The Ben Shapiro Show - The Democratic Quest To Brainwash Your Kids

00:00:00.000 Well, the Tic Tac CEO hearing yesterday was just stunning.

00:00:02.000 I mean, it was really stunning stuff.

00:00:04.000 But we begin today with the Florida Department of Education, which has now expanded its mandate to stop the indoctrination of children all the way from K through 12.

00:00:14.000 So the new rule in Florida, if Florida's legislature and Governor Ron DeSantis get their way, is that there will be no sexual orientation or gender theory indoctrination of kids all the way from K through 12.

00:00:24.000 Because there shouldn't be because the way that it works in schools is that the school districts get to decide what the education of the children is.

00:00:30.000 One of the things that the left has basically said is that free speech applies when it comes to the classroom.

00:00:35.000 That is not true.

00:00:35.000 There is no free speech guarantee to teachers in the classroom.

00:00:38.000 You have basically delegated the ability of somebody to educate your child to somebody else.

00:00:43.000 But that delegation of authority is not endless.

00:00:45.000 When you send your kid to school, You're sending your kid to the teacher where the teacher is acting as an agent for you.

00:00:51.000 That does not mean the scope of the agency is endless and they get to just indoctrinate your kid in whatever they want.

00:00:56.000 The notion that kids should be taught on the public dime that boys can be girls and girls can be boys is an absurdity just at face level.

00:01:03.000 It is also an absurdity to suggest that taxpayer dollars in the United States of America should go toward the indoctrination of children in the idea that all the systems of America are racist. 0.99

00:01:11.000 You want to talk about making Americans stupider? 0.98

00:01:13.000 You want to talk about making Americans less successful? 0.98

00:01:15.000 You want to talk about undermining the meritocracy that actually allows for a diversity of life experiences to effectuate success in the United States?

00:01:23.000 Do exactly what the left wants you to do and teach everybody that they're a victim of the system and that we have to orient everybody toward overtaking and destroying the system.

00:01:31.000 Well, in Florida, According to Jeff Butera, the Bay News 9 anchor, he says, the Florida Education Department now wants to expand a ban on gender identity, sexual orientation instruction in schools to all grades K through 12.

00:01:42.000 The only exceptions would be any lesson required by state standards and any health class lesson where parents have a choice to opt the child out.

00:01:48.000 Which, of course, that's coming not even from the legislature, the governor, that is coming directly from the Board of Education, the Education Department in Florida.

00:01:56.000 This is correct.

00:01:57.000 It is obviously correct.

00:01:59.000 What you should be learning in school when it comes to sex is basically the biology of the matter.

00:02:04.000 When it comes to the morality, this should be a matter for parents to teach.

00:02:07.000 But Democrats don't like this idea.

00:02:09.000 And the reason Democrats don't like this idea is because they believe that there is a cadre of experts who are better suited to educate your children than you are.

00:02:16.000 And so there was a big debate in Congress yesterday, some hearings, a bunch of fiery floor speeches by Democrats essentially arguing that parents should not have control over what their kids learn because we are in the midst of a great Pied Piper moment in which Democratic thought leaders have decided they are going to go into the town and they're going to lead the children out by playing the flute.

00:02:34.000 They're going to lead them out to perdition and the parents are going to be left behind.

00:02:39.000 Because after all, if parents are left to their own devices, if parents, the little platoons of society, are left to educate their own children, well, that acts as a sort of...

00:02:48.000 You have to understand that in the sort of democratic ideology, the ideal state is the state where it's a bunch of atomized individuals at the bottom and an overarching state power at the top.

00:03:00.000 And the only point of commonality is the government itself.

00:03:04.000 This is what Barack Obama said in 2012.

00:03:05.000 There was a big slogan that went up on the billboard is in North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, that said, basically, the government is the only thing that we all have in common.

00:03:13.000 Well, no, it isn't.

00:03:14.000 See, the way that most of us interact with the world, we have a lot of things in common, especially with the people we live close to, right?

00:03:19.000 We have our family.

00:03:19.000 That's the thing we have most in common.

00:03:22.000 I have the most in common with the members of my immediate family.

00:03:24.000 Then we have our extended family network.

00:03:25.000 Then we have our communal network.

00:03:27.000 We have our church or our synagogue.

00:03:29.000 We have our local government.

00:03:30.000 We have all the sports teams that we play with.

00:03:32.000 We have all of the local community groups we are involved in.

00:03:35.000 It is actually at the very highest level of abstraction, at the state that I have the least in common with everybody, with the bureaucrats who are trying to run my life and destroy all of those intermediate institutions in society.

00:03:47.000 It's a philosopher named Robert Nisbet who basically said the story of the 19th and 20th century is the rise of atomistic individualism telescoped into state power.

00:03:55.000 So what he was saying is that the way that we normally interact with the world is via these intermediate institutions.

00:03:59.000 These are the ways that we learn about the world, the way we interact with our neighbors and with the world.

00:04:03.000 It actually gives us a sense of meaning.

00:04:05.000 But the rise of a radical individual norm in the 19th and 20th centuries, the idea that the real us is deep inside of us, and that our intermediate institutions are simply impositions on us, that led to the rise of atomized individualism and, when we sought commonality, in an overarching state that would obliterate all of those intermediate institutions.

00:04:26.000 And that's what Democrats would like.

00:04:27.000 What Democrats would like is to rule from above a series of atomized individuals.

00:04:31.000 So you will have your freedom, but your freedom will be that you get to be, essentially, An interchangeable widget in the maw of a giant government, one of 340 million citizens, but not a member of a family group, not a member of a community group, not a member of any sort of local institution.

00:04:47.000 All of those will go away.

00:04:48.000 And the first step toward doing that is destroying parental authority.

00:04:51.000 The first step toward doing that is saying that there is a cadre of impersonal bureaucratic experts who are going to indoctrinate your kids in a in a series of lifestyle choices and values.

00:05:00.000 And again, that's really nothing new.

00:05:02.000 If you wish to facilitate the idea of a unitary state at the top, you do need to do this.

00:05:06.000 And this has a long philosophical history, going all the way back to Plato, moving forward through Rousseau, and then forward through Marx as well.

00:05:11.000 The idea that what you actually need in order to facilitate unity in society is an overarching state power that takes power away from all the local interests, specifically parents, and then indoctrinates kids in a specific series of values.

00:05:25.000 So in the name of free speech, what you are seeing is the left saying that parents should not have authority, local schools should not even have authority, the people who really should have authority are people like them.

00:05:35.000 And this means indoctrinating your kids into a bunch of gobbledygook nonsense that runs directly counter to reason.

00:05:40.000 Because the more you can get people to evidence, buy-in to a peculiar ideology, the more you have alienated them from the institutions that really are the repressive institutions of society.

00:05:50.000 We'll see what that means in action in just one second.

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00:06:57.000 Okay, so.

00:06:58.000 When I say that there are people at the top of our political institutions who wish to obliterate all of the intermediate institutions, you can see that in action, in the unwillingness to suggest that there should be anything that parents can keep off limits to their kids.

00:07:11.000 Parental authority should be removed and the experts should decide.

00:07:14.000 There's a clip that was rocketing around the internet yesterday for good reason.

00:07:17.000 There's a woman named Nadine Johnson at a group called PEN America.

00:07:21.000 Well, Nadine Johnson was testifying and a representative named Hageman, who I believe is from Wisconsin, was questioning her.

00:07:29.000 And she was questioning her about Nadine Johnson's position that it was some form of censorship to exercise discretion in what exactly was allowed in school libraries, which of course has been a matter of public debate for a very long time, right?

00:07:42.000 You don't want everything in school libraries.

00:07:43.000 Kids shouldn't have access to everything in school libraries.

00:07:46.000 But Nadine Johnson is the managing director of PEN America.

00:07:49.000 PEN America is the organization that is dedicated to school librarians.

00:07:57.000 According to their website, PEN America is the largest of more than 100 centers worldwide that make up the PEN International Network, working to ensure people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, to convey information, to express their views, to access the views, ideas, and literature of others.

00:08:10.000 They're supposedly a free speech group.

00:08:12.000 Well, this leader of PEN America was asked about whether it is censorship to bar small children from seeing Penthouse in the school library, and she couldn't just answer the question.

00:08:21.000 It's amazing.

00:08:23.000 Do you believe it is censorship to prohibit teachers from exposing first graders to Penthouse Magazine?

00:08:30.000 I don't know of any instances in which a... That isn't my question.

00:08:34.000 I believe it's censorship to... Do you believe it is censorship to prohibit teachers from exposing first graders to Penthouse Magazine? I don't know of any instances in which a...

00:08:44.000 That isn't my question. My question is do you believe that it is censorship to prohibit teachers from exposing first graders to Penthouse Magazine?

00:08:54.000 I believe that it is important that we have parents, teachers and educators.

00:08:58.000 You are not going to answer my question then, is that right?

00:09:02.000 And the answer is, she's not going to answer the question.

00:09:05.000 That was Republican Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, who was grilling the PEN America spokesperson right there.

00:09:12.000 The left believes that parents should not have the ability to ban Penthouse Magazine from a school library, because after all, it is the experts who should make that designation. 1.00

00:09:20.000 Which is how you end up with the idiocy of the irrepressibly stupid Alexander Ocasio-Cortez. 1.00

00:09:24.000 So fresh, so faced. 1.00

00:09:25.000 Freshness and faceness all in one package of fresh faceness.

00:09:28.000 Ranting and raving on the floor of the house about parental oversight of K-12 schools and suggesting that the Parental Rights and Education Bill in Florida, for example, is an example of fascism.

00:09:38.000 That's right. 0.88

00:09:39.000 It's now an example of fascism to mandate that students not be indoctrinated in wild left-wing garbage with the parents standing behind that message. 0.95

00:09:48.000 Only people like AOC, only childless people like AOC should decide how kids learn. 0.61

00:09:56.000 They are asking the Republican Party to keep culture wars out of classrooms.

00:10:01.000 Our children need urgent and aggressive educational solutions.

00:10:04.000 The American Library Association coming out against this Republican proposal.

00:10:10.000 When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is, and that is freedom over fascism.

00:10:21.000 It's fascism for parents to control the education of their children.

00:10:24.000 The bill that she's ranting against is the Parents' Bill of Rights Act of 2021, which would establish the rights of parents and guardians regarding the elementary or secondary school education of their minor children.

00:10:34.000 It specifically prohibits a state from denying certain rights to a parent or guardian of a minor child regarding the child's education.

00:10:40.000 Which includes, among others, the right to fully review and make copies of the curricula, books, and other educational materials used by the child's school, access information on teachers, guest lecturers, and outside presenters, access school records, and visit the child during school hours.

00:10:52.000 That apparently is what she's very upset about, the possibility that a parent might actually know what's going on inside the classroom.

00:10:56.000 That is an aspect of fascism.

00:10:57.000 Meanwhile, you have Jamie Raskin, the representative from Maryland, doing the same routine, suggesting that Republicans are attempting to ban 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, which is amazing since 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale are literally available at every bookstore Two years ago, more than 1,600 books were banned in the United States of America.

00:11:18.000 Here are three of the key books that the right-wingers have been going after.

00:11:23.000 The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's extraordinary dystopian novel about a right-wing misogynist movement which uses high technology and depraved religious ideology to control not only the minds of their followers, But the private and public lives and the fertility of women.

00:11:45.000 And of course, Georgia or Wales, 1984.

00:11:49.000 Because they have no sense of irony.

00:11:51.000 They're always trying to censor this one.

00:11:55.000 Who's trying to censor 1984?

00:11:57.000 1984 is a book about the evils of communism.

00:11:59.000 You think there are a lot of right-wingers who are attempting to censor 1984?

00:12:01.000 I'd like to see your work on that.

00:12:03.000 Show your work on that. 0.94

00:12:03.000 By the way, Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale is one of the most overrated pieces of crap ever put to paper. 0.94

00:12:08.000 It is a garbage overstatement of every case. 0.97

00:12:11.000 The attempt to use it as some sort of slander against people who are pro-life, for example, is just absurdity at every level. 0.95

00:12:19.000 Again, it's not being banned.

00:12:21.000 Not having books in school libraries is not the same thing as a banning of the books.

00:12:25.000 It is a decision as to whether those books are appropriate for, say, fifth graders or fourth graders, for example.

00:12:30.000 But the left doesn't want them to make the decision.

00:12:32.000 It's all about who makes not even the decisions that are being made.

00:12:35.000 This is about who are the institutional gatekeepers, who gets to make the decision about what your kid learns.

00:12:39.000 The left says we want to do it and we don't want parents to have any part of that.

00:12:42.000 And in order to achieve that, they're just going to lie about what it is they wish to teach your children.

00:12:47.000 When they occasionally tell the truth, that's when parents start to backlash very, very strongly.

00:12:50.000 We'll talk about that in a moment.

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00:13:56.000 This sort of ranting and raving on the House floor went on from Democrats.

00:13:59.000 And again, it is indicative of a broader worldview, which is that parents don't get to decide what their kids learn.

00:14:04.000 We get to decide.

00:14:05.000 And we're going to lie about what parents actually want. 0.76

00:14:07.000 Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, one of the dumber members of the American House, which is an amazing statement considering the average IQ of members of the House of Representatives is somewhere in the mid-70s. 0.99

00:14:15.000 Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, she suggested that Those who are attempting to not teach their kids critical race theory, which again, is a Marxist theory suggesting that all major institutions in American society, from capitalism to the meritocracy, are actually stand-ins for white supremacy. 0.81

00:14:29.000 She says that that's trying to ban kids from learning that slavery was wrong.

00:14:33.000 Name me a school district in America that doesn't teach that slavery was wrong.

00:14:36.000 Name it.

00:14:37.000 Can she?

00:14:38.000 She cannot.

00:14:39.000 Because it is literally the law in every single state in the United States that you have to learn about the history of slavery.

00:14:43.000 And yes, slavery is wrong.

00:14:44.000 Here's Sheila Jackson-Lee lying. 1.00

00:14:47.000 Don't we want our children to be kind?

00:14:50.000 Don't we want our children to know that slavery was wrong as I fight against slavery today that still exists?

00:14:57.000 Don't we want our children to understand the basis of all of our history, the mosaic-ness of this nation and African-American history?

00:15:06.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:15:07.000 But here is the thing again, they think that they are lying because they think they own the kids.

00:15:12.000 Because what they really want is to indoctrinate your kids in a bunch of gobbledygook.

00:15:16.000 So for example, my friend Bethany Mandel, she just tweeted out that her local school district over in Maryland, Montgomery County Public School, they will now not even allow you to opt out your kids from LGBTQ plus content.

00:15:28.000 Students and families, says the handbook, may not choose to opt out of engaging with any instructional materials.

00:15:37.000 That's amazing, amazing stuff.

00:15:38.000 This is the goal.

00:15:39.000 So Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, he says that, again, that there's an attempt.

00:15:45.000 It's a lie.

00:15:45.000 You're going to see him mash up two things here.

00:15:47.000 He's going to say they don't want you to learn about the Holocaust.

00:15:49.000 A lie.

00:15:50.000 A lie.

00:15:51.000 It is mandatory, I believe, in every public school classroom in America that people learn about the Holocaust. 0.50

00:15:56.000 As an Orthodox Jew, I can say I'm unaware of any attempt across the United States to prohibit people from learning about the Holocaust.

00:16:05.000 So that's just a lie.

00:16:06.000 And then he includes on the back end of that, that there's an attempt to stop kids from learning about LGBTQ.

00:16:13.000 Those are not the same thing.

00:16:15.000 One is laden with, one is just history.

00:16:17.000 The other is laden with an actual value system that many parents do not agree with, namely the sort of bizarre notion that every sexual behavior is equally good, moral, and useful.

00:16:26.000 Many parents don't agree with that.

00:16:28.000 I don't agree with that.

00:16:29.000 I send my kids to a school where that nonsense is not taught, because I don't believe that that's true.

00:16:32.000 I don't believe that every sexual activity is inherently valuable.

00:16:35.000 I don't believe that every sexual relationship is inherently equal.

00:16:38.000 I don't think that is correct.

00:16:39.000 I think there are better and worse ways to live your lives when it comes to sex, just as there are better and worse ways to live your lives when it comes to nutrition, educating your kids, and every other area of human life.

00:16:48.000 But the left would not like you to believe that because the left core to the left belief system again is the atomized individual who can be boiled down to sexual identity.

00:16:56.000 That atomized individual only melded into a greater whole at the behest of the state.

00:17:01.000 So that's the thing they're really objecting to.

00:17:02.000 They don't object to any of the other aspects.

00:17:05.000 Like, they don't actually believe.

00:17:06.000 Let's be real about this.

00:17:07.000 They are lying when they say that slavery is not being taught in schools or the Holocaust is not being taught in schools.

00:17:11.000 They're lying.

00:17:12.000 They know that's not true. 0.83

00:17:13.000 What they're really upset about is that their parents are standing in the way of them cramming down their peculiar brand of sexual immorality on small children.

00:17:21.000 Here's Hakeem Jeffries doing this routine.

00:17:22.000 Extreme MAGA Republicans don't want the children of America to learn about the holocaust. Extreme MAGA Republicans don't want your child to learn about the LGBTQ plus experience in America. Well, those are not the same thing.

00:17:44.000 I mean, first of all, that's a lot of different experiences.

00:17:47.000 Second of all, if what you are talking about, like the baseline notion that there is a LGBTQ plus experience in America, people who judge his experience has probably been pretty different from the experience of a lot of other LGBTQ people in America as described.

00:18:02.000 Also, again, implicit with a value system, parents may not want to teach their kids and it is age dependent.

00:18:08.000 But here's what, then we get to the real meat of the matter.

00:18:11.000 The meat of the matter is here's what Hakeem Jeffries actually wants to teach our kids.

00:18:14.000 Right, so the left will say, Republicans want you not to learn this, they want you not to learn that.

00:18:17.000 But they very rarely articulate what it is they do want you to learn.

00:18:20.000 Here's Hakeem Jeffries articulating what the left would like your kids to learn.

00:18:24.000 Why they want to stop you from controlling your child's education.

00:18:27.000 Here's Hakeem Jeffries just saying it out loud.

00:18:29.000 What else do they want to ban?

00:18:31.000 They want to ban a book called Melissa.

00:18:34.000 A book describing In very personal terms, the experience of a trans girl beginning to understand her identity.

00:18:48.000 What's so dangerous about that?

00:18:53.000 I was taught in my religion, growing up in the Cornerstone Baptist Church, that we are all God's children.

00:19:02.000 Shouldn't we learn about all of God's children?

00:19:07.000 Should we learn about all of the people who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and how they believe that the radio is talking to them?

00:19:07.000 I don't know.

00:19:14.000 And then we can have discussions about how the radio actually is talking to them.

00:19:18.000 Should we learn that every delusion that people hold actually ought to be treated as though it is a matter of fact?

00:19:23.000 That sexual fluidity is completely real when it comes to, you know, sexual dichotomy not existing?

00:19:29.000 That's an actual value system that he's talking about.

00:19:31.000 That's why he has to try and backfill that by mentioning his church, pretending that churches in the 1980s, when he was presumably growing up, 1980s and 1990s, were real big on the Men Can Be Women campaign.

00:19:41.000 I'd love to go back in time and see how many members of his church were big on the Men Can Be Women campaign.

00:19:45.000 But again, that's what they actually want.

00:19:47.000 It is a full-on value system and it's part of a broader indoctrination attempt by our culture into this radical cult that suggests that individual authenticity is the core of being and all intermediate institutions of American society must be obliterated.

00:19:59.000 It's something that's pushed by our media in extraordinary measure.

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00:21:07.000 All right, so the media is very invested in the same overall program.

00:21:11.000 The elites in our society, they have the same exact program.

00:21:13.000 Again, no intermediate institutions, no rules, no rules, nothing.

00:21:17.000 You're an atomized individual who can be boiled down to your sexual preference on any given day.

00:21:21.000 And you are a widget under which the state works.

00:21:25.000 The state guarantees you essentially sexual autonomy, and pays for all your bills.

00:21:30.000 And in return, you give your loyalty to the state, and you fight against all of the intermediate institutions that might actually inhibit the ability of the state to control your life.

00:21:37.000 That is the hand-in-glove deal that has basically been offered, and the media is full on board with this.

00:21:41.000 So yesterday, the Washington Post started pushing around this article called Trans in America.

00:21:46.000 They gave a survey.

00:21:47.000 The Washington Post and KFF surveyed one of the largest randomized samples of US transgender adults to date about their childhoods, feelings, and lives.

00:21:54.000 And here was their headline.

00:21:55.000 Most trans adults say transitioning made them more satisfied with their lives.

00:21:59.000 Most people who believe they are Napoleon believe that buying a Napoleon costume was good for them.

00:22:05.000 Breaking news.

00:22:06.000 It turns out that most people who identify in a certain way are very happy with the life choices they have made to identify in that way.

00:22:11.000 That is not news.

00:22:12.000 This is the worst form of social science data.

00:22:14.000 It is a self-reported survey with no control group. 0.99

00:22:17.000 That is crap data. 0.95

00:22:19.000 Because, for example, this was pushed out by the Washington Post as evidence that no one detransitions. 0.96

00:22:24.000 That people don't actually decide that they've made a bad mistake.

00:22:27.000 Except that no one who has detransitioned now considers themselves trans, so they would not actually be included in the survey.

00:22:34.000 There's no actual control group.

00:22:36.000 Also not included in the survey.

00:22:37.000 Anyone who may have suffered from any gender confusion at any level when they were a kid, but does not identify as trans now.

00:22:43.000 So if the argument is that kids don't desist from being trans, That there is no desistance.

00:22:48.000 That kids who are 5 and say they are gender confused always end up going through surgeries and then being happy trans adults or whatever.

00:22:55.000 If that were actually the case, you would have to somehow track down and figure out who suffered from gender dysphoria at the age of 6 but didn't decide to become a full-blown Transgender person at the age of 20.

00:23:06.000 But that's not included in the survey.

00:23:09.000 So it's just bad data in, bad data out.

00:23:10.000 By the way, even this bad data in demonstrates extraordinary levels of high depression and depression, suicidal ideation, and all of the rest in the self-reported community.

00:23:19.000 But the idea here is that everybody is very happy once they transition.

00:23:22.000 Which is strange, because this seems like, by the survey data, not a particularly happy group.

00:23:27.000 But again, this is all pushed by the media to suggest that transgenderism is an inherent biological identity and that trans people are, in fact, the sex of their new choosing.

00:23:37.000 And that the only way to pursue the trans agenda is to teach everyone in America that sex is not dichotomous.

00:23:44.000 It is, in fact, fluid and changeable.

00:23:46.000 Now the poster child for this, and this is truly one of the saddest stories I've ever seen.

00:23:50.000 It really is a horrifyingly sad story.

00:23:52.000 So there's a person named Jazz Jennings.

00:23:54.000 Jazz Jennings was the star of a show, still is the star of a show, called I Am Jazz.

00:24:00.000 And this person was born in 2000.

00:24:02.000 This person is a boy.

00:24:06.000 and was transitioned by his parents when he was a very, very young kid.

00:24:12.000 At six years old, Jazz Jennings and his family began appearing on TV to speak about the challenges of growing up transgender at six, at the age of six.

00:24:21.000 In 2007, Jennings' parents founded Trans Kids Purple Rainbow Foundation to assist transgender youth.

00:24:27.000 In 2011, I Am Jazz, a family in transition, a documentary about Jazz Jennings' life and family premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network. 0.98

00:24:34.000 And so the media really started pushing this garbage.

00:24:36.000 2010-2011.

00:24:36.000 At this point, Jazz Jennings is 10 or 11 years old.

00:24:41.000 This is the active torture of a child.

00:24:43.000 And predictably speaking, Jazz Jennings is having some real life difficulties.

00:24:47.000 That is not a shock and it should not be a shock to anyone.

00:24:49.000 But this was trotted out as the new model for American happiness and identity by the entire media for a decade.

00:24:55.000 And I just want to, I want to trace for just a moment the actual transformation of the story about Jazz Jennings and the overt blind willingness of the media to ignore the real problems in this person's life in order to maintain a false narrative.

00:24:55.000 For a decade.

00:25:09.000 So this is the very first episode of I Am Jazz, Season 1, Episode 1.

00:25:12.000 This is the kind of stuff that Hakeem Jeffries would love your kids to be taught in public school.

00:25:16.000 And Jazz Jennings has written a bunch of children's books that are now being mainstreamed into public schools.

00:25:21.000 This is Season 1, Episode 1 of I Am Jazz.

00:25:25.000 This show premiered originally in, I believe, 2014.

00:25:28.000 So at this point, Jazz Jennings was 13 to 14 years old.

00:25:34.000 I am a teenage girl.

00:25:36.000 I'm also a soccer player.

00:25:38.000 I'm also an artist.

00:25:40.000 I'd like to think I'm funny.

00:25:43.000 I love hanging out with my friends.

00:25:46.000 I'm also transgender.

00:25:49.000 And I'm proud of that.

00:25:50.000 But you know, in the end, all these things come together and really just make me jazz.

00:25:56.000 So, I am jazz.

00:25:59.000 This is the individual identity pushed by this person's parents.

00:26:02.000 This is a boy who's given hormones, obviously, because now this person looks like a young pubescent girl.

00:26:11.000 This person was given hormones by his parents.

00:26:13.000 And then the media championed this, led by people like Barbara Walters.

00:26:17.000 By your most mainstream sources on 2020, Barbara Walters gushing over the idea that a boy can become a girl.

00:26:22.000 And this is the elites in our society that have decided to run a moral system that is directly counter to all human knowledge for all of human history in order to, again, promote an individualistic idea of self that runs counter to pretty much all possibility of true human fulfillment.

00:26:37.000 They are the words that any parent would want to hear about their daughter.

00:26:41.000 She is such a remarkable little girl.

00:26:43.000 For a girl named Jazz, the word remarkable doesn't begin to cover it.

00:26:49.000 At just 11 years old, she has taken what most children and their families would regard as a terrible secret and brought it smashing into the open.

00:26:59.000 She is the brave and beautiful new face of a child born in the wrong body. 1.00

00:27:06.000 When we first met Jazz in 2007, she was only six years old, and one of the youngest documented cases of an early transition from male to female. 0.98

00:27:17.000 We'll say things like, God made you special, because there aren't very many little girls out there that have a penis. 1.00

00:27:24.000 At age five, her parents, Jeanette and Greg, made an extraordinary decision. 0.94

00:27:29.000 They allowed Jazz to openly identify in the opposite gender.

00:27:36.000 Did they allow Jazz to openly identify, or did they push Jazz to openly identify in that direction?

00:27:40.000 Because Jazz was a small child.

00:27:42.000 A very, very small child.

00:27:45.000 And I just want to fast forward now.

00:27:46.000 Because what we are told is that when this happens, this is actually the apotheosis of individualism.

00:27:51.000 This is the apotheosis of human happiness.

00:27:52.000 This is what your kids should be taught by the elites in our society.

00:27:55.000 So I now want to fast forward.

00:27:56.000 This is the season 7 trailer for I Am Jazz.

00:28:00.000 So again, that was about 2013.

00:28:01.000 That Barbara Walters special.

00:28:04.000 And it featured footage from like 2006.

00:28:05.000 This is now season 7.

00:28:07.000 This is now 2021.

00:28:08.000 Here's the season 7 trailer.

00:28:13.000 This season on I Am Jazz.

00:28:15.000 Two years ago, I was on my way to one of the greatest institutions in the world, but I was actually struggling severely with mental health issues.

00:28:24.000 All right, once it zeroes.

00:28:26.000 I started binge eating and I gained weight and more weight and more weight.

00:28:29.000 And now, almost 100 pounds heavier, here I am today.

00:28:34.000 It's a big old belly.

00:28:36.000 Oh my God, a side view.

00:28:40.000 I'm out of shape.

00:28:41.000 Be easy on me.

00:28:42.000 Having all this extra weight, I can't do so many things with my body that I used to be able to do.

00:28:48.000 A typical morning's breakfast.

00:28:50.000 Fast food, maybe a donut or two, and then maybe two bagels.

00:28:55.000 Okay, so obviously things are going really well for Jazz Jennings, and obviously more clips from the season include Jazz Jennings talking about not feeling good, not feeling like, quote-unquote, herself, not feeling comfortable in, quote-unquote, her body.

00:29:08.000 Here is Jazz Jennings not, you know, this is again from the last season.

00:29:13.000 But we were told that this is the perfect path to happiness.

00:29:16.000 It was.

00:29:16.000 This is how happiness is going to be.

00:29:17.000 This is what must be taught to your kids.

00:29:19.000 It must be.

00:29:19.000 And if you object to it, it's because you're a fascist, according to AOC.

00:29:23.000 You know I can't get out of my head. 0.51

00:29:25.000 No, listen.

00:29:25.000 I know.

00:29:27.000 It just doesn't stop.

00:29:28.000 It's okay.

00:29:29.000 Give me a hug.

00:29:30.000 I know what you're going through.

00:29:30.000 It's okay.

00:29:31.000 We've been there before.

00:29:31.000 No, it still doesn't stop now.

00:29:33.000 And I'm already going back to negative.

00:29:34.000 The more you're talking about yourself, it gets harder.

00:29:37.000 You're digging in and it's making you put a magnifying glass on what's already difficult as it is.

00:29:43.000 So this is hard for you, I know.

00:29:45.000 And we don't want to push you anymore.

00:29:46.000 And I know I'm the one doing it.

00:29:48.000 You're your own worst enemy.

00:29:48.000 I know.

00:29:52.000 I feel kind of all over the place and like my mind is very cluttered and not clear.

00:29:56.000 And I really want to have that clarity.

00:29:59.000 I really want to understand myself and be able to read my own soul and what I want.

00:30:04.000 And it's just very challenging.

00:30:06.000 I think I'm kind of breaking down a little bit and spiraling into negativity.

00:30:10.000 I just don't feel like myself.

00:30:12.000 This is incredibly sad.

00:30:13.000 It's incredibly sad stuff.

00:30:14.000 You know where this incredibly sad stuff came from?

00:30:17.000 All I want to feel is like me.

00:30:21.000 This is incredibly sad stuff.

00:30:21.000 And happy.

00:30:23.000 You know why this incredibly sad stuff happened?

00:30:25.000 Well, we have one more clip from I Am Jazz.

00:30:27.000 This is of Jazz's mom.

00:30:29.000 Jazz's mom talking about the wonders of transgender operations and surgery and what it takes to maintain transgender operations.

00:30:36.000 You know, the part that you're not supposed to talk about out loud, but ended up on TV.

00:30:39.000 Anyway, here is Jazz Jennings, the ideal mom, making, as Barbara Waltz said, the brave decision, the very brave decision to transition children when they are very young.

00:30:49.000 Here is Jazz Jennings' mother explaining what Jazz Jennings' mom had to do to maintain a neo-vagina for her son. 0.60

00:31:00.000 With her, I'm worried about, like, her mental well-being and her dilation.

00:31:07.000 The minute she leaves my house, we have a dilation problem. 0.99

00:31:10.000 That is a concern.

00:31:11.000 When you don't have that watchful eye, they tend to go back to old patterns. 0.99

00:31:17.000 I have woken Jazz out of a dead sleep and taken the dilator and put the lubrication on it and said, here, you take this and you put it in your vagina. 1.00

00:31:24.000 If not, I will. 0.99

00:31:26.000 Which is bad, even when I'm home once a day.

00:31:28.000 I would be so mad if she goes away to college and that thing seals up. 0.99

00:31:33.000 I would break her neck. 0.99

00:31:35.000 Can you imagine? 0.99

00:31:40.000 That would be sealing up?

00:31:40.000 That thing?

00:31:41.000 That would be the fake body cavity created by the attempt to remove the penis and testicles and reverse it into the male body. 1.00

00:31:50.000 Wonderful. 0.99

00:31:51.000 This is what has to be taught to your kids.

00:31:52.000 Hakeem Jeffries says, what's the harm of teaching this stuff to your kids?

00:31:55.000 Why not teach kids that boys can become?

00:31:56.000 We won't teach this part.

00:31:57.000 This part's a little awkward, but why not? 0.90

00:31:59.000 If you tried not to teach, if you don't want your kids taught this stuff, it's because you are a fascist.

00:32:03.000 It's because you as a parent have no role in this system.

00:32:07.000 Well, the fight back has begun as well.

00:32:09.000 It should.

00:32:09.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:33:13.000 Also, one of the biggest differences between Christianity and Judaism is the way in which topics like lust and adultery are approached.

00:33:20.000 In episode 10 of Jordan Peterson's series on the book of Exodus, Dennis Prager addresses that topic head-on.

00:33:25.000 In addition to Dennis, I joined Jordan alongside a group of esteemed scholars, theologians, and artists to discuss one of the most seminal books in the Bible.

00:33:32.000 Here's a little bit of it.

00:33:33.000 I am less interested in the interior person, morally speaking, than you are.

00:33:38.000 And probably any of you are.

00:33:39.000 And it's largely, I do believe, because I come from a behaviorist, law-based religion.

00:33:46.000 We care how you act.

00:33:48.000 That's why we don't have a claim that if you look at another woman with lust, it's as if you've committed adultery with her.

00:33:54.000 I am, as I said yesterday, I thank God for America's Christians, and Maimonides said if it weren't for Christians, the world wouldn't know about the Torah.

00:34:05.000 I'm a big Christian fan, but obviously Christianity and Judaism are not identical religions, and we have no equivalent that if you look upon another woman with lust, it's as if you have committed adultery with your heart.

00:34:18.000 There's only one way to commit adultery in Judaism, and it's with a different organ. 0.97

00:34:22.000 And I'm not being cute, I'm being very realistic.

00:34:26.000 The discussion in Jordan's series is really fantastic.

00:34:29.000 It was a pleasure to take part in the discussion.

00:34:31.000 New episodes are coming online every week exclusively for Daily Wire Plus members.

00:34:34.000 Join now at dailywire.com slash subscribe to watch Exodus.

00:34:37.000 Well, the attempts at indoctrination, they bleed down, but they also bleed up, meaning that it's not just at the K through 12 level that people are worried about indoctrination of their kids.

00:34:46.000 They should also be worried about that At higher levels of education, Stanford Law School, for example, just saw this massive controversy in which one judge, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump, went to speak there and was essentially shouted down by an entire law school body, including the head of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:35:03.000 What's amazing about places like Stanford is that the ideology so predominates there that education is being completely lost, even in some of the best institutions in the country, theoretically.

00:35:13.000 The number of actual employees At Stanford is that they actually have, believe it or not, more than 10,000 administrators who oversee 7,760 undergrad and 9,565 grad students.

00:35:22.000 and 9,565 grad students.

00:35:26.000 So that means total you have like 17,000 kids and you have 10,000 administrators.

00:35:31.000 There are another 2,200 faculty members.

00:35:33.000 So you're now talking about almost a one-to-one ratio of administrators to students. 1.00

00:35:39.000 And that's because you have to hire all of these diversity folks whose job it is to basically indoctrinate your kids in stupidity. 1.00

00:35:47.000 And that's how you end up with the bizarre spectacle of the DEI associate dean, a person named Tyrion Steinbach, yelling at a federal judge at Stanford Law School. 0.98

00:36:01.000 This person now has a piece over at the Wall Street Journal saying, As soon as Judge Duncan entered a room, a verbal sparring match began to take place between the judge and the protesters.

00:36:16.000 By the time Judge Duncan asked for an administrator to intervene, tempers in the room were heated on both sides.

00:36:21.000 To defuse the situation, I acknowledge the protesters' concerns.

00:36:25.000 At one point during the event, I asked Judge Duncan, is the juice worth the squeeze?

00:36:29.000 I was referring to the responsibility that comes with freedom of speech to consider not only the benefit of our words, but also the consequence.

00:36:34.000 Again, there's an entire indoctrinative apparatus that is designed to destroy minds.

00:36:39.000 It's how you end up with people like Ibram X. Kendi being treated as intellectuals, by the way.

00:36:42.000 He has a piece over at The Atlantic today.

00:36:44.000 That is titled The Crisis of the Intellectuals, and the crisis apparently is that not enough people think that Ibram X. Kendi is an intellectual, mainly because he's not.

00:36:50.000 Mainly because he's an unbelievable grifter who has never written a cohesive argument in his entire life, but has been able to claim that he is anti-racist by dint of the fact that if you oppose his agenda, this inherently makes you a racist.

00:37:02.000 Okay, so what is the solution to all of this?

00:37:04.000 There are a few solutions.

00:37:05.000 Solution number one is now being pursued in at least four states, and that is universal school choice.

00:37:10.000 So according to the Washington Examiner, a universal school choice bill is now headed to the desk of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after the state Senate passed the legislation overwhelmingly 26 to 12 on Thursday.

00:37:20.000 Once the governor's signature is affixed to the legislation, Florida becomes the fourth state this year to enact a universal school choice program after similar bills were passed in Utah, Iowa, and Arkansas.

00:37:30.000 Legislation expands an existing school choice program to all K-12 students.

00:37:34.000 It allows families to use state funds to pay for private school tuition, home tutoring, and other school expenses.

00:37:39.000 It was HB1, the number one priority for the House.

00:37:42.000 The state House bill passed this week on an 83-27 vote.

00:37:45.000 By the way, that's a lot of Democrats who are voting in favor of that.

00:37:49.000 That is not just Republicans who are voting in favor of that.

00:37:52.000 That is a solution.

00:37:53.000 This is, in fact, the way.

00:37:55.000 And it is a good thing.

00:37:56.000 Parents need to have their education back.

00:37:57.000 They need to take control of the education.

00:37:59.000 There's a reason why teachers' unions, combined with the media, combined with the federal government, are very interested in being able to indoctrinate your kids in whatever they could possibly want.

00:38:06.000 And that is the shift in power to centralized apparatuses of power.

00:38:11.000 And now, speaking of the shift in power to centralized apparatuses, the fight back has also begun against social media for kids.

00:38:17.000 And this is a good thing.

00:38:18.000 So Utah has now signed a sweeping social media bill that would be Governor Spencer Cox.

00:38:23.000 It's a sweeping social media bill that could dramatically limit youth access to apps like TikTok and Instagram, potentially upending how many minors in the state use the Internet.

00:38:30.000 This is a good thing.

00:38:31.000 This is a necessary thing.

00:38:32.000 Kids are not just being indoctrinated by their teachers and public schools.

00:38:35.000 They're not just being indoctrinated by I am jazz or whatever.

00:38:38.000 They're also being perverted by apps like TikTok.

00:38:41.000 Again, TikTok is banned in China.

00:38:43.000 The American version of TikTok is banned in China for a reason.

00:38:46.000 TikTok in China features people doing math.

00:38:48.000 TikTok in America features people trying to trans your children. 0.89

00:38:51.000 The Utah legislature passed the measure this month, despite opposition from tech industry groups and civil liberties experts.

00:38:56.000 It's the first state law in the nation that will prohibit social media services from allowing users under 18 to have accounts without the explicit consent of a parent or guardian.

00:39:04.000 This is a good first step.

00:39:05.000 Other great steps would be legislation prohibiting the use of smartphones in the classroom.

00:39:09.000 Like, you just can't use it when you're at your school, in a public school.

00:39:13.000 That would be a good thing as well.

00:39:14.000 All of which raised the biggest fight of the day yesterday, which was the CEO of TikTok visiting Congress.

00:39:21.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.-China relations result in another blow as lawmakers at a House hearing pummeled TikTok's chief executive over the popular app's ties to China, and as Beijing said it would fight any U.S.

00:39:30.000 attempt to force the company's sale by its Chinese owners.

00:39:32.000 So first of all, that in and of itself demonstrates that TikTok is in fact a Chinese front.

00:39:36.000 Why would it endanger U.S.-China relations if TikTok were not a Chinese front?

00:39:40.000 Like why would it matter?

00:39:41.000 The hearing on Thursday, peppered with withering attacks on TikTok from both Democrats and Republicans, ran for more than five hours. TikTok CEO Xiaozhi Xu, seated in front of U.S. TikTok executives and popular stars on the platform, sought to reassure lawmakers the company would earn their trust.

00:39:55.000 It did not go well for him, nor should it have gone well for him.

00:39:58.000 Not only is TikTok extraordinarily good at generating viral content that is horrible for American brains, it also happens to be a Chinese spy apparatus. 0.99

00:40:07.000 TikTok's CEO yesterday admitted in testimony that Chinese engineers do have access to global data, meaning China has access.

00:40:13.000 I mean, Chinese engineers work under the auspices of the CCP, and they do have access to American data.

00:40:19.000 Do ByteDance employees in Beijing have access to American data?

00:40:27.000 Congressman, we have been very open about this.

00:40:30.000 We have relied on global interoperability.

00:40:32.000 You have access to American data?

00:40:35.000 Congressman, I'm answering your question if you give me just a bit of time.

00:40:38.000 We rely on global interoperability and we have employees in China.

00:40:41.000 So yes, the Chinese engineers do have access to global data.

00:40:45.000 Now, he did say that he doesn't think that what they're doing is spying.

00:40:49.000 So here is Xiaoxu trying to explain that this has nothing to do with spying.

00:40:53.000 Has ByteDance spied on American citizens?

00:40:57.000 I don't think that spying is the right way to describe it.

00:41:00.000 This is ultimately... We can differ on that.

00:41:02.000 This is ultimately an internal investigation.

00:41:04.000 Any TikTok or ByteDance data that is viewed, stored, or passes through China is subject to the laws of China.

00:41:12.000 One party authoritarian state Are you zeroing in on Chu's answers on what TikTok does with this user data?

00:41:18.000 and Democrats.

00:41:19.000 So for example, Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, he says TikTok is dangerous.

00:41:23.000 He is correct.

00:41:25.000 Are you zeroing in on Chu's answers on what TikTok does with this user data?

00:41:32.000 What are you going to zero in on today?

00:41:34.000 Well, a couple things.

00:41:36.000 First of all, it's even worse than your data, and I loved the earlier presentation.

00:41:41.000 On average, TikTok users are using TikTok about 90 minutes a day.

00:41:47.000 What the TikTok CEO says, of course ByteDance would never turn this over to the Communist Party.

00:41:53.000 He doesn't have any say in that.

00:41:55.000 China changed its law in 2017 that requires every company, when requested, To turn over data to the government.

00:42:05.000 So the notion and one of the geniuses of TikTok is it learns from you every time you're on the site.

00:42:12.000 It starts to get to know you what you like better than even what you know.

00:42:15.000 Do you want all that information ultimately residing under the guise of the Communist Party of China?

00:42:23.000 It's good to finally see actually both parties on the same side of this issue.

00:42:26.000 I think for not the most important reason about TikTok, which is that it's a brain destroyer for children, but because it is in fact a Chinese front. 0.99

00:42:34.000 There is a bipartisan agreement that China is in fact an enemy and an opponent of the United States.

00:42:39.000 California Democrat Anna Eshoo also went after TikTok's CEO.

00:42:43.000 He claimed that he'd seen no evidence China had access to the platform.

00:42:45.000 Anna Eshoo was like, yeah, no, that's not true.

00:42:48.000 But the Chinese government has that data.

00:42:53.000 How can you promise that that will move into the United States of America and be protected here?

00:43:01.000 Congresswoman, I have seen no evidence that the Chinese government has access to that data.

00:43:06.000 They have never asked us.

00:43:07.000 We have not provided.

00:43:09.000 I find that actually preposterous.

00:43:13.000 I have seen no evidence of this happening.

00:43:15.000 And in order to assure everybody here and all our users, our commitment is to move the data into the United States to be stored on American soil by an American company, overseen by American personnel.

00:43:27.000 So the risk will be similar to any government going to an American company asking for data.

00:43:34.000 unless they have a back door, which is precisely what they do have.

00:43:38.000 You do have to say that there is a one.

00:43:40.000 There are a couple of Democrats who are defending Tick-Tock here.

00:43:42.000 One of them is Joe Mall Bowman. 0.99

00:43:43.000 He's making a fool of himself. 0.99

00:43:44.000 Here he was yesterday defending Tick-Tock. 0.97

00:43:46.000 It's also a place where five million small businesses are selling their products and services and making a living, making a living at a time where our economy is struggling in so many ways.

00:44:06.000 So we're talking about free speech for everyday Americans.

00:44:10.000 We're talking about small business owners who use TikTok to grow their business.

00:44:17.000 And my question is, and we're going to pivot to the other part of the conversation, why the hysteria and the panic and the targeting of TikTok?

00:44:29.000 Well, I mean, I think that we all know the answer to that, but apparently you don't.

00:44:33.000 Well, meanwhile, Donald Trump is still awaiting some sort of resolution with regard to this grand jury case that is militating and percolating over in Manhattan.

00:44:41.000 Alvin Bragg still has not come forward with an actual indictment.

00:44:44.000 It now appears, according to the New York Times, that any indictment of Donald Trump will not come until next week at the earliest, which, of course, Trump had said last week that it was going to come this week.

00:44:52.000 Everybody sort of lit their hair on fire earlier this week over the possibility that he was correct because the grand jury appeared to be nearing its end.

00:44:59.000 But then a bunch of other evidence came out, including a letter from Michael Cohen from 2018, suggesting that he had not been reimbursed.

00:45:05.000 by Donald Trump to pay off Stormy Daniels and a letter from Stormy Daniels suggesting that she had not even had an affair with Donald Trump and all sorts of kind of bad evidence for the prosecution. According to the New York Times, the grand jury hearing evidence about Trump's role in a hush money payment to a porn star typically does not consider the case on Thursdays, does not meet on Fridays, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Apparently on Thursday afternoon, the prosecutors from the Manhattan DA's office were seen entering and leaving the building where the grand jury meets, suggesting some activity may have taken place.

00:45:31.000 But again, all of these all of these sort of news stories are rumored because this is all supposed to be secret.

00:45:39.000 Although the special grand jury hearing evidence about Trump meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, it typically does not hear evidence about that case on Thursdays and apparently is not going to do anything on Friday.

00:45:47.000 So the earliest that anything would happen would probably be Monday of next week.

00:45:51.000 For his part, Donald Trump is ramping up a lot of the rhetoric surrounding this.

00:45:56.000 According to the Washington Post, Trump has now unleashed another missive on truth social.

00:46:01.000 He said, what kind of a person can charge another person, in this case, a former president of the United States who got more votes than any sitting president in history and leading candidate by far for the Republican nomination, with a crime when it is known by all that no crime has been committed and also that potential death and destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our country.

00:46:18.000 And then in a separate post, he criticized anybody who called for his supporters to remain peaceful, apparently.

00:46:26.000 Yeah, the ramping up the rhetoric is an odd move by Trump.

00:46:31.000 There's no reason for him to ramp up, you know, sort of the potential death and destruction case, given the fact that, indeed, people are going to be outraged.

00:46:38.000 It's going to help them politically if he's indicted.

00:46:40.000 But, you know, President Trump does have a gift for hyperbole.

00:46:45.000 And so the sort of over the top, there will be death and destruction in the streets.

00:46:49.000 It'll be escape from New York, Snake Plissken will be sent in to rescue Donald Trump from the mob or whatever.

00:46:55.000 That may not happen, but it does happen to be like the real story here is that Alvin Bragg shouldn't be prosecuting Trump.

00:47:00.000 I mean, that's pretty obvious to everybody.

00:47:02.000 Bragg for his part is mainly grandstanding at this point.

00:47:04.000 He sent a letter to the members of the House Committee of the Judiciary, the Republican members, suggesting that he owes them no answers as to how exactly he is going about his job.

00:47:15.000 Which is all well and good, but it's all posturing.

00:47:18.000 The only reason that we're even having this discussion is because he continues to promote a case that everybody knows is essentially, or at least should be, DOA.

00:47:26.000 Now, all of this is in fact a distraction from the bigger issue for the country, which is that Joe Biden is a terrible president.

00:47:32.000 The big problem for Joe Biden is that Joe Biden believes, and he may be correct, that he is the only candidate on the Democratic side of the aisle who can actually win.

00:47:39.000 There are not one but two stories out today about why Kamala Harris basically needs to go but Biden can't get rid of her. 0.99

00:47:45.000 One is from the New York Post.

00:47:46.000 Quote, two former White House officials said President Biden is frustrated with Vice President Kamala Harris' performance even if he remains committed to keeping her as his running mate in the 2024 election.

00:47:55.000 The 80-year-old Biden reportedly has griped about his number two's reluctance to take on risky assignments.

00:47:59.000 One former White House official told Reuters, quote, A point of tension in their relationship is that I don't think the president sees her as somebody who takes anything off his plate due to a fear of messing up. Another former White House official said that Biden intends to seek a second term in part because he concerned that Harris might not be able to beat Donald Trump.

00:48:14.000 The former official said if he did not think she was capable, he would not have picked her.

00:48:17.000 But it's a question of consistently rising to the occasion.

00:48:20.000 Again, Team Biden looks at Kamala Harris as honestly his best insurance for running for president again.

00:48:25.000 No one on the Democratic side of the aisle actually wants to see her as the candidate. 0.99

00:48:30.000 In fact, Reuters has an article today titled, Tethered Together, Biden and Harris Move Toward a 2024 Re-Election Run.

00:48:35.000 By tethered, they mean that Joe Biden can't get rid of her because he picked her on affirmative action bases and he's afraid of alienating black Americans.

00:48:42.000 And she is tied to him because he can't exactly go away and leave her at the top of the ticket.

00:48:47.000 She has a 39% favorability rating as vice president, which is even below Joe Biden's composite 42.3 favorability rating under RealClearPolitics' poll average.

00:48:58.000 So she's really bad at this.

00:48:59.000 He's really bad at this.

00:49:00.000 This would be a very good time for Republicans to consolidate around a candidate and then start hammering the Democrats.

00:49:05.000 Unfortunately, it's going to take them a while to do that.

00:49:07.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then we'll do some things that I hate.

00:49:09.000 So things that I like today.

00:49:10.000 So again, the backlash has begun as well it should.

00:49:13.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Track and Field's international governing body will enact a ban on transgender female athletes competing in women's events, becoming the most prominent sports federation yet to significantly tighten its eligibility criteria for elite competitors.

00:49:25.000 World Athletics announced on Thursday it would bar any athlete who had gone through male puberty from female competition categories.

00:49:30.000 The ban came as the Federation also unveiled new restrictions for female competitors with differences in sex developments that will apply across all running distances and throwing events.

00:49:39.000 Here is the World Athletics Federation President Sebastian Coe explaining exactly how their policies have now changed.

00:49:47.000 Council has agreed to exclude male to female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty from female world ranking competitions from March the 31st this year.

00:50:00.000 However, in order to do further research into our transgender eligibility guidelines, we will be establishing a working group, whose remit will be to consult specifically with transgender athletes to seek views on competing in athletics, to review and maybe commission additional research where there is currently limited research, and to put forward recommendations to Council.

00:50:27.000 Well, I mean, it's about time.

00:50:28.000 The fact that it's taken this long for World Athletics to actually pay attention to this is kind of astounding.

00:50:33.000 We're seeing story after story now coming out about, like, 46-year-old transgender females who are competitive cyclists and competitive track and field runners and competitive lifters just dominating 25-year-old women.

00:50:44.000 So, good for you guys for acknowledging the reality.

00:50:47.000 Sad that it took until 2023 for you to do so.

00:50:49.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:50:56.000 So the thing that I hate the most today is the fact that we have forgotten about what Joe Biden did in Afghanistan.

00:51:01.000 It is still the worst thing I've ever seen any president do in my lifetime.

00:51:04.000 Joe Biden pulling out of Afghanistan with no actual plan, leaving billions of dollars in military hardware to the worst people on earth, leaving tens of thousands of people who relied on America just behind with no actual plan for them, leaving hundreds of Americans behind, getting 13 American service people killed, having people falling off the wheel wells of planes while announcing what a genius he was.

00:51:22.000 It was absolutely horrific.

00:51:24.000 And the fact that he has been largely forgiven by both the media and the general population is itself unforgivable.

00:51:30.000 Well, yesterday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted that there are still 175 Americans trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan.

00:51:37.000 So they were lying because they said they got everybody out.

00:51:39.000 They said they had a plan to get everybody out.

00:51:41.000 Now they still admit that there are literally 175 Americans who are stuck in Afghanistan.

00:51:49.000 I mean, I'm sorry, but that is as close to treasonous policy as I can imagine.

00:51:54.000 Just leaving Americans behind the lines with the Taliban because you are too cowardly as the most powerful country in the history of the planet to secure their exit.

00:52:03.000 Congressman, there are several Americans who are being detained by the Taliban.

00:52:10.000 We are working to secure their freedom.

00:52:12.000 The families have asked that we protect their identities and don't speak publicly to their cases.

00:52:19.000 Now those who are being detained, how many other Americans?

00:52:21.000 How many other Americans?

00:52:22.000 There are approximately, let me put it this way, since August 31st of last year, We have helped about 975 American citizens who wished to leave Afghanistan do so.

00:52:34.000 As we speak, Americans who identify themselves to us, American citizens who identify themselves to us who are in Afghanistan, some of whom have been there since the withdrawal, some of whom went back to Afghanistan, there are about, that we're in contact with, about 175.

00:52:50.000 44 of them are ready to leave and we are working to effectuate their departure.

00:52:57.000 Well, good luck with that.

00:52:58.000 Good luck with that.

00:52:59.000 There's nothing more infuriating than watching this administration say, we care about women's rights and then Afghanistan. 0.75

00:53:07.000 Or saying, we care deeply about our foreign policy and being strong and then Afghanistan.

00:53:12.000 The fact that you guys left Americans behind and that we have no actual way of getting them out of the country because you're cowards is an amazing repudiation of this administration.

00:53:20.000 The American people should not forget that come 2024.

00:53:23.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:53:24.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:53:25.000 We'll be joined by presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 24, 2023

The Democratic Quest To Brainwash Your Kids

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