Another day, another lawsuit, this time looking into Elon Musk. So, if you are an enemy of the prevailing regime, they will come after you with all of the elements at their disposal. If you are Donald Trump and you are a friend of the regime, you will be targeted. With the federal government, with various state and local governments, and various other government agencies, you have become an enemy to the regime. And that does not seem like a coincidence. In the last month, there have been two investigations by the Federal Government launched into companies related to Elon Musk, just last week, the Justice Department sued SpaceX for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring, claiming that SpaceX had to hire more people who claimed asylum in the United States, despite the fact that SpaceX has national security contracts. And if they didn t hire those people, then the DOJ would sue them. And so they were sort of damned if they did, and damned if not, they didn't hire them. And now, one week later, we are learning that prosecutors are now investigating Tesla for use of company funds on a project described internally as a house for Elon Musk . According to the Wall Street Journal, federal prosecutors are investigating Tesla s use of money on a project for Musk. And yet, all this found its way into the newspaper today. Why is that? All of it is on the front page of the New York Times. Today's front page story on the story? by and the story by . on the piece by , by the piece by the NY Times by the AP, by the Associated Press, and by the BBC, by my sources, and my own reporting on it, and so much more! the , and so on, in this piece by my own blog post on it a , and & more. and more ... And so much , my review of the story, and more, my review -- and my thoughts on that -- and more! -- I hope you like it! -- my own review of it. -- your thoughts on it! -- and all of that, my own words -- I think it's not better than that, and -- it's more than that! -- my thoughts about it -- the whole thing, and all that kind of thing, etc., -- more -- you're right, right?
00:00:00.000Well, another day, another lawsuit, this time looking into Elon Musk.
00:00:04.000So, it appears that if you are an enemy of the prevailing regime, they will come after you with all of the elements at their disposal.
00:00:11.000If you are Donald Trump, they will come after you.
00:00:13.000With the federal government, with various state and local governments, they will come after you because you have become an enemy of the regime.
00:00:19.000I mean, Donald Trump said, and he is not incorrect, that for 30, 40 years, he was in the American public eye, one of the most famous people on earth.
00:00:29.000And then he leaves the presidency and boom, within three years, there are four prosecutions all to be hitting within an election year.
00:00:35.000And that leaves aside the civil suits that have all arisen in the last two years.
00:00:39.000That does not seem like a coincidence.
00:00:41.000Now you can always attribute that to his behavior on January 6th, or between November and January, but the reality remains that Donald Trump was a pretty wild and crazy character well before that.
00:00:50.000And when it comes to some of the supposed financial crimes that he is now being accused of...
00:00:55.000Those financial issues were well known for a very long time, yet he never found himself in the dock.
00:01:00.000He never found himself in front of the public this way.
00:01:02.000Well, Elon Musk is in the same boat now.
00:01:05.000So in the last month, there have been two investigations by the federal government launched into companies related to Elon Musk.
00:01:11.000Just last week, the Justice Department sued SpaceX for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring, claiming that SpaceX had to hire more people who had claimed asylum, people who claimed refuge status in the United States, despite the fact that, as Elon Musk claims, SpaceX has national security contracts.
00:01:29.000That means that they have very high standards for security.
00:01:32.000And so they were sort of damned if they did and damned if they didn't.
00:01:34.000If they started hiring people who are claiming asylum or refugee status, And then it turns out some of those people were security risk.
00:01:41.000They could lose their security clearance and presumably hundreds of millions of dollars in contract.
00:01:45.000And if they didn't hire those people, then the DOJ would sue them.
00:01:48.000And that's exactly what happened last week.
00:01:51.000According to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, our investigation found that SpaceX failed to fairly consider or hire asylees and refugees because of their citizenship status and imposed what amounted to a ban on their hire regardless of their qualification in violation of federal law.
00:02:05.000Our investigation also found that SpaceX recruiters and high-level officials took actions that actively discouraged asylees and refugees from seeking work opportunities at the company.
00:02:12.000Asylees and refugees have overcome many obstacles in their lives, and unlawful employment discrimination based on their citizenship status should not be one of them.
00:02:21.000Just from the outset, it looked like a put-up job directed at Elon Musk.
00:02:26.000And now, one week later, we are learning that prosecutors are now investigating Tesla for use of funds on a project described internally as a house for Elon Musk.
00:02:33.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Manhattan federal prosecutors are investigating Tesla's use of company funds on a secret project that had been described internally as a house for Elon Musk.
00:02:43.000Attorney's Office for SDNY has sought information about personal benefits paid to Musk, how much Tesla spent on the project, which called for a spacious glass structure to be built in Austin, Texas, and what it was for.
00:02:52.000The Wall Street Journal was the first to report in July that Tesla board members had investigated whether company resources were misused on the secret effort, known internally as Project 42, and whether Musk was personally involved.
00:03:02.000The outcome of Tesla's internal investigation cannot be learned.
00:03:04.000The SEC has also opened a civil investigation into Project 42 and is seeking similar information from the company, according to one of those peoples.
00:04:24.000Elon Musk stepped into the hornet's nest, and the hornet's nest is now stinging him.
00:04:29.000That's what it appears like to anyone from the outside.
00:04:32.000Because again, nothing for years with regard to Elon Musk.
00:04:35.000And then magically, the year before the election, two separate investigations into Elon Musk's companies, one at SpaceX, one at Tesla.
00:04:43.000So either you believe that Elon Musk suddenly started being corrupt and terrible, or you believe that there are people who actually would like to see Elon Musk taken out, or at least minimized in terms of his public abilities.
00:04:56.000When people on the right are worried about lawfare, when they are worried about the militarization of law enforcement resources, the DOJ, local attorney's offices, against right-wingers, this is one of the reasons why.
00:05:07.000I mean, I've said on the program publicly for years, I overpay my taxes.
00:05:10.000I overpay my taxes specifically because I suspect that this has always been the case and that it will always be the case.
00:05:14.000That if there's someone in power who doesn't like you, there's absolutely the possibility that they end up coming after you.
00:05:20.000The problem, of course, is that it's exactly this sort of activity that destroys all faith in our institutions.
00:05:26.000And if we don't have our institutions in common, then we cannot have a functioning system here in the United States.
00:05:32.000Now, this is bleeding its way over, not just from the private sector to the public sector, like Elon Musk to Donald Trump, but all the way down to how you vote.
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00:06:48.000Okay, so when we talk about legal apparatuses being activated against particular sides
00:06:55.000of the political aisle, take a look at what is now being contemplated
00:06:59.000with regard to primary and general elections and Donald Trump.
00:07:02.000I According to the New York Times, New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary is quickly becoming the leading edge for an unproven legal theory that Donald Trump is disqualified from appearing on the ballot under the 14th Amendment to the U.S.
00:07:25.000On Wednesday, Free Speech for the People, a liberal-leaning group that unsuccessfully tried to strike House Republicans from the ballot in 2022, sent a letter to Secretaries of State in New Hampshire as well as Florida, New Mexico, Ohio, and Wisconsin urging them to bar Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment.
00:07:39.000Those efforts are employing a theory that has been gaining traction among liberals and anti-Trump conservatives that Trump's actions on January 6, 2021 disqualify him under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars people from holding office if they took an oath to support the Constitution and then later, quote, engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.
00:07:55.000Well, normally, you'd have to have, like, a conviction for something like that.
00:07:59.000Or, say, you swore an oath to a foreign power, like the Confederate States of America.
00:08:13.000Allow Secretaries of State to simply declare somebody an enemy of the Republic and then bar him from the ballot.
00:08:19.000According to the New York Times, the theory has been getting momentum since two prominent conservative law professors published an article this month concluding Trump is constitutionally disqualified from running for office.
00:08:28.000Well, the left wishes to appeal this all the way to the Supreme Court.
00:08:32.000Because if the Supreme Court rules in Trump's favor, then they will just claim that the Supreme Court is stacked on behalf of Donald Trump, undermining the credibility of that institution.
00:08:40.000And again, this is now being considered by multiple secretaries of state, not just in the primaries, but in the general election as well.
00:08:46.000According to National Review, a recent article published in the Pennsylvania Law Review from the Federalist Society's William Boud and Michael Stokes Paulson argues that Trump has been disqualified from access to the presidential ballot based on their reading of the 14th Amendment.
00:08:58.000The authors believe their theory is self-executing, by which they mean U.S.
00:09:01.000election officials don't need to seek permission or special authority to bar Trump from the ballot.
00:09:05.000Indeed, their oaths oblige them not to.
00:09:07.000So Donald Trump made the case that Mike Pence could unilaterally disqualify states' certified state votes in the 2020 election.
00:09:15.000This theory is that secretaries of state can simply decide, without any reference point, without any legal case, without any actual conviction, without any charges being filed, theoretically, that somebody has violated this element of the Constitution and therefore can be barred constitutionally from appearing on the ballot.
00:09:32.000This is pretty crazy stuff, obviously.
00:09:34.000And you want to talk about undermining faith in elections?
00:09:51.000Because at that point, you have a state acting within its own purview, but violating basic precepts of constitutional order, being struck down by a Supreme Court on which three members were appointed by the person who's at issue.
00:10:03.000The left will claim that it's lawfare.
00:10:05.000The right will claim that it's lawfare.
00:10:12.000And so what we now have is a bizarre situation in which the left claims that because the right is quote-unquote insurrectionary, they can use the law in extra legal ways.
00:10:22.000That's what's effectively happening right here.
00:10:24.000This is why the use of the law to go after Trump over a bunch of nonsense in say Manhattan is so devastating to rule of law.
00:10:31.000Politico today has the New York AG claiming that Donald Trump fraudulently inflated his net worth by as much as 2.2 billion dollars per year.
00:10:39.000The new estimates came in filings from the New York State Attorney General's Office, which is suing Trump, some of his adult children, and his business empire for falsifying his net worth in an effort to obtain favorable terms from banks and insurance companies.
00:10:48.000That trial is set to begin on October 2nd.
00:10:51.000Now, one of the things that is pretty obvious here is that none of those companies are actually suing Trump.
00:10:55.000This is a criminal prosecution or a civil trial that is being brought to bear by the state on behalf of insurance companies who aren't suing him.
00:11:03.000Again, lawfare being used to go after Donald Trump.
00:11:07.000And what you're getting here is a self-perpetuating cycle where the left sees the right as so inherently evil and dangerous and insurrectionist that we must use the legal abilities at our disposal to go after them.
00:11:19.000We must use the DOJ to go after Elon Musk.
00:11:36.000That means that we have to activate secretaries of state to do things that are pretty illegal, but they have sort of the patina of legality to them in order to accomplish what we want.
00:11:45.000I mean, we really, really hate Donald Trump.
00:11:46.000So one of the things we have to do is we have to go after him on specious bullcrap charges in New York.
00:11:52.000It's morally mandated because the right is so dangerous and so reactionary and so insurrectionist.
00:11:57.000And the natural response from the right is, well, okay, so you're doing extra legal things with the law, which means they are acting illegally, which justifies us in going outside the law to do things.
00:12:10.000I mean, every revolution starts with a claim that the powers that be are engaging in extra-legal activity under color of law.
00:12:19.000Now, I'm not calling for that revolution.
00:12:21.000I think there is a weapons down here, but this is what we are quickly spiraling towards.
00:12:25.000What we are quickly spiraling towards is a belief on the part of the right that the left has militarized the entire Justice Department of the United States, as well as a lot of local Justice Departments.
00:12:35.000Secretaries of State's office and all the rest, against the right.
00:12:38.000And therefore, the right is justified in doing whatever it can to stop that.
00:12:41.000And then the left looks at that and they say, what are you guys doing?
00:12:44.000You're doing all this stuff that's extra legal.
00:12:46.000Well, that justifies us in stopping you, no matter what it takes, with or without the law.
00:14:36.000Here's how you know that it's not just a battle over institutional Credibility.
00:14:41.000So what the left wants to say is the right, they're not, they're not being extra legal because we're misusing the law.
00:14:46.000They're being extra legal because they don't care about the law.
00:14:50.000They're being extra legal because the law doesn't matter to them at all.
00:14:53.000The laws, the institutions, they want to tear down the institutions.
00:14:55.000They are the ones who are destructive forces in American life.
00:14:59.000We are here standing for the institutions, but we know that's not true.
00:15:02.000Because when the left is not in control of a legal body, they attack the legal body with just as much alacrity as they were defending it literally one second ago.
00:15:11.000So, for example, Donald Trump, yesterday, he was on with, I believe, Glenn Beck, and he was asked about prosecuting Democrats as president.
00:15:20.000And he said, well, yeah, I mean, they're prosecuting me.
00:15:43.000Uh, the answer is you have no choice because they're doing a test.
00:15:47.000I always had such great respect for the office of the president, the presidency, And but the office of the president and I never hit Biden as hard as I could have.
00:15:57.000And then I heard he was trying to indict me and it was him that was doing it.
00:16:01.000You know, I don't think he's sharp enough to think about much.
00:17:04.000Then it's the left that's insurrectionist against the institutions, and the right that's defending the institutions as viable and durable and necessary.
00:17:14.000Entire opinion piece from Aaron Tang, a law professor at UC Davis and a former law clerk to Sonia Sotomayor.
00:17:21.000He has a piece titled, The Supreme Court is infected with the most damaging human bias.
00:17:27.000He says the biggest problem with the partisanship diagnosis is that the Supreme Court has always been part of politics, not above it.
00:17:32.000The most important chief justice in our history, John Marshall, was a Federalist Party operative.
00:17:36.000These historical periods suggest that if partisanship alone were enough to torpedo public legitimacy, the Supreme Court never would have risen to its prominent place in American society.
00:17:43.000What really is different and dangerous about today's justice is not partisanship, but rather a cognitive trap.
00:17:48.000And Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has called the most damaging of all human biases overconfidence.
00:17:52.000Put simply, today's justices possess a frightening degree of certainty.
00:17:56.000They alone can answer society's most pressing problems with just the right lawyerly argument.
00:17:59.000So now you have the left making an argument that the right always made for generations.
00:18:03.000The argument the right made was, who gave the Supreme Court the power to simply declare abortion on demand the law of the land?
00:18:18.000Now the left is making exactly the same argument about the people who are on the Supreme Court now.
00:18:24.000Now, Left claimed that this was undermining the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, that if you said Roe v. Wade is an illegitimate decision, because it is, if you said that, based not on your disrespect for the court, but on your respect for the rule of law, if you said that, they claimed you were basically an insurrectionist.
00:18:37.000You're trying to overthrow the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and undermine its credibility.
00:18:43.000Then the constituency of the court shifts, and the positions entirely flip.
00:18:56.000Now this is really dangerous territory.
00:18:58.000It's really dangerous territory, because what it suggests is that if you lose an election, and if the only thing that matters is who controls the government, and that you automatically believe the institution is illegitimate if the other party controls the government, for example, We don't have any institutions in common and it's only a question of how badly someone's ox gets gored before things start to get really bloody and ugly and violent.
00:19:26.000In Western countries all over the world, there is now a feeling that's arising that because the institutions have failed, Or because the institutions are weaponized by your political opposition, that you can do whatever you want.
00:19:37.000And by the way, this is not a right-left thing, because the left will do the same thing as the right if they are out of power.
00:19:42.000When the right is in power in Brazil, it's tyranny afoot, and insurrection in the streets is the only thing that can stop the Ira Bolsonaro.
00:19:50.000And when it is Lula da Silva in power, and he's actively using the Supreme Court as his tool, and breaking the rule of law there, Then it's the reverse.
00:20:00.000The right is saying it's an insurrection, that we have to be in the streets and we don't have a choice.
00:20:05.000Once every election becomes a matter of tyranny versus liberty, and there's no clear definition of these things, things are about to get very, very ugly.
00:20:16.000The fight over institutions, as it turns out, is not about institutional credibility.
00:20:23.000Once the institution is only good, if you're the one in control of it, it's not a good institution anymore.
00:20:28.000If the police are only good if your friends are in the police, and if it's somebody you don't know in the police, the police are bad now, then you don't respect the police qua police, you just respect your friends.
00:20:38.000If your respect for the American government is reliant on it being staffed by people who agree with you, what that really means is that the people who disagree with you are so dangerous and so out of bounds that the institution becomes fundamentally illegitimate because it is staffed by those people.
00:20:51.000Which means we don't have a problem with institutions in the United States, we have a problem with each other.
00:20:55.000Now, I don't actually believe that Americans writ large have a problem with each other.
00:20:59.000I think the elites really have a problem with each other, and I think they're weaponizing institutions against each other for fun and profit.
00:21:05.000I think you go to everyday America, and most Americans, they don't care about this stuff.
00:21:08.000They just want to, like, go about their daily business, be left alone, raise their families, go to church, go to their work.
00:21:16.000But there are people at the top who have a real interest In essentially saying that if your side loses, the country is irrevocably broken and there will not be, for example, another election.
00:21:29.000And by the way, it's both the right and left saying this.
00:21:30.000I mean, going into the next election cycle, you have the right saying that if Joe Biden wins re-election, the country is over.
00:21:34.000And you have the left saying that if Donald Trump wins re-election, the country is over.
00:21:39.000In a second, I want to get into what this sort of means.
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00:23:40.000Well, if things start to fall apart, that's when you have to have child protective services show up or a divorce lawyer show up and things start to get really ugly.
00:23:46.000And the more they're involved, the uglier they get.
00:23:49.000Well, that's true on a societal level as well.
00:23:51.000As we fail to get along with each other or as we fail to respect each other as human beings, we start calling in the big guys to come in and enforce our opinion with the gun.
00:24:00.000This is why as societies fail, institutions have to get more and more tyrannical.
00:24:17.000You can make an argument that that's effectively what's happened in the United States.
00:24:19.000That since the 1960s, with the rise of a radical left that overthrew the social compact, that instead of saying, we require change within the boundaries of the social compact, said the entire social compact is corrupt and evil and nasty and a guise for power, we have to throw it out, that it was no longer a fight between JFK liberals and Nixonian conservatives, that now the fight was between revolutionaries who thought the entire system was corrupt, the Herbert Marcuse argument.
00:24:42.000The basic idea that all institutions, including freedom of speech, were actually guises for power, that once that corrupted our institutions, and it took a couple generations to do it, once that was infused throughout our institutions, then the failures of the social fabric were made manifest.
00:24:58.000People stopped going to church, which was a social fabric builder.
00:26:13.000Because the social fabric are little platoons against that, as Edmund Burke described them.
00:26:17.000Now, a good functioning society uses the social fabric and the little platoons within that social fabric as the building blocks for a broader society.
00:26:26.000A terrible society must, in utopian fashion, destroy all those building blocks, level the earth, and then build with whatever is left.
00:26:34.000And that's effectively what, you can make the argument, happened with American institutions, particularly in the 60s.
00:26:39.000The growth of government effectively crowded out religion.
00:26:42.000It effectively crowded out the social fabric.
00:26:46.000It crowded out all the connections that you have with your friends, and now it's all been filled by the government.
00:26:52.000And so then the social fabric fails, and then the call from the government is, well, the social fabric's failing, we need more government.
00:26:57.000And the government fails at that, but it's still crowded out the social fabric, and now all faith in institutions is lost.
00:27:03.000Well, whichever of those arguments you accept, one thing is for sure true.
00:27:06.000If what we have here is not a failure of institutions predominantly, but a failure of the social fabric, this can only be fixed at the local level through the rebuilding of the social fabric.
00:27:14.000And what that really means is what we ought to be fighting for.
00:27:17.000And it's funny because when you discuss this with rational members of the opposite political party, many of them will agree.
00:27:23.000I had this conversation openly with Anna Kasparian from the Young Turks, for example, and I got her to agree in sort of broad strokes that what we really need to do with the federal government is minimize it.
00:27:33.000And when you have a federal government that institutionally is incredibly powerful and everybody's just fighting over the power in order to use it against their political opponents, this exacerbates the collapse of the social fabric.
00:27:42.000What you really need is local communities to be able to be local communities.
00:27:46.000Though what you can't do is make the argument that the best form of American institution-making is going to be done at the top level, because it isn't.
00:28:28.000If you look at the history of empires, and the United States is an empire.
00:28:32.000Now, I'm not even talking about an international empire.
00:28:34.000Just by any stretch of the imagination, a government that governs 340 million people over the course of 3,000 horizontal miles and, like, another 1,500 vertical miles.
00:28:48.000I mean, you're talking about a land area in the United States that is continental in nature.
00:29:03.000You're not governing a tiny space like Great Britain or something.
00:29:06.000And you're not governing a homogenous space either.
00:29:08.000The United States is incredibly diverse.
00:29:09.000Okay, so, the only way that that succeeds is if the top level is relatively light-handed.
00:29:16.000And every durable empire ever has actually had a relatively light hand at the top level.
00:29:21.000The great lie about the Roman Empire, for example, is that the Roman Empire was unbelievably onerous to people on the outskirts of the empire.
00:29:44.000If you're living In the Middle East, for much of the time of the Roman Empire, you were basically living under kind of a local potentate.
00:29:52.000Very often, the Romans were negotiating with you to appoint somebody who might be, like, slightly friendlier to you.
00:29:58.000And that's why the Roman Empire could last for hundreds of years.
00:30:01.000If you look at other less powerful empires, like, for example, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
00:30:05.000The Austro-Hungarian Empire, which started off as the Habsburg Monarchy and was an empire that dominated an incredible amount of Europe.
00:30:12.000The Habsburg Monarchy, which launches in like the 16th century and then lasts via the Austro-Hungarian Empire all the way up to World War I, the reason that it was able to govern this amount of territory with this diverse population is because it actually had a very, very light hand.
00:30:26.000It was actually more visible by its absence than by its presence.
00:30:29.000They had kind of unified military uniforms, and that's kind of it.
00:30:33.000I mean, there are a lot of people inside the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ranging from Jews to Muslims to Orthodox Christians to Catholics to Protestants, and they're all living under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, because the Austro-Hungarian Empire actually had a fairly decentralized approach to governance.
00:30:47.000The same thing was true, actually, for a lot of the Ottoman Empire.
00:30:49.000The Ottoman Empire was kind of a lazy empire.
00:30:51.000It's why by the time it died in World War I, and just after World War I, it was called the sick old man, because it wasn't even capable of governing its own territory.
00:31:00.000Now, a lot of people see that as a flaw, but the reality is that the only way that you can retain any sort of centralization at all in a very, very large space is either like oppressive tyranny at high levels, which can't be done for long, is what the USSR learned, or you're going to have to have relative decentralization.
00:31:20.000Well, the problem is the United States right now is not a decentralized empire.
00:31:23.000The United States right now domestically is a very, very centralized empire.
00:31:25.000I mean, we are spending $7 trillion a year.
00:31:29.000We are engaged at the federal level in everything from how much water you have in your toilet to which individuals should be put in jail.
00:31:36.000I mean, this is a very non-decentralized, and so what that's doing is exacerbating all of the social conflict that already roils under the surface.
00:31:44.000It used to be that people in California didn't really care about what people in Florida were doing, and those people in Florida didn't really care about what people in New York were doing.
00:31:49.000We can blame that on social media, or we can blame it on the fact that virtually all policymaking has now been elevated to the federal level, and not only that, a huge percentage of that policymaking is made by unelected bureaucrats who are staffed through unofficial political patronage networks.
00:32:05.000The only way to cure that is to minimize that power at the top level, let people go back to doing exactly what they would like to do in their own local communities.
00:32:13.000That can only happen, ironically, if you have enough trust for your fellow American that you're willing to allow them to do that.
00:32:18.000And if the answer to that is no, it's hard to see how the country maintains.
00:32:22.000That's why all the lawfare that we're seeing right now is incredibly dangerous.
00:32:27.000We're in a dangerous moment in the United States, systemically speaking.
00:32:31.000It is a dangerous moment for the system of the United States because very few people have any baseline faith in the system itself.
00:32:37.000Which, by the way, is again another irony because the fact is the system itself actually, the constitutional system as directed by the founders, actually justified itself in 2020.
00:32:45.000For all the talk about how America was on the verge of being overthrown in 2020, by January 6th rioters, it was not even close.
00:32:51.000The system proved itself unbelievably durable and the natural reaction of the left was the system is so fragile that we have to capture all aspects of it and militarize it against us, and militarize it against our opponents.
00:33:02.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the Trump of it all.
00:33:05.000So, President Trump is on Truth Social.
00:33:09.000One of the things he could be talking about would be the topic of abortion, where the left continues to be unbelievably radical.
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00:37:21.000Candace is doing a great job here setting the record straight, spearheading the movement to counter false narratives perpetuated by Hollywood.
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00:38:03.000Meanwhile, the 2024 election continues to move forward.
00:38:07.000President Trump is focusing in on the stuff that he wants to focus in on, which is really his enemies inside the Republican Party.
00:38:13.000So yesterday he posted some 31 times on Truth Social, dozens of videos, and he just went hyper with the camera.
00:38:20.000And pretty much none of them were about Joe Biden as a president.
00:38:26.000He made one video, I think, that's relevant to the 2024 election, and the rest of them were just attacking people on his own side, which is not the way that you actually win an election, as it turns out.
00:38:35.000So, for example, Donald Trump spent yesterday fulminating on Truth Social about the evils of Bill Barr on Fox News.
00:38:42.000Why does Fox News constantly put on slow-thinking and lethargic Bill Barr, who didn't have the courage or stamina to fight the radical left lunatics?
00:38:53.000Well, he was the Attorney General of the United States and who, even more importantly, refused to fight election fraud, of which there was much.
00:39:05.000Unless Fox News starts putting on the right people, their ratings will continue to erode It's just personal grievance after personal grievance.
00:39:17.000So first of all, calling Bill Barr, you can call him a lot of things, calling him slow thinking is a weird one, considering that he went to Columbia and George Washington University Law School.
00:41:14.000Okay, now I assume that he's also saying that because if he does not claim that he won Georgia, then he also loses his legal case in Georgia.
00:41:22.000The entire basis for the legal case in Georgia is that he knew he lost and then manipulated the system to try and essentially steal the state.
00:41:28.000If he continues to claim that he absolutely believes that, maybe he does, Donald Trump has a unique capacity to make himself believe nearly anything, Or at the very least doesn't seem to care very much about whether it's true or whether it's not.
00:41:54.000If you are playing a game where your best hope is that the other guy basically dies, that's not like the best move that you could possibly make.
00:42:01.000And again, he's focusing all of his ire in the wrong places.
00:42:03.000Like, Joe Biden is busy being a terrible president!
00:43:12.000Jeff Flake and John McCain were squishes.
00:43:14.000They were also better than Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly.
00:43:16.000Well, apparently the Arizona Republican Party is deciding that the Thelma and Louise method of electioneering is probably the best way to go.
00:43:22.000So now, Blake Masters is going to run against Carrie Lake, is the new idea, for the GOP Senate race against Kyrsten Sinema.
00:43:34.000The best that Arizona can come up with for the Senate race is going to be two of the three candidates who lost their last election cycles in Arizona.
00:45:42.000I just heard, literally, coming out, and Mitch is a friend, as you know, not a joke.
00:45:48.000I know people don't believe that's the case, but we have disagreements politically, but he's a good friend, and so I'm gonna try to get in touch with him later this afternoon.
00:46:36.000So, DeSantis, yesterday, he was warning the looters.
00:46:39.000He said, basically, guys, you're in Florida.
00:46:41.000You try looting after a hurricane and do so at your own peril.
00:46:45.000There are reports of people trying to loot down in Steenhachie.
00:46:52.000And I've told all of our personnel at the state level, you know, you protect people's property and we are not going to tolerate any looting in the aftermath of a natural disaster.
00:47:05.000I mean, it's just ridiculous that you would try to do something like that on the heels of an almost Category 4 hurricane.
00:47:13.000I'd also just remind potential looters that people you never know what you're walking into people have a right to defend their property This part of Florida you got a lot of advocates and some proponents of the Second Amendment And I've seen signs in different people's yards in the past after these disasters, and I would say it's probably here You loot we shoot This is the best of Ron DeSantis, right?
00:47:38.000When he's being governor, this is, again, why he would make a good president.
00:48:12.000And look, in Florida, you just have to do this.
00:48:15.000I mean, this is something we put a lot of time and effort into throughout the course of each year, knowing that there's going to be time where you're going to have to activate it.
00:48:26.000Okay, that happens to be an excellent response to all of this.
00:48:30.000Meanwhile, the left, of course, is using this as an excuse to talk about climate change, because what isn't an excuse about climate change?
00:48:35.000I mean, honestly, these people have one note and they're just going to keep singing it over and over.
00:48:38.000Here was Joe Biden yesterday claiming that because there is a hurricane, no one can deny the climate crisis anymore, which is weird since there have been hurricanes for literally all of documented history.
00:48:46.000I let each governor I spoke with know, if there's anything, anything the states need right now, I'm ready to mobilize that support of what they need.
00:48:57.000I don't think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore.
00:49:09.000Significant wildfires have caused significant damage like we've never seen before, not only throughout the Hawaiian Islands and the United States, but in Canada and other parts of the world.
00:49:21.000By the way, it's so bad, he said, that one time his kitchen got set on fire.
00:49:34.000As I mentioned earlier, the rare Ben Shapiro show reference to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
00:49:39.000If you are interested in learning about any of that sort of stuff, I highly recommend Jacob Michanowski's new book, Goodbye Eastern Europe, An Intimate History of a Divided Land.
00:49:50.000Basically traces the history of Eastern Europe, what used to be called Eastern Europe.
00:49:55.000From essentially the dark ages, so-called dark ages, up until modern times, and looks at the fact that a lot of the borders were sort of drawn post facto, changed a lot.
00:50:05.000If you look at a map of Europe in like 1200, it looks completely different than the map of Europe today.
00:50:10.000It's shifted, it's moved a lot of times, populations have shifted and moved.
00:50:13.000And there's some valuable lessons to be learned in the history of Eastern Europe about how empires fall apart, about how nationalism rises, about the costs of population transitions, and all the rest of it.