The Ben Shapiro Show - How To Ruin A Man’s Life

00:00:00.000 One of the great evils of our time is the substitution of group justice in favor of individual justice.

00:00:05.000 Now, the word justice really does not need any sort of modifier.

00:00:08.000 Justice always is individual in nature.

00:00:11.000 There is no such thing as sort of group justice.

00:00:14.000 Social justice is in and of itself in undermining of the notion of individual justice.

00:00:19.000 If something bad happened to you on a personal level, you should have justice because you were the one damaged.

00:00:24.000 If you did harm to someone else, justice should come for you because you did harm for somebody else.

00:00:28.000 But we have a tendency in a very large, diverse society with nationalized media to turn everything into a referendum on groups in general.

00:00:37.000 And this has actually powerless consequences for a wide variety of people.

00:00:40.000 And yes, A wide variety of groups.

00:00:43.000 Today's example comes courtesy of a prosecutor who has now decided that the former Buffalo Bills punter named Matt Ariza was not even present during an alleged gang rape.

00:00:53.000 Now the reason that this is important is because it is tip of the spear, it is indicative of a broader ideological problem that now plagues the West.

00:01:00.000 And that is that when we see individual cases, instead of seeing those individual cases as individual cases, Instead of investigating the individual circumstances of each case, and then trying to broaden that out to say, what are the policies that could theoretically have impacted this individual case?

00:01:14.000 Instead, we label the person a part of a group, and then we make group judgments based on that individual, and we try to broaden out the groups that are bad in order to include all of our enemies.

00:01:24.000 And this leads, of course, to further political polarization.

00:01:26.000 And this is just a perfect example of this sort of thing.

00:01:30.000 So, according to Yahoo Sports, last August, just days after earning the starting job as the Buffalo Bills punter, rookie Matt Araiza was the subject of a civil lawsuit alleging that he and two San Diego football teammates participated in the gang rape of an intoxicated 17-year-old girl.

00:01:44.000 While little was known publicly, San Diego police had spent nearly 10 months on the case before forwarding it to the DA without a recommendation for prosecution.

00:01:51.000 The bill said they knew about the incident, investigated it, and decided to employ Ariza anyway.

00:01:55.000 The graphic allegations in the civil lawsuit, however, created a public frenzy.

00:01:58.000 It included a claim that during an October 15, 2021 party at a home near the SDSU campus, Ariza led the girl into a bedroom where at least three other men waited.

00:02:07.000 Once inside, Ariza threw the girl onto the bed face first. 1.00

00:02:09.000 According to the lawsuit, the girl went in and out of consciousness while suffering through the horrific gang rape, quote-unquote.

00:02:13.000 It lasted an hour and a half, according to the lawsuit, before she stumbled out of the room bloody and crying, in part because multiple piercings had ripped through the skin during the attack. 1.00

00:02:21.000 Within just a couple of days of these allegations being made public, the bills cut Ariza, who, due to his record-breaking NCAA career and an 82-yard punt in a preseason game, had already earned the nickname Punt God.

00:02:30.000 It was a big story across the country when this happened.

00:02:33.000 The Buffalo General Manager, Brendan Bean, he said, we think it's the best move for everyone to move on from Matt and let him take care of the situation.

00:02:39.000 He's still out of football despite prosecutors announcing on December 7th, 2022, that after conducting a 124 day investigation, they would not press any criminal charges in the case.

00:02:49.000 Now a fuller picture is emerging.

00:02:51.000 What are they finding?

00:02:52.000 Well, apparently there's a 200 plus page transcript of 100 minute meeting obtained by Yahoo Sports, where a deputy D.A.

00:02:58.000 offered a detailed explanation to the girl and her attorneys.

00:03:00.000 Perhaps most notably, the D.A.' 's office concluded that Ariza couldn't have led the girl into the alleged gang rape because he had left the home already at 1230 a.m., an hour prior to when evidence suggested the alleged gang rape would have occurred.

00:03:11.000 He wasn't even at the party anymore, according to the deputy district attorney.

00:03:14.000 He's a woman, Tricia Amador.

00:03:16.000 Later, that deputy district DA stated of the timeline of events, Additionally, prosecutors told the girl that video recordings of the incident in the bedroom made it impossible to determine, let alone prosecute anyone, on whether there even was a gang rape at all that night, rather than simple consensual sex with the other men.

00:03:34.000 In looking at the videos on the sex tape, I cannot prove absolutely any forcible sexual assault based on what happened, according to Amador.

00:03:42.000 The accuser's attorney could not be reached for comment to Yahoo Sports.

00:03:46.000 The civil lawsuit is presumably going to continue.

00:03:50.000 The lawyer did say that the witness who prosecutors based their opinion that Arise was not present on was a quote-unquote buddy.

00:03:57.000 There are apparently 35 witness interviews, and now they've come to the conclusion that there was effectively no gang rape at all.

00:04:06.000 Ariza, whose life has been paralyzed since being named in the civil lawsuit, hopes it's enough for NFL teams to take a second look.

00:04:11.000 He and two other players named in the suit vehemently deny any gang rape, acknowledge the girl was below California's age of consent, or whether she was intoxicated.

00:04:18.000 He said any sexual contact was consensual.

00:04:21.000 Now, the local prosecutors are making his case for him via recording that not every jurisdiction provides.

00:04:26.000 Now, again, the exculpatory evidence came from a number of short videos of the encounter between the girl and two or three men in the bedroom.

00:04:31.000 Timestamps show it occurred about 1.30 a.m.

00:04:34.000 Citing a witness and other information, prosecutors concluded that Ariza had already left the party at 12.30 a.m.

00:04:40.000 Now, again, witness interviews from the party said the girl did not appear to be drunk at the time.

00:04:45.000 Other witnesses said that the girl was telling people that she was 18.

00:04:49.000 A witness who was at the house gave a statement saying that at least one point at the party, you made a statement telling people at the party you were 18, said the lawyer to the accuser.

00:04:55.000 Another witness at the party says they specifically heard you say that you were 18.

00:05:00.000 So again, it seems like this story is just nonsense, but it ruined this guy's life.

00:05:05.000 Because Matt Araiza, again, this is a person who's slated to make millions and millions of dollars in the NFL.

00:05:09.000 He was going to be the best punter in the NFL.

00:05:12.000 And he was basically kicked out of the NFL for what now appears, by all available evidence, to be a pretty substantive false rape allegation.

00:05:19.000 A false gang rape allegation.

00:05:22.000 Why does this have anything to do with group justice?

00:05:24.000 Because the reason that Ariza was originally booted is not because people decided to treat his case as an individual case.

00:05:30.000 It was a stand-in for all MeToo incidents.

00:05:33.000 This is what we now do.

00:05:34.000 With every single public incident that falls within a set media narrative, we determine that this incident is indicative of a broader issue That implicates society and therefore we must make an example of this person.

00:05:48.000 It doesn't matter this person was not convicted in a court of law.

00:05:50.000 It doesn't matter prosecutors never even brought a case in a court of law.

00:05:53.000 It doesn't matter that the evidence stacks up against the accuser in this particular case.

00:05:57.000 We have made a decision as a society that the minute that an accusation is made against a man, we are basically going to destroy his life.

00:06:04.000 Now again, if a person is convicted of that accusation, his life should be destroyed.

00:06:09.000 If that person actually commits an act like this, his life should be destroyed, but based on the allegation alone, because the idea is that America is a white supremacist patriarchy, and therefore the only way to break down the patriarchy is to break a few eggs.

00:06:22.000 And if that means that allegations alone are sufficient to condemn somebody, whether it is Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court or whether it is Matt Ariza, then we just go for it.

00:06:29.000 That is the important thing.

00:06:31.000 Now, of course, the same logic doesn't apply to valued members of the left, valued members of the political left.

00:06:37.000 We sort of we demand full evidence in those particular cases, or we still allow them to go on speaking tours like Bill Clinton.

00:06:43.000 But If you are not a member of a protected class, then obviously we use your intersectional identity and lack of intersectional bona fides as an excuse to go after you on a personal level.

00:06:54.000 And this is how you destroy somebody's life.

00:06:56.000 The way you destroy somebody's life is you make an example of them based on a preset narrative.

00:07:00.000 That is true whether you're talking about Matt Ariza.

00:07:02.000 It's true whether you're talking about this Marine in the Jordan Neely case.

00:07:05.000 The attempt to railroad this marine in the Jordan Neely case is going to be extraordinary.

00:07:10.000 We've seen it over and over and over again.

00:07:13.000 People who go to jail based on bad allegations and a bad fact pattern because it fits a narrative.

00:07:19.000 And that narrative must be upheld at all costs.

00:07:21.000 Now, these aren't the only types of people who are destroyed by the narrative.

00:07:25.000 The other types of people who are destroyed are people who are allowed to pursue a life of criminality because of a group narrative.

00:07:33.000 I have a story on that in just one second.

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00:08:37.000 The people whose lives are destroyed by the group justice narrative are not merely the people who are targeted by the media for being excised from American society on the basis of allegations alone or a bad fact pattern.

00:08:51.000 And it doesn't matter if the fact pattern fits, we just shove it into the narrative box.

00:08:54.000 Whether we were talking about Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd case where there was not even an allegation of racism, but this became the basis of widespread accusations about police racism across the country.

00:09:03.000 That does not matter.

00:09:05.000 Derek Chauvin had to go to jail for the rest of his life based on a bad fact pattern.

00:09:08.000 The same thing is happening, obviously on a minor scale, with Matt Araiza.

00:09:13.000 It's probably going to happen with this Marine in New York City.

00:09:15.000 He committed the unpardonable sin of attempting to protect fellow passengers on the subway system, but he did so in New York City, a place where the narrative must be maintained.

00:09:23.000 But those aren't the only people who are damaged by the dedication to quote-unquote social justice at the expense of individual justice.

00:09:30.000 The other people who are damaged are people who actively should be punished for their crimes and then are left on the streets to commit more crimes and it usually ends very poorly for them.

00:09:38.000 So there's an amazing piece over at Barry Weiss's publication, thefreepress.com, thefp.com, called Is Justice Still Blind in Canada?

00:09:45.000 Because this is not just an issue.

00:09:47.000 In the United States.

00:09:48.000 It also happens to be an issue throughout the Western world.

00:09:50.000 Quote, Edward Smith didn't think the color of his skid had anything to do with it.

00:09:53.000 He was 23.

00:09:54.000 He'd come to Canada in 2005 from West Africa.

00:09:57.000 Now he lived with his mother and sister in Edmonton, the capital of the Western province of Alberta.

00:10:01.000 Racism didn't make him take part in an armed robbery of an Airbnb in July 2019, he said.

00:10:06.000 He decided on his own to help his cousin, who had told Smith the people staying at the Airbnb had robbed him and that he was trying to get his money back.

00:10:12.000 Smith agreed to help, but he didn't want any guns involved, so they compromised.

00:10:15.000 He'd bring a gun.

00:10:15.000 It would be unloaded.

00:10:16.000 Things didn't go as planned.

00:10:17.000 Smith was arrested.

00:10:19.000 At his trial, Smith pled guilty to two charges, theft and robbery with a firearm filed against him.

00:10:23.000 Since Smith is black, he also submitted an impact of race and culture assessment, or IRCA.

00:10:28.000 This is a pre-sentencing report in which black and racialized Canadians can demonstrate how systemic racism led them to commit their crime. 0.92

00:10:35.000 The logic behind Smith's IRCA was clear.

00:10:37.000 As a black man, it was assumed he had been subjected to a great deal of hate and that the hate had limited his job opportunities, housing opportunities, opportunities to build a meaningful and law-abiding life.

00:10:45.000 Dunia Noor, the activist who wrote Smith's IRCA, told me the report was meant to help the judge appreciate the convict's background and history.

00:10:52.000 So, the author of this piece, a woman named Rupa Subramanya, she says she actually got a hold of this particular form that you're supposed to file in Canada when you're convicted of a crime talking about your difficult childhood and how racist Canada is.

00:11:05.000 I obtained Smith's IRCA from Smith himself.

00:11:07.000 Oddly, the four-page report cites no concrete instances of racism, no violence, no untoward remarks, no employers or schools that turned Smith down because of his skin color, not even microaggressions.

00:11:16.000 It also fails to mention that in a separate incident in January 2018, Smith was arrested and charged with theft, robbery, and kidnapping.

00:11:22.000 What it does say is Smith had a rough childhood and adolescence, the refugee camp in Ghana, his father's absence, immigrating to Canada, his early run-ins with the law.

00:11:30.000 It further noted that Edward identifies as an African-Canadian who is of Liberian heritage and he has a feeling of disconnection with his culture.

00:11:37.000 What did the judge do?

00:11:38.000 Well, in February 2020, after six months in prison, he was allowed to go free with court-appointed supervision.

00:11:43.000 If he had been white, he would have been looking at eight years behind bars. 0.88

00:11:48.000 So if you're white and you committed armed robbery in Canada, eight years behind bars.

00:11:50.000 If you are a black immigrant to Canada and the country takes you in and you can't even cite any instances of racism, six months.

00:11:58.000 I didn't face racism, Smith said.

00:12:01.000 He's now a sales representative at a debt collection company.

00:12:03.000 He says, it was my only way out of the situation and I took full advantage.

00:12:07.000 Now again, this has become the way that criminal justice is now done in Canada.

00:12:11.000 Quote, Canada is at the forefront of a broader movement that seeks to reimagine police prisons and the nature of justice.

00:12:17.000 A movement that gained much greater momentum and cohesiveness in the wake of George Floyd's May 2020 killing in Minneapolis.

00:12:22.000 In the United States, the new thinking was reflected in the push for decarceration and the rise of progressive district attorneys.

00:12:28.000 On top of that, a handful of states sought to impose justice from the top down.

00:12:31.000 Virginia and Washington barred police from using choke holds and no-knock warrants.

00:12:34.000 Minnesota adopted a law meant to make police more accountable.

00:12:37.000 California enacted the Racial Justice Act, enabling anyone convicted of a crime to challenge their convictions on the grounds of racial bias.

00:12:44.000 But Canada has now insisted that judges explicitly consider race when meeting out justice. 0.97

00:12:49.000 And all of this is garbage, and it's going to lead to more crime. 0.94

00:12:53.000 To Nadia Robinson, the idea that the man who had killed her partner should be given a lesser sentence because his race felt surreal, she said. 0.97

00:12:59.000 Robinson's partner, Andy Nevitt, had been riding his bike on the morning of June 28, 2015, when he was killed in a hit-and-run.

00:13:05.000 In court, the driver testified he'd been out all night at a wedding.

00:13:08.000 It was almost 6 a.m.

00:13:09.000 He was speeding home, going 20 miles over the limit, when he nodded off.

00:13:12.000 He came to and he heard a thud.

00:13:14.000 When he got home, he covered his Ford F-250 pickup truck in a tarp, and then he had the hood and side panel changed.

00:13:20.000 He knew what had happened.

00:13:22.000 But it doesn't matter because he was arrested and then he noted that he'd immigrated at age seven from Dominica in the Caribbean.

00:13:28.000 He claims he was bullied at school.

00:13:30.000 At the trial, the judge said she believed that the defendant, quote, wanted to do the right thing, but did not have the confidence to do so out of fear.

00:13:35.000 And she said, I also accept this fear was likely heightened as a result of Mr. St.

00:13:39.000 Hillier's experience with racism as a black person growing up in this community.

00:13:44.000 Ultimately, it can found St.

00:13:45.000 Hillier guilty of obstructing the police investigation into the collision, but added that his experiences earlier in life were mitigating factors.

00:13:52.000 It didn't seem to matter that there were no details of actual racism suffered.

00:13:56.000 He could have wound up spending two years behind bars.

00:13:57.000 Instead, he got 100 hours of community service and left the courtroom a free man.

00:14:01.000 He hadn't even filed in IRCA at the time.

00:14:06.000 All of this is, of course, perverse and evil.

00:14:09.000 And it also leads to situations like the situation faced by Jordan Neely.

00:14:13.000 There are two victims when you look at group justice.

00:14:15.000 One victim is, of course, the person who takes the law into his own hands in self-defense and then is condemned on the basis of his race.

00:14:21.000 The other person is the person who's out on the street repeatedly because of his race.

00:14:24.000 Because that person doesn't fit the crime stats that New York wishes to purvey, and so they just keep letting him out over and over and over and over.

00:14:31.000 Group justice is inherently bad. 0.99

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00:15:49.000 Alrighty, so...

00:15:53.000 In California, the notion of group justice is reaching its logical conclusion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:15:58.000 A nine-member committee created by Governor Gavin Newsom and his Democratic legislator, Latcher, voted Saturday to recommend the state make cash payments to black Americans who claim to be descendants of slaves.

00:16:08.000 I guess you don't even have to be...

00:16:09.000 Yeah.

00:16:10.000 And no verification procedure.

00:16:11.000 Although California's 1849 constitution banned slavery.

00:16:14.000 Remember, California was a free state.

00:16:16.000 The committee claims the state government was complicit in the enslavement of blacks in southern states.

00:16:20.000 The committee says blacks are still suffering the lingering effects of slavery, as well as policies like over-policing.

00:16:25.000 The panel recommends payments of $2,352 for each year slavery descendants lived in California during its war on drugs from 1971 to 2020.

00:16:34.000 So apparently the war on drugs was, we're now going to say, was specifically about imprisoning black people as opposed to being, you know, a war on drugs.

00:16:42.000 Slavery descendants would also get $3,366 for every year they lived in the state between 1933 and 1977 when housing discrimination allegedly occurred, as well as $13,619 for every year they were a California resident to compensate for health disparities between blacks and whites.

00:16:57.000 All told, as many as 2 million black Californians could be eligible.

00:17:00.000 The total cost could be as much as $1.2 million a person, $800 billion overall.

00:17:07.000 There's some arbitrary distinctions.

00:17:09.000 If you're a black immigrant, you can't apply. 1.00

00:17:11.000 Japanese Americans, if you were put into an actual internment camp during World War II, in California, nope.

00:17:16.000 Chinese Americans, who actually, the California State Senate, as early as like the 1880s, was discriminating against Chinese immigrants, nothing.

00:17:24.000 Native Americans, nothing. 1.00

00:17:26.000 So, this is the way that California is now thinking.

00:17:29.000 Again, you think in terms of group justice, and what you end up with is individual injustice.

00:17:33.000 So just to get this straight, the way that it's supposed to work is that California, a historically free state, is going to make people who are never enslavers pay people who are never slaves.

00:17:42.000 All in the name of group justice.

00:17:45.000 And naturally, when you think in terms of group, what you end up with is full-on tribalism.

00:17:49.000 So, there are a myriad of clips of people beating each other up over race.

00:17:55.000 Unfortunately, they are disproportionately black on white.

00:17:59.000 The media narrative is typically that interracial violence is white on black. 0.95

00:18:02.000 That is not true.

00:18:03.000 Interracial violence, to whatever extent it exists, and it does exist, but not nearly to the same level as intra-racial violence.

00:18:10.000 But interracial violence is typically black on white.

00:18:14.000 Well, this sort of video tends to emerge, and it demonstrates how group justice thinking telescopes down into individual instances.

00:18:24.000 It's really ugly.

00:18:25.000 This is going viral on TikTok. 0.71

00:18:27.000 It is a video of a young black man confronting a young white man.

00:18:33.000 Apparently, the young white man, we have no idea what the context was, said the N-word.

00:18:37.000 He could have been singing a rap, totally unclear why.

00:18:40.000 He's attempting to apologize to the young black man.

00:18:41.000 young black man who is obviously sort of being egged on by the people surrounding, because 0.63

00:18:47.000 again group justice must be upheld, the group must be validated, starts beating the living 0.99

00:18:52.000 hell out of this kid.

00:18:53.000 Tell me you're sorry, what you sorry for? 0.90

00:18:54.000 Why you sorry for that?

00:18:55.000 It's disrespectful, it's f***ing to me and my whole people, all of these people right 0.99

00:18:56.000 here, all of these people right here bro, and you're talking f***ing crazy bro, like 0.99

00:18:57.000 that's f***ing crazy for you to say f***, you know that f***ing crazy. 1.00

00:18:58.000 You know that f***ing crazy. 1.00

00:19:22.000 It's just madness. 0.96

00:19:23.000 But this is what happens when the values of group justice tribalism predominate.

00:19:28.000 They're telescoped down into individual instances.

00:19:30.000 And it gets really, really ugly.

00:19:31.000 What's amazing mostly about that clip is that the young black man who's beating up the young white man who's attempting to apologize to him repeatedly, he keeps using the n-word and telling the young white man why he can't use the n-word. 0.83

00:19:42.000 Okay, all of this is really, really bad for American society.

00:19:44.000 There is a reason.

00:19:45.000 This is what happens, frankly, when you get away from the individual biblical values that matter.

00:19:49.000 Leviticus 19.15 makes this very clear.

00:19:51.000 It's a very weird section of Leviticus where it's talking about the qualities you're looking for in a judge.

00:19:55.000 And to modern ears, it sounds strange because what the Bible actually says is that you shall not do injustice in judgment.

00:20:02.000 Okay, what does that mean?

00:20:03.000 It says, you shall not be partial to the poor, nor shall you honor the person of the mighty.

00:20:08.000 In righteousness, shall you judge your neighbor.

00:20:11.000 So what exactly does that mean?

00:20:12.000 Again, it goes out of its way to suggest that you are not allowed to pervert justice in favor of the poor.

00:20:20.000 You're not allowed to use group distinctions in order to determine whether justice is carried out.

00:20:29.000 This notion that because you're a member of a victimized group that you get to lie in a rape case, or because you're a member of a victimized group, you get to be let off the hook if you are a victimizer. 0.98

00:20:40.000 All of this is garbage, and a biblical society used to believe this. 0.91

00:20:45.000 Again, this notion that you are supposed to judge everybody fairly is an individual notion, but we are a group justice society, and the results of that are really, really ugly. 0.98

00:20:54.000 That also means when we see individual instances, we tend to immediately go to those group labels and broaden those out to encompass our enemies so we can condemn people who have no involvement with an individual incident in order to indict large segments of society.

00:21:07.000 We'll get to that in one moment first.

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00:22:12.000 Okay, so this takes us to this awful and evil Texas mass shooting.

00:22:17.000 This Allen, Texas mass shooting.

00:22:19.000 So new details are emerging about the shooter. 1.00

00:22:22.000 And the shooter appears to be a mentally ill white supremacist nut. 0.99

00:22:26.000 That is the best way to describe this person. 0.99

00:22:31.000 We don't do names of mass shooters on this show.

00:22:33.000 This is a person of Hispanic descent, 33 years old.

00:22:37.000 What we do know is when I say that he's a nut, I say that advisedly because actually this person was discharged from the army after like three months.

00:22:46.000 According to the U.S.

00:22:46.000 Army spokesperson, this person entered the regular army in June 2008.

00:22:50.000 He was terminated three months later without completing initial entry training.

00:22:54.000 Why? 0.81

00:22:54.000 Presumably because the guy was crazy. 0.81

00:22:56.000 And so people have been going through his various writings online.

00:23:00.000 They uncovered on some obscure Russian website with zero followers a profile in which this person wrote a bunch of sort of strange and conflicting posts, some of which he cited people on the right.

00:23:13.000 He suggested that he had watched Libs of TikTok, but he also hated Jews, which is weird, because Chaya Raychek, who is Libs of TikTok, is an Orthodox Jew.

00:23:20.000 She's a Chabadnik. 1.00

00:23:21.000 He suggested that he had been inspired by watching Tim Poole.

00:23:25.000 Tim Poole is not even right-wing, so it's a very strange take. 0.97

00:23:29.000 But the person, obviously, is crazy pants. 1.00

00:23:32.000 I mean, like, this person is obviously a nutjob. 1.00

00:23:34.000 That doesn't mean that his philosophy isn't evil, or that he can't sincerely believe white supremacist philosophy because he is evil. 0.98

00:23:39.000 But, to pretend this person has no mental illness and is a perfectly rational person who sort of fell into white supremacy as a Hispanic person is pretty far-fetched. 0.54

00:23:47.000 And yet, that's exactly what the media are now trying to promote.

00:23:49.000 Why?

00:23:50.000 Because their goal is this. 0.96

00:23:51.000 This shooter, they're gonna say, this Hispanic male, who obviously is a nut, because he also says that he is very much in favor of the trans man who shot up a Christian school having done that. 0.94

00:24:03.000 Which is, again, a very weird take from a quote-unquote right-wing white supremacist. 0.87

00:24:07.000 Anyway, this person is being treated as indicative of not only white supremacy, but all of right-wing thought.

00:24:13.000 And this is the game that we play.

00:24:15.000 Again, when we think in terms of groups, what we do is we say, okay, how do I make this person, this bad person, part of the opposite group?

00:24:21.000 How do I do that?

00:24:22.000 Instead of looking at the individual circumstance and saying, this person is not part of a group, this person is an individual, and this individual has this problem.

00:24:29.000 This individual was involved in this idea.

00:24:31.000 This idea is bad.

00:24:32.000 Instead of doing that sort of stuff, we innately broaden it out so we can condemn everybody by association.

00:24:38.000 We can smear everybody by association.

00:24:41.000 So here's what we know about the shooter at this point.

00:24:44.000 He apparently wore a patch that said RWDS.

00:24:47.000 That stands for Right-Wing Death Squad.

00:24:49.000 That phrase has been recently popular among white supremacists and far-right extremist groups who experts said sometimes wear the slogan on their clothing.

00:24:56.000 Apparently, this person's social media appeared to show an embrace of white nationalism and neo-Nazi views as well.

00:25:02.000 The profile picture is a smiley face emoji with a Hitler-style mustache.

00:25:06.000 The site also contains a picture of body armor with that patch.

00:25:10.000 Apparently this person tattooed on himself a giant swastika as well as the SS insignia on his arm.

00:25:23.000 This person appears to be among what researchers described as an increasingly visible number of people of Hispanic backgrounds who espouse far-right white supremacist views.

00:25:30.000 Tanya Hernandez, a Fordham University law professor, says anti-blackness and white supremacy are a global phenomenon.

00:25:36.000 Within Latin America and the Caribbean there have long been hierarchical societies in which whiteness is prized and white supremacy is viewed as a laudable goal. 1.00

00:25:42.000 For Latinos to have any connection to their cultural heritage, the idea of anti-blackness and white supremacy is not a new idea.

00:25:49.000 Okay, that may well be.

00:25:50.000 I mean, that's certainly possible.

00:25:52.000 But, here's where this ends up.

00:25:54.000 So Philip Bump, when I say there's an attempt now to broaden this out to include everybody who is remotely on the right, that's exactly what's happening.

00:25:59.000 So Philip Bump has a really quite terrible piece over at the Washington Post.

00:26:04.000 And it's called, Why Nonwhite People Might Advocate White Supremacy. 0.79

00:26:07.000 And so he starts with one fact that is true, and then he goes to another one that's false.

00:26:11.000 The first one that is true is that the notion of white is malleable. 0.72

00:26:16.000 There are a lot of people who now consider themselves white who wouldn't have considered themselves white one generation ago.

00:26:21.000 He says, Hispanic Americans often find themselves at the blurry edges of whiteness.

00:26:24.000 How Hispanic Americans are considered by others is often centered on skin color, but also context, where and how that consideration is taking place.

00:26:30.000 But self-identification is also complex because Pew, for example, found that Hispanic identity fades over time in the United States.

00:26:37.000 And that's true.

00:26:37.000 But here is where it starts to go wild for Philip Bump.

00:26:41.000 He says, And then he names Nick Fuentes, who is a white supremacist.

00:26:48.000 We've talked about him on the show.

00:26:50.000 He also names the head of the Proud Boys named Enrique Tarrio, the son of immigrants from Cuba.

00:26:55.000 And he says, what they advocate is not that Hispanics should be subjugated to white Americans.

00:26:58.000 Instead, it's often about bolstering structures of power that largely benefit whites.

00:27:03.000 It's also about dominance, of course, often manifested as anti-Semitism or hostility to immigration.

00:27:07.000 White supremacy is often rooted in personal insecurity.

00:27:11.000 There's this one sentence right there that is the giveaway for what Philip Bump is trying to do.

00:27:18.000 When he said, it's about bolstering structures of power that largely benefit whites, this is now the structural racism argument that the left likes to make.

00:27:26.000 Because according to the left, virtually all systems of American life are structures of power that largely benefit whites.

00:27:33.000 Therefore, if you wish to uphold systems of power in the United States, like, you know, the United States government, balance of powers, the Electoral College, the Constitution of the United States, individual rights, this means that by nature you are a white supremacist.

00:27:45.000 This is going to be the effort.

00:27:46.000 The effort is always, on part of the media, to extend perverse logic of certain people out to encompass entire groups of people that you just don't like.

00:27:56.000 And that's really gross.

00:27:58.000 That's really wrong.

00:27:59.000 Ana Navarro was doing some of this yesterday. 0.99

00:28:01.000 Here's Ana Navarro on The View, suggesting that anyone can be a white supremacist now.

00:28:06.000 We all have to remember that the head of the Proud Boys, his name is Enrique Tarrio.

00:28:12.000 The Proud Boys is a white nationalist group. 0.75

00:28:14.000 Look, being Hispanic or being black does not, or being anything, does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a white supremacist, from being evil, from being homicidal. 0.92

00:28:27.000 And we are seeing it over and over again.

00:28:32.000 Okay, so, okay, let's actually examine that for a second.

00:28:35.000 So, I agree that ideology can be held by anybody.

00:28:39.000 I mean, in this particular case, it's very strange, obviously, and this person obviously had some mental defects because, again, the evidence being that he was discharged from the army after three months. 0.65

00:28:47.000 You know how screwed up you have to be to be discharged from the army after three months?

00:28:52.000 When they're short on recruits by like tens of thousands?

00:28:54.000 But okay, so let's judge people on the basis of their own individual ideas.

00:28:59.000 That's fine.

00:29:00.000 I prefer to look at people that way.

00:29:02.000 But that's not actually how people in the media wish to look at people.

00:29:05.000 What they wish to do is, again, broaden it out to then include everybody.

00:29:08.000 All Trump supporters are supporters of January 6th.

00:29:11.000 All right-wingers, people who watch Tim Pool, are just like this guy. 0.94

00:29:15.000 And that's gross.

00:29:16.000 And that logic, of course, never applies to the other side of the aisle, where you're supposed to look at everything in individual isolation.

00:29:22.000 That's the entire goal.

00:29:25.000 The narrative is the reason why certain shootings get talked about in the United States and certain shootings do not.

00:29:31.000 The reality is we should have one rule for all the shootings.

00:29:34.000 We should have one rule for all the shootings.

00:29:36.000 When are they relevant?

00:29:37.000 Maybe when the numbers reach a certain point and it's just an even It's an even level of coverage for all of those things.

00:29:43.000 So when there is a gangland shooting in Chicago and it kills eight people, we should give it exactly the same coverage as when there's a mall shooting in Allen, Texas.

00:29:50.000 But we don't.

00:29:51.000 Corrine Jean-Pierre was asked about this and she said we really don't have a rule for which shootings we talk about and which ones we don't.

00:29:56.000 Well, they do have a rule, they're just not willing to say it.

00:29:59.000 Is it frustrating for the President and is that part of the calculation that you're not having him talk about every shooting because of the frequency that these are happening?

00:30:09.000 How do you make the decision of where he goes and which events he talks about because of

00:30:14.000 how much they're happening right now?

00:30:16.000 In case I'm not clear, it is frustrating for the President, it is frustrating for the First

00:30:19.000 Lady, it is frustrating for the Vice President, it is frustrating for the Second Gentleman 0.53

00:30:24.000 that there is this gun violence epidemic going on, which is why the President has signed

00:30:30.000 two dozen executive actions to try to do everything that he can from his perch, from the executive

00:30:37.000 perch, to do everything that he can.

00:30:40.000 Bye.

00:30:42.000 Okay, but he's not doing everything that he can because he only talks about certain types of shooting, the ones that fit the narrative.

00:30:46.000 When group justice predominates over individual justice, nothing gets done.

00:30:50.000 Solutions are not actually created.

00:30:52.000 Instead, blame is thrown around, and political polarization is the next step.

00:30:56.000 In just one second, we'll get to blame being thrown around, political polarization surrounding the issue of immigration, where Joe Biden is now vowing that he is not going to allow additional border security down at the border in the midst of a massive immigration wave.

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00:32:59.000 Okay, meanwhile, we have a massive crisis on our southern border.

00:33:01.000 We spoke yesterday on the show with Mark Morgan, former head of Border Patrol under Barack Obama.

00:33:06.000 He says that we are looking at the possibility of almost 5 million illegal immigrants entering the country over the course of the last couple of years.

00:33:15.000 And if we are looking at the current rates, we're talking about millions more entering the country in the very near future.

00:33:19.000 Well, this would be an excellent time for Congress to, you know, allocate a bunch of funding and

00:33:23.000 personnel down to the border to curb the illegal immigration, wouldn't it? That'd be like amazing.

00:33:29.000 Unfortunately, Joe Biden has other priorities.

00:33:31.000 So, yesterday, Joe Biden announced that he would veto a House bill that aims to restrict asylum, build more border wall, and cut a program that allows migrants a chance to stay in the United States.

00:33:40.000 Republicans are looking to capitalize as immigration trouble surges into a national spotlight this week with the ending of Title 42.

00:33:46.000 You gotta love the AP.

00:33:47.000 It's always Republicans seizing and pouncing.

00:33:50.000 GOP lawmakers aim to vote on their Secure the Border Act on Thursday.

00:33:53.000 That is the same day the emergency expulsion powers expire.

00:33:55.000 Officials have already seen an increase of migrants at the US-Mexico border.

00:33:58.000 They are bracing for far more right now.

00:34:00.000 The legislation represents the GOP's first major immigration policy proposal since the Trump era.

00:34:05.000 It's a 213-page bill.

00:34:06.000 It resurrects a bunch of Donald Trump's policies, like building barriers along hundreds of miles of border country, in some cases pushes beyond his efforts.

00:34:13.000 It faces strong headwinds from some Republicans representing agricultural areas over E-Verify.

00:34:19.000 But, says Joe Biden, he is going to veto it.

00:34:21.000 The White House Office of Management and Budget said while we welcome Congress's engagement on meaningful steps to

00:34:25.000 address immigration and the challenges of the border, this bill would make things worse, not better.

00:34:29.000 Because this bill does very little to actually increase border security, while doing a great deal to trample on the

00:34:33.000 nation's core values and international obligations, so it should be rejected.

00:34:37.000 What are the core values?

00:34:38.000 Leaving the border wide open?

00:34:40.000 Because that's basically what's happening right now.

00:34:41.000 Essentially, you just line up to get in, and then we give you a date to show up for your asylum hearing, and then you just flee into the interior and you never show up again.

00:34:49.000 This is not particularly difficult.

00:34:50.000 This is, again, why we have almost 5 million people who have entered the country illegally.

00:34:55.000 That's the known gotaways and people who have been entered into the country via catch and release since Joe Biden took office.

00:35:00.000 That has been like two and a half years.

00:35:01.000 It's amazing.

00:35:03.000 The GOP in the House is pairing a border security package with changes in immigration reform rules in an attempt to unite the right.

00:35:11.000 The package is restricting legal pathways for migrants as well, which, again, makes some sense given the downturn in the American economy right now.

00:35:18.000 But Joe Biden, he has his priorities.

00:35:19.000 His priorities are, apparently, maintaining an open border.

00:35:23.000 Now what's amazing about this is that because no new legislation will be passed, Joe Biden is now relying on basically Trump-era policies, all the same policies that he thought were real bad when Donald Trump did them.

00:35:33.000 Now they are good!

00:35:34.000 You know who's noticing this?

00:35:35.000 Even the New York Times is now noticing this.

00:35:37.000 Quote, in his final debate with Donald Trump on October 22nd, 2020, Joe Biden excoriated his rival for radically undermining America's decades-long tradition of welcoming people who seek asylum at the country's borders.

00:35:48.000 Biden said this is the first president in the history of the United States that anybody seeking asylum has to do it in another country.

00:35:53.000 But on Thursday, Biden's administration is expected to impose a very similar restriction on asylum seekers by quickly rejecting claims from most people who cross the border but don't seek refuge in Mexico first.

00:36:02.000 So it is a mirror image of Donald Trump's policies.

00:36:06.000 In some cases, admits the New York Times, he has embraced his predecessor's use of aggressive measures aimed at keeping a surge of migrants at bay along the southern border.

00:36:13.000 Again, this is the way that the media coverage is always very effective on behalf of Joe Biden.

00:36:17.000 So you just have to understand that kids in cages under Barack Obama, those were fun time play centers.

00:36:21.000 Under Donald Trump, those were concentration camp holdings on par with Stalin or Hitler.

00:36:27.000 And under Joe Biden, they're back to being fun day camps.

00:36:31.000 It is perfectly obvious at this point that Joe Biden has no choice but to implement the same policies that Donald Trump did, unless he wants to see a massive wave.

00:36:39.000 A memo from the Biden-Harris administration says, quote, After being blocked by court, the administration eventually did end the Remain in Mexico policy, but they're now re-implementing it, basically.

00:36:45.000 and diplomacy with other countries.

00:36:47.000 After being blocked by court, the administration eventually did end the remain in Mexico policy, but they're now

00:36:54.000 re-implementing it basically.

00:36:56.000 So well done by Joe Biden as always.

00:37:00.000 Meanwhile, this is all necessitating that the governor of Texas activate the National Guard.

00:37:04.000 The federal government is not doing its job.

00:37:07.000 Immigration is a federal government policy and priority.

00:37:09.000 When they don't do their job, states are forced to step into the breach.

00:37:12.000 And that's precisely what's happening in Texas.

00:37:15.000 Right now, as we're speaking, the Texas National Guard is loading Black Hawk helicopters and C-130s.

00:37:23.000 Deploying specially trained National Guard members for the Texas Tactical Border Force.

00:37:30.000 They will be deployed to hot spots along the border to intercept, to repel, and to turn back migrants who are trying to enter Texas illegally.

00:37:44.000 And yet Joe Biden thinks this is bad, by the way.

00:37:47.000 The Democratic administration is still not happy with the idea that Texas should protect

00:37:50.000 its own border. Abbott went on to point out that ending Title 42 is going to lead to literally

00:37:55.000 millions of illegal immigrants every year. With the Biden administration ending Title

00:38:02.000 42 this Thursday, President Biden is laying down a welcome mat to people across the entire world

00:38:12.000 saying that the United States border is wide open and it would lead to

00:38:17.000 an incredible amount of people coming across the border illegally.

00:38:23.000 President Biden's open border policies is going to cause a catastrophic disaster in the United States.

00:38:31.000 According to the Biden administration itself, they anticipate about 13,000 people coming across the border illegally every single day.

00:38:42.000 And if you extend that out over the course of a year, it means there will be about 4,700,000 people coming across the border a year.

00:38:54.000 According to the El Paso Times, immigrants have already overwhelmed relief shelters.

00:38:57.000 They've been sleeping on the sidewalk downtown.

00:38:59.000 Guard soldiers and troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety, as part of its Operation Lone Star, have laid what the governor called miles of concertina wire along open spaces on the Texas side of the International River.

00:39:09.000 So if the federal government won't build a wall, then he'll put down the barbed wire.

00:39:13.000 Again, the fact that Joe Biden is basically opening the border and then rejecting any possibility of fixing the border is an astonishing thing.

00:39:22.000 It really is.

00:39:23.000 Because again, this administration keeps claiming that they actually care about the border, but they obviously don't.

00:39:28.000 I mean, they're not taking literally any means to stop what amounts to a massive border crossing by the millions.

00:39:35.000 It's an insane thing.

00:39:36.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are focused like a laser beam their anger.

00:39:38.000 If you're in a northern Democrat city where you're receiving lots of illegal immigrants, you're not angry at Joe Biden.

00:39:43.000 You're angry at the people in Texas who won't just bear the entire burden of illegal immigration in their cities.

00:39:49.000 So Lori Lightfoot, the outgoing mayor of Chicago, she says it's inhumane for Greg Abbott to send illegal immigrants to Chicago.

00:39:55.000 Tell us a little bit about what you want from him, but also what more do you need from the federal government while this continues?

00:40:02.000 Look, what Greg Abbott is doing, a man who professed to be a Christian, is absolutely, utterly inhumane. 0.98

00:40:10.000 Putting people on buses, treating them like freight, to make a political stunt.

00:40:14.000 And it's no coincidence that he decided to do this at a time when Biden had announced his plans for re-election.

00:40:21.000 His ambitions to be the Republican nominee are fading and he's becoming irrelevant.

00:40:29.000 So, um, I have a question.

00:40:31.000 Why is it un-Christians who send people on buses to a place they wish to go? 1.00

00:40:34.000 The way it's working in Texas is that Abbott is giving people a choice as to where they wish to be sent, and then he's putting them on buses to go to those places.

00:40:40.000 But apparently, he's the real problem.

00:40:42.000 Meanwhile, Karine Jean-Pierre, she says, we can't build any more border wall.

00:40:45.000 We're not going to do any more border security.

00:40:47.000 In fact, Joe Biden would veto all of that.

00:40:50.000 The Bill H.R.

00:40:51.000 2 would be a disaster for border security and a Christmas morning gift for human smugglers.

00:40:58.000 It would lead to more unlawful migration by blocking off lawful pathways to protection.

00:41:03.000 It would trample on our nation's core values and international obligations and a boon to dictators around the world.

00:41:11.000 And instead of providing the needed resources for more border security technology and asylum officers and judges, it would waste taxpayer dollars on an ineffective wall, again, an ineffective wall that can't even withstand heavy winds, let alone sophisticated criminal smuggling networks.

00:41:31.000 If the President were presented with H.R.

00:41:33.000 2, he would veto it.

00:41:38.000 Well, that's the most important thing, is vetoing border security measures in the middle of a massive illegal immigration crisis.

00:41:45.000 This administration, they are so good at what they do.

00:41:47.000 I mean, meanwhile, speaking of an administration that's amazing at what they do, Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, who was formerly the failed Federal Reserve Chair, she says that she can't rule out a recession.

00:41:57.000 She can't rule it out.

00:41:58.000 She's not probable.

00:41:59.000 But obviously, they've gotten it right all along the way.

00:42:01.000 I mean, they also said that we would never have 40-year highs in inflation, and Janet Proudfoot was very excited about saying that.

00:42:07.000 So here she was yesterday, directly from her hobbit hole, explaining that we can't rule out a recession. 0.50

00:42:13.000 But, you know, it's not probable.

00:42:14.000 I don't believe you, madam.

00:42:16.000 There is a worry that we might have a perfect storm coming together toward the end of the year of the stimulus finally wearing off, all the lagged impact of Fed tightening and of course bank tightening coming at the same time as a result of these bank failures.

00:42:32.000 So can we really avoid a recession in this economy?

00:42:36.000 Well, I've said and I'll say again, I believe there is a path to bring inflation down in the context of a continued strong labor market.

00:42:47.000 I still think that path is there, but of course there are risks.

00:42:51.000 The things you cited are all risks and can't rule out a recession, but I don't think that's the most likely path.

00:43:02.000 Well, I mean, the recession is going to come, and then they're going to blame it on the debt ceiling.

00:43:05.000 And it does make you wonder whether Democrats are actively attempting to promote a debt ceiling showdown, specifically so they can blame Republicans for the problem.

00:43:12.000 I mean, the simple fact of the matter is that, according to the Wall Street Journal, this year the April budget surplus fell by $135 billion from a year earlier.

00:43:20.000 Including adjustments for timing shifts and federal outlays that declined with $274 billion or 73% from April 2022.

00:43:26.000 This portends even bigger budget deficits for the rest of the fiscal year.

00:43:29.000 The deficit for the first seven months is already almost a trillion dollars.

00:43:33.000 It's 236% higher than in 2022 with timing adjustments.

00:43:37.000 All this is happening, even though the economy is still growing and the unemployment rate is still low.

00:43:40.000 And the big culprit is spending, up 12% in the first seven months, or nearly $400 billion.

00:43:45.000 Entitlements are up 11%.

00:43:47.000 Education spending is up 56%, largely owing to those student loan changes, meaning the unconstitutional attempt to relieve student loans by the Biden administration.

00:43:56.000 Interest on the national debt has risen 40%.

00:43:59.000 It's already $374 billion for the first seven months, and that is because of those higher interest rates that had to be increased in order to tamp down the inflation.

00:44:07.000 So what does that mean?

00:44:08.000 It means the Biden administration is going to look for some sort of excuse to blame the debt ceiling standoff as the real problem.

00:44:14.000 This is where they're going to put all of their focus at this point.

00:44:18.000 Which is, man, you want to talk about ugly politicking?

00:44:22.000 How about subjecting America to a debt ceiling showdown, specifically so you can avoid blame for your own failed economic policies?

00:44:27.000 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:45:32.000 Well, it appears clearer and clearer that Democrats, in anticipation of a recession, are basically going to drive us into one.

00:45:37.000 So they would like a debt ceiling showdown with Republicans.

00:45:39.000 Republicans have asked for extraordinarily moderate cuts.

00:45:42.000 We're talking about cuts to 2022 levels.

00:45:44.000 And then adjustments year over year for the foreseeable future of 1% up.

00:45:48.000 And so we're not talking about cutting to 2005 levels, which was still too high.

00:45:52.000 We are talking about spending at 2022 levels, okay?

00:45:57.000 And in 2022, the federal government spent, what, $6.27 trillion in 2022.

00:46:03.000 That's a lot of money!

00:46:06.000 But apparently, if you limit it to that, that is really, really bad.

00:46:08.000 Janet Yellen, again, Janet Proudfoot, she says that this Republican proposal includes draconian cuts.

00:46:13.000 These are draconian, guys.

00:46:15.000 $6.27 trillion in spending is draconian now.

00:46:19.000 The president set out a detailed budget.

00:46:22.000 In that budget, he invests in America, he cuts wasteful and inefficient spending, and lowers deficits over 10 years by $3 trillion.

00:46:39.000 He and I regard it as a fiscally responsible proposal.

00:46:45.000 The Republicans have very different ideas.

00:46:48.000 They want to focus on cutting spending and the proposals that they've set out would entail draconian cuts and really end the policies we've put in place to invest in our economy and clean energy.

00:47:07.000 Clean energy?

00:47:08.000 That's the thing that you're worried about them cutting?

00:47:10.000 Wall Street Journal today.

00:47:12.000 Ballooning size of wind and solar projects draws local ire as they march closer to populated areas.

00:47:16.000 You know how much money the federal government now wants to spend over the next decade on green energy boondoggles?

00:47:21.000 Three trillion dollars!

00:47:23.000 Three trillion!

00:47:24.000 And this is supposed to be a fiscally responsible administration?

00:47:27.000 County by county battles are raging as wind and solar projects balloon in size, edge closer to cities, and encounter mounting pushback in communities from Niagara Falls to the Great Plains and beyond.

00:47:35.000 Projects have slowed.

00:47:36.000 Even in states with a long history of building renewables, developers don't know if they can get local permits or how long it might take.

00:47:43.000 President Biden's signature legislative accomplishment, the Inflation Reduction Act, aims to make the nation's electric grid and fuel industries cleaner.

00:47:49.000 So far, companies have announced plans for $150 billion in investment in renewables and battery storage.

00:47:54.000 But the federal government is going to spend $3 trillion.

00:47:56.000 $3 trillion.

00:47:59.000 And then we're told that this is fiscally responsible by Janet Yellen.

00:48:01.000 And then she lectures us on being a deadbeat country.

00:48:03.000 Okay, there's nothing more galling than people who are just spending more money than has ever been seen in human history, and they are doing it on your credit card, and then when inflation hits, they have to jack up the interest rates, making your savings worth less, telling you that you can't, you guys can't be deadbeats. 0.66

00:48:19.000 Don't be deadbeats, guys. 0.94

00:48:20.000 You guys are being deadbeats. 0.99

00:48:21.000 If you don't just keep funding their out-of-control heroin spending habit, then you're the deadbeat, obviously. 0.95

00:48:26.000 Here is Janet Proudfoot explaining.

00:48:28.000 Every option is a bad option, and I really don't want to get into discussing them and ranking them because, as every Treasury Secretary has known, the only option that really leaves our economy in good shape is, and our financial system, is raising the debt ceiling And making clear that Congress stands behind the basic principle that America pays its bills.

00:48:59.000 We're not a deadbeat country.

00:49:03.000 You're not paying your bills.

00:49:04.000 You're taking out another credit card.

00:49:06.000 You're paying your bills with somebody else's money.

00:49:09.000 It is amazing, watching these people gaslight the American people is just astonishing.

00:49:12.000 They're gaslighting you, they're lying to you.

00:49:14.000 Corrine Jean-Pierre, she had...

00:49:16.000 This is legitimately one of the most galling clips I have ever seen.

00:49:19.000 So Corrine Jean-Pierre is talking about your responsibility to pay your debts.

00:49:24.000 And here she was yesterday explaining that if you buy a car, you pay the monthly payment.

00:49:27.000 Here we go.

00:49:29.000 If you buy a car, you are expected to pay the monthly payments.

00:49:34.000 If you buy a home, you are expected to pay the mortgage every month.

00:49:39.000 That is the expectation.

00:49:41.000 That is the spending that you put forth, or spending that you may have done before, and now you're paying it every month.

00:49:48.000 This is spending that they've already done.

00:49:52.000 They've already spent.

00:49:53.000 Let's not forget the $2 trillion Trump tax cuts that they were willing and happy to vote for.

00:50:00.000 So we're telling them or saying to them, do your job.

00:50:04.000 Pay for something that you've already spent on.

00:50:09.000 You're going to lecture us on paying your debts?

00:50:12.000 She literally in this clip says, you know, if you take out a mortgage, you're expected to pay more.

00:50:16.000 You guys pushed an eviction moratorium for two years based on COVID.

00:50:22.000 You jackasses suggested that trillion dollars in college loan debt should just disappear and you're lecturing us about paying debts?

00:50:32.000 The actual F? 0.95

00:50:33.000 What in the world? 1.00

00:50:35.000 They're such liars. 1.00

00:50:36.000 They're such unbelievable liars. 1.00

00:50:37.000 The gaslighting here is astonishing. 0.99

00:50:39.000 But the reality is they don't live in the real world.

00:50:41.000 In their magical world, they just keep, they spend money, and then they spend more money, and then they spend even more money.

00:50:45.000 So here, for example, is one of Joe Biden's advisors explaining that the Democrats don't want to choose between default and spending cuts.

00:50:52.000 No, no, we shouldn't have to choose ever.

00:50:53.000 We should just keep spending.

00:50:55.000 We shouldn't cut the spending, and we shouldn't default.

00:50:57.000 We should just keep spending.

00:50:58.000 Forever.

00:50:58.000 Until the end of time.

00:51:01.000 Would President Biden rather the U.S.

00:51:02.000 default on its debt obligations than accept a bill that includes any spending cuts?

00:51:07.000 That's not the situation before us, right, or as we speak.

00:51:11.000 Well, I mean, that really is.

00:51:13.000 And good for Jake Tapper for actually asking a tough question of this guy.

00:51:16.000 That would be Bharat Ramamurthy, a deputy director of the National Board of Economic Advisers.

00:51:21.000 Well, it is for this reason, among others, I assume, that Joe Biden just does not want to ever answer questions from the press. 0.91

00:51:27.000 So yesterday, once again, Joe Biden did a presser at which he made a little speech and then he just out the door because this is what he does, because this man is not capable of answering serious questions from people because he does not have a functional brain.

00:51:39.000 God bless you all.

00:51:40.000 May God protect our troops.

00:51:41.000 Thank you.

00:51:44.000 Catch you later.

00:51:44.000 Everybody's shouting questions at him.

00:51:46.000 He's like, bye.

00:51:47.000 And there's Pete Buttigieg, who has become the missing man in the Biden administration.

00:51:53.000 By the way, Joe Biden, he now wants to compensate passengers for delays and cancellations on the airlines.

00:51:59.000 It's according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:52:01.000 They plan new regulations that require airlines to compensate passengers when flight times change drastically due to causes within the carrier's control.

00:52:09.000 Well, I mean, if you actually want to cut costs at the airlines, maybe you should get rid of a bunch of the burdensome and insane regulations surrounding safety on the airlines, like going through the absolutely for show TSA checks.

00:52:20.000 They're absolutely for show and they accomplish nothing.

00:52:22.000 Nothing.

00:52:23.000 You know how many weapons have been sneaked through TSA in these various media trials?

00:52:26.000 It's pretty insane.

00:52:27.000 But, you know, that's what Joe Biden is focused on, not on answering questions, which presumably is also why the White House press office has now barred The New York Post from attending President Biden's only daytime public event on Monday as federal prosecutors near a decision on criminally charging Hunter Biden for tax fraud and other crimes.

00:52:44.000 So, here's the way that it now works.

00:52:45.000 By the way, not seeing a huge outcry from the press corps.

00:52:48.000 You know, the people who thought that democracy died in darkness, they have no problem with the White House barring the New York Post from full events because the New York Post had the temerity to actually report on Hunter Biden's criminal activity.

00:52:57.000 The Post has closely covered the President's ties to his relatives' foreign dealings and first reported the Hunter Biden abandoned laptop in October 2020.

00:53:04.000 Biden lied, and then he suggested that that reporting was Russian disinformation.

00:53:08.000 He took no questions at the venue.

00:53:11.000 But he also barred the New York Post.

00:53:16.000 That's amazing.

00:53:17.000 There were about 20 empty seats, by the way, for reporters, but the New York Post was not allowed in.

00:53:21.000 In a Monday email, White House staff said, we are unable to accommodate your credential request

00:53:25.000 to attend the investing in airline accountability remarks on 5.8.

00:53:28.000 The remarks will be live streamed and can be viewed at whitehouse.gov.

00:53:30.000 Thank you for understanding.

00:53:31.000 We'll let you know if a credential becomes available.

00:53:34.000 The email does not claim the exclusion is due to space limitations.

00:53:38.000 That was the excuse normally used to pre-screen all of Joe Biden's questioners.

00:53:42.000 But they barred the New York Post nonetheless.

00:53:45.000 Because this is a perfectly open and honest administrator.

00:53:47.000 The fact that Joe Biden openly laughs to the face of journalists about how he doesn't answer questions.

00:53:50.000 That's what he did at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, you remember?

00:53:53.000 He actually made a joke about how he gets up and he talks and then he leaves.

00:53:56.000 And all the journalists are scoffing.

00:53:57.000 Ha ha ha ha ha.

00:53:58.000 He was laughing at you.

00:53:59.000 He was laughing at you.

00:54:01.000 Well, he's going to be laughing until he's crying because, again, the facts of the matter remain that Joe Biden is doing incredibly poorly in the polls.

00:54:08.000 This prompted the Biden campaign to put out a statement, quote, Well, good luck.

00:54:11.000 I mean, seriously, the Biden administration refusing to answer any sort of basic questions is just evidence of how weak this president is.

00:54:17.000 Republicans can still blow it because they have a real habit of doing so.

00:54:19.000 dangerous and deeply unpopular, yada, yada, yada, yada.

00:54:22.000 Well, good luck.

00:54:23.000 I mean, seriously, the Biden administration refusing to answer any sort of basic questions

00:54:28.000 is just evidence of how weak this president is.

00:54:30.000 Republicans can still blow it because they have a real habit of doing so,

00:54:33.000 but Joe Biden is certainly not in strong position going into 2024.

00:54:37.000 Okay, time for some things that I like.

00:54:40.000 So, things that I like today.

00:54:43.000 So, Evangeline Lilly, who is most famous from Ant-Man and The Wasp and also from Lost, she has now launched an attack on the subversion of traditional gender roles. 0.99

00:54:52.000 She shared a post to her Instagram.

00:54:54.000 She said, Why are we only applauding masculinity in women and villainizing it in men? 1.00

00:54:58.000 And why are we only applauding femininity in men and debasing it in women?

00:55:00.000 Why can't we just allow for all of it? 0.68

00:55:02.000 Why do we feel the need to vilify a man wearing bleep-kicker boots, driving a pickup truck, who's not afraid to punch somebody in the face?

00:55:07.000 But if they were a woman, they'd be the epitome of cool. 1.00

00:55:11.000 Why is a man who loves makeup, cries easily, and stays home to tend to the domestic responsibilities valiant, but a woman who does the same is pathetic? 1.00

00:55:20.000 She urged members of the public to stop trying to juggle the minutiae of judgment and bring grace and charity back into their lives. 0.88

00:55:27.000 Okay, so she has already been ripped up and down for the great crime of doubting the COVID vaccine.

00:55:32.000 You weren't allowed to do that in Hollywood and get away with it without massive blowback.

00:55:37.000 But Evangeline Lilly, good for her, because that, of course, really does sum it up. 0.72

00:55:40.000 We are a culture that has decided that masculine women are amazing and effeminate men are amazing, but masculine men are bad and effeminate women are bad.

00:55:48.000 Good for her. 0.92

00:55:49.000 Good for Evangeline Lilly.

00:55:50.000 And the fact is that Hollywood relies on these tropes, and when Hollywood gets away from those tropes, people don't like it very much.

00:55:55.000 It turns out, you know what people don't like watching in the movies very much?

00:55:59.000 They don't really like the idea of women who act like men, or men who act like women.

00:56:03.000 They prefer it when men act like men in movies, and women act like women in movies. 0.89

00:56:06.000 In fact, virtually all of Hollywood is built on this particular model.

00:56:09.000 This doesn't mean that effeminate men don't exist, or that masculine women don't exist.

00:56:14.000 Of course they do.

00:56:15.000 But the fact that this has now become a matter of contention... She, by the way, is not even suggesting that it is a matter of superiority.

00:56:23.000 I will.

00:56:23.000 I will say that it is better to be a masculine man than to be a feminine man.

00:56:26.000 Because one of the qualities of manhood is to be like a man.

00:56:30.000 Manhood in this iteration doesn't mean, like, you work out 24 hours a day, although you should try to keep yourself in good shape.

00:56:35.000 Manhood means... 0.97

00:56:37.000 Creating a family, protecting and defending your wife and children, providing for that wife and children in a responsible way, building up and defending your community, right?

00:56:44.000 That would be a masculine, these are masculine qualities and men are better when they do these things.

00:56:48.000 When I say a feminine woman, the idea of a feminine woman is a woman who nurtures and comforts, who takes care of her husband and her family and her children, who helps to create the social fabric that binds communities. 0.77

00:56:59.000 People are better and communities are better for all of these things.

00:57:02.000 And when you reverse the gender roles, it may work in, Extraordinary incidents. 0.51

00:57:07.000 But, overall, you are better off with a society of masculine men and feminine women.

00:57:13.000 So I'll say that that is a superior society.

00:57:16.000 Because it is.

00:57:17.000 It turns out the qualities that are associated with femininity, if they are adopted wholesale by men, are not wonderful.

00:57:23.000 And the qualities associated with masculinity, if adopted wholesale by women, are also not wonderful.

00:57:28.000 In fact, when you see these boundaries blurred, what you end up with is some odd and off-putting behavior.

00:57:35.000 Namely, toxic masculinity masquerading as femininity. 1.00

00:57:38.000 So, for example, there's a tape that emerged yesterday of a transgender Starbucks employee screaming at a customer.

00:57:44.000 I gotta say, this does not seem like particularly feminine behavior, but it is a man masquerading as a woman.

00:57:48.000 This is the new ideal in America.

00:57:52.000 There's a transgender woman meeting a man, pretending to be a woman, yelling at a woman, calling her transphobic.

00:58:09.000 And there's someone filming outside.

00:58:13.000 This is a man with a very deep voice telling a woman that she is transphobic. 0.52

00:58:17.000 And then, here comes the transgender woman, meaning the man is going to come over and slap the phone out of somebody's hand. 1.00

00:58:25.000 Not particularly feminine behavior.

00:58:27.000 Turns out that blurring the boundaries is not always the best thing, folks.

00:58:32.000 Well, good for Evangeline Lilly for sounding off on this.

00:58:34.000 We'd be a better society if more people did.

00:58:36.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:58:43.000 All right, so the children's show, Bluey, which is the biggest YouTube channel, it is the most viewed show on all of YouTube, Bluey.

00:58:52.000 Now, Bluey is apparently in trouble.

00:58:55.000 Why?

00:58:55.000 Well, because it's the center of a row, according to Deadline Hollywood, after ABC and BBC Studios edited an episode to address concerns about fat shaming.

00:59:03.000 It was a season three episode, it was titled Exercise, and it featured Bluey's father, Bandit, embarking on a fitness regime after he stands on the bathroom scales and grabs his paunch.

00:59:10.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:59:15.000 Okay, so apparently that right there is terrible.

00:59:18.000 That's terrible.

00:59:20.000 No man has ever looked at his weight on the scale and thought, man, I need to do some exercise.

00:59:26.000 I found you!

00:59:27.000 Why don't you just do some exercise?

00:59:29.000 Same old reason, Bluey. 0.91

00:59:31.000 You kids and work.

00:59:34.000 Okay, so apparently that right there is terrible.

00:59:36.000 That's terrible.

00:59:37.000 No man has ever looked at his weight on the scale and thought, man, I need to do some exercise. 0.84

00:59:41.000 And it's bad if you tell men to do exercise if they are paunchy.

00:59:44.000 Very, very bad. 0.89

00:59:46.000 This is insane.

00:59:47.000 Okay, the fact that they had to edit this?

00:59:49.000 They didn't have to. 0.99

00:59:50.000 They're just cowards. 0.97

00:59:50.000 ABC said, quote, the recent episode of Bluey Exercise 0.97

00:59:52.000 has been republished by ABC, following a decision by the makers of the program.

00:59:56.000 The new version provides families with the opportunity to manage important conversations in their own way.

01:00:01.000 So they've now updated and they've created a revised version.

01:00:05.000 That is insane.

01:00:07.000 I'm sorry, that is maybe the least offensive thing I've ever seen on a children's show.

01:00:12.000 Is a dad going to the sk- This is pretty much me every morning with my kids, by the way.

01:00:16.000 It's like, I get on the scale, I'm like, God, Daddy's a fatso. 0.93

01:00:19.000 Daddy needs to go exercise.

01:00:20.000 Like, what is wrong with that?

01:00:22.000 Is there something deeply wrong with that? 1.00

01:00:23.000 Apparently there's something deeply wrong with that, and we are an oversensitive idiot society, so I guess that we have to ban that sort of thing. 1.00

01:00:29.000 Teach the children they can be a member of the opposite sex? 1.00

01:00:31.000 Yes.

01:00:31.000 Teach kids that sometimes Daddy and Mommy need to lose a little weight?

01:00:34.000 Very bad.

01:00:35.000 Too judgmental.

01:00:36.000 Terrible.

01:00:37.000 Okay, well, speaking of terrible parenting, story from page 6 today.

01:00:41.000 And I gotta say, this Darwinian genetic bottleneck that we have hit in Hollywood is amazing.

01:00:46.000 I mean, I've never seen anything remotely like it.

01:00:49.000 The natural selection mechanism never accounted for the idea that there would be a group of people who apparently are involved in a genetic bottleneck so that all of their children are queer.

01:00:59.000 All of them.

01:01:01.000 And that's strange.

01:01:02.000 The Darwinian evolution would then produce an entire generation of people who are predominantly attracted to people not of the opposite sex and therefore incapable of natural procreation. 0.79

01:01:12.000 Weird that Darwin would do that.

01:01:13.000 Weird that natural selection worked that way.

01:01:15.000 I mean, it's never worked that way anywhere in the animal kingdom or literally anywhere else on earth, but that's how it's now working.

01:01:19.000 Marsha Gay Harden has now revealed that all of her children are queer and they teach her every day.

01:01:24.000 The Oscar winner, 63, felt compelled to share the revelation during the Drag Isn't Dangerous, a digital fundraiser, a live telethon over the weekend.

01:01:33.000 She said, what drives me is because it's right and what's happening right now is wrong.

01:01:37.000 What drives me is my children are all queer. 1.00

01:01:41.000 All of them.

01:01:42.000 Well, I... Might that have something to do with the parenting?

01:01:47.000 With the environment in which the kids grew up?

01:01:49.000 Or, were they like... It was like Spider-Man.

01:01:52.000 They were basically bitten by the radioactive queer spider, and all of them turned queer. 1.00

01:01:56.000 Like, what exactly happened here?

01:01:57.000 What was the genetic bottleneck that led to this?

01:02:00.000 Did you just reproduce with a dude, and for some reason it was like the recessive recession gene just kept hitting, and everybody ended up queer? 0.91

01:02:07.000 Is that what happened here, according to you? 0.83

01:02:09.000 It's like a DC comic where you're all messing around, you're like the vat of toxic chemicals, you fell in and everybody emerged queer. 1.00

01:02:14.000 Like, what exactly is the story that leads all of your children, not one, not two, all of them to be queer? 0.94

01:02:19.000 My eldest child is non-binary.

01:02:20.000 My son is gay.

01:02:22.000 My youngest is fluid, she continued. 0.96

01:02:24.000 And you know they are my kids.

01:02:25.000 They teach me every day.

01:02:28.000 Um, that's, that's strange.

01:02:32.000 Or, alternatively, or alternatively, actually, You are just parenting in a particular way and that has an impact on your kids.

01:02:40.000 I know.

01:02:41.000 Shocking.

01:02:43.000 But we're supposed to believe this is all.

01:02:44.000 The reason, by the way, that the biology argument is so fundamental to the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign notion is because if anybody ever acknowledged the reality, which that all human behavior is a combination of biological inclination and environment. 0.61

01:02:59.000 If everybody ever acknowledged that, then they might have to come to grips with the fact that the social pool in which we all swim has an impact on kids.

01:03:06.000 And then we might all have a say in how that social pool actually is created.

01:03:11.000 And what sort of chemicals are put in the social pool?

01:03:15.000 Because the basic idea of LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign until very recently was, it doesn't matter what we do in society, a certain percentage of people are just naturally going to be LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign.

01:03:24.000 And so we can do whatever we want.

01:03:25.000 If we just spice the water with all sorts of propagandistic social experimentation, it won't have any impact on the kids because it's all biological.

01:03:34.000 But if it turns out that pool actually has some impact on the kids, then maybe society does have something to say about Drag Queen's story hour being read to five-year-olds.

01:03:42.000 Maybe.

01:03:43.000 Maybe.

01:03:45.000 This family feels like pretty good evidence that environment has something to do with something here.

01:03:50.000 She encouraged her followers to support the community, quote, our nation, our leaders, our children, artists, our singers, our dancers, our better leaders, CEOs, writers, spiritual leaders, basically our humanity.

01:04:00.000 Gay is here to stay. 1.00

01:04:01.000 Drag is here to stay. 1.00

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01:04:03.000 Join us in spreading the love.

01:04:06.000 How nice.

01:04:08.000 Again, we are reaching new heights in human evolution.

01:04:12.000 Just biological human evolution that has nothing to do with the environment we've created for the next generation.

01:04:17.000 Alrighty, guys.

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01:04:19.000 Twelve-time NCAA All-American swimmer Riley Gaines will be on the show to discuss her experiences being excised from the good graces of society for mentioning that she shouldn't have to race against giant dudes.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 09, 2023

How To Ruin A Man’s Life

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