The Ben Shapiro Show - Pete Buttigieg Is A Train Wreck | Ep. 1675

00:00:00.000 Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visits East Palestine and proceeds to make a mess of things, the Alex Murdoch trial gets dramatic with the defendant taking the stand, and we deconstruct Miley Cyrus' hit song, Flowers.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:11.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:13.000 Well, folks, there are certain jobs in the federal government that are supposed to be cush jobs. 0.75

00:00:22.000 Secretary of Transportation is one of those jobs.

00:00:24.000 You haven't really heard of past Secretaries of Transportation.

00:00:27.000 Quick, name the last three.

00:00:29.000 You can't, because no one's ever heard of that particular secretary.

00:00:31.000 There are certain secretaries you've heard of.

00:00:33.000 Secretaries of State or Secretaries of Defense.

00:00:36.000 And then there are a bunch that you really never think about, like the Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary of Transportation, but they actually do have real jobs.

00:00:43.000 Now, Pete Buttigieg has never treated the Transportation Department like a real job.

00:00:46.000 He's always treated it as though it's essentially a giant photo op, which is why there are Videos of him riding his bike around Washington, D.C.

00:00:54.000 after taking his bike out of the back of a car.

00:00:55.000 It's the reason why he was appearing mostly on the news for the first year of his existence as Secretary of Transportation as a new father who had taken off two months for no apparent reason and then had not come back until people noticed that he was gone.

00:01:08.000 Pete Buttigieg has never taken his job particularly seriously because, let's be real about this, the executive branch is filled with non-serious jobs.

00:01:14.000 Secretary of Transportation, it can be serious, but can also be a cush job.

00:01:18.000 And this is particularly true for Pete Buttigieg, who is a media creation, who's been protected by the media, built by the media, and guarded by the media.

00:01:25.000 And like a hothouse flower, Pete Buttigieg, when exposed to the elements, immediately wilt.

00:01:30.000 And this is exactly what we are seeing in East Palestine, Ohio.

00:01:34.000 I'm not sure I've ever seen a politician implode in as dramatic a fashion as Pete Buttigieg is currently imploding.

00:01:39.000 Now, again, he should have imploded after he took two months off for paternity leave and no one noticed. 0.96

00:01:44.000 At that point, everybody should have said, oh, oh, he's a career useless person. 0.99

00:01:47.000 Got it. 0.99

00:01:48.000 But no.

00:01:49.000 Instead, they decided that they were going to make him a hero of the Republic trademark.

00:01:52.000 They were going to make him a hero of the Republic because he was showing fathers everywhere what it meant to be a good dad with your husband at home, having pushed the baby out.

00:02:00.000 Well, no, actually, in any case, he was a hero of the Republic.

00:02:04.000 And that maintained, right?

00:02:05.000 He was a prospective presidential candidate.

00:02:07.000 People in the Democratic Party were talking about how Kamala Harris was awful at her job, true, and Pete Buttigieg was the heir apparent to the old man.

00:02:13.000 If Joe Biden fell down on the job, it would be young Pete Buttigieg, fresh-faced, directly from the cover of Mad Magazine, who's going to bring the Democratic forward into the new age.

00:02:23.000 After all, Was intersectional. 0.95

00:02:25.000 I mean, sure, he's a white dude, but he was a gay white dude.

00:02:27.000 And that meant that he would be the perfect candidate for president of the United States for a coalition that is mainly liberal, college-educated women and minorities who really are not fond of people of color. 0.95

00:02:38.000 It was a bad strategy, but it was the thing they were pursuing.

00:02:40.000 Well, now it turns out that the rubber has hit the road.

00:02:43.000 Because if you are a photo op guy, if you're in a photo op position, then the thing that you really can't screw up Is the photo op.

00:02:50.000 That is the thing more than anything else you can't screw up.

00:02:51.000 Like nobody is going to look into the ins and outs of Pete Buttigieg's performance in terms of railroad strikes, which is actually his job, right?

00:02:59.000 No one is actually going to look into that and say, is he doing a good job at that?

00:03:01.000 Because that's complicated stuff.

00:03:02.000 That's policy stuff.

00:03:04.000 What people are going to look into is whether he looks sympathetic when something really intense happens, like, you know, a giant mushroom cloud outside of an American town after a train is blown up.

00:03:14.000 Now the media have been trying to say, well, you know, Elaine Chao never visited any of these places.

00:03:17.000 Okay, a few things.

00:03:18.000 One, Elaine Chao was never a presidential candidate.

00:03:20.000 Everyone knows people who judge as a presidential candidate.

00:03:22.000 Number two, all of the train derailments during the Trump era did not involve a giant mushroom cloud of toxic waste emerging into the atmosphere and killing, at last count, 43,000 aquatic animals.

00:03:35.000 According to the Washington Post, Ohio residents with headaches and nausea around the site where a train carrying hazardous chemicals veered off the tracks are worried about the long-term impact of the derailment on human health.

00:03:44.000 The effect on animals is already becoming clear.

00:03:46.000 The derailment of East Palestine potentially killed more than 43,000 fish, amphibians, crustaceans, and other aquatic animals in nearby streams, according to state officials.

00:03:54.000 It will take time for the stream ecosystem to recover, said Mary Mertz, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

00:03:59.000 We know it won't be quick, she said, but it's going to come back.

00:04:01.000 Now, again, how much of this is on Pete Buttigieg as opposed to on the EPA or Norfolk Southern, the railroad company?

00:04:09.000 And how much of this is just chance?

00:04:11.000 How much of this is just bad stuff happening?

00:04:13.000 All of that is a fair game.

00:04:14.000 It's a fair question.

00:04:15.000 Is it really Pete Buttigieg's fault that a train fell off the rails and then the EPA decided to blow the thing up?

00:04:20.000 Is that really Buttigieg's fault?

00:04:21.000 I think in many ways, the answer is no.

00:04:23.000 I will tell you what is Pete Buttigieg's fault.

00:04:25.000 Not doing his actual real job, which is to show up and cut ribbons.

00:04:29.000 He has a cush job and he blew the cush job.

00:04:31.000 That's the part of this that is going to come back to haunt him.

00:04:33.000 Because if you're a Democrat and you are in a photo opposition, you have but one job.

00:04:37.000 And your one job is not policy.

00:04:39.000 Your one job is to appear as though you care about the humans.

00:04:42.000 And here's the thing, Pete Buttigieg, I'm not sure he really cares about the humans.

00:04:45.000 He cares about Pete Buttigieg a lot.

00:04:47.000 I'm not sure that he really cares about the humans.

00:04:50.000 And this is why people to judge just him.

00:04:53.000 I think his political career is essentially over at this point.

00:04:55.000 So you went to East Palestine, Ohio the day after Donald Trump.

00:04:58.000 So first of all, political botry of the highest order.

00:05:01.000 The East Palestine, Ohio derailment happened almost three weeks ago.

00:05:05.000 I believe it's three weeks ago now.

00:05:07.000 And for three weeks, he did nothing.

00:05:09.000 It wasn't like he was going to Ukraine with President Biden.

00:05:11.000 It wasn't like he had a really busy job.

00:05:13.000 He was doing a bunch of confabs that the Secretary of Transportation usually goes to, and speaking in front of a step-and-repeat, or sitting on a stage and talking into a microphone.

00:05:20.000 At any time, he could have taken a private jet, which is his preferred method of travel, and he could have gone to East Palestine, Ohio, for like three hours.

00:05:27.000 And he could have sat there, and he could have comforted people.

00:05:30.000 He could have done those things, and he didn't do those things.

00:05:32.000 And that was a mistake.

00:05:33.000 It was a large-scale mistake.

00:05:35.000 And then Trump really showed him up because Trump was like, hey, I can do it.

00:05:39.000 I'm not a member of the government.

00:05:40.000 I don't have an obligation to do it, but I can do it.

00:05:42.000 I can take a plane from Mar-a-Lago to Ohio.

00:05:45.000 I can buy everybody some McDonald's.

00:05:47.000 I can bring them some water.

00:05:48.000 It ain't that hard.

00:05:49.000 And meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg is still sitting there going on national television and explaining why he won't do it.

00:05:54.000 Giant fail for Pete Buttigieg.

00:05:56.000 I think he has finished as a presidential candidate for sure.

00:05:59.000 We'll get to Pete Buttigieg's actual behavior during his visit to East Palestine yesterday because it was super duper awkward.

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00:07:19.000 Okay, so Pete Buttigieg, he shows up, and the first thing that he says is, we've been here from the very first hours of this thing.

00:07:26.000 Here he was.

00:07:28.000 That's exactly why we're here.

00:07:29.000 That's why we've been here from the first hours of the incident as an administration.

00:07:33.000 And it's why our interest both in what happened here in East Palestine and in keeping our railroads safe doesn't go away when some other hot news story comes into the headlines.

00:07:45.000 We're going to be here day in, day out, year in, year out, making our railroads safer and making sure Norfolk Southern meets its responsibilities.

00:07:55.000 I love this.

00:07:55.000 He says, we've been here from the very first hours.

00:07:57.000 This is so reminiscent of when Kamala Harris said to Lester Holt on national television, we've been to the border.

00:08:02.000 And he's like, well, you haven't been to the border.

00:08:03.000 She's like, well, that's true.

00:08:04.000 I haven't been to the border.

00:08:06.000 It's that.

00:08:07.000 Pete, I assume that there are some government agencies who arrive at the site of a disaster like this.

00:08:12.000 I assume that is the case.

00:08:14.000 You are not one of those people.

00:08:16.000 You are the famous person.

00:08:17.000 You're the person who's supposed to be in charge. 0.99

00:08:19.000 Again, I think that virtually all photo ops are stupid, but that is the game. 0.99

00:08:23.000 And the only reason that you are a famous person is because you are good at the photo op. 0.99

00:08:26.000 So if you had one job, dude, one job, and you blew it.

00:08:30.000 And then he talked about how the country should wrap its arms around East Palestine.

00:08:34.000 Yeah, I do not believe you at all.

00:08:39.000 They deserve a different level of support, a human level of support.

00:08:43.000 The country should be wrapping their arms around the people of East Palestine, not as a political football, not as an ideological flashpoint, not as a gotcha moment.

00:08:56.000 But as thousands of human beings whose lives got upended through no end, through no fault of their own.

00:09:03.000 And I think that includes visits, not just big official visits from the government, but just people who've seen the news and whose hearts go out to the community here.

00:09:17.000 Wait, so this is the most galling form of politics is he totally blew it.

00:09:23.000 And he's like, well, I'm here to tell you that people really should visit.

00:09:27.000 You are the question, my friend.

00:09:28.000 It's like, what?

00:09:31.000 Can you imagine?

00:09:33.000 My wife tells me to take out the garbage.

00:09:34.000 And I don't.

00:09:35.000 I say, just don't take out the garbage for three days.

00:09:37.000 And then finally, I'm starting to take out the garbage.

00:09:38.000 She's like, I noticed that you didn't take out the garbage for three days.

00:09:40.000 I'm like, well, you know, people should take out the garbage.

00:09:42.000 In fact, everyone should take out the garbage.

00:09:44.000 In fact, it's very important that everyone wrap their arms around the garbage and take out the garbage to the curb.

00:09:49.000 Really, really.

00:09:49.000 My wife would look at me cross-eyed and say, like, what are you talking about?

00:09:52.000 You were supposed to do this and you did not. 0.65

00:09:53.000 And now you missed garbage day.

00:09:55.000 What is he talking about?

00:09:57.000 Why is he lecturing the rest of us on what we should do with East Palestine?

00:10:00.000 Your job, dude.

00:10:01.000 You.

00:10:02.000 It's he he is the guy in the job interview, as we were about to see, he is the guy in the job interview, Peabody Judge, who you ask, what is your greatest flaw?

00:10:11.000 And he says, well, I'm just I'm just too much of a perfectionist.

00:10:14.000 I'm too detail oriented.

00:10:16.000 That is my greatest flaw.

00:10:18.000 I don't think Pete Buttigieg thinks that he has flaws.

00:10:21.000 I don't think he thinks he did anything wrong here from a political point of view, which is kind of amazing.

00:10:26.000 Here's Pete Buttigieg quasi apologizing.

00:10:28.000 This is not an apology.

00:10:29.000 He says, my problem is I care too much.

00:10:32.000 That's my big problem is the caring of the about these people too much.

00:10:36.000 I had to stay away because I cared so much.

00:10:38.000 That's how much I cared is I didn't call.

00:10:40.000 I didn't write.

00:10:41.000 I didn't come.

00:10:42.000 That's how much I cared.

00:10:43.000 Wow.

00:10:45.000 Now that you've seen the wreckage and spoken to the people, was it a mistake not to come here sooner?

00:10:51.000 What I tried to do was balance two things.

00:10:53.000 My desire to be involved and engaged and on the ground, which is how I am generally wired to act, and my desire to follow the norm of transportation secretaries, allowing NTSB to really lead the initial stages of the public-facing work.

00:11:13.000 Uh, so he had to balance his deep and abiding desire to show up in East Palestine, which no one would have stopped him from doing.

00:11:20.000 And his desire to follow the.

00:11:22.000 Yes, it's because he cares too much, guys.

00:11:24.000 He just cares too much.

00:11:26.000 And then he says, you know, the big problem for me is I feel so strongly.

00:11:30.000 And yet, you know, it's hard for me because as a stoic Example of masculinity par excellence.

00:11:37.000 I, you know, I try to hold back my feelings, but I feel so strongly.

00:11:41.000 It's so disingenuous.

00:11:42.000 Everyone knows it's disingenuous.

00:11:45.000 Before you sent your first tweet expressing concern for the residents of East Palestine, a week and a half after the accident happened, in hindsight, was that waiting too long to express anything hours after you had addressed the makeup of work crews on highway construction projects just that very day?

00:12:06.000 The answer to your question is yes.

00:12:08.000 I felt strongly about this and could have expressed that sooner.

00:12:12.000 Again, I was taking pains to respect the role that I have and the role that I don't have, but that should not have stopped me from weighing in about how I felt about what was happening to this community.

00:12:23.000 I felt so strongly.

00:12:25.000 My feelings are so strong.

00:12:26.000 So, so, so strong.

00:12:28.000 Well, he's a trainwreck.

00:12:31.000 A better trainwreck.

00:12:32.000 And now his presidential hopes are a train wreck.

00:12:35.000 Unfortunately for him, he also lost his train of thought.

00:12:36.000 Unfortunate language here from the Secretary of Transportation.

00:12:41.000 And there's no question that there have been enormous amounts of both information and misinformation injected into this situation.

00:12:50.000 None of which is to the benefit of the community when it comes to that misinformation.

00:12:54.000 So I think... So I lost my train of thought.

00:12:57.000 Well, that's what I had to say about that.

00:13:01.000 Oops! 0.78

00:13:03.000 Whoops!

00:13:05.000 That presser really derailed right there.

00:13:08.000 And then Buttigieg ran away from the media.

00:13:09.000 So I was told during the Trump administration that if you didn't answer questions from the media, this may be a threat to democracy and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

00:13:18.000 Pete Buttigieg has no such concerns because, of course, he's a Democrat.

00:13:21.000 Here he was, you know, basically running away from the media yesterday.

00:13:25.000 Mayor Pete, why did it take you an entire two and a half weeks to actually get here to respond to East Palestine?

00:13:31.000 Will you apologize to the residents of this city for the slow response, to the government's slow response?

00:13:38.000 Do you have any apologies?

00:13:41.000 Well, bye.

00:13:42.000 Also, that was not even the worst.

00:13:43.000 The worst is the Buttigieg press secretary actually called the reporter aggressive for asking questions.

00:13:49.000 Oh man, this is some rough and tumble stuff right here.

00:13:53.000 You're not on my camera.

00:13:55.000 Can I ask why?

00:13:56.000 Well, I'm on a camera. I would like the camera to be off and I'm happy to talk to you guys.

00:14:00.000 Well, if you're the press secretary of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, don't you think you should be able to ask questions from the American public that you serve?

00:14:07.000 Absolutely. I would like to do it without the camera on.

00:14:09.000 Can I ask why?

00:14:10.000 I think that is a little bit aggressive. That's why.

00:14:12.000 Why is it aggressive?

00:14:13.000 I just want you to have it.

00:14:15.000 I'm happy— On behalf of the American people, I'm just asking why he has not been here until Donald Trump came.

00:14:22.000 She's asked him.

00:14:22.000 She's asked him three, several times since then.

00:14:24.000 He turned the cameras off and they will not do it.

00:14:28.000 Turn off the cameras.

00:14:29.000 Turn those off!

00:14:30.000 Just genius level stuff here from the Secretary of Transportation and his staff.

00:14:34.000 They are really, really good at this.

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00:15:42.000 Okay, so it's been a bad week for Pete Buttigieg, bad several weeks for Pete Buttigieg.

00:15:46.000 There's an entire article in Politico talking about how frustrated Pete Buttigieg is, because that, of course, is the real issue, is that he's frustrated.

00:15:51.000 Quote, publicly and privately, signs are growing.

00:15:53.000 And the Transportation Secretary's usual eagle-scout patience is giving way to frustration.

00:15:57.000 He has gotten into Twitter spats with US senators.

00:15:59.000 His current brush-off of a Daily Caller reporter who ambushed him during a walk turned into a viral video that has drawn more than 3 million views since Tuesday night.

00:16:06.000 On Wednesday, Buttigieg's allies were complaining he's taking an unfair pounding over the disaster, all because of his perceived ambitions as a one-time and future presidential hopeful.

00:16:15.000 Pete Buttigieg has taken a lot of bullets for the president on this one, senior Democrats said on Wednesday, insisting on anonymity to talk about a crisis that the president was not authorized to discuss.

00:16:23.000 Well, yeah, this is this is really the funny part is that he's mad at Biden.

00:16:27.000 And guess what?

00:16:27.000 He should be mad at Biden.

00:16:28.000 He should be mad at Biden because Biden basically avoided all blame for this thing by never answering a question.

00:16:33.000 And all the questions instead went to Buttigieg.

00:16:38.000 In fact, CNN's Jeremy Dimon actually asked Karine Jean-Pierre, why doesn't Biden visit?

00:16:43.000 And she didn't have a good answer on this thing.

00:16:45.000 I guess I'm just struggling to understand why the president wouldn't go to East Palestine.

00:16:51.000 Does it simply not meet the bar for a presidential visit?

00:16:54.000 Look, I don't, I want to be very clear here.

00:17:00.000 There's no reason to struggle, I don't think, on this question.

00:17:03.000 I think when you look at how the federal agencies have responded from day one and took this very seriously and reacted within hours of the derailment and was on the ground, this is the Environmental Protection Agency, as I was saying, they are the ones that deal with these types of chemical spills.

00:17:23.000 They are the ones that are the leaders on this.

00:17:26.000 Um, so that didn't answer the question.

00:17:29.000 That's why Biden didn't go there.

00:17:30.000 He literally just went to Ukraine and we're sending billions of dollars to Ukraine.

00:17:34.000 He didn't have to go there.

00:17:35.000 He went there because he understands the value of a photo op.

00:17:38.000 And then she was asked about whether he actually will in the future go visit East Palestine.

00:17:41.000 She's like, nah, not really.

00:17:44.000 What I want to say is that it didn't start with the Environmental Protection Agency.

00:17:47.000 Again, FEMA, CDC.

00:17:50.000 No, look, I want to be very clear here.

00:17:54.000 Again, I don't have anything to share on a presidential visit.

00:17:59.000 Not at this time or anything to announce.

00:18:01.000 But it does matter that the president put forth a multi-agency kind of reaction to this.

00:18:10.000 That's the thing that matters.

00:18:11.000 It's not that Biden has no care about going there.

00:18:14.000 The only thing that really matters is, you know, that there's a government and the government exists.

00:18:17.000 So she's blaming Buttigieg right there.

00:18:20.000 And make no mistake, she's dumping that on Buttigieg.

00:18:22.000 She's like, there are plenty of people in the government who can go to East Palestine and beat Buttigieg.

00:18:26.000 You can see exactly what she is doing right there. 0.85

00:18:28.000 Listen, Joe Biden has other priorities.

00:18:29.000 He doesn't care much about East Palestine.

00:18:31.000 The only reason he would care about East Palestine is because he doesn't like the media blowback.

00:18:35.000 He has other priorities.

00:18:36.000 His priorities were Kiev.

00:18:38.000 I mean, that was his priority.

00:18:39.000 Again, it's not an either or.

00:18:41.000 The government can walk and chew gum at the same time.

00:18:43.000 But Joe Biden doesn't really want to walk and chew gum at the same time, at least not in terms of his photo op allocation.

00:18:49.000 He wants you to focus on what's going on in Ukraine, because that's the easy photo op for him, despite all the talk about it being historic and risky.

00:18:56.000 It is not either of those things.

00:18:58.000 That's what he wants you to focus on.

00:19:00.000 It's on the same press conference where Karine Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary, is struggling to explain why Joe Biden is not going to use Palestine.

00:19:06.000 She's bragging about Biden's trip to Kiev.

00:19:09.000 The trip that President Biden took to Kiev, as many of you reported on, was historic.

00:19:15.000 It was brave.

00:19:15.000 Many of you talked about how we heard the sirens wailing in the background as the President was on the ground.

00:19:21.000 Remember, there is no military on the ground in Ukraine, U.S.

00:19:26.000 military on the ground in Ukraine.

00:19:27.000 And the President took this trip to send a very clear message, not just to the people of Ukraine, not just to Russia, but the world, how, again, we have an unwavering support for the people of Ukraine.

00:19:40.000 Hmm, well, I mean, you can see where their priorities are.

00:19:43.000 Again, they could prioritize both.

00:19:45.000 They clearly are not.

00:19:47.000 And this is an administration with priorities.

00:19:49.000 So for example, one of their big priorities is diversity.

00:19:53.000 Prudential and Pierre gave, unintentionally, one of the worst defenses of diversity ever.

00:19:59.000 She said, you know, the really important thing to notice about Joe Biden's cabinet, a cabinet filled with such luminaries as Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris, this amazingly diverse cabinet filled with geniuses like Miguel Cardona and filled with just absolute wonders of the human species.

00:20:18.000 It's a very diverse cabinet.

00:20:19.000 I mean, sure, they all, the one thing that unifies them, they suck at their jobs, but so diverse. 0.85

00:20:23.000 Here's Karine Jean-Pierre.

00:20:25.000 The cabinet is a majority people of color for the first time in history.

00:20:28.000 The cabinet is a majority female for the first time in history.

00:20:31.000 A majority of White House senior staff identify as female.

00:20:34.000 Forty percent of White House senior staff identify as part of the racially diverse communities.

00:20:40.000 And a record seven assistants to the president are openly LGBTQ+.

00:20:44.000 So, again, this is something that the president prides himself on, that he actually has taken action to show the diversity of this administration. 0.84

00:20:55.000 Guys, they suck at their jobs, but Marcia Fudge, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is black, and Pete Buttigieg is gay, and Jennifer Granholm identifies as a woman. 0.92

00:21:05.000 Alejandro Mayorkas does identify as a Hispanic man, as a Latinx human, at Homeland Security. 0.99

00:21:10.000 Like, this is the really important stuff that you need to keep in mind.

00:21:15.000 Priorities, priorities for this administration.

00:21:17.000 In a second, we'll get to more priorities of this administration, but let me tell you about one of my priorities.

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00:22:28.000 Okay, so, what are some of the other priorities of this administration?

00:22:30.000 Well, obviously, Ukraine, right?

00:22:32.000 So, Janet Yellen, she's out there as the Secretary of the Treasury, talking about spending money on Ukraine.

00:22:39.000 Like, you're at the Treasury Department.

00:22:41.000 Your job is to tamp down the massive inflation rate and prevent economic stagnation.

00:22:45.000 And yet, there you are, traveling around the world, talking about how we need to send more money to Ukraine.

00:22:50.000 I noticed that Ukraine is not part of your remit at the Secretary of the Treasury.

00:22:54.000 Our military assistance includes key defensive weapons that Ukraine has asked for, such as the Patriot missile defense system.

00:23:05.000 And our economic assistance is making Ukraine's resistance possible by supporting the home front, funding critical public services, and helping keep the government running.

00:23:19.000 In the coming months, we expect to provide around $10 billion in additional economic support for Ukraine.

00:23:28.000 That's exciting to have the Secretary of the Treasury announcing all of that.

00:23:31.000 That's really important stuff.

00:23:32.000 Other things that we have been told by this administration, again, the world's most untalented press secretary, Corinne Jean-Pierre, a walking example of why affirmative action hiring is a bad idea.

00:23:41.000 Corinne Jean-Pierre, she says, you know, guys, you may not have noticed it, but the border is going amazing.

00:23:46.000 Now, that's a lie.

00:23:48.000 It's not true, but here we go.

00:23:50.000 On day one, the president put forward a comprehensive immigration reform proposal, and that's showing that the president was taking this very seriously.

00:24:00.000 And the way that we see this is Congress needs to act.

00:24:02.000 And what was happening currently right now is Congress is not acting.

00:24:05.000 So what you're seeing from the Department of Homeland Security is they are using the tools that is being presented to them so that we can deal with this situation and do it in a safe and orderly and humane way.

00:24:19.000 What a joke.

00:24:20.000 What an absolute joke.

00:24:21.000 But again, Joe Biden's priorities are clear.

00:24:24.000 One of his big priorities is reshaping the World Bank.

00:24:26.000 So the World Bank is essentially, it was created as a way to give loans to countries that were going to restructure their finances in more responsible ways as they emerged from the vestiges of the Cold War.

00:24:37.000 Now Joe Biden wants to use the World Bank to give giant loans, subsidized loans, Two countries on behalf of redistributionism and climate change.

00:24:45.000 According to Politico, Bank President David Malpass's abrupt announcement that he will step down from his post a year early opens the way for Joe Biden to choose someone who embraces the new goal of fundamentally overhauling the bank's work to focus more on climate and other global challenges.

00:24:59.000 Malpass is a Trump appointee.

00:25:00.000 He did not fit the administration's vision for the job.

00:25:03.000 More than a dozen close watchers of the bank who were interviewed for this story said the rift and its resolution allows the US to reshape the institution to tackle Climate change!

00:25:10.000 Yay! 0.99

00:25:11.000 So now Joe Biden is going to select somebody to preside over presumably billions and billions and billions of dollars to give subsidized loans to country on the basis of climate change.

00:25:20.000 His priorities are so in order.

00:25:22.000 It's amazing.

00:25:23.000 Now, here's the problem for the Democrats.

00:25:24.000 They're wedded to the old man.

00:25:25.000 They have to be wedded to the old man. 0.93

00:25:26.000 Pete Buttigieg just derailed.

00:25:29.000 And meanwhile, you have Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:25:31.000 And Kamala Harris is still sitting there.

00:25:32.000 And people try not to think about her because it's just, it's too painful.

00:25:35.000 If you're a Democrat to think about Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:25:37.000 Which brings us to today's episode of Deep Thoughts with Kamala Harris.

00:25:42.000 And now, Deep Thoughts with Kamala Harris.

00:25:50.000 Think of it then in the context of like, I like to think about a lot of things in the context of a Venn diagram.

00:25:56.000 I love Venn diagrams.

00:25:57.000 always ask is there a Venn diagram for this? I'm telling you it's fascinating when you do.

00:26:03.000 So Venn diagram those three circles right?

00:26:06.000 Ladies find you a man who loves you like Kamala Harris loves Venn diagrams. What the what? 1.00

00:26:15.000 It's like electric school buses and Venn diagrams for this lady. 0.96

00:26:19.000 There is not a lot bouncing around upstairs for Kamala Harris. 0.89

00:26:22.000 I gotta say.

00:26:24.000 If the height of your understanding of politics is the Venn diagram, so much so.

00:26:30.000 She's not like, you know what I really enjoy?

00:26:32.000 I enjoy a solid multifactorial regression analysis.

00:26:36.000 That's the thing I really like.

00:26:37.000 It's a multifactorial regression analysis that takes into account various factors and then tries to find correlation.

00:26:42.000 And then maybe imply causation.

00:26:44.000 She's like, you know what I like?

00:26:45.000 I like circles that overlap.

00:26:47.000 That's right.

00:26:48.000 A lot going on upstairs.

00:26:49.000 I like those circles.

00:26:50.000 Sometimes two, possibly three.

00:26:52.000 You wonder why they are wed to the old man?

00:26:54.000 You wonder why they will defibrillate that guy every morning until he is capable of running for president again?

00:27:01.000 That would be the reason.

00:27:03.000 Okay.

00:27:03.000 Meanwhile, in some actual good news, Tennessee, the state of Tennessee, yesterday passed House Bill 1, Senate Bill 1.

00:27:10.000 It is the Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act.

00:27:13.000 The bill prevents minors in Tennessee from initiating transgender-related puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.

00:27:18.000 This is a big win for Daily Wire.

00:27:20.000 It's particularly a big win for our friend Matt Walsh, who did an incredible rally to end child mutilation in Tennessee, who has led the charge to get rid of the gender mutilation of small children and minors.

00:27:36.000 Good for Matt.

00:27:38.000 The simple fact of the matter is that Daily Wire actually does extraordinary work, not just in getting out the message, but in making sure that political change actually occurs.

00:27:47.000 And Matt and the entire Daily Wire team, whether it is exposing what was happening at Vanderbilt Medical Center, or whether it is doing rallies like that, whether it is What Is A Woman, the single most transformative documentary of the last five years in American politics.

00:27:59.000 Whatever it is, Daily Wire is doing some really hard work on the ground.

00:28:02.000 I will say, the opposition to the bill in Tennessee is totally insane.

00:28:05.000 I mean, totally crazy.

00:28:07.000 I mean, there was a clip yesterday going around of Representative Gloria Johnson, Democrat of Knoxville, saying that the Daily Wire, we are all creating a vortex of evil.

00:28:18.000 Vortex of evil!

00:28:20.000 First of all, I kind of want that to be our new mantra here at Daily Wire.

00:28:28.000 To be like, Washington Post is democracy, it's Washington Post, democracy dies in darkness.

00:28:33.000 Daily Wire, vortex of evil!

00:28:36.000 It's kind of awesome.

00:28:37.000 It sounds like a Transformers team-up or something.

00:28:40.000 Anyway, here is Representative Glory Johnson from Knoxville ranting and raving about how 14-year-old girls who are confused about their gender identity because they've been watching too many TikTok videos really need to be able to cut off their healthy breast tissue.

00:28:52.000 We have taken away a woman's right to determine her health care and her health outcomes. 1.00

00:28:59.000 Now, we've gone into children, but we've also gone into adults with a bill that's coming up with not allowing adults that care.

00:29:09.000 So the reality is here, we're targeting a group, again, just as we were on the last bill, and we are Determining that a certain group of folks can't have hair when a physician has an oath to take care of their patients and that's what they do.

00:29:28.000 And we know that the major health organizations agree with these treatments and understand that they are life-saving in many situations.

00:29:38.000 I just want to caution that this body should not be telling physicians what to do.

00:29:48.000 The first rule of physicians is do no harm, obviously.

00:29:51.000 And it seems pretty obvious that you are doing harm when you take gender-confused teenage girls and you pump them filled with testosterone. 0.97

00:29:57.000 Pretty obvious stuff.

00:29:58.000 So that is a big win for Daily Wire.

00:30:00.000 It is a big win for Matt Walsh in particular.

00:30:02.000 And congratulations to the Republicans in Tennessee for doing the sane and rational thing.

00:30:08.000 Meanwhile, again, social contagion is in fact a thing.

00:30:11.000 The numbers are astonishing.

00:30:12.000 For people who are suggesting that the massive outbreak of transgenderism as a species of human behavior is merely the limitations of society being exploded, now people being able to flourish the way they originally would have.

00:30:26.000 Let me just give you some statistics.

00:30:29.000 Gallup now has a poll out and it shows how people are identifying in terms of sexual orientation and gender identity.

00:30:36.000 And the generational difference?

00:30:38.000 Astonishing.

00:30:40.000 So, if you look at the silent generation, silent generation would be the generation right after World War II.

00:30:46.000 That generation, 1.7% identified as LGBT.

00:30:48.000 identified as LGBT.

00:30:50.000 That was 0.2% lesbian, 0.8% gay, 0.6% bisexual, not even measurable transgender. 0.69

00:30:59.000 For baby boomers, it was 2.7%.

00:31:02.000 So a marginal increase from 1.7% to 2.7% among the baby boomers, who were quite sexually permissive, as it turns out, the baby boomers.

00:31:09.000 And that included 0.7% lesbian, 1% gay, 0.7% bisexual, 0.2% transgender, and 0.2% other.

00:31:12.000 Generation X, right?

00:31:13.000 0.7% bisexual, 0.2% transgender, and 0.2% other.

00:31:18.000 Generation X, right, even the generation after that, only 3.3%.

00:31:22.000 Then you see an absolute explosion among millennials, 11.2%.

00:31:27.000 Now, what's hilarious about that is that 6.9% of that 11.2%, well more than half of that, are people who are identifying as bisexual. 0.67

00:31:38.000 So the statistics are now kind of skewing radically.

00:31:41.000 In other words, it has now been seen as a societal good for you to identify as a sexual minority in one way or another.

00:31:48.000 But even among millennials, only 1% were identifying as transgender.

00:31:51.000 Now, that is a 3-fold increase from Generation X. But then you look at Generation Z. Generation Z, 20% are identifying as LGBT.

00:31:59.000 20%, 19.7%, 2.2% are identifying as lesbian.

00:32:01.000 That is an increase of more than 20-fold from the silent generation.

00:32:04.000 are identifying as lesbian.

00:32:06.000 That is an increase of more than 20 fold from the silent generation. 0.95

00:32:11.000 3.4% identifying as gay.

00:32:14.000 That is about a fourfold increase from the silent generation. 0.52

00:32:18.000 Bisexual, you have seen, I am not kidding you, a 20 times increase, not 20%, 20 times increase in bisexual identity from the silent generation to today's generation Z. 0.98

00:32:33.000 Trans, you now have 1.9% of all people in Generation Z identifying as transgender.

00:32:39.000 1.9% compared to 0.05%.

00:32:43.000 Less than that in the silent generation. 0.89

00:32:45.000 You're talking about thousands of percentage points of increase here.

00:32:49.000 Are you telling me that this is an outgrowth of simple biological bottlenecking?

00:32:53.000 Or is this what happens when an entire society decides that identifying as a sexual minority is good for you and beneficial for you?

00:33:00.000 It should not come as a surprise, by the way, that there was a survey that came out over the course of the last 48 hours from YouGov.

00:33:07.000 And it found that an increasing number of Americans are describing their ideal relationship as something other than complete monogamy or moving away from monogamy.

00:33:13.000 This obviously is correlating highly with societal happiness.

00:33:16.000 I mean, everyone's so happy and fulfilled.

00:33:18.000 Look around you.

00:33:19.000 You can see from every pole how happy and fulfilled everyone is as they abandon all of the old institutions and the old ways like monogamous marriage and being in love while you're married with someone.

00:33:27.000 I mean, these things are old fashioned.

00:33:29.000 So now you have a lot of people who are saying that they prefer non-monogamy.

00:33:34.000 Not just that, a growing percentage of Americans are saying that they believe that polygamy will be legalized.

00:33:40.000 Two-thirds of Americans, 68%, still oppose the legalization of polygamy.

00:33:45.000 But only 52% of 18 to 29-year-olds oppose polygamy.

00:33:49.000 Which, of course, I mean, let's be real about this.

00:33:51.000 Why should you oppose polygamy?

00:33:52.000 If you believe that all traditional sexual structures should be blown up, what difference does it make if three people consent or four people consent or nine people consent?

00:33:58.000 What difference does it make to you, bigot?

00:34:02.000 This is what happens when radical individual autonomy overruns all of the intermediate institutions of society.

00:34:07.000 Greater societal unhappiness.

00:34:09.000 Greater individual unhappiness.

00:34:11.000 All in the name of the individual.

00:34:13.000 All in the name of authenticity.

00:34:15.000 In just a second, we're going to get to this insane trial out of South Carolina.

00:34:19.000 They're calling it the South's trial of the central.

00:34:20.000 We'll get to that.

00:34:21.000 Momentarily.

00:34:22.000 First, if you look at the news cycle these days, gotta tell you, it's hard to sleep.

00:34:26.000 I mean, there's so much going on all the time.

00:34:29.000 I mean, I've talked about it.

00:34:29.000 My puppy keeps me awake at all hours.

00:34:31.000 We have a baby on the way.

00:34:33.000 It's all going in my life.

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00:35:33.000 Also, my friend Jordan Peterson has a brand new five-part series on DailyWirePlus called Vision and Destiny.

00:35:39.000 It's a series designed to help you find clarity and direction. 0.94

00:35:41.000 In a world where we are more interested in coddling and affirming stupidity, Jordan is unafraid to tell you some really hard truths. 0.97

00:35:48.000 Here, he's discussing the damage we are doing by affirming someone's gender. 1.00

00:35:52.000 The trans activists would come up to me and say, well, you know, you're really hurting me if you don't accept my indeterminacy of identity.

00:36:00.000 And I thought, well, that's what you think.

00:36:02.000 But as a trained clinician, I think that I'm going to do you a lot more damage in the medium to long run by going along with your claim that you can just be anything you want moment to moment.

00:36:13.000 You think that's freeing because you regard all social constraints as inhibitions on the Wonderful manifestation of your true self.

00:36:22.000 But I know that in order to be healthy in the long run, you have to be integrated at multiple levels of social community.

00:36:29.000 And when you introduce indeterminacy as to your status at the sex level, no one has any idea what to do with you.

00:36:38.000 And so how are they going to play with you?

00:36:39.000 They don't know what you are in some sense that even enables the ballgame to get off the ground.

00:36:47.000 And so that's no recipe for long-term well-being, because that's always bandied about, that notion of well-being and harm.

00:36:54.000 It's like, no, you have to negotiate an identity.

00:36:59.000 Jordan's material is wonderful.

00:37:01.000 The first two episodes are out right now.

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00:37:31.000 Meanwhile, yesterday featured the testimony of a defendant in a double murder trial.

00:37:36.000 His name is Alex Murdoch.

00:37:37.000 If you haven't been actually following this story, it is one of the craziest stories ever.

00:37:40.000 It's just an insane crime story.

00:37:42.000 It's been featured.

00:37:43.000 There's like a documentary on Netflix about it, and there was a podcast series about it.

00:37:47.000 So let's start with the basics.

00:37:49.000 If you haven't been following this case.

00:37:50.000 So actually, Vox did a good rundown on this.

00:37:52.000 So the Murdochs have wielded power over South Carolina's Lowcountry, the wedge at the bottom of the state, for over 100 years, ever since Randolph Murdoch Sr.

00:38:00.000 founded his law office in Hampton County in 1910.

00:38:02.000 The firm eventually grew into a large, powerful practice, continued by his son, Randolph Jr., and his grandson, Randolph III.

00:38:07.000 From 1920 to 2006, all three men successfully held the post of solicitor, that's prosecutor, for South Carolina's 14th Circuit Court.

00:38:13.000 So this is a big legal family.

00:38:17.000 The 86-year stretch serving as circuit solicitors is the longest such family legacy in American history.

00:38:24.000 Randolph IV and Alex, two of Randolph III's sons, followed in their father's footsteps and became lawyers.

00:38:28.000 Because South Carolina eventually prohibited lawyers from serving in those conflicting roles as a public prosecutor and a private attorney, eventually they just started a law firm.

00:38:36.000 Alex, it's pronounced Alec, I guess, was a golden child who sired golden children, born in 1967.

00:38:41.000 He followed in the family footsteps.

00:38:43.000 He studied law at University of South Carolina, and then he got married, and then he had a couple of sons.

00:38:47.000 Buster, born in 1996, and Paul, born in 1999.

00:38:50.000 And they lived in opulence.

00:38:51.000 They had a beach house, a couple of private islands, a 1,772-acre estate known as Mizzell.

00:38:58.000 But apparently, everything was wild, up to and including Alec embezzling a crap load of money from his business partners, from his clients as well.

00:39:08.000 And a weird amount of death seemed to follow around Alec Murdoch.

00:39:11.000 Like, a weird amount of death.

00:39:13.000 So in 2015, there was a 19-year-old Hampton student named Stephen Smith.

00:39:17.000 He phoned his mom to tell her he'd run out of gas.

00:39:19.000 Later that night, he was found lying in the middle of the road, miles away from his truck.

00:39:22.000 He'd apparently died of blunt force trauma.

00:39:24.000 His body had been laid out in the middle of the road.

00:39:27.000 Initially, the South Carolina Highway Patrol assumed that Stephen was the victim of a hit-and-run.

00:39:32.000 And they closed the case.

00:39:33.000 But police noted that the scene looked staged.

00:39:35.000 Town gossip began to swirl that Smith was actually dating Buster Murdoch and that the Murdoch brothers had done something about all this.

00:39:40.000 That was all rumor stuff.

00:39:42.000 Then in 2018, there's another death.

00:39:44.000 Gloria Satterfeld.

00:39:46.000 Gloria Satterfield was Murdoch's longtime housekeeper.

00:39:48.000 Apparently, she had a severe head injury February 2nd, 2018, and then died on February 26th of complications including a stroke.

00:39:55.000 It's not clear exactly what caused her death.

00:39:57.000 The coroner was never notified.

00:39:59.000 Satterfield's body was never autopsied.

00:40:02.000 So it wouldn't have been suspicious, except for the fact that apparently, Alec Murdoch and two other men, a banker and a fellow attorney, conspired to steal Satterfield's $4.3 million insurance policy by misleading Satterfield's sons and diverting all the funds to Alec himself through a phony business that Alec created.

00:40:19.000 Which, I mean, talk about audacious.

00:40:21.000 So, the maid dies and your first move is to steal the life insurance money?

00:40:25.000 That is a wild scheme.

00:40:27.000 Okay then, 2019, another death.

00:40:32.000 On February 24th, 2019, 19-year-old Paul, the other son, and a group of his friends were returning to the Murdoch State by boat.

00:40:38.000 Apparently, Paul was really, really drunk, maybe high, and he was navigating the twisting waterways.

00:40:45.000 Apparently, he crashed the boat into a bridge, and a bunch of passengers fell from the boat, including Mallory Beach, and she died. 1.00

00:40:52.000 The authorities didn't record his intoxication levels at the scene, but everybody confirmed that the guy was drunk off his ass. 0.98

00:40:59.000 This apparently led to a flurry of lawsuits and a criminal investigation focused on Paul Murdoch. 0.97

00:41:03.000 And this opened a lot of boxes for Alec because there's a lot of wondering about his fraudulent activities and his finances.

00:41:11.000 And then, in 2021, there was more public interest that was going around Paul Murdoch's trial.

00:41:16.000 They decided to put him on trial.

00:41:18.000 Meanwhile, Alec, his wife was estranged from him.

00:41:23.000 And apparently, he was living at the beach house and looking into divorce.

00:41:25.000 And Alec was neck deep in these fraud schemes.

00:41:28.000 He apparently said that he was having a 20 year opioid addiction.

00:41:31.000 Okay.

00:41:31.000 On June 7th, 2021.

00:41:34.000 Alec allegedly lured Maggie to Mizzell, right?

00:41:36.000 That's the 1772 Acre Estate.

00:41:38.000 And prompted her to text a friend that Alec was acting fishy.

00:41:41.000 She wrote to her friend, he's up to something.

00:41:43.000 Upon arriving at the state, Maggie met her son Paul at the family's dog kennels.

00:41:47.000 While they were there, both the mom and the son were murdered with two different weapons.

00:41:50.000 Maggie was shot with an assault, what they call an assault rifle, rifle.

00:41:56.000 Paul was shot with a shotgun.

00:41:57.000 Alec appeared on the scene shortly afterward and then called 911 to report the deaths.

00:42:01.000 The double homicide caused the whole thing to collapse.

00:42:04.000 So he immediately fell under suspicion of murder because that's really, really, really suspicious.

00:42:07.000 People getting killed on your property who are your family members.

00:42:10.000 Very often the first suspect is the family member.

00:42:12.000 And in this particular case where Alec is a disaster area with apparently a trail of death behind the family, it seems pretty obvious what the police were doing.

00:42:21.000 And this was made worse because on September 3rd, 2021, Murdoch resigned from the family's law firm over embezzlement.

00:42:28.000 The firm later sued him The very next day, Alec called 911 to report a strange roadside incident in which he claimed to have blown a tire.

00:42:35.000 When a stranger stopped to help him, Alec reported, they shot him in the head instead.

00:42:38.000 The shot grazed him, but it turns out that he later admitted that he intended to have a friend shoot and kill him so that Buster could receive Alec's $10 million life insurance payout.

00:42:48.000 So he was arrested for that.

00:42:50.000 He posted bond, he checked himself into drug rehab, and then he was arrested for felony fraud charges in the Satterfield case.

00:42:56.000 Then his bail was denied, his assets were frozen.

00:42:59.000 And finally, he's now been put on trial for the double homicide of his wife and son.

00:43:03.000 And it's fairly obvious that he killed his wife and son.

00:43:07.000 I mean, like, all the evidence stacks up in favor of him having killed his wife and son.

00:43:11.000 His testimony yesterday was kind of a shocker because the first rule of lawyering is never put the defendant on the stand.

00:43:17.000 And putting the defendant on the stand is a super risky move.

00:43:19.000 Because again, the burden of proof is on the prosecution.

00:43:21.000 All you have to do is establish some level of reasonable doubt in order to get your client off.

00:43:26.000 Now, there are only two reasons to put your client on the stand.

00:43:28.000 One, the person's actually, like, dead innocent.

00:43:31.000 The person didn't do anything.

00:43:31.000 The person is going to be a good witness.

00:43:33.000 Two, you have no other choice.

00:43:35.000 In this particular case, it appeared that the jaws of justice were closing in on Alec Murdoch.

00:43:39.000 And so they put him on the stand.

00:43:41.000 And so here he was yesterday saying he did not kill his wife and son.

00:43:44.000 On June 7th, 2021, did you take this gun or any gun like it?

00:43:52.000 And shoot your son, Paul, in the chest in the feed room at your property off Moselle Road?

00:43:58.000 No, I did not. 0.99

00:44:00.000 Mr. Murdy, did you take this gun or any gun like it and blow your son's brains out on June 7th or any day or any time?

00:44:11.000 No, I did not. 0.90

00:44:13.000 Mr. Murd, did you take a .300 blackout such as this and fire it into your wife Maggie's leg, torso, or any part of her body?

00:44:31.000 No, I did not.

00:44:33.000 Did you shoot a .300 Blackout into her head, causing her death?

00:44:40.000 Mr. Griffin, I didn't shoot my wife or my son any time.

00:44:45.000 Ever.

00:44:45.000 Well, there are a few problems for him.

00:44:47.000 One is that he claimed that he was not anywhere near the scene of the crime.

00:44:50.000 And it turns out he was totally lying because his son was taking a Snapchat and in the background of the Snapchat, minutes before the murder, his dad's voice can be heard.

00:44:57.000 And so that forced Murdoch to admit that he had lied to the cops and then continued to lie about the cops about his whereabouts the night of the murder.

00:45:02.000 He blamed that on his opioid addiction, which does not explain why you're lying to the cops about you being like right there when somebody gets killed.

00:45:11.000 And in the interview of August 11th, Did you tell Agent Owen and Agent Croft, did you lie to them by telling them that you were not down at the kennels on that night?

00:45:25.000 Yes.

00:45:26.000 Alec, why did you lie to Agent Owen, Agent Croft and Deputy Rutland about the last time you saw Maggie and Paul?

00:45:35.000 As my addiction evolved over time, I would get in these situations and circumstances where I would get paranoid thinking.

00:45:47.000 And it could be anything that triggered it.

00:45:49.000 It might be a look somebody gave me.

00:45:51.000 It might be a reaction somebody had to something I did.

00:45:54.000 It might be a policeman following me in a car.

00:45:59.000 Did you see them on the ground when you're pulling up in your Suburban?

00:46:02.000 I did.

00:46:03.000 And what'd you do when you came to a stop, Alec?

00:46:04.000 that he's really looking for.

00:46:05.000 The moment he was looking for is where he's gonna break down on the stand.

00:46:08.000 Right, you see this a lot in the courtroom, unfortunately.

00:46:10.000 This seems like dramatics, obviously.

00:46:13.000 Did you see them on the ground when you're pulling up in your Suburban?

00:46:18.000 I did.

00:46:22.000 And what'd you do when you came to a stop, Alec?

00:46:27.000 I think I jumped out of my car.

00:46:33.000 I'm not exactly sure what I did, but no, I got out of my car.

00:46:37.000 you I know I ran back to my car, called 911.

00:46:43.000 I don't know.

00:46:45.000 I don't know.

00:46:46.000 I don't know why I tried to turn him over.

00:46:48.000 Me and my boys laying face down.

00:46:52.000 He's done the way he's done.

00:46:56.000 Ed was the way Ed was.

00:46:59.000 I could see his brain laying on the sidewalk.

00:47:05.000 I didn't know what to do.

00:47:06.000 I mean, I tried to turn him over to a granny by the belt loop. 1.00

00:47:13.000 I tried to turn him over.

00:47:16.000 Well, listen, there's no other suspects in this case, as far as I'm aware.

00:47:20.000 And I will say this guy's been in the courtroom a long time, so that appears to be fairly good acting.

00:47:26.000 That is my belief about the situation.

00:47:27.000 We'll keep an eye on that case because obviously it's making national headlines.

00:47:31.000 OK, it's time for some deconstructing of the culture.

00:47:33.000 I haven't done it in a while.

00:47:34.000 It is time.

00:47:36.000 Alrighty, so the top song in the country is a new Miley Cyrus song.

00:47:41.000 It is called Flowers.

00:47:42.000 And the entire premise of the song is that loneliness is good.

00:47:46.000 And that your relationships falling apart is actually good because the only person you need is you, which is one of the great lies ever told.

00:47:54.000 Here is Miley Cyrus singing Flowers.

00:47:58.000 We were right, till we weren't Built a home and watched it burn I didn't wanna leave you, I didn't wanna lie Started to cry but then remembered I I can buy myself flowers Write my name in the sand Talk to myself for hours

00:48:27.000 Say things you don't understand I can take myself dancing And I can hold my head Yeah, I can love me better than you can Can love me better, oh, can love me better Okay, so...

00:48:49.000 Then, you know, it's her stripping down in various states of undress as she walks around her house by herself.

00:48:54.000 Okay, so.

00:48:55.000 Here's the thing.

00:48:56.000 You can't.

00:48:58.000 You can't.

00:48:58.000 I'm sorry to break it to you.

00:49:00.000 Listen, there are a lot of breakup songs.

00:49:01.000 Breakup songs are a staple of the music industry.

00:49:04.000 They've been, you know, a solid gold winner for 60, 70, 80, 90 years.

00:49:10.000 But the breakup song used to be about how the relationship wasn't working anymore, and so I'm leaving.

00:49:15.000 It wasn't a broad statement, as this one is, about how, just generally speaking, the best person for you is you.

00:49:22.000 The best person for you is you, right?

00:49:24.000 I can love me better than you can. 1.00

00:49:27.000 If that's the case, if you can hold your own hand, if you can write your own name in the sand, if you can talk to yourself, first of all, if you talk to yourself for hours, you're a crazy person. 0.95

00:49:34.000 Say things you don't understand, take yourself dancing, then this does raise the question as to why have a relationship in the first place.

00:49:41.000 See, here's the thing about relationships.

00:49:42.000 They require you to get outside yourself.

00:49:45.000 They require you not to be self-absorbed and self-obsessed.

00:49:48.000 They require you to try to get to the point where if your partner doesn't understand you, you actually have to express yourself to your partner.

00:49:56.000 And maybe you have to think about whether your feelings are justified.

00:49:58.000 And maybe you have to negotiate a solution.

00:50:00.000 Because love is built in the space between two people.

00:50:04.000 And we tend to think of love as an internal feeling that exists inside one person, but that's not the way this works.

00:50:08.000 Love is something that is between two people and it exists between the two people in a negotiated space.

00:50:13.000 You know, I'm making more of this than I think most people are going to make when they listen to the song, which you'll think of as just sort of another breakup song.

00:50:19.000 But the general underlying tenor of the song, which is that I love myself the most.

00:50:25.000 And I am, I mean, first of all, it's the, the, the. 0.97

00:50:30.000 Honestly, the corollary joke of this is the old Woody Allen joke that he's in favor of masturbation because it's sex with somebody that he loves. 0.98

00:50:39.000 But that's essentially what the song is. 0.98

00:50:41.000 I mean, essentially what the song is saying is that you are better off without anybody else.

00:50:46.000 Or at least, if there is going to be somebody else, they have to accept every single thing about you.

00:50:49.000 And they can never question anything about you.

00:50:51.000 There can't be any negotiated space.

00:50:52.000 That is not the basis for a successful relationship.

00:50:54.000 And so obviously, the preemptive strike is, I don't need a relationship.

00:50:57.000 I can be by myself.

00:50:57.000 Well, we have an entire society now of people who are by themselves.

00:51:00.000 60% of men say that they are no longer in a relationship.

00:51:03.000 Some 40% of women say they're not in a relationship.

00:51:05.000 People are not getting married.

00:51:06.000 People are not having kids.

00:51:07.000 People are not building family foundations.

00:51:09.000 And the question is, do they seem real happy to you?

00:51:11.000 And, um, I gotta say, I don't think Miley Cyrus looks like a particularly happy person.

00:51:15.000 I don't think that her life story is a particularly happy one.

00:51:17.000 And so, our cultural betters, you know, push this sort of stuff, but it is certainly not good for the human spirit or the human psyche.

00:51:25.000 Alrighty, I don't have things I like today.

00:51:27.000 I only have some things that I hate, unfortunately.

00:51:29.000 So, first thing that I hate, so we have some economic news.

00:51:33.000 According to the Associated Press, a key U.S.

00:51:34.000 inflation measure is now surging at the fastest rate since June.

00:51:37.000 The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rose last month at its fastest pace since June.

00:51:41.000 That's an alarming sign that price pressures remain entrenched in the U.S.

00:51:44.000 economy, could lead the Fed to keep raising interest rates well into this year.

00:51:47.000 Remember just like five seconds ago?

00:51:49.000 When the entirety of the Democratic press was claiming that we were going to have a soft landing, everything was going to be fine, and all of this was overblown, the economy was doing just fine, inflation would come under control.

00:51:59.000 Yeah, not so much.

00:51:59.000 Friday's report from the Commerce Department showed consumer prices rose 0.6% from December to January.

00:52:04.000 That is up sharply from a 0.2% increase from November to December.

00:52:08.000 On a year-over-year basis, prices rose 5.4%.

00:52:10.000 That is actually up from a 5.3% annual increase in December.

00:52:15.000 Excluding food and energy prices, core inflation rose 0.6% from December.

00:52:20.000 That is up from a 0.4% increase the previous month.

00:52:23.000 Compared with one year earlier, core inflation was up 4.7% in January.

00:52:26.000 That's actually an increase.

00:52:27.000 So, all the talk about how we were having a slowing rate of inflation, that's no longer true.

00:52:32.000 Apparently, it's re-accelerating.

00:52:34.000 And that is a direct result of the fact that, again, we keep blowing money into the American economy.

00:52:38.000 We blew too much money in the American economy in the first place.

00:52:41.000 And yet, Joe Biden wants to spend more money.

00:52:43.000 Okay, one more thing that I hate. 0.58

00:52:45.000 So, apparently, this Saturday, there are a bunch of white supremacist groups and they are planning a national day of hate. 0.99

00:52:54.000 Now, I gotta be honest, I somehow, I sort of hesitate to bring attention to these folks because they're obviously trolls and they're obviously dolts. 1.00

00:53:02.000 The reason that I bring attention to this is just to demonstrate That there are those of us who are Jewish, live in the United States, who are just going to not allow this sort of thing to go forward without pointing out how idiotic you people are. 1.00

00:53:20.000 The thing about white supremacists is they're literally some of the stupidest people on earth. 1.00

00:53:23.000 It's one of the great ironies of life is that people who declare themselves supreme based on their race typically are some of the dumbest people who walk the planet. 1.00

00:53:32.000 According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, information about the anti-Semitic campaign was first provided by the Chicago Police Department. 0.96

00:53:38.000 A situational awareness alert with NYPD insignia circulating online advises local Jewish communities to be on the lookout for suspicious activity.

00:53:46.000 You don't see a lot of these sorts of days of hate that are directed at other communities.

00:53:50.000 Jews tend to be the ones that these are directed at, unfortunately.

00:53:53.000 Law enforcement and security agencies in the Chicago and New York areas say as of Thursday afternoon, there are no known concrete threats to Jewish institutions.

00:53:59.000 Presumably, all of these groups are more than happy to get the publicity of doing this sort of stuff.

00:54:07.000 The police are ramping up their presence around synagogues. 1.00

00:54:10.000 It is worth noting that this has now become a regular feature of life in American synagogues. 1.00

00:54:14.000 My synagogue has heavy security.

00:54:15.000 We bring additional security because I go to my synagogue.

00:54:18.000 And so, you know, it's sufficient to repel any threat.

00:54:21.000 The fact that that is even necessary demonstrates the malice of this particular group of people. 1.00

00:54:27.000 And so, just one more message in response to people who have declared a day of hate For Jews, I would like to declare an official day of kiss my ass, you pathetic losers. 1.00

00:54:39.000 My day, just for you. 1.00

00:54:41.000 It's the day of kiss my ass. 1.00

00:54:42.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now. 0.99

00:54:43.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:54:44.000 We'll be getting into the mailbag as per usual arrangement.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 24, 2023

Pete Buttigieg Is A Train Wreck | Ep. 1675

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