The Ben Shapiro Show - DRAG QUEEN Olympics And WEIRD Candidates

00:00:00.000 Well, with Kamala Harris now the presidential nominee for the Democrats, Democrats are experiencing a sugar high.

00:00:06.000 The sugar high is coming from the fact that Joe Biden is, in fact, not the nominee, but Democrats are mistaking that sugar high for Kamala Harris being an actually good and effective candidate.

00:00:15.000 Now, the polls have tightened pretty dramatically, and that is, again, because Joe Biden is no longer in the race.

00:00:20.000 Effectively, the race has been pushed back before the debate, so right before the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

00:00:28.000 Joe Biden was losing, but he was losing by a marginal amount.

00:00:31.000 He was within the margin of error in virtually every swing state.

00:00:33.000 He was within a couple points of Donald Trump.

00:00:35.000 It was a very competitive race.

00:00:37.000 It is back to being a competitive race.

00:00:38.000 The last several polls show that Kamala Harris is, in fact, within margin of error nationally.

00:00:43.000 The Wall Street Journal has Trump up 49-47.

00:00:44.000 Forbes-HarrisX has Trump up 51-49.

00:00:44.000 47. Forbes Harris X has Trump up 51 49. The New York Times Siena poll has Trump up 48 47.

00:00:51.000 Again, that is a much narrower lead than he had against Joe Biden, but Kamala Harris is not in

00:00:56.000 fact a dead person. So that obviously is going to help her.

00:00:59.000 It also means that a lot of the Democratic enthusiasm problems have gone away.

00:01:04.000 Democrats were wildly unenthusiastic about their candidate, and you could feel it.

00:01:08.000 It was palpable.

00:01:09.000 If you have hung around Democrats, you could see they were depressed going into the election.

00:01:12.000 The last thing you want is for your crowd to be depressed going into an election cycle.

00:01:17.000 That depression appears to be over, but there's somewhat of a manic property to the sugar

00:01:23.000 high that Democrats are currently experiencing.

00:01:24.000 Because the reality is that even with Kamala Harris having this enormous bump out of the

00:01:29.000 gate, the media just sycophantically drooling over her. 0.99

00:01:34.000 New York Magazine putting a cover out saying, Kamalot, like it's Kamalot.

00:01:39.000 Wow!

00:01:40.000 The answer was there all along.

00:01:42.000 The media going out of their way to erase all the truths about Kamala Harris.

00:01:44.000 Even with that, Kamala Harris is still not leading in the polls.

00:01:48.000 According to Decision Desk HQ, which is an excellent aggregator of polls, they find, for example in Pennsylvania, That Donald Trump still has about a two and a half point lead on Kamala Harris.

00:02:00.000 And that is a minor, minor decrease since the week before.

00:02:03.000 In other words, the polls, Democrat versus Republican, continue to be quite durable in favor of Donald Trump.

00:02:09.000 Although, again, those margins are very, very narrow.

00:02:11.000 And you're going to get another three weeks of solid coverage of Kamala Harris where the media basically just massaged her. 0.94

00:02:17.000 She's going to pick a vice presidential candidate sometime in the next couple of weeks. 1.00

00:02:20.000 You're going to get the Democratic convention that is happening the third week of August.

00:02:23.000 So, it's going to be a nice three weeks for Kamala Harris, and then the bump is going to be over. 0.96

00:02:27.000 You are seeing, of course, a massive impact on her approval rating.

00:02:30.000 Martha Raddatz of ABC News, she was reporting that Kamala Harris' approval rating has bumped almost 20 points since she was announced as the nominee.

00:02:39.000 This morning our brand new ABC News Ipsos poll shows Harris getting a real bounce.

00:02:45.000 Her favorability rating among all Americans up eight points in just one week.

00:02:52.000 The numbers even better among independents with her favorability rising from 28% to 44% since Biden left the race.

00:03:01.000 And there appears to be new enthusiasm for Harris, with 48% enthusiastic about her as the Democratic nominee, compared to 39% enthusiastic about Trump as the GOP nominee.

00:03:15.000 Okay, well, again, that enthusiasm is likely to wear off as the sort of varnish on Kamala Harris' candidacy starts to wear off.

00:03:24.000 The fact is that Kamala Harris is a bad candidate. 0.99

00:03:26.000 She was a bad candidate in 2019, she's a bad candidate in 2020, and she is in fact a bad candidate in 2024, as we'll get to. 0.96

00:03:33.000 She has a lot of vulnerabilities.

00:03:35.000 But again, For the moment, the story is newfound Democratic enthusiasm.

00:03:39.000 Lydia Polgrein, who is a left-wing columnist for the New York Times, she has an entire piece titled, I Was a Kamala Harris Skeptic.

00:03:45.000 Here's How I Got Coconut Pilled.

00:03:47.000 So Democrats are trying to take all of the weirdnesses of Kamala Harris and magically shift them over in real time into assets. 0.92

00:03:53.000 So all the weird clips of her laughing about falling out of a coconut tree or something, those are now being turned into some sort of Strength.

00:04:01.000 In the same way the Democrats tried to do this, you remember that Brandon, let's go Brandon, started off as a mistaken chant at a NASCAR rally.

00:04:10.000 You remember this?

00:04:11.000 At NASCAR, there's a big event and people were shouting, F Joe Biden.

00:04:16.000 And one of the commentators there didn't want to say what exactly the crowd was chanting.

00:04:19.000 So instead, the commentator said, they're chanting, let's go Brandon.

00:04:23.000 And then that became sort of a phrase used by the right.

00:04:25.000 And then that was captured and used by the Democrats In terms of taking the image of Joe Biden, putting sunglasses on him with laser eyes, and then saying he was dark Brennan.

00:04:34.000 So now Democrats are trying to do the same with the coconut meme.

00:04:37.000 So they're calling it coconut-pilled.

00:04:39.000 Kamala Harris is, in fact, weird. 0.72

00:04:41.000 They're trying to make her not weird, but she's kind of weird.

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00:05:44.000 Suddenly they're enthusiastic about coconuts.

00:05:47.000 So what does Lydia Paul Greene say?

00:05:48.000 She says, I've always voted, but like most journalists, I've tried to keep my political views mostly to myself.

00:05:52.000 She did not do a good job of that. 0.90

00:05:53.000 Everyone knew that she was to the left.

00:05:55.000 So she says, On the morning after the disastrous June debate between Biden and Trump, I wrote with enthusiasm I believed Harris should take over at the top of the ticket and very much could be Trump.

00:06:03.000 Why did I come around to Harris?

00:06:04.000 Why so quickly?

00:06:05.000 A lot of people are now asking themselves how they feel about Harris and whether she can do the job.

00:06:09.000 All understandable questions after five years when many people were meh at best on her.

00:06:13.000 The flash flood of endorsements, donations, and support for Harris has been astonishing.

00:06:17.000 I think you can trace the beginning of the vibe shift to Biden's terrible debate and Harris's interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper shortly afterward when she crisply defended Biden and made an energetic case against Trump.

00:06:25.000 Okay, that's not really what's happening here.

00:06:27.000 Again, nobody actually has new thoughts about Kamala Harris.

00:06:30.000 They're just trying to talk themselves into new thoughts about Kamala Harris because they're relieved that Joe Biden is not in the race.

00:06:35.000 Now, there are a bunch of problems with Kamala Harris as a candidate. 1.00

00:06:38.000 There are two main problems.

00:06:40.000 One, she's very radical on policy and believes weird things.

00:06:43.000 Two, she's a weird person. 0.94

00:06:45.000 Both of those things are true.

00:06:47.000 We know the first because it turns out that her policies are, in fact, incredibly radical. 0.98

00:06:52.000 We played last week clips of her talking about equity in an incredibly Marxist way.

00:06:56.000 The basic idea was, according to Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, that everyone should end up in the same place.

00:07:02.000 That is what we are all shooting for, not that everyone should have opportunity, that everyone should have equal rights.

00:07:07.000 No, instead that everyone should end up at the same place, which is just communism.

00:07:11.000 Kamala Harris has backed a ban on fracking.

00:07:15.000 She has steadfastly stood against fossil fuels.

00:07:19.000 She wants a full-scale gun seizure for quote-unquote assault weapons. 0.95

00:07:25.000 Kamala Harris is incredibly radical on a wide variety of policies. 1.00

00:07:28.000 So, she's weird on policy. 0.91

00:07:30.000 And then, there's the problem of her personally.

00:07:32.000 And we're all obscuring this and pretending that it doesn't exist, but it's very real.

00:07:36.000 It turns out that presidential candidates tend to expose the weirdnesses in people.

00:07:39.000 People who look good at the state level, when exposed to national spotlight, very often fall apart.

00:07:44.000 You see this every primary season.

00:07:47.000 There are people that we all kind of liked.

00:07:50.000 I can name them off the top of my head.

00:07:51.000 Tim Pawlenty.

00:07:52.000 Senator from Minnesota.

00:07:53.000 And there was a lot of talk about him a few years back as a presidential candidate.

00:07:57.000 It turned out he was kind of dull.

00:07:58.000 Scott Walker.

00:07:59.000 Super nice guy.

00:08:00.000 Excellent governor of Wisconsin.

00:08:02.000 Early frontrunner for the Republican nomination a few years back.

00:08:05.000 And it turns out he just didn't have it.

00:08:07.000 Governor DeSantis in Florida.

00:08:09.000 People like me, big backers of DeSantis because he happens to be the best governor in the country.

00:08:14.000 And then it turns out that when he got on the national stage, that he kind of spoke awkwardly and all of that sort of stuff started to crop up.

00:08:19.000 Kamala Harris has been on the national stage before.

00:08:22.000 She is not new to us.

00:08:23.000 The attempt to recast her as something magical and wonderful is odd because there are too many clips of her cackling like a crazy person, or smarm-smiling her way through various events, or delivering word salads like something out of Soup Plantation.

00:08:40.000 Kamala Harris is a weird person. 1.00

00:08:41.000 She's a very strange individual.

00:08:43.000 And how many clips can there be of her talking about the magic of Venn diagrams and electric school buses?

00:08:47.000 And again, people can pretend that that stuff doesn't exist.

00:08:50.000 They can pretend that that's a personal attack, but every single candidate goes through this.

00:08:54.000 Every single one.

00:08:56.000 So I'm focusing in on the definition of weirdness today, because Democrats are now trying to jujitsu this thing.

00:09:01.000 They know Kamala Harris is weird.

00:09:03.000 She is.

00:09:04.000 That's just what she is. 0.98

00:09:05.000 She's an elite, left coast, upper class, left winger, who has a very strange kind of personal affect. 0.99

00:09:12.000 And everyone knows this, right?

00:09:14.000 From the bizarre laugh where she kind of starts shaking and then she laughs kind of crazily, to the strange sentences that are literally impossible to diagram via sentence tree.

00:09:25.000 Okay, here's the thing.

00:09:26.000 Donald Trump is baked into the cake.

00:09:28.000 He's been baked into the cake for a decade at this point.

00:09:32.000 Everyone has their thoughts on Donald Trump.

00:09:33.000 Those thoughts ain't changing.

00:09:34.000 Okay, here's the thing, Donald Trump is baked into the cake.

00:09:36.000 He's been baked into the cake for a decade at this point.

00:09:39.000 Everyone has their thoughts on Donald Trump.

00:09:41.000 Those thoughts ain't changing.

00:09:42.000 Trying to label Donald Trump weird is like trying to label Tom Brady weird.

00:09:46.000 He's some of the most famous people in the world.

00:09:49.000 Donald Trump is the most famous person probably in human history, just based on the sheer number of people alive now who know who he is.

00:09:56.000 And not only is he famous, everybody knows pretty much everything about him.

00:09:59.000 There is no new fodder.

00:10:01.000 So, Democrats instead are focusing their ire on J.D.

00:10:04.000 Vance.

00:10:06.000 And they are focusing on the idea that he is weird.

00:10:08.000 Now, there are two sort of definitions of weirdness, as I pointed out.

00:10:11.000 With Kamala Harris, and this is also true, this is what Democrats are trying to do with J.D.

00:10:14.000 Vance.

00:10:14.000 They're trying to say that he is personally weird.

00:10:17.000 That is a very difficult lift for J.D.

00:10:19.000 Vance.

00:10:19.000 J.D.

00:10:19.000 Vance is not personally weird.

00:10:21.000 J.D.

00:10:21.000 Vance is one of the most normal people ever to be a vice presidential candidate.

00:10:25.000 J.D.

00:10:25.000 Vance is happily married, he has kids, he goes to church regularly.

00:10:28.000 Like, there's nothing about J.D.

00:10:29.000 Vance that screams weird.

00:10:32.000 He doesn't have like weird hobbies.

00:10:35.000 When he speaks, he's pretty normal.

00:10:37.000 He doesn't have kind of weird mannerisms or habits or anything like that.

00:10:42.000 It's kind of hard to parody J.D.

00:10:43.000 Vance just in a personal sense.

00:10:44.000 Very easy to parody Kamala Harris.

00:10:46.000 Saturday Night Live has even done it.

00:10:48.000 Kind of hard to do that with J.D.

00:10:49.000 Vance because he doesn't have anything that sort of sticks out at you as strange on a personal level.

00:10:53.000 So instead, they're saying that he's weird because he believes weird things.

00:10:58.000 And of course they are focusing in on the cat lady comments.

00:11:02.000 I mean, they're focusing in on the fact that a few years back, J.D.

00:11:05.000 Vance, in 2021, was on Tucker Carlson's show, and he was talking about how the policies of the Democratic Party are geared towards single women.

00:11:14.000 And he threw out this line that, again, people say stuff on Fox News all the time.

00:11:18.000 I'm not blaming J.D.

00:11:19.000 Vance for this.

00:11:19.000 He was running for Senate at the time.

00:11:21.000 Part of the problem for J.D.

00:11:22.000 is that his entire political career has been telescoped into about three years.

00:11:27.000 He started running for Senate in 2021, and he's the vice presidential candidate in 2024.

00:11:31.000 That is a very short period of time.

00:11:33.000 Many of us who are in the political commentariat have said stuff like this, but it was like 10 years ago.

00:11:36.000 And so there's a long trajectory where you sort of get to evolve.

00:11:40.000 J.D.

00:11:41.000 just started this game in like 2021, and now he's the vice presidential candidate.

00:11:45.000 And there's a great temptation when you go and say, Tucker Carlson, Sean Fox News, to deliver a funny line.

00:11:49.000 So here he was back in 2021, and this is the line the Democrats are using to claim that J.D.

00:11:53.000 Vance is weird.

00:11:55.000 We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. 1.00

00:12:07.000 And it's just a basic fact.

00:12:09.000 You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. 0.99

00:12:16.000 And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it? 0.76

00:12:24.000 Okay, so, again, the argument that I think he should have been making is that it is very important in society to have kids.

00:12:31.000 And in fact, it is a morally superior decision to have kids.

00:12:34.000 It is.

00:12:35.000 And we can pretend that it is a matter of complete Apathy as to whether human beings have children?

00:12:42.000 All of social development, all of human survival relies on people having children. 1.00

00:12:47.000 So, if we have a choice as a society, whether to promote childbearing and childrearing or whether to not promote it, that is not a matter of apathy in the slightest.

00:12:57.000 And that's why, presumably, you should give tax benefits for having kids.

00:13:00.000 That's the case that J.D., I think, is trying to make.

00:13:02.000 Instead, he goes after the opposite, right?

00:13:04.000 He goes in a very negative direction.

00:13:05.000 So, he was on Megyn Kelly.

00:13:07.000 This is three years later now.

00:13:09.000 And he explains himself on Megyn Kelly.

00:13:12.000 This comment that I made was actually motivated in part by a conversation I had with my wife, where she at the time had two babies, we hadn't yet had a third, and she was talking about how she felt this incredible professional pressure to not have kids because it set back her professional advancement.

00:13:29.000 And what a weird society that we've set up where moms who want to work The thought that a lot of them are having is, I can't have more babies because it's going to be bad for my career. 1.00

00:13:38.000 How about we make the workplace more accommodating to working moms and working dads so that we can promote a real culture of life? 1.00

00:13:47.000 OK, so again, that argument, if you'd made that in 2021, is totally non-controversial or at least very difficult to make it controversial.

00:13:54.000 It's the fact that he used the phrase cat lady and now Democrats are glomming onto that.

00:13:57.000 So what they've decided is really because they don't want Republicans painting Kamala as weird.

00:14:02.000 They're going to paint J.D.

00:14:04.000 as weird.

00:14:04.000 Democrats are trying very hard to make J.D.

00:14:06.000 Vance a weirdo.

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00:15:14.000 Again, I think this is a dog that is not going to hunt particularly well.

00:15:18.000 And this is coming from somebody who thinks that, you know, Donald Trump, strategically speaking,

00:15:23.000 could have made easier picks for VP.

00:15:25.000 But this isn't about that.

00:15:26.000 This is about Democrats slandering J.D.

00:15:28.000 Vance as weird in order to avoid the consequence of the fact that they picked a very weird vice president in 2020 who is now the presidential candidate.

00:15:35.000 So, over the last two days, according to Tom Elliott, founder of Gravion, CNN and MSNBC have suggested that J.D.

00:15:42.000 Vance is weird more than 150 times in two days.

00:15:48.000 The Democratic media complex rides again.

00:15:51.000 They are all in coordination.

00:15:52.000 And you can sense the joie de vivre in the media.

00:15:56.000 The media are overjoyed.

00:15:58.000 For like three weeks there, they had massive cognitive dissonance.

00:16:00.000 They hate Donald Trump.

00:16:01.000 They hate JD Vance.

00:16:03.000 And so they were like, oh my God, but we still have to cover the fact that Joe Biden is senile.

00:16:06.000 What do we do?

00:16:07.000 So they forced Joe Biden out of the race.

00:16:09.000 And now they're back in their comfort place.

00:16:11.000 They're back to eating their comfort.

00:16:12.000 They're in the corner eating cartons of ice cream and making fun of JD Vance.

00:16:16.000 It's like their favorite thing to do.

00:16:18.000 So Chuck Schumer goes on the Sunday shows and he labels J.D.

00:16:21.000 Vance weird.

00:16:23.000 The addition of J.D.

00:16:24.000 Vance to this ticket, it's it's incredibly bad choice.

00:16:31.000 I think Donald Trump, I know him.

00:16:34.000 And he's probably sitting and watching the TV.

00:16:37.000 And every day, Vance, it comes out, Vance has done something more extreme, more weird, more erratic.

00:16:43.000 Vance seems to be more erratic and more extreme than President Trump.

00:16:46.000 And I'll bet President Trump is sitting there, scratching his head and wondering, why did I pick this guy?

00:16:54.000 Okay, so again, the idea here is that he's weird.

00:16:56.000 Jen Psaki, who went directly from being the press secretary for Joe Biden to being the press secretary for Kamala Harris, but working for MSNBC, she also says that J.D.

00:17:03.000 Vance is weird.

00:17:06.000 Kamala Harris in so many ways might just be the right candidate at the right time. 1.00

00:17:10.000 The right candidate for this century, by the way.

00:17:12.000 She might be the right candidate to tell the country that actually, we don't have to go back.

00:17:16.000 To tell the country that actually, back wasn't so great for lots of Americans, and that we can go forward instead.

00:17:22.000 Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you this is going to be easy.

00:17:25.000 It is not.

00:17:26.000 Donald Trump and his weirdo running mate and the Republican apparatus behind them will regroup. 0.99

00:17:30.000 They will throw everything that's going to be gross, misogynistic, sexist, racist, all of the things. 0.99

00:17:36.000 This is the candidacy they're gonna try and run, is that if you point out that Kamala Harris is in fact both weird on policy and personally, this means that you're a racist and a sexist and the actual weirdo is the perfectly normal guy from Ohio who's married with kids and goes to Catholic church. 0.55

00:17:51.000 And believes in traditional family and thinks that it's actually kind of a big social issue if people aren't having kids. 0.54

00:17:56.000 J.B. 0.90

00:17:56.000 Pritzker, who is the ridiculous governor of Illinois, possible VP pick apparently. 0.90

00:18:01.000 He too was was suggesting that Trump and Vance are weird. 0.98

00:18:05.000 Just weird.

00:18:06.000 I mean, they really are the things that they stand for.

00:18:08.000 Donald Trump, of course, is afraid of of windmills. 0.80

00:18:12.000 And, you know, he talks about all kinds of crazy.

00:18:15.000 You know, his running mate, as you probably have heard, is, you know, getting known for

00:18:19.000 his obsession with couches and and somebody who is hiding his views on a woman's right 0.85

00:18:26.000 to choose.

00:18:27.000 And then just broadly, the attack on people who are childless and saying that we had to

00:18:32.000 raise taxes on childless people, calling them cat ladies.

00:18:37.000 I think, you know, he apologized to cats, but he hasn't apologized to women. 0.85

00:18:44.000 Okay, again, the idea here is this is all projection.

00:18:47.000 It's all projection.

00:18:48.000 Okay, how do we know it's projection?

00:18:49.000 Because it's true that there is a weird position with regard to having children or not having children as a society.

00:18:55.000 And there is a weird position with regard to traditional family versus alternative lifestyles.

00:18:59.000 That weird position is that all of these things are morally equivalent.

00:19:02.000 They are not.

00:19:03.000 Or that they are societally equivalent in terms of their benefit to society.

00:19:06.000 Because they're not.

00:19:07.000 It turns out that all functioning societies are rooted in a traditional family structure that is built around having kids.

00:19:14.000 That is utterly uncontroversial.

00:19:16.000 If it's controversial to you, then you probably should look at your priors.

00:19:19.000 Every society is rooted in the little platoons represented by families.

00:19:24.000 And those families have to be built for the future or the society doesn't have a future.

00:19:29.000 Alternative perspectives, which is that pretty much all personal choice is not a matter of social impact or morality.

00:19:36.000 That is a weird idea.

00:19:38.000 It is a peculiarly Western-educated, post-Christian idea, and it's strange. 0.99

00:19:43.000 It's strange because it happens to be unproductive and foolish. 0.98

00:19:47.000 Which brings us to the Olympics.

00:19:48.000 Okay, so, what do these two things have to do with each other?

00:19:50.000 Don't worry, we'll get there.

00:19:51.000 So, the Olympics.

00:19:53.000 The opener happened over the weekend.

00:19:55.000 Obviously, it's taking place in Paris, France.

00:19:58.000 And the big sort of high-profile thing that happened in the opener of the Olympics is very weird.

00:20:05.000 The big high-profile thing that happened is that there was an attempt to create what they called a scene on the sign.

00:20:14.000 That was the Last Supper.

00:20:15.000 Here's the Last Supper.

00:20:17.000 Inspired Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper painting. 0.61

00:20:20.000 Except everybody in the Last Supper painting was queer or trans. 0.95

00:20:26.000 That's what this was.

00:20:27.000 It was deliberately an insult to Christians all over the world.

00:20:31.000 And then, they float on in, Dionysius, Who is the Greek god of wine, except he's like a fat smurf on a cornucopia of flowers to sing to you.

00:20:43.000 Here is what it looked like.

00:20:44.000 It created obviously an enormous amount of backlash at the opener of the Olympics.

00:20:50.000 Where would we hide a revolver if we were naked?

00:20:57.000 Where?

00:21:00.000 I know where you think.

00:21:02.000 But, it's not a good idea.

00:21:04.000 Yes.

00:21:07.000 No more rich people, no more poor people, when we get naked again. 0.69

00:21:10.000 Yes. 0.97

00:21:15.000 Whether you're slim or fat, we're just naked.

00:21:19.000 This is at the Olympics.

00:21:22.000 Let's live how we were born.

00:21:24.000 Naked.

00:21:26.000 Let's live how we were born.

00:21:29.000 So, welcome to the Weird West.

00:21:33.000 That's pretty weird.

00:21:34.000 It's a little weird.

00:21:35.000 Just gonna put that out there.

00:21:36.000 It's weird.

00:21:38.000 It's not just weird, it's insulting, obviously, because it turns out that a Judeo-Christian heritage, upon which the West was built, that values family and childbearing and childrearing, explicitly rejects this.

00:21:50.000 I mean, understand that it's not just about the mockery of The Last Supper, which is disgusting and horrible, and the fact is that, again, they would never try this in France with Muslims, because if they did, Charlie Hebdo would have all of its employees murdered. 0.97

00:22:03.000 This is about a society that has decided to revert to the pre-Christian ideal.

00:22:09.000 I know these people are very interested in insulting Christian tradition, but you know a place that doesn't?

00:22:14.000 Grand Canyon University.

00:22:15.000 It's a private Christian university in the beautiful Phoenix, Arizona area.

00:22:18.000 GCU believes we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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00:22:51.000 Visit gcu.edu, that's gcu.edu.

00:22:54.000 Literally the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible is about people living in a Garden of Eden

00:22:59.000 in a state of nakedness, and then they eat from the tree of knowledge,

00:23:03.000 and now they have to put on skins because this is what it means to become a sinful human,

00:23:07.000 is you actually have to wear clothes.

00:23:10.000 So, thank you.

00:23:11.000 So this is, again, a very pre-Christian ideal that is being promoted by the Olympics.

00:23:17.000 Now the person who organized this, whose name is Anne Descamp, she apologized for this.

00:23:22.000 She said, I shouldn't mean it to be insulting to Christians.

00:23:24.000 Of course it was meant to be insulting to Christians.

00:23:27.000 Clearly it was meant to be insulting to Christians.

00:23:30.000 Clearly, there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group.

00:23:38.000 On the contrary, I think that Majolais really tried to celebrate community tolerance.

00:23:45.000 That was his word yesterday.

00:23:48.000 Looking at the result of the polls that we shared, we believe that this ambition was achieved.

00:23:54.000 If people have taken any offense, we are, of course, really, really sorry.

00:24:01.000 Okay, so it's about tolerance, except for Christians. 0.94

00:24:03.000 Really intolerant of that. 0.97

00:24:04.000 It's about singing songs about how we don't have any differences when we're naked, because all that really matters is sex, right?

00:24:10.000 There really is nothing important about human life, about religion, about belief systems, or certainly about children.

00:24:18.000 So why is that important?

00:24:19.000 Well, if you look at France as sort of the bleeding edge of the cultural West, then what you see is that France, like pretty much every other country in Europe, as well as the United States, has an aging population with very few babies.

00:24:32.000 That's just a reality.

00:24:33.000 And that's a problem.

00:24:35.000 It turns out that a weird idea of human behavior, in which all behaviors are deemed morally equivalent and societally useful, tends to degrade into moral relativism.

00:24:43.000 And that moral relativism tends to degrade into hedonism, and then into a sort of cultural decay.

00:24:51.000 France's population increase has basically stalled out.

00:24:57.000 Right now, the fertility rate in France has dropped down to 1.68 children per woman compared to 1.79 in 2022.

00:25:04.000 That is down from about 2 in 2013.

00:25:08.000 The average age of mothers in France has been rising steadily over the same period.

00:25:12.000 It currently stands at 31.

00:25:14.000 Okay, which is pretty old in terms of like the average age of having your first kid.

00:25:19.000 Not only that, religious practice in France, of course, has gone completely by the wayside.

00:25:25.000 In 2019-2020, According to one study in NC, 2019-2020, 51% of the population aged 18-59 in metropolitan France said they had no religion.

00:25:37.000 No religion. 0.92

00:25:38.000 While Catholicism remains the dominant religion, 29% of the population says that they are Catholic.

00:25:43.000 Islam comes in second at 10%.

00:25:47.000 The frequency and intensity of religious practice, however, varies by religious affiliation.

00:25:51.000 Only 8% of those Catholics regularly attend a place of worship.

00:25:55.000 Compared to just over 20% of other Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists.

00:26:01.000 91% of people raised in a Muslim family follow the religion of their parents.

00:26:05.000 Only 67% of Catholics follow the religion of their parents.

00:26:09.000 So religion is falling away, childbearing is falling away, and not a shock.

00:26:14.000 And as it turns out, the prediction is that by about 2050, 20% of the population of France is going to be Muslim.

00:26:21.000 You've already seen the massive social discontent that is set in in France.

00:26:25.000 The entire country is radically politically divided because of mass migration, and that mass migration has been made necessary by, again, the economic...

00:26:33.000 Pyramid scheme that is an aging population in France. 0.87

00:26:37.000 So what does that have to do with America?

00:26:38.000 Well, again, it has to do with what actually is weird.

00:26:41.000 I'll tell you what's not particularly weird.

00:26:43.000 A Republican presidential candidate saying perhaps we should have tax incentives in order to get people to have more kids.

00:26:49.000 Not super weird.

00:26:51.000 Saying that, you know, it's actually a benefit of society for people to have kids.

00:26:53.000 We should make it easier for people to have kids in the United States economically.

00:26:56.000 You can argue with the policy or disagree with the policy, but the idea that it is societally important, and yes, morally praiseworthy to have and raise children.

00:27:07.000 And that society ought not be apathetic about that.

00:27:10.000 That's not a weird position.

00:27:11.000 It's a very not weird position.

00:27:12.000 It turns out what is a weird position is the suggestion that what the West is truly all about is drag queens in the Last Supper.

00:27:20.000 With a pagan god of wine, a fat smurf rolling on in to talk about nakedness. 1.00

00:27:26.000 That's the part that's not weird.

00:27:26.000 Apparently that's totally normal.

00:27:28.000 And that's Kamala Harris.

00:27:30.000 Okay, Kamala Harris's campaign is built around this alternative moral structure in which we are supposed to be not only apathetic, but somewhat disdainful of religion, Christianity, traditional family.

00:27:40.000 Like that is real about Kamala Harris.

00:27:42.000 Again, forget about the cat lady, not cat lady, kind of snarky nonsense.

00:27:45.000 The only thing that matters on an issue level is the fact that Kamala Harris actually identifies with one side of this particular political divide. 0.97

00:27:55.000 And that does have major ramifications for the future of society.

00:27:59.000 And let's face it, that's what we would normally call weird.

00:28:01.000 Weird just means non-central.

00:28:04.000 Okay, typically weird just means an outlier, like a statistical outlier.

00:28:10.000 It used to be, in a traditional society, you have traditional families, traditional marriage, and that was kind of the center of society.

00:28:15.000 And then, of course, you had people who lived alternative lifestyles and made alternative choices and all the rest.

00:28:20.000 And they were, you know, on the margins, accepted within the society, but on the margins of the society.

00:28:25.000 What the left has done is they've exploded the norm in favor of the margins.

00:28:29.000 And that's something Kamala Harris has done. 1.00

00:28:30.000 It's not just Kamala who's weird, it's also the economy.

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00:29:33.000 And again, she also happens to be kind of weird. 0.82

00:29:36.000 Here she was on RuPaul's Drag Race last week.

00:29:40.000 I mean, let's be a little real about this.

00:29:42.000 Kamala Harris would be much more comfortable hanging out with the cast of The Last Supper on the sign at the Olympics than she would in like a traditional Baptist church in Georgia. 0.73

00:29:53.000 Here's Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:29:55.000 Hi, everyone.

00:29:56.000 It's Kamala Harris.

00:29:58.000 Each day, we are seeing our rights and freedoms under attack, including the right of everyone to be who they are, love who they love, openly and with pride.

00:30:11.000 So as we fight back against these attacks, let's all remember, no one is alone.

00:30:17.000 We are all in this together, and your vote is your power.

00:30:22.000 So please make sure your voice is heard this November and register to vote at vote.gov.

00:30:29.000 Can I get an amen?

00:30:30.000 Don't worry, J.D.

00:30:31.000 is the weird one.

00:30:33.000 There's all the cast of RuPaul's Drag Race saying amen to that.

00:30:36.000 Don't worry, J.D.

00:30:37.000 Vance is the weird one.

00:30:38.000 He's clearly the weird one.

00:30:40.000 By the way, yesterday a video was released, Drag Queens for Kamoa.

00:30:45.000 So here we go.

00:30:47.000 I'll be treating hit bills passed in Congress that'll protect me and you.

00:30:54.000 Can you?

00:30:56.000 Black, white, Latino, Asian, or LGBTQ.

00:31:01.000 She could get this country back to where we can stand tall. 0.90

00:31:06.000 Keeping us safe from harm without building a wall.

00:31:10.000 Cause she's a woman. 1.00

00:31:14.000 W-O-M-A-N. 1.00

00:31:18.000 I'll say it again, she's a woman. 0.97

00:31:24.000 K-A-M-A-L-A. 1.00

00:31:27.000 Woman.

00:31:30.000 Renormalizing the marginal, that's the basic idea of the Kamala Harris campaign.

00:31:35.000 But she's not just weird that way, as it turns out.

00:31:37.000 I mean, so first of all, again, this is longstanding Kamala Harris policy.

00:31:40.000 It was just last year that she was gallivanting around in the White House with other members

00:31:46.000 of RuPaul's Drag Race.

00:31:58.000 Don't worry, guys.

00:31:59.000 J.D.

00:31:59.000 Vance is the weird one.

00:32:00.000 You see why they keep saying J.D.

00:32:01.000 Vance is weird?

00:32:02.000 They have to.

00:32:03.000 Because J.D.

00:32:04.000 Vance is the VP candidate.

00:32:06.000 Let's be real about this.

00:32:06.000 VP candidates rarely make a very big difference.

00:32:09.000 Donald Trump is the Republican candidate.

00:32:11.000 You know who's weird?

00:32:12.000 Kamala Harris.

00:32:13.000 She's weird. 0.78

00:32:14.000 Not only is she weird, she is radical.

00:32:16.000 She's a deeply radical person.

00:32:19.000 Her entire campaign is now being run along the same lines, not as Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, which is the one everybody's all enthusiastic about.

00:32:25.000 We're gonna unite America!

00:32:26.000 Right?

00:32:26.000 There's no red states, there's no blue states, there's just the United States!

00:32:29.000 No black, no white, just American!

00:32:31.000 Not that campaign.

00:32:32.000 The 2012 campaign, where Barack Obama decided to divvy, slice, and dice up the American population into various intersectional groups, and then try to drive out the vote with each one of those intersectional groups.

00:32:42.000 So in just a second, we're going to get to how she's running this campaign. 1.00

00:32:46.000 And it is incredibly radical.

00:32:47.000 It's incredibly, incredibly divisive.

00:32:49.000 Get to that in just one moment.

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00:33:23.000 Okay, meanwhile.

00:33:24.000 Now again, there is something weird about dividing the American population by race, 0.91

00:33:29.000 That's exactly what the Kamala Harris campaign is doing. 1.00

00:33:32.000 So they've now rolled out a series of Zoom calls that are specifically designed by intersectional characteristic.

00:33:36.000 So according to Reuters, more than 160,000 people joined the White Women for Kamala Harris Zoom call. 1.00

00:33:43.000 This was, I'm not even kidding you, called, euphemistically, Karens for Kamala.

00:33:49.000 Because, of course, it's totally fine to label white women Karens, you just can't label them cat ladies if you're J.D. 0.61

00:33:53.000 Vance, right?

00:33:54.000 That's the way that this works.

00:33:55.000 You're allowed to call them Karens, as in, like, upper-class white ladies who really ought to be apologetic for, you know, their race and their sex. 1.00

00:34:03.000 But that's what they were doing on the Zoom call.

00:34:05.000 So on the Zoom call, they were legitimately apologizing for who they were while pushing Kamala Harris.

00:34:11.000 Which, if this makes you feel better, ladies, I gotta tell you, I think there's something deeper going on that's more of a problem.

00:34:16.000 Here was Ariel Fodor, a member of White Women for Kamala. 0.90

00:34:19.000 Again, it's so weird.

00:34:20.000 Can you imagine white men for Trump?

00:34:23.000 Like, that's such a weird thing. 0.61

00:34:24.000 White women for Trump. 1.00

00:34:25.000 Like, why would you divide the American people this way?

00:34:28.000 But this is precisely what they're doing because, again, the 2012 Barack Obama Theory of Politics was cobbled together a bunch of upper-class white ladies and a bunch of intersectional minorities, and that will be your coalition.

00:34:37.000 And that will be the new Democratic coalition.

00:34:40.000 Not a class-based coalition, not a working-class coalition.

00:34:43.000 Abandon all those people.

00:34:44.000 You need white ladies for Kamala. 1.00

00:34:45.000 Here's Ariel Fodor saying some pretty wild things on this white women for Harris phone call. 1.00

00:34:53.000 We are here because, as if you were here earlier, you've heard BIPOC women have tapped us in as white women to step up, listen, and get involved this election season.

00:35:03.000 This is a really important time, and we all need to use our voices and influence for the greater good.

00:35:09.000 No matter who you are, you are all influencers in some way.

00:35:13.000 So tonight, I'm going to share some do's and don'ts for getting involved in politics online and navigating the toxicity that comes with it.

00:35:22.000 And spoiler alert, as much as the toxicity can come from the outside, it can come from us too.

00:35:28.000 So first, don't isolate yourself.

00:35:31.000 We can do our best work when we're in community together, like we are tonight, because the toxic feels smaller when we support each other.

00:35:39.000 But don't make it about yourself.

00:35:42.000 As white women, we need to use our privilege to make positive changes. 1.00

00:35:46.000 If you find yourself talking over or speaking for BIPOC individuals or, God forbid, correcting them, just take a beat. 1.00

00:35:54.000 And instead, we can put our listening ears on.

00:35:57.000 So do learn from and amplify the voices of those who have been historically marginalized and use the privilege you have in order to push for systemic change.

00:36:10.000 Okay, I'm sorry that's weird.

00:36:11.000 I'm sorry it's weird.

00:36:13.000 Not that she's a white lady who's in favor of Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:36:15.000 Sure.

00:36:16.000 It's that she's being weird.

00:36:17.000 I'm sorry.

00:36:18.000 It's weird to say that you have to use your white privilege to put- You can't correct a BIPOC woman. 1.00

00:36:22.000 You can't corre- You can't correct somebody who's of a race that has more melanin in their skin. 0.92

00:36:28.000 Stop with your corrections.

00:36:29.000 You're being right all the time.

00:36:31.000 Put on your listening ears, white ladies. 1.00

00:36:33.000 You have to use your privilege to help the poor, impoverished black people. 1.00

00:36:37.000 It's so weird. 0.93

00:36:38.000 I'm sorry that's weird.

00:36:39.000 It is, it is, and there's nothing I can do about it.

00:36:41.000 It's your fault. 0.86

00:36:41.000 Stop being weird. 0.86

00:36:43.000 Not only that, there is now going to be, I'm not kidding you, there was, July 25th, A Zoom call for black, gay, and queer men for Harris.

00:36:54.000 Like, this is, it's weird.

00:36:56.000 Like, this is what America's about?

00:36:58.000 Dividing everybody up by black, queer, and gay men for Harris, white women for Harris. 1.00

00:37:03.000 There's also, by the way, white men for Harris, which is precisely as terrible as you would think it is. 0.89

00:37:10.000 They're calling it white dudes for Harris, and it's being led by Uber Hulk Hogan type Pete Buttigieg, According to the New York Post, Kamala Harris is using potential Veep candidate Pete Buttigieg to woo white dude voters who need to be honest with ourselves and each other about the role we've played in our nation's history.

00:37:26.000 Yes, apologetic white men, come together for Kamala Harris!

00:37:31.000 Ain't no way you're gonna drive that Rust Belt vote with Pete Buttigieg talking about apologizing for being white. 0.99

00:37:36.000 Like, ridiculous. 0.85

00:37:38.000 So apparently, Pete Buttigieg was scheduled to appear 8 p.m. 0.79

00:37:42.000 tonight with the group White Dudes for Harris.

00:37:45.000 In email to a Post reporter says, quote, as white dudes, we know full well how MAGA cynically preys

00:37:50.000 on resentment.

00:37:51.000 This moment of crisis is challenging us, but we won't let fear define who we are and take us or our country down a

00:37:56.000 dark path.

00:37:56.000 We're coming together to create a space of trust where white

00:37:59.000 dudes can support each other and work to elect Kamala Harris, 0.81

00:38:02.000 the next president of the United States.

00:38:03.000 Okay, first of all, let me just recommend if you're creating

00:38:05.000 a space of trust where white dudes can support each other, you should just join white women for Kamala. 1.00

00:38:10.000 the world.

00:38:11.000 Space of trust.

00:38:12.000 Have you met a dude?

00:38:13.000 This is not a thing.

00:38:15.000 Space of trust where we can support each other?

00:38:17.000 No dude ever has talked like this.

00:38:19.000 Like, what are you, what?

00:38:21.000 Okay, sure, I know, and then it's gonna be like, well, men can be sensitive.

00:38:24.000 Okay, okay.

00:38:26.000 I'm just gonna point out, all this is a little weird.

00:38:29.000 It is.

00:38:31.000 It's strange.

00:38:32.000 You know what else is kind of strange about Kamala Harris? 1.00

00:38:34.000 The fact that she's a congenital liar. 0.99

00:38:36.000 That's kind of weird about her. 0.99

00:38:39.000 They're trying to suggest that J.D.

00:38:40.000 Vance is weird because of his policies and somehow interpersonal.

00:38:44.000 You heard J.B.

00:38:44.000 Pritzker earlier talk about this idea that he had a thing for couches.

00:38:47.000 He literally made a joke about a couch during one of his It turns out there are a bunch of problems with Kamala Harris' candidacy and all of this is misdirected.

00:39:11.000 It's all a giant misdirect.

00:39:12.000 The biggest problem, honestly, with Kamala Harris' candidacy, aside from the fact she's personally weird, aside from the fact she believes weird stuff, is the fact, again, she is wildly dishonest. 1.00

00:39:22.000 According to a new poll, 92% of Americans believe that Kamala Harris was involved in the cover-up of Joe Biden's health to at least some degree.

00:39:33.000 That is a very, very large majority.

00:39:35.000 68% of those who believe there was a cover-up of Biden's health said Harris had a great deal to do with it.

00:39:43.000 And among the questions asked by this new YouGov survey, respondents were asked if Biden was unfairly pressured to drop out, 48% no, 32% yes.

00:39:52.000 Whether there was a cover-up of Biden's health, 54% yes.

00:39:54.000 So 54% yes, and of that, 92% believe that Kamala Harris was involved in the cover-up.

00:40:00.000 Well, again, she was involved in the cover-up.

00:40:02.000 Pete Buttigieg acknowledges as much.

00:40:03.000 So he was spending the Sunday shows auditioning for her VP, and he said, well, yeah, I mean, we were all aware of his decline.

00:40:09.000 Well, then what did you do about it? 0.94

00:40:10.000 Why were you lying about it for years on end to the American people, you liars? 0.91

00:40:15.000 Was she aware of how he was doing? 0.93

00:40:17.000 We're all aware of how he's doing.

00:40:18.000 Our country has watched our president lead.

00:40:21.000 And yes, we've also seen the fact that he's 10 years older than he was 10 years ago.

00:40:27.000 Oh wow, why didn't you say any of that? 0.99

00:40:29.000 Maybe because you're all liars. 0.99

00:40:30.000 Maybe it's because of that. 0.92

00:40:32.000 Now, Seymour Hersh has reported, I'd say like 50% of the time he's right, 50% of the time he's kind of wrong.

00:40:40.000 So I'm just going to report this with the giant grain of salt that it deserves.

00:40:44.000 However, Seymour Hersh says that effectively speaking, Barack Obama ousted Joe Biden by threatening him with the 25th Amendment.

00:40:52.000 According to Seymour Hersh, By Saturday, July 20th, former President Barack Obama was deeply involved.

00:40:57.000 There was talk he would place a call to Biden.

00:40:59.000 It was not clear whether Biden had been examined or just what had happened to him in Las Vegas.

00:41:03.000 Apparently, they suggest that he had some sort of health crisis in Las Vegas.

00:41:06.000 The big three, the official said, referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, continued to be directly involved.

00:41:14.000 On Sunday morning, the official told me, with the approval of Pelosi and Schumer, Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, here's the deal.

00:41:20.000 We have Kamala's approval to invoke the 25th Amendment. 0.96

00:41:23.000 And it was at that point that Joe Biden decided that he would step out of the race.

00:41:25.000 He was pressured out of the race.

00:41:27.000 But again, they were all part of the cover-up.

00:41:30.000 They're also all part of the rewriting.

00:41:32.000 So rewriting Kamala Harris means pretending that she is not, in fact, radical, and also that she both did many things as vice president and also had no responsibilities and never did anything as vice president.

00:41:43.000 So on the she's not radical bandwagon, you've got Governor Wes Moore, again, Maryland governor auditioning for her VP pick.

00:41:51.000 Here he was saying that the GOP is disingenuous to call Kamala Harris radical despite the fact she was literally the most left-wing senator in America in 2019.

00:41:59.000 I think she needs to continue putting together her vision for the future.

00:42:03.000 I think that, you know, when you look at how she approaches things like public safety, first of all, it's remarkably disingenuous to call someone who is a prosecutor for her entire career someone who is soft on crime or someone who believed in defunding the police.

00:42:17.000 She's never believed in defunding the police.

00:42:22.000 But she literally talked about defunding the police in 2020.

00:42:27.000 And she was a progressive prosecutor in San Francisco, like Chase Bowden.

00:42:32.000 That's not a thing.

00:42:34.000 Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren is trying to pretend that Kamala Harris had nothing to do with the border. 1.00

00:42:38.000 Again, this is just rewriting in real time.

00:42:39.000 This is Will Smith in Men in Black with the memory erasure machine.

00:42:45.000 Let's remember to start with the facts, and that is that border crossings now are lower than they were in the last year of the Trump administration.

00:42:55.000 But recognize, and I know that Kamala Harris knows this, this is a problem that ultimately has to be solved by Congress.

00:43:03.000 No she won't.

00:43:04.000 in order to have more resources at the border, to have more resources in the states and cities

00:43:10.000 that are supporting migrants.

00:43:12.000 And I believe we need to create a pathway to citizenship.

00:43:16.000 All of that is a part of what we need to do for comprehensive immigration reform.

00:43:21.000 Kamala Harris will work with Congress and get that done.

00:43:25.000 No, she won't.

00:43:29.000 No, she won't.

00:43:30.000 Donald Trump, doing the right thing.

00:43:32.000 He did a rally over the weekend and he was on the attack against Harris.

00:43:35.000 He should stay away from the talk about her IQ and all this kind of stuff.

00:43:40.000 I mean, he's going to do it.

00:43:41.000 There's no way to stop him.

00:43:42.000 But it's really on her radical policies that he's going to win, because the fact is that he does occupy the middle position on pretty much every policy in America right now, including abortion, where he has taken the state by state position.

00:43:53.000 Kamala Harris is the one who thinks that we need to federalize Roe versus Wade and legitimize abortion up to point of birth. 0.98

00:43:59.000 Here was Donald Trump calling Kamala Harris unhinged over the weekend.

00:44:04.000 Harris is so extreme and unhinged that she has even declared the terms illegal alien and radical Islamic terrorism to be forbidden and unacceptable.

00:44:15.000 You're not allowed to use those terms, but that's what it is.

00:44:20.000 Well, I mean, he's right about that.

00:44:22.000 Then he says that Kamala Harris helped destroy the border.

00:44:24.000 That, of course, is true as well.

00:44:26.000 Kamala Harris's deadly destruction of America's borders is completely and totally disqualifying for her to be president. 0.98

00:44:34.000 You can't have a person like this as president.

00:44:37.000 No person who deliberately releases these kinds of savage criminals to prey on our youth and our people, not just youth.

00:44:45.000 Elderly people, too, are tremendous targets.

00:44:47.000 Should ever be trusted with power.

00:44:50.000 Again, she has no clue.

00:44:52.000 She has no clue. 0.99

00:44:53.000 She's evil. 1.00

00:44:54.000 The one job Kamala had was the border. 1.00

00:44:57.000 That's the only job.

00:44:58.000 And it was the biggest disaster in all of border history.

00:45:01.000 And I'm not talking in this country.

00:45:03.000 I'm talking all over the world.

00:45:04.000 There's never been a border where people cross by the millions and millions.

00:45:10.000 Not wrong about that either.

00:45:12.000 Again, she's very radical.

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00:46:17.000 She's gonna come back to Earth because it turns out that sugar hives wear off. 1.00

00:46:21.000 And when they wear off, Turns out that people go back to their rational mind, and she's not a good candidate.

00:46:28.000 Donald Trump also pointed out to, over the weekend, Hezbollah, which is a Lebanese terror group that is effectively an Iranian proxy group.

00:46:35.000 They've been firing missiles consistently into Israel.

00:46:37.000 Rocketed missiles into Israel for almost a year at this point.

00:46:40.000 Israel has not responded in any sort of severe way.

00:46:43.000 There was a Hezbollah attack that killed 12 Druze.

00:46:47.000 Druze are Arabs who live in Israel, because as it turns out, Israel is in fact a multi-racial, multi-religious democracy. 0.57

00:46:54.000 People of all religions live there.

00:46:55.000 People of all races and ethnicities live there.

00:46:58.000 So 12 Druze kids were killed in the Golan Heights.

00:47:01.000 Hezbollah fired a missile and it killed all these kids in a town called Majdal Shams near the Syrian and Lebanese border.

00:47:09.000 And Donald Trump pointed out that Hezbollah has been on the offense because the Biden administration is weak, which is 100% true. 1.00

00:47:17.000 Today's attack on Israel cannot be forgotten and it will go down as another moment in history created by a weak and ineffective United States president and vice president.

00:47:27.000 They wouldn't have done this if I were the president.

00:47:29.000 They wouldn't have done it.

00:47:32.000 And they didn't.

00:47:34.000 He is absolutely 100% correct about that.

00:47:37.000 Turkey is also threatening the possibility of a broader war.

00:47:40.000 According to the Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem and Ankara traded sharp barbs on Sunday,

00:47:44.000 with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeming to threaten military action against Israel on Sunday,

00:47:49.000 as tensions heated up between the Jewish state and the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah.

00:47:53.000 Should be a reminder at this point, Turkey isn't a member of NATO.

00:47:56.000 They should be expelled from NATO.

00:47:58.000 This is crazy. 0.94

00:47:58.000 It's crazy to have an Islamist state as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 0.94

00:48:04.000 Totally wild and bizarre.

00:48:06.000 Originally, Turkey joined as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. 0.69

00:48:09.000 Now, Turkey is effectively an Islamist terror-supporting state. 0.65

00:48:13.000 They support Hamas. 0.93

00:48:14.000 Why in the world should there be an Article 5 obligation for countries in Europe and the United States to come to Turkey's defense If, for example, they go to war with, you know, an American ally, an European ally, actually, like Israel in the face of Turkish terror.

00:48:27.000 It's totally insane.

00:48:28.000 In any case, all of that is because the Biden administration has reoriented in the Middle East away from the burgeoning Sunni-Israeli alliance that was pushed by Donald Trump, the Abraham Accords.

00:48:38.000 and toward instead Iran and its allies.

00:48:41.000 Kamala Harris, she waited for about 24 hours to put out a statement on the murder of these Druze kids.

00:48:47.000 Again, not Jewish, Muslim kids. 1.00

00:48:49.000 And she said, quote, Israel continues to face severe threats to its security.

00:48:52.000 Harris's support for Israel security is ironclad.

00:48:54.000 This came from her national security advisor, Phil Gordon.

00:48:56.000 She's made no direct statement.

00:48:57.000 Quote, the US will continue working on a diplomatic solution to end all attacks once and for

00:49:01.000 all.

00:49:02.000 So disgusting. 0.80

00:49:04.000 That, of course, is a way of trying to warn the Israelis off from destroying Hezbollah, as Hezbollah has emptied all of northern Israel of its citizens and now killed 12 Druze kids in the Golan Heights. 0.84

00:49:16.000 And instead, she's putting pressure on Israel for diplomacy, backed, of course, by a despicable media.

00:49:21.000 So the New York Times headline on this murder of the 12 Druze kids, quote, fears of escalation after rocket from Lebanon hits soccer field.

00:49:30.000 Oh, is that, oh, fears of escalation?

00:49:33.000 And then the picture is of a bunch of coffins of Druze kids who were killed by Hezbollah.

00:49:38.000 The word Hezbollah does not appear in the headline.

00:49:40.000 The word Iran does not appear in the headline.

00:49:43.000 The word terror attack does not appear in the headline.

00:49:46.000 Instead, the New York Times is just trying to pretend that, you know, it's about the fear of escalation.

00:49:50.000 It's just a tit for tat back and forth.

00:49:52.000 That is not what is happening.

00:49:53.000 A terror group in another country, Lebanon is another country from Israel, has been firing rockets over a sovereign border for a year Hey, this one's even worse from the Washington Post.

00:50:04.000 The Washington Post front page ran a picture of people mourning a little girl who was killed by Hezbollah.

00:50:10.000 That's the picture.

00:50:11.000 The headline says, Israel hits target in Lebanon.

00:50:15.000 The implication from the headline would be that these people are mourning somebody killed by Israel.

00:50:19.000 These people are mourning someone killed by Hezbollah. 0.80

00:50:22.000 Totally insane.

00:50:23.000 Hey, this is your media.

00:50:26.000 And this is the media that is promoting Kamala Harris.

00:50:28.000 So if you don't trust the media, as you should not, you certainly should not trust them about Kamala Harris.

00:50:32.000 By the way, the sub-headline there was, strikes against Hezbollah installations muted amid international call for restraint.

00:50:39.000 So obviously Israel is the bad guy, according to the Washington Post.

00:50:42.000 And again, all of this is being I don't see him making the same sort of issue with regard to say, Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine.

00:50:48.000 ditched the address of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to Congress.

00:50:52.000 Senator Chris Van Hollen, who's been absolutely awful on all of this, Democrat senator,

00:50:57.000 he says that was a mistake for Democrats to even support Netanyahu coming to Congress.

00:51:02.000 I don't see him making the same sort of issue with regard to, say,

00:51:07.000 Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine. But of course, half his party is not staffed by people

00:51:11.000 who support Vladimir Putin. Was it a mistake for Democrats to support him coming to Congress.

00:51:19.000 I believe it was.

00:51:20.000 I've expressed that view.

00:51:22.000 But the reality is, obviously, he came.

00:51:25.000 So for those of us who thought it was a mistake to have him here, we expressed our views by not participating.

00:51:36.000 Absolutely terrible, the Democratic Party.

00:51:38.000 And so Trump is right about this. 0.96

00:51:39.000 He says, by the way, anybody who is a Jew who votes Democrat ought to have his head examined. 0.64

00:51:44.000 Hard agree.

00:51:45.000 He put out a statement saying, quote, Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel had a terrible insulting

00:51:49.000 meeting in DC with Kamala Harris, who also refused to preside over Congress during his speech,

00:51:53.000 which is an obligation of the VP.

00:51:55.000 Rarely has such a thing happened.

00:51:56.000 Her ineptness will greatly prolong the war and delay the hostage relief. 1.00

00:51:58.000 He's not wrong. 0.53

00:51:59.000 He's not wrong. 0.75

00:51:59.000 and embarrassed us in Afghanistan with their gross incompetence 0.75

00:52:01.000 are the ones who are telling Israel not to fight any longer with Hamas.

00:52:04.000 Forget October 7th, they say.

00:52:05.000 Any Jewish person that votes for Kamala or a Democrat should immediately have their head examined. 1.00

00:52:09.000 Likewise, Catholics who are being persecuted by this administration should not be voting

00:52:12.000 for radical left Kamala.

00:52:14.000 Vote Trump 2024, make America great again.

00:52:16.000 Positionally, he is absolutely correct about everything that he says right there.

00:52:22.000 He's not wrong, he's not wrong.

00:52:24.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to more Biden administration failure

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 29, 2024

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