The Ben Shapiro Show - South Park Was Right About Meghan And Harry

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00:00:04.000 Okay, so, as it turns out, South Park was right yet again.

00:00:07.000 Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, it is astonishing how they chase after cameras while claiming that they are attempting to run away from cameras.

00:00:15.000 The latest iteration of this story is that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are now claiming that they were involved in a near-fatal paparazzi chase in New York City.

00:00:23.000 This is all part and parcel of the broader narrative that has been presented by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. 0.94

00:00:27.000 Prince Harry says that he is able to be sort of a bimbo idiot ne'er-do-well who abandons all family loyalty because the paparazzi killed Princess Di. 0.96

00:00:39.000 If you read his memoir... 0.98

00:00:41.000 This is his claim, is that Princess Di didn't actually, she wasn't killed by the driver of the limousine in which she was riding, who was traveling at a high rate of speed through a tunnel.

00:00:50.000 No, what actually happened is that the paparazzi caused his mom to be killed and he himself has been victimized by the paparazzi and his whole life is about how the paparazzi victimized him.

00:00:59.000 Meanwhile, Meghan Markle has been cosplaying as Princess Diana in a wide variety of settings.

00:01:04.000 She's wearing Outfits that are extremely similar to Princess Diana.

00:01:08.000 At the end of Prince Harry's book, she goes to Princess Diana's grave.

00:01:13.000 It's all very strange.

00:01:14.000 Well, now they're taking this to the next step because they've decided that the only way that they can be perceived as victims, because they are not victims, they are in fact some of the least victimized people on planet Earth.

00:01:22.000 This is just one aspect of being a prince and then of being a second-rate actress who marries a prince and becomes a princess and then living in California where you make ridiculously narcissistic documentaries about yourself.

00:01:33.000 And then get paid by Netflix to do so.

00:01:35.000 Well, now they have to regain victimhood status and attention.

00:01:38.000 And the only way really to do that is to claim that they are being brutally victimized by, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, the paparazzi.

00:01:44.000 So according to page six, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are quote, extremely upset and shaken after being involved in a near catastrophic two hour paparazzi chase in New York City on Tuesday night.

00:01:54.000 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are traveling with Markle's mom, Doria Raglan, were pursued by photographers after leaving the Ziegfeld Theater, where the former actress was honored by Gloria Steinem at the Women of Vision Awards in Manhattan, which sounds absolutely insufferable.

00:02:07.000 An event with both Meghan Markle and Gloria Steinem?

00:02:10.000 Wow.

00:02:10.000 I need that like a fish needs a bicycle.

00:02:12.000 The trio left the event in an SUV around 10pm.

00:02:14.000 They were immediately followed by around 12 paparazzi.

00:02:17.000 According to page six, this is what they were told.

00:02:19.000 Okay, as a person who travels with security nearly all of the time, let me tell you a thing we have never done.

00:02:23.000 evading photographers according to a source. Okay, so first of all, this...

00:02:28.000 As a person who travels with security nearly all of the time, let me tell you a

00:02:33.000 thing we have never done. A thing we have never done is get from a secured vehicle

00:02:37.000 into a yellow cab to evade photographers. That's stupid. 1.00

00:02:43.000 Like unbelievably stupid. 1.00

00:02:44.000 First of all, you're in the car. 1.00

00:02:47.000 So if somebody is trying to photograph you and you are in a car, typically these cars have shaded windows.

00:02:53.000 So what?

00:02:53.000 We're going to take a picture of the car?

00:02:56.000 Or a picture of you getting out of the car and going back to your hotel?

00:02:59.000 Okay, like where were you planning to go?

00:03:02.000 And I'm sorry for the whole singing in the rain bit where you're like running from car to car across the tops of buses and stuff, but I don't believe you.

00:03:09.000 The insider alleges that one cameraman hit a car while another almost ran over an NYPD officer during the near-fatal chase.

00:03:15.000 So basically, this is now something directly out of the movies.

00:03:19.000 It started off with 12 paparazzi, then ended up with four chasing Meghan, Harry, and Doria, the insider tells us.

00:03:24.000 The insider suspiciously sounded a lot like Meghan Markle. 0.92

00:03:27.000 The security tried their best to lose photographers.

00:03:29.000 Once in the taxi, Harry used his cell phone to record the ensuing melee.

00:03:32.000 We're told security was also recording to gather evidence.

00:03:35.000 Paparazzi were confronted by uniformed police officers but ignored warnings and continued chasing the trio, we hear.

00:03:40.000 A rep for the Sussex claim to Page Six Wednesday last night, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Ms.

00:03:44.000 Ragland were involved in a near-catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi.

00:03:50.000 This relentless pursuit lasting over two hours.

00:03:52.000 So first of all, two hour pursuit?

00:03:54.000 How long was OJ's chase with the LAPD?

00:03:56.000 I don't think it was two hours.

00:03:59.000 Two hours?

00:04:00.000 In New York?

00:04:01.000 First of all, You can't drive more than five feet in New York without hitting a red light or traffic.

00:04:06.000 So I'm confused.

00:04:07.000 How high speed was this chase, precisely?

00:04:09.000 Have you been to New York?

00:04:10.000 Like, where are they going?

00:04:11.000 Eight miles an hour?

00:04:13.000 And then stopping dead and banging your head against the back of the... This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours and apparently involving Jack Bauer, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians, and two NYPD officers.

00:04:26.000 While being a public figure comes with a level of interest from the public, it should never come at the cost of anyone's safety.

00:04:31.000 One source calls the incident absolutely shocking and says Raglin, who's 66 years old, was particularly terrified by the ordeal.

00:04:37.000 Everyone is still upset to say the least.

00:04:38.000 It was horrific, the source tells us.

00:04:41.000 Wow.

00:04:42.000 Just wow.

00:04:43.000 Well, now questions have emerged.

00:04:45.000 By the way, this is happening right as the Duke of Sussex's police bodyguards were removed after he stopped being a working royal in 2020.

00:04:51.000 And now they are attempting to get the royals to pay for their security again.

00:04:57.000 So, this is all part and parcel of a broader attempt to get other people to pay their bills, apparently.

00:05:01.000 So, um, there are now pretty open and obvious questions about this, like, did it happen?

00:05:06.000 And, um, and why would anyone believe them?

00:05:09.000 We'll get to those questions in just one moment first.

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00:06:14.000 Okay, so now questions have begun stacking up.

00:06:17.000 Uh-oh.

00:06:18.000 Uh-oh! 0.94

00:06:18.000 The NYPD, who assisted Prince Harry and Mark with transportation, according to Fox News, shared their account with Fox News Digital. 0.94

00:06:25.000 There were numerous photographers that made their transport challenging, said Julian Phillips, a deputy commissioner of public information.

00:06:30.000 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived at their destination.

00:06:32.000 There were no reported collisions, summonses, injuries or arrests in regard.

00:06:36.000 So we had heard that somebody hit a car, right?

00:06:38.000 And also that they almost hit like an NYPD officer.

00:06:41.000 The NYPD is looking through traffic camera footage and security footage to piece together what transpired.

00:06:46.000 Apparently, there is a video that shows the chaotic scene the night of Harry and Markle's alleged chase, but it doesn't show any near collisions.

00:06:53.000 At the time of publication, no footage of the alleged car chase had been made available.

00:06:57.000 In fact, then when they interviewed the cab driver, a person named Sukh Charn Singh, who told the AP he instantly recognized his passengers.

00:07:05.000 They were following us the whole time, he said to the paparazzi, but he said he wouldn't call it a chase.

00:07:08.000 Singh, the cab driver, was on 67th near an NYPD precinct when a security guard waved him down.

00:07:13.000 Singh pulled the yellow taxi to the curb and in came Harry, Megan, and her mom.

00:07:16.000 Now again, I don't understand the strategy here.

00:07:18.000 I really don't understand the strategy.

00:07:19.000 So security got them out of a secure vehicle, put them on the street, and then waved down a passing cab.

00:07:25.000 They had this look on their faces, he said.

00:07:27.000 They were about to give their destination when a garbage truck blocked their path.

00:07:29.000 All of a sudden, paparazzi came out and started taking pictures, he said.

00:07:33.000 One of the royals told them to circle back to the precinct.

00:07:35.000 They didn't say much, Singh said.

00:07:36.000 They asked my name, and then after that, Harry said thanks and have a good day.

00:07:38.000 They paid $17 in fare, and they gave a $50 tip, which is nice.

00:07:45.000 So apparently he just kind of went around the block, but that doesn't sound like a two-hour near-catastrophic chase involving the paparazzi.

00:07:53.000 According to royal watcher Omid Scobie, the paparazzi were confronted by police multiple times as they chased the royal couple who were on their way to a private residence where they were staying.

00:08:01.000 Scobie alleged on Twitter the photographers drove on a sidewalk, ran through red lights, reversed down a one-way street, photographed the couple while driving, and illegally blocked a moving vehicle.

00:08:10.000 The mayor was like, um, I, he said, the mayor said, I find it hard to believe there was a two-hour high-speed chase, but we'll find out the exact duration of it.

00:08:19.000 If it's 10 minutes, a 10-minute chase is extremely dangerous in New York City.

00:08:23.000 So, yeah, man.

00:08:25.000 Again, the cabbie told the post that he said it seemed like it wasn't scary.

00:08:34.000 He said it was a little crazy, they were trying to get home.

00:08:38.000 But, you know, the kind of notion, he said, he also added, I never felt like I was in danger.

00:08:43.000 It wasn't like a car chase in a movie.

00:08:44.000 They were quiet and seemed scared, but it's New York, it's safe.

00:08:47.000 And now the reason all of this is important is because, again, claims of victimhood in American society are the new currency of the realm.

00:08:53.000 The way that you get attention is by claiming that you are a victim.

00:08:56.000 And I've noticed there are a lot more pictures of Harry and Meghan in the papers than there have been any time recently.

00:09:01.000 This also changes the narrative from the coronation, where Harry was kind of sidelined, It also allows for the media to do its job and talk about how American society is actually super-duper racist.

00:09:12.000 CNN correspondent Salma Abdulaziz was talking about Meghan Markle and saying it's actually racist. 0.97

00:09:18.000 It's racist to talk about Megxit, which is a pun on Brexit because it's Meghan Markle leaving Mexit.

00:09:25.000 But that's racist, apparently.

00:09:27.000 Again, I just have to emphasize how huge that exit was and how much it was criticized by the press here in the UK.

00:09:35.000 Some calling it Megxit, that was seen as a very racist and sexist way to characterize that exit, pinning it just on Meghan rather than Prince Harry.

00:09:44.000 There was a strong sense among communities of color here that she was being treated poorly by the press because of her racial background.

00:09:53.000 And it's all about, it's all about victimhood.

00:09:55.000 It's all about victimhood.

00:09:56.000 Our society has now decided that because victimhood is the currency of the realm, well, you can make a buck off of it.

00:10:01.000 If there's a market, then there is someone to fill that market.

00:10:05.000 If there is a desire for victimhood, a victimhood narrative, there is somebody who is going to capitalize on that.

00:10:11.000 And this is where corporate America comes in.

00:10:13.000 So, Pride Month is coming up.

00:10:15.000 Now, I know what you're thinking.

00:10:16.000 You're thinking, wait a second, it didn't already happen?

00:10:18.000 Hasn't it been like Pride several years?

00:10:21.000 Every other day is like Lesbian Visibility Day, or Transgender Awareness Day, or Transgender Lesbian Visibility and Awareness Day.

00:10:28.000 Or, as the State Department put it yesterday, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia.

00:10:36.000 Wow, that's a lot of phobias.

00:10:37.000 Also, arachnophobia.

00:10:40.000 The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, he actually put out a statement on this yesterday, quote, on International Day, with the most hideous flag of all time.

00:10:48.000 This is the Pride Progress flag, which just is bizarre, but it's like a now vertical Pride Progress flag, so it's not like the typical rainbow flag, which was the Pride flag. 0.86

00:10:57.000 Then they added in all of the trans and BIPOC flags, and then they added in the intersex flag, and so now it just looks like vomit. 0.84

00:11:05.000 So, Secretary Blinken said, on International Day, against homophobia, biphobia, which I mean, I suppose that you're afraid of bisexuals, you're not just afraid of homosexuals now, now you're afraid of also bisexuals, interphobia, so you're afraid of intersex people, and transphobia, so you're afraid of everyone, apparently. 0.64

00:11:22.000 You're apparently afraid of, like, all humans who are in any way not straight.

00:11:28.000 That's the only justification for thinking that, for example, boys can't be girls, girls can't be boys.

00:11:33.000 Or believing that not all forms of sexual activity are completely morally equivalent.

00:11:38.000 This is an international lay against homophobia, biphobia, interphobia, transphobia, and arachnophobia.

00:11:43.000 We call for an end to harmful conversion therapy practices, including those that attempt to change a person's sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics.

00:11:52.000 Now, by the way, think about how Orwellian and perverse this is.

00:11:54.000 Again, this is the panoply of victimhood.

00:11:56.000 This is the flag of victimhood.

00:11:57.000 It's getting really, really crowded, as you may have noticed, this flag of victimhood.

00:12:01.000 Woo! 0.99

00:12:02.000 Super crowded.

00:12:03.000 Well, one of the most Orwellian things about this is suggesting that it's conversion therapy to say that a boy is a boy.

00:12:09.000 That's not conversion therapy.

00:12:11.000 So traditionally, what people meant by conversion therapy was there was a kid who's having gay feelings and then they hooked him up to electrodes and showed him gay porn or something and then electrified him, right? 0.80

00:12:21.000 Like tortured the kid.

00:12:22.000 That's what people think of when they think conversion therapy.

00:12:24.000 Not like just normal talk therapy or certainly not.

00:12:27.000 A boy comes in, expresses gender confusion, you say, well, actually you're a boy and we probably should talk about this.

00:12:32.000 No, now it's conversion therapy to tell a boy that he's a boy. 1.00

00:12:35.000 It is not conversion therapy to chop off his d*** and add a couple of breasts. 1.00

00:12:39.000 That right there, that would not be conversion therapy. 1.00

00:12:41.000 That's gender affirming care. 1.00

00:12:43.000 All of the Orwellian nonsense.

00:12:44.000 But again, this is so we can claim that society is victimizing people.

00:12:47.000 It's all about society victimizing people.

00:12:49.000 Because of their inherent status.

00:12:51.000 Because if you're a transgender person, this means that this is inherent. 1.00

00:12:54.000 It is not you choosing to believe a thing about the world that is not true, and then enact mutilation to your body in order to prove it, in many cases.

00:13:03.000 No, no, no.

00:13:04.000 That right there is discrimination by society.

00:13:06.000 We have to go further and further.

00:13:07.000 So if there's a market for discrimination, there are corporate interests who will fill

00:13:10.000 it and they will all get together in a room somewhere and they will all decide that if

00:13:14.000 they move together in lockstep, then none of them is vulnerable.

00:13:16.000 There is safety in corporate numbers.

00:13:18.000 You have an overwhelming tsunami of left-wing social nonsense that is coming down the pike

00:13:25.000 You got the State Department tweeting out the Pride Progress flag and then plunking a Pride Progress flag just outside the Vatican because this is our chief export. 0.69

00:13:32.000 Now, it used to be that America's chief export was Hollywood, and Hollywood was an expression of American culture, which was all about, you know, kind of freedom and American can-do-ism and the American flag and all the rest of the stuff.

00:13:42.000 This was our chief export.

00:13:44.000 In America to the rest of the world in the 1940s and 50s meant cars, Coca-Cola, the American flag, apple pie, freedom.

00:13:50.000 That is typically the takeaway the rest of the world got from Hollywood.

00:13:55.000 Now what the rest of the world gets is boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and if you don't agree with that, you are some form of bigot.

00:14:02.000 And this is now happening across corporate America.

00:14:04.000 It's being promoted by medical authorities who are lying to our children.

00:14:08.000 The American Academy of Pediatrics, which has nothing to do with pediatrics anymore and has everything to do with woke politics, has now issued a guide to puberty.

00:14:17.000 It is called U-ology, a puberty guide for everybody.

00:14:21.000 And this particular book, again, issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Literally has a section in which they explain that certain people are assigned female at birth.

00:14:34.000 And even though they actually are female.

00:14:37.000 That means that they could still be a boy quote.

00:14:40.000 That's why you may have known him in the past as Olivia.

00:14:42.000 David continues, but Oliver is a boy, so that means he's transgender. 0.84

00:14:45.000 He belongs in the boys locker room as much as any of us do.

00:14:49.000 It's okay, said David.

00:14:50.000 Now you know.

00:14:51.000 And in general, not everyone who comes into the boys' locker room will have the same types of body parts.

00:14:55.000 And that's normal.

00:14:56.000 Ah!

00:14:57.000 That's normal.

00:14:59.000 Again, is the American Academy of Pediatrics writing indoctrinating books for children about why boys can be girls?

00:15:05.000 Chapter 3, Body Parts Smart.

00:15:06.000 Here's the deal.

00:15:07.000 When someone looks at a baby's genitals and says, it's a girl or it's a boy, that's called their sex assigned at birth.

00:15:11.000 Because, well, it is assigned at birth.

00:15:13.000 Make sense? 0.99

00:15:15.000 If a baby is born with a penis, their sex assigned at birth is male. 0.99

00:15:18.000 If a baby is born with a vulva, their sex assigned at birth is female. 0.99

00:15:21.000 But there are some babies born with a penis who grew up feeling like a girl on the inside. 0.99

00:15:25.000 That's called being transgender. 0.99

00:15:27.000 So instead of saying she, as we often do for kids born with a vulva, we say he. 0.81

00:15:30.000 Because that's who this person truly is on the inside. 1.00

00:15:33.000 This is the crap that they are teaching your children. 0.99

00:15:36.000 This is the crap that the American Academy of Pediatrics, a supposed medical institution, is teaching kids. 1.00

00:15:41.000 And so this has been picked again. 0.98

00:15:43.000 The market has been created by the medical community, which is entirely woke, and by governmental bodies.

00:15:49.000 And once that market has been created, corporate America moves to fill it.

00:15:53.000 Now, corporate America is relying on one simple thing.

00:15:55.000 Well, two.

00:15:56.000 Corporate America is relying on two simple things.

00:15:59.000 Simple thing number one.

00:16:00.000 In unity, there is strength.

00:16:02.000 So if they all say the same thing, then you can't do anything about it.

00:16:06.000 If they all push forward with a wall of sound, an unbroken wall of sound, then that means you're just going to have to accept it.

00:16:12.000 Because if everywhere you shop is doing Pride Month, then how exactly are you going to not shop somewhere during Pride Month?

00:16:17.000 You're just going to have to ingest the rainbow cereal along with the rest of it.

00:16:23.000 So unity and corporate wokeness is principle number one.

00:16:26.000 And principle number two is you won't get that offended.

00:16:29.000 Because the reality is, Harvard Business School studies about this, the left is significantly more annoying than the right is, typically speaking, when it comes to their consumption of products, or this has been true at least year to four.

00:16:40.000 There's a study from Harvard Business School that I've talked about on the show before.

00:16:44.000 This study found that if you take a neutral corporation, a corporation that has no politics, and you have a right-wing corporation and a left-wing corporation, that the left-wing corporation is viewed somewhat positively by the left, The neutral corporation is also viewed somewhat positively by the left because they assume that it's just a left-wing corporation.

00:17:01.000 A right-wing corporation loses 20 to 30 points in approval rating just for not being a left-wing corporation.

00:17:08.000 For the right, however, the right doesn't have significant feelings about this one way or another.

00:17:13.000 The right typically will just shop wherever it wants to shop.

00:17:15.000 So corporate America has relied on this.

00:17:17.000 Corporate America has relied on your apathy and my apathy.

00:17:20.000 And the fact that we're like, listen, man, I still got to go to Target.

00:17:22.000 That's what they have relied on.

00:17:23.000 But here's the thing.

00:17:24.000 Alternatives are now available.

00:17:27.000 The entire goal of things like Pride Month, the entire goal of a wave of corporate propaganda on behalf of the Pride Progress flag, on behalf of propagandistic nonsense about the moral equivalence of all sexual activity and orientation, the beauty of all forms of sexual Congress, The idea that boys can be girls, girls can be boys. 0.52

00:17:47.000 This entire moral program that is being pushed by the woke relies on one, their unity, and two, your apathy.

00:17:55.000 But you don't actually have to do that.

00:17:56.000 You don't actually have to do that.

00:17:58.000 So what we are about to see, and we're already seeing it, is again, corporate woke unity in the assumption that you will remain apathetic no matter how woke and crazy they get.

00:18:09.000 So for example, Target.

00:18:11.000 Major corporation relies on your shopping.

00:18:14.000 They've decided that it's time to sell products that transes the kids. 0.98

00:18:16.000 This is a TikTok video that's been going viral showing that there are bathing suits in the kids section with tuck options. 0.99

00:18:23.000 So your little boy, you're trying to trans, you can get him a girl's bathing suit that allows him to take his penis and testicles and tuck them up under himself. 0.99

00:18:31.000 Isn't that nice? 1.00

00:18:32.000 Really great, great job here, Target.

00:18:36.000 I'm sorry I chose you again.

00:18:37.000 I just needed to do the bathing suit, the last bit.

00:18:39.000 I found the Tuck bathing suits.

00:18:42.000 The Tuck friendly bathing suits.

00:18:43.000 So if you need a women's bathing suit and you have a little extra meat down there that you gotta hide, you have one option. 0.84

00:18:51.000 That is the only bathing suit that I found in the entire store and it's in the pride section.

00:18:55.000 It's not in the kids section, women's section, boys section, baby section.

00:18:58.000 It is in the pride section.

00:18:59.000 It was the only one I could find.

00:19:00.000 And I did have another adult with me checking all the tags so that I didn't have to Well, isn't that sad?

00:19:09.000 It's the only one they could find.

00:19:10.000 But Target is, in fact, stacked up with Pride Progress gear that is geared toward children.

00:19:16.000 They have baby gear that is geared toward gay pride and trans pride.

00:19:21.000 Like, for small babies.

00:19:23.000 For, like, kids who can't talk yet.

00:19:25.000 And Target believes that you won't do anything about it.

00:19:27.000 That's why they're doing it.

00:19:28.000 They believe that they will gain the upside of the left being super enthusiastic about them.

00:19:32.000 And there is no downside because the right will just go silent.

00:19:34.000 The right won't pay any attention to it.

00:19:36.000 And it's not just Target.

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00:20:40.000 It is not just Target.

00:20:41.000 It's also apparently Starbucks.

00:20:42.000 And it's Starbucks internationally.

00:20:43.000 So Starbucks has now put out an ad for India.

00:20:47.000 Now, India, as you may know, is a pretty socially conservative country.

00:20:50.000 When I say that the chief export of the United States is now wokeness, I mean it. 1.00

00:20:54.000 It is now wokeness because it's embedded in all of our corporate product.

00:20:57.000 Starbucks is present nearly every place on the globe and they feel the necessity to lecture people of India about why boys can be girls and girls can be boys and parents need to be tolerant and accepting of their boy pretending that he's a girl.

00:21:11.000 So here's an ad from Starbucks directed at the Indian market.

00:21:16.000 By the way, this actually has not just ramifications for the domestic morality of the United States, of course, it also has ramifications for our foreign policy.

00:21:24.000 You know what is one thing that people across the world are not interested in? 0.99

00:21:27.000 The importation of this sort of crap. 0.99

00:21:28.000 They're just not interested in it. 0.99

00:21:30.000 I remember I was speaking, actually, it was an interesting conversation.

00:21:33.000 I was speaking with a very high-ranking member of the Pakistani foreign policy establishment at one point.

00:21:39.000 And this person and I were talking, and one of the things this person was saying is, listen, we have some commonalities of interest with the United States, there are areas of crossover, but there's one thing we are not interested in whatsoever, and that is your social morality. 0.98

00:21:50.000 We think that your social morality is garbage. 0.97

00:21:53.000 We think that you are attempting to corrupt our children. 1.00

00:21:55.000 We think that you are attempting to import your libertinism and gender confusion into our country. 0.97

00:22:02.000 And so we don't want any part of that.

00:22:04.000 So if your offer is blue jeans, but also transness, not interested. 0.99

00:22:08.000 We'll make our own jeans.

00:22:09.000 We'll import it from somewhere else.

00:22:10.000 But that is not just, you know, members of the Pakistani foreign policy establishment.

00:22:14.000 That's pretty much everywhere.

00:22:15.000 It turns out there's a very small slice of the human population.

00:22:19.000 It's a weird slice of the human population that is very into this stuff.

00:22:23.000 And now wishes to proselytize on its behalf.

00:22:26.000 But if you wish to, it makes it harder for us to form alliances with countries based on commonality of interest.

00:22:31.000 Because what they say is, if we let you in the front door, we're very concerned with what you are going to bring in with you.

00:22:39.000 Again, the export in 1950s America, 1940s America, 1930s America, the export was, we're going to bring American military power, we're going to establish your freedom, and we are not going to threaten your baseline level of morality.

00:22:50.000 Because, you know what we still believe in?

00:22:51.000 We still believe in, like, monogamous nuclear families.

00:22:54.000 Like, the things that are the most threatening are, like, rock and roll.

00:22:57.000 That was, like, the big threat in the 1950s and 60s.

00:22:59.000 We might bring rock and roll to your shores, and that was gonna corrupt the youth. 1.00

00:23:02.000 Now, the big threat is, we might come in and tell your son that he should cut off his penis. 1.00

00:23:07.000 Well, that's a pretty big threat, as it turns out. 0.99

00:23:10.000 So it actually has ramifications for how we do foreign policy, because who wants to ally with a country that says the condition of us allying with you, Saudi Arabia, the condition of us making an alliance with you, Hungary, the condition of us forming a more solid relationship with you, India, is that you fly the pride progress flag and also pretend that your son is a daughter. 0.57

00:23:32.000 Here's the Starbucks India commercial.

00:23:35.000 It says, Calling Arpit.

00:23:40.000 It's an older gentleman calling his son on his phone.

00:23:45.000 And the mom is looking at him skeptically.

00:23:50.000 And she says, listen, don't get angry this time, please.

00:23:52.000 They're in a Starbucks.

00:23:54.000 And he's starting to get upset.

00:23:56.000 And here comes the... Oh, look, Arpit's a girl! 1.00

00:23:58.000 But Arpit isn't a girl. 0.92

00:24:00.000 Thanks for meeting me, Dad.

00:24:02.000 I know it's been years.

00:24:05.000 But you still mean the world to me.

00:24:07.000 Uh, Dad's gonna give a warm hug to his...

00:24:16.000 Coffee?

00:24:17.000 you Oh, they're gonna get coffee together.

00:24:23.000 And then mom is so accepting. 0.95

00:24:24.000 Now dad's accepting all because of Starbucks's sh**ty coffee. 0.96

00:24:30.000 Little burn coffee makes you... Your habits haven't changed, says the dad. 0.96

00:24:36.000 Three cold coffees for Arpita.

00:24:39.000 And it's for Arpita, not Arpit.

00:24:40.000 Arpita.

00:24:42.000 And he ordered it because he's accepting her name, guys!

00:24:45.000 For me, you are still my kid.

00:24:49.000 For me, you are still my kid.

00:24:53.000 Only a letter has got added to your name. 0.98

00:24:55.000 He doesn't say that part where the d**k got subtracted. 0.98

00:25:01.000 Oh, and the singing. 0.98

00:25:02.000 You know, like Sara Khmer Wafflin.

00:25:04.000 Indian style over here.

00:25:06.000 It starts with Arpita.

00:25:09.000 Hashtag, it starts with your name.

00:25:13.000 So Starbucks is now exporting the transness to India.

00:25:18.000 So again, all of this relies, as I said before, on two things.

00:25:21.000 Unity of corporate wokeness and your apathy.

00:25:24.000 Alright, again.

00:25:26.000 Another example.

00:25:26.000 Unity of corporate wokeness.

00:25:27.000 Adidas has now decided that the best way to sell female swimsuits is to put a dude in them. 0.99

00:25:34.000 Yes, ladies! 1.00

00:25:35.000 I will never understand how women are not more insulted by this than men are. 0.98

00:25:38.000 Men are insulted by this because we just think it's ridiculous. 0.97

00:25:40.000 It's absolutely absurd. 0.97

00:25:41.000 Men are not women. 1.00

00:25:42.000 Women are not men.

00:25:43.000 We all get it.

00:25:44.000 I will never understand how a woman is not insulted by a man wearing a woman's bathing suit and pretending to be female. 1.00

00:25:49.000 It will never cease to amaze me.

00:25:52.000 We are a culture that says that cultural appropriation is, in and of itself, bad.

00:25:57.000 You're not allowed to wear a garment that is another culture's garment. 1.00

00:26:03.000 We're not allowed to do that.

00:26:03.000 But you're allowed to literally appropriate another sex, and everybody goes, oh!

00:26:08.000 So here is Adidas.

00:26:09.000 Adidas.

00:26:10.000 Now, I have a question.

00:26:11.000 How much of the market is this?

00:26:12.000 How much of the Adidas market for bathing suits is men who want to wear one-piece swimsuits that show off the crotch bulge?

00:26:20.000 How many?

00:26:20.000 I'm gonna go like, there are seven people.

00:26:23.000 That's not a huge population.

00:26:25.000 But again, they're relying on the idea that if they virtue signal to the left, the left will be super enthusiastic about Adidas.

00:26:29.000 And they're relying on you not to stop shopping at Adidas.

00:26:32.000 Because, hey, you gotta buy a bathing suit somewhere.

00:26:34.000 Here is the Adidas ad for a male in a female swimsuit.

00:26:38.000 And it says, love unity on the swimsuit.

00:26:40.000 And this is a man.

00:26:42.000 And you can tell this is a man by all, literally all available evidence.

00:26:46.000 Up to and including the obvious and clear biology of this person.

00:26:50.000 The male shoulder physique, the crotch bulge, the whole thing.

00:26:53.000 This is clearly a dude.

00:26:55.000 And this is a dude wearing a lady swimsuit and then sashaying around. 0.80

00:26:58.000 And Adidas is pushing that.

00:27:01.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:27:02.000 Here's the thing that people ought to remember.

00:27:04.000 One, the corporate woke unity monolith is fake.

00:27:08.000 It's not real.

00:27:09.000 It's not real.

00:27:10.000 They have this tenuous agreement that they will all go woke in order so that you will just give in and acquiesce.

00:27:17.000 You'll have a feeling there's a tsunami that every place you go during June is going to be covered with pride progress flags and gay pride flags and trans the kids onesies and all the rest of it.

00:27:25.000 And so you go, oh god, I can't even deal with this.

00:27:27.000 Fine, I'll just buy whatever.

00:27:27.000 Because listen, I got to go shopping.

00:27:29.000 This is what they're counting on.

00:27:30.000 But here's the thing.

00:27:31.000 It's way weaker than it looks.

00:27:32.000 Way weaker than it looks.

00:27:34.000 And so the right has to make a point of picking a few targets.

00:27:37.000 You can't do it to everybody.

00:27:39.000 Picking a few targets.

00:27:40.000 And then destroying their stock, picking a few targets, and then actively not buying from those targets, making clear why you are not buying from those targets.

00:27:48.000 You can't be everyone.

00:27:49.000 And then people say, oh, why are you singling out this company?

00:27:52.000 Well, the answer is because we can't do all of them.

00:27:53.000 So we will single out a few of them and we'll make examples of them.

00:27:56.000 And we should make examples of them because when we make examples of them, the rest of you will learn not to insult your customer core and not to mimic the worst excesses of the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign movement that insists on the proselytization of a peculiarly strange ideology claiming moral equivalence in all sexual activity and that boys can be girls and girls can be boys. 0.93

00:28:19.000 You don't have to stand up to every single company.

00:28:21.000 You have to stand up to a few.

00:28:22.000 And you have to show them that there is a downside to this.

00:28:25.000 And by the way, it works.

00:28:26.000 So Bud Light is a great example of this. 0.92

00:28:28.000 Bud Light has taken it absolutely on the chin ever since they hired Dylan Mulvaney to be a spokesperson for Bud Light, pretending that the best spokesperson for Bud Light would be a gay man, a flamboyantly gay man, pretending that he is a woman. 0.67

00:28:43.000 Their sales have been down like 20%.

00:28:47.000 In fact, they've been so bad that Bud Light is now attempting to buy it back.

00:28:50.000 It's not going to work, by the way.

00:28:52.000 So Bud Light actually put out a new bottle.

00:28:56.000 They're attempting to, again, buy this thing back.

00:28:59.000 The way they think they're going to buy this back is by putting out a new bottle that essentially stars camouflage.

00:29:06.000 So they put three bottles side by side for Memorial Day.

00:29:10.000 And the idea here is going to be that you're going to forget that they actually attempted to hire Dylan Mulvaney.

00:29:18.000 The brand has seen a 24% drop in sales versus last year in the week ending May 6th.

00:29:22.000 The new bottle is a freedom bottle covered in camouflage.

00:29:26.000 This is because of the brave.

00:29:28.000 Okay, but you know what?

00:29:30.000 We all see what you're doing, guys.

00:29:31.000 We can all see what you're doing.

00:29:33.000 It is very clear what you are doing.

00:29:37.000 By the way, the Adidas ad campaign?

00:29:40.000 This would be a great place to start.

00:29:41.000 Like, you don't need to buy from Adidas.

00:29:42.000 There are plenty of other companies.

00:29:43.000 And I understand a lot of these companies are bad.

00:29:45.000 I understand that Nike is doing business with China and that they're as woke as hell. 0.67

00:29:49.000 I understand all that.

00:29:50.000 But it's not about who you buy from.

00:29:51.000 It's who you won't buy from that actually makes a difference to these companies.

00:29:54.000 Adidas issued a press release in partnership with the trans organization Athlete Ally regarding the new womenswear campaign.

00:29:59.000 Quote, Our goal is to drive inclusivity in sport.

00:30:02.000 Adidas.

00:30:03.000 That seems like a pretty easy win.

00:30:13.000 So, maybe, you know, you're buying some shoes for your kids?

00:30:15.000 Don't buy Adidas.

00:30:16.000 How about that?

00:30:17.000 Just buy from someplace else.

00:30:18.000 And make clear that you're buying from NOT Adidas.

00:30:21.000 Doesn't matter where else you buy from.

00:30:23.000 Sure, those other companies may be just as bad, just like a lot of people bought Miller Lite instead of Bud Light.

00:30:26.000 And Miller Lite may be just as woke.

00:30:28.000 But by making a point that you are not buying from Bud Light because of the wokeness, you hurt Bud Light. 0.99

00:30:33.000 And you are more likely to push people, other people, off the point.

00:30:35.000 Here's the thing, all these companies are vulnerable.

00:30:37.000 We are entering a recessionary period.

00:30:41.000 Target is about to experience some serious economic pain anyway.

00:30:46.000 They're attempting to enter into sort of the low cost, Arena.

00:30:50.000 Target.

00:30:51.000 They're attempting to enter the low-cost arena because people are spending less money.

00:30:54.000 They're attempting to compete with Walmart.

00:30:56.000 There's an entire article today in the Wall Street Journal about Target trying to sell affordable joy as consumers pull back.

00:31:02.000 Which means their profit margins are down.

00:31:04.000 Their profit margins, by the way, these stores are never that high.

00:31:06.000 It's like 2%, 3%, 4% maximum.

00:31:08.000 So you can put a serious dent in their profit margin simply by shifting your shopping over to Walmart.

00:31:11.000 And you may say again, well, is Walmart any better?

00:31:13.000 I don't know that Walmart's any better, but I do know that you can say the target is not someplace that you want to shop if they're going to do this sort of nonsense.

00:31:20.000 And it does have an impact, even if it's a small impact and an incremental impact.

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00:33:28.000 Okay, folks.

00:33:29.000 So, when there is a pushback against woke culture, woke culture actually backs down.

00:33:35.000 So, for example, Even in small ways, the L.A.

00:33:38.000 Dodgers have decided not to give a Community Hero Award to an anti-Catholic drag group after outrage and pushback from Catholics.

00:33:44.000 So, the Dodgers had originally planned to present the award to the L.A.

00:33:47.000 chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an organization of men who dress in drag, queen versions of Catholic religious habits, and claim to have a ministry, according to their website.

00:33:56.000 So the Dodgers actually put out a statement.

00:33:58.000 They said that they still have their Pride Night celebration.

00:34:00.000 Because it's very important that we have a night celebrating people taking pride in their sexual activity.

00:34:07.000 The L.A.

00:34:08.000 Dodgers put out this statement.

00:34:09.000 It's true.

00:34:09.000 In the spirit of unity, the LA Dodgers are proud to host our 10th annual LGBTQ plus minus

00:34:13.000 divided by sign pride night on June 16th.

00:34:16.000 This event has become a meaningful tradition.

00:34:17.000 It's true.

00:34:18.000 When I think of meaningful traditions in American life, I think like July 4th, Memorial Day,

00:34:24.000 people flying gay pride flags to celebrate who they want to bang. 0.96

00:34:28.000 This event has become a meaningful tradition, highlighting not only the diversity and resilience within our fan base, but also the impactful work of extraordinary community groups.

00:34:36.000 This year, as part of a full night of programming, we invited a number of groups to join us.

00:34:39.000 We are now aware that our inclusion of one group in particular, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, in this year's Pride Night, has been the source of some controversy.

00:34:46.000 Given the strong feelings of people who have been offended by the Sisters' inclusion on our evening, and in an effort not to distract from the great benefits we've seen over the years at Pride Night, we're deciding to remove them from this year's group of honorees.

00:34:55.000 So they are still partnering with LA Pride.

00:34:58.000 They're still doing the Pride Night.

00:34:59.000 But this is, in fact, a small victory.

00:35:03.000 Even if it is, it's a victory.

00:35:05.000 Any victory is worth noting.

00:35:07.000 If you can push the LA Dodgers off of giving awards to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, I mean, it shows how far our culture has degraded that they were even thinking of doing this in the first place.

00:35:15.000 But again, these companies are vulnerable.

00:35:18.000 They're vulnerable to pushback.

00:35:20.000 It makes a difference.

00:35:21.000 Don't believe for a second that when you say, I'm not going to shop at Adidas, or I'm not going to go to Starbucks today, or maybe ever again, because they're pushing this kind of garbage, that it doesn't make it.

00:35:30.000 It does.

00:35:30.000 It opens avenues for new companies to rise up.

00:35:33.000 I mean, it's literally why we launched Jeremy's Razors and Jeremy's Chocolates.

00:35:37.000 There are, in fact, alternatives to the corporations that you have been giving your money to.

00:35:42.000 And you should think about that.

00:35:44.000 And make examples of these companies.

00:35:45.000 There should be mass movement.

00:35:47.000 I know Matt Walsh has been pushing people not to go to Target.

00:35:49.000 This seems like a good idea to me.

00:35:51.000 Listen, I love Target.

00:35:52.000 Target's really convenient.

00:35:54.000 But if it means that I'm subsidizing tuck bathing suits for children, not gonna do it.

00:36:01.000 One of the things that's truly amazing about all of this is, again, it's being pushed by the scientific community.

00:36:06.000 This is particularly true on the trans issue.

00:36:08.000 But now there's a new study out on transitions beginning under the US military's health system.

00:36:15.000 And it found a 30% detransition rate. 30%.

00:36:19.000 That's insane.

00:36:21.000 First of all, first and foremost, when it comes to the transition, people on the left are constantly saying, nobody regrets it.

00:36:27.000 No one.

00:36:27.000 These detransitioners, they're an exception, they're not the rule.

00:36:31.000 It never happens. 0.83

00:36:32.000 These are a bunch of weirdos.

00:36:33.000 Not true.

00:36:34.000 According to this study, again, this was published by PubMed, This particular study shows 30% detransitioning rate.

00:36:43.000 And this is for people who have transitioned in the military, meaning they're adults.

00:36:47.000 Now that we have wildly expanded the number of people who are identifying as trans through social contagion, and now that we have greatly broadened the criteria that allow you to go get trans, you're going to see a detransition rate that is way higher than this over the course of time. 0.81

00:37:02.000 Now, all of this has some predictable results, by the way.

00:37:04.000 Those predictable results are not just related to a woke corporate culture that believes nonsense.

00:37:10.000 And again, it's ascientific, anti-scientific nonsense.

00:37:13.000 It also leads to a massive distrust in science itself because, again, why would you trust scientific institutions who lie to you?

00:37:19.000 You have the American Academy of Pediatrics that lies to you.

00:37:21.000 You have the CDC that lies to you.

00:37:23.000 This has some pretty significant downstream effects because it turns out that when you discredit an institution, you get both the good and the bad of discrediting the institution.

00:37:30.000 If the CDC is discredited, that's good in the sense that we all take a third, fourth, fifth look at the data before we acquiesce to whatever the CDC is telling us.

00:37:39.000 It also means that when the CDC is occasionally right, we tend to ignore them.

00:37:42.000 But, with that said, skepticism is entirely warranted pretty much anything that is presented to you by the narrative, by the narrative crew.

00:37:50.000 And the narrative crew is, again, Democrats, the media, their woke corporate buddies.

00:37:55.000 Speaking of the narrative crew, I have to tell you a story that is not a national news story.

00:38:01.000 Again, the way that we determine whether a story is national news or not is whether it fits the left-wing narrative.

00:38:05.000 So the national news stories are all the ones where a racist killing takes place, or an allegedly racist killing takes place, or a killing that has nothing to do with race takes place, but the victim is black and the perpetrator or alleged suspect is white.

00:38:18.000 Those are the ones that are national news. 0.97

00:38:20.000 What is never national news is an open hate crime against white people by black people. 0.94

00:38:23.000 That is never, ever, ever national news. 0.69

00:38:24.000 That is a local news story.

00:38:26.000 To take an example from a local place, there was a shooting.

00:38:32.000 It took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish.

00:38:37.000 Quote, this is for WWL, reporting.

00:38:40.000 The two men arrested for the fatal shooting of Lawrence Herr in Kenner may have been motivated because he was white, a detective working the homicide said during a court hearing on Tuesday.

00:38:48.000 On April 11th, Kenner police arrested a 23-year-old and a 25-year-old for the April 10th murder of Lawrence Herr.

00:38:53.000 They are both black, the victim was white.

00:38:55.000 Herr was 66.

00:38:56.000 He was shot and murdered while installing a mailbox outside a home on Georgetown Drive in Kenner.

00:39:01.000 At the time of the killing, the Kenner police chief said one of the suspects confessed to the shooting but didn't have a particular motive. 0.55

00:39:07.000 They wanted to kill a white person.

00:39:07.000 on a random shooting binge and wanted to commit a murder.

00:39:10.000 We think there may be ulterior motives and that's what detectives are investigating.

00:39:13.000 Well apparently at Tuesday's hearing, the lead detective on the case was asked why the

00:39:16.000 pair targeted her.

00:39:17.000 The detective said under questioning, one of the shooters said, quote, they wanted to 0.98

00:39:20.000 kill a white person. 0.99

00:39:22.000 And wanted to kill a white person. 1.00

00:39:23.000 Now we can all play the game. 1.00

00:39:25.000 Imagine for a second the races were reversed here.

00:39:28.000 Imagine for a second this is a story about two white men who shot a 66-year-old black man installing a mailbox. 0.98

00:39:33.000 And then, during the investigation, it turns out that they said, we wanted to shoot a black person. 0.96

00:39:38.000 This would be national news. 0.99

00:39:40.000 Joe Biden would be talking about it.

00:39:41.000 The families of the victim would be at the White House tomorrow.

00:39:45.000 But it is not a national news story.

00:39:47.000 Because again, it doesn't match the narrative. 0.97

00:39:49.000 Even though, statistically speaking, it is far more likely that a black person is going to murder a white person than the white person is going to murder a black person. 0.98

00:39:55.000 Doesn't matter. 0.98

00:39:56.000 The narrative doesn't match.

00:39:58.000 I think we've reached the point where the fragmentation of narrative is so broad that it's difficult to imagine how we can hold together as a country because of it, honestly.

00:40:06.000 Like the fragmentation, because data doesn't matter.

00:40:08.000 Reality doesn't matter.

00:40:09.000 Science doesn't matter.

00:40:11.000 And a huge percentage of the population feels like one particular narrative is being rammed down their craniums by the powers that be.

00:40:18.000 In which case, resistance, electoral resistance, Resistance in the form of commerce?

00:40:24.000 Resistance in the form of use of government power?

00:40:26.000 Those things are going to become far more likely.

00:40:28.000 When you feel like you're getting gas lit, you tend to react.

00:40:31.000 And that's where we are in the debate right now.

00:40:33.000 Okay, meanwhile, we are drawing ever closer to the debt ceiling.

00:40:37.000 Joe Biden actually is now giving indicators that he's willing to compromise on the debt ceiling, which of course he should.

00:40:41.000 And the fact of the matter is that the White House has been playing a double game.

00:40:44.000 On the one hand, they keep going out there and saying that it's Kevin McCarthy refusing to compromise.

00:40:47.000 And on the other hand, they keep saying we're not even going to negotiate.

00:40:50.000 So Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, he has been trying to participate in non-existent negotiations.

00:40:56.000 He says it's just the fault of Republicans.

00:40:59.000 Are you concerned, though, that the president has talked about conceding work rules for people on federal assistance programs?

00:41:08.000 Yes, and I'm going to wait and see what the actual outcome is before I make any decisions about how to react.

00:41:15.000 The absolutely worst thing that could happen would be a default.

00:41:18.000 That would be, I think, you know, we always use big words on television, but I think it's fair to say that that would be economically cataclysmic.

00:41:25.000 Not only in the United States, but around the world.

00:41:28.000 And that Speaker McCarthy is playing with dynamite, whose danger he does not fully appreciate.

00:41:34.000 And the sooner he puts the pin back in the head, and we can go back to regular order and behave like the Constitution suggests we should, the better off we will all be.

00:41:45.000 These people care deeply about the Constitution.

00:41:47.000 Meanwhile, Kareem Jean-Pierre also gaslighting everybody, suggesting that McCarthy is the problem.

00:41:51.000 It's not Biden refusing to negotiate.

00:41:53.000 It's Kevin McCarthy who's the problem, according to our world's worst White House press secretary.

00:41:58.000 Doesn't it make the president look like he's caving to Republican demands by

00:42:03.000 making this last second decision to cancel it after this criticism from Republicans

00:42:07.000 had come up instead of making a proactive decision to do it?

00:42:10.000 Let's not forget.

00:42:11.000 or just continue on with the trip and telling Kevin McCarthy,

00:42:14.000 you know, call me with an update.

00:42:16.000 I mean, look, the Speaker put us in this position, right?

00:42:20.000 Let's not forget.

00:42:21.000 He put us in a position where he is taking the American economy hostage.

00:42:27.000 We are looking at a situation where America could potentially default on paying their

00:42:37.000 bills, which is something that we have never done before.

00:42:40.000 Oh It's Joe Biden refusing to negotiate, by the way.

00:42:43.000 My favorite iteration of this version of gaslighting is Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader.

00:42:47.000 So Joe Biden is like gallivanting around the globe.

00:42:50.000 He's mostly asleep, but he's being wheeled around the globe and avoiding any sort of negotiations.

00:42:55.000 And he's avoiding negotiations for weeks.

00:42:56.000 And Hakeem Jeffries is like, well, now there's not enough time for a debt deal.

00:42:58.000 Dude, why don't you talk to your dude?

00:43:00.000 I mean, go talk to Joe Biden.

00:43:01.000 He's the one who's been avoiding the negotiation.

00:43:05.000 Right, and the practicality is that we're not going to solve the fiscal health of the American people over the next ten years in two weeks.

00:43:13.000 That's what Republicans are suggesting they'd like to do.

00:43:15.000 And what we're saying is that we should have a serious discussion about that, but every available tool to engage in deficit reduction, to build an economy, to continue economic growth, should be part of that discussion.

00:43:30.000 Oh, okay.

00:43:31.000 So, yeah.

00:43:32.000 We don't have enough time.

00:43:34.000 But why?

00:43:35.000 Why would this have happened?

00:43:37.000 It does look, by the way, as though Joe Biden is going to cave on this, which he has to, because if we get an actual recession because of the debt ceiling, Joe Biden is going to be the one who pays the political price.

00:43:43.000 According to Politico, Biden on Wednesday left the door open to expanding some work requirements as part of a debt ceiling deal, committing only to opposing new restrictions that affect health care programs.

00:43:51.000 Quote, I'm not going to accept any work requirement that's going to impact on the medical health needs of people, he said, before adding it's possible a deal could expand work rules for other federal programs.

00:44:00.000 Pramila Jayapal, who is reliably crazy, she's the progressive from Washington, she said it was confusing.

00:44:05.000 She said it wasn't open to much more than what we had, and it seemed to leave a little door open.

00:44:08.000 But look, I've been clear, this is a non-starter with us.

00:44:12.000 Well, it's going to be fun to watch Democrats battle it out over their unwillingness to do things like make people work when they are able-bodied.

00:44:19.000 House Republicans were asked about Joe Biden saying that he wouldn't accept anything of consequence on the work requirements.

00:44:24.000 They were literally laughing out loud.

00:44:27.000 But he also said on work requirements he'd accept not anything of any consequence.

00:44:33.000 What does that mean?

00:44:38.000 I don't understand anything that has consequences.

00:44:41.000 This is a senator who voted for work requirements.

00:44:44.000 If he doesn't want to have something that has consequences, he wants to borrow more money from China to pay an able-bodied person who has no dependents, not even to look for a job, not even go to school for 20 hours.

00:44:58.000 Republicans are going to win this fight.

00:45:00.000 And good on Kevin McCarthy.

00:45:01.000 Because again, if he prides anything out of Joe Biden's cold, bled hands, that is a win for Kevin McCarthy.

00:45:06.000 In just a second, we'll get to some things that I hate.

00:45:08.000 So, before we get to that, I have a dog.

00:45:12.000 Our dog is very cute.

00:45:13.000 His name is Happy.

00:45:14.000 He's a Havanese. 0.99

00:45:15.000 He's really sweet with the kids.

00:45:16.000 We want him to live a long and healthy life.

00:45:18.000 This is why we started giving him rough greens every morning.

00:45:21.000 The dog food you've been giving your dog, that's the dead food.

00:45:23.000 It doesn't have a lot of nutritional value.

00:45:25.000 Look at it.

00:45:25.000 It's brown food.

00:45:26.000 Have you ever smelled it?

00:45:28.000 But, green food has nutritional value and rough greens boost Happy's food back to life.

00:45:32.000 It can do the same for your dog.

00:45:34.000 You don't actually have to go out and replace your new dog food.

00:45:35.000 Just sprinkle rough greens on their food every day.

00:45:37.000 It contains all the necessary vitamins and minerals your dog isn't getting from their regular dog food.

00:45:41.000 Happy likes his rough greens.

00:45:43.000 He's a good doggo.

00:45:44.000 Again, we want him to be healthy.

00:45:47.000 He was groomed yesterday.

00:45:48.000 He was actually, like, groomed.

00:45:49.000 Like, they actually made him look all poofy and cute.

00:45:51.000 He's a cute dog.

00:45:52.000 Rough Greens is the only supplement your dog will ask for by name.

00:45:55.000 Rough Greens.

00:45:56.000 Yeah.

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00:46:03.000 Go to freeroughgreens.com slash Ben.

00:46:05.000 Let Rough Greens bring your dog's food back to life. 0.88

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00:46:10.000 Or call 833 MY DOG 33. 0.62

00:46:11.000 That's 833 MY DOG 33.

00:46:15.000 All right, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:46:21.000 So this is about a few days old, but I think that it's worth commenting on.

00:46:25.000 So Gabrielle Union, who is one of the world's more annoying human beings, she also happens to have transed her stepson and pretended that her stepson is a daughter. 1.00

00:46:35.000 And she and Dwayne Wade have then pretended they moved out of the state of Florida because of Governor DeSantis, even though they actually have not been living here for like three, four years.

00:46:42.000 Anyway. 0.98

00:46:44.000 She seems like kind of a crazy person.

00:46:46.000 And she says that she and Dwyane Wade split their bills 50-50.

00:46:49.000 Here's her explanation.

00:46:51.000 She was on a podcast on Instagram called Black Millionaires, and she's being interviewed.

00:46:57.000 And here she was explaining how she does her financial arrangements with her husband, Dwyane Wade.

00:47:03.000 Did you develop that first sense of security?

00:47:09.000 In this household, we split everything 50-50.

00:47:12.000 But in the other households that each of us have to support, it puts this, there's always this like, gorilla on your back that is like, you better work, you better work, you better work.

00:47:25.000 You gonna sleep in?

00:47:27.000 You know, somebody might not eat.

00:47:30.000 So she splits her bills with her husband's, with her husband, they don't have like a joint bank account. 0.99

00:47:35.000 They split their bills 50-50.

00:47:36.000 That's weird.

00:47:40.000 I mean, that's strange.

00:47:42.000 So, as I've said, in my own life, with my immediate family, we are communists.

00:47:46.000 From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

00:47:49.000 That is the way that it works in an immediate family.

00:47:51.000 My wife and I, we do not earn the same amount of money.

00:47:53.000 Not remotely.

00:47:54.000 All that money is our money.

00:47:55.000 It's not just my money, it is our money.

00:47:57.000 Because we are a couple and we have children.

00:47:59.000 And we put that money in a joint bank account.

00:48:01.000 I have never once looked at my wife and said, are you paying this bill or am I?

00:48:04.000 Because that's a crazy thing to do. 1.00

00:48:06.000 When you don't understand how a family is supposed to work, you end up with idiotic pseudo-solutions like this. 0.99

00:48:13.000 By the way, each one of these people is extraordinarily wealthy, so they clearly don't have to do this. 0.99

00:48:18.000 Gabriel Union is worth tens of millions of dollars, and I believe Dwayne Wade is worth like a hundred million dollars.

00:48:22.000 So none of them have to do this.

00:48:24.000 This is a point of principle.

00:48:26.000 Let's see how it works out for them long run.

00:48:28.000 This is a wild way to live your life.

00:48:34.000 But why?

00:48:37.000 What in the world?

00:48:40.000 Don't get it.

00:48:40.000 Alrighty, guys.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 18, 2023

South Park Was Right About Meghan And Harry

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