The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden vs. ULTRA MAGA | Ep. 1492

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden comes up with an odd label to attack his political opposition.

00:00:04.000 Ultra-MAGA! 0.52

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00:01:36.000 Well, Joe Biden is staring down the barrel of a 2020 to debacle, a disaster for him.

00:01:42.000 And so he is starting that 2022 campaign with a very simple proposition.

00:01:47.000 It's never my fault.

00:01:48.000 Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.

00:01:50.000 And so he has to come up with an opponent.

00:01:51.000 Now, the problem for him is pretty simple.

00:01:54.000 He is the president of the United States.

00:01:56.000 Democrats control the Senate.

00:01:57.000 Democrats control the House.

00:01:58.000 Donald Trump has not been president for nigh on two years.

00:02:02.000 And that's going to be very difficult for him to run against because, again, everything is in his lap.

00:02:06.000 When you have unified control of government and things go really poorly, the American people tend to blame you.

00:02:11.000 And in all of your elections, they tend to blame you anyway.

00:02:13.000 So now they're going to doubly blame you.

00:02:15.000 And if things have gone as crappily for Joe Biden as they have gone, which is like maybe the worst first term of any president ever elected, Well, then they're really, really going to blame you.

00:02:23.000 But Joe Biden is going to go back to the well.

00:02:25.000 He knows that there is only one person he has ever defeated, Donald Trump.

00:02:29.000 That is the only person he has ever defeated seriously in a political way.

00:02:33.000 He won Democratic primaries, but that was against an old doddering socialist like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who is not a Native American, and Pete Buttigieg, who's Vast experience in not filling potholes in South Bend, Indiana, and also being gay presented a grave threat to Joe Biden on the campaign trail. 0.60

00:02:49.000 In other words, that was not a really rough primary for Joe Biden.

00:02:52.000 He was easily the most famous person in the primary.

00:02:54.000 He's the former vice president for Barack Obama.

00:02:56.000 He had the support of Heavy institutional influencers like Jim Clyburn in South Carolina.

00:03:03.000 And so the only person who he's really defeated in an election is Donald Trump.

00:03:08.000 And so that means that he is going to continue running against Donald Trump.

00:03:11.000 As I say, hard to run against Donald Trump.

00:03:13.000 Dune ain't on the ballot.

00:03:14.000 Hard to run against Donald Trump.

00:03:15.000 He hasn't been in office for two years.

00:03:17.000 Hard to run against Donald Trump.

00:03:18.000 He's not even on Twitter yet.

00:03:20.000 He'll be back soon, as Elon Musk let out of the bag yesterday.

00:03:26.000 Joe Biden's going to try it anyway.

00:03:27.000 And what he's going to try and do, he's going to try to say, everybody who opposes me is Donald Trump.

00:03:31.000 And by extension, everybody who supports Donald Trump is January 6th.

00:03:35.000 And everybody who's at a January 6th rally is a terrorist.

00:03:39.000 And so everybody I don't like is a terrorist by the transitive property.

00:03:44.000 So the problem with this, of course, is that the Make America Great Again movement under Donald Trump did earn 73 plus million votes in the last election cycle.

00:03:55.000 And those are the people who are most enthused to show up to the polls again this time.

00:03:59.000 All the people who oppose Joe Biden are very enthused to show up to the polls this time.

00:04:02.000 And so he has to come up with some sort of new name.

00:04:05.000 He can't just say MAGA because it's old and it's tired.

00:04:07.000 But Joe Biden is a derivative and plagiaristic thinker.

00:04:10.000 And so he can't come up with any sort of new descriptor for his enemies.

00:04:12.000 So he has come up instead with a deeper signifier of MAGANESS.

00:04:16.000 And that is ULTRAMAGA!

00:04:19.000 Which, by the way, sounds like a transformer.

00:04:21.000 It sounds like Donald Trump is going to turn into a giant big rig or something.

00:04:24.000 Or Power Rangers.

00:04:25.000 It's like Donald Trump, Power Ranger, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Ultra Mega.

00:04:33.000 So anyway, Joe Biden, bad at branding, bad at everything except for being asleep during campaigns.

00:04:39.000 Very good at being asleep during campaigns. 0.91

00:04:41.000 He is launching his 2022 party campaign by bringing into existence the dumbest political label I've ever heard hanged on an opposing political party. 1.00

00:04:54.000 It's really, really stupid. 1.00

00:04:55.000 So Joe Biden yesterday gives this big speech in which he talks about the evils of ultra super duper MAGA. 1.00

00:05:02.000 First of all, completely blown opportunity here.

00:05:04.000 Shouldn't it have been mega MAGA?

00:05:07.000 Mega MAGA!

00:05:08.000 But no, he went with ultra super duper pooper scooper MAGA.

00:05:11.000 Here we go.

00:05:13.000 I never expected the ultra MAGA Republicans who seem to control the Republican Party now To have been able to control the Republican party. 0.52

00:05:27.000 I never anticipated that happening.

00:05:31.000 Ultra MAGA, okay, and then he continues to rant about Ultra MAGA.

00:05:37.000 And he never really describes what Ultra MAGA is or what makes one Ultra MAGA.

00:05:42.000 Is being Ultra MAGA, like you take injection shots of testosterone and now you weren't just MAGA before, you're Ultra MAGA, you wear like three MAGA hats, or you have a Trump t-shirt and also an FJB hat, or what?

00:05:54.000 What makes you Ultra MAGA?

00:05:55.000 Here is Joe Biden continuing to rant.

00:05:58.000 Americans have a choice right now between two paths reflecting two very different sets of values.

00:06:05.000 My plan attacks inflation and grows the economy by lowering costs for working families, giving workers well-deserved raises, reducing the deficit by historic levels, and making big corporations and very wealthiest Americans pay their fair share.

00:06:23.000 The other path is the ultra-MAGA plan put forward by Congressional Republicans.

00:06:30.000 To raise taxes on working families, lower the income of American workers, threaten sacred programs Americans count on like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and give break after break to big corporations and billionaires.

00:06:49.000 That's the ultra-MAGA plan. 0.79

00:06:50.000 Now, he never defines what makes one ultra-MAGA, but apparently it's just stuff I don't like.

00:06:54.000 And by the way, the stuff that he's talking about Republicans embracing, nobody has talked about Medicare and Medicaid cuts.

00:07:00.000 Nobody has talked about restructuring Social Security.

00:07:02.000 I mean, they should, but they've not.

00:07:04.000 When he's talking about raising taxes on the working class, he's referring presumably to Senator Rick Scott's plans who have everyone who pays income tax, everybody who earns an income pay at least a little bit of income tax.

00:07:16.000 There's supposed to be some tax rebates involved or whatever.

00:07:17.000 That has not even been embraced by a congressional majority among Republicans. 0.99

00:07:23.000 He's standing in front of a poster, by the way, while he's giving this dumb speech. 0.83

00:07:25.000 He's standing in front of a poster that says, tackling inflation, lowering costs. 0.72

00:07:29.000 No one believes that Joe Biden is doing any of these things.

00:07:31.000 He's just ranting about ultramega.

00:07:32.000 Fine.

00:07:32.000 Already coming up, Jen Psaki tries to explain what super ultra mega mega extreme mega means.

00:07:38.000 She doesn't have a really good explanation.

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00:08:41.000 So he sends out Jen Psaki, MSNBC correspondent for the White House Press Corps.

00:08:45.000 And Jen Psaki, she tries to, again, drop this Ultramaga label. 1.00

00:08:49.000 You're not making Fetch happen, guys.

00:08:51.000 It ain't happening. 1.00

00:08:52.000 No matter how many times you say Ultramaga, it still sounds stupid and like you're bad at your job. 1.00

00:08:57.000 Here we go. 0.99

00:08:59.000 Those who support a plan by Rick Scott, by Chairman Scott, that would raise taxes on 75 million Americans and get rid of, sunset, eliminate, whatever you want to call it, Medicare and Social Security, that's a MAGA position.

00:09:13.000 And that includes the chairman of the Republican National Committee.

00:09:16.000 That's a MAGA position.

00:09:17.000 That is the chairman of the party.

00:09:19.000 Again, UltraMAGA is just all the things I don't like.

00:09:20.000 All the things I don't like are UltraMAGA, SuperDuperMAGA.

00:09:22.000 of the American people, according to a Fox News poll, believe that women's, that Roe v. Wade should be protected. 0.87

00:09:28.000 If you're on the other side of that, you're supporting an ultra-MAGA position in the president's view.

00:09:33.000 Again, ultra-MAGA is just all the things I don't like.

00:09:37.000 All the things I don't like are ultra-MAGA, super-duper-MAGA. 0.51

00:09:39.000 Not going to work.

00:09:41.000 Not, no one, like, holding up the giant orange specter of Trump there in the distance is not going to help you, gang.

00:09:48.000 You really think that all you're going to do is revive... Honestly, if the thing that Democrats are trying to do here is everyone who opposes us loves Trump, That means a majority of Americans like Trump.

00:09:59.000 Right?

00:09:59.000 You understand what you're doing here.

00:10:01.000 People hate democratic policy right now.

00:10:03.000 Hate it.

00:10:04.000 Joe Biden is underwater in something like 46 out of 50 states.

00:10:07.000 If everybody who opposes Joe Biden and his agenda in those states is now ultra MAGA, that means a majority of America is now ultra MAGA by their lights because they won't even label it.

00:10:17.000 I mean, they're not even trying to describe what the ideology of ultra MAGA is.

00:10:21.000 They're just they believe that Donald Trump is so unbelievably toxic that if you just take The slogan that he used, and you lightly brush it over the surface of American politics, and everybody goes, ooh, that's, ooh, that's terrible.

00:10:33.000 I guess I'll do what you want.

00:10:35.000 That ain't the way this is gonna work.

00:10:37.000 Jen Psaki admits that she has no actual definition for Ultramaga.

00:10:39.000 She says, well, I think that it's pretty clear.

00:10:41.000 It means whatever you want it to mean, which is how Democrats do words now, right?

00:10:45.000 Woman means whatever you want it to mean. 1.00

00:10:46.000 It's not an actual description of a biological characteristic.

00:10:49.000 Woman means whatever you want it to mean. 1.00

00:10:51.000 And so does Ultramaga.

00:10:52.000 It's all in the eye of the beholder.

00:10:55.000 You've heard the president talk about this, but it's not just obviously putting at risk a woman's right to make choices about her own health care.

00:11:03.000 It is also, as you heard him talk about this morning, Rick Scott's extreme plan that will raise taxes on 75 million Americans making less than $100,000 a year.

00:11:13.000 And it's also the obsession with culture wars and wars against Mickey Mouse and banning books.

00:11:18.000 The president thinks that's extreme.

00:11:20.000 That is not what the American people care about or what they want.

00:11:22.000 And so to him, adding a little ultra to it, Give it a little extra pop.

00:11:28.000 Give it a little extra.

00:11:28.000 God, these people are so irritating.

00:11:30.000 It's so irritating.

00:11:31.000 Give it a little extra pop.

00:11:32.000 It's like new Coke.

00:11:33.000 It's not just Coke.

00:11:34.000 Yeah, new.

00:11:35.000 And now it's new Coke.

00:11:37.000 Brands and geniuses over here in the Democratic Party.

00:11:39.000 Now, here is the biggest problem. 1.00

00:11:41.000 You suck at your job. 1.00

00:11:42.000 That is the biggest problem. 1.00

00:11:43.000 You are garbage at your job. 0.99

00:11:45.000 According to the Washington Post, gas prices have now reached record highs, as Joe Biden calls inflation the top priority. 0.99

00:11:52.000 Apparently, the average price for a gallon of gas nationwide hit $4.37 on Tuesday. 0.99

00:11:57.000 That is the highest price AAA has ever recorded, ever, in California because of their idiotic gas taxes. 0.95

00:12:03.000 The average price in California, the average price for a gallon of gas in California is currently, get this, $5.84. 0.98

00:12:10.000 $5.84 for a gallon of gas in California.

00:12:15.000 That's the average price.

00:12:18.000 This is not the most expensive gas on record when adjusted for inflation.

00:12:21.000 But you can't adjust for inflation because again, the inflation is part of the problem.

00:12:27.000 Biden pledged to redouble his efforts yesterday, outlining his agenda, most of which is stalled in Congress and most of which is absolutely counterproductive.

00:12:34.000 Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is figuring out, hey, wait a second, you know, we may have acted too slow on inflation.

00:12:39.000 Yeah, you think?

00:12:40.000 Some of us were saying you were acting too slow on inflation like several years ago.

00:12:44.000 According to the New York Times, however, Fed confronts why it may have acted too slowly on inflation.

00:12:49.000 Some Federal Reserve officials have begun to acknowledge they were too slow to respond to rapid inflation last year.

00:12:53.000 A delay that is forcing them to constrain the economy more abruptly now, and one that could hold lessons for the policy path ahead.

00:12:59.000 Inflation began to accelerate last spring, but Fed policymakers and most private sector forecasters initially thought price gains would quickly fade.

00:13:06.000 It became clear in early fall that fast inflation was proving to be more lasting.

00:13:09.000 But the Fed pivoted toward rapidly removing policy support only in late November, and didn't raise rates until March.

00:13:15.000 Several current and former Fed officials have suggested in recent days that in hindsight, the central bank should have reacted more quickly and forcefully last fall, but that both profound moral uncertainty about the future and the Fed's approach to setting policy slowed it down.

00:13:27.000 In other words, they deliberately ran the economy hot because they were attempting to quote-unquote build back better.

00:13:32.000 And now they have run inflation up to the point where the economy is now in danger of being run into the ground.

00:13:38.000 Now, the White House is taking a little bit of comfort in the notion that today the Consumer Price Index is expected to show that inflation has already peaked.

00:13:49.000 But core inflation is still going to be really, really high.

00:13:52.000 So they were expecting the core inflation report to show 8.1% increase year over year, which is a massive, massive increase year over year, but it is down from something like 8.5% last month.

00:14:03.000 So they're now saying that that is a decline in the rate of inflation.

00:14:07.000 And maybe that will start to show that that inflation is coming down.

00:14:10.000 Listen, I still think the Federal Reserve is going to be able to bring inflation down.

00:14:12.000 The only question is how much pain they're going to inflict in order to do all of this.

00:14:16.000 But here's the reality.

00:14:17.000 Every policy that Joe Biden has proposed makes inflation worse.

00:14:20.000 Government spending, relieving student loan debt, higher regulations, more taxation.

00:14:25.000 All that does is constrain supply.

00:14:27.000 And Joe Biden continues to embrace all of that.

00:14:30.000 Already coming up, Joe Biden made a big speech yesterday about inflation.

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00:15:41.000 So he gives the speech yesterday.

00:15:42.000 And again, the reason that he keeps saying UltraMAGA is because he's trying to create some sort of phantom out there.

00:15:47.000 And then there's the moment when the American voter unmasks the monster and it turns out to be Joe Biden. 0.99

00:15:52.000 He says, if it weren't for those darn kids, I would have gotten away with it. 0.99

00:15:55.000 It's all Scooby-Doo episode where Joe Biden is the villain. 0.99

00:15:58.000 Again, I don't know who does his branding or who decides how to do his PR.

00:15:58.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:16:05.000 It's awful.

00:16:06.000 They literally put him in front of a step and repeat that says behind him, lowering costs, tackling inflation.

00:16:14.000 No one believes this.

00:16:16.000 Why would you put those words on a screen with him?

00:16:19.000 If you're Joe Biden, the last thing you want is the Republican ads ready-made.

00:16:24.000 All they have to do is crop the photo of Joe Biden and the words, tackling inflation.

00:16:29.000 And everybody laughs.

00:16:30.000 Or Joe Biden and lowering costs. 1.00

00:16:33.000 These people are morons. 1.00

00:16:34.000 So Joe Biden, he says yesterday he's taking inflation really, really, really seriously. 1.00

00:16:37.000 By really seriously, he means it's all your fault, you idiots. 0.99

00:16:41.000 I want every American to know that I'm taking inflation very seriously, and it's my top domestic priority. 1.00

00:16:51.000 Oh, that is your top domestic priority, is it?

00:16:54.000 Really?

00:16:54.000 Because it turns out that your top domestic priority is ignoring the fact that your policies have created inflation.

00:17:00.000 In fact, Joe Biden said yesterday his policies have been helpful toward inflation, which comes as a shock to every American who has a functioning brain.

00:17:08.000 There are some Americans who don't have functioning brains, and to whom this sounds good. 1.00

00:17:11.000 Here is Joe Biden, oddly clutching that binder. 0.98

00:17:13.000 Again, this is such a weird physical thing that he does when he's feeling defensive.

00:17:17.000 He, like, actually picks up his little portfolio and he, like, clutches it to his chest, like a kid who hasn't done his homework.

00:17:24.000 It's... He is not with us, gang.

00:17:26.000 Here is the President of the United States.

00:17:29.000 Do you take any responsibility for your policies?

00:17:31.000 I think our policies help not hurt.

00:17:34.000 Think about what they say.

00:17:36.000 The vast majority of the economists think that this is going to be a real tough problem to solve, but it's not because of spending.

00:17:49.000 It's not because of spending, guys.

00:17:51.000 Inflation didn't happen because we spent too much money, even though the definition of inflation is too much money chasing too few goods.

00:17:56.000 So really brilliant stuff there.

00:17:58.000 Also, he was asked, so why are people blaming you?

00:18:00.000 Right?

00:18:01.000 If you're so bad, if you've been amazing at this and you're doing such a great job, why does everybody blame you? 1.00

00:18:05.000 And of course, Joe Biden's answer is, well, it's because everybody else is stupid. 0.99

00:18:08.000 Not me, the senile old man who's been pursuing inflationary policy since the day I stepped into office. 0.98

00:18:14.000 How do you believe so many Americans believe that your administration is not doing enough to combat inflation?

00:18:23.000 They're not focused.

00:18:25.000 All they're focused on, understandably, is the problem they're facing.

00:18:30.000 They get a 5.5% raise, an average raise, in their salaries, and yet inflation exceeds that.

00:18:36.000 And they look around the world, and they know that a lot of it's extremely complicated.

00:18:42.000 And so they're frustrated, and I don't blame them.

00:18:46.000 Okay, but it's because they're distracted, not he's distracted.

00:18:49.000 Even though he's as distractible as a dog amidst a bevy of squirrels.

00:18:54.000 There's just squirrels everywhere for Joe Biden.

00:18:56.000 But you are distracted.

00:18:58.000 It's you.

00:18:59.000 You have no attention span.

00:19:00.000 Sure, he falls asleep in the middle of the first segment of Matlock, but you are the one who's distracted.

00:19:05.000 Again, I'm not going to get over the physical gripping of the portfolio while he does this sort of thing, because it is so obviously a defense mechanism.

00:19:13.000 At this point, it's like a physical defense mechanism.

00:19:15.000 Playing poker with members of the Biden administration must be just an exercise in futility, because they all just have tells, right?

00:19:21.000 Kamala Harris, every time she gets a good hand, just starts cackling crazily. 1.00

00:19:24.000 And Joe Biden, every time he gets a good hand, he starts clutching his portfolio to his chest.

00:19:29.000 I mean, it's just it's amazing, amazing stuff.

00:19:32.000 So again, he's bad at this.

00:19:34.000 And so it's time to blame all from mad guy.

00:19:37.000 Here's the president of the United States doing that.

00:19:39.000 The fact is congressional Republicans, not all of them, but the mega Republicans are counting on you to be as frustrated by the pace of progress, which they have everything.

00:19:53.000 They've done everything they can to slow down that you're going to will hand power over to them.

00:20:00.000 And enact so they can enact their extreme agenda.

00:20:06.000 Again, Trump is not that he seems to think that this is Beetlejuice.

00:20:09.000 And if you say Trump three times into the mirror, then magically Trump appears and then he can yell at him not going to work.

00:20:15.000 Remember one second ago when Joe Biden said that the Republican plan is to tax people and that they think that that's going to solve inflation.

00:20:20.000 Then yesterday, he said that his plan is to tax people.

00:20:24.000 I tax a lot of people.

00:20:27.000 My plan is to lower everyday costs for hardworking Americans and lower the deficit by asking large corporations and the wealthiest Americans to not engage in price gouging and to pay their fair share in taxes.

00:20:45.000 And his policy to lower inflation is to punish the people who make the products that you buy.

00:20:50.000 We're going to punish the people who do the investment.

00:20:52.000 We're going to punish the people who do the production. 0.83

00:20:54.000 We are going to tax them.

00:20:56.000 We're going to regulate them. 1.00

00:20:57.000 And he thinks this is going to somehow lower inflation because he is a fool. 0.98

00:21:00.000 You should literally do the opposite of whatever Joe Biden thinks he is saying. 0.99

00:21:03.000 And I say thinks he's saying because I think there's a real disconnect between his brain and his mouth.

00:21:07.000 He can't get sentences out of his face anymore.

00:21:10.000 Perhaps the funniest part of his little press conference yesterday in which he bragged that he was getting inflation under control is when he admitted that they control all the branches of government and then admitted, well, maybe we don't.

00:21:20.000 He realizes halfway through the statement that it's bad for him if they control the governments.

00:21:25.000 There we go.

00:21:27.000 You're justifiably right.

00:21:28.000 We control all three branches of government.

00:21:31.000 Well, we don't really.

00:21:34.000 We have 50-50 in the Senate.

00:21:36.000 You need 60 votes to get major things done.

00:21:39.000 I've been pushing the things I've been proposing here, and you've heard me speak to today since I got in office.

00:21:44.000 And I need to get 60 votes to be able to even pass them.

00:21:51.000 Poor little Joe.

00:21:52.000 Poor little Joe.

00:21:52.000 He's president.

00:21:53.000 He has a majority in the Senate.

00:21:54.000 He can't do anything bipartisan.

00:21:56.000 He's got a majority in the House.

00:21:57.000 He can't do anything.

00:21:59.000 What a sad fate.

00:22:01.000 I mean, it's because of all his enemies.

00:22:02.000 That's probably why.

00:22:04.000 It's not because his ideas are really, really, really bad and really counterproductive.

00:22:08.000 Or maybe it's because ideas are really, really bad and really counterproductive.

00:22:11.000 Alrighty, so this administration believes a lot of things that are not true.

00:22:13.000 Like boys can be girls, and abortion does not kill a human fetus, and maybe the Easter Bunny should control the President of the United States. 1.00

00:22:19.000 And also, spending does not actually affect inflation.

00:22:21.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:23:38.000 Jen Psaki yesterday said that Joe Biden does not believe that spending affects inflation, which is a pretty astonishing statement.

00:23:46.000 It really is.

00:23:47.000 It's somewhat like saying, using your credit card does not increase your debt.

00:23:51.000 Which he also says, by the way.

00:23:52.000 He says he's bringing down deficits by spending $6 trillion a year.

00:23:56.000 Here's Jen Psaki. 1.00

00:23:58.000 Just to make sure, like, what he's saying is the pandemic is distinct from the spending in response to the pandemic.

00:24:05.000 And he does not believe the size of the spending mattered with regard to inflation.

00:24:09.000 Again, no.

00:24:11.000 And we have spoken to this in the past.

00:24:16.000 He does not believe that spending creates higher inflation.

00:24:20.000 Weird, weird.

00:24:21.000 Meanwhile, Jennifer Granholm, the Energy Secretary, she's like, yeah, you like those gas prices?

00:24:24.000 We're going to keep them there for a while because that's just how it is.

00:24:26.000 Here is Jennifer Granholm, who, by the way, has openly suggested that it is time to move beyond fossil fuels while Americans are struggling to fill up the tank for work because gas is now costing in California nearly six bucks a gallon on average.

00:24:37.000 And she's like, yeah, it might stay this way for a while, but after all, you can always do what Pete Buttigieg says you should do and buy an electric car for $100,000.

00:24:45.000 Does your department have a projection of how high gas prices will go?

00:24:49.000 We're soon entering the summer driving season.

00:24:52.000 Yeah, I mean, the International, excuse me, the Energy Information Agency, it's been bumping around a little because of what's been going on with the EU.

00:25:02.000 The prediction was that it would come down a bit by the end of this year, but it is going to take a while.

00:25:08.000 Oh, it's going to take a while, is it?

00:25:10.000 Why?

00:25:11.000 It's funny how they'll never answer why.

00:25:14.000 It's just because of Putin.

00:25:15.000 Oh, really?

00:25:15.000 Then why was it high before Putin?

00:25:17.000 Oh, it's really because of supply chain issues.

00:25:20.000 Really?

00:25:20.000 Then why is it because you've prevented domestic oil production by not greenlighting all of the various legal documents necessary to actually drill?

00:25:28.000 And shutting off the sale of gas leases.

00:25:30.000 Why?

00:25:30.000 And no one ever asks why.

00:25:33.000 Interesting.

00:25:34.000 So Rick Scott yesterday, the senator from Florida, he said, you know, if you really want this thing to start picking up again, perhaps Joe Biden should resign.

00:25:40.000 He says, Joe Biden is unwell.

00:25:42.000 He's unfit for office.

00:25:43.000 He's incoherent, incapacitated, and confused.

00:25:45.000 If Joe Biden wants to actually fix the inflation crisis he created, he should resign.

00:25:50.000 Now, again, Joe Biden ain't going to take that well, but that happens to be true.

00:25:53.000 And as Ronald Reagan once suggested while running against Jimmy Carter, a recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose your job, a recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his job.

00:26:02.000 And that happens to be true also about Joe Biden.

00:26:05.000 So Joe Biden responded to Rick Scott by demonstrating full scale that he is incoherent.

00:26:13.000 You called out Rick Scott a little while ago in your remarks.

00:26:16.000 Earlier today, anticipating your remarks, he said, and I'm just quoting here, that the best thing, most effective thing Joe Biden can do to solve the inflation crisis he created is resign.

00:26:28.000 He's the problem.

00:26:31.000 The senator added later, Joe Biden is unwell, he's unfit for office, he's incoherent, incapacitated, and confused.

00:26:38.000 These are his words.

00:26:39.000 Offering him a chance to respond.

00:26:41.000 I think the man has a problem.

00:26:44.000 The man has a problem?

00:26:46.000 Why don't you clutch that binder a little bit harder there, Joe?

00:26:48.000 Just clutch it a little bit harder.

00:26:49.000 Meanwhile, remember how the Democrats thought that the abortion issue was going to be a big winner for them?

00:26:52.000 So they're going to swivel away from inflation, and they're going to swivel toward abortion?

00:26:56.000 There's only one problem with this particular answer for the Democrats.

00:26:58.000 Their position on abortion is wildly out of the mainstream.

00:27:02.000 Their position on abortion is abortion until point of birth.

00:27:04.000 Because their position on children is perverse.

00:27:06.000 The Democratic Party position on children is you can abort them before they are born.

00:27:09.000 Once they are born, it is society's responsibility to take care of them via government programs, but you have no responsibility to take care of them.

00:27:15.000 They should be indoctrinated by public school teachers into the idea that they are racially essential.

00:27:20.000 And not only can we boil them down to the race, but also that boys can be girls and girls can be boys, so that sexually authentic adults can feel better about their life choices.

00:27:31.000 This is the Democratic view on children.

00:27:34.000 And it turns out Americans don't like that stuff very much, that you lose elections based on this sort of stuff.

00:27:39.000 Here's Joe Biden yesterday.

00:27:40.000 He was asked about restrictions on abortion.

00:27:42.000 Would he support any of them?

00:27:43.000 Now, remember, all Democrats have to do here.

00:27:45.000 It's such a layup for Democrats.

00:27:48.000 This Roe versus Wade thing is such a layup for Democrats.

00:27:50.000 All Democrats have to do.

00:27:52.000 Is say we would be willing to discuss certain restrictions on abortion late in pregnancy.

00:27:57.000 This, by the way, is the position of the American people.

00:27:59.000 We would be willing to discuss, you know, exacerbating conditions under which we think that a baby should be protected.

00:28:05.000 An unborn child should be protected late in pregnancy.

00:28:07.000 But otherwise, we need Roe versus Wade in place to ensure that the earliest stages of pregnancy, a woman can have a right to choose. 0.91

00:28:15.000 Now, listen, I think that position is morally incoherent, but politically it makes a lot of sense for Democrats.

00:28:19.000 They can't bring themselves to do it.

00:28:20.000 Instead, they take the full position. 0.98

00:28:23.000 Every major Democrat takes the full position that a baby should be able to be killed until its head exits the birth canal, essentially. 0.95

00:28:31.000 Here's Joe Biden doing that yesterday.

00:28:32.000 This is not a popular position with the American people.

00:28:34.000 And whenever you see headlines suggesting that Americans are quote-unquote pro-choice, understand that what that means is that the polls show that Americans are not pro-choice in the third trimester.

00:28:42.000 They are extraordinarily pro-life in the third trimester.

00:28:44.000 In the second trimester, they tend to be somewhere in between.

00:28:47.000 In the first trimester, they're still in favor of certain restrictions, but are not fully pro-life, right?

00:28:53.000 That is what And by the way, when Americans describe themselves, it really kind of depends on what frame they are using.

00:29:01.000 So you will see people describe themselves as pro-choice because they think that you should be able to abort a baby up till about 10 weeks.

00:29:07.000 That is more of a pro-life position.

00:29:09.000 And you will see people describe themselves as pro-life because they wish to ban abortion after the 10th week.

00:29:14.000 So you have two people with identical positions, one who describes himself as pro-choice, one who describes himself as pro-life.

00:29:19.000 But the polling data is pretty clear on this.

00:29:21.000 The Democratic position is way the hell out of the mainstream and immoral to boot.

00:29:24.000 So here's Joe Biden promoting that position, of course.

00:29:26.000 Do you support any restrictions on abortion or what limits do you believe there should be?

00:29:33.000 Because I don't want the story to be about inflation.

00:29:37.000 Again, the full answer, legal in all cases, no exception, that is a position that is held by 19%.

00:29:47.000 19% of the American public.

00:29:47.000 But that is the position of the Democratic Party.

00:29:52.000 Everyone else, 27% believe that it should be illegal in most cases.

00:29:58.000 Another 2% believe it should be illegal in all cases, but there are a few exceptions.

00:30:04.000 8% believe illegal in all cases, no exceptions.

00:30:07.000 And this moves along with the timeline of pregnancy.

00:30:12.000 And yet the Democratic Party has decided to take the most extreme position humanly possible. 0.99

00:30:15.000 So today, because Chuck Schumer is a moron, the Senate Majority Leader is bringing up for a vote an abortion bill. 0.99

00:30:22.000 It does not codify Roe. 0.99

00:30:24.000 It doesn't.

00:30:25.000 Roe creates a trimester process that was basically overthrown by Planned Parenthood versus Casey, which created the undue burden standard, which again was a vague, unworkable standard.

00:30:35.000 But this doesn't do that.

00:30:36.000 This doesn't even suggest that you can do any sort of abortion restrictions in the last trimester, as Roe does.

00:30:42.000 Instead, this bill creates a right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

00:30:48.000 The bill's chief sponsor in the Senate acknowledges the legislation does not distinguish between physical and mental health.

00:30:52.000 The text of the bill explicitly instructs the courts to liberally interpret the legislation.

00:30:57.000 It strikes down pretty much all state laws on abortion.

00:31:00.000 It gets rid of all parental consent laws.

00:31:03.000 So you don't even need to consent with the parent if the kid is like a kid, like a minor.

00:31:09.000 It gets rid of all conscience and liberty protections.

00:31:12.000 It creates a right for non-doctors to perform abortions. 0.94

00:31:15.000 And it would prohibit all state laws banning sex-selective abortion. 0.68

00:31:18.000 So you can now decide to kill a baby just because it's a girl.

00:31:21.000 That is what Chuck Schumer's preferred bill would do. 0.97

00:31:23.000 And he wants Democrats on the record to vote on this because why exactly?

00:31:29.000 Talk about snatching defeat from the draws of victory here.

00:31:31.000 Here's Chuck Schumer pushing it.

00:31:34.000 If the MAGA Republicans get their way, pregnant women could lose their lives because there will be no exception for the life of a mother if there's a dangerous complication in the pregnancy. 0.95

00:31:46.000 If MAGA Republicans get their way, women and their health care providers could go to prison for life. 1.00

00:31:54.000 Okay, well there is no one.

00:31:56.000 Literally no one who has proposed that a woman who obtains an abortion goes to jail.

00:32:01.000 That is not a part of any pro-life legislation that I know about.

00:32:04.000 All of the legislation is directed at abortion doctors.

00:32:08.000 That's just the reality.

00:32:10.000 I have not seen any legislation.

00:32:12.000 It is not a mainstream pro-life position that women who try to obtain abortions should go to jail.

00:32:17.000 The idea is that the doctors, even the Texas law right now that provides civil liability, does not allow women to be sued.

00:32:24.000 It allows the doctors and the providers to be sued.

00:32:28.000 But Chuck Schumer is trying to get a vote on this thing.

00:32:31.000 And even NBC is like, what are you doing?

00:32:34.000 NBC, which is a Democratic Party press outlet, they have an article today.

00:32:38.000 Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Ben Kamisar, Bridget Bowman, and Alexander Marquez, so apparently the entire staff of NBC News.

00:32:43.000 Democrats all but doomed Senate abortion vote threatens to divide the party.

00:32:47.000 If it's Tuesday, West Virginia and Nebraska hold their 2022 primary contest.

00:32:51.000 President Joe Biden contrasts his plan to fight inflation with that of Senator Rick Scott.

00:32:54.000 But first, Senate Democrats are once again headed for a show vote, this time on abortion, that risks dividing their party, depressing their base, and looks all but certain to be defeated.

00:33:04.000 Sounds good to me.

00:33:05.000 NBC's Frank Thorpe and Julie Cirkin report, quote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer officially set into motion the procedure Monday afternoon to have a key procedural vote on the Democratic bill to provide federal protections for abortion rights on Wednesday.

00:33:16.000 The vote's timing is still TBD, but it's expected in the afternoon on Wednesday, it's still expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to pass.

00:33:22.000 The basic idea here is that the bill is so extreme that a bunch of Democrats aren't going to vote in favor of the bill.

00:33:31.000 Because if you're in a swing state, if you're Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona, or if you're Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, if you are any senator in a swing state, if you're Joe Manchin, why would you vote for a bill that does all of the things we just discussed?

00:33:44.000 It makes no sense at all.

00:33:47.000 But they're going to push forward with this thing anyway because this party is so enthralled to its own base.

00:33:51.000 It's amazing.

00:33:52.000 So you have Senator Tina Smith, Democrat, saying this abortion vote is what accountability looks like. 0.99

00:33:56.000 Listen, if you guys want to hold your entire party to account to the most radical of all abortion positions, go for it. 0.60

00:34:03.000 I think it's very important that we put our Republican colleagues on record as being completely out of step with where Americans are.

00:34:11.000 My Republican colleagues have been pushing for decades to overturn Roe versus Wade, and now what we have is them all sort of running for the hills and trying to change the subject.

00:34:22.000 I think that's what accountability looks like in a democracy, and that's why it's so important that we have this vote.

00:34:30.000 Okay, so go for it.

00:34:32.000 The answer is go for it.

00:34:34.000 But this administration is so amazingly extreme, like truly incredibly extreme on abortion, that not only are they still encouraging people to go to justices' houses to protest this, which is illegal, they are now trotting out the Treasury Secretary to promote abortion.

00:34:49.000 That's how extreme they are.

00:34:51.000 And this is their proposal to win in 2022?

00:34:53.000 To send out your failing treasury secretary, who's presided over the possibility of a recession in a time when we should have a booming economy, to talk about the most extreme position available on abortion. 0.92

00:35:03.000 Plus, send your press secretary, who works for MSNBC, in about five minutes, out there to talk about why people should violate the law. 0.88

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00:37:44.000 So again, the Democrats, when it comes to abortion, they're taking the most extreme positions.

00:37:53.000 So Jen Psaki yesterday, the Washington Post tried to sort of nuance her into the position where she was opposing protesting at people's houses, which is illegal.

00:38:02.000 You're not allowed to try to threaten or intimidate in any way people who serve in the judicial branch.

00:38:10.000 You're not allowed to stand outside their houses.

00:38:11.000 This is against municipal law in the state of Virginia, for example, and in Maryland.

00:38:15.000 And yet, Jen Psaki is out there explicitly saying, That she is fine and okay with people, quote-unquote, peacefully protesting outside the houses of justices.

00:38:24.000 This is amazing stuff from the White House.

00:38:26.000 I mean, truly.

00:38:26.000 I mean, not that amazing, considering that the Democratic Party basically fostered riots in 2020 in major American cities over the lie that America was deeply institutionally racist.

00:38:37.000 And that the police were shooting black people for no reason other than the color of their skin.

00:38:41.000 So I guess I shouldn't be all that shocked by this.

00:38:42.000 It's still kind of shocking that some cooler headed members of the left are like, guys, we probably should be cooling it on the go outside Justice Alito's house and yell at him routine.

00:38:52.000 But the White House is just ramping it up.

00:38:54.000 So remember that time when it was really bad that we had the White House pressuring the legislature by sending peaceful protesters over to the Capitol?

00:39:03.000 And when I say peaceful, I mean, because that was a direct quote from President Trump.

00:39:06.000 He said, peacefully protest outside the Capitol to pressure the legislatures to do whatever they're going to do about the election.

00:39:13.000 That was really bad because you don't want one branch pressuring another branch using the mob.

00:39:17.000 Here's Jen Psaki having one branch pressure the other branch using the mob. 1.00

00:39:22.000 I know that there's an outrage right now, I guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date, and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges' homes, and that's the president's position, but the silence is pretty deafening about all of the other intimidation that we've seen to a number of people.

00:39:41.000 Amazing, amazing stuff there from Jen Psaki.

00:39:43.000 What a winner.

00:39:44.000 Meanwhile, I think that when we appoint a Treasury Secretary, what we need most from our Treasury Secretary is not getting inflation under control.

00:39:51.000 It's not economic growth.

00:39:53.000 It is not solid economic policy that allows for businesses to operate.

00:39:56.000 Otherwise, why would you select Janet Yellen?

00:39:57.000 That would be a bad choice.

00:39:58.000 So they did select Janet Yellen. 0.99

00:39:59.000 It's very important we have our Treasury Secretary.

00:40:02.000 Remember, the person in charge of the Treasury Department.

00:40:05.000 Talk about the massive need for on-demand abortion. 1.00

00:40:09.000 Alex, remember that time that Joe Biden suggested that his entire administration was going to be dictated by the principles of equity?

00:40:15.000 That was the big thing.

00:40:15.000 Equity, equity, equity.

00:40:17.000 Well, it turns out that now the entire administration is dictated by the principles of abortion, abortion, abortion.

00:40:20.000 So every single department is now going to promote abortion, including the Treasury Department, which is in a world, in a word, ultra crepedarian, which means talk about acting outside the scope of your normal purview.

00:40:32.000 It's like having somebody from the Department of Health and Human Services comment on road conditions.

00:40:36.000 What in the world? 0.82

00:40:38.000 Here's Janet Yellen explaining, in the darkest and most morally benighted way, that abortion is good because killing babies helps the economy. 0.69

00:40:46.000 Which is really dystopian kind of stuff.

00:40:49.000 You know, I can think of a lot of human rights violations that could theoretically help the economy. 1.00

00:40:53.000 Why don't we just kill all the unproductive, Janet? 1.00

00:40:55.000 That's not like a Nazi policy or anything. 1.00

00:40:57.000 Here she is literally saying that abortion helps the economy.

00:41:01.000 The killing of the unborn somehow benefits the economy is a good argument? 1.00

00:41:06.000 That is a good argument?

00:41:07.000 These are the same people who are like, we are for humans.

00:41:09.000 We can't let the economy dictate our policies. 0.98

00:41:13.000 And then they're like, except for killing babies. 0.99

00:41:15.000 If we can kill this nine-month-old fetus in the womb, if we can just, you know, Scissors in the skull, pry it open, make this thing happen. 0.99

00:41:23.000 Then, I mean, that will allow for you to work more hours tomorrow. 0.99

00:41:27.000 What?

00:41:28.000 What?

00:41:29.000 Here's Janet Yellen. 0.73

00:41:31.000 Roe v. Wade and access to reproductive health care, including abortion, helped lead to increased labor force participation.

00:41:41.000 It enabled many women to finish school. 0.97

00:41:46.000 That increased their earning potential.

00:41:49.000 It allowed women to plan and balance their families and careers, and research also shows that it had a favorable impact on the well-being and earnings of children.

00:42:05.000 That is unbelievable stuff.

00:42:07.000 That's unbelievable.

00:42:08.000 So, here is the problem.

00:42:10.000 As we say in law school, this is what we call an argument that proves too much.

00:42:13.000 Okay? 0.83

00:42:14.000 So, again, if the argument is, you know, Women, they were able to go to school at a higher rate when they could kill their unborn babies. 1.00

00:42:22.000 Well, what about that?

00:42:23.000 You know, you really want that extra degree, don't you?

00:42:25.000 You've always thought about getting that MBA, but you do have a five-year-old.

00:42:27.000 That five-year-old takes a lot of your time.

00:42:29.000 I mean, that five-year-old is really time-consuming.

00:42:31.000 Fussing all the time, gotta do homework, driving to and from school. 0.99

00:42:35.000 I mean, you know it'd be a lot easier if you just killed them and dumped their body in a lake somewhere. 0.99

00:42:39.000 And then you could go get that MBA. 0.99

00:42:42.000 And then you could really fulfill all your career aspirations and help the GDP, gang.

00:42:46.000 It's basically like ancient Sparta.

00:42:48.000 Here's a disabled child, let's leave it out there on a mountaintop and everybody lives a happier life, except for the disabled child who freezes to death. 1.00

00:42:54.000 Otherwise, everything is good.

00:42:55.000 Like, how do these people trot out these arguments as though they're remotely moral?

00:43:00.000 That is crazy!

00:43:01.000 I mean, truly, that is a nutty position.

00:43:03.000 This is the same as the position that some people tried to make in Freakonomics, which is, well, you know, abortion did lower the crime rate.

00:43:10.000 First of all, kind of racist, because the suggestion is that a disproportionate number of abortions in minority communities was going to lower the crime rate.

00:43:18.000 Talk about not treating people as individuals.

00:43:20.000 It wasn't even pre-crime.

00:43:21.000 It was some of these kids may end up being criminals.

00:43:24.000 So if we kill a million of them a year, then the crime rates will go down, which is just, first of all, the data do not bear this out.

00:43:30.000 But even supposing they did, what now? 0.98

00:43:35.000 But this is the moral equivalent.

00:43:39.000 I've been told by the socialists among us that capitalism is just a maw that eats human flesh, that it takes human lives and turns them into instruments of economic growth.

00:43:48.000 Here you are literally having people sacrificing children to Molech in order so that you can grow the economy.

00:43:53.000 So that women can go back to school and get their degree in lesbian dance theory. 1.00

00:43:57.000 What in the actual?

00:43:59.000 It is something directly out of Brave New World, this kind of talk.

00:44:04.000 And then Janet Yellen, you gotta love how what the left does is they take language that sounds kind of normal and then they insert like one word and it completely changes the entire nature of the argument.

00:44:16.000 So everybody would say that bringing children into the world is one aspect of a happy life. 0.96

00:44:21.000 She adds one word and now it becomes okay to kill children. 0.97

00:44:24.000 So here is Janet Yellen.

00:44:27.000 One aspect of a satisfying life is being able to feel that you have the financial resources to raise a child, that the children you bring into the world are wanted, and that you have the ability to take care of them.

00:44:46.000 That the children you bring into the world are wanted, right?

00:44:49.000 You just add that phrase, are wanted.

00:44:51.000 So abandoning your kids is now okay.

00:44:53.000 What if you experience an economic downturn in your life?

00:44:55.000 What if you decide to have kids because you have a job and then it turns out you lose your job? 0.99

00:44:58.000 Is it now okay to kill your kid? 0.79

00:44:59.000 Because after all, one aspect of happiness in the world is a child that you want and can financially care for. 0.99

00:45:04.000 So apparently the solution to that is not to find friends and family to help support you.

00:45:08.000 The solution is not adoption.

00:45:10.000 The solution is none of those things. 1.00

00:45:11.000 It's to kill the kid, apparently. 1.00

00:45:13.000 This is the position of the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:45:15.000 That's the Treasury secretary gang.

00:45:20.000 Amazing stuff.

00:45:21.000 And this is what they're going to choose to run on.

00:45:22.000 So they're going to just say MAGA over and over and over.

00:45:25.000 Lots of MAGA.

00:45:26.000 And also, they're going to then run on abort babies to point of birth. 0.96

00:45:33.000 You guys are gonna do great in 2022.

00:45:35.000 Really looking forward to November.

00:45:37.000 All the best.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 11, 2022

Joe Biden vs. ULTRA MAGA | Ep. 1492

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