The Ben Shapiro Show - Musk Calls The Media Racist – And He’s Right | Ep. 1677

00:00:00.000 After Scott Adams' racial remarks get his comic booted from newspapers across America, Elon Musk calls the media racist, Dwayne Wade's son is transitioned against the will of his mother, and the media celebrate.

00:00:10.000 And Joe Biden says you better have a child care plan if you want to manufacture microchips in America.

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00:00:30.000 Well folks, racism is just fine so long as it is directed against one group of people.

00:00:35.000 In the United States, if you direct racism against black Americans, that of course is verboten, it's very bad, and you'll have your career ended.

00:00:42.000 And there's a strong case that that ought to be the case because racism is bad.

00:00:46.000 The simple fact of the matter is that when you say racist things, there will be penalties attached societally to saying racist things.

00:00:52.000 Now, the problem is that the left has expanded out the definition of racist to include pretty much anything and everything in American life.

00:00:58.000 They've actually expanded out the definition of racism to include simply pointing out disparities in outcome between different racial groups.

00:01:05.000 But put that aside for a second.

00:01:06.000 We all generally agree that racism is bad.

00:01:09.000 But the left doesn't actually agree with that.

00:01:11.000 The left actually believes that racism is good so long as it is directed against white people.

00:01:15.000 And this has been a long time coming in American life, unfortunately.

00:01:19.000 This was pointed out by Elon Musk yesterday to the great consternation of the media.

00:01:23.000 So, just to rewind for a second, Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, he said some racist stuff.

00:01:27.000 The stuff that he said was he was looking at a poll.

00:01:30.000 This poll suggested that only 53% of black Americans said it was okay to be white.

00:01:36.000 Or do they agree with the sentiment, it's okay to be white? 0.88

00:01:38.000 Some 26% of black Americans suggested that they disagreed with the sentiment or the statement, it's okay to be white.

00:01:45.000 Now, as I said yesterday, this may be a semantically overloaded phrase because it is possible to read into the phrase more than just it's okay to be white.

00:01:52.000 It could be reading into the phrase, you know, something more racially tinged than simply, I'm okay with you existing. 0.86

00:01:57.000 But put that aside for a second.

00:01:59.000 What Scott Adams then said about that polling data is he suggested that black people as a whole were a hate group, which of course is indeed racist because you can't extrapolate based on 26% of people saying a thing that even you interpret as racist, that the entire group is racist, nor can you suggest that you shouldn't live near black people, which is what then Scott Adams went on to say, right?

00:02:19.000 That is what he said in his comment.

00:02:21.000 Now, as I pointed out yesterday, what he said was in fact racist.

00:02:25.000 Also, it is worth noting that if you took the word black and you substituted the word white in Scott Adams' actual statement, what you would end up with is something that would get you featured on mainstream media as genius-level commentary.

00:02:41.000 Because the simple fact of the matter is, That the media is totally fine with anti-white racism.

00:02:47.000 Here's a direct quote from Scott Adams, but I switched out the races. 0.91

00:02:50.000 Quote, if nearly half of all whites are not okay with black people, according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll, that's a hate group.

00:02:56.000 I don't want to have anything to do with them. 0.99

00:02:57.000 And I would say based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to black people is to get the hell away from white people. 1.00

00:03:02.000 Just get the F away because there is no fixing this. 0.99

00:03:05.000 Now, when I say it with the races switched, everybody on the left just starts nodding.

00:03:08.000 Because, unfortunately, the hard left has decided that racism is just fine so long as it is directed at white people.

00:03:13.000 Now, one person who made this point yesterday was Elon Musk.

00:03:16.000 Elon Musk is not allowed to make these points because Elon Musk is, of course, the richest man in the world and also the owner of Twitter.

00:03:22.000 And people in the media are very angry at Elon Musk for pointing out the obvious, which is that you can fully acknowledge Scott Adams' racism and still also recognize that the media would be totally fine with Scott Adams' racism if it was directed in precise reverse at white people.

00:03:38.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk has suggested the U.S.

00:03:40.000 media is racist against white and Asian people as he appeared to defend the creator of the Dilbert comic strip.

00:03:45.000 Well, that's actually not precisely what happened.

00:03:48.000 So there was a response to an article posted by the San Francisco Chronicle detailing the saga.

00:03:53.000 And Musk wrote, the media is racist.

00:03:55.000 Quote, for a very long time, U.S.

00:03:56.000 media was racist against non-white people. 0.66

00:03:58.000 Now they're racist against whites and Asians.

00:04:00.000 Same thing happened with elite colleges and high schools in America.

00:04:03.000 Maybe they can try not being racist.

00:04:05.000 So he's not actually defending what Scott Adams said.

00:04:07.000 What he is saying is that the media are totally fine with racism so long as it's directed at people who are higher up on the intersectional hierarchy or more powerful on the intersectional hierarchy.

00:04:16.000 Remember, for the left, there is a hierarchy of human value. 0.78

00:04:20.000 It's really quite disgusting.

00:04:22.000 Rooted in the notion of intersectionality.

00:04:24.000 So the original theory of intersectionality, as articulated by Kimberly Crenshaw, was supposed to be a very specific legal theory.

00:04:29.000 It's kind of like critical race theory.

00:04:31.000 It starts off as a legal theory and then it suddenly gets blown up by its proponents into something much larger.

00:04:37.000 So the basic idea of intersectionality is that people treat people of different races differently and also treat people of different sexes differently.

00:04:44.000 And what this means is that if you are a black woman, you are treated differently than a black man, for example.

00:04:49.000 That any system that doesn't take into account disparities between black women and black men is ignoring one aspect of identity that complicates the picture.

00:04:59.000 That, I suppose, is inarguable to a certain extent.

00:05:02.000 I mean, the simple fact is that black women are treated in American society differently than black men, because women are treated differently than men, and presumably Okay, put all of that aside.

00:05:11.000 differently than white women, but only in certain contexts because as it turns out that if you actually adjust for family structure and you adjust for income level, black women perform equally or better than white women in a wide variety of circumstances.

00:05:23.000 Okay, put all of that aside.

00:05:24.000 The basic point of intersectionality, as Kimberly Crenshaw originally articulated, has been put aside in favor of this idea that in American society, the more intersectional checkboxes you tick, the more victimized you are.

00:05:36.000 And what that means is if you have many intersectional victim checkboxes ticked, then you cannot victimize anyone who has fewer intersectional checkboxes ticked.

00:05:45.000 So if you are a black woman and you say something terrible about a white woman, this is not a form of discrimination.

00:05:51.000 It's totally fine because black women have more checkboxes than white women do. 1.00

00:05:55.000 White women are just women. 1.00

00:05:56.000 Black women are both black and women. 1.00

00:05:58.000 And this holds true throughout the intersectional hierarchy. 0.98

00:06:00.000 So if you're a white person and you're racist against Asians, this means that you're terrible and racist because Asians are more diverse than you. 0.97

00:06:06.000 But if you're a black person, you're racist against Asians. 0.97

00:06:07.000 That's not racism.

00:06:09.000 That's just something else that we won't actually kind of talk about because it's super awkward.

00:06:12.000 So the point that Elon Musk is making here is quite true.

00:06:15.000 And yet the media refused to acknowledge this, of course.

00:06:17.000 And they say that it's quite terrible for Elon Musk to have said this.

00:06:20.000 Now, the simple fact of the matter is the media are perfectly OK with racism so long as it is directed Against a supposedly more powerful group from a supposedly less powerful group.

00:06:34.000 What I'm saying here can be well substantiated, and we'll do that in just one moment.

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00:07:38.000 Hey, well, I do have some receipts.

00:07:41.000 The simple fact of the matter is that if you took everything that Scott Adams said, As I said, you said it in reverse, you would have a starring slot on MSNBC.

00:07:48.000 In fact, we could call you by name.

00:07:49.000 We could call you Ellie Mistal on MSNBC circa September 2022.

00:07:52.000 Here he was with Tiffany Cross explaining that white people generally just white people generally get violent when they don't get their way. 0.81

00:07:59.000 Now, again, if you replace the word white with black here, you get banned not only from TV, but from all public polite society. 0.86

00:08:05.000 But if you're Eli Mistal, you can say exactly what you want about white people at any time. 0.59

00:08:10.000 This is literally what conservative white folks do when they don't get their way. 0.97

00:08:14.000 They turn violent. 0.99

00:08:16.000 As a black man in this country, as a person who is aware of the black history in the new world, white people turn violent when they don't politically get their way all the damn time in this country. 0.99

00:08:28.000 It's what they do. 0.98

00:08:29.000 And so, from the perspective of a black person, I'm kind of like, welcome to the world that I've been living in, America, because now what we have is white domestic terrorists threatening to turn violence against non-black people, against everybody else, if the white supremacist ideology doesn't win the day and their white supremacist king is held accountable for crime. 0.95

00:08:50.000 And I want to point out, Ellie, You're right, and you're not opining. 0.92

00:08:56.000 I mean, that statement is rooted in history.

00:08:58.000 In fact, if you are even a modest student of history, you have seen this scenario play out several times.

00:09:04.000 Okay, that is insane, right?

00:09:06.000 But that's totally well within the Overton window for the left.

00:09:09.000 You're allowed to say that. 0.73

00:09:10.000 White people, when they are confronted with things they don't like, they're violent. 1.00

00:09:13.000 They just get randomly violent. 0.90

00:09:14.000 Now, if anybody suggested the same thing about black people writ large, if they looked at the riots of 2020 and they said, okay, well, George Floyd died under the knee of a police officer, and then there were massive riots. 0.95

00:09:24.000 All black Americans are to blame for all parts of that riot. 1.00

00:09:27.000 Because when black people don't get their way, then black people get violent. 1.00

00:09:30.000 That would be racist and people would see consequences. 0.97

00:09:34.000 But if you are on the left and you say this sort of stuff about white people, it's considered factual. 0.96

00:09:38.000 Tiffany Cross, that's factual.

00:09:40.000 It's just rooted in history, guys.

00:09:41.000 That's just straight American history.

00:09:43.000 Or, for example, Jon Stewart, March 2022.

00:09:47.000 Doing the typical malice struggle session where he has to side with an insane guest talking about the problem with white people writ large.

00:09:53.000 You would never even hear that specific statement. 0.98

00:09:57.000 The problem with black people writ large. 1.00

00:09:59.000 You'd never hear that because it's racist. 0.98

00:10:01.000 But if you say it about white people, not only is it okay, it's good. 1.00

00:10:04.000 It makes you a hero of the republic.

00:10:05.000 You're Jon Stewart.

00:10:07.000 You're broad-minded.

00:10:08.000 And you're one of the good white people. 0.99

00:10:10.000 You're able to be one of the good white people because you're able to crap on all the other white people. 0.99

00:10:10.000 You're able to dissociate. 0.99

00:10:15.000 So is this white lady on Apple TV. 1.00

00:10:18.000 If white men were going to do something about racism, you had 400 years.

00:10:22.000 You could have done it.

00:10:23.000 Okay?

00:10:28.000 I am 58 years old.

00:10:30.000 I'm shutting you down right now.

00:10:31.000 I am not responsible for anyone before me.

00:10:33.000 The point is, I'm so tired of just engaging in this conversation and this deep hurt that Andrew has about talking about racism.

00:10:42.000 And Chip, God bless you, but I'm gonna put everybody in the thing.

00:10:46.000 All of us white people do this.

00:10:48.000 I don't care if we say we're abolitionists.

00:10:50.000 I don't care if we say we're progressive.

00:10:52.000 I don't care if we're literally members of the KKK.

00:10:56.000 Every single white person upholds these systems and structures of white supremacy.

00:11:00.000 And we have got to talk about it.

00:11:05.000 Every single white person.

00:11:07.000 And Jon Stewart's like, OK.

00:11:09.000 Every single white person. 0.88

00:11:10.000 Again, if you ever use the phrase, every single black person, you are off TV.

00:11:14.000 If you say every single white person, you're Jon Stewart, and we build statues of you in media halls.

00:11:20.000 Robin DiAngelo, who's been trotted out as a source on these things, even though her book White Fragility is legitimately one of the worst books of all time.

00:11:27.000 If you don't actually believe that, I did an entire podcast where I went through her book almost word for word, and it is insane.

00:11:34.000 But here's Robyn D'Angelo, who has been quoted in The Proud Family.

00:11:37.000 They literally hand a copy of Robyn D'Angelo, one character to another, in an animated Disney Plus show.

00:11:43.000 Because that's how mainstream Robin DiAngelo is. 0.94

00:11:45.000 Here she is explaining that it's totally fine to make fun of white people in comedy, but not black people in comedy, because racism against white people is not a thing because white people are powerful and black people are powerless. 0.66

00:11:56.000 I think TV shows like Family Guy and South Park and maybe a little bit The Simpsons, right, allowed white people to be racist self-consciously, right?

00:12:08.000 Like, I know I'm being racist and therefore it doesn't count and it's okay.

00:12:12.000 And so I don't think it's benign to do it in a joking way.

00:12:16.000 And there is a concept in comedy called punching up, not down.

00:12:22.000 So, you know, you want to punch up, there's very different power dynamics and it doesn't hurt in the same way.

00:12:28.000 It doesn't invoke a So you just can't make fun of people of color, but you certainly can make fun of white people. 0.88

00:12:37.000 But it's very, very different when you poke fun at people of color.

00:12:41.000 So you just can't make fun of people of color, but you certainly can make fun of white people. 0.93

00:12:46.000 It's really, really important, actually, to make fun of white people because they're powerful. 0.80

00:12:51.000 Or take Van Jones.

00:12:52.000 So Van is a super nice guy.

00:12:54.000 I know Van.

00:12:55.000 Really nice guy.

00:12:56.000 But again, it's not about Van. 0.99

00:12:57.000 It's about the fact that people in the mainstream media say this sort of crap on a regular basis, and it is considered part of the mainstream conversation, so long as it is directed against white people. 1.00

00:13:06.000 Here's Van Jones explaining that white people have a virus in their brain. 0.99

00:13:10.000 So even the most liberal, well-intentioned white person has a virus in his or her brain that can be activated at an instant. 0.99

00:13:22.000 And so what you're seeing now is a curtain falling away. 0.98

00:13:26.000 Look in the mirror at how you choke off black opportunity. 1.00

00:13:32.000 How you choke off black dignity. 1.00

00:13:34.000 White people in these situations are always innocent. 1.00

00:13:39.000 Oh my god, I can't believe this.

00:13:41.000 Teach me.

00:13:42.000 Educate me.

00:13:42.000 Help me understand.

00:13:43.000 I can't let this happen.

00:13:45.000 Talk to me.

00:13:46.000 Tell me something.

00:13:46.000 Tell me what to do.

00:13:48.000 White people are always innocent, and their innocence constitutes their crime. 1.00

00:13:55.000 Their innocence constitutes their crime, which is about as backward 1984 a sentiment as I have heard Recently.

00:14:02.000 And all of this is mainstream.

00:14:05.000 And there's nothing new about this.

00:14:06.000 I mean, you can flashback to pieces from 2020 in the middle of the George Floyd saga.

00:14:11.000 Piece from Dr. Sundiana Sundjanta, anti-oppression content creator, facilitator, and organizer.

00:14:16.000 Quote, Why I walked away from white people. 0.99

00:14:18.000 Again, reverse it. 0.98

00:14:18.000 Why I walked away from black people. 0.98

00:14:19.000 This makes you a racist. 0.96

00:14:20.000 Or how about the very famous piece from Dana Brownlee? 0.92

00:14:23.000 Dear white people, here are five uncomfortable truths black colleagues need you to know. 0.88

00:14:27.000 Dear black people, here are five uncomfortable truths white colleagues need you to know.

00:14:30.000 You think that would make it off the ground?

00:14:33.000 Or how about Michael Harriot writing an entire piece called Black History According to White People in which he chastises a column from a guy at National Review and suggests that National Review's Peter Kersenow is racist because he has critiqued the 1619 Project only to later discover that Peter Kersenow is, in fact, a person of minority status.

00:14:52.000 Or how about a piece from Umair Haq called This is Why Minorities and White People Can't Get Along in America, How White Rage is Still the Force that Controls Every Level of American Society.

00:15:03.000 This has been a long-standing thing in the media.

00:15:06.000 Again, it goes all the way back.

00:15:07.000 And when I say all the way back, I don't mean like 50 years in terms of the turn against white people and racism being okay.

00:15:14.000 I'm talking about racism.

00:15:16.000 There was an actual turn in American politics.

00:15:18.000 We're going to talk about it in just one second.

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00:16:27.000 So again, the history of this is pretty complete.

00:16:30.000 And here is a 2018 piece on HBO about how it was totally great when women of color vacationed away from white people.

00:16:37.000 Again, imagine the reverse. 0.97

00:16:38.000 White people vacation away from black people. 0.95

00:16:40.000 We would just talk about how these people were racist and in favor of apartheid and segregation. 0.97

00:16:45.000 But when it's black people doing it to white people, then, of course, this is just it's heroism. 0.99

00:16:48.000 You're escaping from the white supremacy. 0.96

00:16:51.000 Alexis Bromley is from Nebraska. 0.92

00:16:54.000 She needed a break from white people. 1.00

00:16:56.000 In Omaha, it's very segregated.

00:16:59.000 It can be very isolating if you're a person of color.

00:17:02.000 It's hard in Nebraska because it's a red state.

00:17:05.000 And so you just don't know who you interact with on a daily basis, if they believe that you're lesser, if you're inferior, and how that, in turn, can affect me.

00:17:15.000 She says the current political climate has only made these feelings worse.

00:17:19.000 So, she decided to go on a women of color healing retreat. 0.59

00:17:22.000 The idea is simple.

00:17:24.000 For 10 days, black women come together to eat vegan food, meditate, do yoga.

00:17:29.000 So many people's ideologies are being validated that don't see us as human, that don't see us as people.

00:17:39.000 Okay, can I just point out for a second that if this were a bunch of white ladies who are eating vegan food, meditating, and going on vacations, like 10-day vacations with other white people, this would be the height of white privilege. 1.00

00:17:49.000 But if you do this on Vice, then this is just, this is what people of color have to do in the United States to escape all the white people.

00:17:54.000 And of course it goes back further than 2018.

00:17:57.000 2015, BuzzFeed did an entire video with like 7 million views on it, questions for white people.

00:18:02.000 Now again, you would never see a similar video from BuzzFeed, questions for black people. 0.96

00:18:06.000 I understand that the left likes to say that you're not allowed to do the switch.

00:18:09.000 You're not allowed to actually compare racism against blacks to racism against whites.

00:18:13.000 Because the histories are so different.

00:18:15.000 Okay, it is true.

00:18:16.000 The histories are incredibly different.

00:18:17.000 Also, racism.

00:18:18.000 Okay, we all agree that racism is bad.

00:18:21.000 That treating an entire group of people as a monolith for purposes of stereotyping and cuddling them is a bad thing.

00:18:28.000 How about that?

00:18:28.000 You don't have to do an equation to point out that both things are bad.

00:18:31.000 But according to the left again, only one of these things is bad.

00:18:33.000 2015 BuzzFeed. 0.99

00:18:36.000 There is a big butt and big lips considered attractive on a white woman, but they're unattractive on a black woman. 1.00

00:18:42.000 Do y'all really think Miley is the one who created twerking? 0.99

00:18:46.000 Really?

00:18:46.000 Why am I supposed to teach you how to twerk?

00:18:48.000 I don't know how to twerk. 0.93

00:18:49.000 Why is it that white people always act as though they have discovered a new trend when people of color have been doing it for virtually years? 0.87

00:18:56.000 Why is it when a black woman wears her hair natural, it's seen as inappropriate, but when a white woman does, it's praised? 1.00

00:19:03.000 This is the hair that I was born with, so you wearing it as a trend is not cute.

00:19:08.000 Why do you want to say the n-word so badly?

00:19:11.000 If I don't use it, what makes you think you can?

00:19:14.000 Why do you always want to touch our hair?

00:19:16.000 Who told you it was okay to touch people without their permission?

00:19:19.000 Why do you feel like having one black friend makes you a cultural expert or not a racist?

00:19:23.000 Is your only black friend comfortable with being the reason why you can't be racist?

00:19:28.000 By that logic, then I'm not racist.

00:19:29.000 Again, I have a ton of white friends.

00:19:31.000 Why do you feel comfortable cursing at your parents? 1.00

00:19:34.000 Why do you kiss your dogs on the mouth? 0.97

00:19:36.000 How come you can't pronounce black names like Quvenzhané, but can say names like Schwarzenegger, Galifianakis, and LaBeouf just fine? 0.97

00:19:43.000 Why do you feel like all lion's lives matter, but black lives don't? 1.00

00:19:47.000 Why is a lion's life in Africa more important than the lives of black people here in America? 0.99

00:19:53.000 This question's for all white people. 0.99

00:19:54.000 You're all racist, so they can be as racist as they want to be. 1.00

00:19:56.000 Okay, so. 0.98

00:19:58.000 Here's the question.

00:19:59.000 Here's the question.

00:20:00.000 What changed in American society? 0.99

00:20:01.000 Because when I was growing up, this kind of crap was not considered appropriate. 0.98

00:20:05.000 It really was not. 0.99

00:20:06.000 Like, from any race.

00:20:07.000 Racism was just considered a bad thing all the way across the board.

00:20:07.000 You weren't allowed to do it.

00:20:10.000 So what exactly happened?

00:20:12.000 Well, you can look at the polling data, and you can see exactly what happened.

00:20:15.000 So, if you look at the polling data on how Americans feel on race relations, what you see is a very consistently, solidly majority feel that race relations are good up until the year 2014.

00:20:26.000 You can see it.

00:20:28.000 It's right there in the data.

00:20:29.000 It's Gallup polling data.

00:20:30.000 Okay, among black adults, well over 60% of black adults pretty much continuously from 2001 all the way till 2013 think that race relations in America are good.

00:20:42.000 And 70% or so of white Americans feel exactly the same way from 2001 all the way till 2013.

00:20:48.000 And then everything hits a cliff.

00:20:50.000 And by 2015, only 51% of black adults think race relations are good.

00:20:55.000 And only 45% of white adults think race relations are good.

00:20:59.000 And the line, the trend line really never recovers.

00:21:01.000 So by 2021, only 43% of white adults believe race relations between black and white people are good.

00:21:06.000 And 33% of black people believe race relations are good. 0.94

00:21:10.000 So what happened between 2013 and 2015?

00:21:12.000 What happened right there?

00:21:13.000 Well, there was a year it was called 2014.

00:21:15.000 And that happened to be the year that Barack Obama decided that he was going to inject himself into a fundamental narrative.

00:21:21.000 over Michael Brown and the Ferguson riots in which he suggested that black people were systematically put upon in the United States and that his own presidency was not evidence that racism had been alleviated in the United States.

00:21:31.000 In fact, it may even have been a cover for the continuation of racism in the United States.

00:21:35.000 All the racial healing during the Obama era really was a magical, magical thing.

00:21:40.000 And listen, this sort of thing, it has consequences.

00:21:43.000 This has now bled down into, up into the highest levels of American society and down into the lowest levels of American society.

00:21:49.000 This entrenched belief that racist language is okay, so long as it is directed against one group, but not against another group. 1.00

00:21:56.000 All of that is incredibly ugly and incredibly stupid. 1.00

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00:23:04.000 So this has bled down into the lowest levels of American society, where racism is considered de rigueur, depending on who it is directed against.

00:23:11.000 And it has bled all the way up into the halls of presidential power.

00:23:14.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden, he was doing an event on Black History Month because we are reaching the end of Black History Month.

00:23:20.000 We're about to enter Women's History Month.

00:23:22.000 Every group gets a history month.

00:23:25.000 Which is weird because I would just assume that all of our histories ought to be shared.

00:23:29.000 I mean, they're somewhat intertwined, are they not?

00:23:31.000 I think the best critique of Black History Month is that really Black History is just part of like all history. 0.96

00:23:36.000 There's no White History Month.

00:23:38.000 So the implication is what are the other 11 months of the year white history? 0.82

00:23:41.000 Like, in any case, put aside the silliness of having months that are specifically dedicated to one topic.

00:23:47.000 But Joe Biden was doing an event, memorating Black History Month, and he dropped this line. 0.98

00:23:51.000 I may be a white boy, but I'm not stupid. 0.97

00:23:57.000 I know where the power is. 0.93

00:24:00.000 I know where the power is.

00:24:01.000 You think I'm joking.

00:24:03.000 I learned a long time ago.

00:24:07.000 I know where the power is.

00:24:08.000 You may think I'm joking. 0.94

00:24:09.000 I'm a white boy, but I'm not stupid. 0.86

00:24:10.000 So first of all, fact check, half true. 1.00

00:24:11.000 He is a white boy and he is stupid. 1.00

00:24:13.000 But. 1.00

00:24:15.000 Yeah, again, the kind of language that he uses there.

00:24:17.000 Imagine somebody else saying that.

00:24:20.000 About any race.

00:24:22.000 But that sort of stuff is considered totally fine now.

00:24:24.000 It's totally fine.

00:24:25.000 It's not fine like 1970s fine where everybody make jokes about everybody else's race in an attempt to sort of get over racial awkwardness.

00:24:31.000 There's Richard Pryor who is saying incredibly inflammatory stuff or Archie Bunker on your TV saying incredibly inflammatory stuff.

00:24:37.000 We live now in a very civil society with regard to this sort of stuff except with regard to one particular kind of language and that kind of language is pretty clear to everyone.

00:24:46.000 Meanwhile, by the way, it's bleeding over into policy as well.

00:24:48.000 Aside from the Biden administration, which has decided that it is going to inject equity into literally every facet of the federal government, as we discussed last week, an executive order went out from the Biden administration suggesting that equity had to be the guiding principle of every agency in the federal government.

00:25:02.000 And by equity, they mean intersectional group justice, meaning that if there is a less powerful group, then we must elevate that less powerful group via the means of government power.

00:25:12.000 Now in San Francisco, they are now considering whether to give $5 million to each black resident of San Francisco, which would destroy their economy. 0.75

00:25:19.000 I mean, frankly, I'm sort of a burn it all down type when it comes to San Franciscans actually pursuing their leftist utopianism, like go for it.

00:25:29.000 Now apparently they're talking about getting $5 million to every black resident of San Francisco on the basis of past discrimination or on the belief that this is somehow going to heal racial divides or something.

00:25:41.000 Go for it.

00:25:42.000 If that's the thing you want to do, absolutely go for it.

00:25:45.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:25:46.000 This is what our society now has to say about racism, is that racial preferences are not only okay, but morally favored, and that that ought to apply in pretty much every area of American life. 0.96

00:25:59.000 Now, speaking of other things that our society has decided to do that are unbelievably stupid and counterproductive, we have decided that it is imperative that we celebrate every time a boy believes that he is a girl, and then has hormones and surgery to prove it. 0.94

00:26:10.000 This, even if one of the kid's parents objects. 0.88

00:26:15.000 So, according to People Magazine, a Los Angeles County judge has now signed off on Zaya Wade's petition to change her name as well as her legal transition.

00:26:23.000 Just to make clear, Zaya is a boy.

00:26:27.000 According to People.com, Dwayne Wade's daughter, because this is the way that the media, this is all so tied up in the media.

00:26:32.000 Every major narrative for the media is about violating taboos and then normalizing the violation of those taboos.

00:26:41.000 This is how it became okay to say the kinds of things that you see Eli Mistall saying on MSNBC.

00:26:45.000 It's also the way that we are now supposed to immediately just adopt the perverse language of suggesting that a boy is a girl.

00:26:51.000 So People Magazine says, Dwayne Wade's daughter, i.e.

00:26:54.000 son, has been granted an official name change and assignment of gender, according to court documents obtained by People.

00:26:59.000 While Zaya has gone by her name since 2020, her legal name is now Zaya Maliki Eramis Wade, according to a ruling filed in LA's Superior Court.

00:27:07.000 The judge also granted an official stamp of approval for the 15-year-old's legal transition that would allow her sex markers on documents to match her gender identity.

00:27:17.000 So all documents will now say female, despite the fact that Zaya is, in fact, a male.

00:27:24.000 Zaya is, in fact, a dude.

00:27:25.000 A 15-year-old boy.

00:27:27.000 A confused 15-year-old boy.

00:27:29.000 And the entire media are in celebration mode.

00:27:32.000 They're in celebration mode despite the fact that Zaya's mom is really objecting to this sort of thing.

00:27:39.000 And this has made heroes, of course, of Zaya's parents.

00:27:43.000 Zaya's parents are Dwayne Wade, the former NBA star, and Gabrielle Union, the stepmom.

00:27:50.000 Now Zaya's mom, Siobhan Funches Wade, alleged in a court filing last November that Dwayne was trying to profit from their daughter's outreach toward naming gender change. 0.97

00:28:01.000 And he says, none of us are surprised by Siobhan's attempt to fight Zaya's identity and her unwavering attempt to drag my name through the mud.

00:28:07.000 I'm very disappointed that she continually finds ways of centering herself and her needs without regard to her children.

00:28:13.000 Now, imagine any father said that about any mother in any other context.

00:28:16.000 That you're censoring your needs above the needs of your child.

00:28:19.000 Oh my God, grave sexism.

00:28:20.000 But not so if you are attempting to legitimately treat a boy as a girl and then legally transition a 15 year old.

00:28:26.000 A 15 year old.

00:28:29.000 Continuing his statement, Wade detailed how Funch's Wade, 41, tried a similar attempt over a decade ago, and 13 lawyers later, I was awarded sole custody of our two kids as an active NBA player.

00:28:38.000 All I ever wanted was to have my parenting time uninterrupted as I knew it would be a very difficult time for our kids to navigate the new normal.

00:28:46.000 Wade first spoke about his teen daughter coming out as transgender on a 2020 episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

00:28:53.000 At the time, Wade noted, his child had decided to go by the name of Ziya and be referred to by she-her pronouns.

00:28:58.000 They were married for eight years, by the way, and they share a son along with Zaya.

00:29:03.000 That, by the way, is the best way to treat a child with a serious issue of gender confusion, is to go on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and just talk about it openly in the year 2020, by the way.

00:29:15.000 The year is now 2023, and apparently Zaya is now 15, which means that Zaya was actually 12 when Dwayne Wade decided to go on Ellen's Generous and explain about the transition.

00:29:28.000 And this is all to be celebrated by the media.

00:29:30.000 It's just absolutely celebrated.

00:29:32.000 So CBS Mornings had on Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade to talk about the power of acceptance.

00:29:37.000 Never mind that mom thinks that this is a perversion of her son.

00:29:41.000 None of that matters anymore because they are fulfilling the narrative needs of the media with regard to transvism.

00:29:47.000 So what is your message for those who might not have that support?

00:29:50.000 Kids that are searching for not only their own identity, but for someone to help validate who they are.

00:29:57.000 Well, I want young folks who feel misunderstood or isolated to hold on.

00:30:02.000 I know that it is difficult.

00:30:04.000 I know you feel like the world is against you, and sometimes that is actually true.

00:30:08.000 But there are so many people out here who want you to have the fullest life possible.

00:30:13.000 And I think especially for young trans youth, know that whatever hate you hear, there's so much love that washes over that, and people are fighting for you.

00:30:23.000 There are people fighting for you to be away from your parents.

00:30:26.000 The entire media has decided that they are going to now side against parents who believe that their children have immutable biological sex.

00:30:36.000 That's the really important thing to take away from all of this.

00:30:38.000 This is the direction that our media moves.

00:30:40.000 Our media are an ivory tower bunch.

00:30:42.000 They live within a certain bubble, and in that bubble, A certain set of values is the norm.

00:30:47.000 That set of values suggests that certain types of racism are okay and certain types of racism are not.

00:30:51.000 That set of values suggests that boys can be girls, girls can become boys, and parents who refuse to acknowledge this pseudo-reality are apparently child abusers.

00:31:00.000 And what you need is activists and authors coming in to explain to you that your parents are wrong, but you, in your internal subjective feeling, you will be made whole by a media that is there to cuddle you and give you hugs.

00:31:11.000 I mean, by the way, they don't give two damns about you for the length of your life.

00:31:15.000 And the simple fact of the matter is, according to all available data, like all available data, the rates of suicidal ideation, the rates of suicidality among LGBTQ youth are way, way higher than among heterosexual youth, and that is not because of quote-unquote mistreatment.

00:31:31.000 That has much more to do with the fact that there is a high comorbidity between certain types of identification and behavior and actual depression.

00:31:39.000 We acknowledge this in literally every other area of life, but it's politically and politics to say that sort of thing when it comes to LGBTQ identification and behavior.

00:31:47.000 But no, don't worry.

00:31:48.000 They have your best interests at heart as always, as always.

00:31:50.000 Now, speaking of people who have your best interests at heart, it is fairly amazing that Disney has decided to blow itself out, you know, and talk about people who are targeting your kids.

00:32:00.000 I am continually amazed by the fact that Disney, perhaps the most trusted brand in American life up till about 10 years ago, has decided that it is imperative to insert left-wing politics into every aspect of their being.

00:32:15.000 It is like an incredible brand betrayal.

00:32:18.000 As somebody who is a big Disney fan, as somebody who loves Disney legacy properties, as somebody who was a Disneyland annual pass member along with my wife and our kids, It is amazing how they decided to blow themselves out in order to please the woke contingent.

00:32:32.000 Well now, Governor Ron DeSantis, he is taking the final step to remove the special tax dispensations that were given to Disney World.

00:32:40.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, DeSantis signed into law legislation ending Walt Disney Company's control of a special tax district in New Orlando and named new members to the state control board that now governs it.

00:32:50.000 Here was Ron DeSantis explaining that Disney will now be treated like SeaWorld.

00:32:55.000 Local politicians, particularly in Orange County, were saying that that would mean that the debt of Disney would get dumped on their taxpayers, they would have to do services, and it would cause major property tax increases for people in Central Florida.

00:33:11.000 Now, I rejected that.

00:33:13.000 A lot of media reported that that would happen, and I said that will not happen.

00:33:17.000 And so, even though, and I'll announce here who's going to be running Disney on behalf of the state.

00:33:24.000 Even though I would like eventually the local government to just take this, I was not going to put taxpayers at risk and I did not trust them to be able to handle this at this point. 0.97

00:33:34.000 Now, DeSantis has taken all sorts of crap for this.

00:33:38.000 But the simple fact of the matter is Disney was given corporate favoritism because again, Disney was a favorite. 0.96

00:33:44.000 Disney was like an unmitigated apolitical boon to the state of Florida.

00:33:48.000 And then they decided that it was very important that they become invested in politics.

00:33:51.000 And at that point, I'm sorry, your special dispensations go away.

00:33:53.000 F around and find out is the message from Governor DeSantis.

00:33:56.000 And that happens to be correct as the woke corporations decide to insert themselves in every area of American life.

00:34:02.000 In just one second, we'll get to Abigail Disney, who had something rather insane to say. 0.99

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00:36:14.000 Okay, meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is now appointed an oversight board for the tax district.

00:36:19.000 Named as chairman of the board is Martin Garcia, a Tampa attorney, head of a private investment firm and a Republican donor.

00:36:24.000 He also appointed Bridget Ziegler, the co-founder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty.

00:36:27.000 She's a member of the Sarasota County School Board.

00:36:30.000 Also tapped Michael Sasso, an attorney in Winter Park who was previously named to a judicial nominating commission.

00:36:35.000 Brian Angst, a Boyer and Clearwater, who was previously named to another judicial nominating commission, and Ron Perry, chief executive of The Gathering USA, which is a ministry.

00:36:43.000 The newly constituted board will meet for the first time this week.

00:36:45.000 Among its priorities will be to ensure that Disney pays its fair share of taxes to fund the infrastructure projects in the region so that nobody is paying for Disney's privileges.

00:36:54.000 All of this is perfectly appropriate, given the fact that Disney has decided to go woke.

00:36:58.000 By the way, I will be fascinated to see if Bob Iger runs this one back.

00:37:02.000 So Bob Iger is to blame for the wokeness of Disney in the first place.

00:37:05.000 Bob Chapek ran Disney for about five seconds there, and he's getting all the blame.

00:37:08.000 And then Bob Iger came in like a white knight.

00:37:10.000 Bob Iger is a left-wing fanatic.

00:37:12.000 He was seriously considered as a possible Democratic presidential candidate, believe it or not.

00:37:17.000 And now he's back running Disney.

00:37:19.000 The first indicator is going to be, it'll be interesting to see whether he goes for it, there's a lot of chatter online about Frozen 3.

00:37:24.000 So Disney announced they're going to do Frozen 3.

00:37:26.000 They're also doing Toy Story 5, which shows they have nothing left in the tank.

00:37:28.000 Toy Story 4 was very clearly the concluding episode of that series.

00:37:31.000 They're making Toy Story 5 because Lightyear was such a giant fail due to their attempt to shoehorn in a bunch of LGBTQ messaging to small children. 1.00

00:37:40.000 Well, it'll be fascinating to see if Bob Iger is willing and able to withstand the anger of his own woke employees if they don't make Ilsa an open lesbian in Frozen 3, which has always been the push of the hardcore cultural left.

00:37:54.000 Again, it is amazing how the new generation of Disney just feeds off the body of the old generation of Disney.

00:37:58.000 You can see this, by the way, in the actual Disney commercial for the Super Bowl.

00:38:02.000 The entire Disney commercial for the Super Bowl was legacy properties.

00:38:04.000 It was like Pinocchio and Peter Pan and Aladdin, like all the things they put warning labels on.

00:38:09.000 There's none of the new Proud family in that because no one cares about that. 0.99

00:38:13.000 The only thing people like about Disney is legacy properties.

00:38:15.000 The thing they don't like is all the wokeness.

00:38:17.000 So we'll see if Bob Iger is willing to let the stockholders actually have their way.

00:38:23.000 Worth noting here that the new generation of Disney, people like Abigail Disney, if you could encapsulate sort of the liberal, upper-crossed, highly educated white women who make up a huge part of the Democratic Party base, Abigail Disney is that, right? 1.00

00:38:37.000 She's an heiress. 0.99

00:38:37.000 She's the most privileged person maybe on earth. 0.99

00:38:40.000 Well, yesterday she decided that she was going to go after Jessa Duggar.

00:38:43.000 So Jessa Duggar revealed that she suffered a miscarriage. 0.98

00:38:46.000 And Abigail Disney promptly tweeted, quote, she didn't have a miscarriage.

00:38:49.000 She had a DNC, which is also called an abortion and would be illegal in many states under laws she herself supports.

00:38:55.000 For F's sake, at least just tell the truth, contemptible cowardice.

00:38:58.000 Uh, that is not true.

00:38:59.000 That is not remotely true, but Abigail Disney is not a particularly good person.

00:39:03.000 And ripping into women who have miscarriages.

00:39:05.000 By the way, a DNC, very often, when it is done after miscarriage, is the baby did not survive in the uterus.

00:39:13.000 And so, rather than waiting for the baby to pass, now the baby is in the uterus, right?

00:39:18.000 The corpse is in the uterus, and now you actually have to go out and remove it with the DNC.

00:39:22.000 That's not the same thing as DNCing a live baby, Abigail Disney.

00:39:25.000 But again, this is the new generation of woke white ladies. 1.00

00:39:29.000 Okay, meanwhile, you can see Ron DeSantis making some pretty strong moves.

00:39:32.000 He has his memoirs out.

00:39:34.000 Now he has a brand new book that is out and the book is quite good.

00:39:38.000 A lot of polls showing he's very competitive with Donald Trump.

00:39:41.000 So how is Donald Trump doing?

00:39:42.000 Well, this brings us to today's episode of Good Trump, Bad Trump.

00:39:46.000 Okay, so today we'll be with a little bit of good Trump.

00:39:57.000 There's a little bit of bad Trump too.

00:39:58.000 So we get a little bit of both. 0.99

00:40:01.000 I am proud to announce that all of the left's insanity about how Donald Trump is responsible for the derailing of that train over in Ohio under Joe Biden, because Joe Biden is currently the president, and how he's to blame for the fact that Pete Buttigieg is an incompetent, pathetic, mewling, silly of a human. 0.97

00:40:19.000 That Pete Buttigieg, who spends all day doing photo ops but couldn't be bothered to go over to East Palestine, then whines that he's expected to go over to East Palestine. 0.97

00:40:27.000 They all tried to blame Donald Trump for this.

00:40:28.000 False.

00:40:29.000 So even Glenn Kessler, who is not exactly a Trumpkin, over at the Washington Post.

00:40:34.000 I love the hedging in the headline.

00:40:35.000 So far, Trump's rollback of regulations can't be blamed for Ohio train wreck.

00:40:39.000 So far.

00:40:40.000 I love he has to add the so far.

00:40:41.000 He can't just say Trump's rollback of regulations can't be blamed for Ohio train wreck.

00:40:44.000 It's so far.

00:40:46.000 Perhaps he's like hoping against hope maybe one day.

00:40:49.000 As it turns out, all of the media attempting to suggest include the White House did this too.

00:40:52.000 They tried to suggest that Donald Trump rolled back regulations that would have stopped the crash in East Palestine.

00:40:58.000 And it turns out that that's not true.

00:41:00.000 According to Glenn Kessler, he looked through literally every regulation that was repealed or changed by the Trump administration.

00:41:10.000 And what they found is that none of these rules applied.

00:41:13.000 They were not relevant.

00:41:15.000 They were or if they were relevant, they were not affected by this particular train crash.

00:41:20.000 So that is, in fact, you know, just another episode of the media deciding to go after Trump for mainly because that is their constant misdirect.

00:41:29.000 If something goes wrong with Joe Biden, it must be Trump's fault.

00:41:31.000 So even Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post is like, nah, that's that's not a good thing.

00:41:34.000 OK, meanwhile, We have some some bad news, unfortunately, for President Trump.

00:41:39.000 So President Trump, who, again, he's still doing quite well overall in the Republican primary polls.

00:41:44.000 He's running neck and neck with Ron DeSantis.

00:41:46.000 And he has these great moments like he's Palestinian.

00:41:49.000 Then he has some bad moments.

00:41:50.000 So yesterday he decided that he was going to go hard after Fox News.

00:41:54.000 And he put on Truth Social, quote, Fox News is promoting Ron DeSantis so hard and so much.

00:42:00.000 There's not much time left for real news.

00:42:02.000 So I guess he's now he realized nobody knew the word sanctimonious.

00:42:05.000 And so he's now shortening it.

00:42:07.000 So it's not Ron DeSantis.

00:42:08.000 It's Ron DeSanctis, which I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.

00:42:12.000 And then he says, reminds me of 2016 when they were pushing Jeb, the new Fox Bowl, which have always been purposefully terrible for me, has Trump crushing the sanctimonious, but they barely show it.

00:42:22.000 Instead, they go with losers like Karl Rove, Paul Ryan, and now even Jesper, who have been wrong about everything.

00:42:29.000 Isn't there a big, beautiful network which wants to do well and make a fortune besides fake news?

00:42:35.000 So first of all, I would like to point out here, I'm perfectly willing to point out the various polls.

00:42:40.000 Some show DeSantis doing better than Trump.

00:42:43.000 There's some nationally that show Trump doing better than DeSantis.

00:42:46.000 Also, if your idea as Donald Trump is that Fox News has been insufficiently kind to you over the past several years, yeah, that's a dog that ain't gonna hunt.

00:42:54.000 He tried and succeeded in this routine, by the way, in 2015-2016, when he ripped into Megyn Kelly for asking him some questions he didn't like during the primary debates, and all the rest.

00:43:02.000 But, I'm sorry, Whiny Trump is not the Trump who's going to win.

00:43:05.000 Whiny Trump, when directed against media that we all don't like, is not— It's not a bad thing.

00:43:10.000 Like him complaining about CNN and calling it fake news is one thing.

00:43:13.000 Him saying like Fox News is fake news.

00:43:14.000 Good luck with that one.

00:43:15.000 Seriously, good luck with that one.

00:43:17.000 And meanwhile, other Republican presidential candidates trying to jump into the race.

00:43:22.000 It is my belief that right now, before DeSantis jumps in, it's effectively a two-person race.

00:43:28.000 People do not want a multi-person race.

00:43:30.000 In the Republican Party, Trump's obviously the center of mass.

00:43:34.000 And then People would like a second candidate that they can just one-on-one, mano-a-mano, figure out which one they like.

00:43:40.000 I don't think people want a crowded race.

00:43:42.000 I don't think that they want 12 candidates.

00:43:44.000 It's fine for there to be 12 candidates in the race, but this feel-better winnow right quick, because I don't think that a lot of Republican voters are going to be satisfied with any primary candidate sneaking through with 31% of the vote or something.

00:43:54.000 While Tim Scott is trying to throw his hat in the ring, maybe.

00:43:57.000 So the senator from South Carolina, he visited Iowa, and he's been doing an inspiring message tour.

00:44:03.000 Now listen, I like Tim Scott, and I think that his message is, in fact, inspiring.

00:44:06.000 So I think that he's the right man for the time.

00:44:08.000 I don't think so, because I think, frankly, that he's a pretty conciliatory fellow.

00:44:12.000 I'm not sure this is a conciliatory time.

00:44:15.000 In any case, here is Tim Scott.

00:44:17.000 Again, he's sort of in his pre-presidential run mode.

00:44:20.000 I want to put up a recent Fox News poll about how Americans feel about things today.

00:44:24.000 They say we are a dysfunctional family.

00:44:27.000 81% of them.

00:44:29.000 Is it realistic to believe that you or any other politician can get us out of our corners and get people back to a place where there isn't so much division?

00:44:36.000 In today's society, the progressive left is trying to make America into a grievance culture, when in fact we've always stood on the foundation of greatness.

00:44:47.000 Our original sin should never define us because the story of redemption is what we've been living for more than 50 plus years.

00:44:55.000 The greatest story of progress in the world is American progress in the last 50 years.

00:45:03.000 Again, an inspiring message is fine.

00:45:04.000 I'm just not sure that now is the moment for it, considering how negatively people feel about pretty much everything.

00:45:11.000 He's been talking about how he would like to run for president right now, and he's been doing the tour on all this.

00:45:17.000 We'll have to see if he gains any traction, but as I said before, I think that this race is going to come down largely to two people, unless somehow one of them implodes.

00:45:25.000 And meanwhile, Joe Biden is falling apart.

00:45:28.000 It is amazing how his his wokeness steps in kind of repeatedly to quash what would be his blue collar bona fides. 0.81

00:45:36.000 It's kind of an amazing thing.

00:45:37.000 The man steps on rakes on a routine basis and he's been allowed off the hook.

00:45:41.000 It's that moment first.

00:45:43.000 If you're looking at the federal government, you see a bunch of people who are not extraordinarily competent at their jobs.

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00:46:46.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden, he was attempting to make kind of an interesting move after the State of the Union address.

00:46:51.000 He gave the State of the Union address.

00:46:52.000 He was supposed to kick off his 2024 presidential campaign, and he started basically channeling Bernie Sanders' populism.

00:46:59.000 And that was his shtick, is, I understand I've got the Wokies in my bag over here. 0.86

00:47:02.000 They're going to come along with me for the ride.

00:47:04.000 But now I need to shift over into blue collar talk.

00:47:07.000 We're going to bring manufacturing back to the heartland.

00:47:09.000 This is the thing we're going to do.

00:47:11.000 There's only one problem.

00:47:12.000 Every time he thinks he's out of Oakland, they suck him back in.

00:47:15.000 So here is a perfect example.

00:47:17.000 One of the things that he touted in the middle of his State of the Union address was the so-called Chips Act.

00:47:22.000 Now, this was an act that had some bipartisan support because there are a lot of people in the United States who are looking abroad, and what they are seeing is that China is threatening Taiwan.

00:47:29.000 Virtually all sophisticated microchips are actually manufactured in Taiwan.

00:47:33.000 It doesn't mean they're programmed.

00:47:34.000 Generally programmed and designed in the United States.

00:47:36.000 They're partially manufactured in some places in Scandinavia.

00:47:39.000 And then virtually all of them are sort of finalized and created in Taiwan.

00:47:44.000 Like 92% of sophisticated microchips.

00:47:46.000 And so a lot of people are looking at that.

00:47:47.000 And they're looking at South Korea where there are another 4% of sophisticated microchips being manufactured.

00:47:51.000 And they say, we need to reshore some of that process because frankly, if things go south along the supply lines over there, then we're all going to be in real trouble in our markets.

00:47:59.000 Okay, fair enough.

00:48:00.000 You know, I think that it is unlikely that the United States is going to be the chief mode of manufacturing computer chips.

00:48:07.000 It's extremely expensive to build these manufacturing facilities.

00:48:10.000 But I at least hear the argument as a competitive hedge against China.

00:48:14.000 Fine, got it.

00:48:15.000 But if you're going to do that and you're going to say it's a national security issue, presumably your top priority ought to be the national security of manufacturing the chips.

00:48:21.000 Wrong! 0.86

00:48:22.000 Wrong! 0.86

00:48:23.000 So according to the Washington Post, Chipmakers are now going to have to provide child care plans to seek federal money.

00:48:29.000 I know what you were thinking was, I wanted to make sure that my computer or my phone or my car or my microwave or literally anything else in the United States that relies on microchips, I just want to make sure those devices work.

00:48:39.000 And that's what you were thinking yourself.

00:48:41.000 And that's why we're expending oodles of taxpayer money to make sure that we can manufacture those over here.

00:48:46.000 Well, Joe Biden is thinking, but is there a child care plan?

00:48:50.000 With your tax money.

00:48:51.000 That's the thing that we are most concerned with.

00:48:53.000 According to the Washington Post, computer chip companies requesting millions from the federal government to build factories will have to outline a childcare plan for workers, according to the Commerce Department.

00:49:01.000 Companies seeking more than $150 million in subsidies, part of what was allocated in the $52 billion CHIPS Act signed last year, will need to notify the federal government how they plan to provide childcare to their employees and construction workers.

00:49:13.000 According to department spokeswoman Kaitlin Legacki, again, there is no such thing as a government program without massive grift.

00:49:19.000 And that's essentially what this is, that you have to be a Democrat allied firm doing all the work.

00:49:23.000 You have to have it.

00:49:24.000 You have to have a child care program for construction workers. 0.66

00:49:27.000 OK, let's look at the construction industry.

00:49:29.000 In the construction industry, what is the male female ratio in the construction industry? 0.99

00:49:35.000 Women. 0.81

00:49:37.000 According to the NAWIC, Women represent a grand total of 10.9% of the entire U.S.

00:49:46.000 construction workforce.

00:49:48.000 Like one-tenth.

00:49:50.000 In order to get a bid into the federal government to build a chip-making facility, you now have to have a full child care plan for the workers who don't exist in your firm.

00:50:00.000 The administration had proposed lowering child care costs for families as part of Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan.

00:50:04.000 The funding was cut from it.

00:50:06.000 The child care requirement for semiconductor makers, which was reported by the New York Times earlier on Monday, would affect a relatively small number of people in the United States, but would extend beyond direct employees of the makers to construction workers for the plants as well.

00:50:17.000 So in order for us to hedge against the threat of China, we now need chip makers that have childcare plans. 0.72

00:50:23.000 Just genius level stuff from Joe Biden.

00:50:25.000 Meanwhile, by the way, Joe Biden has dumped tons and tons and tons of money into his green agenda, right?

00:50:30.000 The so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which was designed to hedge against carbon-based fossil fuel emissions.

00:50:36.000 That's really what it was about.

00:50:37.000 It was the biggest green investment in American history, according to Joe Biden and company.

00:50:41.000 Well, it turns out that he wanted, he said he was going to create jobs.

00:50:44.000 And just like during Barack Obama's tenure, when he kept saying that green jobs, there'll be green jobs, he made Dan Jones, the green jobs czar.

00:50:51.000 And then it turned out there were no green jobs.

00:50:53.000 And well, now it's turning out that there is, there just aren't people to actually even fill these jobs.

00:50:59.000 According to Politico, the same booming labor market that has given Joe Biden the lowest unemployment rate since the 60s is also creating a hiring bottleneck for the same construction and manufacturing companies central to his climate agenda.

00:51:09.000 In other words, they've dumped a bunch of money in, and there are more than 100,000 clean energy job openings, and there is no one to fill them.

00:51:17.000 construction industry is still short 413,000 workers as of December, and 764,000 manufacturing sector jobs remain open.

00:51:17.000 The U.S.

00:51:24.000 So genius-level stuff creating inflation in order to reduce inflation.

00:51:29.000 Amazing stuff there from Joe Biden, as per our usual arrangement.

00:51:32.000 This, of course, has led the Democratic Party and their apparatchiks in the media into trying to figure out what exactly is the pitch for the Democratic Party at this point, because we're about to hit a very, very rough economy.

00:51:42.000 Turns out that the war in Ukraine is just going to continue ad infinitum, apparently.

00:51:46.000 And so The problem is they're stuck.

00:51:48.000 They don't actually have anybody except for Joe Biden.

00:51:51.000 And so they have to make excuses for the fact that this is a doddering old man who isn't particularly good at his job.

00:51:54.000 So Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC, for example, she says, why do you keep making fun of Joe Biden's age?

00:51:58.000 My mom was using a chainsaw into her 80s. 1.00

00:52:02.000 The other part of this is that, you know, it's the age question, which I know is uncomfortable to talk about, but, you know, it's a huge issue for most Democrats.

00:52:12.000 I don't know if it should be.

00:52:13.000 I think age is what it is and we keep telling people what it is when we shouldn't be.

00:52:19.000 I mean there are some people who are at their best in their 80s.

00:52:23.000 Nancy Pelosi.

00:52:24.000 My mom was using a chainsaw and doing her best work in her 80s. 1.00

00:52:27.000 Nancy Pelosi without chainsaw was doing a pretty damn good job in her 80s as well. 1.00

00:52:32.000 Different type.

00:52:35.000 I love this.

00:52:36.000 So now, your 80s are your prime.

00:52:38.000 So we were told by CNN's Don Lemon when it was Nikki Haley that your 50s, if you're a woman, are not your prime.

00:52:44.000 And now we're being told by Mika and Joe on MSNBC that your 80s are actually your prime.

00:52:48.000 80 is the new 30, apparently.

00:52:50.000 Just as long as it's Joe Biden who can't move his face anymore and words don't emerge from his mouth hole properly.

00:52:57.000 By the way, can you imagine Joe Biden with a chainsaw? 1.00

00:53:01.000 He fires that sucker up. 0.99

00:53:06.000 Yeah, I'm sure that Joe Biden with the chainsaw will go just splendidly. 0.99

00:53:10.000 Meanwhile, Tony Deutch also suggesting that Democrats are going to be able to run in 2024 on being the party of competence, which ignores their incompetence.

00:53:18.000 One woman who's now running the Michigan GOP, a party that just got wiped out last time, she lost her race in 2022 by 14 points and still hasn't conceded.

00:53:32.000 Look, the problem you got is that the freaks and the insurrectionists and the nutjobs, the Marjorie Taylor Greens of the world, they're the ones raising the money. 0.92

00:53:38.000 So their individual needs are being met, yet the party suffers.

00:53:42.000 And you also, when you mentioned that the Democratic state senator, you contrast that with the blocking and tackling that the Democrats are doing, starting with our president.

00:53:51.000 And whether you look at it, whether you look at jobs, whether you look at unemployment, Whether you look at a climate bill, whether you look at a Bill Back Better, whether you look at an Inflation Reduction Act, whether you look at a Climate Act, it's just you've got one party that's the lug nut, nut job party, and the other party, which is the party of competence.

00:54:10.000 The party of competence.

00:54:12.000 Yes, the Democratic Party.

00:54:12.000 I look at the economy and the inflation rate.

00:54:15.000 And I look at our surrender in Afghanistan.

00:54:17.000 I think this is definitely the party of confidence.

00:54:19.000 They're going to have to prop up Joe Biden.

00:54:21.000 It's what they have to do.

00:54:22.000 They don't have anybody else on the table.

00:54:24.000 There's literally a Department of Transportation watchdog that is now auditing Pete Buttigieg's use of government jets.

00:54:30.000 Pete Buttigieg is done as a national figure.

00:54:31.000 The East Palestine, Ohio thing finished him. 0.95

00:54:34.000 Meanwhile, they're so uncomfortable about Kamala Harris in the Democratic Party that Greg Craig, a lawyer who served under both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, has a piece in the Washington Times, in the New York Times today.

00:54:45.000 Asking if there can be a primary for the vice president.

00:54:50.000 This is how much he's uncomfortable with Kamala Harris.

00:54:52.000 Quote, if the party were to give Democratic voters a role in picking the vice presidential nominee, it would have to rely on the primaries and caucuses to make the decision.

00:55:00.000 Divisions in the party would be on display and even deepen.

00:55:02.000 A charismatic candidate like AOC might inspire the base and sweep the field.

00:55:06.000 And perhaps most important, the inevitable messiness of the contest would make it appear the aging president and his team were not in charge.

00:55:11.000 But, at the same time, it can't be Kamala Harris.

00:55:13.000 I mean, this is how scared they are of the people who are behind Joe Biden. 0.98

00:55:18.000 So they're gonna prop up this old buffoon. 0.95

00:55:20.000 They're gonna John Fetterman this guy as much as they have to. 0.92

00:55:24.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like and then a quick thing that I hate.

00:55:27.000 So, things that I like today.

00:55:30.000 I do love the attachment that Democrats have to the masks.

00:55:34.000 It's nice because now you have an outward symbol.

00:55:36.000 It's like the cross for Christians. 1.00

00:55:37.000 The mask has now become a religious icon for many of these folks.

00:55:40.000 So Whoopi Goldberg was on that great repository of all human intelligence, The View.

00:55:46.000 And she was explaining that people who are not using masks are going to make things more dangerous for themselves.

00:55:54.000 She's talking about how the mask will protect you from the flu.

00:56:01.000 Oh, Lord.

00:56:02.000 Here we go.

00:56:03.000 Well, no, you know.

00:56:04.000 Well, you did have that cold.

00:56:05.000 I did have a cough.

00:56:07.000 And when you did not show up, Brian goes, thanks, whoopies out.

00:56:11.000 Well, I assume that is because when you have little ones, you will always have things that you travel with.

00:56:17.000 So as people tell you, yeah, take off your mask.

00:56:20.000 Don't worry about it.

00:56:20.000 We're not going to check anymore.

00:56:21.000 Just know the flu will fly in.

00:56:27.000 The flu flew in and got me.

00:56:31.000 Okay, so I'm just going to point out here that the entire narrative on the mask was about COVID.

00:56:36.000 And now they're to, you should probably wear a mask because if you take off the mask, the flu will fly in.

00:56:40.000 Just the religious attachment to these things, even as the data just don't prove them out.

00:56:44.000 It is an amazing, amazing thing.

00:56:45.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:56:47.000 So, our chat room classes are now sounding off about gun control again.

00:56:55.000 It is wonderful.

00:56:56.000 And it is, of course, via all the mechanisms of our popular media.

00:56:59.000 Katy Perry, who's a person who sings for a living, I think, right?

00:57:03.000 And so she was on American Idol and there was a mass shooting survivor who auditioned I lost a lot of friends.

00:57:13.000 Eight students were killed.

00:57:14.000 Two teachers were killed.

00:57:16.000 And it's just really been negative, man.

00:57:17.000 to talk about how America is failing people because mass shootings take place in the United States on ABC.

00:57:27.000 Lost a lot of friends. Eight students were killed. Two teachers were killed. And it's just really been negative, man. Santa Fe's had a bad rap here since 2018. What you doing, Katie?

00:57:43.000 Our country has f***ing failed us! 0.50

00:57:46.000 Facts. 0.92

00:57:48.000 This is not okay!

00:57:50.000 You should be singing here because you love music!

00:57:53.000 It's true. 0.99

00:57:57.000 Not because you don't have to go through that f***ing s***! 0.99

00:58:01.000 I agree. 0.99

00:58:02.000 You don't have to lose eight friends!

00:58:07.000 Um, so, I'm just gonna point out this is American Idol, is it not?

00:58:12.000 Um, so, yes, we all don't like mass shootings, but our country has effing failed us, and Katy Perry, who is worth $330 million, apparently, weeping openly because our country has failed us.

00:58:25.000 There's a baseline notion in the United States that has somehow taken root in a huge number of Americans that any bad thing that happens in life, terrible things, people who are evil, doing evil, insane things like a mass shooting of children, for example, that these things are things where if they happen, the country has failed us.

00:58:43.000 That the government has failed us in some way.

00:58:46.000 That the system has failed us in some way.

00:58:48.000 Right?

00:58:48.000 Questions that used to be directed at God and had no answers.

00:58:52.000 I mean, why do bad things happen to good people?

00:58:53.000 They're now directed at the ultimate power in the universe, which is not God.

00:58:56.000 It is government.

00:58:58.000 And so the idea is the system as a whole has failed us.

00:59:00.000 Listen, I think we can all feel as emotionally strongly as Katy Perry does about when evil things happen, being horrified by them.

00:59:08.000 But the channeling of that into the country has effing failed us the country has effing failed all of us is a little much again coming from like the same system of freedoms that exists in the United States that allows for Katy Perry to be Katy Perry.

00:59:24.000 You know that that system is not capable and no system really is as it turns out of preventing all evil in the universe.

00:59:33.000 There's this sort of utopian view.

00:59:35.000 I've talked about this before.

00:59:36.000 The sort of compared to what syndrome.

00:59:38.000 And people on the left, politically, they never do the compared to what syndrome.

00:59:42.000 They never say compared to what other system other than the United States is preferable.

00:59:46.000 And if you want to say it, just say it.

00:59:48.000 If Katy Perry literally wants to call for confiscation of literally all guns in the United States, which is what she presumably wants, then just do it. 1.00

00:59:54.000 Then just do it.

00:59:55.000 But what is highly irritating is this, not the emotional response, the emotional response that leads to a notion That you should be able to blame the entire system without any reference to a solution.

01:00:11.000 The entire system is to blame.

01:00:13.000 You see this on the left very frequently.

01:00:16.000 Bernie Sanders is very fond of this.

01:00:17.000 Every Bernie Sanders tweet is along these lines.

01:00:19.000 Why is it fair that there are so many people who have so much and some people have so few?

01:00:23.000 Why is that so fair?

01:00:24.000 No system should allow this.

01:00:26.000 No system should allow this?

01:00:27.000 Okay, provide me with your alternative that you think is better.

01:00:29.000 Oh, your alternative doesn't work here.

01:00:31.000 Oh, your alternative is a bad idea.

01:00:33.000 That doesn't matter.

01:00:34.000 Your alternative is constrained by reality.

01:00:36.000 That doesn't matter.

01:00:37.000 The constraints of reality no longer matter.

01:00:41.000 They never quite say what they want when it comes to gun control.

01:00:45.000 A few of them do, right?

01:00:45.000 So David Hogg, who famously got into Harvard because he was present at Parkland when the mass shooting occurred.

01:00:53.000 He was rejected from Harvard and then he reapplied based on the mass shooting and the fact that he was a prominent activist and then he got in and he tweeted out, you have no right to a gun.

01:01:03.000 You are not a militia.

01:01:04.000 When you're talking about your Second Amendment rights, you're talking about a state's right to have what is today the National Guard.

01:01:09.000 The modern interpretation of the Second Amendment is a ridiculous fraud pushed for decades by the gun lobby.

01:01:13.000 Well, I'm, first of all, amused to see that David Hogg has become not only a pillow magnate, but also a constitutional scholar.

01:01:19.000 in his time at Harvard.

01:01:21.000 This is a lie.

01:01:22.000 You do, in fact, have a right to a gun.

01:01:24.000 And the militia is not, in fact, the nationally run National Guard.

01:01:28.000 Militias at the time of the founding were, in fact, rather informal gatherings of people within the states, all of whom owned guns in their homes.

01:01:37.000 So he's just wrong on the facts about all of this.

01:01:41.000 But my favorite thing about David Hogg is his follow up.

01:01:44.000 So David Hogg followed this up by saying, well, you know, are you saying that we're coming for your guns or are you saying that we're incompetent?

01:01:50.000 Because it can't be both.

01:01:51.000 No, what I'm saying is that for the left, you're incompetently coming for the guns.

01:01:54.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:01:55.000 Because you don't actually have a plan.

01:01:57.000 There's never a plan.

01:01:58.000 It's just about pure emotional response.

01:02:00.000 A bad thing has happened.

01:02:01.000 Therefore, do something.

01:02:02.000 The do something routine, it grows quite old because it turns out that in the real world, you actually have to have serious solutions to the problems.

01:02:13.000 But it's amazing, because again, the virtue signal of just showing emotion about a bad thing that happened is so strong in American culture.

01:02:20.000 So I remember, I was at an event.

01:02:22.000 One time, and it was kind of an event about climate change.

01:02:26.000 And many of the people who were talking were experts on climate change.

01:02:28.000 I'm talking like climatologists from MIT or Caltech, and they were talking about climate change and they were saying many of the things that I say on the show.

01:02:34.000 Many of the things I say on the show are things like, I don't have to doubt the IPCC estimates with regard to the possibilities, the range of climate change over the course of the century to suggest that many of the solutions that are being proposed just don't work.

01:02:45.000 And there was a very, very famous celebrity who then got up and started yelling at the climate experts.

01:02:51.000 Yelling at them.

01:02:53.000 Screaming and crying at them.

01:02:54.000 Cursing at them.

01:02:56.000 How can you say there's nothing we can do?

01:02:58.000 I've taken all these environmental measures at my own house.

01:03:01.000 I've taken these environmental measures at my own home.

01:03:04.000 And I've done these things.

01:03:06.000 And it's super important that I've done these things.

01:03:09.000 And everybody in the room recognized that what this person was saying had no impact on climate change.

01:03:13.000 And in fact, this person probably their carbon emissions, I would say the person taking some private jets, their carbon emissions exceed whatever mitigations were taken at this person's property.

01:03:23.000 But the response in the room was clapping.

01:03:28.000 Clapping, right?

01:03:28.000 You clap for the people who don't actually have a connection with a political reality.

01:03:33.000 You clap for those people, you cheer for those people, because again, the tears matter more than the solutions.

01:03:38.000 That is not a way to generate actual political solutions in the country.

01:03:43.000 But I think we're a country that may have moved beyond political solutions.

01:03:45.000 And now it's just about the emotivism.

01:03:47.000 Because again, the implication of when Katy Perry does that sort of stuff is that if you disagree with her on her proposed solutions, which she doesn't even articulate, it's because you don't care.

01:03:55.000 You're fine with people getting shot.

01:03:56.000 And that's the ugliest form of politics. 0.93

01:03:59.000 All righty.

01:03:59.000 Coming up, we'll get into some questions in the mailbag.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 28, 2023

Musk Calls The Media Racist – And He’s Right | Ep. 1677

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