Kmele Foster
Appearances
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
California has had ample opportunity to push back against leftist politicians over the past X number of years, including the aforementioned Rick Caruso. I think back to a guy who was a friend of mine who was an actual Republican mayor of California, Richard Reardon. He, unlike Karen Bass, responded to the many tragedies that unfolded in Southern California in the early 1990s.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
And I'm not just talking about the OJ trial. But especially to the Northridge earthquake, that's where he found his footing as mayor. And, you know, that damage is way beyond the city limits of L.A. And let's remember that L.A. County is a much more important like entity, government entity than the city council and the mayorship. And they handled twice as much of the fire action, for example.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
But Richard Reardon went out and he helped and he led and he stood in the rubble and he did stuff to help rebuild the area. Karen Bass being out of the country is inexcusable. As soon as you know it's a Red flag day with 80 to 100 mile per hour winds. You turn the plane around. You just do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
There are things for you to do if nothing else than to show your face and to be with your people who are actually fighting these fires. She was in Ghana at the request of President Joe Biden to honor an inauguration ceremony of some sort. Why? Does a mayor of any city need to go to a federal inauguration at the behest of the federal government?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Don't we have like a federal government to do that kind of stuff and some ceremonial people? You've got business to do. I mean, for generations, we've known that you don't leave If you're a mayor or a governor of Southern California area or California, you don't leave in October. October is when these fires usually happen. It's when the Santa Ana season comes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
She should have turned that thing around. It's infuriating. The mask, I understand. This is not a COVID situation. If I was in California today, I would wear a mask.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
There's a federal policy associated with this That's why it happens in Montana as well, which has different governance in general than the California does. And it's a classic unintended consequences story. The fair requirement, FAIR, Fair Access to Insurance Requirements, came as a result of the riots of 1968.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
It was basically a response post Martin Luther King assassination when there's inner city riots that you could see the scars from space in Washington, D.C. along K Street and 14th. So they said we need to pass this. So government will be the lender of last resorts in inner cities that the insurance companies are too scared of. That was the initial purpose of it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
The practical effect of it is that it ended up subsidizing because of bad management. Hurricane beachside residences in Florida, foothills residences in California and people who live in floodplains in Texas and in Central Valley of California. So this federal requirement is at the heart of some of this. Then if you have some price controls on top of it, then it's a disaster.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
But I really want to, in case that there's anybody out there listening or watching this and doing the, oh, it's rich people in Pacific Palisades, boo hoo. And already I've seen some people come at me and other people about that. If you really want to go that way, which you shouldn't, because that's not American at all. So knock it off. I wouldn't do that to anybody in this country.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
But the other there's four fires currently going on, at least that have names. But there's a couple of others. But one of the biggest ones is the Eastern Fire, which is happening around the Altadena, Pasadena area. La Cunada, Flintridge, Altadena. Pasadena, this is where my friends go to buy houses because they can't afford it anywhere else in Los Angeles.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
This is the place where people who are schoolteachers buy houses and they are all in evacuation zones too. It's a really ugly tendency. We saw it during COVID from blue states towards Florida. of saying, oh, you know, yeah, it serves you right. You're going to die because you don't take the stupid measures that we're doing in blue states. Don't do it in the reverse way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
There are people who are really, really suffering. There are difficult public policy questions that California and L.A. need to do a hell of a lot better job. But be empathetic towards your fellow Americans for crying out loud.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Palisades also has a historical role in the 1930s, especially. It was home to a bunch of Jewish refugees of Central Europe and Adolf Hitler in particular.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
So it became a great and grand and important refuge, as did Southern California and the film industry and a couple of other industries as well, which greatly enriched the culture of America, but also is just sort of a beautiful gesture because it was started as a Methodist
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
And then and then it just became in this grand American style, a melting pot style, a place where people could flee bad situations and then create something new and beautiful and small. And that's Pali higher that we're talking about here. This isn't just any high school that was burning yesterday. You know how many how many movies have been shot at that at that place?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
It's a really lovely, lovely area. And also, let's remember that the fire jumped PCH. So PCH, Pacific Coast Highway, which we all mostly know from Nick Nolte mugshots, is the artery that goes through Malibu. Look on a map. Look on a topographical map of Southern California. What are you going to see? There's only six ways in and out of that place, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
There are so many huge, tall, steep mountains around the Southland. And PCH is one of them. And when the fire starts jumping these things, People can get hemmed in pretty darn quick. I've always looked at that topographical map with sort of a paranoid eye and imagine what would happen if there was a ne'er-do-well on a red flag day. It's pretty easy for people to get boxed in in a hurry.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
So if anyone's out there still wondering whether they should evacuate, I would say evacuate, dude. Because it goes really, really, really fast and the fire will jump.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
I think there's a policy... The Californians are so left-wing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Excellent. OK, you've already moved up. And what color is it? Who has access to it? Who has access to it? Exactly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
I don't see vagina color.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Seriously, right? Like the absurdity. It's bad enough that they're like, she's a woman. They were supposed to celebrate the fact that she's a lesbian. Who gives a shit?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
I wanted to make one quick, quick point about electricity and power outages. There is a there is a reason why that that's out of that. That's interesting. I had to. Is that if you're going to do, as Camille was saying, a mandate that everyone must have an electric guitar, I'd like a guitar. The Jimi Hendrix mandate. No, that everyone must have electric cars.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
You better have an electrical grid that works. And they don't. And also, who's the biggest contributor to wildfires in California over the last 20 years? Hmm. Let's guess. It's the people who have electrical lines. That is what sparks so many of the wildfires because they spark literally and then they go poof. So people need to think this stuff through a little bit more.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Oh, God. Oh, God. Dear God.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Oh, wow.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Well, I mean, let's be honest that he has also been as browbeaten as any executive in the country for the last basically since November or whatever the day was after the election in 2016, because the left absolutely freaked out and blamed Russia and Cambridge Analytica for
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Vladimir Putin and the cookie monster living under their bed for Donald Trump winning, which is a very huge and horrible shock to him. And by that point, Facebook was large enough that it did what large companies tend to do, which is don't kick me too much and don't do anything that gets rid of my dominant position in the market. And, oh, do you want some regulations? I'll help you write them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
That's what big incumbents tend to do. And I'm happy that he turned. Everyone should go watch that video if you haven't. And I'm sure you played some of it yesterday or or will show some of it in a minute. His his hair, if nothing else, is just fantastic. And I applaud him for it. And he's been describing himself as more as libertarian over the years, which is. Very good.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
And this is a moment where like it's kind of crystallizing a certain cultural vibe shift, if nothing else. But I would caution people. And that cultural vibe shift to me is that the culture of free speech is reasserting itself, whether the institutions of free speech are doing that, whether the incoming administration is going to be good for free speech.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
There's many reasons to think that it won't be good for free speech. just in the way that the FCC incoming chairman or going to be chairman has talked about a couple of things, but table that for a second. That's an important thing. The culture-free speech is crucial to what all of us do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
And to have social media companies now coming around to where Elon Musk has already been, and he's a weird person too on some of these issues, but broadly speaking, he has thrown open rather than restricted the amount of speech on his platform. And Zuckerberg even said that he's going to adopt the same kind of community notes system that
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Musk has on Twitter, which is probably the greatest innovation in the Musk era. It's just a real-time fact-checking what Wikipedia was supposed to be back in the day on some level. But it's so funny.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
He was brought to heel, which is great.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
I feel like it's more genuine. Looking at the video, it feels kind of more genuine. I don't actually want him to be responding to government pressure in any direction, whether it's in a way that's positive or negative.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
I don't think so either. But I'm just saying I wouldn't want that to happen. That's what the left is now describing this, that he's capitulating and he's being brought to heel. I don't necessarily think that that is the case. I don't know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
I hope I absolutely hope so. And I would commend people briefly to go and read Matt Taibbi on this, who's been obviously one of the best chroniclers of the way that governments, especially in the Biden era, has put unholy amounts of pressure on social media companies to ban things. I mean, Rand Paul couldn't go on YouTube to say that, hey, you know, masking studies are not really all that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
They would ban it for six months after that is crazy. What take play? We're still like unraveling that. But what Taibbi argues is that perhaps Zuckerberg, in the way that he's talking about this, wants to partner with Donald Trump in a way that is actually good and not bad. And that is there's a lot of Western European and other country advocates.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
efforts to make a sort of transnational anti-speech or sort of anti-misinformation regime. And so if Zuckerberg is leading or being part of the solution to fight against that and to encourage Trump, because now Trump has a lot of Silicon Valley people have his ear in ways that they didn't five years ago at all. If they can encourage him to
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
to resist any american cooperation and in fact uh active american resistance to any attempts to be as horribly anti-free speech as the uk has become then that can be a really good thing i think which which zuckerberg actually mentions too yes so let me play a little bit of the zuckerberg um mea culpa admission announcement of the end of his censorship regime
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Ruled. That's the great answer. I wrote, I think, my first... Long piece about how the fact checking industry, which deserves scare quotes, was not all that. It was more than a dozen years ago or a dozen years ago or so for reason because of the way that it was being applied so in lopsidedly in the Obama era. Right. You had PolitiFact giving lie of the year about Obamacare. OK, that makes sense.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Except it was about Sarah Palin making a Facebook post about death panels. It wasn't about whether you could keep your doctor. It wasn't about whether, you know, you've taken on the drug lobby and finally won or many of the other things that wasn't about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
I mean, that's like even take out the politics of this, even take out the it's obvious that you're more upset about Republican and MAGA Republican in particular rhetoric than you are about Democratic. Take that out. Actually look at the difference between and this was true 12 years ago is true today that They want to fact check political rhetoric.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
They don't want to fact check the lies that government are telling you in the name of making bad policy. How many? I mean, this goes hand in hand. We've had this crackdown on quote unquote misinformation hand in hand with the government serially lying to us about policies relating especially to COVID. And Michael's right to point to that. Huh. That's an interesting thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Why are we like actually using government pressure? I would say in violation of the First Amendment, it's being sort of adjudicated as we speak. But government pressure about this at the same time that the government is doing is making brand new kind of bold stakes of its own misinformation. I would say that those two things go hand in hand.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
And journalism made a really bad departure 10 years ago or so where it decided to be the referee of rhetoric as opposed to covering policy. Policy matters much, much more. And Democratic policy in Democratic places has produced really bad results. Republican policy sometimes does as well. But you should actually follow the way that that works. And they don't.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
They are more naturally inclined to be upset with Sarah Palin's rhetoric than what would actually Barack Obama did when passing and implementing Obamacare. And this goes on and on and on. The biggest lie of a really long time was Biden's age. That that is not lie of the year. is fundamentally enraging to at least half of the country.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Well, I worry, I think we are winning in the culture and you're right to point that out. But we are not going to, it's, we're not going to find a lot of winning within the kind of legacy cultural institutions. Even yesterday, you know, I was just doing a last quick little Google news search before I hit publish on a piece about Charlie Hebdo. And here's the Columbia Journalism Review, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Institutional kind of organ of the media industry talking to itself, you know, talking about the mixed legacy and the, And the free speech is more complicated and nuanced than all of that. And like we're talking about the murder of 12 people, beloved cartoonists, cartoonists who mocked first and mostly actually the pope and every single French leader.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
I mean, they're an anti-clerical satirical weekly. Stretching way back, very anti-authoritarian. The mixed record here is only the performance of the media, which made Charlie Hebdo lonely, and it shouldn't have been.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
And this is something that Michael and I in particular have talked about and written about many times, not just over the last 10 years, but over the last 35 since the fatwa was placed on Salman Rushdie for Satanic Verses. There was a moment there. Where there was a time for choosing among Western intellectuals, and they chose badly. They chose intersectionally.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
They said, well, Rushdie and Jimmy Carter's words in an op-ed that he wrote for The New York Times just – Three weeks after the fatwa, you know, Russia is guilty of insulting Islam, you know, because people from Muslim countries are more oppressed than Catholics or than people from a majority opinion.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
This was like a new introduction of cowardice on the part of the West kind of judging it in this way. And when the Danish cartoon crisis happened in 2006, which Danish newspapers published cartoons of Muhammad, no one cared. And then a bunch of imams in the Middle East started publicizing them months later. And then it led to a bunch of riots. That was the moment when the West...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
writ large, should have reprinted those cartoons. I advocated for such when I worked for the LA Times very strenuously, and I lost very narrowly in the opinion section, and I feel ashamed to this day that I didn't win that argument because Charlie Hebdo was one of the only places that did that. And once you become an outlier, then you become a target.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
And they became an outlier because of the cowardice of the West, and not just about reprinting cartoons. In the case of the New York Times, at one point, writing a file story about a statue of Muhammad that appeared on top of a New York courthouse for a half a century that no one cared about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
They wrote an article about this in the wake of one of the Charlie Hebdo controversies and didn't even run a file photo of the statue that existed. Oh my Lord. The historical photo.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Better late than never. Got to understand that ghostwriter.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
It could be that international relations are a little bit different than a two-sided legal dispute.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
He did the minstrel show black face.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
I just retweeted out Joel Pollack from Breitbart, who lives, I believe, in Brentwood, but he's definitely local. He just had a really good informative thread about a variety of issues, including reservoirs and fire management, brush management specific to the Palisades. I recommend it, and hopefully people will tune into wherever he's talking.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
You're going to have this happen in Southern California. I mean, the Santa Ana winds blow. There was going to be a fire yesterday, no matter what. Some people are like, oh, is it a gender reveal party that sparked it? Was it this? Was it that? Was it a homeless encampment? Probably one of them was. But on days when there's 100...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
Mile per hour, Santa Ana winds coming down from the canyons and there's no humidity. There's going to be a fire, especially if there's some brush in the hills. So the question is, what do you do to prepare for it? There's a couple of things that California has done very, very badly, not just in terms of fighting the fire.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
But you're going to hear in the coming days people talking about how, oh, it's weird. I don't have insurance for my home. Fire insurance companies or home insurance companies have been fleeing the state because of California's price controls on the insurance industry for years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
So California tells people who live in fire prone areas like, let's say, Malibu, which is going to be evacuated if it hasn't been already. Today, very, very fire prone, steep canyons, drought conditions, wind comes through. So your fire insurance, your homeowners insurance should be more expensive. California says, oh, we don't want that. We're going to put a price cap on it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
And meanwhile, they're going to also raid from the money. of the home insurance companies to have their state-managed lender of last resort insurance, the fair insurance, fair access to insurance requirements. So that basically encourages people to build in dangerous places with subsidized insurance that they steal from insurance companies. So what do you do if your state farm, you leave?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
So they've been leaving the state, broadly speaking, because they can't make insurance pay because we're not allowed in a price control situation to let insurance markets tell us how dangerous it is to leave in places. And so there's a lot of people who are going to have their homes burned down, who are not going to be able to rebuild at all, or maybe don't have insurance to begin with.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
All that is a state managed problem. It shows that people don't have a basic sense of economics of how to deal with a predictable risk. And again, this risk has been predictable since the time of the Tongva and the Chumash sitting on the hills. We have a fire ecology in Southern California where I'm from, and we all have dear friends who we're worried right now and crossing our fingers.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mismanagement Leading to Devastating LA Wildfires, and Trump's Serious About Buying Greenland, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 978
that their homes haven't been destroyed in the Palisades and also in the foothills. And it breaks my heart. And we need to do a better job. California needs to do a much better job of mitigating and planning for these very, very predictable catastrophes that happen.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Floats America Taking Over Gaza, Major Girls' Sports Executive Order, and Celebrating Episode 1,000, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 1000
Thank you. And I suspect we'll probably be disagreeing today.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Floats America Taking Over Gaza, Major Girls' Sports Executive Order, and Celebrating Episode 1,000, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 1000
Through enormous amounts of international aid. I mean, the thing about this is it is crazy in about a thousand ways. I mean, Donald Trump exerting pressure on the Canadians and the Mexicans to say, this is what we do. You need us, so therefore we'll turn the screws and you'll do what we want. The same thing cannot apply To the Middle East.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Floats America Taking Over Gaza, Major Girls' Sports Executive Order, and Celebrating Episode 1,000, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 1000
I mean, like the Abraham Accords, which Ben Shapiro said was a great achievement. I agree with him. But those fall apart. The second the Trump administration says we are going to against international law, by the way, and against the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits, you know, large scale moving, forcibly moving populations out of their territory. I mean, it's a crazy thing to do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Floats America Taking Over Gaza, Major Girls' Sports Executive Order, and Celebrating Episode 1,000, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 1000
But, you know, Matt says, you know, it would require American troops, troops in some way. There's not going to be any UN troops. No one is going to agree to this. But if the American troops have to be there, they will probably be killed on the ground, some of them anyway. That's true. It's also true that they'll be killed other places.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Floats America Taking Over Gaza, Major Girls' Sports Executive Order, and Celebrating Episode 1,000, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 1000
I mean, remember that Osama bin Laden's big complaint was American soldiers in Saudi Arabia, where he was from, the holy land there. They don't tell me that they think the Dome of the Rock and Palestinian territories are any less holy. They're always mentioned. Also, keep in mind that you have a restive population in the West Bank.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Floats America Taking Over Gaza, Major Girls' Sports Executive Order, and Celebrating Episode 1,000, with The Fifth Column | Ep. 1000
which is right there cheek to jowl with israel and has an enormous amount of support for hamas these days palestinian authority run but the pa has been terrible they don't they're corrupt they're you know there's a million things to say about them the egyptians and the jordanians look i mean you can't negotiate in the sense is that the egyptians have a peace deal
The Megyn Kelly Show
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that was made with Israel in the 1970s. I mean, that's been a very, very important thing for some semblance of stability in the Middle East. The Jordanians, I mean, you think about the terrorists that killed Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. The name of that terror group is Black September.
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Black September was an event in Jordan in which the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan attacked the Palestinian refugees. They were fighting. The Palestinians attacked them and the Jordanians attacked back. I mean, the Egyptians had a problem with Muslim Brotherhood getting into government. That's why they don't allow Palestinians to come through that southern border at Rafagate.
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Nobody is going to agree with this. They don't want them. They don't want them. You can't make them, well, we're going to make a deal. No, no, no. They have, you know, 40, 50 years of doing this in very particular reasons of their own stability.
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The Jordanian monarchy, for instance, or the Egyptian government, for what, some deal with Donald Trump, they're going to potentially destabilize their own governments? Not in a million years. And also, you just can't, you can't kick people off their land. I agree with the premise.
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I mean, is that America's responsibility?
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I mean, they're all still within the kind of contiguous borders of Gaza because, as we have both pointed out, nobody is willing to take them. I mean, when we were rebuilding Berlin and Tokyo, the Germans and the Japanese stayed put. I mean, obviously, I am somebody who is incredibly... After World War I, we did get rid of
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Yeah, which kind of created World War II. So it's a problem because the Sudeten Germans, when they were pushed out, created the crisis in 1938 where the Germans took back part of Czechoslovakia and then all of Czechoslovakia. So, I mean, you create these long-term problems when you're moving populations against their will. But I mean, the thing is, is that I do agree with someone like Ben Shapiro.
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I mean, I've always been criticized for being hawkish on this issue. Is that October 6th and October 9th are no longer sustainable in what you can tell from what Donald Trump said. And keeping in mind, he's done so much stuff over the years off the cuff that has then become policy. Note in this that he was reading off notes. He was reading.
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This was actually something that was not just he just had an idea. This was written down and he was presenting this and this was a plan, you know, with malice of forethought that some people would think. Right. But I mean, he has an idea here. And the one idea that you can say that is that everyone understands, but this is the two state solution is finally fully dead.
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And that is coming to the president of the United States. Although we don't know how long before. I think it's interesting.
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Maybe it'll be different in 30 years.
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There's one negative possibility here is that, you know, if you're negotiating in that way, well, we're going to go in there, we're going to do it. You're not going to like that. So therefore, you're going to go in and clean it up yourself. We're going to force you into doing the thing that you're reluctant to do. You know, the flip side of that is also true.
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I mean, keep in mind that there are people in all of these governments across the Arab world who would love to see America do that. I mean, look what happened in the Iraq war. They absolutely I mean, do you think any of these governments give a shit about the Palestinians? If they gave a shit about the Palestinians, they would be allowing enormous amounts of refugees.
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They care about destroying Israel. And they've been sacrificing the Palestinians on that behalf for a very, very long time. If you can bring American troops in there and actually cause even more chaos for the great Satan, the Iranians would love that. I mean, it's kind of what America does by funding the Ukrainians.
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It's like keep Putin bogged down and kill a bunch of his soldiers in Ukraine, right? In the borderlands of Ukraine. Like, we don't have to fight that war. They'll do it for us. Okay. I take all of that. I take it all. But what if...
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I see a lot. I mean, I don't even know where to begin here. I see a lot. I mean, first of all, we're seeing neocon Don, which I was not expecting. You know, neocon Don is making a lot of people. I'm sure Tucker Carlson is having heart palpitations up in the woods of Maine right now.
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I agree with you. I'm very interested to see how Tucker reacts. I'm like, is he tweeting about this? I guess he's going to have a show and talk about it. He doesn't usually tweet. He'll do something on the show. Yeah, go ahead. But I'm interested to see how he deals on the show because, I mean, keep in mind that Lebanon was long considered the Middle Eastern Riviera.
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Riviera and and Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East and completely destroyed by, you know, sectarian fighting in this kind of sense that, you know, Donald Trump made a big deal. And I kind of defended him in one way. He said in 2002 when asked by Howard Stern if he supported the Iraq war, he said something like, I guess so. And then he turned on it pretty quickly.
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And he said it was like the biggest foreign policy mistake ever. in American history. I don't know how he thinks, you know, if we're going to own this property and stay there for a long time, that this is going to be peaceful. This is going to be without the Iranians, you know, the jihadists that blew up American troops in Iraq were almost exclusively funded by the Iranians.
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IEDs blowing people's legs off. I mean, you don't think something like that would happen again? I do. For the purpose of a couple of hotels, Yeah, if you had the choice, I think you would go to the south of France and not to Gaza, where people who have been displaced are probably going to want to wage war to get that piece of territory back.
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There's one thing that we're presuming and that Trump is presuming from the lectern there is that Hamas has spent force. We saw during those hostage handovers that there is a significant number of young fighting age men that have survived. And if you look at all the assessments, Hamas is not a spent force. This is a ceasefire. There's not a victory.
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There's not a victory parade that everybody in Hamas has done. All their munitions have been captured, et cetera. So if you go in there to do anything, you are immediately fighting an insurgency. I mean, that's like, people are not going away. They're not gonna walk away.
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These are people, as you say, Megan, and the people I think you were thinking of is the organization Memory, is memory.org that collects all the videos. And you know, how many times can you see a video saying, we love death more than you love life? These are people not like, oh, it's dangerous. I'm gonna get out of here. No, we're gonna dig in and we have troops left and we have fighters left.
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And you try to come in here and build a hotel We are going to make it a bloody mess for you. And that is assured. You can bet the bank on that one.
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Wait, that was just in January? Hold on, that was just in January. Just January. Well, we'll see February because I think CNN's numbers are going to really fall off now that Jim Acosta's gone.
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I know where this is going. Oh, God.
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Donald, what are we doing with this suitcase?
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That is a bit, because I understood what she was saying perfectly. I don't know. You guys understood that, right?
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No, and we can celebrate at Epcot Center, Khan Yunus, when it opens in Gaza. But the thing about this stuff is, you know, you can be a little more rhetorically aggressive against Iran these days because, I mean, remember Osama bin Laden said America after the Khobar Towers and, you know, the attack in Yemen was a paper tiger.
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And I think that's what a lot of people are thinking about Iran these days, considering Israel, you know, flew F-16s into its airspace, knocked out its anti-air defenses, came back and then girded itself for the response. And Iran did basically nothing. They sent like a nominal bunch of drones up.
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So, I mean, talking tough on Iran is it's an easier thing to do now because Iran, I think in the eyes of a lot of people, is in that sort of paper tiger moment.
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So yeah, I would be surprised, but Megan, you mentioned something that almost got no attention, and it's one of these flood the zone things, a flurry of executive orders, is that in the United States, airstrike on an ISIS leader in Somalia. Yeah. got no attention from anyone.
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And it's like, this is the, you know, Don, the neocon Don in isolationist Don thing, where on the one hand, he's making sure that, you know, he's not a neocon, that adventurism is over. But, you know, a little bit of winking at, like he did, you know, 70 Tomahawk missiles into Syria in his first term, and this hitting people and the war against ISIS. It's not, we're not staying entirely at home.
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And I think that Some of his supporters actually don't love that and probably won't love a lot of this stuff in the past 48 hours.
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I will say he's going to write a book. What if they got him on Shark Tank or something? And he's like on one of those seats, just like judging.
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Well, they would know it was Joe Biden when he came out on stage and just started walking into the audience and muttering.
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No one's even mouthing it. Dude, 90 days ago, you lost. What are you talking about? And I do love that the woman who's like, we're at war. We got to shut down the city. It's like you represent Newark. You represent Newark and Orange, New Jersey, which have been shut down in that war for about... 20 years now. So maybe he's a little closer to home. Good Lord.
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I got to say, I like, I mean, and Trump's right about this. I mean, the concept in so many ways is good. I mean, you don't, you don't want like, you know, we're doing DEI dancing and Cark or something. I mean, I don't know what a DEI musical in Ireland is like. It's a bunch of drunk people talking about how much they hate Protestants. But yeah. The great the great thing about it.
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Yeah, I was in Poland last week and I was interviewing somebody. And before the interview, this very nice woman who is a judge. And she said to me, like, what do you think of Trump? And she said that the program that she was a part of was just like defunded. And they're all panicking about this. I was in Poland.
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And I happened to meet somebody who had a USAID related thing defunded that very day, which the odds of that should be very small. I mean, there are like what Trump said is right in the sense that, you know, there is on paper a lot of goods. I mean, there are some actually really good things that USAID does. I mean, particularly drugs.
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in Africa, where you also have to compete with the Belt and Road Initiative of the Chinese who are making their influence felt all over the world. So that kind of influence is great. But here is the reason that we are capitalists. Here is the reason that we are free market people. The problem with this stuff is there is no oversight in government.
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If somebody was spending this sort of money in a private company and you were losing money and you were like looking at your margins, you would fire the whole department. You're like, what the hell are we doing this for? There's no one in government to do that. So the instinct is right. Baby with the bathwater thing concerns me in a way because there are good initiatives here.
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And it's like, we'll figure those out. But line by line, getting rid of some of this crazy stuff is a positive because it's just grown and grown and grown. And people come to expect it as like their birthright. We can, you know, it's USAID. We'll just apply. And I mean, as Matt said, yeah, it's not, they're not giving money to Politico.
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But why the hell is the government spending $8 million of taxpayer money on subscriptions? Are you kidding me?
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It sounds smart when you're saying that the guy who can drop a rocket on a dime in the middle of Texas is dumb. She sounds like a total moron when she's saying that. That is remarkable. Yeah.
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I want to defend Harry, by the way, who is great. And if you go back to clips, he's a very straight shooter. I'll just be honest. Harry is a fantastic guy. And if you go back during the last election, you could put together an amazing supercut of Harry giving hosts on CNN news that they didn't want to hear. Yes. And he was like, all these numbers. And they were like, is that real?
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And he's like, yes, it's real. But again, that actually doesn't surprise me in the sense that, as you point out, Megan, there has been, and I have a huge number of issues with Elon Musk. And I think there's things you have to guard against of a guy that has companies that have government contracts being entangled with the government. You have to keep a close watch on these things.
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I don't like his interactions with the AFD in Germany, et cetera. But the negative coverage has been wildly disproportionate. And you see that on TikTok. You see it on Twitter, on Instagram. Everywhere I go, I see this stuff. So it doesn't surprise me in any way that those numbers have have collapsed because, you know, it was mostly positive coverage before. And this is just not the case now.
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Up in the Air was written by Magus. Wasn't Up in the Air was written by Magus Stalwart? Walter Kern.
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Oh, my gosh. I didn't know that.
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Yeah, I just want to say when I said I fully disagree with Matt on this, I mean, the broader sense I agree, but I don't think it's going to go away. And the reason I don't think it's going to go away and disappear in the media is because it's an 80-20 issue in the media in the other direction. Hmm.
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There's a reason that everyone's shocked that these are issues that the voters are like, no, we're not on the same page. But if you go back and look at the development of this issue, how it came, I always point out the word BIPOC. There was a moment when someone created this acronym for, was it by, I can't remember, Black Indigenous People of Color? Black Indigenous People of Color.
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Person of color. And it came out of nowhere and everyone started using it because they were afraid. They were like, oh, I guess this is what we do now. And this was the same thing that happened with J.K. Rowling when it was like, we're going to have a Harry Potter reunion on HBO and not even going to invite the woman who created the franchise.
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Because do you think that the people within HBO, sure, some of the younger employees I'm sure did. But I know for a fact, a lot of those people up top We're just doing things because they were fearful of being accused and being attacked in the way you have and other people have.
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So, like, I think that it's going to keep going because those people who make those attacks are all, you know, inhabit the media. And the other thing that I was surprised about in this is it doesn't go the other way. is that I want a ban also of biological women competing in men's sports because there's no difference in gender. It's a social construct. So presumably it goes both ways.
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And we want to make sure that there are biological women not beating men in sports that they're better at than that because, you know, it's all the same. There's no such thing.
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It hasn't? I don't think so.
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Got to run. And one final thing, keep in mind that Tish James told these hospitals, that's the attorney general of New York, to ignore the Trump executive order that she said that yesterday and I think repeated it again today. So.
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I texted Camille yesterday and said, wait, were we on Megan's show during Trump 1.0? And he said no, which apparently is wrong.
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Short window.
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I just want to add one thing to that is that I'm really jealous of Doug Brunt for like a number of reasons. And this is the first time I've like seen him. I listen to his podcast. He's a great host. And I saw him. And then I was like, you know, I'm not... I'm not gay. I've never been gay. I'm like, that guy's like pretty amazing. And he's like dancing and smart and he's charming.
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And he's like in good shape and he's so nice to you. And then I realized I'm really bad at being a partner and a boyfriend. And so I want Doug. I want Doug to know that he inspired me today to try to be slightly better as a person. And it's absolutely not going to work. Thank you, Doug.
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Yeah, I mean, Ken and I have been talking about getting together and poisoning Doug, but I didn't want to talk about that on the show.
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Thank you.
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No.
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It's Nelson Mandela for the listening audience.
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Same man. It's the same thing. This is a new version of the same guy. This is, he's Nelson Mandela.
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Yeah. Correct. The Oval Office.
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Yeah.
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It's a great quote. I don't know where it comes from. The inanity of it really works, though. Go ahead, Camille.
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Now we're all in favor of him going.
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Please be careful. Mistakes are going to happen. That's still worth it.
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It's clearly a very popular policy nationally. This is perhaps one of the issues where Donald Trump, especially with respect to by comparison to Democrats, has just been able to kind of lap his opposition. There are, I think, plenty of people like weirdo liberals. libertarians who have this concern about whether or not the federal government ought to be getting involved.
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And it is rather ironic and surprising to hear Democratic senators making arguments that we have made for years and years and years on a range of issues that the states and the local government ought to be making these fundamental decisions about what's happening with specific kind of narrow issues. And this in many respects is a kind of specific and narrow issues.
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There are particular cases that have risen to national attention, as you just pointed out. But for the most part, I don't know that most people experience a lot of this stuff in their everyday lives. And the question that I've asked since Donald Trump's inauguration and the executive order is pertaining to this is whether or not the objective order
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ought to be to try and pass executive orders or even to pass a new federal statute that is going to outlaw certain things, as opposed to trying to make certain that there is a kind of neutrality, that universities and the NCAA aren't trying to push particular values on parents and families and communities and even players and incentivize things in the way that Joe Biden had before.
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And now Donald Trump is essentially trying to reverse that. The reason why you need some sort of federal legislation if you're a conservative who's concerned about these issues is because you know that just doing this with respect to executive orders, it's going to be tit for tat. As soon as Donald Trump is out of office, someone else is going to do this.
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So the question becomes perhaps going for pluralism, perhaps trying to make some of these things less ideological is a better path forward on a range of issues. issues, even a lot of the diversity equity inclusion stuff.
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No, Megan, I think you're making a really good case. And I will say that, admittedly, I don't follow this issue nearly as closely. My kids are pretty young. My daughter just turned seven. My son turned three today. And Leah is outclassing most boys her age in every athletic engagement.
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But the thing that I was surprised to learn today, actually reading up on this a little bit, is that even the Biden administration had more than entertained the possibility of actually implementing some kind of restrictions on the policies that they were putting forward in this area because they had the same kinds of concerns that there would be situations where you'd had a boy who'd gone through puberty who then decided to do some sort of transition and as a result would have
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a particularly unfair advantage in certain sports and could endanger some of their fellow athletes. So the fact that they're even willing to entertain that sort of thing does give, I think, some credence to the arguments that are being leveled from the right right now.
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And it also suggests that there was probably, and I would imagine continues to be, a real opportunity to actually get some Democratic support for a piece of legislation that makes sense to them. As Matt said, the one that does exist seems fairly innocuous.
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But perhaps there's a way to actually barter to get something done here, which I think, you know, ultimately getting the win is far more important, I think, than just having the battle and, you know, losing a close vote. So maybe they do come back and actually get this done by looking to whatever model.
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Thrown out of the school altogether. I mean, that's the thing. They actually will punish you for that.
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Holy cow.
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I think bringing back the pink hats is about the only chance that they have tonight. And they just should find the strength within themselves to get those things someplace. I'm sure that the Trump administration would be trembling with fear if he had to stare into the gallery and saw nothing but a scene. I mean, they are flailing.
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I would just say briefly that I think there was obviously a miscalculation. I would agree with that with respect to Zelensky's approach.
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But another miscalculation might be that if this is diplomacy, if it is uniquely sensitive, even if Donald Trump wants to use the particular tactics he's most comfortable with, that he should be having most of these conversations in private, that he should be having his envoys conduct most of these conversations in person, and that the fundamental issue with this meeting on Friday is that it was a room full of people with cameras.
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Yes. Like that should not have happened, even if they were going to sign this deal. And had they been able to do that, given the administration's stated objective of achieving a peace as quickly as possible, we would be far closer to that if this blow up had happened behind closed doors. And the opportunity that I think J.D.
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Vance missed first and that Donald Trump eventually missed as well was to say, you know what? Things are getting a little intense. I understand why emotions are running high here. I don't like some of the things that have been said, but we've got all afternoon to continue to talk about this. We are going to get to the bottom of it. That's what we do here. Fix hard problems. Meeting over.
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They are flailing at a time when they really ought to be getting their stuff together. And the fact that, you know, AOC and what's the other, what's Congressman Jasmine Sullivan or something like that?
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Thanks, everybody, for coming. We've got hard work to do. That's what should have happened. And that's the opportunity that I think J.D. and Donald miss. Can we credit Zelensky with the first error of the day? Yes. Fine. But in general, this should be happening. behind closed doors, which has been happening subsequent to that Friday meeting. But it was an unnecessary failure.
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Crockett. Yeah. I mean, these are the two most prominent Democrats in America at the moment. That is not a good thing by any stretch of the imagination. They seem to be on their back foot when they're not airing conspiracy theories about the worst possible imaginable thing that Elon Musk is imagined to be doing with Doge. They're just utterly... quiet. It's just very, very strange.
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There are a plethora of things that they could be talking about and that they could be agitating about. I think the president has had any number of important victories, but he's also done lots of things that they could actually be out in the field criticizing, and they're just not doing a great job in opposition.
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I love it. I love it. I love him living his best life. I don't love the shoes. That is the principal objection. The shoes and the pants could have been a bit better fitted. Little shoe short.
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Wow. Okay.
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That is the absolute worst advice. Like fascism. is on the rise, it's on the march, and we didn't show up. Incredible.
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Thank you, Congresswoman Cardi B. Yeah, that's great. Cardi B would be a little bit more eloquent.