The Ben Shapiro Show

00:00:00.000 Vice President Kamala Harris shows up to eulogize Tyree Nichols, the FBI searches Joe Biden's house, and we examine a line of viral TikTok videos chiding men for glancing at women at the gym.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:11.000 So there are some crime stories that are national and there are some crime stories that are local.

00:00:22.000 And the way that we can tell a national crime story from a local crime story is whether it fits the left-wing narrative, or if it even comes close to fitting the left-wing narrative.

00:00:29.000 So, if, for example, you have white cops, and those white cops kill a white person, that is not a national news story, that is just a local news story.

00:00:38.000 And it requires no national attention.

00:00:40.000 It requires that the media cover it for like a brief second in time and then it blips out of existence.

00:00:44.000 Certainly no major politicians attend the funeral of the person who was killed.

00:00:48.000 If, however, you have a story that makes national waves because the left believes that it fits a narrative, even if it doesn't quite fit the narrative, then it becomes a national news story.

00:00:56.000 And you have major politicians and big political figures arriving from All over the country.

00:01:01.000 In order to eulogize the person who was killed.

00:01:04.000 Not because they actually care about the person who was killed.

00:01:05.000 They don't know that person from Adam.

00:01:07.000 They don't know that person's parents.

00:01:08.000 They've never heard of that person.

00:01:09.000 But because it fits the narrative.

00:01:11.000 And there is something that is quite gross about this.

00:01:14.000 Truly.

00:01:14.000 Because it is, in fact, exploitative.

00:01:16.000 It is exploitative to go to the funeral of a person you've never met and you've never heard of until one second ago.

00:01:21.000 Explicitly, in order to make a political point about, for example, policing in the United States or the inherent systemic racism of the United States.

00:01:29.000 Well, that's precisely what happened yesterday.

00:01:30.000 Tyree Nichols, a 29-year-old black man who was killed in confrontation with five black police officers.

00:01:36.000 When I say in confrontation, I mean they literally held his arms behind his back and they were clocking him.

00:01:40.000 And it's on video.

00:01:41.000 And those five guys are going to be tried for second-degree murder.

00:01:43.000 They've already been arrested.

00:01:45.000 Well, this didn't fit quite the left-wing narrative of white-on-black, cop-on-criminal, or potential criminal, or innocent-victim violence.

00:01:52.000 Didn't fit that narrative, but it was close enough, and so the media ran with it.

00:01:55.000 It turned into a whole discussion, as we've discussed, about white supremacy and its bleed-over effects into black police departments, because the Memphis Police Department is 58% black, and the head of the police department in Memphis is black, and it's a majority-black city.

00:02:09.000 This means that Tyree Nichols, who again, Kamala Harris has never met Tyree Nichols.

00:02:12.000 Kamala Harris doesn't know Tyree Nichols.

00:02:14.000 Kamala Harris could have seen Tyree Nichols on the street and have recognized him or his parents.

00:02:19.000 She arrives at this funeral.

00:02:22.000 When politicians do this sort of stuff, when they do this sort of stuff, the thing you have to think about is why.

00:02:29.000 So Kamala Harris shows up at the funeral to eulogize Tyree Nichols.

00:02:34.000 And here's what the vice president of the United States had to say.

00:02:38.000 We're here to celebrate the life of Tyree Nichols.

00:02:44.000 Mrs. Wells, Mr. Wells, you have been extraordinary in terms of your strength, your courage, and your grace.

00:02:57.000 I was, as a senator, as a United States senator, a co-author of the original George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

00:03:08.000 And as Vice President of the United States, we demand that Congress pass the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act.

00:03:17.000 Joe Biden will sign it!

00:03:20.000 By the way, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act is far overbroad.

00:03:23.000 Senator Tim Scott provided some actual fixes to the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that would have additionally funded the police for training and for hiring, and the Democrats rejected that.

00:03:32.000 Out of hand, they didn't even bring up that potential bill for a vote.

00:03:36.000 But again, go back to the basic notion here.

00:03:38.000 The Tyree Nichols story does not actually fit the narrative that the left wishes to push.

00:03:42.000 That narrative, of course, is that police all over the country are exactly the same as the cops in this particular situation.

00:03:49.000 The narrative is that there is a broad systemic racism that's baked into the cake when it comes to police departments, and Tyree Nichols fit that.

00:03:56.000 So if you have a black victim in a case of police violence, this is now enough for the Vice President of the United States to come in and essentially politic.

00:04:04.000 In a funeral.

00:04:05.000 I mean, there's something pretty gross about politicking at a funeral.

00:04:09.000 It wasn't just Kamala Harris.

00:04:11.000 You have race baiter professional Al Sharpton showing up to give a eulogy.

00:04:15.000 Again, Al Sharpton didn't know Tyree Nichols.

00:04:17.000 Al Sharpton has never heard of Tyree Nichols.

00:04:19.000 But here is Al Sharpton at the funeral, eulogizing a person he never met and didn't know.

00:04:27.000 There is something that's really kind of just icky about that.

00:04:31.000 Here's Al Sharpton.

00:04:33.000 And the reason why, Mr. and Mrs. Wells, what happened to Tyree is so personal to me, is that five black men that wouldn't have had a job in the police department, in the city that Dr. King lost his life, not far away from that balcony, you beat a brother to death.

00:05:02.000 There's nothing more insulting and offensive to those of us that fight to open doors that you walk through those doors and act like the folks we had to fight for to get you through them doors.

00:05:22.000 So now he's essentially accusing those black police officers of being complicit in racism.

00:05:27.000 Right again, there are elements of white supremacy, and Al Sharpton actually did say, he suggested at this funeral, that if Terry Nichols had been white, black police officers would not have acted this way, which of course is not true.

00:05:38.000 I mean, that cops beat white people on a regular basis, okay?

00:05:45.000 The notion that white people are somehow immune to police brutality or instances of police violence is just a falsehood, but here is Al Sharpton telling it.

00:05:53.000 How do you have the same department that can keep crime down on one side of town without beating folk to death?

00:06:02.000 But you can't do it on the other side of town unless you feel that you can get away with it there.

00:06:09.000 I can't speak for everybody in Memphis.

00:06:11.000 I can't speak for everybody gathering.

00:06:14.000 But for me, I believe that if that man had been white, you wouldn't have beat him like that that night.

00:06:22.000 Ah, so it is racism.

00:06:23.000 Again, this is at a funeral, folks.

00:06:25.000 This is not at a political event.

00:06:27.000 This is at a funeral.

00:06:28.000 There's a long history of Democrats doing this sort of stuff.

00:06:30.000 When Paul Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash, you saw a bunch of Democratic politicians arrive to essentially use his funeral as a jumping-off point for campaigns.

00:06:39.000 You see, after a mass shooting in Arizona, you saw Barack Obama go there and stump for gun control.

00:06:43.000 This sort of stuff is not rare, unfortunately, but it is really ugly.

00:06:46.000 There's a fascinating opinion piece from Charles Blow, I know that that is usually not the case, in which the blindness of this becomes absolutely clear because he acknowledges that this is really, really gross.

00:06:58.000 He acknowledges that there is something ugly about this, and yet he still continues to do it.

00:07:04.000 He still continues to do that.

00:07:06.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:08:16.000 Okay, so Charles Bowe has a piece where he essentially acknowledges the point that I'm making.

00:08:19.000 It's called Robbed of Space to Mourn in the New York Times today.

00:08:23.000 And he talks about the fact that the parents of Tyree Nichols, when they enter the church where this eulogy is taking place, where the service is taking place, the cameras are all over them.

00:08:32.000 And he says, her grief and mourning of Tyree Nichols' mom, her grief and mourning were not her own.

00:08:36.000 They could not be walled off from the political trauma in which she was thrust and caught.

00:08:40.000 Not only is their loss staggering, their ability to grieve that loss has also been altered and interrupted, converted into politics and performance.

00:08:46.000 Privacy is unavailable to them.

00:08:48.000 He says, mourning, he's correct, by the way, mourning in public on repeat under and in front of lights and cameras isn't part of the normal grieving process.

00:08:55.000 Many people can hardly understand their emotion, let alone live with the pressure of constantly being asked to form those feelings into sound bites.

00:09:01.000 But here's the thing, this is the part where, again, the left acknowledges what it's doing here in exploiting the death of a human being is really yucky.

00:09:10.000 It's really quite disgusting.

00:09:12.000 But quote, at the funeral, I sat in front of Donna Gates Bullard, What is Charles Blow doing at the funeral?

00:09:19.000 Did he know Tyree Nichols' family?

00:09:22.000 Did he know Tyree Nichols?

00:09:22.000 I mean, the answer is no.

00:09:25.000 And of course, he says that he's attended many of these things.

00:09:28.000 When I first interviewed Trayvon Martin's mother, she was consumed and shrunken by grief.

00:09:33.000 When I spent the day with Sam DuBose's family in 2015, his mom was so drained she needed to cling to me just to leave the car and walk into a TV interview.

00:09:40.000 So, aren't you one of the people who is propagating The victimization of families in the name of a broader political narrative?

00:09:53.000 There's something wrong with a culture in which this sort of stuff happens.

00:09:56.000 You want to have a political debate about what we should do with police departments?

00:10:00.000 That is fine.

00:10:01.000 But going to funerals and using the funeral as sort of the jumping off point to make the political point?

00:10:07.000 It's no less cynical now than when it was done by Marc Anthony at Julius Caesar's funeral, going all the way back to the Roman Empire.

00:10:15.000 And of course, this does play into the broader left-wing narrative where you have Dick Durbin, the senator from Illinois, talking about how we need to now revise policing in the United States.

00:10:22.000 This is really what this is all about.

00:10:23.000 It's about making a political point.

00:10:24.000 Because five years from now, are they going to be checking in on Tyree?

00:10:26.000 Is Kamala Harris going to be checking in on Tyree Nichols' family after she leaves office?

00:10:30.000 The answer is no, of course.

00:10:32.000 Here's Dick Durbin.

00:10:34.000 Listen, I agree with Chairman Jordan, in terms of what happened sadly to Tyree Nichols, it was indefensible, reprehensible.

00:10:44.000 There's just no excuse for it.

00:10:46.000 And I also agree with the premise that we cannot mandate virtue by law.

00:10:50.000 That just isn't going to happen.

00:10:52.000 But still, we should take an honest look at policing in America today and acknowledge the obvious.

00:10:58.000 We all want The most radical case, of course, being made by Representative Jamal Bowman, who is one of the most radical members of Congress from New York.

00:11:05.000 He says that the real issue here, get ready for this one, is climate change.

00:11:07.000 You know, instead of adding more cops, we need to invest in climate, is what he says.

00:11:12.000 The most radical case, of course, being made by Representative Jamal Bowman, who is one of the most radical members of Congress from New York. He says that the real issue here, get ready for this one, is climate change. You know, instead of adding more cops, we need to invest in climate, is what he says. What?

00:11:27.000 We have to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

00:11:33.000 We have to introduce and pass the People's Justice Guarantee so community members can reimagine and restructure public safety in our country.

00:11:43.000 The research shows we need a public health approach to public safety.

00:11:47.000 You want to make us safer?

00:11:48.000 Invest in poverty and ending poverty.

00:11:51.000 Invest in housing.

00:11:52.000 Invest in climate.

00:11:53.000 Invest in education.

00:11:55.000 That is how We make our country safer.

00:11:58.000 What we're doing is adding more police and feeding the prison industrial complex.

00:12:04.000 Okay, it's all exploitation.

00:12:06.000 And that so much media coverage is driven by exploitation.

00:12:09.000 You find an instance, like one particular instance, and then you suggest that it is statistically representative of a broad trend, and then you just magnify the instance.

00:12:16.000 Well, you're actually going to have to show a connection here in order to get the politics done.

00:12:21.000 But they're not going to bother doing that.

00:12:22.000 So that's why you send Kamala Harris to go and speak at a funeral where she doesn't know the family, doesn't know the person.

00:12:27.000 Again, something gross about that.

00:12:29.000 Meanwhile, the FBI has apparently now searched Joe Biden's home.

00:12:33.000 According to CNBC.com, FBI agents on Wednesday morning searched the Rehoboth Beach Delaware home of President Biden for more than three hours, they found no documents marked classified, according to his personal lawyer.

00:12:44.000 Agents did take for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appeared to relate to his time as vice president.

00:12:49.000 Now, again, that doesn't mean there was no classified material.

00:12:51.000 There could very well be classified material that wasn't actually labeled classified.

00:12:54.000 What they mean is that there wasn't a document that had a big stamp on it that said top secret.

00:12:59.000 But if the vice president was taking home classified notes and he didn't label it classified, that would still be classified material.

00:13:04.000 A senior law enforcement source who spoke with NBC News corroborated the lawyer's characterization of the outcome of the FBI search.

00:13:11.000 But this is really no longer the issue.

00:13:12.000 It's not even what documents were found, what documents were not found on the premises at Joe Biden's house or at the Penn-Biden Center for Chinese Grift.

00:13:19.000 The real question is the cover-up.

00:13:21.000 Because, again, it turns out that Joe Biden's documents were found at the Penn-Biden Center before the election.

00:13:26.000 We only found out about it in January.

00:13:29.000 Well, now, a representative, a top House Republican, James Comer from Kentucky, he says that the top lawyer for the National Archives was told not to reveal any information about the discovery of classified documents in Joe Biden's possession before the election.

00:13:45.000 Here's Representative Comer.

00:13:47.000 I mean, if this is true, that's an actual scandal.

00:13:48.000 That's a cover-up.

00:13:51.000 Right before the National Archives came in, they handed us a letter from the Department of Justice informing them and us that the General Counsel for the National Archives wasn't allowed to say anything about the Biden documents.

00:14:04.000 If you go on the National Archives website, there's pages and pages of press releases and information about the FBI's raid into Mar-a-Lago and Donald Trump's possession of classified documents.

00:14:17.000 But there's nothing on the website about Joe Biden.

00:14:21.000 So we asked the general counsel, why were there no press releases sent on Joe Biden once it was determined that he had classified documents in his possession?

00:14:31.000 And the counsel said that he did do press releases, but he was ordered and told they couldn't be published.

00:14:41.000 or by whom?

00:14:43.000 By presumably somebody at the administration.

00:14:44.000 Merrick Garland at DOJ or something like that.

00:14:47.000 According to the Washington Examiner, the National Archives informed its own Inspector General on November 3rd.

00:14:51.000 The Washedog contacted the DOJ on November 4th, so a couple of days before the election.

00:14:56.000 This was widely known inside the government.

00:14:59.000 And yet nothing came out about it until January.

00:15:02.000 Now, the National Archives was fine with weighing in on the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.

00:15:07.000 They weighed in in January 2022, twice in February 2022, in October 2022.

00:15:12.000 So, between the time that they knew that there were documents that shouldn't have been at Joe Biden's house and the time that they revealed that fact, they released three separate press releases on Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago.

00:15:30.000 If, as they say, the cover-up is usually greater than the crime, this would be an interesting instance of that.

00:15:35.000 We'll get to the White House counsel trying to respond to this and failing in just one second.

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00:16:42.000 Okay, so the White House Counsel Office, they're trying to respond to the possibility of a cover-up.

00:16:48.000 White House Counsel Spokesperson Ian Sams, he will not say if the FBI has actually conducted other searches.

00:16:54.000 That is possible.

00:16:56.000 Has the FBI conducted any searches of any other locations associated with the President that you or the White House is aware of?

00:17:03.000 Look, I think we're providing information as this goes on and answering questions about the search activities as they've been happening.

00:17:09.000 I don't want to speak too much to the DOJ's practices in an ongoing investigation.

00:17:13.000 I can say, you know, that we have cooperated fully.

00:17:15.000 The President's personal attorneys have provided information to DOJ.

00:17:19.000 addressed openly and directly the searches that were conducted first at the president's Wilmington residence and then today.

00:17:26.000 Well, Sam's was asked about whether Biden or anyone in the administration silenced the National Archives, and here's what he had to say.

00:17:35.000 Did anyone at the White House at any point tell the National Archives in any form that they could not release a press release about the discovery of classified What's that in reference to?

00:17:47.000 There's reporting that came from the House Oversight Committee.

00:17:49.000 Chairman James Comer, who says that in his conversations with the National Archives, they communicated that they were told, the Archives was told it could not release a press release.

00:18:00.000 Yeah, I don't know anything about that.

00:18:07.000 If that's actually what he said, it's probably better to ask the archives if that's actually what was said and try to understand a little bit more what he meant.

00:18:14.000 Well, we're asking you.

00:18:16.000 I mean, you are the representative for the White House, so presumably you should know whether somebody at the White House or in the administration ordered the National Archives to do the thing.

00:18:23.000 So kicking it back to the National Archives is rather fascinating.

00:18:26.000 He insists, of course, that the White House has been transparent.

00:18:28.000 That, of course, is not true.

00:18:29.000 If they'd been transparent, they wouldn't have waited two months just past the election in order to announce that Joe Biden had been keeping classified documents pretty much everywhere.

00:18:37.000 Like in his bathroom, next to the toilet, for his reading material.

00:18:40.000 Underneath the old copies of Time Magazine that he likes to browse while he's watching Matlock at night.

00:18:45.000 Here's Ian Sams.

00:18:50.000 Yeah, I think we've been pretty transparent from the very beginning with providing information as it occurs throughout this process.

00:19:03.000 We have released probably thousands of words of statements from the President's personal attorney and the White House Counsel's Office about the process that has been undertaken here.

00:19:13.000 Now he was asked about who had access to these documents, which of course is sort of the secondary scandal.

00:19:18.000 It's not just that Joe Biden brought this stuff home.

00:19:19.000 It's that he left it in a garage and that one of the people who was renting his house apparently for a period of three months, I guess, was Hunter Biden, who happens to be an absolute derelict of a human being who runs around trafficking in the Biden name when he is not attempting to solicit his employees for sex so that he will pay their salaries.

00:19:39.000 Was there any reason to believe that anybody else in the Biden family would have also had access to these same documents?

00:19:47.000 Yeah, I'm not going to speak to sort of the negotiations or discussions or collaborations between the president's personal attorney and DOJ in establishing the search.

00:19:58.000 We're cooperating fully with the Justice Department.

00:20:01.000 We're cooperating fully with the Justice Department and ensuring that they have access to the House, the Rehoboth House today, the Wilmington House previously, to be able to do a thorough search.

00:20:11.000 And it's because the President is moving quickly to get them access to the information that they need so that they can move forward with a thorough review.

00:20:19.000 One of the pieces of information that you might want, actually, is whether Hunter Biden actually had access to the documents.

00:20:24.000 That would be one of the things that you want.

00:20:25.000 Speaking of Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden is now doing something that is legally ridiculous, but it's making a lot of headlines because, again, the media, because Biden-Hunter is related to Joe, that means that they will go into knee-jerk defense of one of the worst human beings In America.

00:20:40.000 And so Hunter Biden apparently his lawyers have now sent a series of quote unquote blistering letters to state and federal prosecutors urging criminal investigations into those who accessed and disseminated his personal data and then sent a separate letter threatening Fox News host Tucker Carlson with a defamation lawsuit.

00:20:54.000 This is according to Washington Post.

00:20:55.000 So a few things.

00:20:56.000 One.

00:20:57.000 No.

00:20:58.000 You left your laptop at a repair person's place.

00:21:02.000 You gave that person access to all the materials on that laptop.

00:21:06.000 You then forgot about the laptop for a period of years.

00:21:10.000 No, you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in that you abandoned your personal property because you are a drug-addicted derelict.

00:21:16.000 That is what happened.

00:21:17.000 And as far as Tucker Carlson suggesting that you are, in fact, a drug-addicted derelict and using colorful language to do so, That's not going to... You think that's going to rise to the level of defamation?

00:21:29.000 Number one, you're a public figure, so you have to actually show malice that he maliciously said something false.

00:21:33.000 I'm not sure what exactly anybody could say about Hunter Biden that would be false at this point.

00:21:39.000 I guess that he's trying to claim that because there was original reporting suggesting that he paid like $50,000 a month and then it turned out that reporting was not true and it was $50,000 over the course of three months for his rent, that that's a defamation, that is not even remotely a defamation lawsuit.

00:21:52.000 That does not rise to the level of a defamation lawsuit under any circumstances, but he is sending blistering letters.

00:21:57.000 And that, of course, is the basic idea.

00:21:59.000 If he sends blistering letters, the media can pretend that he's very offended.

00:22:04.000 He claims that he has been defamed by Fox News in a story in which Carlson said that Biden had paid $50,000 in rent to his dad.

00:22:11.000 In reality, Hunter Biden was actually paying $49,910 every three months for office space in Washington.

00:22:16.000 Now, again, the original reporting that Tucker was talking about was not by Fox.

00:22:24.000 So if it turns out that he wasn't actually paying his dad for rent, we reported on the show as well, and it turns out that was wrong, right?

00:22:29.000 It turns out that the original reporting by Daily Caller was wrong.

00:22:31.000 Sometimes, we read reports on the show.

00:22:33.000 Those reports are wrong.

00:22:33.000 That's not defamation.

00:22:34.000 That doesn't rise to the level of defamation.

00:22:36.000 But Hunter Biden's just threatening people at this point, pretending that he has some sort of clean reputation to protect.

00:22:41.000 The answer there is no.

00:22:41.000 Uh, no.

00:22:42.000 Okay, meanwhile, in other news, the Federal Reserve did in fact raise the rates a quarter point.

00:22:47.000 They expect more increases in the interest rates.

00:22:49.000 They're slowing the rate of the interest rate increases because they think that they have slowed They're beginning to slow inflation to the extent necessary in order to kind of put the genie back in the bottle.

00:22:58.000 According to CNBC, aligning with market expectations, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee boosted the Fed funds rate by 0.25 percentage points.

00:23:06.000 That's 25 basis points.

00:23:07.000 That takes it to a target range of 4.5 to 4.75 percent.

00:23:11.000 That is the highest since October of 2007.

00:23:12.000 The move marks the eighth increase in a process that began in March 2022.

00:23:17.000 The Fed is still targeting hikes to bring down inflation, and the post-meeting statement noted inflation has eased somewhat but remains elevated, which is a tweak on previous language.

00:23:25.000 Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said inflation data received over the past three months show a welcome reduction in the monthly pace of increases.

00:23:30.000 While recent developments are encouraging, we will need substantially more evidence to be confident that inflation is on a sustained downward path.

00:23:37.000 But stocks actually dropped on this news because people were hoping That Powell was basically going to say there are no more increases coming.

00:23:43.000 There are, in fact, more interest rate increases coming, and there need to be more interest rate increases coming.

00:23:48.000 Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden are now negotiating over the debt limit and the debt ceiling.

00:23:54.000 Joe Biden is looking for Republicans to give him a way out.

00:23:56.000 What he's looking for is for Republicans to be intransigent on the debt ceiling so that he can then blame them when the economy stagnates, which is presumably what's going to happen over the course of the next few months.

00:24:05.000 McCarthy and Biden had a meeting The other day on this, in which Biden told McCarthy there was room for discussion about addressing America's deficit, but he insisted that Congress would have to pass a debt limit increase with no strings attached to avoid a financial cataclysm, which of course is ridiculous.

00:24:20.000 There can be strings attached, but McCarthy should do, as I've suggested many times over, pick 10 things that the American public hates, put that in the debt ceiling negotiations, and force Biden to defend that.

00:24:28.000 Force Biden to defend shutting down the government in order to preserve 10 things that Americans hate.

00:24:33.000 McCarthy, to his credit, has not said that he's going to try to restructure Social Security or Medicare on the basis of this.

00:24:38.000 That is ineffective.

00:24:38.000 It is not going to work.

00:24:39.000 Anybody who tells you otherwise is not a purist.

00:24:42.000 They're expecting you to be a dope and not recognize what they're doing.

00:24:44.000 But the reality is you can get a political win out of this thing if you are very circumspect about how you approach it.

00:24:51.000 It is worth noting here that Joe Biden, for all of his talk about how important it is to raise the debt ceiling, back in 2006, Joe Biden was perfectly fine with rejecting an increase in the debt ceiling.

00:25:00.000 Here he was back in 2006 attacking George W. Bush's administration.

00:25:04.000 He said, quote, because this massive accumulation of debt was predicted, because it was foreseeable, because it was unnecessary, because it was the result of willful and reckless disregard for warnings that were given and for the fundamentals of economic management, I am voting against the debt limit increase.

00:25:15.000 So it's always fun to watch as Democrats flip in In real time.

00:25:20.000 And the media just pretend that none of it ever happened in the first place.

00:25:23.000 OK, in just one second, we need to get to the controversy over Ilhan Omar being denied a spot on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:25:29.000 Matt Gaetz, for some reason, is now coming out and defending Ilhan Omar on the Foreign Affairs Committee, which I'm sorry, is just an absurdity.

00:25:34.000 And Gaetz is wrong on this.

00:25:36.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:26:38.000 Okay, so controversy has now broken out about whether Ilhan Omar should be denied a spot on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:26:43.000 The answer is, of course, she should.

00:26:44.000 She's a raging anti-Semite.

00:26:47.000 She claims, of course, that she is an accidental anti-Semite, which is weird since she spent pretty much her entire career being a raging anti-Semite, so much so that even left-wing Jewish groups in the Minnesota community have approached her and been like, why are you so anti-Semitic?

00:26:58.000 Can you stop it?

00:26:59.000 And she's like, shut up.

00:27:00.000 There are reports from Minneapolis Star Tribune essentially suggesting as much.

00:27:05.000 She is a disaster area.

00:27:08.000 The fact is the Democrats set this precedent.

00:27:10.000 The precedent is that if you have out-of-the-box crazy opinions, you shouldn't be on a committee, right?

00:27:15.000 This is why they tried to deny a committee spot to Marjorie Taylor Greene over ugly things that were said.

00:27:21.000 By the way, what Marjorie Taylor Greene has said about Jews is way less ugly than what Ilhan Omar has said about Jews.

00:27:25.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene just put up a weird post about how Jews controlled space lasers, which was absurd on its face.

00:27:30.000 Ilhan Omar has suggested that Jews control world finance and that Israel is akin to the Taliban and Hamas.

00:27:37.000 So yeah, she's way worse.

00:27:40.000 Yet Matt Gaetz is out there defending her, which I don't understand in the slightest.

00:27:44.000 It makes no sense to me.

00:27:46.000 Greg Sargent is now trying to defend Matt Gaetz in a very weird turn of events.

00:27:50.000 I will say, the soft bigotry of low expectations when it comes to people who are ragingly anti-Semitic Muslims is pretty absurd.

00:27:58.000 That is what Greg Sargent is doing over at the Washington Post.

00:28:01.000 He says, sure, House Republicans are claiming that she's an anti-Semite.

00:28:03.000 And sure, she says stuff that is anti-Semitic on a fairly regular basis.

00:28:08.000 But also, she's a Muslim.

00:28:10.000 And that means that you're not allowed to point out that she is any of those things.

00:28:14.000 As for the charge of bigotry, says Greg Sargent, ironically enough, there may not be another member of Congress who has personally faced as much bigotry as Omar, a Muslim who arrived in the United States as a refugee decades ago.

00:28:24.000 The soft bigotry of low expectations, the idea that if you're a Muslim, you get to be as radically anti-Jewish as you want to be, is pretty astonishing.

00:28:31.000 And yet that is the line the media are going to take on this thing.

00:28:34.000 Okay, meanwhile, the presidential race is heating up.

00:28:37.000 Again, we have this consistently ongoing game now of Ron DeSantis winning victories in Florida and Donald Trump yelling at objects.

00:28:46.000 And so that brings us to today's episode of Good Trump, Bad Trump.

00:28:49.000 Okay, so here we have good Trump.

00:28:59.000 Here, we have bad Trump.

00:29:01.000 And, um, which one is gonna be today?

00:29:06.000 Sadly, we got some bad Trump yesterday.

00:29:09.000 The bad Trump came in the form of a series of posts that he put up attacking Ron DeSantis as a quote-unquote rhino globalist.

00:29:17.000 A rhino globalist?

00:29:18.000 What exactly made Ron DeSantis a rhino globalist?

00:29:22.000 That he said, at one point, that he wanted to be like then-GOP congressional leader Paul Ryan.

00:29:27.000 Now, I'm old enough to remember when Paul Ryan was not a person who was considered wildly left-wing, considering that his main mission in life was to restructure entitlement programs.

00:29:36.000 This does not make you a rhino.

00:29:38.000 In fact, I would suggest that trying to leave entitlements in place as a matter of principle is a way of copping out on a major issue.

00:29:46.000 But this makes Ron DeSantis a rhino globalist, says Donald Trump.

00:29:49.000 That was not his only post.

00:29:51.000 He also continued to attack Ron DeSantis by suggesting, quote, Remember, I was 233 and 20 in midterms.

00:29:58.000 I got 1.2 million more votes than Ron DeSanctimonious in the great state of Florida.

00:30:03.000 Also, 12 million more votes in 2020 than 2016 and won.

00:30:07.000 Okay, you didn't win.

00:30:08.000 If you won, you'd be in the White House right now.

00:30:10.000 And most of the crap that's happening wouldn't have happened.

00:30:12.000 I voted for you.

00:30:13.000 I wanted you to win.

00:30:14.000 You didn't.

00:30:16.000 You got 1.2 million more votes than Ron DeSantis in Florida in a presidential race.

00:30:21.000 Presidential races earn more votes than gubernatorial races in off years, which is exactly what happened.

00:30:27.000 The point is Ron DeSantis won by 20 points in the last race in Florida and you did not win.

00:30:34.000 So there is that.

00:30:35.000 You won Florida and you lost the national election.

00:30:38.000 So I don't know what to tell you here.

00:30:41.000 I don't know.

00:30:42.000 Trump doesn't have a strategy.

00:30:43.000 You would suggest normally that the strategy is attack the frontrunner, which kind of suggests that DeSantis is the frontrunner and not Trump, which is weird, right?

00:30:49.000 DeSantis hasn't said word one about Trump, and Trump is just yelling at him.

00:30:53.000 He's just right in his ear yelling at him, trying to drive DeSantis to respond to him.

00:30:58.000 Meanwhile, DeSantis is out there winning victories.

00:31:01.000 So Ron DeSantis, you'll recall just a few days ago, the state of Florida rejected an AP curriculum for African-American studies that included a bunch of BLM critical race theory nonsense.

00:31:12.000 Well, now he's actually won a victory because the college board released an official curriculum for its new AP placement course in African-American studies.

00:31:18.000 It's not that you can't teach African-American studies in the state of Florida.

00:31:21.000 It's that the state is not going to sponsor critical race theory garbage in the schools.

00:31:25.000 And so the college board went back to the drawing board and they stripped a lot of the subject matter that was critical race theory.

00:31:32.000 According to the New York Times, the College Board purged the names of many black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience, and black feminism.

00:31:39.000 It ushered out some politically fraught topics like Black Lives Matter from the formal curriculum.

00:31:43.000 It also added something new.

00:31:44.000 Black conservatism is now offered as an idea for a research project.

00:31:48.000 Okay, I have a question.

00:31:49.000 Why is that so bad?

00:31:51.000 Why is any of that bad?

00:31:52.000 That is good.

00:31:52.000 And the fact that the College Board is now stripping out certain elements of the African American Studies program that were explicitly designed at the argument that America and all of its institutions are systemically racist and must be torn to the ground?

00:32:05.000 The fact that DeSantis won on that is a very good thing.

00:32:08.000 And by the way, you can tell who the Democrats are truly afraid of these days because those are the people they're attacking.

00:32:14.000 Joy Reid over on MSNBC.

00:32:17.000 She made honestly what I think is the best sell I've ever heard for the state of Florida on MSNBC.

00:32:22.000 And I'm a person who's been unofficially dubbed the tourism minister of the state of Florida.

00:32:26.000 Here is Joy Reid.

00:32:28.000 What DeSantis is doing is intentional, in order to peel off Trump's Republican voters and get them on his side ahead of his presidential bid in 2024.

00:32:37.000 He's turning Florida into a right-wing paradise.

00:32:39.000 He's barring public high schools from teaching AP African American studies.

00:32:44.000 He's taking aim at drag performances, even suggesting that he would urge the state's Child Protective Services to investigate parents who take their own kids to one.

00:32:54.000 He's actively trying to ban COVID vaccine mandates and restricting mask rules, while at the same time calling for probes into supposed wrongdoing linked to the vaccine.

00:33:06.000 And he's doing all of this while making sure that anyone can walk around with a gun, no permit required.

00:33:12.000 It's a right-wing fantasy land, like Disney World, but in hell.

00:33:15.000 Yeah.

00:33:16.000 Mm-hmm.

00:33:18.000 Well, so go away and stay out and don't come to Disneyland.

00:33:24.000 That's amazing.

00:33:26.000 That sounds so good.

00:33:28.000 Honestly, he should just cut that as a commercial.

00:33:30.000 That is an amazing pitch for the state of Florida.

00:33:33.000 We are banning the critical race theory teaching.

00:33:36.000 We are going after drag queen story hours targeting children.

00:33:42.000 We are pro-cop in this state.

00:33:46.000 Where's the bad stuff there?

00:33:49.000 Well, you have to go over to The View.

00:33:50.000 The View, I love this.

00:33:51.000 The View, again, these people are like the Pauline Kales of politics.

00:33:55.000 So Pauline Kales, a former New Yorker critic who did movie criticism, and she very famously suggested in 1972 that she doesn't know how Richard Nixon could have won.

00:34:05.000 She didn't understand how Richard Nixon could have won.

00:34:07.000 She literally didn't know anyone who had voted for Nixon.

00:34:09.000 They'd all voted for McGovern.

00:34:10.000 Nixon, by the way, won 49 states in that election.

00:34:13.000 And so that's The View.

00:34:13.000 The View is just this little tiny bubble of weird people with low IQs.

00:34:17.000 And all they do all day is suggest that they are representative of the American public.

00:34:21.000 It's hard to think of people who are less representative of the American public.

00:34:24.000 Here are the highly intelligent members of The View.

00:34:26.000 Collective IQ could, if translated into electrical impulses from the brain, perhaps toast a piece of bread lightly.

00:34:33.000 Here they were yesterday, suggesting that it's time to vote Ron DeSantis down in Florida.

00:34:36.000 He just won by 20 points!

00:34:40.000 Just to clarify, 0.14% of the University of Florida's budget goes to DEI.

00:34:47.000 Program's not 14%, 0.14.

00:34:49.000 Okay, so it's even smaller than... That makes your point even more though.

00:34:54.000 But the thing is, listen, you can...

00:34:57.000 My folks are from Florida.

00:34:59.000 They're Floridians.

00:35:00.000 And they've been black the whole time.

00:35:02.000 They were raised in Florida.

00:35:06.000 There's always been black people in Florida.

00:35:08.000 And if you're not careful, that base is going to rise up and vote your a** out of there!

00:35:18.000 An unprecedented number of black Floridians voted Republican in the last election cycle.

00:35:22.000 Same thing with Hispanic Floridians.

00:35:23.000 So yeah, we'll take that one with a grain of salt.

00:35:27.000 Okay, in just a second, we'll get to one of the things that is actually driving the push to the right.

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00:37:38.000 Well, folks, maybe one of the reasons why Ron DeSantis is winning all these cultural battles and the left is so angry is because they keep declaring cultural battles that are bound to lose.

00:37:46.000 Nick Kristof is finally figuring this out over at the New York Times.

00:37:48.000 He has a piece today titled, Inclusive or Alienating?

00:37:51.000 The Language Wars Go On.

00:37:53.000 And his conclusion is that trying to make people say Latinx or suggest that people are assigned sex at birth, that stuff alienates people.

00:38:01.000 He says, I fear our linguistic contortions, however well meant, aren't actually addressing our country's desperate inequities or achieving progressive dreams, but rather are creating fuel for right-wing leaders aiming to take the country in the opposite direction.

00:38:11.000 Well, yes, but that's because What you are doing with language is just a reflection of what you are seeking to do with policy and we can all see it.

00:38:17.000 You're just providing a gateway.

00:38:18.000 It's your fault, but you're providing an actual gateway to us understanding what you are trying to do.

00:38:24.000 Very often on the right we suggest that your language obscures reality.

00:38:26.000 It does obscure reality, but it clarifies your positions.

00:38:30.000 And your positions are idiotic.

00:38:31.000 The best example of this today, it really is hilarious.

00:38:34.000 There is a graphic that has now been put out by a human named Anna Taylor.

00:38:38.000 And it suggests that we have to evolve away from violent language.

00:38:42.000 It's gone viral on the Twitters.

00:38:44.000 Evolving from violent language.

00:38:46.000 It says that you should no longer use language like, we are going to pull the trigger.

00:38:50.000 Instead, you should say, we're going to launch.

00:38:52.000 You shouldn't say, I'll take a stab at it.

00:38:54.000 You should say, I'll take the first pass at it.

00:38:56.000 How about, did we jump the gun?

00:38:58.000 Nope.

00:38:58.000 Did we start too soon?

00:39:00.000 You shouldn't say, I'll bite the bullet.

00:39:02.000 You should say, I won't avoid it.

00:39:03.000 How is bite the bullet even a violent?

00:39:05.000 Is that something that you do in violence?

00:39:06.000 You bite bullets in violence?

00:39:09.000 That'll kill two birds with one stone.

00:39:09.000 This one, of course, is the best.

00:39:11.000 Instead, you should say, that'll feed two birds with one scone.

00:39:14.000 That sounds delicious.

00:39:18.000 Instead of saying what's the deadline, you should say what's the due date, which frankly sounds cisgender, heteronormative, and birth positive to me.

00:39:26.000 Instead of saying we have to pick our battles, you should say we have to choose our opportunities.

00:39:30.000 Instead of can you shoot me an email, you should say can you send me an email.

00:39:33.000 Because as we all know, if you ask somebody to shoot you an email, what you actually mean is you want them to shoot you.

00:39:39.000 Long pause.

00:39:40.000 An email.

00:39:41.000 You shouldn't say that was overkill.

00:39:43.000 You should say it was a little excessive.

00:39:44.000 You shouldn't say you bombed a presentation.

00:39:45.000 You say, I didn't do my best.

00:39:47.000 This is going to fix everything, guys.

00:39:48.000 OK, this sort of nonsense makes me want to disembowel this chart and feed its intestines to the ravens.

00:39:48.000 Genius.

00:39:54.000 It makes me want to fire it out of a cannon.

00:39:57.000 It makes me want to beat it to death with a ball peen hammer and then spread its innards around the fields of Iowa.

00:40:04.000 Metaphorically speaking.

00:40:09.000 Okay, I mean, if this is the direction that the left wants to move, then more power to them.

00:40:13.000 More power to them.

00:40:14.000 Because we can all see what you're doing.

00:40:16.000 Again, I like the clarification.

00:40:18.000 The clarification is good.

00:40:19.000 The clarification is nice and the clarification is necessary.

00:40:22.000 So frankly, I'm glad they do these things that clarify what it is that they think and feel.

00:40:25.000 Speaking of people who are clarifying what the left thinks and feels, you remember Dylan Mulvaney.

00:40:29.000 Dylan Mulvaney is one of the heroes of the Republic.

00:40:31.000 Dylan Mulvaney is a dude who says that he is a lady.

00:40:34.000 So much so that he actually posts on the TikToks videos of himself transitioning into womanhood and become so famous that he is invited to the White House, where he sits in wild, creepy fashion as a quote-unquote girl.

00:40:46.000 He doesn't call himself a woman, he calls himself a girl.

00:40:49.000 He sits in front of Joe Biden, the President of the United States, who immediately declares that unless you trans the children, you are an immoral person.

00:40:56.000 Well, now, finally, in a viral TikTok moment, because TikTok is a Chinese weapon designed to undermine the culture and glue of the Republic, Dylan Mulvaney, who's TikTok famous, Has now made a face reveal.

00:41:09.000 What exactly is a face reveal?

00:41:10.000 Dillmulvaney went and got a bunch of surgeries.

00:41:13.000 So basically this is just showing off the work of the plastic surgeons.

00:41:15.000 Now you would imagine that the plastic surgeons, you know, he's paying them money.

00:41:19.000 So presumably they do a good job.

00:41:21.000 This is no different than a woman who just got a boob job going out and being like, look at these things, they're larger.

00:41:25.000 Yeah, I mean, they should be.

00:41:27.000 That would be, you know, the idea of the surgery.

00:41:29.000 But Dylan Mulvaney did a face reveal because this is how you become truly a woman.

00:41:34.000 Womanhood is about how many surgeries you can have to transform your square jaw into a more feminine jaw.

00:41:40.000 It really is about shaving down the Adam's apple or whatever it is that surgeons did.

00:41:45.000 And then masquerading and playing as a woman.

00:41:47.000 Because if you've shown the true commitment of having somebody shave down your jaw, this means you're a woman now.

00:41:51.000 Basically, if you're a man who has a mental disorder and shaves down your jaw, this makes you a woman.

00:41:55.000 And we can tell because you look more like a woman.

00:41:58.000 Which is what we used to call cultural appropriation.

00:42:03.000 If you went around wearing makeup that made you look like a person of another race, we used to call that cultural appropriation.

00:42:08.000 We used to make fun of you.

00:42:09.000 In fact, we still do.

00:42:11.000 But if you go around and have surgeries to make you look more like a woman, then you are actually just a woman.

00:42:15.000 You're just like the same as a normal biological woman, like an actual woman.

00:42:19.000 Here is Dylan Mulvaney gallivanting around pretending to be a girl because he had a surgeon cut him.

00:42:25.000 Oh good lord.

00:42:33.000 So here is Dylan Mulvaney.

00:42:34.000 The face reveal is he is wearing a skirt and a bra and using Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to dance in ridiculously parodic fashion, staring in close-ups into the camera.

00:42:52.000 Dylan Mulvaney's still a dude, but now we're supposed to believe that because he's a dude who's been made to look like a lady, he's actually no longer a dude.

00:43:03.000 It's parodic.

00:43:04.000 Oh, and there is Dylan Mulvaney as Audrey Hepburn.

00:43:07.000 The difference being that Audrey Hepburn was an actual woman with a vagina.

00:43:11.000 And also was a woman her entire life.

00:43:13.000 And also Dylan Mulvaney is a dude who's pretending to be a... It's all... They're not doing it for attention, guys.

00:43:19.000 It's not an attention-grabbing attempt at all.

00:43:22.000 Dylan Mulvaney is not a person who wants to be famous or wants attention.

00:43:25.000 He just wants to be her true self.

00:43:27.000 You know I have a flair for the dramatics.

00:43:29.000 But it's so good, right?

00:43:31.000 I'm so happy.

00:43:32.000 And it's still me.

00:43:33.000 It's just a little bit softer of a version.

00:43:38.000 Um, it's, it's still you.

00:43:39.000 That is correct.

00:43:41.000 Hey dude.

00:43:43.000 And again, I'm sorry to break it to you, but surgeries do not make you a different person.

00:43:46.000 Surgeries are just surgeries to change the outward appearance.

00:43:50.000 And the, the pretend that this now makes it, it's, it's, it's such appropriation and it's eh.

00:43:55.000 And well, welcome to our wonderful culture.

00:43:57.000 Speaking of our wonderful culture.

00:43:59.000 It is time to bring back an element of the show that, frankly, we've been missing.

00:44:03.000 And I know it was one of the most popular elements of the show.

00:44:05.000 In fact, it was one of the most popular elements of the show for a very long time, actually.

00:44:10.000 So popular that it became sort of a national meme.

00:44:15.000 Cardi B. We did a version of WAP that was significantly better than Cardi B's original version of WAP.

00:44:20.000 Well, now, deconstructing the culture is back.

00:44:23.000 Let's do this thing.

00:44:25.000 Alrighty, so today on Deconstructing the Culture.

00:44:29.000 Remember Sam Smith?

00:44:31.000 I don't.

00:44:33.000 The only thing I remember about Sam Smith is when he was just like a gay dude who was singing a song called Stay With Me.

00:44:42.000 Which, what year was Stay With Me?

00:44:44.000 I don't actually have the year that Stay With Me came out.

00:44:46.000 2014.

00:44:47.000 So it has been nearly a decade since Sam Smith was a thing.

00:44:51.000 And then, Sam Smith came out as genderqueer, which I don't even know what that means.

00:44:56.000 That's not a term that means anything.

00:44:58.000 And now, Sam Smith is coming out as gender non-binary.

00:45:03.000 As my friend Matt Walsh noted, he's basically like a Russian doll of coming out.

00:45:09.000 So he comes out as gay.

00:45:10.000 No one cares.

00:45:11.000 And then he comes out as genderqueer.

00:45:12.000 And everyone's like, I don't know what that is.

00:45:13.000 And then he comes out as non-binary.

00:45:15.000 And they're like, OK, what's next?

00:45:18.000 He's like the Charlie Crist of sexuality.

00:45:20.000 Charlie Crist ran out of political parties and Sam Smith is running out of gender.

00:45:24.000 The good news is there's an infinite supply.

00:45:25.000 So he's just going to do gender after gender after gender.

00:45:27.000 And eventually the most transgressive thing he can do is become a straight white man again, presumably.

00:45:33.000 Well, he has a new video out and it is titled, I'm not here to make friends.

00:45:39.000 Well, I mean, you are in the media because the media will praise you no matter how trans- because you are transgressive.

00:45:45.000 And the idea from the left, and particularly in our culture, is the more rules and roles you violate, the more authentic you are.

00:45:52.000 And so Sam Smith, having no idea who he is, because he clearly doesn't, he keeps switching his identity every five seconds, he's the most authentic version of himself because he keeps switching his identity every five seconds.

00:46:01.000 And because he's transgressing all the rules by dressing up like a laughable fool in this video, which is what he does.

00:46:07.000 I mean, he dresses up like a laughable fool And then it's just bizarre.

00:46:12.000 It's something out of a Berlin nightclub, circa like 1930.

00:46:15.000 It's something straight from Cabaret.

00:46:19.000 Except that we're all supposed to now treat this with perfect seriousness and say that Sam Smith, who is a fat dude, like I remember when he was actually a fit gay dude, and now he's just a fat gender non-binary person.

00:46:32.000 Which, I mean, I guess that's a pitch.

00:46:34.000 I don't know what the pitch is.

00:46:36.000 It's weird.

00:46:37.000 Okay, anyway.

00:46:39.000 So, Sam Smith has an explicit new music video, according to Vogue.

00:46:43.000 And it was hyper-sexualized and had sparked age restrictions.

00:46:46.000 So, in this video, Sam Smith allegedly sings.

00:46:53.000 It is called, I'm Not Here to Make Friends.

00:46:56.000 And it is one of the most bizarre and foolish videos I've ever seen.

00:46:59.000 I should first explain what Sam Smith says the video is about so we have a full perspective.

00:47:03.000 So Sam Smith did an interview in which she explains that this is about self-love.

00:47:07.000 Oh, I am sure it is.

00:47:10.000 It made me think that I need to step into my fears a little bit, and I need to write some music that shows different sides of me and who I am.

00:47:19.000 What was scary about showing joy?

00:47:22.000 I think that joy, for me, I think as a queer person, and I think a lot of people can relate to this, but to lean into the joy can feel quite radical sometimes.

00:47:38.000 And what was scary was the way that I move my body when I'm joyful, or the way that I dance.

00:47:46.000 Doing that in front of thousands of people was always petrifying to me.

00:47:53.000 Yes, he seems like a joyful, completely mentally healthy person.

00:47:56.000 Okay, so what is this video that we are now exposing the children of America to?

00:48:00.000 Well, let's go through this thing.

00:48:02.000 I think it is worth noting at this point how many views are on this particular video so that you understand how ubiquitous this is.

00:48:08.000 This has, it came out five days ago, 4.8 million views on YouTube.

00:48:14.000 Here we go.

00:48:19.000 He's wearing nipple tassels, for those who can't see.

00:48:21.000 He's a fat man wearing nipple tassels.

00:48:23.000 And then you have men who are wearing, um, booty shorts.

00:48:27.000 He's wearing nipple tassels for no apparent reason, since he's a dude.

00:48:30.000 He has an- they're wearing assless corsets.

00:48:33.000 And he is, um, spanking the asses of men dressed as women, it appears.

00:48:40.000 Um, it's like, Louis XIV, but essentially this is just, isn't this just the scene from Oliver Stone's JFK?

00:48:51.000 Now he is drinking what appears to be pee, swinging from a chandelier, wearing an Elton John or Liberace outfit.

00:49:00.000 If this is supposed to be, my favorite out of the seductive shots of Sam Smith, which is like, it is hard to think of something less seductive than this.

00:49:08.000 Not to speak for gay men, but if you find this seductive, I think there might be something wrong with you.

00:49:14.000 What is... And then you have men in bondage gear who are thrusting their pelvises toward the camera.

00:49:23.000 Oh my god.

00:49:25.000 Oh, this is... I asked my producers to pull some of this, and now I regret that decision.

00:49:37.000 Like, immensely.

00:49:39.000 Yes, it's all the things.

00:49:41.000 There's a brief, winking insinuation of a golden shell, according to Vogue.

00:49:46.000 So, a quasi-pornographic, bizarre, fetishistic acting out of your own gender and sexual confusion.

00:49:55.000 It's heroism now.

00:49:56.000 It's heroism.

00:49:56.000 And that does say something about our culture.

00:49:58.000 What it says about our culture is something deeply stupid.

00:50:00.000 Which is that, again, personal authenticity is the only thing that matters.

00:50:03.000 And this is what you should teach to your kids, right?

00:50:05.000 And this thing is restricted on YouTube, so far as I'm aware.

00:50:07.000 It's important that the children should know that the best version of you is the version who is obese, walks around as a male with tasseled nipple coverings, and simulates golden showers on camera.

00:50:20.000 That is the best version.

00:50:20.000 That's how you know you're liberated.

00:50:22.000 That's where happiness lies, folks.

00:50:23.000 That is where true societal and personal fulfillment lie.

00:50:25.000 The future of our civilization rests on precisely that sort of freedom.

00:50:29.000 Okay, time for some things I like and some things that I hate.

00:50:34.000 Okay, so I'm going to recommend a thing that I like.

00:50:37.000 Robert Nisbet was a social scientist and a really great writer.

00:50:42.000 And he has a book that speaks to much of what we've been talking about to the last couple of years on the show.

00:50:46.000 It's called The Quest for Community.

00:50:47.000 It was written in 1952.

00:50:49.000 And essentially, he makes the claim that radical individualistic atomization, that the notion of individual autonomy lying at the root of politics and personal fulfillment, is wrong.

00:50:59.000 That we act within social context.

00:51:01.000 That we as human beings require social context to give us meaning.

00:51:05.000 We act within families.

00:51:07.000 We act within rules and roles.

00:51:09.000 Here are a couple of quotes from The Quest for Community, which is truly worth the read.

00:51:13.000 It's not read today the way it was a big bestseller in its time, but of course it's now been 70 years.

00:51:17.000 You should go back, you should read it.

00:51:18.000 The Quest for Community by Robert Nisbet.

00:51:19.000 Here are a couple of quotes.

00:51:20.000 Quote, genuine freedom is not based upon the negative psychology of release.

00:51:24.000 Its roots are in positive acts of dedication to ends and values.

00:51:28.000 Freedom presupposes the autonomous existence of values which men wish to be free to follow and measure up to.

00:51:33.000 In other words, the sort of nihilistic idea that you find your own cause is not true.

00:51:37.000 There has to be an idea of the good in order for you to feel oriented toward the good.

00:51:40.000 It's that orientation toward the good that gives you a sense of meaning.

00:51:43.000 And you have to do that in the context of wisdom of the ages and communities and institutions that provide you a sense of social solidarity and provide you a sense of place.

00:51:53.000 If you feel rootless, if you feel placeless, It makes it extremely difficult to feel fulfilled.

00:51:58.000 He says, the historical emphasis upon the individual has been at the expense of the associative and symbolic relationship that must in fact uphold the individual's own sense of integrity.

00:52:06.000 As I've said before, if you're alone on a desert island, you're not truly free.

00:52:10.000 I mean, in a technical sense, you are.

00:52:12.000 There's no one who's making you do anything, but also you're not free because freedom is more than just freedom from.

00:52:18.000 It is the ability to orient yourself in connection with the universe and with a higher good and with your fellow man.

00:52:26.000 That is what human beings are social creatures.

00:52:28.000 Pretending that they are not is a mistake.

00:52:30.000 Now there's some people who will say that that mistake began with Locke and that mistake began with sort of in the enlightened liberalism of the of the late 18th century and all of that.

00:52:38.000 The truth is that I think that's an overread of Locke because even Locke is reading inside a social context.

00:52:43.000 The same time that Locke is writing about individualistic autonomy, he's also writing defenses of Christianity.

00:52:49.000 So it's easy to sort of see philosophy as a series of reactions as sort of swinging pendulum, but Whatever you think of Locke, the reality is that the happiness of ordered liberty lies in both the order and the liberty.

00:53:01.000 Liberty without order is libertinism.

00:53:03.000 Order without liberty is totalitarianism.

00:53:05.000 The book, again, is Robert Nisbet's The Quest for Community, and it is totally worth the read.

00:53:09.000 Okay, time for a thing that I hate.

00:53:15.000 So today, I've seen a TikTok storm of viral videos about women complaining about men looking at them at the gym.

00:53:25.000 This apparently is like a thing.

00:53:26.000 Women claim to be, it used to be that in order to be victimized in American society, you actually had to be a victim.

00:53:31.000 Now you're a victim if you go to the gym dressed in booty shorts and a bra and men give you sideways glances.

00:53:39.000 That apparently is like the height of victimhood.

00:53:41.000 I'll agree that women are victimized if some guy puts his hands on them when they don't want to have their hands put on them.

00:53:46.000 Obviously.

00:53:47.000 I'll agree that women are victimized if men, without regard for the woman, just stare at them.

00:53:52.000 Like, just stare for prolonged periods of time.

00:53:54.000 But that's not what we're talking about here.

00:53:56.000 What we are talking about is attractive women on TikTok who are seeking attention, which is why they are on TikTok, filling themselves at the gym, wearing extraordinarily tight clothing and bare midriff, and then they are surprised that men are looking at them occasionally.

00:54:11.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:54:13.000 This is how many dates in the United States and everywhere else have started.

00:54:16.000 A man sees an attractive woman and he walks up to her and he asks her out.

00:54:19.000 This is how most of human civilization was propagated, as it turns out.

00:54:23.000 The entire future of civilization rests on men and women getting together and making babies.

00:54:27.000 You know how that usually is initiated?

00:54:28.000 The same way it is throughout virtually all species.

00:54:31.000 A male finds a female sexually attractive and then he walks up to her and then he says something.

00:54:37.000 And the notion that the physical has nothing to do with anything, that we are a series of souls that kind of meet each other randomly in the it's just silly.

00:54:43.000 But here are some of these videos.

00:54:45.000 By the way, the men in these videos are being now castigated as being gross and terrible.

00:54:48.000 What is the we'll go through this video.

00:54:52.000 I want to watch it with you and we're going to decide together whether the guy in the background who this woman is now targeting, she says this is not how to approach girls at the gym.

00:54:59.000 We'll see whether he does something truly egregious and wrong.

00:55:01.000 This is how to not approach girls at the gym.

00:55:05.000 Stupid bleeping behind me.

00:55:10.000 I hate when there's weirdos.

00:55:12.000 Gets me so uncomfortable.

00:55:13.000 Feral?

00:55:13.000 Feral, feral, feral, like f*** feral.

00:55:15.000 Feral?

00:55:17.000 There's mirrors everywhere so it's like you can even catch people.

00:55:22.000 Act.

00:55:23.000 Oh, this is nothing.

00:55:24.000 Okay, we're gonna move on to the 35s now.

00:55:26.000 I want you to watch very carefully.

00:55:28.000 Stare counter.

00:55:34.000 Why is he staring so long?

00:55:35.000 That is less than a second and a half.

00:55:38.000 That one is not even a stare.

00:55:39.000 That is a glance.

00:55:41.000 This is what women mean by staring at her like a piece of meat.

00:55:43.000 Why is he walking over?

00:55:45.000 Oh, no.

00:55:45.000 He's walking over to offer to help her with her weight, and she says no, and he walks away.

00:55:50.000 Oh, the victimization.

00:55:51.000 Oh, the terribleness.

00:55:52.000 OK, so a couple of things.

00:55:55.000 Yeah, I work out every single day.

00:55:58.000 I'm just wondering why.

00:56:00.000 It's not the only video like this, by the way.

00:56:03.000 Like, here's another video like this.

00:56:05.000 We'll go through another video like this.

00:56:06.000 This is another woman.

00:56:07.000 She takes off her shirt at the gym and a guy looks at her.

00:56:10.000 So let me just point this out to you.

00:56:13.000 If a woman takes off her shirt anywhere in public, men will look at her.

00:56:18.000 I'm sorry to break to you basic lizard brain biology.

00:56:21.000 It's going to happen.

00:56:23.000 I'll get into the actual scientific biology of this in just one second because it's very real.

00:56:26.000 But here's another one of these videos.

00:56:27.000 Again, men are bad because they look at women taking off their shirts.

00:56:32.000 By the way, if you say that pornography is bad, you're also approved.

00:56:34.000 Anyway, here we go.

00:56:36.000 I stand up for myself.

00:56:37.000 He threatens to call the police and revoke my membership.

00:56:42.000 So here she is taking off her shirt.

00:56:45.000 And a guy looks at her.

00:56:49.000 Oh, no.

00:56:50.000 In the mirror, there's a guy who's looking as a woman takes off her shirt.

00:56:52.000 Unprecedented.

00:56:55.000 And he says, oh, damn, because a woman is taking off her shirt.

00:56:58.000 And then she just stands there still taking off her shirt.

00:57:00.000 She's gonna yell at him, do you need something?

00:57:08.000 Nope.

00:57:08.000 Okay, I thought so.

00:57:12.000 Are you a fan?

00:57:13.000 If you're getting rude, you can leave.

00:57:17.000 Nobody is looking at you in any type of way.

00:57:20.000 I don't own the gym, I work here.

00:57:23.000 And if you're getting rude, then you can leave.

00:57:25.000 I can call the police and have you trespassed right now.

00:57:28.000 Would you like that?

00:57:29.000 Go ahead.

00:57:30.000 Okay, cool.

00:57:30.000 Go ahead, let him know.

00:57:34.000 And by the way, normally we would call this lady, based on the race of the people involved, a Karen, would we not?

00:57:39.000 Right?

00:57:40.000 She's a young lady who does not seem to be of color, who is harassing a black man, who didn't do anything particularly wrong.

00:57:49.000 Other things that we should point out here.

00:57:50.000 When women spray paint their asses and then wear bras and bare their midriffs in public, men are going to look at them.

00:57:56.000 Again, hate to break this to you, that is the reality.

00:57:59.000 As I say, I work out at the gym every single day.

00:58:00.000 And there are women who come in, And do not wear this sort of stuff.

00:58:04.000 And guess what?

00:58:05.000 They don't get stared at as much.

00:58:06.000 I don't know how the patriarchy convinced women that the most efficient form of workout material was to essentially wear things that hug the body as closely as humanly possible and bear as much skin as possible.

00:58:22.000 But the patriarchy has magic powers, apparently.

00:58:26.000 It is not sexist to point out that men are going to look at scantily clad women in a different way.

00:58:32.000 Listen, I made this case to my friend Allie Beth Stuckey, who's like, yeah, yoga pants are fine.

00:58:37.000 Yeah, women can wear yoga pants.

00:58:38.000 But don't be surprised when men stare at you because it hugs your ass.

00:58:42.000 That's just the reality.

00:58:43.000 And when I say stare, it doesn't mean the men should gawk at you.

00:58:45.000 But if a man takes an occasional glance at the fact that you have a spray-painted ass, that is not a shock.

00:58:50.000 That is not sexism.

00:58:51.000 That is basic human biology.

00:58:56.000 My favorite part of American society is now the idea that men have to walk around like Sandra Bullock in Bird Box.

00:59:04.000 They're gonna walk around with like a blindfold on all day long, and oh my god, he glanced over at me despite me dressing like this.

00:59:11.000 Yes!

00:59:14.000 We all understand this, but then we have to pretend not to understand this so as not to be perceived as quote-unquote sexist.

00:59:19.000 He's not sexist, as it turns out actually.

00:59:22.000 You know what?

00:59:22.000 I'm gonna do the science right now.

00:59:24.000 You wanna know why this is not sexist?

00:59:25.000 Quote.

00:59:26.000 This is from Scientific American.

00:59:27.000 Our brains see men as whole and women as parts.

00:59:31.000 Evolution might underlie the different processing of female versus male bodies.

00:59:34.000 Both genders do it!

00:59:37.000 A glimpse at the magazine rack in any supermarket checkout line will tell you that women are frequently the focus of sexual objectification.

00:59:43.000 Now, new research finds the brain actually processes images of women differently than those of men, contributing to that trend.

00:59:49.000 Women are more likely to be picked apart by the human brain and seen as parts rather than as wholes.

00:59:55.000 That is correct, according to research published online June 29th in the European Journal of Social Psychology.

01:00:00.000 Men, on the other hand, are processed as a whole rather than the sum of their parts.

01:00:03.000 Again, none of this is particularly shocking, considering that by evolutionary biological standards, men are going to be adjudicated based on their strength and their success rate for reproductive possibility, and women are generally predicted for reproductive possibility.

01:00:18.000 I'm talking about in the animal kingdom, not even among human beings.

01:00:20.000 For youth, fertility, beauty, right?

01:00:22.000 These are all biologically based.

01:00:25.000 The study author, Sarah Gervais, a psychologist at University of Nebraska, said, everyday ordinary women are being reduced to their sexual body parts.

01:00:31.000 But, she says, it's also that, like, that's just what people do.

01:00:37.000 The researchers focused on two types of mental processing, global and local.

01:00:40.000 Global processing is how the brain identifies objects as a whole.

01:00:42.000 It tends to be used when recognizing people, where it's not just important to know the shape of the nose, for example, but also how the nose sits in relation to the eyes and the mouth.

01:00:49.000 Local processing focuses more on the individual parts of an object.

01:00:53.000 You might recognize a house by its door alone, for instance.

01:00:55.000 You're less likely to recognize a person's arm without the benefit of seeing the rest of her body.

01:00:59.000 If women are sexually objectified, people should process their bodies in a more local way, focusing on individual body parts like breasts.

01:01:05.000 To test that idea, Gervais and her colleagues carried out two nearly identical experiments with a total of 227 undergraduate participants.

01:01:12.000 Each person was shown non-sexualized photographs, each of either a young man or a young woman, 48 in total.

01:01:16.000 After seeing each original full-body image, the participants saw two side-by-side photographs.

01:01:21.000 One was the original image, the other was the original with a slight alteration to the chest or waist, because these are sexualized body parts.

01:01:27.000 Participants had to pick which image they'd seen before.

01:01:29.000 In some cases, the second set of photos zoomed in on the chest or waist only, asking participants to pick the body part they'd previously seen versus the one that had been altered.

01:01:37.000 The results showed a clear schism between the images of men and women.

01:01:40.000 When viewing female images, participants were better at recognizing individual parts than they were matching whole body photographs to the originals.

01:01:46.000 The opposite was true for males.

01:01:48.000 People were better at recognizing a dude as a whole than they were his individual parts.

01:01:52.000 And it's both men and women doing this to women, so don't blame the men here, says Gervais.

01:01:58.000 Why?

01:01:59.000 Largely because, again, this is how men look at women.

01:02:03.000 This does not mean that this is how men end up looking at women in a relationship.

01:02:07.000 This is why relationships are supposed to be predicated not on sexual attractiveness, that is the original attraction.

01:02:12.000 They are then supposed to be predicated on seeing the person as a whole.

01:02:16.000 That is what happens over the course of, say, a marriage.

01:02:18.000 This is why commitment matters in relationships.

01:02:20.000 Because ladies, bit of personal advice, men at the beginning are going to see you more as a collection of beauty and body parts than they are as a soul.

01:02:26.000 And the more they get to know you, and the more you hold off on the physical components of the relationship, the more they're going to have to get to know the whole you, and maybe commit to the whole you.

01:02:35.000 When women complain that they're being treated as pieces of meat by men while going on one-night stands, the answer is, that's terrible that men are doing that to you.

01:02:45.000 Also, of course that's true.

01:02:47.000 Of course that's true.

01:02:50.000 The longer you are with a person, the more of their soul you see, the more of the whole them you see.

01:02:54.000 Women tend to be better at this with regard to men.

01:02:56.000 But as it turns out, women actually do this with women also.

01:02:58.000 Why?

01:02:58.000 Because women compare themselves to other women.

01:03:01.000 This creepy old guy at the gym kept coming over and staring at me.

01:03:04.000 for other women, for example.

01:03:05.000 Women don't dress for men.

01:03:06.000 They dress to impress other women.

01:03:08.000 Anyway, we'll go back to this video where apparently it's very creepy if a person glances at you when you wear spray-painted ass clothes.

01:03:16.000 This creepy old guy at the gym kept coming over and staring at me.

01:03:22.000 So I told my husband, and he came over and worked out next to me.

01:03:29.000 Even after he came over, he continued to stare.

01:03:32.000 I decided to stop working out and stare back.

01:03:40.000 I attempted to do my set.

01:03:42.000 Then I got set up and went over and addressed him.

01:03:45.000 Okay, here she goes.

01:03:52.000 She's gonna go over and address this guy.

01:03:54.000 Again, you saw in this video him for a grand total of like Three seconds, maybe?

01:03:58.000 Okay, so, again, you're filming yourself at the gym to do this.

01:04:00.000 workout in this corner he needed to stop staring and making me uncomfortable.

01:04:18.000 Okay, one, you could theoretically have separate gyms.

01:04:20.000 There are a lot of women in the Orthodox Jewish community who prefer to work out at separate gyms specifically to avoid this, right?

01:04:24.000 They work out at female-only gyms and males work out at male-only gyms.

01:04:28.000 Another way to avoid this is, presumably, that you work out with a group of women.

01:04:34.000 You could do that.

01:04:35.000 There are many things that can be done if this really bothers you.

01:04:38.000 There are things that you can do to alleviate this problem.

01:04:41.000 But pretending that men are not going to glance at you or that that can be alleviated by societally beating it out of them or by shaming them on TikTok is ridiculous.

01:04:49.000 It's always going to be ridiculous.

01:04:51.000 And that's not the same.

01:04:52.000 Pretending that a stare is the same thing as a glance is silly.

01:04:54.000 It is not the same thing as a glance.

01:04:56.000 Pretending that men are not going to glance at women is silly.

01:04:59.000 Pretending that men glancing at women is inherently a bad thing is silly.

01:05:02.000 Again, that's how I would say virtually all dates get started this way.

01:05:06.000 But because it's become a TikTok viral trend, we have to comment on it because again, the idea from our culture is that human nature does not exist.

01:05:13.000 And so all things I don't like are societal creations of quote-unquote, the patriarchy.

01:05:18.000 And therefore, if a guy stares at me while I'm dressed in spandex, then it must be because the patriarchy indoctrinated him to do so.

01:05:24.000 One quick note, I've been made aware by some producers that some of these TikTok videos, not all of them, some of the TikTok videos of this ilk have been created by women who also have OnlyFans accounts.

01:05:32.000 So in other words, they're totally fine with men staring at them so long as they get paid for it.

01:05:37.000 They just don't like it when men glance at them at the gym dressing the exact same stuff that they're wearing on their OnlyFans accounts for free.

01:05:45.000 They're not clout chasing, in other words.

01:05:47.000 This is all genuine, guys.

01:05:49.000 Staring grossly at women is bad.

01:05:51.000 Glancing at them is sort of just a human instinct and people are going to have to get over it.

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