The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Unleashes His Most Racist, Dangerous Executive Order | Ep. 1673

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden issues a transformative executive order designed to embed equity in every nook and cranny of American life.

00:00:06.000 A shocking number of social media videos emerged showing children beating the living hell out of each other at school.

00:00:10.000 And Biden garbles his message in Ukraine.

00:00:12.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:13.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:14.000 Now, folks, I don't know how much you've been watching the spate of social media videos that have emerged over the course of the last couple of years of kids beating the living hell out of each other at school.

00:00:30.000 But this seems to be happening at an accelerating rate.

00:00:33.000 And not just seems to be.

00:00:34.000 There are a couple issues.

00:00:35.000 One is the social media Spate of videos themselves.

00:00:39.000 There's the actual videos.

00:00:41.000 And of course, those have become more prominent because everybody now has a camera on their phone and they're all posting to their Instagram or to their Snapchat or to their TikTok.

00:00:48.000 All of these fights.

00:00:49.000 The other is the increased happening of violence.

00:00:52.000 And there's an enormous amount of violence that is now happening in American schools.

00:00:56.000 And it's video after video, incident after incident.

00:00:58.000 And we have to be asking ourselves why exactly this is happening right now.

00:01:02.000 So the most widely covered incident was an incident that ended with a young 14-year-old girl actually killing herself.

00:01:08.000 According to the New York Post, officials at the Central Regional School District in Ocean County, New Jersey, are bracing for howls of outrage today in their first school board meeting since a bullied teen named Andriana Cooke killed herself earlier this month.

00:01:20.000 The board will hold a moment of silence for the 14-year-old girl she died by suicide February 3rd after a video of her attack was shared on social media.

00:01:26.000 And they're going to appoint an acting superintendent to replace the old superintendent who resigned last week after intense backlash to his attempts to shift blame for Adriana's death to her own family.

00:01:35.000 Now, again, It is hard for me to believe that a kid is only committing suicide because of a video, but if you have kids who are already vulnerable and then there are social media videos of them getting their asses kicked and they're going broad, obviously that has an impact on the kids.

00:01:49.000 And here is a little bit of the video. 0.68

00:01:50.000 You can see this kid, this girl just getting really beat up at school.

00:01:55.000 And again, this went viral.

00:01:56.000 She's on the ground cowering.

00:02:05.000 You can see these other girls. 0.99

00:02:06.000 Apparently, it was a... She's hit in the face with a bottle, kicked, and slapped until she blacks out. 1.00

00:02:16.000 As she lies there on the floor, she's even taunted by one of her attackers. 1.00

00:02:20.000 That's what you get, stupid! 1.00

00:02:24.000 What makes the attack even more tragic is that the victim, Adriana Kush, took her own life. 1.00

00:02:33.000 So a former staffer at this high school said there were days when I would break up three fights before homeroom even started.

00:02:37.000 So it's not just this fight.

00:02:39.000 These sorts of fights have become unbelievably common.

00:02:42.000 And the administration did nothing.

00:02:44.000 And you see these sorts of things happening all over the place.

00:02:47.000 For example, there was a beating in a New York City school that was caught on tape.

00:02:52.000 And again, you know, this became national news stories.

00:02:57.000 In this particular video, apparently New York police said charges are pending against a middle school student who was caught on video beating a much smaller student to the ground with his body.

00:03:05.000 The video shows the two students interacting with the school bus in the background and other students walking around as the taller student grabs the other and bangs him on the ground.

00:03:12.000 He then scurries away after the attack.

00:03:14.000 Or for example, there's a video from a Virginia school bus in which a seventh grader is being choked by another student.

00:03:22.000 Here was.

00:03:24.000 One in five students is bullied.

00:03:26.000 This 12-year-old little boy is one of them.

00:03:28.000 He was choked on the school bus by an older girl student.

00:03:32.000 Now his heartbroken mom is speaking with Inside Edition.

00:03:34.000 She says her son is traumatized both physically and mentally.

00:03:39.000 It's shocking video taken on a school bus.

00:03:42.000 A girl gets into it with a much smaller kid, then begins to choke him. 1.00

00:03:47.000 I would think that they would expel her for strangling my son. 1.00

00:03:52.000 He is sad and depressed.

00:03:54.000 The school district in Virginia tells Inside Edition, the school administration handled the situation in line with the student discipline manual.

00:04:04.000 Okay, but apparently the mom said they tried to downplay everything.

00:04:07.000 They tried saying we did everything we could and we took the proper safety measures, but they absolutely didn't.

00:04:10.000 They didn't tell the teachers.

00:04:11.000 They didn't put in the protective order.

00:04:12.000 They didn't make sure my son was safe.

00:04:14.000 He was still seeing her in the hall and still seeing her in the cafeteria.

00:04:16.000 They did nothing.

00:04:18.000 Or there's another case.

00:04:19.000 Again, this is all within the last couple of weeks.

00:04:21.000 And so all of these videos are fairly recent.

00:04:25.000 You had a situation in Kentucky in which four middle school students were disciplined after trying to beat up a school teacher with hockey sticks.

00:04:33.000 It was a fight with hockey sticks, according to WDRP in Louisville, Kentucky, involving students and a staff member.

00:04:39.000 It was caught on video at Mayzeek Middle School.

00:04:41.000 The video shows several students and an adult using plastic hockey sticks in the gym and turning it back and forth.

00:04:46.000 Everyone swung the sticks or jabbed it back and forth.

00:04:48.000 The staff member eventually runs to an office as the students chase behind.

00:04:51.000 This is called an unfortunate incident by the principal.

00:04:53.000 Here's some of the tape.

00:04:54.000 A fight with hockey sticks involving several students and a staff member was caught on video at Mizik Middle School.

00:05:01.000 The footage was shared with WDRB and is being shared online tonight.

00:05:05.000 You can see several students and an adult using plastic hockey sticks in the gym.

00:05:11.000 During a back and forth, everyone is swinging the sticks or jabbing back and forth.

00:05:16.000 The staffer eventually runs toward an office as a student chases behind. 0.89

00:05:21.000 The principal called the incident unfortunate in a letter that was sent home to parents.

00:05:26.000 It said four students were disciplined.

00:05:30.000 These tapes generally are blurred by the media because they involve minors.

00:05:34.000 There's another case from Delaware, in which a 13-year-old girl, apparently, according to 6abc.com, is recovering after she was violently jumped inside her classroom in Stanton Middle School in Wilmington, Delaware.

00:05:43.000 The video is being used by Delaware State Police as part of their investigation.

00:05:47.000 Apparently, the daughter has special needs, and the school failed to protect her.

00:05:50.000 The fight happened last week on her daughter's third day at the new school.

00:05:53.000 According to the mom, they're all surrounding my daughter and watching her get kicked in the head, and watching her friend get kicked in the head, and they think that this is okay.

00:06:00.000 Apparently, there were threats that were written on the whiteboard before any of this happened by some of the other students.

00:06:04.000 Or there's a case in Miami-Dade, in which a teenage boy was accused of beating a girl on a school bus.

00:06:11.000 He's a 15-year-old boy, and apparently he was attacking a 9-year-old girl on the school bus earlier this month.

00:06:16.000 Here's some of that tape.

00:06:17.000 We are told that the student in the video that's getting beat on, she is a third grade student here at Coconut Palm K-8 Academy in Homestead.

00:06:28.000 Now again, as you mentioned, the video is difficult to watch.

00:06:31.000 Just a warning.

00:06:32.000 Let's take you there so you can see for yourself.

00:06:34.000 This did happen yesterday.

00:06:35.000 It happened Wednesday.

00:06:36.000 We have blurred the faces of the students to protect them.

00:06:40.000 Now this video shows a group of children on board a school bus.

00:06:43.000 They are arguing one minute.

00:06:44.000 The next another student begins punching on a little girl repeatedly.

00:06:47.000 Then another student jumps in and pummels that little girl. 1.00

00:06:50.000 The victim is nine years old.

00:06:53.000 If it feels like society is falling apart, that's because it kind of is.

00:06:58.000 But there are policy reasons why this is happening now.

00:07:01.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

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00:07:58.000 I am talking about diversifying because that is a smart investment strategy to protect yourself Okay, so what is happening at these schools?

00:08:04.000 So this is not just anecdotal evidence.

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00:08:09.000 Okay, so what is happening at the school?

00:08:11.000 So this is not just anecdotal evidence.

00:08:13.000 There is actual data suggesting there's been a vast uptick in the amount of violence at schools over the past several years.

00:08:19.000 In fact, Ed Week, which is a left wing publication, wrote in November 2021 following the return of most U.S.

00:08:25.000 school children to full-time in-person learning, a raft of anecdotal reports indicate violence may be rising in K-12 schools.

00:08:30.000 Teachers are reporting breaking up fights in schools and are raising concerns about their own safety.

00:08:34.000 Students have been caught with guns or other weapons on campuses in several high-profile incidents.

00:08:38.000 School shootings in 2021, though still very rare, are on track to surpass their pre-pandemic high.

00:08:43.000 So what exactly is happening?

00:08:44.000 Well, there is no national representative data set to confirm there have been more violent incidents.

00:08:50.000 But we do know that the most recent federal collection on school safety found that some types of violent crimes were on the rise as of the 2017-2018 school year.

00:08:57.000 So this is part of a broader trend.

00:08:59.000 Now, this is still below what it was in the 90s and the early 2000s, but it is a reversal of the downward trend that we actually saw in school violence.

00:09:08.000 And that is not shocking, considering that we've seen a reversal of the trend in general societal-wide violence.

00:09:14.000 Teachers, principals, and educators, according to Ed Week, now say they are seeing an increase that has roughly paralleled the return of most students to in-person learning.

00:09:21.000 So, what exactly is happening here?

00:09:23.000 Well, the answer is fairly obvious.

00:09:24.000 What is happening here is that equity is being imposed on our schools.

00:09:29.000 Equity is being imposed. 0.89

00:09:30.000 School discipline is one area in which you can see the results of equity.

00:09:34.000 The reason that you are seeing more kids beating each other up is because school principals and administrators, the Department of Education, state education officials, they have decided they no longer wish to police behavior in the classroom because a disproportionate share of the kids who are being suspended or expelled are kids of color.

00:09:49.000 That is an actual argument that is made by the left, and their answer to that is that we should keep violent kids or kids who are troublemaking or kids who are disturbing others' learning in the classroom.

00:09:58.000 Now, this has a real impact largely on other minority kids.

00:10:01.000 When you keep kids who are not capable of handling themselves in a classroom in the classroom, you're focusing on that one kid.

00:10:08.000 I get it.

00:10:08.000 But you're ignoring the other 30 kids who are in the classroom.

00:10:12.000 When you refuse to suspend or expel kids who are beating the living hell out of each other, then what you are doing is incentivizing kids to beat the living hell out of each other.

00:10:18.000 And everyone is scared bleepless of the federal government coming in and suggesting that racism is being enacted in the hallways of middle schools if the principal suspends somebody who's getting in a fight.

00:10:31.000 It is an unfortunate reality of life that a disproportionate share of the violent incidents that are happening on high school, middle school, elementary school campuses are happening among and by students of color. 0.99

00:10:42.000 And that is a serious societal problem.

00:10:45.000 But the solution to that, to say that you don't want to police that in schools, is essentially the same thing as defund the police when it comes to the actual streets of the United States.

00:10:54.000 When kids are doing bad things to each other, you cannot allow them to continue to do bad things to each other.

00:10:59.000 But this is, again, part of an overall proposal by the Biden administration, the Obama administration before it, to essentially curb the ability of teachers, administrators, and school officials to stop violence in the classroom.

00:11:12.000 It's part of an actual overall policy.

00:11:14.000 Fox News has a good piece by Liz Peek talking about this as blue state and city legislators around the nation race to pass laws that lessen penalties faced by young people for committing criminal acts.

00:11:22.000 They should be aware of the surging violence in and around schools that has followed New York's passage in 2017 of the Raise the Age Act.

00:11:28.000 New York's deadly legislation raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old.

00:11:32.000 A 16 or 17 year old offender would no longer be prosecuted as an adult.

00:11:35.000 The change was supposed to promote fairness.

00:11:37.000 Justice outcomes for 16 and 17-year-olds should improve following the implementation of the Raise the Age, Not Worsen, declares the mayor's office website.

00:11:44.000 But that has not been the case.

00:11:45.000 Raise the Age has led to more, not less, teen violence.

00:11:48.000 And of course, that is not a particular shock.

00:11:51.000 Criminal gangs have taken advantage of the law in New York.

00:11:54.000 They recruit underage people in order to go commit the crimes, knowing they are not going to pay a penalty.

00:11:59.000 So far this year, three young people have died and at least 18 others have been shot or stabbed in gang-related incidents in and around city schools, an exponential rise from last year.

00:12:07.000 This is all part of a broader rubric that is equity based.

00:12:12.000 And pushed by the social left, The Root, which is a very left-wing site, focuses on race issues.

00:12:17.000 They put out videos like this, and this has been, again, a talking point on the left for the last 10 years or so.

00:12:23.000 It's something that Ibram X. Kendi has talked about on the left.

00:12:26.000 It's something that you see people like Nikole Hannah-Jones talking about, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the argument goes something like this.

00:12:31.000 Kids in school misbehave.

00:12:33.000 Teachers label them bad kids.

00:12:35.000 These kids end up being suspended or expelled.

00:12:37.000 They end up committing crimes, and then they end up in prison.

00:12:41.000 And so we have to stop disciplining kids in schools.

00:12:42.000 The discipline in schools is the problem.

00:12:44.000 Here's a video The Root has put out on YouTube explaining the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.

00:12:49.000 Whether it's getting arrested for talking back or doodling on a desk, in-school policing is harming students by taking them out of school and helping funnel them into prisons.

00:13:01.000 It's called the school-to-prison pipeline.

00:13:05.000 We're talking about a structure of codes and punishments that criminalizes kids as early as preschool and increases their chances of ending up in the criminal justice system.

00:13:17.000 99% of New York City school children who were handcuffed in 2016 were black or Latinx.

00:13:23.000 This happens when school resource officers are called into classrooms to discipline students, sometimes for something as small as violating a dress code or grabbing candy from a teacher's desk.

00:13:36.000 Okay, so, the idea here, again, is that kids are being punished for things they shouldn't be punished for, and it's all racially biased.

00:13:41.000 Now, they never ask, in this video, how many of the people who are handcuffed, how many of the kids who are handcuffed in 2016, who are Black or Latinx, actually deserve to be handcuffed, right?

00:13:51.000 How many of them had actually committed crimes that were worthy of being handcuffed?

00:13:54.000 The basic idea is that so long as there is a disparate impact of a policy, the impact itself means that the policy is really, really bad.

00:14:02.000 And this is an idea that has been picked up at the highest levels of our government.

00:14:05.000 So for example, a Department of Education official in Kayla Patrick, she says racism is baked into school discipline.

00:14:12.000 And she's not making any bones about this.

00:14:14.000 So I walk into the school office to be interviewed for this job, and I saw a line of black boys, black boys sitting in the office in silence, doing nothing, learning nothing. 1.00

00:14:25.000 And they had been sent there by their teachers because they had in some way broken the rules.

00:14:29.000 So school discipline is a symptom of a racist and punitive system that often fails to see children as children.

00:14:36.000 Instead of helping students to learn and grow from mistakes, educators send them to the office, or send them home, or even sometimes call the police.

00:14:44.000 And black students are more likely to be affected by that.

00:14:48.000 Black girls are six times more likely to be suspended from school, and they're five times more likely to be arrested at school than white girls. 0.99

00:14:58.000 Okay, and they never ask the question, well, is there a behavioral discrepancy that explains the disparity?

00:15:03.000 Not every disparity is, in fact, discrimination.

00:15:05.000 Instead, the solution from the left, always and forever, is equity.

00:15:08.000 And this is infused.

00:15:09.000 This is a great, excellent example of how equity policy ends up with a worse life for everyone, including minority students at schools who are now engaging in violence and then being kicked out of the classroom because the incentive structure is to do that sort of thing. 0.64

00:15:22.000 Or they're in the schools and they're not the ones who are violent.

00:15:24.000 They're just in a violent scenario now.

00:15:26.000 There are more violent kids in the school.

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00:16:34.000 So again, equity policy ends with really, really bad outcomes.

00:16:38.000 And it's been embraced full scale by the Biden administration.

00:16:40.000 The Biden administration in June 2021 Told Ed Week at the same time that Ed Week was saying, by the way, there's been a spike in violence in schools.

00:16:47.000 Have you noticed?

00:16:48.000 The U.S.

00:16:48.000 Department of Education announced that they plan to explore fairness in school discipline, reopening one of the most contentious education civil rights debates in recent years.

00:16:55.000 The agency announced again, this is 2021.

00:16:57.000 It plans to seek public comment on discipline and school climate and how to best support and build schools capacity to promote positive, inclusive, safe and supportive school climates in a non-discriminatory manner.

00:17:07.000 Now, how will we tell if discrimination is happening?

00:17:09.000 We'll just look at the stats.

00:17:10.000 If more black kids per capita and white kids per capita are getting disciplined at school, then this means racism.

00:17:16.000 Now, no one ever asks why it is that more white kids per capita than, for example, Asian kids per capita are getting disciplined at school because that would completely blow up the narrative.

00:17:24.000 The narrative, of course, is always that America is a white privileged country and we never pay attention to the fact that there are actually a lot of minority groups in the United States that outperform traditionally Caucasian people in the United States as a group.

00:17:37.000 But the idea is that we can never look to actual underlying causes.

00:17:40.000 So the actual underlying causes, by the way, for school violence are pretty simple.

00:17:44.000 Single motherhood is a major cause of school violence. 1.00

00:17:46.000 When you don't have a dad in the home to actually discipline, it is a serious problem.

00:17:48.000 It's particularly true for young boys, but it's also true for young girls.

00:17:52.000 It turns out social media is really bad, and social media in school is really bad.

00:17:56.000 Kids should not have access to internet-available phones in school.

00:18:00.000 School is a place for learning.

00:18:01.000 School is not a place where you take a video of your friends kicking the crap out of each other and then post it on social media.

00:18:07.000 And yes, equity policies, which get rid of school resource officers and tie the hands of administrators.

00:18:12.000 And by the way, you think schools want to suspend or expel students?

00:18:15.000 They do not, particularly public schools.

00:18:16.000 Do you know how the money gets allocated?

00:18:18.000 Money gets allocated to most schools in the United States based on the attendance of the students.

00:18:23.000 So if a bunch of kids don't show up at school, the school typically gets less money.

00:18:27.000 Which, by the way, is one of the reasons why you see sometimes schools actually inflating the stats on how many kids attend the school.

00:18:33.000 They'll pretend that people are attending who are not.

00:18:34.000 But the idea that, en masse, teachers are just wanting to throw kids out of the classroom for racist purposes... First of all, you're going to have to explain why a disparate share... Are New York City school teachers more racist than other places?

00:18:45.000 According to The Root, they are, right?

00:18:47.000 99% of the kids who are ending up in handcuffs at school are Black and Latinx.

00:18:51.000 That next term no one has ever used except for people like the root, but nobody ever bothers that.

00:18:55.000 So are the teachers racist or the school administrators racist in New York?

00:18:58.000 Is that like the most racist place on Earth? 0.98

00:19:00.000 Apparently nearly everybody there who's getting arrested is black or Hispanic. 0.62

00:19:04.000 But you're not supposed to mention the possibility that educational disparities or behavioral disparities are a very real thing.

00:19:11.000 Instead, you're just supposed to go along with the equity plan.

00:19:14.000 This is why you have people like Brian Schatz, the senator from Hawaii, writing a letter to the Secretary of Education in February 2022, writing quote, in support of the Department of Education's efforts to improve school climate and safety consistent with civil rights laws.

00:19:28.000 I encourage the department to develop and provide clear guidance and recommendations to state educational agencies, local educational agencies, individual schools on policies on the use of school-based arrests, in addition to broader referrals of school disciplinary incidents to law enforcement authorities.

00:19:42.000 You should never arrest kids.

00:19:43.000 You should never refer them for arrest.

00:19:44.000 You should never report things to the authorities.

00:19:47.000 Again, this is insane.

00:19:49.000 It is insane because, again, disparity does not equal discrimination.

00:19:56.000 Heather McDonald wrote back in 2018 about this.

00:19:58.000 She said, in schools, disparate impact analysis results in the conclusion that racially neutral rules must nevertheless contain bias because black students nationally are suspended at nearly three times the rate of white students. All the way back in 2014, the Obama administration relied on this method to announce that schools that suspended or expelled students at higher rates than white students were violating anti-discrimination laws.

00:20:17.000 To understand how absurd that is, look at Duval County, Florida.

00:20:20.000 It has the Sunshine State's highest juvenile homicide rates.

00:20:23.000 73 kids, some as young as 11, have been arrested for murder and manslaughter over the past decade.

00:20:26.000 Black juveniles made up 87.6% of those arrests.

00:20:29.000 Whites made up 8%.

00:20:31.000 The black population in Duval County was 28.9% in 2010.

00:20:34.000 The white population was 56.6%, making black youngsters 21.6 times more likely to be arrested for homicide than white youngsters.

00:20:42.000 Is that because of racism in the criminal justice system?

00:20:45.000 But this is the same exact logic that is now being applied across the government.

00:20:49.000 And it has horrible consequences.

00:20:51.000 You're seeing those consequences in the schools.

00:20:53.000 Not just, by the way, in upticks in the number of young black females and males engaging in attacks in schools, but the number of kids overall who are engaging in these attacks.

00:21:03.000 Because if the new rule is nobody gets punished for attacking other kids in schools, what do you think is going to happen at schools?

00:21:11.000 And I point this out because this is a tip of the iceberg issue.

00:21:13.000 In a second, we're going to get to a lower on the iceberg issue, which impacts all of government.

00:21:17.000 What's happening in education is now happening across the American government.

00:21:20.000 Joe Biden has now put forward an executive order to essentially turn the entire executive branch of the United States into a giant equity department. 0.95

00:21:28.000 Designed to promote policies like the ones you are seeing in schools that are resulting in more kids getting the crap kicked out of them.

00:21:35.000 That sort of policy is now going to be applied government-wide by Joe Biden's administration. 0.53

00:21:40.000 It's the single most sweeping executive order that I have seen in my lifetime.

00:21:43.000 And it is perverse and it is racist.

00:21:46.000 It's quite vile.

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00:22:56.000 So if you like what you're seeing in education, wait until you see what Joe Biden just unleashed.

00:23:00.000 Now he did this just before a long weekend, which is always the best time to dump giant political news.

00:23:05.000 You dump it right before a long weekend.

00:23:07.000 So February 16th, Which, again, was last week.

00:23:11.000 He dumped it.

00:23:12.000 It was very little noticed, not reported on.

00:23:14.000 An executive order on further advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities through the federal government.

00:23:20.000 Now, that sounds like nice, right?

00:23:22.000 I mean, this is all happy talk, jargon.

00:23:24.000 Advancing racial equity.

00:23:26.000 That sounds, I mean, like we would love racial equity.

00:23:28.000 Now, what they mean by racial equity is equal outcome by group identity, which, of course, is nonsense.

00:23:33.000 Racial equity. 0.85

00:23:34.000 When we hear racial equity, what we hear is racial equality, meaning everybody should be treated the same on an individual level by the law, which we all agree with.

00:23:41.000 Racial equity means something quite different.

00:23:42.000 It means that if there's a disparate impact of a law, you have to change the law.

00:23:47.000 If a law is facially neutral and treats every individual the same, but criminals happen to unfortunately be more prevalent in particular groups in the population, say men versus women, well then obviously that's a disparate impact and the law is to blame.

00:24:03.000 Any failure of outcome, it's Ibram X. Kendi on steroids.

00:24:06.000 It is the misuse of the most powerful branch of the most powerful government in human history in order to restructure all of American society along the guises of racial equity.

00:24:17.000 Equity is not the same as equality. 0.91

00:24:19.000 Equity is about social justice, not actual justice.

00:24:23.000 Social justice is the opposite of actual individual justice.

00:24:26.000 That's why it's called social as opposed to just justice.

00:24:29.000 And support for underserved communities through the federal government.

00:24:31.000 And again, even the term underserved communities suggests that communities that are quote-unquote underperforming, it's not because there are social pathologies that exist in cultures in particular communities, which there absolutely do.

00:24:45.000 Trying to pretend that the cultural attitudes toward education are the same in, say, Korean-American households versus inner-city black households, On average, not individually, on average, pretending that there are no differences whatsoever is obviously silly. 0.56

00:25:03.000 It's not true.

00:25:05.000 That has nothing to do with race and it has everything to do with pathologies of culture that exist.

00:25:09.000 And again, there are differences that are good and there are differences that are bad across cultures.

00:25:11.000 But this is a difference that is particularly beneficial for Asian Americans, which is why they outperform academically.

00:25:16.000 That is not because Asians are genetically superior.

00:25:19.000 It's because many cultures in Asia actually value education.

00:25:23.000 Kids spend more time studying.

00:25:25.000 Parents put a lot of pressure on their kids to study.

00:25:27.000 Parents are married more often in the Asian community, right?

00:25:29.000 These are all things that contribute to the life of a child.

00:25:31.000 We all understand this on an individual level.

00:25:32.000 As soon as you start talking about it socially, everybody gets real quiet.

00:25:35.000 Everybody gets real nervous.

00:25:37.000 Now, there's no reason to be nervous about that stuff because it says nothing about race.

00:25:40.000 It has nothing to do with genetics.

00:25:42.000 It has nothing to do with skin color.

00:25:43.000 It has everything to do with the ways in which people live and congregate.

00:25:48.000 And those are all things that if you wish to succeed, you on an individual level, you can change those things.

00:25:53.000 But that's not the Biden administration thing.

00:25:54.000 The Biden administration thinks that if one community is quote-unquote underperforming, it must be because they are underserved.

00:26:00.000 Because the federal government is essentially God.

00:26:01.000 The federal government is going to fix all grievous injustices in the world.

00:26:05.000 They're going to right every wrong.

00:26:07.000 They're going to fix every disparity.

00:26:08.000 They're going to relieve the consequences of individual decision-making that congregate by group.

00:26:14.000 So what exactly does Joe Biden's new executive policy do?

00:26:18.000 His new executive order?

00:26:19.000 It is horrifyingly broad.

00:26:22.000 This is a direct quote.

00:26:22.000 By advancing equity, the federal government can support and empower all Americans, including the many communities in America that have been underserved, discriminated against and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.

00:26:33.000 Now, I love the sort of terminology that everyone in America who's a part of a minority group that is apparently not Asians or Jews, that everybody is, quote, adversely affected by persistent poverty, as though poverty is a sort of weird disease that sort of descends on you.

00:26:49.000 Now, that attitude, obviously, is the precise opposite of an equality attitude, which suggests that poverty is something that you can actually move against on an individual level by making a series of good decisions.

00:27:03.000 The success sequence that has come under attack by the left happens to be statistically durable.

00:27:07.000 If you do not wish to live in persistent poverty, you as an individual have to do three things and three things only in the United States.

00:27:14.000 One, finish high school.

00:27:16.000 In the United States, that means like basically able to do some math and basically able to read. 0.96

00:27:20.000 Because high schools in the United States are largely garbage, depending on where you are. 0.94

00:27:24.000 One, finish high school. 0.98

00:27:25.000 Two, get a full-time job.

00:27:27.000 Go into the workforce.

00:27:28.000 Don't be dependent on a government paycheck.

00:27:29.000 Three, don't have babies before you're married. 1.00

00:27:32.000 That's it.

00:27:32.000 Those are the three things.

00:27:33.000 You do those three things, you will not be permanently poor in the United States.

00:27:36.000 But according to the Biden administration, that's not enough because communities are being affected.

00:27:40.000 And I love that they're being affected by inequality.

00:27:44.000 Welcome to human life, where everyone is affected by inequality.

00:27:47.000 There are inequalities in literally every area of life.

00:27:50.000 That does not mean that the inequality can be laid at the feet of the quote-unquote system.

00:27:55.000 Sometimes the inequality is because of behavior.

00:27:57.000 Sometimes the inequality is because of inborn differences between people.

00:28:01.000 I'm a 5'9 Jewish guy who can't jump.

00:28:02.000 I ain't playing in the NBA anytime soon.

00:28:05.000 By contrast, there are people who are not as smart as I am.

00:28:08.000 Those people may not run a business. 0.93

00:28:11.000 These inequalities exist throughout human life and pretending that every human being is born identical is simply ridiculous.

00:28:17.000 It is not true.

00:28:19.000 Now, that's one of the beauties of capitalism, by the way, is comparative advantage means that IQ points, even if it might make you better at being a plumber than the plumber who lives next door, that doesn't mean that you should spend your time plumbing.

00:28:31.000 It means you should outsource the plumbing to the guy who lives next door, and he can be really, really wealthy.

00:28:34.000 I know a lot of very wealthy plumbers, actually.

00:28:37.000 Comparative advantage is a beautiful thing.

00:28:38.000 It allows people to find niches where no one else is filling the niche.

00:28:43.000 However, the perspective again of the Biden administration is that any inequality is a result of bad policy, which is essentially a Marxist viewpoint.

00:28:51.000 The Biden racist DEI executive order goes on.

00:28:54.000 In short, my administration has embedded a focus on equity into the fabric of federal policymaking and service delivery.

00:29:00.000 Embedded it.

00:29:01.000 Remember when we talked about the deep state under Trump, right?

00:29:03.000 There's these bureaucracies and these bureaucracies existed in order to apparently thwart the will of Donald Trump from the State Department to the IRS.

00:29:11.000 They existed to do the opposite of what Donald Trump wanted them to do as president of the United States.

00:29:15.000 Joe Biden is openly saying he's now stacking the federal bureaucracy with a bunch of people who believe in equity principles.

00:29:20.000 Achieving racial equity, says the Biden administration, and support for underserved communities is not a one-time project.

00:29:25.000 It must be a multi-generational commitment.

00:29:27.000 This goes on forever.

00:29:28.000 There is no actual endpoint.

00:29:30.000 Because here's the beautiful thing about arguing against persistent poverty and inequality.

00:29:34.000 These things have always existed and they will always exist.

00:29:37.000 There will be people in poverty, literally forever.

00:29:40.000 As Jesus said, the poor will always be with you.

00:29:43.000 There will always be some people who are doing less well than others.

00:29:46.000 There will never be a point in human history where everybody is earning the same amount of money, making the same amount of money, living exactly an identical lifestyle.

00:29:52.000 That is never going to happen.

00:29:53.000 In fact, all efforts at creating that have ended with some of the worst horrors visited upon human beings imaginable.

00:30:00.000 The Soviet Union, it turns out, was a terrible place to live.

00:30:03.000 Inequality and prosperity is a hell of a lot better than equality in poverty and oppression.

00:30:09.000 But it's going to be a multi-generational commitment that never ends because you can never reach full equality.

00:30:13.000 You can never reach a point where there is no poverty.

00:30:16.000 It must remain the responsibility of agencies across the federal government, says Joe Biden.

00:30:20.000 It therefore continues to be the policy of my administration to advance an ambitious, whole-of-government approach to racial equity and support for underserved communities, and continuously embed equity into all aspects of federal decision-making.

00:30:31.000 It's an idea that's going to eat everything you understand.

00:30:34.000 Every single area.

00:30:36.000 Environmental policy.

00:30:37.000 Economic policy.

00:30:38.000 School policy, as you see.

00:30:41.000 And sure, the results are going to be absolutely egregious, but you are following your star.

00:30:44.000 You're following the star of equity.

00:30:46.000 Every agency of the government, according to this document, quote, must ensure they have in place an agency equity team within their respective agencies to coordinate the implementation of equity initiatives and ensure that their respective agencies are delivering equitable outcomes for the American people.

00:31:01.000 Every single agent.

00:31:02.000 Now, I have a question.

00:31:04.000 Where does the president of the United States get the authority to do any of this?

00:31:07.000 None of this was the authority given to the executive branch by Congress.

00:31:11.000 Nowhere did Congress give the President of the United States the executive authority to implement an entire policy prescription for all of regulatory government for generations.

00:31:21.000 That is not a thing that Congress ever did.

00:31:23.000 This is a massive seizure of power.

00:31:25.000 It should be challenged in the courts.

00:31:26.000 I mean, first of all, it is violent of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. 0.88

00:31:31.000 But beyond that, the legislature, I mean, Kevin McCarthy in the House, they better get their asses on this thing.

00:31:37.000 They better be putting forward a bill tomorrow to repeal this executive order and force Democrats to actually vote on this thing. 0.99

00:31:43.000 Force Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to vote along with Democrats to uphold a racial equity lens for all of American government.

00:31:51.000 When designing, developing, acquiring, and using artificial intelligence and automated systems, says this executive order in the federal government, agencies shall do so consistent with applicable law in a manner that advances equity.

00:32:02.000 So, even AI is now going to be given equity principles within which to operate.

00:32:08.000 The government-wide goal for federal procurement dollars awarded to small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals shall be 15% in fiscal year 2025.

00:32:19.000 So now the federal government is essentially going to engage in affirmative action when it comes to giving.

00:32:24.000 Not giving.

00:32:24.000 When it comes to actual small business loans.

00:32:26.000 So we are now going to look at companies and say, is this company run by a black person? 0.63

00:32:29.000 If so, you get the loan. 0.99

00:32:30.000 If the company is run by an impoverished white person from Ohio living in East Palestine, screw it. 1.00

00:32:34.000 Not going to happen. 0.99

00:32:36.000 This is again, I can't stress this enough.

00:32:39.000 Joe Biden openly says he wants to embed this in every single department of the federal government, every single department.

00:32:46.000 There are no departments that are not affected by this executive order.

00:32:50.000 So what you are seeing in schools right now is, in fact, just the tip of the iceberg.

00:32:54.000 It is a thing that the federal government would love to do every to every single area of American life, every single one.

00:33:02.000 That equity-focused leadership across the federal government, those agency equity teams, those strike forces that exist within every single agency of the federal government, are going to be making policy that privileges certain groups above other groups depending on who is quote-unquote disadvantaged and which groups are quote-unquote underserved.

00:33:18.000 It is racist, it is terrifying, and it should be something that Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans get on right now.

00:33:25.000 Whatever they are doing, it is less important than this thing.

00:33:28.000 Because you embed this throughout the federal bureaucracy for generations, And that is effectively the end of the constitutional bargain and the bargain of the Declaration of Independence, to boot.

00:33:38.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to be getting to Joe Biden, who, while he is trying to affect world-breaking change here at home, is botching the English language over in Ukraine.

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00:35:40.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden headed over to Ukraine to the enthralled gasping of the members of our media.

00:35:46.000 Wow, so brave, so risky for him.

00:35:49.000 I mean, he literally warned the Russian.

00:35:50.000 His team told the Russians he is coming so that they would not attempt to do anything to the plane or fire missiles into Kiev while he was there.

00:35:57.000 But it's super risky.

00:35:59.000 Risky McRiscalot.

00:36:00.000 So he then obviously did not stay in Ukraine.

00:36:04.000 He gave a speech in Poland.

00:36:06.000 And while he was speaking, he had some words about Ukraine.

00:36:09.000 This is his attempt to play strong leader.

00:36:12.000 Now again, I'm a supporter of American support for Ukraine.

00:36:16.000 I believe that it is accomplishing many strategic goals for the United States to push Russia as far out of Ukraine as possible, to break the Russian military will for expansionism, to dissuade the Chinese from invading Taiwan, to uphold the idea that the United States is still invested enough in world politics to ensure, for example, freedom of the seas and free trade.

00:36:34.000 I think all of those are important goals.

00:36:36.000 I just think Joe Biden is the wrong man for the job, particularly when it comes to his his rhetoric, like the obvious inconsistencies in the things that Joe Biden says and does are a real problem for his agenda.

00:36:47.000 So Joe Biden was speaking yesterday and he had some sterling words about Ukraine.

00:36:50.000 He said Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, which OK, I mean, great. 1.00

00:36:56.000 Autocrats only understand one word. 1.00

00:36:59.000 No, no, no.

00:37:05.000 No, you will not take my country. 0.82

00:37:07.000 No, you will not take my freedom.

00:37:09.000 No, you will not take my future.

00:37:11.000 And I'll repeat tonight what I said last year in the same place.

00:37:15.000 A dictator that I rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people's love of liberty.

00:37:24.000 Brutality will never grind down the will of the free and Ukraine.

00:37:31.000 Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. 0.75

00:37:34.000 Never.

00:37:36.000 Okay, I mean, inspiring stuff from the geriatric president of the United States.

00:37:41.000 And again, I have some questions about his whole, freedom will always win, autocrats can only be dealt with by force, they can only be opposed.

00:37:48.000 You handed Afghanistan to the Taliban, dude. 0.95

00:37:50.000 I mean, like, I just can't get over that.

00:37:51.000 I'm never going to get over the fact that everybody has sort of just skipped over that.

00:37:54.000 They've skipped over the part where the president of the United States, for no reason that is possibly comprehensible, decided that it would be an amazing idea to hand the Taliban and the Haqqani Network, which is essentially Al Qaeda, Kabul, tens of thousands of people who help the United States, leave hundreds of Americans behind, get 13 American soldiers killed in the process.

00:38:15.000 I'm sorry, I don't believe him.

00:38:18.000 Right now, the cost of the United States is really low in Ukraine.

00:38:21.000 That is why all the talk about it's an endless war.

00:38:22.000 The United States has not lost a single soldier in this war because we don't have boots on the ground in harm's way in Ukraine.

00:38:29.000 The United States has been signing checks.

00:38:30.000 Signing checks to watch the Russian military get a task act is actually a pretty good deal for American geopolitics.

00:38:37.000 That said, is Joe Biden's word worth pretty much anything?

00:38:41.000 It's hard to look at his record and say yes.

00:38:44.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden says Ukrainian flags are flying all across America.

00:38:49.000 The irony here is kind of rich.

00:38:51.000 The same people, I would say a disproportionate share of the people who are flying Ukrainian flags in America feel very uncomfortable about flying American flags in America.

00:38:57.000 Here is Joe Biden.

00:38:59.000 The American people are united in our resolve as well.

00:39:03.000 All across my country, in big cities and small towns, Ukrainian flags fly from American homes.

00:39:12.000 Over the past year, Democrats and Republicans in our United States Congress have come together to stand for freedom.

00:39:20.000 That's who Americans are, and that's what Americans do.

00:39:25.000 Again, I'm all for the American stands for freedom routine.

00:39:29.000 I mean, I think broadly speaking, America does.

00:39:31.000 That is our long term goal.

00:39:33.000 However, the American flags are flying and Ukrainian flags are flying in America.

00:39:40.000 It's become a virtue signal for a lot of people on the left, particularly, to support what's going on in Ukraine when we all know, well, by the way, that if Donald Trump were president, it would be precisely the opposite situation.

00:39:50.000 Everything's gotten so partisan now that if Donald Trump said, OK, we are going to send support to Ukraine, then many people on the left would be like, this is interventionism.

00:39:57.000 It's nonsense.

00:39:58.000 It's only because Donald Trump was working with... Then we got to Joe Biden's, you know, great gaffness.

00:40:05.000 So here he was yesterday failing to speak the language of English.

00:40:09.000 America was being tested.

00:40:11.000 NATO is being tested.

00:40:12.000 All democracies are being tested.

00:40:15.000 And the questions we faced were as simple as they were profound.

00:40:20.000 Would we respond?

00:40:22.000 Or would we look the other way?

00:40:23.000 Would we be strong?

00:40:25.000 Or would we be weak?

00:40:27.000 Would we, all of our allies, be united or divided?

00:40:33.000 One year later, we know the answer.

00:40:36.000 We did respond.

00:40:37.000 We would be strong.

00:40:38.000 We would be united.

00:40:40.000 And the world would not look the other way.

00:40:46.000 I do enjoy the fact that occasionally our president breaks into Louis Armstrong-like scat in the middle of his speech.

00:40:51.000 He's like, very important question.

00:40:53.000 Very important question is...

00:40:58.000 It is enjoyable.

00:40:59.000 Okay, so here is one of the problems.

00:41:01.000 Again, all four supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia to the best of our ability to achieve American strategic goals.

00:41:09.000 Not Ukraine against strategic goals, American strategic goals.

00:41:13.000 The problem is, what is the off-ramp?

00:41:15.000 I keep saying this, I haven't said this for months.

00:41:16.000 What does an off-ramp look like?

00:41:17.000 What is the strategy to get to an off-ramp?

00:41:19.000 Well, yesterday, NATO's chief said, we are concerned that China is going to involve itself in arming Russia directly.

00:41:24.000 Which does, in fact, broaden the conflict and makes things kind of awkward.

00:41:28.000 We are also increasingly concerned that China may be planning to provide lethal support for Russia's war.

00:41:38.000 Putin must not win.

00:41:39.000 That would show that aggression works and force is rewarded.

00:41:45.000 It will be dangerous for our own security and for the whole world.

00:41:51.000 Well, I mean, if it's that dangerous, then you might want to think about, like, how do we get to the end of this thing faster rather than slower?

00:41:57.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Xi Jinping is prepared to visit Moscow for a summit with Russia's president in the coming months, according to people familiar with the plan, as Putin wages war in Ukraine.

00:42:05.000 Beijing says it wants to play a more active role aimed at ending the conflict.

00:42:08.000 The people familiar with Xi's trip plans said a meeting with Putin would be part of a push for multi-party peace talks.

00:42:13.000 and allow China to reiterate its call that nuclear weapons not be used.

00:42:17.000 Western capitals are currently expressing skepticism about China's diplomatic initiative, the broad outlines of which were first previewed by the country's top diplomat, Wang Yi, at the Munich Security Conference.

00:42:27.000 So China getting more directly involved would, in fact, be a bad thing.

00:42:30.000 Presumably, China is trying to bring the United States and Ukraine to the table with this particular threat.

00:42:35.000 The United States should not allow itself to be threatened by China.

00:42:37.000 By the same token, this is one of the reasons why I would hope that there are some serious backdoor negotiations happening with the Russians right now in an attempt to reach a conclusion.

00:42:46.000 Because while, you know, the entire foreign policy class in the United States keeps talking about Ukraine, there are also problems here at home.

00:42:55.000 And it is an act of political dereliction for the Biden administration to continue to go soft on some of the problems here at home while Joe Biden goes out there and champions what's happening, you know, two continents away because Ukraine is sort of on the border of Asia.

00:43:09.000 Here is Pete Buttigieg trying to explain.

00:43:11.000 He's Secretary of Transportation.

00:43:13.000 He's trying to explain what's going on in East Palestine, Ohio, yesterday.

00:43:15.000 And they are just bad at this.

00:43:16.000 This is the first time that Pete Buttigieg has really looked like a deer in the headlights, and that's because actual responsibility has now devolved upon him.

00:43:22.000 His actual responsibility for most of his mayoralty Was fairly low.

00:43:25.000 He didn't actually solve the pothole problem in South Bend, Indiana.

00:43:29.000 Domino's Pizza had to raise money to solve the pothole problem in South Bend, Indiana. 0.93

00:43:32.000 Then he was elevated to presidential candidate by the fact that he is a gay man. 0.89

00:43:36.000 And then he was elevated to the secretary of transportation by the fact that he is a gay man who likes airports.

00:43:40.000 And so now he actually has responsibility and it's kind of wearing big on him.

00:43:44.000 Here is Pete Buttigieg yesterday trying to explain why he has East Palestine under control.

00:43:49.000 The mayor of East Palestine has said it took nearly two weeks for the White House to contact him.

00:43:53.000 There were shouts of, where's Pete Buttigieg, at a town hall meeting last week.

00:43:59.000 What's your response to that?

00:44:00.000 When are you going to go to East Palestine?

00:44:02.000 I do want to stress that the NTSB needs to be able to do its work independently.

00:44:07.000 But when I go, the focus is going to be on action.

00:44:10.000 Look, I was mayor of my hometown for eight years.

00:44:12.000 We dealt with a lot of disasters, natural and human.

00:44:16.000 And one of the things I noticed very quickly is that there's two kinds of people who show up when you have that kind of disaster experience.

00:44:23.000 People who are there because they have a specific job to do and are there to get something done, and people who are there to look good and have their picture taken.

00:44:32.000 Oh, well, wow.

00:44:34.000 I mean, first of all, I kind of agree with Pete Buttigieg's general take on this thing, but he is in the business of being places to have his picture taken.

00:44:40.000 I mean, if we applied his logic to Joe Biden in Ukraine, for example, you might ask yourself, is Joe Biden there to do a thing or is he there to have his picture taken?

00:44:47.000 But we don't apply that logic, right?

00:44:49.000 It's a shifting logic.

00:44:50.000 The shifting logic is that Joe Biden is in Ukraine to do good, even though no good is actually getting done.

00:44:57.000 But Pete Buttigieg shouldn't go to East Palestine because it'll be a distraction.

00:45:00.000 What's your message to people who are concerned that the department was late to speak out on this issue?

00:45:03.000 trained around, he said, I should have spoken sooner. I should have done something. Yeah.

00:45:06.000 Well, you could, you know, get involved now. Do you have like some plans to do so?

00:45:10.000 What's your message to people who are concerned that the department was late to speak out on this issue? They're saying that transportation and EPA was late to the game and speaking out and responding to the situation in East Palestine. Well, to be clear, our department was on the ground within hours, helping with the response and the investigation.

00:45:34.000 Again, I respect the separate role of NTSB, but we have been on the ground literally from day one to make sure that we're doing our part to support.

00:45:43.000 I do think that it's important to speak out about that, and I could have spoken out sooner, and I'm making sure that we are focused on the actions that are going to make a difference.

00:45:53.000 Are you though?

00:45:54.000 Are you though?

00:45:55.000 Meanwhile, the economic news continues to be rather bad for the Biden administration.

00:46:00.000 Walmart and Home Depot have given a cautious outlook as shoppers are spending more on the basics.

00:46:04.000 Recession is coming, and that right quick.

00:46:07.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, consumers are spending more on food and less on electronics, apparel, and home improvements as inflation and changing habits zap demand for many goods.

00:46:13.000 Two of the country's largest retailers reported on Tuesday.

00:46:16.000 Both Walmart and Home Depot have enjoyed robust sales for much of the past two years because people were looking for bargains or fixing up their homes.

00:46:22.000 Now, more of the shoppers' budgets are going to groceries and travel, according to the executives.

00:46:27.000 Consumers are still spending money, said Walmart.

00:46:28.000 It's obviously not as clear to us what the back half of the year, however, looks like.

00:46:33.000 US home sales have now fallen for the 12th consecutive month.

00:46:35.000 Sales of previously owned homes dropped 0.7% in January to the slowest level since October of 2010.

00:46:40.000 So all those people whose value was locked up in the value of their home are starting to feel the pinch.

00:46:46.000 The economy is indeed slowing.

00:46:48.000 That is on the back of the inflationary economy created by Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve.

00:46:53.000 Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is out there bragging that Joe Biden is basically doing his work.

00:46:57.000 Is Joe Biden Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders?

00:46:58.000 Here is Bernie Sanders.

00:47:00.000 He's promoting a new book, by the way, in which he talks about how it's okay to be angry about capitalism from his lake house or something.

00:47:09.000 Here he is with Stephen Colbert, another very, very wealthy person talking about the evils of capitalism in a capitalist society.

00:47:14.000 Is Joe Biden Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders?

00:47:17.000 Or should I say Joe Biden?

00:47:18.000 The president and I worked together after the campaign.

00:47:23.000 work together after the campaign.

00:47:27.000 Our team sat down and we said, all right, how do we bring the campaigns together to come up with an agenda that works for working families?

00:47:34.000 And the end result of it was, I didn't agree with everything that was there.

00:47:38.000 He didn't agree with everything that was there.

00:47:40.000 But essentially, we put together probably the most progressive outline that any president has introduced since FDR.

00:47:49.000 So, on the economic front, we have the most progressive presidency since FDR, according to Bernie Sanders, an actual honest-to-God socialist.

00:47:56.000 On the racial equity front, we have the President of the United States embedding quote-unquote equity in every area of the American government.

00:48:02.000 And on the foreign policy front, we have a president who seems to be kind of pottering around on foreign policy without any real sort of overarching plans for what he would like to see happen.

00:48:12.000 So things are going great.

00:48:14.000 Which means that somebody should probably defeat him.

00:48:16.000 There's another candidate who's announced on the right side of the aisle now.

00:48:19.000 So this makes him the second candidate who's actively announced for the presidency.

00:48:23.000 This, of course, is my friend Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:48:25.000 He's appeared on an episode of The Search.

00:48:27.000 He's a really fascinating and interesting guy.

00:48:29.000 He's an out-of-the-box candidacy.

00:48:30.000 He's never held political office before.

00:48:33.000 He is the founder of Roivent Biosciences, which is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company.

00:48:38.000 We're in the middle of a national identity crisis.

00:48:40.000 his fortune in that industry.

00:48:42.000 He's also become somewhat notorious over the past couple of years for talking about woke capitalism and the evils that thereof.

00:48:48.000 He's a super smart guy.

00:48:50.000 And at the very least, he's going to improve the quality of the conversation in this particular presidential race.

00:48:54.000 I could see him having sort of an Andrew Yang type breakout here on the right side of the aisle.

00:48:59.000 Here is his first campaign ad.

00:49:00.000 We're in the middle of a national identity crisis.

00:49:05.000 Faith, patriotism, and hard work have disappeared only to be replaced by new secular religions like COVIDism, climatism, and gender ideology.

00:49:16.000 We hunger to be part of something bigger than ourselves, yet we cannot even answer the question of what it means to be an American.

00:49:24.000 Today, the woke left preys on that vacuum.

00:49:27.000 They tell you that your race, your gender, and your sexual orientation govern who you are, what you can achieve, and what you're allowed to think.

00:49:36.000 This is psychological slavery and that has created a new culture of fear in our country that has completely replaced our culture of free speech in America.

00:49:47.000 And that is why today I am announcing my run for President of the United States.

00:49:54.000 So as I've said, you know, when it comes to these candidates, there are a lot of them who are going to get in the race.

00:49:59.000 It's going to weed some people out.

00:50:00.000 But if it's a candidate like Vivek, who again is a long shot candidate, right?

00:50:04.000 He's never held political office before.

00:50:05.000 He doesn't have a lot of big money backers, but he can actually ask some really difficult questions during the primaries.

00:50:11.000 I think that that's going to be really good for the race as a general rule.

00:50:15.000 OK, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:50:18.000 So, things that I like.

00:50:19.000 Let us begin with one of the great episodes of South Park ever.

00:50:22.000 So, South Park is a show that I have enjoyed, I would say, on an infrequent basis from time to time.

00:50:27.000 It's not like a regular watch for me.

00:50:29.000 But there are certain episodes that are just classics.

00:50:32.000 And they did, in fact, release a classic this week.

00:50:34.000 It centered on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and their consistent attempts to be private by constantly seeking attention.

00:50:41.000 It's historically funny.

00:50:44.000 So let me start with you, sir.

00:50:46.000 You've lived a life with the royal family, you've had everything handed to you, but you say your life has been hard, and now you've written all about it in your new book.

00:50:53.000 Yes, that's right, friend. 0.99

00:50:55.000 You see, my wife and I are- I'm totally like, you should write a book, because your family's, like, stupid, and then so are, like, journalists. 1.00

00:51:01.000 So you hate journalists. 1.00

00:51:02.000 That's right.

00:51:03.000 And now you wrote a book that reports on the lives of the royal family.

00:51:06.000 Right.

00:51:07.000 So you're a journalist.

00:51:09.000 We just want to be normal people.

00:51:10.000 All this attention is so hard.

00:51:12.000 Isn't it true, sir, that your questionable wife has her own TV show and hangs out with celebrities and does fashion magazines? 1.00

00:51:17.000 What are you suggesting? 0.98

00:51:19.000 Well, I just think some people might say that your Instagram-loving b**** wife actually doesn't want her privacy. 1.00

00:51:24.000 How dare you, sir! 0.98

00:51:26.000 My Instagram-loving wife has always wanted her privacy! 1.00

00:51:29.000 And you know what else? 0.68

00:51:30.000 To hell with Canada! 0.99

00:51:31.000 We are leaving! 0.99

00:51:33.000 We'll go find some quiet place where we can be normal people!

00:51:36.000 Come on, wife! 1.00

00:51:37.000 We want privacy! We want privacy! We want privacy!

00:51:42.000 And they then proceed to take a jet around the United States and around the world actually, looking for privacy on what they call their Worldwide Privacy Tour, complete with song.

00:51:52.000 And these folks are actually, I would say they're beyond parody, but clearly they're not.

00:51:58.000 South Park did an amazing job on that.

00:51:59.000 There are actual rumors, by the way, that Harry and Meghan wanted to sue the creators of South Park.

00:52:05.000 There were actual rumors that came out to that effect, which would be just a perfect example of the so-called Streisand effect.

00:52:10.000 The Streisand effect is named after Barbra Streisand, the famed singer, because there was a point a couple of decades back when there was an aerial photograph taken of the California coast.

00:52:20.000 And nobody had ever seen this photograph.

00:52:21.000 It was in a public place, but nobody ever had seen it.

00:52:23.000 And this aerial photograph contained a picture of Barbra Streisand's home.

00:52:27.000 It wasn't labeled or anything.

00:52:28.000 And so Barbra Streisand freaked out and she threatened to sue the photographer unless he took down the photo. 0.99

00:52:33.000 And he was like, I'm not taking down the photo.

00:52:35.000 It's a picture of the coastline.

00:52:36.000 Why would I take down the photo?

00:52:37.000 But because she sued him, it ended up becoming a very popular photo and millions of people saw it.

00:52:42.000 This is the same sort of thing.

00:52:44.000 The fact that this was even discussed, suing South Park over this is amazing.

00:52:48.000 A representative said, it's all frankly nonsense, totally baseless, boring reports.

00:52:54.000 But apparently, apparently, the response followed days of articles noting that the Duchess of Sussex was distinctly unhappy about Matt Stone and Trey Parker's depiction of the couple.

00:53:02.000 The spectator had claimed she was upset and overwhelmed by the show and annoyed by South Park but refuses to watch it all despite it being unclear who its source was.

00:53:10.000 That, by the way, is hysterically funny.

00:53:12.000 She's upset and overwhelmed by the show.

00:53:15.000 So, one of the things in the show that is so devastating is that it points out that Harry and Meghan are claiming victimhood and are some of the least victimized people on the planet.

00:53:25.000 The whole episode is about how one of the characters in South Park goes to an image consultant to remake his image as a school child, and Harry and Meghan have already gone to the image consultant, and the end of every image consultant's pitch for what your new brand should be is victim.

00:53:38.000 So, for the princess, it's stuff like, first lady annoyer, victim.

00:53:43.000 For the prince, it's like, prince, victim.

00:53:45.000 And so when they claim victimhood, when she's like, oh my god, I'm so upset and overwhelmed by self-pity.

00:53:49.000 All you had to do was go and live your life and nobody would care.

00:53:53.000 Instead, you decided that you were going to go and sign a deal with Spotify and a deal with Netflix and that you were going to be a famous person.

00:53:58.000 And that you're, again, the very notion that Meghan Markle married into the royal family because she was seeking a private life with the man she loved is absurd. 0.65

00:54:07.000 As I pointed out, I mean, I did like a full review of Harry's silly book.

00:54:11.000 And, you know, like in the book, he talks about his dating history with Meghan.

00:54:17.000 On like the fourth date, he invited her to spend a week in Africa with him.

00:54:21.000 And she's like, sure.

00:54:22.000 And he's like, she didn't know who I was.

00:54:24.000 She didn't Google me.

00:54:25.000 Uh-huh.

00:54:26.000 She literally covered Kate Middleton's wedding on her Instagram page.

00:54:29.000 So yeah, I'm pretty sure she knew who you were.

00:54:32.000 And I'm pretty sure that you might be married now because she knew who you were. 0.52

00:54:36.000 As it turns out, people like Prince Harry, meaning a habitual Approaching middle-aged drug user and alcoholic who can't hold down a steady job don't tend to land B-list actresses.

00:54:50.000 This is a general rule, unless they are princes.

00:54:52.000 If they are princes, it seems to help the deal a little bit.

00:54:56.000 It's honestly amazing stuff from South Park as per the usual.

00:55:01.000 Really, really funny.

00:55:02.000 Okay.

00:55:02.000 Another thing I like.

00:55:03.000 So I want to tell you about a great episode in child rearing.

00:55:07.000 So you hear all of my horror stories about what it's like to have kids and you hear some of my cute stories about what it's like to have kids as well.

00:55:11.000 So this is a really great story because it teaches you the value of the free market.

00:55:16.000 So last week, My kids and I, it's late in the afternoon.

00:55:20.000 One of the things that we like to do in our neighborhood, there are some golf courses.

00:55:22.000 And one of the things that sometimes we'll do is we'll go take a golf cart and we'll like go to the outskirts of the golf courses and we'll pick up stray golf balls that have been missing.

00:55:29.000 It's like almost an Easter egg hunt for my kids.

00:55:31.000 It's really, really fun.

00:55:32.000 They like to get off the cart and they like dig the golf balls out of the dirt and all of this sort of stuff.

00:55:36.000 And over the course of maybe the past month, it turns out that they dug up like 75 or 80 of these golf balls.

00:55:42.000 And so they decided to start a business, my nine-year-old and my six-year-old, my nine-year-old daughter, my six-year-old son.

00:55:46.000 And so they started a business, they put up a sign, and they decided to sell the golf balls, the used golf balls for a dollar.

00:55:53.000 My son didn't really understand the pricing mechanism at the beginning.

00:55:56.000 So at the beginning, there was one red golf ball that he really liked.

00:55:58.000 It's like, I will sell this for $100.

00:56:00.000 And I said to him, I mean, if you want to keep the golf ball, that's a good strategy, but do you want to keep it or you want to sell it?

00:56:04.000 And he said, well, you know, I said, would you rather have a dollar or would you rather have the golf ball?

00:56:08.000 He said, rather have a dollar.

00:56:09.000 Fine.

00:56:09.000 So he lowered the pricing mechanism.

00:56:11.000 This is how markets work, folks.

00:56:12.000 And, uh, and then we put out a notice to our kind of local community group on And we said that my kids are selling golf balls, used golf balls for a buck a piece.

00:56:22.000 And this is one of the beautiful things about being part of a really nice community.

00:56:24.000 Everybody decided they're going to buy used golf balls for my kids.

00:56:26.000 So in the first 10, 15 minutes of this, of this notice going out, all of our friends said, okay, I'll take 10 golf balls.

00:56:32.000 I'll take 15 golf balls and, and all the rest.

00:56:35.000 So my kids got super into it.

00:56:37.000 They made like a flyer.

00:56:38.000 They made a sign.

00:56:39.000 They took pictures.

00:56:39.000 We went, we, they made little bags.

00:56:41.000 They dropped off the golf balls, the door to door service.

00:56:43.000 That was part of the thing was delivery.

00:56:45.000 And so the kids would run up to the door, they'd pick up the money.

00:56:47.000 It was all very, very sweet.

00:56:49.000 And my daughter, who's nine, we were talking about this, and she said, this is great.

00:56:53.000 We should do more of this.

00:56:54.000 And I said, well, right.

00:56:55.000 It's very labor intensive.

00:56:56.000 It takes a lot of work to go find all of these golf balls.

00:56:58.000 One of the things you could do is there are a lot of kids in the neighborhood who also live near golf courses.

00:57:02.000 You could tell them that you will give them 25 cents a pop for the golf balls, and they can sell them at a buck a pop.

00:57:07.000 And she said, the right question, she said, well, why do I get an extra 75 cents?

00:57:12.000 Why should I sell it for a dollar when the labor input is 25 cents?

00:57:15.000 So, well, you're putting in a bunch of other labor, right?

00:57:17.000 You're aggregating golf balls.

00:57:18.000 No one wants to buy a single used golf ball.

00:57:20.000 People want to buy 10 or 20 of them.

00:57:21.000 So you're aggregating them, you're marketing them, you're dropping them off, you're doing the delivery, you're packaging them, you're doing all of these things and all these things take time.

00:57:28.000 And my daughter turns to me, she says, so time is money.

00:57:31.000 I was like, yes, yes, it is.

00:57:35.000 Here's kind of the beautiful thing about getting your kids involved in entrepreneurial activity at a very young age.

00:57:40.000 One of the beautiful things is it teaches a lot of skills.

00:57:43.000 So my daughter was learning and my son, they were learning math during this process.

00:57:47.000 They were learning the value of actually working because they get paid for the work.

00:57:51.000 They were learning that if they put in more input, if there's a market, they'll get more output.

00:57:55.000 They're learning customer service.

00:57:57.000 They have to be nice to the people who they are dropping the golf balls off to.

00:57:59.000 All of these things are socializing and they are good.

00:58:02.000 Free market is a good thing.

00:58:03.000 I'm very proud of my kids.

00:58:05.000 It's very sweet of them.

00:58:06.000 I'm also particularly proud of them because I asked them what they were doing with the money afterward and they said, well, we're going to give like a big chunk of it.

00:58:11.000 They earned like 70 bucks.

00:58:13.000 I said, What do you want to do with it?" And they said, well, we have to give a lot of it to tzedakah, which in Hebrew is charity.

00:58:17.000 We have to give some of it to charity, and then we want to take some of it.

00:58:20.000 And they had a bit of a disagreement on what to do with it.

00:58:23.000 One of them, my son, reinvested it in capital equipment.

00:58:26.000 He immediately went and took $20 and bought a golf ball washing machine so that when we get the balls from the course, then he can wash them off in the golf ball washing machine.

00:58:34.000 So he was spending this morning doing that.

00:58:36.000 Again, investing back in the business.

00:58:38.000 Smart business move.

00:58:39.000 My daughter actively considered buying stock.

00:58:41.000 I'm not kidding.

00:58:42.000 Because I had explained to her how the stock market works.

00:58:44.000 And so she's like, can I buy a share of a company?

00:58:46.000 I was like, you can.

00:58:47.000 You can, in fact, buy a share of a company.

00:58:49.000 Ah, the joys of business.

00:58:50.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate. 0.99

00:58:53.000 So, how stupidly woke have things become? 0.98

00:59:01.000 Things have become so stupidly woke that even people who are anti-slavery are now being cancelled because they're not anti-slavery enough in their depictions of the evils of slavery. 0.99

00:59:08.000 There's an article in the New York Times that is titled, In Vermont, a school and artist fight over murals of slavery. 0.95

00:59:14.000 Created to depict the brutality of enslavement, the works are seen by some as offensive.

00:59:17.000 The school wants them permanently covered.

00:59:19.000 The artist says they're historically important.

00:59:20.000 So what happened?

00:59:22.000 Apparently, for years, when students at Vermont Law and Graduate School came to Shirley Jefferson with objections to the murals in the Student Center and their depictions of black people that struck some as racist caricatures, the longtime black administrator urged those protesting to move on.

00:59:35.000 Ms.

00:59:35.000 Jefferson, who is 69, is no stranger to racism or protest.

00:59:38.000 She was born in segregated Selma, Alabama in 1953 and helped integrate her high school.

00:59:43.000 She said, I told them, you did not come here to fight over a mural, you came to get educated.

00:59:46.000 Then came the summer of 2020, and Jefferson and others found a renewed commitment to confront embedded racism.

00:59:52.000 She said, when George Floyd was killed, all of a sudden I said to myself, that mural has got to go.

00:59:56.000 But the artist who painted the mural, a person named Sam Carson, who is white, fought back against the plan.

01:00:01.000 Why do you fight back against the plan?

01:00:03.000 Well, because he says, number one, it is a major work.

01:00:06.000 It is my life.

01:00:06.000 It's important that it be there.

01:00:08.000 And it's historically important and about what it says about black people rising up to resist.

01:00:12.000 And it's important as a record of what we said in 1993.

01:00:14.000 The two murals are each 24 feet long and they depict the brutality of slavery with scenes including a slave market, a slave owner wielding a whip and an attacking dog.

01:00:22.000 They also show white Vermonters protesting slavery and helping people escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

01:00:27.000 The style is more expressive than realistic and it was inspired by Mexican muralists like José Clemente Orozco.

01:00:34.000 So now the law school has covered the paintings with white panels so as not to offend anyone.

01:00:38.000 Even though, again, the entire point of the murals is that slavery is extremely bad and white people participated in it. 0.68

01:00:45.000 But it's not enough.

01:00:47.000 They must come down because modern sensibilities are offended.

01:00:51.000 This is similar to a bit of a spat that we had yesterday on Twitter.

01:00:56.000 In which Ibram X. Kendi tweeted out pictures of the first president during President's Day.

01:01:00.000 He's like, many of these people were slaveholders.

01:01:01.000 Eight out of the first 12 presidents were slaveholders and held thousands of slaves combined.

01:01:07.000 And this is something you should remember.

01:01:08.000 America was founded in slavery, not in freedom.

01:01:10.000 And so I responded by saying, many of those people also wrote the Constitution that provided for its future amendment, attempted to abolish the slave trade by 1808, and also created the freedom that you are getting rich off of today.

01:01:22.000 And this, of course, made some people very angry, made some people very, very angry because you're supposed to only focus on the evils of the past.

01:01:28.000 This is the beautiful thing about the modern woke generation.

01:01:31.000 Modern woke generation is the only good.

01:01:32.000 They're the only good people to ever have been born.

01:01:34.000 They are perfect in every single way.

01:01:35.000 And so everyone who came before them must be cast out into the outer darkness because all those people were flawed.

01:01:40.000 But they are not flawed.

01:01:41.000 They have all the right views today.

01:01:43.000 Now, tomorrow, they won't have the right views and they'll be forced to kneel and bend before the prevailing status quo.

01:01:49.000 For the moment, they are riding the high horse of moral privilege.

01:01:53.000 That high horse of moral privilege says that these people who have provided no actual service to society, who've never done anything of actual value, who've actually been a negative drain on society's resources in many ways, because all they do is chip away at the society that creates wealth and freedom.

01:02:07.000 These people are spending their days Stewing in hatred for people who died 200 years ago and also were kind of important and did things.

01:02:17.000 It is amazing how people who uselessly sit there and tweet things on Twitter think that they are more important world historical figures than people who actually did things like found the United States of America.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 22, 2023

Biden Unleashes His Most Racist, Dangerous Executive Order | Ep. 1673

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