The Ben Shapiro Show - Democrats Are Set For A Bruising In 2022 | Ep. 1285

00:00:00.000 New polling shows Democrats behind on nearly every major issue, Democrats can't stop doubling down on stupid, and America's spoiled brats are on the march. 1.00

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00:01:34.000 Democrats have a real problem here. 0.93

00:01:36.000 The problem is people don't actually like what it is that they are selling, according to Axios over the weekend.

00:01:42.000 The Democratic messaging group Future Majority in May released a deck identifying areas where Republicans hold an advantage.

00:01:48.000 Ready for this?

00:01:49.000 Of the issues polled, defunding the police, open borders, and reparations for slavery were by far the biggest turnoffs for both independents and voters in general.

00:01:57.000 So all of those have to do with the Democrats' racial equity program.

00:02:01.000 The suggestion that America is deeply unjust requires that we get rid of the police or defund the police or defang the police.

00:02:07.000 We have to have open borders as some sort of guilt Notion on behalf of the United States and reparations for slavery, of course, is deeply tied into the idea that America remains systemically racist and that all inequalities of outcome are due to historic grievances.

00:02:20.000 Republicans, however, didn't just stop there.

00:02:22.000 They also bested Democrats.

00:02:24.000 Again, this is according to Future Majority, a Democratic messaging group.

00:02:27.000 Republicans also bested Democrats on jobs and the economy, gun rights, and keeping you and your family safe.

00:02:33.000 So all of the things, right?

00:02:35.000 Those are all the issues.

00:02:36.000 There are no other issues.

00:02:37.000 Maybe Democrats best Republicans on like climate change, which is Americans 97th concern, considering it is a thing that is going to happen over the course of a century.

00:02:45.000 We still don't know exactly how much human activities have contributed to it.

00:02:48.000 And even if we did, we don't really know how to handle it aside from taking some sort of adaptation measures.

00:02:54.000 According to Axios, the poll Future Majority wrote in its report on the findings shows voters, especially independents, believe the Democrats overspend as well.

00:03:01.000 So this means the Democrats have overstepped on nearly every aspect of their agenda.

00:03:05.000 But the problem is this for the Democrats.

00:03:07.000 They cannot stop the overstep.

00:03:08.000 They cannot.

00:03:09.000 It is too deeply rooted to their core ideology.

00:03:12.000 Democrats made a shift between 2010 and 2012.

00:03:15.000 And that shift was they were going to move away from broadcasting and instead they were going to start narrowcasting.

00:03:20.000 Barack Obama did in fact transform the United States.

00:03:23.000 He did so in extraordinarily negative ways.

00:03:25.000 Not through kind of Joe Biden or FDR or LBJ spending programs alone.

00:03:28.000 It wasn't just Obamacare.

00:03:29.000 It was how he shifted the notion of how American politics was done.

00:03:34.000 Instead of American politics being a battle between two sides to lock down their base and then move out to the middle and try and approach the middle.

00:03:40.000 Instead, American politics became a game in which you reached out to very specific slices of particular demographics and then you gave them giveaways.

00:03:50.000 goodies, almost as though you were trying to put together some sort of omnibus package in the Senate, where you give somebody a path here and there's some log rolling here. Instead, it was an intersectional coalition that was brought together only by opposition to that evil right wing.

00:04:04.000 And Barack Obama was very clear about this in 2010 and 2012.

00:04:08.000 In 2008, when Barack Obama was elected, he was elected on the basis of broadcasting, right?

00:04:12.000 Casting to the broadest possible net.

00:04:15.000 And then after 2008 when he became president and there was opposition to the to his program from the Tea Party.

00:04:21.000 When he lost Congress in 2010, when he took, as he said, a shellacking, when that happened, suddenly his mindset shifted because it was not a rebuke to his program.

00:04:29.000 After all, Barack Obama was too brilliant and God-like a figure for people to rebuke his agenda.

00:04:34.000 If you ever read or listen to anything Obama says, the problem was never his agenda.

00:04:38.000 It was always how he expressed his agenda, right?

00:04:40.000 He just wasn't able to get across.

00:04:42.000 He, from on high, this Zeus-like figure, was unable to cast his thunderbolts of joy in such a way that the American public were capable of receiving it.

00:04:50.000 It was always a messaging problem.

00:04:52.000 And so instead, he interpreted his own failures and the failures of his political program to be popular.

00:04:58.000 He interpreted that as American racism, as deep-seated American bigotry, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of American voters in 2008 elected him.

00:05:05.000 And so he immediately began trying to cobble together a coalition that was rooted in the idea that there was an ascendant demographic minority that was eventually going to be a demographic majority and simply swamp the right.

00:05:16.000 And Donald Trump was a reaction to that.

00:05:19.000 If there is a racial aspect to America's politics, which undoubtedly at this point unfortunately there is, it was not started by Donald Trump.

00:05:25.000 It was started by Barack Obama and Democrats who declared overtly and repeatedly, and thinkers like Ronald Brownstein, who repeatedly said that there was this demographic minority that was going to swamp the white demographic majority, and that the Browning of America inevitably meant the Making Democrat of America.

00:05:41.000 Now, that isn't true.

00:05:42.000 In fact, as you see in the last election cycle, Republicans are starting to make inroads into browner and browner communities.

00:05:42.000 It's a lie.

00:05:47.000 As Florida has gotten demographically browner, it has also gotten demographically more Republican because it turns out that race is not, in fact, destiny. 0.82

00:05:55.000 It turns out the demographics are not actually destiny.

00:05:57.000 People can change their minds.

00:05:58.000 People change how they think.

00:05:59.000 People even change how they think of themselves, which is why there are two categories on the American census.

00:06:04.000 Hispanic and then whether you think of yourself as Hispanic or whether you think of yourself as white, right?

00:06:09.000 People think of themselves in different racial categories, sort of depending on how they think about themselves.

00:06:15.000 But Democrats don't believe that.

00:06:16.000 They have a racially essentialist viewpoint, right?

00:06:19.000 That is, in fact, rooted in, as we've been discussing, critical race theory.

00:06:22.000 This idea that there are certain essentials to being black or essentials to being Asian or essentials to being anything with regard to ethnicity.

00:06:29.000 And this separates you off from the white demographic majority.

00:06:31.000 And therefore, you are part of the intersectional coalition.

00:06:34.000 Now, if you reject that, then you've rejected your own racial essentialism, and this means that you're a self-hating black person if you're Clarence Thomas, or it means that you're a self-hating Asian person if you don't side with this coalition of the ascendant.

00:06:47.000 Okay, well, what this means is that Democrats are deeply wedded to this program because, again, they have pegged all of their hopes for future success not on the popularity of their actual political programs.

00:06:56.000 You can see this throughout, right?

00:06:58.000 Democrats are being handed poll after poll showing people don't like their policies on crime.

00:07:02.000 They're being shown poll after poll.

00:07:05.000 That Americans do not like their policies with regard to the border.

00:07:08.000 Poll after poll that Americans are not interested in their policies with regard to racial reparations and new racial, new forms of racial discrimination.

00:07:15.000 Americans just don't like it, but they cannot let go of it because to let go of it would mean to let go of the new vision of politics wrought by Barack Obama and to go back to the old vision of politics in which you had to forge consensus and find common policy.

00:07:27.000 It was more Clintonian.

00:07:29.000 We heard over and over and over that Bill Barr was simply a partisan on behalf of Donald Trump.

00:07:34.000 We do.

00:07:34.000 Now we know that's not true.

00:07:35.000 want. And you see that this is how Democrats are playing this thing out. And so they've been militarizing the American government and weaponizing the American government in ways that frankly, would have made Donald Trump blush. We heard over and over and over that Bill Barr was simply a partisan on behalf of Donald Trump. Now we know that's not true. We do. Bill Barr repeatedly did not do what Trump wanted him to do. Trump obviously wanted him to initiate some sort of prosecution against Hillary Clinton. Jeff Sessions was pressured to do that. Jeff Sessions was

00:08:05.000 pressured to intervene with regard to the Russian collusion investigation. His attorneys general, Donald Trump, I've never seen an administration where the president was so in conflict with his own attorneys general to the point where President Trump was constantly ripping on his original AG, Jeff Sessions, and suggesting that he was not loyal.

00:08:21.000 In fact, by the end of his term in office, AG Sessions, by the time that Sessions left, Trump was ripping him so often that Sessions couldn't even go back to his seat in the Senate in Alabama and said Tommy Tuberville took over his seat in Alabama because Trump overtly endorsed his opponent.

00:08:37.000 Same thing with Bill Barr.

00:08:38.000 Bill Barr started off and Trump was in love with the guy.

00:08:41.000 And then by the end of his tenure, Trump hated the guy.

00:08:43.000 There's a new piece in The Atlantic talking about William Barr and Trump and how Barr was telling Trump pretty overtly.

00:08:50.000 That all of the election fraud stuff was overblown and that, in fact, he had lost the election and Trump was very angry at him over all of this.

00:08:57.000 Not so with Democrats.

00:08:58.000 This is why it was so galling to watch Democrats in the media suggest that Bill Barr was some sort of cat's paw for Trump, that he was just doing whatever Trump wanted.

00:09:05.000 It was so clearly untrue.

00:09:07.000 But I'll tell you who is doing that.

00:09:09.000 The great and heralded Merrick Garland, RIP, because he never made it on the Supreme Court.

00:09:14.000 But Merrick Garland is the new Attorney General.

00:09:17.000 So over the weekend, he announced a lawsuit against the state of Georgia.

00:09:20.000 Now, the only reason to do this is partisan politics.

00:09:23.000 The DOJ is being weaponized against police departments around the nation, again, on the basis of this racial equity campaign that has nothing to do with reality and, in fact, undermines the safety and security of Americans, particularly minority Americans.

00:09:34.000 The DOJ is being weaponized against police departments all over the country, as we'll get to.

00:09:38.000 And the DOJ is now being used as a legal cudgel against states that do not see voting in the same way the Democrats wish to see voting, namely ballot harvesting, no ID, loosening all the requirements to allow for the possibility of stuffing the ballot box, and voter fraud.

00:09:53.000 So Georgia passes this voter law.

00:09:54.000 Remember, Georgia's voter law is still more permissive than voter laws in Joe Biden's home state of Delaware.

00:09:59.000 It is still more permissive than the voter laws in places I believe like New Jersey and New York.

00:10:04.000 Merrick Garland is now using, in highly partisan fashion, the Department of Justice to go after the state of Georgia.

00:10:04.000 It doesn't matter.

00:10:09.000 And this is nothing new.

00:10:10.000 Eric Holder proclaimed himself Barack Obama's wingman while he was AG.

00:10:14.000 No one batted an eye.

00:10:15.000 Both Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr were directly at odds with Trump over and over and over again because Trump was repeatedly asking them to do things that did not comply with their oath of office, and they just rejected it.

00:10:25.000 Here's Merrick Garland rejecting his own off of office.

00:10:27.000 OK, there's no grounds for this lawsuit against Georgia at all.

00:10:30.000 I've read the lawsuit against Georgia.

00:10:32.000 It doesn't make any sense. 0.91

00:10:32.000 It's going to get laughed out of court if there is a judge with half a brain. 0.91

00:10:35.000 Nonetheless, here is the great and heralded bipartisan figure Merrick Garland just doing the bidding of the Biden administration.

00:10:43.000 Today, the Department of Justice is suing the state of Georgia.

00:10:48.000 Our complaint alleges that recent changes to Georgia's election laws were enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

00:11:05.000 Okay, this is a joke.

00:11:06.000 It's a joke. 0.88

00:11:06.000 The Voting Rights Act was specifically designed to prevent states from preventing black people from voting. 0.88

00:11:11.000 These are laws of neutral applicability that affect black citizens and white citizens equally.

00:11:16.000 And the fact is that, again, they are more permissive in many ways than the law was before this law was passed.

00:11:22.000 Okay, the DOJ is ramming it down anyway.

00:11:24.000 To understand how nefarious this is, you need to understand the DOJ, the chief law enforcement body in the country, right, is the highest level of law enforcement in the country.

00:11:32.000 They prosecute.

00:11:32.000 They're now being used in order to silence legislatures in Republican-led states.

00:11:39.000 The judiciary cannot go along with this.

00:11:41.000 According to the DOJ itself, the United States' complaint contends that several provisions of Senate Bill 202 were adopted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race.

00:11:50.000 Now, they show no evidence whatsoever, none, in the entire complaint, that this was done with the quote-unquote purpose of getting black people not to vote.

00:11:57.000 Because they can't show that because it wasn't.

00:12:00.000 There's nothing in the consideration of the bill that is race-specific.

00:12:03.000 There's nothing about the bill that is race-specific.

00:12:05.000 And in fact, in many ways, again, this enshrines the ability of people to vote early.

00:12:09.000 It actually opens up additional days when people can vote.

00:12:12.000 All it does is it includes voter ID.

00:12:15.000 All it does is it prevents more drop boxes, which are very hard to monitor, for example.

00:12:20.000 But what exactly is the DOJ challenging?

00:12:22.000 They're challenging several provisions of Senate Bill 202, according to the DOJ, including a provision banning government entities from distributing unsolicited absentee ballot applications.

00:12:30.000 So in other words, they're stopping people from sending to your house absentee ballot applications because you should have to request one if you actually want to vote absentee.

00:12:38.000 It's a way of cracking down on voter fraud.

00:12:40.000 The imposition of costly and onerous fines on civic organizations, churches, and advocacy groups that distribute follow-up absentee ballot applications.

00:12:47.000 In other words, we are not going to allow people to simply distribute these things without the government's purview.

00:12:52.000 The shortening of the deadline to request absentee ballots to 11 days before election day, which of course is designed to prevent people From receiving the absentee ballot the day before and then it creates all sorts of issues after the absentee ballot deadline comes in.

00:13:04.000 The requirement that voters who do not have identification issued by the Georgia Department of Driver Services photocopy another form of ID in order to request an absentee ballot without allowing for the use of the last four digits of a social security number for such applications.

00:13:16.000 In other words, voter ID.

00:13:18.000 Significant, limited, like none of these things are racist. 0.94

00:13:20.000 There's nothing, and the evidence that the DOJ provides in its complaint that racism is at hand here is so scanty and ridiculous.

00:13:27.000 But again, everything has to be about race because it's all about holding together the coalition of the supposedly oppressed with the glue that there is some evil oppositional party out there that is trying to stop you from fueling your power, which is weird coming from a party that currently controls the House, the Senate, and the presidency.

00:13:43.000 It doesn't matter.

00:13:44.000 Again, this is all about building that future demographic.

00:13:47.000 And they're not going to let go of these arguments because it is the great hope of the Democratic Party.

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00:15:02.000 Okay, so what exactly does the DOJ show in order to demonstrate that Georgia is racist?

00:15:07.000 Here is what they say in their complaint.

00:15:09.000 Okay, is any of that evidence that this was done for purposes of race?

00:15:12.000 of historic wins by multiple black preferred candidates.

00:15:12.000 In fact, no.

00:15:14.000 A significant and well-publicized rise in black political mobilization and voting strength, shifting racial demographics in the state, including an increase in the number of black and Latino voters, and changes to the state's typical election procedures that resulted from the ongoing pandemic, including a notable increase in absentee voting.

00:15:29.000 Okay, is any of that evidence that this was done for purposes of race?

00:15:32.000 In fact, no.

00:15:33.000 In fact, the last part of the sentence debunks the first part of the sentence.

00:15:36.000 Number one, the notion that if a black preferred candidate wins, you can't change voting procedures, suggests that one racial group is supposed to run the outcome of elections, which of And the DOJ is not really even allowed to make that argument in court because, of course, it's racially discriminatory.

00:15:50.000 Beyond that, it is pretty obvious that the state did this in response to the exact pandemic voting procedures that were put in place in many cases, it turns out, in many states without proper legal auspices.

00:16:02.000 Also, according to the DOJ, this must be a racist law because the total black population in Georgia has been rising and because black voter turnout rose as well.

00:16:10.000 And also because, quote, black Georgians undertook substantial new efforts to harness their political power in 2018 when Stacey Abrams, a black candidate, ran for governor.

00:16:18.000 The 2018 yielded high turnout among black voters and other voters of color and specifically encouraged their use of absentee ballots.

00:16:24.000 Also, during early voting and on election day in 2018, advocates and organizations helped to ensure that voters who faced long lines, often voters of color, had basic food and water.

00:16:33.000 Okay, this is supposed to be striking at the New Georgia restriction that basically says you're not allowed to bribe people who are in line if they're 150 feet from a polling place.

00:16:41.000 All of this, there's no evidence for any of this demonstrating that the Georgia voting law is racist at all.

00:16:47.000 All they say, over and over, is that a bunch of people we like won in 2020 and now they are changing the law and we don't like that they're changing the law, therefore it's racist.

00:16:56.000 They pretty much say this, right?

00:16:57.000 The November 2020 general election in Georgia resulted in historic firsts that reflect significant demographic and political shifts in the state.

00:17:03.000 For example, Vice President Kamala Harris became the first black and Indian American vice president ever elected.

00:17:08.000 Okay, hold up.

00:17:10.000 Barack Obama ran in 2012 and in 2008.

00:17:13.000 He didn't win Georgia either time, but he was still the first black president who was elected.

00:17:17.000 So what exactly does Georgia have to do with vice? 1.00

00:17:19.000 By the way, you don't really vote for vice president.

00:17:21.000 You vote for the ticket.

00:17:22.000 And really, you vote for Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.

00:17:25.000 But again, the DOJ is not about enforcing the law.

00:17:27.000 The DOJ is about enforcing, at this point, democratic political preferences.

00:17:32.000 And it's not merely that the DOJ is going after, for example, states like Georgia without any legal basis.

00:17:37.000 The DOJ is also going after the police.

00:17:41.000 The DOJ has been attempting to cram down on police departments all over the country consent decrees.

00:17:47.000 This is the exact same thing, by the way, that the Obama administration did.

00:17:51.000 Senator Tom Cotton has pointed out that the DOJ is now spiked with radicals.

00:17:57.000 He tweeted out, Biden has stacked the Department of Justice with radicals who want to defund the police, which of course is true.

00:18:05.000 The DOJ officials, Kristen Clark and Vanita Gupta are the anti-police radicals in question.

00:18:09.000 Cotton said, quote, President Biden has stacked his DOJ with anti-police radicals like Clark and Gupta.

00:18:14.000 America's police officers already face enough danger and hardship.

00:18:16.000 They shouldn't have to worry if the DOJ will also have their back.

00:18:20.000 And this, of course, is very true.

00:18:21.000 If you look at the records, both Clark and Gupta are defund the police specialists.

00:18:25.000 I mean, they talked repeatedly about the evils of the American police.

00:18:29.000 So again, these are two issues on which Americans just disagree with Democrats.

00:18:33.000 Democrats do not have the capacity to let it go.

00:18:34.000 In fact, they're going to gaslight you. 0.94

00:18:36.000 In the same way that Barack Obama said you don't oppose his policies, it must be that you're racist. 0.96

00:18:40.000 Now, you have Democrats telling you that if you're worried about crime, it must be because you're either hysterical or racist.

00:18:44.000 It doesn't matter that we've had the greatest spike in crime in modern American history over the period 2019 to 2021.

00:18:51.000 And it doesn't matter that that actually began in 2014-2015 with the Obama administration poo-pooing crime and riots in places like Ferguson and Baltimore.

00:19:00.000 No, if you're in a major city and you're worried about rising crime, it must be because you're hysterical, which is weird because it turns out that black voters largely in New York City voted for Eric Adams, who's the pro-cop candidate in New York City. 0.54

00:19:12.000 Here's Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, the irrepressible, so fresh, so face, so brilliant, so many IQ points bouncing around that empty head.

00:19:18.000 Here is AOC explaining that if you're worried about spiking crime, it's because you are hysterical.

00:19:18.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:19:24.000 Chief, you better not be applying that word to women. 1.00

00:19:26.000 You're not allowed to apply that word to women, hysterical. 0.89

00:19:27.000 Here she is.

00:19:29.000 We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases.

00:19:33.000 Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much.

00:19:38.000 But I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn't drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.

00:19:54.000 You're hysterical.

00:19:55.000 And look at the numbers in context, because if there's somebody who's just a mistress of complexity and contextualization, it is the irrepressible Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

00:20:04.000 Now, again, if you look at the spike in murders, it didn't start in 2020.

00:20:09.000 It started in 2019.

00:20:11.000 If you look at the spike year over year in crime rates, it started a few years back.

00:20:16.000 So, no, you're not hysterical if you're worried about record crime rates in most of major metropolitan areas with regard to violent crime.

00:20:23.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:20:24.000 You are, right?

00:20:25.000 Because it must have something to do with race.

00:20:27.000 Here is Cedric Richmond, a Biden senior advisor, dismissing Republican concerns about crime.

00:20:32.000 Senator Graham doesn't have a clue.

00:20:34.000 And let's talk about who defunded the police.

00:20:37.000 When we were in Congress last year trying to pass a rescue plan, I'm sorry, not the rescue plan, but an emergency relief plan for cities that were cash strapped and laying off police and firefighters.

00:20:48.000 It was the Republicans who objected to it.

00:20:50.000 And in fact, They didn't get funding until the American Rescue Plan, which our plan allowed state and local governments to replenish their police departments and do the other things that are needed.

00:21:02.000 So look, Republicans are very good at staying on talking points of who says defund the police, but the truth is they defunded the police.

00:21:12.000 Okay, they're so panicked about their own positions right now that they are hysterically projecting onto Republicans to defund the police.

00:21:18.000 Own it, guys!

00:21:19.000 You're the ones who wanted to bail out rioters last year.

00:21:21.000 Just own it!

00:21:22.000 This is so absurd on its face.

00:21:24.000 But again, this is part of the broader Democratic agenda from which they cannot separate.

00:21:28.000 They are ideologically committed to this agenda.

00:21:30.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:22:48.000 Okay, so again, Democrats ideologically committed to an agenda that Americans just don't like.

00:22:52.000 The latest example of this is, of course, their attempt to turn the George Floyd situation into a referendum on both policing writ large and American racism writ large.

00:23:02.000 Again, no evidence presented in the Derek Chauvin trial at all that Derek Chauvin did this on the basis of race.

00:23:08.000 None.

00:23:09.000 They literally provided zero evidence of this, and yet it has become somehow a talking point and a point of sort of natural Assumption that Derek Chauvin is the face of American white racism and George Floyd is the face of black victimization at the hands of white Americans.

00:23:25.000 It's kind of wild.

00:23:26.000 Again, no evidence was provided to that at all.

00:23:29.000 But that's being used as the lever with which to project Democrats' ideas of quote unquote equity into the public space.

00:23:36.000 And people don't like it.

00:23:38.000 People don't believe in it.

00:23:39.000 It's why you're seeing all this kickback about critical race theory.

00:23:41.000 The polls show Americans are not interested in this sort of stuff.

00:23:43.000 And then the second prong of that is that Derek Chauvin is supposed to represent police officers writ large.

00:23:49.000 And you know who's pushing this is Keith Ellison.

00:23:51.000 Okay, Keith Ellison is one of the greatest radicals in the Democratic Party.

00:23:53.000 He's now the AG of the state of Minnesota.

00:23:55.000 But when he was in Congress, Keith Ellison was a racial radical par excellence.

00:23:59.000 And now he's pushing the idea that he has a unifying agenda, and his unifying agenda is go after the cops.

00:24:04.000 At the same time, Democrats are like, no, Republicans are defunding the police.

00:24:07.000 We've got Keith Ellison saying that we need to use prosecutors to go after cops pretty much everywhere.

00:24:11.000 Quote, the Justice Department must also be a partner in prosecuting cases when local prosecutions fail to win convictions or fail to act, is according to Keith Ellison in the Washington Post.

00:24:20.000 So it's not just we have to get local prosecutors to go after bad cops.

00:24:23.000 We have to have the Justice Department sit on top of every police department in the United States.

00:24:28.000 The Biden administration's return to conducting investigations into biased policing patterns and practices is also welcome.

00:24:34.000 Again, notice the language.

00:24:35.000 It's about biased policing patterns and practices, right?

00:24:37.000 We're not going to demonstrate actual racism.

00:24:39.000 Any evidence of inequality of outcome.

00:24:41.000 More black people being pulled over for traffic tickets. 0.99

00:24:44.000 More black people being arrested for murder. 0.99

00:24:45.000 That is obviously an expression of deep-seated American racism. 0.82

00:24:50.000 So, Democrats can keep pushing this, but it's not going to be particularly popular.

00:24:54.000 And same thing when it comes to the border.

00:24:56.000 Again, remember, the poll that came from that Democratic group showed that the issues where Democrats were most unpopular were policing, the border, public safety issues.

00:25:04.000 Because obviously they've decided to elevate their own bizarre version of equity over the safety of American citizens, which disproportionately affects minority citizens.

00:25:13.000 Well, over the last three days, Kamala Harris decided that she was going to finally go down and visit the border.

00:25:17.000 But by the border, she meant somewhere in the general vicinity of Mexico.

00:25:20.000 She went down to El Paso, which is a border town, but is not where the border crisis is happening.

00:25:25.000 In fact, she sort of jetsetted in.

00:25:28.000 She sat very, very many feet away from the border.

00:25:30.000 And then she talked about how evil the Trump administration was.

00:25:34.000 Of course.

00:25:35.000 She visited the border just like she visited Europe.

00:25:37.000 It's very exciting stuff.

00:25:38.000 I visited the border over the weekend, you know, because I was like down in Miami and that's like the border with the ocean.

00:25:43.000 So it's like the same thing kind of.

00:25:45.000 Here's Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:25:47.000 As you know, we inherited a tough situation.

00:25:50.000 In fact, right here in El Paso was the launch of the child separation policy.

00:25:56.000 You saw it as it rolled out on the ground in real time.

00:26:00.000 We have looked at a system where people have been housed in inhumane conditions over the last many years.

00:26:08.000 An asylum system that has been broken and that needs to be reconstructed.

00:26:15.000 Yeah, she's so bad at all of this. 1.00

00:26:16.000 Blaming Trump for everything while you have a record number of people arriving at the border because you've been pushing open borders rhetoric is pretty wild.

00:26:22.000 Also, Jen Psaki was asked specifically why Kamala Harris was visiting now and why she didn't go to the border, why she went to El Paso, right, which is a largely Democratic town.

00:26:30.000 Why'd you go to El Paso as opposed to going down to, you know, the actual border where the problems are happening or visiting at one of the holding facilities or something?

00:26:37.000 And Jen Psaki was like, because Trump! 0.97

00:26:39.000 This is going to be the Democrats' constant refrain over and over.

00:26:42.000 And guess what?

00:26:42.000 Trump ain't president, guys.

00:26:43.000 You own it.

00:26:45.000 El Paso has an interesting history, as you may know, because it was the place where the former president, kind of, it was a base place of where he put in place some of his immigration policies that we felt were so problematic.

00:27:01.000 And so it's a place that has a little bit of historical connection in that regard, and it's an opportunity to draw a bit of a contrast with what we're trying to accomplish.

00:27:12.000 Oh, so it's all about Trump.

00:27:13.000 Always and forever.

00:27:14.000 Kevin McCarthy, of course, then ripped Kamala Harris, as well he should. 1.00

00:27:17.000 Here is the House Minority Leader.

00:27:19.000 Soon to be House Majority Leader, by the way, in 2022.

00:27:22.000 Well, it seemed like she spent more time at the airport than she spent at the border.

00:27:26.000 But to literally say that they inherited a problem and they made progress?

00:27:30.000 None of those facts play out.

00:27:32.000 You have a border that was secure.

00:27:34.000 You had a new administration that changed executive orders and invited people to rush the border illegally.

00:27:43.000 Now, in May, we had 180,000 encounters.

00:27:44.000 That was a 21-year record of illegal crossings.

00:27:50.000 For the last three months, it has increased.

00:27:52.000 Okay, and he's right about all of this.

00:27:56.000 Meanwhile, again, Democrats keep getting caught up in their own vision of what America should be as opposed to what America is.

00:28:03.000 And this is particularly true with regard to Joe Biden's agenda.

00:28:07.000 So over the weekend, we saw this bizarre situation in which Joe Biden, once again, I mean, he is not all there.

00:28:12.000 And it is perfectly obvious at this point that he is not all there.

00:28:15.000 Because he makes comments and then his team has to rush out of the wings and wheel old Joe back, feed him his cream of wheat, put him down for a nap, and then they have like Ron Klain come out and clarify what exactly he meant.

00:28:26.000 Or they put out a written statement where Joe Biden can't fumble over his own words and get into a physical fistfight with the teleprompter.

00:28:31.000 It's insane.

00:28:32.000 So, you remember that late last week, on Thursday, there was a group of Republicans and Democrats and Joe Biden, they all came together at the White House, and they announced they had a bipartisan deal on infrastructure.

00:28:41.000 And Kamala Harris was creepily hanging out, like, behind a pillar, kind of staring at the man whose job she will eventually take.

00:28:49.000 Don't be a food taster at the White House, gang.

00:28:50.000 It's a bad, bad job.

00:28:52.000 So, you remember that.

00:28:53.000 And you remember, they announced, we have a bipartisan deal.

00:28:55.000 And then, within just a couple of hours, Joe Biden was out there saying, well, yeah, we have a bipartisan deal.

00:29:01.000 I'm not gonna sign that unless we also pass, through reconciliation, this giant bill.

00:29:10.000 And everybody won't wait.

00:29:11.000 Hold up.

00:29:12.000 That's not a bipartisan deal then.

00:29:14.000 If I say to you, I promise to buy from you this used car.

00:29:18.000 And you say, I'm willing to sell you this used car.

00:29:19.000 And I say, yes, I will buy from you this used car.

00:29:21.000 Also, I insist that you sell me your house at a price I want to pay.

00:29:25.000 That's not a deal.

00:29:26.000 You've now changed the deal.

00:29:27.000 So Joe Biden did that.

00:29:28.000 And there was a lot of consternation on both sides of the aisle.

00:29:31.000 It looked as though he had undercut Mitt Romney and Susan Collins and all the rest of the Republicans.

00:29:35.000 Because all the rest of the Republicans were like, um, here we are holding the bag out here.

00:29:39.000 We came out here on behalf of bipartisanship and you used us in order to have your photo op and then you just undercut us.

00:29:44.000 So no deal.

00:29:45.000 Behind closed doors, I am sure.

00:29:47.000 Sure.

00:29:48.000 What Republicans were saying to Biden was, listen, if you insist on this being part of a package deal, we're not going through with any, you're not going to get past the filibuster.

00:29:55.000 Not only that, we're not going to vote for it.

00:29:58.000 So then, Joe Biden had to walk it back.

00:30:00.000 According to the New York Times, it was all going according to President Biden's tightrope plan to pass the most ambitious economic agenda in generations.

00:30:06.000 Right until the moment that Mr. Biden, a politician with a history of rogue comments, veered off script.

00:30:10.000 Understand, the reason that Biden did this is because he is more afraid of AOC and Bernie Sanders than he is of his actual base.

00:30:17.000 The people who are closer to center left are the people who just want to get things done in a practical way.

00:30:21.000 He's scared crapless of the radical Democrats saying that he is insufficiently committed to the cause.

00:30:26.000 Because remember, Joe Biden's agenda, he knows he's not a two-term president.

00:30:30.000 If he makes it through a first term, and if he runs for a second term, he certainly is not making it through a second term.

00:30:35.000 So he knows he's not making it eight years.

00:30:36.000 So it's, I need to be a historic president right here, right now.

00:30:40.000 And if I'm deprived of that by these Republicans who are filibustering, then I'm going to make my mark by basically shellacking them over and over and over.

00:30:49.000 So that's why he walked back the bipartisan deal.

00:30:51.000 After weeks of closed-door negotiations, according to the New York Times, Mr. Biden strode to the cameras on White House driveway on Thursday.

00:30:57.000 Flanked by an equal number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers to proudly announce an overall infrastructure agreement totaling $1.2 trillion over eight years that could cement his legacy as a bipartisan dealmaker.

00:31:07.000 Biden and his top aides had successfully struck a limited agreement with key central senators to rebuild roads and bridges, while carefully signaling the liberals he still intended to embrace a measure likely to gain only Democratic support to spend trillions more on climate education, childcare, and other economic priorities.

00:31:20.000 It was an I-told-you-so moment for a president who's supremely confident in his ability to navigate legislative negotiations, but I'm not signing my partisan bill.

00:31:28.000 I'm forgetting about the rest.

00:31:28.000 an hour later, the president blurted out he would not approve the compromise without the partisan bill. He said, if that's the only thing that comes to me, I'm not signing it.

00:31:36.000 I'm not signing the bipartisan bill and forgetting about the rest. Come on, man.

00:31:42.000 It may not seem like much, says the New York Times, it was enough to upend Biden's proud bipartisan moment.

00:31:48.000 On the one hand, he was saying out loud what liberals in his party wanted to hear.

00:31:51.000 But to centrist senators and Republicans, it made explicit a notion that had only been hinted at before, that Biden not only intended to sign a second, more ambitious package, but that he would also go so far as to veto their bipartisan plan if the larger bill did not materialize.

00:32:04.000 Senator Susan Collins said, we never had an inkling that would be any kind of linkage.

00:32:07.000 We always knew there'd be another bill, but not that the success of the infrastructure package was going to be in any way dependent on the other bill.

00:32:14.000 So the White House had to engage in damage control and then they had to walk it back.

00:32:17.000 And then Biden had to concede that he had misspoken.

00:32:20.000 He had not misspoken, guys. 0.96

00:32:21.000 He's saying the quiet part out loud, which is that he intends to shiv Republicans directly in the back, which is why they never should have gone along with this dumb deal in the first place.

00:32:28.000 Mitt Romney, always of generous spirit, suggested, of course, that now he takes Biden at his word that he's delinking the two issues.

00:32:34.000 Uh-huh.

00:32:36.000 I do take the President at his word, and over the weeks and weeks of negotiations with Democrats and with the White House on an infrastructure bill, the President's other agenda was never linked to the infrastructure effort.

00:32:49.000 We came to an agreement on the infrastructure effort in a way that I think is really impressive.

00:32:54.000 As you know, it is true infrastructure.

00:32:57.000 Bridges, roads, rail, electric utility support and so forth and without raising taxes.

00:33:05.000 And so this is a bill which stands on its own.

00:33:09.000 OK, well, we'll see if the bill stands on its own or if Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are just going to quietly go along with what it was that Biden was saying in the first place.

00:33:18.000 Let the Democrats own it.

00:33:19.000 I don't understand why Republicans would work with these people.

00:33:21.000 Just don't give them what they want.

00:33:24.000 Don't give them the veneer of bipartisanship on what is a heavily partisan agenda.

00:33:28.000 And you say, oh, well, you know, we saved over the course of a decade, $200 billion.

00:33:32.000 Okay, and you also gave him the political wins that he can go out and continue to win on the basis of a lie, which is that he's a bipartisan president when he very much is not.

00:33:41.000 Okay, in just a second, we are going to get to the spoiled brat problem in American public life. 0.99

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00:36:28.000 Okay, so where is all this coming from in our political life?

00:36:37.000 Where is this this deep feeling that Democrats are going to be able to cobble together this newfound majority?

00:36:43.000 Where's it coming from?

00:36:44.000 Because Barack Obama was a signal figure figure in American political history.

00:36:48.000 He was very good at his At his rhetorical job.

00:36:50.000 He was an excellent campaigner.

00:36:52.000 He himself had unique personal characteristics that no other American candidate seems able to sort of put together.

00:36:58.000 So where is all this Democratic confidence coming from?

00:37:01.000 That they're going to be able to be victorious with such a radical agenda that most Americans really don't like?

00:37:05.000 And the answer is, I think, I think it lies in a sense that most Americans are disconnected from the rest of the world and from their own history.

00:37:12.000 They're disconnected in the sense that they do not understand how far we have come.

00:37:15.000 They do not understand what it is like to live at any other place on Earth.

00:37:17.000 And this leads to an awful lot of ingratitude.

00:37:19.000 And so you can look at your own life.

00:37:21.000 It's so easy to look at your own life and see all the problems with your own life and never think about the fact that you are living in like the top 1% of people who have ever lived on planet Earth.

00:37:30.000 And in fact, If you're living in the United States right now, you're still, in terms of global population, living in the top, even if you're at the very lowest end of the American economic spectrum, you're still living in the top quintile, for sure, of people who are living on planet Earth right now.

00:37:46.000 There are lots of other countries on planet Earth.

00:37:48.000 And a lot of those other countries, people are living in absolute horror and privation and poverty and repression by their government.

00:37:54.000 And yet there's this enormous sense of ingratitude that Democrats bank on in order to push forward the idea that America must undergo some sort of fundamental systemic change.

00:38:03.000 Gratitude is an understanding that you owe something to the past.

00:38:07.000 And not only that you owe something to the past, maybe the people who came before you knew some things.

00:38:11.000 But ingratitude believes that the entire system is corrupt.

00:38:14.000 And just like a small child, my kids, they're ungrateful on a regular basis.

00:38:18.000 And it's because they don't understand what they have.

00:38:19.000 They don't understand how good their life is.

00:38:22.000 They're comparing their life to some utopian vision of what their life would be if they got everything that they wanted. 1.00

00:38:26.000 Now, they're children, so what they want is usually very stupid. 0.99

00:38:29.000 But that's also true, it turns out, of many people on the left. 0.99

00:38:31.000 Many of the things that they actually want in life are not particularly beneficial for a society.

00:38:35.000 More importantly, however, what it really relies on is a failure of understanding about the society in which they live.

00:38:42.000 And a belief that there are other societies out there that are so much better if only we did X.

00:38:47.000 Or there's a utopia that we're comparing ourselves to and we'll never reach the utopia, but we can grow closer to that utopia by disregarding the past that brought us this far.

00:38:56.000 Now, none of this is an argument that we should always eschew change, that we should never look at changing our systems, but it means that you ought to go carefully.

00:39:04.000 If you recognize all the wonderful things in your life and all the wonderful things about this country, you might be a little bit careful about ripping on the country, broadly speaking, about deciding that all of the systems of the United States are a serious problem.

00:39:16.000 And yet, because people live within the system, they don't understand the greatness of the system.

00:39:22.000 They seem to assume that they are doing something positive when they believe that the system itself is inherently corrupt and rigged and terrible.

00:39:29.000 Okay, so this comes to mind thanks to a couple of stories over the weekend.

00:39:33.000 First, I just want to give you just a note of what it's like to live in other places in the world.

00:39:38.000 And it is amazing.

00:39:39.000 If you just read a book about what goes on in other places in the world, Suddenly, you might discover that America is a pretty damned fine place.

00:39:46.000 It really is.

00:39:47.000 And there's certain things we take for granted in American life that you can't take for granted nearly any other place on earth except for some areas of Western Europe and like Canada and Australia, and that's it.

00:39:57.000 Right?

00:39:57.000 Every other place on earth is plagued by issues far worse than the United States.

00:40:02.000 And so to take an example, over the weekend, Apple Daily shuttered.

00:40:06.000 Apple Daily was a major Hong Kong newspaper.

00:40:08.000 Hong Kong was a free state.

00:40:10.000 It was guaranteed its freedom by a treaty between the Chinese government and the British government when the British decided to abdicate all responsibility to Hong Kong in the 1990s.

00:40:18.000 And China recently just basically walked in and took the place over and now has subjected it to absolute communist privation.

00:40:25.000 So that means they shut down the English edition of Apple Daily.

00:40:29.000 Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy newspaper just shut down, willy-nilly.

00:40:32.000 And we talk in the United States, you hear all these members of the press, oh, Trump, he was going to shut down.

00:40:36.000 There is no danger to the free press in the United States, none on a serious level.

00:40:40.000 The only danger to dissemination of ideas is through sort of corporate censorship, but certainly not the government stepping in and just shutting down newspapers willy-nilly, the way things are happening in Hong Kong right now.

00:40:52.000 The former managing editor was then arrested at the Hong Kong airport on charges of collusion.

00:40:57.000 According to Axios, Apple Daily shuddered last week following the freezing of its assets under China's national security law.

00:41:02.000 Journalist Feng Weikong's arrest comes days after police arrested an Apple Daily columnist, who publishes under the name Li Ping, for allegedly, quote, conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security, under the law.

00:41:14.000 They also arrested seven journalists at the news outlet, which was founded by the imprisoned tycoon Jimmy Lai.

00:41:20.000 Under the law, the authorities charged Lai and other pro-democracy activists after they organized a massive protest in 2019.

00:41:26.000 So they just shut down the newspaper, and this sort of stuff happens routinely all over the earth. 0.83

00:41:31.000 But if you look at how Americans act, I'm sorry, but a huge percentage of Americans are just spoiled brats. 0.99

00:41:36.000 They're just spoiled brats. 1.00

00:41:38.000 So to take a quick example of such spoiled brattishness, there's a woman named Gwen Berry. 1.00

00:41:45.000 She's a professional hammer thrower. 1.00

00:41:48.000 So she's trying out for the Olympics.

00:41:49.000 They have the Olympic trials.

00:41:50.000 And number one, In order to dedicate the amount of time necessary to become a very specific skill-setted person, like throwing a hammer, which by the way, there are not a lot of like job applicants for can you throw a hammer in the United States.

00:42:01.000 It's just not a lot of open jobs for hammer thrower in the United States, which means you have to dedicate a significant amount of time to a pursuit that does not pay off economically.

00:42:09.000 Okay, which demonstrates, again, a certain level of wealth in a nation.

00:42:12.000 Typically, when people live in absolute privation, they don't actually have the time to dedicate enormous amounts of time to learning to throw a hammer properly.

00:42:19.000 Okay, so, Gwen Berry was competing in the Olympic Trials, and she came in third.

00:42:25.000 Okay, she came in third in the Olympic Trials, means she's going to the Olympics, but probably is not expected to do particularly well since she came in third in her own country before we even get to international competition.

00:42:33.000 But, even if she came in third at the Olympic Trials, She came in first in the self-involvement Olympics because it turns out that they have a pre-scheduled every day during the Olympic trials at like 5.20 every day or 5.25 every day, they play the National Anthem.

00:42:49.000 Well, it turned out that she finished her event at about the time that the National Anthem started playing.

00:42:53.000 And so everybody in the stadium turned and started putting their hand over their heart.

00:42:58.000 Gwen Berry did not.

00:43:00.000 Gwen Berry decided that the National Anthem was just, it's too terrible.

00:43:03.000 It's too awful.

00:43:03.000 Her life is too awful as a hammer thrower in the Olympic trials for her to pay attention to the National Anthem.

00:43:10.000 Not only that, she said she found it insulting.

00:43:12.000 She said she felt targeted, that it was all rigged, that it was designed to make her feel bad.

00:43:18.000 So she turned away during the National Anthem.

00:43:21.000 And then, of course, we understand what the real rationale is here.

00:43:24.000 The real rationale is she wants to make a buck. 1.00

00:43:27.000 Because again, spoiled brats in American society make an awful lot of cash. 1.00

00:43:30.000 They do really, really well.

00:43:31.000 The more you whine about America in the United States, the more we reward you here in the United States.

00:43:36.000 Another mark of a decadent society.

00:43:40.000 She is proud of herself.

00:43:41.000 So she tweeted out this picture of herself in a particular In a particular pose, right?

00:43:48.000 With her hand on her hip.

00:43:50.000 And she's kind of throwing out her head.

00:43:51.000 And she's staring directly at a camera, right?

00:43:53.000 She knows exactly where the cameras are.

00:43:54.000 All of the other people on the podium are staring up at the flag.

00:43:57.000 Everybody else in the stadium is staring up at the flag.

00:43:59.000 She knows precisely where the camera is.

00:44:01.000 She's staring directly at it, right?

00:44:02.000 It's a direct-in-the-camera look.

00:44:03.000 And then she tweeted out, Stop playing with me. 1.00

00:44:07.000 Oh, the heroism.

00:44:08.000 Oh, the absolute amazing heroism of this person.

00:44:11.000 The self-involvement of this person.

00:44:13.000 I mean, seriously.

00:44:14.000 You finished third, lady.

00:44:15.000 It's not like you finished first.

00:44:17.000 Okay, but then she held up a shirt saying, activist athlete. 0.83

00:44:21.000 Oh my, wow.

00:44:22.000 And what change she has affected in the United States.

00:44:25.000 What unbelievable change she has affected in the United States. 0.96

00:44:29.000 Listen, it's a free country.

00:44:30.000 She can do exactly what she wants.

00:44:31.000 And we are perfectly free to rip on the fact that this is a person who is utterly disconnected from the reality in which she and most other Americans live.

00:44:38.000 Which is, you should be extremely grateful for all the problems the United States has. 0.96

00:44:42.000 The simple gratitude of, you know, not being a horse's ass during the National Anthem seems like a baseline minimum to being a mensch, to being like a decent person. 0.95

00:44:52.000 But apparently not. 0.98

00:44:53.000 Because again, we live in a very spoiled society where people have no sense of context whatsoever.

00:44:58.000 At all.

00:44:59.000 At all.

00:45:01.000 That bodes poorly for the United States, but here's the thing.

00:45:03.000 I think there will be blowback to this.

00:45:04.000 Spoiled, brash behavior tends to earn the ire of the American public.

00:45:07.000 Democrats are about to earn it in terms of politics.

00:45:10.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:45:13.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Moll's show.

00:45:14.000 Today, he discusses Joy Reid denying the existence of critical race theory.

00:45:18.000 You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's show that is available right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 28, 2021

Democrats Are Set For A Bruising In 2022 | Ep. 1285

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