to nineteen sixty eight period, exactly fifty six years ago, was a massive turning point in American history. It was days before the Columbia University protests that Robert Kennedy decided to enter the Democratic race against Lyndon Johnson. Here, too, the parallels are striking. LBJ

Active and unwinnable war.

But the electoral parallels teach us one lesson that the chaos of sixty eight has left a lasting impression upon all of us, and that the chaos at the time itself was not inevitable. It was a choice of the elites at that time who lied and they cheated, and they hid vital facts from the American public, and then they refuse to grapple with the righteous outrage at being deceived. So it's actually pretty fascinating to think.

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