The Ben Shapiro Show - October 01, 2024


North Carolina DROWNS, Kamala Does PHOTO OPS


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J.D. Vance and Tim Walz face off in the Vice Presidential Debates, the final presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle. The VP debate pits the two candidates against each other in a debate that will likely determine the outcome of the election. What will it take to win the VP debate? Will it be enough to change the outcome in either party? And will it have any impact on either candidate s chances of winning the election in 2020? Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Alex Castellanos ( ) John Avlon ( ) and Sarah Abdurrahman ( ) Special Guest: John Bolton ( ) Vice President Debate Presenter: J D. Vance ( ) Hosted by John Avlan ( ) Executive Producer: Alex Blumberg ( ) Senior Producer: John Rocha ( ) Additional audio mixing and mastering: Andrew Yang ( ) Audio Engineer: Matthew Boll ( ) Chief Technology Officer: David Axelrod ( ) Music: Jeff Perla ( ) Editor: Matthew Knost ( ) Additional production: Ben Koppel ( Editor: Patrick McElroy ( ) Additional mixing & mastering: Matthew Keyser ( ) Steve Kornick ( ) Producer: Mike McLendon ( ) Assistant Recording Engineer: Patrick McKirdy ( ) Technical Direction: Matthew Kaczewski ( ) Thanks to Rachel Ward ( ) Mike McLaughlin ( ) Recording Location: New York Times Radio & Social Media Strategy and Social Media: John Mckinnon ( ) Bill Clinton ( ) Social Media ( ) Media Strategy: Thanks to: John Deere ( ) & Matt Knostrom ( ) for the Podcasts ( ) Copyright ( ) ( ) Thank you for the Sponsorships ( ) Please Rate & Matthew Kucharek ( ) Our Sponsoring? ( ) Join us on Anchor ( ) Subscribe to the After Show? Subscribe on Podchaser ( ) Learn more about our Sponsored by Fite ( ) Become a Friend of Conservative Media? ( ) Get 47% Off Your Day Offs & More Subscribe to our new Single-Peech ( ) + Other Podcasts & Support Us On Social Media Links ( ) FREE Training & Training ( ) - Subscribe To Our Podcasts Join Our VIP Subscription Options Learn more at Fite & Learn More About Our Sponsorship Options & More! FREE Training Options (Auctioned Through The Righteous Lady Will Be Inaugural Presentation

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00:00:00.000 Well folks, today Israel was attacked by Iran. 0.95
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00:00:15.000 Meanwhile, here is our previously recorded episode.
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00:00:46.000 Now again, this election remains extraordinarily close.
00:00:48.000 I spent yesterday campaigning with Senate candidate Eric Hovde in Wisconsin.
00:00:54.000 It's a wonderful day meeting constituents, meeting folks in that swing state.
00:00:57.000 That swing state is incredibly close.
00:00:59.000 So, of course, is Michigan.
00:01:01.000 So, of course, is Pennsylvania, which is why a vice presidential debate has now taken on some added significance.
00:01:06.000 When I talk about how close this election is, I should point out that at this point, even the Democratic candidate in Michigan Her name is Elissa Slotkin, is suggesting that Kamala Harris may be down in Michigan.
00:01:17.000 Remember, if she loses Michigan, this election is likely over.
00:01:21.000 Hell, if she loses Pennsylvania, this election is likely over. 1.00
00:01:25.000 On the other hand, if Donald Trump loses North Carolina, this election is likely over the other way.
00:01:28.000 So this election is incredibly close.
00:01:30.000 Here was the Michigan Senate candidate for the Democrats admitting that she believes that actually Harris is running slightly behind Michigan right now.
00:01:39.000 I'm not feeling my best right now about where we are on Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan right now.
00:01:44.000 We have her underwater in our polling. 0.99
00:01:47.000 Okay, well, that obviously is a big admission there by Elissa Slotkin.
00:01:51.000 That means that something that usually doesn't make a huge difference, like a VP debate, could make a big difference.
00:01:55.000 Because again, very unlikely there's going to be another presidential debate.
00:01:58.000 Kamala Harris wants one on one of the left-wing networks. 0.99
00:02:01.000 Trump wants one on Fox News.
00:02:03.000 Neither side is going to agree to that.
00:02:05.000 Both sides seem to be willing to sort of hunker down behind their particular blockades and just wait to see what the results are.
00:02:14.000 So, what exactly has to happen tonight?
00:02:16.000 This is a real contrast in styles.
00:02:18.000 J.D.
00:02:18.000 Vance, of course, is a brilliant person.
00:02:21.000 J.D.
00:02:21.000 is a senator from Ohio.
00:02:23.000 He is 40 years old.
00:02:25.000 He's a kid, relatively speaking.
00:02:27.000 He's my age.
00:02:28.000 J.D., Yale Law School, bestselling author, really fast on his feet, really quick.
00:02:34.000 extraordinary knowledge of the facts going into this debate, and Tim Walz, who's sort of a populist yeller.
00:02:40.000 So the expectations for Vance are high.
00:02:42.000 There's been an attempt by the Trump campaign to lower the expectations for Vance in advance of the debate.
00:02:47.000 They've been saying that Walz has been through many debates before, and that, of course, is true, and he hasn't performed horribly in those debates.
00:02:53.000 Meanwhile, the Walz team is trying to do the same thing with regard to J.D.
00:02:56.000 Vance.
00:02:56.000 They're talking about how wonderful Vance is, how Vance is going to clock Walz, how Walz is basically You know, just like a poor dumb teacher from the Midwest, despite the fact that he's a two-term governor from the state of Minnesota and he's been through this wringer before.
00:03:08.000 The real question here is whether this has any impact at the top of the ticket.
00:03:12.000 Now, the temptation for J.D.
00:03:13.000 Vance is going to be to go after the target-rich environment that is Tim Walz.
00:03:17.000 And Tim Walz is, in fact, a target-rich environment.
00:03:20.000 In fact, we are now learning, for example, That Tim Walz claimed at a 2014 congressional hearing that he says he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
00:03:29.000 That wasn't true.
00:03:30.000 Is there anything in this guy's biography that is true?
00:03:34.000 Tim Walz has been a very radical character in Minnesota for a very long time.
00:03:37.000 Here's a clip from just a few years ago in which Tim Walz talks about the beneficial effects of mass migration to Minnesota.
00:03:43.000 He's so happy they're speaking 50 languages at the local public school.
00:03:49.000 We have more refugees per capita than any other state.
00:03:52.000 That's not just morally a good thing, it's our economic and cultural future.
00:03:57.000 This beautiful diversity we see out in Worthington when I'm there, you see 50 languages spoken in the school.
00:04:04.000 This is who Tim Walz is, the guy who said on national TV and just a few weeks ago, he suggested that socialism was just another word for neighborliness.
00:04:13.000 So he's a target rich environment.
00:04:14.000 With that said, it would be a mistake for JD Vance to aim his fire at Tim Walz.
00:04:18.000 Understand that the audience for this debate is not going to be as big as the presidential debate, but it will be tens of millions of people.
00:04:23.000 And this is the opportunity to label Kamala Harris for what she is.
00:04:28.000 Meanwhile, for Tim Walz, his task is actually not going to be to attack Trump.
00:04:33.000 He has to believe already that Donald Trump is well established in the public mind.
00:04:39.000 Everybody already has their thoughts about Trump.
00:04:41.000 Walz is going to go after Vance specifically.
00:04:44.000 Walz is going to declare that he is weird, this has been part of his campaign, that he's too extreme, that he's too right-wing.
00:04:51.000 That he's a representative of sort of a strange subterranean politics in America.
00:04:56.000 That's going to be what Walls does.
00:04:57.000 And of course, he's going to have to try and build up Kamala Harris. 0.61
00:05:00.000 And that is where, again, this is the great shortcoming of the Kamala Harris campaign.
00:05:03.000 There is nothing there.
00:05:05.000 There's nothing there.
00:05:06.000 So good luck to Tim Walls in that particular department.
00:05:09.000 Well, Kamala Harris's campaign is all about emptiness, and her economic plan, if you can call it a plan, is a disaster area. 1.00
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00:06:16.000 As far as preparation, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
00:06:20.000 has been the person who's prepping Tim Walz for the debate on the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:06:23.000 Meanwhile, Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota has stood in as Walz for Vance's practice sessions.
00:06:30.000 Walz apparently attended a multi-day debate camp in northern Michigan, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:06:35.000 Meanwhile, Vance is not expected to participate in preparations quite so formal, although obviously the reality is that Vance is a super smart guy, and while he's on the road, he is certainly prepping this thing.
00:06:46.000 The bottom line is, will there be a major move out of this?
00:06:49.000 Well, not unless there's some sort of major collapse by one of the candidates.
00:06:51.000 Could it do damage to Kamala Harris' campaign?
00:06:54.000 Sure.
00:06:55.000 But the person who's doing the most damage to Kamala Harris' campaign right now is, in fact, Kamala Harris. 1.00
00:06:59.000 Because she is just an empty suit.
00:07:01.000 She's a total empty suit.
00:07:03.000 On every front.
00:07:04.000 The most obvious front right now being this hurricane.
00:07:08.000 Hurricane Helene tore through parts of the panhandle of Florida, then tore through parts of Georgia, and really, really slammed North Carolina.
00:07:17.000 There are hundreds of people who are missing in North Carolina right now.
00:07:20.000 Parts of the state's underwater.
00:07:22.000 Serious damage done.
00:07:25.000 Well, the response from particular governors has been pretty good.
00:07:29.000 The response from Brian Kemp in Georgia has been good.
00:07:32.000 The response from Ron DeSantis in Florida has been excellent.
00:07:34.000 They had the electricity back on right away.
00:07:37.000 Again, I think the underrated part of Ron DeSantis' appeal when he ran for president is that he's actually really good at being governor.
00:07:42.000 He really cleans up the state when something bad happens.
00:07:44.000 He makes sure that things are taken care of quite quickly.
00:07:46.000 In fact, DeSantis said that he would rather see Joe Biden go to North Carolina than to Florida specifically because North Carolina has been so hard hit.
00:07:54.000 He said, we have what we need right now.
00:07:56.000 I think most of the effort should be in Western North Carolina right now because you still have active rescues that need to take place.
00:08:02.000 He's right about that.
00:08:04.000 But here is the thing.
00:08:05.000 It is amazing how when a Democrat does okay, like just okay with a hurricane, this is considered a great signal moment for the Democrat.
00:08:14.000 Remember Barack Obama in 2012 with Hurricane Sandy, which hit the Northeast.
00:08:19.000 And he and Chris Christie were hugging on the tarmac.
00:08:21.000 It really helped him in the last days of the election cycle in 2012.
00:08:24.000 And that was considered an amazing thing.
00:08:26.000 Meanwhile, George W. Bush, who really did not handle Hurricane Katrina all that badly, was treated as though he were Satan, deliberately attempting to drown people in New Orleans.
00:08:36.000 Well, here's the question.
00:08:38.000 What is Joe Biden doing?
00:08:39.000 I understand that Joe Biden has been holding calls with governors.
00:08:41.000 That's what you do as president.
00:08:43.000 And listen, I didn't make the rules.
00:08:44.000 If I made the rules, I wouldn't care about people jet-setting to various disaster locales in order to do photo ops.
00:08:50.000 I really wouldn't.
00:08:51.000 I think it's a really dumb trope of American politics that when something bad happens, you have to put boots on the ground of a major politician to show empathy or sympathy.
00:09:00.000 Again, that's not my bag.
00:09:02.000 For me, the question is, do the services get provided or do they not?
00:09:05.000 But I'm not the one who made these rules.
00:09:07.000 The person, the people who made these rules are the people of the left.
00:09:09.000 The Democrat media complex made these rules.
00:09:12.000 You have to demonstrate how much solidarity you have with people who are suffering by going to these places.
00:09:17.000 And here's the thing.
00:09:19.000 Biden ain't.
00:09:20.000 Harris ain't.
00:09:21.000 They've been busy.
00:09:22.000 Donald Trump, however, did.
00:09:23.000 So Donald Trump went and visited a disaster area in Georgia, and he talked about what was going on on the ground.
00:09:31.000 We're here today to stand in complete solidarity with the people of Georgia and with all of those suffering in the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Helene, throughout the region, our hearts are with you, and we are going to be with you as long as you need.
00:09:47.000 It's called an hour of need.
00:09:48.000 You're in our prayers, and we pray to God, and throughout this long week, the long weeks that lay ahead, you're going to have a lot of work, but the end result is it's going to be good.
00:09:59.000 We just wish so many people weren't so badly hurt, and in many cases, sadly, no longer with us.
00:10:09.000 Okay, so, the media are very angry with Trump for going there.
00:10:12.000 They're also angry with Trump because they say it's politicizing.
00:10:14.000 It's politicizing that he went to these places.
00:10:16.000 And also, he got pretty overtly political.
00:10:18.000 For example, he suggested that perhaps Joe Biden was sleeping right then.
00:10:22.000 Have you reached out to President Biden about federal relief efforts?
00:10:26.000 No, I haven't reached out to him, no.
00:10:29.000 I think he's sleeping right now, actually.
00:10:31.000 Okay, so everybody is fighting mad about this.
00:10:33.000 On the left, Politico has an entire headline, Trump Turns Hurricane Helene Aftermath Politico.
00:10:38.000 Now, this is really disingenuous stuff.
00:10:41.000 Again, if a Republican is governor of a state and something bad happens in the state, the entire media turn that into a referendum on the evils of the Republican.
00:10:49.000 If, however, a Democrat botches something, a natural disaster, or, say, a generalized disaster like East Palestine-Ohio, if the President doesn't do what he's supposed to do, if, for example, there's a massive fire in Lahaina that burns down the entire city in Hawaii and the federal government is completely AWOL, Then we're supposed to pretend it's totally apolitical and has nothing to do with the local state or federal governance.
00:11:12.000 That is the double standard that rules here.
00:11:14.000 But I think the American people can see through it, and they certainly can see the inauthenticity that springs from Kamala Harris.
00:11:19.000 So Kamala Harris put out a photo in the middle of this hurricane.
00:11:25.000 The photo is accompanied by the following caption, quote, I was just briefed by FEMA, Deanne Criswell, on the latest developments about the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene.
00:11:34.000 We also discussed our administration's continued actions to support emergency response and recovery.
00:11:38.000 I also spoke with North Carolina Governor Cooper about the ongoing rescue and recovery efforts in North Carolina.
00:11:43.000 Our administration will continue to stay in constant contact with state and local officials to ensure communities have the support and resources they need.
00:11:49.000 Doug and my thoughts are with all those who lost loved ones and those whose homes, businesses, and communities were damaged or destroyed during this disaster.
00:11:56.000 Now, I'd like to point out at this point a couple of things.
00:11:58.000 One, there's a very famous picture of George W. Bush during Hurricane Katrina flying over the flood area and he was dinged as being above it all.
00:12:07.000 It was suggested that he had no empathy for the people on the ground because there he was in Air Force One flying above the area rather than being on the ground.
00:12:14.000 She put out the exact same picture.
00:12:17.000 And apparently, nothing.
00:12:18.000 Not a big deal at all.
00:12:19.000 Not only that, this picture is an absurdity on a couple of levels.
00:12:23.000 It's like Highlights Magazine spot the problem with the picture.
00:12:26.000 Okay, so, if you take a look at this picture, what you will see is that she has an earphone in her ear.
00:12:31.000 And she wears wired earphones.
00:12:32.000 The reason she wears those wired earphones is presumably to prevent Bluetooth hacking or something like that.
00:12:37.000 However, there is but one problem.
00:12:39.000 It's not connected to the phone.
00:12:42.000 If you close up on the photo you can see there is nothing connected to the bottom of the phone.
00:12:46.000 So she's literally sitting there talking or listening to a phone with an earphone not connected to the phone.
00:12:52.000 And she's poised with a pen writing on blank paper.
00:12:56.000 There's nothing on the paper.
00:12:58.000 Because she's an empty vessel.
00:12:59.000 She's an empty suit, and she always has been.
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00:14:01.000 What was she actually doing in the middle of the hurricane?
00:14:05.000 According to Matt Visor, Kamala Harris is at an LA fundraiser with Stevie Wonder, Keegan-Michael Key, Sterling K. Brown, Demi Lovato, Jessica Alba, Lily Tomlin, Alanis Morissette, and Halle Berry performing.
00:14:16.000 Menu, duck egg roll, goat cheese honey blueberry ball, beef wellington, lobster roll, crab cakes.
00:14:22.000 That was as the hurricane went down.
00:14:25.000 Real woman of the people over there.
00:14:26.000 Don't worry, she has the people at heart.
00:14:30.000 I don't care that much about performative politics.
00:14:31.000 I really don't.
00:14:32.000 But these are the rules.
00:14:33.000 I didn't make them.
00:14:34.000 This is just how American politics works these days.
00:14:36.000 Meanwhile, President Trump was, in fact, on the ground in Valdosta, Georgia.
00:14:41.000 And this was making Kamala and Joe very upset.
00:14:44.000 So they had to stage some photo ops.
00:14:46.000 So here, for example, was Kamala Harris yesterday.
00:14:48.000 She showed up at the FEMA headquarters to pretend that she actually does something for a living. 1.00
00:14:52.000 And then she ran away.
00:14:53.000 She spoke for about five minutes, took zero questions, and jet-setted right out of there. 1.00
00:14:57.000 Thank you.
00:15:00.000 I'll catch you later.
00:15:01.000 Bye.
00:15:02.000 And then all the government employees who have to, by law, clap for the vice president.
00:15:06.000 They pretend that she's there to actually do anything, which, of course, she is not.
00:15:10.000 Now, what actually would her policies be with regard to things like hurricane cleanup?
00:15:14.000 I mean, she laid it out back in 2019, 2020 when she was running for president.
00:15:18.000 She said that we should do disaster relief based on equity, which means based on race, which is against federal law and morality.
00:15:26.000 It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making.
00:15:43.000 Absolutely.
00:15:44.000 And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place.
00:15:57.000 And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities and do that work.
00:16:06.000 Sounds like she will make an excellent president for everyone of particular malevolent levels or something, because what she's talking about here is insane.
00:16:14.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is in fact asleep at the switch.
00:16:18.000 Now, he's speaking with these various governors, but it turns out that when you look like the bad guy at the end of Indiana Jones and the last crusade, like you drank from the wrong goblet and you're just babbling into the microphones, It makes you look terrible.
00:16:33.000 Regardless of what you're actually doing, the presidency is, in fact, about optics, so if you're gonna do it, you gotta do it right.
00:16:38.000 Joe Biden looks like death here.
00:16:39.000 He just does.
00:16:40.000 I mean, there's no other way to put it.
00:16:41.000 Here he was, talking.
00:16:43.000 He was asked about what can you do for the North Carolina victims.
00:16:45.000 He's like, nope, we've done all we can.
00:16:48.000 No, no.
00:16:49.000 Okay, first of all, terrible answer.
00:16:53.000 And again, it shows he's not with it.
00:16:57.000 Are there any more resources the federal government could be giving them?
00:17:00.000 No, we've given them, we have pre-planned a significant amount of it even though they
00:17:04.000 didn't ask for it yet. Hadn't asked for it yet.
00:17:07.000 No, no. Okay, first of all, terrible answer. And again, it shows he's not with it. Because the
00:17:12.000 actual answer is we're giving them everything we have and we're willing to give them whatever
00:17:15.000 they need. No is a terrible answer right there.
00:17:20.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden, he did a press conference.
00:17:22.000 It didn't go well.
00:17:23.000 At the very end, he was asked about what he was doing during the hurricane.
00:17:26.000 Why wasn't he, for example, at FEMA trying to direct traffic?
00:17:31.000 And he said, I was commanding.
00:17:33.000 Actually, he was in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
00:17:37.000 On the hurricane, Mr. President, why weren't you and Vice President Harris here in Washington commanding this this weekend?
00:17:44.000 I was commanding.
00:17:45.000 I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well.
00:17:50.000 I commanded.
00:17:50.000 Call a telephone.
00:17:52.000 Call my security.
00:17:53.000 He commands.
00:17:54.000 It's called a telephone.
00:17:56.000 Wow.
00:17:57.000 It's that kind of sterling leadership that has led America to such high heights.
00:18:02.000 But Joe Biden is very defensive.
00:18:03.000 He's very defensive that Donald Trump is calling him out.
00:18:05.000 So he literally released a video of himself from the Oval Office talking to a TV.
00:18:11.000 I believe this is the fake Oval Office, by the way.
00:18:12.000 They built like a fake Oval Office that he can broadcast from.
00:18:15.000 And this looks like a fake set of an Oval Office that you might put together for a school play.
00:18:21.000 And then he zoomed in some hostages to talk about how he's helping them.
00:18:27.000 Let me get this straight.
00:18:36.000 He's lying.
00:18:38.000 And the governor told him he was lying.
00:18:40.000 The governor told me he was lying.
00:18:42.000 I've spoken to the governor, I've spent time with him, and he told me he's lying.
00:18:45.000 I don't know why he does this.
00:18:47.000 And the reason I get so angry about it, I don't care about what he says about me.
00:18:51.000 I care what he communicates to the people that are in need.
00:18:55.000 He implies that we're not doing everything possible.
00:18:57.000 We are.
00:18:58.000 We are.
00:18:59.000 And you spoke to the, I assume you heard the Republican governor of Georgia talk about that he was on the phone with me more than once.
00:19:08.000 So it's simply not true.
00:19:09.000 It's irresponsible.
00:19:11.000 Okay, he said as he was reading from the binder.
00:19:14.000 Okay, meanwhile, again, all of this is playing into a tight race in which every single little thing matters.
00:19:21.000 One of those not-so-little things is the fact that we are about to have a major strike in the United States, the dockworkers' strike.
00:19:26.000 You should go check out a YouTube video that we put out, an episode of Facts talking about the history of private sector unionization and strikes in the United States if you want to know more about the history and backdrop to what's going on right now.
00:19:38.000 But there is a dockworkers' strike coming, and this comes amid the CNN polling which says that Kamala Harris is in particularly bad shape with union voters, actually. 0.98
00:19:49.000 Look at where Kamala Harris is today. 1.00
00:19:51.000 She's only leading by nine points.
00:19:53.000 That would be the worst democratic performance in a generation.
00:19:57.000 Ten points off the mark of Joe Biden, who of course won four years ago, was sort of that union guy, Union Joe, right?
00:20:03.000 Won it by 19 points.
00:20:04.000 She's ten points off his mark, and the worst in a generation.
00:20:09.000 So the dockworkers have now launched a major strike at ports from Maine to Texas.
00:20:13.000 And the problem is, she's stuck in the box.
00:20:15.000 If she comes out against the unions, if Joe Biden were to use the emergency powers that are available to him under the presidency in order to forestall some sort of strike, in order to create a cooling down period, which he can do, if he were to do that, then she would lose even more union votes.
00:20:29.000 So you are likely to suffer from higher prices for the next several months because of what is happening right now, because she wants to win union votes. 1.00
00:20:38.000 The unions know they have the leverage, by the way, which is why they are doing this.
00:20:41.000 Well, Kamala Harris is vice president and Joe Biden is president.
00:20:43.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, dock workers walked off their jobs at dozens of ports from Maine to Texas at midnight, launching a strike that threatens to rattle the American economy five weeks ahead of the presidential election.
00:20:53.000 Members of the International Longshoremen's Association, which represents 45,000 dock workers at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, began picketing early Tuesday at cargo terminals that handle more than half of American import and export volumes as their contract with port employers expired.
00:21:08.000 Port employers, pressed by Biden administration officials to resolve the impasse, raised their offer on wages to a 50% increase over six years from an earlier 40% increase.
00:21:17.000 Along with other improvements and benefits in the 24 hours before the strike deadline, it wasn't enough.
00:21:22.000 The ILA is seeking a 77% wage increase over the next six years.
00:21:27.000 a near doubling of their wages over the next six years, as a condition to even sit down and talk.
00:21:32.000 Why are they doing this?
00:21:33.000 Because they know they got their boy in the White House.
00:21:34.000 The unions know that they have this administration by the short hairs,
00:21:38.000 and they know they've got Kamala Harris's campaign by the throat, and they are going to squeeze.
00:21:42.000 They're going to use the fact that they have control over a large block of union voters
00:21:45.000 in order to get Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to do their dirty work, 1.00
00:21:49.000 making it significantly less profitable and efficient to use American ports.
00:21:54.000 By the way, American ports are already some of the least efficient ports in the developed world.
00:21:58.000 American ports do not work 24 hours a day because of union contracts.
00:22:02.000 American ports are not automated in large part because of union contracts.
00:22:06.000 America's ports are already a disaster area now.
00:22:08.000 You're going to have the problem of an economic slowdown because of this port strike that Joe Biden won't do anything about.
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00:23:13.000 You want to know why some some reasons why the costs are higher in the United States right now?
00:23:17.000 It's because of already existing port contracts negotiated by these unions. 0.63
00:23:22.000 With the government under Democrats putting their thumb on the scale in favor of the unions and against the employers.
00:23:27.000 The walkout has shut down some of the country's main gateways for imports of food, vehicles, heavy machinery, construction materials, chemicals, furniture, clothes, and toys.
00:23:36.000 The longshore workers walked off their jobs after the union refused to meet with the group representing employers unless they first agreed to workers' wage demands.
00:23:44.000 The White House is intervening.
00:23:46.000 And of course, Republicans are saying, well, why don't you just keep the ports open?
00:23:49.000 I mean, you can do that.
00:23:49.000 You can force a cooling down period under federal law, under the Taft-Hartley Act.
00:23:53.000 You can actually do that.
00:23:55.000 And the administration is like, nope, we're not going to do that.
00:23:58.000 So that is bad news for Kamala Harris as well.
00:24:00.000 You know who to blame.
00:24:01.000 The reason that this is all continuing is specifically because of the Biden administration.
00:24:08.000 It's because of the Biden administration.
00:24:10.000 And by the way, you have to add on to this.
00:24:12.000 One of the reasons she's losing union workers is not because this administration is insufficiently pro-union. 0.98
00:24:18.000 One of the reasons is specifically because I think that the Democratic Party, they just have the American people wrong, particularly blue collar workers.
00:24:24.000 The Democratic Party seems to think that what blue collar workers desperately want more than anything else is heavy social spending and a new kind of masculinity.
00:24:34.000 And that's a weird, weird pitch.
00:24:37.000 America's men continue to fall further behind, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:24:44.000 The life trajectories of America's sons and daughters are diverging, presented with a more equal playing field.
00:24:48.000 Young women are seizing the opportunities in front of them.
00:24:50.000 Young men are floundering.
00:24:51.000 The phenomenon has developed over the past decade, but was supercharged by the pandemic, which derailed careers, schooling, and isolated friends and families.
00:24:57.000 And the result has big implications for the economy.
00:25:01.000 The labor force participation rate for males age 25 to 34 is under 90%.
00:25:03.000 Those are young, healthy males, under 90%.
00:25:04.000 is under 90%.
00:25:07.000 And those are young, healthy males, under 90%.
00:25:10.000 That is a bad number.
00:25:12.000 Not just that, it turns out that if you keep on promoting a closed economy that only benefits certain small sectors
00:25:21.000 of the economy, it makes it much more difficult for people to succeed.
00:25:25.000 Americans are more and more reliant on government aid.
00:25:28.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Americans' reliance on government support is soaring, driven by programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
00:25:36.000 The spending right now is at all-time highs.
00:25:40.000 A much larger share of Americans are seniors, their healthcare costs have risen, but you're also seeing a major share of people who are now on disability.
00:25:48.000 A lot of that is untrue.
00:25:51.000 The amount of money that is currently being spent on this is exorbitant.
00:25:54.000 And guess what?
00:25:54.000 People are not happy because of it.
00:25:56.000 What Americans actually want is an opportunity to thrive, an opportunity to succeed.
00:26:00.000 And for young men, they want an opportunity to actually live out that success in a masculine, aggressive way.
00:26:08.000 But that's precisely what Harris and Walz are not promising.
00:26:12.000 Here, for example, is the avatar of masculinity, Molly Jongfast, over at MSNBC, talking about the pitch that Harris and Walz are making to men.
00:26:24.000 I do think that Democrats have been trying to offer an alternative vision to this very sort of destructive masculinity that we're seeing on the right being advertised.
00:26:35.000 An example of that is Walls.
00:26:40.000 He was in a Michigan football game.
00:26:41.000 He's talking to young men.
00:26:43.000 He's trying to make the case.
00:26:44.000 And also Doug, right?
00:26:46.000 I mean, you know, the second gentleman is also, you know, trying to make a case for supporting your wife and how you can be a masculine guy.
00:26:55.000 So I do think there are inroads.
00:26:56.000 It is certainly not as far along as Republicans in their sort of embrace of masculinity.
00:27:02.000 Oh, you mean because they actively alienate men, particularly young men, and then in return they offer them government dependency?
00:27:09.000 And the only people who get a leg up are people who are allies of the Democrats, like the union leaders?
00:27:14.000 Yeah, it turns out that might have some dire effects, not just on the economy, but on Democrats' capacity to actually win in this election.
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00:28:29.000 By the way, Republicans are finally, finally upping their spending in Senate races in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
00:28:36.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a group aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning to pour tens of millions of dollars in an effort to crack the Democrat blue wall with less than six weeks left to go before Election Day.
00:28:46.000 The Senate Leadership Fund is going to drop almost $70 million on TV, radio, and digital ad reservations in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
00:28:55.000 All three of those are very, very close Senate races.
00:28:57.000 Senator Bob Casey versus Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania.
00:29:00.000 That one is basically a dead heat at this point.
00:29:03.000 Eric Hovde, who I campaigned with yesterday in Wisconsin, targeting Senator Tammy Baldwin.
00:29:08.000 And Alyssa Slotkin fighting Mike Rogers for the Senate seat in Michigan. 0.98
00:29:13.000 Stephen Law, president of the Senate Leadership Fund, said that recent internal polling by the group showed Donald Trump competitive against Harris in those three blue wall states and said the Senate races in those places were tightening as well.
00:29:25.000 He said, we've seen these races closing.
00:29:28.000 Those three candidates, McCormick, Hovde, and Rogers, have all been outraised by their Democratic opponents.
00:29:34.000 So, hopefully, as that gap closes in terms of spending, so too will the polling gap in those particular states.
00:29:40.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris continues to run a lackluster campaign. 0.73
00:29:42.000 It just is.
00:29:43.000 She's got a pro campaign on the ground. 1.00
00:29:44.000 I will give her this.
00:29:45.000 She is a pro.
00:29:46.000 The Democratic Party, they are professionals at the local level when it comes to getting out to vote.
00:29:50.000 This is a thing they do quite professionally.
00:29:53.000 However, they happen to be running with an absolutely charmless and irritating candidate.
00:29:58.000 Kamala Harris is so radically inauthentic.
00:30:01.000 It's truly amazing.
00:30:02.000 So, she was on a podcast yesterday, and the levels of cringe and awkward on this podcast, truly unbelievable.
00:30:11.000 Here she was explaining her love for Doritos, for example.
00:30:16.000 One of my guilty pleasures, especially when I'm on the road, are my Doritos.
00:30:20.000 What flavor?
00:30:21.000 Nacho.
00:30:22.000 Old school.
00:30:23.000 Original.
00:30:24.000 Come on.
00:30:24.000 OG.
00:30:24.000 Come on.
00:30:25.000 Red bag.
00:30:26.000 That's exactly right.
00:30:28.000 Gotta have a napkin nearby.
00:30:31.000 Wow.
00:30:34.000 That's some exciting stuff.
00:30:36.000 As Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson, Steven Jackson looking like he wants to slit his wrists live on camera while he listens to this supposedly intelligent platitude machine talk about how she likes the OG Doritos and needs a napkin nearby.
00:30:49.000 Well, I mean, in other inspiring news, she eats no for breakfast.
00:30:53.000 So between eating Doritos and no, that is apparently her diet.
00:30:58.000 You should never hear no.
00:31:01.000 You should never hear nobody like you has done this before, or it's not your time, or they're not ready.
00:31:07.000 Like, don't hear that.
00:31:09.000 Don't hear that.
00:31:10.000 I eat no for breakfast.
00:31:12.000 She's waiting for them to respond, and Stephen Jackson once again, looking, 10,000-yard stare, just looking into the maw of death.
00:31:21.000 Points to Stephen Jackson.
00:31:22.000 Matt Barnes is trying.
00:31:23.000 Matt Barnes is desperately trying to be enthusiastic about this.
00:31:26.000 Even Matt Barnes looks like he wants to crawl under the rug.
00:31:29.000 But Stephen Jackson is having none of it.
00:31:30.000 Stephen Jackson's like, man, this is worse than malice at the palace.
00:31:34.000 This is just awful.
00:31:35.000 Here's Stephen Jackson with Kamala Harris, where she explains making a pork roast.
00:31:41.000 Look, from the time that the president called me and told me he wasn't running, I mean, it just like, everything was in speedy, speedy motion.
00:31:48.000 Wow.
00:31:49.000 And I was not sleeping so well.
00:31:51.000 And that one morning, I just, I mean, I had, I don't know, a few hours sleep and I, you know, I like to sleep.
00:31:58.000 I just got up, I was like, and so I just went out and got a pork roast and started marinating.
00:32:03.000 See, time to work.
00:32:04.000 Get to your happy place.
00:32:05.000 And my family happened to be in town, so they were very happy about the whole situation.
00:32:09.000 But I just got up and started cooking.
00:32:10.000 Everybody's asleep, but I just got up and started cooking.
00:32:12.000 That's what she makes for her super Jewish husband, Doug Emhoff. 0.61
00:32:15.000 She makes the brisket for Passover, and she makes the pork roast.
00:32:19.000 Very exciting stuff.
00:32:21.000 So, solid stuff there from Kamala Harris.
00:32:23.000 You can see, with that level of just absolute charisma, how wonderful this is.
00:32:27.000 Again, Stephen Jackson, he's had enough.
00:32:31.000 My best friend from kindergarten is still one of my best friends.
00:32:33.000 That's crazy.
00:32:34.000 Right?
00:32:35.000 Stacy Johnson!
00:32:36.000 Yeah, that's dope.
00:32:37.000 I love it.
00:32:39.000 We used to go to the clubs and hurt Father Seville.
00:32:44.000 Steve and Jack's like, oh, well, that's a good story.
00:32:46.000 That's a wonderful story.
00:32:48.000 You know how hard Democrats have to work to make themselves enthusiastic about this election?
00:32:52.000 They've been yelling at Trump for a very, very long time.
00:32:54.000 At a certain point, you yell at somebody enough and it gets really boring.
00:32:57.000 And Democrats have offered this absolute empty vessel and pretended that it's something incredible.
00:33:04.000 Well, she is not.
00:33:06.000 Listen, I wish that the Republican candidate had done a better job of labeling her in the debate.
00:33:09.000 I wish that the Republicans had done a better job of pointing out just what an empty vessel she is. 1.00
00:33:13.000 I wish that this sort of stuff got wide play.
00:33:16.000 I wish it did.
00:33:18.000 But the bottom line is, there's still 30 days left to the election, 34 days left until the election.
00:33:23.000 The pedal has to be to the medal.
00:33:25.000 It's time to expose Kamala Harris for what she is. 1.00
00:33:28.000 Because I'm sorry, she cannot be allowed to enter the White House on the basis of absolute gobbledygook platitude laden nonsense. 0.98
00:33:35.000 Kamala must be exposed for what she is. 1.00
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00:35:16.000 Joining us on the line is Seth Dillon, CEO of Babylon Bee, and Kristen Wagner, President and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom.
00:35:22.000 The Babylon Bee has filed a lawsuit against the state of California So Seth, tell me about this lawsuit.
00:35:30.000 Well, uh, I wish we didn't have to file lawsuits to defend our right to tell jokes, but unfortunately this is where we're at.
00:35:37.000 Um, Gavin Newsom has been wanting to crack down on speech he doesn't like, jokes he doesn't like.
00:35:43.000 Um, he saw a viral video that was mocking Kamala Harris.
00:35:47.000 It was like this AI generated, you know, kind of deepfake parody thing.
00:35:51.000 Um, and he commented on that immediately.
00:35:53.000 This was a few months ago.
00:35:54.000 He commented on this and said that, you know, this, this kind of thing should be illegal.
00:35:57.000 And so I guess there was already a bill that was in the works that they kind of accelerated to get pushed through that would make this unlawful right around election time.
00:36:04.000 You know, making parodies like this, um, definitely seems politically motivated to me, but it affects the Babylon Bee and our ability to do satire.
00:36:12.000 Uh, so.
00:36:13.000 We've retained the services of ADF.
00:36:16.000 Thankfully, they fight for freedom, and they're here to help us push back on this.
00:36:19.000 So, Kristen, on a legal basis, the claim by California, presumably, is that they're just trying to crack down on actual misuse of face, and that when it comes to some forms of informational usage, that those could theoretically violate the law in terms of fraud.
00:36:37.000 What's the problem with how they drew this law or are trying to draw these regulations?
00:36:40.000 Well, they're claiming they have an interest in the fair elections, but yet what they're doing is using a sledgehammer to essentially crush the First Amendment rights of all Americans in the process, including Making jokes illegal.
00:36:53.000 There are a couple of different statutes that are in place in California.
00:36:57.000 The first one that the lawsuit is focused at is where California is saying that if there's any type of materially deceptive content, and of course California gets to decide what that is, that that content, if it could potentially harm a political candidate's chances of getting elected, It's illegal and it's not just the candidate that can sue, it's anybody, including you can be sued if you repost this information.
00:37:22.000 So it's just a roadmap for censorship and it's a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
00:37:27.000 So Seth, one of the things that they're apparently trying to do is suggest that you must label satire or parody as satire or parody.
00:37:34.000 Apparently people are too stupid to recognize otherwise.
00:37:37.000 Now, as a professional joke-making human, what does it mean if you would have to label everything that you do as satire or parody?
00:37:45.000 Well, we've kind of wrestled with this for a long time because, as you know, the Batmobile has been fact-checked many times over the years.
00:37:51.000 We've been accused of trafficking and misinformation under the guise of satire.
00:37:54.000 That's what the New York Times said a few years back.
00:37:57.000 And so there's always been this suggestion that we're misleading people on purpose, that we need to do more to make people aware of the fact that we're publishing satire.
00:38:05.000 But it really does ruin the joke when you put a massive disclaimer.
00:38:08.000 I think the requirement, Kristen can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the requirement in this law is that the disclaimer be at least as large as the largest font that's in the actual article or parody itself.
00:38:18.000 And so if we have a headline that's got very large font, we need to have a disclaimer that's equally as big or bigger than the headline itself.
00:38:26.000 it completely ruins the joke, and we're not willing to do that.
00:38:29.000 So we're gonna continue to have to violate the law, which then puts our business in jeopardy
00:38:33.000 because if we get sued repeatedly by state officials for violating this law,
00:38:37.000 it could potentially bankrupt us and put us out of business if we're covering all their legal fees.
00:38:41.000 And so then we have the decisions that we have to make.
00:38:44.000 Well, do we want to publish these particular jokes because we could have these enforcement actions?
00:38:48.000 That chills speech because then we're going to be withholding content that we would otherwise publish if not for these laws and their penalties.
00:38:55.000 No civilization worth its salt can actually work if it doesn't believe that it ought to stand up for its own principles.
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00:40:00.000 So, Kristen, you know, you mentioned that California here is trying to basically, you know, kill a fly with a sledgehammer.
00:40:06.000 What would a more calculated approach look like to stop people from disseminating, say, a deepfake of you?
00:40:12.000 That wasn't satire or parody, it was just you saying that you full-scale endorse abortion on demand and the transing of children or something.
00:40:18.000 How could that be stopped should the government step in in those circumstances?
00:40:22.000 Well, in a number of instances, there are already laws in place to do that.
00:40:26.000 You know, whether they're election fraud laws that really are actually interfering in elections, whether it's defamation and there's actual harm to our reputation, we already have laws in place to deal with these types of issues.
00:40:39.000 Adding this law, especially when it's impacting core political debate, is really just an attempt for the government to be able to put its thumb on the scale of speech that it likes. It's content discrimination
00:40:51.000 because it's focusing on the subjects like political debate. This law only applies
00:40:56.000 to candidates as an example or elected officials and it's viewpoint discrimination as well in that
00:41:03.000 if a candidate or someone wants to post something for example that is positive about a
00:41:08.000 candidate but untrue the law doesn't apply to that.
00:41:11.000 And so there's just no way that this law is consistent with the First Amendment because of how it's being applied.
00:41:17.000 It's also very vague in its definitions.
00:41:19.000 I mean, the last person we want to decide what's true or false in our political debate is Gavin Newsom.
00:41:25.000 And that's essentially what's allowing California officials to do.
00:41:28.000 It will have a nationwide effect because actually you can get sued, I can get sued as a private citizen for just reposting something that the Babylon Bee puts out there.
00:41:39.000 Seth, do you ever find it puzzling that you've become the center of so much firestorm over the course of the creation of the Babylon Bee?
00:41:45.000 It really is kind of amazing how the Babylon Bee has, I would say, quasi-inadvertently changed the world in ways that you guys probably didn't intend.
00:41:52.000 I mean, if it had not been for the Babylon Bee becoming apparently the focal point of every bit of left-wing ire then Probably Elon Musk doesn't buy X, which obviously changes the direction of free speech in the country.
00:42:03.000 Do you ever, like, sit there at night and just wonder why it is that this thing that started as a fairly small satire site and that has now grown into a successful business, that that has changed the nature of free speech in the country so much and the debate around it?
00:42:17.000 It's definitely not something we ever expected.
00:42:20.000 We literally did just set out to tell jokes on the internet, try to make people laugh, be entertaining, speak truth to a post-truth culture using humor.
00:42:27.000 Did not expect to be on the front lines of a battle for free speech in the public square.
00:42:31.000 But this is where we find ourselves because there's so much opposition to the First Amendment and what the First Amendment protects.
00:42:39.000 And you see it happening all over the place.
00:42:40.000 There's op-eds being written about how maybe it's time to do away with the Constitution.
00:42:43.000 You had John Kerry just the other day talking about how The First Amendment is, I think the word he used was roadblock.
00:42:49.000 It's a roadblock right now.
00:42:51.000 It's in our way.
00:42:52.000 It means that we can't decide what's true for everyone, which is what we need to do in order to retain our power and whatever.
00:42:58.000 And that is just, you know, thank God for that roadblock.
00:43:01.000 Thank God that we actually have that roadblock preventing these tyrants from deciding what's true and what jokes we're allowed to tell.
00:43:07.000 So, Kristen, what is the next step for the lawsuit?
00:43:10.000 Where are you filing this thing?
00:43:12.000 The lawsuit's already been filed.
00:43:14.000 We're waiting for a judge to be assigned.
00:43:16.000 I think you can also expect that a preliminary injunction will be requested as well a permanent injunction to stop the law from going into effect both on a temporary basis and then a long-term basis.
00:43:27.000 It's very telling that this law went into effect immediately upon Newsom's signature, so that it's supposed to affect this election cycle.
00:43:36.000 And I think it's just important to point out that when we allow the government to use code words like misinformation or disinformation, that is state-sponsored censorship, and that blurs the lines between democracy and dictatorship.
00:43:49.000 That's Kristen Wagoner of Alliance Defending Freedom, always doing amazing work on the legal side. 1.00
00:43:54.000 And of course, Seth Dillon, CEO of Babylon Bee, the funniest site in America, doing yeoman's work in making you laugh and also pointing out the stupidity of a lot of bad ideas.
00:44:01.000 Seth and Kristen, thanks so much for your time.
00:44:02.000 Really appreciate it.
00:44:04.000 Thank you, man.
00:44:05.000 Thank you.
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