A second woman claims that Joe Biden touched her inappropriately at a Greenwich, Connecticut fundraiser in 2009, and Nancy Pelosi says Joe Biden should be disqualified from running for president because he's a touchy-feely person. Plus, the Democratic base is leaving Barack Obama behind, and President Trump promises to end Obamacare, and the fresh faces in Democratic leadership are in trouble, too! All that and much more on today's show from Ben Shapiro's show on The Ben Shapiro Show with Ben Shapiro! Subscribe to the show to get immediate access to all of Ben's latest podcasts and listen when he uploads them on Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your favorite podcasting device. Use the promo code: "UPLEVEL" to receive 20% off your first month with discount code UPLEVEL and up to 40% off for the rest of the year. You'll get a 4-week trial plus free postage and a digital scale without any long-term commitment. There's no commitment required, and you'll get 5-5% off priority mail, plus an additional $5 when you sign up for the offer ends in March 31st. That's right, 5% off the entire year, plus free shipping on all orders of $99 or more! You won't want to miss it! - use promo code at checkout! to get 5% all year-round shipping and a FREE shipping on your first box of 5 or more boxes! at The Daily Wire! and a 5-piece of paper with the discount! It's that simple, no commitment, no strings, no obligation, no swag bag, no shipping required! FREE shipping, just 5-and-a-free shipping included in the deal! No commitment required. - just paypal, no minimum of $5 or more than $5, and a maximum of $25, and no additional shipping, no credit card, no longer than $99, and an extra $35, and I'll be helping you get 5,000 miles and a $50, plus a discount on your total of $45, plus shipping that gets you a month, plus I'll get an additional 4 weeks of free shipping, plus they'll get you 5, plus you get an ad-free rate, and they'll receive 5,500 miles free, plus all you can use that discount, plus the discount, and 5,99 gets you an entire month of FREE shipping!
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00:01:47.000All right, so Joe Biden continues to be top of the news as the Democratic Party struggles to deal with the accusations that he's very touchy-feely.
00:01:55.000Now I'll acknowledge that it's weird that for eight years the media had nothing to say about this.
00:01:59.000Everybody on the right mocked Joe Biden incessantly, for years, for being the guy who would go to a diner and suddenly one of the constituents, the female constituents, would end up on his lap.
00:02:10.000The guy who would stroke the faces of other people.
00:02:12.000I mean, Joe Biden has been weird about this stuff for a very long time.
00:02:17.000I mean, this has been his theme for a very long time and there is nothing new here.
00:02:21.000Now there's a second woman claiming that Biden, quote, touched her inappropriately at a Greenwich fundraiser in 2009.
00:02:28.000But again, the headline here doesn't really match the story.
00:02:33.000And basically their argument is that this Connecticut woman said that Biden grabbed her by the back of the neck and then rubbed noses with her.
00:02:41.000Like, that's a weird thing to do, but is it a sexual thing to do?
00:02:44.000Is it like a sexual harassment thing to do?
00:02:58.000But that's not the same thing as Al Franken grabbing a butt or a boob.
00:03:02.000So, the kind of overblown controversy about Joe Biden being Joe Biden, it's just funny to watch as the standards change on him and he is eminently confused about all of it, which, frankly, I think is appropriate considering that the standards did randomly change on him.
00:03:17.000Now, the Democrats are a lot more hesitant to throw Joe Biden off the cliff than they would be if this person were a Republican, obviously.
00:03:23.000Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, she said, does this disqualify Joe Biden from the presidency?
00:03:48.000OK, so Nancy Pelosi basically saying, he's been like this forever.
00:03:52.000Why are you all of a sudden proclaiming that he's doing something deeply terrible or inappropriate?
00:03:57.000And this seems to be sort of a bipartisan take.
00:03:59.000Laura Ingraham last night on her show said, listen, Biden has touched me before and it didn't bother me because he's not trying to sexually harass me.
00:04:06.000I have to share with you, just really quickly, my own touch-and-go moment with Joe Biden.
00:04:20.000And Biden saw me at the entranceway to the party.
00:04:23.000So Biden comes up to me, or I went up to him, I can't remember what, and he put both hands on my shoulders and he said, God's honest truth, Ingram, you're my favorite of the right-wing crazies, or something like that, to that effect.
00:04:35.000And he looked at me and he said, how you doing?
00:04:55.000Whoopi Goldberg on The View said the same thing.
00:04:57.000She said, You know, it's kind of weird that the lady who first came out and said something about this, a woman named Lucy Flores, happens to be a supporter of Beto O'Rourke, says, you know, this happened five years ago.
00:05:06.000What are you sitting around waiting five years to talk about it?
00:05:10.000I'm just going to point out the insane irony of the same Whoopi Goldberg who said that Brett Kavanaugh should be kicked off the Supreme Court for a 30-year-old allegation without any evidence.
00:05:18.000That same Whoopi Goldberg is saying, why'd this lady wait even five years to talk about this supposed horror show that she experienced with Joe Biden?
00:05:25.000Stephanie Carter, who is the wife of Defense Secretary Ash Carter, published a blog Sunday defending Joe Biden over a viral photo.
00:05:32.000People keep misrepresenting that picture.
00:05:55.000Because it makes a suspect of your thoughts.
00:06:00.000Weird, weird how that standard has now changed when it comes to Joe Biden.
00:06:03.000By the way, same standard has changed when it comes to Alyssa Milano.
00:06:06.000I thought the most ironic tweet of yesterday was Alyssa Milano tweeted out something about Joe Biden, how much she likes Joe Biden.
00:06:12.000She tweeted out a picture of herself with Joe Biden, suggesting that she and Joe Biden got along and that she'd never had these experiences with Joe Biden.
00:06:19.000Her actual tweet is a picture of her next to Joe Biden at some sort of event.
00:06:22.000And she says, quote, I am proud to call Joe Biden a friend.
00:06:25.000He has been a leader and a champion on fighting violence against women for many years.
00:06:28.000And I have been fortunate to accompany him to events with survivors where he has listened to their stories, empathized with them and comforted them.
00:06:35.000A warm, generous individual who believes it's on all of us to pay attention to women's stories and experiences.
00:06:42.000Biden started It's On Us because he believes to meaningfully change our culture, everyone, including those often left out of the conversation, like college athletes and frat brothers, need to be part of the movement.
00:06:51.000Joe Biden's response that he never meant to make anyone uncomfortable and that he'll listen and learn from anyone who says otherwise is exactly the leadership we need to build a culture where women are heard and are equal.
00:07:00.000I respect Lucy Flores' decision to share her story and agree with Biden that we must all pay attention to it.
00:07:04.000But just as we must believe women that decide to come forward, We cannot assume all women's experiences are the same.
00:07:10.000I believe that Joe Biden's intent has never been to make anyone uncomfortable and that his kind, empathetic leadership is what our country needs, especially now.
00:07:17.000So ironic because I remember Alyssa Milano getting in a Handmaid's Tale outfit and traveling over to the Supreme Court to proclaim that Brett Kavanaugh could not sit on the Supreme Court because of an old allegation with no supporting or verifiable evidence.
00:07:29.000I'm old enough to remember that because that was like, what, six months ago?
00:07:33.000Again, I don't believe that Joe Biden is running around sexually harassing women.
00:07:44.000I think he's real touchy and I think he's a weird dude, but I don't think that he's running around sexually harassing women.
00:07:49.000I'm just pointing out that folks on the left have radically changed their standards because you'll remember that during the Kavanaugh hearings, Kavanaugh brought forward a letter from a bunch of former female colleagues who suggested that he was actually great with them And the left said, well, that's not proof of anything.
00:08:07.000I mean, he could have been nice to these women and not nice.
00:08:09.000I mean, the same thing is true for Alyssa Milano.
00:08:11.000But you don't see the left saying the same sort of stuff.
00:08:13.000So there is a certain Irony to the left's new attitude with regard to Joe Biden.
00:08:18.000But there's something deeper going on here, and that is the left seeking an excuse to make a break with Joe Biden.
00:08:24.000The hard left seeking an excuse to make a break with Joe Biden, which really is the left seeking to make an excuse for a hard break with Barack Obama.
00:08:31.000See, here's the thing about Joe Biden.
00:10:13.000On Friday, Lucy Flores, a former Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, accused Joe Biden of touching her inappropriately as they waited to take the stage at a 2014 election rally.
00:10:23.000He put his hands on her shoulders, she said, then nuzzled her hair and kissed the back of her head.
00:10:26.000She didn't accuse Biden, who's reportedly close to announcing his presidential candidacy, of sexual harassment or assault, just of making her uncomfortable.
00:10:34.000I'm not suggesting Biden broke any laws, but the transgressions that society deems minor or don't even see as transgressions often feel considerable to the person on the receiving end, she wrote.
00:10:43.000In response, Biden released a statement saying that while he's often been physically affectionate as a politician, not once, never, did I believe I acted inappropriately.
00:10:51.000Then on Monday, Amy Lappos, a former aide to Democratic Congressman Jim Himes, told the Hartford Courant that Biden pulled her toward him to rub noses during a 2009 fundraiser.
00:11:00.000There's absolutely a line of decency, Lappos said, adding, crossing that line is not grandfatherly, it's not cultural, it's not affection, it's sexism or misogyny.
00:11:08.000Biden's campaign hadn't yet begun and was already in crisis.
00:11:12.000Flores, Lapos, and Biden, says Michelle Goldberg, are probably all telling the truth.
00:11:15.000There are countless photos of Biden behaving in the ways Flores and Lapos describe, squeezing women, rubbing their shoulders, leaning in too close.
00:11:21.000All this was open, not furtive, presumably because it never occurred to Biden he was doing anything untoward.
00:11:27.000In the past few years, women have been calling out daily indignities that previous generations grew up quietly tolerating.
00:11:32.000Lingering hugs from boss, embarrassing intimate questions, crude office jokes.
00:11:36.000Individually, these are small acts, and most men probably don't understand how cumulatively draining they can be.
00:11:42.000Women, after all, have only recently begun to articulate it.
00:11:45.000I received plenty of unwanted shoulder massages when I was younger, and for a long time I assumed there was something wrong with me when they made me flinch.
00:11:51.000It was affirming to finally realize that other women also hated routine invasions of their personal space.
00:11:55.000But if it wasn't always obvious to me that the men were at fault in these awkward encounters, it might not have been obvious to them either.
00:12:02.000So I don't think that Biden's avuncular pulling is a Me Too story.
00:12:06.000But if Biden was more oblivious than predatory, his history still puts him out of step with the moors of an increasingly progressive Democratic Party.
00:12:12.000And here is where we get to the crux of the matter.
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00:13:20.000So Michelle Goldberg spelling out the real reason that Democrats want Biden out.
00:13:25.000At least some Democrats want Biden out.
00:13:26.000The reason is because Biden is not in step with the times.
00:13:30.000And they're not in step with the times.
00:13:31.000Biden is not in step with the times because he is an emissary of the Obama administration, which has suddenly become too right wing for a lot of progressive Democrats.
00:13:39.000Here is what Michelle Goldberg writes.
00:13:41.000She says on Sunday, The New York Times reported that some Democrats are bracing for an extended reckoning about Mr. Biden and gender if he enters the race.
00:13:48.000The inevitability of such a reckoning should make Biden reconsider getting in.
00:13:53.000Biden's issues with gender, after all, go far beyond chronic handsiness.
00:13:56.000His waffling on reproductive choice troubles many feminists.
00:13:59.000As the Times reported last week, Biden's back-and-forth over abortion would become a hallmark of his political career.
00:14:04.000In other words, he has said in the past that he is personally opposed to abortion, and this is no longer okay with the base of the Democratic Party.
00:14:11.000He was the chairman of the hearings on Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination, where Anita Hill, who accused Thomas of sexual harassment, was demeaned and dismissed.
00:14:19.000Well, that's because Anita Hill was probably not telling the full truth, as witness testimony made clear.
00:14:24.000That, by the way, is a bunch of nonsense.
00:14:25.000He's never directly apologized to her beyond gender on issue after issue.
00:14:29.000If Biden runs for president, he'll have to run away from his own record.
00:14:32.000He and by extension, we will have to relive the debate over the Iraq war, which he voted to authorize.
00:14:37.000He'll have to explain his vote to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act, which, by lifting regulations on banking, helped create the conditions for the 2008 financial meltdown.
00:14:44.000That, by the way, is a bunch of nonsense.
00:14:46.000It was not the Glass-Steagall Act removal that led to the financial meltdown.
00:14:51.000It was the government sponsoring subprime mortgages and backing them and letting hedge funds know that if they continued to invest in subprime mortgages, the government would essentially cover for them.
00:14:59.000In 2016, Hillary Clinton was slammed for her previous support of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which contributed to mass incarceration.
00:15:09.000So here is where the Democrats are starting to disavow Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
00:15:14.000The old Democratic Party must die to make room for the new.
00:15:18.000Ross Douthat makes the same point over at the New York Times today.
00:15:21.000Now, Douthat obviously is a Republican, but nonetheless, he is not wrong to point this out.
00:15:28.000So Doodhat has this piece in the New York Times called The Real Joe Biden Decision.
00:15:31.000He says, At some point soon, Joe Biden is going to have to make two decisions.
00:15:34.000The first is whether he wants to run for the Democratic nomination.
00:15:37.000The second is whether he wants to win it and at what cost.
00:15:39.000Right now, even after some slippage, Biden has the highest polling numbers of any candidate in the race.
00:15:44.000He also has a record that is completely out of step with his party's activists and ideologists, a highly familiar personal style and a base of support that's roughly as old as he is.
00:15:53.000This combination makes it easy to imagine Biden running a campaign that ends up feeling like an apology tour, in which he talks endlessly about how much he has learned and groaned since the days when he was a tough-on-crime Democrat who opposed school busing and sometimes voted for late-term abortion limits.
00:16:07.000Some of the ideas apparently bandied about by his aides, a one-term pledge, Stacey Abrams as a running mate, fit with this strategy, in which the goal would be to establish Biden as a temporary bridge to a woker future, a candidate ready to put his moderate past behind him and serve the new liberal consensus.
00:16:21.000That kind of Biden campaign would probably lose.
00:16:23.000Indeed, it would probably lose as badly as Jeb Bush did.
00:16:26.000Because in a big primary field, with a lot of flavor of this available, it's very hard to hold your base if you aren't giving that base a clear reason to vote for you.
00:16:34.000This, of course, is exactly right from Ross Dudehat.
00:16:37.000And he points out that on social issues, he is out of step and on racial issues, he is not considered woke enough.
00:16:43.000So what exactly would Biden have to do?
00:16:45.000He'd have to appeal to all of these groups openly and directly, which would require taking ownership of his record, not defending everything, not avoiding all apologies, but arguing explicitly that some tough on crime policies were necessary, that some moderation on abortion should be acceptable, that the Ocasio-Cortez in turn on economic policy should be questioned or resisted.
00:17:03.000And yes, defending his personal familiarity.
00:17:06.000But is Biden going to do any of that stuff?
00:17:08.000First of all, I think it would be good if he did, but he's not going to do any of that stuff.
00:17:33.000The man says things on a routine basis.
00:17:34.000I know we all pretend that Joe Biden is some sort of elder statesman.
00:17:38.000Joe Biden has a long record of saying dumb stuff.
00:17:40.000All the way back in 2008, you will recall that he famously called Barack Obama a different kind of African-American presidential candidate, clean and articulate.
00:17:49.000That's the person who Joe Biden is when he is on the campaign trail.
00:17:51.000Do we really think he's not going to make those kind of gaffes again?
00:17:56.000And there's also another point, which is even if Barack Obama were to endorse Joe Biden, would that be enough to put Joe Biden over the top?
00:18:03.000Because there is a gap between the base of the Democratic Party and the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
00:18:11.000The progressive, woke left of the Democratic Party, which is disproportionately white, by the way, not minority, A lot of those folks are not particularly fond of Barack Obama.
00:18:19.000They see Barack Obama in the same way that, for example, Ilhan Omar has described Barack Obama as a guy who was droning terrorists in foreign countries and was too conciliatory toward Republicans.
00:18:30.000Yes, that's a wild rewriting of history, but that doesn't matter to a lot of the progressives in the base.
00:18:35.000So when Eric Holder, the former Barack Obama attorney general, goes out in public and he says things like, Trump will be seen as one of the worst presidents, but Barack Obama will be seen as one of the best, I don't know how many members of the Democratic Party base actually agree with this.
00:18:46.000This is him with Ari Melber on MSNBC yesterday.
00:19:17.000OK, so that may be true for the moment for older Democrats, but already Barack Obama is fading into the gauzy kind of sepia gaze of history, and he is no longer considered the leading edge of the woke brigade.
00:19:32.000Eric Holder is trying desperately to grab that mantle.
00:19:36.000He's desperately trying to keep the focus on Barack Obama as leader of change.
00:19:41.000But the fact is that that's not something that I think a lot of Democrats are resonating to, which is why they are moving over toward Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:19:47.000It's why they are moving over toward Bernie Sanders.
00:19:50.000It's why everybody who's discounting Bernie Sanders in these primaries, I think, is getting this stuff completely wrong.
00:19:55.000I think that if you are really already dismissing Bernie Sanders, you're getting this stuff absolutely incorrect.
00:20:01.000There's a poll out today that shows that Bernie Sanders has a double-digit lead among young voters.
00:20:06.000Bernie Sanders explicitly rejects the legacy of Barack Obama.
00:20:10.000Bernie Sanders is a full-on statist socialist.
00:20:14.000He likes to proclaim that he's in favor of Norway.
00:20:16.000I mean, dude was in favor of the USSR when the USSR was still around.
00:20:21.000Dude was campaigning for Venezuela, like, ten years ago.
00:20:24.000But he has a double-digit lead among young voters in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, according to a poll released on Monday.
00:20:32.00031% of likely voters between 18 and 29 favor him.
00:21:26.000I don't think he believed a lot of those things.
00:21:28.000But, now the Democrats are saying, we want to say those things and believe those things.
00:21:33.000The legacy of Barack Obama is a failed Obamacare program that is not Medicare for all.
00:21:36.000The legacy of Barack Obama is a man who launched a war in Libya and got us involved in Syria.
00:21:40.000The legacy of Barack Obama is a person who increased taxes somewhat, but not dramatically, and did not increase social services in any massive, dramatic fashion.
00:21:49.000That is how many young Democrats see Barack Obama.
00:21:51.000So this attempt by Joe Biden to glom onto the Obama legacy, I'm not sure that that benefits him in any serious way.
00:21:58.000In a second I'll give you Joe Biden's, I'll give you Bernie Sanders' fundraising numbers.
00:24:03.000I mean, he's running away with the money race.
00:24:05.000And the longer Biden waits to get in, the more money is going to go toward Bernie Sanders, who has the highest name recognition in the race.
00:24:15.000And Bernie knows where the heart of the Democratic Party is.
00:24:18.000The heart of the Democratic Party is with that radical progressive base.
00:24:23.000So Bernie Sanders is now doing the racial pandering that, you know, I was earlier in the race, I suggested that Bernie Sanders might be better for the country than Kamala Harris simply because he wasn't doing as much of the racial pandering.
00:24:34.000He, for example, had said he was not in favor of slavery reparations.
00:24:38.000Well, now Bernie Sanders is repeating all the woke talking points in the hopes of drawing a significant percentage of black votes.
00:24:45.000I talked yesterday about a FiveThirtyEight report suggesting that he does not win a disproportionate non-share of the black vote.
00:24:52.000He doesn't underperform among black folks.
00:24:54.000Hillary Clinton just overperformed among black folks.
00:24:56.000It is not certain at this point that Kamala Harris overperforms among black voters.
00:25:00.000According to the new Quinnipiac poll, the person who is scoring best with black voters is Biden, followed by Bernie Sanders.
00:25:06.000So here is Bernie Sanders at an event yesterday talking about how Republicans are suppressing the black vote, which of course is not true.
00:25:13.000What I say To those Republican governors and attorneys general all over this country who are working overtime to try to suppress the vote for people of color, for young people, for poor people in general, What I say to them, from the bottom of my heart, is if they don't have the guts to participate in a free and fair election, they should get the hell out of politics and get a new job.
00:26:22.000As a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood, I want to applaud the grassroots activism of Planned Parenthood and standing up and not only fighting against these horrific anti-woman legislation that we are seeing all over this country.
00:26:45.000But standing up and saying that women will not accept, and men will not accept, the defunding of Planned Parenthood so that millions of women will no longer be able to get the health care that they want.
00:26:58.000I mean, Bernie is running explicitly against the more moderate wing of the Democratic Party, and this is particularly true with Obama.
00:27:04.000Remember, Obamacare is the system on the books, and it is failing, and Democrats are explicitly rejecting that.
00:27:10.000What you hear from Democrats is that the economy has been slow for years.
00:27:14.000Suddenly, the booming economy we were told about in 2012 no longer exists.
00:27:18.000Now it's that the economy has been slow and slow and slow, and now we're going to fix all of that.
00:27:23.000So for example, President Trump tweeted out today, Everybody agrees that Obamacare doesn't work.
00:27:28.000Premiums and deductibles are far too high, really bad health care.
00:27:31.000Even Democrats want to replace it with Medicare for all.
00:27:33.000So Bernie Sanders tweets back, Medicare for all will end the atrocity of a profit-driven health care system in which thousands die because they cannot afford care.
00:27:42.000Donald Trump wants to protect insurance company profits over American lives Mr. Trump, we will defeat you in 2020.
00:27:50.000Well, that's not just Sanders running against Donald Trump.
00:27:53.000That is Sanders running against Obama.
00:27:54.000I mean, what happens the first time on a debate stage that Joe Biden starts talking about health care and Bernie Sanders says, we were pushing for Medicare for all and you and President Obama shut that down?
00:28:05.000You wouldn't even allow a public option.
00:28:07.000What happens the first time Bernie turns to Biden and says, you need to own Obamacare since it was your creation?
00:28:14.000And then Biden has to admit one of two things, either that they lied to the American public, they said that Obamacare was the final stop, not a way station on the way to Medicare for all.
00:28:27.000By the way, the insipid stupidity of suggesting that a profit-driven healthcare system can be replaced by a non-profit-driven healthcare system and that this will not impact the level of care prevalent in the United States is absolute sheer nonsense.
00:28:40.000If you want to force doctors to take less pay, you will get fewer doctors.
00:28:44.000If you want Medicare reimbursement rates, which are like 60% of private healthcare insurance rates, to be the prevalent insurance rates, fewer people are going to go into medicine.
00:28:52.000We already have a shortage of doctors in the United States.
00:28:54.000If you want to continue regulating the way that the Democrats want to regulate, with medical licensure, You want to end up with a shortage of doctors?
00:29:02.000If you want to prevent 52% of all new medical innovations being produced in the United States, Medicare for All is a wonderful way to get that done.
00:29:09.000If you want to outlaw 160 million private health care plans that people own, Man, go for it.
00:29:16.000But if you think that's not going to have an impact on health care, you got that wrong.
00:29:19.000One of the great lies about the American health care system is that the American health care system is truly horribly awful.
00:29:25.000The employer-based health care system is a mistake.
00:29:27.000You should not have to be employed to have health care.
00:29:30.000We should all basically have our own individual health care plans that we shop for.
00:29:33.000It should be consumer product groups that evaluate all of these plans for us, as opposed to the group plans that you get through your employer.
00:29:39.000There are ways that we can help fix all of this.
00:29:41.000Medicare for All is not the way to do this.
00:29:44.000And to pretend that the American healthcare system generates worse healthcare for the price is to ignore the fact that on a GDP per capita basis we are not wildly out of step with many European countries and also to neglect the fact that we have the highest five-year cancer survival rates in the world and that when you eliminate homicide and car accident vehicular death in the United States we actually have the highest life expectancy in the industrialized world.
00:30:05.000We have wildly outsized numbers of car deaths as well as homicides in the United States.
00:30:10.000In a second, we're going to get to the other Democratic candidates who, as you see, are also rejecting the Obama legacy.
00:30:15.000What we're watching right now is a party in flux and moving beyond its past.
00:30:19.000And that past, shockingly, is Barack Obama.
00:31:30.000Okay, in just a second we're going to get to the rest of the Democratic Party candidates, plus some bad news for the fresh Today is supposedly Equal Pay Day, the day upon which women would have to work.
00:31:45.000Basically, this is the day when women would start working if they were equaling the pay rate of men to earn the same as men.
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00:32:31.000The first major Democratic Party presidential candidate to stop by.
00:32:35.000I'm really excited about it because, frankly, any Democrat who stops by Rises significantly in my estimation for having the willingness to actually sit down.
00:32:44.000We've offered... I mean, Pete Buttigieg has suggested maybe he would come on.
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00:33:34.000So Beto, who is maintaining this kind of 10 to 12 percent hold, even though he's declared he hasn't had the sort of takeoff that you want, neither has Kamala Harris.
00:33:43.000Neither of them are picking up significant steam at this point.
00:33:46.000Nonetheless, Beto is making his break with the Obama era as well.
00:34:00.000He only owns a blue shirt and jeans because he's a very down-to-earth millionaire who made a career out of being extremely rich from birth.
00:34:55.000At this point, there can be no shadow of a doubt that our own excesses and emissions and inaction politically and as a country and a democracy have led to the warming that we've seen so far, one degree Celsius just since 1980.
00:35:10.000And along this current trajectory, the fires, the droughts, the floods, the devastation that we are witnessing right now will only become profoundly worse.
00:35:21.000If we are going to confront any of these challenges, It's challenges to the economy, or a system of health care, or public education, or confronting climate change before it is too late within the 10 years that we have left to us to act.
00:35:35.000Then the single greatest mechanism that humankind has ever devised to call forth the power of the people, a democracy, must be fixed.
00:35:44.000Okay, first of all, the single greatest mechanism for calling forth the power of the people is not democracy, it's free markets.
00:36:05.000But beyond that, when Beto O'Rourke says things like, we only have 10 years to confront climate change, what he's implicitly doing is ripping the Obama administration.
00:36:12.000So again, there's this break between the new woke progressive left and the Obama era, which spells doom for Joe Biden.
00:36:18.000I mean, I think Joe Biden is a paper tiger of a candidate.
00:36:21.000I think he's got a real problem on his hands.
00:36:23.000Maybe there are some members of the older Democratic base who like him.
00:36:26.000That's not enough to help him survive as all fire is trained upon him.
00:36:30.000And you can see where everybody thinks the Democratic base is.
00:36:48.000But apparently, not only does he talk a lot about climate change, also, he is deeply concerned about implicit bias.
00:36:54.000Talking about climate, there are a bunch of people on the left who suggest that it is climate denial to point out that if we do not end all of the carbon emissions in the United States, if we do all that, it still won't end climate change.
00:37:09.000But it is not science denial to continue to promulgate myths like the idea that implicit bias is something that is easily measurable and also has an impact on our lives.
00:37:19.000Jay Inslee spouting a bunch of ascientific garbage in the name of, of course, wokeness.
00:37:24.000As long as some local official in a sort of non-enlightened area doesn't understand why implicit bias is a bad thing, we do in my state.
00:37:36.000In fact, I have my cabinet members take training in implicit bias because we believe in diversity in my state.
00:37:43.000But some of those places, they don't quite get it.
00:37:45.000And if they're in charge where the voting machines go, You know where those voting machines are going to go.
00:37:50.000They're not going to go in the black neighborhoods.
00:37:52.000We've got to make sure everybody can vote.
00:37:53.000We need a federal law that allows mail-in ballot.
00:37:55.000Now, there's some other things we've got to do, too.
00:37:57.000I do believe there's some reform we need.
00:37:59.000We need to end the electoral college so we can have popular vote in this country.
00:38:04.000Again, very funny to watch the entire Democratic Party also embrace an end to the Electoral College because obviously they are angry that Hillary Clinton lost.
00:38:34.000When Jesse Singel had a long piece a while ago, I believe it was at the New Yorker, talking about the problems with implicit bias assessment tests.
00:38:40.000The people who actually created those tests say that they are not usable for practical purposes.
00:38:45.000These are the tests that you will hear your college student come back with.
00:38:49.000Or if you're a college student, you've seen it in your classes.
00:38:52.000Where people say, OK, well, you're going to click a button on your computer every time you see a black face and a nice word.
00:38:59.000And people are slower to click when it's a black face and a nice word than they are when it's a white face and a nice word.
00:39:15.000You can take it twice and you can do better the second time than you can the first time.
00:39:18.000Well, when you are measuring an innate quality in a human being, that's not supposed to be the case.
00:39:23.000If I give you a test, if I give you a test, an IQ test, the point of an IQ test and its durability is that you can take it twice and you're not going to score any higher the second time than you did the first time.
00:39:46.000We are now moving into the realm of ghosts when it comes to pushing leftist policy.
00:39:51.000What I mean by that is that if you want to attribute everything in the United States, all disparities to discrimination, all you have to do is cite an unmeasurable force for that disparity, and then if people deny the unmeasurable force, then they are considered unwoke.
00:40:05.000So if I say, listen, you don't have any evidence that this disparity is caused by widespread discrimination, as opposed to, for example, bad decision-making that locates within a particular group, statistically, If I say that, that is considered unwoke.
00:40:18.000But if you say, white privilege is a thing, and so is implicit bias, And then I say, OK, your evidence, please.
00:40:25.000And then you present me with no evidence other than a bad test.
00:40:28.000And you say, if you don't believe in the test, you hate science.
00:40:29.000I mean, this is some pretty woke stuff.
00:40:32.000The Democratic Party nominees, the candidates, know where they think their bread is buttered.
00:40:37.000There's a wide open lane to the moderate left for the Democratic Party.
00:40:40.000Biden is the only one trying to fill it, and he'll be torn down forthwith.
00:40:44.000I mean, he'll be torn down incredibly quickly.
00:40:47.000OK, speaking of lack of moderation inside the Democratic Party, The fresh faces of the Democratic Party are running into a little bit of trouble.
00:40:54.000So AOC continues to run roughshod through the media.
00:40:57.000The media continue to prop her up as some sort of grand idea master.
00:41:00.000Now, I will acknowledge, I actually have a quick apology to make to AOC.
00:41:04.000Yesterday, I suggested that when she talked about regenerative agriculture, I didn't know that was a thing.
00:41:10.000There's some problems with regenerative agriculture as a solution to carbon emissions, namely that yields on regenerative agriculture, this is basically less tillage, Planting all sorts of diverse crops on top of a field instead of planting one type of crop.
00:41:25.000It dramatically lowers yields, but that is a thing.
00:41:28.000So I apologize for not knowing about that thing.
00:41:30.000But AOC doesn't know about any of the things.
00:41:53.000One, the reason that croissants at LaGuardia are expensive is because all of the companies there have a virtual monopoly because the government only allows a certain number of food shops there, and then they limit the ability to ship croissants into the airport.
00:42:05.000Second, the actual price of a croissant at LaGuardia Airport is $3.29.
00:42:09.000The Washington Free Beacon went and checked it out.
00:42:11.000Third, the minimum wage at LaGuardia Airport for this type of work is $19 an hour, not $15 an hour.
00:42:17.000And finally, when she suggests that if the croissants are $7, that we should be paying higher minimum wage, does she not understand that inputs determine price?
00:42:28.000That if you raise the price of labor, people are going to raise the price of the croissant?
00:42:31.000So the logic goes something like this.
00:42:32.000Man, this croissant is so expensive, $7.
00:42:34.000That's a lot of money for a croissant.
00:43:05.000You raise the price of inputs, you raise the price of the product.
00:43:08.000One of the reasons the croissants are as high-priced as they are is because of the price of labor inputs.
00:43:13.000Also, I love when people like AOC suggest that they know more than the entire market mechanism.
00:43:17.000I'd like to see AOC trace from beginning to end the production of the croissant and explain where all of the evil profit-making is happening.
00:43:24.000So AOC recognized that this was dumb and then she tweeted out, So basically, she is Trump.
00:44:14.000I mean, I've been told by the media that she is, in fact, a spokesperson for my generation, which is deeply devastating for my generation.
00:44:21.000Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar, another one of the fresh faces of the Democratic Party, has some troubles of her own.
00:44:25.000Apparently, Ilhan Omar is now facing a campaign finance probe that is not good for her.
00:44:30.000James Rosen from Sinclair investigating, quote, Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, the controversial freshman House Democrat, Aside, who is an anti-Semite, is soon to learn the results of a probe into her campaign spending as a state lawmaker in Minnesota, Sinclair has learned, with authorities there having recently completed their investigation and preparing to issue rulings in a pair of complaints Omar faces.
00:44:51.000The complaints were filed last year, while Omar cruised to election to the House of Representatives by a Republican state lawmaker, Representative Steit Drezkowski.
00:45:00.000In referring Omar to the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, Drezkowski alleged that Omar improperly spent close to $6,000 in campaign funds for personal use, including payments to her divorce attorney and for travel to Boston and Estonia.
00:45:12.000Drozdkowski's filing of the two complaints followed an earlier episode in which Omar repaid $2,500 for honoraria she received for speeches at colleges that received state funding, a violation of ethics rules for Minnesota lawmakers.
00:45:23.000I had long observed a pattern, Drozdkowski told Sinclair, Representative Omar hasn't followed the law.
00:45:28.000She's repeatedly trampled on the laws of the state in a variety of areas and gotten away with this.
00:45:32.000This follows on accusations against AOC that she too was messing around with her campaign financing so as to funnel money to her chief of staff who is running sort of anonymous LLC.
00:45:42.000Approached by Sinclair, Omar refused to answer any questions about the campaign finance allegations.
00:45:48.000The aide suggested Sinclair tried to schedule an interview instead.
00:45:51.000When Sinclair contacted her spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, for that purpose, he directed that the inquiry be rooted to his personal email account.
00:45:57.000An inquiry subsequently sent to that account produced no reply from Slevin.
00:46:01.000The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, following standard practice, declined to confirm or deny whether it has opened an investigation into the subject of any complaint.
00:46:10.000So sad, it looks like the swamp applies to a lot of the brand new, fresh faces of the Democratic Party.
00:46:17.000What's amazing is that if you look at the history of the Democratic Party, the most loved Democrats are the ones who were able to, at least in rhetoric, tack to the center.
00:46:27.000Bill Clinton was able to rhetorically tack to the center and play centrist, even though in his early policy he showed that he was very far to the left.
00:46:33.000Barack Obama was able to rhetorically sometimes tack to the center.
00:46:37.000Late in his administration, he stopped tacking to the center and he simply said what he felt, which was out-and-out hardcore leftism.
00:46:43.000But when he ran in 2008, he ran as a centrist, and he won a sweeping victory.
00:46:47.000Democrats, however, have basically forbidden that.
00:46:50.000They're embracing their id in response to Donald Trump.
00:46:53.000Donald Trump has basically driven them insane.
00:46:55.000And they believe that because Donald Trump is the id of the Republican Party, they need to now feed their own id.
00:47:01.000That's why I was asked by a reporter from Politico this morning why I've been complimentary toward Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend.
00:47:07.000I said, because I don't think that while we disagree on all policy, He doesn't seem angry at the country.
00:47:13.000He doesn't seem as though he is enraged at the state of politics.
00:47:16.000He seems as though he wants to have a rational conversation.
00:47:19.000The fact that that alone is a winning quality is being completely ignored by the Democratic Party right now, and instead they're embracing their angriest face.
00:47:27.000We'll see how that works out for them in future election cycles.
00:47:29.000I'm not sure it's going to work out as well as they think it will.
00:47:32.000Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:49:06.000And Equal Pay Day is apparently the day on which women apparently would have to continue working to earn the same income that men earned in 2018.
00:49:16.000So in other words, women would have to work all of last year and all the way up to April 2nd to earn the same pay that men earned in 2018.
00:49:21.000Now, this statistic is absolute sheer nonsense because it is just comparing the gross average pay, meaning they're just taking pay to women versus pay to men.
00:49:30.000It does not take into account hours worked.
00:49:31.000It doesn't take into account the kind of job.
00:49:33.000It doesn't take into account time off from the workforce.
00:49:36.000It doesn't take into account any of the things that make this calculation more complicated and that show that men and women are effectively being paid the same in the United States right now.
00:49:45.000And yet we continue to be... they continue to voice this nonsense on us.
00:49:49.000The National Committee on Pay Equity keeps publicizing equal payday as a thing.
00:49:54.000It is not, in fact, a statistical thing.
00:49:57.000Well, there is something else that ought to be taken into account if we're going to take into account all of this.
00:50:01.000That is, Equal Occupational Fatality Day.
00:50:04.000This was introduced by the American Enterprise Institute, and in particular, a person named Mark Perry.
00:50:11.000He talks about Equal Occupational Fatality Day.
00:50:13.000That was the day that men would have to, that men would have to work to, sorry, that women would have to work to.
00:50:20.000To have the same number of annual deaths on the worksite as men do.
00:50:27.000So, in other words, for all the deaths that men had in 2018 on the worksite, how far into the future would women have to work in order for them to achieve that number of deaths on the worksite, since we are just going to take gross aggregate statistics and not take into account the job choices?
00:50:43.000It tells us how many years and days into the future women will be able to continue to work before they will experience the same number of occupational fatalities that occurred for men in the previous year.
00:50:52.000Well, in 2017, 4,761 men died on the job.
00:50:53.000That is 92.5% of the total, compared to 386 women, 7.5% of the total.
00:50:55.000on the job that is 92.5 percent of the total compared to 386 women 7.5 percent of the total based on those data the next equal occupational fatality day will occur on may 30th 2030 so women will have to work all the way till may 2030 to symbolize how far into the future they will be able to continue working before they experience the same number of deaths that men experienced in 2017 17.
00:51:21.000And of course, it is true that the gender occupational fatality gap explains part of the gender earnings gap because a disproportionate number of men are taking high-pay, high-risk jobs like commercial fishing or logging or roofers or truck drivers or electric power line workers.
00:51:35.000Women far outnumber men in relatively low-risk industries, as pointed out by AEI, sometimes with lower pay to partially compensate for the safer, more comfortable indoor office environments in occupations like office and administrative support, where women constitute about 72% of the workforce, education, training, library occupations, and healthcare.
00:51:54.000The higher concentrations of men in riskier occupations with greater occurrences of workplace injuries and fatalities suggest that more men than women are willing to expose themselves to work-related injury or death in exchange for higher wages.
00:52:06.000The proponents of equal payday are promoting a statistical falsehood by suggesting that women working side-by-side with men in the same occupation for the same company are making something like 20% less than their male counterparts.
00:52:21.000By the way, it is also worth noting here that all of the attempts by the left to equal this out with things such as mandatory paid government Pregnancy leave.
00:52:34.000Attempts like this that allow this sort of thing actually put women on a lower track to management.
00:52:39.000We've seen this in the Nordic countries.
00:52:40.000More women are in management in places like the United States than are in management in places like Norway.
00:52:54.000So all the attempts to alleviate the problem of the supposed pay gap are actually exacerbated by government interventionism in these areas.
00:53:22.000My favorite thing is when people quote the Bible and miss all the places where God talks about, I have formed you in the womb and I knew you before you were born.
00:53:29.000You know, all of the areas where God talks about how he is not particularly in favor of killing in the womb.
00:53:34.000But we'll find a vague reverse in which even that doesn't back her.
00:53:37.000Even John 3.12 doesn't back Alyssa Milano.
00:53:39.000You know, one of those earthly things that God told us is that there are babies in the womb.
00:54:58.000I'm Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles Show.
00:55:00.000The left launches a crusade to murder innocent babies in Georgia while simultaneously trying to overturn the death penalty for rapists and murderers.
00:55:09.000We will examine the left's inverted judgment and the importance of good judges.