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00:01:29.000Alrighty, so Cuba continues to be a hotspot.
00:01:33.000The Cuban police have now been rounding people up.
00:01:36.000I mean, to the point where there's actual video of Cuban YouTube star.
00:02:25.000The Cuban crackdown is not unexpected.
00:02:29.000This 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.
00:02:37.000Obviously, we saw just a couple of years ago when millions of people were in the streets in Venezuela.
00:02:41.000And yet the Venezuelan communist regime continued to maintain its power by cracking down on people who were dissenting.
00:02:49.000Now, meanwhile, I have to say that the left's perspective on this is absolutely astonishing.
00:02:54.000Because for people who really say that what they want is Denmark or Norway, they have a really tough time simply condemning communism.
00:03:01.000They have a really rough time saying that these regimes are evil and bad.
00:03:05.000It took Bernie Sanders a couple of days to comment.
00:03:07.000When 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.
00:03:14.000And now you have Black Lives Matter sounding off.
00:03:17.000Now, let me remind you, Black Lives Matter is a semantically overloaded term.
00:03:20.000There's some people who, when they say Black Lives Matter, mean a perfectly obvious thing, which is that Black Lives Matter.
00:03:26.000Just like every life matters, and black people should not be targeted by the police, more than anybody else should be targeted by the police.
00:03:34.000The 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.
00:03:44.000They put out, it's just a garbage organization.
00:03:45.000It's been a garbage organization since it was founded in the mid-2010s.
00:03:50.000And its founders are openly Marxist in orientation.
00:03:54.000Meanwhile, skimming off the top, presumably, or allegedly, in order to go buy themselves really, really nice houses in Tabanka Canyon.
00:04:01.000So Black Lives Matter, the organization, which, remember, You had corporations donating millions of dollars to.
00:04:06.000You had people posting black squares in support of the organization, not just the generalized idea, in favor of the organization.
00:04:13.000This organization is a garbage communist organization.
00:04:17.000So 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.
00:04:42.000federal government's inhumane treatment of Cubans and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo.
00:04:47.000This 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.
00:04:56.000Since 1962, the United States has forced pain and suffering on the people of Cuba.
00:05:00.000By cutting off food, medicine, and supplies, costing the tiny island nation an estimated $130 billion.
00:05:05.000So you see, it's all the fault of the United States.
00:05:08.000It's all the fault of the United States according to Black Lives Matter.
00:05:10.000Because according to Black Lives Matter, the West is always wrong.
00:05:14.000According 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.
00:05:26.000Why would you trust them when it comes to the cops?
00:05:28.000Why would you trust them when it comes to the systems of power in the United States?
00:05:31.000Why would you trust them with regard to anything?
00:05:36.000And here they are, repeating communist propaganda.
00:05:39.000My favorite part of this particular paragraph is where they say the United States has been undermining Cuba's right to choose its own government.
00:05:45.000You know what really undermines Cuba's right to choose their own government?
00:05:48.000The fact that they haven't held a vote since 1962.
00:05:54.000Okay, 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.
00:06:09.000I'll say it real slowly for those of you who are having a tough time.
00:06:12.000Black Lives Matter, the organization, is garbage, should be condemned, and no responsible person should be associated with it.
00:06:19.000BLM 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.
00:06:42.000Says BLM, the people of Cuba are being punished by the U.S.
00:06:45.000government because the country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination.
00:06:50.000Yes, 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.
00:07:06.000It sounds like self-determination when you don't allow anybody to vote ever.
00:07:15.000Because everything comes down to racism for a Black Lives Matter.
00:07:16.000Amity, 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.
00:07:25.000is 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.
00:07:40.000In 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.
00:07:51.000Okay, 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.
00:08:04.000From protecting black revolutionaries like Assata Shakur through granting her asylum, to supporting black liberation struggles in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and South Africa.
00:08:40.000And 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.
00:08:49.000For example, Chen Psaki was asked yesterday whether the Biden administration would put out a statement condemning communism.
00:09:13.000It's the mismanagement that's the problem.
00:09:15.000If the communists were just good managers, then everything would be fine.
00:09:18.000But the communists are bad managers, and so it's a little bit bad.
00:09:20.000But it has nothing to do with communism per se.
00:09:23.000So here is Jen Psaki being asked about condemning communism and shying away from it.
00:09:26.000Do you think that people are leaving Cuba because they don't like communism?
00:09:31.000I 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.
00:09:44.000And we certainly support their right to protest.
00:09:46.000We support their efforts to speak out against their treatment in Cuba.
00:09:51.000Hmm, I'm noticing a word missing there.
00:10:26.000Well, 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.
00:10:47.000It's amazing how hard a time the left, the squad, even the mainstream Democratic Party has simply saying communism is evil.
00:10:53.000And back in the 1960s, the Democratic Party didn't have any problem saying communism was evil.
00:10:57.000But 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.
00:11:09.000And it's quite awful and it's quite disgusting.
00:11:12.000And 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.
00:11:24.000The United States is not about class in the same way that Europe was about class.
00:11:27.000There are not these sort of hard and fast classes from which people can never move.
00:11:31.000The 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.
00:11:41.000And 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.
00:11:49.000Apparently not very much has changed, which is pretty shocking.
00:11:54.000By the way, there is a reminder to be had here that Barack Obama and his administration were quite friendly to the Cuban regime.
00:12:00.000You'll recall that you traveled to Cuba, you hung out with Raul Castro, you held hands with the guy.
00:12:04.000Yeah, he went to a baseball game with him and then he praised the Cuban dictator.
00:12:31.000The life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to the United States, despite it being a very poor country, because they have access to healthcare.
00:13:04.000And forget about the sort of policy prescriptions here.
00:13:07.000The moral statement that communism is a great evil should not be tough.
00:13:11.000And yet, for a lot of folks, apparently it really, really is.
00:13:14.000I will say, I think my favorite media take on this over the last couple of days, there's a take from Reuters.
00:13:20.000Here 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.
00:13:31.000But if you gathered to dance in defense of George Floyd, then you're definitely not going to spread COVID.
00:13:36.000All I can say is communism is a public health crisis.
00:13:39.000Just 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.
00:13:48.000Alrighty, 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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00:15:15.000Okay, 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.
00:15:26.000Now, The Biden administration has changed its tune a little bit when it comes to people coming to the United States border.
00:15:33.000Only in the past few weeks have they started to say things like, don't show up at the southern border.
00:15:37.000But for months, the message was, don't show up like right now.
00:15:40.000But if you do show up, we're not going to hold you in a third party country like Mexico.
00:15:45.000Remember, 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.
00:15:55.000The 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.
00:16:02.000The Biden administration made very clear before Biden even took office that they were going to be very pro-open borders.
00:16:07.000They were not going to strictly enforce immigration law.
00:16:10.000And that if you showed up at the border that you would probably be released into the interior.
00:16:14.000But when it comes to the Cubans, different story.
00:16:16.000You know, people who seem to have a pretty good asylum claim.
00:16:19.000And these are not folks who are fleeing because they're lacking a job.
00:16:23.000These are not folks who are fleeing because of economic circumstance.
00:16:25.000These are people who are fleeing communist oppression.
00:16:28.000So much so that they are not braving a walk or a train ride or even a coyote smuggling across the American border.
00:16:36.000They are literally getting in boats with leaks and attempting to float their way via the tides to Florida through shark-infested waters.
00:16:44.000And according to the Biden administration, well now they're getting tough on immigration.
00:16:47.000Weird how they get real tough on immigration when it comes to Cuban populations.
00:16:51.000Presumably 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.
00:17:00.000That'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.
00:17:20.000Here's Jen Psaki being very harsh with Cubans who are attempting to flee.
00:17:24.000The 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.
00:17:40.000There 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.
00:17:58.000Alejandro Mayorkas is the current head of the Department of Homeland Security and who himself is a Cuban refugee immigrant.
00:18:05.000His family fled Cuba when he was a child.
00:18:09.000He 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.
00:18:17.000If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.
00:18:23.000The time is never right to attempt migration by sea.
00:18:28.000To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking.
00:18:34.000Again, I repeat, do not risk your life attempting to enter the United States illegally.
00:18:42.000You will not come to the United States.
00:18:45.000Now, 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.
00:18:58.000Now, 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.
00:19:09.000I'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.
00:19:21.000And 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.
00:19:28.000I'm not making the case that that should be the policy.
00:19:30.000The case that I am making here is not a policy one.
00:19:33.000The 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.
00:19:50.000Now, 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.
00:20:05.000We need more people who hate communism here in the United States.
00:20:08.000We 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.
00:20:17.000We need more people from Cuba who understand the evils of communism in the United States.
00:20:23.000And 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.
00:20:29.000I don't think everybody has an equal claim to be an American citizen.
00:20:32.000I think the Biden administration feels the same way.
00:20:34.000I think that very often they feel the same way in reverse.
00:20:37.000And just one second, we'll get to the Biden administration's policies with regard to Iran.
00:20:41.000Again, it seems like the appeasement orientation of this administration with regard to foreign policy is quite obvious.
00:20:49.000Never let reality get in the way of your ideological commitment to American appeasement and surrender.
00:20:54.000If 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.
00:21:03.000And 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.
00:21:17.000It is an administration committed to certain appeasement orientation on the foreign stage.
00:21:23.000We'll get to more of that in just one moment.
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00:23:03.000This turned into an international relations crisis.
00:23:06.000When the Iranians attempt to kidnap an Iranian-American, the Biden administration basically just blows it off.
00:23:12.000Unsealed 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.
00:24:07.000We need to cut a nuclear deal with the Iranians.
00:24:09.000Very important to cut that nuclear deal.
00:24:12.000You know, just because they kidnap American citizens, we should definitely make sure to relieve some sanctions on them.
00:24:17.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, the State Department informed Congress late on Tuesday it would waive sanctions on Iran's illicit oil trade.
00:24:23.000So the country can access frozen funds from South Korea and Japan.
00:24:26.000That is the same day the DOJ announced charges on an Iranian spy network that sought to kidnap an American.
00:24:30.000The 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.
00:24:38.000According 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.
00:24:49.000The Iranian administration is trying to kidnap Americans and also the Biden administration is trying to give them money.
00:24:55.000What a stalwart, moderate administration this is.
00:24:59.000This 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.
00:25:06.000I'm a little bit disappointed with Biden's administration because I'm still waiting for them to take a strong action.
00:25:12.000When Jamal Khashoggi, the American Saudi journalist, got brutally murdered, the whole world made statements of condemnations.
00:25:25.000I need the same, because another regime in the Middle East, the Islamic Republic, was trying to kidnap me.
00:25:31.000So that is why I want Biden administration to be strong.
00:25:34.000Instead of just going after them, having a deal with them, they have to care about human rights as well.
00:25:43.000Well, 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.
00:26:05.000They're going to try and amnesty some 11 million people who are living in the United States illegally.
00:26:10.000So 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.
00:26:20.000If you are trying to escape communist tyranny in Cuba, then we are going to turn you back.
00:26:25.000So, the Democrats are attempting to leverage this into a budget bill.
00:26:28.000They couldn't pass a separate immigration bill.
00:26:30.000Our government is completely non-functional.
00:26:32.000The bargain that was created by the Founding Fathers with regard to how legislation was supposed to work is never pursued.
00:26:40.000So, it used to be that Schoolhouse Rock described how a bill was passed, right?
00:26:44.000It 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.
00:26:55.000And 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.
00:27:12.000And so we just end up with these crap sandwiches of bills.
00:27:14.000It's been a long time since we have passed a single-issue bill that was not a giant crap sandwich.
00:27:19.000So Democrats are trying to shove down their latest crap sandwich.
00:27:31.000But this bill does include amnesty provisions.
00:27:34.000It's an attempt to cram through amnesty provisions.
00:27:38.000According 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.
00:27:52.000We're not going to try to negotiate exactly how that works.
00:27:55.000And we're not going to shut the border before we do that.
00:28:26.000And 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.
00:28:32.000And 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.
00:28:39.000Last I checked, immigration bills are supposed to be about immigration, and budget bills are supposed to be about the budget.
00:28:44.000But because of budget reconciliation processes, you can pass a reconciliation bill through 50 votes plus one in the Senate.
00:28:52.000Or 50 votes plus the Vice President in the Senate.
00:28:54.000And then you don't have to worry about the filibuster.
00:28:56.000If this were just an immigration bill, it would undoubtedly be filibustered.
00:29:00.000But 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.
00:29:10.000So apparently, the bill would include provisions to allow recipients of Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival programs full citizenship.
00:29:17.000Temporary protected status recipients would also be given a green card, basically.
00:29:22.000It would include a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers, TPS essential workers, and farm workers as well.
00:29:29.000According 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.
00:29:42.000Democrats also want amnesty for quote-unquote essential workers.
00:29:46.000They 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.
00:29:59.000So basically, if you're in the United States working illegally, we should give you a visa.
00:30:04.000We should give you a green card and a path toward citizenship.
00:30:06.000And they're going to try and cram this through in a budget bill.
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00:31:52.000Christopher Jacobs has a good piece over at The Federalist about this.
00:31:55.000He points out that reconciliation typically requires certain things to be fulfilled in order to be included in a reconciliation bill.
00:32:01.000You can't just slap together any old thing and then say, budget reconciliation applies.
00:32:05.000It's a very specific procedure for things that are supposed to be budgetarily neutral.
00:32:11.000Well, as Jacobs points out, Democrats want to use reconciliation to ram through priorities through the Senate on a party-line vote.
00:32:18.000But that process includes procedural strictures, including a six-part test called the Byrd Rule, designed to preserve the integrity of the legislative filibuster.
00:32:24.000Because remember, basically what budget reconciliation is, it's a way to pass budgets, even though there's an attempt to filibuster.
00:32:30.000That 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.
00:32:40.000One 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.
00:32:49.000This test, for example, tripped up the minimum wage increase Democrats wanted to add to their COVID relief bill earlier this year.
00:32:56.000says Jacob's immigration replicates the minimum wage debate.
00:32:59.000In February, the CBO concluded raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would have sizable budgetary effects.
00:33:04.000CBO estimated such an increase would generate a total of $19.7 billion in net tax revenue over 10 years.
00:33:10.000It would also increase the deficit by $54 billion over the same period of time.
00:33:15.000CBO 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.
00:33:24.000So it really wasn't a budgetary proposal.
00:33:26.000It had to do with just general policy.
00:33:29.000He says they would have a... Jacob says, changes to immigration laws are sort of similar.
00:33:33.000They 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.
00:33:40.000So they'd probably fall afoul of the Byrd rule test.
00:33:43.000So 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.
00:33:50.000Now, it's pretty unpopular, is the reality.
00:33:52.000According 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.
00:34:02.000Democrats, however, need to cram this through.
00:34:04.000Remember, 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.
00:34:15.000Again, 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.
00:34:32.000I don't think the Democrats are completely unaware of the political consequences of what they're doing right here.
00:34:38.000But it's not just a matter of amnesty.
00:34:40.000They're also pushing forward, as we say, a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill.
00:34:43.000Now, you may have noticed we have a serious inflation problem in the country right now.
00:34:47.000We are seeing prices spiking dramatically year over year.
00:35:32.000Not only that, by the way, he says we have to have two tracks.
00:35:34.000Here's where the Republicans need to stop being dum-dums.
00:35:36.000So 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?
00:35:45.000They'd cut down the bill from like $2 trillion to $1.2 trillion.
00:35:49.000But 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.
00:35:55.000So why are you giving him the veneer of bipartisanship?
00:36:00.000If 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?
00:36:34.000That's $4.7 trillion in new spending after spending $2 trillion already this year.
00:36:39.000And that ain't gonna be the end of it.
00:36:40.000Here'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.
00:37:04.000Mr. President, any concern that having two tracks here will disrupt the bipartisan agreement?
00:37:10.000No, I think it's the only way to get it done is having two tracks.
00:37:14.000Okay, he's openly saying what he is doing.
00:37:16.000So 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.
00:37:27.000Why 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?
00:37:34.000Unless 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.
00:37:43.000And 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.
00:37:53.000Now, it's unclear where Manchin and Sinema are going to come down on this.
00:37:55.000Apparently, Manchin supports the immigration provisions of the budget reconciliation bill, which is unbelievable.
00:38:03.000Again, if that happens, then obviously there are no provisions for recall of senators, obviously, in places like West Virginia.
00:38:10.000But 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.
00:38:19.000But Manchin has not made clear exactly where he stands on all of this.
00:38:21.000He says, I know my Democratic colleagues on the Budget Committee have worked hard.
00:38:24.000I look forward to reviewing their agreement.
00:38:25.000I'm also very interested in how this proposal is paid for and how it enables us to remain globally competitive.
00:38:30.000I 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.
00:38:38.000Again, they're doing all of this in an inflationary spiral.
00:38:41.000Fed Chair Jerome Powell admitted yesterday that the inflation has been much higher than expected in recent months.
00:38:47.000The incoming inflation data have been higher than expected and hoped for, but they're actually still consistent with what we've been talking about.
00:38:54.000The very high inflation readings are coming from a small group of goods and services that are directly tied to the reopening of the economy.
00:39:03.000It's new cars, used cars, rental cars, hotel rooms, airplane tickets, things that we understand.
00:39:12.000By 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.
00:39:20.000And 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.
00:39:32.000That is basically according to the Biden administration's own estimates at this point.
00:39:35.000All 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.
00:40:53.000All right, we'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:40:54.000First, as totalitarian lockdowns rage on across the world and places like California creep toward reinstating mask mandates, it is not difficult to see that we are living through a rather authoritarian time.
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00:41:18.000And the institutions have been weaponized against us.
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00:42:16.000So the Democratic Party, the Biden administration, they're not stopping with budget reconciliation.
00:42:27.000They'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.
00:42:36.000The Democrats continue to foster the lie, and it is an absolute dangerous lie.
00:42:40.000And it is a lie that is going to lead to actual conflict and maybe violence.
00:42:44.000This lie is that half of Americans are seeking to return to Jim Crow.
00:42:47.000Half Americans are brutal, vicious racists who are seeking to return to a horrible time of racial oppression.
00:42:54.000And in support of this lie, Texas Democratic legislators absconded.
00:42:57.000They left the state of Texas and they fled to their favorite people in Washington, D.C.
00:43:03.000They fled over to the warm, cuddly blanket of Washington, D.C., where they were welcomed with open arms by the White House.
00:43:10.000Now remember, this is not anti-democratic.
00:43:12.000It's not anti-democratic for a party in the minority to flee in order to deny quorum.
00:43:16.000It's anti-democratic for a party to vote in the majority in Texas for voter ID.
00:43:21.000That's anti-democratic according to the Democrats.
00:43:23.000You may have noticed the word democratic doesn't actually mean a majority votes in this particular scenario.
00:43:28.000It just means Democrats don't get what they want.
00:43:30.000In any case, Jen Psaki was out there defending these Texas Democratic legislators yesterday because, after all, No biggie.
00:43:37.000When you flee a state in order to avoid losing, that is not anti-democratic.
00:43:43.000The 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.
00:43:57.000And 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.
00:44:03.000I don't think anything about this is funny.
00:44:08.000I don't think anything about this is funny.
00:44:11.000They 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.
00:44:48.000In 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.
00:45:14.000Um, no, that is no, that is not remotely correct.
00:45:17.000But one of the democratic attempts here is to rewrite America's history.
00:45:21.000So number one is way worse than it is, right?
00:45:23.000America's history has enough dark spots.
00:45:25.000You don't have to make America's entire history the history of all racism in the universe.
00:45:30.000And root all of America's institutions in it.
00:45:32.000That's one thing Democrats are trying to do.
00:45:33.000And 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.
00:45:41.000There'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.
00:45:50.000That is exactly what she is suggesting.
00:45:53.000And some people like Charles Blow say the same thing fairly openly.
00:46:17.000Many of the most powerful people in our society are black.
00:46:21.000We 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.
00:47:00.000Trillions 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.
00:47:08.000That is, it's an immature push by the Democrats, but it may be all they have left considering that their agenda is wildly unpopular.
00:47:15.000Alrighty, we will be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:47:18.000Coming up soon is The Matt Walsh Show.