The Ben Shapiro Show - Barbie Is Garbage, But You’re Not Allowed To Say So

00:00:00.000 Okay, so as apparently everyone on earth knows, I went to see the Barbie movie on Friday at the behest of my evil and cruel producers who dragged me there so that we could, you know, do a review of it that apparently has millions of views.

00:00:12.000 The tweet in which we announced that I had actually seen the Barbie movie has something like 60 million views at this point and the outrage in the media is astonishing.

00:00:20.000 Because I did like a 43 minute review of the film in which I went through it point by point and talked about how terrible the film is.

00:00:25.000 And it is truly awful.

00:00:27.000 If you want to know how bad it is, just listen to the Sunday episode of this show that we released this week in which I go through pretty much all the aspects of the movie that are particularly bad.

00:00:35.000 And a lot of the reviewers knew that it was bad going in.

00:00:37.000 You could see it in the reviews.

00:00:39.000 They were doing what I like to call peeling.

00:00:40.000 Peeling is where you see a movie by Jordan Peele, usually, and you pretend that it's good because you like the politics of the films.

00:00:46.000 You pretend that Get Out is not just a good movie, it is the greatest movie ever made.

00:00:49.000 You pretend that Us is an actual good movie when it's actually quite a bad movie.

00:00:53.000 You pretend that you care deeply about Nope because Jordan Peele made it.

00:00:57.000 Because it doesn't matter if the movie's good or if it's bad.

00:00:59.000 So you could call it Gerwig-ing too, right?

00:01:01.000 This is where Greta Gerwig makes a film and everybody's like, eh, or it's not very good.

00:01:05.000 But she made it and it has the right politics.

00:01:07.000 Therefore, it is wonderful.

00:01:09.000 So I do this review.

00:01:11.000 I put out this tweet and everybody loses their mind.

00:01:14.000 I mean, loses their mind.

00:01:15.000 There are articles about my review of this movie in sources as diverse as Newsweek, NBC News, The Daily Beast.

00:01:22.000 Everyone's covering the fact that I did not like this movie and that I made a video in which I parodically Oppenheimer the Barbie materials.

00:01:29.000 I take like a match and I light the Barbie stuff on fire. 0.60

00:01:32.000 And this apparently is terrible.

00:01:33.000 How?

00:01:34.000 No, no, it can't be.

00:01:35.000 The reaction to me burning A Barbie car with like a Barbie and Ken in it is like the reaction of the Islamic world when someone burns a Quran in Sweden. 0.97

00:01:45.000 It's totally crazy.

00:01:46.000 I don't even like.

00:01:47.000 Wow, guys.

00:01:48.000 Wow.

00:01:49.000 I mean, there's an article in NBC, NBC News dot com.

00:01:52.000 The Internet is roasting Ben Shapiro for hate watching Barbie while dressed like Ken.

00:01:56.000 Apparently being dressed like Ken now amounts to you wear black jeans and a black shirt.

00:02:00.000 And the question was whether I had purposefully worn that outfit to the Barbie movie.

00:02:05.000 No, I hadn't seen it, guys.

00:02:07.000 That's just what people tend to wear a lot is like a, you know, like a black t-shirt and black.

00:02:11.000 I didn't realize this was like a rare and unique bird.

00:02:15.000 It was like, it was like a, it's like some sort of rare pheasant in the wild to wear a black pair of jeans and a black shirt when I go out.

00:02:24.000 In any case, NBC News says polarizing conservative commentator Ben Shapiro hated Barbie so much he aired his complaints in a 43 minute video review, which included an edit of himself setting fire to Barbie dolls in protest.

00:02:35.000 But the Internet has been flaming Shapiro instead.

00:02:37.000 My favorite thing is when they declare the Internet.

00:02:39.000 It's like when they say history has judged the Internet, the entire Internet, guys.

00:02:43.000 Did you know that?

00:02:44.000 I mean, sure, like 98 percent of the Internet is people watching porn right now, but the entire Internet is very, very upset.

00:02:51.000 They're super, super duper upset.

00:02:54.000 Oh, no, it's so terrible.

00:02:56.000 Many online poked fun at the intensity of his apparent rage, highlighting he went so far as to buy movie tickets and obtain Barbie dolls to burn before he recorded himself protesting it for more than a third of Barbie's runtime.

00:03:06.000 So this is one of my favorite critiques, is where they're like, oh my God, you spent money on the tickets to go see a movie that you reviewed?

00:03:13.000 Yeah, now let me explain to you how the market works.

00:03:17.000 Do you know how much money we made off of the YouTube video that has now been viewed in excess of 1.2 million times reviewing that movie?

00:03:25.000 I promise you, it's way more than we spent to go buy those Barbies and some matches and a barbecue.

00:03:30.000 I promise you.

00:03:35.000 And then people were tweeting like, Ben Shapiro is 40 years old.

00:03:38.000 Right.

00:03:40.000 I'm a 39.

00:03:41.000 I'm a 39 year old dude with a very, very popular show who reviewed a cultural phenomenon that is Barbie.

00:03:48.000 And unlike all of these single women with wine and cats who went and loved this movie, I have four children. 0.98

00:03:53.000 So yeah, I have a very full and productive life and I took time out of my busy schedule to watch this two-hour bleep show.

00:03:59.000 And it was bad.

00:04:00.000 So I was upset that I'd spent two hours watching a very bad movie that has been told, we've been told, is like the greatest movie of all time.

00:04:05.000 The Daily Beast did this too.

00:04:06.000 The Daily Beast has an entire article.

00:04:08.000 Ben Shapiro roasted, roasted!

00:04:10.000 The real question I have here, and this is a serious question and actually has some fairly serious ramifications, is why the outrage over me not liking the film?

00:04:18.000 I'm just confused.

00:04:19.000 So I understand that everybody on the left has this face tattoo syndrome nonsense, where you put something out that is wildly culturally controversial, like Barbie.

00:04:26.000 As I said in the review, Barbie is a movie that was marketed to children.

00:04:30.000 It is a movie that, though it is PG-13, was clearly marketed at moms and their 8-year-old girls, because who plays with Barbie's 8-year-old girls?

00:04:37.000 I know, because I have a 9-year-old girl.

00:04:39.000 And so, it was clearly marketed at that group.

00:04:41.000 And then it was a bait-and-switch, because the entire movie is a feminist diatribe about the evils of the modern patriarchy. 1.00

00:04:48.000 And so they do this, they mainstream, they mainline in a bunch of left-wing social gobbledygook into a movie that is supposed to be sort of a fun romp through Barbieville.

00:04:58.000 And then when you notice, they get very upset.

00:05:00.000 That's the face tattoo syndrome that I've talked about a thousand times on the show, right?

00:05:03.000 When you go into Starbucks, there's some weirdo with a face tattoo and you look at them, they're like, what are you looking at?

00:05:06.000 You're like, your face tattoo, the thing on your face that you put there so that I would notice it and comment, that thing.

00:05:12.000 But if you comment in the wrong, but what they really want is approval.

00:05:14.000 If you comment in the wrong way about Greta Gerwig, Who, again, they're giving the Jordan Peele treatment, or the Taylor Swift treatment, or the Beyonce treatment.

00:05:21.000 Like, there are certain cultural figures, cultural idols, where if you criticize them, you have violated the sacred honor of the Vestal Virgins.

00:05:28.000 You must not criticize.

00:05:31.000 If you criticize, then you will be roasted on a spit upon the internet.

00:05:35.000 Ooh! 0.96

00:05:37.000 I want to explain why this is.

00:05:39.000 Is there something, I think, deep going on here?

00:05:41.000 Because there are certain things where if I criticize them, if I make fun of them, if I talk about them on the show, then no one cares.

00:05:47.000 But there are certain things where if I do make fun of them on the show, then everyone cares and the entire internet goes berserk.

00:05:52.000 And if I make fun of Cardi B on the show for like 15 minutes, the entire internet goes aflame with memes about me making fun of Cardi B.

00:06:00.000 But if I, like, have a spat with Nicki Minaj, nobody cares.

00:06:02.000 Like, there are certain figures who are just, like, beyond.

00:06:05.000 They're in the pantheon, and if you criticize them, you have violated the sacredness of the space.

00:06:13.000 So what is this sacred space we're talking about?

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00:07:19.000 Okay, so.

00:07:21.000 What exactly is happening here?

00:07:22.000 Okay, to understand, you have to understand that Greta Gerwig is now representative of an actual religious worldview.

00:07:29.000 When I made the kind of quirky comparison between the reaction to me burning the Barbie dolls in this review and flaming the movie, and the reaction to fundamentalist Muslims over the burning of the Quran, It's not all that frivolous comparison. 0.63

00:07:43.000 There is an actual religious worldview that cannot be attacked.

00:07:47.000 And if you attack that religious worldview, if you say that religious worldview is bad and wrong, then this means that you are a heretic and you must be punished. 0.72

00:07:54.000 There's a really serious undertone to a lot of this stuff.

00:07:55.000 I mean, I actually got some death threats over the Barbie movie.

00:07:58.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:07:58.000 There were people on Twitter who were literally tweeting out about, like, can we do something about this Shapiro?

00:08:03.000 Like, over a Barbie movie.

00:08:06.000 And you have to wonder why.

00:08:08.000 Well, the answer is because there's an ideology.

00:08:10.000 It is the ideology of the sexual revolution that has been promulgated by the social left in this country.

00:08:15.000 And it lies at the center of everything they think, everything they feel.

00:08:18.000 And if you question it, then you must atone.

00:08:20.000 You must.

00:08:21.000 You must be brought to heel.

00:08:22.000 Spanish Inquisition style.

00:08:25.000 It really is fascinating.

00:08:26.000 That ideology places at the center of human life the sense of self-identity

00:08:32.000 that cannot be abridged by anyone else.

00:08:35.000 If you say, for example, that women should have children, 0.93

00:08:39.000 that they should get married, that men should get married,

00:08:42.000 that men should have children. 0.88

00:08:43.000 If you say that the height of human aspiration is not in fact sexual pleasure

00:08:48.000 or quote unquote individualistic pursuit of subjective success,

00:08:52.000 That actually there are things you should do in this life that are higher and better.

00:08:55.000 If you do that, that is a violation of the agreement that we all have, which is to place at the center of our being a narcissistic view of self.

00:09:05.000 How do I know this?

00:09:05.000 Because Greta Gerwig says so.

00:09:07.000 And this is the reason that Greta Gerwig is now a religious figure for the left.

00:09:09.000 I mean, truly, not like they worship at an altar, not like they actually bring her sacrifices or something like that.

00:09:14.000 But in the sense that if you violate the idolatry of Greta Gerwig, if you say that Greta Gerwig is an overrated director and an overrated writer, and that her ideology is false and does not ring true, and that it's not even cohesive, that if you watch the Barbie movie, one of the great ironies of the Barbie movie is there's a deep unhappiness that flows throughout it.

00:09:30.000 Why?

00:09:31.000 Because the very beginning of the film is little girls discarding dolls that teach them 0.97

00:09:36.000 motherhood for dolls that are about consumerism.

00:09:39.000 And then the entire movie is about all the unhappiness that results there from.

00:09:43.000 And then the very end of the movie is Barbie actively embracing the parts of her that allow

00:09:50.000 I mean, there is this kind of bizarre undertone of Greta Gerwig's own unhappiness with her life and Greta Gerwig's actual view of what it means to be a happy woman in today's life.

00:09:59.000 So Greta Gerwig has a religious worldview.

00:10:02.000 I mean, she truly does.

00:10:04.000 And she talks about it.

00:10:05.000 This is not me talking about it.

00:10:06.000 This is Greta Gerwig, the director and writer of the film, talking about it.

00:10:09.000 Greta Gerwig did an interview with Vogue in which she talked about writing Barbie.

00:10:14.000 And she talked about co-writing this film with Noah Baumbach, who is her longtime romantic partner.

00:10:20.000 They're not married.

00:10:20.000 I believe they have a couple of kids together.

00:10:23.000 And she said that before she made the movie, she wrote an abstract poem about Barbie.

00:10:30.000 She wouldn't read the poem to Vogue, but she compared it to the Apostles' Creed.

00:10:34.000 This is her language, not mine. 0.99

00:10:36.000 The Apostles' Creed, of course, for those unfamiliar with Christian doctrine, is an affirmation of certain core Christian beliefs.

00:10:42.000 It's been part of Christian liturgy for centuries at this point.

00:10:46.000 Gerwig apparently wrote her own version of the Apostles' Creed, but about Barbie.

00:10:52.000 She wrote an Apostles' Creed, but about Barbie.

00:10:55.000 Not only that, apparently, she saw the Barbie movie as a way of rebutting certain presumptions about the Bible itself.

00:11:04.000 So, for example, the Vogue article points out a biblical parallel with Barbie, according to SlashFilm.com.

00:11:09.000 It's notable that Barbie was invented in 1959, but her boyfriend Ken wasn't invented until 1960.

00:11:13.000 In the film itself, narrator Helen Mirren points out that Barbie has a great day every day, but Ken only has a good day if Barbie looks at him.

00:11:19.000 It would seem that Ken was begat of Barbie, created specifically to be her companion and worshipper.

00:11:24.000 Gerwig draws a direct parallel or perpendicular to the book of Genesis.

00:11:27.000 She said, quote, Ken was invented after Barbie to burnish Barbie's position in our eyes and in the world. 0.62

00:11:31.000 That kind of creation myth is the opposite of the creation myth in Genesis.

00:11:37.000 So again, there is there is something that is deeper than mere sort of cultural stupidity happening here, and that is that Greta Gerwig is channeling a reverse biblical morality into a movie like Barbie that is directed at children. 1.00

00:11:51.000 That is the thing that is happening here. 0.97

00:11:52.000 And you're not supposed to notice that.

00:11:54.000 And if you do notice that, it makes you bad because this is, in fact, a religious impulse.

00:11:59.000 Modern society has gotten rid of the saints.

00:12:01.000 Modern society has gotten rid of Judeo-Christian traditional values or demeaned them as completely superfluous. 0.99

00:12:06.000 In fact, the entire Barbie movie is about how relationships between men and women, women and men, are actually stupid and impossible and fraught with tension. 0.83

00:12:14.000 And basically, separation is the only, separate but equal, is the only way to do a proper Barbie land. 0.67

00:12:19.000 In the bizarre Barbie world that has been created by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, her longtime romantic partner.

00:12:25.000 Baumbach, of course, is also famous for having written a marriage story which is about two absolutely self-absorbed narcissistic people who end up getting divorced because they want to pursue their petty careers in New York and Hollywood.

00:12:36.000 And they don't give a damn about their kid.

00:12:38.000 I mean, these are people who both drink deeply from the well of sort of secular humanist leftism.

00:12:44.000 And that is an idolatrous worldview in and of itself, but it demands that you be part of the idolatry. 0.98

00:12:50.000 And if you say no, actually, the morality that you're promulgating is stupid and counterproductive, and that when you promulgate it to kids, it's actually bad. 0.98

00:12:58.000 When you say that sort of stuff, you have violated a religious precept. 0.98

00:13:00.000 People are treating this as though you have violated religious scruple because you have. 0.97

00:13:05.000 And there's, there are lots of spoilers in yesterday's review of Barbie or the weekend's review of Barbie.

00:13:10.000 But there is one speech that America Ferreira makes in the Barbie movie that basically is the Apostle's Creed of feminism. 1.00

00:13:17.000 And it spilled right out there in the middle of the movie.

00:13:18.000 It's not like they were hiding the ball here.

00:13:20.000 There's no subtlety to this movie.

00:13:21.000 It's being hit in the head with a sledgehammer repeatedly with the nostrums of third wave feminism. 0.95

00:13:26.000 So America Ferreira gets up at one point in the movie. 0.72

00:13:29.000 And she says this, I found the exact quote, quote, it is literally impossible to be a woman. 0.89

00:13:34.000 You are so beautiful and so smart.

00:13:36.000 She's talking to Barbie at this point.

00:13:37.000 And it kills me.

00:13:38.000 You don't think you're good enough.

00:13:39.000 Like we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong.

00:13:42.000 You have to be thin, but not too thin.

00:13:44.000 And you can never say you want to be thin, but you also have to say you want to be healthy.

00:13:47.000 But also you have to be thin.

00:13:49.000 You have to you have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.

00:13:53.000 OK, none of this is true, by the way.

00:13:55.000 There are women of all shapes and sizes who live happy marriages, who have happy lives. 0.67

00:14:00.000 The notion that women can't ask for money because that's correct. 1.00

00:14:03.000 You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean.

00:14:05.000 You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas. 0.99

00:14:08.000 You're supposed to love being a mother, but also don't talk about your kids all the damn time. 1.00

00:14:11.000 By the way, I'm not sure who this is describing. 0.97

00:14:13.000 Everyone I know talks about their kids all the time, and it's wonderful.

00:14:16.000 You have to be a career woman, but always be looking out for other people.

00:14:18.000 You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane. 0.92

00:14:21.000 But if you point that out, you're accused of complaining.

00:14:23.000 You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women.

00:14:27.000 Because you're always supposed to be part of a sisterhood, but always stand out and always be grateful, but never forget that system is rigged.

00:14:32.000 So find a way to acknowledge that, but always be grateful.

00:14:35.000 You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line.

00:14:40.000 It's too hard.

00:14:41.000 It's too contradictory.

00:14:42.000 And nobody gives you a medal or says thank you.

00:14:44.000 And it turns out, in fact, not only are you doing everything wrong, but also everything is your fault.

00:14:48.000 I'm so tired of watching myself and every other single other woman tie herself into knots so people will like us.

00:14:53.000 And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know.

00:14:58.000 That is the Apostle's Creed, apparently, that appears in the middle of the film.

00:15:02.000 I mean, Mariko Freire literally says this.

00:15:04.000 There's a hero shot of her, like an upshot of her doing all of this. 0.98

00:15:08.000 And Margot Robbie looking on adoringly as she says all of these ridiculous, silly things. 0.98

00:15:12.000 That it's impossible to be a woman in modern society. 0.99

00:15:14.000 Yeah, try being your grandmother.

00:15:16.000 Seriously.

00:15:17.000 Try being your grandmother operating without a washing machine, with six kids, in a home where it's her job to make sure that everything runs on time.

00:15:25.000 Yeah, you.

00:15:25.000 You're a real victim.

00:15:27.000 But this is the whole thing.

00:15:28.000 The whole thing is that if you violate these religious scruples, people think, on the left, that they live without religion.

00:15:34.000 They do not.

00:15:35.000 They have a religion.

00:15:36.000 Their religion is secular leftism, and the Apostle's Creed of it is the Apostle's Creed of the sexual revolution.

00:15:42.000 And if you cross them, they become just as angry as any other inquisition.

00:15:46.000 They become just as upset.

00:15:48.000 If you trigger them by pointing this stuff out, they get extremely upset.

00:15:53.000 And then they play it off like, oh, oh my gosh, I can't believe you did it.

00:15:56.000 Oh, you look so...

00:15:57.000 When we make a review of a film that's 43 minutes long, and we put that in the title, we're pretty sure we know what we're doing.

00:16:02.000 Over here.

00:16:04.000 When we set fire to Barbies, you know, for the shock value of it, and because it's funny, we know what we're doing.

00:16:08.000 The joke is the joke.

00:16:10.000 You can pretend not to get the joke, or you can just be offended by it, which is really what's happening here.

00:16:15.000 So, I have a question for you.

00:16:16.000 Why are you so upset?

00:16:18.000 I don't like the movie.

00:16:19.000 You like the movie.

00:16:19.000 Okay.

00:16:20.000 We can have those differences.

00:16:21.000 Why are you so upset?

00:16:23.000 What is getting your goat so much?

00:16:25.000 I understand why I'm upset.

00:16:27.000 What I'm upset about is the lie.

00:16:28.000 I'm upset that you created a movie that is specifically designated for little girls to see it, and then what you decided to do is slide in a bunch of left-wing imagery and propaganda about how terrible little girls have it in the United States.

00:16:39.000 I think that's awful.

00:16:39.000 I think it's an awful thing to do.

00:16:41.000 I understand why I'm upset.

00:16:42.000 What I understand is why you're upset.

00:16:43.000 Your movie made a crap load of money over the weekend.

00:16:45.000 This movie made $160 million over the weekend. 0.70

00:16:48.000 It blew the doors off the box office opening weekend.

00:16:50.000 Now, I don't know, it's going to have the kind of repeat business that it's going to want to have.

00:16:53.000 I don't think it's going to have any foreign business, but that's a different story.

00:16:55.000 So what are you so upset about?

00:16:56.000 One person who you already didn't agree with politically, didn't like the film, and yet you are so upset.

00:17:00.000 Why?

00:17:02.000 Has it ever occurred to you because you're more religious than I am?

00:17:04.000 I'm the one here wearing the funny little hat that's testing my belief in God.

00:17:07.000 But you guys are wearing your Barbie shirts in attestation to your idolatry of a sexual revolution moment that is played out and is riffed with deep unhappiness that you refuse to acknowledge and so you're going to externalize that into, I can't believe somebody said something bad.

00:17:22.000 Must protect the precious.

00:17:23.000 That's what's happening here.

00:17:25.000 It's a form of idolatry, and it's amusing to watch you guys try to spin it away.

00:17:28.000 And then you hear people on the left say things like, my kid isn't going to pick up on all this messaging.

00:17:32.000 Oh, what do I care?

00:17:33.000 You know, it's subtle.

00:17:34.000 Because first of all, it's not subtle at all.

00:17:36.000 There are certain movies where things will just fly right over kids' heads.

00:17:38.000 I know, I have four of them.

00:17:39.000 You know, there are certain things where you're watching and you're like, the joke hits me, but it doesn't hit my kids.

00:17:43.000 There is no subtlety to this film at all.

00:17:45.000 I mean, it is right in your face.

00:17:47.000 There's literally speech about it.

00:17:48.000 There are multiple speeches about it. 0.98

00:17:49.000 In that same scene, there is a line in which In which Barbie says, either you have to be weird and terrible, or you have to be ignorant, essentially. 0.98

00:17:59.000 Those are your choices in life. 0.98

00:18:00.000 You either have to pretend that everything is fine, or you have to be weird and terrible like Weird Barbie.

00:18:04.000 And Weird Barbie, who's played by Kate McKinnon, who, you know, is playing essentially lesbian Barbie, it is her, she just nods knowingly. 0.68

00:18:13.000 This stuff's not subtle.

00:18:14.000 Does this have an effect on little girls?

00:18:16.000 Sure!

00:18:17.000 Any movie that tells kids that if they have a particular situation in life, That they are therefore bound to be hurt and harmed by the patriarchy?

00:18:27.000 That's not good for kids.

00:18:28.000 And it was specifically directed at kids.

00:18:30.000 And it is amazing to me that studio bosses in Mattel decided to hand over a billion dollar property to Greta Gerwig, who's an ideological warrior on behalf of the secular leftist nonsense.

00:18:41.000 And then we're supposed to pretend that it means nothing.

00:18:43.000 So again, I understand why I'm upset.

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00:18:50.000 Maybe it's that if somebody crosses your apostle's creed, this makes them a heretic, and the heretics must be burned. 0.95

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00:20:00.000 In other cultural news of the day, Jason Aldean continues to be ripped up and down for the great crime of creating a song where he says that in a small town, people don't tend to stand for riots.

00:20:09.000 This apparently is incredibly bad.

00:20:11.000 The media have been on him for a week about this, and Jason Aldean is doing the thing that you must never do.

00:20:15.000 He's refusing to apologize.

00:20:17.000 Good for him.

00:20:17.000 So over the weekend, Jason Aldean did a concert in which he slammed the BS of people attacking him over this.

00:20:23.000 Good for him.

00:20:24.000 Here's what I want to say.

00:20:25.000 A lot of things out there, and one thing I love, you guys know how it is, this day and age, cancel culture is a thing.

00:20:33.000 That's something that If people don't like what you say, they try and make sure that they can cancel you, which means try and ruin your life.

00:20:42.000 Ruin everything.

00:20:44.000 One thing I saw this week was a bunch of Culture Music fans that can see through a lot of the bull****, alright?

00:20:53.000 Good for him.

00:20:54.000 Good for him.

00:20:55.000 Because again, he violated the thing that you're not supposed to say, which is that maybe small-town community life has something going for it.

00:21:01.000 What you're supposed to believe is that cosmopolitan values, left-wing social values that come from New York or San Francisco or LA, that these are the things that are supposed to govern everyday life, that their view of the universe ought to be your view of the universe.

00:21:10.000 And if you say, wait, hold up a second.

00:21:12.000 I actually think that people very often live better, more fulfilling lives in small communities with community cohesiveness.

00:21:18.000 That's a thing that you're not supposed to say at all.

00:21:20.000 And you're certainly supposed to apologize if you do say and Jason Aldean isn't doing that.

00:21:24.000 And so they came after him.

00:21:25.000 They tried to trump up a charge that he's a racist.

00:21:26.000 That, of course, is not true.

00:21:28.000 And he rebutted it and he said, no, good for him.

00:21:31.000 But this is what the left is is into these days.

00:21:33.000 If you violate their precepts, they just lie about you.

00:21:36.000 That's their thing now is that they just truth is of no consequence.

00:21:40.000 The only thing that matters is the agenda.

00:21:41.000 Agenda Uber Alice for these folks.

00:21:43.000 You can see this in the current non-troversy over the Florida curriculum with regard to African American black history.

00:21:51.000 If you look at the black history curriculum in the state of Florida, it was written by a couple of black scholars.

00:21:56.000 And the curriculum, there's nothing wrong with it.

00:21:58.000 I've looked at it, it's 212 pages long.

00:22:01.000 It's basically a series of guidelines.

00:22:03.000 And a couple of the guidelines that were controversial is one said that slaves sometimes developed skills that they could use for themselves.

00:22:09.000 And this was read falsely by Kamala Harris and the rest of the left to suggest that in Florida, people are being taught that slavery is good.

00:22:16.000 That's absurd.

00:22:17.000 Literally, what the curriculum says is that slaves took advantage of even the worst situations in order to better themselves, which is about the merit of the people who are being held in bondage, not about the greatness of slavery. 1.00

00:22:29.000 That's stupid. 0.97

00:22:31.000 In fact, Dr. William B. Allen, who is one of the black scholars who wrote this, he explained the agenda here. 1.00

00:22:37.000 It was never said that slavery was beneficial to Africans.

00:22:42.000 What was said, and anyone who reads this will see this with clarity, it is the case that

00:22:49.000 Africans proved resourceful, resilient, and adaptive, and were able to develop skills and aptitudes

00:22:57.000 which served to their benefit, both while enslaved and after enslavement. You would say

00:23:03.000 that you're standing by these standards.

00:23:06.000 You know, even though the Vice President was very verbose yesterday.

00:23:11.000 Okay.

00:23:13.000 Well, I will repeat to Mr. McCarty that I'm not claiming authorship, but I'm certainly willing to stand behind the work of my members in the task force.

00:23:22.000 So the media are just glossing right over this, for the most part, in order to prop up the lies that Kamala Harris is telling.

00:23:30.000 And again, Kamala Harris's lies are directed against DeSantis.

00:23:33.000 and their motivations and intent.

00:23:36.000 So the media are just glossing right over this for the most part in order to prompt

00:23:39.000 in order to prop up the lies that Kamala Harris is telling. 1.00

00:23:41.000 And again, Kamala Harris's lies are directed against DeSantis.

00:23:43.000 And the reason that Kamala Harris is telling lies against DeSantis is because,

00:23:47.000 as everyone knows, there's quite a decent possibility that there's some extraneous events in the election of 2024

00:23:52.000 and Kamala Harris ends up at the top of the ticket.

00:23:53.000 Joe Biden does not look good.

00:23:55.000 It looks like he's collapsing in on himself.

00:23:56.000 And what that means, if he is not healthy enough to run, is that Kamala Harris becomes the de facto Democratic nominee.

00:24:01.000 If that happens, she thinks she may have to run against DeSantis. 0.99

00:24:04.000 And so she's been trumping up this garbage that DeSantis is some sort of cruel, vicious racist. 0.99

00:24:07.000 So last week, she did a whole speech claiming that blacks were that black history was going to be taught In such a way that slavery was upheld as some sort of higher good in the state of Florida, which is ridiculous and absurd. 0.99

00:24:17.000 Here's Ron DeSantis responding to those charges over the weekend. 0.59

00:24:20.000 I didn't do it and I wasn't involved in it.

00:24:23.000 But I think what they're doing is I think that they're probably going to show some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life.

00:24:37.000 But the reality is all of that is rooted in whatever is factual.

00:24:41.000 They listed everything out.

00:24:43.000 And if you have any questions about it, just ask the Department of Education.

00:24:46.000 You can talk about those folks.

00:24:47.000 But I mean, these were scholars who put that together.

00:24:50.000 It was not anything that was done politically.

00:24:53.000 Again, this isn't about the actual contents of the program.

00:24:55.000 There's nothing wrong with the contents of the program.

00:24:57.000 The entire thing is a trumped-up charge in the same way that the attacks on Aldean are trumped-up charge.

00:25:01.000 The attacks on DeSantis on race are trumped-up charge that are designed to uphold Kamala Harris.

00:25:05.000 That's really what this is about.

00:25:06.000 It's about propping up Harris, who's deeply unpopular with the American people because she's the least talented politician of our generation or maybe any other.

00:25:12.000 Biden campaign chair Cedric Richmond actually went on CNN with Jim Acosta.

00:25:16.000 And ladies, find you somebody who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.

00:25:19.000 And Cedric Richmond then blasted Ron DeSantis for quote-unquote attacking Kamala Harris.

00:25:25.000 What's your response to what Florida Governor DeSantis had to say about this?

00:25:29.000 Clearly, factually, he's wrong.

00:25:31.000 Slavery was an abomination.

00:25:33.000 It was utterly evil.

00:25:34.000 And it had zero redeeming qualities.

00:25:36.000 But I think that it further illustrates how far this Republican Party and these candidates are going to the right and to cater and pander to extremists in order

00:25:48.000 to get support.

00:25:50.000 And I think that Governor DeSantis, his campaign has been floundering.

00:25:55.000 He's been looking for attention.

00:25:57.000 And I think that he is now embarking on going as far to the right as he possibly can just

00:26:06.000 to see if he can be the extremist candidate.

00:26:09.000 Again, they're trumping this up in order to go after DeSantis.

00:26:11.000 This is one of the things you have to understand, is that if you are seen as an enemy of the regime, if you are seen as an enemy of the ideological regime, again, the charges will just be trumped up.

00:26:19.000 It doesn't even matter.

00:26:20.000 It doesn't even matter.

00:26:21.000 Which brings us to the January 6th indictment against Donald Trump.

00:26:25.000 Now, as I've said before, Donald Trump, when it came to the classified documents stuff, on a statutory level, there's very little question that he probably violated the classified documents statutes.

00:26:35.000 Does that mean he should be prosecuted?

00:26:36.000 No.

00:26:36.000 And here's the thing that everybody on the right is saying.

00:26:37.000 The real reason you're going after Trump is because he violated your scruples, not because you're actually afraid of him violating the law.

00:26:43.000 The thing that Trump has done that offended you so much, he did by running in 2015-2016.

00:26:48.000 He was your best friend until then.

00:26:49.000 You were handing him Emmy awards until then.

00:26:52.000 And then you turned on him because he violated your religious precepts.

00:26:57.000 Well, this is the perception of the right, and they're not wrong.

00:26:59.000 Again, when you look at the contrast between the treatment of Donald Trump and the treatment of Joe Biden, which we're going to get to in a second because there's now breaking news on the Joe Biden business corruption front, which is way worse than anything that Trump has been accused of here.

00:27:11.000 We're going to get to that in just one second.

00:27:13.000 When you see that double standard, this is why people on the right are so intensely angry.

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00:28:20.000 Okay, so speaking of the Donald Trump indictment, it is suggested that it is going to come down sometime this week.

00:28:26.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, it's still unclear how soon Trump will be indicted, but Jack Smith has sent him a target letter.

00:28:33.000 Apparently they did that on Sunday, July 16th.

00:28:35.000 They gave him four days to say whether he would appear before the grand jury.

00:28:38.000 Grand jurors have continued to hear witnesses in recent days.

00:28:40.000 It could be this week.

00:28:41.000 It could be next.

00:28:42.000 It's unclear what exactly Trump will be charged with here, but according to the Wall Street Journal, a person familiar with the target letter said it refers to three statutes that could be the basis for the prosecution, conspiracy to defraud the government, obstruction of an official proceeding, and a civil rights violation that is often used in voting fraud cases.

00:28:57.000 All three of these, unless they have serious evidence of obstruction, are really, really, really weak.

00:29:01.000 Conspiracy to defraud the government is usually you try to steal money from the actual government of the United States.

00:29:06.000 When it comes to obstruction of an official proceeding, you actually have to show that Donald Trump called somebody up and told them that he would, say, bribe them to change their testimony.

00:29:14.000 A civil rights violation used in voting fraud cases is typically, like, I stopped you from voting or I actually falsified ballots and shoved them in a ballot box.

00:29:22.000 It is not me saying something about a vote that I didn't particularly like.

00:29:27.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump could be charged with at least one of two statutes passed following the Civil War and originally designed to prosecute conspiracies to keep newly freed black people from voting.

00:29:34.000 But he didn't keep anybody from voting.

00:29:36.000 So, again, it's going to be very difficult to see how that works.

00:29:39.000 When it comes to the conspiracy to defraud the government, again, that particular statute was chiefly written to stop people from stealing money from the government.

00:29:51.000 The broadly written statute prohibits agreement to obstruct the lawful function of the government by deceitful or dishonest means.

00:29:57.000 One federal judge has suggested Trump violated it, but again, I've never seen it interpreted in this particular way on a practical level.

00:30:03.000 And when it comes to obstruction of an official proceeding, again, they're going to have to prove that Trump essentially tried to bribe somebody.

00:30:14.000 It's pretty clear at this point that the same people who went after Trump on everything else, all of the false fake Russia garbage, all those same people are very, very excited about all this, including, of course, Adam Schiff.

00:30:24.000 Here's Adam Schiff.

00:30:25.000 The fact that Adam Schiff is still treated as a sort of a person worth talking to over on MSNBC demonstrates the full corruption of the media.

00:30:31.000 Considering that dude lied for four long years about having a smoking gun in his back pocket, showing that Trump was actually a Putin cat's paw.

00:30:37.000 Here's Adam Schiff.

00:30:39.000 I think these are the most serious charges that he faces yet, if indeed this grand jury or these grand juries indict.

00:30:47.000 The Mar-a-Lago documents case was a threat to our national security.

00:30:50.000 It's very serious.

00:30:51.000 Obviously, the multiple business fraud counts in New York are also serious.

00:30:56.000 But this is essentially a set of charges revolving around his efforts to stop the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our history.

00:31:04.000 It's hard to imagine a president being involved in more serious misconduct.

00:31:09.000 He is so tiresome.

00:31:10.000 He is so tiresome.

00:31:12.000 And this is the game, right?

00:31:13.000 The game from the left is it doesn't matter what you charge Trump with, you got to charge him with something.

00:31:17.000 And then, of course, if we do that, then if you guys defend Trump from even spurious charges, this means that you're bad.

00:31:23.000 The gall of people like Jen Psaki, so Jen Psaki over on MSNBC, she says, maybe this campaign is going to turn into keeping Trump out of prison.

00:31:29.000 Well, I mean, you're the ones trying to put him in.

00:31:32.000 So if it does, that would be on you, not on anybody else.

00:31:34.000 I'm confused on how it's on Republicans saying that Trump shouldn't go to prison when you're the ones literally trying to put him in prison.

00:31:41.000 The Washington Post published a piece that really stuck out to me about how intertwined Donald Trump's campaign has become with his legal defense.

00:31:48.000 According to the piece, just over half of the money he raised last quarter went to an affiliated PAC that is footing his legal bills.

00:31:55.000 Your Republican colleagues continue to support him, of course, but is this campaign becoming increasingly about keeping him out of prison?

00:32:02.000 And how is that even allowed for him to use so much of that money for his own legal defense?

00:32:09.000 It's all, it's all again, it feels like a game.

00:32:12.000 It feels like a game. 0.88

00:32:14.000 And the reason it feels like a game also is because we now have some pretty damn good information that Joe Biden is really, really corrupt.

00:32:20.000 And that corruption extends to Hunter Biden as well.

00:32:23.000 It really is amazing.

00:32:24.000 We have two stories out over the course of the last 72 hours that call into serious question the quote unquote non-corruption of Joe Biden.

00:32:32.000 First of all, it's pretty obvious from the beginning that Hunter was doing things abroad, picking up sacks of cash, and then some of that was making its way back to Joe.

00:32:38.000 Again, I urge you to go look at all of the documents that are available from Hunter Biden's laptop, including texts in which he informed his own children that at least you don't have the pressure of picking up money for dad the way that I do.

00:32:48.000 He literally says that in a text message to his own kid.

00:32:52.000 He's like, yeah, well, at least you don't have to pay all of dad's bills.

00:32:57.000 He said that, and we're all supposed to pretend that never happened, but now we have some corroborative information along those lines that, of course, are being soft-pedaled by all the media except for the New York Post.

00:33:05.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:34:47.000 Okay, meanwhile...

00:34:48.000 So the game for the left is you focus in on all the bad things Trump's ever done.

00:34:51.000 You just ignore with a furious fervor everything bad about Hunter and Joe Biden. 1.00

00:34:57.000 Now, Hunter Biden is not a news story because he's a derelict piece of crap. 1.00

00:35:00.000 He is a derelict piece of crap. 1.00

00:35:01.000 That's not why he's a news story. 1.00

00:35:02.000 It's because he's funneling cash to his dad in almost certain likelihood.

00:35:06.000 And there's a report that has now been released by Senate Republican Chuck Grassley, who's a serious guy.

00:35:12.000 It's an FBI memo that makes quote-unquote unverified claims, just like, you know, a lot of unverified memos.

00:35:18.000 And here is what it says.

00:35:21.000 It is a confidential human source who reported the following.

00:35:23.000 In late 2015 or 2016, during the Obama-Biden administration, this confidential human source was first introduced to officials at Ukraine natural gas business Burisma Holdings through a person named Alexander Ostapenko, The person who was the source for this report, Anne Ostopenko, traveled to Ukraine and went to Burisma's office that was located 20 minutes away from the city center.

00:35:43.000 The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Burisma's interest in purchasing a U.S.-based oil and gas business for purposes of merging that with Burisma, for purposes of conducting an IPO in the United States.

00:35:53.000 Burisma was willing to purchase that U.S.-based entity for $20 to $30 million.

00:35:55.000 At the meeting was this source, a former business of the source, Ostopenko, Burisma's CFO, I presume Karina Zlovchevsky, who's the daughter of the Burisma CEO, and her husband.

00:36:08.000 The conversation was in Russian.

00:36:09.000 During the meeting, Podjarsky, who is the CFO, asked the person who's the source on this particular document whether the source was aware of Burisma's board of directors.

00:36:20.000 The confidential human source replied no.

00:36:22.000 Podjarski advised the board members included, quote, the former president or prime minister of Poland and Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.

00:36:28.000 Podjarski said Burisma hired the former president or prime minister of Poland to leverage his contacts in Europe for all prospective oil and gas deals, and they hired Hunter Biden to, quote, protect us through his dad from all kinds of problems.

00:36:40.000 CHS asked why Burisma needed to get CHS's assistance regarding the purchase merger of a U.S.-based company when Biden was on their board.

00:36:46.000 Podjarski replied that Hunter was not smart and they wanted to get additional counsel.

00:36:52.000 Apparently, CHS recalled that this meeting took place around the time Joe Biden made a public statement about former Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin being corrupt and that he should be fired or removed from office.

00:37:03.000 The confidential source then told Slavchevsky, who was the head of the company, that due to Shokin, Viktor Shokin's investigation into Burisma, which was made public at the time, would have substantial negative impact on Burisma's prospective IPO in the United States.

00:37:15.000 Slavchevsky then replied, quote, don't worry, Hunter will take care of all those issues through his dad.

00:37:21.000 Uh, what?

00:37:23.000 So, just to clarify, you'll recall that Joe Biden said publicly and openly that he got Viktor Shokin fired for corruption and threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until Viktor Shokin was fired for corruption.

00:37:33.000 Meanwhile, you have a confidential human source who is now reporting to the FBI that he was told by the president of Burisma, which paid Hunter Biden an ungodly sum of money, that Hunter Biden would basically get his dad to fire Viktor Shokin.

00:37:46.000 Uh, does that require further investigation?

00:37:48.000 You might think so.

00:37:49.000 That seems like it might be kind of important.

00:37:53.000 Grassley's office said the FBI told the senator the document was related to an ongoing matter.

00:37:57.000 Meanwhile, the White House said, quote, it is remarkable that congressional Republicans

00:37:59.000 in their eagerness to go after President Biden, regardless of truth, continue to push claims

00:38:02.000 that have been debunked for years.

00:38:04.000 These claims have reportedly been scrutinized by the Trump Justice Department

00:38:09.000 attorney, and a full-time impeachment trial of the former president that centered on these very issues.

00:38:13.000 And they've been found to lack credibility.

00:38:15.000 Well, show me the full investigation.

00:38:16.000 I'd like to see it.

00:38:17.000 Did they interview everybody from Burisma?

00:38:19.000 Did they even get a hold of anyone from Burisma?

00:38:20.000 Did they talk to this confidential human source?

00:38:23.000 That's story number one of the day.

00:38:26.000 Then we've got story number two.

00:38:27.000 This is the front page of the New York Post.

00:38:29.000 Apparently, Hunter Biden would dial in his father, then Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone into meetings with his overseas business partners, according to testimony expected before Congress this week from Devon Archer, the first son's former best friend.

00:38:41.000 Archer 48 is facing his facing jail for his role in a 60 million dollar bond fraud.

00:38:45.000 He's scheduled to testify to the House Oversight Committee about meetings he witnessed that were attended by Joe Biden either in person or via speakerphone when Hunter would call his dad and introduce him to foreign business partners or prospective investors.

00:38:57.000 One such meeting was in Dubai late in the evening of Friday, December 4th, 2015, after a board meeting of Burisma, which was paying Hunter 83 grand a month as their director.

00:39:05.000 That is a lot of money, folks.

00:39:07.000 Archer, who is also a director, is expected to testify that after dinner with the Burisma board, he and Hunter traveled six miles north to the Four Seasons Resort Dubai to have a drink with one of Hunter's friends.

00:39:16.000 While they were sitting outside at the bar, Vazim Porzharsky, a senior Burisma executive, phoned to ask where they were because Burisma's owner, Mykola Zlovchevsky, needed to speak to Hunter urgently.

00:39:26.000 Soon after, the two Ukrainians joined Hunter and Archer at the Four Seasons Bar, and Posharsky asked Hunter, can you ring your dad?

00:39:33.000 Hunter then called his father, put him on speaker, placed the phone on the table, and introduced the Ukrainians to Joe Biden by name, as Nikolai and Vadim.

00:39:41.000 He also said words to the effect that the Burisma bigwigs, quote, need our support. 0.96

00:39:46.000 Biden agreed to the Ukrainians, but spoke only in vague pleasantries during the short call, and in other such interactions with Hunter's overseas business partners, Archer is expected to testify.

00:39:54.000 Congressional investigators are expected to prove the reason Zlovchevsky requested the urgent phone call with Joe Biden.

00:39:59.000 They're going to note the context.

00:40:00.000 Three days after the speaker phone call, the then-Vice President, who was the Obama administration's point man for Ukraine, was due to fly to Kyiv to address the Ukrainian parliament, known as the Rada, about the poison of cronyism, corruption, and kleptocracy.

00:40:11.000 Ten weeks before that call, U.S.

00:40:13.000 Ambassador Jeff Pyatt had given a speech about corruption in Odessa, in which he targeted Zlovchevsky by name.

00:40:18.000 By then, Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma for corruption.

00:40:22.000 Within two months, he would seize four homes in Kiev, two plots of land in Rolls-Royce belonging to Slavshevsky.

00:40:29.000 One month later, Shokin was fired after Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in USAID to Ukraine.

00:40:37.000 In other words, as Shokin's probe gathered pace, Pazharsky, who is one of the people who is over at Burisma, ratcheted up pressure on Ukraine.

00:40:45.000 In an email to Hunter and Archer on November 2, 2015, one month before the speakerphone call, Pazharsky explicitly demanded they use their influence to close down the criminal investigation against Burisma.

00:40:57.000 This is insane.

00:40:58.000 By the way, this is the second Hunter Biden business partner who's testified to this.

00:41:02.000 Another former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, recalls Hunter offering to get his dad on the phone during a meeting by the pool at the Chateau Marmont in L.A.

00:41:09.000 Bobulinski says, I'm also aware of other Biden family business associates confirming Joe would

00:41:13.000 take phone calls from Hunter in the middle of business meetings and would weigh in via speakerphone.

00:41:16.000 So in other words, here it seems to be that here is the way that this worked.

00:41:22.000 The way that this worked is that everybody knew that Hunter was a go-between for Joe.

00:41:26.000 Joe would get on the phone and say vague phrases, and then Hunter would spin that into an amazing amount of money for himself and for his family members, which presumably he would then distribute to his dad.

00:41:34.000 Now, by the way, the money doesn't actually have to hit dad's bank account for Hunter to be spending money on his dad's expenses.

00:41:39.000 Hunter could be covering house expenses.

00:41:42.000 Hunter could be covering car expenses.

00:41:44.000 Hunter could be covering all that stuff.

00:41:45.000 And all Joe has to do is get on the phone every so often and say, fake things.

00:41:48.000 Oh, I love my son, Hunter.

00:41:50.000 He's really a good guy.

00:41:51.000 And then Hunter would be like, thanks, Dad.

00:41:53.000 Hang up the phone and turn to his friends at Burisma and be like, see, my dad's the vice president.

00:41:57.000 He'll take care of it.

00:41:58.000 And then, as it turns out, Joe Biden did take care of it in a way that helped Burisma.

00:42:02.000 So what you have here is the motive, the means, and the opportunity, and the thing that actually happened.

00:42:07.000 That's what you have here.

00:42:08.000 According to not one, but two witnesses, right?

00:42:10.000 Tony Bobulinski has already talked about this.

00:42:12.000 Devon Archer is now also talking about this.

00:42:14.000 Remember that time that Joe Biden said he had no knowledge of his son's business activities?

00:42:19.000 Remember that?

00:42:19.000 And he was lying?

00:42:20.000 Remember that?

00:42:21.000 Because he clearly is lying at this point.

00:42:24.000 And again, all of that is coming at the same time as that other memo suggesting that Zlochevsky told an FBI informant in 2016 that he paid a $10 million bribe to Joe and Hunter Biden to ensure that Shokin was fired.

00:42:35.000 Zlochevsky also allegedly claimed to have two recordings of conversations, including Biden, and another 15 recordings involving Hunter, as well as many text messages and two documents the informant understood to be wire transfer statements, bank records that record payments to the Bidens, presumably in exchange for Shokin's firing.

00:42:49.000 Zlochevsky, in that document, calls Joe Biden the big guy.

00:42:53.000 Archer also is expected to testify that the big guy was a nickname used by Hunter's business partners to refer to his dad.

00:42:59.000 In a 2017 email to Hunter and Bobulinski, joint business partner James Gillier outlined percentage equity in CEFC, which paid a bajillion dollars to Hunter Biden, with 10% held by age, said Hunter, for the big guy.

00:43:12.000 This is insane.

00:43:13.000 So, by the way, do I think all this is going to break wide open?

00:43:17.000 I do.

00:43:17.000 I actually think this is all going to break wide.

00:43:18.000 The media will do its best to squash it and pretend none of it's happening.

00:43:21.000 You already have MSNBC's Ali Velshi just blowing off all these investigations.

00:43:26.000 They're a waste of time, according to Ali Velshi.

00:43:27.000 Now, if you thought a hearing with two IRS whistleblowers was going to be tame, you'd be wrong.

00:43:33.000 That hearing quickly devolved when the congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene displayed explicit photographs of Hunter Biden to the committee.

00:43:41.000 This is the reality of the Republican investigation into the so-called Biden crime family.

00:43:46.000 It's seemingly riddled with stunts and conspiracies.

00:43:49.000 Another facet of the Hunter Biden investigation centers around his business dealings with the Ukrainian national gas company called Burisma.

00:43:57.000 That little part is true.

00:43:59.000 Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma.

00:44:02.000 And Joe Biden did push Ukraine to remove its top prosecutor.

00:44:06.000 But that was because the prosecutor was seen as categorically corrupt by the international community.

00:44:13.000 Okay.

00:44:14.000 Well, a lot of people are seen as categorically corrupt by the international community, including half of Ukraine. 0.77

00:44:18.000 I didn't see Joe Biden putting a lot of pressure on that.

00:44:20.000 Did you?

00:44:21.000 This one just happened to benefit his son.

00:44:23.000 And you now have multiple sources who are testifying to the relationship between Burisma, Hunter, and Joe.

00:44:27.000 You're just going to blow all that away and tell about Donald Trump in January 6th?

00:44:32.000 We're still doing this?

00:44:33.000 You know, he's the president right now.

00:44:35.000 The guy we're talking about.

00:44:35.000 You know who's still occupying the White House?

00:44:38.000 Hunter.

00:44:39.000 He's still walking around the White House.

00:44:40.000 After pleading guilty to crimes.

00:44:43.000 Amazing.

00:44:43.000 Amazing stuff.

00:44:45.000 Okay, meanwhile, we're supposed to believe that the situation in Israel is about to break into civil war.

00:44:50.000 This is all the headlines today.

00:44:52.000 So, let me explain what's happening.

00:44:54.000 When Benjamin Netanyahu's current coalition in Israel took over, it's a right-wing coalition.

00:44:58.000 It is Likud, plus some right-wing settler parties, plus some right-wing religious parties.

00:45:02.000 It's the most sort of right-wing coalition that's ever been elected in Israel.

00:45:05.000 They proposed some changes to the Israeli judiciary.

00:45:08.000 As I've discussed before on the program, the Israeli judiciary does not work like the American judiciary.

00:45:12.000 The American judiciary is there to interpret a written constitution.

00:45:15.000 There is no written constitution in Israel.

00:45:17.000 The judiciary in the mid-1990s basically decided under the auspices of a man named Aharon Barak that they were going to simply weigh in on every debate, and one of the tools they were going to use to do this is they would simply overturn any law passed by the legislature in Israel that they said was unreasonable.

00:45:30.000 Now, if that sounds vague to you, it's because it's wild and insane and vague.

00:45:34.000 It's literally the court just saying, I don't like the law we're throwing out.

00:45:36.000 It's quote-unquote unreasonable.

00:45:38.000 Imagine if you had basically nine Ruth Bader Ginsburg's on the Supreme Court and anytime Republicans passed any law, she just said unreasonable and threw it out. 0.96

00:45:45.000 That's basically how it's working in Israel.

00:45:46.000 There are other problems with the Supreme Court in Israel, including the fact that effectively the Supreme Court selects its own successors.

00:45:51.000 There can never be a political shift on the Supreme Court.

00:45:54.000 So when the new coalition came into place, they vowed that they were going to remake the judiciary.

00:45:58.000 And there are several things they wanted to do.

00:46:00.000 One of those would be change how those judges are selected.

00:46:04.000 Which is correct, it would make them more answerable to the legislature.

00:46:07.000 That was jettisoned, at least for the moment, because of protests.

00:46:10.000 The current piece that was just passed in Israel by the Knesset, by the majority in the Knesset, was just saying the judiciary still has the same amount of power it ever had, but it's not allowed to just throw out laws on the basis that they are unreasonable.

00:46:22.000 Does that sound crazy to you?

00:46:23.000 It shouldn't sound crazy to you, it seems pretty obvious.

00:46:25.000 A judiciary is not a legislature, it's an unelected body of people who were appointed by their predecessors.

00:46:31.000 They should not have the power to simply say, I don't like a law, therefore it is not a law.

00:46:35.000 That is what you would normally call a dictatorship.

00:46:37.000 If you have a person who is unelected who sits there and says that based on any reason whatsoever, I can simply say I don't like a law and so we're just not going to do it.

00:46:45.000 That is effectively a dictatorship.

00:46:47.000 It's effectively a dictatorship, pretty clearly so.

00:46:50.000 So, what happened?

00:46:51.000 The Knesset, the majority of the Knesset, tried to pass this after months of protests.

00:46:55.000 And after they'd already watered down their original proposal, which was a lot more groundbreaking, they watered it down to just this provision, which is incredibly mild.

00:47:04.000 And the protests continued, because it basically turned into a big party in the streets of Tel Aviv, and a lot of people in Israel sort of are enjoying the spectacle of being able to shut down streets, and they're sort of enjoying the idea that they can shut down the government.

00:47:14.000 And what it's turned into, what it's morphed into, is the opposition in Israel Has effectively tried to grant a veto right to people who are against the elected government of Israel.

00:47:26.000 So one of the things that's happened is that Israel has a sort of bizarre military system where everybody is drafted, but then there are certain groups of people who are volunteer reservists.

00:47:33.000 So this is particularly true in the Air Force.

00:47:35.000 In the Air Force, there are people who have to volunteer to come in once a week in order to keep up on their training in case of a war.

00:47:41.000 And then if there's an emergency, they can actually be called back into duty, right?

00:47:44.000 They can be activated because they're still part of the reserve, but they're volunteer reservists.

00:47:46.000 They said, we are not going to come in for our training unless the government backs off of this proposal.

00:47:51.000 And then there were 10,000 volunteer reservists who were like, we're not going to come in for our training unless the government backs off this proposal.

00:47:57.000 Now, imagine in the United States for a second that members of the military, like large numbers of members of the military, simply said that if Joe Biden, for example, passes a law with Congress, not even a bad executive order, just a law with Congress, we're not showing up for duty.

00:48:10.000 And not only that, we're going to shut down all the streets.

00:48:13.000 And not only that, the major labor unions of the United States decided to shut down all the malls, all the schools, everything.

00:48:19.000 Unless the elected government of the United States stopped passing a law.

00:48:23.000 This would not look very democratic, would it?

00:48:25.000 In fact, it would look like the opposite of democracy, because democracy is where you actually elect the leadership, and then the leadership gets to pass things, and if you don't like that, you have another election.

00:48:33.000 And believe you me, Israel's had lots of elections.

00:48:35.000 Like, five in the last four years.

00:48:38.000 So they do elections a lot over there.

00:48:40.000 So this notion that the people's voice is never heard is not true.

00:48:42.000 They have an election again every five seconds over there.

00:48:44.000 So you have a bunch of people in the streets claiming that they are standing in favor of democracy by obstructing the workings of the elected majority in the Knesset, which is absurd.

00:48:53.000 And the boycott of the military by members of the military is unprecedented.

00:48:58.000 Even going all the way back to, if you know a little bit of Israeli history, in 2006, The Israeli government, under the auspices of Ariel Sharon, pushed forward a pullout from the Gaza Strip.

00:49:09.000 There were 10,000 or so Jews living at the northern end of the Gaza Strip, and the Sharon government decided they didn't want Jews living there, and they handed it over to the Palestinians.

00:49:17.000 It ended up beautifully.

00:49:18.000 Hamas took over. 0.51

00:49:18.000 But when they did that, the so-called Gaza disengagement, there were mass protests. 0.51

00:49:22.000 People did this.

00:49:23.000 They shut down the streets.

00:49:24.000 But no one said, I'm not going in for military duty.

00:49:27.000 That is a new thing.

00:49:28.000 And no one said, indefinitely, we're going to shut down the country.

00:49:30.000 That is also a new thing.

00:49:32.000 There's a difference between civil disobedience and we shut down the country for weeks on end.

00:49:36.000 We shut down the malls.

00:49:37.000 We shut down the banks.

00:49:38.000 We shut down the schools.

00:49:40.000 Imagine if this happened in the United States.

00:49:42.000 It would be utterly undemocratic.

00:49:43.000 Now the way that the press covers this in the United States, that the protesters are actually pro-democracy and saying that judges can't simply strike things down on the basis of reasonableness.

00:49:51.000 That's somehow now anti-democratic, which is totally crazy.

00:49:53.000 And if the current coalition in Israel were to acquiesce to this, if they were to say, your protests mean that we will not pass a law from now on, then they obviously don't have a government.

00:50:01.000 At that point, the protesters run the government.

00:50:03.000 They could say, we want a tax cut.

00:50:04.000 And the protesters go back out in the streets and the reserves say, we're not serving.

00:50:08.000 And then you don't actually have an elected government in the state of Israel.

00:50:10.000 So they really, really had to do this.

00:50:11.000 They didn't have a choice at this point.

00:50:12.000 They tried a bunch of compromises.

00:50:14.000 They offered everything.

00:50:15.000 There's been no budging, no movement from the left.

00:50:19.000 The coalition again watered down their own proposal over and over and over and over and the left simply said no.

00:50:24.000 They're intransigent.

00:50:26.000 Well, this is being used now as a wedge by Joe Biden, who wants to sort of attenuate connections between Israel and the United States.

00:50:33.000 Joe Biden is now using this as a wedge.

00:50:34.000 He's pretending that he's standing with the Israeli left by standing against judicial reform.

00:50:38.000 Now, again, it's kind of ironic because Joe Biden's own party in the United States has proposed things like packing the United States Supreme Court.

00:50:44.000 Joe Biden himself has said that the Supreme Court has undermined its own credibility here in the United States.

00:50:49.000 He would like to wrest power away from the Supreme Court, you may remember.

00:50:52.000 But in Israel, when they try to do that on much more solid grounds, it's anti-democratic.

00:50:56.000 So what it's really about is Joe Biden is trying deliberately to undercut a lot of these strong ties between the state of Israel and the United States. 0.99

00:51:03.000 He's abetted in this by idiots like Thomas Friedman, an incredibly stupid commentator whose only merit in commenting is apparently he goes to foreign countries and he listens to a taxi driver. 0.99

00:51:12.000 Every Thomas Friedman column is I went to Iran. 1.00

00:51:15.000 I talked to a taxi driver.

00:51:16.000 Apparently, taxi drivers are like the greatest source of information all over the world.

00:51:19.000 If ever Uber ends or taxis end and we go to automated driving, Thomas Friedman won't be able to write a column.

00:51:24.000 He has an entire piece, however, called Only Biden Can Save Israel Now, which I'm sorry is just a ridiculous statement.

00:51:29.000 It's like saying only Biden can save France or only Biden can save the UK. 0.99

00:51:32.000 Name another country where somebody would say this kind of garbage. 1.00

00:51:35.000 It's just silly. 1.00

00:51:36.000 It's absolutely ridiculous. 0.97

00:51:38.000 Thomas Friedman, who is a joke of a commentator, says, 50 years after the 1973 war, this Jewish democracy urgently needs another airlift to save it from being destroyed from the inside. 0.93

00:51:47.000 It urgently needs resupply of hard truths, something only you can provide.

00:51:52.000 Oh yes, Joe Biden is going to provide hard truths to the Israelis about how to run their internal business. 0.96

00:51:57.000 Ridiculous.

00:51:59.000 So, supposedly, he wants the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Treasury Secretary, Commerce Secretary, Secretary of Agriculture, everybody to call up Netanyahu and let them know that if they pass a judicial reform that says that the judiciary can't randomly strike down laws for no reason at all, that this will Undermine the shared strategic interest in the Middle East.

00:52:20.000 So just to be clear, this is an administration that is currently trying to make common cause with the Iranian Ayatollahs who are trying to build a nuclear weapon.

00:52:27.000 And Thomas Friedman is encouraging the Biden administration to call up Bibi Netanyahu and tell him that unless you do what I want you to do on the judiciary in internal matter, That we are going to start cutting ties, essentially. 0.98

00:52:40.000 By the way, again, the idea that Israel's about to slide into a dictatorship is just crap. 0.96

00:52:44.000 It's just not true. 0.92

00:52:45.000 But it's been promulgated by the left so that, because when you suggest that your opponents are about to actually enter into a dictatorship, it basically justifies you doing pretty much anything, up to and including apparently advising members of your own community to divest from banks and move their money out and get out of the military and all the rest of this kind of nonsense. 1.00

00:53:03.000 It's really, really stupid. 0.97

00:53:04.000 The government had to do it, they really didn't have a choice. 1.00

00:53:06.000 Because once your government is basically down to, you're passing the law, or you give up all control to protesters in the streets, and to unelected powers.

00:53:17.000 I mean, one of those things looks more like fascism than the other.

00:53:20.000 And it is not the people who are elected to a position to pass what is, by any measure, an incredibly mild rebuke to the judiciary.

00:53:28.000 And by the way, you know where this is going to end?

00:53:30.000 In the judiciary!

00:53:32.000 Apparently, Yeah, Ira Lapid, who's the leader of the opposition, he's already going to file a lawsuit and he's going to go to the judiciary and there's every shot the judiciary will strike down the wall as unreasonable. 0.99

00:53:43.000 That's the stupidity of this. 0.52

00:53:45.000 There's every possibility that after all this is done, the judiciary is going to step in and say, well, you know, now that they've said we can't rule on the basis of reasonableness, we think that's unreasonable. 0.99

00:53:53.000 And they just strike it down.

00:53:55.000 Unbelievable.

00:53:56.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then some things that I hate.

00:54:00.000 So, things that I like today.

00:54:01.000 So, Elon Musk, he has now changed the logo of Twitter to X, I assume to sort of unify his brands because, of course, he is the SpaceX guy.

00:54:11.000 And Twitter X is apparently going to now be a more fulsome media ecosystem, which, you know, good for him.

00:54:18.000 If he can find a way to monetize that, that'd be good, because of course he has far more free speech

00:54:21.000 than many of the other outlets that are out there.

00:54:24.000 His goal is to presumably start doing video streaming and to monetize all of that, sort of bring in-house.

00:54:30.000 So people were talking a little while ago about the threat that Facebook was going to provide

00:54:34.000 via threads to Twitter, because they picked up like 10 million users

00:54:39.000 in the first week or something.

00:54:40.000 And I said at the time, that's not a comp, because they're just porting over everybody

00:54:44.000 from Instagram to threads.

00:54:46.000 And it turns out that, as per most situations, Threads is already losing its allure for users, adding urgency for new features.

00:54:52.000 Apparently, data show user engagement has fallen 70% as executives focus on options like a chronological feed.

00:54:58.000 The reason for that is, of course, it's not where the newsmakers go.

00:55:00.000 If you're a newsmaker, you go to Twitter.

00:55:02.000 And Musk knows that.

00:55:03.000 Well, now it appears the threat is actually going the other way.

00:55:05.000 Twitter is going to start getting much more into the video business, and that's going to threaten Facebook's stranglehold on a lot of video entities and short-form video and all of the rest.

00:55:14.000 So, it'll be interesting to see what Elon Musk does.

00:55:16.000 He's doing some seat-of-the-pants flying here, but it's worked for him so far.

00:55:19.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:55:25.000 Alright, so thing that I hate number one.

00:55:27.000 So, I've absolutely crapped all over Barbie Land and the Barbie movie because it's bad and its values are terrible.

00:55:34.000 And as I've said, Greta Gerwig is essentially an icon of social left-wing thinking.

00:55:40.000 Who better then to direct The Chronicles of Narnia?

00:55:44.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:55:46.000 According to Entertainment Weekly, the Barbie director has now been tapped to write and direct at least two films for Netflix based on C.S.

00:55:52.000 Lewis' novels.

00:55:54.000 She says, I haven't even started wrapping my arms around it, but I'm properly scared of it, which feels like a good place to start.

00:55:58.000 I think when I'm scared, it's always a good time.

00:55:59.000 Maybe when I stop being scared, it'll be like, maybe I shouldn't do that one.

00:56:01.000 No, I'm terrified of it.

00:56:03.000 It's extraordinary and it's exciting.

00:56:07.000 So I'm just going to point out here that the Chronicles of Narnia are heavily Christian in content.

00:56:13.000 C.S.

00:56:13.000 Lewis, of course, one of the great apologists for Christianity of the 20th century.

00:56:17.000 The Chronicles of Narnia are a very, very thinly veiled retelling of the Gospels.

00:56:22.000 And the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is Aslan is Jesus. 0.98

00:56:26.000 I mean, there is clearly, and everyone knows this.

00:56:29.000 I mean, it's not as though it's hidden.

00:56:32.000 In the same way that the subtext of Barbie is not subtext, it's just text, the subtext of the Chronicles of Narnia is not subtext, it is just text.

00:56:38.000 Well, why would you take somebody whose apparent social ethos is wild left-wing feminism and then hand that person the Chronicles of Narnia?

00:56:46.000 What is the C.S.

00:56:47.000 Lewis estate doing?

00:56:48.000 What do they think they are doing by handing this over to Greta Gerwig?

00:56:52.000 Honest to God, it's like having Spike Lee direct Pride and Prejudice.

00:56:56.000 Like, what are you doing?

00:56:57.000 That is not his ideology.

00:56:59.000 Pride and Prejudice has some interesting ideological perspectives.

00:57:04.000 Spike Lee does not mirror those perspectives.

00:57:06.000 Only Hollywood would think, well, what if we took Greta Gerwig and we handed her one of the great Christian novels ever written for kids?

00:57:13.000 Let's do that.

00:57:15.000 I very much look forward to learning that the White Queen is victim of the patriarchy. 0.98

00:57:19.000 And that she actually was victimized as a child by evil men, and that's why she became cruel and a witch. 0.96

00:57:24.000 And the only way that she can truly be healed is by Aslan sacrificing his own patriarchal nature on the altar so she can be queen once again.

00:57:33.000 I look forward to learning about that.

00:57:33.000 Speaking of perversion of children's entertainment, so the new Snow White is going to be an abomination.

00:57:40.000 How do we know it's going to be an abomination?

00:57:41.000 Well, first, we had those pictures that showed that Snow White's seven dwarves are actually six large people, like normal-sized people, and one little person.

00:57:50.000 But now, we actually have some verbiage from the lady who is Rachel Zegler, who is playing Snow White.

00:57:58.000 Again, it's kind of weird because the left is very big on the distinction between white and brown.

00:58:03.000 They're very big on this, racially speaking.

00:58:05.000 And so, Rachel Zegler is of course diverse.

00:58:06.000 She's a person of diverse background because she's Hispanic. 0.99

00:58:09.000 As I've said before, Snow White is a story about a woman whose skin is as white as snow. 0.88

00:58:16.000 That's not racist.

00:58:17.000 It's just in the story.

00:58:19.000 In the same way that Pinocchio is about a wooden doll.

00:58:21.000 And if you make the doll out of aluminum, it's a kind of different story.

00:58:26.000 Well, I noticed that now she is saying some things about what Snow White is going to be about.

00:58:31.000 So Kathleen Kennedy, the entire crew over at You said you were bringing a modern edge to it on stage.

00:58:37.000 have decided that never again will they do a traditional fairy tale because

00:58:40.000 traditional fairy tales are very often about boys being heroes and girls

00:58:44.000 falling in love with boys and that can't be that can't be at all no no more of

00:58:48.000 this every main character will now be a female and every main character will be

00:58:52.000 an empowered female hero who's a kick-ass lady and and so this is what 1.00

00:58:56.000 Rachel Zegler says you said you were bringing a modern edge to it on stage

00:59:02.000 what do you mean by that I just mean that it's no longer 1937 and we

00:59:06.000 absolutely wrote a Snow White.

00:59:08.000 She's not going to be saved by the prince.

00:59:10.000 She's not going to be saved by the prince, and she's not going to be dreaming about true love.

00:59:14.000 She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be, and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true.

00:59:21.000 And so it's just a really incredible story for, I think, young people everywhere to see themselves in.

00:59:26.000 Snow White is running for president.

00:59:28.000 Launching my campaign.

00:59:31.000 There it is, right there, right?

00:59:32.000 Launching my campaign.

00:59:33.000 It's all political.

00:59:34.000 It's all political.

00:59:36.000 So, why not take a piece of IP, you know, like Snow White, first of all, one of the great animated IPs ever, and wreck it.

00:59:42.000 You could do that.

00:59:43.000 Also, you could take a fairy tale that has been so durable that it has lasted for centuries, and we'll just destroy it.

00:59:50.000 We'll make it the same female empowerment story that every single Disney movie has been for the last 20 years. 0.96

00:59:56.000 We'll do that.

00:59:57.000 Except more so.

00:59:58.000 She's not dreaming of true love.

00:59:59.000 Because girls, by the way, girls should definitely not dream of true love. 0.99

01:00:02.000 It'd be very, very bad for girls to dream of true love. 1.00

01:00:04.000 Instead, what they have to dream of is being a single wine slash cat lady at 40 years old and maybe making partner at the big firm before realizing it's too late.

01:00:11.000 She should have frozen her eggs. 0.89

01:00:13.000 That is what we can all aspire to be.

01:00:15.000 No more of this true love talk.

01:00:17.000 Love?

01:00:17.000 Bad.

01:00:19.000 Now, what's weird is that no matter how much you tell little girls that they shouldn't aspire to true love, they still do.

01:00:24.000 And then when they don't find it, they're very unhappy.

01:00:27.000 I'm sorry to break it to you, but feminism has been a giant fail along these lines. 1.00

01:00:30.000 The natural orientation of woman is to find man and to settle down with man and to have children with man. 1.00

01:00:36.000 And the natural orientation of man is to find woman and leave his father and mother and cleave to woman and have children and protect them. 0.81

01:00:43.000 I'm sorry to break it to Disney that this is the case and that no matter how many times you try to re-engineer the children, it's going to fail.

01:00:51.000 It'll fail not because they won't listen, they will, but then they will be failures because they will have listened to bad advice.

01:00:56.000 She's dreaming about the leader she knows she can be.

01:00:58.000 Yes, she too can be a girl boss. 1.00

01:01:00.000 Snow White, the story of girl bossing.

01:01:01.000 So, I think we can all very much look forward to the magic of single wine slash cat lady and the six average sized people of diverse racial and sexual orientations plus one dwarf.

01:01:13.000 I know I'll be looking forward to that with bated breath.

01:01:16.000 It'll be phenomenal.

01:01:17.000 And I'm sure when we do a review of it, that too will go viral.

01:01:19.000 Because again, you're not allowed to criticize the religion.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 24, 2023

Barbie Is Garbage, But You’re Not Allowed To Say So

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