The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump's Imminent Arrest

00:00:00.000 Well, this week is the week there will be a mugshot, presumably of the former president of the United States, and we have stepped into brand new territory here in the United States, where former presidents and current leaders of the opposing political parties can now be indicted on the flimsiest of charges.

00:00:13.000 It used to be that everybody would be a little bit wary about all of this.

00:00:16.000 I remember all the way back to 2015, 2016, when Hillary Clinton was running for the presidency, and the very thought that Donald Trump would say things like, lock her up at rallies, got the media all abuzz.

00:00:26.000 How could he say such things?

00:00:28.000 Doesn't matter that Hillary likely actually committed a crime with regard to storing of confidential information on private servers.

00:00:34.000 None of that matter.

00:00:35.000 The very idea that he would even do this undermined the fundamental notions of democracy.

00:00:39.000 Now, the left, led by Alvin Bragg, the DA in Manhattan, they are celebrating because they are finally going to get their long awaited The mugshot of Donald Trump.

00:00:48.000 He is scheduled to turn himself in in New York as of Tuesday.

00:00:52.000 He's going to do that in the afternoon.

00:00:53.000 Apparently he's going to stay at Trump Tower the night before, and then he's going to immediately fly back to Mar-a-Lago, where he's going to give some sort of statement.

00:00:59.000 Honestly, I think that he probably should do a big rally immediately afterward.

00:01:03.000 He probably should have done a rally over the weekend, is the truth.

00:01:05.000 If he is running for president, then theoretically this is the time at which sympathy for him is highest.

00:01:09.000 And by the polling data, that is absolutely true.

00:01:11.000 He should have done a giant rally over the weekend.

00:01:14.000 He instead did not, according To the Washington Post, hours after a Manhattan grand jury voted Thursday afternoon to indict Donald Trump, the former president joined with his wife Melania, his in-laws, and conservative radio host Mark Levin on the patio of his private Mar-a-Lago club for a pre-planned dinner.

00:01:28.000 Advisors to his 2024 presidential bid sat nearby.

00:01:31.000 Trump chatted with both groups as well as club members offering their encouragement.

00:01:34.000 At one point, Trump showed off his soon-to-be-released book of letters between himself and celebrities and world leaders.

00:01:38.000 At another, he began calling congressional Republicans promising to fight the indictment and relishing their declarations of support.

00:01:44.000 Yet, in the immediate aftermath of the grand jury's decision related to hush money paid to an adult film star, Trump was not happy, said one person with direct knowledge of his reaction.

00:01:51.000 Others described Trump as upset, irritated, deflated, and shocked.

00:01:54.000 Some noted he also remained very calm and rather stoic.

00:01:56.000 Actually, this piece, by the way, is from Ashley Parker and Josh Dowsey, and their pieces have been, I'd say, generally quasi-accurate with regard to Trump's response to all of this.

00:02:06.000 There's no question.

00:02:07.000 That Trump himself is benefiting from this, politically speaking, at least inside the Republican Party.

00:02:12.000 The latest polls show Donald Trump jumping to a significant lead in the Republican primaries, according to the UK Independent and a Yahoo News YouGov poll of over a thousand adults.

00:02:22.000 Trump has dramatically widened his lead over potential other nominees like Governor Ron DeSantis, who's not formally jumped into the race right now.

00:02:29.000 Trump now leads DeSantis in that Yahoo News YouGov poll 57 to 31.

00:02:31.000 That is up from a 47 to 39 percent edge last month.

00:02:37.000 This is exactly the predictable result.

00:02:39.000 Again, when you generate enormous sympathy inside the Republican Party for Trump, he is likely to go up in the polls.

00:02:45.000 Trump is still trailing at the national level.

00:02:47.000 A plurality of Americans, according to ABC News Ipsos, believe that it is correct for the former president to have been charged with a crime in that Stormy Daniels hush money case that's 45%.

00:02:54.000 Again, The what this is likely to do politically is drive Trump forward toward the 2024 nomination and also hurt him in the general election.

00:03:04.000 It's hard to spot the voter who's probably going to say to himself, OK, well, I didn't vote for Trump last time.

00:03:09.000 Let's say I voted for him in 2016 and I shifted over in 2020 and I didn't vote for him or I voted for Joe Biden last time.

00:03:14.000 Well, now that he's been indicted, I'm shifting my vote back.

00:03:16.000 Once people settle on their notion of a particular candidate, the fact that he's being targeted unfairly is unlikely to shift them back into the category of the person who is being unfairly targeted.

00:03:26.000 We really have no precedent for this, obviously.

00:03:28.000 The counter argument is usually made by people who remember that Bill Clinton soared in terms of his public support in the immediate aftermath of the impeachment inquiry into him over Monica Lewinsky.

00:03:40.000 Okay, so what is going to happen next?

00:03:41.000 Well, Trump's attorney says he doesn't actually know how the arraignment is going to go.

00:03:45.000 What they tend to forget is that in 2000, Al Gore had run with that on his back, and he probably lost to George W. Bush in 2000 specifically because of Bill Clinton's personal issues.

00:03:54.000 So the notion that he's going to help Trump in a general election, I think is very sketchy.

00:03:57.000 The idea that he's going to benefit tremendously inside of a primary is undoubtedly true.

00:04:01.000 So what is going to happen next?

00:04:03.000 Well, Trump's attorney says he doesn't actually know how the arraignment is going to go.

00:04:07.000 Here's Trump's attorney, Joe Tacapino, over the weekend.

00:04:11.000 What should we expect to see on Tuesday exactly?

00:04:15.000 That's a great question, George.

00:04:17.000 This is unprecedented.

00:04:18.000 I don't know.

00:04:19.000 I've done a million arraignments in that courthouse with celebrities and whatnot, but this is a whole different thing.

00:04:24.000 We have Secret Service involved.

00:04:27.000 I understand they're closing the courthouse for the afternoon.

00:04:29.000 I just don't know what to expect to see.

00:04:33.000 What I hope is that we get in and out of there as quickly as possible, that it's at the end of the day a typical arraignment where we stand before the judge, we say not guilty, we set schedules to file motions and whatnot or discovery, and we move forward and get out of there.

00:04:49.000 Now, the truth is that we will probably get the most trafficked photo, perhaps in world history, on Tuesday.

00:04:56.000 Because if Donald Trump takes a mugshot, which he likely will do, if that happens, that's going to end up on every Republican shirt, it'll end up on every Democrat shirt, it'll be the exact same photo, just seen through two different prisms, because that's the story of American politics these days.

00:05:09.000 One thing is for sure, Alvin Bragg, who is the DA in Manhattan, a far-left radical, who is supported by Color of Change, which was in turn supported by George Soros, Alvin Bragg, the fact that he's going after Donald Trump on these extraordinarily flimsy charges, that is perfectly obvious.

00:05:25.000 I mean, right now, how bad is Alvin Bragg?

00:05:27.000 Alvin Bragg is so bad that he is currently attempting to prosecute a Manhattan parking garage worker who was hit with an attempted murder at because he shot an armed would-be thief.

00:05:38.000 And he was actually handcuffed to his bed.

00:05:40.000 That's the kind of person that Alvin Bragg goes after.

00:05:42.000 Not after thieves, not after murderers, after people who defend themselves.

00:05:45.000 So, you know, could he get a conviction on the basis that Donald Trump is unpopular in New York?

00:05:49.000 He certainly could.

00:05:50.000 Is this good for America?

00:05:51.000 Very hard to say that it is.

00:05:52.000 And by the way, there's even some bipartisan support for the idea that this is bad for America.

00:05:56.000 Forget about how it affects Trump in a general election.

00:05:59.000 Joe Manchin, for example, was out there saying, I have some serious reservations about all of this.

00:06:02.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

00:06:04.000 First, Right now, you're looking at how you can cut costs in your life because the fact is that inflation is up.

00:06:10.000 Those interest rates are up.

00:06:12.000 So if you're looking at those monthly bills, you're trying to figure out how you can save money, one of the easiest places to start is with your cell phone bill.

00:06:17.000 You've heard me talk a lot about supporting companies that actually don't hate your guts.

00:06:20.000 This is one of the reasons I am a Pure Talk customer and you should be as well.

00:06:23.000 Switch right now in as little as 10 minutes at puretalk.com, enter promo code SHAPIRO, save 50% off your very first month of coverage.

00:06:29.000 You can choose from a variety of unlimited talk and text plans with plenty of high-speed data, all backed by a 100% money-back guarantee.

00:06:34.000 Pure Talk saves the average family over $900 a year.

00:06:37.000 There's no contract, no hidden fees, no hassle.

00:06:39.000 You can even keep your phone number.

00:06:40.000 Head on over to puretalk.com, enter promo code SHAPIRO, save 50% off your very first month of coverage.

00:06:45.000 Again, that's puretalk.com, promo code SHAPIRO.

00:06:48.000 Pure Talk is simply smarter wireless.

00:06:49.000 There's a reason I shifted all my business calls over to Pure Talk.

00:06:52.000 The coverage is excellent.

00:06:53.000 They use one of the same tower networks as one of the big guys.

00:06:55.000 Go check them out right now.

00:06:56.000 Puretalk.com.

00:06:57.000 Enter promo code Shapiro.

00:06:58.000 Save 50% off your first month.

00:06:59.000 Restrictions apply.

00:07:00.000 See site for details.

00:07:01.000 Again, that's puretalk.com.

00:07:03.000 Promo code Shapiro.

00:07:04.000 Save 50% off your first month and hundreds of dollars the rest of the year.

00:07:07.000 Alrighty, so even some Democrats like Joe Manchin are a little bit are a little bit tepid about this whole indictment issue.

00:07:14.000 Here's Joe Manchin talking about over the weekend.

00:07:17.000 We'll leave that there, but I want to get a quick reaction from you about President Trump's indictment.

00:07:22.000 Sure.

00:07:23.000 It's just a very, very sad day for America.

00:07:25.000 Very sad day.

00:07:26.000 Especially when people are maybe believing that the rule of law or justice is not working the way it's supposed to and it's biased.

00:07:34.000 We can't have that.

00:07:35.000 You know, Abraham Lincoln said, a house divided cannot stand.

00:07:38.000 And we can't not divide our country.

00:07:40.000 But on the other hand, no one's above the law.

00:07:44.000 But no one should be targeted by the law.

00:07:46.000 So let's wait and see what comes out next week.

00:07:48.000 I pray that what they come out and whatever comes out, that they have done a thorough examination and done a thorough job as far as showing that the rule of law does work for all of us.

00:08:00.000 Well, Bill Cassidy, the senator from Louisiana, who actually voted in favor of the last Trump impeachment, he too is expressing his reservations over all of this over the weekend.

00:08:08.000 Well, no one should be above the law, but no one should be a target of the law.

00:08:12.000 As Bill Barr has said, this is less about the crime and more about the target.

00:08:17.000 So it has to play out.

00:08:20.000 This is kind of set in motion.

00:08:22.000 But on the other hand, what I think is the particular problem is it's going to lead to all kinds of political theater.

00:08:28.000 theater that is going to distract from addressing the issues that are incredibly important to our country right now that are not about just one person or about somebody running for re-election as a DA in New York, but rather about the future of our country, whether it's social security, inflation, crime on the streets, and unfortunately the theater will distract from that discussion.

00:08:49.000 Well, I mean, all of the discussions will be distracted from no matter what going forward.

00:08:55.000 Nancy Pelosi put out an all time insanely stupid tweet over the weekend in the aftermath of the announcement of the indictment.

00:09:01.000 Pelosi said, quote, The grand jury has acted upon the facts and the law.

00:09:05.000 No one is above the law.

00:09:06.000 Everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence.

00:09:09.000 Hopefully, the former president will peacefully respect the system which grants him that right.

00:09:13.000 You may notice that this is a complete failure to understand criminal law in the United States.

00:09:16.000 A trial is not to prove innocence.

00:09:18.000 It is to establish guilt.

00:09:19.000 You are innocent until proven guilty.

00:09:21.000 According to Nancy Pelosi, if you are the former president of the United States, you have to actually prove your own innocence.

00:09:26.000 That is the only way for you to move forward in life.

00:09:29.000 Meanwhile, Stormy Daniels, who It is amazing how Stormy Daniels has become a hero of the resistance for legitimately screwing, according to her, screwing a married man and then shaking him down for money.

00:09:41.000 This makes her a hero of the resistance.

00:09:44.000 Here she was over the weekend talking about how she's willing to testify.

00:09:46.000 Well, I'm sure she is.

00:09:47.000 I mean, she'd love nothing better than to be able to charge a little bit more for her striptease routine.

00:09:52.000 I had a Zoom call with, you know, the prosecutors and told them what I did and made it clear that I was willing to go on the stand and tell my story if they needed me.

00:10:03.000 But at this very moment in time, I have not officially been called.

00:10:06.000 It looked like I was going to be called two Fridays ago, and then it changed.

00:10:12.000 So it changes by the minute.

00:10:15.000 Justice and power is not exempt from the law.

00:10:18.000 No matter what your job is or your bank account says that you're held accountable for the things you've done and said and justice is served.

00:10:30.000 Well, I mean, if we're talking about the most honest and trustworthy people, Stormy Daniels, former porn star who is screwing a married man and then shaking him down for cash repeatedly, actually, over the course of years.

00:10:39.000 Those are your witnesses, like Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, a convicted perjurer.

00:10:42.000 So, yeah, things are going great for the prosecution.

00:10:45.000 Now, it may not matter.

00:10:46.000 Here's the truth.

00:10:47.000 The judge probably should throw this out even before it gets to trial.

00:10:51.000 What we have seen so far is representative of the underlying case that the grand jury has seen.

00:10:56.000 There is not enough evidence for this thing to go to trial because it's an untested legal theory and everybody knows it.

00:11:01.000 Even Cyrus Vance, right?

00:11:02.000 Cyrus Vance is the former Manhattan DA.

00:11:05.000 Cyrus Vance is very anti-Trump.

00:11:07.000 He had wanted to indict Trump really badly because it would have made him famous.

00:11:11.000 And even Cyrus Vance, he's asked over the weekend, so what's the deal?

00:11:14.000 Why didn't you actually indict Donald Trump?

00:11:16.000 You saw the exact same evidence that Alvin Bragg is seeing right now.

00:11:19.000 Chuck Todd asked him, so why didn't you do it?

00:11:21.000 And he's like, well, I mean, it is kind of a novel theory that you can tie a state misdemeanor to a federal campaign violation that was not prosecuted by the federal government.

00:11:30.000 One will be claiming that the novel legal theory, meaning this first legal theory that Alvin Bragg's going to be using to make a felony in state law, whether that is applicable here.

00:11:44.000 There's the issue of Michael Cohen's testimony and there's the issue of the statute of limitations.

00:11:48.000 As a, if you were the prosecutor, which one of those three hurdles would you see to be the highest?

00:11:56.000 Well, I think this is obviously a case of great consequence and a case that's never happened before.

00:12:05.000 It's novel in and of itself.

00:12:07.000 I think there's, I think if I'm guessing about the president's strategy, and it's only a guess, and he'll have excellent lawyers, is that they will take a run at the law first, perhaps on the question of whether or not the misdemeanors can be elevated.

00:12:23.000 That's probably more a question of law than a question of fact.

00:12:28.000 Okay, so if that's a question of law, then it's going to be up to the judge.

00:12:31.000 And this is going to be a major issue for the judge.

00:12:33.000 The judge basically is going to have two major issues on his plate at the very beginning of this trial.

00:12:36.000 One is, should this even go forward?

00:12:38.000 And two is going to be, do you televise it?

00:12:39.000 A lot of people are calling for the televising of it specifically because on the left, they don't want Trump to dissimulate about what exactly is going on inside the courtroom.

00:12:47.000 On the right, because you don't want the press to dissimulate about what's going on inside the courtroom.

00:12:51.000 We'll get to questions about the judge in just one moment first.

00:12:54.000 When you're running a business, your employees can create all kinds of fascinating and terrifying situations.

00:12:59.000 You don't think about HR a lot when you first start a business because you're more worried about, you know, providing goods and services to people.

00:13:04.000 But then you get a little ways in, you got some employees and HR problems crop up.

00:13:07.000 If you haven't actually gotten your HR in order, it can be a massive Liability hole for you.

00:13:12.000 This is why you should go to Bambi right now.

00:13:14.000 Bambi gives you access to your own dedicated HR manager.

00:13:16.000 This person is available to you by phone, email, and real-time chat.

00:13:19.000 They'll help you run employee onboarding, terminations, and performance reviews.

00:13:23.000 With Bambi's HR autopilot feature, you can automate important HR practices like setting policies, employee training, and feedback procedures.

00:13:29.000 All of Bambi's HR managers are based right here in the United States and can support the nuances across all 50 states.

00:13:34.000 HR managers, they can easily cost 80 grand a year.

00:13:36.000 Bambi starts at 99 bucks a month, so you're saving a lot of money and you're covering yourself against the possibility of serious liability if you don't do it.

00:13:43.000 Schedule your free conversation today.

00:13:44.000 See how much Bambi can take off your plate.

00:13:45.000 Go to Bambi.com right now.

00:13:47.000 Type Ben Shapiro under podcast when you sign up.

00:13:49.000 Spell B-A-M-B-E-E dot com.

00:13:51.000 That's Bambi dot com.

00:13:52.000 Type in Ben Shapiro right now under podcast when you sign up.

00:13:57.000 All right, so.

00:13:58.000 The judge is going to have a couple of major questions on his docket.

00:14:01.000 One is, as Cyrus Vance, Manhattan DA put it, is this even sufficient to support a case?

00:14:05.000 There will be a motion to dismiss immediately from Trump's defense team saying you've not even alleged a full crime considering that there is no tested legal theory whereby state falsification of business records, a misdemeanor, gets elevated into a felony because it's falsification of business records about a campaign finance issue that was not prosecuted at the federal government level and there is no prosecution pending at the federal government level.

00:14:27.000 The judge is a person named Juan Merchan.

00:14:30.000 He's been on the New York bench for 16 years.

00:14:32.000 And Trump is immediately leaping into attacking the judge, which, by the way, is an incredibly stupid strategy.

00:14:37.000 I mean, let me just make clear that when it comes to being a lawyer, I've done a little bit of lawyering.

00:14:43.000 I obviously went to Harvard Law and then I served as a lawyer for a couple of, I was at a law firm for about a year, and then I worked as a lawyer for Talk Radio Network, which is a major radio syndicator.

00:14:52.000 Hey, rule number one, don't attack the judge if you're if you're a lawyer or the lawyer's client.

00:14:57.000 Rule number two, if you're the client, shut up.

00:15:00.000 Seriously, shut up.

00:15:01.000 Now, it's one thing for Trump to go out and fulminate about how the case against him is unfair, considering that, again, he's in the middle of a political campaign and he is, in fact, being politically targeted from all available evidence.

00:15:11.000 Understood.

00:15:12.000 Don't attack the judge.

00:15:13.000 That is a huge mistake.

00:15:15.000 And Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopino, is basically saying that, right?

00:15:19.000 He was attempting to walk that back.

00:15:21.000 There is no worse job on planet Earth than being Trump's lawyer.

00:15:24.000 It's a very, very difficult job.

00:15:26.000 Because again, if you're a lawyer, what you want is for your client to do what you tell your client to do.

00:15:31.000 No one has ever told Donald Trump what to do.

00:15:33.000 So here is Joe Tacopino trying to walk back.

00:15:35.000 Donald Trump went on truth social and started ripping into the judge.

00:15:39.000 He said the judge assigned to my witch hunt case, a case that has never been charged before, hates me. So here is Trump's lawyer trying to walk that one back.

00:15:48.000 Will you ask for a different judge?

00:15:51.000 Well I just said, we have to get the indictment and then we will evaluate every single legal maneuver.

00:15:56.000 You know, I have no issue with this judge whatsoever.

00:15:58.000 Well, your client does.

00:15:59.000 He says that he's... He has a very good reputation.

00:16:02.000 Well, my client has a right to have an issue with everything.

00:16:05.000 He's been politically persecuted.

00:16:06.000 Make no mistake about that, Dana.

00:16:08.000 Whether you're on the right or the left, or you're a supporter or detractor of Donald Trump, this should really bother you.

00:16:14.000 This should really shake the core of what we believe our justice system should be about.

00:16:19.000 It should not be weaponized to go after political opponents.

00:16:21.000 So you don't believe this judge is biased?

00:16:23.000 Because he's the victim.

00:16:25.000 I have no reason to believe this judge is biased.

00:16:27.000 I've not been before him on this matter.

00:16:31.000 Okay, so Trump's lawyer happens to be taking the right tack here, which is you get to say whatever you want if you are the defendant in this case about the nature of the case itself.

00:16:38.000 But attacking the judge, that's not a particularly smart strategy.

00:16:40.000 Now, Trump does have some history with the judge, not Trump personally, but Trump world has some history with the judge.

00:16:45.000 This judge oversaw the grand jury that indicted The Trump companies, right?

00:16:49.000 He presided over the Allen Weisselberg case.

00:16:51.000 That was Trump's longtime former chief financial officer who ended up pleading guilty to his role in a tax fraud scheme.

00:16:56.000 He got five months in jail and Trump's companies were fined about 1.6 million dollars.

00:17:01.000 He was also assigned a criminal case against Steve Bannon with regard to Bannon supposedly and allegedly cheating people out of money to build a fake border wall.

00:17:09.000 So Merchant has been involved with Trump world before.

00:17:14.000 Regardless of all of that, and regardless of whatever he thinks about Trump world, he's going to have to establish why exactly this novel legal theory should even be brought to court.

00:17:21.000 And I can't imagine anything more damaging to Democrats at this point than if Trump's case gets dismissed by the judge.

00:17:27.000 Let's say the judge looks at this and he says, listen, there just is nothing here.

00:17:31.000 How exactly do Democrats respond to that, considering they've been all in on the Trump is a criminal routine for quite a while?

00:17:36.000 Now, there's still a bunch of other pending cases against Donald Trump.

00:17:39.000 All the focus right now Is on this Manhattan case because, again, the world is going to get the mugshot that it has long desired.

00:17:46.000 And when I say the world, I really mean like the whole world.

00:17:49.000 There's a group of people in America who are like, you know what?

00:17:50.000 It's just kind of a bad idea to indict former presidents and leaders of the opposing political party, because if you wish for some level of comedy inside American democracy, you shouldn't go after political opponents with the tools of law enforcement as a general rule.

00:18:02.000 There are those of us who believe that.

00:18:03.000 And then there are a group of people who are like, well, actually, it's going to be real good for Trump if he gets indicted because it demonstrates how corrupt the system is.

00:18:09.000 And so we'll be wearing around the T-shirt with Trump's picture on it to show the injustice of the American system.

00:18:13.000 And on the left, we'll be wearing around the picture, same exact picture of Trump, his mugshot, in order to demonstrate that the Republican Party is corrupt and evil.

00:18:21.000 It's fun and games for everyone except for, you know, the normal American voter who would actually like politics to go back to being the business of how you run government in a country of 340 million people.

00:18:33.000 But this is not the only case that is facing Trump.

00:18:35.000 As Reuters points out, there's still a couple of federal cases.

00:18:41.000 That are pending here.

00:18:42.000 One is on the possible obstruction of justice by Trump in the classified documents probe.

00:18:46.000 Now again, the kind of common assumption here has been a DOJ may not go forward with that particular case specifically because it turns out that everybody in American government apparently has classified documents at their house.

00:18:56.000 Trump is distinguished, you could theoretically say, legally speaking, because did he tell people to lie about the classified documents as opposed to, say, Joe Biden?

00:19:03.000 But again, I think that's going to be a very flimsy read for the DOJ to stand on.

00:19:07.000 The other case is, of course, the January 6th case, the attempt to charge Trump with some level of incitement or insurrection or something along those lines.

00:19:16.000 Again, I think it's a difficult case too.

00:19:17.000 And there's still a Georgia pending case that is the one suggesting that Trump obstructed justice or involved himself in crimes in order to pressure the state of Georgia to change its final vote tally and certification back in 2020.

00:19:30.000 All those cases are still pending.

00:19:31.000 My feeling is that now that the glass has been broken, the likelihood that more of those cases are going to be filed has now gone up.

00:19:37.000 Now, again, as we've been saying, the political consequences for Trump are actually pretty good inside the Republican Party.

00:19:43.000 If you're just Team Trump and you're like, we need him to win the nomination, you're not all that upset about all of this happening right now because it makes Trump the center of the political universe once again.

00:19:52.000 And if he's the center of the Republican political universe, the high likelihood is that he will earn the nomination.

00:19:56.000 That was helped this weekend by the fact that the only other candidates who have jumped in at this point, Nikki Haley, right, who's been in for a couple of months at this point, she's now been accompanied by Asa Hutchinson.

00:20:07.000 Yeah, man, you want to drive people into Trump's camp?

00:20:09.000 Run Asa Hutchinson, the former Arkansas governor, into that in a moment first.

00:20:14.000 Really important thing you can do for yourself, for your family, this coming year.

00:20:19.000 Preserve all those family memories.

00:20:19.000 Really important.

00:20:20.000 So you go out into your garage and what you will see is a bunch of old VHS tapes.

00:20:25.000 Do you even have a VCR anymore?

00:20:26.000 No one has a VCR anymore.

00:20:27.000 You see a bunch of old film reels from your parents.

00:20:29.000 That stuff has been moldering in the garage for a while and over time it degrades.

00:20:32.000 What if you could preserve that stuff forever?

00:20:34.000 I've done this for my parents several times with Legacy Box.

00:20:36.000 I've done it for myself also with Legacy Box.

00:20:38.000 Legacy Box does an amazing job.

00:20:40.000 Your family's special moments, if they were captured on analog media like those film reels or the tapes, those are in danger.

00:20:45.000 You can't just keep them indefinitely in an attic or a basement and expect them to survive the test of time.

00:20:49.000 Instead, head on over to Legacybox.

00:20:51.000 It's a simple, safe way to digitize your treasured videotapes, film reels, and photos.

00:20:54.000 Everything is It's professionally digitized right here in the United States.

00:20:57.000 Just send in your old media.

00:20:58.000 Their team will send back everything digitized so you can share it on social media for your family and friends.

00:21:02.000 Over a million people have trusted Legacy Box to preserve their memories.

00:21:05.000 So should you.

00:21:05.000 Legacy Box right now is offering my listeners an incredible $9 tape offer that's over 60% off.

00:21:10.000 Visit LegacyBox.com slash Shapiro.

00:21:12.000 Shop nine buck tapes and film transfers, a limited quantity available.

00:21:15.000 They are selling fast.

00:21:16.000 LegacyBox.com slash Shapiro.

00:21:18.000 There's never been a better time to convert your entire collection.

00:21:20.000 Okay.

00:21:21.000 So Asa Hutchinson over the weekend, apparently in an attempt to make Trump's race even easier, decided to announce that he was going to run for president.

00:21:27.000 Where was the giant upswell for Asa Hutchinson, the former Arkansas governor who is mostly famous for being rather hawkish with regard to, say, masking in the state of Arkansas and being rather dovish with regards to the left-wing social agenda?

00:21:40.000 Where are the Republicans who are like, man, we need some Asa Hutchinson in this race.

00:21:44.000 The delusional nature of our politicians is just beyond compare.

00:21:47.000 It truly is amazing.

00:21:49.000 Having spent, unfortunately for me, an inordinate amount of time with politicians, let me just tell you, at least 82.7% of them think they will be president at one point, and they are nearly all of them delusional.

00:21:59.000 Virtually none of them have a serious shot at the presidency.

00:22:02.000 But they believe, since they were five years old, that they will be president of the United States.

00:22:05.000 And so it doesn't matter if there is no crowd for them.

00:22:07.000 It doesn't matter if there is no demand for them to run.

00:22:09.000 They know deep in their hearts that there is a shot.

00:22:12.000 No, there isn't, Asa Hutchinson.

00:22:13.000 No, there isn't.

00:22:14.000 I'm sorry.

00:22:15.000 All you're doing is continuing to split the vote for all the people who are not going to vote for Trump into a bunch of fragmentary camps.

00:22:21.000 I'm not going to say that Hutchinson has a real shot at winning more than his immediate family, because he really doesn't.

00:22:26.000 But what he will do is presumably provide the media with the fodder to attack the Republican base once again, because this is the media's favorite game with regard to Trump.

00:22:36.000 If you consider Trump in a primary, if you even consider Trump, or if you look at somebody who's not Trump in a primary, and that person is not Asa Hutchinson, he will become the best Republican in the race according to the media, Asa Hutchinson.

00:22:46.000 He will be the media's favorite Republican.

00:22:48.000 Larry Hogan considered it for Maryland.

00:22:50.000 There's some talk that Chris Sununu from New Hampshire might become the media's favorite Republican in this race.

00:22:53.000 Well, now we know who it's going to be.

00:22:54.000 It's going to be Asa Hutchinson, who announced this, by the way.

00:22:56.000 There's nothing more tin-eared and tone-deaf than announcing a Republican presidential run on ABC's This Week, a show that no Republican watches because it is a highly biased left-wing show.

00:23:08.000 Anyway, here is Asa Hutchinson.

00:23:11.000 When I spoke to you earlier this year, you said you were thinking about running for president.

00:23:14.000 Have you made a decision?

00:23:15.000 Are you running?

00:23:16.000 I have made a decision, and my decision is I'm going to run for President of the United States.

00:23:21.000 While the formal announcement will be later in April in Bentonville, I wanted to make clear that to you, Jonathan, I am going to be running.

00:23:30.000 And the reason, as I've traveled the country for six months, I hear people talk about the leadership of our country, and I'm convinced that people want leaders that appeal to the best of America and not simply appeal to our worst instincts.

00:23:46.000 Yeah, the answer is no.

00:23:47.000 Somebody who seems to be a little bit wiser about this is Senator Tim Scott.

00:23:51.000 So there are some people behind the scenes who are questioning whether Tim Scott ought to be running from South Carolina.

00:23:56.000 My answer is probably not.

00:23:57.000 It doesn't seem like Tim Scott's time again.

00:23:59.000 I'm not seeing where's the wild upsurge in enthusiasm for the Tim Scott candidacy.

00:24:03.000 The reality is that what would be best for the Republican Party at this point and best for conservative voters would be a simple binary choice between Donald Trump and say, Governor Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump and literally Any of the other mainstream Republican candidates, because then you get your choice.

00:24:17.000 I don't think what anybody wants inside the Republican Party is somebody walking away with the nomination winning 35% of the vote.

00:24:17.000 Then you get your choice.

00:24:22.000 I don't think that would be good for the Republican Party.

00:24:24.000 It would also allow the media to, again, play this ridiculous game where if Trump walks away with the nomination with 35% of the vote, this means that you supported every single thing about Trump, which is the game they've been playing since literally he got the nomination in 2016 and they doubled down on that game after January 6th.

00:24:41.000 And in an attempt, however, to push Trump to the presidential nomination, there's one group above all in the United States who deeply desires that Donald Trump be the nominee.

00:24:51.000 And that, of course, are the members of the mainstream media.

00:24:52.000 They want it so bad they can taste it.

00:24:54.000 They love this idea.

00:24:55.000 They love it because, again, they think that Trump is eminently beatable and in general.

00:24:58.000 Now, they may be totally wrong.

00:24:59.000 It may be that they get exactly what they are wishing for, that Trump gets the nomination, and then he pulls a rabbit out of the hat again and ends up president of the United States, and you just have the endless Meme of the screaming lady from 2016 in the streets.

00:25:14.000 Which I will admit, on a sort of karmic level, would be delicious.

00:25:18.000 But it's clear where the media are putting all of their sort of eggs right now.

00:25:22.000 And their eggs are all in the Trump basket.

00:25:24.000 Anybody who tells you the media are rooting against Trump in the primaries is lying to you.

00:25:27.000 The media want him to get the nomination.

00:25:27.000 It is not true.

00:25:29.000 They're desperate for him to get the nomination, which presumably is why over the weekend, CNN trotted out Aaron Burnett and Daniel Dale, who's been MIA.

00:25:37.000 Daniel Dale, actually, I'm glad to see that he's alive still.

00:25:40.000 He's basically been missing in action since the Trump administration ended.

00:25:42.000 He was the famous fact checker who would go on the air and then he would, in meticulous detail, treat everything that Donald Trump with absolute literal seriousness.

00:25:51.000 And then when it came to the Democrats, who just ignore it.

00:25:53.000 So when Biden became president, then they stashed Daniel Dale in witness protection.

00:25:57.000 He just went away for a couple of years.

00:25:59.000 Well, now he's back and he's back this time to critique Ron DeSantis.

00:26:02.000 Why?

00:26:02.000 Because DeSantis, over the weekend, he slammed this Soros-backed DA.

00:26:07.000 And there may be no issue that's caused crime to spiral more out of control in certain cities such as Philadelphia than the election of progressive prosecutors funded by people like George Soros.

00:26:12.000 Trump because they want Donald Trump to be the nominee.

00:26:16.000 And there may be no issue that's caused crime to spiral more out of control in certain cities such as Philadelphia than the election of progressive prosecutors funded by people like George Soros. And now you have this Manhattan district attorney who his whole platform when he got elected was that he was going to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanors.

00:26:43.000 He was going to keep as many people out of jail, even habitual criminals, as possible.

00:26:48.000 And he was going to go light on all these things as part of, quote, criminal justice reform.

00:26:53.000 So that's his posture.

00:26:55.000 He doesn't want to charge people with felonies.

00:26:57.000 So now he turns around, purely for political purposes, ...and indicts a former president on misdemeanor offenses that they're straining to try to convert into felonies.

00:27:09.000 Okay, so that was DeSantis' take, but he mentioned George Soros.

00:27:15.000 So the left's take is that if you mention George Soros in the context of a thing George Soros actually does, supporting progressive prosecutors, this means you're anti-Semitic.

00:27:22.000 Okay, as the official Jew, let me just tell you that's bullshit.

00:27:25.000 That's insane.

00:27:26.000 That's ridiculous, okay?

00:27:27.000 George Soros is a very far-left person who spends literally tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, in order to promote far-left causes.

00:27:36.000 And this has been true for progressive DAs across the country.

00:27:38.000 He wrote an entire op-ed in the Wall Street Journal talking about why he supports progressive prosecutors.

00:27:42.000 But according to CNN, you're not allowed to mention George Soros' name in context of Alvin Bragg, lest you be labeled an anti-Semite.

00:27:48.000 I definitely want to hear this from Daniel Dale and Aaron Burnett.

00:27:52.000 Soros obviously very controversial among Republicans and it often does, Daniel, boil down to a very thinly veiled attack on his religion.

00:28:00.000 Yeah, so there's a centuries-old anti-Semitic trope, Aaron, about sinister Jewish puppet masters somehow orchestrating U.S.

00:28:07.000 and international events with their cash.

00:28:09.000 And attacks on Soros are often either explicitly anti-Semitic attacks or dog-whistle attacks invoking that trope.

00:28:16.000 Oren Siegel, an executive at the Anti-Defamation League, which works to combat anti-Semitism, told me today that the Trump campaign's own fundraising emails about Bragg have, quote, increasingly promoted potentially problematic language This is so ridiculous.

00:28:39.000 The entire left called Sheldon Adelson a puppet master.

00:28:42.000 The entire left suggested that Sheldon Adelson's money was controlling the Republican Party.

00:28:45.000 I didn't hear any of this Daniel Dale nonsense about how it's anti-Semitism to point out that major Democratic donors are major Democratic donors.

00:28:52.000 Has anybody mentioned George Soros' religion?

00:28:54.000 By the way, George Soros, in terms of practice, about as Jewish as a ham sandwich.

00:28:58.000 Like this is not a practicing Jew in any serious way, George Soros.

00:29:02.000 So this notion that like all Jews are being labeled because George Soros spends a lot of money on far left causes is totally crazy.

00:29:09.000 But again, the idea here has nothing to do with George Soros.

00:29:11.000 The idea here is that if you are Ron DeSantis or if you are anybody who's not Trump, all the focus is now going to be from media on Trump's opponents because they desperately want to see him as the nominee.

00:29:20.000 Now, all of this, you know, all of these sort of political fights over Trump versus not Trump and all this, All of this is ignoring a central battle in the United States, which is the culture war.

00:29:30.000 I understand that everybody in the media wants to pretend the culture war is not important.

00:29:32.000 The culture war is the most important thing.

00:29:34.000 Because you cannot have a functioning country built on top of a completely broken culture.

00:29:34.000 Why?

00:29:38.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:29:39.000 You can't have a functioning nation that is built entirely on the roots of a culture that has been shattered.

00:29:44.000 When the foundation's been shattered, there ain't nothing left to have elections over.

00:29:47.000 And what we are watching right now is the continual shattering of that culture, exacerbated by the Biden administration.

00:29:51.000 We'll get to that.

00:29:52.000 Momentarily first, as Jews in Ukraine are celebrating Passover once again.

00:29:55.000 Passover begins a little bit later this week.

00:29:57.000 The threat of war is still a reality.

00:29:59.000 Many are elderly Jews and Holocaust survivors who fled their homes and now find themselves seeking a place to live without food, without water, in desperate need of life's basic necessities.

00:30:07.000 The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has been in Ukraine every day since the war began.

00:30:11.000 The fellowship's partners and volunteers are on the ground right now.

00:30:13.000 They need help to reach even more Jewish lives with life-saving food.

00:30:16.000 Even today, the need for Passover meals has reached levels they haven't seen before.

00:30:20.000 They're helping elderly Jews in harm's way in Ukraine.

00:30:21.000 They're also caring for orphaned children, families, Holocaust survivors living in extreme poverty throughout Israel and the former Soviet Union.

00:30:28.000 There's a lot you can do right now.

00:30:29.000 It gives you just $25.

00:30:30.000 You'll help provide one recipient with a Passover food box filled with matzah and other special Seder foods.

00:30:34.000 Plus, today, they have a special matching challenge opportunity.

00:30:37.000 Your gift will double in impact.

00:30:38.000 So there's urgency because Passover is about to start, but also there's a matching program.

00:30:42.000 So whatever you give, is essentially doubled.

00:30:44.000 Go to benforthefellowship.org or call 800-331-3737 to make a gift of just 25 bucks to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews to help rush a Passover food box.

00:30:53.000 That's benforthefellowship.org or call 800-331-3737 to rush that Passover food box today.

00:30:59.000 Also, folks, you've heard me talk about Jeremy's Razors, our answer to the woke companies that hate your values but will gladly take your cash.

00:31:05.000 I'm here to remind you, we are more than just a razor company.

00:31:07.000 We have a great line of men's staples.

00:31:10.000 Let me show these to you.

00:31:14.000 Behold!

00:31:15.000 We're talking about hair, body, skin care.

00:31:18.000 Yes, beard care.

00:31:20.000 I've got the hair and body line with me right now.

00:31:23.000 These are great products.

00:31:24.000 And they're like high quality and also they don't insult you.

00:31:27.000 They don't make you feel like you're garbage just for being a normal human being.

00:31:30.000 They have the Tea Tree, an argan oil-infused shampoo and conditioner.

00:31:33.000 They got the exfoliating charcoal body wash.

00:31:34.000 They will keep your hair, body, and conscience clean.

00:31:34.000 They smell great.

00:31:36.000 You won't be giving your money to companies that think you are toxic.

00:31:39.000 They're also 100% sulfate-free, paraben-free, woke-free.

00:31:42.000 They're made right here in the United States of America.

00:31:43.000 Head on over to jeremysrazors.com.

00:31:45.000 Kick woke companies out of your bathroom today.

00:31:49.000 Well, when we speak of a broken culture, case 1, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1Z, the main case when you look to the brokenness of American culture and Western culture is the fact that we can no longer define the words men and women.

00:32:03.000 And our corporate sponsors, corporate people, the corporate businesses out there, they have fully bought in to this line.

00:32:09.000 I don't know what the marketing strategy is here.

00:32:11.000 I honest to God don't know.

00:32:14.000 Is there really a belief inside the halls of power at Bud Light, at Anheuser-Busch, That the people who drink Bud Light on a regular basis are very warm toward people like Dylan Mulvaney, men who pretend that they are women.

00:32:28.000 Apparently, that is the logic.

00:32:29.000 Because, again, the whole idea here is that you must have skin in the game.

00:32:34.000 If you are on the left, you must have skin in the game.

00:32:36.000 And the way you demonstrate you have skin in the game is by praising nonsense like this.

00:32:39.000 You have to demonstrate like the crazier the thing you believe, the more you demonstrate that you have real fealty to the insane left-wing radical ideology.

00:32:49.000 And so they'll just cram this down.

00:32:50.000 Corporate America will cram this down.

00:32:52.000 The White House will cram this crap down.

00:32:55.000 This would be a massive opening for a normal sane Republican Party.

00:32:58.000 We'll see if the Republican Party can gain any semblance of normality and sanity before the 2024 election.

00:33:03.000 But, you know, these are real issues in the United States.

00:33:08.000 And again, the game reflects to play is they do something truly offensive to logic.

00:33:13.000 And then they say, how dare you notice that we're doing this thing?

00:33:16.000 But this is a thing that actually happened over the weekend.

00:33:18.000 I thought it was an April Fool's joke.

00:33:20.000 Apparently, it is not an April Fool's joke, or we have no evidence that it was.

00:33:22.000 And it's now April 3rd.

00:33:24.000 Dylan Mulvaney, who is a man masquerading as a woman, was granted a sponsorship by Bud Light.

00:33:31.000 Now, I understand Bud Light is piss water masquerading as beer.

00:33:35.000 So I guess that, you know, it's sort of trans beer, I suppose.

00:33:39.000 But nonetheless, Dylan Mulvaney was paid money to advertise Bud Light and they made a special can of Bud Light with Dylan Mulvaney's face on it.

00:33:50.000 Not like Dylan Mulvaney's normal face, like before the jaw surgery, but like Dylan Mulvaney's new face.

00:33:56.000 Here is a little bit of the video of Dylan Mulvaney announcing a sponsorship from Bud Light.

00:34:00.000 By the way, I should just point out here, Dylan Mulvaney, a man who's pretended to be a woman for about a year, is now sponsored by, here's a list, Bud Light Tampax.

00:34:09.000 Where?

00:34:11.000 Where?

00:34:13.000 Kate Spade, KitchenAid—in the blender, I guess—Plaza Hotel, Stella McCartney, and Crest.

00:34:20.000 And Crest, well, I mean, is this person really moving product?

00:34:24.000 I just have a question.

00:34:24.000 Like, from a capitalistic perspective, is Dylan Mulvaney moving product?

00:34:28.000 Apparently, Bud Light thinks so.

00:34:29.000 So here's Dylan Mulvaney as a sponsored person by Bud Light.

00:34:34.000 Hi!

00:34:35.000 Impressive carrying skills, right?

00:34:37.000 I got some Bud Lights for us.

00:34:39.000 So, I kept hearing about this thing called March Madness, and I thought we were all just having a hectic month, but it turns out it has something to do with sports.

00:34:48.000 And I'm not sure exactly which sport, but either way, it's a cause to celebrate.

00:34:55.000 This month I celebrated my Day 365 of womanhood and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever, a can with my face on it!

00:35:04.000 Check out my Instagram story to see how you can enjoy March Madness with Bud Light and maybe win some money too!

00:35:10.000 Love ya!

00:35:14.000 Then Dylan Mulvaney released another video of himself in a bathtub, in a bathing suit, blowing bubbles with the Bud Light.

00:35:22.000 So first of all, I just want to point out here how stereotypically ridiculous it is for a man to pretend to be a woman and then use every ridiculous stereotype about women.

00:35:30.000 Apparently women don't know what March Madness is.

00:35:32.000 Did you know that?

00:35:33.000 Did you know that no woman knows what March Madness is?

00:35:35.000 You just thought it was a stressful month!

00:35:38.000 How do women not find this utterly bizarre and insulting?

00:35:41.000 I don't understand.

00:35:42.000 And who is the crowd for whom Bud Light is doing this?

00:35:44.000 And the answer is, of course, all of their friends.

00:35:46.000 They're doing this for the intermedia.

00:35:48.000 Their assumption is that there won't be a massive number of Bud Light consumers who look at this and go, I'm not buying Bud Light.

00:35:53.000 I'd rather just buy another crappy beer.

00:35:57.000 They think that they can get away with this, culturally speaking.

00:35:59.000 And pretty much all of the culture thinks this because they live in a magical bubble of their own making.

00:36:04.000 This is all nuttiness.

00:36:07.000 Or non-nuttiness, as the case may be.

00:36:09.000 But again, it is not restricted to Dylan Mulvaney.

00:36:12.000 Apparently, according to Breitbart, pop star Lizzo's brand, Yiddy, is launching shapewear for gender non-conforming communities.

00:36:19.000 This includes chest binders for women and tucking thongs for men.

00:36:23.000 I'm sure that that is a massive bestseller.

00:36:25.000 Yeti said, quote, when we say we support everybody, we mean it.

00:36:28.000 We believe in radical self-love for people of all gender identities, including the trans, non-binary, gender fluid and gender nonconforming communities that have been chronically underserved.

00:36:35.000 Nothing says radical self-love like taping your up inside yourself.

00:36:42.000 That is the radical self-love that people have been seeking for literally ages.

00:36:46.000 The tucking thong is what they've been looking for for ages.

00:36:49.000 Or, you know, some instrument that crushes your breasts to your body if you're a woman.

00:36:54.000 This is how you perform radical self-love, guys.

00:36:57.000 I know that you thought that that was actually, you know, seems like painful and unfortunate, but apparently that is an act of radical self-love.

00:37:03.000 Now, all of this would just be a bizarre cultural moment, except for the fact it's being actively promoted by the federal government of the United States, to whom you pay inordinate tax dollars.

00:37:12.000 So, lest we forget.

00:37:14.000 Last week, a trans person murdered a bunch of Christian school children in Nashville, Tennessee.

00:37:19.000 And this has gone completely unnoticed.

00:37:21.000 It is not only unnoticed, but Saturday, March, the Trans Day of Visibility.

00:37:25.000 Because, by the way, I don't know if you noticed this, but trans people are, like, invisible.

00:37:29.000 They're totally invisible.

00:37:30.000 I mean, except for the fact that they now appear in literally every major television show, and also every major ad campaign, including, like, Crest and Bud Light.

00:37:37.000 They're utterly invisible.

00:37:38.000 We need a Trans Day of Vis- Because they're invisible, right?

00:37:40.000 I mean, forget the fact that we actively have trans flags flying from federal buildings.

00:37:46.000 Super invisible.

00:37:47.000 Like, just a secret that no one talks about, except for how it's been the talk of the town for literally a decade at this point.

00:37:53.000 So we need to foster the trans ideology, the lie that boys can become girls.

00:37:58.000 And we need to do that without reference to the fact that the radicalization of certain members of the trans community by the lie that there is a genocidal attempt to kill them as opposed to not accepting the lie that they are in fact members of the opposite sex.

00:38:12.000 That actively is a bad agenda and a dangerous agenda.

00:38:16.000 But Joe Biden is going to double down on this thing.

00:38:17.000 This is a culture war he apparently wants.

00:38:18.000 He thinks this is a culture war he is going to win.

00:38:20.000 He does.

00:38:21.000 The left, I will say that pretty much all of politics, domestically, internationally at this point, is just a matter of reactionary idiocy.

00:38:29.000 It's like the left has decided that because they don't like Donald Trump, now boys are girls.

00:38:34.000 And they're going to push that in the aftermath of a girl who said that she was a boy murdering a bunch of Christian school kids.

00:38:39.000 So Joe Biden, who has spent pretty much no time talking about the victims in Nashville, but has spent an awful lot of time over the course of last week talking about the victimization of trans people.

00:38:48.000 He put out a tweet saying, quote, on transgender day of visibility, we want you to know that we see you just as you are made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect and support.

00:38:58.000 We'll never stop working to create a world where you won't have to be brave just to be yourself.

00:39:01.000 The number of absurd, bizarre twistings and lies in just this one Three sentence statement is amazing.

00:39:09.000 Amazing.

00:39:10.000 Let's just start right from the beginning there.

00:39:11.000 On Transgender Day of Visibility, we want you to know that we see you just as you are.

00:39:14.000 You actively do not.

00:39:16.000 You actively do not.

00:39:18.000 You say that you see people as they are.

00:39:20.000 No.

00:39:20.000 You see them as they insist that you see them.

00:39:22.000 That is not as they are.

00:39:24.000 As they are implies an objective reality that you can identify and notice.

00:39:29.000 That's the opposite of what you're doing.

00:39:30.000 Made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support.

00:39:34.000 Every human being is made in the image of God.

00:39:35.000 Not every human choice is a godly choice.

00:39:38.000 Made in the image of God?

00:39:39.000 You know, if you're going to cite the verse, at least cite the entire verse.

00:39:43.000 Okay, like this drives me absolutely up a wall.

00:39:46.000 As somebody who actually believes in the Bible, and somebody who actually knows the Bible, and reads it in the original Hebrew, let me just point out to you at this point, that the verse he is citing explicitly rejects what he is saying right now about the idea that men can be women, and women can be men.

00:39:59.000 Okay, the actual verse, just to read it in Hebrew to you, Okay, so for those who don't speak Hebrew, the literal verse is, so God created man in his own image.

00:40:19.000 In the image of God, he created him.

00:40:22.000 Male and female, he created them.

00:40:25.000 He says it's the beginning of the verse, but he can't even get to the end of the verse without debunking himself.

00:40:29.000 It's unbelievable.

00:40:31.000 And then, of course, we have to create a world where you won't have to be brave just to be yourself.

00:40:35.000 What do you mean brave to be yourself?

00:40:37.000 Being yourself is like the least brave thing.

00:40:40.000 In fact, it's almost unavoidable.

00:40:41.000 It's very hard not to be yourself.

00:40:43.000 It's actually quite easy to be yourself.

00:40:45.000 The question is whether you are making good or bad life decisions and whether we are incentivizing people to do damaging things to themselves and their own bodies.

00:40:51.000 But this is the agenda that is now being pushed and fostered by the radical left.

00:40:54.000 Karine Jean-Pierre makes this even clearer.

00:40:56.000 She tweeted out over the weekend.

00:40:59.000 This year's Transgender Day of Visibility comes in the midst of a historic wave of attacks on transgender kids.

00:41:04.000 Oh, you know what it also came in the midst of?

00:41:06.000 It came in the midst of dead Christian kids at a Nashville school.

00:41:09.000 I don't see you commenting on that.

00:41:10.000 That's weird.

00:41:11.000 It's very strange.

00:41:12.000 Nearly 600 anti-LGBTQ bills have been filed so far this year in statehouses across the country, and more than half target young people, says Corrine Jean-Pierre.

00:41:19.000 As the president has said, transgender youth are the bravest people we know.

00:41:22.000 The bravest!

00:41:23.000 They're the bravest!

00:41:25.000 So first of all, transgender youth, like five-year-olds who say they're transgender, is a lie.

00:41:28.000 Those are parents who are pressuring their kids into making decisions they're not qualified to make and have no basis to make.

00:41:34.000 But they are the bravest people.

00:41:36.000 Literally the!

00:41:37.000 We're not talking about, like, members of SEAL Team 6 going and killing bad guys.

00:41:40.000 The bravest people you know are kids who are sexually confused and gender confused and whose parents have decided to put them in the public about this sort of thing.

00:41:51.000 To transgender folks across this country, says KJP, this administration has your back.

00:41:55.000 This administration has your back.

00:41:57.000 Again, didn't see a lot of tweets from KJP about the names of the kids who were killed in Nashville.

00:42:01.000 That, of course, is utterly irrelevant.

00:42:03.000 This has become government policy.

00:42:05.000 Now, this would be a good time for an American people that actually would like a normal definition of male and female to prevail, to come together.

00:42:14.000 But that would require our politics to not be completely insane.

00:42:17.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.

00:42:19.000 First, the fact is that it's hard to find great people to fill your job.

00:42:23.000 Hiring can be a really, really difficult process, especially when you have a lot of open jobs and not enough people to fill those open jobs.

00:42:29.000 Well, ZipRecruiter can help you fix this problem.

00:42:30.000 It's the best place to find the right position or, if you're an employer, the right person to join the team.

00:42:35.000 ZipRecruiter helps you find the most qualified people for your roles fast.

00:42:37.000 Right now, you can try ZipRecruiter for free at ziprecruiter.com slash dailywire.

00:42:41.000 ZipRecruiter's matching technology helps you find the most qualified candidates for a wide range of roles.

00:42:45.000 If you see a candidate you like, you can easily send them a personal invite so they're more likely to apply.

00:42:49.000 Their user-friendly dashboard makes it easy to filter, review, and rate your candidates all from one place.

00:42:53.000 See why the majority of employers count on ZipRecruiter.

00:42:55.000 Four out of five employers who post on ZipRecruiter will get a quality candidate within day one.

00:43:00.000 Use my exclusive web address, try ZipRecruiter for free.

00:43:03.000 Head on over to ZipRecruiter.com slash DailyWire.

00:43:05.000 That's ZipRecruiter.com slash D-A-I-L-Y-W-I-R-E.

00:43:09.000 ZipRecruiter is the smartest way to hire.

00:43:10.000 We've been using it at DailyWire ourselves for literally years.

00:43:13.000 You should do the same.

00:43:13.000 Go to ZipRecruiter.com slash DailyWire.

00:43:16.000 You can try it out for free.

00:43:17.000 ZipRecruiter.com slash DailyWire.

00:43:20.000 As I say, our culture is completely broken.

00:43:22.000 If we lived in a normal culture, you wouldn't have, you know, the federal government of the United States pushing the lie that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.

00:43:27.000 But that's what we had over the weekend.

00:43:28.000 So, Rachel Levine, who is a man pretending to be a woman, and also happens to be a fake admiral.

00:43:34.000 Rachel Levine has never served in the military, but was made an admiral at, like, Health and Human Services.

00:43:39.000 So, great.

00:43:42.000 Okay, here's Rachel Levine over the weekend, announcing Transgender Day of Visibility from Health and Human Services.

00:43:47.000 This is just dystopian nonsense.

00:43:50.000 Happy Transgender Day of Visibility.

00:43:52.000 I am Admiral Rachel Levine, the Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services.

00:43:58.000 For the second year in a row, the transgender flag is flying above our department in Washington, D.C.

00:44:05.000 And this is an affirmation of the administration's support for the transgender community and across the nation, as well as our support for evidence-based, gender-affirming care.

00:44:20.000 Evidence-based, gender-affirming care, says I, a woman.

00:44:25.000 Strong stuff there.

00:44:26.000 By the way, I do love the idea that now we just get to fly the flags of particular ideological groups above government buildings.

00:44:32.000 It's very exciting.

00:44:33.000 See, when I was growing up, the flags that got flown above government buildings were basically restricted to the federal flag, the state flag, and maybe a POW MIA flag.

00:44:44.000 There were no other flags.

00:44:44.000 Those were the flags.

00:44:46.000 That was it.

00:44:46.000 And now it's like, well, you know, do we have a Pride Progress flag around here?

00:44:49.000 Do we have, you know, a flag for sadomasochists who really enjoy a little puppy play?

00:44:54.000 Like, can we have that flag up there at the Health and Human Services?

00:44:56.000 I mean, that is America.

00:44:58.000 That's what America is all about.

00:45:00.000 How do we know this is what America is all about?

00:45:02.000 Well, the Minnesota Capitol, they had a celebration.

00:45:04.000 They did at the Minnesota Capitol.

00:45:06.000 So Minnesota has now signed into law legislation that guarantees that you can trans the children.

00:45:10.000 And at the Minnesota Capitol, they had a full event and the Minnesota Capitol was graced.

00:45:14.000 By the best of what humanity has to offer.

00:45:17.000 It used to be that the most treasured places in our nation were reserved for, you know, great politicians, great thinkers, sometimes, occasionally, great musicians or artists.

00:45:29.000 Well, now I think we've exceeded all those expectations.

00:45:32.000 Minnesota's state capitol was graced by the twerkings of a drag star named Tommy St.

00:45:37.000 James.

00:45:38.000 To the cheering throngs assembled in the middle of the Minnesota State Capitol.

00:45:44.000 Western civilization, we are on the right course here.

00:45:46.000 Sierra, everything's fine.

00:45:47.000 Yep, that's a new dress as a lady in a giant blue fright wig.

00:45:57.000 Bye.

00:45:58.000 Gyrating around.

00:45:59.000 And people cheering and clapping in the Minnesota State Capitol.

00:46:02.000 Your taxpayer dollars at work, Minnesotans.

00:46:08.000 We have now moved beyond the point of parody.

00:46:09.000 It is not possible to parody anything anymore.

00:46:13.000 Now, again, this is all tied into a radical agenda that is not just about ensuring that male and female are obliterated as ontological categories.

00:46:21.000 It's also tied into an agenda that is supposed to drive trans people to believe.

00:46:24.000 And when I say trans people, I mean people who identify as transgender.

00:46:27.000 Because I deny the idea, the very idea, that a man who believes he is a woman is in fact a different category of human being than just a man who believes he is a woman.

00:46:36.000 So, but the idea here is that if you are a person who identifies as a member of the opposite sex, that you are under genocidal threat.

00:46:42.000 So if I refuse to use your preferred pronouns because there are these words, there are these things called words in the universe.

00:46:48.000 They're supposed to have meanings that are discernible to all humans who use that language.

00:46:54.000 Because I object to your falsification of language.

00:46:57.000 This is now genocidal.

00:46:58.000 And then we are surprised when people get violent or people seem as though they treat this as a form of aggression that can only be dealt with by physical violence.

00:47:06.000 This is part of the broader agenda.

00:47:08.000 Activate a group of people and pretend that they are under some sort of brutal threat that requires sometimes actual physical violence.

00:47:16.000 There is a Kentucky Democratic state senator who was making this case over the weekend, Karen Berg, suggesting that on MSNBC they're quote-unquote coming after gay and trans people.

00:47:28.000 What do you mean coming after?

00:47:29.000 Do you mean like jailing them?

00:47:31.000 Do you mean persecuting them physically?

00:47:33.000 Or do you just mean not accepting their arguments?

00:47:37.000 This is national craziness.

00:47:42.000 There's a lot of fingers to it.

00:47:44.000 It's not just anti-trans, anti-gay.

00:47:48.000 They think that if they can marginalize a small group, then after that, and they get that support, then they can marginalize a larger group.

00:47:57.000 And let me tell you, sir, they are coming after you, and they are coming after me.

00:48:02.000 History teaches us that.

00:48:08.000 Uh, no.

00:48:09.000 And also, uh, this is a person, you want to know why this person has decided to pick up this banner?

00:48:13.000 It's because this person's son was a transgender rights advocate who died by suicide in 2022.

00:48:21.000 So this person has, you know, a belief that society is the cause of all this, presumably.

00:48:27.000 And when I say son, I don't know if I assume this means this is a daughter who transitioned into being a son, according to mom over here.

00:48:34.000 Meanwhile, all of this is driving some pretty radical action.

00:48:36.000 It turns out it's not just radical rhetoric, it drives some pretty radical action, which is why you saw trans activists storm the Texas state capitol the other day.

00:48:42.000 This would make the third state capitol building that has been stormed inside of the last week.

00:48:45.000 Because we saw it in Kentucky, then we also saw it in Tennessee, and now we've also seen it apparently in Texas.

00:48:52.000 Protect trans kids!

00:49:25.000 I will now read those demands to you, and this is an eternally incomplete list of the necessary actions for all people to take, including legislators, parents, teachers, coaches, colleagues, and everyone.

00:49:40.000 We call for school faculty and staff to undergo mandated LGBTQ plus specific diversity, equity, and inclusion training.

00:49:49.000 Oh, indoctrination.

00:49:50.000 Now struggle sessions, okay.

00:49:51.000 What else?

00:49:51.000 Gotta change over all the bathrooms.

00:49:52.000 follow a clear plan for trans students to use chosen names in place of legal names, unless specifically instructed otherwise by the student.

00:49:59.000 Designate funding for at least one clearly designated and functioning gender-neutral bathroom at all times, and transition to single-stall and multi-stall gender-neutral bathrooms.

00:50:13.000 Gotta change over all the bathrooms. Of course, of course.

00:50:16.000 What is undergirding all this?

00:50:18.000 The idea that if you refuse to go along with the agenda, then you must atone.

00:50:23.000 So one of the creepier TikTok stars, a person named Jeffrey Marsh, he went on his TikTok feed and he explained that they're going to win because they want your respect and they want it right now.

00:50:34.000 Now, here's the thing about respect, folks.

00:50:35.000 There's a general rule about respect.

00:50:36.000 Respect has to be earned.

00:50:37.000 It can't be demanded.

00:50:39.000 When you demand respect, And you have done nothing to earn respect, you're not going to get the respect.

00:50:44.000 There's nothing that demands respect about claiming a falsehood about life.

00:50:48.000 There's nothing that demands respect about suggesting that children ought to be indoctrinated with the lie that they can be a member of the opposite sex.

00:50:54.000 There's nothing that demands respect about suggesting that you get to dictate to the rest of humanity how they use words like he and she in contravention of all known definitions.

00:51:04.000 But the demand is, if it's a demand by the marginalized, then this means that everyone else must accept.

00:51:09.000 Here's Geoffrey Marsh.

00:51:12.000 Let me tell you something about LGBTQ rights.

00:51:14.000 About trans rights.

00:51:17.000 This is only going in one direction.

00:51:20.000 You will respect us.

00:51:23.000 You can be upset.

00:51:25.000 You can be angry.

00:51:26.000 You can think it's unfair.

00:51:28.000 You can feel like we're stealing something from you.

00:51:32.000 But it's still only going in one direction.

00:51:34.000 You will respect us.

00:51:39.000 So a boot with the Pride Progress flag stomping on the human face forever is the direction.

00:51:44.000 Oh, you saw this manifest in a video.

00:51:48.000 Over the weekend, this one, it was in Canada.

00:51:50.000 There is an activist up in Canada named Billboard Chris.

00:51:53.000 He literally just goes to rallies and he wears a sandwich board.

00:51:56.000 And so he was wearing a sandwich board that expressed the idea that children are not capable of consenting to being trans, which of course seems pretty obvious.

00:52:09.000 And he was then confronted by a bunch of men dressed as women who got right up in his face and then eventually ended up trying to beat the hell out of him.

00:52:15.000 Here's the video.

00:52:17.000 F**k you!

00:52:40.000 F**k you The only violent incident over the course of the last few weeks that has been done in the name of particular ideology.

00:52:46.000 It's just the media excuse all of it because after all, they are members of a victimized class.

00:52:51.000 White men who believe they are women are apparently a member of a victimized class.

00:52:54.000 That is the thing we have to protect most.

00:52:56.000 This is why even a little bit of sanity in our political discourse goes a long way.

00:52:59.000 So Winsome Sears, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, who the left despises because she is a black woman who is not on the left.

00:53:06.000 She was on Bill Maher's show over the weekend, did a tremendous job.

00:53:08.000 And the issue of I don't give a crap.

00:53:12.000 He's a murderer.

00:53:13.000 came up, the gender idea of the Tennessee shooter.

00:53:16.000 And Winsome Sears said the line that all of America has been waiting to say, which is, I don't give a crap, it's a murderer.

00:53:22.000 Here we go.

00:53:23.000 They are referring to the murderer by their given name, not their chosen name.

00:53:28.000 And by their, um, referring to her as a woman, as opposed to what her identity apparently was, was a man.

00:53:28.000 Right.

00:53:35.000 Right.

00:53:36.000 Which is not the way the media usually does these things.

00:53:39.000 They're usually very particular about the subjective sense of gender identity and respecting that.

00:53:43.000 If someone says they're a man, then they're a man.

00:53:46.000 But in this case, they're not doing that.

00:53:47.000 Hang on, you know what?

00:53:48.000 This person murdered six people.

00:53:50.000 I don't really care who you say you are.

00:53:53.000 You murdered six people and three of them were children.

00:53:57.000 You don't get a say.

00:53:58.000 Well, she's dead now, but you don't get a say in telling us who you are and what you're about.

00:54:05.000 You killed six people.

00:54:10.000 So again, a little bit of normality in American politics will go an awful, awful long way.

00:54:16.000 Meanwhile, the culture wars are acting as a shield and a spear for the far left.

00:54:20.000 And meanwhile, they're just lying to everybody.

00:54:22.000 So this is a breaking story from NBC News.

00:54:24.000 Remember that Chinese spy balloon?

00:54:26.000 One that Joe Biden allowed to float over the entire continental United States before shooting it down over the water.

00:54:30.000 And then the next week he just started shooting down balloons from Party City.

00:54:34.000 Remember that?

00:54:34.000 He's like, oh no, we were handling it exactly the way it should have been handled.

00:54:38.000 Oh my gosh, somebody had a birthday.

00:54:40.000 Well, it's a happy birthday Jim.

00:54:44.000 Remember that?

00:54:45.000 And we were told at the time that the Chinese spy balloon did not actually do any serious surveillance of the United States, that we were fully aware of what was going on.

00:54:53.000 No, that was a lie, just like everything else the Biden administration apparently says.

00:54:56.000 According to NBC News, the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the United States was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration's efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S.

00:55:06.000 officials and one former senior administration official.

00:55:09.000 China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites, at times applying figure eight formations over like American bases, and then transmitting the information it collected back to Beijing in real time.

00:55:20.000 The intelligence China collected was mostly from electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel, rather than images, according to the officials.

00:55:28.000 The three officials said China could have gathered much more intelligence from sensitive sites if not for the administration's efforts to move around potential targets and obscure the balloons' ability to pick up their electronic signals by stopping them from broadcasting or emitting signals.

00:55:39.000 You know what would have stopped that?

00:55:40.000 Shooting it down.

00:55:42.000 Shooting it down.

00:55:44.000 After the balloon was shot down in February, the Biden administration said it was capable of collecting signals intelligence.

00:55:49.000 They said it didn't really do any damage.

00:55:50.000 There's no big deal.

00:55:51.000 It was all totally fine.

00:55:53.000 And after all, it was necessary.

00:55:55.000 It was overpopulated areas like Montana, where there are seven people and a cow.

00:56:00.000 The liars, they lie.

00:56:01.000 It is not a surprise at all.

00:56:03.000 Okay, one final news update, and then we'll get to a couple of things I like and a couple of things that I hate.

00:56:08.000 So, quick news update.

00:56:09.000 Andrew Tate has now been released from Romanian jail.

00:56:11.000 He was released on Friday.

00:56:14.000 According to Fox News, the Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled in Tate's favor after he challenged the judge's ruling to extend his detention for 30 days according to Ramona Bola, a spokesperson for Romania's anti-organized crime agency.

00:56:24.000 Here was a little bit of Andrew Tate expressing himself and Tristan Tate, his brother, expressing themselves after they were released from jail.

00:56:32.000 I just want to say that the judges today made the right decision.

00:56:35.000 I respect what they've done for me and they will be vindicated in their decision because I'm an innocent man and I can't wait to prove it.

00:56:42.000 Hello, Andrew!

00:56:43.000 Freedom, at last!

00:56:44.000 It's a little bit emotional.

00:56:50.000 I've been in one room since last year, so it's a little bit emotional.

00:56:57.000 I want to give respect firstly to the judges who heard us today because they were very attentive and they listened to us and they let us free so I have to give absolute respect to them.

00:57:05.000 I truly believe that justice will be served in the end.

00:57:08.000 There is zero percent chance of me being found guilty of something I have not done.

00:57:11.000 I maintain my absolute innocence and I think most people understand this and I look forward to being home.

00:57:19.000 Alrighty, so, we'll keep you updated on any legal developments in that particular case.

00:57:23.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:57:26.000 Alrighty, so, things that I like.

00:57:28.000 So, I have to admit that I have a bit of a debate with my friend Dennis Prager about public marriage proposals.

00:57:32.000 I'm not a huge fan.

00:57:34.000 So, I tend to believe that the real marriage proposal, usually the way that it works is that you know, usually, Whether the person who you are proposing to is going to say yes or not before you do these sort of public marriage proposals.

00:57:44.000 There was the real marriage proposal where you had the conversation and then there's the fake marriage proposal which is where you do something super dramatic and it's supposed to be a story that you can tell all your friends.

00:57:51.000 I'm not a huge fan of that.

00:57:53.000 My marriage proposal story is pretty simple.

00:57:54.000 My wife and I were having a conversation and I'd been pushing her for about a week that we should get married and finally she said she was concerned what people might think.

00:58:01.000 It turns out she was 20 at the time and so she looked at me and she said people are full of bleep.

00:58:05.000 Greatest thing she ever said to me.

00:58:07.000 And then we got married.

00:58:07.000 So there was no like big marriage proposal story.

00:58:10.000 Dennis Prager, my friend, is a big fan of the marriage proposals.

00:58:12.000 He thinks the public marriage proposals are good for society because they encourage marriage.

00:58:17.000 OK, I hear the argument, but he's wrong.

00:58:19.000 So as absolute proof that he's wrong, this is one of the funniest videos of all time.

00:58:22.000 This is a a ridiculously stupid fan at Dodger Stadium who decided to propose to his girlfriend by an opening day.

00:58:31.000 There he goes.

00:58:32.000 Everybody's like, what are you even doing out there, dude?

00:58:34.000 play and then proceeded to turn around and take out a ring and get on a knee and propose to his girlfriend and the rest is classic video history.

00:58:44.000 There he goes.

00:58:46.000 Everybody's like, what are you even doing out there, dude?

00:58:50.000 He turns around, he's proposing, he holds up the ring.

00:58:55.000 And everybody's filming.

00:58:56.000 It's shocking.

00:58:57.000 And he's proposing.

00:58:58.000 It's really nice.

00:58:59.000 And bam!

00:59:00.000 Yes!

00:59:01.000 Full on flying tackle from security.

00:59:06.000 Just destroys the guy.

00:59:07.000 And this is how all public proposals should go.

00:59:09.000 I don't care if it's a Dodger Stadium, I don't care if it's in a restaurant.

00:59:12.000 Next time that happens, somebody needs to tackle the guy.

00:59:14.000 Because you know what?

00:59:16.000 That true love is a matter between you and your spouse.

00:59:20.000 It is until the actual wedding, which again is a public celebration of the wedding.

00:59:23.000 Don't disturb other people's dinner or other people's baseball game because you want to make some sort of gesture.

00:59:29.000 Do it on your own time.

00:59:31.000 Okay, one other thing that I like.

00:59:32.000 So this is actually really funny.

00:59:33.000 Elon Musk.

00:59:35.000 This is actually super funny.

00:59:41.000 So, Twitter has the blue check, right?

00:59:43.000 The blue check was supposed to be maintained for people who pay the $8 a month for the blue check or for legacy verified users.

00:59:49.000 And Elon Musk is like, you know what?

00:59:50.000 They don't get a legacy verified badge because they're not really a good journalistic outlet.

00:59:55.000 So the move, according to the Washington Post, continues Musk's yearlong grudge against US journalists who have been reportedly critical of him.

01:00:02.000 He removed the badge.

01:00:04.000 It was one of only a few dozen accounts who have seen its badge actually removed.

01:00:08.000 and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

01:00:10.000 The move appears to have been personally directed or encouraged by Musk, but responded late Saturday night to a meme outlining the Times' decision not to pay for Twitter verification by saying, oh, okay, we'll take it off then.

01:00:19.000 So the Times still says that they are not planning to pay the monthly fee for checkmark status for their institutional Twitter accounts.

01:00:26.000 In a deleted tweet from early Sunday morning, Musk had said the company would give verified accounts a few weeks grace unless they say they won't pay now, in which case, we'll remove it.

01:00:36.000 Overnight, he then tweeted a tax on the Times saying, quote, their propaganda isn't even interesting.

01:00:39.000 So again, I'm all for hilarity, and that is really, really funny.

01:00:43.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

01:00:49.000 Every bad choice is now an identity.

01:00:51.000 This is where we are as a culture.

01:00:52.000 One of the fundamental distinctions between how the right thinks about life and how the left thinks about life is that the right believes that there are such things as immutable characteristics.

01:01:00.000 Race is an immutable characteristic.

01:01:01.000 Skin color, an immutable characteristic.

01:01:03.000 Disability status, for example, immutable characteristics.

01:01:06.000 And then there are all the other things in life.

01:01:08.000 Personal choices, behaviors that you choose.

01:01:10.000 These are not identities.

01:01:11.000 These may be things that you do because you have a drive to do them.

01:01:14.000 That's why people do virtually everything in their life.

01:01:16.000 But there's a fundamental distinction between the things you choose to manifest in your behavior in life and the things that are immutable identities.

01:01:23.000 The left has been obliterating that distinction for quite a while here, really since the 60s, when the left decided that somehow being black and being gay were somehow equivalent, which is absurd.

01:01:34.000 Being black is an immutable characteristic.

01:01:35.000 When it comes to being gay, that is a desire.

01:01:37.000 You can say the desire is immutable, you make that argument, but that's not the same thing as the behavior, or the identification with the behavior, or the identification with the desire.

01:01:47.000 Those are just fundamentally not, again, that's not even an argument against gay rights, that's just saying that that is not the equivalent of black civil rights, because they are not.

01:01:54.000 They are not logically equivalent in any way.

01:01:57.000 Putting that aside, what the left has basically done since the 60s is started to conflate personal decisions that you make in your life with an actual identity group.

01:02:06.000 And once you do that, and the idea is you can't discriminate against identity groups, this now encompasses all sorts of behaviors, which is how you end up with this bizarre story from the Seattle Stranger, or as I used to do a radio show in Seattle, the Seattle Stranger, all about people who are adult baby diaper lovers.

01:02:25.000 According to the stranger, they face harmful stigma in their quest for comfort.

01:02:31.000 And here's what the Seattle Stranger writes, quote, What would it feel like to be a baby for a day?

01:02:35.000 Your meals and clothes would be prepared for you.

01:02:36.000 Your busy work schedule would be replaced with hours of mindless fun.

01:02:39.000 All the responsibilities of adulthood would fade into the distance, giving way to a simpler life, if only for a short time.

01:02:44.000 It's a fantasy that Seattle resident Smook has tried to suppress for most of his life.

01:02:48.000 Growing up poor in Missouri, he had little access to children's toys or television, no friends to play with.

01:02:52.000 In 2013, he found a group of people who enjoyed role-playing as babies or wearing adult diapers, called Adult Baby Diaper Lovers.

01:02:58.000 He thought he'd found an opportunity to reclaim his childhood.

01:03:01.000 Yet he felt ashamed of his newfound interest in diapers.

01:03:03.000 He was concerned about finances.

01:03:05.000 He pushed the idea to the back of his mind.

01:03:06.000 Oh, like a normal person.

01:03:08.000 But then he decided, no, no, no.

01:03:10.000 It's an identity.

01:03:11.000 It's an identity.

01:03:13.000 One year later, Leo, a condominium superintendent on the other side of the 49th parallel, lost his mom.

01:03:18.000 At the suggestion of a close friend, the Ottawa, Ontario resident tried wearing diapers as a coping mechanism for his grief, only to discover the great comfort they brought.

01:03:26.000 I did not realize that wearing a diaper is a coping mechanism for grief.

01:03:29.000 See, we in Judaism, we have like a seven day period called Shiva in which you actually, in which you consider mortality and you think about the person who died.

01:03:35.000 But apparently in Ottawa, you slap on an adult diaper and crap yourself.

01:03:39.000 And this is a form of comfort.

01:03:40.000 Leo spent the next eight years embracing the side, eight years embracing the side of himself and exploring Ottawa's ABDL community.

01:03:46.000 It's an ABD, it's a community now.

01:03:48.000 By the way, all we need is like one ivory tower department to legitimize this into a full-fledged identity group and demand that everybody now identify these people as babies.

01:03:58.000 That a fully grown adult is the equivalent of a human baby.

01:04:01.000 And there should be no mockery.

01:04:03.000 No shame is involved.

01:04:05.000 Smooc spent those years coming to terms with his interests, finally taking the leap into Seattle's ABDL community in November 2022.

01:04:11.000 This gave them both the opportunity to express their true selves, form strong friendships with people who understand them and feel love.

01:04:17.000 But no fantasy lasts forever, says the Seattle Stronge.

01:04:20.000 These identities come with many stigmas.

01:04:22.000 Accusations of immaturity, irresponsibility around children, or even pedophilia run rampant in online spaces and news articles.

01:04:28.000 ABDL have been assaulted, fired from their jobs, legally separated from their children for what community members and experts call harmless interests.

01:04:35.000 Nevertheless, as the ABDL community continues to grow, more safe spaces are appearing in Washington, Maryland, and Ottawa for these kids at heart.

01:04:43.000 Ah, well, I mean, that's good.

01:04:45.000 I'm so glad that we have new identity groups based on grown-ass men pretending to be babies and wearing adult diapers.

01:04:53.000 All behaviors are identities, and all identities must be protected.

01:04:56.000 Therefore, all behaviors must be protected and have an equal outcome.

01:04:59.000 Therefore, all of reality is somehow discriminatory.

01:05:03.000 This is a great way to build a completely non-functioning society that collapses in on itself like a dying star.

01:05:07.000 So, obviously, we're going to do that.

01:05:08.000 All right, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

01:05:10.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

01:05:11.000 We'll be talking with Alan Dershowitz about the Trump indictment and what it means legally.

01:05:14.000 If you're not a member, become a member.

01:05:16.000 Use code SHAPIRO at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

The Ben Shapiro Show - April 03, 2023

Trump's Imminent Arrest

Episode Stats

Length

Words per Minute

Word Count

Sentence Count

Misogynist Sentences

Hate Speech Sentences

Summary

Transcript