The Ben Shapiro Show - AOC For President | Ep. 1380

00:00:00.000 The judge in the Rittenhouse case bars MSNBC from the courtroom after a porter allegedly follows jurors, Democrats in the House make yet another push for Build Back Better, and the groundswell begins for an AOC presidential run.

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00:01:30.000 Alrighty, so another crazy development in the Rittenhouse trial.

00:01:34.000 Now, remember, the jury is still out at this point.

00:01:36.000 We don't know what is going on with the jury.

00:01:39.000 The speculation seems to me that a hung jury is coming.

00:01:42.000 Andrew McCarthy writing for National Review, he says that he believes that a hung jury is likely, as at midday on Thursday, as the third day of deliberations dragged on, and there grew a foreboding sense that the jury may be deadlocked over a very straightforward case, the judge announced he had banned MSNBC from the courtroom.

00:01:58.000 The judge, of course, is Bruce Schrader.

00:02:00.000 Schrader elaborated that on Wednesday evening, a man who identified himself as affiliated with MSNBC, a guy named James Morrison, was stopped by police as he tracked the jury at close range, running a red light in that pursuit.

00:02:10.000 The jurors were in a large vehicle with covered windows, from which they had been escorted to and from court.

00:02:15.000 Schrader said that Morrison claimed to have been acting under the direction of an MSNBC producer in New York.

00:02:21.000 Now, we all know that MSNBC has been blatantly anti-Rittenhouse, with all of its hosts attacking Rittenhouse, suggesting that he's guilty, suggesting he's a racist and a white supremacist, and that the outcome of this trial is going to speak for the future of race relations in America, despite the fact that only three white people got shot.

00:02:36.000 Here was the judge announcing that he had barred MSNBC from the courtroom after this.

00:02:41.000 I have instructed that no one from MSNBC news will be permitted in this building for the duration of this trial.

00:02:49.000 This is a very serious matter and I don't know what the ultimate truth of it is, but absolutely it would go without much thinking that someone who is following the jury bus, that is a very, extremely serious matter and will be referred to the proper authorities.

00:03:14.000 Obviously that is insanity.

00:03:15.000 You got reporters following jurors.

00:03:17.000 Apparently, some of these reporters claim that they do this thing to get the license plate numbers of the jurors.

00:03:24.000 And they do this fairly regularly, apparently, in order so they can ask the jurors about what they were thinking after the case is over.

00:03:30.000 That's insane.

00:03:31.000 It's especially insane given the high-profile nature of the trial and the fact that many of these jurors, all of them, live in Kenosha, which means that they are subject to the problems that are going to arise in Kenosha if they come down the wrong way.

00:03:44.000 According to an MSNBC spokesperson, they said last night a freelancer received a traffic citation.

00:03:48.000 While the traffic violation took place near the jury van, the freelancer never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations and never photographed or intended to photograph them.

00:03:56.000 We regret the incident and will fully cooperate with the authorities on any investigation.

00:04:01.000 Now, as Andy McCarthy suggests, he says, I think a quick verdict would have favored Rittenhouse.

00:04:06.000 If deliberations instead drag out, there's a greater chance of a hung jury or a compromised verdict in this case.

00:04:11.000 Andy McCarthy says, in a compromised verdict, former prosecutor, which can be scandalous but is nevertheless permissible in our system, jurors avoid a hopeless deadlock by agreeing to convict the accused on some but not other charges or on lesser charges.

00:04:22.000 That is, neither those who believe the defendant should be acquitted nor those who want him convicted on severe charges get what they want, but a verdict is reached even if it is not rational.

00:04:30.000 it's not internally consistent or aligned with the proof.

00:04:30.000 I.e.

00:04:33.000 A compromise verdict sounds like a tie in the sense the defendant neither walks nor faces life imprisonment.

00:04:37.000 In reality, it's a victory for the state because Rittenhouse would stand convicted of a felony and face significant prison time.

00:04:44.000 What is a quick verdict?

00:04:45.000 Says Annie McCarthy, it depends on the case.

00:04:47.000 I was a junior prosecutor in the longest federal criminal trial in American history, the Pizza Connection case, 1985 to 87.

00:04:52.000 The jury was out for six days.

00:04:54.000 For the Rittenhouse case, that would seem like an eternity.

00:04:57.000 But in our case, after 17 months of trying a raft of charges against 22 defendants, it seems extraordinarily quick.

00:05:02.000 As I write this piece, we are seven hours into the third day of deliberations in the Rittenhouse trial that already seems long, especially because the trial was less than two weeks of testimony.

00:05:11.000 And the question is whether the defendant acted in justifiable self-defense or even whether there is reasonable doubt that he did so.

00:05:17.000 Remember, the standard isn't, did he act in self-defense?

00:05:19.000 It's, is there reasonable doubt that he might have done so?

00:05:22.000 That's the defense.

00:05:23.000 And that's the standard.

00:05:25.000 Is there reasonable doubt?

00:05:26.000 Is the clearest cas— I mean, it's a clear-cut case of self-defense.

00:05:30.000 It is in 197% clear-cut case that there is reasonable doubt as to whether he engaged in self-defense.

00:05:39.000 What this does suggest is that there may be a situation in which the judge simply declares a mistrial if the jury comes back deadlocked, maybe a mistrial with prejudice.

00:05:49.000 He just says, we're not doing this again.

00:05:51.000 There have certainly been enough cases of mistrial laden behavior by the prosecution to support that.

00:05:59.000 If the jury comes back and acquits, the judge is off the hook.

00:06:01.000 If the jury comes back and says hung jury, the judge could theoretically declare a mistrial.

00:06:07.000 That would have the same impact as a hung jury unless he did so with prejudice, which means that they can't refile the case.

00:06:13.000 If they come back guilty, he could still declare a mistrial or mistrial with prejudice based on what is going on.

00:06:18.000 So there's a long way to go in this trial, even once the jury comes back.

00:06:23.000 And Andy McCarthy is fairly critical about Schrader, the judge.

00:06:28.000 He says, I'm constrained to observe one's assessment of Judge Bruce Schrader does not improve with extended observation.

00:06:34.000 In the latest gripe session, Schrader bleated about how he'd been criticized for his handling of a defense motion for a mistrial he said he had not even had a chance to read since it had only been filed the previous day.

00:06:45.000 But the motion is six pages long, double-spaced.

00:06:49.000 He says, it appears the traitor made up his mind before the trial there would be no sequestration and he is mulishly sticking to that.

00:06:55.000 But that was a mistake because now that they've not been sequestered, the jury, they can be easily intimidated.

00:07:00.000 And it appears that that is at the very least a possibility given the fact that MSNBC is now apparently sending reporters as stringers to follow members of the jury.

00:07:10.000 So that is that is bad stuff.

00:07:12.000 Alrighty, in one second, we'll get to the chaos that has now broken out on the left side of the aisle.

00:07:17.000 Everybody knows Joe Biden is not running for re-election at this point because he cannot even walk.

00:07:21.000 It is very difficult to run for re-election when you cannot walk.

00:07:24.000 Okay, we'll get to more of that in just a second.

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00:08:41.000 So, one thing has become eminently clear on the left side of the aisle, and that is that they are panicked about 2024.

00:08:46.000 The reason they're panicked about 2024 is because Joe Biden made the idiotic decision to pick as his vice president, not somebody who is a plausible 2024 candidate, but somebody who had completely flamed out as an early candidate in 2020, Kamala Harris, who didn't even last through the California primaries.

00:09:02.000 She didn't even get to her home state, despite being the early leader in the presidential race. 0.79

00:09:08.000 She had all of the benefits of intersectionality.

00:09:11.000 She was a senator from California. 0.99

00:09:13.000 She had shellacked Joe Biden in the first debate by suggesting that he was a racist, and then later in the race suggested that he was a sexual assaulter. 0.97

00:09:21.000 And then she dropped out of the race because she's terrible at everything. 0.93

00:09:23.000 Because all she has done for her entire career is fail up.

00:09:26.000 Democrats are so disquieted with her that CNN reported the other day they were talking about elevating her to the Supreme Court just to get her out of the way. 1.00

00:09:33.000 That would be the greatest case of failing upward in American history. 0.94

00:09:36.000 You go from being a crappy AG, to being a crappy Senator, to being a crappy Vice President, to being a crappy Supreme Court Justice. 0.96

00:09:42.000 Really, America is the land of opportunity. 0.97

00:09:46.000 Well, Kamala Harris did yet another national interview yesterday and they all go badly for her.

00:09:50.000 She's with George Stephanopoulos.

00:09:52.000 I will never, ever, ever get over the fact that George Stephanopoulos is presented as a news person.

00:09:58.000 I will never get over it.

00:09:59.000 As an objective news person.

00:10:01.000 This guy was an advisor to Hillary and Bill Clinton.

00:10:04.000 Again, if Karl Rove were presented as an objective news reporter, that is the equivalent of making George Stephanopoulos an objective news source.

00:10:11.000 The media bias is so rife.

00:10:13.000 But here's the thing.

00:10:14.000 Kamala Harris can't even sound good when speaking with George Stephanopoulos, whose job it is to carry around a drool cup for her. 1.00

00:10:21.000 It's insane.

00:10:22.000 So here is Kamala Harris explaining that you can't fix the border.

00:10:27.000 Eight months ago, the president gave you the job of addressing the root causes of migration.

00:10:31.000 But last month, we learned that in the past year had the highest number of illegal border crossings since they started to be recorded in 1960.

00:10:38.000 What are you doing to turn that around?

00:10:40.000 How long will it take?

00:10:42.000 Well, it's not going to be overnight.

00:10:44.000 We can't just flip a switch and make it better.

00:10:47.000 The reality is that we inherited a system, an immigration system, that was deeply broken, and it's requiring us to actually put it back together in terms of creating a fair process that is effective and efficient.

00:11:01.000 Okay, yeah, we can't fix it, is really not a good answer, considering this was delegated to you.

00:11:07.000 This was your job.

00:11:10.000 Joe Biden sent you down, not to the border, to the Latin American, Central American triangle to try and solve this thing.

00:11:17.000 You've done nothing.

00:11:18.000 And then you said that you had visited the border when you had not visited the border.

00:11:22.000 And then you said you don't understand why you should visit the border.

00:11:25.000 And you're almost laughing.

00:11:27.000 We can tell.

00:11:28.000 You're almost laughing.

00:11:29.000 The nervous We're getting things done, and we're doing it together.

00:11:32.000 So you don't feel misused or underused?

00:11:34.000 No, I don't.

00:11:34.000 there with every one of these questions. And these are not super tough questions. Okay, George Stephanopoulos then asked her a softball. Does she feel underused as Vice President of the United States? And here is her inspiring answer. We're getting things done and we're doing it together. So you don't feel misused or underused? No, I don't.

00:11:53.000 I'm very, very excited about the work that we have accomplished. But I am also absolutely, absolutely clear eyed that there There is a lot more to do and we're gonna get it done.

00:12:06.000 Um, yeah, man.

00:12:08.000 And then, she said she wanted to bring down the cost of living. 0.99

00:12:10.000 This worked out well for her boss.

00:12:12.000 Joe Biden, you'll remember, last year suggested he was going to get down the cost of living.

00:12:16.000 Since then, the price of a Thanksgiving dinner has exploded about 20%.

00:12:18.000 Here's Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:12:21.000 The cost of groceries has gone up.

00:12:22.000 The cost of gas has gone up.

00:12:25.000 And as this is all happening in the context of two years of a pandemic, it's one of the highest priorities actually for the president and for me.

00:12:33.000 And so we're dealing with this issue in a number of ways.

00:12:36.000 Short term, one of the issues is the supply chain.

00:12:39.000 We're facing a bottleneck, and we need to relieve that bottleneck.

00:12:42.000 So we brought together everyone from the Teamsters to Target to say, hey, let's all bring everyone together, from the truckers to the folks who are moving product, and let's open up some of our major ports for work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

00:12:58.000 Okay, so this is not going down for Kamala Harris.

00:13:01.000 It's not going well.

00:13:02.000 And the Democrats are looking forward to 2024.

00:13:04.000 And the other person they keep trotting out there is Pete Buttigieg.

00:13:07.000 Good luck with that.

00:13:07.000 Like really, the American people are definitely going to embrace the guy who went missing on the job for two months because he was on paternity leave.

00:13:14.000 Despite the fact that, again, paternity leave was originally designed so that you can help care for a person who just experienced physical trauma, namely your wife, Pete Buttigieg took a two-month paternity leave in the middle of a supply chain crisis and no one noticed.

00:13:26.000 And then he came back and bragged about how he was a wonderful person for having taken two months of paternity leave on the public dime.

00:13:31.000 So yeah, good luck.

00:13:33.000 Really, good luck.

00:13:34.000 The intersectional firefight between the LGBT wing of the Democratic Party and the people of color wing of the Democratic Party is going to be a wonder to watch. 0.80

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00:15:02.000 Alrighty, so.

00:15:03.000 Here is Politico speculating about what ought to happen come 2024.

00:15:07.000 Quote, amid the glut of speculation about whether Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg is Joe Biden's political heir, another important succession story in Democratic circles has gone almost entirely undiscussed.

00:15:17.000 Who will inherit Bernie Sanders' ideological mantle?

00:15:19.000 During the past two presidential cycles, the Vermont Independent mounted captivating, extremely well-financed bids.

00:15:25.000 He lost twice, but he reshaped the Democratic Party.

00:15:27.000 The size and contents of Biden's domestic agenda have been directly affected by Sanderism.

00:15:31.000 He has compelled Democrats to embrace government intervention rather than hide their faith in it from public view.

00:15:36.000 But Sanders, like Biden, is old.

00:15:39.000 No one in his orbit imagines him mounting a third run should Biden call it quits.

00:15:42.000 Something, to be clear, the president and his team have explicitly said he isn't doing.

00:15:47.000 This is left to void in the party's left wing.

00:15:49.000 And it is causing anxiety among progressive operatives who believe Sanders' great discovery was that in the era of online politics, a presidential campaign was an effective tool to push unapologetic liberalism.

00:15:59.000 And this is true, by the way, for a huge number of members of the government, is that they are basically Instagram influencers.

00:16:03.000 They're not in the business of drawing compromised deals and trying to figure out good policy.

00:16:07.000 They're Instagram influencers.

00:16:09.000 They're out there to try and get the clicks, and try and get the likes, and try and get the attention on their little videos. 0.78

00:16:14.000 Because many of them make a lot of money after leaving office based on the sort of following that they have built while they were in office.

00:16:22.000 I've said for a long time, I have a pretty easy job.

00:16:24.000 My job is to tell you what I think on a daily basis, and I can be as honest about it as I want to be, which is purely honest about how I feel about all of these issues.

00:16:32.000 Politicians don't have that job. 1.00

00:16:34.000 Politicians have to sort of smooth the sharp edges.

00:16:38.000 Politicians have to make deals that may stray from principle in order to get things done.

00:16:43.000 And I think that's an important thing, right?

00:16:44.000 It's an important job.

00:16:45.000 But politicians who masquerade as principled people who are just about principle, they can do really well in the principled space.

00:16:53.000 This is why Bernie Sanders has great popularity despite never having done anything of use his entire life and being an old communist leech on the public dollar.

00:17:01.000 Well, the question on the Democratic side of the aisle is this.

00:17:04.000 If you've got Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg and they're running against each other and neither one of them have the sort of soft-spoken, he's-a-dead-person appeal that Joe Biden had in 2020, right?

00:17:14.000 His appeal was he wasn't Bernie.

00:17:16.000 His appeal was he was kind of just a thing who was there and not all that threatening.

00:17:21.000 Well, Pete Buttigieg is pretty threatening.

00:17:22.000 That dude says crazy stuff all the time.

00:17:25.000 When Pete Buttigieg first declared for the presidency, he seemed like kind of an interesting candidate, specifically because he wasn't spitting on people from middle America. 0.95

00:17:31.000 Then, within five minutes, he started treating himself like Pastor Pete and explaining that everybody who believed in the Bible in traditional ways was actually a brutal gay hater, and that if you interpreted the Bible properly, you should just be a pro-gay marriage socialist, essentially.

00:17:48.000 That was Pete Buttigieg's new pitch.

00:17:50.000 Didn't go over great.

00:17:52.000 And then there's, it went over great with the Democratic base, didn't go over great with anybody else.

00:17:56.000 He has no appeal with the black population in the Democratic Party.

00:18:00.000 Kamala Harris has no appeal with anybody.

00:18:01.000 So that leaves a pretty wide opening.

00:18:03.000 Actually, there's a wide, here's the dirty secret.

00:18:05.000 There's a wide opening in the so-called moderate wing of the Democratic Party, and there's a huge opening on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

00:18:13.000 And the question is, which one of those wings actually pushes forward in the next primary cycle?

00:18:18.000 So, in the Sanders wing, Politico says ask veterans of Sanders' world who they think could fill that lane, and you get a host of recognizable but not necessarily national names.

00:18:27.000 The most common are a band of House progressives like Pramila Jayapal from Washington, or Roccano of California, or Katie Porter of California, or members of the squad.

00:18:36.000 I think the next chapter is Bernie 2.0 in color, says Chuck Rocha, a former union organizer who served as Sanders' senior campaign advisor.

00:18:43.000 The next Sanders, as Rocha sees it, will follow the path laid out by one of Bernie's major influences, Jesse Jackson, whose rainbow coalition, presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988, fused worker rights and multiculturalism into a potent political force.

00:18:56.000 Jackson had his missteps, including one fairly infamous one, and they link to the story.

00:19:00.000 That would be the one where he called New York Heimetown, because Jesse Jackson is a vicious anti-Semites.

00:19:05.000 But the Democratic Party also went into abject panic at the prospect of him winning.

00:19:09.000 Rocha thinks the party's in a new place now, having seen obvious slippage with white working class and Hispanic voters.

00:19:14.000 He surmises that politicians like Ruben Gallego of Arizona, or Annette Barragan of California, or Austin Council City member Greg Casar, a self-avowed Democratic Socialist, are the clearest embodiments of the Jackson vision.

00:19:26.000 But, um, yeah, nobody's ever heard of these people.

00:19:28.000 So then they say, what about Elizabeth Warren?

00:19:31.000 Well, Elizabeth Warren is old.

00:19:33.000 She flamed out.

00:19:34.000 Her best shot was actually in 2016 when she didn't take the shot.

00:19:38.000 There is one other name.

00:19:40.000 And Politico floats it.

00:19:42.000 Still, there is one lawmaker who Rocha and several others said did have the ideological makeup and infrastructure already in place and a Sanders connection to boot.

00:19:50.000 Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, who turns 35, the legal age to be president under the Constitution, on October 13, 2024.

00:20:00.000 Bernie's no different than when he was a crazy white-haired congressman, says Rocha.

00:20:03.000 What legitimized him was when he could raise tens of millions of dollars. 0.66

00:20:07.000 That made him real to every power broker in America.

00:20:09.000 And no one beyond AOC has been able to do that.

00:20:13.000 So get ready for the AOC 2024 presidential run.

00:20:16.000 I don't think this is fantasy.

00:20:18.000 I really don't.

00:20:18.000 Because here's the thing.

00:20:19.000 What is AOC's trajectory?

00:20:21.000 She's a congresswoman from a heavily blue district in New York.

00:20:25.000 She's not going to win statewide office. 1.00

00:20:27.000 In order to be a senator in New York, you have to at least pose as a non-democratic socialist.

00:20:32.000 You do.

00:20:33.000 Chuck Schumer has played this sort of inside-outside progressive game for a very, very long time.

00:20:37.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, when she first ran for the Senate in New York, ran as a gun-totin', pro-Second Amendment, quasi-pro-life person. 0.99

00:20:45.000 And then she shifted to the left.

00:20:47.000 AOC is the most obvious progressive in America.

00:20:50.000 And she's not just a progressive, she's a wild-eyed progressive. 1.00

00:20:53.000 She does crazy crap on a regular basis. 1.00

00:20:55.000 She drove Amazon out of her city. 1.00

00:20:57.000 And she has a record that is just terrible in her home state.

00:21:02.000 So her home district may like her because, again, it is a very, very blue district.

00:21:06.000 But the rest of the state, there's upstate New York you got to worry about.

00:21:09.000 AOC is not going to be the governor of New York.

00:21:12.000 She's not going to be a senator from New York.

00:21:14.000 She could theoretically, you know, run for mayor of New York, but Bill de Blasio just flamed out trying the same routine that AOC would push to Eric Adams. 0.99

00:21:23.000 So what is her trajectory?

00:21:24.000 And the answer is, if you're AOC, why the hell not run for president?

00:21:27.000 Really, why not?

00:21:28.000 The media already love you.

00:21:30.000 The media already slavishly pretend that you're an intelligent human being with something interesting to say, even though you have fewer than 10 brain cells to rub together.

00:21:40.000 You're camera friendly, obviously.

00:21:43.000 So why wouldn't you run?

00:21:45.000 And why not consolidate the Democratic Party around you?

00:21:49.000 After all, you've got that intersectional coalition running for you.

00:21:52.000 You're a woman of color who solidifies that Democratic Party progressive base, and you're attacked a lot by the right, which means, according to Democrats, that you are inherently good.

00:22:02.000 Which moderate is going to stand up to that?

00:22:03.000 You think Kamala Harris defeats AOC in a presidential primary? 0.98

00:22:07.000 I have some fairly serious doubts about that.

00:22:10.000 It's going to be fascinating to watch as this war goes on in the Democratic Party, and I'm here for it.

00:22:15.000 They built her up, and now they're going to have to own it. 0.99

00:22:17.000 Enjoy! 0.99

00:22:18.000 Embrace the suck, guys. 0.99

00:22:19.000 It's going to be really bad in 2024 for the Democrats. 0.99

00:22:23.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to the Democrats and Build Back Better.

00:22:27.000 They voted on that this morning, cramming through a progressive-laden garbage bill that is going to damage half their congresspeople.

00:22:33.000 We'll get to that in one moment.

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00:24:24.000 Alrighty, so meanwhile, the Democrats for some odd reason think that it's a great idea in the House to shove through bill back better.

00:24:30.000 I do not understand the logic of this.

00:24:32.000 It is absolutely illogical.

00:24:33.000 I understand that Nancy Pelosi wants to demonstrate that she has some control over her caucus. 0.99

00:24:38.000 But here's the problem.

00:24:38.000 This bill is going nowhere.

00:24:40.000 So it's going to get to the Senate and Manchin and Sinema are not going to vote for this thing.

00:24:43.000 They're not going to vote for this thing because it's a disaster area.

00:24:45.000 The CBO has already said that it adds almost $400 billion to the deficit.

00:24:50.000 And that's using the crappy Democratic math that says that the bill is only $2 trillion.

00:24:56.000 It is not a $2 trillion bill.

00:24:57.000 It is a $5 trillion bill.

00:24:59.000 And it's being pushed through by a president with a 36% approval rating, according to the latest polls.

00:25:05.000 Joe Biden's approval rating is now lower than the approval rating for toe fungus.

00:25:09.000 I mean, no one likes this guy.

00:25:12.000 I mean, Let's Go Brandon started off as a coded chant for how bad Joe Biden is, and now people are beginning to be, I think, embarrassed of saying Let's Go Brandon on the off chance that somebody might think they actually are rooting for Biden.

00:25:24.000 Like there is Joe Biden, he has lower approval ratings than Trump, okay?

00:25:27.000 So for all the talk about how unpopular and terrible Trump was, Joe Biden is making Donald Trump look like George Washington in terms of approval rating.

00:25:35.000 And there's a reason for that, it's because he's not even with it anymore.

00:25:39.000 Here is Joe Biden, he was signing his infrastructure bill or another bill, and I don't know which bill it was, frankly, because he forgot the name of the bill.

00:25:46.000 So I have no idea what the hell bill he's signing right here.

00:25:48.000 Amen.

00:25:52.000 I'm not gonna do that.

00:25:53.000 I'm gonna do it right now.

00:25:54.000 Okay.

00:25:54.000 Bring him in now.

00:25:59.000 I'm not gonna do that.

00:26:00.000 Can we repeat that? Because that wasn't in English.

00:26:03.000 Once more.

00:26:04.000 I just hope that he's not, you know, I hope that he's not signing somebody else's name to that bill.

00:26:21.000 Maybe it'd be like a pocket veto if he accidentally signs somebody else's name to the bill.

00:26:21.000 Maybe I do.

00:26:25.000 If he signs Corn Pop's name to the bill.

00:26:27.000 Okay, so this guy's no longer with us.

00:26:29.000 And yet Democrats rammed this thing through anyway.

00:26:32.000 They did.

00:26:33.000 So what exactly is in this monstrosity of a bill?

00:26:37.000 Well, first of all, it creates the highest personal income tax rate in the developed world.

00:26:42.000 It creates the highest capital gains tax rate since the 1970s.

00:26:46.000 It creates a situation in which eight states pay a combined federal state tax rate of over 60%.

00:26:52.000 It creates 87,000 new IRS auditors and agents, which is fun.

00:26:55.000 Do you love the IRS?

00:26:56.000 Because this place, they just dedicated $80 billion to increasing the size and scope of the IRS.

00:27:02.000 Sounds like fun.

00:27:04.000 Looking forward to it?

00:27:05.000 Yeah, it's gonna be great.

00:27:07.000 50% increase in small business audits.

00:27:11.000 1.2 million more annual IRS audits.

00:27:14.000 About half hitting households making less than $75,000 a year, according to Americans for Tax Reform.

00:27:21.000 There's an $8 billion home heating tax.

00:27:23.000 There's a $1.6 billion special tax handout for media companies, which is, by the way, a clear First Amendment violation.

00:27:29.000 The federal government is not supposed to be in the business of deciding which companies qualify as local media companies for purpose of giving them a subsidy.

00:27:37.000 That is a clear violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

00:27:41.000 Because once the government is subsidizing particular outlets and calling the media outlets so it can give them money and not others, that is rife for ideological discrimination.

00:27:52.000 It also does hike taxes on the middle class.

00:27:55.000 So the most hilarious thing about this bill is that after Joe Biden claimed that it would increase the taxes on the millionaires and the billionaires, and that it would not increase taxes on the middle class, it actually gave a tax break to millionaires and billionaires in the blue states.

00:28:09.000 Because it increases the SALT tax deduction.

00:28:11.000 Okay, so state and local tax deductions, the way that it worked under Trump is that he got rid of those.

00:28:17.000 So the rule was, before Trump, that if you lived in California and you paid a 13% state income tax, you could take that tax off the top of your income, and then on the lower line income, you would pay your federal tax.

00:28:27.000 Trump came in, he passed the tax cuts.

00:28:30.000 The tax cuts got rid of that provision.

00:28:32.000 So now, whatever your top line income was, say it was a million dollars, now you're paying 13% for the California tax, and then you're also paying 37% for the federal tax.

00:28:42.000 For Biden, it was you paid the 13%, which took your number down to $870,000, and then you paid the federal tax on the $870,000.

00:28:49.000 That's what Biden is trying to do.

00:28:51.000 So he's basically giving a tax break to all of his friends in blue states.

00:28:55.000 And the White House knows this, by the way.

00:28:58.000 Here's Jen Psaki admitting. 0.99

00:29:00.000 Is he comfortable where the current provisions stand for the state and local tax deductions, given it would be a pretty significant tax break for the wealthy?

00:29:09.000 Well, let me start by first, you know, obviously it wasn't what he proposed in his initial package, as you know, but just to come back to that.

00:29:17.000 The president also, though, it's been conveyed to him by leaders in the House and Senate that this needs to be included in order for this legislation to move forward.

00:29:26.000 And he certainly understands that.

00:29:29.000 It's unreal.

00:29:29.000 I mean, it's unreal.

00:29:30.000 So he promised no raising taxes on people who are middle class, and yes, raising taxes on the rich.

00:29:36.000 According to Tim Carney, most millionaires would receive a tax cut from the Democrats' Build Back Better bill.

00:29:41.000 Many middle class taxpayers would see a tax increase.

00:29:43.000 Phil Klein at National Review spells it out, citing a Tax Policy Center study, which concludes roughly 20 to 30 percent of middle income households would pay more in taxes in 2022.

00:29:54.000 And plus, according to the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget, a household making a million bucks per year will receive ten times as much from SALT cap relief as a middle-class family will receive from the child tax credit expansion.

00:30:07.000 So, I guess that now AOC, the 2024 presidential candidate, is going to have to wear a dress to the Democratic Party caucus saying, tax the rich.

00:30:18.000 Or maybe her dress should just say, because she did, I voted for a bill that raised taxes on the middle class and also gave a tax cut to the rich. 1.00

00:30:26.000 Welcome to the oligarchy, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

00:30:29.000 Here was Bernie Sanders saying this is bad policy.

00:30:32.000 I think it's bad politics, it's bad policy.

00:30:36.000 The Democrats correctly have campaigned on the understanding that amidst massive income and wealth inequality, we've got to demand that the wealthy stop paying their fair share of taxes, not give them what tax breaks.

00:30:47.000 The bottom line is we have to help the middle class, not the 1%.

00:30:51.000 Okay, so yeah, this thing is DOA in the Senate.

00:30:54.000 So what was the point of any of this?

00:30:56.000 What's the point of it?

00:30:57.000 By the way, the CBO, again, reported that this would raise the deficit by $367 billion.

00:31:02.000 And then they said, well, maybe, maybe the IRS will claw back a bunch of money from people.

00:31:06.000 So maybe it'll be like $160 billion, something like that.

00:31:09.000 Okay, here's the reality.

00:31:10.000 It's going to be trillions of dollars in deficits because the actual cost of this bill is not $1.85 trillion.

00:31:17.000 The actual cost of this bill is $4.6 trillion.

00:31:20.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the Penn Wharton budget model estimates the House bill would cost nearly $4.6 trillion over 10 years if temporary provisions are made permanent, as most will be.

00:31:30.000 The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget pegs that cost at $4.9 trillion if temporary tax credits and programs are made permanent through 2031.

00:31:37.000 through 2031. This would add not $367 billion, not $120 billion, $1.5 trillion to deficits over the next five years without additional tax offsets.

00:31:48.000 Okay, so what exactly is in this budget?

00:31:51.000 So they've enhanced child allowances, $3,600 for children under age 6, $3,000 up to age 17.

00:31:57.000 This is the bill's most expensive provision at about $130 billion a year.

00:32:01.000 That's why Democrats limit it to one year.

00:32:03.000 Does anyone think this is going to be one year?

00:32:06.000 Democrats are going to try and leverage this into law forever, and many Republicans will go along with it.

00:32:11.000 The Earned Income Tax Credit expansion triples the maximum EITC value for childless adults, but only for one year.

00:32:17.000 They say it'll only cost $15 billion.

00:32:20.000 But if you extend it over a decade, which is what they want to do, it's $135 billion.

00:32:24.000 And by the way, you can qualify based on your previous year's earnings, so you don't actually have to work to get this particular tax credit.

00:32:33.000 The new childcare entitlement.

00:32:34.000 Households making up to 250% of their state's median income would qualify for childcare vouchers.

00:32:39.000 Their payments would be capped at 7% of income less for lower earners.

00:32:43.000 The bill appropriates $100 billion through 2024 to states and such sums as may be necessary from 2025 to 2027.

00:32:52.000 And as you know, the spending is going to increase.

00:32:54.000 Here's the thing.

00:32:55.000 The price of daycare is going to go up, not down.

00:32:57.000 The reason it's going to go up, not down is because the same bill that subsidizes daycare for all of these folks also regulates who is allowed to receive money as a daycare provider.

00:33:07.000 It creates all sorts of new restrictions on who gets to be a daycare provider.

00:33:11.000 So it actually limits, it increases the demand and limits the supply, which leads to, wait for it, inflation.

00:33:18.000 Their universal pre-K bill appropriates about $18 billion to states for universal pre-K through 2024, and then, quote unquote, such sums as may be necessary through 2027.

00:33:27.000 The pre-K and child care entitlements, according to the Wall Street Journal, are estimated to cost only $380 billion because they phase in gradually and expire after six years.

00:33:37.000 But they're not going to expire in 2027.

00:33:39.000 Once people get hooked, the government just keeps doing it, which means they cost $800 billion if made permanent.

00:33:47.000 So all of this is just a joke, okay?

00:33:49.000 And it's not going anywhere in the Senate.

00:33:52.000 And Nancy Pelosi, by the way, speaks about what's in this bill, okay?

00:33:55.000 She says that, yeah, sure.

00:33:58.000 By the way, it allows taxpayer funding for abortion.

00:34:00.000 Joe Manchin said that that was a red line.

00:34:01.000 He said he is not voting for a bill that allows taxpayer funding for abortion.

00:34:04.000 They stuck it in there anyway.

00:34:05.000 Nancy Pelosi knows full well, the entire Democratic Party caucus in the House knows full well this is going nowhere in the Senate.

00:34:11.000 So all she just did is make all of her moderate members walk the plank. 1.00

00:34:14.000 She's an idiot. 1.00

00:34:15.000 I'm sorry, she's not that great at this. 1.00

00:34:18.000 There's been all this talk about what a master negotiator Nancy Pelosi is.

00:34:21.000 I'm wondering under what world that is true.

00:34:24.000 Under what blue moon is that true?

00:34:25.000 And Nancy Pelosi's great at this. 1.00

00:34:27.000 All she did is create a raft of ads for Republican candidates against Democratic candidates in purple districts. 1.00

00:34:33.000 That's all she did.

00:34:35.000 Like Pramila Jayapal is happy today.

00:34:37.000 She's not going to be happy when Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema kill the bill. 0.94

00:34:40.000 But it is amazing.

00:34:42.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi admitting it allows taxpayer funding for abortion. 1.00

00:34:48.000 The Helms and Hyde Amendment are still not in the reconciliation bill, but weeks ago Chairman Jeffrey said that anything is on the table.

00:34:55.000 Is that still the position?

00:34:56.000 It's not in the bill.

00:34:57.000 It's not in the bill.

00:34:58.000 Thank you for your question.

00:34:59.000 It's not in the bill.

00:35:00.000 It's not in the bill.

00:35:01.000 Thank you for your question.

00:35:02.000 Hi, Barron.

00:35:03.000 It's not in the bill.

00:35:04.000 Right, which means it's DOA.

00:35:06.000 And then this crazy lady, she says, um, spending on climate change. 1.00

00:35:10.000 So there's a ton of spending on climate change here, which is just a waste of money because most of the spending on climate change, as all as far as I'm aware, is not directed towards, say, building new seawalls, or shoring up infrastructure, it is all geared toward green energy boondoggles for political allies. It's all Solyndra writ large. Here's Nancy Pelosi, though. I love you got to love the religious principles of hardcore Democrats like Nancy Pelosi. She's such a wonderful Catholic, Nancy Pelosi, that she believes that abortion is a positive

00:35:39.000 good.

00:35:40.000 But spending on climate change is a religious issue.

00:35:42.000 For me, it's a religious thing.

00:35:46.000 I believe this is God's creation, and we have a moral obligation to be good stewards.

00:35:50.000 But if you don't share that view, you must share the view that we have an obligation to future generations.

00:35:56.000 So we're very excited about what is in there, and it is paid for.

00:36:01.000 Okay, the kind of blasphemy that she speaks from the podium.

00:36:04.000 You almost expect the sky to open up and the thunderbolt to just come down.

00:36:11.000 You have to believe we're stewards of God's creation.

00:36:14.000 So we're going to spend unbelievable amounts of money to pay off all my political allies while I eat gelato.

00:36:22.000 Also, dead babies are fine.

00:36:24.000 God doesn't care about the dead babies. 0.99

00:36:27.000 Good luck with this.

00:36:28.000 So, um, congratulations to the Democrats.

00:36:31.000 I guess.

00:36:32.000 For passing a bill that will go nowhere in the Senate and completely screws all of the moderates in the Democratic- Like, I don't even know how they convince the moderates to vote for this thing.

00:36:42.000 Like, how do you convince the Josh Gottheimers of the world that this is a good idea?

00:36:46.000 I guess they just don't want to take crap from the Democratic primary. 0.98

00:36:50.000 They don't want to take crap from the Democratic Party. 0.95

00:36:52.000 They're afraid they won't be able to get a job with their friends after they're out of Congress, but they're all going to be out of Congress. 0.84

00:36:56.000 The Republicans right now are running 8 to 10 points ahead on the generic ballot.

00:36:59.000 That is the biggest lead in the history of the polling.

00:37:03.000 Republicans are set to pick up 50, 60 seats in the House. 0.99

00:37:06.000 And Nancy Pelosi's like, what if I shove through this piece of crap bill that's filled with just garbage that no one's going to vote for in the Senate? 0.99

00:37:14.000 That'll be great. 0.99

00:37:16.000 Meanwhile, I got Joe Biden, addled old Joe Biden, saying that Build Back Better is going to lower the deficit.

00:37:21.000 He tweeted out yesterday, My Bill Blackwater Act is going to reduce the deficit by more than a hundred billion over ten years.

00:37:29.000 Then he fell asleep and they woke him up again and he continued.

00:37:32.000 It's going to lower costs, create jobs, and rebuild our economy.

00:37:36.000 Let's get this done.

00:37:43.000 It's not going to reduce the deficit.

00:37:44.000 CBO says it's not going to reduce the deficit.

00:37:46.000 You're lying about the cost of the bill.

00:37:48.000 Okay, so Kevin McCarthy decided to try and hold this thing up.

00:37:51.000 He spoke for 8 hours and 37 minutes.

00:37:53.000 Now, I'm just going to put it out there.

00:37:55.000 Any politician speaking for 8 hours and 37 minutes is basically Dante's 7th circle of hell.

00:38:00.000 But here is Kevin McCarthy ripping into the bill as appropriate. 1.00

00:38:04.000 The bill is a piece of crap. 1.00

00:38:05.000 It's garbage. 1.00

00:38:08.000 Mr. Speaker, we are minutes away from voting on a $5 trillion, more than 2,000 page bill. 0.98

00:38:16.000 Some of its effects will be quickly felt, others not for a few years.

00:38:22.000 But I guarantee you that no matter the time frame, all the new Washington spending in this bill is only the beginning of disaster.

00:38:33.000 Okay, well, that is true.

00:38:34.000 And if you don't believe Kevin McCarthy, why don't you believe the Biden administration, which continues to maintain that its policies are wonderful, even as they have precisely the effect they were intended to have, crushing Americans.

00:38:44.000 Yesterday, Jen Psaki defended canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, despite the fact that oil prices are spiking.

00:38:50.000 I think the problem with that argument is that the Keystone pipeline isn't even really functioning.

00:38:56.000 I mean, it was only partially built.

00:38:58.000 It isn't even really functioning.

00:38:59.000 So suggesting that changing that would lower the price of gas, I don't know that that makes substantive sense.

00:39:06.000 Well, we look at every pipeline on an individual basis.

00:39:10.000 The president made the decision when only about, I think, 8% of the pipeline had been built not to move forward as we looked at the environmental impacts and weighed them with the economic impacts.

00:39:17.000 concern in the market?

00:39:18.000 Well, we look at every pipeline on an individual basis.

00:39:20.000 The president made the decision when only about, I think, 8% of the pipeline had been built not to move forward as we looked at the environmental impacts and weighed them with the economic impacts.

00:39:29.000 And the decision was certainly made.

00:39:31.000 No, you did not look at any of those factors.

00:39:34.000 You just knew that the left wing was fighting Matt over Keystone XLC, cancelled it, and then the gas prices have risen because you have taken an anti-oil and gas position in the middle of a gas price spike. 1.00

00:39:43.000 Because you guys are idiots. 0.99

00:39:44.000 Hey, in just one second, we'll talk about the Democratic Party continuing to double down on the most radical policy management. 1.00

00:39:50.000 Like, are they just delusional?

00:39:52.000 I don't understand what they're doing.

00:39:54.000 Again, from a political perspective, it is going to go down in history as one of the great acts of political malpractice of all time that Joe Biden entered office after a highly unpopular one-term president and proceeded to do everything he said he would not do, embracing the positions of the person he defeated in the primary.

00:40:09.000 It's insane.

00:40:10.000 It's legitimately insane.

00:40:11.000 You have to wonder whether this geriatric patient is even in control of his own brain at this point to make that kind of politically unpalatable move.

00:40:19.000 It's so wild.

00:40:20.000 I've never seen anything remotely like it.

00:40:22.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:41:46.000 They're continuing, by the way, to tell people that they ought to continue enforcement of this in lieu of regulation.

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00:41:59.000 The fact is, this is going to end up at the Supreme Court.

00:42:02.000 There are a lot of businesses who are enforcing mandates.

00:42:03.000 Our victory doesn't mean anything unless those businesses do the right thing and stop this nonsense right now.

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00:43:36.000 Alrighty.

00:43:37.000 You Already moving on.

00:43:41.000 All right.

00:43:41.000 Meanwhile, again, I don't know what is driving so many thinkers on the Democratic side of the aisle these days, but it is certainly not reality.

00:43:47.000 There's a piece from Christina Wyman.

00:43:50.000 Who is author of the forthcoming novel, Jawbreaker.

00:43:52.000 She writes for NBC News.

00:43:54.000 She has a piece today titled, Schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory and don't get how teaching works.

00:44:01.000 An educator's top goal is to teach students to think.

00:44:03.000 Parents who dictate curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies, and biases hinder that goal.

00:44:07.000 Did you know the teachers have no?

00:44:09.000 None.

00:44:10.000 They have no personal opinions, ideologies, or biases?

00:44:12.000 Teachers?

00:44:13.000 They are just perfect advocates of Socratic truth.

00:44:13.000 None.

00:44:18.000 Or, alternatively, they want to indoctrinate your kids and they don't want you to know what they're doing.

00:44:22.000 Christina Wyman says, Parents and politicians across the country are interfering with the curricula that public schools use to teach students.

00:44:28.000 State legislatures are passing laws to keep critical race theory out of schools.

00:44:31.000 Literary classics like Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are banned for sexual content.

00:44:35.000 School libraries are coming under attack for containing books about gender.

00:44:38.000 There are even parents who are trying to shield students from learning about mental health and suicide, as though helping children build emotional fortitude is a bad thing.

00:44:46.000 While the political climate and national involvement in school districts gave the phenomenon a broader platform and have more serious ramifications, this behavior is nothing new.

00:44:54.000 Parents have always tried to interfere with curricula, as I observed when teaching middle school in the mid-2000s.

00:44:59.000 Even then, there was no shortage of parental input about the content of my instruction from books to test questions.

00:45:04.000 Part of the problem is that parents think they have the right to control teaching and learning because their children are the ones being educated.

00:45:10.000 But it actually, gasp, doesn't work that way.

00:45:12.000 It's sort of like entering a surgical unit, thinking you can interfere with an operation simply because the patient is your child.

00:45:18.000 Oh my god.

00:45:21.000 Okay, so let's begin with the false analogy between being a surgeon and being a middle school teacher.

00:45:26.000 I'm sorry, did you go to like eight years of Stem schooling in order to determine how to operate on a kidney?

00:45:34.000 Or do you just go to a crappy ed school where they taught you a bunch of social justice nonsense and now you think that you're qualified to teach children despite never having dealt with actual real-life children yourself very often?

00:45:45.000 Like, who makes the analogy between a surgeon, like a heart surgeon, and a person whose main job is to read a curriculum designed by other people and then infuse it with their own biases? 0.97

00:45:56.000 That's ridiculous, honestly.

00:45:57.000 Second of all, She says, you know, parents are misinformed if they think that they can control their kid's education the way that they can control medical care. 0.94

00:46:05.000 Wait, hold up. 1.00

00:46:06.000 Parents do control their kid's medical care, you idiot. 1.00

00:46:09.000 We do this all the time. 1.00

00:46:11.000 It is our job to decide whether our children need surgery, for example.

00:46:14.000 Now, once I delegate that surgery to a surgeon, I shouldn't be bursting into the room and trying to fix it.

00:46:19.000 But one of the ways I pick the surgeon is by asking the surgeon ahead of time what exactly they're going to be doing.

00:46:24.000 I know this because I've had to watch my kid have surgery.

00:46:27.000 It's no fun.

00:46:29.000 This bizarre idea that she's promoting, that when you hand your kid over to the state, the state is now the expert on how to educate your kid, is crazy towns.

00:46:39.000 The analogy is proper in terms of parental action.

00:46:42.000 I get to decide whether my kid has surgery.

00:46:44.000 I get to decide whether my kid needs medical treatment.

00:46:47.000 And I get to decide which doctor does it.

00:46:49.000 But with the public schools, I don't get to decide any of that.

00:46:52.000 You force my kid to go to a public school if I can't afford to go to a private school, which is why vouchers should be a thing, so I can choose where to put my kids.

00:46:59.000 Of course parents should have control over education, especially when you're talking about subjects like English or history.

00:47:06.000 Yes, if a parent burst into a classroom and said, you're teaching calculus wrong, and then suggested that we break out the abacuses, that would be silly.

00:47:15.000 But that's not what we're talking about here.

00:47:16.000 We're talking about the values that are taught to your kids.

00:47:18.000 And so you have now democratic thinkers saying, no, no, no, no.

00:47:22.000 Teaching English and history and social science is exactly like teaching math. 1.00

00:47:27.000 It's just incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:47:28.000 Please do this. 1.00

00:47:29.000 Please.

00:47:30.000 She talks about what an expert she is.

00:47:31.000 When I first pursued teaching nearly two decades ago, I was struck by the list of requirements I had to fulfill for the state of New Jersey to determine I was qualified.

00:47:38.000 Several years of focused college instruction, followed by intense mentorship, state-level exams, and more exams.

00:47:44.000 I went to grad school.

00:47:45.000 I got a PhD in curriculum instruction and teacher education.

00:47:48.000 Well, whoop-dee-frickin'-do.

00:47:50.000 And by the way, those state educational standards have made New Jersey the crown jewel, particularly inner city New Jersey, the crown jewel of the world's educational systems. 0.91

00:48:01.000 So yeah, hand it over to the experts and shut up.

00:48:04.000 I hope Democrats run on this. 0.81

00:48:05.000 I really hope they do.

00:48:06.000 And they keep doubling down.

00:48:06.000 They're just doubling down.

00:48:08.000 It's absolutely unbelievable.

00:48:09.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to double down.

00:48:13.000 So we've discussed the case of Saúl Omarova.

00:48:16.000 Over the past couple of weeks, this is the person that the Democrats want to be controller of the banks, essentially, run the banking industry in the United States.

00:48:25.000 She has said in the past that she wishes to abolish all private holdings of savings accounts and checking accounts.

00:48:31.000 That should all be done through the Federal Reserve.

00:48:33.000 So then the Fed can determine who gets a loan and who does not.

00:48:37.000 She said in the past she wants to bankrupt the oil and gas industry.

00:48:39.000 Yesterday, she said she doesn't like Bitcoin.

00:48:41.000 Yeah, no bleep you don't like Bitcoin.

00:48:43.000 There's a shock.

00:48:44.000 You mean a person who's in favor of centralized government control over every aspect of the economy doesn't like Bitcoin, which is the alternative to centralized government control of the economy?

00:48:51.000 Color me shocked.

00:48:52.000 Here is Saúl Omarova, the Biden administration's communist nominee for running in the banks.

00:48:59.000 And by the way, when I say communist nominee, I mean she earned the Lenin Prize at the University of Moscow and will not reveal her PhD thesis before being nominated to this position.

00:49:09.000 Do you believe that a government-issued representation of currency, of value, is superior to private commerce?

00:49:22.000 I believe that we do have government-issued money right now in this country, and it's working great, and I worry about Allowing private innovation to undermine a lot of important public policies.

00:49:40.000 Okay, so Bitcoin is bad.

00:49:42.000 Bitcoin is super bad because it undermines public policies and undermines the government's ability to control all aspects of the currency.

00:49:47.000 It is not.

00:49:48.000 Bitcoin is a great alternative to the government inflating the currency, doing whatever it wants with your dollar, doing whatever it wants with your savings.

00:49:56.000 Her deep desire to nationalize nearly everything should scare the hell out of everyone. 0.91

00:50:01.000 Now, the left is trying to pretend that this is not true, right?

00:50:03.000 The left is trying to pretend that she is actually anti-communist, that she is some sort of free marketeer, which is amazing, since like two years ago, she tweeted out that there was no gender pay gap in the Soviet Union, right?

00:50:16.000 Things were wonderful in the Soviet Union.

00:50:20.000 She says that she chose in her PhD program to study American democratic theory, and she was on exchange at the University of Wisconsin.

00:50:28.000 When the Soviet Union collapsed, she simply stayed.

00:50:31.000 But this is an absurdity.

00:50:35.000 Her academic writing about the banking industry was all about centralizing all power. 0.64

00:50:42.000 In her book, The People's Ledger, How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy, a 71-page academic study on how to separate big banks' lending features from their role as safekeepers of Americans' savings, she wanted the Federal Reserve to replace bank deposits.

00:50:56.000 There's a reason she's being defended by Elizabeth Warren.

00:50:59.000 So, John Kennedy from Louisiana, he went after her in pretty colorful fashion.

00:51:03.000 This, of course, made many people very angry.

00:51:06.000 You're not allowed to mention communism or Marxism.

00:51:08.000 Ever.

00:51:08.000 Because people might notice.

00:51:11.000 In 2019, you joined a Facebook group, a Marxist Facebook group, to discuss socialist and anti-capitalist views.

00:51:22.000 Now, that's what I see from your record.

00:51:24.000 And you have the right to believe every one of these things.

00:51:28.000 You do.

00:51:30.000 This is America.

00:51:32.000 But I don't mean any disrespect.

00:51:35.000 I don't know whether to call you professor or comrade.

00:51:39.000 How dare he?

00:51:41.000 How dare he?

00:51:42.000 Now, she says now that she has a unique appreciation for our dynamic and diverse markets.

00:51:47.000 But all of the things that she has said about our dynamic and diverse markets are critical of those dynamic and diverse markets, so far as I'm aware.

00:51:54.000 She said that her articles are designed to expand the boundaries of academic debate.

00:51:58.000 Oh, that's what it was.

00:51:58.000 She was just raising issues.

00:52:00.000 She's raising issues.

00:52:01.000 OK, so Elizabeth Warren, of course, says it's a red scare.

00:52:03.000 It's a it's a it's how dare he?

00:52:05.000 It's a red scare, says Elizabeth Warren, who herself has embodied a lot of sort of Marxist ideals in her own campaigning.

00:52:13.000 Professor Omarova, I know that the giant banks object to your willingness to enforce the law to keep our system safe and that you may cut into big bank profits so they and their Republican buddies have declared war on you.

00:52:27.000 The attacks on your nomination have been vicious and personal.

00:52:31.000 We've just seen them.

00:52:32.000 Sexism, racism, pages straight out of Joe McCarthy's 1950s Red Scare tactics.

00:52:38.000 It is all there on full display.

00:52:41.000 Welcome to Washington in 2021.

00:52:44.000 By the way, the name of her actual thesis was, quote, Karl Marx's Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in the Capitol.

00:52:51.000 So, yeah, I mean, it seems like there should be some open questions.

00:52:54.000 Sherrod Brown did the same thing.

00:52:55.000 This is the senator from Ohio trying to defend Omarova.

00:52:58.000 We know that a shadowy political group funded by former Trump staff has been fomenting these personal attacks and pushing radical right-wing news sites to spread misinformation.

00:53:11.000 These inflammatory insinuations continue to stoke the unhinged rhetoric that is poisoner politics.

00:53:17.000 Now we know what happens when Trumpism meets McCarthyism.

00:53:23.000 It's a cruelty no person should experience.

00:53:25.000 It's so tiresome.

00:53:26.000 I'm sorry.

00:53:26.000 This is so tiresome.

00:53:27.000 How about we find out what she actually thinks and wonder whether somebody with Marxist leanings ought to control the banking industry in the United States. 0.73

00:53:35.000 But really, Democrats keep, apparently they just think that if they keep shouting Trump over and over and over, then like Beetlejuice, he will appear and then win elections for them.

00:53:43.000 This seems to be their opinion of the situation.

00:53:46.000 It really is quite amazing.

00:53:48.000 Meanwhile, speaking of people who continue to kowtow to the Chinese, Jen Psaki yesterday was asked why Joe Biden won't raise a COVID investigation with China.

00:53:55.000 Joe Biden has been very hands-off with regard to the human rights crisis that China has been purveying in Hong Kong, the threats against Taiwan.

00:54:03.000 Joe Biden has been relatively sanguine about all of this.

00:54:07.000 And of course, neither he nor John Kerry brought up the COVID investigations with China, which unleashed a virus from Wuhan on the world, which has killed some 4 million people. 0.84

00:54:16.000 Here's Jen Psaki trying to defend it. 1.00

00:54:18.000 Did he ask President Xi to cooperate specifically with this US intel agency-led investigation into the origins of COVID?

00:54:28.000 Peter, it's clear that that's what we want.

00:54:30.000 That's what we've been pressing on.

00:54:32.000 I don't have any more to read out for you from the meeting.

00:54:35.000 You're saying that it's clear.

00:54:36.000 Is it clear to somebody who has a Zoom meeting with the president that that's what he means if that's not what he says?

00:54:42.000 I think the president has spoken publicly on this a number of times.

00:54:45.000 Our national security officials have conveyed very clearly, I don't think it's a secret.

00:54:49.000 That's what we want.

00:54:50.000 That's what we've been pressing for.

00:54:51.000 OK, but yes, Biden didn't say it to Xi because he's afraid of saying such things to Xi.

00:54:56.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden was asked about a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, which are coming up in just a couple of years here.

00:55:03.000 And there already been some talk that the administration was going to do it, and Biden seems to be a little bit walking it back.

00:55:09.000 Sir, do you support a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics?

00:55:13.000 Something we're considering.

00:55:16.000 Somebody should inform him his administration already floated a trial balloon about just doing it.

00:55:20.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of that Wuhan virus investigation, now people are trying to claim that it was at the wet market.

00:55:27.000 According to a scientist who has poured over public accounts of early COVID-19 cases in China, he reported on Thursday an influential WHO inquiry had most likely gotten the early chronology of the pandemic wrong.

00:55:37.000 The new analysis suggests the first known patient sickened with coronavirus was a vendor in a large Wuhan animal market, not an accountant who lived many miles from it.

00:55:45.000 That report was published on Thursday in the prestigious journal Science.

00:55:47.000 It will revive, though certainly not settle, the debate over whether the pandemic started with a spillover from the wildlife sold at the market, a leak from a Wuhan virology lab, or some other way.

00:55:56.000 The scientist, Michael Worobei, is a leading expert in tracing the evolution of viruses at University of Arizona, came upon timeline discrepancies by combing through what had already been made public in medical journals, as well as video interviews in a Chinese news outlet with people believed to have the first two documented infections.

00:56:11.000 But here's the thing.

00:56:20.000 We're never going to find out whether this is true, because Joe Biden really doesn't care all that much about whether this is true.

00:56:26.000 Joe Biden has consistently said that he wants to see China as a strategic competitor, not as an enemy.

00:56:31.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:56:32.000 China views us as an enemy, and they're wielding their power over corporate institutions in order to get what they want.

00:56:41.000 We thought that by opening up China, we would be liberalizing China.

00:56:44.000 And to a certain extent, we did.

00:56:44.000 We liberalized parts of their economy.

00:56:46.000 We certainly did not liberalize their political system.

00:56:48.000 And instead, what they have done is they have now hooked us on the opium of cheap markets and cheap goods.

00:56:55.000 That is what they have done.

00:56:57.000 And they've taken our corporations and turned them inside out.

00:56:59.000 Now listen, I think these corporations are gutless.

00:57:02.000 I think these corporations should stand up.

00:57:04.000 I think they should not go along with this.

00:57:06.000 But I also think that the federal government at a certain point, Western civilization at a certain point, has to tell the Chinese that we are going to cut them off economically at the knees if they continue to purvey the kind of political terrorism in which they are currently engaged. 0.99

00:57:20.000 But instead, we've got corporations that are just kowtowing to them.

00:57:23.000 It's unbelievable.

00:57:25.000 According to Axios, the Marriott Hotel in Prague declined to host a conference of activists and leaders from China's Uyghur diaspora this month, citing political neutrality, an email shared with Axios shows.

00:57:35.000 The Chinese government has condemned the World Uyghur Congress, which has attempted to rally global attention to the genocide in Zhangjiang, China.

00:57:42.000 The decision to reject the conference reflects China's growing ability to extend authoritarian control beyond its borders by making clear to corporations that crossing the party's red lines will be bad for business.

00:57:53.000 About 200 delegates from 25 countries gathered in Prague from November 12th to 14th to elect the organization's new leadership and hold discussions with politicians, academics, and civil society representatives from around the world.

00:58:04.000 The Prague Marriott Hotel declined to host the conference.

00:58:08.000 As they said, they were afraid of pissing off the Chinese, basically.

00:58:13.000 So, it's not just them, by the way.

00:58:14.000 Obviously, we've seen the NBA kowtow to the Chinese as well.

00:58:18.000 Enos Kanter is, I will say, he's What he's saying about China right now is just great.

00:58:24.000 So Enos Cancer is the center for the Boston Celtics.

00:58:27.000 They are playing the Lakers tonight.

00:58:30.000 And he is going to be wearing sneakers that show Xi Jinping putting a crown on King James.

00:58:39.000 He tweeted out money over morals for the king.

00:58:42.000 Sad and disgusting how these athletes pretend they care about social justice. 0.91

00:58:45.000 They really do shut up and dribble when Big Boss China says so. 1.00

00:58:49.000 Says, did you educate yourself about the slave labor that made your shoes?

00:58:51.000 Or is that not part of your research?

00:58:54.000 And he's going after LeBron James.

00:58:56.000 And naturally, Soap and Deb. 0.93

00:58:59.000 Foolish reporter from the New York Times, like, why are conservatives so excited about this? 0.94

00:59:02.000 Well, maybe it's because LeBron is one of the most famous people on earth and he is backing Chinese tyranny over freedom. 1.00

00:59:06.000 Maybe it's that.

00:59:07.000 So I was like, why aren't you so angry at Tillman, Furtado, whoever the hell the owner of the Houston Rockets is?

00:59:14.000 Because no one's ever heard of him.

00:59:15.000 I don't even remember his name.

00:59:16.000 LeBron James, however, is one of the most popular and powerful political and cultural figures in America.

00:59:21.000 So yeah, that's why it's great that Enos Cantor is going after him.

00:59:25.000 Good for him.

00:59:26.000 Really good for him.

00:59:28.000 Also, good for the WTA.

00:59:30.000 So, the Women's Tennis Association is now calling on China to explain what the hell just happened to Peng Shuai.

00:59:37.000 Now, Peng Shuai is a Chinese tennis player.

00:59:39.000 She put up a post on social media alleging that a high-ranking Communist Party official had raped her.

00:59:44.000 The post was immediately taken down, and she was disappeared. 0.82

00:59:47.000 And then, a statement was issued to the WTA in her name that was obviously written by the Communist Party.

00:59:54.000 Clearly written by the Communist Party.

00:59:56.000 Her post was deleted within 30 minutes of publication.

00:59:58.000 Her Weibo account, which has more than half a million followers, is still blocked from searchers on the platform.

01:00:04.000 Earlier this week, Chinese state media released an email purportedly from Pang, walking back her allegations, saying they weren't true and claiming she is fine.

01:00:13.000 It was clearly staged.

01:00:14.000 It clearly was not true.

01:00:16.000 And so this put the WTA in a bit of a bind. 0.96

01:00:18.000 Do they alienate the Chinese and stand up for this tennis player?

01:00:21.000 Or do they simply kowtow to the Chinese government the way the NBA has?

01:00:25.000 And good for them, the WTA was like, nope, we're not doing it.

01:00:28.000 According to CNN, the head of the Women's Tennis Association, Steve Simon, has said he is willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business in China if tennis player Peng Shui is not fully accounted for and her allegations are not properly investigated.

01:00:40.000 Simon said in an interview Thursday with CNN, we're definitely willing to pull our business and deal with all the complications that come with it.

01:00:46.000 This is certainly bigger than the business.

01:00:48.000 Women need to be respected and not censored. 1.00

01:00:51.000 Good for him.

01:00:52.000 Seriously, more of this.

01:00:54.000 More of this.

01:00:56.000 Simon said, when you factor in the commitment to prize money and the commitments to the WTA, and you factor in the stadium building real estate elements, it's over a $1 billion commitment they've made to the WTA finals and the WTA in Shenzhen.

01:01:08.000 But apparently, they're willing to pull out.

01:01:10.000 Serena Williams also put out a statement.

01:01:11.000 Naomi Osaka also released a statement with hashtag whereispengshuai.

01:01:14.000 We'll see if any of these people have the stones to separate off from Nike for continuing to do business this way.

01:01:18.000 But at least they're speaking out.

01:01:19.000 Osaka also released a statement with hashtag where is Peng Shui.

01:01:24.000 We'll see if any of these people have the stones to separate off from Nike for continuing to do business this way.

01:01:32.000 But at least they're speaking out.

01:01:33.000 Now, honestly, really, credit to Serena Williams.

01:01:36.000 Even if she's not going to cut ties with Nike, her speaking out against the Chinese government at the risk of pissing off Nike is a good thing. 0.98

01:01:42.000 LeBron is just a pathetic specimen. 0.96

01:01:45.000 A pathetic moral specimen who, on behalf of his shoe dollars, stands up for the Chinese government. 0.99

01:01:51.000 So, I'm glad to see more people standing up to Chinese predations. 0.99

01:01:54.000 It is deeply necessary at this point.

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01:02:44.000 You know, some people are depressed because the republic is collapsing, the end of days is approaching, and the moon's turned to blood.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 19, 2021

AOC For President | Ep. 1380

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