The Ben Shapiro Show - Corpse Declares Re-Election Launch

00:00:00.000 Well, Joe Biden finally on Tuesday decided to launch his not really awaited presidential campaign, his reelect campaign.

00:00:07.000 Everybody knew he was going to do this.

00:00:08.000 We talked about it a little bit earlier this week.

00:00:10.000 The expectation was that he was going to do it in a video.

00:00:13.000 And that's precisely what he did, because he does not have the capacity to give some sort of barn burner speech.

00:00:17.000 He can't get five sentences out of his face before he starts to physically collapse.

00:00:21.000 This is going to be a very rough reelect campaign for Joe Biden.

00:00:25.000 And you can tell that by the ad that he actually cut, this three minute launch ad.

00:00:29.000 He did the same thing four years ago when he again launched on video.

00:00:34.000 In this three minute launch ad, he appears on camera speaking, For about three seconds at a time, because anytime the camera is on him for more than a few seconds, it just gets extremely awkward.

00:00:44.000 And here's the thing.

00:00:45.000 Joe Biden is not a very popular man.

00:00:46.000 According to a variety of polls, his job approval among independents is worse than dirt.

00:00:51.000 CBS News has him at 32% approval among independents.

00:00:55.000 NPR-Marist has met 36% among independents.

00:00:57.000 Fox News has met 35% among independents.

00:01:00.000 And Harvard-Harris has met 38% among independents.

00:01:02.000 Those are not re-elect numbers for the President of the United States.

00:01:06.000 And so he is relying solely and completely on the idea that the Republicans are going to run Donald Trump.

00:01:11.000 That is what his entire campaign is based on.

00:01:13.000 And you can tell it from his launch video, which is not about anything that he has done as president of the United States.

00:01:17.000 It's purely about the idea that he stands between you and the Trumpian darkness.

00:01:22.000 We're going to go through this launch video in detail because it really does show you who Joe Biden is and what his campaign is all about.

00:01:27.000 Here we go.

00:01:29.000 It opens with January 6th, obviously.

00:01:31.000 More images of January 6th.

00:01:33.000 And then abortion is healthcare outside the Supreme Court. 1.00

00:01:38.000 Freedom.

00:01:39.000 Oh boy, he's old.

00:01:41.000 Personal freedom is fundamental to who we are today.

00:01:44.000 There's nothing more important, nothing more sacred.

00:01:47.000 That's been the work of my first term.

00:01:49.000 We fight for our democracy.

00:01:51.000 This shouldn't be a retribution.

00:01:54.000 Again, he's all audio.

00:01:55.000 He's all audio.

00:01:56.000 There's no video of him.

00:01:57.000 Back to January 6th.

00:01:58.000 Okay, pause it right there.

00:02:00.000 It's all about Trump.

00:02:01.000 He's all audio.

00:02:02.000 There's no video of him.

00:02:03.000 But you know, around the country, many voters are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms.

00:02:07.000 Okay, pause it right there.

00:02:09.000 It's all about Trump.

00:02:10.000 It's all about Trump.

00:02:12.000 There's a picture of Trump with DeSantis, trying to smear DeSantis by association with Trump.

00:02:15.000 There's a picture of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:02:17.000 The idea here is that a bunch of MAGA extremists, the same people who he's been going after for the past several years, the people who are putting democracy in danger, those are the people he is there to stop.

00:02:27.000 Remember, up till this point, his launch ad has not mentioned a single thing he's actually done as President of the United States.

00:02:33.000 His entire shtick here is I was elected to save democracy from Trump.

00:02:37.000 And that's why you need to reelect me is to do the same thing because he can't actually stand on anything he has accomplished.

00:02:42.000 Typically, you run on what you've done in your first term.

00:02:44.000 Well, according to Joe Biden, the only thing he's done in his first term is not be Trump, which is true.

00:02:48.000 He has not been Trump.

00:02:49.000 But that's not a very strong pitch.

00:02:51.000 He continues.

00:02:53.000 Again, pause it.

00:02:54.000 your entire life while cutting taxes for the very wealthy, dictating what health care decisions

00:02:58.000 women can make, banning books, telling people who they can love, all while making it more 1.00

00:03:04.000 difficult for you to be able to vote.

00:03:06.000 Again, pause it.

00:03:07.000 This is all the same speech that he gave back in Philadelphia.

00:03:10.000 Remember that terrible speech, worst speech I've seen a president give in my lifetime?

00:03:13.000 That speech that he gave in front of a blood-red Independence Hall where he declared half the country his enemies and suggested that they stood in the way of democracy?

00:03:20.000 This is what he's saying, right?

00:03:22.000 He's standing in the way of all these bigoted, terrible Republicans, and if they gain office, then the country will be thrust into a new dark age.

00:03:31.000 And then cue the rising music here as he strides forward with the least popular politician in America, Kamala Harris.

00:03:40.000 When I ran for president four years ago, I said we're in a battle for the soul of America.

00:03:51.000 And we still are.

00:03:52.000 The question we're facing is whether in the years ahead, we have more freedom or less freedom.

00:03:59.000 More rights or fewer.

00:04:01.000 I know what I want the answer to be, and I think you do too.

00:04:04.000 This is not a time to be complacent.

00:04:09.000 He's not pledged to do anything?

00:04:11.000 That's why I'm running for re-election.

00:04:15.000 Because I know America.

00:04:18.000 I know we're good and decent people.

00:04:20.000 I know we're still a country that believes in honesty and respect and treating each other with dignity.

00:04:25.000 Incredibly vague.

00:04:26.000 That we're a nation where we give people no safe harbor.

00:04:29.000 We believe that everyone is equal.

00:04:31.000 That everyone should be given a fair shot to succeed in this country.

00:04:34.000 It's all warmed over platitudes.

00:04:38.000 Not one, but like five separate photos of a Ketanji Brown Jackson, a black woman.

00:04:42.000 You can't tell what a woman is. 1.00

00:04:44.000 And there's Jill.

00:04:45.000 Jill says this a lot.

00:04:47.000 Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights.

00:04:50.000 And John Lewis.

00:04:55.000 And this is our moment.

00:04:58.000 He ran for like a step.

00:05:00.000 And now it's a bunch of fast clips of people doing things and being people.

00:05:03.000 Or people.

00:05:04.000 Yeah, man.

00:05:05.000 Real people.

00:05:07.000 People hitting shots.

00:05:08.000 People on trains.

00:05:10.000 People hugging.

00:05:12.000 Wow.

00:05:13.000 Like humans.

00:05:14.000 Who are people.

00:05:15.000 With faces.

00:05:17.000 Somebody speaking Spanish.

00:05:18.000 Who might be a taco. 0.87

00:05:19.000 Or burrito, according to Joe.

00:05:26.000 And there he is with Kamala Harris.

00:05:30.000 What is the job he's trying to finish?

00:05:31.000 This is the big question.

00:05:32.000 Nothing we cannot do if we come together.

00:05:37.000 Let's finish the job.

00:05:41.000 Okay, what job is it that you seek to finish?

00:05:43.000 This would be the question that everyone is left asking.

00:05:45.000 That is a terrible slogan.

00:05:46.000 Let's finish the job?

00:05:47.000 Okay, your entire shtick, again, your re-elect shtick is the same as your prior-elect shtick, which is, I will stand in the way of Donald Trump.

00:05:57.000 How is that finishing the job?

00:05:58.000 What is the job that you were elected to finish?

00:06:01.000 His entire campaign in 2020, and he made this very clear, is he was elected to stop Donald Trump for being president, and he kind of implied that he would step down before a second term, because he don't got it.

00:06:10.000 The dude is super old.

00:06:12.000 How old is he?

00:06:12.000 He's so old that in his campaign launch ad, he does not appear for more than three seconds at a time.

00:06:18.000 It's all an audio take.

00:06:19.000 He is not capable of speaking continuously into the camera without stopping and falling over, like Wallace Shawn in The Princess Bride after taking Iocane powder.

00:06:30.000 So instead, they cut a bunch of fast cuts of still photos of humans.

00:06:35.000 Humans who do things.

00:06:37.000 And then he's like, I'm here to finish the job.

00:06:40.000 Here's the problem.

00:06:41.000 If he finishes the job, we got a problem. 0.99

00:06:43.000 Because everything he's done so far has been garbage! 0.96

00:06:46.000 We'll get to that in just one moment. 0.98

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00:07:48.000 Okay, so that is Joe Biden's launch ad.

00:07:51.000 And it ain't great.

00:07:52.000 It ain't great.

00:07:54.000 The RNC then immediately came out with a response ad.

00:07:57.000 This ad was actually generated by AI.

00:07:59.000 I gotta say, the AI is pretty good at this.

00:08:01.000 Here is the AI's response ad, courtesy of the RNC, against Joe Biden's launch.

00:08:07.000 It says, what if the weakest president we've ever had were re-elected?

00:08:15.000 What if international tensions escalate?

00:08:16.000 What if financial systems crumble?

00:08:17.000 What if our border is gone?

00:08:18.000 What if crime worsens?

00:08:19.000 It says beat Biden.

00:08:19.000 What if markets are in free fall as 500 regional banks have shut down?

00:08:23.000 What if financial systems crumble?

00:08:24.000 What if war regions were overrun by a surge of 80,000 illegals yesterday?

00:08:27.000 What if our border is gone?

00:08:28.000 What if the city of San Francisco this morning, citing the anti-corruption crime and fentanyl

00:08:32.000 crisis?

00:08:33.000 Who's in charge here?

00:08:35.000 It feels like the train is coming off the track.

00:08:37.000 It says beat Biden.

00:08:38.000 Okay, that's a pretty good pitch.

00:08:41.000 Because Joe Biden's entire pitch is, don't vote for Donald Trump, vote for me.

00:08:45.000 Let's finish the jabadabity!

00:08:48.000 And that's the pitch.

00:08:49.000 I mean, that's his entire pitch.

00:08:51.000 He does not at any point say what he has done. 0.99

00:08:53.000 He has said that he has stopped Republicans from stopping black people from voting or something, which was always patent garbage. 0.99

00:08:59.000 Black people were not stopped from voting by Republicans. 1.00

00:09:01.000 That's absurd. 0.99

00:09:03.000 He says that he has stopped democracy from being overthrown by the January 6th protesters, who were essentially a couple of hundred morons who went into the Capitol building, the ones who were actually violent and who actually got jailed. 0.99

00:09:15.000 The ones who were actually violent were morons who got arrested, and then within a couple of hours, the election was certified. 0.96

00:09:21.000 That doesn't count the people who wandered in thinking that it wasn't actually illegal because the cops were actually showing them through the building. 0.98

00:09:26.000 That doesn't count the people who were protesting outside.

00:09:28.000 But that was a threat to the republic of such dire nature, according to Joe Biden, that you have to elect him not once, but twice.

00:09:33.000 Because if you don't re-elect him to finish the job at Abbotty, then that means that you want those people to win.

00:09:40.000 Now here's the problem.

00:09:41.000 He's a bad president and everyone knows he's a bad president.

00:09:44.000 And he's super old and everyone knows that too.

00:09:46.000 Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's worst press secretary, she was asked, is he going to actually serve eight years?

00:09:52.000 He doesn't look good.

00:09:53.000 In fact, they won't even put him on camera, because he is an animate corpse at this point.

00:09:58.000 They shoot him full of something, and then he stumbles out, his eyes wide and his pupils dilated, and then he proceeds to speak through his face hole for a non-prolonged period of time, and then he stumbles nonsensically off the stage looking for where to go next, before they wrap him back into his coffin at night.

00:10:15.000 It closes.

00:10:17.000 They pipe in some old Perry Mason episodes, and he's a happy camper.

00:10:21.000 And he wakes up the next morning, they do it all again.

00:10:23.000 Here's Corinne Jean-Pierre asking, is this man gonna be able to even serve eight years?

00:10:26.000 And she's like, eh? 0.60

00:10:29.000 That's crazy!

00:10:29.000 How does she not have an answer to that question?

00:10:31.000 eight years? I'm not, I'm just not going to get ahead of the president. That's something for him

00:10:37.000 to decide. I'm just not going to get ahead of it. And there's a 2024 campaign. Anything related to

00:10:43.000 that, I would refer you to that. That's crazy. How does she not have an answer to that question?

00:10:47.000 I mean, the answer to that is yes. What?

00:10:51.000 Does he plan to?

00:10:52.000 It's not like he's going to quit being president so he can run for a higher office.

00:10:56.000 Very often politicians, governors, say Governor DeSantis, he's running and everybody kind of knows there's a good shot he might run for president.

00:11:02.000 And so when people ask, are you going to serve out your term or are you going to run for a higher office, you say, well, I'm still thinking about it.

00:11:07.000 What's there to think about?

00:11:07.000 He's the current president.

00:11:09.000 If he wins again, is he going to step down to become like NFL commissioner?

00:11:13.000 What exactly is the pressing job that would be on the docket for him?

00:11:17.000 James Clyburn, who's his biggest backer in South Carolina, probably put him over to the top in the primaries.

00:11:20.000 Even he was like, well, he's got to show some energy because frankly, he looks a lot like that, that frog in the electricity experiment.

00:11:26.000 Looks like they're shooting him some electricity into his leg.

00:11:27.000 He's like flopping around a little bit.

00:11:29.000 Here's James Clyburn.

00:11:31.000 First of all, I think the president is going to have to deal with the whole issue of age.

00:11:39.000 He is 80 years old.

00:11:41.000 I might add I'm 82.

00:11:43.000 I do believe that he's up to the task, and that is something that we just cannot pretend is not on people's minds.

00:11:52.000 So, I think he has to show the energy that he's been showing over the past several months, and he has to continue to pursue an agenda that will, as he says, build this economy from the bottom up and from the middle out, so that people can feel a part of this.

00:12:13.000 Okay, so even James Clabourne, who is two years older than the president, is like, I look better than that guy does.

00:12:17.000 Which is true.

00:12:18.000 James Clabourne looks a lot better than Joe Biden currently does.

00:12:22.000 Meanwhile, Morning Joe is still trying to figure out why Kamala Harris is still on the ticket. 0.57

00:12:25.000 Here they were trying to figure out why this wildly incompetent politician is on the ticket.

00:12:29.000 I have a hint. 0.99

00:12:30.000 It rhymes with, she's a mack-shwoman. 1.00

00:12:33.000 Yes. 0.83

00:12:34.000 Yes, that would be the reason.

00:12:34.000 Here we go.

00:12:36.000 I mean, there's been a lot of talk about the vice president and are they going to replace the vice president?

00:12:41.000 And you always get this, by the way.

00:12:44.000 You always get this.

00:12:45.000 The vice president's always turned into a secondary figure for good reason, but also a lot of people leading up to reelection campaigns will say, well, are they going to dump this?

00:12:58.000 But no, she's there.

00:13:00.000 She's their voice on abortion.

00:13:01.000 Yeah, and she certainly has been their voice on abortion. 0.99

00:13:04.000 She had a successful trip to Africa.

00:13:07.000 And Gene Robinson, there's absolutely no reason why they should upset the apple cart, as it's said.

00:13:15.000 Why would you upset the apple cart?

00:13:16.000 I mean, she is wildly unpopular.

00:13:18.000 There are a lot of problems for Joe Biden, but he does have some systemic advantages, and those advantages are built around one person and one person in particular.

00:13:25.000 We all know who that is.

00:13:27.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:14:26.000 So again, Joe Biden is extremely weak and we didn't even get to his agenda yet.

00:14:34.000 His actual agenda items have been terrible.

00:14:36.000 Right now, you can see that the stock markets are already falling.

00:14:39.000 Why?

00:14:40.000 Well, because they're looking forward to the possibility of some really bad reports.

00:14:44.000 So, while there's talk about the financial system being healed, that's not right.

00:14:49.000 It's not pretty.

00:14:50.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, First Republic bank shares sank 49% on Tuesday, a day after it reported customers pulled about $100 billion in deposits out last month alone.

00:14:59.000 Though regional banks in general have suffered since the collapse of several smaller mid-sized lenders last month, First Republic has been the focus of market anxiety following a surge in deposit outflows last month.

00:15:07.000 Again, people feeling very uncertain.

00:15:10.000 About places like First Republic after what happened with Silicon Valley Bank.

00:15:14.000 Plus, there's a lot of talk about what's going to happen.

00:15:17.000 Is the Fed going to raise the rates again?

00:15:19.000 And you can see the earnings reports that are about to happen are scaring everybody.

00:15:24.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the tough day for stocks essentially started after trading closed on Monday, after the First Republic Bank reported the banking turmoil.

00:15:33.000 But also, the tech-heavy NASDAQ composite dropped about 2%, the S&P 500 fell 1.6%, the Dow Jones Industrial slid 1%.

00:15:41.000 All of this because people are expecting some earnings reports to come out this week, and those earnings reports are not likely to be particularly good.

00:15:48.000 Joe Biden's economy is sliding.

00:15:50.000 And everyone knows this.

00:15:51.000 He's trying to happy talk his way past this, but the man can't even regular talk, let alone happy talk.

00:15:55.000 Here he was yesterday talking about how he's turning things around in a big way.

00:15:59.000 Folks, trickle down economics doesn't work. 0.99

00:16:03.000 We have a very different plan for the economy.

00:16:06.000 We, you and I, together, we're turning things around and we're doing it in a big way.

00:16:12.000 Uh, no.

00:16:12.000 And he also said we are bringing down costs, which, uh, No one's laughing, Mr. President.

00:16:20.000 We thought maybe people should start paying their fair share.

00:16:23.000 The Inflation Reduction Act is going to bring down hundreds of billions more in decades ahead.

00:16:28.000 Bring the cost down.

00:16:30.000 We're doing all this by making the biggest corporations just begin to pay part of their fair share.

00:16:36.000 Just pay your fair share.

00:16:39.000 Pay at least something. 0.91

00:16:41.000 When I have to hear the schmuck talk about people paying their fair share, and he's talking about the people who actually pay the vast bulk of taxes in the country, it is very, very irritating.

00:16:48.000 Meanwhile, even Joe Manchin, who signed onto the Inflation Reduction Act, right, he's one of the guys who signed onto that boondoggle, suggesting that it was going to somehow bring down inflation, mainly because there were a bunch of provisions that were supposed to protect The mining for coal and natural gas in West Virginia.

00:17:04.000 Well, now he's realizing that Joe Biden absolutely shafted him and that Joe Biden never had any intention of protecting energy production in Joe Manchin's home states. 0.87

00:17:10.000 Now Joe Manchin's out there like, yeah, I really got screwed.

00:17:13.000 Yeah, you did, sir. 0.68

00:17:14.000 Maybe you shouldn't have trusted him.

00:17:16.000 Maybe you shouldn't have done that.

00:17:18.000 Let me make it very clear.

00:17:20.000 If this administration does not honor what it said it would do, and basically continue to liberalize that, where $384 billion is what we're supposed to invest over ten years, and they blow that out of the water, and it's six or seven or eight hundred, I will do everything I can in my power to prevent that from happening, and if they don't change, then I would vote to repeal my own bill.

00:17:46.000 Well, that makes no sense. 0.98

00:17:47.000 Who cares whether you vote to repeal your own bill, you jerk? 1.00

00:17:49.000 He voted for the thing in the first place. 1.00

00:17:51.000 It's a little late now.

00:17:52.000 He's going to have to wait until after the next presidential election in order to reverse all of that.

00:17:55.000 But even Joe Manchin is saying, yeah, I thought he was supposed to be a moderate.

00:17:59.000 Yeah, he's not a moderate.

00:18:00.000 Meanwhile, Corine Jean-Pierre, she is pushing forward the agenda of this wildly unsuccessful administration.

00:18:05.000 She says that unlawful immigration is down.

00:18:07.000 Things are going amazing on immigration.

00:18:08.000 Did you know that?

00:18:09.000 Did you know that things are just going swimmingly on immigration in this country?

00:18:14.000 So, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security will have more to share soon.

00:18:17.000 As you know, the Department of Homeland Security shared their plan back in January, and we have seen from the data, we have seen that the unlawful immigration is down, and so what they have put forth in their protocol and their processes is working, but they will have more to share.

00:18:35.000 They're doing an amazing job, according to Corinne Jean-Pierre.

00:18:37.000 How amazing is the job they're doing?

00:18:38.000 I mean, they did send Kamala Harris to the... I mean, they didn't really, but they pretended they did.

00:18:42.000 What an amazing job.

00:18:43.000 How amazing?

00:18:45.000 6.3 million illegal border crossings under Joe Biden.

00:18:50.000 6.3 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border under Joe Biden.

00:18:53.000 A lot of those people got sent back, but at least 1.3 million are known illegal immigrant gotaways.

00:18:59.000 He's the most unsuccessful president in American history on the border, just as he is the president who brought about 40-year inflation.

00:19:06.000 The good news is that he really has his head screwed on.

00:19:08.000 I wouldn't say he had his head screwed on straight in this particular context.

00:19:11.000 He has his head screwed on properly when it comes to the social issues, which is why Karine Jean-Pierre was celebrating the thing that matters most, Lesbian Visibility Week.

00:19:18.000 I have a question.

00:19:19.000 Is there a week in the calendar that is not some form of LGBTQIA plus minus divided by a sign, happy face sign, sad face emoji, tilde, hashtag, caret, Week? 0.64

00:19:30.000 Is there like a week in the calendar left for, you know, like, heterosexual people? 0.62

00:19:35.000 Because, I gotta say, I'm wondering.

00:19:37.000 Here we were at the White House yesterday with Corinne Jean-Pierre celebrating Lesbian Visibility Week, as opposed to the other 51 weeks of the year, which I guess are Lesbian Invisibility Week.

00:19:46.000 Which is, you know, I think, troubling.

00:19:48.000 Do we have a spade of crime from the invisible lesbians? 1.00

00:19:50.000 No one knows.

00:19:52.000 So this week is Lesbian Visibility Week, and as the first openly queer person to hold the position of Press Secretary for the President of the United States, I see every day how important visibility and representation are.

00:20:05.000 Today, I'm honored to welcome the cast of The L Word and Generation Q, two Showtime series that chronicle the friendship, the love, the challenges, and the triumphs of strong, funny, and resilient queer women.

00:20:19.000 Up here with me are the amazing, talented actresses who play those very roles. 1.00

00:20:24.000 Jennifer Beals, Leisha Haley, and Katherine Menig, and the show's co-creator, writer, and executive producer, Eileen Shakin.

00:20:32.000 So basically, why don't they actually just turn the White House into the upfront?

00:20:35.000 So it'll be great.

00:20:36.000 We can actually have Joe Biden trot out there and preview a bunch of shows for the olds.

00:20:40.000 They'll be like, here's what we got coming on CBS for those of you who are no longer alive.

00:20:44.000 And then you can have Corrine Jean-Pierre, and she'll get up there and be like, for all of you who are people of color who are queer, we have every other show on TV.

00:20:51.000 It'll be amazing. 0.97

00:20:52.000 I mean, they've already done like the Ted stupid show, the one with the soccer. 1.00

00:20:58.000 Yes, Ted Lasso, that stupid show. 1.00

00:21:00.000 They already did that one. 1.00

00:21:02.000 We've already had, like, which other stars have they had at the White House?

00:21:04.000 It's like they've had a bevy of them.

00:21:06.000 Matthew McConaughey showed up.

00:21:07.000 Everyone who's in Hollywood has shown up to do a junket.

00:21:11.000 So I think they should actually have like swag bags that they give out at the White House, you know, with like a card for Dylan Mulvaney's latest sponsored product.

00:21:18.000 And then they can actually just pitch the TV shows.

00:21:20.000 Here she is previewing Showtime, the L word, sponsored by the White House.

00:21:24.000 This is your White House.

00:21:26.000 You must reelect this president.

00:21:27.000 You must.

00:21:27.000 It is imperative that you reelect this president.

00:21:30.000 He's doing important work.

00:21:31.000 Very, very important work.

00:21:34.000 It's more of the president's important work in just one second.

00:21:36.000 First, let's talk about living a healthy lifestyle.

00:21:38.000 So, gotta tell you, as you know, I have the taste buds of a child, which means I hate vegetables.

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00:22:08.000 Balance of Nature has sent a bunch of their product down to the studio for my team to try.

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00:22:22.000 They make him feel a lot better, and they do that for all of us around here.

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00:22:38.000 So, Here's the thing.

00:22:40.000 Joe Biden, actually a terrible president, but he has some systemic advantages going into the election.

00:22:44.000 His chief advantage, according to the New York Times, the presence of Donald Trump, quote,

00:22:48.000 the mere presence of Mr. Trump in the Republican primary race is helping the Democrats make the

00:22:51.000 2024 campaign a choice between the two parties, not a referendum on the incumbent. A far more

00:22:56.000 difficult challenge for the party in power, said Jim Messina, who managed the last successful

00:23:00.000 presidential re-election campaign, Barack Obama's in 2012.

00:23:03.000 Early polls, both in key states like Wisconsin and nationally, have Biden holding onto a slim lead over Trump, but even with or behind Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida.

00:23:10.000 And then there's the map.

00:23:12.000 The 2022 midterms should have been a disaster for this president.

00:23:14.000 Instead, in Pennsylvania and Michigan, the Democratic Party greatly strengthened its hand and its electoral infrastructure.

00:23:20.000 With victories in the governor's races in both states, the Pennsylvania House flipping to the Democrats, and the Michigan legislature falling to complete Democratic control for the first time in nearly 40 years.

00:23:28.000 These were both states in which the Trump wing of the Republican Party had outsized influence.

00:23:32.000 At the outset of the 2024 campaign, two-thirds of the upper Midwestern blue wall that Trump shattered in 2016 and Biden rebuilt in 2020 appear to favor the Democrats.

00:23:42.000 Some battlegrounds, like Colorado, Virginia, New Hampshire, these are starting to look more and more reliably Democratic.

00:23:46.000 So, what does that mean?

00:23:47.000 There are only a few states that now matter.

00:23:49.000 Wisconsin?

00:23:50.000 Georgia, which used to be Republican.

00:23:51.000 Arizona, which used to be Republican.

00:23:53.000 Pennsylvania, which used to be, which went for Trump in 2016, but went for Biden in 2020.

00:23:58.000 If Biden locks down Pennsylvania, then he only needs to win one of Wisconsin, Georgia, or Arizona to win.

00:24:04.000 So that is the big question.

00:24:06.000 Joe Biden right now is leading Donald Trump in every one of those states by every available poll.

00:24:10.000 Okay, so what does that mean for the Republicans?

00:24:11.000 Well, it means you might not want to nominate the guy that Democrats want to run against.

00:24:15.000 Again, the entire basis of Joe Biden's campaign is democracy dies in Dambedoo.

00:24:20.000 Dambedoo is Donald Trump.

00:24:22.000 That is the thing.

00:24:24.000 And meanwhile, Donald Trump, I gotta say, his campaign looks like a campaign of fear.

00:24:29.000 It really does.

00:24:30.000 He looks like he's afraid of something.

00:24:31.000 The reason I say this is because he came out yesterday and he put out on Truth Social the following statement, quote, I see that everybody is talking about the Republican debates, the Republican debates!

00:24:41.000 But nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump campaign, before announcing them.

00:24:46.000 And then he continued.

00:24:47.000 When you're leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile networks with angry Trump and MAGA-hating anchors asking the questions, why subject yourself to being libeled and abused?

00:24:55.000 Also, the second debate is being held at the Reagan Library, the chairman of which is, amazingly, Fred Ryan, publisher of the Washington Post.

00:25:03.000 No.

00:25:04.000 So this is Donald Trump saying he will not debate anybody.

00:25:07.000 He's just going to run away from debates.

00:25:08.000 Now, he did some of this in 2016, you'll recall.

00:25:10.000 You'll recall that after he didn't like questions from Megyn Kelly, he actually ditched one of the debates.

00:25:15.000 But I'm not sure he can play that card this time.

00:25:18.000 I don't think a lot of Republican voters are up for an uncontested primary.

00:25:21.000 If he just skips the debates, I don't think that's going to play very much in his favor, especially if people on the stage continue to focus on Trump, even if he is not on the stage.

00:25:30.000 And again, one of the big questions for Republicans is, how much do you wish to run this campaign based solely on President Trump?

00:25:37.000 Trump, by the way, is focusing all of his, all of his ire, like every element of his firepower is now focused, like the eye of Sauron on Ron DeSantis, without a doubt.

00:25:49.000 He is now apparently attempting to lobby the Florida GOP To, in Tallahassee, to deny a bill that would allow Ron DeSantis to run for president while maintaining his slot as governor.

00:26:01.000 So, first of all, that's not gonna work.

00:26:03.000 I'm just gonna put it out there right now, that's not going to work.

00:26:05.000 The Florida GOP is going to actually, in the legislature, change the law so that you can simultaneously serve as governor and run for president.

00:26:11.000 The reason they will do this is because, imagine the consequences if they don't, let's say they change that law, and they basically say that if you have to run, And then you lose.

00:26:24.000 You can't go back to being governor.

00:26:27.000 Like, what is the expected outcome if he then does not run for president to maintain his slot as Florida governor?

00:26:33.000 Does that go amazingly well for those legislators?

00:26:35.000 We're all members of his party?

00:26:37.000 Probably not.

00:26:38.000 It's a weird strategy.

00:26:40.000 It also looks pretty weak.

00:26:41.000 I mean, if Trump is trying to use every legal means at his disposal to stop DeSantis from even running, that's a problem for him.

00:26:47.000 And again, every headline about Trump from now until the end of the election cycle will be about Trump.

00:26:51.000 It will not be about Biden.

00:26:53.000 I have a very simple rule when it comes to presidential politics.

00:26:55.000 Whoever an election is a referendum on, loses.

00:26:59.000 It's that simple.

00:27:00.000 In 2008, the election was a referendum really on George W. Bush and then became a referendum on John McCain.

00:27:05.000 In 2012, it should have been a referendum on Barack Obama, but the media pulled a magic trick and suddenly it was a referendum on Binders Romney.

00:27:12.000 In 2016, the election, contrary to popular opinion, was not a referendum on Trump, it was a referendum on Hillary.

00:27:16.000 In 2020, it was a referendum on Donald Trump.

00:27:19.000 And in 2024, it should be a referendum on Joe Biden, but if Trump runs, it will be a referendum on Trump.

00:27:25.000 Which is why those of us on the right who are looking at, for example, this what looks to be a foolish civil trial about a 20-year-old rape allegation, 30-year-old rape allegation from E. Jean Carroll, that sort of stuff is still not going to play amazing with independents.

00:27:42.000 According to the Washington Examiner, jury selection begins Tuesday in a lawsuit brought against former President Trump by the humor and advice columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who says Trump raped her sometime in 1995 or 1996.

00:27:52.000 Carroll is now 79 years old.

00:27:53.000 At a minimum, the alleged attack took place about 27 years ago.

00:27:57.000 Apparently, she never reported the alleged crime to any authorities.

00:27:59.000 She didn't tell anybody else.

00:28:01.000 Years passed.

00:28:01.000 The statute of limitations came and went.

00:28:03.000 Even when he ran for president 20 years later, she said nothing.

00:28:07.000 She said she didn't speak up for years because her elderly mother, a longtime Republican, was ill and she didn't want to set off a distracting controversy.

00:28:13.000 But then, she changed her mind in 2017.

00:28:16.000 It's a very, very weak case because this much time passes and it's a he said, she said.

00:28:19.000 It's going to be very difficult to actually demonstrate Donald Trump's guilt.

00:28:23.000 But, are they going to fill the headlines with this sort of stuff?

00:28:25.000 You bet they'll fill the headlines with this sort of stuff.

00:28:29.000 So, is that what Republicans want to fight?

00:28:30.000 Is that the battle that they want to fight?

00:28:32.000 Especially when Donald Trump is currently attacking Ron DeSantis consistently from the left?

00:28:36.000 I don't know.

00:28:37.000 Certainly Joe Biden is betting on Republicans doing precisely that.

00:28:40.000 Okay, in just one moment, we'll get to the most horrifying story of the day.

00:28:44.000 First, regardless of your religion, everybody around here needs a little more peace in their life.

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00:29:40.000 Now, speaking of God, if we are made in God's image, it means that there is an ethical and spiritual infrastructure to the universe.

00:29:46.000 We're supposed to behave according to God, who made us in his image, obviously.

00:29:51.000 Well, we had this discussion on the show Exodus, starring Jordan Peterson.

00:29:55.000 I was privileged to be on that show.

00:29:56.000 Here's a clip.

00:29:57.000 And isn't there's an irony here that for all the insistence upon equality, The very foundation for that equality in Western culture, i.e., the idea that human beings are made in the imago dei, in the image of God, has been lost, of course.

00:30:17.000 So it's almost as if, because of the erosion of this foundation, The drive for equality is stressed all the more.

00:30:26.000 That's exactly what Nietzsche claimed would happen when he wrote, particularly in Beyond Good and Evil.

00:30:34.000 He said that would be an inevitable consequence.

00:30:38.000 It's a fantastic series.

00:30:39.000 In addition to Douglas and Jordan, I sat alongside a group of big thinkers from different backgrounds to explore one of the most seminal books in the Bible.

00:30:45.000 We're heading into the conclusion of Exodus.

00:30:46.000 It's exclusively for Daily Wire Plus members.

00:30:48.000 If you haven't seen it, start at the beginning because it's well worth your time.

00:30:51.000 Join now at dailywire.com slash subscribe to watch Exodus.

00:30:54.000 Also, Crane & Company, our friends, they're hosting a 2023 NFL Draft livestream tomorrow, Thursday, April 27th.

00:31:00.000 They'll be taking bets, providing in-depth analysis on draft picks and the upcoming season.

00:31:05.000 They will also be having some very special surprise guests.

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00:31:09.000 You don't want to miss what they'll do if they hit 100,000 subscribers during the stream.

00:31:13.000 Meanwhile, this is the worst story of the day.

00:31:15.000 According to the Post Millennial, a 2016 medical article documenting the tragic death of one of the participants in the linchpin Dutch study, upon which the entire child sex experiment, sex change experiment is based, indicates the puberty suppression was to blame for the young person's death.

00:31:29.000 The case is that of an 18-year-old trans-identified male whose puberty was blocked by the Dutch researchers at a very early stage, meaning there wasn't enough penile tissue for surgeons to use to create a neo-vagina.

00:31:40.000 Therefore, a more risky procedure using a section of the patient's bowel was necessary, which resulted in fatal necrotizing fasciitis.

00:31:47.000 The manuscript begins by saying the absence of a functional vagina has had a negative effect on the sexual quality of life of transgender women and explains that multiple surgical procedures have been described for vaginal reconstruction, reconstruction meaning actual construction, in these patients.

00:32:01.000 The patient was described as being a healthy 18-year-old for whom standard vaginoplasty surgery was not feasible due to having underdeveloped genitals as a result of early puberty suppression.

00:32:09.000 So instead, they decided to literally grab a piece of this person's colon and try to form this into a false vagina. 1.00

00:32:16.000 And the person died. 0.99

00:32:18.000 And the person died from this.

00:32:21.000 Apparently Jazz Jennings, star of the reality TV show I Am Jazz, faced a similar issue when it came time for genital surgery.

00:32:25.000 Jennings was an extremely gender non-conforming child, who would almost certainly have grown up to be a gay man, but was instead transitioned at a very young age.

00:32:32.000 Jennings' puberty was blocked from early childhood, meaning vaginoplasty was not possible.

00:32:36.000 Jennings required three corrective surgeries, still struggles in the dating world, and has never experienced orgasm, which of course is going to be a lifelong problem.

00:32:43.000 Now we are all supposed to pretend that this is life-saving care, according to the media and the current White House.

00:32:49.000 Speaking of which, Jazz Jennings has now responded to criticism from people like me.

00:32:55.000 The criticism from me is not of Jazz Jennings as a human being.

00:32:59.000 My criticism is actually of Jazz Jennings and his parents, because this is a person who's indoctrinated from the time that he was a very young person, like a small child, into the idea that he was actually a she, and then facilitated into life-altering hormone treatments and surgeries that have not alleviated Jazz Jennings' underlying feelings of depression, anxiety, and other issues.

00:33:17.000 Here's Jazz Jennings, however, responding to that claim.

00:33:22.000 This person was born in 2000.

00:33:23.000 This person is a boy and was transitioned by his parents when he was a very, very young kid.

00:33:36.000 It's almost like comedic at this point.

00:33:38.000 I've been watching these videos over and over again.

00:33:41.000 It's just not for these people to define me and tell me who I am.

00:33:46.000 I define myself.

00:33:47.000 I know who I am and just shut up and let me be.

00:33:50.000 Let our community be.

00:33:52.000 Let us thrive, you know?

00:33:53.000 Why do you have to bring us down?

00:33:55.000 Why do you care so much? 1.00

00:33:56.000 It's just so annoying and so stupid. 1.00

00:34:00.000 They don't know my life and my personal business and I'm here saying right now that I have no regrets when it comes to my transition. 0.99

00:34:07.000 I am proud to be me.

00:34:08.000 So for people to jump to that conclusion that I regret my transition, it's just not true.

00:34:15.000 And me saying that right here, right now, should be enough.

00:34:18.000 Why are you talking about me when I'm on TV making the case that young, very young people should be transitioned?

00:34:23.000 That would be the reason why.

00:34:24.000 You're a public figure.

00:34:26.000 You make a claim, which is boys can become girls.

00:34:29.000 I deny that claim because it's not true.

00:34:31.000 You know, as far as your own personal happiness and your own personal mental state, you are the person putting that on television.

00:34:36.000 I played clips from your show on my show and I talked about the clips of you obviously being in a dire emotional state.

00:34:45.000 You put that out.

00:34:46.000 I did not put that out.

00:34:47.000 It was not a secret.

00:34:47.000 It was on national television.

00:34:49.000 To point out that the lie that it's all rainbows and unicorns once you take hormones and surgically mutilate your body, to point that out does not make me the villain.

00:34:59.000 The villain Was the people who as adults decided that a small child was capable of picking his gender.

00:35:07.000 Those are the villains in this story.

00:35:08.000 But again, we're supposed to pretend that everything is hunky-dory.

00:35:11.000 We're supposed to ignore the horror stories.

00:35:13.000 We're supposed to pretend that none of this has any impact on real life.

00:35:17.000 It obviously does have some very significant impact on real life.

00:35:21.000 In terms of the broader cultural debate, it turns out that a lot of Americans are not fond of having the message that boys can be girls and girls can be boys crammed down upon them.

00:35:29.000 Bud Light has taken it directly on the chin in market terms.

00:35:33.000 Bud Light has now suffered a 17% sales plunge amid the Dylan Mulvaney botch-up, according to the New York Post.

00:35:41.000 The latest sales data from Nielsen IQ and Bump Williams Consulting shows Bud Light sales fell 17% in dollars, while volume dropped a whopping 21% in the week ending April 15th.

00:35:50.000 That's sharply ahead of the 6% drop in sales dollars and 11% drop in volume that Bud Light had suffered during the week ending April 8th, the seven days that immediately followed the April 1st launch of the controversial Mulvaney campaign on social media.

00:36:02.000 Insights Express, a beer-focused newsletter, said, These numbers are staggering.

00:36:05.000 Right now, this is an extremely difficult scenario for Anheuser-Busch, the Bud Light brand, and for AB distributors.

00:36:11.000 So the question is going to be, who else is going to stand up and say enough of this nonsense?

00:36:15.000 The real big question is going to be for women here. 1.00

00:36:17.000 The reason that that question is going to be for women is because the vast majority of brands who've actually used Dylan Mulvaney as a brand influencer are female-oriented.

00:36:25.000 You want to talk about men who are standing up for women?

00:36:29.000 How about men who say, no, you don't get to womanface. 0.94

00:36:31.000 You don't get to pretend to be a woman and mock women in the process and then earn millions of dollars doing it.

00:36:36.000 That's not something that we as men are going to stand for.

00:36:39.000 But women are going to have to do the same thing. 1.00

00:36:41.000 Men can't do all the heavy lifting here, ladies. 1.00

00:36:43.000 You're going to have to stand up.

00:36:44.000 There are many women who do, like JK Rowling. 0.76

00:36:46.000 Many women are going to have to stand up and say, no, you don't get to pretend to be a woman and make money off of us at the same time. 1.00

00:36:53.000 Currently, Dylan Mulvaney's list of sponsorships includes... Dylan Mulvaney's full list includes Ulta Beauty, MAC, CeraVe, Kate Spade, Instacart, Nike... I mean, this is a large list.

00:37:08.000 A very, very long list.

00:37:10.000 Maybelline.

00:37:11.000 Maybe it's Maybelline.

00:37:13.000 And maybe that's a dude.

00:37:15.000 Like, this is... It's...

00:37:19.000 Ladies, it's up to you. 0.99

00:37:21.000 I can't decide which makeup you buy, but you can decide which makeup you buy.

00:37:23.000 I don't buy makeup.

00:37:24.000 I'm a dude.

00:37:25.000 In fact, even for the show, I don't buy the makeup.

00:37:28.000 Fabby buys the makeup to make sure that everybody looks good on camera.

00:37:32.000 Okay, but the reality is that people buying makeup should take a look at their pro- And women should have most of the stake in this.

00:37:39.000 Why are men the ones who are leading the way?

00:37:40.000 Why only when it hits Bud Light is there a sponsored blowback?

00:37:43.000 Women should be the one who are offended by this nonsense. 1.00

00:37:45.000 This is a man pretending to be one of you and saying that men should be able to go into the women's bathroom and compete against women.

00:37:50.000 Women need to stand up at a certain point here. 1.00

00:37:53.000 Meanwhile, the Hollywoodites continue to do their worst.

00:37:55.000 So Kevin Bacon is now speaking out against drag bands, which is very exciting stuff. 1.00

00:37:59.000 He and Kaira Sedgwick are dancing for the drag queens. 0.89

00:38:04.000 Oh no.

00:38:05.000 This is not good.

00:38:11.000 Oh no.

00:38:14.000 They're wearing shirts that say drag is an art and drag is a right.

00:38:19.000 It is neither.

00:38:21.000 Also, that is seven degrees of awkwardness right there from Kevin Bacon.

00:38:27.000 Okay, meanwhile, the left continues to celebrate, in the media world, the ouster of Tucker Carlson from Fox News.

00:38:34.000 And one of the worst things about Tucker's ouster from Fox News is, of course, the left's reaction, which is triumphalist.

00:38:38.000 We finally did it!

00:38:39.000 We finally achieved victory!

00:38:41.000 Fox News will continue to exist, it will continue to not agree with you.

00:38:44.000 Tucker will continue to exist, you will continue to be successful, but It is amazing to watch as government actors call openly for deplatforming and censorship.

00:38:51.000 And so long as they are on the left, it is totally fine. 0.98

00:38:53.000 Here was Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, so fresh, so phased, irrepressibly stupid, talking about how Tucker being gone is a good thing. 0.98

00:39:01.000 It shows that deplatforming is a wonderful thing. 0.99

00:39:03.000 Yeah, it is.

00:39:04.000 It must be a wonderful thing to be an elected official who can say anything that she wants on the floor of the House without any fear of legal blowback. 1.00

00:39:10.000 It must be fun to be her and never actually have to earn a buck. 1.00

00:39:15.000 Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News.

00:39:16.000 Couldn't have happened to a better guy.

00:39:18.000 goes to the Met Gala. Never have to do any of those things.

00:39:20.000 It must be just a pleasure.

00:39:22.000 Or at least you only pay it much, much later. It must be great. While you call for the platforming

00:39:26.000 of other people, you know, as a government employee.

00:39:30.000 Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News. Couldn't have happened to a better guy. What I will

00:39:41.000 say though, is while I'm very glad that the person that was arguably responsible for the

00:39:50.000 some of the largest driving some of the most amounts of death threats and violent threats,

00:39:56.000 not just to my office, but to plenty of people across the country. I also kind of feel like

00:40:02.000 I'm like waiting for the cut scene at the end of a Marvel movie after all the credits

00:40:07.000 of rolled and then you see like the villains like hand Re-emerge out to grip over like the end of a building or something.

00:40:18.000 But, de-platforming works.

00:40:22.000 So, it's always fun to watch as members of Congress call for deplatforming.

00:40:26.000 They literally work for a body about whom there is a federal constitutional provision saying that Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech.

00:40:32.000 So, remember, it's a threat to democracy when Trump criticizes the press.

00:40:35.000 When AOC says that people should be deplatformed and censorship should be applied to people she doesn't like, that's totally fine.

00:40:41.000 She's incredibly fresh and incredibly face.

00:40:43.000 So fresh and so face that she makes Marvel movie references because she has the IQ of a kumquat. 1.00

00:40:47.000 I mean, honestly, get a better set of references.

00:40:51.000 She wasn't the only celebrity who's celebrating Tucker's ouster, of course.

00:40:55.000 Seth Meyers was out there joking about it.

00:40:57.000 Now, Seth Meyers, it's amazing to me he's never been cancelled, considering that he has fewer viewers than a normal toenail clipping on a street corner in Los Angeles.

00:41:06.000 But here is Seth Meyers.

00:41:07.000 This is the first time anyone's actually seen this, so I'm excited to bring you a person named Seth Meyers telling a joke.

00:41:12.000 This will be the first time you've ever heard of him or have seen any of his jokes.

00:41:16.000 Fox News announcing in the last hour, Tucker Carlson is out.

00:41:20.000 Effective immediately.

00:41:21.000 Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News?

00:41:23.000 Oh my God!

00:41:24.000 Does this mean Fox News has gone...

00:41:26.000 Woke?

00:41:27.000 He's so funny, guys.

00:41:34.000 Dude, that guy is hilarious.

00:41:35.000 I went through all the stages of Tucker's face in one sitting.

00:41:39.000 First I was shocked.

00:41:42.000 Then I was confused.

00:41:45.000 Then I did the Tucker laugh.

00:41:49.000 He is so funny.

00:41:49.000 That's actually closer than you think.

00:41:54.000 Okay, that's fine.

00:41:56.000 Then I had so many questions.

00:41:57.000 What are we going to do without Tucker? 0.97

00:41:59.000 Who else is going to tell us when M&M's aren't sh** anymore, you know? 0.95

00:42:03.000 You know what would be really funny though? 0.93

00:42:05.000 If they replaced him at 8pm with the new green M&M, that would be pretty funny.

00:42:09.000 Who wrote these jokes?

00:42:10.000 The only thing that was funny about that is Tucker actually laughing.

00:42:13.000 That's the only thing funny about that entire clip.

00:42:14.000 By the way, I just want to point out that from 2016 to 2022, Seth Meyers' show went from 1.5

00:42:21.000 million viewers to 786,000 viewers. He is on a network, guys.

00:42:29.000 And here he is criticizing— I mean, what do you have to do to get cancelled at one of these networks?

00:42:33.000 That's the real question in all of this.

00:42:36.000 Watching these dolts celebrate Tucker's ouster, Tucker, wherever he goes, will certainly have better ratings than Seth Meyers in very, very short order.

00:42:43.000 We'll get to more in just a second.

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00:43:42.000 Meanwhile, we also have some updates with regard to Don Lemon's ousting.

00:43:46.000 So apparently, according to the New York Times, Don Lemon was fired at least in part because he finally ticked everyone off super a lot.

00:43:52.000 Not just because he was mistreating everybody, but also because he's really bad at his job.

00:43:56.000 So he did an interview with our friend Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for president.

00:44:00.000 Uh, he did this interview in which they got into America's racial history.

00:44:03.000 And it got very weird and ugly because Don Lemon basically said that Vivek isn't allowed to have an opinion because he's not black.

00:44:09.000 And meanwhile, Caitlin Collins was sitting there like, you know what?

00:44:11.000 I'm just going to browse my email.

00:44:12.000 Like, I'm just, I'm super bored with this.

00:44:14.000 It was not a good segment.

00:44:16.000 Say what you said again.

00:44:17.000 Black people secured their freedoms after the Civil War.

00:44:20.000 It is a historical fact, Don.

00:44:21.000 Just study it.

00:44:22.000 Only after their Second Amendment rights were secured.

00:44:24.000 That's a fact.

00:44:25.000 They were not secured their freedoms after the Civil War.

00:44:27.000 You are discounting Reconstruction. 0.83

00:44:30.000 You're discounting a whole host of things that happened after the Civil War when it comes to African Americans, including the whole reason that the Civil Rights Movement happened.

00:44:38.000 It's because black Black people did not secure their freedoms after the Civil War.

00:44:41.000 You are sitting here telling an African American about the rights and what you find insulting, about the way I live, the skin I live in every day. 0.90

00:44:49.000 Here's where you and I have a different point of view.

00:44:50.000 And I know the freedoms that black people don't have in this country, and that black people do have. 1.00

00:44:54.000 Well, here's where you and I have a different point of view.

00:44:56.000 I think we should be able to express our views regardless of the color of our skin.

00:44:59.000 We should have this debate, without me regarding you as a black man, but me regarding you as a fellow citizen.

00:45:04.000 That's what I think we should see.

00:45:05.000 Whatever ethnicity you are explaining to me, whatever it's like to be black in America, I'm sorry.

00:45:10.000 Whatever ethnicity I am, I'll tell you what I am.

00:45:12.000 I'm an Indian American, I'm proud of it, but I think we should have this debate.

00:45:15.000 Black, white, doesn't matter. 1.00

00:45:16.000 I think we should have this debate.

00:45:17.000 On the content of the ideas.

00:45:18.000 If you're going to do it, you should do it in an honest way.

00:45:20.000 According to the New York Times, quote, the incident left several CNN leaders exasperated.

00:45:24.000 The people said, yeah, no, no bleep, Sherlock.

00:45:27.000 I mean, yes, he's an exasperating human being, which is why he was ousted.

00:45:30.000 My favorite part of the media coverage of this is The View, which they did the wave when they found out, they literally did the wave on air when they found out that Tucker Carlson had lost his job. 0.95

00:45:39.000 They had to, even The View was like, we kind of have to admit that Don Lemon says dumb stuff sometimes. 0.68

00:45:43.000 I mean, we love him and he's the best, but also he says dumb stuff sometimes. 0.96

00:45:48.000 Don, yes, said some things that were sexist and I think ageist.

00:45:55.000 He apologized for them and received formal training.

00:45:59.000 And he spoke to us.

00:46:00.000 I know him too.

00:46:01.000 We all know him here.

00:46:03.000 Sarah stayed at his house one time.

00:46:05.000 He loves me.

00:46:07.000 And he loves her.

00:46:08.000 She needs to hear that over and over again.

00:46:11.000 But it's fine.

00:46:12.000 But, um, you know, he has been on the air for a long time fighting bigotry, whereas Tucker has been fomenting bigotry.

00:46:18.000 Oh my God.

00:46:19.000 Don Lemon's been fighting bigotry?

00:46:20.000 In what world, man? 0.99

00:46:21.000 And yes, he did some dumb things. 0.78

00:46:22.000 And apologize. 0.85

00:46:23.000 Tucker never apologizes to anybody.

00:46:24.000 But I only know him personally.

00:46:26.000 I don't know what he does when he's with his co-workers.

00:46:28.000 Well, I do, because I work with his co-worker.

00:46:30.000 Yeah.

00:46:31.000 They're all defending him at The View.

00:46:33.000 The one who, you know, actually was apparently mean to women and terrible to women, like, on the air.

00:46:38.000 And meanwhile, in other media news, Nate Silver is actually out at ABC News.

00:46:41.000 And Nate Silver, of course, is the founder of FiveThirtyEight, famous Dana analyst.

00:46:45.000 And apparently, he was let go.

00:46:48.000 FiveThirtyEight was retained as a brand, but basically gutted in the process.

00:46:52.000 What's amazing about this is that it wasn't as though this was a particularly expensive proposition.

00:46:57.000 So, things that I like today.

00:46:59.000 I was forwarded one of the great pieces I have ever read.

00:47:01.000 This is truly one of the great pieces I have ever read.

00:47:04.000 But they must be just looking for nickels and dimes to get their to make their way through this particular period.

00:47:09.000 Legacy Media is having itself a difficult time over here and for good reason.

00:47:13.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:47:15.000 So, things that I like today.

00:47:17.000 I was forwarded one of the great pieces I have ever read.

00:47:20.000 This is truly one of the great pieces I've ever read.

00:47:22.000 It is by a student named Carolina Araujo.

00:47:28.000 She's from a place called Kenyon College.

00:47:31.000 And I will admit that I was not really aware of Kenyon College until I actually, you know, read this piece.

00:47:36.000 It apparently is in Gambier, Ohio.

00:47:40.000 It is a private liberal arts college.

00:47:42.000 A four-year liberal arts college.

00:47:45.000 Carolina Araujo is very upset Here is the title of her piece, quote, What is an ESA?

00:48:00.000 An emotional support animal.

00:48:03.000 So Kenyon, the college, they failed to provide this person stable housing as a student of color with an emotional support animal.

00:48:12.000 Then proceeds a massively long, self-centered story about how this person demanded like eight types of housing and was accommodated every step of the way, but they didn't do enough because she is a person of color who has a cat.

00:48:23.000 I kid you not.

00:48:24.000 This is the generation that we have bred here in the United States.

00:48:27.000 Quote, for almost two months, I've been in communication with the Office of Residential Life, trying to figure out where I'm supposed to live.

00:48:33.000 Capel's residence hall is now the fourth residence I've been assigned to during my first year at Kenyon after transferring from Binghamton.

00:48:39.000 I switched schools because of the disrespect I received from Binghamton's residential life.

00:48:44.000 Oh, um, so, yeah, so Binghamton didn't actually give her the housing she wanted, so she instead went to Kenyon College.

00:48:52.000 More recently, I chose to be a member of Sisterhood because I am a non-binary Latinx person with an emotional support animal, attending a predominantly white institution.

00:49:00.000 At Sisterhood, I found a community in which femme-identifying people of color can unite. 0.95

00:49:04.000 Like many, my identity is multifaceted, intersectional, and vulnerable.

00:49:08.000 While searching for other safe spaces, I realized Unity House was not an option.

00:49:13.000 Sisterhood includes queer people, but there are additional spaces provided by the College for LGBTQ plus students, such as Unity House, but Unity feels exclusive because there are too many white LGBTQ plus people.

00:49:23.000 So, not there.

00:49:25.000 So, Sisterhood made it easier, but Sisterhood wasn't good enough.

00:49:30.000 Quote, my emotional support animal is one of the few therapeutic methods that have successfully supported my disability.

00:49:36.000 But when I moved into sisterhood housing after spring break, I wasn't allowed to remain with my cat due to someone in the house being allergic.

00:49:42.000 So, the campus immediately created a list of options to resolve the conflict.

00:49:45.000 The first option suggested I make my own arrangements to move my cat elsewhere for the remainder of the semester and keep living at the sisterhood.

00:49:52.000 But this was not acceptable.

00:49:54.000 So then, this woman was placed in Meadow Lane Housing despite my emotional support animal and physical disability.

00:50:02.000 And then apparently that wasn't good enough.

00:50:05.000 So they moved her again.

00:50:07.000 And then again.

00:50:09.000 And now she feels marginalized by continuously exercising their power to instantaneously remove students from residential halls.

00:50:16.000 Kenyan landlords signal that marginalized students do not have a right to a guaranteed comfortable space.

00:50:20.000 It feels as though the administration's primary concern is regulating and maintaining the college's reputation.

00:50:25.000 Any opposition to the administration, such as my refusal to move, is suppressed and belittled.

00:50:31.000 Advocating for yourself is perceived as rudely defiant.

00:50:33.000 Regardless of identity, all students deserve to feel safe.

00:50:36.000 So they kept accommodating this person, and it turns out when you accommodate the woke, they're not grateful.

00:50:40.000 They just laugh at you.

00:50:41.000 And then they continue to complain.

00:50:43.000 We have bred a generation of people who endlessly complain.

00:50:46.000 Forever and always.

00:50:48.000 No accommodations will be sufficient.

00:50:50.000 Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg is of course a very left-wing human being.

00:51:03.000 Has made an enormous number of phenomenal movies, of course.

00:51:05.000 One of those phenomenal movies is E.T.

00:51:07.000 Remember near the end of E.T., there is a scene in which the kids are riding their bikes, And they have E.T.

00:51:11.000 with them.

00:51:12.000 And right before the bikes take off for the sky, E.T.

00:51:15.000 makes all of them fly, lending credence to the theory that E.T.

00:51:18.000 is, in fact, a Jedi.

00:51:19.000 Right before that happens, there is a shot of the sheriffs, and they have guns.

00:51:25.000 They're holding shotguns.

00:51:27.000 Because sometime in the 2000s, it was deemed inappropriate for there to be guns in a kids movie.

00:51:32.000 They CGI'd out the guns from the scene. 1.00

00:51:35.000 Here is Steven Spielberg admitting, yeah, that was stupid. 0.96

00:51:38.000 I know at one point you took some guns out of E.T. 0.99

00:51:41.000 and then regretted it.

00:51:42.000 That was a mistake.

00:51:43.000 That was a mistake.

00:51:45.000 I never should have done that because E.T.

00:51:47.000 is a product of its era.

00:51:50.000 And it's not, no film should be revised based on the lenses we now are either voluntarily or being forced to peer through.

00:51:59.000 But E.T.

00:52:00.000 was a film that I was sensitive to the fact that the federal agents were approaching a bunch of kids with their firearms exposed.

00:52:09.000 And I thought I would change the guns into walkie-talkies. 0.99

00:52:13.000 And he admits now, this is a stupid idea. 1.00

00:52:14.000 Yes, correct. 0.99

00:52:16.000 So maybe all the artists should do this.

00:52:17.000 Maybe they should all stop at this garbage where they're like, what if we just revise all of the old art and then do malice struggle sessions where we pretend that we're real sorry for having a gun in E.T.

00:52:25.000 So good for Spielberg for coming around a lot late on this one. 0.85

00:52:28.000 Okay, time for some things I hate.

00:52:34.000 So it's a lot of fun to watch everybody who is super pro-vax mandate and pro-mask mandate and pro-forcing everybody to do what they like.

00:52:41.000 Forcing, not giving them the option, forcing them to do what they wanted.

00:52:43.000 It is fun to watch all those people now run screaming away from their own policies.

00:52:47.000 Justin Trudeau is leading the way.

00:52:48.000 So yesterday, Justin Trudeau, handsome Bernie Sanders of Canada, he said he didn't force people to vax in Canada.

00:52:54.000 Did you know that?

00:52:55.000 Remember that time when they literally My responsibility was to keep as many Canadians alive as possible.

00:53:00.000 who were protesting the vaccine mandates, remember that time?

00:53:02.000 He says it never happened. It was all in your imagination.

00:53:04.000 My responsibility was to keep as many Canadians alive as possible.

00:53:11.000 And all of the scientists and the medical experts and the researchers,

00:53:18.000 not just in Canada, but around the world, understood that vaccination was going to be

00:53:25.000 the way through this. And therefore, while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated, I chose

00:53:32.000 to make sure that all the incentives and all the protections were there to encourage Canadians to

00:53:39.000 get vaccinated.

00:53:41.000 And that's exactly what they did.

00:53:42.000 We got vaccinated to a higher level than just about any other of our peer countries.

00:53:46.000 And that's why we had a less deadly pandemic.

00:53:50.000 Oh, it's fun to see how we have now retitled government coercion into changing incentives.

00:53:56.000 That's like saying that we're not forcing anyone not to shoplift.

00:54:00.000 We're just saying if you do, you're going to go to jail.

00:54:02.000 That's the whole point.

00:54:03.000 If you're trying to get people to vax, you provide government incentives that force them to do so. 0.60

00:54:08.000 Here was this dolt back in 2022 pushing the vax mandates.

00:54:13.000 This government has been focused every step of the way on following the best science, following the best public health advice to keep as many people safe as possible. 0.94

00:54:23.000 And quite frankly, it's worked.

00:54:24.000 We've seen the curves lower in Canada than elsewhere.

00:54:28.000 We've seen lower death rates.

00:54:29.000 We've seen quicker economic recovery because Canadians stepped up, because Canadians got vaccinated.

00:54:37.000 I can understand frustrations with mandates, but mandates are the way to avoid further restrictions or having to be restricted.

00:54:45.000 As people get vaccinated, as Canadians have gotten vaccinated, we've been able to get through things.

00:54:50.000 And this team is going to stay focused on doing exactly that. 0.99

00:54:53.000 That is an irritating dullard. 1.00

00:54:55.000 So he's just a liar now. 1.00

00:54:56.000 So they're all going to lie about this sort of stuff.

00:54:59.000 By the way, you know who else is saying this sort of stuff now?

00:55:00.000 Anthony Fauci.

00:55:02.000 So he has a full interview in the New York Times, in which he's now admitting something clearly went wrong.

00:55:06.000 What went wrong?

00:55:07.000 All of you!

00:55:08.000 You people!

00:55:09.000 It is your fault that things went wrong.

00:55:12.000 So he did a series of interviews with David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times, and he said a lot of stuff.

00:55:20.000 He suggested that the United States was uniquely bad with regard to COVID, which, again, not a lot of evidence to support that.

00:55:29.000 But he says, How did this happen?

00:55:32.000 The divisiveness was palpable, just in trying to get a coherent message across of following fundamental public health principles.

00:55:37.000 I understand there will always be differences of opinion among people saying, well, what's the cost-benefit balance of restriction or of masks?

00:55:43.000 When you have fundamental arguments about things like whether to get vaccinated or not, that is extraordinary.

00:55:47.000 Well, maybe the fundamental argument was about whether to force people to vax and whether the vax was equally effective for everyone, and whether you were lying about the transmissibility of the virus post-vaccination, and whether you were lying about whether children actually had sufficient data to vax.

00:55:58.000 Maybe that was the controversy.

00:56:01.000 And then he continued, and he admitted something kind of strange.

00:56:05.000 So after putting enormous focus on the masks, right, he acknowledged, so David Walswell said, quote, I'm not someone who doesn't think masks work.

00:56:15.000 I think the science and data show they do work, but they aren't perfect.

00:56:17.000 At the population level, the effect can be somewhat small.

00:56:19.000 And what was probably our best study from Bangladesh in places where mask use tripled, positive tests were reduced by less than 10%.

00:56:25.000 Fauci said, it's a good point in general, but I disagree with your premise a bit.

00:56:28.000 From a broad public health standpoint, at the population level, masks work at the margin.

00:56:32.000 Maybe 10%.

00:56:33.000 But for an individual who religiously wears a mask, a well-fitted KN95 or N95 is not at the margin.

00:56:38.000 It really does work.

00:56:42.000 Wait, so you pushed mask mandates across the country, Dr. Fauci, and you admit that on a population level, they didn't work.

00:56:48.000 And your excuse is, well, if you wore a really tightly fitted KN95 or N95, it did.

00:56:52.000 That's not the argument you were making.

00:56:55.000 You weren't making the argument everyone should be sent a KN95 or N95 by the government and then you could choose whether or not to wear the mask.

00:57:01.000 You were saying everyone should be forced to do this sort of stuff.

00:57:05.000 It is incredible. 0.71

00:57:08.000 Really, the article with Fauci is just a perfect example of a person who is now covering his ass and pretending he did nothing wrong when, again, the mistakes were myriad across the course of the pandemic.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 26, 2023

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