A 14-year-old girl takes her own life after a video of her attack is shared on social media, and a school district in New Jersey holds a moment of silence in memory of the victim, Adriana Kush, who was killed by an older student after the video of the attack went viral. Ben Shapiro explains why this is happening in American schools, and why the administration did nothing to stop it. He also points to the increasing number of violent incidents caught on video in schools across the country, and the lack of action taken by the school system to prevent them from happening in the first place. Ben Shapiro is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and host of the radio show "The Ben Shapiro Show" on SiriusXM Radio. He is also a frequent contributor to Teen Vogue and has been featured on CBS Radio's Morning Mashup and NPR's "New York Magazine". He can be reached at ben.shapiro@whatiwatchedtonight.co.nz and can be found online at bit.ly/BenShapiroandrea. Thanks to our sponsor, Caff for sponsoring the show. Thank you for listening and supporting Ben Shapiro on his new podcast, Ben Shapiro's Unfiltered Media Podcast! and Good Morning America on the podcast. . Subscribe, Like, Share and Retweet Ben on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes and leave us your thoughts on the show on any of the social medias, and we'll get a shoutout in next week's episode of "Good Morning America" on the Hill by clicking the linktrp.ee/Ben Shapiro's new podcast "Upset on Podchaser@ . Thanks for listening to Ben Shapiro & Ben Shapiro Podcasts on The Ben Shapiro Thanks also for listening, Ben is a Ben Shapiro and Joe Biden on & Joe Biden's "Uncivilized" - Thank you, Joe Biden is a great guy! - The Best of Ben Shapiro? thank you, Also check out his new book "The White House of Good Morning Joe" on Amazon Prime? and "The New York Post on the Podchick Podcasts by is out on PodChronicity by . . and much more! and if you're looking for a good time in the new issue of "The Good Morning Girl" by Ben Shapiro.
00:00:14.000Now, 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.
00:00:30.000But this seems to be happening at an accelerating rate.
00:00:41.000And 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.
00:00:49.000The other is the increased happening of violence.
00:00:52.000And there's an enormous amount of violence that is now happening in American schools.
00:00:56.000And it's video after video, incident after incident.
00:00:58.000And we have to be asking ourselves why exactly this is happening right now.
00:01:02.000So the most widely covered incident was an incident that ended with a young 14-year-old girl actually killing herself.
00:01:08.000According 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.
00:01:20.000The 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.
00:01:26.000And 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.
00:01:35.000Now, 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.
00:01:49.000And here is a little bit of the video.
00:01:50.000You can see this kid, this girl just getting really beat up at school.
00:02:44.000And you see these sorts of things happening all over the place.
00:02:47.000For example, there was a beating in a New York City school that was caught on tape.
00:02:52.000And again, you know, this became national news stories.
00:02:57.000In 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.
00:03:05.000The 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.
00:03:12.000He then scurries away after the attack.
00:03:14.000Or for example, there's a video from a Virginia school bus in which a seventh grader is being choked by another student.
00:03:54.000The school district in Virginia tells Inside Edition, the school administration handled the situation in line with the student discipline manual.
00:04:04.000Okay, but apparently the mom said they tried to downplay everything.
00:04:07.000They tried saying we did everything we could and we took the proper safety measures, but they absolutely didn't.
00:04:19.000Again, this is all within the last couple of weeks.
00:04:21.000And so all of these videos are fairly recent.
00:04:25.000You had a situation in Kentucky in which four middle school students were disciplined after trying to beat up a school teacher with hockey sticks.
00:04:33.000It was a fight with hockey sticks, according to WDRP in Louisville, Kentucky, involving students and a staff member.
00:04:39.000It was caught on video at Mayzeek Middle School.
00:04:41.000The video shows several students and an adult using plastic hockey sticks in the gym and turning it back and forth.
00:04:46.000Everyone swung the sticks or jabbed it back and forth.
00:04:48.000The staff member eventually runs to an office as the students chase behind.
00:04:51.000This is called an unfortunate incident by the principal.
00:04:54.000A fight with hockey sticks involving several students and a staff member was caught on video at Mizik Middle School.
00:05:01.000The footage was shared with WDRB and is being shared online tonight.
00:05:05.000You can see several students and an adult using plastic hockey sticks in the gym.
00:05:11.000During a back and forth, everyone is swinging the sticks or jabbing back and forth.
00:05:16.000The staffer eventually runs toward an office as a student chases behind.
00:05:21.000The principal called the incident unfortunate in a letter that was sent home to parents.
00:05:26.000It said four students were disciplined.
00:05:30.000These tapes generally are blurred by the media because they involve minors.
00:05:34.000There'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.
00:05:43.000The video is being used by Delaware State Police as part of their investigation.
00:05:47.000Apparently, the daughter has special needs, and the school failed to protect her.
00:05:50.000The fight happened last week on her daughter's third day at the new school.
00:05:53.000According 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.
00:06:00.000Apparently, there were threats that were written on the whiteboard before any of this happened by some of the other students.
00:06:04.000Or there's a case in Miami-Dade, in which a teenage boy was accused of beating a girl on a school bus.
00:06:11.000He's a 15-year-old boy, and apparently he was attacking a 9-year-old girl on the school bus earlier this month.
00:06:17.000We 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.
00:06:28.000Now again, as you mentioned, the video is difficult to watch.
00:07:03.000One of those policy reasons is the fact that the people who run the economy are also the people who have decided what school policy ought to look like.
00:07:09.000The people who are running the economy are, of course, It's running the economy into a ditch.
00:07:11.000The stock market took a serious tumble yesterday.
00:07:13.000The expectations are there will be a massive interest rate increase over the course of the next couple of months.
00:07:55.000I'm not talking about like taking all your assets and translating into gold bars.
00:07:58.000I am talking about diversifying because that is a smart investment strategy to protect yourself Okay, so what is happening at these schools?
00:08:04.000So this is not just anecdotal evidence.
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00:08:09.000Okay, so what is happening at the school?
00:08:11.000So this is not just anecdotal evidence.
00:08:13.000There is actual data suggesting there's been a vast uptick in the amount of violence at schools over the past several years.
00:08:19.000In fact, Ed Week, which is a left wing publication, wrote in November 2021 following the return of most U.S.
00:08:25.000school children to full-time in-person learning, a raft of anecdotal reports indicate violence may be rising in K-12 schools.
00:08:30.000Teachers are reporting breaking up fights in schools and are raising concerns about their own safety.
00:08:34.000Students have been caught with guns or other weapons on campuses in several high-profile incidents.
00:08:38.000School shootings in 2021, though still very rare, are on track to surpass their pre-pandemic high.
00:08:44.000Well, there is no national representative data set to confirm there have been more violent incidents.
00:08:50.000But 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.
00:08:59.000Now, 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.
00:09:08.000And that is not shocking, considering that we've seen a reversal of the trend in general societal-wide violence.
00:09:14.000Teachers, 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.
00:09:30.000School discipline is one area in which you can see the results of equity.
00:09:34.000The 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.
00:09:49.000That 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.
00:09:58.000Now, this has a real impact largely on other minority kids.
00:10:01.000When you keep kids who are not capable of handling themselves in a classroom in the classroom, you're focusing on that one kid.
00:10:08.000But you're ignoring the other 30 kids who are in the classroom.
00:10:12.000When 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.
00:10:18.000And 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.
00:10:31.000It 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.
00:10:42.000And that is a serious societal problem.
00:10:45.000But 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.
00:10:54.000When kids are doing bad things to each other, you cannot allow them to continue to do bad things to each other.
00:10:59.000But 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.
00:11:12.000It's part of an actual overall policy.
00:11:14.000Fox 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.
00:11:22.000They 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.
00:11:28.000New York's deadly legislation raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old.
00:11:32.000A 16 or 17 year old offender would no longer be prosecuted as an adult.
00:11:35.000The change was supposed to promote fairness.
00:11:37.000Justice 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.
00:11:45.000Raise the Age has led to more, not less, teen violence.
00:11:48.000And of course, that is not a particular shock.
00:11:51.000Criminal gangs have taken advantage of the law in New York.
00:11:54.000They recruit underage people in order to go commit the crimes, knowing they are not going to pay a penalty.
00:11:59.000So 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.
00:12:07.000This is all part of a broader rubric that is equity based.
00:12:12.000And pushed by the social left, The Root, which is a very left-wing site, focuses on race issues.
00:12:17.000They put out videos like this, and this has been, again, a talking point on the left for the last 10 years or so.
00:12:23.000It's something that Ibram X. Kendi has talked about on the left.
00:12:26.000It's something that you see people like Nikole Hannah-Jones talking about, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the argument goes something like this.
00:12:35.000These kids end up being suspended or expelled.
00:12:37.000They end up committing crimes, and then they end up in prison.
00:12:41.000And so we have to stop disciplining kids in schools.
00:12:42.000The discipline in schools is the problem.
00:12:44.000Here's a video The Root has put out on YouTube explaining the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.
00:12:49.000Whether 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.
00:13:01.000It's called the school-to-prison pipeline.
00:13:05.000We'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.
00:13:17.00099% of New York City school children who were handcuffed in 2016 were black or Latinx.
00:13:23.000This 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.
00:13:36.000Okay, 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.
00:13:41.000Now, 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?
00:13:51.000How many of them had actually committed crimes that were worthy of being handcuffed?
00:13:54.000The 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.
00:14:02.000And this is an idea that has been picked up at the highest levels of our government.
00:14:05.000So for example, a Department of Education official in Kayla Patrick, she says racism is baked into school discipline.
00:14:12.000And she's not making any bones about this.
00:14:14.000So 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.
00:14:25.000And they had been sent there by their teachers because they had in some way broken the rules.
00:14:29.000So school discipline is a symptom of a racist and punitive system that often fails to see children as children.
00:14:36.000Instead 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.
00:14:44.000And black students are more likely to be affected by that.
00:14:48.000Black 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.
00:14:58.000Okay, and they never ask the question, well, is there a behavioral discrepancy that explains the disparity?
00:15:03.000Not every disparity is, in fact, discrimination.
00:15:05.000Instead, the solution from the left, always and forever, is equity.
00:15:09.000This 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.
00:15:22.000Or they're in the schools and they're not the ones who are violent.
00:15:24.000They're just in a violent scenario now.
00:15:26.000There are more violent kids in the school.
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00:16:34.000So again, equity policy ends with really, really bad outcomes.
00:16:38.000And it's been embraced full scale by the Biden administration.
00:16:40.000The 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.
00:16:48.000Department 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.
00:16:55.000The agency announced again, this is 2021.
00:16:57.000It 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.
00:17:07.000Now, how will we tell if discrimination is happening?
00:17:10.000If more black kids per capita and white kids per capita are getting disciplined at school, then this means racism.
00:17:16.000Now, 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.
00:17:24.000The 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.
00:17:37.000But the idea is that we can never look to actual underlying causes.
00:17:40.000So the actual underlying causes, by the way, for school violence are pretty simple.
00:17:44.000Single motherhood is a major cause of school violence.
00:17:46.000When you don't have a dad in the home to actually discipline, it is a serious problem.
00:17:48.000It's particularly true for young boys, but it's also true for young girls.
00:17:52.000It turns out social media is really bad, and social media in school is really bad.
00:17:56.000Kids should not have access to internet-available phones in school.
00:18:01.000School 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.
00:18:07.000And yes, equity policies, which get rid of school resource officers and tie the hands of administrators.
00:18:12.000And by the way, you think schools want to suspend or expel students?
00:18:15.000They do not, particularly public schools.
00:18:16.000Do you know how the money gets allocated?
00:18:18.000Money gets allocated to most schools in the United States based on the attendance of the students.
00:18:23.000So if a bunch of kids don't show up at school, the school typically gets less money.
00:18:27.000Which, by the way, is one of the reasons why you see sometimes schools actually inflating the stats on how many kids attend the school.
00:18:33.000They'll pretend that people are attending who are not.
00:18:34.000But 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?
00:18:45.000According to The Root, they are, right?
00:18:47.00099% of the kids who are ending up in handcuffs at school are Black and Latinx.
00:18:51.000That next term no one has ever used except for people like the root, but nobody ever bothers that.
00:18:55.000So are the teachers racist or the school administrators racist in New York?
00:18:58.000Is that like the most racist place on Earth?
00:19:00.000Apparently nearly everybody there who's getting arrested is black or Hispanic.
00:19:04.000But you're not supposed to mention the possibility that educational disparities or behavioral disparities are a very real thing.
00:19:11.000Instead, you're just supposed to go along with the equity plan.
00:19:14.000This 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.
00:19:28.000I 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.
00:19:49.000It is insane because, again, disparity does not equal discrimination.
00:19:56.000Heather McDonald wrote back in 2018 about this.
00:19:58.000She 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.
00:20:17.000To understand how absurd that is, look at Duval County, Florida.
00:20:20.000It has the Sunshine State's highest juvenile homicide rates.
00:20:23.00073 kids, some as young as 11, have been arrested for murder and manslaughter over the past decade.
00:20:26.000Black juveniles made up 87.6% of those arrests.
00:20:51.000You're seeing those consequences in the schools.
00:20:53.000Not 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.
00:21:03.000Because if the new rule is nobody gets punished for attacking other kids in schools, what do you think is going to happen at schools?
00:21:11.000And I point this out because this is a tip of the iceberg issue.
00:21:13.000In a second, we're going to get to a lower on the iceberg issue, which impacts all of government.
00:21:17.000What's happening in education is now happening across the American government.
00:21:20.000Joe Biden has now put forward an executive order to essentially turn the entire executive branch of the United States into a giant equity department.
00:21:28.000Designed to promote policies like the ones you are seeing in schools that are resulting in more kids getting the crap kicked out of them.
00:21:35.000That sort of policy is now going to be applied government-wide by Joe Biden's administration.
00:21:40.000It's the single most sweeping executive order that I have seen in my lifetime.
00:21:49.000These are things that make you worry for your country, for sure.
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00:23:34.000When 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.
00:23:41.000Racial equity means something quite different.
00:23:42.000It means that if there's a disparate impact of a law, you have to change the law.
00:23:47.000If 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.
00:24:03.000Any failure of outcome, it's Ibram X. Kendi on steroids.
00:24:06.000It 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.
00:24:19.000Equity is about social justice, not actual justice.
00:24:23.000Social justice is the opposite of actual individual justice.
00:24:26.000That's why it's called social as opposed to just justice.
00:24:29.000And support for underserved communities through the federal government.
00:24:31.000And 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.
00:24:45.000Trying 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.
00:26:22.000By 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.
00:26:33.000Now, 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.
00:26:49.000Now, 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.
00:27:03.000The success sequence that has come under attack by the left happens to be statistically durable.
00:27:07.000If 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.
00:28:19.000Now, 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.
00:28:31.000It means you should outsource the plumbing to the guy who lives next door, and he can be really, really wealthy.
00:28:34.000I know a lot of very wealthy plumbers, actually.
00:28:37.000Comparative advantage is a beautiful thing.
00:28:38.000It allows people to find niches where no one else is filling the niche.
00:28:43.000However, the perspective again of the Biden administration is that any inequality is a result of bad policy, which is essentially a Marxist viewpoint.
00:28:51.000The Biden racist DEI executive order goes on.
00:28:54.000In short, my administration has embedded a focus on equity into the fabric of federal policymaking and service delivery.
00:29:01.000Remember when we talked about the deep state under Trump, right?
00:29:03.000There's these bureaucracies and these bureaucracies existed in order to apparently thwart the will of Donald Trump from the State Department to the IRS.
00:29:11.000They existed to do the opposite of what Donald Trump wanted them to do as president of the United States.
00:29:15.000Joe Biden is openly saying he's now stacking the federal bureaucracy with a bunch of people who believe in equity principles.
00:29:20.000Achieving racial equity, says the Biden administration, and support for underserved communities is not a one-time project.
00:29:25.000It must be a multi-generational commitment.
00:29:30.000Because here's the beautiful thing about arguing against persistent poverty and inequality.
00:29:34.000These things have always existed and they will always exist.
00:29:37.000There will be people in poverty, literally forever.
00:29:40.000As Jesus said, the poor will always be with you.
00:29:43.000There will always be some people who are doing less well than others.
00:29:46.000There 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.
00:29:53.000In fact, all efforts at creating that have ended with some of the worst horrors visited upon human beings imaginable.
00:30:00.000The Soviet Union, it turns out, was a terrible place to live.
00:30:03.000Inequality and prosperity is a hell of a lot better than equality in poverty and oppression.
00:30:09.000But it's going to be a multi-generational commitment that never ends because you can never reach full equality.
00:30:13.000You can never reach a point where there is no poverty.
00:30:16.000It must remain the responsibility of agencies across the federal government, says Joe Biden.
00:30:20.000It 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.
00:30:31.000It's an idea that's going to eat everything you understand.
00:30:46.000Every 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.
00:31:04.000Where does the president of the United States get the authority to do any of this?
00:31:07.000None of this was the authority given to the executive branch by Congress.
00:31:11.000Nowhere 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.
00:31:21.000That is not a thing that Congress ever did.
00:31:25.000It should be challenged in the courts.
00:31:26.000I mean, first of all, it is violent of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
00:31:31.000But beyond that, the legislature, I mean, Kevin McCarthy in the House, they better get their asses on this thing.
00:31:37.000They better be putting forward a bill tomorrow to repeal this executive order and force Democrats to actually vote on this thing.
00:31:43.000Force Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to vote along with Democrats to uphold a racial equity lens for all of American government.
00:31:51.000When 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.
00:32:02.000So, even AI is now going to be given equity principles within which to operate.
00:32:08.000The 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.
00:32:19.000So now the federal government is essentially going to engage in affirmative action when it comes to giving.
00:32:36.000This is again, I can't stress this enough.
00:32:39.000Joe Biden openly says he wants to embed this in every single department of the federal government, every single department.
00:32:46.000There are no departments that are not affected by this executive order.
00:32:50.000So what you are seeing in schools right now is, in fact, just the tip of the iceberg.
00:32:54.000It is a thing that the federal government would love to do every to every single area of American life, every single one.
00:33:02.000That 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.
00:33:18.000It is racist, it is terrifying, and it should be something that Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans get on right now.
00:33:25.000Whatever they are doing, it is less important than this thing.
00:33:28.000Because 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.
00:33:38.000Okay, 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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00:35:49.000I mean, he literally warned the Russian.
00:35:50.000His 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.
00:36:06.000And while he was speaking, he had some words about Ukraine.
00:36:09.000This is his attempt to play strong leader.
00:36:12.000Now again, I'm a supporter of American support for Ukraine.
00:36:16.000I 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.
00:36:34.000I think all of those are important goals.
00:36:36.000I 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.
00:36:47.000So Joe Biden was speaking yesterday and he had some sterling words about Ukraine.
00:36:50.000He said Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, which OK, I mean, great.
00:37:36.000Okay, I mean, inspiring stuff from the geriatric president of the United States.
00:37:41.000And 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.
00:37:48.000You handed Afghanistan to the Taliban, dude.
00:37:50.000I mean, like, I just can't get over that.
00:37:51.000I'm never going to get over the fact that everybody has sort of just skipped over that.
00:37:54.000They'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.
00:38:51.000The 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.
00:39:33.000However, the American flags are flying and Ukrainian flags are flying in America.
00:39:40.000It'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.
00:39:50.000Everything'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.
00:41:39.000That would show that aggression works and force is rewarded.
00:41:45.000It will be dangerous for our own security and for the whole world.
00:41:51.000Well, 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?
00:41:57.000According 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.
00:42:05.000Beijing says it wants to play a more active role aimed at ending the conflict.
00:42:08.000The people familiar with Xi's trip plans said a meeting with Putin would be part of a push for multi-party peace talks.
00:42:13.000and allow China to reiterate its call that nuclear weapons not be used.
00:42:17.000Western 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.
00:42:27.000So China getting more directly involved would, in fact, be a bad thing.
00:42:30.000Presumably, China is trying to bring the United States and Ukraine to the table with this particular threat.
00:42:35.000The United States should not allow itself to be threatened by China.
00:42:37.000By 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.
00:42:46.000Because while, you know, the entire foreign policy class in the United States keeps talking about Ukraine, there are also problems here at home.
00:42:55.000And 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.
00:43:09.000Here is Pete Buttigieg trying to explain.
00:43:16.000This 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.
00:43:22.000His actual responsibility for most of his mayoralty Was fairly low.
00:43:25.000He didn't actually solve the pothole problem in South Bend, Indiana.
00:43:29.000Domino's Pizza had to raise money to solve the pothole problem in South Bend, Indiana.
00:43:32.000Then he was elevated to presidential candidate by the fact that he is a gay man.
00:43:36.000And then he was elevated to the secretary of transportation by the fact that he is a gay man who likes airports.
00:43:40.000And so now he actually has responsibility and it's kind of wearing big on him.
00:43:44.000Here is Pete Buttigieg yesterday trying to explain why he has East Palestine under control.
00:43:49.000The mayor of East Palestine has said it took nearly two weeks for the White House to contact him.
00:43:53.000There were shouts of, where's Pete Buttigieg, at a town hall meeting last week.
00:44:00.000When are you going to go to East Palestine?
00:44:02.000I do want to stress that the NTSB needs to be able to do its work independently.
00:44:07.000But when I go, the focus is going to be on action.
00:44:10.000Look, I was mayor of my hometown for eight years.
00:44:12.000We dealt with a lot of disasters, natural and human.
00:44:16.000And 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.
00:44:23.000People 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.
00:44:34.000I 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.
00:44:40.000I 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?
00:44:50.000The shifting logic is that Joe Biden is in Ukraine to do good, even though no good is actually getting done.
00:44:57.000But Pete Buttigieg shouldn't go to East Palestine because it'll be a distraction.
00:45:00.000What's your message to people who are concerned that the department was late to speak out on this issue?
00:45:03.000trained around, he said, I should have spoken sooner. I should have done something. Yeah.
00:45:06.000Well, you could, you know, get involved now. Do you have like some plans to do so?
00:45:10.000What'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.
00:45:34.000Again, 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.
00:45:43.000I 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.
00:45:55.000Meanwhile, the economic news continues to be rather bad for the Biden administration.
00:46:00.000Walmart and Home Depot have given a cautious outlook as shoppers are spending more on the basics.
00:46:04.000Recession is coming, and that right quick.
00:46:07.000According 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.
00:46:13.000Two of the country's largest retailers reported on Tuesday.
00:46:16.000Both 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.
00:46:22.000Now, more of the shoppers' budgets are going to groceries and travel, according to the executives.
00:46:27.000Consumers are still spending money, said Walmart.
00:46:28.000It's obviously not as clear to us what the back half of the year, however, looks like.
00:46:33.000US home sales have now fallen for the 12th consecutive month.
00:46:35.000Sales of previously owned homes dropped 0.7% in January to the slowest level since October of 2010.
00:46:40.000So all those people whose value was locked up in the value of their home are starting to feel the pinch.
00:47:00.000He'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.
00:47:09.000Here he is with Stephen Colbert, another very, very wealthy person talking about the evils of capitalism in a capitalist society.
00:47:14.000Is Joe Biden Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders?
00:47:27.000Our 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?
00:47:34.000And the end result of it was, I didn't agree with everything that was there.
00:47:38.000He didn't agree with everything that was there.
00:47:40.000But essentially, we put together probably the most progressive outline that any president has introduced since FDR.
00:47:49.000So, on the economic front, we have the most progressive presidency since FDR, according to Bernie Sanders, an actual honest-to-God socialist.
00:47:56.000On the racial equity front, we have the President of the United States embedding quote-unquote equity in every area of the American government.
00:48:02.000And 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.
00:49:00.000We're in the middle of a national identity crisis.
00:49:05.000Faith, patriotism, and hard work have disappeared only to be replaced by new secular religions like COVIDism, climatism, and gender ideology.
00:49:16.000We hunger to be part of something bigger than ourselves, yet we cannot even answer the question of what it means to be an American.
00:49:24.000Today, the woke left preys on that vacuum.
00:49:27.000They 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.
00:49:36.000This 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.
00:49:47.000And that is why today I am announcing my run for President of the United States.
00:49:54.000So 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.
00:50:46.000You'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.
00:50:55.000You 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.
00:51:37.000We want privacy! We want privacy! We want privacy!
00:51:42.000And 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.
00:51:52.000And these folks are actually, I would say they're beyond parody, but clearly they're not.
00:51:58.000South Park did an amazing job on that.
00:51:59.000There are actual rumors, by the way, that Harry and Meghan wanted to sue the creators of South Park.
00:52:05.000There were actual rumors that came out to that effect, which would be just a perfect example of the so-called Streisand effect.
00:52:10.000The 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.
00:52:20.000And nobody had ever seen this photograph.
00:52:21.000It was in a public place, but nobody ever had seen it.
00:52:23.000And this aerial photograph contained a picture of Barbra Streisand's home.
00:52:54.000But 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.
00:53:02.000The 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.
00:53:10.000That, by the way, is hysterically funny.
00:53:12.000She's upset and overwhelmed by the show.
00:53:15.000So, 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.
00:53:25.000The 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.
00:53:38.000So, for the princess, it's stuff like, first lady annoyer, victim.
00:53:43.000For the prince, it's like, prince, victim.
00:53:45.000And so when they claim victimhood, when she's like, oh my god, I'm so upset and overwhelmed by self-pity.
00:53:49.000All you had to do was go and live your life and nobody would care.
00:53:53.000Instead, 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.
00:53:58.000And 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.
00:54:07.000As I pointed out, I mean, I did like a full review of Harry's silly book.
00:54:11.000And, you know, like in the book, he talks about his dating history with Meghan.
00:54:17.000On like the fourth date, he invited her to spend a week in Africa with him.
00:54:26.000She literally covered Kate Middleton's wedding on her Instagram page.
00:54:29.000So yeah, I'm pretty sure she knew who you were.
00:54:32.000And I'm pretty sure that you might be married now because she knew who you were.
00:54:36.000As 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.
00:54:50.000This is a general rule, unless they are princes.
00:54:52.000If they are princes, it seems to help the deal a little bit.
00:54:56.000It's honestly amazing stuff from South Park as per the usual.
00:55:03.000So I want to tell you about a great episode in child rearing.
00:55:07.000So 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.
00:55:11.000So this is a really great story because it teaches you the value of the free market.
00:55:16.000So last week, My kids and I, it's late in the afternoon.
00:55:20.000One of the things that we like to do in our neighborhood, there are some golf courses.
00:55:22.000And 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.
00:55:29.000It's like almost an Easter egg hunt for my kids.
00:56:12.000And, 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.
00:56:22.000And this is one of the beautiful things about being part of a really nice community.
00:56:24.000Everybody decided they're going to buy used golf balls for my kids.
00:56:26.000So 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.
00:56:32.000I'll take 15 golf balls and, and all the rest.
00:57:21.000So 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.
00:57:28.000And my daughter turns to me, she says, so time is money.
00:58:06.000I'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.
00:58:13.000I 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.
00:58:17.000We have to give some of it to charity, and then we want to take some of it.
00:58:20.000And they had a bit of a disagreement on what to do with it.
00:58:23.000One of them, my son, reinvested it in capital equipment.
00:58:26.000He 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.
00:58:34.000So he was spending this morning doing that.
00:58:36.000Again, investing back in the business.
00:58:50.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:58:53.000So, how stupidly woke have things become?
00:59:01.000Things 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.
00:59:08.000There's an article in the New York Times that is titled, In Vermont, a school and artist fight over murals of slavery.
00:59:14.000Created to depict the brutality of enslavement, the works are seen by some as offensive.
00:59:17.000The school wants them permanently covered.
00:59:19.000The artist says they're historically important.
00:59:22.000Apparently, 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.
01:00:08.000And it's historically important and about what it says about black people rising up to resist.
01:00:12.000And it's important as a record of what we said in 1993.
01:00:14.000The 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.
01:00:22.000They also show white Vermonters protesting slavery and helping people escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
01:00:47.000They must come down because modern sensibilities are offended.
01:00:51.000This is similar to a bit of a spat that we had yesterday on Twitter.
01:00:56.000In which Ibram X. Kendi tweeted out pictures of the first president during President's Day.
01:01:00.000He's like, many of these people were slaveholders.
01:01:01.000Eight out of the first 12 presidents were slaveholders and held thousands of slaves combined.
01:01:07.000And this is something you should remember.
01:01:08.000America was founded in slavery, not in freedom.
01:01:10.000And 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.
01:01:22.000And 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.
01:01:28.000This is the beautiful thing about the modern woke generation.
01:01:31.000Modern woke generation is the only good.
01:01:32.000They're the only good people to ever have been born.
01:01:43.000Now, tomorrow, they won't have the right views and they'll be forced to kneel and bend before the prevailing status quo.
01:01:49.000For the moment, they are riding the high horse of moral privilege.
01:01:53.000That 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.
01:02:07.000These people are spending their days Stewing in hatred for people who died 200 years ago and also were kind of important and did things.
01:02:17.000It 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.
01:02:25.000Already, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.