The Ben Shapiro Show - IHateHersheys.com | Ep. 1680

00:00:00.000 After Hershey's decides to virtually signal to the radical trans agenda, we launch Jeremy's Chocolate. 0.67

00:00:05.000 John Kerry calls for an energy revolution, but the facts don't back him up.

00:00:08.000 And John Fetterman is apparently sponsoring legislation from a mental hospital.

00:00:12.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:12.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:13.000 Well, folks, I'm sure you've seen by now, Hershey's decided that it was worthwhile going completely woke.

00:00:25.000 So this makes them the second major chocolate company to decide to move along woke lines.

00:00:28.000 Obviously you saw M&M's with their body positivity M&M's spokespeople and all the rest of their silliness.

00:00:35.000 Well now, Hershey's has gone a lot further.

00:00:37.000 So Hershey's, over the last couple of days, in honor of Women's History Month, because again, women represent 50% of the population, but apparently only about 1 12th of the history in honor of Women's History Month, they decided to launch their she bars. Ah, yes, because it's her for she had it like her. 0.95

00:00:54.000 She get it. But here is the thing.

00:00:56.000 That'd be kind of virtue signaling enough. But they decided that the most the most virtue signaling that they could pack into one chocolate, one chocolate bar was going to be by featuring as the spokesperson for Hershey's for Women's History Month, a dude, an actual man like a male who who believes that he is a woman.

00:01:14.000 And so Hershey's Canada released an ad featuring a male to female transgender person.

00:01:23.000 Here we go.

00:01:24.000 My name is Faye Johnstone.

00:01:26.000 I'm the executive director of Wisdom to Action.

00:01:29.000 We can create a world where everyone is able to live in public space as their honest and authentic selves.

00:01:35.000 See the woman changing how we see the future. 1.00

00:01:41.000 See the women changing how we see the future. 1.00

00:01:43.000 The future is very, very male. 0.99

00:01:46.000 All the best.

00:01:47.000 All the best women are men. 0.95

00:01:48.000 Okay, so we here at Daily Wire, we don't, you know, particularly hold with this sort of thing.

00:01:53.000 Well, we're not big fans of corporations that decide they're going to virtue signal to you.

00:01:57.000 They're going to try to sell you chocolate or sell you razors or sell you any sort of good by spitting in your face with regard to your own values.

00:02:03.000 And this is why today I am proud to announce that we have launched Jeremy's Chocolate.

00:02:07.000 Yes, you knew it was coming and it's going to happen right now.

00:02:09.000 Head on over to IHateHersheys.com.

00:02:12.000 That's a real website.

00:02:14.000 IHateHersheys.com.

00:02:15.000 And what you will find there is Jeremy's Chocolate Binary.

00:02:19.000 Jeremy's Chocolate Binary.

00:02:20.000 There are two types of chocolate bars that we are selling.

00:02:22.000 We have He-Him bars and we have She-Her bars. 0.99

00:02:25.000 The He-Him bars are complete with nuts.

00:02:28.000 The she-her bars are nutless. 0.99

00:02:30.000 Indeed, there are no nuts in the she-her bar because we at Jeremy's Chocolate, we understand there's a difference between men and women and we feel that any bar that is labeled he should, in fact, have nuts. 0.85

00:02:42.000 And any bar that is labeled she should, in fact, not have nuts. 0.98

00:02:45.000 It's very obvious and it's very clear.

00:02:47.000 As I Hate Hershey's says on the website, some chocolate companies don't even know what a woman is. 1.00

00:02:53.000 But we do.

00:02:53.000 Indulge in the chocolate binary.

00:02:55.000 One with nuts, one without.

00:02:57.000 You know which is which.

00:02:59.000 Yes, indeed.

00:03:00.000 Help buy some of these bars, honestly. 0.71

00:03:02.000 Yeah, it's a troll.

00:03:02.000 But also, the chocolate's good.

00:03:04.000 And also, they're going to be demonstrating to Hershey's and other woke chocolate companies that, you know, you don't have to take your money to them.

00:03:11.000 They don't need to have your money. 0.98

00:03:12.000 If they hate your values and they spit in your face and they believe that they can cram down their idiotic, Social justice warrior messaging about how men are women and women are men in the middle of Women's History Month. 0.91

00:03:21.000 If you're a woman, for example, and you actually would like to celebrate being a woman with some chocolate late in the day because your kids have run you ragged or because you're late at work, and you actually don't wish to honor a company that believes that men are women. 0.97

00:03:34.000 Well, now would be an excellent time to head over to IHateHersheys.com.

00:03:37.000 That site is live, and you can order a 4-pack, a 10-pack, or a 24-pack of our chocolate bars.

00:03:42.000 Again, the He-Him bars come with nuts.

00:03:45.000 The She-Her bars are nutless, as God made them. 1.00

00:03:49.000 So just wanted to announce that right off the top.

00:03:52.000 And, you know, honestly, our goal is to sell a lot of these bars because we would like for the media to understand.

00:03:56.000 We would like for for Hershey's to understand that they shouldn't be promoting this sort of left wing garbage and using your money to do it and then trying to sell you product on the back of hating your values.

00:04:07.000 Once more, I hate Hershey's dot com and go check it out right now. 0.87

00:04:11.000 OK, meanwhile.

00:04:12.000 Speaking of the delusional, John Kerry, for some odd reason, that is a dude who has just failed up his entire career.

00:04:18.000 He went to Vietnam after running a failed congressional race.

00:04:22.000 He went to Vietnam.

00:04:23.000 He came back.

00:04:23.000 He slandered all of his fellow soldiers.

00:04:25.000 And then he ended up in the United States Senate. 0.99

00:04:28.000 And like Joe Biden, has been a career useless person.

00:04:30.000 The difference is that he actually lost his run for the presidency in 2004.

00:04:33.000 But that didn't stop him from continuing to be a prominent public figure.

00:04:36.000 Even his face elongated.

00:04:38.000 Sort of like the Edvard Munch Scream painting.

00:04:40.000 That's sort of what just happened to John Kerry's face over time.

00:04:43.000 He's gradually turning into the Easter Island head.

00:04:47.000 Well, he is still the top climate diplomat, despite being a person who has probably produced more carbon emissions than 99.99% of the population.

00:04:56.000 Well, a couple of days ago, it was announced that Kerry will stay in his role as President Joe Biden's special climate envoy, at least through this year's UN climate talk set for December in Dubai, ending speculation that he might soon depart.

00:05:06.000 He recently informed Biden of his decision to stay in his post.

00:05:09.000 Well, yeah, I mean, what else is he going to do with his life?

00:05:12.000 Go windsurfing again?

00:05:14.000 He said there's insufficient, there's unfinished business.

00:05:17.000 I felt it would be inappropriate to walk away from that at this point in time.

00:05:21.000 So he's going to stay through the COP28 climate meeting, where nations will hold a global stock take to assess the gap between their progress in combating climate change and the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement to keep the temperatures well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

00:05:34.000 That, of course, is not going to happen.

00:05:36.000 But he is traveling around the world and speaking on behalf of the Green Climate Agenda.

00:05:42.000 And many of the things that he is saying are just not true.

00:05:45.000 And today I'd like to go through some of the things that the environmentalist movement says about the green transition, the transition to green energy, that are just not true.

00:05:51.000 Because it turns out a lot of it is just a pack of lies.

00:05:53.000 It is virtue signaling lies that are directed toward redistributionism and quashing global capitalism in the name of a goal they will never achieve.

00:06:02.000 It's kind of important to understand that when they promote a thing, they're not actually promoting the thing they say they're promoting.

00:06:05.000 They're promoting a different thing.

00:06:07.000 They're not actually promoting an end to climate change.

00:06:09.000 What they actually are promoting is an end to capitalism and a redistributionist economic system under the guise of solving the climate problem.

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00:07:24.000 Okay, so John Kerry is still gallivanting around the world talking about the climate agenda.

00:07:30.000 So here he was at an event called Ocean.

00:07:35.000 I believe this was in Brazil, I think.

00:07:37.000 And he was explaining that all the science says that the time is running out to act on climate.

00:07:43.000 Now, again, these are sufficiently vague statements that they don't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.

00:07:47.000 If we're talking about what we can do to mitigate future climate change, the time is never running out because presumably We can still mitigate whatever is going to happen tomorrow.

00:07:57.000 If what he means is that time is running out in order for us not to hit like 1.5 degrees Celsius climate change or 2 degrees Celsius climate change, that time is already over.

00:08:05.000 The emissions are already up in the air and we ain't keeping it under that, if you believe in the anthropogenic climate change arguments that are made by folks on the left and many people in the climatologist departments over at MIT and Caltech.

00:08:17.000 In any case, here is John Kerry explaining that he is on the side of Tessallians.

00:08:22.000 And the truth is, my friends, these choices that we've been making about how we drive our economies, time is running out.

00:08:35.000 And the science is what tells us that.

00:08:37.000 Not John Kerry, not President Biden, not any of the ministers who are here.

00:08:41.000 Science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, all of them.

00:08:49.000 On a factual basis, they're screaming to us about the choices we face.

00:08:54.000 They're all screaming at us.

00:08:56.000 OK, but here's the problem.

00:08:57.000 The choices that we face are not the choices that John Kerry says we face.

00:09:01.000 The reality is the world is going to be dependent on fossil fuels for a very long time to come because the green tech just isn't there.

00:09:09.000 And this is the part they just won't say.

00:09:10.000 They say it behind closed doors, by the way.

00:09:12.000 I've been in meetings with people, climatologists from MIT, from Caltech, who will tell you that the green revolution is not here.

00:09:18.000 The tech just isn't here.

00:09:20.000 But then if you say that publicly, they yell at you.

00:09:22.000 Then they say it's because you're insufficiently committed.

00:09:25.000 See, the thing is, Bernie Sanders has a line in his newest garbage book in which he says, it's an amazing, amazing line.

00:09:34.000 He suggests that politics is not about attempting to allocate scarce resources or about policy.

00:09:40.000 It's not about any of those things.

00:09:42.000 He has one line that's really telling.

00:09:44.000 He says, our economic debates should not revolve around questions of resources.

00:09:47.000 They should revolve around questions of intent and will.

00:09:50.000 Intent and will.

00:09:51.000 In other words, this is the way the left-wingers view government.

00:09:54.000 Government is capable of anything.

00:09:55.000 It's not a question of what government can do.

00:09:57.000 It's not a question of what government should do.

00:09:59.000 It's about intent and will.

00:10:01.000 Do you have a good intent?

00:10:01.000 And do you have enough will to ram that thing through?

00:10:05.000 And that is what it comes down to when it comes to climate change.

00:10:07.000 For people like John Kerry, they never have to look at the science because the science actually doesn't matter to them.

00:10:11.000 The point is that they have good intent.

00:10:12.000 Their intent.

00:10:13.000 My intent is good.

00:10:15.000 I'm going to save the planet.

00:10:17.000 And I have the will.

00:10:19.000 Do you have the will?

00:10:20.000 If we don't do it, it's because you're a bad person who doesn't who doesn't have the will.

00:10:23.000 It's not about will.

00:10:24.000 It's not about intent.

00:10:25.000 It is, in fact, about what you can do and what you should do.

00:10:28.000 But these are questions that are never asked when it comes to climate change, because the whole goal of the climate change movement is not, in fact, to actually Lower the future climate change.

00:10:37.000 It is not, in fact, to adapt to climate change and prevent future death and suffering.

00:10:43.000 The goal of the movement is to politically wrongfoot its opponents in favor of a more pure redistributionist scheme for the global economy.

00:10:53.000 But John Kerry, he never tells you the truth about the actual choices that we face, because the actual choices that we face are a lot more grave than the ones he likes to say.

00:10:58.000 So instead, they lie to you, just like all politicians lie to you.

00:11:01.000 They say things like, it'll be a green revolution, it'll create millions of jobs, and your lifestyle will be even better than it was before.

00:11:09.000 It's a win-win-win.

00:11:11.000 It's a Michael Scott win-win-win.

00:11:13.000 So here is John Kerry talking about climate change being a crisis of our own choices.

00:11:13.000 It isn't, though.

00:11:18.000 We face a crisis of the choices that we make.

00:11:25.000 Not all of us individually, but yes, in many ways, still individually by what we buy, how we live, the choices we make on a daily basis.

00:11:34.000 And the crisis that we face today on the global biome is a crisis that comes from unabated emissions.

00:11:45.000 Unabated emissions, says the man who has been spending his entire career flying around in private jets.

00:11:50.000 And then, of course, he touts the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:11:52.000 So one of the big lies the Biden administration told is that the Inflation Reduction Act would reduce inflation.

00:11:56.000 Spoiler alert, it didn't even come close to reducing inflation.

00:11:59.000 Actually, it turns out that when you pour more money into the economy, you increase inflation.

00:12:03.000 But the real truth is that they meant it to be a climate Legislation boondoggle.

00:12:09.000 The problem is, of course, it's not going to achieve its goals.

00:12:11.000 None of this is designed to achieve the goals they say it's designed to achieve.

00:12:14.000 It's not going to have any market impact on climate change.

00:12:16.000 Even the Paris agreements would not have any market impact on the upward trajectory of climate change if the United States kept to it.

00:12:23.000 And that is the sad truth.

00:12:24.000 That is the sad reality.

00:12:25.000 But here's John Kerry pushing it.

00:12:28.000 For our part, the United States is highlighting 77 announcements from eight agencies and offices valued at nearly $6 billion.

00:12:42.000 This is more than double the commitments that we highlighted last year in terms of dollar value, and thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the most significant piece of climate legislation in our history, we will be doing even more.

00:13:00.000 Okay, and the end goal, of course, is to pressure the fossil fuel industry to change.

00:13:04.000 It's the fossil fuel industry we need to get them to stop.

00:13:06.000 That's the real problem here, according to John Kerry.

00:13:10.000 And I personally know this new president, Sultan al-Jaber, who has been leading the deployment of renewables in the UAE.

00:13:19.000 who has been part of a process that has been investing globally in renewables for years and that has already deployed renewables in their own country.

00:13:29.000 My friends, I believe it's important for us to understand that to get this job done we have to be inclusive and we need to get the fossil fuel industry to change its own choices and join other fossil fuel companies that have decided They're going to be energy companies, not oil companies.

00:13:51.000 He's selling you a bill of goods here, and I'll explain exactly why he's selling you a bill of goods in just one second.

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00:14:59.000 Okay, so let's talk about the flaws in the arguments that John Kerry is making.

00:15:04.000 So there's a very good book out that I highly recommend by a guy named Peter Zaihan.

00:15:08.000 You may have heard Zaihan on Joe Rogan's show.

00:15:10.000 And he has a very good book out right now called The End of the World is Just the Beginning, in which, in fairly granular detail, he goes through resource allocation around the world.

00:15:20.000 How much cobalt there is in the world and where it's located.

00:15:23.000 How much cobalt it would take to generate certain types of batteries.

00:15:26.000 How to make a lithium battery and how much lithium it takes to make a lithium battery and all the rest of this sort of stuff.

00:15:31.000 And he comes to a few conclusions about green tech, because he's talking about the fact that he believes that as the world becomes less interconnected, as globalization ends, supply chains are going to become attenuated, and they're going to break more easily, and the world is going to become a worse place.

00:15:44.000 And so what he says is, if you are relying on green to pick up the slack, you're wrong.

00:15:49.000 So here's some of the problems that he points out here.

00:15:51.000 And again, I think this is important for people to know, because whether you are left or right or center, it is important to be very accurate about what government can do and what we can achieve.

00:15:59.000 Otherwise, you're just shouting into the wind.

00:16:01.000 Otherwise, when you're talking about green tech and the green revolution and reshifting our economy and all this kind of stuff, you're just the same as Joe Biden shouting about how he's going to end cancer by yelling at it.

00:16:10.000 So Peter Zeihan talks about a list of problems with the so-called green revolution, this green tech revolution that's supposed to reshift all energy resources on planet Earth toward renewables.

00:16:20.000 He points out that the best replacement for oil is actually natural gas, which is true.

00:16:26.000 If you look at the reduction in emissions in the United States over the course of the last decade and a half, that has been largely due to the replacement of oil with natural gas.

00:16:32.000 But the lefty environmentalists don't like natural gas in the same way that they don't like nuclear energy.

00:16:37.000 But if you move beyond fossil fuels, he points out, quote, either the cost of the substitute is in excess of 10 times that of the original input, the carbon footprint is in excess of 10 times that of the original input, or more likely both.

00:16:48.000 In other words, if you use solar, it's going to be way more expensive.

00:16:50.000 And if you use like animal dung to replace oil, it's way more carbon intensive.

00:16:56.000 So you're going to have to make some really, really bad choices.

00:16:59.000 Green tech, as it turns out, is not remotely space efficient.

00:17:02.000 Solar is 1000 times less dense than systems powered by more conventional means.

00:17:06.000 It's an awful lot of land covered in really ugly solar panels in order for you to achieve even remotely similar amounts of power to oil, natural gas and fossil fuel resources that generally power electrical grids.

00:17:19.000 When it comes to efficiency, we've spent enormous amounts of money globally on solar tech.

00:17:23.000 From 2014, which is when the solar boom started, until about 2020, 1.5% of total electricity now comes from solar.

00:17:30.000 1.5% globally comes from solar.

00:17:33.000 And there are a bunch of problems with things like solar and wind.

00:17:37.000 Some of them are dispatchability.

00:17:38.000 It turns out that the sun shines where it shines and the wind blows where the wind blows, but that doesn't mean that you necessarily live near where the sun shines and where the wind blows.

00:17:45.000 95% of humans, as Zeihan points out, live within 50 miles of their power plant.

00:17:49.000 He says green tech in its current form simply isn't able to shave more than a dozen or so percentage points off fossil fuel demand.

00:17:56.000 In fact, places that have shifted over to green tech are spending four times what they normally would for power.

00:18:02.000 Even places like California, which has tried to make that shift.

00:18:05.000 And California is a fairly welcoming place in terms of green energy.

00:18:10.000 It has good green resources.

00:18:12.000 Even California is paying three times what it normally would for power.

00:18:15.000 It would be paying four, except that it's importing power from other states and then pretending that it's not.

00:18:19.000 In the same way that Europe was pretending that it was engaged in a green revolution and then just importing oil and natural gas from Russia.

00:18:25.000 Perhaps the biggest problem with the green tech movement is that a lot of the green tech is not storable.

00:18:30.000 See, here's the thing.

00:18:31.000 Fuel, like oil, natural gas, coal, what these are, are physical energy, right?

00:18:36.000 These are energy in physical form, which means they are transportable.

00:18:38.000 It means they are movable.

00:18:39.000 It means that they don't just dissipate immediately.

00:18:42.000 That is not true for solar and wind.

00:18:43.000 How do you store the energy from the solar or the wind?

00:18:45.000 It exists in time.

00:18:47.000 So people have talked about, well, we need battery power.

00:18:48.000 Well, there's only one problem.

00:18:50.000 You ain't got nothing remotely like the kind of batteries that would be necessary to store the energy that you are talking about.

00:18:56.000 Zaihan says, assuming that the technological improvements in the world of batteries that have unfolded since 1990 continue into 2026, the cost of a four-hour lithium grid storage system will be about 250 bucks per megawatt hour of capacity, six times that of the standard combined cycle natural gas plant, which is currently the most common electricity generating asset in the United States.

00:19:15.000 Despite all of the talk about solar and wind in the state of California, for example, the amount of total storage, power storage, in the state of California right now is one minute of power.

00:19:25.000 One minute of power, which is why when you look at states like Texas and there's a big freeze that the sources of energy that fail are the renewables.

00:19:33.000 The renewables fail.

00:19:35.000 All the other energy, the natural gas and all the rest of that.

00:19:38.000 If there are failures, it's because like a pipe cracked.

00:19:39.000 But the usual answer is you have to ramp up the natural gas and the oil in order to compensate for the failure of the renewables.

00:19:47.000 So Zeihan concludes, green tech in its current form simply isn't mature enough or cheap enough to move the needle for most peoples in most locations.

00:19:54.000 It's largely limited to developed countries with rich capital supplies, who just coincidentally happen to have large population centers fairly close to sunny or windy locations.

00:20:01.000 Nearly all other locations globally will remain dependent upon more traditional fuels for the vast majority of their energy needs.

00:20:08.000 And so what exactly is going to happen to all of those other countries?

00:20:11.000 Well, as it turns out, if they can't get a hold of oil, it's going to get worse in terms of the environment, not better.

00:20:15.000 They're going to turn to coal or they're going to turn to lignite.

00:20:19.000 Lignite is a barely qualifies as coal fuel that is typically one fifth water by weight and is by far the least efficient and dirtiest fuel in use today.

00:20:25.000 Germany today already uses lignite as its primary power input fuel because green tech has failed.

00:20:32.000 And yet the Germans, for environmental reasons, have shut down their other power generation options like nuclear and natural gas, and instead they're using the far dirtier lignites.

00:20:40.000 This is why when you hear people like John Kerry babble about green energy, when you hear Joe Biden talk about, oh we need to spend a billion dollars, we'll shift all the power. 1.00

00:20:49.000 No, you moron. 0.99

00:20:50.000 We're going to be using oil and natural gas for a very, very long time to come. 0.99

00:20:54.000 And when you disincentivize the creation of oil refineries, for example, which takes sometimes 10 years to come online, all you are doing is making energy more expensive.

00:21:02.000 And by the way, you're not helping the environment because people are going to be using other cheaper and dirtier forms of energy in substitute.

00:21:09.000 Which is the reason why, for all the happy talk about environmentalism, you know who actually is generating the most emissions right now?

00:21:17.000 China, of course.

00:21:19.000 According to the Washington Post, despite the West's enormous head start, China is projected to have emitted more total carbon dioxide than all of Europe by 2039 and more than the United States by 2050.

00:21:28.000 We don't mean that they're the leading emitter now.

00:21:31.000 They are already the leading emitter.

00:21:33.000 We mean that historically speaking, by 2050, they will have emitted more in terms of carbon emissions than the entire history of the United States in terms of carbon emissions at that point.

00:21:43.000 Because it turns out developing countries, they don't care very much about John Kerry's wins.

00:21:47.000 They just want to make sure that their people don't starve.

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00:23:07.000 Okay, so, reality is a hell of a waker-upper.

00:23:12.000 We've been spending the last several decades in sort of a miasmatic dream of our own making.

00:23:18.000 And that's particularly true when it comes to the economy.

00:23:20.000 What we're about to see in terms of the economy, we're about to see a recession.

00:23:23.000 One of the reasons that we're about to see a recession is because all the loose money is going away.

00:23:27.000 When you just inflate the currency and when you make it possible for people to take out incredibly cheap credit, people tend to use it on a bunch of dumb projects.

00:23:34.000 You'll get the occasional project that hits, and then you'll get a lot of projects that fail, because people have cheap money, and they're going to spend it on things.

00:23:41.000 And so, what you have seen is a burst of risky spending over the course of the last several years, and nowhere is this truer than in the world of big tech, which is about to see a pretty massive cleanup.

00:23:52.000 And when you have a bubble and the bubble bursts, what ends up happening is all the air in the bubble escapes, and that is what is happening right now in the economy.

00:23:59.000 As the interest rates ramp up, as it becomes harder to get credit, a lot of the folks who took out cheap and easy credit on speculative projects are about to get it directly in the tochas. 0.78

00:24:08.000 According to the Washington Post, eight years ago, Google's founders split the company up into separate entities and named the collection Alphabet.

00:24:14.000 The idea was to separate the core business, the company's giant advertising machine, from the side projects that needed time to develop but could one day become Google's next big moneymaker.

00:24:22.000 But that next big moneymaker has not materialized.

00:24:24.000 Revenue still comes overwhelmingly from advertising.

00:24:26.000 Google has shuttered most of the other so-called moonshots, from internet-delivering balloons to glucose-measuring contact lenses.

00:24:32.000 Even the most advanced of its side projects, self-driving car lab Waymo, healthcare tech startup Verily, are now confined by the limits of regular business.

00:24:39.000 On Wednesday, Waymo laid off 8% of its workforce, adding to a previous round of cuts in January.

00:24:45.000 Now, this is a long time coming.

00:24:46.000 It's not only going to happen in big tech.

00:24:48.000 It's also going to happen in real estate.

00:24:49.000 We've been seeing the prices of real estate stagnate.

00:24:52.000 They will start to drop at some point here because, again, if you spent on a speculative mortgage and then it turns out that you can't afford that mortgage because of the inflation, Then a lot of the money is going to get washed out of the system.

00:25:03.000 Shoppers right now are pulling back.

00:25:04.000 All the talk about a happy landing here, an easy landing, a soft landing.

00:25:08.000 That seems like that is wishful thinking at best.

00:25:12.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, consumers pulled back on purchases of apparel and electronics in recent months while continuing to spend on groceries and other necessities, which is why they are called necessities.

00:25:20.000 Macy's and Best Buy said they expect sales to fall this year after declining in 2022.

00:25:24.000 Macy's chief executive Jeff Gennett said he expects consumers to be in worse shape in 2023 than they were last year.

00:25:30.000 According to Rodney McMullin, chief executive of Kroger, they are behaving as if they're already in a recession.

00:25:35.000 Consumers are shopping more frequently than they have in recent months, and they're still splurging on products they want like premium beer.

00:25:40.000 But people are starting to shift their spending habits because, again, when the easy money goes away, what you end up with is typically a recession.

00:25:48.000 And this is going to be the future of Western economies unless we get our spending under control.

00:25:52.000 Because when you spend too much money, when you take out too much government debt, you have to pay off that debt somehow.

00:25:56.000 Typically, the way that you pay off that debt is you either raise the taxes dramatically or you have to Inflate the currency.

00:26:03.000 Those are usually the best ways of doing that sort of thing.

00:26:05.000 Or you have to play financial trickeries in which you essentially inflate one type of bond and deflate another type of bond.

00:26:12.000 All that is game playing.

00:26:14.000 But quantitative easing is usually where the governments get out of this sort of stuff, and that creates economic stagnation.

00:26:18.000 And higher taxation creates economic stagnation.

00:26:21.000 Joe Manchin, one of the only sane Democrats left in the Senate of the United States, he says, listen, you can't tax your way out of debt, which apparently is the plan of the Biden administration.

00:26:30.000 You know, the president indicated yesterday, Senator, quoting here, I want to be clear.

00:26:35.000 I'm going to raise some taxes.

00:26:37.000 He didn't outline what taxes he's going to raise.

00:26:40.000 You limited those he wanted to increase a couple of years ago.

00:26:43.000 Where are you on that and what do you think he's talking about?

00:26:48.000 I don't know.

00:26:49.000 I'll probably hear something today, hopefully, of what direction they want to go.

00:26:52.000 But I can assure you, you can't basically just tax your way out of debt.

00:26:58.000 You can't borrow your way out of debt.

00:26:59.000 And you can't cut your way out of debt.

00:27:03.000 Okay, he happens to be correct about all of this.

00:27:06.000 Nouriel Roubini, who's known as Dr. Doom because he has predicted like 13 of the last two recessions.

00:27:12.000 He is predicting doom again, but it's worth listening to what he has to say at the very least.

00:27:17.000 He was one of the first economists to call the 2008 recession, and he's been warning for months of a stagflationary debt crisis, which combines the worst aspects of 70s style stagflation and the 2008 debt crisis.

00:27:26.000 He says, I believe a stagflationary crisis is going to emerge this year.

00:27:29.000 He estimates the Federal Reserve would need to lift benchmark rates well above 6% for inflation to fall back to its 2% target, but that could spark a severe recession.

00:27:37.000 One of the big problems, as Mohamed El-Erian has pointed out over at Allianz, is that the last Federal Reserve meeting, they raised the interest rates by 25 basis points, 0.25%.

00:27:48.000 Before that, they've been doing it half a percent, right?

00:27:51.000 50 basis points.

00:27:53.000 By reducing that, they gave a signal to the market they thought they had inflation under control.

00:27:56.000 The problem is it looks like inflation is ramping back up.

00:27:58.000 So now if they reverse themselves, it looks like they don't have anything under control.

00:28:01.000 So they got a real problem on their hands.

00:28:03.000 It looks like they let off the brakes a little bit too early.

00:28:06.000 And so this car is still headed toward the cliff just at a slightly slower pace.

00:28:11.000 None of this is going to be good for Joe Biden, but it's not going to be good for you.

00:28:13.000 Because again, when politicians tell you that you can have all the things, that is a lie.

00:28:16.000 Every single policy decision is a trade-off.

00:28:19.000 Every single thing in your life is a trade-off.

00:28:21.000 You know this.

00:28:22.000 You know this from your own life.

00:28:23.000 You can't be in two places at once.

00:28:24.000 You can't spend one minute in two different ways.

00:28:26.000 And when it comes to government policy, there's going to be ups and there's going to be downs to any given policy.

00:28:31.000 This is why it annoys me when politicians of all stripes suggest that there is some sort of panacea, that there is some sort of utopia available in terms of policy.

00:28:39.000 It's just not true.

00:28:40.000 It's just not true.

00:28:41.000 Well, when the American public sees that politicians are lying to them, they tend to get rather angry.

00:28:46.000 And that's what's about to happen to Joe Biden.

00:28:48.000 So Joe Biden is getting kind of grumpy.

00:28:49.000 He was asked yesterday about when he was going to announce his reelect effort.

00:28:53.000 He said, I'm going to announce when I announce and I'm going to announce when I announce.

00:28:57.000 When will you announce your re-election, sir?

00:29:00.000 When I announce it.

00:29:04.000 When he announces it.

00:29:05.000 Meanwhile, he is still dodging about when he's going to visit East Palestine, Ohio.

00:29:09.000 And this is such an unforced error by Joe Biden.

00:29:11.000 I don't understand this at all.

00:29:12.000 It's the same kind of unforced error that Pete Buttigieg made.

00:29:15.000 You have to imagine at this point that it is actual spite that he just looks at the people in East Palestine.

00:29:20.000 He's like, those people aren't going to vote for me anyway.

00:29:22.000 And I don't want any pictures of myself near a blown up train or something.

00:29:26.000 Here was Joe Biden answering this question.

00:29:28.000 Mr. President, do you plan to visit Ohio to discuss the situation there with the trade government, with the people there in the federal system?

00:29:35.000 I've spoken with every official in Ohio, Democrat and Republican, on a continuous basis, as in Pennsylvania.

00:29:42.000 I laid out a little bit in there what I think the answers are.

00:29:45.000 We'll put it together.

00:29:47.000 And we will be implementing an awful lot into the legislation here.

00:29:52.000 Meanwhile, Joe Manchin again saying the correct thing.

00:29:54.000 Joe Biden should go to East Palestine, Ohio, if he wishes to win states like Ohio in the future.

00:29:59.000 Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was speaking earlier this morning on this network, sir, talking about maybe it's time the president really visit East Palestine here, that talking about it and his agencies dealing with it isn't enough.

00:30:12.000 Do you agree with that?

00:30:14.000 Well, I can only speak for myself.

00:30:15.000 When I was governor, I knew I had to be there.

00:30:18.000 I knew that gave the confidence to the citizens of my state if I was there.

00:30:22.000 I know being a president and having 50 states and all that, when you have a tragedy such as this, that's 20 miles from the border of West Virginia.

00:30:29.000 I spoke to all of their Different water departments because some of that had leaked into the Ohio River.

00:30:34.000 We're watching that plume as it was floating by.

00:30:37.000 They took alternative action to make sure that it wouldn't ingest any of that in the water filtration plants.

00:30:42.000 So we were all concerned to a certain extent.

00:30:44.000 Everybody has a different style.

00:30:46.000 I personally, if any way humanly possible, would be at the immediately the same day or the day after that anything would happen in my state.

00:30:56.000 He happens to be, again, correct about that.

00:30:58.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:30:59.000 Joe Biden's 2024 campaign, it's already on the ropes.

00:31:01.000 The economy is not going to be good heading into the election.

00:31:04.000 And not only that, I know that we've all forgotten about this because it happened, I mean, hell, at least two years ago.

00:31:10.000 And in political time, that is just an enormous amount of time.

00:31:13.000 It happened about a year and a half ago.

00:31:15.000 But this president of the United States did, in fact, surrender Afghanistan to a bunch of 8th century barbarians and subject 38 million people to tyranny. 0.87

00:31:23.000 And cast tens of thousands of people we've made promises to into the jaws of some of the worst human beings in human history and get a bunch of American soldiers killed in the process.

00:31:31.000 And as it turns out, hand a bunch of like billions of dollars in military equipment over to those people.

00:31:35.000 That is something the president did.

00:31:36.000 There was a report that came out earlier this week.

00:31:38.000 It has been wildly undercover.

00:31:40.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a government watchdog said an abrupt, uncoordinated withdrawal from Afghanistan and years of problems with planning and oversight of U.S.

00:31:46.000 assistance contributed to the collapse of the Western-backed government in Kabul and the Taliban takeover of the country soon after American forces departed, according to a report released on Monday.

00:31:55.000 Poor accountability on weapons and equipment provided to Afghanistan and a lack of systemic planning were important factors in the military collapse there, according to the report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

00:32:06.000 The document calls out the Department of Defense for delaying answering official inquiries, missing deadlines, and providing incomplete answers to questions.

00:32:12.000 The Inspector General laid blame on U.S.

00:32:14.000 administrations going all the way back to George W. Bush.

00:32:17.000 They tried to lay blame on Donald Trump as well and the 2020 Doha Agreement, which was sort of the predicate for eventual pullout.

00:32:24.000 But the Biden administration obviously put the capper on this thing.

00:32:30.000 Biden made, quote, an even more abrupt exit than anticipated by Afghan allies, according to the report.

00:32:35.000 Under Joe Biden, he ignored basically all of the warnings as to what was going to happen.

00:32:38.000 He went out and he lied repeatedly to the American people about what was going to happen in Afghanistan.

00:32:43.000 And because of those lies, people died.

00:32:46.000 People died and millions of people are now living under a tyranny.

00:32:48.000 I mean, you remember during this, it wasn't that long ago.

00:32:51.000 During the Afghanistan withdrawal, he suggested there was no chance the Taliban would just be walking into Kabul.

00:32:56.000 And just a couple of months later, the Taliban was walking into Kabul.

00:32:58.000 And by the way, a bunch of American soldiers attempting to get innocent people out of harm's way were slaughtered in the process by a bunch of terrorists.

00:33:05.000 He had basically had to control the country to.

00:33:08.000 Joe Biden is going to pay a penalty for that.

00:33:10.000 God's justice comes and that right quick.

00:33:12.000 It is good.

00:33:13.000 It is going to happen, which presumably is one of the reasons why Democrats are clinging to power with like a death grip.

00:33:19.000 It's an amazing thing to watch.

00:33:21.000 One example of this, the latest from Senator John Fetterman. 0.98

00:33:24.000 So, John Fetterman is mentally damaged.

00:33:27.000 It is a person who had a debilitating stroke in the middle of a campaign and Democrats, instead of pulling him during the primaries, decided to run him in the general. 0.80

00:33:34.000 And then during the general, when he could not put sentences together, they decided to run him anyway.

00:33:39.000 And even though this was leading to a worse health condition for him, they decided to continue to run him and make him senator from Pennsylvania.

00:33:46.000 Now, there's no need for any of that.

00:33:47.000 They could have found a substitute Democrat. 0.95

00:33:48.000 That substitute Democrat likely would have beaten Mehmet Oz because, again, not through fault of Oz, per se.

00:33:54.000 The top of the Democratic ticket, Josh Shapiro, won his race by like 14 points.

00:33:57.000 Very difficult to imagine a race in which the governor of your party wins by 14 and then the senator from your party loses that race.

00:34:03.000 But put all of that aside.

00:34:04.000 Right now, there's no reason for John Fetterman to be in power.

00:34:07.000 John Fetterman is not with us.

00:34:09.000 John Fetterman checked himself into a mental hospital because he has depression, apparently suicidal ideation, which is terrible and tragic, and his family is keeping him in place.

00:34:18.000 His family is still keeping him there.

00:34:20.000 Why?

00:34:21.000 There's only reason.

00:34:22.000 Only one reason.

00:34:23.000 Pure political cynicism.

00:34:25.000 It's the only reason.

00:34:26.000 Because if John Fetterman were to step down tomorrow, Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, would appoint a person to fill his seat.

00:34:32.000 There'd still be two years left on that term, until the next election cycle, and then they'd have to do it again in two years.

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00:35:53.000 Also, it seems like these days many people on the left are content to live in that post-truth world where facts don't matter and truth like gender is completely fluid.

00:36:00.000 The problem, as my friend Jordan Peterson points out in his new five-part series, Vision and Destiny, is the truth is going to come out regardless of what you think or how you feel.

00:36:08.000 Disregarding the truth, especially when it comes to gender dysphoria, Has very real and potentially tragic consequences.

00:36:13.000 Here's what Jordan has to say about it.

00:36:15.000 The trans activists would come up to me and say, well, you know, you're really hurting me if you don't accept my indeterminacy of identity.

00:36:23.000 And I thought, well, that's what you think.

00:36:25.000 But as a trained clinician, I think that I'm going to do you a lot more damage in the medium to long run by going along with your claim that you can just be anything you want moment to moment.

00:36:36.000 You think that's freeing because you regard all social constraints as inhibitions on the Wonderful manifestation of your true self.

00:36:45.000 But I know that in order to be healthy in the long run, you have to be integrated at multiple levels of social community.

00:36:52.000 And when you introduce indeterminacy as to your status at the sex level, no one has any idea what to do with you.

00:37:01.000 And so how are they going to play with you?

00:37:02.000 They don't know what you are in some sense that even enables the Ball game to get off the ground.

00:37:10.000 And so that's no recipe for long-term well-being, because that's always bandied about, that notion of well-being and harm.

00:37:17.000 It's like, no, you have to negotiate an identity.

00:37:23.000 Now the argument that Jordan makes obviously is that truth is actually the best curative and that living in a land of fantasy is not a curative.

00:37:29.000 You should check out the third episode of Vision and Destiny out today.

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00:37:39.000 So speaking of John Fetterman and Democrats desperately clinging to power, how ridiculous has the story become and kind of shocking?

00:37:46.000 How insane has the story become?

00:37:48.000 Well, they've now released an update on his health.

00:37:51.000 Joe Calvello, who is the communications director, says, quote, We don't have a lot to update folks with since there's no real news to report, except that John is doing well, working with the wonderful doctors.

00:37:59.000 He remains on a path to recovery.

00:38:01.000 He's visiting with staff and family daily.

00:38:03.000 His staff are keeping him updated on Senate business and news.

00:38:05.000 Our team is moving full speed ahead and working tirelessly for the people of Pennsylvania.

00:38:09.000 Just last week, we opened a new office in Erie and will be opening several more offices in the coming weeks.

00:38:14.000 And then they add, We understand the intense interest in John's status and especially appreciate the flood of well wishes. However, as we have said, this will be a week's long process.

00:38:23.000 And while we will be sure to keep folks updated as it progresses, that is all there is to give by way of an update.

00:38:30.000 Now, at the same exact time, they're saying there's no update on John Fetterman's health.

00:38:34.000 There is a report that came out same day.

00:38:37.000 Six U.S.

00:38:38.000 senators, including Bob Casey and John Fetterman, introduced the Railway Safety Act of 2023 to help prevent future train derailment disasters.

00:38:46.000 How?

00:38:48.000 How?

00:38:48.000 How did that happen?

00:38:49.000 He's literally in a mental hospital right now.

00:38:52.000 How can he join a bipartisan group of senators to introduce legislation?

00:38:56.000 It seems like that would be a relevant question for members of the media to ask.

00:38:59.000 So you have a person who is not well, who's apparently co-sponsoring legislation now.

00:39:05.000 Apparently the AI came from the Senate and now we just have AI algorithms that are running Senators' offices.

00:39:10.000 It's totally wild.

00:39:11.000 Can you imagine if there was a Republican who's legitimately in a state of like a mental hospital and he was co-sponsoring legislation?

00:39:18.000 You think there might be questions about whether that person was capable of functioning in the job?

00:39:23.000 Meanwhile, the Washington Post is doing what the Washington Post does, and they have run to the defense of Giselle Fetterman.

00:39:27.000 So a lot of people on the right, including me, have questioned Giselle Fetterman in terms of her treatment of her husband here.

00:39:33.000 He's not been well for a while here.

00:39:35.000 And Giselle Fetterman is a very political person.

00:39:37.000 There's been a lot of speculation that she would love to fill her husband's seat if he were to retire from that seat.

00:39:45.000 So the media are already running into defense mode.

00:39:47.000 So Monica Hess has an entire piece called, How Giselle Fetterman Became the Right Wing's Favorite Supervillain.

00:39:53.000 Well, I mean, I have a question.

00:39:56.000 Would you do this to your husband?

00:39:58.000 If you're a wife, would you do this? 0.69

00:39:59.000 Your husband has a debilitating stroke.

00:40:00.000 You'd keep him on the campaign trail, would you?

00:40:02.000 And then you would have him out there in public, not able to hear words or speak words properly.

00:40:07.000 You would do that to him, would you?

00:40:08.000 Seems like not a great thing to do, regardless of who you are.

00:40:13.000 But, says this columnist, the attacks on Gisele are dizzying in scope and ambition.

00:40:19.000 John Fetterman, according to one line of grotesque and specious Twitter speculation, struggled with depression because his wife wouldn't stop seeking the spotlight.

00:40:26.000 But then it was also Giselle's fault when, to avoid the spotlight brought on by his hospitalization, she decided to take their children to Niagara Falls.

00:40:33.000 Well, no, those two things are not in conflict, actually.

00:40:36.000 It turns out that if your husband is in a mental hospital and needs to see you every day, going to Niagara Falls with the kids is kind of a strange decision.

00:40:45.000 In any case, the idea here is that you're sexist if you point out that Gisele Fetterman has made some questionable decisions here.

00:40:53.000 Again, Democrats must always be defended no matter what.

00:40:55.000 And speaking of people clinging to power, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is overtly not with us.

00:41:00.000 She's overtly senile at this point.

00:41:02.000 Senator from California.

00:41:04.000 She's still sitting in the Senate. 1.00

00:41:05.000 Why aren't Democrats pushing her to step down? 1.00

00:41:06.000 Again, there is no reason, except presumably to cling to power.

00:41:11.000 I don't see any reason at all.

00:41:12.000 Because again, Dianne Feinstein, who is 89 years old, is in the bluest state in America, California.

00:41:18.000 Her replacement would be appointed by Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor.

00:41:22.000 So why?

00:41:24.000 She has said that she wouldn't seek another term in office already, so why not just retire her now?

00:41:27.000 Why not appoint a successor?

00:41:29.000 Except, presumably, that Gavin Newsom doesn't want the controversy of appointing another successor because he had to do this with Kamala Harris when she became vice president.

00:41:37.000 And he appointed the unknown Alex Padilla to fill that particular seat.

00:41:42.000 All this is creating a real problem for Democrats, actually, because John Fetterman is not present.

00:41:47.000 Bob Casey had prostate cancer surgery last month.

00:41:49.000 He's back at work.

00:41:51.000 But now, Nein Feinstein is in the hospital, which means that they don't actually have a governing majority at this point.

00:41:57.000 Meanwhile, speaking of Democrats who have so far escaped scrutiny for what appears to be rather corrupt behavior, apparently House Ethics Investigators say they have evidence that Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, so fresh, so faced, the freshest face who ever fresh faced.

00:42:11.000 She ran afoul of congressional rules after she was slow to reimburse vendors for clothing and other expenses tied to her participation in the 2021 Met Gala.

00:42:18.000 It's almost like the socialists who inhabit the squad are very fond of using other people's money to pay off all of their friends and family members.

00:42:24.000 I just had a story about Cori Bush, another member of the squad.

00:42:27.000 She's an adjunct member of the squad who was apparently paying tens of thousands of dollars to the security contractor who didn't actually have a security license and she ended up marrying that guy.

00:42:37.000 You have Ilhan Omar with all of her payments to the guy who would later become her latest husband who she's not related to.

00:42:44.000 Apparently, that was the allegation anyway.

00:42:46.000 So, very weird how all of your favorite socialists are happy to use everybody else's money, including campaign money, to benefit people they personally know.

00:42:54.000 It's quite fascinating.

00:42:55.000 At this particular event, Ocasio-Cortez wore a white dress by fashion brand Brother Vellies, with the words, tax the rich, scrawled across the back in red ink.

00:43:03.000 The House Ethics Committee on Thursday released a report by the Office of Congressional Ethics, an internal nonpartisan ethics office that reviews allegations of misconduct.

00:43:10.000 The OCE stated in its June 2022 report that Ocasio-Cortez may have accepted impermissible gifts in the form of hair and makeup services.

00:43:17.000 Those services totaled well over $5,000, which is above the limit on gifts for lawmakers set forth in federal law.

00:43:23.000 The OCE recommended ethics officials subpoena witnesses who didn't cooperate with the probe, including Brother Valley's founder Aurora James and other figures with ties to the company.

00:43:32.000 So, this of course would not be her first run-in with the House Ethics Committee.

00:43:37.000 Unfortunately, a lot of our Congress people have run-ins with the House Ethics Committee.

00:43:42.000 They're just delighted.

00:43:43.000 Wonderful, wonderful people in public office.

00:43:46.000 Speaking of wonderful people in public office...

00:43:48.000 It turns out that there is a very, very bad person in Delaware.

00:43:53.000 He is a Maryland mayor, and he has now been indicted, arrested, on more than 50 counts of child pornography.

00:43:59.000 His name is Patrick Wojan.

00:44:01.000 Of course, the party of his identity, the party with which he identifies, does not appear anywhere in the CNN report.

00:44:07.000 Literally nowhere.

00:44:08.000 It's not in the headline.

00:44:09.000 It is not in the piece.

00:44:12.000 He is a Democrat, of course.

00:44:14.000 Not only is he a Democrat, as it turns out, he is very, very close with Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation.

00:44:18.000 Sometimes the gods conspire to keep you from being President of the United States, is what Pete Buttigieg is learning.

00:44:25.000 He was a self-described mentee of Pete Buttigieg.

00:44:29.000 And, uh, they took a bunch of pictures together.

00:44:31.000 January 23rd, 2020.

00:44:33.000 He tweeted out a picture of himself with Buttigieg and a quote from Buttigieg.

00:44:36.000 If you notice a pattern across all my policies, it's this.

00:44:38.000 The answers don't all have to come from Washington.

00:44:40.000 Much of the resources should.

00:44:41.000 On my watch, they will to support American mayors and cities.

00:44:45.000 They used to hang out, tweet out just two mayors grabbing a beer together.

00:44:51.000 Not a particularly good association for for the current Secretary of Transportation who has run just into the jaws of fate right here.

00:45:01.000 And meanwhile, we have some updates on the Roald Dahl bolderization.

00:45:05.000 So you remember that Roald Dahl, the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda and James and the Giant Peach, the publishers decided they were going to go through and they were going to woke up his stories, which is absurd.

00:45:14.000 The stories are deliberately unwoke.

00:45:16.000 They're all about how the world is a mean, nasty place and kids have to get used to it and deal with it.

00:45:21.000 Well, who exactly was leading the boulderization of the works?

00:45:26.000 It turns out, according to the Daily Mail, the editors who spent months neutering the works of Roald Dahl were led on their mission to not offend by an individual who describes herself as a quote, non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist who's on the autism spectrum.

00:45:41.000 Slow clap for the Wokies.

00:45:42.000 Slow clap for you guys.

00:45:43.000 I mean, you just appoint the intellectual and emotional giants of our age.

00:45:47.000 to destroy the literature of people who actually create things in our world.

00:45:51.000 The boulderization of Dahl's works, which broadly included eliminating language deemed insensitive and non-inclusive, was done by a UK-based group of consultants from Inclusive Minds.

00:45:59.000 In the case of the Roald Dahl debacle, there's a person named Jo Ross Barrett, who's at the head of the project. Ross Barrett describes herself as, again, a non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist.

00:46:12.000 If you are non-binary and asexual, doesn't that mean you don't have relationships?

00:46:15.000 But she's in a polyamorous relationship. 1.00

00:46:18.000 Relationship anarchist.

00:46:19.000 What is a relationship anarchist, exactly?

00:46:21.000 Do you, like, blow up relationships?

00:46:22.000 Do you, like, leave bombs randomly in relationships?

00:46:24.000 She's a former project manager at The Woke Forum, and she posted on LinkedIn in 2022 she was working on a secret project involving the work of a well-known children's author.

00:46:34.000 In a profile of Barrett, TheyThem is described as a writer and editor with a passion for championing inclusive content and policies.

00:46:41.000 Barrett's previous work has been published in Bi-Ible, an anthology about bisexuality and related identities, and AZE Journal, an online magazine for aromantic spectrum, asexual spectrum, and agender people.

00:46:58.000 These are the people who should be taking great works of children's literature and absolutely destroying them.

00:47:03.000 It is amazing how you have an entire leech class who is just, all they do is live off the creations of others and destroy those creations. 1.00

00:47:10.000 They're like cultural locusts. 0.55

00:47:12.000 They just descend from the sky onto actual creativity and destroy it. 0.98

00:47:16.000 Destroy it wholesale.

00:47:19.000 If there's one rule among the wokes, it is that they have not created anything of value anytime in recent history. 1.00

00:47:25.000 And they spend all day basically just ripping into people who actually did things during their life.

00:47:30.000 Which brings us to Whoopi Goldberg.

00:47:31.000 So yesterday, Whoopi Goldberg decided that she would defend tearing down a statue of Abraham Lincoln. 0.99

00:47:35.000 So here you have pitted against one another a person who has not acted in 20 years and who has been sitting on The View, a repository of most stupidity in the universe. 0.80

00:47:48.000 And by the way, has engaged in her very name in a wild act of cultural appropriation because her actual name is not Whoopi Goldberg. 0.95

00:47:54.000 She's not in fact Jewish.

00:47:55.000 Talking about tearing down a statue of the great emancipator who fought the Civil War to end slavery.

00:48:03.000 These are the people we have decided to put in charge of our cultural steering wheel.

00:48:08.000 Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals.

00:48:12.000 We like to Now they take his name off schools and tear down his statues.

00:48:18.000 Lincoln isn't good enough for you?

00:48:18.000 Really?

00:48:20.000 Well, that statue was not good enough because it showed a slave down at Lincoln's feet.

00:48:25.000 And if we're tearing down statues that are really not in tune with where we are as a nation, or at least where we were a couple of months ago, yeah, you gotta take it down.

00:48:39.000 You gotta take it down, says Whoopi Goldberg.

00:48:41.000 Because she, of course, has been just a massively creative voice in Our Nation's Bettering.

00:48:46.000 It's very, very important stuff.

00:48:49.000 Alrighty, it's time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:48:52.000 So, things I like today.

00:48:53.000 So, Russell Brand is one of the most creative minds out there.

00:48:56.000 Russell is a fascinating guy.

00:48:58.000 I've had several conversations with him.

00:49:00.000 He is shockingly intelligent and also just Eclectic is all hell.

00:49:06.000 I mean, if you talk with him, it's sort of like watching somebody pick apples randomly off a tree.

00:49:10.000 It's an amazing, it's a very strange and weird experience.

00:49:13.000 He did a really good interview with Joe Rogan the other day.

00:49:15.000 They were talking about the attempts by Tess Hines to shut down all conversation around important topics surrounding COVID.

00:49:21.000 And here's what Russell Brand had to say.

00:49:23.000 And the horse medicine was the same.

00:49:24.000 They had the option of saying, look, we don't know, there's no evidence as yet that ivermectin is a f*** in these spaces because no one's trialing it, because there's no money in it, because science is a subset of Big Pharma and the economic imperatives that write everything.

00:49:37.000 No one's doing experiments into natural immunity because natural immunity is not profitable.

00:49:42.000 No one's doing those experiments and not being underwritten.

00:49:45.000 There's no clinical trials for that because no one wants that data for vitamin D or for steroids or for all of the things that came out as ultimately a f***.

00:49:52.000 Once the profits have been gleaned.

00:49:56.000 Okay, so he's not wrong about this.

00:49:58.000 That Big Pharma obviously does not have a tremendous interest in researching natural immunity because there's no profit margin there.

00:50:03.000 But that's what he's missing is that's where the government theoretically should step in, right?

00:50:07.000 So when it comes to the government and lack of profit incentive, that would be like a question of the comments, right?

00:50:13.000 Where there's a public good That needs to be pursued and isn't going to be pursued by private industry and where the government has a rather large stake in determining whether natural immunity is just as good as vaccine immunity or better.

00:50:26.000 And the government did nothing about it.

00:50:27.000 That's the part that's insane.

00:50:29.000 You're not surprised the big pharma didn't research natural immunity.

00:50:31.000 Again, that's not actually their job.

00:50:31.000 Why would they?

00:50:33.000 They create drugs to solve problems.

00:50:35.000 But if natural immunity were to be researched, wouldn't it be the government that could have saved billions and billions and billions of dollars by looking at natural immunity?

00:50:43.000 And by the way, save economies all across the world by looking into natural... Why didn't they do that?

00:50:47.000 That's the real question.

00:50:49.000 So I think Russell's answer would be that a lot of members of the government are kind of in the pay of Big Pharma.

00:50:53.000 That's not a terrible answer, but I think that there's something else going on, which is that a lot of members of government like the control.

00:50:58.000 They like being in control.

00:51:00.000 And if they'd actually researched natural immunity, if they had looked at the data very early on from the Santa Clarita study that was done by Jay Bhattacharya, looking at the levels of the antibodies that were prevalent in Santa Clarita, like really early on, then that might have undercut their entire argument for controlling every aspect of your life.

00:51:17.000 But again, I'm glad that Russell is having that conversation with Joe Rogan, and good for Russell for having that conversation.

00:51:24.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:51:30.000 So I'm really sick of hearing men ramble about the evils of quote-unquote toxic masculinity.

00:51:37.000 I'm really tired of it.

00:51:38.000 How about defend a good version of masculinity rather than spending all your days jabbering about toxic masculinity?

00:51:43.000 And you need a replacement theory when it comes to masculinity. 0.57

00:51:46.000 If the idea is toxic masculinity is super bad and you need to replace that with something better, why don't you advocate for what the better is?

00:51:52.000 Because otherwise what you're going to get is just toxic masculinity versus what, effeminacy?

00:51:58.000 You need to provide an alternative for men to turn to, a set of obligations that men have, a thing for them to do in the world.

00:52:04.000 So I say this because Doug Emhoff, the first lady slash first gentleman of the United States government, he is married to Kamala Harris.

00:52:13.000 He's the second gentleman.

00:52:14.000 I'm sorry.

00:52:15.000 He's out there on MSNBC during Women's History Month condemning toxic masculinity. 0.99

00:52:21.000 And this sort of crap is just so tiresome. 0.99

00:52:23.000 Can we just talk about masculinity for a moment? 0.99

00:52:27.000 Has being second gentleman changed your own view of perceived gender roles or what it means to be a man?

00:52:37.000 This is something I've thought about a lot, something I've spoken about a lot.

00:52:41.000 There's too much of toxicity, masculine toxicity out there, and we've kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine.

00:52:51.000 Can I put this out there?

00:52:52.000 What our society right now is lacking?

00:52:55.000 Well, the big problem, the big shortcoming is not lack of masculinity.

00:52:58.000 We need more masculinity in our society. 1.00

00:53:00.000 We need more good, responsible, hardworking, and masculine men in our society.

00:53:06.000 We are a society that is descended into androgyny, that has decided to privilege femininity above masculinity, even for men.

00:53:12.000 And this is a mistake.

00:53:13.000 If you want there to be a society that values strong men, then you should incentivize strong men to be strong.

00:53:19.000 You shouldn't treat it as borderline toxicity when men open doors for women. 0.58

00:53:24.000 You shouldn't treat it as borderline toxicity when men say they want to provide for their wives and children.

00:53:29.000 You shouldn't treat it as somehow an infringement on female prerogatives for men to want to get ahead in the workplace. 0.69

00:53:37.000 What we have done in our society is we have taken away all the responsibilities from men, and then when men get angry, then we label it toxic masculinity.

00:53:43.000 And we say that really what we need is for you guys to basically just be blobs.

00:53:47.000 Just be blobs! 1.00

00:53:48.000 And then we're surprised when men are depressed, and upset, and suicidal, and don't have jobs, and they're unemployed, and they're not going to college.

00:53:53.000 Take away the role that people are supposed to play in life, and they have no role.

00:53:56.000 And then they turn to negative things.

00:53:58.000 Ripping on toxic masculinity ain't gonna do the trick here. 0.97

00:54:01.000 Especially when you're providing no actual models for real masculinity out there.

00:54:06.000 It's really a problem.

00:54:08.000 Okay, we are gonna bring back something that we haven't done here in a while here on The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:54:13.000 It's something we used to do a long time ago.

00:54:16.000 And the fact is that for years and years and years, there's been an infusion of left-wing political bias into children's literature.

00:54:24.000 And so a few years ago we used to do something on this show that we liked to call Uncle Ben's SJW Storytime.

00:54:30.000 Alrighty folks, so today on Uncle Ben's SJW Storytime we'll be reading you a book that your school libraries will probably be having a drag queen read to your book. It's very, it reads your children. 0.58

00:54:46.000 It's very important that you see the kind of crap that is read to your kids during SJW Storytime, so here we go. 0.97

00:54:51.000 Today's book is a story by The Changemakers. 0.98

00:54:55.000 It is titled The Courage to be Truly Free, Coco's Blueprint for Self-Revival. 0.96

00:55:00.000 And of course, this whole thing is about how, um, we're gonna TURN THE FREAKIN' ZEBRAS GAY! 1.00

00:55:04.000 Yeah, that's actually what this book is about. 0.98

00:55:07.000 So, here we go.

00:55:08.000 The Courage to be Truly Free.

00:55:10.000 It's dedicated to overcoming legislation like the Florida Parental Rights and Education Act, the Don't Say Gay Bill, which aims to silence youth in search of their identities.

00:55:19.000 Now, first of all, it's published by the Alliance for LGBTQWYX Happy Face Emoji Youth.

00:55:27.000 I love that their entire goal is to help youth find their identities.

00:55:32.000 You know what's the easiest thing in the world to find your identity?

00:55:34.000 Because you're living it right now, it's you.

00:55:36.000 Congratulations, we found it.

00:55:38.000 Also, the actual hard thing to do is to civilize children and provide them rules and responsibilities.

00:55:42.000 Okay, but that's not what this book is about.

00:55:44.000 It's about yelling at Ron DeSantis.

00:55:45.000 So, this is a book that is now being provided to public schools across the nation to fight Ron DeSantis.

00:55:51.000 Here we go.

00:55:53.000 The day was just like any other.

00:55:55.000 It was a time for school and recess and play.

00:55:57.000 But Coco didn't really like going to school because others were mean, especially Mewl. 1.00

00:56:03.000 Mewl's a homophobic Republican, is Mewl. 0.58

00:56:06.000 That's a big problem here. 0.88

00:56:07.000 Mewl would say things like, why are you so weird?

00:56:09.000 I'm different, okay, says the little zebra.

00:56:11.000 You can't say that here.

00:56:13.000 And Coco would feel a familiar pain in their tummy. 0.95

00:56:15.000 Their tummy.

00:56:16.000 What's wrong with me?

00:56:17.000 Why do they look at me funny?

00:56:19.000 Says Coco the zebra.

00:56:20.000 It's all about the bullying, guys.

00:56:21.000 That's really all that happens in school.

00:56:23.000 The next morning, Coco awoke to a curious new friend.

00:56:25.000 They were tall and spotted and could make their neck bend.

00:56:27.000 That's a giraffe.

00:56:28.000 What are you doing down there all alone?

00:56:30.000 I ran away into the great big unknown, says Zebra, wondering if others could ever love me for me.

00:56:36.000 And then Giraffe, who is genetically unrelated to Zebra, of course, says, I love you for you.

00:56:40.000 It's okay to just be.

00:56:43.000 Zebra apparently has no parents to provide guidance here.

00:56:46.000 After breathing and learning just what to do, Coco saw a few colored stripes shine through. 0.97

00:56:52.000 Oh, Coco's a gay zebra. 0.99

00:56:54.000 Oh, oh. 0.96

00:56:56.000 Coco can't just accept that zebras are not, in fact, rainbow, but that's how it works.

00:57:01.000 After feeling more brave, just after dawn, they were stopped by three donkeys from venturing on.

00:57:06.000 One is a red-hatted maga donkey, by the way.

00:57:08.000 Be just like us and put this clay on your skin. 1.00

00:57:12.000 No, I don't want that.

00:57:13.000 I don't want to fit in.

00:57:14.000 No, it's important.

00:57:15.000 No.

00:57:16.000 Social responsibility.

00:57:16.000 No.

00:57:17.000 No.

00:57:18.000 Coco tried and tried to shake off the clay, and met a soft-hearted elephant along the way. 0.61

00:57:22.000 Hi there, friend.

00:57:23.000 Why are you looking so sad?

00:57:25.000 Says glad elephant.

00:57:27.000 Someone tried to change me, and it felt really bad.

00:57:29.000 Yeah, you can't change children, guys.

00:57:31.000 Kids should just be allowed to do whatever they want, and you shouldn't provide them with any sort of guidance at all.

00:57:35.000 That's the thing about kids. 0.98

00:57:36.000 You should let them eat whatever they want, study whatever they want, not go to school whenever they want, and generally be little cretins. 1.00

00:57:41.000 Which is what small children are. 0.92

00:57:42.000 I have three of them.

00:57:43.000 Hey, you'll be just fine.

00:57:44.000 Let's get rid of that clay.

00:57:46.000 An elephant helped them rinse it away.

00:57:47.000 Ah, surrogate parents coming in. 0.98

00:57:49.000 This is great.

00:57:50.000 By now, for Coco, things were becoming more clear until a swarm of flies buzzed by their ear.

00:57:55.000 You're different, say the flies.

00:57:56.000 You're strange. 0.98

00:57:57.000 You don't belong. 0.85

00:57:58.000 Coco swatted the flies and tried to stay strong. 0.99

00:58:03.000 Alrighty.

00:58:04.000 Hummingbird showed them a blossoming field, saying, let's sing some new words to help you heal.

00:58:10.000 Words like, I have purpose and my feelings are real.

00:58:13.000 Oh, my feelings are real.

00:58:16.000 Because that's the best way to teach kids is that all of their feelings are both real and justified.

00:58:21.000 Because kids are not selfish little creatures with a lot of feelings.

00:58:23.000 They have really big feelings and tiny bodies and not fully developed prefrontal cortexes.

00:58:28.000 But you should just tell them that their feelings are the most important thing about them.

00:58:31.000 So Alpaca gave Coco their own fun.

00:58:34.000 They saw all the color and lit up with a smile.

00:58:34.000 New style.

00:58:37.000 Oh, here comes surrogate parent Alpaca to teach the zebra to be gay. 0.99

00:58:41.000 Very exciting. 0.74

00:58:42.000 Confidently, Coco walked by a big waterfall, but this time, they didn't feel trapped at all.

00:58:46.000 Oh, look!

00:58:47.000 It's all color!

00:58:47.000 Look!

00:58:48.000 It's a gay zebra! 1.00

00:58:49.000 They turned the zebras. 1.00

00:58:50.000 They turned the frickin' zebras! 1.00

00:58:53.000 Coco thought about giraffe, elephant, and hummingbird, chicken, alpaca, and the lessons they'd learned.

00:58:57.000 Breathe when you need.

00:58:58.000 Never hide who you are.

00:58:59.000 Listen to your own voice.

00:59:01.000 When it gets dark, shine like a star.

00:59:03.000 Don't be like others.

00:59:04.000 Be brave and be you.

00:59:05.000 Find the courage to be free in all that you do.

00:59:08.000 Yes, no limitations.

00:59:10.000 Authenticity.

00:59:11.000 Follow your own star.

00:59:13.000 After gathering all these incredible tools, Coco marched with confidence right back to school.

00:59:17.000 What happened to you, says Evil Mule.

00:59:19.000 What are you supposed to be?

00:59:21.000 Ah, here comes the punchline.

00:59:23.000 I found the courage to finally be me.

00:59:26.000 The courage to stand out and be truly free.

00:59:30.000 Aww.

00:59:31.000 Take that, Rhonda Santos! 0.99

00:59:32.000 It's a gay zebra! 1.00

00:59:33.000 Okay, folks, this sort of non-subtle messaging that you find in children's books... 0.99

00:59:39.000 It's there.

00:59:40.000 They're not, they're not trying to hide the ball particularly much.

00:59:42.000 And then if you notice it, they're like, oh, do you disagree with this message?

00:59:45.000 Uh, yeah.

00:59:45.000 I don't think that what kids actually truly need is to be free.

00:59:48.000 I think what kids actually truly, then I don't think kids need to find themselves.

00:59:51.000 I think what kids generally need is guidance.

00:59:54.000 I think they need purpose and meaning given to them by their parents and by their community.

00:59:57.000 And I think that when you free kids of this, what you are actually doing is essentially unleashing a chaotic world upon them that they are not prepared to handle at all.

01:00:07.000 But at least we have a children's book that yells at Ron DeSantis in the dedication.

01:00:11.000 Solid stuff there.

01:00:12.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.

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