More classified documents are found at Joe Biden s house by his lawyers, Democrats struggle to respond, and the Miss Universe pageant is now run by a man who believes he is a woman standing up for feminism. This is the Ben Shapiro Show, and it's another day and more documents have been found at President Joe Biden's house. And the best excuse for Joe Biden, as always, is that he doesn't know where his house is or what a document is. And the answer to that is, "I was senile. I don't know what I'm doing." Also, why did it take two months for the White House to acknowledge that any of this happened? And how did they manage to keep the documents classified for so long, even though they were found in a place where no one would ever be expected to look at them, in a garage next to a throwback Corvette in Delaware? And why didn't they tell the public about this snafu for two months? And what will they do about it, you ask? Well, the answer is, they had to wait until the election cycle was over, which is why it took so long to even acknowledge that this happened, and why they did it at all. And why did they take so long? And why is it so important that the public even care about this at all? and why should they care about it? Ben Shapiro breaks it down, and how important it is? The answer is simple: it is because Joe Biden does not have the power to declassify or declassify anything, does he not even know what he s found at his home in Delaware, and he does not know where he s looking at it? And he doesn t even know where it s even or what it s ? and he s not even . so why does he care about declassifying anything he s supposed to be declassified or at all ? and what s he s supposed to declassified? about it ? What s he even do with it? What s the point of it? Ben Shapiro explains why this is such a big deal, and who s he should be doing with it, and does he even have the right to declassification powers to speak about it or not in the first place and how he s going to declassify it? He also explains why it s a good thing, right?
00:00:32.000And also elect me president again in 2024.
00:00:35.000According to the Associated Press, lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware than previously known, the White House acknowledged on Saturday.
00:00:42.000White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden's private library.
00:00:48.000The White House had said previously only a single page was found there.
00:00:51.000This latest disclosure is in addition to the discovery of documents found in December in Joe Biden's garage, which is of course the most secure location in all of America.
00:00:59.000Donald Trump's lock closet at Mar-a-Lago.
00:01:02.000Chinese spies are rappelling from the ceilings a la Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible in order to grab the documents from Donald Trump's closet.
00:01:09.000But Joe Biden's garage in Delaware, that is the place where no one would dare look.
00:01:14.000No one would ever break into a garage in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:01:18.000Also, they found it in November at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center for boondoggles and wasteful money in Washington from his time as vice president.
00:01:26.000Now, as we will also remind you, the vice president does not have the summary power of declassification.
00:01:30.000The president of the United States basically does.
00:01:32.000The apparent mishandling of declassified documents and official records from the Obama administration is currently under investigation by a former U.S.
00:01:38.000attorney, Robert Herr, who was appointed as a special counsel on Thursday by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who is seeking to avoid as much blame as possible.
00:01:46.000In the end, it's going to have to be Merrick Garland who decides whether to prosecute Donald Trump or whether to prosecute Joe Biden.
00:01:50.000The answer is neither of them will be prosecuted because they are part of the special people.
00:01:54.000If this were you, you would be prosecuted, but you are not a special people.
00:01:57.000They are special people, so they will not be prosecuted.
00:01:59.000Salber said in a statement on Saturday that Biden's personal lawyers, who did not have security clearances, stopped their search after finding the first page on Wednesday evening. Salber found the remaining material on Thursday as he was facilitating their retrieval by the Department of Justice.
00:02:14.000The answer is it was marked classified.
00:02:16.000That is the only way you know to stop looking through the documents.
00:02:19.000It's not as though they have independent knowledge knowing that documents are classified or not.
00:02:23.000It means that these things must have been clearly labeled secret or top secret.
00:02:27.000And then they were just hanging around in Joe Biden's house in Delaware or in his garage next to his throwback Corvette.
00:02:33.000The lawyer, Richard Sauber, said, Now again, why did it take two months for the White House to acknowledge that any of this happened?
00:02:37.000with classification markings were discovered among the material for a total of six pages.
00:02:41.000The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them. Now again, why did it take two months for the White House to acknowledge that any of this happened?
00:02:49.000The answer is, of course, they had to get well past the actual election cycle.
00:02:53.000On Thursday, asked whether Biden could guarantee that additional classified documents would not turn up in a further search, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the world's most untalented press secretary, told reporters, quote, you should assume that it's been completed.
00:03:05.000And then two days later, they had to announce that there were more pages that were actually found at his house.
00:03:09.000Bob Bauer, the president's personal lawyer, said his legal team has, quote, attempted to balance the importance of public transparency where appropriate.
00:03:17.000Yes, I'm sure that's what this was all about.
00:03:21.000I'm sure that despite the fact this was all discovered on November 2nd, the first thing that Joe Biden thought was, how can I protect the transparency of the process and ensure that the process goes forward fully legally?
00:03:31.000It never occurred to Joe Biden or his lawyers, maybe we'll wait until after this election cycle is over and everybody goes to sleep for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
00:03:39.000And then when they come back, then we'll tell them about this little snafu.
00:03:43.000The Associated Press goes out of its way to try and distinguish this from Donald Trump because Donald Trump, of course, was very stubborn about not turning over the documents, whereas Joe Biden turned over the documents forthwith.
00:03:52.000Yes, but that does not actually change the underlying fact is you are not supposed to have classified documents sitting in your garage in a box in the same box where you're keeping your old family photos, for example.
00:04:01.000This raises a bunch of serious problems.
00:04:03.000One of those problems is that the president's son was apparently living at this home at the time.
00:04:08.000Normally, if the president's son were living at this home during the time, you'd think, okay, well, no biggie, right?
00:04:12.000I mean, it's just the president's kid.
00:04:14.000However, Hunter Biden has a rather long and inglorious history of running away to foreign countries while his father was the vice president of the United States or in the post-vice presidency and picking up giant bags of cash from foreign sources who are nefarious at best.
00:04:26.000Not only that, it now turns out that Hunter Biden listed this particular house as owned by him and also said that he was renting the house at the same time in his tax forms, which raises some pretty serious questions.
00:04:36.000We'll get to more on all this in just one second.
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00:06:46.000According to Breitbart.com and Miranda Devine over at the New York Post, Hunter Biden recorded monthly rent payments of $49,910 while living at President Joe Biden's residence.
00:06:57.000On a document titled Background Screening Request, it appears Hunter paid $49,910 in monthly rent for a year while living at Joe Biden's Delaware residence, where the president kept classified documents alongside his Corvette in the garage.
00:07:09.000Hunter listed his rental tenancy from March 2017 to February 2018, according to the document.
00:07:17.000In 2017, Biden left the White House and stored a large number of classified documents inside that garage and in two other locations.
00:07:23.000The first batch of documents found are alleged to contain information pertaining to both Ukraine and Iran, according to CNN.
00:07:29.000The document also shows that Hunter checked a box on the form claiming to own Joe Biden's home.
00:07:33.000It is unknown why Hunter would have paid rent if he owned the home.
00:07:36.000Now, again, the best possible solution for Joe Biden and Hunter is we are both idiots and we do idiot things because we're idiots.
00:07:41.000And that's very plausible, because welcome to the political world where everyone is a moron.
00:07:45.000However, if in fact Hunter Biden is not a complete moron, and if he was not high on Parmesan cheese when he filled out these forms, this raises some pretty serious questions.
00:07:54.000First question, why are you paying rent on a home that you purportedly own?
00:07:57.000Second question, $50,000 a month in rent?
00:08:08.000I mean, like, I think that if you're paying $50,000 a month in rent, you're talking about a home that would presumably be worth tens of millions of dollars.
00:08:18.000You're talking about Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:08:21.000You'd be talking about like a mega mansion if you are talking about $50,000 in rent.
00:08:27.000I mean, what is the mortgage if you're paying a $50,000 a month mortgage?
00:08:32.000What exactly what is the what is the price on the house?
00:08:40.000I mean, so this raises some pretty serious questions as to whether he was actually paying to rent the house or whether this is essentially money laundering, right?
00:08:48.000That would be the other plausible excuse is that you are paying $50,000 a month to daddy.
00:08:53.000The house is not worth $50,000 a month.
00:08:55.000The house is worth $6,000 a month or $10,000 a month.
00:08:57.000And the rest of it, daddy is just pocketing and you're calling it rent.
00:09:01.000Because as far as I'm aware, Joe Biden's house in Wilmington, Delaware is not worth tens of millions of dollars.
00:09:16.000Okay, so this raises some very serious Issues, obviously, especially given the fact that we've known from documents for a long time from Hunter Biden's computer that there was an email from Chinese authorities to Tony Bobulinski, who's working with Hunter Biden and Hunter Biden to Tony Bobulinski, talking about 10% reserved in this Chinese deal for the big guy.
00:09:38.000And there have been serious questions as to who the big guy was.
00:09:40.000And it appears the big guy may in fact have been Joe Biden.
00:09:43.000So that looks a lot as though Joe Biden was making a lot of money off of his son's nefarious business activities overseas.
00:09:50.000It should be noted that Joe Biden's 2017 tax return on Schedule E only listed $19,800 in rents received.
00:09:55.000And in 2018, Biden listed no rents received at all.
00:10:01.000This obviously is going to raise some very serious questions about why exactly Hunter Biden was saying it.
00:10:09.000And that is independent of the fact that you have a bunch of classified documents being kept in the house.
00:10:12.000So you have this very untrustworthy, scuzzy human being, Hunter Biden.
00:10:16.000By the way, Hunter Biden is so scuzzy right now that I believe that right now in court, he is fighting against the woman he impregnated with his child, that the child should not be able to have his last name.
00:10:26.000That is a thing that he is doing right now.
00:10:27.000So he's a real class act, this Hunter Biden.
00:10:29.000The smartest person that Joe Biden knows.
00:10:32.000This sort of stuff is going to come back to Biden in a very serious way and the investigations are going to begin.
00:10:38.000Joe Biden's lawyers have put out a statement.
00:10:40.000Bob Bauer, who's the personal attorney for the president, put out a statement talking about why all these documents were there with the timeline.
00:10:48.000The president's personal attorneys unexpectedly discovered Obama-Biden documents at the Penn-Biden Center, consistent with statutory requirements.
00:10:54.000The National Archives and Records Administration was notified of the discovery.
00:10:57.000For the following eight days, the president's personal attorneys were in regular contact with NARA and anticipated that NARA would notify the DOJ and the DOJ would notify the president's personal attorneys of any next steps.
00:11:07.000On November 3rd, NARA informed the NARA Inspector General.
00:11:10.000On November 4th, as stated by the Attorney General, the NARA Inspector General informed the DOJ.
00:11:14.000And on November 9th, like the day after the election, as stated by the Attorney General, DOJ launched an assessment to understand whether documents were mishandled.
00:11:22.000The timeline here is super suspicious.
00:11:25.000January 12th is when the President's personal attorneys informed U.S.
00:11:28.000Attorney Lausch they had found additional material bearing classified markings at the Wilmington resident inside the room adjacent to the- Why did it take two and a half months for them to actually search the entire residence?
00:11:36.000Like, what have they been doing this entire time?
00:11:40.000It's a full-scale disaster area for Joe Biden because not only does it not look transparent, it looks incompetent.
00:11:44.000Not only does it look incompetent, he's got his weirdo son living at the house at the time paying $50,000 a month in rent according to Hunter Biden's own forms.
00:11:55.000Meanwhile, the House GOP continues to seek Biden residents visitor logs as the classified document saga continues according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:12:02.000House Republicans are seeking two years of visitor logs from Biden's Delaware home as part of a push for more details about documents marked classified that were found in Biden's home and at a Washington office used after his vice presidency.
00:12:12.000House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky, he said, given the serious national security implications, the White House must provide the Wilmington residents visitor log.
00:12:21.000Comer also requested documentation of searches Biden aides conducted, including the identity of the aides, as well as the date of their searches.
00:12:28.000The White House declined to comment on whether it would even comply with the request.
00:12:31.000There are people on the TVs like Andy McCabe, who was thrown out of the FBI for leaking material about his own activities at the FBI to the press, saying that the DOJ should not comply and Biden should not comply with congressional subpoenas.
00:12:44.000Five seconds ago, obviously, if it was Donald Trump not complying, this meant that he had to be held in contempt and maybe jailed.
00:12:49.000All of this is very, very chaotic for the Democrats right now.
00:12:52.000According to Politico, the Democrats are basically in a state of chaos over all of this.
00:12:59.000Quote, talk to almost any Dem and they'll tell you that Biden's classified documents problem is not the same as former President Donald Trump's.
00:13:04.000Biden volunteered that he had classified documents.
00:13:06.000He and his team have seemingly cooperated with investigators, but dig a little below the surface and many of those same Democrats will concede they're getting frustrated with the White House's handling of the situation.
00:13:14.000They're trying to put lipstick on a pig.
00:13:16.000One Democrat close to the White House told CBS's Ed O'Keefe, the problem is this week they got handed 50 pigs and one stick of lipstick.
00:13:21.000One Democratic official said, why in the world didn't they get the story out earlier, like before the holidays?
00:13:27.000Why didn't they get the full story out at once instead of drip, drip, drip with each new discovery of documents?
00:13:30.000Put simply, it was not handled well at all.
00:13:33.000This could have some implications for 2024.
00:13:37.000Obviously, Democrats are afraid that it's a huge gift to Donald Trump because if one of the big claims against Trump is that he's so irresponsible, how could he put these documents in just a locked closet over at Mar-a-Lago and we have photos of the documents on the ground placed there by the FBI investigators and it was raided and all the rest of it.
00:14:37.000It's not going to be like, they know that they're a bit trapped here.
00:14:40.000And they are trapped because they decided to go full bore on Donald Trump, may in fact be a Russian and or Chinese spy who is taking classified nuclear secrets and trading them away against the security of the United States.
00:14:52.000They went like all the way in on that.
00:14:53.000And so now if they don't go at least halfway in with regard to Joe Biden, they look really hypocritical.
00:14:58.000And it is very obvious that they were in a get Trump mode.
00:15:01.000They didn't really care about classification standards or national security secrets or any of the rest.
00:15:06.000And so they look very nervous on TV over the weekend.
00:15:09.000Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who is on the January 6th committee, after, by the way, having voted in 2016 not to certify the election, you'll recall, Jamie Raskin urged a sense of proportion in all of this.
00:15:22.000Wasn't Biden totally irresponsible with classified information?
00:15:25.000And aren't we right to wonder, to use Biden's words, quote, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods?
00:15:32.000You know, I'm hoping that we will keep a sense of symmetry about our analysis of these situations and a sense of proportion about the underlying offenses.
00:15:39.000There's some people who are trying to compare having a government document that should no longer be in your possession to inciting a violent insurrection against the government of the United States.
00:15:54.000No, actually, they're comparing having documents that shouldn't be in your possession to having documents that shouldn't be in your possession.
00:16:00.000And you and every Democrat going absolutely ape bleep over Donald Trump having these documents in his possession.
00:16:06.000Now, again, I think that we should take violations of classified We should take them about as seriously as is appropriate.
00:16:14.000We should also recognize that Donald Trump was never selling nuclear secrets to the Chinese or the Russians, that it was all overblown.
00:16:19.000That is not a rationale for the prosecution of the former president of the United States.
00:16:23.000This is not going to be a rationale for the prosecution of Joe Biden.
00:16:25.000We should be realistic about the fact that if you are a high-level politician in the United States, the standards do not apply to you.
00:16:30.000Instead, what we are going to do is we will only prosecute you if we believe that you're actually a traitor to the United States and that you mean to expose material to prying foreign eyes.
00:16:38.000Because we know that you can be as irresponsible as you want to be, and as long as you don't have intent, we won't prosecute you.
00:16:49.000James Comey, then the head of the FBI, literally said that there was a high probability that prying eyes saw that material, that somebody hacked her server, that there's a good shot that a lot of that material was seen by foreign eyes.
00:16:59.000Not just that it might have happened, he said there was a good shot that it had happened and that was not enough to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
00:17:05.000So having a bunch of printed out documents in your closet at Mar-a-Lago or in your garage in Wilmington, Delaware, none of that is going to amount to a prosecution.
00:17:13.000The difference is that the media decided that this, just like every opportunity, was the chance to get Donald Trump until they were, until it was all spoiled by those darned kids.
00:17:23.000Every time, it's just Lucy with the football.
00:17:25.000We're going to get Trump this time and then it just doesn't happen.
00:17:28.000Well, this time it turns out they thought they had Trump and then Joe Biden decided that he was going to randomly wander into the middle of the story carrying unclassified documents.
00:17:38.000Adam Schiff, who himself has been I should say loose-lipped about classified material.
00:17:44.000This is a guy who would go on TV pretty much every weekend on CNN and talk about the classified materials that he had seen.
00:17:49.000He wouldn't tell you all the secrets, but he would tell you that he had seen some stuff, guys.
00:17:54.000He'd seen some stuff that meant that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.
00:17:57.000Well, now Adam Schiff is out there saying that he can't exclude the possibility of Biden handling the documents endangering national security.
00:18:12.000You raised the possibility of a national security assessment.
00:18:15.000Is it possible that national security was jeopardized here as many, including you, raised that possibility with the Mar-a-Lago documents?
00:18:26.000I don't think we can exclude the possibility without knowing more of the facts.
00:18:30.000We have asked for an assessment in the intelligence community of the Mar-a-Lago documents.
00:18:35.000I think we ought to get that same assessment of the documents found in the think tank as well as the home of President Biden.
00:18:45.000But look at that, like newfound sobriety from the Democrats, almost as though they were completely drunk before.
00:18:50.000And now it turns out that a bunch of Democrats probably routinely do this sort of stuff.
00:18:54.000A lot of government officials probably have lots of classified materials they accidentally took home.
00:18:58.000I mean, let's put the... I always try to attribute to stupidity that which I can, as opposed to malice.
00:19:03.000I don't think that Joe Biden went through the documents and was like, I will take these classified documents home so that I can give them to Hunter so that Hunter can trade them away on the Chinese markets.
00:19:11.000I think that is extraordinarily unlikely.
00:19:13.000I think a lot of other reasons to think that Hunter and Joe are pretty corrupt, but I don't think that that's I don't think that's it.
00:19:19.000With that said, do I think that Democrats are now forced to treat these situations with the lack of crisis mentality that they actually do deserve?
00:19:53.000Because any time there is a deviance in regards to security protocols that should be taken serious, it should be investigated.
00:20:02.000What I find interesting is that Republicans who have defended Trump After he literally stole classified documents, refused to turn them over, lied about having them, are now only interested in investigating Biden, who has cooperated.
00:20:23.000So you have to understand, right, Republicans aren't really interested in upholding the law, in following security protocols.
00:20:31.000What they're interested in is playing a political game.
00:20:36.000As opposed to Democrats, who are totally not interested in playing political games.
00:20:38.000They are just deeply concerned about classified national security issues.
00:20:52.000The line is, Republicans are hypocrites!
00:20:54.000You mean that, so, so just to get this straight, if you guys go absolutely nuts over Donald Trump having a bunch of classified documents in his, in his closet, Not because he wanted to sell them, but because he's Donald Trump.
00:21:04.000And Donald Trump probably was sitting there like, I like these documents.
00:21:06.000This one has Kim Jong-un's signature on it.
00:21:24.000And if you and if you said that classified national security issues should be taken seriously, but like, let's be real, nobody's actually stealing national security documents to disseminate them with the bad guys.
00:21:34.000If you said that, then this was downplaying it.
00:21:36.000Their line is you're now a hypocrite if you point out that Joe Biden did exactly the same thing because he did exactly the same thing.
00:21:42.000So CNN's Jake Tapper, he went after James Comer on this, the Republican congressperson from Kentucky, saying, do you only care about the classified documents when Democrats do the mishandling?
00:21:51.000The answer is no, but we're going to take it with exactly the same amount of seriousness.
00:21:59.000That's the amount of seriousness with which we should take virtually all of their behavior.
00:22:03.000So, what do you say to viewers who don't understand why President Biden's documents seem like a big priority for you, but President Trump, who took hundreds more documents, did not comply with the subpoena, did not reach out to the National Archives or the Justice Department to say, hey, we found these documents.
00:22:32.000Look, we still don't know what type of documents President Trump had.
00:22:36.000That's one of the questions we've asked National Archives.
00:22:38.000Just because Joe Biden's lawyers said they turned over five documents doesn't mean they just turned over five documents.
00:22:44.000They could have turned over 500 documents.
00:22:48.000Okay, so again, the answer to all of this is that everyone should have taken all these investigations with exactly the grain of salt that they deserved.
00:22:55.000A giant chunk of rock salt should have been taken with all these investigations because none of this, honestly, is that big a deal.
00:23:01.000It wasn't that big a deal when Trump did it.
00:23:02.000It's not that big a deal when Biden does it.
00:23:03.000We can pretend that it's a big deal until we find out that he's actually trafficking in national security secrets.
00:23:08.000But what is amazing is where the media really get hot and bothered, where they get very hot and bothered about where the focus goes.
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00:25:20.000There's some pretty good indicators that Hunter Biden was engaging in some fairly corrupt behavior abroad that may implicate his father, who is the president of the United States.
00:25:28.000And yet you, the Praetorian guard in the media, you're very upset about all this.
00:25:30.000So you're willing to whole hog on Donald Trump's Russian asset, who's selling the nuclear codes to Vladimir Putin.
00:25:35.000But if Republicans start asking questions about Hunter Biden, who may be passing 10% to the big guy while paying 50 grand a month to his dad in rent, according to his own forms, then that's not worthy of question.
00:25:46.000It seems to me if you're concerned about what Hunter Biden did, you should be equally outraged about what Jared Kushner did.
00:25:54.000I'm concerned about getting the truth.
00:26:26.000Unfortunately, liberals in the media don't.
00:26:30.000Okay, so I do love that Chuck Todd is very upset they would possibly take a look at Hunter Biden.
00:26:34.000He's going to mention Jared Kushner in the same sentence.
00:26:36.000Again, there's some pretty significant distinctions right here between Jared Kushner.
00:26:40.000I guess the accusation with Jared Kushner is that Jared Kushner has taken money for his hedge fund from the Saudis after brokering peace in the Middle East.
00:26:51.000When did Hunter Biden broker peace in China?
00:27:01.000In any case, this is always the go-to standby so that you don't actually have to deal with the fact that the Hunter Biden situation actually is very ugly for the president or could get uglier.
00:27:08.000Meanwhile, it is not a shock that CNN, in a desperate attempt to regain ratings, is now apparently considering hiring a comedian to host one of its primetime shows.
00:27:18.000According to Semaphore, the news entertainment personality could fill the primetime 9 to 11 p.m.
00:27:23.000hours with a non-traditional version of news, five people familiar with the planning said.
00:27:27.000So CNN is so serious about the news, the most trusted name in news, they're so serious about the news, our media, that now they're talking about literally hiring a comedian like Jon Stewart in order to do the news at CNN.
00:27:40.000Which, by the way, just shows you how far things have come.
00:27:52.000And Jon Stewart went on that show and said it was bad for America.
00:27:54.000Now, the truth is it was truly bad for America.
00:27:56.000It was not the debate between Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson.
00:27:58.000What was truly bad for America was Jon Stewart smirking his way through political ignorance while pretending that he knew what the hell he was talking about, which he clearly does not.
00:28:06.000And now CNN is going to have no dissenting points of view on the air.
00:28:09.000They still don't have a Republican working for the network, but they are going to have Jon Stewart or somebody else like Jon Stewart doing some sort of political comedy at night.
00:28:19.000CNN president Chris Licht hinted at his desire to sign Stewart in an interview last year with the New York Times saying he'd love to bring on the former late night host.
00:28:25.000Stewart is still under contract with Apple where he's making absolutely unwatchable garbage where he just parrots woke talking points in order to regain his lost credibility with the radical left.
00:28:35.000They're talking about hiring Bill Maher.
00:30:34.000I'm sorry, uh, has our society become ridiculous enough yet for you?
00:30:38.000And this is just Hunger Games type stuff.
00:30:42.000It's absurdity piled on top of absurdity.
00:30:45.000Jakra Juzatep continued, the pageant would stand for quote, diverse cultures, social inclusion, gender equality, creativity, a force for good, and of course, the beauty of humanity.
00:31:15.000I do love that a An entire pageant that is built on stereotypes about beautiful women is going to now be run by a man who says he is a woman, who now says that he is fighting on behalf of feminism.
00:31:30.000Okay, if we're going to take this feminism thing all the way to its logical extreme here, then probably the Miss Universe contest has to be open to fat women, correct?
00:31:38.000We have to be body positive here at the Miss Universe contest.
00:31:41.000And in fact, not only just fat women, fat men.
00:31:44.000After all, some men are women, and it would be absolutely sexist to only allow trans women to participate who have had an extraordinary amount of plastic surgery to make them appear more like women on the outside.
00:31:57.000So probably we need a bunch of fat, hairy dudes who say that they are women also in bathing suits, parading around at Miss Universe contest if we truly wish to achieve gender equality and not buy into the harmful gender stereotypes that cause people to think that men are men and women are women.
00:32:11.000That is definitely the best way to heal this problem.
00:32:15.000Again, a society that refuses to be able to laugh at these sorts of problems is a society that is essentially dead on its feet.
00:32:22.000And if we are supposed to take seriously this ridiculousness, then we are a society that is essentially finished.
00:32:28.000The innate absurdity of this is beyond compare.
00:32:32.000Okay, meanwhile, today marks Martin Luther King Jr.
00:32:37.000The national holiday was declared in 1983.
00:32:40.000And every time we have Martin Luther King Day these days, we have a broad scale discussion about Martin Luther King Jr.' 's association economically with sort of the communist left, which of course is not why there is a Martin Luther King Jr.
00:32:55.000There are many people who have been leftist in America, and there's no Eugene Debs Day here in the United States.
00:32:59.000In any case, the reason that Martin Luther King Jr.
00:33:01.000Day exists is because, of course, there was an attempt to achieve racial comedy in the aftermath of the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea was that we should pay homage to the idea that we should treat people based on their individual identity rather than on their group identity.
00:33:14.000We've decided to do away with that, as we'll get to in a moment.
00:33:16.000Boston did unveil what has to be one of the worst statues I have ever seen in my entire life.
00:33:21.000is supposed to be of MLK, it's called The Embrace, and it's supposed to be based on him hugging Coretta Scott King.
00:33:31.000But whoever is the artist decided instead to make it look as though there are hands that are hugging what looks to be a vermicious knid, I guess, from Charlie and the Glass Elevator.
00:33:45.000Or, I mean, that is the clean version of what exactly they're hugging right here from particular angles.
00:33:50.000It's, uh, I don't, modern art is generally garbage.
00:34:45.000So obviously the modern artists decided that they were going to have a message and the message was that you're going to go inside of it, you're going to walk around, you're going to look up to the sky.
00:34:54.000How about statues that look like things, guys?
00:34:58.000Like, I'm fine with a statue of Martin Luther King.
00:35:00.000It's a beautiful one over in Washington, D.C.
00:35:02.000I'm just, I'm wondering why they decided to go for the headless statue of Martin Luther King as opposed to, you know, the one that had a head.
00:35:35.000And the reason it will end up coming down is because it will turn out that they will do more Review into Martin Luther King's personal life, which was really, really dicey in terms of his treatment of women.
00:35:44.000And then there'll be questions asked about whether there should be statues to Martin Luther King Jr.
00:35:53.000Day, there is an attempt to basically suggest that Americans must accept the entirety of Martin Luther King's agenda in order to achieve what Martin Luther King Jr.
00:36:05.000Now, listen, just because we have a holiday celebrating the aspect of Martin Luther King Jr.' 's legacy that we all agree with, does not mean that we agree with the entirety of his legacy.
00:36:13.000This happens to be true with literally every monument, literally every day of the year.
00:36:16.000There are many things about George Washington's policy agenda that you and I might not agree with.
00:36:39.000Well, today is the anniversary of one of the greatest moments in Daily Wire history.
00:36:42.000After months of leading the legal battle against the federal government and a national Do Not Comply campaign, the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration's outrageous Vax Mandate.
00:36:50.000To celebrate, Jeremy's Razors is offering a giant discount right now.
00:38:05.000Day, we get a bevy of think pieces in left-wing media talking about in order to live up to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., we basically have to Engage in a woke Bernie Sanders redistributionist agenda.
00:38:17.000So, today's example comes courtesy of Esau McCauley, writing for the New York Times, the kind of revolution that Martin Luther King Jr.
00:38:24.000Quote, in 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
00:38:30.000delivered his last Sunday sermon at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
00:38:34.000It was entitled, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, and although King doesn't say the word woke, he uses the concept as it was understood by many black folks then, well before the term was co-opted by the political right to refer to any left-leaning policy it wanted to condemn.
00:38:47.000Okay, well, if that were the part of Martin Luther King Jr.' the real King, who is too often obfuscated by politicians who use his legacy to support their own agendas.
00:38:53.000They contend that King was colorblind when in fact his policy aims were unapologetically color conscious.
00:38:58.000Okay, well, if that were the part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday that we were actually The thing that every school child learns when they are in school about Martin Luther King Jr.
00:39:08.000One of the great speeches in American rhetorical history.
00:39:11.000that enshrines the idea of group redistributionism?
00:39:14.000The answer is no, there would not have been support for that.
00:39:17.000The thing that every school child learns when they are in school about Martin Luther King Jr. is the I Have a Dream speech, right?
00:39:22.000One of the great speeches in American rhetorical history.
00:39:24.000That speech is replete with references to the idea that we should all view each other as God's creatures without reference to color.
00:39:30.000An attempt to backfill that by looking at the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was is economically socialistic does not change the fact that that is not what we are actually celebrating about Martin Luther King Jr.
00:39:41.000And trying to claim that that is what we are celebrating is silly.
00:39:45.000Or that that's what we should be celebrating, because in order to celebrate the part of the legacy we like, we have to celebrate the whole thing.
00:39:51.000We don't have to celebrate his treatment of women, and we don't have to celebrate his socialistic, redistributionist policies either.
00:39:55.000There are a bunch of things about Martin Luther King Jr.
00:39:57.000that are not worth celebrating, and then there are a bunch of things that are worth celebrating, and those are not the same thing.
00:40:03.000However, again, the idea here is that if you really, really want the Martin Luther King Jr.
00:40:07.000Revolution, what you need is a compelling case for reparations based on the debt this country owes its black citizens.
00:40:12.000By the way, even if you were going to make this case in 1968, like directly in the aftermath of Jim Crow, it's very difficult to make that case in 2023.
00:40:19.000You're talking about half a century later.
00:40:23.000But, says this columnist for King, waking up is not simply understanding that racism is bad.
00:40:27.000It is acknowledging that racism created generational wealth for white Americans and robbed black Americans of the same economic boost.
00:40:33.000The racial wealth gap King highlighted in his sermon not only persists, but according to some studies is basically the same as it was in 1968.
00:40:56.000Why is it that wealth gap remains when it has closed for virtually every other minority in the United States?
00:41:02.000The answer certainly has to do some with history, but a lot of it has to do with the fact that you have a 75% out of wedlock birth rate in the black community.
00:41:10.000You have dramatic educational underperformance in the black community.
00:41:12.000Now, you can go back to the original sin here, and you can blame it on the original sin.
00:41:16.000And that's all, that's all well and good.
00:41:17.000But the decisions that are going to change the trajectory of the wealth gap in the United States are decisions that are made today, not by government to sign checks.
00:41:25.000They're decisions made on an individual level to be responsible and to help make life better for your children.
00:41:32.000That is the story of how groups, generally speaking, rise in the United States.
00:41:36.000Members, individual members of the groups, not as groups, individual members of the groups, make good decisions.
00:41:41.000When they make good financial and personal decisions, the wealth in their family increases.
00:41:46.000And when the wealth in their family increases, it increases intergenerationally.
00:41:56.000And I'll agree with you that that obviously puts some groups behind the eight ball to start with in 1965.
00:42:01.000But when you're talking about 2023 and the people who are now experiencing the wealth gap being born 40 years after the Civil Rights Act, then you got to start asking questions as to how do you choose to solve the problem?
00:42:16.000But the answer is that we are just going to say that we need to to recommend the same solutions that Martin Luther King Jr.
00:42:23.000Which is why you have another column in the Washington Post today by Perry Bacon Jr.
00:42:26.000saying the racial reckoning led to lots of talk, but little real change.
00:42:30.000And he points out many American leaders and institutions will honor the legacy of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
00:42:34.000on Monday and pledge to work toward his goals, but they also most certainly won't sound as committed to black causes as they did in the weeks immediately following Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police.
00:42:41.000I mean, that's because in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing by Derek Chauvin, Essentially, you had a bunch of woke virtue signaling.
00:43:00.000And the case apparently was made to the satisfaction of the jury, if not to my own satisfaction in court, that Derek Chauvin was responsible for his death.
00:43:05.000Again, I think the evidence there is really, really sketchy, but OK.
00:43:09.000But nobody even alleged that that was the result of racism, that Derek Chauvin was a racist who decided to kill a black man that day.
00:43:38.000They feel fibbed to because they were fibbed to mainly by a bunch of left-wing media types who decided that they were going to pay lip service to the Black Lives Matter cause without actually embracing the Black Lives Matter agenda.
00:43:50.000And so this is why we're going to get these pieces every single day.
00:43:54.000And by the way, the policies that are being advocated are bad.
00:43:57.000The policies that are being advocated by Black Lives Matter, the policies that were advocated by Martin Luther King in 1968, even if they were temporarily justifiable, would have been bad in the short, medium and long term.
00:44:09.000And yet those policies are still being advocated today.
00:44:12.000So, for example, you have the New York Times today arguing in favor of affirmative action.
00:44:15.000Affirmative action has been one of the giantest fails in American political history.
00:44:20.000As mentioned, the wealth gap in the United States has not been alleviated.
00:44:23.000The notion that affirmative action, which was necessary in order to leverage black students who were underperforming on standardized tests into top-level universities, that this would heal the income and wealth gap in the United States was a lie.
00:44:36.000It means that people who actually didn't need affirmative action in order to get into their schools are looked at askance, wrongly.
00:44:43.000And yet, you have the New York Times lamenting the possibility that affirmative action might fall.
00:44:47.000Of course affirmative action should fall.
00:44:49.000The answer to racial discrimination is to stop racially discriminating.
00:44:52.000The answer to racial discrimination is not to then reverse the racial discrimination, obviously.
00:44:57.000And yet, the New York Times is preemptively lamenting the loss of affirmative action, quote, In 1964, hoping to erase its image as a privileged cloister for white rich families, Wesleyan University contacted 400 black high school students from around the country to persuade them to apply.
00:45:12.000The outreach led to the enrollment of what became known as Wesleyan's Vanguard Class.
00:45:16.000one Latino and 13 black students, which helped establish the university's commitment to diversity.
00:45:21.000Nearly 60 years later, such recruitment practices face an existential threat.
00:45:24.000Well, yes, because it turns out that when you discriminate largely against Asian students, by the way, that is a bad thing to do.
00:45:31.000It is not white students who are typically losing out at the university level.
00:45:34.000Now it's Asian students, Asian students wildly overperformed by group metric on things like the SAT.
00:45:39.000And so you've seen more and more schools basically write out the SAT as a metric of of entry in favor of sob story essays where they can try to essentially backdoor affirmative action by trying to ascertain your racial history through your essay.
00:45:54.000College officials warn there's no way of knowing how sweeping the court decision will be, but the ruling, expected by June, is likely to have a broad impact on a range of schools, according to Vern Granger, director of admissions at the University of Connecticut.
00:46:04.000Most people are thinking about the admissions process at selective institutions, he said, but I would say this decision is going to be far-ranging and it's going to be expansive.
00:46:12.000If the court rules as expected, the class admitted for the fall of 2024 will look quite different, said education officials.
00:46:16.000We will see a decline in students of color attending college before we see an increase again.
00:46:20.000We will be missing an entire generation, said Angel B. Perez, the chief executive of the National Association for College Admission and Counseling.
00:46:29.000Wouldn't that suggest that the public education system that you guys have funded to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars over the course of the last several decades, that the welfare and social safety net programs you've created, the affirmative action programs you've created, have been a giant fail?
00:46:42.000Why would it miss a bunch of Black and Hispanic students?
00:46:47.000Presumably because the underperformance continues, despite affirmative action being in place for the last 60 years in this country.
00:46:55.000Mr. Granger, who also serves as president of the Association for College Admission Counseling, expects changes even at the community college level, citing drops in applications following statewide bans on affirmative action in Michigan and California.
00:47:05.000He said some students from underrepresented groups may simply not apply.
00:47:08.000The institutions most likely to be dramatically affected are the 200 colleges and universities regarded as selective, meaning they admit 50% or fewer of their applicants.
00:47:40.000Which, of course, is the idea that we are supposed to view people not on the basis of their race, but on the basis of their quality and their merit.
00:47:48.000The sort of woke policies that are being prescribed here are, of course, the worst policies in the world.
00:47:53.000They're bad on everything from education to crime, which is why even the Washington Post is now having to go conservative with regard to crime policy.
00:48:01.000Editorial in the Washington Post today, quote, Washington could become a more dangerous city if the D.C.
00:48:06.000council votes Tuesday as currently planned to override Mayor Muriel Bowser's veto of a bill that decreases punishments for violent crimes like carjackings, home invasion burglaries, robberies, even homicides.
00:48:15.000The far-reaching rewrite of the criminal code will further tie the hands of police and prosecutors while overwhelming courts.
00:48:20.000With the city awash in handguns, the measure would also scale back penalties for convicted felons illegally carrying firearms, as well as for using them to commit crimes.
00:48:27.000The bill eliminates life sentences, gets rid of mandatory minimums for every crime but first-degree murder.
00:48:31.000The maximum penalty for someone convicted of a violent felony while using a gun to commit more violence would drop to four years.