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00:00:00.000After 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.
00:01:47.000So, Joe Biden apparently said that he had tested negative for COVID, but then apparently he tested positive again for COVID.
00:01:54.000There 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.
00:02:08.000Biden is experiencing no new symptoms, continues to feel quite well, according to Dr. Kevin O'Connor.
00:02:13.000In 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.
00:02:38.000More about the standards than it does about Joe Biden.
00:02:40.000Biden 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.
00:02:48.000I'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.
00:03:00.000So 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.
00:03:09.000O'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.
00:03:18.000Biden had accordingly, quote, increased his testing cadence, both to protect people around him and to assure early detection of any return of viral replication.
00:03:27.000The president tested negative for COVID on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, but tested positive on Saturday morning from the antigen test.
00:03:33.000This, in fact, represents rebound positivity, the doctor wrote.
00:03:37.000So, apparently, he's still feeling fine.
00:03:42.000But again, it demonstrates the stupidity of our standards when it comes to COVID more generally.
00:03:46.000Now, 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.
00:03:58.000Now, 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.
00:04:04.000By polling data, somewhere between 70% and 80% of Americans believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction.
00:04:09.000Those are not good numbers for the incumbent administration.
00:04:14.000One is, happy talk your way through the recession.
00:04:17.000And the second is, spend a lot more money, which is kind of an amazing thing.
00:04:20.000Because, again, in order to spend a lot more money, you're going to have to, one, raise taxes, and two, reflate the currency.
00:04:26.000You'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.
00:04:36.000Well, part number one is taken care of by the media, who are going to continue to maintain that the economy is doing gangbusters business.
00:04:41.000Paul Krugman, who's been wrong about every economic issue for the last 20 years, He was on with Brian Stelter on CNN.
00:04:46.000He maintains not only is there no recession, but even if there were a recession, it wouldn't matter.
00:04:51.000None of the usual criteria that real experts use says that we're in a recession right now.
00:05:00.000The state of the economy is what it is.
00:05:03.000Jobs are abundant, although maybe the job market is weakening.
00:05:06.000Inflation is high, though maybe inflation is coming down.
00:05:09.000What does it matter whether you use the R word or not?
00:05:12.000Well, I mean, it matters an awful lot, considering that it's one of the most politically toxic words in America.
00:05:16.000If you say that we are in a recession, then people understand very quickly that the economy is not doing particularly well.
00:05:21.000But 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.
00:05:28.000He keeps saying that recession doesn't matter because he knows that recession does matter.
00:05:31.000But Democrats are now on the upswing, according to the Democrats.
00:05:35.000According to their friends in the press, everything is going fine.
00:05:37.000So the New York Magazine says, quote, There are a number of reasons for the sudden spring in the party's step.
00:05:50.000The 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.
00:06:04.000Jonathan 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.
00:06:14.000Other encouraging indicators are less subjective.
00:06:16.000The 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.
00:06:25.000The GOP lead is at 0.2% and the 538 average is in 0.9% at RealClearPolitics.
00:06:30.000There's even been very slight upward bounce in Joe Biden's job approval rating.
00:06:35.000Also, 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.
00:06:46.000Mehmet Oz is having problems in Pennsylvania.
00:06:50.000It's unclear who exactly is going to be the Republican nominee in Arizona.
00:06:54.000Republicans have some problematic candidates for governor in places like Pennsylvania and in Arizona.
00:07:01.000But, of course, there are some pretty significant underlying drag components to the current political conversation.
00:07:30.000We are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in spending.
00:07:32.000Joe 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.
00:07:39.000So why exactly is he signing on to this Inflation Reduction Act?
00:07:42.000And what exactly is the Inflation Reduction Act in the first place?
00:07:44.000Well, first of all, it's another one of these misnamed acts.
00:07:46.000So Democrats come up with names for the acts that really have nothing to do with the content of the act, right?
00:07:51.000Build Back Better had nothing to do with actual infrastructure.
00:07:54.000Inflation reduction has nothing to do with actual inflation reduction.
00:07:58.000In 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.
00:08:16.000Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a stimulus spending bill in March 2021, was the match that lit the inflationary fire.
00:08:23.000The 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.
00:08:32.000The legislation's proponents argued that over the next year, the bill's higher taxes would offset new spending.
00:08:37.000And it's true that recent massive federal deficits financed by the Federal Reserve and driven by excessive government spending have resulted in crippling inflation.
00:08:44.000But the Inflation Reduction Act doubles down on the same bad fiscal policy that has caused inflation in the first place.
00:08:51.000So 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.
00:09:01.000Which is a massive tax increase in the middle of a recession.
00:09:04.000Businesses would face a new complicated alternative minimum tax calculation based on different accounting methods normally used for calculating taxes.
00:09:12.000This increases the tax burdens on employers even if they're following the tax laws already on the books.
00:09:17.000And 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.
00:09:28.000It imposes price controls on prescription drugs that would result in reduced access for patients in need.
00:09:33.000It would advance the Green New Deal agenda.
00:09:35.000It spends an astonishing $369 billion in the name of, quote, decarbonizing all sectors of the economy.
00:09:43.000All of this on the heels of the Senate passing that $280 billion corporate welfare bill.
00:09:49.000That 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.
00:09:57.000And this is, I think, the essence of what Democrats are doing right now.
00:10:01.000They 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.
00:10:10.000Now, the real question here is why Joe Manchin is signing on to all of it.
00:10:13.000Because, 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.
00:10:20.000So 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.
00:11:33.000According 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.
00:11:38.000reforms 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.
00:11:49.000But 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.
00:12:05.000But nobody outside the negotiating room seems to know what specific reforms are in play and Manchin isn't saying.
00:12:11.000The Biden administration has already been making it worse in terms of environmental review to get new pipelines done, for example.
00:12:19.000Mr. Manchin is out on a political limb.
00:12:21.000The 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.
00:12:28.000Schumer says he wants to get that done before the August recess, at which point Manchin is at Pelosi's mercy.
00:12:33.000Why sign up for a $433 billion bill today when the permitting details aren't written down on a public sheet of paper?
00:12:39.000What if Pelosi just kills the bill on permitting immediately after Joe Manchin signs off on this $433 billion bill?
00:12:47.000Well, Joe Manchin, for his part, seems like he's been suckered into this thing.
00:12:52.000He's out there saying this bill is nonpartisan.
00:13:31.000Everybody 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.
00:13:44.000Joe Manchin, however, he's saying, you know, there's nothing inflammatory.
00:13:46.000There's no, there's no, so why are you signing on?
00:15:07.000Manchin then was out there praising Joe Biden.
00:15:09.000He says, Joe Biden deserves credit if this giant bill passes.
00:15:12.000What role did President Biden play in these negotiations?
00:15:16.000Does he deserve any credit for this bill?
00:15:18.000You 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.
00:15:27.000And 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.
00:15:39.000Okay, finally, Joe Manchin tried to buy back a little bit.
00:15:42.000He was asked repeatedly if he wanted Democrats to win the midterms, and he was like, well, I don't know so much about that.
00:15:47.000He'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.
00:15:54.000Do you hope Democrats keep control of the House and Senate?
00:15:57.000I think people are sick and tired of politics, Chuck.
00:16:00.000I 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.
00:16:09.000Why don't we start doing something for our country?
00:16:11.000Why don't we just say, this is good for America?
00:16:14.000I've always said the best politics is good government.
00:16:37.000Joe 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.
00:16:45.000While 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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00:17:55.000There are a bunch of problems here for the Democrats.
00:17:57.000One is that they are trying to blow more money into the economy.
00:18:01.000They are ideologically committed to the idea that more spending is good.
00:18:05.000Which raises another one of the issues that came up over the weekend.
00:18:08.000So 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.
00:18:23.000And that is supposedly what this bill is about.
00:18:24.000I 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.
00:18:35.000Jon Stewart was out there pushing this bill because Jon Stewart doesn't know how legislation works.
00:18:39.000Jon Stewart is not a particularly sophisticated political player.
00:18:42.000I understand he's been on TV for a very long time and then he went absent for a very long time.
00:18:46.000But Jon Stewart is essentially like any other Hollywood activist.
00:18:48.000He reads the top line of articles and never reads without paragraph four.
00:18:52.000Well, here's what happened with this bill.
00:18:53.000So there was a bill and the bill included a bunch of health care provisions to help U.S.
00:18:58.000military 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.
00:19:10.000So there was a bill to pay for their healthcare.
00:19:13.000The 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.
00:19:24.000Now when they did that, which means that under all circumstances, government shutdown, whatever, under mandatory spending, the money must be spent.
00:19:31.000That didn't take the amount of money that says $400 billion.
00:19:35.000It didn't take it from discretionary to mandatory.
00:19:38.000And then the $400 billion in discretionary spending just disappeared.
00:19:41.000All that did was it freed up $400 billion in discretionary spending.
00:19:46.000So that $400 billion slot still holds.
00:19:49.000So through a budgetary gimmick, basically Democrats took the discretionary spending.
00:19:52.000They said that we will call it mandatory.
00:19:53.000That didn't make the $400 billion that was discretionary, like in a big bag, shift over to the mandatory category.
00:19:58.000All it did was it added $400 billion in discretionary spending.
00:20:03.000It just meant that the $400 billion that had already been allocated now moves into the mandatory.
00:20:08.000But there's now a big $400 billion bag of cash that is out there under this bill.
00:20:13.000So Pat Toomey, who's a Republican from Pennsylvania, he opposed the bill.
00:20:18.000And this caused Jon Stewart to rail against Pat Toomey.
00:20:21.000Because again, he doesn't care how much the government spends.
00:20:24.000Democrats don't care how much... The real question here is why Democrats did this gimmick in the first place.
00:20:28.000Why are Democrats trying to add $400 billion in slush fund spending to a bill that was designed to protect the healthcare of military veterans?
00:20:35.000Like, every Republican has signed on to the idea of this bill, basically, without any sort of magical budget gimmick.
00:20:42.000Democrats have the budget gimmick, suddenly a bunch of Republicans drop off.
00:21:32.000Okay, it's not corruption at its finest, not corrupt at all.
00:21:34.000In fact, corruption is when you stack a bunch of unrelated spending on top of a bill to protect military veterans.
00:21:41.000So Pat Toomey, for his part, he slapped back at Jon Stewart basically said he's a pseudo-celebrity idiot.
00:21:47.000This is the oldest trick in Washington.
00:21:50.000People 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,
00:22:03.000And 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.
00:22:21.000What 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.
00:22:35.000Okay, Toomey is, of course, exactly correct about this.
00:22:37.000But the media and the Democrats are interested in two things.
00:22:40.000One, trying to portray Republicans as evil and terrible.
00:22:42.000I mean, if you're fighting the Inflation Reduction Act, that must mean that you're in favor of inflation.
00:22:46.000If you're fighting this bill because you don't like the unrelated spending, it must be because you hate veterans.
00:22:57.000So, the media are focused in right now on the magic of Jon Stewart.
00:23:01.000I mean, amazingly enough, Jon Karl was asking Jon Stewart if he wants to run for president or any other office based on this.
00:23:07.000Democrats 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.
00:23:17.000Here's Jon Karl trying to get Jon Stewart to commit to running for president.
00:23:38.000There'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
00:24:05.000Does the right thing by the men and women who fought to protect it.
00:25:20.000Politico 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.
00:25:32.000There's a piece by Juliana Glover, the CEO of Ridgely Walsh, a public affairs advisory firm.
00:25:37.000So 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.
00:25:43.000The way Democrats like to do politics, apparently, is to trot out a bunch of slogans without any actual backing.
00:25:48.000And then if you oppose the slogan, then this means that you are a bad person.
00:25:52.000And so Jon Stewart is sort of their ideal candidate.
00:25:55.000And this raises, in general, the sort of way that Democrats have been doing politics for quite a while.
00:26:00.000The fact that Jon Stewart is sort of a beloved figure on the left, Demonstrates how corrupt our politics is.
00:26:06.000Well, what's kind of amazing that our politics has all basically become Jon Stewart writ large.
00:26:10.000So, 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.
00:26:17.000His editors, they would play a clip, and he would make a funny face into the camera, and everybody would laugh, like trained seals.
00:26:24.000And then he would smirk, and people would laugh some more, and then they'd play the next clip.
00:26:27.000That was essentially the Comedy Central show.
00:26:29.000Well, there was a point during his career, a very famous point during his career, when he went on Crossfire.
00:26:34.000Crossfire was a show on CNN, for those who are less than 20 years old.
00:26:38.000Crossfire was a show on CNN in which Tucker Carlson, in his much younger iteration, faced off with Paul Begala, and they would debate issues.
00:26:45.000This is when people like Tucker Carlson were still allowed on CNN.
00:26:49.000And it was kind of an interesting show.
00:26:50.000It was basically a Republican and a Democrat discussing the issues in a sort of fascinating way.
00:26:55.000And Jon Stewart decided this was really bad.
00:26:58.000So he went on crossfire with Carlson and Begala and then he chided them.
00:27:01.000He said, you're what's wrong with politics.
00:27:05.000I 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.
00:27:20.000And 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.
00:27:30.000So I wanted to come here today and say... Here's just what I wanted to tell you guys.
00:27:43.000Okay, so he was hurting America for people to discuss the issues.
00:27:45.000Instead, what you needed was a comedian like Jon Stewart to scoff at headlines.
00:27:48.000And 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.
00:27:59.000It's that kind of politics that hurts America.
00:28:01.000The open debate kind of stuff that used to be due rigour in American politics, that sort of stuff is gone.
00:28:05.000There are no shows on TV anymore in which a Republican and a Democrat discuss the issues.
00:28:10.000The 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.
00:28:16.000But it's a rarity in American politics right now.
00:28:41.000The 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.
00:28:48.000The only types of spending that Americans are very fond of in the long run Our generalized entitlement programs.
00:28:54.000Americans get dependent on that sort of stuff and then it's like a heroin fix and they can't get off of it.
00:28:58.000Which is why Barack Obama was rushing into law Obamacare over the objections of many in his own party.
00:29:03.000The idea was if I get this thing embedded in American law, then it'll be too late for anybody to do anything about it.
00:29:09.000This is true for all the welfare programs, for example.
00:29:11.000The person who is in charge of cutting spending on welfare programs is always the most unpopular guy on the block.
00:29:16.000This 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.
00:29:29.000But when Democrats do these sort of one-off spending bills, they're under the misimpression that voters care about that stuff.
00:30:09.000So 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.
00:30:15.000And that they're going to somehow make a comeback in the elections.
00:30:18.000And 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.
00:30:32.000Because they've created this little echo chamber for themselves, they can't hear outside the echo chamber.
00:30:37.000But 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.
00:30:53.000They're openly saying this, that their goal is to accuse Republicans of being extremely radical.
00:30:58.000So 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.
00:31:08.000Al Sharpton is one of the great race baiters in American history.
00:31:11.000Al 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.
00:31:18.000It's like the National Action Network.
00:31:20.000Al 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.
00:31:30.000So instead, what they're gonna do is they're gonna run against everybody.
00:31:32.000Everybody is a radical Republican, according to the Democrats.
00:31:35.000So 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.
00:31:46.000He says he's voting against the bill because it's, quote, a stupid waste of time, unquote.
00:31:53.000Considering Rubio once compared the size of his hands to Donald Trump's, perhaps the good senator is not the best judge of frivolous behavior.
00:32:04.000Utah Senator Mitt Romney told Politico he hasn't given the bill much consideration.
00:32:10.000Apparently 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.
00:32:23.000Republican senators tried to portray themselves as a cut above their rabble-rousing colleagues in the House.
00:32:31.000Right now, they have the opportunity to prove they are capable of representing all Americans, not just their base.
00:32:39.000By the way, you're now a radical if you don't even have an opinion on the subject.
00:32:42.000If you're Mitt Romney and just try to move away from the subject, that makes you a radical as well.
00:32:46.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:32:56.000I don't see any ethical or moral problem with doing this.
00:32:59.000the 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.
00:33:27.000So 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.
00:33:34.000So who exactly really is radical in American politics?
00:33:37.000My suggestion is that it is the Democrats who are significantly more radical than the Republicans, particularly when it comes to social issues.
00:33:44.000And you can see it on pretty much every social issue.
00:33:48.000So 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.
00:34:06.000And the federal government's already screwing that up.
00:34:08.000Dr. 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.
00:34:19.000He says, Our country's response to monkeypox has been plagued by the same shortcomings we had with COVID.
00:34:23.000If 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.
00:34:39.000There was not enough stockpile of vaccine, even though the vaccine was widely available.
00:34:44.000Okay, but that's really not the most extreme response to monkeypox.
00:34:50.000The 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.
00:34:59.000I 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.
00:35:45.000Bay 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.
00:36:04.000Why does it create a stigma as a disease limited to the LGBTQ community by saying, don't engage in promiscuous sex with one another?
00:36:15.000Because that's going to lead to spread of the disease.
00:36:18.000I mean, it seems to me there's more of a stigma attached to gay promiscuity already, not to gay people generally.
00:36:26.000Monogamous gay people are not spreading monkey pox.
00:36:29.000That is not what's happening right now.
00:36:31.000According 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.
00:36:47.000The 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.
00:37:01.000Can we, this sort of language, affected men who have sex with men, is passed between men who have sex with men.
00:37:09.000Affected suggests like cancer, or you're in a crowded room, COVID.
00:37:14.000No, 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.
00:37:20.000So apparently the one activity in American public life in which we cannot expect anyone to have any sense of self-control is gay orgies.
00:37:29.000The 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.
00:37:36.000If 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.
00:37:46.000But his organization has made a point not to dissuade people from attending the party.
00:37:51.000And I just think that here in this country, people have a problem with that, he said.
00:37:55.000And 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.
00:38:13.000Officially 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.
00:38:25.000Spanning four blocks, Door Alley includes a fair Sunday that features rope performances, go-go dancing, and vendors selling a wide array of sex toys.
00:38:34.000Many clubs also plan to host side events through the weekend.
00:38:38.000Yet 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.
00:38:47.000The 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.
00:38:59.000There's never been a better time to dress from top to bottom in latex or leather, the organization said.
00:39:03.000Keeping your skin covered is a surefire way to prevent exposures to monkeypox.
00:39:07.000I mean, there are a few other ways, actually, as it turns out.
00:39:12.000But 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.
00:39:24.000And these are the people who are the non-extremists.
00:39:26.000It'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.
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00:41:00.000Alright folks, meanwhile, Harry's Razor used to advertise on our shows, right?
00:41:05.000Well, one time, one of our hosts, who shall remain nameless, Michael Moulse, he said that men are not girls and girls are not boys, et cetera.
00:41:11.000Well, this made Harry's really mad because one follower with like two Twitter followers actually tweeted Harry's and Harry's like, I will pull our large advertising contract over this.
00:41:21.000Well, we did what anyone naturally would do.
00:41:51.000You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:41:55.000So, what are some of the other very not-extreme democratic policies?
00:41:58.000Again, remember, they are running on two things.
00:41:59.000We're going to spend oodles of money, and also our opponents are really, really radical.
00:42:04.000And 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.
00:42:12.000Well, 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.
00:42:26.000Well, 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?
00:42:30.000It'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.
00:42:38.000Because when Title IX was written back in 1965, That's what woman meant.
00:42:43.000There was no idea that woman meant men who said he was a woman.
00:42:47.000But now the Democrats have decided that it does.
00:42:49.000And 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.
00:43:03.000Which means that you could be forced in a school to call people by the opposite sex.
00:43:08.000Or you could be in violation of federal law.
00:43:11.000This is extraordinarily radical stuff, obviously.
00:43:13.000And 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.
00:43:24.000The state of Florida is saying that its state should basically just ignore the federal government's guidance.
00:43:30.000Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr.
00:43:32.000told school officials to ignore the guidelines entirely.
00:43:36.000He sent letters Thursday to superintendents, school boards, private school owners, and charter school governing boards that said guidance documents from the U.S.
00:43:41.000Department 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.
00:43:54.000Department 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.
00:44:03.000So 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.
00:44:12.000Diaz 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.
00:44:28.000But in a news release last month, the U.S.
00:44:30.000Department 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.
00:44:41.000According 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.
00:44:56.000Anyone that tells you it's not happening is lying to you.
00:44:58.000And of course, DeSantis is exactly right.
00:44:59.000Now, the left is scared of DeSantis because the idea is DeSantis is the quote-unquote extremist.
00:45:04.000What exactly makes Ron DeSantis so extreme?
00:45:07.000Well, 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.
00:45:38.000Florida is attempting to revoke the liquor license at our house, a Miami-area bar.
00:45:42.000A complaint details numerous incidents in which children were allegedly exposed to explicit sexual content there with the full knowledge of the bar.
00:45:49.000In 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.
00:45:58.000In another instance, a presumably male dancer gyrated and pole danced in revealing women's clothing while waving dollar bills.
00:46:04.000Our 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.
00:46:19.000Or 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?
00:47:14.000Well, 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.
00:47:21.000And 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.
00:47:29.000Democrats moving in that way are engaging in child abuse.
00:47:32.000Here's Tulsi Gabbard over the weekend.
00:47:34.000The FDA made a disturbing but not at all surprising announcement just a few days ago about children's health.
00:47:41.000Now 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.
00:47:50.000This warning that the FDA issued was basically saying that puberty blockers can cause serious health risks for our kids.
00:47:58.000Unfortunately, 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.
00:48:23.000Who exactly is the radical group here?
00:48:26.000I think the answer is pretty obvious to anyone with a brain.
00:48:28.000And 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.
00:48:43.000It 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.
00:48:52.000All righty, so the United States military, it turns out that under Joe Biden, it's very, very interesting.
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