The Ben Shapiro Show - Inside The Biden Plan To STEAL Democracy

00:00:00.000 The polls show that Joe Biden is losing the 2024 election.

00:00:03.000 It's an unfortunate truth for the incumbent president.

00:00:07.000 A series of swing state polls now out from Redfield-Wilton and The Telegraph show that Donald Trump is now in the lead in Pennsylvania by 2, Georgia by 5, Michigan by 1, Arizona by 2, North Carolina by 3, Florida by 6.

00:00:23.000 Meanwhile, a new poll from the Des Moines Register, Ann Seltzer, who is the best pollster in the country.

00:00:28.000 She, of course, has to get it right because the Iowa caucuses are a very important jumping point for every presidential race. 1.00

00:00:35.000 She's an A-plus pollster, meaning she pretty much knows everyone personally in Iowa.

00:00:39.000 She currently has Donald Trump Up 18 points on Joe Biden.

00:00:44.000 50 to 32.

00:00:45.000 Biden's net approval is at negative 39 in Iowa.

00:00:48.000 Why does that matter?

00:00:49.000 I mean, Trump won Iowa walking away last time.

00:00:52.000 He won it by 8.

00:00:53.000 Not by 18.

00:00:54.000 By 8.

00:00:57.000 So there are huge numbers that Trump is racking up in places like Iowa.

00:01:00.000 Not just that, a new Washington Post study of the so-called deciders.

00:01:04.000 These would be people who turn out to vote sporadically or who have switched their vote between Republican and Democrat.

00:01:10.000 When it comes to the swing states, about 61% of people declare themselves deciders.

00:01:18.000 Those would be people who voted in only one of the last couple presidential elections, or are between the ages of 18 and 25, or registered to vote since 2022, or who did not definitely plan to vote for either Biden or Trump this year or switch their support between 2016 and 2020.

00:01:34.000 Well, among the non-deciders in the swing states, Donald Trump is in a very slight lead over Joe Biden.

00:01:40.000 17% say that they will definitely vote for Trump.

00:01:43.000 15% say they will definitely vote for Biden.

00:01:45.000 That's out of a total of 39% among the non-deciders.

00:01:49.000 Among the deciders, these are people who are sporadic voters or uncommitted voters.

00:01:53.000 If you look at the uncommitted voters, probably Trump beats probably Biden by a couple of percentage points.

00:01:59.000 These are all very close states, and what that means is that if Donald Trump is leading among both the deciders and also the non-deciders, then he's just leading overall.

00:02:09.000 And right now, if you look at this Washington Post polling data, what you see is that among all key state voters, 31% say they would definitely vote for Donald Trump, compared to 26% who say they would definitely vote for Joe Biden.

00:02:21.000 Another 17% say they would probably vote for Donald Trump, compared to 15% for Joe Biden.

00:02:27.000 Most importantly, In terms of who people would definitely not vote for, or probably not vote for, 55% of voters in the key states say they will either definitely not or probably not vote for Joe Biden, compared to only 49% for Donald Trump.

00:02:43.000 This means that right now Donald Trump is pretty obviously winning, which again is one of the reasons why The Economist, which does a forecast on who they believe is going to win, currently has Donald Trump's chances of winning the election at 72%.

00:02:55.000 Which is extraordinary.

00:02:57.000 Now, again, you'll recall that back in 2016, it was thought that Hillary Clinton had a 99% chance of winning the election, and of course, she then lost.

00:03:04.000 But, the bottom line is, if you had to put your money on the election today, you would be betting on Donald Trump.

00:03:10.000 CNN's Harry Enten was stunned yesterday, looking at the polling data and seeing what percentage of black voters, for example, are now examining the possibility of voting for President Trump.

00:03:18.000 Here was Harry Enten yesterday.

00:03:20.000 Look at black voters age 50 and older, and you'll see, look, Joe Biden was leading amongst this group at this point by 83 points back in 2020.

00:03:28.000 Now, it's 74 points.

00:03:30.000 So yeah, a slight decline in that margin, but nothing out of this world.

00:03:34.000 Look at black voters under the age of 50. 0.93

00:03:37.000 Holy cow, folks, holy cow, look at this.

00:03:39.000 Joe Biden was up by 80 points among this group back at this point in 2020.

00:03:43.000 Look at where that margin has careened down towards.

00:03:46.000 It's now just, get this, 37 points!

00:03:50.000 That lead has dropped by more than half, Mr. Berman.

00:03:54.000 I've just never seen anything like this.

00:03:56.000 I'm, like, speechless because you always look at history and you go, okay, this is a historic moment.

00:04:01.000 If this polling is anywhere near correct, we are looking at a historic moment right now where black voters under the age of 50, which have historically been such a big part of the Democratic coalition, are leaving it in droves.

00:04:15.000 Okay, what that means is that the gap for Donald Trump is down from 90-10 to about 70-30.

00:04:21.000 That's what that actually shows among young black voters.

00:04:25.000 And Joe Biden is in real trouble.

00:04:26.000 We'll get to more on this in just a second.

00:04:27.000 First, the cost of living is up almost 20% from 2021.

00:04:29.000 Thanks, Joe.

00:04:32.000 And families everywhere are feeling that burden.

00:04:34.000 But legacy media keeps telling us the economy is fine, everything's great.

00:04:37.000 In fact, a recent Business Insider article makes the case the American people are to blame for this dumpster fire economy because it's people's perception of inflation.

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00:05:39.000 Particularly for young voters, they look at Joe Biden and he does not seem like he is with it.

00:05:43.000 And the Biden campaign is trying to walk their way past it.

00:05:46.000 Basically, they're now telling you that your eyes are lying to you.

00:05:50.000 Here's the problem.

00:05:51.000 Your eyes are not lying to you.

00:05:53.000 Just in the last 24 hours, we have tape of Babylon Joe at a fundraiser from Los Angeles with Barack Obama.

00:06:01.000 It's the same fundraiser where we had to be led off the stage by the hand by Barack Obama.

00:06:05.000 And we have Joe Biden just randomly babbling into the microphone.

00:06:08.000 You want to know why the Department of Justice will not turn over the tape of Joe Biden talking to Special Prosecutor Robert Herr?

00:06:15.000 Because hours and hours of Joe Biden mumbling into a microphone like a demented old man is not going to look good for him in a presidential race.

00:06:22.000 That is the only reason they won't release the tape.

00:06:24.000 We already have the transcript.

00:06:26.000 It probably sounds a lot like this.

00:06:27.000 Here is Joe Biden babbling when asked about jobs at this fundraiser.

00:06:32.000 And guess what?

00:06:33.000 It's growing.

00:06:33.000 The economy's growing.

00:06:34.000 People's doing better.

00:06:36.000 We have the highest unemployment, the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.

00:06:41.000 We have more people.

00:06:42.000 We've had over 15 million people ready to hire and work for us.

00:06:47.000 You know, my son says, you know, we all have various short-term descriptions for your jobs, for what you accomplish.

00:06:59.000 He should say Joe Jobs.

00:07:02.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:07:04.000 And then there was yesterday when Joe Biden was at some sort of event at the White House and the press started yelling questions to him.

00:07:12.000 And so he decided to just yell random things back at them.

00:07:15.000 I don't even know what's going on here.

00:07:21.000 And then he starts grinning like the Joker.

00:07:27.000 What in the world was that?

00:07:29.000 What was that?

00:07:33.000 Imagine that coming at 3 a.m.

00:07:35.000 We've been told by the media, of course, that there's nothing wrong with Joe Biden.

00:07:40.000 In fact, yesterday, the Biden campaign co-chair decided to go on national television and suggest that no one should be questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity. 0.67

00:07:48.000 I think Donald Trump is a joke. 0.82

00:07:50.000 I mean, when this guy, when his lips are moving, he's lying. 0.88

00:07:53.000 And then when he tries to confuse, when he tries to accuse somebody else of speaking improperly, he can't keep two thoughts in his mind.

00:08:00.000 I would encourage Americans to go listen to Donald Trump's full speeches and try to put that word spaghetti together.

00:08:06.000 And I wonder why anybody is questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity.

00:08:10.000 Donald Trump can't string two sentences together.

00:08:12.000 I mean, it's the biggest joke in the world.

00:08:15.000 You're wondering why people are questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity?

00:08:19.000 Really?

00:08:20.000 Are we questioning this?

00:08:21.000 Here is a short montage of Joe Biden simply getting lost, okay, and having to be guided by people.

00:08:27.000 We could have done probably an hour of this, but this is the short version.

00:08:33.000 There he is, being guided.

00:08:35.000 He has to actually be told where to go.

00:08:37.000 This is where he lives.

00:08:38.000 It's the White House.

00:08:39.000 Here is Barack Obama guiding him by the hand like a visiting angel.

00:08:44.000 Yes, sir.

00:08:44.000 guiding him by the back as he totters off the stage.

00:08:48.000 Here is a Secret Service agent directing Joe Biden to make a right turn, but Joe Biden apparently

00:08:51.000 does not understand how hand signals work, and so he just sort of glides on past into the grass,

00:08:56.000 following the Secret Service agent, who has no idea Joe Biden is following him.

00:09:00.000 Here he is at another event, having to be directed toward a specific spot on the floor

00:09:05.000 so he can stand next to a TV.

00:09:06.000 Here he is trying to follow a small child, but then having to be told that's not exactly

00:09:11.000 where he is actually going.

00:09:12.000 He doesn't know where he's going.

00:09:14.000 Trying to go here?

00:09:14.000 Sure.

00:09:15.000 I suppose I'll go there.

00:09:16.000 Here he was talking to a parachute.

00:09:18.000 He doesn't even know he's talking to him.

00:09:20.000 And George Maloney, Prime Minister of Italy, having to redirect him back into a picture where he looks confusedly.

00:09:24.000 Here's the Easter Bunny directing Joe Biden.

00:09:26.000 You remember this one?

00:09:27.000 Joe Biden's talking to the press.

00:09:29.000 The Easter Bunny doesn't want Joe Biden talking to the press.

00:09:31.000 Here is Kamala Harris trying to redirect the old man. 0.99

00:09:34.000 So that she can't get him to move away.

00:09:37.000 Here is Joe Biden simply walking through a group of people.

00:09:40.000 They don't know exactly where he's supposed to go.

00:09:41.000 The Secret Service points him in the other direction.

00:09:45.000 This is the problem.

00:09:46.000 There's tons of tape.

00:09:48.000 Your eyes and your ears are not deceiving you.

00:09:50.000 The President of the United States is in a state of serious decline and everybody knows it.

00:09:55.000 But the administration doesn't have a solution for this.

00:09:58.000 The campaign doesn't have a solution for this because the problem is it's true.

00:10:01.000 And so they've decided to try out their newest narrative.

00:10:03.000 Their newest narrative is something they are calling cheap fakes.

00:10:07.000 Get it?

00:10:07.000 Because it rhymes with deep fakes.

00:10:09.000 These branding geniuses over here.

00:10:11.000 The same people behind Bidenomics, which has been jaboon for the Biden campaign.

00:10:15.000 So now calling them cheap fakes.

00:10:17.000 So Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary. 0.80

00:10:20.000 Yesterday, she got very, very angry because it turns out that people have been distributing clips of Joe Biden looking mentally incompetent.

00:10:28.000 She says that they're not true.

00:10:30.000 They're all taken out of context.

00:10:31.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:10:32.000 We've played the full tapes and we've explained exactly what he is doing.

00:10:35.000 So, for example, the claim by Democrats was that the tape of Joe Biden talking to the parachutist was somehow edited to make him look worse.

00:10:43.000 Except for the fact we showed you the tape, including the parachutist, who doesn't seem to understand that Joe Biden, the President of the United States, is talking to him.

00:10:52.000 We showed you the full tape of Joe Biden waving to the crowd before he randomly freezes on stage and has to be led by the hand like a small five-year-old child by the former President of the United States, Barack Obama.

00:11:02.000 We've shown you everything, but apparently it's now cheap fakes and deep fakes, according to Corine Jean-Pierre.

00:11:07.000 There seems to be a sort of rash of videos that have been edited to make the president appear especially frail or mentally confused.

00:11:16.000 I'm wondering if the White House is especially worried about the fact that this appears to be a pattern that we're seeing more of often.

00:11:23.000 Yeah, and I think you all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that's exactly what they are.

00:11:28.000 They are cheap fakes video.

00:11:29.000 They are done in bad faith.

00:11:32.000 And some of your news organization have been very clear, have stressed that these right wing, the right wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation.

00:11:48.000 It's not misinformation, it's not disinformation.

00:11:50.000 It's not.

00:11:53.000 It's not misinformation.

00:11:58.000 It's literally a clip of the President of the United States doing things.

00:12:03.000 It's not disinformation.

00:12:03.000 It's not Russian propaganda.

00:12:05.000 But you can see this narrative being laundered in real time.

00:12:07.000 Here's Nicole Wallace on MSNBC doing her job as spokesperson for the White House. 0.99

00:12:11.000 There's a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media broadcasts, print and social media.

00:12:17.000 It is to take highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly from Republican National Committee social media accounts and then use those videos To spread messages virally to cast doubt on President Biden's fitness for office.

00:12:34.000 Here is this headline from the New York Post.

00:12:36.000 Quote, Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off stage by Obama at Megabucks LA fundraiser.

00:12:42.000 The full video posted by Biden finance chair on Twitter shows something entirely different.

00:12:49.000 Biden reacting to applause and then walking off stage with former President Obama.

00:12:54.000 It comes less than one week after the New York Post made a cover out of another piece of deceptively edited tape, calling him meander in chief due to what they claim was Biden walking away during a skydiving demonstration during the G7 summit last week.

00:13:08.000 The only problem is that the full video, which emerged almost instantly, shows Biden was going over to congratulate one of the skydivers who's cropped out of the video entirely. 0.78

00:13:18.000 Both the articles are based on cheap fakes, videos of real events that are potentially This is so ridiculous.

00:13:24.000 Okay, can I first point out that the original video from the fundraiser where Barack Obama has to lead him off by the hand was not from the RNC.

00:13:32.000 It was from a reporter at the Hollywood Reporter, who subsequently was obviously called by the White House and then wrote a follow-up piece about how everybody was being mean to Joe Biden.

00:13:39.000 We'll get some more on this in just one second.

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00:14:39.000 Here's the thing.

00:14:40.000 The White House's attempt right now is to say that the American people cannot believe their own eyes, they can't believe their own ears, they can't believe their brains, they can't believe their wallets, they can't believe any of those things.

00:14:49.000 So if you are worried about inflation because you can't pay your bills, that's because you don't have the right mindset.

00:14:54.000 If you look at Joe Biden and you see an incompetent elderly person who should not be in the White House, that is because you are being lied to via misinformation, disinformation, and cheap fakes.

00:15:04.000 If you look at the world situation and see a world that is on fire and potentially is going to grow more on fire as time goes on, Then that is simply because you don't understand the brilliant 4D chess that Joe Biden is playing.

00:15:16.000 None of this is going to play, by the way.

00:15:17.000 None of this is going to play.

00:15:19.000 And so what the Democrats are now doing is they are prepping the groundwork for saving democracy.

00:15:25.000 Saving democracy.

00:15:26.000 Now, the word democracy is used by Democrats in a way that does not mean democracy.

00:15:30.000 Democracy is popular rule.

00:15:32.000 When it is used colloquially, it can encompass terms like, for example, a democratic republic.

00:15:37.000 Meaning that there are checks and balances in the system and it's not to wreck democracy.

00:15:40.000 Typically, democracy technically means that if we're all in a room together and we want to make a decision, we all vote on that specific decision.

00:15:48.000 A republic means you have representatives, which means you don't vote directly on many of the decisions that are being made.

00:15:53.000 You instead delegate the power to vote on those decisions to a representative government.

00:15:58.000 And typically, that representative government has a series of checks and balances.

00:16:01.000 So the United States is a republic.

00:16:03.000 It is not, in fact, a direct democracy.

00:16:05.000 It's a democracy in the broadest sense, which is that we vote, but it's not a democracy in the technical sense, in which you vote on every issue or in which a pure majoritarian popular will gets to decide every single issue.

00:16:17.000 In fact, the founders decried exactly such a system.

00:16:20.000 They saw that as what they would call a mobocracy.

00:16:23.000 That would be a problem for them.

00:16:24.000 They would not want everyone voting on every single- They wouldn't want just a series of referenda on every single issue that go to the popular vote, which is why you have all of these intervening institutions in the government.

00:16:34.000 It's why the Congress is represented on a popular level, but the Senate was originally supposed to be represented

00:16:40.000 at the state level by the state legislature.

00:16:42.000 State legislatures were originally supposed to pick their senators. 0.95

00:16:45.000 It's why the Senate itself is not proportional.

00:16:47.000 It's why Montana has the same number of senators with seven people and a cow as California 0.99

00:16:51.000 with 45 million people or whatever it is.

00:16:53.000 It is why you have a series of checks and balances between the executive branch, the legislative branch

00:16:59.000 and the judiciary.

00:17:00.000 It is why you have an electoral college.

00:17:01.000 There are all sorts of institutions in our republic that are designed to check excesses of the mob.

00:17:08.000 And if you read the Federalist Papers, that was very much forefront of the founders' concerns.

00:17:13.000 Why is that important?

00:17:14.000 Because there was a shift in the way that people thought of democracy in the United States.

00:17:18.000 And it started in the early 20th century, late 19th century.

00:17:22.000 It was a takeaway from German progressivism.

00:17:26.000 So, weirdly enough, much of modern American government, our structures, particularly the administrative state, are drawn from the Bismarckian social compact in Germany.

00:17:35.000 One of the big admirers of that system was Woodrow Wilson.

00:17:39.000 So Woodrow Wilson, who was a pointy-headed professor, obviously he was the dean of Princeton University before he ran for president of the United States, So Woodrow Wilson wrote extensively about German progressivism and what he saw as his vision for what democracy should look like.

00:17:55.000 What he believed is that the Constitution of the United States had outlived its sell-by date.

00:18:00.000 All these checks and balances were useless.

00:18:02.000 He wanted something that was more democratic and also less democratic.

00:18:05.000 More democratic in the sense that he wanted a popular vote for one guy and that one big man would get to make all the decisions with the help of a bunch of administrative bureaucrats who are experts on the issues.

00:18:16.000 In other words, he wanted a government of expertise, and he believed that all the checks and balances thwarted that government.

00:18:22.000 So for example, in 1908, he famously wrote, quote, the president is at liberty,

00:18:27.000 both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can.

00:18:30.000 His capacity will set the limit.

00:18:31.000 And if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution.

00:18:35.000 It will be from no lack of constitutional powers on his part,

00:18:37.000 but only because the president has the nation behind him and Congress has not.

00:18:40.000 In other words, Congress has all these checks and balances.

00:18:42.000 There's this weird sausage making in the background, but the president is elected by the public,

00:18:48.000 effectively speaking, and that means that he should have as much power as humanly possible.

00:18:51.000 Why was that important to Woodrow Wilson?

00:18:53.000 Because he believed in the setup of an administrative state, an entire branch of the government that was effectively independent of the popular will.

00:19:00.000 So in 1887, again, big admirer of what Otto von Bismarck had done in Germany with social welfare systems and with a government from the top of bureaucrats.

00:19:12.000 He wrote, quote, administration lies outside the proper sphere of politics.

00:19:16.000 Administrative questions are not political questions.

00:19:18.000 Although politics sets the tasks for administration, it should not be suffered to manipulate its offices.

00:19:23.000 Let me say large powers and unhampered discretion seem to me the indispensable conditions of responsibility.

00:19:29.000 Public attention must be easily directed in each case of good or bad administration to just the man deserving of praise or blame.

00:19:34.000 There is no danger in power, if only it be not irresponsible.

00:19:38.000 If it be divided, dealt out in shares to many, it is obscured.

00:19:41.000 And if it be obscured, it is made irresponsible.

00:19:43.000 So, to put that in simpler language, what he is saying is that there should be a series of effectively Unaccountable, non-elected bureaucrats who are experts, and you can yell at them, but you can't get rid of them.

00:19:53.000 And they should be given wide discretionary power to set how policy is done because they are the experts.

00:19:58.000 So when Democrats say democracy, this is what they typically mean.

00:20:01.000 They do not mean that they respect the institutions of the Republic.

00:20:05.000 They don't, for example, respect the Supreme Court of the United States, except when it is giving them precisely what they want.

00:20:11.000 Right?

00:20:12.000 This is why you have seen this bizarre attempt to uphold the Supreme Court of the United States by the left at the same time as undermining it.

00:20:19.000 So, for example, Jill Biden yesterday, she came out and she said, Joe and I respect the courts.

00:20:23.000 She said this with respect to the conviction of Donald Trump in New York and also purportedly with respect to the conviction of Hunter Biden in Delaware.

00:20:30.000 Although, again, I think that that sentence is very likely to be commuted if he gets any jail time at all.

00:20:34.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.

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00:21:36.000 Here is Jill Biden declaring her respect for the courts.

00:21:39.000 Your husband, the president, has said he wouldn't pardon your son, he wouldn't commute his sentence.

00:21:43.000 That's correct.

00:21:43.000 As a mother, though, you must want to see this burden lifted off your son.

00:21:47.000 Do you wish you could do that?

00:21:49.000 Well, Joe and I both respect the judicial system, and that's the bottom line.

00:21:55.000 Well, I mean, they don't, because here's Joe Biden over the weekend ripping into the Supreme Court, which is at the apex of the American judicial system.

00:22:01.000 The next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees.

00:22:06.000 Two more.

00:22:07.000 Two more.

00:22:08.000 He's already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals.

00:22:14.000 The idea that if he's re-elected, he's going to appoint two more firing flags upside down is really... I really mean it.

00:22:24.000 Could this be the scariest part of all of it?

00:22:27.000 Well, I think it is one of the scariest parts of it.

00:22:29.000 Look, the Supreme Court has never been as out of kilter as it is today.

00:22:35.000 I mean, never.

00:22:36.000 I taught constitutional law for nine years.

00:22:38.000 This guy knows more about it than most.

00:22:41.000 Look, the fact of the matter is that this has never been a court that's been this far out of step.

00:22:47.000 That is obviously untrue.

00:22:48.000 So undermining the court at the same time that he's upholding the court's system, supposedly.

00:22:53.000 Again, the pitch here for Democrats is they like to say the word democracy because they want to portray Donald Trump as an incipient fascist.

00:22:59.000 And so CNN did a big report yesterday setting up what will be the terms of the debate next week.

00:23:07.000 The terms of that debate are going to be very simple.

00:23:09.000 They're going to say that Donald Trump is undermining democracy while Joe Biden is upholding it.

00:23:13.000 But as we're about to discuss, it's actually Joe Biden who is hell-bent on undermining the actual democratic republic.

00:23:20.000 So, CNN went out and they interviewed a bunch of Trump supporters and they asked about Donald Trump undermining democracy.

00:23:25.000 And the Trump supporters correctly said, we don't live in a democracy, we live in a republic.

00:23:29.000 Which, as I've explained, is technically true.

00:23:31.000 We do live in a representative democracy with a series of checks and balances that thwart the popular will On a regular basis.

00:23:38.000 But here is CNN explaining it's very bad to say that we live in a republic, not a democracy.

00:23:43.000 These words were used in different ways in the 18th century, and it's true the founders didn't want direct democracy, by which they meant people gathering on the town square.

00:23:52.000 They wanted representative democracy.

00:23:54.000 But I think the reason why this conversation about language has risen now is because There is a part of the Republican Party that would like to rule as a minority, and they need an excuse for why that's okay.

00:24:07.000 And so they have begun to say, we're not a democracy, we're a republic.

00:24:11.000 And it's not 100% clear what that means, but I think they mean, we want Donald Trump to be able to do whatever he wants.

00:24:18.000 Okay, this is so Orwellian.

00:24:20.000 The reason this is Orwellian is because it's total projection.

00:24:22.000 The people who want the President of the United States to do whatever he wants, that any checks and balances, are typically Democrats.

00:24:28.000 It's literally the program of Woodrow Wilson going back to the early 20th century.

00:24:32.000 Not only that, the setup of the administrative state allows Democrats to overrule Both the democracy at large, as well as the institutions of the Republic.

00:24:41.000 Because they are unelected bureaucrats who sit there for years on end and literally thwart the elected branches of government.

00:24:47.000 And that is exactly what Joe Biden is planning.

00:24:49.000 So Democrats are looking down the barrel of this 2024 election.

00:24:52.000 It does not look good for them.

00:24:53.000 And so they are already preparing to do what they want to do if Trump were to win.

00:24:58.000 What is that?

00:24:59.000 They wish to subvert the institutions of the Republic.

00:25:03.000 I don't mean that in a soft sense.

00:25:04.000 I mean that in a very hard, real sense.

00:25:06.000 They are looking to subvert the democratic institutions of the republic.

00:25:10.000 They're looking to subvert the legislature.

00:25:12.000 They're looking to subvert the presidency.

00:25:14.000 They're looking to subvert the courts. 0.77

00:25:16.000 It is one of the reasons why, for example, they are hell-bent on ensuring that the Supreme Court does not overrule what's called Chevron deference, which says that administrative agencies are basically unanswerable to other parts of the government, including the courts.

00:25:29.000 There's an article in the New York Times that went largely unmentioned yesterday, but it is unbelievably shocking because it is just Democrats saying the quiet part out loud.

00:25:37.000 Quote, the resistance to a new Trump administration has already started.

00:25:41.000 Now, this is quite insane because it turns out that in the United States, there is, in fact, an executive branch.

00:25:47.000 There is no fourth branch of American government.

00:25:49.000 Woodrow Wilson wanted one, but there isn't one.

00:25:51.000 All of the executive agencies work for the president of the United States in our constitutional structure.

00:25:56.000 And Donald Trump has come into office threatening to retitle and reclassify a bunch of federal employees so he can fire them, which he should be able to do anyway since they technically work for the executive branch, which, if he is president again, he will be leading.

00:26:09.000 So what are Democrats doing?

00:26:10.000 They are looking to subvert all of this.

00:26:12.000 Quote, Opponents of Donald Trump are drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in November and carries out mass deportations, as he has vowed.

00:26:19.000 One group has hired a new auditor to withstand any attempt by a second Trump administration to unleash the IRS against them.

00:26:24.000 Democratic-run state governments are even stockpiling abortion medication.

00:26:28.000 A sprawling network of Democratic officials, progressive activists, watchdog groups, and ex-Republicans has been taking extraordinary steps to prepare for a potential second Trump presidency, drawn together by fear that Trump's return to power would pose a grave threat not just to their agenda, but to American democracy itself.

00:26:42.000 Now, again, understand how Orwellian that is.

00:26:45.000 He gets elected president.

00:26:46.000 He's gonna deal with Congress.

00:26:47.000 That's what he did last time.

00:26:48.000 And they are saying that they need to do a bunch of non-democratic things in order to save democracy.

00:26:53.000 They need to burn down the village in order to save the village.

00:26:58.000 So apparently, one of the things that they are going to do is stack the administrative state.

00:27:02.000 That is one of their goals.

00:27:03.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.

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00:28:07.000 Interviews with more than 30 officials and leaders of organizations about their plans revealed a combination of acute exhaustion and acute anxiety.

00:28:13.000 Activist groups that spent the four years of Mr. Trump's presidency organizing mass protests and pursuing legal challenges, ultimately helping channel that energy into persuading voters to oust him from power in 2020, are now realizing with great dread they may have to resist him all over again.

00:28:27.000 The Biden administration pushed through a flurry of regulations in the spring, meeting a deadline to ensure those rules could not be summarily overturned next year under a 1996 law if Trump wins the election and Republicans take total control of Congress.

00:28:39.000 So you have various officials inside the Biden administration who are attempting to enshrine in law and via regulation an inability for Trump to change course once he's president of the United States.

00:28:51.000 Okay, that is a thwarting of democracy.

00:28:54.000 That is what that is.

00:28:56.000 And it is hilarious to watch all the same people who are shouting to the rafters about the evils of Donald Trump and his attacks on democracy now attempting all the same measures that they say Republicans should never attempt.

00:29:07.000 It's an amazing thing to watch.

00:29:09.000 And it is all due to the fact that they believe that they do, in fact, rule a quote-unquote deep state.

00:29:14.000 That there are people who are career appointees who must never be touched under any circumstances.

00:29:20.000 Those are the people who make most of the policy you see and you say to yourself, what the hell is that?

00:29:25.000 So for example, it is the deep state.

00:29:28.000 It is career appointees in, for example, The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who are doing things like celebrating Pride Month by inviting agents to have the transgender flag painted on their nails, participate in a Pride Ally Challenge, and learn from a non-binary Philip Hinks activist who has taught children about her non-binary identity, according to the Daily Wire.

00:29:51.000 A document that was distributed by the intelligence agency, which oversees the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and intelligence components, This document says, quote, for nail painting, we'll have our pro team of FV artists ready to decorate you for pride month with the option of celebrating pride or trans flag colors.

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00:30:18.000 It's this sort of stuff that exists in the deep state.

00:30:21.000 I mean, and this is the more I would say the less nefarious stuff in the deep state.

00:30:25.000 The more nefarious stuff is, for example, militarizing the FBI against the current president of the United States when Donald Trump was president of the United States.

00:30:33.000 The fact that you have administrative agencies that are themselves designing a defense mechanism against their boss is truly amazing.

00:30:41.000 But you have to understand, this is how the left thinks of its institutions.

00:30:44.000 The way that the left thinks of its institutions is we own these institutions.

00:30:47.000 Any outside threat to these institutions, including the future boss of the institution, must be destroyed.

00:30:54.000 So Donald Trump coming back in, their idea is that he must be thwarted in his presidency.

00:31:00.000 Again, when you talk about thwarting democracy, this is what we're talking about.

00:31:02.000 We talk about stealing democracy.

00:31:04.000 This is what we're talking about.

00:31:05.000 Not just quote-unquote stealing elections, but actively setting up structures that prevent the fundamental working order of the government, so long as a Republican is the person who's running the government.

00:31:18.000 But again, it's not just relegated to the government.

00:31:20.000 One of the most amazing stories that I've ever seen in media is happening right now To the Washington Post.

00:31:26.000 The Washington Post has turned into Al Jazeera West. 0.94

00:31:29.000 It is a wildly left-wing publication that repeats dumb talking points from Islamists and radicals at every possible turn. 0.99

00:31:39.000 They really are an awful organization. 0.99

00:31:41.000 And they've been just losing money hand over fist.

00:31:43.000 Just bleeding money.

00:31:44.000 They have a gusher.

00:31:46.000 And so, Jeff Bezos has decided to replace the editor-in-chief with somebody else.

00:31:52.000 The person who is going to be replacing that editor-in-chief is the supposed new editor, Robert Winnett, deputy editor of The Telegraph in the UK.

00:32:04.000 So what did the Washington Post's current management do in the interim before he takes over?

00:32:08.000 They went and they got a person who was just fired from the Washington Post to come back in and lead an investigation into the new guy.

00:32:18.000 So the career employees at the Washington Post are now effectively attempting a color revolution against the Washington Post to stop Jeff Bezos from resetting the agenda there.

00:32:28.000 Because again, according to the left, once they've captured an institution, it remains captured forever.

00:32:33.000 So they've released this big investigation.

00:32:36.000 Again, this is unprecedented.

00:32:37.000 Think about this.

00:32:37.000 who self-described a thief who claimed role in his reporting.

00:32:41.000 Unpublished book drafts and other documents raised questions about Robert Winnett's journalistic

00:32:44.000 record just months before he is to assume a top newsroom role.

00:32:47.000 Again, this is unprecedented.

00:32:49.000 Think about this.

00:32:50.000 Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.

00:32:53.000 He hires a new top editor.

00:32:55.000 And before the new top editor can take the helm, a bunch of reporters, including the

00:32:59.000 people who are going to be ousted, write a series of reports ripping into the new top

00:33:03.000 editor in an attempt to forestall him from taking over the newspaper.

00:33:07.000 It's an amazing thing, but it is a window into how the left thinks about institutions they have captured.

00:33:11.000 It is why it is so difficult to take back those institutions, and why it is so much easier to simply destroy those institutions from the outside.

00:33:21.000 Now again, The reality here is that the Washington Post, I think, is unfixable at this point, given the fact that the rock goes so deep.

00:33:31.000 But it is quite indicative, again, of how the left approaches issues.

00:33:36.000 That they are so all fired certain that their move needs to be to stop the Washington Post from moderating even just a little bit.

00:33:44.000 And that's, again, the perspective of Democrats inside the federal government.

00:33:47.000 This is why when they shout democracy, I just look at Joe Biden's record where he attempted to mandate 80 million Americans vaccinate.

00:33:54.000 A move that was only stopped in part by the Daily Wire suing the federal government.

00:33:58.000 I just think of Joe Biden unconstitutionally alleviating student loans.

00:34:04.000 I think of Joe Biden unconstitutionally holding up aid that had already been allocated by Congress.

00:34:08.000 And I think to myself, this is the guy who's lecturing us on democracy?

00:34:12.000 I think not.

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00:34:52.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the misuse and abuse of the democratic system, Joe Biden magically has now discovered the ability to give legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States without the approval of Congress. 0.76

00:35:07.000 The way to think of the quote-unquote threat to democracy question when it comes to Trump versus Joe Biden, a lot of people point out Trump's activities between November and January 2020 to 2021.

00:35:17.000 See, that dude is a threat to democracy.

00:35:19.000 Okay, now the reality is that Donald Trump said a bunch of things that I disagree with, a bunch of things I think are dumb and unverified by evidence between November and January of 2021. 0.90

00:35:28.000 I made that absolutely clear on the show at the time and I continue to maintain that.

00:35:31.000 However, all of that was filtered out by the same institutions that he didn't end up threatening.

00:35:35.000 They were filtered out by the Senate of the United States, for example, and the Electoral College, for example, and the state certifying bodies, for example.

00:35:43.000 The way to think about Donald Trump's quote-unquote threats to the Republic, if the institutions act as a sort of sifter, as sort of a colander, sifting out the bad attempts to thwart the working order of the Republic, Donald Trump's kind of myriad sillinesses amount to giant rocks that immediately get sifted out by the sifter or the colander.

00:36:05.000 So you got a bunch of great material from President Trump and a bunch of stones.

00:36:09.000 Okay, the bunch of great material goes right through the sifter and ends up as policy.

00:36:12.000 The bunch of stones get filtered out by the constitutional system, which continues to maintain its working order.

00:36:18.000 Joe Biden is a different story.

00:36:19.000 Joe Biden is a toxic brew.

00:36:22.000 He carves up his constitutional threats so fine that they just go right through the constitutional sifter, right through the colander, and end up as policy.

00:36:31.000 He is much more adept at thwarting the Constitution, at overturning the measures of a Republican government in order to get what he wants.

00:36:38.000 So he's doing that now with illegal immigration, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:36:42.000 Wait, where does he get the power to do that?

00:36:43.000 The answer is he doesn't have the power to do that.

00:36:45.000 He's going to do it anyway.

00:36:46.000 a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the country illegally who are

00:36:49.000 married to U.S. citizens, according to lawmakers and others familiar with the matter. Now, I know

00:36:52.000 what you're saying to yourself. Wait, where does he get the power to do that? The answer is he

00:36:56.000 doesn't have the power to do that. He's going to do it anyway. And then he's going to hope that the

00:36:59.000 Supreme Court somehow looks the other way on this thing. 0.70

00:37:01.000 Biden plans to make the announcement at the White House alongside members of Congress, immigration

00:37:05.000 advocates, and U.S. citizens.

00:37:06.000 citizens who, because of arcane immigration rules, haven't been able to sponsor their spouses for green cards.

00:37:11.000 I love how the immigration rules become arcane when they are an obstacle to illegal immigrants becoming legal.

00:37:17.000 That's when they become arcane, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:37:20.000 Again, remember, the Wall Street Journal editorial page conservative, the Wall Street Journal news page to the left of the New York Times.

00:37:25.000 The program has the potential to benefit immigrants who have been living in the country at least a decade, offering them work permits, deportation protections, and a route for them to apply for green cards, a pathway to citizenship.

00:37:34.000 The application process is expected to open by the end of the summer, an administration official said.

00:37:40.000 This would make it one of the largest immigration initiatives that started in recent decades, rivaled only by DACA.

00:37:45.000 Now again, it's not a shocker that in an election year, Joe Biden thinks he's gonna buy Latino votes by doing this sort of thing.

00:37:50.000 The problem he has is that it turns out that the vast majority of Latinos are not in favor of this.

00:37:54.000 There's a new poll out that showed 53% of Hispanic Americans believe there should be large-scale deportations.

00:38:02.000 So again, Joe Biden attempting to split the baby.

00:38:04.000 He's absolutely discombobulated in terms of policy.

00:38:06.000 It was just a couple of weeks ago he was announcing that he was going to shut the border, which he didn't.

00:38:09.000 And now he's announcing he's going to legalize illegal immigrants, which he will. 0.95

00:38:13.000 So he's doing all that through the administrative state, through executive order.

00:38:18.000 Does any of that, any of that pass constitutional muster?

00:38:21.000 He doesn't care.

00:38:22.000 Because the Democratic Republicans have no interest in him.

00:38:25.000 For Democrats, all of this stuff is just a tool to get what you want.

00:38:29.000 And meanwhile, I am always amused to see the level of dispensation politically the Democrats receive in the public eye.

00:38:37.000 So on Sunday night, the Tonys happened.

00:38:39.000 The Tonys used to be an award show that some people watched when they, you know, did musicals that people watched on Broadway.

00:38:44.000 Now, it's basically just a series of people doing numbers from Rent.

00:38:48.000 Punctuated by various Democrats showing up for a round of applause.

00:38:51.000 Hillary Clinton showed up at the Tonys and she got a standing ovation.

00:38:54.000 I only point this out to point out that I don't know what you have to do to be cast out of the circle of grace in the Democratic Party.

00:39:00.000 It is amazing to me that Hillary Clinton is still championed by Democrats as some sort of great heroine. 0.99

00:39:04.000 She lost to Donald Trump, you dullards. 0.98

00:39:08.000 It seemed to me that if she lost to Donald Trump, you might want to be mad at her. 0.99

00:39:12.000 All she had to do was visit Wisconsin and Michigan once, and she didn't.

00:39:18.000 But here she was receiving a standing ovation while wearing a muumuu at the Tonys.

00:39:21.000 I have stood on a lot of stages, but this is very special.

00:39:27.000 And I know a little bit about how hard it is to make change.

00:39:33.000 So I'm extremely proud of this original American musical by Shana Taub.

00:39:41.000 Now two-time Tony winner.

00:39:43.000 And of course it is about Some American originals, the suffragists who fought so valiantly for so long to give women in our country the right to vote.

00:40:03.000 It's almost impossible to think about what a challenge that was, but now it's an election year and we need to be reminded about how important it is to vote.

00:40:16.000 Again, I will never get over the fact they continue to lionize this person.

00:40:20.000 The worst candidate in the history of the United States.

00:40:22.000 Yeah, but she's just one of the Democrats who's being lionized by the media. 1.00

00:40:25.000 So Cori Bush, the BLM congresswoman from Ferguson, Missouri. 0.99

00:40:29.000 Horrible congressperson, doesn't know anything, says dumb things all the time. 0.98

00:40:34.000 It turns out that a few years ago, she wrote in a book that she had faith-healed tumors. 0.99

00:40:39.000 Which, I mean, if she did, she's definitely in the wrong line of work. 0.99

00:40:43.000 I mean, think of all the people with cancer who could be cured by Cori Bush.

00:40:47.000 Here she was being questioned about this.

00:40:48.000 Look at the level of journalistic dispensation she's been giving here by PBS for talking about the insane proposition that she can literally heal people's tumors by putting her hands on them. 1.00

00:40:59.000 I, along with a group of friends, we would go out on the street and just meet with people and pray with people and offer them food.

00:41:09.000 And this lady came to us and she had these tumors. 1.00

00:41:13.000 I mean, she wanted us to, like, feel them.

00:41:15.000 And I just remember I put my hand on her and my hand just began to move.

00:41:21.000 And the lumps that were there were no longer there.

00:41:26.000 And she was so happy and she I went on about her day and I never saw her again.

00:41:33.000 So you think the tumors disappeared?

00:41:35.000 I do, I do.

00:41:36.000 And this woman was unhoused. 0.99

00:41:37.000 She's someone who, you know, had been sleeping in the shelters and sleeping on the street. 0.92

00:41:43.000 I think we just solved our national healthcare problem, guys.

00:41:45.000 All we need is Cori Bush putting her hands on randos, which of course is Bill Clinton's strategy too, but he didn't heal so many tumors.

00:41:52.000 So, well done, well done for our mainstream media.

00:41:54.000 As always, they're doing just an extraordinarily good job.

00:41:57.000 Meanwhile, speaking of foreign policy, it turns out that the Russians have no intention of turning over Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who's been held for pretty much the entirety of the Biden administration.

00:42:10.000 The Biden administration has done pretty much nothing to secure his release.

00:42:12.000 Obviously, listen, we did trade the Lord of War, right?

00:42:15.000 We traded like an actual arms dealer for a WNBA player. 0.94

00:42:23.000 So that, I mean, that was a great deal.

00:42:25.000 The only time a WNBA trade has ever been in the news. 0.98

00:42:28.000 It's still a bad trade, by the way.

00:42:30.000 Well, now apparently the Russians are going to try Evan Gershkovich.

00:42:34.000 He, of course, is the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia for over a year.

00:42:38.000 That judicial proceeding would be held in secret.

00:42:40.000 They are accusing him of being a spy.

00:42:43.000 He was detained by Russia's Federal Security Service while on a reporting trip for the Journal in March of last year.

00:42:49.000 U.S.

00:42:49.000 officials have designated Gershkovich as wrongfully detained and have been working to secure his release.

00:42:54.000 The Wall Street Journal said Monday the latest development means a sham trial is imminent.

00:42:59.000 He is being held in Moscow's L'Fortovo prison.

00:43:02.000 Russia and the United States have been discussing a possible prisoner exchange that could bring his release.

00:43:08.000 Again, amazing work by the Biden administration.

00:43:09.000 This reporter, you know, remember, these are the great defenders of the press.

00:43:13.000 Doing an amazing, amazing job.

00:43:15.000 As always, Evan Gershwitz remains under the tender mercies of Vladimir Putin.

00:43:21.000 Now again, speaking of foreign policy, the absolute delusional nature of the Biden administration is being made absolutely clear every single day in the Middle East.

00:43:29.000 It's truly amazing.

00:43:30.000 So, a report came out yesterday that finally the Biden administration has decided that after Hamas rejected the latest ceasefire proposal in the war between Israel and Hamas, initiated when Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 250 of them and is still holding hostages, that only now is the Biden administration willing to remove its embargo on arms against Israel.

00:43:49.000 Which shows that they were lying a couple of weeks ago when they said that they weren't slow-walking the arms that had already been allocated to Israel by Congress.

00:43:56.000 All of this is happening in the midst of a continuously astonished media who are always shocked to realize that the Palestinian population is radicalized, has been radicalized, and that, in fact, Palestinian identity is formed in opposition to Israel's existence.

00:44:12.000 This is one of the things to recognize here.

00:44:14.000 There were Arabs who lived in British Mandate Palestine.

00:44:17.000 They did not see themselves as a cohesive ethnic or historical group until Israel was established in 1948.

00:44:25.000 They literally did not exist as a group.

00:44:28.000 Many considered themselves Turkish or Egyptian.

00:44:31.000 Many considered themselves Sunni or Shia.

00:44:36.000 But no one considered themselves a member of a quote-unquote Palestinian nation as a cohesive entity that only forms in the aftermath of the establishment of the State of Israel in 4748.

00:44:44.000 So it is no surprise then that an identity that is rooted solely in hatred of Israel and willingness to exterminate it culminates in a population that hates Israel and wants to exterminate it.

00:44:55.000 Which is why every poll ever taken, ever, in the history of this conflict has shown a vast majority of Palestinians want to obliterate the Jewish state and will not accept any solution in which a Jewish state remains in the Middle East.

00:45:08.000 So why exactly would anyone be shocked, then, by the Wall Street Journal report that a 73-year-old doctor named Ahmad al-Jamal and his son, who worked with al-Jazeera, were holding actual Israelis hostage?

00:45:22.000 These are the so-called innocent civilians.

00:45:24.000 Another thing to understand, Nusayrat is not a refugee camp.

00:45:26.000 When you think of a refugee camp, you're thinking of a bunch of FEMA trailers and tents.

00:45:28.000 That is not what Nusayrat is.

00:45:29.000 of his community. He worked mornings at a public clinic in the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Nusayrat.

00:45:33.000 Another thing to understand, Nusayrat is not a refugee camp.

00:45:35.000 When you think of a refugee camp, you're thinking of a bunch of FEMA trailers and tents. That

00:45:39.000 is not what Nusayrat is. It's a city.

00:45:41.000 The international community calls it a refugee camp so they can pretend that the people who 1.00

00:45:45.000 live there are going to be granted citizenship in the Jewish state, which is not going to happen

00:45:50.000 because it would obliterate the existence of the Jewish state.

00:45:53.000 It's an absurdity anyway.

00:45:55.000 None of them ever asked for Palestinian citizenship in an independent Palestinian state.

00:45:59.000 They don't want it.

00:46:01.000 In any case, When he finished his duty, every day, he would return home to the apartment he shared with his son, his daughter-in-law, and their children, and the three Israeli hostages they were hiding there for Hamas.

00:46:11.000 It was common knowledge.

00:46:12.000 In Nusayrat, the al-Jamal family was close to Hamas.

00:46:15.000 They said few people in the densely populated area of central Gaza knew of the secret locked in the small darkened room of the family's apartment.

00:46:21.000 That is to— Bull.

00:46:23.000 Bull.

00:46:24.000 Few people knew.

00:46:25.000 Yeah, I'm sure.

00:46:26.000 You're just hiding four Israelis in, like, a three-block radius, and no one knows.

00:46:30.000 Mm-hmm.

00:46:32.000 Sure.

00:46:35.000 A few blocks away from the Al-Jamal home, another family of Hamas links called Abu-Nar was holding Noah Argamani.

00:46:39.000 The Abu-Nar family was also killed and their building destroyed, local residents said.

00:46:45.000 They were less prominent in the neighborhood than the Al-Jamals, according to residents.

00:46:51.000 Again, the raid that Israel performed to free the hostages is just another indicator That everything that the West believes about this conflict tends to be a lie.

00:47:03.000 It's actually a very simple moral conflict.

00:47:06.000 The incredible unwillingness to acknowledge that reality is insane.

00:47:11.000 I mean, but by the way, speaking of lies, the entire Gaza famine, the idea that people are starving to death in Gaza is not true.

00:47:18.000 Israel's been shipping in thousands of calories per person per day into the Gaza Strip.

00:47:23.000 It is not even remotely true.

00:47:26.000 They undercounted the number of food trucks going into Gaza to deliberately lie to the public. 1.00

00:47:32.000 So, again, the only reason this matters is because the West that lies to itself is likely to be victimized by people who are perfectly willing to take advantage of the West's stupidity. 0.97

00:47:41.000 The reason why the Israel-Hamas conflict is important is because if you get this one wrong, it is very likely you're going to get your own civilization wrong. 0.97

00:47:48.000 In America that refuses to get this one right, that can't see the moral difference or sees this as a cycle of violence or has sympathy for the group that takes hostages and murders women and children and participates in mass rape and civilians cheer it on, is a civilization that is likely to open itself wide to terror, infiltration, and a serious undermining of its actual principles.

00:48:10.000 Alrighty folks, coming up we'll jump into the vaunted Ben Shapiro Show mailbag.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 18, 2024

Inside The Biden Plan To STEAL Democracy

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