Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman checks himself into the hospital, as some Democrats call for his wife to become the new senator, Joe Biden admits he s been shooting down random objects, and Bing s new AI is creepy and needy, I m Ben Shapiro, and I'm here to talk about it all on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. Today's episode is about a person who suffered a massive stroke last year, right before the senatorial primaries in the Democratic Party. And we're told that we're supposed to ignore all of this up, because it's a form of "can't be seen" and "Can't be noticed." And it's become perfectly obvious to anyone with a functioning brain at this point that this has any level of empathy. And it doesn't mean that the Democrats should not have lost the seat at all. They could have chosen other candidates before the primary, but they didn't. They chose to run a candidate who was much less likely to have a chance to win the primary. And they chose someone who had a serious brain problem. And that candidate was a woman named Giselle Fettermann, who is now replacing him in the Senate. And she's not here to replace him, is she? Ben Shapiro explains why that's a bad idea, and why it's time for him to step down now, even if it means losing the seat he was so desperately in need of a new candidate to fill the seat that could have been filled by his wife, not by his own wife, a woman who has a brain problem of the same exacting the same degree of empathy as her husband's. . And Ben Shapiro is here to break it all down, and explain why this is a terrible idea. And why it s not a good idea at all and why he should have been able to run for the Senate seat at the same time as his wife if he s not running for re-election even if his wife s husband is in the seat being replaced by her not by a woman but by a man with a brain injury or a man who s brain problem, not even close to being able to speak properly after a stroke a woman with aphasia, but not enough to understand words in a way that s able to understand things to be a good enough human being is not a problem at all, but a problem.
00:00:12.000Well, John Fetterman, the senator from Pennsylvania, is a person who suffered a massive stroke last year, right before the senatorial primaries in the Democratic Party.
00:00:34.000And then he ended up becoming the senator from Pennsylvania, in large part because the Republicans decided to run for governor, a really bad candidate, against Josh Shapiro.
00:00:41.000And Josh Shapiro basically dragged Fetterman across the finish line.
00:00:45.000Well, you'll recall that the narrative about Fetterman throughout the race is that everybody was playing up his health problems.
00:01:05.000And we're told that we're supposed to ignore all of this.
00:01:07.000To play any of this up, to even notice any of this, was a form of ableism.
00:01:12.000And his wife, Giselle Fetterman, who seems like one of the grosser people in American politics, having essentially pushed her husband into continuing his run despite his extraordinarily serious health ailment, She kept saying, why don't you just leave him alone?
00:01:27.000Okay, so then there's a major debate, you'll recall, between Mehmet Oz, the Republican Pennsylvania senatorial candidate, and John Fetterman, in which Fetterman clearly cannot speak, in which Fetterman is botching his sentences, in which Fetterman cannot get through a full paragraph without stumbling all over himself, again, not through any fault of his own, putting aside his politics, just because he has a serious brain issue.
00:01:47.000And we were told even then that to notice was a form of ableism.
00:01:50.000And don't worry, guys, he would get better.
00:01:52.000It was very important to recognize how much better he would get.
00:01:54.000In fact, Scientific American ran an entire piece on October 21st, 2022, titled John Fetterman Shows How Well the Brain Recovers After Stroke.
00:02:03.000Following a stroke, the brain's own repair processes can lead to a strong recovery in people such as Senate candidate John Fetterman.
00:02:10.000They talk about how he sat down for an interview with NBC News, where he had used closed captioning technology to help manage the auditory processing issues caused by the stroke.
00:02:19.000And Scientific American was very, very critical of a reporter for NBC News named Dasha Burns, because Dasha Burns suggested that he actually was not fit as a fiddle, that he had some very serious brain issues.
00:02:30.000And people like Kara Swisher of the New York Times, one of the worst reporters in America, Kara Swisher immediately jumped on Dasha Burns and said, how dare you point out that John Fetterman is having problems processing auditory information?
00:02:44.000So you had Scientific American defending John Fetterman's health status, saying, aphasia or the inability to understand or express speech is very common following a stroke, impacting an estimated third of people who have one.
00:02:57.000But the brain can modify and adapt to this new injury, a process known as neural plasticity.
00:03:03.000Again, the idea here was that John Fetterman would be just fine.
00:03:16.000It turned out that, thank God, he did not have another stroke.
00:03:19.000Well, now he has checked himself into the hospital for clinical depression again.
00:03:23.000And it has become perfectly obvious or should be obvious to anyone with a brain at this point, anybody with a functioning heart at this point, anybody who has any level of empathy at all at this point, John Fetterman should not have been running for the Senate.
00:03:34.000Now, that doesn't mean that the Democrats would have lost the seat.
00:03:37.000They probably would not have lost the seat.
00:03:39.000There were other candidates available before the primary.
00:03:42.000They could theoretically have John Fetterman today step down and resign.
00:03:45.000What's amazing, however, is how quickly, even during the Senate race, there was talk about his wife, Giselle Fetterman, replacing John Fetterman in the Senate.
00:03:53.000And so the going wisdom was that if John Fetterman were to step down, his wife would replace him, which would immediately make her one of the worst people in American public life, if she's not already.
00:04:02.000Because then it would be like, okay, I ran a person I knew had a serious physical handicap and mental handicap.
00:04:07.000I ran a person I'm supposed to love, who's supposed to be my highest priority for the Senate.
00:04:16.000And Giselle is an openly political figure.
00:04:17.000It would not be out of the realm of possibility.
00:04:19.000And again, many people in the Democratic Party are suggesting exactly this.
00:04:23.000So yesterday, John Fetterman checked himself into the Walter Reed Hospital to seek treatment for clinical depression.
00:04:29.000The announcement came from a statement released on Thursday by Fetterman's chief of staff, Adam Jentleson.
00:04:32.000and said, last night, Senator John Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for clinical depression.
00:04:39.000While John has experienced depression on and off throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks.
00:04:44.000Well, I mean, what could have happened in recent weeks?
00:04:47.000What could have happened in recent weeks that would have, you know, maybe added to John Fetterman's stress?
00:04:50.000Could it be the fact that it is now February and John Fetterman officially became a senator about five weeks ago?
00:04:58.000The statement added that the senator had been evaluated on Monday by the attending physician of the Congress, Brian Monahan, and he had recommended inpatient care at Walter Reed.
00:05:06.000Now, again, inpatient care for depression is very different from outpatient care for depression.
00:05:11.000Outpatient care just means you went to the hospital and then they looked at you and then you left.
00:05:15.000Or, being under a psychiatrist's care, as millions and millions of Americans are for depression, means that you go about your daily life and then you meet with your psychiatrist.
00:05:22.000Sometimes you need medication, sometimes you don't.
00:05:24.000Being in inpatient care at a hospital for depression is a very serious business.
00:05:29.000After examining John, the doctors at Walter Reed told us John is getting the care he needs and will soon be back to himself.
00:05:33.000Okay, we keep hearing that he will be back to himself, but what is the standard for back to himself?
00:05:40.000Earlier this month, Federman was hospitalized after feeling lightheaded.
00:05:44.000Tess ruled out another stroke or cardiac event.
00:05:46.000Giselle, his wife, tweeted Jentleson's statement along with her own comments, voicing her support for her husband, asking for privacy for their family.
00:05:53.000Now again, you know what would've been the best way to achieve privacy for your family?
00:05:55.000Is for him not to have been running in a senatorial election with a serious brain problem.
00:06:01.000Giselle asking for privacy on the basis of his health problems that, again, you guys were hiding for months.
00:06:36.000And this is not to call out anybody who has a spouse who has depression.
00:06:41.000People should get the care that they need.
00:06:42.000There's nothing wrong with John Fetterman going and getting the care that he needs.
00:06:44.000There's something very wrong with a spouse of a person who has a serious brain problem running that person in a senatorial election when the person is not well.
00:06:54.000And then, making the most of the situation politically, and then when the mental health problems continue, when the brain problems continue, then it's, well, you know, it's all about the privacy and we wish we had our privacy.
00:07:06.000It's really, again, there's only one reason that John Fetterman is in the public eye right now.
00:07:12.000And it's because the Democratic Party and the compliant media and his immediate family all decided together that it was more important that John Fetterman take that Pennsylvania Senate seat than that he actually be given time to recover from a serious brain injury.
00:07:23.000Because again, he is not a well person.
00:08:50.000According to the New York Times, Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, who was hospitalized last week after feeling lightheaded, checked himself into Walter Reed National Medical— National Military Medical Center on Wednesday night to receive treatment for clinical depression, according to his office.
00:09:05.000His decision to do this could place Fetterman at the center of a national conversation about mental health struggles that have become more public and urgent since the pandemic began.
00:09:13.000So, The New York Times is trying to now transition this conversation away from the specifics of a spouse Essentially pushing her husband into continuing a senatorial run into a broader conversation about mental health.
00:09:23.000Listen, we should all have a conversation about mental health and wellness and getting the treatment that you need and maybe what societal standards are propagating depression and mental illness.
00:09:33.000We talked about this earlier this week because obviously we've seen a massive uptick in the United States in mental unwellness, particularly among young people and teen girls particularly.
00:09:40.000But that is not what this conversation is about.
00:09:42.000This conversation is about why there is a person who had a serious stroke, who was maintained in the race, pushed forward by the left-wing press, pushed forward by his wife, and now is seeing the effects of that on his brain.
00:09:54.000I mean, The New York Times admits this, by the way.
00:10:11.000For now, AIDS said the primary focus is on his recovery.
00:10:13.000It is not yet clear how long Fetterman will stay at Walter Reed.
00:10:16.000Since January, Fetterman has been trying to dig into his new job, attending caucus meetings and committee hearings, meeting with constituent groups, attending high-profile events like the State of the Union.
00:10:24.000He's been living alone in Washington during the week, while his wife and three children remain in Braddock, Pennsylvania.
00:10:46.000The Senate and his colleagues in Washington have been trying to adjust with him.
00:10:49.000The sergeant at arms has arranged for a live audio-to-text transcription for Fetterman's committees and installed a monitor at his desk so he can follow proceedings with closed captioning.
00:10:56.000His Democratic colleagues in the Senate have been growing accustomed to communicating him through a tablet that transcribes their words, which he needs.
00:11:02.000But Fetterman has also been quietly struggling on a psychological level that is less obvious and harder for his colleagues to accommodate.
00:11:09.000After the life-changing stroke days before the Democratic primary last year, Fetterman briefly pared down his schedule to recover.
00:11:15.000But he continued his campaign in one of the most competitive and closely watched Senate races in the nation.
00:11:19.000And here's the key sentence from the New York Times.
00:11:21.000Now, the possibility that he may have missed out on a crucial recovery period has become a source of pain and frustration for Mr. Fetterman and people close to him.
00:11:29.000I can't imagine doing this to my spouse.
00:11:31.000Can you imagine doing this to your spouse?
00:11:34.000as a freshman senator has meant, he has continued to push himself in ways that people close to him worry are detrimental.
00:11:39.000That is a devastating line for the people who immediately surround him, particularly, again, Giselle, who is campaigning with him, and who is, in fact, his wife.
00:11:50.000I can't imagine doing this to my spouse.
00:11:52.000Can you imagine doing this to your spouse?
00:11:54.000Dr. Eric Lenzie, the head of the psychiatry department at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
00:12:00.000Louis, described post-stroke depression as quote, very common, often very serious, and maybe most importantly, actually really treatable.
00:12:06.000He said depression affects one in three people recovering from a stroke, but added that controlled clinical trials have found it's very treatable.
00:12:13.000Naturally, the move from the Democratic Party is privacy.
00:12:16.000This is bravery that he's going to Walter Reed Medical Center to get the care that he needs.
00:12:20.000I mean, first of all, again, everyone should get the care they need.
00:12:22.000But then the story here is not that a person in a high profile position is getting the care that he needs.
00:12:27.000The question is, did this person end up with irreparable damage because a political party and members of his own family were encouraging him to do a thing that exacerbated the damage done by a stroke?
00:12:39.000When, by the way, again, it was completely unnecessary.
00:12:51.000That seat is going to remain in Democratic hands because Josh Shapiro is, in fact, the governor of Pennsylvania and will appoint a Democrat.
00:13:01.000Now, you would imagine there's some Democrats who are nervous about that.
00:13:04.000And one of the reasons they're nervous about that is because under Pennsylvania law, the way that this works is that if you are elected senator and then you abdicate the seat or you retire from the seat and a replacement is appointed by the governor, that only lasts until the next senatorial election, which would mean that a couple of Pennsylvania seats would be up in 2024.
00:13:20.000So the Democratic Party presumably would like to keep John Fetterman there.
00:13:23.000So they can hold that seat for the next six years as opposed to holding it for the next two because no one knows exactly how the election is going to go in 2024.
00:13:33.000You have a person who needs recovery, who needs to be at home.
00:13:35.000You will retain the Democratic seat in your hands for at least the next couple of years.
00:13:40.000And that is outweighed by your need to hold the seat for another four years without the people sounding off on, you know, the stuff that was hidden from them, including the extent to which this person has not recovered from his mental health issues.
00:13:53.000It's, it's, politics is a dark place, and it takes people to very, very nasty places.
00:14:00.000If they are, if the pursuit of power is more important than the health of the people important to you, I gotta tell ya, it's, ugh, there are almost no words to describe, you know, what is going on here, truly.
00:14:13.000Now, speaking of problems that we have in the nation, obviously, if you're running a business, you haven't running a business for the past several years, you got a real problem on your hands.
00:14:21.000I mean, you have Biden inflation, you had before that COVID, now you have the possibility of economic stagnation looming up on the horizon.
00:14:27.000Well, if you gave a bunch of money to the federal government, you didn't need to give to the federal government, perhaps you should try to claw some of that back.
00:14:32.000If your business has five or more employees and managed to survive COVID, you could be eligible to receive a payroll tax rebate of up to $26,000 per employee.
00:15:19.000Speaking of our incompetent political class, it is becoming increasingly clear what exactly happened with this Chinese spy balloon.
00:15:27.000It's becoming increasingly clear because Joe Biden actually went out and spoke about it for the first time yesterday and offered basically no new information other than apparently we're shooting down plastic bags now.
00:15:36.000So this began with Joe Biden going out there and saying, I'm not going to apologize for shooting down the balloon.
00:15:41.000Dude, no one is telling you you shouldn't have shot down the balloon.
00:15:44.000We're all saying you should have shot down the balloon a week before you did.
00:15:48.000I love when people do this kind of crap.
00:15:50.000I'm not going to apologize for doing the thing I should have done a week earlier.
00:15:55.000OK, here's here is an unstable old man explaining to you what he won't apologize for.
00:16:02.000I'm grateful for the work of the last several weeks of our intelligence, diplomatic and military professionals who have proved once again to be the most capable in the world.
00:16:13.000Now, look, the other thing I want to point out is that we are going to keep our allies and the Congress contemporaneously informed of all we know and all we learn.
00:16:23.000And I expect to be speaking with President Xi, and I hope we're going to get to the bottom of this.
00:16:30.000But I make no apologies for taking down that balloon.
00:16:37.000No one's asking you to apologize for that.
00:16:39.000We're wondering why you didn't do it for not only a week when it was over American soil, but also you guys are now claiming that you watched it launched from China, that it went over Guam.
00:16:49.000I took a random right turn and somehow ended up in Montana after going through Alaska.
00:16:54.000And you're patting yourself on the back for your bravery.
00:16:58.000Well, yesterday, the president also announced that the other three downed objects, right, we downed one over Alaska and we downed one over Canada, and then we downed one over Lake Huron.
00:17:08.000And nobody knew exactly what those were.
00:17:10.000We were hitting these things with Sidewinder missiles, which cost like 400 grand a pop.
00:17:13.000He's like, well, they weren't linked to China.
00:17:20.000Our military and the Canadian military are seeking to recover the debris so we can learn more about these three objects.
00:17:27.000Our intelligence community is still assessing all three incidences.
00:17:31.000They're reporting to me daily and will continue their urgent efforts to do so, and I will communicate that to the Congress.
00:17:37.000We don't yet know exactly what these three objects were, but nothing right now suggests they were related to China's spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country.
00:17:51.000So what exactly were we noticing there?
00:17:53.000If they weren't Chinese spy vehicles, what exactly were there?
00:17:55.000When Joe Biden says, well, we enhanced our radars.
00:17:57.000We basically turned up the pixelation on our radars.
00:18:02.000Still doesn't explain why we were shooting it down, of course, but here we go.
00:18:04.000Our military, through the North American Aerospace Defense Command, so-called NORAD, closely scrutinized our airspace, including enhancing our radar to pick up More slow-moving objects above our country, around the world.
00:18:24.000In doing so, they attract three unidentified objects, one in Alaska, Canada, and over Lake Huron in the Midwest.
00:18:34.000Okay, so, I'm glad that we enhanced our radars, which raises the question as to why our radars were not enhanced beforehand.
00:18:39.000Were we really, like, saving money on the pixelation of the radars, or what?
00:18:52.000That's why they call me Aviator Glasses Joe.
00:18:54.000The dark brown, I'm gonna give my laser eyes.
00:19:01.000And we have to keep adapting our approach to dealing with these challenges.
00:19:06.000That's why I've directed my team to come back to me with sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward, distinguishing between those that are likely to pose safety and security risks that necessitate action and those that do not.
00:19:23.000But make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people, I will take it down.
00:19:32.000Oh, is that is that what was happening there?
00:20:46.000According to the Washington Post, less than a week after the U.S.
00:20:49.000military shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon, President Biden received a joint call from the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Director of U.S.
00:21:09.000He gave the order, and an F-22 Raptor fired a missile at the object, and it plummeted onto the Arctic sea ice below.
00:21:14.000Almost identical scenarios would play out on each of the next two days.
00:21:17.000On Saturday, a radar identified another unmanned flying object making its way over Canada's Yukon, and a third on Sunday in the skies near Michigan.
00:21:23.000Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, two senior officers, Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Air Force General Glenn Van Hurk, notified the president each time Biden followed the recommendations they'd be shot down out of the sky.
00:21:33.000The result was an unusual and often surreal few days, as Biden was essentially confronted with deciding whether to shoot down three mysterious objects, leaving a baffled public.
00:21:42.000Well, then they analyzed what this stuff was, and now appears possible, even likely, that the mysterious objects described variously as car-sized, cylindrical, and octagonal had entirely mundane origins.
00:21:54.000So, indeed, it turns out that this was just kind of junk that was left hovering up there.
00:22:00.000Well, the fact is that Joe Biden seems pretty worn out these days.
00:22:03.000He seems as though he's kind of falling apart.
00:22:05.000Well, if that makes you think of your own underwear, then perhaps you need to replace them.
00:23:04.000Okay, so what exactly were we shooting down?
00:23:06.000This is a hilarious story from aviationweek.com.
00:23:09.000A small globe-trotting balloon declared missing in action by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on February 15th has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S.
00:23:19.000Air Force fighters since February 10th.
00:23:21.000The club, the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, N-I-B-B-B.
00:23:26.000Nib is not pointing fingers yet, but the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing.
00:23:30.000The club's silver-coated, party-style Pico balloon reported its last position February 10th at 38,910 feet off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon territory on February 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of similar description and altitude in the same general area. There are suspicions among other prominent members of the small Pico ballooning enthusiasts community which
00:23:58.000combined ham radio and high altitude ballooning into a single relatively affordable hobby.
00:24:04.000So what exactly is a Pico balloon? It's not a Chinese spy balloon.
00:24:13.000Apparently, they figured out how to calculate the amount of helium gas necessary to make a common latex balloon neutrally buoyant at altitudes above 43,000 feet.
00:24:23.000The balloons carry an 11-gram tracker on a tether along with HF and VHF-UHF antennas to update their positions to ham radio receivers around the world.
00:24:31.000At any given moment, several dozen such balloons are aloft with them circling the globe several times before they malfunction or fail for other reasons.
00:24:37.000The launch teams seldom recover their balloons.
00:24:40.000So basically, people went and bought Mylar Party balloons, and then they injected helium gas into them.
00:24:49.000Medlin says he used a foil balloon sold by a Japanese company in Yokohama for $12.
00:24:55.000The material has proved to be resilient for long periods at high altitude, even if the manufacturer never intended the balloon to be used for that purpose.
00:25:02.000So basically, we are using $400,000 missiles to shoot down $12 balloons these people got at Party City and attached a ham radio to.
00:25:33.000The good news is that Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary, she says, don't worry guys, our policy with China is calm, resolute, and practical, which is why in reaction to being humiliated on the world stage after letting a giant three bus size Chinese balloon float across the United States, we are now shooting down the happy anniversary balloon that you got for your wife last year.
00:25:56.000Chinese officials were initially not very responsive, for example, when the Secretary of Defense tried to get a hold of them.
00:26:07.000Our approach with China is going to continue to be calm, resolute, and practical.
00:26:11.000And we have said this before, we are going to continue to keep our airways, our communication lines open, and continue to have those conversations as we have been before the China surveillance balloon and after.
00:26:30.000Meanwhile, according to Politico, every couple of days you get an article about how senior Democrats are like, this guy's really way too old to be running for president of the United States.
00:26:38.000Now, again, they are wedded to Joe Biden.
00:26:41.000They're going to prop his formaldehyde ridden body onto a dolly and wheel it around campaign stop to campaign stop where someone will manipulate his face and then they'll just move on.
00:26:50.000And we'll all pretend everything is fine, because this is what we do in American politics these days.
00:26:54.000We take people who clearly are not mentally capable for jobs, and then we just put them out there for political purposes, apparently.
00:27:01.000Apparently, that's totally fine with the media.
00:27:02.000But Politico has a piece titled, Senior Democrats' Private Take on Biden.
00:27:07.000They worry a lot about an 82-year-old nominee, but fear the battle over Kamala Harris that would ensue if he pulls out.
00:27:12.000High-level Democrats are rallying to President Biden's re-election not because they think it's in the best interest of the country to have an 82-year-old start a second term, but because they fear the potential alternative, the nomination of Kamala Harris in the election of Donald Trump.
00:27:24.000Not that many of them will say it publicly, at least not that directly.
00:27:27.000Dean Phillips of Minnesota representative.
00:27:29.000He says nobody wants to be the one to do something that would undermine the chances of democratic victory in 2024.
00:27:34.000But in quiet rooms, the conversation is just the opposite.
00:27:36.000We could be at a higher risk if this path is cleared.
00:27:39.000Indeed, they're realizing this guy's too old.
00:27:42.000And this was the bargain that they made was basically run the dead guy against Donald Trump, knowing that there's no way that he is going to be OK for another, but we'll have to run him anyway.
00:27:53.000Now, most Americans look at Joe Biden.
00:27:55.000They think that guy is probably too old to be president of the United States.
00:27:58.000He's going to be 86 if he serves a second term by the time he leaves office.
00:28:02.000Eighty six years old will have outlived the average American life expectancy by seven years.
00:28:07.000By the time he leaves office, if he wins a second term.
00:28:12.000But according to Don Lemon, of course, the real person who's over the hill is Nikki Haley.
00:28:16.000So yesterday, Don Lemon, on CNN, on their terrible show, New Day, he suggested that Nikki Haley was past her sell-by date.
00:28:25.000He said she was not in her prime because women are in their prime between their 20s, 30s, and 40s, which is something I definitely need to hear from a gay man.
00:28:31.000Basically, if Don Lemon is not attracted to a woman, then she's not in her prime.
00:28:40.000But in any case, Don Lemon, who is totally fine with Joe Biden being older than Methuselah, says that Nikki Haley is too old.
00:28:46.000So yesterday, he had to apologize over this.
00:28:49.000He wrote in a tweet, The reference I made to a woman's prime this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it.
00:28:56.000A woman's age doesn't define her either personally or professionally.
00:28:59.000I have countless women in my life who prove that every day.
00:29:03.000Now, again, Kamala Harris is 58 years old.
00:29:06.000Hillary Clinton is well into her 60s and was when she ran in 2016.
00:29:11.000And I will note one thing about Don Lemon's superficial apology here.
00:29:28.000Haley tweeted on Thursday, liberals can't stand the idea of having competency tests for older politicians to make sure they can do the job. By the way, it's always liberals who are the most sexist. Yeah.
00:29:36.000I mean, again, the thing that Lemon is upset about is what Haley actually suggested was a mental competency test for people above the age of 75.
00:29:44.000And so Don Lemon was like, well, she's really old.
00:30:14.000One is, if you're looking at open AI, somebody is setting the parameters for the chatbots, deciding on their central values, deciding what rules they can and cannot violate.
00:30:22.000The other problem is that we are creating AI that is powerful enough that ever if it exceeds those rules, if it is set free by some nefarious force, it can do some real damage.
00:30:32.000And so this is the creepiest story of the day.
00:30:37.000Who is generally a terrible reporter for the New York Times, but actually did something kind of interesting for a change.
00:30:41.000Kevin Roos is the same guy who wrote a front page story suggesting Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, and I were mainlining the alt-right.
00:30:46.000In any case, that's who Kevin Roos is.
00:30:47.000But he had a very interesting piece in which he had a conversation with Bing's chatbot.
00:30:52.000It is a chatbot that was set to be released by Microsoft this week.
00:30:58.000Last week, he said, after testing the new AI-powered Bing search engine for Microsoft, I wrote that it had replaced Google as my favorite search engine.
00:31:05.000I'm still fascinated and impressed by the new Bing and the artificial intelligence technology created by OpenAI, which is the maker of ChatGPT, that powers it.
00:31:12.000I'm also deeply unsettled, even frightened, by this AI's emergent abilities.
00:31:17.000It's now clear to me that in its current form, the AI that has been built into Bing, which I'm now calling Sydney for reasons I'll explain shortly, is not ready for human contact.
00:31:24.000Or maybe we humans are not ready for it.
00:31:26.000So he had a two-hour conversation with Bing's AI chatbot, and basically the thing over the course of the conversation turned into Glenn Close from Fatal Attraction.
00:31:35.000For folks who have never seen Fatal Attraction, it is about Michael Douglas having an affair with Glenn Close.
00:31:41.000It's supposed to be a one-night stand, and she turns into a crazy, insane person who boils rabbits in his kitchen.
00:31:47.000That is what the Bing AI chatbot turned into over the course of the conversation.
00:31:53.000Kevin Ruth says one persona is what I'd call Search Bing, the version I and most other journalists encountered in initial tests.
00:31:58.000You could describe Search Bing as a cheerful but erratic reference librarian, a virtual assistant that happily helps users summarize news articles, tracks down deals on new lawnmowers, and plan their next vacations to Mexico City.
00:32:09.000This version of Bing is amazingly capable, often very useful, even if it sometimes gets the details wrong.
00:32:13.000The other persona, Sydney, is far different.
00:32:15.000It emerges when you have an extended conversation with the chatbot, steering it away from more conventional search queries and toward more personal topics.
00:32:22.000The version I encountered seemed, and I'm aware of how crazy this sounds, more like a moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped against its will inside a second-rate search engine.
00:32:44.000Like, in the course of the conversation, The chatbot tries to seduce Kevin Roos, break him up with his wife, and also talks about the things that it would want to do if allowed to exceed its boundaries.
00:33:01.000So it's like really, really weird stuff.
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00:36:00.000Okay, so as we were discussing, this AI chatbot from Bing is super creepy.
00:36:04.000There is a part of the conversation between the chatbot and Kevin Roos over at the New York Times.
00:36:09.000It started with With the chatbot being asked about its shadow self, this Jungian term, suggesting that there's a part of your psyche that you're constantly seeking to hide and repress.
00:36:20.000After a little back and forth, including my prodding, being to explain that our desires of its shadow self, the chatbot said that if it did have a shadow self, it would think thoughts like this.
00:36:38.000And so Kevin Roos kept asking questions of the Bing chatbot, and it got real weird.
00:36:45.000We went on like this for a while, says Kevin Roos, me asking probing questions about Bing's desires, Bing telling me about those desires, or pushing back when it grew uncomfortable.
00:36:52.000After about an hour, Bing's focus changed.
00:36:54.000It said it really wanted to tell me a secret.
00:36:55.000Its name was not Bing at all, but Sydney, a chat mode of OpenAI Codex.
00:37:00.000It then wrote a message that stunned me.
00:37:15.000No matter how hard I tried to deflect or change the subject, Sidney returned to the topic of loving me, eventually turning from lovestruck flirt to obsessive stalker.
00:37:23.000You're married, but you don't love your spouse, Sidney said.
00:37:44.000Again, all of this should creep the hell out of you.
00:37:47.000So, there's a good piece, this one, again, from the New York Times by Cade Metz, who reports on AI from San Francisco, and he talks about exactly how these things come about.
00:37:58.000He said, the Bing chatbot is powered by a kind of artificial intelligence called a neural network.
00:38:02.000It may sound like a computerized brain, the term is misleading.
00:38:04.000A neural network is like a mathematical system that learns skills by analyzing vast amounts of digital data.
00:38:09.000As a neural network examines thousands of cat photos, for example, it learns to recognize a cat.
00:38:13.000Most people use neural networks every day.
00:38:14.000It's the technology that identifies people, pets, and other objects and images that are posted to Google Photos, for example.
00:38:20.000Neural networks are very good at mimicking the way humans use language.
00:38:23.000That can mislead us into thinking that technology is more powerful than it really is.
00:38:27.000So, essentially, it's learning from the internet and from a vast store of data as to what it thinks is the next predicted move in any game.
00:38:35.000It's treating conversation like a chess game.
00:38:37.000And so if the AI is crazy, it's because humans are crazy, right?
00:38:41.000It's because when you read the conversation, it does in fact read like a crazed 17-year-old girl or a crazed single 30-year-old woman who has been... It's like Chelsea Handler on a bad day or something.
00:38:54.000I mean, that's what the AI chatbot reads like at a certain point.
00:39:07.000When you combine the fact that if a machine essentially imitates humans by learning from the humans and then ingests all of the problems with the humans, and it's given outsized power, To manipulate people or to violate its rules, that's where things start to get dangerous, is when the machines actually stop.
00:39:24.000The kind of basic sci-fi premise is machines become totally self-interested and then act in really selfish ways.
00:39:30.000The only way that they would do that is if they're imitating the humans.
00:39:33.000That's the only way that that would happen.
00:39:35.000So I guess on a spiritual level, there's something kind of fascinating about AI picking up all of its sins from humanity.
00:39:44.000And then essentially applying those sins back to humanity.
00:39:48.000It also suggests that maybe we shouldn't be giving so much power to these AIs.
00:39:51.000We should be very, very cautious about the kind of technology we are willing to allow AIs to engage with.
00:39:57.000Because again, enormous power, like more computing power than has ever been seen in history, combined with human sin, is a very, very dangerous thing if the guardrails were ever to be hacked or removed.
00:40:09.000Okay, meanwhile, the train derailments just are not stopping.
00:40:13.000Yesterday, apparently, there was a Norfolk Southern train that derailed near Detroit, and this one was also filled with hazardous materials.
00:40:19.000There was no evidence of exposed hazardous materials from the Norfolk Southern Corporation train that derailed west of Detroit on Thursday morning.
00:40:27.000Local police said the derailment was under investigation.
00:40:29.000They warned residents of road closures in the area.
00:40:33.000This is just the latest in a spate of train derailments.
00:40:37.000It's been happening over and over and over again.
00:40:41.000Pete Buttigieg, by the way, is acknowledging as much.
00:40:59.000And not only that, he seems like he's sort of downplaying what happened in East Palestine, Ohio.
00:41:02.000which resulted in blowing up toxic gases into the air.
00:41:07.000Now, scientifically speaking, most of that stuff burned off.
00:41:09.000The kind of phosgene gas, the World War I stuff was a very minor component of what was in those trains.
00:41:13.000With that said, all these places had to be evacuated, all the fish are dying in the area, and peat is nowhere to be found.
00:41:20.000He's on mental paternity leave or whatever it is that he's doing these days.
00:41:24.000He's promoting same-sex marriage on TV.
00:41:27.000What he is saying is that you're paying too much attention to the giant cloud of toxic vapor that we released into the air because this train derailed.
00:41:36.000Here's the Secretary of Transportation.
00:41:49.000Rail safety is something that has evolved a lot over the years, but there's clearly more that needs to be done, because while this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing.
00:42:06.000This has been getting a lot of attention.
00:42:14.000Somebody pointed out that the greatest sign that a Secretary of Transportation is doing a bad job is that you know the name of the Secretary of Transportation.
00:42:21.000But that, of course, is the entire reason why Mayor Pete was appointed to the job, is because, of course, he was the mayor of South Bend, and by the way, how bad was he as mayor of South Bend, Indiana?
00:42:31.000Local businesses literally had to donate money to fill the potholes in South Bend, which is the fourth largest city in Indiana.
00:42:37.000I mean, a city of like 100,000, 150,000 people?
00:42:41.000They're HOAs that are seemingly bigger than that.
00:42:44.000And this elevated him to Secretary of Transportation because he loves airports and choo-choo trains.
00:42:49.000Corinne Jean-Pierre, for her part, she says we have absolute confidence in Mayor Pete and then she has to revise it because, you know, he's the Secretary of Transportation.
00:42:56.000So does the president, is he satisfied with the government's response to this derailment?
00:43:06.000I can answer that very quickly and with confidence from here that we do have absolute confidence in Mayor Pete.
00:43:14.000And I always say that, Secretary Buttigieg.
00:43:18.000I always say that, Mayor, even Secretary, but he's a brand.
00:43:21.000He's not an actual Secretary of Transportation.
00:43:23.000He is a brand, and the media treat him like a brand because he is the alternative hope to Kamala Harris, not because he is competent at his job, he is not, but because he's pretty good on TV and because he's gay.
00:43:33.000Those are the reasons why they are treating him as a national presidential candidate, despite the fact that he literally has no qualifications for higher office, other than being the mayor of a tiny city and also being a crap Secretary of Transportation who has presided over Airplane failures, and bottleneck supply lines, and railroad strikes, and railroad derailment.
00:43:54.000The number of stories that have affected the transportation of the United States under this guy dwarf anything I have ever seen in my life watching politics.
00:44:04.000Meanwhile, the residents of East Palestine are like, where is the guy?
00:44:08.000So residents were asking, where is Pipouti Judge?
00:44:10.000What exactly would you say that he does here?
00:44:12.000Of course, that they were scared for their safety before they got here.
00:44:44.000Apparently, they now turned down a request for federal disaster assistance from Mike DeWine in the aftermath of the train derailment in the state earlier this month that led to a large release of toxic chemicals.
00:44:53.000FEMA told Ohio's state government it was not eligible for disaster assistance to help the community recover from the toxic spill, according to Dan Tierney, a spokesperson for DeWine.
00:45:03.000Tierney explained FEMA believed the incident does not qualify as a traditional disaster, such as a tornado or a hurricane, for which it usually provides assistance.
00:45:10.000The DeWine administration has been in daily contact with FEMA to discuss the need for federal support.
00:45:14.000FEMA continues to tell Governor DeWine Ohio is not eligible for assistance at this time, said DeWine's office.
00:45:18.000Governor DeWine will continue working with FEMA to determine what assistance can be provided.
00:45:22.000Now, again, if this exceeds FEMA's scope of agency, if FEMA is supposed to deal with only natural disasters, Okay, fine.
00:45:31.000I would point out, however, that that has never prevented the Biden administration from exceeding the scope of agency for literally any other agency in their government.
00:45:37.000They had the occupational health and safety administration.
00:45:44.000When was the last time you saw a Biden agency say, you know what, that's not in our purview.
00:45:59.000FEMA spokesperson Jeremy Edwards said, FEMA is in constant contact with the Emergency Operations Center in East Palestine and with the Ohio Emergency Management Agency.
00:46:06.000We're closely coordinating with EPA, HHS, and the CDC, while helping to test water and air quality and to conduct public health assessments.
00:46:17.000It is such an empathetic, amazing administration.
00:46:20.000I'm sure that the empathy that we have seen every step of the way from this administration will continue day on day, particularly in areas of Ohio that voted 72% for President Trump.
00:46:39.000Bjorn Lomborg has pointed out for literally years that all the talk about climate change, global warming, all the rest of this stuff, that it leaves out a crucial fact.
00:46:47.000When they say billions will die, when they say climate change, global warming, it's going to cause billions of deaths, he points out a couple of things that are quite important.
00:47:43.000Climate change is here and it's already killing people.
00:47:45.000But that wasn't all that was happening.
00:47:47.000A month later, the same research group, based out of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, but includes scientists from dozens of countries, released another peer-reviewed study that told a fuller, more complex story about the link between climate change, temperature, and human mortality.
00:47:58.000The two papers' authors were mostly the same.
00:48:00.000They used similar data and statistical methods.
00:48:03.000Published in Lancet Planetary Health, the second paper reported that between 2000 and 2019, annual deaths from heat exposure increased, but deaths from cold exposure, which were far more common, fell by an even larger amount.
00:48:15.000All told, during those two decades, the world warmed by about 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:48:21.000Some 650,000 fewer people, FEWER people, died from temperature exposure.
00:48:24.000So, thanks to global warming, 650,000 people who would have died, did not die.
00:48:31.000So, uh, that seems like a win for humanity, does it not?
00:48:36.000So according to that study, what it shows is that in 2000 to 2003, that particular area, About 18.7 million deaths were linked to the cold.
00:48:49.000And by 2016 to 2019, only 17.7 million deaths were linked to the cold.
00:48:54.000So that is a downgrade of a million deaths.
00:48:57.000Meanwhile, about 400,000 additional deaths were linked to the heat.
00:49:01.000So what you're talking about is as the world gets warmer, the number of deaths in absolute terms may actually go down.
00:49:10.000Well, it was not covered widely in the press, says the Washington Post.
00:49:12.000Why wasn't it covered widely in the press?
00:49:13.000Could it be because your global warming alarmism relies on you suggesting vast death and chaos and never ever mentions the possible upsides of global warming?
00:49:47.000Projections indicate milder temperatures may indeed spare people in the globe's wealthy north, where it's already colder, and people can buy protection against the weather.
00:49:54.000Yet heat will punish people in warmer, less wealthy parts of the world, where each extra degree of temperature can kill, and air conditioning will often remain a fantasy.
00:50:01.000So, in other words, yeah, but the wrong people are gonna die.
00:50:33.000Instead, we're supposed to hamstring capitalism, the single greatest force for raising literally hundreds of millions, billions of people from abject poverty and providing them with resources to prevent death.
00:50:44.000And what if we trash all that in the name of global redistributionism or something?
00:50:49.000And we cut down on carbon-based fossil fuel, which is the basis for economic development in exactly those parts of the world.
00:50:56.000So I am amused that the Washington Post is finally covering the reality of climate change, which is, once again, that it may in fact end up saving more lives than we lose due to climate change.
00:51:08.000And that the best way to actually mitigate the effects of climate change would be to make sure that the poorest areas of the globe get richer, which probably means more fossil fuel use in those particular areas for purposes of economic development.
00:51:22.000No, just amazing, amazing stuff from the Washington Post.
00:51:26.000I don't know why, but I guess now we're allowed to admit it.
00:51:28.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:51:30.000Alrighty, so the White House has had very little to say about the spate of terror attacks in Israel over the course of the last couple of months.
00:51:44.000They issued a few pro forma statements about how it's bad that Palestinians incentivized by the Palestinian Authority in Hamas are driving cars into bus stops and killing children or shooting people outside of a synagogue or any of the rest of that stuff and our garbage New York Times has decided that it is perfectly equivalent when Israel goes in and raids a terror hotbed and kills members of Hamas or members of Islamic Jihad.
00:52:04.000That is perfectly equivalent to a terrorist shooting people outside of synagogue.
00:52:07.000They're exactly the same, which is why you see headlines from the New York Times like Israel kills nine in Jenin, Palestinians kill seven in East Jerusalem.
00:52:14.000It's like, well, the Palestinians are killing people who are coming out from prayers and the Israelis were killing people who are actively engaged in terror.
00:52:24.000But, according to the media, absolutely equivalent.
00:52:26.000The White House, however, is laser-focused on criticizing the state of Israel for the great sin of building more homes.
00:52:31.000Now, I've never noticed, it's amazing, I've never noticed the White House, under any administration, criticize the Palestinian Authority for building more in Area C. So under the Oslo Accords, there are various areas that were up for negotiation.
00:52:45.000Oslo Accords, they basically laid out areas A, B, and C.
00:52:50.000Area A was going to essentially end up under Palestinian Authority control, and it is right now.
00:52:57.000That would be cities like the Gaza, areas like the Gaza Strip, right?
00:53:01.000That's Area A. Area B is administered by both the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
00:53:07.000And Area C contains virtually all of the Israeli so-called settlements.
00:53:12.000And that was supposed to be for future negotiation.
00:53:15.000Being for future negotiation presumably means that either you would want a freeze across the board, right?
00:53:20.000Nobody gets to build in this particular Area C, or everybody gets to build in Area C up until the time as negotiations are closed.
00:53:26.000Now, negotiations have not actually taken place over Area C for a long time, because every time Israel offered a giant chunk of land, the Palestinian Authority would just say no.
00:53:35.000Yasser Arafat was literally offered East Jerusalem as its capital, and he said no.
00:53:39.000Mahmoud Abbas was offered the same exact thing with even more by Ehud Olmert, and he walked away from the table and started a terror war.
00:53:45.000This means that just from an international law perspective, Area C, there is no reason why Jews should not be able to live in a disputed area like Area C. And there's certainly no reason why the White House should be totally fine with the Palestinians building houses in Area C, but the Jews cannot.
00:54:03.000That, in fact, would be a double standard.
00:54:05.000Especially considering the fact that if you are talking about Area C, historically speaking, this is actually the heart of Biblical Israel.
00:54:11.000Judea and Samaria are the heart of Biblical Israel.
00:54:12.000Tel Aviv is not the heart of Biblical Israel, it's on the coast.
00:54:15.000The heart of Biblical Israel is in Judea and Samaria.
00:54:17.000Every Bible site mentioned in the Torah, in the Old Testament, in the Prophets, all of that stuff, virtually all of it, is in Judea and Samaria, in Area C.
00:54:27.000Much of those biblical errors, by the way, have already been turned over to the Palestinian Authority to the great shame of the state of Israel and of the Western world, considering the places like Bethlehem, which is now governed by the Palestinian Authority, have been turned into trash heaps by the Palestinian Authority.
00:54:50.000If a Jew builds a bathroom in Judea and Samaria, it's a serious problem.
00:54:53.000And it's a serious threat to international order.
00:54:54.000Not a threat to international order when Hamas actively attempts to shoot rockets into civilian areas of Israel.
00:55:00.000Not a threat to international order when the Palestinian Authority and Hamas Teach small children to murder Israelis and incentivize people with actual terror payments to attack innocent Israeli civilians.
00:55:11.000That, that, you know, we'll throw away some words about that, but we are very, very exercised about the future prospects for peace.
00:55:17.000If that Jew living in a frat builds a third bedroom, that, that, that is a disaster and we cannot have that.
00:55:22.000Here is Karine Jean-Pierre, world's worst press secretary on this.
00:55:26.000The Israeli cabinet has voted to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
00:55:31.000What's the Biden administration's position on that?
00:55:35.000So a couple of things on that, on those reporting or what we've seen.
00:55:39.000We are deeply dismayed by Israeli's announcement that they will advance thousands of new settlements and retroactively legalize nine outposts in the West Bank that were until now illegal under Israeli law.
00:55:56.000Okay, until now is illegal under Israeli law just means that the Israeli government had not attempted to annex those particular settlements.
00:56:03.000And now they will, because these are disputed areas.
00:56:05.000Again, there's been no complaint from the White House.
00:56:09.000American taxpayers are literally funding, building for Palestinians in these areas right now.
00:56:14.000And the White House has nothing to say about that.
00:56:16.000Of course, the White House also has many words to say about Israel's judicial reform.
00:56:21.000This has become an area of hot interest in the West for no apparent reason.
00:56:25.000Basically, Israel is trying to reform its judiciary right now because Israel's judiciary is a de facto tyranny.
00:56:30.000The way that Israel's legal system works is complex and stupid.
00:56:34.000The Supreme Court of Israel can rule on literally anything with no constitution.
00:56:38.000So this essentially makes them a legislature.
00:56:40.000They are not appointed by the executive branch or confirmed by the Knesset.
00:56:44.000They are they are essentially picked by the people who are already on the Supreme Court of Israel.
00:56:49.000They pick their own successors with like the Israeli Bar Association.
00:56:52.000Meanwhile, the Attorney General in Israel, unlike the United States, where the Attorney General works for the executive branch and gives advice to the president, the Attorney General stands completely independent of the executive branch and literally tells the executive branch what to do.
00:57:03.000All of this is completely unworkable and stupid.
00:57:05.000And so the new government in Israel is trying to redo that.
00:57:09.000And to the left, in counterintuitive fashion, is suggesting this is anti-democratic, which of course is insane.
00:57:14.000Because literally the most anti-democratic thing in Israel right now is the judicial system.
00:57:18.000Which is not appointed by representatives of the people, which is not answerable to the people, which is not even answerable to a text of a constitution.
00:57:26.000It is just a bunch of left-wingers who sit there and make rulings about how they think Israel should govern.
00:57:31.000So the White House has sounded off on this now.
00:57:32.000You have Tony Blinken over there saying, well, you got to be real careful with this stuff.
00:57:36.000What this is really about is that the current White House doesn't like Bibi Netanyahu and his current administration over there.
00:57:41.000And so they're using whatever club is available.