The Ben Shapiro Show - May 17, 2023


Our Porn-Obsessed Society Is Sterilizing Itself

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A civilization in which women are incentivized to prostitute themselves on camera also tends to be a civilization in decline. And when you make the highest ideal of any society, the sexual impulse, what you end up with is a society in moral decline. A society where women are prostituting themselves for pay, and treating this as some form of magical empowerment, and men are indulging their baser instincts, under these circumstances, the result is a massive decline in the U.S. birth rate. In 2007, the births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 dropped from about 68 all the way down to today, just over 55. That's a massive decrease. According to Econofactorg, the Great Recession disrupted a stable period of birth rates for the almost three decades between 1980 and 2007. But something changed around the time of the recession. The birth rate has not only continued a precipitous decline since 2007, but it has been rapidly declining since then. That cannot be readily explained by the changing composition of the population. The decline in births since 2007 is almost 20 percent from the rate of 69 births in 2007. That is a decline that cannot be easily explained by changing demographics, by any means. It s a symptom of a society that is in decline, and it s not going to get any better, not any faster than it s already in a state of decline. It s time to ask the question: Is there a reason for the decline? And if so, what is the cause? What is the culprit, and why is it happening? What can we do to fix it? How can we fix it, and what can we stop it? And what is it being done to stop the problem, and can it be done, and how can we prevent it, etc., etc. And what s going to be the solution, etc.. and what will it all be done to help us stop it in the near and long term? - This episode is part 1 of a two-part series on the next part of the series? (Part 2 of this episode will be out next week, part 2 of the second part of this podcast? ) - Part 3 of this series is out on the podcast, coming soon, part 3 of the book, coming out soon, part 3, and much more is out now, part I hope you get a chance to hear more of it

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00:00:00.000 Alrighty folks, there are certain indicators, leading-edge indicators, as to a society's decline.
00:00:05.000 Some are statistical, and some are moral, and typically they tend to cross streams.
00:00:09.000 There's a story yesterday that caught my attention.
00:00:11.000 It flew across the Twitters, and it was a story about the CEO of OnlyFans.
00:00:16.000 So OnlyFans is essentially an amateur porn site.
00:00:19.000 It is where people unclothe for money. 0.86
00:00:22.000 It is visual prostitution, in essence.
00:00:25.000 And according to Business Insider, the number of creators, they're not calling them creators, even though it's just women taking off their clothes on a camera, signed up to OnlyFans surged by about 40% last year, bringing the total to more than 3 million for the subscription platform that mostly features adult content.
00:00:40.000 CEO Amigad told the Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro last week, we've noticed a huge uptick in creators as well as fans joining the platform.
00:00:46.000 We attribute that to OnlyFans is very much a global business.
00:00:49.000 We're in over 100 countries.
00:00:50.000 The company is now setting its sights on Latin America and Australia to further increase its numbers.
00:00:55.000 Gann said we're looking at growth for the business.
00:00:57.000 Latin America is a huge part of that.
00:00:59.000 Apparently, OnlyFans had revenues of close to $1 billion in 2021.
00:01:04.000 And the owner of OnlyFans, a guy named Leo Radvinsky, has made more than $500 million from the platform since 2020.
00:01:10.000 And of course, the parent company was taken, he took control of that in 2018.
00:01:16.000 So, why is this an important story?
00:01:17.000 Well, as it turns out, a civilization in which women are incentivized to prostitute themselves on camera also tends to be a civilization in decline. 0.95
00:01:26.000 So, there's a biblical idea that women are holier than men.
00:01:29.000 And for all the talk about the Bible being sexist, there is a deep-rooted biblical idea that women are holier than men.
00:01:33.000 So, for example, in the book of Exodus, when it comes to the sin of the golden calf, the idea is that the men participated, but the women did not.
00:01:40.000 And the notion that women are the guardians of a society's holiness makes some sense.
00:01:45.000 Because obviously, men, when left to their own devices, are not oriented toward children.
00:01:50.000 They don't stick around.
00:01:51.000 There's no biological imperative for a man to stick around to raise his child in the same way that there is a connection between a woman and a child when you sever. 0.54
00:01:58.000 Connections between women and children.
00:01:59.000 And when you make the highest ideal of any society, the sexual impulse, what you end up with is a society in moral decline in which women are prostituting themselves on camera for pay and treating this as some form of magical empowerment. 0.92
00:02:11.000 And men are indulging their baser instincts at Under these circumstances.
00:02:18.000 And the result is, unsurprisingly, a massive decline in the American birth rate.
00:02:21.000 So there's a chart that jumped out at me yesterday.
00:02:23.000 It's from the University of Maryland and Wesley College.
00:02:26.000 And there's a piece over at econofact.org called The Mystery of the Declining U.S.
00:02:31.000 Birth Rate.
00:02:32.000 This is a chart of birth rates in the United States.
00:02:35.000 And what you see is births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in the United States, 1980 to 2020.
00:02:40.000 What you see is essentially there's at least a certain level of stability to American birth rates from about 1980 to about 2007.
00:02:49.000 There's some ups, there's some downs.
00:02:51.000 There's a big jump essentially about 1990, which coincides with the end of the Cold War and this sort of economic optimism.
00:02:59.000 And then it declines again during the 90s, it goes back up during the early 2000s.
00:03:02.000 And then in 2007, it just falls off an absolute cliff.
00:03:06.000 Starting in 2007, the births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 drops from about 68 all the way down to today, just over 55.
00:03:08.000 to 44, dropped from about 68 all the way down to today just over 55. That is a
00:03:15.000 massive decrease. According to econofact.org, the Great Recession disrupted a stable period in birth rates.
00:03:21.000 For the almost three decades between 1980 and 2007, the U.S.
00:03:24.000 birth rate hovered between 65 and 70 births per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44.
00:03:28.000 The birth rate followed a predictable pro-cyclical pattern, following during economic downturns, recovering when the economy improved.
00:03:34.000 But something changed around the time of the Great Recession.
00:03:36.000 The birth rate fell precipitously, but it did not recover when the economy improved.
00:03:40.000 Rather, the U.S.
00:03:41.000 birth rate has continued a steady decline.
00:03:43.000 As of 2020, the U.S.
00:03:44.000 birth rate was 55.8 births per 1,000 women.
00:03:45.000 was 55.8 births per 1000 women.
00:03:47.000 That is down almost 20 percent from the rate of 69.3 in 2007.
00:03:51.000 EconoFact says the decline in births cannot be readily explained by changing population
00:03:56.000 composition.
00:03:57.000 The sustained decline in U.S.
00:03:58.000 births since 2007 has been driven by declining births among many demographic groups rather than by changes in population composition.
00:04:04.000 Births have fallen among women in their early 20s, late 20s, and teens as well.
00:04:08.000 And there's no obvious policy or economic factor that can explain much of that decline.
00:04:13.000 The onset of the Great Recession played a role in the early stages of the decline.
00:04:16.000 But beyond that, it's difficult to identify any policy or economic factor that can statistically account for the continued decline.
00:04:22.000 Successive generations of women are having fewer children at every single age. 1.00
00:04:25.000 So generation on generation, women are having fewer and fewer kids. 1.00
00:04:30.000 Shifting priorities, they say, could be the primary driver for the decline in the birth rate since 2007.
00:04:36.000 I'm going to suggest that what has actually happened is that since 2007, there's been a bit of a confound.
00:04:40.000 Everybody is saying it's 2007-2008 economic recession, but as that study points out, the real problem here is not actually The economy 2007-2008 because again, according to pretty much everyone, the economy got better after 2007-2008.
00:04:53.000 It improved pretty dramatically since Donald Trump took office from 2016 to 2019.
00:04:58.000 And then it dropped off a cliff in 2020 and then it's been recovering since then.
00:05:02.000 But you haven't seen the birth rates going up and down to match all that.
00:05:05.000 So something else happened.
00:05:07.000 Something else happened.
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00:06:20.000 Okay, so what exactly has happened in Western society to lead to this declined birth rate?
00:06:24.000 Because what you've seen is that this is mirrored pretty much across the West.
00:06:28.000 It's not unique to the United States, but you can see it very clearly in this chart.
00:06:31.000 So what exactly happened?
00:06:33.000 What happened is that the morality, the prevailing morality of the internet, the internet has a very Libertarian morality.
00:06:39.000 Which is to say, it's a bunch of atomistic individuals who are forming alliances of convenience and who are able to access pretty much anything at any time.
00:06:49.000 The convenience of the internet skyrocketed in this era, particularly in 2007.
00:06:54.000 Particularly in 2007.
00:06:55.000 So what exactly happened in 2007 that coincided with the Great Recession?
00:06:58.000 The release of the iPhone.
00:07:00.000 So Facebook hits in 2004.
00:07:03.000 But you still have to access your computer in order to go on Facebook.
00:07:05.000 So the idea that Facebook communities were going to take the place of, for example, your church community?
00:07:10.000 Not really, because you still have to be on your computer.
00:07:12.000 You have to be tethered to a desk somewhere in order for you to access your friends.
00:07:16.000 Whereas that's not the case when you're living in a community.
00:07:18.000 You're moving in and out of your social situations, you're seeing people at restaurants, you're seeing people at church, and all of the rest.
00:07:23.000 In 2005, YouTube launches.
00:07:25.000 And YouTube, of course, is a giant time suck.
00:07:28.000 It's a big time waster.
00:07:29.000 It's a place you can get lots of information, get shows like this one, but it also happens to be a place that atomizes you because you sit in front of a screen all day.
00:07:35.000 But that's nothing new.
00:07:36.000 Again, as long as you're talking about a stationary device that is on your wall, Or that is on your desk.
00:07:42.000 Basically, we're just talking about the threat of TV.
00:07:43.000 I mean, YouTube in 2005 was just really a TV thing.
00:07:46.000 Because, again, the screen that was on your desk, I mean, your computer, was effectively a TV when you were watching YouTube.
00:07:53.000 By the way, ironically, it now has turned into a TV thing again.
00:07:55.000 People are using their TVs to watch YouTube.
00:07:57.000 But, the real change here, and Pornhub launches in 2007, And of course there have been pornography sites that have dominated the internet since the advent of the internet.
00:08:07.000 What really happened in 2007 was the launch of the iPhone.
00:08:10.000 So when the iPhone launched, which was the first truly effective, globally marketed smartphone, right?
00:08:17.000 Something where you could access the internet easily and you could get all the pictures you wanted and all the connections you wanted on your phone at all times.
00:08:25.000 People started to be absorbed by the glowing screen in front of them, and they ditched all of the social connections that reinforced all of the societal rules that made life better.
00:08:34.000 You actually need in-person contacts, and you need people who hold you to a particular standard in your local community in order for you to live that particular standard.
00:08:43.000 When people ask, why is pornography, for example, immoral?
00:08:46.000 So there are two answers.
00:08:47.000 One is the rational answer.
00:08:48.000 And there are a bunch of rational answers as to why pornography is immoral.
00:08:51.000 One reason is because, of course, it teaches you to view women solely as sex objects.
00:08:55.000 Two is, it teaches you that women want things that very often women actually don't want.
00:08:58.000 And the reason I'm speaking to men here is because the vast majority of consumers of pornography are men, contra what the media would like you to believe.
00:09:05.000 There are some women who consume porn. 1.00
00:09:06.000 It's a much, much lower number than men.
00:09:08.000 Virtually all porn, or at least a huge percentage of it, is consumed by men.
00:09:11.000 So I'm talking here about why pornography is bad, and I'm going to speak to men, because they're the consumers.
00:09:16.000 It's really bad for the women who practice it. 1.00
00:09:18.000 It robs them of their soul.
00:09:19.000 It takes the most intimate activity that two people can perform, and it turns it into a commodity, which is really, really quite awful.
00:09:25.000 It degrades women by treating them as an assemblage of body parts, which of course is a perception that women have to fight anyway because of man's natural visual biology. 1.00
00:09:34.000 And not only that, it degrades man's sexual instinct because instead of taking that sexual instinct and channeling it toward the creative, which is what family creation is about, it's about taking this wild sexual instinct and then channeling it toward one woman, love for that person, and production of children.
00:09:47.000 And it takes what can be one of the most destructive and diffuse instincts that human beings have and channels it toward the most creative, most beautiful thing you can do, which is the creation of a family unit.
00:09:57.000 And instead it dissipates it in a literally masturbatory series of actions that destroy your capacity
00:10:07.000 to actually build in the world.
00:10:08.000 That's what pornography does. 1.00
00:10:10.000 And now it's become wildly accessible.
00:10:11.000 So why didn't people, so that's one answer, is why pornography is bad. 0.64
00:10:14.000 The other is because all your friends and neighbors think it's bad.
00:10:17.000 Hey, this is the way that most people act in the world.
00:10:20.000 We all, because we're in the political sphere, we tend to come up with rationales for why things are bad
00:10:23.000 or why things are good.
00:10:24.000 And that's useful, that's good.
00:10:25.000 But the reality is, the reason that most of us do what we do is because there are certain social standards
00:10:30.000 that we all know and we all agree to and we all understand and all of our neighbors expect of us.
00:10:35.000 And that's why we do those things.
00:10:37.000 Now there's a, one of my rabbis over here in Florida, he gave me, Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg, he gave me a really good, what we call the Dvar Torah, right?
00:10:46.000 This is a word of sort of biblical exposition.
00:10:50.000 He says that the word in Hebrew for taste is the same as the word for reason, right?
00:10:53.000 The word is ta'am.
00:10:54.000 So why is that the same word?
00:10:56.000 Because just like you eat food for the nutrition, but the taste makes it better.
00:11:00.000 You actually do the right thing because the right thing is good for you.
00:11:03.000 And then the reason is like the taste.
00:11:05.000 The reason is like the pepper.
00:11:06.000 It's good to have the pepper, but that's actually not what makes the action good.
00:11:09.000 What makes the action good is that you're abiding by a good social standard that is good for you.
00:11:12.000 That's why the word for reason and for taste is the same.
00:11:16.000 Great additional elements of why you do the good thing, but not really why you do the good thing.
00:11:21.000 But the whole point here is that when you have a societal standard that people don't look at pornography, that you're expected to channel your sexual instinct toward marriage and toward the production and rearing of children, This is how communities are formed, right?
00:11:33.000 The original unit of society is not, in fact, according to the vast majority of societies across all time and space, the original unit of society is not the individual.
00:11:41.000 Because the individual in a state of nature dies.
00:11:44.000 The original unit of society is the family, and all of society is oriented toward the family.
00:11:49.000 What the internet does, it makes the individual the locus of society.
00:11:52.000 It is sort of the final human iteration of the enlightenment value of pure individualism.
00:11:57.000 Individualism is great when it is placed up against the overweening tyranny of harsh collectivism.
00:12:06.000 What makes the Enlightenment good is the idea that we do have individual spirits and that we can be creative with those spirits, but that was all supposed to be channeled toward protecting your family.
00:12:15.000 It really was that the family was the unit of society and then within the boundaries of family, you as an individual are supposed to go out and flourish, which is why, by the way, it works by the way.
00:12:22.000 Married men earn more than single men because they feel a necessity to go out and protect and defend their families.
00:12:27.000 This is the way society used to be oriented.
00:12:28.000 It was a balance between enlightenment individualism and traditionalist family units.
00:12:32.000 And then that balance has been completely upset by the rise of the internet because that glowing screen makes you, that glowing screen is a narcissistic mirror.
00:12:40.000 You think you're looking on the internet, you're not.
00:12:41.000 You're looking at things that please you.
00:12:44.000 It's feeding you the things that please you.
00:12:45.000 That narcissistic mirror.
00:12:46.000 The iPhone in 2007.
00:12:47.000 And listen, I have an iPhone.
00:12:50.000 It's an amazing invention.
00:12:51.000 Steve Jobs is a genius.
00:12:52.000 Also, the subjugation of all societal bonds in favor of, again, alliances of convenience, tenuous connections that form at a moment's notice, the lack of social structure and stability, has been horrible for society.
00:13:06.000 And you can see it in the declining birth rate.
00:13:09.000 And that, by the way, coincides with another force.
00:13:11.000 Again, none of this is a coincidence.
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00:14:17.000 Okay, so.
00:14:18.000 As you may have noticed, there are a couple of forces that I'm talking about coming together here.
00:14:22.000 One is the force of absolute atomistic individualism that is made possible and reified by the rise of personal electronic devices like the iPhone.
00:14:32.000 Because it takes YouTube, it takes Pornhub, and it puts these things in your pocket available to you at all times.
00:14:37.000 In fact, a huge amount of pornography is viewed on mobile devices, right?
00:14:40.000 Not just on your desktop computer or something.
00:14:43.000 Okay, but you can also see the decline in religiosity in the United States falling at precisely the same point.
00:14:49.000 So, this is an overlay As you can see, of those declining birth rates, and this is an overlay of church membership among American adults.
00:15:00.000 So you can see that the decline in church membership among American adults is fairly, basically it's steady from 1975 all the way up to about the year 2000.
00:15:08.000 The internet boom starts and it starts to decline.
00:15:12.000 In 2007, it seems like it really picks up pace.
00:15:15.000 So you go from about 65% in 2005, 64, 65% in 2005, 60% All the way down to 47% in 2020.
00:15:24.000 So you have a 15% drop-off in religious observance in the United States.
00:15:27.000 That's church membership among U.S.
00:15:28.000 2020. So you have a 15% drop off in religious observance in the United States. That's church 0.96
00:15:33.000 membership among U.S. adults. That is church membership, synagogue membership, mosque membership.
00:15:38.000 That's a drop by 15% in the course of about 15 years.
00:15:42.000 Just from 2007 to 2020.
00:15:44.000 An acceleration in the rate of religious decline.
00:15:47.000 Religious decline was happening in the United States, but not remotely at the same rate that it was happening in the post-2007 era.
00:15:54.000 Why?
00:15:54.000 Because again, people are mistaking those tenuous connections that they make on their cell phone for the real connections of life.
00:15:59.000 They've been taken out of the realm of the real world, and they've been taken into this, like, Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg has talked about the creation of a metaverse in which we live full-time in the internet, but we're already living half-time in the internet, minimum.
00:16:12.000 If you ever walk around in public these days, what you will notice, if you go to the mall, what you'll notice is at least half the people at the mall have their head buried in their cell phone.
00:16:20.000 This is why, by the way, everyone needs a Sabbath.
00:16:22.000 I mean, like, a Jewish-style Sabbath.
00:16:24.000 There's a lot of Bible talk in this episode because, again, I think the only actual solution to what we're talking about here is biblical living.
00:16:30.000 You actually do need a 25-hour period every week in which you are forbidden to use your cell phone, your computer, or any other connected device.
00:16:38.000 You need to connect with the people around you on a physical level.
00:16:40.000 This is why blue laws used to exist in the United States, and it was a good thing. 0.75
00:16:44.000 The idea that there was a day reserved for going to church and interacting with your community was actually an active good.
00:16:51.000 The orientation of society around the individual's subjective needs has led to moral decline, and it's led to the most predictable results imaginable, which is the endpoint of all of this.
00:17:01.000 The endpoint of all of this is, again, the victory of subjective individualism that you can see in pretty much everything.
00:17:09.000 People living their lives to please that screen.
00:17:12.000 And everybody else, the only thing that matters is you. 0.99
00:17:15.000 Everybody else be damned. 0.99
00:17:17.000 Right? 0.99
00:17:17.000 Your needs are the things that matter more than anybody else's needs. 0.99
00:17:20.000 The rest of society is supposed to adjust to you.
00:17:22.000 And this takes the form of some of the most absurd Sort of symptoms.
00:17:27.000 One absurd symptom is the symptom that you see of people dressing in incredibly provocative ways, for example, at the gym and then being like, why are you looking at me?
00:17:35.000 Why are you looking at me?
00:17:36.000 This is a story from the UK Daily Mail actually.
00:17:39.000 Or that a woman who was wearing very, very tight booty shorts at the gym and then suggesting that she's not doing it for attention.
00:17:47.000 And she actually put out a little TikTok video in which she's wearing extremely tight clothing at the gym. 1.00
00:17:51.000 And she's like, I'm not doing this for attention.
00:17:53.000 I'm doing it for me.
00:17:55.000 Well, first of all, I think you're lying because you're filming this.
00:17:57.000 But second of all, this does fit in large part with the idea that I can do whatever I want for my own subjective self-pleasure.
00:18:03.000 And if you call me on it, or if you suggest there are externalities to my personal behavior in public, Then this means that you have violated my sense of self because reality is me and the cell phone mirror that I live in.
00:18:14.000 Here's a little bit of this TikTok video.
00:18:19.000 It says girls that dress like this at the gym just want male attention. 1.00
00:18:23.000 And then it's her wearing extremely tight shorts.
00:18:28.000 And then it's, uh, gym girls, the men who stare.
00:18:30.000 And it's just a guy, like, wearing regular clothing, and then a woman staring at him.
00:18:33.000 So the idea is that men, how could men stare at this?
00:18:36.000 Okay, first of all, I think you're lying.
00:18:37.000 I think that you're doing this for attention.
00:18:38.000 I doubt that you dress this way in the privacy of your own home.
00:18:40.000 But, beyond that, let's assume that's true.
00:18:43.000 Let's assume that you believe that you can do whatever you want in public, and it's everybody else's job to avert their eyes.
00:18:47.000 Again, this is just symptomatic of the idea that the only thing that matters is what you feel about the world.
00:18:52.000 It also means that all of the social institutions have to be destroyed and remade in the image that you wish to see.
00:18:58.000 Basically, marriage now becomes a Facebook institution to the extent that you can form a group of Facebook friends and call it a marriage.
00:19:04.000 The New York Times has an entire article about that today, quote, interested in polyamory, check out these places. 0.93
00:19:09.000 Now, what's amazing about this is this is just what we used to call pagan orgies.
00:19:14.000 I mean, this this notion that you have just a group of people who live together and all married to each other is an absurdity. 0.89
00:19:20.000 It's ridiculous, and it doesn't work in the real world at small scale, let alone large scale.
00:19:24.000 But again, the idea is whatever floats your boat, because whatever floats your boat, the individual subjectivity is what is necessary.
00:19:31.000 According to the New York Times, Jason Knight had heard about Somerville, Massachusetts, while working on a PhD at the University of Alabama in 2020.
00:19:36.000 The small city had recently passed a law granting domestic partnership rights, like the ability to receive employment benefits or make hospital visits, to people in polyamorous relationships.
00:19:45.000 Mix Knight, M-X, period, Knight, who is non-binary and has been non-monogamous since 2014, was impressed.
00:19:52.000 In late March, Somerville passed two more laws extending the rights of non-monogamous residents, this time banning discrimination on the basis of family or relationship structure.
00:19:59.000 In city employment and policing, society has no interest whatsoever in the basic family structure anymore.
00:20:03.000 Around the same time these new laws passed, Mix Knight, 38, now a PhD in Applied Mathematics, moved from Alabama to a house in Somerville with their two partners, and a partner of one of those partners.
00:20:13.000 The city's attitude toward non-monogamy was a big factor in the group's decision to move there.
00:20:17.000 You want to talk about the sterilization of society in the name of sexual profligacy?
00:20:24.000 This would be it.
00:20:25.000 We simultaneously have the most sexually profligate society in human history and the most sterile society in human history, which is not a great recipe for civilizational victory.
00:20:34.000 Somerville is close to Harvard and Massachusetts Institution of Technology and claims to have more artists per capita than any city besides New York.
00:20:39.000 Oh wait, ooh, they said the quiet part out loud.
00:20:41.000 Ooh, sexual profligacy is related to alternative sexual orientations. 0.51
00:20:45.000 Oh no, we're not supposed to say that.
00:20:46.000 We're supposed to pretend that they're all monogamous families.
00:20:48.000 trans and pansexual and those who practice non-monogamy according to multiple studies.
00:20:51.000 Oh wait, oh, they said the quiet part out loud. Oh, sexual profligacy is related to
00:20:56.000 alternative sexual orientations. Oh no, we're not supposed to say that. We're supposed to
00:20:59.000 pretend that they're all monogamous families. Oh, well, at least there's now saying the quiet
00:21:03.000 part out loud, which is part again of the generalized decline in morality in our society.
00:21:08.000 And there is no coincidence.
00:21:10.000 The birth rates have been simultaneously declining.
00:21:12.000 You need social institutions.
00:21:13.000 You need to know your neighbors.
00:21:15.000 You need to have a family structure.
00:21:16.000 You need to go to church.
00:21:17.000 These are the things that make for a successful society.
00:21:19.000 You need to get your nose out of the phone that tells you you're the only important person on planet Earth.
00:21:24.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to the fallout from the Durham report, which, again, I think may be A revelation of the greatest political scandal in American history.
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00:22:35.000 Alrighty, so, as we talked about at length yesterday, the John Durham report, the special counsel's report on Operation Crossfire Hurricane and its origins is absolutely damning.
00:22:43.000 It's damning of the Clinton campaign, it's damning of the FBI, it's damning of the Obama administration.
00:22:47.000 Just to give you the brief recap of what is in the report, it now seems that basically the Clinton campaign trafficked via the FBI a bunch of BS allegations about Donald Trump and Trump-Russia collusion.
00:22:59.000 The FBI ingested that with alacrity, and then they started pumping it up to full-scale investigative capacity.
00:23:05.000 And the White House knew about all of this, and at no point did they say to the FBI, guys, you might be over your skis on this one.
00:23:11.000 At no point did they say, it might look a little dirty if you guys are just taking Clinton-Apple research and laundering that into a full-scale investigation that's going to last not only for the 2016 campaign, but also well into the Trump years.
00:23:22.000 The story began, just for the recap, in late July 2016.
00:23:25.000 That is when Australia provided information to the U.S.
00:23:28.000 Embassy in London surrounding conversations between Australian diplomats and a low-level foreign policy Trump advisor named George Papadopoulos.
00:23:35.000 In those conversations, Papadopoulos had allegedly suggested that the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist in releasing information about Hillary Clinton.
00:23:43.000 That information alone was used as the predicate for launching the full-blown Trump-Russia investigation, despite the fact that FBI officials knew that this was incredibly flimsy and basically there was nothing there.
00:23:54.000 Top FBI officials greenlit that investigation.
00:23:56.000 That included Peter Strzok, of course, who was one of the top officials over there.
00:24:00.000 He was the deputy assistant director of counterintelligence and a devoted Trump hater.
00:24:03.000 He and his lover, Lisa Page, were texting each other about how much they hated Trump throughout.
00:24:08.000 According to John Durham, the investigation was launched before any dialogue with Australia or the intelligence community prior to any critical analysis of the information itself.
00:24:16.000 So they just jumped in, both feet.
00:24:18.000 So what could have prompted that eagerness?
00:24:19.000 Well, the FBI, as Durham already acknowledges, already had the so-called Steele dossier, that was the compendium of lies and innuendo created by Fusion GPS at the behest of the Clinton campaign.
00:24:28.000 The FBI had also been approached by a second source working with Fusion GPS in July of 2016.
00:24:32.000 So there are a couple of different sources, all stemming from Fusion GPS, which is the Clinton campaign, feeding this crap to the FBI.
00:24:41.000 The FBI's assistant legal attache in London knew the Papadopoulos information was thin, but told the OIG, that's the Office of the Inspector General, that FBI management was, quote, pushing the matter so hard there was no stopping the train, making it his job to, quote, unquote, grease the skids.
00:24:55.000 By the way, at the same exact time, it's not as though they didn't know that the Clinton campaign was pushing this stuff, they did.
00:24:59.000 In July 2016, according to this report, U.S.
00:25:01.000 intel agencies found out about Russian intelligence suggesting that Hillary had approved a campaign plan to gin up allegations of Trump-Russia collusion.
00:25:09.000 In fact, on August 3rd, this is like one week after the investigation was launched, CIA Director John Brennan, quote, met with the President, Vice President, and other senior administration officials, including but not limited to the Attorney General and the FBI Director, and briefed them on the so-called Clinton plan.
00:25:23.000 Nobody decided, hey guys, maybe we'll put a, let's put a hold on this Trump-Russia stuff until we find out if it's just Clinton-Apple research.
00:25:28.000 Because by the way, with like three phone calls, they could have found out that it was Clinton-Apple research.
00:25:32.000 So, here's what we now know.
00:25:34.000 Top officials at the White House and at the FBI, they were aware that Hillary Clinton had a plan to disseminate information falsely claiming Trump-Russia collusion.
00:25:41.000 They knew that they had really, really, really, like, thread-thin information on Trump and Russia.
00:25:49.000 And they launched a full-scale investigation anyway.
00:25:51.000 And it ate up not only the election cycle, but pretty much the entirety of Trump's presidency.
00:25:57.000 Okay, so this should be incredibly damning.
00:26:00.000 Because what it means is that Hillary Clinton was in fact colluding with the FBI and with the Obama administration, for which she had worked, in order to essentially twist the election narrative in her own favor.
00:26:11.000 And Obama was okay with it.
00:26:13.000 Biden was present for those conversations.
00:26:16.000 People who were in the Clinton campaign, who now are part of the Biden team, were involved in all of this.
00:26:22.000 And the media went right along with it.
00:26:23.000 Not only did they go along with it, they fostered it.
00:26:25.000 The New York Times won Pulitzer Prizes based on their Trump-Russia collusion reporting.
00:26:29.000 Which is madness.
00:26:31.000 Okay, so now the reaction has come out.
00:26:33.000 And it's led by Barack Obama, who of course was informed on August 3rd of the Clinton plan and was like, I don't know, well, you know, it's Hillary's plan.
00:26:39.000 Let's do it.
00:26:39.000 What's the problem?
00:26:40.000 Let's go.
00:26:41.000 Let's do it.
00:26:41.000 Trump can't be president.
00:26:42.000 That guy said I was born in Kenya.
00:26:43.000 Can't do it.
00:26:45.000 So yesterday, he did an interview with the former president of the United States, and he said he's deeply worried about the divided country, which is all... It's hard to imagine.
00:26:53.000 Everyone talks about Trump being divisive.
00:26:55.000 Barack Obama was a way more divisive president than Donald Trump.
00:26:58.000 The reason I say that is because no one expected Donald Trump to be unifying.
00:27:01.000 If you expected Trump in 2016 to be a unifier, I don't know what you were smoking.
00:27:05.000 You're high on, you were like snorting Parmesan cheese off the carpet like Hunter Biden,
00:27:09.000 if you'd expected Trump to be a great unifier in 2016.
00:27:11.000 But in 2008, everybody thought that Obama was going to be a great unifier,
00:27:15.000 and then he turned out to be massively divisive.
00:27:16.000 So the delta between expected unification on Obama and delivered unification was just Pacific Ocean wide.
00:27:24.000 So here is Barack Obama explaining that he's very upset about our divided countries
00:27:29.000 as one of the most divisive people in American history.
00:27:32.000 I'm an optimistic man, but I find myself falling into this space where I have concern about
00:27:39.000 the country that they will inherit once I'm gone.
00:27:43.000 Post-presidency, what about this country keeps you up at night?
00:27:47.000 The thing that I'm most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation.
00:28:00.000 In part because we have a divided media.
00:28:03.000 Oh, so what he would like, again, is a propagandistic media that always repeats his talking points.
00:28:08.000 And the Durham Report is just a perfect example of this.
00:28:10.000 Again, the media still claim that this guy, his only scandal is a tan suit.
00:28:14.000 Never mind the IRS scandal in which his head of IRS was targeting conservative institutions.
00:28:19.000 Never mind the fact that he apparently was personally briefed on the Clinton plan and said nothing while the FBI launched a spurious investigation into Donald Trump.
00:28:28.000 Never mind the fact that Barack Obama presided over foreign policy collapse and was shipping pallets of cash to the Iranians.
00:28:36.000 None of those things were scandals, according to the media.
00:28:37.000 So of course he would love the media to go back to its propagandistic monopoly.
00:28:41.000 He would love it.
00:28:42.000 Because then, presumably, you could have the kind of media coverage you've seen over this Durham Report thing.
00:28:46.000 So the Durham Report breaks, and the media's take on it is nothing new to see here.
00:28:49.000 Nothing to see here.
00:28:49.000 You're all overestimating how terrible it is.
00:28:51.000 There's really not a problem.
00:28:52.000 CNN's legal expert, for example, Jennifer Rogers, she fully dismisses the Durham Report.
00:28:58.000 You see this report and it's 300 pages long.
00:29:02.000 It cost millions of dollars to do, but there is any teeth to this?
00:29:07.000 It doesn't seem like it.
00:29:08.000 There's nothing there, Sarah.
00:29:09.000 I mean, this is really a rehashing of what the DOJ Inspector General found four years ago.
00:29:14.000 I mean, there were some problems with the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
00:29:18.000 They were all documented by The DOJ inspector general.
00:29:21.000 FBI changed policies in dozens of instances to account for those.
00:29:26.000 And that's it.
00:29:27.000 So this is the deep state conspiracy, right?
00:29:29.000 The FBI was out to get him.
00:29:31.000 They wanted to help Hillary Clinton, although apparently didn't do it very well, because of course she lost.
00:29:35.000 This was the whole thing.
00:29:36.000 Multiple people at the highest reaches of the FBI were going to go to prison, right?
00:29:39.000 Well, no one went to prison.
00:29:41.000 Two people were charged as a result of Durham's work.
00:29:43.000 They were both acquitted at trial.
00:29:45.000 This was a whole big nothing.
00:29:47.000 They did not prove this deep state conspiracy because it never existed in the first place.
00:29:50.000 All right, you're calling this a nothing burger?
00:29:52.000 That's such a lie!
00:29:52.000 Of course the Deep State... Oh my gosh, a nothing burger.
00:29:55.000 It's nothing.
00:29:56.000 It's a big bowl of nothing with some nothing whipped cream on top with some nothing sprinkles.
00:30:00.000 Or, alternatively, it's the greatest American scandal involving the so-called Deep State I've ever seen, certainly in my lifetime, by a long margin.
00:30:09.000 I mean, this is way worse than Watergate.
00:30:10.000 Watergate was Richard Nixon deploying a couple of dullards over to the Watergate Hotel in an attempt to bug his political opponent. 0.94
00:30:17.000 Which, by the way, had actually happened during LBG's campaign against Barry Goldwater.
00:30:21.000 Nobody ever talks about that.
00:30:22.000 LBG actually tried to do the exact same thing to Barry Goldwater.
00:30:24.000 No one cares about that.
00:30:26.000 Here you have the weaponization of the most powerful domestic law enforcement institution in the United States at the behest of the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration, and it's nothing because no one wants to jail.
00:30:34.000 Okay, so, by the way, I've never seen that sort of standard applied to Donald Trump.
00:30:39.000 Donald Trump isn't in jail.
00:30:41.000 Donald Trump hasn't been criminally charged with anything beyond jaywalking by Alvin Bragg in Manhattan.
00:30:45.000 That's a BS case, as everybody knows.
00:30:48.000 But they still call him a criminal.
00:30:49.000 They still say that he's a scandalous person.
00:30:51.000 He was impeached twice. 0.93
00:30:52.000 That's how terrible Donald Trump is.
00:30:53.000 So the standards radically change.
00:30:55.000 But again, this is why Barack Obama wants his monopolistic media back, because they will defend anything the Democrats do, anything they do.
00:31:02.000 Joe Scarborough too.
00:31:02.000 He jumped in.
00:31:03.000 He said, oh, it's a dud.
00:31:04.000 It's a dud, says Joe Scarborough on MSNBC.
00:31:07.000 The report's language is often stark, describing Trump's campaign to Russian outreach as a, quote, grave counterintelligence threat.
00:31:19.000 Let me say that again.
00:31:21.000 Describing Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's receptivity to Russian outreach as a, quote, grave counterintelligence threat that made the campaign susceptible to, quote, Malign Russian influence.
00:31:36.000 This was Marco Rubio and other members of the Republican Senate Committee, the Intel Committee, saying this.
00:31:44.000 And yet the conclusions that are drawn here, again, they really seem to, it's just seems to be a complete dud.
00:31:52.000 Once again, another dud by John Durham.
00:31:58.000 Oh, it's a dud, guys.
00:31:59.000 It's a dud.
00:32:00.000 So it doesn't matter that the FBI knew full well that they were operating on nonsensical information. 1.00
00:32:05.000 That was crap. 0.97
00:32:06.000 And that they knew full well that Hillary Clinton was literally wandering this information through them. 1.00
00:32:10.000 Apparently, that is a big nothing burger.
00:32:12.000 It's a nothing burger with nothing ketchup and nothing pickles.
00:32:15.000 The New York Times' Michael Schmidt tried to do the exact same thing.
00:32:18.000 Again, this is why the left loves their monopolistic media, because they all repeat the same talking points.
00:32:23.000 So at the end of the day, for people watching who are trying to remember everything that got us here over the last, what, seven years or something like that, what is the takeaway?
00:32:33.000 What is the end result of all of this?
00:32:35.000 What do we know about collusion or alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians?
00:32:43.000 I think what we know is that the Trump campaign invited this help from the Russians.
00:32:49.000 We know from our own eyes and from watching that Donald Trump asked Russia to help him.
00:32:56.000 He did that very publicly and in doing so brought a lot of these questions on himself.
00:33:05.000 It was Trump's fault for bringing the questions on himself, you see.
00:33:09.000 It wasn't a Clinton dirty trick that was absolutely participated in by the FBI and the Obama administration.
00:33:14.000 The New York Times, by the way, calls this a conspiracy theory now.
00:33:17.000 Quote, The Durham report offered few conclusions.
00:33:19.000 The right drew its own.
00:33:21.000 Conservative, this is Jonathan Weisman, one of the worst reporters of the New York Times.
00:33:23.000 Conservative leaders and right-wing outlets say the special counsel report, which produced no startling revolutions, lends credence to their conspiracy theories about the FBI.
00:33:31.000 See, it's a conspiracy theory now.
00:33:32.000 So it was not a conspiracy theory when they were literally claiming that Donald Trump was a cat's paw for Vladimir Putin.
00:33:37.000 That was not a conspiracy theory.
00:33:39.000 That was fact.
00:33:39.000 And if you didn't believe it, they would yell at you on national TV about it.
00:33:42.000 In fact, if you expressed any doubt, people would laugh at you.
00:33:45.000 I remember back in 2018, I was on Bill Maher's show, and Bill asked me specifically about the Trump-Russia collusion stuff.
00:33:50.000 I said, I don't see any evidence of this stuff.
00:33:51.000 It seems like nothing to me.
00:33:52.000 The audience laughed at me.
00:33:53.000 Like, full-on laughed about it. 0.95
00:33:55.000 Because it was so clear that obviously Trump was a Russian's cat's paw. 0.86
00:33:58.000 But don't worry, that was not a conspiracy theory.
00:34:00.000 That was reality.
00:34:01.000 The real conspiracy theory is suggesting that what John Durham says in the report is actually what happened.
00:34:08.000 Truly amazing.
00:34:08.000 We'll get to Donald Trump's reaction to all of this momentarily first.
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00:36:04.000 Okay, meanwhile...
00:36:05.000 Well, Donald Trump is reacting to the Durham report, and suffice it to say, he is significantly less sanguine about the Durham report than Democrats seem to be.
00:36:14.000 So here was Donald Trump's reaction yesterday.
00:36:17.000 Well, after looking at the report and after seeing, and don't forget, I did a hashtag.
00:36:21.000 I fired a lot of people, but the deep state goes deep.
00:36:24.000 Hey, firing Comey was not, you know, that was, and I fired him very early.
00:36:28.000 You know, a lot of people said, why did you wait so long?
00:36:30.000 He was fired very, very early.
00:36:32.000 And it was a great firing.
00:36:34.000 I'm telling you, they were looking to do real bad.
00:36:38.000 This was a coup that they were looking at. 1.00
00:36:41.000 These are sick people. 0.97
00:36:44.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are responding by essentially saying that nothing happened. 0.98
00:36:47.000 Adam Schiff, who is one of the great liars of our time, spent years with a pup tent actually erected directly outside the Green Room at CNN so that he could run in every five minutes and tell us that we were on the verge of the overthrow of the country thanks to Vladimir Putin's collusion with Donald Trump.
00:37:02.000 Well, now he is suggesting that nothing happened on MSNBC.
00:37:06.000 It's totally fine, guys.
00:37:08.000 Everything was fine.
00:37:10.000 This is an investigation that started in a flawed manner.
00:37:14.000 It was conducted in a flawed manner, and its conclusion is a flawed conclusion.
00:37:21.000 So we have four years of wasted effort.
00:37:24.000 And worse than that, we have four years, I think, of undermining the department in a political prosecution.
00:37:31.000 Yes, there was disparate treatment, and Hillary Clinton got the far worse end of it. 1.00
00:37:38.000 Hillary Clinton got the far worse end of it? 1.00
00:37:41.000 Did they launch a false investigation under the auspices of a Donald Trump leak?
00:37:48.000 The fact that that person is still a somewhat respected commentator is just beyond me.
00:37:53.000 That he's a congressperson who's not- I mean, he should be impeached for what he did.
00:37:56.000 For lying to the American people about what he had access to.
00:37:58.000 It's totally insane.
00:38:00.000 By the way, Joe Biden was privy to all this information when he was vice president.
00:38:02.000 He was literally briefed on August 3rd about the Clinton plan.
00:38:05.000 And apparently was fine with it.
00:38:07.000 What is the White House reaction to Special Counsel Durham's report on how the FBI handled the Trump Russia probe?
00:38:17.000 I would leave it to the Department of Justice to speak to.
00:38:19.000 He talks often about how he wants the DOJ and FBI to remain independent and above the fray.
00:38:27.000 That report seems to reflect the opposite.
00:38:30.000 Does he agree with Yeah, there's nothing quite like the independence of the department.
00:38:33.000 And she will catch you.
00:38:34.000 at the FBI?
00:38:35.000 Again, that is with the Department of Justice.
00:38:36.000 That's not something that I'm going to speak from the podium.
00:38:39.000 As you just stated in your question, we believe in an independent Department of Justice.
00:38:44.000 That's what the president said when he was running, and that's what the president has
00:38:46.000 said the last two years.
00:38:47.000 Thank you so much.
00:38:48.000 I'll see you guys in the next one.
00:38:49.000 Yeah, there's nothing quite like the independence of the department.
00:38:51.000 And she will catch you up.
00:38:52.000 Just leaving a cloud of dust behind her. 0.99
00:38:55.000 I will note at this point that the Department of Justice apparently has no problem with
00:39:00.000 the IRS now removing its investigative team from Hunter Biden's probe.
00:39:06.000 So everything is going great.
00:39:07.000 I mean, you should believe in your law enforcement institutions.
00:39:09.000 According to the New York Post, the IRS on Monday removed the entire investigative team from its long-running tax fraud probe of the first son, Hunter Biden, in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower who recently contacted Congress to allege a cover-up in the case, according to the New York Post.
00:39:22.000 The purge allegedly was done on the orders of the Justice Department.
00:39:25.000 That's totally independent Justice Department. 0.94
00:39:26.000 Yeah, man, they're so independent.
00:39:29.000 The whistleblower's attorneys informed congressional leaders in a letter.
00:39:32.000 The lawyers wrote, quote, today, the IRS criminal supervisory special agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile controversial subject about which our clients sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress.
00:39:46.000 He was informed the changes at the request of the DOJ.
00:39:48.000 So the DOJ is basically in an attempt to prevent information from getting out about what exactly Hunter Biden is being investigated over.
00:39:55.000 The DOJ canned the IRS team that included the whistleblower.
00:39:59.000 Remember, whistleblowers are good if they're Democrats.
00:40:01.000 Whistleblowers are very, very, very bad if they might damage Democrats. 1.00
00:40:05.000 OK, meanwhile, the debt ceiling debate continues.
00:40:08.000 And Joe Biden's main strategy seems to be yelling at the wind.
00:40:11.000 He was out there again yesterday suggesting we just can't default.
00:40:14.000 We can't.
00:40:14.000 You know who might have a say in whether we default or not would be you, sir.
00:40:18.000 Here was Joe Biden attempting to read a teleprompter.
00:40:20.000 America cannot default on its debt.
00:40:24.000 If we're to do that, it'll be catastrophic.
00:40:27.000 It would be devastating for America and, quite frankly, the whole world.
00:40:29.000 It'd be a recession.
00:40:30.000 We'd find that everything was... Our economy would really crater.
00:40:35.000 It really would have a profound impact on how we live our lives.
00:40:38.000 We'd find ourselves in a position where we no longer were viewed as the leader of the world, economically.
00:40:44.000 And we can't let that happen.
00:40:45.000 It's beyond comprehension.
00:40:47.000 No serious person in either party has ever thought this was an option.
00:40:53.000 Well, I mean, you literally voted against a debt ceiling increase when you were in the Senate.
00:40:56.000 Has anyone ever thought it was an option?
00:40:57.000 I noticed that.
00:40:58.000 Also, you know, you could negotiate.
00:41:00.000 That could be a thing.
00:41:01.000 Apparently, Joe Biden is about to negotiate because he has to.
00:41:06.000 And Janet Yellen, again, just yelling it at people and suggesting that if the debt ceiling is hit that it's the end of the world is not an actual negotiation strategy. 0.95
00:41:11.000 Here is Janet Yellen, the garbage Secretary of the Treasury. 1.00
00:41:14.000 on our debt would produce an economic and financial catastrophe. 0.91
00:41:20.000 Household payments on mortgages, auto loans, and credit cards would rise, and American businesses would see credit markets deteriorate.
00:41:30.000 And on top of that, it's unlikely that the federal government would be able to issue payments to millions of Americans, including our military families and seniors who rely on Social Security.
00:41:43.000 This economic catastrophe is entirely preventable.
00:41:48.000 The solution is simple.
00:41:50.000 Congress must vote to raise or suspend the debt limit, and it should do so without conditions.
00:41:58.000 Without conditions, says Janet Yellen.
00:41:59.000 I mean, sure, we have a $31 trillion national debt, but the answer to that national debt, according to the Biden administration, is to raise the debt ceiling without any sort of reining in of the spending.
00:42:08.000 That's literally what Corinne Jean-Pierre said yesterday.
00:42:10.000 She said, we have to raise the debt ceiling because the national debt is too high, which makes no sense at all.
00:42:15.000 This is like saying, listen, I have to take out a second credit card because I'm spending too much money.
00:42:20.000 I'm spending too much money, so I have to take out a second credit card.
00:42:24.000 Here she is.
00:42:26.000 How is it not a crisis when the country literally owes more than it's worth?
00:42:31.000 You should ask the speaker this question.
00:42:33.000 This is his job.
00:42:34.000 This is his constitutional duty to move forward and get the debt limit done.
00:42:38.000 That is a question for him.
00:42:40.000 They are the legislative, it is a co-equal branch as you know, they are the legislative body and this is what they're supposed to do.
00:42:46.000 That is a question, seriously, that is a question for the Speaker and the MAGA Republicans who are literally holding our economy hostage.
00:42:55.000 I have to move on.
00:42:58.000 She has to move on, of course.
00:43:00.000 She must.
00:43:00.000 She must.
00:43:01.000 She refused to call the debt crisis a crisis, but the only way to solve a debt crisis is to take out more debt.
00:43:05.000 Obviously.
00:43:05.000 Obviously.
00:43:07.000 Now, the good news here is that Joe Biden is likely to cave.
00:43:09.000 According to the Washington Post, Biden and top congressional leaders expressed optimism about urgent negotiations over the debt ceiling after a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, as the administration's liberal allies worry that talks with House Republicans over the budget risk rewarding the GOP's hardline stance.
00:43:23.000 House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sounded confident an agreement could be reached ahead of the June 1st deadline.
00:43:26.000 Now, again, Joe Biden has to do this because if not, he's going to get a recession.
00:43:30.000 He can try to blame the Republicans for that, but the reality is the president gets blamed when there's a recession.
00:43:34.000 Period.
00:43:34.000 End of story.
00:43:35.000 And so the likelihood that Republicans get something out of this is actually quite good, which is showing a certain durability to Speaker McCarthy that I think a lot of people didn't think he had.
00:43:44.000 There's a lot of talk about how Speaker McCarthy couldn't even get the speakership originally and he had to go through several votes.
00:43:49.000 He's proved that he can actually move some legislation forward, which is a lot more than can be said for Joe Biden's agenda with the Republican Congress thus far.
00:43:56.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to Congress blaming not the federal government for its own failings, but blaming the banks for relying on the federal government.
00:44:04.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.
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00:45:10.000 I mean, one of the things that absolutely drives me nuts is that Joe Biden's economic policy has been an absolute disaster area.
00:45:15.000 And then people who relied on Joe Biden are the ones who end up taking it in the teeth.
00:45:19.000 So yesterday, the heads of Silicon Valley Bank did a hearing in front of Senate and Democratic senators called them forward to rip on them.
00:45:27.000 How dare Silicon Valley Bank experience financial hardship?
00:45:30.000 It's so bad.
00:45:30.000 We had to bail you guys out.
00:45:31.000 That's terrible that we bailed you guys out.
00:45:32.000 OK, the reason Silicon Valley Bank had to be bailed out is because they had faith in Joe Biden.
00:45:36.000 It is that simple.
00:45:37.000 Silicon Valley Bank took a bunch of its depositor holdings, invested it in bonds, government bonds.
00:45:42.000 You know what's supposed to be a really solid investment?
00:45:44.000 Government bonds.
00:45:45.000 You know what the problem was?
00:45:46.000 Is that they expected that Joe Biden was not then going to have a 40-year inflationary run, requiring the Federal Reserve to jack up the interest rates, therefore making their bonds worthless.
00:45:55.000 So their big mistake, Silicon Valley Bank, is that they relied on Joe Biden not to crap the bet on the economy.
00:46:01.000 And then he crapped the bet on the economy.
00:46:03.000 And so the predictable result is that Silicon Valley Bank had a run on its assets, and when the run on its assets happened, they couldn't actually liquidate all of their bond holdings because their bond holdings were effectively worthless.
00:46:12.000 So senators called in Silicon Valley Bank, and instead of calling in, like, you know, Jay Powell for his garbage Federal Reserve policy, or calling in Jenny Yellen for her bad Secretary of the Treasury policy, or calling up anybody in the Biden administration, instead they called up Silicon Valley Bank to yell at them.
00:46:26.000 So Elizabeth Warren suggested that, um, Silicon Valley Bank was really the problem.
00:46:30.000 Again, she is the person who would be the first to suggest that you should be investing in the government bonds because she actually believes the government should basically take over the banking system entirely.
00:46:39.000 That you should be completely reliant on the government.
00:46:42.000 Silicon Valley Bank's problem is that it relied on the government too much.
00:46:45.000 Her solution is that the government should own the banks.
00:46:47.000 But she's very angry at Silicon Valley Bank. 0.92
00:46:49.000 I mean, it's just, it's ridiculous.
00:46:51.000 So how much of the $20 million that you earned from loading up Signature Bank with risk are you planning to return to the FDIC?
00:47:04.000 I believe that Signature Bank was a responsibly managed bank, solvent until the end.
00:47:09.000 Yeah, well I'm sorry, your opinion on what is a responsibly managed bank is now laughable.
00:47:15.000 So you're planning to return how much?
00:47:17.000 The answer is none.
00:47:19.000 That's not planning to do so, no.
00:47:21.000 Yeah, I mean, how much money is Elizabeth Warren going to give 1.00
00:47:26.000 up of her of her family estate, given the fact that she's been 0.90
00:47:29.000 a complete useless person for the last 30 years masquerading as a Native American? 1.00
00:47:32.000 I'm not seeing a lot of that. 0.97
00:47:34.000 Again, I'm not a big defender of Silicon Valley Bank.
00:47:36.000 My only point here is that if you're going to blame somebody, blame the federal government for completely botching the policy so badly that this bank, which is exactly what... I mean, Elizabeth Warren is a proponent of modern monetary theory.
00:47:45.000 Modern monetary theory suggests that you can spend as much money as humanly possible if you're the government and never have an inflationary spiral.
00:47:52.000 Which is precisely what Silicon Valley Bank apparently banked on, and then they failed, and then she's yelling at them. 1.00
00:47:57.000 It's truly amazing.
00:47:59.000 Well, those hearings were absurd in and of themselves.
00:48:01.000 They got even more absurd when John Fetterman tried to ask a question.
00:48:03.000 So again, we now have not one, but two Democratic senators who are not mentally capable of holding the position.
00:48:08.000 I'm not just talking about in political terms, I mean physically incapable on a brain level of holding the position.
00:48:13.000 You have Dianne Feinstein, who is fully senile at this point, but still in the Senate, and John Fetterman, who's brain damaged from a stroke, Trying to ask questions at Senate hearings and it's actually painful to watch.
00:48:23.000 Is it staggering?
00:48:25.000 Is it a staggering responsibility that the head of a bank could literally could literally crash our economy?
00:48:33.000 It's astonishing.
00:48:34.000 That's like if you have I mean like and they also realize is that that that now they have it's in the guaranteed A guaranteed way to be saved by no matter how.
00:48:50.000 That's a good question.
00:48:52.000 Isn't it appropriate that this kind of control should be more stricter?
00:49:00.000 To prevent this kind of thing from going?
00:49:02.000 Or should we just go on and start bailing and sailing whoever bank regardless of how their conduct is?
00:49:13.000 And the witness is like, what?
00:49:17.000 Is that a question?
00:49:18.000 Is that English?
00:49:19.000 Was there a question mark?
00:49:21.000 Was there any association between the words you're trying to say and meaning?
00:49:25.000 Oh man, only the best.
00:49:26.000 We only send the best to the United States.
00:49:28.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden held an event yesterday in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month.
00:49:35.000 And he, along with Doug Emhoff, who is our official Jewish emissary in the White House, we the Jews, Doug Emhoff, who is a very, very observant Jew.
00:49:44.000 I'm being extraordinarily sarcastic right now.
00:49:47.000 These are the people who are going to talk about anti-Semitism and the necessity to fight it.
00:49:52.000 So Joe Biden suggested that he has a plan to fight anti-Semitism.
00:49:55.000 Now, mind you, that plan will have nothing to do with chiding Bernie Sanders for actually participating in full anti-Semitism with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
00:50:03.000 Again, it'll have nothing to do with Joe Biden actually saying to members of his own congressional party, guys, maybe you shouldn't hold a day declaring Israel's existence a disaster.
00:50:14.000 Nakba Day. 0.93
00:50:15.000 Maybe you shouldn't do that.
00:50:17.000 Joe Biden won't have anything to say about that.
00:50:19.000 But he has words about anti-Semitism, does Joe Biden.
00:50:22.000 Mm hmm.
00:50:24.000 Under my presidency, we're going to continue to condemn and combat anti-Semitism at every turn.
00:50:29.000 That's why I signed the bipartisan COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act to help enforce better and help enforce law enforcement better address these hate crimes.
00:50:39.000 Appointed America's first ambassador level special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
00:50:43.000 General, excuse me, Deborah, is Deborah here?
00:50:50.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden has nothing to say about actual anti-Semitism from his own party.
00:50:54.000 This is the same administration that restored hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority, which has been actively fomenting terrorism against Jews, culminating in vast waves of terror attacks.
00:51:06.000 Again, he's actually spending your taxpayer money on this guy.
00:51:09.000 This is Mahmoud Abbas, who is the leader of the Palestinian Authority.
00:51:12.000 The last election that was held in which Mahmoud Abbas won an election was 2006.
00:51:17.000 So he is currently in the 17th year of a four-year term as Mahmoud Abbas and we are sending hundreds of millions of dollars to him because of Joe Biden.
00:51:24.000 Well, here he was and Joe Biden really wants to fight anti-Semitism.
00:51:26.000 Here is Mahmoud Abbas over the weekend essentially declaring that the Jewish state should not exist and that it's a colonial outpost and all the rest of this anti-Semitic nonsense.
00:51:35.000 It says Israel has been digging underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque for 30 years in an attempt to find anything that would prove its past existence, but did not find anything.
00:51:46.000 It is not me saying this.
00:51:47.000 The Israeli historians and archaeologists said this.
00:51:48.000 So he's saying that Israel has no connection with the Temple Mount, which is absurd.
00:51:51.000 It's called the Temple Mount.
00:51:52.000 It's where the Temple was.
00:51:54.000 They said we could not find anything.
00:51:55.000 We have nothing here.
00:51:57.000 Erasing Jewish existence. 1.00
00:51:58.000 So why lie?
00:51:59.000 They dug underneath Al-Aqsa and above it.
00:52:01.000 They dug everywhere, but did not find anything.
00:52:03.000 They didn't dig underneath the rocks.
00:52:04.000 What is he talking about?
00:52:05.000 The false Zionist and Israeli claims continues, says Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations.
00:52:10.000 They say that Israel made the desert blossom. 0.53
00:52:16.000 They say that Palestine used to be a desert, and then they made it flourish. 0.59
00:52:19.000 Uh, yes.
00:52:20.000 Clearly yes.
00:52:21.000 This is true.
00:52:25.000 They say they turned it into a heaven on earth.
00:52:28.000 They cannot avoid lying, but what can we do?
00:52:29.000 I mean, it's just anti-Semitic erasure of all Jews in the middle. 0.99
00:52:32.000 They lie like gerbils, he says. 1.00
00:52:34.000 The Jews are like Nazis. 1.00
00:52:36.000 Joe Biden, fighting anti-Semitism, sending hundreds of millions of dollars to that guy. 0.99
00:52:41.000 Thumbs up, Joe.
00:52:42.000 Again, the left also likes to fight anti-Semitism by defending George Soros, who spends every waking moment attempting to undermine law and order in the United States.
00:52:48.000 And also, by the way, to undermine the Jewish state.
00:52:50.000 That dude is wildly anti-Israel. 0.82
00:52:52.000 But Elon Musk, Elon Musk is the real anti-Semite.
00:52:55.000 Again, according to the left, true anti-Semitism is apparently saying that George Soros is a bad person.
00:53:02.000 Or apparently it's really bad that I said last week that Bernie Sanders is not Jewish.
00:53:05.000 Okay, when I say he's not Jewish, I don't mean that he's technically not biologically or ethnically Jewish.
00:53:09.000 I said on the show he is ethnically Jewish, meaning his mom is Jewish.
00:53:12.000 But Judaism is more than just your ethnic Judaism.
00:53:14.000 Like you have no connection to actual Jewish belief or practice.
00:53:18.000 You're not particularly Jewish. 0.90
00:53:19.000 Bernie Sanders is an anti-Israel fanatic who hates religion, generally speaking, and is a socialist who has fomented the worst members of his anti-Semitic party. 0.93
00:53:31.000 I mean, it's wild. 0.96
00:53:33.000 But of course, but Elon Musk is bad.
00:53:35.000 Why is Elon Musk bad?
00:53:36.000 Well, Elon Musk is the real answer.
00:53:37.000 The left is focused, laser focused on anti-Semitism.
00:53:39.000 Hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority, being nice to the Iranians, making sure that Rashida Tlaib has Nakba Day over in the Congress.
00:53:46.000 No condemnation from the White House for any of that stuff.
00:53:48.000 But Elon Musk, you know, he tweeted badly about George Soros.
00:53:51.000 What did Musk tweet?
00:53:52.000 He tweeted, Soros reminds me of Magneto.
00:53:56.000 Why?
00:53:56.000 Well, apparently he said, so Brian Krasenstein said, fun fact, Magneto's experiences during the Holocaust As a survivor shaped his perspective as well as his depth and empathy.
00:54:06.000 Soros, also a Holocaust survivor, gets attacked nonstop for his good intentions, which some Americans think are bad, merely because they disagree with his political affiliations.
00:54:13.000 And Musk had the temerity to say, you assume they are good intentions.
00:54:16.000 They are not.
00:54:17.000 He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization.
00:54:19.000 Soros hates humanity.
00:54:21.000 Okay, now, you can think that's true about Soros.
00:54:23.000 You can think it's not true about Soros.
00:54:24.000 I certainly think that George Soros has taken inordinately terrible action in America's major cities and that his international agenda is really scurrilous.
00:54:33.000 With that said, what does that have to do with Soros being ethnically Jewish?
00:54:37.000 Soros himself holds no truck with Judaism. 0.79
00:54:40.000 Again, the rule for the left is that they become very, very specific about ethnic Judaism Only in order to defend Jews who really stand contra most of Judaism, Jewish philosophy, Jewish practice, the state of Israel. 0.65
00:54:55.000 Then all of a sudden they become very, the word in Hebrew is makhbe, they become incredibly specific about what constitutes a Jew.
00:55:01.000 Noam Chomsky, excellent Jew. 0.99
00:55:03.000 Bernie Sanders, excellent Jew.
00:55:04.000 George Soros.
00:55:04.000 The only reason you would attack these people is because they are Jewish.
00:55:06.000 Not because they are wrong on everything.
00:55:09.000 No, they are wrong on everything and it's not anti-Semitic to say so. 0.98
00:55:12.000 Ridiculous. 0.75
00:55:13.000 By the way, they never seem to have the same sort of qualms about criticizing, for example, Sheldon Adelson when he was alive. 0.68
00:55:19.000 None of those qualms.
00:55:20.000 Meanwhile, Elon Musk, in sort of an astonishing exchange on CNBC that has now gone viral, he was asked about the fact that he says controversial things on Twitter, and here was his answer.
00:55:29.000 You know, do your tweets hurt the company?
00:55:32.000 Are there Tesla owners who say, I don't agree with his political position because, and I know it because he shares so much of it.
00:55:38.000 Or there are advertisers on Twitter that Linda Iaccarino will come and say, you gotta stop, man. 0.93
00:55:42.000 Or, you know, I can't get these ads because of some of the things you tweet.
00:55:46.000 He really thinks about it for 12 seconds.
00:55:56.000 He's thinking.
00:55:58.000 You know, I'm reminded of, uh, the scene in The Princess Bride.
00:56:07.000 Great movie.
00:56:08.000 Great movie.
00:56:10.000 Where he confronts the person who killed his father.
00:56:13.000 And he says, Offer me money.
00:56:24.000 Offer me power.
00:56:26.000 I don't care.
00:56:27.000 So you just don't care.
00:56:34.000 You want to share what you have to say?
00:56:36.000 I'll say what I want to say.
00:56:38.000 And if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.
00:56:43.000 OK.
00:56:45.000 Good for him.
00:56:46.000 Good for him.
00:56:47.000 OK, well, normally we do things I like and things I hate here, but today we have a bit of surprise here on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:56:54.000 Well, folks, here is the surprise.
00:56:56.000 It's Brett Cooper from the comments section with Brett Cooper.
00:56:59.000 And for those of you who say that we have never been in the same place at the same time, either our green screening is fabulous or we are not the same person.
00:57:07.000 Or it's AI.
00:57:08.000 Or it's AI.
00:57:09.000 Exactly.
00:57:09.000 Could be AI.
00:57:09.000 Yeah.
00:57:10.000 So Brett is here to tell me about pop culture because I'm, you know, approaching 40 and I have three, almost four kids.
00:57:17.000 And so tell me about pop culture, Brett Cooper.
00:57:19.000 I'm going to tell you all about pop culture.
00:57:20.000 Thank you.
00:57:20.000 I'm just going to give you a definition note.
00:57:21.000 Okay, so the thing I wanted to tell you about today.
00:57:23.000 Have you heard of sologamy?
00:57:26.000 No.
00:57:27.000 Okay, so you know, like polygamy.
00:57:28.000 Yeah.
00:57:29.000 Okay.
00:57:30.000 I can see the root of the word.
00:57:31.000 I feel I know where you're going.
00:57:32.000 So it's a new trend.
00:57:33.000 Well, it's kind of been starting over the last few years.
00:57:36.000 Like in 2019, Emma Watson said that she was self-partnered.
00:57:40.000 She was not single, she was self-partnered.
00:57:42.000 And that is rooted in self-care and that she did not want to call herself single because that had like a negative connotation.
00:57:46.000 You're self-partnered.
00:57:47.000 She's not a they-them, though, so she's like a she-her, right? 1.00
00:57:49.000 She's a she-her, yes. 1.00
00:57:51.000 She's not multiple people.
00:57:52.000 No, no, no, no, no.
00:57:54.000 She's just being with herself.
00:57:55.000 But now people are taking it so far that they are marrying themselves.
00:57:58.000 Yes, so that's sologamy.
00:58:00.000 So I pulled some TikToks because they're not just saying, like, it's not just like, oh, I'm committing to myself and, like, I'm gonna work on myself.
00:58:06.000 No, they're having wedding ceremonies, which is what I wanted you to look at.
00:58:10.000 I wanted to be a real-life Ben Shapiro reaction.
00:58:12.000 Okay.
00:58:14.000 A few weeks ago, I went to a self-love wedding.
00:58:18.000 So my friend, Marcy, I love you, married themselves for their birthday.
00:58:23.000 Everyone has to choose to have the opposite sex. 0.99
00:58:29.000 So here are some of those outfits.
00:58:31.000 And here's mine.
00:58:32.000 The ceremony was so beautiful.
00:58:34.000 There was even a flower girl, and Marcy looked so beautiful.
00:58:39.000 Oh my god, there's interpretive dance.
00:58:43.000 Oh no!
00:58:45.000 Oh no!
00:58:46.000 No!
00:58:49.000 That's a really cheap wedding cake for a self... For a self-wedding?
00:58:54.000 Okay, so I understand.
00:58:55.000 I understand.
00:58:56.000 These are not people who are going to find partners ever.
00:58:59.000 This is their last resort!
00:59:00.000 This is basically the person who couldn't get a date at prom and they're like, well I didn't even want to go to prom.
00:59:04.000 Exactly.
00:59:04.000 So they're not going to get married because who would do that thing?
00:59:09.000 So they're being proactive.
00:59:11.000 They're getting ahead of it.
00:59:11.000 They're getting ahead of the story.
00:59:13.000 It's like when Barack Obama in his memo was like, I did a little blow.
00:59:15.000 He knew it was going to come out.
00:59:17.000 So it just went ahead.
00:59:18.000 It's already out there.
00:59:19.000 These people are going to be single for life, but now they're owning the singleness.
00:59:23.000 It's empowering. 0.99
00:59:24.000 Well, you know, it's the old Woody Allen line that, you know, masturbation is sex with the person he loves. 0.99
00:59:29.000 So there you have it. 0.99
00:59:31.000 Exactly.
00:59:31.000 They're marrying the one they love.
00:59:32.000 They actually, this spiked during COVID because everybody was so lonely.
00:59:36.000 And then coming out of COVID, all the women were apparently just drained because of the Zoom dates. 0.93
00:59:42.000 And, you know, they just spent all this time inside and they didn't have boyfriends or anything like that.
00:59:47.000 So apparently, There were a ton of these weddings during COVID, and there were all these psychologists that were covering this.
00:59:53.000 We're like, this is such a wild phenomenon.
00:59:54.000 I have another one.
00:59:55.000 Can you guys pull the one that's on?
00:59:56.000 Oh yeah, here we go.
00:59:57.000 This one's more elaborate.
00:59:58.000 It's a little less they, them, and a little more self-love.
01:00:04.000 Who's the child?
01:00:07.000 I don't want to know.
01:00:09.000 That's sad.
01:00:10.000 The child's like, I'll never have a father now.
01:00:12.000 Wow.
01:00:17.000 Yep.
01:00:18.000 This is, uh... It's so elaborate.
01:00:20.000 This is.
01:00:20.000 How's the sound of the price going up?
01:00:23.000 I do have a question.
01:00:24.000 You mentioned that women were getting tired of Zoom dates. 1.00
01:00:26.000 Yeah.
01:00:26.000 Right?
01:00:26.000 So I do have a question about that, which is why?
01:00:29.000 That seems like the ideal female date. 0.94
01:00:31.000 Because it's just all talking all the time.
01:00:34.000 Yes, that's very true.
01:00:35.000 You just sit there and you're forced to talk.
01:00:38.000 I think it's... Because whenever I go on a date with my wife, she's like, why aren't we talking more?
01:00:41.000 So, like, I feel like a Zoom date is, because normally on a date, like, you just spend time with each other and you're, like, sitting there and the silence is okay.
01:00:46.000 You do an activity.
01:00:47.000 Right, but on a Zoom date, like, nothing's happening.
01:00:49.000 So I feel like women would be, like, there's an inherent pressure to talk and share your feelings. 0.98
01:00:53.000 Probably.
01:00:53.000 So women were not cool at the Zoom date.
01:00:55.000 I don't think they were.
01:00:55.000 Interesting.
01:00:57.000 That's good for society.
01:00:57.000 I don't think that things progressed enough on Zoom dates.
01:01:01.000 Ah.
01:01:02.000 Like to marriage?
01:01:03.000 I don't know.
01:01:04.000 Maybe it was just a symptom of the traditional Zoom burnout, because it was just online anyway, and they weren't being held enough apparently.
01:01:12.000 But that one that we just watched, the comments were actually positive.
01:01:19.000 Not about her, but people were calling her out on it, and she spent so much time debating these people.
01:01:26.000 The Bible says that in the last days, people would be lovers of self.
01:01:30.000 I didn't think it would go this far.
01:01:31.000 And somebody else said, my family would never.
01:01:33.000 That was the thing.
01:01:33.000 So many people showed up, and they're applauding this as if it's normal.
01:01:37.000 What would you do if somebody invited me to a wedding with, like, you can't even get me to go to a wedding
01:01:41.000 with another person.
01:01:42.000 If you're inviting me to a wedding with yourself.
01:01:44.000 Oh, I just wouldn't go.
01:01:45.000 Not only am I not sending a gift, I might send a drone attack. 0.72
01:01:49.000 Like, that's horrifying.
01:01:52.000 Yeah. 0.98
01:01:52.000 There's part of me that would want to go, because it's so ridiculous. 0.98
01:01:55.000 It's great for your show.
01:01:56.000 You bring a camera and it's amazing for your show.
01:01:58.000 I need those little Snapchat sunglasses.
01:02:00.000 Have you seen those that have cameras in them?
01:02:02.000 You need the James O'Keefe team there.
01:02:03.000 Exactly.
01:02:04.000 I wanted to do a video with him so he could teach me how to be undercover so I could go do things like this because I think it would be really good content.
01:02:10.000 But I don't think I could go in all seriousness.
01:02:12.000 It would be for content.
01:02:13.000 Well, yeah.
01:02:14.000 I mean, how could you go that serious?
01:02:15.000 I would just be laughing the whole time.
01:02:17.000 I do know people that probably would do this.
01:02:18.000 Somebody else said, no words. 0.83
01:02:19.000 If this was my friend, I'd be recommending therapy and certainly not showing up for this foolishness. 0.71
01:02:23.000 Because it's enabling, number one, narcissism.
01:02:25.000 But it's just, it's so unhealthy. 0.52
01:02:27.000 And it's mostly women. 1.00
01:02:28.000 I mean, that first one was even more sad because that was like a 20-year-old girl.
01:02:32.000 It's like, if you've lost all hope at my age, You need to change your behavior.
01:02:38.000 Why are birth rates dropping in the United States?
01:02:40.000 Why?
01:02:40.000 It's a mystery.
01:02:42.000 No one knows.
01:02:42.000 Because women are marrying themselves.
01:02:44.000 Okay, the other thing I wanted to talk to you about... By the way, if they then have sex with somebody else or marry somebody else, are they cheating on themselves? 0.84
01:02:50.000 Probably.
01:02:51.000 It's polyamorous now, or what?
01:02:52.000 It's not illegal, obviously, because you can't marry yourself.
01:02:54.000 And so they all... Not for long.
01:02:56.000 No, I'm sure that they will... In Massachusetts, very soon.
01:02:59.000 There's, in the article, in the articles that are about, you know, this self-marriage and all that stuff, they all say, well, of course, you can't have tax breaks yet.
01:03:07.000 It's not legal yet.
01:03:08.000 We wish that you could.
01:03:09.000 And of course, it doesn't mean that they can't date other people.
01:03:12.000 It's like, well, if you're going to marry yourself, go full out.
01:03:16.000 Yeah, I agree.
01:03:17.000 Then just be celibate.
01:03:18.000 Like, actually commit to it.
01:03:19.000 Exactly.
01:03:20.000 Like, full priest nun. 0.96
01:03:21.000 They can't even commit to themselves.
01:03:23.000 Right, yeah.
01:03:24.000 Lack of commitment.
01:03:25.000 Yep.
01:03:25.000 Alright, the last thing on pop culture I wanted to talk to you about.
01:03:28.000 Kardashians.
01:03:29.000 They are all dating a certain kind of man right now.
01:03:34.000 And I think that it's some kind of, like, Kris Jenner manipulation.
01:03:37.000 Because Kylie Jenner is now dating Timothee Chalamet.
01:03:40.000 Do you know who he is?
01:03:42.000 I do know who Timothee Chalamet is.
01:03:43.000 He looks like I could break him in half.
01:03:45.000 Yeah, he does.
01:03:45.000 He's like a little toothpick, yeah.
01:03:46.000 That's true.
01:03:47.000 And then, uh, Kourtney married... Oh my god, why am I blanking out on his name?
01:03:51.000 Is it Travis?
01:03:52.000 Travis Barker.
01:03:53.000 She married Travis Barker. 0.82
01:03:54.000 Both of them, it's like they've moved on from the black NBA players, and now they're dating who I call the wet cigarette men. 0.99
01:04:00.000 They have no testosterone whatsoever. 0.98
01:04:03.000 They are this big. 0.98
01:04:04.000 They are all smaller than all of the Kardashian women.
01:04:06.000 Mathematically, I don't know how that works at all.
01:04:10.000 And Kim was dating Pete Davidson.
01:04:12.000 It's the same genre of man.
01:04:14.000 Well, the shift from Kanye to Pete Davidson, that's a radical shift.
01:04:17.000 It was.
01:04:17.000 I mean, I have to say, that's like, I can't think of a much more radical shift than Kanye to Pete Davidson.
01:04:22.000 First of all, I don't understand the Pete Davidson phenomenon at all.
01:04:25.000 It makes no sense to me.
01:04:27.000 Girls like him because he's sweet and he's funny and he's not a toxic, masculine man.
01:04:35.000 I mean, he doesn't seem super masculine, generally.
01:04:38.000 That is one way to get rid of toxic masculinity, is to not date masculine men. 0.96
01:04:43.000 Exactly.
01:04:43.000 They will just become passport bros.
01:04:45.000 Oh, have you heard of passport bros?
01:04:47.000 What is a passport bro?
01:04:48.000 Okay, passport bros are men that are so fed up with Western women, because we're all apparently so woke and so terrible, and Western women don't want to be wives, that they are now going to other countries to find wives.
01:05:00.000 Like which countries?
01:05:01.000 Like Southeast Asia, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic.
01:05:05.000 So it's like the opposite of the mail order bride. 0.93
01:05:07.000 Yes, exactly.
01:05:08.000 So instead of ordering out, instead of using stamps.com.
01:05:11.000 And bringing them here, they're like, we want to get out.
01:05:15.000 It feels more expensive.
01:05:16.000 It is.
01:05:16.000 Well, actually, I mean, you can go to these countries and they're usually cheaper.
01:05:19.000 And so a lot of these men get remote jobs.
01:05:21.000 And so they go there and they live in these countries and then they meet these women.
01:05:25.000 And then women in the Western world, specifically the United States, are so pissed off about it, and they're like, you're going to all these countries where these women don't even know how to speak English, they can't even read, they're so uneducated. 0.99
01:05:34.000 And then the men, like, film themselves with these women, and like, show themselves on dates, and the women are so elegant, and they're so well-spoken, and they're so traditional, and they're like, look at these women!
01:05:43.000 Like, they're so respectful and kind, and the Western women are, you know, sitting on their, you know, Fresh and Fit podcast, or whatever podcast, losing their mind over this. 1.00
01:05:51.000 But yeah, passport bros.
01:05:52.000 Okay. 0.99
01:05:53.000 Because Western women are so bad. 1.00
01:05:54.000 Did not know about that. 0.99
01:05:55.000 Yeah.
01:05:56.000 That's why I'm here.
01:05:57.000 Interesting.
01:05:58.000 I mean, I did marry a woman from abroad.
01:06:00.000 I mean, she's been in America since she was 12, but still, she's Israeli.
01:06:03.000 There you go.
01:06:04.000 You're like a reverse passport, bro. 0.96
01:06:05.000 Yeah, exactly.
01:06:06.000 Well, she came here and she got citizenship, so kind of.
01:06:08.000 You didn't import her?
01:06:09.000 I did not import my wife, no.
01:06:11.000 Makes that very clear.
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