The Ben Shapiro Show - September 12, 2023


Joe Biden’s 9-11 Debacle

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Joe Biden's plan on 9/11 was to fly back to the United States from Vietnam and do a memorial in Alaska instead of going to ground zero, but instead he went to Alaska and did a tribute to John McCain. And then he tried to do the bipartisanship routine, which is amazing considering that he has called half of Americans the kind of people who wish to overthrow the democracy, but sure, sure. Here was the President of the U.S. yesterday, on a day of national unity for 9-11, talking about national unity. And the real thing sticks in the craw is that Joe Biden is not even remotely a unifier. He pretends to care about unity, but the reality is he has pursued the furthest left agenda of any president of my lifetime. And he's botched on foreign policy as well. Plus, he's just an insult. I mean, I have to say... he's an insulting person. And you're nothing but a criminal if you're a Democrat, and you say anything you're against the President. It's the opposite of the opposite. You'll never be used against you, you'll always be used in favor of the President, and the rule is: Nothing you say will ever be used AGAIN against you. by the media against you and you're not going to be used against you by anyone else. in the future, right? Joe Biden's just not a good president, not with it. by Bill Clinton's not a bad president, is he? by Joe Biden? in fact, I mean he's a bad one, and he's not even close to being a good one? What are you going to hold him accountable for anything he says or does or doesn't say or does he do or doesn t do? and he doesn't even give a damn about anything he does or he doesn t even care about anything that s not right or he s just to be held accountable for it? or he's going to do anything right or wrong, right or not to do it right or is he just a bad guy? And the media will never be able to do what he says he does right, right, or he won't even care? ? by me, right and he does it right and I'm not gonna do anything about it, so he's gonna do it, right by him or not?

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00:00:00.000 So Joe Biden, not a good president, not with it.
00:00:03.000 And his plan on 9-11 was somewhat puzzling.
00:00:06.000 So he was in Vietnam and he wanted to fly back to the United States.
00:00:09.000 Instead of presumably delaying the rest of his 9-11 sort of tribute remarks, he decided to fly to Alaska from Vietnam because it's a shorter flight.
00:00:18.000 And then he was going to do some sort of memorial for 9-11 in Alaska, which is really related to 9-11 in, I don't know, there's no relation.
00:00:27.000 He was in Alaska, and so he decided that he was going to do an event in Alaska.
00:00:31.000 At this event in Alaska, he paid tribute to John McCain, which, again, I mean, that's nice, but I don't know what that has to do with 9-11, per se.
00:00:41.000 And then he tried to do the bipartisanship routine, which is kind of amazing considering that he's called half of Americans the kind of people who wish to overthrow the democracy, but sure.
00:00:49.000 Here was the President of the United States yesterday on a day of national unity for 9-11.
00:00:54.000 One thing I always admired about John was how he put duty to country first.
00:01:00.000 And that's not hyperbole, he did.
00:01:02.000 Above party, above politics, above his own person.
00:01:08.000 This day reminds us we must never lose that sense of national unity.
00:01:15.000 So let that be the common cause of our time.
00:01:18.000 Let us honor September 11th by renewing our faith in one another.
00:01:23.000 Let us remember who we are as a nation.
00:01:28.000 He did put duty first.
00:01:28.000 It's true.
00:01:29.000 Just so you know what Joe Biden was doing during the Vietnam War, he received five student draft deferments.
00:01:33.000 First as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, and then later as a law student at Syracuse University.
00:01:37.000 And then after a medical exam in April 68, which would have made him eligible for the draft, he received a 1Y classification, which meant he could only be drafted in a national emergency.
00:01:45.000 Why?
00:01:45.000 Because he had childhood asthma.
00:01:46.000 So just a quick contrast there between John McCain, who Joe Biden ran against.
00:01:50.000 Remember, Joe Biden was the vice presidential candidate for Barack Obama in 2008.
00:01:54.000 I know it's now a decade and a half ago, but that's a thing that actually happened.
00:01:57.000 And during that campaign, Joe Biden was not super nice to John McCain, but put aside all of the McCain.
00:02:02.000 The real thing here that kind of sticks in the craw is Joe Biden talking about national unity because he is not even remotely a unifier.
00:02:09.000 He's not somebody who cares about unity.
00:02:11.000 He's somebody who pretends to care about unity, but the reality is that he has pursued the furthest left agenda of any president of my lifetime, and that actually includes Barack Obama.
00:02:18.000 The stuff that he has attempted to do in restructuring, for example, student loans unilaterally from the executive branch.
00:02:24.000 The stuff that he has attempted to do in cramming down vaccines on 80 million people via OSHA.
00:02:29.000 The insane levels of spending he has pursued post-COVID. 0.91
00:02:33.000 The insane amount of money that he has poured down the rat hole.
00:02:37.000 of environmental causes while inflating the currency.
00:02:39.000 All this stuff is dramatic expansions in terms of the size and scope of government.
00:02:44.000 And he's botched on foreign policy as well.
00:02:47.000 Plus he's just an insult. 0.95
00:02:48.000 I have to say, Joe Biden is just an insulting person.
00:02:50.000 I mean, I know that a lot of people on the left who look at Donald Trump and they say that Donald Trump is an insulting person. 0.79
00:02:54.000 He insults the intelligence and he's vulgar and he's rude and all this kind of stuff.
00:02:58.000 Joe Biden is humiliating in a different sort of way. 1.00
00:03:01.000 Joe Biden is humiliating because Joe Biden is a corrupt politician who lies regularly. 0.99
00:03:06.000 He lies all the time. 1.00
00:03:07.000 When Joe Biden opens his mouth, the lies flow forth like baubles from the mouth of Demosthenes. 0.99
00:03:13.000 I mean, he's just the only thing that comes out of his face hole is untruth. 0.65
00:03:17.000 So yesterday during 9-11, he was talking about he just can't help himself.
00:03:21.000 He starts talking about how he was at the ground zero site the day after 9-11.
00:03:26.000 That's clearly not true.
00:03:28.000 Even George W. Bush didn't go to ground zero until 914.
00:03:31.000 So he's just making things up here because this is what he does.
00:03:34.000 And he knows that the media are never going to hold him accountable.
00:03:36.000 Because when he was younger, they might have held him accountable when there were other Democrats he was running against.
00:03:40.000 But now he's the President of the United States.
00:03:42.000 And the rule is that if you're a Democrat who is the President of the United States, nothing you say will ever be used against you.
00:03:47.000 It's the opposite of criminal justice.
00:03:50.000 Anything you say can or will be used against you.
00:03:53.000 Well, I mean, for Joe Biden, once you're the President of the United States and you're a Democrat, nothing you say will ever be used against you in any context.
00:03:59.000 Here's Joe Biden just telling lies about 9-11.
00:04:00.000 Ground zero in New York.
00:04:04.000 And I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building.
00:04:09.000 I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell.
00:04:12.000 It looked so devastating because the way you could, from where you could stand.
00:04:19.000 Oh, you mean it looked bad, 9-11?
00:04:19.000 And he knew that because he used to— Oh, well, as opposed to the rest of us who, you know, saw images of 9-11 and all that.
00:04:25.000 But, again, this is who Joe Biden is.
00:04:27.000 Now, all of this would just be kind of normal political garbaggio.
00:04:31.000 All this would just be meh.
00:04:33.000 Except for the fact that on the anniversary of 9-11, Joe Biden thought this would be an excellent time to sign a $6 billion check to the Iranian mullahs.
00:04:42.000 Now, the juxtaposition of 9-11 and that is pretty awkward.
00:04:44.000 Not because the Iranians participated in 9-11.
00:04:48.000 Not because Al-Qaeda was Shia.
00:04:49.000 They are not. 0.98
00:04:50.000 They're a Sunni terror group. 1.00
00:04:51.000 But because the overall thesis, which is that if you give money and resources and sukr to Islamic terrorists, that eventually that is going to come back and bite you in pretty significant ways.
00:05:02.000 That is one of the big messages of 9-11, if not the biggest message of 9-11.
00:05:04.000 And on that date, the president who handed Afghanistan back to Al Qaeda, that's what he did, he handed it back to the Taliban and back to Al Qaeda, is now handing $6 billion to the leading provocateurs in the Middle East, the greatest terror sponsors on the planet in Iran.
00:05:18.000 That is what he did on the anniversary of 9-11.
00:05:19.000 I mean, just for optical reasons, you would think that he had a brain in his head to think, maybe I should wait a week.
00:05:25.000 But no, he had to do it now because Joe Biden wants a deal with the Iranians, a broader deal with the Iranians.
00:05:31.000 Why? 0.99
00:05:31.000 Well, so he can put it on his resume in the same way that he wanted to pull out of Afghanistan like a moron. 0.99
00:05:35.000 Because he wanted it on his resume. 0.99
00:05:36.000 Not because he thought it would actually be good for the world.
00:05:38.000 Not because he actually had a plan.
00:05:39.000 He didn't.
00:05:40.000 But because he wanted to say that he was the guy who got it done.
00:05:45.000 Never put it above politicians.
00:05:47.000 Never put it below politicians.
00:05:49.000 For them to do things just out of pure egotistic desire.
00:05:53.000 They want it on their resume and so they just do it.
00:05:55.000 It's not because they have the best interest of the country at heart.
00:05:57.000 That's clearly not the case here.
00:05:59.000 Joe Biden does not have the best interest of the country at heart when he sends a $6 billion check to people who have been responsible for the death of literally thousands of Americans in the Middle East.
00:06:07.000 Remember, during the Iraq War, it was Iranian-sponsored Shiite militias that were killing American soldiers.
00:06:13.000 And Joe Biden is signing those people $6 billion checks on the anniversary of 9-11 while paying tribute to the heroes of 9-11.
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00:07:25.000 Okay, so what is this deal that Joe Biden apparently signed yesterday?
00:07:29.000 According to The Washington Post, The Biden administration has now issued a waiver for banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil funds without fear of U.S.
00:07:37.000 sanctions, a key step in securing the release of five American citizens detained in Iran, people familiar with the matter said.
00:07:43.000 As part of the arrangement, the administration will release five Iranian citizens detained in the United States.
00:07:48.000 And so, just to make this clear, this is not even a straight-up trade of Iranian citizens detained in the United States because we believe that they are involved in, say, terror activities, for Americans who have been wrongly detained in Iran.
00:07:59.000 It's not even a straight-up trade.
00:08:00.000 It's that plus six billion dollars.
00:08:02.000 I gotta say.
00:08:04.000 Joe Biden's record here is looking a lot like the GM of the New York Jets at this point.
00:08:08.000 He's trading Brittany Griner for the merchants of death and now he's trading six billion dollars and five Iranians we are holding here for five American citizens. 0.92
00:08:17.000 I just have a question.
00:08:19.000 What exactly would be the incentive for terrorist groups not to take American citizens hostage at this point? 0.98
00:08:24.000 You know that the sucker in the White House is going to sign you over the bank if you do. 0.97
00:08:29.000 The central principle of don't negotiate with terrorists. 0.99
00:08:32.000 Obviously, there's play around the edges.
00:08:33.000 There's certain situations where negotiations are necessary, but one of the key elements here is you don't actually negotiate with terrorists to the tune of six billion dollars plus five detainees in the United States for five people wrongfully detained in Iran.
00:08:46.000 That's crazy talk.
00:08:48.000 Congress was notified of the move on Monday.
00:08:50.000 It's likely to come as a relief to U.S.
00:08:51.000 prisoners' families and supporters, said The Washington Post.
00:08:54.000 Well, isn't that nice?
00:08:55.000 I mean, listen, I want those people back as well.
00:08:58.000 Also, the United States has national interests.
00:08:59.000 Those national interests do not involve giving $6 billion to the world's leading terror sponsors.
00:09:04.000 My God.
00:09:05.000 It's also expected to come under harsh criticism from Republicans in Congress, opposed to any agreement that allows for the release of frozen Iranian funds, money that's now being transferred from South Korea to Qatar and limited for the purchase of humanitarian goods like food or medicine.
00:09:16.000 Okay, that's the part that's a lie.
00:09:17.000 So they're saying it's going to be for humanitarian purposes?
00:09:20.000 There's only one problem.
00:09:21.000 The Iranians immediately said, no, no, no, you don't understand.
00:09:24.000 We're going to use it wherever we please.
00:09:25.000 According to NBC News, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his government will decide how it will spend $6 billion in previously frozen funds due to be released in a prisoner exchange.
00:09:35.000 He said it will be spent, quote, wherever we need it.
00:09:38.000 Oh, so you mean you're going to spend it to murder people because that's what you do. 0.98
00:09:42.000 Because you'd rather that your country be impoverished and your people unhappy than that you actually stop with the terror crap and start building. 0.99
00:09:48.000 That's what you would rather do if you are the evil regime in Tehran.
00:09:52.000 In an exclusive interview in Tehran, Raisi suggested the Americans held in Iran would be coming home soon, saying the U.S.-Iran prisoner exchange deal would be completed in due time and that the American detainees were in very healthy condition.
00:10:03.000 Under the arrangement, Tehran will be granted access to the roughly $6 billion in Iranian oil revenues.
00:10:08.000 officials are lying, and they're saying, oh, no, no, no, they're only going to use it for food, right?
00:10:08.000 U.S.
00:10:11.000 Because that's what they do.
00:10:12.000 If you hand money to dictatorial regimes that hate your guts, probably they use it exactly where you're... If there's one thing you know about the Iranians, it's that we can trust them. 0.95
00:10:20.000 They've never reneged on a deal, ever.
00:10:22.000 If, for example, they say they are developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes despite the fact that they're one of the great oil-producing regions on planet Earth, we probably have to believe them.
00:10:30.000 They would never deceive, say, the IAEA.
00:10:32.000 They would never ever do that sort of thing.
00:10:34.000 I love that Raisi is just saying the quiet part out loud.
00:10:36.000 He's just like, yeah, no, we're using it for whatever we want.
00:10:38.000 That's how little the Iranians even respect Joe Biden.
00:10:41.000 They're like, yeah, you give us the money and then you go lie to your people and you tell them that we'll use it for good purposes like food or something.
00:10:47.000 And then I'm going to just say publicly on American TV, I'm going to use it however I want. 0.99
00:10:52.000 Screw you, old man. 1.00
00:10:53.000 I mean, that's effectively what this is. 0.99
00:10:55.000 Raisi said Iran would have authority over how the money would be spent.
00:10:57.000 Quote, this money belongs to the Iranian people, the Iranian government.
00:11:01.000 So the Islamic Republic of Iran will decide what to do with this money.
00:11:06.000 So he was asked directly by Lester Holt if the money would be used for other purposes apart from humanitarian needs.
00:11:10.000 And Raisi said, quote, I love this, humanitarian means whatever the Iranian people needs.
00:11:15.000 So this money will be budgeted for those needs and the needs of the Iranian people will be decided and determined by the Iranian government.
00:11:21.000 Oh, that is like a classic right there.
00:11:23.000 That is such an amazingly, I kind of love it because it's so blatant.
00:11:28.000 That's like, you give me a credit card and you tell me, I'm working for DailyWire, you give me a DailyWire credit card, you tell me I need to go use it for DailyWire resources, right?
00:11:37.000 And what you mean is you want me to go down to the local office depot and pick up like some paper and ink.
00:11:43.000 And I'm like, oh, for DailyWire resources, perfect.
00:11:46.000 That credit card belongs to me.
00:11:49.000 I'm going to use it for whatever resources the Daily Wire deems necessary, and who deems it necessary will be me.
00:11:56.000 And so I just go and put like a Lambo on the credit card.
00:11:58.000 That's effectively what they're doing, except in Iran, for the government, a Lambo is just a bunch of shoulder-fired missiles.
00:12:05.000 That's what it is.
00:12:07.000 The prisoner exchange calls for the release of five American citizens held in Iran in return for five Iranians under detention in the United States.
00:12:12.000 And again, gives them $6 billion.
00:12:14.000 The five American prisoners were placed under house arrest August 10th as a first step in the agreement.
00:12:19.000 The Biden administration waited until, of course, September 11th to inform.
00:12:22.000 The optical... This is what happens.
00:12:26.000 When you have a White House that legitimately does not care what the American people think, and believe that the media will cover for them no matter what. 0.95
00:12:34.000 They do crap like this on the anniversary of 9-11, assuming that everybody will just shrug. 0.91
00:12:38.000 And maybe they're right. 0.98
00:12:39.000 Maybe everything is so baked into the cake, into the polarized cake, that nothing can outrage the American people at this point.
00:12:45.000 I don't actually think that's an amazing bet.
00:12:46.000 I think Joe Biden made that bet on Afghanistan, and it sunk his approval ratings into the low 40s, high 30s.
00:12:51.000 And he's been there ever since.
00:12:53.000 So I think this sort of stuff can damage Joe Biden.
00:12:57.000 I know that he thinks he's invulnerable because he's likely to run against Donald Trump for president.
00:13:01.000 And there's some truth to that.
00:13:02.000 That means a durable 45% of the American public will certainly vote for him.
00:13:05.000 But 45 ain't 50.
00:13:06.000 So he's playing a very risky game here.
00:13:10.000 And just one second.
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00:14:15.000 Okay, so Given the fact that this administration is in fact a bleep show, and most of that bleep is apparent in the foreign policy realm.
00:14:23.000 Domestic policy is bad enough, but you can spin domestic policy.
00:14:26.000 On a foreign level, what American is in favor of signing giant checks to the Iranians? 0.59
00:14:30.000 What American is in favor of putting American national security at risk so some person with gender dysphoria can be shot up with testosterone?
00:14:41.000 What exactly is the balance there that Americans are in favor of?
00:14:46.000 Well, the defenses of Biden are now coming fast and fierce.
00:14:48.000 When you're defending, you're losing.
00:14:49.000 This is something both parties should remember, by the way.
00:14:52.000 The Republican Party should remember this with Trump.
00:14:53.000 If you spend the rest of the election cycle defending Trump, you're going to lose.
00:14:56.000 Because, again, if everybody's talking about how bad your guy is, and you just spend the entire time talking about how he's really not that bad, you're going to lose.
00:15:03.000 And for Democrats, same thing.
00:15:04.000 If you spend the entire election cycle talking about how Joe Biden is not that bad, we all know he is.
00:15:09.000 So here's Ana Navarro trying to do work on behalf of the Biden administration, talking about how it's all fake, it's all in your head.
00:15:15.000 This is one of my favorite approaches from the geniuses over at The View.
00:15:18.000 It's stuff that you can clearly see happening in front of your eyes is not real because Ana Navarro says so.
00:15:24.000 This administration has really gotten a ton of very difficult bipartisan legislation through in a divided Congress with a very difficult Senate makeup of 50-50.
00:15:35.000 Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Bipartisan Safe Communities Act, first major gun legislation in decades, U.S.
00:15:42.000 Innovation and Competition Act, Bipartisan Climate Health Care and Tax Package, Fiscal Responsibility Act, and the list is long.
00:15:49.000 So what do they need to focus on?
00:15:50.000 They need to focus on the undeniable.
00:15:53.000 Joe Biden is old and that's a narrative that's been created to cause panic in people.
00:15:58.000 And then so what's the second part of that narrative?
00:16:01.000 Joe Biden is old and Kamala Harris is unprepared.
00:16:06.000 So that's not a narrative.
00:16:08.000 Joe Biden is old and Joe Biden is also terrible at his job.
00:16:12.000 He's terrible at his job.
00:16:15.000 Meanwhile, they're trying to clear the field against any potential Democrat who might run against Joe Biden, because again, he's intensely vulnerable.
00:16:21.000 Here's the thing that if you were truly a rebel, as for example, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez believes she is, if you're truly a rebel, then you would run at Joe Biden from his left.
00:16:33.000 You would.
00:16:33.000 Okay, now Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she's 33 years old.
00:16:38.000 I believe that she would be theoretically eligible for the presidency. 0.98
00:16:42.000 The truth is that she could easily pick up the ball where Bernie Sanders left off and run against Joe Biden from his left.
00:16:48.000 Because he's really, really vulnerable, but none of them are doing it.
00:16:50.000 Why?
00:16:50.000 Because the Democratic Party is, in fact, a vehicle for radical leftism.
00:16:53.000 This is the difference between the right and the left in terms of their parties.
00:16:56.000 Right-wingers don't trust the Republican Party because they don't believe it's a vehicle for their ideas.
00:17:00.000 Democrats trust the Democratic Party because they do believe that it is a vehicle for their principles.
00:17:04.000 That's why they're all standing shoulder to shoulder behind the old man.
00:17:07.000 Meanwhile, that old man is using the White House as a military weapon against social media.
00:17:13.000 We'll get to that momentarily.
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00:18:18.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration, for all the talk about what they're doing
00:18:24.000 on the foreign front, on the domestic front, what the Biden administration has done with
00:18:28.000 regard to social media is one of the most creepy and tyrannical things that I've seen
00:18:31.000 in my lifetime.
00:18:33.000 And it extends, the truth is, before Biden.
00:18:36.000 The government's use of its powers to cudgel social media into doing what they want is utterly insane.
00:18:41.000 This is something that the Fifth Court explicated over the weekend.
00:18:46.000 On Friday, they limited the scope of a district court ruling that restricted communications between government agencies and social media companies.
00:18:52.000 But they found that several agencies likely violated the First Amendment.
00:18:54.000 This should be, like, top of page news.
00:18:56.000 And in an era where the media actually cared about freedom of speech, which they clearly do not at this point, it would be top of the page news.
00:19:02.000 When Donald Trump was saying things like, the president is the enemy of the people.
00:19:07.000 All we got was, this is an attack on the First Amendment.
00:19:09.000 It's un-American. 0.82
00:19:10.000 How can he say that?
00:19:11.000 They're not enemies of the people.
00:19:12.000 Meanwhile, you have actual government agencies going to social media websites and telling them to shut down fully certain streams of information.
00:19:23.000 And the media is like, Because if the mainstream media agrees with a thing, it becomes truth.
00:19:29.000 And if the mainstream media disagrees with a thing, it becomes falsehood, and it would be good if that thing were suppressed.
00:19:34.000 Well, here's the thing.
00:19:35.000 Making the argument that social media is a private entity and can make its own rules, that carries only so far as the government is not pressuring the private entity into doing the thing.
00:19:44.000 Once you are a government agent, you can't do that thing.
00:19:48.000 If the government puts a gun to your head and tells you to do a thing, you are now a government agent.
00:19:51.000 That means that whatever you do is attributable to the government.
00:19:53.000 So the government goes to social media and they say to them, either you regulate the speech or we regulate you, which is effectively what Democrats have been saying since about 2018.
00:20:03.000 If they say that sort of thing, this turns social media companies into operations of the government.
00:20:07.000 Once they are operations of the government, then the pressure that government brings to bear is in fact a violation of the First Amendment, which is exactly what the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals says.
00:20:16.000 According to CNBC, the ruling will make it easier for several federal agencies to communicate with social media companies Still, officials who remain subject to the modified injunction, including those in the White House, must remain careful their discussions with the platforms will not be construed as coercive.
00:20:30.000 A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the White House, Surgeon General's Office, and FBI likely violated the First Amendment by coercing social media platforms into moderating posts on their sites.
00:20:41.000 It also said that the CDC likely violated the First Amendment.
00:20:45.000 The appeals court decision says that some federal agencies won't be subject to the injunction, but They did say, and it's a pretty amazing ruling, they did say that the pressure brought to bear on social media companies by the federal government is a violation of the First Amendment, which it clearly is.
00:21:04.000 And that pressure is obviously continuing.
00:21:06.000 Here's the thing.
00:21:07.000 Once that genie is out of the battle, it can't be undone.
00:21:10.000 So let's say that the CDC is not pressuring anymore.
00:21:13.000 But the message is already out there that the pressure exists.
00:21:15.000 The threat is already out there.
00:21:17.000 If Al Capone threatened to burn down your bar because you wouldn't pay the protection money, and he did that a year ago, you're probably still going to pay him the protection money even after a court says he really shouldn't do that.
00:21:27.000 And that's effectively what's happening right now.
00:21:28.000 According to the Washington Post, Threads is currently blocking searches on the topic of COVID and vaccines.
00:21:37.000 Instagram's text-based social platform Threads, which is supposed to be the answer to Twitter, rolled out its new search function.
00:21:44.000 But not even 24 hours later, the company was embroiled in controversy.
00:21:47.000 When users went to Threads to search for content related to COVID and Long COVID, they were met with a blank screen that showed no search results and a pop-up linking to the website of the CDC.
00:21:56.000 You want to talk about government pressure?
00:21:57.000 How about the government pressuring social media into shutting down actual social media posting and just linking directly to the government? 0.97
00:22:03.000 That's like Orwellian crap.
00:22:05.000 Meta acknowledged in a statement to the Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking those search terms and said other terms are being blocked as well. 0.99
00:22:12.000 The company didn't give a list, but those words include sex, nude, gore, porn.
00:22:17.000 Okay, so far, I suppose, all right.
00:22:20.000 And then, coronavirus vaccines and vaccination.
00:22:22.000 Those are blocked.
00:22:23.000 Now, you will be directed explicitly to government sources.
00:22:28.000 The search functionality temporarily doesn't provide results for keywords that may show potentially sensitive content.
00:22:32.000 It's not potentially sensitive content.
00:22:34.000 Because, God forbid, you should get the non-government side of the story, since the government was so absolutely honest with us during the COVID regime.
00:22:42.000 I mean, they're being so honest with us now, now that you've got the White House promoting masking again.
00:22:48.000 Amazing stuff here.
00:22:49.000 And the fact that that is not a national scandal demonstrates, more than anything, how corrupt the media are.
00:22:53.000 Because again, the media, you would imagine, would be pro-First Amendment.
00:22:56.000 Well, not so much.
00:22:57.000 Okay, so you would imagine that all of this would be wind in the sails for Republicans going into 2024.
00:23:02.000 After all, this is terrible governance.
00:23:04.000 This is tyrannical use of social media.
00:23:06.000 The American people are not up for all of this. 1.00
00:23:08.000 So all Republicans have to do is be not stupid. 1.00
00:23:11.000 Well, oops. 1.00
00:23:14.000 So, Republicans always have a way of doing dumb things. 0.94
00:23:19.000 All the talk right now about how Kevin McCarthy is going to be basically deprived of his speakership, I'm just wondering, what is the upside? 0.97
00:23:25.000 I keep asking this.
00:23:26.000 I've been asking this since there was the original rebellion against McCarthy.
00:23:28.000 It's one thing to leverage McCarthy for more concessions to the conservative side of the aisle.
00:23:32.000 That's fine.
00:23:33.000 That's a strategy.
00:23:34.000 But you have to be able to land the plane.
00:23:36.000 You know what is not a strategy?
00:23:37.000 What if we get rid of McCarthy and then we have no one to back him up?
00:23:40.000 What if we just have a random speakership fight so that people can get on TV?
00:23:44.000 Like, this sort of stuff is deeply unhelpful.
00:23:46.000 According to Politico, Kevin McCarthy is facing the greatest peril to his speakership since he clawed his way into the job eight months ago, with multiple factions of his party feuding and a looming revolt ahead during a battle to fund the government.
00:23:57.000 Ultra-conservative members of the House GOP are talking in unsubtle terms about turning on McCarthy if he does not take a hard line in negotiations with the Senate and the Biden administration.
00:24:04.000 Now let me just point out here, Joe Biden and the Senate, all they have to do is say we're willing to negotiate and then not negotiate in order to win this battle.
00:24:11.000 They made a crucial tactical blunder during the last round of these negotiations.
00:24:15.000 Joe Biden pre-committed beforehand to not negotiating.
00:24:18.000 That gave McCarthy room to say that he was the negotiator and eventually Biden had to negotiate.
00:24:23.000 The rule in these sorts of political brinksmanship situation is that the American public are pro whichever party says they'll come to the table.
00:24:30.000 If you say you won't come to the table, they don't like you.
00:24:32.000 So, if you're already starting off with, we're not coming to the table, and the unless is something that you're certainly not going to get from the Democrats, well then the Democrats probably win that in the battle of public opinion.
00:24:44.000 McCarthy, according to Politico, is a political survivor.
00:24:47.000 Even his critics cannot deny his skilled nature as an accommodator, his persistence in winning over even his most dogged critics.
00:24:52.000 But interviews with more than two dozen GOP members and aides reveal it would take only a few rogue lawmakers hellbent on his downfall to risk McCarthy's fate in an entirely new way.
00:25:02.000 Sending their party spiraling into a new period of chaos, even if those defectors fail to actually eject McCarthy, some of the speaker's confidants privately concede there may be no way to recover.
00:25:11.000 According to Bob Goode, who's a vocal McCarthy detractor, he says, Now, let me just be clear about this.
00:25:15.000 There is no situation in which a deal is not cut with Democrats.
00:25:17.000 Because the president is a Democrat.
00:25:17.000 You know why?
00:25:18.000 So is the Senate.
00:25:19.000 as a transformational historic speaker, or he can choose to make a deal with Democrats.
00:25:22.000 Now, let me just be clear about this.
00:25:23.000 There is no situation which a deal is not cut with Democrats.
00:25:26.000 You know why?
00:25:27.000 Because the president is a Democrat, so is the Senate.
00:25:30.000 What is amazing to me is I am more fiscally conservative than virtually everyone in Congress.
00:25:37.000 I also happen to live in this world called reality, where you don't get to unilaterally dictate the terms of engagement when the other side holds most of the cards.
00:25:46.000 The president has veto power.
00:25:48.000 The president has the entire media on his side.
00:25:49.000 And you can fight this battle.
00:25:50.000 You can say, well, you know, the president really should cave on this and you should really cave on this.
00:25:54.000 And you might be able to pry certain concessions away from Biden.
00:25:56.000 They were able to do this last time.
00:25:57.000 They got some small concessions from him.
00:25:58.000 But if you're talking about effectuating Large-scale change with a Democrat president and a Democrat Senate?
00:26:04.000 Good luck to you.
00:26:06.000 By the way, you know what would have been really helpful here?
00:26:08.000 Is winning.
00:26:09.000 That would have been super helpful.
00:26:10.000 If you actually want to effectuate large-scale change, you know what would be great?
00:26:13.000 Controlling the House of Representatives, guys.
00:26:15.000 That'd be awesome.
00:26:16.000 So why don't we focus on running good candidates in swing districts?
00:26:19.000 Hell, why don't we focus on nominating the most electable Republican for president, who isn't going to drive out Democratic turnout? 0.82
00:26:25.000 That might be a way to actually effectuate large-scale change.
00:26:28.000 Or is the idea here that you just yell at your leadership class?
00:26:33.000 And if you yell at them long enough, then magic happens.
00:26:36.000 I don't know.
00:26:37.000 Honestly, it's like one of these bizarre tweets where the logic goes something like, step one, yell at your leadership.
00:26:44.000 Step two, dot, dot, dot.
00:26:45.000 Step three, fiscal conservatism.
00:26:48.000 Like, the dot dot dot is the whole thing, guys.
00:26:50.000 You need to figure out exactly what your strategy and your play here is.
00:26:53.000 Again, I'm not saying you can't leverage McCarthy into being more conservative.
00:26:56.000 I think that's good.
00:26:56.000 I'm fine with that.
00:26:57.000 I think pressure from his right is a good thing.
00:26:59.000 The point I'm making is that if you start off with a series of demands that are utterly unrealistic, and if there are people in the conservative ecosystem, in the conservative media ecosystem, who suggest that government shutdowns are going to be a way toward political victory here with a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president, when you know a deal is going to get signed, I don't understand what exactly the upside is.
00:27:19.000 All Republicans need to provide right now is a sense of sobriety.
00:27:23.000 Is a sense that they know what they are doing.
00:27:25.000 So all I'm asking for, as always, is a plan.
00:27:27.000 That's it.
00:27:28.000 Give me a plan.
00:27:30.000 I don't like any Republican strategy that is not a strategy at all.
00:27:33.000 It's an impulse.
00:27:34.000 If the impulse is, yell at McCarthy until good things happen, that's not a strategy and it is not a plan.
00:27:41.000 If the impulse is, nominate whomever and run them against Biden without any plan for victory, what's the plan?
00:27:46.000 If the plan is, shout that the last election cycle was stolen and then have no plans to actually reverse that or explain even how you would attempt to do so, that's not a plan, that's an impulse.
00:27:54.000 Impulses do not make for political victory.
00:27:55.000 You know what Democrats have continuously?
00:27:57.000 Plans.
00:27:57.000 It's what they do professionally.
00:27:59.000 So for example, According to Politico, in the past nine days, state and federal judges threw out two congressional maps and helped the Democrats avoid a worst-case scenario in Ohio, kicking off an unusually busy redistricting calendar heading into the election year.
00:28:11.000 All told, a dozen or more seats across at least six states could be redrawn, increasing the likelihood Democrats could chip away the five-seat GOP House majority through redistricting alone.
00:28:21.000 Democrats could pick up an extra seat, including in Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana.
00:28:25.000 These are deep-red states.
00:28:26.000 Perhaps several more in New York.
00:28:28.000 Republicans could still pick up as many as four seats in North Carolina, but the recent rulings put Democrats in a position to offset some of those losses, and then some.
00:28:36.000 So, again, they are finding judges who are overthrowing these districts that are drawn, and then they are basically creating Democratic districts.
00:28:44.000 That is what they are doing right now.
00:28:46.000 That is a plan.
00:28:47.000 When Republicans, by the way, play the game, they can win.
00:28:49.000 This is the other thing.
00:28:50.000 Is this notion out there that Republicans can't play the game because the game is rigged?
00:28:53.000 Okay, when it comes to ballot harvesting, yes, Republicans can play that game and they can win.
00:28:57.000 That's what happened in Florida during the last election cycle.
00:28:59.000 Yes, the judiciary was rigged against Republicans and then Republicans created the Federalist Society and spent 30 years building up an entire bench of judicial nominees and then took control of the Supreme Court.
00:29:09.000 So, yes, you can do this, but it requires actual plans.
00:29:12.000 I understand that the easiest thing in politics is to think for today and maybe for tomorrow, but never for 10 years from now.
00:29:17.000 That's not going to achieve it.
00:29:20.000 And here's the big question.
00:29:21.000 What exactly do you expect McCarthy to do?
00:29:23.000 McCarthy's actually giving us what we want.
00:29:25.000 I say us, to conservatives, not in terms of spending, which he's not capable of doing, and no one's capable of doing.
00:29:30.000 And by the way, I do find it ironic that many of the same people who are shouting about how McCarthy is not sufficiently conservative on spending are talking about the wonders of, for example, President Trump, who says we should not restructure Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, which are the biggest spending programs in American life, bar none.
00:29:45.000 But put that aside.
00:29:47.000 McCarthy is, in fact, moving toward an impeachment inquiry.
00:29:49.000 If that's something you care about, McCarthy's doing it.
00:29:51.000 According to Fox News, Kevin McCarthy will tell House Republicans today beginning an impeachment inquiry against Biden is the logical next step.
00:29:58.000 The House GOP conference plans to hold the meeting on Thursday morning for key committee chairs.
00:30:02.000 to lay out their latest findings and the status of the investigations into the Biden family.
00:30:05.000 House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio,
00:30:08.000 and House Oversight Committee Chairman, Representative James Comer of Kentucky,
00:30:11.000 are expected to lead the meeting. At the meeting, McCarthy is expected to say,
00:30:14.000 an impeachment inquiry is the logical next step for the Republican majority.
00:30:18.000 So that will obviously launch this into higher gear.
00:30:22.000 218 lawmakers would need to support an impeachment inquiry against Biden.
00:30:27.000 It's not certain that actually the House Republicans have the votes to do it.
00:30:29.000 There are several GOP lawmakers, including Ken Buck and Don Bacon of Nebraska, have voiced skepticism about impeachment, which is interesting because Buck is a fiscal conservative who's also pushing McCarthy from the right in terms of spending.
00:30:40.000 So it's kind of some weird bedfellows here.
00:30:43.000 But McCarthy is very pliable to his own membership.
00:30:46.000 The problem is, if you don't give him any options, he's got no options.
00:30:50.000 So how about this?
00:30:51.000 How about focus on, you know, the measures that are likely to lead to electoral victory so you can actually effectuate change?
00:30:57.000 There's been, ever since I've been following Republican and conservative and politics at all, which is like 14, 13 years old, I've noticed an extraordinary tendency among those in the activist base to simply say, over and over and over, that they wish a thing to be.
00:31:13.000 And then, if the politicians don't make the thing happen, then the politicians have failed.
00:31:18.000 What if the thing that you are wishing for is not possible under the current circumstances, but might be possible with a little bit of actual forethought?
00:31:23.000 Okay, in just one second.
00:31:26.000 We are going to get to crime problems spinning out of control in Washington, D.C.
00:31:29.000 Again, Democratic governance is incredibly vulnerable right now.
00:31:33.000 The stuff they have promulgated is really, really bad.
00:31:36.000 First, gotta talk about Brian.
00:31:38.000 Brian is a video editor over here.
00:31:40.000 He is the meme lord over here.
00:31:42.000 He's the guy you see whenever you see our videos on YouTube and they got all the memes that is largely Brian who's doing his post editor.
00:31:47.000 But I only know Brian from making me play Minecraft.
00:31:50.000 And I've been waiting for this day.
00:31:51.000 This is the day, Brian.
00:31:52.000 It's time for you to be ZipRecruited.
00:31:54.000 Because the reality is, making me play Minecraft, sure, it might be entertaining for some of you.
00:31:59.000 And sure, our audience might like it.
00:32:01.000 But there is very little else on this earth I hate more than being forced to play Minecraft for like an hour and a half.
00:32:06.000 Because I will not get those hours of my life back.
00:32:08.000 And on my deathbed, I'll think back to those videos of me playing Minecraft on YouTube and say, my god.
00:32:13.000 So, Brian?
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00:32:55.000 Also, a few months ago, there's a certain chocolate company sold themselves out to the woke.
00:33:00.000 They trotted out a dude who says he's a lady to be the spokeslady on International Women's Day. 0.99
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00:33:13.000 Then we got more in stock and then those sold out too.
00:33:15.000 The best way to strike back at these leftist regimes is through the free market.
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00:33:47.000 Okay, meanwhile, crime remains absolutely out of control in Washington, D.C.
00:33:51.000 I know we were supposed to pretend that crime was going to end after they defund the police movement, remember?
00:33:55.000 It was going to be kumbaya.
00:33:56.000 I mean, Washington, D.C.
00:33:58.000 actually wrote Black Lives Matter in giant letters on the street.
00:34:02.000 And if that won't solve crime, I frankly don't know what will.
00:34:05.000 They created a George Floyd Square.
00:34:07.000 It was the moment.
00:34:08.000 The moment that all crime was going to end in Washington, D.C.
00:34:11.000 And then, yeah, it turns out Washington, D.C.
00:34:13.000 is a terrible place filled with crime.
00:34:15.000 According to the Washington Post, a shaken Washington copes with surging violence.
00:34:19.000 This is not normal.
00:34:21.000 Oh, isn't it, though?
00:34:23.000 According to the Washington Post, Stephanie Heisman, a Northwest Washington event planner, knows she may sound almost absurdly cautious as she describes how, after a regular Sunday dinner at a friend's house five blocks away, she travels by car instead of walking home.
00:34:34.000 She has her reasons.
00:34:35.000 A year ago, she was awakened by gunfire outside her Adams Morgan apartment building and from her seventh floor window saw a car speeding away.
00:34:41.000 In August, after a night out with her friends, her Uber driver couldn't reach her building because police had blocked off a street where bullets had just killed two men and fatally wounded a third. 0.84
00:34:48.000 It's ridiculous, Heisman said. 0.78
00:34:50.000 On the other hand, I don't want to randomly get shot. 0.79
00:34:52.000 Violent crime has long been part of Washington life, the worst of it during the early 1990s, when drug trafficking propelled the annual homicide toll to nearly 500, and D.C.
00:35:00.000 earned an inglorious reputation as America's murder capital.
00:35:02.000 It was actually during this period that Washington, D.C.
00:35:04.000 had to rename its basketball team.
00:35:05.000 You'll recall that Washington, D.C.' 's basketball team in the 1980s was called the Washington Bullets.
00:35:10.000 And then they had to rename themselves, because oops.
00:35:13.000 And that's when they became the Washington Wizards, as though Gandalf is like walking the streets of Washington, D.C.
00:35:18.000 The volume of carnage these days is not nearly as high.
00:35:20.000 Most D.C.
00:35:20.000 residents are unlikely to ever be a victim of violence, but a sharp rise in crime over the past year, punctuated by reports of homicides, brazen shootings, and carjackings by armed teenagers, is rattling a city already struggling to recover from a pandemic that upended its rhythms and ravaged its once thriving downtown.
00:35:36.000 I wonder how this happened.
00:35:38.000 Oh, maybe it was that you guys decided that the police were bad.
00:35:41.000 Maybe that would be it.
00:35:43.000 The spike in felonies, homicides, and robberies are up 29 and 67 percent from the same time period last year, according to police stats, is not the only data causing alarm.
00:35:50.000 The number of juvies arrested for carjacking has increased slightly since last year, 41 of the 64 charged between the ages of 12 and 15.
00:35:59.000 As of August 31st, 81 minors had been shot in the city this year.
00:36:04.000 Well, a preponderance of violence occurs where it often has, in the poor neighborhoods.
00:36:07.000 Stats show the geography of crime has become more diffuse, with prosperous areas less immune than before.
00:36:12.000 Well, I mean, equity.
00:36:13.000 Equity would suggest this is necessary.
00:36:14.000 Obviously, the richer areas also have to suffer from people being shot on the regular.
00:36:18.000 So that is exciting stuff in Washington, D.C.
00:36:20.000 Keep voting Democrat.
00:36:21.000 It's working out great for you.
00:36:22.000 Same thing happening over in Philadelphia, by the way.
00:36:25.000 There's a new video that has emerged from Philadelphia showing addicts on the street in a trance-like state.
00:36:30.000 Passed out on the sidewalk of the city's multiple homeless encampments. 0.95
00:36:33.000 I mean, if this is not horrifying third-world crap, I'm not sure what is. 0.89
00:36:36.000 This is Kensington areas in Philadelphia. 0.95
00:36:38.000 For those who can't see the video, there's people literally just lying on the street, just in the middle of broad daylight.
00:36:45.000 Like, zombied out. 0.87
00:36:47.000 Just people... You would think that this was some sort of a horrifying play.
00:36:50.000 It is not.
00:36:52.000 There's a homeless man who's just standing there on a street corner.
00:36:56.000 I mean, this is just creepy as all living hell.
00:36:59.000 Just people zonked out, obviously.
00:37:01.000 Drug users are seen, according to the Daily Mail, hunched over with no control of their limbs.
00:37:05.000 Others are sprawled across the garbage-covered streets.
00:37:07.000 Large groups have taken over the sidewalks, turning them into homeless encampments where many people live in their own filth.
00:37:14.000 Many of the addicts living on the streets are forced to turn to crime and theft to sustain themselves.
00:37:18.000 One local activist said businesses are using booby traps like sprinkler systems to keep drug addicts away from their storefronts.
00:37:24.000 Businesses end up throwing soapy water on the ground so it's wet and it's not a comfortable place to sit down.
00:37:30.000 There's businesses that set up sprinkler systems as well.
00:37:34.000 Crime data reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer shows Kensington has one of the highest drug rates in the city.
00:37:40.000 Apparently, one of the worst drugs on the street right now is a drug known as Trank.
00:37:48.000 For those who don't know, that is a potent animal tranquilizer called xylosine.
00:37:51.000 It is a powerful sedative, and people mix it with fentanyl to make that even deadlier and worse.
00:37:57.000 That is something the New York Times has been reporting on for a while.
00:37:59.000 Back in January, there was an entire story about this.
00:38:02.000 They say xylosine causes wounds that erupt with a scaly dead tissue called eschar.
00:38:06.000 Untreated, it can lead to amputation.
00:38:07.000 It induces a blackout stupor for hours, rendering users vulnerable to rape and robbery.
00:38:12.000 When people come to, the high from the fentanyl has long since faded.
00:38:14.000 They immediately crave more.
00:38:16.000 Because xylosine is a sedative and not an opioid, it resists standard opioid overdose reversal treatment.
00:38:21.000 More than 90% of Philadelphia's lab-tested dope samples are now positive for xylosine.
00:38:27.000 It's too late for Philly, said Sean Westfall, outreach worker with Prevention Point Philadelphia, a 30-year-old health services center in Kensington.
00:38:33.000 Philly's supply is saturated.
00:38:34.000 If other places around the country have a choice to avoid it, they need to hear our story.
00:38:39.000 A study published in June has detected xylosine in the drug supply in 36 states as well as D.C.
00:38:44.000 In New York City, xylosine has been found in 25% of drug samples.
00:38:48.000 But the saturation is certainly greater.
00:38:51.000 And this is scary, scary stuff.
00:38:54.000 The drug exists in a legal gray zone.
00:38:55.000 It was approved 50 years ago by the FDA as a veterinary and prescribed analgesic.
00:39:01.000 It's not listed as a controlled substance for animals or humans, so it's not subject to strict monitoring.
00:39:06.000 But it started, of course, with prescription opioids.
00:39:08.000 When those became harder to come by, people started moving on to Trank.
00:39:12.000 So this is what we've done to large swaths of our population.
00:39:15.000 It's all working out great, by the way, guys.
00:39:18.000 All of this is working out beautifully.
00:39:20.000 Probably a little bit more left-wing policy will fix these cities. 1.00
00:39:23.000 Well, maybe if we have some, you know, needle exchanges for the tranq, that'll definitely help.
00:39:28.000 Or maybe if we get rid of the cops, because really the problem here is systemic racism.
00:39:32.000 You know, as I said earlier when I came to the Republican Congress, yelling at bad things in life is not a solution to the bad things.
00:39:38.000 And yet that seems to be the policy that is being followed in these cities.
00:39:41.000 I don't like Trank is not a solution to Trank.
00:39:43.000 I don't like homeless zombies on the street is not a solution to homeless zombies on the street.
00:39:47.000 You know what's a solution?
00:39:48.000 More law enforcement.
00:39:49.000 You know what's a solution?
00:39:50.000 Mandatory drug drying out.
00:39:51.000 You know what's an actual solution?
00:39:52.000 Involuntary commitment for the mentally ill.
00:39:54.000 These are actual solutions that require actual funding, and they fix the problem.
00:39:58.000 But that might require somebody to actually have the courage to say that in an area where it's not popular, and more than that, it's not about courage by politicians.
00:40:04.000 It's about voters coming to grips with reality.
00:40:07.000 At a certain point, you can't blame the politicians anymore.
00:40:09.000 If we're not cutting our debt, maybe it's because we don't want to cut our debt.
00:40:12.000 You can blame politicians as much as you want, or you can blame the fact that people have no capacity to think second order when it comes to politics.
00:40:20.000 Alrighty, folks, time for some things that I like.
00:40:22.000 Alrighty, well, one of the things we like here at the Ben Shapiro Show is Birch Gold.
00:40:25.000 They're one of our biggest sponsors, obviously, and we talk with them every so often about the state of the economy.
00:40:29.000 Joining us on the line right now is Philip Patrick, a precious metals specialist from Birch Gold.
00:40:33.000 So, Philip, let's talk about the state of the economy.
00:40:35.000 I mean, right now, Joe Biden is claiming we have strong economic growth, inflation is coming under control.
00:40:40.000 How do you see it?
00:40:42.000 Yeah, I mean, look, you can cherry pick the numbers and certainly make that argument, but I think it's a mistake to focus just on economic growth.
00:40:51.000 The real question, I think, is how is the economy working for most Americans?
00:40:55.000 And the numbers really don't look good over the last two and a half years.
00:40:58.000 Look at food prices at home up 20 percent, electricity up 21, gasoline prices up 72 percent, Let's look at people's biggest expense, right?
00:41:08.000 Housing.
00:41:09.000 Rent payments rose 25%, median mortgage payments up 85%.
00:41:14.000 And very importantly, wage growth has trailed inflation consistently.
00:41:20.000 In other words, it's not just our imagination.
00:41:22.000 Virtually every essential is more expensive today than it was before Biden got in office.
00:41:28.000 And wages just haven't kept up, right?
00:41:31.000 Consumer debt has recently hit an all-time high, over a trillion dollars for the first time.
00:41:35.000 So I think people are desperately trying to maintain their living standards in the face of by economics.
00:41:40.000 And I think that's the reality for most Americans today, despite how we try and dress up the numbers.
00:41:48.000 So, Philip, one of the things that they're claiming now is that they've brought inflation under control.
00:41:52.000 The Federal Reserve, obviously, has increased interest rates to sky-high rates.
00:41:55.000 This is why mortgages are now clocking in at 7-8%.
00:41:58.000 Now, the reality is that by historical averages, the interest rates aren't actually all that high at this point.
00:42:02.000 But also, the inflation rate is not all that low at this point.
00:42:06.000 There's a lot of talk right now about the inflation rate being under control, but they usually target 2%.
00:42:10.000 It's well in excess of 3% still, so it's still 50% too high.
00:42:13.000 But they're still claiming now that maybe they're going to stop with the increases in the interest rate.
00:42:17.000 Yeah, look, lower inflation generally is good news, right?
00:42:21.000 But there's a couple of points to remember.
00:42:22.000 First of all, inflation is cumulative, right?
00:42:25.000 A 10% inflation rate one year followed by 5% next means that everything costs 15% more.
00:42:31.000 So easing inflation doesn't mean a return of purchasing power, it's just destroying it more slowly.
00:42:37.000 Now, The other side of things, which I think is very important, is the Fed's preferred measure of inflation, which is core PC, personal consumption expenditures.
00:42:47.000 They've been more than double, as you mentioned, the 2% target for years now.
00:42:52.000 The only thing that's really been driving that headline inflation number down has been energy prices.
00:42:58.000 And of course, they're starting to creep up again.
00:43:00.000 Oil hit $90 a barrel Uh, just a few days ago.
00:43:04.000 It's particularly concerning because I think what it's showing us now that is inflation is becoming entrenched in the economy.
00:43:11.000 And I think, you know, this 2% target that the Fed have maybe a pipe dream for the foreseeable future.
00:43:17.000 It's proving particularly sticky at the moment.
00:43:21.000 Philip, one of the things that's become patently obvious really since 2007-2008 is how much power the central bankers have over the economy.
00:43:29.000 There used to be a time, now decades ago, where legislatures really had sort of the chief control over the economy and you could hold them responsible if the policies were bad.
00:43:37.000 There was still an interest in some level of fiscal discipline because you couldn't just print dollars willy-nilly and then pump them into the economy or blow the debt off for a couple of generations.
00:43:45.000 Yeah, I mean, it's absurd.
00:43:46.000 not true anymore. And that means that the central bankers have been given this extraordinary
00:43:49.000 power to control how much your dollars are worth, particularly the ones you've already
00:43:53.000 paid taxes on and that are in the bank already.
00:43:55.000 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's absurd. The power that the Federal Reserve have is is really
00:44:01.000 showing itself in today's economy. And the reality is, as you mentioned, they're an unelected
00:44:08.000 We really can't hold them accountable.
00:44:09.000 And this Federal Reserve has a problem as well.
00:44:13.000 The tools that they have available, I think, are very limited.
00:44:16.000 Their ability to raise rates significantly enough to crush inflation is limited.
00:44:21.000 Look at what they did to the banks earlier this year.
00:44:24.000 Um, you know, the ability to fix the economy by lowering rates and stimulating also very limited as well.
00:44:29.000 So they've got their hands tied behind their back.
00:44:32.000 But I agree with you, the Fed as a body, the power that they have over the economy is concerning when they're unelected and unaccountable.
00:44:41.000 We're speaking with Philip Patrick, he's a precious metals specialist and a spokesman for Birch Gold Group.
00:44:45.000 So, Philip, I get the question all the time that in a really sort of uneasy economy like this, and it really is uneasy, no one knows obviously where to put their money.
00:44:53.000 It looks to me like the real estate market is going to have some sort of sell-off here just because the mortgage rates are so high.
00:44:58.000 There's a lot of stickiness because people don't actually want to sell their homes because then they'll have to take a new mortgage that isn't going to be at 2.5%, it's going to be at 7%, but at some point people will lose their jobs, they'll lose their savings, then they're going to have to sell those houses.
00:45:09.000 The same thing is happening in commercial real estate.
00:45:11.000 I've been talking with people in commercial real estate and the occupancy rates are dropping fairly rapidly at this point.
00:45:16.000 And that means the underlying value is really going down.
00:45:18.000 The Wall Street Journal has widely reported this.
00:45:20.000 Meanwhile, when it comes to the stock market, a lot of uneasiness there.
00:45:23.000 New IPOs are doing a fraction of what they were doing just a couple of years ago.
00:45:27.000 And meanwhile, if you put your money into a money market account, you might be earning the best return.
00:45:32.000 It's a very confusing economy.
00:45:34.000 Now, obviously, you have a vested interest with Birch Gold.
00:45:36.000 But what do you recommend in terms of things like precious metals as a hedge against all of this?
00:45:41.000 Look, I think precious metals work very, very well in climates like this simply because of the nature of our problems, right?
00:45:48.000 We have inflation, which we've mentioned.
00:45:50.000 We have potential recession on the horizon tied into that.
00:45:54.000 I think we have issues with our currency.
00:45:56.000 Longer term, the world seems to be At least for now, distancing from the dollar.
00:46:00.000 These things, of course, very negative in isolation, but very positive drivers for safe haven commodities like gold and silver.
00:46:08.000 So the climate's really good.
00:46:10.000 And as you mentioned, you know, the options out there at the moment are very limited.
00:46:14.000 So precious metals make a ton of sense in climates like this.
00:46:21.000 Phillip Patrick, Precious Metal Specialist Spokesman for Birchgold Group.
00:46:24.000 Really appreciate the time, folks.
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00:46:46.000 Phillip, really appreciate the time.
00:46:48.000 Thank you, same.
00:46:50.000 Alrighty, time for some things that I hate.
00:46:56.000 What's going on in Israel right now is actually quite astonishing.
00:46:59.000 The Supreme Court of Israel is claiming that it has the ability to strike down literally any law, including what they call the Basic Law, in Israel for violating the Declaration of Independence for Israel.
00:47:10.000 So, let me put this in context.
00:47:11.000 And this has ramifications for the United States because this is the way that the left would love to see courts rule in the future and how the courts have ruled in the past.
00:47:18.000 So basically, here's the way it works.
00:47:20.000 The United States is, we're really lucky.
00:47:21.000 We have a written constitution, which means that the very least you can refer to that document to determine what exactly courts can do and can't do in terms of striking things down while legislatures can and cannot do.
00:47:31.000 Israel doesn't have anything like that.
00:47:32.000 Israel has a Declaration of Independence, which is not a piece of law.
00:47:36.000 It is a statement of broad purposes about how Israel should be Jewish and democratic.
00:47:40.000 That's pretty much what it is.
00:47:42.000 It's not law.
00:47:43.000 There's no constitution there because the Israelis couldn't come to some sort of agreement about how exactly the government should work, what laws were in bounds, what was constitutional, what was not.
00:47:51.000 So they basically just agreed to disagree.
00:47:53.000 That means that every so often they pass what they call a basic law.
00:47:56.000 A basic law is a piece of majoritarian legislation that then carries with it an inability to override that law except with sort of a supermajority.
00:48:05.000 These basic laws exist.
00:48:06.000 They've been created throughout Israeli history.
00:48:09.000 The Supreme Court of Israel typically has used basic law in order to strike down non-basic law.
00:48:14.000 In the same way that the Supreme Court of the United States will use the Constitution to strike down particular legislation, the same thing sort of happens here.
00:48:22.000 In Israel, the Supreme Court historically has used the basic laws as a way of striking down non-basic law.
00:48:28.000 Now, in the 1990s, there was a seizure of power by the Supreme Court, and they decided that from now on, they could basically just say reasonableness to strike down a variety of executive actions and legislation.
00:48:38.000 Well, Bibi Netanyahu's current coalition, they said the Supreme Court has too much power, we don't want them to do that anymore, so now you're going to have to cite something that's not reasonableness, if you want to strike down legislation.
00:48:47.000 And they want to make this a basic law.
00:48:49.000 They actually encoded this in a basic law, saying this will now be the law of the state of Israel, and it is considered quasi-constitutional.
00:48:55.000 So one of the questions, the big question, that's now come up before the Supreme Court, is whether the Supreme Court of Israel can strike down a basic law in the name of, hmm, In the name of, like, again, normally in the United States you use the Constitution to strike down a bad piece of legislation.
00:49:09.000 In Israel, the basic law is the quasi-constitutional highest law.
00:49:14.000 How can the Supreme Court cite something else to strike down a basic law?
00:49:17.000 So the argument that's currently happening at the Supreme Court level is whether the Supreme Court can use the Declaration of Independence to strike down a law.
00:49:24.000 Imagine if the Supreme Court of the United States went back to the Declaration of Independence
00:49:29.000 and said that because the Declaration of Independence says that you have the pursuit of happiness,
00:49:35.000 that means that we can strike down anything we want.
00:49:37.000 We'd all go, whoa, who gave you that power?
00:49:40.000 That's not like that's a pretty vague sentiment for you to strike down things.
00:49:44.000 But that's pretty much what Israel's Supreme Court is now declaring.
00:49:46.000 They're now declaring that because they don't like the current legislature of the State of Israel, they have willy-nilly power to strike down anything they want in the name of an incredibly vague document.
00:49:56.000 The Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel, which is not, in fact, practical law.
00:50:00.000 It does not spell out how the State of Israel is supposed to work.
00:50:03.000 It does not spell out how the Knesset is supposed to work.
00:50:05.000 It doesn't spell out virtually any of these things.
00:50:07.000 It has a bunch of sort of baseline statements about what they hope the State of Israel will be.
00:50:12.000 Talking about how it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of its inhabitants, and will be based on freedom, justice, and peace, and will ensure complete equality of social and political rights.
00:50:22.000 And it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education, and culture.
00:50:25.000 But those are pretty vague statements to strike down a piece of legislation that simply says the Supreme Court does not have the ability to say that something is unreasonable and then strike it down.
00:50:37.000 If the Supreme Court were to do this, it's a constitutional crisis in Israel because effectively what they are saying is that elections can be overridden by the Supreme Court at any time.
00:50:44.000 At any time.
00:50:45.000 A basic law is established, which again is supposed to be as though the Congress of the United States and various state legislatures passed a constitutional amendment to the Constitution and the Supreme Court then stepped in and said, in the name of the Declaration of Independence, we strike down this constitutional amendment.
00:51:00.000 Like, well, you can't do that.
00:51:01.000 No one gave you the power to do that.
00:51:02.000 That's basically what's happening right now.
00:51:05.000 According to the Times of Israel, during fraught exchanges between the court and the attorneys defending the legislation, one justice indicated Israel's democracy was at stake.
00:51:12.000 Again, I have to say, the irony of people speaking in the name of judicial tyranny, saying that they're doing so on behalf of democracy is really galling.
00:51:19.000 It's really, really galling.
00:51:22.000 Basically, the Supreme Court right now is arguing there should be no- like, name your limits.
00:51:26.000 What are the limits on the Supreme Court of Israel?
00:51:27.000 There are none, according to the Supreme Court of Israel.
00:51:30.000 And according to many of its supporters.
00:51:32.000 They lost an election, they don't like the results of the election, so now they're going to use the Supreme Court to basically establish that there are no limits at all?
00:51:39.000 Elon Baumbach is the attorney representing the government.
00:51:42.000 He argued that justices are empowered to interpret the legislators' words.
00:51:45.000 There's no legal or constitutional basis for them to review basic laws.
00:51:49.000 Well, yes, in the sense that it says there should be a legislature, but it doesn't have specific provisions on how lists work.
00:51:53.000 to legislate laws.
00:51:54.000 Bombach pointed to a 1950 Supreme Court ruling.
00:51:57.000 Stein noted that the Knesset was formed before that.
00:51:59.000 The original power source was in the Declaration of Independence.
00:52:02.000 Well, yes, in the sense that it says there should be a legislature,
00:52:05.000 but it doesn't have like specific provisions on how lists work.
00:52:08.000 All of that was established later.
00:52:11.000 Other justices also challenged Bombach, indicating that in their view,
00:52:13.000 since the Declaration of Independence defines Israel as a Jewish and democratic state,
00:52:17.000 the Knesset cannot legislate laws, even basic laws that erode Israel's Jewish
00:52:21.000 or democratic character.
00:52:23.000 Which means that the High Court can simply strike down whatever it wants to sign.
00:52:27.000 Strike down.
00:52:28.000 Which is pretty amazing stuff.
00:52:31.000 Again, the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel is, in fact, A basic document, but that does not mean that it empowers the Supreme Court to override anything in the name of the Declaration of Independence any more than the Supreme Court of the United States can use the Declaration of Independence, which is a far more important document to the Western civilization, to strike down law.
00:52:49.000 The Supreme Court almost never cites the Declaration of Independence because there is no purpose to doing so.
00:52:53.000 It is not a piece of legislation.
00:52:56.000 If the Supreme Court in Israel does that, it's going to be a rather large mess.
00:53:00.000 Because a huge percentage of the Israeli population is going to believe that elections basically have no consequences at all, unless you're on the left, in which case they just run roughshod.
00:53:07.000 That's really negative stuff.
00:53:09.000 And I've railed in the United States against people in the United States doing this routine where if the bad guys win, that means the democracy is over.
00:53:18.000 They're doing it in Israel too.
00:53:19.000 It's really bad for any civilization.
00:53:21.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.
00:53:22.000 You're not going to want to miss it.
00:53:23.000 We'll be talking about our educational system, which apparently is rife with some rather perverse people.
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