The Ben Shapiro Show - Reminder: BLM Is A Communist Garbage Organization | Ep. 1297

00:00:00.000 BLM backs the communist Cuban regime. 1.00

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00:01:29.000 Alrighty, so Cuba continues to be a hotspot.

00:01:33.000 The Cuban police have now been rounding people up.

00:01:36.000 I mean, to the point where there's actual video of Cuban YouTube star.

00:01:39.000 Security is outside.

00:02:12.000 And she is now being taken away by the Cuban authorities.

00:02:24.000 Good times over there.

00:02:25.000 The Cuban crackdown is not unexpected. 0.60

00:02:29.000 This is what has happened with regard to every dissident movement in Cuba, in Latin America, in Central America, that is directed against a communist authoritarian regime.

00:02:37.000 Obviously, we saw just a couple of years ago when millions of people were in the streets in Venezuela.

00:02:41.000 And yet the Venezuelan communist regime continued to maintain its power by cracking down on people who were dissenting.

00:02:49.000 Now, meanwhile, I have to say that the left's perspective on this is absolutely astonishing.

00:02:53.000 The left in America.

00:02:54.000 Because for people who really say that what they want is Denmark or Norway, they have a really tough time simply condemning communism.

00:03:01.000 They have a really rough time saying that these regimes are evil and bad.

00:03:05.000 It took Bernie Sanders a couple of days to comment.

00:03:07.000 When he did comment, he read directly from the Howard Zinn playbook where he talked about how it was really the United States embargo that was the problem in Cuba.

00:03:14.000 And now you have Black Lives Matter sounding off.

00:03:16.000 The movement.

00:03:17.000 Now, let me remind you, Black Lives Matter is a semantically overloaded term.

00:03:20.000 There's some people who, when they say Black Lives Matter, mean a perfectly obvious thing, which is that Black Lives Matter.

00:03:26.000 Just like every life matters, and black people should not be targeted by the police, more than anybody else should be targeted by the police.

00:03:31.000 Right?

00:03:32.000 That's perfectly obvious.

00:03:33.000 But...

00:03:34.000 The Black Lives Matter organization, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars and fostered not just protests, but riots in cities around the United States and is run by open communists. 1.00

00:03:44.000 They put out, it's just a garbage organization. 0.99

00:03:45.000 It's been a garbage organization since it was founded in the mid-2010s. 0.99

00:03:50.000 And its founders are openly Marxist in orientation. 0.96

00:03:54.000 Meanwhile, skimming off the top, presumably, or allegedly, in order to go buy themselves really, really nice houses in Tabanka Canyon.

00:04:01.000 So Black Lives Matter, the organization, which, remember, You had corporations donating millions of dollars to.

00:04:06.000 You had people posting black squares in support of the organization, not just the generalized idea, in favor of the organization. 0.99

00:04:13.000 This organization is a garbage communist organization. 0.95

00:04:17.000 So far, when it comes to world issues, they have supported the Hamas terrorists in the Gaza War, and now they support the communist Cuban regime. 1.00

00:04:26.000 And it is telling.

00:04:27.000 Here's what they say.

00:04:28.000 Quote, Black Lives Matter condemns the US federal government's inhumane treatment of Cubans.

00:04:34.000 Now, you may have noticed that the U.S.

00:04:35.000 federal government does not actually run Cuba, and they're not the people arresting YouTube stars or shooting people in the streets.

00:04:40.000 Black Lives Matter condemns the U.S. 1.00

00:04:42.000 federal government's inhumane treatment of Cubans and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo.

00:04:47.000 This cruel and inhumane policy, instituted with the explicit intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cubans' right to choose their own government, is at the heart of Cuba's current crisis.

00:04:56.000 Since 1962, the United States has forced pain and suffering on the people of Cuba.

00:05:00.000 By cutting off food, medicine, and supplies, costing the tiny island nation an estimated $130 billion.

00:05:05.000 So you see, it's all the fault of the United States.

00:05:08.000 Amazing.

00:05:08.000 It's all the fault of the United States according to Black Lives Matter.

00:05:10.000 Because according to Black Lives Matter, the West is always wrong. 1.00

00:05:14.000 According to the Black Lives Matter organization, the organization that millions, tens of millions of Americans marched with last year, This, according to this organization, America is a terrible place and is responsible for all the world's ills. 0.73

00:05:26.000 Why would you trust them when it comes to the cops?

00:05:28.000 Why would you trust them when it comes to the systems of power in the United States?

00:05:31.000 Why would you trust them with regard to anything?

00:05:33.000 They're a communist group.

00:05:35.000 Period.

00:05:36.000 End of story.

00:05:36.000 And here they are, repeating communist propaganda.

00:05:39.000 My favorite part of this particular paragraph is where they say the United States has been undermining Cuba's right to choose its own government.

00:05:45.000 You know what really undermines Cuba's right to choose their own government?

00:05:48.000 The fact that they haven't held a vote since 1962.

00:05:50.000 They didn't in 1962 either. 0.99

00:05:54.000 Okay, so it's been six decades since the Cuban Revolution, and the Communist regime there has never allowed a free and fair election, and Black Lives Matter is saying the United States is denying them the right to choose their own government, because BLM, again, is a garbage organization. 0.97

00:06:07.000 I can't say it too many times. 0.97

00:06:08.000 Let me reiterate.

00:06:09.000 I'll say it real slowly for those of you who are having a tough time. 0.99

00:06:12.000 Black Lives Matter, the organization, is garbage, should be condemned, and no responsible person should be associated with it. 1.00

00:06:19.000 BLM continues, without that money, it is harder for Cuba to acquire medical equipment needed to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines and equipment for food production. This comes in spite of the country's strong medical care and history of lending doctors and nurses to disasters around the world. It wouldn't be a complete statement without a bit of propagandizing on behalf of the Cuban health care system, which, by the way, is so lacking the Cuban health care system, they couldn't get COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of people in Cuba. 0.99

00:06:42.000 Says BLM, the people of Cuba are being punished by the U.S.

00:06:45.000 government because the country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination.

00:06:50.000 Yes, nothing says sovereignty and self-determination quite like throwing tens of thousands of people over the years in prison, forcing people to float in jerry-rigged canoes, basically, across a hundred miles of shark-infested ocean to get to Florida.

00:07:06.000 It sounds like self-determination when you don't allow anybody to vote ever.

00:07:09.000 It really is.

00:07:10.000 It's amazing, levels of self-determination here.

00:07:12.000 BLM says, There it is. 0.96

00:07:14.000 It's because the U.S. 0.92

00:07:14.000 is racist, of course. 0.92

00:07:15.000 Because everything comes down to racism for a Black Lives Matter.

00:07:16.000 Amity, Respect and Goodwill, the U.S. government has only instigated suffering for the country's 11 million people, of which 4 million are black and brown.

00:07:23.000 There it is. It's because the U.S.

00:07:25.000 is racist, of course, because everything comes down to racism for a Black Lives Matter. Remember, the crossover between the racial reckoning that we are having via groups like BLM and the full-on Marxist agenda of many of these groups is very heavy indeed.

00:07:40.000 In the same way, the critical racial theory is very much connected to the idea that the institutions of capitalism and individual Derrick Bell was very clear about this in his own writings.

00:07:51.000 Okay, if by that they mean that Cuba has shipped troops to places in Africa to help establish communist regimes there and kill black people in defense of those communist regimes, that would be correct. 1.00

00:08:04.000 From protecting black revolutionaries like Assata Shakur through granting her asylum, to supporting black liberation struggles in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and South Africa. 0.86

00:08:14.000 Unbelievable.

00:08:15.000 But totally believable.

00:08:16.000 Now we look to President Biden to end the embargo, something Barack Obama called for in 2016.

00:08:20.000 This embargo is a blatant human rights violation and a must-come-to-an-end.

00:08:24.000 Now, why bother reading the entire BLM statement?

00:08:26.000 Because BLM, the organization, is not dissociated from the generalized Democratic Party.

00:08:33.000 They are not.

00:08:33.000 The Democratic Party still refuses to condemn BLM as an organization.

00:08:36.000 Its leaders still hobnob with BLM.

00:08:40.000 And it is not a coincidence that this administration, the Biden administration, is having an extremely tough time speaking moral words about what is happening in Cuba right now.

00:08:49.000 For example, Chen Psaki was asked yesterday whether the Biden administration would put out a statement condemning communism.

00:08:55.000 Now would seem a good time.

00:08:57.000 Now the Biden administration has taken the tactic of attempting to minimize what is going on in Cuba.

00:09:01.000 They say that the current Cuban unrest, that the massive protests in the streets are not driven by Cuban communism per se.

00:09:08.000 Instead, they are driven by something else.

00:09:11.000 They are driven by mismanagement.

00:09:13.000 It's the mismanagement that's the problem.

00:09:15.000 If the communists were just good managers, then everything would be fine.

00:09:18.000 But the communists are bad managers, and so it's a little bit bad.

00:09:20.000 But it has nothing to do with communism per se.

00:09:23.000 So here is Jen Psaki being asked about condemning communism and shying away from it.

00:09:26.000 Do you think that people are leaving Cuba because they don't like communism?

00:09:31.000 I think we've been pretty clear that we think people are leaving Cuba or not, leaving Cuba or protesting in the streets as well because they are opposed to the oppression, to the mismanagement of the government in the country.

00:09:44.000 And we certainly support their right to protest.

00:09:46.000 We support their efforts to speak out against their treatment in Cuba.

00:09:51.000 Hmm, I'm noticing a word missing there.

00:09:54.000 Oppression and mismanagement.

00:09:54.000 If it weren't for the oppression and mismanagement in communism, it's a beautiful idea.

00:09:57.000 It just never worked in practice, guys.

00:10:02.000 True communism has never been tried.

00:10:03.000 If only they could just get rid of the oppression and mismanagement, that would solve it.

00:10:07.000 And then she's asked again, like, so are you guys gonna put out a statement condemning communism at any point here?

00:10:11.000 It's like, ah, nah.

00:10:14.000 Well, we hear from the president this week.

00:10:15.000 He said the other day that he would speak out on that.

00:10:18.000 And secondly, is his position still that he feels that the Trump policies were a failure and didn't affect change?

00:10:25.000 Is that still his policy?

00:10:26.000 Well, again, I would say, one, in terms of whether you heal from him, he says that often, as you know, and what he means is he speaks out publicly nearly every day at events.

00:10:35.000 Sometimes you all ask questions.

00:10:36.000 If there's an update to provide on what we're doing, on what our policies are, certainly he'll provide that.

00:10:42.000 Is there a planned speech or trip?

00:10:43.000 Not at this time.

00:10:44.000 There's no planned speech or trip.

00:10:47.000 It's amazing how hard a time the left, the squad, even the mainstream Democratic Party has simply saying communism is evil.

00:10:53.000 And back in the 1960s, the Democratic Party didn't have any problem saying communism was evil.

00:10:57.000 But then something turned and the sort of soft fellow traveler sensibility that Bernie Sanders carries around with regard to communist regimes has infused large swaths of the Democratic Party.

00:11:09.000 And it's quite awful and it's quite disgusting.

00:11:12.000 And it demonstrates once again that Domestically speaking, the people who believe in the basic tenets of Marxism, which is that the United States is a class struggle, which has never been historically true in the United States.

00:11:24.000 The United States is not about class in the same way that Europe was about class.

00:11:27.000 There are not these sort of hard and fast classes from which people can never move.

00:11:31.000 The folks who purport to say that this is what America is all about, They are completely unwilling to condemn actual oppression by communists on a global scale.

00:11:41.000 And this does go back to the Cold War, when the left in the United States played footsie with communist regimes throughout the world and refused to condemn them throughout the 70s and 80s particularly.

00:11:49.000 Apparently not very much has changed, which is pretty shocking.

00:11:54.000 By the way, there is a reminder to be had here that Barack Obama and his administration were quite friendly to the Cuban regime.

00:12:00.000 You'll recall that you traveled to Cuba, you hung out with Raul Castro, you held hands with the guy.

00:12:04.000 Yeah, he went to a baseball game with him and then he praised the Cuban dictator.

00:12:08.000 So, nothing new under the sun.

00:12:11.000 I said this to President Castro in Cuba.

00:12:15.000 I said, look, you've made great progress in educating young people.

00:12:21.000 Every child in Cuba gets a basic education.

00:12:24.000 That's a huge improvement from where it was.

00:12:28.000 Medical care.

00:12:31.000 The life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to the United States, despite it being a very poor country, because they have access to healthcare.

00:12:39.000 That's a huge achievement.

00:12:40.000 They should be congratulated.

00:12:41.000 Oh, well, isn't that amazing?

00:12:42.000 They should.

00:12:42.000 They should be congratulated, the Cubans, for, you know, having been dominated by a communist regime for quite a while.

00:12:47.000 Why does the left have such a tough time with this?

00:12:49.000 Why do they have such a tough time condemning an actual communist dictatorship?

00:12:53.000 I think the answer is fairly obvious.

00:12:55.000 They have a lot of sympathy for the ideas that undergird the communist dictatorship.

00:12:58.000 That would be the only rationale for why they are having such a tough time with this one.

00:13:02.000 This is not a hard one.

00:13:04.000 And forget about the sort of policy prescriptions here.

00:13:07.000 The moral statement that communism is a great evil should not be tough.

00:13:11.000 And yet, for a lot of folks, apparently it really, really is.

00:13:14.000 I will say, I think my favorite media take on this over the last couple of days, there's a take from Reuters.

00:13:20.000 Here is the headline, quote, So we are now back to the 2020 headlines, wherein if you gather to protest lockdown, you're going to spread COVID.

00:13:31.000 But if you gathered to dance in defense of George Floyd, then you're definitely not going to spread COVID.

00:13:36.000 All I can say is communism is a public health crisis.

00:13:39.000 Just like racism is supposedly a public health crisis, communism in Cuba is much more of a public health crisis than racism in the United States has been for quite a long time.

00:13:48.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to the Biden administration's policy with regards to Cuban refugees, which is quite shocking and at odds with many other things they've said about refugees from other parts of the world.

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00:15:15.000 Okay, so meanwhile, the Biden administration is making one thing very clear, that if Cubans attempt to float their way off the island, they will be turned back and they will be sent back to Cuba.

00:15:26.000 Now, The Biden administration has changed its tune a little bit when it comes to people coming to the United States border.

00:15:33.000 Only in the past few weeks have they started to say things like, don't show up at the southern border.

00:15:37.000 But for months, the message was, don't show up like right now.

00:15:40.000 But if you do show up, we're not going to hold you in a third party country like Mexico. 0.67

00:15:45.000 Remember, they attempted to walk back the Trump agreement with the Mexican government that would allow people applying for asylum to be sheltered in Mexico or to stay in Mexico while they apply for asylum.

00:15:55.000 The Biden administration wanted to walk that back and allow people to come to the United States and then essentially be released into the interior pending their asylum hearing.

00:16:02.000 The Biden administration made very clear before Biden even took office that they were going to be very pro-open borders.

00:16:07.000 They were not going to strictly enforce immigration law.

00:16:10.000 And that if you showed up at the border that you would probably be released into the interior.

00:16:14.000 But when it comes to the Cubans, different story.

00:16:16.000 You know, people who seem to have a pretty good asylum claim.

00:16:19.000 And these are not folks who are fleeing because they're lacking a job.

00:16:23.000 These are not folks who are fleeing because of economic circumstance.

00:16:25.000 These are people who are fleeing communist oppression.

00:16:28.000 So much so that they are not braving a walk or a train ride or even a coyote smuggling across the American border.

00:16:36.000 They are literally getting in boats with leaks and attempting to float their way via the tides to Florida through shark-infested waters.

00:16:44.000 And according to the Biden administration, well now they're getting tough on immigration.

00:16:47.000 Weird how they get real tough on immigration when it comes to Cuban populations.

00:16:51.000 Presumably because those Cuban populations, if they enter the United States and receive asylum and eventually become citizens, are more likely to vote Republican than people who are crossing the southern border of the United States.

00:17:00.000 That's the only logical reason I can think of for the distinction between how the Biden administration is treating in rhetoric Cuban refugees who are seeking asylum and Syrian refugees who sought asylum during the Trump administration or Honduran refugees who are seeking asylum largely based on economic circumstance during the Trump and Biden administration.

00:17:20.000 Here's Jen Psaki being very harsh with Cubans who are attempting to flee. 0.99

00:17:24.000 The way to come to the United States is not through processes of trying to come to the border without going through an asylum process or coming by sea without going through an asylum application process.

00:17:40.000 There are certainly programs through which some of them have not been reinstated, I should say, that were put in place by the Trump administration that are being reviewed, as he said yesterday, that would apply to the individuals and people of Haiti and the people of Cuba as well.

00:17:58.000 Alejandro Mayorkas is the current head of the Department of Homeland Security and who himself is a Cuban refugee immigrant.

00:18:05.000 His family fled Cuba when he was a child.

00:18:09.000 He says, same thing, he says, if you get in a boat and you try to float your way to Cuba, we're going to turn you back and we'll probably send you back to Cuba. 0.91

00:18:15.000 Allow me to be clear.

00:18:17.000 If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.

00:18:23.000 The time is never right to attempt migration by sea.

00:18:28.000 To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking.

00:18:34.000 Again, I repeat, do not risk your life attempting to enter the United States illegally.

00:18:42.000 You will not come to the United States. 1.00

00:18:45.000 Now, again, I'm noticing a wide gap between the level of rhetoric being used currently with regard to Cuban refugees and the rhetoric used, say, three months ago with regard to people who are attempting to cross the Mexican border illegally.

00:18:57.000 A wide gap.

00:18:58.000 Now, I'm not even saying that the policy of having people held in third party countries while they await asylum hearings for Cuban refugees, for example, is wrong.

00:19:09.000 I'm not making a case for wet foot, dry foot, which was the policy for many years in the United States, whereby if a Cuban refugee set foot on American land, then they could be granted asylum, at least while they were having their asylum claims pending.

00:19:21.000 And if they were captured by water, like the coast guard picked them off 10 feet off the shore, then they were immediately returned to their home country.

00:19:28.000 I'm not making the case that that should be the policy.

00:19:30.000 The case that I am making here is not a policy one.

00:19:33.000 The point that I'm making is that the Biden administration seems a lot more troubled by Cuban refugees seeking a place in the United States than they are by people from nearly anywhere else.

00:19:43.000 And I find that somewhat interesting.

00:19:45.000 Why?

00:19:46.000 Why?

00:19:46.000 Could it have to do with the politics of the people fleeing?

00:19:49.000 Could it?

00:19:50.000 Now, on a policy level, it seems to me that if you are fleeing communism, the United States should be a logical place for you to go, because you are coming from a country that has in place ideas antithetical to those of the United States founding, and we should welcome you with open arms.

00:20:05.000 We need more people who hate communism here in the United States.

00:20:08.000 We need more people from Hong Kong who understand the evils of communism to come to the United States and bring their entrepreneurship and bring their belief in individual rights here to the United States.

00:20:17.000 We need more people from Cuba who understand the evils of communism in the United States.

00:20:23.000 And I do think that we should take into account the values of people who are coming to the United States when we determine if they should become American citizens.

00:20:29.000 I don't think everybody has an equal claim to be an American citizen.

00:20:32.000 I think the Biden administration feels the same way.

00:20:34.000 I think that very often they feel the same way in reverse.

00:20:37.000 And just one second, we'll get to the Biden administration's policies with regard to Iran.

00:20:41.000 Again, it seems like the appeasement orientation of this administration with regard to foreign policy is quite obvious.

00:20:47.000 And it is very Obama-esque.

00:20:49.000 Never let reality get in the way of your ideological commitment to American appeasement and surrender.

00:20:54.000 If you have to make nice with the Cuban dictatorship to the point where you kind of, in wishy-washy fashion, condemn what they're doing but you won't condemn communism, then you do it.

00:21:03.000 And if you continue to negotiate with the Iranian regime, which is a fascistic theocracy that represses its own people, Even while the Iranian regime is attempting to kidnap American citizens, this bespeaks an administration that is not committed to American ideals. 0.85

00:21:17.000 It is an administration committed to certain appeasement orientation on the foreign stage.

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00:22:45.000 Speaking of Iran, the Iranian regime the other day attempted to kidnap an Iranian-American.

00:22:51.000 And again, remember when it was the Saudis doing this to Jamal Khashoggi?

00:22:57.000 A person who had a visa in the United States.

00:23:00.000 This was an international story.

00:23:01.000 They kidnapped this guy and killed him.

00:23:03.000 Khashoggi. 0.69

00:23:03.000 This turned into an international relations crisis. 0.69

00:23:06.000 When the Iranians attempt to kidnap an Iranian-American, the Biden administration basically just blows it off.

00:23:12.000 Unsealed documents from federal court have now charged four Iranian operatives for a conspiracy to kidnap a woman named Masih Al-Nashad, a human rights activist who fled Iran in 2009 and is a critic of the nation's regime.

00:23:23.000 This is according to Mediaite.

00:23:24.000 Jen Psaki was asked about all of this, and she condemned the Iranian kidnapping plot, but in rather tepid terms.

00:23:33.000 We categorically condemn Iran's dangerous and despicable reported plot to kidnap a U.S. 0.92

00:23:38.000 citizen on U.S.

00:23:40.000 soil.

00:23:41.000 We will forcefully defend U.S.

00:23:42.000 citizens and U.S.

00:23:43.000 interests.

00:23:44.000 That includes law enforcement actions like the one announced yesterday, as well as the actions the president has taken to defend U.S.

00:23:51.000 forces in the region from Iranian-backed militant groups.

00:23:54.000 It also includes our diplomatic effort to constrain Iran's nuclear program That's the part where it starts to get tepid and wild. 1.00

00:24:03.000 So, yes, we condemn.

00:24:04.000 It's despicable.

00:24:05.000 It's terrible.

00:24:05.000 Also, we need to make a deal.

00:24:07.000 We need to cut a nuclear deal with the Iranians. 1.00

00:24:09.000 Very important to cut that nuclear deal.

00:24:12.000 You know, just because they kidnap American citizens, we should definitely make sure to relieve some sanctions on them.

00:24:17.000 According to the Washington Free Beacon, the State Department informed Congress late on Tuesday it would waive sanctions on Iran's illicit oil trade.

00:24:23.000 So the country can access frozen funds from South Korea and Japan.

00:24:26.000 That is the same day the DOJ announced charges on an Iranian spy network that sought to kidnap an American.

00:24:30.000 The waiver signed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken allows the quote transfer of Iranian funds in restricted accounts to exporters in Japan and the Republic of Korea.

00:24:38.000 According to a notification sent to Congress by the State Department, the waiver allows Iranian money frozen as a result of American sanctions to be freed up without violating the law.

00:24:47.000 So, good news.

00:24:49.000 The Iranian administration is trying to kidnap Americans and also the Biden administration is trying to give them money. 0.60

00:24:55.000 What a stalwart, moderate administration this is.

00:24:59.000 This Iranian journalist then came out and said, guys, you know what would be great is if you didn't appease the regime that just tried to kidnap and kill me.

00:25:06.000 I'm a little bit disappointed with Biden's administration because I'm still waiting for them to take a strong action.

00:25:12.000 When Jamal Khashoggi, the American Saudi journalist, got brutally murdered, the whole world made statements of condemnations.

00:25:25.000 I need the same, because another regime in the Middle East, the Islamic Republic, was trying to kidnap me. 0.96

00:25:31.000 So that is why I want Biden administration to be strong.

00:25:34.000 Instead of just going after them, having a deal with them, they have to care about human rights as well.

00:25:41.000 Yes, but they don't.

00:25:42.000 But they don't.

00:25:43.000 Well, the good news is, you know, speaking of immigration, you mentioned the Cuban immigration policy that's being put out by the Biden administration right now.

00:25:49.000 Nobody gets in, right?

00:25:51.000 If you get on a boat, try to float your way on that 1955 Chevy to the United States with your children in tow.

00:25:57.000 If you do that, we will turn you back.

00:25:58.000 Meanwhile, the new democratic budget is going to try to cram through an amnesty provision.

00:26:04.000 Truly, it's an amazing thing.

00:26:05.000 They're going to try and amnesty some 11 million people who are living in the United States illegally.

00:26:10.000 So the rule is that if you're already here, and if you cross the southern border generally, or you're overstaying your visa, we are going to make sure that we have some sort of plan for you to become a citizen.

00:26:20.000 If you are trying to escape communist tyranny in Cuba, then we are going to turn you back.

00:26:25.000 So, the Democrats are attempting to leverage this into a budget bill.

00:26:28.000 They couldn't pass a separate immigration bill.

00:26:30.000 Our government is completely non-functional.

00:26:32.000 The bargain that was created by the Founding Fathers with regard to how legislation was supposed to work is never pursued.

00:26:37.000 It just does not exist anymore.

00:26:40.000 So, it used to be that Schoolhouse Rock described how a bill was passed, right?

00:26:44.000 It was proposed in the House, and then it was passed by the Senate, and then, if there were disagreements between the House and the Senate bill, there would be a committee, they would get together, they'd make some changes, they'd both vote on the bill again, and then it would go to the President, who would veto it.

00:26:55.000 And now, the way that bills basically work is you put together a million-page bill that no one has ever read, and then you cram it through in the dead of night with a straight party-line vote, and then the media demagogued the issue by suggesting that anybody who was against the bill was against every element of the bill.

00:27:12.000 And so we just end up with these crap sandwiches of bills.

00:27:14.000 It's been a long time since we have passed a single-issue bill that was not a giant crap sandwich. 0.99

00:27:19.000 So Democrats are trying to shove down their latest crap sandwich. 0.99

00:27:21.000 This is a $3.5 trillion budget bill. 0.98

00:27:25.000 This is apart from the quote-unquote bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.

00:27:29.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:27:31.000 But this bill does include amnesty provisions.

00:27:34.000 It's an attempt to cram through amnesty provisions.

00:27:38.000 According to Representative Jayapal, who is from Washington, Pramila Jayapal, she said on Wednesday that the $3.5 trillion budget proposal by Democrats will include a number of top liberal priorities, including pathways to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

00:27:52.000 We're not going to try to negotiate exactly how that works.

00:27:55.000 And we're not going to shut the border before we do that.

00:27:57.000 We're just going to grant amnesty.

00:27:59.000 Now, listen, everybody in the United States has a... Here's the truth.

00:28:02.000 Most Americans are pretty much on the same page when it comes to illegal immigration.

00:28:06.000 Close the border.

00:28:07.000 Figure out what to do with the people here.

00:28:09.000 Close the border is the first step of that.

00:28:11.000 But you haven't closed the border.

00:28:12.000 The border is wide open.

00:28:13.000 We have more people being held in containment facilities on the border than any time during the Trump administration.

00:28:18.000 Like right now.

00:28:19.000 The border has been deemed wide open by the Biden administration.

00:28:22.000 Lately, they are trying to pretend that they are shutting the border.

00:28:24.000 They are not.

00:28:26.000 And then they're just going to legalize people who are already here illegally, thus spurring more illegal immigration, which of course is the entire point.

00:28:32.000 And they're going to try and cram through all of these illegal immigration provisions in a budget bill, which again is not how this thing is supposed to be done.

00:28:39.000 Last I checked, immigration bills are supposed to be about immigration, and budget bills are supposed to be about the budget.

00:28:44.000 But because of budget reconciliation processes, you can pass a reconciliation bill through 50 votes plus one in the Senate.

00:28:52.000 Or 50 votes plus the Vice President in the Senate.

00:28:54.000 And then you don't have to worry about the filibuster.

00:28:56.000 If this were just an immigration bill, it would undoubtedly be filibustered.

00:29:00.000 But because they're stuffing it into a budget bill, illegally I should add, they're going to try and get this through with a simple party-line majority vote.

00:29:10.000 So apparently, the bill would include provisions to allow recipients of Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival programs full citizenship.

00:29:17.000 Temporary protected status recipients would also be given a green card, basically.

00:29:22.000 It would include a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers, TPS essential workers, and farm workers as well.

00:29:29.000 According to Fox News, while the details are unclear, past efforts at such pathways for farmworkers have been eligible for if they have worked 400 days or more in a five-year period and passed background checks that included seasonal or temporary work.

00:29:42.000 Democrats also want amnesty for quote-unquote essential workers.

00:29:46.000 They define this term broadly, including anyone who works in a sector like health care, emergency response, sanitation, restaurant ownership, food preparation, vending, catering, food packaging, meat processing, hotel or retail work, agricultural work, landscaping, construction, any services, house cleaning and janitorial services.

00:29:59.000 So basically, if you're in the United States working illegally, we should give you a visa. 0.82

00:30:04.000 We should give you a green card and a path toward citizenship.

00:30:06.000 And they're going to try and cram this through in a budget bill.

00:30:09.000 In the dead of night, via reconciliation.

00:30:12.000 It's illegal, by the way.

00:30:13.000 Again, I'll explain that in a second.

00:30:14.000 They're not allowed to do this.

00:30:15.000 They're gonna try it anyway.

00:30:16.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:31:43.000 Alrighty, so.

00:31:45.000 Democrats, again, they're trying to push forward this amnesty package.

00:31:48.000 They don't really have the legal ability to use some of that.

00:31:51.000 That probably won't stop them.

00:31:52.000 Christopher Jacobs has a good piece over at The Federalist about this.

00:31:55.000 He points out that reconciliation typically requires certain things to be fulfilled in order to be included in a reconciliation bill.

00:32:01.000 You can't just slap together any old thing and then say, budget reconciliation applies.

00:32:05.000 It's a very specific procedure for things that are supposed to be budgetarily neutral.

00:32:11.000 Well, as Jacobs points out, Democrats want to use reconciliation to ram through priorities through the Senate on a party-line vote.

00:32:18.000 But that process includes procedural strictures, including a six-part test called the Byrd Rule, designed to preserve the integrity of the legislative filibuster.

00:32:24.000 Because remember, basically what budget reconciliation is, it's a way to pass budgets, even though there's an attempt to filibuster.

00:32:30.000 That rule, named for former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, prohibits the inclusion of extraneous material absent the agreement of 60 senators to waive Senate rules and keep the material in the bill.

00:32:40.000 One of the tests, under the Byrd rule, applies to a provision that produces changes in outlays or revenues, which are merely incidental to the non-budgetary components of the provision.

00:32:49.000 This test, for example, tripped up the minimum wage increase Democrats wanted to add to their COVID relief bill earlier this year.

00:32:56.000 says Jacob's immigration replicates the minimum wage debate.

00:32:59.000 In February, the CBO concluded raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would have sizable budgetary effects.

00:33:04.000 CBO estimated such an increase would generate a total of $19.7 billion in net tax revenue over 10 years.

00:33:10.000 It would also increase the deficit by $54 billion over the same period of time.

00:33:15.000 CBO concluded a minimum wage increase would raise wages by a net of $333 billion over 10 years, which was a lot higher than the $19.7 billion in net revenue the federal government would receive.

00:33:24.000 So it really wasn't a budgetary proposal.

00:33:26.000 It had to do with just general policy.

00:33:29.000 He says they would have a... Jacob says, changes to immigration laws are sort of similar.

00:33:33.000 They have a budgetary impact, but regardless of whether you believe these would increase or decrease the federal deficit, they have far larger changes on the economy and the country as a whole.

00:33:40.000 So they'd probably fall afoul of the Byrd rule test.

00:33:43.000 So it's not even clear that you can cram immigration into the budget, but that's not going to try to... Democrats are going to try it anyway.

00:33:50.000 Now, it's pretty unpopular, is the reality.

00:33:52.000 According to the Washington Examiner, new polling data suggests that most Americans are not particularly happy with the way that Joe Biden has been handling the border.

00:34:02.000 Democrats, however, need to cram this through.

00:34:04.000 Remember, for Democrat, it is all about world-breaking change and doing it fast and doing it quickly and making sure that you can get more Democratic voters in the polls as fast as humanly possible.

00:34:15.000 Again, I think that it is very difficult to miss the level of discrepancy between how Democrats are treating Republican refugees, or presumed possible Republican refugees from Cuba, and how they're treating the illegal immigrants who are currently here who they presume will vote Democrat.

00:34:32.000 I don't think the Democrats are completely unaware of the political consequences of what they're doing right here.

00:34:38.000 But it's not just a matter of amnesty.

00:34:40.000 They're also pushing forward, as we say, a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill.

00:34:43.000 Now, you may have noticed we have a serious inflation problem in the country right now.

00:34:47.000 We are seeing prices spiking dramatically year over year.

00:34:51.000 Perhaps that peters out.

00:34:52.000 Perhaps it doesn't.

00:34:53.000 You know, it's a bad idea blowing trillions of new spending into the economy.

00:34:56.000 I mean, Joe Biden has proposed something like $12 trillion of new spending already this year.

00:35:01.000 We spent $7 trillion last year.

00:35:03.000 We've already spent $2 trillion on one of Joe Biden's plans.

00:35:07.000 He wants to also pass this American Jobs and Family Plan, which is another $2 trillion.

00:35:11.000 He wants to pass a $1.2 trillion quote-unquote infrastructure plan.

00:35:14.000 And then he also wants to pass the $3.5 trillion budget.

00:35:18.000 That's a lot of money to blow into the American economy as inflation rises.

00:35:24.000 So Democrats want a $3.5 trillion budget.

00:35:28.000 President Biden says we're going to get a lot done.

00:35:30.000 That's what he says.

00:35:32.000 Not only that, by the way, he says we have to have two tracks.

00:35:34.000 Here's where the Republicans need to stop being dum-dums.

00:35:36.000 So I pointed out earlier that you had these Republicans, Mitt Romney, were trying to cut a bipartisan deal with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema with regard to infrastructure, right?

00:35:45.000 They'd cut down the bill from like $2 trillion to $1.2 trillion.

00:35:48.000 Oh, bipartisanship, yay!

00:35:49.000 But Joe Biden had said pretty clearly, we are going to simply take all the spending we can't do there and we're going to ram it through reconciliation.

00:35:55.000 So why are you giving him the veneer of bipartisanship?

00:35:59.000 Why?

00:36:00.000 If the idea here is that you are dealing with the Democrats to reduce the spending, and if Democrats say, oh yeah, simultaneously, we on a party-line vote are also going to cram through the spending with this hand while we do the bipartisan thing with this hand, well then why would you give them the bipartisan thing?

00:36:13.000 It makes no sense at all.

00:36:15.000 And Joe Biden is not hiding the ball here.

00:36:16.000 He's made very clear that he wants a quote-unquote two-track process whereby he gets Republican help to pass a $1.2 trillion boondoggle.

00:36:24.000 Most of it is a boondoggle.

00:36:25.000 And at the same time, he wants to ram through with 50 votes Including cinema and mansion.

00:36:31.000 This $3.5 trillion budget proposal.

00:36:34.000 That's $4.7 trillion in new spending after spending $2 trillion already this year.

00:36:39.000 And that ain't gonna be the end of it.

00:36:40.000 Here's Joe Biden openly saying that he is lying to Republicans and that the entire goal here is to basically inflate the reconciliation balloon if the bipartisan balloon gets a little bit deflated in terms of the amount of spending.

00:36:52.000 We have an agreement.

00:36:53.000 We have an agreement.

00:36:54.000 There may be slight changes.

00:36:56.000 I'm not sure what may happen, exactly how, but it's going to be paid for and that's what we're going to do.

00:37:02.000 So thank you all very much.

00:37:04.000 Mr. President, any concern that having two tracks here will disrupt the bipartisan agreement?

00:37:10.000 No, I think it's the only way to get it done is having two tracks.

00:37:14.000 Okay, he's openly saying what he is doing. 1.00

00:37:16.000 So if you are Senator Romney, or if you are Senator Portman, or if you're any of the other senators on the Republican side of the aisle who are providing cover to these shenanigans, don't be an idiot. 1.00

00:37:25.000 What are you doing? 1.00

00:37:26.000 What are you doing? 0.99

00:37:27.000 Why are you giving him the patina of bipartisanship when he is openly stating that he's going to stab you directly between the shoulder blades?

00:37:34.000 Unless you have tremendous levels of trust from Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema that they killed the $3.5 trillion budget plan because they prefer the bipartisan plan.

00:37:42.000 Then you need to withdraw, okay?

00:37:43.000 And we need, like, open assurances from Manchin and Sinema right now that they're not going to vote for this $3.5 trillion bill that is an attempt also to cram through amnesty at the same exact time.

00:37:53.000 Now, it's unclear where Manchin and Sinema are going to come down on this.

00:37:55.000 Apparently, Manchin supports the immigration provisions of the budget reconciliation bill, which is unbelievable.

00:38:03.000 Again, if that happens, then obviously there are no provisions for recall of senators, obviously, in places like West Virginia.

00:38:10.000 But next time he's up for election, he's going to be in serious trouble in West Virginia if he continues to push forward amnesty in any sort of budget reconciliation plan.

00:38:19.000 But Manchin has not made clear exactly where he stands on all of this.

00:38:21.000 He says, I know my Democratic colleagues on the Budget Committee have worked hard.

00:38:24.000 I look forward to reviewing their agreement.

00:38:25.000 I'm also very interested in how this proposal is paid for and how it enables us to remain globally competitive.

00:38:30.000 I will reserve any final judgment until I've had the opportunity to thoroughly evaluate So it sounds like he is at least a little bit skeptical of the $3.5 trillion budget plan.

00:38:38.000 Again, they're doing all of this in an inflationary spiral.

00:38:41.000 Fed Chair Jerome Powell admitted yesterday that the inflation has been much higher than expected in recent months.

00:38:47.000 The incoming inflation data have been higher than expected and hoped for, but they're actually still consistent with what we've been talking about.

00:38:54.000 The very high inflation readings are coming from a small group of goods and services that are directly tied to the reopening of the economy.

00:39:03.000 It's new cars, used cars, rental cars, hotel rooms, airplane tickets, things that we understand.

00:39:12.000 By the way, this just demonstrates the Federal Reserve has no intention of slowing the vast inflation that they are inflicting on the economy right now.

00:39:20.000 And by the way, even if they slow the inflation, the amount of government spending and regulation and taxation that's about to be put on the economy is going to sink the record American growth rates we are currently seeing down to 1% within two years.

00:39:32.000 That is basically according to the Biden administration's own estimates at this point.

00:39:35.000 All right, in just one second, we'll get to the Biden administration pushing forward the idea once more that we are in some sort of civil war.

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00:42:16.000 So the Democratic Party, the Biden administration, they're not stopping with budget reconciliation.

00:42:27.000 They're also, of course, pushing forward this terrible For the People Act, which completely rewrites the bargain between the states and the federal government with regard to voting procedure.

00:42:36.000 The Democrats continue to foster the lie, and it is an absolute dangerous lie.

00:42:40.000 And it is a lie that is going to lead to actual conflict and maybe violence.

00:42:44.000 This lie is that half of Americans are seeking to return to Jim Crow. 0.95

00:42:47.000 Half Americans are brutal, vicious racists who are seeking to return to a horrible time of racial oppression. 1.00

00:42:54.000 And in support of this lie, Texas Democratic legislators absconded. 0.96

00:42:57.000 They left the state of Texas and they fled to their favorite people in Washington, D.C.

00:43:03.000 They fled over to the warm, cuddly blanket of Washington, D.C., where they were welcomed with open arms by the White House.

00:43:10.000 Now remember, this is not anti-democratic.

00:43:12.000 It's not anti-democratic for a party in the minority to flee in order to deny quorum.

00:43:16.000 It's anti-democratic for a party to vote in the majority in Texas for voter ID.

00:43:21.000 That's anti-democratic according to the Democrats.

00:43:23.000 You may have noticed the word democratic doesn't actually mean a majority votes in this particular scenario.

00:43:28.000 It just means Democrats don't get what they want.

00:43:30.000 In any case, Jen Psaki was out there defending these Texas Democratic legislators yesterday because, after all, No biggie. 1.00

00:43:37.000 When you flee a state in order to avoid losing, that is not anti-democratic.

00:43:41.000 That is brave.

00:43:43.000 The Vice President met with these legislators yesterday, and the President, I should say, certainly applauds their actions and their outspoken opposition to efforts to put in place restrictive measures in their state.

00:43:57.000 And maybe it is funny to think about it that way, but the President is talking about this as the most serious assault on our democracy.

00:44:03.000 I don't think anything about this is funny.

00:44:08.000 I don't think anything about this is funny.

00:44:09.000 Well, I mean, it's a little funny.

00:44:11.000 They show up in Washington, D.C., they eat Caesar salads, they talk about how brave they are, and they sing We Shall Overcome while they are being massaged by Kamala Harris.

00:44:18.000 It's a little funny.

00:44:19.000 The notion that these are brave freedom fighters is entirely absurd and on its face.

00:44:23.000 Nonetheless, that is how the most awkward and fake politician of the modern era, Kamala Harris, put it yesterday. 1.00

00:44:29.000 She defended these Texas legislators and compared them to Frederick Douglass.

00:44:33.000 Because they're just like a freed slave who spends his life going around trying to teach others about the evils of slavery.

00:44:38.000 They're just like that.

00:44:39.000 Except for how they're not like that in any possible way.

00:44:41.000 Here is Kamala Harris being awful. 1.00

00:44:44.000 They took bold, courageous action.

00:44:48.000 In line with the legacy of everyone from Frederick Douglass, who's over my right shoulder when he fought for the right of black men to vote in America, to the legacy that includes all those women who marched down Pennsylvania Avenue for women's right to vote, to all of those folks who shed their blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to make sure that we would, in 1965, pass the Voting Rights Act.

00:45:14.000 Um, no, that is no, that is not remotely correct.

00:45:17.000 But one of the democratic attempts here is to rewrite America's history.

00:45:21.000 So number one is way worse than it is, right?

00:45:23.000 America's history has enough dark spots.

00:45:25.000 You don't have to make America's entire history the history of all racism in the universe.

00:45:30.000 And root all of America's institutions in it.

00:45:32.000 That's one thing Democrats are trying to do. 1.00

00:45:33.000 And then they're trying to make the secondary move, which is to say that today's Republicans are defenders of that history and want to return to that history.

00:45:41.000 There's a reason why she's comparing this to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, because the suggestion, of course, I mean, Joe Biden is saying it openly, is that today's Republicans are exactly the same as people who are using fire hoses on Martin Luther King.

00:45:50.000 That is exactly what she is suggesting.

00:45:53.000 And some people like Charles Blow say the same thing fairly openly.

00:45:56.000 Charles Blow of the New York Times.

00:45:58.000 Again, one of the lesser lights over at the New York Times op-ed page.

00:46:02.000 He has a piece today titled, Welcome to Jim Crow 2.0.

00:46:05.000 Now again, you may be asking yourself, wait a second, this doesn't look anything like Jim Crow.

00:46:09.000 I've noticed that this doesn't look literally anything like Jim Crow.

00:46:12.000 That black people are voting in record numbers.

00:46:14.000 Black people are being elected in record numbers.

00:46:16.000 We've had a black president twice. 0.98

00:46:17.000 Many of the most powerful people in our society are black. 0.94

00:46:21.000 We have an entire country that mobilized to post black squares on their Facebook page based on the lie that America's police are targeting black people, which is not statistically true. 0.94

00:46:31.000 And yet, this is like Jim Crow 2.0.

00:46:32.000 According to Charles Blow, it is.

00:46:34.000 According to Charles Blow, it's exactly like 1890.

00:46:37.000 Nothing has changed.

00:46:39.000 And this is the game that people on the left are constantly playing.

00:46:42.000 The evils of the past are here.

00:46:44.000 They are just more subtle in American society today.

00:46:46.000 They've just gone underground.

00:46:48.000 But you can spot the signs.

00:46:50.000 And the signs are people wearing red hat.

00:46:52.000 And the signs are people voting Republican.

00:46:53.000 And the signs are people supporting voter ID.

00:46:55.000 And the signs are people supporting voter integrity.

00:46:59.000 And so there is only one choice.

00:47:00.000 Trillions of dollars in spending, amnesty and budget reconciliation bills, a federalization of all voting procedures, and give us what we want because our enemies are Hitler. 0.92

00:47:08.000 That is, it's an immature push by the Democrats, but it may be all they have left considering that their agenda is wildly unpopular.

00:47:15.000 Alrighty, we will be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show.

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