The Ben Shapiro Show - Submersible IMPLODED…And The Navy Knew All Along

00:00:00.000 So, as suspected, the Titanic submersible, it was not at the bottom of the ocean filled with air.

00:00:05.000 It wasn't sort of a horror movie in which everybody was knocking on the walls, hoping desperately that somebody would save them.

00:00:11.000 It wasn't people in a small chamber waiting and running out of time.

00:00:16.000 Instead, it turns out that days ago, essentially, the Titanic submersible, known as Titan, that it essentially imploded as soon as the water pressure got to be too much and everybody died instantly.

00:00:27.000 This at least is according to the Coast Guard.

00:00:28.000 Yesterday afternoon, they revealed that they had found a bunch of debris on the floor near the Titanic site.

00:00:34.000 And apparently, again, there was essentially no long period of survival.

00:00:40.000 As soon as it hit beyond the water pressure that the Titan was capable of withholding, it just imploded.

00:00:47.000 It basically got crushed like a can.

00:00:48.000 Here's the Coast Guard Admiral John Malga confirming a catastrophic loss of pressure chamber.

00:00:54.000 This morning, an ROV or Remote Operated Vehicle from the vessel Horizon Arctic discovered the tail cone of the Titan Submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the seafloor.

00:01:15.000 The ROV subsequently found additional debris In consultation with experts from within the Unified Command, the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.

00:01:35.000 Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families.

00:01:42.000 Well, as it turns out, the Navy knew full well that this chamber had imploded almost immediately.

00:01:47.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a top-secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard what the U.S.

00:01:53.000 Navy suspected was the Titan implosion hours after the submersible began its voyage on Sunday.

00:01:58.000 So we were all waiting around until Thursday, including the families.

00:02:01.000 Obviously, our hearts go out to them.

00:02:03.000 They were waiting around for days thinking that it was possible that their family members were still alive on the ocean floor waiting for rescue.

00:02:11.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications, according to a U.S.

00:02:16.000 defense official.

00:02:17.000 Shortly after the submersible's disappearance on Sunday, the U.S.

00:02:19.000 system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered on Thursday and reported its findings to the Coast Guard commander on site.

00:02:26.000 The Navy couldn't definitively say the sound came from the Titan, but the discovery played a role in narrowing the scope of the search for the vessel before its debris was discovered on Thursday, according to officials.

00:02:34.000 A senior U.S.

00:02:35.000 Navy official told the Wall Street Journal, the U.S.

00:02:37.000 Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost.

00:02:46.000 While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the incident commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.

00:02:52.000 Now, this is exactly what James Cameron had suggested.

00:02:56.000 Of course, the director of Titanic, who spent an awful lot of time in this area and knows a fair bit, actually, about sending submersibles down to the ocean floor.

00:03:04.000 Here's James Cameron explaining that he knew pretty much right away that the Titan had essentially imploded.

00:03:10.000 It's just tragic, and it's horrific, and it's unnecessary.

00:03:15.000 You know, there are acoustic networks around.

00:03:18.000 Some are research, some are intelligence.

00:03:23.000 We got confirmation within an hour that there had been a loud bang at the same time that the sub was... that comms were lost.

00:03:31.000 A loud bang on the hydrophones.

00:03:34.000 Loss of transducer or transponder.

00:03:37.000 Loss of comms.

00:03:40.000 I knew what happened.

00:03:41.000 Sub imploded.

00:03:42.000 I sent emails to everybody I know.

00:03:43.000 I said, we've lost some friends.

00:03:46.000 The sub is imploded.

00:03:47.000 It's on the bottom in pieces right now.

00:03:49.000 I sent that out Monday morning.

00:03:51.000 So James Cameron knew.

00:03:53.000 So the question is, again, now you wonder why there's institutional distrust again.

00:03:57.000 This is why people come up with conspiracy theories.

00:03:59.000 It's why there's institutional distrust.

00:04:01.000 Why is it that James Cameron knew that Monday morning?

00:04:03.000 Why is it that the Navy knew this almost immediately?

00:04:07.000 And then we went through this five-day rigmarole of not only deploying enormous resources to the area, which is fine.

00:04:12.000 I mean, even if it's a recovery mission, deploying resources is fine.

00:04:15.000 But why is it that we are led on this sort of media speculative wild goose chase where maybe they're still alive at the bottom of the ocean in some sort of Jason Blum film?

00:04:26.000 Why wasn't the public notified of the significant possibility, indeed high probability, that everybody aboard was dead and killed almost instantly?

00:04:36.000 At the very beginning of all of this.

00:04:38.000 This, of course, leads to enormous speculation.

00:04:40.000 This always happens.

00:04:41.000 When there's lack of transparency from our institutions, when they know something you don't, and they clearly knew, like, days in advance this was happening, this leads people into speculating about, well, maybe they were holding this story and they wanted the story to build up because they were covering something else up.

00:04:54.000 There was a lot of speculation online last night, at least on the right side of the aisle, that the reason the Biden administration didn't reveal any of this information was because That was not because they wanted to confirm or because it would have been important if they actually notified anybody that this stuff was happening.

00:05:08.000 The reason that they did that was to essentially misdirect away from all the attention that should be put on the Hunter Biden scandal, which we'll get to in just a second because there actually is some pretty astonishing breaking news in the Hunter Biden scandal.

00:05:19.000 Whistleblower interviews have now been released and what's present in those whistleblower interviews is Absolutely amazing.

00:05:24.000 I mean, it's shocking, amazing, like, smoking gun type stuff that not only requires full investigation, but may require impeachment of the President of the United States if it turns out that it is true.

00:05:33.000 And so a lot of people are like, well, maybe the reason that they were holding the fact on the submersible imploding for five days is so that everybody would be distracted all week with this story. 0.99

00:05:42.000 Now, again, I always use Hanlon's Razor, a tribute to human stupidity. 1.00

00:05:47.000 Virtually everything, because people are stupid and incompetent as general rule. 1.00

00:05:51.000 Malice is generally not the rationale for this sort of stuff, but I certainly understand why people are suspicious. 0.99

00:05:56.000 And again, when you wonder why people are now suspicious of our institutions, it's because of stuff like this.

00:06:00.000 They don't see the necessity for hiding this sort of material from the public.

00:06:05.000 And again, you want to destroy institutional trust, this is precisely how you do it.

00:06:09.000 So it's a tragedy, it's a terrible story.

00:06:12.000 I guess the only saving grace here is that at least the people who were killed were killed instantly and weren't suffering for days on end waiting to suffocate to death.

00:06:20.000 But that is cold comfort, obviously, to the families.

00:06:23.000 In just one second, we'll get to the breaking news in the whistleblower case regarding Hunter Biden.

00:06:27.000 It is amazing, amazing stuff.

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00:07:31.000 Okay, so we were told that the Hunter Biden whistleblower story was a big nothing.

00:07:35.000 It was a big nothing burger that James Comer, the congressperson who was leading the investigation, the House Oversight Committee investigation on Hunter Biden, he had exaggerated the case that when he was talking about the whistleblowers who had come forward to allege mishandling of the Hunter Biden investigation by the DOJ and the FBI, or when he suggested that there was some really serious material in the whistleblower investigation, that this clearly was him exaggerating in a politicized attempt to get Joe Biden.

00:08:04.000 After all, what did Hunter have to do with Joe?

00:08:05.000 I mean, this has been Joe's schtick from the beginning.

00:08:08.000 Hunter was bagman for the Biden family.

00:08:10.000 He was going around, he was picking up giant bags of cash, he was traveling on Air Force Two while Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States and making deals with China.

00:08:17.000 He was going over to Ukraine and he was becoming a member of the board of a Ukrainian energy company, knowing nothing about Ukraine and nothing about energy, but having the last name Biden.

00:08:24.000 He was picking up these bags of cash.

00:08:26.000 They had a series of shell companies, a very complex series of shell companies.

00:08:29.000 And the idea is that this was all news to Joe.

00:08:31.000 Joe knew nothing about it.

00:08:33.000 In fact, if you flashback to 2020, Joe Biden suggested that he had never even talked with Hunter about his business dealings.

00:08:39.000 How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?

00:08:44.000 I've never spoken to my son about his overseas dealings.

00:08:47.000 And so how do you know?

00:08:49.000 Here's what I know.

00:08:50.000 I know Trump deserves to be investigated.

00:08:53.000 He is violating every basic norm of a president.

00:08:58.000 You should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader?

00:09:03.000 Trying to intimidate a foreign leader.

00:09:04.000 If that's what happened.

00:09:05.000 That appears what happened.

00:09:07.000 You should be looking at Trump.

00:09:09.000 Trump's doing this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum.

00:09:12.000 And he's using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me.

00:09:21.000 Everybody looked at this and everybody's looked at it said there's nothing there.

00:09:25.000 Ask the right question.

00:09:28.000 Okay, so he's angry, very, very angry.

00:09:29.000 How dare you insinuate that Joe Biden had anything to do with his son Hunter's business?

00:09:33.000 Well, probably he had something to do with his son Hunter's business, at least according to these whistleblower allegations.

00:09:41.000 So the whistleblower allegations cover a variety of shocking revelations.

00:09:45.000 One is the DOJ and the FBI basically cramming down a plea deal on the IRS that allowed Hunter Biden to get away with a slap on the wrist for tax evasion.

00:09:55.000 So there's that.

00:09:56.000 And then there is the significantly, I think, more damaging situation, which is that Hunter Biden literally sent a WhatsApp to somebody suggesting that Joe Biden was in the room when he was shaking down a Chinese foreign company for cash.

00:10:11.000 That's in the whistleblower allegations.

00:10:13.000 The Wall Street Journal reports today.

00:10:16.000 House Republicans on Thursday released transcripts of interviews in which IRS employees alleged that the Justice Department hindered the criminal investigation into the president's son, Hunter Biden, just days after a plea agreement was announced in his case.

00:10:26.000 The transcripts detailed alleged tensions among IRS agents and the federal prosecutors in the five-year investigation into the younger Biden, with claims that DOJ officials stymied and slow-walked attempts to charge him with multiple felonies.

00:10:36.000 In the interviews, two IRS employees shared their perspective on behind-the-scenes government discussions about how to handle the case and alleged that they suffered retaliation for raising concerns internally.

00:10:44.000 The records released by the House Ways and Means Committee don't include statements from top IRS officials or prosecutors.

00:10:49.000 The interviews were conducted behind closed doors by committee staff members of both parties.

00:10:53.000 In a statement, the IRS said it could not comment on matters regarding individual taxpayers, and the agency said it had referred employees' allegations for whistleblowing to its inspector general.

00:11:02.000 The interview transcripts also featured allegations that the DOJ interfered with U.S.

00:11:06.000 Attorney in Delaware David Weiss, who was appointed by former President Trump.

00:11:09.000 He's the one who cut the deal with Hunter Biden.

00:11:11.000 A spokeswoman for Weiss declined to comment on the transcripts on Thursday.

00:11:17.000 And then on June 7th, he put in a letter, quote, A Justice Department spokesperson emphasized statements from both Weiss and Attorney General Merrick Garland about the U.S.

00:11:30.000 Attorney's sweeping authority to direct the investigation and bring charges against hunters.

00:11:33.000 The idea is that David Weiss did this on his own, that there was no pressure from his higher-ups.

00:11:37.000 But that is not what these whistleblowers are saying.

00:11:39.000 The IRS criminal supervisory agent, Gary Shapley, told committee staff members the investigation into Hunter Biden was unlike any he had experienced in his 14-year career at the tax agency.

00:11:47.000 His testimony on May 26 centered on Weiss.

00:11:50.000 According to the more than 200-page interview transcript, Shapley alleged Weiss was denied special counsel status in the course of the investigation, that DOJ officials blocked his efforts to bring charges against Hunter Biden in both Washington, D.C.

00:12:00.000 and in California.

00:12:02.000 Shapley said, some of the decisions seemed to be influenced by politics.

00:12:05.000 But whatever the motivations, at every stage, decisions were made that had the effect of benefiting the subject of the investigation.

00:12:10.000 The House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines Thursday to release the transcripts of interviews with Shapley and another IRS employee who worked for Shapley, who gave anonymous closed-door testimony.

00:12:20.000 And Jason Smith, who is the committee chairman, he explained exactly what was going on here yesterday.

00:12:27.000 One, but two IRS employees are blowing the whistle with evidence that the federal government is not treating taxpayers equally when enforcing tax laws.

00:12:39.000 The whistleblowers were working on an investigation into Hunter Biden that opened in November of 2018 as an offshoot of a separate corporate investigation by the IRS.

00:12:52.000 Let me emphasize, this was an investigation in the ordinary course of work at the IRS.

00:12:59.000 It was not ordered by any individual, any chairman, or any political entity.

00:13:06.000 The testimony we released today shows the IRS recommended charges against Hunter Biden that included attempt to evade or defeat tax, a felony, fraud or false statements, a felony, And willful failure to file returns, supply information, or pay tax.

00:13:31.000 So what exactly are the stunning revelations here?

00:13:33.000 So again, the idea here is that the DOJ was impacted by Attorney General Merrick Garland, and David Weiss was told, according to the whistleblowers, to basically stand down.

00:13:41.000 And there are multiple allegations to that effect.

00:13:43.000 The most significant allegation, however, is not really about that.

00:13:46.000 The most significant allegation is that there is a WhatsApp message that's actually included in the records here, in which Hunter Biden is openly telling people at a Chinese company that they need to pay him money.

00:13:59.000 And in which, in this message, Hunter Biden literally says, my dad is sitting next to me and he wants you to pay the money.

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00:15:11.000 Okay, so here's some of the revelations that Jason Smith, who again is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, exposed yesterday.

00:15:18.000 He says, the whistleblowers exposed how the DOJ established a pattern of delaying, divulging, and denying the Hunter Biden investigation.

00:15:24.000 At nearly every turn, officials chose protecting the powerful over exposing the truth to the American people.

00:15:29.000 Attorney General Garland promised the American people in public testimony that the prosecutor handling Hunter Biden's case, David Weiss, could bring charges against Hunter Biden outside of Delaware.

00:15:37.000 But whistleblower testimony shows Garland's testimony was inaccurate.

00:15:40.000 For almost a year, IRS investigators and Weiss tried to advance the investigation, including bringing charges against Hunter Biden every time he was denied by a Biden DOJ employee.

00:15:49.000 So in March 2022, apparently there was an attempt to bring charges against Hunter Biden in D.C., denied.

00:15:55.000 In spring 2022, The counsel in this case, David Weiss, he sought special counsel status from the DOJ, which would give him independence to charge wherever.

00:16:03.000 Denied.

00:16:04.000 In January of 2023, they attempted to bring charges in the Central District of California.

00:16:08.000 Denied.

00:16:10.000 According to Jason Smith, whistleblowers described the investigation intentionally dragging on after Joe Biden became the Democrat nominee for president.

00:16:16.000 According to one of the whistleblowers, quote, by June 2020, those same career officials were already delaying overt investigative actions.

00:16:22.000 This was well before the typical 60 to 90 day period where the DOJ would historically stand down before an election.

00:16:28.000 It was apparent that DOJ was purposely slow-walking investigative actions in the matter.

00:16:31.000 So again, there's this kind of generalized rule at the DOJ that 60 to 90 days out from an election, you don't announce big things because it could impact the election.

00:16:38.000 But the allegation is that they started doing this because they saw Joe Biden was the nominee like a year in advance.

00:16:43.000 Jason Smith says the same month, well before the 2020 election, the two whistleblowers and their investigative team had a call with the IRS chain of command to call out the slow pace of the investigation.

00:16:51.000 Quote, on June 16, 2020, a special agent had a call with the chain of command up to the director of field operations.

00:16:58.000 I pointed out that if normal procedures had already been followed, we would have executed search warrants, conducted interviews, and served documents requests.

00:17:04.000 Nevertheless, my IRS chain of command decided we would defer to the DOJ.

00:17:08.000 And here is where things get unbelievably dicey.

00:17:10.000 In August 2020, a search warrant uncovered a text between Hunter and Henry Zhao.

00:17:15.000 Henry Zhao is an executive at a Chinese company that paid Hunter $100,000.

00:17:19.000 Here is the text.

00:17:19.000 Okay, to Henry Zhao from Hunter Biden.

00:17:22.000 It was on WhatsApp.

00:17:23.000 Quote.

00:17:24.000 I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment has not made, has not been fulfilled.

00:17:30.000 Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.

00:17:35.000 And Xi, if I get a call, and Xi, if I get, Xi would be Xiao, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will regret not following my direction.

00:17:52.000 I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father, What?

00:17:58.000 So, uh, what?

00:18:00.000 Again, just to make clear, that is a direct text from Hunter Biden to a guy named Henry Zhao, who's an executive at a Chinese company, a Chinese foreign company, that paid Hunter a bunch of money.

00:18:09.000 And Hunter is saying, my daddy is sitting next to me.

00:18:11.000 And if you do not give me the money, my daddy and his friends will make it very, very uncomfortable for you.

00:18:18.000 Hey, that's crazy!

00:18:19.000 And by the way, there's confirmation that Hunter was in fact with his dad that day.

00:18:24.000 According to the Washington Free Beacon, photographs on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop place him at his father's Wilmington, Delaware residence on the day he invoked Joe Biden's name in a text message, threatening his Chinese business partner to come down on him with their full weight if the business partner did not fulfill his quote-unquote commitment.

00:18:39.000 In that message, Hunter said he was sitting next to his father, Apparently, that same day, hours after the message was sent, Hunter Biden was pictured at his dad's home, sitting behind the wheel of the president's beloved 1967 Corvette Stingray with family members.

00:18:53.000 Shapley, the whistleblower, did not provide evidence that Biden was in fact in the room with his son, but the timing indicates that they were in the same exact place.

00:19:00.000 Four photographs on the hard drive of Hunter Biden's laptop show him posing behind the wheel of Joe Biden's 1967 Corvette Stingray at 6.49pm, July 30th, 2017.

00:19:10.000 GPS metadata embedded in the photos shows they were taken in close proximity with Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home.

00:19:16.000 So remember that time, like, I don't know, seven, eight minutes ago, when I played a clip of Joe Biden saying he had never discussed business with his son ever?

00:19:24.000 Ever?

00:19:25.000 How dare you? 1.00

00:19:25.000 Donald Trump is the corrupt one? 1.00

00:19:28.000 Yeah, dude. 0.99

00:19:29.000 There's a text from your son to a foreign company saying you are sitting next to him and shaking him down for money.

00:19:35.000 So, yeah, I have questions.

00:19:39.000 As the Free Beacon points out, if Joe Biden was sitting next to his son as he sent the message, it would be a fatal blow to the president's repeated claims he never discussed overseas business deals with his son.

00:19:47.000 And the photographs of Hunter Biden at what appears to be a family gathering at the Delaware home is the strongest indication that they were in the same place at the same time.

00:19:55.000 I mean, that is insane. 1.00

00:19:56.000 I'm not sure which is stupider, this shakedown attempt or the fact that Hunter Biden is such a moron that he wrote it down in a text message. 0.99

00:20:02.000 And as I've said 1,000 times, I've said it in the context of Donald Trump, I've said it in the context of Hunter and Joe Biden. 0.99

00:20:07.000 First rule of lawyering, guys, don't put stuff in writing. 1.00

00:20:10.000 But apparently everyone's a moron. 0.97

00:20:12.000 According to Jason Smith, texts like these made it clear to IRS investigators they needed to conduct a search of Joe Biden's guest house where Hunter was living. 0.99

00:20:18.000 Investigators were then told, there is no way we will get it approved.

00:20:22.000 So the IRS investigator was like, um, maybe we should search his house.

00:20:24.000 Like, nope!

00:20:25.000 We're not gonna search his house.

00:20:26.000 More on this in just one second.

00:20:27.000 investigators request to question Hunter's adult children who are suspected to have relevant

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00:21:45.000 Jason Smith, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, he continues, he says investigators wanted to question Hunter's associates, including about an email referencing 10 held for H for the big guy, right?

00:21:55.000 That's the famous email on Hunter Biden's laptop talking about holding 10% of some sort of deal for quote unquote the big guy.

00:22:02.000 An assistant U.S.

00:22:02.000 attorney stated she did not want to ask questions about the big guy or dad despite multiple objections.

00:22:06.000 Quote, Weiss was in and out for the rest of the meeting, David Weiss being the prosecutor, but it went downhill from there.

00:22:11.000 We shared with prosecutors our outline to interview Hunter Biden's associate, Rob Walker.

00:22:15.000 Among other things, we wanted to question Walker about an email that said 10 held by H for the big guy.

00:22:20.000 We had obvious questions like who was H, who was the big guy, and why this percentage was to be held separately with the association hidden.

00:22:26.000 But AUSA Wolf interjected and said she did not want to ask about the big guy and stated she did not want to ask questions about dad.

00:22:32.000 When multiple people in the room spoke up and objected, we had to ask.

00:22:35.000 She responded, there's no specific criminality to that line of questioning.

00:22:39.000 So there's no specific criminality to Hunter Biden holding a percentage in abeyance for his father?

00:22:46.000 You're not going to, nothing will arise from that criminally speaking?

00:22:48.000 How about violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which was used against Paul Manafort?

00:22:52.000 How about that?

00:22:54.000 After the November 2020 election, according to Jason Smith, IRS agents scheduled a day of action to conduct interviews on December 8th, 2020.

00:23:00.000 Investigators were told not to ask about Joe Biden.

00:23:03.000 In fact, the night before the interviews, the FBI actually went to the Biden transition team and told them, we're going to interview you.

00:23:10.000 Which gives them the opportunity to, of course, create, out of whole cloth, a defense.

00:23:16.000 After the interviews, Investigators learned of a storage unit controlled by Hunter.

00:23:20.000 They debated getting a search warrant for the unit.

00:23:21.000 Once again, the DOJ divulged the sensitive details to the Biden camp, this time to Hunter's lawyers.

00:23:26.000 Quote, no sooner had we gotten off the call, we heard AUSA Wolf had simply reached out to Hunter Biden's defense counsel and told him about the storage unit.

00:23:31.000 Once again, ruining our chance to get to evidence before it was destroyed, manipulated or concealed.

00:23:36.000 Once the whistleblowers came forward to expose the pattern of slow walking the Hunter Biden tax investigation, the whistleblowers say they were then retaliated against.

00:23:42.000 They say that they and their entire team were removed from their investigation at the behest of the Biden DOJ.

00:23:47.000 So these are very serious allegations.

00:23:49.000 I mean, we need congressional testimony immediately from AUSA Wolf.

00:23:52.000 We need congressional testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

00:23:56.000 We need congressional testimony from David Weiss.

00:23:57.000 We need congressional testimony from everyone involved in all of this.

00:24:00.000 And we do need a legal investigation into, in deep fashion, whether Joe Biden has ever received money from his son Hunter's business dealings in corrupt fashion.

00:24:11.000 I mean, this is amazing, amazing stuff.

00:24:16.000 Not only that, by the way, among other elements of the testimony, apparently Joe Biden was scheduled.

00:24:22.000 Basically, Hunter would have Joe walk through meetings with foreign officials just so that he could remind them, you know, my dad is Rob Walker, for example.

00:24:32.000 said that the he said that that he'd not believe that that Joe was part of anything we were doing.

00:24:38.000 But it was clearly valuable, according to the whistleblower, for the investigators to ask about

00:24:42.000 Hunter Biden's dad. Walker went on to describe an instance in which the former VP showed up

00:24:46.000 at a CFC meeting. CFC is a Chinese company that was handing bags of cash to to Joe Biden's son.

00:24:53.000 Walker said we were at the Four Seasons. We're having lunch.

00:24:55.000 And he stopped in just to say hello to everybody. I don't even think he drank water. I

00:24:58.000 think Hunter Biden said I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys.

00:25:02.000 And could you? I think it was like if I'm around and he showed up, the FBI agent said, so you

00:25:05.000 definitely got the feeling that was orchestrated by Hunter to have an appearance by his dad at

00:25:09.000 that meeting just to kind of bolster your chances of making a deal work out. And Walker answered,

00:25:14.000 sure.

00:25:15.000 The FBI agent continued, at any time when he was in office, did you hear Hunter say he was setting up a meeting with his dad, with them, while dad was still in office?

00:25:21.000 Walker answered, yes.

00:25:25.000 I mean, this is insane.

00:25:26.000 The newly released transcripts, as Byron York points out, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, show that the IRS wanted felony charges against Hunter Biden, and they were stymied.

00:25:37.000 Apparently, The report, the IRS report, includes itemized elements of each violation for each year above it that I couldn't provide because of grand jury material.

00:25:46.000 It recommended felony tax evasion charges for tax years 2014, 2018, 2019.

00:25:49.000 And they made the decision they were going to move forward with felony charges 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

00:25:53.000 Felony counts 2014, 2018.

00:25:53.000 And they made the decision, they were going to move forward with felony charges 2014,

00:25:57.000 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

00:26:00.000 Felony counts 2014, 2018.

00:26:02.000 That was the decision made at the time.

00:26:04.000 And then it was stopped dead.

00:26:07.000 In January of this year, I learned U.S.

00:26:09.000 Attorney Estrada had decided to bring up the charges in the Central District of California.

00:26:13.000 For all intents and purposes, the case was dead, with the exception of one gun charge that could be brought in Delaware.

00:26:17.000 And yet, when Senator Chuck Grassley asked A.G.

00:26:19.000 Garland about the case on March 1st, 2023. Garland testified, quote, the U.S. attorney

00:26:23.000 had been advised he has full authority to make those referrals you're talking about or to bring

00:26:27.000 cases in other districts if he needs to do that. I don't have any first-hand information,

00:26:31.000 says the whistleblower, and why Garland said that.

00:26:33.000 But to all of us who have been in the October 7th meeting with David Weiss, where he was basically told, don't do any of this, this was clearly false testimony.

00:26:41.000 I mean, this is amazing, amazing stuff.

00:26:45.000 By the way, I mean, if you look at Hunter Biden's activities here, They're absolutely criminal.

00:26:51.000 I mean, just put aside the Joe Biden of it.

00:26:52.000 They're certainly more criminal than the stuff he got charged with.

00:26:55.000 According to the New York Post, Hunter Biden illegally deducted tens of thousands of dollars in payments made to a prostitute and sex club from his taxes.

00:27:03.000 In a June 1st interview at the House Ways and Means Committee, one whistleblower, an unnamed IRS criminal investigator, detailed how Hunter went to great lengths to underreport his income and avoid paying $106,000 in taxes, including by writing off his sex escapades as business expenses.

00:27:17.000 The whistleblower said some of the items he deducted were personal Mosho employees.

00:27:20.000 He deducted payments that were made to who he called his West Coast assistant, but she was essentially a prostitute. 0.86

00:27:26.000 Apparently, he also expensed flights for prostitutes?

00:27:30.000 Shapley said there were multiple examples of prostitution that were ordered, basically.

00:27:34.000 We have all the communications between that where he would pay for these prostitutes, would book them a flight, where even the flight ticket showed their name, and then he expensed those. 0.50

00:27:41.000 Also, Hunter expensed a deposit for an elite L.A.

00:27:44.000 sex club membership, listing it as a golf membership at the time.

00:27:49.000 Which is a hell of a way to expense a sex club membership.

00:27:52.000 By the way, that would be the same sex club in L.A. 1.00

00:27:55.000 that actually tossed Hunter out on his ear because he was grabbing women's asses and acting like a spoiled child. 1.00

00:28:02.000 So, does this seem like a cover-up? 0.99

00:28:04.000 Hell yes, it seems like a cover-up.

00:28:05.000 I mean, at the very least, that text is devastating.

00:28:08.000 That text from Hunter Biden saying, I'm sitting next to daddy, pay up, or my daddy's going to do something to you.

00:28:15.000 That's insane.

00:28:16.000 And it means that Joe's been lying this whole time.

00:28:17.000 I don't know about Hunter's business activity.

00:28:18.000 I have nothing to do with Hunter's business activities.

00:28:20.000 It's just terrible.

00:28:20.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden was doing a presser, not really a presser, because that would require him to actually answer non-prescriptive questions.

00:28:29.000 And reporters were asking him about the Hunter Biden stuff, and he just blew it off.

00:28:34.000 $369 billion, $369 billion to deal with the climate crisis.

00:28:40.000 And we're doing it extensively now.

00:28:42.000 And I think you're going to see significant progress.

00:28:45.000 Thank you all very, very much.

00:28:59.000 Just walk or stumble away, as the case may be.

00:29:02.000 But the good news is that Joe thinks that Hunter's doing well.

00:29:04.000 He was asked yesterday how Hunter was doing.

00:29:06.000 Give a big ol' Joker grin and a thumbs up.

00:29:08.000 Amazing.

00:29:20.000 By the way, how shameless is Joe Biden?

00:29:23.000 There was a state dinner last night with the leadership of India.

00:29:27.000 Who was invited?

00:29:29.000 Mr. Hunter Biden and Ms.

00:29:30.000 Melissa Cohen Biden.

00:29:32.000 Who else was invited?

00:29:33.000 James Biden and Ms.

00:29:34.000 Sarah Biden.

00:29:35.000 Ms.

00:29:35.000 Ashley Biden and Ms.

00:29:36.000 Seema Sanandan.

00:29:38.000 And Ms.

00:29:38.000 Naomi Biden-Neal and Mr. Peter Neal.

00:29:41.000 Wow.

00:29:42.000 What a guest list.

00:29:43.000 Hunter was hanging around at the White House yesterday.

00:29:46.000 Amazing stuff.

00:29:48.000 Just truly astonishing and world-shaking non-corruption from the President of the United States.

00:29:56.000 In the middle of one of the worst emerging corruption scandals that I have ever seen.

00:30:00.000 Remember, this guy ran on the basis that he was going to clean up the office.

00:30:03.000 He was going to return honor to the office.

00:30:04.000 Donald Trump was a Russian stooge involved in payoffs. 0.74

00:30:08.000 And how dare you ask me about my son Hunter?

00:30:10.000 My son Hunter, the smartest man I know.

00:30:12.000 Clean as the driven snow, the smartest person.

00:30:15.000 Wisest.

00:30:16.000 Most moral.

00:30:17.000 I know nothing about his business dealings, said Joe Biden.

00:30:20.000 While Hunter sat next to him typing out messages to Chinese oligarchs.

00:30:26.000 Well, if the Republicans, the Congressional Republicans, don't now subpoena pretty much everyone in law enforcement, I don't know what the hell they're doing or what they think their role is in Congress.

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00:32:43.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to be not only corrupt apparently, or at least possibly, but also incredibly confused. 0.95

00:32:50.000 So yesterday, he just continues to show that this is a person who does not have higher brain function. 0.83

00:32:55.000 He was doing an event with Modi, who is the leader of India.

00:33:00.000 And he's getting ripped up and down by members of the media for being nice to Modi because, of course, Modi is considered authoritarian despite the fact that Modi has been elected multiple times.

00:33:08.000 In any case, in the middle of this event, they start playing the Indian National Anthem and Joe Biden puts his hand on his heart and then he slowly realizes they are not playing the American National Anthem and lowers it because, again, he's the smartest president we have ever had.

00:33:22.000 If by smartest, I mean like a brick of a human being.

00:33:25.000 Here we go.

00:33:27.000 Oopsie.

00:33:29.000 And there we go.

00:33:36.000 I'm glad that he's now loyal to India.

00:33:38.000 That's interesting.

00:33:41.000 Uh-oh.

00:33:41.000 Chobain's like, uh...

00:33:45.000 He's like, he's realizing what's happening.

00:33:49.000 I like how slowly the hand lowers.

00:33:51.000 He doesn't immediately like take it down.

00:33:53.000 He's like, oh, it's like that.

00:33:56.000 It's Homer Simpson backing into the bushes right there.

00:33:59.000 That's that's strong stuff there from the president of the United States.

00:34:02.000 Apparently, Joe is now not only confusing himself, he's also confusing Jill.

00:34:06.000 So yesterday, Jill had no idea where to go because Joe just wouldn't let go of of Modi's hand.

00:34:12.000 And she's like, what's happening right now?

00:34:14.000 They were on the red carpet, out in front of the White House, it was weird.

00:34:22.000 Jill is like, I'm gonna come over and I'm gonna help guide the president, and then...

00:34:29.000 Joe's barely staggering forward.

00:34:30.000 I mean, he can't walk, guys.

00:34:31.000 It's really sad.

00:34:32.000 I mean, he can't walk.

00:34:33.000 And Jill is like, where am I supposed to go?

00:34:35.000 She thought she was supposed to come and, you know, hold Joe's hand as they went down the red carpet, and he would let go of Modi's hand, but instead, apparently, he wanted to hold hands with Modi, which is super weird.

00:34:43.000 And so she goes around the other side, and now she's holding hands with Modi.

00:34:46.000 Joe Biden's confusion is apparently contagious.

00:34:48.000 But again, the best life insurance policy for Joe Biden is the fact that his vice president is Kamala Harris, legitimately the worst politician who has ever graced Mankind.

00:34:58.000 Yesterday, she told us a riveting tale about two frogs.

00:35:01.000 Now, what she means here is not a story about two frogs, but she doesn't, it's just, it's so bad.

00:35:07.000 She's going for the metaphor, the oft-used, I would say overused metaphor about politics, that if you boil water and toss a frog in it will jump out, but the best way to acclimate people to bad things is to gradually turn up the temperature of the water and then the frog won't jump and then it will be boiled.

00:35:22.000 Apparently not physically true, actually.

00:35:23.000 But Kamala Harris told the story a different way because she is just terrible at this. 0.99

00:35:29.000 I think of those two frogs.

00:35:31.000 You know the two frogs and the two pots?

00:35:33.000 So for your listeners, here it goes.

00:35:35.000 So there are two pots of water and two frogs.

00:35:39.000 She's so excited about the story.

00:35:40.000 And in one pot, you put the frog in the water and you slowly turn up the heat.

00:35:44.000 And that frog's just hanging out as the heat just slowly gets hotter to the point that that water starts to boil and that frog perishes.

00:35:53.000 In the other pot of water, you first turn up the heat real high, the water's boiling, you drop that frog in, he'll jump right out.

00:36:02.000 The lesson there, as far as I'm concerned, don't be that first frog.

00:36:08.000 Oh, as far as she's concerned, that's the lesson, is it?

00:36:12.000 I like when she says perfectly obvious things as though they are revelations.

00:36:15.000 It's one of my favorite things that Kamala Harris does.

00:36:18.000 She'll be like, you know, hmm, you know, like two, two plus two. 1.00

00:36:24.000 Some people say, and I agree, that it equals four. 0.99

00:36:28.000 That's what, hmm, hmm.

00:36:33.000 Well, boy, that's why Joe Biden is still president.

00:36:35.000 Because, I mean, again, everyone thought it was weird that he picked Kamala.

00:36:37.000 And now we all know why.

00:36:38.000 And that's because everyone is rooting for Joe Biden to live, just so that Kamala Harris does not become president of the United States.

00:36:43.000 Now, as I've said 1,000 times and will continue to say, 2024 is a target-rich environment for Republicans.

00:36:48.000 It should be a very good year for Republicans.

00:36:49.000 Joe Biden is a very bad president.

00:36:51.000 He's harming us on foreign policy.

00:36:52.000 He's harming us on domestic policy.

00:36:54.000 And now it turns out he may in fact have been involved in deep and overt corruption that if it's proved that Joe Biden used his office to essentially raise money for himself via his son Hunter, that's impeachable stuff and he will get impeached in the House of Representatives.

00:37:06.000 So now would be like a great time to shift attention to Joe Biden.

00:37:10.000 Or, or we could talk about Donald Trump.

00:37:14.000 And this is going to be a decision for Republicans because what Donald Trump does on a daily basis is not talk about Joe Biden.

00:37:19.000 What Donald Trump does on a daily basis is focus bizarrely on himself.

00:37:23.000 Yesterday, for example, he released a very weird video.

00:37:27.000 Like, I don't know who makes the decision to release this video, but he releases a video talking about why he is mean to his opponents.

00:37:34.000 Like, his Republican opponents.

00:37:36.000 And... I... It's... It's... I... Here we go.

00:37:41.000 Many say don't punch down when talking about people like Chris Sununu or Sloppy Chris Christie or Ada Hutchinson.

00:37:50.000 I call him Ada, not Asa, because of certain reasons.

00:37:54.000 Or others.

00:37:55.000 But sometimes it's necessary to talk badly about those that, for no reason other than politics, speak badly about you.

00:38:02.000 Otherwise, the people that love you don't know whether or not they're for real.

00:38:08.000 Are they saying the truth?

00:38:09.000 They're not.

00:38:11.000 So sometimes you have to punch down and you have to say what's happening.

00:38:14.000 Otherwise they won't understand.

00:38:16.000 It's not fair to them.

00:38:18.000 You have to put them In proper perspective, these bad people.

00:38:23.000 You have to put them in their place.

00:38:25.000 By calling him Ada, there are reasons I won't disclose why we call him Ada.

00:38:37.000 Why are you calling him Ada?

00:38:40.000 Seems like a fair question.

00:38:42.000 Why are we focusing on this? 0.96

00:38:44.000 And then Trump also ranted at Ron DeSantis, his leading political opponent inside the Republican Party, and he called him a loser. 0.92

00:38:50.000 This kind of stuff is just galling.

00:38:51.000 I don't think it plays well.

00:38:53.000 Even for people who like Trump, I don't think it plays well.

00:38:55.000 The reason it doesn't play well is because Ron DeSantis is not the enemy.

00:38:57.000 Joe Biden, when it comes to politics, is your political opponent.

00:39:01.000 Joe Biden is the person that you presumably are running against.

00:39:03.000 And yeah, you're running against DeSantis in the primary, but you have an overwhelming advantage, so why don't you aim your fire against the people who actually are destroying the country, not the person who actually is doing a really good job in Florida you just want to beat in the primary.

00:39:14.000 But instead, he's just, now he's overtly lying about DeSantis, which is truly pretty despicable.

00:39:19.000 And he's saying things, like, he says that Ron DeSantis, they called him Lockdown Ron in an ad.

00:39:25.000 I'm sorry, the gaslighting is just, it's beyond.

00:39:27.000 It's beyond.

00:39:28.000 And you can be a fan of Trump and still acknowledge that the gaslighting is kind of crazy. 0.97

00:39:32.000 And then he called Ron DeSantis a loser. 0.97

00:39:33.000 Now, I'd just like to point out at this point, we'll play the video first and then I will comment on the accusation that Ron DeSantis is a loser. 0.97

00:39:41.000 The very stupid and little respected, China-loving Club for No Growth, which has been backing Ron DeSanctimonious as his poll numbers have been absolutely crashing, has just spent some of the rhino money they have accumulated on an ad campaign Hoping to counter the fact that DeSantis, just off the worst presidential launch in history, opted three times to cut and destroy Social Security, even lifting the minimum age to 70 years old. 0.94

00:40:16.000 He also voted to cut Medicare and institute a 23% national sales tax, which will hit our country hard. 1.00

00:40:25.000 Ron has always been a loser.

00:40:27.000 In fact, he was going to lose the election in record numbers until I endorsed him. 1.00

00:40:34.000 Ron has always been a loser.

00:40:35.000 Okay, there are a lot of things that can be said about Ron DeSantis, and it's interesting that Trump keeps running at him from the left on entitlement reform. 0.97

00:40:44.000 You know, Captain Fiscal Responsibility over here running directly against fiscal responsibility.

00:40:49.000 Fair enough.

00:40:49.000 Donald Trump's been doing that for literally his entire political career.

00:40:52.000 But attacking DeSantis as a loser is obviously gaslighting.

00:40:56.000 To put this in perspective, Ron DeSantis has never lost a political race.

00:40:59.000 Never.

00:41:00.000 He won in 2012 in Congress.

00:41:00.000 He won in 2014 in Congress.

00:41:02.000 He won in 2016 in Congress.

00:41:03.000 He won in 2018 for the governorship.

00:41:07.000 And then he won overwhelmingly by 20 points in his reelect effort in 2022 in Florida.

00:41:12.000 So you'd have to have a different definition of loser than losing.

00:41:14.000 But that's fair because Donald Trump obviously does have a different definition than losing because he has lost elections.

00:41:20.000 And yet he apparently is a winner.

00:41:22.000 Apparently, you're a loser if you win every election that you've ever stood for.

00:41:26.000 But you are a winner if you lose to a dead person, Joe Biden, in the last electoral cycle.

00:41:33.000 You're also a winner if you then proceed to lose two winnable Senate races in Georgia for your party in 2021.

00:41:39.000 You're also a winner if you then proceed to lose a wide variety, a smorgasbord, a veritable smorgasbord of winnable Senate races because you endorsed a bunch of lackluster and garbage candidates in the 2022 Senate races.

00:41:49.000 You're still a winner!

00:41:51.000 Because these terms are all malleable.

00:41:54.000 And it just comes down to, you know, for Donald Trump, the terms mean what Donald Trump wants them to mean in the moment.

00:41:59.000 Now, Again, I think that a large part of this is his appeal to his constituents.

00:42:03.000 People who love Donald Trump, they're like, well, if he can craft and bend reality to his whim, if it is not the spoon that is bending, it is you.

00:42:09.000 If that's the way that Donald Trump sees the world and he's able to impose his will on others, then great, because he'll do that for us.

00:42:14.000 Okay, fine.

00:42:15.000 But that requires him to win elections.

00:42:16.000 Yesterday, Donald Trump was asked about ballot harvesting.

00:42:18.000 And you know what his answer was?

00:42:20.000 His answer was, we don't need to ballot harvest. 1.00

00:42:22.000 That's idiotic. 0.99

00:42:23.000 I'm sorry, there's no other way to put that. 1.00

00:42:25.000 It is a stupid idea to say this. 0.99

00:42:26.000 It's just as stupid as saying in 2020 that his followers should not send in mail-in ballots. 1.00

00:42:32.000 If you want him to win, it's the most stupid thing. 1.00

00:42:36.000 Ron DeSantis says, I don't like ballot harvesting, but where it's legal, we are going to do it because we wish to win. 0.99

00:42:41.000 So which is a better strategy?

00:42:43.000 Your opponent's ballot harvest, and you sit home and whine about it on Truth Social, or you also do the work of ballot harvesting and you win occasionally?

00:42:51.000 I mean, I can't think of a dumber strategic move than saying to your own voters, don't vote mail-in ballot.

00:42:56.000 Instead, stay home and maybe forget to go to the polls on election day out of some sort of misguided principle. 0.91

00:43:02.000 What is that?

00:43:02.000 And it just demonstrates there's no plan.

00:43:05.000 I've asked this question a thousand times, and I'll continue to ask it.

00:43:07.000 Donald Trump says that he was robbed of the 2020 election, that he actually won the 2020 election he did not lose, which is, I guess, how he continues to define himself as a winner after, again, losing to a corpse.

00:43:16.000 But let's assume all that's true.

00:43:18.000 What is his plan for reversing that result in 2024?

00:43:20.000 Does he have a plan?

00:43:21.000 I've seen no plan.

00:43:22.000 To my understanding, he has spent not one dime on an actual ground game for 2024.

00:43:28.000 To my understanding, he spent more money attacking his fellow Republican candidates than he spent on any of the Senate candidates during the 2022 election cycle.

00:43:36.000 What is his plan to overcome the obstacle he says is greater than any obstacle faced by any presidential candidate in history?

00:43:42.000 He says the entire system is rigged against him.

00:43:43.000 So what's his plan to defeat it?

00:43:46.000 I'm not seeing it.

00:43:47.000 Are you?

00:43:47.000 Other than apparently yelling at Ron DeSantis and then hoping against hope that something magical happens, I suppose.

00:43:54.000 DeSantis, for his part, is not standing still for this.

00:43:56.000 He was asked yesterday about whether he would vote for his political opponent, Donald Trump, if Donald Trump were to become the nominee.

00:44:03.000 And I have to say, the double standard here is astonishing.

00:44:05.000 Donald Trump has spent three election cycles now saying that if somebody else from the Republican Party were nominated, he would not endorse.

00:44:12.000 In 2016, he was asked specifically, will you actually vote for and endorse another candidate

00:44:17.000 if that person beats you in a primary? And Trump said, I'm not going to answer that question.

00:44:20.000 I'm just not going to. DeSantis has asked that question and he doesn't answer the question.

00:44:24.000 Instead, he answers a different question. And the Trump fans are like, how dare he say this?

00:44:28.000 Well, I don't know. Maybe he's saying the exact same thing your guy is saying.

00:44:31.000 Anyway, here is DeSantis.

00:44:32.000 When you are saying that Cuomo did better on COVID than Florida did,

00:44:40.000 You are revealing yourself to just be full of it.

00:44:45.000 Nobody believes that.

00:44:46.000 And you know why?

00:44:47.000 And you know why I know that?

00:44:55.000 Because I remember in 2020 and 2021 when he was praising Florida for being open, saying we did it much better than New York and Michigan, and everyone was coming to Florida, and that we were one of the great governors in the United States.

00:45:10.000 And he used to say that all the time.

00:45:13.000 Now, all of a sudden, his tune is changing.

00:45:16.000 And I would just tell people, do you find it credible?

00:45:19.000 Do you honestly find it credible?

00:45:21.000 Would you have rather been in New York during COVID under Cuomo regime?

00:45:26.000 Or would you rather have been in the free state of Florida?

00:45:31.000 Okay, again, you can vote for Trump, you can like Trump, that's fine.

00:45:34.000 But to pretend that Trump is being honest in this campaign is not true.

00:45:37.000 He just is not.

00:45:38.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like and some things that I hate.

00:45:41.000 So things that I like today, I feel like a good kind of uplifting weekend read for you.

00:45:46.000 So, Obviously, as you can tell by the strange hat that I wear on my head, I'm not a Christian.

00:45:50.000 That does not mean that Christian apologetic literature isn't absolutely fantastic from time to time.

00:45:56.000 I think that a lot of the arguments that are applicable to Christian apologetics are applicable to religious apologetics generally.

00:46:01.000 It's why I'm a huge fan of C.S.

00:46:02.000 Lewis.

00:46:03.000 Well, perhaps the best Christian apologist is actually not even C.S.

00:46:06.000 Lewis.

00:46:06.000 I love C.S.

00:46:07.000 Lewis.

00:46:07.000 But perhaps the best Christian apologist is actually G.K.

00:46:09.000 Chesterton.

00:46:10.000 So I've been reading over, again, Orthodoxy, which is a spectacular book.

00:46:14.000 And Chesterton, he is amazingly pithy, great metaphorical use, terrific turns of phrase, and tremendous insight.

00:46:23.000 I just want to read you a couple of quotes from G.K.

00:46:26.000 Chesterton.

00:46:26.000 You've heard me cite him before?

00:46:28.000 In the context of another one of his essays, where he talks about the difference between people who are conservative and people who are liberal, where he talks about a man who comes across a fence in a forest, and he doesn't know why the fence is there.

00:46:39.000 If you're a liberal, you immediately uproot the fence.

00:46:41.000 If you're a conservative, you say, I'm gonna go find out why the fence is there, and then maybe, after I know, then I'll uproot the fence.

00:46:47.000 Chesterton's Orthodoxy is a great attack on scientific materialism. 0.86

00:46:51.000 It is also a tremendous and uplifting read about the power of religion and organized religion.

00:46:58.000 He says, quote, By the way, this is in the very, very early 20th century.

00:47:00.000 a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. By the way, this is in 0.98

00:47:03.000 the very, very early 20th century. This is like a hundred years ahead of his time. We are on the

00:47:07.000 road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

00:47:10.000 We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their

00:47:14.000 own. Squawfers of old time were too proud to be convinced, but these are too humble to be convinced. 1.00

00:47:19.000 The meek do inherit the earth, but the modern skeptics are too meek to even claim their inheritance.

00:47:23.000 What he's saying there is essentially scientific materialism robs people of the power of thought, because once you say that we're basically meatballs wandering through space, then what access do we have to truth?

00:47:32.000 Everything just becomes a matter of perception and opinion.

00:47:36.000 He points out about morality and the other quote from this, which I think is just a brilliant and wonderful quote that people don't think about enough.

00:47:41.000 Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me.

00:47:45.000 There is no trace of such a transaction.

00:47:47.000 There is a trace of both men having said, we must not hit each other in the holy place.

00:47:51.000 They gained their morality by guarding their religion, by guarding their religion.

00:47:54.000 They did not cultivate courage.

00:47:55.000 They fought for the shrine and found they had become courageous.

00:47:58.000 They did not cultivate cleanliness.

00:47:59.000 They purified themselves for the altar and found that they were clean.

00:48:02.000 Now again, the reason I say there's crossover between G.K.

00:48:04.000 Chesterton's writing and other religions is because this is obviously very present in the ideas of Judaism as well.

00:48:10.000 The idea is that the way that you become clean is by practicing things that eventually lead to cleanliness.

00:48:16.000 The way that you become a virtuous person is by practicing things that make you virtuous, and that is attached to obligations.

00:48:23.000 And that is attached to holiness.

00:48:24.000 The magic of the book of Leviticus, which is really boring, it's a very hard slog, the book of Leviticus is all about the altar and sacrifices and it's really bloody and strange.

00:48:34.000 And when you read it, one of the things you're realizing is that the entire thing is about sanctifying the mundane.

00:48:39.000 Taking the mundane and saying that now, the things in life that you think of as sacred, right, the moral precepts that we all think of as sacred, the world is filled with those moral precepts.

00:48:48.000 And the reason that you do the moral precepts is not out of a utilitarian calculation.

00:48:51.000 It's because it is demanded of you that you be holy.

00:48:54.000 The same force that leads you to bring a sacrifice in the temple is the same force that says, thou shalt not kill.

00:48:59.000 You have to link the holiness with the moral, and when you do that, something magic happens.

00:49:03.000 The book is Orthodoxy by G.K.

00:49:05.000 Chesterton.

00:49:05.000 Sounds a lot, by the way, like Jordan Peterson.

00:49:07.000 If you like Jordan's work, you should really enjoy G.K.

00:49:09.000 Chesterton as well.

00:49:10.000 Up to and including Jordan's analysis of fairy tales, which appears in Orthodoxy as well.

00:49:14.000 Definitely worth the read.

00:49:15.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:49:21.000 Oh, Demi Lovato.

00:49:23.000 So, Demi Lovato, who has alternatively been a she, and then a they-them, and now she's back to being a she, because she said it was exhausting to be a they-them. 1.00

00:49:31.000 Yeah, Demi, try being us, trying to follow, you know, your insane permutations of pronouns.

00:49:37.000 Well, she is now in order to shore up her left-wing credibility, which apparently she needs to do like every five minutes. 1.00

00:49:43.000 So she released an entire album about, you know, sex being transgressive, which has been absolutely shocking and transgressive since 1980 when Madonna made her debut.

00:49:52.000 Well, now she has a surprise new single. 0.99

00:49:53.000 It is titled Swine, and it was made specifically to promote abortion.

00:49:57.000 You gotta promote abortion. 0.99

00:49:59.000 She said, I created Swine to amplify the voices of those who advocate for choice and bodily autonomy.

00:50:03.000 So here is some of the music video for Swine by Demi Lovato.

00:50:07.000 Here is some of the music video for Swine by Demi Lovato. 1.00

00:50:09.000 God forbid I wanna suck whatever the f**k I wanna God forbid I wanna f**k whoever the f**k I want 1.00

00:50:16.000 And if he comes I guess I gotta be a mother F**k what I think, I don't know a thing, the government 1.00

00:50:21.000 knows my body No it's okay, it's better this way, I'm only a carbon copy 0.98

00:50:25.000 Even if I'm dying, they'll still try to stop me Do we even use that? My life, my voice, my rights, my

00:50:40.000 choices, my life Yeah, and of course she's standing on a, um, like being,

00:50:45.000 she's gonna be burned at the stake Mine, mine! 1.00

00:50:49.000 So basically, she's saying she's swine. 1.00

00:50:52.000 To get this argument straight, she's swine unless you allow her to be absolutely promiscuous and kill the baby that is produced. 1.00

00:51:01.000 So what makes her human is actually the thing that makes her most animal. 0.99

00:51:06.000 Actually understand the perverse logic here.

00:51:08.000 The perverse logic is that being human is not about elevating yourself and taking into yourself the level of divine holiness that morality represents.

00:51:17.000 Including, you know, guarding the human baby inside you.

00:51:20.000 That's not holy.

00:51:21.000 That makes you an animal. 1.00

00:51:23.000 What makes you truly a human being is to act like a pig. 1.00

00:51:27.000 Which is to say, to run around in filth and garbage and then to Externalize all of the consequences by killing the resulting product. 0.99

00:51:37.000 If you couldn't actually hear the lyrics there because it's very difficult because she's just screaming them into camera.

00:51:41.000 It is. 0.99

00:51:42.000 God forbid I want to suck whatever the F I wanna. 1.00

00:51:45.000 God forbid I want to F whoever the F I want. 1.00

00:51:47.000 And if he comes, I guess I gotta be a mother. 0.98

00:51:50.000 F what I think.

00:51:50.000 I don't know a thing.

00:51:51.000 The government knows my body.

00:51:52.000 It's okay.

00:51:53.000 It's better this way.

00:51:53.000 I'm only a carbon copy.

00:51:54.000 Even if I'm dying, they'll still try to stop me, which again, a lie.

00:51:58.000 Every single pro-life law on the books in the United States has an exception for the life of the mother. 0.53

00:52:02.000 Every single one.

00:52:03.000 Every one.

00:52:05.000 And then she says, do we even hear ourselves?

00:52:06.000 My life, my voice, my rights, my choice. 0.92

00:52:08.000 Well, I mean, It's mine or I'm just swine.

00:52:11.000 My blood, my loins, my lungs, my noise. 0.92

00:52:13.000 It's mine or I'm just swine.

00:52:16.000 Again, the idea is that what makes her human is acting like an animal and what makes you an animal is acting like a person with moral responsibility. 0.70

00:52:26.000 The complete inversion here, the complete paganistic inversion is insane, and it is representative of a shift in the secular morality that has taken over the country. 0.63

00:52:34.000 In the 1990s, at least the left had the temerity to say safe, legal, and rare.

00:52:37.000 That abortion, what they would say was tragic, it was a problem, we had to minimize it as much as possible, but there were certain circumstances in which you wouldn't want somebody to have to have a baby.

00:52:46.000 That was the argument of the left in the 90s. 0.99

00:52:48.000 Now it is, the thing that makes me most human, the thing that makes me most authentic, is having sex with as many people as humanly possible, producing a child, and then killing it. 0.99

00:52:56.000 That's what... Human sacrifice is what makes you the most human. 0.99

00:52:59.000 That's the thing that makes you the most human.

00:53:01.000 And to deny you that, makes you into an animal. 0.99

00:53:03.000 It makes you swine. 0.99

00:53:05.000 And then she continues.

00:53:07.000 So I do understand that, considering that we are now in the greatest of all months, Pride Month, in which basically religion is banned from the public square and we're all forced to honor and bow to the great Pride Progress flag in substitution for the American flag.

00:53:25.000 So yes, picture your... I mean...

00:53:28.000 If Demi Lovato and her ilk had their way, religious Americans would literally be forced to perform same-sex marriages in churches and would be forced to bake cakes for transgender identity parties. 0.98

00:53:41.000 So, yes.

00:53:42.000 Yes, actually.

00:53:43.000 Picture your faith.

00:53:44.000 Imagine your God and even your Holy Bible is suddenly banned.

00:53:46.000 Do you understand?

00:53:46.000 Now, doesn't that sound entitled?

00:53:48.000 It's your book, but it's my survival.

00:53:51.000 It's your survival? 1.00

00:53:52.000 Unless you kill a baby growing inside you? 0.99

00:53:54.000 It seems to me that actually the survival of humanity relies on you not killing the baby inside of you.

00:54:00.000 This notion that birth is some sort of weird thing that happens to ladies is so disconnected from reality.

00:54:06.000 It's disconnected from nature.

00:54:07.000 It's disconnected from everything.

00:54:09.000 It's the idea that the true you is this disembodied spirit that has nothing to do with the body that you inhabit and you have no responsibility or morality in the real world.

00:54:16.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:54:19.000 It's your book, but it's my survival.

00:54:22.000 People don't want you to not kill the baby because of the book.

00:54:25.000 They don't want to kill a baby because killing babies is bad. 1.00

00:54:28.000 Now, I would make the case that the book makes a pretty good argument for that.

00:54:31.000 Because, again, attaching morality to holiness is a great way of enshrining that morality beyond question.

00:54:38.000 But it turns out that the arguments on the pro-life side of the aisle are typically not with reference to the Book of Psalms.

00:54:44.000 It's typically just, that's a baby, don't kill it.

00:54:47.000 We gotta grow em, we gotta raise em, we gotta feed and bathe em. 0.99

00:54:49.000 And if you won't, they'll call you a witch to burn at the stake in Salem. 0.94

00:54:52.000 Thought by now they'd changed, but we're still waiting, she says. 0.97

00:54:56.000 Um, so, you gotta love the juxtaposition.

00:54:59.000 We gotta grow em, we gotta raise em, we gotta feed and bathe em. 0.99

00:55:01.000 If you won't, they'll call you a witch to burn at the stake. 1.00

00:55:02.000 I love that, so your false dichotomy is that you have to raise all these kids and you have to birth em, or we will kill you. 1.00

00:55:11.000 Okay, so just to point out, one, you're sort of speculating the possibility of a punishment. 1.00

00:55:16.000 The other, you're killing the child!

00:55:20.000 Like, I'll give you the countervailing point of view, like just the contrapositive of what you are arguing here. 0.92

00:55:25.000 What you are arguing is basically you should be allowed to kill a kid because you don't want to grow them, raise them, or feed and bathe them. 0.97

00:55:30.000 Which makes you a bad person. 1.00

00:55:32.000 I'm sorry, makes you a terrible, terrible human.

00:55:34.000 Because you're not doing this in the name of your own health.

00:55:37.000 You're not doing this in the name of your life is at risk.

00:55:39.000 You're doing this because you want to F who you want to F. So, I mean, points to Demi Lovato for just saying the quiet part out loud here.

00:55:45.000 Undercompensated, too domesticated, the F. Underestimated, over-regulated, the F. First of all, the only regulations that Demi Lovato has ever been against are ones that actually preserve human life.

00:55:55.000 Under-celebrated, hate-dominated, the F. We're infuriated, got us activated, get up.

00:55:59.000 Ever-dedicated, newly motivated, and if you're awake, I'm so glad you made it.

00:56:04.000 So, um, again, it is, the gaslighting and inversion here is truly insane.

00:56:10.000 She says, quote, I want this song to empower not only the birthing people of this country.

00:56:16.000 She's beyond parody. 1.00

00:56:16.000 She really is. 1.00

00:56:17.000 The birthing people.

00:56:18.000 You mean women?

00:56:19.000 You mean women?

00:56:20.000 Because nothing empowers women like calling them birthing people. 1.00

00:56:23.000 Amazing.

00:56:24.000 but everyone who stands up for equality to embrace their agency and fight for a world where every

00:56:28.000 person's right to make decisions about their own body is honored unless you don't want to get a

00:56:31.000 vaccine in which case we are going to throw you out of your job. 0.99

00:56:34.000 What a disgusting human being Demi Lovato has become. 1.00

00:56:41.000 I mean, honestly, I used to feel bad for Demi Lovato because Demi Lovato is clearly a deeply troubled human being. 0.99

00:56:46.000 She did a reality show where she talks to feminist ghosts who have been abused by men or something. 0.96

00:56:51.000 So clearly she's a person with serious problems. 0.97

00:56:53.000 But when you start actually promulgating evil, and it is promulgating evil to suggest that the height of human authenticity and achievement is killing the baby inside you and screwing whoever you want.

00:57:03.000 That is a terrible moral message.

00:57:05.000 It is the opposite of morality.

00:57:09.000 Man, again, at least they're saying the quiet part out loud now.

00:57:13.000 It was never about safe, legal, and rare.

00:57:14.000 It was always about shout your abortion because what makes you truly authentically human is acting as animalistically as humanly possible without any consequence.

00:57:21.000 Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:57:22.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:57:23.000 We'll be joined by Ian Rowe, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to talk about the destruction of American education.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 23, 2023

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