Chris Rock goes full anti-woke in his new Netflix special, and finally comes for his revenge on Will Smith. Jill Biden says she and Joe Biden would never consider a competency test, and Bernie Sanders can t keep straight the difference between equity and equality. I'm Ben Shapiro, and this is the Bench Bureau Show. It is his first comedy special since the incident in which he made fun of Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith's wife, at the Oscars. And that led Will Smith to at first laugh and then walk up on stage and smack Chris Rock full across the face while yelling at him to keep her name out of his mouth. Now, Chris Rock took that hit like a man, and really said nothing about it for almost a year. Well, just before the Oscars, he now has a new special out in which, he breaks his silence on that. And that is a notable headline. We'll get to that in a moment, but the most notable thing about what Chris Rock did is that he has now become just the latest comedian to go full Anti-Woke. Wokeness. When all of the big comedians have now come out and started ripping into the left, almost all of them except for Hannah Gadsby, you got a problem on the left. When the comedians are now more aligned with the right than the left and they say, I can t be anywhere near these people, they re too crazy. That s a problem for the Democratic Party, and I think that s a serious problem for them. I do not think that's going to go away any time soon, and that's why they should be worried about the left-wingers not just because they're too crazy, but because they don't know how to be a victim. Chris Rock is a victim, they're not a victim anymore, they are a victim they're a right winger, right? I don't have a problem with that? I'm sorry if you don't get it. I don t have it, but I do have a theory about it, and it's not a good one, so let me know what you think about that you think is going to be coming. Tweet me and I'll tell me what you thought of it. Timestamps: 1:00 - What do you think of Chris Rock's new comedy special? 3:30 - Is Meghan Markle a victim?
00:00:22.000It is his first comedy special since the incident in which he made fun of Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith's wife, at the Oscars.
00:00:29.000He made a joke about how she was bald, and this led Will Smith to at first laugh and then glance over, see that Jada was mad, and then walk up on stage and smack Chris Rock full across the face while yelling at him to keep her name out of your effing mouth.
00:00:42.000Now, Chris Rock took that hit like a man and really said nothing about it for almost a year.
00:00:47.000Well, just before the Oscars, he now has a new Netflix special out in which he breaks his silence on that.
00:00:54.000But the most notable thing about what Chris Rock did is that he has now become just the latest comedian to go full anti-wolf.
00:01:01.000Now, if you believe, as my friend and mentor Andrew Breitbart believed, that culture is upstream of politics, that what you see in the culture eventually bleeds its way down into how we do politics, then the woke revolution is coming, and that right quick, for a lot of the folks on the woke left.
00:01:16.000You're starting to see this in Democratic Party circles as well.
00:01:18.000This is why Joe Biden has been gradually backing away, like Homer Simpson into a bush.
00:01:22.000from the Wokies, but the fact is he can't do that because he is tied to them at the hip.
00:01:28.000He's brought them into his administration, and now he's going to take that ride with them.
00:01:32.000When all of the big comedians, almost all of them, have now come out and started ripping into Wokeness, when that ranges from Louis C.K., who, by the way, was quasi-canceled and now is back on tour as popular as ever, when that is true of Chris Rock, when that is true of pretty much all of them except for Hannah Gadsby, who isn't really a comedian, you got a problem on the left.
00:01:52.000When the comedians are now more aligned with the right than the left, not because they like the right, they hate the right, but because they look at the left and they say, I can't be anywhere near these people.
00:02:35.000He's like, I'm all on board with the social justice and all that kind of stuff, but, but It used to be that if you wanted to take somebody's job, you actually had to be better at it than they were.
00:02:44.000Now you just wait for them to say the wrong thing.
00:02:47.000And this extended to his critiques in a wide variety of areas.
00:02:51.000It extended to his critique of Meghan Markle, for example.
00:02:54.000He went very, very hard after Meghan Markle because one of the things that he said during the special, Chris Rock, is, we have now decided to glorify victims.
00:05:17.000He said, you know, Jada Pinkett Smith, she suggested that I shouldn't host the Oscars in 2016 because Will Smith starred in Concussion and didn't get a nomination.
00:05:27.000And he shouldn't have gotten a nomination.
00:06:09.000And so this notion that you look around you and you see a country filled with failures because there's so many people who are just victims of the society, you don't buy into it.
00:06:17.000If you're truly successful in American society, very difficult to see.
00:06:19.000that everyone else in American society is a victim, particularly if you're somebody like Chris Rock.
00:06:23.000By the way, he also had some notes about abortion that were kind of shocking.
00:06:26.000He actually picked up on an old Louis C.K.
00:06:29.000routine, and he also said, he's like, I'm very pro-choice.
00:06:32.000I probably paid for more abortions than anybody in this room, but you are killing babies.
00:06:35.000And everybody in the room is like, wait, what now?
00:06:37.000And again, he doubled and tripled down on it.
00:06:40.000So this Netflix special is important because this is going to be the most watched thing in America for the next couple of weeks minimum.
00:06:47.000It's funny, it's really bitter, it's a very, very angry special.
00:06:51.000But one of the reasons that it's angry is because one of the things he's angry at is a mentality that suggests, again, that victimhood reigns supreme and that wokeness is a way to success.
00:07:00.000That the way that you gain success is by... He went off on woke corporations.
00:07:03.000He went off on Lululemon at a certain point during the special.
00:07:16.000He is expressing what a lot of people feel.
00:07:19.000A lot of people of various ethnicities and various races and various political points of view.
00:07:24.000There is going to be an anti-left revolution in this country, and you're just beginning to see the first glimmers of it, which is very scary for people inside the Democratic Party.
00:07:31.000Again, it's not just coming from Chris Rock.
00:07:32.000We've got some other cultural figures who are on the left and who are feeling similar things in just one second.
00:07:39.000The government keeps raising the interest rates right now because they have no choice.
00:07:41.000I mean, the inflation is out of control.
00:07:43.000We are headed for economic stagnation.
00:07:46.000And the truth is that economic stagnation is somewhat baked into the cake.
00:07:48.000If you look over the course of the next 10 years, even before this inflationary cycle, the Biden administration was suggesting that over the course of the next 10 years, the American economy is going to grow at well under 2% every single year.
00:07:59.000Which would not even match normal pace of inflation.
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00:08:42.000OK, so again, it's not just Chris Rock, it's other cultural figures who you might not expect to hear the anti-wokeness from.
00:08:48.000So one of those cultural figures is Idris Elba.
00:08:51.000So Idris Elba is, again, a very left-wing guy.
00:08:54.000It is a person who did an entire shtick at Davos about environmentalism.
00:08:58.000Well, he recently did an interview in which he talked about how he wished to be seen as an actor, not predominantly as a black actor, which, again, is perfectly legitimate.
00:10:21.000But what the left has done is they have then associated that with activity.
00:10:23.000And so if you say, for example, we like educational achievement, educational achievement is good.
00:10:29.000And if it turns out a disproportionate number of black Americans are not achieving educationally, And what the left does instead of saying, OK, well, the educational problem is a problem we should fix and it doesn't have to do with race.
00:10:38.000They say, well, you're being racist and that's what we have to get.
00:10:54.000What the left has done is in order to continuously promote the idea that marginalized people in the United States are victimized by the United States, they have to create entire new victimhood classes.
00:11:04.000And it used to be that in the United States, if you made bad decisions or if you did stupid things, this did not make you a victim.
00:11:10.000What made you a victim was an immutable characteristic and then people picking on you for the immutable characteristic.
00:11:14.000Instead, what we have decided is you make bad decisions or you make false claims.
00:11:18.000And if people don't agree with you, now you're a victim of American society.
00:11:21.000That's very much in the left's interest.
00:11:22.000And what you're seeing is skilled people of all races, people who work hard for the things that they do.
00:11:35.000Folks, once you are in the, I have agency over my own life category, two things happen.
00:11:39.000One, you're going to become much more successful and much more optimistic.
00:11:42.000Once you seize control over your own life and you start to actually look at the decisions you make and how you can make better decisions, you are likely to make better decisions.
00:11:50.000And two, you're going to move to the right innately, because the left is all about the idea that the system creates everything.
00:11:56.000The system is responsible for your failures.
00:11:58.000The system is responsible for others' successes.
00:12:00.000That is why the system has to be destroyed.
00:12:02.000And this is why you see people who work really hard, who are moving innately to the right, because as the left moves away from equality, meaning equality of rights, in which we all get to compete, and then people who make good decisions win.
00:12:16.000They've moved toward equity, equality of outcome, which, again, suggests that there ought to be no consequences for your individual decision-making.
00:12:23.000Everything is an immutable characteristic, and we ought to treat it as such in society.
00:12:26.000And people, even on the left, are looking at this, and they're saying, this is a bunch of nonsense.
00:12:32.000I mean, hilariously enough, when you talk about the difference between equity and equality, even some of the people who are supposedly proponents of equity, equality of outcome versus equality of rights, Even some of those people don't understand it.
00:12:46.000So Bernie Sanders ran headlong into himself the other night.
00:13:02.000I'm going to do a full review of it, because I actually read that book, so you didn't have to.
00:13:05.000So at some point in the near future, I'm going to bring out like a full, complete review of that garbage book.
00:13:09.000Anyway, Bernie Sanders was on Bill Maher, looking rumpled as per his usual arrangement, and he was asked about equity versus equality.
00:13:18.000And even he, even Bernie Sanders, can't bring himself to fully embrace the equity position because it's so crazy.
00:13:25.000Are we confusing equality of opportunity with trying to guarantee equity in outcomes?
00:13:30.000Okay, that's interesting, because I think this word equity has come into the language in the last few years, and before that we didn't hear it a lot, and I think a lot of people hear equity and they hear equality.
00:13:41.000It's the same word, and it's not the same word and the same concept.
00:13:45.000So how would you differentiate between equity and equality?
00:13:51.000Well, equality, we talk about I don't know what the answer to that is.
00:13:57.000Come to think of it, you know, equality is equality of opportunity.
00:14:02.000We live in a society, we want all people to have whatever color your skin is.
00:14:07.000Equity, I think, is more a guarantee of outcome, is it not?
00:15:12.000But with that said, the Democrats are cruising for a bruising here because they have embraced an ideology that no one likes, including members of their own party.
00:15:26.000Aside from the Bernie Sanders stuff, Bill Maher, who has been on my show, he now finds himself agreeing with me more than he agrees with Joe Biden on a wide variety of subjects.
00:15:34.000That's a serious problem for the Democratic Party.
00:15:36.000Here's Bill Maher, for example, going off on trigger warnings.
00:15:41.000A new study from Flinders University analyzed a dozen other studies on trigger warnings, and they all came to the same conclusion.
00:15:49.000Not only don't they protect your feelings, but if you actually have been traumatized by something they're warning you about, a trigger warning makes it worse.
00:15:57.000It's like if seat belts were made out of broken glass.
00:16:00.000Now, for those of you who have been living on an offshore oil rig for the last ten years and don't know what I'm talking about, a trigger warning is a kind of, close your eyes, here comes an ouchie.
00:16:11.000That like so many bad ideas in recent years got started on college campuses.
00:16:16.000Students started demanding them so they could get ready in case something in a book or a piece of art or a history lesson reminded them that life included bad things and not just good and sometimes people were mean.
00:16:31.000You can't have that just sprung on you.
00:18:00.000The Democratic Party, and they've got a real problem here because normally you can overcome a gap in terms of your ideology with the American people.
00:18:08.000You can overcome that with a really charismatic politician.
00:18:45.000His wife suggested that he was a blank screen on which the American people could project their hopes and dreams.
00:18:50.000That was a very American message, and then, by 2012, he was very angry at the Tea Party and the fact that he'd gotten his ass kicked in the 2010 election, and so he decided that he was going to go very woke.
00:19:00.000He started to parcel off the American population by ethnicity, by gender, and he started going after them in very meticulous ways, and he won the election.
00:19:16.000He won the election in 2012 because he was very charismatic.
00:19:18.000What happens when you have a bad message and the leader of your party is a decrepit old fool who cannot walk two steps without nearly falling on his face?
00:19:27.000Well, the Democratic Party is about to find out.
00:19:29.000It turns out they don't have a lot to run on.
00:19:31.000So they tried out Hakeem Jeffries, who is the new House Minority Leader, to try and explain why Democrats should do well in, for example, 2024.
00:19:39.000He explained that Joe Biden and the House Democrats, they're actually making life better for Americans, which is weird since Americans don't feel that way.
00:19:45.000So, Mr. Leader, he's talking about 2024, but frankly, it also sounds like kind of a tacit admission that Democrats are not going to be able to get as much done now because you're in the minority in the House.
00:20:27.000I mean, you just lost control of Congress, again, despite the fact that Republicans decided to raid the local mental institutions for candidates.
00:20:34.000And then, Hakeem Jeffries just has to lie.
00:20:35.000He suggests that Joe Biden is reducing the flow of illegal border crossings, which I'm sorry.
00:20:40.000My favorite Let's just look at the last couple of months.
00:20:44.000We just shift the baselines like three months ago.
00:20:46.000What they like to do is they'll say, sure, if you look over the course of the past couple of years, there's been massive influx of illegal immigration. But if you look at the last couple of months, there's been a tiny decrease. Let's just look at the last couple of months.
00:20:55.000If you just shift the baselines like three months ago, we're doing amazing, which is sort of like a spendaholic who expends tens of thousands of dollars, banks bankrupts themselves on the credit cards.
00:21:07.000They're like, yeah, but in the last couple of months, I brought down my credit card bill, like the amount that I'm spending, from like $100,000 to $98,000.
00:21:11.000So really you could think of it as like, I brought it down by $2,000.
00:21:18.000This is another area where President Biden has ruffled some feathers in your party by rolling out measures to crack down on illegal border crossings and restrict migrants' ability to claim asylums.
00:21:33.000Well, I think we've got to continue to do two things.
00:21:38.000One, make sure that we have a safe and secure border and take steps anchored in the principle that America is a nation of laws, while at the same time respecting the fact that we also are a nation of immigrants.
00:21:50.000So yes on the policy or no on the policy?
00:21:52.000Well, I actually, well, based on my visit to the border, what I have seen is that some of the steps that President Biden and the administration have taken over the last few months have certainly reduced the flow.
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00:23:29.000Speaking of the Democratic Party and the kind of trouble they're in, if they don't have the charisma, if they don't have the policy and they don't have the charismatic leadership, what exactly do they do?
00:23:37.000So they don't have the charismatic leadership.
00:23:38.000Joe Biden was asked over the weekend about whether Joe Biden would consider a competency test.
00:23:43.000So Joe is obviously not fully competent.
00:23:59.000So Jill, who is the Edith Wilson of the modern age, who may in fact be holding Joe Biden's pen while he signs bills.
00:24:05.000For folks who don't know their history, during the last year and a half of Woodrow Wilson's administration, he had a massive stroke and he was completely incompetent.
00:24:13.000He literally could not run the country.
00:24:14.000And so Edith pretended that he was actually still competent.
00:24:16.000She would literally hold his arms in photos in certain ways so he looked like he was still sentient.
00:24:21.000She would put him in a car and then drive him around with a blanket over his lap and his hands, so it looked like he was still... I mean, it was basically Weekend at Bernie's, presidential edition.
00:24:29.000We're about that far from this with regard to Joe and Jill Biden.
00:24:33.000Because Jill is an eminently political human, and the notion that she may in fact be running things, I don't find that particularly far-fetched.
00:24:41.000Anyway, here is Jill explaining, we'll never take a competency test.
00:26:02.000They have Kamala Harris, the worst candidate ever cobbled together in God's laboratory.
00:26:07.000It's like God took a helping of lack of charm, and he poured it together with a helping of lack of charisma, and then he poured it together with smugness and arrogance, and he mixed it all up, and he poured it out, and there was Kamala Harris.
00:26:18.000And meanwhile, you got Pete Buttigieg, an arrogant Ivy Leaguer masquerading as a down-home Blue Collar Fellow, while wearing like patent leather brand new dress boots to go visit East Palestine, Ohio, and then getting mad when you mention it.
00:26:34.000So CNN was trying to provide cover for Pete Buttigieg over the weekend.
00:26:37.000And so they wrote a piece titled Pete Buttigieg starts to rethink how he does his job in wake of Ohio train disaster.
00:26:43.000He did a, it's a, an amazing interview in which he basically just complains that people are too mean to him and he really understands the people, does Pete Buttigieg.
00:26:50.000He really, Pete Buttigieg, that's a dude of the people, Pete Buttigieg.
00:26:54.000Sure, he spends his days hanging out with, like, the most left-wing people in the party, white, liberal, upper-crust women, who are mostly enamored of the fact that he's a gay man.
00:27:04.000They don't really care about the mayors of the other million cities in the United States that are bigger than South Bend, Indiana, and better run than South Bend, Indiana.
00:27:12.000So here's Pete Buttigieg talking about his tenure at the transportation department.
00:27:19.000It's really rich to see some of these folks, the former president, these Fox hosts, who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn't know their way around a TJ Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country.
00:27:35.000You think Tucker Carlson knows the difference between a TJ Maxx and a Coles?
00:27:38.000Yeah, I'm sure you know the difference between a TJ Maxx and a Coles, Pete.
00:27:41.000I'm sure that's how you spend your evenings, is you go to TJ Maxx.
00:27:50.000From Captain, the Bible says that gay marriage is mandatory.
00:27:53.000Yes, I'm sure you are in touch with the people in the middle of the country.
00:27:56.000You are the Rust Belt King, Pete Buttigieg.
00:27:59.000In an exclusive interview with CNN, Buttigieg acknowledged mistakes.
00:28:02.000He said he should have gone to East Palestine, Ohio earlier.
00:28:05.000He said he failed to anticipate the political fallout from the toxic train derailment, but he punched back at critics.
00:28:12.000He says that he is being victimized, of course.
00:28:18.000According to White House spokesperson Andrew Bates, whether it's sickening attacks on his family or disrespecting a community's pain with failed attempts at exploitation as a political prop, nothing saps credibility like following debunked smears with even more debunked smears.
00:28:36.000That his entire job, his entire rationale for being is as a photo op?
00:28:39.000And then he says, who cares what shoes I was wearing when I was there to draw attention to an agenda that will save lives on our railroads?
00:28:45.000That's not why you were there to draw attention!
00:28:47.000To saving lives on the railroads you went because you were humiliated publicly for like a couple of weeks.
00:28:55.000That's why you're wearing those shoes.
00:28:58.000As for any suggestion from Trump or supporters that that the reason that people to judge went to East Palestine was because Trump went there first is that's BS.
00:29:41.000It turns out eventually the photo ops run out.
00:29:44.000Meanwhile, other Democratic potentials, and this is why they're stuck with Joe Biden, other Democratic potential candidates are blowing themselves out of pace.
00:29:51.000Now, it turns out that the state of California So where exactly was Gavin Newsom while all this was happening?
00:29:59.000of Press Line Lake Arrowhead and other San Bernardino mountain towns. Newsom finally declared a state of emergency, but the California National Guard had still failed to arrive in the area. So where exactly was Gavin Newsom while all this was happening? He left the state.
00:30:27.000And this is like the end of the world, because even though he's the senator from Texas and has literally no authority over the executive functioning of Texas, that meant that he was a bad guy.
00:30:33.000Literally, the governor of California left the state to go on a Mexican vacation in the middle of an ice storm in California.
00:30:58.000He's just going to be French Laundry Newsom for the rest of his political career.
00:31:01.000Maybe this is one of the reasons why people were turning to the potential of AOC, except that AOC, it turns out, is as corrupt as the day is long.
00:31:09.000According to Nicole Gelinas, AOC begged to go to the exclusive Met Gala even if it meant breaking the rules.
00:31:16.000According to the New York Post's columnist, AOC really wanted to attend the September 2021 Met Ball, a charity event for its Costume Institute, yes, but also the world's number one social event for the rich, famous, and beautiful.
00:31:26.000But the $35,000 tickets for two people would cost nearly six figures.
00:31:29.000Members of Congress can invite, can attend non-profit events, but the Met doesn't normally invite all of Congress, and this isn't AOC's district.
00:31:35.000So, she decided to trade off her elected position In order to get the tickets, she snagged two free tickets by cozying up to Vogue's Anna Wintour, who runs this show for The Met.
00:31:44.000AOC's written invitation specifically informed her she and her boyfriend were guests of Vogue.
00:31:49.000Members of Congress can't take near seven-figure gifts from companies that employ lobbyists.
00:31:53.000Vogue is part of a sprawling media firm that, including the firm that owns a big piece of Spectrum, are highly regulated internet provider.
00:32:00.000AOC's anti-corruption lawyer even warned her staff, quote, the congresswoman could accept an invitation from The Met, but not from Vogue.
00:32:07.000Well, that was the morning after, because a Vogue staffer informed AOC's office the day after the ball.
00:32:12.000Hope the congresswoman had a great time last night.
00:32:14.000Given that she was a guest of Vogue, we were planning to say she was a guest of Anna Wintour's.
00:32:17.000Well, it turns out that not only did she do her best to try to go to this thing illegally, it also turns out that she took a bunch of favors that are political favors.
00:32:28.000AOC's lawyer assured congressional ethics officials just after the gala that the congresswoman is paying personally for all the other benefits, including the rental value of her dress, handbag and accessories, shoes, hair and makeup, transportation and hotel room for staging.
00:32:41.000But the problem is that she didn't have the money for that.
00:33:49.000He's just a wonderful, wonderful person.
00:33:51.000Again, these are the people the Democrats have chosen to feature.
00:33:54.000Maybe this is one reason why Joe Manchin from West Virginia, who is running a very competitive Senate race now, maybe that's one reason why he's like, I'm not necessarily going to endorse the Democrats at this point.
00:34:29.000Is that something you would do outside the Democratic Party?
00:34:31.000The only thing I can tell you is what I will do is whatever I can when I make my decision, what I think is the best that I can support and represent the people of West Virginia, but also be true to this country and the Constitution of this country.
00:34:44.000So, um, there's a reason why Joe Manchin is very nervous about going along with the Democratic Party.
00:34:48.000They've got no leadership class and their ideas are bad.
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00:36:02.000Well, we launched Jeremy's Chocolate on Thursday because, I mean, how could we not after Hershey's launched their Hershey campaign to celebrate International Women's Day with a biological man?
00:39:21.000CPAC, by the way, was really, really under attended this year.
00:39:25.000It did not have a lot of big names, did not have a lot of big stars.
00:39:28.000It was kind of more fringy this year, which is why in the CPAC straw poll, the guy who came in third is some random 75-year-old business person who sort of declared the day of.
00:39:36.000In any case, here was Donald Trump at CPAC over the weekend.
00:39:40.000And if you put me back in the White House, their reign is over.
00:40:20.000If you're going to be running Donald Trump as the guy who is going to reconnect with the Rust Belt, he's going to win Ohio, he's going to win Pennsylvania this time, he's going to win Arizona and Georgia.
00:40:31.000It can't be, I'm your retribution, I'm sweeping back in.
00:40:36.000The pitch is, the guy who's currently in office, he's terrible.
00:40:39.000And you remember when I was president, it was way better.
00:40:42.000The problem with the retribution pitch, there is an actual internal problem with the retribution pitch.
00:40:46.000The problem for the retribution pitch is you were the president.
00:40:49.000You could have done these things when you were president.
00:40:51.000A lot of the things he says that he wants to do when he's president again, he could have done that, right?
00:40:55.000He could have cleaned out the executive branch and he didn't do it.
00:40:58.000And so I just don't think that this is Donald Trump's best pitch.
00:41:01.000I also don't think Donald Trump's best pitch is going to be, he's taking advantage of, the media are taking advantage of him and he's taking advantage of the media.
00:41:07.000They have a very symbiotic relationship.
00:41:08.000If you watch the media coverage of Trump right now, it is very obvious the media would love for Trump to be the nominee.
00:41:14.000Now all you have to do is follow the Lincoln Project, which is spending every single day attacking Ron DeSantis because the only way you raise money if you're the Lincoln Project is by Donald Trump being the nominee.
00:41:23.000And so what you see is the media now just ramping up every sort of PR effort that's put out there by the Trump team.
00:41:30.000So Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg, she tweeted out a story in which she's talking about Trump trying to come up with new nicknames for DeSantis.
00:41:38.000So she's actually like, Field testing these things, right?
00:41:41.000She's actually throwing up trial balloons on these names.
00:41:45.000Ron Deestablishment, which I'm sorry, no.
00:41:50.000Or even Tiny D. His team has spent weeks trying to dig up dirt on DeSantis and his wife Casey.
00:41:55.000Okay, so first of all, the biggest political mistake that Donald Trump could make right now is to attack Casey.
00:42:00.000That would be like the stupidest thing he could do.
00:42:02.000Casey is a young mother who survived breast cancer, also happens to be beautiful and charming.
00:42:06.000Like that would be the stupidest thing you could possibly do.
00:42:08.000So I don't think Trump is going to do that.
00:42:10.000But like field testing tiny, like if this is what you're doing, I'm sorry.
00:42:14.000That's, that's just not, I don't think that the, the American people are looking for that.
00:42:18.000Meanwhile, DeSantis is doing the smart thing.
00:42:20.000He's ignoring all of this and he's just doing things.
00:42:23.000So over in the state of Florida, According to the Washington Post, Florida legislators have proposed a spate of new laws that would reshape K-12 and higher education in the state, requiring teachers to use pronouns matching children's sex as assigned at birth, and establishing a universal school choice voucher program.
00:42:38.000So if you want winning, then maybe you should focus on the winning.
00:42:42.000Donald Trump has a case to make to the American people.
00:42:44.000The case he has to make to the American people is, things were better when I was president, and it will go back to being better when I am president again.
00:42:52.000Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the worst people on earth, and gave them $7 billion of our military tech, apparently, according to a report from the Washington Post last week.
00:43:01.000Joe Biden is a person who has run up record inflation, record debt.
00:43:05.000Joe Biden is polarizing the country on the basis of quote-unquote equity.
00:43:10.000There are a lot of things that Donald Trump could run on.
00:43:13.000If he decides that he's going to run on the Vengeance campaign, I just don't think that that's going to win him many friends and admirers, especially when, again, DeSantis is going to be able to point at his record in Florida and just say that.
00:43:22.000He's going to say, listen, I took a state that was purple.
00:43:39.000Where somebody runs through the gauntlet with 25% of the vote.
00:43:41.000This is why it's a good thing that Larry Hogan finally decided to stop being delusional, the governor of Maryland, and said he would not run over the weekend.
00:43:48.000Here is Larry Hogan, the very, very milquetoast governor of Maryland.
00:43:52.000He was a lockdown guy during the COVID times.
00:43:56.000He's been very weak on the radical gender ideology agenda and the critical race theory agenda.
00:44:01.000And for a minute there, it seemed like he wanted to run, which would have been just I did give it serious consideration, and I talked to people everywhere, and I talked to my family, and it was a tough decision, but I've decided that I will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president.
00:44:22.000This is not just a decision about running for president.
00:44:24.000It's a decision about running against former President Trump, who's as tough on his opponents as anyone I've ever covered.
00:45:13.000Again, Trump has a case to make, but the case he's making right now is not the case that he needs to make if he wishes to regain momentum in the Republican primary battle.
00:45:21.000Okay, meanwhile, controversy engulfs Michael Moles here at the Daily Wire.
00:45:36.000Michael said straight up the ideology of transgenderism.
00:45:38.000And he said the ideology needs to be eradicated.
00:45:41.000And he was very clear in what he said because he was using human English words.
00:45:44.000The words that he was using in human English said the ideology of transgenderism, which says that a boy can be a girl and a girl can be a boy.
00:46:23.000A lot of good people have been suckered into believing it.
00:46:26.000Not even the people who good faith believe in it, right?
00:46:28.000No one's talking about killing anyone.
00:46:30.000When you say you want an idea, like, think about if you're on the left and you say conservatism needs to be eradicated, that doesn't mean that you think every conservative needs to be murdered.
00:46:38.000OK, so here is what Michael said, and then here is what the media said he said.
00:46:42.000There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism.
00:46:48.000If transgenderism is true, if men really can become women, then it's true for everybody of all ages.
00:46:56.000If transgenderism is false, as it is, if men really can't become women, as they cannot, then it's false for everybody too.
00:47:05.000And if it's false, then we should not indulge it.
00:47:10.000Especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people.
00:47:16.000If it is false, then for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this ****, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.
00:47:30.000The whole preposterous ideology at every level.
00:48:00.000Rolling Stone, because they got hit with a legal threat there, actually did change their headline.
00:48:05.000And of course, Media Matters got angry that they changed their headline.
00:48:09.000Now, listen, if Michael had actually called for transgender people to be killed, then he would not be working here because no one wants anybody to be killed.
00:48:19.000Hey, that is not a thing that we would be in favor of anyone saying because no one should be brutalized or violently treated for any of these reasons, of course.
00:48:28.000But if you're talking about the transgender ideology, which is what he said in those words, he said in the words, then trying to pretend that that's not what he said is really dirty pool.
00:48:38.000And that, of course, is what this is all about.
00:48:47.000The Huffington Post ran a very similar headline, suggesting that Michael was saying genocide against people who are transgender, men who identify as women.
00:48:59.000If it's conservatives, you can just lie as much as you could possibly want.
00:49:02.000Now, meanwhile, you know, there are people who actively are harming actual human beings, and those include parents who are inflicting Our daughter is 10 years old.
00:49:11.000So over the weekend, PBS News interviewed a couple with a quote unquote transgender child.
00:49:15.000And they literally said in the middle of this insane interview that the baby was transgender before she could speak.
00:49:50.000So you just completely screwed up your kid on the basis that, what, a one-and-a-half-year-old was transgender before the boy could speak?
00:49:58.000If you're talking about gender ideology that's a danger to human beings, gender ideology is a danger to human beings.
00:50:05.000Meanwhile, the n***** of that ideology continues to hold sway across the United States and parts of Europe.
00:50:12.000Apparently, according to the New York Post, USA Powerlifting must allow trans athletes to compete in the women's division after transgender lifter J.C.
00:50:19.000Cooper won her discrimination case against the organization.
00:50:22.000The federation was mandated to cease and desist from all unfair discriminatory practices related to sexual orientation and gender identity and reversed its former policy of barring trans athletes within two weeks, according to the ruling.
00:50:32.000Cooper filed a complaint with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights in 2019, claiming the organization violated that state's Human Rights Act after she, the dude, was barred from competing in the women's division.
00:50:43.000Cooper is, in fact, a man, now competing in the USA Powerlifting competition against women.
00:50:50.000So, first off, like, I encourage all men who wish to win a medal to now say that they are women and engage in USA Powerlifting, since apparently that's all you have to do in order to win a medal.
00:51:42.000Well, we're all to pretend that it just isn't happening at all.
00:51:46.000Okay, meanwhile, on the international stage, and there are two stories that should be somewhat disturbing to us on the international stage When when you combine them.
00:51:55.000So story number one, China apparently is setting a quote-unquote conservative growth target as challenges loom.
00:52:03.000China's economy is extraordinarily debt-driven.
00:52:06.000They basically pump money and spending into a wide variety of state-run enterprises, including giant empty ghost cities.
00:52:16.000And now they are lowering their economic growth forecasts.
00:52:20.000According to the Wall Street Journal, China unveiled its lowest growth target in more than a quarter century, as Beijing faces challenges in the domestic and global economy.
00:52:28.000China's target of around 5% growth this year in GDP, announced on Sunday by Premier Li Keqiang at the start of the country's annual legislative session, suggests officials are less concerned about raw economic expansion as they turn their attention to other priorities.
00:52:40.000At this week's legislative meetings, leader Xi Jinping is expected to further consolidate his grip over the realms of security, finance, and tech, reshuffling key posts to further dilute the government's role in policymaking at the expense of the Communist Party.
00:52:52.000So he is going to consolidate his personal grip and take power away from the CCP so that he can't be challenged.
00:52:58.000This year's growth target was more conservative than even the 5.5% goal set by Beijing last year, and they missed that by a big margin.
00:53:07.000So combine that with the fact that they are now upping their military spending and what you're looking at is the possibility of very aggressive moves on the Chinese border in the very near future.
00:53:16.000I frankly don't know that they have many choices left.
00:53:19.000They have a demographic catastrophe on their hands.
00:53:29.000People are going to stop funding their nonsense.
00:53:32.000And it turns out that China actually, as a polity, is incredibly, incredibly large with a lot of outlying areas.
00:53:37.000And so the possibility of consolidating regime control lies in unity, in unity of purpose.
00:53:41.000And that can only be done maybe through military action.
00:53:44.000One reason why China is planning to boost its military spending by 7.2% this year, accelerating its military buildup as tensions rise with the United States and its allies over Taiwan.
00:53:52.000Now, realistically speaking, China does have, you know, a lot of people, but their military capacity is not quite all that it's cracked up to be.
00:54:01.000China does not have really a what they call a blue water Navy.
00:54:05.000Most of its Navy is constructed for coastal areas because again, coastal areas allowed to control enormous amounts of coastline and a lot of places are within spitting distance like Taiwan.
00:54:13.000But their military tech is not nearly as sophisticated as the American military tech.
00:54:19.000They do not have the power of, again, blue water projection.
00:54:22.000What they can do is really snag the supply lines.
00:54:24.000They can really make a lot of trouble and try to essentially play North Korea writ large.
00:54:30.000Make some military trouble and then hope that everybody bribes them out of their troublemaking.
00:54:33.000I would assume that that's what China is going to try to do here because they need something.
00:54:36.000If they don't get something in the very near future, that regime has some real problems on its hands.
00:54:42.000Okay, time for some things I like and things I hate.
00:54:44.000But this time, we're going to do things I hate first and then we'll do some things I like.
00:54:54.000So Jon Stewart has a show on Apple TV.
00:54:56.000Jon Stewart's show is essentially just left-wing propaganda, cheered on by the idiots on Twitter.
00:55:02.000Twitter, of course, is a place to dunk and be dunked upon.
00:55:04.000The people on Twitter love Jon Stewart because Jon Stewart's entire shtick is do an hour-long interview and then cut four minutes out of it.
00:55:11.000And then show the four minutes that make Jon Stewart look halfway intelligent, even though he actually isn't very good at this.
00:55:16.000So he interviewed a guy named Senator Nathan Dahm.
00:57:12.000That is by far the leading cause of death among children.
00:57:15.000Which, of course, Jon Stewart supports in full.
00:57:17.000Okay, now, let's get to the actual non sequitur argument that he's making.
00:57:20.000So, what this state senator wishes to do is loosen up some of the red flag sort of restrictions on firearm ownership, because what he is afraid of is that people who are the next door neighbors of somebody, you don't like your next door neighbor, so you go to a judge and you have the judge take away that guy's guns.
00:57:36.000Jon Stewart is saying, well, that's a danger to children.
00:57:38.000And here you are, you want to protect children by keeping them away from drag.
00:57:42.000Now, here's why that's a non sequitur.
00:58:13.000You're not allowed to have, you're not allowed to obviously murder a child, shoot a child, nor should you be allowed to!
00:58:20.000And that's not what that state senator is advocating for.
00:58:22.000He is trying to say that a law-abiding citizen should be able to own a gun.
00:58:27.000That is essentially what he's advocating for.
00:58:28.000And Stewart is saying a law-abiding citizen should not be able to own a gun because the externality of allowing a law-abiding citizen to own a gun may be that one person who's crazy is going to grab a gun and kill a kid.
00:58:40.000Okay, the point of what Dom is saying is that drag queens targeting children should be illegal.
00:58:47.000He is not trying to say that no one in the state of Oklahoma can ever have a drag show.
00:58:52.000He's not trying to say that adults can't have drag shows for other adults.
00:58:55.000He's not trying to say you can't in the privacy of your own bedroom dress up as a member of the opposite sex and gallivant around like an idiot.
00:59:00.000He's not trying to say any of those things.
00:59:03.000So what the actual like-to-like, the apple-to-apple comparison that Stewart would have to make here is if this guy were actually attempting to ban, for example, drag queens having shows in front of other drag queens or drag queens not targeting children.
00:59:20.000In other words, the point that the Oklahoma State Senator is making is you can't infringe Second Amendment rights because, again, Second Amendment rights are not the threat to kids.
00:59:26.000There are a bunch of other things that manifest as threats to kids when bad people get a hold of guns.
00:59:32.000But it's already illegal to go after kids.
00:59:35.000And Stuart is treating it as though this guy wants to legalize child murder, legalize the targeting of kids.
00:59:39.000That's not what this guy is saying at all.
00:59:42.000And everybody on the left is cheering because apparently they're a bunch of addled idiots, addled morons.
00:59:49.000But this is the game that Stuart plays.
00:59:50.000And you're saying the government has an obligation to protect?
00:59:53.000Yes, of course the government has an obligation to protect kids.
00:59:56.000Of course, by the way, I assume that Jon Stewart is actually opposed to, for example, ending the First Amendment if the First Amendment results in bullying of children.
01:00:05.000I'm sure he would say, well, you know what?
01:00:07.000Those are the costs of the First Amendment does exist.
01:00:10.000And then you would make special provision to protect kids, which is what the law does with regard to guns.
01:00:18.000But this is the stupid game that Jon Stewart plays, and this is the kind of stuff that the media, you get rewarded for all of this.
01:00:24.000This is a point that Russell Brand was making quite well.
01:00:26.000Russell Brand's been on a media tour lately, and he was on Bill Maher's show, and he was pointing out that MSNBC engages in just as much propaganda as Fox News, particularly, and he was asked for an example by John Heilemann at MSNBC, and he just kind of destroyed him over MSNBC's coverage of, for example, ivermectin.
01:00:43.000But I have to say that it's disingenuous to claim that the biases that are exhibited on Fox News are any different from the biases exhibited on MSNBC.
01:00:52.000It's difficult to suggest that these corporations operate as anything other than mouthpieces for their affiliate owners in Blackrock and Vanguard.
01:01:01.000And unless we start to embrace, and also mate, like just spiritually, if I may use that word in your great country, We have to take responsibility for our own perspective.
01:01:34.000Do you think you can improve America by determinately and avowedly condemning Fox News without acknowledging that you're participating in the same game?
01:01:45.000Okay, he's- Russell Brand's totally right and John Holliman is a non-responsible- He just gave you a perfect example.
01:02:13.000So he did an interview over the weekend in which he addressed the backlash against his dumb book in which he talked about his tolja, his tolja, that he was blue and how he'd rubbed cream from his mother.
01:02:27.000So apparently he did another interview.
01:02:29.000In a discussion for Random House, he said, I certainly don't see myself as a victim.
01:02:34.000I'm really grateful to be able to share my story in the hope that it will help, empower, and encourage others, and hopefully let people understand that again, back to this human experience, we all, in some shape or form, are all connected, especially through trauma.
01:02:46.000I do not, and I have never looked for sympathy in this.
01:03:00.000Well, let me just say this about Prince Harry.
01:03:01.000I hope that he enjoys his earnings for the next two years.
01:03:04.000Because after that, there will be no more earnings.
01:03:06.000No one will pay you to do this routine anymore.
01:03:07.000You've now spilled your guts on your family.
01:03:09.000You've said all you have to say unless you have any break.
01:03:11.000No one in your family is talking to you anymore.
01:03:12.000So I assume you have no more inside grit to spill in the public stage.
01:03:18.000Your extraordinarily off-putting wife, Meghan Markle, is not going to win you any popularity contests.
01:03:25.000So, I look forward to you languishing in obscurity for the rest of your life as the guy who yelled at your family for no reason other than to apparently— Honestly, the big takeaway from Spare, if you ever spend the time reading it, is that Prince Harry is just a dullard.
01:03:42.000Everything that he says comes from this stupidly naive place.
01:03:45.000My favorite personal example is a contention he keeps making over and over that Meghan Markle had never googled Prince Harry and so had no idea who he was when they were dating.
01:03:55.000That's what happens, is that very, very attractive actresses look up unemployed, PTSD, and drug-addicted former men in the military to date who live in a basement apartment.