The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden's Crashing Economy | Ep. 1483

00:00:00.000 The Washington Post accuses Elon Musk of targeting Twitter employees just days after one of their reporters doxed libs of TikTok, Russia cuts the gas on Europe, and U.S.

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00:01:30.000 The prospect again of Elon Musk taking over Twitter is freaking out the blue check marks.

00:01:34.000 It is freaking out the media.

00:01:36.000 The media, who are supposed to be all in favor of more speech, not less speech.

00:01:40.000 More journalism, not less journalism.

00:01:42.000 It turns out they don't like speech and they don't like journalism.

00:01:44.000 They like to do what they want to do.

00:01:46.000 And anybody who stands in their way is bad.

00:01:48.000 And also anybody who doesn't just elevate their material and elevates alternative material is also bad.

00:01:53.000 And so now you have the specter of the Washington Post owned by the second richest person on earth, Jeff Bezos.

00:01:59.000 Going after Elon Musk and the reason this is on the front page of the Washington Post yesterday.

00:02:03.000 The reason they're going after Elon Musk is because Elon Musk is now criticizing Twitter executives, not by name.

00:02:09.000 He didn't criticize them by name.

00:02:11.000 He's criticizing how Twitter was run.

00:02:13.000 How dare he?

00:02:16.000 This is very bad.

00:02:17.000 You are not allowed to criticize people at the company you're about to take over.

00:02:21.000 Even though you're about to take the company over because you have critiques of the company, apparently, according to the Washington Post. 0.58

00:02:27.000 So the Washington Post has an entire piece today about how Elon Musk is a big, bad, evil, bad, mean man who's bad.

00:02:34.000 It's called Elon Musk's Boost Criticism of Twitter Executives Prompting Online Attacks.

00:02:38.000 This is the way that the left likes to work this thing.

00:02:40.000 If you criticize somebody on the left, even if that person is a public figure, and then that person receives blowback, it is your fault.

00:02:48.000 So if you're just not criticized, then they wouldn't receive the blowback.

00:02:50.000 Now, if you are Taylor Lorenz, a reporter for the Washington Post, and you try to uncover the identity of an anonymous Twitter account called Libs of TikTok, and all that account does is just finds dumb left-wingers on TikTok who post crazy stuff and then post that stuff on Twitter.

00:03:07.000 You unleash Taylor Lorenz on that person, you have Taylor Lorenz knock on the doors of the person's relatives, you have Taylor Lorenz link to the person's real estate profile so that the personal information is available, and then later you delete the link and you pretend that this is excellent and necessary journalism.

00:03:21.000 That's what the Washington Post does about libs of TikTok, because it's really important to know who stands behind an account that's entire job is to just retweet things that leftists have put out there publicly.

00:03:31.000 But if Elon Musk criticizes Twitter employees without naming them, then this is an act of harassment.

00:03:38.000 And this is because Elon Musk is bad.

00:03:40.000 This ties into the broader narrative that the left is trying to tell about Elon Musk, which is that what he really wants is to open up the floodgates on Twitter to abuse and cruelty and malice.

00:03:50.000 That's what this is about.

00:03:52.000 Because remember, according to the left, free speech is really not a thing.

00:03:56.000 Free speech is just a guise for power.

00:03:58.000 This is all part of the deconstructionist woke attack on rights.

00:04:02.000 The basic idea here is that any principle you hold is really a reflection of power structure.

00:04:06.000 So if you're in favor of free speech, it's not because you believe that everybody should be able to speak freely.

00:04:10.000 The reason you're in favor of free speech is because you are one of the powerful, and the system of free speech helps you.

00:04:16.000 If you really wanted equity, if you wanted justice, if you wanted speech justice, what the left does is they take any modifier, put it in front of the word justice, and then pretend that this is now principle.

00:04:25.000 If you wanted equity and speech justice, what you would do is quash the speech of the more powerful, and you would shut up and listen to the less powerful.

00:04:33.000 And Elon Musk instead is saying that everybody should be able to speak freely, and this is because he's attempting to re-enshrine his own power.

00:04:39.000 And we know that he's attempting to do this because he's being so mean to people like Twitter employees, like the Twitter top lawyer, Nishaya Gaddy, who earned, get ready for this, $17 million last year.

00:04:52.000 She is a victim.

00:04:53.000 She is a victim of Elon Musk's evil brutality, making $17 million a year to shut down content to Twitter.

00:05:01.000 So according to the Washington Post, two days after striking a deal to purchase Twitter, Elon Musk used his powerful Twitter account to elevate conservative criticism of two executives at the social media company, roiling a workforce already uneasy about how he will balance his abrasive social media style and abrasive free speech with the stewardship of the company.

00:05:20.000 Well, I mean, if the workforce doesn't like it, well, I mean, that's a real problem, isn't it?

00:05:24.000 Now, again, as a person who's the co-founder of a major media company, let me just say, if the workforce doesn't like how this company is run, the door is located over there.

00:05:34.000 This is super simple.

00:05:36.000 If you don't wish to receive a paycheck from this company, there are plenty of other places you can receive a paycheck.

00:05:41.000 But according to the Washington Post, Elon Musk, the richest person on planet Earth, needs to take advice from a bunch of barely college-educated left-wing 26-year-olds who spend their days with their button on the bandfinger.

00:05:55.000 According to the Washington Post, on Wednesday, Elon Musk tweeted a meme to his more than 86 million followers with the face of Twitter's top lawyer, Vijaya Gaddy, that appeared to suggest the company's decisions are affected by left-wing bias.

00:06:09.000 No!

00:06:11.000 This is harassment and evil!

00:06:15.000 The tweet came hours after he criticized a 2020 policy decision Gaddy made and was in response to an earlier tweet from a political podcast host calling her the company's top censorship advocate.

00:06:25.000 Twitter users quickly piled on.

00:06:27.000 Wait, you mean that he said a true thing about the lawyer over at Twitter?

00:06:29.000 Who, by the way, is a public figure who has appeared on Joe Rogan's show.

00:06:32.000 And, um, he said a thing about this person's handling of censorship.

00:06:36.000 And people piled on?

00:06:39.000 Mah ye gods! 1.00

00:06:41.000 Ye gad! 0.95

00:06:43.000 Twitter users quickly piled on calling on Musk to fire Gaddy or using racist language to describe her. 0.81

00:06:48.000 So is that Musk's fault?

00:06:49.000 First of all, he should fire her.

00:06:50.000 As far as using racist language, is that Musk's fault?

00:06:52.000 Did he use racist language?

00:06:54.000 So if I say Joe Biden is a bad president, and then somebody immediately calls him an MF-er, is that my fault?

00:07:01.000 Or is that the person who used the curse word?

00:07:04.000 How does that work exactly?

00:07:06.000 If I say that I think Joy Reid is a terrible MSNBC host, and then somebody immediately throws a racial taunt at her, Is that my fault? 0.57

00:07:14.000 Because I feel like if that's the case, then Bernie Sanders is responsible for the congressional baseball shooting.

00:07:18.000 Barack Obama is responsible for the murder of six police officers in Dallas, Texas circa 2015.

00:07:22.000 Like if that's the way this is going to work, then the consequences for speech are rather dire.

00:07:28.000 Which by the way, this only applies, the left does think this, they just think it applies only to one side.

00:07:33.000 So if Elon Musk says a thing and then someone else does a bad thing because they were ticked off by something Elon Musk said, It's Elon Musk's fault. 0.71

00:07:40.000 If, however, Bernie Sanders says that Republicans are killing millions of people with their health care plans, and then somebody goes and shoots a bunch of Republican congresspeople, then obviously that was just a crazy person.

00:07:49.000 It has nothing to do with Bernie Sanders.

00:07:51.000 Gowdy was born in India and immigrated to the United States as a child.

00:07:51.000 Oh my God!

00:07:54.000 One user said she would go down in history as an appalling person.

00:07:57.000 Oh my God.

00:07:59.000 A user, an anonymous user, one user on Twitter, which has hundreds of millions of users, said a mean thing about this lawyer who earns $17 million a year.

00:08:11.000 Well, stop!

00:08:12.000 Hold the fort!

00:08:14.000 Stop the presses!

00:08:16.000 Hold up that Twitter sale! 0.99

00:08:18.000 According to the Washington Post, Musk's tweets have singular power to unleash mobs against people with much lower profiles and 280 characters or less.

00:08:26.000 As Musk stakes his $44 billion takeover of one of the world's most influential social media platforms on the promise of restoring free speech there, his rhetoric is at odds with the way his supporters have weaponized Twitter.

00:08:36.000 Prompting people to lock down their personal profiles and public information.

00:08:39.000 Well, I mean, you wouldn't want to have supporters weaponizing Twitter.

00:08:43.000 Like, you wouldn't want to have a reporter from the Washington Post doxing libs of TikTok and then revealing personal information about that person.

00:08:49.000 Or, if you're the Washington Post, you would want that.

00:08:51.000 You would link directly to the person's real estate profile, and then you would actually sponsor the story with advertising on Twitter.

00:08:56.000 That's what you would do if you're the Washington Post. 0.94

00:08:58.000 I mean, the hypocrisy of these people is insane. 0.99

00:09:00.000 And it's not just the hypocrisy. 0.99

00:09:01.000 It's the absolute double standard.

00:09:03.000 Elon Musk mentions he doesn't like the policy that is purveyed by Twitter's big $17 million-a-year lawyer, and this means that he's a harasser, and therefore somebody has to step in and stop the brutality.

00:09:15.000 April Glazer, senior research fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, said, quote, Musk has actually used Twitter as his slingshot when going after critics.

00:09:25.000 It's not surprising he would then want to have greater control of that slingshot.

00:09:29.000 Well, well, I mean, as opposed to the Washington Post, which has never wanted to have power over social media, which is why half of their staff has been delegated to try and stop the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.

00:09:41.000 And the New York Times in Washington, they have no dog in this fight.

00:09:43.000 They are perfectly objective journalismers getting their hot, sticky journalism just everywhere.

00:09:48.000 Musk's power to unleash his followers in this way has alarmed some Twitter workers who expressed concern at a company town hall meeting on Monday and in interviews about the possibility of being mentioned in tweets by their future boss.

00:09:59.000 It is unusual for an incoming owner to make any public comment about future employees, much less publicly criticize their performance or past decisions.

00:10:06.000 I mean, that is unusual.

00:10:07.000 And that that's really, really bad.

00:10:09.000 The terms of his deal to acquire Twitter allow the SpaceX and Tesla CEO to tweet about his acquisition so long as the tweets do not disparage the company or any of its representatives.

00:10:19.000 A person familiar with the deal-making process who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a confidential matter said the so-called disparagement clause is only applicable when Musk is tweeting or commenting about the deal itself.

00:10:29.000 So negative comments about Twitter outside of that don't violate his terms.

00:10:32.000 Well, I mean, again, if you're trying to moot a $44 billion sale because Elon Musk tweeted something vaguely critical of the company's top lawyer, which is what happened here, good luck with that.

00:10:43.000 Musk views Twitter as the de facto town square, a place where rules should be kept to a minimum.

00:10:47.000 Twitter employees, however, have spent years developing sophisticated protocols to police its platform for hate speech and other rule-breaking content, including recently investing in tools to limit online harassment.

00:10:59.000 Now the company is being acquired by the world's richest person, whose views are fundamentally at odds with those of much of the workforce.

00:11:05.000 Well, I mean, that's, that's, you know, that's devastating stuff.

00:11:07.000 Devastating.

00:11:08.000 So you can see the media attempting to step in and stop big, bad, mean, terrible, bad Elon Musk from abusing poor little Jaya Gadi, the $17 million a year Twitter lawyer whose main job consists of censoring people she doesn't like. 0.76

00:11:23.000 By the way, buried down in this story, the Washington Post acknowledges Musk did not specifically name or tag Gatti.

00:11:29.000 But he did respond to a tweet by political podcast host Sagar Anjeti, in which she was named, drawing more than 400,000 likes, retweets, and replies on Musk's post.

00:11:38.000 Wow, I mean, so just to get this straight, Musk did not name the person, but he replied to a tweet that did name the person.

00:11:46.000 So he's responsible for all of this stuff.

00:11:49.000 And so he's bad.

00:11:50.000 And so this must be, it just shows that he's only taking this thing over because he wants more harassment.

00:11:55.000 He wants more harassment.

00:11:56.000 And that's terrible.

00:11:57.000 It's just, there's so much harassment on Twitter.

00:12:02.000 Let me make clear.

00:12:04.000 As someone who is no foreigner to being harassed on Twitter, grow a thick skin.

00:12:10.000 Like seriously, you work in, you are the Twitter head of legal.

00:12:15.000 You are a public figure.

00:12:16.000 Grow up.

00:12:17.000 And the Washington Post, which spends its days doing the dirty scut work of the Democratic Party in uncovering meme accounts that it doesn't like for destruction.

00:12:28.000 You're being a little sensitive here.

00:12:30.000 But this is the new narrative.

00:12:31.000 The new narrative is Elon Musk is so mean.

00:12:32.000 Like really, this is, by the way, this is so much of the entire democratic media complex narrative now boils down to this.

00:12:37.000 We're going to do something incredibly aggressive.

00:12:39.000 We're going to shut down free speech on things like Twitter.

00:12:42.000 We're going to shadow ban people.

00:12:43.000 We're going to ban accounts for no apparent reason.

00:12:45.000 We're going to shut down the Babylon Bee for saying that men cannot be women.

00:12:48.000 We're going to do all of these things.

00:12:50.000 And if you step in and say, no, no, no, free speech means that you should be able to say these things.

00:12:54.000 You're so mean!

00:12:55.000 It's just terrible!

00:12:57.000 Why are you doing this?

00:12:59.000 Okay, your tears mean nothing.

00:13:00.000 I have an entire Tumblr dedicated to drinking them.

00:13:04.000 They mean nothing to me.

00:13:06.000 Because guess what? 1.00

00:13:07.000 Unless you're crying for a good reason, not because you're just being a bitchy little pathetic whiner, I got nothing for you. 1.00

00:13:15.000 But this is the entire leftist pitch. 1.00

00:13:17.000 The entire leftist pitch these days.

00:13:19.000 We get to indoctrinate your children in school the way we want to do it.

00:13:22.000 And then if you say, no, no, no, you don't get to do that.

00:13:24.000 Well, that's so mean.

00:13:26.000 It's just terrible.

00:13:28.000 And the tears begin.

00:13:30.000 So in a second, we will get to the fact that Twitter employees are now openly weeping, the entire left weeping, gnashing of teeth, wailing, sackcloth in ashes, full biblical mourning happening over Elon Musk taking over Twitter.

00:13:42.000 We'll get into why people on the left think that their tears actually matter in this particular debate.

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00:14:57.000 Okay, here's the deal.

00:14:59.000 In terms of people I care about crying, just generally speaking, I mean, there's an entire article yesterday about Vijayagadi crying on a Twitter internal phone call to all the employees who are so deeply upset, weeping, tears of salty rage at Elon Musk taking over.

00:15:13.000 Here is a complete list of the people whose tears I care about.

00:15:16.000 My wife, my kids, my siblings, my parents.

00:15:22.000 That's the entire list.

00:15:24.000 There are no other people on that list.

00:15:26.000 Employees, Twitter heads?

00:15:30.000 Washington Post writers?

00:15:32.000 Jeff Bezos?

00:15:34.000 Don't care about any of those people crying.

00:15:36.000 You know why?

00:15:37.000 Because they are grown-ups.

00:15:39.000 And if they cannot control their emotions, that is their problem.

00:15:42.000 But, again, the entire... It is amazing.

00:15:46.000 And by the way, the reason that the left is doing this, the reason that the left is responding with the tears, is because they know they've lost the argument.

00:15:53.000 And so they start to cry.

00:15:55.000 Now, that's a tactic that works in marriage. 0.99

00:15:57.000 It does, I'll be honest with you.

00:15:58.000 Like, when my wife and I are having a discussion and it turns into tears, I lose.

00:16:01.000 I mean, that's an automatic, I lose.

00:16:03.000 Okay, but, and that's true for every husband everywhere.

00:16:05.000 Gentlemen, as soon as your wife starts crying, the argument is over and you've lost.

00:16:08.000 However, in the non-marital world, When somebody starts crying, it's because generally they have lost the argument.

00:16:15.000 The reason the left, however, goes to this is because they realize that there is sort of a congenital niceness to most Americans.

00:16:20.000 And that when people start to cry and whimper and talk about how hard their lives are, you sympathize, right?

00:16:26.000 There's something inside you that swells to their tears.

00:16:29.000 And so what the left has done for years is they've played the victim and they've wept.

00:16:33.000 And then they've moved forward with incredibly aggressive policy.

00:16:36.000 How dare you victimize us?

00:16:37.000 We're going to cry about it.

00:16:38.000 So you really should.

00:16:39.000 Do you want these tears?

00:16:40.000 Dude, you want us to cry?

00:16:41.000 We're gonna cry.

00:16:43.000 This is why you have pieces like Elizabeth Spires today in the New York Times.

00:16:46.000 Quote, let's be clear about what it's like to be harassed on Twitter.

00:16:49.000 Tell me, Elizabeth, what it's like to be harassed on Twitter.

00:16:52.000 Tell me, I who trend every three weeks for some random stupid reason. 0.93

00:16:57.000 I was the number one target of all anti-Semitic Twitter hate on planet Earth in 2015 and 2016.

00:17:02.000 Please tell me what it's like to be harassed on Twitter, please.

00:17:06.000 And tell me why you now get to control the rules.

00:17:09.000 Now some of us are mature enough to say that when people harass us on Twitter, you have a mute button.

00:17:14.000 And then there are those of us who suggest that we ought to control the levers of informational dissemination because our feel-feels got hurt.

00:17:21.000 So Elizabeth Spires tweets, quote, and she writes in the New York Times.

00:17:24.000 Again, this is the entire argument.

00:17:25.000 The new argument is, Elon Musk is bad and mean because he says things.

00:17:29.000 And he's not even being bad and mean, but people who follow him then say mean things.

00:17:32.000 And mean things are bad.

00:17:34.000 And we can tell mean things are bad because my feelings are hurt.

00:17:36.000 So the more my feelings are hurt, the more bad they are.

00:17:39.000 So Elizabeth Spires writes, quote, The Tesla co-founder and chief executive, Elon Musk, is set to shortly become the new owner of a slightly used social media platform with more than 217 million daily users.

00:17:49.000 He has said very little about how he plans to make the business work, but one thing is clear.

00:17:52.000 He is really, really preoccupied with how we talk on the platform and appears intent on rolling back some of its moderation policies in order to allow all legal speech on Twitter.

00:18:03.000 The statements of free speech absolutists like Mr. Musk conflate harassment with criticism.

00:18:08.000 I've been on the receiving end of both.

00:18:10.000 In my two decades of writing columns about media, finance, culture, and politics, there's a material difference between the two.

00:18:15.000 To wit, a couple of years ago, a couple of weeks ago, a former colleague of Mr. Musk's at PayPal, Keith Rabloy, called me dumb on Twitter after I suggested that eliminating moderation policies would be bad for Twitter's business.

00:18:26.000 This is not particularly sophisticated criticism, but neither is it harassment.

00:18:29.000 However, I've also received rape threats, anonymous letters to my home address, threatening comments about my family, all manner of misogynistic pejoratives that are not principal in this newspaper, from my stated positions on everything from abortion to hiring practices and startups to who the next James Bond should be.

00:18:43.000 Okay, so I'm unaware that Musk is saying that rape threats are now legal on Twitter.

00:18:47.000 That's totally fine.

00:18:48.000 By the way, my understanding is that rape threats are generally not legal at all.

00:18:53.000 That is a form of assault.

00:18:54.000 If I threaten you with rape, that is a crime and I will go to jail.

00:18:58.000 So I'm unaware how Musk is changing the policy that rape threats are now okay on the platform.

00:19:03.000 But, says Elizabeth Spires, getting rid of policies that restrict hate speech will most likely affect women and minorities much more than it does white men.

00:19:12.000 White men. 0.62

00:19:13.000 Always the pejorative of the day. 0.99

00:19:16.000 White. 0.81

00:19:16.000 And by the way, if you don't pronounce the H before the W, you're doing it wrong. 0.81

00:19:19.000 It's not white men.

00:19:19.000 It's white.

00:19:21.000 Men.

00:19:21.000 Like Mr. Musk.

00:19:23.000 And unlike him, most people on the receiving end of threats and harassment can't afford personal security.

00:19:28.000 Twitter's rules already allow for a broad range of abuse, much of which falls into a kind of gray area between personal insult and harassment.

00:19:36.000 What exactly does he believe can't be said on the platform right now?

00:19:38.000 It certainly doesn't take long to find discredited race science, arguments that women are intellectually inferior, anti-Semitism, defenses of white supremacism, and transphobic comments that remain on the platform even under current policies.

00:19:48.000 Well, here's one.

00:19:49.000 How about men are not women?

00:19:50.000 How about that?

00:19:53.000 But she says, it is easy to assume that the banned speech Musk is standing up for is worse even than that.

00:19:58.000 As the comedian Michael Che put it on Saturday Night Live, the $44 billion deal shows, quote, how badly white guys want to use the N-word.

00:20:06.000 So again, this is all about Elizabeth Speier's hurt feelings.

00:20:09.000 She's got hurt feelings, guys.

00:20:10.000 And that means that it's so sad.

00:20:13.000 It's really sad.

00:20:15.000 Also, the Washington Post is noting now, I love this.

00:20:17.000 So the Washington Post, Which is itself a corporate takeover with social activism in its center, is now noticing, only now do they notice, quote, Elon Musk's free speech takeover, part of new corporate activism wave.

00:20:31.000 Oh, you think?

00:20:32.000 Oh, you think?

00:20:33.000 So for literally several decades, we have now had left-wing activists taking over major American corporations from the inside.

00:20:41.000 Not just shareholders like BlackRock, but the whole stakeholder economy, in which you have CEOs basically Dancing to the tune of the far left.

00:20:51.000 But only when Elon Musk takes over Twitter do we now notice in the business section of the Washington Post that there is a corporate activism wave.

00:20:58.000 Well, Elon Musk is a response to the corporate activism wave.

00:21:00.000 I mean, that's precisely what is happening right now, and they cannot deal with it.

00:21:04.000 They cannot deal with it.

00:21:06.000 And guess what?

00:21:07.000 The fact that they can't deal with it is the reason why what Musk is doing is so all-fired important.

00:21:11.000 Now, it's not just important with regard to private companies, because if the left had its way, this would be regulated by the government.

00:21:18.000 This sort of stuff would be regulated by the government.

00:21:20.000 I make this point because yesterday, The Department of Homeland Security announced that it was time to set up a disinformation governance board to fight misinformation.

00:21:29.000 So last I checked, this is illegal.

00:21:32.000 The First Amendment to the Constitution explicitly bars the federal government from inflicting restrictions on freedom of speech.

00:21:38.000 Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech.

00:21:41.000 Yet Alejandro Mayorkas, our feckless Homeland Security Secretary, he spoke about the just-established governance board during a congressional hearing on Wednesday, according to Breitbart, arguing it would help reduce domestic threats to the United States.

00:21:53.000 Now, no one is against the idea of preventing Russia from from disseminating actual disinformation within American borders.

00:22:02.000 I will just point out that for a solid year, the media's perspective on Hunter Biden's laptop is that it was Russian disinformation.

00:22:09.000 So I have no trust in the federal government run by the Democratic media complex to determine what is disinformation.

00:22:15.000 And when they conflate disinformation with misinformation, what they are actually saying is we wish to shut down streams of information we don't like.

00:22:21.000 Disinformation is an actual diplomatic term of art, meaning that foreign governments are actively spreading lies inside your body politic in order to achieve a particular purpose.

00:22:32.000 Misinformation is just anything you don't like.

00:22:34.000 Misinformation is when I say a true thing and then PolitiFact says it lacks context.

00:22:38.000 That's quote-unquote misinformation.

00:22:39.000 To have Alejandro Mayorkas in front of Congress Stating that we are now going to have a board that is dedicated inside the Department of Homeland Security, which by the way should be disbanded immediately and it should be revised inside the Department of Defense in part and inside the Border Patrol in other parts.

00:22:56.000 Department of Homeland Security is an evolutionary hangover from the 9-11 era. 0.99

00:23:00.000 All it does is garbage. 0.99

00:23:02.000 I mean, DHS is just a bad, it's an incompetent area of American law. 0.92

00:23:08.000 But put that aside, the notion that you have to have inside DHS Basically, a Twitter safety and health board is pretty scary.

00:23:15.000 So here's Alejandro Mayorkas explaining.

00:23:18.000 I engage with secretaries of state from all over the country to focus our efforts on election security.

00:23:25.000 We have just established a misinformation governance board in the Department of Homeland Security to more effectively combat this threat, not only to election security, but to our homeland security.

00:23:39.000 Okay, so again, if they were actually trying to crack down on disinformation, then I might be a little more sanguine about this.

00:23:45.000 However, I have some questions.

00:23:47.000 One of my questions is, who's heading this thing up?

00:23:48.000 So the person heading this thing up is a human named Nina Jankiewicz.

00:23:52.000 Nina Jenkiewicz tweeted repeatedly in 2020 that Hunter Biden's laptop was in fact Russian disinformation.

00:23:58.000 Quote, back on the laptop from hell, apparently, Biden notes 50 former NatSec officials, national security officials, and five former CIA heads that believe the laptop is a Russian influence op.

00:24:09.000 Trump says Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:24:11.000 Also, Nina Jankiewicz says, by all means, let's regulate social media.

00:24:15.000 Let's do it with proper thought and consultation with the nation's best interests at heart, not with the sweep of a sharpie in response to a specter of political censorship that does not exist.

00:24:23.000 She said in testimony to the House Elect Committee on Intelligence, quote, disinformation is a threat to democracy.

00:24:30.000 She criticized government and social media platforms who have, quote, all but abdicated their responsibility to address, quote, domestic disinformation.

00:24:37.000 She recently did an interview with NPR, the new head of this regulatory board for the federal government on disinformation and misinformation, in which she talked about the amount of sexualized abuse online.

00:24:50.000 I mean, I'm sure that that's true.

00:24:52.000 Also, I was not aware that the federal government was generally in the business of policing abusive jokes.

00:25:02.000 What are the distinctions that she's making right here?

00:25:05.000 Over a period of two months on six social media platforms, we found over 336,000 pieces of gendered or sexualized abuse and disinformation directed at just 10 U.S.

00:25:18.000 candidates.

00:25:19.000 And when you compare what women receive, as some of my colleagues have done in other organizations, with what their male counterparts receive, it's just far and away much, much worse, especially if you're a woman of color or a woman of an intersectional identity.

00:25:32.000 Ah, women of an intersectional identity. 0.99

00:25:34.000 Women of color.

00:25:34.000 Here we go.

00:25:35.000 Here's the equity language about how free speech basically needs to be curbed on behalf of intersectionality.

00:25:39.000 She continues along these lines saying that the big problem with free speech is marginalized people might feel insulted.

00:25:44.000 And those marginalized people aren't empowered.

00:25:46.000 And that means they might be silenced.

00:25:47.000 So the best thing we can do is look for speech equity, not free speech.

00:25:52.000 In my own life, it is a form of censorship, right?

00:25:54.000 Every time I am online thinking about, okay, am I going to tweet?

00:25:57.000 Am I going to pitch this article today?

00:25:59.000 I think about, you know, do I have the emotional capacity right now to deal with what might come if that's going to be out there in the real world?

00:26:07.000 I now carry a personal safety alarm around with me because I am worried about if one of these people who has threatened me online shows up in real life.

00:26:17.000 Particularly women of color have had offline threats that originated from online threats.

00:26:23.000 You see, it's a form of censorship if people are mean to her. 1.00

00:26:26.000 Again, this is all part and parcel of the same sort of anti-Elon Musk argument.

00:26:29.000 If people are mean or people are abusive, that is a form of censorship.

00:26:32.000 Now, again, threats are illegal.

00:26:35.000 I'm not saying that Elon Musk should allow targeted harassment on his platform, where people are just throwing slurs at one another.

00:26:41.000 By slurs, I don't mean saying that Lea Thomas is a man, because Lea Thomas is a man.

00:26:45.000 That's not a slur.

00:26:46.000 That's an accurate label.

00:26:47.000 But Nina Jankowicz is about to head up a department in the Department of Homeland Security that looks at misinformation and disinformation. 1.00

00:26:54.000 And this person has openly explained that she is worried about free speech absolutism.

00:27:00.000 I don't know how you can have a government agency dedicated to cracking down on disinformation and misinformation when the person in charge of that is a person who actively conflates information she doesn't like with misinformation and disinformation.

00:27:12.000 Because after all, that information might make marginalized people feel bad or something.

00:27:18.000 The onus always falls on the target of the abuse.

00:27:22.000 The platforms aren't doing very much right now.

00:27:24.000 And I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities all around the world, which are already shouldering so much of this abuse, disproportionate amounts of this abuse.

00:27:39.000 She shudders to think about it.

00:27:41.000 So when we say that the Democrat media complex, they're all in line, they're all in line.

00:27:45.000 It's not a coincidence that the same week that the media are going after Elon Musk, the Biden administration is now talking about putting together a board to look at disinformation and misinformation.

00:27:54.000 And no, I don't trust them with that sort of authority.

00:27:56.000 Neither does the Constitution of the United States, depending on the breadth of that authority.

00:28:01.000 And this person certainly should not be confirmed for any sort of position in this administration if she is to undergo some sort of Senate confirmation process.

00:28:08.000 Okay, meanwhile, brand new GDP report.

00:28:10.000 It turns out that Joe Biden is not just a bad president.

00:28:12.000 He has brought about actual stagflation.

00:28:15.000 It turns out that the GDP in the first quarter in the United States was negative 1.4%.

00:28:19.000 They had negative GDP.

00:28:23.000 Hey, that is recessionary type stuff.

00:28:25.000 That is full-on stagflation.

00:28:26.000 When you have 8.5% inflation and negative 1.4% GDP growth, this is stagflation.

00:28:34.000 We have now arrived.

00:28:35.000 When you blow out the spending, when you regulate the economy, when you freak everybody out about COVID for no apparent reason, when you do all of these things in the middle of global supply chain crises, when you actively prevent oil companies from new oil exploration, When you talk about penalizing companies that you don't like.

00:28:57.000 I gotta tell you, none of this is good economic policy and Joe Biden is about to, I mean, the Democrats deserve to be shellacked.

00:29:03.000 If people thought the days of stagflation had ended circa basically 1982.

00:29:06.000 Fast forward 40 years and we are right back there.

00:29:10.000 According to the New York Times, by the way, the New York Times is spinning like a top here.

00:29:13.000 This is why I always say a democratic media complex, a term coined by one of my mentors, Andrew Breitbart.

00:29:19.000 What he meant by that is that basically they are one in the same, that they are just an echo chamber for one another.

00:29:23.000 The New York Times is just the PR wing for the White House.

00:29:26.000 Here is their headline.

00:29:27.000 Now imagine that the economy had actually contracted, not because of COVID, but the economy had contracted under President Trump during not COVID by 1.4% in a quarter.

00:29:38.000 Do you think that the New York Times would run with this headline?

00:29:40.000 Quote, the economy contracted in the first quarter, but underlying measures were solid.

00:29:45.000 I mean, that's a hell of a spin there by the New York Times.

00:29:49.000 The economy contracted, but I mean, sure, you made less money this month, but your underlying economic metrics, pretty good.

00:29:56.000 Sure, you have cancer, but underlying that you have been working out and eating healthy lately.

00:30:02.000 According to the New York Times, U.S.

00:30:03.000 economy contracted in the first three months of the year, but strong consumer spending and continued business investment suggested the recovery remained resilient.

00:30:11.000 Oh, really?

00:30:11.000 Is that what it's suggesting?

00:30:13.000 So you had the economy contracting, and now we are about to raise the interest rates by a minimum of half a basis point.

00:30:20.000 Or by half a percentage point, 50 basis points.

00:30:23.000 And you are, the underlying fundamentals are good.

00:30:27.000 I mean, Deutsche Bank is now, by the way, openly suggesting that we are about to enter into a major recession.

00:30:34.000 Deutsche Bank, according to CNN, raised eyebrows earlier this month by becoming the first major bank to forecast a U.S.

00:30:38.000 recession, albeit a mild one.

00:30:39.000 Now, it's warning of a deeper downturn caused by the Fed's quest to knock down stubbornly high inflation.

00:30:44.000 We will get a major recession, Deutsche Bank economists wrote in a report to clients on Tuesday.

00:30:48.000 The problem, according to the bank, is while inflation may be peaking, it will take a long time before it gets back down to 2%, which means the central bank is going to have to raise interest rates so aggressively it hurts the economy.

00:30:57.000 Meanwhile, I got the New York Times happy talking this thing.

00:31:00.000 Gross domestic product, according to the New York Times, adjusted for inflation, declined at 0.4% in the first quarter, or 1.4% on an annualized basis, according to the Commerce Department.

00:31:09.000 That was down sharply from the 1.7% growth, 6.9% to annualized, in the final three months of 2021.

00:31:14.000 It was the weakest quarter since the early days of the pandemic.

00:31:18.000 Decline was mostly a result of two most volatile components of quarterly reports, inventories and international trade.

00:31:23.000 Lower government spending was also a drag on growth.

00:31:26.000 This is one of the games, by the way, that we are constantly playing when it comes to GDP growth.

00:31:30.000 GDP is a very flawed statistic because GDP basically just means the amount of money flowing around in an economy.

00:31:35.000 And so if the government injects trillions of dollars into the economy, this is now considered growth.

00:31:41.000 That's not really how economic growth should be measured.

00:31:44.000 There are other measures that I think are superior to GDP.

00:31:46.000 It's just the kind of all-purpose one.

00:31:48.000 The problem is government spending taken as part of GDP means that any government, including the government of China, can simply fudge its stats by injecting crap loads of debt.

00:31:57.000 It's like saying that your personal finances are going well because you spent a lot of money using your credit card.

00:32:02.000 That's not a particularly great measure.

00:32:05.000 Most important, consumer spending, the engine of the U.S.

00:32:07.000 economy, grew 0.7% in the first quarter.

00:32:11.000 Jay Bryson, chief economist for Wells Fargo, said consumer spending is the aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean.

00:32:16.000 It just keeps plowing ahead.

00:32:17.000 But, says the New York Times, choppy waters may lie ahead.

00:32:20.000 Yes, that's correct.

00:32:21.000 The first quarter data mostly predates the spike in gas prices that accompanied Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the lockdowns in China that have threatened to further disrupt global supply chains.

00:32:29.000 In other words, all of the bad stuff we saw in March was not really even taken into account in those first quarter GDP stats.

00:32:34.000 So get ready for a rough second quarter.

00:32:37.000 Inflation is still really bad.

00:32:39.000 We're about to experience major interest rate increases.

00:32:43.000 The impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war still have not been totally felt.

00:32:46.000 China's shutdown in the supply chain still has not been totally felt.

00:32:49.000 So really, well done here by the Biden administration, as always.

00:32:53.000 They're just, they are great at this.

00:32:55.000 The good news is that Joe Biden's solution to this is to relieve college debt.

00:33:00.000 So he's going to just apparently get rid of college debt, because nothing says quash inflation quite like raising taxes, as Chuck Schumer suggested, while simultaneously relieving college debt, which essentially is just a giant injection of money into the economy.

00:33:14.000 Stagflation is now a purposeful policy of this administration.

00:33:18.000 They haven't thought this stuff through at all, by the way.

00:33:20.000 So with Joe Biden's economy on the rocks, I think everybody is sort of expecting that real estate is going to start leveling out.

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00:33:44.000 Lock into that competitive rate and maybe you take advantage of the fact that the real estate prices are starting to stagnate just a little bit.

00:33:50.000 Real estate is going to always be a healthy investment because again, they ain't making any more of it.

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00:36:12.000 So again, the Biden administration's plan here is what if we then relieve student debt?

00:36:23.000 And the reason they're doing this is because the only people in America who don't hate Joe Biden's administration and like hate it are college-educated white liberal women. 1.00

00:36:30.000 And so why not just give them some money?

00:36:31.000 I mean, that'd be definitely the way out of this.

00:36:34.000 So Jen Psaki was asked a question yesterday, a pretty easy question.

00:36:36.000 So you're trying to fight inflation.

00:36:38.000 When you relieve student debt, aren't colleges just going to raise their prices?

00:36:42.000 Because after all, that's now the government just subsidizing things.

00:36:46.000 One of the reasons for increased healthcare costs in the United States is the government subsidizes via Medicare and Medicaid.

00:36:51.000 And so healthcare providers then respond by raising their prices.

00:36:54.000 If I knew...

00:36:57.000 That the government was going to cover half the price of a subscription to Daily Wire.

00:37:00.000 I would then raise the subscription price on the Daily Wire by about 50%.

00:37:03.000 The reason being, I know what subscribers are willing to pay, and then I would just add on the government on top.

00:37:07.000 So when you relieve student debt, colleges just raise their prices.

00:37:12.000 Chensaki has no answer on this because these people don't think through any of their own positions. 0.94

00:37:16.000 It's just a bunch of throwing almost literal horseshit against the wall.

00:37:21.000 What is to stop some of these schools from just increasing tuition for the next generation of students?

00:37:26.000 Isn't that half of the equation here?

00:37:28.000 I don't know if people would consider it half of the equation.

00:37:30.000 I don't know.

00:37:30.000 We'll let Americans define it.

00:37:32.000 I would point you to the Department of Education to talk about their efforts on that front.

00:37:35.000 She has nothing. I mean, weird, weird, weird. She has nothing. By the way, you want to know why colleges cost so much? One of the reasons the colleges cost so much, and this was tweeted out by a person named Theo Jordan. He tweeted out the staffing at some of the diversity, equity, and inclusion positions at one major university.

00:37:58.000 This is one major university.

00:38:00.000 Okay, you ready for this?

00:38:02.000 Here we go.

00:38:03.000 We're going to read off some of these positions.

00:38:05.000 This is why colleges cost so much.

00:38:06.000 Because administrators versus teachers, way more administrators now than there ever have been before.

00:38:11.000 This is one university alone.

00:38:13.000 $289,600 salary for the Associate Vice President at the Office of Institutional Equity.

00:38:18.000 Associate VP of Talent, Diversity, and Leadership, $262,000.

00:38:20.000 Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion, $257,000.

00:38:21.000 Associate Vice President, Office of Institutional Equity, $220,000.

00:38:24.000 Associate Dean, Diversity, Inclusion, and Outreach, $183,000.

00:38:26.000 Director, Office of Institutional Equity, $155,000.

00:38:28.000 By the way, I don't even know how you distinguish these positions.

00:38:30.000 Associate Dean, Diversity, Inclusion and Outreach, $183,000.

00:38:34.000 Director, Office of Institutional Equity, $155,000.

00:38:36.000 By the way, I don't even know how you distinguish these positions.

00:38:39.000 What is the difference between the Vice Provost at Diversity and Inclusion and the Director at the Office of Institutional Equity?

00:38:46.000 And And this list goes on.

00:38:49.000 It goes on for four pages.

00:38:51.000 For four pages.

00:38:52.000 It just keeps going, and going, and going, and going.

00:38:54.000 Total cost to this university.

00:38:57.000 This is Ohio State University, by the way.

00:38:59.000 Major university in the United States.

00:39:01.000 Total payroll, $10 million per year.

00:39:05.000 Fringe benefits, $3.2 million per year. 0.92

00:39:08.000 Total compensation for your diversity, equity, and inclusion staff, $13.4 million every single year for a bunch of career useless people.

00:39:19.000 By the way, this is why Democrats want to sponsor people to go to college.

00:39:21.000 It's not because you need to go to college in order to be a plumber.

00:39:26.000 It's because degree inflation is a way for Democrats to spend government money on things they can pretend work and also hire a bunch of their friends in diversity, equity and inclusion and indoctrinate people into the process.

00:39:38.000 This is a large-scale, it's also a large-scale make-work program.

00:39:41.000 It's sort of the opposite of the Tennessee Valley Authority circa 1935. 0.51

00:39:44.000 Instead of getting people to go and work in a valley building a dam or something, instead you send them to a garbage college.

00:39:50.000 Not OSU, but you send them to some random community college run by Joe Biden, where they learn about diversity, equity, and inclusion for three years and don't enter the unemployment rolls. 0.60

00:39:58.000 And then they get out and they are good little liberals.

00:40:00.000 Who proceed to vote for policies that create work for diversity, equity and inclusion officers.

00:40:06.000 So really brilliant economic policy all the way around by the Biden administration as always and forever.

00:40:12.000 Meanwhile.

00:40:14.000 The situation in Ukraine continues to worsen because there's not an area that this administration does well on.

00:40:21.000 Russia is now cutting off gas to two NATO nations in a bid to divide the West.

00:40:25.000 This was perfectly predictable.

00:40:26.000 According to the Associated Press, Russia cut off natural gas to NATO members Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday and threatened to do the same to other countries using its most essential export in what was seen as a bid to punish and divide the West over its support for Ukraine.

00:40:38.000 The move was immediately condemned by European leaders as blackmail and marked a dramatic escalation in the economic war of sanctions and counter sanctions that has unfolded in parallel to the fighting on the battlefield.

00:40:47.000 The tactic came a day after the U.S.

00:40:49.000 and other Western allies vowed to rush more and heavier weapons to Ukraine.

00:40:52.000 It could eventually force targeted nations to ration gas.

00:40:56.000 And deal another blow to economies suffering from rising prices.

00:40:59.000 At the same time, it could deprive Russia of badly needed income to fund its war effort.

00:41:02.000 Well, yeah, but Russia's the one cutting off the gas, so my guess is that they probably already have a backdoor deal with China to buy all their gas, or India to buy all of their gas.

00:41:10.000 Poland has been a major gateway for delivery of weapons to Ukraine.

00:41:13.000 Just hours before Russia's state energy giant Gazprom acted, Poland announced a new set of sanctions against the company and other Russian businesses.

00:41:20.000 And oligarchs.

00:41:21.000 Bulgaria, under a new liberal government that took office last fall, has cut many of its old ties to Moscow.

00:41:26.000 Meanwhile, their gas is also being cut.

00:41:30.000 The gas cut stones immediately put the two countries in dire trouble.

00:41:34.000 But somebody is going to have to make up the difference.

00:41:36.000 EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, quote, It comes as no surprise the Kremlin uses fossil fuels to try to blackmail us.

00:41:43.000 Today, the Kremlin failed once again in his attempt to sow division amongst member states.

00:41:47.000 The era of Russian fossil fuel in Europe is coming to an end.

00:41:49.000 Well, it could be.

00:41:50.000 Coming to an end.

00:41:51.000 Maybe it would be coming to an end more easily if the United States were filling the gap, considering the United States was, until very recently, a net exporter of natural gas and oil.

00:42:02.000 Unfortunately, this administration is so ensconced in its own wild progressivism that it can't even face up to the realities of world politics.

00:42:11.000 So you had a State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, literally yesterday talking about how we have to transition away from fossil fuels, and that's the solution.

00:42:18.000 By the way, simultaneously, they're attacking the leading electric vehicle manufacturer on planet Earth in Tesla.

00:42:25.000 Tesla's bad.

00:42:26.000 Manufacturing EVs.

00:42:27.000 Also, we need to get away from fossil fuels.

00:42:29.000 Also, we need everybody in Europe to be independent of Russian natural gas and oil.

00:42:34.000 If you can square that circle, you're the geniuses who created stagflation in the United States.

00:42:37.000 Here's Ned Price at the State Department.

00:42:40.000 We are working with our European allies and partners, as well as others, to transition away from Russian sources of energy, and ultimately to transition away from fossil fuels entirely, and to continue this transition to renewable, to sources of energy that will see to it that neither the United States nor any country around the world is held hostage to a country like Russia, who can close the spigot whenever they so choose. 0.91

00:43:08.000 He's absolute buffoons. 0.98

00:43:09.000 They're such buffoons. 1.00

00:43:10.000 You know, it'd be great if they didn't control the spigot. 1.00

00:43:12.000 But you idiots decided to let them control the spigot. 1.00

00:43:15.000 The leading idiot among all idiots is always, forever, John Kerry. 1.00

00:43:19.000 How this person was ever considered anything beyond just a grifter who married his way to wealth. 1.00

00:43:26.000 His path to power was, go to Harvard because you're a Boston Brahmin, and then do so poorly you end up at Boston University Law School. 1.00

00:43:34.000 And then, marry a ketchup heiress. 0.97

00:43:36.000 Just slow clap for John Kerry, who's been wrong on every major issue in American life his entire career, including slandering American soldiers in Vietnam as war criminals.

00:43:44.000 Here he was, literally yesterday, talking about, We can't have U.S. 0.84

00:43:48.000 companies expanding oil production.

00:43:51.000 His face collapsing like a mudslide in the Hollywood Hills.

00:43:53.000 Here we go.

00:43:55.000 One thing that seems worrying is that as energy prices soar, a lot of fossil fuel executives are smelling a business opportunity.

00:44:02.000 I mean, their stock prices have been rising.

00:44:05.000 They want to drill more, not less.

00:44:07.000 What do we do about that?

00:44:08.000 They have obviously, many of them, not all of them, decided that this is an opportunity.

00:44:17.000 Now we have the latest warnings even of the IPCC, Telling us unequivocally that we're really at the crunch time.

00:44:23.000 I mean, this is crunch.

00:44:25.000 So people are going to have to get a lot more serious than they have been about accelerating this transition.

00:44:33.000 This administration, pursuing foolishness every single day of the week, and the policies... Probably should put them in charge of free speech, right?

00:44:39.000 We should give them more power.

00:44:41.000 That's the solution.

00:44:41.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:44:44.000 In the meantime, go check out Michael Moll's show.

00:44:45.000 Today, he discusses Washington State, deeming the term marijuana racist.

00:44:50.000 You can hear more deets about that story over on Michael's show.

00:44:53.000 That's available right now.

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00:45:24.000 Joe Biden says your kids belong to teachers, not to you.

00:45:28.000 DHS sets up a disinformation governance board to censor Republicans.

00:45:33.000 What could go wrong?

00:45:34.000 And Washington state deems the term marijuana racist.

00:45:38.000 I guess now we have to use the term Peruvian parsley.

The Ben Shapiro Show - April 28, 2022

Joe Biden's Crashing Economy | Ep. 1483

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