The Ben Shapiro Show - Fox News Betrays Conservatives By Pushing Trans Propaganda | Ep. 1513

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00:01:42.000 Well, one of the things that we know here in the United States is that virtually every major institution in the United States is dominated by the hard left.

00:01:49.000 And this is particularly true when it comes to social issues.

00:01:51.000 The momentum that the social left has had for the Past several decades is just overwhelming.

00:01:57.000 From corporate America to the government, from the educational system to the entertainment system, pretty much every institution in America is dominated by the left in extraordinary fashion.

00:02:07.000 In this year's greatest indicator is the way that, for example, the pride progress flag completely overtook the pride flag within one minute of its proposition during gay pride month, LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign tilde pride month. 0.70

00:02:19.000 Now remember, there used to be a gay pride flag that was just the rainbow.

00:02:22.000 It was the same rainbow that Barack Obama so unifyingly showed on the White House in the aftermath of Obergefell.

00:02:30.000 Because of course, if America stands for anything, it is for the proposition that all forms of sexual activity are morally equivalent.

00:02:36.000 But that used to be the flag.

00:02:37.000 The flag was just the rainbow pride flag.

00:02:39.000 Then there was the proposition that it didn't include trans, and it also didn't include BIPOC people or something. 0.72

00:02:44.000 And so you have the really, really ugly pride progress flag, which from an aesthetic perspective is just hideous.

00:02:49.000 It's got the rainbow flag, but now it has this triangle that comes in from the side.

00:02:54.000 So it looks almost like the Puerto Rican flag, but like with different colors.

00:02:58.000 And it's really, it's really not an aesthetically pleasing flag.

00:03:01.000 It was immediately taken over by every major corporation.

00:03:04.000 Everyone started flying the pride progress flag within a minute, right? 0.98

00:03:07.000 This thing did not exist two years ago.

00:03:08.000 And today it is the only flag that has flown.

00:03:10.000 The gay pride flag is now considered passe.

00:03:13.000 We've moved beyond it.

00:03:14.000 We've moved into a new world.

00:03:16.000 The momentum with which that shift happened is just a monster of how quickly the cultural elites and all of these institutions pick up the most insane, radical arguments of the left and just mainstream them immediately.

00:03:28.000 They don't think about them.

00:03:29.000 They don't consider them.

00:03:29.000 They don't determine whether these arguments are good or not.

00:03:31.000 They just take them and they weaponize them immediately.

00:03:35.000 And nowhere has this been truer than when it comes to radical gender theory and ideology.

00:03:39.000 As I've talked about before, when it comes to LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, a lot of the arguments in favor of T and Q run directly counter to the arguments for L and G. The arguments for L and G typically were, born this way, we were made this way, we can't help our activity, and therefore you should basically leave us alone in the privacy of our own bedrooms and that's it.

00:03:58.000 And now the argument in favor of T is that there is no such thing as biological essentialism.

00:04:02.000 Men and women do not exist. 1.00

00:04:05.000 And also, men and women are not separate categories, which is the predicate for both L and G. All these arguments are in conflict with one another.

00:04:11.000 The only way they are not in conflict is if you are directing them at a Judeo-Christian traditional moral superstructure.

00:04:17.000 If you are taking all of these folks and saying, listen, I know you have nothing in common, but we have a coalitional approach to taking down Judeo-Christian morality, and so we are going to band together, despite our differences, in order to tear down that morality, then a lot of this starts to make sense.

00:04:30.000 And a lot of the institutions of American society have bought in.

00:04:33.000 Now, that means that if you are of traditional moral bent, if you're somebody who believes, for example, that natural law suggests that there are better and worse ways on a human level of conducting, for example, your sex life.

00:04:44.000 If you are a person of traditional mores, who believes that sex should be defined within marriage, between a man and a woman, because sex is not merely about the physical pleasure that you get from sex.

00:04:55.000 It is also about progeneration and creating a new generation of people.

00:04:59.000 And it's about the fulfillment that male and female find in one another when they leave their parents' home and they create a family for themselves.

00:05:06.000 If you believe any of that stuff, then the number of institutions upon which you can rely has been shrinking dramatically.

00:05:12.000 And not only has it been shrinking dramatically, it's been shrinking in almost forceful fashion from the cultural arbiters.

00:05:17.000 If you believe any of this stuff, the idea is that you must be censored.

00:05:20.000 And if you believe even the basic propositions that undergird this stuff, like there are natural differences between men and women, those distinctions are the basis for all mammalian reproduction forever.

00:05:31.000 If you believe that sort of stuff, then you are considered a bigot.

00:05:34.000 Such that when What Is A Woman, Matt Walsh's new documentary, which is the number one streaming documentary in the United States from Daily Wire, it's fantastic, you should watch it.

00:05:42.000 When it comes out, there's a hue and cry from wide elements of the media that we shouldn't be able to advertise this documentary.

00:05:51.000 It hasn't been reviewed by any major reviewer in the United States, despite the fact it is the number one documentary in the country on any streaming service.

00:05:58.000 Because the idea is it must be silenced.

00:06:00.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:06:01.000 This institutional takeover has real and serious ramifications.

00:06:05.000 Because it turns out that when you churn out a bullhorn, and that bullhorn is just promoting propaganda that is anti-biological essentialism, that is churning out anti-natural law, anti-traditional morality, anti-rules, what you get is an enormous number of very confused and and emotionally dysfunctional young people.

00:06:26.000 And that's precisely what you're seeing.

00:06:27.000 You're seeing a radical increase in the number of people who are identifying as a member of the quote-unquote non-heterosexual community, the non-exclusively heterosexual community, and it is predominantly in liberal areas.

00:06:38.000 What the polls show is that if you're a liberal, only about two-thirds of people who consider themselves self-considered liberal, younger Americans, consider themselves exclusively heterosexual today.

00:06:46.000 As opposed to, you know, throughout human history, about 98%.

00:06:50.000 And the reason for that is because so much of this is political.

00:06:53.000 So much of this is about identity and about the belief that traditional structures of humanity are really, really bad, and those have to be torn down.

00:07:00.000 And the more rules and rules that you shun, the more authentic you are in your very own person.

00:07:04.000 And that is the propaganda that is being churned by the left day in, day out, all the time, without a doubt.

00:07:11.000 And you can see proof of this.

00:07:13.000 And Nancy Pelosi, for example, over the weekend, Nancy Pelosi was doing an episode of a drag race So the Speaker of the House of Representatives doing an episode of Drag Race because drag has now become a mainstream American phenomenon wherein we're all supposed to pretend that there is nothing role-violating, rule-violating, or morally pernicious about men wearing women's clothing and pretending to be women.

00:07:36.000 We're supposed to pretend that that doesn't violate any sort of moral strictures.

00:07:40.000 We're supposed to pretend that all of this is Essentially morally apathetic.

00:07:46.000 We ought to be morally apathetic toward this stuff.

00:07:47.000 Now again, I'm not talking about whether we should restrict this stuff by law for adults.

00:07:50.000 That's a different question.

00:07:51.000 I'm talking about whether on a moral level, it is generally good for men to dress like women and women to dress like men.

00:07:57.000 I'm of the belief the answer is no, because men are men and women are women, and the sexual distinction between the two is quite important to a thriving and flourishing society, not a society in hedonistic, narcissistic decline.

00:08:07.000 Okay, but Nancy Pelosi appears on Drag Race, and what she has to say about this is really quite astonishing, because it speaks to what the left believes is the unifying feature of America.

00:08:17.000 Now, traditionally, the unifying feature of America, if you go back to the founding fathers, is the idea That we have liberty from government, but very strong social institutions that undergird that liberty.

00:08:26.000 In the words of John Adams, you need a strong social structure because the Constitution was written, is the wording of John Adams, the Constitution was written for a moral and religious people only.

00:08:35.000 Without that, the passions of the mob would run through the boundaries of the Constitution like a whale through a net.

00:08:42.000 This has long been the idea of American liberty.

00:08:45.000 American liberty was always undergirded by the idea of American virtue.

00:08:48.000 These two came hand in hand.

00:08:50.000 The notion was that only a virtuous people could be afforded liberty because a non-virtuous people with liberty was going to devolve into libertinism, which is not exactly the same thing.

00:08:58.000 Well, we are there because the way that the left defines liberty is blowing up all the rules, blowing up all the rules.

00:09:03.000 America to them is essentially the proposition that we can regulate every area of your life except when it comes to your self-definition.

00:09:11.000 When it comes to your self-definition there, we not only have to Allow you to do what you want to do on a governmental level, which, you know, is arguable.

00:09:18.000 But we have to cheer it on a cultural level.

00:09:19.000 We have to cheer it and forward it.

00:09:21.000 And that's what America is really all about.

00:09:22.000 America is about drag queen story hour and drag race, according to Nancy Pelosi. 0.97

00:09:27.000 It is not about a virtuous people upholding their virtue through the exercise of liberty, particularly at the local level, by building community and by having freedom from government for entrepreneurialism and self-definition in communal terms.

00:09:38.000 That you end up with a better America?

00:09:40.000 No, the idea is that what America really is about is high taxes, gun control, abortion, and drag races. 1.00

00:09:46.000 So here's Nancy Pelosi talking about what makes America special.

00:09:49.000 Give a warm drag race welcome to the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. 0.99

00:09:57.000 These are all men dressed as women. 0.99

00:09:59.000 And there's Nancy Pelosi walking out.

00:10:01.000 Everybody's real happy.

00:10:03.000 My honor to be here to say to all of you how proud we all are of you.

00:10:08.000 Thank you for the joy and beauty you bring to the world.

00:10:13.000 Your freedom of expression of yourselves in drag is what America is all about.

00:10:18.000 I say that all the time to my friends in drag.

00:10:26.000 I'm sorry, this is dystopian stuff.

00:10:27.000 It really is.

00:10:28.000 This is what America's all about.

00:10:29.000 We're so proud of you, men, for shirking all of your male societal roles and embracing dressing like women on national television.

00:10:36.000 That is Nancy Pelosi. 0.92

00:10:38.000 It's not just a thing that people do and that we ought to tolerate as a society because people act in ways that we don't like, but we don't want government to have enough power to crack down on that stuff because government with too much power can harm all of us.

00:10:48.000 That's not the argument.

00:10:49.000 The argument is this is an active good.

00:10:51.000 You're adding truth and beauty to society by having men appropriate the costumes of women and then pretend to be women for purposes of television ratings. 0.59

00:11:00.000 This is what America is all about, says the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

00:11:03.000 And, of course, this bleeds down to the local level, to the point where now you have an entire cadre of Americans who believe that it is good to show small children men dressed as women.

00:11:11.000 And not just men dressed as women, men dressed as women gyrating sexually in front of small children. 0.63

00:11:15.000 So, for example, over the last weekend, you had a family-friendly drag queen event in Austin, Texas, which is a contradiction in terms.

00:11:21.000 There's no such thing as a family-friendly drag queen event. 0.53

00:11:25.000 There just isn't.

00:11:26.000 I'm sorry, the idea that men and women exist and that these are roles that are important to the flourishing of a society is so... that the fact that this even has to be defended in intellectual terms demonstrates that we are a culture that is in a state of complete collapse.

00:11:38.000 There are certain things that people just know, and it's okay to just know them.

00:11:42.000 This is the point that Michael Oakeshott makes about rationalism.

00:11:45.000 And we live in a society where people feel the need to rationalize all of their All of the rules and rules that they've inherited.

00:11:52.000 Well, can I come up with in my head why this is important?

00:11:55.000 Now, it's important to try and reason out why a historic institution exists and whether it can be changed.

00:12:01.000 But if the idea is that we are starting tabula rasa and that the burden of proof is on the people in favor of the rules to defend the rules, that the burden of proof is not on you to explain why the rules should be destroyed, then you have completely destroyed society.

00:12:13.000 Because again, society is rooted in all of these fundamental rules and roles.

00:12:18.000 So there's nothing wrong with saying, I don't want my child viewing men who dress up as women and gyrate around on a stage.

00:12:24.000 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:12:26.000 And not even in sexual terms.

00:12:27.000 You can say, listen, I think that boys should dress as boys and girls should dress as girls. 0.92

00:12:30.000 And that is an active good.

00:12:32.000 I believe that's an active good.

00:12:34.000 I don't think, not only do I think there's nothing wrong with that, I think it's quite important because kids need rules.

00:12:37.000 They need boundaries.

00:12:38.000 They need guides.

00:12:39.000 It turns out that civilization is something you have to teach to children.

00:12:42.000 You have to civilize kids.

00:12:45.000 But apparently this is now considered passé, so you have family-friendly drag queen events in places like Austin, Texas.

00:12:53.000 Does this seem family-friendly to you right here? 0.98

00:12:56.000 A bunch of men dressed as women dancing around with each other wearing Scanty clothing, grinding their asses against one another. 0.96

00:13:03.000 This seems very family-friendly to me, doesn't it? 0.97

00:13:05.000 This is family-friendly stuff right here.

00:13:06.000 Really, it's a family-friendly drag queen event.

00:13:10.000 And by the way, if you think that we are not spending money on this sort of stuff, public money on this sort of stuff, you would be wrong.

00:13:16.000 According to the New York Post, over $200,000 is being spent on drag queen shows at New York City schools.

00:13:21.000 We're a society that now says it's good for small children to see all of this.

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00:14:32.000 So the left, their favorite thing to do, as some of the more nationalist conservatives say, and they're exactly correct on this, what they say is, it's not happening and it's good that it is.

00:14:42.000 The argument is, why are you focusing in on all of this stuff?

00:14:44.000 Because it's not happening.

00:14:45.000 And also it's really good and important that it is.

00:14:46.000 And you should subsidize with your taxpayer dollars.

00:14:48.000 And Nancy Pelosi should talk about how this is the best of America. 0.97

00:14:51.000 And so should the president of the United States, Joe Biden.

00:14:54.000 So according to the New York Post, New York is showering taxpayer funds on a group that sends drag queens into city schools, often without parental knowledge or consent, even as parents in other states protest increasingly aggressive efforts to expose kids to gender-bending performers.

00:15:06.000 Last month alone, Drag Story Hour New York City, a non-profit whose outrageously cross-dressed performers interact with kids as young as three, earned $46,000 from city contracts for appearances at public schools, street festivals, and libraries, City Records show.

00:15:19.000 Since January, the group has organized 49 drag programs in 34 public elementary, middle, and high schools.

00:15:24.000 It boasted on its websites with appearances in all five boroughs.

00:15:27.000 Since 2018, the group has received a total of $207,000 in taxpayer cash.

00:15:33.000 So, New York City, where you might be pushed in front of a subway and also Your taxpayer dollars will be used to indoctrinate kids in the joys of gender bending, which, of course, generally makes people's lives a lot worse. 0.69

00:15:45.000 There's a minority of people for whom this is fulfilling and who lead a happier lives because of this.

00:15:48.000 And that is called a minority of people.

00:15:50.000 It's a very vast minority of people throughout human history.

00:15:52.000 Flourishing societies rely effectively.

00:15:54.000 Again, it is beyond insane that I have to explain this to people.

00:15:59.000 A thriving society must have differences between men and women. 1.00

00:16:02.000 Those natural differences between men and women are baked in. 0.99

00:16:05.000 They're not just baked into the cake with regard to human beings.

00:16:07.000 They're baked into the cake with regard to primates.

00:16:08.000 They're baked into the cake with regard to all mammals.

00:16:11.000 To pretend that societal rules that have evolved over the course of thousands of years are completely arbitrary and specious and made up by the evil patriarchy is to ignore biology.

00:16:18.000 It is to ignore history.

00:16:19.000 It is to ignore how evolution works. 1.00

00:16:21.000 It's to ignore everything in favor of a pie-in-the-sky, cloud-cuckoo-land perception of reality in which you get to throw away all of the institutional pillars of society in favor of these idiotic ideas you have in your head. 0.99

00:16:33.000 And then you're shocked when kids are wrecked by this. 0.96

00:16:35.000 And you're shocked when you have wildly skyrocketing rates of mental health problems among young children.

00:16:40.000 Why would this happen?

00:16:41.000 Well, because of you!

00:16:42.000 Because you decided that all the guardrails should be removed.

00:16:44.000 And it turns out that basically what childhood is is sliding down a very curvy mountainside in the rain in a car that doesn't have any sort of tread on the wheels.

00:16:56.000 And what you as a parent are supposed to do is you are supposed to line up in front of your child so that that slide down the mountain into adulthood is slow.

00:17:03.000 And you're also supposed to make sure beforehand that there are guardrails around the road so the kid doesn't fall off.

00:17:08.000 We've removed all the guardrails, and then we have said that any adult that is in front of the kid to prevent that car from just skidding right off the road is now an impediment to that child's self-fulfillment.

00:17:17.000 So as that child flies through the air off the road, we're supposed to pretend that, look, the kid's flying.

00:17:22.000 No, the kid's falling.

00:17:23.000 The kid's falling because of you.

00:17:25.000 And this is what our society has done in every element.

00:17:29.000 And again, this all bleeds down from the idea That it's not just about tolerance for people who live different lifestyles.

00:17:37.000 It's not just about tolerance for people who have different emotional or sexual orientations.

00:17:41.000 It's not about any of that.

00:17:42.000 It's about celebration.

00:17:43.000 The entire society must celebrate.

00:17:44.000 Not only must the entire society celebrate, the entire society must propagandize on behalf of this sort of activity.

00:17:51.000 So for example, I mean, this is insane.

00:17:53.000 Postmates is a company that delivers things to you, right?

00:17:56.000 You order food via Postmates.

00:17:58.000 That was my impression. 0.99

00:17:59.000 I was not aware that Postmates was actually a BDSM site teaching you about anal sex, but apparently that is what Postmates is now. 0.89

00:18:09.000 So Postmates, in honor of Pride Month, Put out a video and a tweet, essentially telling people what to eat.

00:18:16.000 I've been informed by my producers that this is what this commercial is about, because frankly, I found it somewhat puzzling. 0.99

00:18:22.000 Apparently, this is about what kinds of food you ought to eat so as not to have messy diarrhea before you engage in anal sex. 0.99

00:18:30.000 This is being promoted by Postmates. 0.99

00:18:32.000 Postmates was bought by Uber in a $2.65 billion all stock deal back in 2020.

00:18:37.000 This is an enormous American company. 0.99

00:18:39.000 And it is propagandizing on behalf of anal sex. 0.99

00:18:44.000 And it's marketing. 0.99

00:18:47.000 It's a food delivery company.

00:18:47.000 It's a food company.

00:18:49.000 Here is what this looks like.

00:18:52.000 If you're a top, it seems like you can eat whatever you want.

00:18:57.000 But if you're a bottom, you're expected to starve?

00:19:01.000 Not this pride.

00:19:02.000 Introducing the bottom-friendly menu from Postmates.

00:19:06.000 We teamed up with Dr. Evan Goldstein from Bespoke Surgical to bring you a menu of bottom-friendly foods backed by science.

00:19:13.000 The problem with these foods is they don't dissolve in water, which could cause a traffic jam in your digestive system, making a mess of your evening.

00:19:20.000 Soluble fibers and protein are the key to having some good, clean fun.

00:19:25.000 These all digest easily and slowly while feeding your good gut bacteria, which makes sushi a great bottom-friendly option.

00:19:33.000 There's no right or wrong way to bottom, but if you're planning on getting peachy this pride, the bottom-friendly menu on Postmates has the kinds of foods that can keep you feeling good.

00:19:42.000 Are you organic?

00:19:44.000 Mm-hmm. 1.00

00:19:47.000 So, yeah, you have your major American corporations now stumping in favor of, um, in favor of anal sex. 0.99

00:19:54.000 So, yes, it's all about the celebration. 0.99

00:19:57.000 It's all about—I mean, by the way, they then defended that on Twitter.

00:20:01.000 By saying, quote, exactly, we're tired of heterosexual sex being the main focus of sexual education.

00:20:06.000 Homosexual sex, specifically bottoming, are all too often omitted and stigmatized.

00:20:09.000 Not this year. 0.93

00:20:10.000 Happy pride. 0.99

00:20:11.000 Bottoming, by the way, is presumably the description of a person who is the receiving partner in anal sex. 0.99

00:20:17.000 We're tired of heterosexual sex being the main focus. 0.99

00:20:19.000 First of all, I'm not aware that there should be widespread sexual education in the first place via our public institutions, given the fact that for literally hundreds of thousands of years, people and all mammals, as it turns out, figured out how to procreate without some dumbass gender theorist explaining to them how a penis goes into a vagina. 0.99

00:20:34.000 But instead, we're tired of heterosexual sex being the main focus of sexual education. 0.52

00:20:37.000 Again, it is all about the notion that traditional moral structures are bad and inhibiting, and all forms of sexual activity are morally equivalent.

00:20:46.000 And this is being pushed by the greatest forces in our society.

00:20:49.000 And now, there's one group of people who you would imagine would not push this stuff.

00:20:54.000 There's one group of folks you would imagine should not push this stuff, and that would be conservatives.

00:20:58.000 And if you are a conservative, then you should be pushing in favor of the idea that sex is a wonderful and beautiful thing, and it should be restricted to the confines of marriage with the person with whom you are presumably trying to have kids, as a general rule.

00:21:09.000 The person with whom you're okay having kids.

00:21:11.000 The person you have decided to create a life partnership with.

00:21:13.000 The family matters.

00:21:14.000 Sex is an important, romantic, wonderful piece of a larger relationship that you have with your heterosexual spouse.

00:21:20.000 This is a general notion in conservatism that has been upheld by literally all of human history and evolution.

00:21:25.000 But!

00:21:27.000 Apparently, now, the institutions of our society have become so corrupt that even conservative institutions, purportedly conservative institutions, are pushing propaganda.

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00:22:48.000 And this brings me to, again, this is the most disturbing thing that I have seen in quite a while.

00:22:52.000 Not because of what it says.

00:22:53.000 I've seen this sort of content on CNN, MSNBC, Good Morning America for that matter.

00:22:57.000 But because of where this appeared.

00:22:59.000 So this appeared on Fox News on Friday.

00:23:01.000 And the fact that this appeared on Fox News A purportedly conservative network that stands for the values of traditional American conservatism and believes in Judeo-Christian values.

00:23:14.000 And that it is propagandizing openly on behalf of transing small children.

00:23:18.000 Because that's what this segment is.

00:23:19.000 It was a five minute segment about why it is not just okay, it is good to try to turn your little girl into a little boy. 0.66

00:23:27.000 And I want to go through it in detail because it is suggestive of how the insane amorality and immorality of the left have completely penetrated mainstream conservative institutions.

00:23:38.000 Because everybody is so afraid of just saying no.

00:23:41.000 This was on Fox News, and this is unbelievable to me.

00:23:44.000 It's unbelievable to me.

00:23:45.000 And frankly, as Matt Walsh has said, if I don't appear on Fox News because I'm saying this, well, so be it.

00:23:52.000 But somebody is going to have to call out the fact that this is too important an institution for the right to simply let it go.

00:23:59.000 It really is.

00:24:00.000 Again, if MSNBC or CNN did this segment and be like, OK, well, that's par for the course.

00:24:03.000 But Fox News, there are few enough conservative outlets and Fox News being the largest, it kind of matters.

00:24:08.000 If Fox News starts embracing the radical left gender ideology that the left espouses, it's no longer conservative and it can't be trusted.

00:24:17.000 Honest to goodness, I don't know what they're thinking, but this is insane.

00:24:21.000 So this appeared on Fox News on Friday.

00:24:25.000 If you saw me walking down the street, you wouldn't think anything different.

00:24:30.000 14-year-old Ryland Whittington is a typical Southern California teenager.

00:24:36.000 And the Whittingtons, along with mom Hillary, dad Jeff, and sister Brindley, are a typical family.

00:24:42.000 The only difference, though, in Ryland's eyes, is what this family can mean to the tens of thousands of kids under 18 who identify as transgender.

00:24:52.000 We put our story out there so people could See that, like, there's another family out there that is going through what we're going through, or there's another family who's proud of who they are.

00:25:04.000 Before Ryland could even speak, he managed to tell his parents that he is a boy.

00:25:09.000 I could just see it.

00:25:10.000 It wasn't him trying to be a brat.

00:25:12.000 It was, like, painful.

00:25:14.000 It was really painful for him to have to wear feminine clothing and for us constantly telling him that you're a girl.

00:25:21.000 Okay, pause it for a second, please.

00:25:22.000 This is insane.

00:25:23.000 Before Ryland could speak... Again, this is on Fox News.

00:25:27.000 This is Fox News saying it is good to trans the children.

00:25:30.000 Before the kid could speak...

00:25:33.000 She was saying she didn't want... First of all, since when do two-year-olds make decisions?

00:25:37.000 Okay, I have a two-year-old.

00:25:38.000 My two-year-old this morning, I went into her room, and she was lying in her crib, and she had a large pee-filled diaper.

00:25:46.000 And I said, is it just pee or is it poo?

00:25:47.000 And she said, it's pee.

00:25:48.000 And naturally, there was poo inside.

00:25:49.000 Is this the kind of person you want making decisions about their lifelong quote-unquote gender identity?

00:25:55.000 Should I take my two-year-old seriously when she expresses her needs, wants, and desires?

00:25:58.000 Because if I did, she'd be wearing her sky pajamas all day long. 0.98

00:26:03.000 Every day. 0.97

00:26:04.000 Dirty.

00:26:05.000 Filled with urine.

00:26:06.000 So, no.

00:26:07.000 My two-year-old does not get to make decisions.

00:26:09.000 I love her.

00:26:09.000 She's sweet.

00:26:10.000 She's two. 0.99

00:26:11.000 It's because I love her that there are rules.

00:26:13.000 And because I am the parent.

00:26:15.000 But here's Fox News promoting the idea that kids, before they can speak, can pick membership in the opposite gender.

00:26:23.000 Kids don't even know the alphabet at this point.

00:26:25.000 The kid literally, it says in the report, does not know how to talk.

00:26:30.000 Does not know how to talk!

00:26:31.000 And the parents are like, oh, well, that must be the opposite gender. 1.00

00:26:34.000 Which means that this is Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

00:26:36.000 That's all this is.

00:26:36.000 These parents have decided that they wanted to trans their kid.

00:26:39.000 And because they wanted to trans their kid, they were going to make up... How do I know this? 0.89

00:26:42.000 Because by the time this kid was five, mom was writing books and going on national TV about this.

00:26:47.000 By the time the kid was five... That's about the parents.

00:26:52.000 That's not about the kid.

00:26:54.000 Horrible for this little girl.

00:26:55.000 It's insane.

00:26:56.000 And Fox News promoting it.

00:26:58.000 When Ryland came out at age five, a few years later, he had the full support of his parents.

00:27:04.000 Initially, there was some pushback from us in trying to understand this.

00:27:07.000 We were confused like most people are.

00:27:10.000 We thought that gender and sexuality were the same thing.

00:27:13.000 It took us a while to figure out that those two things are different and that children actually do recognize their gender identity very young.

00:27:21.000 Some of them, not all.

00:27:22.000 But they listened to Ryland and to Hillary's conservative faith.

00:27:26.000 For me, it's just a deep spiritual belief.

00:27:28.000 Stop it right there.

00:27:29.000 This is just open propaganda.

00:27:31.000 Hillary's conservative faith?

00:27:32.000 Really?

00:27:33.000 Tell me about how her conservative faith says there's no such thing as male or female and boys can be girls.

00:27:37.000 Please explain.

00:27:39.000 Please explain how conservative faith tells you.

00:27:41.000 Again, now we're speaking of faith context, and when we talk about transgenderism, I don't cite the Bible, but when you start talking about conservative faith, which suggests to me some sort of biblical adherence, how do you explain the opening of Genesis, which specifically says male and female he made them?

00:27:54.000 Please explain how your conservative faith says By the way, the Bible specifically says men are not to dress like women and women are not to dress like men.

00:28:02.000 Please explain how it is that you believe that your conservative faith justifies taking a baby girl and turning him into a socially transitioned baby boy who will always be a girl and who will now spend the rest of her life In this conflict with her own biology.

00:28:20.000 And this is what Fox News is pushing.

00:28:22.000 This is insane.

00:28:23.000 Insane and insulting to its audience and insulting to reality, by the way, because the whole thing is just pure propaganda, as we will see.

00:28:30.000 If you believe in God and he, you know, created us the way he wanted us, well then yes, he created Ryland just the way he is.

00:28:36.000 And... Oh, so that's why he needs... Sorry.

00:28:38.000 That's why he created Ryland the Ways, which is why we're going to need to put puberty blockers in Ryland's... So God created this.

00:28:44.000 We need to put puberty blockers in it. 1.00

00:28:46.000 And also, maybe add a penis later on and cut off healthy breasts through a moustache. 1.00

00:28:51.000 If we go through a full transition, this is where it's going. 0.99

00:28:54.000 Full-on hormonal suppressants, testosterone treatments, pumping hormones into the body, changing the body's construction, changing the health outcomes, cutting off healthy breast tissue.

00:29:05.000 Because that's the way God made it, says mom, with her conservative faith, on Fox News.

00:29:10.000 They met in support groups.

00:29:12.000 There was a father who was sitting across the table.

00:29:14.000 He says, you have no idea how lucky you are to be here, which kind of took me back.

00:29:17.000 I didn't at that point consider myself lucky to be there.

00:29:20.000 And he said, you know, our child had displayed this gender dysphoria or this gender misalignment at the same age that Ryland has.

00:29:29.000 And we didn't listen.

00:29:31.000 And we pushed back.

00:29:33.000 That, for me, was the turning point.

00:29:34.000 to turn to self-harm as a teenager, which 60% of trans and non-binary kids engage in, according to the Trevor Project. More than 50% consider suicide.

00:29:46.000 That for me was the turning point. I didn't want to see Ryland to go through that.

00:29:50.000 I'd rather have a living son than a dead daughter.

00:29:52.000 This is propaganda, okay?

00:29:53.000 That's pure Trevor Project propaganda.

00:29:55.000 The idea that your choice is between a suicidal girl and a perfectly happy boy is nonsense.

00:30:01.000 It's nonsense.

00:30:02.000 Longitudinal studies show the suicidal ideation rate among LGBT youth is way higher than among cisgender youth, like way higher, and it remains that way no matter the treatment.

00:30:12.000 No matter the, so if you take a kid who is confused and you refuse the possibility of desistance, which is what happens for the vast majority of kids who have gender questioning at young ages, the vast majority, somewhere between 75% and 90% of kids who have gender questioning at a young age will grow out of it.

00:30:28.000 Many of them turn out to be gay, but many of them grow out of it, whether it's gay or straight, whatever. 0.85

00:30:34.000 When you stop that, when you start socially transitioning a child and reinforcing in the child the notion that this kid is mad, what do you think that kid's going to do?

00:30:40.000 Now the kid has to stand up to mom and dad in order to say, no, actually I am a girl.

00:30:45.000 This is madness.

00:30:47.000 And I'm not going to get over the fact that this is on Fox News, because it demonstrates how the mainstream institutions of our society, including the ones that you may trust as a conservative, are now stabbing you directly between the shoulder blades with this kind of stuff.

00:30:59.000 We had pushed back and done what a lot of parents do.

00:31:02.000 I don't think that we would have either one of the kids that you see before you here today.

00:31:08.000 Allowing him to live authentically and true to himself and be who he really feels like he is.

00:31:14.000 When you get to know Ryland, you see just how proud and confident he is of himself.

00:31:18.000 Rylan's story got international attention in 2014 when a family YouTube video went viral.

00:31:24.000 And Hillary has since written a book called Raising Rylan.

00:31:28.000 Okay, pause it there.

00:31:29.000 There's a shock.

00:31:30.000 In 2014, this kid is now 14.

00:31:32.000 Okay, I may not be amazing in math.

00:31:34.000 The kid is 14.

00:31:35.000 That means he became an international superstar trans kid at age 6.

00:31:38.000 At age 6.

00:31:39.000 Does this seem like safe parenting to you or does this seem like child abuse?

00:31:43.000 Taking a small kid, socially transitioning a small kid at the age of six after saying the kid was exhibiting the notion that she wanted to be a he before she could talk and then you're writing books and going on national TV Does it seem like really on Fox News?

00:31:58.000 Okay, keep going.

00:31:59.000 I never thought that I would be known for this like as well as I am but Really, it's just a small part of who I am He's just brushed things off his shoulders like it's fine he moves on in his life and he's just kind of think everything we've been through he's just like learned to do that and he's really good at it.

00:32:17.000 I could never do that.

00:32:18.000 The Whittingtons believe sharing their story could make a lasting difference in another child's life, something they learned from that support group father nearly a decade ago.

00:32:28.000 I'm just here to make the ride smoother for others.

00:32:31.000 You might be struggling right now, but we believe in you, this family.

00:32:35.000 We might not know you, we might not know where you live, but, you know, we understand you and we believe in you.

00:32:42.000 Just a pure propaganda piece.

00:32:45.000 What extraordinary courage displayed by Ryland, his sister Brindley, father Jeff, and mom Hillary.

00:32:50.000 I want to thank the Whittington family for speaking to us.

00:32:53.000 It's not easy, particularly at a time when transgender issues have been politicized.

00:32:58.000 People are afraid of what they do not understand, Dana.

00:33:01.000 This family hopes their story will lead to more understanding, more acceptance, and ultimately, more love.

00:33:07.000 Just pure propaganda.

00:33:08.000 Pure, insane propaganda.

00:33:12.000 What if we do understand your agenda? 0.96

00:33:14.000 What if we are afraid of is the agenda because the agenda is garbage, and because it's harming children, and because it's deliberately promoting propaganda that is based not in science, but in ideological nonsense rooted in opposition to Judeo-Christian values, and traditions, and mores, and rules, and roles. 0.81

00:33:29.000 What if that's what we are concerned about? 0.89

00:33:31.000 And what if we're particularly concerned when it starts taking over major American conservative institutions like Fox News?

00:33:36.000 If you're a Fox News viewer, you should think very seriously about whether you wish to give a company that promotes this kind of stuff your business.

00:33:43.000 Seriously, I want to watch Fox News.

00:33:47.000 I'm friends with a huge number of people who work at Fox News, including most of the hosts.

00:33:52.000 And I know that most of the hosts do not agree with Fox News becoming a propaganda outlet on behalf of the most radical left agenda on this sort of stuff.

00:34:00.000 They can't.

00:34:00.000 There's no way they do.

00:34:02.000 I've talked to many of them, and I know they don't, as a matter of fact.

00:34:04.000 The fact that management, I assume, crammed this down or went ahead with this because this was greenlit.

00:34:09.000 It was a fully produced segment, which cost Fox money.

00:34:13.000 It's a betrayal of Fox's audience.

00:34:14.000 It's a betrayal of many of the people who work at Fox.

00:34:17.000 And more than anything, it's a reinforcement of the deep rot that has taken place at the core of our institutions, including in many conservative institutions, which are either too cowardly to defend values that matter or have joined full scale in the attack on those values.

00:34:33.000 All right, in just one second, we're going to get to Joe Biden, who apparently is now being thrown on the side of the road for dead by his own party.

00:34:39.000 Well, folks, when we talk about the insanity of our current cultural moment, let me just remind you, what is a woman is changing that culture. 1.00

00:34:45.000 It's a massive success.

00:34:46.000 It's changing the entire conversation.

00:34:48.000 Finally, people are beginning to ask serious questions about whether a boy can be a girl or a girl can be a boy.

00:34:53.000 And maybe the pushback has begun to the extent that You know, when outlets like Fox News push propaganda on this sort of stuff, you can push back, too.

00:35:01.000 Be sure to watch it.

00:35:01.000 It's a must-see.

00:35:02.000 Whatisawoman.com if you haven't already.

00:35:04.000 Tomorrow, June 14th, The Daily Wire is premiering another amazing piece of content.

00:35:09.000 Our brand new film, Terror on the Prairie.

00:35:11.000 So, we made you a promise.

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00:35:21.000 And tomorrow, June 14th, we are keeping our promise.

00:35:23.000 The full uncancelling is upon us.

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00:36:00.000 Again, that's dailywire.com slash Gina.

00:36:01.000 We made you a promise.

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00:36:17.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is finding himself basically on the outs with his own party for good reason.

00:36:28.000 He's no longer sentient.

00:36:29.000 There's an entire article in the Washington Post today talking about how many Democrats are starting to wonder whether Joe Biden should run in 2024.

00:36:35.000 It's like, OK, first of all, you guys, some of us said he was too old and he wasn't with it and he was incompetent back when he ran in 2020.

00:36:42.000 And you assured us everything was going to be fine.

00:36:44.000 And now Grandpa can't get out of bed.

00:36:46.000 And every morning they have to remove the intubation tube so he can go out there and be wheeled out there and sounds can fall out of his face that make no sense.

00:36:52.000 And then the night nurse crew comes in and cleans up after him from the comms office.

00:36:56.000 And you're telling us that he shouldn't run?

00:36:58.000 Yeah, we said that the first time around, gang.

00:37:01.000 According to the Washington Post, midway through the 2022 primary season, many Democratic lawmakers and party officials are venting their frustrations with President Biden's struggle to advance the bulk of his agenda.

00:37:10.000 Doubting his ability to rescue the party from predicted midterm trouncing and increasingly viewing him as an anchor that should be cut loose in 2024.

00:37:17.000 As the challenges facing the nation mount and fatigued base voters show low enthusiasm, Democrats in union meetings, the back rooms of Capitol Hill, and party gatherings from coast to coast are quietly worrying about Mr. Biden's leadership, his age, and his capability to take the fight to former President Donald Trump a second time.

00:37:32.000 Interviews with nearly 50 Democratic officials from county leaders to members of Congress, as well as with disappointed voters who backed Mr. Biden in 2020, reveal a party alarmed about Republicans' rising strength and extraordinarily pessimistic about an immediate path forward.

00:37:44.000 To say our country was on the right track would flagrantly depart from reality, said Steve Simeonidis, a Democratic National Committee member from Miami.

00:37:52.000 Mr. Biden, he said, should announce his intention not to seek re-election in 24 right after the midterms.

00:37:57.000 Most top elected Democrats were reluctant to speak on the record about Biden's future.

00:38:00.000 No one interviewed expressed any ill will toward Biden, to whom they are universally grateful for ousting Trump from office.

00:38:05.000 But the repeated failures of his administration to pass big-ticket legislation on signature Democratic issues, as well as his halting efforts to use the bully pulpit of the White House to move public opinion, have left the president with sagging approval ratings in a party that, as much as anything, seems to feel sorry for him.

00:38:19.000 So things aren't going well.

00:38:21.000 That's great. David Axelrod says, quote, the presidency is a monstrously taxing job. The stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major issue.

00:38:30.000 Axelrod says Biden doesn't get the credit he deserves for steering the country through the worst of the pandemic, passing historic legislation, pulling NATO together.

00:38:38.000 And part of the reason he doesn't is performative.

00:38:40.000 He looks his age.

00:38:40.000 He isn't as agile in front of a camera as he once was.

00:38:43.000 This has fed a narrative about competence that isn't rooted in reality.

00:38:45.000 No, it's rooted in reality.

00:38:46.000 We have historic inflation rates.

00:38:48.000 We have a foreign policy in tatters.

00:38:50.000 We have an ongoing war in Ukraine with no available end or turnoff.

00:38:54.000 We have Afghanistan turned over completely to the Taliban. 0.93

00:38:56.000 We have a domestic American political scene that is completely disunified and polarized.

00:39:01.000 I can't imagine exactly what's happening here.

00:39:05.000 I mean, why is he so unpopular?

00:39:07.000 It's so confusing.

00:39:08.000 It's also, like, how could he be unpopular?

00:39:12.000 It's almost impossible to imagine why.

00:39:13.000 Like, for example, he has this inflation rate that is now 8.6% this month.

00:39:16.000 It was supposed to be reversing.

00:39:19.000 It's not reversing.

00:39:20.000 It continues to peak.

00:39:21.000 And Joe Biden, his solution is, what if I blame the GOP for inflation?

00:39:25.000 The GOP, which is currently in control of zero elected branches of government at the federal level.

00:39:30.000 This is not your father's Republican Party.

00:39:33.000 This is a different deal.

00:39:34.000 It really is.

00:39:35.000 I've worked with a lot of honorable Republicans, very conservative Republicans over the years when I was a senator.

00:39:41.000 But this is the MAGA gang.

00:39:42.000 This is the MAGA crowd.

00:39:44.000 I really mean it.

00:39:45.000 They have a fundamentally different view of the role of government and who should pay what.

00:39:51.000 Yes, they believe, the ultra-MAGA, ultra-MAGA, super-MAGA, super-duper-MAGA crowd, they believe.

00:39:59.000 What they believe is that you're terrible at this, and that inflation shouldn't be at 8.6%.

00:40:03.000 That's it.

00:40:04.000 By the way, then Joe Biden decides he's going to blame Vladimir Putin for the inflation.

00:40:08.000 Which is weird, because Vladimir Putin is not responsible for any of the inflation prior to his invasion of Ukraine, which only happened in February.

00:40:15.000 Inflation started literally the month that Joe Biden took control of the reins of government.

00:40:19.000 Today I'd like to speak about my top economic priority, fighting inflation.

00:40:24.000 I understand Americans are anxious, and they're anxious for good reason.

00:40:28.000 I was raised in a household when the price of gasoline rose precipitously.

00:40:32.000 It was the discussion at the table.

00:40:34.000 It made a difference when food prices went up.

00:40:37.000 But we've never seen anything like Putin's tax on both food and gas. 1.00

00:40:41.000 Okay, you're a fool if you believe this. 1.00

00:40:43.000 And he believes you're a fool, so he thinks he can get away with this. 1.00

00:40:46.000 And here's the biggest problem of all. 0.99

00:40:47.000 No one trusts him to fix this stuff because you can't trust him to get through a full paragraph.

00:40:51.000 Without words falling out of his face hole that make no sense whatsoever.

00:40:55.000 So here is Joe Biden.

00:40:56.000 He was asked about a visit to Saudi Arabia.

00:40:58.000 Now, everybody knows he's going to Saudi Arabia basically because he blew it in the Middle East. 0.99

00:41:02.000 He decided to take sides with Iran against Saudi Arabia.

00:41:05.000 And this led to Saudi Arabia refusing to acquiesce to his request for more oil.

00:41:08.000 And now he's going to have to go kowtow to Saudi Arabia because it turns out we have a major oil shortage.

00:41:12.000 And one of the reasons we have a major oil shortage is because Russia wants a war in Ukraine.

00:41:15.000 Meanwhile, we're attempting to get Russia to draw a deal up with us in Iran.

00:41:19.000 So now he's going to have to go and he's going to have to Backtrack with the Saudis. 1.00

00:41:23.000 Now in this clip you're going to see Joe Biden in the course of this clip say that he does not know if he is going to Saudi Arabia and then within 15 seconds say that he's going to Saudi Arabia.

00:41:32.000 Have you decided, sir, whether to go to Saudi Arabia?

00:41:35.000 No, not yet.

00:41:36.000 What would be holding up the decision at this point?

00:41:39.000 Are there commitments you're waiting for from the Saudis or on the negotiations over people?

00:41:44.000 No, no.

00:41:46.000 The commitments from the Saudis don't relate to anything having to do with energy.

00:41:52.000 It happened to be a larger meeting taking place in Saudi Arabia.

00:41:55.000 That's the reason I'm going.

00:41:57.000 And it has to do with national security for them, for Israelis.

00:42:02.000 I have a program.

00:42:03.000 Anyway, it has to do with much larger issues than having to do with the energy.

00:42:09.000 He's not with us.

00:42:10.000 Are you going to Saudi Arabia?

00:42:11.000 No, not yet.

00:42:11.000 Have you made a decision?

00:42:12.000 No, not yet.

00:42:13.000 That's why I'm going to Saudi Arabia.

00:42:15.000 Why oh why are Democrats fed up with him?

00:42:17.000 I can't imagine.

00:42:18.000 By the way, if you think that they have anything waiting in the wings that isn't a disaster, you're out of your mind.

00:42:22.000 Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary?

00:42:24.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

00:42:25.000 Really going to draw the black voters out with Pete the Buttigieg. 0.99

00:42:28.000 Kamala Harris, the worst politician ever created in the laboratory? 0.99

00:42:34.000 She looks like, have you seen these doll E-minis? 0.74

00:42:36.000 Where the AI tries to come up with images and kind of puts them together.

00:42:39.000 And it looks like that time that there was a guy who tried to repaint the fresco of Jesus in Italy.

00:42:45.000 And it just looks like a weird face.

00:42:46.000 Like that's what happened with Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:42:48.000 They put her into a not fully developed AI.

00:42:49.000 And what came out was this bizarre politician that is living directly in the middle of the uncanny valley.

00:42:55.000 They're gonna put her up instead of Joe Biden? 0.71

00:42:57.000 Bernie Sanders, who's 1 million years old.

00:43:00.000 He's even older than Joe Biden.

00:43:02.000 The only thing about Bernie Sanders that seems to be attractive is the fact that he's a grumpy socialist who doesn't understand what bread lines are.

00:43:10.000 These are your people.

00:43:11.000 These are the folks you're going to put up instead of Joe.

00:43:12.000 They need Joe Biden.

00:43:13.000 Without Joe Biden, it's even worse for them.

00:43:15.000 It's a disaster area.

00:43:17.000 Meanwhile, I got AOC out there saying that she's not even going to commit to backing Joe Biden if he runs in 2024.

00:43:23.000 You know, if the president chooses to run again in 2024, I mean, first of all, I'm focused on winning this majority right now and preserving a majority this year in 2022.

00:43:34.000 So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

00:43:36.000 But but I think if if the president has a vision and that's something certainly we're all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes.

00:43:44.000 That's not a yes.

00:43:48.000 Yeah, you know, I think we should endorse when we get to it.

00:43:51.000 But I believe that the president's been doing a very good job so far.

00:43:55.000 And, you know, should he run again?

00:43:58.000 I think that, you know, I think it's... We'll take a look at it.

00:44:03.000 But right now we need to focus on winning a majority instead of a presidential election.

00:44:07.000 By the way, there's a better shot that she runs than that Joe Biden runs in 2024, given what's going on right now.

00:44:13.000 So the Democratic Party is in a state of complete disrepair.

00:44:17.000 One of the reasons they're in a state of complete disrepair is, of course, because of the inflation.

00:44:20.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve officials have spent two months getting investors acclimatized.

00:44:25.000 To their plans to slow economic growth and combat inflation by raising interest rates in half-percentage point increments until price pressure is cool.

00:44:31.000 This coming week's policy meeting will show whether officials are still comfortable with that approach in light of reports Friday that inflation sizzled in May, hitting a new 40-year high, and that consumers' longer-term inflation expectations rose to a new 14-year high.

00:44:42.000 This survey measure is important to central bankers because they believe such expectations can be self-fulfilling, right?

00:44:46.000 If you think inflation is going up and you own a business, You're going to continue to raise your prices, which is going to necessitate you raising your wages, which is going to create even more of a wage price spiral.

00:44:55.000 While some analysts think Fed Chairman Jerome Powell could surprise markets with a larger-than-anticipated rate increase of 0.75 percentage points, such a move remains unlikely because it would be a notable departure from how the central bank has conducted policy this year.

00:45:07.000 The bigger questions Wednesday center on how high officials see rates rising this year and next, and whether Powell opens the door to a 0.75 percentage point rate increase at the central bank's July policy meeting.

00:45:17.000 Fed officials said in recent weeks they were likely to follow an anticipated half point rate rise this coming week with another one in July.

00:45:23.000 That was before Friday's reports.

00:45:25.000 So basically they said, oh, we've got this under control.

00:45:27.000 We're going to be able to, you know, make sure that we that we kind of even out the economy while tamping down inflation.

00:45:32.000 It looks like they are not having any sort of success with that.

00:45:35.000 Meanwhile, the housing market is cooling.

00:45:38.000 So, as mortgage rates go up, not surprisingly, as inflation rates go up, as people have less disposable income, as they're paying over $100 every time they go to the pump if you got a minivan...

00:45:49.000 As that happens, fewer and fewer people are buying homes.

00:45:51.000 You're starting to see people's real estate values crash, which is a real problem for a lot of folks because a lot of people are going to end up with loan-to-value ratios that are underwater.

00:45:59.000 So you end up with a secondary subprime mortgage crisis, right?

00:46:02.000 You're going to get a lot of people who can't pay that mortgage because it turns out that as the economy starts to stagnate, their real estate is worth less than the mortgage that's on the real estate if the economy starts to peter out.

00:46:11.000 So there's a real problem here.

00:46:12.000 It's not going to end up like subprime, which had infected every portion of the economy, but for a lot of people, Who are looking to buy into the real estate market or who are looking to their real estate to act as a gauge of their wealth.

00:46:26.000 This is a real problem.

00:46:28.000 And so all of this is a disaster area for the Democratic Party.

00:46:32.000 And so they are, again, going back to the well.

00:46:34.000 And when they go back to the well, what they find there is January 6th and gun control.

00:46:37.000 So they plan on another January 6th hearing today.

00:46:42.000 This January 6th hearing is, frankly, less than interesting.

00:46:46.000 I'm kind of shocked at the lack of beef in any of the Democratic hearings thus far.

00:46:51.000 And Liz Cheney proposed, and we have heard from Democrats, they have evidence, one, that Congress people sought direct pardons from President Trump for their activity in January 2020, which again, does not go to whether they actually did criminal acts. 1.00

00:47:03.000 They could just be idiots. 0.99

00:47:03.000 They could be like, um, maybe it was criminal for me to support your agenda here. 0.99

00:47:07.000 And, uh, and so if I could have like a preemptive pardon, that would be great.

00:47:09.000 It doesn't mean they were actually committing a criminal act.

00:47:12.000 Anybody can seek a pardon preemptively at any time for anything. 0.99

00:47:15.000 Again, that makes them idiots, but it doesn't necessarily make them criminals. 0.99

00:47:19.000 Also, they've shown no evidence of that. 0.99

00:47:20.000 The bigger thing that they said that they had evidence of, the January 6th committee, they said that they had full-scale evidence that there was coordination between the people who rioted and people in the Trump administration.

00:47:31.000 They've offered no evidence to that effect so far.

00:47:33.000 So they've created a massive oversell here.

00:47:35.000 And that oversell, I mean, they're now out there saying that they think that the DOJ, maybe they should indict.

00:47:42.000 Okay, but the problem is they haven't even alleged a crime yet.

00:47:45.000 Like, at a certain point, you have to allege a crime in order for any of that to happen.

00:47:48.000 So, what exactly are they doing today?

00:47:49.000 Again, they had one shot at this in primetime.

00:47:51.000 The ratings in primetime were actually worse than a normal night in primetime at that time on the networks.

00:47:56.000 Like, significantly worse, despite the fact that there was blanket coverage of this thing.

00:48:00.000 About 19, 20 million people watched that.

00:48:02.000 In terms of network plus cable, normally it's about 23, 24 million people who are watching at that time.

00:48:07.000 So they actually saw some audience drop off during the January 6th Bonanza extravaganza.

00:48:11.000 So today, they are going to have in a bunch of people who are going to testify as to what?

00:48:18.000 Nobody really knows.

00:48:19.000 So they have a couple of witnesses.

00:48:21.000 Bill Stepien, Trump's 2020 campaign manager.

00:48:23.000 And Chris Steierwald, Fox News' former political editor who defended the network's decision to call Arizona for Biden before its competitors did and was fired by the company in January of 2021.

00:48:33.000 So what exactly are they going to reveal?

00:48:36.000 Exactly.

00:48:37.000 Are they just going to reveal that Trump had no evidence to back his election fraud suppositions?

00:48:41.000 I mean, we kind of knew that already.

00:48:44.000 Whether or not you believe that ballot harvesting or changing of the rules was really the problem, what Trump was alleging was full-scale voter fraud.

00:48:51.000 I mean, he's alleging that right now about Brian Kemp beating David Perdue by 50,000 points.

00:48:55.000 So when Donald Trump says voter fraud decided an election, suffice it to say, I do not trust him on these issues because he has not proved that he is I would say in any way deliberate about what kind of voter fraud he chooses to allege.

00:49:07.000 So they're having Bill Stepien, the former campaign manager, and Chris Steierwald.

00:49:12.000 Does he have information about the riots that we didn't know about?

00:49:15.000 And then the second panel has three witnesses.

00:49:18.000 Benjamin Ginsberg, a renowned Republican election lawyer who helped craft the GOP Florida's recount strategy, and Jay Pack, a former U.S.

00:49:26.000 attorney based in North Georgia who was pressured by Trump to pursue bogus election fraud allegations, and Al Schmidt, a former Republican city commissioner in Philadelphia who was on the board that oversaw the city elections.

00:49:37.000 Apparently the common theme according to committee aid was we're going to hear testimony from government officials who are the ones who look for the fraud by how the effort to uncover these baseless allegations bore no fruit.

00:49:45.000 Simply the fraud they were looking for didn't exist.

00:49:47.000 What does this have to do with demonstrating any sort of legislative oversight purpose with regards to a congressional investigation?

00:49:53.000 That's a political matter, isn't it?

00:49:55.000 I mean, I think that politics of this has been pretty clear for a pretty long while about whether the election of 2020 was decided on the basis of voter fraud or not.

00:50:03.000 Like, everybody has taken a side on this.

00:50:04.000 So what are they attempting to establish?

00:50:06.000 What they're attempting to establish, of course, is that for 2022, don't vote Republican because they're going to overturn elections, right?

00:50:10.000 This is what they're attempting to establish.

00:50:13.000 But they're overselling.

00:50:14.000 And when you oversell and then you don't come up with it, it's a problem.

00:50:17.000 Jamie Raskin, who's one of the ones leading the charge, The Democratic lawmaker who actually objected to the 2016 certification of Donald Trump's votes, ironically enough, he says that everything they're doing is currently based on the evidence.

00:50:28.000 Does anyone believe this?

00:50:29.000 They said for four years that Adam Schiff had deep and abiding evidence that there was some sort of Russian collusion leading to Trump's election in 2016.

00:50:36.000 So do I believe Jamie Raskin and Adam Schiff in this crowd?

00:50:40.000 I'm not sure why I should, given their background here.

00:50:43.000 Everything we're doing is documented by evidence.

00:50:46.000 Unlike the big lie, which is based on nonsense, as former Attorney General Barr said, everything that we're doing is based on facts, and this is a bipartisan investigation, which is determined to ferret out all of the facts of what happened.

00:50:59.000 Okay, and then Raskin was asked, should the DOJ indict Trump?

00:51:01.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:51:03.000 The DOJ has the ability to do its own criminal investigation, and they have much more power in terms of subpoena power and criminal investigatory power than a congressional committee does.

00:51:11.000 They haven't indicted under Merrick Garland, which suggests they don't have evidence of a crime.

00:51:15.000 So here's Jamie Raskin kind of futzing around.

00:51:17.000 I mean, they keep alleging that Trump's a criminal.

00:51:18.000 At a certain point, you're going to have to demonstrate that he actually committed a crime, not just that he did something immoral or bad or that he lied or that he raised the level of rhetoric.

00:51:26.000 None of that stuff.

00:51:26.000 You can actually have to demonstrate if you're making criminal allegations like he coordinated to create the riot.

00:51:32.000 You're going to have to back that with something.

00:51:33.000 Here's Jamie Raskin basically admitting they got nothing.

00:51:36.000 Do you believe that the Justice Department should indict the former president?

00:51:41.000 You know, one of the conventions that was crushed during the Trump administration was respect by politicians for the independence of the law enforcement function.

00:51:52.000 And so I'm going to try to observe that.

00:51:55.000 Attorney General Garland is my constituent, and I don't browbeat my constituents.

00:51:59.000 I think that he knows His staff knows, the U.S.

00:52:02.000 attorneys know what's at stake here.

00:52:06.000 They know the importance of it, but I think they are rightfully paying close attention to precedent in history as well as the facts of this case.

00:52:14.000 They're providing no new actual evidence, right?

00:52:16.000 So far, what they have presented is evidence that Trump was derelict during the two and a half hours that the rioters were in the Capitol building, which we kind of knew the day of because we were all there.

00:52:25.000 Bill Barr, who has not been shy about his criticisms of Trump, right?

00:52:28.000 I mean, he said in his book, On my show, in committee testimony, that he thought that Trump's election fraud claims were, in his words, bull bleep.

00:52:37.000 But even Bill Barr's like, I'm not seeing evidence of a crime here, guys.

00:52:41.000 I haven't seen anything that makes me think the President committed a crime.

00:52:46.000 What's come out so far has generally been known before.

00:52:49.000 There are a few things that were new.

00:52:51.000 But I do think there are legitimate areas of inquiry, but I also agree with the Congresswoman that this isn't set up as an optimal mechanism for getting at the truth, and there is obviously a big political overlay.

00:53:04.000 But, you know, I think it's legitimate to explore whether or not there was a plan to use violence to stop the vote.

00:53:12.000 And if there was a plan, was the president involved?

00:53:17.000 I haven't seen anything up to now that makes me think he was.

00:53:21.000 And I personally doubt it.

00:53:23.000 OK, so even Bill Barr, who's been a strong critic of Trump during this time, he says they're not going to.

00:53:29.000 So again, where is the beef?

00:53:31.000 If Democrats are hoping that they're going to be the American people are going to shift based on this.

00:53:35.000 Good luck with that.

00:53:36.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are also pushing gun control.

00:53:39.000 A bunch of Republican senators, 10 Republican senators, have now signed on to a basic gun control proposal in the Senate.

00:53:46.000 The House passed legislation that would raise the age to buy a rifle and that would create all sorts of new regulations on quote-unquote assault weapons, which just means like a rifle they don't like.

00:53:56.000 A bunch of Republican senators have now signed on to a piece of gun control legislation.

00:54:01.000 We haven't actually seen the text, so it's hard to adjudicate whether the text is going to be objectionable or not, because what's in the text actually matters a lot more than the broad framework proposal.

00:54:10.000 One of the big problems here is that many of the broad framework proposals, number one, are state-level, right?

00:54:14.000 I mean, red flag laws are a state-level issue.

00:54:16.000 They really are not a federal issue.

00:54:17.000 But also, when you have a loss of trust in institutions, this is a major problem.

00:54:22.000 When a lot of the American public feels that you are going to basically Call them unable to hold a weapon based on their politics.

00:54:30.000 It's going to be very difficult to get public support for something like a red flag law.

00:54:33.000 There has to be a baseline level of trust that the arbitrating institution, when it comes to who deserves not to get a gun, is being honest in its assessment.

00:54:40.000 That it's not just going to be somebody who like looks at your Facebook page and sees that you have five rifles and says, well, you know, he shouldn't have five rifles.

00:54:46.000 And then they report you to the local authorities.

00:54:48.000 And now the red flag law means that you're deprived of your guns.

00:54:51.000 And there have to be some real safeguards in place.

00:54:53.000 We have to know that the people who are adjudicating the situation are actually going to be objective in how they adjudicate the situation.

00:54:58.000 So here are some of the things that are being proposed that the 10 Republican senators have signed on to.

00:55:01.000 And again, it's hard to tell what exactly is going to be in the bill until you know what's in the bill, and they haven't actually released any text of the bill.

00:55:08.000 Support for state crisis intervention orders provides resources to states and tribes to create and administer laws that help ensure deadly weapons are kept out of the hands of individuals a court has determined to be a significant danger to themselves or others consistent with state and federal due process and constitutional protections.

00:55:21.000 Well, that's going to be the question is how consistent with state and federal due process.

00:55:24.000 investment in children and family mental health services, national expansion of community behavioral health center model, major investment to increase access to mental health and suicide prevention programs, other support services available in the community, including crisis and trauma intervention and recovery.

00:55:38.000 Now, again, I'm in favor of more funding for mental health services, because frankly, we just have a bunch of people who are not mentally healthy living on the streets in the United States.

00:55:46.000 And that is not a kindness to them, nor is it a kindness to the taxpaying citizen.

00:55:49.000 However, what you actually need here is a change in state law with regard to involuntary commitment.

00:55:54.000 Because it seems the vast majority of these shooters are people who should have been involuntarily committed.

00:55:59.000 Because when you let them out on the streets, it's not a matter of them voluntarily walking into a clinic and seeking mental health treatment.

00:56:04.000 They don't want to do that.

00:56:05.000 The question is what you do when you have a mentally ill person who doesn't actually want to go and get the treatment they need. 0.58

00:56:10.000 Can you involuntarily commit?

00:56:12.000 This bill does not do anything about that.

00:56:14.000 Some of this bill is somewhat unobjectionable.

00:56:16.000 So, for example, they want enhanced background checks for minors so that your juvenile delinquency records, your juvenile records for criminality, get put into the system.

00:56:25.000 Makes perfect sense to me.

00:56:26.000 There's also the suggestion that there should be a ban on convicted domestic violence abusers and individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders in the NICS.

00:56:35.000 Well, depending on how that's defined, again, I don't think that's wildly objectionable.

00:56:37.000 There's funding for school safety resources.

00:56:40.000 They're penalties for straw purchasing.

00:56:41.000 So if you're illegally purchasing weapons, we're gonna have to see what the text of this looks like.

00:56:45.000 But here is the thing.

00:56:46.000 The Democrats are not gonna be satisfied with any of this, of course, right?

00:56:48.000 Any sort of consolidated consensus bill, they're not gonna be happy with.

00:56:52.000 So Joe Biden, he says he's gonna do the bill, but then he says, well, we got to keep marching to make this an election issue, which is really what he wants out of this, of course.

00:57:00.000 Do you have a message for those that have marched for our lives for gun safety today in Washington?

00:57:04.000 Yes, keep marching.

00:57:06.000 It's important.

00:57:07.000 Look, this has to become an election issue.

00:57:09.000 The way people listen, Senators, Congress, others, when people say, this is going to affect my vote.

00:57:15.000 Too many people are dying, needlessly.

00:57:18.000 And what's even being proposed in the House and Senate is marginal.

00:57:22.000 I mean, it's important, but it's not all that needs to be done.

00:57:26.000 I mean, by the way, again, I don't trust these folks because, for example, and we talk about red flag laws.

00:57:32.000 So the ex-global Jason Campbell of Media Matters, whose job it is, he has the best job in the world.

00:57:35.000 He gets paid to watch this show.

00:57:37.000 That's a pretty awesome job.

00:57:38.000 And normally you have to pay to watch this show, but he actually gets paid to watch this show.

00:57:41.000 Back in 2019, he put out a clip of me talking about the fact that if Beto O'Rourke tried to take my children away from me on behalf of, for example, LGBTQ indoctrination, Then I would meet him at the door with a gun, which I would, right?

00:57:56.000 Because any sentient parent would. 0.98

00:57:59.000 And Eric Swalwell, who was screwing a Chinese spy, by the way, and now sitting on committees where he sees classified material, this dumbass, he tweeted, please tell me this lunatic does not own a gun. 0.98

00:58:12.000 Reason 1578, America needs red flag laws. 0.99

00:58:15.000 You wonder why people doubt red flag laws?

00:58:17.000 Maybe it's because if I express a political opinion different than yours, you want to take away my guns and call me mentally ill.

00:58:23.000 By the way, I own three guns and I intend on giving up none of them because I'm a perfectly law-abiding citizen who pays more taxes than pretty much everybody does in this country.

00:58:30.000 And you wonder why I'm concerned about red flag laws?

00:58:33.000 That would be one reason.

00:58:34.000 That would be one reason.

00:58:36.000 And when Joe Biden says, keep marching, keep up, because we, it's not just a slippery slope.

00:58:40.000 All this is, it's going to be, you pass some gun regulations that are likely to do very little.

00:58:44.000 And again, I'm not against all of these things.

00:58:46.000 I'm just pointing out what the politics of this are.

00:58:48.000 You're going to pass some gun regulation.

00:58:49.000 It's likely not going to prevent the next shooting.

00:58:51.000 Because none of the gun legislation you've pursued so far has prevented these kinds of statistical anomalous, statistically anomalous shootings.

00:58:59.000 And then you're going to yell at us about how we haven't done enough.

00:59:02.000 Which, by the way, is exactly what the people that Joe Biden is pandering to are saying.

00:59:06.000 This March for Our Lives featured, now, ex-Gonzalez.

00:59:09.000 She used to be Emma Gonzalez. 1.00

00:59:10.000 Now she's they-them, wearing earrings that say, Black Lives Matter, calling herself ex. 0.99

00:59:18.000 And she says, she's ranting about guns at this March for Our Lives.

00:59:23.000 These are definitely the people we should have guiding our Second Amendment policy in considered and intellectual fashion.

00:59:30.000 Refugees are subject to racist attacks and white supremacist terrorist insurrection almost killed a lot of you in office currently. 0.98

00:59:39.000 Did you f***ing forget that? 0.99

00:59:44.000 If any of this had happened in another country, you would have used it as an excuse to colonize and drop bombs. 0.92

00:59:50.000 But when it happens here, you replicate it and maintain.

00:59:57.000 You think we don't see that?

01:00:00.000 You want to be helpful?

01:00:04.000 You want to make this world a better place, Congress?

01:00:07.000 There's one thing that you in office can take away from this speech. 0.93

01:00:10.000 It's pass the f***ing gun laws! 1.00

01:00:13.000 Pass some f***ing gun laws. 0.96

01:00:14.000 Okay, but that's not the point. 0.96

01:00:15.000 Because no matter how many laws are passed, we all know what the final agenda is.

01:00:18.000 By the way, they don't want just any gun law.

01:00:20.000 You have David Hogg, who rode his Parkland fame into Harvard based on zero actual intellectual credentials.

01:00:26.000 And now, This one.

01:00:30.000 He's out there saying that no more cops in schools.

01:00:33.000 Cops in schools are bad, says David Hogg.

01:00:35.000 These are the folks that Joe Biden is saying need to march.

01:00:37.000 It's all political.

01:00:38.000 The reality is putting more cops in schools hasn't worked, and it won't because it only is going to keep... Let's think about who actually is made more safe by that, but also realize that putting more cops in schools actually may be a form of endangering our students as well.

01:00:54.000 The cops endanger the students?

01:00:55.000 The students that don't have the privilege of having my skin color.

01:01:00.000 Okay, these ones.

01:01:05.000 This is who you should pander to.

01:01:06.000 And no matter what these Republicans vote for, with their Democratic colleagues, it ain't gonna satisfy this crowd.

01:01:10.000 Because in the end, what this crowd actually wants is what Justin Trudeau wants.

01:01:13.000 So Justin Trudeau up in Canada, with the quote of the day, he says that in Canada, you do not have a right to use a gun in self-defense.

01:01:20.000 Which is a fundamental breach of the contract between any citizen and his state.

01:01:26.000 If they decide they're going to monopolize the use of force to the point where I cannot even defend myself in my home with a gun, then you have lost all power to be my government.

01:01:36.000 We have a culture where the difference is guns can be used for hunting or for sport shooting in Canada, and there are lots of gun owners, and they're mostly law respecting and law abiding, but you can't use a gun for self-protection in Canada.

01:01:51.000 That's not a right that you have in the Constitution or anywhere else.

01:01:54.000 If you try and buy a gun and say it's for self-protection, no, you don't get that.

01:01:58.000 You get it for hunting, you can get it for sport shooting, you can take it to the range, no problem, as long as you go through our rigorous background checks.

01:02:04.000 Okay, there's no right to self-defense in Canada?

01:02:08.000 Amazing.

01:02:08.000 But this is what they want.

01:02:09.000 So understand that whenever Democrats stump for normal gun legislation, if they actually meant it, then they might stop talking about how they wish to end the Second Amendment, but they're not going to talk about that because we all understand what the actual goal is here.

01:02:21.000 And if you think you're winning an election in 2022, based on January 6th, and we would like to take all the guns if we could, Good luck with that.

01:02:28.000 Speaking with the needs of the Democratic Party, they have to distract from inflation.

01:02:33.000 As we've been saying, they have to distract from the economy.

01:02:34.000 The reason for that, the economy stinks.

01:02:36.000 Joining us on the line to discuss is my friends from Birch Gold.

01:02:40.000 As you all know, when it comes to the economy, we are very worried here on The Ben Shapiro Show about inflation and the future of the stock market and all the rest.

01:02:47.000 And as you also know, Birch Gold, they're some of our best sponsors.

01:02:50.000 Joining us on the line right now is a precious metals specialist from Birch Gold, Philip Patrick.

01:02:54.000 Philip, thanks so much for joining the show again.

01:02:56.000 Thank you for having me.

01:02:57.000 So let's talk about the latest inflation statistics.

01:03:00.000 So finally, Janet Yellen, a great soothsayer, she has finally admitted that she was wrong about inflation from the Treasury Department.

01:03:06.000 It is not transitory.

01:03:07.000 Why is she saying this now?

01:03:09.000 Look, it was on the back of a meeting.

01:03:11.000 She had a meeting with Biden and Jerome Powell, and it was on the back of that meeting that she came out and said, look, I think I was incorrect about the path inflation would take.

01:03:22.000 Quite frankly, I don't think she has a choice.

01:03:24.000 It's very clear to everybody now.

01:03:27.000 Inflation is not transitory.

01:03:29.000 It's here to stay.

01:03:30.000 And she was wrong.

01:03:32.000 On the back of that, though, Biden now has a plan, in inverted commas, to tackle inflation.

01:03:39.000 So we should all be at ease, of course.

01:03:41.000 So what exactly does that plan look like, given the fact that all of his plans so far have not been particularly good?

01:03:47.000 Yeah, well, it's very consistent with all of his plans so far by the looks of it.

01:03:52.000 So that's the positive news.

01:03:54.000 So essentially, there are three prongs to the plan.

01:03:56.000 The first is to let the Federal Reserve do their job.

01:04:00.000 Uh the second is to lower the cost on essentials and the third is to reduce the budget deficit now on the surface it appears to be a workable plan but as you and I know the devil is always in the detail and it's when you start to break it down It gets concerning.

01:04:18.000 So first point, let the Federal Reserve do their jobs.

01:04:21.000 It's exactly what we've been doing, right?

01:04:23.000 For the last two and a half years, they've been doing their job and it's been under their stewardship that we have 40-year high inflation.

01:04:30.000 It was this Federal Reserve that dismissed it as transitory for so long.

01:04:35.000 So it's a bit of a head-scratcher, that one.

01:04:38.000 The second is to lower cost on essentials.

01:04:41.000 This one's very concerning.

01:04:43.000 Look, on the surface, we want to lower inflation by lowering inflation.

01:04:48.000 But it's when you understand how he wants to do it, because it all boils down to spending money, right?

01:04:48.000 It makes sense.

01:04:55.000 They want to improve infrastructure.

01:04:58.000 So we're back there again.

01:04:59.000 We've already signed in a trillion dollar infrastructure package.

01:05:03.000 He wants to I'm a post clean tax energy credits he wants to lower the cost of child care all of this stuff is expensive right and it was spending that's gone enough into the position where and finally he wants to reduce the deficit again very much make sense.

01:05:25.000 My concern, though, is this guy six months ago was pushing through massive spending packages, telling us that it was going to lower inflation.

01:05:33.000 So my question is, which one is it?

01:05:35.000 You cannot have it both ways.

01:05:37.000 My big concern here is that there isn't a desire here.

01:05:41.000 This is political.

01:05:43.000 He's paying lip service to the idea of lowering inflation and at the same time pushing through massive spending packages.

01:05:50.000 And ultimately, if he gets his way, it's going to compound the issue.

01:05:54.000 It is dangerous.

01:05:55.000 And Philip, a lot of these are the short-term risks to the United States economy.

01:05:58.000 Some of the longer-term risks to the United States economy include this massive national debt, the fact that we have blown out the spending.

01:06:04.000 When he talks about reducing the deficit, we are still spending more money than we have ever spent in the history of the United States, except for just the COVID bailouts.

01:06:10.000 You know, the fact of the matter is that you have economists who are now predicting that you may have a stock market that flails around for 10 years.

01:06:17.000 I mean, that has happened in American history before.

01:06:19.000 Essentially, from the mid-60s until the early 80s, the stock market just did no business.

01:06:24.000 And there are some economists who are saying that The sort of stagnation that may be setting in right here could be something similar.

01:06:29.000 It's very reminiscent of the stagflationary climate in the 1970s.

01:06:34.000 We have stunted economic growth.

01:06:36.000 We have inflation raging in the background.

01:06:38.000 And quite frankly, I don't think we have the tools to truly stem inflation like we ultimately did in the 70s.

01:06:46.000 We have too much debt.

01:06:48.000 And that's the big issue.

01:06:50.000 I want to talk through some numbers very quickly.

01:06:52.000 Even with the debt as it is today, it's barely sustainable based on debt service payments.

01:06:59.000 2011 to 2018, US debt service payments $272 billion a year.

01:07:01.000 From 2019 to 2021, that increased to $379 billion.

01:07:03.000 it's $272 billion a year.

01:07:06.000 From 2019 to 2021, that increased to $379 billion.

01:07:11.000 It's a 43% increase.

01:07:14.000 Now, with the 2022 budget, it's projecting a trillion dollar deficit per year for the next decade.

01:07:22.000 That means 10 years from now, U.S.

01:07:24.000 national debt $40.5 trillion.

01:07:26.000 Debt payment or service payments, interest payments, would be $941 billion.

01:07:34.000 59% of the annual budget deficit.

01:07:37.000 Now, here's the kicker.

01:07:39.000 This is all based on funds rates staying where they are.

01:07:43.000 And as we know, interest rates are increasing.

01:07:46.000 A 1% increase adds $30 trillion over the next 30 years.

01:07:51.000 And that would be, by the way, 70% of all US.

01:07:57.000 tax revenue consumed by debt service payments.

01:08:00.000 A 2% increase means that 100% of all U.S. 0.56

01:08:05.000 tax revenue is consumed by debt service payments, and that's 30 years from today.

01:08:10.000 So, this is the problem.

01:08:12.000 What we are doing today, we're digging a hole that's going to be almost impossible to get out of.

01:08:17.000 We have to stop spending.

01:08:19.000 We've got to stop pushing it through for short-term political gain.

01:08:24.000 It's an unsustainable issue.

01:08:26.000 I'm speaking with Philip Patrick of Birchgold.

01:08:27.000 So, Philip, obviously with investors trying to figure out exactly where to put your money, what are some of your recommendations as far as where to store value right now, given the fact that the stock market is not particularly solid?

01:08:38.000 People are pulling money out of their own investments right now.

01:08:42.000 What do you recommend?

01:08:43.000 Look, it's a tough climate.

01:08:44.000 We've got even Jamie Dimon now, the CEO of JPMorgan, coming out and saying, look, this is going to be a hurricane.

01:08:51.000 And as you sort of Intimate.

01:08:54.000 It's a tough climate to navigate, right?

01:08:56.000 We have a stock market that is declining and it appears to be the tip of the iceberg in terms of downside.

01:09:03.000 Bonds showing no reprieve, right?

01:09:05.000 They're not paying any interest.

01:09:07.000 We've got inflation eroding that and more.

01:09:10.000 So options are limited.

01:09:12.000 Precious metals, very conducive for climates like this.

01:09:15.000 They are commodities, so inflation drives them up.

01:09:18.000 They're safe haven assets.

01:09:20.000 So when markets decline, people flood to them.

01:09:23.000 So very conducive for climates like this.

01:09:25.000 And I think everyone needs to be thinking about hedging their exposure.

01:09:30.000 Well, that is Philip Patrick with Birch Gold.

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01:09:44.000 Philip, thanks so much for the time.

01:09:45.000 Thank you.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 13, 2022

Fox News Betrays Conservatives By Pushing Trans Propaganda | Ep. 1513

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