The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden Is Made Of Covid | Ep. 1546

00:00:00.000 After emerging from COVID-induced isolation, Joe Biden tests positive again and goes back into isolation, Democrats share their inaptly named Inflation Reduction Act, and Jon Stewart yells at the Republicans some more.

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00:01:45.000 Well, bad news for Joe Biden.

00:01:47.000 So, Joe Biden apparently said that he had tested negative for COVID, but then apparently he tested positive again for COVID.

00:01:54.000 There was some suggestion that the PaxLavid that he was taking had suppressed the positive test and that he was never actually negative for COVID. According to CNBC.com, President Biden on Saturday tested positive for COVID again after consecutive days of testing negative for the virus, according to his physician.

00:02:08.000 Biden is experiencing no new symptoms, continues to feel quite well, according to Dr. Kevin O'Connor.

00:02:13.000 In a memo shared by the White House, he will nevertheless reinitiate strict isolation procedures, according to the presidential physician. Now, part of the problem here is that the standards for the CDC here are incredibly dumb, because the reality is there are a lot of people who still have dead virus that is going to cause them to test positive for COVID long after the symptoms for COVID are gone and long after the COVID that they have has stopped being transmissible, which demonstrates more.

00:02:38.000 More about the standards than it does about Joe Biden.

00:02:40.000 Biden tweeted quote, folks, today I tested positive for COVID again. This happens with a small minority of folks. I've got no symptoms. I'm going to isolate for the safety of everyone around me.

00:02:48.000 I'm still at work. We'll be back on the road soon. Well, I mean, honestly, maybe the best presidential strategy for him at this point is to simply stay off the road for like the rest After all, it worked amazing for him during the campaign.

00:03:00.000 So if he can just claim that he's positive for COVID without any symptoms for the rest of his presidency, it'll probably benefit him since the more of him that people see, the less of him they like.

00:03:09.000 O'Connor had previously warned of the potential of a rebound in positive test results, which is a phenomenon among a small percentage of patients who use the antiviral medication Paxlavit as part of their treatment.

00:03:18.000 Biden had accordingly, quote, increased his testing cadence, both to protect people around him and to assure early detection of any return of viral replication.

00:03:27.000 The president tested negative for COVID on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, but tested positive on Saturday morning from the antigen test.

00:03:33.000 This, in fact, represents rebound positivity, the doctor wrote.

00:03:37.000 So, apparently, he's still feeling fine.

00:03:40.000 There's no danger to him.

00:03:41.000 Obviously, that's a good thing. 0.99

00:03:42.000 But again, it demonstrates the stupidity of our standards when it comes to COVID more generally. 0.97

00:03:46.000 Now, meanwhile, the Democrats are kidding themselves because they apparently believe that there's about to be a prospect for turnaround in the Democratic midterm possibilities based on the amount of spending that they are doing. 0.97

00:03:58.000 Now, that's not going to be the case, because we are now technically in a recession, and most Americans feel really, really nervous about the economy.

00:04:04.000 By polling data, somewhere between 70% and 80% of Americans believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction.

00:04:09.000 Those are not good numbers for the incumbent administration.

00:04:13.000 So, they have a two-pronged strategy.

00:04:14.000 One is, happy talk your way through the recession.

00:04:17.000 And the second is, spend a lot more money, which is kind of an amazing thing.

00:04:20.000 Because, again, in order to spend a lot more money, you're going to have to, one, raise taxes, and two, reflate the currency.

00:04:26.000 You're going to have to blow money into the economy, which creates upward pressure on inflationary statistics, which actually exacerbates the sort of stagflationary cycle that we are currently in.

00:04:36.000 Well, part number one is taken care of by the media, who are going to continue to maintain that the economy is doing gangbusters business.

00:04:41.000 Paul Krugman, who's been wrong about every economic issue for the last 20 years, He was on with Brian Stelter on CNN.

00:04:46.000 He maintains not only is there no recession, but even if there were a recession, it wouldn't matter.

00:04:51.000 None of the usual criteria that real experts use says that we're in a recession right now.

00:04:58.000 And what does matter?

00:05:00.000 The state of the economy is what it is.

00:05:03.000 Jobs are abundant, although maybe the job market is weakening.

00:05:06.000 Inflation is high, though maybe inflation is coming down.

00:05:09.000 What does it matter whether you use the R word or not?

00:05:12.000 Well, I mean, it matters an awful lot, considering that it's one of the most politically toxic words in America.

00:05:16.000 If you say that we are in a recession, then people understand very quickly that the economy is not doing particularly well.

00:05:21.000 But of course, Brian Stelter knows this over at Reliable Sources over on CNN, and Paul Krugman knows this, which is why he keeps saying it.

00:05:28.000 He keeps saying that recession doesn't matter because he knows that recession does matter.

00:05:31.000 But Democrats are now on the upswing, according to the Democrats.

00:05:35.000 According to their friends in the press, everything is going fine.

00:05:37.000 So the New York Magazine says, quote, There are a number of reasons for the sudden spring in the party's step.

00:05:50.000 The big psychological boost has been the zombie reappearance of a fiscal year 2022 budget reconciliation bill, now optimistically dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, that includes swing voter-pleasing Medicare prescription drug negotiation powers, along with base voter-gratifying climate change provisions.

00:06:04.000 Jonathan Chait, over at New York Magazine, reflected the views of many leftist center observers when he said the deal brokered by Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin could, quote, mean the once morbid Biden presidency will suddenly be very alive.

00:06:14.000 Other encouraging indicators are less subjective.

00:06:16.000 The generic congressional ballot, a polling question simply asking voters which party they want to control Congress, and the most predictive data point for actual midterm results is now showing a modest Republican lead, all but disappearing.

00:06:25.000 The GOP lead is at 0.2% and the 538 average is in 0.9% at RealClearPolitics.

00:06:30.000 There's even been very slight upward bounce in Joe Biden's job approval rating.

00:06:35.000 Also, if you look at some of the new sort of data on specific Senate races, there's some bad news for Republican nominees in places like Georgia because Hershel Walker has problems.

00:06:46.000 Mehmet Oz is having problems in Pennsylvania.

00:06:50.000 It's unclear who exactly is going to be the Republican nominee in Arizona.

00:06:54.000 Republicans have some problematic candidates for governor in places like Pennsylvania and in Arizona.

00:07:01.000 But, of course, there are some pretty significant underlying drag components to the current political conversation.

00:07:07.000 And this is why.

00:07:09.000 What is really sort of floating the Democratic boat here is not the polling data.

00:07:13.000 It is the notion, instead, that somehow spending more money is going to fix this.

00:07:17.000 So they are all hot and bothered.

00:07:19.000 Very, very hot on the idea that this quote-unquote inflation reduction act is going to fix all of their problems.

00:07:27.000 So what exactly happened here?

00:07:28.000 There was a giant bill.

00:07:30.000 We are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in spending.

00:07:32.000 Joe Manchin, who'd been concerned about both deficits and inflation, he said that he was not going to sign on to Build Back Better, but now he's signing on to this.

00:07:39.000 So why exactly is he signing on to this Inflation Reduction Act?

00:07:42.000 And what exactly is the Inflation Reduction Act in the first place?

00:07:44.000 Well, first of all, it's another one of these misnamed acts.

00:07:46.000 So Democrats come up with names for the acts that really have nothing to do with the content of the act, right?

00:07:51.000 Build Back Better had nothing to do with actual infrastructure.

00:07:54.000 Inflation reduction has nothing to do with actual inflation reduction.

00:07:58.000 In fact, according to Heritage and Matthew Dickerson, who's the director for the federal budget at the Heritage Foundation, he says after more than a year of expressing his concerns about the impact of inflation, Senator Manchin has signed off on a massive tax and spending bill that would only push prices for working families even higher.

00:08:16.000 Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a stimulus spending bill in March 2021, was the match that lit the inflationary fire.

00:08:22.000 Well now, they're back for more.

00:08:23.000 The so-called Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 only would add to the inflationary pain families are already feeling thanks to hundreds of billions in new government spending and job-destroying tax hikes.

00:08:32.000 The legislation's proponents argued that over the next year, the bill's higher taxes would offset new spending.

00:08:37.000 And it's true that recent massive federal deficits financed by the Federal Reserve and driven by excessive government spending have resulted in crippling inflation.

00:08:44.000 But the Inflation Reduction Act doubles down on the same bad fiscal policy that has caused inflation in the first place.

00:08:51.000 So the legislation increases taxes by more than $450 billion over the next decade, climbing to three quarters of a trillion dollars when the drug price controls that work like business taxes are counted.

00:09:01.000 Which is a massive tax increase in the middle of a recession.

00:09:04.000 Businesses would face a new complicated alternative minimum tax calculation based on different accounting methods normally used for calculating taxes.

00:09:12.000 This increases the tax burdens on employers even if they're following the tax laws already on the books.

00:09:17.000 And of course, there's a giant slush fund for the IRS, $78.9 billion for the IRS, allowing the agency to ratchet up the number of audits that it is doing.

00:09:28.000 It imposes price controls on prescription drugs that would result in reduced access for patients in need.

00:09:33.000 It would advance the Green New Deal agenda.

00:09:35.000 It spends an astonishing $369 billion in the name of, quote, decarbonizing all sectors of the economy.

00:09:43.000 All of this on the heels of the Senate passing that $280 billion corporate welfare bill.

00:09:49.000 That was the bill that included some money for, for example, ramping up production of microchips, but included hundreds of billions of dollars for other stuff.

00:09:57.000 And this is, I think, the essence of what Democrats are doing right now.

00:10:01.000 They are just spending extraordinary oodles of money right now under the bizarre notion that this is going to drive down inflation, which of course it isn't.

00:10:10.000 Now, the real question here is why Joe Manchin is signing on to all of it.

00:10:13.000 Because, of course, again, Joe Manchin has made his bones right now by basically standing up to the Biden administration on things like Build Back Better.

00:10:20.000 So Joe Manchin is moving along with this, which does raise the question as to what exactly Joe Manchin is getting out of all of this.

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00:11:31.000 So what exactly did Joe Manchin get?

00:11:33.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Joe Manchin says that Democrats are, quote, Meaning, he's hoping that there will be some pork that comes home to West Virginia.

00:11:38.000 reforms this fall that will ensure all energy infrastructure from transmission to pipelines and export facilities can be efficiently and responsibly built. Meaning he's hoping that there will be some pork that comes home to West Virginia.

00:11:49.000 But as the Wall Street Journal editorial board says, big if true, that promise to Mr. Manchin is going to cost Americans $433 billion in spending and $327 billion in taxes. The country does need streamlined permitting for building of all kinds, energy included.

00:12:05.000 But nobody outside the negotiating room seems to know what specific reforms are in play and Manchin isn't saying.

00:12:11.000 The Biden administration has already been making it worse in terms of environmental review to get new pipelines done, for example.

00:12:19.000 Mr. Manchin is out on a political limb.

00:12:21.000 The permitting reform isn't a budget item, so it can't be wrapped into a tax and spend deal, which Democrats intend to pass with this 51 votes under reconciliation.

00:12:28.000 Schumer says he wants to get that done before the August recess, at which point Manchin is at Pelosi's mercy.

00:12:33.000 Why sign up for a $433 billion bill today when the permitting details aren't written down on a public sheet of paper?

00:12:39.000 What if Pelosi just kills the bill on permitting immediately after Joe Manchin signs off on this $433 billion bill?

00:12:47.000 Well, Joe Manchin, for his part, seems like he's been suckered into this thing.

00:12:52.000 He's out there saying this bill is nonpartisan.

00:12:54.000 It, of course, is not nonpartisan.

00:12:55.000 There's not a single Republican vote for it in the Senate, like zero.

00:12:58.000 Here is Joe Manchin on the Sunday Shows.

00:13:01.000 For eight months, we worked on it.

00:13:02.000 I couldn't get there with Build Back Better.

00:13:04.000 It was three and a half trillion dollars of spending.

00:13:07.000 And this is taking three and a half trillion dollars of spending down to four hundred billion dollars of investment.

00:13:13.000 That's definitely going to make a difference in America and everybody's pocketbook.

00:13:16.000 It's not a Democrat bill.

00:13:18.000 It's not a Republican bill.

00:13:19.000 It's definitely not a Green bill.

00:13:21.000 This is a red, white, and blue bill.

00:13:22.000 It's great for America.

00:13:23.000 No, actually, it is a Green bill.

00:13:24.000 I mean, it specifically says in there it's dedicating hundreds of billions of dollars to Green New Deal subsidy stuff.

00:13:30.000 It raises taxes.

00:13:31.000 Everybody outside of the, like, lowest earning Americans, people who earn lower than $30,000 a year, is going to see some tax increase under this bill, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

00:13:44.000 Joe Manchin, however, he's saying, you know, there's nothing inflammatory.

00:13:46.000 There's no, there's no, so why are you signing on?

00:13:48.000 So why are you signing on?

00:13:49.000 Well, the answer, I think, is twofold.

00:13:51.000 One, Joe Manchin is getting extraordinary pressure from Democrats.

00:13:54.000 He has been battered about the ears by the entire media chattering class for nigh on two years at this point.

00:14:01.000 And apparently he can only stand up for so long.

00:14:02.000 And the other is, again, he is hoping he'll be able to go back to West Virginia and say that they spent a bunch of money on my priorities.

00:14:07.000 But again, the priorities that he thinks he is getting some sort of deal for may never materialize.

00:14:13.000 Nonetheless, Manchin was out there doing his job on the Sunday shows, trying to prop up Joe Biden's agenda.

00:14:17.000 He says there's nothing inflammatory in this bill.

00:14:20.000 Inflation is the greatest challenge we have in our country right now and around in my state and around the country.

00:14:26.000 So that's what we're fighting.

00:14:28.000 And we started talking again.

00:14:30.000 We got the bill down to where there's nothing inflammatory in this bill, even though there's some naysayers.

00:14:35.000 I'm sure you would always hear that, but there is nothing in that.

00:14:38.000 We're paying down debt.

00:14:40.000 $300 billion.

00:14:41.000 We're increasing production as far as if you want to get the gasoline prices down.

00:14:46.000 Produce more energy and produce it here in America.

00:14:48.000 That's what we're doing.

00:14:49.000 The stuff that he is saying is not in the bill.

00:14:52.000 This notion that there's gonna be a wild energy increase based on this bill is just nonsense.

00:14:57.000 Spending $433 billion does not bring down inflation.

00:15:00.000 It ramps up inflation.

00:15:01.000 It is more dollars being pumped into the economy at the expense of less supply.

00:15:05.000 So, no, none of this is true.

00:15:07.000 Manchin then was out there praising Joe Biden.

00:15:09.000 He says, Joe Biden deserves credit if this giant bill passes.

00:15:12.000 What role did President Biden play in these negotiations?

00:15:16.000 Does he deserve any credit for this bill?

00:15:18.000 You don't do a bill this magnitude and this size without the President knowing what's going on, the President being involved in to a certain extent, but also giving approval.

00:15:27.000 And that's what President Biden did, and I'm forever grateful that we have an agreement and a piece of legislation that's going to be really, I think, changing the whole landscape of America.

00:15:39.000 Okay, finally, Joe Manchin tried to buy back a little bit.

00:15:42.000 He was asked repeatedly if he wanted Democrats to win the midterms, and he was like, well, I don't know so much about that.

00:15:47.000 He's trying to walk this middle line, but the problem is once you sign on to this bill, you are now responsible for all the fallout of the bill, Senator Manchin.

00:15:54.000 Do you hope Democrats keep control of the House and Senate?

00:15:57.000 I think people are sick and tired of politics, Chuck.

00:15:59.000 I really do.

00:16:00.000 I think they're sick and tired of Democrats and Republicans fighting and feuding and holding pieces of legislation hostage because they didn't get what they wanted or something or someone might get credit for something.

00:16:09.000 Why don't we start doing something for our country?

00:16:11.000 Why don't we just say, this is good for America?

00:16:14.000 I've always said the best politics is good government.

00:16:16.000 Do something good, Chuck.

00:16:17.000 But I'm not going to predict what's going to happen.

00:16:20.000 I just want to make sure we do something good.

00:16:22.000 What result do you want?

00:16:24.000 Do you want the Democrats to keep control of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives?

00:16:30.000 Oh, look, you know, I'm not making those choices or decisions on that.

00:16:34.000 I'm going to work with whatever I have.

00:16:36.000 I've always said that.

00:16:37.000 Joe Manchin deliberately trying not to say that he wants the Democrats to hold the Senate because it might remind his voters that he is, in fact, a Democrat in one of the reddest states in America.

00:16:45.000 While Democrats aren't stopping their spending at Joe Manchin, they're also going to be raising spending in as many areas as they possibly can.

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00:17:55.000 There are a bunch of problems here for the Democrats.

00:17:57.000 One is that they are trying to blow more money into the economy.

00:18:01.000 They are ideologically committed to the idea that more spending is good.

00:18:05.000 Which raises another one of the issues that came up over the weekend.

00:18:08.000 So Jon Stewart is out there pushing a bill that is designed supposedly in order to make sure that people who are in the military and who have been around toxic substances get the health care that they need.

00:18:23.000 And that is supposedly what this bill is about.

00:18:24.000 I say supposedly because that's what the bill is about, but the Democrats also added a massive budget gimmick that essentially adds $400 billion in spending.

00:18:32.000 To the bill.

00:18:33.000 They just added it right on top.

00:18:35.000 Jon Stewart was out there pushing this bill because Jon Stewart doesn't know how legislation works.

00:18:39.000 Jon Stewart is not a particularly sophisticated political player.

00:18:42.000 I understand he's been on TV for a very long time and then he went absent for a very long time.

00:18:46.000 But Jon Stewart is essentially like any other Hollywood activist.

00:18:48.000 He reads the top line of articles and never reads without paragraph four.

00:18:52.000 Well, here's what happened with this bill.

00:18:53.000 So there was a bill and the bill included a bunch of health care provisions to help U.S.

00:18:58.000 military veterans who had been stationed around burn pits, which are Pits that are essentially dug to dispose of waste at military sites, and the smoke has been seen to cause long-term respiratory illness in many of the exposed soldiers.

00:19:10.000 So there was a bill to pay for their healthcare.

00:19:13.000 The problem is that what Democrats then did, is Democrats took a bunch of money in the bill, and that money had been labeled as discretionary spending, they were adding on top, and they shifted it over to what's called mandatory spending.

00:19:24.000 Now when they did that, which means that under all circumstances, government shutdown, whatever, under mandatory spending, the money must be spent.

00:19:31.000 That didn't take the amount of money that says $400 billion.

00:19:35.000 It didn't take it from discretionary to mandatory.

00:19:38.000 And then the $400 billion in discretionary spending just disappeared.

00:19:41.000 All that did was it freed up $400 billion in discretionary spending.

00:19:46.000 So that $400 billion slot still holds.

00:19:48.000 It's still there.

00:19:49.000 So through a budgetary gimmick, basically Democrats took the discretionary spending.

00:19:52.000 They said that we will call it mandatory.

00:19:53.000 That didn't make the $400 billion that was discretionary, like in a big bag, shift over to the mandatory category.

00:19:58.000 All it did was it added $400 billion in discretionary spending.

00:20:03.000 It just meant that the $400 billion that had already been allocated now moves into the mandatory.

00:20:08.000 But there's now a big $400 billion bag of cash that is out there under this bill.

00:20:13.000 So Pat Toomey, who's a Republican from Pennsylvania, he opposed the bill.

00:20:18.000 And this caused Jon Stewart to rail against Pat Toomey.

00:20:21.000 Because again, he doesn't care how much the government spends.

00:20:24.000 Democrats don't care how much... The real question here is why Democrats did this gimmick in the first place.

00:20:28.000 Why are Democrats trying to add $400 billion in slush fund spending to a bill that was designed to protect the healthcare of military veterans?

00:20:35.000 Like, every Republican has signed on to the idea of this bill, basically, without any sort of magical budget gimmick.

00:20:42.000 Democrats have the budget gimmick, suddenly a bunch of Republicans drop off.

00:20:44.000 It's not a coincidence.

00:20:45.000 It's not because Republicans are desperate for a headline that says they oppose military veterans or something.

00:20:50.000 It's because Democrats are screwing around with the budget.

00:20:53.000 But Jon Stewart doesn't care about that.

00:20:55.000 And so he's just railing against Republicans.

00:20:58.000 America's heroes who fought in our wars outside sweating their a**es off with oxygen Okay, it's not corruption at its finest.

00:21:14.000 It's not corrupt at all.

00:21:16.000 in the air conditioning, walled off from any of it.

00:21:20.000 And Toomey doesn't care. 0.96

00:21:21.000 He's not coming back.

00:21:22.000 He's retired.

00:21:23.000 God knows what pot of gold he steps into after this.

00:21:28.000 This is corruption at its finest.

00:21:32.000 Okay, it's not corruption at its finest, not corrupt at all.

00:21:34.000 In fact, corruption is when you stack a bunch of unrelated spending on top of a bill to protect military veterans. 0.99

00:21:41.000 So Pat Toomey, for his part, he slapped back at Jon Stewart basically said he's a pseudo-celebrity idiot. 0.99

00:21:47.000 This is the oldest trick in Washington. 0.98

00:21:50.000 People take a sympathetic group of Americans, and it could be children with an illness, it could be victims of crime, it could be veterans who've been exposed to toxic chemicals, craft a bill to address their problems,

00:22:03.000 And then sneak in something completely unrelated that they know could never pass on its own and dare Republicans to do anything about it because they know they'll unleash their allies in the media and maybe a pseudo-celebrity to make up false accusations to try to get us to just swallow what shouldn't be there.

00:22:21.000 What I'm trying to do is change a government accounting methodology that is designed to allow our Democratic colleagues to go on an unrelated $400 billion spending spree that has nothing to do with veterans and that won't be in the veteran space.

00:22:35.000 Okay, Toomey is, of course, exactly correct about this.

00:22:37.000 But the media and the Democrats are interested in two things.

00:22:40.000 One, trying to portray Republicans as evil and terrible.

00:22:42.000 I mean, if you're fighting the Inflation Reduction Act, that must mean that you're in favor of inflation.

00:22:46.000 If you're fighting this bill because you don't like the unrelated spending, it must be because you hate veterans.

00:22:50.000 So that is game number one.

00:22:51.000 And then game number two is that they actually like the spending, right?

00:22:54.000 They love the spending.

00:22:55.000 They want more spending.

00:22:57.000 So, the media are focused in right now on the magic of Jon Stewart.

00:23:01.000 I mean, amazingly enough, Jon Karl was asking Jon Stewart if he wants to run for president or any other office based on this.

00:23:07.000 Democrats are so upset with Joe Biden that they're now talking about dragging out geriatric comedians who used to be relevant when I was a teenager to try and run for president.

00:23:17.000 Here's Jon Karl trying to get Jon Stewart to commit to running for president.

00:23:20.000 We have some precedent now.

00:23:22.000 There's a guy in Ukraine who is a comedian who had a very popular show, who is now a president of Ukraine.

00:23:30.000 Some people think he's a very good president.

00:23:32.000 Is there any chance you run for office?

00:23:34.000 I mean, you know, any office at all?

00:23:38.000 There's a chance that when I go down, I'm gonna come back down there to Washington, and I'm gonna join my brothers and sisters on the Capitol steps who have been sleeping out on fire watch, Rosie Torres of Burn Pits 360, Tim Jensen of Grunt Style, and anyone else who wants to go down there and join them on the Capitol steps, and I will join them, and we will stay there until the United States government

00:24:05.000 Does the right thing by the men and women who fought to protect it.

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00:25:20.000 Politico put out a piece about four weeks ago in which they suggested that Tucker Carlson, if he runs for president, which is unlikely, then Jon Stewart should run for president.

00:25:32.000 There's a piece by Juliana Glover, the CEO of Ridgely Walsh, a public affairs advisory firm.

00:25:37.000 So in Politico, she was saying that Jon Stewart should run for president because, of course, this is the way that Democrats like to do politics.

00:25:43.000 The way Democrats like to do politics, apparently, is to trot out a bunch of slogans without any actual backing.

00:25:48.000 And then if you oppose the slogan, then this means that you are a bad person.

00:25:52.000 And so Jon Stewart is sort of their ideal candidate.

00:25:55.000 And this raises, in general, the sort of way that Democrats have been doing politics for quite a while.

00:26:00.000 The fact that Jon Stewart is sort of a beloved figure on the left, Demonstrates how corrupt our politics is.

00:26:06.000 Well, what's kind of amazing that our politics has all basically become Jon Stewart writ large.

00:26:10.000 So, you remember Jon Stewart in the early 2000s, he had a show on Comedy Central, it was a very popular show, in which essentially his editors were the show.

00:26:17.000 His editors, they would play a clip, and he would make a funny face into the camera, and everybody would laugh, like trained seals.

00:26:24.000 And then he would smirk, and people would laugh some more, and then they'd play the next clip.

00:26:27.000 That was essentially the Comedy Central show.

00:26:29.000 Well, there was a point during his career, a very famous point during his career, when he went on Crossfire.

00:26:34.000 Crossfire was a show on CNN, for those who are less than 20 years old.

00:26:38.000 Crossfire was a show on CNN in which Tucker Carlson, in his much younger iteration, faced off with Paul Begala, and they would debate issues.

00:26:45.000 This is when people like Tucker Carlson were still allowed on CNN.

00:26:49.000 And it was kind of an interesting show.

00:26:50.000 It was basically a Republican and a Democrat discussing the issues in a sort of fascinating way.

00:26:55.000 And Jon Stewart decided this was really bad.

00:26:58.000 So he went on crossfire with Carlson and Begala and then he chided them.

00:27:01.000 He said, you're what's wrong with politics.

00:27:03.000 Here's what that sounded like.

00:27:05.000 I made a special effort to come on the show today because I have privately amongst my friends and also in occasional newspapers and television shows mentioned this show as being bad.

00:27:20.000 And I wanted to... I felt that that wasn't fair and I should come here and tell you that I don't... It's not so much that it's bad as it's hurting America.

00:27:30.000 So I wanted to come here today and say... Here's just what I wanted to tell you guys.

00:27:37.000 Stop.

00:27:40.000 Stop.

00:27:41.000 Stop hurting America.

00:27:43.000 Okay, so he was hurting America for people to discuss the issues.

00:27:45.000 Instead, what you needed was a comedian like Jon Stewart to scoff at headlines.

00:27:48.000 And this is how you end up with a politics, where Jon Stewart goes out there and suggests that Republicans want to kill military veterans because Democrats want to shell out $400 billion in extra spending under the table.

00:27:59.000 It's that kind of politics that hurts America.

00:28:01.000 The open debate kind of stuff that used to be due rigour in American politics, that sort of stuff is gone.

00:28:05.000 There are no shows on TV anymore in which a Republican and a Democrat discuss the issues.

00:28:10.000 The only thing I've heard of like that is, frankly, my Sunday special where I'll have Democrats on and we'll have actual talks about this stuff.

00:28:16.000 But it's a rarity in American politics right now.

00:28:19.000 Jon Stewart helped kill that.

00:28:20.000 That is the politics that was built by our mainstream media.

00:28:23.000 That was the politics built by the legacy media.

00:28:25.000 People like Jon Stewart, who shockingly, Jon Karl, now wants to run for president.

00:28:30.000 Well, there's only one problem for Democrats and their media apparatchiks.

00:28:34.000 The problem is that their plan, which is to ram through a bunch of spending, is not going to help.

00:28:40.000 It's not going to work.

00:28:41.000 The reason it's not going to work is because they seem to believe that when they throw money at problems, Americans remember this in a good way.

00:28:47.000 That is not true.

00:28:48.000 The only types of spending that Americans are very fond of in the long run Our generalized entitlement programs.

00:28:54.000 Americans get dependent on that sort of stuff and then it's like a heroin fix and they can't get off of it.

00:28:58.000 Which is why Barack Obama was rushing into law Obamacare over the objections of many in his own party.

00:29:03.000 The idea was if I get this thing embedded in American law, then it'll be too late for anybody to do anything about it.

00:29:09.000 This is true for all the welfare programs, for example.

00:29:11.000 The person who is in charge of cutting spending on welfare programs is always the most unpopular guy on the block.

00:29:16.000 This is why Paul Ryan, who's trying to do the important work of restructuring entitlements in the United States, who's basically run out of office on a rail because his priority was doing the unpopular thing that is necessary in order to preserve the fiscal future of the country.

00:29:29.000 But when Democrats do these sort of one-off spending bills, they're under the misimpression that voters care about that stuff.

00:29:34.000 It is not true.

00:29:35.000 All they are doing is ramping up the stagflation, and voters are going to blame them for that.

00:29:39.000 Remember, they spent $2 trillion last year in terms of COVID discretionary spending, the American Recovery Act.

00:29:46.000 That American Recovery Plan was a full-scale inflationary disaster.

00:29:50.000 Then they blew another trillion two into the economy based on Infrastructure Week. 0.51

00:29:55.000 Does anyone remember these bills, by the way?

00:29:57.000 How many voters are out there like, oh man, I wasn't going to vote for the Democrats.

00:30:00.000 But then I remembered about the American Recovery Plan and Infrastructure Week.

00:30:00.000 I wasn't really motivated.

00:30:05.000 And now, man, I'm going to vote for Joe Biden and his friends.

00:30:08.000 Nobody is like that.

00:30:09.000 So Democrats seem to be under the misimpression that if they just spend money on random things, that this is going to redound to their benefit.

00:30:15.000 And that they're going to somehow make a comeback in the elections.

00:30:18.000 And because they've had the Praetorian Guard of people like Jon Stewart in their corner for years, and they've created this unbelievably self-referential circle in which Jon Stewart praises the Democrats, the Democrats praise Jon Stewart, then Jon Stewart might run for office as a Democrat, while new media members praise Jon Stewart.

00:30:32.000 Because they've created this little echo chamber for themselves, they can't hear outside the echo chamber.

00:30:37.000 But it's not going to help them because, again, in the end, Democrats are going to have to run on their record, and their record here is of making the economy much, much worse.

00:30:47.000 So Democrats have a backup strategy. 0.66

00:30:48.000 Their backup strategy is that they are going to accuse Republicans of being radicals.

00:30:52.000 We talked about this last week.

00:30:53.000 They're openly saying this, that their goal is to accuse Republicans of being extremely radical.

00:30:58.000 So Al Sharpton, this is an amazing thing, Al Sharpton, who legitimately was involved in the incitement of at least two riots in New York City.

00:31:08.000 Al Sharpton is one of the great race baiters in American history. 1.00

00:31:11.000 Al Sharpton is one of the most corrupt people in American politics who shakes down corporations by threatening them with protesters outside their headquarters unless they give money.

00:31:18.000 It's like the National Action Network.

00:31:20.000 Al Sharpton, who still has a show on MSNBC, is saying that there are Republican extremists like Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney Because they can't run against Trump.

00:31:29.000 Trump ain't on the ballot.

00:31:30.000 So instead, what they're gonna do is they're gonna run against everybody.

00:31:32.000 Everybody is a radical Republican, according to the Democrats.

00:31:35.000 So here's Al Sharpton going after Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio for the great crime of not voting in favor of enshrining same-sex marriage into federal law.

00:31:43.000 Take Florida Senator Marco Rubio. 0.99

00:31:46.000 He says he's voting against the bill because it's, quote, a stupid waste of time, unquote. 0.99

00:31:53.000 Considering Rubio once compared the size of his hands to Donald Trump's, perhaps the good senator is not the best judge of frivolous behavior. 0.97

00:32:04.000 Utah Senator Mitt Romney told Politico he hasn't given the bill much consideration.

00:32:10.000 Apparently he never formed an opinion on the topic, despite being governor of Massachusetts when the state became the first in the nation to recognize gay marriages in 2004.

00:32:23.000 Republican senators tried to portray themselves as a cut above their rabble-rousing colleagues in the House.

00:32:31.000 Right now, they have the opportunity to prove they are capable of representing all Americans, not just their base.

00:32:39.000 By the way, you're now a radical if you don't even have an opinion on the subject.

00:32:42.000 If you're Mitt Romney and just try to move away from the subject, that makes you a radical as well.

00:32:46.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are actively propping up the most radical Republicans in every primary they can find, and James Carville is defending this, both ethically and as a matter of politics.

00:32:56.000 I don't see any ethical or moral problem with doing this.

00:32:59.000 the election. It acts in its own interest. And it's a state Pennsylvania. It clearly was in Josh Shapiro's interest that the Republicans nominate Doug Mastriano. I would I've done the same thing. I would do the same thing. I don't see any ethical or moral problem with doing this. And again, I think most of the opposition to this is from the pontifical class, mostly located on the coast.

00:33:25.000 Yeah, it amazing, amazing stuff.

00:33:27.000 So their backup plan is Republicans are so radical they can't be trusted with power, also will help them get nominated in primaries so that we can run against them.

00:33:34.000 So who exactly really is radical in American politics?

00:33:37.000 My suggestion is that it is the Democrats who are significantly more radical than the Republicans, particularly when it comes to social issues.

00:33:44.000 And you can see it on pretty much every social issue.

00:33:48.000 So to take an example, When it comes to monkeypox, it is a source of constant amazement to me that there is a very easy solution to monkeypox.

00:33:58.000 There are actually two.

00:34:00.000 One is, there's a vaccine.

00:34:01.000 That vaccine needs to be more widely available.

00:34:03.000 The FDA has prevented it from being more widely available.

00:34:05.000 So that is solution number one.

00:34:06.000 And the federal government's already screwing that up.

00:34:08.000 Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the FDA and a senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute, one of the loudest voices during COVID, he now suggests that the CDC has failed on monkeypox again.

00:34:19.000 He says, Our country's response to monkeypox has been plagued by the same shortcomings we had with COVID.

00:34:23.000 If monkeypox gains a permanent foothold in the United States and becomes an endemic virus that joins our circulating repertoire of pathogens, it will be one of the worst public health failures in modern times, not only because of the pain and peril of the disease, but also because it was extremely avoidable.

00:34:36.000 There is limited testing access.

00:34:39.000 There was not enough stockpile of vaccine, even though the vaccine was widely available.

00:34:44.000 Okay, but that's really not the most extreme response to monkeypox. 0.99

00:34:50.000 The most extreme response to monkeypox continues to be the complete unwillingness of anyone in the media chattering class or in the Democratic Party to simply say, stop having gay orgies. 1.00

00:34:59.000 I understand that this is unpopular with a particular segment of the Democratic base, but You guys literally advocated for the shutdown of all of American life. 0.96

00:35:08.000 All of it.

00:35:09.000 Kids going to school, going to the park with your children, being able to go to work, killing hundreds of thousands of small businesses. 0.99

00:35:16.000 For COVID, an airborne virus, this is a virus that has passed almost entirely between gay men having sex with one another. 1.00

00:35:23.000 And you can't say, stop having sex with randos. 1.00

00:35:27.000 You can't say it. 0.96

00:35:28.000 According to the East Bay Times, amid a burgeoning monkeypox outbreak that has so far disproportionately affected gay and bisexual men.

00:35:35.000 I love the idea that it's like, well, it's just random.

00:35:36.000 I mean, it's just randomly, the rain is randomly falling on this group.

00:35:40.000 No, it's actually connected with the behavior that people are engaging in that is passing the monkeypox.

00:35:44.000 Okay, this is direct.

00:35:45.000 Bay Area public health officials and organizers of one of the region's most beloved LGBTQ events are walking a difficult line between preventing the spread of the virus while fighting the stigma of the virus as a disease limited to the LGBTQ community.

00:35:57.000 Well, why is that?

00:35:58.000 I have a question.

00:36:00.000 Why, exactly, are those two things in conflict?

00:36:00.000 I have a question.

00:36:04.000 Why does it create a stigma as a disease limited to the LGBTQ community by saying, don't engage in promiscuous sex with one another?

00:36:15.000 Because that's going to lead to spread of the disease.

00:36:18.000 I mean, it seems to me there's more of a stigma attached to gay promiscuity already, not to gay people generally. 0.97

00:36:26.000 Monogamous gay people are not spreading monkey pox. 0.97

00:36:29.000 That is not what's happening right now.

00:36:31.000 According to the East Bay Times, despite San Francisco officials' declaration of a public health emergency over the monkeypox virus, organizers of Door Alley, a live-out-loud leather and fetish festival that's been a favorite among LGBTQ communities in the Bay Area since the 80s, said Friday they intend to hold the festival this weekend.

00:36:47.000 The San Francisco event, expected to draw 5,000 people, comes amid deep anxieties across the LGBTQ community over the outbreak, which has proliferated amid a shortage of vaccines, confronting a disease that has primarily affected men who have sex with men.

00:37:01.000 Can we, this sort of language, affected men who have sex with men, is passed between men who have sex with men.

00:37:08.000 Affected.

00:37:09.000 Affected suggests like cancer, or you're in a crowded room, COVID.

00:37:14.000 No, you engaged in an activity you knew was extremely risky and you did it anyway and now you're passing it, now you won't say to stop the activity. 0.99

00:37:20.000 So apparently the one activity in American public life in which we cannot expect anyone to have any sense of self-control is gay orgies. 1.00

00:37:27.000 That's the big one.

00:37:29.000 The confluence of issues has raised difficult questions for door alley organizers, public health officials and LGBTQ advocates, even as they press ahead with the festival.

00:37:36.000 If people are not educated and they don't know the risk, of course, it's a very, very high risk possibility to be a spreader, said Joe Hawkins, director of the Oakland LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign community center.

00:37:46.000 But his organization has made a point not to dissuade people from attending the party.

00:37:50.000 You can tell people do not do this.

00:37:51.000 And I just think that here in this country, people have a problem with that, he said. 0.90

00:37:55.000 And the left-wing view is that you can literally tell people not to go to work, keep their kids home from school, stop going to religious services, don't visit your parents when they are sick in the hospital, and don't go to funerals, but you can't tell gay men not to have sex with each other in extraordinary numbers. 0.79

00:38:09.000 You can't do that. 0.91

00:38:11.000 That would be really bad.

00:38:13.000 Officially called Up Your Alley, this weekend's festival is the smaller, more Bay Area-centric cousin to the internationally known Folsom Street Fair in September, which attracts upward of 75,000 people from around the world.

00:38:25.000 Spanning four blocks, Door Alley includes a fair Sunday that features rope performances, go-go dancing, and vendors selling a wide array of sex toys.

00:38:34.000 Many clubs also plan to host side events through the weekend.

00:38:37.000 Side events.

00:38:38.000 Yet while LGBTQ sex parties in other parts of the nation have been cancelled, event organizers and public health leaders in San Francisco are taking a different approach.

00:38:47.000 The San Francisco AIDS Foundation has actively encouraged people to attend the event, while also listing safety advice on its website for prospective attendees, including sticking to less crowded areas and attending fewer events that feature skin-to-skin contact.

00:38:59.000 There's never been a better time to dress from top to bottom in latex or leather, the organization said.

00:39:03.000 Keeping your skin covered is a surefire way to prevent exposures to monkeypox.

00:39:07.000 I mean, there are a few other ways, actually, as it turns out.

00:39:12.000 But again, we're not allowed to say any of this because the Democratic Party has decided that certain activities are not only requiring of tolerance, they're active goods.

00:39:24.000 And these are the people who are the non-extremists.

00:39:26.000 It's the Republicans who are extreme because Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney aren't going to vote in favor of a bill that essentially mandates same-sex marriage as the law of the land.

00:39:34.000 That's really extreme.

00:39:35.000 Not extreme is actively advocating that people go to giant sex festivals in the middle of a monkeypox outbreak.

00:39:40.000 That is the not extreme.

00:39:42.000 Well, democratic radicalism does not stop with, you know, promoting sex festivals in the middle of a monkeypox outbreak.

00:39:49.000 There are other radical social policies this administration also enjoys.

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00:41:55.000 So, what are some of the other very not-extreme democratic policies?

00:41:58.000 Again, remember, they are running on two things.

00:41:59.000 We're going to spend oodles of money, and also our opponents are really, really radical.

00:42:04.000 And then, it turns out that when it comes to social politics, and fiscal politics, and pretty much every other kind of politics, it's the Democrats who are extremely radical.

00:42:12.000 Well, among the quote-unquote non-radical democratic policies are a cram-down from the federal government in the form of Title IX that would vastly expand Title IX to include sexual and gender identity.

00:42:26.000 Well, so the idea here is that according to the Biden administration, they're going to use Title IX, which is designed to protect women, right?

00:42:30.000 It's like women's sports, it's against sexual discrimination, and it's meant to prevent discrimination against, you know, a class of people known as biological women.

00:42:38.000 Because when Title IX was written back in 1965, That's what woman meant. 1.00

00:42:43.000 There was no idea that woman meant men who said he was a woman.

00:42:47.000 But now the Democrats have decided that it does.

00:42:49.000 And so now they're attempting to cram down a proposal that is going to extend protections under the law to include school's obligation not to discriminate based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

00:43:03.000 Which means that you could be forced in a school to call people by the opposite sex.

00:43:08.000 Or you could be in violation of federal law.

00:43:11.000 This is extraordinarily radical stuff, obviously.

00:43:13.000 And it's part and parcel of a broader left-wing agenda to destroy truth and destroy the nature of biological sex and to pretend there's no difference whatsoever between men and women.

00:43:21.000 Well now, Florida is fighting back.

00:43:24.000 The state of Florida is saying that its state should basically just ignore the federal government's guidance.

00:43:30.000 Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr.

00:43:32.000 told school officials to ignore the guidelines entirely.

00:43:36.000 He sent letters Thursday to superintendents, school boards, private school owners, and charter school governing boards that said guidance documents from the U.S.

00:43:41.000 Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture, for all the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign farmers out there, are not binding law, and asked school officials to refuse to change their practices. 0.83

00:43:54.000 Department of Agriculture, which is involved in things like school lunch programs, similarly announced in May, it would begin interpreting Title IX to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

00:43:54.000 The U.S.

00:44:03.000 So the idea is that if your local school does not call boys girls and girls boys and facilitate social transitioning, then they will deny school lunches to the other kids.

00:44:12.000 Diaz said, quote, Specifically, for example, nothing in these guidance documents requires you to give biological males who identify as female access to female bathrooms, locker rooms, or dorms, to assign biological males who identify as female to female rooms on school field trips, or to allow biological males who identify as female to compete on female sports teams.

00:44:28.000 But in a news release last month, the U.S.

00:44:30.000 Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said the guidelines, in part, will, quote, ensure all our nation's students, no matter where they live, who they are, or whom they love, can learn, grow, and thrive in school.

00:44:41.000 According to Governor DeSantis, appearing in Tampa over the weekend, he said, basically, this would be for elementary school kids where they're instructed to tell them, well, you may have been born a boy, that may have been what you said, but maybe you're really a girl.

00:44:53.000 That's wrong.

00:44:54.000 That has no place in school.

00:44:55.000 That's happening in our country.

00:44:56.000 Anyone that tells you it's not happening is lying to you.

00:44:58.000 And of course, DeSantis is exactly right.

00:44:59.000 Now, the left is scared of DeSantis because the idea is DeSantis is the quote-unquote extremist.

00:45:04.000 What exactly makes Ron DeSantis so extreme?

00:45:07.000 Well, one of the things that makes him so extreme, according to Democrats, is that he says that he is going to sue a bar that hosts drag shows with kids.

00:45:16.000 Which, um, sounds correct to me.

00:45:18.000 It seems like child endangerment to me to bring children to shows where men dress as women and gyrate around in sexualized fashion.

00:45:25.000 That does not seem like raising a child in a healthy fashion.

00:45:29.000 DeSantis said it used to be people have different views about what they want to do as adults, but it used to be kids are off-limits.

00:45:34.000 No one wanted to bring the kids into any of this stuff.

00:45:36.000 We've got to get back to that.

00:45:38.000 Florida is attempting to revoke the liquor license at our house, a Miami-area bar.

00:45:42.000 A complaint details numerous incidents in which children were allegedly exposed to explicit sexual content there with the full knowledge of the bar.

00:45:49.000 In one instance, a male dancer wearing a G-string stuffed with dollar bills with his buttocks fully exposed paraded a young girl aged 3 to 5 through the restaurant while holding her hand, according to the complaint.

00:45:58.000 In another instance, a presumably male dancer gyrated and pole danced in revealing women's clothing while waving dollar bills.

00:46:04.000 Our House was not only aware that kids may have been present during such performances, it also offered a children's menu for kids 12 and under.

00:46:13.000 So who's the extremist here?

00:46:15.000 Who's really, really extreme?

00:46:17.000 Is it Ron DeSantis?

00:46:19.000 Or is it people like AOC who's going on national television talking about how men who dress up as women and gyrate around on television are actually the greatest among us?

00:46:27.000 Here was AOC over the weekend.

00:46:30.000 The people who change what people think are artists and drag queens. 0.98

00:46:35.000 And let's not forget who threw that first break at Stonewall. 0.93

00:46:40.000 Yes!

00:46:40.000 You know, that is what led to us passing the Equality Act in the House in this term.

00:46:47.000 Marriage equality, it starts with you.

00:46:50.000 I mean, your patriots.

00:46:52.000 You are.

00:46:54.000 You are.

00:46:54.000 You are patriots.

00:46:56.000 And I'm so proud of you all.

00:47:00.000 I'm so proud to live in this country with you and with your mother and with all of us as family.

00:47:07.000 Thank you.

00:47:08.000 We love you.

00:47:10.000 So I have a question.

00:47:12.000 Who seems more extreme here?

00:47:13.000 Who seems more radical?

00:47:14.000 Well, Tulsi Gabbard is out there on the Democratic side, and she has been moving steadily away from the Democratic Party on these issues because she's not an insane person.

00:47:21.000 And she says, you know, the Democrats who are fighting in favor of the idea that quote-unquote gender-affirming health care, meaning puberty blockers and surgeries on kids, that this is a good thing.

00:47:29.000 Democrats moving in that way are engaging in child abuse.

00:47:32.000 Here's Tulsi Gabbard over the weekend.

00:47:34.000 The FDA made a disturbing but not at all surprising announcement just a few days ago about children's health.

00:47:41.000 Now if you haven't heard about it or if you missed it, it's because the mainstream media and the Biden-Harris administration have been completely silent on it.

00:47:50.000 This warning that the FDA issued was basically saying that puberty blockers can cause serious health risks for our kids.

00:47:58.000 Unfortunately, at almost the exact same time the FDA issued this warning, Biden-Harris administration officials were making public statements actively promoting the use of puberty blockers and irreversible surgeries for kids.

00:48:12.000 Now, let's be clear.

00:48:14.000 This administration is dangerously promoting child abuse.

00:48:18.000 Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat, and she happens to be correct about that.

00:48:20.000 So who exactly is the radical here?

00:48:23.000 Who exactly is the radical group here?

00:48:26.000 I think the answer is pretty obvious to anyone with a brain.

00:48:28.000 And Democrats who continue to maintain that it's radical Republicans who are a threat to the country while they toss trillions of dollars, bad money after bad money, into an inflationary economy while they ratchet up taxes, while they promote radical, insane social policy.

00:48:43.000 It seems pretty obvious to Americans which way this is going to go, which is why no matter the Democrats are now proclaiming their newfound enthusiasm for 2022, things are going to go a lot worse than they think they're going to go in November.

00:48:52.000 All righty, so the United States military, it turns out that under Joe Biden, it's very, very interesting.

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00:49:29.000 The Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act will exacerbate inflation, according to a new study.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 01, 2022

Joe Biden Is Made Of Covid | Ep. 1546

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