The Ben Shapiro Show - Facebook Readmits Trump | Ep. 1655

00:00:00.000 Facebook readmits President Donald Trump to the platform, but only with one of the most ridiculous statements of guidelines ever devised.

00:00:07.000 President Biden appoints a fat activist to his 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and the Biden administration plans to send tanks to Ukraine.

00:00:14.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:15.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:22.000 Well, Donald Trump is going to make his glorious return to Facebook, I would assume sometime Facebook has now released a statement saying that his two-year ban is over.

00:00:31.000 Now, you'll recall that when Elon Musk took over Twitter, he unbanned Trump, but Trump is on TruthSocial.

00:00:35.000 It would undercut his own profitability in order for him to leave TruthSocial and move over to Twitter.

00:00:39.000 He'd basically have to admit that TruthSocial is a dud.

00:00:42.000 He hasn't done that as of yet.

00:00:44.000 I would assume sometime in the near future.

00:00:45.000 If, in fact, he wishes to run a presidential campaign, he's going to have to go where the eyeballs are and move over to Twitter.

00:00:51.000 But Facebook, again, you'll remember, banned Trump in coordination with Twitter and with the other social media networks.

00:00:57.000 They did that immediately after the events of January 6th, claiming, based on unspecified breaches of their protocol, that Trump had to be banned.

00:01:05.000 Now, they admitted at the time that he hadn't actually done anything to formally break any of their rules.

00:01:10.000 He hadn't harassed anybody.

00:01:11.000 He hadn't actually said anything that was racist to the point that it could get him banned.

00:01:17.000 He had not violated any of the guidelines that Facebook had laid forth.

00:01:20.000 However, they said totality of the circumstances led them to ban Trump, which was basically just a statement that they felt like banning him.

00:01:26.000 And so now they're going to ban him.

00:01:27.000 Well, now they're unbanning him, but, but they're setting conditions.

00:01:31.000 And this shows you the evils of social media.

00:01:34.000 It shows you The vagaries of the people who are setting the rules.

00:01:38.000 And unlike Twitter, where Elon Musk is basically just saying, listen, I'm doing this off the top of my head.

00:01:43.000 You want to blame me?

00:01:44.000 Blame me.

00:01:44.000 Go for it.

00:01:45.000 Facebook pretends they have procedures and protocols, and then they hide behind those procedures and protocols to do whatever the hell that they want.

00:01:51.000 And that is, in fact, a lot more threatening.

00:01:53.000 Because when you give the patina of objectivity, the patina of algorithmic objectivity, to a subjective decision to ban prominent people, what you are actively doing is deceiving the public.

00:02:04.000 Musk is not deceiving the public.

00:02:05.000 When he says this person is banned, this person is readmitted, you at least know who to write the letters to.

00:02:10.000 When it is meta, when it was Twitter before Musk, that was a whole different thing.

00:02:15.000 And so now Facebook is claiming they have a new set of guidelines that they're going to put on Donald Trump that's going to make it easy to ban him again should they see fit to do so.

00:02:23.000 So they put out a very long statement via Nick Clegg, the president of Global Affairs.

00:02:27.000 He is the guy who is responsible for banning Trump in the first place.

00:02:30.000 And he says this, quote, Social media is rooted in the belief that open debate and the free flow of ideas are important values, especially at a time when they are under threat in many places around the world.

00:02:38.000 As a general rule, we don't want to get in the way of open public and democratic debate on META's platforms, especially in the context of elections in democratic societies like the United States. The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying, the good, the bad, and the ugly, so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box. But, uh, and as MC Hammer might say, here comes the big but.

00:02:57.000 That does not mean there are no limits to what people can say on our platform.

00:03:00.000 When there is a clear risk of real world harm, a deliberately high bar for META to intervene in public discourse, we act.

00:03:06.000 What exactly does that mean?

00:03:08.000 Here's where you get into the vagaries of statements like this.

00:03:12.000 Well, you're not saying that Donald Trump actively incited people on January 6th because the legal standard for incitement is he has to tell people, I want you to go and invade the Capitol building on January 6th.

00:03:23.000 And the standard can't even be, he said something that's generally inflammatory, because if that were the standard, you'd have to ban Kamala Harris for bailing people out of jail who were rioting.

00:03:33.000 Or half the Democratic politicians in America for lying about what happened with George Floyd by suggesting that it was racially driven.

00:03:39.000 Again, no matter what you think happened with George Floyd, there's one thing that is certain.

00:03:42.000 There is no evidence whatsoever that the killing of George Floyd had anything to do with race.

00:03:46.000 That evidence was never presented.

00:03:47.000 Every single Democrat suggested, because they were part of the Black Lives Matter moment, That that killing had something to do with race.

00:03:54.000 I didn't see Facebook stepping in despite the $2 billion in property damage that were done during the riots.

00:04:00.000 So what exactly does that mean?

00:04:01.000 A clear risk of real world harm.

00:04:02.000 What it means is we are going to just say there's a clear risk of real world harm when we're looking for an excuse to ban somebody.

00:04:07.000 So the statement from Clegg continues, quote, Two years ago, we took action in what were extreme and highly unusual circumstances.

00:04:13.000 We indefinitely suspended then-U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

00:04:21.000 This presumably would have been the same day that he also told them to go home.

00:04:26.000 And also the same day he told them beforehand that they should protest peacefully at the U.S.

00:04:31.000 Capitol building.

00:04:32.000 We then referred that decision to the Oversight Board, an expert body establishing an independent check and balance on our decision-making.

00:04:38.000 The Board upheld the decision, but criticized the open-ended nature of the suspension and the lack of clear criteria for when and whether suspended accounts will be restored, directing us to review the matter to determine a more proportionate response.

00:04:48.000 In response to the board, says Clegg, we imposed a time-bound suspension of two years from the date of the original suspension on January 7, 2021, an unprecedented length of time for such a suspension.

00:04:58.000 It was indeed unprecedented, and you had no real excuse for saying two years.

00:05:01.000 You picked it out of a hat.

00:05:03.000 It is worth noting here that when they decided they were going to ban Trump in January of 2021, and then later decided it would be a two-year ban, that was just in time for them to unban Trump just before the 2024 election cycle, presumably.

00:05:13.000 We also clarified the circumstances in which accounts of public figures could be restricted during times of civil unrest and ongoing violence, and introduced a new crisis policy protocol to guide our assessments of on and off platform risks of imminent harm, so we can respond with specific policy and product actions.

00:05:27.000 Now, notice again that they say that they have a protocol to guide their assessment of on and off platform risks of imminent harm.

00:05:33.000 So if you don't even do something on Facebook, but you do something off of Facebook, now they're saying that if there is a clear risk of danger off of Facebook, they can ban you on Facebook for that.

00:05:44.000 Which makes them sort of like God.

00:05:48.000 There is no actual barrier between what you are doing in the rest of your life and Facebook seeing that and then banning you on platform for something you did well off the platform.

00:05:56.000 They also said that before making any decision on whether or not to lift Trump's suspension, we would assess whether the risk to public safety has receded.

00:06:02.000 Now, again, what does that even mean, the risk to public safety has receded?

00:06:05.000 Literally receded the day of.

00:06:06.000 You know when the risk to public safety receded?

00:06:08.000 When the cops went in and arrested everyone and hundreds of them went to jail.

00:06:11.000 That would have been the time that public safety was now restored.

00:06:15.000 But apparently it took two years for the risk to recede.

00:06:17.000 These Facebook standards are nonsense.

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00:07:28.000 They say this, Facebook, the suspension was an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstances, which is an easy way of saying we just did it as a knee-jerk reaction.

00:07:36.000 The normal state of affairs that the public should be able to hear from a former president of the United States and a declared candidate for that office again on our platforms.

00:07:43.000 Now that the time period of the suspension has elapsed, the question is not whether we choose to reinstate Trump's account, but whether there remain such extraordinary circumstances that extending the suspension beyond the original two-year period is justified.

00:07:53.000 To assess whether the serious risks to public safety that existed in January 2021 has sufficiently receded, we have evaluated the current environment according to our crisis policy protocol, which included looking at the conduct of the U.S.

00:08:03.000 2022 midterm election, And expert assessments on the current security environment.

00:08:08.000 Now, we don't know who those experts were.

00:08:09.000 We have no idea how that determination was done.

00:08:12.000 We don't know exactly what factors went into that consideration.

00:08:14.000 I'm pointing out all the vagaries here, because in the end, it is a bunch of Democrats at Facebook who are deciding who to ban.

00:08:21.000 In the end, that's what this is.

00:08:22.000 And they can pretend that it's algorithmic.

00:08:24.000 They can pretend they can hide behind the computers.

00:08:25.000 They can pretend that it's all AI.

00:08:27.000 It is not.

00:08:28.000 It is a bunch of people who are setting policy, and they are doing so in completely arbitrary fashion.

00:08:32.000 Or, if you're a partisan, completely non-arbitrary fashion.

00:08:35.000 They say that the risk has sufficiently receded and that we should therefore adhere to the two-year timeline we set out.

00:08:40.000 But, they say, Trump is subject to our community standards in light of his violations.

00:08:44.000 He now faces heightened penalties for repeat offenses.

00:08:47.000 Penalties which will apply to other public figures whose accounts are reinstated from suspensions related to civil unrest under our updated protocol.

00:08:54.000 In the event that Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed, he will be suspended for between one month and two years depending on the severity of the violation.

00:09:01.000 Our updated protocol also addresses content that does not violate our community standards, but that contributes to the sort of risk that materialized on January 6th, such as content that delegitimizes an upcoming election or is related to QAnon.

00:09:13.000 So, this policy is a total mess.

00:09:15.000 It's a total and absolute cluster.

00:09:17.000 When they say content that delegitimizes an upcoming election, How about, say, content that suggests that Georgia's voting law is Jim Crow 2.0?

00:09:26.000 That delegitimizes an upcoming election.

00:09:28.000 If you claim that there's going to be widespread voter suppression, and that this is going to lead to skewing of the results, let's say you're Stacey Abrams and you say this over and over and over and over, does that mean that you're going to get banned on Facebook?

00:09:37.000 I think not.

00:09:39.000 And this sort of policy is really overbroad and also really specific to Donald Trump.

00:09:46.000 We may limit the distribution of such posts, they say.

00:09:48.000 For repeated instances, may temporarily restrict access to our advertising tools.

00:09:52.000 This would mean that content would remain visible on Trump's account, but would not be distributed in people's feeds, even if they follow Trump.

00:09:57.000 So they would essentially shadow ban him.

00:09:59.000 We may also remove the reshare button from such posts.

00:10:02.000 They prevent you from even being able to share what Trump is saying and may stop them being recommended or run as ads.

00:10:07.000 In the event that Trump posts content that violates the letter of the community standards, but under our newsworthy content policy, we assess there is public interest in knowing that Trump made the statement that outweighs any potential harm.

00:10:16.000 We may similarly opt to restrict the distribution of such posts, but leave them visible on Trump's account.

00:10:21.000 So again, this is all just, it's a complete mess.

00:10:23.000 So they think it's newsworthy content and it outweighs potential harm, but they could theoretically, they could just restrict the distribution of the post.

00:10:33.000 They say we publish our community standards publicly so everyone can see where we draw that line.

00:10:38.000 Our policies sometimes require reconsideration and revision.

00:10:40.000 We are highlighting these rules today because we anticipate that should Trump choose to resume activity on our platforms, many people will call for us to take action against his account and the content he posts, while many others will be upset if he is suspended again or if some of his content is not distributed on our platforms.

00:10:53.000 We want to be as clear as possible now about our policies.

00:10:56.000 This is about as clear as mud, and it's meant to be as clear as mud.

00:10:59.000 It is not going to actually stop any of the problems that Facebook faces.

00:11:03.000 If they ban Trump again, the right will properly be quite upset.

00:11:06.000 If they do not ban Trump again, the left will be absolutely enraged.

00:11:10.000 So instead, what you're going to see is a selective attempt to shut down particular messages coming from Trump's account.

00:11:16.000 That's what's actually, they're not gonna ban Trump again.

00:11:18.000 They're just going to shadow man him a lot.

00:11:20.000 They're going to step in, they're gonna prevent you from resharing his posts, they're going to allow stuff to remain on his page, but they're gonna make you go to his page.

00:11:27.000 Now, I don't know what to call this other than election interference.

00:11:30.000 This is clearly election interference.

00:11:32.000 When you have major social media companies overtly stating that one candidate, not others, one candidate is going to be hit with a bunch of restrictions that only apply to that candidate because no other major candidate in the United States has ever been banned from Facebook.

00:11:45.000 What you are essentially saying is that you're going to put a thumb on the scale against Trump.

00:11:48.000 That's what you're doing over at Facebook.

00:11:51.000 They conclude, we know any decision we make on this issue will be fiercely criticized.

00:11:54.000 Reasonable people will disagree over whether it is the right decision, but a decision had to be made. So we've tried to make it as best we can in a way that is consistent with our values and the process we established in response to the oversight board's guidance. I'm sorry, guys, that doesn't even come close to making any sense whatsoever.

00:12:08.000 It's another attempt by Facebook to sort of split the baby, when in reality, they should have just taken the original stance that Mark Zuckerberg took at Georgetown in 2018, when he said, we are a free speech platform. End of story. We are not going to ban Donald Trump. If you don't like what Donald Trump has to say, you can mute him. You don't have to reshare him. You don't have to amplify him. This, by the way, is how I deal with my personal Twitter account.

00:12:31.000 It's not a bad idea.

00:12:32.000 Twitter is the account that I tend to use the most on a personal level.

00:12:36.000 I have almost five and a half million followers on Twitter.

00:12:39.000 Many of those people hate my guts.

00:12:40.000 You know what I choose to do?

00:12:41.000 I don't ban any of them.

00:12:42.000 No one is banned from following my account on Twitter.

00:12:46.000 Instead, you know what I do to people who are abusive?

00:12:47.000 I mute them.

00:12:49.000 Which is also called life.

00:12:50.000 You can do that in your life.

00:12:51.000 But these social media platforms decided that because Democrats were calling on them to control elections, now they're actively going to do that.

00:12:56.000 And again, there are many of them who admit this.

00:12:59.000 There's a woman named Crystal Ball who wrote a piece for Time magazine in the aftermath of the 2020 election admitting that they were doing exactly this.

00:13:04.000 They were intervening in social media in order to prevent the dissemination of messages that were harmful to Democrats.

00:13:09.000 So look for the exact same thing to rear his ugly head in 2024.

00:13:12.000 Okay, meanwhile, I gotta admit, this story... I won't say that this is the most important story of the day.

00:13:19.000 I will say, however, that I have a bizarre obsession with the ugly statues.

00:13:22.000 And there are a lot of ugly statues that have been produced lately.

00:13:25.000 So we saw that MLK statue in Boston that looked like a tentacled thing.

00:13:29.000 I'm not sure exactly what it was supposed to be.

00:13:31.000 It was the MLK statue.

00:13:33.000 I suppose it was supposed to be a hug between MLK and his wife, but it was just their arms and it was disembodied arms that their heads were missing, their bodies were missing.

00:13:40.000 So it sort of looked like bizarre tentacle monsters that were hugging one.

00:13:45.000 I don't know what it is with Democrats and tentacles, but now there's another tentacle monster that has emerged onto the scene.

00:13:51.000 This time, it has emerged atop the New York courthouse.

00:13:54.000 According to the New York Times, quote, frenzied commuters in New York's Flatiron District have been stopped in their tracks in recent days by an unlikely apparition near Moses, Confucius and Zoroaster.

00:14:04.000 Standing atop the grandiose state courthouse is a shimmering golden eight-foot female sculpture emerging from a pink lotus flower and wearing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's signature lace collar. 0.74

00:14:14.000 Staring regally ahead with hair braided like silk.

00:14:17.000 Sorry, no matter what you think of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not on par with Moses or Confucius.

00:14:21.000 I'm sorry, no.

00:14:21.000 female to adorn one of the courthouse's 10 plinths, dominated for more than a century by now-weathered statues representing great lawgivers throughout the ages, all of them men. By great lawgivers, we are talking about the founders of religions. Sorry, no matter what you think of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not on par with Moses or Confucius. I'm sorry, no. Zero statements that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has ever made are going to live 2,000 years. Few of them are even going to live two years.

00:14:47.000 So no, there's that.

00:14:48.000 And then there's the actual statue. 0.99

00:14:50.000 And I gotta say, modern artists, they are just in the business of producing garbage. 0.97

00:14:55.000 And then we are supposed to pretend that we can't see that the statue, that the emperor is naked. 0.96

00:15:00.000 And the emperor is not wearing any clothes here.

00:15:01.000 This thing is hideous. 0.78

00:15:03.000 It looks like it was produced by an AI with a real ugly sense of humor.

00:15:10.000 The artist is apparently a person named Shazia Sikander, 53, a paradigm-busting Pakistani-American artist, who said the sculpture is part of an urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway.

00:15:20.000 And by the way, reckoning is the key word of the day. 0.96

00:15:23.000 Whenever somebody says a reckoning is happening, you know what comes next is going to be sheer garbage. 0.96

00:15:28.000 Reckoning? 0.95

00:15:29.000 What exactly is the reckoning?

00:15:30.000 She says, the reckoning is about reconsidering traditional representation of power in public spaces and recasting civic structures to better reflect 21st century social mores.

00:15:40.000 She is a fierce woman! 1.00

00:15:41.000 Oh my god, it's all buzzwords.

00:15:42.000 Fierce.

00:15:43.000 So much fierceness.

00:15:44.000 She's so fierce with her doily thing that she wore on top of her on top of her robe and so this is that's what the statue is.

00:15:51.000 It doesn't look anything like Ruth Bader Ginsburg by the way but it does have the weird doily thing that she used to wear on top of her of her robe which has now become a religious icon. If you can find a shred of the weird doily thing she used to wear on top of her robe then you can you can take it to Lourdes and you will be and it will perform miracles for you or something.

00:16:07.000 In any case, Sikander said, quote, Yes, that's what Moses and Jesus and Muhammad, it's all patriarchal representation.

00:16:20.000 And Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to be the statue standing up against this. 1.00

00:16:25.000 She said the work is called NOW because it was needed now.

00:16:28.000 Well, also because she used to be a lawyer for the National Organization for Women, I would assume. 0.99

00:16:35.000 It is a hideous garbage statue. 0.94

00:16:38.000 She wrote in The Artist's Statement, with Ginsburg's death and the reversal of Roe, there was a setback to women's constitutional progress. 0.99

00:16:45.000 So apparently, they had to shift Mohammed off the pillar. 0.59

00:16:51.000 I do find that hilarious.

00:16:52.000 I mean, I will admit that the woke intersectional hierarchy, having Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a left-wing Jewish lady, knocking Muhammad off the top of the building, is kind of hysterical. 0.71

00:17:03.000 Because literally any other statue knocking Muhammad off the building and the left is losing its mind on behalf of diversity right now, but it's Ruth Bader Ginsburg, man!

00:17:10.000 And she is a goddess.

00:17:12.000 She's exactly the same as a religious lawgiver. 0.91

00:17:13.000 By the way, anybody who tells you that secularism is not a religion, secularism is a religion.

00:17:17.000 They are using RBG as an actual religious totem at this point.

00:17:20.000 They're equating her to religious leaders like Moses and Muhammad.

00:17:25.000 Like Moses, who for the Jews, you know, like the most holy person who ever lived.

00:17:28.000 And Muhammad, the great lawgiver for 1 billion people.

00:17:31.000 They are equating to a left-wing lawyer who wrote zero consequential decisions in her entire career on the United States bench. 0.91

00:17:39.000 Like, slow clap for the left.

00:17:42.000 Don't worry guys, it's all logical.

00:17:43.000 It's not at all some sort of weird cult.

00:17:45.000 Nothing like that.

00:17:48.000 The Lahore-born Sikander, whose work has been displayed at the Whitney Biennial and who made her name reimagining the art of Indo-Persian miniature painting from a feminist post-colonial perspective, sounds fascinating, was at pains to emphasize that Muhammad's removal and her installation were completely unrelated.

00:18:01.000 My figure is not replacing anyone or canceling anyone.

00:18:03.000 Well, I mean, somebody isn't there anymore.

00:18:06.000 So apparently, the stylized sculpture was aimed at feminizing a building that was commissioned in 1896.

00:18:13.000 So, what exactly is this thing supposed to be?

00:18:17.000 Well, um, it's weird.

00:18:20.000 It's super weird.

00:18:22.000 It apparently is in dialogue with another 18-foot sculpture of a powerful woman called Witness in Madison Square Park.

00:18:29.000 That sculpture wore a hoop skirt inspired by the stained glass dome of the courthouse, symbolizing the need to break the legal glass ceiling.

00:18:36.000 Written on the sculpture is the word Chava, which she said means air or atmosphere in Urdu, and Eve in Arabic and Hebrew.

00:18:45.000 Okay?

00:18:45.000 Like, like, as in Adam and Eve.

00:18:48.000 So, um, So, after all that talk, I gotta say that it looks as though, basically, RBG has been now possessed by some satanic form, and tentacles have taken over her arms.

00:19:04.000 This is like a weird form of tentacle-squid takeover.

00:19:08.000 It's like a hybrid alien thing that is now happening here. 1.00

00:19:12.000 So you have statues that represent humans, and then you have RBG, whose arms have turned into cables from the Matrix, And whose head is now emerging from her head are weird devil horns in braided fashion that swirl around her.

00:19:30.000 Also, she's nude except for the weird doily thing.

00:19:34.000 So, honestly, modern art, man.

00:19:37.000 They're doing an amazing job.

00:19:37.000 But, you know, you gotta have your religious icons.

00:19:40.000 If you're a religious movement, you gotta have your religious icons.

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00:20:39.000 So, I'm excited that New York's courthouse will now have this religious icon.

00:20:42.000 It'll only be there temporarily, as would befit the patriarchy.

00:20:47.000 I mean, it couldn't be there permanently.

00:20:49.000 Only the patriarchy has to move that thing. 0.99

00:20:52.000 By the way, women, try not to look upon the statue of RBG Medusa, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medusa.

00:20:58.000 If you do, your uterus will reportedly turn to stone. 0.96

00:21:01.000 So that is exciting stuff happening in New York.

00:21:04.000 Okay. 0.96

00:21:04.000 Meanwhile, in the other stupidest story of the day, Joe Biden apparently has a panel, another one of these governmental panels. 0.96

00:21:13.000 It is the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. 0.98

00:21:16.000 Ooh, ah.

00:21:18.000 So, normally when you think about the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, you think, maybe we shouldn't just, like, feed people things that will make them fat.

00:21:23.000 How about that?

00:21:24.000 How about that the dietary advice that we give people isn't run by the Department of Agriculture and a bunch of farmers who are trying to sell you corn syrup?

00:21:30.000 Which is literally what happened in the United States in the 1970s.

00:21:33.000 Remember that food pyramid?

00:21:34.000 Do you remember this?

00:21:35.000 And the food pyramid at the bottom said grains?

00:21:37.000 And then everybody followed the food pyramid and they got super duper fat because it turns out grains make you super fat, as we all know now.

00:21:43.000 And it was driven entirely by the Department of Agriculture because farmers were like, hey man, we're growing all this corn over here.

00:21:48.000 What are you gonna do with this corn?

00:21:49.000 What if we just tell everybody that corn is amazing for you?

00:21:52.000 What if we just tell everybody that all this wheat, you shove it down your gullet and you'll get skinny?

00:21:57.000 The truth is, you should be eating a lot more vegetables, a lot more fruits, you should be eating a lot more meat, a lot more eggs, fish, very good for you.

00:22:03.000 You should really skimp on the carbs.

00:22:06.000 As anybody who's tried to stay in shape will tell you, carbs are effectively the devil.

00:22:10.000 They taste amazing, and they also make you unbelievably fat.

00:22:13.000 In any case, what exactly is the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee going to do?

00:22:18.000 Well, we do have one indicator.

00:22:20.000 Apparently, Joe Biden has now appointed a Dr. Fatima Cody-Stanford.

00:22:25.000 She claims that obesity is mostly genetic.

00:22:27.000 She's one of the 20 doctors appointed to the committee, according to the Daily Caller, which will examine the relationship between diet and health through a health equity lens.

00:22:35.000 Oh, goody, goody gumdrops.

00:22:36.000 A health equity lens factoring in socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and culture.

00:22:41.000 I didn't realize that being a fatso was a matter of status, race, ethnicity, and culture. 0.94

00:22:46.000 How about caloric deficit, gang?

00:22:48.000 Don't eat as much as you burn.

00:22:51.000 That is the rule.

00:22:52.000 It's very, very simple.

00:22:53.000 Now, it's not easy to keep.

00:22:54.000 I will admit that I have not always kept to it.

00:22:57.000 My weight fluctuates just like any other human.

00:22:59.000 However, the wisdom of the ages does not change here.

00:23:02.000 And it turns out that if you eat too much, you get fat.

00:23:05.000 I know this is like very mysterious stuff here.

00:23:07.000 They apparently are going to provide recommendations to the USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services.

00:23:13.000 This particular doctor has claimed that doctors do not understand obesity, and that many patients can't simply lose weight through improved diet and exercise.

00:23:20.000 So on January 1st, she appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes, and she then explains that it's actually genetic.

00:23:27.000 The reason that you're fat is genetic, so it's not any fault of yours.

00:23:30.000 You shouldn't bother dieting.

00:23:31.000 There's nothing you can do.

00:23:32.000 You are doomed to be a large fatso for the rest of your life. 1.00

00:23:36.000 It's a brain disease. 0.99

00:23:36.000 It is? 0.99

00:23:37.000 It's a brain disease.

00:23:38.000 More like syphilis?

00:23:39.000 And the brain tells us how much to eat and how much to store.

00:23:42.000 Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity doctor at Mass General Hospital.

00:23:48.000 An associate professor at Harvard Medical School says common beliefs about obesity are all wrong.

00:23:54.000 I've always heard that it's the fast food, that it's the diet cokes, that kind of thing, that is the instigator.

00:24:02.000 Is that true?

00:24:02.000 So I think we have to look at the different causes of obesity as a big pie.

00:24:06.000 And that's one factor.

00:24:08.000 But notice how I'm using this part of the pie, right?

00:24:10.000 But the number one cause of obesity is genetics.

00:24:15.000 79 to 90% of physicians in the United States have significant bias towards individuals that are heavier.

00:24:22.000 Oh, that's so sad.

00:24:23.000 Well, I mean, by significant bias, you mean they tell people that they need to lose weight, and then people get super offended?

00:24:29.000 So, my wife is a family med doc, and this happened to her before, right?

00:24:32.000 Somebody will come in, and it turns out obesity makes everything you have worse.

00:24:34.000 Every single health condition you have, it makes it worse.

00:24:36.000 COVID, it makes it worse.

00:24:38.000 Heart disease, it makes it worse.

00:24:40.000 Various forms of cancers, they think now, are linked to obesity.

00:24:44.000 And so if you tell somebody who is young and obese, you need to lose weight.

00:24:48.000 And the way that you lose weight is you eat healthier, you get more exercise, stop cramming food in your face.

00:24:53.000 If you say that, people get super offended.

00:24:55.000 They're like, I'm just big boned.

00:24:57.000 You're not big boned.

00:25:00.000 Again, we live in a society where it is now considered wise and normal to tell people that things they can fix are not in their control.

00:25:08.000 And if you tell them they are in their control and they should fix them and it will be better for them if they fix them, people get super angry at you.

00:25:13.000 Now we have the government appointing experts who say exactly that.

00:25:18.000 She said, quote, For most people, they will acutely lose weight.

00:25:27.000 But 96% of those participating in The Biggest Loser regained their weight because their brain worked well.

00:25:31.000 It was supposed to bring them back to store what they needed or what the brain thinks it needs.

00:25:34.000 Well, which means that you have to break the brain habit.

00:25:37.000 I mean, as everyone who has ever dieted understands, you have to come up with a sustainable plan for dieting.

00:25:42.000 I'm not a diet and lifestyle advice show here, but I'm just telling you.

00:25:45.000 You know, these sort of crash diets where you lose a hundred pounds and you do it really, really fast?

00:25:50.000 You are going to bounce back in the opposite direction very often because you have not come up with a sustainable diet that will last you the rest of your life.

00:25:56.000 That is what you actually need.

00:25:57.000 You need to figure out what you can do on a daily basis that is going to lower your caloric intake, and then you need to maintain that for literally ever.

00:26:04.000 As part of her work on the committee, Stanford will provide recommendations to HHS and USDA that inform federal dietary programs and nutrition programs, as well as dietary education.

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00:27:15.000 Now, I'd like to point out here something, which is that we didn't used to be that fat a country.

00:27:21.000 If this were a genetic condition, one of the things that you should think about is the fact that we didn't used to be even remotely as fat as we are right now.

00:27:29.000 In fact, if you go back in American history, You go back to like 1980, it turns out that Americans were significantly skinnier than they are right now.

00:27:40.000 According to a study from the National Library of Medicine, And this is actually from the Surgeon General's Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation.

00:27:49.000 It's the governmental document.

00:27:50.000 Quote, the prevalence of obesity changed relatively little during the 1960s and 70s, but it increased sharply over the ensuing decades, from 13.4% of Americans in 1980 to 34.3% of Americans in 2008 among adults, and from 5% to 17% among children during the same period.

00:28:08.000 The prevalence of extreme obesity also increased during 1976 to 1980.

00:28:11.000 to 1980 and 2007-2008. And approximately 6% of U.S. adults now have a BMI of 40 kilograms per square meter or higher. The United States is not alone in experiencing obesity epidemics.

00:28:24.000 Similar increases in the prevalence of obesity have been reported in developed countries such as England and in countries where obesity was formerly rare.

00:28:31.000 For example, the prevalence in China among preschool-aged children living in urban areas has now increased eightfold from 1.5% in 1989 to 12.6% in 1997.

00:28:38.000 So again, I'm noticing that modern society is either lighting on a bunch of bizarre environmental and evolutionary bottlenecks in which magically, The transgenderism rate is multiplying by tens of thousands of percentage points, and everyone is becoming rapidly fat just through evolutionary biology. 1.00

00:28:59.000 We've hit the end of humanity just because, boom, we triggered a bunch of genes.

00:29:02.000 Or, possibly, our culture is broken.

00:29:05.000 And we've also made an enormous amount of fast food very easily available to people.

00:29:09.000 Processed food.

00:29:11.000 Sugars. 0.96

00:29:11.000 All this stuff is really, really easily available to people. 0.96

00:29:14.000 And people are engaging in those sorts of things.

00:29:17.000 And by the way, if you look at the countries that are the fattest, it is in fact a cultural thing.

00:29:23.000 So that has little to do with brain function, unless the idea is that certain cultures have different functioning brains than other cultures, which seems kind of racist to me.

00:29:31.000 It seems more like what you have is that certain cultures actually promote eating unhealthy.

00:29:39.000 Now, there are certain cultures where the diet is just different, right?

00:29:41.000 I mean, if you go to cultures in the The United States, however, is apparently on the list.

00:29:47.000 that these are disproportionately overweight places.

00:29:49.000 The Cook Islands actually is the most obese country in the world, followed by Nauru and Samoa and Tonga and Tuvalu.

00:29:58.000 These are all countries that are in the Pacific Asia region.

00:30:01.000 The United States, however, is apparently on the list.

00:30:05.000 The United States is the fattest of the westernized countries.

00:30:08.000 If you look at the obesity rate in the United States, it's currently 36.2%.

00:30:13.000 By the way, the total obesity rate for both men and women in Nauru is 61%.

00:30:18.000 Wow.

00:30:18.000 The United States is about 36%.

00:30:22.000 And then it's Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt.

00:30:24.000 And by the way, this is one of the reasons why when people make a comparison between the health outcomes in the United States and the health outcomes in, say, Norway, that is complete apples to oranges.

00:30:34.000 You cannot make that comparison whatsoever.

00:30:36.000 It's ridiculous to make that comparison.

00:30:40.000 The Nordic countries don't even chart in terms of the fattest countries.

00:30:44.000 So maybe we should focus in on the fact that we have an actual obesity crisis in the United States, rather than appointing people who make people feel good about the weight that they are carrying around, rather than telling them that they actually need to lose that weight.

00:30:57.000 This is having pretty significant downstream effects, not just on the health of the nation, but on things like the military and our ability to recruit in the military.

00:31:07.000 According to a 2018 RAND report featuring roughly 18,000 randomly selected participants across each of the service branches, 66% of service members are considered to be either overweight or obese.

00:31:18.000 One of the big problems we are having in recruiting people to the military is that you're supposed to not be a giant fatso when you go into the military and too many people are showing up and they can't actually pass the tests.

00:31:27.000 This does correlate with the obesity epidemic plaguing the United States, where as of 2015, one in three young adults are considered too fat to enlist.

00:31:32.000 One of the reasons, by the way, a huge number of people died in the United States of COVID is because we are a super fat country.

00:31:37.000 And when people like Joe Rogan mentioned this and suggested, hey guys, maybe as a first resort, we ought to go to the gym and lose weight, people laughed at him.

00:31:45.000 It made people feel bad.

00:31:46.000 Instead, we have to promote fat positivity.

00:31:48.000 And we have to suggest that you are healthy at any weight.

00:31:50.000 You are not healthy at any weight.

00:31:51.000 If you are 150 pounds overweight, you are 100% not healthy at that weight.

00:31:56.000 Stop pretending that making people feel validated about how they look is somehow more important than protecting their health by telling them the truth about the health effects of what they're doing.

00:32:04.000 If that were the case, by the way, then you know what looked really cool in like the 1940s and 50s?

00:32:08.000 Smoking.

00:32:08.000 Looked super cool.

00:32:09.000 Watch all the movies.

00:32:10.000 All the cool kids were doing it.

00:32:12.000 And then it turns out it kills you of lung cancer.

00:32:14.000 And so we said to people, hey, you know what you should stop doing?

00:32:16.000 Smoking.

00:32:17.000 And people stopped smoking.

00:32:19.000 And now we have, I guess if smoking were a full public health issue right now, at the level that obesity is, I suppose now we'd be appointing people to government agencies to say that really, smoking is just a brain disorder.

00:32:30.000 After all, addiction is a brain disorder. 0.58

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00:32:35.000 I mean, do we understand the stupidity of encouraging people to just continue being fat? 1.00

00:32:39.000 It's unbelievably stupid. 1.00

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00:34:57.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration is now pledging to send tanks to Ukraine.

00:35:03.000 So the ante is being up.

00:35:05.000 President Biden announced on Wednesday he would be sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to help it defend against Russian invaders.

00:35:10.000 A decision meant to unlock a wave of heavier aid by Western allies in preparation for an expected escalation of fighting in the spring.

00:35:15.000 Things are going to get hotter and hotter in the spring by pretty much all accounts.

00:35:19.000 Speaking at the White House after a morning of telephone calls to European allies, Biden said the United States would send 31 Abrams tanks.

00:35:25.000 Today, I'm announcing that the United States will be sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, the equivalent of one Ukrainian battalion.

00:35:28.000 by contributing its own Leopard 2 tanks and freeing other allies to send their own, the equivalent of two more battalions.

00:35:34.000 Here was Joe Biden announcing just that yesterday.

00:35:37.000 He says, we will be sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine.

00:35:40.000 Today, I'm announcing that the United States will be sending 31 Abram tanks to Ukraine, the equivalent of one Ukrainian battalion.

00:35:49.000 Secretary Austin has recommended this step because it will enhance the Ukraine's capacity to defend its territory and achieve its strategic objectives.

00:35:59.000 Now, I'd be a lot more edified by all of this if I thought that Joe Biden were capable of carrying forward a plan.

00:36:04.000 I'm not sure that he's capable of carrying forward a sentence.

00:36:07.000 Here was Joe Biden trying to explain what exactly he was doing here, and suddenly he starts jabbering about Ukrainian aggression.

00:36:12.000 And none of this is particularly edifying.

00:36:15.000 Together with our allies and partners, we've sent more than 3,000 armored vehicles, more than 8,000 artillery systems, Ukraine's brutal aggression that's happening because of Russia? 0.69

00:36:25.000 Uh, dude.

00:36:25.000 Dude.

00:36:25.000 By the way, that wasn't his only gaffe of that particular press conference.

00:36:29.000 defense systems, all to help counter Ukraine's brutal aggression that's happening because of Russia.

00:36:37.000 Ukraine's brutal aggression that's happening because of Russia?

00:36:41.000 Dude, dude.

00:36:42.000 By the way, that wasn't his only gaffe of that particular press conference.

00:36:47.000 He also forgot exactly what the Secretary of Defense does.

00:36:50.000 So that was awkward.

00:36:52.000 And they need an enduring capability to deter and defend against Russian aggression over the long term.

00:36:58.000 The Secretary of State and the Secretary of the military behind me, they've been deeply, deeply involved in this whole effort.

00:37:12.000 Oh, the awkwardness.

00:37:13.000 Oh, the awkwardness.

00:37:14.000 According to the New York Times, the Pentagon has long been reluctant to send the Abrams, in part because it's very, very complex, challenging to operate and maintain.

00:37:20.000 As it is, officials have said it could take a year or even longer for these tools to actually reach the battlefield in Ukraine.

00:37:25.000 Apparently, Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, that's the position he was looking for right there, came around to the move in order to spur Germany to send those Leopard 2 tanks.

00:37:32.000 Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Wednesday also that they'd be sending tanks to Ukraine.

00:37:37.000 There was Scholz announcing just that.

00:37:39.000 Final word.

00:37:40.000 There are many citizens in this country that are worried, worried because of this decision and the dimensions that this type of arm brings about.

00:37:54.000 Please trust us.

00:37:55.000 Trust the government.

00:37:57.000 We will continue working at an international level.

00:38:02.000 We have made this support possible without The risks increasing into the wrong direction.

00:38:10.000 Please trust us, trust the government is always the prelude to something going wildly wrong.

00:38:14.000 Russia, for its part of course, is fighting mad about it.

00:38:17.000 When I say fighting mad, I mean that they are really going to up the ante in the near future because they effectively have to.

00:38:22.000 All of the interests in Russia are moving toward a broader war, not toward some sort of deal, not in the face of further Russian Not in the face of further American infusion of resources into Ukraine.

00:38:36.000 According to the Daily Mail, Russia today warned that Germany's decision to send dozens of modern tanks to Ukraine is extremely dangerous and will take the conflict to a new level.

00:38:42.000 We don't actually know what that means at this point.

00:38:44.000 Russia branded the move a blatant provocation and warned that the new NATO supplies will burn like all the rest, while one raging Putin propagandist called for the German parliament to be destroyed in a nuclear strike.

00:38:53.000 Russia's ambassador said, quote, this extremely dangerous decision takes the conflict to a new level of confrontation and contradicts statements by German politicians about the unwillingness of the German Federation to get involved in it.

00:39:03.000 So, so far, this has been largely empty talk from Russia.

00:39:07.000 They're obviously talking about upping the ante by drafting millions more people and just throwing them cannon fodder style into Ukraine. 0.95

00:39:15.000 They're talking, of course, about Mass mobilization.

00:39:17.000 They're talking about a broad offensive in the spring and all the rest.

00:39:21.000 However, you know, Russia keeps talking, I think, in sort of empty ways about how they're going to attack a NATO country or maybe fire a battlefield nuclear weapon.

00:39:27.000 They haven't actually demonstrated the willingness or capacity to do any of that.

00:39:31.000 The problem is that when you are talking about hot wars, you just don't know what comes next.

00:39:36.000 It's impossible to predict fully what the next step is going to be.

00:39:39.000 I mean, the good news is that means sometimes Russia foresees that it's going to run Russia over Ukraine and then it loses. 0.81

00:39:43.000 It also means that the longer this goes on, the further the chance that something could go wildly wrong.

00:39:49.000 Russia had warned the supply of more tanks would leave a lasting mark and lead to nothing good.

00:39:52.000 With fears in Moscow that the high-tech equipment could land a devastating blow on the invading forces, pressure has been building for weeks on Scholz's government to send the tanks and allow NATO allies to do the same.

00:40:01.000 The goal is to quickly establish two battalions with Leopard 2 tanks for Ukraine, according to the statement.

00:40:05.000 Training Ukrainian troops how to use the armor will begin in Germany almost immediately.

00:40:10.000 So yeah, again, it's a lot of empty rhetoric from the Russians up until the point it is not.

00:40:15.000 And so, I only can hope, at this point, that the West is consistently going to Putin and asking him if he wants an off-ramp or what that off-ramp is going to look like.

00:40:23.000 If they're not, if this really is just the West continuing to ratchet up the pressure without actively engaging in back-channel negotiations with Putin, I don't know what the end of this thing looks like.

00:40:31.000 I don't think anyone knows what the end of this thing looks like.

00:40:34.000 By the way, there's a completely possible situation in which the Russian regime comes toppling down, and what follows in Russia is actually a disaster area.

00:40:41.000 Because does anyone know who's going to take over the country that has 2,500 nuclear-tipped weapons?

00:40:47.000 Does anybody actually know who's going to take over the Russian military if Putin were to fall? 0.92

00:40:51.000 Is it going to be somebody who's more crazy?

00:40:53.000 Is it going to be an internal battle inside a fragmenting state that has nuclear weapons pretty much all over its soil?

00:41:01.000 If there's no plan, then it is a mistake to up the ante.

00:41:04.000 There'd best be a plan.

00:41:06.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of a controversy over a plan, apparently the Republicans have now mobilized in the face of Democratic predations to kick off a couple of high-profile Democrats from committees.

00:41:19.000 They're trying to kick Eric Swalwell, who was last seen nailing a Chinese spy, off the Intelligence Committee.

00:41:25.000 They're also trying to do the same to Adam Schiff, Who has set up a puppet tent outside the MSNBC headquarters where he spends most of his days attempting to pretend that Russian collusion is a reality.

00:41:33.000 They're also trying to kick Ilhan Omar, who is one of the worst people in Congress, off the foreign affairs panel.

00:41:38.000 She's of course an overt raging anti-Semite and an anti-American commentator par excellence. 0.99

00:41:46.000 So, Kevin McCarthy was asked by the media about why Swalwell and Schiff should not go on the Intel Committee, and he was like, well, maybe it's because they completely lost the trust of the American people.

00:41:56.000 Maybe it's because of that.

00:41:58.000 What did Adam Schiff do as the chairman of the Intel Committee?

00:42:01.000 What Adam Schiff did, use his power as a chairman and lie to the American public.

00:42:06.000 Even the Inspector General said it.

00:42:08.000 And if you want to talk about Swalwell, let's talk about Swalwell.

00:42:11.000 Because you have not had the briefing that I had.

00:42:13.000 I had the briefing and Nancy Pelosi had the briefing from the FBI.

00:42:17.000 The FBI never came before this Congress to tell the leadership of this Congress that Eric Swalwell Okay, he happens to be absolutely correct about that.

00:42:26.000 Steve Scalise has been doing exactly the same thing.

00:42:27.000 just us who are concerned about, the FBI was concerned about putting a member of Congress on the Intel Committee that has the rights to see things that others don't because of his knowledge and relationship with the Chinese spy.

00:42:42.000 Okay, he happens to be absolutely correct about that. Steve Scalise has been doing exactly the same thing. Here is Steve Scalise, who is the second-in-command over on the Republican side of the aisle in the House making the same case against Eric Swalwell. Well, with all of those members you talked about, there are very specific things that they've done in their time here in Congress.

00:43:00.000 I don't even think Swalwell could get a security clearance in the private sector.

00:43:06.000 So why should he be on the Intelligence Committee?

00:43:08.000 I mean, these committees are very unique in that they deal with our national secrets.

00:43:13.000 They deal with very classified information.

00:43:17.000 Of course, all of that is true.

00:43:18.000 Meanwhile, Eric Swalwell is very angry about all of this.

00:43:21.000 Not a shock there.

00:43:22.000 He says that Kevin McCarthy will regret not giving me and Ilhan Omar committee assignments.

00:43:26.000 No, I don't think he'll regret that very much.

00:43:28.000 I feel like he has other things to regret, but probably not that.

00:43:31.000 Even though we have said publicly these smears are bringing death threats, he continues to do it, which makes us believe that there's an intent behind it.

00:43:40.000 But we will not be quiet.

00:43:41.000 We're not going away.

00:43:43.000 I think he'll regret giving all three of us more time on our hands.

00:43:48.000 But at the end of the day, our mission now is to restore the credibility and integrity of this institution of which the Speaker has so gravely, so gravely smashed and destroyed.

00:44:00.000 Wait, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar going to restore the credibility of Congress?

00:44:04.000 Those three are going to do it?

00:44:06.000 Yeah, I'm gonna go no on that one.

00:44:09.000 Also, this argument that the left loves using, which is, McCarthy's saying stuff, and that stuff is mean.

00:44:14.000 And that mean stuff he's saying might put us under threat.

00:44:16.000 So he's not allowed to say it.

00:44:17.000 So by attacking McCarthy, is he doing the same thing?

00:44:20.000 Is he putting McCarthy under threat? 0.99

00:44:21.000 Is that how this dumb logic works? 0.98

00:44:23.000 So the Republicans are doing the right thing here. 0.98

00:44:25.000 There's only one problem for the Republicans along these lines.

00:44:28.000 That problem happens to be that now there are some Republicans who are sort of dropping out of this.

00:44:33.000 Is the problem with having a very small majority in the House?

00:44:35.000 Apparently some of the Republicans are not willing to kick Ilhan Omar off of her committee.

00:44:40.000 According to Politico, House Republicans are already facing defections over a leadership push to oust Omar from her committees.

00:44:45.000 Democrats plan to make the vote even more painful.

00:44:47.000 The Minnesota Democrat and her caucus allies have begun to mount a robust defense of the progressive squad member.

00:44:52.000 While they focused on Omar's past comments about Israel, Republicans loudly protested last Congress when Democrats booted a pair of conservatives from committee.

00:44:59.000 Democrats are working to have no defections on the vote to remove Omar, and they are attempting to swing at least a few Republicans in favor of Omar.

00:45:08.000 Apparently, a second public defector has now emerged on Tuesday.

00:45:11.000 Representative Victoria Sparks of Indiana joined Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina in declaring that she would not vote to yank Omar off the panel.

00:45:18.000 Remember, this House Republican majority is like four or five votes, and one of those votes just became not part of the congressional vote because of an injury.

00:45:27.000 So that means that they're down to like a three-vote majority.

00:45:29.000 Democrats are lobbying other Republican members of the Foreign Affairs panel to oppose Omar's removal as well.

00:45:34.000 If McCarthy can't hold that together, again, I feel bad for McCarthy in the sense that he has the world's worst job. 0.65

00:45:39.000 It is a garbage job trying to hold together a fractious committee.

00:45:42.000 But if Republicans can't even get together to kick Ilhan Omar off the committee in the aftermath of a bunch of Republicans being kicked off committees by Nancy Pelosi, I don't know what the Republican majority is really all that good for. 0.80

00:45:52.000 Alrighty, guys.

00:45:53.000 The rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:45:54.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:45:55.000 We'll be getting into Disney shutting down Splash Mountain over racism, of course.

00:45:59.000 Plus, Democrats may be cruising for a bruising in the Senate in 2024.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 26, 2023

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