The Ben Shapiro Show - Andrew Tate and the Era of Sexual Confusion | Ep. 1683

00:00:00.000 A new tape of Andrew Tate drops in which he explains that he would prefer a, well, surgery transsexual to an ugly woman. 0.78

00:00:06.000 After Tucker Carlson drops bombshell new footage of January 6th events, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calls for his censorship, and the Fed chair plans on radically increasing interest rates again.

00:00:15.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:16.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:26.000 It's unclear how that saga is going to end.

00:00:29.000 He is accused, of course, of sex trafficking, of luring women to Romania and using them as cam girls and all the rest of it. 0.96

00:00:36.000 But all of this is beside the point when it comes to the popularity of Andro Tate.

00:00:40.000 I've talked about Andro Tate on the program a little bit before.

00:00:43.000 And why exactly he's popular.

00:00:44.000 One of the things that I've suggested about Andrew Tate is that many of his diagnoses of modern society are not entirely wrong.

00:00:50.000 Many of them, in fact, are correct.

00:00:52.000 But his prognosis, his sort of his recommendation of the treatment is totally wrong.

00:00:58.000 And this sort of disconnect is strange.

00:01:01.000 It becomes stranger when you see some of the things that Andrew Tate has said recently. 0.95

00:01:05.000 So there was a tape that emerged on the Twitters over the course of the last 48 hours of Andrew Tate talking about whether he would prefer to have sex with a male who had had many surgeries to look like a female but still had not had bottom surgery, meaning he still had the full male appendages, or a very ugly woman.

00:01:24.000 And I think there is something kind of important about the fact that there are so many young men who are drawn to Andrew Tate and then Andrew Tate says stuff like this or said stuff like this. 0.65

00:01:33.000 It's bizarre.

00:01:35.000 It only makes sense in a particular cultural context.

00:01:37.000 I want to get to that in a moment.

00:01:38.000 Here's what Andrew Tate actually said. 0.99

00:01:40.000 I recently posted a question on Twitter asking, would you rather have sex with a transsexual, which is a legitimate 10, or a woman, which is a legitimate 1? 0.99

00:01:49.000 And everyone's sitting there clicking woman, woman, woman, woman, because they think they're going to be gay if they do anything else. 0.99

00:01:54.000 But they're not actually thinking about the question. 0.99

00:01:56.000 When I say a 1 and a 10, I mean Megan Fox with a d***. 1.00

00:02:01.000 That's the tranny. 1.00

00:02:03.000 Or Hulk Hogan with a p***. 1.00

00:02:06.000 That's the girl. 0.99

00:02:08.000 This is the question I'm asking.

00:02:10.000 Megan Fox or Hulk Hogan?

00:02:12.000 So you're thinking, well, I don't want to be gay. 0.94

00:02:14.000 So I just clicked the girl, the number one, did it? 0.65

00:02:17.000 You're going to Hulk Hogan.

00:02:19.000 OK, there's he's got mustache and muscles and he's all hairy, big dude, six foot five. 0.98

00:02:25.000 It's pretty gay to me. 0.98

00:02:26.000 That sounds pretty gay. 0.98

00:02:27.000 I don't care if that is gay. 1.00

00:02:30.000 OK, so, um, first of all, what? 0.97

00:02:34.000 What?

00:02:35.000 So on a variety of levels, what? 0.98

00:02:37.000 So the original question that he apparently posed was would you rather have sex with a 1 who's a woman or a 10 on the female scale but is male? 0.96

00:02:46.000 And so he launches into that bizarre diatribe. 0.63

00:02:49.000 Now, none of this makes any sense.

00:02:50.000 If you've been following Andrew Tate at all, and if you understand how popular he is, you understand that what he largely bases his image around is this idea of uber-masculinity.

00:02:59.000 And the uber-masculinity that Andrew Tate bases his sort of image around is he's Rip, he's very muscular.

00:03:06.000 He has a large house or a compound in Romania.

00:03:09.000 He has a lot of fancy cars.

00:03:11.000 And he has a lot of beautiful women, not transsexual women, but actual like biological women who he is in charge of. 0.90

00:03:18.000 And he has a harem of these women. 0.92

00:03:19.000 And this is what masculinity really looks like. 0.99

00:03:21.000 And then you get this bizarre fetishistic video in which he's explaining that he would prefer to have sex with a male who has had many surgeries to look like Megan Fox than an unattractive woman. 0.98

00:03:32.000 So what exactly is happening here? 0.97

00:03:33.000 Well, none of this makes any sense.

00:03:35.000 And frankly, none of our modern culture makes any sense.

00:03:37.000 Unless what you realize is the reason that we are seeing the death of masculinity and the death of femininity.

00:03:42.000 The reason that everything is falling into this morass of sexual chaos.

00:03:44.000 And he talks about it actually at the very end there.

00:03:46.000 He says, it's all a sliding scale, isn't it?

00:03:48.000 There's no such thing as gay or straight.

00:03:50.000 It's just a sliding scale.

00:03:52.000 And the reason all of this is happening is because we have a society that has decided to discard the notion of teleology.

00:03:57.000 Teleology means that things were created with a purpose.

00:04:01.000 Things were created with a purpose.

00:04:03.000 Whether by God or by evolutionary biology, you were created with a purpose.

00:04:07.000 Now, I'm a religious person, so I believe that God created us with a purpose.

00:04:11.000 And what that means is male and female, he created them.

00:04:13.000 Now, you don't have to believe in the Bible in order to believe that.

00:04:15.000 You can also believe that evolution created human beings, sexually dichotomous, in order so that we are designed to reproduce.

00:04:22.000 That's literally the purpose of sexual activity in the animal kingdom, is reproduction.

00:04:27.000 There's the side benefit of pleasure.

00:04:28.000 It is the pleasure that leads Beings of all mammalian species to reproduce.

00:04:34.000 But the reproduction is the end, right?

00:04:36.000 The thing toward which sex is generally oriented in the animal kingdom is reproduction, because otherwise it would be no different than baboons scratching one another or something.

00:04:46.000 So what does that mean?

00:04:48.000 Well, if male and female were created to do a thing, and if sex was created in order to achieve the thing, if reproduction and the one-flesh union between male and female is the purpose of the thing, then masculinity and femininity are built around that act.

00:05:03.000 What that means is that reproduction, being the point of sex, Teleologically speaking, not every time you have to have sex.

00:05:10.000 Not aiming for a baby every time.

00:05:11.000 But the idea is that, generally speaking, sex is oriented toward the production of human beings.

00:05:17.000 In a male-female context, because that's the only way biologically, historically, it has happened. 0.80

00:05:22.000 And will continue to happen.

00:05:24.000 Because of that, male and female are built around this. 0.99

00:05:27.000 Women were built by nature or by God, whichever you choose, in order to bear children and rear them. 1.00

00:05:34.000 This is their primary reproductive function.

00:05:36.000 Not their only function in the world.

00:05:37.000 It is their primary reproductive function.

00:05:39.000 When it comes to sex, this is the purpose of sex.

00:05:41.000 If for men, the purpose is to generate offspring and then to protect and defend those offspring.

00:05:46.000 This is not just true for human beings.

00:05:47.000 This is true for primates.

00:05:48.000 This is true for literally all species that have sexual dichotomy attached to them.

00:05:52.000 And so sex and masculinity and femininity were built around these roles. 0.98

00:05:57.000 And that's really important because one of the things that we've done is we've exploded those roles.

00:06:00.000 We've now disconnected the idea of sex from any sort of teleology.

00:06:03.000 There's no purpose to sex other than whatever subjective pleasure it brings you.

00:06:06.000 When you disconnect sex from teleology, things go wrong really, really quickly and you end up with bizarre videos like this one from Andrew Tate and a lot of the other societal problems that are plaguing Western civilization these days.

00:06:18.000 I'll get to more of that in just a second.

00:06:19.000 It actually is a kind of deep point.

00:06:20.000 I'll get to that in a moment.

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00:07:22.000 Okay, so, when you get rid of the teleology of male and female, when you get rid of the purpose of male-female sexual bonding, Which is reproduction and then rearing and defense of children.

00:07:32.000 And those have sex-specific roles because women treat children differently than men do. 0.99

00:07:36.000 Women have to actually have the child in them. 1.00

00:07:39.000 And women have to actually nurse the child. 1.00

00:07:42.000 Women have to comfort the child in the early going for sure. 1.00

00:07:45.000 And men have to be out there protecting and providing.

00:07:47.000 All of masculinity and femininity are built around these basic realities of life. 0.93

00:07:51.000 When you sever that connection, here's what happens.

00:07:55.000 On the one hand, you have people who demand that now that the connection between sex and reproduction has been severed, all the rules go away.

00:08:00.000 You can do whatever you want, and the only thing that actually matters is sexual pleasure.

00:08:05.000 But there's a problem with that.

00:08:07.000 The problem is that the animal instincts remain.

00:08:09.000 The evolutionary biology animal instincts remain.

00:08:12.000 And those animal instincts end up making you either quote-unquote sexist or fetishistic.

00:08:18.000 What I mean by this is that if you take all of the rules of tradition and you remove them from their teleological context, if you take all of the rules of marriage, which promoted, for example, chastity before marriage and outside of marriage.

00:08:32.000 If you promote rules that suggest monogamy between two people, if you do all of that stuff, but you remove it from the context of in order to create a family unit to provide for biological children, If you get rid of that, then all of that starts to sound really sexist.

00:08:47.000 And this is what women are having a real problem with these days. 1.00

00:08:50.000 A lot of feminists are having a real problem with this because they still have the same biological drives as women have always had, which is to, you know, actually be with a person that they trust. 1.00

00:08:59.000 A man that they trust is the general biological drive of women over time. 1.00

00:09:02.000 Otherwise, human beings would not exist generation to generation.

00:09:04.000 Women have had a drive to be with a man that they trust in terms of protecting, providing, and yes, sexual comfort, because that's true by every statistic.

00:09:13.000 Wanting to bear children with that man.

00:09:14.000 They still have those drives.

00:09:16.000 But they feel that it's sexist to have those drives, and so they attempt to sublimate them, and anyone who promotes those drives is now considered sexist.

00:09:22.000 Or, alternatively, you end up with the fetishistic, which is what Andrew Tate is doing with this video.

00:09:26.000 Because again, if sex is now disconnected from the teleology, Then secondary sexual characteristics, your fetishistic idea of attractiveness is now the only important thing about the sex.

00:09:36.000 Now, human beings have been fetishistic for all of time.

00:09:39.000 Human beings wanted to have sex with a wide variety of things, wide variety of people, wide variety of types for a long, long time.

00:09:45.000 That's nothing new.

00:09:46.000 What is new is the idea that when you separate sex from its purpose, what you end up with is bizarre questions like, is it better to be attracted to the secondary sex characteristics of a transsexual Megan Fox, which is what he's talking about, or to primary sex characteristics? 0.51

00:10:00.000 Now, the normal teleological answer to Andrew Tate's question is, you have sex with a woman because you can only, if you are a man, marry and produce children with a woman.

00:10:08.000 That was the original answer. 0.99

00:10:09.000 When you get rid of that, then you end up in weird Andrew Tate world where he's talking about moving aside male appendages in order to have sex with transsexuals. 0.99

00:10:18.000 You end up in a very chaotic place. 0.99

00:10:20.000 And you can see this in what Andrew Tate says very often.

00:10:24.000 It's kind of fascinating when you see that Andrew Tate is operating in a context where the teleology of sex no longer applies, but he is still attempting to apply the old rules.

00:10:32.000 He sounds alternatively to feminists, sexist, and to other people, fetishistic.

00:10:37.000 Because the rules of the road all make sense when things are directed by a higher purpose.

00:10:42.000 When there is no higher purpose, then everything starts to sound arbitrary or discriminatory or whatever.

00:10:48.000 And it doesn't just apply to Andrew Tate, as we'll see in just a moment.

00:10:51.000 So just to take an example.

00:10:53.000 Here's Andrew Tate talking to Dave Portnoy saying that women belong to their men.

00:10:56.000 He is using a sort of language that makes sense in the teleological sexual compatibility category, right?

00:11:04.000 If you're talking about a man belongs to a woman and a woman belongs to a man in the biblical sense, meaning a man shall leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife. 0.92

00:11:12.000 If that's what you mean, that a woman belongs to the man because you have to have a family unit in which you guys are now unified. 0.72

00:11:18.000 And it makes it, but you remove it from that and it sounds just randomly sexist, right?

00:11:22.000 Because you get rid of the teleology and it just sounds like he's being possessive and weird.

00:11:25.000 Here's Andrew Tate.

00:11:26.000 I don't know, because I think the women belong to the man. 1.00

00:11:28.000 I think the woman's given over to the man. 1.00

00:11:29.000 Yeah, that's inherently where you get called sexist.

00:11:31.000 Well, you can call me sexist if you want, but if you look at marriage, it's the bride's father who gives her away. 0.99

00:11:31.000 No, it's not. 0.99

00:11:36.000 It's not the groom's father, is it?

00:11:37.000 In old tradition.

00:11:39.000 The woman is always given over to the man. 1.00

00:11:41.000 Read the Bible, read the Koran, you can go to... Walking down the aisle, no chance.

00:11:45.000 There's definitely, there's like African cultures where they don't do that.

00:11:49.000 I'm sure there are some obscure tribes somewhere.

00:11:51.000 I mean, I can't say... I'm not a professional.

00:11:53.000 But you get it.

00:11:54.000 You seem like a very smart guy.

00:11:55.000 You gotta understand why people would say that.

00:11:57.000 You're saying a woman is the property of a man if they're dating. 0.75

00:11:57.000 You seem like a smart guy. 0.75

00:12:00.000 I'm not saying they're a property.

00:12:01.000 I'm saying they're given to the man and they belong to the man. 0.69

00:12:03.000 It doesn't mean they're a pure property without emotion.

00:12:07.000 Okay, the reason that it sounds fetishistic and weird and sexist when he's saying it is because he is saying it without reference to the kids that the union will produce.

00:12:13.000 If you say a woman belongs to the man because it is the man's job to protect and provide for her, that's a different thing from saying she's essentially your slave, which is a different thing.

00:12:21.000 And he's having a hard time articulating that in that particular clip because again, he has removed sex from the teleological consequences.

00:12:28.000 We're an entire civilization that has decided that children no longer matter, which of course is why we are a civilization that does not have children, or a civilization that is not producing a next generation, or a solipsistic, narcissistic civilization that has decided that the only thing that matters in life is sexual pleasure, which will end with one, sexism, toxic masculinity, and two, fetishism.

00:12:46.000 That's what it'll end with.

00:12:47.000 You get rid of teleology, and this is exactly what happens.

00:12:49.000 Here, for example, is Andrew Tate talking on Piers Morgan about couples' roles in protecting women.

00:12:54.000 It sounds sexist to people, but inside the context of because you have kids with the person you're marrying and you're forming a family unit that deserves protection, it doesn't sound weird at all.

00:13:03.000 It sounds normal, actually, and good.

00:13:06.000 Let's say your woman decided she wanted to take a nice little walk through the south side of Chicago at 2am, and she wanted you to go with her, and you were responsible for fighting and dying on the spot if she was attacked.

00:13:15.000 Don't you think you would say to her, no, we're not going out right now, it's not safe?

00:13:18.000 Yes.

00:13:19.000 Okay, so you'd have authority to make the decision.

00:13:20.000 No, I wouldn't.

00:13:21.000 I would say, I don't think you should.

00:13:23.000 If she decides to, it's her own volition.

00:13:25.000 Well, if she decides, you're not going to stop her.

00:13:27.000 I have no power to stop her.

00:13:28.000 Completely.

00:13:28.000 But you think you do?

00:13:29.000 No, I don't think I've We clearly do.

00:13:31.000 No, I think I have power to make the decision.

00:13:32.000 I think, no, that's not sensible.

00:13:34.000 So if you have the power to make the decision, you have the power to stop it.

00:13:36.000 And perhaps on certain issues, the woman will know more about X and she'll decide X and the man might know more about Y and he'll decide Y. So I'm saying if we're as a couple and we're sitting there and deciding as a couple, as a team, and she says she wants to take this late night stroll, I'm going to say, you know what, I'm going to veto this one.

00:13:50.000 Okay, so again, what Pierre is having a tough time there with is the idea that there's a family unit, right?

00:13:56.000 And that's what Andrew Tate is trying to say, but he can't operate in that context because that's not the context in which he himself tends to operate because his whole shtick is, once you remove, again, the purpose of sex and sexual relationships from commitment, marriage, and childbearing.

00:14:10.000 Once you do that, what you end up with is masculinity is all of the secondary aspects of masculinity.

00:14:15.000 In the same way that he's talking about the secondary sex characteristics of a transsexual woman, that's what truly matters. 0.61

00:14:20.000 He's talking about the secondary characteristics of masculinity and muscularity.

00:14:23.000 What's muscularity designed to do?

00:14:24.000 To protect your wife and your children and your nation.

00:14:28.000 That's what it's designed to do.

00:14:29.000 If you're Andrew Tate and you're talking about being rich, what is the purpose of being rich?

00:14:33.000 To provide for your wife and your children and your community.

00:14:38.000 That's what it's for.

00:14:39.000 But when you remove the teleology, all you end up with is the glorification of the secondary.

00:14:43.000 And when you glorify the secondary, you end up in strange areas.

00:14:45.000 Okay, so that's why AndroTate is popular, because he's articulating an unmet need that society has completely jettisoned.

00:14:51.000 Human beings still have the same instincts they have always had, but the entire framework, the moral guidance that provided boundaries and fences And channel those instincts in the best possible direction have been exploded.

00:15:04.000 So what it ends up looking like is this sort of archaic throwback kind of stuff combined with a fetishistic commitment to secondary sex characteristics in femininity and masculinity.

00:15:14.000 That's what it ends up looking like.

00:15:14.000 That's why you end up with that weird clip of Andrew Tate talking about transsexual Megan Fox or whatever.

00:15:19.000 Here's the thing.

00:15:20.000 It's not just hurting men.

00:15:21.000 It's also hurting women. 1.00

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00:16:27.000 Okay, so it's not just that the death of teleology with regard to sexual relationships.

00:16:33.000 Has hurt men.

00:16:34.000 It has.

00:16:34.000 I mean, it's completely destroyed masculinity.

00:16:36.000 It's basically turned masculinity into alternatively toxic masculinity.

00:16:39.000 All of these secondary instinctive parts of masculinity, but without any sort of purpose.

00:16:44.000 Or just complete innervation.

00:16:45.000 Men don't have any place in society, and so they sit home and they play video games. 1.00

00:16:49.000 And that's what it's doing to men.

00:16:50.000 Get rid of the teleology of male and female, and men collapse.

00:16:53.000 Guess what else happens? 0.84

00:16:54.000 Women collapse. 1.00

00:16:55.000 So, there is this fascinating podcast called the Whatever Podcast, and a bunch of clips from this podcast have now been making the rounds.

00:17:03.000 And it's the same thing with women. 1.00

00:17:05.000 If women do not, if there is no teleology to sex, what you end up with is women in a state of upset and confusion. 1.00

00:17:13.000 And they don't know how to deal with that, because no one knows how to deal with that, because civilization has never done anything remotely this stupid before. 0.99

00:17:19.000 Like disconnecting sex from its actual purpose. 0.98

00:17:21.000 Disconnecting human beings from their actual purpose on Earth, which is to propagate, to have children, to get married, to enrich those children, to protect those children from evil people who wish to pervert those children, to protect their communities and their values.

00:17:34.000 These were all the purposes that human beings were created to do.

00:17:37.000 And we have jettisoned all of them in favor of subjective sexual pleasure.

00:17:40.000 And then we're like, why is everybody so upset?

00:17:41.000 I don't understand why everyone's depressed and chaotic and suicidal and confused.

00:17:45.000 I just don't don't don't understand.

00:17:46.000 OK, so this whatever podcast is essentially a host sitting with a bunch of attractive young women and talking about everything from sex to dating. 0.94

00:17:55.000 And the clips are almost tragic.

00:17:58.000 They're almost tragic because what you see is people who don't understand how the world is supposed to work.

00:18:03.000 They don't understand the purpose of things.

00:18:05.000 And so they are just in a state of constant confusion.

00:18:09.000 They don't.

00:18:09.000 OK, so.

00:18:11.000 Take, for example, this clip that has now gone viral. 0.99

00:18:13.000 It is a woman storming out off the whatever podcast because a male guest says he will not have sex with a transsexual woman. 1.00

00:18:22.000 He will not have sex with a trans woman. 1.00

00:18:25.000 And this apparently is sexist because, of course, trans women are women. 0.99

00:18:28.000 We've been told again that sex is completely to be disconnected from reproduction.

00:18:31.000 So if a woman Who is not a woman says she is a woman, meaning a dude says he is a lady. 1.00

00:18:37.000 You are supposed to just believe that and then have sex with that. 0.94

00:18:39.000 But now and you and you won't and you and you say, well, hold on, I'm straight. 0.93

00:18:43.000 I'm not going to do that.

00:18:43.000 They say, well, yes, but that doesn't matter.

00:18:45.000 You see, whether you're straight, that's all spectrum, as Andrew Tate says.

00:18:48.000 It's all spectrum.

00:18:49.000 It doesn't matter because bottom line is what you are doing.

00:18:53.000 It's just it's just sex, man.

00:18:54.000 What's the big deal? 0.67

00:18:55.000 So here's this clip.

00:18:56.000 It's an amazing clip.

00:18:58.000 Chase, would you rather smash the hottest trans woman in the world or the oldest woman in the world? 1.00

00:19:03.000 Honestly, bro? 0.99

00:19:05.000 The oldest woman in the world, because then I wouldn't be gay. 0.91

00:19:09.000 What? 1.00

00:19:11.000 You really just want me to just whip you a f***ing new one, I swear. 1.00

00:19:15.000 Are you like... Chase, how dare you be transphobic? 0.99

00:19:19.000 Yes, actually. 1.00

00:19:20.000 What the f*** do you mean? 0.98

00:19:21.000 Yes, that was so unnecessary. 1.00

00:19:22.000 Because if I had sex with a trans woman, I'd be having sex with a biological man. 1.00

00:19:26.000 And I don't want to do that. 1.00

00:19:27.000 That's not what you said, though.

00:19:28.000 That's fine. 1.00

00:19:29.000 Because I'd be gay if I had sex with a biological man. 1.00

00:19:31.000 That's not gay. 1.00

00:19:32.000 I don't care if you're doing this for, like, whatever, but, like, shut the f*** up, actually. 1.00

00:19:40.000 Why don't you make me shut the f*** up? 1.00

00:19:42.000 Because I have an opinion that differs from yours. 0.99

00:19:47.000 She's right.

00:19:48.000 I mean, that's really hateful, bro.

00:19:50.000 She's not.

00:19:51.000 It would technically be homosexual. 0.81

00:19:53.000 A trans woman is a biological man. 0.86

00:19:55.000 Sue me.

00:19:58.000 Right.

00:19:58.000 And of course, the women who are walking out have been told that that's not the case.

00:20:02.000 They've been told that a biological man who has a bunch of surgeries to mimic the looks of a biological woman is in fact a biological woman.

00:20:10.000 Now, the only way that you can come to that conclusion is if what you believe is that sex and reproduction have nothing to do with one another, right?

00:20:16.000 That the only sexual or the only female organs that matter are not the reproductive organs, which are the ones that, by the way, typically define what is female from what is male.

00:20:25.000 The way that we define a female is, in fact, an egg-producing person, right?

00:20:29.000 That is the way, typically biologically, like a large A large reproductive cell producing person would be a female. 1.00

00:20:37.000 That is biologically how you define this thing.

00:20:39.000 But we've removed that because sex and reproduction are now completely separate.

00:20:41.000 And so you end up with this bizarre spectacle of actual biological women getting angry at a man for saying he does not want to have sex with a man who has a bunch of surgeries to look more like a woman. 0.55

00:20:51.000 Because that's what a woman is. 1.00

00:20:53.000 Once you disconnect sex from reproduction, what you end up with is the fetishistic. 0.61

00:20:57.000 The fetishistic Objectification of women. 0.86

00:21:01.000 The imitation of female body parts is now the same as a female.

00:21:04.000 There's no difference.

00:21:05.000 They are the same.

00:21:06.000 The destruction of the distinction between the sexes.

00:21:06.000 That's what you end up with.

00:21:09.000 And guess who that hurts, ladies? 1.00

00:21:11.000 Predominantly you.

00:21:13.000 But that's not the only confusion that arises when you get rid of the teleology of male-female relationships.

00:21:19.000 Take, for example, this woman, this young woman.

00:21:22.000 There's a young woman, again, on this whatever podcast and this clip went uber viral, mainly because at least 70% of this young woman's vocabulary is the word like.

00:21:30.000 Here we go.

00:21:32.000 I think like the biggest thing that like annoys me in like the whole dating world is like talking stages like that's so annoying like the whole like and just like the inconsistency in them like I literally like hate that like so much but I think that's like my biggest thing is just like what what specifically just like the fact of just like you like I don't know how to word this.

00:21:54.000 Like, in, like, talking stages, and it's just, like, you're, like, labeled that, and it's, like, people, like, are considered, like, you can't, like, you're just, like, confused, and, like, most of the time, like, the girl gets, like, attached or something, and they, like, see it, like, it's gonna lead to a relationship, and it's always not, and it's just, like, that's, like, my biggest thing, is, like, I just hate the whole, like, how, like, talking stages are so, like, normalized.

00:22:16.000 Like, traditional dating does not exist in this generation.

00:22:21.000 Okay, so, couple things.

00:22:22.000 One, she uses the word like a lot.

00:22:23.000 Now the reason I assume that she's using the word like a lot, there's only two reasons.

00:22:26.000 One is because normally it comprises an extraordinary extent of her vocabulary, which is plausible.

00:22:32.000 Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in the world who use like a lot. 1.00

00:22:36.000 Or, alternatively, it's a nervous tic.

00:22:38.000 Like is a nervous tick in this clip.

00:22:40.000 The reason that she's nervous in this clip is because she is trying to articulate a human instinct that you are no longer allowed to articulate.

00:22:46.000 That human instinct is that sex is supposed to be combined with commitment.

00:22:50.000 Sex is supposed to be combined with commitment, and commitment is supposed to be combined with marriage, and marriage is supposed to be combined with childbearing. 0.76

00:22:56.000 I know these are these are really difficult things, except for literally all of human history.

00:22:59.000 But in the last five minutes, we decided we're not allowed to say this anymore.

00:23:02.000 So what exactly is she talking about?

00:23:03.000 I will try to decode this.

00:23:05.000 OK, let me try to decode this in just one second.

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00:24:21.000 Alrighty, so let's talk about that particular clip.

00:24:25.000 So she's talking about talking stages.

00:24:27.000 What the hell is a talking stage?

00:24:29.000 So, I'll be honest, this is not of my generation.

00:24:31.000 This is of the Generation Z. It's the generation below me. 1.00

00:24:33.000 So, what exactly is a talking stage?

00:24:35.000 Apparently, a talking stage Is the beginning of the dating process, or the not dating process, in which you are just talking a lot with somebody and it's very awkward because you don't know the purpose of the talking.

00:24:44.000 That's what she's talking about.

00:24:46.000 She is saying that that stage is really awkward.

00:24:47.000 And apparently that can include anything from casual hookups and sex, to you just go to coffee, and you haven't defined the relationship.

00:24:55.000 You haven't defined the relationship.

00:24:56.000 She says that's really awkward for her.

00:24:58.000 You know why talking stages have become a thing?

00:25:01.000 Because you've obliterated the purpose of male-female relationships. 1.00

00:25:04.000 That would be why.

00:25:06.000 That would be why.

00:25:07.000 Because it used to be.

00:25:08.000 I'll tell you what the talking stage looked like in my relationship with my wife. 0.96

00:25:11.000 Here was the talking stage.

00:25:13.000 Would you like to go on a date?

00:25:15.000 That was the talking stage.

00:25:17.000 Then it was over.

00:25:17.000 There were no more talking stages.

00:25:19.000 You want to know why?

00:25:20.000 Because we went in, both my wife and I, with the purpose of getting married and then having children.

00:25:24.000 That was the purpose.

00:25:25.000 And so everything was constructed around that.

00:25:27.000 It was constructed around the end goal.

00:25:29.000 It was constructed around the teleological endpoint of what the relationship would be.

00:25:33.000 Thank God we are happily married for almost 15 years.

00:25:35.000 We have our fourth child on the way.

00:25:38.000 By the way, a huge majority of people, globally, Who have children and are happily married will tell you the same thing.

00:25:43.000 You have to start with the end point, but we've destroyed the end point, and so what you end up with is talking stages where, are we having sex or are we not having sex?

00:25:49.000 Are we supposed to make out or are we not supposed to make out?

00:25:51.000 Do I even like you?

00:25:51.000 Okay, so here is the way that it used to work in traditional society, and still does in most traditional societies.

00:25:57.000 Meet a woman.

00:25:59.000 Date a woman. 0.62

00:26:00.000 Marry a woman. 1.00

00:26:01.000 Have sex with a woman. 1.00

00:26:02.000 Have children with a woman. 1.00

00:26:04.000 That is the actual, those are the stages.

00:26:06.000 So the talking stage is like the very beginning.

00:26:08.000 Because you're talking about whether you wish to pursue the relationship or not.

00:26:13.000 There is no confusion.

00:26:15.000 You do not have sex during the talking stage.

00:26:18.000 Because that would be mixing up stage like four with stage one.

00:26:22.000 And the reason that stage 4 is not stage 1 is because the whole purpose of the relationship is to develop the commitment that is necessary in order to decide whether the two of you wish to provide a home for a child that you produce together.

00:26:34.000 That was the entire purpose.

00:26:35.000 You destroy that purpose and what you end up with is a woman who says like a lot while being very confused and frustrated and upset that she doesn't know what to expect from men. 0.99

00:26:42.000 Well, why should she know what to expect from men?

00:26:45.000 Men even don't know what they expect because all the expectations in our society have been drowned in a bathtub.

00:26:50.000 They've been destroyed.

00:26:52.000 So you end up with this sort of chaos.

00:26:54.000 I feel bad for her.

00:26:55.000 I feel bad for a lot of young women and young men because they've been brought into a world in which the purpose that God laid out for them, and I believe it was God, but you can say it was evolutionary biology if it makes you feel any better.

00:27:05.000 The purpose of your being has been removed from you.

00:27:09.000 And thus, you are left in a stage of confusion.

00:27:12.000 We'll have talking stages, like lots of talking stages, like so many like talking stages.

00:27:15.000 And they really, of course they bother you because there's no purpose to the talking stage.

00:27:20.000 The talking stage is awkward only insofar as you don't know what it's designed to do.

00:27:25.000 She's saying, I want clarity in my relationship.

00:27:26.000 That's what she's actually saying.

00:27:27.000 I want clarity in relationships.

00:27:29.000 You know how you have clarity in relationships?

00:27:30.000 When you go into the relationship seeking clarity.

00:27:33.000 That's how.

00:27:34.000 But we destroyed that because the normal endpoint of the relationship is something that is apparently completely subjective and may be scorned, may be frowned upon.

00:27:42.000 You can see this happening, by the way, on television.

00:27:44.000 If you watch any movie from the 1940s, the way that this works is Man meets woman, they date, they fall in love, and then, again, the purpose is get married and have kids.

00:27:55.000 Now we've completely screwed this up.

00:27:57.000 Now every TV show is you go out with somebody, you're at a bar, you have sex with them, and then you have to decide the next morning whether you even like them.

00:28:05.000 Then you wonder why people are confused, why men don't know the difference between quote-unquote toxic masculinity and regular masculinity, and women don't know the difference between Quote-unquote, promiscuity and freedom.

00:28:17.000 You want to know why?

00:28:19.000 That is why.

00:28:20.000 Get rid of the teleology, and this is where you end up.

00:28:22.000 Okay.

00:28:23.000 So, meanwhile, in the biggest sort of news story of the day, Tucker Carlson has now come under heavy fire, particularly from Chuck Schumer.

00:28:32.000 So, you'll recall, we talked about it on the show yesterday, that Tucker went on his Fox News show, and he revealed some unseen footage from January 6th.

00:28:39.000 He was given 41,000 hours of footage from January 6th, And this footage showed a couple of things.

00:28:48.000 Tucker's done two episodes of his January 6th investigation.

00:28:51.000 The second episode last night didn't really contain any new footage, so I assume that most of the big footage was dropped on night one.

00:28:56.000 So, night one of his investigation.

00:28:59.000 Showed two things in particular.

00:29:00.000 One, the QAnon shaman walking around the Capitol building being guided by police officers, right? 0.67

00:29:06.000 Not being arrested.

00:29:06.000 He has two police officers by him.

00:29:08.000 They walked through a group of another seven police officers.

00:29:10.000 At no point is he arrested.

00:29:11.000 And the idea that he is, you know, a violent insurrectionary overthrowing the democracy He violently entered the building and he pled guilty to that.

00:29:19.000 But once he's inside, he's not being tackled.

00:29:21.000 Now, the police can say whatever they want.

00:29:23.000 They can say, well, you know, we didn't want to escalate the situation.

00:29:25.000 But when you're walking, one dude, if the idea is that you have a shortage of police officers, then it seems like a misallocation of police officers to have two police officers walk a man around the Capitol building.

00:29:34.000 Seems like a misallocation of police resources at the very least.

00:29:36.000 Anyway, what Tucker showed is that the kind of narrative that he was running through the halls of the Capitol building Knocking people over and beating their brains out in order to get into the main room of the Capitol and then sit behind the desk and then hang from the ceiling and all that kind of stuff.

00:29:51.000 That was a part that they never showed you.

00:29:54.000 The other tape that he showed, he showed some people who are sort of walking in rope lines.

00:29:57.000 They probably knew that they weren't supposed to be there, but they thought, OK, is it really that bad?

00:30:01.000 I mean, the cops are literally standing right there doing nothing.

00:30:03.000 So is it really that bad?

00:30:05.000 And that was another piece.

00:30:06.000 And the other piece that he showed was Brian Sicknick, who is the officer who died a couple of days later.

00:30:12.000 And the media originally attributed it to him being essentially murdered by the rioters.

00:30:18.000 And the evidence suggests that he died of natural causes.

00:30:20.000 Now you can say that it was the excitement of doing his job that caused him to have a stroke.

00:30:25.000 Okay, sure.

00:30:26.000 But the idea originally put out by the media is that he was beat to death with a fire extinguisher or that it was them, they murdered him.

00:30:33.000 Which, again, is a sort of standard for police death that I've never seen applied anywhere else.

00:30:41.000 If a police officer goes to a Black Lives Matter protest and it gets very pushy and riotous, and then two days later that person dies of a heart attack, typically you're not going to say Black Lives Matter killed the guy.

00:30:50.000 But that's precisely what the media did in that particular case.

00:30:52.000 So that's what Tucker revealed.

00:30:53.000 Now, in the middle of that monologue, Tucker also gave credence to the original falsehoods that I think Donald Trump was speaking from November 4th to January 6th, which is that the election was capable of being overturned, that Trump legitimately won the election, and all the rest of that.

00:31:06.000 And he suggested that, not that this was a protest that turned into a riot on the part of some people, which is the accurate way of portraying this, but that it was essentially peaceful in the extreme.

00:31:17.000 Now, if Tucker had done that as a bit of trollery to the left, because the left You know, in 2020, he basically declared that $2 billion in property damage was mostly peaceful protest.

00:31:26.000 If he had done that as a piece of trollery, I totally get it.

00:31:28.000 I don't think he was doing that.

00:31:29.000 I think he was saying that it was essentially a peaceful event.

00:31:31.000 It wasn't a peaceful event.

00:31:32.000 There were people who were peaceful who entered the Capitol building and then were walking around as a large number of people.

00:31:38.000 But there were people who certainly were violent with the police.

00:31:40.000 I mean, we all saw that on TV in any case.

00:31:42.000 The one thing that the Democrats had to do, they didn't.

00:31:46.000 The one thing that they had to do is say, OK, Tucker's had his say, here's where he's wrong and here's where he's right.

00:31:51.000 They couldn't do it.

00:31:52.000 They couldn't do it because they have a narrative and the narrative must be maintained.

00:31:54.000 And the narrative is that January 6th is the worst thing that has happened to the United States in the history of the United States, at least since the Civil War.

00:32:00.000 In order to maintain that perspective, they have to ignore all of the footage that Tucker brought to the table.

00:32:04.000 And they have to say that it was a really, really bad thing that Tucker brought that footage out in the first place.

00:32:09.000 And they have to call for his censorship.

00:32:10.000 And it's precisely what Chuck Schumer The Senate Majority Leader did yesterday.

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00:34:06.000 Right.

00:34:06.000 That's conditional.

00:34:08.000 Yeah.

00:34:08.000 Well, you know, one of the things we could investigate on that front is whether or not love, in any real sense, can be unconditional.

00:34:16.000 Right?

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00:34:26.000 Because everything you do is instantly, well, it's all loved.

00:34:30.000 And it seems to me that there's a tension there between what you might describe as the archetype of feminine love and the archetype of masculine love.

00:34:38.000 And feminine love is love for an infant. 1.00

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00:35:15.000 So as we say, Tucker Carlson, he reveals all of this new footage.

00:35:19.000 You make some points with which I agree and some points with which I disagree.

00:35:21.000 Hey, that's that's called, you know, kind of the normal way that free speech works.

00:35:25.000 But Democrats decided that he had to be shut down.

00:35:27.000 So Chuck Schumer.

00:35:29.000 comes out and immediately says on the floor in the Senate, he says that Tucker should be shut down.

00:35:35.000 Fox News should not allow him to broadcast what Tucker is saying. Now again, I disagree with some of what Tucker said the other night. I also think that what Tucker revealed is kind of important.

00:35:44.000 It changes the kind of nuanced view of the narrative. But again, the Democrats didn't want you to have a nuanced view of the narrative, which is why they hid certain pieces of evidence from the public view and only featured other pieces of evidence.

00:35:53.000 Here was Chuck Schumer slamming Tucker.

00:35:56.000 Rupert Murdoch, who has admitted they were lies and said he regretted it, has a special obligation to stop Tucker Carlson from going on tonight now that he's seen how he is perverted and slimed the truth and from letting him go on again and again and again.

00:36:17.000 Not because their views deserve such opprobrium, but because our democracy depends on it.

00:36:25.000 Um, so you have to shut Tucker down.

00:36:28.000 The Senate Majority Leader literally calling for a shutdown on Tucker Carlson because he doesn't like the way in which Tucker Carlson presents the footage.

00:36:34.000 Now, is Tucker a partisan? 0.95

00:36:36.000 You bet your ass Tucker's a partisan. 0.94

00:36:37.000 I'm not sure that he's been hiding the ball on this. 0.99

00:36:39.000 The amazing thing, though, is that the legacy media have presented themselves as not partisan.

00:36:42.000 I mean, again, Tucker is honest enough to admit his biases, I think you will all acknowledge.

00:36:47.000 But the January 6th committee said that they're providing you all the objective footage that you could possibly want.

00:36:51.000 You didn't even need to see the footage.

00:36:52.000 And the media were like, OK, well, we don't need to see the hours.

00:36:54.000 I mean, the January 6th committee is revealing things.

00:36:56.000 Well, no, I hadn't seen that.

00:36:58.000 It was kind of shocking to watch police officers literally escorting QAnon shaman around the Capitol building.

00:37:03.000 That's kind of important.

00:37:05.000 Again, it doesn't change the overall structure of the day, a protest which turned into a riot.

00:37:10.000 But it does change your picture of what happened inside the building to particular people, obviously.

00:37:17.000 But again, the problem for the Democrats is they could have presented all of this during the January 6th hearings.

00:37:21.000 They could have done this.

00:37:22.000 And they could have actually explained it away.

00:37:24.000 They could have said the reason that the cops are walking him around is because they were afraid that if they arrested him and other people saw that it would turn into more of a riot inside.

00:37:30.000 Fine, you want to do that, do it.

00:37:31.000 But they didn't.

00:37:31.000 They hid it.

00:37:32.000 And presumably they hid it for a reason.

00:37:34.000 The reason would be that they wanted a black and white narrative in which everybody who entered the Capitol building that day Was in fact some sort of insurrectionist terrorist.

00:37:43.000 Everybody was violent, every single person.

00:37:46.000 And no one had been ushered inside at all, which again is not true.

00:37:50.000 Life is not quite that simple.

00:37:52.000 Life is a little bit more messy.

00:37:54.000 It allows people.

00:37:55.000 I remember I was on Bill Maher's show last year and Malcolm Nance was on the show, MSNBC contributor, and he suggested that like thousands upon that, like 30, 40,000 people had entered the Capitol building because everybody who's involved in the original Donald Trump protest Was it though?

00:38:09.000 Was it though?

00:38:10.000 I mean, I hated January 6th.

00:38:11.000 Go back and watch my podcast.

00:38:11.000 like involved in the Donald Trump.

00:38:12.000 Again, the whole idea is conflation.

00:38:14.000 This is how you end up with Kareem Jean-Pierre yesterday from the White House, suggesting that Tucker's January 6th tapes show the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.

00:38:21.000 Is it though?

00:38:23.000 Was it though?

00:38:24.000 I mean, I hated January 6th.

00:38:26.000 Go back and watch my podcast.

00:38:27.000 I thought it was egregious.

00:38:28.000 And I'm, I said from the get go that Donald Trump's case against the election did not have evidentiary support.

00:38:35.000 And not only that, once it was certified by the states, it was over.

00:38:38.000 There was no chance it was going to be overturned by Mike Pence.

00:38:41.000 That reading of the Constitution was stretched beyond the capacity of the document.

00:38:45.000 By far.

00:38:46.000 Because the Vice President was not given the power to declare who the President is, basically.

00:38:50.000 All of that.

00:38:51.000 Still, you want to pretend that this is the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War?

00:38:55.000 I can think of a few other attacks on our democracy.

00:38:58.000 Federal buildings were routinely bombed in the 1960s by members of the Weather Underground.

00:39:04.000 Black Lives Matter riots, the most damaging riots in American history, happened, like, three summers ago.

00:39:10.000 What are you even talking— 9-11!

00:39:12.000 I mean, like, a few attacks in our— just a few.

00:39:15.000 But here's Kareem Shampoo— the narrative must be maintained at all costs, even if it means shut Tucker the hell up.

00:39:20.000 Last night, Tucker Carlson cherry-picked video surveillance from the January 6th insurrection, severely downplaying the events of that day.

00:39:28.000 He said the mob was orderly and meek, and that they were tourists instead of insurrectionists.

00:39:34.000 What's your response to Carlson and to Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who granted him access to that video?

00:39:41.000 Anybody who watched that video would strongly disagree.

00:39:45.000 Anybody who watched that video in a Nope.

00:39:50.000 with their own eyes in a real way and saw what happened on that day would would disagree with what was just stated.

00:39:58.000 The president has been very clear.

00:40:01.000 January 6th was the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.

00:40:04.000 Nope.

00:40:08.000 Nope.

00:40:10.000 But again, the narrative must be maintained at all costs.

00:40:13.000 You can agree, as I say, you can disagree with aspects of how Tucker covered his footage.

00:40:17.000 You can say that he exaggerated his case.

00:40:19.000 You can say that he tried to completely realign what January 6th was and suggest that it wasn't even a riot.

00:40:25.000 I think that even that is kind of a stretch on Tucker's reading.

00:40:27.000 But in any case, that is not the same thing as a call for censorship.

00:40:31.000 So Mitch McConnell yesterday, for example, the Senate Minority Leader, he says that Fox News made a mistake depicting January 6th that way.

00:40:36.000 He didn't call for the deplatforming of Tucker Carlson.

00:40:38.000 He said that they shouldn't have been depicting the riots as sort of a peaceful event.

00:40:43.000 Was it a mistake by Speaker McCarthy to give access to Tucker Carlson on this security footage?

00:40:50.000 My concern is how it was depicted, which is a different issue.

00:40:58.000 Clearly the Chief of the Capitol Police, in my view, correctly describes what most of us witnessed firsthand on January 6th.

00:41:12.000 So that's my reaction to it.

00:41:18.000 It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this.

00:41:26.000 In a way that's completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at Capitol thinks.

00:41:34.000 Okay, so there was an attempt, I think, to conflate what McConnell was saying with what Schumer was saying, which was de-platform Tucker or take him off the air.

00:41:41.000 Schumer literally said that.

00:41:41.000 He said, literally, Fox News should not allow Tucker to go on the air tonight.

00:41:45.000 McConnell said nothing of the story.

00:41:46.000 He said, I don't like the way this was depicted.

00:41:47.000 There was an attempt, including by Tucker last night on his show, to say that McConnell and Schumer are the Uni Party because they agree I should be taken off the air.

00:41:54.000 That's not actually what McConnell is saying right there, but I understand where Tucker is coming from.

00:41:58.000 He was under assault from the Democrats suggesting that he should be de-platformed entirely.

00:42:02.000 The letter, by the way, from the policeman, from the police chief of the Capitol Police, Thomas Manger.

00:42:08.000 He's the USCP chief.

00:42:09.000 He says this.

00:42:10.000 Last night, an opinion program aired commentary that was filled with offensive and misleading conclusions about the January 6th attack.

00:42:15.000 The opinion program never reached out to the department to provide accurate context.

00:42:18.000 One false allegation is that our officers helped the rioters and acted as tour guides.

00:42:21.000 This is outrageous and false.

00:42:22.000 The department stands by the officers in the video that was shown last night.

00:42:25.000 I don't have to remind you how outnumbered our officers were on January 6th, et cetera, et cetera.

00:42:29.000 Well, I mean, I think the question here is, there is no context provided for the more tense moments either.

00:42:39.000 Meaning, if the complaint is, Tucker didn't provide context for the walking of QAnon Shaman around the Capitol, you guys provided no actual context to what happened to QAnon Shaman after he broke into the building between that time and when he was standing in the actual main chamber of the Capitol.

00:42:59.000 So, if you guys provided black, and Tucker provided white, and the actual answer is kind of dark gray, then you can't really complain that Tucker provided some white when it didn't exist before.

00:43:11.000 Meaning, like, you provided a completely Manichaean story in which you just ignore the other, like, any evidence that did not cut in favor of all of your notions, and now you're complaining that Tucker provided some context because he didn't provide enough context?

00:43:27.000 The police chief says the most disturbing accusation from last night was that our late friend and colleague Brian Sicknick's death had nothing to do with his heroic actions on January 6th.

00:43:33.000 The department maintains, as anyone with common sense would, that had Officer Sicknick not fought valiantly for hours on the day he was violently assaulted, Officer Sicknick would not have died the next day.

00:43:40.000 Okay, again, that's all fair enough, but I'm not aware of any standard in American journalism or even law enforcement in which Riots which result in the later stroke or heart attack of a police officer are then blamed on the rioters.

00:43:55.000 Like really, that's not something I've seen a lot before.

00:43:58.000 Maybe it should be, but that would be a new kind of standard.

00:44:01.000 But again, the main goal here is to take Tucker off the air.

00:44:06.000 To his credit, Kevin McCarthy, who was asked about why he gave the material to Tucker in the first place, said, listen, I'm being transparent.

00:44:12.000 That's called transparency.

00:44:13.000 You don't like what Tucker presented?

00:44:14.000 Fine.

00:44:14.000 But at least the footage is out there now, which, again, is not unfair, given the fact that the partisan media on the left do the exact same thing on behalf of Democrats.

00:44:23.000 Because of the footage that you gave Tucker Carlson, last night he went on and said this was a mostly peaceful chaos, as he said, he downplayed Brian Sicknick's death, said it was not related to January 6th, said this was not an insurrection.

00:44:35.000 Do you regret giving him this footage so he could whitewash the events of that day?

00:44:40.000 No.

00:44:41.000 I said at the very beginning, transparency.

00:44:44.000 And so what I wanted to produce for everybody is exactly what I said, that people could actually look at it and see what's gone on that day.

00:44:51.000 Look, each person can come up with their own conclusion, but what I just wanted to make sure is I had transparency.

00:44:56.000 Because I know in CNN, I mean I had here, Where you guys actually broke where we were.

00:45:01.000 This was a secret location.

00:45:02.000 Fort McGlare.

00:45:03.000 I don't know if you got concerned by that.

00:45:05.000 I don't even know from a point of view of security if we could ever be taken there again.

00:45:10.000 But when you broke that at CNN, that was a real concern to a lot of people.

00:45:15.000 Okay, well, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to struggle on its own.

00:45:19.000 So the truth is that Democrats would love to talk about nothing but January 6th from now until the end of time.

00:45:24.000 Because, of course, that's what they ran on in 2021 and in 2022.

00:45:28.000 And that's what they will presumably run again on in 2024.

00:45:31.000 But there are actual real problems in the United States that didn't happen three years ago.

00:45:35.000 Those problems include the fact that Americans are now being kidnapped and murdered over in Mexico.

00:45:40.000 According to the New York Post, the two American citizens who were found alive Tuesday after being kidnapped at gunpoint during cartel crossfire in Mexico have now been identified and returned to the United States.

00:45:48.000 Latavia Tay McGee and Eric James Williams were rushed to the border near Brownsville, Texas Tuesday in a convoy of ambulances and SUVs escorted by Mexican military Humvees and National Guard trucks with mounted .50-caliber machine guns.

00:45:58.000 They were found just hours earlier in a rural area east of Matamoros called Ajijolongoreno, I'm going to screw that name up, on the way to the Gulf Coast known as Baghdad Beach.

00:46:08.000 That's always a good indicator that that beach is great.

00:46:10.000 That's why they call it Baghdad Beach.

00:46:11.000 It's like a great vacation spot, Baghdad Beach.

00:46:13.000 Just hours after the pair were reportedly found at a clinic in the northeastern city of Matamoros, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN they were receiving medical care at a hospital in Texas. One of the survivors is said to be seriously injured.

00:46:23.000 Apparently, McGee and Williams had traveled to Mexico with their pals, Shaeed Woodard and Zendel Brown, so McGee could undergo a cosmetic medical procedure.

00:46:30.000 Shortly after they crossed the border from Texas into the crime-ridden border city of Matamoros, located in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, they were caught in the crosshairs of a shootout between rival cartel gangs.

00:46:41.000 And then they were kidnapped at gunpoint.

00:46:43.000 Woodard and Brown were confirmed as dead on Tuesday.

00:46:44.000 Their bodies will be examined by medical authorities in Mexico before being returned.

00:46:49.000 So, um, that's great.

00:46:51.000 That's just wonderful.

00:46:52.000 The White House was asked about the drug cartels on the border who are, you know, shooting Americans across the border and also are smuggling extraordinary amounts of fentanyl across the border.

00:47:01.000 And the White House had no answer, of course.

00:47:03.000 So, cartels kill Americans on this side of the border with drugs, and now they're killing Americans on the other side of the border with guns.

00:47:12.000 Why is President Biden so comfortable with cartels operating so close to the U.S.?

00:47:18.000 Well, let's be very clear.

00:47:19.000 Let me take on the drug part here, because since you brought this up, because of the work that this president has done, because of what we've done specifically on fentanyl at the border, it's at historic lows, historic levels, that we have been able to They're just lying now.

00:47:34.000 They're just lying right now.

00:47:36.000 I mean, literally, fentanyl may be.

00:47:37.000 Fentanyl OD might be the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45 in the United States right now.

00:47:41.000 That's because of what this president has done.

00:47:43.000 And I think that's what we need to do.

00:48:01.000 According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to National Review, consistent with overdose death data, the trafficking distribution and abuse of illicitly produced fentanyl and fentanyl analogs positively correlates with the associated dramatic increase in overdose fatalities.

00:48:13.000 At the end of 2022, the DEA announced the seizure of more than 50.6 million fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills and more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder this calendar year.

00:48:23.000 The DEA laboratory estimates these seizures represent more than 379 million potential deadly doses of fentanyl.

00:48:29.000 That is more deadly doses of fentanyl than there are humans in the United States at current point.

00:48:35.000 That's insane.

00:48:37.000 So what she's saying is we're seizing a lot of fentanyl?

00:48:39.000 Yeah, because there's a crap load of fentanyl coming across the border, guys.

00:48:42.000 Which presumably is one reason why the Biden administration, as we mentioned yesterday, is now going to think about reinstating a bunch of Trump-era immigration policy.

00:48:50.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, The Biden administration has held meetings in recent days to discuss detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally as officials prepare to put in place more restrictive border control measures to counter unexpected surge in migrants, according to people familiar with the discussions.

00:49:03.000 As Title 42 ends, Title 42 is the The COVID-era regulation that allows rejection of people at the border who have not been tested for COVID or whatever.

00:49:11.000 As that comes to an end, the Biden administration is now going to have to do exactly what the Trump administration did and what the White House was yelling at the Trump administration about.

00:49:20.000 I mean, it was the Biden administration. 0.72

00:49:22.000 It's Team Biden who was saying that Trump was some sort of brutal, evil dictator.

00:49:25.000 Remember AOC taking pictures in white down at the border?

00:49:28.000 Well, Kareem Jean-Pierre won't answer any questions about that, of course.

00:49:32.000 On immigration, so we're hearing that this idea to detain families in detention, again, is one of a lot of policies that are currently under consideration as Title 42 restrictions are going to possibly end on May 11th.

00:49:51.000 If you can rule out family detention or what can you say about the idea that, you know, families may or may not be detained, migrant families may or may not be detained?

00:50:03.000 So I'm not going to go in on rumors that are out there or conversations that are happening at this time.

00:50:08.000 The department, as you know, as you just noted Colleen, the Department of Homeland Security is certainly continuing to prepare for the eventual lift of Title 42.

00:50:21.000 So, um, yeah, no answers there.

00:50:23.000 No answers at all.

00:50:24.000 Well, the good news is that we have a very energetic and with a president of the United States to help us through all this.

00:50:29.000 So Jill Biden, who seems to appear on TV. 0.95

00:50:31.000 A lot more often than Joe, probably because she's still alive.

00:50:35.000 So she has been going around doing a media tour in the absence of the President of the United States, who is her husband.

00:50:43.000 And in the middle of this media tour, she keeps getting asked about the fact that she is basically Edith Wilson and they're wheeling Joe around in a chair.

00:50:49.000 And she has some answers.

00:50:51.000 Here was her answer yesterday as to how fit Joe Biden is.

00:50:56.000 What do you say to those people who say maybe he's too old to be president?

00:51:00.000 Are those fair questions and conversations to be having?

00:51:03.000 I say look at what he's done.

00:51:06.000 You know, look at what he's doing.

00:51:09.000 Look at how physically he's got the good bill of health from the doctors through his physicals.

00:51:17.000 But how many 30-year-olds could Travel to Poland, get on the train, go nine more hours, go to Ukraine, meet with President Zelensky.

00:51:32.000 How many 30-year-olds?

00:51:34.000 Is that a true question?

00:51:36.000 All of them?

00:51:38.000 The answer to that question is all of them.

00:51:40.000 There is not a 30-year-old on planet Earth.

00:51:42.000 There are 30-year-olds with deadly conditions who can do that.

00:51:44.000 You mean how many people can sit on a plane for a long period of time and then be shoveled onto a train for a long period of time and then do a meeting?

00:51:51.000 Is that what we're supposed to believe makes Joe Biden fit?

00:51:54.000 Seriously?

00:51:55.000 I have a three-year-old who can do that.

00:51:59.000 What?

00:52:01.000 Yeah, man.

00:52:02.000 Well, I mean, that's a lady who's not going to give up the presidency anytime soon. 1.00

00:52:05.000 Well, our first actual female president, well, second, because Edith Wilson was president. 1.00

00:52:09.000 So we have Edith Wilson, who's president. 0.99

00:52:10.000 We have Dr. Jill, the greatest doctor in all the land.

00:52:12.000 So presidential, so doctor-y.

00:52:14.000 She's just the doctor of all doctors.

00:52:17.000 It would be sad if the second female president was actually replaced by the third female president. 1.00

00:52:22.000 There's some rumors that Michelle Obama is thinking about running in 2024.

00:52:26.000 Now, I don't believe these rumors because she has a great life.

00:52:28.000 Michelle Obama's life is being treated like Oprah Winfrey, even though she is a radical leftist.

00:52:32.000 That is a great life.

00:52:33.000 She's a lady who's been given like Netflix deals and huge Spotify deals. 1.00

00:52:38.000 And she's treated as sort of the voice of the boomer slash millennial woman, even though she really is politically quite awful. 1.00

00:52:47.000 Well, she seems to be making some political rounds now. 1.00

00:52:50.000 She has a new book that came out recently.

00:52:52.000 And now she has shared in a new podcast that she broke down and cried for 30 minutes straight, uncontrollably sobbing after Donald Trump was inaugurated, which kind of makes me love Trump a little bit.

00:53:04.000 Tonight, uncontrollable sobbing.

00:53:06.000 The former first lady, Michelle Obama, revealing how she really felt after the inauguration of then President Trump in her new podcast.

00:53:15.000 There were tears.

00:53:16.000 There was that emotion.

00:53:17.000 But then to sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display.

00:53:25.000 There was no diversity.

00:53:26.000 There was no color on that stage.

00:53:28.000 There was no reflection of the broader sense of America.

00:53:32.000 I cried for 30 minutes straight.

00:53:36.000 Uncontrollable sobbing.

00:53:41.000 Aw man.

00:53:42.000 I have to admit, I've been pretty critical of Donald Trump over the years.

00:53:47.000 That may be the thing that somebody has said that makes me the most like Donald Trump, of all the things.

00:53:52.000 I don't know if there are any other things.

00:53:53.000 Notice, by the way, how radical she is. 0.98

00:53:56.000 She's so radical.

00:53:57.000 She looks at Donald Trump and she doesn't say, oh, there's sort of man who opposed all of the policies that we'd fought for.

00:54:02.000 And a person who had called my husband a non-citizen born in Kenya.

00:54:06.000 And she doesn't even go to his character.

00:54:08.000 Right?

00:54:09.000 She doesn't even say anything about Trump.

00:54:10.000 She says, I cried for 30 minutes straight because there weren't enough black people standing next to Donald Trump. 0.85

00:54:14.000 How racist is that?

00:54:16.000 I didn't see enough diversity on the stage, right?

00:54:20.000 There were just no black faces. 0.63

00:54:21.000 It was all white people. 0.83

00:54:22.000 Is that how you see other people?

00:54:24.000 Seriously, is that how you see them? 0.97

00:54:26.000 If you looked at the Obama administration, and instead of looking at their radical policies, all you said is, man, it's a lot of black people. 0.97

00:54:31.000 You'd be like, whoa, that's pretty racist. 0.89

00:54:33.000 And Michelle Obama's like, I cried 30 minutes straight because there were just too many white people on that side of the stage. 0.97

00:54:36.000 What in the actual?

00:54:38.000 She's been doing this on her book tour for a book tententiously titled The Light We Carry.

00:54:43.000 Wait, oh god, The Light We Carry.

00:54:45.000 You can't carry light!

00:54:47.000 She's gonna put it out there.

00:54:48.000 Can't do it.

00:54:50.000 I know, this is where the literalist memes of me come out.

00:54:53.000 But yes, that's a crappy book title, The Light We Carry.

00:54:56.000 Ah, she's so tiring. 1.00

00:54:57.000 But, you know, there's been talk now.

00:55:01.000 about her running for president.

00:55:03.000 I highly doubt that that's the case.

00:55:04.000 She would be a dangerous candidate just because the media have made such a heroine of Michelle Obama by pretending that she is a person who she actually is not. 0.57

00:55:12.000 By the way, speaking of crappy policy from the current administration, it's amazing to watch as the Federal Reserve just swivels around like a jib of a ship in a wind.

00:55:21.000 It's in a high wind.

00:55:22.000 It's amazing.

00:55:23.000 So I said, Last time, the Federal Reserve raised the interest rates by 25 basis points, 0.25.

00:55:28.000 That was not enough.

00:55:29.000 That they were whistling past the graveyard.

00:55:32.000 They were assuming that inflation was going to go down based on some statistics that kind of trail. 0.95

00:55:37.000 And that they were stupid because what they were doing by increasing the interest rates by only 0.25 is they were signaling to the market that there was going to be an end to the interest rate increases in the near future. 0.90

00:55:45.000 The market spiked on that basis. 0.99

00:55:47.000 And then it turns out inflation wasn't dead.

00:55:49.000 And so now they're going to have to reverse course and they can't do 0.25.

00:55:51.000 They're going to have to do actually 50 basis points again.

00:55:54.000 And it's going to look like they don't actually know what they're doing.

00:55:56.000 Which, by the way, secret.

00:55:57.000 They don't know what they're doing.

00:55:58.000 If they knew what they were doing, we wouldn't be at a 7% inflation rate year on year.

00:56:01.000 Anyway, Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve yesterday, he admitted again that inflation is running higher than expected.

00:56:07.000 The data from January on employment, consumer spending, manufacturing production, and inflation have partly reversed the softening trends that we'd seen in the data just a month ago.

00:56:20.000 Some of this reversal likely reflects the unseasonably warm weather in January in much of the country.

00:56:25.000 Still, the breadth of the reversal, along with revisions to the previous quarter, suggests that inflationary pressures are running higher than expected at the time of our previous FOMC meeting.

00:56:39.000 Oh, are they?

00:56:40.000 Well, I mean, you guys are the experts.

00:56:41.000 We should listen to the... If there's something we've learned over the past several years, the experts are always right.

00:56:46.000 I mean, wrong, about apparently everything.

00:56:49.000 Powell then admitted, we're going to have to have still higher interest rates. Well, yeah, I mean, who around here has been saying that we're going to need interest rates like between five and six percent before this is over minimum, maybe six to seven percent? Oh, yeah, yeah, right here. I'm saying that for like well over a year and a half. Anyway, here is Jerome Powell admitting as such. Although inflation has been moderating in recent months, the process of getting inflation back down to two percent has a long way to go and is likely to be bumpy.

00:57:16.000 As I mentioned, the latest economic data have come in stronger than expected, which suggests that the ultimate level of interest rates is likely to be higher than previously anticipated.

00:57:28.000 Oh, there's a shock.

00:57:29.000 You shouldn't be shocked by this.

00:57:30.000 This is totally expected.

00:57:32.000 Because again, it couldn't get under control one way and so now they're going to have to slam on the brakes the other way.

00:57:36.000 There is no choice.

00:57:37.000 And you know who's going to pay the price for that?

00:57:39.000 Presumably Joe Biden.

00:57:40.000 Because all this fake economic growth built on inflation is going to stagnate very, very quickly here.

00:57:46.000 Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.

00:57:50.000 So, things that I like today.

00:57:53.000 There's a clip from ESPN that frankly was quite delicious.

00:57:55.000 So J.J.

00:57:56.000 Reddick, who is an NBA commentator on ESPN, he got really into it with Kendrick Perkins on ESPN.

00:58:01.000 So if you watch ESPN, ESPN, like CNN, they have to cover a thing for 24 hours a day, and there just ain't 24 hours of things to cover on ESPN.

00:58:11.000 Football season is over, so they can't really cover football all that much.

00:58:14.000 NBA is still going.

00:58:15.000 Baseball hasn't really started.

00:58:17.000 So that means they really don't have tons to cover right now.

00:58:19.000 And so what this means is that they are just going to make up racial controversies for ratings.

00:58:23.000 This is what ESPN has become, as I say, it's MSNBC with footballs.

00:58:26.000 So yesterday, JJ Redick was talking about how Nikola Djokic from the Denver Nuggets, how he was probably going to win a third straight MVP, which he should.

00:58:39.000 He's an amazing player.

00:58:40.000 And Kendrick Perkins basically suggested on the air that the reason that Djokic was being talked about for a third straight MVP is because he was a white guy.

00:58:50.000 And the reason that he says that is because Nikola Djokic is not one of the top scorers in the league.

00:58:55.000 He instead has a lot of assists, he's a great rebounder, he's a good defender.

00:58:59.000 He does a lot of things on the floor that make you incredibly valuable, but don't necessarily win you the MVP very often because people tend to be attracted by the flashy scoring numbers.

00:59:07.000 Kendrick Perkins, again, suggested that that was only the case because Joe Kick was white.

00:59:11.000 And he pointed to, like, Steve Nash as an example of another player who had not led the league in scoring but had won some MVPs. And JJ Redick absolutely went off on Kendrick Perkins, and I am here for it. I assume he'll have to apologize in the next 48 hours.

00:59:23.000 I mean no offense to you, and I mean no offense to First Take.

00:59:28.000 Because I think this show is extremely valuable.

00:59:31.000 It is an honor to be on this desk every day.

00:59:34.000 It really is.

00:59:35.000 But what we've just witnessed is the problem with this show.

00:59:39.000 Where we create narratives that do not exist in reality.

00:59:44.000 The implication, what you are implying, that the white voters that vote on NBA are racist, that they favor white people.

00:59:52.000 You just said that.

00:59:54.000 Yes, you did.

00:59:56.000 That is exactly what you implied.

00:59:59.000 My point that I made the other day, which is a valid point and which I will stand by, is that Nikola Jokic does not care.

01:00:08.000 What he cares about doesn't fit your narrative, so your narrative to discredit him somehow, to discredit what he's doing, it's not based in reality, Perk.

01:00:21.000 Perkins had accused Jokic of stat padding in order to get to a triple-double average on the season.

01:00:27.000 I'm here for this sort of stuff, and I'm hoping that there is more sort of backlash in this arena when people create fake racial narratives. 0.96

01:00:33.000 It is very important to call that crap out.

01:00:35.000 By the way, it is amazing how real racial narratives like actual racism or anti-Semitism are completely ignored depending on who exactly is engaging in it. 0.98

01:00:42.000 So Cori Bush, the Black Lives Matter congresswoman from Missouri, I call her the Black Lives Matter congresswoman because that was literally her job. 1.00

01:00:47.000 She was a Black Lives Matter spokesperson before she ran for Congress in Missouri.

01:00:51.000 Well, it turns out that she has spent $137,000 on a person named Nathaniel Davis.

01:01:00.000 Nathaniel Davis, apparently, It also turns out this person, he's received $137,000 from her since 2020.

01:01:05.000 He claims that he is 109 trillion years old.

01:01:06.000 Trillion years old.

01:01:07.000 It also turns out this person, he's received $137,000 from her since 2020.

01:01:12.000 He claims that he is 109 trillion years old.

01:01:16.000 Trillion years old.

01:01:19.000 Also the Jews control the world. 1.00

01:01:22.000 So yeah, there's that.

01:01:25.000 That's, that's great.

01:01:27.000 I mean, just for point of reference, the entire universe is, uh, like 14 billion years old.

01:01:37.000 So if he, if he does have some secrets about what happened before the big bang, I would love to hear it.

01:01:42.000 I'm, I'm into it.

01:01:43.000 I want to hear this guy's take on, on astrophysics.

01:01:45.000 Anyway, here he was explaining some of his views.

01:01:45.000 I think that'd be amazing.

01:01:49.000 We're so busy out here hating each other because of what we look like, what we sound like, how we walk, how we talk, that we don't see the bigger picture.

01:01:57.000 You got the global elite looking to kill every last one of us.

01:02:00.000 They want to wipe out half the population of the planet.

01:02:04.000 The global count on the planet is 7.8 billion, 7.9 billion people.

01:02:09.000 And the global elite is trying to reduce that down to right around 50 million.

01:02:15.000 That's a lot of people dead, man.

01:02:17.000 I'm not from the nation of Islam, but I read the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's book, Fall of America, and I'm seeing everything come true, come to pass.

01:02:24.000 The God came and dropped some knowledge on us.

01:02:26.000 It's coming to pass.

01:02:29.000 America is falling.

01:02:32.000 It's going to topple itself, but it's a planned system.

01:02:36.000 That's what this global pandemic is about.

01:02:38.000 We're getting a new global system.

01:02:43.000 Okay, also, he calls himself Ahasen Pianki.

01:02:47.000 He's a spiritual guru.

01:02:48.000 And that, of course, is not a shock because Cori Bush has spent pretty much her entire career working with radical anti-Semites.

01:02:56.000 This particular human is a former member of the New Black Panther Party.

01:03:01.000 So that's great.

01:03:02.000 But does this deserve mainstream media attention?

01:03:04.000 By the way, if there were a white supremacist who were paid $137,000 by a major Republican in the media, wouldn't that be like a major story?

01:03:12.000 But it is absolutely not a major story because Cori Bush is one of the beloved members of the adjunct squad.

01:03:18.000 So that means that she is one of the protected class.

01:03:20.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

01:03:26.000 Remember the time that Ken Burns was a historian?

01:03:29.000 I seem to remember that.

01:03:31.000 The entire media have decided to turn it up to Spinal Tap 11 when it comes to Ron DeSantis.

01:03:34.000 And it's early, guys.

01:03:35.000 I mean, it is March 8th of 2023.

01:03:36.000 We're not going to have an election in this country for another year and a half.

01:03:40.000 So you might want to hold some of your fire until Ron DeSantis actually declares.

01:03:44.000 But they're already getting ready for it.

01:03:45.000 Ron DeSantis is Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini.

01:03:48.000 Usually I ignore Stalin because he was on their side. 0.93

01:03:51.000 Mussolini, Hitler, And so they're really going hard.

01:03:54.000 So yesterday we had Michael Beschloss, who writes speeches for Joe Biden and says insanely ahistorical nonsense.

01:04:00.000 Today it's Ken Burns.

01:04:01.000 So Ken Burns is out there pushing one of his new documentaries, and he suggests that Ron DeSantis is like a Nazi and a Soviet, all wrapped into one.

01:04:11.000 Also, Ken Burns needs to stop dying his hair.

01:04:13.000 He's a little too old for this.

01:04:14.000 It's not working for you, dude.

01:04:17.000 All of these bills that DeSantis and others are doing limit our ability to understand who we are and are not inclusive.

01:04:24.000 They're exclusive.

01:04:25.000 They're narrowing the focus of what is and isn't American history.

01:04:30.000 It feels like a Soviet system or, you know, the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village. 0.83

01:04:30.000 It's terrifying. 0.83

01:04:36.000 Tucker Carlson's doing the same thing with the footage from 1-6.

01:04:40.000 It's just a kind of rewriting of history at the most dangerous level.

01:04:46.000 Like the Nazis or the Soviets. 0.83

01:04:49.000 Oh my gosh.

01:04:49.000 First of all, Potemkin villages were built, as the name might suggest, by the Soviets.

01:04:54.000 The Nazis did some of that, but it's mainly associated with the Soviets because of Potemkin.

01:04:58.000 In any case, solid stuff there from Ken Burns, Hitler, Stalin, all of them.

01:05:02.000 It's Ron DeSantis saying that you shouldn't teach young children that they can be a member of the opposite sex.

01:05:07.000 Also, he says that the problem with Ron DeSantis, he has this nice white picket fence view of America.

01:05:12.000 He likes America.

01:05:12.000 That's a problem.

01:05:13.000 We can't have that.

01:05:14.000 That's bad.

01:05:15.000 How do you think that we'll look back and reflect on the period that we are living in now?

01:05:20.000 Well, I think there's some really positive aspects, and I think part of what we're seeing in DeSantis and others is a kind of reaction to anything that makes it nothing but a kind of neat, tidy, white picket fence, morning in America kind of view of things.

01:05:34.000 This is a complicated world, and race is in everything we touch, not because I'm looking for it, but because we were founded on the idea that all men were created equal.

01:05:45.000 The guy who wrote that owned hundreds of human beings.

01:05:50.000 He's so tiresome. 1.00

01:05:53.000 Yes, I'm sure that Ron DeSantis is preventing the teaching of slavery in Florida schools, which is mandated by Florida law, you idiot. 1.00

01:05:53.000 He's so tiresome. 1.00

01:06:00.000 But it is what the media go for.

01:06:01.000 So Ron DeSantis, by the way, remember that we spent like a week here saying that Ron DeSantis wanted to make bloggers register in order to cover him. 0.97

01:06:09.000 In point of fact, there was a single state senator in Florida who sponsored an idiot bill that went nowhere. 0.85

01:06:14.000 Well, Rhonda Sands was asked about this yesterday. 0.99

01:06:15.000 He's like, I noticed that you guys put my picture on a bill I didn't sponsor or support, which means that you're really dishonest.

01:06:20.000 Correct.

01:06:21.000 I see these people filing bills and then there's articles with my face on the article saying that, oh, they're going to have to, bloggers are going to have to register for the state.

01:06:30.000 And it's like attributing it to me.

01:06:32.000 And I'm like, OK, that's not anything that I've ever supported.

01:06:36.000 I don't support.

01:06:37.000 I've been very clear about what we're doing.

01:06:39.000 And so people have a right to file legislation.

01:06:42.000 They have a right to To do different types of amendments and all that other stuff, but the Florida led a whole 120 of them in the House and however many in the 40 in the Senate, you know, they have independent agency to be able to do things like I don't control every single bill that has been filed or amendment.

01:06:59.000 So just as we go through this session, please, you know understand that.

01:07:04.000 Um, yeah.

01:07:05.000 But again, it doesn't matter what's true and what's not.

01:07:07.000 DeSantis is the new target.

01:07:08.000 Remember, remember always how dishonest the legacy media are on this stuff.

01:07:12.000 They're so dishonest.

01:07:13.000 Donald Trump was a unique threat to the Republic. 0.92

01:07:15.000 He was Hitlerian. 0.96

01:07:16.000 January 6th, the worst thing that's happened in the history of the Republic.

01:07:18.000 And anyone who challenges Donald Trump in a primary is Hitler. 0.73

01:07:21.000 Anyone who challenges him is Hitler also. 0.92

01:07:23.000 That's how big a threat Donald Trump is.

01:07:25.000 We definitely need him to be the nominee.

01:07:26.000 It's really important.

01:07:28.000 Ah, the media.

01:07:29.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

01:07:31.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

01:07:31.000 We'll be getting into riots in France.

01:07:33.000 We'll be getting into the question of who actually bombed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 08, 2023

Andrew Tate and the Era of Sexual Confusion | Ep. 1683

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