The Ben Shapiro Show - BREAKING: Biden To Announce Re-Election Run This Week

00:00:00.000 Alrighty, so we have reached the week.

00:00:02.000 There's a lot of trepidation about whether Joe Biden would in fact announce his candidacy or in fact just sort of, you know, make sound out of his face.

00:00:09.000 No one really knew.

00:00:10.000 But apparently we have finally reached the point.

00:00:14.000 The president of the United States is supposed to announce his reelect bid.

00:00:17.000 On Tuesday, tomorrow, according to the Washington Post, by the time Air Force One returned from Ireland in the pre-dawn hours of April 15th, President Biden's plans to announce his re-election campaign were already in motion.

00:00:27.000 A videographer soon met him in Rehove Beach, Delaware, where Biden spent the weekend after arriving in Dover at 2.26am with his sister Valerie and his son Hunter.

00:00:35.000 Again, Joe Biden has been squiring his son Hunter around.

00:00:38.000 And no one seems to care about the fact that Hunter Biden is one of the world's biggest derelicts.

00:00:42.000 That's totally fine.

00:00:43.000 That Hunter Biden spent the last, you know, many years just picking up sacks of cash in foreign countries using his daddy's name.

00:00:49.000 We don't know where all that money went.

00:00:50.000 That Hunter Biden, in fact, uses sexually trafficked people. 0.99

00:00:53.000 I mean, he uses prostitutes on a regular basis, or used them. 0.99

00:00:56.000 That he is a drug addict, that he has fathered children out of wedlock with 0.99

00:01:00.000 strippers. You know, all, none of that matters. He travels around with daddy and no one bats 0.97

00:01:04.000 an eye because the media are so far in Joe Biden's corner, which let's be real about. This is

00:01:07.000 the only reason that Joe Biden can run for re-election. The only reason he could run in the first

00:01:11.000 place is because the media decided that Donald Trump was the worst thing in the history of mankind.

00:01:14.000 And therefore we needed a dead person run against him. The only way you can have an 80 year old man 0.83

00:01:19.000 who is obviously in a state of cognitive decline run for re-election is because the media are the

00:01:24.000 Praetorian guard.

00:01:25.000 The real story of Joe Biden is not Joe Biden.

00:01:27.000 Joe Biden was a bad candidate when he first ran in 1988.

00:01:29.000 He was a bad candidate when he ran again against Barack Obama in 2008.

00:01:33.000 He's been a bad candidate a thousand times.

00:01:36.000 But his bad candidacy is not the issue here.

00:01:38.000 The issue here is what the media are willing to do, to what lengths they are willing to go in order to prop him up.

00:01:43.000 According to the Washington Post, Once Biden returned to the White House, he and First Lady Jill Biden met with senior aides to finalize the details of his re-elect launch.

00:01:51.000 After Biden signed off on the plans, the officials ramped up their final preparations.

00:01:54.000 Top fundraising officials at the DNC scrambled to make dozens of phone calls, frequently ending up in voicemails, inviting top donors for a hastily arranged summit with the president to plan events.

00:02:03.000 Again, the idea here is that he is going to announce on Tuesday.

00:02:06.000 He'll probably do so not with a giant rally, but with a video.

00:02:10.000 That is not a shock, because again, a giant rally in which he announces his re-elect bid is probably going to fall absolutely flat.

00:02:16.000 Aides are instead looking to pre-tape a video announcing his re-elect bid.

00:02:20.000 This is not a person who's capable of getting up and inspiring a giant crowd.

00:02:23.000 A man can't inspire a bowl of oatmeal. 1.00

00:02:25.000 I mean, he's not capable.

00:02:26.000 He's just not with it.

00:02:28.000 According to the Washington Post, Biden and his team are preparing to announce his re-elect campaign this week, and they've targeted Tuesday for the release of the video to coincide with the four-year anniversary of this 2020 campaign launch.

00:02:39.000 They keep saying that it might be delayed, and maybe it will be, but again, they're going to have to get in at some point here just to prevent anybody else from ramping up and starting to suck money out of the system.

00:02:49.000 As Politico points out, a lot of people care when Joe Biden actually announces.

00:02:55.000 One camp argues there's no reason to push because obviously once he jumps in, he clears the field.

00:02:59.000 But there are some other Democrats who are upset about the possibility that there are going to be other people who get in the field and start sucking up attention.

00:03:07.000 And so they want him to jump in as fast as humanly possible.

00:03:11.000 Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh, he says it's just good for the party to finally be definitive about it.

00:03:16.000 Well, I mean, the reason, presumably, that Joe Biden is being more definitive about it is because he's looking at the polls and he's said this for a long time.

00:03:22.000 The big issue for Joe Biden is who he's going to run against.

00:03:23.000 If he thought he was going to run against anybody but Trump, he might think twice.

00:03:26.000 If he thinks it's going to be Trump, he is very enthusiastic to run against President Trump because, of course, Trump lost to him last time around.

00:03:33.000 Now, as I say, he relies almost entirely on the goodwill of the media.

00:03:37.000 He relies on the media to never report a damned thing about him.

00:03:40.000 That's how he can go out and say stuff like he said over the weekend.

00:03:43.000 He was giving a speech and he suggested that basically he is the world's least controversial politician.

00:03:48.000 That doesn't matter that his entire career he has been plagued by accusations of corruption, going all the way back to his time as senator in Delaware when he was receiving sweetheart real estate deals from credit card companies.

00:03:59.000 But He now says that he's really only known for Ray Bans and Ice Cream, and this is just a replay of Barack Obama.

00:04:05.000 You remember during Obama's second term, there were a myriad of scandals that hit the Obama administration, from HHS to the IRS.

00:04:13.000 Literally every area of his administration was plagued with problems of one sort or another, but we were told that Barack Obama, the only scandal he ever had was the tan suit, because one day he showed up in a tan suit, and it was an ugly suit, and people made fun of the tan suit.

00:04:26.000 And so that was the only scandal we ever had.

00:04:27.000 Well, now Joe Biden is trying to do the same thing.

00:04:29.000 Apparently, according to Joe Biden, he is an absolutely scot-free, clean-as-the-driven-snow politician.

00:04:34.000 There's no reason why you wouldn't love Joe Biden.

00:04:36.000 He's known as the guy who wears Ray-Bans and licks ice cream cones.

00:04:40.000 As I've told my distinguished friend from Massachusetts, a good friend, Senator Markey, that it's really very, very dull when after all these years in public life, you're known for two things, Ray-Ban sunglasses and chocolate chip ice cream.

00:04:55.000 That is not what he is known for, actually.

00:04:58.000 He is known for many things, including, once again, aside from sniffing the hair of young girls inappropriately, the President of the United States is known for not being with it.

00:05:08.000 He is known also for his son, Hunter, who, yes, that is an issue for him.

00:05:12.000 I mean, just last week, it was reported that his campaign helped trot out The lie that Hunter Biden's laptop was actually Russian disinformation.

00:05:20.000 It turns out that Antony Blinken was actually shopping that story around to people like Mike Morrell, the former CIA director for Barack Obama, in order to launder into the media the story that Hunter Biden's laptop was a fake and a phony so that it would be banned from social media.

00:05:33.000 And Mike Morrell then put out a letter with a bunch of other intel officials who suggested, of course, that it was Russian disinformation.

00:05:39.000 You'll remember that back in October 2020, Biden actually said that.

00:05:41.000 He suggested that his son's laptop was Russian disinformation.

00:05:44.000 Here he was back in October 2020.

00:05:47.000 What about the Americans who really today only want me to ask you about Hunter Biden's laptop?

00:05:52.000 How are you going to get them to see that you are fighting for them when they're so dead set against you?

00:06:00.000 There's nothing to any of that.

00:06:02.000 Nothing to any of that.

00:06:03.000 It's all a smear.

00:06:05.000 Every major outfit, every serious investigator has pointed out that this is a smear.

00:06:12.000 This is classic Trump.

00:06:14.000 We have four days left and all of a sudden there's a laptop.

00:06:17.000 And you may recall there's also talk about four months before there was a similar thing that somebody had, allegedly. 0.98

00:06:24.000 He is a liar.

00:06:25.000 There's overwhelming evidence that, from the intelligence community, that the Russians are engaged. 0.99

00:06:30.000 I mean, he was lying then.

00:06:31.000 He was lying.

00:06:32.000 I mean, he knew that the laptop was real, and he was lying. 1.00

00:06:34.000 Because he is a liar. 1.00

00:06:35.000 And he's a very bad president who's a liar. 1.00

00:06:36.000 He's a corrupt liar. 0.99

00:06:37.000 This president of the United States has presided over a 40-year high in inflation, he has presided over a stagnating economy, and he has presided over a collapse in foreign policy, which we'll get to in just a moment. 0.98

00:06:47.000 Because, once again, this is a president who's presided over not one, But two, Saigon-like incidents in foreign countries in which we have to pull people off the roofs of our embassies.

00:06:55.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:08:01.000 Well, as Joe Biden prepares to announce his reelect bid, you may have noticed that over the weekend, the president of the United States announced that the U.S.

00:08:09.000 military is now going to be evacuating and already has evacuated American government personnel from Khartoum, which is in Sudan.

00:08:16.000 The president tweeted out today on my orders the United States military conducted an operation to extract US government personnel from Khartoum in response to the situation in Sudan.

00:08:24.000 I'm grateful for the commitment of our embassy staff and the skill of our service members who brought them to safety.

00:08:27.000 I'm receiving regular reports from my team on their ongoing work to assist Americans in Sudan to the extent possible.

00:08:32.000 We're also working closely with our allies and partners in this effort.

00:08:35.000 The tragic violence in Sudan has already cost the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians.

00:08:38.000 It's unconscionable and it must stop.

00:08:40.000 Well, I mean, if he says so, then probably that'll stop the violence, as we found out in Afghanistan. 0.97

00:08:43.000 We'll get to a report on that in just a moment.

00:08:45.000 We're temporarily suspending operations at the U.S.

00:08:47.000 Embassy in Sudan, but our commitment to the Sudanese people and the future they want is unending. 1.00

00:08:52.000 Oh, man, the absolute balls on this guy, like unending. 0.69

00:08:56.000 It just ended. 0.99

00:08:56.000 You literally just pulled the U.S. 0.99

00:08:58.000 embassy staff out of Sudan.

00:09:00.000 And they're like, but don't worry, I'm going to tell you violence is bad.

00:09:04.000 Or in Joe Biden's words, much better.

00:09:08.000 According to the Associated Press.

00:09:10.000 U.S.

00:09:10.000 Special Operations Forces carried out a precarious evacuation of the U.S.

00:09:13.000 Embassy in Sudan on Sunday, sweeping in and out of the capital with helicopters on the ground for less than an hour.

00:09:17.000 No shots were fired.

00:09:18.000 No major casualties were reported.

00:09:20.000 The United States then shuttered its diplomatic mission indefinitely.

00:09:24.000 Remaining behind in the East African nation are thousands of private American citizens.

00:09:27.000 So just like Afghanistan, we're going to leave thousands of Americans behind. 0.95

00:09:30.000 We're just going to cut.

00:09:30.000 We're going to run.

00:09:31.000 We're going to leave them no options for getting out.

00:09:34.000 The U.S.

00:09:34.000 officials said it would be too dangerous to carry out a broader evacuation operation, so you leave them behind.

00:09:39.000 You know, after all, What are they even doing there?

00:09:41.000 Like, whatever!

00:09:42.000 They're Americans!

00:09:43.000 Joe Biden got away with it the first time.

00:09:44.000 What does he care?

00:09:45.000 What does he care if a bunch of Americans get left behind enemy lines?

00:09:47.000 Totally fine.

00:09:49.000 Battles between two rival Sudanese commanders had forced the closing of the main international airport and left roads out of the country in control of armed fighters.

00:09:55.000 Skirmishes have already killed more than 400 people.

00:09:58.000 About 100 US troops in three MH-47 helicopters carried out the operation.

00:10:01.000 They airlifted all of the roughly 70 remaining American employees from a landing zone at the embassy and moved to an undisclosed location in Ethiopia.

00:10:10.000 Biden then said that he was proud of the extraordinary commitment of our embassy staff who performed their duties with courage and professionalism and embodied America's friendship and connection with the people of Sudan.

00:10:21.000 So, no, everybody is just stuck there.

00:10:24.000 This is all a result, apparently, of a power struggle between the head of the armed forces, General Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, General Mohamed Hamdoum Dagolo.

00:10:34.000 And apparently, basically, this has led to full-out civil war in the country.

00:10:39.000 Not a big shock, Sudan has been a disaster before. 1.00

00:10:42.000 But the amazing nature of this, the fact that the Biden administration is once again pulling, without any plan whatsoever, out of a foreign nation that is filled with terrorists and leaving American citizens behind, it's a reminder that this president not only has no plan, he has failed signally when it comes to foreign policy.

00:11:01.000 Like everywhere, he has failed when it comes to foreign policy.

00:11:05.000 In fact, as it turns out, One of the players who's having an outsized impact on the breakdown in Africa right now is the so-called Wagner Group.

00:11:15.000 Apparently, the Wagner Group is a set of Russian mercenaries that is fomenting instability while using their paramilitary and disinformation capabilities to bolster Moscow allies.

00:11:27.000 The rapid expansion of Russia's influence in Africa has been a source of growing alarm to U.S.

00:11:30.000 intelligence and military officials, according to the Washington Post, prompting a push over the past year to find ways to hit Wagner's network of bases and business fronts with strikes, sanctions, and cyber operations, according to the document.

00:11:41.000 So, while the United States has been funding the war in Ukraine, Russia has been expanding its footprint elsewhere.

00:11:48.000 The Washington Post says, at a time when Wagner leader Yevgeny Progozhin has been preoccupied with Kremlin infighting over the paramilitary group's deepening involvement in the war in Ukraine, U.S.

00:11:56.000 officials depict Wagner's expanding global footprint as a potential vulnerability.

00:12:00.000 So, once again, the President of the United States, while he says that he is succeeding, he actually is failing.

00:12:06.000 Because as it turns out, France is talking with China now about the possibility that China may invade Taiwan and France might do nothing.

00:12:12.000 The Russians were supposed to be tied down in Ukraine.

00:12:15.000 Yeah, I mean, it's definitely hampered the Russian military in Ukraine, but they're making trouble in Africa as well, and thousands of Americans have now been left behind too.

00:12:24.000 According to WCVB.com, there is growing concern for thousands of Americans in Sudan, including a Massachusetts woman and her young daughter, as the bloody fighting that has engulfed the African nation enters its second week.

00:12:36.000 Trillian Clifford of Ashland moved to Sudan less than a year ago to teach at a school in the capital, Khartoum.

00:12:40.000 Clifford and her daughter Alma are currently sheltering in place in Khartoum.

00:12:43.000 They've contacted government officials for help.

00:12:45.000 None has come so far.

00:12:46.000 The family believes the United States should be doing more to bring her and other Americans back home. 1.00

00:12:51.000 The White House, however, says, you know, you're on your own.

00:12:54.000 Apparently they've said that Americans who do not work for the embassy should not rely on the military to help them leave the country.

00:12:59.000 We've been clear eyed about how American citizens should not travel to Sudan for months now.

00:13:03.000 We've communicated to American citizens in the country about safety and security measures and precautions they can take, said Vendant Patel, spokesperson for the U.S.

00:13:09.000 Department of State.

00:13:10.000 How many Americans are currently in Sudan?

00:13:13.000 16,000.

00:13:13.000 16,000 Americans are being left behind in Sudan.

00:13:17.000 So once again, slow clap for the Biden administration doing an excellent job.

00:13:21.000 Speaking of which, remember that time when we pulled out of Afghanistan ignominiously and we left behind billions of dollars in military equipment?

00:13:28.000 We let the Taliban, an 8th century group of barbarians, simply take over the country and blow up some 13 American soldiers in the process? 0.99

00:13:33.000 You remember that time?

00:13:34.000 You remember that Joe Biden at the time said everything was going to be fine?

00:13:36.000 Well, we now have a report, things are not so fine.

00:13:38.000 Who could have predicted?

00:13:39.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:14:43.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, remember that time that this wonderful, amazing president who's running for re-election at the grand old age of 80?

00:14:49.000 Remember that time that the President of the United States withdrew from Afghanistan and left the state in a complete state of absolute anarchy and collapse and just handed it over to the Taliban? 0.71

00:15:00.000 Well now, it turns out, according to the Washington Post, less than two years after President Biden withdrew U.S.

00:15:05.000 personnel from Afghanistan, the country has become a significant coordination site for the Islamic State.

00:15:09.000 As the terrorist group plans attacks across Europe and Asia and conducts aspirational plotting against the United States.

00:15:14.000 That is not according to right-wing sources.

00:15:16.000 That is according to a classified Pentagon assessment that portrays the threat as a growing security concern.

00:15:22.000 The attack planning, which is detailed in U.S.

00:15:24.000 intelligence findings, leaked on those Discord leaks.

00:15:28.000 It revealed specific efforts to target embassies, churches, business centers, and the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, which drew more than 2 million spectators last summer in Qatar.

00:15:35.000 Pentagon officials were aware in December of nine such plots coordinated by ISIS leaders in Afghanistan.

00:15:40.000 The number rose to 15 by February, according to the assessment.

00:15:42.000 The assessment says, quote, ISIS has been developing a cost-effective model for external

00:15:46.000 operations that relies on resources from outside Afghanistan, operatives in target countries,

00:15:50.000 and extensive facilitation networks.

00:15:52.000 The model will likely enable ISIS to overcome obstacles like competent security services

00:15:55.000 and reduce some plot timelines, minimizing disruption opportunities.

00:16:00.000 So once again, it turns out that having pulled out from Afghanistan without any plan whatsoever

00:16:06.000 was one of the worst ideas in modern American history. 0.98

00:16:09.000 And you'll remember that Joe Biden was just a liar. 1.00

00:16:11.000 He's a liar. 0.98

00:16:11.000 Back in April of 2021, you know, we're running up on the four-year anniversary of the President of the United States announcing that he was going to run for president. 0.98

00:16:19.000 We're also running up on the two-year anniversary of the President of the United States, we actually just passed it, saying that we're pulling out from Afghanistan.

00:16:26.000 Which led to the death of 13 American soldiers, presumably thousands of American allies, people dropping off wheel wells of planes, and hundreds of Americans left behind.

00:16:33.000 Here was Joe Biden, April 14, 2021, saying, don't worry, guys, we're going to bring our soldiers home and everything will be fine.

00:16:38.000 Don't worry.

00:16:38.000 We've ended the threat of terrorism, as it turns out.

00:16:41.000 We went to Afghanistan in 2001 to root out al Qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks against the United States planned from Afghanistan.

00:16:51.000 After consulting closely with our allies and partners, with our military leaders and intelligence personnel, with our diplomats and our development experts, with the Congress and the Vice President, as well as with Mr. Ghani and many others around the world, I've concluded that it's time to end America's longest war.

00:17:10.000 It's time for American troops to come home. 0.75

00:17:13.000 And then if you fast forward all the way to September, it was fairly obvious at this point that ISIS-K was taking over along with the Taliban. 0.65

00:17:18.000 And it didn't matter.

00:17:19.000 Joe Biden was still lying.

00:17:20.000 He sent out his Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, to explain that everything was handled as well as humanly possible.

00:17:25.000 America was in this war for 20 years.

00:17:29.000 And I think any effort to unwind that, any effort to bring our troops out, any effort to end our military presence in Afghanistan was going to be filled with heartbreaking scenes and difficulties.

00:17:40.000 And I think the Biden administration has managed that as well as it could be managed under the circumstances we were placed in.

00:17:48.000 Well, they did a wonderful job.

00:17:49.000 You'll remember that Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, said it was a historic withdrawal.

00:17:52.000 They did an amazing, amazing job, guys.

00:17:54.000 You know, it was all part of the plan.

00:17:56.000 People dropping off the wheel wells of planes from thousands of feet and exploding on the turf like watermelons.

00:17:59.000 That was totally fine.

00:18:01.000 It was all part of the plan.

00:18:03.000 We have concluded our historic evacuation operation and ended the last mission of the U.S.

00:18:12.000 war in Afghanistan.

00:18:13.000 My thoughts have been with the brave Americans Who stood up to serve after Al Qaeda attacked us on September 11, 2001.

00:18:24.000 And my heart is with their families and loved ones and with our friends and allies and with our fellow citizens whose lives were lost or changed forever.

00:18:39.000 Now we have just concluded the largest air evacuation of civilians in American history.

00:18:45.000 It was heroic.

00:18:48.000 It was historic.

00:18:49.000 They did an amazing job, according to them, and this president is going to run for re-election on the basis of things like that.

00:18:57.000 So glad that we can do it again over in Sudan, leaving 16,000 Americans behind. 1.00

00:19:01.000 According to Nathan Sales, State Department coordinator for counterterrorism during the Trump administration, quote, ISIS-K has enjoyed safe haven in Afghanistan since the administration withdrew 20 months ago.

00:19:10.000 The group has the ambition to attack American interests in the region, ultimately the U.S.

00:19:13.000 homeland itself.

00:19:15.000 None of this is a shock of any sort. 1.00

00:19:17.000 Joe Biden is a liar, and he's a cowardly liar at that when it comes to foreign policy at the very, very least. 1.00

00:19:23.000 Which means that Republicans had better get their heads on straight when it comes to defeating him. 1.00

00:19:27.000 And who they nominate is going to make a large difference in this effort.

00:19:30.000 Who should be nominated?

00:19:31.000 So here's what the polls show right now with regard to Joe Biden.

00:19:34.000 Well, number one, nobody actually wants Joe Biden to run.

00:19:38.000 Something like 70% of Americans currently say that they do not want Joe Biden to run for president.

00:19:42.000 Only 26% of Americans say that they want Joe Biden to run for president.

00:19:46.000 That's according to a new NBC News poll.

00:19:49.000 Only 38% of Americans have positive feelings toward the current president of the United States. 0.97

00:19:54.000 His job performance rating currently is 41%, according again to that NBC News poll, which means that this old dullard is unbelievably vulnerable. 0.87

00:20:03.000 But are Republicans going to take advantage of that, or are they going to continue to run headlong at a brick wall? 0.82

00:20:08.000 That's the real question here.

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00:21:19.000 And so, what the polls show is that Joe Biden is wildly unpopular.

00:21:23.000 Like, very, very, very unpopular.

00:21:25.000 However, the Republican nominee, only 60% of Americans think Trump should not run for president.

00:21:30.000 Only 35% think that Donald Trump should run for president of the United States.

00:21:35.000 Not only that, the leading feelings that people have with regards to the possibility of a Trump-Biden rematch is exhaustion.

00:21:41.000 Which, frankly, I can't imagine why.

00:21:44.000 I can't imagine why.

00:21:45.000 There's a survey, again from Yahoo News at YouGov, And I found that 38% of Americans chose exhaustion after being shown a list of eight feelings and asked to select all that comes to mind when considering another Biden versus Trump campaign.

00:21:57.000 And among registered voters, that number is even higher.

00:21:59.000 44%.

00:22:00.000 The other numbers?

00:22:01.000 Fear, 29%.

00:22:01.000 Sadness, 23%.

00:22:02.000 Hope, 23%.

00:22:02.000 Anger, 23%.

00:22:02.000 Excitement, 16%.

00:22:03.000 Pride, 8%.

00:22:03.000 Or gratitude, 7%.

00:22:04.000 Yes, Americans are very positive about another Trump-Biden matchup.

00:22:06.000 It's what the people want.

00:22:07.000 anger 23%, excitement 16%, pride 8%, or gratitude 7%?

00:22:12.000 Yes, Americans are very positive about another Trump-Biden matchup.

00:22:15.000 It's what the people want. They demand it.

00:22:17.000 And this is one of the big problems that you have with the weakening of parties counterintuitively.

00:22:21.000 The weakening of both the Republican and the Democratic parties means that basically the basis of both parties and the more involved basis of both parties tend to have an outsized influence compared to the rest of the American population, which means very often that candidates who are not wildly popular with the American public end up being the nominees of their parties.

00:22:38.000 Trump, for what it's worth, is currently wrapping up a bunch of congressional endorsements.

00:22:42.000 Now, you would imagine, listen, he's the former president of the United States.

00:22:45.000 He's the Republican frontrunner.

00:22:46.000 He should be.

00:22:47.000 He's also the only major candidate to have announced thus far.

00:22:49.000 You have Nikki Haley, who's announced, and you have Vivek Ramaswamy, who's announced.

00:22:52.000 DeSantis has not yet announced.

00:22:53.000 But Trump is racking up endorsements, particularly in Florida.

00:22:57.000 Again, not a major shock, also because if you are a state Or a congressional politician.

00:23:02.000 What you don't want is Trump attacking you.

00:23:04.000 If Trump asks you for an endorsement, the safest thing to do is give it to him because if you don't endorse DeSantis, DeSantis isn't going to attack you.

00:23:08.000 But Trump will if you don't.

00:23:10.000 So here's Fox News covering that.

00:23:13.000 I'll be asking everybody to support President Trump, and Ron DeSantis hasn't declared he's running for president yet.

00:23:18.000 I think he's a great governor of Florida.

00:23:20.000 So, if I were Florida, I would give DeSantis a third term, and everybody get behind President Trump.

00:23:25.000 You can't.

00:23:26.000 With us now, Congressman Carlos Gimenez, who was kind enough to take time to let us know where he's going and where he's heading and who he's supporting.

00:23:33.000 Congressman, who is it?

00:23:36.000 Well, announcing that I'll be supporting President Donald J. Trump for president in 2024.

00:23:42.000 I think he gives us the best chance of winning.

00:23:45.000 Nope.

00:23:46.000 He has a solid track record as president and yesterday at the dinner he laid out a solid plan for the future and where we need to go.

00:23:57.000 Okay, so this idea that Trump gives Republicans the best chance of winning is belied by pretty much all of the polls at this point, as well as the fact that he already ran an election campaign against Joe Biden, and it didn't go amazing.

00:24:08.000 He's not the President of the United States right now.

00:24:10.000 Trump's team is focused in on Ron DeSantis like a laser beam.

00:24:15.000 According to Rolling Stone, a Trump advisor says, quote, Now, the problem for Trump is that the angle that he's taking with regard to DeSantis is one that does not make the base particularly enthusiastic.

00:24:31.000 He is currently attacking DeSantis with alacrity from the left, almost entirely from the left, because it's impossible to get to DeSantis' right.

00:24:37.000 So instead, he's attacking him from the left.

00:24:40.000 So over the weekend, Trump did a speech in which he ripped on DeSantis repeatedly.

00:24:45.000 The important thing here is really not the attacks.

00:24:47.000 The important thing is the crowd reaction.

00:24:48.000 Listen to how quiet it is.

00:24:51.000 Except you don't see that tabulation.

00:24:53.000 We did much better in 2020 in Florida.

00:24:57.000 I got 1.2 million more votes than your successful governor's campaign.

00:25:02.000 You know that.

00:25:04.000 We got 1.2 million.

00:25:07.000 Sir, I'd love to have your support, sir.

00:25:09.000 I'd love to have your support.

00:25:10.000 I'm down at about three.

00:25:11.000 I'd love to have your support.

00:25:13.000 All right, let's think about it.

00:25:15.000 And there was like a rocket ship after I gave it, otherwise right now you'd have a lawyer someplace looking for business.

00:25:20.000 Okay, and the crowd is pretty much silent there.

00:25:24.000 Because the reality is that the base, unlike when Trump was attacking everybody back in 2016 when nobody actually liked any of the other candidates, this is the dirty secret, nobody liked anybody else who was running in 2016.

00:25:33.000 And so Trump had a bunch of baked-in advantages.

00:25:35.000 People actually like Ron DeSantis' record of governance.

00:25:37.000 And so Trump has been relegated to attacking DeSantis from the left.

00:25:41.000 He put out a statement, a lengthy statement, over the weekend, in which he said that Florida has now become among the worst states to live, or to find economic opportunity, or to work, or to retire, or to raise a family.

00:25:52.000 No one believes this.

00:25:53.000 No one.

00:25:54.000 I moved my family to Florida in large part because Governor DeSantis has done an excellent job.

00:25:59.000 If Andrew Gillum were the governor of Florida, I don't know that I'd move my family here.

00:26:03.000 I didn't just move my family.

00:26:04.000 My parents moved, my in-laws moved, two of my sisters and their families moved.

00:26:08.000 There's a reason that over the course of the last several years, about 700,000 people have left their home states and moved to Florida.

00:26:15.000 There's a reason why Florida is the fastest growing state in America, and it is not because it is a terrible place to live.

00:26:20.000 This dog just does not hunt.

00:26:22.000 It's a real problem for Donald Trump, actually, that it does not hunt if the issues matter at all.

00:26:27.000 So DeSantis, for his part, he is finally starting to open up the guns on Trump, and he has a pretty good angle here.

00:26:34.000 His angle here is that Trump blew it on COVID.

00:26:37.000 That Trump was too weak on COVID, that Anthony Fauci is only a household name because Donald Trump appointed him and then left him in place and didn't actually have any control over his own policy because he didn't know what to do.

00:26:47.000 So here is Ron DeSantis over the weekend saying, listen, when it came to COVID, I took control because that's what leaders do.

00:26:51.000 They take control.

00:26:53.000 And to me, leadership is having the courage to make difficult decisions in the teeth of opposition and criticism.

00:27:01.000 A leader must have the confidence to stand all alone if need be.

00:27:05.000 And so for us, as I got into office, COVID presented that situation for us because we were in a situation, the third largest state in the country, one of the highest percentage of elderly, economy based on tourism, which we needed travel to continue.

00:27:21.000 So this situation was an existential threat to our state.

00:27:25.000 But I made the judgment, leaders take the bull by the horns and make the decisions for themselves.

00:27:32.000 They don't subcontract out their leadership to health bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci.

00:27:39.000 That is going to be a very rich vein for attack from DeSantis toward Trump.

00:27:44.000 Because he doesn't have to actually say anything about Trump.

00:27:46.000 He can just say, listen, when it comes to actually formulating policy and being a leader, I was right on COVID, and you're attacking me from the left.

00:27:53.000 And that is a fact, because Donald Trump was two DeSantis' left throughout the pandemic.

00:27:58.000 In fact, here is Donald Trump attacking Governor Brian Kemp, not DeSantis, in April 2020 for reopening the state of Georgia.

00:28:06.000 You'll remember, if you have the memory, that Donald Trump actually was very angry at Brian Kemp for reopening the state.

00:28:15.000 I told the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, that I disagree strongly.

00:28:21.000 With his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phase one guidelines.

00:28:27.000 I would advise him not to just turn the switch on and go.

00:28:31.000 Would I do that?

00:28:32.000 No.

00:28:32.000 I'd keep him a little longer.

00:28:33.000 I want to protect people's lives.

00:28:35.000 And I went to Debra and Dr. Fauci and other people and they weren't thrilled about it.

00:28:40.000 I think it's too soon.

00:28:41.000 And I don't want this thing to flare up because you're deciding to do something that is not in the guidelines.

00:28:46.000 There is a danger of a rebound.

00:28:47.000 They can wait a little bit longer, just a little bit.

00:28:49.000 If you ask me, am I happy about it?

00:28:51.000 I'm not happy about it.

00:28:52.000 Safety has to predominate.

00:28:54.000 And I'm not happy about Brian Kemp.

00:28:56.000 Okay, so remember, that was Trump's opinion in the early days of the pandemic.

00:29:00.000 And then he kind of went back and forth.

00:29:01.000 He was like, we need to open up Michigan, but also we need to close down Georgia.

00:29:04.000 It was all over the place.

00:29:05.000 In fact, in the middle of the 2020 election, Donald Trump actually put out a campaign ad featuring Anthony Fauci, talking actually to Mark Levin in this particular interview.

00:29:15.000 He has never overruled me.

00:29:17.000 He's never countered or overridden me.

00:29:18.000 when we went in and said, we probably should be doing that.

00:29:21.000 And the answer was yes.

00:29:23.000 When I've made recommendations, he's taken them.

00:29:25.000 And then another time was we should do it with Europe.

00:29:27.000 And the answer was yes.

00:29:28.000 He's never countered or overridden me.

00:29:31.000 And the next time we should do it with the UK.

00:29:33.000 And the answer was yes.

00:29:34.000 I never, in the multiple times that I've done that, where I said, for scientific reasons,

00:29:40.000 we really should do this, that he hasn't said, let's do it.

00:29:43.000 The first and only time that Dr. Birx and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a, quote, shutdown.

00:29:56.000 The president listened to the recommendation.

00:29:59.000 Okay, I mean, that was an actual Trump-Pence ad in 2020.

00:30:03.000 DeSantis should just replay that ad, except it said, donate to DeSantis button.

00:30:07.000 I mean, I'm not sure what to do about the fact that Donald Trump was doing this in the middle of the pandemic.

00:30:12.000 I mean, he was.

00:30:13.000 That is the reality.

00:30:15.000 It was DeSantis who was taking the slings and arrows when it came to this sort of stuff.

00:30:18.000 Trump was unwilling to make the call.

00:30:21.000 In fact, in the middle of the 2020 COVID pandemic, Trump talked about how he was a genius for the policies he'd taken, including shutting down the country.

00:30:27.000 We did the right thing.

00:30:28.000 We closed the country down.

00:30:30.000 I could have kept it open.

00:30:32.000 And I could have done what some countries are doing.

00:30:35.000 I had to shut it down.

00:30:36.000 We did the right thing.

00:30:37.000 I thought of keeping it open.

00:30:39.000 And we did just the right thing.

00:30:40.000 We closed it down.

00:30:41.000 And a group of very smart people walk in and say, sir, we have to close it.

00:30:47.000 And we did the right thing.

00:30:48.000 They can't do anything without the approval of the President of the United States.

00:30:51.000 Even the Democrats aren't blaming me for that.

00:30:54.000 By contrast, here was Ron DeSantis in the middle of 2020.

00:30:57.000 This is actually kind of amazing.

00:31:00.000 His own Surgeon General was out there suggesting that until there was a vaccine, they were going to have to basically socially distance.

00:31:06.000 And DeSantis had him kicked out of the room.

00:31:08.000 He's like, nope, we're not going to do that.

00:31:09.000 And you're not the one who gets to make that decision.

00:31:13.000 So as long as we're going to have COVID in the environment, and this is a tough virus, we're going to have to practice these measures so that we are all protected.

00:31:23.000 Based upon what has been reported, probably a year, if not longer, is what some individuals have talked about.

00:31:36.000 He's being told to leave by one of DeSantis' assistants.

00:31:43.000 He's saying it's time for you to leave the room.

00:31:45.000 Do you, what do you?

00:31:47.000 Hard to see pieces.

00:31:51.000 They're closing his microphone and telling him to leave.

00:31:53.000 Yeah, do you see the difference right there?

00:31:56.000 This is the living room.

00:31:58.000 By the way, I know that this difference applied because Governor DeSantis called me in the middle of the COVID

00:32:01.000 pandemic, it was like June 2020, to explain his policy of reopening in granular detail.

00:32:06.000 Yes, that makes a big, big difference.

00:32:08.000 And in a primary, people are going to have to remember who it was that actually demonstrated more leadership when it came to the pandemic.

00:32:15.000 In just one second, we'll get to the left-wing attacks on DeSantis because it is very clear who they would love to see nominated.

00:32:19.000 I mean, they're really not making a lot of bones about it at this point.

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00:34:23.000 Okay, meanwhile, obviously the left is focusing in on the 2024 presidential race.

00:34:28.000 They're doing so by attacking DeSantis.

00:34:30.000 They've decided they want Trump.

00:34:32.000 I mean, it's very clear that the mainstream media would love Trump to be the nominee, mainly because they think, again, that he's easily defeatable, which is why the new going line about DeSantis is that he's mean.

00:34:43.000 Typically, Democrats have, like, three lines on Republicans. 1.00

00:34:46.000 It's mean, stupid, or corrupt. 1.00

00:34:48.000 Those are the only three. 1.00

00:34:50.000 And it's cold or stupid or corrupt. 1.00

00:34:51.000 They can't say that DeSantis is corrupt because he's not. 1.00

00:34:54.000 They can't say that he is stupid because he clearly is not. 1.00

00:34:57.000 And so they've decided to go with he's mean. 1.00

00:34:59.000 So Jennifer Rubin, one of the least charming people on planet Earth, she says that Ron DeSantis is a jerk, and that is the thing that's really going to harm him, as opposed to Joe Biden, who's a really, really nice guy who just leaves, you know, hundreds of Americans behind enemy lines to die. 0.99

00:35:12.000 But other than that, other than being, you know, a bloviating, blowhard jackass, he's the best. 0.99

00:35:16.000 But Ron DeSantis is super mean. 0.95

00:35:20.000 What happens now?

00:35:21.000 There are all sorts of people who, in theory, are running against Donald Trump, but he has a remarkable ability to pick people off one at a time.

00:35:30.000 He really does.

00:35:31.000 And let's face it, I take a little bit of joy in predicting that Ron DeSantis was going to crash and burn. 1.00

00:35:38.000 He's a jerk. 1.00

00:35:39.000 And it's hard to disguise being a jerk when you're running for President of the United States. 1.00

00:35:44.000 He just is not ready for prime time. 0.99

00:35:46.000 And I think the Disney episode is going to look like the little Marco episode in retrospect, making him seem small and petty and rather silly, frankly. 0.67

00:35:57.000 Oh, it's gonna make him look small and petty and rather silly to take one of the biggest corporations in American history and force them to back off of their insane politicking with regard to the indoctrination of small children, is it?

00:36:08.000 Interesting.

00:36:08.000 Maureen Dowd has settled on the same line.

00:36:11.000 She has a piece in the New York Times doing exactly the same thing, suggesting that Ron DeSantis isn't likable enough.

00:36:16.000 And then who does she quote?

00:36:17.000 She quotes David Axelrod, the former Obama advisor, who said that the Florida governor is coming across, quote, like the high school quarterback who throws the geek against the lockers to get a laugh from the cheerleaders.

00:36:25.000 And that's not a good look.

00:36:27.000 Oh, as opposed to, you know, President Trump, who they all love, who's apparently, according to them, incredibly charming.

00:36:33.000 According to Maureen Dowd, even in a world made crueler by social media and Donald Trump, DeSantis seems mean, punching out at Mickey Mouse, immigrants, gays, and women, pushing through an expansion of his proposal to ban school discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity to include all grades, as well as a draconian ban on abortion after six weeks.

00:36:48.000 He even admonished some high school kids during the pandemic for wearing masks.

00:36:50.000 No, that's not true.

00:36:51.000 He actually laughed with them and joked with them that he didn't understand why the adults were forcing them to wear masks.

00:36:56.000 Actually, if you watch the video.

00:36:59.000 But this is going to be the line. The going line is he's not charming enough.

00:37:01.000 So they can't come up with a political reason why he'd be a bad president. So what they're

00:37:04.000 coming up with is he's not charming enough. So it'll be fun to watch when they do the exact

00:37:08.000 same thing to Tim Scott. So Tim Scott is the senator from South Carolina who they all pretend

00:37:11.000 to like in the moment. But the minute that he runs, they will throw him directly under the bus.

00:37:14.000 He's been thinking about throwing his hat into the ring. He says he doesn't have a timeline.

00:37:17.000 What do you feel like you have to make a decision of going from exploratory to official?

00:37:23.000 I guess the simple answer is, is I continue on the faith in America tour.

00:37:27.000 As I continue to tour farms and businesses and churches, it gives me an opportunity to understand

00:37:33.000 whether or not what I'm focused on, which is an optimistic, positive message anchored in conservatism,

00:37:39.000 As long as it's working, you continue to build momentum, you continue to make good decisions.

00:37:43.000 If you do it prematurely, then likely you don't.

00:37:46.000 So my goal really isn't to figure out the timeline.

00:37:49.000 My goal is to continue to listen.

00:37:51.000 The more I listen, the better off I am.

00:37:52.000 They're the same members of the media who think that Tim Scott is charming and wonderful and super nice.

00:37:56.000 And Tim Scott is a very nice person.

00:37:58.000 They will be ripping his head off the minute he declares for the presidency.

00:38:00.000 Because this is what they do.

00:38:03.000 There's only one person who they've been pretty much leaving alone at this point in so far as his candidacy.

00:38:08.000 They'll go after him with regard to his election behavior and they'll go after him with regard to his taxes and everything else and his Michael Cohen.

00:38:15.000 But when it comes to his actual election behavior, the media basically decided it is hands off with President Trump.

00:38:20.000 There's a reason for that.

00:38:22.000 Okay, in other news.

00:38:23.000 Bud Light has begun the climb down, at least publicly.

00:38:25.000 They're now attempting to sort of buy off everybody who's angry at them and no longer will shop and buy Bud Light by putting on sort of unnamed suspension the marketing executive who originally put together the partnership between Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney.

00:38:39.000 According to the Associated Press, Alyssa Heinerschneid, Bud Light's VP of Marketing, will be replaced by Todd Allen, the most recent Global Vice President to Budweiser, according to reports from Beer Business Daily and Ad Age.

00:38:49.000 A spokesperson for Bud Light's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, on Saturday did not directly confirm the leave of absence, but said that Allen, as VP of Bud Light, will report directly to the U.S.

00:38:57.000 Chief Marketing Officer.

00:39:00.000 This should not end whatever boycott people have going against Bud Light, because again, this is obviously just some sort of PR move.

00:39:06.000 That is why you announce a move like that.

00:39:08.000 Until they say, listen, we are not going to dip our toes into politically sensitive waters again.

00:39:13.000 We're here to sell beer and to like America.

00:39:15.000 And those are the only two things that we are here for.

00:39:16.000 Until they actually do that, then you don't need to buy Bud Light.

00:39:21.000 You shouldn't buy it anyway.

00:39:22.000 It seems to be not very good beer.

00:39:23.000 But aside from that, It is fairly obvious at this point that when people on the right and people in the middle say we're not interested in the thing, it turns out the companies actually do answer to that, at least in small part.

00:39:34.000 So, you know, what does that tell you?

00:39:36.000 What it does tell you is that companies respond to pressure campaigns. 0.99

00:39:39.000 Now, hilariously, there's a piece by Brian Broome over at the Washington Post blaming the Bud Light controversy not on stupid marketing ideas, wherein a beer largely marketed at poor white people is going to be best Best marketed by a man pretending to be a woman. 0.98

00:39:54.000 No, the real problem is you wait, wait, wait for it. 1.00

00:39:56.000 Toxic masculinity! 1.00

00:39:57.000 According to Brian Broom.

00:40:00.000 Dylan Mulvaney, a trans influencer with more than 10 million followers, documented her transition over the course of a year.

00:40:05.000 To celebrate Day 365 of her journey, Bud Light sent her some personalized cans of beer.

00:40:10.000 This attempt on Bud Light's part to be forward-thinking about how its customers live and love has been met with backlash by one group of people who seem to believe that another group of people should not exist.

00:40:19.000 For some, trans people represent just the latest bad-a-bad-a-babadook, a complex fear they cannot tolerate.

00:40:25.000 A note to those folks who are upset that Anheuser-Busch relied on a trans woman as a quasi-spokesperson.

00:40:29.000 Whether you like it or not, queer people have been drinking your beer for decades. 1.00

00:40:32.000 In fact, as long as there's been beer, queer people have been drinking it. 0.99

00:40:37.000 Mulvaney's celebration for some reason threatened the very existence of a whole bunch of guys who aren't ready for that reality.

00:40:42.000 This will surprise no one who has ever been a small boy. 0.97

00:40:44.000 Everyone knows the sting of being called a sissy. 0.88

00:40:47.000 Yes, it's toxic masculinity because if a man doesn't believe that a man can be a woman, that's toxic masculinity. 0.93

00:40:52.000 So the best way, obviously, to demonstrate solidarity with women who are, in fact, being lied about and mocked when a man pretends to be a woman and the entire society pretends that the man is a woman, when men say, no, we're not going to go along with that, that apparently is an aspect of toxic masculinity.

00:41:08.000 So we have now redefined toxic masculinity to mean men defending women from other men pretending to be women.

00:41:15.000 The attempt to destroy masculinity as a very concept is absurd.

00:41:19.000 The reality is that if women want to be protected, you know what they need? 0.70

00:41:22.000 They need masculine men protecting them. 1.00

00:41:23.000 I give you another example that comes to mind here. 0.99

00:41:26.000 So, one of the stupidest things I have ever seen is happening now in Canada. 0.97

00:41:31.000 Apparently, Canadian politicians, male politicians, decided that they had to wear women's pink high heels To raise awareness about violence against women. 0.99

00:41:43.000 The event was hosted by Halton Women's Place and was part of their Hope in High Heels campaign.

00:41:50.000 And one of the members of the Canadian Parliament tweeted, violence against women is still prevalent in our society. 1.00

00:41:55.000 Hope in Heels, an event that spreads awareness on violence against women while encouraging men and boys to be part of the solution.

00:42:00.000 We award their signature pink heels in support of this important cause.

00:42:03.000 Here are some of the video.

00:42:05.000 You can see them dancing around in high heels.

00:42:09.000 At least three of these guys look like this is not their first time.

00:42:12.000 But yeah, the event aims to sensitize men and boys about gender-based violence and the need to end it.

00:42:19.000 It's about starting a systematic conversation regarding violence against women in the society.

00:42:23.000 Okay, so you want to actually know how to stop violence against women?

00:42:25.000 You put intimidating men who defend women in the way of men who are attempting to harm women.

00:42:30.000 You think a single one of these politicians is going to prevent a single act of violence against women? 0.89

00:42:34.000 You think that's going to happen because they're gallivanting around wearing women's shoes? 1.00

00:42:37.000 Guess what doesn't solve toxic masculinity? 0.92

00:42:40.000 Femininity. 1.00

00:42:40.000 It doesn't. 1.00

00:42:41.000 It doesn't.

00:42:42.000 The thing that solves toxic masculinity is men being good men.

00:42:47.000 But this is what we've done.

00:42:48.000 We've decided that masculinity in and of itself is toxic.

00:42:51.000 It's bad.

00:42:51.000 The only way that men can defend women is if they don high heels or if they allow other men to gallivant around pretending to be women and mocking women in the process.

00:43:00.000 That is the height, apparently, of the new masculinity is to be as effeminate as humanly possible.

00:43:04.000 And somehow this is going to stop bad men from doing bad things. 0.91

00:43:07.000 Which, of course, is absolute silliness at every level.

00:43:10.000 At every single level.

00:43:12.000 Alrighty, meanwhile, this year marks the 75th anniversary of Israel's independence.

00:43:15.000 Coincidentally, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is also celebrating 40 years of ministry.

00:43:20.000 Today, thousands of Jews, both in Israel and in war-torn Ukraine, struggle to survive the life-threatening crises, including extreme poverty, hunger, and violence in the form of conflict, anti-Semitism, and terrorism.

00:43:29.000 Among these vulnerable people are tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors and elderly Jews who aren't going to survive without basic needs.

00:43:36.000 If you've ever met Holocaust survivors, I mean, they're some of the most amazing people on the planet.

00:43:40.000 They've gone through some of the worst hardships.

00:43:41.000 If you're a Holocaust survivor and you live in Ukraine, there's a good shot that you not only lived through the Holocaust, but then you were made subject to the predations of the Stalin government and the Soviet Union.

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00:44:20.000 Okay, meanwhile, there is a fascinating piece from the Wall Street Journal

00:44:24.000 talking about who in America these days is very happy, very happy.

00:44:28.000 So, today in America, the number of people who consider themselves very happy,

00:44:32.000 it used to be back in, say, 2016, the number of people who consider themselves very happy

00:44:37.000 was a bit over 30%.

00:44:39.000 Now, the number of people who consider themselves very happy

00:44:41.000 is about 12%.

00:44:43.000 Not just happy or pretty happy.

00:44:45.000 People who consider themselves very happy.

00:44:47.000 The number who consider themselves pretty happy is basically stagnant.

00:44:50.000 It's somewhere in the 50s.

00:44:51.000 But people who say, like, they wake up every morning and they are very happy.

00:44:54.000 They're just very happy people.

00:44:55.000 Who are these people?

00:44:57.000 According to the Wall Street Journal NORC poll, the 12% was the smallest share of very happy people ever recorded in this poll, dating all the way back to 1972.

00:45:05.000 Who exactly are these people?

00:45:06.000 Well, some 67% of these people say marriage is very important to them, regardless of their own marital status, compared with only 43% of respondents overall.

00:45:17.000 These people tend to say that God is important.

00:45:20.000 Two-thirds describe themselves as very or moderately religious, compared to less than half of adults overall.

00:45:26.000 Community involvement rates as more important among the very happy than among those who report lower levels of happiness.

00:45:31.000 Well, many of the very happy are satisfied with their personal finances.

00:45:34.000 As a group, they don't attach high importance to money.

00:45:37.000 Well, who could have suspected?

00:45:39.000 So here's the description of the very happy person in America.

00:45:43.000 A person who is married or believes in the value of marriage, who is involved in the community or believes that it is very important to be involved in the community, and a person who believes in God.

00:45:53.000 Those are the people.

00:45:55.000 Who are very happy in America.

00:45:56.000 And those are precisely the people we are apparently determined, bound and determined as a society to essentially push out of the population.

00:46:05.000 How are we doing this?

00:46:06.000 Well, there are a couple of ways we're doing this.

00:46:07.000 One is we just make an overt appeal that religious living is bad and terrible and bigoted, right? 1.00

00:46:11.000 This is the case of the hardcore left.

00:46:13.000 This is the case that presumably is being pushed by people like The Amazing Atheist.

00:46:18.000 There's a tweet that has now gone viral from a person who calls himself The Amazing Atheist.

00:46:23.000 And never have I seen atheism and paganism so closely connected in one tweet.

00:46:26.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:46:28.000 The tweet goes like this, from the amazing atheist. 1.00

00:46:30.000 Hey transphobes, it's okay you want to suck girl bleep. 1.00

00:46:34.000 Bleep is the word for his penis. 1.00

00:46:37.000 Hey transphobes, it's okay you want to suck girl bleep. 1.00

00:46:40.000 The only people judging you are other transphobes, who also secretly want to suck girl bleep. 1.00

00:46:44.000 If you all stop being bigots at the same time, you could all goon to girl bleep as one. 0.99

00:46:49.000 It's okay. 1.00

00:46:49.000 So atheism directly to the idea that a woman can have a penis, 1.00

00:46:54.000 and that everyone who opposes this particular atheist, must actually want to have sex with a man who says he's a 1.00

00:47:01.000 woman. 1.00

00:47:02.000 This is the tweet. 0.97

00:47:05.000 So there are the militant folks in our society who have decided religion is just bad, it's evil, it needs to be wiped away.

00:47:10.000 And then there's a softer version of this.

00:47:12.000 The softer version of this is where we substitute faith in a quote-unquote higher power or in the universe or in something for God and religion and tradition.

00:47:22.000 Faith in a thing is effectively the same as faith in nothing.

00:47:26.000 You actually have to specify what the thing you have faith in is.

00:47:29.000 And when people say that they believe in a higher source of spirituality, in a spiritual path, they're not religious, they're spiritual.

00:47:36.000 What they're really saying is they have no idea.

00:47:39.000 They understand there's a mystery in the universe, but they have no interest or idea of what that mystery could be or how exactly to penetrate it.

00:47:44.000 And so they're going to live with the boundaries of secular humanism as their morality.

00:47:49.000 It doesn't connect them with a higher guide for morality.

00:47:51.000 It doesn't connect them to a community because there is no secular humanist community.

00:47:55.000 In fact, secular humanism tends to lead to individualistic atomism.

00:48:00.000 That is what we have been doing as a society.

00:48:01.000 So there's an article, again from the Wall Street Journal today.

00:48:04.000 A greater share of young adults say they believe in a higher power or God.

00:48:07.000 But that's not the same thing.

00:48:09.000 So, the Wall Street Journal found this puzzling because it said that a higher share of people are now saying that they believe in God or a higher power.

00:48:17.000 But, there's a big difference between saying that you believe in a higher power and saying you believe in a God.

00:48:22.000 When you say you believe in God, everyone understands obligations and duties now attend to you.

00:48:26.000 That you now have to do things.

00:48:28.000 You believe in God?

00:48:28.000 Well, God demands things of you.

00:48:29.000 You say you believe in a higher power?

00:48:31.000 This doesn't demand anything of you.

00:48:33.000 What is the higher power?

00:48:34.000 Is it astrology?

00:48:35.000 Is it woo-woo crystals?

00:48:36.000 Like, what is it exactly?

00:48:39.000 Unless you have a belief in God that is embedded in your life and that winds up binding you to a community and to a set of values, a belief in a higher power does not do you much good.

00:48:51.000 And in fact, it ends up being directed in very, very weird directions.

00:48:54.000 It ends up being pushed toward a pagan atheistic direction, which is why you end up with people making the case that Earth Day should actually be a religious holiday.

00:49:03.000 There's a piece in Time Magazine today by Paul Greenberg and Carl Safina.

00:49:07.000 Greenberg teaches at NYU's Animal Studies program.

00:49:10.000 Safina holds the Endowed Research Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University.

00:49:14.000 And they say, for the two of us environmentalists, one of us nominally Jewish, the other a recovering Catholic,

00:49:20.000 we find the ill-defined nature of the only day honoring a place that makes life itself possible

00:49:24.000 more than a little sacrilegious.

00:49:26.000 So on this 53rd Earth Day, we thought it useful to pose what a real Earth Day should represent

00:49:30.000 and how it could form a central time for a new approach to worship.

00:49:33.000 So what exactly do they want?

00:49:36.000 Well, they say that an Earth reverent belief system would look like this, quote,

00:49:41.000 to begin with, let's take a look at what established religions get right 0.99

00:49:44.000 and where we might take a cue.

00:49:45.000 Perhaps the first step might be unearthing the nature-centered origins of our existing religious holidays.

00:49:50.000 Most of us know in the back of our minds that Christmas and Hanukkah fall around the time of the winter solstice, that Easter and Passover are celebrated in tandem with the arrival of spring, that Sukkot and Diwali mark harvest in summer's last warmth, and Eid follows the path of the moon.

00:50:01.000 These holidays have origins in gratitude.

00:50:03.000 Gratitude for the sun returning, gratitude for the harvest.

00:50:06.000 Thanks for when we did avert it.

00:50:07.000 We also might look at what religions do to help us form community and mark life's important benchmarks.

00:50:11.000 Birth, maturity, marriage, and death.

00:50:13.000 What if we were to come to celebrate these benchmarks for what they are biologically?

00:50:17.000 Birth, that ecstatic co-joining of atoms and molecules, resulting in sentience, might prompt a ritual of truthfully and factually recounting how inanimate objects become animate.

00:50:26.000 Well, that sounds, like, absolutely incredible.

00:50:28.000 You're just gonna do, like, atheistic materialist projections of how lifeless form could become life form.

00:50:35.000 Instead of, or in addition to, bar and bat mitzvahs, would it be too much to expect our children to go beyond the average 20 daily minutes most American kids spend outdoors and commit to memory the names and descriptions of local plants and animals?

00:50:44.000 I mean, we're just going right back here to paganism.

00:50:47.000 Nature worship.

00:50:48.000 Pantheism, maybe.

00:50:50.000 So, get rid of God and people find something to believe in, and what they apparently believe in is, you know, the trees.

00:50:56.000 The leaves.

00:50:57.000 Now, if you find yourself believing that a community can be built on this, or a lifestyle can be built, or this will make you happy, I have another thing coming for you.

00:51:05.000 It's not going to make you happy.

00:51:07.000 No community can be built on this sort of nonsense and make people happy.

00:51:09.000 The reason being, it does not bind people together. 0.99

00:51:12.000 Nature wants to kill you.

00:51:14.000 Nature both keeps us alive and also tries to kill us. 0.93

00:51:17.000 This is what nature does.

00:51:18.000 Every single day.

00:51:20.000 The notion that you are going to worship the inanimate powers of nature, and that this is somehow going to make you feel better about life, or that you're going to jettison religion entirely and fall back on a pure subjectivist view of what humanity is and truth is, such that you end up like the amazing atheist talking about girl d**k. If this is the way you approach the world, you are likely to end up less happy. 0.73

00:51:43.000 Great piece by Leo Leibovitz over at Commentary Magazine, titled The Return of Paganism, on exactly this topic. 0.99

00:51:50.000 He says, how to make sense of statements in which people say that they are men who have vaginas. 0.99

00:51:58.000 He says, appealing to reason hardly helps. 0.94

00:52:01.000 Instead, anyone wishing to find his way through the thicket of American public discourse these days should start by embracing one simple and terrifying idea.

00:52:06.000 The barbarians are at the gates. 0.76

00:52:08.000 I mean this almost literally.

00:52:09.000 Everywhere you turn these days, pagans are afoot, busily hacking away at the Christian and Jewish foundations of American life and replacing them with a cosmology that would have been absolutely coherent to followers of, say, Baltumna, the Etruscan earth god, or to those who worship the Celt tribal protector Teutatus.

00:52:24.000 If you think the above paragraphs a little overblown, consider the numbers.

00:52:27.000 In 1990, scholars from Trinity College set out to learn just how many of their fellow Americans practice some form of pagan religion.

00:52:33.000 The numbers were unsurprisingly small, about 8,000 or enough to pack your average journey reunion concert.

00:52:38.000 But the researchers asked again in 2008.

00:52:41.000 This time, 340,000 Americans said yes to paganism.

00:52:45.000 A decade later, the Pew survey posed the same question.

00:52:47.000 There are now 1.5 million Americans professing an array of pagan persuasions from Wicca to Viking lore.

00:52:54.000 So this is now one of the fastest growing religious persuasions in the country.

00:52:57.000 But it's not just that.

00:52:58.000 It turns out that paganism has also now been embedded into a huge variety of the ways that we live today.

00:53:06.000 And that means that people are likely to start worshipping at the altar of untruth.

00:53:11.000 See, the key to paganism is to understand that what pagans believed is that we lived in a chaotic and violent universe in which everything was nearly un-understandable.

00:53:18.000 And because of that, you tried to propitiate the gods with various aspects of sacrifice, human and non-human.

00:53:24.000 This is what paganism was all about.

00:53:26.000 And then monotheistic religion came around.

00:53:27.000 They said there's one God who stands behind all of this.

00:53:31.000 And we can't understand everything about him, but we can understand some things about him.

00:53:33.000 And he has communed with human beings to the extent that he has given us a moral code to live by.

00:53:37.000 And it presents traditional wisdom in a way that we can understand and act out.

00:53:42.000 And as that poll from the Wall Street Journal shows, Once again, these tend to be the things that make human beings actually live fulfilled lives.

00:53:49.000 But paganism has taken the place of all of that, and the result is really, really ugly. 0.98

00:53:54.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:53:57.000 So, things that I like.

00:53:59.000 I gotta say, I do wonder sometimes whether the left hears itself.

00:54:03.000 So, over in Florida, a gay parade has now been cancelled.

00:54:06.000 Why?

00:54:07.000 According to Local 10, officials in a Florida city have cancelled a gay pride parade and restricted other pride events to people 21 years and older, in anticipation of Governor Ron DeSantis signing a bill meant to keep children out of drag shows.

00:54:17.000 The Pride Alliance for the Treasure Coast posted Wednesday on Facebook the decision to change this Saturday's Pridefest events was made, after multiple conversations with Port St.

00:54:24.000 Lucie officials.

00:54:26.000 So, why?

00:54:28.000 Well, apparently, the DeSantis administration was cracking down on lewd displays before children. 1.00

00:54:34.000 They basically said, no assless chaps or displays of dildos. 0.95

00:54:38.000 And, in front of the kids. 0.98

00:54:40.000 And the gay pride parade, instead of being like, okay, we'll fly our rainbow flags and we will celebrate gay marriage, they're like, nope, we're gonna pull the parade. 0.82

00:54:47.000 Do you hear yourselves, guys?

00:54:48.000 I mean, I'm fine with it.

00:54:49.000 That's what you want to do. 0.93

00:54:50.000 But it seems like you're kind of, like, is that the pur- if the purpose of the Gay Pride Parade is the assless chaps and, uh, and the simulated sex act in front of kids, and so you have to cancel it to the extent that, like, a law that says you can't sexually indoctrinate kids affects the parade? 0.90

00:55:04.000 What does that say about your parade, really? 0.91

00:55:06.000 I mean, meanwhile, other things that I like.

00:55:09.000 The trans movement, obviously, is going to have some radical ramifications for a lot of other things in American life.

00:55:14.000 One of those things, obviously, is going to be the question of age.

00:55:16.000 So, you'll recall that a few years back, a very, very famous exchange between me and a college student, in which this college student took the position that men can be women, women can be men, and I asked this college student her age.

00:55:29.000 And she told me her age, she said she was 20 or something, 21, and I said, why aren't you 60?

00:55:36.000 And this, of course, went viral, because I was saying, like, you can't change your age, and you can't change your sex. 0.85

00:55:41.000 What are you talking about here?

00:55:44.000 Let me ask you this.

00:55:45.000 Okay, I won't ask you how old— I will ask you how old you are, okay?

00:55:48.000 Because you're young enough that it's probably not insulting to ask you.

00:55:50.000 So— I'm 22, so I'm probably under 90, right?

00:55:52.000 No.

00:55:53.000 Why aren't you 60?

00:55:56.000 Why aren't you 60?

00:55:57.000 Because it— And why— Why can't you identify as 60?

00:56:06.000 What is the problem with you identifying as 60?

00:56:10.000 You're right.

00:56:11.000 Age is significantly less important than gender.

00:56:14.000 Well now, I guess we've hit the end of parody because now we have 60-year-old men identifying as 6-year-old girls.

00:56:20.000 This is a clip that was going viral on the Twitters of a 60-year-old man in Great Britain claiming that he is in fact a 6-year-old girl.

00:56:25.000 Now what's hilarious about this, and the reason why I put it in things I like rather than things I hate, is I think it does quite well expose the trans agenda. 0.89

00:56:31.000 If this were a man claiming that he is in day 365 of girlhood, he would be getting all sorts of ad deals from Maybelline, and Tampax, and Bud Light, But since he claims that he's a 60-year-old man who's a six-year-old girl, it's the age that really is upsetting people.

00:56:46.000 It's the age that's troubling, not the fact that this is a dude claiming that he is a female.

00:56:53.000 Today is my first day of having my living room as my playroom.

00:57:01.000 And my koto is here with me, but I didn't have any friends over for the playdate because it's COVID time.

00:57:10.000 But I'm having fun with Makoto, my cat, and with Franny.

00:57:17.000 She's my baby.

00:57:19.000 Anyways, I just wanted you to see I made a tutu with my sewing machine.

00:57:25.000 Oh no.

00:57:25.000 And it's for pretending to be a little fairy.

00:57:36.000 Oh no.

00:57:37.000 Oh no.

00:57:40.000 But here's the thing.

00:57:41.000 Why not?

00:57:43.000 Question to the left, why not?

00:57:44.000 Why can't this 60-year-old man be a 6-year-old girl?

00:57:46.000 Why not?

00:57:47.000 You say he's a man who can be a girl.

00:57:49.000 Again, day 365 of girlhood means that you're getting calls from the President of the United States.

00:57:54.000 So when is the Prime Minister of Britain, not Rishi Sunak, who actually has his head screwed down straight on this, maybe some of the former Prime Ministers, why don't they call up this guy and congratulate him on becoming a 6-year-old girl?

00:58:05.000 I mean, the good news is that, according to the left, this means that he is basically immortal.

00:58:08.000 Because he can just keep identifying as a younger and younger person.

00:58:11.000 He'll never die.

00:58:11.000 So that's very exciting.

00:58:14.000 None of this ideology makes sense, because it is all pagan crap, and it has nothing to do with reality. 0.99

00:58:19.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate. 0.99

00:58:25.000 Alrighty, so.

00:58:26.000 There is a human named Jules Hoffman.

00:58:29.000 Jules Hoffman is a woman.

00:58:30.000 But, Jules Hoffman says that she is a they.

00:58:34.000 According to Jules, the reason this is of relevance is because Jules Hoffman is one of the stars of a wildly popular YouTube channel for babies and toddlers called Songs for Littles.

00:58:45.000 The host of this is apparently a person named Miss Rachel.

00:58:47.000 Now, I've never watched this, nor did I expose my children to a woman who says that she is a they.

00:58:54.000 Not three-year-old children.

00:58:55.000 Nope.

00:58:57.000 So Miss Rachel used to be just a place where you would hear a cute song to your three-year-old. 0.93

00:59:02.000 Now it's a place where you can learn about why gender is non-binary.

00:59:09.000 Hello everyone!

00:59:12.000 We're gonna have so much fun.

00:59:15.000 I'm so glad you came today.

00:59:19.000 Are you ready to sing?

00:59:20.000 Are you ready to play?

00:59:22.000 Hooray! 0.97

00:59:23.000 It's time for Songs for Littles.

00:59:27.000 Songs for Littles.

00:59:30.000 It's time for Songs for Littles.

00:59:34.000 Okay, so this is a lady singing. 0.99

00:59:36.000 Okay, right?

00:59:36.000 I mean, unless that is a man with a very high voice, which it is not.

00:59:39.000 That is a lady singing. 0.69

00:59:41.000 So, what are the pronouns?

00:59:42.000 So, Hoffman uses they-them pronouns.

00:59:46.000 And, um, that's, I'm sure, very exciting for your tiny child who doesn't understand what the hell is going on.

00:59:51.000 And yes, distinctions matter to small children and to everyone else in life.

00:59:55.000 But now we have an entire piece in the Washington Post saying that you must expose your child to this or you're a bad parent.

01:00:01.000 Quote, Hoffman is one of the stars of Songs for Littles.

01:00:03.000 Using their niece and nephews, which they refer to as nibblings, as inspiration, Hoffman belts out tunes on Pizza, Dinosaurs, and the Hokey Pokey.

01:00:10.000 The channel's most popular video has been viewed more than 290 million times.

01:00:14.000 But the channel has come under fire recently after some parents took issue with Hoffman's identity, asserting falsely the show introduced the concept of they-them pronouns to their young audience.

01:00:22.000 A video on TikTok criticizing the show has been viewed more than 400,000 times.

01:00:26.000 Hoffman said the backlash was a surprise and sent them on a rollercoaster of emotion as they waded through hundreds of TikToks and commenters, some critical and others supportive.

01:00:36.000 Apparently, the show's star, Rachel Griffin-Acurso, educator and songwriter, announced she was taking a break from social media to address her own mental health after the fallout.

01:00:44.000 Hurtful videos and comments, no matter how much attention they get, will not bring you what you want.

01:00:47.000 Only love can do that.

01:00:50.000 Oh, how radically exciting.

01:00:53.000 Again, how about this?

01:00:55.000 You should be screening pretty much everything your kid watches.

01:00:57.000 The fact that there are people who wish to present themselves to your child in a guise that is deliberately confusing to your child, the fact that that exists means that you just have to police it harder.

01:01:06.000 And parents who refuse to police this material for their kids should not be surprised when their kids become very confused about these things because they are inherently confusing.

01:01:13.000 Because they do not make sense.

01:01:14.000 Because they are not true.

01:01:16.000 It turns out that Jules Hoffman is a woman, not a they-them. 0.99

01:01:18.000 It's just amazing, amazing stuff.

01:01:21.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.

01:01:23.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

01:01:23.000 We'll be getting into the director of Queen Cleopatra, who is very upset that people are bothered by the idea of Black Cleopatra, because Cleopatra was, you know, like, Greek.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 24, 2023

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