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CPAC Fallout, Iran War Mixed Signals, and an Olympic-Sized Stand for Sanity
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I'm Josh Hammer and this is the Josh Hammer Show. So we're back here, home in Florida after our trip to Texas for cpac. There are no shortage of things happening in the news. The U.S. senate has taken a crucial vote to try to refund most of the Department of Homeland Security, including tsa. I've actually now had a travel day so I can talk a little bit about the chaos or lack thereof actually, when it comes to America's airports. The meanwhile there's all sorts of developments when it comes to the war in Iran. Lots of noise, lots of mixed signals. Is this war winding down? Is President Trump going to see this operation through? Are the President and the Vice President on the same page? Are the United States and Israel on the same page? There's a ton of questions there. When it comes to Iran. Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee has made a bold and courageous decision when it comes to the ever thorny issue of transgenderism. And we have the death of a horrible human being. Kermit Gosnell, the infamous late term abortionist in prison. Lots to get to on today's but for now we begin with this. I mentioned that I flew back from Texas. I was there in the Dallas Fort Worth area to speak at cpac. CPAC has long been one of the premier conservative conferences in America. In recent years it was at least equal, perhaps passed, I think most would argue, by Turning Point usa. This was an interesting opportunity potentially for CPAC to try to get back on relatively equal footing with Turning Point usa, especially in the aftermath of the horrific assassination of my late friend Charlie Kirk. And I was only in town for a day, so I can't necessarily give you the full conference rundown. What I can tell you is that you sensed a lot of the usual enthusiasm. A lot of the folks who were dressed up in all the MAGA gear and the red, white and blue and it's Texas, so the cowboy hats and the cowboy boots and a lot of the paraphernalia there it did feel a little duller for sure than some of the CPACs that I have spoken at in prior years. Query why that might be so a lot of folks saying, and this is the corporate media narrative is oh, CPAC is slower. Conservatives are not motivated, not enthused because of this so called MAGA civil war that's going on and no one wants to show up for it. I don't actually buy that for a second. I don't buy that for a second for a whole host of reasons, one of which is the actual substantive issue that there actually really is not as much of a civil war as people make it out to be. We cover this on the show all the time. The polling is very, very clear on this. As I cited in my CPAC speech yesterday, which we'll get to here in just a moment, there was a recent poll that came out just about a week ago that showed that in a straight up who do you trust more when it comes to foreign policy, frankly and all matters? Do you trust Donald Trump and his judgment more or do you trust Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly more? That poll from Jail Partners last week showed that likely Republican voters trust Trump over Carlson kelly by an 83 to 6% margin. So this notion that there is a full fledged MAGA civil war is just simply not borne out by the data and we are definitely statistical data driven people here on the show. Now the actual speaker lineup at CPAC has definitely been something of a mixed bag. Prior to going there on stage yesterday, I peeked into the speaker's lounge and I couldn't believe that not only did I see the ex liberal Matt Gaetz who is just a truly loathsome human being who is just playing the Jew hatred subversive 5th column op card purely for algorithms and purely for clicks. But at his side was a total lowlife who's really not worth much of our time by the name of Vishburra, his longtime right hand man and one of his former producers at One America News Network who was promptly fired for tweeting out a cartoon literally out of a 1930s Der Sturmer Naziist newspaper comparing Jews to cockroaches. And he was right there standing in, standing in the speaker's lounge at cpac. So disgusting stuff. And I truly hope that CPAC cleans up their speaker lineup a little bit more in future conferences, much as I hope that Turning Point USA and all of these conferences end up doing that. And folks, here is the key point. I mentioned Matt Gaetz already. Matt Gaetz got a shout my speech. In Matt Gaetz's own speech, he talked about how we're not here to cancel anyone. It's a lot of the same canned lines over and over again. Tucker Carlson said the exact same thing at the AMP Fest conference, the Turning Point Conference out in Phoenix, Arizona last December, in response to Ben Shapiro's conference opening speech. Tucker said the same thing. Matt Gaetz said the same thing. How these viewpoints not going away. And the point folks, is this conservatism seeks to conserve. Our whole opening segment in yesterday's show was about this. How you seek to conserve orders of reasoning and logic and principles that are all downstream of those primary truths, those primary truths that undergird any order, any regime. And if you seek to conserve everything, if you take this notion of no cancel culture, free speech absolutism to its logical conclusion, then there's no cancellation. So where does that end? Is Hasan Piker going to get platformed then at a concerted conference? After all, it would be cancel culture to cancel Hasan piker. Is Ilhan Omar going to get platformed? Oh, how dare you crack down on free speech by telling Ilhan Omar that you can't speak at CPAC attorney points. So you get, you see where I'm going with this? It is inherent in the very notion of conservatism that you actually have to draw lines. Because paradoxically, he who seeks to conserve everything at once is not conserving anything at all. You have to draw boundaries. You have to define what you are and who you are and just importantly, what you are not and who you are not. Now I came out intended very much to do this in my speech. I only had eight minutes and I intended to take full use of those eight minutes there. So I explained how President Trump and his administration are doing quite well, how President Trump is excelling pretty much on all objective cylinders as I can tell. Could things be going a little better here or there? For sure. Obviously the war has spiked gas prices, the economy could always be better. But overall border crossings are at historic lows. The woke madrasas of the Ivy League are being made to bend the knee. And Donald Trump is per the Iran war. He is now seeking to end the Mulls 47 Year Forever War against the United States which they've been waging ever since they took over the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. So things overall are going pretty well. Marco Rubio has been extraordinary. Secretary of State Pete Hegseth has been a clarion voice in this war and longer when it goes back to the narco terror strikes when it comes to his perch at the Pentagon. However, when you look outside of the administration, and to be clear, there is a shadow war in the administration, we discussed that in the show as well. We believe that it is centered around the office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is where Joe Kent just resigned from. There's a viper's nest there at the office of the dni. But this shadow war is happening even more so outside the administration. And this is a subversive effort to undermine maga, and frankly, overall, to actually, even greater than that, to actually undermine the United States of America. Because much of what is currently being peddled in the name of MAGA or the name of conservatism is actually really nothing like that whatsoever. So I was bringing receipts. I was not going to do this speech and just wing it. I prepared and I called up people who ought to be called out. For instance, here was what I said in my speech at CPAC about Tucker Carlson himself. Tucker Carlson, who wrestled the demon and seems to have lost the fight with the demon, recently hosted on his show a Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece by the name of Jiang Shui Qing. On the podcast, Zhang proposed a new World Order in which the United States joins China, Russia and Iran as, quote, unquote, equal partners. If you think that sounds patently insane, that's because it is. If you think that sounds indistinguishable from the musings of Noam Chomsky, that's because it is. But that didn't stop Carlson from affirming Jiang's Beijing approved dystopia as the wisest possible advice and the only path that preserves civilization. Of course, Carlson has also lauded Russia, Maduro's, Venezuela and even Sharia law. You'd be hard pressed to find a single anti American system or regime that Carlson has not in fact praised. So you heard one very loud booer there at the front of the room. He was actually something of an outlier. This was definitely a friendly and favorable room, which I was very happy to see. And the feedback that I got this speech was overwhelmingly positive. But I didn't just focus on Tucker Carlson. I focus also a little more broadly on another recent theme of our show here, the Josh Hammer show, about how Donald Trump is now currently pulling a Michael Corleone, let's say, and he is settling all the MAGA family business. Here was that clip. Donald Trump is not a duke and he is now settling all the MAGA family business. So it's no wonder that Trump now calls Carlson, quote unquote, not maga. It's no wonder he has labeled Kelly, who has been spiraling off into extreme juvenile vulgarity, been talking about micro penises of late. He calls her a, quote, jealous and angry human being with little sway. And he's right on that. A new survey from Jail Partners revealed that Republicans trust Donald Trump over Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly by a whopping 83% to 6% margin. This is not a particularly close call. It is not a coin flip. It is an overwhelming, crushing defeat. So again, this was the speech that I deliver. You can go ahead and watch the full thing over on YouTube or elsewhere. We publish also as an essay at Front Page magazine, probably sometime over this weekend. Now, these conferences, as we said earlier in the show, are going to have to make their decisions when it comes to how they're going to approach who they platform moving forward. This airing all sides thing is ultimately unsustainable. You do ultimately have to make decisions. To take us back to our examples earlier about Ilhan Omar and Hasan Piker, it is ludicrous to suggest that that the pro life and the pro abortion sides of the abortion base should get equal airtime at a CPAC or a Turning Point USA conference. And we can therefore just say this is free speech, the battle of ideas, the marketplace of ideas. No, that's not how it works. If you are a conservative, you stand for certain things. You stand for Genesis 1:27, the notion that man is made in God's image and that human life therefore has a certain sanctity. You stand for the biblical tradition. You stand for the rule of law. You stand for the nation state and secure borders. There are certain things that are non negotiable items that you have to stand for. There is a total grifter industrial complex that is out there. A lot of these grifters, frankly are making a lot of money. It is the eternal siren song of what a friend of mine refers to as the three Cs, Clicks, Cash and clout. A lot of these folks want that. They seem to want it. Matt Gaetz is a good example. They seem to want it very, very badly. Megyn Kelly, another good example. That's not what we're about here on this show. Who doesn't want clicks? Everyone in this business wants clicks. But we are more interested in other things like the truth. Because to paraphrase the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament, ultimately what does it profit a man if he is ultimately just going to lose his soul? It is simply not worth it we stand for things. We stand for eternal things. And that's what I spoke about at cpac. That's what I hope to see from cpac, Trump USA and the entire movement going into this midterm election and for years and years to come. What's better than receiving rent on the first? Not having to ask for it. Stop wasting your time and let software handle rent collection for you. It's easy, free, and you don't have to be the bad guy. Get started@turbotenant.com. A couple of other observations from my trip to Texas. I have to say that is my first time using the airport in about a month. A total breeze both in South Florida, where I live and in Dallas Fort Worth. I was actually quite scared about the situation potentially at DFW airport. DFW is the home of American Airlines. It is a major, major international airport, has one of the highest passenger traffic, easily top five airport in America. It's always Atlanta. O' Hare in Chicago, DFW in Dallas, lax, jfk. These are always some of the top airports America. An absolute breeze. There was no line. I couldn't believe it, honestly. I mean, maybe I just got lucky. Same thing for what it's worth here in South Florida as well. So the TZA situation not affecting at least the airports that I went to. Anecdotally, you still hear about these, these horrific wait times. I saw some headline suggesting that a Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta, which is always just a total poop show of an airport. I saw some headlines suggesting that the security line was literally winding out all the way to the parking lot, which is just terrible and unfathomable if true. Is this because of the ICE agents there on the ground? Hard to say. The ICE agents are actually really not at a lot of airports. They're not at for Lauderdale Airport here in Florida, which is where I flew out of on Wednesday. So it's not necessarily attributable to that. Will the Democrats end up actually caving on this particular shutdown? Very hard to say. So the USN actually did vote on Friday morning to end this partial DHS shutdown. Now they voted to to fund most of the department security, including tsa. Here's the catch. The catch is that this bill that they passed did not include all of the relevant funding not include all of the relevant funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection. So they're basically trying to have their cake and eat it too. Now, will there be some sort of compromise measure here? Again, there's been these rumors that Donald Trump will potentially try to give Democrats a major win and agree to cut future baseline funding when it comes to ICE to the tune of potentially up to $5 billion in exchange for opening up the rest of government. TSA, I don't know. So it's very, very difficult to say. In the interim, though, what we can say is that Democrats are continuing to put ICE in their crosshairs. And by putting ICE in their crosshairs, I mean, actually, quite literally and tragically, they are really at times putting ice in their crosshairs. So the absolute lunatic source friended prosecutor out of Philadelphia, Larry Krasner. Larry Krasner just the other day was threatening the ICE agents who were being deployed by Tom Homan and now Wayne Mullen as the new Secretary of Homeland Security. And the whole Trump administration, Larry Krasner was just blistering. And not just, not just blistering, excoriating, but threatening the ICE agents who were deployed there to the Philadelphia International Airport. So Larry Krasner saying the other day in Philadelphia, quote, this is how it works. You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county, Philadelphia, I will prosecute you. That is how it works. Yes. I will put you in handcuffs and I will put you in a courtroom, and if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell if you decide to make the floor of this airport or anything like that. What you did in the streets of Minneapolis, which involved the criminal homicide of unarmed innocent people, we are not having that just disgusting stuff. The notion taking us back to January feels like so long ago. The notion that Renee Goode was just an innocent, unarmed person there. Do you remember that video? The video of the woman, the car there? She was going for the agent. They are obstructing an active law enforcement operation. You can't do that and expect that there are not going to be consequences. And when you obstruct in a fashion which is already a crime, by the way, you can't obstruct active investigations. You can choose, if you are a local police department, not to actively comply with a federal operation. If you were just a local civilian, you can't just stick your body out there and like, literally obstruct there. You can't do that. It's not allowed. It is illegal. So you can't do that and then take your vehicle and try to use it as a weapon and not expect that there will be consequences potentially as tragically, and I will say tragically, Renee Goode and the other guy, Preddy, found out in Minnesota, they found out the hard way that these sort of actions unfortunately do have consequences. Now. Now, the very troubled governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, has been the headlines actually for some very similar reasons, just continuing his slanderous, slanderous attacks on the brave men and women of ice. Talking about how these guys aren't doing a thing. It's just totally ludicrous. But let's go ahead and hear from the horse mouth. Here was Tim Wallace over on Ms. Now talking about how these ICE agents at the airport's doing nothing and ICE is just go ahead and just watch for yourself.
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to be anywhere near a polling station, okay? So honestly, I have no idea why he's saying they're not qualified. You can object to ICE on the merits as far as whether qualify or not there. I mean, what is that supposed to mean, dude? I mean, like, what point are you actually trying to make? But the more important point is this, which is that this anti ICE rhetoric from Tim Walls, from Larry Krasner, from some of these other provocateurs is actually very dangerous. It's really, really dangerous. We previously compared the situation against ICE to the Hamas propaganda martyrdom complex over in Gaza. For years and years and years, the terrorist regime in Gaza run by Hamas, the Sunni Islamist organization, this offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, they have tried to incentivize their people and encourage them to go be martyrs, to try to die, literally. They want them actually to die. They want the body count, in this case of the Arabs in Gaza to go up. They want it as part of their outrageous, cynical, diabolical propaganda war against Israel. That infamously, is why they set up shop and launch their rockets and this and that there from schools and children's playgrounds and mosques and this and that. It's all extremely well documented. So the analogy holds because what these individuals want to do. Tim Wallace was the best example and the rest of his idiot band of Minnesota Democrats, Jacob Fry, Keith Ellison, all the rest of them there, they were trying to incentivize their own people to be anti ICE martyrs. This has lethal consequences. There are far, far too many headlines in this country at this point in this second Trump term. Far, far too many when it comes to acts of violence against immigration enforcement agents. And not just immigration, but also the U.S. national Guard. That was the horrific, horrific tragedy in the nation's capital on Thanksgiving eve, albeit in that case, it was from a quote unquote refugee from Afghanistan who never in a million years should have been on this soil. The Biden administration deeply derelict in letting that particular individual into this country. But the point is folks, that this anti ice rhetoric is really, really dangerous stuff. And I am just so incredibly sick of it at this point. And I am just as sick of the Democrats continuing to play politics with our basic security. TSA is not the kind of thing that ought to be simply negotiated with. Sure, America existed prior to the establishment of DHS and the TSA there we also had 9, 11. I mean, a lot of people complain about TSA and it's not really my favorite agency either, to be honest with you. A lot of them seem to have something of a power trip going on there. But overall, overall, would you prefer that security in place? Yeah, I think you probably would given all of the incredible threats that this country faces. Frankly, given all the fifth column subversive actors, given the fact that Dearborn, Michigan is basically just one giant Hezbollah cell at this point, given how much radical fifth column filth is now all throughout this country, brought here by our own stupidity and our own volition, much of it happening during the Biden Harris regime, the 8 million-plus unvetted legal aliens, God knows how many of whom could potentially be grievous, ruinous personal or national security threats against the United States and its people. There's this quote, and I can't quite recall if it's an authentic or an apocryphal quote, but it's often attributed to Thomas Jefferson and various other classical liberal thinkers in the late 18th century. And it goes something along the lines here. I'm paraphrasing that he who would trade away a little liberty for some security would ultimately deserves neither. It's a very popular libertarian sentiment. Unfortunately it is bunk. It's garbage. This is a very real tradeoff that very real societies make on a day in, day out basis. I'm not saying that you can't find a sweet way to harmonize security and liberty, but where you have something that is a good bang for your buck. Roa roi. Security improvement like tsa, for God's sake, for instance, and the infringement on liberty of what? Of walking through a metal tactor? Heck, I got groped by the agent at dfwsa. Do I like that? No, it stinks. But was I like making a big fuss about it? No, it's his job. And by the way to the people at DFW and Fort Lauderdale, I saw there. Thank you for doing your job while the Democrats are forcing you to miss paychecks there. You're good patriots and we the people see that and we the people respect that there but that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should get off their freaking butt and get these airports funded. And at bare minimum, guys do it before holiday week starts this week and Easter Sunday comes Sunday. What a mess to have the airports all shut up. Want to be the CEO of your own rental portfolio? Throw out your spreadsheets, DIY leases and manual rent payments and simplify your rental management to save time and money. Get started for free@turbotenant.com. A major theme of this conference that I just spoke and one of the major areas of tension simmering just beneath the surface is the war in Iran. Don't get me wrong, the polls on this again are consistent. All the pollsters show that MAGA Republicans and CPAC is filled with nothing if not self identified MAGA Republicans these days. They are pretty much in unity in locksp. The opinion polls consistently show that Mag Republicans have approval ratings for the war in Iran, invariably in the 80 plus percent range, usually in in the 75 to 85%, if not even slightly higher range. So I'm not saying that this is an active civil war or anything like that there. But, but, but there is an increasing amount of polling showing, as can be expected, this war has been going on now for basically a month, a lot of polling now showing that the American people are starting overall to sour at least a little more. Again, it's mixed. It really depends on the poll. Some polls still show that there's a positive approval disapproval rating of President Trump. There's but I did see some recent poll that Trump's overall approval rating has slipped quite a bit over the past month and that foreign policy in Iran are now near the top of the list of issues that the American people say that he is handling poorly. Again, there are some polls to the contrary. I'm just noting what I perceive to be the broader trend, and it's not exactly a wholly unsurprising trend given the fact that gas prices have risen on the national average by about a dollar per gallon, which is a lot. And we should not pretend like it's not a lot. It's absolutely a lot over the past month. So the there's a lot of noise and there is a lot of mixed signals as to what exactly is going to be the end game of this particular conflict. So on a Friday, the Israelis threatened to escalate and expand their attacks on Iran. This happening around the same time that President Trump is still giving some indication that he might want to seek an off ramp. A lot of folks reporting to Politico and various other belly publications that Trump is privately asking his advisers how he can claim victory and get out, that he's starting to worry about the political cost when it comes to the midterms. On the other hand, again, talk about mixed signals here. On the other hand, Department of Defense officials, Pentagon officials telling the Wall Street Journal that the Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional troops to the Middle East. 10,000. And by the way, these are potentially even ground troops. So 5,000 U.S. marines and thousand additional paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division. The 82nd Airborne Division is the division that is required or has to have the capability of deploying essentially anywhere around the world with a 24 hours heads up, which is pretty crazy. So are they sending 10,000 more ground troops to the Middle east or is Donald Trump looking for an off ramp? There's also this other question when it comes to US Israel relations and also Trump Vance relations. So Barack Ravid, who is now he was one of the mouthpieces for the Biden administration. Now he's become one of the mouthpieces over at Axios for, shall we say, anti Trump or Trump subversive leaks from within the administration. I have my thoughts as to where a lot of these leaks are coming from. I think that a lot of them are coming from the aforementioned Office of the Director of National Intelligence. And I think that some probably are coming coming from the vice president's office as well. If I had to guess, a lot of his stories seem to emanate from that office is all I am merely noting here. So Barack Ravid noting or at least claiming that there was a very tense conversation between Vice President J.D. vance and Prime Minister Netanyahu in which the vice president, J.D. vance, allegedly accused Netanyahu of being too optimistic about the odds of getting regime change relatively quickly in Iran starting the commencement of this joint American Israeli operation. Now, what makes this story even more interesting, the same reporter over at Axios, Barack Ravid, who again was a Biden administration mouthpiece and now is a mouthpiece for seemingly anti Trump forces within the actual broader administration there now, now Barack Rabid, is saying that senior people at the vice president's office are accusing Israel of spreading rumors that Iran prefers J.D. vance to negotiate because he is more sympathetic to them. So just lots of rumors flying around are Trump and Vance on the same page here. What exactly is Trump's vision at this point of the conflict? Does he want the Pakistanis of all people, to get involved there? Pakistan has been rumored to be getting involved here as a potential intermediary to try to negotiate some sort of off ramp when it comes to the U.S. israel and Iran. And I guess what would it amount to? 4 par negotiations. So is that actually going to happen? And moreover, moreover, what about the military? There's just a lot going on here. There are a lot of moving parts. Meanwhile, the actual war itself is not slowing down, at least at this moment. There was a huge, huge explosion over the past 24 hours or so in the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, torching, absolutely torching this oil tanker known as the Safene Prestige, which has just been burning and burning and burning there. Really harrowing stuff, tons of billowing black smoke there. A very fascinating update for you as well is not quite confirmed yet, but there are some folks and Jennifer Griffin even on Fox News reporting this as well, that Saudi Arabia is now claiming that they are essentially going to get involved in these military actions imminently when it comes to the Arab countries, I essentially will believe that when I see it. If you know or listen to this, if you watch or listen to the show, you know my thoughts when it comes to the Arab states seeming duplicity and their two faced nature when it comes to a lot of these things, a lot of the Saudis, Emiratis privately say all the very hardcore get the Iranian stuff. Then when it comes to publicly showing, they're like, eh, not so much. I'll let the United States and Israel handle it. Ironically, a lot of these countries, including Saudi Arabia, haven't even actually acknowledged or recognized Israel. So the whole thing is kind of just a total message. Now we'll see again if Saudi Arabia gets involved. But how is this going to end? And what exactly is this going to shape up to be over the next few weeks? Now, there was an interesting side event to tie this back to the CPAC conference where Steve Bannon was hosting a live taping of his very popular show. The War Room was actually he and Eric Bolling were on stage together at the time. Bannon decided to say to the live audience, I walk right by this. I know exactly where in the convention this was. He said to the live audience, let's do a quick little poll here. Should Donald Trump finish the job against Iran or should he find an off ramp asap? And Bannon has been quite critical of the war effort. Maybe not as over the top critical as Tucker Carlson, who's called it literally evil. So I don't think Bannon has been there, but he's definitely been a critic of the war, much like Tucker and Megan and Matt Gaetz and this whole crowd. And the answer perhaps didn't go exactly the way that Bannon thought. So there was way more applause for finish the job than for cut bait and get out of town. In fact, Steve, by his own estimate, estimated that it was a 65, 35 split in favor of finish a job. Frankly, based on the clip that I saw and what I heard, seems me to be even more lobster than that. We're talking here probably 75, 25, 80, 20. But again, we're splitting hairs at some certain point. The point is that the MAGA base still is lined up behind this effort, but there is increasing anecdotal and polling evidence to suggest that maybe the American people more broadly are not quite as robustly supportive of this effort as the Trump base is at this juncture. At some point, at some point, you're going to have to find some way to get out. The war obviously cannot go on forever. It is true that Donald Trump campaigned against forever wars. It's also true that the Muls have been involved in a 47 year forever war against the United States. There are a lot of things here that are simultaneously, simultaneously true at once. No one, I repeat, no one, maybe Lindsey Graham, but like literally no one short of that wants to see ground troops in Iran. And I did an event in Dallas two nights ago, the night prior to my CPAC speech, a small event in Dallas proper. And I said here that this is not gonna happen. The notion that there will be naval vessels dropping off Marines on the Persian Gulf to mount this long march to tehran with the 82nd Airborne, the Delta Force, I mean, get out of here. It's not gonna happen. It is absolutely not gonna happen. There have been all these stories about whether it's a few thousand, maybe up to 10,000 additional ground troops going to the region there. If that happens, and if Donald Trump does decide to try to call Iran's bluff and try to forcibly reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz, this 21 mile choke point through which a fifth of the world's oil flows. If he does that, it will look something like trying to seize Kharg island, this very strategic island near the strait. An island, by the way, that Trump has been calling for as long back as 1988 for the US to get involved in he literally told the Guardian, the British newspaper that very year, that if he were president that he would go in and take Carg island to cut off the Iranians number one way to export their very precious petroleum to the global markets. So I think you're looking at something like that. Taking Carg island, maybe taking some other smaller islands there. You're not looking at an actual ground incursion there. But at some point, at some point there you are going to have to find some way to try to expedite in the short term and really ideally try to get the Iranian people in a situation where they actually can make a play to take their destiny into their own hands. Easier said than done, really. Really easier said than done. But try to expedite that and make that happen the next month. Ish. After that you're looking for some sort of pretty expeditious timeline to try to find a way to say that you have neutralized Ron's right away. And by the way, they've done a ton of damage already. So kudos to all involved in doing that. Tremendous damage to this most terrible of folks. Want to be the CEO of your own rental portfolio? Throw out your spreadsheets, DIY leases and manual rent payments and simplify your rental management decision. Save time and money. Get started for free@turbotenant.com. We cover transgenderism a lot on this show. We cover it a lot on the show for a few reasons. On a smaller level, we cover the transgender topic because it is just mind boggling insane. It's just crazy, this notion that a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man. And also we believe, and the polling bears out, that it is tremendously politically winning issue for conservatives. The notion that biological men should compete against biological women in women's sports is something like an 8020 issue. And if anything, that's being conservative. How many 8020 issues do you find in the broader public? Well, there really are not a lot. There are some wedge, quote unquote cultural issues that really are that lopsided Transgender athletics is one. Deportations of reprobates, miscreants like Mahmoud Khalil and Kilmar Robergo Garcia, that's another as well. But the broader reason that we like to cover the transgenderism issue is because if you think back to some of our opening comments here on our show today, this show is fundamentally about the truth. We are fundamentally about, as I already alluded to, Genesis 1:27, the first half of which says that man is made in the image of God. The second half of which says that male and female, he created them. In other words, the entire construct of transgenderism, this social theory, this university ivy, ivory tower woke madrasa, social fantasy that somehow eked out into the real world where it's doing tremendous damage, irreversible damage. As my friend Abigail Schreier wrote about in a Brain, great book a few years ago. This is ultimately an attack on truth. And we're not about that here on the show. We are about truth and we oppose lies. And that ultimately, really substantively, is why we are opposed to the transgender gender while not being opposed to individual transgender individuals who think that they are something they are not. Their gender dysphoria, a long recognized psychological malady by the dsm. We have immense compassion, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Necessary caveat, lest I be called something that I am not. Now, all that is context for a wonderful development that happened in the international sporting community, which is that the ioc, the International Olympic Committee itself, has now formalized a new policy when it comes to protecting women's sports against the predations of biological males who seek to intrude upon and ultimately to ruin those women's sports. So it is a brand new policy from the IOC. And you can read about over@olympics.com, they have the whole formal statement. They basically say that, quote, eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females determined on the basis of a one time SRY gene screening. In other words, if you have a male chromosomal structure, you're out of luck. Go compete against the boys as you should. You're not welcome in women's athletics. This is the quintessence of common sense. The IOC is an international organization. And the speculation here is that the reason that this decision came out now at the time that it did, is because the Olympic Games are coming up in Los Angeles in 2028. Those will be the next Olympic Games, the Summer Games, now that the Winter Games in Milan Cortina have just gone ahead and concluded. So the idea here is that Donald Trump will still be president in 2020. By the way, Donald Trump having an amazing sports second term. Okay, the World cup is this summer. The World cup technically is being jointly co hosted by Canada, the U.S. mexico, the first time that three countries ever done it. Years ago they had South Korea, Japan split it. Now it's three countries. It's the first time ever. But it's mostly the United States, Canada, Mexico, kind of a sideshow, by the way, open question as to whether or not FIFA actually keeps those matches in Mexico, given all the recent cartel violence, the fact that Mexico is increasingly obvious to be a failed narco state and not a government that has a monopoly on the use of force, the defining feature of a sovereign entity. So we'll see what that happens there. But Donald Trump is going to have the World Cup. He's going to have the Los Angeles Summer Games there. And the IOC is now aligning their policy when it comes to Donald Trump on the issue of biological men competing in women's sports. Just remarkable, remarkable stuff. By the way, even Bob Costas, a long time liberal and a veteran, a fixture in the sports commentary space going back 25, 30, maybe even 40 years, Bob Costas, who had all sorts of anti Bush musings back in the day, anti Trump musings guy is a total liberal. And even he, even he on an appearance on CNN saying that this is common sense, it's not transphobic. Here is Bob Costas.
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There's a reason why the high school champions don't compete with the college champions. There is a reason why no trans man who was once a woman and has become a man has ever competed successfully with men in the Olympics. If Caitlin Clark could play in the NBA, everybody would applaud it. That'd be an incredible thing. But if the last guy on the bench of an NBA team went to the WNBA and started averaging 40 points a game, everyone would know that is BS. There's a reason why Sugar Ray Leonard, who was a contemporary of Mike Tyson, didn't fight Mike Tyson. They were in different weight classes. There is a reason why there are men's and women's sports and why Title IX was one of the truly progressive pieces of legislation, in the best sense of the word progressive.
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So is Bob Costas seeing the light in his later years? No, probably not. But that takes us back actually to the 8020 issue. This is that stinking obvious of an issue. So good for the ioc. Not something that we say here very often on the show, but good for the International Olympic Committee in aligning their policy not just with Donald Trump's executive order from his first days of his second term, but also just with common sense, with sexual dimorphism and ultimately with truth. And not just lowercase t truth, but capital T truth as well. We've covered on the show how there's a broader pushback against transgenderism going on there. There was this remarkable jury verdict in New York State, in Westchester county, my home county, actually, in late January, how a quote unquote detransitioner won a $2 million medical malpractice lawsuit, the very first time that's ever, ever happened. So the tide is very much turning on this issue. The left has dramatically overplayed its hand when it comes to the issue of transgenderism and the LGBT rainbow jihad more generally. They've overplayed their hand when it comes to open borders and they've severely overplayed their hands when it comes to this as well. And right now, they are simply just reaping what they have long sowed on that issue. Well, a man who is now deceased and therefore has also reaped what he sowed is the subject of our final thoughts for today's show. And that is a true monster of human history. Man by the name of Kermit Gosnell. He is now dead at the age of 85. Dead much like the hundreds, perhaps thousands of unborn children who he murdered in mid to late term gestational period. Kerma Gosnell was discovered he was outed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2013 for running one of the most horrific houses of horror in the entire annals of American history, if not western civilization history. It was a late term abortion clinic for the express purpose of murdering babies. After they can suck on their thumb, after they have functioning brainwaves, they have spines, they have skulls. And this is so grisly I can barely say it without being moved to tears. And by the way, there was a wonderful movie on this whole horrible affair in 2018 by Nick Searcy. I highly encourage you to see, if you never saw it, called the Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer. I saw it in theaters when it came out back in 2018. It's heart wrenching stuff, but it's a must, must see film. So Gosnell would literally snip these spinal cords of these 25 to 35 week babies. one point, one of his employees was so scarred that he had to puke after what he saw of the spinal cord snip. That's ultimately how Gosnell was outed. He ends up being tried and ends up being prosecuted. He was sentenced to life in prison. In 2013, he was convicted on three at three counts of murder for severing the spinal cords of late term babies. But the grand jury report estimated the number of newborn murders to be at least in the hundreds, if not in the thousands. And he is now dead. He died in the hospital at the age of 85. What does there say, folks? Life has to be cherished. Life is a beautiful thing. I think often about Jeremiah chapter 1, verse 5, which says, When I had not yet formed you in the womb, I knew you. And when you had not yet emerged from the womb, I had appointed you a prophet to the nations. I made you. I knew you when you had not yet emerged from the womb. Human life is sacred. People like Gosnell will be remembered as the tyrants of history. Life is one of the most important values that any conservative worthy of any conservative ought to stand for. It's certainly what we stand for here on the show, and you should stand for it as well. Folks, have a great weekend. Enjoy the college basketball. Go Duke. If I may say so shamelessly, we'll be right back on Monday, folks. We'll see you then.
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