Bill Cosby goes free, a columnist pushes LGBT kink for children in the pages of the Washington Post, and President Biden is caught between a moderate rock and a radical hard place. I m Ben Shapiro, and this is the Ben Shapiro Show, where I talk about digital rights, consent, and why Bill Cosby s release from prison is a travesty and an injustice. Today's episode is a mashup of reactions to Bill Cosby's release from a Pennsylvania prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned by the state's highest court, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and my thoughts on why this happened and what it means for the future of sexual assault cases in the U.S. Bill Cosby was not released because he s innocent, but because the way that the prosecutors got him is called "cheating" and what they did here is what the highest court in Pennsylvania found, is they violated his due process. And it turns out, there are some pretty significant questions about due process in this case, which are covered in a piece by the Washington Examiner's Gabriel Mellor. I hope you enjoy this mashup and tweet me to let us know what you think of it! Ben Shapiro Tweet Me! or if you have any thoughts on this or other stories you d like us to feature in the next episode of the show, we ll be sure to have them on Insta: and we ll get them on the show next week! Timestamps: 0:00 - What does it mean to you? 6:30 - What do you think about Bill Cosby going free? 7:00 - How does it feel like? 8:40 - What is a good day? 9:00 -- What should it mean? 11:20 - What can I be a good idea? 12:30 -- Is it a good thing? 13:30 15:40 16:40 -- How do you feel about this story? 17:10 14:00 Is this story better than that I d be a better than a good deal? 15, right? 16, is it a bad thing? 15:00 What is it better than you d you think I think it s better than ? 17, can you think it's better than I think I d d v n c c c v v v c nc c c n c v c c ?
00:00:00.000Bill Cosby goes free, a columnist pushes LGBT kink for children in the pages of the Washington Post, and President Biden is caught between a moderate rock and a radical hard place.
00:00:23.000Alright, so the big news of the day is that Bill Cosby is now free!
00:00:27.000According to Yahoo News and Reuters, reaction to Bill Cosby being freed from prison on Wednesday after Pennsylvania's highest court overturned his sexual assault conviction ranged from outrage to cheers.
00:00:38.000of those voices. Times Up Foundation President Tina Tchen said in a statement, today's devastating decision to overturn the conviction of a man who caused so much harm, pain and emotional trauma to so many women is a travesty and an injustice. It reminds us again of the struggle that the survivors of his predatory behavior and actions have endured to make their voices heard. The semblance of justice these women had in knowing Cosby was convicted has been completely erased with his release today. Now here is the thing.
00:01:01.000There's a lot of outrage today about the release of Bill Cosby.
00:01:05.000Bill Cosby was not released because he's innocent.
00:01:07.000Bill Cosby was released because the way that the prosecutors got him is called cheating.
00:01:11.000And what they did here, and this is what the highest court in Pennsylvania found, is they violated his due process.
00:01:17.000And the fact that there is so much outrage over the vacation of the vacating of his conviction Demonstrates that people are just not capable of separating off the notion of due process from whether you think the person is guilty or innocent or not.
00:01:33.000Whether you think that somebody is guilty or innocent is of very little value in determining whether or not the person had due process.
00:01:50.000Because if you don't understand the process, you don't understand what happened here.
00:01:53.000The way the media are covering this, it makes it seem like Bill Cosby walked because he was suddenly found innocent, and that, of course, is not true.
00:01:59.000According to the Washington Examiner's Gabriel Meller, as a lawyer, the conclusion of Bill Cosby's long-running assault case is not so much vindication for Cosby as it is a vindication of the right to due process.
00:02:08.000More than a decade ago, a district attorney investigating one of the many sexual assault claims against Cosby determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him.
00:02:15.000And this is a big problem in sexual assault cases.
00:02:17.000It's very difficult to substantiate sexual assault to the point of conviction.
00:02:21.000Because very often it turns into a he said, she said scenario in which a woman claims that she has been Abused by a man and the man claims that it was consensual and that it was just rough.
00:02:30.000That sort of thing happens all the time for prosecutors.
00:02:33.000And so in this particular case, the prosecutor said we don't have the evidence to get him, but they also wanted Cosby to have to testify at a civil trial.
00:02:41.000Now the way that this works is that you are allowed in civil trial to say, I am not going to testify about something that could get me criminally convicted.
00:02:49.000So if you were, for example, being sued on the basis of punching somebody in the face, and it's a civil trial, not a criminal trial, you're allowed to say, I don't want to testify about whether I punched that person in the face because I could be incriminating myself and then I could be convicted based on the testimony I'm about to give.
00:03:06.000So what the prosecutors in this case did, knowing they couldn't prosecute Cosby successfully, is they said to Cosby in this particular case, You know what?
00:03:14.000We're not going to prosecute you on this stuff.
00:03:16.000If relying on that promise, Bill Cosby then testifies because the Fifth Amendment no longer applies.
00:03:21.000You can't claim Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination if there is no possibility of criminal conviction.
00:03:27.000So, for example, if you were called upon to testify in court that you had not gone to the grocery store yesterday, you can't take the Fifth.
00:03:35.000Taking the Fifth has no relevance in that context because you could not be prosecuted for not going to the grocery store yesterday.
00:03:43.000What you do by removing the possibility of criminal conviction is you take away somebody's ability to use the Fifth Amendment to protect themselves against self-incrimination.
00:03:51.000That's basically what the prosecutor in this case did, and Cosby relied upon that promise.
00:03:55.000According to Mallor, the district attorney had an alternative to criminal prosecution in the 2005 case.
00:04:01.000He believed that Cosby's testimony could be compelled in the accuser's civil suit if there was no chance such testimony would run afoul of Cosby's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
00:04:09.000So he made a public announcement that the case against Cosby was closed.
00:04:13.000Crosby's accuser then filed the lawsuit, and Crosby was forced by the court to give testimony.
00:04:17.000After all, he had been publicly assured the criminal case was resolved.
00:04:20.000In the course of that testimony, he confessed to having in the past provided sedative drugs to women he wanted to have sex with.
00:04:25.000Years later, that testimony would then be used by a new district attorney, who successfully brought criminal assault charges against Crosby.
00:04:32.000And the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania said, no, you can't do that.
00:04:34.000Once you promise somebody that they're not going to be criminally indicted on a matter, and then you compel their testimony in a civil case, you can't then go back and reverse yourself and say, you know, by the way, so glad you testified in that civil case about your guilt.
00:04:44.000Now we're going to take that and we're going to convict you.
00:04:47.000The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania said, we hold that when a prosecutor makes an unconditional promise of non-prosecution.
00:04:52.000And when the defendant relies upon that guarantee to the detriment of his constitutional right not to testify, the principle of fundamental fairness that undergirds due process of law in our criminal justice system demands the promise be enforced.
00:05:03.000And so Cosby was out of prison and he was freed the same day.
00:05:08.000As Malar points out, this is good news for defendants in Pennsylvania who can benefit from the court's broad pronouncement.
00:05:13.000A defendant is entitled to relying reasonably on promises a prosecutor makes, including, as here, an assurance made in a public press announcement.
00:05:20.000Of note, there didn't have to be an agreement between the prosecutor and the defendant.
00:05:23.000The prosecutor just has to make an assurance to the defendant that the defendant then relies upon to his detriment.
00:05:30.000And as the court pointed out, if you felt differently, if you feel that the defendant should then say to the prosecutor, I don't trust you, and so I'm not going to listen to you, I'm still going to invoke the Fifth Amendment, this is now encouraging people not to trust prosecutors, which is precisely the opposite of the result you wish to obtain.
00:05:43.000Okay, so, the entire world has gone crazy about this because, once again, they have gone to, a bad man got out of jail, as opposed to, the courts are not interested in whether somebody is good or bad, the courts are interested in the process of due process.
00:05:56.000And this does run roughshod through our system right now.
00:05:59.000Right now in the United States, there seems to be, and it is the prevailing notion, that neutral rights can be dispensed with so long as we don't like you.
00:06:08.000And so long as we don't like you, rights should not apply to you.
00:06:10.000We see this in freedom of association.
00:06:15.000If you're Brett Kavanaugh and we have decided we do not like you, then due process concerns are of no validity and we should not be worried about them at all.
00:06:21.000A single accusation without any supporting evidence should be enough to get you tossed in terms of consideration from the Supreme Court.
00:06:28.000If you are a person who utters a slur, and this really should not be enough to finish your career.
00:06:38.000We still say, you know, freedom of speech really should not apply to you.
00:06:41.000Freedom of speech shouldn't apply to you because you said bad things.
00:06:44.000Well, again, freedom of speech is a broad individual right, and it does protect you.
00:07:30.000Once you start believing that rights that adhere to you as an individual and pre-exist government no longer exist because we don't like what you're saying, now you have entered the realm of tyranny.
00:07:40.000So, did Bill Cosby deserve, on a moral level, to go free?
00:07:44.000Bill Cosby, on a moral level, deserves to be in jail for the rest of his life.
00:07:48.000But on a legal level, and on a due process level, and on a societal level, Bill Cosby should not be in jail based on the prosecution of his trial.
00:07:55.000By the way, there are serious questions about that trial with regard to allowing some 19 women to testify against him on the basis of prior experiences with him outside the statute of limitations.
00:08:04.000Harvey Weinstein is going to make the same case.
00:08:07.000So once again, due process does have to, you do have to have some neutral laws of neutral applicability or we can't live together as a society.
00:08:14.000It just turns into pointing fingers and who we decide is worse and more guilty that day.
00:08:19.000Okay, in just one second, we're gonna get to the worst column of the day from the Washington Post, which does indicate where we are going as a culture.
00:08:26.000And it does suggest that middle ground is quickly disappearing in the United States with regard to how we view social policies.
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00:10:44.000There is no libertarian solution to it.
00:10:46.000The libertarian solution typically, which is let everybody do whatever it is that they want, as long as they're not hurting anybody else, that libertarian argument ceases to apply when you're talking about the impact on children who do not have the power of consent, do not have fully rational characteristics, are not capable of making decisions.
00:11:02.000Then we as a society have to decide what the rules of the road are going to be.
00:11:06.000And this has come up in the context of, for example, critical race theory recently, where the right has said, quite correctly, that children should not be indoctrinated with the nonsense of critical race theory, which suggests that racially essential characteristics determine your value and your perspective on matters of politics and whether you have a chance of success in the United States.
00:11:24.000Kids should not be indoctrinated with that.
00:11:26.000It's a violation of children's ability to thrive.
00:11:30.000And it is in fact a form of emotional and intellectual child abuse to teach kids that they are victimizers or the victimized.
00:11:38.000And so when it comes to kids, we all do have a fairly large say in what the societal standard should be.
00:11:44.000Because again, there's a non-consenting party who's now part of this bargain.
00:11:47.000And the same thing holds true when it comes to social policy.
00:11:50.000So the left has decided, and this is again I think an unavoidable battle that is going to come to your town, it is going to come to your state, it's going to come to your household.
00:11:58.000The unavoidable battle is you have a group of people on the left and they suggest that if you raise your child in a traditional manner, if you raise your child to believe that a traditional family structure is better, that a man and a woman raising a child is better than a man and a man or a woman and a woman.
00:12:14.000If you believe that men and women exist, and that these are not malleable categories, and that a man cannot become a woman, and that if a child suffers from gender dysphoria, you should participate in, for example, watchful waiting.
00:12:28.000You should simply wait to see how things develop.
00:12:31.000You should not give in to the delusion that your child actually is a member of the opposite gender.
00:12:35.000The left believes if you do that, that's a form of child abuse and CPS should arrive at your door.
00:12:39.000Don Lemon on CNN, literally yesterday, said that he believes only the state should be involved in adoption decisions.
00:12:45.000Presumably because he likes the state's perspective when it comes to these matters of social politics.
00:12:51.000And he thinks that churches should be taken completely out of the business of adoption.
00:12:54.000Not because he doesn't like quote-unquote churches per se, but because he doesn't like the perspective of churches which may adopt out to traditional father-mother families and not to male-male families, female-female families, single dads or single moms.
00:13:09.000And so that is one perspective on the raising of children, is that the social left ought to win.
00:13:14.000And then there's the perspective from the right, which is that children's innocence when it comes to matters of sex ought to be preserved, That you are fully, not only justified, but doing a good in teaching your child traditional sexual values.
00:13:26.000That teaching your child, for example, that getting married to a member of the opposite sex and producing natural born children is more likely to produce happiness.
00:13:32.000That if you teach your kid that, you're doing something good for them.
00:13:35.000And that if you indoctrinate them into confusion, and more importantly, if you sexualize children at a very young age, you are doing grave harm, not only to their psyche, but also to their emotional state.
00:13:46.000That perspective means that there will have to be some protections for children.
00:13:49.000And these two wildly varying perspectives are now coming to a head, and they're indirect conflict.
00:13:54.000And so this column from the Washington Post is indicative of that conflict, and it should awaken people who are sort of softly in the middle, the silent middle, that this battle, it is going to happen.
00:14:08.000And the folks who claim that they just want a live and let live perspective on how people raise their kids, they're mostly lying.
00:14:15.000Because the way that identity works in the United States now is based on emotivism.
00:14:20.000Identity is rooted in the notion that if I deny your perspective on your own identity, then I have participated in a harm against you and I must be stopped.
00:14:30.000This is why you are seeing, for example, An attempt to... It will come to the United States, by the way.
00:14:37.000There's an attempt now to go after parents on the basis that they are not teaching their children the state-approved messaging with regard to gender and sexual orientation.
00:14:46.000That's going to come to the United States because the perspective of the left is you are doing grave harm to a child if you don't teach their sort of polyamorous perspective on how exactly sexual matters should work.
00:14:59.000If you don't indoctrinate kids in that.
00:15:01.000And these two worldviews are clashing, and they're clashing when it comes to kids.
00:15:04.000We'll get to this actual column in just one second, because it is quite indicative of where the conflict actually lies and how people on the radical left tend to view children, which is as sort of tools to be manipulated into the new sexual politics.
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00:17:17.000Okay, pride is not a mere question of family structure.
00:17:22.000It is a celebration of particular types of sexual activity.
00:17:25.000Because, after all, if it were just a celebration of family structure, then you could have two brothers adopting a kid, or a brother and a sister, or a single mom.
00:17:32.000But that's not what pride parades typically are about.
00:17:34.000As people have noted, people who have been to pride parades and who cover pride parades understand that pride parades very often, and almost entirely, the universality of pride parades include sexual components to them.
00:17:52.000You can make a libertarian argument, obviously.
00:17:54.000And it's a libertarian argument with which I generally agree, which is this is not a matter of compulsion.
00:17:58.000However, if you're talking about children, now you're talking about non-consenting people being put into sexual scenarios for the pleasure of adults.
00:18:05.000That's the only reason you're bringing kids to this thing.
00:18:09.000When our children grew tired of marching, we plopped onto a nearby curb.
00:18:13.000Just as we got settled, our elementary schooler pointed in the direction of oncoming floats, raising an eyebrow at a bare-chested man in dark sunglasses whose black suspenders clipped onto a leather thong.
00:18:22.000The man paused to be spanked playfully by a partner with a flog.
00:18:27.000my curious kid asked as our toddler cheered them on.
00:18:29.000The pair was the first of a few dozen kinksters who danced down the street, laughing together as they twirled their hips and batons, some leading companions by leashes.
00:18:37.000At the time, my children were too young to understand the nuance of the situation, but I told them the truth.
00:18:41.000That these folks were members of our community celebrating who they are and what they like to do.
00:18:45.000See, the conflation of who they are and what they like to do is always a very interesting identity-driven notion.
00:18:50.000That who you are is what you like to do.
00:18:53.000It's, you know, there's an argument to be made that immutable characteristics do not include flogging other men in public on the bare bottom.
00:19:00.000I mean, I think there's a fair notion that, for example, if you're making the argument that gay rights are similar to race rights, I'm spotting some differences there.
00:19:13.000Also, I love that she says, my children are too young to understand the nuance of this.
00:19:18.000Like really, explain to me the nuance of men walking down the street spanking each other on the bare bottom with flogs in front of children.
00:19:24.000Is there a lot of nuance there that I'm missing?
00:19:26.000I feel like not, but according to the left, this is nuanced education of children, according to the radical left.
00:19:45.000The radical left which has basically decided that all human behavior ought to be treated the same unless it's religious behavior.
00:19:52.000That all human sexual behavior ought to be treated with equal levels of respect and acceptability.
00:19:57.000And that children ought to be indoctrinated into that belief.
00:19:59.000It's hard to argue against that principle on the basis of a sort of lack of fundamental understanding of natural law.
00:20:05.000According to the Washington Post's columnist, the kink community has participated in Pride since its inception, risking their jobs and safety to be authentically themselves in public.
00:20:14.000See, it's all about authentically themselves.
00:20:24.000It's about you feeling good about yourself and indoctrinating kids in order to not focus on them leading a happy life, but in order to create a society in which you feel more welcomed and accepted.
00:20:34.000This is the perspective of the radical left, and they can't feel welcomed and accepted unless your children, too, participate in the celebration and the acceptance.
00:20:42.000Says this columnist in the Washington Post.
00:20:45.000I agree that Pride should be a welcoming space for children and teens, but policing how others show up doesn't protect or uplift young children.
00:20:51.000Instead, homogenizing self-expression at Pride will do more harm to our children than good.
00:20:55.000When my own children caught glimpses of kink culture, they got to see that the queer community encompasses so many more non-traditional ways of being, living, and loving.
00:21:04.000As much as I want them to spend time in queer spaces so they can be with families like their own, I also want them to know they shouldn't limit their understanding of what relationships or expressions look like to whatever's most familiar.
00:21:15.000I want them to see they can make their own way in the world.
00:21:17.000How else can they learn about the scope and vitality of queer life?
00:21:25.000And this columnist continues, quote, Children who witness kink culture are reassured that alternative experiences of sexuality and expression are valid, no matter who they become as they mature, helping them recognize that their personal experiences aren't bad or wrong, and they aren't alone in their experiences. I can't think of a more relevant or important reminder for youth who often struggle with feelings of isolation and confusion as they discover more about themselves and wrestle with concerns about whether they're normal enough, including kink in pride, open space for families to have.
00:21:51.000There are a lot of things that we don't approve of as a society that I'm sure bring a certain subset of the population joy and excitement.
00:21:58.000disability is a reminder that any person can and should shamelessly explore what brings joy and excitement.
00:22:04.000See, this is the problem with the radical left's argument.
00:22:07.000There are a lot of things that we don't approve of as a society that I'm sure bring a certain subset of the population joy and excitement.
00:22:13.000And they are forbidden by law and well they should be.
00:22:15.000By the way, sexualizing children removes one of those barriers.
00:22:18.000But understand the case that this person is making.
00:22:21.000is not only that we shouldn't ban kink at pride parades, it's that it is a fundamental good for children to watch kink at pride parades.
00:22:30.000And of course, we're really protecting them because you never know what weird stuff they might be into.
00:22:35.000And if those kids who are five, six, four years old, if they turn out to be into weird stuff, which of course would never be shaped by the environment in which they're raised, of course.
00:22:42.000I mean, environment has nothing to do with this.
00:22:45.000Kink is just completely genetic, just like everything else, except for the fact that it's not, and there's no proof of that.
00:22:50.000It's completely... So you don't have to worry about your kids being affected because, you know, they're just gonna be who they're gonna be sexually, of course.
00:22:56.000All of this is designed at the indoctrination of children.
00:23:00.000It's designed at the indoctrination of children and pushing What are behaviorally abnormal standards on children and then teaching those children that the highest form of good is celebration of this.
00:23:18.000And by the way, you make it like the line from here to pedophilia is pretty straight.
00:23:24.000I mean, it's a pretty straight line from it is good for kids to watch kink so that they can explore their own sexual feelings to why can't they consent in actually exploring their sexual feelings with people I mean, why?
00:23:35.000I mean, children are sexual beings too.
00:23:37.000If you can't see the line being blurred here, I'm not- I mean, they're literally talking about children watching kink parades.
00:23:42.000I'm pretty sure that the line from their pedophilia is real thin.
00:23:47.000Says this columnist, we don't talk to our children enough about pursuing sex to fulfill carnal needs that delight and captivate us in the moment.
00:23:52.000Is that really what we don't talk to our children enough about?
00:23:54.000Really, that's what society is lacking, is it?
00:23:56.000Is the pure pursuit of carnal pleasure and speaking about it to small children who are incapable either of understanding it because they haven't even hit puberty yet, or two, even if they're teenagers, making solid decisions on that basis?
00:24:09.000They remove all moral lines and they're going to live a happier life seems to be the predominant notion.
00:24:13.000And again, what that really is about is people want to express adults, want to express their authentic selves, and they want children to applaud them because they want everybody to applaud them.
00:25:03.000Remember, this is not just, I want to raise my child, I want to raise my child, which again, would be objectionable because your child can't consent to how you're raising them in a perverse way.
00:25:28.000The extent is your child should be exposed to this too.
00:25:31.000It's that your child is less, and you are a worse parent for not exposing your kids to this.
00:25:36.000These are the very attitudes that made Pride necessary and life-affirming for so many of us in the first place.
00:25:41.000We have no business imposing them on the next generation.
00:25:44.000Kink embodies the freedom Pride stands for, reminding attendees to unapologetically take up space as an act of resistance and celebration, refusing to bend to social pressure that asks us to be presentable.
00:25:54.000That's a value I want my children to learn.
00:25:59.000Okay, well, this is child abuse, and the fact that we as a society have decided that this stuff is worthy of the pages of the Washington Post says an awful lot about the direction of our society, because everything that people think is too radical and far-fetched five years from now becomes the law of the land.
00:26:15.000That seems to be the common pattern when it comes to social politics and sexual politics in the nation.
00:26:22.000And once again, we are going to reach a point where Americans just say no, and they should have said no to a lot of this stuff.
00:26:28.000Long... I mean, once it's reached the page of the Washington Post, it is... My goodness.
00:26:34.000But the blowback is coming, and it's coming strong.
00:26:36.000And the more the left embraces this stuff... Do it.
00:26:42.000I think the apathetic middle is not going to remain apathetic for long when you start telling them that their children need to watch kink parades in order to be more broad-minded, so that they will not be judge... Because we don't want them to be judgmental of others, and also, because they, the children, need to explore their own kink sides.
00:26:56.000And the reason I'm spending a lot of time on this is because it is indicative of a consistent worldview.
00:27:01.000There's a worldview on the left that says all sexual behavior is appropriate and decent and good.
00:27:07.000And also that children should be taught it.
00:27:09.000Okay, and again, if you think all sexual behavior is appropriate and decent and good, then why shouldn't children be taught it after all?
00:27:17.000In fact, the worst thing you could do is repress children in a Freudian sense.
00:27:21.000This is the moral battle in which parents are now engaged.
00:27:25.000And you wonder why people are moving from blue states to red states?
00:27:28.000You wonder why people are seeking to protect their children by taking them out of public schools and not subjecting them to the scrutiny of state authorities or more and more thinking like this parent is thinking?
00:27:38.000And there's a phrase that my friend Eric Erickson has used in the past.
00:27:41.000He says, whatever is allowed eventually becomes compulsory.
00:27:48.000Whatever is allowed becomes compulsory in the end.
00:27:50.000And that is exactly right when it comes to the social left and its politics.
00:27:54.000You think right now this woman is just saying, I want to take my kid to a kink parade, which is bad enough.
00:27:58.000Eventually it will be, you must take your kid to a kink parade.
00:28:02.000Because if you don't take your kid to a kink parade, you are performing an act of child abuse and you are undermining social norms that accept kink behavior.
00:28:11.000And Kink is just an outer edge example of how this has been a mainstream philosophy on the left for a very long time, which is we need to indoctrinate your kids in K-12 about the wonders of LGBTQ lifestyles, and LGBTQ morality, and the falsity of gender ideology, and we must indoctrinate them now.
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00:29:52.000We saw that for an entire month, when every major business in the United States decided that football, for example, is gay.
00:30:00.000And that everybody must be crammed down last year in the idea that diversity training, you have to put the black square on your Instagram page, or you find yourself in the HR manager's office.
00:30:11.000Corporations have been Cramming this stuff down on you.
00:30:14.000And it's not just corporations, it's every major institution in American society.
00:30:36.000It is a book about how every major institution in our society was weaponized and militarized by a small contingent on the left.
00:30:43.000How they were able to renormalize institutions and weaponize those institutions against people who disagree.
00:30:49.000And it's really about how you can fight back.
00:30:51.000About how we can look at the processes, the processes that the left used in order to cram down their politics on us and reverse those processes and take back these institutions.
00:31:26.000This episode illuminates Union soldier Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who took his place in history at the Battle of Gettysburg by strategically charging the Confederates and narrowly dodging a bullet that grazed his cheek on the way.
00:31:35.000His actions were pivotal to the Union winning that battle, but many Americans don't know his name.
00:31:40.000If you've fallen into that category, it's time to remember it because men like Chamberlain are more than just men.
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00:32:19.000♪♪ Meanwhile, Joe Biden is slipping.
00:32:26.000There's a new poll out today from Monmouth.
00:32:28.000It shows that Joe Biden's approval rating, which began at 54% with only 30% disapproving as of January 21st when he first took office, is now down to 48% in the job approval rating, down 6%.
00:32:39.000And his disapproved numbers are up 13%.
00:32:40.000So he is slightly Overwater when it comes to approval versus disapproval, but he is below 50%.
00:32:49.000His ratings have slipped pretty significantly over the course of the last couple of months.
00:32:54.000Among Democrats, according to Monmouth, he slipped from 95% approval in April to 86% in June. 47% From independence in April to 36% now.
00:33:04.000And actually, his numbers are slightly up with Republicans, which is kind of interesting according to Monmouth.
00:33:10.000But that's not the only poll that shows Joe Biden in trouble.
00:33:13.000According to Reuters, President Joe Biden has seen an erosion in support since April.
00:33:18.000There's another national poll out, and it shows again that his support among Democrats is dropping.
00:33:23.000A June 11th to 17th national opinion poll shows Biden is still more popular than Donald Trump.
00:33:29.00055% of adults approving of Biden's performance.
00:33:32.000However, the numbers that he has on specific issues suck.
00:33:36.000There are a lot of people who are really, really concerned about rising living costs, for example, a majority of Americans.
00:33:42.000The public is almost evenly split over how much the government should do to make things better.
00:33:45.00048% of respondents said they approved of Biden's handling of the economy.
00:33:51.000And again, he is finding himself sliding among Democrats.
00:33:55.000The number of Americans who approved of Biden's stance on gun violence dropped eight points overall, 11 points among Democrats from April to June.
00:34:02.000He is losing some members of his radical left.
00:34:05.000And so he's kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.
00:34:08.000And the problem is that Joe Biden refuses to simply make the choice.
00:34:12.000Now, Joe Biden could have come into office and been a highly popular president just by not doing what he is doing, namely pursuing extraordinarily radical policies that alienate half the population.
00:34:20.000In fact, that is what he was elected on the basis of.
00:34:23.000According to the New York Times, Nate Cohen writing, married men in veteran households were probably not the demographic groups Democrats assumed would carry the party to victory over Trump in the 2020 election.
00:34:32.000But Joe Biden's apparent strength among traditionally moderate or even conservative constituencies, and especially men, is emerging as one of the hallmarks of his victory.
00:34:39.000Trump won married men by just a 54 to 44 percent margin, a net 20 point decline from his 62 to 32 percent victory in 2016.
00:34:47.000He won veteran households by a similar 55 to 43 percent margin, but he won those same households 61 to 35 in the election cycle before that.
00:34:58.000In both cases, the size of Biden's gains among those relatively conservative groups rival Trump's publicized surge among Latino voters.
00:35:03.000There's a new poll out, by the way, showing 38 percent of Latinos voted in favor of Trump in the last election cycle, which is the biggest number in decades for Republicans.
00:35:13.000OK, but again, what is incredible here is that Biden is ignoring what got him into office.
00:35:19.000Biden campaigned overtly as the not Bernie Sanders candidate in the primaries, and then he campaigned again as the guy who's going to restore normalcy.
00:35:25.000And on that basis, he won more moderate and more conservative voters.
00:35:28.000And now his support is eroding among Democrats and among independents.
00:35:32.000And he's got a problem on his hands because I'm not sure how he shores that up.
00:35:35.000And spending more money ain't gonna fix the problem.
00:35:38.000Now, I think the way that he wanted to shore that up was with that bipartisan infrastructure deal.
00:35:42.000But the problem there is that he's afraid he's gonna lose Bernie Sanders on his left.
00:35:45.000Because Bernie Sanders has basically said, if you pass that infrastructure deal without passing the reconciliation bill, maybe I'll sit this one out.
00:35:53.000Bernie Sanders has never abstained from a vote in which the government spends more money.
00:35:57.000But Biden feels like he is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
00:36:00.000And meanwhile, His policies are having a pretty detrimental effect on the country.
00:36:06.000According to the New York Times, Federal Reserve officials spoke with one voice throughout the pandemic downturn, promising that monetary policy would be set to full stimulus mode until the crisis was well and truly behind America.
00:36:17.000Central bankers are increasingly divided over how to think about and respond to emerging risks after months of rising asset values and faster-than-expected price increases.
00:36:25.000While their political counterparts in the White House have been more unified in maintaining that the recent jump in price gains will fade, Washington as a whole is wrestling with how to approach policy at a moment of intense uncertainty.
00:36:35.000The Fed's top officials, including Chair Jerome Powell, acknowledge a lasting period of uncomfortably high inflation is a possibility.
00:36:41.000They've said it's more likely recent price increases will fade as the economy reopens.
00:36:45.000Other officials have voiced more pointed concern that the pickup in prices might persist.
00:36:49.000They've suggested the Fed might need to stop the stimulus.
00:36:51.000That's like James Bullard, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank in St.
00:37:11.000That's how unpopular the Democrats position on policing has now become among Democrats and independents.
00:37:16.000They're now trying to blame Republicans for their own position.
00:37:18.000Here's Jen Psaki doing this ridiculous routine yesterday.
00:37:21.000The president ran and won the most votes of any candidate in history on a platform of boosting funding for law enforcement after Republicans spent decades trying to cut the COPS program.
00:37:44.000I understand what you're saying there.
00:37:47.000There are lots of examples of Democrats explicitly saying they want to defund the police.
00:37:53.000I think most people would argue that actions are more important than words, wouldn't you say?
00:37:59.000When you say, no, I wouldn't say that if you refuse to vote for a $2 trillion boondoggle, and that includes like one good thing, that you were against the good thing.
00:38:06.000That's a very silly way of doing politics.
00:38:11.000If they disown their own radical policies, then the radical base gets angry at them.
00:38:15.000If they don't disown their own radical policies, then the rest of the country gets angry at them.
00:38:19.000And the Biden administration is delusional if they think that they ought to be relying on the radical base more than they rely on the moderates.
00:38:25.000Again, they're stuck in Barack Obama mode, thinking that the reason that they won is because they cobbled together this minority coalition, and the minority coalition pushed them to victory.
00:40:54.000And meanwhile, Joe Manchin is out here going like, all you have to do is kind of do what I'm telling you to do and you'll be fine.
00:40:58.000He's saying, I don't understand why y'all want us to write checks that our kids won't be able to cash because it's very silly.
00:41:04.000But Joe Biden isn't working with Manchin and not working across the aisle.
00:41:07.000Instead, he has decided to under, I mean, the one time he worked across the aisle, he decided to immediately, within two hours, undercut his own message to the point where the White House had to walk it back.
00:41:16.000Here is Joe Manchin repeating a message that if Joe Biden actually said might make Joe Biden slightly more popular.
00:41:22.000You put me anywhere you want to, in the political spectrum.
00:41:24.000But I think I'm pretty much centrist in the middle, where most people are, and pragmatic enough to figure, okay, I understand you've identified the need on this side, but we've already spent how many trillions of dollars attending to a lot of those needs.
00:42:04.000It's actually getting worse, like a lot worse, which is why, for example, Representative James Clyburn is now opposing an ally of Bernie Sanders in a special election in Cleveland.
00:42:12.000There's a major battle that has broken out inside the Democratic Party.
00:42:19.000On Tuesday, Clyburn took aim at one of Sanders' most outspoken acolytes, Nina Turner, a hero to the left who's surging in her campaign in Ohio to claim the congressional seat vacated by Marsha Fudge.
00:42:29.000Clyburn is now endorsing Chantel Brown, Turner's leading opponent.
00:42:33.000He said the reason is because this is the sloganeering of the party's left flank, which is dangerous.
00:42:39.000All that is masking this is the presence of Joe Biden.
00:42:41.000It's all that is masking this at this point.
00:42:43.000Because again, Joe Biden's not there, and he doesn't seem super threatening, so everybody's like, oh, OK, fine.
00:43:01.000Kamala Harris, you would think, is in a sort of impregnable position.
00:43:04.000That if Joe Biden were to plot, or if he were to not run in a couple of years, You would think that Kamala Harris would be the obvious heir apparent.
00:43:11.000I mean, he's been not only campaigning with her, he brings her out randomly at events as though she's the co-president as opposed to occupying the office that is a warm bucket of spit.
00:43:37.000Today in Politico, there is a piece called Not a Healthy Environment.
00:43:40.000Kamala Harris office rife with dissent.
00:43:44.000Now, we know that Kamala Harris, her office is a bleep show.
00:43:46.000There's an entire article in the New York Times when she first dropped out of the presidential race before Iowa, talking about how it was completely dysfunctional, she couldn't run in office, she was a terrible candidate.
00:43:55.000And then of course, as soon as Biden picked her, she became the greatest candidate in the history of the world.
00:44:07.000When Vice President Kamala Harris finally made the decision to visit the Mexico border last week, people inside her own office were blindsided by the news.
00:44:14.000For days, aides and outside allies had been calling and texting with each other about the political fallout a potential trip would entail.
00:44:20.000But when it became known that she was going to El Paso, it left many scrambling, including officials who were responsible for making travel arrangements and others outside the VP's office charged with crafting the messaging across the administration.
00:44:30.000The handling of the border visit, writes Politico, was the latest chaotic moment for a staff that's quickly become mired in them.
00:44:35.000Harris's team is experiencing low morale, porous lines of communication, diminished trust among aides and senior officials.
00:44:42.000Much of the frustration internally is directed at Tina Flournoy, Harris' chief of staff, a veteran of Democratic politics who began working for her earlier this year.
00:44:49.000In interviews, 22 current and former VP aides, administration officials, and associates of Harris and Biden described a tense and at times dour atmosphere.
00:44:58.000Aides and allies said Flournoy, in an apparent effort to protect terrorists, has instead created an insular environment where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out.
00:45:07.000Often, they said, she refuses to take responsibility for delicate issues and blames staffers for the negative results that causes.
00:45:13.000While much of the ire is aimed at Harris's chief, two administration officials said the VP herself also bears responsibility for the way her office is run.
00:45:19.000It all starts at the tops of one of the administration officials.
00:45:42.000They are stuck between a rock and a hard place, and Kamala is waiting in the wings, and they're trying preemptively to dump her, and it ain't gonna work.
00:45:48.000If you're a Republican, I mean, just focus on talking about the Democrats.