The Ben Shapiro Show - $5 Million For Being Black, And Other Terrible Policy Ideas

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00:00:06.000 Well, we were told by the Biden administration that all the pain was basically over, that now that they bailed out the depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, all would be well.

00:00:14.000 The problem, as we discussed over the last couple of days, is that none of that is true.

00:00:17.000 You've created massive systemic risk.

00:00:19.000 You've just redistributed the risk for the moment, but that risk will Eventually, re-coalesce, and there will be more bank failures, and there will be more bank runs, and there will be more economic uncertainty, if not outright depression.

00:00:29.000 And the reason for that is because you have created systemic problems. 0.98

00:00:32.000 The world's stupidest people are running the world's biggest institutions with the world's most power, and that is a serious, serious issue. 0.99

00:00:39.000 We saw this during the COVID pandemic, where people who are basically single-factor analysts We're in charge of all global policy. 1.00

00:00:45.000 The single factor they cared about was the spread of COVID.

00:00:47.000 They did not care about the impact of COVID.

00:00:49.000 They didn't care about the impact of the shutdowns.

00:00:50.000 They didn't care about age striation.

00:00:52.000 They didn't care about the impact of how vaccines should be gotten to the people.

00:00:55.000 They didn't care about any of that.

00:00:56.000 They cared about one thing and one thing only.

00:00:58.000 And those single factor analysts were the experts.

00:01:00.000 And because they were the experts, we listened to them on this, their area of expertise.

00:01:04.000 All other issues were to be put aside.

00:01:06.000 Well, the same thing has now happened with the economy.

00:01:08.000 We simply leave it in the hands of central banks to figure out all policy.

00:01:12.000 And all they are focused on is their mandate.

00:01:14.000 And their mandate is twofold.

00:01:16.000 One, keeping liquidity so that there isn't some sort of depression.

00:01:20.000 And two, reducing inflation.

00:01:21.000 The problem is very often those two things are in conflict.

00:01:24.000 And it really should be our elected officials who are making economic policy.

00:01:27.000 It should not be central bank officials who are manipulating the currency here and there in order to achieve political purposes.

00:01:33.000 Because again, they are using single factor analysis and they are really not answerable to the general public at large.

00:01:39.000 But that's exactly what is happening country after country after country.

00:01:42.000 They've created a set of perverse incentives and then everybody else in the universe is supposed to operate under this set of perverse incentives.

00:01:49.000 And so what that meant with Silicon Valley Bank is that because of wild inflation of the currency, because of extraordinary amounts of liquidity pushed into the system between 2020 and 2022, they took all of that money and they stuffed it back into government bonds in the assumption that these magical government actors, these experts, would never allow those bonds to basically go belly up.

00:02:06.000 The bonds went belly up.

00:02:07.000 Silicon Valley Bank.

00:02:08.000 Went belly up.

00:02:10.000 And now we are seeing that this is not just a United States problem, this is a global problem.

00:02:14.000 According to the New York Times, fear about the unseen risks to the financial system rippled across the globe on Wednesday, breaking the brief calm that had settled over markets and deepening worries that a banking crisis could threaten the economy.

00:02:24.000 The turmoil was set off by a panic over the health of Credit Suisse, the 166-year-old Swiss bank that has been reeling from years of mismanagement and poor risk control, and that warned this week about problems in its own accounting practices.

00:02:34.000 The Swiss bank's difficulties differ from the woes of the American banks that have collapsed in recent days.

00:02:37.000 Concern about Credit Suisse added to a sense of dread about the economy in general.

00:02:41.000 In an attempt to calm investors' nerves, Switzerland's central bank, the Swiss National Bank, said late in the day it would step in if necessary to keep Credit Suisse afloat.

00:02:48.000 Several hours later, the troubled lender said it would borrow up to 50 billion Swiss francs, that's about $54 billion, from the central bank to ward off concerns about its financial health.

00:02:57.000 So once again, the central bank's stepping in to save failing institutions.

00:03:00.000 And the problem is, of course, that when you step in to save failing institutions, you're incentivizing failure.

00:03:05.000 You're telling people they should take riskier strategies with other people's money.

00:03:09.000 After all, the government's simply going to fill in the gap.

00:03:11.000 Now, the government does not have money of its own.

00:03:13.000 The government can only print money or it can tax money.

00:03:15.000 That is it.

00:03:16.000 The government does not have any other method of making money.

00:03:19.000 Other than old-style imperialism and capture of other countries' money.

00:03:22.000 But that's not something that I think is really on the table.

00:03:25.000 At this point, Credit Suisse itself is in some pretty serious trouble.

00:03:29.000 Whenever you're having to take out $54 billion from the Swiss National Bank as sort of a backstop, you've got a real problem.

00:03:35.000 According to CNBC, Shares of Credit Suisse on Wednesday plunged to a fresh all-time low for the second consecutive day after a top investor in the embattled Swiss bank said it would not be able to provide any more cash due to regulatory restrictions.

00:03:45.000 Trading in the bank's plummeting stock was halted several times throughout the morning as it fell below $2.17 for the very first time.

00:03:52.000 Swiss listed Credit Suisse shares ended the session down 24%.

00:03:57.000 Part of the problem is that the biggest investor in Credit Suisse, the Saudi National Bank, said it would not provide the Swiss bank with any further financial assistance, according to a Reuters report sparking the latest leg lower.

00:04:07.000 Saudi National Bank chairman said, we can't go below, we can't go above 10% because it's a regulatory issue.

00:04:13.000 He said, S&B is happy with Credit Suisse's transformational plan.

00:04:16.000 They suggested that the bank is probably fine.

00:04:18.000 But when your biggest investor is saying, because of regulation, we can't inject more money into your company, that's a pretty serious problem.

00:04:25.000 And all of this is the result of centralizing so much power at the central banks and then all of the other actors in the economy reacting to that centralized power.

00:04:34.000 And then according to the Wall Street Journal, you have liquidity in general is rising up.

00:04:37.000 So at the same time that you have the central banks trying to inject liquidity into the economy to backstop all of these institutions that had bet on further liquidity injections, at the same time, they're trying to tamp down inflation.

00:04:47.000 And so you have these two forces that are now at odds inside virtually every major central bank in the West.

00:04:53.000 And actually throughout the world.

00:04:54.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the markets for the world's safest and most liquid assets, the government bonds issued by the U.S.

00:04:58.000 and other rich countries, came under immense stress on Wednesday following a week of worries about the health of global banks.

00:05:04.000 Liquidity, the capacity to trade quickly at quoted prices, has fallen sharply in two of the keystone markets, those for U.S.

00:05:09.000 treasuries and German bunds, according to traders.

00:05:11.000 Difficulties including wider price spreads and slower executions are now spreading to many other markets, they said, including those for derivatives, that firms and traders use to lock in prices and hedge risks weeks and months ahead of time, like options, futures, and swaps.

00:05:22.000 Liquidity Means also the ability, as the article suggests, to trade quickly.

00:05:28.000 It means that if you have a piece of stock, how fast can you sell that stock?

00:05:31.000 Does it take you a while?

00:05:32.000 Do you have to bargain?

00:05:33.000 Is there a big spread between what you're asking and what somebody is willing to pay?

00:05:36.000 All of that means that all of your assets are not nearly as quote-unquote liquid as they otherwise would be.

00:05:42.000 Traders said that the turmoil, driven in part by fear that an economic reversal might be ahead, was rippling into stocks and helping fuel a decline of more than 700 points in the Dow Industrials at its session lows on Wednesday.

00:05:51.000 The Blue Chip Gauge appeared.

00:05:53.000 Some of those losses ended down 281 points yesterday as well.

00:05:56.000 Again, Credit Suisse is in trouble.

00:05:58.000 Trading was for neck.

00:06:00.000 Trading volumes in the treasury market appeared to be out twice.

00:06:02.000 Everybody is sort of freaking out.

00:06:02.000 Typical levels.

00:06:04.000 And so when the Biden administration says that everything is fine, They are wrong.

00:06:08.000 It turns out that the Biden administration also facilitated really, really crappy policy with regard to Silicon Valley Bank itself.

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00:06:16.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:07:20.000 Okay, so.

00:07:21.000 It turns out that the Biden administration basically has now set us up for a giant fail, largely because the other option that was on the table with regard to Silicon Valley Bank, namely allowing another financial institution to buy it so that taxpayers were not actually on the hook.

00:07:34.000 Well, all those other banks that could have bought Silicon Valley Bank were basically barred from bidding on it by the FDIC and by the Biden administration.

00:07:42.000 According to Semaphore, the largest U.S.

00:07:44.000 banks didn't even submit a bid for Silicon Valley Bank over the weekend, largely because they were initially excluded from the sales process by the FDIC, and then they ran out of time as a result, which is a huge botchery.

00:07:53.000 So now you have the federal government saying it's going to backstop.

00:07:56.000 All unsecured deposits across the United States economy.

00:07:58.000 We're talking seven, eight trillion dollars.

00:08:00.000 You know what would have been a better solution?

00:08:01.000 Allow one of the big banks to buy up the failing Silicon Valley bank, fill in all of the unsecured, unsecured creditors, essentially, and then move on with our lives.

00:08:11.000 But apparently the Biden administration didn't want to let that happen.

00:08:14.000 The agency is led by FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg, who has been publicly critical of consolidation in the industry and eventually allowed the biggest global banks into the auction.

00:08:22.000 But that was too late.

00:08:24.000 Bids were due on Sunday afternoon, too late to ensure a deal could be announced before the market opened on Monday.

00:08:29.000 The four largest U.S.

00:08:30.000 lenders, JPMorgan Chase Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, are already big enough they would need a regulatory waiver to buy another deposit-taking bank.

00:08:36.000 The FDIC is now still trying to find some sort of buyer for for the SVP.

00:08:42.000 But again, the fact that it was not sold is now due to the FDIC because they were skeptical of even allowing it to be sold in the first place.

00:08:49.000 Unsurprisingly, the economy is slowing as a result of literally all of the things.

00:08:53.000 What we are watching is a slow building perfect storm is being created.

00:08:56.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a drop in retail sales and easing price pressures in February offer preliminary signs of a cooling economy as the spread of financial turmoil on Wall Street called into question whether the Federal Reserve would continue to raise those interest rates.

00:09:07.000 So now you have the markets, I think, betting the wrong way that the Federal Reserve is not going to raise interest rates that in the interest of preserving liquidity in the banks.

00:09:14.000 They're not going to raise those interest rates again.

00:09:15.000 I think they've got the wrong idea.

00:09:16.000 I think that the Federal Reserve is very likely to raise the interest rates by 0.25 percentage points.

00:09:20.000 And then the markets, as they always do, are going to react very badly to that.

00:09:24.000 And this is all the result of having too much power in one place.

00:09:28.000 And that is the story of our nations.

00:09:32.000 It is the story of our nation's economy.

00:09:33.000 It is the story of a bad left wing.

00:09:37.000 Governance, or easy money governance.

00:09:39.000 It's also the story of what's happening in San Francisco.

00:09:41.000 So first of all, San Francisco deserves whatever comes to it.

00:09:44.000 San Francisco is a city that has basically decided to obliterate itself in every sense.

00:09:48.000 They've decided to obliterate themselves demographically.

00:09:50.000 There are more pets than children in San Francisco.

00:09:52.000 They've decided to obliterate themselves in terms of class structure.

00:09:54.000 You are either very rich or very poor in San Francisco.

00:09:57.000 They've decided to obliterate themselves in terms of the tech industry.

00:10:00.000 There is no one in their right mind who would found a company in San Francisco right now, given the state and local regulations and taxes.

00:10:06.000 In San Francisco, and now they're going to obliterate themselves by apparently giving each eligible black resident of the city of San Francisco $5 million. 0.59

00:10:14.000 $5 million.

00:10:17.000 Also, a city-appointed panel, according to the BBC, suggests guaranteed annual incomes of $97,000.

00:10:22.000 of $97,000, $97,000 for qualifying recipients and homes in San Francisco for $1 a family.

00:10:30.000 Now, I will just remind you that slavery was never legal in the state of California.

00:10:35.000 The state of California was admitted to the Union as a non-slavery state.

00:10:41.000 The city's Board of Supervisors has begun considering the recommendations.

00:10:44.000 Supporters say it would be just compensation to Black Americans for the legacy of slavery and racism.

00:10:49.000 The San Francisco Board enthusiastically welcomed the proposal at Tuesday's first hearing, according to the AP.

00:10:54.000 The committee's draft proposal, first released in December, outlines more than 100 suggestions.

00:10:59.000 According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Reparations Committee Chairman Eric McDonald said, So Californians, again, were never slave owners.

00:11:03.000 the systems and practices have been managed to exclude and steal, if you will, the opportunity for financial mobility, families are hurting and have been for decades, if not longer.

00:11:13.000 Financial repair is time sensitive. This is not one that can or should wait. So Californians, again, were never slave owners. California, in fact, was one of the chief places that residents of of the southern part of the United States who are black attempted to move to to get away from the worst aspects of segregation in the United States.

00:11:32.000 Not to say that California never had racial discrimination.

00:11:34.000 Of course it did, but it wasn't nearly to the extent that the American South had racial discrimination, for example, which is why it was one of the chief sources of inflow of black in migration throughout the 20th century.

00:11:46.000 Well, this is insane, of course.

00:11:49.000 And it follows a pattern of a bunch of left-wing cities now attempting this sort of stuff.

00:11:53.000 In 2021, Evanston, Illinois approved reparations for some residents, including money for home repairs, down payments, and interest or late penalties due on property.

00:12:00.000 Now, they don't really know in San Francisco how to qualify people.

00:12:03.000 There are about 50,000 black people living in San Francisco.

00:12:06.000 It is not clear how many would be eligible.

00:12:08.000 Qualifying criteria include that a person would need to be at least 18 and have identified as black or African American in public documents for at least a decade.

00:12:15.000 So what they're afraid of is Rachel Dolezal.

00:12:16.000 They're afraid of people who are going to show up and be like, oh yeah, by the way, I'm black.

00:12:20.000 Here I am.

00:12:21.000 Right here.

00:12:22.000 It is not clear how long you'd have to live in San Francisco in order to attain that $5 million.

00:12:28.000 It'll be fascinating to see if they put migration restrictions on black Americans to keep them from taking advantage of the program. 0.66

00:12:35.000 They'll be like, you have to have lived here for three years and be black in order for you to... Actually, not for like two decades, not for your grandparents, not your great-grandparents. 0.96

00:12:43.000 You can have been born in 2010, essentially.

00:12:48.000 You have to be 18, so I suppose you have to be born in 2005, black in San Francisco, and we will now give you $5 million, a $97,000 universal basic income, and a home for a buck. 0.96

00:13:02.000 Okay, this is so insane.

00:13:03.000 It is unfair, obviously, to the residents of San Francisco.

00:13:06.000 It is unfair to the future of San Francisco.

00:13:08.000 But you know what? 1.00

00:13:09.000 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 1.00

00:13:11.000 I very much look forward to seeing the result of this unbelievable garbage policy. 1.00

00:13:15.000 It all ties into the notion of wokeness that is promoted by the left, but the left insists that wokeness doesn't really exist. 0.92

00:13:20.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:13:21.000 First, I have some bad news.

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00:13:24.000 Everyone in this audience, everybody who's making the show, we will all die.

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00:13:32.000 You can make provision for your family.

00:13:33.000 So God forbid you're hit by a train, at least you know where your assets are going to be disposed of.

00:13:38.000 And presumably they will not go to the San Francisco City government to redistribute a $5 million a person. 0.99

00:13:43.000 According to a recent poll, 62% of Americans who think about their own death a lot of the time don't have a will, which is unbelievably stupid. 0.98

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00:14:24.000 Okay, so San Francisco, you know, again, stupid people making bad policy. 1.00

00:14:28.000 This is the way that it works. 0.99

00:14:29.000 So San Francisco is now looking at the possibility of a $5 million payout per black resident and a $97,000 annual base income and $1 houses for everyone.

00:14:40.000 Where all of this will come from, no one knows.

00:14:42.000 So this means San Francisco isn't actually going to do it.

00:14:45.000 But this is an aspect of wokeness.

00:14:46.000 So San Francisco is playing the Ibram X. Kendi game, and this is the natural outcome of the Ibram X. Kendi game.

00:14:51.000 You look at populations inside San Francisco, and what you see is a tremendous racial disparity in terms of income.

00:14:59.000 The income gap in San Francisco is really significant.

00:15:03.000 By the way, the people who are most going to be hurt by this are actually not the white residents of San Francisco.

00:15:08.000 In fact, according to the 2020 census, white Americans are only about 45% of the racial makeup of San Francisco.

00:15:15.000 It's Asian, as always, Asians who will be disproportionately impacted. 0.99

00:15:19.000 I love the Democratic Party.

00:15:20.000 They're like, man, we hate racism. 0.98

00:15:21.000 Make those Asians not get into Harvard. 1.00

00:15:22.000 And also we should have them pay reparations. 0.98

00:15:25.000 In San Francisco, two black Americans.

00:15:28.000 Because the population of San Francisco is 34% Asian.

00:15:32.000 It's about 5% black, by the way.

00:15:35.000 Household income by race, however, there are some pretty significant disparities by race in San Francisco.

00:15:43.000 And this is apparently why I suppose Asians are supposed to pay Black Americans. 0.98

00:15:49.000 Black Americans, median household income by race, in California and San Francisco, they make about $29,000 a year.

00:15:59.000 But white Americans and Asian Americans are making in excess of $75,000 or $100,000 a year.

00:16:02.000 So it's just basic redistribution.

00:16:06.000 It's essentially just redistributionist nonsense.

00:16:10.000 And because it's redistributionist nonsense, what that means is that group equity will be achieved.

00:16:14.000 That is the goal of the woke movement.

00:16:16.000 The goal of the woke movement, if you had to define wokeness, wokeness makes a couple of key claims.

00:16:20.000 It suggests that all the institutions of society are designed to preserve discrimination.

00:16:26.000 They're designed by the powerful to preserve discrimination.

00:16:28.000 And all group disparities are the result of said discrimination.

00:16:31.000 So when you see any differential between black income and, say, white income in the city of San Francisco, that must be because the systems have been designed to the detriment of black Americans in San Francisco. 0.50

00:16:42.000 Again, does not explain why Asians are doing so well across the board in the United States.

00:16:46.000 Does not explain why Latinos have seen tremendous income mobility in the United States.

00:16:50.000 Much better income mobility, actually, in the United States than, for example, American descendants of slaves.

00:16:56.000 It does not explain why black Americans who are not ADOS, who actually came later, and Nigerian-Americans, or Bahamanian-Americans, why so many of them are doing great.

00:17:06.000 In fact, Nigerian-Americans may be the highest educated group in America, by some survey data.

00:17:11.000 It doesn't explain any of that, but it doesn't have to explain, because it makes a claim about the universe, and that claim about the universe is incredibly compelling to people who believe that all evils and disparities in the universe can be explained by the malice of others.

00:17:24.000 Well, it's that precise view that leads to things like riots at a Charlie Kirk event at UC Davis.

00:17:30.000 So this was amazing footage.

00:17:32.000 I mean, again, we are using state taxpayer dollars. 1.00

00:17:36.000 Dumbest people making the dumbest policy. 1.00

00:17:37.000 We're using state taxpayer dollars to fund a bunch of baby idiots to smash windows when a person they disagree with speaks. 1.00

00:17:47.000 According to Mediaite, a TPUSA event with Charlie Kirk at UC Davis plunged into chaos on Tuesday night when protesters, including Black Klan Antifa members, clashed outside the venue in a fracas that resulted in two arrests. 0.99

00:17:59.000 Two.

00:18:00.000 Kirk's appearance at the campus was already causing anxiety before the event.

00:18:04.000 There was an opinion piece published in the Sacramento Bee the morning of the event in which the opinion assistant, Hannah Holzer, called Kirk a fascist and claimed that he called for the lynching of trans people, which of course is a lie, and the piece had to be corrected because it was a lie.

00:18:16.000 The Bee then updated its piece, essentially adding Charlie Kirk's denial that he was calling for lynching.

00:18:23.000 The video itself is rather astonishing.

00:18:25.000 Charlie tweeted out, Violent left-wing agitators just smashed through windows outside of the event venue here at UC Davis.

00:18:30.000 Reports are that some of this group made their way into the building before police successfully removed them.

00:18:33.000 Pray for peace and safety for all involved.

00:18:36.000 Hundreds of protesters were on the campus ahead of the event, including a large group of law enforcement officers.

00:18:40.000 The two groups clashed as objects were thrown, including eggs, while glass window panes were broken.

00:18:43.000 Here's a little bit of the video.

00:18:44.000 Here come the protesters.

00:18:56.000 I'm sorry.

00:19:00.000 And the cops are rushing inside.

00:19:01.000 They're locking the windows.

00:19:06.000 And here the people come smashing the windows to try to get through at the people inside.

00:19:12.000 Kicking the windows, smashing them.

00:19:14.000 These are the best educated among us.

00:19:16.000 So glad that UC Davis, a state school, can have this sort of activity take place.

00:19:20.000 Add it.

00:19:22.000 After the event, UC Davis released a statement saying one police officer was injured in the clash, while one officer sustained an injury when he was jumped on from behind and pushed to the ground.

00:19:30.000 So good times.

00:19:31.000 Protesters also blocked the walking path toward the event space, having been at the center of some of these fracases before.

00:19:37.000 I can tell you that the Wokies are perfectly happy to engage in violence when it serves their purpose. 1.00

00:19:42.000 And of course, they will be treated with kid gloves by the administration because the left is very fond of the Wokies. 1.00

00:19:47.000 They believe that they are essentially the shock troops for liberal social policy, even if they engage in policies that many on the left would say are a little over the top.

00:19:55.000 The problem is they're just too passionate.

00:19:57.000 They're too passionate.

00:19:57.000 Well, they're simultaneously engaging in this sort of stuff.

00:19:59.000 And meanwhile, the left is claiming that wokeness doesn't exist, that it's sort of a buzzword.

00:20:03.000 It's a form of high-level gaslighting we'll get to in a moment.

00:20:06.000 First, let's again talk about the fact that You know, the end of life for all of us will look the same.

00:20:11.000 We will all be dead.

00:20:12.000 But you don't just need a will, as we've already discussed.

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00:21:09.000 So meanwhile, while the wokes are breaking windows and dictating policy in San Francisco, they're pretending that the the word woke doesn't actually exist. 1.00

00:21:17.000 So yesterday, there was a clip that went viral.

00:21:19.000 I understand that anytime someone freezes on TV, it goes viral. 1.00

00:21:22.000 But this was going viral as evidence that the right doesn't know what wokeness is, which is unbelievably stupid. 0.98

00:21:27.000 The right does know, in fact, what wokeness is. 0.97

00:21:29.000 So for many people who don't spend their lives in this wokeness, it's sort of Like Justice Potter Stewart said about pornography, you know it when you see it.

00:21:38.000 But I think the way that it bleeds down to most people is essentially weaponized political correctness.

00:21:42.000 It's political correctness with a new equity guise.

00:21:45.000 Well, Bethany Mantel, who is the author of a new book called Stolen Youth with DW Books, it is now a national bestseller.

00:21:51.000 She was on a show called Rising with Breonna Joy Gray.

00:21:55.000 The lead up to this particular clip, and I called Bethany to ask her about it, the lead up to this particular clip apparently was that off the air, Breonna Joy Gray, was saying on a hot mic that Bethany could hear about how much she really does not like parents and thinks that parents have kids as an act of narcissism and stuff.

00:22:11.000 Bethany happens to be a mother of seven, including a mother of six, including a newborn.

00:22:16.000 In any case, that threw her off.

00:22:17.000 But this clip went viral, not not just because it's always, you know, good TV when someone freezes up or has a bad moment on TV, but because the left used this as evidence that the right has been using wokeness as sort of a catch all term that means nothing in order to rip on people, which is not true.

00:22:30.000 Here's the clip.

00:22:30.000 And then we'll discuss Bethany's actual definition.

00:22:33.000 And probably fewer of them consider themselves to be woke.

00:22:37.000 What does that mean to you?

00:22:39.000 Would you mind defining woke?

00:22:40.000 Because it's come up a couple of times and I just want to make sure we're on the same page.

00:22:44.000 So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that, um, I, this is going to be one of those moments I mean, woke is something that's very hard to define and we've spent an entire chapter defining it.

00:23:05.000 It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression.

00:23:18.000 Sorry, it's hard to explain in a 15 second soundbite.

00:23:23.000 Okay, so the left said, oh my gosh, she couldn't explain it in a 15 second soundbite.

00:23:27.000 So later, Bethany tweeted out her definition of wokeness, which again, there is a real definition of wokeness.

00:23:32.000 I've given it myself.

00:23:32.000 I've given full speeches on it.

00:23:34.000 Bethany tweeted out, quote, a radical belief system suggesting that our institutions are built around discrimination and claiming that all disparity is a result of that discrimination.

00:23:41.000 It seeks a radical redefinition of society in which equality of group result is the endpoint enforced by an angry mob.

00:23:45.000 That's a pretty good definition.

00:23:47.000 That's a pretty good definition.

00:23:50.000 So again, there are a bunch of definitions of wokeness, but they all share these same common features, right?

00:23:55.000 It is the equity claim of the Biden administration that anytime you see an imbalance in life that is due to evils in the system that must be destroyed because the systems are actually systems of oppression and power.

00:24:05.000 That's what it means.

00:24:06.000 But the left started trotting this thing around in order to claim that wokeness doesn't actually exist.

00:24:10.000 And this is just high-level gaslighting. 0.96

00:24:12.000 The notion that the right has no idea what wokeness is, is just a way for them to Avoid the consequences of their own crap woke policies. 0.92

00:24:21.000 So for example, there's a piece by Philip Bum, wildly dishonest columnist for the Washington Post titled, A viral moment reinforces the hollowness of woke as an attack. 0.90

00:24:31.000 Mandela had been asked a seemingly simple question by Gray.

00:24:33.000 She was on the show to promote a book she wrote with another conservative writer, Carol Markowitz, a book that purports to demonstrate how radicals are indoctrinating young people in America.

00:24:40.000 And then he quotes her.

00:24:42.000 And then he says, we might rephrase that slightly.

00:24:44.000 Woke, as often deployed by the right, refers to something emanating from or related to cultural issues that you understand as or want to portray as bad.

00:24:50.000 Right, so vagueness of woke is a pejorative, has come into relief in recent days, etc.

00:24:55.000 So woke doesn't actually exist.

00:24:57.000 So you guys coined the term and you guys defined the term and then you guys expanded the terms that it applies to virtually everything.

00:25:02.000 And then when Bethany freezes on TV, that means wokeness doesn't exist. 0.99

00:25:06.000 Now this stupid game, it. 0.98

00:25:08.000 It may obscure for the moment what exactly you are trying to do, but it doesn't actually obscure your policy. 1.00

00:25:14.000 And that's the thing.

00:25:15.000 Your policies themselves will have consequences.

00:25:18.000 Call them woke, don't call them woke.

00:25:19.000 It doesn't really matter all that much.

00:25:20.000 The fact of the matter is that your ideology boils down to bad policy, and that bad policy has consequences.

00:25:28.000 And those consequences are evident for everyone to see.

00:25:30.000 And we are seeing people right now vote with their feet, vote with their money.

00:25:33.000 It's going to have dramatic ramifications for the future of the United States.

00:25:36.000 The fact that this ideology has pervaded into the highest echelons of the Democratic Party and down to the lowest echelons of American society in terms of income, in terms of socioeconomic status, and all of the rest.

00:25:48.000 To pretend that wokeness doesn't exist while you guys actively promote it is pretty incredible.

00:25:53.000 Now, speaking of wokeness, There is a New York Attorney General, Letitia James, who essentially got Andrew Cuomo thrown out of office on the basis of a report that wasn't big enough to actually prosecute, but did allow her to essentially open a pathway to herself to run for the nomination for governor in New York. 0.97

00:26:12.000 She didn't win, obviously.

00:26:14.000 She has now decided that she's going to hold a Drag Story Hour event open to children.

00:26:19.000 So if you want to talk about, you know, wokeness in society, this is one aspect of wokeness.

00:26:22.000 All the mechanisms of society are designed to oppress not only Black Americans, as San Francisco claims, but also LGBTQ Americans.

00:26:30.000 And thus, we must fight back against the system by indoctrinating the youngest members of our society to hate the institutions and believe that all rules, roles, and responsibilities are wrong.

00:26:39.000 So now, New York Attorney General Letitia James is holding a drag queen event for children, along with a number of other elected officials.

00:26:45.000 They're holding a drag story hour.

00:26:47.000 This will be Sunday, March 19th at The Center on West 13th Street.

00:26:52.000 She will be joined by no less than four assembly members.

00:26:55.000 She'll be joined by no less than six council members, as well as a state senator.

00:27:00.000 My office is proud to host a Drag Story Hour read-a-thon, James stated in an Instagram post advertising the event.

00:27:05.000 But don't worry, they're not coming for your kids.

00:27:07.000 Don't worry.

00:27:08.000 It's all a figment of your imagination.

00:27:10.000 It's always a figment of your imagination. 1.00

00:27:12.000 This is the stupid game that they play. 1.00

00:27:13.000 It's always a figment of your imagination. 1.00

00:27:15.000 And if you protest against it, well, probably you're protesting against it because you're a bigot.

00:27:20.000 Or because you just have a very lively imagination. 0.96

00:27:23.000 When you notice that there is an active attempt to recruit into a woke ideology, and you can define woke, well that's probably because, you know, you're just exaggerating or you're just crazy. 0.89

00:27:32.000 Now here is the thing.

00:27:33.000 Most Americans are not going to stand for this.

00:27:35.000 Most Americans are not into this.

00:27:36.000 And so if this comes down to a battle between the wokes and the not-wokes, and among the wokes you also have to include all the people who are gaslighting on behalf of wokeness, The not-wokes are going to win. 0.98

00:27:47.000 There are just many, many more of them.

00:27:48.000 If this comes down to a cultural battle between Letitia James sponsoring Drag Queen Story Hour for children and Ron DeSantis and his ideology in Florida, which is now making good on his promise to stop sexually oriented events directed at children, DeSantis is going to win.

00:28:04.000 So as Breitbart is now reporting, Governor DeSantis' administration in Florida is now making good on its promise to target facilities allowing children to attend sexually explicit drag shows.

00:28:12.000 It's seeking to revoke the alcohol license of the Hyatt Regency in Miami over a drag show that took place in December, which allowed kids to be in attendance.

00:28:19.000 According to the administrative complaint, the event in question was a Drag Queen Christmas, which occurred at the James L. Knight Center connected to the hotel giant December 27th.

00:28:27.000 Part of the complaint, Respondent promoted the show using targeted, Christmas-themed promotional materials that did not provide notice as to the sexually explicit nature of the show's performances or other content.

00:28:36.000 Rather than call attention to the show's sexually explicit content or acknowledge it might not be appropriate for children, Respondent's promotional materials unequivocally stated, quote, all ages welcome.

00:28:45.000 Apparently, during the show and in the presence of a person less than 16 years of age, performers appeared on stage wearing sexually suggestive clothing and prosthetic female genitalia. 0.95

00:28:53.000 Apparently, the performance also featured numerous segments where performers engaged in acts of sexual conduct, sexual activity, and lewd, vulgar, and indecent displays, including performers forcibly penetrating or rubbing their exposed prosthetic female crests against the faces or oral cavities of audience members, as well as simulating masturbation through performers digitally penetrating prosthetic female genitalia. 0.96

00:29:14.000 It also noted the sexually explicit nature of the show's Christmas songs, which included Screwed Off the Red-Nippled Reindeer, Salad stuff there from these folks. 0.98

00:29:24.000 Targeting children.

00:29:25.000 Really, really good stuff.

00:29:27.000 And the state of Florida is going to crack down on that as well.

00:29:29.000 So, meanwhile, you know, you guys can pretend that we don't know what Wilkner says.

00:29:29.000 They should.

00:29:32.000 We do.

00:29:33.000 We see it.

00:29:33.000 And we see the consequences of it.

00:29:35.000 And you guys are cruising for a bruising.

00:29:38.000 I understand that you're going to put up unthreatening old man Joe Biden in order to rebut accusations that you're radical, but it ain't going to stop.

00:29:45.000 It ain't going to stop what's coming.

00:29:46.000 There's a wave coming and Democrats are going to earn the scorn of the American people.

00:29:50.000 They certainly have so far.

00:29:52.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:31:01.000 Also, what if I told you that there is one book that's done more for literacy than any other book?

00:31:05.000 It's shaped literature, art, government, countless lives.

00:31:07.000 I'm, of course, referring to the Bible.

00:31:09.000 I know it's unpopular to say that these days.

00:31:11.000 You know who else has had an influence on my friend Jordan Peterson.

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00:31:23.000 I was very much struck by how the translation of the biblical writings jump-started the development of literacy across the entire world.

00:31:32.000 Illiteracy was the norm.

00:31:34.000 The pastor's home was the first school, and every morning it would begin with singing.

00:31:40.000 The Christian faith is a singing religion.

00:31:43.000 Probably 80% of scripture memorization today exists only because of what is sung.

00:31:48.000 This is amazing.

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00:32:38.000 Now again, one of the things that the left is doing in order to prevent people from seeing the consequences of their own radical Nature and many of the things that they are doing that are radical is they're trotting out a person who appears unthreatening.

00:32:49.000 I've said this for literally years.

00:32:51.000 I said since 2016, believe it or not, the best nominee for the Democrats would be Joe Biden.

00:32:56.000 I said that specifically because he appears old and unthreatening.

00:32:59.000 That's the best thing you can do if you're a Democrat and you have a very threatening program.

00:33:02.000 The best thing you can do is trot out somebody who appears elderly and infirm and unthreatening. 0.60

00:33:07.000 Makes it very difficult to attack the guy is radical because, of course, no matter how radical he is, he also appears as though he is on the verge of death.

00:33:13.000 Joe Biden, increasingly these days, looks as though he is a warmed over corpse.

00:33:17.000 Well, that does grant you the ability to claim that he's not radical.

00:33:19.000 After all, dead people aren't all that radical.

00:33:21.000 He continues to trot out there.

00:33:23.000 And when I say trot, I mean, walk very slowly and carefully across linoleum.

00:33:28.000 He yesterday was speaking and he started babbling again about doctors and nurses.

00:33:33.000 He has these kind of rolodex of weird lines that he keeps using.

00:33:36.000 And it's growing increasingly strange.

00:33:38.000 Are there nurses in the house? 1.00

00:33:42.000 Where are the nurses? 1.00

00:33:44.000 Now look, I've been a significant consumer of healthcare.

00:33:48.000 My family has.

00:33:49.000 Doctors let you live.

00:33:52.000 Nurses, male and female, make you want to live. 0.99

00:33:55.000 No, I'm serious.

00:33:56.000 the single most underrated profession in America.

00:33:59.000 And I'm going to be honest, I'm not a big fan of the word, but I'm not a big fan of the word, either.

00:34:07.000 I'm not a big fan of the word.

00:34:09.000 Now I want to live before I wanted to die.

00:34:11.000 Now, life is so precious.

00:34:15.000 He also did this routine.

00:34:16.000 I don't know.

00:34:17.000 Apparently, there's a thing he does a lot.

00:34:18.000 There are people who are in a balcony watching him, and he told them not to jump, which apparently is, as we'll discuss in a moment, a thing he does quite frequently.

00:34:26.000 Does the current president of the United States here?

00:34:27.000 He was yesterday.

00:34:28.000 Started earlier, not because of the Doc's decisions, but because of other decisions made.

00:34:33.000 Oh, wow.

00:34:34.000 I didn't see you all up there.

00:34:39.000 Holy mackerel.

00:34:41.000 Don't jump.

00:34:46.000 Were they on the verge of jumping?

00:34:47.000 I mean, he is a terrible speaker.

00:34:49.000 So maybe they were thinking apparently there's a thing he does all the time.

00:34:52.000 Here is just a short montage of Joe Biden randomly telling people not to jump from from higher from higher vantage points. I don't know if he is just channeling random cop on Golden Gate Bridge and what's happening here, but this is he's such a weird old dude. I'm sorry. He's a weird guy.

00:35:08.000 Democrats for a long time that they kept saying Donald Trump was weird. Okay, fine. Gotcha.

00:35:13.000 Also, this guy's weird. I'm sorry. Joe Biden's a weirdo.

00:35:16.000 Here we go. 0.85

00:35:17.000 That's my grandson, Bo, up there and my granddaughter.

00:35:21.000 Don't let him jump.

00:35:25.000 Don't jump!

00:35:26.000 We need you!

00:35:27.000 What?

00:35:27.000 Don't jump!

00:35:38.000 And don't jump!

00:35:42.000 Hey! 0.99

00:35:43.000 Hey man!

00:35:44.000 Don't jump! 0.99

00:35:45.000 You look crazy enough to jump! 0.98

00:35:46.000 Don't jump! 1.00

00:35:48.000 Don't jump!

00:35:51.000 Look!

00:35:52.000 And we're coming!

00:35:54.000 Don't jump.

00:35:55.000 Don't jump.

00:35:56.000 What is he talking about?

00:35:59.000 Don't jump.

00:36:00.000 And don't jump from up there.

00:36:02.000 Well, I mean, I guess that is one way to put an elderly and unthreatening face on an insanely nutty legal regimen that you are seeking to pursue here.

00:36:14.000 Well, this does, of course, once again, raise the question as to whether the Republicans are going to run somebody who is capable of beating this doddering elderly gentleman.

00:36:24.000 And right now, I'll say it again, this seems to be, effectively speaking, a two-man race at this point.

00:36:30.000 I think that all of the talk about other candidates who are getting into the race so far, unless Ron DeSantis falls down on the job, this is basically a race between Trump and DeSantis.

00:36:39.000 That is what all the polls are showing right now.

00:36:41.000 There are some polls that are showing Trump up.

00:36:42.000 There are other polls that are showing DeSantis narrowly up.

00:36:45.000 It seems like the momentum right now is with DeSantis.

00:36:47.000 The way that you can tell is by the sort of desperate gambit that Trump has been pulling.

00:36:52.000 As of recently yesterday, Chip Roy preemptively endorsed Ron DeSantis.

00:36:56.000 He characterized him as a, quote, vibrant and energetic leader with the faith, vision, and courage to chart a new course.

00:37:00.000 That would, of course, be the same Chip Roy who tried to lead a rebellion against Kevin McCarthy as speaker and actually was able to claw away from McCarthy a bunch of concessions to the Freedom Caucus.

00:37:09.000 Chip Roy said his style of no-nonsense government and fearless rejection of woke conventional wisdom has demonstrated an appeal to all of us based on our shared values as Americans.

00:37:16.000 Governor DeSantis makes clear he would lead our nation as commander-in-chief with the kind of resolve and sober strength that has produced peace through strength, That's two kind of side swipes at Trump right there.

00:37:25.000 been built upon and defined by the sacrifices of one generation for the next.

00:37:28.000 When Republicans choose our 2024 presidential nominee, who I intend to support against Joe Biden or any other Democrat, I believe it's time for a new generation of leadership.

00:37:35.000 It's time for younger but proven leadership to offer America eight solid years of transformational change.

00:37:39.000 That's two kind of side swipes at Trump right there.

00:37:42.000 Quiet side swipes.

00:37:43.000 Side swipe number one is he says we need somebody younger.

00:37:45.000 And two, he makes a pretty good point here, which is, you know, it'd be great is if we nominated someone who can serve eight years.

00:37:49.000 Even if Donald Trump would run and win, he can only serve four.

00:37:52.000 Wouldn't it be better to have somebody who can serve eight?

00:37:53.000 That's actually not a terrible argument.

00:37:55.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump.

00:37:57.000 He's of course preparing his own push against Ron DeSantis.

00:38:00.000 He's been going out and saying weird things like Charlie Criss was an amazing governor of Florida.

00:38:04.000 And then he was speaking in Iowa and he says that, you know, Ron DeSantis, Ron's not going to give you the ethanol subsidies.

00:38:09.000 Now, I wouldn't care normally.

00:38:11.000 He said, I don't really care if Ron DeSantis would give you the ethanol, but since we're in Iowa, I care right now.

00:38:11.000 He literally said this.

00:38:16.000 If he weren't running, I'd say he's great, but he's running so he's terrible.

00:38:18.000 Like Trump just says the quiet part out loud, which is one of the hilarious things about him.

00:38:21.000 Well, now that the beautiful thing about a He's effectively having no centralizing principles to say you can attack candidates from any side of any issue.

00:38:30.000 So now, believe it or not, Donald Trump's allies are trying to file legal complaints against Ron DeSantis, formally accusing him of violating state ethics and election laws with his shadow presidential campaign.

00:38:40.000 So the president of the United States who claims that state election laws have been geared against him and that he is being unfairly targeted by a wide variety of election officials ranging from New York to Georgia, he's now trying to use the same election laws to target Ron DeSantis, man.

00:38:55.000 That is a person with enormous amounts of intestinal fortitude and very little capacity for shame.

00:39:00.000 Make America Great Again Inc.

00:39:02.000 is filing a 15-page complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics, a draft of which was obtained exclusively by NBC News.

00:39:07.000 So not only are they doing this, they're now leaking it to the same mainstream media legacy outlets that Donald Trump hates.

00:39:13.000 This forum asked the commission to probe whether DeSantis' super PACs, his personally lucrative book tour, and a continued wave of state-level campaign contributions are unlawful because they serve his personal political objectives.

00:39:23.000 Which, um, by the way, no.

00:39:25.000 The answer is no.

00:39:26.000 This does not violate the law.

00:39:27.000 Every candidate who's currently sitting in federal office who's considering a presidential run is doing many of these same things.

00:39:32.000 Meanwhile, Trump is preparing an extensive op-o-file on Randa Sanctimonious, according to Politico.

00:39:38.000 Again, the fact that Trump's team uses the legacy media outlets as his sources of leaks, like DeSantis' team, they don't even talk to the legacy media.

00:39:44.000 So the great consternation and rage of the legacy media, right?

00:39:47.000 They're constantly putting out stories about how team DeSantis is leak-free.

00:39:50.000 Why won't they talk to us?

00:39:50.000 They won't talk to us.

00:39:51.000 They need to talk to us!

00:39:52.000 Just talk to us!

00:39:53.000 Meanwhile, Trump is just leaking like a sieve.

00:39:56.000 Not a shock.

00:39:56.000 He was on the phone half of his presidency with Maggie Haberman of the New York Times while simultaneously decrying Maggie Haberman of the New York Times.

00:40:02.000 According to Politico, Trump's team and his allied pack are preparing an expansive OPPO research file by pouring over DeSantis' record as prosecutor, member of Congress, and Florida governor.

00:40:11.000 Among the items a Trump allied group has drilled into is DeSantis' record while serving as an assistant U.S.

00:40:15.000 attorney before running for congressional office with plans to accuse him of being an extremely lenient prosecutor.

00:40:21.000 In cases involving, among other things, child pornography.

00:40:23.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

00:40:25.000 Seriously, good luck with that.

00:40:26.000 He was soft on child pornography.

00:40:28.000 Uh-huh.

00:40:29.000 He's the governor currently barring Hilton from doing drag shows for children, or Hyatt.

00:40:36.000 And he's soft on child pornography.

00:40:39.000 Seriously, good luck with that one.

00:40:41.000 Well, we'll see how this fight inside the Republican Party plays out over time.

00:40:46.000 Obviously, we're keeping an eye on it.

00:40:48.000 The most absurd sight of the day yesterday came courtesy of Dylan Mulvaney.

00:40:53.000 Now, you will recognize Dylan Mulvaney from such wonderful videos as, that time I got the President of the United States to talk about how I was a woman even though I'm a man.

00:41:02.000 Or, alternatively, how I got the President of the United States to endorse transing the children. 0.93

00:41:06.000 Well, Dylan Mulvaney had a one-year anniversary party.

00:41:10.000 It was one year as a girl.

00:41:13.000 It was Dylan Mulvaney's Day 365 Live.

00:41:15.000 It was a cabaret show at the iconic Rainbow Room in New York.

00:41:19.000 And Dylan Mulvaney dressed up as a woman, put his hair up as though he was Audrey Hepburn, and wore a sort of classic looking gown, and then proceeded to do a bunch of musical cabaret numbers, and concluded with this particular number, in which many of the Daily Wire voices and hosts are featured, pointing out that Dylan Mulvaney is, in fact, a dude masquerading as a woman, and doing so to the great applause and acclaim of a crowd, and making money off of this, and doing great by it, by pushing the lie that boys can become girls, girls can become boys,

00:41:49.000 So Dylan Mulvaney, to rebut the accusation that Dylan Mulvaney is actually an attention-seeking narcissist who desperately wants everybody to give him money for being a fake girl for a year.

00:42:00.000 Which, by the way, is precisely what's happening.

00:42:03.000 This was to celebrate Dylan Mulvaney's one year as a girl.

00:42:07.000 You know what my daughters did on their one year as a girl anniversary?

00:42:11.000 They had their first birthday party.

00:42:12.000 That's what they did.

00:42:13.000 They remember it because they were one year old.

00:42:15.000 You can't be one year as a girl when you're a dude.

00:42:18.000 But that's the whole point, right?

00:42:19.000 I mean, the whole point here is to, is to, this is ultimate face tattoo syndrome.

00:42:23.000 What if you act as though you're a girl? 0.61

00:42:26.000 What if you masquerade using all of the stereotypical ideas about women? 0.87

00:42:31.000 You play, you play act being a girl for a year and then you get all sorts of contracts from, from mascara companies and you go meet with the president of the United States and you're a better woman than all of the women and you're a hero.

00:42:40.000 You're a hero of the, of the Republic.

00:42:43.000 But you're not doing it for personal benefit at all.

00:42:45.000 Personal benefit has nothing to do with it, and it's not about attention-seeking at all.

00:42:47.000 It's just about how you feel on the inside, which is why you would do a cabaret show, like full-on with orchestration and everything, at the Rainbow Room, and apparently, actually charge ticket prices, is what I've learned, apparently, that was reported, to things like this.

00:43:04.000 Here is a Dylan Mulvaney's act yesterday.

00:43:06.000 I feel supported, and you know what?

00:43:08.000 I'm feeling lucky.

00:43:09.000 Let's Google my name.

00:43:11.000 No!

00:43:13.000 No emotion.

00:43:16.000 Until Mulvaney goes back of a screen and someone is changing his outfit for him.

00:43:21.000 Because it's a costume show.

00:43:22.000 Dillon Mulvaney is intentionally degrading women every time he does this woman face minstrel show routine.

00:43:28.000 That one can say he's a woman and become one of the most influential women in America in just six months of wearing dresses and ironing his hair.

00:43:36.000 The patriarchy always wins, gang.

00:43:38.000 Ah, and there is Dillon Mulvaney as Audrey Hepburn. 1.00

00:43:40.000 The difference being that Audrey Hepburn was an actual woman with a vagina. 1.00

00:43:44.000 Why would you give them even a second of your big day? 0.56

00:43:47.000 Well, these are the people I have to deal with on a regular basis, so I thought I should exclude them in the evening.

00:43:52.000 But that doesn't mean you have to listen to them.

00:43:54.000 Well, I've always loved a little constructive criticism.

00:43:56.000 Baby, there's nothing constructive about that.

00:43:58.000 And it's not just criticism, it's indoctrination.

00:44:01.000 Trans and non-binary people have been around for thousands of years.

00:44:08.000 Hey, and then, Dylan Mulvaney sings.

00:44:11.000 Dylan Mulvaney then sings.

00:44:13.000 And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get him to swap our places.

00:44:22.000 Can we pause there?

00:44:24.000 I'm gonna say something that might make people feel a little bit uncomfortable.

00:44:29.000 Um, I'm trying really hard to maintain a relationship with God.

00:44:34.000 And I don't think that he made a mistake with me.

00:44:38.000 And that maybe one day I will actually be grateful for being trans.

00:44:44.000 That this isn't some curse, but it's just a different path to the same destination.

00:44:51.000 Okay, this is all pre-scripted, guys, obviously.

00:44:55.000 Like, literally the music stops when Dylan Mulvaney wants to have his little chat about his relationship with God, which has not come up, as far as I'm aware, in any of his other public sort of appearances, but now it's so personal.

00:45:05.000 It's so personal.

00:45:06.000 The criticism is all personal.

00:45:07.000 You're doing this in public in a scripted setting that you are charging money for.

00:45:11.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:45:14.000 And if you don't believe that this has to do with earning money at all for Dylan Mulvaney, it is just purely Dylan Mulvaney being Dylan Mulvaney.

00:45:21.000 I ask you a question.

00:45:23.000 Why is this person getting ad deals for being a man masquerading as a woman?

00:45:27.000 Also, at the end of the show, Mulvaney joyfully, this is according to Variety, at the end of the show, Mulvaney joyfully declared that she is ready to start her journey of womanhood.

00:45:35.000 She recently told Variety's Mark Malkin part of her new chapter will be scaling back from TikTok and exploring new artistic endeavors.

00:45:41.000 She hinted that one possibility could be creating a musical series in the vein of in the vein of Smash.

00:45:46.000 You mean that this person is going to make an entire career out of pretending to be?

00:45:50.000 No, no, you shock me.

00:45:51.000 It was all just a personal decision about the interior and the interior gender dysphoria of this troubled person.

00:45:57.000 And everybody should just pretend that he is a woman for his own mental health. 1.00

00:46:01.000 But it has nothing to do with a brand.

00:46:03.000 It has nothing to do with fame.

00:46:05.000 If you ever remember the show Smash, I totally could see myself doing sort of a TV show with singing where I play myself, said Mulvaney on the red carpet.

00:46:11.000 It would be very dramatic.

00:46:12.000 I can't.

00:46:15.000 Yeah, it's also authentic, guys.

00:46:19.000 This is an authentic woman.

00:46:21.000 An authentic, authentic woman.

00:46:22.000 And again, the whole point for the left is you personalize the political and then insist that nobody say a damn thing because it might be offensive.

00:46:28.000 It might make people feel bad.

00:46:30.000 So you take a political statement like, a man can be a woman, and every child should be taught that a boy can be a girl.

00:46:35.000 And every child should be treated as essentially non-binary or you're forcing cisgenderism upon them. 0.95

00:46:40.000 You take that extraordinarily radical position and then you telescope it down into the life of a person like a Dylan Mulvaney.

00:46:45.000 And then if you critique this by saying Dylan Mulvaney is in fact a man masquerading as a woman and making lots of money for doing so, then this is be- You're mean. 0.87

00:46:52.000 You're cruel.

00:46:53.000 It's bad.

00:46:54.000 It's a perverse little game.

00:46:57.000 And when you are charging $5 a pop to watch Dylan Mulvaney sing a scripted show about how tearful and cryy Dylan Mulvaney is over videos of me and Matt Walsh and Candace Owens, I don't believe you.

00:47:11.000 Number one, I don't believe you.

00:47:12.000 Number two, I think you're making money off it.

00:47:13.000 So I think you're doing great.

00:47:15.000 And number three, you're making a broader political point that has the impact on anyone else.

00:47:19.000 As I've said before, how you treat people in your day-to-day life is a different question from serious political questions that are impacted By very famous people saying things that have inherently political... You were sitting with the president of the United States and promoting a particular agenda.

00:47:34.000 Stop pretending that what you do has no impact on anyone else.

00:47:38.000 It is not true.

00:47:38.000 It is fundamentally untrue.

00:47:40.000 You know that, of course, which is why you're doing it.

00:47:42.000 Okay, time for some things I like.

00:47:44.000 So, the wokes are on the warpath against a wide variety of institutions, but it is good when occasionally an institution has enough of a sense of self-preservation not to surrender to it. 1.00

00:47:52.000 So, one of those institutions is the National Audubon Society.

00:47:55.000 So, when you think about the National Audubon Society, you probably think of birds, right?

00:47:58.000 That's probably what you think of, because that's what the National Audubon Society does.

00:48:02.000 They're a conservation group about birds.

00:48:05.000 Do you think of slavery?

00:48:06.000 Do you think of the evils of slavery?

00:48:09.000 Probably not, because why would you?

00:48:11.000 Because if you actually know anything about the Audubon Society, you spend most of your time looking at very nice pictures of birds.

00:48:16.000 But apparently the Wokes were very upset because James Audubon was a slaveholder.

00:48:19.000 And so what they now want to do is take his name off of the Audubon Society that he founded.

00:48:27.000 And the National Audubon Society, to its great credit, said, no, we're not going to do that.

00:48:30.000 According to the Washington Post, the move comes as about half a dozen of the organization's regional chapters have pledged to scrub his name from their titles, part of a broader reckoning.

00:48:38.000 Ah, the reckoning.

00:48:39.000 This is one of the words the media love to use, the reckoning.

00:48:42.000 It's not just an audaciously radical move to obliterate history.

00:48:45.000 It's a reckoning.

00:48:46.000 The reckoning has come!

00:48:47.000 Revenge!

00:48:49.000 Over to the U.S. 0.89

00:48:49.000 environmental movement's history of entrenched racism. 0.89

00:48:53.000 The National Audubon Society's 26-person board of directors voted to retain its current name during a Zoom meeting on Monday after more than a year of deliberating and gathering feedback from both members and outsiders.

00:49:01.000 Susan Bell, chair of the board, declined to provide a breakdown of the final vote.

00:49:05.000 The name has come to represent not just one person, but broader love of birds and nature, said Bell.

00:49:09.000 Okay, I mean, you can put up a plaque saying that this guy also had a lot of real problems, and this guy thought a lot of real bad things, but can we stop pretending that people who do bad things don't also do good things?

00:49:22.000 Or that history didn't exist?

00:49:23.000 Or that the first pure people who have ever lived have lived in our generation? 0.56

00:49:27.000 In a sign of internal strife, three board members resigned after the organization chose to retain the name.

00:49:33.000 Activists in and outside of the organization have called upon the group to jettison Autobahn's names.

00:49:37.000 After months of conducting listening sessions and surveying people in both camps, the National Organization's Board of Directors decided that the moniker is nearly synonymous with the avian conservation movement and should not be abandoned.

00:49:47.000 Well, yes.

00:49:48.000 I mean, of course, that happens to be true.

00:49:51.000 It was his pictures of things like the ivory-billed woodpecker that made people even aware of the presence of these birds.

00:49:59.000 But apparently, now they're saying that because he was an unrepentant enslaver, an opponent of the abolitionist movement, that means it's time to take his name off this thing.

00:50:10.000 I'm sorry.

00:50:12.000 Good for the National Audubon Society for saying no.

00:50:14.000 Seriously, what are you going to do? 1.00

00:50:15.000 This is so stupid. 1.00

00:50:17.000 Other things that I like. 0.99

00:50:18.000 So, there was, at one point, a movie called Willow.

00:50:22.000 It was a cult classic, the movie.

00:50:24.000 It came out in 1988.

00:50:27.000 We'll admit, never seen it.

00:50:29.000 Don't know the movie from Adam.

00:50:31.000 Really don't know anything about it.

00:50:32.000 It was executive produced by George Lucas.

00:50:34.000 It was directed by Ron Howard.

00:50:36.000 It starred Val Kilmer, etc.

00:50:39.000 And it wasn't like a major hit in its time.

00:50:44.000 Well, that's not true actually.

00:50:45.000 It did well in its time.

00:50:46.000 It had a budget of about $35 million.

00:50:47.000 It made about $140 million at the box office.

00:50:51.000 And so they decided, because it was kind of this cult classic, that they were going to Release a series of it on Disney plus, but in order to make it modern, so Disney has the ability to make things, you know, update things instead of updating plots and writing new plots for old beloved characters.

00:51:06.000 What Disney has basically decided is the best way to update every story.

00:51:10.000 is to re-racialize characters or make them gay.

00:51:13.000 This is the best way to update a story.

00:51:15.000 You don't actually have to change any of the underlying beats or patterns.

00:51:18.000 You don't actually have to think of new and interesting stories for the characters that people knew and loved. 0.57

00:51:22.000 Instead, what you do is you just make them black or gay.

00:51:25.000 And if you do that, then magically people will love it. 0.87

00:51:28.000 Now, I've yet to see this strategy actually work for Disney.

00:51:30.000 I'm confused as to why they think that this is a great strategy.

00:51:33.000 And obviously, it only works one way, right?

00:51:34.000 You're not going to have Princess Tiana suddenly be cast as white in a live-action Princess and the Frog.

00:51:39.000 You'll have Ariel cast as black in the new Little Mermaid.

00:51:42.000 And again, all Disney's prerogative doesn't make a large scale difference.

00:51:46.000 No, it doesn't make a large scale difference, but it's obviously a move to to garner attention.

00:51:51.000 It also is sort of a weird marketing move because every single small girl who has a picture in her head of what Ariel looks like from The Little Mermaid sees a white girl with red hair, right?

00:52:02.000 Like a Danish archetype.

00:52:04.000 That's that's what because that was literally the animated movie.

00:52:06.000 So taking that and switching it all up like you can do it, whatever, but trying to pretend that that is like the update on Ariel.

00:52:13.000 Ground groundbreaking, earth shaking, and then simultaneously and people like, well, she doesn't really look like the original.

00:52:18.000 You noticed, didn't you?

00:52:20.000 I love that.

00:52:21.000 It's so important that we do these things.

00:52:23.000 It's so important that we LGBT willow.

00:52:25.000 And then if you notice like, oh, but you noticed. 0.98

00:52:27.000 And the fact that you noticed means that you're a, you're a weirdo that you noticed. 0.87

00:52:30.000 No, we noticed. 0.76

00:52:31.000 And then nobody watched.

00:52:32.000 So Willow has now been canceled, which is why this isn't things I like.

00:52:35.000 It did not meet the company's threshold in terms of buzz.

00:52:39.000 And, uh, and now Willow has been put on the chopping block.

00:52:41.000 Of course, Willow was originally designed as a, as a show for like young teens.

00:52:48.000 According to Empire Online, it caught up with the title character years after the original movie and saw him drawn into a new quest to face a resurgent threat.

00:52:56.000 Now, again, my impression of the movie Willow is that Willow was not exactly directed at 25-year-olds.

00:53:03.000 Willow was directed to teens.

00:53:05.000 So Disney Plus was promoting LGBT storylines and characters to young teens.

00:53:11.000 And it turns out a lot of people were like, nah, not into it.

00:53:13.000 So now it's been canceled.

00:53:14.000 Here's a clip from Willow, the failed show after one season.

00:53:18.000 That's the strategy.

00:53:20.000 I love you.

00:53:22.000 Yep, got the lesbian teens going at it over here. 1.00

00:53:28.000 That's just what people apparently were not super fond of watching.

00:53:36.000 So, obviously the critics loved it because as long as you dump in enough of this sort of stuff, then the critics are super into it.

00:53:42.000 83% on Rotten Tomatoes cancelled after one season.

00:53:45.000 So, well done Disney.

00:53:46.000 Yet again, taking a property that may have had some value and completely robbing it of any and all value.

00:53:50.000 Just slow clap for these guys.

00:53:51.000 Okay, time for some things I hate.

00:53:52.000 Alrighty, so...

00:53:59.000 Jazz Jennings was the first very, very famous trans kid.

00:54:02.000 Jazz Jennings was the star of TLC's I Am Jazz.

00:54:05.000 And this person has had just a tragically sad life.

00:54:08.000 Truly a tragically sad life.

00:54:10.000 Jazz Jennings is a male and declared himself transgender at the age of five.

00:54:16.000 And his parents decided that they would now make him a very famous trans kid and wreck his life. 1.00

00:54:24.000 So, Jazz Jenning has now been through a bout of hormone treatment, many surgeries, etc. 0.99

00:54:29.000 Jazz is now 22 years old and is not happy, which is just a shock.

00:54:35.000 A true shock.

00:54:36.000 According to Breitbart, the current season followed Jazz's severe weight gain and adventures in dating and romance.

00:54:40.000 Now 22 years old and a student at Harvard, the reality TV star has tried dating men, but revealed he was attracted to a woman in the latest episode, which would technically make him a man.

00:54:48.000 A straight man is what this would technically make him.

00:54:51.000 But good news, his parents completely effed him up.

00:54:55.000 So here is Jazz Jennings expressing pain and suffering because, again, you know it's a really, really bad recipe? 0.74

00:55:03.000 Honoring the wishes of five-year-old children who don't know what the hell they are talking about and then immediately shoveling them in front of cameras for your own sick and perverse glorification.

00:55:12.000 And then shoveling them full of hormones and getting them surgery. 0.94

00:55:15.000 It turns out that's a really, really bad idea.

00:55:18.000 You know I can't get out of my head.

00:55:20.000 I know.

00:55:20.000 No, listen.

00:55:22.000 It just doesn't stop.

00:55:23.000 It's okay.

00:55:24.000 Give me a hug.

00:55:24.000 It's okay.

00:55:25.000 I know what you're going through.

00:55:26.000 We've been there before.

00:55:26.000 No, it still doesn't stop now.

00:55:28.000 And I'm already going back to negative.

00:55:29.000 The more you're talking about yourself, it gets harder.

00:55:32.000 You're digging in and you're, it's making you put a magnifying glass on what's already difficult as it is.

00:55:38.000 So this is hard for you.

00:55:39.000 I know.

00:55:40.000 And you don't, we don't want to push you anymore.

00:55:41.000 I know.

00:55:41.000 I'm the one doing it.

00:55:42.000 Like.

00:55:43.000 I know.

00:55:43.000 You're your own worst enemy.

00:55:47.000 I feel kind of all over the place and like my mind is very cluttered and not clear and I really want to have that clarity.

00:55:54.000 I really want to understand myself and be able to read my own soul and what I want and it's just very challenging and I think I'm kind of breaking down a little bit and spiraling into negativity.

00:56:05.000 I just want to feel like myself.

00:56:08.000 Like that's it.

00:56:08.000 I don't care.

00:56:09.000 All I want is to be happy and feel like me and I don't feel like me ever.

00:56:15.000 Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye.

00:56:17.000 Yeah, that's, uh, that's some... Yeah.

00:56:20.000 So, a few things.

00:56:21.000 One, putting children on camera is always a terrible idea.

00:56:24.000 Like, there's a reason that pretty much every child actor ends up screwed up.

00:56:27.000 It is a very, very bad idea.

00:56:29.000 Put that next to the fact that this kid was experiencing apparently gender confusion at a young age, and then the parents decided to feature this kid on national television, and then to transition this kid over the course of years on national television.

00:56:39.000 Are you, are you exactly shocked that Jazz Jennings has serious personal crises?

00:56:47.000 As a person who has extraordinary weight gains, who is sexually confused, who is binge eating, he gained nearly a hundred pounds, And has had multiple surgeries, including after a gender reassignment surgery.

00:57:02.000 Complications that required another follow-up procedure.

00:57:04.000 Again, these are surgeries that construct fake genitalia.

00:57:08.000 But don't worry, it's all about mental health, guys.

00:57:10.000 It's all about what's best for the kids, clearly.

00:57:12.000 This is apparently what the Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan believes. 0.99

00:57:16.000 So she came out yesterday and she said that the most important thing as a parent is to apparently greenlight anything your dumb child wants. 0.96

00:57:24.000 This is life-affirming and life-saving healthcare. 0.95

00:57:31.000 When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them.

00:57:42.000 That's what it means to be a good parent.

00:57:47.000 No, that is 100% not what it means to be a good parent.

00:57:51.000 That is factually speaking not what it means to be a good parent, is to listen to your child when they tell you who they are and believe them and then facilitate them? 1.00

00:57:59.000 That's the stupidest garbage I ever heard. 1.00

00:58:02.000 As a parent of three, soon to be four, that's nonsense. 1.00

00:58:06.000 My three-year-old daughter for a year dressed up as Skye from Paw Patrol. 0.64

00:58:11.000 Did that mean that I should like throw her off a roof in a helicopter to see if she was going to fly? 1.00

00:58:17.000 No, because that's idiotic. 1.00

00:58:18.000 Children don't know things. 1.00

00:58:20.000 This is why they are children.

00:58:21.000 It is your job to protect them.

00:58:22.000 It is not your job to facilitate their every whim.

00:58:25.000 This makes you, definitionally, a bad parent.

00:58:29.000 But again, this is part and parcel of the broader left-wing attempt to substitute A sort of tabula rasa version of life for civilization itself.

00:58:41.000 And the purpose of parents used to be to civilize kids.

00:58:42.000 Now I guess the purpose of parents is to simply continue to green light whatever kids want to do so long as it fosters a left-wing social agenda.

00:58:50.000 My goodness, that's an insane line.

00:58:53.000 And that of course is all in pursuit of sex changes for minors.

00:58:55.000 So just genius level stuff here.

00:58:58.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:58:59.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 16, 2023

$5 Million For Being Black, And Other Terrible Policy Ideas

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