The Ben Shapiro Show - Prepare Thyself For The Holy Month of Pride!!!

00:00:00.000 Ah, the anticipation grows for the most holy month of the year.

00:00:04.000 Of course, I'm speaking of Pride Month, the month when we celebrate one of the seven deadly sins and all attendant sexual immorality connected with it. 1.00

00:00:11.000 Actually, it might be two of the deadly sins, actually, depending on which ones we are counting here.

00:00:15.000 But Pride Month is a time when we come together and we spend an entire month honoring LGBTQ plus minus divided by a sign, I, two-spirit, happy face emoji, sad face emoji, tilde people. 0.95

00:00:27.000 About 30 times more than we celebrated all the soldiers who died to preserve our freedom.

00:00:32.000 We have Memorial Day, but we do have Pride Month, which is like a month filled with days.

00:00:37.000 And lest you think, wait, didn't we already have Pride?

00:00:40.000 No, we didn't have Pride Month.

00:00:41.000 We had like Lesbian Visibility Day and we had like Transgender Awareness Week.

00:00:46.000 There's been a lot of it this year, but Pride Month is, of course, it's basically the high holidays when it comes to secular morality.

00:00:54.000 And so, just like Christmas time, when all of the stores decide that they are going to spruce up by putting Holly in the windows and Santa receiving children to give them their Christmas wishes.

00:01:08.000 Just like that, Pride Month, we will festoon all of our corporate stores.

00:01:13.000 Everything in America will be festooned with rainbows.

00:01:15.000 Festooned with the new Pride Progress flags.

00:01:17.000 The rainbows are passe.

00:01:19.000 We know that already because they didn't include enough BIPOC transgender little people. 0.64

00:01:22.000 So we have to have the world's ugliest flag, the Pride Progress flag, which is the rainbow flag, but it has that weird triangle that comes in from the side, but also has some light pink and light blue on it, and all of the rest. 0.90

00:01:32.000 It's all very exciting stuff.

00:01:33.000 Now, you might be wondering to yourself, why is it that there is a universal wave of celebration of Pride Month?

00:01:40.000 After all, Isn't this a country where a large segment of the population actually is traditionally religious?

00:01:46.000 In fact, isn't America the most traditionally religious Western country?

00:01:50.000 In terms of church attendance.

00:01:51.000 In terms of people who believe in Judeo-Christian morality with regard to sexual mores.

00:01:57.000 Isn't this a country where there still is a pretty significant split over the question of the morality of, say, whether a boy is a girl or a girl is a boy?

00:02:05.000 Well, yes, there is, but not in the halls of corporate America.

00:02:09.000 And then you might wonder, well, hold up a second.

00:02:11.000 Isn't corporate America answerable to the people?

00:02:14.000 I mean, after all, doesn't corporate America have to cater to the market?

00:02:17.000 We've been told that capitalism turns everything into a matter of making money, and when you ignore half the audience in the United States, you're probably shrinking your audience size.

00:02:25.000 If you just stayed neutral, wouldn't you be better off?

00:02:28.000 Let's say you just didn't celebrate Pride Month.

00:02:29.000 You didn't celebrate, like, Christian You didn't celebrate Christian morals and mores, but you also didn't celebrate Pride Month.

00:02:37.000 All you do is you sell shoes.

00:02:38.000 You're a shoe store and you sell shoes.

00:02:39.000 You don't have like a giant rainbow display talking about RuPaul's gallivanting around in high heels.

00:02:45.000 And at the same time, you don't have like pictures of nuns wearing shoes.

00:02:48.000 It's just, it's just a shoe store.

00:02:50.000 And you might think to yourself, wait, wouldn't that be the safest approach for corporate America?

00:02:53.000 And the answer today is no.

00:02:56.000 The answer today is no.

00:02:57.000 Because here's the thing.

00:02:58.000 We on the right, we've been engaging in a tactic where we pick and we choose a few corporations and we back them about the ears and that's good.

00:03:04.000 We should be doing that.

00:03:05.000 But is that going to solve the overall problem of corporate America universally to a corporation backing the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign I to spirit agenda? 0.97

00:03:16.000 Is that going to solve the problem?

00:03:18.000 That may intimidate some people into something reflecting neutrality.

00:03:22.000 But the problem is that we may be on the point of neutrality at this point.

00:03:26.000 The reason I say this is because there's a Harvard Business School study just a couple of years back.

00:03:32.000 It's like 2014.

00:03:34.000 by James Bailey and Hillary Phillips in Harvard Business Review.

00:03:37.000 And here's what the study looked at.

00:03:38.000 What the study looked at is the views of people on the left and people on the right with regard to how they regard corporations.

00:03:44.000 Do they like corporations?

00:03:45.000 Do they not like corporations?

00:03:46.000 And so what they looked at was a fake corporation.

00:03:49.000 They made up a corporation called Jones Corp.

00:03:52.000 And they basically said that they created a few iterations of it.

00:03:56.000 One was that Jones Corp was a conservative corporation.

00:03:59.000 Iteration number two is that it was a neutral corporation.

00:04:02.000 And iteration number three is that it was a left-wing corporation.

00:04:06.000 For people who are on the left, if they perceive the corporation as either neutral or left-wing, they're basically indifferent about it.

00:04:12.000 But as soon, literally the moment, that it identified in any way as a conservative corporation, there was a 33% drop in opinion among people of the left.

00:04:21.000 That was not mirrored among people of the right.

00:04:22.000 People of the right basically saw the corporation the same across the board.

00:04:26.000 It's a place that sells me things.

00:04:27.000 But people of the left saw these corporations as innately of the left, which means the neutral space has disappeared.

00:04:33.000 And the right has responded by pointing out, OK, well, if you're saying the neutral space has disappeared and you are clubbing everybody from neutrality into the left, Well, then in order to restore neutrality, maybe we have to pull them back to the right.

00:04:43.000 But maybe neutrality just doesn't exist anymore.

00:04:46.000 Maybe these corporations aren't going to have a safe space where they can just, you know, provide you product without having to engage in this game.

00:04:53.000 And unfortunately, that has become the case.

00:04:55.000 Because there is a group of people.

00:04:58.000 A group of very elite people who get together on a fairly regular basis in the halls of power, and they decide for all of us exactly what social politics are going to be promulgated every time you go to Target, every time you go to Kohl's, every time you go to Disneyland.

00:05:12.000 There's a broad-based agreement by investment capital firms that they are going to promote left-wing agenda items, and they're going to do it with the backing of government, but also in collusive fashion.

00:05:23.000 They're going to get together and they're all going to universally push ESG, right?

00:05:27.000 Environmental Social Governance.

00:05:29.000 The S in ESG is what we're talking about here, social governance,

00:05:32.000 meaning that they wish to push forward a left-wing social agenda

00:05:34.000 and you will be told exactly what you are supposed to believe.

00:05:37.000 And if you do not like it, they're counting on your apathy to make sure that there is no actual backlash.

00:05:42.000 And if there is backlash, maybe it'll be sporadic.

00:05:46.000 Maybe it'll die out.

00:05:47.000 Because there's one thing they know above all, and that is that the entire ESG superstructure, the funding superstructure for this, is way larger than any individual boycott that conservatives can put together against Bud Light or put together against Target.

00:05:59.000 So how exactly does this really corrupt system work?

00:06:02.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:07:05.000 Okay, so there is a superstructure that has basically decided how exactly all of these businesses are going to operate.

00:07:13.000 That superstructure is dictated by the biggest investment firms on planet Earth.

00:07:18.000 Those investment firms are essentially BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.

00:07:24.000 According to Anson Frerichs, who's a co-founder of Strive Asset Management and a former Anheuser-Busch executive writing for the UK Daily Mail, He says that these three companies control more than $20 trillion in assets, almost none of which is their own.

00:07:39.000 Instead, they manage the money held in everyday Americans' retirement accounts, pension funds, mutual funds, and investment accounts.

00:07:44.000 Together, those big three constitute the largest shareholders of nearly 90% of all the largest companies listed on the U.S.

00:07:51.000 Stock Exchange, the S&P 500.

00:07:54.000 So you have three companies that control $20 trillion in asset, and they're the largest stockholders in 90% of all the largest companies listed on the U.S.

00:08:02.000 Stock Exchange.

00:08:04.000 Those three companies are largely controlling pension funds.

00:08:08.000 And it turns out they have an agenda.

00:08:09.000 They collusively have formed an agenda together, and they've made clear this agenda.

00:08:14.000 So let us flashback to just last year.

00:08:16.000 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink talked about the necessity for the business elite It's just, you have to force behaviors.

00:08:33.000 And if you don't force behaviors, whether it's gender or race or just any way you want to say the composition of your team, you're going to be impacted.

00:08:44.000 And that's just not recruiting.

00:08:46.000 It is development, as Ken said.

00:08:48.000 Okay, so it's development, it's recruiting, and it is investment itself.

00:08:53.000 Investing in ESG-positive companies has become the way that all of these major corporations, these major investment firms, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, that is how they control the narrative in the United States of America.

00:09:06.000 Again, as Frerichs writes, The turning point was 2019.

00:09:10.000 That year, the Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs from America's largest companies, adopted a new statement on the purpose of a corporation declaring that all companies share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders to promote the larger social good.

00:09:21.000 188 American CEOs signed on.

00:09:23.000 Among them were the CEOs of the big three and other large financial institutions like JPMorgan and Bank of America, and many of the companies they own.

00:09:29.000 That includes Target, Disney, and Coca-Cola.

00:09:33.000 The Big Three began to issue guidelines on how they expected their portfolio companies to honor this commitment by implementing those ESG targets or scores.

00:09:41.000 And so they immediately started leveraging in left-wing social engineering into all of these companies.

00:09:49.000 The Big Three wield enormous influence over pretty much everything that happens inside of these companies.

00:09:54.000 And you know who knows that is Joe Biden.

00:09:57.000 So according to Beth Brooke Marcianek, who's the board director and former global vice chair of public policy at Business for Social Responsibility, which is, again, an interest group that is involved in this sort of nonsense, Joe Biden approached Beth Brooke Marcianek and actually told her that companies should force change, that there was stuff he could not do at a governmental level because it would be a violation of free speech, but he wants government not to force the change.

00:10:21.000 Government will work hand in glove with major corporations to force the kind of change that Joe Biden would like to see.

00:10:26.000 So the PGLE, Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality, this is a group that was formed in collaboration with the World Economic Forum after five or six years of working behind the scenes with senior leaders at just a handful of companies.

00:10:41.000 This organization was founded in January of 2019, but there's strength in numbers.

00:10:48.000 So with the platform of the World Economic Forum, the power of the UN And then finally, the strength in the companies working together, where, when you combine our, the economies, the corporate economies of those 14 countries, we're bigger than most, a lot of countries.

00:11:04.000 So, tremendous power.

00:11:06.000 In Davos a couple of years ago, Vice President Biden met privately with those of us working behind the scenes, and he sat down with us and looked us in the eye, and he said, you can do, you companies can do what we government cannot, and will never do.

00:11:22.000 You can do what government cannot do.

00:11:24.000 Namely, you can force compliance.

00:11:27.000 You can essentially make it impossible to find a corporation that is not mirroring the left-wing social agenda when it comes to things like Pride Month.

00:11:35.000 The organization that Beth Brooke Marcianek is referring to there, the PGLE, is the Partnership for Global LGBTIQ Plus Equality.

00:11:43.000 So what exactly do they do?

00:11:44.000 Well, they're a consortium of 270 plus major businesses, including Accenture, Airbnb, Google, Pfizer, Paramount, PepsiCo, PayPal, Hyatt, Procter & Gamble.

00:11:54.000 It's hard to find a major corporation in America that is not on that list.

00:11:57.000 And what exactly do they do?

00:11:58.000 Well, they agree to abide by the standards of conduct.

00:12:01.000 What are the standards of conduct for all of these major corporations that are quote unquote partners with the PGLE?

00:12:06.000 Well, they have a few different standards.

00:12:07.000 They're produced in collaboration with the Institute for Human Rights and Business, based on UN guiding principles on business and human rights.

00:12:13.000 You got the UN dictating these particular standards.

00:12:16.000 And those standards include the idea that businesses are encouraged to contribute to stopping human rights abuses in the countries in which they operate.

00:12:22.000 So how do they define human rights abuses?

00:12:25.000 Anything opposing the LGBTQI plus agenda. 0.81

00:12:27.000 In doing so, they should consult with local communities to identify steps they might take, including public advocacy, collective action, social dialogue, support for LGBTIQ plus organizations, and challenging abusive government actions.

00:12:40.000 So all these corporations have agreed to become tools of the left-wing social agenda.

00:12:44.000 Again, why are they doing that?

00:12:45.000 It doesn't run with their bottom line.

00:12:46.000 It certainly doesn't favor the interests of their shareholders, all of whom theoretically should want to reach out to customers of all political persuasions and all religious persuasions.

00:12:54.000 Now, the reason that they're doing this is because all of the major investment firms that own a giant chunk of their stock are left-wing institutions.

00:13:01.000 State Street, BlackRock, Vanguard.

00:13:04.000 That is the entire plan right here.

00:13:07.000 And they've also leveraged this into organizations that basically govern companies that aren't even involved in this.

00:13:14.000 So let's say that you're a company that is just on the NASDAQ.

00:13:17.000 And just as a NASDAQ-listed company, you don't feel the necessity to sign on with the PGLE.

00:13:22.000 You're not even a consumer-facing brand.

00:13:24.000 Let's say that you're an R&D brand.

00:13:26.000 You're just in some industry where you're doing R&D in tech or biotech or something.

00:13:31.000 Why should you sign on to any of this stuff?

00:13:32.000 It's not like you have a store and people are walking in and need to see the Pride progress flag or something.

00:13:36.000 So why do you sign on to that?

00:13:38.000 Well, the answer is number one, again, all of these major corporations that are big stockholders in public corporations, they have decided that they are going to essentially threaten to withdraw their money and undercut your stock price if you refuse to do what they say.

00:13:51.000 Not only that, but they've also institutionally captured places like the NASDAQ itself.

00:13:58.000 So the Nasdaq itself approved a rule on August 6th, 2021 to encourage greater board diversity and to require board diversity disclosures for Nasdaq listed companies.

00:14:09.000 What does that mean?

00:14:11.000 It means that companies must disclose in a standardized matrix set forth in the rule The total number of company board members and how those board members self-identify regarding gender, predefined race, and ethnicity categories, plus LGBTQ plus status.

00:14:24.000 You are mandated to have a certain number of LGBTQI plus minus divided by sign people on your board if you're on the NASDAQ.

00:14:31.000 And if you don't, then you have to explain publicly why you don't have enough lesbian little people on your board. 1.00

00:14:37.000 That is the idea here.

00:14:38.000 And the NASDAQ, they say that we are not going to necessarily delist you But they have to publicly disclose the reasons they did not satisfy the objective.

00:14:47.000 Presumably, at some point, if NASDAQ does not like your explanation, then they got a problem.

00:14:53.000 NASDAQ will verify that companies who provide an explanation in the event of non-compliance, they won't evaluate the disclosure from a substantive perspective.

00:14:59.000 But you know that's the next step.

00:15:00.000 The next step will be the NASDAQ deciding that you don't have a sufficient justification for not having enough intersex little people on your board. 0.99

00:15:07.000 And so maybe you have to be delisted.

00:15:10.000 They've captured the commanding heights of finance.

00:15:14.000 And not only have they captured the commanding heights of finance, they've combined with government in order to do so.

00:15:18.000 Because remember, there was an attempt at the state level in places like Florida to essentially ban the use of ESG in investment decisions.

00:15:27.000 The Republicans in Congress tried to do this.

00:15:29.000 The Republicans in Congress passed a bill essentially saying that from now on, corporations are answerable to their shareholders.

00:15:35.000 They should not be using external factors like ESG to define their mission.

00:15:42.000 And Joe Biden stepped in and said, nope, we're not going to do that.

00:15:44.000 Joe Biden stepped in and he said, no, we're not going to allow that.

00:15:47.000 ESG must be a defining factor of how investments get done.

00:15:49.000 Of course he wants that to happen.

00:15:50.000 He literally said he wants that to happen.

00:15:53.000 So you now have the merger of government and corporate interest in pushing a left-wing social agenda.

00:15:59.000 And of course, if you're a big firm like Vanguard or State Street, you know where your bread is buttered.

00:16:02.000 It's buttered by the federal government.

00:16:03.000 The federal government, the SEC, governs you.

00:16:06.000 Republicans don't use the SEC generally to threaten corporations one way or another, but the left certainly does.

00:16:11.000 The left is perfectly happy to use the SEC to threaten mergers and acquisitions they don't particularly like.

00:16:16.000 So, if you are State Street, Vanguard, BlackRock, sure, your leadership might be into ESG, but it very well might be the case that you just don't like regulatory agencies breathing down your neck.

00:16:25.000 And so the bottom line here is that you now have a daisy chain of left-wing social engineering, beginning with government, bleeding over into the corporate sphere, beginning at the top of investment finance, and then moving into nearly every corporation in America.

00:16:38.000 And again, all these corporations, they can get away with it just so long as conservatives basically remain complacent about all of this.

00:16:45.000 It's also why corporations are able to force their own employees into silence.

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00:17:57.000 Okay, so, this also allows corporations not only to pressure the market, right?

00:18:01.000 Because, again, this only works if there's unanimity.

00:18:03.000 There's a collective action problem among these corporations.

00:18:06.000 If there's one corporation, like a major corporation, that just says, no, we're not going to do any of this.

00:18:10.000 We're not doing it.

00:18:11.000 They capture a huge swath of the audience.

00:18:13.000 They capture an enormous swath of the audience.

00:18:16.000 So there's a collective action problem.

00:18:17.000 So what do you do?

00:18:18.000 You go to the people who are funding all of these corporations and you make sure that they all universally adopt the language.

00:18:23.000 This is why, you know, you ever wonder why it is that everybody universally, like on a dime, started asking about people's pronouns?

00:18:29.000 How did that happen?

00:18:30.000 Why was it that one day, nobody even thought about this nonsense?

00:18:32.000 And then the next day, literally every major corporation in America began asking you your pronouns and identifying the pronouns of its employees in their email sign-off lines.

00:18:42.000 How did that happen?

00:18:43.000 The answer is that's top-down.

00:18:44.000 That does not happen bottom-up.

00:18:45.000 It's not a coincidence.

00:18:46.000 It's not happening through some sort of grassroots effort.

00:18:48.000 It's happening because there are people at the top of the investment firms who are backed by people in government, and they are all coordinating and colluding in order to make sure that you must do what they say.

00:18:58.000 And this is very scary because when it gets mobilized against particular individuals who don't have a lot of institutional power, people who work for corporations, you know, everybody has a job, right?

00:19:07.000 It makes it very difficult to stand up against your corporation.

00:19:10.000 I get this question all the time.

00:19:11.000 What do I do?

00:19:11.000 My corporation has decided that it wants me to do DEI training.

00:19:15.000 What do I do?

00:19:15.000 My corporation has made it mandatory for me to identify my pronouns in my email sign-off line.

00:19:21.000 What am I supposed to do?

00:19:22.000 And the answer is, it's very difficult to fight that machine because the machine will crush you.

00:19:29.000 One of the beautiful things about Daily Wire is that we have our own machine here.

00:19:32.000 We have a pirate ship and we can basically do what we want here.

00:19:34.000 But that doesn't mean that we haven't had to navigate some pretty damned choppy waters and that those choppy waters won't continue.

00:19:40.000 Because again, there is a tsunami and the tsunami is coming.

00:19:45.000 It's a giant wall of water and it is moving toward all of us in unison, right?

00:19:49.000 Because collusion is actually happening.

00:19:50.000 Love likes to talk about corporate collusion.

00:19:52.000 This is the highest form of corporate collusion that exists in modern civilization.

00:19:57.000 Is every single major corporation acting in unison on controversial social issues, like whether boys are girls, girls are boys, and every form of sexual orientation is morally equivalent.

00:20:07.000 In unison, without anyone, like lockstep.

00:20:12.000 Goose-stepping forward, all in unison.

00:20:14.000 I mean, it's an amazing, amazing thing.

00:20:17.000 It is corporate fascistic ideology at work.

00:20:20.000 Now, the left is always worried that corporations were going to turn everybody into the company man.

00:20:25.000 But now they've captured the power of corporations, which is why you see them all rooting for Disney against Ron DeSantis these days, for example.

00:20:31.000 It's why you suddenly see the Democratic Party talking about how big business is their friend.

00:20:36.000 This would be the reason.

00:20:37.000 And you can see the effects on individuals.

00:20:39.000 Like, it takes actual courage in order for people to stand up, and they're very likely to get clubbed if they do.

00:20:45.000 So, to take an example, the L.A.

00:20:48.000 Dodgers recently got themselves into hot water because, again, they're a major corporation, the L.A.

00:20:53.000 Dodgers, and the only way to explain what they are doing, the L.A. 0.68

00:20:57.000 Dodgers, is to understand that they do not feel bound by their own customer base.

00:21:02.000 The L.A.

00:21:02.000 Dodger customer base is heavily Hispanic and heavily Catholic.

00:21:05.000 I know, I used to live in L.A.

00:21:08.000 And yet they decided to slap Catholics in the face by hosting an LGBTQI plus minus divided by sign Pride Night featuring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an anti-Catholic hate group that is designed in order to mock Catholics with perverse displays. 0.55

00:21:23.000 And then they backed off of it. 0.90

00:21:24.000 And then when they were clubbed from the other side, when they were clubbed by the left, they decided to go back and do it again.

00:21:30.000 Well, now you have Certain members of the team who have decided to speak out and this takes actual courage as we'll see in a moment.

00:21:39.000 So one of those people is a pitcher named Trevor Williams.

00:21:42.000 He is a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Nationals.

00:21:46.000 And he wrote, quote, As a devout Catholic, I'm deeply troubled by the Dodgers' decision to re-invite and honor the group of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at their Pride Night this year.

00:21:52.000 A Major League Baseball game is a place where people from all walks of life should feel welcomed, something I greatly respect and support.

00:21:57.000 This is the purpose of different theme nights hosted by the organization, including Pride Night.

00:22:01.000 To invite and honor a group that makes a blatant and deeply offensive mockery of my religion and the religion of over 4 million people in L.A.

00:22:06.000 County alone undermines the values of respect and inclusivity that should be upheld by any organization.

00:22:11.000 Creating an environment in which one group feels celebrated and honored at the expense of another is counterproductive and wrong.

00:22:15.000 It is a clear violation of the Dodgers' discrimination policy, which explicitly states that any conduct or attire at the ballpark that is deemed to be indecent or prejudiced against any particular group or religion is not tolerated.

00:22:26.000 It seems that the Dodgers have made an exception in this case, doubling down that this group, which grossly disrespects and openly mocks many of the traditions and beliefs Catholics hold most dear, should be celebrated.

00:22:35.000 I believe it's essential for the Dodgers to reconsider their association with this group and strive to create an inclusive environment that does not demean or disrespect the religious beliefs of any fan or employee.

00:22:44.000 I also encourage my fellow Catholics to reconsider their support of an organization that allows this type of mockery of its fans to occur.

00:22:49.000 I know I'm not alone in my frustration, hurt, and disappointment about this situation.

00:22:52.000 As Catholics, we look to Jesus Christ and the way he was treated, and we realize any suffering in this world unites us in him, in the next.

00:22:59.000 Okay, I mean, that is a courageous statement by Trevor Williams.

00:23:01.000 He's not the only one.

00:23:02.000 There's another MLB pitcher named Blake Treenan.

00:23:05.000 Blake Treenan also put up a statement regarding all of this.

00:23:09.000 Treenan, I believe, pitches for the Dodgers themselves.

00:23:17.000 He put out a statement via one of his friends saying, quote, I'm disappointed to see the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being honored as heroes at Dodger Stadium.

00:23:24.000 Many of their performance are blasphemous.

00:23:25.000 Their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith.

00:23:28.000 I understand that playing baseball is a privilege, not a right.

00:23:30.000 My convictions in Jesus Christ will always come first.

00:23:32.000 Since I have been with the Dodgers, they have been at the forefront of supporting a wide variety of groups.

00:23:36.000 However, inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to perform disenfranchises a large community and promotes hate of Christians and people of faith.

00:23:42.000 This single event alienates the fans and supporters of the Dodgers, Major League Baseball, and professional sports.

00:23:47.000 People like baseball for its entertainment value and competition.

00:23:49.000 The fans do not want propaganda or politics forced on them.

00:23:52.000 The debacle with Bud Light and Target should be a warning to companies and professional sports to stay true to their brand and leave the propaganda and politics off the field.

00:23:59.000 I believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins.

00:24:01.000 This group openly mocks Jesus, the cornerstone of my faith.

00:24:04.000 I want to make it clear I do not agree with nor support the decision of the Dodgers to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Intelligence.

00:24:09.000 Okay, good for Blake Trenum.

00:24:10.000 But then there's the story of Anthony Bass.

00:24:12.000 So he's a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.

00:24:15.000 He shared a post on his social media in which he encouraged the boycott of Target and Bud Light.

00:24:21.000 He shared a video calling on Christians to stop patronizing those companies. 0.97

00:24:25.000 The original video said, quote, Here's the reason biblically why I believe Christians have got to be boycotting Target, Bud Light, and any other corporation that's pushing the things they're pushing. 0.52

00:24:32.000 This is evil.

00:24:32.000 This is demonic.

00:24:33.000 We won't stand for it.

00:24:34.000 We're not going to go to the stores anymore.

00:24:35.000 We're not going to give them any of our money.

00:24:38.000 Bass was then forced, presumably by the Toronto Blue Jays organization, to apologize for his own religious convictions.

00:24:43.000 Here we go.

00:24:45.000 I recognize yesterday I made a post that was hurtful to the Pride community, which includes friends of mine and close family members of mine, and I am truly sorry for that.

00:24:57.000 I just spoke with my teammates and shared with them my actions yesterday, and I apologize with them.

00:25:03.000 And as of right now, I'm using the Blue Jays resources to better educate myself, to make better decisions moving forward.

00:25:09.000 The ballpark is for everybody.

00:25:11.000 The Malice Struggle Sessions.

00:25:12.000 We include all fans at the ballpark, and we want to welcome everybody.

00:25:17.000 The Malice Struggle Sessions.

00:25:18.000 The Malice Struggle Sessions.

00:25:19.000 You definitely have to cater to a tiny percentage of the population that is deeply offended by people who don't want the transing of the kids' material at Target.

00:25:27.000 You have to cater to those people, not the other 98% of the American population. 0.97

00:25:32.000 Okay, so, if the solution isn't really individuals just standing up, and if the solution can't really be only sporadic attempts to boycott particular brands, what is it?

00:25:40.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:26:46.000 Meanwhile, Well, with all of this happening, what exactly is the solution?

00:26:51.000 We've talked about this vast, collusive, quasi-conspiracy.

00:26:56.000 It's not a conspiracy when they do it right out in the open and just say they're doing it.

00:26:59.000 This vast, collusive group of people who have decided to leverage down, to cram down on the American public and the international public, actually, and on every major company in America.

00:27:08.000 Left-wing social engineering.

00:27:10.000 So how exactly do you fight that?

00:27:11.000 It's easy to say, you know, you, the individual, you should get up and you should protest your corporation.

00:27:16.000 Okay.

00:27:17.000 I mean, that sounds great, except that then you lose your job and then you can't feed your family.

00:27:22.000 Not everybody can work for the Daily Wire.

00:27:23.000 So what exactly?

00:27:24.000 Well, as a consumer, obviously you can exercise choice and it does work from time to time when you do.

00:27:30.000 And you can show corporations that they ought to be scared of the consumer.

00:27:34.000 Bud Light, for example, is getting absolutely clobbered Apparently, sales are worsening.

00:27:39.000 They had a staggering drop of 29.5% for the week ending May 20th.

00:27:44.000 Data from Bump Williams Consulting and Nielsen IQ provided to Newsweek shows that sales by volume are down almost 30% for the week ending May 20th compared to last year.

00:27:53.000 Sales are down 25.7% for revenue compared to the same at time window.

00:27:57.000 This is a bloodbath.

00:27:58.000 Anheuser-Busch InBev stock is getting crushed since the start of April, beers are selling for pennies, and there is no end in sight.

00:28:04.000 Now, it is worthwhile noticing here that one of the reasons why this has been a successful boycott and will continue to be a successful boycott is because the alternatives are readily available.

00:28:11.000 Meaning, all you have to do, you're at the grocery store, you don't like Bud Light because Bud Light decided they were going to push Dylan Mulvaney, a man masquerading as a woman, as a spokesperson.

00:28:19.000 So instead, you turn six inches to your right and you pick up some Coors.

00:28:23.000 And actually what you can see is that Bud Light sales are down 25% and Coors Light sales are up 25%.

00:28:28.000 Everybody moved from one brand to another.

00:28:30.000 What happens when you're talking about a universal wave of companies all mirroring the Pride Month celebratory morality?

00:28:37.000 What happens when that happens?

00:28:38.000 How do you fight that?

00:28:40.000 The answer here is going to be a bevy of lawsuits.

00:28:43.000 This is going to be legislation and lawsuits.

00:28:46.000 Because what we are watching right now is illegal collusion between these companies.

00:28:49.000 I've used the word collusion, but it actually is legal collusion.

00:28:52.000 So there are two separate lines of attack that are going to have to be used legally in order to break up this corporate oligopoly.

00:28:59.000 Line number one is going to be, this is anti-competitive.

00:29:02.000 This is a violation of basic antitrust law.

00:29:05.000 That's the case made by the Texas Policy Center.

00:29:07.000 They say, the seminal antitrust law in the United States, the Sherman Act of 1890, prohibits every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce.

00:29:15.000 To protect consumers across the economy, courts have interpreted this law to prohibit unreasonable agreements in restraint of trade.

00:29:21.000 Anti-competitive conduct enriches the few, members of a cartel, at the expense of everybody else, harming free markets, ultimately consumers, through higher prices and reduced output.

00:29:29.000 Agreements between competitors to fix prices, divide markets, or engage in certain forms of group boycott agreements prevent competition on the merits and are therefore illegal.

00:29:39.000 As former DOJ Antitrust Division head Megan Delrahim has written, anti-competitive agreements among competitors, regardless of the purported beneficial goal, are outlawed because they reduce the incentives for companies to compete vigorously, which in turn can raise prices, reduce innovation, and ultimately harm consumers.

00:29:53.000 For example, there was a case called FTC versus Superior Court Trial Lawyers Association.

00:29:58.000 A group of lawyers agreed to stop representing indigent criminal defendants in Washington, D.C.

00:30:02.000 until the city government agreed to increase their compensation.

00:30:05.000 The FTC took them to court.

00:30:07.000 They argued that this was a per se illegal conspiracy to fix prices and conduct a boycott.

00:30:11.000 The lawyers defended their agreement as a justified strike in the public interest to increase the number of lawyers who could represent those particular defendants.

00:30:18.000 The Supreme Court rejected the defense.

00:30:20.000 So, you could easily see a situation in which there is a lawsuit against all of these companies, all of these organizations for their ESG nonsense, their collusive ESG nonsense.

00:30:34.000 In fact, Bloomberg Law reported just a little bit earlier this month that insurers are now being forced to rethink their approach to climate change as they assess the risk of being sued for antitrust violations.

00:30:44.000 Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, recently backed out of the net-zero insurance alliance, citing what it called the material legal risks it would face if it remained.

00:30:51.000 The defection was then followed by two more high-profile departures, with Zurich Insurance Group AG and Hanover Re also leaving.

00:30:56.000 All three said they will still pursue net-zero goals, but not in coordination with the alliance.

00:31:01.000 Because, again, they are afraid that they are going to be sued for collusion.

00:31:04.000 So that would be solution number one.

00:31:06.000 Solution number two is somewhat similar.

00:31:07.000 That would be a shareholder derivative claim.

00:31:09.000 A shareholder derivative action is when shareholders Basically say that corporate officers are breaching their fiduciary duties.

00:31:16.000 That your fiduciary duty is to maximize the profitability and the viability of the corporation in which I am a shareholder.

00:31:23.000 Your fiduciary duty does not involve doing the work of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or the PGLE, or whatever ridiculous ESG organization you have decided to join.

00:31:34.000 Their shareholder actions can include anything up to and including conflicts of interest between the corporation and insiders, wasting of corporate assets, Executive manager or board member breach of fiduciary duty?

00:31:47.000 The law is going to be a solution to this.

00:31:49.000 And the law will also be a solution in terms of legislation.

00:31:51.000 It's one reason why Republicans are going to actually have to win.

00:31:54.000 There's no substitute for victory.

00:31:56.000 Because Joe Biden sits in the presidency right now, and President Biden has basically vowed that he was going to veto any ESG rule.

00:32:05.000 You'll recall it was not all that long, it was March, when he rejected a Republican proposal to prevent pension fund managers from basing investment decisions on factors like climate change.

00:32:13.000 Of course, because he's literally encouraging all of this.

00:32:16.000 The House GOP tried to override that Biden veto, they just didn't have votes to do it.

00:32:22.000 The override failed on a 219-200 vote along party lines.

00:32:26.000 But if Republicans were to win the House and win the Senate and win the presidency, they could actually pass a law to ban ESG investing.

00:32:33.000 Which would be necessary in order to restore competition in the marketplace.

00:32:37.000 Also, presumably, the FTC could look at things like collusion if it were not ruled by members of the left wing.

00:32:41.000 But this is going to have to stop.

00:32:43.000 Because what we're watching here is not merely, you know, the press wants to portray this as just a shift in generalized American public opinion.

00:32:48.000 That's not what's happening here.

00:32:49.000 What's happening here is a cram down, again, from the highest levels of our culture.

00:32:54.000 Okay, in just one second, we're going to take a look at the weird alliance that is now forming between Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump.

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00:34:53.000 Meanwhile, the presidential primaries on the right side of the aisle, they're getting interesting and weird.

00:34:57.000 So Donald Trump, you know, he says things on Truth Social.

00:35:01.000 I do have to say, if he's running, you know, a serious presidential campaign, why is he still on Truth Social?

00:35:06.000 Like, this is an actual puzzling question.

00:35:09.000 The man does have, he's been readmitted to Twitter, right?

00:35:11.000 Donald Trump has the ability to post on Twitter, like right now.

00:35:15.000 He is currently on Truth Social, a few million followers.

00:35:18.000 He has 87 million followers on Twitter.

00:35:22.000 87 million.

00:35:23.000 Why is he not using that tool?

00:35:25.000 I mean, the answer is pretty obvious.

00:35:26.000 He's staying on Truth Social because he's invested in Truth Social, which does, you know, raise a question about his priorities.

00:35:31.000 Like, if you want to win a presidential race, why not appeal to the 87 million people on your Twitter page, as opposed to the five people who are still on Truth Social?

00:35:38.000 But in any case, Donald Trump has had himself an interesting 24 hours.

00:35:42.000 So over the last couple of weeks, He has been attacking Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida and his nearest competitor, on the basis that DeSantis supposedly did a terrible job in Florida.

00:35:51.000 In order to promote that idea, he has then been arguing that DeSantis did worse than Cuomo on mass death, which I guess makes Trump in favor of lockdowns and forced vaccination regimes because that's what Cuomo was in favor of.

00:36:03.000 Now, it's a lie.

00:36:03.000 It's not true.

00:36:05.000 On an age-adjusted, population-adjusted basis, it just ain't true.

00:36:09.000 It's not the case.

00:36:10.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:36:11.000 Trump has been doing it.

00:36:12.000 And then he reiterated that today.

00:36:13.000 He went after DeSantis again by praising Cuomo, which is such a weird move.

00:36:17.000 Cuomo is the villain in this story.

00:36:19.000 But Andrew Cuomo is still on Twitter.

00:36:20.000 So Andrew Cuomo just tweeted out, quote, Donald Trump tells the truth finally.

00:36:24.000 New York got hit first and worst, but New Yorkers acted responsibly.

00:36:27.000 Florida's policy of denial allowed COVID to spread, and that's why they had a very large second wave.

00:36:32.000 What?

00:36:33.000 So I'm just going to point out here that that means that Donald Trump is now Actually, on the same side as Andrew Cuomo.

00:36:44.000 How?

00:36:45.000 Like, I don't understand.

00:36:48.000 Like, what exactly?

00:36:49.000 What?

00:36:51.000 By the way, just so folks know, in terms of deaths per million population, deaths per million population non-age-adjusted, basically Florida and New York are essentially equivalent, and when you adjust for population age, because Florida's a really old state, Florida does better than New York.

00:37:04.000 And they didn't kill their economy, like completely destroyed their economy.

00:37:08.000 But what in the, like, what?

00:37:10.000 Andrew Cuomo killed every old person in New York. 0.99

00:37:13.000 As I said of the former governor of New York, that dude was in office to kill old people and grab ass, and he ran out of old people. 0.99

00:37:20.000 And yet, Donald Trump is now praising him, and he's praising Donald Trump back. 0.99

00:37:23.000 What in the world?

00:37:23.000 Like, uh, what?

00:37:25.000 Meanwhile, that's not the only, so it turns out, you know who he's mad at now?

00:37:28.000 Now he's mad at Kayleigh McEnany.

00:37:31.000 Like his former press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany.

00:37:33.000 Like a very competent and very aggressive press secretary.

00:37:36.000 What was her grave sin, Kayleigh McEnany? 1.00

00:37:38.000 She went on Fox News and she pointed out that Trump is up dramatically on DeSantis.

00:37:43.000 But not dramatically enough.

00:37:45.000 So Trump says, quote, Why is he going after Kayleigh McEnany?

00:37:48.000 Like, what in the hell?

00:37:49.000 poll numbers on Fox News. I'm 34 points up on Desanctimonious, not 25 up. While 25 is great,

00:37:54.000 it's not 34. She knew the number was corrected upwards by the group that did the poll.

00:37:57.000 The RINOs and globalists can have her. Fox News should only use real stars. 1.00

00:38:02.000 Why is he going after Kayleigh McEnany? Like, what in the hell? Like,

00:38:05.000 some focus would be good. Some focus.

00:38:10.000 Well, meanwhile, you know, you can tell basically who Democrats don't want by who they're spending all of their time attacking these days.

00:38:16.000 So who are they attacking?

00:38:17.000 They're not attacking Trump anymore.

00:38:19.000 They're spending each and every day attacking DeSantis with alacrity.

00:38:22.000 So apparently there is a band in Paramore.

00:38:24.000 Since I'm not one of the kids, nor will I attempt to be one of the kids, I have no idea what Paramore is, how the word Paramore is defined.

00:38:35.000 I don't understand any of it.

00:38:37.000 But apparently, it is a band.

00:38:41.000 And it plays music, allegedly.

00:38:43.000 And the Paramore lead singer is going around telling people not to vote for Ron DeSantis.

00:38:47.000 Which, I mean, if the Paramore lead singer says it, I guess according to the Constitution, that means that he can't run anymore.

00:38:54.000 I'll be happy to tell you, I'm very f***ing comfortable talking politics.

00:38:58.000 I just... If you vote for Ron DeSantis, you're f***ing dead to me. 0.98

00:39:08.000 So is that comfortable enough for anyone? 0.93

00:39:12.000 Okay, apparently her name is Haley Williams, and I also looked up the name of the band.

00:39:16.000 Apparently Paramore, like spelled M-O-R-E, it was the maiden name of one of the members of the band.

00:39:21.000 So like that, wow.

00:39:24.000 A lot of Dixie Chicks vibes right there. 0.98

00:39:27.000 Remember that time the Dixie Chicks were like, we will oppose George W. Bush with every breath in our bodies, and then he won two terms as president. 0.99

00:39:33.000 So yeah, it's going well.

00:39:34.000 Meanwhile, We'll be Goldberg on The View.

00:39:36.000 She's big mad. 1.00

00:39:37.000 And Ron DeSantis as well.

00:39:39.000 She says she's threatening Ron DeSantis.

00:39:41.000 We're watching you, Ron!

00:39:42.000 Here we go.

00:39:44.000 I don't care.

00:39:45.000 Get the work done.

00:39:46.000 If you get the work done, I'm going to vote for you.

00:39:49.000 She is getting the work done.

00:39:50.000 Yes.

00:39:50.000 We don't have time, but there's a list of stuff that she's been doing.

00:39:53.000 We have time for this.

00:39:54.000 Hey, Ron.

00:39:56.000 You know, being asleep as you are and have been for quite some time.

00:40:02.000 See, many of us have been awake this whole time.

00:40:06.000 We don't have any choice.

00:40:07.000 We don't have choices, women, to rest up and be asleep and see things disappear. 1.00

00:40:12.000 We don't have time for that.

00:40:14.000 So you want to fight all of us?

00:40:16.000 Because you're going to be fighting your own women as well. 0.99

00:40:18.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:40:18.000 Because they're not going to take this ridiculousness that you are thrusting off. 0.98

00:40:22.000 It's not like they're voting for this.

00:40:24.000 You are making these decisions for your state.

00:40:27.000 We're watching you, Ron.

00:40:31.000 We're watching you, Ron, from New York, where we don't vote for you.

00:40:35.000 Also, women voted for Ron DeSantis in the last election cycle.

00:40:38.000 He won by 20 points in Florida.

00:40:41.000 Well, what is she even jabbering about? 0.98

00:40:43.000 Also, is it true?

00:40:44.000 Fact check.

00:40:45.000 A quick fact check.

00:40:46.000 Is it true that women never sleep? 1.00

00:40:49.000 She's like, women don't have time to sleep! 1.00

00:40:51.000 I feel like that's not true.

00:40:53.000 Like, my wife's not sleeping a lot right now, but that's because we have, like, a one-week-old.

00:40:56.000 But when we don't have a one-week-old, uh, she sleeps way more than I do.

00:40:59.000 Just as a point of- just a point of order right here.

00:41:02.000 Uh, we'll be global.

00:41:03.000 Charlemagne, also very angry at Ron DeSantis because he says that Ron DeSantis wants to throw more criminals in jail, and that's unacceptable.

00:41:10.000 So let me be clear on the record to say that Ron DeSantis is pro-reoffend.

00:41:14.000 He is pro-reoffend because anybody that is against this First Step Act, that means you basically want people to get out of prison without any tools.

00:41:22.000 And I would ask Ron, I wonder does he feel like the people that raided the U.S.

00:41:26.000 Capitol should go to jail and stay in jail? 0.97

00:41:29.000 Absolutely.

00:41:30.000 And he went on record, glad you brought that up, he actually went on record saying that he would pardon some of the rioters that were convicted.

00:41:37.000 And just as a reminder, five people were killed, right, and 138 officers were injured.

00:41:41.000 So he's totally okay with the rioters, you know, getting an opportunity to get out of jail, but not okay with preparing people to have successful I can't believe they're still running with the five people were killed routine.

00:41:57.000 I can't, honestly, I can't, I can't believe they're still running with this, but fine.

00:42:00.000 If the media want to attack DeSantis as opposed to Trump, you can see, you know, who they fear.

00:42:05.000 And it's pretty obviously DeSantis at this point.

00:42:09.000 Pretty fascinating.

00:42:10.000 Okay, meanwhile, the debate over the debt ceiling continues.

00:42:13.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, House Republican leaders projected confidence on Tuesday that the debt ceiling deal struck with Joe Biden would draw enough support to pass.

00:42:20.000 Some conservative lawmakers are angrily denouncing the agreement.

00:42:23.000 Again, this is, I gotta say, I feel like a lot of this is kabuki theater.

00:42:27.000 And the reason I say a lot of this is kabuki theater is because 62% of all federal spending is mandatory in the United States.

00:42:35.000 62%.

00:42:35.000 Another 10% is debt service.

00:42:37.000 So now we're up to 72%.

00:42:39.000 And on top of that, another 13%, which is defense spending, which conservatives typically are in favor of.

00:42:45.000 You're talking about 85% of the government is already funded.

00:42:48.000 So you're now arguing over marginal cuts to the other 15%.

00:42:52.000 And this is the thing that we're going to, you know, go leap over.

00:42:56.000 But again, it'd be verboten to actually touch any of the entitlement programs.

00:43:00.000 Strange.

00:43:01.000 Strange.

00:43:03.000 Kevin McCarthy, for his part, he points out that Joe Biden really didn't get a lot of what he wanted in this particular deal, which is true.

00:43:09.000 Biden didn't get a major win here.

00:43:11.000 And forcing Biden to the table after he said he wouldn't go to the table is a thing.

00:43:14.000 Here's McCarthy.

00:43:16.000 You know a bunch of Republicans on the big vote are going to vote no.

00:43:21.000 You're going to need a bunch of Democrats to say, you know what?

00:43:24.000 I can't believe I'm doing this.

00:43:25.000 I'm going to vote with Kevin McCarthy.

00:43:27.000 Well, normally when you come to an agreement with two different parties, you have people in both parties vote for it.

00:43:34.000 But the difficulty that's different than any time before is, the Democrats will tell you there's nothing in the bill for them.

00:43:40.000 Nothing?

00:43:40.000 The President, numerous times, he kept asking for tax increases, new government programs, and I just said no.

00:43:46.000 And he says, well, there's nothing in it for us to vote for.

00:43:50.000 I mean, by the way, he's not wrong about this.

00:43:52.000 Joe Biden's own Office of Management and Budget Director.

00:43:55.000 She's out there essentially saying, we need to raise taxes.

00:43:57.000 I mean, they want to raise taxes.

00:43:58.000 They didn't get that.

00:44:01.000 He also made the case over and over in this conversation that if you really want to do big deficit reduction, where's the revenue?

00:44:09.000 Where are the high income earners putting more skin in the game? 1.00

00:44:14.000 But this is one part.

00:44:15.000 We're not going to give up on our revenue proposals.

00:44:18.000 So while this will Change the trajectory of spending when you see the CBO, when we all see the CBO report, when it comes out.

00:44:29.000 Where we really need to make headway is on our revenue proposals, which has long-lasting deficit reduction abilities and just structural change to change the unfairness in the tax system.

00:44:43.000 Okay, but they didn't get any of that sort of stuff.

00:44:45.000 So again, it's a compromise bill, which means nobody's particularly happy about it.

00:44:48.000 But I am kind of shocked at how many people are saying that this is the hill to die on, when pretty clearly, the spending hill to die on has to do with the mandatory spending aspects of the American budget.

00:44:59.000 Again, there's a point that Kevin McCarthy's making.

00:45:01.000 He's like, why are conservatives so mad at me when Joe Biden is the president?

00:45:05.000 I noticed that we didn't actually cut anything when Trump was the president.

00:45:07.000 I understand people get upset about walking through a debt ceiling, but this is a House, a Senate, and a Presidency.

00:45:14.000 I think when you read the Wall Street Journal, you read the New York Post, you sit back and listen to a lot of economists, they'll say, this is the strongest debt ceiling we ever had.

00:45:23.000 And if I compare it to when Republicans were in the majority, when they had the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, they didn't cut anything.

00:45:30.000 They just added more money.

00:45:32.000 He is not wrong. 0.53

00:45:34.000 He is not wrong. 0.53

00:45:35.000 Okay, we'll get to more in just one second.

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00:46:38.000 Meanwhile, I do have to point out here that the left... You remember that last Brazilian election, where Guilherme Bolsonaro was supposed to be a threat to democracy?

00:46:45.000 If Bolsonaro were to win re-election, democracy in Brazil would be threatened.

00:46:48.000 Instead, Lula had to win.

00:46:50.000 If Lula did not win, then who knew?

00:46:52.000 Democracy... It would be like January 6th.

00:46:54.000 Democracy would be overthrown.

00:46:55.000 Well, it turns out that Lula really, really likes left-wing authoritarians.

00:47:00.000 According to National Review, on Monday, Lula met with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, head of a conference of South American leaders in Brasilia.

00:47:06.000 During their joint press conference, Lula slammed U.S.

00:47:08.000 sanctions against Venezuela and defended Maduro as a lawful president.

00:47:11.000 Remember that time when the United States used to actually have an interest in who the leaders of foreign countries were because we wanted them to be, you know, friendly to the U.S.?

00:47:17.000 Bolsonaro was only the most friendly president of Brazil in modern history.

00:47:21.000 And instead, the Democrats and the media were like, nah, we don't like him.

00:47:24.000 He's friends with Trump.

00:47:25.000 Don't like that.

00:47:26.000 Let's get that Lula guy in there. 0.89

00:47:27.000 Let's see what he can do.

00:47:29.000 And five minutes in, he's hanging out with Nicolas Maduro, an evil dictator who has subjected his people to mass starvation.

00:47:36.000 Lula has agreed with Maduro's request to join the BRICS organization, presumably in an effort to bolster Brazil's influence in the group.

00:47:44.000 Again, he is a wild left authoritarian and an anti-American.

00:47:48.000 Lula's continuing to be as radical as he wants to be.

00:47:50.000 Even the New York Times is now starting to look askance at some of the left-wing activism inside Brazil.

00:47:55.000 They're like, oh, oops, we said all the people who are democracy activists actually don't like democracy too much?

00:47:58.000 Weird.

00:48:00.000 There's an entire article in the New York Times about Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, who is crucial to Brazil's transfer of power.

00:48:08.000 But there is only one problem, which is he doesn't like democracy very much.

00:48:11.000 much. Quote, he has jailed people without trial for posting threats on social media,

00:48:15.000 helped sentence a sitting congressman to nearly nine years in prison for threatening the court,

00:48:19.000 ordered raids on businessmen with no evidence of wrongdoing, suspended an elected governor

00:48:23.000 from his job, and unilaterally blocked dozens of accounts and thousands of posts on social

00:48:27.000 media with virtually no transparency or room for appeal.

00:48:31.000 His moves fit into a broader trend of Brazil's Supreme Court increasing its power and taking

00:48:35.000 what critics have called a more repressive turn in the process.

00:48:37.000 Weird.

00:48:37.000 So Bolsonaro was the problem.

00:48:41.000 And now that Lula and his friends took over, you notice that they're kind of authoritarian.

00:48:46.000 Strange.

00:48:47.000 Strange.

00:48:47.000 Also, worth noting, remember that time that the left was really anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist?

00:48:51.000 Remember that time?

00:48:52.000 Well, it turns out they are perfectly colonialist and imperialist, so long as they are spreading the Pride Progress flag.

00:48:58.000 As long as they're spread— Again, the meme is never wrong.

00:49:01.000 The military meme that shows Republicans dropping bombs over a foreign country with an American flag on it, and then the left dropping bombs over a foreign country but it has like a trans flag on it, it's never wrong. 0.96

00:49:11.000 It's right every time.

00:49:13.000 Now the left is very angry at Uganda.

00:49:15.000 Why are they angry at Uganda?

00:49:17.000 Well, because they signed into law, Uganda, a wide-ranging anti-LGBTQ bill.

00:49:21.000 It imposes life imprisonment for same-sex activity and the death penalty in some cases.

00:49:25.000 Now, the death penalty applies to aggravated homosexuality.

00:49:28.000 What would that amount to? 0.98

00:49:30.000 Well, generally that includes, you know, like having sex with a minor.

00:49:34.000 So it's not just like regular homosexual activity, but the law does impose life imprisonment for anyone found to have performed a sexual act with a person of the same gender and up to seven years in prison for an attempt to commit the offense of homosexuality.

00:49:44.000 Now, is that something that Americans are up for?

00:49:48.000 The answer is no.

00:49:48.000 Do Americans live in Uganda?

00:49:52.000 I'm just, I'm very confused as to why the central foreign policy of the United States, which ought to be governed by, you know, American interests, is deeply ensconced in how Uganda treats homosexual activity. 0.65

00:50:07.000 Again, seems like a really bad and nasty law.

00:50:10.000 At least in the iterations where you're talking about consensual sexual activity between people of the age of majority.

00:50:15.000 Seems bad.

00:50:16.000 Seems like a bad law.

00:50:18.000 Also, I've noticed that there's a lot more ire about this law on the left than there is about, you know, the mass imprisonment of Muslims in China.

00:50:26.000 Or there is about widespread sex slavery that continues in Africa and the Middle East.

00:50:32.000 Or actual slavery in Africa and the Middle East.

00:50:35.000 I'm noticing you're picking and choosing the causes that you are very, very upset about.

00:50:38.000 And also, you seem kind of imperialist about your values, I noticed.

00:50:41.000 So until five minutes ago, it's like, it's cultural appropriation and imperialism to dictate our values like, you know, free markets and freedom of speech on these places.

00:50:49.000 They have a different way of life.

00:50:51.000 But then the minute it comes to sexual activity, then they're like, well, now we got to speak up.

00:50:56.000 We need to speak.

00:50:56.000 It's big.

00:50:57.000 Again, it's the hypocrisy that I'm pointing out here.

00:51:00.000 Not the fact that this, not the idea that this law is good.

00:51:02.000 It's not a good law.

00:51:03.000 It's a bad law.

00:51:05.000 But again, I noticed that all the people who are like, the third world must have its own way, they go immediately silent when you're talking about social politics. 1.00

00:51:11.000 All right, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:51:14.000 Okay, things that I like.

00:51:16.000 I have to admit, this is super funny.

00:51:17.000 So there's an AOC parody account, and the AOC parody account is truly a hilarious account.

00:51:24.000 It's really funny because people actually can't tell the difference between the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez parody account And, uh, and actually, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:51:36.000 Like, they can't actually tell the difference.

00:51:39.000 Because it keeps, I mean, like, there have been a lot of people who have been fooled.

00:51:43.000 Because, and it says right in the byline that it's a parody.

00:51:47.000 But because it tweets like this, printing money is the only way out of inflation. 0.99

00:51:51.000 And people are like, oh, that must be AOC, because, um, after all, AOC is incredibly stupid, and so she may have said that. 0.99

00:51:58.000 Also, Tweets like, if you could milk a cow and get fat-free organic almond milk, I wouldn't complain about their farts so much. 0.96

00:52:06.000 Or, I'm really starting to believe Elon Musk is my soulmate, which then Elon Musk is a joke, favorited, and like, put a fire emoji on it.

00:52:14.000 So AOC, like the real AOC, she got big mad, big angry. 0.99

00:52:18.000 She tweeted, FYI, there's a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral. 0.60

00:52:22.000 By the way, it says on the account parody.

00:52:24.000 The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility.

00:52:27.000 It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread.

00:52:29.000 I am assessing with my team how to move forward.

00:52:31.000 In the meantime, be careful of what you see.

00:52:34.000 Sinister music.

00:52:36.000 Wow.

00:52:37.000 Okay, lady, maybe the reason that you're having a tough time here is because people can't tell the difference between your normal tweets and the parody account.

00:52:48.000 I'm sorry that you're already a parody of yourself, and so a parody of you is just a parody of a parody. 0.53

00:52:53.000 And it's a very funny account, by the way, the parody account.

00:52:56.000 Quote, I went to the beach this morning and the water was really low.

00:52:59.000 I went back this evening and the water was really high.

00:53:01.000 This is 100% proof that global warming is real.

00:53:06.000 Yeah, she's very upset about it.

00:53:08.000 So, good for the parody account.

00:53:10.000 Funny stuff.

00:53:10.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:53:17.000 So, the City University of New York featured a graduating law student last week that called for the dismantling of capitalism and Zionism and called law white supremacy.

00:53:27.000 The person who spoke is a person named Fatima Musa Mohammed.

00:53:31.000 She called for a revolution against America's oppressive institutions, and she called for her graduating class to, quote, fuel the fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world.

00:53:42.000 And, um, yeah, man.

00:53:44.000 So, uh, that is not a giant shock, considering that these universities are a joke. 0.96

00:53:49.000 The fact that CUNY is, I believe, publicly funded And is sponsoring this sort of crap means that they probably violated the law. 0.94

00:53:57.000 Like this violates anti-discrimination law because this is obvious anti-semitism. 0.96

00:54:00.000 But here they were pushing the obvious anti-semitism.

00:54:04.000 In this moment of celebrating who we are, I want to celebrate CUNY Law as one of the few, if not the only law school to make a public statement defending the right of its students to organize and speak out against Israeli settler colonialism.

00:54:20.000 That this is the law school that passed and endorsed BDS on a student and faculty level.

00:54:29.000 Recognizing that absent a critical imperialism settler colonialism lens, our work and this school's mission statement is void of value.

00:54:38.000 That as Israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshippers, murdering the old, the young, Attacking even funerals and graveyards, as it encourages lynch mobs to target Palestinian homes and businesses, as it imprisons its children, as it continues its project of settler colonialism, expelling Palestinians from their homes, carrying the ongoing Nakba, that our silence is no longer acceptable. 0.98

00:55:10.000 Vile garbage, obviously. 1.00

00:55:11.000 Vile anti-Semitic garbage. 1.00

00:55:13.000 The CNY brass took a while to actually condemn all of this. 1.00

00:55:18.000 They also called the NYPD, this person called the NYPD, fascist.

00:55:22.000 All of this sort of stuff is encouraged at major universities around the country.

00:55:25.000 Now, the Biden administration recently came out with a plan to fight anti-Semitism.

00:55:29.000 This plan to fight anti-Semitism included people forming it, like the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

00:55:35.000 I am not kidding.

00:55:37.000 Which is an absurdity.

00:55:38.000 The Council on American Islamic Relations is an anti-Semitic organization. 0.98

00:55:43.000 Like, they spend an enormous amount of time promoting anti-Semitic garbage about the state of Israel, for example. 0.98

00:55:48.000 And then, the U.S. 0.74

00:55:49.000 National Strategy to Counter Anti-Semitism explicitly refuses to endorse the so-called International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism because it points out that when you apply double standards to Israel that you would not apply anywhere else that that is a form of anti-Semitism.

00:56:05.000 The Biden administration likes those double standards and so they sort of half-ass it.

00:56:09.000 Again, the rule is that left-wing anti-Semitism is not anti-Semitism according to the left.

00:56:13.000 It's just a form of intersectionality.

00:56:15.000 And you can see that very clearly right here.

00:56:17.000 All righty.

00:56:18.000 Coming up, we're joined by Larry Elder.

00:56:20.000 He has a brand new book out and he is launching a presidential campaign.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 31, 2023

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