A left-wing assassin plans to murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the media is strangely silent? Meanwhile, Joe Biden s approval ratings hit historic lows, even as Jimmy Kimmel provides him psychosexual gratification on national TV, and Democrats try to manipulate Americans on gun control. Today s show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Do you like your web history being seen and sold to advertisers? No? Get ExpressVPN right now at expressvpn.net slash Ben Shapiro to get 50% off your very first month. You can literally be switched over to Pure Talk service in less than 10 minutes. That is PureTalk.com, enter promo code SHAPIRO to get started again. That s Puretalk.com/Shapiro. Use promo code SHAPORTHOOD at checkout to get $50 off your first month of Pure Talk. You can t get more Pure Talk than that, and you re not going to get nearly as much value as you're getting from Pure Talk! You won t get as much access to the latest and greatest tools and features as you do at the site, and it won t affect your credit score, and your bill won t go up as much, either. That s pure talk! You ll get more privacy, faster, cheaper, and a better experience. And you ll get a better sense of who you're listening to the most important things in the world. - The Ben Shapiro Show, and how to get the most of your time and your most authentic voice on the most influential podcast on the podcast, and most importantly, you ll be less likely to be able to access the most powerful listening experience in the most authentic and influential places in the information you'll be most influential on your most influential places on the coolest and most authentic experiences in the coolest places on your day in the places that most authentic and most influential you'll get it all that's most authentic, most authentic moments, and more of it will be the most profound experiences, so you'll have it, right there, right on it's most of it, truly gets it all, right at it, everywhere you hear it's truly authentic, right in real-talk and most truly, truly, and everything is it really gets it, really right, right really, right, and so much of it is truly, really, and really, truly truly, right and truly, your most effective, right
00:00:00.000A left-wing assassin plans to murder Justice Kavanaugh and the media remains strangely silent.
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00:01:36.000Well, if this had happened to a Democratic justice, a Democratic-appointed justice, and it had been a Republican gunman who was loitering outside that justice's house with a gun in his backpack and zip ties and a knife and pepper spray and full preparations to kill that justice and his or her family, you can imagine that it would not just be the top news.
00:01:55.000Of every major news network, it would be the top news for weeks on end because it would all be chalked up to the evils of Republican rhetoric and the fiery oratory of people on Fox News.
00:02:05.000It'd be chalked up to shows like this one.
00:02:07.000It'd be chalked up to every Republican politician.
00:02:09.000Every single Republican politician in America would be asked about the increase in the temperature of the rhetoric that had led to this awful point in American life.
00:02:18.000We know that's true because after January 6th, the idea is that every Republican everywhere is answerable.
00:02:22.000For a couple of hundred idiots going into the Capitol building and doing violence to police officers and then promptly being arrested.
00:02:28.000The idea is that we are all collectively guilty when somebody does a thing.
00:02:32.000When a white supremacist shooter murders a bunch of black people in Buffalo, New York, the entire Republican infrastructure is responsible.
00:02:38.000Fox News and Tucker Carlson are responsible.
00:02:41.000Candace Owens and I are somehow responsible for all of this sort of stuff.
00:02:46.000Whenever a bad thing happens, and that bad thing is even remotely connectable, even if it is not logically supportable, if you can connect it at the most tenuous level to some sort of broader right-wing thought, then we have to have a conversation about conservatism in this country.
00:03:02.000We have to have a conversation about the evils of the right in this country.
00:03:05.000Well, yesterday, a man was arrested outside the house of Justice Brett Kavanaugh He was arrested because he was fully intending to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh and he was armed and ready to do so.
00:03:16.000The only reason that he did not carry out his plan is because there was armed security outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house.
00:03:21.000Yet another reminder that armed security is a good thing wherever you have vulnerable people.
00:03:25.000I know some people have trouble with that when it comes to, for example, schools, but the simple fact is that if there had not been armed security at Brett Kavanaugh's house, then this person probably would have killed somebody.
00:03:35.000According to the New York Times, a man armed with a pistol, a knife, and other weapons was arrested near the Maryland home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh early Wednesday after he said he traveled from California to kill the Supreme Court Justice, according to federal officials.
00:03:46.000This particular offender, and again, I don't mention the names of people who are seeking attention like this on this show, unlike most other legacy media outlets, which spend inordinate time blowing up the name, picture, and profile of political terrorists in order to presumably create copycats, or at least without regard as to whether they create copycats.
00:04:03.000We don't mention the names of people like this on this particular show.
00:04:06.000He was charged with attempted murder after two U.S.
00:04:09.000Deputy Marshals saw him step out of a taxi cab in front of the Justice's house in Chevy Chase, Maryland, early on Wednesday morning, according to federal prosecutors.
00:04:17.000This particular attempted murder was dressed in black, carrying a suitcase and a backpack, according to a federal affidavit.
00:04:22.000Inside the suitcase and backpack, the authorities discovered a black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, a pistol with two magazines and ammo, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, a screwdriver, a nail punch, a crowbar, a pistol light, and duct tape, in addition to other items, according to the affidavit.
00:04:36.000According to the affidavit, his plan was to break into the house, kill the justice, and then kill himself.
00:04:44.000His motives are perfectly clear because he told the police his motives.
00:04:47.000He said he was upset about the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
00:04:50.000Which, by the way, that is definitely the proper solution.
00:04:52.000You're upset about a mass school shooting, so your plan is to kill a justice and maybe members of his family if they stumble upon you.
00:04:58.000He was also upset about a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion suggesting the justices were poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 pro-abortion decision by the Supreme Court.
00:05:06.000Now, we said at the time that leaking prospective Supreme Court draft decisions is extremely dangerous.
00:05:13.000I said the day this happened, it put justices' lives in danger because before that decision is actually released, that means that the vote is not actually official.
00:05:21.000And so if you are a crazy person and you wish to shape the course of future American history, maybe you try to kill one of the justices.
00:05:28.000I said it was actually a sin for Justice Roberts not to, upon the leak, immediately release the decision as the majority decision because it would create incentive for evil and or crazy people to go and try to kill a justice in the majority in order to change the course of judicial history.
00:05:45.000And there were protests immediately upon the leak at Justice Kavanaugh's house, you'll recall, and the home of the other justices.
00:05:52.000Apparently, according to this particular suspect, he indicated he believed that the justice he intended to kill would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws.
00:06:03.000So, this guy is from California, which has extraordinarily strict gun controls, transported a gun across state lines to Justice Kavanaugh's house.
00:06:11.000And then proceeded to attempt to kill the justice in order to promote gun control.
00:06:18.000Which means this will be out of the headlines before it even begins.
00:06:20.000In fact, it was pretty much out of the headlines immediately.
00:06:23.000Well, if all of this makes you feel a little bit unsafe at home, and hey, you don't have armed security standing outside your home because you're not a Supreme Court Justice, maybe you should get a service that actually provides you more safety for your home.
00:06:34.000This is one reason you might need Ring Alarm.
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00:07:50.000But the attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice by a left-wing radical spouting ideologically indistinguishable ideas from those of mainstream leftists.
00:08:04.000That Brett Kavanaugh is responsible for the end of abortion in the country.
00:08:23.000In fact, if you look the very next morning at this story, this story is not above the fold on the page.
00:08:31.000It is really not below the fold on the page.
00:08:35.000This story appears in a tiny little area of the, I'm going to count the number of stories real fast, that are above this story on the New York Times online website front page.
00:09:07.000As of this, as of this show, there are 38 stories, 38 above this story on the New York Times homepage.
00:09:15.000The answer is because this person is a left-winger who's attempting to murder a Supreme Court justice.
00:09:21.000This person may be a right-winger attempting to murder a Supreme Court justice.
00:09:23.000We have weeks of conversation in the legacy media about the evils of America and white supremacy and conservatism and all the rest of the things that the media like to lump together as the Republican Party agenda.
00:09:35.000Officers from Montgomery County Police Department arrived and found the shooter on the phone with the communication center.
00:09:40.000Apparently, he called the cops and got himself arrested after he realized that he was not going to succeed in his attempt to kill Kavanaugh.
00:09:46.000He was taken into custody without incident.
00:09:47.000If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
00:09:50.000He told police he had begun thinking about how to give his life a purpose and decided to kill a Supreme Court justice after finding the justice's address online.
00:10:00.000Oh, you mean the activist groups who said that you should gather outside Justice Kavanaugh's house?
00:10:04.000Prompted, motivated, and cheered by members of the Democratic Party and some members of the media?
00:10:09.000Lest you think that this is an exaggeration, let me remind you that this is precisely what many on the Democratic side said.
00:10:17.000Jen Psaki, for example, was asked just a couple of weeks ago about protesters outside justices' homes, and she could not bring it, she could not find it in her heart to condemn it.
00:10:26.000There are voices on the right who have called out this protest that are happening, while remaining silent for years on protests that have happened outside of the homes of school board members, the Michigan Secretary of State, or including threats made to women seeking reproductive health care, or even an insurrection against our Capitol.
00:10:47.000So I know that there's an outrage right now, I guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date.
00:10:54.000And we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges' homes.
00:11:12.000That was the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, before she just moved right on over to the propaganda wing of the White House, MSNBC.
00:11:19.000There she was literally saying that the president encourages protests at the homes of justices, which, by the way, does in fact violate local law.
00:11:27.000You are not allowed to go to people's houses where Justice Kavanaugh lives and then try to intimidate justices into changing their positions.
00:11:35.000There's a case that's obstruction of justice on a federal level, that if you try to change justice's decision through threats or intimidation, that you got a problem.
00:11:42.000Again, that was Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, couldn't bring herself to condemn people protesting outside the homes of justices.
00:11:49.000I mean, a year ago, well in 2020, in the middle of a pro-abortion rally, Chuck Schumer, the current Senate Majority Leader, he actually threatened Brett Kavanaugh with With consequences.
00:12:05.000I'm not suggesting that Chuck Schumer thinks that Justice Brett Kavanaugh should be murdered.
00:12:09.000What I'm saying is that his rhetoric here is about as vague as Donald Trump's rhetoric on January 6th.
00:12:15.000We are told that that rhetoric inspired the rioting at the Capitol and the invasion of the Capitol building and that was incitement to violence.
00:12:24.000So I don't believe that was technical incitement.
00:12:26.000I think it was raising the temperature to a dangerous level and bad things happen.
00:12:29.000I feel the same way about Chuck Schumer here.
00:12:33.000I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.
00:12:46.000You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
00:12:52.000I'm sure he meant this politically, but I'm also sure that Donald Trump meant politically that there should be peaceful protest at the Capitol building because he literally said there should be peaceful protests at the Capitol building.
00:13:01.000So just to get this straight, we're about to have a massive telethon today with Democrats claiming that Donald Trump is solely and completely responsible for a bunch of morons running into the Capitol building with violence on their mind in an attempt to hold up the workings of the United States Senate and certifying the election of 2020.
00:13:17.000But Chuck Schumer says, you won't know what hit you.
00:13:21.000You're going to reap the whirlwind, Justice Kavanaugh.
00:13:25.000And then a guy shows up outside Kavanaugh's house to murder him.
00:13:29.000We're supposed to believe there's no connection whatsoever?
00:13:31.000And one of these things is totally fine, the other thing is totally horrible?
00:13:36.000If people get blamed for raising the rhetoric, and that rhetoric raising, the heat of that rhetoric, ends up making life more dangerous, that rule does not only apply to one side.
00:13:44.000By the way, Chuck Schumer, like, a week ago, was saying that he was happy that people were protesting outside the homes of justices.
00:13:52.000Are you comfortable with the protests that we saw outside the homes of Supreme Court justices over the weekend?
00:14:18.000Well, once again, if the mark of it's okay to say it is say peaceful protest and then everything is fine, then not sure what you're bitching about Trump for.
00:14:27.000Considering that Trump literally said peaceful protest outside the Capitol.
00:14:30.000Now, I've said before, I think that Donald Trump raised the rhetoric on January 6th.
00:14:34.000I think that he said a lot of things that were false between November 4th and January 6th that raised the prospect of bad things happening.
00:14:42.000If you say go protest outside of Justice's home, when again, Protesting justices should not be a thing generally, considering they are lifetime appointees who are supposed to be insulated from the political process for purposes of interpreting, not manufacturing the Constitution of the United States.
00:14:57.000And I'm not sure how we're not supposed to make the connection.
00:15:00.000But the answer is we don't make the connection if we're the legacy media, because after all, this is a left-winger and these are left-wing people, and so we have to pretend that they are all good and wonderful and fine.
00:16:19.000What do you do at Lori Lightfoot's tweet, right?
00:16:20.000Lori Lightfoot, mayor of Chicago, she tweeted out when this decision leaked, quote, to my friends in the LGBTQ plus community, the Supreme Court is coming for us next.
00:16:35.000We're not supposed to notice any of this.
00:16:36.000So the New York Times is not noticing it.
00:16:38.000Dozens and dozens and dozens of stories over this story over at the New York Times.
00:16:44.000Apparently, this person graduated from Simi Valley High School in 2014.
00:16:50.000He'd been on the school's cross-country team.
00:16:53.000He had a classmate and friend named Kenny Virginie, and apparently they attended the same college through sophomore year.
00:16:59.000He said this person was socially awkward, but he never expected him to do anything like this.
00:17:04.000They're going to increase the security around the other justices' homes, without the help of House Democrats, by the way.
00:17:11.000As the Washington Examiner points out, the safety of Supreme Court justices should be a priority of the U.S.
00:17:15.000Congress following the arrest of an armed man near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home on Wednesday.
00:17:19.000The Senate recognized the need for increased security protocols in early May.
00:17:22.000Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, introduced the Supreme Court Police Parity Act of 2022 on May 5, 2022.
00:17:27.000It passed with unanimous consent May 9.
00:17:32.000The bill extends existing security protocols to immediate families of Supreme Court justices.
00:17:38.000The House of Representatives took no action on the bill.
00:17:40.000House Democrats bucked their Senate colleagues and came out against the bill.
00:17:44.000While the Senate passed a bill this week that would extend protection to Supreme Court justices' family members, we believe that it is critical to safeguard the families of those who choose to serve their country and their communities as judicial clerks and staff, as well, said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in a May 12th press release.
00:17:57.000Amending the current piece of legislation or introducing a new one altogether should not take a month.
00:18:15.000And here is CNN's Laura Gerhardt defending protests outside justices' homes.
00:18:19.000A conversation about civility feels like it misses the mark when constitutional rights that you believe that you had for over 50 years are about to be overturned.
00:18:31.000So far, all of the protests have seemed overwhelmingly non-violent.
00:18:36.000There are plenty of protests that happen every single day in this country, around the country, at abortion clinics, blocking women from getting into clinics.
00:18:43.000And we don't cover those as if there's four alarm fires.
00:18:46.000And so, yes, they're going to be protesting in front of Kavanaugh's house because people are angry.
00:18:51.000And as long as they stay nonviolent, I think for most of the people who are watching it, you can understand where they're coming from.
00:18:59.000You can understand where they're coming from to show up outside of somebody's house.
00:19:02.000Suni Hassan, of course, the id of the Democratic Party, she said on The View that this is an act of good that people are standing outside justices' homes.
00:19:09.000Over the weekend, I was watching a lot of the protests that were happening outside of some of the justices' homes.
00:19:16.000And my understanding is that Justice Alito has had to go into hiding because of this draft opinion that was leaked.
00:19:26.000And while I think it is terrible that a justice would have to go into hiding, I think it is really clear to the justices now that, as Anna mentioned, 64 to 66 percent of Americans believe that the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade.
00:19:44.000And so that being said, maybe these protests and maybe this outcry gives Chief Justice Roberts some leverage for a more moderate approach.
00:19:54.000Because we saw during the hearing that he was looking for a way, a moderate way, to handle this case.
00:20:03.000Yeah, you know, people right outside other people's homes protesting them, attempting to intimidate justice.
00:20:07.000It's a good thing, because maybe it'll give us the outcome that we want.
00:20:11.000The funniest thing about this is CNN trying to blame both sides.
00:20:13.000So just to get this straight, when the entire left wing says, as a matter of routine, that a Supreme Court decision striking down Roe vs. Wade is going to split the country and is going to threaten the lives of millions of women, supposedly.
00:20:25.000I mean, Joe Biden literally went on Jimmy Kimmel last night and he said that he didn't think the country was going to stand for the Supreme Court overruling Roe vs. Wade, which is a hell of a language to use when, you know, a person just got arrested outside a Supreme Court justice's home trying to kill the justice.
00:20:40.000That's kind of an amazing thing for Joe Biden to say on Jimmy Kimmel.
00:20:42.000CNN, trying to cover for the fact that this is a left-wing person who's repeating left-wing talking points, attempting to do the work of the hardcore radical left-wing in preventing Roe vs. Wade from being overturned.
00:20:52.000They're like, well, you know, it could be anybody.
00:20:54.000I mean, really, aren't both sides to blame?
00:21:01.000Supreme Court justices will certainly be, you know, potentially targeted by violent extremists who are angered over this pending ruling that is poised to strike down Roe v. Wade.
00:21:11.000This is an extremely passionate issue.
00:21:15.000Federal officials have made clear over and over they believe the risk truly comes from both sides of this abortion debate, so certainly this case I mean, who knows?
00:21:24.000you know, really solidifying what federal officials have been warning about.
00:21:41.000You know, there could be violence from anyone.
00:21:43.000OK, so this is going to be memory old the same way that the attempted murder of several Republican congresspeople during the congressional baseball shooting based on the rhetoric of That was memory hold too.
00:21:54.000Just like the murder of actual Dallas police officers by a Black Lives Matter devotee was completely memory hold because he was echoing rhetoric that is widely used by the Democratic Party.
00:22:04.000That's the way it works in this country.
00:22:06.000When a person who can even be tenuously linked to the right wing, even if that person overtly disowns the right wing, If that person can be tenuously linked to anything remotely conservative, it becomes a national con... We have to have a national conversation about rhetoric and the use of rhetoric and the ideas, the evil conservative ideas that have spawned such acts of horror.
00:22:25.000But when a person is openly echoing messages promoted by the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, a Democratic Party and mainstream media that went weeks suggesting it was totally fine to stand outside Supreme Court justices' homes, protesting, threatening, and intimidating them, then Is that a story?
00:22:48.000Here's Kareem Jean-Pierre, the new White House press secretary, saying, you know, in the end, everything worked out OK.
00:22:52.000In response to the arrest of a man outside, near Brett Kavanaugh's house, as we've been standing here, we've seen that he's been charged with attempted murder as well.
00:23:04.000The president condemns the actions of this individual in the strong arms and is grateful to law enforcement for quickly taking him into custody.
00:23:15.000As the president has consistently made clear, public officials, including judges, must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety.
00:23:26.000You know, via his last press secretary, who, as we just saw one second ago, was saying that it's totally fine to protest outside justice zones, after all, there are protesters outside abortion clinics.
00:23:34.000It's a good thing that Joe Biden is grateful to law enforcement for protecting Brett Kavanaugh.
00:23:38.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is headed on over to Jimmy Kimmel.
00:23:41.000Well, if all of that puts you in mind of wanting to go to sleep, well, I have some good news for you.
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00:24:53.000And speaking of the President of the United States, he was deployed to Jimmy Kimmel last night.
00:24:59.000That's because the only person you will sit with if you're Joe Biden is the late night host who is going to provide you NC-17 rated favors.
00:25:06.000You need Jimmy Kimmel strutting on there, in there, telling you that he's your private dancer, your dancer for money.
00:25:15.000His approval rating is currently at historic lows.
00:25:18.000He's reached new lows according to Morning Consult.
00:25:20.000The latest survey finds 58% of voters disapprove of Biden's job performance, 39% approve.
00:25:25.000It marks the 46th president's lowest approval rating and highest disapproval rating in 62 weekly surveys since he took office in January 2021.
00:25:32.000For comparison, Biden's latest numbers are worse than Donald Trump's were at this time four years ago, when 45% approved and 52% disapproved.
00:25:40.000Joe Biden is at 39, but he's not just worse, he's six point worse than Donald Trump, the worst president in American history, was at this time in his presidency.
00:25:49.000Biden's popularity or lack thereof mirrors Trump's standing in June 2020, which was the middle of the COVID pandemic and the BLM riots.
00:25:58.000Apparently, 37% of Democrats strongly approve of Joe Biden's handling of the job.
00:26:21.000Okay, so that means that Joe Biden has to somehow try to rescue his presidency.
00:26:24.000He's not going to do it by talking to actual reporters, even the ones who are likely to provide him with light massage services, shall we say.
00:26:32.000You know, the people at the New York Times and the Washington Post, Reuters, the AP.
00:26:35.000According to Alex Thompson, White House reporter and co-author of Politico's West Wing Playbook, Biden has not done an interview with any of these outlets.
00:26:42.000The New York Times' Peter Baker said, I can't think of a parallel situation.
00:26:45.000It's the fifth president I've covered.
00:26:46.000This is the first one I haven't interviewed.
00:26:48.000They feel neither the obligation nor the opportunity.
00:26:51.000Baker added the best White House reporting often isn't the result of interviews with the president, but that extended sit-downs remain an important function of accountability.
00:26:58.000He said, reporters whining about not getting interviews is one of the least attractive elements of the White House press corps.
00:27:02.000But the president talks about defending democracy, and that's part of democracy, too, answering questions from people not on your side.
00:27:08.000I mean, he won't even ask for questions from people who are pretty much on his side, like Peter Baker of The New York Times.
00:27:14.000Instead, he sits down with Jimmy Kimmel, who, again, is there to provide the full spectrum of sexually pleasurable services to the President of the United States.
00:27:24.000I mean, how in the pocket of the Biden White House is Jimmy Kimmel?
00:27:28.000He literally uses the word we to describe the agenda of Joe Biden, as in he and Joe Biden have the same agenda.
00:27:36.000This is Jimmy Kimmel last night on ABC.
00:27:39.000I think a lot of Democrats are frustrated because, you know, we got out and voted, we won the House, the Senate, the White House, obviously, and still we have made very little progress as far as I'm concerned when it comes to guns, obviously, reproductive rights, voting rights, climate change, all these things, and in some ways we've moved backward.
00:28:20.000Jimmy Kimmel is there to provide him with all the services his heart could desire, and he's still having a biological response problem.
00:28:29.000So Joe Biden shows up, he's trying to rescue his presidency, and pretty much all he has is a bunch of incredibly divisive talking points and his face begins to babble.
00:29:29.000But apparently Fox News is a threat to the Republic.
00:29:32.000He actually calls Fox News the Death Star.
00:29:34.000So you have the President of the United States, the most powerful person on earth, a man who's been running for this office, Joe Biden, since he was in diapers.
00:29:40.000And here he is explaining that Fox News is the threat to the Republic.
00:29:44.000Maybe it's just that Americans aren't as knowledgeable as they should be.
00:29:48.000Or maybe there's a death star pumping false information into our brains.
00:29:58.000My favorite part of this is where the audience is brought in to laugh, like in a bad 1990s sitcom.
00:30:04.000There are no laugh lines in this 24 minute interview, but the audience laughs anyway.
00:30:07.000And you're supposed to laugh because even though no one's saying anything funny, there's sort of timing where it could theoretically be funny, but it's not.
00:30:15.000But the audience laughs, and so you're supposed to laugh along.
00:30:17.000So Joe Biden is like, well, you know, it's that Fox News Death Star, as Jimmy Kimmel goes to the massage parlor.
00:30:29.000No wonder he's at 39 percent approval rating.
00:30:32.000Then Joe Biden joked about sending his political opponents to jail, which is always a charming feature of this presidency.
00:30:37.000Remember that time when we were told that Donald Trump was a threat to the free press?
00:30:39.000Donald Trump was when he talks about that.
00:30:41.000He said enemy of the people about the press.
00:30:43.000This means the press are under deep and abiding threat.
00:30:45.000Jim Acosta is going to record Books written by Jim Acosta in Jim Acosta's own voice while staring in a mirror, looking at Jim Acosta, talking about how oppressed he is in an air conditioned studio in Washington DC because the press were so under the boot of Donald Trump for saying mean things about the press.
00:31:01.000So Joe Biden says Fox News is the Death Star and also his Republican political opponents should metaphorically be put in jail.
00:31:09.000If we do the same thing they do, our democracy will literally be in jeopardy.
00:31:16.000I understand their argument, but also it's like you're playing Monopoly with somebody who, you know, won't pass go and won't follow any of the rules, and how do you ever make any progress if they're not following the rules?
00:31:28.000We've got to send them to jail, you know.
00:31:52.000It was a barrel of laughs between Joe Biden and Jimmy Kimmel.
00:31:56.000Joe Biden suggested that the only time that he would ever call President Trump is to flush sensitive documents.
00:32:01.000I mean, it does make sense that Joe Biden does need somebody else to help him flush the toilet.
00:32:04.000That's the only part of this that actually makes any sense.
00:32:07.000With the President of the United States Um, just a process question.
00:32:14.000When you have sensitive documents that you need to flush down the toilet, do you do that, is that done in your office toilet, or is that done in the bathroom, in the personal bathroom area?
00:32:36.000Again, the man does need help every time he goes to the bathroom, so that is not a particular surprise.
00:32:40.000And herein lies the biggest problem for Joe Biden.
00:32:43.000I mean, one of the biggest problems, obviously, is that he's got an echo chamber of the media who keep encouraging him to double down on progressive stupidity that the American people are not interested in.
00:32:51.000That is actually a huge problem for him.
00:32:52.000The other big problem is that the man's got applesauce for brains.
00:32:55.000The hamster wheel is moving, but the hamster is dead.
00:32:57.000That elevator don't go to the top floor.
00:33:00.000Here is here is Joe Biden trying to explain that the biggest problem he has is that he is unable to fully communicate his ideas in the best possible way.
00:33:08.000We need to do a better job of communication in the shampoo.
00:33:14.000There's a lot of major things we've done, but what we haven't done is we haven't been able to communicate it in a way that is Make me say it another way.
00:34:23.000That clip is just, that clip is everything.
00:34:26.000That is a man who could not spill urine out of a boot if the instructions were written on the sole of the boot.
00:34:32.000Like if they're written on the bottom of the boot, there's no way that man could pour urine out of the boot, that president of the United States.
00:34:53.000He starts off by, again, I never, I rarely play a clip twice on the show, but I have to here because it just demonstrates that this person is not there.
00:35:23.000There are going to be some stops and starts here, guys, because I need to try and follow what this man is saying.
00:35:27.000We're going to go down a wander among the heather in Scotland here with Joe Biden.
00:35:33.000So there's a lot of major things we've done, but what we haven't done is we haven't been able to communicate it in a way that is Let me say it another way.
00:36:55.000One of the things is that it's very difficult now to have a, um, even with notable exceptions, even though really good reporters, they have to get a number of clicks on, on, on nightly news.
00:37:16.000The thing about reporters is when they're using their phonograph and their rotary telephone, they gotta get clicks on their... on their... on their... on their... on their... on their... on their... and then the actual record starts skipping.
00:38:13.000No one blames you for taking a break because my goodness, we got to wheel you off to make sure that you are still cognitively capable Of performing basic human functions.
00:38:26.000That is a man who at this point has to be fed.
00:38:29.000He has to be fed by another human being like strained peas or something.
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00:40:33.000Everybody is talking about this film because it's completely changing the conversation about transgender ideology and radical sexual orientation nonsense from the left.
00:40:47.000Most of the people who say they hate the film have never seen one moment of it because Obviously, they can't actually answer Matt's question.
00:41:00.000A lot of other corporations, they have hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing at their disposal because they're publicly traded companies.
00:41:07.000Or they've got angel investors who come in with hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:42:01.000A bigger problem is that Joe Biden is so wildly disconnected from the American people that he just keeps saying things that no one believes.
00:42:08.000So, for example, California just saw a right wing surge.
00:42:11.000By right wing, I mean people who still have a functioning prefrontal cortex.
00:42:14.000They kicked out Chase Habouten, who is the DA in San Francisco.
00:42:17.000He no longer has that job because he decided that his job actually meant, what if we leave heroin needles for the children in the parks?
00:42:23.000Make sure that there's poop on every street corner and allow our CVSs to be ransacked by criminals.
00:42:28.000And so even in San Francisco, like this is a little much.
00:42:31.000And in L.A., it appears they might actually elect a closeted Republican mayor of the city.
00:42:37.000Because it turns out that Americans don't like the crime program of the Democrats.
00:42:41.000So Joe Biden's response to this is, well, you know, both parties are responsible for the crime wave in the United States.
00:43:09.000As you recall, with the first major bill we passed, we gave the states and localities billions of dollars, billions of dollars a half, and encouraged them to use it to hire police officers and reform the police department.
00:43:23.000So his take is both parties are getting chastised on crime.
00:43:31.000Literally yesterday, Joe Biden has a sentencing commission nominee.
00:43:36.000Her name is Laura Mait, and she was asked about mandatory minimums.
00:43:41.000This was yesterday, the same day he's saying both parties need to worry.
00:43:44.000Both parties need to rambadoo about worrying in the jansimity and in the crime.
00:43:49.000Meanwhile, his nominee for the Federal Sentencing Commission is being asked about mandatory minimums and she's like, well, I'm not big on any sort of mandatory.
00:44:07.000My understanding is this body decides whether there are mandatory minimums, and as a commissioner, my job would be to... You make recommendations.
00:44:13.000I'm asking you if you think that there's any crime, rape, I mean, for which there ought to be a mandatory minimum, because you said earlier there shouldn't be.
00:44:52.000So that's Senator Josh Hawley questioning a current Biden nominee who refused to say whether she backs any mandatory minimum sentences for criminality at all.
00:45:06.000Because there's another thing I noticed, which is that Democrat DAs all over the country in major American cities are getting just slammed by everyone in law enforcement because they're doing a terrible job.
00:45:16.000So, for example, George Gascon is another one of these George Soros supported prosecutors.
00:45:21.000I'm allowed to say the name George Soros, by the way, because I'm an Orthodox Jew, because I've been informed by the media that if you say George Soros' name, this automatically means you're an anti-Semite.
00:45:27.000No, George Soros donates literally tens of millions of dollars in a wide variety of countries to push progressivism, hardcore radical progressivism, that's particularly true for prosecutors in the United States.
00:45:46.000Here was the Los Angeles If you're a violent criminal in Los Angeles right now, your biggest ally is not your defense lawyer, it's not the judge, it's not the jury, it's George Gascogne.
00:46:23.000Democrats are getting skunked because all the local issues have been nationalized.
00:46:26.000If a Democratic Party that insists from the White House that if we do not mandate that small children be indoctrinated in the idea that they could be a member of the opposite sex or that they should consider their own bisexuality or pansexuality or whatever the stupid sexual buzzword of the day is from the left, that this is a form of child abuse.
00:46:43.000Meanwhile, the American people are just rebelling against this.
00:46:45.000Article from the Washington Post today.
00:46:47.000Across the country, educational equity was in vogue.
00:46:50.000By educational equity, they mean left-wing nonsense at the local school board level.
00:46:55.000And now it turns out parents don't like that crap.
00:46:58.000According to the Washington Post, a racial equity program that began with widespread support and was propelled by George Floyd's murder all but died on a chilly Wednesday evening in a near-empty school board meeting room.
00:47:07.000During a budget debate, a pair of liberal board members were no match for the newly elected majority.
00:47:10.000The conservatives had taken office after a campaign focused on race and allegations that critical race theory had invaded the local schools, the most diverse in El Paso County.
00:47:18.000Their victory last November had already resulted in the superintendent's departure.
00:47:22.000Now the equity program he championed was on its way out, too.
00:47:26.000If Floyd's murder forced many schools to consider systemic racism holding back students of color, the 2021 elections delivered a backlash.
00:47:32.000Across the country last year, school board elections became the epicenter of a culture war over race.
00:47:36.000Conservative victories led many boards to fire superintendents and curtail racial justice initiatives.
00:47:41.000Maybe that's because you guys pursued a radical educational agenda at odds with what parents actually want from the schools to which they delegate the education of their children.
00:47:58.000It's particularly not gonna save him because the economy is in serious, serious trouble.
00:48:02.000According to the Wall Street Journal, stagflation is generally viewed as a relic of the 1970s.
00:48:08.000Economists are now warning it could make a comeback.
00:48:10.000The term stagflation is broadly defined as sluggish growth tied with rising inflation.
00:48:14.000Economists haven't given it much thought since the 1970s, when U.S.
00:48:17.000consumers lined up to fill their cars with high-priced gasoline and the jobless rate hit 9%.
00:48:21.000Earlier this week, the World Bank sharply lowered its growth forecast for the global economy this year and warned of several years of high inflation and tepid growth, reminiscent of the stagflation of the 70s.
00:48:30.000Stagflation spells trouble for the economy.
00:48:34.000Weaker demand hurts companies' profits and causes layoffs.
00:48:37.000Stagflation puts the Federal Reserve in a bind because the central bank's job is to keep both inflation and unemployment low.
00:48:42.000The Fed can raise interest rates to curb inflation, but if it moves too aggressively, it risks strangling spending and tipping the economy into a recession.
00:48:50.000So this is a serious problem for Joe Biden.
00:48:52.000We are now in what appears to be an increasingly stagflationary economy.
00:48:56.000And this administration's answer to that is, well, Joe Biden's done all he can do.
00:49:00.000Maybe we'll raise some taxes or something, but he's done all he can do.
00:49:02.000So there's Janet Yellen, straight from the Shire, explaining to you that Joe Biden has done everything he can do on gas prices.
00:49:09.000So what we learned from the Biden administration over the past several days is, one, that the president of the United States is no longer functional.
00:49:17.000He won't do interviews with anybody with serious questions, but he will go on Jimmy Kimmel, and even there, his brain will just start shooting off sparks.
00:49:24.000We learned from the Biden administration that they have no opinions that are in consonance with the broader American public on anything from the economy to Ukraine to energy policy.
00:49:35.000But also all of their political opponents are super bad.
00:49:38.000And so we need Matthew McConaughey to speak about gun control at the White House.
00:49:41.000Does this sound like a successful administration to you?
00:49:44.000Or was electing this man a very, very bad mistake and him bringing in his coterie of morons to run the place an even worse mistake?
00:49:50.000Here is Janet Yellen, who, remember, five minutes ago was saying that inflation was transitory, now saying, you know, when it comes to gas prices, ain't much the president of the United States can do.
00:49:58.000With respect to energy, the administration has done everything that they can to bring down energy costs, for example, through an historic release of a million barrels a day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and energy prices, gas prices.
00:50:31.000I'm saying about small releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which used to be for military purposes, right?
00:50:37.000We were at war and there was a gas shortage because of that.
00:50:39.000Not the price was up and Joe Biden needed to relieve political pressure on himself and it completely failed.
00:50:44.000By the way, you know what her strategy is for bringing down inflation?
00:50:47.000She wants to reconfigure tariffs on imports from China.
00:50:49.000So what if we get easy on trade from China?
00:50:51.000So just to point out the obvious here, China is a global enemy of the United States.
00:50:56.000China is not just stealing our intellectual property and imprisoning a million Uighur Muslims and keeping a billion people in the bondage of communist tyranny and spreading its military outposts around the South China Sea and making deals with the Solomon Islands to try and box in Australia.
00:51:11.000China has cheated on every trade deal we've ever done with them.
00:51:14.000And her plan is, what if we start, you know, we have to relieve this inflation.
00:51:17.000I mean, this is not really a shock, considering that this is the same administration that has tried to relieve sanctions on Nicolas Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, the commie dictator of Venezuela, in a failed attempt to bring down oil prices.
00:51:28.000Now, Janet Yellen's like, what if we relieve tariffs on China?
00:51:32.000Now, there's always a case to look at tariffs and decide whether they are effective on behalf of the United States consumer, on behalf of the U.S.
00:51:37.000voter, or whether they serve a national security purpose.
00:51:40.000But I'm just going to point out here that the same people who are saying that we need a global minimum tax, this is what the Biden administration is arguing, is that every corporate tax across the world should be 15% or higher so as to justify continued investment in the US economy.
00:51:54.000In other words, we have to basically cudgel other countries into raising their own tax rates so that our businesses don't run overseas and then organize in, say, Ireland.
00:52:03.000While we are busily increasing regulations and taxes, we are going to lower the restrictions on trade with China.
00:52:09.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Yellen, speaking at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Wednesday, said she expected the administration to have additional information on its plans in the coming weeks.
00:52:18.000I think some reductions may be warranted, she said, adding it could help bring down prices.
00:52:22.000Also at the hearing, she defended the international tax deal she negotiated with her counterparts around the world, saying she was confident that Poland, a key holdout, would come aboard.
00:52:30.000By the way, we might be able to cudgel enough countries into joining this global tax regime that sucks money out of the global economy on behalf of governments everywhere.
00:52:38.000And it might allow us to essentially, through a collusive process, remain uncompetitive on our tax basis.
00:52:45.000Sooner or later, there will be a country that just decides, you know what, I'm not doing this.
00:52:48.000And they set their corporate tax rate at 5%, and suddenly everybody organizes over there.
00:52:52.000If any country had any brains at all, they would be thinking about doing that right now.
00:53:00.000But pay no attention to the fact that they're incompetent on pretty much every front.
00:53:04.000Instead, pay attention to gun control.
00:53:06.000After all, if we can emotionally manipulate you on the issue of gun control and make you believe that if you oppose the Democrats' agenda on gun control, because it makes no sense, that you are in favor of the murder of small children, then maybe we'll win some votes.
00:53:19.000So on that basis, the House passed wide-ranging gun control legislation.
00:53:23.000This, by the way, again, just to point out the obvious, this was the top headline of the New York Times.
00:53:27.000Story number 39 was the attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice.
00:53:30.000The top story was, House passes gun control legislation, and then in parentheses, which will immediately die in the Senate.
00:53:37.000A divided House on Wednesday approved a wide-ranging package of gun control legislation and a party-line vote.
00:53:42.000The measures were all but certain to go nowhere in the evenly divided Senate, where negotiations continued on more modest proposals that could draw bipartisan support necessary to move forward.
00:53:51.000They tried to ban high-capacity magazines.
00:53:54.000They also attempted to formally ban bump stocks, which effectively have been banned by executive order for a while now.
00:54:01.000Also, they were passing a provision to raise the age of purchase of a semi-automatic rifle to 21.
00:54:06.000Nine Republicans voted in favor of that provision.
00:54:09.000A couple of Democrats opposed the provision.
00:54:10.000Again, it doesn't make any sort of intellectual sense, that provision, unless you are also willing to raise the age of voting and being drafted by the United States military to 21.
00:54:18.000Either you're an adult at 21 or you're an adult at 18.
00:54:20.000You don't get to be half an adult and half not an adult.
00:54:29.000What the House Democrats also tried to do is tack on a measure condemning white supremacy to the gun control measure so they could then claim that Republicans had voted in favor of white supremacy, which is just the cheapest and stupidest political trick in the book.
00:54:40.000Democrats put forward these omnibus packages that contain a thousand provisions.
00:55:14.000Meanwhile, actual solutions to the problems like, you know, more armed security at schools, hardening of the actual barriers around schools, making sure there are protocols with regard to making sure doors close automatically, all this kind of stuff.
00:55:27.000And social measures like building up of families, making sure that there are solid communities that are able to spot incipient bad seeds and then report them, getting rid of all of the bad mental health laws that prevent the involuntary commitment of violent people.
00:55:40.000All those things go completely by the wayside.
00:55:43.000Because it's all for rhetorical flourish, apparently.
00:55:48.000The most obvious example of this was yesterday.
00:55:49.000So Katie Porter, who's beloved of the progressive left, mainly because she is an MSNBC host in the guise of a congressional Seat holder.
00:55:59.000She was doing a tête-à -tête with Amy Swearer from the Heritage Foundation, who is an advocate on behalf of the Second Amendment.
00:56:07.000And her entire schtick was, you're a liar, I'm going to call you a perjurer, and then I won't let you ask any questions.
00:56:13.000This is the Democratic Party on the Second Amendment.
00:56:14.000This may play on Twitter, it does not play in Peoria.
00:56:18.000You knew that the bill would allow any gun owner to maintain possession of any semi-automatic assault weapon that was lawfully possessed before the bill became law.
00:56:32.000No, so that is the case under that bill.
00:56:35.000The problem is, any time that is transferred to anybody else... Reclaiming my time.
00:57:13.000She says, this is my time, Porter says.
00:57:15.000This was played as victory by the left.
00:57:17.000Because apparently the left's entire agenda, in the end, the left's entire agenda when it comes to pretty much any issue is pretend the other side doesn't exist.
00:57:24.000When it comes to the transgender issue, well, pretend the other side doesn't exist, which is why they won't even review what is a woman.
00:57:29.000It's why they pretend that there is a wide spectrum of support for the idea that a boy can be a girl and a girl can be a boy.
00:57:34.000They just pretend the other side doesn't exist.
00:57:36.000And so when it comes to gun control, they don't want to hear any sort of actual debate over the issues.
00:57:39.000They just want to pretend that the other side doesn't exist.
00:57:42.000And here's Matthew McConaughey, straight from the set of how to date a guy or lose a guy in 10 days, to explain to you how all of this works.
00:57:54.000Again, ignoring the other side is not the way that you're going to win elections, but Democrats apparently are under this wild misimpression, which is why they're still trotting out people like AOC to claim that the real problem here is gun manufacturers who are seeking blood money.
00:58:05.000In 2020, 22.8 million guns were sold, reflecting a 64% increase from 2019.
01:00:27.000Again, it's a running battle on The View as to who is the dumbest person on The View.
01:00:31.000At a certain point, somebody will actually reach a zero IQ and yet still be functioning, and we will have new medical discoveries in the field.
01:00:38.000But that race to the bottom is ongoing.
01:00:41.000Here is Joy Behar making her case to be the dumbest person on that show.
01:01:36.000I mean, the amount of just inherent racism on that show is insane.
01:01:41.000Between Whoopi Goldberg declaring everything in America is racist, everything in world history is racist except for Adolf Hitler, a thing Whoopi Goldberg actually said, and Joy Behar declaring that black people, if allowed to own guns, would provide such a menace to the public that there would be changes in gun laws.
01:01:59.000How much tacit racism just goes without saying on The View?
01:02:08.000And no matter the emotional manipulation, no matter the Jimmy Kimmel appearances, or the Second Amendment talk, and the gun control talk, No matter how much the Democrats try to claim that we have to teach radical gender theory to your children in order to protect the children.
01:02:20.000This is the case they make, which by the way is the most Orwellian double-think garbage I've ever heard.
01:02:24.000To protect your kids, we need to make sure that they believe that they can be a member of the opposite sex.
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