The Ben Shapiro Show - Get Ready For The Censorship

00:00:00.000 Well, in the last election cycle, there was an awful lot of talk about disinformation and misinformation.

00:00:05.000 Remember, there was a conflation that occurred between 2016 and 2020.

00:00:08.000 First, in 2020, the story was disinformation.

00:00:11.000 This was the Russians were mainlining a bunch of foreign propaganda into America's election and thus twisting the election against the wonderful and innocent Hillary Clinton and for the evil Russian stooge, Donald Trump. 0.64

00:00:23.000 That was the narrative in 2016, 2017.

00:00:26.000 And then it kind of bled away because it turns out the data wasn't there to suggest that.

00:00:30.000 It looked like the Russians had a bunch of crappy Facebook pages that not all that many people saw.

00:00:33.000 And so instead, the media turned to their new variant of disinformation, which was misinformation.

00:00:39.000 Misinformation is just stuff the media doesn't like, because sometimes it's true and sometimes it's false.

00:00:44.000 But you can't tell the difference in the way that the media treat misinformation.

00:00:47.000 And thus, when it came to 2020, the argument was, for example, that the Hunter Biden laptop story Well, it wasn't quite disinformation because you couldn't tell if it came from the Russians, but it might be misinformation.

00:00:58.000 And by misinformation, they just meant something we don't really want you to see.

00:01:01.000 And ever since 2017, there's been all this talk in social media spheres about the stuff that you should see and the stuff that you shouldn't see.

00:01:07.000 All this talk about the vast panoply of misinformation that is going to be crammed down upon you so that you won't know right from left, you won't be able to know right from wrong, you won't be able to know what's true and what is false.

00:01:18.000 And this invariably ramps up just before a presidential election.

00:01:21.000 Because what the media really want you to believe is that they are the arbiters of truth.

00:01:25.000 They are the ones who will tell you what is misinformation and what is not misinformation.

00:01:29.000 If it doesn't come courtesy of the Washington Post or the New York Times, if it comes courtesy instead of shows like this one, it must be misinformation.

00:01:36.000 And to prove the point, the media and its various allied interest groups, they will lobby social media to shut down other outlets to reduce their reach.

00:01:45.000 They'll use the slogan, well, you know, it's not freedom of speech, it's freedom of reach.

00:01:50.000 There's no such thing as freedom of reach, so if we just downgrade the daily wire while upgrading the New York Times, well, we've fought back against misinformation.

00:01:57.000 And once again, misinformation, sort of like hate speech, remains an undefined term.

00:02:01.000 There's certain stuff that we can all agree would be misinformation.

00:02:04.000 If you say, for example, that the world is flat, that would be misinformation.

00:02:08.000 But also, that's fairly easily rebutted.

00:02:10.000 See, here's the beautiful thing about misinformation.

00:02:13.000 It's possible to rebut virtually all misinformation with actual good information.

00:02:17.000 The problem for the left, very often members of the mainstream media, is they don't want their bad information rebutted.

00:02:22.000 They don't like the community notes feature on Twitter because it might smack them once in a while.

00:02:27.000 Well, they're starting to ramp up in anticipation of 2024.

00:02:30.000 Because again, if you look outside the boundaries of traditional media, you might notice, for example, that Joe Biden is not an empathetic older character with a sterling history of wonderful honor in his office.

00:02:41.000 Instead, he might look like a career corrupt politician who has plagiarized everybody in sight.

00:02:46.000 and used his position of power in order to enrich himself and his family.

00:02:49.000 He might look like that if you look at the quote-unquote misinformation sources.

00:02:53.000 And so now the media are ramping up the calls, the hue and cry, for censorship in advance of the 2024 election.

00:02:59.000 Again, nothing new under the sun.

00:03:00.000 This is the same thing as 2020, they're just replaying it.

00:03:03.000 The latest indicator of this is a long piece from Cristiano Lima from the Washington Post titled, Why a Perfect Storm of Misinformation May Loom in 2024.

00:03:11.000 This is also, by the way, a built-in excuse for why Joe Biden loses. 0.60

00:03:14.000 So if Biden loses, the answer is going to be not that he was a bad candidate, not that you ran a geriatric, doddering fool who can't spew sentences from his face hole, a person who has a terrible economic record, a person who has all the empathy of a kumquat, That's not going to be your fault. 0.96

00:03:29.000 It's going to be the fault of all the misinformation. 0.93

00:03:31.000 It's the, the corrupt situation wouldn't allow Joe Biden to win.

00:03:34.000 They're already setting up for that narrative as well.

00:03:36.000 Here's what the piece says.

00:03:37.000 A majority of researchers expect global misinformation to worsen in 2024, with politicians and social media posing the most serious threats, according to a new survey released Tuesday.

00:03:45.000 So first of all, let me just point out, are you, are you saying that politicians lie sometimes?

00:03:50.000 That they are not wholly truthful?

00:03:52.000 No, no! 1.00

00:03:54.000 Speak not of such evils I mean, honestly, this is so stupid. 0.97

00:03:58.000 The poll, which surveyed almost 300 researchers across 50 countries, found that only a small fraction, 12%, think the information environment in their countries will improve next year. 0.98

00:04:06.000 54% said it would deteriorate.

00:04:10.000 The International Panel on Information Environment, the Swiss-based non-governmental organization behind the survey, said the results demonstrate significant pessimism among the experts.

00:04:19.000 Oh, the experts, they're pessimistic.

00:04:22.000 These would be the same experts who declared that Hunter Biden's laptop was actually just a Russian plant or something.

00:04:26.000 The findings arrive as platforms including Meta and Elon Musk's ex rollback policies and scale back teams dedicated

00:04:32.000 to combating misinformation Ahead of major elections in the United States Europe and

00:04:35.000 India now it is worth noting at this point that authoritarian states like for example

00:04:40.000 Venezuela or Borderline authoritarian states like say Mexico that are

00:04:46.000 ruled by members of the left the the rule of Lula da Silva in Brazil

00:04:51.000 These people are very friendly towards shutting down quote-unquote misinformation.

00:04:55.000 Is the information environment in Brazil getting stronger or weaker over the course of the last couple years?

00:04:59.000 Ever since Lula's election, by the way.

00:05:01.000 The story, of course, was that Bolsonaro was the real authoritarian.

00:05:04.000 Well, Lula hasn't been shy about shutting down his political opposition in Brazil.

00:05:07.000 It's just the media doesn't care about that because they like Lula. 0.99

00:05:11.000 Philip Howard says, he is the professor at University of Oxford and chair of the IPIE, said, quote, this has the potential to create a perfect storm next year.

00:05:18.000 He says that staffing cuts to tech companies' moderation forces pose a huge risk.

00:05:24.000 According to the survey, two-thirds of researchers said the inability to hold social media companies accountable over botched content moderation efforts posed a significant hurdle.

00:05:32.000 55% reported poorly done automated moderation was another.

00:05:35.000 So, in other words, they want to be able to sue.

00:05:37.000 Governments want to be able to sue social media companies in order to get them to do the thing that they themselves are not allowed to do.

00:05:43.000 So, the government of the United States is not allowed to shut you down on free speech terms.

00:05:48.000 But you know what they can do?

00:05:48.000 They can pressure YouTube to do so.

00:05:50.000 They can pressure Facebook to do so.

00:05:51.000 They can pressure X to do so.

00:05:53.000 While a third of researchers globally flagged social media companies as one of the most serious threats to healthy discourse, those that specialize in regions with democratic governments said politicians themselves posed a bigger risk.

00:06:03.000 And of course, here, they just mean right-wing politicians.

00:06:07.000 These are the things that they care about.

00:06:09.000 They're worried about right-wing politicians.

00:06:11.000 Hint, hint, they mean Trump.

00:06:13.000 They're worried about people who are going to say false things.

00:06:15.000 In the meantime, they will maintain their position as the arbiters of the ultimate truth.

00:06:20.000 Of course, they lie too.

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00:07:32.000 Okay, so here is a perfect example of what the media would deem to be good information.

00:07:37.000 So Philip Bump is a fact-checker for the Washington Post.

00:07:41.000 I say fact-checker with a fair bit of scorn, because he is not exactly an unbiased source, is Philip Bump of the Washington Post.

00:07:51.000 And he is a national columnist for their newspaper.

00:07:57.000 He appeared on a podcast with a person named Noam Dworman, The Comedy Cellar Podcast.

00:08:03.000 And Noam Dorman asked him a pretty simple question about Joe Biden's apparent corruption.

00:08:08.000 His suggestion was that Joe Biden has been involved in Hunter's corruption pretty obviously for the past 20 years.

00:08:14.000 Now again, hard to imagine that that's not the case.

00:08:17.000 Given what we now know, up to and including the information from Hunter Biden's laptop talking about 10% to the big guy, all of the money that was obviously flowing to Hunter because Hunter was using Daddy's name, Joe Biden phoning into meetings even if only to talk about the weather just to demonstrate Hunter's connection to Joe Biden, apparently members of the upper staff at Burisma openly talking about the kind of corruption that they were able to effectuate with Joe Biden in office.

00:08:41.000 Hey, but Noam Dorman, That's the biggest question of all, right?

00:08:45.000 This is the one I've asked as well, which is, there's an actual text from Hunter to his own daughter, Naomi, literally saying that he paid half of his dad's bills.

00:08:55.000 What's the deal?

00:08:55.000 And Philip Bump, again, Philip Bump is a columnist for the Washington Post.

00:09:01.000 He does analysis, and he literally just refuses, like, he knows what the question is, but he refuses to even allow it to compute.

00:09:09.000 It's an amazing spectacle.

00:09:10.000 Here we go.

00:09:12.000 What do you take from the text message to his adult daughter, Hunter's text message, that I have to give 50% of my income to Pop?

00:09:18.000 I have no idea what that means.

00:09:20.000 I don't.

00:09:20.000 I have no idea what that means.

00:09:23.000 I know, it's circumstantial evidence and you prefer that.

00:09:25.000 What could it mean?

00:09:25.000 I have no idea.

00:09:26.000 I don't know.

00:09:27.000 Has anybody asked her?

00:09:30.000 I don't know.

00:09:31.000 I don't know.

00:09:32.000 Don't you think somebody should ask her?

00:09:33.000 Okay.

00:09:34.000 I just said I don't know, and I don't know what to make of it, so I have nothing else to say about it.

00:09:38.000 What do you want me to say?

00:09:39.000 Yeah, but you say there's no evidence, but then there's a text message where he says, I give Pop 50% of my money.

00:09:44.000 That's evidence!

00:09:46.000 Okay, fine.

00:09:47.000 It's evidence.

00:09:49.000 I appreciate you having me on.

00:09:50.000 Okay, and then he tries to walk off the show.

00:09:52.000 Then he tries to walk off the show.

00:09:54.000 Now, listen.

00:09:55.000 I've walked off of shows before where somebody was being personally offensive to me.

00:09:58.000 It was a bad move, I shouldn't have done it.

00:09:59.000 But I've never walked off a show because I was asked about a piece of evidence that contravened my argument.

00:10:04.000 That is a wild thing right there.

00:10:06.000 So Philip Bump just prefers not to see the corruption involving Joe and Hunter.

00:10:11.000 And thus it does not exist.

00:10:12.000 I don't know what to make of that.

00:10:14.000 What do you mean you don't know what to make of that?

00:10:15.000 We all know what to make of that.

00:10:17.000 The honest answer there would be, well, you're right, that's suspicious.

00:10:21.000 It's weird that Hunter would text his daughter that he's paying half of his dad's bills.

00:10:25.000 There could be various explanations, ranging from he was paying literally half his dad's bills, to he was exaggerating to his daughter for a fact, to he was high as a kite.

00:10:34.000 We'd have to await more evidence from actual bank records to prove whether that's true or not.

00:10:37.000 But yeah, that's a weird thing for Hunter to say.

00:10:39.000 Like, that'd be an honest take that still leaves the door open to Joe not being guilty.

00:10:43.000 But he's not even willing to humor that.

00:10:45.000 I don't know.

00:10:45.000 I literally don't know.

00:10:47.000 I don't know if you've ever seen the HBO show Westworld.

00:10:50.000 First season is really good.

00:10:51.000 Second season's a mess.

00:10:53.000 In that show, it's basically about these very sophisticated robots in a made-up world that is a Western land, right?

00:11:01.000 This is why it's Westworld.

00:11:03.000 The robots are programmed so that they can't actually compute data that is not within their data set.

00:11:08.000 So if they see something that's completely out of place, it just doesn't compute for them.

00:11:12.000 They don't see it.

00:11:12.000 And so the catchphrase of the robots is, it doesn't look like anything to me.

00:11:17.000 Every time they see a piece of data that doesn't match the world around them, so if they're in Westworld, and suddenly they see a car driving through, and somebody says, didn't you see that car?

00:11:24.000 They'll say, it doesn't look like anything to me.

00:11:26.000 That's Philip Bump.

00:11:28.000 He's the robot.

00:11:29.000 He's the left-wing robot.

00:11:31.000 That text message doesn't look like anything to him.

00:11:33.000 He can't see it.

00:11:33.000 It's right here, and he can't see it.

00:11:36.000 It looks like nothing to him.

00:11:37.000 Thanks for having me on.

00:11:39.000 And these are the people who are policing misinformation.

00:11:42.000 These are the people who we have tasked with policing the flow of information in our society.

00:11:47.000 Which says to me that they're not that worried all about misinformation.

00:11:51.000 What instead they are worried deeply about is information that they don't like getting out there in the public sphere.

00:11:56.000 By the way, Philip Bump writes routinely about quote-unquote misinformation.

00:12:01.000 He wrote a column just Last week, titled, Why Do Republicans Disproportionately Believe Health Misinformation?

00:12:09.000 A month and a half before that, he wrote another one, a deeply ironic reinforcement of right-wing misinformation.

00:12:14.000 He's constantly writing about misinformation.

00:12:17.000 Like, it's his favorite thing to write about.

00:12:19.000 And yet, there he is, not even bothering to make any sort of legitimate argument about why the thing that is right in front of him is fake.

00:12:27.000 He just pretends it doesn't exist.

00:12:30.000 It is in this world that misinformation truly does flourish, because it used to be, that at the very least, we could have arguments over what was true and what was false, and then we'd bring evidence, and we'd marshal that evidence, and then we'd agree, once, you know, the evidence had been marshaled, that something was true and something was false.

00:12:43.000 But in a world where you just ignore the opposing argument utterly, where it just, it doesn't even compute, it just recedes into the wallpaper, how the hell am I supposed to believe anything you say?

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00:14:00.000 Okay, so.

00:14:01.000 Meanwhile, we are heading into an election cycle where Joe Biden is not virile.

00:14:05.000 Joe Biden barely makes it out of his bed each morning or out of his crypt.

00:14:10.000 He spends most of his days wandering around alone on Rehoboth Beach with his shirt off, horrifying the natives?

00:14:18.000 And so they're already setting up the predicate for what his campaign is going to look like.

00:14:21.000 And it's going to be, he's too old and he's too scared of COVID to go out of the basement again.

00:14:24.000 We're setting up for that again.

00:14:25.000 In order to maintain that narrative, however, we must make everybody feel very scared of COVID.

00:14:29.000 Because if, as it turns out, COVID is not killing massive, massive numbers of people in the United States, if it turns out the risk factors that first attended to COVID at the very beginning aren't even the risk factors that attend to the latest bout of COVID that people are experiencing, if it turns out that a huge percentage of the population either has natural immunity or vaccine immunity, Or that our standards of care are way better and so the death rates are significantly lower than the original variant?

00:14:51.000 Then people are going to look at Joe Biden wearing a mask around and be like, what's he doing?

00:14:55.000 Isn't this just an excuse for him not to be in the public eye?

00:14:56.000 Okay, well yesterday, Jill Biden tested positive for COVID.

00:15:01.000 According to Axios, she's experiencing only mild symptoms.

00:15:04.000 She's going to remain at home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

00:15:06.000 President Biden tested negative for the virus.

00:15:09.000 He's going to test at a regular cadence this week and monitor for symptoms.

00:15:12.000 He's supposed to leave Thursday for a G20 summit in India.

00:15:17.000 The First Lady's positive test results, says Axios, come amid a surge in COVID infections across the United States after the emergence of new variants over the summer.

00:15:24.000 Now, I mean, we're also getting back into fall territory.

00:15:28.000 Kids are going back to school.

00:15:29.000 You're going to see a surge in a lot of virus, like an awful lot of virus over the course of the summer and also the fall.

00:15:36.000 Like, for example, my kid recently, because I have kids and my kids are constantly sick, basically it's just a juggling act as to which one of them is going to be sick at any given time.

00:15:43.000 One of my kids came down with strep last week, went into the doctor's, like, yeah, it's a huge percentage this year.

00:15:48.000 Is that because of the evils of COVID or is it just because kids are associating with one another freely again?

00:15:53.000 The immunity is a little down because they spent the last couple of years bubbled, depending on where you live and all that.

00:15:57.000 In any case, they're already setting up the predicate for Joe Biden to hide in the basement.

00:16:00.000 So here's Karine Jean-Pierre, world's worst press secretary, explaining that Joe Biden is now going to mask up indoors because you should mask up indoors because it's so dangerous, guys.

00:16:09.000 President Biden tested negative last night for COVID-19 and tested negative again today.

00:16:15.000 He's not experiencing any symptoms.

00:16:17.000 As far as the steps he is taking, since the President was with the First Lady yesterday, he will be masking while indoors and around people in alignment with CDC guidance.

00:16:28.000 And as has been the practice in the past, the President will remove his mask when sufficiently distanced from others indoors and while outside as well.

00:16:38.000 So much sciencing happening right here.

00:16:40.000 Insane levels of sciencing happening.

00:16:42.000 Joe Biden is going to, he'll be socially distancing and he'll be wearing his mask on occasion, a surgical mask, I assume, not an N95, which would be the thing to actually protect him, a man his age, or any of the rest. 0.87

00:16:54.000 All of this is part and parcel of a broader COVID alarmism that is about to spring onto the scene so we can have this culture, this stupid culture war all over again, thanks to a left that continues to maintain that they did all the right things during the COVID pandemic.

00:17:06.000 According to NPR, the U.S.

00:17:07.000 is seeing a late-summer spike in COVID cases, prompting some schools, hospitals, and businesses to encourage or even require people to start masking up again.

00:17:14.000 The most recent CDC data from earlier this month shows nationwide COVID hospitalizations increased by nearly 19% in a single week and deaths by more than 21%.

00:17:22.000 Now, this is what we call fun with base rates.

00:17:25.000 This is where you have a pretty low rate, it increases slightly, and that looks like a 21% increase.

00:17:30.000 If I make $1 a day and then suddenly I make $1.21 a day, it doesn't mean I got rich.

00:17:35.000 That's a 21% increase.

00:17:37.000 It's a 21%?

00:17:37.000 That's like, depending on what your base rate is, that might mean a lot or it might not mean very much at all.

00:17:45.000 According to CDC Director Mandy Cohen, she said up to 10,000 people a week have been hospitalized with COVID, but that is far fewer than the 40,000 such hospitalizations a week the United States had at its highest point last August.

00:17:57.000 She said we're at a much different, better place this August of 2023, but she says COVID remains risky for people who are unvaccinated, so now they're going to start pushing the vaxes again.

00:18:06.000 Apparently, the latest version, which is nicknamed Eris, right, it was Omicron, but Omicron has now been dispensed with, so now it's Eris!

00:18:16.000 It has become dominant in the United States.

00:18:18.000 Apparently, it's more transmissible, but it doesn't cause more severe disease.

00:18:21.000 So, for the vast majority of people, it looks like a cold.

00:18:24.000 For, like, the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people, it looks like a cold.

00:18:26.000 Doesn't matter.

00:18:27.000 We're still gonna talk about how everybody needs to mask up again.

00:18:30.000 Speaking of health misinformation, this is pretty amazing stuff.

00:18:32.000 So, Anthony Fauci was finally asked about masking.

00:18:34.000 And he was asked by someone on CNN, believe it or not.

00:18:38.000 This is Michael Smirconish, who's like, uh, you noticed that those giant mask mandates didn't do anything to lower the rates of transmission?

00:18:43.000 And Fauci just tries to futz his way— This is not misinformation when Fauci says it, because he is, of course, the science.

00:18:48.000 It is also not misinformation when he overtly says to his colleagues at the beginning of the pandemic that this might have been produced in a Chinese lab, and then immediately reverses field and tries to get them to attest to the idea that it was natural-made.

00:19:00.000 In any case, here was Anthony Fauci distributing misinformation.

00:19:05.000 If in fact we get to the point where the volume of cases is such and organizations like the CDC recommend, CDC doesn't mandate anything, I mean recommends that people wear masks, I would hope that they abide by the recommendation and take into account the risk to themselves And to their families.

00:19:26.000 And again, we're not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.

00:19:29.000 Okay, they always say they're not talking about forcing anybody to do anything, and then the next thing that happens is an attempt at force.

00:19:34.000 I also love that he was asked, actually, by Michael Smirconish, so the mask mandates didn't actually do anything.

00:19:38.000 He's like, well, but for individuals, they might.

00:19:40.000 Ugh, this is so tiresome.

00:19:41.000 That's not the only piece of bad science going out the door.

00:19:43.000 You have Dr. Vin Gupta on MSNBC doing the same routine.

00:19:45.000 He's now claiming that if you're above the age of six months, you should get a COVID vax.

00:19:50.000 These things are untested on infants.

00:19:52.000 They are not.

00:19:54.000 So all of us need boosters.

00:19:56.000 So at six months of age and up, we're going to have boosters by the end of this month, hopefully.

00:20:01.000 And those will protect, we believe, very strongly against these new versions of the virus.

00:20:05.000 Oh, so tiresome.

00:20:06.000 So, so tiresome.

00:20:07.000 Again, remember, trust the experts.

00:20:09.000 Trust the experts.

00:20:09.000 If we've learned one thing over the past few years where the experts have screwed the pooch in every available way, from economics to health policy to electoral policy, it's trust the experts.

00:20:18.000 Obviously.

00:20:19.000 And don't believe any of the misinformation.

00:20:22.000 In just one second, we'll get to the latest in the 2024 campaign.

00:20:25.000 First, we have a dog.

00:20:27.000 His name is Happy.

00:20:28.000 Happy is a really, really nice doggie.

00:20:30.000 He had himself a wonderful weekend where he got to associate with the other dogs and really had himself a good time.

00:20:35.000 Well, here's the thing.

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00:20:51.000 It can do the same for your dog as well.

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00:21:29.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of misinformation, I can't believe that we are still being subjected 0.98

00:21:35.000 to the idiotic idea that secretaries of state across the land are going to be able to simply 0.96

00:21:38.000 delist Donald Trump from the ballot based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. 1.00

00:21:43.000 Based on what?

00:21:44.000 Seriously, based on what?

00:21:45.000 The idea that he violated the Insurrection Act?

00:21:48.000 You've got to be kidding me.

00:21:49.000 You know there is a crime in American law.

00:21:51.000 It's called insurrection.

00:21:53.000 You know what they're not charging Donald Trump with?

00:21:54.000 Insurrection.

00:21:55.000 Jack Smith isn't doing it.

00:21:56.000 Fannie Willis isn't doing it.

00:21:57.000 Nobody is doing it.

00:21:59.000 It doesn't matter.

00:22:00.000 The left has decided, again, because they are our moral arbiters and the arbiters of our truth, that you can simply ban Donald Trump from the ballot and magically he will just go away.

00:22:09.000 And what's really driving that is, of course, how much they hate Trump.

00:22:12.000 I mean, the idea here is that if we ban Trump from the ballot, we never have to think about him again.

00:22:15.000 What does it matter what the actual law says?

00:22:17.000 That, at least, is the perspective of Sunny Hostin of The View.

00:22:21.000 Again, one of our resident geniuses over there.

00:22:23.000 Here's what she had to say.

00:22:25.000 I think the larger question is, he's going to be convicted of something, right?

00:22:28.000 I've said it all the time.

00:22:29.000 Federal defendants get convicted like 97% of the time.

00:22:36.000 In the Georgia case, he's on tape for one of the charges.

00:22:39.000 So he's going to get convicted.

00:22:40.000 The larger question is, why is he even allowed to run?

00:22:44.000 And I've said it over and over again.

00:22:47.000 Now, there are these legal, and Alyssa and I were talking about it earlier, there are conservative legal minds and experts that are saying that under the 14th Amendment, he is not even allowed to run, even though he hasn't been convicted yet.

00:23:00.000 Because the 14th Amendment says if you've participated in public office after taking an oath to this country in an insurrection, you're ineligible to run.

00:23:10.000 Oh my god.

00:23:10.000 Don't worry guys, that's not misinformation.

00:23:12.000 She's just, she's just being a legal analyst.

00:23:14.000 You know that Sonny Hostin was the senior legal correspondent and analyst for ABC News?

00:23:18.000 Which just shows you the quality of legal analysis these days.

00:23:20.000 Donald Trump rightly was ranting about this yesterday on Truth Social.

00:23:23.000 says almost all legal scholars have voiced opinions that the 14th amendment has no legal

00:23:26.000 basis or standing relative to the upcoming 2024 presidential election. Like election interference.

00:23:31.000 He is not.

00:23:31.000 It doesn't matter.

00:23:32.000 We're going to see articles from now up until Election Day about why he should be removed from the ballot.

00:23:35.000 By the way, that's also going to be the predicate for why Joe Biden is not going to debate him.

00:23:38.000 Joe Biden will not debate Donald Trump.

00:23:39.000 Just wait for it.

00:23:40.000 It's going to happen.

00:23:40.000 capable of winning in a free and fair election, make America great again.

00:23:43.000 Now, he's not wrong about any of that.

00:23:46.000 He is not.

00:23:47.000 It doesn't matter.

00:23:48.000 We're gonna see articles from now up till election day about why he should be removed from the ballot.

00:23:51.000 By the way, that's also going to be the predicate for why Joe Biden is not going to debate him.

00:23:55.000 Joe Biden will not debate Donald Trump.

00:23:56.000 Just wait for it.

00:23:57.000 It's going to happen.

00:23:57.000 Bank on it.

00:23:58.000 Honestly, like take that bet, put it in the bank right now.

00:24:02.000 Lock it in.

00:24:03.000 Meanwhile, on the legal front, Donald Trump is facing some pretty dire legal peril.

00:24:08.000 Apparently, some of his co-defendants are starting to turn on him, according to Politico.

00:24:13.000 As his four criminal cases march toward trial, some of his aides, allies, and co-defendants are pointing at the former president.

00:24:17.000 In court documents and hearings, lawyers for people in Trump's orbit are starting to reveal glimmers of a tried-and-true strategy in cases with many defendants.

00:24:23.000 Portray yourself as a hapless pawn while piling blame on the apparent kingpin.

00:24:28.000 Then they go ahead and quote Michael Cohen, which again, not a misinformation when you quote Michael Cohen, but Michael Cohen is a convicted liar. 0.71

00:24:33.000 I should point out at this at this point.

00:24:35.000 But it does happen to be the case that there are a bunch of people surrounding Donald Trump who have started making motions like they might turn on Trump.

00:24:43.000 Last week, Trump's former White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, signaled his defense is likely to include blaming the former president as the primary driver of the effort.

00:24:51.000 By the way, it would not be surprising to me if Walton Aouda did the same thing.

00:24:54.000 Walton Aouda is the aide in the classified documents case who was moving around giant boxes of classified documents at Donald Trump's behest, apparently.

00:25:01.000 Trump actually put it out on Truth Social that Walton Aouda never would have done that.

00:25:05.000 He never would have moved, like, if he had known there were classified documents in the boxes, he never would have moved them, which of course suggests that if there were classified documents in the boxes, Well, that is to blame.

00:25:14.000 Again, I'm not sure what Trump's strategy there is with regard to the people who actually have to stand up for him in order for him to escape criminal liability here.

00:25:22.000 During a hearing in Atlanta, a defense attorney for Meadows called attention to Trump's prominent role in what is certain to be a crucial element of the prosecutor's case there, that infamous January 2nd, 2021 phone call in which Trump demanded that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, find enough votes to declare Trump the winner.

00:25:38.000 It's a strategy that could sharpen as the Georgia case moves closer to a jury.

00:25:42.000 And, again, would it not be a giant shock?

00:25:44.000 This is one of the risks of Donald Trump not paying the legal bills for all of his aides.

00:25:48.000 If you are a Donald Trump aide, if you're somebody who worked with Donald Trump and he's not paying your legal bills, and you now face jail time while Trump is out there defending himself, I don't know, do you want to spend the next 10 years in jail while Donald Trump blames you for all of your problems?

00:26:01.000 John Lauer, Trump's attorney in the federal election case, signaled recently he intends to file a sweeping immunity claim to attempt to derail charges.

00:26:08.000 Many of the defendants in Georgia have already begun maneuvering for individual advantage.

00:26:12.000 Prosecutors are also raising questions about funding that Trump political committees are providing for defendants as well.

00:26:17.000 So, you know, again, things are going to get messy for Trump before they're not going to get messy for Trump.

00:26:22.000 But with all of that said, is Trump ineligible for the ballot?

00:26:25.000 Of course not.

00:26:26.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to run an unbelievably weak race.

00:26:29.000 Basically, this entire 2024 race is the meme from Predator, you know, the bicep flexing, hand gripping meme.

00:26:37.000 Where the two arms gripping?

00:26:38.000 Where both sides are like, what do Democrats and Republicans agree on?

00:26:40.000 There's no way we're going to lose to that guy.

00:26:43.000 For Democrats, that guy is Trump.

00:26:44.000 No way we lose to him.

00:26:45.000 For Republicans, it's no way we're going to lose to Joe Biden. 1.00

00:26:48.000 Joe Biden's poll numbers continue to be absolutely crap. 0.96

00:26:50.000 CNN's Breonna Keillor, she says, you know, he keeps trying to say the economy's good and nobody actually believes him. 0.98

00:26:57.000 Yet not everybody is sold on Biden's plan.

00:27:00.000 In fact, he is struggling to convince voters that his administration has been good for the economy.

00:27:06.000 A new poll from the Wall Street Journal finds 58% of voters say the economy has gotten worse over the past two years.

00:27:13.000 Just 28% say it's gotten better, which is why today President Biden tried to hammer home the point that he is better for jobs than his predecessor and potential 2024 competitor.

00:27:25.000 You know what I will tell you is not a winning strategy in politics.

00:27:27.000 If everybody feels really bad about a thing, stop telling them that they're wrong to feel bad about the thing.

00:27:31.000 Now, that may be the truth.

00:27:32.000 I mean, there are many cases in life where somebody feels bad about a thing and they really should not feel bad about the thing.

00:27:37.000 But as a political strategy, when, you know, 65% of the American people are like, the economy stinks for me. 0.67

00:27:43.000 And Trump is like, that's just because you don't understand the economy.

00:27:46.000 I'm a middle class Joe.

00:27:50.000 It turns out that people don't buy that line very much.

00:27:52.000 And yet, that's the line they're using.

00:27:53.000 Here's the White House's Jared Bernstein of the Council of Economic Advisers being like, People are wrong!

00:27:57.000 The economy's amazing!

00:27:58.000 It's your fault if you're mad!

00:28:01.000 Now look, my point is that you can barely get Americans, 80% of Americans, to agree on anything.

00:28:07.000 And here they are, line after line, agreeing about the importance of the components of Bidenomics.

00:28:14.000 So I think it's an inaccurate narrative to declare that somehow Bidenomics isn't working or that it's not favorably received by people when you drill down into what it actually is.

00:28:27.000 Well, no.

00:28:28.000 Actually, the stuff that you're polling is like, would you like if the government spent money on X?

00:28:31.000 It turns out that everybody likes when the government spends money on X. Because people think the government makes its own money.

00:28:36.000 But you know what people don't like?

00:28:37.000 Would you like the government to take money from you and spend it on X?

00:28:40.000 Then all the numbers go...

00:28:43.000 The same thing happens to be true when it comes to, you know, the life that people are living right now, where they've experienced wage to inflation actual declines over the course of the last couple of years in very significant ways.

00:28:55.000 Everyday things are costing much, much more money.

00:28:57.000 The Washington Post, in fact, has a piece today talking about auto insurance costs that have soared across the United States.

00:29:02.000 Like, these are real-world problems people are having, and a lot of it has to do with inflation.

00:29:07.000 Premiums, according to the Washington Post, have kept climbing even as other types of inflation have cooled.

00:29:11.000 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, car insurance for U.S.

00:29:13.000 drivers in July was 16% more expensive than in July 2022.

00:29:15.000 more expensive than in July 2022. 70% more expensive than in 2013. Frank Palmer, the chief

00:29:23.000 insurance officer at Root Insurance says car repair costs, body shop wages, used car prices have all

00:29:27.000 had significant increases.

00:29:28.000 The entire industry has had to raise rates to keep up with these trends.

00:29:31.000 Motor vehicle maintenance costs are up 13% from July of last year alone.

00:29:35.000 If your car breaks down right now, it costs you an absolute freaking fortune to fix the thing.

00:29:39.000 David Woodall, a mechanic at Metro Motors says, it's more expensive to diagnose newer vehicles.

00:29:43.000 The parts aren't a whole lot more expensive, but the frequency of repair on them is more than it used to be.

00:29:46.000 If an airbag goes off, that's thousands of dollars.

00:29:48.000 A new car might have eight airbags in it.

00:29:51.000 This is also an attempt by insurers to make up for big payouts driven by floods and natural disasters, which insurers categorize as catastrophe losses as well.

00:30:00.000 And there's no escape from the higher premiums.

00:30:02.000 Because, again, when it comes to car insurance, you are mandated to get your car insurance or you cannot drive on the public roads.

00:30:09.000 All of this, people are attributing to Biden's economy.

00:30:12.000 Which makes sense.

00:30:13.000 Because even as all of this is going on, Joe Biden is spilling billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars, into green boondoggles.

00:30:19.000 As the Wall Street Journal points out, according to a report late last month by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, large offshore wind developers are asking for an average 48% price adjustment in their contracts to cover rising costs.

00:30:32.000 The Alliance for Clean Energy New York is requesting an average 64% price increase on 86 solar and wind projects.

00:30:39.000 The IRA, which is the Inflation Reduction Act, which has nothing to do with inflation reduction, includes federal tax credits that can offset 50% of a project's cost, but renewable developers say their costs are increasing faster than inflation.

00:30:51.000 And the projects won't be economically viable, and will be unable to proceed to construction and operation under their existing pricing.

00:30:58.000 So, again, the way that's going to be solved, you would imagine, is by the federal government coming in and spending an awful lot of money.

00:31:05.000 Or by energy production coming to a screeching halt.

00:31:08.000 Joe Biden, again, really a weak candidate, but there are a couple things that Biden has going in his favor.

00:31:14.000 Thing number one that Biden has going in his favor, he's absolutely stone dead boring. 0.91

00:31:17.000 He's absolutely boring.

00:31:19.000 Even, you know, I can tell.

00:31:20.000 I can look at our numbers.

00:31:21.000 Every time I mention Joe Biden, everybody who is watching or listening to this show immediately goes into a coma.

00:31:28.000 If you say Beetlejuice three times, then he appears, and if you say Biden three times, cars fly off freeways all over the United States as the drivers go comatose, their foot hits the gas, and the steering wheel careens to the right.

00:31:42.000 Mass carnage every time you've mentioned Joe Biden just because people go narcoleptic the minute you mention the guy.

00:31:48.000 He's old, he's boring, and that old and boring is a real asset for him.

00:31:52.000 I've been saying this since 2015, by the way.

00:31:55.000 That Joe Biden, if he had run in 2016, would have been a formidable candidate because he's boring.

00:31:58.000 The same thing is true in 2020.

00:31:59.000 He literally didn't run a campaign.

00:32:01.000 His campaign involves him being dead.

00:32:03.000 Now his campaign involves him being double dead.

00:32:07.000 How can you tell?

00:32:07.000 Because, again, all the metrics say so.

00:32:09.000 For example, no one wants to buy a book about Joe Biden.

00:32:11.000 According to Politico, NBC News' Jonathan Allen went on a multi-stop national tour when he co-wrote a book on how Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.

00:32:20.000 Shattered inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign sold more than 125,000 copies.

00:32:25.000 But for the pandemic-era book that he wrote on Joe Biden, Allen didn't even get the satisfaction of seeing a copy in stores.

00:32:30.000 He didn't go on a tour.

00:32:31.000 Lucky, how Joe Biden barely won the presidency, never made the New York Times bestseller list, and has sold fewer than 10,000 copies.

00:32:38.000 That is not a lot of copies, folks.

00:32:40.000 The Biden era, according to Politico, has been a bust for the book market.

00:32:43.000 That's not just the case for mainstream journalists accustomed to chronicling the presidency in book form.

00:32:47.000 Conservative readers aren't all that interested in reading hundreds of pages about a president they think is senile.

00:32:51.000 Eric Nelson?

00:32:53.000 My former editor over at HarperCollins, really good editor, said Biden never does anything interesting.

00:32:57.000 The Hunter Biden stuff has done pretty well because he's appropriately interesting, but Hunter isn't the president. 0.89

00:33:01.000 If your nickname is Sleepy Joe, you have to kind of simultaneously say this person is ruining everything and also is supremely evil, but also he's inept.

00:33:07.000 And that's sort of a challenging combination, added one major conservative publisher.

00:33:12.000 And other books about the Bidens have been doing terrible business.

00:33:16.000 And some of these books, by the way, are very good.

00:33:17.000 I've mentioned before Politico's Ben Schreckinger and his book The Bidens Inside the First Family's 50-Year Rise to Power.

00:33:22.000 It sold less than 5,000 copies.

00:33:24.000 That's as opposed to Michael Wolff's garbage book about Donald Trump, Fire and Fury, which sold almost a million copies.

00:33:30.000 Or Woodward's book Peril about Trump that sold 400,000 copies. 0.87

00:33:34.000 And the great The great irony of Joe Biden is that his boredom and his senility is blocking out the fact that he's unbelievably radical and bad at his job.

00:33:46.000 His advantage continues to be that he is so much less interesting than Donald Trump.

00:33:49.000 In just one second, we'll get into what that's hiding, and it turns out it's hiding some really unbelievably bad policy.

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00:35:23.000 Part of me don't want to believe that he did this.

00:35:25.000 The blood that was on that back area was indicative of a head wound.

00:35:30.000 My brother likes to push a lot of people around. 0.97

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00:36:39.000 So because Joe Biden is so unbelievably boring, and also because he won't talk to the media, and also because he lies a lot, and also because the media have, you know, a full investment in pretending that he's not doing any of those things, they simply don't cover all that much when full-scale disasters happen on his watch.

00:36:53.000 How do you know a full-scale disaster is happening on his watch?

00:36:55.000 Because his own party is now attacking him on immigration.

00:36:57.000 According to Axios, tensions between the Biden administration and local Democrats are coming to a head as shelters around the country overflow and thousands of immigrants arrive in major cities.

00:37:06.000 President Biden is stuck between growing calls to help the Democratic-controlled cities, the politics of the vulnerable issue, and what the administration views as legal handcuffs prohibiting much action.

00:37:14.000 In cities like New York, Boston, and Chicago, a humanitarian crisis for people hoping for new lives in the United States has become desperate.

00:37:20.000 Business leaders and lawmakers at various levels of government are demanding the administration do more to help accommodate migrants that are frustrated by what they say is Biden's lack of response.

00:37:28.000 Senator Dick Durbin, who's a very strong ally to Biden, says, quote, I wrote to him in May.

00:37:32.000 It's been four months.

00:37:33.000 I have to find out what's going on.

00:37:34.000 I mean, this is pretty amazing stuff.

00:37:38.000 You've seen Mayor Eric Adams of New York City and New York Governor Kathy Hochul publicly feuding with Adams demanding the rest of the state receive migrants and Hochul being like, nah, it's Biden's fault.

00:37:48.000 Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey shot down the Biden administration's reported idea of relocating migrants to Atlantic City International Airport.

00:37:55.000 As per Politico, Federal officials view many of the demands as political posturing, not realistic solutions, because they all face legal or practical challenges.

00:38:03.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:38:04.000 Nobody ever considers the possibility, maybe you should work on closing the border, because that would, you know, run up against all of the favored left-wing nostrums about, give me your tired, your poor, yearning masses, desiring freedom, and all of this.

00:38:19.000 Then the reality hits and they're like, oh my god, what do we do with all these people?

00:38:22.000 I'll tell you what Massachusetts is doing.

00:38:24.000 Massachusetts officials, overwhelmed by arriving migrants, have now activated the National Guard as they scramble for more housing.

00:38:30.000 Governor Maura Healey mobilized 250 members of the Massachusetts National Guard to help transport the latest wave of asylum seekers.

00:38:41.000 Which is, again, astonishing.

00:38:43.000 Massachusetts has nowhere near enough housing or resources currently available to accommodate the influx.

00:38:47.000 So, um, bad policy running directly up against reality.

00:38:51.000 Remember that time when all the Democrats were shouting about, why is Texas whining so much?

00:38:55.000 They have hundreds of thousands of people arriving every month.

00:38:57.000 Why are they whining so much when a tiny town like Brownsville, Texas just gets overwhelmed?

00:39:02.000 How dare they?

00:39:03.000 Why are they so racist?

00:39:04.000 And that's getting shipped to Massachusetts.

00:39:05.000 They're like, call the National Guard!

00:39:06.000 We need to do something about this.

00:39:09.000 Protesters claim the state has prioritized the need of migrants over the need of its own homeless residents, including veterans.

00:39:14.000 Many at a rally were flashing signs that read Vets and Cape Homeless First.

00:39:20.000 Apparently, there are about 6,000 families, more than 20,000 people currently residing in Massachusetts state shelters, according to officials.

00:39:28.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:39:29.000 All of this flying well under the... Remember, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the greatest and most wondrous, so fresh, so face, fresh-faced, McFace-fresh Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, congressperson from Twitch.

00:39:42.000 She does stuff with the Instant Pot and then she also does social media. 0.54

00:39:46.000 You remember, she went down to the border while Donald Trump was president and fake cried in an empty parking lot.

00:39:51.000 Directly to camera, you remember that.

00:39:53.000 Now, she's not doing any of those things, I noticed.

00:39:56.000 Which is weird, because I thought that she was truly committed to this bit.

00:39:59.000 I mean, it's a real bit, by the way.

00:40:02.000 But apparently the commitment ended when the stress began.

00:40:05.000 I love this, this is really funny.

00:40:06.000 She was she did an interview with the New York Times where the New York Times asked her speaking of our closest

00:40:11.000 neighbors I want to talk about immigration under Joe Biden more

00:40:14.000 asylum seekers are being held in private detention centers than under Trump

00:40:16.000 Families are still being separated the Biden administration kept Trump era policies that sped up deportations and made

00:40:21.000 it harder for legitimate claimants to come To the US. So what grades you give the administration on

00:40:25.000 immigration and she answered immigration is like arguably this administration's weakest issue

00:40:30.000 It's one area where our policy is dictated by politics arguably more so than any other

00:40:34.000 This is where she starts saying arguably a lot because she doesn't know what she's talking about

00:40:37.000 There are very clear like recommendations and suggestions.

00:40:40.000 We made to the administration to provide relief on this issue

00:40:42.000 It's my belief some of the hesitation around this has to do with the fear of just being seen as approving or providing

00:40:48.000 permission Structures or really just the Republican narratives that

00:40:51.000 have surrounded immigration. Okay, that is a lot of verbiage.

00:40:53.000 That means nothing the world.

00:40:55.000 Nothing.

00:40:57.000 What if I just throw in a phrase like permission structures?

00:40:59.000 Meh.

00:41:00.000 We also need to examine the root causes of migration and address this problem.

00:41:04.000 It doesn't start at our border.

00:41:05.000 It starts with our foreign policy.

00:41:08.000 And the New York Times reporter says, why haven't you used your considerable clout as a Latino leader to visit the border and highlight the ongoing issues there?

00:41:15.000 And she says, well, this is something we're like actively planning on.

00:41:17.000 I've done tours of our New York area facilities.

00:41:20.000 Like, well.

00:41:21.000 So I noticed where you weren't.

00:41:23.000 The border.

00:41:24.000 I noticed.

00:41:27.000 It's so funny.

00:41:28.000 This is so funny.

00:41:29.000 The New York Times reporter, to their credit, says, quote, under the Trump administration, you did make the southern border an issue.

00:41:34.000 He said, yes, and again, I will be visiting the border.

00:41:37.000 When?

00:41:38.000 Like Joe Biden is gonna be visiting East Palestine, Ohio?

00:41:40.000 Because I noticed that's a thing that you're not doing.

00:41:44.000 It's just something that I noticed.

00:41:47.000 Okay, meanwhile, China continues to be on the edge of an economic cataclysm.

00:41:54.000 According to the New York Times, China's biggest home builder is now reeling as the economy slows.

00:42:00.000 When Country Garden, the biggest developer in China's increasingly troubled real estate sector, published its annual report in April, the cover design exuded hope, a phoenix spreading its wings.

00:42:08.000 That was wishful thinking.

00:42:09.000 Shortly after the report's release, China's nascent economic recovery lost steam, and already sluggish real estate markets started to collapse.

00:42:15.000 At Country Garden, presales of unfinished apartments, a crucial indicator of future revenue, plunged more than 50% in June and July, twice the rate of decline in the preceding five months.

00:42:24.000 For the past three years, as dozens of major property developers defaulted after years of excessive borrowing, Country Garden was an outlier.

00:42:30.000 Last month, it missed two interest payments, signaling that it too was at risk of financial collapse with $187 billion in debt.

00:42:38.000 That is a lot of debt, folks.

00:42:40.000 That is a lot of debt.

00:42:42.000 Country Garden has staved off an immediate crash.

00:42:44.000 It told creditors it made the interest payment of $22.5 million within the grace period before default.

00:42:50.000 On Friday, the company won a last-minute approval from creditors to postpone repayment of $537 million.

00:42:56.000 It has been a dramatic fall for Country Garden.

00:42:58.000 The company's improbable rise from regional home builder to a nationwide behemoth tracked China's own meteoric ascent.

00:43:04.000 Now its collapse reflects the speed and severity of the country's real estate meltdown, which threatens to derail the broader economy.

00:43:09.000 By the way, you know why this happened?

00:43:10.000 The reason that this happened in China is because they have one metric for success, and that is GDP.

00:43:15.000 GDP is a measure of final end-use sales.

00:43:19.000 It can be jogged by borrowing and spending.

00:43:21.000 If the government borrows and spends on empty apartment buildings to developers like Country Garden, Well, that is counted as GDP growth.

00:43:29.000 It doesn't matter that nobody's actually buying those apartments.

00:43:32.000 You can just continue to jack up the GDP statistics by borrowing and spending and borrowing and spending.

00:43:35.000 There's only one problem.

00:43:36.000 At a certain point, the carousel stopped. 0.99

00:43:38.000 The same thing is true in the United States, which is why it is so puzzling and stupid that the United States continues to follow China down the primrose path on this one. 0.98

00:43:45.000 It really is kind of an amazing thing. 0.97

00:43:47.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:43:50.000 So, things that I like today.

00:43:53.000 So, Bill Maher was on with Joe Rogan.

00:43:55.000 And again, I'm friendly with Bill, friendly with Joe.

00:43:58.000 Bill used to be a mainstream left-winger.

00:44:02.000 He was a mainstream liberal, mainstream democrat.

00:44:04.000 And now, as people on the Twitters are saying, he sounds like me.

00:44:09.000 And that's not because I have moved.

00:44:10.000 I really think it's because Amar has moved.

00:44:13.000 It's because everybody else who used to consider themselves on the left has moved so radically to the left that Amar got left behind.

00:44:18.000 So here, for example, is Bill Maher, speaking about woke culture, got ripped up for this.

00:44:22.000 But of course, he's exactly right.

00:44:23.000 Here he was.

00:44:24.000 You can be woke.

00:44:27.000 With all the nonsense that that now implies.

00:44:32.000 But don't say that somehow it's an extension of liberalism.

00:44:36.000 Right.

00:44:36.000 Because it's most often actually an undoing of liberalism.

00:44:41.000 I have always believed, as liberals do for example, in a colorblind society.

00:44:46.000 That the goal is to not see race at all anywhere for any reason.

00:44:50.000 Yes.

00:44:50.000 That's what liberals always believed all the way through Obama, going back, Kennedy, everybody, Martin Luther King.

00:44:58.000 That's not what the woke believe.

00:44:59.000 They believe race is first and foremost the thing you should always see everywhere, which

00:45:05.000 I find interesting because that used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan, that we

00:45:09.000 see race first and foremost everywhere.

00:45:13.000 So again, you can have that position, but don't say that's a liberal position.

00:45:19.000 You're doing something very different.

00:45:21.000 Correct.

00:45:22.000 He got ripped up for this.

00:45:23.000 How dare he?

00:45:24.000 Now, of course, he wasn't saying the BLM is doing the same sort of stuff as the Ku Klux Klan.

00:45:27.000 He was saying the ideology that race is the great differentiator and that's the first thing you should notice about a person.

00:45:33.000 He's saying that's bad.

00:45:34.000 Which, again, I thought, like, when I grew up, that was just what everybody got taught.

00:45:38.000 I'm confused.

00:45:38.000 Like, I grew up in the 90s.

00:45:39.000 Isn't that long ago?

00:45:41.000 And I remember I went public school and this was what you were taught.

00:45:43.000 And it was considered a good thing. And now all of a sudden it's the reverse.

00:45:46.000 Mar also slammed Black Lives Matter pointing out, it's only certain black lives that matter to BLM.

00:45:51.000 In Minnesota, for example, I think it was Minneapolis.

00:45:55.000 After the George Floyd murder and the riots, I think there was

00:46:04.000 a movement to disband a lot of the police and they did.

00:46:10.000 I think a lot of the police were let go or somehow the police force was was a lesser force than it was.

00:46:18.000 And what happened was, of course, crime went up in certain areas.

00:46:21.000 And a lot of the officers who had been Fired, or let go, or quit, or for whatever reason they weren't on the force anymore, they were hired as private security.

00:46:31.000 By who?

00:46:33.000 The rich people, who could afford to do it.

00:46:36.000 So their neighborhood stayed safe.

00:46:38.000 So that wasn't exactly, I thought, a victory for liberalism.

00:46:42.000 Murders have been happening way out of control in Chicago among the African-American community for far too long, and not really reported in the way that they should be.

00:46:53.000 It's amazing how black lives don't seem to matter when they're taken by 1.00

00:46:59.000 black lives. 0.94

00:47:00.000 But, I mean, now Chicago, my friends who live there say it's not safe anywhere.

00:47:08.000 Yeah, it's very sketchy.

00:47:10.000 Very sketchy.

00:47:11.000 And that's Chicago.

00:47:12.000 Okay, um, see, he's saying reasonable things.

00:47:15.000 The left is not.

00:47:15.000 This is why, again, the first party that shows that it can be sane and rational is going to win broad swaths of the electorate.

00:47:21.000 Like, Maher's speaking for pretty much everyone at this point on this.

00:47:25.000 Like, left, right.

00:47:26.000 Like, if you're in reasonable categories, you agree with Bill Maher on this stuff.

00:47:29.000 The left is ignoring it and the right is too busy playing with itself over here on other issues.

00:47:33.000 These are like right there for the picking.

00:47:36.000 Just say the thing.

00:47:38.000 But apparently that would be too good for the United States right now.

00:47:41.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:47:47.000 Okay, so apparently Austin police are now urging robbery victims not to call 9-1-1.

00:47:52.000 That seems bad.

00:47:53.000 According to Fox News, Austin police in Texas are asking residents to call 3-1-1 if they get robbed near an ATM, as the department struggles amid an increase in urban crime.

00:48:01.000 3-1-1 is a number usually used for non-emergency requests.

00:48:05.000 9-1-1 is like, I'm being robbed.

00:48:06.000 3-1-1 is like, yeah, somebody robbed me three hours ago.

00:48:10.000 What can I do about that?

00:48:12.000 So, um, apparently they now don't want you to call 911 even if you're being robbed, like, right this second because they're just overwhelmed.

00:48:19.000 Austin Police Department wrote, quote, Even if you are cautious and follow all safety advice, you may still become the unfortunate victim of a robbery.

00:48:24.000 Do you know what your next steps should be?

00:48:26.000 Make a police report.

00:48:28.000 Provide as much information as possible so we can recover your property quickly and safely.

00:48:33.000 Compared to 2020, Austin has now had a 77% increase in auto thefts, an 18% increase in aggravated assault, and a 30% increase in murder.

00:48:42.000 So yeah, it turns out that left-wing governance, it has some serious bad cause.

00:48:47.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 06, 2023

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