Ben Shapiro explains why the gay pride flag is now considered a thing of the past, and why the LGBTQ+++ + ++ flag is the new pride flag. He also points out that the left has completely overtaken the pride flag, and the only thing that stands in their way is the rainbow flag that was used to represent the rainbow. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and host of the conservative podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Radio. He's also the author of the bestselling book "Outrageous: The Gay, Plus-Divided Case" and hosts the conservative radio show "The Weekly Standard" on SiriusXM Radio's "The View From The Top" and is a regular contributor to conservative media outlets such as The Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller. His new book, Outrageously Conservative , is out now and it's available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Click here to buy it for only $99.99! Subscribe to the show on Audible and become a supporter for as little as $1.99 a month! Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code: "UPLEVEL" at checkout to receive 10% off your first month with discount code: BEEPTSHOT at checkout. You'll get 10% OFF your entire purchase when you enter the offer ends on July 31st! at checkout! Want to sponsor the show? and get 20% off for the entire month? and receive 5% off the first month only, plus an additional $5 off the second month, plus a FREE shipping discount when you sign up for the third month, and an additional 3 months get $25 off their first month and get an ad discount when they begin shipping free, they get the deal starts starting at $99, plus they get an extra $5,99 gets $25, they receive $24,99 and they also get VIP access to the offer starts on the show starts in six months, they also receive $25 and they get a complimentary cartons of the show that starts shipping two months they can use the deal they choose that they can choose the service that they receive in the program. And they can get the show they receive for the show. that starts on Prime Rate Meals On The Same Day Shipping starts in two weeks from Prime Rate starting on the service they receive, they will receive $49 and they receive free on the program?
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00:01:42.000Well, 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.
00:01:49.000And this is particularly true when it comes to social issues.
00:01:51.000The momentum that the social left has had for the Past several decades is just overwhelming.
00:01:57.000From 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.
00:02:07.000In 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.
00:02:19.000Now remember, there used to be a gay pride flag that was just the rainbow.
00:02:22.000It was the same rainbow that Barack Obama so unifyingly showed on the White House in the aftermath of Obergefell.
00:02:30.000Because of course, if America stands for anything, it is for the proposition that all forms of sexual activity are morally equivalent.
00:03:16.000The 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.
00:03:29.000They don't determine whether these arguments are good or not.
00:03:31.000They just take them and they weaponize them immediately.
00:03:35.000And nowhere has this been truer than when it comes to radical gender theory and ideology.
00:03:39.000As 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.
00:03:58.000And now the argument in favor of T is that there is no such thing as biological essentialism.
00:04:05.000And 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.
00:04:11.000The only way they are not in conflict is if you are directing them at a Judeo-Christian traditional moral superstructure.
00:04:17.000If 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.
00:04:30.000And a lot of the institutions of American society have bought in.
00:04:33.000Now, 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.
00:04:44.000If 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.
00:04:55.000It is also about progeneration and creating a new generation of people.
00:04:59.000And 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.
00:05:06.000If you believe any of that stuff, then the number of institutions upon which you can rely has been shrinking dramatically.
00:05:12.000And not only has it been shrinking dramatically, it's been shrinking in almost forceful fashion from the cultural arbiters.
00:05:17.000If you believe any of this stuff, the idea is that you must be censored.
00:05:20.000And 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.
00:05:31.000If you believe that sort of stuff, then you are considered a bigot.
00:05:34.000Such 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.
00:05:42.000When 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.
00:05:51.000It 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.
00:05:58.000Because the idea is it must be silenced.
00:06:01.000This institutional takeover has real and serious ramifications.
00:06:05.000Because 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.
00:06:26.000And that's precisely what you're seeing.
00:06:27.000You'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.
00:06:38.000What 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.
00:06:46.000As opposed to, you know, throughout human history, about 98%.
00:06:50.000And the reason for that is because so much of this is political.
00:06:53.000So 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.
00:07:00.000And the more rules and rules that you shun, the more authentic you are in your very own person.
00:07:04.000And that is the propaganda that is being churned by the left day in, day out, all the time, without a doubt.
00:07:13.000And 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.
00:07:36.000We're supposed to pretend that that doesn't violate any sort of moral strictures.
00:07:40.000We're supposed to pretend that all of this is Essentially morally apathetic.
00:07:46.000We ought to be morally apathetic toward this stuff.
00:07:47.000Now again, I'm not talking about whether we should restrict this stuff by law for adults.
00:07:51.000I'm talking about whether on a moral level, it is generally good for men to dress like women and women to dress like men.
00:07:57.000I'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.
00:08:07.000Okay, 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.
00:08:17.000Now, 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.
00:08:26.000In 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.
00:08:35.000Without that, the passions of the mob would run through the boundaries of the Constitution like a whale through a net.
00:08:42.000This has long been the idea of American liberty.
00:08:45.000American liberty was always undergirded by the idea of American virtue.
00:08:50.000The 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.
00:08:58.000Well, we are there because the way that the left defines liberty is blowing up all the rules, blowing up all the rules.
00:09:03.000America to them is essentially the proposition that we can regulate every area of your life except when it comes to your self-definition.
00:09:11.000When 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.
00:09:18.000But we have to cheer it on a cultural level.
00:09:21.000And that's what America is really all about.
00:09:22.000America is about drag queen story hour and drag race, according to Nancy Pelosi.
00:09:27.000It 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.
00:09:38.000That you end up with a better America?
00:09:40.000No, the idea is that what America really is about is high taxes, gun control, abortion, and drag races.
00:09:46.000So here's Nancy Pelosi talking about what makes America special.
00:09:49.000Give a warm drag race welcome to the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
00:10:38.000It'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.
00:10:49.000The argument is this is an active good.
00:10:51.000You'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.
00:11:00.000This is what America is all about, says the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
00:11:03.000And, 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.
00:11:11.000And not just men dressed as women, men dressed as women gyrating sexually in front of small children.
00:11:15.000So, for example, over the last weekend, you had a family-friendly drag queen event in Austin, Texas, which is a contradiction in terms.
00:11:21.000There's no such thing as a family-friendly drag queen event.
00:11:26.000I'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.
00:11:38.000There are certain things that people just know, and it's okay to just know them.
00:11:42.000This is the point that Michael Oakeshott makes about rationalism.
00:11:45.000And 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.
00:11:52.000Well, can I come up with in my head why this is important?
00:11:55.000Now, it's important to try and reason out why a historic institution exists and whether it can be changed.
00:12:01.000But 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.
00:12:13.000Because again, society is rooted in all of these fundamental rules and roles.
00:12:18.000So 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.
00:12:53.000Does this seem family-friendly to you right here?
00:12:56.000A bunch of men dressed as women dancing around with each other wearing Scanty clothing, grinding their asses against one another.
00:13:03.000This seems very family-friendly to me, doesn't it?
00:13:05.000This is family-friendly stuff right here.
00:13:06.000Really, it's a family-friendly drag queen event.
00:13:10.000And 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.
00:13:16.000According to the New York Post, over $200,000 is being spent on drag queen shows at New York City schools.
00:13:21.000We're a society that now says it's good for small children to see all of this.
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00:14:32.000So 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.
00:14:42.000The argument is, why are you focusing in on all of this stuff?
00:14:45.000And also it's really good and important that it is.
00:14:46.000And you should subsidize with your taxpayer dollars.
00:14:48.000And Nancy Pelosi should talk about how this is the best of America.
00:14:51.000And so should the president of the United States, Joe Biden.
00:14:54.000So 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.
00:15:06.000Last 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.
00:15:19.000Since January, the group has organized 49 drag programs in 34 public elementary, middle, and high schools.
00:15:24.000It boasted on its websites with appearances in all five boroughs.
00:15:27.000Since 2018, the group has received a total of $207,000 in taxpayer cash.
00:15:33.000So, 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.
00:15:45.000There's a minority of people for whom this is fulfilling and who lead a happier lives because of this.
00:15:48.000And that is called a minority of people.
00:15:50.000It's a very vast minority of people throughout human history.
00:15:54.000Again, it is beyond insane that I have to explain this to people.
00:15:59.000A thriving society must have differences between men and women.
00:16:02.000Those natural differences between men and women are baked in.
00:16:05.000They're not just baked into the cake with regard to human beings.
00:16:07.000They're baked into the cake with regard to primates.
00:16:08.000They're baked into the cake with regard to all mammals.
00:16:11.000To 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.
00:16:21.000It'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.
00:16:33.000And then you're shocked when kids are wrecked by this.
00:16:35.000And you're shocked when you have wildly skyrocketing rates of mental health problems among young children.
00:16:42.000Because you decided that all the guardrails should be removed.
00:16:44.000And 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.
00:16:56.000And 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.
00:17:03.000And you're also supposed to make sure beforehand that there are guardrails around the road so the kid doesn't fall off.
00:17:08.000We'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.
00:17:17.000So as that child flies through the air off the road, we're supposed to pretend that, look, the kid's flying.
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00:20:17.000We're tired of heterosexual sex being the main focus.
00:20:19.000First 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.
00:20:34.000But instead, we're tired of heterosexual sex being the main focus of sexual education.
00:20:37.000Again, it is all about the notion that traditional moral structures are bad and inhibiting, and all forms of sexual activity are morally equivalent.
00:20:46.000And this is being pushed by the greatest forces in our society.
00:20:49.000And now, there's one group of people who you would imagine would not push this stuff.
00:20:54.000There's one group of folks you would imagine should not push this stuff, and that would be conservatives.
00:20:58.000And 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.
00:21:09.000The person with whom you're okay having kids.
00:21:11.000The person you have decided to create a life partnership with.
00:21:27.000Apparently, now, the institutions of our society have become so corrupt that even conservative institutions, purportedly conservative institutions, are pushing propaganda.
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00:22:59.000So this appeared on Fox News on Friday.
00:23:01.000And 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.
00:23:14.000And that it is propagandizing openly on behalf of transing small children.
00:23:19.000It 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.
00:23:27.000And 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.
00:23:38.000Because everybody is so afraid of just saying no.
00:23:41.000This was on Fox News, and this is unbelievable to me.
00:24:00.000Again, if MSNBC or CNN did this segment and be like, OK, well, that's par for the course.
00:24:03.000But Fox News, there are few enough conservative outlets and Fox News being the largest, it kind of matters.
00:24:08.000If Fox News starts embracing the radical left gender ideology that the left espouses, it's no longer conservative and it can't be trusted.
00:24:17.000Honest to goodness, I don't know what they're thinking, but this is insane.
00:24:21.000So this appeared on Fox News on Friday.
00:24:25.000If you saw me walking down the street, you wouldn't think anything different.
00:24:30.00014-year-old Ryland Whittington is a typical Southern California teenager.
00:24:36.000And the Whittingtons, along with mom Hillary, dad Jeff, and sister Brindley, are a typical family.
00:24:42.000The 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.
00:24:52.000We 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.
00:25:04.000Before Ryland could even speak, he managed to tell his parents that he is a boy.
00:26:58.000When Ryland came out at age five, a few years later, he had the full support of his parents.
00:27:04.000Initially, there was some pushback from us in trying to understand this.
00:27:07.000We were confused like most people are.
00:27:10.000We thought that gender and sexuality were the same thing.
00:27:13.000It took us a while to figure out that those two things are different and that children actually do recognize their gender identity very young.
00:27:39.000Please explain how conservative faith tells you.
00:27:41.000Again, 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?
00:27:54.000Please 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.
00:28:02.000Please 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.
00:28:23.000Insane and insulting to its audience and insulting to reality, by the way, because the whole thing is just pure propaganda, as we will see.
00:28:30.000If 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.
00:28:36.000And... Oh, so that's why he needs... Sorry.
00:28:38.000That'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.
00:28:44.000We need to put puberty blockers in it.
00:28:46.000And also, maybe add a penis later on and cut off healthy breasts through a moustache.
00:28:51.000If we go through a full transition, this is where it's going.
00:28:54.000Full-on hormonal suppressants, testosterone treatments, pumping hormones into the body, changing the body's construction, changing the health outcomes, cutting off healthy breast tissue.
00:29:05.000Because that's the way God made it, says mom, with her conservative faith, on Fox News.
00:29:34.000to 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.
00:29:46.000That for me was the turning point. I didn't want to see Ryland to go through that.
00:29:50.000I'd rather have a living son than a dead daughter.
00:30:02.000Longitudinal 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.
00:30:12.000No 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.
00:30:28.000Many of them turn out to be gay, but many of them grow out of it, whether it's gay or straight, whatever.
00:30:34.000When 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?
00:30:40.000Now the kid has to stand up to mom and dad in order to say, no, actually I am a girl.
00:30:47.000And 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.
00:30:59.000We had pushed back and done what a lot of parents do.
00:31:02.000I don't think that we would have either one of the kids that you see before you here today.
00:31:08.000Allowing him to live authentically and true to himself and be who he really feels like he is.
00:31:14.000When you get to know Ryland, you see just how proud and confident he is of himself.
00:31:18.000Rylan's story got international attention in 2014 when a family YouTube video went viral.
00:31:24.000And Hillary has since written a book called Raising Rylan.
00:31:39.000Does this seem like safe parenting to you or does this seem like child abuse?
00:31:43.000Taking 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?
00:31:59.000I 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.
00:32:18.000The 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.
00:32:28.000I'm just here to make the ride smoother for others.
00:32:31.000You might be struggling right now, but we believe in you, this family.
00:32:35.000We might not know you, we might not know where you live, but, you know, we understand you and we believe in you.
00:33:14.000What 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.
00:33:29.000What if that's what we are concerned about?
00:33:31.000And what if we're particularly concerned when it starts taking over major American conservative institutions like Fox News?
00:33:36.000If 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.
00:33:47.000I'm friends with a huge number of people who work at Fox News, including most of the hosts.
00:33:52.000And 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.
00:34:14.000It's a betrayal of many of the people who work at Fox.
00:34:17.000And 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.
00:34:33.000All 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.
00:34:39.000Well, 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.
00:34:46.000It's changing the entire conversation.
00:34:48.000Finally, people are beginning to ask serious questions about whether a boy can be a girl or a girl can be a boy.
00:34:53.000And 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.
00:36:29.000There'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.
00:36:35.000It'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.
00:36:42.000And you assured us everything was going to be fine.
00:36:46.000And 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.
00:36:52.000And then the night nurse crew comes in and cleans up after him from the comms office.
00:36:56.000And you're telling us that he shouldn't run?
00:36:58.000Yeah, we said that the first time around, gang.
00:37:01.000According 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.
00:37:10.000Doubting his ability to rescue the party from predicted midterm trouncing and increasingly viewing him as an anchor that should be cut loose in 2024.
00:37:17.000As 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.
00:37:32.000Interviews 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.
00:37:44.000To say our country was on the right track would flagrantly depart from reality, said Steve Simeonidis, a Democratic National Committee member from Miami.
00:37:52.000Mr. Biden, he said, should announce his intention not to seek re-election in 24 right after the midterms.
00:37:57.000Most top elected Democrats were reluctant to speak on the record about Biden's future.
00:38:00.000No one interviewed expressed any ill will toward Biden, to whom they are universally grateful for ousting Trump from office.
00:38:05.000But 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.
00:38:21.000That'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.
00:38:30.000Axelrod 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.
00:38:38.000And part of the reason he doesn't is performative.
00:40:04.000By the way, then Joe Biden decides he's going to blame Vladimir Putin for the inflation.
00:40:08.000Which is weird, because Vladimir Putin is not responsible for any of the inflation prior to his invasion of Ukraine, which only happened in February.
00:40:15.000Inflation started literally the month that Joe Biden took control of the reins of government.
00:40:19.000Today I'd like to speak about my top economic priority, fighting inflation.
00:40:24.000I understand Americans are anxious, and they're anxious for good reason.
00:40:28.000I was raised in a household when the price of gasoline rose precipitously.
00:40:56.000He was asked about a visit to Saudi Arabia.
00:40:58.000Now, everybody knows he's going to Saudi Arabia basically because he blew it in the Middle East.
00:41:02.000He decided to take sides with Iran against Saudi Arabia.
00:41:05.000And this led to Saudi Arabia refusing to acquiesce to his request for more oil.
00:41:08.000And now he's going to have to go kowtow to Saudi Arabia because it turns out we have a major oil shortage.
00:41:12.000And one of the reasons we have a major oil shortage is because Russia wants a war in Ukraine.
00:41:15.000Meanwhile, we're attempting to get Russia to draw a deal up with us in Iran.
00:41:19.000So now he's going to have to go and he's going to have to Backtrack with the Saudis.
00:41:23.000Now 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.
00:41:32.000Have you decided, sir, whether to go to Saudi Arabia?
00:43:02.000The 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.
00:43:17.000Meanwhile, I got AOC out there saying that she's not even going to commit to backing Joe Biden if he runs in 2024.
00:43:23.000You 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.
00:43:34.000So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
00:43:36.000But 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.
00:43:58.000I think that, you know, I think it's... We'll take a look at it.
00:44:03.000But right now we need to focus on winning a majority instead of a presidential election.
00:44:07.000By the way, there's a better shot that she runs than that Joe Biden runs in 2024, given what's going on right now.
00:44:13.000So the Democratic Party is in a state of complete disrepair.
00:44:17.000One of the reasons they're in a state of complete disrepair is, of course, because of the inflation.
00:44:20.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve officials have spent two months getting investors acclimatized.
00:44:25.000To their plans to slow economic growth and combat inflation by raising interest rates in half-percentage point increments until price pressure is cool.
00:44:31.000This 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.
00:44:42.000This survey measure is important to central bankers because they believe such expectations can be self-fulfilling, right?
00:44:46.000If 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.
00:44:55.000While 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.
00:45:07.000The 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.
00:45:17.000Fed officials said in recent weeks they were likely to follow an anticipated half point rate rise this coming week with another one in July.
00:45:25.000So basically they said, oh, we've got this under control.
00:45:27.000We're going to be able to, you know, make sure that we that we kind of even out the economy while tamping down inflation.
00:45:32.000It looks like they are not having any sort of success with that.
00:45:35.000Meanwhile, the housing market is cooling.
00:45:38.000So, 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...
00:45:49.000As that happens, fewer and fewer people are buying homes.
00:45:51.000You'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.
00:45:59.000So you end up with a secondary subprime mortgage crisis, right?
00:46:02.000You'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.
00:46:12.000It'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.
00:46:28.000And so all of this is a disaster area for the Democratic Party.
00:46:32.000And so they are, again, going back to the well.
00:46:34.000And when they go back to the well, what they find there is January 6th and gun control.
00:46:37.000So they plan on another January 6th hearing today.
00:46:42.000This January 6th hearing is, frankly, less than interesting.
00:46:46.000I'm kind of shocked at the lack of beef in any of the Democratic hearings thus far.
00:46:51.000And 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.
00:47:03.000They could be like, um, maybe it was criminal for me to support your agenda here.
00:47:07.000And, uh, and so if I could have like a preemptive pardon, that would be great.
00:47:09.000It doesn't mean they were actually committing a criminal act.
00:47:12.000Anybody can seek a pardon preemptively at any time for anything.
00:47:15.000Again, that makes them idiots, but it doesn't necessarily make them criminals.
00:47:19.000Also, they've shown no evidence of that.
00:47:20.000The 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.
00:47:31.000They've offered no evidence to that effect so far.
00:47:33.000So they've created a massive oversell here.
00:47:35.000And that oversell, I mean, they're now out there saying that they think that the DOJ, maybe they should indict.
00:47:42.000Okay, but the problem is they haven't even alleged a crime yet.
00:47:45.000Like, at a certain point, you have to allege a crime in order for any of that to happen.
00:47:48.000So, what exactly are they doing today?
00:47:49.000Again, they had one shot at this in primetime.
00:47:51.000The ratings in primetime were actually worse than a normal night in primetime at that time on the networks.
00:47:56.000Like, significantly worse, despite the fact that there was blanket coverage of this thing.
00:48:00.000About 19, 20 million people watched that.
00:48:02.000In terms of network plus cable, normally it's about 23, 24 million people who are watching at that time.
00:48:07.000So they actually saw some audience drop off during the January 6th Bonanza extravaganza.
00:48:11.000So today, they are going to have in a bunch of people who are going to testify as to what?
00:48:23.000And 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.
00:48:33.000So what exactly are they going to reveal?
00:48:44.000Whether 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.
00:48:51.000I mean, he's alleging that right now about Brian Kemp beating David Perdue by 50,000 points.
00:48:55.000So 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.
00:49:07.000So they're having Bill Stepien, the former campaign manager, and Chris Steierwald.
00:49:12.000Does he have information about the riots that we didn't know about?
00:49:15.000And then the second panel has three witnesses.
00:49:18.000Benjamin Ginsberg, a renowned Republican election lawyer who helped craft the GOP Florida's recount strategy, and Jay Pack, a former U.S.
00:49:26.000attorney 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.
00:49:37.000Apparently 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.
00:49:45.000Simply the fraud they were looking for didn't exist.
00:49:47.000What does this have to do with demonstrating any sort of legislative oversight purpose with regards to a congressional investigation?
00:49:55.000I 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.
00:50:03.000Like, everybody has taken a side on this.
00:50:04.000So what are they attempting to establish?
00:50:06.000What they're attempting to establish, of course, is that for 2022, don't vote Republican because they're going to overturn elections, right?
00:50:10.000This is what they're attempting to establish.
00:50:14.000And when you oversell and then you don't come up with it, it's a problem.
00:50:17.000Jamie 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.
00:50:29.000They 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.
00:50:36.000So do I believe Jamie Raskin and Adam Schiff in this crowd?
00:50:40.000I'm not sure why I should, given their background here.
00:50:43.000Everything we're doing is documented by evidence.
00:50:46.000Unlike 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.
00:50:59.000Okay, and then Raskin was asked, should the DOJ indict Trump?
00:51:03.000The 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.
00:51:11.000They haven't indicted under Merrick Garland, which suggests they don't have evidence of a crime.
00:51:15.000So here's Jamie Raskin kind of futzing around.
00:51:17.000I mean, they keep alleging that Trump's a criminal.
00:51:18.000At 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.
00:51:26.000You can actually have to demonstrate if you're making criminal allegations like he coordinated to create the riot.
00:51:32.000You're going to have to back that with something.
00:51:33.000Here's Jamie Raskin basically admitting they got nothing.
00:51:36.000Do you believe that the Justice Department should indict the former president?
00:51:41.000You know, one of the conventions that was crushed during the Trump administration was respect by politicians for the independence of the law enforcement function.
00:51:52.000And so I'm going to try to observe that.
00:51:55.000Attorney General Garland is my constituent, and I don't browbeat my constituents.
00:51:59.000I think that he knows His staff knows, the U.S.
00:52:06.000They 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.
00:52:14.000They're providing no new actual evidence, right?
00:52:16.000So 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.
00:52:25.000Bill Barr, who has not been shy about his criticisms of Trump, right?
00:52:28.000I 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.
00:52:37.000But even Bill Barr's like, I'm not seeing evidence of a crime here, guys.
00:52:41.000I haven't seen anything that makes me think the President committed a crime.
00:52:46.000What's come out so far has generally been known before.
00:52:51.000But 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.
00:53:04.000But, you know, I think it's legitimate to explore whether or not there was a plan to use violence to stop the vote.
00:53:12.000And if there was a plan, was the president involved?
00:53:17.000I haven't seen anything up to now that makes me think he was.
00:53:36.000Meanwhile, Democrats are also pushing gun control.
00:53:39.000A bunch of Republican senators, 10 Republican senators, have now signed on to a basic gun control proposal in the Senate.
00:53:46.000The 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.
00:53:56.000A bunch of Republican senators have now signed on to a piece of gun control legislation.
00:54:01.000We 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.
00:54:10.000One of the big problems here is that many of the broad framework proposals, number one, are state-level, right?
00:54:14.000I mean, red flag laws are a state-level issue.
00:54:17.000But also, when you have a loss of trust in institutions, this is a major problem.
00:54:22.000When a lot of the American public feels that you are going to basically Call them unable to hold a weapon based on their politics.
00:54:30.000It's going to be very difficult to get public support for something like a red flag law.
00:54:33.000There 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.
00:54:40.000That 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.
00:54:46.000And then they report you to the local authorities.
00:54:48.000And now the red flag law means that you're deprived of your guns.
00:54:51.000And there have to be some real safeguards in place.
00:54:53.000We have to know that the people who are adjudicating the situation are actually going to be objective in how they adjudicate the situation.
00:54:58.000So here are some of the things that are being proposed that the 10 Republican senators have signed on to.
00:55:01.000And 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.
00:55:08.000Support 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.
00:55:21.000Well, that's going to be the question is how consistent with state and federal due process.
00:55:24.000investment 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.
00:55:38.000Now, 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.
00:55:46.000And that is not a kindness to them, nor is it a kindness to the taxpaying citizen.
00:55:49.000However, what you actually need here is a change in state law with regard to involuntary commitment.
00:55:54.000Because it seems the vast majority of these shooters are people who should have been involuntarily committed.
00:55:59.000Because 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.
00:56:12.000This bill does not do anything about that.
00:56:14.000Some of this bill is somewhat unobjectionable.
00:56:16.000So, 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.
00:56:26.000There'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.
00:56:35.000Well, depending on how that's defined, again, I don't think that's wildly objectionable.
00:56:37.000There's funding for school safety resources.
00:56:40.000They're penalties for straw purchasing.
00:56:41.000So if you're illegally purchasing weapons, we're gonna have to see what the text of this looks like.
00:56:46.000The Democrats are not gonna be satisfied with any of this, of course, right?
00:56:48.000Any sort of consolidated consensus bill, they're not gonna be happy with.
00:56:52.000So 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.
00:57:00.000Do you have a message for those that have marched for our lives for gun safety today in Washington?
00:57:38.000And normally you have to pay to watch this show, but he actually gets paid to watch this show.
00:57:41.000Back 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?
00:57:59.000And 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.
00:58:12.000Reason 1578, America needs red flag laws.
00:58:15.000You wonder why people doubt red flag laws?
00:58:17.000Maybe it's because if I express a political opinion different than yours, you want to take away my guns and call me mentally ill.
00:58:23.000By 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.
00:58:30.000And you wonder why I'm concerned about red flag laws?
00:58:36.000And when Joe Biden says, keep marching, keep up, because we, it's not just a slippery slope.
00:58:40.000All this is, it's going to be, you pass some gun regulations that are likely to do very little.
00:58:44.000And again, I'm not against all of these things.
00:58:46.000I'm just pointing out what the politics of this are.
00:58:48.000You're going to pass some gun regulation.
00:58:49.000It's likely not going to prevent the next shooting.
00:58:51.000Because none of the gun legislation you've pursued so far has prevented these kinds of statistical anomalous, statistically anomalous shootings.
00:58:59.000And then you're going to yell at us about how we haven't done enough.
00:59:02.000Which, by the way, is exactly what the people that Joe Biden is pandering to are saying.
00:59:06.000This March for Our Lives featured, now, ex-Gonzalez.
01:00:38.000The 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.
01:01:06.000And no matter what these Republicans vote for, with their Democratic colleagues, it ain't gonna satisfy this crowd.
01:01:10.000Because in the end, what this crowd actually wants is what Justin Trudeau wants.
01:01:13.000So 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.
01:01:20.000Which is a fundamental breach of the contract between any citizen and his state.
01:01:26.000If 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.
01:01:36.000We 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.
01:01:51.000That's not a right that you have in the Constitution or anywhere else.
01:01:54.000If you try and buy a gun and say it's for self-protection, no, you don't get that.
01:01:58.000You 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.
01:02:04.000Okay, there's no right to self-defense in Canada?
01:02:09.000So 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.
01:02:21.000And 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.
01:02:28.000Speaking with the needs of the Democratic Party, they have to distract from inflation.
01:02:33.000As we've been saying, they have to distract from the economy.
01:02:34.000The reason for that, the economy stinks.
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01:02:40.000As 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.
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01:02:54.000Philip, thanks so much for joining the show again.
01:03:09.000Look, it was on the back of a meeting.
01:03:11.000She 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.
01:03:22.000Quite frankly, I don't think she has a choice.
01:03:54.000So essentially, there are three prongs to the plan.
01:03:56.000The first is to let the Federal Reserve do their job.
01:04:00.000Uh 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.
01:04:18.000So first point, let the Federal Reserve do their jobs.
01:04:21.000It's exactly what we've been doing, right?
01:04:23.000For 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.
01:04:30.000It was this Federal Reserve that dismissed it as transitory for so long.
01:04:35.000So it's a bit of a head-scratcher, that one.
01:04:38.000The second is to lower cost on essentials.
01:04:59.000We've already signed in a trillion dollar infrastructure package.
01:05:03.000He 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.
01:05:25.000My concern, though, is this guy six months ago was pushing through massive spending packages, telling us that it was going to lower inflation.
01:05:55.000And Philip, a lot of these are the short-term risks to the United States economy.
01:05:58.000Some of the longer-term risks to the United States economy include this massive national debt, the fact that we have blown out the spending.
01:06:04.000When 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.
01:06:10.000You 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.
01:06:17.000I mean, that has happened in American history before.
01:06:19.000Essentially, from the mid-60s until the early 80s, the stock market just did no business.
01:06:24.000And there are some economists who are saying that The sort of stagnation that may be setting in right here could be something similar.
01:06:29.000It's very reminiscent of the stagflationary climate in the 1970s.
01:08:26.000I'm speaking with Philip Patrick of Birchgold.
01:08:27.000So, 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?
01:08:38.000People are pulling money out of their own investments right now.
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