The Ben Shapiro Show - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes The UNTHINKABLE

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, President Trump has put enormous effort into killing the Department of Education, which has been a longtime Republican goal.

00:00:06.000 As long as I've been alive, that's been something Republicans have wanted to do.

00:00:09.000 And today, we're going to break news on the show with our friend Chris Rufo, tapes of what you have been funding via the DOE, and it is shocking.

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00:00:27.000 Use code DW40. All right, so the Department of Education has been forever a boondoggle.

00:00:35.000 Education should be done at the local and state level.

00:00:37.000 Parents should be in charge of the education of their children.

00:00:39.000 Whether you're in private school or public school, the reality is the more local the education, the more it reflects the needs, desires, and wants of the parents, who, of course, are the ones most aligned with the interests of their children.

00:00:49.000 Instead, we in the United States have increasingly devolved authority to the federal government.

00:00:54.000 And the federal government, virtually all of its agencies have been hijacked, as we've now been learning, by a left-wing bureaucratic mess designed as a permanent pipeline of cash to the friends of the Democrats.

00:01:05.000 And this is particularly true of the Department of Education.

00:01:07.000 In fiscal year 2024, the Department of Education spent $268 billion dollars, That is a lot of money.

00:01:15.000 And since 1980, the DOE's spending has increased 372%, which is almost double the increase of the size of the rest of the federal government.

00:01:23.000 So the DOE has been growing by leaps and bounds.

00:01:25.000 Now, most of that goes to subsidize precisely The sort of indoctrination centers that have been churning out radicals in extraordinary numbers, corrupting our body politic for decades.

00:01:34.000 If you don't like the Hamas tentifadas on campus last year, you can blame the fact that we as a society have decided it is deeply imperative that we send all of our teenagers to institutions of higher education that indoctrinate them in trash. 0.94

00:01:48.000 You can blame that on the fact that our lower education institutions, secondary education, high school, primary education, has been indoctrinating kids and left-wing values for...

00:01:58.000 Literally as long as I have been alive.

00:02:00.000 When it comes to higher education, last year, the Department of Education spent $165 billion on higher education.

00:02:06.000 That's nearly half the total spend of the entire department.

00:02:08.000 That's money that went to colleges and universities to prop up the great scam that is, again, higher education.

00:02:14.000 Those are grants to students to go major in lesbian dance theory.

00:02:18.000 You're wondering how they got that money?

00:02:20.000 The answer is, you got to pay for it.

00:02:22.000 Just $40 billion went directly to elementary and secondary education.

00:02:25.000 So even if you wanted the money going to the small kids, it's not actually going to the small kids.

00:02:29.000 Predominantly, it is going to the very large overgrown children who are 19 and 28 years old, majoring in nonsense.

00:02:34.000 The dollars went, at least in part, at the lower level, to the grifters and cretins of the unions, like the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. 1.00

00:02:42.000 Not directly to them, but when federal dollars go to subsidize schools that are in bed with the AFT and the NEA, you get to subsidize the work of Randy Weingarten.

00:02:50.000 Some of this stuff goes to waste and fraud, and that doesn't include the $68.1 billion in indirect spending.

00:02:55.000 Those are block grants, largely, that are given to states.

00:02:58.000 So, what have been the priorities of the Department of Education lately?

00:03:02.000 According to Joe Biden's Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, quote, The investments proposed in President Biden's new budget reflect this administration's deep belief in education as the foundation of all opportunity in America.

00:03:12.000 The goal is to raise the bar for college affordability, inclusive student success, and driving more equitable outcomes in higher education.

00:03:20.000 Equity, of course, is a code word for, effectively, racial quotas.

00:03:24.000 That's at least how Biden saw it.

00:03:26.000 Biden requested $100 million for, quote, developing and implementing strategies to promote diversity in their schools and classrooms.

00:03:32.000 And here we're not just talking about racial quotas.

00:03:34.000 We are talking about the curriculum itself.

00:03:36.000 We are talking about the kinds of material that get taught.

00:03:39.000 When President Trump came into office pledging to kill DEI programs at our nation's schools, the Department of Education apparently handed out $1 billion in DEI grants since 2021 alone.

00:03:49.000 Some 229 grants pushing DEI, according to Parents Defending Education, that included $490 million for grants for race-based hiring schemes, which are illegal under the Constitution, $169 million for DEI-based mental health training, $343 million on general DEI programs.

00:04:08.000 That's just over the past few years.

00:04:09.000 So what exactly did they do after the Supreme Court banned affirmative action last year?

00:04:13.000 Well, the DOE then released resources to assist colleges and universities to basically end around the law.

00:04:19.000 You remember, Joe Biden tried to do this.

00:04:21.000 He said the Supreme Court may have killed affirmative action, but diversity is still our strength, Abu.

00:04:25.000 Well, on August 14th, 2023, the Biden administration issued what's called a Dear Colleague Letter, which is effectively an advisory letter from the federal government to a variety of institutions designed to tell them how they want the law applied.

00:04:38.000 The goal, apparently, is to substitute now mush words like overcoming adversity for explicit racial quotas.

00:04:43.000 So if you are a college, instead of asking, are you black?

00:04:46.000 and then deducting 200 points off the required SAT score.

00:04:49.000 Now they ask you to write an essay about overcoming adversity in which you mention that you're black as a point of adversity.

00:04:55.000 Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at ED, Catherine E. Lamon, wrote, quote, even after the court's decision sharply limited a tool that colleges and universities with selective admissions practices have used to create vibrant, diverse campus communities, colleges and universities may still lawfully work to admit, support, retain, and graduate racially diverse student bodies.

00:05:13.000 In other words, ignore the Supreme Court, right?

00:05:15.000 Remember.

00:05:15.000 All the rule of law people who keep shouting about Donald Trump and constitutional crises ignored the Supreme Court of the United States and openly said that they would basically defy the Supreme Court in pursuit of their diversity agenda.

00:05:28.000 So, President Trump is coming into office.

00:05:30.000 He's seeking to end all of that.

00:05:31.000 There is no bigger boondoggle, no greater hose of federal taxpayer money pointed at ideological allies than the Department of Education, which is why they are screaming...

00:05:41.000 Bloody murder over all of this.

00:05:42.000 Randy Weingarten, one of the most corrupt people in American public life.

00:05:45.000 And you have to understand the way that these public sector teachers' unions work.

00:05:48.000 The way they work is that they take, in many states, union dues from their teachers, and then they take those union dues and they pay off Democratic politicians.

00:05:57.000 They campaign for the Democrats.

00:05:59.000 The Democrats then sign massive, ridiculous, pork-laden contracts with the American Federation of Teachers to enrich everybody at the AFT. And then the AFT just does it all over again.

00:06:09.000 That's the game.

00:06:10.000 And meanwhile, the AFT, do they care about students?

00:06:13.000 Of course not.

00:06:13.000 That is not a priority.

00:06:14.000 We learned that during COVID, when the AFT was pushing incredibly hard for students never to go back to school.

00:06:20.000 Instead, the idea was that they weren't safe.

00:06:21.000 You remember Randy Weingarten said this, despite literally every piece of evidence.

00:06:25.000 The idea from Randy Weingarten at the AFT was, you can't let your kids go back to school.

00:06:29.000 ooh, they're going to die of the COVID.

00:06:30.000 Didn't matter that virtually no young children were dying of COVID.

00:06:34.000 All that mattered to Randy Weingarten is, do my teachers get to stay home and like teach on Zoom and still get paid their salary?

00:06:40.000 That seems pretty great.

00:06:42.000 So Randy Weingarten is freaking out over the attacks on the Department of Education.

00:06:46.000 Here she was calling it cruel and inhumane.

00:06:48.000 You see, the only form of non-cruelty is to just continue signing giant checks with taxpayer dollars to Randy Weingarten.

00:06:54.000 What we're hearing is just complete chaos.

00:06:59.000 and frankly, a whole bunch of cruelty.

00:07:01.000 Because at the end of the day...

00:07:04.000 You can make departments more efficient, and I'm not a big believer in bureaucracy, but this feels like, as Elon Musk said to you, evisceration.

00:07:13.000 So here's a guy who has hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts from these departments, and he's not touching them, but what he's doing is really taking money from kids who really need it in the field.

00:07:29.000 Okay, the Department of Education is not paying Elon Musk.

00:07:32.000 Billions of dollars to distribute DEI materials.

00:07:36.000 The federal government has contracts with SpaceX, the most successful private space company on planet Earth.

00:07:42.000 And apparently the Defense Department has some contracts with Tesla that were signed under, wait for it, Joe Biden.

00:07:47.000 But again, this is going to be the tale that Democrats try to tell, is that your kid is going to lose their cherished public school education because Donald Trump wants to kill the Department of Education.

00:07:57.000 Again.

00:07:57.000 The vast majority of funding for public school in the United States, where we spend an exorbitant amount of money per pupil, is coming at the state and local level.

00:08:04.000 It is not coming from the federal government.

00:08:05.000 The stuff that is coming from the federal government is very often attached to precisely the kinds of interest groups that Democrats want it attached to.

00:08:13.000 So again, the Democrats are just going to keep shouting about this bloody murder because President Trump is just, he is taking a scissors and he is cutting the hose, the fire hose, of gushing dollars.

00:08:25.000 Coming from the taxpayer to all of the Democrats allies.

00:08:28.000 Here's former Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona claiming that somehow this is a form of monarchy.

00:08:33.000 So understand, it's democracy when a regulatory bureaucratic agency pumps out $300 billion a year to the friends of Miguel Cardona.

00:08:40.000 That's called democracy.

00:08:41.000 It's monarchy when the new president comes in and says, we're not doing that anymore.

00:08:45.000 When we talk about those cuts, what we're talking about is programming for students or following research that we know improves outcomes for students.

00:08:54.000 I'm all in favor of reviewing what works best.

00:08:57.000 And I'm even in favor of assessing policy, whether you agree with it or not.

00:09:02.000 But I'm not in favor of the change that's happening, which is going from democracy to a monarchy.

00:09:07.000 And we're seeing examples of that in every agency.

00:09:09.000 And it's really troubling.

00:09:10.000 And I think the American people, regardless of party, should be worried about what's happening.

00:09:14.000 No, no, no.

00:09:15.000 You're not in favor of auditing anything.

00:09:17.000 You're not in favor of checking out the curriculum.

00:09:19.000 You're lying.

00:09:20.000 That's the thing you don't want done.

00:09:22.000 That's the reason why you're objecting.

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00:11:34.000 Meanwhile, Sonny Hostin, who, again, is in a running gun battle with Whoopi Goldberg for stupidest person on The View.

00:11:39.000 She says the whole goal of defunding the Department of Education is they want a cheap underclass.

00:11:44.000 No, actually, right now we have a very expensive underclass generated by our crap public education system.

00:11:50.000 What I would like is school choice, which would allow parents to actually select for their children which school they would like their kids to be able to go to.

00:11:58.000 That, by the way, is supported by the Republican Party and President Trump, who would like to nationally promote school choice.

00:12:02.000 People like Sonny Hostin don't want that.

00:12:04.000 They just want the American Federation of Teachers paid off.

00:12:07.000 It's not really about saving money.

00:12:10.000 I think there's a much more nefarious reason for it.

00:12:13.000 I think it's because without education, you get cheaper labor.

00:12:18.000 I think what they want to do is create in the United States a permanent underclass, a permanent cheap workforce because educated workers cost more.

00:12:30.000 That is the bottom line and that's what they're doing.

00:12:32.000 Okay, this is so stupid in about eight different ways.

00:12:34.000 First of all...

00:12:35.000 No one supports illegal immigration more than Sonny Hassan in The View. 0.97

00:12:38.000 You want to talk about a cheap, underpaid labor force?

00:12:41.000 Illegal immigrants who can't actually bargain collectively in any way or bargain for higher pay because it turns out they're illegal. 0.96

00:12:49.000 And she's in favor of an open border. 0.92

00:12:51.000 Two, the notion that a primary school education is what makes you a high-paid individual, pretty much everybody in America ends up going to school through high school.

00:13:00.000 A very high percentage of people.

00:13:02.000 That is not what this is about.

00:13:04.000 That's never.

00:13:05.000 What this has been about.

00:13:06.000 So what is the Department of Education actually spending its dollars on?

00:13:10.000 Well, joining us online to explain with some breaking news is Chris Ruffo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor of City Journal and author of America's Cultural Revolution.

00:13:20.000 He has broken an enormous number of clips over the course of the last 48 hours, culminating in Doge, which has been following his work, canceling some $350 million in spending.

00:13:30.000 That's just the tip of the iceberg.

00:13:32.000 So, Christopher, why don't you walk us through?

00:13:34.000 Some of the clips that you dropped a little bit earlier, and also some brand new clips that we are going to drop now on the show.

00:13:40.000 And tell us what exactly we're talking about here.

00:13:42.000 What are these agencies that DOE is funding?

00:13:45.000 So my team has spent the last two months really poring over all of the various nooks and crannies, sub-departments, and grantees of the Department of Education.

00:13:55.000 This is an institution that spends billions of dollars every year, and it functions in essence as a left-wing patronage machine.

00:14:03.000 And so I started dropping clips, now that Linda McMahon is in her confirmation hearings to become the secretary, to show the extent of the ideological corruption.

00:14:11.000 And this is the Ibram Kendi, Robin DiAngelo style narrative that is being pushed by thousands of employees associated with the department.

00:14:20.000 They're saying America is fundamentally racist.

00:14:23.000 They're saying that all white people function as white supremacists.

00:14:26.000 They're saying that you have to give up your power, privilege, and resources to the oppressed.

00:14:30.000 all of the narratives that we've seen over the last four years this is a major point of focus for the department regardless of who's in office so chris one of the sort of centers of spending that you have pointed out here is the equity assistant centers at the department of education what are these why are we spending money on them how do they operate it's really interesting the

00:14:53.000 These were centers that were established by legislation all the way back in the 1960s to provide a colorblind equality in education, a kind of noble principle.

00:15:04.000 But as with much of our civil rights apparatus, it's been hijacked by the radical left and these education centers that receive millions of dollars in public funds.

00:15:13.000 They're in charge of advising public school districts, not just in blue states, but in all 50 states.

00:15:18.000 They've been captured by left wing radicals who are promoting the Black Lives Matter agenda, who are describing the education system as a concentration camp.

00:15:28.000 And in one of the clips that you have today, even made the absurd argument that babies are racist, especially white babies, become racist before they can even talk.

00:15:39.000 So I'm going to go through some of these clips right now.

00:15:41.000 Now, since 2017, these so-called EACs have taken in about $52 million in taxpayer money.

00:15:47.000 So let's begin with a clip in which members of the Equity Assistance Centers and the MAEC, or the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, talk about how effectively our educational systems are a concentration camp.

00:15:59.000 Here's what it sounds like.

00:16:00.000 We are working in a structurally racist from its beginning system.

00:16:04.000 It's like sometimes I feel like I'm working in this concentration camp and there's the gas chambers everywhere and I'm part of that system. 0.76

00:16:12.000 And so you have to make that decision about how far you're willing to push.

00:16:17.000 Or whether you need to get out and do something different.

00:16:19.000 Anti-racist teachers recognize, one, that the system is designed, the public education system is designed to harm black and brown children.

00:16:27.000 It is not designed in their best interest.

00:16:29.000 It never has been.

00:16:30.000 And look, I benefited from public education.

00:16:32.000 I get that.

00:16:33.000 I'm the exception, not the rule.

00:16:35.000 We are really heavily focused on how do we get police out of schools.

00:16:38.000 We also heavily focus on how do we defund policing and SROs and all that.

00:16:45.000 Ibram X. Kendi has done a great job of putting words to this idea that a lot of us have known for a long time, that there is no not racist.

00:16:53.000 There is no non-racist.

00:16:55.000 You're either contributing to racism or you're pushing against racism.

00:16:59.000 So these are presumably advisors to educational institutions around the country, comparing our current educational system to the Holocaust, I noticed during the Holocaust nobody had a camera talking about how terrible it was in the concentration camps.

00:17:13.000 You know, like outside in a forest, which is where that lady is when she's talking, actually. 1.00

00:17:18.000 But, you know, who are these folks?

00:17:20.000 Why should we care?

00:17:21.000 How much money is flowing to them?

00:17:23.000 There are, you know, each of these...

00:17:25.000 Equity centers received an $8 million grant from the Biden-Harris administration.

00:17:30.000 And when you look at their organizational charts, they essentially support a dozen or two dozen left-wing race and gender activists who are in charge of advising thousands of public school districts, each of these centers.

00:17:44.000 And so these are very important nodes in a larger system to indoctrinate American kids and to harvest up taxpayer money in service of this left wing ideology.

00:17:56.000 All I remind you under the guise of the Civil Rights Act itself.

00:18:01.000 And so what's important is to expose exactly what this means in practice.

00:18:06.000 And these people are not subtle in their language.

00:18:10.000 It's very clear what they're trying to communicate.

00:18:13.000 But for many years, no one was looking.

00:18:15.000 And so, my job is to try to expose it, to bring it to public attention, and then to bring it to the attention of the doge boys who are in In the Department of Education building right now, looking through contracts to terminate.

00:18:29.000 And this organization that hosted this seminar that you're rolling the clips from has now had all federal funding revoked moving forward.

00:18:38.000 I mean, some of the other clips that you've provided us with are absolutely insane.

00:18:42.000 I mean, make that clip look mild.

00:18:44.000 Here, for example, is a clip in which these pseudo-educators explain the importance of work in the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign.

00:18:52.000 Community and how important it is for children to learn about twerk.

00:18:57.000 Our third point that we do bring up and cover in this mini presentation is understanding the importance of twerk in the LGBT plus community and in LGBT survival because especially for queer and trans people of color and most emphatically black trans women this often Now,

00:19:42.000 this is just evil.

00:19:43.000 I mean, the actual slide talks about how important it is for young people to be supported, and presumably we're talking about here minors, Am I missing something here?

00:20:05.000 No, it sounds absurd, but you're not missing anything that is exactly what they're saying.

00:20:09.000 They're saying that actually decriminalizing and destigmatizing...

00:20:13.000 ...work for black transgender children is the new noble calling.

00:20:19.000 And look, that's certainly opinion that you can have, protected by the First Amendment.

00:20:23.000 I disagree.

00:20:24.000 I'm sure that you disagree.

00:20:25.000 But the important thing here is that this is being subsidized by federal taxpayers.

00:20:30.000 So every taxi driver, line cook, and electrician around the country that's working hard to feed their family is actually chipping in for this idea that we should destigmatize.

00:20:43.000 ...work for children.

00:20:44.000 It is so outrageous that it's almost hard to believe it's true.

00:20:49.000 I mean, that is philia.

00:20:52.000 And certainly the word grooming would not be an apposite with regard to this.

00:20:57.000 That is insane.

00:20:59.000 But just in case you thought that we were done, we're not.

00:21:01.000 Here's another clip of some of these pseudo-educators explaining that we need to really fight adultism.

00:21:07.000 Apparently, adultism is the idea that adults have the ability to make adult decisions while children are, in fact, children.

00:21:14.000 Apparently, this is a bad and a form of discrimination as well.

00:21:18.000 As service providers and as educators, we want to make sure that we are not reinforcing systems of adultism.

00:21:27.000 For LGBT young people, adultism is uniquely important because a huge part of Where adultism meets homophobia and transphobia is the notion that as a young LGBT person, you are not in charge of yourself, you are not in charge of your body, you're not in charge of your medical care.

00:21:45.000 And by denying or trying to control LGBT young people's ability to express themselves as who they truly are, this often leads to things like people running away from home, as we've discussed and shared with you about our personal lives.

00:21:58.000 This often leads to Homelessness.

00:22:01.000 This often leads to and creates a lot of the systems that we all here, I would imagine, are trying to prevent.

00:22:06.000 Say, for example, an LGBT child comes out to their parent, and their parent is cis-ha, and their parent's like, oh, you know, well, you know, it could just be a phase you might grow out of it, right? 0.94

00:22:15.000 That's something that is commonly heard by LGBT young people.

00:22:19.000 That is not just homophobic and transphobic, it's also adultist, because you're presuming, due to that young person's age, that they are unable to recognize themselves as an LGBT person.

00:22:30.000 So we want to make sure, obviously, as parents, that we're one, not doing and saying things like that.

00:22:34.000 Not helpful.

00:22:35.000 It's also violent, which we'll get into in a couple of slides.

00:22:38.000 But we also want to make sure as educators that we are authentically collaborating with our youth and our young people.

00:22:45.000 So we want to make sure that we're working when we're working with young people, most especially LGBT youth, we're collaborating with them authentically.

00:22:54.000 You know, we're asking our young people, well, what do you need?

00:22:56.000 What do you think?

00:22:57.000 What is your perspective?

00:22:59.000 You know, we want to make sure our young people are empowered in acknowledging that they are knowledgeable and, yes, wants people, okay, who are able of making decisions, yes, with support, yes, with love, yes, with guidance, but of making decisions about who they are and what that looks like for them.

00:23:16.000 Okay, this is actually what we would call in common parlance evil because basically what she is saying is that parents should not parent their children.

00:23:23.000 Children are fully capable of making decisions in consultation with educators.

00:23:28.000 I mean, this is exactly the sort of issue that lost Terry McAuliffe, his gubernatorial race in Virginia against Glenn Youngkin, this sort of anti-parental movement, and also the bizarre, sick, and perverse idea that children are capable of making lifelong decisions about important matters.

00:23:42.000 And as it turns out, we'll see in just a moment, apparently even babies are capable of having racist tendencies or making decisions.

00:23:51.000 I mean, this is all insane.

00:23:53.000 And Chris, it does go to something deeper, which is the infusion of all these values throughout our educational system.

00:23:57.000 That really needs to be rooted out.

00:23:59.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:24:00.000 And look, the coinage is unique and funny.

00:24:03.000 It's called adultism.

00:24:04.000 But the idea is actually a very old left-wing idea.

00:24:07.000 If you study the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, one of the key tactics from the Chinese Communist Party was to radicalize children and to turn them against their parents.

00:24:19.000 And so you had mobs of kids that were being radicalized by communist teachers that were then going door-to-door, tearing down houses, pulling people out of their...

00:24:32.000 And so while it can appear to be a kind of trivial idea, adultism, there is a rich history of this, and the basic mechanism is one that is very dangerous.

00:24:45.000 When you get the government in between the parents and children, history suggests that terrible things can happen.

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00:26:59.000 Now, Chris, another of the clips that you provide us, and again, it sounds like an endless compendium of insanity that we, the taxpayers, have been funding over the course of the last couple of decades minimum.

00:27:07.000 Here is a clip in which these, again, pseudo educators, and I call them that because the only thing they're educating in is propagandistic idiocy at the very best, where they talk about race and racism in infants.

00:27:19.000 Here we go.

00:27:20.000 So this timeline provides an illustration of how racial awareness develops.

00:27:26.000 According to research, three-month-olds show a preference for looking at faces that are similar to the race they see most often.

00:27:34.000 At nine months, infants are unable to distinguish the facial features of racial groups other than their caregiver unless they frequently see images of racially diverse people.

00:27:45.000 By the age of two, children are putting people into categories based on race and they are observing and internalizing power dynamics.

00:27:55.000 At age three, children develop biases and begin assigning meaning to race by attributing positive traits to the dominant race.

00:28:03.000 However, children can still respond to positive messaging about their own and others' racial identities.

00:28:10.000 By age five, children of all races demonstrate social biases primarily by attributing negative traits to non-white races.

00:28:19.000 At this age, children are capable of acting against racial injustice.

00:28:25.000 well the babies are racist And because the babies are racist, presumably the babies have to be hijacked into this beautiful educational or re-educational system as soon as humanly possible, taken out of the hands of their subtly racist parents to prevent white supremacy from taking over the nation or some such.

00:28:42.000 Yeah, and my favorite part is that at the beginning it says, according to research.

00:28:47.000 But if you actually take a look at the research, you dig into the footnotes, it is like the most shockingly or maybe not shockingly shoddy garbage imaginable.

00:28:56.000 And yet this idea that, you know, babies kind of come out of the womb with a Klan hood is just so farcical and ridiculous.

00:29:05.000 And yet it's captured the minds of people with PhDs.

00:29:09.000 These people who run these programs are PhDs.

00:29:13.000 I think that is the perfect example of someone completely suspending their common sense, suspending any experience of children.

00:29:22.000 Children are incredible at that age.

00:29:24.000 They're open to so many different people.

00:29:27.000 They're open to everything.

00:29:29.000 But also how ideology can really poison you.

00:29:33.000 And so the story is not really about these education centers themselves.

00:29:38.000 They should be gone and they will be gone.

00:29:40.000 But the story is that we have an educational class in this country that is susceptible to this ideological poison and then becomes fanatical about it when they press it onto our kids.

00:29:51.000 That's the most important thing.

00:29:52.000 And so wherever you are in the country, if you're in a red state, if you're in Tennessee or Florida or Idaho, you're not safe from these ideologies because these centers and these national ideologies are trying to find a foothold everywhere.

00:30:07.000 So, Chris, just to sort of conclude this, this all wraps into their broader perception of society, which, of course, we let off with, which is the idea that American society is deeply systemically racist, homophobic, evil, and needs to be torn out at the root.

00:30:21.000 And, of course, their job as educators, their praxis is to remove all of the barriers to the re-education of America's youth.

00:30:29.000 Here are, again, some of these pseudo-educators talking about how white supremacist American society innately is.

00:30:36.000 White children, two white daughters. 0.78

00:30:38.000 They are seven and nine.

00:30:40.000 And when I think about that question that you asked, what does it mean that's different?

00:30:44.000 I think about how I'm really trying to force my children to reside in reality.

00:30:52.000 So that means that they are going to really push through all of the white fantasy that is just part of what it means to grow up in a white supremacist society.

00:31:04.000 As gets talked about quite a lot is that whites have a lot of fantasy about what it means to be white and how maybe they deserve everything that they've gotten.

00:31:14.000 There's a lack of history.

00:31:16.000 Their children are very innocent and that innocence follows them throughout their lives through schooling and in every single institution.

00:31:24.000 Whereas children of color are even in some cases as Ferguson Studied are adultified at very young ages not even seen as children as innocents that deserve loving correction or the same nurturing and so when I think about how what how how to interrupt that with my own children It comes up in many different ways.

00:31:46.000 One of the things I think that white parents need to not be afraid to do, and which I know that they are, is to actually name racism as a power dynamic between white people and people of color.

00:31:59.000 So, Chris, I think the most important thing for people to understand is that all these people are going to lose their jobs, these particular agencies are going to be defunded, but...

00:32:08.000 The biggest problem is the Department of Education, as you say, overall is just a giant agitprop machine on behalf of these ideologies at this point.

00:32:15.000 This is the reason why Republicans have been calling for the disestablishment of the Department of Education overall.

00:32:21.000 I mean, the kinds of money that you're talking about for these particular agencies is a drop in the bucket of the overall DOE budget, which was about $268 billion in fiscal year 2024. But the point of that is that if you are throwing, say, $160 billion at higher education to subsidize exactly this kind of trash at our nation's higher education schools.

00:32:41.000 You're doing the same thing.

00:32:42.000 It's just that it's not quite as obvious.

00:32:44.000 It's not on all the tapes.

00:32:45.000 And what you're doing here is a real service because it is indicative of a much broader rot.

00:32:49.000 These are just symptomatic of something much deeper happening inside our educational systems, and it needs to be ripped out root and branch.

00:32:55.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:32:57.000 And there are already encouraging signs.

00:32:59.000 Of course, Elon's Doge team is going in and eliminating contracts, but the president has greater ambitions.

00:33:04.000 He's called for the abolition of the Department of Education.

00:33:08.000 There is a lot of debate over how he can do that, how far he can take executive action, where he'll need the legislature to actually come through.

00:33:16.000 But there's really a simple three-part plan.

00:33:18.000 You spin off the federal financial aid for universities into a separate portfolio that you can then privatize down the line.

00:33:25.000 You continue to spend the money for K-12 schools, special ed, lunch programs by directly block granting it to the states so states have greater oversight over how those dollars are used.

00:33:37.000 And then you just absolutely crush, demolish, and then salt over all of the quote-unquote research, which is really just ideological production.

00:33:47.000 And then you never look back because there is no good that's happening from these programs.

00:33:52.000 You can save the programs that, for now, are going to have to be passed through.

00:33:57.000 But we cannot let this survive another four years.

00:34:00.000 It survived under Trump.

00:34:02.000 It survived under Bush.

00:34:03.000 It survived under Reagan.

00:34:04.000 Now is the time.

00:34:06.000 Americans are finally aware of what's happening with public schools and these left-wing ideologies.

00:34:12.000 We have to capitalize on the momentum and actually get this job done.

00:34:19.000 No one is getting the job done quite like Chris is.

00:34:21.000 Chris, amazing work, as always, and thanks for...

00:34:24.000 Again, an ongoing contribution to the fixing of all the broken systems.

00:34:27.000 Really appreciate the time, and thanks for breaking these tapes with us.

00:34:30.000 Thank you.

00:34:32.000 All right, coming up, RFK Jr. has now been confirmed by the Senate, and we have some breaking news on what should be on the chopping block first off for HHS. It's Valentine's Day, and here's a deal you'll love.

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00:35:05.000 Promo code DW40. Okay, meanwhile, RFK Jr. has now been confirmed by the full Senate.

00:35:10.000 He's going to have a heavy lift because obviously the Make America Healthy Again agenda is its own agenda.

00:35:17.000 And he's going to have to balance between a couple of different sort of militating forces inside the Republican Party.

00:35:22.000 One, Republicans tend to like freedom of choice.

00:35:24.000 They don't actually want Big Macs banned.

00:35:26.000 President Trump is not interested in Diet Coke going away because of aspartame or something.

00:35:30.000 Traditionally, Republicans have been much more freedom-oriented as opposed to regulation-oriented.

00:35:34.000 On the other hand, RFK Jr. is pledging to take a much harsher look at much of the stuff that goes into our food and that he believes might be making us unhealthy.

00:35:43.000 Presumably, that means...

00:35:44.000 Funding will be increased in places like the National Institutes of Health in order to actually research just how unhealthy things are making us.

00:35:50.000 One of the big problems with some of the studies done on, say, red dye number 40 or stuff like that is that the conclusion that is drawn in the public about the lack of safety of some of these particular ingredients is rooted in studies in which a rat was drowned in 40 gallons of red dye 40, for example.

00:36:08.000 That sort of stuff needs to actually be applied in a user, human-friendly way.

00:36:13.000 And again, none of that is an argument for bad stuff in our food.

00:36:15.000 It's just a recognition that an overburdened, overweening regulatory state is not something that Republicans really signed up for.

00:36:22.000 They would like, however, to take a much harsher look at how HHS does its business.

00:36:27.000 Now, again, HHS is the single largest spender in the federal government.

00:36:31.000 So I'm hoping, and I think that Bobby Kennedy will, bring in a bunch of experts on, for example, CMS, the Medicare Payment Services and Medicaid Payment Services.

00:36:40.000 Take a look for the fraud and the waste.

00:36:42.000 Already, apparently, a House subcommittee has discovered a massive amount of waste in this area, according to Caroline Lovett today at the White House.

00:36:49.000 Here she was.

00:36:50.000 The subcommittee headed by Chairman Marcia Taylor Greene, her and her staff, discovered $2.7 trillion in improper payments.

00:37:01.000 To Medicare, Medicaid, overseas, to people who should not have gotten it.

00:37:06.000 Some of this room might have missed that press conference.

00:37:08.000 Can you elaborate on what the President is thinking at this point?

00:37:12.000 Well, again, that's another example.

00:37:14.000 There's a very long list of the fraud, waste, and abuse that Doge is identifying on a daily basis.

00:37:19.000 Elon Musk also talked about yesterday about Social Security payments that are going out the door for people who are no longer with us, unfortunately.

00:37:26.000 I would say that is certainly fraud.

00:37:29.000 There's also a lot of contracts they've identified that just as a hypothetical example are a million bucks, but only 500,000 went out the door.

00:37:37.000 So where's the rest of that cash?

00:37:38.000 And so that's the thing.

00:37:40.000 Those are the things that Doge is working on every single day.

00:37:42.000 By the way, if that subcommittee report is correct, 2.7 trillion dollars.

00:37:47.000 That is a lot of money.

00:37:49.000 I mean, that is basically, at this point, what, 8% of our national debt just there?

00:37:53.000 If that's right.

00:37:55.000 I'd love to see whether that's right or not, because that's pretty wild.

00:37:58.000 But one of the places that...

00:38:00.000 RFK Jr. should absolutely put his focus, has been uncovered by our very own Luke Rosiak over at Daily Wire.

00:38:07.000 Apparently, numerous agencies seeking to thwart President Trump's efforts to lay off DEI employees have been changing their job titles after the election.

00:38:14.000 That includes the HHS's chief diversity officer, who billed himself as, quote, authentically, unapologetically, blackety-black-black.

00:38:23.000 His profile said, quote, greetings and salutations.

00:38:26.000 I am Dia D. Harris, ACF Chief Equity Officer.

00:38:29.000 My pronouns are he, him, L. Ill.

00:38:32.000 You know what that means.

00:38:33.000 I'm unapologetically a black man.

00:38:35.000 He said that in one HHS presentation.

00:38:37.000 But after the election, his title was then changed to Chief Organizational Development Officer who's no longer committed to authenticity on LinkedIn.

00:38:44.000 He then falsified his resume, changing his previous job titles across an entire career spent as a DEI consultant and advocate.

00:38:51.000 So, stuff like this, that needs to be rooted out immediately.

00:38:56.000 By the brand new Health and Human Services Secretary.

00:38:59.000 Congratulations to RFK Jr. By the way, it's not just in HHS. It's in the Department of Labor.

00:39:05.000 It's in the NIH. There are a bunch of agencies where all of the equity diversity officers are basically just changing their past titles in order to avoid the consequences of their job.

00:39:16.000 Meanwhile, RFK was sworn in yesterday.

00:39:18.000 Here was some footage of what that looked like.

00:39:20.000 I, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

00:39:41.000 That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.

00:39:48.000 That I take this obligation freely.

00:39:53.000 Without any mental reservation.

00:39:58.000 Or purpose of evasion.

00:40:01.000 And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.

00:40:12.000 So help me God.

00:40:15.000 Congratulations.

00:40:16.000 RFK Jr. then gave a speech explaining that he's been spending his entire life trying to get to a position where he could make America healthy again, and he credits God with President Trump's election.

00:40:28.000 Twenty years, I've gotten up every morning on my knees and prayed that God would put me in a position where I can end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in this country.

00:40:39.000 On August 23rd of last year, God sent me President Trump and he gave me...

00:40:50.000 He's now given me, he's kept every promise that he's made to me.

00:40:59.000 He's kept his word in every account and gone way beyond it.

00:41:03.000 I'm so grateful to you, Mr. President.

00:41:06.000 A lot of people told me that I couldn't trust President Trump, that I better get it in writing.

00:41:11.000 And we did a handshake, and everything that he told me he was going to do, he has done.

00:41:17.000 And I'm so grateful to him, and I've told you before.

00:41:22.000 I genuinely believe that you are a pivotal historical figure, and you are going to transform this country.

00:41:29.000 So what exactly is going to be on RFK's agenda?

00:41:32.000 Well, some of the things he's talked about are banning direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical ads, which is politically popular.

00:41:38.000 It may run into some free speech concerns.

00:41:40.000 His basic idea is that it causes consumers to basically request drugs that they don't even know what the drugs do, and it doesn't put the doctor in the driver's seat to sort of recommend.

00:41:54.000 He wants to purge employees at the NIH. The NIH is going to be run by the excellent Jay Bhattacharya, by the way.

00:42:05.000 So I assume that Jay Bhattacharya has no interest in, for example, getting rid of polio vaccines.

00:42:10.000 Kennedy is also pushing work on sort of regulations surrounding food safety.

00:42:16.000 He has some momentum here, for sure, because...

00:42:18.000 There is a generalized feeling that Americans are fat and out of shape and in bad health shape, and that is not a wrong perception.

00:42:25.000 The fact of the matter is that the United States is filled with obesity and is filled with chronic disease, and RFK Jr. is not wrong about that.

00:42:31.000 Again, the rubber is going to meet the road when it comes to specific proposals that are less advisory than mandatory in their effect.

00:42:38.000 Meanwhile, President Trump has been exploring in serious ways an end to the Ukraine war.

00:42:46.000 He has suggested.

00:42:47.000 That there will be a get-together in Saudi Arabia involving Vladimir Putin.

00:42:51.000 And he believes that peace is in the offing, or if not peace, then at least a ceasefire.

00:42:56.000 Kaylin Collins over at CNN was very upset with Trump for saying this.

00:42:59.000 She says, do you believe that Vladimir Putin wants peace?

00:43:01.000 Now, the reason this is sort of a dumb question is because what is Trump supposed to say?

00:43:05.000 No?

00:43:06.000 I mean, how does the negotiation go if he says no?

00:43:09.000 Right there.

00:43:10.000 The whole purpose of the negotiation is to try to get to something.

00:43:18.000 I think I'd like to see peace.

00:43:24.000 Do you trust President Putin?

00:43:27.000 Yeah, I believe that he would like to see something happen.

00:43:30.000 I trust him on this subject.

00:43:31.000 This should have been done by Biden years ago.

00:43:33.000 This should have never been allowed to happen.

00:43:35.000 I know he's a friend of yours.

00:43:37.000 He's a friend of CNN. That's why nobody watches CNN anymore, because they have no credibility.

00:43:44.000 Again, does he actually trust Vladimir Putin?

00:43:47.000 President Trump is not in the business of trusting people.

00:43:49.000 Again, this is, I think, one of the great myths about Trump is that, oh, he must have trusted Kim Jong-un.

00:43:53.000 Did he trust Kim Jong-un?

00:43:54.000 Did he really?

00:43:55.000 Or did he say nice things about Kim Jong-un when he thought there was something to be done?

00:43:58.000 And then when there wasn't, he was talking about how his red button was bigger than Kim Jong-un's.

00:44:02.000 This is, I think, the entire stupidity of the media's approach to Trump, particularly in his second term.

00:44:09.000 And again, they keep trying to play as though Trump is doing something out of the box by suggesting publicly...

00:44:13.000 That Donbass and Crimea are likely to end up in Russian hands at the end of this. 0.74

00:44:17.000 CBS's Nancy Cordes, she acknowledges that even the Biden administration knew that much.

00:44:22.000 Privately, even Biden officials often acknowledge that Ukraine would ultimately have to give up some territory in order to secure a deal to end the war, though those Biden officials usually avoided saying that out loud.

00:44:36.000 Trump officials say they're just being realistic three years into this invasion in order to drive both sides to the bargaining table.

00:44:44.000 Now, there are many ways in which President Trump is actually quite reminiscent of Ronald Reagan.

00:44:47.000 One of the things about Ronald Reagan that was really interesting in the way that he negotiated agreements is that he was very, very optimistic and almost utopian in the way that he would approach foreign policy problems, but then very realistic and hard-headed in the implementation of the solutions.

00:45:00.000 So very famously, in 1986, he had a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev.

00:45:04.000 In Reykjavik, Iceland, in which he discussed the possibility of almost complete denuclearization of Europe by both sides.

00:45:12.000 A massive reduction in nuclear weapons armament.

00:45:16.000 And when it came down to, for example, the Strategic Defense Initiative, when it came down to Star Wars, Reagan famously said no to Gorbachev.

00:45:22.000 They're like at the very end of the negotiation, and Gorbachev wanted SDI killed, right?

00:45:27.000 That would have been our space-based missile defense.

00:45:29.000 And Reagan said, no, we're not giving that up.

00:45:32.000 Catch you later.

00:45:33.000 And that was the end of the negotiation.

00:45:34.000 And the left still complains about that, but that was one of the key points in the end of the Cold War because the Soviets knew they could not compete with the United States on that footing.

00:45:42.000 And that ramping up their military budget would effectively bankrupt the country.

00:45:46.000 Well, President Trump is just as utopian in some ways as Reagan was.

00:45:50.000 Here he was yesterday suggesting that he would like to cut the defense budget in half.

00:45:53.000 But of course, is he going to cut the defense budget in half?

00:45:56.000 Is President Trump really going to do that?

00:45:58.000 He doesn't trust Xi enough to do that or Putin enough to do that.

00:46:01.000 President Trump is not a sucker.

00:46:03.000 I know the media want to turn him into a sucker, but I have yet to see the evidence.

00:46:07.000 You know, when I left, we had no Middle East problem.

00:46:10.000 We had no Russia going into Ukraine.

00:46:12.000 They never would have done it.

00:46:13.000 Putin never would have done it.

00:46:15.000 And I came back and we got like the whole world is blowing up.

00:46:19.000 So when we straighten it all out, then I want to have one of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia.

00:46:28.000 And I want to say, let's cut our military budget in half.

00:46:32.000 And we can do that.

00:46:34.000 And I think we'll be able to do it.

00:46:37.000 Okay, now, does he really believe that China's going to cut its military budget in half, or Russia?

00:46:41.000 That they're really just going to stop competing on the world stage?

00:46:43.000 I doubt it.

00:46:44.000 But setting that up as a possible carrot is not a bad negotiation tactic.

00:46:48.000 Again, I don't think that President Trump wants to get taken to the cleaners.

00:46:52.000 Meanwhile, by the way, while he's saying all of this, while he's talking about massive defense cuts, for example, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, is out there telling NATO, They need to increase their defense spend to 5% of GDP. Leaders of our European allies should take primary responsibility for defense of the continent, which means security ownership by all allies, guided by a clear understanding of strategic realities, and it's an imperative given the strategic realities that we face.

00:47:21.000 And that begins with increasing defense spending.

00:47:27.000 2% is a start, as President Trump has said, but it's not enough.

00:47:33.000 Nor is 3%, nor is 4%, more like 5%.

00:47:38.000 Real investment, real urgency.

00:47:42.000 And by the way, the NATO Secretary General is saying, well, he's not wrong.

00:47:46.000 Like, if we actually wish to be an independent body, then probably the nations of NATO really should increase their own defense spending.

00:47:53.000 Last night we discussed a lot of things.

00:47:57.000 Obviously defense spending.

00:47:58.000 Clearly we have to do more.

00:48:00.000 We have to ramp up defense spending because we know we cannot protect ourselves four or five years from now if we don't.

00:48:07.000 And also we need to ramp up defense spending because it is clear that the U.S. rightly requires us to do more here on the European side and the Canadian side of NATO. It's only fair.

00:48:19.000 It's only sensible.

00:48:20.000 By the way, speaking of Europe, it's not just a matter of Europe actually increasing its defense spending.

00:48:24.000 It's a matter of Europe actually shutting down its asinine immigration policies.

00:48:28.000 Yesterday, I love the headlines from the legacy media.

00:48:31.000 It really is amazing.

00:48:31.000 The Wall Street Journal, which has a great editorial page, but its news section is to the left of the New York Times.

00:48:36.000 Here was the headline yesterday, quote, Car hits crowd in Germany, injuring at least 30 in suspected attack.

00:48:42.000 Man, I hate when cars just do that, just on their own, just hitting crowds.

00:48:46.000 What's the actual story?

00:48:48.000 You know what the story is.

00:48:50.000 The actual suspect is an Afghan refugee.

00:48:52.000 It's a terror attack in all likelihood, wounding more than two dozen people in what authorities said was a suspected terror attack.

00:48:59.000 The suspect was a 24-year-old Afghan citizen who had a German residence permit.

00:49:04.000 The suspect was previously known to authorities from investigations in which he was a witness to his previous work in store security, actually.

00:49:13.000 And again, this is just the latest attack in Europe.

00:49:15.000 Deadly attack using a car in a crowded place.

00:49:19.000 Again, springing from devotees of the most radical form of the religion of bees.

00:49:25.000 Europe is going to have to take a hard look at itself, because it turns out their policies have been a giant fail for quite a long time.

00:49:30.000 Well, meanwhile, on the cultural front, it's a Friday, so we've got to talk a little bit of culture.

00:49:34.000 Apparently, we have breaking updates.

00:49:36.000 Breaking updates, very important, on the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni saga.

00:49:42.000 I know, people are really into this, like really, really into this.

00:49:45.000 So, what is the latest update?

00:49:47.000 Well...

00:49:47.000 It turns out that Blake Lively was caught on tape talking about how she manipulates people around her in order to take control of the movies upon which she works.

00:49:55.000 Oops! 0.78

00:49:56.000 Oops! 0.78

00:49:57.000 That turns out to be a bad tactic.

00:50:00.000 As I've said before, my first advice is a lawyer to all possible clients.

00:50:04.000 Don't do criming on tape.

00:50:07.000 Criming on tape is stupid and bad, and don't do it.

00:50:10.000 It's not a crime to do this, but it does make it look a little suspicious that you are using exactly these tactics against Justin Baldoni, apparently.

00:50:17.000 It's just as important to say, okay, I believe in this and that's why I'm standing up for it and that's why I'm not being difficult.

00:50:25.000 And then there are other moments to go like, am I the...

00:50:27.000 In the room, like, what is happening here?

00:50:30.000 I would show up on a set.

00:50:31.000 I knew that they just wanted me to show up and look cute and stand on a little pink sticker where I'm supposed to go and say what I'm supposed to say.

00:50:38.000 But I also knew that, like, that wasn't fulfilling for me, that I wanted to be a part of the storytelling, that I wanted to be a part of the narrative, whether that be in the writing, in the costume design, in creating the character.

00:50:48.000 And sometimes I had directors or producers or writers who would welcome that and invite that once they saw that I was able to offer that.

00:50:56.000 And sometimes I would have...

00:50:57.000 I have people who really resented that because they were like, we just hired you to be an actor.

00:51:01.000 Yet when I went in the meetings, I would just seem like I'm just there to be the actor and ready to get the gig.

00:51:07.000 I wouldn't reveal that I actually need to have authorship in order to feel fulfilled.

00:51:11.000 So I think that for them, sometimes that might have felt like a rug pull because you're like, you're trying to assert yourself into something that we didn't hire you to do.

00:51:21.000 And so it was a really strange position to be in because I felt like I don't want to just be an actor.

00:51:28.000 I want to have more authorship.

00:51:31.000 Oh my God.

00:51:33.000 And then she did exactly that to Justin Baldoni, apparently. 0.70

00:51:35.000 That's literally the accusation as to what happened.

00:51:38.000 And then she went and complained about it by attacking him and trying to wreck him because she apparently was at one point in a room with her, Ryan Reynolds, and Taylor Swift trying to bully Justin Baldoni. 0.69

00:51:49.000 To make changes to the script for this movie?

00:51:51.000 So first of all, let me point out to Blake Lively.

00:51:54.000 You are an actress.

00:51:55.000 Unless you signed on as a producer or a director, there's literally no reason why your creative input should matter.

00:52:01.000 You're an actor.

00:52:02.000 If you want to write your own script, you should go write your own script.

00:52:04.000 If you want to sign on to a movie with the understanding that you're going to actually make script changes, then great.

00:52:09.000 But if the idea is that you sign on as an actor and then you turn around and try to take control of the script, this makes you a jerk.

00:52:16.000 At the very, very least, there's a reason why the public has shifted from being a little skeptical of Justin Baldoni to basically just rooting outright for Justin Baldoni at this point.

00:52:26.000 Speaking of which, it's time for a thing I hate that is actually attached to the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni situation.

00:52:32.000 So, I had the misfortune a couple of months ago of being on a plane and looking for a movie to watch and settling on Deadpool vs.

00:52:42.000 Wolverine.

00:52:43.000 I know some people like this movie.

00:52:45.000 Some people are stupid.

00:52:47.000 This movie is bad.

00:52:48.000 It is a bad movie.

00:52:50.000 Every joke is too long.

00:52:52.000 It's the same joke over and over, which is some sort of strange homoeroticism between Deadpool and Wolverine, mainly from Deadpool toward Wolverine.

00:53:02.000 The plot makes zero sense at all.

00:53:05.000 It's eight hours long.

00:53:07.000 It's just terrible.

00:53:08.000 Again, apparently people...

00:53:09.000 Sort of loved this movie because they thought that it was kind of just wise, cracking Ryan Reynolds doing his thing.

00:53:14.000 But every line is ad-libbed and not particularly well.

00:53:17.000 It is just a bunch of jokes about the male appendage.

00:53:21.000 This movie has now also become rather notorious because there's a character called Nice Pool who apparently is a spoof of Justin Baldoni.

00:53:29.000 He looks like Justin Baldoni, talks like Justin Baldoni.

00:53:32.000 He's actually maybe the only character I kind of thought was hilarious in Deadpool vs.

00:53:36.000 Wolverine was Justin Baldoni's character, apparently.

00:53:39.000 Here's what that looked like.

00:53:42.000 Who are you?

00:53:43.000 Oh, I'm Deadpool.

00:53:44.000 And I guess you're Deadpool, too.

00:53:46.000 But in here, everybody calls me Nicepool.

00:53:48.000 Oh, my goodness.

00:53:49.000 Wait till you see Ladypool. 0.91

00:53:50.000 She is gorgeous.

00:53:51.000 She just had a baby, too, and can't even tell.

00:53:55.000 I don't think you're supposed to say that.

00:53:56.000 That's okay.

00:53:58.000 I identify as a feminist.

00:53:59.000 Right.

00:54:01.000 He ends up being killed, of course, and in a rather gruesome fashion.

00:54:06.000 I thought that was actually maybe the only funny part of the movie.

00:54:09.000 But if you can't avoid this movie, you absolutely should because it's absolute trash.

00:54:14.000 Speaking of absolute trash, another thing that I hate today.

00:54:17.000 So I was informed by producer Jessica, who informs me of all of the bad movies that I never want to watch, that I had to take a look at a movie called Kinda Pregnant, starring the veritable pustule on the ass of American popular culture, Amy Schumer.

00:54:33.000 And this movie is...

00:54:36.000 Just an abomination.

00:54:38.000 It is a war crime, this movie.

00:54:40.000 Truly, you belong in The Hague for having made this movie, Amy Schumer.

00:54:44.000 The logline is, when Lainey, she is Lainey, has a plan to settle down and start a family, and it falls apart.

00:54:50.000 So she puts on a fake baby bump, tells a lie, and accidentally falls for her dream guy.

00:54:56.000 How this movie was ever made is beyond me.

00:54:58.000 It is a horror show.

00:54:59.000 It also happens to be filled with abortion jokes.

00:55:01.000 That's exciting.

00:55:02.000 Here is a scene in which Lainey finds out that her best friend is pregnant. 0.84

00:55:05.000 And jokes, she's upset because her best friend is pregnant and she's a loser. 1.00

00:55:10.000 And so she makes a joke about maybe she should just get rid of the baby. 0.99

00:55:12.000 Hilarious!

00:55:13.000 Abortion, killing babies, hilarious.

00:55:16.000 You're not drinking.

00:55:17.000 You look like s***.

00:55:19.000 You don't want to talk about holes.

00:55:21.000 Are you f***ing pregnant? 1.00

00:55:26.000 No!

00:55:27.000 No?

00:55:28.000 No!

00:55:29.000 Get rid of it! 0.98

00:55:30.000 What?

00:55:31.000 No, I'm sorry.

00:55:32.000 I don't know why I said that.

00:55:33.000 I'm sorry.

00:55:34.000 God, I just, I thought that I would have a baby first and you would, like, wait too long and, you know, try and adopt and that wouldn't really pan out and you would just get, like, some weird pet, like, off-brand, like a ferret or some sh**.

00:55:48.000 I'm so happy for you.

00:55:50.000 A baby!

00:55:54.000 Looks great, guys.

00:55:56.000 Looks great.

00:55:57.000 If you didn't like that abortion joke, maybe you'll like this other abortion joke.

00:56:01.000 Everyone at school and on the web knows that I am the sexiest teacher in the world and that kindness is my favorite hobby.

00:56:08.000 So I want this to be your day, too.

00:56:10.000 I don't want it to be.

00:56:11.000 It's your day, so please leave me alone.

00:56:13.000 Really?

00:56:13.000 Please leave me alone.

00:56:14.000 Please, this is your day.

00:56:16.000 Context, Lainey is pregnant and thinking of terminating, which is so fine because you know I'm pro-choice like a Rolls Royce, but this could be our unicorn's last chance. 0.90

00:56:25.000 Wait, no, you need to go into the wrinkles.

00:56:27.000 So we're hoping that we can talk her into keeping it, right?

00:56:31.000 Oh my God, the chat is on fire.

00:56:33.000 Enough! 1.00

00:56:34.000 Wait, no, that's my phone.

00:56:35.000 Your phone's over there.

00:56:36.000 I'm turning it off.

00:56:37.000 Stop it! 0.99

00:56:39.000 Stop! 1.00

00:56:42.000 I'm not having an abortion!

00:56:44.000 Not that there's anything wrong with that.

00:56:46.000 Jesus, Shirley, I would.

00:56:48.000 Kate has. - My mom tried. - Hmm.

00:56:53.000 Didn't like that one either, did you?

00:56:55.000 Abortion.

00:56:55.000 Hilarious.

00:56:56.000 See, it's totally fine.

00:56:57.000 It's totally great and totally fine in a movie about pregnancy.

00:57:01.000 Well, I guess the good news is that there's bad news.

00:57:04.000 The bad news is apparently it was the most watched title during the week of its release at 25.1 million views over at the Netflix, apparently.

00:57:13.000 The good news is that Rotten Tomatoes got it right.

00:57:15.000 23% critics score, 23% audience scores.

00:57:17.000 That means it's terrible across the board.

00:57:19.000 It is indeed terrible across the board.

00:57:21.000 Okay, in just a moment, if you stick around past this, I will actually give you some things that you should watch that are actually good and interesting.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 14, 2025

SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes The UNTHINKABLE

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