Joe Biden gives an endless State of the Union address in which he lies repeatedly and yells at Americans about how democracy is finished unless we spend endless amounts of money, and the media predictably gushes about how great he did. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down in a new segment on The Ben Shapiro Show: The SOTU, where he explains why Joe Biden is an old man yelling at clouds for an hour and why he's not even close to being as good as the media would have you think he is, and why you should be worried that he's going to keel over in the middle of the speech, because he's 80 years old and looks a lot older than he did when he took office, and that's a good thing, since he's now in his 80s and is not much older than his predecessor, Joe Biden was in his late 60s and in his early 70s, and he's still around the same age as he was when he was elected president in 1992, which is pretty good for a guy who was elected in 1992 and is now a little over 80. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a bad idea, and also why we should all be worried about what Joe Biden might do in 2020, and what it means for the future of the country. . The full show is available on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Watch the full show on the Vimeo app. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review and tell us what you thought of it! if you liked the show! Thanks for listening and share it with a friend! and tell a friend about it on your friends and family about Ben Shapiro on the social mediasphere and we'll be listening to it on the Ben Shapiro Podcast! Subscribe and Retweet Ben Shapiro on Podcoin to let us know what you think of the show and what you'd like to hear him do on your social media accounts! Thank you Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Protect your online privacy today at expressvpn.com/BenShannonShapiro Protect Your Online Privacy today at ExpressVPN? Subscribe at anchor.fm/benshaperson.co/theBenSharingBenShaperson Thanks Ben Shapiro is a writer and I'm a friend of Ben Shapiro? and I'll be looking out for your comments and thoughts on the show.
00:00:00.000Joe Biden gives an endless State of the Union address in which he lies repeatedly and yells at Americans about how democracy is finished unless we spend endless amounts of money and the media predictably gush.
00:00:30.000I've said a thousand times, I despise the State of the Union address.
00:00:33.000It's a monarchic institution that has nothing to do with the actual constitutional mandate for a State of the Union statement.
00:00:39.000He could have signed a letter and been done with it.
00:00:41.000Instead, we sat through an old man yelling at clouds for an hour.
00:00:43.000If you missed the speech last night, I'm going to give you the real brief version right now.
00:00:47.000All you have to do, just to relive it, head on over to your local old age home, find a slightly deranged geriatric, and let him yell at you about airline fees for about an hour.
00:00:55.000That's pretty much what it was last night.
00:00:59.000You had some Republicans in the chamber who were yelling at the president.
00:01:02.000You had Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, who seemed to be wearing a Cruella de Vil coat, yelling at the president of the United States.
00:01:08.000She was actually carrying a balloon beforehand.
00:01:10.000You had Kyrsten Sinema, who's dressed up like Big Bird.
00:01:12.000There were some theatrics that were involved.
00:01:15.000Mitt Romney, before the speech, went over to George Santos and told him he didn't belong in the chamber, and then went and clapped with all the Democrats.
00:01:20.000It was just... Everyone is stupid, and everything is stupid, and I am never more cynical than I am the morning after the State of the Union address, especially given the fact that the media praised this thing to the skies.
00:01:30.000Apparently Joe Biden was unbelievable, according to our genius members of the Praetorian Guard media.
00:02:09.000There was an attempt to, again, maintain that the bar is so low that if he crosses it, like, if he speaks basic English without botching it too much, that this is a big win for him.
00:02:19.000Anyway, he starts off this speech by botching a joke about Chuck Schumer.
00:02:24.000And it was kind of downhill from there.
00:02:49.000So you have Chuck Schumer cracking his Joker grin, and you have Joe Biden wandering through cornfields, and Kamala Harris sitting in the background like, man.
00:02:58.000The chances that he keels over the middle of the speech are not insignificant.
00:03:01.000Kamala's like, maybe I'll become president tonight.
00:03:31.000And they really didn't stop the whole way.
00:03:34.000Two years ago, the economy was reeling.
00:03:37.000I stand here tonight, after we've created, with the help of many people in this room, 12 million new jobs.
00:03:43.000More jobs created in two years than any president's created in four years.
00:03:47.000And two years ago, COVID had shut down, our businesses were closed, our schools were robbed of so much, and today, COVID no longer controls our lives.
00:03:58.000Okay, so, again, the number of lies packed into that fairly short segment, I mean, that is about a 25-second clip.
00:04:08.000So, number one, he says, two years ago, our economy was reeling.
00:04:12.000Well, actually, actually, Two years ago was February of 2021.
00:04:16.000The recovery had already begun by February of 2021.
00:04:19.000And when he says that he has created a record 12 million new jobs, he, of course, is ignoring the fact that we had the greatest artificially induced economic coma of all time in 2020.
00:04:28.000And so if you look at a chart of employment destruction and creation, what it looks like is employment is going like this under Trump and then bam, it falls directly off the table.
00:04:36.000And then In the last months of the Trump presidency, it spikes back up and it's going right back toward the line where it was before and then it sort of levels off.
00:04:43.000And so we're missing all these jobs between where we could have been if Joe Biden weren't a terrible economic president and where we are.
00:04:50.000But he says he's responsible for all the job creation from something he had nothing to do with.
00:04:55.000Well, I really dislike it when presidents declare, of either party by the way, that they create jobs.
00:05:42.000It's an absurdity that all these people who are responsible for shutting down the economy are now claiming that they had nothing to do with any of it.
00:07:33.000This notion that his presidency stood between America and the abyss, that American democracy has been in serious danger for the last several years because a bunch of droogs decided that they were going to run into the Capitol building and get themselves arrested.
00:08:10.000Essentially, this speech, and it was more than an hour, was one long word punctuated by, come on, man, and then random yelling at Republicans.
00:09:08.000You used to get this with Barack Obama also.
00:09:10.000You remember Michelle Obama said that Barack Obama was going to restore the soul of our nation, but apparently it has to be done repeatedly.
00:09:15.000Apparently we all have exorcised, we have to exorcise our demons every so often with a democratic president.
00:09:19.000So Barack Obama was going to restore the soul of the nation, and then apparently Donald Trump stole the soul or something, and now Joe Biden is back here.
00:09:25.000If you think this corrupt old politician is going to save the soul of the nation, you have another think coming.
00:09:30.000It is very, very silly, and it's insulting, and again, it's a substitute of politics for religion, which is in and of itself blasphemous.
00:09:36.000And then he got to inflation, and of course he's going to claim that he's done a great job on inflation.
00:09:43.000Inflation has been a global problem because the pandemic disrupted our supply chains and Putin's unfair and brutal war in Ukraine disrupted energy supplies as well as food supplies, blocking all that grain in Ukraine.
00:09:59.000But we're better positioned than any country on earth right now.
00:10:45.000Then we get into Section 2 of the speech.
00:10:46.000So Section 1 is all of my massive accomplishments, and everybody's looking around going, what?
00:10:50.000And then we get to Section 2 of the speech.
00:10:53.000Since he's done such an amazing job, and since the American public failed to put Republicans in charge of the Senate, largely because Republicans decided to raid the local homeless shelter for candidates, Joe Biden believes that he now has a mandate to, wait for it, wait for it, spend more money.
00:11:05.000Yes, you didn't see that coming, did you?
00:11:07.000Joe Biden, the greatest spender in American history, wants to spend more money.
00:11:11.000So he laid out a wish list of things that he wishes to spend money on.
00:11:15.000And the answer is pretty much everything.
00:11:16.000Because as you know, folks, when you got a $32 trillion national debt, When your debt-to-GDP ratio is now running at 125, 130%, what we need to do, clearly, is spend more.
00:11:27.000When we have inflation raging at 6.5%, what we need is to spend more money.
00:11:32.000I mean, any genius will tell you this, even if his hair plugs, which are now falling out, even if they've grown directly into his brainstem.
00:11:39.000Here is the President of the United States, and he's going to tell you about all the different ways he's going to spend money that he either creates from thin air to inflate the currency, or that he's going to seize from you.
00:11:47.000And when we do these projects, And again, I get criticized for this, but I make no excuses for it.
00:12:21.000Tonight, I'm announcing new standards that require all construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in America.
00:12:41.000When he says, buy American, what he essentially means is that we should spend more money as taxpayers for things, quote-unquote, made in America, and it'll cost you.
00:13:05.000They actually are dependent on your dollars, which really begs the question as to why you are spending your dollars with corporations that hate your guts and then use your money against you.
00:13:13.000I will tell you about a company that's not going to do that.
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00:14:08.000Okay, speaking of things that he wants to spend money on, he was touting the Inflation Reduction Act, was the president of the United States, slurring his words all the way through.
00:14:15.000And we'll get to the media reaction afterward.
00:14:17.000It is amazing how many people in the media, whose professional job it is to look good on TV and say words in coherent fashion, We're able to pretend that Joe Biden was articulate last night.
00:14:27.000He could not get through a sentence without stumbling all over himself like one of the three stooges in a studio laden with banana peels.
00:14:50.000With the Inflation Reduction Act that I signed into law, we're taking on powerful interest to bring healthcare costs down so you can sleep better at night.
00:14:59.000And my favorite thing about the speech is where he proclaims that he's bringing costs down while bringing you historically high inflation, like 40-year highs in inflation.
00:15:06.000Of course, he had time to rip on Big Pharma, which is a laugh.
00:15:10.000As Candace Owens pointed out last night on our backstage, no one has made Big Pharma richer than a man who attempted to literally force 80 million people in the United States to vaccinate against their will.
00:15:20.000Pfizer is very, very wealthy because President Joe Biden exists.
00:15:37.000And now what he's actually talking about here is he's trying to make the case that basically we should use the power of the federal government to crack down on the prices that are charged by the pharmaceutical companies for their drugs.
00:15:59.000What we actually should do is if we're going to declare a trade war, this is one area where we actually should.
00:16:04.000We should force other countries to pay what the drugs are worth because what's happening right now is that essentially because we pay them more money through the private markets, all the big pharma companies are located in the United States.
00:18:03.000Also, we're going to be spending money on electric vehicle charging stations.
00:18:07.000So you're saying to yourself, I can't afford gas, and this doof wants to spend money to build electric vehicle charging stations to benefit people who can afford Teslas.
00:18:17.000Now listen, works for me, I own a Tesla.
00:18:20.000However, I'm not looking for a subsidy from the President of the United States on this What he's really attempting to do, of course, is to pay union members, right?
00:18:27.000The most corrupt bargain in American politics that nobody talks about is the fact that public sector unions, working with the federal government, are constantly getting giveaways from the taxpayer and then negotiating with the very people they help elect.
00:18:38.000And Joe Biden is one of the most corrupt people in American politics.
00:18:41.000So here he was last night bragging about how it is vital that we create 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations that you cannot plug your car into because if you're like most Americans, you don't have an electric car.
00:18:51.000But we will be paying a bunch of union members who will then spend their union dues on reelecting Joe Biden.
00:18:57.000We're going to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations installed across the country by tens of thousands of IBW workers.
00:19:07.000We're helping families save more than $1,000 a year with tax credits to purchase electric vehicles and efficient appliances, energy efficient appliances.
00:19:18.000So I'm just going to remind you, he says he's going to give you back $1,000 a year on your electric car.
00:19:24.000The base price for certain models of Tesla is $94,000.
00:19:26.000$4,000. The Model S is $95,000. The Model Y, I'm looking at their website right now, is $55,000, the Model Y. So, yeah, I mean, that's great, Joe.
00:20:02.000The new crisis, of course, is going to be that it's warm outside, guys, and it's going to get a little warmer over the course of the next hundred years.
00:20:52.000First, let's talk about something that you can do that's actually good for your family, not sitting through the State of the Union Address.
00:20:57.000I'm glad you didn't do that last night.
00:20:59.000I had to travel to Nashville just to do that last night.
00:21:02.000But if you want to do something great for your family, you should instead go on over to Legacy Box.
00:21:07.000If you're talking about something great you can do for your parents, something for your spouse, go out to your garage, or your parents' garage, and what you will find there are a bunch of old videotapes.
00:21:32.000Their team will send everything back on a thumb drive, DVD, or the cloud.
00:21:35.000I've done this a couple of times for my parents.
00:21:36.000I've done it in my own garage, and it's amazing.
00:21:39.000Because again, you look at these old pictures, these old film reels, and you're accessing memories that have been hidden from view for decades in some cases.
00:22:20.000I have been at nearly every income bracket in American public life.
00:22:24.000And I can tell you this, I pay way the hell more taxes now than I did 15 years ago when I was in a much lower income tax bracket.
00:22:32.000Joe Biden proclaiming that people who are wealthy don't pay their fair share is sort of like proclaiming that the morbidly obese do not pay their fair share in terms of food.
00:22:44.000Okay, it turns out that the people who earn the most also pay the most in taxes, and they pay a disproportionate share in taxes.
00:22:49.000The percentage of money that the most wealthy in our society own compared to the amount of taxes that they pay.
00:22:55.000When you're talking about earned income, we're not talking about their assets that they already paid taxes on and then translate into real estate or stock or something.
00:23:02.000They pay more than they actually earn in terms of percentage taxes versus percentage of the income earned from the economy.
00:23:09.000But he's going to keep proclaiming forever and always that the rich aren't paying their fair share because if Joe Biden never told the truth about taxes, which is to pay for all of his garbage, you, like the normal middle class person, or you, the person at the bottom end of the spectrum, you're going to have to increase your taxes.
00:23:22.000If he ever said that, everybody would immediately dismiss him.
00:23:25.000By the way, the only person in American public life who's actually honest enough to say this on the left is Bernie Sanders.
00:24:19.000He says, the idea that in 2020, 55 of the biggest companies in America made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal income taxes, that's simply not fair.
00:24:37.000And I think the most ridiculous thing, and this is really funny, is he started ripping on Big Oil, and then he got caught in the middle of one of his lies, like literally in the middle of the speech.
00:24:46.000And this is where the speech started to get actually mildly interesting and spicy.
00:24:49.000And this is because members of the crowd started laughing at him.
00:24:52.000He started to sort of play with the crowd.
00:24:54.000So the Republicans in the audience, Kevin McCarthy had told them beforehand, shut up, like don't do this.
00:25:09.000Democrats would like for Republicans to yell during the State of the Union address, specifically so that the media can claim that Joe Biden and Democrats are being victimized by the evil, terrible, out-of-control Republicans.
00:25:18.000They can't really run on their amazing records.
00:25:20.000What they're going to run on is Republicans are out of control and crazy.
00:25:22.000So Democrats would like for Republicans to yell at them.
00:25:25.000Republicans, like Ken McCarthy would like for Republicans not to yell at Joe Biden because they figure, okay, it's just a speech.
00:25:31.000It'll be over in an hour and then everyone will forget about it.
00:25:34.000But Joe Biden will be able to cut commercials off of yelling Republicans for a while.
00:25:37.000But if you are a Republican congressperson, the way that you get more famous and the way that you raise more money is by being the person who yells at Joe Biden during a speech.
00:25:45.000So you have a serious collective action problem inside the Republican Party, where you have certain people for whom it is in their interest to yell at Joe Biden, and then the general party not super interested in yelling at Joe Biden.
00:25:59.000I think our whole State of the Union malarkey, as Joe Biden might put it, our whole sort of pomp and circumstance, you can never say a word as the president spews lies over and over and over.
00:26:11.000I'd rather have this be like parliamentary question time in the UK where everybody just yells at the Prime Minister.
00:26:15.000It would be much more interesting and satisfying, frankly.
00:26:18.000But we did get a little bit of that last night.
00:26:20.000So here was Joe Biden going after big oil and then tacitly admitting the reason why the oil companies are not building new refineries is because of him.
00:26:29.000Have you noticed big oil just reported its profits, record profits?
00:26:34.000Last year they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis.
00:26:50.000And when I talked to a couple of them, they said, we're afraid you're going to shut down all the oil refineries anyway, so why should we invest in them?
00:26:58.000I said, we're going to need oil for at least another decade.
00:27:01.000And that's going to exceed and beyond that.
00:27:17.000You're supposed to sink hundreds of millions of dollars into building oil refineries that'll take seven years to build, and then, three years later, your friends are gonna shut it down?
00:28:18.000Then in 2020, because of COVID, it jumps really, really high because everybody just blew out the spending.
00:28:24.000And in 2021, when this duke took office, it went down a little bit from 2020, but it was still record highs in terms of the amount of debt that we were racking up.
00:28:32.000And then in 2022, it went down from 2021, but it was still way higher than the deficit was in, say, 2019.
00:28:38.000Right, if you actually just remove 2020 and 2021, the COVID years, it is the highest deficit we have ever run.
00:28:45.000But he's saying it's a reduction because we didn't spend as much as we did in 2020-2021, when COVID was a thing.
00:28:52.000So it's just, it's lying with statistics.
00:28:55.000And as a famous person once said, there are lies, there are damn lies in their statistics, and Joe Biden is fluent in all three of those things.
00:29:03.000And this all led the way for he wants to spend as much money as you can possibly spend without any fight on the deficit ceiling.
00:30:16.000You know, it means if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go away.
00:30:21.000Other Republicans say, I'm not saying it's the majority of you.
00:30:23.000I don't even think it's even a significant...
00:30:27.000But it's being proposed by individuals.
00:30:30.000I'm not politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of you.
00:30:34.000Look, folks, the idea is that we're not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the debt if we don't respond.
00:30:49.000So, folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the books now.
00:30:58.000Everybody said that Social Security and Medicare was not going to be part of the debt ceiling negotiation.
00:31:02.000Now, I will point out here that we are cruising for a bruising on Social Security and Medicare.
00:31:07.000And this is the highest form of demagoguery.
00:31:09.000The easiest thing in American public life, seriously, for a politician is to say I'm not going to touch this massive entitlement program that will bankrupt the country.
00:31:15.000And if you do touch it, then you should be politically electrocuted.
00:31:18.000There's a reason why entitlement programs have long been considered the third rail of American politics.
00:31:22.000But let me just remind you that if Social Security and Medicare are not reformed, Brian Reidel from the Manhattan Institute points this out.
00:31:28.000There will be a 15.3% payroll tax rising to 25% plus a value-added tax rising to 20% over the next few decades.
00:31:37.000That's what it would take to pay for the Congressional Budget Office's rosiest scenario.
00:32:02.000I mean, when he says that there's a widespread Republican sentiment that they're going to sunset Medicare or Social Security for the debt ceiling negotiations, he is just lying to you.
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00:34:42.000Okay, so once Joe Biden got past the debt ceiling stuff, we got sort of a grab bag of policies.
00:34:46.000And this is what most State of the Union addresses turn into, to be fair to our no-longer-with-it presidents of the United States.
00:34:52.000It just turned into him picking random apples off the policy tree.
00:34:56.000So he spent a bizarre amount of time on junk fees.
00:35:00.000He spent more time on junk fees, like baggage fees from your airline.
00:35:04.000He spent more time on that than he did on China, which seems like a misprioritization.
00:35:08.000I mean, I've noticed that he's spending an enormous amount of time on very small things and avoiding a lot of the big elephants in the room.
00:35:15.000So here he was yesterday going on and on about junk fees, which is a weird speech.
00:35:21.000You got an old dementia ridden human being yelling at you about junk fees and baggage fees.
00:35:28.000If I wanted to listen to my grandfather shout about baggage fees, I could just go over to the local old age home.
00:37:36.000And again, it is amazing to me how he treats COVID as a magical thing that just sort of happened to his administration, as opposed to him botching nearly every area of COVID policy.
00:38:03.000Let's recognize how far we came in the fight against the pandemic itself.
00:38:08.000While the virus is not gone, thanks to the resilience of the American people and the ingenuity of medicine, we've broken the COVID grip on us.
00:38:29.000It took you until, like, May of this year to declare the public health emergency over.
00:38:33.000If it had been up to them, they would have kept the country shut down pretty much forever.
00:38:38.000It was only when the eventuality of Americans being sick of staying in their homes began to rear its ugly head that Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats had to actually toe the line.
00:38:47.000He also blamed, by the way, COVID for the spike in violent crime.
00:38:49.000It had nothing to do with his entire party embracing the idea that the police are evil.
00:38:52.000And as we'll get to in just a moment, he actually once again embraced the idea that police are evil.
00:39:00.000It has nothing to do with bad government policy.
00:39:01.000It has nothing to do with allowing rioters to run amok in the streets in the name of quote-unquote racial justice.
00:39:07.000It has to do with people getting sick and dying of COVID when they're 80 years old.
00:39:11.000Now, I know that you might be missing the correlation here, like any rational human being.
00:39:14.000Joe Biden isn't missing the correlation.
00:39:15.000According to him, crime spiked in 2020 because of COVID.
00:39:18.000It had nothing to do with giant protests that enervated police departments around the country and led to a massive spike in murder rates that continued into 2021 and 2022 under his presidency.
00:39:28.000COVID left its scars, like the spike in violent crime in 2020, the first year of the pandemic.
00:39:36.000We have an obligation to make sure all people are safe.
00:39:40.000Public safety depends on public trust, as all of us know.
00:39:44.000But too often, that trust is violated.
00:39:47.000Okay, so according to Joe Biden, it was all COVID policy that led to the spike in crime.
00:39:51.000Had nothing to do with the anti-police stuff that he's been pushing.
00:39:54.000By the way, he did push a bunch of anti-police stuff last night.
00:39:56.000He had the Tyree Nichols family join him at the State of the Union.
00:39:58.000Again, one of the things I hate most about the State of the Union is it was started by Ronald Reagan.
00:40:02.000At the time, it was supposed to be sort of a fresh thing to spice up the State of the Union address, which is he would call up to the balcony and be like, Give a hand to Bob.
00:40:51.000Also, it's COVID's fault that the crime rate is going up.
00:40:53.000Here was Joe Biden, who was taking advantage of the truly tragic death of a person, Beat to death, it seems, by the cops, to pretend that it's all about racism.
00:42:08.000Imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got in a car.
00:42:13.000Okay, there are 40 million black Americans in this country.
00:42:17.000And the number of black Americans who are shot while unarmed in the United States every year is maybe two dozen on the high end.
00:42:24.000If you are deeply worried every time you get in a car that you're going to get shot by a cop, you are misprioritizing your worries.
00:42:30.000You are statistically inaccurate in your worries.
00:42:31.000By the way, I was under the impression that pretty much everybody like in driver's ed is told how to handle it when a cop pulls you over.
00:42:37.000You keep your hands on the steering wheel.
00:42:38.000You don't reach for the glove compartment because there might be a gun in there and cops have to be on their guard, for example.
00:42:44.000I was given that talk by my parents and I was like a middle to upper middle class Jewish kid.
00:42:51.000In any case, the notion that this has no impact on crime rates, when you just rip the cops, broadly speaking, and you keep suggesting that the mistrust between populations and the cops is justified, is of course wrong and bad, but Joe Biden did that last night.
00:43:03.000He did tend to backload in this speech, I will say, the more controversial portions of the speech.
00:43:07.000He filled up the middle of the speech with all this garbage about junk fees and resort fees, because I know that's top of mind for you, is that resort fee that you were charged on the vacation you couldn't go to this year because of his inflation.
00:43:18.000But he backloaded a bunch of the more controversial stuff he called for gun control.
00:43:21.000When he got to the border, then we got another one of these confrontations between Joe Biden and the rest of Congress.
00:43:27.000So here he was complaining about border policy and suggesting the only way to solve the border policy is for mass legalization of illegal immigrants to take place, which of course is not really the problem.
00:43:38.000The big problem is that you left the border wide open, you doof.
00:43:42.000But American border problems won't be fixed until Congress acts.
00:43:46.000If we don't pass my comprehensive immigration reform, we at least pass my plan to provide the equipment and officers to secure the border.
00:43:53.000And a pathway to citizenship for dreamers, those on temporary status, farm workers, essential workers.
00:44:07.000By the way, if Joe Biden put up a bill tomorrow to fund the Border Patrol, that would pass unanimously if Democrats could get off their hands.
00:44:14.000But of course, that's not what he's proposing at all.
00:44:17.000During this portion of the speech, by the way, Joe Biden also started talking about, you know, deaths from fentanyl.
00:44:25.000He was yelled at because Republicans are like, dude, when you're talking about deaths from fentanyl, that's because of your border policy.
00:44:31.000Deaths from fentanyl have spiked because you left a wide open border and you have drug mules who are packing that stuff across the border.
00:44:38.000So this was a moment where a couple Republicans yelled at him, suggesting that a specific fentanyl death, Joe Biden is to blame for that.
00:44:46.000I'm not a huge fan of that kind of politics because I don't think that you can link any single death to the policies of the President of the United States.
00:44:53.000However, if you're saying that the increase in fentanyl overdoses in the United States is due in large part to his border policies, that part's true.
00:45:00.000Here is Joe Biden on fentanyl and Republicans yelling at him.
00:45:03.000Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year.
00:45:21.000I mean, if you leave the border wide open and then fentanyl is pouring across it, it is kind of your fault.
00:45:26.000I've noticed that this border crisis has not existed under any other president to this magnitude.
00:45:32.000The media, as we'll see, were very exercised about this part, where Republicans got mad and yelled it at Joe Biden.
00:45:36.000Okay, but the biggest applause line of the night, if you were a Democrat, came when he said he wants to kill more babies.
00:45:41.000There's so much grandstanding in these State of the Union addresses, it really is pathetic.
00:45:45.000Part of that grandstanding involves claiming that Republicans are going to pass a bill to ban all abortions in the United States in a Congress where they do not control the Senate.
00:45:54.000And then they're going to send it to a Democratic president.
00:46:42.000It is not a social contagion in any way, shape, or form, despite the fact that pretty much all the trans kids are popping up in very blue enclaves, in very blue areas.
00:46:50.000Apparently, it's a problem affecting all of us.
00:46:52.000And if we can't trans the kids, man, what is America even for, says Joe Biden.
00:46:56.000Let's also pass the Bipartisan Equality Act to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.
00:47:24.000And this part was pretty galling, considering the fact that we spent the last week watching a giant Chinese spy balloon flow directly across the continental United States, like all the way from Montana, over the entire continental United States, across South Carolina, and then it gets shot down over the ocean.
00:47:40.000Joe Biden tried to play that as though he is doing an amazing job confronting China.
00:47:43.000Which would come as a shock to pretty much everyone who watched a giant Chinese spy balloon fly across the entirety of the continental United States while we did nothing about it.
00:47:51.000So here is Joe Biden, clip 28, talking about how the People's Republic of China is really on the run, which again, no, they are not.
00:48:02.000Before I came to office, the story was about how the People's Republic of China was increasing its power and America was failing in the world.
00:48:13.000We made clear, and I made clear in my personal conversations, which have been many, with President Xi, that we seek competition, not conflict.
00:48:39.000Now, I don't know if the drugs finally kicked in and he took them too close to time and finally, like, or he got overstimulated by all the shiny lights that were in the room, or what exactly happened here.
00:49:21.000Okay, so I could name you probably a hundred world leaders who would change places with Xi Jinping.
00:49:26.000He is, in fact, the dictatorial, authoritarian leader of a country with extraordinary world power, a huge economy, and a billion people over whom he presides.
00:49:35.000I could name you many world leaders who would change places with Xi Jinping.
00:49:44.000Finally, we get to the conclusion of his speech.
00:49:46.000And the conclusion of his speech, this great unifying precedent, so unifying, so bipartisan, is you hit Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer, didn't you?
00:50:08.000I don't know if you have an alibi for that night.
00:50:10.000I don't know what you thought you were having Dinner with your kids, putting them to bed, maybe doing a little bit of work, sitting on the TV watching some TV with the wife, sitting on the couch watching some TV with the wife.
00:50:20.000Yeah, that's what you thought you were doing that night.
00:50:21.000In actuality, you were breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home and hitting Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.
00:50:43.000So he gets to the end of the speech, and after being like, I'm bipartisan, we all work together to spend more money than God has ever created, because that's the United States and the soul of America!
00:51:08.000The last few years, our democracy has been threatened and attacked, put at risk, put to the test in this very room on January the 6th.
00:51:17.000And then, just a few months ago, an unhinged, big lie assailed and unleashed a political violence at the home of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, using the very same language the insurrectionists used as they stalked these halls and chanted on January 6th.
00:51:36.000Here tonight in this chamber is a man who bears the scars of that brutal attack, but is as tough and as strong and as resilient as they get.
00:52:05.000This is just shades of his Philadelphia speech, where democracy is a threat, which is why you have to leave the old man in charge, spend all the money, and take more authoritarian control over your daily life.
00:52:14.000He concluded with a call for an end to political violence in the nation.
00:52:18.000No mention, by the way, of all the attacks on pro-life facilities all over the United States.
00:52:23.000No mention of the threats to the members of the Supreme Court, which were essentially greenlit by his own White House press secretary, who's like, oh, well, if people just protest outside the houses of Supreme Court justice, what could be the problem?
00:53:17.000You've heard a lot of the speech at this point, right?
00:53:19.000I've played you many minutes of this geriatric fool yelling at the clouds and at you and talking about junk fees and baggage fees and shooting down Chinese balloons and Paul Pelosi's head and all the rest of this.
00:54:31.000It was, it was just, it reminded you of the best of America.
00:54:36.000Saying the state of our union is strong, he was feisty, he was combative, at times even responsive to the crowd, his second State of the Union Address.
00:54:44.000The President was heckled quite often and quite rudely by many of the same House Republicans who made the Speaker's life so difficult a month ago when we were sitting here.
00:54:54.000And what everybody's going to remember, what all the clips are going to be tomorrow morning on the news, are of that moment when the president, I don't know that you could say he baited or provoked them, but he certainly was very happy when he got the response he got from Republicans.
00:56:05.000So, you know, last night on our Backstage Live, we had a little hand puppet made from a paper bag of Joe Biden's face that we did some jokes with and I manipulated.
00:56:12.000And, you know, I had my hand in the paper bag.
00:56:15.000Well, I mean, that was unusual because normally it's the legacy media that has its head up Joe Biden's ass.
00:56:20.000And Wolf Blitzer really brought that energy.
00:57:40.000They live one pair of glasses on the desk over at MSNBC and then the various anchors trade them.
00:57:45.000Here is Rachel Maddow saying it was filled with pace and energy.
00:57:49.000That man had his insure today, did he?
00:57:53.000was long in word count, but it was delivered with a lot of energy and a lot of pace and a combativeness and sort of liveliness that I'm not sure that I've ever seen in this particular type of presidential address.
00:59:47.000I mean, sure, he's calling you all essentially responsible for the attempted murder of the Speaker of the House's husband.
00:59:52.000But, I mean, you guys were yelling at him.
00:59:56.000The president was talking about fentanyl and what a problem that is in this country, which I think anyone would acknowledge.
01:00:01.000A Republican from Tennessee, one of your colleagues, Andy Ogles, shouted at the president after he was talking about a father whose daughter had died as a result of fentanyl, shouted, it's your fault, at the president.
01:00:13.000Say what you will about the heckling last night.
01:00:14.000Some people thought it was lively and added to it.
01:00:16.000But in that moment, was that appropriate?
01:00:21.000What I need to hear is about appropriateness from Caitlin Collins sitting next to Don Lemon, the least appropriate anchor in American public life.
01:00:28.000So, will there be any real fallout from this?
01:00:31.000Actually, the person who did the best last night was Sarah Huckabee Sanders, so her Republican response last night was actually quite good.
01:00:36.000It's very rare that you see a Republican response that's any good, and I thought that Sarah did actually a really nice job with the Republican response.
01:00:44.000And while you reap the consequences of their failures, the Biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day.
01:00:56.000Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace.
01:01:00.000But we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn't start and never wanted to fight.
01:01:06.000Every day we are told we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols.
01:01:13.000All while big government colludes with big tech to strip away the most American thing there is.
01:01:29.000Republicans will not surrender this fight.
01:01:32.000We will lead with courage and do what's right, not what's politically correct or convenient.
01:01:38.000By the way, there is a new generation of Republican leaders who are rising, and they are going to be a real threat to Joe Biden and his Democratic dominance right now.
01:01:45.000It's going to be people like Sarah Sanders.
01:01:47.000It's going to be people like Ron DeSantis.
01:01:49.000It's going to be people like Tim Scott.
01:01:50.000There's a whole generation of new Republican leaders who are going to be much better at this than I think some of the older Republican leaders have been.
01:01:58.000Okay, I'm in a really bad mood, so we're not going to do any things that I like today.
01:02:01.000We're just going to do a few things that I hate.
01:02:20.000Crystal Ball was doing a full-scale defense of Ilhan Omar being a raging Jew-hater.
01:02:24.000And Joe Rogan, being Joe, was riffing.
01:02:28.000And as he was riffing, he just sort of dumped out an idea about Jews that is At the very least, not good.
01:02:38.000Because I'm friends with Joe, I'm going to chalk this up to Joe just riffing.
01:02:42.000There are a couple of ways to interpret what he is saying right here.
01:02:44.000Suffice it to say that the meme that Jews are into money, like disproportionately into money, like Jews love the money, that is anti-Semitic.
01:02:52.000Okay, if you say Jews love money more than other people love money, I'm going to need some evidence on that score, number one.
01:02:58.000Number two, It is, in fact, an anti-Jewish statement to suggest that Jews have a particular love for the mullah because they are corrupt or terrible or whatever.
01:03:08.000That all ties into... So, here was the bit that went viral yesterday from Joe's show.
01:03:14.000...next to Ilyan Omar, where she's apologizing for talking about it's all about the Benjamins.
01:03:36.000Okay, so there are a couple ways to read that, right?
01:03:38.000One is the anti-Semitic way, which is Jews are disproportionately into money, right?
01:03:42.000And the Italians are into pizza, like, Italians are disproportionately into pizza, Jews are into money, or Italians invented pizza, Jews invented money, like, the Jews are in control of world finance.
01:03:51.000The other way to read that is that what he is saying is that Jews like money like everybody else likes money, Italians like pizza like everybody else likes pizza.
01:04:00.000I'll leave it up to you which one you think is more accurate.
01:04:03.000However, to pretend that that's actually what Ilhan Omar was saying it's not true, okay?
01:04:07.000Ilhan Omar, when she said it's all about the Benjamins, she was specifically referring to American support for Israel and the suggestion was that AIPAC was paying members of Congress using Jew money in order to get people to support Israel.
01:04:16.000That was the suggestion from the all about the Benjamins tweet.
01:04:19.000Okay, so this obviously has gone viral.
01:04:41.000So there's been this story about a Twitch star who apparently was now being, her face was essentially grafted onto AI pornography.
01:04:52.000So as a not fan of pornography, as a person who thinks that pornography is one of the scourges of Western public life, I have a lot of sympathy for this person.
01:04:59.000So her name is QT Cinderella, that's what she calls herself.
01:05:17.000If you are able to look at women who are not selling themselves or benefiting off of being seen sexually, they're not benefiting, they're not selling it, they're not platforming it themselves.
01:05:30.000If you are able to look at that, You are the problem.
01:06:27.000Yes, there is something deeply wrong with taking a person's face and posting it on another person's naked body and then pretending that person engaged in pornography.
01:06:33.000But there is something that our culture refuses to say here, and that is that pornography is bad.
01:06:37.000It is bad for the person who is actively consenting to the pornography.
01:06:41.000It's bad for the person who is utilizing the pornography.
01:06:43.000It's bad for the person like this person who is caught apparently in the crossfire having nothing to do with pornography.
01:06:48.000But you can say it is bad for people to make pornography and to consume pornography.
01:07:06.000And whether women consent to it or not, it is still wrong, by the way.
01:07:10.000It's particularly wrong for her because she says, I didn't even consent to be part of this and now you're treating me as a sex object by pasting my face onto nudes of somebody else.
01:07:27.000Human beings are not supposed to see each other that way, ideally, which is why we used to confine sexual activity to marriage and commitment and love.
01:07:35.000And the wages of that are an incredibly destructive culture that catches innocent people, like this person, in the crossfire.
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