The Ben Shapiro Show - Our “Unaliving” Civilization

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, Western civilization has a major, major problem.

00:00:04.000 And that is that pretty much every societal ill that had been taken off the table by generations of received wisdom has now come back and come roaring back to life stronger than ever.

00:00:15.000 The latest example of this is a piece in the Free Press, Barry Weiss's Free Press, all about the spate of suicide and euthanasia that is taking over the West right now.

00:00:25.000 There's a piece by Rupa Subramanya talking about this.

00:00:29.000 Zaraya Turbik, 28, expects to be euthanized in early May.

00:00:33.000 Her plan, she said, is to be cremated.

00:00:34.000 Quote, I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy, Ter Beek texted me.

00:00:38.000 We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house.

00:00:41.000 She added an urn emoji after house.

00:00:43.000 Ter Beek lives in a little Dutch town near the German border and once had ambitions to become

00:00:47.000 a psychiatrist, but she was never able to muster the will to finish school or start a career.

00:00:51.000 She said she was hobbled by her depression and autism and borderline personality disorder.

00:00:55.000 Now, she was tired of living, despite, she said, being in love with her boyfriend, a 40-year-old IT programmer, and living in a nice house with their two cats.

00:01:01.000 She recalled her psychiatrist telling her they tried everything, that there's nothing more we can do for you.

00:01:05.000 It's never going to get any better.

00:01:06.000 At that point, she said, she decided to die.

00:01:08.000 It was always very clear that if it doesn't get better, I can't do this anymore.

00:01:13.000 She is not the only one, unfortunately.

00:01:15.000 Suicidality, euthanasia, these have become incredibly common across the West.

00:01:20.000 In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country in the world to make euthanasia legal.

00:01:23.000 Since then, the number of people who increasingly choose to die is startling in 2022.

00:01:27.000 That's the most recent year for which there's data.

00:01:29.000 Dutch officials recorded 8,720 cases of euthanasia.

00:01:31.000 That is a 13.7% increase from 2021.

00:01:31.000 and twenty cases of euthanasia. That is a 13.7 percent increase from 2021. That is five percent

00:01:38.000 of all deaths in the Netherlands were euthanasia. And that trend is not limited to the Netherlands.

00:01:43.000 In the United States, euthanasia has jumped from 2018 to 2021 by 53%, in Canada by 125%.

00:01:50.000 In Oregon, which in 1997 became the first state to legalize assisted suicide, the total suicide rate rose from 15.9 per 100,000 people to 16.9 post-legalization.

00:02:02.000 That's while the suicide rate in all other states actually dipped over that period in time.

00:02:07.000 Increasingly, the West is legalizing euthanasia for people who are clearly not terminal.

00:02:14.000 For example, Lauren Hove.

00:02:16.000 On November 30th, 2022, Hove, a Dutch YouTube creator who was then 27, took to her newly created blog, Brainfog, to announce she wanted to die.

00:02:24.000 She explained she had autism ADHD, ARFID, which is Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, depression, anxiety, a history of complex trauma, and since 2019, chronic fatigue syndrome.

00:02:35.000 She registered with the Euthanasia Expertise Center in The Hague.

00:02:38.000 About a year later, she then committed suicide.

00:02:44.000 Shoes 28.

00:02:46.000 So, again, this sort of stuff is becoming more and more common.

00:02:49.000 And it's not just this social malady that is plaguing the West.

00:02:53.000 It is drug abuse.

00:02:53.000 Drug abuse is plaguing the West.

00:02:55.000 It has for several decades at this point.

00:02:58.000 24% of American students in grades 8, 10, and 12 have used marijuana.

00:03:04.000 128 million Americans report having used marijuana at some point in their lifetime.

00:03:09.000 It is worth noting that marijuana today is significantly, significantly more addictive and more dangerous than marijuana when you were a kid.

00:03:16.000 When it comes to pornography, pornography is not only widespread in its availability, but also in its use and in its addiction.

00:03:22.000 The latest stats show that about 70% of American men view pornography.

00:03:26.000 24% of American women say they view pornography as well.

00:03:30.000 And the number of people who admit to being addicted is actually quite high.

00:03:33.000 The impacts of pornography on the human brain are very much like drug addiction.

00:03:37.000 There's a dopamine release and then it wears off and then people want more of the dopamine and so they go back to the pornography.

00:03:43.000 This empties out relations.

00:03:45.000 It destroys the relationship between men and women. 0.61

00:03:48.000 Men begin to see women as sexual objects in a way different than would normally be the case.

00:03:53.000 It disconnects them from other human beings.

00:03:55.000 We see this with regard to major societal issues like, for example, family formation and childbearing.

00:04:01.000 31% of women aged 30 to 34 in the United States are childless now, which is way higher than it has ever been in the United States.

00:04:08.000 When it comes to LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign identification, fully 22.3% of Gen Z now say, one in five, that they are LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign.

00:04:19.000 Which, yes, has societal impact.

00:04:21.000 It turns out that when one-fifth of your population suggests that they are no longer going to engage in monogamous heterosexual relationships with the goal of family formation, that has a major impact on your civilization.

00:04:34.000 So what exactly is going on?

00:04:35.000 Why are all of these social maladies Suddenly cropping up.

00:04:39.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.

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00:05:39.000 Well, there have been social scientists, people like Jonathan Haidt, who say that all of this has really accelerated due to the iPhone, due to the availability of the technology in your hands, social epidemics that are becoming epidemic much more quickly.

00:05:50.000 It would have taken a long time for these sorts of things to become contagious.

00:05:54.000 Now, they're spreading through the population like wildfire.

00:05:56.000 Undoubtedly, that's true.

00:05:58.000 But in order for that epidemic to Actually take hand.

00:06:03.000 The systemic immunity of a society has to be compromised.

00:06:07.000 The immunity has to go away.

00:06:09.000 What was the immunity to all of these sorts of bad ideas?

00:06:12.000 The answer, obviously, for literally hundreds of years, was religion.

00:06:17.000 Not just because people believed in God, but because there are two particular facts about religion that are deeply necessary to understand the beneficial and salutary effects of religion on a society.

00:06:27.000 Fact number one, religion takes certain moral matters off the table.

00:06:33.000 It says, God says X, therefore don't do X. Why is that important?

00:06:37.000 It's important because when you're talking about time-tested wisdom, I'm talking about this from a secularist perspective, not even as a religious person, which I am, where I actually believe that God said X. But, put all of that aside, pretend that God didn't say X. Pretend that God did not say, thou shalt not murder.

00:06:51.000 But from a secular perspective, one reason why any society might say something like, God says thou shall not murder, is because it takes it off the table for debate.

00:07:01.000 Once God says it, you don't need to come up with an independent rationale as to why it's not okay to murder.

00:07:06.000 And the reality is that when it comes to the vast majority of rules that we abide by in society, the vast majority of things that we are supposed to not do, those Our rules, not because somebody sat somewhere in a cave and came up with a rationale for the rule, but because over trial and error, over evolutionary long periods of time, these are rules that have been found to be effective.

00:07:28.000 It's a point that Thomas Sowell makes in his book, Knowledge and Decisions, is that one of the social purposes of religion is that the evolution of moral rules takes a very long time.

00:07:38.000 And the evolution of those moral rules is in fact a form of data.

00:07:42.000 You don't have to explain why it works.

00:07:44.000 You just have to know that it does work.

00:07:46.000 One of the great lies that the Enlightenment has told us is that everything that is good requires a rationale.

00:07:53.000 By the way, that's not even the way that science typically works.

00:07:55.000 People tend to think that the way that science works is that you have a theoretician in the lab who comes with a theory, and then the theory has practical ramifications.

00:08:03.000 Very often, it's the reverse.

00:08:04.000 Very often, the inventions that you're using is somebody who's tinkering in their garage and doing trial and error until something worked.

00:08:10.000 And they may not even know why it works.

00:08:11.000 This happens to be true, by the way, for a huge number of pharmaceuticals that are in use right now.

00:08:15.000 They don't know why it works, they just know that it does.

00:08:18.000 Well, that happens to be the case about moral rules as well.

00:08:21.000 And what religion does, it says these moral rules are now taken off the table.

00:08:24.000 We don't have to give you a rationale.

00:08:26.000 They're there because they work.

00:08:28.000 That's what religion does societally.

00:08:31.000 First thing it does.

00:08:32.000 Second thing it does, it creates the social fabric necessary to enforce those rules without a top-down state. 0.96

00:08:39.000 It creates the intermediate institutions of society that philosopher Robert Nesbitt pointed out act as an enforcement mechanism.

00:08:47.000 So, you violate the rule of society, for example, that says that you should get married and have kids and live within the boundaries of a church, and the rest of the members of the church might not want you at the church.

00:08:56.000 You're not gonna be part of that particular social fabric.

00:08:59.000 There is, in fact, a social ostracism that takes place, and that is good. 0.95

00:09:04.000 Any society has to have rules that are enforced.

00:09:06.000 Not necessarily with force, that's a government question, but by social censure.

00:09:11.000 Social censure is really important. 0.66

00:09:12.000 So, religious communities have traditionally provided a couple of things.

00:09:15.000 One, rules that are unbreachable.

00:09:17.000 And don't require some sort of secularist rationale, because it turns out that many of the things we do in our life don't actually have a secularist rationale.

00:09:24.000 They just work.

00:09:26.000 And two, a social fabric is created by any religious community that enforces those particular rules.

00:09:32.000 Well, as we have secularized as a society, we have decided to toss away both of those things.

00:09:36.000 Both of those things have dissolved.

00:09:38.000 So, we have become the touch-the-stove civilization.

00:09:42.000 So the way that you teach your kids not to touch the stove is you don't explain to your kids, really, when they're very, very young.

00:09:49.000 You don't teach them, okay, certain objects are hot.

00:09:52.000 When you touch a hot object, you get burned.

00:09:53.000 You say, don't touch the stove.

00:09:55.000 And if you touch the stove, there will be a consequence.

00:09:57.000 Well, we as a society have decided that anything we can't explain requires us to touch the stove.

00:10:03.000 So we're gonna touch the stove on everything.

00:10:05.000 So things that were just common sense propositions, like for example, it is good that you get married and have children.

00:10:10.000 We as a society decided, because we couldn't come up with a rationale, why not alternatives?

00:10:15.000 What's wrong with alternatives?

00:10:16.000 Why can't all alternatives be treated as perfectly equivalent?

00:10:19.000 The answer to that, by the way, is that it fails.

00:10:21.000 Society fails when you don't have man-woman-child. 1.00

00:10:24.000 End of story.

00:10:24.000 Societies that don't focus on man-woman-child fall apart, because that is the basis of every functional civilization.

00:10:30.000 But we decided we can't come up with a rationale why it shouldn't be man-man-no-child, or woman-woman-no-child, or man-woman-chicken, three children adopted from a surrogate mother.

00:10:40.000 And therefore, we should just do it.

00:10:42.000 So he touched the stove.

00:10:44.000 And what's the result?

00:10:44.000 The result is widespread childlessness.

00:10:47.000 Breakdown in family formation.

00:10:48.000 Destruction of existing families.

00:10:50.000 Children born into families where they're not really families, just a mom and a kid.

00:10:54.000 Because dad is nowhere to be seen.

00:10:56.000 Which of course has resulted in many more social maladies.

00:11:00.000 We had to touch the stove when it came to drug use.

00:11:03.000 We as a society were like, you know what would probably be bad?

00:11:05.000 Is if huge swaths of the population ingested hallucinogenic drugs.

00:11:09.000 That'd probably be a bad thing.

00:11:11.000 And then we as a society were like, well, but what if we tried it?

00:11:14.000 What if we touched the stove?

00:11:15.000 Maybe it'll be fine.

00:11:16.000 How do we know?

00:11:18.000 And so the time-tested wisdom that suggested sobriety was thrown out the window in favor of something different.

00:11:25.000 And has it been salutary in its effects on young Americans?

00:11:28.000 I would suggest the answer is no.

00:11:30.000 We used to say that engaging in pornography ought to be illicit.

00:11:34.000 That it is bad.

00:11:34.000 That when you view pornography, it does something to your brain that is not good.

00:11:38.000 It perverts your view of the opposite sex, of sex itself, and of relationships.

00:11:42.000 And then we're like, ah, but, but really, is it going to be that bad?

00:11:45.000 I mean, like, sure. 0.94

00:11:46.000 What are you, just a prude, man? 0.93

00:11:48.000 Just a prude? 0.91

00:11:49.000 Is that what this is?

00:11:50.000 Can you find a rationale for your prudishness?

00:11:52.000 And it used to be, well, I don't have to find a rationale. 0.86

00:11:54.000 It's, it's icky and gross and bad and you shouldn't do it. 0.66

00:11:57.000 It's bad for your soul and it's bad for you.

00:12:00.000 And that was accepted wisdom for literally hundreds of years.

00:12:04.000 And then we were like, well, let's touch the stove and let's find out what happens.

00:12:08.000 This has had incredibly negative effects on our civilization.

00:12:12.000 We have decided as a civilization that we have a right to touch the stove.

00:12:16.000 We have a right to touch the stove.

00:12:17.000 That what our civilization is built upon is touching the stove actually.

00:12:20.000 The most important thing you can do is touch the stove.

00:12:23.000 This is a perversion of what the founders meant by rights.

00:12:26.000 There's more on this in a moment.

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00:13:28.000 So rights talk is very prevalent in American circles.

00:13:30.000 We're always talking about rights.

00:13:31.000 The left likes to talk about rights to healthcare, which don't actually exist because a right to healthcare means that somebody has a duty to provide you healthcare.

00:13:39.000 So really what it is is an entitlement, not a right.

00:13:41.000 And then there are people who talk about rights, like I have a right to view pornography.

00:13:45.000 have the right to use the n-word. What are they talking about when they say that sort of stuff?

00:13:49.000 They are talking about a form of immunity, not actually a right. So let me explain what we mean

00:13:53.000 by rights. Because rights is actually a group of ideas that we define very vaguely in American

00:13:57.000 life and we kind of throw the word around in messy ways. So there was an American jurist,

00:14:02.000 early 20th century, named Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld. Very famous in legal circles.

00:14:07.000 And he broke rights down into four categories.

00:14:09.000 This is really important stuff because if you want to understand what people mean when they are talking about rights, you have to determine which kind of right they're talking about.

00:14:17.000 He said there are four kinds of rights.

00:14:20.000 There are privileges.

00:14:21.000 Privileges are things where you have a right to do them.

00:14:24.000 Like you have an active moral right to do the thing because they're a matter of either moral good or moral apathy.

00:14:28.000 So for example, you have a right to give charity.

00:14:30.000 Of course you do.

00:14:31.000 That's a moral good.

00:14:32.000 Or you have a right to eat a hamburger because we are completely indifferent as a society as to whether you eat a hamburger or whether you don't eat a hamburger.

00:14:38.000 Right, these are what we would call privileges.

00:14:40.000 So a privilege, again, is something you have no duty not to do.

00:14:44.000 I, for example, do not have a privilege to view pornography because I don't have a moral right to view pornography.

00:14:50.000 There's nothing good about viewing pornography.

00:14:52.000 There's nothing that says that I should be morally apathetic about viewing pornography.

00:14:55.000 So, privileges, again, are the kinds of, it's kind of moral right.

00:15:01.000 You have a right to do it because we are morally apathetic or we think that what you're doing is good.

00:15:05.000 Then there are claims.

00:15:06.000 A claim is a right against you.

00:15:09.000 So, for example, my child has a claim against me because I have a duty to provide for my child.

00:15:14.000 You, however, do not have a claim against me for health care.

00:15:16.000 That's why when I say that there is no right to health care, what I mean is that you do not have a claim against me to provide you health care.

00:15:23.000 You might think that it's a nice thing for me to do, but you don't actually have a moral claim on me that I must provide you health care.

00:15:29.000 My child does.

00:15:30.000 I owe a duty to my child in a way I do not owe a duty to you.

00:15:32.000 That's what a claim is, a claim right.

00:15:34.000 Then there are powers.

00:15:35.000 Powers are abilities that allow you to alter another person's privileges or claims.

00:15:40.000 So there are certain circumstances in which you have the power or somebody has the power over you to turn a non-claim into a claim, for example.

00:15:48.000 So, just to give a basic example, In an employment context, I have the power as an employer to dictate the hours of my employees' work, whether they're in the office or not, what they do at work.

00:15:59.000 Now, in a normal context, I don't have that power, right?

00:16:01.000 If they were not in an employment situation, I don't have anything like that power.

00:16:04.000 But since we signed a contract, and since I'm the employer and they are the employee, I now have the power over them.

00:16:09.000 This is like government.

00:16:10.000 Government also has inherent powers in certain areas in order to compel particular things.

00:16:15.000 So the government, for example, has the power to tax.

00:16:19.000 Now, that power is not unending.

00:16:21.000 That power has to be curbed.

00:16:23.000 This is what the founders were mostly worried about.

00:16:24.000 They were worried that the government would have too many powers to alter your privileges and alter your claims, to create too many duties of you to the government, or to infringe on your privileges, which is why the founders were very much focused on the fourth type of rights, which are called immunities.

00:16:41.000 See, immunities are pragmatic limitations on powers.

00:16:46.000 So for example, this is what we tend to mix up, privileges and immunities in this particular setting.

00:16:52.000 So an immunity is, for example, the President of the United States issues an order that every American citizen has to put up a picture of the President in their home.

00:17:00.000 You can say, no, I have immunity against that because you don't have the power to do that.

00:17:03.000 An immunity is a claim that somebody does not have the power to make you do a thing.

00:17:08.000 So what we have done in American society is we have conflated privileges and immunities.

00:17:13.000 When it comes to privileges, which is usually what we're talking about when we talk about rights.

00:17:19.000 We're morally apathetic about whether you eat a hamburger or what kind of car you drive.

00:17:23.000 We have to make a compelling case for why you don't have a duty in those cases, a moral duty in those cases.

00:17:28.000 So you have a privilege, for example, to speak freely about politics because there's no duty to remain silent.

00:17:32.000 We actually would like you to speak up about politics.

00:17:35.000 But you don't have a privilege to use pornography because you have a duty actually not to use pornography on a moral level.

00:17:40.000 That does not mean that the government has the power to compel you in certain circumstances not to use pornography.

00:17:46.000 Now, the case to be made is that powers should be given, broadly speaking, to very local governments.

00:17:52.000 If you're going to talk about government at all.

00:17:54.000 Why?

00:17:55.000 Well, because you're much more likely to agree with the use of powers at the local level than you are at the national level.

00:17:59.000 But the chief enforcement mechanism for privileges and against immunities was church.

00:18:06.000 It was religious community.

00:18:09.000 Immunities, again, are not privileges.

00:18:11.000 Just because you have a right against the government, such that the government cannot force you to do a thing, does not mean that you have the moral right to do the thing.

00:18:18.000 So, for example, the government does not have the power and should not have the power to compel me not to say the N-word.

00:18:22.000 Also, I do, in fact, have a moral duty not to say the N-word.

00:18:27.000 Saying the N-word is bad.

00:18:29.000 So, this is where civil society came in.

00:18:32.000 In that weird space where you want particular moral rights, privileges, upheld, but you don't want the government enforcing them.

00:18:42.000 So this is why it's important that in your social circle, In your church, for example, if you don't abide by the rules of the road, it's not that you want the government compelling people to abide by the rules of the road.

00:18:52.000 You want civil institutions doing that.

00:18:54.000 As those civil institutions wane, government tends to fill the gap.

00:18:58.000 Because the result is everyone touches the stove.

00:19:00.000 And when everyone touches the stove, a bunch of social maladies occur.

00:19:03.000 And then there is widespread call for the government to increase in size and scope in order to fix the social malady.

00:19:09.000 And so what you end up with is massively powerful government.

00:19:13.000 Conversely, you also end up with this really perverse situation where if the government does not speak on an issue, people take that as license to do the thing.

00:19:22.000 So, for example, this is why, for example, it's so important for so many people in America that the Supreme Court decided that same-sex marriage was now approved by the federal government.

00:19:30.000 Those of us who are religious said, okay, well, that doesn't change the moral status of same-sex marriage.

00:19:35.000 Obviously, the morality of the act has nothing to do with whether the government approves it.

00:19:39.000 But for folks who don't believe in church, who don't actually believe in those social institutions, then the government becomes the ultimate arbiter, not only of what it can and cannot do, but of good and evil.

00:19:48.000 So the government should get involved in literally everything, and then enforce what it believes to be good, and punish anything it believes to be evil.

00:19:55.000 That is the essence of tyranny.

00:19:58.000 Well, the problem is, once you get into that cycle, then it's just a battle over the government gun.

00:20:02.000 Then it's just a battle over who has the power.

00:20:05.000 If the state is the only thing that is capable of restoring any sort of duties, then the state is going to overreach and it's going to turn into a tyranny.

00:20:14.000 All of this, the touch the stove society ends with massive increase in social malady.

00:20:18.000 That ends with massive calls for more powerful government.

00:20:20.000 And that ends with rebellion against that powerful government.

00:20:23.000 That is the road that we are down.

00:20:24.000 And that is why people need to go back to church.

00:20:26.000 They need to get out and touch the grass.

00:20:28.000 They need to stop with the internet. 0.99

00:20:30.000 They need to stop figuring that ersatz social relations are going to fix the society.

00:20:34.000 They are not.

00:20:35.000 You are not going to fix society on Twitter.

00:20:37.000 You are not going to fix society on Facebook.

00:20:38.000 You are going to fix society by going to your local church and involving yourself in a local community that has sanctions Social sanctions and well-accepted, time-tested rules that you accept because you understand that they are, in fact, time-tested rules.

00:20:52.000 That is the only way that we're going to restore any semblance of sanity to our civilization.

00:20:55.000 Otherwise, we're just going to keep touching that stove until we have societal third-degree burns all over our body.

00:21:00.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:21:56.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden is losing right now in six out of the seven swing states according to a brand new Wall Street Journal poll.

00:22:02.000 Donald Trump is leading in Arizona by five, in Georgia by one, in Michigan by three, in North Carolina by six, in Nevada by four, in Pennsylvania by three, and they're tied in Wisconsin.

00:22:13.000 That's the only state in which they are tied.

00:22:16.000 Now honestly, I think that poll is out of whack in Georgia.

00:22:18.000 I think Trump is up way bigger than one point in Georgia.

00:22:21.000 If he's up by three in Michigan, he's up by six in Michigan.

00:22:24.000 And if he's up by three in Pennsylvania, he's probably up by five in Pennsylvania.

00:22:27.000 These are terrible, terrible polls for Joe Biden.

00:22:32.000 Both campaigns, the Wall Street Journal points out, will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising and turnout efforts in these seven states.

00:22:38.000 They account for 93 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to win.

00:22:43.000 And again, this is a broad map for Donald Trump.

00:22:48.000 Back in 2020, it was a very narrow map for Trump.

00:22:50.000 He had to replicate his successes of 2016.

00:22:51.000 Nevada has now been added to the map for Donald Trump.

00:22:55.000 What is the state that has been added to the map for the Democrats?

00:22:58.000 In 2016, Donald Trump won Arizona and Georgia and they weren't on the map for Democrats.

00:23:03.000 In 2020, the map broadened and suddenly Joe Biden won Arizona and Georgia.

00:23:08.000 Well now, those states appear to be increasingly out of reach for Joe Biden.

00:23:12.000 And the map is broadening in the other direction, which is why Nevada is now in play.

00:23:17.000 And in fact, the state of Nebraska may change the way that it selects its electoral votes.

00:23:23.000 Nebraska's a weird state.

00:23:24.000 They actually allocate their electoral votes by congressional district, which means that even though Nebraska is a very, very red state, it has two congressional districts and one of them is Democrat.

00:23:35.000 So there's now a move in the state legislature to reallocate the electoral votes the way every other state does, where winner takes all.

00:23:41.000 That makes a difference because right now, there's a fairly decent shot that Donald Trump gets to 269 but not 270.

00:23:48.000 But it gets to 270 if that one vote shifts in Nebraska.

00:23:52.000 In other words, the map right now for Donald Trump is quite broad.

00:23:55.000 And it seems to be getting broader specifically because Joe Biden is terrible at his job.

00:23:59.000 And he is very terrible at actually taking a clear stance on issues and thereby winning over, for example, independents.

00:24:05.000 Nowhere has this been clearer than in the Middle East. 0.80

00:24:08.000 His left-wing base is excoriating him for not siding with Hamas.

00:24:13.000 On MSNBC, voters were sounding off on Joe Biden because he was quote-unquote alienating the base by continuing to allow Israel to take on Hamas.

00:24:23.000 Another young voter involved in the uninstructed movement is 22-year-old Dahlia Saba.

00:24:28.000 This is a campaign that's being run by students and by young people who really care about this.

00:24:33.000 Saba has family in Gaza and says organizing protest efforts in Wisconsin allows her to feel empowered.

00:24:40.000 Joe Biden has already won the Democratic nomination, so the uninstructed campaign is really a way of sending a message.

00:24:46.000 It is not about Him actually becoming president or not.

00:24:51.000 It is a way for us to quantify, this is how many people care about this issue.

00:24:54.000 We are Democrats.

00:24:55.000 We are voting in the Democratic primary.

00:24:56.000 These are your constituents, and your policy is alienating them.

00:25:02.000 Michael Moore is doing the same routine.

00:25:04.000 He was on MSNBC suggesting that Joe Biden has to step in and stop what he calls ethnic cleansing of Gaza, which is not happening.

00:25:09.000 There is no ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

00:25:12.000 And the population of Gaza has increased massively since 1948.

00:25:15.000 This is a ridiculous statement by Michael Moore, but of course he's been disconnected from reality for quite a while.

00:25:23.000 And Joe Biden who has, he's really the only one in the whole entire world that has the power to stop this, say within the next hour. 0.75

00:25:32.000 Literally, by just turning off the faucet, pulling the plug, no more bombs, no more guns, no more bullets, no more nothing until you, Mr. Netanyahu, stop the slaughter.

00:25:48.000 But they're not going to listen.

00:25:49.000 They're just going to cash the checks, baby. 0.99

00:25:52.000 So, yes, I said baby, not BB.

00:25:56.000 BB is cashing the checks.

00:25:58.000 The baby was to you, the man with the aviator sunglasses.

00:26:02.000 You know who you are and what you have to do.

00:26:06.000 You must have thought it.

00:26:07.000 Creepy weirdo Michael Moore suggesting that Hamas remain in place and also that the hostages remain in the tunnels. 1.00

00:26:12.000 It's just a pathetic, pathetic kind of stuff. 1.00

00:26:14.000 And again, it is a radical base. 1.00

00:26:15.000 It is a radical pro-Hamas base that is creating this sort of situation.

00:26:18.000 This is why they were protesting a Zaka event in Teaneck, New Jersey the other night.

00:26:22.000 So Zaka, for those who don't know, is not actually a political group.

00:26:26.000 Zaka is a Jewish ritual group.

00:26:28.000 So under Jewish ritual law, When someone dies, you have to bury them as soon as possible.

00:26:32.000 Also, not to get gruesome, but if there is something like a bombing or a shooting, you have to gather as much of the human body as is possible to bury it.

00:26:40.000 So, Zaka, in the aftermath of October 7th, was witness to the atrocities.

00:26:43.000 They literally had to try to cobble together as much of the bodies as they could before burial.

00:26:47.000 They have nothing to do with the war in Gaza.

00:26:49.000 They have nothing to do with war at all.

00:26:52.000 They're what we call, in Judaism, a Hevra Kedusha.

00:26:55.000 They do what in Judaism would be called holy work of attempting to care for the bodies of the dead, which in Judaism is considered a high priority specifically because it's the only kind of commandment that can't actually be repaid, right?

00:27:08.000 When you do something for the dead, obviously, you're not expecting anything in return.

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00:28:19.000 So, pro-Hamas protesters showed up in Teaneck, New Jersey.

00:28:22.000 They shut down an actual freeway in Teaneck, New Jersey to protest a Zaka event because this is who they are. 1.00

00:28:30.000 So, just an excellent group of people out there pushing for the Hamasniks. 1.00

00:28:55.000 Meanwhile, Muslim leaders are now trying to pressure Joe Biden on this.

00:28:58.000 According to the Washington Post, a group of six Muslim leaders will meet with President Biden and Vice President Harris on Tuesday evening to discuss U.S.

00:29:03.000 policy in the Gaza Strip after they were invited for a small Ramadan dinner but rejected.

00:29:07.000 Such a gathering is inappropriate given the administration's continued support of Israel amid devastation in the territory.

00:29:12.000 Biden initially invited the leaders for Iftar, the meal in which Muslims break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

00:29:18.000 White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday the leaders expressed the preference of a policy meeting.

00:29:21.000 The White House adjusted its plans to accommodate the request.

00:29:24.000 One person apparently walked out of the meeting as an expression of anger at Joe Biden for continuing to back Israel in his campaign to finish off Hamas.

00:29:34.000 Meanwhile, Biden again cannot help but split the baby.

00:29:37.000 He's literally pissing everyone off and he's pissing everybody off because you refuse to take a clear moral stance in a conflict between a democratic ally of the United States and a group of terrorists who are currently holding the entire Gaza Strip hostage because they could surrender tomorrow and it would all be over.

00:29:51.000 They are currently holding American citizens hostage, at least five American citizens that we know of.

00:29:57.000 So Joe Biden is taking this bizarre position where he believes that if he politically rails against Israel, that this will somehow earn him the votes of the radicals in his own party.

00:30:05.000 But then he's also providing the funding and the weaponry for Israel so that Israel can prosecute the war.

00:30:11.000 So it's kind of the worst of all available worlds from a Biden campaign perspective, but that is Joe Biden.

00:30:17.000 Because Joe Biden has never been a man with the courage of his conviction.

00:30:20.000 This is all coming to a head right now.

00:30:22.000 Because late on Monday, there was a horrific tragedy in which the IDF accidentally struck an aid convoy from the World Central Kitchen.

00:30:30.000 So it's still totally unclear what exactly happened that made the IDF make this decision.

00:30:38.000 According to a report in Haaretz, the Israeli Air Force fired three missiles in quick succession at three vehicles.

00:30:44.000 It was at night.

00:30:45.000 These vehicles were marked as members of an aid convoy, the WCK aid convoy.

00:30:51.000 According to Haaretz, essentially what happened here, is that a Hermes 450 UAV fired three missiles at the convoy in quick succession, despite the vehicles being clearly marked on their roof as being part of WCK.

00:31:04.000 They were targeted over a distance of around two kilometers.

00:31:07.000 The decision was made by a unit guarding the aid transport route, after troops earlier spotted what appeared to be an armed figure riding on a truck that entered an aid storage area with three WCK cars.

00:31:15.000 The attack occurred moments after the three cars left the storage area, leaving the truck and the armed figure behind, according to the report.

00:31:22.000 A missile hit one car, everybody got in the second car, that was hit.

00:31:24.000 And then they moved to the third car, that was hit.

00:31:26.000 So apparently, it was a mistaken identity situation.

00:31:30.000 Not because they didn't see that it was a WCK car, but because they thought that there was an armed figure on top of the car, who they assumed was Hamas.

00:31:37.000 Israel has already come out and apologized for the incident.

00:31:40.000 Israel has already suggested there will be a full-scale investigation into the incident, obviously.

00:31:46.000 Here is the IDF Chief of Staff making a full statement in English.

00:31:48.000 It's very rare, obviously, in a wartime scenario.

00:31:52.000 But, unlike when Hamas purposely kills civilians and then cheers about it, when the IAF makes a mistake, they do a full-scale investigation and they apologize to not only the group that they hit accidentally, but to the world for the mistake. 0.85

00:32:07.000 That doesn't alleviate the consequence of the tragedy, obviously, but to pretend that the Israeli Air Force was targeting an aid convoy because they knew it was an aid convoy is ridiculous, insipid, just dumb on every possible level, especially because the WCK has been working with the IDF for literally six months to get aid into the Gaza Strip. 0.59

00:32:26.000 Which, by the way, I think we should point out at this point how totally insane as a military policy this is.

00:32:32.000 I cannot name another war where an ongoing war was happening in an area that was occupied by an enemy force and that same exact area was being targeted for aid by the force that was attempting to extirpate the terrorist force.

00:32:48.000 It's legitimately unprecedented.

00:32:50.000 During a war against ISIS in Syria, the United States was not shipping in aid to the same exact area that it was bombing.

00:32:56.000 But that's what Israel is expected to do. 0.92

00:32:58.000 That doesn't mean that what happened wasn't a tragedy.

00:33:01.000 It is a tragedy.

00:33:01.000 That's the point.

00:33:02.000 It's a tragedy, not a purposeful targeting of a convoy.

00:33:05.000 Yet, the enemies of Israel have attempted to paint this as Israel purposefully targeting a convoy of aid for what apparent reason?

00:33:12.000 What would be the actual goal?

00:33:14.000 Then they have to suggest that Israel wants everybody in the Gaza Strip to starve, which is obviously untrue since they are shipping in literally hundreds of trucks a day.

00:33:21.000 The vast majority of aid workers who are being killed right now, purposely, are being killed by Hamas.

00:33:28.000 Hamas literally kills aid workers if those aid workers get in their way, which is why it's very difficult to get people to actually do this sort of stuff.

00:33:34.000 Anyway, here is the IDF spokesperson apologizing for the incident.

00:33:38.000 The IDF completed a preliminary debrief.

00:33:42.000 I want to be very clear.

00:33:44.000 The strike was not carried out with the intention of harming WCK aid workers.

00:33:52.000 It was a mistake that followed a misidentification at night during a war in very complex conditions.

00:34:02.000 It shouldn't have happened.

00:34:03.000 We will continue taking immediate actions to ensure that more is done to protect humanitarian aid workers.

00:34:13.000 This incident was a grave mistake Israel is at war with Hamas, not with the people of Gaza.

00:34:24.000 Okay, so that's the statement of the IDF.

00:34:27.000 It's an accident.

00:34:28.000 It obviously is an accident.

00:34:29.000 Again, no one can explain the actual interest that Israel would have in targeting an aid convoy that they have been facilitating for six months.

00:34:38.000 Nonetheless, WCK, which has been oriented politically against the IDF, even as the IDF and WCK work together, they put out a statement calling the situation, quote-unquote, unforgivable.

00:34:50.000 Which, again, you understand the emotion, obviously.

00:34:54.000 But accidents do occur during war.

00:34:56.000 One-fifth of all the Israeli soldiers who have been killed in the current war in Gaza have been killed by friendly fire.

00:35:02.000 The United States, for its part, the Biden administration, has been, once again, splitting the baby on messaging.

00:35:07.000 So on the one hand, they trot out John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, to point out that this was absolutely not deliberate.

00:35:13.000 There's no evidence that it was deliberate.

00:35:14.000 Here he was.

00:35:16.000 We were outraged to learn of an IDF strike that killed a number of civilian humanitarian workers yesterday from the World Central Kitchen, which has been relentless in working to get food to those who are hungry in Gaza and, quite frankly, around the world.

00:35:29.000 We send our deepest condolences to their families and loved ones.

00:35:32.000 Your question presumes, at this very early hour, that it was a deliberate strike, that they knew exactly what they were hitting, that they were hitting aid workers and did it on purpose, and there's no evidence of that.

00:35:42.000 I would also remind you, sir, that we continue to look at incidents as they occur.

00:35:46.000 The State Department has a process in place.

00:35:49.000 And to date, as you and I are speaking, they have not found any incidents where the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law.

00:35:58.000 Okay, so it's this split message.

00:36:00.000 And Joe Biden is exacerbating the split message.

00:36:02.000 Which, by the way, actually puts Israel more in harm's way, because again, Hamas's entire strategy in this war, they know they can't win militarily, they believe they can win in the court of public opinion, and thereby generate massive international support for Israel to leave Hamas in place, and allow Iran to continue to spread its terror tentacles around the region. 0.80

00:36:20.000 Including, by the way, in Jordan.

00:36:21.000 That regime is now on its last legs because Hamas and the Iranians are stirring up trouble inside Jordan, a Hashemite kingdom, That is 70% ethnically Palestinian. 1.00

00:36:30.000 Well, according to Joe, Joe Biden put out a statement on his own.

00:36:34.000 That statement, of course, is truly an egregious moral statement.

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00:37:22.000 Okay, meanwhile.

00:37:23.000 So Joe Biden put out his own statement.

00:37:24.000 It was way worse than what John Kirby had to say.

00:37:27.000 is a written statement, quote, I'm outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian

00:37:30.000 workers from World Central Kitchen, including one American in Gaza yesterday. They were providing

00:37:34.000 food to hungry civilians in the middle of a war. They were brave and selfless. Their deaths are a

00:37:37.000 tragedy. Israel has pledged to conduct a thorough investigation into why the aid workers vehicles

00:37:40.000 were hit by airstrikes. That investigation must be swift.

00:37:42.000 It must bring accountability.

00:37:43.000 Its findings must be made publicly. That should be the end of the statement. But it isn't because

00:37:47.000 Joe Biden has to get those dearborn Michigan voters out in numbers.

00:37:50.000 He's got to get the pro-Hamas voters out. 0.88

00:37:51.000 So he says, quote, Now at this point, he could point out that Hamas has been shooting aid workers.

00:38:02.000 He could point that out.

00:38:04.000 He doesn't.

00:38:04.000 He could be pointing out that Hamas has been hijacking trucks, aid trucks.

00:38:08.000 He doesn't.

00:38:09.000 He could be pointing out that Hamas should surrender and thus the aid could get in.

00:38:14.000 Easily.

00:38:15.000 And without being threatened.

00:38:17.000 He doesn't.

00:38:17.000 Instead, he says, Well, yes, I think everyone agrees that incidents like that should not happen.

00:38:20.000 There shouldn't be a war on.

00:38:20.000 This is an unprecedented situation.

00:38:22.000 done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians.

00:38:26.000 Incidents like yesterday simply should not happen.

00:38:27.000 Well, yes, I think everyone agrees that incidents like that should not happen.

00:38:31.000 There shouldn't be a war on.

00:38:32.000 This is an unprecedented situation.

00:38:34.000 Again, shipping massive aid into an urban combat environment in the middle of the urban

00:38:38.000 combat is historically unprecedented.

00:38:41.000 He says Israel has also not done enough to protect civilians.

00:38:43.000 I mean, this is like music to Hamas's ears. 0.89

00:38:46.000 Hamas is sitting there like, ah, this is great. 0.99

00:38:49.000 By the way, again, Israeli soldiers have died in large numbers trying to protect civilians.

00:38:55.000 The United States, says Biden, has repeatedly urged Israel to de-conflict their military operations against Hamas with humanitarian operations in order to avoid civilian casualties.

00:39:04.000 If he has tips on how to do that, I'm sure that Israel will be willing to listen.

00:39:08.000 How exactly they're supposed to ship aid in without Hamas attacking the aid convoys, which is exactly what happens.

00:39:15.000 The United States, Joe Biden says, will continue to do all we can to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza through all available means.

00:39:21.000 I will continue to press Israel to do more to facilitate that aid, and we are pushing hard for an immediate ceasefire as part of a hostage deal.

00:39:26.000 I have a team in Cairo working on this right now.

00:39:28.000 Earlier today, I spoke with my friend Chef Jose Andres, the founder of World Central Kitchen, to convey my deepest condolences for the death of these courageous aid workers and to express my continued support for his and his team's relentless heroic efforts to get food to hungry people around the globe.

00:39:41.000 Now, I just want to point out at this point that effectively what Joe Biden is doing is the exact argument that Hamas has done since October 7th, which is the deliberate murder of civilians is equivalent to the accidental killing of people in a war.

00:39:52.000 There's been the entire case made by Hamas since October 7th.

00:39:55.000 Hamas rushed over the border and murdered 1,200 people and took 250 hostages.

00:39:58.000 And then Israel retaliated by trying to strike Hamas, which is hiding in civilian areas.

00:40:03.000 And unfortunately in war, civilians get killed.

00:40:05.000 And Israel's been more meticulous about avoiding civilian deaths than any army in history.

00:40:10.000 And yet, Joe Biden is playing Hamas' game, suggesting that there is a moral equivalency in Hamas deliberately holding hostages, and Israel mistakenly killing aid workers.

00:40:20.000 Those are not the same thing, by any stretch of the imagination.

00:40:24.000 You know who knows that?

00:40:25.000 Joe Biden.

00:40:26.000 You know how we know he knows that?

00:40:27.000 Because, you remember the pullout from Afghanistan?

00:40:30.000 When Joe Biden accidentally killed an entire family, including seven children, by drone?

00:40:37.000 You remember this.

00:40:38.000 It was widely perceived at the time that Joe Biden had hit that particular target and had cleared that particular target for destruction as retaliation for the blowing up of the Abbey Gate.

00:40:49.000 The United States was already effectively out of Afghanistan.

00:40:52.000 So it wasn't as though that operation was necessary to preserve the pullout from Afghanistan at that point.

00:40:57.000 Joe Biden did it anyway.

00:40:59.000 It really was not in the middle of a wartime scenario in the same way that Gaza is.

00:41:02.000 Didn't matter.

00:41:03.000 Joe Biden authorized a drone strike on this family.

00:41:06.000 They claimed that it was a terrorist.

00:41:07.000 It was not a terrorist.

00:41:08.000 It was a mistake.

00:41:09.000 It was an accident.

00:41:10.000 The Biden administration has still not compensated the family of the 10 Afghans it killed.

00:41:15.000 Still, at this point, as far as we are aware.

00:41:18.000 Was Joe Biden talking about the unforgivable sin?

00:41:22.000 No.

00:41:23.000 In November of 2021, a Pentagon official said blurry images in the videos revealed the presence of at least one child in the blast zone about two minutes before the missile was launched, but stressed that spotting that was obvious only in hindsight and with the luxury of time.

00:41:36.000 Oh, well, weird how Joe Biden's administration treats mistakes by Joe Biden in one way and treats mistakes by the state of Israel in a very different way.

00:41:44.000 Very, very weird how that works.

00:41:46.000 By the way, again, this is what happens during wartime.

00:41:49.000 In 2011, Libyan rebels painted the roofs of their vehicles bright pink to avoid friendly fire casualties after a NATO airstrike killed five fighters.

00:41:59.000 This is Reuters from 2011.

00:42:01.000 The strike hit a rebel tank column as it advanced on the disputed oil port of Briga, causing a confused insurgent retreat back toward Ajdabiya, gateway to the uprising stronghold in Benghazi.

00:42:10.000 NATO acknowledged that its planes were probably responsible for the friendly fire incident.

00:42:14.000 One of the ugliest problems with war is that friendly fire incidents are relatively common.

00:42:19.000 One of the leaders of the Libyan invasion in 2011 was David Cameron, who was then Prime Minister of Great Britain.

00:42:24.000 Now, of course, David Cameron is calling for an immediate investigation into what happened in Gaza and suggesting that Israel has not done enough to protect civilian life.

00:42:32.000 And the double standard here is pretty glaring and pretty obvious.

00:42:36.000 And it's politically motivated.

00:42:38.000 Joe Biden wants Michigan.

00:42:40.000 He wants Michigan desperately.

00:42:41.000 And he believes that he can win Michigan if he says mean things about Israel. 1.00

00:42:45.000 Ironically, it's Joe Biden's own stupidity that is going to lead him to lose this election. 0.98

00:42:49.000 Because what's going to happen here is that he's going to push Israel to delay its invasion into Rafah, which has to happen. 0.99

00:42:53.000 There are at least four Hamas battalions, maybe up to eight Hamas battalions in Rafah.

00:42:57.000 They're hiding there, knowing that Joe Biden is pushing Israel not to go in.

00:43:00.000 There's apparently a phone call between Israeli and American top officials that leaked.

00:43:05.000 Jake Sullivan said, quote, you are about to be responsible for the third incident of hunger in the 21st century.

00:43:09.000 This is not something we can accept as partners.

00:43:11.000 The evacuation you plan has presented is unimpressive and impractical.

00:43:16.000 Lincoln said, with your current pace, it will take four months for you to evacuate Rafah.

00:43:19.000 And Zermer said, Ron Zermer is the Israeli representative to these talks, we cannot beat Hamas without going into Rafah. 0.64

00:43:24.000 It's non-negotiable.

00:43:26.000 Sullivan said, if you do not have an organized plan for the day after, nothing will help you advance dismantling Hamas, not Rafah or anything else. 0.62

00:43:31.000 Yes, Jake Sullivan, wise military leader.

00:43:34.000 But here's what's actually going to happen.

00:43:35.000 Israel will delay the advance into Rafah until May or June, and then we've got riots at the Democratic National Convention.

00:43:42.000 Because Joe Biden refuses to take a stand.

00:43:44.000 And this is the message of Joe Biden's administration.

00:43:47.000 If he can split the baby, he will split the baby.

00:43:48.000 And you know what Americans don't like?

00:43:49.000 They don't like that.

00:43:51.000 They would rather a clear position.

00:43:53.000 Particularly a clear position on behalf of an American ally fighting a terrorist group that committed the worst terrorist atrocity since 9-11.

00:43:59.000 It's not a particularly hard moral question.

00:44:01.000 Joe Biden is blowing it anyway.

00:44:03.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.

00:44:05.000 First, you've all heard the phrase, step on a crack, break your mother's back. 1.00

00:44:07.000 Well, it's a stupid phrase because there's nothing scientific about it. 1.00

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00:44:53.000 Meanwhile, the media are attempting, because Joe Biden is losing, to generate more headlines about Donald Trump.

00:44:58.000 The problem is that the headlines are kind of more of the same.

00:45:00.000 Now, the headline they're truly hoping to generate is the headline, Trump goes to jail.

00:45:04.000 Meanwhile, the media are attempting, because Joe Biden is losing, to generate more headlines

00:45:10.000 about Donald Trump.

00:45:11.000 The problem is that the headlines are kind of more of the same.

00:45:14.000 Now, the headline they're truly hoping to generate is the headline, Trump goes to jail.

00:45:18.000 That's what the media are desperately wishing for at this point, which is presumably why

00:45:22.000 Andrew Weissman, a former prosecutor, is suggesting, former FBI general counsel and federal prosecutor,

00:45:28.000 is suggesting that Donald Trump could get jail time if he's convicted criminally for

00:45:32.000 falsifying business records in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.

00:45:36.000 That trial is slated to begin April 15th in Manhattan.

00:45:40.000 Presumably it's gonna take a few weeks for it to go forward and then presumably he will be convicted because this is New York and then presumably a judge might try to send him to jail time.

00:45:49.000 So you could pretty easily see a situation in which Donald Trump is actually running for the presidency from a jail cell.

00:45:55.000 Now is that going to hurt Donald Trump in the polling data?

00:45:58.000 Not if this is the... I have a feeling that if it looks like a politically motivated case to jail your political opponent, that might actually backfire on Democrats pretty badly.

00:46:09.000 And ironically, Truly, ironically, separating Donald Trump from Truth Social and putting him behind bars might weirdly remove him from the stage.

00:46:20.000 It's an unprecedented situation.

00:46:22.000 If they can't put him in jail, what the media would love to do, obviously, is generate a bunch of false headlines.

00:46:27.000 So, you remember, just a couple of weeks ago, Donald Trump suggested that if Joe Biden's economic plans prevailed, then America would experience an economic bloodbath.

00:46:35.000 And the entire media went insane.

00:46:36.000 They suggested that Donald Trump was threatening an actual physical bloodbath if Joe Biden won.

00:46:41.000 That insurrectionary violence would break out on every street corner.

00:46:44.000 There would be murder in the streets.

00:46:45.000 The blood will run thick tonight.

00:46:47.000 You know, that kind of stuff.

00:46:49.000 And it turns out that's not what Trump was saying.

00:46:50.000 Well, now they're trying it again.

00:46:52.000 So yesterday, Donald Trump gave a campaign speech.

00:46:55.000 And during this campaign speech, he again used the word bloodbath, which apparently you're only allowed to use if you're a Democrat.

00:47:00.000 So he was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he suggested that Joe Biden is creating a bloodbath at the border.

00:47:07.000 I stand before you today to declare that Joe Biden's border bloodbath, it's a border bloodbath, and it's destroying our country.

00:47:14.000 It's a very bad thing happening.

00:47:16.000 The Democrats say, please don't call them animals.

00:47:18.000 They're humans.

00:47:19.000 I said, no, they're not humans.

00:47:21.000 They're not humans.

00:47:21.000 They're animals.

00:47:22.000 Not one more innocent life should be lost to Biden migrant crime. 0.97

00:47:27.000 The first step to restoring safety in America is to fire crooked Joe Biden.

00:47:32.000 Get him out November 5th.

00:47:37.000 So, border bloodbath.

00:47:38.000 Now again, does he mean that he is going to unleash a bloodbath?

00:47:42.000 Of course not.

00:47:43.000 What he's saying is that there are murders that occur because the border is open.

00:47:46.000 That 100,000 Americans are dying of fentanyl overdose every year in the United States because the border is open.

00:47:51.000 That's what he means.

00:47:52.000 Bloodbath is evocative language to be sure, but he's not calling for violence.

00:47:56.000 Doesn't matter.

00:47:56.000 The Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, are going to jump on this to suggest once again that Donald Trump is fomenting violence.

00:48:03.000 If this is the best they got, they ain't got nothing.

00:48:05.000 Here's Corinne Jean-Pierre trying it yesterday.

00:48:09.000 What's the White House reaction to the use of that term, bloodbath?

00:48:12.000 I'm going to be really mindful here because it is the president, obviously the former president is also a candidate here, so we want to follow the law with the Hatch Act.

00:48:25.000 But we have to denounce, our response is we have to denounce any violent rhetoric that we hear, certainly from our leaders, right?

00:48:35.000 That tears our country apart.

00:48:36.000 It could tear our country apart.

00:48:38.000 And puts our fellow Americans in harm's way, in danger.

00:48:41.000 So we have to denounce that.

00:48:42.000 Okay, so that's going to put people in harm's way.

00:48:46.000 Which people are going to be put in harm's way?

00:48:49.000 Evidence, please.

00:48:50.000 Like a little bit of evidence?

00:48:51.000 No?

00:48:51.000 No evidence?

00:48:52.000 You got nothing?

00:48:53.000 Yeah, there's a giant shock from the media and from the Biden administration.

00:48:58.000 Meanwhile, speaking of the Biden administration, legally targeting people.

00:49:02.000 The Biden administration has been going after pro-lifers.

00:49:06.000 Four pro-lifers that were involved in a protest outside of a Nashville abortion clinic were found guilty in federal court and they now face massive jail time for the crime of protesting outside an abortion clinic.

00:49:19.000 Because, obviously, praying outside an abortion clinic is very, very different than, you know, burning down entire cities during riots.

00:49:25.000 And yet, it's the Biden administration that supposedly is standing against bloodbaths and in favor of the rule of law.

00:49:31.000 Yeah, I have a lot of questions.

00:49:33.000 Okay, coming up, we're going to jump into the RFK Jr.

00:49:36.000 aspect of the race.

00:49:37.000 He is polling pretty well across the country.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 03, 2024

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