China flies a spy balloon over American soil, and the Biden administration does nothing. Anti-Semitic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar loses her Foreign Affairs Committee spot as a result of her caterwaul, and 86 Democrats vote against condemning the horrors of socialism. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, and it's hosted by Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Hollywood Reporter, and he is a regular contributor on CNN and CBS Radio. His new book, "The Dark Side of: How They Live," is out now, and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Click here to buy a copy of the book for $99.99, including shipping, handling, and handling fees. The book is also available for free on Audible, iTunes, and Podcoin, if you search for "China's Spy Balloon" and click here to get a free copy of "The White House's Guide to the Most Powerful Spy Balloon in the U.S." It will be available for purchase on Amazon starting on October 1st, 2019. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podcasting friends! Timestamps: 0:00 - What does China do with their spy balloon? 6:30 - What are they trying to do with it? 7:40 - Why should we shoot it out of the sky? 8:00 9:30 What is China's response? 11:40 Does it matter? 12:00 Is it safe? 13:00 What is it a good thing? 15:00 Does China have a problem? 16:00 Can they have it fly over America have a better chance of a better than that? 17:00 Do they have a shot at us now? 14:30 Is it better than us have it at us than we can be better than it s better than this than that than we should be a better or not? 21:00 And so on and so on? 22:00 Finally, finally, and so forth... And so much more...and so on...and finally, in the rest of it...and more! And finally, ...and so much ... This is the episode Thank you for listening to the ben Shapiro Show! - Ben Shapiro's work?
00:00:30.000It looks as though the Wizard of Oz is going to descend in this balloon or as the balloon boy may be found in this balloon.
00:00:36.000Went through a wormhole in the past somehow emerged here, but actually it is a Chinese spy satellite.
00:00:41.000Apparently, according to NBC News, U.S.
00:00:43.000military has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern United States for the past few days, and military and defense leaders have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to U.S.
00:00:52.000officials and a senior defense official.
00:00:54.000Pentagon spokesperson, Brigadier General Pat Ryder told NBC News, The United States government has detected and is tracking a high altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now. We continue to track and monitor it closely.
00:01:06.000Once the balloon was detected, the U.S. government acted immediately to protect against collection of sensitive information. Apparently, the high altitude balloon was spotted over Billings, Montana on Wednesday at It flew over the Aleutian Islands, through Canada and into Montana as well.
00:01:19.000This apparently is not the only spy balloon that China has sent out there.
00:01:23.000Apparently now the Canadians are suggesting that there may be a second spy balloon that was flying over Canada.
00:01:29.000And apparently the new rule is that China gets to do pretty much whatever it wants in this space and we will do nothing.
00:01:35.000Now, there are a bunch of unanswered questions here.
00:01:38.000Unanswered question number one, why are you flying a spy balloon?
00:03:27.000I don't understand what exactly the rationale would be for both the United States and Canada allowing China to do this sort of thing.
00:03:34.000In a brief statement late on Thursday, the Canadian Department of National Defense said a high-altitude surveillance balloon had been detected and was being actively tracked by a North American Aerospace Defense Command, a U.S.-Canadian military organization, and didn't provide any details about that balloon or say whether it was the same balloon that was detected inside the United States.
00:04:15.000We should be shooting those things down, just as a sign to everybody else that you don't get to do this sort of thing over American soil.
00:04:20.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration, which had nothing to say about any of this yesterday, they did have certain things to say about, for example, the use of Russian anthems in international events.
00:04:30.000I gotta say, I feel like your priorities are a little misplaced, guys.
00:04:33.000Chinese balloon surveilling America's nuclear sites in Montana.
00:04:38.000International organizations having athletes play their national anthem very bad.
00:04:43.000Here's Karine Jean-Pierre trying to make this case yesterday.
00:04:46.000In cases where sports organizations and event organizers, such as the International Olympic Committee, choose to permit athletes from Russia and Belarus to participate in supporting events, it should be absolutely clear that they are not representing the Russian or Belarusian states.
00:05:04.000And so that's the stance that we are providing, and the use of official state Russian-Belarusian flags, emblems, and anthems should be prohibited as well.
00:05:15.000OK, so the use of Russian anthems in international sporting competition.
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00:06:58.000Okay, so meanwhile, the other big story of the day, another big story yesterday, was that Ilhan Omar was booted off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And apparently, this is the worst act of legislative usurpation in American history.
00:07:12.000I mean, if you're judged by the Democratic reaction to the thing that they actually did to Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene last time around, if you do it to Ilhan Omar, it's super bad.
00:08:06.000That is evident from all of her record, which we'll go through in a moment.
00:08:09.000Because remember, this is the person that Democrats are defending.
00:08:11.000They're trying to pretend that this is about Ilhan Omar's race or her religion, which really is amazing because what they're effectively suggesting is that intersectionality is a cover for hating Jews.
00:08:20.000That if you're a woman of color who is Muslim and comes from a foreign country, you can hate Jews as much as you damn well please.
00:08:26.000And we will defend you because the only thing that matters about you is those intersectional characteristics that make you a victim rather than a victimizer.
00:08:33.000But Ilhan Omar's record of being Very untethered toward the Jews is widely available.
00:08:41.000And so if Republicans come into office and they're like, OK, you guys booted our people off committees.
00:08:45.000Now we're going to find the worst of you and we're going to boot you off committees from Adam Schiff being booted off Intel to Eric Swalwell, who was being honeypotted by a Chinese spy.
00:08:53.000We'll kick them off Intel and we'll kick Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:08:57.000Democrats starting to scream about this right now really have no leg to stand on.
00:09:01.000So to understand just how small a leg they have to stand on, we need to go through exactly what Ilhan Omar has said about the jurors.
00:09:33.000That was in the middle of Hamas firing rockets into Israel.
00:09:37.000But Israel, the Jews, the Jews, they hypnotized the world.
00:09:40.000Fast forward to 2016, and you'll recall that Ilhan Omar actually asked a judge for compassion for ISIS recruits.
00:09:50.000So there are people in her community who had been recruited to ISIS, and she sent letters to the judge encouraging leniency for the people who had been recruited to ISIS.
00:10:01.000And the reason, supposedly, that there should have been some sort of mercy for these people is because they, in fact, are victims.
00:10:15.000The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion.
00:10:18.000We must alter our attitude and approach.
00:10:19.000If we truly want to affect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation.
00:10:24.000The desire to commit violence is not inherent to people.
00:10:26.000It is the consequences of systemic alienation.
00:10:28.000People seek violent solutions when the process established for enacting change is inaccessible to them.
00:10:33.000Fueled by disaffection turned to malice, if the guilty were willing to kill and be killed fighting perceived injustice, imagine the consequence of them hearing, I believe you can be rehabilitated.
00:10:41.000I want you to become part of my community.
00:11:00.000Again, this is part and parcel of her anti-American view, which is that American foreign policy is egregious and evil and wrong.
00:11:05.000It's a very Noam Chomsky view of the world.
00:11:07.000And therefore, everybody who hates the United States and tries to join a terrorist group is actually, they may be doing something wrong, but they are a victim of American foreign policy.
00:11:14.000And we have to have sympathy for them.
00:11:16.000Then in 2019, March of 2019, she had a spate of wonderful tweets in 2019.
00:11:22.000So she was tweeting against Nita Lowey.
00:11:27.000Nita Lowey, by the way, was a Democrat.
00:11:33.000Anita Lowey had tweeted that she didn't like that Ilhan Omar was mischaracterizing support for Israel as somehow dual loyalty.
00:11:42.000And she then tweeted out, quote, Our democracy is built on debate, Congresswoman.
00:11:45.000I should not be expected to have allegiance or pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on a committee.
00:11:52.000So no one expects Ilhan Omar to declare support for A foreign country like allegiance to Israel in order to serve on a committee.
00:12:01.000If you want to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee, I mean, obviously, in the past, the Democrats could appoint you to that.
00:12:06.000But if you want to make a moral case, you should serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:12:08.000It seems like a baseline thing that you probably should not sympathize with the terrorists who are trying to destroy a democratic ally of the United States.
00:12:13.000That's a very different thing from declaring that you are somehow.
00:12:18.000Allegiant to the state of Israel, which, of course, another anti-Semitic trope is the only reason why people would support Israel is because Israel bought them off or they have dual loyalty.
00:12:26.000This, of course, followed hard on another tweet from hers, the famous All About the Benjamins tweet, in October of 2019.
00:12:34.000So Kevin McCarthy in 2019, he'd threatened punishment for Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib over their criticisms of Israel, according to Glenn Greenwald, right?
00:12:40.000Glenn Greenwald is very left-wing when it comes to Israel.
00:12:42.000And Ilhan Omar said, it's all about the Benjamins.
00:12:46.000It's the Jews who bought off Kevin McCarthy and the rest of the Republican Party.
00:12:52.000And remember, her hatred of the Jews in Israel is not confined to that.
00:12:57.000She also believes that America is really bad.
00:13:01.000By the way, she compared BDS, Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, from Israel, which is a State Department-defined act of anti-Semitism, right?
00:13:06.000The idea that Israel should be cut off from the world economy because they are the Jewish state.
00:13:11.000Here she was suggesting that BDS is basically supporting the Tea Party in the United States.
00:13:17.000We must support efforts to end the occupation and achieve a two-state solution.
00:13:24.000We should condemn in the strongest terms violence that perpetuates the occupation, whether it is perpetuated by Israel, Hamas or individuals.
00:13:34.000But if we are going to condemn violent means of resisting the occupation, we cannot also condemn non-violent means.
00:13:42.000This week I introduced a resolution We're civil rights leader, our colleague, John Lewis and Rashida Tlaib.
00:13:52.000Who know the importance of non-violence movements.
00:13:56.000It recognizes the proud history of boycott movements in this country dating back to the Boston Tea Party.
00:14:02.000Yeah, but boycotting a Democratic ally of the United States is basically the same thing as the Boston Tea Party according to Ilhan Omar.
00:14:08.000This of course was the same year that she declared that Israel was very much akin to the Nazis.
00:14:34.000We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the US, Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan and the Taliban.
00:14:41.000Well, I mean, I wish that for Ilhan Omar they were because she seems to have significantly more sympathy for Hamas than she does for Israel.
00:14:59.000And she seems to have significantly more sympathy for particular regimes in the Middle East than she does for the United States when it comes to their human rights records.
00:15:06.000And she has a lot to say about the United States' human rights record and virtually nothing to say.
00:15:10.000about particular countries in the Middle East.
00:15:12.000And again, this is Samuel Haen Omar, who downplayed 9-11 very famously.
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00:17:13.000The Democrats refused a resolution to specifically condemn Ilhan Omar's antisemitism back in 2019.
00:17:18.000Instead, they decided to pass a resolution condemning all hate.
00:17:21.000This is all part of the Democratic rubric of Islamophobia is the same thing as antisemitism, is the same thing as racism, and so we can ignore antisemitism.
00:17:29.000Back in 2019, Nancy Pelosi, in one of the most, I think, kind of degrading statements ever made in Congress, she suggested that the real problem here is that Ilhan Omar just doesn't understand how words work.
00:17:41.000You want to talk about the soft bigotry of law expectations.
00:17:43.000If I suggested that a woman of color who is Muslim just doesn't understand how the English language works, that would be considered rather bigoted.
00:17:50.000Nancy Pelosi said it at the time, and this was a defense.
00:17:53.000The incident that happened was, I don't think our colleague is anti-Semitic.
00:17:59.000I think she Has a different experience in the use of words, doesn't understand that some of them are fraught with meaning that she didn't realize.
00:18:08.000Didn't realize didn't different experience in the use of words.
00:18:10.000Then it was like a couple weeks later, she said more anti-Semitic stuff.
00:18:13.000Adam Schiff, back in February of 2019, he put out a statement saying, quote, I was deeply dismayed to see Representative Omar's comments on Twitter yesterday in which he echoed longstanding anti-Semitic tropes about Jews obtaining influence through money.
00:18:23.000By the way, the way that this usually works is that an anti-Semitic trope is when a left winger says something anti-Semitic.
00:18:31.000If a right-winger says it, then it's just anti-Semitism.
00:18:33.000If a left-winger says it, it's a trope.
00:18:34.000Anti-Semitism has no place in the halls of Congress or civil society, said Adam Schiff back in 2019.
00:18:39.000Now he's appearing on national television next to Ilhan Omar and looking awkward while she explains that she just doesn't understand words.
00:18:47.000You'll remember that Ilhan Omar was actually condemned by members of her own party.
00:18:53.000Well now, of course, she's been kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:18:57.000It is hilarious how transparent the Democrats are.
00:18:58.000So the Democrats put out a resolution this week.
00:19:02.000It was a resolution, quote, They did it this week because they wanted Ilhan Omar to sign it.
00:19:10.000So Ilhan Omar signed it so that she can now claim that she's not anti-Israel.
00:19:20.000Okay, so the reaction by the Democrats to Ilhan Omar being kicked off of Foreign Affairs is so telling.
00:19:25.000Instead of the Democrats basically saying, okay, we understand what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
00:19:31.000We should be able to pick our own members and that was a mistake.
00:19:34.000They can't do that because they're the ones who started this fight.
00:19:37.000Instead of doing that, they are now claiming, of course, that the American people are being deserved by not having a person who hates America's foreign policy and place in the world, a person who despises America's ally Israel, and a person who hates Jews.
00:19:49.000Instead of, you know, suggesting any reason why this person might want to change their viewpoint, instead it's a disservice to the American people not to have this person on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to the world's worst press secretary, Corinne Jean-Pierre.
00:20:02.000She has apologized for her comments she made in the past.
00:20:05.000I think she most recently did an extensive interview about this on Sunday, I believe on CNN, and has been vocal about condemning anti-Semitism as well as affirming our strong alliance and important partnership with Israel.
00:20:20.000Look, the way that we see this, it's a political stunt, much like House Republicans' unjust removal of other leading Democrats from key committees in recent weeks, and it is a disservice to the American people.
00:24:26.000The most dramatic, it was kind of an audition, I guess, for a part, for a lot of the Democrats who were getting up and defending Ilhan Omar yesterday.
00:24:34.000They're auditioning for, they're all theater kids, so they're all auditioning for a part in Annie or something.
00:24:40.000And that meant the star theater kid, of all theater kids, you know, a woman who holds her hands behind her back to suggest that she's being arrested and detained.
00:24:48.000A woman who goes to an empty parking lot and then Looks into a camera wearing an all-white outfit and weeps.
00:24:58.000If you watch this clip with the sound off, it appears as though she is performing either Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory I want the world.
00:25:19.000OK, so here is AOC, theater kid, dancing, jumping up and down, slamming her notepad on the podium because her friend Ilhan Omar will still be serving in Congress, but will not have access to as much classified information on the Foreign Affairs Committee because she's a terrible person.
00:25:34.000And in the background, you'll see Cori Bush.
00:25:38.000By the way, this would also be deemed, if this were a white Republican congressperson doing this, this would be deemed cultural appropriation.
00:25:44.000There's no question about it, given the stylistic choices that AOC is making during the speech.
00:25:48.000Here is AOC, theater child, getting ready to perform her greatest number yet.
00:25:54.000I think one of the things that we should talk about here is also one of the disgusting legacies after 9-11 has been the targeting and racism against Muslim Americans throughout the United States of America.
00:26:05.000And this is an extension of that legacy.
00:26:48.000The part unfortunately went to Cori Bush, but AOC is She's amazing.
00:26:55.000She's slamming her... I've never seen AOC quite so animated over anything except for defending her friend, the rabid anti-Semite.
00:27:01.000She makes a habit of defending rabid anti-Semites quite a lot, doesn't she?
00:27:05.000From Jeremy Corbyn to Ilhan Omar to Rashida Tlaib.
00:27:08.000If we can judge you to a certain extent by the friends you keep, if all of your friends have a particular ilk, it does suggest something about maybe your own feelings on a particular subject.
00:27:18.000So Cori Bush, the BLM congresswoman from Missouri, I call her a BLM congresswoman because that's literally how she became a congressperson.
00:27:25.000She was a lead activist in the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:27:28.000She also suggests that this is all about Ilhan Omar being a black woman of Somali origin who is a Muslim.
00:27:35.000And again, the rule here is that you get, as long as you are all those things, you can basically just hate on the Jews, which is convenient.
00:27:43.000Republicans are waging a blatantly Islamophobic and racist attack on Congresswoman Omar.
00:27:50.000And I've said it before, I will say it again.
00:27:53.000The white supremacy happening is unbelievable.
00:28:24.000Maybe the reason you haven't heard of that Muslim congressperson is because he doesn't spend all day, every day being an anti-Semitic jackass.
00:29:29.000Okay, what I love about this particular argument, and it's an argument you're going to hear in a second made by Hakeem Jeffries, which is that why are the Republicans using turnabout as fair play?
00:29:36.000If they really opposed anti-Semitism, wouldn't they keep MTG off of the committees?
00:29:40.000So first of all, MTG said a dumb thing about Jewish space lasers.
00:29:43.000She hasn't made it like the defining characteristic of her career to hate Jews.
00:29:48.000When she went to an event like a moron with Nick Fuentes, she immediately denounced Nick Fuentes and moved away from it.
00:29:53.000She hasn't been anti-Israel rabid Anti-Semite her entire career.
00:29:57.000That's been Ilhan Omar's defining characteristic in politics.
00:30:01.000Hey, so that is not a justification for MTG's comments.
00:30:04.000Also, it is worth noting here that the Democrats were like, it's a double standard.
00:30:32.000And because you actually agree with those things?
00:30:33.000And it was a convenient bugbear for you?
00:30:36.000It was a convenient club for you to hit Republicans and try to suggest that anti-Semitism was exclusive to the Republican Party while the biggest anti-Semite in Congress, the two biggest, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, sit in your caucus?
00:30:47.000Here's Hakeem Jeffries trying to do this routine.
00:33:01.000She's going to be there annoying everyone for quite a while, it appears.
00:33:05.000We'll get to more of that in just one second plus Democrats rejecting a resolution to condemn like the worst excesses of socialism up to and including mass murder.
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00:37:50.000They put out a statement today, quote, Parliamentary tyranny in America to boycott the voice of the critical female representative.
00:37:57.000The dismissal of Ilhan Omar, a black Muslim critic of Israel's apartheid regime from the Congress Foreign Relations Committee, is an indicator of the practical commitment of the American regime to the slogan of women, life, freedom, a slogan for interfering in Iran's internal affairs.
00:38:19.000Speaking of Democrats showing their true colors.
00:38:21.000So yesterday in a rather clever piece of legislation, Representative Maria Salazar from Florida, she announced a resolution announcing the horrors of socialism.
00:38:32.000This resolution says the following quote, whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has time and time again collapsed into communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships.
00:38:42.000Whereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murder and the killing of over 100 million people worldwide. Whereas many of the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist ideologues including Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolas Maduro.
00:38:58.000Whereas tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution.
00:39:00.000Whereas between 15 million and 55 million people starved to death in the wake of famine and devastation launched by the Great Leap Forward in China.
00:39:08.000Whereas the socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the killing field, etc.
00:39:10.000And it just goes on and on about all the evils of socialism.
00:39:14.000And then it concludes, resolved, the Congress denounces socialism in all its forms and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States.
00:39:23.000And this thing did pass with 328 votes.
00:39:56.000The goal of this phony, fake, and fraudulent resolution It's just to somehow provide cover for extreme MAGA Republicans to try to undermine an agenda that is designed to lift up the health, safety, and well-being of the American people.
00:40:20.000It's clever stuff because, and one of the reasons why Democrats did poorly in the last couple of election cycles is because Democrats kept saying the word progressive.
00:40:29.000My understanding is when translated is involved with socialism, essentially.
00:40:34.000And so when those ads ran in Spanish in places like Florida, a lot of people who are expatriates from socialistic, communistic countries are like, no, don't want any part of that.
00:41:21.000Fire departments are non-rivalrous and non-excludable.
00:41:25.000Social Security, Medicare, they're supposed to be you pay in, you get out, right?
00:41:27.000That is the basic idea of these things.
00:41:31.000But, you know, again, lumping that stuff in with socialism, you guys are the ones doing that, which is why you're condemning the resolution.
00:41:36.000You could just say, we condemn socialism, also we're in favor of Medicare.
00:41:39.000It's not that hard, which is why many Democrats voted in favor of this thing, but it shows you where their heads are at.
00:41:45.000This very often, by the way, is how Democrats are doing policy these days.
00:41:48.000And the way that Democrats seem to be doing policies is that they propose a bunch of policy, and then the minute that the consequences of the policy become clear, they run screaming from it.
00:41:56.000So, to take another example, Democrats keep talking about reforming the police, right?
00:42:05.000If they talk about reforming the police, Republicans might actually take them up on it and then propose legislation they don't actually like.
00:42:11.000So, one of the lead headlines at Politico last night was, quote, Dems fret policing talks will be tangled with Tim Scott's presidential hopes.
00:42:18.000They care so much about you that they need to reform the police, but if that helps Tim Scott, man, they are out.
00:42:25.000According to Politico, Democrats are signaling they're willing to work with Republicans on a new policing bill after the death of Tyree Nichols.
00:42:30.000Who their GOP partners might be is a trickier question.
00:42:33.000Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, his party's past lead policing negotiator, is now a possible presidential contender in 2024, adding new potential political risk to an issue already riddled with pitfalls.
00:42:42.000Wait, I thought that they wanted solutions.
00:42:43.000I thought they wanted to work across the aisle.
00:42:44.000I thought it shouldn't matter who you're negotiating with so long as the deal that gets done is good.
00:42:48.000Or maybe you're political hacked and everything is an opportunity for political benefit for you.
00:42:53.000Democrats are still eyeing Scott as a partner, indicating they might be open to amending a sweeping enforcement bill named after George Floyd, but they're wary of the effect Scott's aspirations will have on cross-party talks.
00:43:04.000So, they are not inviting Scott to take part in the negotiations.
00:43:07.000They are very much afraid that Tim Scott might actually be able to benefit from those negotiations, and so I guess they're going to put forward a worse bill.
00:43:14.000Slow clap once again for the altruistic, forward-thinking Democrats.
00:43:19.000Okay, meanwhile, the Democrats have some good news on the economy and some bad news on the economy.
00:43:23.000The good news on the economy is the jobs report came in super hot.
00:43:27.000According to the Labor Department, the employment picture started off 2023 on a stunningly strong note, with nonfarm payrolls posting their strongest gains since July of 2022.
00:43:35.000Nonfarm payrolls increased by 517,000 for January.
00:43:39.000That's above the Dow Jones estimate of 187,000.
00:43:43.000The unemployment rate fell to 3.4% versus the estimate for 3.6%.
00:43:48.000Some of that is going to be a lot of people who are going back into the workforce.
00:43:51.000We've known for a while that there are a lot of job openings, like way more job openings than there were job seekers.
00:43:56.000The fact that the hiring is now happening means that people are feeling the pinch in their pockets and now they're going back to work.
00:44:01.000And so they're rushing back to work while the jobs are still out there and while they can get them.
00:44:06.000What I would imagine is that this is going to be sort of an overcorrection, that what you're going to see in the next few months is that economic stagnation that everybody is sort of talking about.
00:44:13.000Mohammed El-Erian of Aliantis has a stunning U.S.
00:44:16.000jobs report highlighting the strength of the labor market and its complexities.
00:44:19.000Jobs rose by 517,000 for January, compared to the consensus forecast of 189,000.
00:44:23.000The puzzle, wage growth, came in, as expected, 0.3%.
00:44:29.000Presumably, this means if the job market is still coming in this hot, that the inflation rate is still a little too high and you're going to see the Federal Reserve get a little bit more aggressive with regard to all of this.
00:44:41.000With all of that said, obviously this very much helps Joe Biden going into his State of the Union address.
00:44:45.000The bad news for Joe Biden is that the American people are still pretty glum about the economy because they're not seeing the impact of this as broadly as they'd like to see it, and they're very worried about the future.
00:44:54.000As money runs out and as these companies start to see a dip in consumer confidence, what exactly is going to happen?
00:45:00.000Are some of these new hires going to be unemployed in three months, in other words?
00:45:03.000According to New Gallup polls, the overall quality of life in the country, 65% of people say that they are content.
00:45:10.000An opportunity for a person to get ahead by working hard, that 61% say that they are satisfied with that.
00:45:15.000But those are well below the record highs of 89% for quality of life in 2001 and 77% for opportunity in 2002.
00:45:18.000of life in 2001 and 77% for opportunity in 2002. When it comes to the size and power of the federal government, only 33% approve. When it comes to the size and influence of major corporations, only 27% approve.
00:45:34.000When it comes to the way income and wealth are distributed in the United States, only 24% approve.
00:45:39.000So a lot of economic dissatisfaction right now in the nation.
00:45:44.000And when it comes to many specific areas, it seems as though the numbers are going down, not the other way around, for Joe Biden.
00:45:52.000That is particularly true when it comes to federal taxes.
00:45:55.000Only 26% of Americans are in favor of the way that federal taxes are being done right now.
00:45:59.000Only 25% of Americans say that they are satisfied with the state of the economy right now.
00:46:06.000And these are not amazing numbers for Joe Biden.
00:46:07.000So what that means is that there is a lot of room for a dip, still, if the economy starts to go the other way.
00:46:12.000Now, obviously, you want to root for a good economy.
00:46:14.000It helps a lot of people if the economy is good.
00:46:18.000But what this is really going to do is it's going to embolden Joe Biden and the Democrats to push for broke.
00:46:22.000And for Joe Biden to continue to push things like student loan relief, meaning like just Breaking the law and trying to release student loans or spending trillions of more dollars or all of the rest.
00:46:31.000You know, trying to negotiate hardball with the debt ceiling instead of negotiating some sort of deal so he can blame Republicans.
00:46:37.000The problem for Joe Biden continues to be that the man is just not good at speaking.
00:46:41.000I mean, he never was any great shakes on it, but now he's just not even he's not with us anymore.
00:46:47.000Here was Joe Biden yesterday saying the most transphobic thing I've ever heard, frankly, from the president of the United States.
00:46:51.000I'll assume he did it by accident, but yeah, it's weird.
00:46:56.000More than half the women in my cabinet, more than half the people in my cabinet, more than half the women in my administration are women.
00:47:03.000More than half of the women in his administration are women?
00:48:30.000I haven't seen some of the kind of smaller movies.
00:48:33.000Of the movies that I have seen, however, I think probably the best picture that I've seen this year That is not Top Gun Maverick, which should win Best Picture because it's not the most interesting, but most enjoyable.
00:48:44.000The Best Picture this year was the All Quiet on the Western Front remake.
00:50:18.000So if you're looking for a film to watch this weekend that is highly depressing but also a great film, All Quiet on the Western Front truly is a great film.
00:50:51.000I mean, it's either pathological fear of life, which has now been embedded in the minds of millions of Americans who believe that they ought to be safe from literally everything in life up to and including the common cold.
00:51:02.000Or it's people actually like covering their face because they aren't particularly good looking.
00:51:07.000According to the UK Daily Mail, attractive people are less likely to keep wearing face masks.
00:51:11.000In the post-COVID era, a study suggests researchers conducted three questionnaires asking people about self-perceived attractiveness and mask-wearing intentions in various scenarios.
00:51:19.000They conclude that young and middle-aged Americans who view themselves as attractive, quote, believe wearing a mask hinders the opportunity to deliver a favorable impression to others.
00:51:26.000On the other hand, people who don't view themselves as attractive buy into the mask-attractiveness belief, the face-covering notion that it actually enhances their looks.
00:51:44.000Everybody was masking up for a long, for a long time.
00:51:46.000You remember you'd be dealing with people like on a regular basis and they were all wearing masks.
00:51:51.000And then they would remove the mask and you're like, oh, because your brain fills in the parts of the face that, by the way, this is actually one reason why people look cool in sunglasses, because your brain fills in sort of the most attractive version of the person under the sunglasses.
00:52:06.000Maybe that, I assume that's the case for Kanye West's Balenciaga head covering or something.
00:52:11.000And I guess if you look like a racer head and like your entire head is covered in a thing, then we can all fill in the gap or something.
00:52:16.000But yeah, I find this one of the least actually controversial studies is that if you think that you are not that attractive, you are very much happy to be wearing a bag over your head or a mask over your face.
00:52:29.000So well done on science for now confirming common sense.
00:52:31.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:52:38.000All right, so I have been made aware of a video on YouTube that apparently is part of kind of an online trend on the TikToks and the YouTubes and it's what the kids are doing.
00:52:48.000And there is a suggestion out there by a plastic surgery doctor that I have had lip filler, but not only lip filler, bad lip filler.
00:52:59.000Which, I mean, again, you want to make the case that I don't look good?
00:53:07.000So here is, um, here is a plastic surgeon.
00:53:10.000This video on YouTube has like two million hits.
00:53:13.000So apparently that a lot of people are very eager to believe that I got a bad lip filler as opposed to that a particular shot of me isn't at a very flattering angle.
00:53:24.000So apparently they think that I got lip filler.
00:53:25.000By the way, most of the people who would be very pleased and upset that I got lip filler, I did not.
00:53:31.000But most of the people would be very pleased are also perfectly in line with the idea that if a man gets a bunch of surgery, she's now a woman.
00:53:37.000In any case, here is this person who isn't a very good doctor, I guess, because he can't actually identify when someone has had lip filler or not.
00:55:12.000So, there is a trend now, and it's really been driven by the fact that the Biden administration hired essentially a fat activist in order to push bad medicine.
00:55:22.000There is now a trend of pieces in our mainstream legacy media suggesting that medicine is fatphobic.
00:55:30.000And that when people come into the office and they are overweight, and you tell them they need to lose weight, that this is somehow an aspect of you hating people who are obese or overweight.
00:55:42.000The way that you reduce being overweight, unless you have a genetic condition, the way that you reduce being overweight is with caloric deficit.
00:55:50.000Again, this is not particularly difficult stuff in concept.
00:55:52.000It's very difficult to achieve as somebody who's had to lose weight before, you know, because I wanted to look a little bit better.
00:55:58.000As somebody who's put on weight to gain some muscle, right?
00:56:12.000The fact that it is doable, however, is what the left really objects to.
00:56:14.000You notice that there is a real political gloss to all of this.
00:56:16.000You see a lot of, I don't see a lot of right-wingers who are like, yeah, man, the fat phobia thing's a real problem.
00:56:21.000You see a lot of left-wingers doing this, and this ties into a broader rubric, which is that people are never responsible for their own problems.
00:56:26.000It must be some sort of external factor in the universe.
00:56:28.000So there's a piece in the Washington Post by a doctor named Charlene Obwobie.
00:58:46.000It's the same thing as somebody is smoking and you tell them that it would be really good because you want them to live for them to stop smoking.
00:58:53.000By the way, I've had this conversation with friends of mine.
00:58:56.000Friend of mine who lives in the neighborhood, he's an overweight dude, and he and I had this conversation.
00:58:59.000I actually offered with him, I was like, I'll go to the gym with you.
00:59:08.000This sort of stuff can be done, but our culture suggests that this bizarre notion of what love is, this is really what it comes down to, what love is, what good treatment is, is I love you just the way you are.
00:59:19.000Well, what if I love you and so I want you to change the things about you that need change?
00:59:35.000Our society's focus on acceptance above all else is actually having some pretty dire side effects.
00:59:39.000Alrighty, coming up, we'll get into the vaunted Ben Shapiro Show Mailbag Plus.
00:59:43.000We'll be joined by a guest who actually is doing something unique.
00:59:47.000She is stopping her birth control not because she wishes to get pregnant per se, but because she's looking into the side effects of birth control and she's skeptical about them.