The Ben Shapiro Show - The Anti-Trans Hate Crime That Wasn’t

00:00:00.000 There's a new religion in the United States.

00:00:01.000 That religion is secular leftism.

00:00:04.000 And that secular leftist religion demands that you not look at facts.

00:00:08.000 Instead, you just look at the narrative presented and then believe it.

00:00:11.000 This is what the Me Too movement was about.

00:00:13.000 It didn't matter if you asked for ancillary facts to support a contention.

00:00:17.000 Didn't matter if you weren't even really doubting the contention.

00:00:19.000 You just wanted some evidentiary support.

00:00:21.000 Nope.

00:00:21.000 You needed to believe all women.

00:00:24.000 When it comes to DEI, it's the same sort of shtick.

00:00:27.000 You're supposed to believe that DEI is good for business.

00:00:30.000 It's good for everyone.

00:00:31.000 It has positive externalities, intersectionality, same sort of thing.

00:00:33.000 These are narratives and the narratives must be believed.

00:00:36.000 The media loves seizing on particular stories that they believe drive the narrative and then ignoring all of the facts of that story in order to achieve the narrative.

00:00:43.000 Today's latest example comes courtesy of a terrible story out of Oklahoma in which a 16-year-old girl who called herself gender non-binary died.

00:00:53.000 Her name was Nex Benedict. 0.50

00:00:56.000 And apparently, according to the media, she collapsed the day after an altercation in a girls' bathroom at a public high school.

00:01:02.000 So she was gender non-binary, self-declared, and we here on the show actually label people by their biological sex, but this confused teenager died in tragic circumstances, but we don't actually know how this person died.

00:01:14.000 The one thing that we do know, according to the autopsy now, is that this person was not actually murdered in the bathroom.

00:01:20.000 The original report out of this Oklahoma school is that this person had an altercation in a girls bathroom with other girls,

00:01:26.000 and then was effectively beaten to death, or at least injured so badly that she then ended up dying 0.64

00:01:31.000 the next day. And the media ran with this story. Not only did they run with the story, they used this

00:01:36.000 story as a prop in order to push against two particular political elements.

00:01:41.000 One is Khaya Raychik, our friends over at Libs of TikTok, whose great sin in the modern political world has been to take clips of the left doing things and expose them to broader public view.

00:01:53.000 To just watch what people are doing on TikTok and then say, well, you know, here's what they're doing.

00:01:58.000 And then people notice.

00:01:59.000 That's her great sin. 1.00

00:02:00.000 It's not even her advocacy they hate.

00:02:01.000 It's the fact that people are doing something publicly, wanting attention, and then she gives them attention, but from people who don't necessarily all provide a warm round of applause for all the insanity going on at TikTok.

00:02:13.000 So, Khaya Raychick is a person who is on the statewide library advisory board for the state of Oklahoma.

00:02:22.000 And so this means the media are now going to try to pin the death of this person This young lady next Benedict, they're trying to blame this person's death on Chaya because they've been trying to blame pretty much everything on Chaya for the last couple of years.

00:02:38.000 If there's a bomb threat at a hospital that provides quote-unquote gender confirming care, which would be sex change care, when there's a bomb threat against one of those hospitals, after Chaya reveals what exactly they do at the hospital, they blame it on Chaya.

00:02:52.000 When a girl dies in disputed circumstances.

00:02:57.000 In Oklahoma high school they try to blame Chaya for this and the basic idea is that she's a quote-unquote stochastic terrorist. 0.90

00:03:02.000 This is a term that they've been using for Chaya for the last couple of years.

00:03:05.000 It's a term that means nothing.

00:03:07.000 It's a term in which they suggest that without inciting she is in fact responsible for incitements.

00:03:11.000 She's never called for violence against anybody, but they're going to claim that she is responsible

00:03:15.000 for violence that is done by anybody who might theoretically see material that she posts,

00:03:20.000 including material of people who have publicly posted the material themselves.

00:03:24.000 So she's target number one.

00:03:25.000 And target number two is a law in the state of Oklahoma that says that you have to go to the bathroom at school

00:03:35.000 You cannot be a boy and go into the girl's bathroom just because you claim you're a girl. 0.97

00:03:38.000 And if you're a girl and you claim that you're gender non-binary, you can't walk into the boy's bathroom and start using the urinal.

00:03:43.000 And so the media decided that this would be like an amazing case.

00:03:46.000 They jumped on it immediately.

00:03:47.000 It was national news when Nexit Benedict died.

00:03:49.000 Now, there are lots of people who die across the country every day in the United States, and many of them are clearly murdered.

00:03:55.000 We're not talking under disputed circumstances.

00:03:57.000 We are talking literally every day in the United States, many, many people are murdered.

00:04:00.000 By the way, disproportionately, People of color, minorities, young black males murdered disproportionately pretty much every day in the United States gets zero media coverage because that would not promote the narrative that the left wishes to promote.

00:04:14.000 Which is, of course, that pretty much everything in the United States is a result of American racism, because it turns out that the vast majority of those people who are being killed are also being killed by other young black males.

00:04:23.000 So we don't cover that.

00:04:25.000 Right, again, the facts don't matter, only the narrative matters.

00:04:27.000 The narrative here seemed to be one that the left could use, and so they jumped on this thing with both feet.

00:04:33.000 We'll get to more on that in just one moment.

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00:05:35.000 So Teen Vogue, which has suddenly become a source of information, they pushed a piece saying quote

00:05:40.000 on February 8th, Next, who identified within the two-spirit transgender and gender non-conforming

00:05:44.000 umbrella was declared dead at the hospital after being beaten by three girl classmates

00:05:50.000 in the bathroom of a Wassell High School on February 7th.

00:05:53.000 Now LGBTQ plus Oklahomans are mourning the loss of a straight-A student, a Minecraft fan, an animal lover, a teenager in a school district previously targeted by Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raychick. 0.76

00:06:02.000 Raychick now sits on the statewide library advisory board.

00:06:04.000 In 2023, Oklahoma censured the state's only non-binary representative.

00:06:08.000 Not to mention signing into law a bill forcing public school students to use the bathroom associated with their gender assigned at birth.

00:06:14.000 Advocates are currently closely watching several anti-trans pieces of legislation.

00:06:19.000 Before Benedict's name was made public, a source who claimed to be the mother of Benedict's best friend told a local outlet the cause of death was, quote, complications from brain trauma and that three older girls were beating the victim and her daughter in the girls' bathroom.

00:06:31.000 We're not linking because the story uses Benedict's dead name.

00:06:35.000 According to Freedom Oklahoma, it's not presently clear which pronouns Benedict used, so this story will refrain from using any pronouns at all for an ex.

00:06:41.000 Because, again, the media are not interested in reporting actual facts.

00:06:44.000 If you read these stories, you have no idea if this person is a biological girl or if this person is a biological boy, by the way.

00:06:51.000 But, again, obscuring information is what the media are now typically good for.

00:06:54.000 It's what the legacy media do.

00:06:57.000 According to Teen Vogue, the anonymous source also alleged Benedict couldn't walk to the nurse's station without assistance and that the school did not call an ambulance, while the school claims they were unaware of the fight until informed by a parent.

00:07:08.000 Tex allegedly sent by next after the fight to a family member began quite I got jumped at school three on one had

00:07:13.000 to go to the ER.

00:07:14.000 They'd been bullying me and my friends. I got tired of it So I poured some water on them and all three came after me

00:07:18.000 school did not report to the police and is probably getting sued

00:07:21.000 Benedict's grandmother sue who also adopted next brought next to the hospital after the fight then home again

00:07:27.000 The next day, Nex was brought back to the hospital and was pronounced dead.

00:07:30.000 Sue told The Independent Nex was suspended for two weeks from school on the day of the fight.

00:07:33.000 Sue also mentioned that Nex had been bullied throughout the school year.

00:07:36.000 Okay, so, everybody on the left ran with this story.

00:07:40.000 This was front page news across the country.

00:07:42.000 And then, as it turns out, this person may not have died as a result of the actual beating.

00:07:53.000 Apparently, according to the autopsy, the autopsy suggested the opposite.

00:08:01.000 According to USA Today, as police continued Thursday to probe the death of the Oklahoma teen, authorities announced a preliminary autopsy showed the student's death was not the result of trauma.

00:08:11.000 They've not yet released the results of a toxicology report.

00:08:14.000 So we have no information on whether drugs were involved or anything else.

00:08:17.000 What we do know is that the autopsy does not attribute this to trauma.

00:08:21.000 It doesn't matter.

00:08:21.000 The cat is already out of the bag.

00:08:22.000 The story already has legs and it's already running.

00:08:25.000 Because this is the way our legacy media work.

00:08:28.000 So this becomes just another hate crime against a person who apparently was involved in kind of an ongoing altercation with these other girls, pouring water on them.

00:08:35.000 They were beating her up.

00:08:37.000 And again, bullying of any sort is truly terrible.

00:08:41.000 Shouldn't be tolerated at any school.

00:08:44.000 The attempt of the media, however, to turn this into a weapon against the basic idea that sex exists or against legislation suggesting that girls should be protected from boys in the girls' bathroom.

00:08:58.000 By the way, there is no evidence whatsoever that the Oklahoma law that says that girls should go to the girls' bathroom is responsible for this.

00:09:03.000 Is there evidence that she would have been much better off if she had started using the boys' bathroom at this Oklahoma school?

00:09:10.000 And absolutely unclear.

00:09:11.000 One thing that is clear, by the way, is that actually, the news story, assuming this is Teen Vogue, that went viral after Nex's death included allegation that teachers failed to summon medical care and that Nex was so badly injured in the fight that she couldn't walk on her own.

00:09:25.000 Police and school officials both said those claims were false.

00:09:29.000 In a statement on Facebook, the Owasso Police Department said each student involved in the fight, quote, walked under their own power to the assistant principal's office and the nurse's office after it was broken up, and a registered nurse then assessed the health of each student involved in the fight.

00:09:43.000 She determined ambulance service was not required, but recommended the next visit a medical facility for further examination, and next did go to a hospital that afternoon.

00:09:51.000 Doesn't matter.

00:09:51.000 The story is more important.

00:09:54.000 And this is the pattern for the left.

00:09:56.000 How many race stories about supposed systemic American racism by police have turned out to be just lies?

00:10:03.000 Whether it is Michael Brown, whether it is Trayvon Martin, the suggestion of which was that he was beaten to death randomly by a white Hispanic, Whether it is the hands-up-don't-shoot narrative of Michael Brown.

00:10:15.000 Whether it is the George Floyd supposed racial killing that provided zero evidence whatsoever that anything that happened was motivated by race.

00:10:25.000 Like literally zero evidence was even alleged or presented in court in that case.

00:10:29.000 Beyond which, it's pretty obvious that George Floyd died of medical complications and that he didn't actually die because of the mishandling by Derek Chauvin by autopsy reports.

00:10:40.000 It doesn't matter.

00:10:41.000 Once the narrative is set, the narrative is set.

00:10:43.000 This goes all the way back to Matthew Shepard, which was the chief case used by the gay rights movement all the way back in 1998.

00:10:50.000 There's an entire play called The Literary Project that was based on the death of Matthew Shepard, and it was supposedly about this innocent-hearted gay young man in Wyoming who was beat to death by a couple of assailants, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson.

00:11:07.000 Who pistol whipped him with a gun and tied him to a fence in freezing conditions and set him on fire.

00:11:12.000 And this was, like, the chief case.

00:11:14.000 I remember, because I was in school at the time, I remember when this broke nationally.

00:11:18.000 And this story was treated as, like, the evidence that America was a deeply homophobic, awful place for gay people and Matthew Shepard was, like, case 1A.

00:11:26.000 And then, as it turns out, virtually everything you knew about the case was a lie.

00:11:30.000 It turns out that according to A journalist named Stephen Jimenez, who conducted 13 years interviewing more than 100 people with a connection to the case, the actual story of the Matthew Shepard death had nothing to do with him being gay.

00:11:44.000 In fact, Jimenez found that Shepard was addicted to, this is according to The Guardian, and dealing crystal meth and had dabbled in heroin.

00:11:50.000 He took significant sexual risks and was pimped alongside Aaron McKinney, who was one of his killers, with whom he'd had occasional sexual encounters.

00:11:57.000 He was HIV positive at the time of his death.

00:11:59.000 Jimenez says this does not make the perfect poster boy for the gay rights movement.

00:12:03.000 Matthew's drug abuse and the fact that he knew one of the killers prior to the attack was never explored in court.

00:12:07.000 Neither was the rumor that the killers knew he had access to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value of 10 grand, which they wanted to steal.

00:12:15.000 So, but by the way, Laramie is considered the most liberal town in Wyoming.

00:12:20.000 Employment is dominated by the University of Wyoming.

00:12:24.000 So they just decided they weren't going to, you know, actually Pay attention to the story.

00:12:30.000 And this is how the media run their grift.

00:12:32.000 The media is populated by people on the far left.

00:12:36.000 Those people on the far left have a story they want to tell about the way that the world works.

00:12:39.000 And if the evidence does not line up with the story, they just ignore the evidence.

00:12:42.000 And they tell the story that they want to tell in pursuit of the ends they want to pursue.

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00:13:45.000 Now the problem with this particular perspective is that the results of it are truly bad.

00:13:50.000 Because when you lie about how stories actually go down, when you lie about the evidence, you end up making bad policy.

00:13:56.000 When you end up ignoring reality in favor of a narrative you wish to tell about the world, you end up running directly up against reality.

00:14:04.000 And this is true pretty much everywhere. 0.89

00:14:06.000 This is why yesterday when we were discussing Google Gemini, And the morons who decided the policymaking for Google Gemini put in a bunch of parameters that basically banned white males from being generated under any circumstances. 0.94

00:14:18.000 So you end up with people typing in founding father and coming up with black female George Washington or type in draw me the Pope and you end up with an Indian woman. 0.82

00:14:28.000 The people who did that run up directly against reality.

00:14:31.000 Now the danger is they can try to change reality.

00:14:33.000 That's what the media do. 0.80

00:14:34.000 That's what our bosses in social media try to do.

00:14:37.000 It's what members of government have tried to do historically.

00:14:39.000 Try to change the reality around you.

00:14:42.000 Incept into reality a narrative.

00:14:45.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:14:46.000 But reality always wins.

00:14:48.000 This is one of my slogans, folks.

00:14:50.000 Reality always wins.

00:14:51.000 It may take a long time.

00:14:53.000 And it may drive you nuts because they're gaslighting you.

00:14:56.000 They will tell you a story that's false and tell you that you noticing the story is false is bad.

00:15:00.000 This is, again, this is why they're going after Chaya. 1.00

00:15:02.000 Because Chaya has committed the grave sin of asking for evidence of contentions and or providing evidence of opposite contentions. 0.97

00:15:10.000 But eventually, reality does win.

00:15:12.000 And now, because everything moves so quickly, reality is winning faster than ever.

00:15:16.000 And this is scaring the left, which is why, like Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars, they're trying to grip galaxies that they cannot hold.

00:15:27.000 They are trying to grip tighter and tighter.

00:15:28.000 The censorship regime is getting tighter and tighter because as reality gets away from them, they have to try to exert more and more control, but it's not going to work.

00:15:36.000 You're seeing that most clearly with regard to what's happening in our colleges.

00:15:41.000 So I mentioned this briefly yesterday, but it actually is a quite amazing story.

00:15:44.000 Yale, according to Axios, is the latest elite university to reverse its pandemic-era test optional policy and will now again require standardized test scores to apply.

00:15:54.000 The SAT or the ACT.

00:15:56.000 Well because it turns out that counter to the idiotic narrative that your life experiences are a better predictor of your actual success than you know a basic IQ test which is essentially what the SAT or the ACT is. 0.92

00:15:56.000 Why? 0.92

00:16:09.000 Reality wins every time.

00:16:11.000 So the correlation, as it turns out, between SAT and ACQ results and future student success is actually better than all of the things that they've been saying are going to be predictive.

00:16:20.000 Like, you know, these student essays about your victimized childhood.

00:16:26.000 Yale said on Thursday it would resume requiring test scores of all applicants, expanding from the SAT and ACT to also include AP and IB exam results.

00:16:33.000 Dartmouth has now done the same thing.

00:16:36.000 At Brown, Brown is the most liberal of all these schools. 0.98

00:16:38.000 I've been to virtually all the IBs at this point, spoken at most of them, and I gotta tell you, Brown is just ridiculous.

00:16:44.000 Brown is developing a committee to create recommendations on standardizing testing, legacy admissions, and early decision.

00:16:54.000 Other schools like Harvard, Cornell, and Princeton are announcing extensions on test-optional policies.

00:16:58.000 Columbia went all the way.

00:16:59.000 Columbia just made it permanent.

00:17:00.000 They said, we're not going to test.

00:17:01.000 So what's going to happen with those schools?

00:17:02.000 When I say that they run up against reality, here's what's going to happen with those schools.

00:17:05.000 The reason these schools exist is because they are credentialing institutions, not because they teach you life skills you need to know.

00:17:11.000 Not because they even teach you the things you should know as a good member of Western civilization.

00:17:16.000 That died long ago.

00:17:17.000 The idea of college as a sort of intellectual breeding ground for good Western citizens who actually know their ABCs That's gone away.

00:17:25.000 You are not made a better citizen by college.

00:17:26.000 In fact, very good case you are made a significantly worse citizen by college.

00:17:31.000 Because college has now become about the college experience, which mainly is screwing and drinking and doing pot now.

00:17:37.000 And your son's away from your parents to go do all of that.

00:17:39.000 And that's what people mean when they say the college experience.

00:17:41.000 They don't mean exchanging different ideas with diverse groups of people because that's not allowed on college campuses anymore.

00:17:47.000 They mean the sex, the alcohol, and the drugs, effectively.

00:17:51.000 And being induced into a very left-wing view of the United States and the world.

00:17:56.000 Okay, but what were these universities good for if they weren't teaching life skills and if they weren't making you a better citizen and if they weren't making you smarter or anything like that?

00:18:03.000 What were they really good for?

00:18:03.000 Their sorting mechanisms.

00:18:04.000 We all know this.

00:18:06.000 It is illegal in the United States for employers to use IQ tests to admit you to employment.

00:18:12.000 It was made illegal by the Supreme Court back in the 1970s.

00:18:15.000 There was a case in which they decided that it was discriminatory.

00:18:17.000 Why?

00:18:18.000 For the same reasons that all these universities tried and failed to actually get rid of the ACT and SAT.

00:18:24.000 It turns out that whatever IQ tests were being used by employers were deemed discriminatory because not enough people of color were doing well on them.

00:18:32.000 So the Supreme Court simply said that you could not use them for employment.

00:18:36.000 That they were a violation of the Civil Rights Act.

00:18:39.000 And well, colleges found a way around that by creating these quasi IQ tests, which are the SAT and the ACT.

00:18:47.000 And then they use those.

00:18:48.000 And the reason that the credential meant something is because that was the only way that employers could tell if you were smart or not.

00:18:53.000 They couldn't tell by your grades in school because you might have gone to a crappy school and getting an A at a crappy school ain't that hard.

00:18:59.000 But they could tell by looking at which college you went to.

00:19:03.000 Because the colleges were sorting you.

00:19:05.000 If you went to Harvard, there was a 99.99% shot that you were a smarter person than a person who went to the local JUCO.

00:19:12.000 But what happens when Harvard gets rid of its admission standards?

00:19:15.000 Then its credential is no longer worth anything.

00:19:18.000 The credential dies.

00:19:20.000 Now again, this is not true for everything at Harvard, right?

00:19:22.000 Harvard's STEM program, still really good.

00:19:24.000 This is true at the vast majority of colleges.

00:19:26.000 But, a liberal arts degree, which is what I paid for.

00:19:28.000 I went to UCLA, I got a poli sci degree.

00:19:30.000 And then I went to Harvard Law School and got a law degree.

00:19:33.000 Did any of that teach me how to be a lawyer?

00:19:34.000 Not much.

00:19:35.000 Maybe one year of law school is necessary.

00:19:37.000 Maybe a year and a half at most.

00:19:40.000 But what that really said was I had a high IQ.

00:19:42.000 And that was true for the vast majority of people in a liberal arts college that was an Ivy League.

00:19:46.000 And so when you get rid of the SAT or the ACT, what happens?

00:19:49.000 You end up watering down your student population.

00:19:51.000 The credential is now worth less.

00:19:54.000 And remember, the college degree and the nature of the place where you get the college degree has become more important over time as more and more people have entered college.

00:20:03.000 So it used to be that just having a college degree alone acted as a sort of imprimatur of IQ.

00:20:09.000 Because there was a time in American history where not all that many people went to college, where the vast majority of people could get a job out of high school.

00:20:14.000 And then the federal government, in all of its wisdom, decided that because people who went to college earned more money, everyone needed to go to college, which is a tremendous logical leap. 0.99

00:20:26.000 That's really stupid. 0.82

00:20:28.000 The reason that people who went to college earned more than people who went to high school is because, again, that was a sorting mechanism. 1.00

00:20:32.000 And so what did they do?

00:20:33.000 They decided everyone should go to college.

00:20:34.000 Well, once you decide everyone should go to college, then the college credential loses its luster.

00:20:38.000 So you have to keep putting upward pressure on the credentialing system.

00:20:41.000 So now the Ivy Leagues mean a lot.

00:20:43.000 But it turns out that you water down the system, even the Ivy Leagues don't mean enough.

00:20:46.000 So now you have to get a post-grad degree.

00:20:48.000 We'll get to more on this in one second.

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00:21:49.000 So what does this mean?

00:21:50.000 It means simultaneously over time, more and more people have gone to college.

00:21:53.000 And also it means, unsurprisingly, that according to the Wall Street Journal, half of all college grads are working jobs that do not use their degrees.

00:22:01.000 We've created an entire scam credentialing system rooted in a bunch of bad evidence and bad data.

00:22:08.000 Things like IQ tests don't matter, or SATs and ACTs don't matter, or everyone should go to college no matter their intelligence level.

00:22:16.000 All these things are not just propositions without evidence, they are propositions to which there is tremendous evidence to the contrary.

00:22:23.000 So what's happening?

00:22:24.000 These colleges are having to reinstate all of these tests now to fight back against all of this.

00:22:30.000 It's also the reason why, by the way.

00:22:31.000 But Democrats, again, have an interest.

00:22:33.000 People on the left have an interest in preserving the narrative, which is why you have Joe Biden trying to now force everyone in the United States to subsidize the lesbian dance theory majors of people who got $1,200 on their SAT.

00:22:47.000 That is what Joe Biden is doing.

00:22:49.000 When he talks about relieving student loan debt, that is what he is doing.

00:22:52.000 Understand that when James Clyburn, who's Joe Biden's biggest supporter,

00:22:55.000 when he says relieving student loan debt is not giving money away, he is lying.

00:22:58.000 It is 100% giving money away.

00:23:00.000 And it's giving money away from the people who actually have jobs

00:23:03.000 to people who either should have gotten jobs based on their credentials 1.00

00:23:06.000 or don't have jobs because they got a stupid credential. 0.98

00:23:09.000 Going forward, every two months, for the next four years, another 75,000 people will become eligible for this 0.99

00:23:19.000 forgiveness.

00:23:21.000 And I want to say to your listeners, this is not giving anybody's money away.

00:23:25.000 Okay, it is giving the money away.

00:23:28.000 But again, this is going to come face to face with reality as well.

00:23:31.000 The college system is going to fall down.

00:23:33.000 There's a reason, by the way, why a lot of blue collar workers have turned toward the Republicans are turning toward President Trump.

00:23:38.000 There's a reason for that.

00:23:40.000 According to Axios, one of America's most powerful labor unions has now reported its first major donation to Republicans in two decades after meeting with former President Trump last month.

00:23:50.000 The Teamsters gave a $45,000 donation to the RNC's convention fund, per the FEC report.

00:23:57.000 The reported contribution is not an endorsement, but it's a powerful statement from a union that has supported every Democratic presidential candidate since Al Gore.

00:24:05.000 It represents the Teamsters' first big donation to the RNC since 2004.

00:24:07.000 Why?

00:24:08.000 Because the Democratic Party is built around people who want these narratives, around people who benefit from these narratives, around white college-educated liberals, and around people who are interested in being told that failure in American society is a result of American racism and discrimination.

00:24:23.000 That is the entire Democratic coalition.

00:24:25.000 You know who don't like that?

00:24:27.000 Maybe truckers.

00:24:28.000 You know, people who work really hard every day and maybe don't have that college degree are working their ass off to get you the stuff you need across the country every single day.

00:24:36.000 Maybe they're not enamored or enchanted by the nonsense that is being pushed on college campuses and now imbibed wholesale by the media and promulgated wholesale by the government.

00:24:45.000 Maybe they don't like that very much.

00:24:49.000 And reality always wins.

00:24:51.000 And that's true whether you're talking about economics, whether you're talking about bathroom policy, reality is always very, very likely to win.

00:24:58.000 By the way, where is America's true growth going to happen?

00:25:03.000 What's going to end up breaking the college system in the end is going to be tech.

00:25:07.000 Not the tech bros who are designing the Google AI, but the ones who aren't, the ones who actually care about data.

00:25:14.000 Right now, the greatest advantage the United States holds is in innovation.

00:25:21.000 This is why the American semiconductor maker NVIDIA is now valuated at two trillion dollars.

00:25:28.000 Two trillion dollars.

00:25:29.000 Why?

00:25:30.000 What do they do?

00:25:30.000 They design sophisticated microchips.

00:25:32.000 They don't manufacture those.

00:25:33.000 Those are being manufactured by TSMC over in Taiwan.

00:25:36.000 Just another reason why the United States has an interest in a muscular foreign policy.

00:25:40.000 Because for all those people who believe that foreign policy doesn't affect American policy, if China takes Taiwan and Taiwan is forced to either destroy its microchips or turn them over to the Chinese government, things are about to get very hairy for a lot of Americans directly and in terms of American companies.

00:25:56.000 In any case, NVIDIA has reported skyrocketing revenues and profits from selling chips powering artificial intelligence.

00:26:04.000 NVIDIA is a massive success.

00:26:06.000 Why?

00:26:07.000 Because they care about results.

00:26:09.000 And that's true for any successful business.

00:26:11.000 Successful businesses care about results.

00:26:14.000 DEI, the myths of the left, they do not comport with reality.

00:26:19.000 And because they do not comport with reality, the left hates the reality.

00:26:22.000 But guess what?

00:26:23.000 The reality is gonna win, sooner or later.

00:26:25.000 We'll get some more on this in just a moment.

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00:27:04.000 Okay, meanwhile, over in the United Kingdom, we are seeing the wages of mass migration And multiculturalism.

00:27:11.000 So approximately 15% of the entire population of London is now Muslim.

00:27:17.000 That's 6.5% of the population of all of the UK is Muslim.

00:27:22.000 That means that the Muslim population of the UK has risen 44% in one decade alone, according to arabnews.com.

00:27:31.000 The second most common ethnic group in the UK is now Asian, Asian British, or Asian Welsh, making up 9.3% of the population.

00:27:40.000 That the category Asian includes Muslims in the UK.

00:27:44.000 They count them as South Asian very often if they're from Pakistan, for example.

00:27:50.000 London is now two-thirds ethnic minority.

00:27:52.000 Other major cities like Leicester, Luton, and Birmingham have become home to minority majorities driven by significant increases in Asian communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, and East Africa.

00:28:03.000 That is according to the 2021 census.

00:28:07.000 Okay, so what impact has that had on the UK?

00:28:09.000 Well, it means a lot of tolerance for Islamic extremism and Islamic radicalism.

00:28:14.000 When the West doesn't, again, reality always wins. 0.53

00:28:16.000 Multiculturalism is a lie and a myth. 1.00

00:28:19.000 And when you imbibe deep from that lie and that myth, what you end up doing is destroying your own civilization.

00:28:24.000 And we saw that break out into the open over the course of the last few days in London's House of Commons.

00:28:31.000 So just to set the stage, There has been a mass uptick in incidents of Islamic terrorism over the course of the last decade and a half in London.

00:28:40.000 That ranges from the attack on Stephen Timms, who was a politician in Britain.

00:28:47.000 This would be in 2010.

00:28:49.000 This was a person inspired by Al Qaeda attacked a member of the British Parliament.

00:28:59.000 That was in 2010.

00:29:00.000 Fast forward to 2021.

00:29:04.000 Conservative MP for South End West named Sir David Amos was actually murdered after being stabbed 20 times by an ISIS fanatic.

00:29:14.000 Members of Parliament being attacked, so much so, that just a couple of weeks ago, according to National Review, a Tory Member of Parliament who represents a largely Jewish constituency announced his resignation Thursday after receiving a barrage of death threats following his support for Israel and condemnation of anti-Semitism in the UK.

00:29:31.000 After serving more than 30 years in public office, MP Mike Freer, who represents Finchley and Golders Green, Golders Green is the most Orthodox Jewish area of London, said he is not pursuing the seat again as a Conservative Party candidate in the next general election.

00:29:44.000 Here he was explaining.

00:29:46.000 So, Mike Freer, you're going to lead politics.

00:29:49.000 You always said that you wouldn't.

00:29:50.000 Why are you doing it now?

00:29:52.000 I think there comes a point when the threats to your personal safety become too much and also too much for our spouses and our family.

00:30:00.000 And, you know, we can't do this job without the support of our spouses and family.

00:30:05.000 And so too many incidents, some of them a lot of low level, which all MPs cope with.

00:30:10.000 and two or three very serious ones which you know threatened my personal safety so at some

00:30:15.000 point you have to say enough. And what sort of threats have you had? Well obviously I had run

00:30:22.000 into Muslims against Crusades who had a very unsubtle threat about coming to stab me. Then 0.90

00:30:29.000 of course Ali Habibi Ali who then went on to kill David Amos came to Finchley before he went on to

00:30:38.000 And then, recently, the arson attack in my office.

00:30:41.000 So, you know, those are the most serious ones. 0.99

00:30:43.000 But, you know, when you come out of your house and find notes left on your car, or mock Molotov cocktails on the office steps, followed round Brent Cross Shopping Centre where someone's shouting, you're useless, you're useless. 0.98

00:30:56.000 It all adds up to saying there must be a better way to live. 0.96

00:31:02.000 Don't worry, it's just multiculturalism on the advice of police.

00:31:04.000 The police told him to do this.

00:31:05.000 Freer and his team have been wearing stab vests when out in public with constituents.

00:31:10.000 They literally wear round vests so that if they are stabbed, they won't die.

00:31:14.000 Meanwhile, you have the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who's a radical on his own.

00:31:19.000 Who was calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as of October 27th, 2023.

00:31:22.000 We're not talking about like now when we are in late February. 0.68

00:31:26.000 It's dumb enough to call for a ceasefire now when Israel is on the verge of victory over Hamas.

00:31:30.000 But he was calling for a ceasefire in Gaza literally one week after Israel started its aerial attacks in Gaza. 0.93

00:31:37.000 And about two weeks after the actual murder of 1,200 Jews inside Israel, and while 240 hostages were still being held in the Gaza Strip, here was Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London.

00:31:47.000 Remember, the wages of multiculturalism are quite real. 0.90

00:31:50.000 Here was the mayor of London, this is back in October of 2023.

00:31:52.000 This is all predicate to what happened over the course of the last week.

00:31:56.000 The terrible situation in Gaza now looks set to deteriorate even further.

00:32:03.000 Thousands of innocent civilians, men, women and children have already been killed and it's becoming impossible for aid to reach the people who desperately need it.

00:32:18.000 Substantial military escalation is now likely, which will only deepen the humanitarian disaster.

00:32:27.000 Sadiq Khan, of course, has been a very anti-Israel force since he entered office as London's mayor.

00:32:34.000 He's a member of the Labour Party.

00:32:35.000 The Labour Party has been riffed, like the Democratic Party in the United States, between the wild anti-Semitism of Jeremy Corbyn and the sort of more moderate left-wingism of Keir Starmer, who is the new Labour leader.

00:32:46.000 Corbyn was ousted after failing dramatically in his last electoral attempt.

00:32:50.000 Well, Keir Starmer has now been forced into taking the left-wing position with regard to a ceasefire.

00:32:55.000 So earlier this week, because of pressure on his left, he called for a permanent ceasefire.

00:33:01.000 An end to the fighting, not just now, not just for a pause, but permanently.

00:33:08.000 A ceasefire that lasts.

00:33:10.000 Conference, that is what must happen now.

00:33:14.000 The fighting must stop now.

00:33:16.000 Any ceasefire cannot be one-sided.

00:33:20.000 It must stop all acts of violence on both sides.

00:33:22.000 What actually happened with Keir Starmer?

00:33:25.000 So what actually happened with Keir Starmer here is that there is another party in the UK Parliament.

00:33:31.000 And this is how this broke out.

00:33:32.000 So yesterday and over the course of the last week, there's been heavy, heavy pressure on the UK Parliament to adopt some sort of resolution condemning Israel for defending itself in Gaza.

00:33:43.000 And this has amounted to members of Parliament being threatened.

00:33:45.000 Here's some tape of a member of parliament being chased down by a mob.

00:33:48.000 Having been protected by the police.

00:33:57.000 This is how this works now.

00:34:05.000 Members of the police being taunted, and all the rest.

00:34:10.000 Multiculturalism, it's working out amazingly well in the UK, just beautifully well in the UK.

00:34:15.000 Meanwhile, genocidal slogans were being projected on Big Ben during the debate in Parliament over whether to condemn Israel for defending itself.

00:34:21.000 You can see the tape of it.

00:34:23.000 It's amazing stuff.

00:34:27.000 This video of Big Ben.

00:34:28.000 By the way, the UK does not have the same sort of free speech regulations that the United States has.

00:34:33.000 There's no First Amendment in the UK, so they do have hate speech regulations that if they are to apply, ought to apply equally.

00:34:38.000 They literally projected on Big Ben, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, which is a genocidal anti-Jewish slogan, as everyone knows at this point.

00:34:47.000 Naturally, because the Met police are scared stiff, of the radical Islamic population of their own city, 1.00

00:34:53.000 they put out a statement, quote, this is a chant that has been frequently heard

00:34:55.000 at pro-Palestinian demonstrations for many years.

00:34:57.000 We are very aware of the strength of feeling in relation to it.

00:35:00.000 While there are scenarios where chanting or using these words could be unlawful,

00:35:02.000 depending on the specific location or context, it's used in a wider public protest setting,

00:35:06.000 such as last night, is not a criminal offense.

00:35:09.000 Weird, because if anyone called for the full-scale obliteration of Pakistan,

00:35:14.000 which was established in the same one and a half year period

00:35:16.000 as Israel, I have doubts that that would be okay. 1.00

00:35:20.000 with the Met Police.

00:35:22.000 All of this set the stage for utter chaos that broke out in Parliament the other night.

00:35:25.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:35:59.000 Okay, meanwhile...

00:36:00.000 So all of this broke out into the open in the UK Parliament the other day.

00:36:04.000 Just a few days ago, the Speaker of the House of Commons, who's a former member of the Labour Party, allowed for a bunch of amendments.

00:36:12.000 So basically, there were three separate ceasefire motions that were put out in the House of Commons.

00:36:18.000 None of them were binding on the government.

00:36:19.000 The first came from the Conservative Party.

00:36:21.000 It called for an immediate ceasefire only under circumstances in which Hamas freed all Israeli hostages and relinquished control of Gaza, which, by the way, Israel would support. 0.64

00:36:30.000 The second was put forward by the SNP.

00:36:32.000 The SNP is the Scottish National Party.

00:36:35.000 They are far left, and they've been urging an immediate ceasefire, and they included in their resolution a condemnation to, quote, an end to the collective punishment of the Palestinian people, which is full-scale Hamas language.

00:36:46.000 And this was a very uncomfortable position for Labor.

00:36:48.000 Labor, again, is split between people who are not wildly anti-Israel and people who really hate Jews.

00:36:54.000 And because of that, the Labor House of Commons speaker decided to allow, illegally, like against procedure, an amendment from the Labor Party that effectively called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire without mentioning the collective punishment nonsense from the SNP.

00:37:12.000 According to the Times of Israel, the move helped labor leader Keir Starmer, who avoided another major rebellion among his lawmakers on the war thanks to his proposal of getting a vote.

00:37:19.000 That meant labor members of parliament could vote on their party's plan and would not have to defy leadership by voting in support of the SNP's amendment.

00:37:26.000 And this, of course, broke out into the open.

00:37:30.000 So the Speaker of the House, Lindsey Hoyle, was immediately accused of trying to help out labor, which is the opposition party, right now.

00:37:37.000 And then he explained why he really did it.

00:37:38.000 And he says he didn't do it because he was trying to help out labor.

00:37:41.000 He says that he did this because he didn't want there to be a terrorist attack

00:37:44.000 on the House of Commons.

00:37:45.000 When you have the legislature of a country attempting to pass legislation

00:37:51.000 or consider legislation because they are afraid of a terror attack,

00:37:55.000 like an immediate terror attack, something has gone deeply wrong in your country.

00:37:59.000 Here is the Speaker of the House, Lindsay Hoyle, explaining.

00:38:01.000 Every member matters to me in this House.

00:38:06.000 And it is being said.

00:38:08.000 Yes, sir.

00:38:10.000 Both sides.

00:38:12.000 I never ever want to go through a situation where I pick up a phone to find a friend of whatever side has been murdered by terrorists.

00:38:24.000 I also don't want another attack on this house.

00:38:29.000 I have a duty of care that I will carry out To protect people.

00:38:35.000 It is the protection that led me to make a wrong decision.

00:38:39.000 But what I do not apologise is the risk that's being put on all members at the moment.

00:38:48.000 I had serious meetings yesterday with the police on the issues and threats to politicians, threats heading to an election.

00:38:58.000 And I do not want anything to happen again.

00:39:02.000 So yes, I will apologise.

00:39:05.000 I always will when I make a mistake.

00:39:08.000 I did.

00:39:08.000 I offer an SL24.

00:39:10.000 That is within my gift and power.

00:39:13.000 But I will also say I will do whatever it is to protect anybody in this chamber or anybody who works in this house.

00:39:21.000 That is my duty of care.

00:39:22.000 That's an amazing statement.

00:39:24.000 That's an amazing statement.

00:39:25.000 So the Speaker of the House of Commons is admitting that he is changing parliamentary procedure because he is afraid that members of Parliament will be attacked and killed.

00:39:32.000 And there's only one side in London that is doing the attacking and the killing right now, and it ain't the Jews. 0.89

00:39:38.000 The fact is that, of course, you have seen the massive protests.

00:39:40.000 We've all seen them.

00:39:42.000 When I spoke at Oxford and Cambridge, the presence of radical Islamists on UK soil is extreme and real.

00:39:50.000 There's no question about this.

00:39:52.000 And these giant protests that you've seen, 300, 400,000 people in the streets protesting on behalf of Hamas, that is why the House of Commons is now running like a preserve of fearful... I mean, look at the size of these protests.

00:40:05.000 It's insane.

00:40:06.000 We are out!

00:40:13.000 These are people who are protesting on behalf of a terrorist group, Hamas, of the preservation

00:40:17.000 of the terrorist group, Hamas.

00:40:18.000 you That is what is happening.

00:40:21.000 And the UK Parliament is falling for it.

00:40:24.000 This is what happens when you ignore reality.

00:40:26.000 When you ignore the reality, which is that multiculturalism is a giant failure. 0.98

00:40:31.000 When you ignore that reality, this is what you end up with.

00:40:35.000 And it is a disaster.

00:40:36.000 It is a full-scale disaster.

00:40:38.000 A Jewish MP named Andrew Percy talked about the intimidation of members of Parliament.

00:40:43.000 If we have a rerun of the debate we had yesterday, we will have exactly the same thing happen again, which is that members will not vote with their hearts because they are frightened and they are scared.

00:40:55.000 And what do we expect?

00:40:56.000 For months I've been standing up here We're talking about the people on our streets demanding death to Jews, demanding jihad, demanding intifadas, as the police stand by and allow that to happen.

00:41:07.000 Last night, a genocidal call for, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, was projected onto this building. 0.92

00:41:15.000 That message says no Jew is welcome in the state of Israel or in that land.

00:41:21.000 This is going to continue happening because we're not dealing with it.

00:41:24.000 So if we have a rerun of this, can the leader explain to me what will be any different and how will members vote with their hearts and their consciences?

00:41:32.000 Because too many will not at the moment because of the threats we're receiving.

00:41:36.000 Threats that are telling us to leave this country in some of our cases and telling us that they want us or our families to be subjected to pain and to death.

00:41:44.000 This is what happens in a country that has completely lost its way.

00:41:47.000 And the United States can lose its way in the same exact form and fashion.

00:41:51.000 When you decide to ignore reality, this is what happens to you, too, as a country.

00:41:56.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden has now escalated sanctions on more than 500 Russian targets.

00:42:01.000 This comes amidst the reports of the murder of Alexei Navalny.

00:42:05.000 I'm going to assume it's a murder because, I mean, that's pretty much obviously the case.

00:42:09.000 So, in any case, Joe Biden yesterday met with the widow of Alexei Navalny.

00:42:16.000 He said, Today I met with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny's loved ones, to express my condolences for their devastating loss.

00:42:23.000 Alexei's legacy of courage will live on in Yulia and Dasha and the countless people across Russia fighting for democracy and human rights.

00:42:29.000 Afterward, by the way, he then walked out to a car that was to take him to a different location and proceeded to call her Yolanda.

00:42:36.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:42:38.000 My name is Yulia.

00:42:40.000 Yolanda isn't even a Russian name.

00:42:42.000 In any case, the President of the United States has not been with us for some time. 0.90

00:42:47.000 Also, apparently, in a meeting with donors, Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a crazy SOB.

00:42:52.000 Here's what CNN reported yesterday.

00:42:55.000 Off script, off camera, and amongst friends, Democratic supporters and donors, is where President Biden appears most comfortable leveling some of his sharpest and most direct attacks.

00:43:05.000 Speaking at a fundraising event in San Francisco last night, the president took aim at several of his adversaries, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

00:43:13.000 Quote, we have a crazy SOB, that guy Putin, and others, and we always have to be worried about a nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate, he said.

00:43:25.000 OK.

00:43:27.000 First of all, he's so out of it.

00:43:28.000 So he's talking about the dangers of Putin and he's still talking about the weather.

00:43:31.000 It's the weather that's really the problem. 0.68

00:43:33.000 Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin, who, again, is a canny political operative as well as a vicious dictator. 1.00

00:43:39.000 He was asked about Biden's comments like, fine, call me a crazy SOB, but I am kicking your ass. 1.00

00:43:46.000 Listen, we recently talked and you asked me who we prefer as the future president of the United States. 0.99

00:43:53.000 I said that we will work with any president, but I believe that for us, for Russia, Biden is more preferable.

00:44:03.000 Okay, so why is he doing that?

00:44:04.000 Obviously, the speculation is that it's a psy-op, essentially, that he's reversing himself, that really he wants Trump, is what the media want to say, that he really, really wants Trump, and that he is saying Biden, specifically, so that people will vote against Biden, thinking that he is working with Biden.

00:44:18.000 Whatever the case may be, the bottom line is that the Biden administration has slow-walked aid to Ukraine in the beginning, made absolutely unclear what America's interests are in Ukraine in the first place, which has undermined A lot of American support for Ukraine in the first place.

00:44:30.000 Meanwhile, the President unleashed some new sanctions yesterday.

00:44:34.000 They're on more than 500 targets.

00:44:36.000 Apparently, they're set to be rolled out by the Treasury and State Departments in full today.

00:44:40.000 They come after the White House signaled that they were preparing major penalties after the recent death of Navalny in a Russian prison.

00:44:45.000 This is according to the New York Times.

00:44:48.000 The US has been closely coordinating with Europe in its efforts to cut Russia off from the global economy.

00:44:52.000 This week, the EU unveiled its 13th tranche of sanctions on Russia, banning nearly 200 people and entities that have been helping Russia procure weapons from traveling or doing business within the bloc.

00:45:00.000 Now listen, if Biden wanted to do more than this, he certainly could.

00:45:03.000 He could be pushing secondary sanctions on major companies that are doing business with the Russians.

00:45:07.000 He could be trying to put pressure on the Chinese and the Iranians.

00:45:11.000 Unfortunately, he's doing none of those things.

00:45:13.000 So again, lack of clarity on policy from the President of the United States.

00:45:17.000 And this, of course, is leading people to think that there is no plan.

00:45:21.000 Because there kind of isn't, according to Joe Biden.

00:45:25.000 According to the same New York Times that has been stumping consistently for support for the war in Ukraine, quote, The President of Brazil says Ukraine and Russia are both to blame for the war that began with Russia's military invasion.

00:45:41.000 His nation's purchases of Russian energy and fertilizer have soared, pumping billions of dollars into the Russian economy.

00:45:47.000 And as we noted yesterday, the Secretary of State went to hang out with Lula and praise him literally yesterday.

00:45:55.000 Two years after the beginning of the war, according to the New York Times, Putin is not nearly as isolated as U.S.

00:45:59.000 officials had hoped.

00:46:00.000 Russia's inherent strength, rooted in its vast supplies of oil and natural gas, has powered a financial and political resilience that threatens to outlast Western opposition.

00:46:07.000 In parts of Asia, Africa, and South America, his influence is as strong as ever or even growing.

00:46:12.000 His grip on power at home appears as strong as effort as well.

00:46:16.000 The war has undoubtedly taken a toll on Russia and has wrecked the country's standing with much of Europe Beyond North America and Europe, however, there's a lot of evidence to the contrary, with China, India, and Brazil buying Russian oil in record quantities.

00:46:27.000 Now, again, this would be an opportunity for the United States to use the power of its LNG industry in order to undercut the Russians.

00:46:34.000 But are they doing that?

00:46:35.000 Nope, because the environmentalists, because the big threat is climate.

00:46:40.000 Meanwhile, are they putting pressure on places like Brazil? 0.75

00:46:41.000 No, they were too busy celebrating when Yair Bolsonaro lost the election to Lula da Silva, that corrupt oligarch.

00:46:48.000 Meanwhile, apparently the Pentagon is learning new lessons from the war in Ukraine.

00:46:52.000 And the thing they're mostly learning is that we spend a lot of money on tech and not enough money on, you know, actual weaponry.

00:46:57.000 According to the Washington Post, the character of war is changing.

00:47:01.000 The lessons taken from Ukraine stand to be an enduring resource.

00:47:04.000 The Ukraine conflict has challenged core assumptions.

00:47:06.000 The war has become an attritional slugfest, with each side attempting to wear down the other, a model thought to be anachronistic, said Stacey Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at Center for a New American Security.

00:47:16.000 It is complicated and long held belief in the Pentagon that expensive precision weapons are central

00:47:20.000 to winning America's conflict.

00:47:22.000 GPS guided munitions provided to Ukraine have proven vulnerable to electronic jamming.

00:47:25.000 Its military has adapted by pairing older unguided artillery

00:47:28.000 with sensors and drones, which can be used to spot targets and refine their shots.

00:47:32.000 So they've also told people to stop using cell phones near the front lines.

00:47:37.000 Personnel portraying enemy forces during one simulated attack were unable to determine

00:47:42.000 the path the helicopter took, but after examining commercially available cell phone data,

00:47:45.000 they were able to map the journey of a device traveling across the desert at 120 miles per hour.

00:47:50.000 And it revealed where an Apache flew to evade the defenses.

00:47:52.000 So again, the American military is learning some things from this battle.

00:47:57.000 Suffice it to say, however, that Russia so far has survived. 0.98

00:48:01.000 If you want to know more about the history of Ukraine that Vladimir Putin cites as his rationale for attacking Ukraine, we are putting out an episode of Facts that goes through the entire history of Ukraine, what's true, what's not, and all the rest.

00:48:12.000 When it comes to the actual situation in Ukraine, however, again, it's Joe Biden's leadership that has been a failure here, across the board.

00:48:20.000 It's been a real problem.

00:48:22.000 So, given the fact that the world is on fire, what exactly are Democrats going to rely upon going into the election?

00:48:27.000 We know the answer to this one.

00:48:28.000 They're gonna rely upon abortion. 1.00

00:48:29.000 So their latest argument with regard to abortion is predicated on an Alabama court decision, a Supreme Court decision, ruling that embryos deserve constitutional rights In the state of Alabama.

00:48:43.000 Which makes logical sense.

00:48:44.000 If the basic idea is that life begins at conception, and that is the predicate for Alabama law with regard to abortion, then if that life is conceived, even in a Petri dish, then it still deserves a level of protection in the state of Alabama.

00:48:58.000 According to the Washington Post, for patients and their doctors, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, had long been associated with hope and reassurance for the future.

00:49:04.000 In Alabama, seeking or providing infertility treatment is now mired in anxiety.

00:49:08.000 That is because the Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are children and deserving of life and protection.

00:49:16.000 Which, again, makes perfect sense.

00:49:17.000 If it were in a woman's womb, then it would already have the protection of Alabama law. 0.99

00:49:20.000 The only question was, if it's located outside the womb, does it no longer have those protections?

00:49:25.000 So the question really is, is the definition of life locational or is it not?

00:49:29.000 Just on a logical level.

00:49:31.000 If there's an embryo and it is, again, located outside the womb, is it human life or is it not?

00:49:37.000 Now again, the entire predicate for the pro-life movement is that location is not the defining feature of what makes human life.

00:49:43.000 It is the pro-choice movement that suggests that location is what truly matters, right?

00:49:47.000 This is why the pro-choice movement will argue that a baby who's born as a baby but a baby still in mommy's tummy is just a cluster of cells.

00:49:53.000 And the pro-life movement has argued whether it's in the stomach or out of the stomach is irrelevant.

00:49:57.000 The real question is the definition of life itself.

00:50:00.000 So the Alabama Supreme Court last week ruled that frozen embryos are people and someone can be held liable for destroying them.

00:50:07.000 The first of its kind ruling came as at least 11 states have broadly defined personhood as beginning at fertilization in their state laws.

00:50:14.000 That Alabama case focused on whether a patient who mistakenly dropped and destroyed other couple's frozen embryos could be held liable in a wrongful death lawsuit.

00:50:20.000 The court ruled the patient could, writing it had long held that unborn children are children.

00:50:24.000 Now that was also true for frozen embryos, affording the fertilized egg the same protection as babies under the wrongful death of a minor act.

00:50:31.000 Now again, that makes perfect logical sense.

00:50:33.000 People are trying to say that that's crazy.

00:50:34.000 I fail to understand how exactly that's crazy.

00:50:37.000 The entire predicate for the pro-life position is life begins at conception.

00:50:40.000 If life begins at conception and a child has already been conceived, a human being with potential, then that holds true regardless of the location.

00:50:52.000 The court said it applies to all children born and unborn without limitation.

00:50:55.000 It is not the role of this court to craft a new limitation based on our own view of what is or is not wise public policy.

00:51:00.000 That's especially true here, where the people of the state have adopted a constitutional amendment directly aimed at stopping courts from excluding unborn life from legal protection.

00:51:07.000 Now, again, that doesn't mean the legislature couldn't change its mind on IVF or change the law to exempt IVF.

00:51:13.000 But under current law, and it's the job of the Alabama Supreme Court to interpret current law, that is, in fact, what the law says.

00:51:20.000 So this has led to what Democrats think is a winning issue, which is the suggestion that IVF will be outlawed everywhere because if you are saying that you have to protect embryos that are conceived, then what do you do with IVF?

00:51:35.000 So my own personal position with regard to IVF has always been that you should incept the number of embryos that you are willing to bear to term.

00:51:44.000 But otherwise you are doing something that is effectively quasi-eugenic.

00:51:48.000 That when you create, say, seven human embryos, and then you discard five of them so that two of them can be implanted, the only thing that separated the five that were discarded from the two that were implanted was your choice.

00:52:02.000 It was not the definition of the life.

00:52:03.000 If you had picked one of the other five, that also would have turned into a human child.

00:52:07.000 And I've seen people who are comparing this to sperm or egg.

00:52:09.000 That's obviously a different thing.

00:52:11.000 Sperm on its own will not grow into a human.

00:52:13.000 An egg on its own will not grow into a human.

00:52:14.000 A fertilized human embryo will, in fact, turn into a human.

00:52:18.000 If placed in the proper conditions.

00:52:21.000 And when I say turn into a human, I mean it is a human now.

00:52:23.000 It will turn into a baby if placed in proper conditions.

00:52:28.000 So the Washington Post, of course, is jumping all over this.

00:52:30.000 There are a lot of people, I mean, I know people who have used IVF to conceive.

00:52:34.000 I've offered money to help people use IVF to conceive.

00:52:37.000 My only condition in actually providing a loan or a charitable giving on that was my own pro-life position, which is implant, even if it's more expensive, If you want to implant two embryos, then conceive two embryos.

00:52:54.000 That is the pro-life position on this particular measure.

00:52:58.000 Now, does that make for awkward politics?

00:52:59.000 Sure, because pro-life always makes for awkward politics.

00:53:01.000 The reality is that the vast majority of Americans are like in the 15 to 16 to 12 week stage with regard to where they think abortion is and is not appropriate.

00:53:10.000 That doesn't mean they're right.

00:53:11.000 A lot of people think a lot of things about morality that are wrong, as it turns out.

00:53:16.000 However, Two things can be true at once.

00:53:20.000 One, the Alabama Supreme Court is totally correct, morally and legally speaking.

00:53:24.000 And second, this can be politically damaging for Republicans.

00:53:26.000 Those two things can certainly coexist.

00:53:28.000 There are a lot of things that you say that are true that are not necessarily politically helpful.

00:53:33.000 Democrats are counting on that.

00:53:36.000 So according to the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, the significance of this decision impacts all Alabamians and will likely lead to fewer babies, children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

00:53:45.000 As fertility options become limited for those who want to have a family.

00:53:51.000 Earlier on Wednesday, Beth Malizia, a partner at Alabama Fertility, had to call four of her patients, all of whom were scheduled for embryo transfers in a few hours, to tell them the clinic was pausing all transfers for at least a day or two.

00:54:01.000 The decision to cancel embryo transfers, but to continue with other procedures, like planned egg retrievals, was made under the guidance of the clinic's lab directors and lawyers.

00:54:10.000 The four patients will now have to wait at least a month for their next ovulation to start an embryo transfer.

00:54:17.000 No one was confident, I guess, at the clinic, that if an embryo failed to thaw, that they wouldn't be held liable.

00:54:23.000 Well, that's a different thing.

00:54:24.000 I mean, again, I'm confused as to why you would misinterpret that idea.

00:54:28.000 So if you have a frozen embryo, you unfreeze the embryo, and it fails to thaw properly, and unfortunately it dies.

00:54:36.000 That is not an act of murder.

00:54:40.000 That is an accident.

00:54:42.000 That is what happens with many human embryos that do not come to fruition.

00:54:47.000 I mean, a huge number of miscarriages are effectively spontaneous abortions by the body.

00:54:52.000 So, again, as always in politics, two things can be true at once.

00:54:57.000 The right position can be politically damaging.

00:54:59.000 Democrats are counting on that full stop.

00:55:01.000 Does that mean the end of IVF?

00:55:03.000 No, it means much more careful use of IVF and serious thought about how many embryos ought to be fertilized in order to be implanted.

00:55:12.000 It will lead to fewer embryos being fertilized And fewer embryos implanted, and also fewer embryos being randomly discarded.

00:55:21.000 Alrighty folks, coming up we'll jump into the vaunted Ben Shapiro Show Mailbag.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 23, 2024

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