The Ben Shapiro Show - January 23, 2024


At Auschwitz With Elon Musk


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53 minutes

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196.45618

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10,422

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673

Misogynist Sentences

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Summary

Elon Musk visits Auschwitz to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp, and talks about the horrors of the Nazi death camp complex, and how we can learn to live with the darkness that is present and possible inside the human soul, even when we don't have to live in a world where we're supposed to believe that the unthinkable is possible. We're broadcasting from Krakow, Poland, where we were invited to attend a European Jewish Association event in memory of liberation of Auschwitz, and we were given a guided tour of the camp by a tour guide. It's an incredible experience, and a reminder that we can all be on the side of good, even in the face of evil, and that we are capable of doing the unthinkable even when it's the most unthinkable thing in the darkest places of our human experience. This episode is brought to you by Passover, a podcast produced by the Electronic Intelligentsia, and edited by Alex Blumberg. The opinions expressed here are our own, not those of our companies, unless otherwise stated in the press releases or statements given to us by our respective clients. We do not claim ownership to any of the music used in this podcast. We are not responsible for the music or any of this material used in the podcast. Thank you for any amount you pay for this podcast, it was produced, produced, or provided by you, the listeners, for your support and support. Music by Zeena Vellian and the rest of our sponsors, including SoundCloud, SoundCloud and Vevolution and Vimeo.co.uk We thank you for all your support, we really do appreciate it. Thank you so much for all the support we get from this podcast and all the work you do for the podcast and the support you're showing us. We really appreciate all the love and support we're getting back to the podcasting community. It's a big thanks to you, thank you to all the people who sent us back and back and forth. , and we really appreciate it, we appreciate all of the love, support, all of it's support, and the words you're sending us back, and support us back to us with their support, back and all of your support. We'll see you back again next week. XOXO, Sarah and I'll be back next week with a new episode next week, we'll get back to you next week!


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00:00:00.000 We are broadcasting today here from Krakow, Poland.
00:00:03.000 Flew in here on Saturday night, arrived on Sunday night so we could visit Auschwitz with Elon Musk.
00:00:08.000 We were invited by the European Jewish Association.
00:00:11.000 Every year they do an event here at Auschwitz around the liberation of Auschwitz.
00:00:15.000 This is the time of year that Auschwitz was liberated in 1945.
00:00:18.000 And I have to say, Auschwitz is an insane experience.
00:00:23.000 I've never been there before.
00:00:24.000 I know that Elon hasn't been there before either, and we were walking the grounds together, obviously being given a tour by a tour guide.
00:00:32.000 And, you know, for those who have seen images of the Holocaust, which I would assume is pretty much everyone, although my poll number is apparently not, for those who have seen movies about the Holocaust, seeing the actual structures where mass death was brought upon the Jewish people, As well as Roma, homosexuals, Russian soldiers.
00:00:54.000 It's an astonishing demonstration of the darkness that is present and possible inside the human soul.
00:01:00.000 And just first general impressions of what it's like there.
00:01:04.000 And for those who have not visited, it is worth a visit because I think that we tend to live very easy lives, thank God, in the West.
00:01:13.000 In the modern era, we tend to, you know, look around us and see people who are generally good, people who generally believe in non-evil things.
00:01:24.000 And then you go to a place like Auschwitz and you realize that it actually is not all that unthinkable for the unthinkable to happen.
00:01:31.000 So first we visited Auschwitz, which is a much smaller area.
00:01:35.000 of the actual death camps than the death camp footprint actually is. The death camp footprint
00:01:40.000 includes the Auschwitz complex, includes some 40 different camps around work camps, death camps.
00:01:45.000 The Auschwitz complex, the center of it, where you see that famous fence, the Arbeit macht frei,
00:01:49.000 the work will make free, which of course was a lie, the freedom was murder. You see that when
00:01:55.000 you walk in and then you walk into various buildings, brick structures that had originally
00:02:02.000 been built as actual barracks and that were then turned into these hell holes where they
00:02:06.000 would hold a thousand people in a space that was maybe meant to hold a hundred.
00:02:11.000 A couple hundred at best.
00:02:12.000 22 toilets for a thousand people.
00:02:14.000 Where the death rate in the early days, before they were turned into full-scale death camps, was already 25%.
00:02:19.000 You walk into the areas where prisoners were executed.
00:02:24.000 You see the basement structures where Zyklon B was first tried against Russian POWs.
00:02:31.000 Before it was then turned into a tool of mass extermination against predominantly the Jews.
00:02:37.000 960,000 Jews killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II.
00:02:41.000 You're walking all this, and it is the lowest of what humanity has to offer, obviously.
00:02:45.000 Then you go over to Birkenau, which is even more astonishing, because Birkenau is the actual camp complex that was meant to hold tens of thousands of human beings, and it expands for what must be hundreds of acres.
00:02:56.000 It's an extraordinarily large complex.
00:02:59.000 They've preserved many of the structures.
00:03:01.000 Most of the death camps were blown up by the Nazis, destroyed by the Nazis, and plowed under by the Nazis in an attempt to hide up what they had done.
00:03:07.000 Auschwitz-Birkenau obviously survived when it was liberated.
00:03:11.000 And so these structures are now 80 years old and they are basically brick hovels in which
00:03:18.000 you see bunks stacked one on top of another that are incredibly small.
00:03:24.000 We're originally designed by the evil architects of the Holocaust to hold three people at a time, and then were eventually expanded to hold six, seven people at a time.
00:03:35.000 I had the privilege when I was younger of helping to write the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor who'd actually gone through Auschwitz-Birkenau.
00:03:41.000 And the stories obviously are horrifying.
00:03:42.000 Now you walk it and it's empty, obviously.
00:03:45.000 And you can feel the darkness of the place.
00:03:50.000 Pretty clearly and I think that, you know, I think that Elon obviously saw it as well because I don't think that you can walk through that place and not see the darkness inherent there.
00:03:59.000 And I think that there are a bunch of important things to be gained from doing something like walking Auschwitz-Birkenau.
00:04:05.000 I think the first is to realize that People can be made to believe nearly anything, and this holds true on the side of both the evil people and the people who are victimized by those who are evil.
00:04:19.000 One of the things that you see when you walk through Auschwitz itself, the actual complex, is you see a room that's just filled with suitcases, and every person who brought a suitcase Two Auschwitz thought they were going to end up unpacking that suitcase.
00:04:30.000 Step by step by step, European Jewry thought that whatever was next couldn't be this all the way until the final step into the gas chambers.
00:04:39.000 And so when we criticize people for not having fought back, at what point were they supposed to believe that the unthinkable was now thinkable?
00:04:46.000 Because the unthinkable is unthinkable until precisely the moment that it becomes real.
00:04:50.000 It's a cautionary note to people who don't take the world seriously, don't take politics seriously, that we all ought to be, at a certain level, attempting to read tea leaves.
00:05:00.000 Now, you can read too deeply, you can be too catastrophic about politics, and I think it's very easy to fall into that when you doomscroll.
00:05:07.000 on various social media services. But it is also important to recognize that as we're flying to
00:05:11.000 Poland, I was reading the memoirs of Viktor Klemper, who's a German Jew who lived in Dresden,
00:05:16.000 actually. And he kept these memoirs all the way through World War II. He ended up living past
00:05:21.000 World War II and into the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. And every step of the way
00:05:27.000 in his memoirs, he seems to think, well, maybe things are going to be okay.
00:05:32.000 Maybe, maybe this will reverse itself.
00:05:33.000 And even when he becomes despairing, he never thinks that it's going to turn to this.
00:05:36.000 And there is very little limit to the evil that can be created in the human heart.
00:05:42.000 That evil can only be masked by ideology.
00:05:46.000 Ideology absolutely matters.
00:05:47.000 It absolutely matters.
00:05:50.000 To truly understand what happened in Auschwitz-Birkenau, you have to understand German history and European history.
00:05:54.000 You have to understand European antisemitism.
00:05:56.000 And the first and most fundamental thing to understand about antisemitism in the modern era, which again, if you're at Auschwitz-Birkenau, that's what you have to talk about, The first and most fundamental thing to understand about anti-semitism is that at root, it is a conspiracy theory about power.
00:06:09.000 When you read the writings of Hitler, when you read writings that precede Hitler by 50, 60, 70 years, anti-semitic writings, when you read these writings, what you see is that there's a conspiracy theory about Jews.
00:06:18.000 This conspiracy theory is that the powerful in every industry are Jewish, that they are part of an evil conspiracy, and that the only reason that they have gained power is through some sort of perverse machination.
00:06:29.000 And that therefore, they must be extirpated.
00:06:31.000 They must be destroyed.
00:06:32.000 Now, there's a recognition that it can't be religious Jewry because it turns out that the people at the head of many industries in pre-war Europe are not religious Jews.
00:06:40.000 They're Jewish by ethnicity, but they're not practicing.
00:06:42.000 Many of them were converts to Protestantism or even Catholicism.
00:06:46.000 But because Jews were disproportionately represented at the top of so many major industries, particularly in major cities around Europe, they represent a heavy percentage of places like Berlin, like Warsaw.
00:06:57.000 Because of that, there was a theory of power, and the theory of power suggested they were the exploiters, that they had rigged the system on their own behalf, and that therefore they had to be destroyed.
00:07:07.000 And that ideology, a self-justifying ideology, whereby the people you're about to kill are actually the true victimizers, which is why, of course, they have to be killed.
00:07:15.000 And that particular ideology is so seductive and it's so easy to replicate.
00:07:21.000 It doesn't mean the Holocaust is going to be replicated tomorrow.
00:07:23.000 I don't think anybody thinks that the Holocaust is going to be replicated tomorrow, God forbid.
00:07:28.000 But the ideology that breeds The victimization of Jews among other subgroups, that ideology is very much alive well and with us.
00:07:39.000 And I think one of the things that we tend to see when we see places like Auschwitz-Birkenau is the extent of the horror is so unthinkable and so unimaginable that it means that we tend to cut it off from the rest of sort of human relations.
00:07:50.000 We tend to think, okay, this is an outlier.
00:07:52.000 It's just this crazy statistical outlier.
00:07:55.000 When in reality, it is just the culmination of a continuum of theory that has been present on Earth for literally thousands of years, going all the way back to the Book of Exodus.
00:08:04.000 The same things that Pharaoh is saying about the Jews, that they're rising in numbers and power, that they're a threat to us.
00:08:09.000 That same stuff is being repeated by Hitler in 1935.
00:08:13.000 And it's being repeated by some people today.
00:08:15.000 Ideology absolutely matters, and to understand what happened in Auschwitz-Birkenau, you have to understand the ideology, to understand the threats to the West, you have to understand ideologies that are pernicious, wrong, and yes, evil.
00:08:26.000 So, Elon and I visit Auschwitz, we visit Birkenau, and then we end up going over to the local Doubletree Hotel, which is where the EJA actual event is taking place, and I had the privilege of interviewing Elon on stage.
00:08:40.000 Now, first of all, I should tell you, I think that Elon is an incredibly good-hearted person.
00:08:46.000 Having met him, this is the first time I've met him in person, but we've spoken before, obviously.
00:08:50.000 Having dealt with him, Elon is, by nature, a problem-solving engineer.
00:08:55.000 It's the thing that he does.
00:08:55.000 It's what's made him world-famous.
00:08:57.000 He's a person who solves problems.
00:08:58.000 So he sees things through a very analytic frame.
00:09:00.000 And that analytic frame means that he's both a risk taker and also somebody who I think is pretty clear-eyed about when a problem is a problem and how to solve that problem.
00:09:12.000 That leads him to a shocking level of moral clarity.
00:09:16.000 Truly, I think that Elon's understanding of morality is instinctively quite good.
00:09:27.000 Which is obviously very different than what the media is telling you.
00:09:29.000 What the media are telling you about Elon, the legacy media, they have a stake in degrading Elon as a human being, largely because Elon threatens their frame.
00:09:38.000 Elon is obviously both a product and a creator of the free market.
00:09:44.000 Elon is rich, which, according to many of the media, makes him inherently bad.
00:09:48.000 Elon is somebody who's a free speech advocate, which, according to the media, again, makes him bad because he doesn't gatekeep the way they would like for him to gatekeep, or the way that they gatekeep.
00:09:57.000 And so they've been targeting him on a wide variety of issues, nearly all of which I think are fully specious.
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00:11:16.000 Back to this visit, we sat down together and we had a wide-ranging conversation about various topics, including some of the ideologies that lead to evil action.
00:11:25.000 One of the things that we discussed at fair length was diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:11:29.000 And DEI, which of course sounds very happy face, DEI is the basic thesis that, again, the world is driven by power dynamics, that virtually every system is a power dynamic system.
00:11:41.000 That free speech is actually just a stand-in for power.
00:11:44.000 That free markets are a stand-in for power.
00:11:46.000 That those who are successful in these systems are actually perpetuators of the system for their own exploitative power.
00:11:52.000 That is a dangerous theory.
00:11:54.000 By the way, that theory, not diversity, equity, and inclusion, but the idea that power lies behind all systems, exists on the right as well.
00:11:59.000 It's not unique to the left.
00:12:01.000 It materializes in racial ways on the left.
00:12:03.000 It materializes in sort of bizarre populist class ways on the right.
00:12:07.000 The idea that, for example, capitalism is a tool of the globalist rich, right?
00:12:10.000 That sort of nonsense exists on all sides of the political aisle.
00:12:15.000 But DEI, which is the most threatening version of this form, particularly on the political left, it helps explain why, for example, you see a giant coalition of people who are pro-Hamas.
00:12:25.000 And one of the things that I asked Elon about was the fact that In the aftermath of October 7th, and Elon of course visited Israel after October 7th, he visited the areas in which mass slaughter of Jews, left-wing Jews by the way, took place in Israel by Hamas.
00:12:39.000 He still wears the necklace in honor of the people who were kidnapped by Hamas and who are still being held in captivity.
00:12:46.000 And you see people in the West marching on behalf of members of Hamas.
00:12:52.000 And so I asked him about that because obviously the only rationale for queers for Palestine, for example, LGBT people who are suggesting that they have solidarity with people who would literally murder them, first chance they got in the Gaza Strip, is this DEI theory that there's a system of power that must be torn to the ground.
00:13:09.000 And that crosses streams very strongly with anti-Semitism.
00:13:12.000 Because after all, if you're making the case that there is a group of people with disproportionate power along racial lines, ethnic lines, religious lines, and that they are therefore the oppressors and the exploiters, that crosses streams very quickly with anti-Semitism, which is why, by the way, a Harvard-Harris poll that we discussed last year found that 67% of those aged between 18 and 24 called Jews an oppressor class.
00:13:34.000 And ideology matters, folks, and it has deadly consequences.
00:13:37.000 We'll get to the actual discussion with Elon in just one second.
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00:14:45.000 here's what it sounded like.
00:14:47.000 The diversity, equity, inclusion ideology that basically suggests that all of society is a vast pyramid of group
00:14:53.000 identity, and that at the very top are the people who are successful,
00:14:56.000 and that those people are exploiting everybody else.
00:14:59.000 And we can tell who's successful by their group identity, not by their level of success, by their group identity.
00:15:03.000 That matches up incredibly.
00:15:04.000 It syncs up almost a Venn diagram with anti-Semitism.
00:15:07.000 Absolutely.
00:15:08.000 The diversity and equity and inclusion.
00:15:11.000 We should always be wary of any name that sounds like it could come out of a George Orwell book.
00:15:17.000 That's never a good sign.
00:15:21.000 Because it sounds like, sure, diversity, equity, inclusion.
00:15:23.000 These all sound like nice words.
00:15:25.000 But what it really means is discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and sexual orientation, and it's against merit.
00:15:37.000 and thus I think is fundamentally anti-Semitic.
00:15:42.000 So, yeah.
00:15:42.000 You know, the...
00:15:48.000 I think the whole, all of the sort of, all of the riots that were in the major cities
00:15:58.000 and college campuses, I think was a shocking wake-up call to, I think, any kind of political movement
00:16:07.000 and any sort of civilization or civil-minded person, really.
00:16:11.000 a reasonable minded person, really.
00:16:14.000 Now, obviously, I think Elon's take on DEI is exactly right.
00:16:17.000 And it is dangerous, because again, any theory that suggests that principle is really just a mask for guises of power, and that there is a coterie of elite people who are standing behind that system, when you're talking about a free market system, when you're talking about a free system, for example, or a free speech system, when you make that suggestion, what you're really suggesting is that anyone who is successful is a victimizer.
00:16:38.000 And as a victimizer, they therefore ought to pay some sort of price.
00:16:42.000 This is why you see All these streams crossing in the DEI left.
00:16:45.000 This is why you see Black Lives Matter protesting for quote-unquote Palestine.
00:16:49.000 This is why you see people who are socialists who are protesting on behalf of some of the least socially responsible people on planet Earth.
00:16:57.000 Now, Elon talked in those terms more broadly with regard to, for example, this sort of reversal of morality when it comes to weakness versus strength.
00:17:06.000 One of the things that we've been seeing in the modern world is this attempt to read strength as evil and weakness as virtue.
00:17:13.000 That is a despicable morality because it's not moral at all.
00:17:17.000 In fact, it's directly anti-biblical.
00:17:19.000 The Bible specifically says that if you're a judge, you are not allowed to favor either the poor or the rich.
00:17:23.000 Why does the Bible suggest that you're not allowed to favor the poor?
00:17:26.000 When the suggestion by the left is that you'll never favor the poor after all they're poor and powerless.
00:17:30.000 The answer is because virtue and wealth are not necessarily connected.
00:17:36.000 I know very virtuous people who are poor.
00:17:37.000 I know very virtuous people who are rich.
00:17:39.000 And I know many people who are not virtuous who are both poor and rich as well.
00:17:44.000 And that makes a difference when it comes to world politics and it makes a difference when it comes to the sorts of things that you stand... If you believe that the weak are inherently virtuous, then what that means is that the system itself has made them weak and the system must be torn down and the people who purport to uphold the system must be destroyed.
00:17:59.000 That's how all of this connects to visiting places like Auschwitz-Birkenau.
00:18:01.000 That conspiracy theory is very much alive and well.
00:18:04.000 Here is Elon talking about weakness versus strength and morality.
00:18:08.000 Well, I think we really need to stop this principle that the weaker Normally, weaker party is always right.
00:18:16.000 This is simply not true.
00:18:19.000 If you are, in quotes, oppressed or the weaker party, it doesn't mean you're right.
00:18:24.000 Because if some of those weaker groups want to annihilate you, that does not make them good.
00:18:33.000 We have to get rid of the rule that if you're weaker, you're automatically good.
00:18:38.000 That obviously makes no sense.
00:18:43.000 You know, it often makes sense where it's like, okay, you don't want to beat up on someone smaller and weaker than you.
00:18:51.000 But if that smaller group wants to kill you, they're bad.
00:18:58.000 Okay.
00:19:00.000 I mean, I'm a big believer in moral absolutism, not moral relativism.
00:19:04.000 There's good and bad in the absolute, and you judge any group or individual against Absolute moral standards, not whether they're the so-called oppressed or oppressor, just on absolute moral terms.
00:19:21.000 Are they doing good things?
00:19:23.000 Do they want to murder innocent people?
00:19:25.000 That's bad.
00:19:27.000 It doesn't matter who they are.
00:19:29.000 In just a second, I'm gonna get to Elon's perspective when it comes to free speech and acts, which of course has been used as a rationale by the media to attack Elon, among others.
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00:20:46.000 So then Elon and I discussed freedom of speech.
00:20:48.000 So one of the critiques of Elon and X is that when Elon bought X, he opened it up.
00:20:55.000 He broadened the so-called Overton window, the window of acceptable speech, and Elon The broadest possible speech that he believes is legal, right?
00:21:07.000 Which makes sense because Twitter was originally founded to be a sort of town square and then it became instead the preserve of a select group of self-appointed moral police officers who would not allow you to say true things.
00:21:19.000 And so I asked him, one of the critiques of that has been, well, aren't you going to allow more bad speech as well as good speech on X?
00:21:25.000 And that includes, theoretically, more anti-Semitic commentary.
00:21:29.000 On X. And so I asked Elon about this, and here's what he had to say.
00:21:33.000 How do you balance the necessity for free speech with all these critiques about, you know, what is hate speech?
00:21:39.000 What is anti-Semitism?
00:21:41.000 And how do you balance that?
00:21:43.000 Well, the general bias of the platform is in favor of free speech.
00:21:48.000 And I think at the end of the day, free speech wins in that if somebody says something that's false, Especially on our platform, you can then reply to it with a correction.
00:22:02.000 And then, I'm a huge fan of community notes.
00:22:05.000 We've put maximum resources and attention behind community notes.
00:22:10.000 So if somebody tries to push a falsehood, like Holocaust denial or something like that, they can immediately be corrected.
00:22:17.000 Again, it's Elon's perspective on free speech that has made him a persona non grata in many of the halls of power with regard to, for example, government and legacy media.
00:22:27.000 If you look back for three even years at Elon's public profile, Elon's public profile was very much beloved in the media.
00:22:34.000 And for insanely good reason.
00:22:36.000 This is a person who has not built one or two, but three of the biggest companies in world history.
00:22:42.000 He helped build PayPal.
00:22:44.000 He actually created a company called X.com that ended up merging with PayPal, which was at the time run by Peter Thiel.
00:22:50.000 So that was a huge company.
00:22:52.000 And then he founded, on the back of that, he invested his money into SpaceX and Tesla.
00:22:58.000 A rocket company with the goal of creating human colonization on Mars in order to broaden the scope of human survival and to make provision for the possibility of something bad happening on this planet, which is just an amazingly audacious concept, obviously.
00:23:13.000 And he actually has materialized that in the form of a profitable company that now carries 90% of global payload into space, which is just amazing and insane.
00:23:24.000 That's crazy.
00:23:25.000 Of course, that's genius level stuff.
00:23:28.000 And Elon, if you know anything about him, has been deeply involved in every aspect of the engineering process.
00:23:33.000 I mean, down to like what materials ought to be used in the rockets and all the rest.
00:23:37.000 So he builds that.
00:23:38.000 And then, He builds Tesla, right?
00:23:41.000 He works with somebody to start Tesla, and then he ends up taking it over and turning it into the most profitable car company in the history of man, actually, because it is largely based on the tech, not just based on the sales of the car, right?
00:23:53.000 The AI that's being generated in order to do things like self-driving is just insane.
00:23:56.000 It makes life better and easier for tons and tons of people.
00:23:59.000 And so the media loved him, right?
00:24:00.000 He's this entrepreneurial figure who had come out of Basically, nowhere.
00:24:05.000 And then he buys X. And by buying X, he threatens the structures.
00:24:09.000 He threatens the people who were the gatekeepers.
00:24:12.000 In a second, I'm going to bring you Elon's answers to questions about what was going on with the legacy media, why they've reversed course on him, and why he's now the villain in their little morality play.
00:24:20.000 In just one second.
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00:25:29.000 Hey, so I asked Elon yesterday, Legacy Media has spent an awful lot of ink on you.
00:25:41.000 There's been a lot of attempts to paint you as anti-semitic or paint X as anti-semitic.
00:25:47.000 Where do you think that's coming from?
00:25:49.000 Why does the Legacy Media seem to have you, particularly in the last year and a half, in the crosshairs so much?
00:25:56.000 Well, I mean, the reality is that X is competition for the Legacy Media.
00:26:05.000 X is where people go to get the most current news and learn about the world.
00:26:09.000 So the legacy media is our direct competitors.
00:26:14.000 So they're really going to find every angle to try to cancel X. I mean, if you want to know why things are happening, look at the incentives.
00:26:25.000 And legacy media has had a tough time with respect to usage.
00:26:31.000 The numbers I saw was that The sort of traditional print cable television viewership went down something like 20-30% last year.
00:26:41.000 On the other hand, X went up roughly the same, roughly 20-30%.
00:26:46.000 So it's a direct competition for people's attention.
00:26:50.000 Now flow of information matters and one thing that Elon I think is very clear on and was focused in I know specifically yesterday when we visited Auschwitz was how free flow of information when cut off actually leads to the Multiplication of evil.
00:27:07.000 That when you actually cut off the sources of information, you can make room for misinformation that both misleads the public, as far as the bad things that are happening in the world, and also allows truly powerful people to manipulate the narrative.
00:27:21.000 And that's incredibly dangerous.
00:27:22.000 I asked him about this in the context of what's going on right now in the Gaza Strip.
00:27:27.000 Because, as I say, Elon, I think in morally righteous fashion,
00:27:32.000 visited the villages that had been burned out by Hamas, where 1,200 people were killed,
00:27:37.000 240 people were taken prisoner, still almost 100 people being kept in captivity.
00:27:41.000 That is an ongoing war.
00:27:43.000 And I asked Elon about the fact that there is no informational flow
00:27:48.000 in places like the Gaza Strip, that in fact indoctrination and miseducation
00:27:52.000 of young people can lead to a significantly worse world.
00:27:55.000 Here's what he had to say about education in the Gaza Strip.
00:27:58.000 The education of kids in Gaza, the indoctrination of hate into kids in Gaza has to stop.
00:28:06.000 So it's, you know...
00:28:08.000 When I was in Israel, that was my top recommendation.
00:28:12.000 You've got to make sure... I understand the need to invade Gaza and unfortunately some innocent people will die.
00:28:22.000 There's no way around it.
00:28:24.000 But the most important thing is to ensure that afterwards, I'm still processing the day to be honest with you.
00:28:32.000 kids are taught from as soon as they can understand language that their goal is
00:28:38.000 to kill Israelis and if you're told that from when you're a toddler well you're
00:28:44.000 gonna believe it and that needs to stop. Overall it was just I'm still processing
00:28:50.000 the day to be honest with you it's it was heavy going in you know I again I've
00:28:55.000 never been to this particular part of the world I've spent years reading about it.
00:29:00.000 A lot of my extended family, like every Jew, a lot of my extended family lost their lives in this part of the world during the Holocaust.
00:29:06.000 We have letters to my grandmother, my dad's mom, from members of her family from Eastern Europe in the lead up to the Holocaust.
00:29:15.000 And, you know, she lost large segments of her extended family over here.
00:29:21.000 And so, even flying into the area is emotional and difficult.
00:29:25.000 Visiting Auschwitz, obviously, is emotional and difficult and terrifying and all the things.
00:29:31.000 I mean, it's all the things.
00:29:33.000 And then doing that with Elon Musk, again, in a modern era, looking at a world that sometimes can seem unbelievably dark.
00:29:43.000 I think it was an inspirational thing for Elon to go to Auschwitz.
00:29:47.000 I think that the conversation that we had was important.
00:29:50.000 I think, again, that When we talk about the true dangers to the world, particularly in the West right now, the ideological dangers to the West are greater than they have been at any time in my lifetime.
00:30:00.000 I'm relatively young.
00:30:01.000 I just turned 40.
00:30:02.000 And in my lifetime, I've been privileged to live in the freest society in world history.
00:30:07.000 America is an unbelievable place.
00:30:09.000 It's an unbelievable Tolerant, open place where people have the freedom to succeed, where meritocracy is the rule of the day.
00:30:19.000 And as that is quashed, and as people oppose that, as people try to craft weird and bizarre left and right conspiracy theories about the inability of people to get ahead, to blame the people who are successful in the free market, not by manipulating the levers of government.
00:30:36.000 Successful in the free market, to blame the free market itself, to blame the meritocracy, to suggest that there are exploitative groups that are a threat to the population.
00:30:45.000 That's something that I haven't experienced in my lifetime.
00:30:47.000 And so coming here, being reminded of the wages of evil ideologies, and coming here, again, with Elon, I think, good for Elon.
00:30:55.000 And it was an honor to be asked to come and do this event.
00:31:00.000 Okay, in just one second, I'm gonna get to the New Hampshire primaries.
00:31:03.000 Those, of course, are happening today.
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00:32:22.000 Meanwhile, today marks the New Hampshire primary and this is basically Nikki Haley's last shot.
00:32:26.000 Nikki Haley has to win this outright.
00:32:27.000 If Nikki Haley finishes second to Donald Trump in New Hampshire, then the race is over for her because they're going to head down to South Carolina and she's probably going to lose her home state to Trump.
00:32:36.000 By all available polling data, Trump is well ahead of her in South Carolina.
00:32:41.000 But he also happens to be ahead of her in New Hampshire.
00:32:45.000 There are some polls, usually badly rated polls, that have Nikki Haley competitive in New Hampshire.
00:32:52.000 The latest polls that I've seen, the ones that RealClearPolitics takes seriously enough to put in their average, all those have Trump up pretty well ahead of Nikki Haley.
00:33:00.000 The latest Trafalgar poll has Trump up 58-36 over Nikki Haley.
00:33:04.000 The Boston Globe-Suffolk poll has him up 57-38 over Nikki Haley.
00:33:07.000 Insider Advantage has him at 62-35 over Nikki Haley.
00:33:11.000 And again, Let's just be clear about this.
00:33:13.000 The Republican Party wants Trump.
00:33:14.000 I mean, it's just that simple.
00:33:16.000 Now, I may wish that things had gone differently.
00:33:18.000 I supported Ron DeSantis as a voter.
00:33:21.000 If I'd had a vote in the primaries, I would have voted for Governor DeSantis.
00:33:24.000 As I said, he is the best governor in America.
00:33:27.000 I moved to Florida, at least in part, because Ron DeSantis had kept the state open.
00:33:32.000 Because Ron DeSantis helped make Florida awesome.
00:33:34.000 And so, having that level of governance extended to the federal government, I think would have been great.
00:33:38.000 I think he would have been the best president of anybody in the PAC.
00:33:41.000 Republican voters did not agree and do not agree by polling data.
00:33:44.000 Republican voters want season nine of the Trump show.
00:33:46.000 They want to see Trump run again.
00:33:49.000 They want to see Trump beat Joe Biden.
00:33:50.000 They're looking at the polling data and what they are currently seeing is that Donald Trump is actually leading Joe Biden in a statistically significant way.
00:33:57.000 The latest Harvard-Harris poll has Donald Trump up 53-47 over Joe Biden, which is mostly fascinating because it means that Trump is actually breaking 50% in more than one poll at this point.
00:34:08.000 And by the way, in their general sort of Republican primary polls, and those ones are the ones that are being released after DeSantis dropped out of the race.
00:34:14.000 We'll get to that in a second.
00:34:16.000 Those polls had Trump up in the Republican national primary by 60 plus points over DeSantis in second and Haley in third.
00:34:24.000 The national polling numbers for Trump continue to be durable.
00:34:27.000 That is the reason why Trump is the nominee.
00:34:28.000 If Donald Trump were trailing Joe Biden by 10 points in all the polls, and if Ron DeSantis were beating Joe Biden by 3 points in all the polls, I think this race looks totally different.
00:34:36.000 But basically, since March, the Republican base has been brought into line on Trump because of the unjust cases that are being brought against him in a wide variety of jurisdictions.
00:34:45.000 It feels like legal espionage against the Trump campaign.
00:34:49.000 And Republicans get that.
00:34:50.000 And the way that they are fighting back against that is by saying, let's give him the nomination.
00:34:54.000 I get that, and you can see that in the polling data.
00:34:56.000 Beyond that, the fact that Trump has been durable against Biden takes away the chief baton that fellow Republicans could use against him.
00:35:03.000 For a brief moment in time, November 2022, it seemed as though the Republican Party was finally declaring that Donald Trump was likely to make them lose, that he had lost in 2020, he had lost in 2021 in Georgia Senate races, 2022 went really poorly, and so 2024, why do this thing again?
00:35:19.000 And then, as Joe Biden began to sink slowly into the mire, It became clear to Republicans that actually Trump could win.
00:35:27.000 And if Trump can win, there's no reason to nominate somebody else.
00:35:29.000 Not only that, a wide swath of Republicans believe that, for good reasons and ill, that the 2020 election Was not, was not correctly decided that in fact Trump won or should have won or that the rules were changed in order to make Joe Biden win, which actually is somewhat true.
00:35:47.000 Some people believe what I think is not true proposition that it was just pure electoral fraud.
00:35:50.000 Whatever it is, Republicans are basically treating Donald Trump as an incumbent in this race.
00:35:54.000 And because he's an incumbent in this race, he's getting incumbent type numbers in this race.
00:35:59.000 Well, that was made clear by the fact that Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race over the weekend.
00:36:05.000 Here's Governor DeSantis dropping out.
00:36:06.000 By the way, this is the right move.
00:36:07.000 He did not have a path forward.
00:36:08.000 He did not have a path in New Hampshire.
00:36:09.000 He did not have a path in South Carolina.
00:36:11.000 Getting out now makes sense.
00:36:12.000 Now, he's getting a lot of flack, which we'll get to in a second, for his campaign in the first place.
00:36:17.000 I think a lot of that flack is entirely misguided.
00:36:20.000 Meaning that the theory of the campaign, which is that Republicans had basically gotten tired of all the antics from Trump and were ready to move to the next thing, that wasn't false in January, February.
00:36:30.000 It became false as Democrats targeted Trump for destruction and Republicans rallied around Trump.
00:36:36.000 And so the fact that he ran against Trump, I don't think that there's anything wrong with running against Donald Trump in the primaries.
00:36:42.000 And all the kind of Trump fans were angry at other people for running against Trump.
00:36:45.000 Why?
00:36:46.000 Why?
00:36:48.000 Especially because, again, it was a referendum.
00:36:50.000 Trump won the referendum.
00:36:51.000 That's the end of the story.
00:36:53.000 But the fact that DeSantis would have made, I think, a better president, a more effective president, than Trump was in his first term or would be in his second term... Again, you can reject that.
00:37:02.000 That's fine.
00:37:02.000 But that doesn't mean that DeSantis did anything wrong by running.
00:37:05.000 I also... There are mistakes that DeSantis' campaign made, for sure.
00:37:09.000 You can say that about literally every non-victorious campaign.
00:37:14.000 But were those mistakes the telling factor, or was it just that by polling data, 70% of Republicans really love Trump?
00:37:20.000 Period.
00:37:21.000 End of story.
00:37:21.000 In any case, here was DeSantis dropping out.
00:37:23.000 In doing so, he endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency over Nikki Haley, who has sort of become the— because she's the only non-Trump candidate left in the race, she has become sort of the quote-unquote candidate of the establishment, which, again, is a little strange only in the sense that Nikki Haley was Donald Trump's U.N.
00:37:39.000 ambassador.
00:37:39.000 It's not like she's some sort of stranger to Trumpism.
00:37:43.000 She may be more in line with, I would say, Bush-era conservatism.
00:37:49.000 She's softer in affect.
00:37:51.000 So much of Republican politics, by the way, is affect.
00:37:54.000 Nikki Haley is actually to Donald Trump's right when it comes to economic matters, right?
00:37:57.000 She tends to be a little bit more free trade.
00:37:59.000 She tends to be more interested in reforming entitlements, for example.
00:38:04.000 She's to his left, maybe on social issues, although unclear, because Donald Trump himself has not made himself clear on social issues when it comes to, say, abortion or same-sex marriage.
00:38:14.000 She just is more squishy in affect.
00:38:15.000 Because she's more squishy in affect, that means that she's been tagged with the establishment label.
00:38:19.000 But DeSantis, I think, endorses Trump for good reason here, and that is Trump is going to be the nominee.
00:38:25.000 So why would you endorse the candidate who's not going to be the nominee in the face of that?
00:38:29.000 Here is Governor DeSantis.
00:38:31.000 Now following our second place finish in Iowa, we've prayed and deliberated on the way forward.
00:38:36.000 If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, I would do it.
00:38:43.000 But I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don't have a clear path to victory.
00:38:50.000 Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign.
00:38:54.000 I'm proud to have delivered on 100% of my promises, and I will not stop now.
00:38:59.000 It's clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance.
00:39:04.000 They watch his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfare this day to attack him.
00:39:11.000 While I've had disagreements with Donald Trump, such as on the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation of Anthony Fauci, Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden.
00:39:21.000 That is clear.
00:39:23.000 I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee and I will honor that pledge.
00:39:28.000 This is my endorsement because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear.
00:39:33.000 Now, again, the sort of old Republican guard talk is something, I don't know who this old Republican guard is per se, like some names would be useful whenever people talk about the old Republican guard versus the new Republican guard.
00:39:45.000 I'm just, I mean, Donald Trump was the president, so he is the current Republican guard.
00:39:48.000 I mean, period.
00:39:49.000 It's not as though Donald Trump is the wave of the future.
00:39:51.000 Donald Trump is the president and also the past a little bit because he was the president just a few years ago.
00:39:57.000 And that was like 2016.
00:39:59.000 Before we begin, I'd like to take time to congratulate Ron DeSantis and, of course, a really terrific person who I've gotten to know, his wife, Casey, for having run a great campaign for president.
00:40:07.000 Before we begin, I'd like to take time to congratulate Ron DeSantis and, of course,
00:40:15.000 a really terrific person who I've gotten to know, his wife Casey, for having run a great
00:40:21.000 campaign for president.
00:40:23.000 He did.
00:40:24.000 He ran a really good campaign, I will tell you.
00:40:26.000 It's not easy.
00:40:27.000 They think it's easy doing this stuff, right?
00:40:29.000 It's not easy.
00:40:31.000 But as you know, he left the campaign trail today at 3 p.m., and in so doing, he was very gracious and he endorsed me, so I appreciate it.
00:40:40.000 Again, it is amazing how Trump, again, what Trump thinks in the moment is what Trump thinks in the moment, but he switches from Casey DeSantis is terrible and Ron DeSantis is terrible, everybody's terrible, Ron DeSanctimonious and all that too.
00:40:51.000 He ran a great campaign and like this fast, but that's what Trump has to do.
00:40:54.000 So Trump does need to consolidate the party behind him.
00:40:57.000 I think the party is consolidating behind him.
00:40:58.000 I think that's what's likely to happen in the New Hampshire primary today.
00:41:02.000 Again, the polling shows that he is well out ahead.
00:41:05.000 And if he were not to be the nominee, that would be an act of God, frankly, at this point.
00:41:09.000 There would have to be an act of God for him not to be the nominee.
00:41:12.000 So the Republican Party is going to consolidate, as they should, behind Donald Trump to be the person against Joe Biden.
00:41:16.000 We're going to run this thing back and we're going to do it all over again.
00:41:20.000 Now, there's one thing that's worth noting here in the media coverage of DeSantis dropping out.
00:41:23.000 There's a lot of scornful media coverage that's being dropped on DeSantis today.
00:41:27.000 For example, Ayman Maheldin, just a terrible commentator, over on MSNBC, but I repeat myself because again MSNBC is
00:41:33.000 filled with terrible commentators.
00:41:34.000 It's like a giant bread basket filled with terrible commentators.
00:41:37.000 Here's Ayman Maheldin ripping on Ron DeSantis and his campaign.
00:41:40.000 Florida governor Ron DeSantis, the man once heralded as the future of the Republican Party,
00:41:46.000 the so-called heir apparent to the MAGA movement, bowing out of the race for president.
00:41:53.000 He suspended his campaign a short time ago, bringing an end to one of the most embarrassing and disastrous GOP primary showings in modern American political history.
00:42:04.000 The move comes just two days I mean, they couldn't be happier.
00:42:17.000 So on the one hand, I think this is a cautionary note for Republicans.
00:42:19.000 We'll see in a second.
00:42:20.000 Democrats are prepared to roll out their anti-Trump strategy.
00:42:23.000 It's been their entire strategy for the past several years.
00:42:25.000 Get Trump to be the nominee again, then run against Trump.
00:42:27.000 And again, be careful what you wish for.
00:42:29.000 Politics is the monkey's paw.
00:42:30.000 What you wish for very often ends up being the curse against you.
00:42:34.000 The amount of scorn they're pouring on DeSantis is demonstrative of the fact that they actually don't believe all the crap that they say about Trump.
00:42:40.000 When they say that Trump is the most threatening political figure in American history, when they say that he's a Hitlerian, Mussolini-esque figure, when they say this sort of stuff, they don't believe that thing.
00:42:49.000 If they believed that thing, then presumably, they would have been a lot more supportive of the chief rivals to Donald Trump.
00:42:56.000 But they weren't.
00:42:57.000 They're more than happy to watch those people go down in flames for fun, profit, and political motivation.
00:43:03.000 Because to them, all Republicans are the same.
00:43:05.000 And this is the thing that's so funny about Trump.
00:43:08.000 With all of the talk about how Donald Trump is out of the box and crazy and does wild stuff, and he does.
00:43:12.000 He does wild, crazy stuff, particularly on Twitter.
00:43:15.000 When he does those things, he is treated in the polling like generic R. He is treated like generic Republican, which is why his polling is non-differentiatable from DeSantis.
00:43:26.000 In terms of, like, against Joe Biden, he runs kind of the same as DeSantis.
00:43:30.000 Haley runs a little bit ahead.
00:43:32.000 Because I think the American public isn't as familiar with Haley.
00:43:34.000 And again, she has that softer affect than Trump or DeSantis.
00:43:37.000 But if you look at Donald Trump's poll numbers in, for example, 2016, when he ran against Hillary, they look almost exactly the same as Mitt Romney's poll numbers in 2012.
00:43:46.000 When you look at his poll numbers in 2020, he performs like generic Republican, maybe a little better in the rural areas.
00:43:52.000 And that is because the left treats him as generic Republican.
00:43:54.000 Or, to put it another way, whoever the Republican nominee was, he was going to be treated, or she, as the ultimate form of the destroyer, as the evil destroyer, because that's every election cycle with regards to the legacy media and with the Democrats.
00:44:07.000 Okay, so, speaking of the strategy that is going to be rolled out here, By the Democrats.
00:44:14.000 One of the things they're going to try to do is jujitsu a lot of critiques of Joe Biden into critiques of Donald Trump.
00:44:19.000 So the number one obvious critique of there really two critiques of Joe Biden.
00:44:22.000 One is that he's barely alive and the other is that he's a bad president.
00:44:26.000 It's very hard to argue with he's a bad president because he really is a very bad president.
00:44:30.000 He has been terrible domestically.
00:44:32.000 He has been pretty awful in terms of foreign policy and worse in terms of foreign policy than he has domestically.
00:44:38.000 And so what the Democrats are going to focus on is try to defang the other prong of the attack, right?
00:44:44.000 The senile and bad at the job.
00:44:46.000 They can't really argue bad at the job.
00:44:48.000 Because he's not good at the job.
00:44:49.000 They can argue senile.
00:44:51.000 So you say to yourself, wait, how can they argue that?
00:44:52.000 Joe Biden is clearly non compos mentis.
00:44:55.000 He's not functional anymore.
00:44:57.000 He just isn't.
00:44:57.000 I mean, you watch him in public.
00:44:59.000 It's sad.
00:44:59.000 As an American, I would like for our president to at least be able to speak full sentences without running the risk of having a full-on physical collapse.
00:45:07.000 So Democrats have their response.
00:45:10.000 Their response is, yeah, Trump is too.
00:45:12.000 That's going to be the response.
00:45:13.000 The response is that Trump is also somebody who is non-composementous.
00:45:17.000 So they're basing this, this week, on an event that Trump was doing.
00:45:23.000 And Trump, at least, is doing events.
00:45:24.000 I mean, Joe Biden's schedule looks like this.
00:45:25.000 Wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning, meeting at 10, security briefing at 10, noon, One, pre-planned event.
00:45:33.000 Two, lid for the day.
00:45:35.000 That's what a day looks like for Joe Biden.
00:45:38.000 And then presumably it's back to the old age home for a little bit of water aerobics and then some Matlock before they put him to sleep.
00:45:45.000 Trump's doing events.
00:45:46.000 But the other day Trump was doing a speech and he mixed up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi for whatever reason.
00:45:52.000 Here's what it sounded like.
00:45:54.000 By the way, they never report the crowd on January 6th.
00:45:57.000 You know, Nikki Haley... Nikki Haley... Nikki Haley... You know they... Do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything?
00:46:05.000 Deleted and destroyed all of it.
00:46:07.000 All of it.
00:46:08.000 Because of lots of things.
00:46:10.000 Like, Nikki Haley is in charge of security.
00:46:13.000 We offered her 10,000 people.
00:46:15.000 Okay, so this is what we call a brain fart.
00:46:17.000 It doesn't mean he's insane.
00:46:18.000 It doesn't mean he doesn't know the difference between Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley.
00:46:23.000 That's a brain fart.
00:46:24.000 And it happens all the time.
00:46:26.000 I mean, again, like, you want to say that Donald Trump is in a state of decline, you'd have to show me a market difference between Donald Trump 2016 and Donald Trump 2024.
00:46:33.000 I don't actually see a giant market difference.
00:46:36.000 If I played you back-to-back tape of Trump 2016 and Trump 2024, they look very similar.
00:46:41.000 If I played you back-to-back tape of Joe Biden 2016 and Joe Biden 2024, they are radically different.
00:46:46.000 As much as I am not a Joe Biden fan, Joe Biden at least used to be a person who was fluent with human verbiage.
00:46:53.000 He did not look as frail and as tenuous as he does right now.
00:46:57.000 That's just a brain fart.
00:46:58.000 But the media decide that this is evidence that he's just as off his rocker and losing it, just as in a state of decline as Joe Biden is.
00:47:05.000 Here is John Carl trying to make that case.
00:47:08.000 That moment, which by the way, the Biden campaign has already cut into an ad, is really something.
00:47:14.000 Donald Trump is truly confused about who Nikki Haley is.
00:47:19.000 Thinks somehow that she was in charge of security at the Capitol on January 6th, clearly confusing her with Nancy Pelosi.
00:47:26.000 But we've seen him confuse Joe Biden with Barack Obama.
00:47:30.000 He thinks that he beat Obama.
00:47:31.000 We saw at one point he talked about how Biden was going to get us into World War II.
00:47:36.000 So there has been You know, there have been moments and there have been several moments on the campaign trail where he has seemed quite frankly out of it.
00:47:46.000 Again, this attempt now to reverse polarity with regard to who's CNN and who's not, I don't think that's going to play, but this is what they have to do.
00:47:53.000 They're going to have to attack Trump on that and presumably they're going to attack him on the criminal front.
00:47:57.000 Now, again, I think that's baked into the cake.
00:47:58.000 So CNN's Manu Raju He spends his day very often tracking down Republicans to comment on other Republicans.
00:48:05.000 It's a game that doesn't seem to be replicated with Democrats very often.
00:48:07.000 So when Ilhan Omar says something deeply anti-Semitic, you don't see Manu Raju or members of the media tracking down every Democrat senator and asking for their opinion.
00:48:17.000 When Joe Biden does something truly awe-inspiringly stupid, you don't see a rush to Capitol Hill to get comment from every Democratic senator.
00:48:28.000 Manaraju decided to go ask a bunch of Republican senators if they would still vote for Trump if he were convicted criminally.
00:48:35.000 And there are sort of various answers to this.
00:48:37.000 The most obvious answer is, well, yes, he's the Republican nominee against Joe Biden.
00:48:43.000 A criminal conviction would not change the underlying opinion as to what he did or did not do.
00:48:49.000 I can think all the things I think about Donald Trump and his shortcomings in terms of character and still recognize, for example, that the Fannie Willis case is crap, that it doesn't make any sense, that the Jack Smith January 6th case is a legal stretch beyond nearly all imagination.
00:49:03.000 But in any case, this is, you know, this is the campaign.
00:49:06.000 The campaign is going to be for the Democrats about how Trump is really kind of losing it and also is a criminal.
00:49:11.000 I mean, good luck with this pitch.
00:49:12.000 I don't think it's going to work all that well.
00:49:14.000 If he could be convicted before November, would you still support him then?
00:49:19.000 Well, is his opponent still Joe Biden?
00:49:21.000 Yes, I would absolutely support him before that.
00:49:24.000 Even if he's convicted?
00:49:25.000 I mean, if it's a convicted felon, you'd support.
00:49:27.000 Listen, though, on totally trumped-up charges... I will support the nominee, yes.
00:49:32.000 Including President Trump.
00:49:34.000 What if he gets convicted?
00:49:35.000 Would you still support him?
00:49:36.000 We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
00:49:38.000 Facts matter.
00:49:39.000 I mean, I think you need to look at, what are the charges?
00:49:42.000 If he's convicted, what was he convicted of?
00:49:45.000 I think these things matter.
00:49:47.000 Okay, now all of those are the right answer, but Democrats seem to believe that if they can grab a criminal conviction, I mean, that's going to be their deus ex machina, is if there is a hand of God coming down into the story, it's going to be Trump being criminally convicted.
00:49:59.000 First of all, I'm not sure the timeline allows for that.
00:50:02.000 It's not clear that any of these cases are going to come to a conclusion before the actual election takes place.
00:50:09.000 The only real possibility is the Jack Smith case.
00:50:12.000 Jack Smith is trying to accelerate that.
00:50:13.000 Trump is trying to slow that down post the election.
00:50:15.000 It looks like those Georgia charges are going to last too long for them to materialize before the election.
00:50:21.000 It looks like the Florida case is going to be delayed beyond the election.
00:50:23.000 So really the only shot they have is that Jack Smith case.
00:50:25.000 And that one is really legally tenuous.
00:50:28.000 Not only is it legally tenuous, it does raise the January 6th questions all over again, which I think is what Democrats want.
00:50:33.000 They'd love to discuss January 6th endlessly.
00:50:36.000 But, I mean, let's be real about this.
00:50:38.000 There are still some unanswered questions about January 6th.
00:50:41.000 So, for example, there is now tape outside the DNC that is at least somewhat strange.
00:50:50.000 I mean, it raises questions.
00:50:52.000 Let's put it that way.
00:50:54.000 One of the big things that happened on January 6th, apparently, is that there were a couple of pipe bombs that were put outside the DNC and the RNC.
00:51:01.000 And we haven't heard a lot about that since January 6th.
00:51:04.000 Not quite as spectacular on video as those giant scenes of riots outside the Capitol building or people breaking windows or whatever.
00:51:10.000 But more dangerous, by the way.
00:51:11.000 Like, pipe bombs are meant to kill people.
00:51:14.000 And the story on the pipe bombs seems to be getting weirder and weirder.
00:51:18.000 Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky, he's accusing the government of a cover-up He says, if there were indeed two operable pipe bombs, that would be the biggest threat that existed on January 6th.
00:51:27.000 That doesn't make any sense.
00:51:28.000 Why they wouldn't be promoting that threat to advance the narrative, unless they had something to do with the pipe bombs and they're trying to memory hole the whole thing to avoid embarrassment.
00:51:35.000 So apparently there's video that's been identified by Massey, showing officers reacting nonchalantly after being notified of the pipe bomb, milling slowly around the area, even letting kids walk in the area.
00:51:45.000 Vice President Kamala Harris was in the building at the time.
00:51:49.000 The DOJ didn't really let that be known at the time.
00:51:54.000 Massey says, you'd think they'd be focused on these pipe bombs, but they are not.
00:51:59.000 And I mean, they really aren't.
00:52:00.000 I mean, the last time you heard about the pipe bombs is from Massey.
00:52:02.000 You're not hearing about it from Democrats, like, at all.
00:52:05.000 Not only that, the bomb planter apparently is using a cell phone, but data from a cell phone company was deemed corrupted.
00:52:11.000 The FBI wasn't able to find any records for the suspect.
00:52:14.000 I mean, they've locked down, like, who every person was who was in the Capitol building.
00:52:17.000 They're arresting them and putting them in jail for years on end.
00:52:20.000 But, like, you plant a pipe bomb outside the DNC or RNC, that's, like, actual deadly threat of violence.
00:52:26.000 And we still can't find who exactly did that?
00:52:29.000 Like, that's weird.
00:52:31.000 Again, those sorts of questions are going to be asked during this campaign because this will be at the center of the campaign yet again.
00:52:39.000 Now, is that good for Trump?
00:52:41.000 I don't think it's an amazing thing if this campaign is held over January 6th.
00:52:44.000 I think that that probably damages Trump politically.
00:52:46.000 Does it damage him enough to overcome the fact that Joe Biden is bad at the president thing?
00:52:50.000 I have serious, serious doubts.
00:52:52.000 Alrighty, in just one second.
00:52:54.000 We're going to jump into a Supreme Court ruling on the border.
00:52:58.000 Pretty wild ruling by the Supreme Court.
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