The Ben Shapiro Show - Is This The New George Floyd?

00:00:00.000 Well, we're nearing the summer, and that means it's time for some riots.

00:00:02.000 I mean, this is what we do.

00:00:03.000 It's sort of the annual tradition here in the United States.

00:00:06.000 Every summer, we have a bunch of race riots now.

00:00:08.000 This is the thing that we like to do, and we need some sort of hook to hang those riots on. 0.96

00:00:13.000 Well, the media have found their newest hook.

00:00:15.000 It's the case of a person named Jordan Neely.

00:00:17.000 So, who exactly is Jordan Neely?

00:00:19.000 He's a 30-year-old psychotic black homeless man living in New York with an arrest record as long as your arm, 44 prior arrests. 0.84

00:00:28.000 Why is Jordan Neely at the center of the news? 0.96

00:00:30.000 Well, the reason is because he is dead.

00:00:32.000 The reason that he is dead is because he was apparently on a subway car and he started screaming at and harassing the various passengers on the subway car.

00:00:40.000 According to Alberto Vasquez, Juan Alberto Vasquez, who's a freelance journalist, he said he started screaming in an aggressive manner.

00:00:46.000 He said he had no food.

00:00:47.000 He had no drink.

00:00:48.000 He was tired and doesn't care if he goes to jail.

00:00:50.000 He started screaming all these things, took off his jacket, a black jacket that he had, and threw it on the ground.

00:00:55.000 Starting to get more and more agitated in front of the people on the subway car.

00:00:58.000 At this point!

00:01:00.000 A 24-year-old passenger stepped in, a white passenger, who is apparently a Marine, and he put Jordan Neely in a submission hold.

00:01:10.000 Now, they don't see a choke hold and a submission hold.

00:01:12.000 Again, this goes back to police procedures.

00:01:14.000 This guy's a Marine, not a policeman.

00:01:16.000 But the idea in a submission hold is that, essentially, you're putting pressure on the arteries.

00:01:22.000 And what that does, it cuts off blood flow to the brain.

00:01:25.000 It's supposed to knock you out.

00:01:26.000 It's not supposed to kill you.

00:01:27.000 Submission holds are what you see in, for example, UFC.

00:01:29.000 So, this guy is using what looks like a triangle hold.

00:01:31.000 police department because if you damage the trachea very often the person dies.

00:01:35.000 Submission holds are what you see in for example UFC.

00:01:37.000 So this guy is using what looks like a triangle hold, it's a form of submission hold.

00:01:42.000 Well Jordan Neely ended up dying.

00:01:44.000 So, this video, which you're about to see, it's hard to watch because it's a person who's being subdued.

00:01:47.000 What you will notice in this video, however, is a couple of things.

00:01:50.000 One, you will see that throughout the video, Jordan Neely continues to be incredibly agitated.

00:01:55.000 Again, this is a person who was arrested multiple times for drug problems.

00:01:58.000 He's apparently schizophrenic, psychotic, etc.

00:02:01.000 He's being subdued by this 24-year-old white Marine, and there's another person who's attempting to subdue him.

00:02:08.000 The other person who's not been mentioned in virtually any of the media reports is a black man who's attempting to subdue Jordan Neely.

00:02:14.000 And the minute that Jordan Neely becomes unresponsive, the minute that he stops struggling, somebody says he's not struggling anymore, and the Marine lets him go.

00:02:21.000 It doesn't matter because the media treat this as though this is a case of murder, as we'll get to in just one second.

00:02:25.000 Again, that is largely based on the race of the people involved.

00:02:28.000 If this were a black Marine who had subdued a black man, Or if this were a Black Marine who had subdued a psychotic white man screaming at people with an arrest record as long as you're armed on a subway, then presumably we'd have stories about the heroism of protecting the surrounding population from people who have a history of violence.

00:02:42.000 I mean, Jordan Neely does have a history of violence.

00:02:44.000 This is a person who has an outstanding arrest warrant right now, like today, for assaulting a 67-year-old woman in New York City.

00:02:50.000 So here's what the video looked like.

00:02:55.000 So you can see, this is caught on film by that one, Alberto Vasquez, that Jordan Neely continues to struggle.

00:03:01.000 The marine is obviously not doing this maliciously.

00:03:04.000 I mean, he's, you know, kind of casually holding him there in an attempt to subdue him.

00:03:08.000 And there are two other men who are attempting to also subdue this guy. 0.52

00:03:11.000 One is white, one is black.

00:03:14.000 They're trying to subdue him because apparently he's threatening.

00:03:16.000 And then he's on the floor and he's non-responsive.

00:03:21.000 The train was stopped, the doors opened at the Broadway-Lafayette-Street-Bleecker-Street station, where Vasquez said the conductor had called 911.

00:03:28.000 Apparently he lost consciousness after being put in the chokehold.

00:03:30.000 EMS workers at the station were unable to revive him.

00:03:34.000 The person who was subduing him, again, a Marine veteran, was taken into custody, later released without charges.

00:03:39.000 Now, the investigation is ongoing, so they may try to bring charges against him.

00:03:42.000 It's New York City.

00:03:43.000 So, again, attempting to subdue somebody who is getting violent with the passengers may be a chargeable offense in New York City.

00:03:48.000 Being actually violent with the passengers?

00:03:50.000 Like, apparently, there are a bunch of people online claiming that this same person, Jordan Neely, had attempted to push them onto subway tracks before.

00:03:58.000 That, you just are let out on the streets willy-nilly in New York City.

00:04:01.000 That's not a problem.

00:04:01.000 Unless you actually push somebody on the tracks and they get hit by a train, at which point we arrest you.

00:04:05.000 In New York City, if you violate the law dozens and dozens of times, you will just be out on the street, released in the general public.

00:04:11.000 And by the way, this is the general rule.

00:04:12.000 The general rule is, if you, as a society, decide that you're not going to police crime, you know who could have done something about this?

00:04:18.000 Cops.

00:04:18.000 That would have been great.

00:04:20.000 And it's not as though this person hadn't had interactions with cops.

00:04:23.000 The person is dead because the system decided that it was not worthwhile protecting either the public from Jordan Ely or protecting Jordan Ely from himself.

00:04:31.000 Or protecting Jordan Ely from the public, because it turns out that leaving people who are psychotic on the streets to threaten others generally ends with somebody else who is not a cop stepping in to do something about it.

00:04:41.000 Your choices in a society are to either outsource the legitimate use of force to the cops and then allow the cops to actually use force in order to subdue people who are violently threatening others, or you're going to get the predictable ramifications of not doing that, which is others will step in to defend themselves and others.

00:04:57.000 There is no third choice where psychotically violent people just run around being psychotically violent with no repercussions whatsoever.

00:05:04.000 According to the New York Post, as soon as people start expressing worry about Neely's well-being, The other people just let him go.

00:05:14.000 The two people who are subduing him there, they let Neely go after a few seconds, leaving him lying on his side on the ground, presumably.

00:05:21.000 Vasquez, who's filming it, said he had mixed feelings about the fatal encounter, particularly since he and Neely had not physically attacked anyone on the train before being taken down.

00:05:29.000 He said, I think in one sense it's fine citizens want to jump in and help, but I think as heroes we have to use moderation.

00:05:33.000 He said, this would never have happened if the police had shown up within five minutes.

00:05:37.000 Then we would be talking about a true hero.

00:05:39.000 It's complicated.

00:05:39.000 That's correct.

00:05:41.000 That's correct.

00:05:41.000 So the medical examiner has ruled that the subway rider choked Neely to death.

00:05:47.000 Or at least it's been ruled a homicide, which generally speaking, when a medical examiner rules a homicide, it just means that it wasn't a suicide and it wasn't natural causes.

00:05:55.000 That's all that it means.

00:05:56.000 It doesn't mean murder, a homicide.

00:06:00.000 According to the medical examiner, Neely was homeless, had been screaming at passengers.

00:06:05.000 Medical examiner says that they're going to go through the full investigation.

00:06:09.000 The incident comes, according to the New York Times, as the city grapples with how to reduce both crime and the number of people with mental illness living on the streets while also respecting the rights of its most vulnerable residents.

00:06:17.000 Now again, the race component here cannot be ignored.

00:06:20.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:07:25.000 So, as said...

00:07:26.000 There are multiple people online who are claiming that Jordan Neely attempted to push them on the subway tracks, for example.

00:07:32.000 One Twitter account said, I'm pretty sure I had a run-in with this guy a few weeks ago on the F. He was throwing around a city bike and yelling about how he was going to kill people.

00:07:38.000 Most left the car, but this poor Asian lady got stuck by him, so a few of us couldn't leave her alone with him. 0.51

00:07:42.000 If it's the same guy, yeah, he was either going to hurt somebody or get murked by a cop or a bystander sooner or later.

00:07:48.000 Another person said, this man jumped on me, grabbed my shoulders, pushed me toward the tracks Sunday night at this very station.

00:07:52.000 I was able to run away, but he got physical and chased other people standing on the platform before getting on an uptown train.

00:07:57.000 This whole thing is so sad.

00:07:59.000 Well, yes, I mean, it is sad when you leave mentally ill people on the streets to pose a danger to themselves and others. 0.99

00:08:05.000 It's a serious problem.

00:08:06.000 This isn't going to stop the crowds from protesting because, again, the racial component is a large part of this.

00:08:10.000 The media?

00:08:12.000 A huge narrative for the media is that America is a systemically racist society.

00:08:16.000 New York City is a really, really bad place to pretend that that is the case, because the vast majority of violent crime in New York City is committed by people of minority status. 1.00

00:08:24.000 That is just a fact. 0.98

00:08:25.000 An extraordinary percentage, a very, very high percentage of all violent crime in New York City is committed by people who are either black or Hispanic. 1.00

00:08:34.000 Most of the victims are also black or Hispanic. 1.00

00:08:36.000 Pretending that New York City is like the center of white-on-black violence or white-on-Hispanic violence or any of the rest of this is just garbage. 1.00

00:08:42.000 But the media needs stories. 0.99

00:08:43.000 They need stories, which is why this will be a national story.

00:08:47.000 Another story that will not be a national story for more than five minutes is this Atlanta mass shootings.

00:08:51.000 There was an active shooter incident in Atlanta yesterday as well.

00:08:54.000 A gunman was accused of shooting five people at a medical facility in Midtown and killing one of them.

00:08:58.000 He was taken into custody after an hours-long manhunt that paralyzed Metro Atlanta. 0.76

00:09:03.000 That story is not going to be a national news story for more than five seconds because the shooter in this particular case is black.

00:09:07.000 He's 24 years old and he walked into the waiting room of a Northside hospital medical office Wednesday around noon.

00:09:12.000 He killed one woman.

00:09:13.000 He wounded four others.

00:09:14.000 Three of the victims are in critical condition.

00:09:15.000 But again, this is not going to be a national news story because the shooter in this particular case is a person who is a minority and we're not allowed to pay national attention to that because if we paid national attention to this, then this presumably increases racism.

00:09:27.000 But the way to really decrease racism in American society is to focus in on this case of Jordan Neely.

00:09:33.000 And you can see the entire left responded.

00:09:35.000 Like the entire left went into action.

00:09:37.000 Now is the moment.

00:09:37.000 It's gonna be just like George Floyd.

00:09:39.000 Now again, the George Floyd case is controversial in its details.

00:09:43.000 I am of the belief that George Floyd pretty obviously died of a heart attack.

00:09:48.000 That George Floyd was struggling to breathe according to the tape itself in the car before he was even put on the ground and he asked to be taken out of the car.

00:09:58.000 The evidence tended to show no damage to the neck, no damage to the trachea.

00:10:01.000 So I'm of the opinion that the officer in that case is actually in prison wrongfully on a murder charge.

00:10:08.000 You could say excessive force, but on a murder charge is wrong.

00:10:11.000 But even put that aside, the media ran with the narrative in the George Floyd case that this is Evidence of white-on-black violence.

00:10:19.000 That white-on-black violence is still the predominant issue in the United States.

00:10:22.000 And so this is going to be the new George Floyd story.

00:10:25.000 Is a white Marine took down a homeless black man.

00:10:28.000 And that homeless black man was, of course, totally innocent. 0.59

00:10:31.000 Had done nothing wrong. 0.83

00:10:33.000 This was just a white-on-black crime, right? 0.90

00:10:34.000 That's the way the media are going to play this.

00:10:36.000 And you can already see the narrative starting to form in real time because the media are not spending an enormous amount of time reporting on the arrest record and activities of Jordan Neely.

00:10:44.000 Instead, what you are seeing is left-wing activists trotting out video of him impersonating Michael Jackson on the subway.

00:10:49.000 So, for example, the Working Family Party of New York, which is a far-left group in New York, they were putting out videos of Jordan Neely dancing As Michael Jackson on the subway.

00:11:00.000 Well, if you were dancing as Michael Jackson on the subway, nobody would have been choking him out, obviously.

00:11:04.000 It's that he was threatening people on the subway, and acting more and more psychotic on the subway.

00:11:08.000 That is the reason that he was put in a submission hold in the first place.

00:11:11.000 But that's not what you're gonna be told.

00:11:17.000 Okay, here he is doing a Michael Jackson routine.

00:11:22.000 And the New York Working Families Party tweeted out, Jordan Neely loved to dance and perform.

00:11:26.000 On Tuesday, while suffering a mental health crisis, he was choked to death while people watched and cheered.

00:11:30.000 So first of all, it's not true.

00:11:30.000 There's no one in the tape who is cheering.

00:11:32.000 People are trying to subdue him.

00:11:34.000 And then he dies.

00:11:35.000 Jordan needed care.

00:11:36.000 Instead, he was brutally murdered.

00:11:37.000 This is not who we are as New Yorkers.

00:11:39.000 No.

00:11:39.000 As New Yorkers, you are citizens of a city that will not protect you, which necessitates that civilians step in and actually do the protection.

00:11:47.000 And again, the entire left wing activated.

00:11:50.000 I mean, it was left wing power rangers to activate here.

00:11:53.000 So, for example, you had Toure, who literally at one point, I believe earlier in his career, called Broccoli racist.

00:11:59.000 He tweeted out, a homeless man yelling on the New York City subway is normal.

00:12:03.000 We see that all the time.

00:12:04.000 What's not normal is for a Marine to sneak up behind him, put him in a chokehold and unalive him.

00:12:08.000 That's not justified.

00:12:09.000 The Marine could have just done nothing.

00:12:10.000 He should be charged.

00:12:12.000 First of all, I do love the notion that in New York City, it is perfectly normal for homeless people to just yell at you on the subway.

00:12:19.000 If you're a citizen of New York, you should just take it for granted that you're going to be assaulted on the subway.

00:12:24.000 There's an amazing statement about New York City.

00:12:27.000 Tariq Nasheed, who again, is a group of people who are looking for some some riots here.

00:12:30.000 An innocent black man with a history of mental illness named Jordan Neely was brutally choked and murdered by a suspected white supremacist who the police refused to charge and the white media is protecting.

00:12:39.000 Question, any evidence that this is a person who is a white supremacist at all?

00:12:42.000 From Tariq Nasheed?

00:12:43.000 We don't even know the guy's name.

00:12:46.000 What is the evidence here? 0.98

00:12:47.000 This culture of anti-black racism where suspected white supremacists are allowed to live out their Bernhard Goetz, Charles Bronson, death wish fantasies of murdering black people with impunity will not be tolerated. 0.89

00:12:56.000 And it's not just, you know, professional racist agitators like Ture or Tariq Nasheed who are saying this sort of stuff. 1.00

00:13:03.000 It's the inestimably stupid and vitriolic AOC. 0.99

00:13:06.000 So, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who again, is a congressperson from this area, sounds it off as well. 1.00

00:13:11.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:14:18.000 So it's not just, you know, the professional racial agitators.

00:14:21.000 It is also actual public officials who are sounding off on this.

00:14:23.000 So Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who is just an egregious specimen of insipidity.

00:14:30.000 Nincompoopism. 1.00

00:14:32.000 She's a deeply stupid person. 1.00

00:14:34.000 I'm not sure that Alex— I think that she's both stupid and malicious, which is a hard combination to do. 1.00

00:14:39.000 I very often say when it comes to politics that I try to attribute most things to stupidity rather than malice, but she's both stupid and malicious. 1.00

00:14:46.000 So she tweeted out, Jordan Neely was murdered. 1.00

00:14:48.000 But because Jordan was houseless— houseless is the new euphemism. 0.90

00:14:51.000 New euphemism just dropped, houseless.

00:14:53.000 So we went from hobo to homeless to houseless.

00:14:58.000 And crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself while many in power demonize the poor.

00:15:04.000 The murderer gets protected with passive headlines plus no charges. 0.69

00:15:07.000 It's disgusting.

00:15:09.000 Can I point out that New York has been entirely democratic governed for the last decade?

00:15:14.000 That Alexandre Ocasio-Cortez is a congressperson in this area?

00:15:18.000 By the way, there are plenty of resources available for people who need a meal.

00:15:21.000 There are homeless shelters in the city of New York.

00:15:23.000 There's a person who is apparently a longtime drug addict, a person who is psychotically living on the streets, and it's New York government that has decided to allow this to happen.

00:15:30.000 Why do you think the subway ridership has remained wildly down even after COVID?

00:15:34.000 Mainly it's because people are afraid of being hit with a samurai sword or pushed onto the tracks by people like Jordan Neely.

00:15:38.000 That is the reason why people are not riding the subways in New York City anymore.

00:15:41.000 I know, I have lots of friends in New York City.

00:15:44.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:15:46.000 So, AOC sounded off, of course, because, again, they have to have the George Floyd narrative.

00:15:50.000 The George Floyd narrative allows for them to play this inside-outside game with the federal government and with the state government, where they protest from the outside.

00:15:57.000 They find friendly legislators to then drop very Progressive policies in the name of racial equity.

00:16:05.000 That's the inside-outside protest game that gets played here.

00:16:07.000 Riot game that gets played here.

00:16:09.000 Ayanna Pressley did the same thing.

00:16:10.000 Ayanna Pressley, another, she's the adjunct member of the squad.

00:16:12.000 She's the Ringo Starr of the congressional squad. 0.97

00:16:15.000 She tweeted out that same video of Jordan Ely dancing, dressed up as Michael Jackson.

00:16:19.000 And she tweeted, he was 30 years old. 0.96

00:16:20.000 Black men deserve to grow old, not be lynched on a subway because they were having a mental health crisis. 0.99

00:16:25.000 Jordan deserved better. 1.00

00:16:26.000 Accountability now, lynched.

00:16:28.000 It's now lynching. 0.65

00:16:29.000 So, the black guy who's holding down his arms, is he also involved in the lynching?

00:16:32.000 And also, do any of the other citizens of New York City have rights, or is it their obligation to be physically assaulted, abused, screamed at, on the subways, without any intervention?

00:16:44.000 Because, by the way, I will point out here that if the cops had done the exact same thing, it's not as though Ayanna Pressley and AOC would sound off any differently.

00:16:51.000 In fact, it would be louder.

00:16:52.000 They'd say, ah, look at these official sources, cracking down on the innocent black man. 0.94

00:16:56.000 That's the shtick.

00:16:58.000 Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller.

00:17:01.000 He tweeted out something similar.

00:17:04.000 He tweeted out, New York City is not Gotham.

00:17:07.000 We must not become a city where a mentally ill human being can be choked to death by a vigilante without consequence or where the killer is justified and cheered.

00:17:14.000 That is a New York City comptroller.

00:17:16.000 Well, you know, as the New York City comptroller, if you would wish for that not to happen, you could let the cops do their job.

00:17:21.000 You could.

00:17:22.000 You know when this wasn't happening?

00:17:23.000 Under Rudy Giuliani when he was mayor.

00:17:25.000 You know when this also wasn't happening?

00:17:26.000 When Michael Bloomberg was mayor.

00:17:27.000 You know when it is happening?

00:17:28.000 Post Bill de Blasio, post Eric Adams, post the wild left-wing turn of the city.

00:17:33.000 The reason Rudy Giuliani became mayor in the first place is because this used to be how the subways were in the 1970s and 80s.

00:17:38.000 That is the reason.

00:17:41.000 Jabari Bruceport is a New York State Senator, District 25, and he also is using the similar language.

00:17:46.000 Quote, Jordan Neely was lynched.

00:17:48.000 He had no food, no water, no safe place to rest.

00:17:50.000 He had the audacity to publicly yell about that massive injustice.

00:17:53.000 So they killed him.

00:17:54.000 Oh, is the yelling about the injustice is why not the threatening of the fellow passengers,

00:17:58.000 not the not the fact that this person was again, psychotically violent and had an outstanding

00:18:03.000 arrest warrant that had not been filled because there are not enough cops in New York City,

00:18:06.000 and they haven't been given the actual ability to do their jobs.

00:18:08.000 They're going to use the language of lynching. 0.72

00:18:09.000 They're going to pretend that this is the exact same thing as like Emmett Till.

00:18:13.000 Because they need the narrative, the narrative is necessary because they can't run based on their governance, their governance in New York.

00:18:19.000 They're the ones in charge of the system.

00:18:22.000 And so now they're gonna try to morph this into Bull Connor in Birmingham, Alabama, 1965.

00:18:28.000 It's insane.

00:18:30.000 It just demonstrates, once again, the facts do not matter to a group of people who actively wish for there to be protests, who actively wish for there to be race riots, who actively wish to make race relations in the United States worse.

00:18:43.000 This is an ugly situation.

00:18:44.000 It's a complex situation.

00:18:46.000 But pretending that it is predominantly about racial discrimination And not about failures of law enforcement.

00:18:54.000 Failures, by the way, of the mental health system.

00:18:56.000 If this person was legitimately mentally ill, why was he allowed to live on the street for presumably a decade?

00:19:01.000 Why?

00:19:03.000 It is the highest form of cruelty and the left has been doing it for years.

00:19:06.000 For years.

00:19:08.000 I'm not a big government person, as everybody knows.

00:19:09.000 I've been actively calling for 20 years for there to be better funding of mental health services.

00:19:14.000 And not only that, yes, involuntary commitment of people who are psychotic.

00:19:19.000 You cannot allow them to live on the streets threatening themselves and others.

00:19:22.000 But the left opposes that stuff.

00:19:24.000 They don't want people to be able to be committed.

00:19:25.000 They think it's a right to live on the street and threaten to push people on the subway.

00:19:28.000 And if someone protests, And if somebody stands up and stops somebody from threatening others in the subway system, then apparently that person is the vigilante.

00:19:36.000 That person is violent.

00:19:37.000 That person is scary.

00:19:38.000 Black Entertainment Television did the exact same thing.

00:19:41.000 BET tweeted out, he needed help.

00:19:44.000 Instead, he got a death sentence.

00:19:47.000 The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed the cause of death for Jordan Neely was determined to be compression of neck or chokehold.

00:19:52.000 His performances on the subway didn't go unnoticed by the New York City community.

00:19:55.000 Mental health is the discussion.

00:19:57.000 What can we do to prevent this from happening again?

00:19:59.000 Again, the answer is very obvious.

00:20:01.000 You want to stop this sort of stuff from happening again?

00:20:02.000 And then they tweet out, hashtag protect black men.

00:20:04.000 You know what?

00:20:05.000 You want to know how to stop this?

00:20:07.000 The answer is very simple.

00:20:08.000 When you have psychotic people living on the street, you involuntarily commit them and you give them medication they need.

00:20:12.000 And if they refuse to take the medication, you give it to them anyway because they are psychotic.

00:20:15.000 Okay, that is number one.

00:20:16.000 Number two, you allow the cops to do their job in making sure these people are not psychotically threatening themselves and others on the streets.

00:20:22.000 This is not difficult.

00:20:22.000 The left doesn't want to do any of those things.

00:20:24.000 So instead, the predictable consequence is people defend themselves and others.

00:20:27.000 And when it goes wrong, when something bad happens, then we prosecute the person who actually attempted to protect others on the subway system.

00:20:35.000 Meanwhile, the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, says, don't worry guys, the city's safe.

00:20:38.000 We're going to continue making the city safe.

00:20:40.000 You're doing an amazing job, mayor.

00:20:43.000 It's not right for dangerous people to stay on our streets longer, but it's also not right for others to languish behind bars as the criminal justice process drags on.

00:20:55.000 I'm confident today, broken together, we are going to move in the direction as the Governor stated.

00:21:02.000 We're not spiking the ball, but we know we are moving towards the goal line.

00:21:07.000 And we will be successful in making and continuing to have the city and state to be the safest state in America.

00:21:18.000 Eric Adams was literally bragging about how safe New York City was yesterday when this person was choked down on the subway system.

00:21:24.000 The slow clap for the geniuses in blue city governance who have decided to disinvest from the police to hamstring them and prevent them from enforcing the law and that it's a right for people to live on the streets.

00:21:34.000 Just genius level stuff here.

00:21:36.000 Ugh, it's so ugly.

00:21:37.000 Well, in a second, we'll get to what New York actually is focusing its resources on, namely the real danger to us all, gas stoves.

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00:22:45.000 Okay, so New York can't protect its citizens, it can't protect people who are psychotic 0.89

00:22:49.000 or those psychotic people are victimizing, but they can definitely stop you from using your gas stove.

00:22:54.000 So you remember that time when they completely gaslit you about natural gas?

00:22:58.000 Like, they literally gaslit you.

00:22:59.000 It's amazing.

00:23:00.000 So they said, why are you guys so worried that we're gonna get rid of gas stoves?

00:23:04.000 There's a story suggesting that New York, the EPA, that they were considering cracking down on gas stoves.

00:23:10.000 And a lot of us who like to cook, we're like, you know what is really hard to do?

00:23:13.000 Cook well on an electric stove.

00:23:15.000 I hate electric stoves.

00:23:16.000 With a fiery passion of a thousand suns.

00:23:18.000 They're terrible.

00:23:18.000 Electric stoves do not cook the same way.

00:23:21.000 They just don't.

00:23:23.000 Well, a lot of us got rather agitated about the idea that the EPA or state governments were going to start cracking down on gas stoves.

00:23:31.000 And so the entire media was like, this is just a right wing lie.

00:23:34.000 We are never coming after your gas stoves.

00:23:35.000 Fast forward for like a month.

00:23:36.000 New York has become the first state in the nation to pass a law banning natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings.

00:23:42.000 A move that could help reshape how Americans heat and cook in their homes in the coming decades.

00:23:46.000 Late Tuesday, the New York Legislature approved a $229 billion state budget that will prohibit natural gas hookups and other fossil fuels in most new homes and other construction, a major victory for climate activists.

00:23:56.000 The move, which will likely face a court challenge from the fossil fuel industry, will serve as a test of states' power to ban fossil fuels outright, rather than simply encouraging developers to build low-carbon buildings.

00:24:05.000 So what does the law do?

00:24:06.000 Well, it requires all electric heating and cooking in new buildings shorter than seven stories by 2026 and in 2029 for taller buildings.

00:24:12.000 It allows exemptions for manufacturing facilities, restaurants, hospitals, and car washes, but the measure doesn't do what some climate activists had feared, give cities and counties license to override the bans.

00:24:21.000 That means that your local restaurant might still be able to use, you know, flame cooking, but you won't be able to.

00:24:26.000 All so that the environmentalists can feel super good about themselves.

00:24:28.000 By the way, the notion that this is going to radically reduce carbon emissions and therefore adjust the global temperature is insane.

00:24:34.000 The amount of carbon emissions that are saved by shifting to electric stoves from gas stoves are not measurable.

00:24:40.000 Compared to sort of world output of carbon emissions.

00:24:43.000 It's totally nuts.

00:24:44.000 But Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, was very excited about it.

00:24:46.000 She said, this is really big stuff, guys.

00:24:48.000 This is how you transition.

00:24:50.000 Just like we had to go from long time ago to transition from coal as your energy source.

00:24:56.000 We do have to transition.

00:24:58.000 There are clean energy alternatives.

00:25:00.000 It's going to take time.

00:25:01.000 And I want to make sure that New Yorkers don't get hit hard for the cost.

00:25:05.000 So we're going to roll this out.

00:25:06.000 But new buildings that are going up, they can go electric.

00:25:10.000 They can do heat pumps.

00:25:11.000 This is how you transition.

00:25:15.000 Man, I'm so glad they've got their priorities straight over in the state of New York and, broadly speaking, across the country.

00:25:20.000 I mean, the Democrats really are on top of the things that matter.

00:25:24.000 Like, for example, they're totally on top of immigration.

00:25:26.000 I mean, they're not.

00:25:27.000 At all.

00:25:28.000 In fact, the New York Times reported last month that migrant children are being put to work across the country.

00:25:33.000 So we now have the Biden administration presiding over a vast wave of illegal immigration that is ending with Dickensian street urchins working in the factories. 0.59

00:25:41.000 It's amazing.

00:25:42.000 It's amazing.

00:25:43.000 These are the people who are like, we need to raise the minimum wage.

00:25:45.000 We have to care for your children, are my children.

00:25:48.000 They're all of our children, unless they're migrant children, in which case put them next to the fryer at McDonald's now. 1.00

00:25:53.000 Go do it.

00:25:54.000 According to the New York Times, In the spring of 2021, Linda Brandmiller was working at an arena in San Antonio that had been converted into an emergency shelter for migrant children.

00:26:03.000 Thousands of boys were sleeping on cots as the Biden administration grappled with a record number of minors crossing into the United States without their parents.

00:26:09.000 Because the Biden administration has refused to do the thing that the Trump administration did and keep families together.

00:26:15.000 So instead, they decided to just release a bunch of minors into the interior with no actual guardians.

00:26:21.000 That ended up badly.

00:26:22.000 Ms.

00:26:22.000 Bradmiller's job was to help vet sponsors.

00:26:24.000 She'd been trained to look for possible trafficking.

00:26:25.000 In her first week, two cases jumped out.

00:26:27.000 One man told her he was sponsoring three boys to employ them at his construction company.

00:26:31.000 Another, who lived in Florida, was trying to sponsor two kids who would have to work off the cost of bringing them north.

00:26:36.000 Within days, she noticed one of the children was set to be released to the man in Florida.

00:26:40.000 That's despite notifying the Department of Health and Human Services.

00:26:43.000 She emailed the shelter manager.

00:26:44.000 A few days later, her building access was revoked during her lunch break, and she was never told why she had been fired.

00:26:49.000 Over the past two years, according to the New York Times, more than 250,000 migrant children have come alone to the United States.

00:26:56.000 Thousands of those kids have ended up in punishing jobs across the country, working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery in factories, all in violation of child labor laws, according to a recent Times investigation.

00:27:08.000 All along there were signs of this explosive growth in the labor force and warnings that the Biden administration ignored or missed, according to the New York Times.

00:27:14.000 How Xavier Becerra, head of Health and Human Services, has retained his job is beyond me because, quote-unquote, veteran government staffers and outside contractors told HHS, including in reports that reached Becerra, that children appeared to be at risk.

00:27:25.000 The Labor Department put out news releases noting an increase in child labor.

00:27:28.000 Senior White House aides were shown evidence of exploitation, like clusters of migrant kids who'd been found working with industrial equipment or caustic chemicals.

00:27:35.000 So they're taking, like, 14-year-old kids who were crossing the border illegally, and then they were shipping them off to guardians who ended up being You know, contractors with acid.

00:27:46.000 As the administration scrambled to clear shelters that were strained beyond capacity, children were released with little support to sponsors who expected them to take on grueling, dangerous jobs.

00:27:55.000 Amazing job, Biden administration.

00:27:57.000 Just excellent, excellent job.

00:27:59.000 250,000 migrants.

00:28:00.000 This is back in April.

00:28:01.000 And now it's getting worse.

00:28:02.000 And now it's getting worse.

00:28:04.000 We're supposed to be hit with, Title 42's ending.

00:28:06.000 We're about to be hit with 10,000 illegal migrants arriving on the border every day.

00:28:10.000 10,000 of them.

00:28:12.000 And so the Biden administration is sending like 1,500 People to the border to try and help police this thing.

00:28:17.000 Now, just quick flashback.

00:28:18.000 Vice President Kamala Harris, one of the least talented politicians of our era.

00:28:21.000 Flashback to 2018.

00:28:23.000 Donald Trump was president.

00:28:24.000 He sent troops to the border to try to crack down on the illegal immigration crisis.

00:28:27.000 And she said it was inappropriate at the time.

00:28:31.000 Thank the men and women who serve our military and serve in the United States Marine Corps.

00:28:38.000 I also believe that the administration made a decision to deploy them based on a political agenda.

00:28:48.000 And I believe that it is inappropriate to require the limited resources of the United States military to be used in such a way.

00:29:03.000 Again, now they're sending 1,500 troops to the border.

00:29:06.000 By the way, Corinne Jean-Pierre says, don't worry, it's all humane.

00:29:08.000 She says, we'll deal with lifting Title 42 in a humane manner, says the least talented White House press secretary of all time.

00:29:14.000 You mentioned that the administration is preparing for what is to come or what will occur after Title 42 lifts.

00:29:20.000 Can you describe or provide some detail as to what the White House is anticipating when this COVID-era border restriction expires?

00:29:30.000 We know, and I've said this, we have tools that are in front of us that the president's going to use to deal with what we are seeing at the border.

00:29:39.000 And this is something that the president has taken initiative on since the beginning of this administration.

00:29:45.000 And we want to do this in a safe, orderly, and humane way.

00:29:50.000 This administration is just a rolling series of crises.

00:29:52.000 Speaking of which, remember those regional bank crises?

00:29:55.000 Those are not over, not remotely.

00:29:58.000 We'll get to the latest possibly failing regional bank in just one second.

00:30:00.000 First, you remember that President Trump recently issued a warning from Mar-a-Lago.

00:30:06.000 Well, as we saw with First Republic Bank, you never know when your bank can go under.

00:30:12.000 It's one reason why people are pulling their money out of regional banks and they are putting it into things like gold because they just don't trust the system.

00:30:18.000 Totally understandable.

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00:30:58.000 Also, We have a great new book out over at DW Books and it's really important right now when you watch what's happening with the Jordan Neely case and the quote-unquote systemically racist American system.

00:31:10.000 There's one book that debunks all of this crap and that is Heather McDonald's brand new book, When Race Trumps Merit.

00:31:16.000 Heather MacDonald is shutting down the malignant ideology of anti-racism in that book, When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives. 0.83

00:31:26.000 Heather's book exposes how BLM-fueled equity obsession is tearing down Western civilization, destroying meritocratic standards of achievement, because those standards apparently have a disparate impact on certain minorities. 0.81

00:31:36.000 We're not enforcing criminal law because of all of that.

00:31:38.000 The predictable result is stuff like Jordan Neely.

00:31:40.000 Lowering standards, as Heather McDonald points out, jeopardizes scientific progress, destroys public order, poisons the appreciation of art and culture.

00:31:46.000 Go check out When Race Trumps Merit by Heather McDonald.

00:31:49.000 It is a brave book and it is a book that you are going to need to read.

00:31:52.000 It's a must-read for anyone concerned about the state of the country and worried for our future.

00:31:55.000 It's available right now, When Race Trumps Merit, available at Amazon or wherever books are sold already, a national bestseller.

00:32:00.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden's fiscal crisis is not over, not by a long shot.

00:32:04.000 So the Federal Reserve yesterday raised rates again by 25 basic points.

00:32:08.000 Then they hinted at the possibility that they would pause the rate hikes.

00:32:11.000 But we will see how long that lasts for because inflation continues to be embedded in the American economy.

00:32:18.000 Powell said yesterday, Jay Powell, the Fed chair who has been a giant failure so far, that the economy is still likely to avoid recession.

00:32:25.000 He may be the only one saying this.

00:32:27.000 He said we've raised rates by 5 percentage points in 14 months.

00:32:29.000 The unemployment rate is 3.5%, pretty much where it was, even lower than when we started.

00:32:33.000 It wasn't supposed to be possible for job openings to decline by as much as they've declined with our unemployment going up.

00:32:39.000 Well, that's what we've seen.

00:32:41.000 He said he didn't rule out the possibility of an economic slump.

00:32:43.000 And then he suggested that the biggest issue is raising the debt ceiling.

00:32:47.000 No, it really, really is not.

00:32:49.000 The biggest issue is that we have systemic debt problems in this country that will come to fruition at some point in the future.

00:32:55.000 Small cuts to prevent the debt ceiling from being hit is a pretty solid deal that McCarthy is currently offering Joe Biden.

00:33:02.000 But again, the reality is that no one thinks this current economic crisis is over.

00:33:07.000 Here's Jay Powell talking about the debt ceiling.

00:33:09.000 I'm wondering if you can talk about the account of possible effects of a debt limit standoff.

00:33:15.000 You've said repeatedly that the ceiling must be raised, but do you see any economics effects of even getting close to a default, and what type of situation would that look like?

00:33:26.000 So I wouldn't want to speculate specifically, but I will say this.

00:33:29.000 These are fiscal policy matters, for starters, and they're for Congress and the administration for the elected parts of the government to deal with and They're really consigned to them.

00:33:40.000 From our standpoint, I would just say this.

00:33:43.000 It's essential that the debt ceiling be raised in a timely way so that the U.S.

00:33:47.000 government can pay all of its bills when they're due.

00:33:50.000 A failure to do that would be unprecedented.

00:33:54.000 Maybe Powell should talk to Joe Biden about all of that.

00:33:56.000 As far as the increases in the interest rate, he said a decision on a pause was not made today, but he said that there was a noticeable change in Fed guidance.

00:34:04.000 Now, all of this did not stop the stock market from plunging yesterday.

00:34:07.000 So you would have expected that after the Fed raised the rates, but then said, maybe we'll pause it, that people would have been kind of optimistic.

00:34:12.000 Wrong.

00:34:13.000 Stock futures declined on Thursday, the day after the Federal Reserve hiked rates by another 25 basis points.

00:34:18.000 One reason is because of fears of contagion returning to regional banks.

00:34:23.000 Over at Zero Hedge, they write earlier today when Jerome Powell openly lied to the American people during their press conference stating without a hint of irony that the US banking system is sound and resilient, we balked.

00:34:33.000 How could this former lawyer lie so brazenly to the American people when in just the past few weeks we've seen over half a trillion in bank failures, making the current bank failure episode even worse than the global financial crisis?

00:34:43.000 Well, the next regional bank collapse is already on its way.

00:34:45.000 Shortly after close, Bloomberg reported that another regional California-based bank, PacWest Bank Corp., was weighing a range of strategic options, including a sale.

00:34:53.000 It's a Beverly Hills-based bank.

00:34:54.000 Its financial conditions were far worse than the Fed had thought.

00:34:58.000 And it's been working with financial advisor.

00:34:59.000 They've now been considering a breakup or a capital raise, according to Bloomberg sources.

00:35:03.000 Why?

00:35:03.000 Well, there was effectively a run on the bank.

00:35:04.000 It turns out that a lot of people who are seeing the coming economic crisis, they're pulling their money from the banks because they don't believe that those banks are going to be able to Guarantee depositors.

00:35:13.000 If you're a mid-sized regional bank with high levels of tech investment, for example, tech investors are pulling their money.

00:35:18.000 They see hard times are coming.

00:35:20.000 They need that money.

00:35:20.000 They want it out before that bank collapses and they don't want to have to deal with the FDICs.

00:35:23.000 They're just pulling out their money right now.

00:35:25.000 This means that a lot of those banks who have over-invested in faith in the government, that's what bonds are, faith in the government, they got screwed because of those increased interest rates.

00:35:34.000 And now a lot of those banks are Really on the edge.

00:35:37.000 And you're going to see the large get larger.

00:35:39.000 JPMorgan or something is going to eat up PacWest.

00:35:41.000 On Tuesday, PacWest doubled 28% as investors retreated from regional bank stocks following JPMorgan's deal on Monday for First Republic Bank that did nothing to ease concerns about regional bank viability.

00:35:52.000 Now again, there's a case to be made that the FDIC should have just stepped in if they wanted to maintain the existence of regional banks.

00:35:59.000 I mean, they're subsidizing the deal anyway.

00:36:01.000 Having a giant bank eat up a regional bank means, like I, as an investor, why would I leave my money at a regional bank?

00:36:06.000 I would just pull it and I'd put it in the giant bank.

00:36:08.000 I know the giant bank ain't gonna go under.

00:36:10.000 The federal government won't allow it to go under.

00:36:12.000 And then I don't have to worry about my cash or I'm going to take my money out and I'm going to put it in some other sort of fund.

00:36:17.000 I'll put it in like a money market account.

00:36:20.000 Why would I do that?

00:36:21.000 So all these regional banks, there are a lot of regional banks that are in serious trouble.

00:36:26.000 If you think that this thing is over, it is not remotely over at this point.

00:36:30.000 So essentially this leaves the Fed with not a lot of choices.

00:36:35.000 Either they're going to have to cut the rates in order to maintain the asset base of a lot of these regional banks, injecting liquidity, or they're going to see a lot more regional banks fail.

00:36:44.000 So we're not remotely at the end of this thing yet.

00:36:47.000 Meanwhile, there are new details that are now emerging about Joe Biden.

00:36:53.000 Amazing story from the New York Post today.

00:36:56.000 Quote, a whistleblower tip about a document allegedly putting President Biden at the center of a bribery scheme triggered a guessing game across Washington Wednesday as journalists and politicians poured over Biden's extensive history of interactions with his family's overseas business associates.

00:37:08.000 Biden, 80, regularly met with son Hunter and brother James' international connections during and after his eight-year vice presidency, including citizens of China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia, and Ukraine.

00:37:18.000 However, the tip pertains to alleged wrongdoing by President Biden, meaning it may not necessarily involve figures linked to his relatives.

00:37:25.000 So it's unclear exactly what is being alleged.

00:37:28.000 All we know is that a whistleblower turned over a document that suggests bribery of Joe Biden himself.

00:37:32.000 House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky and Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa revealed the whistleblower information on Wednesday.

00:37:38.000 They said the tip involves an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.

00:37:45.000 Grassley said if it's as explosive as what we've heard, we expect it to be very difficult to get.

00:37:49.000 But we know it's unclassified now.

00:37:50.000 The American people deserve transparency from the FBI.

00:37:53.000 This is what it is all about.

00:37:54.000 Comer set the FBI a deadline of May 10th to produce the document, leaving at least a week for speculation to mount about the dealings and countries involved.

00:38:01.000 So all we know I mean, it's very vague.

00:38:03.000 All we know is a whistleblower has said there is a document that links Joe Biden to bribery.

00:38:06.000 It involves a foreign national and it involves American policy.

00:38:09.000 So there are a few areas where this could come up.

00:38:12.000 One is Ukraine.

00:38:13.000 Obviously, we've seen before the accusations that Hunter Biden was being paid by Burisma to basically make connections with Daddy, who was then vice president of the United States.

00:38:21.000 And we also know that Joe Biden was flexing his power in Ukraine.

00:38:25.000 It could theoretically be Mexico.

00:38:27.000 According to the New York Post, Hunter Biden visited Mexico at least six years in a row from 2011 through 2016, while his father was VP.

00:38:34.000 Details remain vague on the amount of money that changed hands and whether Joe Biden was involved at all.

00:38:38.000 It could be Russia.

00:38:39.000 Biden allegedly met with one of his son's Russian associates, billionaire Yelena Baturina, and her husband, former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, at the same April 2015 D.C.

00:38:48.000 dinner that was attended by another Russian national.

00:38:52.000 Bazzarino allegedly wired $3.5 million to a firm associated with Hunter more than a year prior, on February 14, 2014, and apparently met with Hunter and his associates Evan Archer that April in Lake Como, Italy.

00:39:02.000 It could be Romania.

00:39:03.000 It could be China.

00:39:03.000 I mean, Hunter Biden was going around the world picking up bags of cash because his daddy was Joe Biden.

00:39:07.000 So what are the chances that Joe Biden was not involved in any of this?

00:39:10.000 Honest to goodness.

00:39:12.000 Now, when it comes to charging people criminally, obviously, if there's smoke, there's fire doesn't apply, but we are not in a criminal court right now.

00:39:18.000 So there's a lot of smoke.

00:39:19.000 I mean, Hunter Biden was going to half a dozen countries and picking up like sacks of actual cash from foreign countries that are almost entirely dictatorships or corrupt oligarchies and using his daddy's name.

00:39:30.000 And then his daddy was meeting with these people.

00:39:32.000 So that doesn't look like the least corrupt thing you have ever seen.

00:39:36.000 But don't worry, the media are focused in, like full bore, they're focused in on Clarence Thomas.

00:39:43.000 So the latest accusation about Clarence Thomas?

00:39:46.000 We know that Clarence Thomas is very close with a billionaire named Harlan Crow.

00:39:51.000 Harlan Crow is conservative.

00:39:52.000 Harlan Crow did vacations with Clarence Thomas.

00:39:55.000 There's no accusation that Justice Thomas was involved in any case involving Harlan Crow.

00:40:00.000 There's not even an accusation that he really violated his disclosure requirements as a Supreme Court justice.

00:40:05.000 It doesn't matter.

00:40:05.000 ProPublica is like going full bore after Clarence Thomas right now.

00:40:08.000 They're really trying to force his retirement while Joe Biden is president.

00:40:10.000 That's what's happening right now.

00:40:12.000 So the latest accusation is that in 2008, Supreme Court Justice Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia.

00:40:20.000 The boy was far from home.

00:40:22.000 He had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

00:40:24.000 for years because Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was six and said that he was raising him as a son, which seems like a very nice thing to do, right?

00:40:30.000 He's his grandnephew.

00:40:31.000 Tuition at the boarding school ran more than six grand a month.

00:40:33.000 Thomas did not cover the bill.

00:40:35.000 A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows that the company of Harlan Crowe paid the tuition.

00:40:43.000 The payments extended beyond that month.

00:40:44.000 Apparently, Crowe paid Martin's tuition the entire time he was a student there.

00:40:48.000 Now, what's the accusation of corruption here?

00:40:50.000 Is the accusation that Harlan Crowe somehow bought some sort of judgment from Clarence Thomas?

00:40:55.000 Because, if so, I'm missing it.

00:40:56.000 Like, there has to be another half to the accusation.

00:40:58.000 If I give charity to a person, and then the person does nothing for me in return, I help out a friend.

00:41:03.000 By the way, I've done this.

00:41:04.000 You help out a friend with money.

00:41:05.000 They need money in a crunch.

00:41:07.000 Does that mean that it's corrupt?

00:41:09.000 I mean, not unless I then demand something of them that's corrupt.

00:41:11.000 Is there any allegation that Harlan Crowe demanded anything of Clarence Thomas, that Clarence Thomas delivered anything to Harlan Crowe?

00:41:16.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:41:18.000 Which is why Mark Palletta, who's a friend of Justice Thomas, put out a statement today

00:41:22.000 saying, the Thomas's have rarely spoken publicly about the remarkably generous efforts to help a

00:41:25.000 child in need. They've always respected the privacy of this young man and his family.

00:41:29.000 It's disappointing and painful, but unsurprising that some journalists and critics can't do the

00:41:32.000 same. The Thomas's quietly and honorably devoted 12 years of their lives to helping a beloved child

00:41:37.000 in desperate need of love, support, and guidance. In 1997, Justice Thomas and his wife brought their

00:41:41.000 grandnephew to live with them.

00:41:43.000 Their great-grandnephew, actually.

00:41:44.000 They agreed to take in this young child, much as Justice Thomas' grandparents had done for him and his brother in 1955.

00:41:50.000 Justice Thomas and his wife made immeasurable personal and financial sacrifices and poured every ounce of their lives and hearts into giving their great-nephew a chance to succeed.

00:41:57.000 In the summer of 2006, the Thomases were struggling to find a school where they could send their great-nephew.

00:42:01.000 In discussing these challenges with their dear friends, Harlan and Kathy Crowe, Harlan recommended the Thomases consider one more option, sending their great-nephew to Randolph-Macon Academy.

00:42:09.000 Harlan had gone there.

00:42:10.000 He thought the school would be a good fit.

00:42:11.000 Harlan had financially supported Randolph-Macon since the 1980s.

00:42:14.000 He had funded scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

00:42:17.000 Harlan offered to pay the first year of Justice Thomas's great-nephew tuition in 2006.

00:42:21.000 That payment went directly to the school.

00:42:23.000 Harlan Crowe's office confirmed he did not pay the great-nephew's tuition for any other year at Randolph-Macon.

00:42:28.000 After some time, Randolph-Macon recommended the great-nephew attend a boarding school in Georgia for a year.

00:42:32.000 Harlan offered to pay the first year of tuition for their great-nephew at the Georgia school, and those tuition payments went directly to the school.

00:42:37.000 By the next year, Thomas' great nephew returned to Randolph-Macon.

00:42:40.000 He moved back to Savannah after he turned 18.

00:42:42.000 The story is another attempt to manufacture a scandal about Justice Thomas.

00:42:46.000 So what exactly is the scandal here?

00:42:48.000 That Harlan Crow was generous in supporting a friend's great nephew in going to a private school.

00:42:54.000 That is the supposed tremendous scandal.

00:42:56.000 By the way, if that is a scandal, first of all, what a terrible man, Harlan Crow.

00:43:01.000 You know, actually paying for tuition for kids.

00:43:03.000 Just awful.

00:43:03.000 Just absolutely awful.

00:43:05.000 And again, there's been no allegation that either Justice Thomas violated his legal strictures in terms of reporting requirements, or two, that Harlan Crowe ever asked anything from Justice Thomas in the legal field.

00:43:17.000 So it's an absurdity.

00:43:17.000 You know how absurd it is?

00:43:20.000 It's so absurd that we have a parallel case that the media just don't care about.

00:43:24.000 According to Luke Rosiak over at Daily Wire, Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving Penguin Random House, despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income, according to records. 0.79

00:43:40.000 ProPublica doesn't care about that, apparently. 1.00

00:43:42.000 So, Sonia Sotomayor literally took, like, $3 million in advances from Penguin Random House, and then she didn't recuse herself from a bunch of cases involving Penguin Random House. 0.96

00:43:54.000 No, it doesn't matter.

00:43:54.000 She's fine.

00:43:55.000 She's a wise Latina woman. 0.95

00:43:57.000 In 2010, she got a $1.2 million book advance from Knopf Doubleday Group, a part of the conglomerate.

00:44:01.000 In 2012, she reported receiving two advance payments totaling $1.9 million.

00:44:05.000 In 2013, she voted in a decision for whether the court should hear a case against the publisher called Aaron Greenspan v. Random House, despite then-fellow justice Stephen Breyer recusing after also receiving money from the publisher.

00:44:16.000 Greenspan was a Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg's who wrote a book about the founding of Facebook and contended that Random House rejected his book proposal and awarded the deal to another author who copied the book and turned it into the social network.

00:44:26.000 So, just as Breyer accused himself, Sotomayor did not.

00:44:29.000 No one cares.

00:44:30.000 In 2017, Sotomayor began receiving payments each year from Penguin Random House itself.

00:44:34.000 That continued annually through at least 2021.

00:44:36.000 The most recent disclosure available totaled more than $500,000.

00:44:38.000 In all, she received $3.6 million from Penguin Random House or subsidiaries.

00:44:45.000 And she just sat there and made a bunch of judgments and cases that involved Penguin Random House.

00:44:49.000 No one seems to care.

00:44:50.000 Again, there's not even an allegation that Harlan Kroll had a case ruled on by Justice Thomas.

00:44:54.000 Doesn't matter.

00:44:55.000 This is all an attempt to get Thomas.

00:44:56.000 It's the thing that the left wants more than anything.

00:44:58.000 Well, it's not going to happen.

00:45:00.000 Well, meanwhile...

00:45:01.000 Again, Joe Biden's administration has been a boon to everyone, including 8th graders.

00:45:04.000 We have a report from the Wall Street Journal showing that 8th graders' test scores in U.S.

00:45:07.000 History and Civics fell to the lowest levels on record last year. 0.99

00:45:10.000 So, the kids are getting stupider. 0.99

00:45:11.000 No shock. 0.99

00:45:12.000 In the first release of U.S.

00:45:13.000 History and Civics scores since the start of the pandemic, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, showed a decline in student knowledge that reversed all gains made since the 1990s.

00:45:23.000 According to the data, 13% of 8th graders met proficiency standards for U.S.

00:45:26.000 History.

00:45:28.000 13%, meaning they could explain major themes, periods, events, people, ideas, and turning points in the country's history.

00:45:33.000 About a fifth of students scored at or above the proficient level in civics.

00:45:37.000 Declines in students' understanding of U.S.

00:45:38.000 history that occurred before the pandemic continued.

00:45:40.000 Long-standing gaps in student achievement across specific groups persisted, according to data.

00:45:44.000 Low-performing 8th grade students had significant drops in civics and U.S.

00:45:47.000 history scores.

00:45:48.000 High-performing students mainly held steady.

00:45:49.000 This is, of course, true.

00:45:51.000 Bad educational systems?

00:45:52.000 They tend not to affect the highest performers because the highest performers are still smart.

00:45:56.000 The kids who have trouble, however, get left behind.

00:45:58.000 The falling federal test scores in U.S.

00:45:59.000 history and civics coincide with the downward spiral seen in other subjects tested since the pandemic.

00:46:04.000 Peggy Carr, National Center for Educational Statistics Commissioner, said that she was shocked by all of this.

00:46:09.000 She called it woefully low in comparison to other subjects.

00:46:13.000 The average score in 2022 for 8th grade students in U.S.

00:46:15.000 history was 258 out of 500.

00:46:19.000 So everyone is failing, apparently.

00:46:21.000 There's really solid stuff right there.

00:46:25.000 And of course, there are racial disparities in the statistics.

00:46:29.000 The fact that the federal government has focused in on wokeism in the schools, if the schools were open at all, has not helped matters whatsoever.

00:46:38.000 This is why, by the way, it is fun to watch everybody who's involved in shutting down the schools now running headlong from their own positions.

00:46:44.000 So Anthony Fauci yesterday had the temerity to suggest that we have to stop playing the blame game about shutting down the schools.

00:46:48.000 Dude, I see why you want to escape the blame game.

00:46:52.000 I have some feelings as to why you wish to escape the blame game.

00:46:54.000 Some of us were saying schools should be open as of like the summer of 2020.

00:46:59.000 But I want to know what you think.

00:46:59.000 You and the community got wrong.

00:47:00.000 down because the stats were very clear. The kids were not getting sick.

00:47:02.000 I had to move my kids to Florida to find an open school.

00:47:06.000 And it is absurd. Here's Anthony Fauci, one of the most damaging people in

00:47:10.000 possibly human history.

00:47:12.000 But I want to know what you think.

00:47:15.000 You and the community got wrong.

00:47:18.000 Was the closing of the schools too draconian?

00:47:20.000 How much of a delay did the fact that nobody fully understood the asymptomatic

00:47:27.000 spread of this? Nobody figured out that it could actually bust through certain

00:47:31.000 vaccine levels as well.

00:47:33.000 What are the real takeaways, the real lessons for public health?

00:47:37.000 I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things that you have mentioned were unknowns at the time.

00:47:47.000 We have to get away from the blame game.

00:47:49.000 Well, I mean, you could either, you know, attempt to avoid the blame game because this is your fault, or you could just lie.

00:47:54.000 So Corinne Jean-Pierre says that they tried to open the schools.

00:47:56.000 This is the world's worst White House press secretary. 1.00

00:47:59.000 Here she is explaining.

00:48:00.000 No, we did.

00:48:00.000 We really tried to open the schools.

00:48:01.000 No, you didn't.

00:48:02.000 You're working at the behest of Randy Weingarten, whose main job was to make sure that teachers stayed home and got paid for doing nothing.

00:48:09.000 Here's Corinne Jean-Pierre.

00:48:10.000 Oof.

00:48:11.000 Look, as you just said, kids have lost so much in the pandemic.

00:48:15.000 This is why when the president walked in, he made that he made a priority to open schools.

00:48:21.000 One of the things that was important to make sure that our kids who have lost so much were able to go back in person school if they choose, have the resources that they needed that to really succeed and move forward in their education.

00:48:35.000 And we saw that unfortunately, the pandemic had Liar.

00:48:44.000 Liar. 1.00

00:48:44.000 These people are liars! 1.00

00:48:46.000 Again, I wish I could say stupidity. 1.00

00:48:49.000 Malice. 1.00

00:48:50.000 That is a lie.

00:48:51.000 That is an outright lie. 0.98

00:48:52.000 The CDC was openly changing its standards on how to reopen schools based on the advice of non-scientist, non-epidemiologist Randy Weingarten who does not give a crap about the nation's kids. 1.00

00:49:02.000 These people are liars! 0.96

00:49:03.000 You want to know why the educational attainment has gone down in the United States? 0.94

00:49:06.000 Because these people have taken over the entire educational system, and their insistence is that they be able to shut down when they want, and open when they want, and not only shut down and open when they want, also teach the kids books like Genderqueer.

00:49:17.000 This is the most important thing.

00:49:18.000 Kids don't need to know anything about American civics or history.

00:49:21.000 What they really need to know is critical race theory and gender identity.

00:49:25.000 That's the thing.

00:49:26.000 That's why, if you listen to the left these days about education, what is their chief priority?

00:49:31.000 Fighting school choice and making sure that states do not pass laws barring critical race theory and teaching of sexual orientation in schools.

00:49:38.000 This is the thing they care most about.

00:49:39.000 This is why you have Kamala Harris again, World's Worst Vice President, suggesting that the great risk to kids right now is the banning of books. 0.98

00:49:45.000 Now, what she never mentions is that what we are talking about when we say banning books is not providing pornography to children in school libraries.

00:49:51.000 She doesn't mention that.

00:49:53.000 The biggest problem in our schools right now is not quote-unquote book banning.

00:49:56.000 It's that the kids can't read.

00:49:57.000 And they can't read because you guys don't care about whether the kids read.

00:50:01.000 These are factories for ignorance promoted by the federal government at the expense of billions of dollars.

00:50:11.000 And when we think about where we've been in the last few years in terms of everything from anti-Asian hate crime to what we are looking at in terms of attacks on fundamental freedoms like those That of a woman to make decisions and a person to make decisions about their body.

00:50:30.000 To the attacks we're seeing on voting rights.

00:50:33.000 To the attacks we're seeing on LGBTQ and trans folks.

00:50:41.000 The attacks we're seeing where there are literally, can you imagine in this year of our Lord 2023, book bans?

00:50:49.000 Year of our Lord.

00:50:50.000 I mean really, like what?

00:50:51.000 She's a religious lady, Kamala Harris.

00:50:53.000 Deeply.

00:50:54.000 Book bans!

00:50:58.000 Okay, the kids, if you had your druthers, the kids couldn't even read.

00:51:02.000 They'd just be getting Drag Queen Story Hour.

00:51:04.000 Kids being read to by drag queens. 0.98

00:51:06.000 That's like your top priority.

00:51:07.000 And they wonder why educational performance is down.

00:51:09.000 Because maybe you don't care about the education.

00:51:10.000 You don't.

00:51:11.000 I've yet to find a democratic school district in a major American city that is doing, like, an amazing job.

00:51:18.000 Show me.

00:51:19.000 Really, I'm waiting to hear.

00:51:20.000 I was a student in LAUSD.

00:51:23.000 The only functional schools were magnet schools, which they then attempted to shut down.

00:51:27.000 The same thing happened in New York City.

00:51:29.000 It's... These people are absurd. 0.97

00:51:32.000 And then claiming that they tried to reopen the schools during the pandemic. 0.64

00:51:34.000 We can all see you guys lying.

00:51:35.000 We can all see you lying.

00:51:36.000 Ugh, it's frustrating.

00:51:37.000 Okay, time for some things I like and some things that I hate.

00:51:39.000 So...

00:51:42.000 Things that I like.

00:51:43.000 Denis Villeneuve, the director, that dude is on, like, a historically good movie run.

00:51:47.000 If you look at his IMDB over the past few years, just tremendous.

00:51:51.000 So he had Dune in 2021, and then in 2017 he had Blade Runner 2049, which is a really good movie.

00:51:58.000 He had Arrival in 2016, which is a really good movie.

00:52:00.000 He had Sicario in 2015, which is a really good movie.

00:52:03.000 So his last few movies have been all good to great.

00:52:05.000 I thought Dune Part 1 was spectacular.

00:52:07.000 I thought it was fantastic.

00:52:08.000 And now, he's dropped the trailer for Dune Part 2.

00:52:11.000 I'm here for it.

00:52:12.000 I'm definitely here for it.

00:52:13.000 Here's a bit of the trailer.

00:52:15.000 Imagine water.

00:52:17.000 If you dive in, you can't reach the bottom.

00:52:19.000 You dive in?

00:52:20.000 Yes.

00:52:20.000 It's called swimming.

00:52:22.000 I don't believe you.

00:52:27.000 In the shadows of Arrakis lie many secrets.

00:52:32.000 But the darkest is the long way remaining.

00:52:36.000 Look at the cast on this film, by the way.

00:52:38.000 It's a hell of a cast.

00:52:39.000 My father didn't believe in revenge.

00:52:42.000 Nothing fancy.

00:52:43.000 I understand.

00:52:44.000 Nothing fancy.

00:52:52.000 There are very few films that are made now that demand to be seen on the big screen.

00:52:57.000 This is definitely going to be one of them.

00:53:02.000 Javier Bardem and...

00:53:04.000 Austin Butler is in the villain, I believe.

00:53:07.000 No?

00:53:11.000 Honestly, the weak link in this film is going to be Timothee Chalamet.

00:53:13.000 I do not understand.

00:53:14.000 I honestly, God, do not understand the Timothee Chalamet of it.

00:53:17.000 I don't understand why that guy's in, like, every movie.

00:53:19.000 But the rest of the cast is spectacular.

00:53:22.000 The biggest problem with Dune 1 is that everyone is great, except for Timothee Chalamet.

00:53:26.000 But, I mean, come on.

00:53:28.000 This looks great, right?

00:53:30.000 So, when I get excited about a movie, that's a fun thing.

00:53:33.000 So, hopefully, that movie comes out November 3rd.

00:53:35.000 So that's gonna be a bit of a wait, but it looks great.

00:53:38.000 It looks just spectacular.

00:53:39.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:53:45.000 Okay, so first thing that I hate today, it is amazing.

00:53:48.000 So Dave Portnoy, this is the problem with, you know, being corporately funded.

00:53:52.000 So Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy had to announce on Wednesday that one of their popular hosts, a guy named Ben Mintz, was fired from the company after he said a racial slur accidentally while reading rap lyrics on a live stream earlier this week.

00:54:03.000 So he made the mistake of, he was reading, he was on a live stream, and he was reading the rap lyrics.

00:54:07.000 And as he went through the rap lyrics, I believe he used the N-word.

00:54:10.000 Reading rap lyrics.

00:54:12.000 And Barstool's parent company, Penn Entertainment, forced Portnoy to fire him.

00:54:20.000 The entire Barstool team was against this.

00:54:22.000 Barstool CEO Erica Nardini and longtime talent Dan Katz said that he made an honest mistake.

00:54:26.000 Mince tweeted this morning, I made an unforgivable mistake slipping on air while reading a song lyric.

00:54:30.000 It's not an unforgivable mistake, it's just a normal mistake.

00:54:32.000 I'm sorry. 0.96

00:54:33.000 The only thing that makes a mistake unforgivable is when people are unforgiving and jackasses. 0.74

00:54:38.000 He clearly did not mean harm. 0.53

00:54:39.000 He wasn't calling somebody the n-word.

00:54:40.000 He was reading a lyric.

00:54:42.000 He said, I meant no harm.

00:54:43.000 I've never felt worse about anything.

00:54:44.000 I apologize for my actions.

00:54:46.000 I'm truly sorry and ashamed of myself.

00:54:47.000 Honestly, we get...

00:54:49.000 More abject apologies in American culture for somebody accidentally saying the N-word while reading rap lyrics than we do from actual murderers and rapists in our society.

00:54:58.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:55:00.000 Penn acquired 36% of Barstool Sports from the churning group for $163 million in early 2020, and they bought the remainder of the company for an additional $388 million this past February.

00:55:09.000 Portnoy said that the parent company made the call to fire Mintz over concern the incident could jeopardize regulatory gambling licenses across the country.

00:55:16.000 How?

00:55:17.000 What does that have to do with regulatory gambling licenses?

00:55:20.000 Exactly.

00:55:22.000 Penn paid a lot of money for Barstool, said Portnoy.

00:55:24.000 They have to make the best decisions to protect their business.

00:55:26.000 I trust and respect Jason Oden, who's the Penn CEO, and he's doing what he thinks is right.

00:55:30.000 Doesn't mean I'll always agree, but he deals with things I don't have to think about.

00:55:33.000 He said, Portnoy said, they believe there's a chance a lot of state could pull their licenses because of that.

00:55:39.000 That's nonsense.

00:55:40.000 That's nonsense. 0.93

00:55:40.000 That's just, that's corporate, that's corporate cowardice by Penn, right there. 0.93

00:55:44.000 I feel bad for Portnoy in the sense that, you know, he made a business deal.

00:55:48.000 Once those strings are attached, though, the strings are attached. 1.00

00:55:50.000 And that is a stupid and ugly situation, obviously. 0.99

00:55:54.000 I was very impressed by their forecheck, their battle level. 1.00

00:55:57.000 I was very impressed by their forecheck, their battle level.

00:56:19.000 Big game for...

00:56:20.000 They didn't pack a lunch!

00:56:21.000 Listen, maybe they need to pack a Lizzo-sized lunch.

00:56:25.000 Because, you know, they weren't prepared in my opinion.

00:56:30.000 Okay, so P.K.

00:56:30.000 Sobin says a Lizzo-sized lunch, and people got mad.

00:56:34.000 So the good news for P.K.

00:56:35.000 Sobin is that he's black, so they won't accuse him of racism.

00:56:37.000 If a white person said it, then they accuse him of racism.

00:56:39.000 But some Twitter users were very upset about all of this.

00:56:43.000 The 33-year-old athlete joined ESPN as a hockey analyst last fall.

00:56:47.000 He hadn't addressed the controversy so far, nor should he, because there's nothing wrong with saying Lizzo Size Lunch.

00:56:51.000 She is a literal fat activist who made a show on Netflix about how fat she is. 1.00

00:56:57.000 Is she not fat? 0.98

00:56:58.000 Are we supposed to pretend she's skinny? 1.00

00:56:59.000 Her whole point is that she's fat and beautiful. 1.00

00:57:01.000 He didn't even say that she's not attractive.

00:57:05.000 He just said Lizzo Size Lunch.

00:57:06.000 Apparently that's controversial now.

00:57:07.000 Amazing what now counts as controversial.

00:57:09.000 Also amazing what counts as not controversial.

00:57:11.000 So, video has now emerged of a trans influencer I don't really personally use passing as, like, my threshold for womanhood.

00:57:33.000 I understand that a lot of trans people want to pass.

00:57:35.000 It's a goal.

00:57:35.000 I respect it deeply.

00:57:37.000 It is not one of mine.

00:57:38.000 It's not how my fluidity functions.

00:57:40.000 I don't live for the validation of other people deciding what they think that my gender

00:57:44.000 passes as.

00:57:45.000 I love my presentation. I don't need your validation from it. I do not receive this.

00:57:50.000 And I would really caution you about policing other people's gender expressions 0.96

00:57:54.000 because it's just not your f***ing business. If you look at me and you see a man, 0.85

00:57:59.000 that's your transphobia that you are projecting onto people like me,

00:58:02.000 and you're just making the world less safe.

00:58:06.000 So, Harry or Dylan Mulvaney just dropped. If this dude says that if you look at him

00:58:13.000 and you see a man, it's because you're a transphobe. 1.00

00:58:18.000 So gentlemen, if you do not wish to have sex with this very obvious male who has full facial hair, body hair, penis, and balls, you're gay. 1.00

00:58:29.000 I don't know what to tell you. 1.00

00:58:31.000 If you don't wanna screw that, dude, you're gay. 1.00

00:58:34.000 That's just the way it works. 1.00

00:58:35.000 That's the way it works.

00:58:36.000 I didn't make the rules.

00:58:37.000 They made the rules.

00:58:38.000 This is the society in which we now live.

00:58:41.000 Yeah, through the looking glass, people.

00:58:43.000 Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:58:45.000 You're not gonna wanna miss it.

00:58:46.000 We'll be talking with Yael Eckstein, President and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews about the 75th anniversary of Israel's birth and also the great work that the IFCJ is doing.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 04, 2023

Is This The New George Floyd?

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