AOC reacts to being trolled by blowing up at the Capitol Police, and the media worry about Republicans pouncing on the economy. Meanwhile, we have breaking news about the death of Ivana Trump, who was a beloved wife and mother-in-lawyer to Donald Trump Jr. and a devoted daughter to his older son, Eric Trump. And, according to the New York Times, Democrats are in serious political trouble as Republicans seize on inflation fears to seize advantage in the midterms. Ben Shapiro is the host of the Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of The Ben Shapiro Podcast. He is also a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard and the Financial Times, and is one of the most influential people in American politics. Subscribe to his new book, "The Dark Side of Politics: How To Fix America's Broken Economy," which is out now. If you like your web history being seen and sold to advertisers, get ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVPN.org/BenShapiro to get 20% off your first month with discount promo code SHAPIRO. You can also get a FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help you build your portfolio, and get a better deal on a new iPhone, iPad, or Macbook Pro, a Surface Book 2, or Surface Pro 3, and much more! Get ExpressVPN, the fastest-growing VPN service in the world, for as little as $99.99, with no monthly fee, no credit, no monthly fees, no surge plans, no more than $99, and no credit card required, no fees, up to $99 a month, no annual plan, and a maximum of $99 per month, and 5GB of data plan available for you get 20GB of fast, no fee, and up to 49GB of blazing fast, and an ad-free version of the Ultimate Prime membership, and 4GB of 7GB of storage space, for just $49.99 a year, and 7GB for 4GB maxed out in total speed, and free on the fastest possible access to the service? That's a deal that starts at $99 and includes unlimited, no ad-only 3GB and includes 2GB, no pop, no fizz and 2GB for 3GB, and includes a lifetime of 3GB for a maximum score, and 3GB of AOC gets you a maximum speed, no FUPED, no Provenance.
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00:01:52.000Trump announced her death in a statement on Truth Social.
00:01:54.000The New York City police were investigating whether Trump had fallen down the stairs at her townhouse on the Upper East Side, according to two law enforcement officials.
00:02:00.000With knowledge of the matter, one of the officials said there was no sign of forced entry at the home.
00:02:05.000A spokeswoman for the city's chief medical examiner's office said that it would investigate the death.
00:02:09.000Throughout their marriage, according to The Times, Trump commanded almost as much media attention as her husband.
00:02:13.000As they helped define the 1980s as an era of gaudy excess among the elite, an image Trump used to fuel his turn as an outsized TV personality before his 2016 run for the White House.
00:02:24.000Trump who rechristened her husband, The Donald, a moniker that became a fixture in the New York tabloid press.
00:02:30.000This Trump was widely popular with the press.
00:02:32.000Ivana Trump obviously brought up a pretty successful family.
00:02:35.000Her death provided an opportunity for all the trolls online to say horrible things, but that's sort of the usual way that things go now online.
00:02:43.000Bottom line is that we wish best wishes to the Trump family after the tragic death of Ivana.
00:02:49.000And meanwhile, Democrats are in serious political trouble.
00:02:53.000According to the New York Times, Democrats are facing deepening peril as Republicans seize on inflation fears.
00:02:58.000So, always the story for the left-leaning media is that when things are going poorly for Democrats, the story isn't that things are going poorly for Democrats.
00:03:08.000The Republican response is always the story, it's never a Democratic failure.
00:03:12.000That is the story, according to the New York Times, triple-digit gasoline bills, bulging hamburger prices, a Fourth of July holiday that broke the bank, prices are rising at the fastest rate in four decades, a painful development that has given Republicans a powerful talking point just months ahead of the midterm elections.
00:03:25.000With control of Congress very much in play, Republicans are investing heavily in a blitz of campaign advertisements that portray a dark sense of economic disarray, as they seek to make inflation a political albatross for President Biden and Democrats.
00:03:36.000By the way, you gotta love the language of the left-wing media.
00:03:49.000However, when Democrats routinely say that the world will end because of the overthrow of Roe vs. Wade, or that we all are going to be burned up by the sun because of global warming, because of Joe Manchin, that's not dark.
00:03:59.000That's just realistic about the prospects for humanity.
00:04:03.000The New York Times says, According to Cancer's Campaign Media Analysis Group, candidates running in House, Senate, and Governor races around the country have spent $22 million airing about 130,000 local and national TV ads mentioning inflation from early April through the beginning of July.
00:04:17.000Which, of course, makes perfect sense, since the vast plurality of Americans cite inflation as their number one priority in the upcoming elections.
00:04:23.000What else are you going to run an ad on?
00:04:25.000I mean, that's what all the ads are going to be on.
00:04:28.000The data released Wednesday showing that prices climbed in June by 9.1% year-over-year, gave Republicans fresh ammunition against Biden and his party, ammunition that includes faulting Democrats for passing a nearly $2 trillion stimulus package last year, and efforts to spend even more money through Build Back Better.
00:04:43.000The focus on inflation is already weighing on Biden's poll numbers.
00:04:46.000New York Times-Siena College this week showed his approval at a meager 33%.
00:04:51.00020% of voters view jobs and the economy as the most important problem facing the country.
00:04:54.000And by the way, when they say jobs and the economy, they mean inflation, because the jobs market actually right now is really, really good.
00:04:59.000So it's not jobs and really is not even the economy so much as it is inflation and how it affects jobs in the economy.
00:05:05.000The polls showed the race for control of Congress is surprisingly tight.
00:05:09.000Every single time the New York Times takes a poll in a generic congressional race that shows it tight, Republicans end up at the blowout.
00:05:15.000Gas prices have fallen from their $5-a-gallon peak.
00:05:17.000There are signs inflation might be slowing, but consumers are unlikely to feel better off any time soon.
00:05:21.000Jason Furman, economist at Harvard University, former Obama administration economic advisor, says, quote, And of course, that makes perfect sense because there's nothing that's changing in the status quo other than the Federal Reserve raising the interest rates.
00:05:40.000Joe Biden is still calling for more taxes and more regulation and more spending.
00:05:43.000Joe Biden is still pursuing a war in Ukraine.
00:05:45.000Nothing is actually changing on the ground.
00:05:47.000So the same people who brought you inflation are now bringing you inflation, part two, the revenge.
00:05:52.000I mean, they did a horrible job over the past year and a half.
00:05:56.000They're not changing course, so why would Americans actually think that something is going to change?
00:06:01.000And the problem with inflation is that a lot of inflation, and how much inflation gets baked into the cake, is reliant on Americans' expectation about how much they're going to pay when they go to the grocery store.
00:06:11.000In order for prices to fall, Americans have to say, that's too much, I'm not paying for it.
00:06:14.000If Americans think that next month inflation is going to continue, they're not going to say that.
00:06:18.000They're going to say, OK, I'm going to buy right now at this price because it's going to be even more expensive two weeks from now.
00:06:23.000And that actually is a self-fulfilling prophecy because if everybody spends now, that leads to more price inflation because more dollars into an economy with less product means inflation.
00:06:32.000You can see that over the past few years, Democrats have absolutely been getting clocked.
00:06:35.000Honestly, at this point in time, you have to say that one of the most fortunate things to happen for the Republicans, in sort of a broad, bizarro world logic, is that Donald Trump caused them to lose both Georgia Senate seats at the beginning of 2021.
00:06:50.000Because that put Democrats in control of the Senate, and then, for some reason, they got very inflated expectations of what they could do and what they should do, and they proceeded To spend enormous amounts of money, promise their base that they were going to do these incredible, world-breaking things, scare the bejesus out of everybody else, and freak out the American public to the point where they say, okay, we don't want you guys in charge anymore.
00:07:12.000If Republicans had actually been in control of the Senate, Joe Biden could blame the lack of action on Mitch McConnell.
00:07:26.000This seems to be a habit among Democratic administrations, by the way, is creating what I would consider actual positive results because they stink so much at their job.
00:07:34.000As we'll discuss when we get to Middle East politics, that's exactly what Barack Obama did.
00:07:37.000He actually created Middle East peace by siding with the bad guys over there.
00:07:40.000Well, bizarrely enough, by Democrats winning seats in the Senate in Georgia, they've now created all of the momentum in favor of Republicans in both 2022 and 2024.
00:07:48.000According to Karl Rove, I'm writing for the Wall Street Journal.
00:07:54.000There's some serious problems for Democrats on a longer-term scale here, not just because of inflation and a slowing economy and because of crime or because of the border crisis, and we haven't even talked about the border crisis very much lately.
00:08:04.000We have record numbers of people arriving at the southern border and then just being let into the United States with like an IOU saying, show up in six months in court.
00:08:12.000But what Democrats are beginning to experience now is not just people who are sort of shifting their minds.
00:08:17.000They're beginning to actually experience, for the first time, serious threat in terms of voter registration.
00:08:21.000So Democrats have an excellent get-out-the-vote game.
00:08:23.000They have an excellent voter registration game.
00:08:25.000It's why Democrats in nearly every state in America that they have power have attempted to push something like a motor voter law.
00:08:30.000They want to register as many voters as Democrat as humanly possible when they get to, for example, the DMV.
00:08:36.000And then they want universal balloting via Mail-in ballots, and they want ballot harvesting.
00:08:41.000The idea is if you can get a bunch of casual voters who don't pay too much attention to politics, but can be shamed by the media into voting for Democrats to vote, you do it.
00:08:48.000And so Democrats have, in almost every purple state, Democrats have some sort of voter registration advantage.
00:08:56.000If people start openly registering as Republicans, what that means is that the sort of stigma that the media have been able to attach to identifying as Republican is going away.
00:09:04.000And if that happens, Democrats have a real problem on their hands.
00:09:07.000As Karl Rove points out, if you look at Florida, in 2016, Democrats held a registration edge of 330,000 votes over Republicans.
00:09:14.000Donald Trump still won the state, so did Senator Marco Rubio.
00:09:17.000The Democratic advantage then dwindled to 257,000 in 2018, 97,000 in 2020, Today, there are 176,000 more Republicans than Democrats registered in the state of Florida.
00:09:27.000That is the first time in Florida history that GOP has led in registrations.
00:09:30.000So if Republicans were winning in Florida, if Donald Trump was winning Florida in 2016, when Democrats had a 330,000 vote edge, there's been about a half million vote switchover to the Republicans.
00:09:41.000Or at least Republicans have gained half a million votes in the interim between 2016 and 2022.
00:09:48.000So how bad do you think those elections are going to be for Democrats?
00:09:51.000Karl Rove says consider two other battlegrounds where incumbent Democratic senators could face challenges.
00:09:55.000In Arizona in 2016, the GOP registration edge stood at 148,000.
00:09:58.000at $148,000. It narrowed to $136,000 in 2018 and $130,000 in 2020. This year, however, the Republican margin has jumped back to $145,000.
00:10:08.000In Nevada, the GOP lagged Democrats by 88,000 registrations in 2016.
00:10:13.000Republicans cut the deficit to 75,000 in 2018.
00:10:18.000Since then, the GOP has reduced the gap to 51,351 voters.
00:10:21.000That's the smallest election year difference since 2004, which, not coincidentally, is the last time Nevada voted Republican for president.
00:10:28.000The same thing is happening in Pennsylvania.
00:10:30.000Trump carried Pennsylvania by 44,000 votes in 2016.
00:10:33.000Senator Pat Toomey won re-election by 87,000 votes, even though Democrats outnumbered Republicans by almost a million voters.
00:10:40.000916,000 voter registration advantage in favor of Democrats in 2016.
00:10:44.000The Democratic advantage has now dropped all the way to 550,000.
00:10:48.000I mean, that is a shift of, again, about 400,000 votes.
00:10:55.000Same thing is true in places like North Carolina.
00:10:58.000Independent voters are also trending Republican at this point.
00:11:01.000So, that doesn't mean that Republicans can run bad candidates and necessarily win.
00:11:05.000It's gonna be a problem for them in Georgia, for example.
00:11:08.000Could be a problem depending on what happens in Pennsylvania with Mehmet Oz.
00:11:11.000But, the bottom line here is that Democrats have moved away from the center of the country.
00:11:18.000A lot of the reason that Democrats have moved away from the center of the country, by the way, is because they literally are disconnected from the things that regular people do on a daily basis.
00:11:26.000There's a fascinating piece by Roy Tishera, who, again, is a left-leaning political theorist.
00:11:32.000He had a theory that I've talked about extensively on the show.
00:11:35.000He called the emerging Democratic majority.
00:11:38.000And his theory, it was in the early 2000s, about 2004, he wrote a book with John Judas by this name.
00:11:44.000His basic theory is that as the minority population of the United States rose, Democrats would then be in an unbelievable, irrefutable position to win elections.
00:11:54.000They would be in an unmatchable position to win elections because minorities were voting heavily Democrat.
00:11:59.000The number of white voters as an overall percentage of the population was declining.
00:12:03.000Therefore, if you had a growing number of a demographic that voted Democrat and a shrinking number of a demographic number that voted Republican, you would end up with a permanent Democratic majority.
00:12:12.000Instead, as he recognized earlier this year, Reuters Sheriff, That is not true anymore.
00:12:17.000Hispanics are now moving into the Republican camp.
00:12:19.000The reason for that is because the Democratic Party has now been captured by highly educated white coastal elites, particularly female elites who hail from highfalutin colleges, that their ideology is driven almost entirely by people with that value system.
00:12:35.000And that is a complete disconnect from the blue-collar values, the religious values, the working values of many Americans.
00:12:43.000Democrats are betting on a small set of issues to mitigate their losses this November.
00:12:47.000Inflation may have just hit a 40-year high with concomitant recession risk, but Democrats believe that campaigning against the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, arguing for more gun control in the wake of recent mass shootings, highlighting Trump's anti-democratic malfeasance through the January 6th hearings, can turn the tide in their favor.
00:13:01.000It's true that the polls have tightened a bit in Democrats' favor recently, though some of this could be the eagerness of motivated Democrats to be polled.
00:13:08.000And there's general agreement that Democrats' chance of holding the Senate are much better than their chances of holding the House.
00:13:14.000Republicans are going to take the House.
00:13:15.000The only reason that the Senate is even up for debate is because, again, Republicans have not been clear in nominating really strong candidates in places like Pennsylvania or Georgia or Arizona, where there's still an open primary going on.
00:13:27.000Recent data indicate the success for the abortion gun control January 6th strategy, to the extent it is working, is attributable to those voters for whom these issues loom large, and are less likely to be influenced by current economic problems.
00:13:38.000Such voters are disproportionately likely to be college-educated whites.
00:13:41.000It is here the Democrats have been demonstrating unusual strength.
00:14:09.000So, if the demographic argument still holds, which is that there are fewer white voters overall and there are more minority voters, but now the white voters are trending toward the Democrats and the minority voters are trending toward the Republicans, that throws the whole kit and caboodle up in the air for the Democrats.
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00:15:29.000Roy Tichera says, This is remarkable and has much to do with anemic Hispanic support for Democrats who favor Democrats over Republicans by a scant 3 points.
00:15:38.000Remember, Barack Obama won Hispanics like 2 to 1.
00:15:41.000Even in 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump won like 35% of Hispanics in 2020.
00:16:02.000They've cut themselves off in this bubble where they talk to all of their friends and where you are thrown out of the bubble and treated as a leper if you don't agree with them.
00:16:10.000Says Roy Teixeira, more broadly, the lack of Democratic support among working class voters is striking.
00:16:15.000Democrats lose all working class voters by 11 points.
00:16:18.000They carry college educated by 23 points.
00:16:21.000This is not a class gap, it's a yawning chasm.
00:16:23.000It's difficult to avoid the conclusion Democrats' emphasis on social and democracy issues, while catnip to some socially liberal educated voters, leaves many working class and Hispanic voters cold.
00:16:32.000Their concerns are more mundane and more economically driven.
00:16:35.000Which, by the way, is the way politics is supposed to work.
00:16:36.000You're supposed to be saying to your politicians, you're the plumber, fix the problem.
00:16:40.000You're not supposed to look to them for worldview guidance.
00:16:44.000They see in politicians godlike heroes descending from on high to bring them LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign ampersand tilde theory.
00:16:53.000Well, that's not how most people see their politicians, particularly people who actually have to work for a living.
00:16:57.000And the reality is that the Democratic Most of them have never run a business.
00:17:03.000Many of them have never worked in a business.
00:17:05.000Many of them are professional pointy heads.
00:17:07.000They've either worked in academia, or they've worked at a think tank, or they work in politics at the behest of the taxpayer, or they're working in some sort of non-profit.
00:17:16.000The number of Democrats in elite positions shaping politics who have never held a real business job is extraordinary.
00:17:23.000There's a piece over at Daily Wire by Ben Zeisselhoff today saying most top Biden officials have zero years of business experience.
00:17:29.000Well, that might help shape why exactly it is that they are so out of touch on the issues that most Americans care about.
00:17:34.000If you've owned a business, if you've worked at a business, you understand that inflation is a top priority for the United States government.
00:17:40.000If you own a business or work in a business, you understand that supply chain issues are more important than Pete Buttigieg trying to induce equity via transportation policy.
00:17:50.000If you have worked at a business, or you own a business, you understand that the future of your business is more important to you than Democrats' insistence that abortion policy be the number one thing that we discuss, or that HHS be dramatically focused on transing the children.
00:18:07.000This is not the stuff that you're interested in, but the Biden administration is not led by those people.
00:18:11.000A report from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity recently revealed that the Biden administration is led by lawyers, academics, and community organizers.
00:18:18.000According to the conservative think tank, the top 68 individuals in the administration have spent an average of 2.4 years in the business world.
00:18:26.000With only one in eight boasting extensive business experience.
00:18:30.000The median length of business experience for Biden officials is zero years.
00:18:33.000Which means there's like one guy who had 20 years of experience and everybody else has zero years of actually working in the business world.
00:18:40.000The report says, surely we want our political class to have a diversity of backgrounds.
00:18:44.000We want lawyers, grassroots activists, those with political and policy experience, scientists, health experts, academics.
00:18:48.000But we also want people who have experience running large operations with hundreds and thousands of employees and who understand logistics.
00:18:55.000Biden, Harris, neither has any business experience.
00:19:12.000And again, even venture capital is largely disconnected from the concerns of the average American.
00:19:18.000The Committee to Unleash Prosperity also evaluated members in the Trump administration.
00:19:21.000In addition to Trump's 45 years in business, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had 42 years, Mnuchin had 25 years, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spent 23 years in the arena.
00:19:30.000So when you're completely disconnected, when you are all drawn from the same demographic background, and I don't mean like in terms of race, I mean in terms of the ideology you spout, you end up with this bubble that is completely disconnected from the base that you were supposed to be cultivating right here.
00:19:44.000According to Roy Teixeira, recent data from Echelon Insights provides an interesting window on the contrast between the people who are leaving the Democratic Party and the so-called Democratic base.
00:19:53.000Their analysis breaks down the electorate into four quadrants—conservative, populist, libertarian, and liberal—and further breaks out a strong progressive subset of liberals who are highly liberal on most issues and also happen to be very highly educated and more likely to be white.
00:20:06.000They bear some similarity in size, demographics, and inclinations to the progressive activist group broken out in the More in Common study.
00:20:13.000We've discussed that study on the show.
00:20:15.000A group with a lot of weight inside the Democratic Party, but amounting to a very small sliver of the electorate.
00:20:20.000The crosstabs provided by Echelon allow for a comparison of strong progressives' basic political views with those of Hispanic and working-class voters.
00:20:48.00066 to 28, strong progressives are like, America sucks.
00:20:50.000And everybody in the working class is like, no, America's kind of great.
00:20:53.000You think that the people who are saying America sucks are going to be able to appeal to the people who think that America is a pretty great place?
00:20:59.000How about the view that racism is built into our society, including policies and institutions, versus racism comes from individuals who hold racist views, not from our society and institutions?
00:21:09.000Strong progressives say, by a margin of 94 to 6, that America is societally and systemically racist.
00:21:16.000Hispanics say that racism comes from individuals by a margin of 58 to 36.
00:21:20.000So all of your intersexual latinx pandering is nonsense.
00:21:25.000They know they can get ahead in America because America is not systemically racist.
00:21:29.000By the way, working class voters, the people who Democrats are pandering to by saying, we'll throw you a welfare check and we'll tell you that your economic dispossession is a result of systemic racism, those working class voters are saying, nah, we don't believe you.
00:21:41.00057 to 33, they agree that racism comes from individuals who hold racist views.
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00:23:25.000So, for example, polling data from National Line Insights on the question of transgender athletes being able to play on sports teams that match their supposed preferred sex.
00:24:00.000How about hard work and determination?
00:24:02.000So, according to strong progressive voters, they are not a guarantee of success for most people.
00:24:07.000According to progressive voters, 88 to 12, 88 to 12, they say that most people who want to get ahead cannot get ahead because of the systemic problems with American society.
00:24:17.000Hispanic voters say that if you work hard, you're likely to get ahead.
00:24:57.000And Democrats are about to take it directly on the chin because of all of this.
00:25:01.000And because again, there's an elite class inside the Democratic Party that is concerned with the things that most Americans are just not concerned with.
00:25:07.000Which is why, for example, it doesn't help Democrats when billionaire Bill Gates vows to transfer $20 billion of his vast wealth to fight particular issues.
00:25:15.000Bill Gates is donating his vast wealth to help alleviate.
00:25:19.000He says that he's going to donate a bunch of money because the war on Ukraine And because of abortion and because of climate change.
00:25:26.000Do any of those things rank among the top priorities for Democratic voters?
00:25:29.000Now, Bill Gates is not a Democratic politician, but he is in the halls of the Democratic elites deciding their agenda.
00:25:35.000And so he is mirroring the preferences of that small coterie of Democratic elites.
00:25:40.000Do you think the most people, like, if you're a working class voter and you see Maybe the richest person on earth saying, I'm going to help the people.
00:25:46.000The way I'm going to help the people is by paying for abortions, helping to alleviate the effects of the war in Ukraine, and working on climate change.
00:25:54.000Are you more or less likely to feel good about Bill Gates?
00:25:59.000That is not a thing that is likely to draw voters to the party of Bill Gates.
00:26:16.000And when they say that it should be legal, they don't mean legal until point of birth.
00:26:20.000The fact is that if you're a first-generation Latino, by the way, a minority of first-generation Latinos believe that abortion should be legal at all.
00:26:29.000So there's a vast disconnect on abortion.
00:26:30.000So when Nancy Pelosi is spouting the San Francisco position on abortion, that's not reflect what most working class people think about abortion.
00:26:47.000And that is something that the president is wedded to.
00:26:51.000Again, these sorts of statements are not helpful to the Democrats, so all the hopes that the overthrow of Roe vs. Wade was going to suddenly usher in an era of Democratic dominance, yeah, good luck to that.
00:27:01.000It's not helpful to the Democratic case, when the CDC, run by Joe Biden, the Center for Disease Control, is, according to Breitbart, now promoting to youth an online chat space that discusses sex, polyamorous relationships, the occult, sex change operations, and activism, and is specifically designed to be quickly hidden while being used.
00:27:17.000And also mixes LGBT adults and children and is run in part by Planned Parenthood.
00:27:21.000The chat is called QSpace and the platform is advertised on the CDC's LGBT Health Youth Resources page.
00:27:27.000The chat service describing itself as a community for LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign ampersand Is that sort of stuff?
00:27:34.000symbol teens is available for those age 13 to 19 and can be hidden from parents and focuses on a number of these themes including conversations on drag culture 101 sex and relationships and having multiple genders intended for bi pan youth is that sort of stuff the stuff that is going to drive blue-collar and minority voters into the arms of the Democratic Party and here's the thing The media helped perpetuate this bubble.
00:28:11.000The Democrats rely on the journalistic activists to do their dirty work for them.
00:28:16.000They get up every morning, they're having a bad day, they shoot themselves full of New York Times journalism, and then they feel high for a little while, and then it turns out that the comedown on the other end is really, really bad.
00:28:25.000Because the journalists are not telling them truths they need to hear.
00:28:28.000The journalists are acting as a Praetorian guard, preventing them from hearing truths they ever need to hear.
00:28:33.000And in the meantime, by the way, the journalists are undercutting their own credibility.
00:28:36.000Fascinating poll from Pew Research this week.
00:28:40.000Journalists in the United States differ markedly from the general public in their views of both-sides-ism, whether journalists should always strive to give equal coverage to all sides of an issue, according to a Pew Research Center study.
00:28:51.000A little more than half of journalists surveyed, 55%, say that every side does not deserve equal coverage in the news.
00:29:13.000Meanwhile, the American people are like, wait, wasn't that your job?
00:29:15.000I thought that was literally your job.
00:29:18.000But the journalists are too busy defending the Democrats, which is how you end up with, for example, CNN's Don Lemon Who is saying out loud the part where he's not a journalist.
00:29:30.000He's an opinion journalist, which means that he covers the news with a political perspective.
00:29:33.000The difference is, I don't lie to you about it, and Don Lemon does.
00:29:36.000And so Don Lemon says, to be a journalist means that you have to evaluate the claims that you disagree with, and then you have to never give them coverage again because they're bad.
00:30:22.000There's also a bias among journalists in favor of this position.
00:30:26.000The younger you are and the more left-leaning you are.
00:30:28.000The more you believe this, roughly 6 in 10 U.S.
00:30:30.000journalists aged 18 to 29, that's 63%, say every side does not always deserve equal coverage.
00:30:36.00037% of journalists in the age range say journalists should strive to cover all sides equally.
00:30:41.000Those numbers change noticeably for journalists 50 and older.
00:30:43.000So if you're an older generation of Democrats, then you tend to believe that journalists are supposed to, you know, journalism at a certain point.
00:30:48.000But if you're a younger Democrat, you don't believe that.
00:30:50.000And so you act as a Praetorian guard for the Democrats who never hear messages like, hey guys, maybe Hispanic voters don't like it when you call them latinx.
00:30:58.000Hey guys, did it ever occur to you that like blue-collar black workers are not particularly fond of the idea that you're telling their little boys that they're actually little girls?
00:31:07.000Instead, the journalists are focusing on activism.
00:31:09.000The most obvious trend in journalism in this direction is basically just going to random businesses and trying to cudgel them through media coverage into doing the dirty work of the left.
00:31:17.000This is how you end up with stories by people like Brian Schwartz at CNBC.
00:31:22.000Reporting that Republican Attorneys General are hosting a private retreat for corporate donors at a swanky Palm Beach resort, and then proceeding to list off all of the corporate parents, all the corporate donors, right?
00:31:45.000Because increasingly, Americans don't buy it.
00:31:49.000Now, the bubble that has been created also means that Democrats never feel the necessity to have consistency in any way.
00:31:54.000See, if nobody ever asks you a tough question about your own ideology, you don't actually have to think it through.
00:31:58.000You can just do the id-driven politics, where you say whatever pops into your head, whatever crazy idea pops into your head at a given moment.
00:32:04.000It also means you can be as radical as you want to be.
00:32:06.000So, Elizabeth Warren rarely has to answer a tough question, and when she's asked one, she can just walk right away from it.
00:32:12.000The senator from Massachusetts, who again, I'm...
00:32:15.000I'm constantly in a state of sort of bewilderment about Elizabeth Warren because I knew her a little bit when she was at Harvard Law School.
00:32:19.000She was certainly to the left when she was teaching at Harvard Law School.
00:32:23.000But she also happened to be kind of an interesting person.
00:32:25.000Her book, The Two-Income Trap, is a really fascinating look into how the development of women in the workplace has changed the economy and how government interventionism is not always a good thing.
00:32:35.000Now she's just a down-the-line, rote Bernie Sanders left-winger.
00:32:38.000Well, she was asked yesterday about whether groups should be paying people for the location of Supreme Court justices to harass them.
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00:35:55.000So, meanwhile, it is amazing to watch how the Democrats really have, many of them, have no standards at all with regards to what is appropriate behavior.
00:36:10.000So, obviously, you had Joe Biden and his team at the White House overtly saying that it was totally fine to go to Supreme Court Justice's house and protest, like, right outside their house, even though it was a violation of federal law.
00:36:21.000And you had Karine Jean-Pierre, the wildly untalented White House press secretary, saying openly that, you know, going outside restaurants and yelling at people while they're eating their dinner, that's just free speech.
00:36:29.000And Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, mostly famous for going on a two-month paternity leave while nobody noticed, he said the exact same thing.
00:36:37.000And we've been told by pretty much all of the bright Democratic thinkers that protest is just protest and you should all toughen up.
00:36:51.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the irrepressibly moronic Congresswoman from Brooklyn, she tweeted December 2nd, 2020, quote, The whole point of protesting is to make people uncomfortable.
00:37:01.000Activists take that discomfort with the status quo and advocate for concrete policy changes.
00:37:05.000Popular support often starts small and grows.
00:37:07.000To folks who complain, protest demands make others uncomfortable.
00:37:14.000Okay, just about a week ago, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who again has fewer brain cells to rub together than most sea creatures.
00:37:26.000She tweeted out after there were a bunch of people who basically protested outside of Brett Kavanaugh's steakhouse dinner with his family, and he had to leave through the back door.
00:37:36.000He left before his souffle because he decided half the country should risk death if they have an ectopic pregnancy within the wrong state lines.
00:38:00.000It is a threat to the life of the mother.
00:38:02.000But, put all of the abortion policy there aside, the bottom line to AOC is protest is good when I do it, but it's very bad when people do it to me.
00:38:08.000When people troll me, it is legitimately the end of the world, and I am so scared, I'm going to freak out.
00:38:13.000And we're not just talking about, like, January 6th, when there's video of AOC talking about how she was in tremendous fear for her life, and she was afraid she was gonna die, and I was in Katie Porter's office, and they asked Katie Porter about it, and Katie Porter's like, yeah, we were, like, in the other office building, it was fine.
00:38:26.000And I had to give, one of my staffers had to give AOC her shoes, right?
00:38:30.000I'm not talking about, like January 6th, there was actual danger involved, although not in the Longwell office building where AOC was, but there was in the Capitol complex.
00:38:38.000Now AOC is suggesting that she was deeply threatened, that it was really, really scary when a troll decided to talk about her booty to her on the steps of the Capitol building.
00:38:55.000I think it's bad when you protest at steakhouses and go outside Supreme Court justices' houses.
00:38:59.000I think it's bad when you try to track down Supreme Court justices.
00:39:02.000You know, after somebody tries to murder them in their house.
00:39:05.000Like, I think there's there are a lot of things that are bad in this realm.
00:39:07.000But if you are AOC and you think protest is good, except when somebody says a mean thing to you and you get the feels, well, then I have less sympathy for you.
00:40:32.000But according to AOC, you have to follow the logic because she's so incredibly dumb.
00:40:36.000According to the logic, here's AOC's logic.
00:40:38.000If I offer to debate AOC, that's catcalling.
00:40:41.000If this guy catcalls her, that's a violent threat.
00:40:44.000And if somebody is outside a Supreme Court justice's house shouting at them, like, a week after somebody tries to murder them, that's not a violent threat, that's legitimate protest.
00:40:56.000And so, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez then decided that the fundamental problem here is the Capitol Police.
00:41:01.000That the Capitol Police did not protect her from a man shouting about her big booty.
00:41:05.000Here is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Instagram really going for it.
00:41:10.000I think the thing that was so crazy about that incident is not even that it happened, but that it happened on the Capitol steps right in front of a Capitol police officer.
00:41:21.000And this dude was engaged, like this wasn't about a political opinion or protest or anything like that.
00:41:26.000He was engaged in very clearly sexually threatening, aggressive behavior right in front on the Capitol steps in front of an officer.
00:41:35.000And he wasn't even asked to take a step back.
00:41:39.000Like, this officer was just cool with it and it just like I really just can't help but think about all of that footage and evidence that we saw the day of of all these Capitol Police officers helping and being sympathetic to the insurrectionists on January 6th.
00:42:04.000And everyone just decided it was too politically difficult to deal with.
00:42:07.000So they all just brushed it under the rug.
00:42:10.000And to this day, there has never been an investigation into that.
00:42:17.000So as a result, we have no idea which officers are safe to be around.
00:42:23.000We have no idea if any of those officers and the ones holding massive weapons were with that crowd or if they weren't.
00:42:37.000Just to get this straight, she's now saying the Capitol Police are bad guys on January 6th because a man Cat called her.
00:42:43.000By the way, if you watch the tape, she actually comes back down the steps to approach him and say something, then she goes back up the steps.
00:42:50.000This does not excuse the lewd, lascivious stupidity of this troll who is a troll.
00:42:57.000I'm unaware of the evidence from the video that he was physically threatening to her.
00:43:00.000There's a difference between being lewd and gross and violative and being physically threatening.
00:43:17.000Many things in American society are yucky and bad.
00:43:19.000It's not technically illegal to catcall AOC, which is what this guy actually did, even though AOC doesn't apparently know what a catcall is.
00:43:27.000And I love that she's now turned on the Capitol Police.
00:43:28.000Remember when the Capitol Police were our nation's greatest heroes?
00:43:31.000Well, now they are back to being the people that people like AOC hate because apparently they don't want to protect what she said was women and LGBT people.
00:43:40.000It's not a place designed to protect women.
00:43:43.000Again, you seem to be here and healthy and doing quite well, AOC.
00:43:48.000It's not a place designed to protect LGBT people.
00:43:51.000What does that have to do with anything?
00:43:52.000I do love that the new democratic formulation of every issue, every single issue is, and LGBT people, and LGBTQ plus minus divided by a sine ampersand.
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