The Ben Shapiro Show - I’m Retiring From Rap

00:00:00.000 So folks, we'll get to all the news in just one moment, but I have to tell you that today is, for me, a sad day.

00:00:06.000 So a couple of days ago, Fact, by my friend Tom McDonald featuring me, dropped from the top slot on iTunes right after the Grammys after 10 days of pure magic.

00:00:15.000 It is still the number one rated hip-hop song in America on iTunes, but Rap Hanukkah is officially over.

00:00:22.000 And so, with tears in my eyes, I have a big announcement to make.

00:00:29.000 To all the little homies who have been lifting me up since I began this journey.

00:00:33.000 It was an inspiring moment.

00:00:35.000 Some have called it a musical supernova.

00:00:38.000 But now, the time has come for me to walk away from my art.

00:00:43.000 And so today, I have to announce I am retiring from rap to spend more time with my family.

00:00:53.000 It's been real, dawgs.

00:00:55.000 And never forget, music never dies.

00:00:58.000 So long as the beat is in your heart.

00:01:02.000 R.I.P.

00:01:03.000 Dr. Dreidel.

00:01:05.000 I know, I know.

00:01:06.000 I've been getting a lot of sad messages from people.

00:01:09.000 People who grew up with my music.

00:01:12.000 People whose lives were changed by the beats and by the flow.

00:01:17.000 But, you know, I've decided to leave the industry to a young generation of truly great artists Of truly great rap artists.

00:01:27.000 Artists like Ice Spice.

00:01:29.000 She of the rhyming name.

00:01:31.000 So, I have been informed, reliably, that Ice Spice is a human.

00:01:36.000 And that Ice Spice also has a brand new charting song out.

00:01:39.000 No, she has not surpassed Facts on the Charts yet.

00:01:42.000 But we can only hope that for the sake of Western civilization, eventually, she is widely appreciated by the masses in the way that she so richly deserves.

00:01:51.000 So, Ice Spice, As a brand new song out and the nature of this song is, I think, quite deep and requires a bit of explication.

00:02:01.000 You know, we've deconstructed the culture on this show before.

00:02:04.000 In fact, it was probably my extraordinary rendition of WAP that led eventually to my hip hop stardom and then, of course, to my short-lived but brilliant career in the industry.

00:02:13.000 And so we have to deconstruct a little bit of the culture that I am now leaving.

00:02:17.000 Because I gotta be honest, I was being drawn into, I mean, in that week, in that week where I was the top charting rapper in America, you know, I have to say, went to the clubs, sipping on some Henny, was wearing the bling.

00:02:30.000 My wife, she was really getting into the lifestyle as well.

00:02:33.000 But again, I have to leave it to the pros.

00:02:37.000 Pros like Ice Spice.

00:02:39.000 That was her given name when she came out of her mother.

00:02:41.000 Her mother said, I shall call you Ice Spice. 0.97

00:02:43.000 In any case, the name of her latest song is Think You the Sh** Fart. 0.99

00:02:51.000 Yes, idiocracy is real. 0.97

00:02:56.000 There are no words except for her own.

00:02:58.000 And so I bring to you the future of the hip-hop industry now that I am no longer a part of it.

00:03:04.000 Ice Spice in Think You the Sh** Fart. 0.99

00:03:09.000 Think you the sh** fart. 1.00

00:03:11.000 You not even the fart. 1.00

00:03:13.000 She's flipping people off.

00:03:14.000 She's just twerking and, uh... Um... Okay, it's just her twerking the whole video and other women spanking her on the video. 1.00

00:03:28.000 Um, so... If you can't understand what she's saying, you're not alone.

00:03:34.000 And so I will now do what I am most famous for doing when it comes to rap.

00:03:37.000 I'm going to read you the lyrics in a language we call English.

00:03:41.000 Okay, and here's what she's saying. 1.00

00:03:43.000 Think you the s**t, b**ch. 1.00

00:03:45.000 You not even the fart. 1.00

00:03:46.000 Grah.

00:03:47.000 I be going hard.

00:03:49.000 Grah. 0.99

00:03:50.000 I'm breaking they hearts like, b**ches be quick, but I'm quicker. 1.00

00:03:54.000 B**ches be thick, but I'm thicker. 0.99

00:03:56.000 She could be rich, but I'm richer. 0.99

00:03:59.000 Ah, the words of a generation.

00:04:03.000 I'm so glad that the industry remains in excellent hands like that of Ice Spice.

00:04:08.000 Um, but, you know, those words will live on forever. 0.94

00:04:13.000 And from now on, if anyone ever, ever gets uppity with you, just tell them that if they think they the sh**, they are not. 0.99

00:04:22.000 They are indeed the fart. 0.99

00:04:24.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:04:32.000 You should get to decide what you want to read or watch.

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00:05:30.000 That wasn't actually the worst song that got released this week, believe it or not, in the rap industry.

00:05:35.000 Another one challenging us for top slot on the rap charts is a song that is called Bo Bo Bo, or Bow Bow Bow, F My Baby Dad.

00:05:47.000 Um, and apparently there's an older song, you know, a classic from our friend Sexy Red.

00:05:52.000 She of the multiple STD bouts.

00:05:55.000 And, um, she apparently did a rendition of this rap, F my baby dad, at a hospital after having her latest baby. 0.99

00:06:06.000 Because nothing says lucky child quite like you're pushed out a mom and you're immediately Making sexual videos in which you say, F the dad of your child. 0.93

00:06:19.000 That baby's gonna live, that's a happy life for that kid, getting, wow, wow.

00:06:24.000 I mean, just absolute cultural genius happening.

00:06:28.000 I can't imagine why Tom McDonald and I rapped about the shortcomings of rap culture, because it seems like it's doing well.

00:06:33.000 It seems like it's really incentivizing excellent behavior.

00:06:36.000 These pictures are insane, by the way. 0.97

00:06:37.000 She's literally in the hospital bed, and she is posing, Like ass out and like touching herself in the hospital bed. 0.97

00:06:48.000 I gotta say that the definition of sexy has radically changed in America. 0.95

00:06:52.000 If people find this attractive in any way, shape or form.

00:06:55.000 In any case, here is some of the video.

00:06:58.000 She literally cut a music video from her hospital room after having a baby about F the baby dad.

00:07:06.000 Good stuff happening here.

00:07:08.000 She's in a hospital room and she's flinging around dollars in the hospital room, presumably 1.00

00:07:18.000 not covered by insurance.

00:07:22.000 She's twerking on her hospital bed after having a baby.

00:07:29.000 Points for durability, I suppose?

00:07:35.000 So there's a lot to say here.

00:07:37.000 One thing I will say is that if this lady doesn't get to take a maternity leave, then why does Pete Buttigieg get three months off for a paternity leave? 1.00

00:07:44.000 I'm confused about that.

00:07:45.000 I mean, she's back to work within, like, seconds.

00:07:48.000 And by work, I mean W-E-R-K work. 1.00

00:07:52.000 So, yeah, this is solid stuff, guys.

00:07:55.000 I know I understand that I had a place in the rap culture.

00:07:57.000 I understand that I was an inherently important part of hip hop, but I have to, as I say, I have to leave it to the pros.

00:08:04.000 The reason I spend time on this stuff, by the way, is I think folks need to understand, you know, we talk cover politics a lot on this show.

00:08:10.000 The number of people who are drawn in by pop culture is insane.

00:08:13.000 Pop cultural engagement in America is at levels not even remotely charted by politics.

00:08:20.000 The number of people in America who watch politics is extraordinarily low.

00:08:24.000 It's really, really, really low.

00:08:26.000 In fact, if you look at the latest statistics with regard to, for example, news websites and political websites being visited, the answer is that the numbers are way down, like way, way, way down since the last election cycle.

00:08:40.000 And if you look at big political events, for example, like the fifth Republican primary debate, that drew 2.5 million viewers.

00:08:49.000 Trump's competing town hall had about 4.3 million viewers.

00:08:52.000 Aggregate all of that and you're talking like 7 million viewers total.

00:08:55.000 And then if you add in people on the other side of the aisle, people who are politically engaged, you're talking a maximum of 15 to 20 million people who are politically engaged on anything like a regular level.

00:09:05.000 And even those people aren't engaged the way that you probably are, listening to the show, listening every day.

00:09:11.000 The number of people who will engage with content in pop culture is so much wider and so much... I speak as a charting artist, as the number one rap artist in America, as a Hot 100 number 16 recipient on Billboard, without any radio plays.

00:09:26.000 I speak as a great artist of my genre.

00:09:31.000 And let me tell you, pop cultural engagement is so much more important in terms of how young people think and the values that are shaped than actual baseline politics.

00:09:38.000 That's why we spend time on it.

00:09:40.000 It's why we've done deconstructing the culture before. 1.00

00:09:42.000 And it's why it sort of matters that garbage is being purveyed every day by people like Ice Spice and Sexy Red as our culture gets dumber and dumber and stupider and stupider. 1.00

00:09:52.000 OK, meanwhile, on the political side of the aisle, there's a lot happening. 0.99

00:09:57.000 So I have to say that Donald Trump's takeover of the Republican Party, there have been some interesting things about it.

00:10:02.000 I liked a lot of his policy as president. 0.99

00:10:04.000 But one of the negative things about having a singular figure atop the political pile for any party is that there is a tendency to follow them to stupid places. 0.99

00:10:12.000 And today I have two examples from President Trump. 0.98

00:10:16.000 Example number one, President Trump came out yesterday and he suggested that conservatives go back to buying Bud Light.

00:10:23.000 Now you'll recall that it was just last year that Bud Light decided that they were going to sponsor, as a face of their brand, Dylan Mulvaney, a man who mocks womanhood by pretending to be a girl.

00:10:36.000 And they made a Bud Light beer can and all this.

00:10:38.000 And people like us at the show, my friend Matt Walsh, the Daily Wire personalities,

00:10:43.000 pretty much everybody on the right said, okay, well, we're not gonna buy Bud Light. 0.82

00:10:46.000 First of all, it tastes like horse piss.

00:10:48.000 And then beyond that, it actually is promoting values that we don't like.

00:10:52.000 It's a great American brand, Bud Light.

00:10:54.000 Not Anheuser-Busch, which is now foreign owned, but the actual Bud Light brand

00:10:59.000 is a deeply American intertwined brand.

00:11:01.000 And they are sacrificing their brand, which is basically blue collar people

00:11:05.000 in favor of upper class trans politics. 1.00

00:11:11.000 And it's stupid, and it's bad, and it's bad for the country, and so we're not going to drink Bud Light anymore. 1.00

00:11:14.000 And Bud Light took it directly on the chin. 1.00

00:11:16.000 Their sales went directly through the floor.

00:11:18.000 And they were in fact reduced to not the number one beer, but the number two or number three beer.

00:11:24.000 Modelo actually overtook them, for example.

00:11:27.000 Well, now President Trump is calling for an end to the boycott on Bud Light, which makes no sense.

00:11:31.000 If you have a successful boycott, if you successfully Destroyed a large brand in order to make a political point.

00:11:36.000 You then don't undestroy the brand before they've actually apologized for the thing.

00:11:40.000 Now, Bud Light is trying to make some sort of obeisance to the other side of the aisle, to our side of the aisle, on the conservative side, by going and contracting with, say, Dana White over at the MMA.

00:11:50.000 I like Dana.

00:11:50.000 I'm friends with Dana.

00:11:51.000 But the attempt to sort of buy back conservative love by hiring Dana, that doesn't make up for what you did in the first place when you spit in the face of all of your consumers.

00:12:02.000 Well now Donald Trump is calling for an end to the boycott.

00:12:04.000 He put out a missive last night on Truth Social.

00:12:08.000 He said the Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions and for that a very big price was paid.

00:12:13.000 But Anheuser-Busch is not a woke company.

00:12:15.000 Anheuser-Busch is a great American brand that deserves a second chance.

00:12:18.000 What do you think?

00:12:18.000 Perhaps instead we should be going after those companies that are looking to destroy America.

00:12:24.000 Now why would he do that?

00:12:25.000 What would drive President Trump, one of the most vindictive voices in the history of American politics, to suddenly decide that it's time for forgiveness for Bud Light?

00:12:33.000 Well, it could be the fact that apparently he owns about $5 million in Anheuser-Busch stock.

00:12:37.000 It could also be the fact that a top Republican lobbyist for the company is hosting a fundraiser for Trump next month, with some tickets going at $10,000 each.

00:12:43.000 So maybe it's that.

00:12:48.000 Donald Trump Jr.

00:12:48.000 has also previously defended Anheuser-Busch, saying the company donated more to Republicans than Democrats, and helped Kevin McCarthy's effort to assume control of the House.

00:12:58.000 Now, as my friend Matt Walsh says, this is the most effective boycott probably in the history of conservative politics.

00:13:03.000 Why would you end it on the basis of Donald Trump just says so?

00:13:05.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:14:06.000 By the way, Caitlyn Jenner, of all people, is signing on to the chat to also call for an end to the Anheuser-Busch boycott.

00:14:13.000 Quote, as someone that worked for this incredible American company and got to know them very well, I raced for Anheuser-Busch in the 80s.

00:14:19.000 I agree with Donald Trump.

00:14:20.000 Look at what the company does for so many Americans and their track record over the years.

00:14:23.000 It made a huge mistake and it paid a large price.

00:14:25.000 I think it is time to move forward.

00:14:26.000 I'm saying we should focus on the big picture, agreeing with 45.

00:14:30.000 The big picture is 45, of course, is President Trump, who's the 45th president.

00:14:34.000 The big picture is not agreeing with President Trump.

00:14:36.000 It's never been agreeing with President Trump.

00:14:38.000 I agree with President Trump when President Trump deserves to be agreed with.

00:14:41.000 And I disagree with President Trump when he deserves to be disagreed with.

00:14:44.000 This would be one case where he deserves to be disagreed with.

00:14:47.000 There's another case where he deserves to be disagreed with.

00:14:49.000 And that was on Ronna Romney McDaniel.

00:14:51.000 So let me tell you the tragic story of Ronna Romney McDaniel, who now goes by Ronna McDaniel.

00:14:57.000 The reason she goes by Ronna McDaniel, this is not a joke, is because Ronna Romney McDaniel, who is in fact Related to Mitt Romney, of course.

00:15:08.000 She used to go by... She's his niece.

00:15:12.000 She used to go by Ronna Romney McDaniel.

00:15:15.000 And then it turned out that when she became RNC chair and Donald Trump was the leader of the Republican Party, she dropped the Romney because Trump hated Romney so much.

00:15:25.000 Because that's the kind of obeisance that is demanded by many people who really love Trump.

00:15:31.000 And Trump himself.

00:15:32.000 Is that you have to somehow drop actual parts of your name because he doesn't like your uncle, which is wild.

00:15:37.000 And it's wild.

00:15:39.000 Either she does a good job or she does a bad job.

00:15:40.000 And then it turned out she did a crappy job.

00:15:42.000 Rana Rami McDaniel is historically the single worst RNC chair.

00:15:46.000 Of my lifetime, the only possible exception being Michael Steele.

00:15:49.000 She's a terrible RNC chair. 1.00

00:15:52.000 Truly a horrifyingly bad RNC chair.

00:15:55.000 In fact, her tenure as RNC chair, which began January 19th, 2017, which was preceded by Reince Priebus, who ended up going into the administration briefly.

00:16:04.000 When she assumed office in 2017, she assumed office with Donald Trump having a House majority and a Senate majority.

00:16:10.000 That was the state of play when she took office. 0.97

00:16:13.000 She then proceeded to lose the House in 2018, and she proceeded to lose the House and the Senate in 2020-2021, and then she proceeded to wildly underperform in the 2022 election cycle. 0.99

00:16:29.000 And now the RNC is flat broke.

00:16:31.000 The RNC has no money in the bank.

00:16:33.000 So, she has sacrificed whatever principle she had, including the political principle that the RNC should be involved in choosing candidates on the primary level who can win, and then raising money for those candidates, and then boosting them to victory.

00:16:44.000 Instead, she basically just said that Trump could have free reign of the place.

00:16:48.000 So much so that the RNC, anytime there is a conflict inside the Republican Party between Trump and any other candidate, in the primaries, not in the primaries, with regard to the Senate, with regard to the House, the RNC always sided with Trump because McDaniel knew where her bread was buttered.

00:17:02.000 Unsurprisingly, a bunch of losses.

00:17:04.000 Huge string of losses for Anirani McDaniel to the point where, after the November 2022 elections, where Republicans, by polling data, were supposed to clean up.

00:17:12.000 Republicans were supposed to win a broad majority in 2022.

00:17:16.000 But the RNC didn't do its job.

00:17:17.000 The RNC is a vehicle for victory.

00:17:19.000 One of its jobs is to work with the Senatorial Republican Campaign Committee.

00:17:24.000 And the NRCC, the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, and all the rest of these groups, in order to select good primary candidates, particularly in purple districts and purple states, in order to boost them to victory.

00:17:35.000 And the RNC completely abdicated.

00:17:36.000 The RNC instead spent a bunch of money on perks and flowers and nice dinners and limos. 1.00

00:17:43.000 And then the 2022 elections were a full-scale disaster area in which the Republicans, not only did not regain the Senate, they ended up retaking the House by, like, a handful of votes.

00:17:52.000 And that handful of votes is so small that Republicans can no longer do literally anything in the House of Representatives without making serious concessions to Democrats.

00:18:01.000 That was all Ronna Romney-McDaniel.

00:18:03.000 So, in January of 2023, in the period between November 2022 and January 2023, there was a serious effort to oust Ronna Romney-McDaniel.

00:18:12.000 In fact, you'll recall that right after the election in November 2022, I openly called on the show for the replacement of Ronna Romney-McDaniel because you don't get to lose this many times and still retain your job.

00:18:22.000 At any job, if you fail over and over, if you fail once, okay, that's called life.

00:18:27.000 You fail twice, okay, maybe you need a serious corrective.

00:18:30.000 You fail three times, now you're starting to look pretty bad.

00:18:36.000 You fail four times, you should lose your job.

00:18:38.000 And she failed 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022.

00:18:40.000 She failed four times, four separate times.

00:18:43.000 Just complete failure.

00:18:44.000 And now, no money in the bank, And the nominee of the party, for good or ill, is the person who basically put her in place.

00:18:52.000 Donald Trump endorsed her, again, to become the RNC chair, over Harmeet Dhillon, who's a far more credible, far more serious candidate.

00:19:01.000 Yup.

00:19:02.000 Full disclosure, Harmeet Dhillon has acted as our lawyer in suing the federal government, for example, here at Daily Wire.

00:19:06.000 Harmeet is great.

00:19:08.000 There's some other people who have been talked about as an RNC chair who'd be good.

00:19:10.000 So, now, Donald Trump, a couple of weeks ago, after having boosted McDaniel back into place, just in time for the primaries, where the RNC, every time it could, put its thumb on the scale for Donald Trump, Now that she bent the knee to Trump in every- Which way?

00:19:25.000 Literally took Romney out of her name, bent the RNC to Trump's will at every possible point, now Trump is going full Joffrey and cutting off her head. 0.88

00:19:32.000 So now, she's going to be out of a job. 0.99

00:19:36.000 This is, again, directly after she was endorsed by Trump and won re-election as RNC chair.

00:19:42.000 So now, Ronna Romney McDaniel is gone.

00:19:46.000 She's expected to leave.

00:19:47.000 According to the Washington Post, Quote, Ronna McDaniel is expected to leave her job this spring after former President Donald Trump had increasingly grown critical of her leadership, according to people familiar with the matter.

00:19:59.000 Oh, did he?

00:20:00.000 You mean after she ensured that he got everything that he could possibly want in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023?

00:20:07.000 So basically, she did everything Trump could have possibly wanted, and now he's defenestrating her so that he can blame her for all the problems with the RNC, despite the fact that, again, he boosted her to that position.

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00:21:10.000 Again, I'm glad she's leaving. 0.97

00:21:12.000 She was incompetent. 0.96

00:21:13.000 She did a bad job. 0.99

00:21:15.000 The only point that I'm making is that you should agree with Donald Trump when it's good to agree.

00:21:20.000 I agree with him about ousting Ronna Romney McDaniel.

00:21:23.000 I also agreed about ousting her before she was even the RNC chair. 1.00

00:21:27.000 And I disagreed with Donald Trump when he was attempting to foist her into place.

00:21:32.000 The decision came as she visited Mar-a-Lago and met with Trump on Monday, but the situation remained fluid according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

00:21:39.000 The news of her departure was first reported by the New York Times, which reported it was likely to occur after the South Carolina primary on February 24th.

00:21:46.000 She was expected to serve until 2025, but has considered leaving for months.

00:21:49.000 Her relationship with Trump soured over the Republican primary debates featuring his challengers this past fall.

00:21:55.000 Trump wanted her to cancel them and she declined.

00:21:58.000 So she provided so much fealty to him.

00:22:00.000 I mean, she really did during the primaries.

00:22:03.000 She didn't force him to sign any pledge saying he'd vote for the other candidates, despite the fact that she wanted all the other candidates to pledge they'd vote for Trump if, in fact, he won the nomination.

00:22:11.000 She made room for him at every possible turn, but she wouldn't just outright hand him the primaries and got pissed at her. 0.99

00:22:16.000 And now he wants her out, and now she's leaving.

00:22:18.000 The point of the matter is that if you wish for good policy to emerge from Donald Trump or anyone else, that doesn't mean listening to Trump all the time.

00:22:26.000 It doesn't mean listening to Trump when he says, end the Bud Light boycott.

00:22:29.000 It doesn't mean listening to Trump when he tries to boost Ronna McDaniel back to the RNC chairmanship in January of 2023.

00:22:33.000 It means sometimes he's right and sometimes he's wrong.

00:22:36.000 You're an independent human being and you should have your own thoughts on matters and you shouldn't just follow any politician or people like me, anyone, literally anyone, blindly.

00:22:44.000 You should actually think about these things and then decide whether or not it meets with your principles.

00:22:49.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the consequence of having a very narrow House majority yesterday, the House voted on impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

00:22:58.000 Now, to be fair to the Republican Congress, people who voted against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, no high crime or misdemeanor was actually alleged.

00:23:05.000 Okay, so there are some members of the House who argued against Donald Trump's impeachment, including Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin.

00:23:12.000 He's a really good representative.

00:23:14.000 I know Mike, I like Mike.

00:23:16.000 Mike Gallagher voted against impeaching Mayorkas.

00:23:18.000 Why?

00:23:19.000 Because he said, listen, I voted against Donald Trump's impeachment because no crime was alleged.

00:23:22.000 Here, no crime is alleged, so I'm also voting against impeachment.

00:23:25.000 Now, the reason I would have voted for impeachment if I were in the House, and the reason why I think it was good that people voted for impeachment is because impeachment is obviously a political tool.

00:23:35.000 Impeachment has obviously become a political tool.

00:23:37.000 Trump was impeached twice without any serious high crime or misdemeanor even being charged in the impeachment documents.

00:23:43.000 And so now that that's what it is, everybody's fair game.

00:23:46.000 Because if the rules apply one way for Democrats and another way for Republicans, then there are no rules.

00:23:52.000 No double standards.

00:23:53.000 So if impeachment is a political tool, then it should be a political tool all the way.

00:23:57.000 And then, we can make a deal, and we'll go back to status quo ante, where you only get impeached for actual impeachable offenses.

00:24:03.000 But until then, you cross the line, and we'll treat it just like a political remedy.

00:24:08.000 In any case, the reason that the Republicans couldn't get together a House majority is because their House majority was so narrow.

00:24:14.000 So that goes back to the 2022 elections, in which the intervention of the RNC and Donald Trump and bad candidates ended up blowing the possibility of a Republican 15 or 20 seat House majority.

00:24:25.000 And Republicans ended up with a tiny, slim, tiny House majority.

00:24:29.000 And then, of course, George Santos was just ousted by Congress, which left them with one fewer Republican vote.

00:24:34.000 And so the House ended up voting 216 to 214 against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas.

00:24:41.000 Only four Republicans voted in favor of keeping Mayorkas, or not impeaching him.

00:24:45.000 The Republicans who voted against the impeachment resolution said that Mayorkas' conduct did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.

00:24:52.000 This is what Tom McClintock said.

00:24:53.000 So Tom McClintock, by the way, is a border hawk.

00:24:55.000 Tom McClintock in California.

00:24:56.000 He is not some sort of border dove easy on immigration or anything.

00:25:01.000 He just said the same thing that Gallagher said.

00:25:03.000 He said the impeachment articles failed to identify an impeachable crime that Mayorkas has committed.

00:25:08.000 Democrats were accusing Republicans of trying to score political points, which of course is true, but that's exactly what they were doing when they impeached Donald Trump twice.

00:25:15.000 Representative Ken Buck of Colorado indicated another vote could take place once the House Majority Leader Steve Scalise returns to work.

00:25:22.000 Scalise has been working remotely as he undergoes cancer treatment.

00:25:26.000 In the end, probably, Mayorkas will be impeached.

00:25:28.000 They do have enough votes to do it, but barely.

00:25:32.000 So, the Democrats did wheel in people who are literally sick to try to get the vote to turn in favor of Mayorkas.

00:25:40.000 Representative Al Green tried to vote on a second resolution targeting Mayorkas.

00:25:46.000 But he backed off after receiving assurances from House leaders that the earlier effort would proceed at the committee level, and then he was actually wheeled in because he was sick to vote against impeaching Mayorkas.

00:25:55.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:26:56.000 So, bottom line is, does this damage Republicans anyway?

00:26:59.000 No, I mean, it just looks again like Republicans can't count votes, but we've known that for quite a while. 0.99

00:27:04.000 In yet another element of Republican stupidity, it turns out that banging your head against the wall does not end up being a very good strategy. 0.99

00:27:09.000 They got rid of Kevin McCarthy, as I said at the time. 1.00

00:27:11.000 Like McCarthy or hate McCarthy, McCarthy knew how to count votes.

00:27:15.000 You know what's happening now?

00:27:17.000 Nobody knows how to count votes.

00:27:18.000 And the deals aren't getting any better.

00:27:20.000 So, slow clap for all the people who thought getting rid of Kevin McCarthy was going to fix the problems in Congress.

00:27:25.000 But, in the end, do Americans, as we say, watch politics at this granular level?

00:27:29.000 Or do they care about how the impeachment vote goes?

00:27:32.000 No, they just get a general sense.

00:27:34.000 They get a sort of...

00:27:35.000 General Gestalt of the election.

00:27:37.000 And then they vote accordingly.

00:27:38.000 And the General Gestalt right now, the border is a disaster area and Joe Biden is the president.

00:27:43.000 And so Republicans who are not passing this bad border bill They are winning a political victory right now.

00:27:48.000 The media are trying to turn this into Republicans won't pass a border bill to give Joe Biden the authority he needs.

00:27:53.000 But the border was considered a non-problem by Democrats until this very moment.

00:27:58.000 So just to follow the Democrat logic for a moment, the border is not a problem at all.

00:28:02.000 But if you don't give Joe Biden extra power to shut down the border, that's when the crisis emerges.

00:28:08.000 I'm gonna need an explainer on that.

00:28:10.000 If the border was in crisis, why isn't Joe Biden doing something about it?

00:28:12.000 He has the authority to do so already, as everyone legally acknowledges.

00:28:18.000 Joe Biden, however, is trying to play the hand that he has dealt himself.

00:28:21.000 Again, he could just shut the border and take the issue away from Trump, but he's afraid of ticking off that left-wing base.

00:28:26.000 And so now he's trying to blame Republicans for all of this.

00:28:29.000 He says the border isn't secure because of Trump and his friends.

00:28:31.000 This is not going to play at all in any way, shape, or form.

00:28:34.000 This is why he is 30 points behind Trump on immigration. 0.92

00:28:37.000 Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his maggot Republican friends. 0.68

00:28:48.000 Um, so, um, no.

00:28:50.000 That is not going to work.

00:28:51.000 If you really think that MAGA is keeping the border open, that's wrong.

00:28:55.000 Joe Biden is the President of the United States.

00:28:56.000 Then Joe Biden was suggesting that Republicans need to show some spine and pass the bill.

00:29:00.000 Um, we all know what's going to happen if that happens.

00:29:03.000 If Republicans pass the bill, the border will remain largely open because Joe Biden will make sure that it remains largely open.

00:29:09.000 And then, he will claim that he's been able to create a bipartisan deal to create responsibility at the border.

00:29:16.000 And then, Now, all indications are this bill won't even move forward to the Senate floor.

00:29:20.000 Why?

00:29:20.000 A simple reason.

00:29:20.000 And whatever are the future border problems will be co-owned by the Republicans.

00:29:24.000 That's the politics of this.

00:29:25.000 Why do you think Democrats are so desperate to pass this thing?

00:29:27.000 The reason the Democrats are desperate to pass this thing is because they see it as

00:29:29.000 a political win.

00:29:30.000 Here was Joe Biden trying to force Republicans into voting for it.

00:29:33.000 It's not going to happen.

00:29:35.000 Now all indications are this bill won't even move forward to the Senate floor.

00:29:41.000 Why?

00:29:42.000 A simple reason.

00:29:44.000 Donald Trump.

00:29:45.000 Because Donald Trump thinks it's bad for him politically.

00:29:48.000 therefore he doesn't, even though it helps the country, he's not for it.

00:29:53.000 He'd rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it.

00:29:56.000 So for the last 24 hours he's done nothing, I'm told, but reach out to Republicans in the House and the Senate and threaten them and try to intimidate them to vote against this proposal.

00:30:08.000 And looks like they're caving.

00:30:10.000 Frankly, they owe it to the American people to show some spine and do what they know to be right.

00:30:16.000 I mean, I gotta say, there are two problems with this.

00:30:19.000 Number one is the argument.

00:30:21.000 The other is that, I swear, Joe Biden at this point, he looks, no joke, like Julian Glover as Walter Donovan at the end of Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail.

00:30:37.000 He looks like he drank from, he chose poorly.

00:30:40.000 Literally every video of him is a state of further physical and mental degradation.

00:30:46.000 He's degrading before our eyes.

00:30:48.000 Everyone can see it.

00:30:50.000 It's impossible not to see it.

00:30:51.000 By the way, Joe Biden is admitting, by the way, the bill will actually allow people to enter the country more quickly.

00:30:56.000 We all know what the real agenda is here.

00:30:57.000 Here's President Biden admitting this yesterday.

00:31:00.000 This bill would also establish new, efficient, and fair process for the government to consider an asylum claim for those arriving at the border.

00:31:09.000 Today, the process can take five to seven years, as you all know.

00:31:13.000 They show up at the border, get a bracelet, told they'll come back when called.

00:31:17.000 Five to seven years, now in country.

00:31:20.000 That's too long and it's not rational.

00:31:23.000 With the new policies in this bill and the additional of 4,300 more asylum officers who spend hours, I might add, with each immigrant to consider their claims, whether they qualify, we'll be able to reduce that process to six months, not five to seven years.

00:31:42.000 Okay, again, he's trying to reduce the time period between when you apply for refugee status and when you are granted refugee status.

00:31:50.000 His goal is to get more people into the country, not fewer people into the country.

00:31:54.000 The only thing that the bill does that is presumably good is it changes the definition of asylum.

00:31:59.000 In order to have a legitimate asylum claim, you now not only have to claim that you fear to go back to your home country, you have to have some sort of credible fear that you cannot, such that you cannot relocate inside your home country or in any country that you have passed through before.

00:32:12.000 But how do you establish that sort of thing?

00:32:15.000 Like seriously, do you think that Joe Biden and his processing centers, people are going to come and they're just going to say that.

00:32:19.000 They're just going to say, I can't move inside my own home country because people are pursuing me.

00:32:22.000 How do you confirm that?

00:32:24.000 Then they're going to say Mexico isn't accepting me in order to live there and the gangs are following me and there's no place I can go.

00:32:30.000 And then they just say new magic words.

00:32:33.000 So listen, I get why border patrol agents, some of them, are in support of the bill.

00:32:36.000 They think that it gives them some additional tools if they're allowed to do their job.

00:32:40.000 But I think they're assuming that Joe Biden is going to allow them to do their job.

00:32:42.000 And that is an assumption, as we say in the law, not in evidence.

00:32:46.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden has tied all of these issues together.

00:32:51.000 He has tied his version of the border bill together with Ukraine aid, together with Israel aid.

00:32:57.000 Which is kind of amazing because he doesn't have to do that.

00:33:00.000 It demonstrates his failure of the power of the bully pulpit.

00:33:04.000 If Joe Biden actually had any level of popularity, he could probably force each of these issues through one at a time.

00:33:10.000 Let's say that he wanted Ukraine aid.

00:33:11.000 He could probably force that through.

00:33:13.000 He could make an argument to the American people.

00:33:15.000 He could say, listen, Ukraine is going to be overrun by Russia.

00:33:17.000 If we don't give them the aid, then Vladimir Putin is going to be standing in Kiev by the end of the year.

00:33:23.000 They need the aid.

00:33:25.000 Most of the aid is going to go toward paying our military contractors anyway.

00:33:28.000 We need to restock our supplies and all the rest.

00:33:30.000 He could say all that sort of stuff, but he can't because he's really, really unpopular.

00:33:34.000 And so he's trying to lump that together with a significantly more popular proposition, which is aid to Israel.

00:33:39.000 In fact, he came out yesterday and said he would not even sign off on an independent aid to Israel clean bill, which is totally crazy.

00:33:45.000 He says he wants that.

00:33:46.000 He's the one who proposed it.

00:33:47.000 He's saying he wants $14 billion in military aid to Israel and $10 billion for the other side.

00:33:53.000 He wants $10 billion in so-called humanitarian aid to Gaza.

00:33:55.000 I say so-called because Hamas and terrorists hijack a huge amount of that and then use it for weaponry. 0.65

00:34:01.000 That's what he says he wants.

00:34:02.000 So the Republicans are like, OK, fine, we'll give you 14 bill for Israel and no 10 bill for Gaza and no 60 bill for Ukraine.

00:34:07.000 And Biden's like, I'll veto that.

00:34:10.000 He has to tie everything together. 0.99

00:34:11.000 He has to turn it into a crap sandwich. 0.98

00:34:13.000 It's his only hope of passing his main priorities at this point. 0.99

00:34:17.000 We'll get to the situation in Ukraine in just one second.

00:34:20.000 First.

00:34:21.000 I need your attention.

00:34:21.000 We have a major announcement.

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00:34:29.000 He is joined by Matt Walsh, Candice Owens, Michael Moulse, Andrew Clavin, and of course me.

00:34:34.000 Join us this Tuesday, 7 p.m.

00:34:35.000 Eastern, 6 p.m.

00:34:36.000 Central, as we go behind the scenes and beyond the headlines.

00:34:38.000 There's a lot happening.

00:34:39.000 You're not going to want to miss a minute.

00:34:41.000 Watch the show live exclusively at Daily Wire Plus Tuesday night at 7 p.m.

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00:34:45.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:34:47.000 And meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine continues to be rather dire.

00:34:51.000 Best reports suggest that Russia is going to mobilize another all-out assault on Ukraine sometime later in the year, and as Western support for Ukraine declines, Ukrainians are very much in fear that Kiev theoretically could be overrun.

00:35:04.000 According to Ukrainian media, the Ukrainian parliament has now passed a law approving a presidential decree to extend martial law in Ukraine for another 90 days, from February 14th until May 13th.

00:35:15.000 Apparently, this is basically a unanimous legislative act because, of course, the country is still, in fact, at war.

00:35:22.000 And all of this is, again, coming to a head, not just because the United States is unlikely to grant $60 billion in aid to Ukraine based on the current voting constituency in the House of Representatives, but also because Tucker Carlson is now jet-setting over to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin.

00:35:38.000 So here was Tucker confirming that he's interviewing Putin, and here he was explaining why he's doing it.

00:35:44.000 We're in Moscow tonight.

00:35:45.000 We're here to interview the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

00:35:48.000 We'll be doing that soon.

00:35:50.000 Almost three years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leaked the contents to their servants in the news media.

00:35:57.000 They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning.

00:36:01.000 Last month, we're pretty certain they did exactly the same thing once again.

00:36:05.000 But this time, we came to Moscow anyway.

00:36:09.000 We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin.

00:36:11.000 We are here because we love the United States and we want it to remain prosperous and free.

00:36:16.000 Okay, so the entire case that he is making is that you're not getting the full information and that we need an interview with Putin.

00:36:25.000 Okay, that's all fine and dandy.

00:36:26.000 I mean, I'm fine with anybody interviewing Putin.

00:36:28.000 Hell, I'd love to interview Putin.

00:36:29.000 Good for Tucker for getting the interview.

00:36:30.000 You know, I will say that the only thing that's going to matter about this interview are the questions that he asks.

00:36:37.000 Meaning that if he goes in and he basically just allows Putin to spout about denazification efforts in Ukraine and about how Ukraine is actually a country that is filled with wild left liberals who are promoting LGBTQ values but they're also Nazis and that's why he's invading and that's why he needs to take out Vladimir Zelensky or whatever.

00:36:55.000 That will not, in fact, be a public service.

00:36:57.000 That will not, in fact, be information that is added to the information that people need to hear.

00:37:03.000 The questions that need to be asked, obviously, are what are the off-ramps?

00:37:06.000 Why are you holding American journalists like Evan Gershkovich in jail?

00:37:10.000 Why is that a thing?

00:37:12.000 Well, Tucker says in this video that nobody has actually wanted to interview Putin.

00:37:17.000 That's not true.

00:37:17.000 I mean, a huge number of people have requested interviews with Putin in the legacy media.

00:37:21.000 Putin just hasn't granted any because he feels that the legacy media in the United States are very much opposed to him.

00:37:28.000 And there's truth to that.

00:37:29.000 I think for some pretty good reasons.

00:37:31.000 Number one, that Vladimir Putin has sort of a nefarious history of having his political enemies jailed and or poisoned and or pushed off of buildings.

00:37:38.000 But in any case, if Tucker wants to provide another side to the conflict so that we can all get more information, that'll be great.

00:37:45.000 But we're only going to know exactly how that goes once the interview actually airs.

00:37:48.000 I'm not going to prejudge the interview.

00:37:50.000 I certainly have no problem with Tucker interviewing Vladimir Putin.

00:37:53.000 I hope he doesn't do the same thing that he actually did with Kanye West when he had on Kanye.

00:37:57.000 On his show and proceeded to cut out all of the craziest sections of the interview with Kanye when she was spouting even at the time wild anti-semitic kind of stuff and Tucker cut it out and then put out the interview with Kanye and it made Kanye look like he was a lot more sane than he actually was at that time.

00:38:16.000 You know, again, I think Tucker is a super smart guy.

00:38:19.000 I think that he does care about the country, and I would love to hear him ask some really solid questions of Vladimir Putin, so we'll see how it goes.

00:38:27.000 I will say that the Kremlin is expecting that they know how it goes.

00:38:31.000 According to DNYUZ, Carlson's trip is exciting a lot of people over at the Kremlin.

00:38:39.000 On Tuesday, Alexei Benediktov, the former editor of Echo Moscovy radio station, said, as I understand, Tucker Carlson got what he wanted.

00:38:48.000 Apparently, a source close to the presidential administration told the Moscow Times, quote, Tucker has been expected here for a long time.

00:38:53.000 He is welcome here.

00:38:55.000 To underscore the depth of Carlson's commitment to the Russian cause, state media programs pointed out that in America, he's called out as a traitor and his trip is being compared to Jane Fonda's visit to Vietnam in 1972.

00:39:04.000 Now, again, the It's not like Jane Fonda unless he's actually a propagandist for the Kremlin.

00:39:12.000 So, let's see.

00:39:13.000 I don't want to prejudge anything until I've seen it.

00:39:15.000 I'm not going to prejudge Tucker's interview.

00:39:16.000 I know a lot of the media are already doing that.

00:39:18.000 I'm not going to do that until I see the questions that he asks.

00:39:20.000 It's a massive opportunity, obviously.

00:39:23.000 Could it have an impact in theoretically opening eyes to the possibility of a future solution?

00:39:29.000 Sure.

00:39:29.000 Could it also be a propaganda interview?

00:39:30.000 Good.

00:39:30.000 I mean, presumably that's why Putin is doing it.

00:39:34.000 Apparently.

00:39:36.000 During an interview with The Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, political scientist Sergei Mikhaev said, quote, a few words about Tucker since he's a popular figure.

00:39:45.000 He says, if Tucker dares to broadcast this interview in the United States, first and foremost, this will blow up their informational blockade from within.

00:39:53.000 He said that an interview with Putin will have some interesting consequences, quote, it will blow them up into pieces.

00:39:59.000 This is the United States.

00:40:01.000 And then he said, God willing, there will be a civil war in the United States because of it.

00:40:04.000 Now, again, I think that's some wishful thinking on the part of some Russian propagandists, but it's worth pointing out that the only thing that's important about an interview is the content of the interview, not just the faces of the people who are in the interview.

00:40:19.000 And by the way, the United States does have a very strong interest in Ukraine, not actually just becoming a Russian protectorate.

00:40:25.000 I've said since the since near the beginning of the war that the solution to this conflict was going to be in simply recognizing the frozen battle lines that are already present in the Donbass and in Crimea.

00:40:36.000 The areas of the Donbass that are currently occupied by Russia and in Crimea that are currently occupied by Russia are largely Russian speaking.

00:40:43.000 Those are areas in which Vladimir Zelensky did not win when it came to the last election cycle.

00:40:49.000 Those are areas that didn't vote, some of them, in the last election cycle because they'd already been occupied by Russia in 2014, but those are areas that had not voted for the more European-minded Ukrainian politicians.

00:41:01.000 They'd already voted for the more pro-Russian politicians in those areas.

00:41:06.000 Those conflicts are not likely to be undone.

00:41:08.000 Those areas are not likely to become sovereign Ukrainian territory again anytime soon.

00:41:13.000 The battle lines have not moved for a year.

00:41:15.000 And so, the idea of the off-ramp is American and European security guarantees to Ukraine, more military material put in to prevent a future invasion, and setting of the final lines, kind of where they are right now, everyone knows that's the solution.

00:41:30.000 The question I hope Tucker asks Putin is, is that a solution for you?

00:41:34.000 Right, because otherwise there's no off-ramp and it just continues.

00:41:36.000 Putin is counting on the West to just get tired and eventually just give him Kiev.

00:41:39.000 That's effectively what Putin is waiting for right now.

00:41:41.000 Okay, meanwhile, Gina Carano, our friend, who of course starred in Terror on the Prairie for us.

00:41:47.000 We hired her after she was fired from The Mandalorian for the great sin of saying that people should not dehumanize one another. 0.94

00:41:53.000 That's really why she was fired from The Mandalorian.

00:41:55.000 She put up a meme saying essentially that othering ends with murder, which is, I thought, kind of a mainstream point of view.

00:42:03.000 In any case, they fired her, we hired her, and she was in terror on the prairie,

00:42:07.000 and it was sort of a big win for everyone.

00:42:09.000 Now, Gina is suing the Walt Disney Company. 1.00

00:42:12.000 So according to Deadline Hollywood, three years after Carano was axed

00:42:15.000 by then Bob Chapeck-run Disney for comparing the political climate in America

00:42:18.000 to Nazi Germany, that's not what she was doing.

00:42:20.000 Carano sued Disney and the Star Wars shingle Lucasfilm for dropping her from the Bounty Hunter series,

00:42:26.000 and X is paying, Elon Musk is actually paying for her lawyers because I love it.

00:42:33.000 According to the complaint, quote, a short time ago in a galaxy not so far away,

00:42:37.000 defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy and thought speech or action was acceptable in their empire

00:42:41.000 and that those who dared to question or fail to fully comply would not be tolerated.

00:42:44.000 And so it was with Carano.

00:42:46.000 The rule of law still reigns over the defendant's empire.

00:42:48.000 Carano has returned to demand they be held accountable for their bullying, discriminatory

00:42:51.000 and retaliatory actions that inflicted not only substantial emotional harm

00:42:55.000 but millions of dollars in lost income.

00:42:57.000 Now you'll recall that it was in February, 2021, not long after she had been in the Mandalorian,

00:43:04.000 that they put out a scathing statement on their business with her.

00:43:06.000 They said, By the way, there was no social media post denigrating anyone based on cultural or religious identity.

00:43:09.000 her to be in the future.

00:43:10.000 Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their

00:43:13.000 cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable. 1.00

00:43:15.000 By the way, there was no social media post denigrating anyone based on

00:43:18.000 cultural or religious identity at all.

00:43:21.000 So she says defendants also discriminated against Carano by treating her

00:43:25.000 differently from her male co-stars, who also made public political

00:43:28.000 That, of course, is absolutely true.

00:43:30.000 Pedro Pascal, who's the star of The Mandalorian, put out a meme about how basically the immigrants, illegal immigrants, were being held in detention facilities.

00:43:41.000 Those were like concentration camps.

00:43:42.000 He put out that tweet, nothing.

00:43:44.000 She said her male co-stars were not disciplined, let alone terminated, in a way to destroy their careers, even though some would find their statements abhorrent.

00:43:50.000 And she points out those statements by Pedro Pascal.

00:43:53.000 As well as Mark Hamill comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

00:43:58.000 So, Carano is amplifying all that, and then Elon Musk put out a statement saying, anybody else who wants to sue Disney, let me know.

00:44:06.000 Which, revenge is best served cold.

00:44:11.000 He put out a tweet saying, quote, if you were discriminated against by Disney or its subsidiaries, just reply to this post to receive legal support.

00:44:17.000 Because he received an anonymous source that showed Disney general entertainment content and inclusion standards that violate basic civil rights law and basically create all sorts of racist hiring practices.

00:44:32.000 And there are a bunch of people who are going to take him up on that.

00:44:34.000 Would not be surprised to see Disney sued from a thousand different directions over that because DEI must, in fact, die.

00:44:41.000 And Elon is doing God's work on that one.

00:44:43.000 Alrighty, folks, the rest of the show continues right now.

00:44:45.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:44:46.000 We'll be joined on the line by Mark Morgan, the former acting Border Patrol commissioner.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 07, 2024

I’m Retiring From Rap

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