A bombshell new report demonstrates just how much of a pervert Hunter Biden is. The FBI searched Joe Biden s center in Washington, D.C., and Biden declares the COVID emergency over as the media declare him an ungrateful booger. This is the Ben Shapiro Show, and I'm here to remind you that if Hunter Biden were anyone else other than the President of the United States, and he were a prominent public figure, this person would not only be out on his ear, but he would be one of the most reviled people in public life. Here is the proof: if there were any other human being remotely near the political world who did the sort of stuff that Hunter Biden has been caught doing, he'd be thrown on his ass. And put aside the fact that he knocked up a woman and then basically abandoned the child when the child has been cut out of the Biden family, this is a bad human being for a reason: he is evil. And if you weren t a Democrat, you wouldn t feel bad for Hunter Biden, you'd be a little bad for him, because he's a terrible human being, and that's why the media are just propagandizing for the Democratic Party. Here is why: Hunter Biden isn't a victim of circumstance. He's a bad, evil person. And that's what we should all be grateful for, because if he wasn't, he would have been a victim, too. of his own crimes, and we'd all be a better human being than he is now, wouldn't we? Ben Shapiro, The Daily Mail, The Weekly Standard, The New York Times, and The Daily Beast, The Hill Street Reporter, The Hollywood Reporter, and the New York Post, The Huffington Post, and much more! Subscribe to the show and become a supporter of Ben Shapiro on social media by using the hashtag on Insta: and leave us a review of the show on . and other links to Ben Shapiro's new book on his new book, The Devil Next Door on his podcast, if you're looking for a good time. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! and subscribe on iTunes and other podcast listening to Ben's podcast on your favorite podcast on the podcast, too! on Podchaser? Subscribe and review Ben Shapiro s podcast on Instapaper, Insta? on it's Insta! or any other podcast you like it?
00:00:35.000The media have portrayed Hunter Biden as a victim of circumstance.
00:00:38.000They have suggested that there is nothing really wrong with Hunter Biden, that the change in circumstance... Hunter Biden is an evil piece of... Hunter Biden is one of the worst people.
00:01:08.000If there were any other human being remotely near the political world who did the sort of stuff that Hunter Biden has been caught doing, this person would be thrown out on his ear.
00:01:17.000Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is, you know, visiting the White House and hanging out with Papa.
00:01:20.000So the story is, from the UK Daily Mail, Hunter Biden threatened one of his cash-strapped young female staffers with withholding her pay if she did not FaceTime him for sex.
00:01:30.000Shocking texts between the president's son, 52, and his young assistant, who was 29 at the time.
00:01:36.000Showhunter asking for video sex sessions and sending her cash via Apple Pay after she pled that she was struggling to make rent.
00:01:42.000So this is a person who actively exploited his own young female employees and made them perform sexual acts for money.
00:01:56.000And put aside the fact that he knocked up a woman and then basically abandoned the child when the child has been cut out of the entire Biden family.
00:02:03.000And again, I keep pointing out that he's a bad human being for a reason.
00:02:07.000And the reason is because in all the media coverage here to four, you've had Books written by Hunter Biden about his own sense of victimhood.
00:02:13.000You've had entire columns written about how Hunter Biden has been victimized by the Republican press.
00:02:17.000About how, really, he's just a sad guy.
00:02:19.000We should all feel a little bad for Hunter Biden.
00:02:21.000And if you weren't a Democrat, you wouldn't.
00:02:24.000If Hunter Biden were literally anyone else other than the President of the United States' son, and he were a prominent public figure, this person would not only be out on his ear, he would be one of the most reviled people in public life.
00:02:36.000The woman, according to the Daily Mail, worked as an assistant at Hunter's law firm, Owasco, in 2018 and 2019.
00:02:42.000She's the fourth employee he is known to have had a sexual relationship with.
00:02:45.000Again, this is Harvey Weinstein kind of stuff, guys.
00:02:48.000Forcing your employees to do sexual acts with you for money is a form of sexual oppression, obviously.
00:02:57.000Far be it for me to be the feminist hero here, but you don't have to be to recognize when somebody is oppressing women.
00:03:02.000Documents on his abandoned laptop show Hunter put his lover and brother's widow, Haley Biden, on his company payroll, as well as her sister, Liz Secundi, with whom he also had an affair, according to texts.
00:03:11.000So he was knocking boots with his brother's widow and her sister, and he was forcing his employees to have sex with him.
00:03:21.000He also hired his daughter's basketball coach, reportedly former stripper London Roberts, but ended her employment and stopped responding to her messages after she told him she was pregnant with his child.
00:03:28.000So he got her pregnant, his daughter's basketball coach.
00:03:31.000And then, after he got her pregnant, he cut her off and fired her.
00:03:37.000And she had to sue him for child support.
00:03:39.000Messages and emails involving his now 33-year-old assistant first appear on Hunter's laptop in June 2018 when he flew her from L.A.
00:03:52.000The part-time model and fitness instructor was given important administrative tasks at his company, such as receiving Burisma board documents for Hunter to sign.
00:03:58.000So he was abroad picking up bags of cash because his last name is Biden.
00:04:03.000Meanwhile, His father is prepping himself for a presidential campaign and calling Hunter the smartest person he knows.
00:04:09.000In January of 2019, this assistant emailed Hunter's secretary asking why she had not received her December paycheck of $837, by the way, which is a very, very low paycheck.
00:04:20.000And why her company's health insurance was not active.
00:04:22.000Two months later, he sent her 500 bucks by Apple Pay and complained he really had no money due to alimony tuitions and other bleep like girls insurance, etc.
00:04:29.000He told her, you're as beautiful to me inside as you so obviously are on the outside.
00:04:32.000Miss you very much and feel horribly for having treated you so poorly.
00:05:44.000And again, the reason that I point this out is because the media have determined that they are not going, he's not going to be a terrible human being.
00:05:52.000And Joe Biden is going to be his put upon father.
00:05:54.000As opposed to the fact that when you subsidize your kid's lifestyle, this part is about Joe, at a certain point, you got to cut off your kid.
00:06:01.000If your kid is engaging in this sort of stuff, you have to cut off your kid.
00:06:09.000He is somebody who is literally paying his own employees to have sex with him on FaceTime, to do phone sex with him.
00:06:17.000And that was being subsidized with his last name.
00:06:21.000Now, all of this is part and parcel of a broader media effort to, of course, basically soft-serve everything that has to do with the Biden family, going all the way back to 2020, when the Hunter Biden laptop was widely reported as Russian disinformation, despite the fact that it absolutely was not.
00:06:40.000It's all a part of just softening the image of Joe Biden.
00:06:44.000Well, now we find out, by the way, that when it comes to the classified documents at the Penn-Biden Center for Chinese Grift, The FBI actually did search the offices of the Penn-Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in mid-November after classified documents were discovered there, according to two senior law enforcement officials.
00:07:00.000The officials said that Joe Biden's lawyers cooperated with the search.
00:07:04.000The NBC News does not know the exact date of the search or whether the classified documents or anything else of importance was found.
00:07:10.000The FBI search was first reported by CBS News.
00:07:13.000So I'm just going to note here, you know who knew that the Penn-Biden Center Before Chinese grift had been searched by the FBI, Joe Biden and the White House, and they didn't tell you for two full months.
00:07:24.000But don't worry, they handled this in exactly the right way.
00:07:27.000We are told that these people are the experts.
00:07:28.000They handle everything in precisely the correct way.
00:07:31.000A White House spokesperson was asked about this and basically refused to answer any questions about the classified documents found in Joe Biden's possession.
00:07:39.000By the way, in the immediate reach of an actual evil pervert like Hunter Biden, The FBI searched President Biden's former think tank office in Washington in November after the discovery, just before the midterm elections, of the documents with the classified markings.
00:07:57.000Were any additional classified documents found as part of that search?
00:08:02.000That's not something I can comment on from here.
00:08:04.000That's something you'll need to ask the Justice Department.
00:08:06.000What I can say is that we have been cooperative and transparent from the outset.
00:08:11.000We put out multiple statements from the President's personal attorney describing the process and being clear that the President takes this seriously.
00:08:19.000That is Kate Bedingfield, the White House communications director, who is lying right there.
00:08:23.000And this, of course, ties into the broader media narrative, which is that any investigations into Joe Biden at all are a waste of time.
00:08:28.000Jim Clyburn, the Democrat from South Carolina who basically made Joe Biden president.
00:08:32.000It was he who radically shifted over the way that the primaries were going.
00:08:36.000They were moving toward Bernie Sanders and then Jim Clyburn stepped in and a lot of black voters in South Carolina moved their vote over to Joe Biden.
00:08:42.000Unless they're going to vote that way anyway.
00:08:44.000Jim Clyburn says there's no reason for house investigations at all.
00:08:47.000Again, this is all part and parcel of an attempt to whitewash everyone who's remotely associated with the Democrats.
00:08:54.000Now, the reality is these people are running the economy, and they run the economy just as poorly as they run their classified documents, which is one reason why you should diversify.
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00:09:20.000Two, they're going to have to cut benefits, which is going to stagnate the economy.
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00:10:06.000Okay, so Jim Clyburn says there's no reason for any investigation.
00:10:08.000Of course, the media are fully invested in this idea.
00:10:10.000All investigations of Democrats are superfluous.
00:10:12.000This is the same media that told you the only scandal with Barack Obama There was no Benghazi scandal, no IRS scandal, no HHS scandal, no border scandal, nothing, no Eric Holder gun smuggling operation, nothing.
00:10:24.000The only scandal with Barack Obama was the tan suit, according to the media.
00:10:27.000And now they're playing the same game with Joe Biden.
00:10:29.000So here's Jim Clyburn making that case to Chris Hayes or Rachel Maddow, one of the two.
00:10:33.000I can't tell the difference at this point.
00:10:35.000What is your expectation and posture towards these various investigations that they are, they're gearing up to do?
00:10:44.000Well, I think they are very, very unnecessary.
00:11:04.000OK, these people complaining about the cost of investigations after spending four years and tens of millions of dollars on the Russia collusion crap is really astonishing.
00:11:12.000But again, none of this could happen without the patouring in guard of the media, which brings us to the column of the day from The Washington Post, because it says it all.
00:11:20.000by a person named Leonard Downey Jr., a former executive editor of The Washington Post, and now a professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Vaunted, Arizona State University, which is mostly famous for having amazing parties.
00:11:34.000So Leonard Downey Jr. writes for The Washington Post, where he was the executive editor, that essentially the media should stop engaging objectivity.
00:11:42.000In fact, the way to move the trust needle is to actually stop pretending to be objective.
00:11:48.000Quote, increasingly, reporters, editors, and media critics argue the concept of journalistic objectivity is a distortion of reality.
00:11:53.000They point out that the standard was dictated over decades by male editors in predominantly white Newsrooms, and reinforce their own view of the world.
00:12:02.000They believe that pursuing objectivity can lead to false balance or misleading both sides-ism.
00:12:06.000Wouldn't want to tell the other side of the story, obviously.
00:12:08.000And covering stories about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, happy face emoji rights, income inequality, climate change, and many other subjects.
00:12:16.000You see, the true journalism-ing is when you don't tell the other side and you just say your left-wing priorities and then call it fact.
00:12:24.000And, says this former executive editor of the Washington Post, in today's diversifying newsrooms, they feel it negates many of their own identities, life experiences, and cultural contexts, keeping them from pursuing truth in their work.
00:12:33.000They feel bad about themselves if they have to put aside their own preconceived notions about the world and actually report a story.
00:12:40.000And so the best way to journalisma, the best way to do the journalisming that is so necessary, is to move away from journalistic objectivity.
00:12:51.000Says this, again, former executive editor of the Washington Post in the Washington Post today.
00:12:56.000American society itself has been in upheaval over discrimination against and abuse of women, persistent racism and white nationalism, police brutality and killings, the treatment of LGBTQ plus minus divided by a sign, hashtag, ampersand, tilde, people, income inequality and social problems, immigration and the treatment of immigrants, the causes and effects of climate change, voting rights and election equality, even the very survival of our democracy, blah.
00:13:16.000Reporting reliably on all of this has critically challenged newsrooms calling into question their diversity, values, and credibility.
00:13:23.000And so what he says is that we should abandon objectivity.
00:13:30.000But objectivity itself, we should just think about it differently.
00:13:34.000He concludes that the best way to change the newsroom is to be transparent as possible about their news gathering decisions and processes.
00:13:41.000When possible, they should hire or designate an editor to field or act on reader complaints and questions.
00:13:46.000And they need to have candid, inclusive, and open conversations.
00:13:48.000Making these values public could well forge a stronger connection between journalists and the public.
00:13:53.000Trustworthy journalism by a new generation of journalists and newsroom leaders can ensure the news media continues to do its part to protect democracy.
00:14:05.000Now you're just going to say that it's objective because you're objectively right.
00:14:08.000You're going to treat your opinion as objectively right.
00:14:10.000See, something we do on this show, I'll tell you, there's something happening behind the scenes here at Daily Wire, and it's kind of amazing.
00:14:15.000There's this group, it's called NewsGuard.
00:14:17.000And NewsGuard's job, supposedly, is to be a fact checker.
00:14:20.000And like all other fact checkers, they're a group of the left.
00:14:45.000This is what the journalism-ers have done.
00:14:47.000From covering up for Hunter Biden or soft-selling how evil the guy is, to covering up whatever scandals happen inside the Biden administration, To quote-unquote fact checking everybody on the right, but nobody on the left.
00:15:01.000This is what the journalists have done, which is why, according to the Columbia Journalism Review today, quote, before the 2016 election, most Americans trusted the traditional media and the trend was positive, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer.
00:15:13.000media has the lowest credibility, 26% among 46 nations in the media, according to a 2022 study by Reuters.
00:15:34.000It's because you guys blew yourself out and you continue to blow yourselves out.
00:15:37.000You decided your mission in life was to be left-wing hacks.
00:15:40.000And to cover for some of the worst predations that we have ever seen in the United States.
00:15:44.000And here I'm not talking about Hunter Biden and the fact that he was stooping his employees for money.
00:15:48.000Here I'm talking about COVID predations.
00:15:50.000You guys spent the last, most of the last decade making up stories about Russian collusion to excuse the fact that Hillary Clinton was a garbage candidate who lost to Donald Trump, the second least popular presidential candidate in American history at the time.
00:16:05.000And then you decided that you were going to cover for COVID authoritarianism in every single respect.
00:16:11.000We'll get to lack of trust in the institutions because of their support for authoritarianism in just one second.
00:16:16.000First, by the way, you shouldn't trust most major institutions at this point.
00:16:19.000They've blown out their institutional credibility.
00:16:21.000That actually includes things all the way down to your internet service provider.
00:16:24.000Those people are looking at your data and they are using your data.
00:16:27.000In order to make money off of you, and then meanwhile, they're very often suppressing your point of view.
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00:17:19.000Okay, so where have the media most blown out their credibility?
00:17:22.000Well, obviously during the Trump era, they blew out their credibility because they decided they were going to defend Democrats at all costs.
00:17:26.000They decided basically when Barack Obama was president, it was now their job to work for the Democratic Party openly.
00:17:43.000But they at least pretended that it wasn't their job to stand for the Democratic administration in power or their job to basically just be the oppo on the Republicans.
00:17:53.000And then Barack Obama became president and it broke their brains.
00:17:56.000And suddenly the comedists stopped doing comedy.
00:18:03.000Now, they were all just the Praetorian Guard for the Democrats.
00:18:06.000Barack Obama broke the nation's brain in 2009, and we can talk more about how he did that, but the reality is that the breaking of the brain in journalism has had dire consequences, and that's particularly true when it came to COVID.
00:18:19.000So, yesterday, Joe Biden announced that he is planning to end the COVID emergency.
00:18:27.000The COVID emergency has not been an emergency for well over a year at this point.
00:18:30.000The COVID emergency effectively stopped being an emergency with the emergence of the vaccine.
00:18:35.000The reason I say this is because now, whether you like the vaccine, whether you didn't like the vaccine, now the vaccine was available, you were done.
00:18:44.000I always stood against vaccine mandates.
00:18:45.000My company sued the federal government to prevent vaccine mandates because it should be your choice as to whether you get that vaccine or not.
00:18:51.000I always stood against mask mandates because again, mask mandates were stupid and not backed by the data.
00:18:57.000But regardless of what you think about the pandemic, everyone should have been able to agree that this pandemic was over by about March 2021.
00:19:06.000There are many people who say it was over before that, but you want to say March 2021?
00:19:09.000That is when I think most people of sane mind would say, at the very least, that is when this pandemic ended.
00:19:16.000It is now, I'm looking at my calendar, February of 2023.
00:19:56.000For the vast majority of people, it's a cold.
00:19:58.000But Joe Biden is not ending the public health emergency until May.
00:20:02.000So according to the New York Times, quote, the Biden administration plans to let the coronavirus public health emergency expire in May, the White House said on Monday, a sign that federal officials believe the pandemic has moved into a new, less dire phase.
00:20:14.000It's moved into a new, less dire phase now, in February of 2023.
00:20:21.000So, according to the New York Times, the move carries both symbolic weight and real-world consequences.
00:20:26.000Millions of Americans have received free COVID tests, treatments, and vaccines during the pandemic.
00:20:30.000Not all of that will continue to be free once the emergency is over.
00:20:32.000See, this is the beauty of being a Democrat.
00:20:34.000You just declare things an emergency, and then everything becomes free forever for the rest of time, which was, of course, the entire point of this being maintained as an emergency in 2021.
00:20:40.000So you could declare that student loans were over.
00:20:43.000So you could declare that you didn't have to pay your mortgage anymore.
00:20:45.000So you continue to inflate the currency at extraordinarily rapid levels.
00:20:48.000So you could spend trillions of dollars that didn't need to be spent.
00:20:52.000The purpose of an emergency for Democrats is restructure the United States and spend tons of money in doing so.
00:20:58.000The White House wants to keep the emergency in place for several more months.
00:21:01.000So hospitals, health care providers and health officials can prepare for a host of challenges of changes when it ends, according to officials.
00:21:06.000By the way, this is not how emergencies work.
00:21:09.000You don't get to decide when an emergency is over.
00:21:33.000Once it's over, you don't get to declare that the emergency doesn't end until I say it ends.
00:21:38.000But that's precisely what Joe Biden is saying.
00:21:40.000The White House said on Monday the nation needed an orderly transition out of the public health emergency.
00:21:45.000The administration said it intended to allow a separate declaration of national emergency to expire on the same day, on May 11.
00:21:50.000The White House said in a statement, quote, An abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the healthcare system, for states, for hospitals and doctors' offices, and most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans.
00:22:00.000Okay, so Joe Biden was asked about this, and Joe Biden did a couple of things that were really, really amazing.
00:22:08.000One, he said, the COVID emergency really ends when the Supreme Court ends it.
00:22:13.000Meaning that he knows it's not an emergency.
00:22:15.000He's just waiting for the Supreme Court to end it for him.
00:22:17.000What's behind your decision to end the COVID emergency?
00:23:20.000I can grab him by the hand anytime I want.
00:23:23.000Meanwhile, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee doesn't want to let the emergency go because why would the Democrats ever let the emergency go?
00:23:28.000They've gotten to restructure all of American society.
00:23:30.000They've gotten to shut down businesses they don't like.
00:23:32.000They've gotten to force kids to either go to school or not go to school, to mask kids.
00:23:36.000They've gotten to force people to vaccinate.
00:23:38.000They've gotten to do all sorts of fun stuff they never would have gotten to do if they hadn't been able to do this with the cover of the media.
00:23:44.000Here's Sheila Jackson Lee saying, I don't want this to end.
00:24:44.000He can't, by the way, it wasn't there to back much of what the Trump administration was doing in 2020, while many state governors were doing in 2020.
00:24:49.000You understand people botching this thing at the beginning in March and April, you get it.
00:24:53.000You understand people being taken in by what Pfizer was saying about the vaccines and their prevention of transmission in December because Pfizer was saying it and the federal government was saying it.
00:25:02.000What is not okay is to start vaccine mandating like the Biden administration did or shutting down businesses in the middle of June of 2020.
00:25:09.000These are things that the American people should not forgive or forget.
00:25:13.000And yet the media are out there saying, you should be grateful.
00:25:15.000You should be grateful, because again, they are the Praetorian Guard for the Democrats, and they've blown out their credibility because they are garbage at their jobs.
00:25:21.000I'm going to give you two separate headlines here from the mainstream media, from the legacy media, and just shows you what trash they are, what true trash they are.
00:25:32.000Because COVID is the single most important event of my lifetime, and I lived through 9-11.
00:25:35.000COVID restructured the entire world economy, restructured how everybody thought about government authority, restructured the interaction between individuals in the state, In dramatic ways.
00:25:43.000And that was fostered by not only a compliant media, but a prostitute-laden media.
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00:27:28.000They did all those things, and they put your kid a year or two behind, or they made your kid unable to actually recognize faces properly because they covered people's faces, including the teachers, with masks.
00:27:38.000So your kid is now behind in terms of facial recognition or reading.
00:28:17.000All those places tried to force their employees to vaccinate.
00:28:19.000We did not do that here at Daily Wire.
00:28:21.000Instead, we spent millions of dollars suing the federal government and we risked millions of dollars in fines saying that we would not comply.
00:28:29.000But that was what the federal government tried to do to you.
00:28:32.000The federal government attempted to do that to you.
00:28:35.000The federal government shut down your business, put your kid out of school, allowed riots to take place on America's streets while curfewing you in your home, which is one of the things that drove us and our family out of California.
00:28:55.000If you're a homeowner and you're renting out your house to them, that person didn't have to pay mortgage to you for like two years.
00:29:01.000If you are a person who paid off your student loan debt, you're a sucker because Joe Biden says that based on the pandemic, everybody should have their student debt relieved.
00:29:08.000You inflated the currency to a tune not seen in 40 years based on the easy money garbage policies that you promoted.
00:29:15.000When in reality, from nearly the very beginning, the proper solution was to tranche back into the workforce as fast as possible people who are young and healthy.
00:29:35.000And then you claimed that if people refuse to comply, it's because they wanted other people to die.
00:29:41.000If you wanted a beach open in Florida, then you were the Grim Reaper.
00:29:44.000You were Death Santas, if that was the case.
00:29:46.000If you wanted your kids to go to school, it's because you wanted kids to die.
00:29:49.000If you suggested that we needed to shield the elderly, but let everybody else go back to work, it's because you wanted grandma to be killed.
00:29:55.000If you were somebody who didn't vax because you already had Omicron, or because you were worried about the vaccine, then you weren't just a risk to yourself, you were a risk to everybody else.
00:30:03.000It was going to be a winter of death and despair, according to Joe Biden, for all of you.
00:30:07.000Even though Omicron was way milder than Delta or the original variant, and way more transmissible.
00:30:13.000They lied to you at every turn, but you are ungrateful.
00:30:15.000Here are the headlines from the New York Times and the Washington Post in the aftermath of Joe Biden announcing this.
00:30:42.000It's that the GOP is pouncing, of course.
00:30:44.000It's that people noticed, quote, Republicans on Tuesday pushed legislation through the House that would repeal VAX mandates and declare the pandemic over, blowing past Democratic opposition in a broader drive to use the federal response to the coronavirus spread against President Biden and his party, stoking a culture war over a major public health challenge.
00:31:01.000See, when they take away your ability to do business, when they say you can't send your kid to school, When they say you have to allow rioters outside your house to twerk for George Floyd, but you're not allowed to go open your shop today.
00:31:10.000When they say all those things, that's just policy.
00:31:13.000That's a major public health challenge.
00:31:15.000When you say no, that's stoking a culture war.
00:31:18.000The largely party-line votes to block the government from requiring health care workers to take the COVID vaccine and to end the public health emergency declared at the start of the pandemic were the start of a flurry of legislative activity by the GOP this week that has virtually no chance of yielding any new laws, since the measures cannot make it through the Democratic-controlled Senate or to Mr. Biden's desk, where he would be all but certain to veto them.
00:31:35.000But they were the leading edge of a bid by Republicans to use their majority to portray Biden and the Democrats as overreaching bureaucrats who kept pandemic measures in place for far too long, wreaking havoc with the economy, and in some cases costing people their livelihoods with health restrictions and a vaccine shot they did not want.
00:31:49.000It is a theme that taps into the grievances of parents.
00:31:53.000Well, I mean, those aren't just grievances.
00:32:43.000They're garbage on literally every issue.
00:32:46.000We're running out of issues for them not to be garbage on.
00:32:48.000We'll get to more on that in just one second.
00:32:50.000First, you know, speaking of rough financial situations, a lot of people have had to take out credit cards because obviously the bills are racking up.
00:32:56.000The problem is if you let those credit card bills sit, then you get those high interest rates.
00:32:59.000The high interest rates will just break you.
00:33:01.000You get behind the eight ball on a credit card bill and you're done.
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00:34:32.000You love the dude in your life, ladies.
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00:34:49.000When it comes to the restructuring of American society, the media will always be on the side of the Democrats, and it doesn't matter how incompetent the Democrats are.
00:34:57.000So, the big controversy that is going to arise over the course of the next couple of weeks is, of course, this debt ceiling fight.
00:35:01.000Now, the Republicans are walking, or they're actually jumping onto a rake if they attempt to restructure something like Social Security or Medicare with a Democrat Senate and Democrat President.
00:35:11.000What they should do is come up with a list of demands that are popular with the American people and force the Democrats' feet to the fire in order to raise the debt ceiling.
00:35:18.000To pick a bunch of provisions that are really unpopular with the American people that Democrats desperately want.
00:36:11.000What's the White House strategy heading into the meeting?
00:36:14.000It would be irresponsible to allow the country to default on its financial obligations.
00:36:19.000So let's start with the fact that Congress has a constitutional obligation to prevent default and address the debt ceiling.
00:36:25.000The President is going to ask him in this meeting tomorrow, will you commit, will you guarantee to the American people that you will not hold the economy hostage, you will not hold the full faith and credit of the United States hostage to these negotiations?
00:36:38.000The President is not going to negotiate over Congress's constitutional responsibility.
00:37:16.000Some of the criticism includes, for example, the 600,000 plus getaways, folks who came into this country and did not go through the process of requesting asylum.
00:37:27.000So do you know where they are and who they are, the people that don't get asylum?
00:37:33.000Don't request asylum when they arrive here?
00:37:35.000So, for the first time since 2011, the President of the United States presented a budget successfully that increased the number of Border Patrol agents.
00:37:46.000For the first time this year, we have 300 more Border Patrol agent eligibility positions than we did in the past.
00:37:56.000Do you know where they are and who they are?
00:37:58.000So, gotaways have been a challenge from year to year, regardless of the administration.
00:38:04.000So, just to be straight about this, Joe Biden supposedly hires 300 additional Border Patrol agents.
00:38:09.000By the way, he didn't actually hire them.
00:38:23.000How bad can the Biden administration be at this?
00:38:25.000Well, they can nominate judges who don't actually know what the Constitution is.
00:38:27.000There's another amazing clip that emerged over the course of this week.
00:38:30.000There's a judge, Imsharnel Bjelkengren, who was asked by Senator Kennedy from Louisiana to explain what Article 2 and Article 5 of the Constitution are.
00:38:40.000Now, this one is really, really basic.
00:38:42.000So Article 1 has to do with the legislature.
00:38:44.000Article 2 has to do with the presidency.
00:38:46.000Article three has to do with the judiciary, right?
00:40:28.000And that means that It doesn't matter that she doesn't know what the Constitution is.
00:40:32.000This is what happens when you have a compliant media.
00:40:34.000Democrats can basically get away with anything up to and including the worst vice president of the United States in probably American history.
00:40:42.000So, it is time for an installment of a new series that we've decided to initiate here at Daily Wire.
00:40:47.000It is called Deep Thoughts with Kamala Harris.
00:40:52.000And now, Deep Thoughts with Kamala Harris.
00:40:57.000Today's episode of Deep Thoughts with Kamala Harris has her describing how rockets work.
00:42:00.000That lady is only vice president of the United States because the media are fully invested in the idea that a black woman must be vice president of the United States even if she happens to be the worst political candidate in human history.
00:42:12.000Meanwhile, the presidential race is heating up on the right side of the aisle.
00:42:56.000And the more the merrier, from my perspective, when it comes to this presidential race.
00:42:59.000I don't think that this should be handed on a silver platter to Donald Trump.
00:43:03.000I think that just because Donald Trump wants to run doesn't mean that he's necessarily the best candidate.
00:43:06.000I think there are a huge number of serious drawbacks to Donald Trump, as we'll get to in just a moment as he starts to launch his campaign in earnest.
00:43:12.000Haley, according to the Wall Street Journal, is going to challenge Trump and apparently is going to announce that in just a couple of weeks.
00:43:20.000She'd long been mentioned as a potential national candidate in part because of her biography as the daughter of Indian immigrants that could provide a compelling narrative for a party that has struggled to attract support from non-whites.
00:43:29.000Kirstie Noem of South Dakota is the only other woman known to be contemplating a 2024 presidential bid.
00:43:34.000In the early polling data, she's charting in sort of the high single digits.
00:43:39.000Big problems for Nikki Haley systemically are twofold.
00:43:42.000One is that she hasn't been on the public scene in quite a while.
00:43:45.000And the last time that she was on the public scene, she was getting herself in hot water with the base over a lot of the Trump stuff.
00:43:49.000Two, is that she was a foreign policy person when she was in the Trump administration.
00:43:53.000Americans typically don't care all that much about foreign policy.
00:43:55.000This is also going to be an issue, for example, for I think Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State under Donald Trump.
00:44:00.000Americans, when it comes to primaries, they don't tend to favor foreign policy experience over sort of domestic policy experience.
00:44:05.000But with that said, am I happy to see more people in the race?
00:44:09.000I'm not sure why she's announcing so early.
00:44:11.000I assume that she's trying to grab some of the donations early before some of the other big fish get in, like presumably Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:44:17.000Meanwhile, Donald Trump is escalating his campaign.
00:44:21.000And this means, as he sort of really truly launches, we get into the 2024 cycle.
00:45:48.000process that includes giving kids puberty blockers, mutating their physical appearance, and ultimately performing surgery on minor children.
00:46:00.000I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age.
00:46:11.000I will declare that any hospital or healthcare provider that participates in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth will no longer meet federal health and safety standards for Medicaid and Medicare and will be terminated from the program immediately.
00:47:09.000So yesterday, Donald Trump put on Truth Social, quote, In Georgia, I made a perfect phone call about election integrity with many people on the line.
00:47:17.000And if it wasn't perfect, why was I not admonished, screamed at, or hung up on?
00:47:21.000Especially with many lawyers listening to each and every word.
00:47:37.000Why are we relitigating the Georgia phone call?
00:47:40.000Which, by the way, was not all that great.
00:47:43.000He called up Brad Raffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, and he encouraged him, I made the read at the time, that he encouraged him to find the votes that would put him over the top in Georgia.
00:47:52.000Not because he was attempting voter fraud, but because he actually believed, because Donald Trump believes, that there was major voter fraud in Georgia, and there got to be 11,000 votes over there that'll put me over the top in Georgia.
00:48:02.000Whatever it was, it was not a perfect phone call.
00:48:03.000And again, the real issue here is, do you want to relitigate this?
00:49:08.000Here's Ron DeSantis responding to Trump complaining about his COVID response in Florida, which was absurd on its face.
00:49:14.000I have people attacking me from all angles.
00:49:17.000It's been happening for many, many years.
00:49:19.000And if you look at the good thing about it, though, is like if you take a crisis situation like COVID, you know, the good thing about it is when you're an elected executive, you have to make all kinds of decisions.
00:49:32.000And the good thing is, is that the people are able to render a judgment on that.
00:49:36.000Okay, so again, this is his best response.
00:49:37.000It is a subtle sideswipe of Trump, for sure.
00:49:39.000A very subtle sideswipe of Trump, because he never mentions Trump.
00:49:41.000Not only did we win re-election, we won with the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican governor candidate has in the history of the state of Florida.
00:49:58.000But when he says, I got re-elected by 20 points, not everyone got re-elected.
00:50:03.000Everybody can kind of read what that means.
00:50:05.000Meaning if you're looking for somebody who wins...
00:50:07.000In the words of a famous man, I like people who win.
00:50:10.000If you're looking for somebody who wins, that's essentially what DeSantis is saying.
00:50:13.000Speaking of winning, DeSantis yesterday also made an executive order that there would be no DEI or CRT bureaucracies in Florida.
00:50:21.000There would be no diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucracies because they violate the equal protection clause of the Florida state constitution.
00:50:27.000Here he was going after DEI and critical race theory in Florida.
00:50:58.000I mean, New College has really embraced that, and that's part of the reason I think it hasn't been successful in the enrollments down so much.
00:51:04.000Okay, so if you could get like all the policy wins, but without the downside, there's a reason why DeSantis is doing really, really well in the polls.
00:51:34.000The idea was that Joe Rogan, because he was so controversial, because he said ivermectin might actually help you, and he said that working out was good if you were attempting to lower your obesity in order to fight COVID.
00:52:06.000The answer, of course, is that it was wildly positive, according to The Wrap.
00:52:10.000The audio streaming service now has 205 million paying users.
00:52:14.000It's still losing money, but it's banking that diversifying audio formats will change that.
00:52:18.000Spotify's podcasting business has generated endless bad press for the Swedish music streamer, the Joe Rogan controversy, layoffs and cutbacks at its studios, the departure of a key executive.
00:52:26.000But the latest earnings report flipped the script with CEO Daniel Ek crediting podcasts with retaining paying customers and helping steer the money losing company on a path to profit.
00:52:35.000The company presented its podcasting business as flourishing in a presentation accompanying the earnings release, noting that podcasts drove a 14% increase in advertising revenue.
00:53:18.000He was essentially canceled for something that appears to be much closer to consensual sexual activity than it does to be close to, like, Harvey Weinstein, like rape.
00:53:26.000And none of the streamers have picked up Louis CK.
00:53:30.000That is a major audience waiting to be found right there.
00:53:33.000But, congrats to Joe Rogan, who once again proves the durability of the notion that if you are popular, people will find you, and people will give you money if you are popular.
00:53:48.000Okay, so, we are going to steer into some dicey waters here.
00:53:52.000I'm about to criticize an episode of the TV show, The Last of Us.
00:53:57.000So, I'm gonna say, right up front, HBO's The Last of Us, right?
00:54:00.000This is the one that, uh, that stars Pedro Pascal, and, um, it's really well produced, written by Craig Mazin, he's a super talented guy, he's the one who was behind Chernobyl.
00:54:09.000Okay, so, first the things about this series that are good.
00:54:12.000And again, preface, I've never played the game.
00:54:14.000So, don't care about the game, don't care about how true it is to the game.
00:54:17.000There are lots of gamers out there, you wanna watch their videos on the correlation between the game and the show, that's fine.
00:54:23.000I'm just watching it as a piece of pure TV entertainment, okay?
00:54:25.000I'm coming from, I don't care what's canon, I don't care what's not canon.
00:54:29.000Just coming at it from the view of a TV viewer, so I'm just gonna say that right up front.
00:54:32.000That is not my particular purview, I don't play video games.
00:54:41.000Okay, in any case, including Andrew Klavan, who's a mediocre person.
00:54:45.000Anyway, The Last of Us is a, for those who haven't seen it, it is a zombie show.
00:54:50.000Okay, it's a show about a zombie apocalypse that essentially arises because fungi go viral, essentially, and take over people's brains and turn them into zombies.
00:55:02.000That is the premise of the show, and it's really well produced, and it's beautifully shot, and it's really well scripted, and all the rest.
00:55:09.000So, the first two episodes are about Pedro Pascal finding, again, some of this is sort of hackneyed trope, but he is introduced to the other main character, who is a young girl.
00:55:18.000The young girl is, for some reason, immune to the zombie virus.
00:55:22.000And so, the question is, can he get her to a place where presumably they are going to try to manufacture a cure from her?
00:55:28.000That's where the show is going, I would assume, because any other place doesn't make any sense.
00:55:32.000So, it is this character, Joel, and this character, Ellie, and they are navigating the zombie apocalypse.
00:55:38.000And then we get to, so that's the first couple episodes, and they're good, they're really compelling.
00:55:41.000Again, really well made, really well written.
00:55:43.000And then we get to episode three, and this, according to the media, is the single greatest episode of television that has ever been.
00:55:50.000If you read the headlines on episode three, this is the most important thing that has ever happened in the history of television.
00:55:57.000CNN, The Last of Us, just made an early claim to one of the best TV episodes of 2023.
00:56:00.000The Last of Us viewership soars 12% to a new series high with heartbreaking episode three.
00:56:19.000So the essential plot of this episode, which is the problem with this episode, and again, you want to make Brokeback Zombie Farm or whatever, fine.
00:56:28.000But the problem with this episode is that it absolutely does not advance the plot in any way and actually has no consequences.
00:56:35.000So the entire plot of the episode is that Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, but he actually plays Ron Swanson, but Ron Swanson who likes to nail dudes.
00:56:43.000So Ron Swanson, a libertarian who hates the government and lives in his basement and is a prepper, but also is gay.
00:56:51.000Ron Swanson, during the zombie apocalypse, he's having himself a grand old time.
00:56:53.000For some reason, his town is completely not hit by any of the zombies at all.
00:56:58.000And so he goes out and gets all of his resources, and then he builds a nice fence around his place, and he sets up all of these booby traps so if anybody shows up, whether they're raiders, whether they're zombies, they're gonna get killed.
00:57:07.000And then, somehow, another dude ends up, like, falling into one of his traps.
00:57:27.000And it's complete with, like, sex scenes and the whole thing.
00:57:29.000And the entire episode has no zombies, no real threat, and it is about two gay dudes who meet and have a relationship in which one grows strawberries for the other, and then they die.
00:57:48.000But not being killed by zombies or under threat.
00:57:52.000One dies, he gets cancer, and he decides to essentially euthanasia himself, and Gayron Swanson decides that he is also going to commit suicide at the same time because Romeo and Juliet, or Romeo and Romeo in this particular case.
00:58:25.000It literally has nothing to do with the plot of the show.
00:58:29.000This is a show where this entire episode could have taken place completely without a zombie apocalypse.
00:58:37.000It just would have been a showtime romance between two middle-aged gay dudes who get older, one dies of cancer, and the other assisted suicides himself.
00:58:47.000That would not have changed one iota of the show.
00:58:50.000It is completely irrelevant to the story.
00:58:53.000And one of the reasons that it is completely irrelevant to the story is because there are no stakes.
00:58:57.000And the reason that there are no stakes is because, again, we are in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.
00:59:01.000When you're in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, one of two issues has to come into play.
00:59:07.000Or two, the threat to humanity more broadly.
00:59:11.000So, if you're talking about the threat to humanity more broadly during the zombie apocalypse, what you're talking about is underpopulation, right?
00:59:15.000You're talking about there are no people.
01:00:55.000And so the question becomes, what do you do about abortion?
01:00:57.000So President Roslin, who is a lefty, She decides that she's going to outlaw abortion because if you want humanity to survive, then it turns out that individual autonomy over your body is significantly less important than actually repopulating humanity.
01:01:12.000So here's Roslyn announcing that she's outlawing abortion, right?
01:01:14.000Because again, the stakes are whether humanity survives.
01:01:16.000It is not whether two individuals fall in love in the middle of a farm, not threatened by anyone, which is the story of this particular episode.
01:01:24.000Since assuming the presidency, I've made it my mission to maintain the rights and freedoms we so enjoyed prior to the attack.
01:01:32.000One of these rights has now come into direct conflict with the survival of the species.
01:01:39.000And I find myself forced to make a very difficult decision.
01:01:47.000The fact is that if this civilization is to survive, we must, must repopulate this fleet.
01:01:55.000Therefore, I'm issuing an executive order.
01:01:59.000From this day forward, anyone seeking to interfere with the birth of a child, whether it be the mother, or a medical practitioner, shall be subject to criminal Okay, so, you know, this is like an actual issue.
01:02:37.000Do you continue to have babies in view of the fact that there's a threat to the children, in view of the fact they're going to have to live difficult and rough lives and all the rest of it, right?
01:03:07.000And, you know, the guy who created the video game, of course, is a big lefty.
01:03:10.000In season two, apparently, if it mirrors the video games from what I've been told, it gets very trans and very lesbian and all the rest of it.
01:03:36.000And you particularly loved the most, like, the most graphic parts of it.
01:03:40.000Those are the parts you loved the most, right?
01:03:41.000I mean, because if you don't say that, it means you're a homophobe or something.
01:03:45.000All I'm saying is that nobody actually paid to see the movie Bros.
01:03:47.000And when you go to see The Last of Us, what you generally want to see is a zombie apocalypse TV show, not two gay dudes dating while listening to Linda Ronstadt and then dying of old age after growing strawberries.
01:04:01.000I don't, I think that, and frankly, I think everybody who's like, wow, I was super into this.