After Hershey s decides to virtually signal to the radical trans agenda, we launch Jeremy s Chocolate. John Kerry calls for an energy revolution, but the facts don t back him up. And John Fetterman is apparently sponsoring legislation from a mental hospital. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, and I'm Ben Shapiro. As you ve seen, by now, Hershey's decided that it was worthwhile going completely woke. So this makes them the second major chocolate company to move along woke lines. Obviously, you saw M&M s with their body positivity, M&Ms with all the rest of their silliness. Well now, here s a lot further. In honor of Women s History Month, in honor of women representing 50% of the population, but apparently only 1/12th of the history, they decided to launch She Hers bars. Because it's her, right? Well, yes, because it's Her. Yes, indeed, it's a troll. But also, the chocolate's good. And also, they're going to be demonstrating to Hersheys and other woke chocolate companies that you don t have to take their money to them. They don t need your money to have your money if they hate your values and they believe that they can cram in your face with idiotic, social justice warrior messaging about how women are women. You can order a 4-pack of He-Her bars, and they'll be a lot like the media would like to understand that they don't even know what a woman is. That's right, because they would like a lot of things like that. It would be an excellent time to live in the public space where they can be their honest and authentic selves. If you're a woman, for example, and you don't wish to work at work, now would be a good time to celebrate a company that men are women and you actually believe that you can live in public as their honest, authentic selves Well, you can do that at IHATE HEHERS HEHESHEYS . Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro's new website, IHate Hersheys . The Daily Wire s new website is . . . and you can order some She-Her Bars. The She-her bars are nutless, as God made them so they can make them as nutless as nuts.
00:00:13.000Well, folks, I'm sure you've seen by now, Hershey's decided that it was worthwhile going completely woke.
00:00:25.000So this makes them the second major chocolate company to decide to move along woke lines.
00:00:28.000Obviously you saw M&M's with their body positivity M&M's spokespeople and all the rest of their silliness.
00:00:35.000Well now, Hershey's has gone a lot further.
00:00:37.000So Hershey's, over the last couple of days, in honor of Women's History Month, because again, women represent 50% of the population, but apparently only about 1 12th of the history in honor of Women's History Month, they decided to launch their she bars. Ah, yes, because it's her for she had it like her.
00:00:56.000That'd be kind of virtue signaling enough. But they decided that the most the most virtue signaling that they could pack into one chocolate, one chocolate bar was going to be by featuring as the spokesperson for Hershey's for Women's History Month, a dude, an actual man like a male who who believes that he is a woman.
00:01:14.000And so Hershey's Canada released an ad featuring a male to female transgender person.
00:01:48.000Okay, so we here at Daily Wire, we don't, you know, particularly hold with this sort of thing.
00:01:53.000Well, we're not big fans of corporations that decide they're going to virtue signal to you.
00:01:57.000They're going to try to sell you chocolate or sell you razors or sell you any sort of good by spitting in your face with regard to your own values.
00:02:03.000And this is why today I am proud to announce that we have launched Jeremy's Chocolate.
00:02:07.000Yes, you knew it was coming and it's going to happen right now.
00:02:30.000Indeed, there are no nuts in the she-her bar because we at Jeremy's Chocolate, we understand there's a difference between men and women and we feel that any bar that is labeled he should, in fact, have nuts.
00:02:42.000And any bar that is labeled she should, in fact, not have nuts.
00:02:45.000It's very obvious and it's very clear.
00:02:47.000As I Hate Hershey's says on the website, some chocolate companies don't even know what a woman is.
00:03:04.000And also, they're going to be demonstrating to Hershey's and other woke chocolate companies that, you know, you don't have to take your money to them.
00:03:12.000If they hate your values and they spit in your face and they believe that they can cram down their idiotic, Social justice warrior messaging about how men are women and women are men in the middle of Women's History Month.
00:03:21.000If you're a woman, for example, and you actually would like to celebrate being a woman with some chocolate late in the day because your kids have run you ragged or because you're late at work, and you actually don't wish to honor a company that believes that men are women.
00:03:34.000Well, now would be an excellent time to head over to IHateHersheys.com.
00:03:37.000That site is live, and you can order a 4-pack, a 10-pack, or a 24-pack of our chocolate bars.
00:03:42.000Again, the He-Him bars come with nuts.
00:03:45.000The She-Her bars are nutless, as God made them.
00:03:49.000So just wanted to announce that right off the top.
00:03:52.000And, you know, honestly, our goal is to sell a lot of these bars because we would like for the media to understand.
00:03:56.000We would like for for Hershey's to understand that they shouldn't be promoting this sort of left wing garbage and using your money to do it and then trying to sell you product on the back of hating your values.
00:04:07.000Once more, I hate Hershey's dot com and go check it out right now.
00:04:38.000Sort of like the Edvard Munch Scream painting.
00:04:40.000That's sort of what just happened to John Kerry's face over time.
00:04:43.000He's gradually turning into the Easter Island head.
00:04:47.000Well, he is still the top climate diplomat, despite being a person who has probably produced more carbon emissions than 99.99% of the population.
00:04:56.000Well, a couple of days ago, it was announced that Kerry will stay in his role as President Joe Biden's special climate envoy, at least through this year's UN climate talk set for December in Dubai, ending speculation that he might soon depart.
00:05:06.000He recently informed Biden of his decision to stay in his post.
00:05:09.000Well, yeah, I mean, what else is he going to do with his life?
00:05:14.000He said there's insufficient, there's unfinished business.
00:05:17.000I felt it would be inappropriate to walk away from that at this point in time.
00:05:21.000So he's going to stay through the COP28 climate meeting, where nations will hold a global stock take to assess the gap between their progress in combating climate change and the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement to keep the temperatures well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
00:05:34.000That, of course, is not going to happen.
00:05:36.000But he is traveling around the world and speaking on behalf of the Green Climate Agenda.
00:05:42.000And many of the things that he is saying are just not true.
00:05:45.000And today I'd like to go through some of the things that the environmentalist movement says about the green transition, the transition to green energy, that are just not true.
00:05:51.000Because it turns out a lot of it is just a pack of lies.
00:05:53.000It is virtue signaling lies that are directed toward redistributionism and quashing global capitalism in the name of a goal they will never achieve.
00:06:02.000It's kind of important to understand that when they promote a thing, they're not actually promoting the thing they say they're promoting.
00:06:07.000They're not actually promoting an end to climate change.
00:06:09.000What they actually are promoting is an end to capitalism and a redistributionist economic system under the guise of solving the climate problem.
00:06:17.000Well, speaking of people who don't tell you the truth, simple fact of the matter is that your internet service provider, very often they'll say things like, you are now in incognito mode.
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00:07:24.000Okay, so John Kerry is still gallivanting around the world talking about the climate agenda.
00:07:30.000So here he was at an event called Ocean.
00:07:35.000I believe this was in Brazil, I think.
00:07:37.000And he was explaining that all the science says that the time is running out to act on climate.
00:07:43.000Now, again, these are sufficiently vague statements that they don't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:07:47.000If we're talking about what we can do to mitigate future climate change, the time is never running out because presumably We can still mitigate whatever is going to happen tomorrow.
00:07:57.000If what he means is that time is running out in order for us not to hit like 1.5 degrees Celsius climate change or 2 degrees Celsius climate change, that time is already over.
00:08:05.000The emissions are already up in the air and we ain't keeping it under that, if you believe in the anthropogenic climate change arguments that are made by folks on the left and many people in the climatologist departments over at MIT and Caltech.
00:08:17.000In any case, here is John Kerry explaining that he is on the side of Tessallians.
00:08:22.000And the truth is, my friends, these choices that we've been making about how we drive our economies, time is running out.
00:08:35.000And the science is what tells us that.
00:08:37.000Not John Kerry, not President Biden, not any of the ministers who are here.
00:08:41.000Science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, all of them.
00:08:49.000On a factual basis, they're screaming to us about the choices we face.
00:10:25.000It is, in fact, about what you can do and what you should do.
00:10:28.000But these are questions that are never asked when it comes to climate change, because the whole goal of the climate change movement is not, in fact, to actually Lower the future climate change.
00:10:37.000It is not, in fact, to adapt to climate change and prevent future death and suffering.
00:10:43.000The goal of the movement is to politically wrongfoot its opponents in favor of a more pure redistributionist scheme for the global economy.
00:10:53.000But John Kerry, he never tells you the truth about the actual choices that we face, because the actual choices that we face are a lot more grave than the ones he likes to say.
00:10:58.000So instead, they lie to you, just like all politicians lie to you.
00:11:01.000They say things like, it'll be a green revolution, it'll create millions of jobs, and your lifestyle will be even better than it was before.
00:12:28.000For our part, the United States is highlighting 77 announcements from eight agencies and offices valued at nearly $6 billion.
00:12:42.000This is more than double the commitments that we highlighted last year in terms of dollar value, and thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the most significant piece of climate legislation in our history, we will be doing even more.
00:13:00.000Okay, and the end goal, of course, is to pressure the fossil fuel industry to change.
00:13:04.000It's the fossil fuel industry we need to get them to stop.
00:13:06.000That's the real problem here, according to John Kerry.
00:13:10.000And I personally know this new president, Sultan al-Jaber, who has been leading the deployment of renewables in the UAE.
00:13:19.000who has been part of a process that has been investing globally in renewables for years and that has already deployed renewables in their own country.
00:13:29.000My friends, I believe it's important for us to understand that to get this job done we have to be inclusive and we need to get the fossil fuel industry to change its own choices and join other fossil fuel companies that have decided They're going to be energy companies, not oil companies.
00:13:51.000He's selling you a bill of goods here, and I'll explain exactly why he's selling you a bill of goods in just one second.
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00:14:59.000Okay, so let's talk about the flaws in the arguments that John Kerry is making.
00:15:04.000So there's a very good book out that I highly recommend by a guy named Peter Zaihan.
00:15:08.000You may have heard Zaihan on Joe Rogan's show.
00:15:10.000And he has a very good book out right now called The End of the World is Just the Beginning, in which, in fairly granular detail, he goes through resource allocation around the world.
00:15:20.000How much cobalt there is in the world and where it's located.
00:15:23.000How much cobalt it would take to generate certain types of batteries.
00:15:26.000How to make a lithium battery and how much lithium it takes to make a lithium battery and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:15:31.000And he comes to a few conclusions about green tech, because he's talking about the fact that he believes that as the world becomes less interconnected, as globalization ends, supply chains are going to become attenuated, and they're going to break more easily, and the world is going to become a worse place.
00:15:44.000And so what he says is, if you are relying on green to pick up the slack, you're wrong.
00:15:49.000So here's some of the problems that he points out here.
00:15:51.000And again, I think this is important for people to know, because whether you are left or right or center, it is important to be very accurate about what government can do and what we can achieve.
00:15:59.000Otherwise, you're just shouting into the wind.
00:16:01.000Otherwise, when you're talking about green tech and the green revolution and reshifting our economy and all this kind of stuff, you're just the same as Joe Biden shouting about how he's going to end cancer by yelling at it.
00:16:10.000So Peter Zeihan talks about a list of problems with the so-called green revolution, this green tech revolution that's supposed to reshift all energy resources on planet Earth toward renewables.
00:16:20.000He points out that the best replacement for oil is actually natural gas, which is true.
00:16:26.000If you look at the reduction in emissions in the United States over the course of the last decade and a half, that has been largely due to the replacement of oil with natural gas.
00:16:32.000But the lefty environmentalists don't like natural gas in the same way that they don't like nuclear energy.
00:16:37.000But if you move beyond fossil fuels, he points out, quote, either the cost of the substitute is in excess of 10 times that of the original input, the carbon footprint is in excess of 10 times that of the original input, or more likely both.
00:16:48.000In other words, if you use solar, it's going to be way more expensive.
00:16:50.000And if you use like animal dung to replace oil, it's way more carbon intensive.
00:16:56.000So you're going to have to make some really, really bad choices.
00:16:59.000Green tech, as it turns out, is not remotely space efficient.
00:17:02.000Solar is 1000 times less dense than systems powered by more conventional means.
00:17:06.000It's an awful lot of land covered in really ugly solar panels in order for you to achieve even remotely similar amounts of power to oil, natural gas and fossil fuel resources that generally power electrical grids.
00:17:19.000When it comes to efficiency, we've spent enormous amounts of money globally on solar tech.
00:17:23.000From 2014, which is when the solar boom started, until about 2020, 1.5% of total electricity now comes from solar.
00:17:38.000It turns out that the sun shines where it shines and the wind blows where the wind blows, but that doesn't mean that you necessarily live near where the sun shines and where the wind blows.
00:17:45.00095% of humans, as Zeihan points out, live within 50 miles of their power plant.
00:17:49.000He says green tech in its current form simply isn't able to shave more than a dozen or so percentage points off fossil fuel demand.
00:17:56.000In fact, places that have shifted over to green tech are spending four times what they normally would for power.
00:18:02.000Even places like California, which has tried to make that shift.
00:18:05.000And California is a fairly welcoming place in terms of green energy.
00:18:12.000Even California is paying three times what it normally would for power.
00:18:15.000It would be paying four, except that it's importing power from other states and then pretending that it's not.
00:18:19.000In the same way that Europe was pretending that it was engaged in a green revolution and then just importing oil and natural gas from Russia.
00:18:25.000Perhaps the biggest problem with the green tech movement is that a lot of the green tech is not storable.
00:18:50.000You ain't got nothing remotely like the kind of batteries that would be necessary to store the energy that you are talking about.
00:18:56.000Zaihan says, assuming that the technological improvements in the world of batteries that have unfolded since 1990 continue into 2026, the cost of a four-hour lithium grid storage system will be about 250 bucks per megawatt hour of capacity, six times that of the standard combined cycle natural gas plant, which is currently the most common electricity generating asset in the United States.
00:19:15.000Despite all of the talk about solar and wind in the state of California, for example, the amount of total storage, power storage, in the state of California right now is one minute of power.
00:19:25.000One minute of power, which is why when you look at states like Texas and there's a big freeze that the sources of energy that fail are the renewables.
00:19:35.000All the other energy, the natural gas and all the rest of that.
00:19:38.000If there are failures, it's because like a pipe cracked.
00:19:39.000But the usual answer is you have to ramp up the natural gas and the oil in order to compensate for the failure of the renewables.
00:19:47.000So Zeihan concludes, green tech in its current form simply isn't mature enough or cheap enough to move the needle for most peoples in most locations.
00:19:54.000It's largely limited to developed countries with rich capital supplies, who just coincidentally happen to have large population centers fairly close to sunny or windy locations.
00:20:01.000Nearly all other locations globally will remain dependent upon more traditional fuels for the vast majority of their energy needs.
00:20:08.000And so what exactly is going to happen to all of those other countries?
00:20:11.000Well, as it turns out, if they can't get a hold of oil, it's going to get worse in terms of the environment, not better.
00:20:15.000They're going to turn to coal or they're going to turn to lignite.
00:20:19.000Lignite is a barely qualifies as coal fuel that is typically one fifth water by weight and is by far the least efficient and dirtiest fuel in use today.
00:20:25.000Germany today already uses lignite as its primary power input fuel because green tech has failed.
00:20:32.000And yet the Germans, for environmental reasons, have shut down their other power generation options like nuclear and natural gas, and instead they're using the far dirtier lignites.
00:20:40.000This is why when you hear people like John Kerry babble about green energy, when you hear Joe Biden talk about, oh we need to spend a billion dollars, we'll shift all the power.
00:20:50.000We're going to be using oil and natural gas for a very, very long time to come.
00:20:54.000And when you disincentivize the creation of oil refineries, for example, which takes sometimes 10 years to come online, all you are doing is making energy more expensive.
00:21:02.000And by the way, you're not helping the environment because people are going to be using other cheaper and dirtier forms of energy in substitute.
00:21:09.000Which is the reason why, for all the happy talk about environmentalism, you know who actually is generating the most emissions right now?
00:21:19.000According to the Washington Post, despite the West's enormous head start, China is projected to have emitted more total carbon dioxide than all of Europe by 2039 and more than the United States by 2050.
00:21:28.000We don't mean that they're the leading emitter now.
00:21:33.000We mean that historically speaking, by 2050, they will have emitted more in terms of carbon emissions than the entire history of the United States in terms of carbon emissions at that point.
00:21:43.000Because it turns out developing countries, they don't care very much about John Kerry's wins.
00:21:47.000They just want to make sure that their people don't starve.
00:21:50.000The world of reality is a difficult reality for politicians.
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00:22:32.000We've already seen antibiotic shortages last month.
00:22:50.000Again, the Biden administration seem keen on making the world less globalized in certain ways, which means that those supply chains are gonna become a lot weaker.
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00:23:07.000Okay, so, reality is a hell of a waker-upper.
00:23:12.000We've been spending the last several decades in sort of a miasmatic dream of our own making.
00:23:18.000And that's particularly true when it comes to the economy.
00:23:20.000What we're about to see in terms of the economy, we're about to see a recession.
00:23:23.000One of the reasons that we're about to see a recession is because all the loose money is going away.
00:23:27.000When you just inflate the currency and when you make it possible for people to take out incredibly cheap credit, people tend to use it on a bunch of dumb projects.
00:23:34.000You'll get the occasional project that hits, and then you'll get a lot of projects that fail, because people have cheap money, and they're going to spend it on things.
00:23:41.000And so, what you have seen is a burst of risky spending over the course of the last several years, and nowhere is this truer than in the world of big tech, which is about to see a pretty massive cleanup.
00:23:52.000And when you have a bubble and the bubble bursts, what ends up happening is all the air in the bubble escapes, and that is what is happening right now in the economy.
00:23:59.000As the interest rates ramp up, as it becomes harder to get credit, a lot of the folks who took out cheap and easy credit on speculative projects are about to get it directly in the tochas.
00:24:08.000According to the Washington Post, eight years ago, Google's founders split the company up into separate entities and named the collection Alphabet.
00:24:14.000The idea was to separate the core business, the company's giant advertising machine, from the side projects that needed time to develop but could one day become Google's next big moneymaker.
00:24:22.000But that next big moneymaker has not materialized.
00:24:24.000Revenue still comes overwhelmingly from advertising.
00:24:26.000Google has shuttered most of the other so-called moonshots, from internet-delivering balloons to glucose-measuring contact lenses.
00:24:32.000Even the most advanced of its side projects, self-driving car lab Waymo, healthcare tech startup Verily, are now confined by the limits of regular business.
00:24:39.000On Wednesday, Waymo laid off 8% of its workforce, adding to a previous round of cuts in January.
00:24:46.000It's not only going to happen in big tech.
00:24:48.000It's also going to happen in real estate.
00:24:49.000We've been seeing the prices of real estate stagnate.
00:24:52.000They will start to drop at some point here because, again, if you spent on a speculative mortgage and then it turns out that you can't afford that mortgage because of the inflation, Then a lot of the money is going to get washed out of the system.
00:25:04.000All the talk about a happy landing here, an easy landing, a soft landing.
00:25:08.000That seems like that is wishful thinking at best.
00:25:12.000According to the Wall Street Journal, consumers pulled back on purchases of apparel and electronics in recent months while continuing to spend on groceries and other necessities, which is why they are called necessities.
00:25:20.000Macy's and Best Buy said they expect sales to fall this year after declining in 2022.
00:25:24.000Macy's chief executive Jeff Gennett said he expects consumers to be in worse shape in 2023 than they were last year.
00:25:30.000According to Rodney McMullin, chief executive of Kroger, they are behaving as if they're already in a recession.
00:25:35.000Consumers are shopping more frequently than they have in recent months, and they're still splurging on products they want like premium beer.
00:25:40.000But people are starting to shift their spending habits because, again, when the easy money goes away, what you end up with is typically a recession.
00:25:48.000And this is going to be the future of Western economies unless we get our spending under control.
00:25:52.000Because when you spend too much money, when you take out too much government debt, you have to pay off that debt somehow.
00:25:56.000Typically, the way that you pay off that debt is you either raise the taxes dramatically or you have to Inflate the currency.
00:26:03.000Those are usually the best ways of doing that sort of thing.
00:26:05.000Or you have to play financial trickeries in which you essentially inflate one type of bond and deflate another type of bond.
00:26:21.000Joe Manchin, one of the only sane Democrats left in the Senate of the United States, he says, listen, you can't tax your way out of debt, which apparently is the plan of the Biden administration.
00:26:30.000You know, the president indicated yesterday, Senator, quoting here, I want to be clear.
00:26:49.000I'll probably hear something today, hopefully, of what direction they want to go.
00:26:52.000But I can assure you, you can't basically just tax your way out of debt.
00:26:58.000You can't borrow your way out of debt.
00:26:59.000And you can't cut your way out of debt.
00:27:03.000Okay, he happens to be correct about all of this.
00:27:06.000Nouriel Roubini, who's known as Dr. Doom because he has predicted like 13 of the last two recessions.
00:27:12.000He is predicting doom again, but it's worth listening to what he has to say at the very least.
00:27:17.000He was one of the first economists to call the 2008 recession, and he's been warning for months of a stagflationary debt crisis, which combines the worst aspects of 70s style stagflation and the 2008 debt crisis.
00:27:26.000He says, I believe a stagflationary crisis is going to emerge this year.
00:27:29.000He estimates the Federal Reserve would need to lift benchmark rates well above 6% for inflation to fall back to its 2% target, but that could spark a severe recession.
00:27:37.000One of the big problems, as Mohamed El-Erian has pointed out over at Allianz, is that the last Federal Reserve meeting, they raised the interest rates by 25 basis points, 0.25%.
00:27:48.000Before that, they've been doing it half a percent, right?
00:28:24.000You can't spend one minute in two different ways.
00:28:26.000And when it comes to government policy, there's going to be ups and there's going to be downs to any given policy.
00:28:31.000This is why it annoys me when politicians of all stripes suggest that there is some sort of panacea, that there is some sort of utopia available in terms of policy.
00:29:12.000It's the same kind of unforced error that Pete Buttigieg made.
00:29:15.000You have to imagine at this point that it is actual spite that he just looks at the people in East Palestine.
00:29:20.000He's like, those people aren't going to vote for me anyway.
00:29:22.000And I don't want any pictures of myself near a blown up train or something.
00:29:26.000Here was Joe Biden answering this question.
00:29:28.000Mr. President, do you plan to visit Ohio to discuss the situation there with the trade government, with the people there in the federal system?
00:29:35.000I've spoken with every official in Ohio, Democrat and Republican, on a continuous basis, as in Pennsylvania.
00:29:42.000I laid out a little bit in there what I think the answers are.
00:29:47.000And we will be implementing an awful lot into the legislation here.
00:29:52.000Meanwhile, Joe Manchin again saying the correct thing.
00:29:54.000Joe Biden should go to East Palestine, Ohio, if he wishes to win states like Ohio in the future.
00:29:59.000Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was speaking earlier this morning on this network, sir, talking about maybe it's time the president really visit East Palestine here, that talking about it and his agencies dealing with it isn't enough.
00:30:15.000When I was governor, I knew I had to be there.
00:30:18.000I knew that gave the confidence to the citizens of my state if I was there.
00:30:22.000I know being a president and having 50 states and all that, when you have a tragedy such as this, that's 20 miles from the border of West Virginia.
00:30:29.000I spoke to all of their Different water departments because some of that had leaked into the Ohio River.
00:30:34.000We're watching that plume as it was floating by.
00:30:37.000They took alternative action to make sure that it wouldn't ingest any of that in the water filtration plants.
00:30:42.000So we were all concerned to a certain extent.
00:30:46.000I personally, if any way humanly possible, would be at the immediately the same day or the day after that anything would happen in my state.
00:30:56.000He happens to be, again, correct about that.
00:30:59.000Joe Biden's 2024 campaign, it's already on the ropes.
00:31:01.000The economy is not going to be good heading into the election.
00:31:04.000And not only that, I know that we've all forgotten about this because it happened, I mean, hell, at least two years ago.
00:31:10.000And in political time, that is just an enormous amount of time.
00:31:13.000It happened about a year and a half ago.
00:31:15.000But this president of the United States did, in fact, surrender Afghanistan to a bunch of 8th century barbarians and subject 38 million people to tyranny.
00:31:23.000And cast tens of thousands of people we've made promises to into the jaws of some of the worst human beings in human history and get a bunch of American soldiers killed in the process.
00:31:31.000And as it turns out, hand a bunch of like billions of dollars in military equipment over to those people.
00:31:40.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a government watchdog said an abrupt, uncoordinated withdrawal from Afghanistan and years of problems with planning and oversight of U.S.
00:31:46.000assistance contributed to the collapse of the Western-backed government in Kabul and the Taliban takeover of the country soon after American forces departed, according to a report released on Monday.
00:31:55.000Poor accountability on weapons and equipment provided to Afghanistan and a lack of systemic planning were important factors in the military collapse there, according to the report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
00:32:06.000The document calls out the Department of Defense for delaying answering official inquiries, missing deadlines, and providing incomplete answers to questions.
00:32:12.000The Inspector General laid blame on U.S.
00:32:14.000administrations going all the way back to George W. Bush.
00:32:17.000They tried to lay blame on Donald Trump as well and the 2020 Doha Agreement, which was sort of the predicate for eventual pullout.
00:32:24.000But the Biden administration obviously put the capper on this thing.
00:32:30.000Biden made, quote, an even more abrupt exit than anticipated by Afghan allies, according to the report.
00:32:35.000Under Joe Biden, he ignored basically all of the warnings as to what was going to happen.
00:32:38.000He went out and he lied repeatedly to the American people about what was going to happen in Afghanistan.
00:32:43.000And because of those lies, people died.
00:32:46.000People died and millions of people are now living under a tyranny.
00:32:48.000I mean, you remember during this, it wasn't that long ago.
00:32:51.000During the Afghanistan withdrawal, he suggested there was no chance the Taliban would just be walking into Kabul.
00:32:56.000And just a couple of months later, the Taliban was walking into Kabul.
00:32:58.000And by the way, a bunch of American soldiers attempting to get innocent people out of harm's way were slaughtered in the process by a bunch of terrorists.
00:33:05.000He had basically had to control the country to.
00:33:08.000Joe Biden is going to pay a penalty for that.
00:33:10.000God's justice comes and that right quick.
00:33:21.000One example of this, the latest from Senator John Fetterman.
00:33:24.000So, John Fetterman is mentally damaged.
00:33:27.000It is a person who had a debilitating stroke in the middle of a campaign and Democrats, instead of pulling him during the primaries, decided to run him in the general.
00:33:34.000And then during the general, when he could not put sentences together, they decided to run him anyway.
00:33:39.000And even though this was leading to a worse health condition for him, they decided to continue to run him and make him senator from Pennsylvania.
00:34:09.000John Fetterman checked himself into a mental hospital because he has depression, apparently suicidal ideation, which is terrible and tragic, and his family is keeping him in place.
00:34:18.000His family is still keeping him there.
00:34:26.000Because if John Fetterman were to step down tomorrow, Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, would appoint a person to fill his seat.
00:34:32.000There'd still be two years left on that term, until the next election cycle, and then they'd have to do it again in two years.
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00:35:53.000Also, it seems like these days many people on the left are content to live in that post-truth world where facts don't matter and truth like gender is completely fluid.
00:36:00.000The problem, as my friend Jordan Peterson points out in his new five-part series, Vision and Destiny, is the truth is going to come out regardless of what you think or how you feel.
00:36:08.000Disregarding the truth, especially when it comes to gender dysphoria, Has very real and potentially tragic consequences.
00:36:13.000Here's what Jordan has to say about it.
00:36:15.000The trans activists would come up to me and say, well, you know, you're really hurting me if you don't accept my indeterminacy of identity.
00:36:23.000And I thought, well, that's what you think.
00:36:25.000But as a trained clinician, I think that I'm going to do you a lot more damage in the medium to long run by going along with your claim that you can just be anything you want moment to moment.
00:36:36.000You think that's freeing because you regard all social constraints as inhibitions on the Wonderful manifestation of your true self.
00:36:45.000But I know that in order to be healthy in the long run, you have to be integrated at multiple levels of social community.
00:36:52.000And when you introduce indeterminacy as to your status at the sex level, no one has any idea what to do with you.
00:37:01.000And so how are they going to play with you?
00:37:02.000They don't know what you are in some sense that even enables the Ball game to get off the ground.
00:37:10.000And so that's no recipe for long-term well-being, because that's always bandied about, that notion of well-being and harm.
00:37:17.000It's like, no, you have to negotiate an identity.
00:37:23.000Now the argument that Jordan makes obviously is that truth is actually the best curative and that living in a land of fantasy is not a curative.
00:37:29.000You should check out the third episode of Vision and Destiny out today.
00:37:32.000New episodes are releasing every single week, but it's exclusive for DailyWire Plus members.
00:37:35.000Head on over to dailywire.com slash subscribe to watch Vision and Destiny.
00:37:39.000So speaking of John Fetterman and Democrats desperately clinging to power, how ridiculous has the story become and kind of shocking?
00:37:48.000Well, they've now released an update on his health.
00:37:51.000Joe Calvello, who is the communications director, says, quote, We don't have a lot to update folks with since there's no real news to report, except that John is doing well, working with the wonderful doctors.
00:38:01.000He's visiting with staff and family daily.
00:38:03.000His staff are keeping him updated on Senate business and news.
00:38:05.000Our team is moving full speed ahead and working tirelessly for the people of Pennsylvania.
00:38:09.000Just last week, we opened a new office in Erie and will be opening several more offices in the coming weeks.
00:38:14.000And then they add, We understand the intense interest in John's status and especially appreciate the flood of well wishes. However, as we have said, this will be a week's long process.
00:38:23.000And while we will be sure to keep folks updated as it progresses, that is all there is to give by way of an update.
00:38:30.000Now, at the same exact time, they're saying there's no update on John Fetterman's health.
00:38:34.000There is a report that came out same day.
00:38:38.000senators, including Bob Casey and John Fetterman, introduced the Railway Safety Act of 2023 to help prevent future train derailment disasters.
00:40:08.000Seems like not a great thing to do, regardless of who you are.
00:40:13.000But, says this columnist, the attacks on Gisele are dizzying in scope and ambition.
00:40:19.000John Fetterman, according to one line of grotesque and specious Twitter speculation, struggled with depression because his wife wouldn't stop seeking the spotlight.
00:40:26.000But then it was also Giselle's fault when, to avoid the spotlight brought on by his hospitalization, she decided to take their children to Niagara Falls.
00:40:33.000Well, no, those two things are not in conflict, actually.
00:40:36.000It turns out that if your husband is in a mental hospital and needs to see you every day, going to Niagara Falls with the kids is kind of a strange decision.
00:40:45.000In any case, the idea here is that you're sexist if you point out that Gisele Fetterman has made some questionable decisions here.
00:40:53.000Again, Democrats must always be defended no matter what.
00:40:55.000And speaking of people clinging to power, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is overtly not with us.
00:41:29.000Except, presumably, that Gavin Newsom doesn't want the controversy of appointing another successor because he had to do this with Kamala Harris when she became vice president.
00:41:37.000And he appointed the unknown Alex Padilla to fill that particular seat.
00:41:42.000All this is creating a real problem for Democrats, actually, because John Fetterman is not present.
00:41:47.000Bob Casey had prostate cancer surgery last month.
00:41:51.000But now, Nein Feinstein is in the hospital, which means that they don't actually have a governing majority at this point.
00:41:57.000Meanwhile, speaking of Democrats who have so far escaped scrutiny for what appears to be rather corrupt behavior, apparently House Ethics Investigators say they have evidence that Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, so fresh, so faced, the freshest face who ever fresh faced.
00:42:11.000She ran afoul of congressional rules after she was slow to reimburse vendors for clothing and other expenses tied to her participation in the 2021 Met Gala.
00:42:18.000It's almost like the socialists who inhabit the squad are very fond of using other people's money to pay off all of their friends and family members.
00:42:24.000I just had a story about Cori Bush, another member of the squad.
00:42:27.000She's an adjunct member of the squad who was apparently paying tens of thousands of dollars to the security contractor who didn't actually have a security license and she ended up marrying that guy.
00:42:37.000You have Ilhan Omar with all of her payments to the guy who would later become her latest husband who she's not related to.
00:42:44.000Apparently, that was the allegation anyway.
00:42:46.000So, very weird how all of your favorite socialists are happy to use everybody else's money, including campaign money, to benefit people they personally know.
00:42:55.000At this particular event, Ocasio-Cortez wore a white dress by fashion brand Brother Vellies, with the words, tax the rich, scrawled across the back in red ink.
00:43:03.000The House Ethics Committee on Thursday released a report by the Office of Congressional Ethics, an internal nonpartisan ethics office that reviews allegations of misconduct.
00:43:10.000The OCE stated in its June 2022 report that Ocasio-Cortez may have accepted impermissible gifts in the form of hair and makeup services.
00:43:17.000Those services totaled well over $5,000, which is above the limit on gifts for lawmakers set forth in federal law.
00:43:23.000The OCE recommended ethics officials subpoena witnesses who didn't cooperate with the probe, including Brother Valley's founder Aurora James and other figures with ties to the company.
00:43:32.000So, this of course would not be her first run-in with the House Ethics Committee.
00:43:37.000Unfortunately, a lot of our Congress people have run-ins with the House Ethics Committee.
00:44:41.000On my watch, they will to support American mayors and cities.
00:44:45.000They used to hang out, tweet out just two mayors grabbing a beer together.
00:44:51.000Not a particularly good association for for the current Secretary of Transportation who has run just into the jaws of fate right here.
00:45:01.000And meanwhile, we have some updates on the Roald Dahl bolderization.
00:45:05.000So you remember that Roald Dahl, the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda and James and the Giant Peach, the publishers decided they were going to go through and they were going to woke up his stories, which is absurd.
00:45:16.000They're all about how the world is a mean, nasty place and kids have to get used to it and deal with it.
00:45:21.000Well, who exactly was leading the boulderization of the works?
00:45:26.000It turns out, according to the Daily Mail, the editors who spent months neutering the works of Roald Dahl were led on their mission to not offend by an individual who describes herself as a quote, non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist who's on the autism spectrum.
00:45:43.000I mean, you just appoint the intellectual and emotional giants of our age.
00:45:47.000to destroy the literature of people who actually create things in our world.
00:45:51.000The boulderization of Dahl's works, which broadly included eliminating language deemed insensitive and non-inclusive, was done by a UK-based group of consultants from Inclusive Minds.
00:45:59.000In the case of the Roald Dahl debacle, there's a person named Jo Ross Barrett, who's at the head of the project. Ross Barrett describes herself as, again, a non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist.
00:46:12.000If you are non-binary and asexual, doesn't that mean you don't have relationships?
00:46:15.000But she's in a polyamorous relationship.
00:46:22.000Do you, like, leave bombs randomly in relationships?
00:46:24.000She's a former project manager at The Woke Forum, and she posted on LinkedIn in 2022 she was working on a secret project involving the work of a well-known children's author.
00:46:34.000In a profile of Barrett, TheyThem is described as a writer and editor with a passion for championing inclusive content and policies.
00:46:41.000Barrett's previous work has been published in Bi-Ible, an anthology about bisexuality and related identities, and AZE Journal, an online magazine for aromantic spectrum, asexual spectrum, and agender people.
00:46:58.000These are the people who should be taking great works of children's literature and absolutely destroying them.
00:47:03.000It is amazing how you have an entire leech class who is just, all they do is live off the creations of others and destroy those creations.
00:47:31.000So yesterday, Whoopi Goldberg decided that she would defend tearing down a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
00:47:35.000So here you have pitted against one another a person who has not acted in 20 years and who has been sitting on The View, a repository of most stupidity in the universe.
00:47:48.000And by the way, has engaged in her very name in a wild act of cultural appropriation because her actual name is not Whoopi Goldberg.
00:48:20.000Well, that statue was not good enough because it showed a slave down at Lincoln's feet.
00:48:25.000And if we're tearing down statues that are really not in tune with where we are as a nation, or at least where we were a couple of months ago, yeah, you gotta take it down.
00:48:39.000You gotta take it down, says Whoopi Goldberg.
00:48:41.000Because she, of course, has been just a massively creative voice in Our Nation's Bettering.
00:49:24.000They had the option of saying, look, we don't know, there's no evidence as yet that ivermectin is a f*** in these spaces because no one's trialing it, because there's no money in it, because science is a subset of Big Pharma and the economic imperatives that write everything.
00:49:37.000No one's doing experiments into natural immunity because natural immunity is not profitable.
00:49:42.000No one's doing those experiments and not being underwritten.
00:49:45.000There's no clinical trials for that because no one wants that data for vitamin D or for steroids or for all of the things that came out as ultimately a f***.
00:49:58.000That Big Pharma obviously does not have a tremendous interest in researching natural immunity because there's no profit margin there.
00:50:03.000But that's what he's missing is that's where the government theoretically should step in, right?
00:50:07.000So when it comes to the government and lack of profit incentive, that would be like a question of the comments, right?
00:50:13.000Where there's a public good That needs to be pursued and isn't going to be pursued by private industry and where the government has a rather large stake in determining whether natural immunity is just as good as vaccine immunity or better.
00:50:26.000And the government did nothing about it.
00:50:35.000But if natural immunity were to be researched, wouldn't it be the government that could have saved billions and billions and billions of dollars by looking at natural immunity?
00:50:43.000And by the way, save economies all across the world by looking into natural... Why didn't they do that?
00:50:49.000So I think Russell's answer would be that a lot of members of the government are kind of in the pay of Big Pharma.
00:50:53.000That's not a terrible answer, but I think that there's something else going on, which is that a lot of members of government like the control.
00:51:00.000And if they'd actually researched natural immunity, if they had looked at the data very early on from the Santa Clarita study that was done by Jay Bhattacharya, looking at the levels of the antibodies that were prevalent in Santa Clarita, like really early on, then that might have undercut their entire argument for controlling every aspect of your life.
00:51:17.000But again, I'm glad that Russell is having that conversation with Joe Rogan, and good for Russell for having that conversation.
00:51:24.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:51:30.000So I'm really sick of hearing men ramble about the evils of quote-unquote toxic masculinity.
00:51:38.000How about defend a good version of masculinity rather than spending all your days jabbering about toxic masculinity?
00:51:43.000And you need a replacement theory when it comes to masculinity.
00:51:46.000If the idea is toxic masculinity is super bad and you need to replace that with something better, why don't you advocate for what the better is?
00:51:52.000Because otherwise what you're going to get is just toxic masculinity versus what, effeminacy?
00:51:58.000You need to provide an alternative for men to turn to, a set of obligations that men have, a thing for them to do in the world.
00:52:04.000So I say this because Doug Emhoff, the first lady slash first gentleman of the United States government, he is married to Kamala Harris.
00:52:15.000He's out there on MSNBC during Women's History Month condemning toxic masculinity.
00:52:21.000And this sort of crap is just so tiresome.
00:52:23.000Can we just talk about masculinity for a moment?
00:52:27.000Has being second gentleman changed your own view of perceived gender roles or what it means to be a man?
00:52:37.000This is something I've thought about a lot, something I've spoken about a lot.
00:52:41.000There's too much of toxicity, masculine toxicity out there, and we've kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine.
00:53:13.000If you want there to be a society that values strong men, then you should incentivize strong men to be strong.
00:53:19.000You shouldn't treat it as borderline toxicity when men open doors for women.
00:53:24.000You shouldn't treat it as borderline toxicity when men say they want to provide for their wives and children.
00:53:29.000You shouldn't treat it as somehow an infringement on female prerogatives for men to want to get ahead in the workplace.
00:53:37.000What we have done in our society is we have taken away all the responsibilities from men, and then when men get angry, then we label it toxic masculinity.
00:53:43.000And we say that really what we need is for you guys to basically just be blobs.
00:53:48.000And then we're surprised when men are depressed, and upset, and suicidal, and don't have jobs, and they're unemployed, and they're not going to college.
00:53:53.000Take away the role that people are supposed to play in life, and they have no role.
00:53:56.000And then they turn to negative things.
00:53:58.000Ripping on toxic masculinity ain't gonna do the trick here.
00:54:01.000Especially when you're providing no actual models for real masculinity out there.
00:54:08.000Okay, we are gonna bring back something that we haven't done here in a while here on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:54:13.000It's something we used to do a long time ago.
00:54:16.000And the fact is that for years and years and years, there's been an infusion of left-wing political bias into children's literature.
00:54:24.000And so a few years ago we used to do something on this show that we liked to call Uncle Ben's SJW Storytime.
00:54:30.000Alrighty folks, so today on Uncle Ben's SJW Storytime we'll be reading you a book that your school libraries will probably be having a drag queen read to your book. It's very, it reads your children.
00:54:46.000It's very important that you see the kind of crap that is read to your kids during SJW Storytime, so here we go.
00:54:51.000Today's book is a story by The Changemakers.
00:54:55.000It is titled The Courage to be Truly Free, Coco's Blueprint for Self-Revival.
00:55:00.000And of course, this whole thing is about how, um, we're gonna TURN THE FREAKIN' ZEBRAS GAY!
00:55:04.000Yeah, that's actually what this book is about.
00:55:10.000It's dedicated to overcoming legislation like the Florida Parental Rights and Education Act, the Don't Say Gay Bill, which aims to silence youth in search of their identities.
00:55:19.000Now, first of all, it's published by the Alliance for LGBTQWYX Happy Face Emoji Youth.
00:55:27.000I love that their entire goal is to help youth find their identities.
00:55:32.000You know what's the easiest thing in the world to find your identity?
00:55:34.000Because you're living it right now, it's you.
00:57:36.000You should let them eat whatever they want, study whatever they want, not go to school whenever they want, and generally be little cretins.
00:59:45.000I don't think that what kids actually truly need is to be free.
00:59:48.000I think what kids actually truly, then I don't think kids need to find themselves.
00:59:51.000I think what kids generally need is guidance.
00:59:54.000I think they need purpose and meaning given to them by their parents and by their community.
00:59:57.000And I think that when you free kids of this, what you are actually doing is essentially unleashing a chaotic world upon them that they are not prepared to handle at all.
01:00:07.000But at least we have a children's book that yells at Ron DeSantis in the dedication.