The Ben Shapiro Show - Kink For The Kiddies | Ep. 1288

00:00:00.000 Bill Cosby goes free, a columnist pushes LGBT kink for children in the pages of the Washington Post, and President Biden is caught between a moderate rock and a radical hard place.

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00:00:23.000 Alright, so the big news of the day is that Bill Cosby is now free!

00:00:27.000 According to Yahoo News and Reuters, reaction to Bill Cosby being freed from prison on Wednesday after Pennsylvania's highest court overturned his sexual assault conviction ranged from outrage to cheers.

00:00:37.000 Here are some of them.

00:00:38.000 of those voices. Times Up Foundation President Tina Tchen said in a statement, today's devastating decision to overturn the conviction of a man who caused so much harm, pain and emotional trauma to so many women is a travesty and an injustice. It reminds us again of the struggle that the survivors of his predatory behavior and actions have endured to make their voices heard. The semblance of justice these women had in knowing Cosby was convicted has been completely erased with his release today. Now here is the thing.

00:01:01.000 There's a lot of outrage today about the release of Bill Cosby.

00:01:05.000 Bill Cosby was not released because he's innocent.

00:01:07.000 Bill Cosby was released because the way that the prosecutors got him is called cheating.

00:01:11.000 And what they did here, and this is what the highest court in Pennsylvania found, is they violated his due process.

00:01:17.000 And the fact that there is so much outrage over the vacation of the vacating of his conviction Demonstrates that people are just not capable of separating off the notion of due process from whether you think the person is guilty or innocent or not.

00:01:33.000 Whether you think that somebody is guilty or innocent is of very little value in determining whether or not the person had due process.

00:01:33.000 Right?

00:01:40.000 And it turns out that in Bill Cosby's case, there's some pretty significant questions about due process.

00:01:45.000 So Gabriel Mellor has a good piece over at the Washington Examiner.

00:01:49.000 Explaining all of this.

00:01:50.000 Because if you don't understand the process, you don't understand what happened here.

00:01:53.000 The way the media are covering this, it makes it seem like Bill Cosby walked because he was suddenly found innocent, and that, of course, is not true.

00:01:59.000 According to the Washington Examiner's Gabriel Meller, as a lawyer, the conclusion of Bill Cosby's long-running assault case is not so much vindication for Cosby as it is a vindication of the right to due process.

00:02:08.000 More than a decade ago, a district attorney investigating one of the many sexual assault claims against Cosby determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him.

00:02:15.000 And this is a big problem in sexual assault cases.

00:02:17.000 It's very difficult to substantiate sexual assault to the point of conviction.

00:02:21.000 Because very often it turns into a he said, she said scenario in which a woman claims that she has been Abused by a man and the man claims that it was consensual and that it was just rough.

00:02:30.000 That sort of thing happens all the time for prosecutors.

00:02:33.000 And so in this particular case, the prosecutor said we don't have the evidence to get him, but they also wanted Cosby to have to testify at a civil trial.

00:02:41.000 Now the way that this works is that you are allowed in civil trial to say, I am not going to testify about something that could get me criminally convicted.

00:02:49.000 So if you were, for example, being sued on the basis of punching somebody in the face, and it's a civil trial, not a criminal trial, you're allowed to say, I don't want to testify about whether I punched that person in the face because I could be incriminating myself and then I could be convicted based on the testimony I'm about to give.

00:03:06.000 So what the prosecutors in this case did, knowing they couldn't prosecute Cosby successfully, is they said to Cosby in this particular case, You know what?

00:03:14.000 We're not going to prosecute you on this stuff.

00:03:16.000 If relying on that promise, Bill Cosby then testifies because the Fifth Amendment no longer applies.

00:03:21.000 You can't claim Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination if there is no possibility of criminal conviction.

00:03:27.000 So, for example, if you were called upon to testify in court that you had not gone to the grocery store yesterday, you can't take the Fifth.

00:03:35.000 Taking the Fifth has no relevance in that context because you could not be prosecuted for not going to the grocery store yesterday.

00:03:43.000 What you do by removing the possibility of criminal conviction is you take away somebody's ability to use the Fifth Amendment to protect themselves against self-incrimination.

00:03:51.000 That's basically what the prosecutor in this case did, and Cosby relied upon that promise.

00:03:55.000 According to Mallor, the district attorney had an alternative to criminal prosecution in the 2005 case.

00:04:01.000 He believed that Cosby's testimony could be compelled in the accuser's civil suit if there was no chance such testimony would run afoul of Cosby's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

00:04:09.000 So he made a public announcement that the case against Cosby was closed.

00:04:13.000 Crosby's accuser then filed the lawsuit, and Crosby was forced by the court to give testimony.

00:04:17.000 After all, he had been publicly assured the criminal case was resolved.

00:04:20.000 In the course of that testimony, he confessed to having in the past provided sedative drugs to women he wanted to have sex with.

00:04:25.000 Years later, that testimony would then be used by a new district attorney, who successfully brought criminal assault charges against Crosby.

00:04:32.000 And the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania said, no, you can't do that.

00:04:34.000 Once you promise somebody that they're not going to be criminally indicted on a matter, and then you compel their testimony in a civil case, you can't then go back and reverse yourself and say, you know, by the way, so glad you testified in that civil case about your guilt.

00:04:44.000 Now we're going to take that and we're going to convict you.

00:04:47.000 The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania said, we hold that when a prosecutor makes an unconditional promise of non-prosecution.

00:04:52.000 And when the defendant relies upon that guarantee to the detriment of his constitutional right not to testify, the principle of fundamental fairness that undergirds due process of law in our criminal justice system demands the promise be enforced.

00:05:03.000 And so Cosby was out of prison and he was freed the same day.

00:05:08.000 As Malar points out, this is good news for defendants in Pennsylvania who can benefit from the court's broad pronouncement.

00:05:13.000 A defendant is entitled to relying reasonably on promises a prosecutor makes, including, as here, an assurance made in a public press announcement.

00:05:20.000 Of note, there didn't have to be an agreement between the prosecutor and the defendant.

00:05:23.000 The prosecutor just has to make an assurance to the defendant that the defendant then relies upon to his detriment.

00:05:30.000 And as the court pointed out, if you felt differently, if you feel that the defendant should then say to the prosecutor, I don't trust you, and so I'm not going to listen to you, I'm still going to invoke the Fifth Amendment, this is now encouraging people not to trust prosecutors, which is precisely the opposite of the result you wish to obtain.

00:05:43.000 Okay, so, the entire world has gone crazy about this because, once again, they have gone to, a bad man got out of jail, as opposed to, the courts are not interested in whether somebody is good or bad, the courts are interested in the process of due process.

00:05:56.000 And this does run roughshod through our system right now.

00:05:59.000 Right now in the United States, there seems to be, and it is the prevailing notion, that neutral rights can be dispensed with so long as we don't like you.

00:06:08.000 And so long as we don't like you, rights should not apply to you.

00:06:10.000 We see this in freedom of association.

00:06:12.000 We see this in freedom of speech.

00:06:13.000 We see this in due process.

00:06:15.000 If you're Brett Kavanaugh and we have decided we do not like you, then due process concerns are of no validity and we should not be worried about them at all.

00:06:21.000 A single accusation without any supporting evidence should be enough to get you tossed in terms of consideration from the Supreme Court.

00:06:28.000 If you are a person who utters a slur, and this really should not be enough to finish your career.

00:06:38.000 We still say, you know, freedom of speech really should not apply to you.

00:06:41.000 Freedom of speech shouldn't apply to you because you said bad things.

00:06:44.000 Well, again, freedom of speech is a broad individual right, and it does protect you.

00:06:48.000 It should protect you.

00:06:50.000 And I'm not just talking about legally here in terms of due process.

00:06:52.000 You are talking legally when you're talking about Cosby.

00:06:54.000 But I'm talking about the generalized perception that people deserve a due process, which is both social and legal.

00:07:01.000 That needs to be preserved, especially for people you don't like.

00:07:04.000 The same thing is true of freedom of speech and so-called cancel culture.

00:07:07.000 There does have to be a generalized attitude that you're allowed to say what you want to say.

00:07:12.000 And that doesn't mean that people can't react to you socially.

00:07:15.000 It does mean the notion that free speech is the danger, which has been used as sort of a club against social media lately.

00:07:21.000 Social media, the left says, is bad because it allows people we don't like to speak freely.

00:07:25.000 And so we should toss Donald Trump, for example, from Facebook and from Twitter.

00:07:29.000 That's really dangerous stuff.

00:07:30.000 Once you start believing that rights that adhere to you as an individual and pre-exist government no longer exist because we don't like what you're saying, now you have entered the realm of tyranny.

00:07:40.000 So, did Bill Cosby deserve, on a moral level, to go free?

00:07:44.000 Bill Cosby, on a moral level, deserves to be in jail for the rest of his life.

00:07:48.000 But on a legal level, and on a due process level, and on a societal level, Bill Cosby should not be in jail based on the prosecution of his trial.

00:07:55.000 By the way, there are serious questions about that trial with regard to allowing some 19 women to testify against him on the basis of prior experiences with him outside the statute of limitations.

00:08:04.000 Harvey Weinstein is going to make the same case.

00:08:07.000 So once again, due process does have to, you do have to have some neutral laws of neutral applicability or we can't live together as a society.

00:08:14.000 It just turns into pointing fingers and who we decide is worse and more guilty that day.

00:08:19.000 Okay, in just one second, we're gonna get to the worst column of the day from the Washington Post, which does indicate where we are going as a culture.

00:08:26.000 And it does suggest that middle ground is quickly disappearing in the United States with regard to how we view social policies.

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00:09:50.000 All right, well, today marks the first day of non-Pride Month, which means that all of the corporate logos go back to normal.

00:09:56.000 All the corporations stop with their woke virtue signaling, and they're not expected to keep up with the woke virtue signaling.

00:10:02.000 So, you know, I guess that Pride is over and we're back to regular life is the way that this nonsense works.

00:10:09.000 But not before the worst column of Pride Month came out in the Washington Post.

00:10:13.000 It's by a person named Lauren Rowello, a writer who lives in the Philadelphia area.

00:10:18.000 So this person wrote a piece in the Washington Post titled, Yes, Kink Belongs at Pride, and I Want My Kids to See It.

00:10:26.000 Now, I tend to be pretty libertarian about things, right?

00:10:29.000 When I don't think the government should really be in the business of compulsion unless somebody is hurting somebody else.

00:10:34.000 And this starts to get dicey when you are talking about children.

00:10:37.000 There is a battle that is brewing about the future of our nation's kids.

00:10:42.000 And it is unavoidable.

00:10:43.000 It is not avoidable.

00:10:44.000 There is no libertarian solution to it.

00:10:46.000 The libertarian solution typically, which is let everybody do whatever it is that they want, as long as they're not hurting anybody else, that libertarian argument ceases to apply when you're talking about the impact on children who do not have the power of consent, do not have fully rational characteristics, are not capable of making decisions.

00:11:02.000 Then we as a society have to decide what the rules of the road are going to be.

00:11:06.000 And this has come up in the context of, for example, critical race theory recently, where the right has said, quite correctly, that children should not be indoctrinated with the nonsense of critical race theory, which suggests that racially essential characteristics determine your value and your perspective on matters of politics and whether you have a chance of success in the United States.

00:11:24.000 Kids should not be indoctrinated with that.

00:11:26.000 It's a violation of children's ability to thrive.

00:11:30.000 And it is in fact a form of emotional and intellectual child abuse to teach kids that they are victimizers or the victimized.

00:11:38.000 And so when it comes to kids, we all do have a fairly large say in what the societal standard should be.

00:11:44.000 Because again, there's a non-consenting party who's now part of this bargain.

00:11:47.000 And the same thing holds true when it comes to social policy.

00:11:50.000 So the left has decided, and this is again I think an unavoidable battle that is going to come to your town, it is going to come to your state, it's going to come to your household.

00:11:58.000 The unavoidable battle is you have a group of people on the left and they suggest that if you raise your child in a traditional manner, if you raise your child to believe that a traditional family structure is better, that a man and a woman raising a child is better than a man and a man or a woman and a woman.

00:12:14.000 If you believe that men and women exist, and that these are not malleable categories, and that a man cannot become a woman, and that if a child suffers from gender dysphoria, you should participate in, for example, watchful waiting.

00:12:26.000 Right?

00:12:28.000 You should simply wait to see how things develop.

00:12:31.000 You should not give in to the delusion that your child actually is a member of the opposite gender.

00:12:35.000 The left believes if you do that, that's a form of child abuse and CPS should arrive at your door.

00:12:39.000 Don Lemon on CNN, literally yesterday, said that he believes only the state should be involved in adoption decisions.

00:12:45.000 Presumably because he likes the state's perspective when it comes to these matters of social politics.

00:12:51.000 And he thinks that churches should be taken completely out of the business of adoption.

00:12:54.000 Not because he doesn't like quote-unquote churches per se, but because he doesn't like the perspective of churches which may adopt out to traditional father-mother families and not to male-male families, female-female families, single dads or single moms.

00:13:09.000 And so that is one perspective on the raising of children, is that the social left ought to win.

00:13:14.000 And then there's the perspective from the right, which is that children's innocence when it comes to matters of sex ought to be preserved, That you are fully, not only justified, but doing a good in teaching your child traditional sexual values.

00:13:26.000 That teaching your child, for example, that getting married to a member of the opposite sex and producing natural born children is more likely to produce happiness. 0.98

00:13:32.000 That if you teach your kid that, you're doing something good for them.

00:13:35.000 And that if you indoctrinate them into confusion, and more importantly, if you sexualize children at a very young age, you are doing grave harm, not only to their psyche, but also to their emotional state.

00:13:46.000 That perspective means that there will have to be some protections for children.

00:13:49.000 And these two wildly varying perspectives are now coming to a head, and they're indirect conflict.

00:13:54.000 And so this column from the Washington Post is indicative of that conflict, and it should awaken people who are sort of softly in the middle, the silent middle, that this battle, it is going to happen.

00:14:08.000 And the folks who claim that they just want a live and let live perspective on how people raise their kids, they're mostly lying.

00:14:13.000 It really is not true.

00:14:15.000 Because the way that identity works in the United States now is based on emotivism.

00:14:20.000 Identity is rooted in the notion that if I deny your perspective on your own identity, then I have participated in a harm against you and I must be stopped.

00:14:30.000 This is why you are seeing, for example, An attempt to... It will come to the United States, by the way.

00:14:36.000 You've already seen it in Canada.

00:14:37.000 There's an attempt now to go after parents on the basis that they are not teaching their children the state-approved messaging with regard to gender and sexual orientation.

00:14:46.000 That's going to come to the United States because the perspective of the left is you are doing grave harm to a child if you don't teach their sort of polyamorous perspective on how exactly sexual matters should work.

00:14:58.000 If you don't teach that to children.

00:14:59.000 If you don't indoctrinate kids in that.

00:15:01.000 And these two worldviews are clashing, and they're clashing when it comes to kids.

00:15:04.000 We'll get to this actual column in just one second, because it is quite indicative of where the conflict actually lies and how people on the radical left tend to view children, which is as sort of tools to be manipulated into the new sexual politics.

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00:16:19.000 Alrighty, so now to this column in the Washington Post, which is astonishing.

00:16:22.000 Again, this is printed in a major, one of the two biggest American newspapers in terms of influence and impact.

00:16:29.000 Lauren Rowello writing, quote, Our family often took the train into Philadelphia.

00:16:33.000 But as we rode across the bridge to attend the city's Pride Parade five years ago, my wife's leg bounced with a nervous jitter.

00:16:38.000 She squeezed my hand, worried that she might run into a colleague or be harassed by a stranger.

00:16:42.000 My wife is trans and wasn't out at the time, so she typically only expressed her authenticity in the privacy of our home.

00:16:48.000 That morning, she wore a green skirt and light makeup, brushing her hair all to one side.

00:16:51.000 Even though we'd attended Pride marches and protests in previous years, that day was our first, celebrating openly as a family.

00:16:56.000 Okay, so what we are talking about now is a male-female couple in which the male now identifies as female.

00:17:02.000 Okay, so number one, that is highly likely to confuse children.

00:17:06.000 Okay, that in and of itself.

00:17:08.000 Okay, but beyond that, they're now taking their kid, their small children, to a pride parade in which you are celebrating sexual activity. 0.69

00:17:16.000 That's what pride is.

00:17:17.000 Okay, pride is not a mere question of family structure.

00:17:22.000 It is a celebration of particular types of sexual activity.

00:17:25.000 Because, after all, if it were just a celebration of family structure, then you could have two brothers adopting a kid, or a brother and a sister, or a single mom.

00:17:32.000 But that's not what pride parades typically are about.

00:17:34.000 As people have noted, people who have been to pride parades and who cover pride parades understand that pride parades very often, and almost entirely, the universality of pride parades include sexual components to them.

00:17:48.000 Undoubtedly.

00:17:49.000 So children should not be at these things.

00:17:51.000 Adults want to participate.

00:17:52.000 You can make a libertarian argument, obviously.

00:17:54.000 And it's a libertarian argument with which I generally agree, which is this is not a matter of compulsion.

00:17:58.000 However, if you're talking about children, now you're talking about non-consenting people being put into sexual scenarios for the pleasure of adults.

00:18:05.000 That's the only reason you're bringing kids to this thing. 0.94

00:18:07.000 So, this is what this mother writes.

00:18:09.000 When our children grew tired of marching, we plopped onto a nearby curb.

00:18:13.000 Just as we got settled, our elementary schooler pointed in the direction of oncoming floats, raising an eyebrow at a bare-chested man in dark sunglasses whose black suspenders clipped onto a leather thong.

00:18:22.000 The man paused to be spanked playfully by a partner with a flog. 0.97

00:18:25.000 What are they doing?

00:18:27.000 my curious kid asked as our toddler cheered them on.

00:18:29.000 The pair was the first of a few dozen kinksters who danced down the street, laughing together as they twirled their hips and batons, some leading companions by leashes. 1.00

00:18:37.000 At the time, my children were too young to understand the nuance of the situation, but I told them the truth.

00:18:41.000 That these folks were members of our community celebrating who they are and what they like to do.

00:18:45.000 See, the conflation of who they are and what they like to do is always a very interesting identity-driven notion.

00:18:50.000 That who you are is what you like to do.

00:18:50.000 Right?

00:18:51.000 It's the same thing.

00:18:53.000 It's, you know, there's an argument to be made that immutable characteristics do not include flogging other men in public on the bare bottom.

00:19:00.000 I mean, I think there's a fair notion that, for example, if you're making the argument that gay rights are similar to race rights, I'm spotting some differences there.

00:19:13.000 Also, I love that she says, my children are too young to understand the nuance of this.

00:19:16.000 What's the nuance exactly?

00:19:18.000 Like really, explain to me the nuance of men walking down the street spanking each other on the bare bottom with flogs in front of children.

00:19:24.000 Is there a lot of nuance there that I'm missing?

00:19:26.000 I feel like not, but according to the left, this is nuanced education of children, according to the radical left.

00:19:32.000 Now, I do want to differentiate.

00:19:33.000 Again, I think there's a broad middle of the country I know a lot of gay folks who think that this is really terrible.

00:19:40.000 That you should not be exhibiting kink behavior in front of children. 1.00

00:19:44.000 But the point is this.

00:19:45.000 The radical left which has basically decided that all human behavior ought to be treated the same unless it's religious behavior.

00:19:52.000 That all human sexual behavior ought to be treated with equal levels of respect and acceptability.

00:19:57.000 And that children ought to be indoctrinated into that belief.

00:19:59.000 It's hard to argue against that principle on the basis of a sort of lack of fundamental understanding of natural law.

00:20:05.000 According to the Washington Post's columnist, the kink community has participated in Pride since its inception, risking their jobs and safety to be authentically themselves in public.

00:20:14.000 See, it's all about authentically themselves.

00:20:15.000 It's all about you.

00:20:16.000 And we have to indoctrinate children to accept your quote-unquote authentic self and to celebrate your authentic self.

00:20:22.000 So it's not about kids.

00:20:23.000 It's about you.

00:20:24.000 It's about you feeling good about yourself and indoctrinating kids in order to not focus on them leading a happy life, but in order to create a society in which you feel more welcomed and accepted.

00:20:34.000 This is the perspective of the radical left, and they can't feel welcomed and accepted unless your children, too, participate in the celebration and the acceptance.

00:20:42.000 Says this columnist in the Washington Post.

00:20:45.000 I agree that Pride should be a welcoming space for children and teens, but policing how others show up doesn't protect or uplift young children.

00:20:51.000 Instead, homogenizing self-expression at Pride will do more harm to our children than good.

00:20:55.000 When my own children caught glimpses of kink culture, they got to see that the queer community encompasses so many more non-traditional ways of being, living, and loving.

00:21:04.000 As much as I want them to spend time in queer spaces so they can be with families like their own, I also want them to know they shouldn't limit their understanding of what relationships or expressions look like to whatever's most familiar.

00:21:15.000 I want them to see they can make their own way in the world.

00:21:17.000 How else can they learn about the scope and vitality of queer life?

00:21:22.000 How delightful.

00:21:23.000 How delightful.

00:21:25.000 And this columnist continues, quote, Children who witness kink culture are reassured that alternative experiences of sexuality and expression are valid, no matter who they become as they mature, helping them recognize that their personal experiences aren't bad or wrong, and they aren't alone in their experiences. I can't think of a more relevant or important reminder for youth who often struggle with feelings of isolation and confusion as they discover more about themselves and wrestle with concerns about whether they're normal enough, including kink in pride, open space for families to have.

00:21:51.000 There are a lot of things that we don't approve of as a society that I'm sure bring a certain subset of the population joy and excitement.

00:21:58.000 disability is a reminder that any person can and should shamelessly explore what brings joy and excitement.

00:22:04.000 See, this is the problem with the radical left's argument.

00:22:07.000 There are a lot of things that we don't approve of as a society that I'm sure bring a certain subset of the population joy and excitement.

00:22:13.000 And they are forbidden by law and well they should be.

00:22:15.000 By the way, sexualizing children removes one of those barriers.

00:22:18.000 But understand the case that this person is making.

00:22:21.000 is not only that we shouldn't ban kink at pride parades, it's that it is a fundamental good for children to watch kink at pride parades. 1.00

00:22:28.000 It makes them more open-minded.

00:22:29.000 It makes them more accepting.

00:22:30.000 And of course, we're really protecting them because you never know what weird stuff they might be into.

00:22:35.000 And if those kids who are five, six, four years old, if they turn out to be into weird stuff, which of course would never be shaped by the environment in which they're raised, of course.

00:22:42.000 I mean, environment has nothing to do with this.

00:22:44.000 It's completely genetic.

00:22:45.000 Kink is just completely genetic, just like everything else, except for the fact that it's not, and there's no proof of that.

00:22:50.000 It's completely... So you don't have to worry about your kids being affected because, you know, they're just gonna be who they're gonna be sexually, of course.

00:22:56.000 All of this is designed at the indoctrination of children.

00:23:00.000 It's designed at the indoctrination of children and pushing What are behaviorally abnormal standards on children and then teaching those children that the highest form of good is celebration of this.

00:23:17.000 It is sexualizing children.

00:23:18.000 And by the way, you make it like the line from here to pedophilia is pretty straight.

00:23:24.000 I mean, it's a pretty straight line from it is good for kids to watch kink so that they can explore their own sexual feelings to why can't they consent in actually exploring their sexual feelings with people I mean, why? 0.65

00:23:35.000 I mean, children are sexual beings too.

00:23:37.000 If you can't see the line being blurred here, I'm not- I mean, they're literally talking about children watching kink parades. 0.91

00:23:42.000 I'm pretty sure that the line from their pedophilia is real thin.

00:23:47.000 Says this columnist, we don't talk to our children enough about pursuing sex to fulfill carnal needs that delight and captivate us in the moment.

00:23:52.000 Is that really what we don't talk to our children enough about?

00:23:54.000 Really, that's what society is lacking, is it?

00:23:56.000 Is the pure pursuit of carnal pleasure and speaking about it to small children who are incapable either of understanding it because they haven't even hit puberty yet, or two, even if they're teenagers, making solid decisions on that basis?

00:24:09.000 They remove all moral lines and they're going to live a happier life seems to be the predominant notion.

00:24:13.000 And again, what that really is about is people want to express adults, want to express their authentic selves, and they want children to applaud them because they want everybody to applaud them.

00:24:23.000 That is not good.

00:24:24.000 OK, I never want my children to worry that exploring any aspect of consensual sex or touch is taboo.

00:24:30.000 Again.

00:24:31.000 I'm gonna read that sentence slowly for you because I don't understand how this doesn't blur over into pedophilia, seriously.

00:24:37.000 I never want my children to worry that exploring any aspect of consensual sex or touch is too taboo.

00:24:45.000 If you have kids, you're gonna teach them a lot about what kind of touch is okay and what kind of touch is not.

00:24:52.000 But says this columnist, if we're afraid to talk about kink with our children, we prioritize the status quo.

00:24:57.000 And here's the big issue, right?

00:24:58.000 Sanitizing and censoring their access to information about appropriate and normal self-expression.

00:25:02.000 You're damaging the children.

00:25:03.000 Remember, this is not just, I want to raise my child, I want to raise my child, which again, would be objectionable because your child can't consent to how you're raising them in a perverse way.

00:25:11.000 Beyond that.

00:25:13.000 I mean, honestly, in a decent society, CPS would be on its way after reading this column.

00:25:17.000 Child Protective Services would be headed directly to this person's house after reading this column.

00:25:20.000 Exposing children to men flogging each other's bare bottoms in public? 0.99

00:25:24.000 My goodness.

00:25:26.000 But that's not the extent of this.

00:25:28.000 The extent is your child should be exposed to this too.

00:25:31.000 It's that your child is less, and you are a worse parent for not exposing your kids to this.

00:25:36.000 These are the very attitudes that made Pride necessary and life-affirming for so many of us in the first place.

00:25:41.000 We have no business imposing them on the next generation. 0.95

00:25:44.000 Kink embodies the freedom Pride stands for, reminding attendees to unapologetically take up space as an act of resistance and celebration, refusing to bend to social pressure that asks us to be presentable.

00:25:54.000 That's a value I want my children to learn.

00:25:59.000 Okay, well, this is child abuse, and the fact that we as a society have decided that this stuff is worthy of the pages of the Washington Post says an awful lot about the direction of our society, because everything that people think is too radical and far-fetched five years from now becomes the law of the land.

00:26:15.000 That seems to be the common pattern when it comes to social politics and sexual politics in the nation. 0.87

00:26:22.000 And once again, we are going to reach a point where Americans just say no, and they should have said no to a lot of this stuff.

00:26:28.000 Long... I mean, once it's reached the page of the Washington Post, it is... My goodness.

00:26:34.000 But the blowback is coming, and it's coming strong.

00:26:36.000 And the more the left embraces this stuff... Do it.

00:26:41.000 Like, really.

00:26:41.000 I'd love to see it.

00:26:42.000 I think the apathetic middle is not going to remain apathetic for long when you start telling them that their children need to watch kink parades in order to be more broad-minded, so that they will not be judge... Because we don't want them to be judgmental of others, and also, because they, the children, need to explore their own kink sides. 0.79

00:26:56.000 And the reason I'm spending a lot of time on this is because it is indicative of a consistent worldview.

00:27:01.000 There's a worldview on the left that says all sexual behavior is appropriate and decent and good.

00:27:07.000 And also that children should be taught it.

00:27:09.000 Okay, and again, if you think all sexual behavior is appropriate and decent and good, then why shouldn't children be taught it after all?

00:27:17.000 In fact, the worst thing you could do is repress children in a Freudian sense.

00:27:21.000 This is the moral battle in which parents are now engaged.

00:27:25.000 And you wonder why people are moving from blue states to red states?

00:27:28.000 You wonder why people are seeking to protect their children by taking them out of public schools and not subjecting them to the scrutiny of state authorities or more and more thinking like this parent is thinking?

00:27:38.000 And there's a phrase that my friend Eric Erickson has used in the past.

00:27:41.000 He says, whatever is allowed eventually becomes compulsory.

00:27:47.000 You will be forced to care.

00:27:48.000 Whatever is allowed becomes compulsory in the end.

00:27:50.000 And that is exactly right when it comes to the social left and its politics.

00:27:54.000 You think right now this woman is just saying, I want to take my kid to a kink parade, which is bad enough. 1.00

00:27:58.000 Eventually it will be, you must take your kid to a kink parade. 1.00

00:28:02.000 Because if you don't take your kid to a kink parade, you are performing an act of child abuse and you are undermining social norms that accept kink behavior. 1.00

00:28:09.000 That is the way it's going to go.

00:28:11.000 And Kink is just an outer edge example of how this has been a mainstream philosophy on the left for a very long time, which is we need to indoctrinate your kids in K-12 about the wonders of LGBTQ lifestyles, and LGBTQ morality, and the falsity of gender ideology, and we must indoctrinate them now. 0.55

00:28:26.000 We have to do the same thing on race.

00:28:28.000 The left is not willing to allow you to live and let live.

00:28:33.000 That middle libertarian perspective, it just doesn't exist when it comes to the education of children.

00:28:36.000 The right better get onto this real fast.

00:28:36.000 The left knows it.

00:28:38.000 I think they're starting to.

00:28:39.000 Okay, in just a second, we're gonna get to Joe Biden.

00:28:42.000 It seems as though he's flailing a bit.

00:28:44.000 We'll explain why in just one second.

00:28:45.000 First, let's talk about the fact that you don't want to be standing in line at an auto parts store.

00:28:49.000 It's not something that you need to be doing.

00:28:51.000 I mean, why would you?

00:28:52.000 You're gonna stand in line, get to the front of the line.

00:28:54.000 Finally, you get the part that you want.

00:28:56.000 And then they're like, oh yeah, we don't have it available.

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00:29:36.000 Again, the interwebs, it's a wonderful thing.

00:29:39.000 And Rock Auto allows you to avoid going to the auto parts store and get the best possible price.

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00:29:49.000 In today's America, major businesses parrot the ideological chants of the left.

00:29:49.000 Okay.

00:29:52.000 We saw that for an entire month, when every major business in the United States decided that football, for example, is gay.

00:30:00.000 And that everybody must be crammed down last year in the idea that diversity training, you have to put the black square on your Instagram page, or you find yourself in the HR manager's office.

00:30:11.000 Corporations have been Cramming this stuff down on you.

00:30:14.000 And it's not just corporations, it's every major institution in American society.

00:30:18.000 This is not going away anytime soon.

00:30:20.000 It is only growing under the current administration.

00:30:23.000 We are experiencing what I'm calling the authoritarian moment.

00:30:26.000 Authoritarianism from the left.

00:30:27.000 They are going to cram down on you, how you should parent your kid, how you should live your life, how you should operate your church.

00:30:32.000 This is why my new book is called The Authoritarian Moment.

00:30:35.000 It is an important, important book.

00:30:36.000 It is a book about how every major institution in our society was weaponized and militarized by a small contingent on the left.

00:30:43.000 How they were able to renormalize institutions and weaponize those institutions against people who disagree.

00:30:49.000 And it's really about how you can fight back.

00:30:51.000 About how we can look at the processes, the processes that the left used in order to cram down their politics on us and reverse those processes and take back these institutions.

00:31:00.000 So, don't wait.

00:31:01.000 Arm yourself with the knowledge you need to shut the woke cult down in its tracks before it's too late. 0.97

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00:32:19.000 ♪♪ Meanwhile, Joe Biden is slipping.

00:32:26.000 There's a new poll out today from Monmouth.

00:32:28.000 It shows that Joe Biden's approval rating, which began at 54% with only 30% disapproving as of January 21st when he first took office, is now down to 48% in the job approval rating, down 6%.

00:32:39.000 And his disapproved numbers are up 13%.

00:32:40.000 So he is slightly Overwater when it comes to approval versus disapproval, but he is below 50%.

00:32:46.000 He's at 48% in the approval rankings.

00:32:49.000 His ratings have slipped pretty significantly over the course of the last couple of months.

00:32:54.000 Among Democrats, according to Monmouth, he slipped from 95% approval in April to 86% in June. 47% From independence in April to 36% now.

00:33:04.000 And actually, his numbers are slightly up with Republicans, which is kind of interesting according to Monmouth.

00:33:10.000 But that's not the only poll that shows Joe Biden in trouble.

00:33:13.000 According to Reuters, President Joe Biden has seen an erosion in support since April.

00:33:18.000 There's another national poll out, and it shows again that his support among Democrats is dropping.

00:33:23.000 A June 11th to 17th national opinion poll shows Biden is still more popular than Donald Trump.

00:33:29.000 55% of adults approving of Biden's performance. 0.92

00:33:32.000 However, the numbers that he has on specific issues suck.

00:33:36.000 There are a lot of people who are really, really concerned about rising living costs, for example, a majority of Americans.

00:33:42.000 The public is almost evenly split over how much the government should do to make things better.

00:33:45.000 48% of respondents said they approved of Biden's handling of the economy.

00:33:51.000 And again, he is finding himself sliding among Democrats.

00:33:55.000 The number of Americans who approved of Biden's stance on gun violence dropped eight points overall, 11 points among Democrats from April to June.

00:34:02.000 He is losing some members of his radical left.

00:34:05.000 And so he's kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:34:08.000 And the problem is that Joe Biden refuses to simply make the choice.

00:34:12.000 Now, Joe Biden could have come into office and been a highly popular president just by not doing what he is doing, namely pursuing extraordinarily radical policies that alienate half the population.

00:34:20.000 In fact, that is what he was elected on the basis of.

00:34:23.000 According to the New York Times, Nate Cohen writing, married men in veteran households were probably not the demographic groups Democrats assumed would carry the party to victory over Trump in the 2020 election.

00:34:32.000 But Joe Biden's apparent strength among traditionally moderate or even conservative constituencies, and especially men, is emerging as one of the hallmarks of his victory.

00:34:39.000 Trump won married men by just a 54 to 44 percent margin, a net 20 point decline from his 62 to 32 percent victory in 2016.

00:34:47.000 He won veteran households by a similar 55 to 43 percent margin, but he won those same households 61 to 35 in the election cycle before that.

00:34:58.000 In both cases, the size of Biden's gains among those relatively conservative groups rival Trump's publicized surge among Latino voters.

00:35:03.000 There's a new poll out, by the way, showing 38 percent of Latinos voted in favor of Trump in the last election cycle, which is the biggest number in decades for Republicans.

00:35:13.000 OK, but again, what is incredible here is that Biden is ignoring what got him into office.

00:35:19.000 Biden campaigned overtly as the not Bernie Sanders candidate in the primaries, and then he campaigned again as the guy who's going to restore normalcy.

00:35:25.000 And on that basis, he won more moderate and more conservative voters.

00:35:28.000 And now his support is eroding among Democrats and among independents.

00:35:32.000 And he's got a problem on his hands because I'm not sure how he shores that up.

00:35:35.000 And spending more money ain't gonna fix the problem.

00:35:38.000 Now, I think the way that he wanted to shore that up was with that bipartisan infrastructure deal.

00:35:42.000 But the problem there is that he's afraid he's gonna lose Bernie Sanders on his left.

00:35:45.000 Because Bernie Sanders has basically said, if you pass that infrastructure deal without passing the reconciliation bill, maybe I'll sit this one out.

00:35:51.000 Now, I don't believe Bernie Sanders.

00:35:53.000 Bernie Sanders has never abstained from a vote in which the government spends more money.

00:35:57.000 But Biden feels like he is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:36:00.000 And meanwhile, His policies are having a pretty detrimental effect on the country.

00:36:06.000 According to the New York Times, Federal Reserve officials spoke with one voice throughout the pandemic downturn, promising that monetary policy would be set to full stimulus mode until the crisis was well and truly behind America.

00:36:16.000 Suddenly, they are less in sync.

00:36:17.000 Central bankers are increasingly divided over how to think about and respond to emerging risks after months of rising asset values and faster-than-expected price increases.

00:36:25.000 While their political counterparts in the White House have been more unified in maintaining that the recent jump in price gains will fade, Washington as a whole is wrestling with how to approach policy at a moment of intense uncertainty.

00:36:35.000 The Fed's top officials, including Chair Jerome Powell, acknowledge a lasting period of uncomfortably high inflation is a possibility.

00:36:41.000 They've said it's more likely recent price increases will fade as the economy reopens.

00:36:45.000 Other officials have voiced more pointed concern that the pickup in prices might persist.

00:36:49.000 They've suggested the Fed might need to stop the stimulus.

00:36:51.000 That's like James Bullard, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank in St.

00:36:54.000 Louis.

00:36:56.000 So you've got conflict over inflation, which continues to rise at extraordinary rates.

00:37:00.000 You've got conflict over defunding the police to the extent that the Democrats are now trying to walk all this stuff back.

00:37:05.000 Jen Psaki has now full bore decided to dive into the lie that it's Republicans who are attempting to defund the police. 0.99

00:37:05.000 Right? 0.99

00:37:11.000 That's how unpopular the Democrats position on policing has now become among Democrats and independents.

00:37:16.000 They're now trying to blame Republicans for their own position.

00:37:18.000 Here's Jen Psaki doing this ridiculous routine yesterday. 1.00

00:37:21.000 The president ran and won the most votes of any candidate in history on a platform of boosting funding for law enforcement after Republicans spent decades trying to cut the COPS program.

00:37:31.000 There's record of that.

00:37:32.000 That doesn't require anyone having new comments.

00:37:35.000 And then also stood in the way of crucial funding needed to prevent the laying off of police officers as crimes increased.

00:37:41.000 That's a simple statement of fact.

00:37:44.000 I understand what you're saying there.

00:37:47.000 There are lots of examples of Democrats explicitly saying they want to defund the police.

00:37:53.000 I think most people would argue that actions are more important than words, wouldn't you say?

00:37:59.000 When you say, no, I wouldn't say that if you refuse to vote for a $2 trillion boondoggle, and that includes like one good thing, that you were against the good thing.

00:38:06.000 That's a very silly way of doing politics.

00:38:08.000 Everybody understands that. 0.86

00:38:09.000 The Biden administration is stuck.

00:38:11.000 If they disown their own radical policies, then the radical base gets angry at them.

00:38:15.000 If they don't disown their own radical policies, then the rest of the country gets angry at them.

00:38:19.000 And the Biden administration is delusional if they think that they ought to be relying on the radical base more than they rely on the moderates.

00:38:25.000 Again, they're stuck in Barack Obama mode, thinking that the reason that they won is because they cobbled together this minority coalition, and the minority coalition pushed them to victory.

00:38:32.000 That is not true.

00:38:33.000 The people who got Biden elected are suburban moms.

00:38:36.000 They are married men.

00:38:37.000 They're military households, right? 0.92

00:38:39.000 Those are, demographically speaking, the constituencies that shifted their vote pretty dramatically between 2016 and 2020.

00:38:45.000 The reality is that more black people, on a percentage basis, voted for Donald Trump than did in 2016.

00:38:52.000 More Hispanic people.

00:38:53.000 voted on a percentage basis for Donald Trump than they did in 2016.

00:38:55.000 So Biden is aiming at completely the wrong household, right?

00:38:58.000 He has a delusional view of what got him where he is, and now he is following that down the primrose path.

00:39:03.000 And meanwhile, I don't think even he knows what he's doing at this point.

00:39:06.000 I would say that Biden is of divided mind, but I don't even think that he has a mind left.

00:39:10.000 I mean, he's just creepy as, like, I'm sorry, he is not with us.

00:39:15.000 And everybody knows this, which poses another problem for the Democrats.

00:39:17.000 The only thing holding this rickety ship together is the fact that nobody finds Joe Biden threatening.

00:39:23.000 Because if Kamala Harris were president right now, her approval ratings would be in the low 40s. 1.00

00:39:28.000 Simple statement of fact.

00:39:30.000 Joe Biden is at 48, 50, 52 percent.

00:39:33.000 And the reason that he is at that percentage is because nobody finds him threatening because they don't think he's alive.

00:39:39.000 He seems to be a kind-hearted, doddering old man who can't string together three sentences in a row, even when reading from teleprompter.

00:39:45.000 I mean, here is Joe Biden.

00:39:45.000 Joe Biden is in a consistent battle with the teleprompter.

00:39:48.000 He's consistently fighting the teleprompter.

00:39:50.000 And the teleprompter is winning.

00:39:52.000 Here is Joe Biden versus the teleprompter.

00:39:54.000 Here we go.

00:39:56.000 This job, this jobs, the jobs that are going to be created here.

00:40:05.000 And Joe Biden is down.

00:40:06.000 He's down.

00:40:07.000 Teleprompter standing over him, dancing a victory dance.

00:40:11.000 Put the count on him.

00:40:12.000 OK, well, when he's not fighting the teleprompter, Joe Biden is whispering creepily into the microphone.

00:40:15.000 I don't know who told him this is a good political tactic.

00:40:19.000 But again, it's Cesar Romero whispering into the camera.

00:40:22.000 I think in order for us to really feel the full effect of this, the camera needs to be tilted about 35 degrees.

00:40:26.000 If it's tilted about 35 degrees, so it's just off kilter, then this starts to really make more sense.

00:40:30.000 Here's Joe Biden whispering like a crazy person into the microphone again.

00:40:34.000 People say, well, that's a giveaway.

00:40:36.000 Hey guys, I think it's time to give ordinary people a tax break.

00:40:42.000 The wealthy are doing fine.

00:40:45.000 I mean it.

00:40:50.000 How'd you like that coming at you at 4 o'clock in the morning?

00:40:52.000 My goodness.

00:40:54.000 And meanwhile, Joe Manchin is out here going like, all you have to do is kind of do what I'm telling you to do and you'll be fine.

00:40:58.000 He's saying, I don't understand why y'all want us to write checks that our kids won't be able to cash because it's very silly.

00:41:04.000 But Joe Biden isn't working with Manchin and not working across the aisle.

00:41:07.000 Instead, he has decided to under, I mean, the one time he worked across the aisle, he decided to immediately, within two hours, undercut his own message to the point where the White House had to walk it back.

00:41:16.000 Here is Joe Manchin repeating a message that if Joe Biden actually said might make Joe Biden slightly more popular.

00:41:22.000 You put me anywhere you want to, in the political spectrum.

00:41:24.000 But I think I'm pretty much centrist in the middle, where most people are, and pragmatic enough to figure, okay, I understand you've identified the need on this side, but we've already spent how many trillions of dollars attending to a lot of those needs.

00:41:38.000 How much more can we afford?

00:41:39.000 Do you want more debt?

00:41:40.000 I looked at this morning, we're at $28.5 trillion of debt.

00:41:46.000 How much more can we add on, Stephanie?

00:41:48.000 How much more can we pass on to your children, the next generation?

00:41:51.000 We've always said, we're writing checks our kids can't cash.

00:41:56.000 Okay, but Elizabeth Warren says we're never going to have to cash those checks because who cares?

00:42:00.000 And that is a battle inside the Democratic Party.

00:42:01.000 It is not going to end anytime soon.

00:42:04.000 It's actually getting worse, like a lot worse, which is why, for example, Representative James Clyburn is now opposing an ally of Bernie Sanders in a special election in Cleveland.

00:42:12.000 There's a major battle that has broken out inside the Democratic Party.

00:42:16.000 Here, I mean, it's astonishing.

00:42:19.000 On Tuesday, Clyburn took aim at one of Sanders' most outspoken acolytes, Nina Turner, a hero to the left who's surging in her campaign in Ohio to claim the congressional seat vacated by Marsha Fudge. 0.88

00:42:29.000 Clyburn is now endorsing Chantel Brown, Turner's leading opponent.

00:42:33.000 He said the reason is because this is the sloganeering of the party's left flank, which is dangerous.

00:42:39.000 All that is masking this is the presence of Joe Biden.

00:42:41.000 It's all that is masking this at this point.

00:42:43.000 Because again, Joe Biden's not there, and he doesn't seem super threatening, so everybody's like, oh, OK, fine.

00:42:48.000 Is he moderate?

00:42:48.000 So is he radical?

00:42:48.000 Who cares?

00:42:49.000 He's barely alive.

00:42:50.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is waiting in the wings, and Democrats are panicking.

00:42:53.000 They're just panicking.

00:42:54.000 Because every time Kamala Harris appears on camera, you know it's going to get bad.

00:42:57.000 And so you're starting to see the opal research dumps.

00:42:59.000 It's unbelievable, actually.

00:43:01.000 Kamala Harris, you would think, is in a sort of impregnable position. 1.00

00:43:04.000 That if Joe Biden were to plot, or if he were to not run in a couple of years, You would think that Kamala Harris would be the obvious heir apparent.

00:43:11.000 I mean, he's been not only campaigning with her, he brings her out randomly at events as though she's the co-president as opposed to occupying the office that is a warm bucket of spit.

00:43:20.000 Right?

00:43:20.000 And so it's very weird.

00:43:22.000 He's giving her these big, these sort of big portfolios, like the border, like these high profile portfolios, climate change.

00:43:29.000 And then she's terrible at it.

00:43:30.000 And so what you're starting to see is rebellion against Kamala Harris inside the Democratic Party.

00:43:34.000 And pure oppo being dropped on her.

00:43:37.000 Today in Politico, there is a piece called Not a Healthy Environment.

00:43:40.000 Kamala Harris office rife with dissent.

00:43:44.000 Now, we know that Kamala Harris, her office is a bleep show. 1.00

00:43:46.000 There's an entire article in the New York Times when she first dropped out of the presidential race before Iowa, talking about how it was completely dysfunctional, she couldn't run in office, she was a terrible candidate. 0.83

00:43:55.000 And then of course, as soon as Biden picked her, she became the greatest candidate in the history of the world.

00:43:59.000 Why did we ever do that to Kamala? 1.00

00:44:01.000 Why?

00:44:02.000 And well now there's a piece in Politico, and the oppo's starting to come out.

00:44:05.000 Turns out nobody likes Kamala. 0.69

00:44:07.000 When Vice President Kamala Harris finally made the decision to visit the Mexico border last week, people inside her own office were blindsided by the news.

00:44:14.000 For days, aides and outside allies had been calling and texting with each other about the political fallout a potential trip would entail.

00:44:20.000 But when it became known that she was going to El Paso, it left many scrambling, including officials who were responsible for making travel arrangements and others outside the VP's office charged with crafting the messaging across the administration.

00:44:30.000 The handling of the border visit, writes Politico, was the latest chaotic moment for a staff that's quickly become mired in them.

00:44:35.000 Harris's team is experiencing low morale, porous lines of communication, diminished trust among aides and senior officials.

00:44:42.000 Much of the frustration internally is directed at Tina Flournoy, Harris' chief of staff, a veteran of Democratic politics who began working for her earlier this year.

00:44:49.000 In interviews, 22 current and former VP aides, administration officials, and associates of Harris and Biden described a tense and at times dour atmosphere.

00:44:58.000 Aides and allies said Flournoy, in an apparent effort to protect terrorists, has instead created an insular environment where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out.

00:45:07.000 Often, they said, she refuses to take responsibility for delicate issues and blames staffers for the negative results that causes. 0.79

00:45:13.000 While much of the ire is aimed at Harris's chief, two administration officials said the VP herself also bears responsibility for the way her office is run.

00:45:19.000 It all starts at the tops of one of the administration officials.

00:45:22.000 People are thrown under the bus.

00:45:23.000 From the very top.

00:45:24.000 There are short fuses.

00:45:25.000 It's an abusive environment.

00:45:26.000 It's not a healthy environment.

00:45:27.000 People often feel mistreated.

00:45:28.000 It's not a place where people feel supported.

00:45:30.000 It's a place where people feel treated like bleep.

00:45:33.000 Man, the oppo coming out on Kamala Harris this early, they are in serious trouble.

00:45:37.000 The Democrats are in trouble, they know they're in trouble, and they can't, they cannot direct that car away from the cliff.

00:45:42.000 They can't.

00:45:42.000 They are stuck between a rock and a hard place, and Kamala is waiting in the wings, and they're trying preemptively to dump her, and it ain't gonna work.

00:45:48.000 If you're a Republican, I mean, just focus on talking about the Democrats.

00:45:52.000 That's it.

00:45:53.000 They're the easiest pickings.

00:45:55.000 In years.

00:45:56.000 It's truly an amazing sight to watch them implode this way.

00:45:59.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show.

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Kink For The Kiddies | Ep. 1288

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