The Ben Shapiro Show - November 22, 2024


The Democrats’ Future Swirls The Toilet

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Kamala Harris has a new explanation for why she lost to Donald Trump in the 2020 election, and it's not because she was a bad candidate. It's because she wasn't cool enough to go on podcasts and talk to people who weren't in a good mood. And because the American public was in a bad mood, and Kamala Harris felt the brunt of all of it. Also, the Women's March is encountering "tiredness" and is experiencing "trouble" and "fear" as a result of it, which is why it's so important to understand why they didn't have it all figured out in time for 2020, and why they're not quite sure what to do about it. And why they don't have the answers they want to have, because they don t have to have them. They don't even have to know what they need to do to fix it. They just need to know that they can't fix it, because that's all they have to do, and that's what they're going to have to fix, because it's just not enough. Today's episode is brought to you by Medium, Slate, and The New York Times. It's the latest in our ongoing series on what's going on in Washington, D.C. and around the world, and we're here to help you understand what's happening. and why it matters. in the 21st century, and what s going on, and how we can make a difference. Subscribe to keep up with the current trends and keep up the times, and more importantly, what s happening in the world and how to get the most impactful things going on the ground in the next five years in 2020 and beyond What s going to happen in 2020, in 2020 and beyond. What's going to be the most important thing we can do to make a better 2020 election in 2020? the year that matters the most? and in the coming years, and the year we can have the biggest impact on the future of our political landscape what s coming in the future? What do you want to be a part of the next year, and who s the most influential person in 2020 2020 election and beyond? ? and more of 2020 we'll find out! is the answer to all of that in this episode of The Nod? , and much more!

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00:00:00.000 Well, folks, Democrats still seem quite troubled as to what went wrong in the 2024 election.
00:00:04.000 They keep offering various reasons why they lost the 2024 election.
00:00:08.000 Those range from the failure of the meritocracy, according to David Brooks, to the utter disconnect of the American people, their racism, their sexism, their bigotry and homophobia, all of it.
00:00:19.000 Well, the latest...
00:00:20.000 Explanation comes courtesy of Kamala Harris' advisors.
00:00:25.000 According to the Washington Post, senior officials with Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign say her defeat stemmed primarily from dissatisfaction among voters about the overall direction of the country and discontent over inflation and the economy, arguing those headwinds proved too strong for Harris to overcome in her sprint to Election Day.
00:00:42.000 So, again, the idea here is that the Democratic Party platform is totally fine.
00:00:46.000 It's just exogenous circumstances that change the math on the ground.
00:00:49.000 It's just because of inflation, which nobody could control.
00:00:52.000 It's just because of the stagnant economy, which is that really Joe Biden's fault.
00:00:56.000 And it's because the American voters, they're just in a bad mood.
00:00:59.000 And because they were in a bad mood, it was time for Kamala Harris to go. 1.00
00:01:03.000 And this is a very convenient explanation for Democrats because it means they don't have to change anything.
00:01:09.000 According to The Washington Post, officials credit President-elect Trump with success in targeting and turning out sporadic voters and using new media sources to speak to them, especially younger men.
00:01:17.000 They acknowledge Democrats now appear at a disadvantage in their ability to use these newer channels, such as personality-driven podcasts and websites, presumably shows like this one.
00:01:26.000 Now, again, this is a very convenient explanation.
00:01:29.000 The idea here is if only Kamala Harris had been cool enough to go on Joe Rogan, she probably would have won. 0.77
00:01:34.000 If Kamala Harris or any other Democrat had gone on podcasts, that would have been the end of the story. 0.98
00:01:39.000 Donald Trump would not be the president-elect.
00:01:41.000 Now, all this feels like whistling past the political graveyard because, again, it is a refusal to deal with the underlying factors that led to the Democrats getting shellacked across the country.
00:01:52.000 Instead, they're looking at external factors.
00:01:55.000 They're looking at their own inability to go on podcasts, things that are easily fixable or not under their control, which means that they really don't have to do anything big.
00:02:04.000 They don't have to shift tactics at all in order to change direction of their party.
00:02:08.000 Campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon said in an interview, quote, there are certain things we're looking at to understand if we made the right call.
00:02:13.000 But fundamentally, there wasn't just one audience of voters that would have impacted this or one program.
00:02:18.000 The headwinds were just too great for us to overcome, especially in 107 days.
00:02:21.000 But we came very close to what we anticipated, both in terms of turnout and in terms of support.
00:02:26.000 So, actually, they did an amazing job.
00:02:28.000 They did an incredible job.
00:02:31.000 And it's not because they're totally disconnected from the American public.
00:02:34.000 It's actually just that, again, the American public, they were in a bad mood, and Kamala Harris felt the brunt of all of it.
00:02:41.000 Well, you're getting this same sort of sense from the so-called resistance.
00:02:45.000 There's a big article in the New York Times talking about how Trump resistance is encountering fatigue.
00:02:49.000 It turns out that all of the ladies who went out there during the first Trump administration and protested the Trump administration, well, they're a little frustrated because they're not sure quite what to do.
00:02:59.000 According to the New York Times, The first Trump presidency spawned the largest protest the country had seen in half a century.
00:03:06.000 But not everyone wants to participate in another four years of mass movement work.
00:03:09.000 When Women's March shared information about an upcoming rally on Instagram, one person responded, No, I'm tired. 0.56
00:03:15.000 Y'all have fun, though.
00:03:16.000 Women's March later hid some of the pushback and limited who could respond to a handful of posts. 1.00
00:03:20.000 On TikTok, plans for the March were met with memes of women saying, Get somebody else to do it. 1.00
00:03:24.000 This is an opportunity for a national brunch day for the 93%, said one user referring to the 93% of black women who exit polls suggested had voted for Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:03:33.000 Others questioned whether the previous protests had resulted in substantial concessions.
00:03:38.000 So they're realizing that their protest movements have accomplished nothing.
00:03:42.000 But the thing that they refuse to recognize is the reason why those protest movements are accomplishing nothing.
00:03:49.000 According to the New York Times, the left's failure to shift policy has contrasted markedly with past mass movements that helped spur progressive legislative change.
00:03:58.000 The stark difference is in keeping with a sharp global reversal in the power of mass action, according to some political activists.
00:04:03.000 At the beginning of the century, about two in three protest movements around the world could show measurable success versus only one in six today, according to researchers at Harvard.
00:04:11.000 This is in part because governments are leaning toward authoritarianism and are less willing to respond to dissent, said Lisa Miller, a professor at McAllister College in St. Paul, Minnesota. 0.66
00:04:20.000 Or maybe it's because the stuff that they are protesting for sucks. 0.74
00:04:24.000 Maybe it's that. 0.98
00:04:25.000 Maybe it's when people are protesting in 1964 over the mistreatment of Black Americans in the South.
00:04:30.000 They were right.
00:04:31.000 Maybe it's when there was great discontent.
00:04:35.000 Over, for example, AIDS-related activism back in the 1980s is because there should have been more government resources poured into AIDS. Maybe it's because there was at least the patina of legitimacy to many of the causes that people were protesting back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
00:04:50.000 And now, as it turns out, well, the causes they are backing are just bad.
00:04:55.000 And this brings us to the controversy of the day. 0.97
00:04:58.000 So Nancy Mace has now sponsored a resolution on the floor of the House that is going to be implemented that suggests that women should be able to use their bathrooms without men with penises in those same bathrooms. 1.00
00:05:10.000 And again, this seems perfectly legitimate. 0.76
00:05:13.000 In fact, relatively non-controversial in the regular world.
00:05:17.000 And these transgender bathroom rules are perfectly obvious. 1.00
00:05:21.000 There's nothing particularly shocking about them.
00:05:24.000 A man should use the men's bathroom and a woman should use the woman's bathroom. 1.00
00:05:29.000 According to News Nation, on Monday, Mace introduced a resolution requiring all individuals in the Capitol complex to use bathrooms matching their sex assigned at birth.
00:05:38.000 A move that has sparked controversy because a new representative-elect who calls himself Sarah McBride, but is in fact a biological male, is upset about all of this.
00:05:48.000 The measure charges the House sergeants at Armsville and McFarland with enforcing the ban.
00:05:52.000 It's unclear how the House's chief law enforcement officer would determine who can and cannot use capital facilities.
00:05:59.000 So, again, this was supposed to be included in the rules package for the 119th Congress.
00:06:04.000 If the bill is not included in the rules package, then Nancy Mace would force a vote on the legislation. 0.99
00:06:10.000 Well, this apparently, according to the left, is very bad.
00:06:12.000 How dare Nancy Mace? 1.00
00:06:14.000 How dare she?
00:06:15.000 So Nancy Mace was appearing on Scripps News doing an interview on this.
00:06:19.000 And the anchor kept insisting to Nancy Mace that she was barring a woman from using the bathrooms, which Nancy Mace responded, um, no. 0.99
00:06:26.000 Here is Nancy Mace saying a true thing, but an offensive true thing. 0.53
00:06:30.000 I just want to add that the Congresswoman-elect does identify as a woman. 0.99
00:06:36.000 She's not a woman. 1.00
00:06:37.000 It's a man.
00:06:38.000 She was born a man.
00:06:39.000 She's a man.
00:06:39.000 She's biologically a male.
00:06:41.000 That is science.
00:06:42.000 You guys on the left and the mainstream media want to say, follow the science.
00:06:46.000 Let's follow the science, okay?
00:06:48.000 He is a man.
00:06:49.000 He can wear a dress.
00:06:51.000 He can call himself.
00:06:52.000 His pronouns can be she or her, but he doesn't belong in a women's restroom, period.
00:06:57.000 Okay, this, again, most Americans agree with this.
00:06:59.000 By polling data, not only do most Americans agree with this, an overwhelming percentage of Americans agree with this.
00:07:05.000 According to a recent poll, biological males who identify as females should not be allowed to participate in women's sports.
00:07:12.000 That used to be a 60% proposition.
00:07:13.000 That is now a 75% proposition.
00:07:16.000 This is the Napolitan News Service, a poll conducted in mid-November.
00:07:21.000 Should biological males who identify as female be allowed to use at women's locker rooms or bathrooms? 0.81
00:07:25.000 75% of Americans say no.
00:07:28.000 That is a three-quarters proposition.
00:07:30.000 You know how few political propositions in America are three-quarters propositions?
00:07:34.000 There are very, very few.
00:07:36.000 Americans disagree about everything 50-50.
00:07:38.000 A 75-25 proposition is what you call a political winner.
00:07:43.000 Should it be against the law for doctors to provide puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition surgeries to gender dysphoric minors?
00:07:49.000 72% say yes.
00:07:52.000 By the way, these are all massive shifts in public opinion.
00:07:56.000 It has now become acceptable to say what everyone knew was baseline truth.
00:08:01.000 These are huge numbers.
00:08:02.000 By the way, when we say 75% of Americans say that women should not be participating in men's sports and vice versa, It's not 75-25.
00:08:11.000 It's 75-13.
00:08:13.000 12% say they don't know.
00:08:14.000 That is a 62-point gap in favor of the proposition that there should be sex-specific sports Again, these are not controversial propositions, but the left can't let go of it.
00:08:26.000 They can't let go of it.
00:08:27.000 It's amazing.
00:08:28.000 So, for example, Hakeem Jeffries is now calling Nancy Mace a bully.
00:08:32.000 This follows hard on Dean Phillips, tweeting out at her, What are you so afraid of?
00:08:35.000 And the answer that Nancy Mace gave was, Well, I'm afraid of sexual assault since I've been sexually assaulted before. 0.96
00:08:40.000 And it seems that a man in a women's bathroom, who's taking pictures of himself, by the way, in women's bathrooms, bragging about using women's bathrooms.
00:08:49.000 Maybe that's not the kind of person you want in the bathroom with you. 0.80
00:08:52.000 I mean, does that seem unreasonable?
00:08:55.000 But here's Hakeem Jeffries suggesting the real problem here is Nancy Mays and company, of course.
00:08:59.000 This is what we're doing.
00:09:02.000 This is the lesson that you've drawn from the election in November.
00:09:07.000 This is your priority, that you want to bully a member of Congress as opposed to welcoming her. 0.92
00:09:13.000 To join this body so that all of us can work together.
00:09:19.000 Well, I mean, the priority is truth and protection of women. 0.98
00:09:23.000 One of the most annoying things about democratic policy on this particular proposition is that they do something totally abnormal and out of the boundaries of decent human behavior.
00:09:32.000 And then when you notice it, they're like, why are you bringing this up?
00:09:35.000 That's what's important to you?
00:09:37.000 We've decided that boys can be girls and you're saying that's like an important thing?
00:09:41.000 We're saying that boys can go in girls' bathrooms and you're objecting? 0.95
00:09:44.000 What is wrong with you?
00:09:45.000 Why would you do that?
00:09:46.000 Well, for his part, Speaker Johnson has put out a statement saying, quote, all single sex facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings, such as restrooms, changing rooms and locker rooms are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.
00:09:56.000 It's also important to note each member office has its own private restroom.
00:09:59.000 Unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.
00:10:01.000 Women deserve women's only spaces. 1.00
00:10:03.000 Again, perfectly reasonable.
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00:12:24.000 John Fetterman, for his part, the senator from Pennsylvania.
00:12:28.000 Who, despite many of his heterodox positions with his party, is still a progressive.
00:12:33.000 He tweeted out, There's no job I'm afraid to lose that requires me to degrade anyone.
00:12:37.000 If that's a defining issue for a voter, there will be a different candidate.
00:12:39.000 We have a bathroom in my office that anyone is welcome to use, including Representative-elect Sarah McBride.
00:12:43.000 Well, I'm glad that you want Sarah McBride to use your bathroom. 1.00
00:12:46.000 That's your choice.
00:12:48.000 Congratulations, Senator.
00:12:49.000 Also, you don't get to decide whether women ought to have men in the bathroom. 1.00
00:12:54.000 And here is Speaker Johnson being asked about enforcing the policy.
00:12:59.000 Can you talk about the policy of your bathroom?
00:13:01.000 Yeah, I'm not sure what more there is to say.
00:13:03.000 Is it enforceable?
00:13:05.000 Yeah, like all House policies, it's enforceable.
00:13:08.000 But we have single-sex facilities for a reason, and women deserve women's only spaces. 1.00
00:13:15.000 And we're not anti-anyone, we're pro-woman.
00:13:19.000 And I think it's an important policy for us to continue.
00:13:22.000 It's always been, I guess, an unwritten policy, but now it's in writing.
00:13:28.000 Again, this is very baseline sort of stuff.
00:13:30.000 So why does that matter?
00:13:31.000 Because if you're looking for a reason Democrats lost, it is the cultural disconnect that the people on the coast and in the Democratic elite have with the rest of America.
00:13:40.000 These are non-controversial propositions that are made controversial by the Democratic Party.
00:13:45.000 That is what is happening here.
00:13:47.000 And these are belief systems that are held so deeply within the Democratic elite that even the most elite people in the Democratic Party, people who face no discrimination in America, are now treating the election of Donald Trump and the restoration of some form of normality as a grave threat to them.
00:14:03.000 So, for example, Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have now moved to rural England, putting their Montecito estate on the market.
00:14:10.000 They plan to never return to the United States, telling friends the election of Donald Trump was their primary motivation.
00:14:16.000 Now, DeGeneres, of course, has been kicked out of show business after she was reported for toxic workplace behavior at the syndicated Ellen Show in 2022. She had already moved to a rural area in South Central England, and she added that her Montecito mansion, roughly 90 minutes north of LA, has been pocket-listed or will be listed soon.
00:14:34.000 Now, is Ellen DeGeneres some sort of victim in American society? 1.00
00:14:38.000 Is Portia de Rossi a victim in America?
00:14:41.000 And the answer, of course, is no.
00:14:43.000 But the threat of a Donald Trump presidency is so grave they had to run away.
00:14:46.000 Why?
00:14:47.000 Is it because they're going to be oppressed in the state of California?
00:14:50.000 Is that the real issue?
00:14:52.000 Or is the issue that when a level of cultural supremacy by the left declines, people on the left can't stand it.
00:14:59.000 They can't handle it.
00:15:01.000 And it's that cultural supremacy.
00:15:03.000 It's that implementation of a value system so different from traditional Americanism that has gotten everybody's goat.
00:15:09.000 And this election was a backlash to it.
00:15:11.000 And Democrats cannot, they cannot abandon it. 0.95
00:15:13.000 It's a massive problem for them because their entire party is now built around the idea that Americans are inherently racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. 0.76
00:15:22.000 And that they can keep saying that over and over and over and still win elections.
00:15:25.000 And the only reason they would lose elections, as we said at the top of the show, is if the economy is bad or if people just have a general sense of malaise.
00:15:31.000 But otherwise, people love this set of values.
00:15:33.000 Here's the thing.
00:15:33.000 People don't like this set of values.
00:15:35.000 They find this set of values off-putting.
00:15:36.000 They find this set of values ugly and wrong.
00:15:40.000 And it's not just with regard to things like, can a man be a woman?
00:15:43.000 It's with regard to racial questions in the United States.
00:15:46.000 What most Americans want in the United States is to be treated as normal individuals without regard for race.
00:15:53.000 And during this election cycle, I visited a wide variety of places in the United States.
00:15:56.000 I went all the way up to the tip of northern Ohio with Senator Bernie Moreno, Senator-elect Bernie Moreno.
00:16:02.000 And I also went all the way down to the southern border with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:16:07.000 In the Rio Grande Valley.
00:16:08.000 The area we visited in the Rio Grande Valley, 97% Hispanic.
00:16:12.000 Went red for the first time since I believe 1880. And the area of Northern Ohio is totally white. 0.98
00:16:17.000 And I gave the same speech in both places and it was received the same way.
00:16:20.000 Because it was all about American opportunity.
00:16:22.000 Being able to build a family.
00:16:24.000 Being able to go to church.
00:16:25.000 Being able to retain the property that you earn.
00:16:28.000 And then build on that for generational wealth.
00:16:30.000 These are the things that Americans want.
00:16:32.000 You know what they don't want?
00:16:33.000 They don't want to be divided by race.
00:16:34.000 They don't want to be treated as members of an oppressed or oppressive hierarchy.
00:16:39.000 That is not something Americans are interested in, but the Democratic Party cannot let go of this.
00:16:43.000 They cannot.
00:16:44.000 The latest example of this, Representative Jasmine Crockett, who's a representative from Texas. 0.99
00:16:49.000 Well, yesterday in the House, she went on a wild rant on the basis of race. 1.00
00:16:54.000 And the Democratic Party is having a tough time separating off from this stuff because they've been doing identity politics for too long.
00:17:00.000 It's because you can then misuse words like oppression.
00:17:03.000 There has been no oppression for the white man in this country.
00:17:07.000 You tell me which white men were dragged out of their homes.
00:17:12.000 You tell me which one of them got dragged all the way across an ocean and told that you are going to go at work. 1.00
00:17:20.000 We are going to steal your wives. 1.00
00:17:22.000 We are going to rape your wives. 1.00
00:17:24.000 That didn't happen. 1.00
00:17:25.000 That is oppression.
00:17:27.000 We didn't ask to be here.
00:17:29.000 We're not the same migrants that y'all constantly come up against.
00:17:33.000 We didn't run away from home.
00:17:35.000 We were stolen.
00:17:37.000 So yeah, we are going to sit here and be offended when you want to sit here and act like...
00:17:42.000 And don't let it escape you.
00:17:45.000 That it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y'all are the ones being oppressed.
00:17:55.000 That y'all are the ones that are being harmed. 0.98
00:17:58.000 Okay, this is so insane. 0.83
00:18:01.000 It's patently insane.
00:18:02.000 The sympathy, apparently, is for the position that if you are a member of a specific historically discriminated against race, you are inherently a victim in the United States forever, for like the rest of time.
00:18:13.000 Now, of course, this only applies to particular racial groups.
00:18:15.000 This, as we know, does not apply to Jews.
00:18:17.000 Who have been historically victimized and are currently victimized at the highest rate in terms of hate crimes, according to the FBI. They don't count.
00:18:23.000 It doesn't apply to Asian Americans who have been too wildly successful.
00:18:26.000 Increasingly, it does not apply to Hispanic Americans who are moving toward the Republican Party.
00:18:32.000 Okay, but the basic idea here is that there's an intersectional hierarchy and no one who's white can complain about being victimized even if they can point to an actual government policy that victimizes white people like, for example, affirmative action, which does, in fact, victimize people who are not of particular races.
00:18:46.000 That is what it is designed to do.
00:18:49.000 Affirmative action is designed as a racial quota system.
00:18:53.000 In a zero-sum game, where merit is ignored in favor of race, that is, of course, going to victimize the person who is not counted as part of the beneficiary race.
00:19:02.000 That is just the nature of the game.
00:19:04.000 Okay.
00:19:05.000 But, in any case, that particular attitude, that attitude, which is, you are a victim because in 1619, your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was shipped over from Africa, is patently crazy. 0.93
00:19:21.000 It's nuts. 0.61
00:19:23.000 Again, that is not ignoring American history.
00:19:24.000 That is recognizing the reality of world history in which, if you go back far enough, pretty much everyone's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was victimized in some way or another.
00:19:35.000 I mean, speaking of Jasmine Crockett is a beneficiary of this country.
00:19:41.000 The utter ingratitude, the argument that she's using here is the same argument that you get from a kid when they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
00:19:47.000 And you say, well, why are you doing that?
00:19:49.000 Like, don't do that.
00:19:50.000 So I didn't ask to be born.
00:19:52.000 I mean, you didn't ask to be born.
00:19:53.000 What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
00:19:55.000 That has nothing to do with anything.
00:19:57.000 No one asked to be born, as a matter of fact.
00:19:59.000 We are all recipients of our family's history.
00:20:03.000 We are all here through no choice of our own.
00:20:06.000 That doesn't change the responsibility to be a decent human being.
00:20:10.000 It does not change how we ought to argue about political issues, public policy issues.
00:20:15.000 Jasmine Crockett went to an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis.
00:20:19.000 She went to Rhodes College and got a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration.
00:20:23.000 And then she went on to attend the University of Houston Law School.
00:20:28.000 And then she became a public defender for Bowie County.
00:20:31.000 And then she became a congressperson.
00:20:32.000 So does that sound like a highly victimized life to you?
00:20:35.000 Does that sound like a person who was dragged over in chains?
00:20:39.000 Again, if you believe that America has not progressed in any way, that America is still the same America, that you are just as victimized as, again, your ancestors...
00:20:46.000 That does beg the question as to why you don't leave.
00:20:49.000 If you are that victimized by the United States of America, not historically, because again, you go back in history and tons of people have been victimized.
00:20:57.000 And of course, history has consequences.
00:20:59.000 But that is not the argument that she is making.
00:21:01.000 The argument she's making is that no one who is not of a particularly victimized race can ever claim victimization in today's day and age, like today.
00:21:08.000 Because years, centuries ago, something bad happened to my ancestors.
00:21:14.000 That's a crazy argument.
00:21:16.000 But that argument has truck on the left.
00:21:18.000 You wonder why the backlash is here?
00:21:19.000 This is why the backlash is here.
00:21:21.000 And again, this is part of the elite left-wing establishment thinking.
00:21:26.000 Another sort of tip of the iceberg example.
00:21:30.000 According to Mark Oppenheimer reporting for the Free Press, there's a person named W. Paul Coates.
00:21:35.000 W. Paul Coates is the father of the truly awful, both in terms of quality and in terms of moral vision, Thank you.
00:21:50.000 Thank you.
00:21:54.000 Thank you.
00:22:01.000 For some sort of coherent and cohesive moral thought that doesn't just boil down to, if you're a member of a victimized group, a victimized group as I classify it, that means you can do no wrong.
00:22:11.000 And if you're a member of an oppressive group, an oppressive group as I classify it, that means you can do no right. 0.99
00:22:16.000 That is the basic logic of Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is in fact a moral idiot. 0.92
00:22:19.000 In any case, his father is now receiving an award from the National Book Award. 0.94
00:22:25.000 He's giving a National Book Award.
00:22:28.000 What exactly does he do?
00:22:30.000 Well, he's the publisher of a wide variety of books, including a book called The Jewish Onslaught.
00:22:36.000 According to Mark Oppenheimer, he is a purveyor of antisemitic and homophobic tracts He has promoted writing that in the parlance of our time is problematic advancing pseudoscience while demeaning Jews and gays, among others.
00:22:49.000 On September 4th, the National Book Foundation, which gives out National Book Awards, announced the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the Literary Community, which is essentially a Lifetime Achievement Award, would be given to W. Paul Coates, who is the father of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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00:25:12.000 David Steinberger, chair of the National Book Foundation's board, said in a press release, Now, at first glance, Coates is a surprising choice because from 1997 to 2005, he was a member of the National Book Foundation's board of directors.
00:25:33.000 Typically, people don't give people on the board the award because, obviously, there's a conflict of interest.
00:25:40.000 So what exactly is his story?
00:25:43.000 According to Ta-Nehisi Coates, his father would, quote, untuck his shirt and descend into the cellar after coming back home at night from his work to be with his collection of out-of-print texts, obscure lectures, and self-published monographs by writers like J.A. Rogers, Dr. Ben, and Drusilla Dungey Houston, great seers who returned to Egypt to Africa and recorded our history when all great seers who returned to Egypt to Africa and recorded our history when all the world Those texts, many taught by self-taught scholars, according to Oppenheimer, formed the core of what would later be called Afrocentric historiography.
00:26:11.000 Coates believed the knowledge these writers impart had been deliberately withheld from black people.
00:26:15.000 Ta-Nehisi says, quote, from the day we touched these stolen shores, his father would explain to anyone who'd listened they'd infected our minds.
00:26:22.000 White people had forged a false knowledge to keep us down. 1.00
00:26:26.000 So, in 1978, Ta-Nehisi Coates' dad built what he called Black Classic Books, a publishing operation, And it included some better-known books like David Walker's Appeal and some books by respected figures like W.E.B. DuBois and the historian Carter Woodson.
00:26:44.000 But on September 27th, Jewish Insider published an article by a reporter named Matthew Castle with the headline, Paul Coates, father of journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, republished anti-Semitic screed, the Jewish onslaught.
00:26:55.000 Apparently, into Black Classics online store, Coates had added the Jewish onslaught, which is a book by the late Wellesley professor Tony Martin.
00:27:03.000 Martin was notorious in the early 1990s for assigning to his students the Nation of Islam text the secret relationship between Blacks and Jews, which accused the Jews of monumental culpability in slavery and the Black Holocaust.
00:27:15.000 Henry Louis Gates, who is no conservative, did a New York Times article in 1992 calling that book one of the most sophisticated instances of hate literature yet compiled.
00:27:25.000 Coates refused to answer questions about his inclusion of the Jewish onslaught on Black Classics lists.
00:27:31.000 Black Classic was republished a number of books from Majority Press.
00:27:35.000 That's the press that Tony Martin founded, including works by and about Marcus Garvey.
00:27:40.000 And then apparently, after the reporting, Black Classic removed The Jewish Onslaught from its online store.
00:27:46.000 Okay, but there's a bunch of other problems.
00:27:49.000 They also published a book called The Osiris Papers, Reflections on Life and Writings of Dr. Francis Cress Welsing.
00:27:55.000 This is a collection of essays celebrating the late psychiatrist Francis Cress Welsing, who around 1970 began advancing the theory that racism in white people is correlated to lack of melanin in their skin. 0.59
00:28:06.000 That same book, by the way, says that homosexuality was imposed by white people on black men. 0.98
00:28:12.000 But there are a bunch of other books here that are just trash. 0.97
00:28:15.000 This person was now given a National Book Award by the National Book Foundation. 0.65
00:28:19.000 Because this is the morality of the left.
00:28:21.000 Because when it comes to how to dole out sympathy, sympathy is doled out on the basis of pseudo-victimhood status.
00:28:27.000 If you're a man who wishes to go into a woman's restroom, you are a victim of American society and we have to pour out our empathy copiously upon you. 0.98
00:28:36.000 If you are a black person in American society, regardless of whether you're a successful black person like Jasmine Crockett, we have to pour our empathy upon you because centuries ago, your ancestors were enslaved.
00:28:46.000 And because 60 years ago, segregation was still legal in the South before you were born.
00:28:52.000 Now it turns out most Americans are not up for this.
00:28:54.000 They're just not.
00:28:55.000 You know where they want empathy poured?
00:28:56.000 They want empathy poured on actual victims.
00:29:00.000 They want empathy poured on victims of crime.
00:29:02.000 They want empathy poured on people whose jobs have been lost thanks to bad government policy.
00:29:08.000 They want empathy for the American people writ large.
00:29:11.000 They're not interested in sectarian empathy.
00:29:14.000 That is not something that the American people are up for.
00:29:17.000 And so, for example, the left has decided that Tom Homan, who is Donald Trump's new chosen border czar, is a very bad man.
00:29:23.000 He's a very bad man because he's going to engage in deportation of illegal immigrants.
00:29:27.000 But the truth is, when you watch Tom Homan, Tom Homan is more representative of Americans' feelings about where empathy should be placed than Ta-Nehisi Coates or his dad or Ellen DeGeneres or Sarah McBride or Hakeem Jeffries.
00:29:41.000 Tom Homan was on Laura Ingraham's show and he was talking about the conviction of the criminal who murdered Lakin Riley, who you'll remember as the young woman who was brutally slain by an illegal immigrant.
00:29:51.000 Here was Tom Homan.
00:29:53.000 You know, Laura, a lot of people ask me why I get so emotional when I do Fox News and why I scream at members of Congress.
00:30:01.000 Because I've seen so much tragedy.
00:30:03.000 I've talked to hundreds of angels and moms and dads who buried their children because they were killed by an illegal alien. 0.78
00:30:09.000 This is just the latest.
00:30:10.000 You know, I've talked to little girls as young as nine years old that were multiple times by members of the cartel.
00:30:16.000 When you look in her eyes and everything innocent and pure has been ripped from her soul.
00:30:21.000 And their life will never be the same.
00:30:22.000 I mean, it's just, I'm tired of it.
00:30:25.000 And this, and the government failed the Lincoln Riley family.
00:30:28.000 Not only, if President Trump was president, he'd be sitting in Mexico and the Remain in Mexico program.
00:30:33.000 And if he did get to New York, and he was arrested for an injured child in New York, I used to be able to arrest him because the priorities under Trump Where if you're in the country illegally, you're a target.
00:30:44.000 But because Texas Marcos put the priorities so low, even the injury to the child didn't meet the standards, so ICE could even place a detainer on them.
00:30:51.000 So this is purely, it could have been prevented, this young lady's dead, and I want every mayor, every governor of a sanctuary jurisdiction to listen to that tape.
00:31:00.000 Listen to this young girl fight for her life, fight for her breath, trying to survive, terrified.
00:31:07.000 I want you to understand what she went through.
00:31:09.000 Like the nine-year-old boy, the five-year-old boy in the back of the tractor trailer that I held, I found him dead, that baked to death.
00:31:16.000 I thought about what the last hour of his life was like.
00:31:19.000 You need to listen to this tape.
00:31:21.000 And for those governors and mayors who are saying they're going to stop Tom Holman, they're going to stop President Trump, shame on you.
00:31:26.000 Your responsibility is to protect your communities, and that's what we want to do, is protect your community.
00:31:30.000 Again, this is basic common sense.
00:31:32.000 That's where the empathy should be.
00:31:33.000 It should be the victims of crime.
00:31:35.000 That is perfectly obvious to most Americans.
00:31:38.000 Internationally, empathy should be with America's allies, not with America's enemies.
00:31:42.000 And yet Democrats seem to have a problem with this.
00:31:44.000 The Senate voted on a measure led by the execrable, useless, leech-on-the-ass of society, Senator Bernie Sanders, and a bunch of other Democrats, that sought to block the sale of $20 billion in U.S.-made weapons to Israel. 0.94
00:31:57.000 Okay, now, that had already been cleared by the Congress. 0.95
00:32:00.000 It's a last-ditch effort, according to the Washington Post, to limit the carnage, suffering, and destruction.
00:32:04.000 No, it isn't.
00:32:05.000 It's a last-ditch effort to stop Israel from defeating its enemies. 0.91
00:32:09.000 Its enemies, by the way, are State Department-designated terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:32:15.000 19 Democrats favored Israel.
00:32:18.000 Blocking this aid to Israel to embargo arms to Israel in the middle of a war, an existential war on its northern border and its southern border from two massive terrorist groups, both of which are funded by the Iranian terror regime.
00:32:32.000 19 senators out of 51, 37%, over a third of the Senate caucus for Democrats voted in favor of a full-scale arms embargo on the state of Israel in the middle of a war.
00:32:43.000 That includes things like blocking mortar rounds, like the most basic munitions available.
00:32:50.000 Again, there are some people like Tammy Baldwin who voted present.
00:32:55.000 But those senators were Heinrich Hirono, Cain King, Markey, Merkley, Ossoff Sanders, Shat Smith, Warren Welch, Durbin Van Hollen, Shaheen Lujan, Warnock Murphy.
00:33:06.000 Both senators from Georgia.
00:33:07.000 By the way, Georgia needs to vote these people out because Georgia is a red state. 0.96
00:33:12.000 What an insane, insane proposition.
00:33:16.000 And yet, those are the people for whom the Democratic Party has sympathy.
00:33:19.000 You wonder why you lost and why you're going to continue to lose?
00:33:22.000 The reason is because you're putting your empathy and your sympathy in all the wrong places.
00:33:25.000 Why?
00:33:25.000 As a reflection of your baseline system of values.
00:33:29.000 And that baseline system of values is that success is a symptom of exploitation and oppression.
00:33:34.000 Failure is a symptom of victimization and victimhood.
00:33:38.000 Because you believe that, you put your sympathy in all the wrong places.
00:33:42.000 You crack down on all the normies.
00:33:45.000 That's the reason.
00:33:46.000 It's not because of economic discontent alone.
00:33:49.000 The Democrats' problems are not going to be fixed by a better economy under a Democratic administration.
00:33:54.000 They're only going to be fixed when you stop associating with some of the worst ideas available in public life.
00:33:59.000 In just one second, we'll show how this plays out in the media sphere.
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00:34:37.000 Well, it is because of this Democratic vision of the world that they are so angry at MSNBC's Morning Joe for going and meeting with Donald Trump.
00:34:44.000 Remember, if this were just a disagreement over the direction of the economy, if, in fact, Democrats and Republicans held the same baseline values, it were just a matter of how we reach the same endpoint, if that were the case, why would anybody be that angry at Morning Joe going and visiting Donald Trump?
00:34:59.000 The answer is, of course, that that is not what the members of MSNBC's viewer class believe.
00:35:03.000 They believe that Donald Trump represents a lesser morality.
00:35:06.000 In fact, the worst kind of morality.
00:35:08.000 He represents something truly bad.
00:35:11.000 And so if you make any provision for that, then you obviously have joined the side of evil.
00:35:16.000 It's not that you have made pragmatic political consideration to, you know, actually report on the current administration.
00:35:22.000 No, instead, you have crossed the line.
00:35:25.000 You have placed your sympathy and empathy with the bad guys.
00:35:29.000 This, of course, is the message of either Mark Cuban or Rosie O'Donnell.
00:35:32.000 I can't tell the difference anymore.
00:35:33.000 Here's Rosie O'Donnell ripping MSNBC's Morning Joe. 1.00
00:35:37.000 So Mika and Joe went down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring.
00:35:41.000 It's the last time I ever watched Morning Joe.
00:35:44.000 Period.
00:35:45.000 End of statement.
00:35:47.000 Unreal.
00:35:51.000 For months you were telling us he's the worst thing that could happen to this country and democracy.
00:35:56.000 And then you go kiss his ring? 0.95
00:36:01.000 Despicable. 1.00
00:36:03.000 Despicable you. 0.99
00:36:04.000 Both of you.
00:36:06.000 Okay, well, what I really enjoy most about that clip, I'm not sure there's so many things I enjoy about that.
00:36:09.000 I love the tender piano music underneath her being bat loony. 0.94
00:36:14.000 That really I like.
00:36:15.000 Also, she's now reaching what we here at the Ben Shapiro Show like to call the Michael Moore singularity.
00:36:21.000 The Michael Moore singularity is that as every Democrat ages, they all turn into Michael Moore, male and female.
00:36:26.000 Isn't an amazing thing.
00:36:29.000 Rosie O'Donnell, Joe Scarborough, Rachel Maddow, Michael Moore, they're all the same person.
00:36:37.000 They've all become the same.
00:36:39.000 Mark Cuban, they're all the same.
00:36:41.000 I don't know if they all have one pair of glasses and they just trade them, or what the deal is.
00:36:46.000 But the Michael Moore singularity is a very real consequence of liberalism.
00:36:51.000 It's the bizarre Democratic portrait of Dorian Gray.
00:36:56.000 You just turn into Michael Moore as you age.
00:36:58.000 In any case, MSNBC's Morning Joe is apparently absolutely bleeding its viewer.
00:37:03.000 Apparently, they brought in 839,000 total viewers during the 6 a.m.
00:37:09.000 hour of the program and 113,000 viewers in the 25 to 54 age demo on Monday.
00:37:15.000 That same hour on Tuesday dropped to 680,000 total viewers with 76,000 in the demo.
00:37:23.000 There are more people in your local broom closet than are watching Morning Joe on a national level at this point.
00:37:28.000 Why?
00:37:29.000 Well, because they committed the great sin.
00:37:30.000 The great sin is to recognize that perhaps the morality of the left is not so superior to the morality of the right that you shouldn't have a conversation.
00:37:37.000 That is precisely the thing they're angry about, which is why the left is constantly calling for censorship.
00:37:43.000 So the latest episode of censorship comes courtesy of something called the Conscious Advertising Network.
00:37:49.000 So the Conscious Advertising Network Is another one of these ginned up organizations designed to promote censorship against conservative shows.
00:38:01.000 According to their website, they're focused on breaking the economic link between advertising and harmful content.
00:38:06.000 Quote, we combine our advertising and human rights expertise, that sounds like they have a lot of expertise, to help implement industry platform and policy interventions and embed human rights within relevant commercial and political decision making globally.
00:38:18.000 They have 180 plus members.
00:38:19.000 They include Halion, Virgin Media O2, British Gas and Innocent Drinks, network media agencies like Group M, Havist Media and Omnicom Media Group, and leading civil society groups like the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights.
00:38:32.000 So they're a trash bag and they basically put pressure on advertisers not to advertise on things they don't like.
00:38:39.000 They want censorship. 0.95
00:38:40.000 Here, for example, was at a UN conference.
00:38:44.000 One of the leaders of the Conscious Advertising Network, a person named Alex Murray, talking about how what we actually need now is full scale censorship on climate issues.
00:38:53.000 The climate information ecosystem has been compromised by the relentless onslaught of disinformation campaigns orchestrated and amplified by powerful actors.
00:39:05.000 The impacts of this is that it's obstructed climate action, it's deepened division, it's reduced trust and it's obstructed progress on climate action.
00:39:15.000 And big tech, legacy media, influential PR firms, and the advertising industry all have played a role within this and often have prioritized profit over truth.
00:39:29.000 So he believes that he is the sole arbiter of truth.
00:39:32.000 And that means that he is going to put pressure to censor any sort of information that runs counter to the climate alarmism that his group, the Conscious Advertising Network, is pushing.
00:39:42.000 In fact, he says we need regulation of First Amendment speech.
00:39:45.000 What we would call First Amendment speech in the United States.
00:39:47.000 And the United Nations is the most Orwellian institution.
00:39:50.000 And I pray to God that when the Trump administration gets in, they completely defund it.
00:39:54.000 They should defund it.
00:39:56.000 They should build a Trump hotel.
00:39:57.000 I don't care what they do with the land.
00:39:59.000 They can turn into affordable housing.
00:40:00.000 That is it. 0.99
00:40:01.000 The UN and the Mos Eisley of international politics, a wretched hive of scum and villainy, needs to be torn down to its roots. 0.99
00:40:08.000 They need to salt the earth. 0.99
00:40:10.000 Anyway, here's this schmuck talking about how they need democratic regulation of the First Amendment, which is usually one of the things we tend to call tyranny here in the United States. 0.96
00:40:19.000 We need democratic regulation of this as well. 0.96
00:40:22.000 We need measures which increase transparency.
00:40:25.000 We need responsible, we need to promote responsible moderation within platform design.
00:40:31.000 And we need to support media literacy as well.
00:40:35.000 I don't trust you. 0.99
00:40:36.000 I don't trust you because I think that you're a liar. 0.98
00:40:38.000 And I think that you are willing to say whatever you have to do in order to advance your agenda and to shut down whoever you have to shut down in order to advance that agenda.
00:40:45.000 That too is something we're rebelling against in the United States.
00:40:48.000 You want to know why the Overton window has blown wide open?
00:40:50.000 The reason is because y'all shut it up so tight that nobody could get through.
00:40:54.000 No one, unless they agreed with Hillary Clinton, could get through that Overton window. 0.76
00:40:58.000 Well, now the Overton window no longer exists.
00:41:01.000 And that is a far hell of a sight better than what you had established before.
00:41:05.000 Now, speaking of people who helped to blow up the Overton window, Elon Musk continues to unveil win after win.
00:41:12.000 Elon Musk is, of course, going to be heading up with Vivek Ramaswamy, the so-called Doge plan to reform government.
00:41:20.000 They have a piece in the Wall Street Journal talking about how they are going to push back against the rules and regulations promulgated by unelected bureaucrats.
00:41:29.000 They say, quote, We're assisting the Trump transition team to identify and hire a lean team of small government crusaders,
00:41:58.000 including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America.
00:42:01.000 This team will work in the new administration closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget.
00:42:06.000 Speaking of which, President Trump is looking at the return of Russell Vaught We're good to go.
00:42:33.000 So again, it's been widely reported that he's going to bring him back.
00:42:36.000 That would be a very good move by President Trump to move toward achieving what Vivek and Elon are trying to do right here.
00:42:43.000 According to Vivek and Elon, Doge will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies aided by advanced technology to apply the new Supreme Court rulings that overrule the Chevron Doctrine, which basically gave unlimited discretion to administrative agencies to adjudicate their own rulings.
00:42:57.000 They're going to apply these rulings to federal regulations enacted by such agencies.
00:43:01.000 Doge will present this list of regulations to President Trump, who can, by executive order, immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review and rescission.
00:43:10.000 This would liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress and would stimulate the United States economy.
00:43:17.000 And all this is very good.
00:43:19.000 And it's just an indicator of the kind of changes that are coming to Washington, D.C.
00:43:23.000 And meanwhile, President Trump is making some other strong moves he.
00:43:27.000 He's thinking seriously about nominating our friend Marty McCary for his FDA pick, which would be a great pick.
00:43:34.000 Marty McCary was sort of our go-to guy during the COVID pandemic on all things scientific and informational.
00:43:40.000 According to Bloomberg, McCary is seen as the leading candidate to run the FDA. He's a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and he's a health researcher whose latest book focuses on questioning medical orthodoxy on topics from peanut allergies to antibiotics.
00:43:53.000 McCary has not yet responded to a request for comment, but apparently, Carolyn Levitt said, President-elect Trump is making decisions on who will serve.
00:43:59.000 Those decisions will continue to be announced by him when they are made.
00:44:02.000 McCary would be excellent.
00:44:04.000 He would be really, really good.
00:44:05.000 Again, we've had him on the program repeatedly.
00:44:07.000 He is a serious scientific voice.
00:44:12.000 He's also, he was a skeptic of much of the conventional wisdom with regard to COVID. He'd be an excellent pick.
00:44:17.000 President Trump is also apparently aiming to restore the Keystone XL pipeline deal.
00:44:21.000 So this is a big deal during his first administration because Obama had killed it and then he put it back in place and then Biden killed it.
00:44:27.000 And Trump campaigned on reopening Keystone XL this time.
00:44:30.000 He said, I don't understand.
00:44:31.000 We killed Keystone XL and we allowed the Russians to open Nord Stream 2. Which helped facilitate Russian entry into Ukraine because they had more leverage over natural oil and gas in Europe.
00:44:42.000 Well, now Trump is looking, as always, to increase American production in the oil and gas industry.
00:44:47.000 According to Politico, Trump believes declaring the 1200-mile Canada to Nebraska crude project back on the table would drive the pro-oil message he delivered in his campaign.
00:44:58.000 Now, again, the pipeline's permit to cross the U.S.-Canadian border was first rejected by Barack Obama and then Trump reversed that, only to have that reversed again by Joe Biden in 2021. Calgary-based TC Energy no longer owns the pipeline system that the Keystone XL was intended to complement.
00:45:12.000 Portions of the pipeline TC Energy had put in the ground in both Canada and the United States have already been dug up.
00:45:18.000 So again, local permits would have to be acquired.
00:45:20.000 But this just shows you how orientation toward energy changes actual action on the ground.
00:45:25.000 You want to know why there's been a cut down on productivity in the oil and natural gas industry under Joe Biden?
00:45:30.000 Because he kept telegraphing that he hated it and wanted to phase it out.
00:45:34.000 There are not enough oil refineries in the United States, and no one's going to build a new oil refinery if they believe Democrats are going to come in five minutes from now and then promptly shut down the oil refineries.
00:45:43.000 It makes no sense.
00:45:44.000 Trump instead is opening the floodgates on all of that.
00:45:49.000 Again, I'm believing that more information is better.
00:45:51.000 The American people deserve to know about the people who are serving in their cabinet.
00:45:54.000 And this is why there's a police report that's now been released about Pete Hegseth.
00:45:59.000 There's an allegation made about Pete Hegseth, who is President Trump's nominee for Department of Defense.
00:46:03.000 And it provides graphic details, according to the New York Times, about a sexual assault accusation against Hegseth.
00:46:09.000 And honestly, like the document is illuminating in a variety of ways, including the fact that it lends credence to Hegseth's contention that actually he was not the person at fault in this particular incident.
00:46:20.000 So if you read the New York Times report on this, according to the report, the woman whose name was withheld told the police she ended up in Mr. Hegseth's hotel room after he spoke at a conference in October 27, hosted by the California Federation of Republican Women at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa.
00:46:37.000 So the woman, referred to throughout the report as Jane Doe, suggests that Hegseth took her phone and blocked the hotel room door and sexually assaulted her, but she said her memory was hazy and that she had drunk far more alcohol than usual throughout the day.
00:46:48.000 Hegseth told the police he repeatedly sought the woman's consent for sex and told her they could stop if it was a problem.
00:46:54.000 Video footage at the hotel earlier that evening showed them at one point leaving a hotel bar with their arms locked together.
00:47:00.000 Hegseth apparently was drunk, and he says that he believed the woman led him to his room.
00:47:06.000 The woman's allegations have complicated the nomination process.
00:47:10.000 But again, her story is, shall we say, questionable enough that the prosecution decided, again, not to prosecute in this particular case.
00:47:19.000 In fact, she told the hospital nurse that she believed something might have been slipped into her drink.
00:47:24.000 But again, the evidence just was not.
00:47:27.000 She only visited a hospital four days later.
00:47:30.000 So there are a lot of open questions about this particular police report, which presumably is why the police did not end up pressing charges in that particular case.
00:47:38.000 Information is useful in these cases.
00:47:39.000 More information is more useful.
00:47:41.000 All right, you guys, coming up, we'll get into the latest from Ukraine, where, honestly, people are getting over their skis talking about World War III. If you're not a member, become a member.
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