The Ben Shapiro Show - California vs. Florida: The Great Battle | Ep. 1654

00:00:00.000 California ratchets up the insanity as Governor Gavin Newsom inches toward a presidential run, the media panic over Governor Ron DeSantis' conservative actions in Florida, and the DOJ moves to break up Google's ad monopoly.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:11.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:21.000 Things don't seem to be getting much better any time soon.

00:00:25.000 Now, one of the reasons I left California, many of the reasons I left California, are implicit in the news that comes out of the place absolutely daily.

00:00:32.000 I left California for Florida, so I am biased in this matter, but it appears to me on a national level, one of the things that we are going to be deciding in the very near future is whether California is the future of the United States or whether Florida is the future of the United States.

00:00:44.000 And these futures look unbelievably different.

00:00:46.000 In California, the solution for every single problem is more government.

00:00:50.000 It is more government.

00:00:51.000 It is more government interventionism.

00:00:52.000 It is more encroachments upon your economic rights.

00:00:56.000 It is more left-wing indoctrination of your children.

00:00:59.000 That is always the answer.

00:01:00.000 And in Florida, the answer seems to be more local control.

00:01:04.000 More leaving parents to their own devices.

00:01:06.000 More of the state allowing you to bring up your children in the way that is traditionally fit in the United States.

00:01:14.000 And this is the real gap that is emerging in American public life.

00:01:17.000 This is why the solution in the end may be that California is going to get to be California and Florida is going to get to be Florida and federalism rules the day.

00:01:22.000 But until that point, The incipient conflict that is building up at a national level is whether the entire nation is going to move more toward Florida or whether it is going to move more toward California.

00:01:31.000 So we begin in California.

00:01:33.000 In California, there have been two mass shootings over the course of the last 72 hours.

00:01:36.000 There's another mass shooting at In Half Moon Bay, apparently over the course of the last 48, the Washington Post reports the suspect accused of killing seven people at two farms was believed to be a co-worker of the victims, officials said on Tuesday, describing the attack as workplace violence.

00:01:51.000 Details about what happened on Monday were slow to emerge as authorities worked to reach the victims' families and to further investigate ahead of a planned Wednesday arraignment for the suspect, who happens to be a 66-year-old who engaged in the shooting.

00:02:02.000 That is a very elderly mass shooter.

00:02:05.000 Typically, mass shooters tend to be in the 17 to 22 range.

00:02:09.000 They don't tend to be in the 60 plus range, but we have been seeing a rising number of bizarre mass shootings involving much older people ranging from the Las Vegas shooting to the shooting that happened a little bit earlier this week in California to this shooting in Half Moon Bay.

00:02:24.000 Apparently, according to the Washington Post, there have been nearly 40 mass shootings so far this year.

00:02:28.000 We only focus on a certain number of them, obviously.

00:02:31.000 The media tend to focus on the more spectacular shootings, the ones that kill more people at one shot, and don't happen to be linked to gang violence.

00:02:37.000 The reality is that shootings in the United States tend to be linked overwhelmingly to either interpersonal disputes or gang violence.

00:02:44.000 Most of the most spectacular shootings that you see on the news are statistical anomalies.

00:02:48.000 That doesn't mean that they're not acts of tremendous evil, doesn't mean they're not important, doesn't mean we shouldn't address them, but the media tend to focus in on these anomalous actions as opposed to the more run-of-the-mill shootings, because if you were to look at the run-of-the-mill shootings, it might represent a different set of policy prescriptions.

00:03:03.000 According to the Washington Post, on January 21st, a shooter opened fire on the eve of Lunar New Year at a dance studio in Monterey Park, a majority Asian Los Angeles suburb, killing 11.

00:03:11.000 Two days later, related shootings at two locations around Half Moon Bay near San Francisco killed seven people as well.

00:03:16.000 There have been already 39 mass shootings in 2023 in the United States.

00:03:20.000 According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been more shootings than any other January on the database's record, which go back to 2014.

00:03:27.000 Mass shootings, where four or more people not including the shooter are injured or killed, have averaged more than one per day in 2023.

00:03:33.000 Every week has had at least six mass shootings.

00:03:35.000 Again, a lot of folks have been claiming that this has to do with the prevalence of guns in the United States, but it's hard to make that link considering what's happening in California.

00:03:45.000 And here is the rule.

00:03:46.000 If there is a link, if there is a mass shooting that cannot be explained by white supremacy or right-wing rhetoric, it immediately turns into a gun control narrative.

00:03:53.000 We don't bother to look into the motive.

00:03:54.000 We don't bother to look into any other factor.

00:03:56.000 We don't look into mental illness.

00:03:58.000 That's because the media have a stake in the gun control narrative, which is why you have articles like the one from Eugene Robinson over at the Washington Post in response to shootings in California, one of the more gun-controlled states in America.

00:04:08.000 Eugene Robinson says the only way to stop senseless mass shootings?

00:04:11.000 You know the answer.

00:04:12.000 The answer, of course, is the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun.

00:04:15.000 The common factor always is the gun.

00:04:17.000 There's one way the mass shootings Saturday in Monterey Park, California could have been prevented.

00:04:20.000 One way that all mass shootings and individual shootings and gun suicides can be prevented.

00:04:24.000 Keep deadly firearms out of the hands of those who would use them to kill.

00:04:27.000 Okay, well, the problem is you don't know who would use them to kill all the time.

00:04:30.000 We all agree.

00:04:31.000 People who are irresponsible with guns.

00:04:33.000 If there were a way to weed them out, no one would want those people to own guns.

00:04:36.000 If there were a way to weed out people who are mentally ill, it would be great to weed out people who are violently mentally ill from owning a gun.

00:04:42.000 However, saying the gun is the major factor in violence is sort of like saying that money is the major factor in embezzlement.

00:04:49.000 Yes, it is a vital tool for achieving the crime, but also it happens to be used for a lot of other things that are legal and necessary.

00:04:55.000 But the left-wing view, always and forever, is that if there is an evil person who does something terrible with a gun, all the people who are law-abiding have to have their guns removed from them, which is exactly what Eugene Robinson writes, as mass killers have different profiles and different motives.

00:05:08.000 Most are male.

00:05:09.000 Many are young.

00:05:09.000 Few are old.

00:05:10.000 By definition, virtually all are struggling with mental health issues of some kind.

00:05:13.000 Happy, well-adjusted people do not kill innocents at random.

00:05:16.000 In all cases, though, the assailants have been able to obtain guns and ammo, usually legally and with ease.

00:05:21.000 California has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, Eugene Robinson notes.

00:05:25.000 The state makes it illegal to possess the kind of weapon used in Monterey Park, a semi-automatic assault pistol with an extended magazine.

00:05:31.000 It is not yet known how the assailant obtained the outlawed gun.

00:05:34.000 It would have been a simple matter to purchase the weapon in a state where it is allowed.

00:05:37.000 Or, I mean, the guy broke a bunch of gun laws.

00:05:40.000 Okay, so passing more gun laws ain't going to do it.

00:05:44.000 But again, the idea from California is that we can always solve every single problem with more legislation.

00:05:50.000 If you look at California's gun laws, they're very restrictive.

00:05:53.000 California already has a so-called assault weapons ban.

00:05:57.000 California already has a red flag law that was enacted in 2016.

00:06:01.000 And that law allows law enforcement, family members, employers, co-workers, and school employees to file a gun violence restraining order against an individual suspected of being a danger to themselves or others.

00:06:10.000 This is according to the California government website.

00:06:13.000 California already has a waiting period of 10 days for all gun purchases.

00:06:16.000 It's one of nine states and D.C.

00:06:18.000 that have waiting periods.

00:06:19.000 California's waiting period is among the strictest.

00:06:21.000 California already requires background checks on all gun purchases and transfers, including private transfers and sales of gun shows.

00:06:28.000 It is one of 14 states and D.C.

00:06:29.000 that require universal background checks.

00:06:32.000 So basically, all of the national legislation that Democrats would pursue already is in place in California, and it is not stopping these sorts of mass shootings from happening.

00:06:40.000 A huge number of them happen in California.

00:06:42.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:08:13.000 But again, the idea in California is that if the policy fails, you just do more of it, which presumably is why you have a Governor Gavin Newsom who obviously wants to run for President of the United States.

00:08:22.000 That is the reason he has been running aggressive ads in Florida.

00:08:25.000 I noticed that California isn't in Florida. 0.80

00:08:27.000 Many of us in Florida tried to flee California, but Governor Gavin Newsom seems to be following us there with his ridiculous ads.

00:08:32.000 Well, now he is out there saying that the Second Amendment is a suicide pact.

00:08:37.000 Nothing about this is surprising.

00:08:40.000 Everything about this is infuriating.

00:08:42.000 California has the strictest gun laws in the U.S.

00:08:45.000 I mean, the Second Amendment's becoming a suicide package.

00:08:49.000 But there's many people in this country that support the Second Amendment and are lawful gun owners.

00:08:54.000 Yeah, I have great respect.

00:08:56.000 No you don't.

00:08:57.000 No you don't, dude.

00:08:59.000 Now Gavin Newsom obviously wants to run for president.

00:09:01.000 There only happens to be one problem for him, and that is that his policies are not working.

00:09:06.000 They seem to be failing almost across the board.

00:09:07.000 You have a mass homelessness crisis in California.

00:09:09.000 The supposed budget surplus that was supposed to materialize has completely dissipated under Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:09:15.000 By the way, it is amusing to watch as the Senator from California, not Gavin Newsom, Alex Padilla, he says, the solution here would be more background checks.

00:09:23.000 Again, I noticed universal background checks are the law of the land in the state of California, Senator.

00:09:29.000 How is it, Senator, that we can stop this from being normal?

00:09:38.000 Well, there's clearly a lot that needs to happen.

00:09:41.000 Is it broader education, embracing of diversity, and yes, including smarter gun control laws throughout the United States of America.

00:09:53.000 We did make some progress last year in Congress in strengthening the background checks required for gun purchasers under the age of 21, but clearly more needs to be done for those that are older than 21. And that's just the purchasing of a gun.

00:10:08.000 So Senator Padilla's solutions here involve more diversity training and gun control.

00:10:17.000 It's working great in California, by the way.

00:10:18.000 Both of the last two mass shooters in California are apparently of Asian extraction, which is a rarity and a weird oddity, but it makes it kind of odd to suggest that the solution to this is proper diversity training.

00:10:30.000 Meanwhile, again, California is leading the nation in radical policy prescriptions.

00:10:35.000 Abigail Schreier has a fascinating piece over at City Journal, super disturbing, talking about how California is now creating a predator's paradise, particularly for LGBTQ youth. 0.99

00:10:47.000 Says Abigail Schreier.

00:10:49.000 In early January, I joined Erin Wilson and Stephanie Powell on a tour of the track on Figueroa, one of California's busiest prostitution areas. 0.93

00:10:55.000 For decades, Wilson, who volunteers for the anti-trafficking organization Journey Out, and her mother, Powell, have worked to combat human trafficking in Los Angeles and to help women and child victims escape this brutal world.

00:11:05.000 In our post-feminist era, prostitution is so often idealized, sex work is work, that it's easy to overlook the gruesome reality of what it means to have a pimp, an arrangement closer to slavery than to any legitimate job. 0.52

00:11:15.000 Quote, the horror stories I could tell you about prostitutes being beaten and being choked and being burned and being gang raped, said Vanessa Russell of Love Never Fails, an anti-trafficking non-profit based near Oakland, and the PTSD and all the mental health and the trauma bonding and the psychotic breaks.

00:11:28.000 Maybe you're somebody who likes to have sex more than once a day, but 9 to 21 times with different guys, some that are like 90 years old.

00:11:35.000 One day.

00:11:36.000 That's healthy living?

00:11:37.000 I don't think so.

00:11:37.000 The body is not even made for that.

00:11:40.000 While the past few decades have seen an increase in human trafficking, women in all three of the anti-trafficking groups I spoke to, says Abigail Schreier, across California agreed, nothing compares with the stunning rise in trafficking they've witnessed in recent months.

00:11:51.000 Powell, formerly a sergeant in the LAPD, knows the city's streets intimately.

00:11:55.000 Over the last six months, the number of prostitutes has doubled. 0.57

00:11:58.000 Doubled in six months.

00:12:00.000 On Figueroa, she says, between 65th and 75th in an hour.

00:12:03.000 You might see about 30 girls out there. 1.00

00:12:05.000 Now, you can see 60 to 65 girls in an hour. 0.58

00:12:08.000 What shifted?

00:12:09.000 Senate Bill 357.

00:12:11.000 Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in July, the measure decriminalized loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution.

00:12:16.000 So it used to be that if there was some John who was hanging around the prostitutes, he could get cited.

00:12:20.000 Now he can't get cited anymore.

00:12:22.000 The bill did not officially take effect until January 1st of this year, but from the moment it became law back in July, these women say, the on-the-ground reality changed.

00:12:29.000 The minute the governor signed it, you started seeing an uptick on the streets, said Powell.

00:12:32.000 On social media, the pimps were saying, you better get out there and work, the streets are ours.

00:12:35.000 The pimps were right.

00:12:36.000 Police stopped making arrests for crimes that would no longer be charged.

00:12:39.000 The anti-loitering statute had provided the grounds for officers to question women and children whom they suspected might be trapped in a prostitution ring.

00:12:45.000 Powell said, as a police officer, you need probable cause to stop and investigate.

00:12:49.000 So if I have a law that says you can't loiter in this area with pasties and g-strings flagging down cars, I could stop you for that because you're loitering.

00:12:55.000 But if I say I'm stopping you because you look kind of young, that's a little weak, so it takes away a tool.

00:12:58.000 Without the statute, police hands were suddenly tied.

00:13:00.000 Henceforth, questioning the girls came to seem a pyrrhic gamble, one that California's police officers would now avoid.

00:13:06.000 Prostitution is still illegal in California, but police have lost significant ground in the effort to contain it.

00:13:10.000 Women at anti-trafficking non-profits in the Bay Area, San Diego, and Los Angeles all emphasized.

00:13:15.000 You might wonder who actually benefits from Senate Bill 357.

00:13:19.000 According to Sgt.

00:13:20.000 Marcos Campos, he's not sure.

00:13:23.000 He says, not the communities, not the sex workers, many of whom rely on police officers for help in escaping their pimps.

00:13:27.000 He said, I think if anything, it probably helps the sex traffickers.

00:13:29.000 Get to more on this in just one second.

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00:14:33.000 So why exactly would anyone propose such a law?

00:14:36.000 Why would the California State Legislature pass it?

00:14:38.000 So Abigail, she actually asked the author, the San Francisco-based State Senator Scott Wiener.

00:14:44.000 You've heard his name before because he has promoted a bevy of bizarre, odd, and perverse legislation aimed at opening up California wide to some of the worst perversions in America.

00:14:57.000 This is one of them.

00:14:58.000 The answer he gave is the one that he supplies for so many of the bill he authors.

00:15:01.000 He says it was necessary to advance the rights of LGBTQ people.

00:15:04.000 This is what he says all the time.

00:15:06.000 This is why he's tried to make California into a trans haven. 0.95

00:15:09.000 So now essentially, if you are a parent of a child, and let's say your wife decides that your boy is actually a girl and she flees to California, now California will provide a haven state for this.

00:15:22.000 So you have no say in it.

00:15:23.000 Remove the kid from your home, put him in California, California's law can even be interpreted so that if a minor runs away from parents and ends up in California and says that they're a member of the quote-unquote transgender community, that the state of California will then not return the kid to the parents depending on the circumstances. 0.99

00:15:41.000 So on this one, Weiner says, quote, If you're standing on the sidewalk with high heels and you wear your hair a certain way and you wear tight clothing, an officer can say, I think you're loitering with the intent to commit prostitution and arrest you.

00:15:51.000 That is not how we should be doing things in the United States of America.

00:15:53.000 Arresting people for how they look.

00:15:55.000 And when you do that, not surprisingly, it's only certain kinds of people who actually get arrested.

00:15:58.000 It's trans women. 1.00

00:15:59.000 It's black women. 1.00

00:16:00.000 It's an inherently profiling law. 0.97

00:16:02.000 Randomly arresting a bunch of black trans women for how they look is not protecting potential victims of human trafficking.

00:16:07.000 Well, I mean, maybe it is. 0.93

00:16:08.000 Maybe some of those black trans women, meaning black young men, maybe they are victims of human trafficking. 0.94

00:16:14.000 So maybe they are disproportionately helped by the law. 0.83

00:16:17.000 But were the police indeed randomly arresting a bunch of black trans women, says Abigail Schreier?

00:16:21.000 The anti-trafficking advocates I spoke with dispute this.

00:16:23.000 For starters, Wilson, Powell, and Russell say the biological women and girls constitute the vast majority of people trafficked. 0.66

00:16:28.000 Nearly every report on human trafficking by global human rights organizations confirms this observation.

00:16:34.000 And if the women I saw on Figarous as Abigail are any indication, discerning which are involved in prostitution does not require sophisticated sartorial judgments, but only two eyes and a brain. 0.53

00:16:43.000 If a woman is wearing a g-string bikini in the middle of the street and she is flagging down cars, while men in dark clothes stand watch as if holding an invisible leash, she is likely to be a modern-day sex slave. 0.65

00:16:54.000 Apparently, she says, on my ride along with Pal and Wilson in L.A.

00:16:56.000 just after 10 p.m., before the track really gets going, I saw several lines of vehicles stretching around the block, each manned by a prospective client, waiting for his chance with one of the girls.

00:17:03.000 At least 35 females worked the line, most of them white or Latina. 0.53

00:17:07.000 Many looked very young, under 18.

00:17:09.000 I identified only one prostitute as transgender, but Pal noted there were likely others at a second location on Western.

00:17:14.000 Powell and Wilson told me traffic starts to pick up at 11 and peaks at midnight.

00:17:17.000 As the hour neared 11, more and more women appeared along Figueroa. 1.00

00:17:22.000 But Powell and Wilson made certain that we left before midnight.

00:17:24.000 After 11.30, the chance of gun violence erupting among the pimps escalates and we wouldn't be safe.

00:17:30.000 So, who is the problem here?

00:17:31.000 Well, Wiener is one of them.

00:17:33.000 In the six years since the Harvard grad took office, he has managed to author and get past a series of radical gender and sex-related bills.

00:17:39.000 The measures have allowed biological male felons to self-ID their way into women's prisons, assigning criminal penalties to healthcare workers who fail to provide gender-affirming care.

00:17:48.000 That is supposedly a ban on conversion therapy.

00:17:49.000 By this, Scott Wiener means that if a child comes in and expresses gender confusion and you don't immediately say that you're a member of the opposite sex, Then you might be violating the law.

00:17:58.000 Made California a sanctuary state for LGBTQ youth, as we've already discussed.

00:18:02.000 Expanded access to quote-unquote gender-affirming care for LGBTQ identified youth with and without parental approval.

00:18:08.000 Proposed jail time for healthcare workers who willfully and repeatedly misgender a patient.

00:18:13.000 So if you are a doctor and you repeatedly address a biological male as a biological male and diagnose them as such, you might end up in jail.

00:18:20.000 Decriminalize the intentional exposure of a sexual partner to HIV.

00:18:22.000 That one is absurd.

00:18:24.000 So you have HIV.

00:18:25.000 You don't tell your sex partner you have HIV. 0.63

00:18:27.000 And then you have sex with them, unprotected. 0.53

00:18:29.000 That used to be a prosecutable offense because you're attempting to expose a person to what could be a fatal disease.

00:18:35.000 Scott Weiner decriminalized it.

00:18:38.000 He also attempted to reduce criminal penalties for sex offenders.

00:18:41.000 Another Wiener bill introduced in 2021 sought to decriminalize psilocybin and ketamine.

00:18:46.000 It failed to pass, partly because of the vocal opposition of former state senator Melissa Melendez, a Republican who railed against easing restrictions on ketamine, which is a drug notorious for facilitating date rape.

00:18:57.000 I'm like, do you guys not see the agenda here?

00:18:58.000 I mean, honestly, in the legislature, I think people came to sort of accept these bills because he's from San Francisco.

00:19:04.000 Undeterred, Wiener then tried to introduce a modified version of the bill again in December.

00:19:09.000 As both a former Senate aide and a California Republican Party strategist told me, Wiener, one of the country's most prominent and outspoken defenders of LGBTQ rights, is uniquely difficult to oppose.

00:19:18.000 The moment you speak out against one of his bills, just like he does with me, he turns around and says, you're homophobic or transphobic, you're this or you're that, I don't care, you can call me whatever name you want, I'm Melendez, that doesn't change the fact of what your bill does.

00:19:29.000 If some of Wiener's bills seek to protect LGBTQ youth, they also represent a golden opportunity for adults who would groom them.

00:19:35.000 Weiner is an extremely dangerous person.

00:19:37.000 So extremely dangerous, I cannot believe people can't read between the lines, said Marissa Ugarte, who runs the anti-trafficking nonprofit Bilateral Safety Corridor Correlation. 0.81

00:19:45.000 Weiner, she said, is turning California into a sex trafficking paradise.

00:19:47.000 But here is the thing.

00:19:49.000 Gavin Newsom is signing all these bills, guys.

00:19:51.000 It's not just one legislator.

00:19:52.000 It is being passed by the Democratic legislature, and then it is being signed into law by Gavin Newsom.

00:19:57.000 This is the California model.

00:20:00.000 Defenders of the law have noted there's long been judicial latitude in California in whether to place perpetrators of statutory rape on the Sex Offender Registry if the crime involved was vaginal intercourse with a minor, the minor was at least 14 and the offender was within 10 years of her age.

00:20:11.000 Wiener's bill, however, extended such potential leniency to statutory rape involving anal or oral sex.

00:20:17.000 He has many times defended the bill as required to end blatant discrimination against LGBTQ young people regarding the Sex Offender Registry. 0.96

00:20:26.000 This is amazing.

00:20:27.000 Instead of trying to seek to put everybody on the registry, he's trying to delist everybody from the registry.

00:20:33.000 Something very fishy is going on.

00:20:34.000 But put Wiener's bizarre motives aside, the thing that really should be scaring the hell out of you is why in the world Gavin Newsom is signing this stuff into law.

00:20:44.000 And the answer is the California model.

00:20:46.000 Again, it combines the worst sort of government seizure of private property and intervention in the economy with the idea that every person's subjective sense of sexual identity must be not only greenlit but approved and sponsored by the state of California up to the point of decriminalization and possibly being given tax dollars.

00:21:05.000 Speaking of which, all of this stuff costs a lot of money. 1.00

00:21:07.000 It turns out that it is very expensive to run your state like an idiot. 0.99

00:21:11.000 And so now California Democrats are considering something new. 0.99

00:21:14.000 According to Fox News, Assemblyman Alex Lee, a progressive Democrat, last week introduced a bill in the California state legislature that would impose an extra annual 1.5% tax on those with a worldwide net worth above $1 billion starting as early as January 2024.

00:21:29.000 As early as 2026, the threshold for being taxed would drop.

00:21:32.000 Those with a worldwide net worth exceeding $50 million would be hit with a 1% annual tax on wealth.

00:21:38.000 Billionaires would still be taxed 1.5%.

00:21:40.000 Just to keep this straight, folks, what that means is that if you have a worldwide net worth exceeding $50 million, they're going to tax you annually 1% on your wealth.

00:21:49.000 Well, 1% of $50 million is about $500,000 annually.

00:21:56.000 The problem is, how do you actually assess what somebody's wealth is worth?

00:21:58.000 Let's say they are an owner in a privately held company that is not publicly traded on the stock market.

00:22:03.000 There's no way to actually know what your market capitalization is because your stock is not actually tradable.

00:22:07.000 It's not fluid.

00:22:08.000 So theoretically, you could actually be hit with a 1% tax, a $500,000 tax, without even necessarily earning that much money in a given year because you can't actually liquidate your wealth.

00:22:18.000 Alright, I'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:23:21.000 That's not the worst part of this bill.

00:23:23.000 This bill also includes an exit tax.

00:23:26.000 The current version introduces a measure to allow California to introduce wealth taxes on residents years after they left the state and moved elsewhere.

00:23:34.000 This bill includes provisions to create contractual claims tied to the assets of a wealthy taxpayer who doesn't have the cash to pay their annual wealth tax bill because most of their assets aren't easily turned into cash.

00:23:44.000 This claim would now require the taxpayer to make annual filings with the California Franchise Tax Board and eventually pay the wealth taxes owed, even if they have moved to another state.

00:23:53.000 So, by the way, this just means people are going to leave faster.

00:23:57.000 I remember having this conversation before we moved our company and before we left for Florida.

00:24:00.000 I remember talking to my wife and saying, we need to get out before they do something like this, because then they'll just try to lock you in financial prison, essentially, by forcing you to pay back taxes to the state of California, even though you've left.

00:24:14.000 They're apparently trying to now tax people even after they leave the state, which is just insane.

00:24:18.000 So, you know, the reason they're doing this, by the way, is because somebody's got to pay the taxes.

00:24:24.000 According to Fox News, past studies show that the top 1% of taxpayers pay about 50% of all state income taxes in New York, California, and elsewhere.

00:24:32.000 Watch as everybody who has the ability leaves the state of California as soon as humanly possible.

00:24:37.000 That will be the precise outcome that California wishes to avoid, but that's what they're going to achieve.

00:24:42.000 Okay, so you have one model of governance, that is the California model of governance.

00:24:45.000 Meanwhile, there's a separate model of governance and it is taking place over in Florida.

00:24:49.000 That model of governance is turning a purple state red, bright red.

00:24:52.000 So much so that the Washington Post now has a piece titled, There is no plan, there is nothing.

00:24:57.000 Florida Democrats in despair over future.

00:25:00.000 To which all I can say is, uh, Emperor Palpatine, good, good.

00:25:06.000 I only hope that you are in despair over my new state turning bright red thanks to people like me leaving California and coming to places like Florida.

00:25:14.000 According to the Washington Post, More than two months after enduring humbling midterm losses, Democrats in Florida are in a state of disorder.

00:25:20.000 They have no clear leader, infrastructure, or consensus for rebuilding, according to interviews with more than a dozen organizers, former lawmakers, donors, and other leaders.

00:25:27.000 These factors have compounded their worries about Democrats outside Florida all but writing off the nation's third most populous state, which was once seen as a marquee battleground.

00:25:35.000 Democrats have struggled there in recent elections, hitting a new low last fall when Republican Governor Ron DeSantis won a second term by nearly 20 points and carried the majority Hispanic Miami-Dade County.

00:25:43.000 That's something a GOP gubernatorial candidate has not done in two decades.

00:25:47.000 Republicans also secured a supermajority in the state legislature.

00:25:50.000 Now, as Democrats look to 2024, there are a few early signs that Florida will be a top priority for Joe Biden, who said he intends to run for re-election.

00:25:57.000 A Biden advisor who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe strategy said decisions about whether a re-election campaign would even invest in Florida would be based in part on the Republican nominee.

00:26:05.000 Some Democrats see little hope in contesting Florida's 30 electoral votes.

00:26:09.000 Only Texas and California have more, if DeSantis is the nominee.

00:26:14.000 Fernanda Amandia, federal Democratic operative said, The thing about Florida Democrats is we keep learning with every passing year.

00:26:19.000 Just when you thought you had hit bottom, you discover there are new abysses to fall deeper and deeper into.

00:26:23.000 There is no plan. There is nothing.

00:26:25.000 It's just a state of suspended animation and chaos.

00:26:27.000 More than anything, it's the mournful regret and acceptance that Florida has been cast aside for the long foreseeable future.

00:26:32.000 Yup.

00:26:34.000 And there's a reason for that.

00:26:35.000 And that is because the governance in Florida, which has been largely Republican for quite a while here, has been excellent.

00:26:42.000 And it's turned a bunch of Democrats into Republicans, at least in the state of Florida.

00:26:46.000 And that includes Governor DeSantis' supposed culture wars.

00:26:50.000 So the left keeps declaring that Ron DeSantis' culture wars are somehow damaging him, that they're really, really bad, and how could he possibly do this?

00:26:56.000 They keep saying that he's such a radical.

00:26:57.000 The problem is that the culture wars that he is picking are not radical.

00:27:01.000 So you'll recall that they suggested that when he passed a bill saying that you should not sexually indoctrinate children under the age of eight, the entire media labeled this the Don't Say Gay Bill.

00:27:09.000 And then polls showed that over 50% of Democrats in Florida approved the bill.

00:27:13.000 You'll recall that Ron DeSantis said he didn't want Disney getting involved in the politics of the state on behalf of the Democrats.

00:27:21.000 And he said, you don't get special benefits from the state if you choose to play sides.

00:27:26.000 And people outside the state were like, how dare he do this?

00:27:29.000 And you know what the impact was?

00:27:31.000 Nothing on Ron DeSantis.

00:27:31.000 He won by 20 points.

00:27:34.000 Well now, Ron DeSantis is making a couple of other moves.

00:27:36.000 And they have to do largely with the school system.

00:27:38.000 It's such smart politics, it also happens to be good.

00:27:42.000 So the chief issue that is facing parents right now in the United States is the attempted indoctrination of their children by major teachers unions like the AFT and the NEA.

00:27:50.000 The fact of the matter is that there are a bunch of very motivated political partisan hacks who are in the classroom.

00:27:55.000 It is a scary thing.

00:27:57.000 It happens to be true at a bevy of public schools all around the nation.

00:28:00.000 The selection of teachers is not coming from the community very often.

00:28:04.000 Now at public schools, it's coming from teachers union members who have gone to the ed school at the state college or out of state and they are coming back and they are taking all of their left-wing values and they're now implanting those in their kids.

00:28:16.000 Well, Ron DeSantis is doing the right thing.

00:28:18.000 He's attempting to break the teachers unions in the state of Florida.

00:28:21.000 According to the Orlando Sentinel, Governor DeSantis unveiled a series of proposals on Monday aimed at school boards and teachers unions.

00:28:29.000 The latest salvo in his battles over education policy in the state.

00:28:32.000 Again, education policy is a very good thing for Republicans to go after because Democrats for some reason have decided to simply surrender parents as an actual block.

00:28:39.000 Now they want to defeat parental rights.

00:28:41.000 If you're a parent and you say, my boy is a boy, my girl is a girl, the Democrats now say that you may be an abusive parent on that basis alone.

00:28:48.000 They want this stuff instead mainstreamed into the classroom, and they want to make sure that you're never told about this stuff.

00:28:54.000 If your kid goes to school, expresses gender confusion, and everybody at the school starts calling your kid by a dumb alternative name and pretending they're a member of the opposite sex, they don't even want to tell you about it.

00:29:01.000 DeSantis is saying no to all of that.

00:29:03.000 DeSantis has now unveiled what he calls a Teacher's Bill of Rights.

00:29:06.000 At an event in Jacksonville, it would give teachers the go-ahead to oppose their school boards if they believed their policies were against state law.

00:29:12.000 He also proposes banning teachers' unions from automatically deducting dues from paychecks, imposing stricter term limits on school board members, and changing the state constitution to allow school board candidates to reveal their political parties in what are now nonpartisan races.

00:29:24.000 That'd be a good thing also, because you don't know who to vote for in your school board race.

00:29:27.000 Now, if they identify as a Republican, presumably, they're not going to be sexually indoctrinating your children or attempting to do so.

00:29:33.000 Also, his attempt to stop teachers' unions from automatically deducting dues from paychecks.

00:29:37.000 This is one of the scummiest things in American politics.

00:29:39.000 It's been happening for a very long time.

00:29:40.000 Public sector unions, believe it or not, actually have the right that if the state sends your paycheck, they don't send it to you, they send it to the union.

00:29:50.000 The union then removes your dues and passes along the check to you.

00:29:54.000 That's insane.

00:29:55.000 You should have to opt into paying your teacher's union.

00:29:58.000 Because that would make you think about whether maybe you want to pay your teacher's union.

00:30:00.000 Instead, they treat it like tax withholding for social security or something. 0.96

00:30:05.000 It's ridiculous.

00:30:06.000 It essentially makes the government a partner with the teacher's unions in exacting money from the members of the union. 0.92

00:30:13.000 Which is crazy towns.

00:30:16.000 Andrew Speier, the head of the Florida Education Association, called DeSantis' proposals an attempt to punish and divide.

00:30:21.000 Well, I mean, I hope it's an attempt to punish some of the worst teachers unions in America.

00:30:24.000 DeSantis said he wants an additional $200 million to be added to the special fund created to raise teacher pay, bringing the total to $1 billion for teacher pay in his recommended budget for the next year.

00:30:33.000 So, at the same time he is saying they should break the unions, he's saying we should pay teachers more.

00:30:37.000 I mean, that seems like a pretty good policy.

00:30:41.000 In a statement, FEA spokeswoman Joanie Branch said, due to a tangled web of laws and rules governing pay, teachers with years in the classroom continue to face an experience penalty that can leave them at making little more than new hires.

00:30:51.000 The answer to which is, good!

00:30:53.000 The reality is seniority should not be the point of teaching.

00:30:56.000 Quality should be the point of teaching.

00:30:57.000 You've seen all over the country bizarre situations in which the teacher of the year will get fired because the teacher of the year is like two years in.

00:31:03.000 And some schlub with 20 years on the job who's been rubber-roomed, meaning you can't fire him for legal reasons, but actually that person can't be in the classroom because they've been sexually harassing the students or something.

00:31:12.000 Instead they just literally put them in a room and they leave them there and they pay them.

00:31:15.000 It's been a major issue in New York for literally years.

00:31:20.000 DeSantis' proposals on school boards came after he inserted himself into local board races to an unprecedented degree for a governor, boosting conservative candidates across the state.

00:31:27.000 That is a very good thing.

00:31:28.000 Another area where DeSantis has gotten active is the Florida Department of Education has now rejected an AP African American Studies course because it was, effectively speaking, critical race theory.

00:31:38.000 The state of Florida bans critical race theory under the so-called WOCA Act.

00:31:42.000 It essentially says that it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution and the Florida State Constitution.

00:31:49.000 That it treats students disparately by race, it creates hierarchies of race in the classroom, and that is barred by Florida law.

00:31:55.000 So they said we are not going to have an AP class approved for use in the classroom that includes these sorts of elements.

00:32:00.000 And this, of course, set the world on fire.

00:32:02.000 The entire left began lying about this quite quickly.

00:32:05.000 According to Fox News, Florida rejected an Advanced Placement African American Studies course because it contained elements of critical race theory and black queer studies, according to a document shared with Fox News Digital detailing the concerns identified by the Florida DOE, the Department of Education.

00:32:19.000 Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz also tweeted a graphic that detailed six particular lessons outlined in the syllabus that didn't comply with Florida law.

00:32:25.000 So it wasn't just they rejected the whole thing, they said, here are the things you have to fix.

00:32:29.000 So what exactly are those things?

00:32:31.000 Well, one of the topics from the AP course was intersectionality and activism.

00:32:35.000 Which is not education, that's indoctrination.

00:32:37.000 There was one titled Black Queer Studies, which included readings from people like Rodney, Roderick Ferguson, who said, quote, we have to encourage and develop practices whereby queerness isn't a surrender to the status quo of race, class, gender, and sexuality. It means building forms of queerness that reject the given realities of the government and market.

00:32:57.000 That's just left-wing activism in the name of LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign stuff. 0.52

00:33:05.000 It includes topics like black feminist literary thought, including Bell Hooks, who is the author of many intersectionality texts, who says in the recommended reading, quote, I began to use the phrase in my work, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, because I wanted to have some language that would actually remind us continually of the interlocking systems of domination that define our reality and this indoctrination of students, not into a theory, but into the praxis of the notion that America is systemically racist, capitalism is inherently evil, and all of the the rest. So Florida rejected all of this.

00:33:35.000 And guess what?

00:33:36.000 Because Florida rejected all of this, the College Board is now updating the studies course.

00:33:40.000 Which is exactly what is supposed to happen.

00:33:42.000 Students will still have AP African American Studies. 0.98

00:33:46.000 Instead, they're just going to edit out all the garbage. 0.96

00:33:50.000 Good!

00:33:50.000 That's the way it's supposed to work.

00:33:51.000 from use in the state of Florida, according to News Channel 8, the college board, the nonprofit organization that designs and maintains AP courses, announced the rejected pilot program of their AP African-American Studies course would now be updated.

00:34:02.000 Good, that's the way it's supposed to work.

00:34:05.000 You reject the indoctrination, and then you get something better.

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00:36:18.000 Okay, so, Ron DeSantis, he is winning, and he is winning big in the state of Florida.

00:36:23.000 And this is scaring the living hell out of the left, so they have to lie about it.

00:36:25.000 Whoopi Goldberg, over on The View, which is the repository of all knowledge and wisdom in the universe, she suggested that no one is actually teaching critical race theory.

00:36:32.000 Again, this is part of the ongoing left-wing series.

00:36:34.000 It's not happening, and it's good that it is.

00:36:36.000 Here's Whoopi Goldberg.

00:36:38.000 He was conflating it with CRT, which is something I think you can have a conversation, critical race theory.

00:36:43.000 I wish somebody would show me a book, okay?

00:36:46.000 Show me the school book that everybody is talking about that is teaching CRT.

00:36:52.000 It's at Harvard Law School, actually.

00:36:54.000 Yeah, I want to see the one that they're doing with the little kids.

00:36:59.000 I haven't seen that one.

00:37:01.000 But I'm demanding it now because I'm tired of it.

00:37:05.000 That book that you think your kids have been learning from is a book about what has happened in our country.

00:37:14.000 See, there it is.

00:37:15.000 I love that.

00:37:16.000 I love that.

00:37:16.000 It's not happening, and it's good that it is!

00:37:18.000 And it's good that it is.

00:37:19.000 It's stuff that's happening in our country, but also it's not in the book.

00:37:22.000 It's not in the book.

00:37:22.000 Guys, critical race theory exists.

00:37:25.000 I've talked about it many times on the show.

00:37:27.000 It is essentially a theory that has been mainlined into mainstream history by places like the New York Times.

00:37:32.000 The 1619 Project is replete with all of the echoes of critical race theory.

00:37:36.000 Meanwhile, Don Lemon is going even further over on CNN.

00:37:38.000 I'm not, I didn't even know he still had a job, but apparently he does.

00:37:41.000 He says it's going to be illegal in Florida to teach slavery in schools. 1.00

00:37:45.000 No, it's not, you idiot. 1.00

00:37:47.000 Slavery was political at one point. 1.00

00:37:49.000 Martin Luther King, obviously, as Republicans love to talk about, you know, every January, this was a political movement, and no one wanted to learn about that then either.

00:37:58.000 If that's the kind of lineage he wants to join, you know, people who are saying don't talk about the political thinking of marginalized groups, he's welcome to do it.

00:38:10.000 So slavery became illegal.

00:38:12.000 Now it's going to be illegal to teach slavery in schools. 0.82

00:38:14.000 It seems really odd.

00:38:15.000 I mean, where is he going to draw the line?

00:38:17.000 Somewhere between abolition and now?

00:38:19.000 I don't know where Ron DeSantis considers the history versus the now.

00:38:24.000 These are the objective journalismers.

00:38:25.000 That's Audie Cornish, an anchor and correspondent.

00:38:27.000 No, slavery has been taught in every American school of which I am aware for generations. 0.92

00:38:34.000 The hell are you talking about?

00:38:35.000 But again, they're just gonna lie. 0.91

00:38:37.000 The problem is that most Americans can see through these lies, so the left are having a real tough time.

00:38:41.000 Which is why, again, they just have to keep exaggerating and exaggerating and exaggerating.

00:38:44.000 MSNBC's Michael Beschloss says, Okay guys, you can get any book you want in Florida.

00:38:49.000 You just can't mainstream it to the kiddies.

00:38:51.000 I don't understand why this is so tough to accept.

00:38:53.000 You can go down to your local porn shop and you can buy a copy of Playboy.

00:38:57.000 That doesn't mean it should be taught in third grade.

00:38:59.000 I don't understand why you guys can't seem to understand that free speech is not the chief issue in the classroom.

00:39:06.000 In the classroom, the chief issue is what gets taught to our small people.

00:39:12.000 But I guess this all comes down to this notion that children are basically just small adults who are vested with full autonomy, up to and including deciding their own sex and the ability of whether they ought to, you know, mutilate their own genitals and such.

00:39:22.000 Anyway, here's MSNBC's Michael Beschloss.

00:39:24.000 This genius, by the way, writes speeches for Joe Biden.

00:39:28.000 If you quizzed public school, elementary school kids, high school kids today about John F. Kennedy administration, what would they know? 0.53

00:39:37.000 He'd get shot.

00:39:39.000 Maybe that's it.

00:39:40.000 Or they might say, is that the guy who's coming back to run with Donald Trump next year?

00:39:45.000 And they also might say, you know, was it the idea of our founders, as we're now seeing in Joe and Mika's home state of Florida, was it their idea that books would be banned and taken out of classrooms?

00:39:59.000 And you'd have lists saying, these books are okay, these books are not.

00:40:04.000 Yes, the founders would have been fine with that. 0.99

00:40:06.000 Are you insane?

00:40:08.000 Yes, the founders would have been fine with the notion that there are certain books that do not belong in the classrooms of small children. 0.94

00:40:12.000 I mean, honest to God, Michael Beschloss is supposed to be a historian.

00:40:16.000 Has he ever read a book?

00:40:18.000 It's unbelievable.

00:40:19.000 Read a book.

00:40:23.000 Read a biography of John Quincy Adams and see how John Adams constructed his education, like book for book.

00:40:28.000 Do you think he was like, well, you know, John Quincy does have to see everything.

00:40:31.000 Here's some wood carvings of a naked lady. 0.94

00:40:32.000 I'm going to send those over to John Quincy and we'll see how he handles that.

00:40:35.000 Like what is wrong with you people?

00:40:37.000 But you're cruisin' for a bruisin', so if this is the way you want to play it, then I guess this is how it's going to go.

00:40:41.000 And meanwhile, in other news, the Department of Justice is now suing Google, apparently seeking to break up Google's business brokering digital advertising across much of the internet.

00:40:49.000 It's kind of a fascinating thing, because there is in fact a bipartisan consensus that Google has effectively a monopoly in the ad business.

00:40:56.000 Filed in federal court in Virginia, according to the Wall Street Journal, the case alleges that Google abuses monopoly power in the ad tech industry, hurting web publishers and advertisers that try to use competing products.

00:41:05.000 Eight states, including California and New York, have joined the DOJ lawsuit.

00:41:09.000 The lawsuit asks the court to unwind Google's anti-competitive acquisitions, such as its 2008 purchase of ad-serving company DoubleClick, and call for a divestiture of its ad exchange.

00:41:18.000 AG Merrick Garland said at a press conference, for 15 years Google has pursued a course of anti-competitive conduct that has allowed it to halt the rise of rival technologies, manipulate auction mechanics, insulate itself from competition, and force advertisers and publishers to use its tools.

00:41:30.000 By calling for specific divestitures from Google's ad tech business, the Justice Department went further in seeking a breakup than some antitrust experts had expected.

00:41:40.000 This is why Alphabet shares fell by about 2% in trading on Tuesday.

00:41:44.000 The ad tech tools controlled by Google facilitate much of the buying and selling of digital ads that helps fund online publishers.

00:41:49.000 Google's businesses include tool publishers can use to offer ad space, a product for advertisers to buy those slots, and an exchange that links the bidders with the web pages.

00:41:58.000 But there are a lot of people who are deeply worried that Google has been basically manipulating all of this to their own ends.

00:42:05.000 Some of those ends political.

00:42:07.000 Alphabet gets about 80% of its business from advertising.

00:42:10.000 The Justice Department's new suit targets the subset of that ad business that brokers the buying and selling of ads on the other websites and apps as well.

00:42:16.000 The idea is that they are privileging their own above other people's.

00:42:20.000 Last year, Google offered to split off parts of its ad tech business into a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella.

00:42:26.000 Well, one of the things that's sort of fascinating here is just how wide the bipartisan acceptance of the attack on Google is.

00:42:34.000 So, you know, there are always a couple of sort of theories when it comes to monopoly power. One is that monopoly power should be broken if it harms the consumer. The other is monopoly power should be broken if it represents too heavy a percentage of the market. I tended toward the first theory, if it harms consumers. I certainly can say that Google's monopoly on ads has harmed consumers for sure.

00:42:53.000 That is a very real thing. And so the possibility that the DOJ is moving to break up the ad business probably is not necessarily a bad thing. Now I will say that the same people who are looking to crack down on Google's ad business from from the Biden administration are also looking to crack down on free speech over at Twitter.

00:43:10.000 Yet again, there's another study out, so many studies out, every single day, a study out showing violence is increasing.

00:43:16.000 Well, yeah, we know.

00:43:17.000 And now they're blaming Twitter.

00:43:18.000 According to the Washington Post, attacks on U.S.

00:43:21.000 Jews and gays accelerate as hate speech grows on Twitter.

00:43:24.000 Maybe the attacks on U.S.

00:43:25.000 Jews and gays are accelerating, not because of Twitter, per se, but because you took the cops off the streets and told them not to police anymore. 0.99

00:43:32.000 I've noticed that they are accelerating, particularly in areas where you've been weak when it comes to policing crime.

00:43:39.000 But you gotta find some way to crack down on the only possible free speech mechanism on the internet these days.

00:43:46.000 New research to be released later this month by the misinformation tracker Network Contagion Research Institute suggests a connection between real-world incidents and variations of the word groomer, often aimed at gays and suggesting they are adults bent on seducing children.

00:43:59.000 Although polls indicate a significant minority of the population believes otherwise, gay people are not more likely to be predators than straight people.

00:44:05.000 So now they are trying to claim that the rise of the use of the term groomer on Twitter is leading to attacks on gay people.

00:44:12.000 I'm gonna have to see the evidence on that.

00:44:15.000 The answer is they actually have none.

00:44:17.000 At the beginning of this Washington Post story, they begin with the FBI charging a Florida man with making a detailed online threat to murder 100 gay people.

00:44:24.000 He had also threatened to kill black people and tear gas the synagogue.

00:44:29.000 Apparently, he liked 11 tweets before his arrest.

00:44:32.000 Quote, there is no evidence that what Albert saw on Twitter inspired him to make his own posts.

00:44:36.000 So, there's not even a link there.

00:44:39.000 See, this is the problem.

00:44:40.000 I'm perfectly fine with the DOJ actually showing, with 149 pages of supporting evidence, that the internet is being skewed by Google.

00:44:47.000 I do have a fairly significant problem with the notion that the same people who are complaining about Google are also complaining that Twitter's free speech mechanisms are damaging to the United States to the extent that they're actually facilitating violence.

00:45:01.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

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00:45:04.000 We'll be getting into Mike Pence apparently finding classified documents over in his home.

00:45:08.000 Also, we'll be getting into the New York governor refusing to reinstate those healthcare workers she fired for not getting vaccinated.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 25, 2023

California vs. Florida: The Great Battle | Ep. 1654

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