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Alrighty, folks. So apparently there are a lot of weird drones that are flying around America, particularly the east coast and particularly military bases. We keep hearing from the government that it's not a big deal. They're not sure what they are, they're not sure what to do about it, but it's no big deal. And here is my problem. Perhaps 15 years ago, I would have believed the government. Honestly, perhaps 15 years ago, I would have been more apt to think, hey, they know what they're doing. Because no way in hell this government would allow, say, foreign drones or even domestic drones to simply hover around military facilities en masse for weeks on end. There's no way they would do that. And then Joe Biden was president, and Joe Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to cross the entire continental United States without shooting it down. And only after he got called on it did he then proceed to shoot down a bunch of weather balloons with Hellfire missiles. So, yeah, I've got some skepticism now. Again, that doesn't mean that these are Chinese drones or Iranian drones or aliens or anything like that. Maybe it's just a bunch of people, but who are mistaking airplanes for drones. That's quite possible. The thing is, I don't actually trust the members of our government to tell us the truth, even if they knew the truth, because they have not in the past. According to CNN.com, mysterious flying objects overhead, concern and confusion, and calls for military intervention. This isn't the plot of War of the Worlds, but rather the results of numerous unidentified possible drone sightings on the east coast in recent weeks. The possible drones have been spotted over residential neighborhoods, restricted sites and critical infrastructure. Now, again, if they're floating above residential sites, I tend to think that probably these are simply domestic drones, people who are hobbyists or something. But again, when you have large swarms of drones that are apparently flying near, for example, military bases in Virginia or New Jersey, I start to have some questions. Reported drone activity prompted at least one airport, New York's Stewart International Airport, to temporarily close its runways for about an hour on Friday night. Apparently, New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Saturday said, quote, this has gone too far. And she has directed the New York State Intelligence center to actively investigate drone sightings and coordinate with federal law enforcement to address the issue. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he's now asking the Department of Homeland Security to deploy special detection systems that use 360 degree technology to detect the drones. He said if the technology exists for a drone to make it up in the sky. There certainly is technology that can track the craft with precision and determine what the heck is going on. Now, the reality is it's actually quite difficult to track drones in the same way that you would track, say, a missile. This has been a problem in Israel, for example, where the Houthis have launched several drones. Hezbollah did as well, because the drones don't travel highly above the speed of, for example, birds. And so they create sort of a noisy signal on radar. With that said, the American government has not had a sufficient response to this as of yet. Alejandro Mayorkas, thank God, the outgoing Department of Homeland Security secretary. He says the drone sightings are, in fact, real. There's no question that people are seeing drones. And I want to assure the American public that we in the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings. Some of those drone sightings are, in fact, drones. Some are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones. And we do see duplicative reporting. But there's no question that drones are being sighted. Drone sightings apparently have been reported in at least six states. New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, as well as Virginia. The sightings began Nov. 18 near Morris County, New Jersey, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Now, here's the thing. It is not only in these areas. How do I know? Well, because I have seen one of these drones. I saw it on the southern border. In fact, you can see a drone on the southern border. If you go and you take a look at our series over at Daily Wire Plus, Divided States of Biden went down to the southern border. We did a ride along with Border Patrol, and it was fairly early in the evening, maybe 8:00 in the evening. And suddenly I look up and there is a drone. And I remember turning to Border Patrol, you can see, again, you see this happen over at Daily Web. I turn to Border Patrol and I say, what is that? Our producers were there, too. What is that? And he said, well, it's a drone. I said, well, I assume that that's our drone, you know, like from our side monitoring the border and say, nope, that is a drug cartel drone. So, again, the idea that there are, in fact, foreign drones flying over American soil, not only do I suspect that is happening, I know for a fact that is happening. I then asked Border Patrol, by the way, why they didn't just shoot down the drone. And they said they would need explicit permission from Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security. Mayorkas, for his part, says we have no information on foreign involvement with these drones. We have not seen any foreign. We know of no foreign involvement with respect to the sightings in the Northeast, and we are vigilant in investigating this matter. The Department of Homeland Security, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the lead again. According to CNN.com, concerns escalated after drones were spotted near Picatinny Arsenal, a US Military research facility, and also over President Elect Trump's golf course in Bedminster. According to both military officials and state lawmakers, the sightings prompted the FAA to issue temporary flight restrictions over the properties. Apparently there were also reports of drones above the Naval Weapons Station Earl, a US Navy base south of Middleton, although no direct threats were identified. And it's coming from both sides of the aisle, by the way. It's not just a Republican thing. Democratic Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey posted videos to his X account showing what appeared to be a cluster of drones over the Round Valley Reservoir on Thursday night. On Saturday, he posted on X that most of the aircraft he initially thought were drones were almost certainly planes. So again, it is possible that people are oversighting, they're overattributing things to drones that actually are planes or they have camera error. Any of that is possible. However, I have very little trust in the federal government that they are doing the job that they were designated to do. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said his administration is aware of reported drone sightings and is currently taking them seriously. He, of course, is a Democrat. He said Friday evening he directed the Pennsylvania State Police to further investigate the sightings and police will be flying helicopters to try to determine where these drones are originating from and what the purpose of the drones are. The same thing is happening in Massachusetts, where Governor Mauraheali posted on X about the growing number of drone sightings in her state and said that state police were working alongside local and federal partners urging drone operators to adhere to regulations. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin also made a statement. He said that the state police and the Department of Emergency Management were coordinating closely with numerous federal partners to respond to drone reports. He emphasized significant number of national security and critical infrastructure sites in Virginia. Now, again, FBI and dhs, they're saying this is mostly mistaken identity. Some of these may be commercial drones. We don't know as of yet from where they derive. There are a bunch of explanations that are more plausible than the idea that these are, for example, Iranian drones. In fact, I think the possibility they're Chinese drones is much more likely given the fact that we know that China has been attempting to surveil American military sites. So this does raise the question, why don't we just shoot them down? Alejandro Mayorkas, whose job it is to clear this, he says, well, you know, it's the faa. The FAA says we're not allowed to shoot them down. Well, then just change the regulations and the procedures of the faa. This one is not tough. We are aware of the drone sightings. As I. As I've said, I think there are more than 8,000 drones flown every day in states. With respect to the ability to incapacitate those drones, we are limited in our authorities. We have certain agencies within the Department of Homeland Security that can do that, and outside our department, but we need those authorities expanded as well. So here's the problem with Mayorkas. I don't believe him at all. I don't think that he requires additional authority. I think that he's just a coward. I mean, that was certainly true again on the southern border where actual Mexican drug cartels were flying drones above my head. Okay, we all saw them. You can see them on tape. This is not speculation. It's just reality. Meanwhile, one News Nation reporter named Rich McHugh, he says these drones are sophisticated. They are moving in directions that are sort of different than normal drones would. The experience I had last night, however, changed the way I feel about this story completely. What I saw was more sophisticated than I ever imagined. Take a look. 1, 2, 3, 4. At least five lights. Six lights. I didn't believe what I was seeing, but what was I seeing? We're here in Central Jersey. We've been looking for the past hour. I think we've seen about 40 or 50 of these drones. In fact, there's one over my shoulder right there. One after another after another, these drones appeared in the night sky. If you look real close, they look like fixed wing aircraft, about 8 to 10ft wide, colorful white blinking lights. That is not a plane. Definitely not an airplane. But what was it? Again, not clear. All these runs are of the same make. Not clear exactly what they are at this point. New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith, he says that some of the elusive maneuvering suggests military sophistication. The elusive maneuvering of these drones, I would suggest, suggests a major military power sophistication. That begs the question whether they have been deployed to test our defense capabilities or worse, by violent dictatorships, Perhaps, maybe Russia or China or Iran or North Korea. I mean, they have the capability and they certainly have the motive. Now, again, that's a lot of speculation right there. But the problem is, do you believe anything Joe? Biden tells you about this or any of his designated people, considering that he himself is now probably comatose. New Jersey State Senator John Bramnick, he says something very similar, says the feds clearly don't want to talk about all of this. Whatever these drones are doing, the government really doesn't want us to know. What that must mean is they're more concerned with us getting knowledge and being afraid of that information than having no knowledge and having all these questions. That's why I'm worried about it. It must be something going on that they can't tell us because they are so fearful of what the public's gonna do when they hear what the drones are doing. Hey, I don't know what they are. You don't know what they are. Apparently the government doesn't know what they are. Certainly I do not believe members of the Biden administration when they say that they are giving the American people all of the information. I don't trust the Biden administration for a whole wide variety of reasons, including, of course, the fact that they are extraordinarily pro abortion. You know, this holiday season, as many are celebrating the gift of life, you do have an opportunity to share that same gift with the mother and her baby. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone, unsure of what to do. She's searching for hope. That's where Preborn Ministries comes in. When Valeria found out she was pregnant, she was beyond terrified. 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No Democrats, by the way, showed up at the Army Navy game. No prominent Democrats, which is kind of amazing. You know, normally the President of the United States shows up, but as we all know, the President of the United States is no longer the President of the United States, even If he is J.D. vance, the Vice President, he tweeted. Daniel's a good guy. New York's mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone. I'm grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he's able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage. Others who attended the game, speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Also, there are other members of the political class, including Representative Mike Walz, who is the National Security Advisor choice by President Trump, as well as Pete Hegseth, the presumptive Secretary of Defense. President Trump's pick and Tulsi Gabbard, the pick for Director of National Intelligence. So they all showed up. It was an amazingly patriotic event. It always is. The enthusiasm was high because, let's face it, the American people are in a pretty good mood about President Trump taking over. It is not just Republicans acknowledging that simple fact, by the way, Democratic National Committee official Lindy Lee says, pretty obvious at this point that Trump actually has momentum for the first time, maybe in his political career, having been elected. I think, unfortunately, a Democratic Party has a stench of loser written all over the party. And I'm sorry, and I'm speaking as a Democrat myself, this brings me no joy to say it, but I feel like the Democrats are going to be consigned to the wilderness for at least the next four to eight years. I think we're about to embark on an entirely new era of prosperity. I certainly hope so. And, yeah, you can just feel it. Even in the last couple of weeks, Americans are celebrating that Trump's approval rating is incredibly high. People are in support of his transition. The momentum is just tremendous. And I'm speaking as a Democrat, and I'm feeling it as well. Okay. She is right about all of that. And you can see it and you can feel it. Just adding to the momentum for President Trump is this hilarious story. ABC News has now been forced to pay $15 million to a presidential foundation and museum. The Trump Presidential Museum, which probably will be somewhere in Florida, might be over at Mar A Lago, who knows? President Trump's presidential foundation and museum will be paid for in part by ABC News. Why? Well, because the settlement, which was filed publicly on Saturday, reveals the network will also pay $1 million in Trump's attorney's fees and will issue an apology. That is because back on March 10, 2024, ABC News and George Stephanopoulos made statements regarding President Trump in an interview with Representative Nancy Mace. So Trump filed the lawsuit in Florida federal court earlier this year, arguing with Stephanopoulos. And ABC News defamed him when Stephanopoulos said 10 times during an interview with Mace that a jury found that Trump had raped Eugene Carroll, which of course, is not true. In 2023, a jury found that Trump sexually abused Carol sufficient to hold him liable for battery. But it did not find that Carroll proved that he raped her at all. A Judge concluded in August 2023, when dismissing Trump's countersuit against Carol, that the claim that Trump raped Carol was substantially true. The judge wrote that Trump raped her in the broader sense of the word, as people generally understand it, but not as is narrowly defined by New York State law. So it simply was not true that the jury found that Trump had, quote, unquote, raped Eugene Carroll. Stephanopoulos went on the air and said it over and over and over and over, and it cost ABC News $15 million. Now, there's some people who are saying this is a nuisance settlement. Nuisance settlement is where people sue companies all the time. Literally all companies. We've been sued before. Like that sort of stuff happens all the time. And very often, if the amount that you would pay to the attorneys is larger than the amount you would pay in the settlement, you just pay the settlement just to get rid of it, get it off the books. That happens all the time in the business world. We're a very litigious country. And thanks to our ridiculous torrent system in which the loser doesn't have to pay, which is something that I would hope would change sometime in the near future, that if you sue somebody and you lose it, you should have to pay. But that's not the way that it works. That means that there are such things as nuisance settlements. That is not this. Defamation cases, particularly about President Trump. In order to prove defamation, you have to prove actual malice. It is not enough to find that the person said something false about President Trump because President Trump's a public figure. So you have to show actual malice in George Stephanopoulos saying it. So ABC News, that's a very rich company. They can afford to pay lawyers. Why did they pay out $15 million to President Trump? It's not to settle the nuisance of it. They did it specifically because they were afraid that Trump would win and they would have to sign a gigantic defamation check to President Trump. So instead, they're forestalling that with a $15 million payment, which is absolutely hilarious. Some Democrats are fighting mad about all of this. One of them, Mark Elias, who of course is a lawyer for a wide variety of Democrats, he tweeted out, knee bent, ring kissed. Another legacy news outlet chooses obedience. A reminder. Democracy docket is fiercely independent, unapologetically pro democracy. It will not back down. It will not obey. Sign up to support democracy. Docket is his own little 501 C3, I believe that raises money so that he can fight lawfare against Republicans. Of course, Mark Elias is really angry. He has made his career, Mark Elias, going to court against a wide variety of Republicans. He's an election attorney for the Democratic Party. He, of course, was hired by the Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign in case there was any post election litigation. So he's mad, of course, and he should be. Some people are taking this as ABC News trying to get it off the book specifically because they don't want to be at odds with President Trump. Maybe this is that you've seen a wide variety of corporate leaders who are pretty antipathetic to President Trump now descending on Mar a Lago in order to have conversations with President Trump that ranges from Mark Zuckerberg over at Facebook to Jeff Bezos over at Amazon and the Washington Post. With that said, that is a recognition of the reality, which is that President Trump, in fact, does have the momentum. President Trump's economic momentum is undeniable. Some of the things he's considering doing, by the way, he's considering apparently privatizing the U.S. postal Service, which, I mean, it's about damn time. The US Postal Service is one of the biggest losers in the American government in terms of just losing the American taxpayer cash. Now, for years and years and years, for decades, it was suggested that without the U.S. postal Service, the mail would not be delivered. And then FedEx came along, and then a wide variety of other parcel services came along. And it turns out that actually you can run a for profit business that delivers the packages much faster and with better reliability than the US Postal Service. Told of the mail agency's annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization. So again, that would make a lot of sense. 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But we do anticipate that he'll be more prepared this time, he'll be more aggressive, and he has a playbook project 2025 is that playbook. And then, you know, he's already introduced some executive orders last time, which we anticipate he'll try to introduce again. So it's not like we have to guess about what he wants to do. Although I'm sure that he has some new tricks up his sleeves as well. Well, we'll see how the law fair goes, considering a lot of the appellate courts have a lot of Trump nominees on them. Meanwhile, a bunch of congressional Democrats have said they are not going to attend the inauguration as though President Trump cares at all. 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As the vast majority of Democrats on Capitol Hill fume over many of Donald Trump's Cabinet picks and his for a second term, Fetterman is showing a rare willingness to engage with parts of MAGA world. It's easy to think Fetterman could be a new version of Democrat turned independent Joe Manchin. That would be wrong. He's a reliable Democratic vote, but he's emerging as an independent voice within his party simply by emphasizing the need to talk more with the other side. So, for example, he met with Pete Hegseth, where he's going to meet with Pete Hegseth this week. President Trump's pick for SecDef. He also met, for example, with Elise Stefanik, President Trump's pick for UN Ambassador, and he's already said that he's going to vote for her. Fetterman is. This is smart. Fetterman is, again, a very staunch Democrat. He's going to vote with the Democrats 95% of the time. But he also understands that if America, if he's going to defy President Trump's agenda, then you better have a good reason to do so. And right now, it just appears that Democrats are still fulminating over having lost the election. They literally cannot understand how they lost to President Trump again. And I think that's because they fundamentally misunderstand the American people. Nowhere have I seen this better exemplified than in Tim Walls. So, Tim Walls, you'll remember Tim Walls, remember, he was the weirdo. He was the inflatable at the tire store near the freeway who ran for vice president with Kamala Harris. You remember him. I know. He's so forgettable. It really is kind of funny. You struggle to come up with the name of the Democratic nominee, and it's been five weeks since the election. Pretty incredible. Well, Tim Walz was on Minnesota Public Radio and he said he can't understand how they lost. After all, he's poor. What? So your argument for being vice president of the United States was you're bad at finances and never earned money. Why would that possibly be a good argument for why you should be the heir to the presidency? That makes no sense at all. Like you being unsuccessful over the course of your relatively long life because Tim walls is currently 60 years old. That is not a good. That is a terrible argument for why he should be vice president. But he seems to think that solidarity and poverty is somehow a winning ticket for the American people. It never was. The American people would actually like to, you know, succeed. The American dream is not to be like Tim Walls. It is to be like J.D. vance. Here is Tim Walls failing to understand the American people. How in the world did we lose to a billionaire or a venture capitalist when we were making the case of a county attorney and a high school teacher and we were focusing on cost of groceries, cost of healthcare, those types of issues that should have really resonated. We need to figure out, and whoever does that at the party level, as we build out, how do we reach those groups that we lost in? And it was many of them, how did we lose? Hispanic groups losing Puerto Ricans in Allentown after Donald Trump's at a rally where they talk about Puerto Rico Being garbage. And I think for whatever reason, there was a distrust that people, really, that the Democratic Party stood with that group of working people. So again, your argument is that they should have solidarity with you because you were poor. Now, remember, Tim Walls actually ran on this. He ran on the idea that you should have solidarity with him because he had no real estate holdings and no stocks, which, by the way, is a terrible way to invest. That's how you end up at 60 years old with no money. Truly. You want financial advice? Invest. Take the money that you're making and put it in the stock market. Put it in. If you don't know anything about investment, put your money in an index fund. Even if you do know something about investment, you should put your money in an index fund and just leave it there and don't touch it. Don't sell when the market goes down. Don't buy when the market goes up. Just get in the market. Dollar cost averaging. Just keep buying into the market. Buy real estate when you have the opportunity to do so and just hold, buy and hold for long periods of time. But again, this is the same guy who went out on the campaign trail and suggested that J.D. vance was a sellout for having risen from relatively impoverished background with a horrifying family background to become a Yale Law graduate after having served in the military and then running for vice president after being a senator. Like, that's a crazy. That's a crazy pitch. But I think that a lot of Democrats fundamentally do not understand the American people. And there is this disconnect. And that disconnect is, I think, being radically exacerbated. I do. By the nature of social media. Social media radically exacerbates the disconnect between the American people and the elites who write for the media and who are on social media. Social media encompasses a very narrow slice of the American people. So just to take a. Just to take one example, there is a poll that is now out with regard to Luigi Mangione. Okay, so this poll is from RMG Research, polled 1,000 people, and what they found was that 53% of Americans thought that Luigi Mangione, who is the guy who shot the United Healthcare CEO, allegedly, that he was a villain. Only 10% thought he was a hero, and 22% said neither. Now, online, those numbers are probably reversed. Online, you would suggest 80, 90% of people think that this person is some sort of hero. Also, if you're online, you tend to believe that literally every American hates their healthcare. Now, every American hates dealing with insurance companies, but that's true whether you're talking about a car insurance company. It's true whether you're talking about a life insurance company. Except for policy genius, it's true for pretty much all insurance companies. People don't like dealing with insurance. Do you like? I don't like. No one likes dealing with insurance companies. It's annoying and terrible. However, polling tends to show that Americans don't despise their own health care. In fact, they don't want to lose their doctor. They don't want to lose their healthcare. Here's Harry Enton from CNN explaining. Sometimes you talk about approval of Congress versus approval of your own congressmen. People don't like Congress, but they like their own congressmen. Something similar is going on here. When you talk about the nation's healthcare system or the healthcare in the nation versus your own healthcare, your own healthcare. Look at this. Excellent or good? The quality of it, 71% say it's excellent or good. How about the coverage of it? 65% say that their coverage is excellent or good. How about satisfied with the cost? A majority, 58% say that they're satisfied with the cost. So the bottom line is this. You wonder why the healthcare system of this country stays the same. It's because people don't like healthcare in sort of the abstract. But when it comes to their own healthcare, a lot of Americans actually are pretty gosh darn satisfied. Yeah, that's what the poll statistics actually show. Again, there's a second poll that was done from the center for strategic politics at UHC. And what they found is that 61% of Americans had a negative view of Luigi Mangioni, the alleged shooter. Only 18% had a positive view. As for Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, 35% had a negative view. 19% had a positive view. The rest didn't know. And that includes, by the way, a plurality of Americans who had a negative view of UnitedHealthcare, which all seems relatively normal. But the reaction from the media is so utterly disconnected and from Democrats is so utterly disconnected. Okay, let us make something clear. What Luigi Mangione did is a terrorist attack. It is a terrorist attack when you kill someone in order to, quote, unquote, raise the issue. If you kill somebody in order to raise the issue, that is the nature of terrorism. You're seeking to bring attention to the issue by doing murder. And what the American body politics should do, and what everybody should basically do is if a terrorist wants you to talk about the problems with the healthcare system, you shouldn't give them what they want or you're incentivizing people to kill people. Now, we should absolutely have long form conversations about the healthcare system in the United States. And when I say long form, I mean informed conversations. Because let's be real about this. People don't know bleep about the healthcare systems of the United States. They really don't. Just to take one example, Whoopi Goldberg was on the View on Friday. And Whoopi Goldberg started running her mouth about health insurance. And my goodness, my goodness gracious, does she not understand what health insurance companies do? There are things we can fool with and things we can't. Health care is one of those things that you shouldn't be able to fool. And insurance companies who you pay, I pay into my insurance. You pay into your insurance. I don't understand. If I don't go to the hospital for a whole year, where's my money? Why don't you give me the money back? Then you don't have to worry about it. Because I feel like, you know, I said this. Okay, okay. How does she think insurance works? The people who are having these conversations literally know nothing. Mangione himself in his manifesto said he knew nothing about the systems he really like. He said, he said, I don't know enough about this complex system. I'm just gonna kill somebody. Whoopi Goldberg there suggesting the way insurance. When you don't. If you pay into your car insurance company and you don't take any money out because you don't get into a car crash, do you get your money back? Of course not. That's not how insurance works. But that is the level of the conversation that is being had. So don't pretend that we're now having a deep and abiding conversation about health insurance in this company, in this country. We absolutely are not. The conversation has gotten significantly worse, not better. And that is led by members of our cultural and political elite. We'll get to more on that in just one moment. First, if you're still searching for the perfect gift, you shouldn't sweat it. Daily Wire plus gift memberships are 40% off right now, but not for long. This isn't just a gift. It's a ticket to uncensored truth, unapologetic news and premium entertainment for the conservative in your life. With a Daily Wire plus membership, they'll get a year of daily shows from the most trusted voices in conservative media with limited ads, live breaking news that gives the full story. No agendas, just the facts. Access to investigative journalism, exposing what the mainstream media Won't an entertainment library packed with hit movies and documentaries like Am I Racist? 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But what I think has happened in the last few months is that what you have seen rising up is people's anger at a health insurance industry which denies people the health care that they desperately need while they make billions and billions of dollars in profit. Again, this idea that when you remove profit from a system, somehow the system gets more efficient with better products belies everything you know about everything in your life except for healthcare for some odd reason. And it's not just Bernie Sanders who's doing this routine, by the way, that I, that the shooter provides us a great leaping off point to talk about healthcare. Chris Murphy, the idiot senator from Connecticut, he's doing the same routine. I'm never going to condone violence. I don't. Here I spend my entire life fighting gun violence because I know that the devastation is is enormous, that it leaves behind. What I see happening in this country though, is a real visceral anger that the outrage at Brian Thompson's death or the outrage at the death of any powerful person isn't matched by the anger over the thousands of people who die often anonymous deaths every single day in this country at the hands of a healthcare industry that mostly doesn't give a about people and only cares about profits. Ordinary people in this country are not indifferent to the loss of life, but these companies are. This sort of language is so disgusting. This idea that everyone who works at health insurance industries, that all of those people don't care about human beings at all, that all they want is profits. That is not how markets work. That is not how markets work. Forget about caring and not caring for just one second, recognize that the grocer who provides you food, he doesn't hate you, just because he's charging you for the food. The grocer who charges you food is charging you for the food because that allows them to generate more groceries. That is what that is about. There are massive problems in our healthcare system. Again, health insurance doesn't truly act as health insurance in the United States in any real way because they're not insuring against a possible risk for the future, except sort of at the margins. What they really are doing is providing, quote, unquote, healthcare coverage that is heavily regulated and also heavily subsidized by the federal government and the state governments, by the way. But this kind of disgusting notion that is being dumped out there, that the reason people die due to lack of healthcare is because those mean, cruel health insurance executives are trying their best to harm people. First of all, even if you would assume that was true, assume that was true for just one second, don't you think there would be a competitor, a healthcare competitor, say a health insurance competitor that might come along and say, hey, we care about people more. Do your business here. This kind of language is actually a danger. It's a dangerous thing to do. And again, it spans both sides of the aisle. You see it happen all the time, this sort of notion that if somebody disagrees with how I do my business, then it must be because they're evil and want to harm you. I've mentioned the word emotivism before. That is a phrase term used by Aleister McIntyre. It's also used by Philip Rieff, a bunch of different philosophers. And the basic idea is attributing motive to someone rather than dealing with the actual arguments. And it's really ugly and it does lead to some pretty terrible consequences. So there was a concert in Boston over the weekend at which Luigi Mangione's face was shown and the attendees began to cheer. People are dancing. This is a person who murders someone on the street in cold blood, by the way, not because he had an unsuccessful bask surgery or was covered by United Healthcare. He absolutely was not. This is not good. There is a disconnect. The disconnect is not just with regard to healthcare, for example, it's with regard to a wide variety of issues. Whether it is the sort of glory of being poor that Tim Walz is talking about, whether it is the supposed hatred of our entire healthcare system, which again, people have their problems with the healthcare system. That doesn't mean they want the National Health Service or think that United Healthcare CEOs should be shot in the back on the streets of New York, there's Also a wild disconnect on issues of race, obviously between the elites in our society and a huge percentage of the rest of the population. And it's permeated those elite circles. So one of the bizarre controversies of the last week is Caitlin Clark, who is the WNBA's only nameable star. The vast majority of the general public has no idea of any players other than Caitlin Clark because of course, she was this giant college star and then she went to the wnba. So Caitlin Clark, she did an interview in which she talked about her white privilege at length, and then Megyn Kelly called her on it, and then she spoke some more about her white privilege. Like I've said, I feel like I've earned every single thing that's happened to me over the course of my career. But also, I grew up a fan of this league from a very young age. Like, my favorite player was Maya Moore. Like, I know what this league was about. And like I said, it's only been around 25 plus years. So I know there's been so many amazing black women that have been in this league. And continuing to up the list, uplift them, I think is very important. And that's something I'm very aware of. And like I said, I try to just be real and authentic and share my truth. And I think that's very easy for me. I'm very comfortable in my own skin. And that's kind of been how it is my entire life. Sharing her truth, sharing her while she's saying the things she knows she has to say. Obviously it's not enough, though. It's not enough. She says she acknowledges her white privilege and she wishes to use her voice on behalf of all of the black NBA stars. Okay, well, is that going to help her one iota? Absolutely not. Here, for example, is WNBA team owner Sheila Johnson ripping Caitlin Clark. This is the co owner of the Washington Mystics. I know you didn't know that there was a team called the Washington Mystics because, hell, no one knows there's a team called the Washington Mystics. Here she is ripping Caitlin Clark and the fan base for liking Caitlin Clark, saying it's only because Caitlin Clark is white. Why couldn't they have put the whole WNBA on that cover and said the WNBA is the league of the year because of all the talent that we have? Because when you just keep singling out one player, it creates hard feelings. And so now you're starting to hear stories of racism within the wnba and I don't want to hear that. We have got to operate and Become stronger as a league and respect everybody that's playing and their talents. Hey, you're not putting the entire WNBA on the COVID because not everybody can fit and nobody knows who any of those people are. By the way, 31% apparently of the entire Washington Mystics ticket sales this year came in two games. I will give you a guess as to which player was featured in those two games. It was Caitlin Clark. Caitlin Clark is single handedly responsible for one third of all your ticket sales this year. And you're about it. You're complaining about it. That disconnect. This is why people are annoyed. This is why people are annoyed with the radical left, which they're just too online. They're just too online. Speaking by the way of too online, apparently Kamala Harris, she wants to make a comeback. I'm not even kidding at this point. I would love for some politicians who lose to just go away. Like truly. Why? Why can't. Why did they just stick around? Now, my whole childhood, if you lost, you went away. Not anymore. Now, Vice President Harris, she apparently wants to run for governor of California. God love her. Or run for president again. Cuz she did such an amazing job this time. What she's been saying to people over the last couple weeks, donors, other supporters that she's been talking with, is, you haven't seen the last of me. I'm not going quietly into the night. Advisors, people close to her are debating about what that means. They do not want her final official act ever to be essentially certifying Donald Trump's win over her, especially four years after January 6th. 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He just wants our allies to do exactly what they're supposed to do, namely defend themselves and spend the money in material to defend their friends, which makes a lot of sense since Europe is actually quite large and Europe has a lot of money, actually. While the Russians, in anticipation of Trump entering, I think they're miscalculating. They're getting more aggressive. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Mercury Missile Corvette, one of Russia's most advanced naval assets, was escorting an oil tanker in the Baltic Sea when a German warship approached. The German frigate F223 had followed the two Russian ships up to a spot near the Danish island of Bornholm before it dispatched its Sea Lynx helicopter, armed with a powerful surveillance Equipment to have a closer look After a series of incidents in the area had put security forces on edge, the Russian corvette responded by shooting flares at the aircraft, forcing the pilot to turn back. This incident on November 26, the details of which had not been previously reported, was part of an increasingly heated standoff between Russia and NATO in Europe, with the Baltic region emerging as a key flashpoint in a confrontation unseen since the height of the Cold War. Beyond military signaling, Russia has escalated an often violent campaign of sabotage and subterfuge. Apparently, Russian warships have been firing warning shots at NATO vessels. Powerful Russian jamming systems have disrupted air traffic. Russian jet fighters have conducted dangerous maneuvers, including dumping fuel on allied spy planes in the skies over the Baltics, according to multiple Western officials. Critical infrastructure like data cables and pipelines have been attacked by commercial ships Western security officials say were used by Russian intelligence. Clandestine Russian operators used Lithuania, a Baltic nation, as a springboard for a terror operation involving shipping incendiary devices on commercial aircraft using services like dhl, according to Western intelligence and law enforcement officials. In Britain, a man admitted to carrying out an arson attack on Ukrainian owned property in London on behalf of Russia. In Poland, a shopping mall was torched, with authorities suspecting Russia to be behind the incident, Jan Stoltenberg, former two time NATO Secretary General, said. During his tenure, which ended in October, Russia expanded the range of its targets, including destructive sabotage, cyberattacks and interfering in elections in EU nations that belong to the Security alliance. Russia's onslaught in Ukraine prompted Sweden and Finland to join NATO. Now eight of the nine nations that enclose the Baltic Sea are members of the alliance, prompting jubilant commentary from allied leaders to become a NATO lake. But Russia has significantly boosted its military presence in the region, escalating its aggressive posture toward the neighbors in a way unseen since the Cold War, according to Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister. So again, what is the solution to this? Well, one of these solutions here would be for all of these nations in Europe to up their game. President Trump is going to up the American game. We're going to spend more on our military. We are going to put in place a Secretary of defense and a procurement procedure that allows us to modernize and everybody else should as well. With that said, Russia keeps saying they want a deal. The Ukrainian ambassador, Oksana Markarova, she says that Russia is lying when they say they want a deal. Well, we will find out soon enough. Do you see a chance for a Christmas ceasefire and prisoner exchange? This is very difficult. Winter after Russia destroyed our a lot of our energy infrastructure. And after, you know, we are going through these difficult fights, both on the frontline, but also civilians suffering from the deadly missile attacks just this past week. Yes. At the same time, you know, every time Russia is talking about some ceasefire, they are lying. Russians are lying. Now, she's not wrong that the Russian negotiation strategy has been dishonesty for many, many decades. However, we're about to find out when the rubber hits the road, when President Trump takes office, how fast a deal can be reached. And again, President Trump is not in the habit of making bad deals. This is the thing about President Trump. He's a dealmaker. He does not like being on the short end of the deal. And that's gonna be true for Russia as well. Already coming up, we'll get into Chris Rock on snl. He said something quite awful about the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO. If you're not a member, become a member. Use Coach Shapiro. Check out for two months free on all annual plans. 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