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00:00:00.000Recession lights are blinking red as the stock market tanks again, and Supreme Court justices go into hiding after the leak of their majority opinion on Roe, and Joe Biden apparently has nothing to say about it.
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00:03:04.000As I've said, this is a multiple hypothetical they are hoping comes to fruition.
00:03:08.000They're hoping, one, that the Supreme Court rules the way that this majority opinion suggests that it will.
00:03:13.000Two, that there are a lot of people in red and purple states who are going to be just Exorbitantly angry about Roe versus Wade and fearful that there will be a huge piece of legislation coming down that is going to three affect them.
00:03:28.000And again, I think that is a real bank shot.
00:03:51.000The way that people typically vote is based on what is happening to them in the here and now.
00:03:54.000And you know what's happening to people in the here and now?
00:03:56.000The economy is happening to them in the here and now.
00:03:59.000According to a new Convention of States Action Trafalgar survey released on Thursday, apparently a plurality of Americans said that lowering inflation and fixing the economy was the number one issue to them.
00:04:09.000And this, again, is duplicative of multiple polls showing that the economy remains the top issue.
00:04:15.000The other issues that people seem to care about is securing the border is a top issue.
00:04:21.000There's some other issues that are in there, like, for example, racial and social equality.
00:04:30.000The ones that Democrats think are really going to motivate people to get out there.
00:04:33.000Those things do not rank high in any poll of the issues that people are mostly caring about.
00:04:37.000Now, if you ask people like right this moment, today, what they care about, they'll still say the economy is number one.
00:04:42.000They might say abortion is number two, just because it's top of the headlines.
00:04:45.000In four months, it ain't going to be top of the headlines.
00:04:47.000As soon as the Supreme Court actually comes out with the decision, it's not going to be top of the headline.
00:04:51.000It's just going to be the fulfillment of the opinion that's already been released.
00:04:54.000So in some ways, the early leak of this thing took a lot of the sting and a lot of the fight out of the issue when the Supreme Court decision comes down in presumably a few weeks or so.
00:05:03.000But again, right now, what you're looking at is a bad economy and an economy that is getting worse.
00:05:08.000We keep hearing that the economy is strong.
00:05:09.000That is not how people feel about the economy.
00:05:11.000And they certainly don't feel that way after the Dow tumbled a thousand points for the worst day since 2020.
00:05:18.000And the reason for that is because there was this bizarre kind of surge on Wednesday that happened after Jerome Powell went out there and told you a bunch of fibs about how strong the economy was.
00:05:28.000He said, there's no chance of recession.
00:05:29.000We're going to get this inflation thing under control.
00:05:31.000We're going to raise interest rates by half a percentage point, 50 basis points, and all of this will get things under control.
00:05:38.000And the market for a moment surged like, maybe Jerome Powell knows what he's talking about.
00:05:41.000And then they're like, well, maybe he doesn't know really what he is talking about.
00:05:45.000The market surged based on Jerome Powell's announcement and then within 24 hours it had dumped based on Jerome Powell's announcement.
00:05:52.000According to Randy Frederick, Managing Director of Trading and Derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research over at CNBC, he says, if you go up 3% and then you give up a half percent the next day, that's pretty normal stuff.
00:06:01.000Having the kind of day we had yesterday and then seeing it 100% reverse within half a day is just truly extraordinary.
00:06:06.000Large tech stocks were the ones that were feeling the most pressure.
00:06:08.000Meta platforms and Amazon fell nearly 6.8% and 7.6% respectively.
00:06:18.000E-commerce stocks were a key source of weakness on Thursday.
00:06:21.000Etsy and eBay dropped 16.8% and 11.7% respectively after issuing weaker-than-expected revenue guidance.
00:06:28.000Now, this, by the way, should be an indicator that consumption is starting to fall off in pretty dramatic fashion because Amazon is driven by two forces, really.
00:06:36.000Amazon Web Services, which is large internet companies that they use their web services for hosting, and then also consumption, right?
00:06:43.000A lot of Amazon's product services and sales, that's how they make their money.
00:06:47.000The same thing is certainly true for Etsy and eBay, which are completely just product consumption.
00:06:51.000So when product consumption goes down, what you start to see is demand leveling off.
00:06:55.000When demand levels off and inflation is still high, we call this stagflation.
00:07:07.000At the beginning of the year, home loan rates We're 3.22%, so they've jumped more than 2% in the course of the last few months alone.
00:07:16.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the steady climb in mortgage rates shows no signs of slowing down.
00:07:19.000The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate home loan rose to 5.27% from 5.1% a week earlier, according to Freddie Mac, and marked the weekly figure's highest reading in nearly 13 years.
00:07:30.000Thursday's reading continued, what has been a rapid surge as the busy spring selling season takes hold.
00:07:35.000The average rate on America's most popular home loan was 3.22% in early January, 2.96% one year ago.
00:07:41.000From January to April, rates rose at their fastest three-month pace since 1994.
00:07:46.000On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a percentage point in a bid to curb inflation.
00:07:52.000Freddie's weekly average was recorded before the central bank's Wednesday announcement.
00:07:56.000So what that means is that you would imagine that these rates are going to continue to go up pretty sharply.
00:08:00.000And that means that your mortgage just got a lot more expensive.
00:08:03.000Now, maybe that is compensated for, at least in part, by dropping real estate prices.
00:08:08.000But that is going to hurt a lot of people who, for example, already own homes and spent the last couple of years buying homes in the inflated market.
00:08:15.000And now they're underwater on their mortgages.
00:08:17.000So you could start to see a real estate tumble based on that.
00:08:22.000In other words, when you inflate the economy this fast, and when you have supply chain crises, and when you have a government that is firmly convinced that dumping money into the economy is a good idea, there are predictable effects, and those effects include bubbles that burst.
00:08:36.000It's not people on the right just saying this.
00:08:38.000CNN's Harry Enten, who is certainly no right-winger, he says that Joe Biden has awful economic numbers, that these poll numbers are just bad for him.
00:08:58.00070 percent, it is 77 percent say bad, bad, bad.
00:09:02.000OK, well, if that many Americans feel that the economy is bad, it doesn't matter how many times Ron Klain retweets people saying the fundamentals of the economy are strong.
00:09:13.000People feel like their money is worth less because their money is worth less.
00:09:16.000People feel that demand is leveling off, which means that their job might go away, and they're very much afraid of that.
00:09:21.000People are feeling like they can't afford a mortgage in the first place, and now they doubly can't afford a mortgage.
00:09:25.000And then even if the prices come down, they certainly can't afford a mortgage because the mortgage rates are going to be 7-8% at the rate of increase that we are currently seeing on a 30-year fix, right?
00:09:48.000Chairman Powell said yesterday that he was aiming for a, quote, softish landing.
00:09:52.000I don't know how you would feel if you were on a plane and the pilot announced that he was aiming for a softish landing.
00:09:57.000It's a real question as to where this is going and how high rates will go, how high inflation will go, and what the impact of that will be on the economy, especially as we go into the midterms next year.
00:10:10.000Former Biden advisor, Jared Bernstein, is saying the same thing as a former advisor to Joe Biden when he was vice president of the United States.
00:10:16.000He says, I can't rule out a recession here because no one can rule out a recession here.
00:10:19.000And again, this is brought about by bad government policy.
00:10:22.000They're not impacting Europe the same way they're impacting the United States.
00:10:25.000This is a Federal Reserve, federal government policy, and it has generated a really, really dangerous time in the American economy.
00:10:33.000Can you tell the American people that we're not headed for a recession?
00:10:37.000I can tell the American people that we are much better positioned when it comes to that recession question than pretty much any other advanced economy I've seen.
00:10:46.000But probably more importantly, I can tell the American people that... So you can't rule it out, is what I'm hearing.
00:10:58.000I speak to investors on a routine basis, and the problem is because nobody knows where the economy is going, people are starting to get very tentative about where they put their money.
00:11:04.000Do you put it in real estate with these giant mortgage rates, knowing that the real estate prices are probably going to drop?
00:11:17.000Do you put your money into bonds, knowing that the federal government has inflationary policies that could kick back in a couple of years down the line?
00:11:26.000Do you just take your money out of the economy and sit on it?
00:11:28.000This is a major problem during the Obama era.
00:11:30.000During the Obama era, there were trillions of business investment dollars sitting on the sidelines because of the uncertainty about the economy, because of the regulatory policy of the administration.
00:11:48.000A few months ago, it was like, you just put it anywhere, right?
00:11:50.000A few months ago, it was like, buy an NFT, buy a gorilla NFT, and it'll be totally fine.
00:11:54.000A few months ago, it was like, just throw your money at some marginal real estate, it'll probably go up.
00:11:59.000There was this irrational exuberance, as Alan Greenspan used to suggest.
00:12:05.000And that irrational exuberance sort of repeated itself.
00:12:08.000So we saw a bubble, and now we are starting to see the bubble burst.
00:12:11.000Alrighty, coming up, you may have noticed that the economy is increasingly turning toward the worst.
00:12:16.000The Biden administration is just doubling down on stupid.
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00:13:28.000One of the big problems here is that you have an administration and a Federal Reserve that is still attempting to remake America according to its preferred political policies, which is pretty amazing.
00:13:43.000A few weeks ago, Ezra Klein did an interview.
00:13:47.000And in that interview with Larry Summers, he basically let the cat out of the bag.
00:13:51.000He said, you know, I'm looking at these economic numbers and the inflation numbers, and I know that that reality doesn't have to comport with my view of what reality ought to be.
00:13:58.000But it makes me sad that we really tried to run the economy hot in order to help the people at the bottom of the economic spectrum.
00:14:03.000And those are the people getting hurt the worst.
00:14:04.000And it's like, yes, of course, that's always how it works.
00:14:07.000When you inflate the economy, when you pursue bad economic policy that creates bad risk assessments, that creates bubbles, that then burst.
00:14:14.000But what Ezra Klein said was, I think, the way that the left views things, which is, well, you know, in any case, When things get bad, the people at the bottom get hit hardest.
00:14:21.000When things are good, people at the bottom aren't benefiting enough.
00:14:23.000Therefore, we should always pervert policy toward the people at the bottom of the economic spectrum.
00:14:28.000Now, the problem with that, listen, we can all be sympathetic to people at the bottom of the economic spectrum.
00:14:31.000The problem is when you create perverse incentives, the people who tend to take the perverse incentives are the people at the bottom of the economic spectrum who then end up holding the bag when the music stops.
00:14:43.000And that's precisely what happened in 2007-2008.
00:14:45.000We promoted subprime mortgages to people who literally had no ability to pay back those mortgages on the assumption that the real estate prices would continue to rise, and then they didn't rise, and then everybody went underwater, and then everybody went bankrupt.
00:14:57.000And now you're starting to see, it's amazing how history, this isn't even history repeating itself or rhyming, it's just history.
00:15:05.000A equals A. So now you have the Federal Reserve and top U.S.
00:15:09.000regulators who are now attempting to push exactly, precisely the same policy that brought about the 2007-2008 crash.
00:15:16.000According to the Wall Street Journal today, top U.S.
00:15:18.000regulators proposed overhauling how banks lend hundreds of billions of dollars annually in lower-income communities.
00:15:24.000The first major revamp to the standards in more than two decades, as lenders increasingly offer financial services online.
00:15:29.000The proposal to modernize rules for the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act was announced Thursday and could be finalized by the end of the year.
00:15:36.000It aims to ensure lending to lower-income individuals and small businesses is distributed more evenly where banks do business.
00:15:42.000Existing rules focus on bank activities around their physical branches.
00:15:45.000Those rules are outdated in a world in which much financial activity happens over the internet, with mobile phones, both bankers and community advocates say.
00:15:51.000Today's proposal seeks to expand access to credit, investment, and banking services in low- and middle-income communities, said incoming Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Lael Brainard in a written statement.
00:16:01.000The Fed is one of three regulators rewriting lending rules.
00:16:03.000The other two, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, also signed off on the proposal on Thursday.
00:16:09.000The regulators will collect public comments on the proposal through early August before writing final rules.
00:16:13.000Congressional approval is not necessary.
00:16:15.000Under the plan, large banks would face expanded scrutiny of their auto lending activities if such loans comprise a significant portion of their business in addition to mortgages and small business loans.
00:16:24.000Officials cited the importance of auto loans to lower income borrowers in explaining the added scrutiny.
00:16:29.000So again, the idea is to pressure banks to give loans more easily in low-income communities.
00:16:34.000The problem with this, of course, is that if banks actually thought it was highly profitable because people in low-income communities were paying back their loans at a good rate, don't you think they would already be taking advantage of those markets?
00:16:45.000The left holds these simultaneous positions about business.
00:16:47.000One, is that business is entirely profit-seeking.
00:16:50.000And two, is that business is perverse and non-profit-seeking when it comes to low-income communities.
00:16:56.000You can't hold both thoughts at the same time.
00:16:58.000You see the same thing with the left's view of how business treats women, right?
00:17:02.000Women are paid 77 cents on the dollar.
00:17:04.000So why wouldn't every profit-seeking, evil, greedy business hire only women?
00:17:09.000So you can't have it quite both ways, but the left always wants to have it both ways.
00:17:13.000According to the Wall Street Journal, The Community Reinvestment Act is designed to end redlining banks' historical practice of avoiding lending in certain areas, often lower-income communities, frequently leading to stark economic disparities along racial lines.
00:17:24.000The law is one of the major tools the government uses to encourage banks to lend more to low- and moderate-income communities.
00:17:31.000So again, they're now promoting rules that they are hoping are going to expand lending.
00:17:34.000I mean, right now credit, they're trying to drive the credit to prevent the inflation.
00:17:38.000But at the same time, they want to make it looser in terms of how you lend in low income communities, which are the most vulnerable communities in terms of which people are least likely to pay back loans.
00:17:49.000And then you wonder how bubbles are created.
00:17:52.000So get ready for economic pain because this administration has no plans up its sleeve other than economic pain.
00:17:59.000Nothing they do is designed toward actually solidifying the economy, making business people feel more comfortable with their investments, making people feel like the economy is going to continue to expand.
00:18:09.000I mean, you have the Treasury Secretary openly saying that countries attempting to make friendlier business climates is a race to the bottom.
00:18:17.000And then you're wondering why people are taking trillions of dollars out of their investments, cashing out and taking that cash and putting it on the sidelines.
00:18:27.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are pursuing radical social policy.
00:18:31.000So justices, I mean, this is kind of an amazing thing.
00:18:33.000And I got to put this on John Roberts at this point.
00:18:35.000John Roberts needs to just release the majority opinion in a row and be done.
00:18:38.000I think it's an actual sin what John Roberts is doing right now.
00:18:41.000If John Roberts thinks that a few additional weeks of consideration of this issue, when we already have the majority opinion, so he can change a few lines here or there, and we can go through our process, and this will uphold the institutional authority of the Supreme Court, and then everybody will be happier when we release a very similar opinion to the one that we already saw from Justice Alito.
00:18:58.000If he thinks that that upholds the institutional integrity of the Supreme Court, he's out of his mind.
00:19:03.000Roberts has been wrong every step of the way on this sort of stuff, by the way.
00:19:06.000Roberts, every time he says he wants to uphold the institutional integrity of the Supreme Court, he does something that undermines the institutional integrity of the Supreme Court.
00:19:12.000He'll be like, yeah, we can't knock down Obamacare, that'll undermine the integrity of the Supreme Court.
00:19:17.000So I'm going to write this decision, where in one part of the decision I call Obamacare a tax, and in another part I call it not a tax.
00:19:25.000This is the kind of stuff that Justice Roberts does.
00:19:27.000Well, right now, the thing that needs to happen is the Band-Aid needs to get pulled off.
00:19:31.000And it really needs to get pulled off for very practical safety reasons.
00:19:35.000Because there are people positing online right now.
00:19:38.000There was a British commentator who posited online a thought experiment, a trolley experiment, sort of a Derek Parfit moral thought experiment.
00:19:48.000His thought experiment, I kid you not, this is on Twitter, was If you could kill one of these Supreme Court justices in the majority today, and thus spare hundreds of thousands of women every year who want to have an abortion from the predations of state governments that prevent them from having abortions, isn't that worth it?
00:20:06.000And you have to imagine that some of that logic is going through the heads of people on the left right now.
00:20:10.000If they could snap their fingers and Justice Thomas just disappeared, do you think that they might do it?
00:20:14.000I'm not suggesting that every single person who opposes the decision is a potential assassin, of course.
00:20:19.000But if you are worried about the safety of justices, as you should be since they are now in hiding and a huge fence is out at the Supreme Court, a non-scalable fence is now out around the Supreme Court.
00:20:29.000If you're worried about that, shouldn't you just release the opinion?
00:20:32.000Because right now we are still at this inflection point with regard to this particular decision.
00:20:37.000And Democrats keep running the rhetoric extremely hot here, like really, really hot.
00:20:42.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Left-wing groups are currently planning to send activists and protesters to the homes of conservative justices, to their houses.
00:20:50.000An activist group called Ruth Sentos, as in Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who certainly would not be in favor of this, has published the supposed addresses of Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett, and Roberts, and are planning walk-bys of their homes Wednesday, May 11th.
00:21:11.000We must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics.
00:21:16.000This is extraordinarily dangerous stuff.
00:21:18.000Roberts needs to release the opinion and be done.
00:21:21.000Because until that opinion is released, these people really believe that they can either threaten or maybe do violence to justice in order to achieve their goals.
00:21:28.000What Roberts is doing right now is sinful.
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00:22:51.000So Jen Psaki yesterday, the outgoing White House press secretary, she's going to go get her slot, go get her, grab some cash over on MSNBC.
00:22:59.000She was over on CNN before, so she's moving around the left-wing networks and then into the friendly White House and then out again.
00:23:05.000So she was asked specifically about people doing these walk-by protests of justices' houses, which is insane.
00:23:13.000And here she was refusing to condemn people protesting outside justices' houses, which is a pure intimidation tactic.
00:23:43.000Look, I think the president's view is that there's a lot of passion, a lot of fear, a lot of sadness from many, many people across this country about what they saw in that leaked document.
00:24:04.000This is the same group of people, the same group of people who, when Sarah Palin put out a map at one point just showing congressional districts with targets on them for Republicans to put their money into.
00:24:17.000And then there was a shooting that had nothing to do with that congressional map.
00:24:20.000She was blamed as somebody who had put a target on the back of Gabby Giffords.
00:24:24.000It was a major national issue at the time.
00:24:27.000Barack Obama basically went to Arizona and implied the same thing.
00:24:31.000That sort of rhetoric was apparently out of bounds.
00:24:32.000Now you have the White House, the White House, refusing to condemn people showing up at the homes of Supreme Court justices they disagree with?
00:25:06.000Suffice it to say that if you are somebody who is giving communion to a president of the United States who holds this position, I am wondering why.
00:25:13.000Is there any other position that a Catholic could hold that is so in direct conflict with Catholic doctrine and get away with getting communion?
00:25:21.000Could you be like pro-murder and get away with getting communion?
00:25:24.000Like that's how your actual platform is.
00:25:43.000Does the president support abortion up until the moment of birth?
00:25:46.000The president has spoken about this many times, Peter, and I would refer you to his own comments about abortion and a woman's right to choose and make decisions about her body with her doctor, which is what any of those women would do.
00:26:15.000And again, you cannot find any Democrat in a major position of power who will condemn the leak, or the violence, or any of it, in the same way that you couldn't find a major Democrat during the BLM riots to full-throatedly condemn the violence.
00:26:27.000If they did, they're like, yeah, rioting is bad, but you have to understand the sentiments that lead to the rioting.
00:26:33.000Violence is not a bad thing to the left, so long as it tends to support its general presumptions about the world.
00:26:40.000In fact, the only Democrats that you can find to condemn things like leaks from the Supreme Court are Democrats who believe they're in trouble in swing states.
00:26:47.000Literally, the only Democrat that I have seen who condemned the leak and the threats against SCOTUS justices, the only one I can find is Mark Warner in Virginia.
00:26:54.000And the reason Mark Warner in Virginia is feeling a little vulnerable is because Glenn Youngkin just got elected governor of Virginia.
00:27:10.000Whether you're a Supreme Court justice who's under threat, whether you're some of the people who, senators who voted for the impeachment of Mr. Trump, whose lives are put in threat, I think that kind of action is outrageous, either end of the political spectrum.
00:27:24.000And we need to do all we can, and if there are more, you know, Secret Service or other security entities that need to protect our justices, amen.
00:28:36.000So it's now extreme power allowing it to take hold when the justices do not usurp the authority of state legislatures and naturally just revert that authority back to state legislatures.
00:28:45.000Also, again, notice how for Democrats, when they are arguing over this row thing, they never just argue the row thing.
00:28:52.000They don't argue about the abortion laws.
00:28:54.000Instead, it's about so much more than that.
00:29:26.000By the way, as I said earlier, they're not even going to ban same-sex marriage again.
00:29:31.000The Supreme Court says in this decision that they are not even going to visit, revisit Obergefell.
00:29:36.000And as I said before, regardless of what you feel about same-sex marriage, there is no Supreme Court precedent before Obergefell that suggests a long-standing national right to same-sex marriage.
00:29:45.000But they're not even going to revise that.
00:29:47.000So all this slippery slope talk is just an easy way for you guys to avoid the actual issue here, which is the Supreme Court got out of the abortion business here and said that states now get to vote on the most critical life issue in America, which is the way that it's supposed to work under the Federalist system.
00:30:05.000Meanwhile, Democrats again, the rhetoric just gets more and more extreme.
00:30:08.000If they think that, I'm bewildered by these folks.
00:30:10.000They have no interest in fixing the economy.
00:30:12.000They have no interest in fixing the border, the things that people are actually going to vote based on.
00:30:16.000Instead, they think that if they just rant and rave about Emily's List, that somehow massive numbers of Americans are going to be motivated to turn up at the ballot box.
00:30:52.000Except for, you know, all of the girls who will be killed in sex-selective abortions.
00:30:56.000Or all of the women who will be victimized by never being told what exactly is growing inside them, never being allowed to see an ultrasound in left-wing states.
00:31:04.000Except for all of the women who will feel regret and shame at the killing of their unborn kids.
00:31:08.000Except for all of the women who've been indoctrinated into a perverse view of the world in which killing your unborn child is somehow a form of virtue.
00:31:15.000Yeah, we don't care about women except for any of those things.
00:31:17.000Here's Maisie Hirono doing her shtick.
00:31:20.000Fundamentally, Republicans don't give a rip about women.
00:31:23.000They are more angry, incensed, and, whatever words, outraged by the leak than they are by the fact that women in this country are going to wake up one morning and realize they no longer control their own bodies.
00:31:41.000And this sort of language is always very bizarre from the left.
00:31:44.000Women don't control their own bodies, really.
00:31:46.000It turns out there are a series of steps that generally lead to an abortion.
00:31:51.000They put aside cases of rape and incest, which again, amount to a tiny fraction of all abortion cases.
00:31:56.000Whenever you hear somebody on the left argue about rape and incest, understand they're not arguing about the central case.
00:32:00.000They're deliberately picking what we call in the law, edge cases, so they cannot argue about the central case.
00:32:04.000Because if anybody, like for example, Mitt Romney, this is his actual position, said fine, Abortion in cases of rape and incest is OK with me.
00:32:11.000They wouldn't then go, OK, well, I guess we can now do an abortion law that bans the rest.
00:32:16.000When they say that it's about women's bodily autonomy, women have the choice in the United States whether to have sex.
00:32:21.000They have a choice how to have sex, with whom to have sex, whether to use contraceptives or not.
00:32:25.000Those are all choices that a woman gets to make about her own body.
00:32:28.000The question here is, what do you have the ability to make a choice about with regard to another person's body?
00:32:34.000Namely, the person that's created inside you when you have sex, a natural outgrowth of sexual activity.
00:32:40.000I know that we have to live in this bizarre fantasy land in which sex and baby making are completely disconnected, unlike every other mammal on planet Earth, and unlike all of the human species until about the year 1960.
00:33:26.000And whenever the left kind of engages in the Michel Foucault argument that all human language, all truth is just a function of power, understand that's how they think.
00:33:44.000And for them it's just all about power.
00:33:45.000So sometimes women are women, sometimes women are not.
00:33:47.000Sometimes abortion is termination of a pregnancy, sometimes it's shout your abortion.
00:33:52.000Sometimes human beings are children, sometimes they are not.
00:33:56.000Depends on what day it is for Joe Biden, or what state of mind he is in, or whether he's had his pudding that morning.
00:34:02.000But again, the sort of female equality argument is the weakest of all arguments the Democrats trot forth, and it is anti-biological.
00:34:08.000Here's Senator Gillibrand doing the same thing.
00:34:11.000I do not think that 50% of America should be told that they have to put their bodies at risk of life or death without their consent.
00:34:23.000It is barbaric, it is inhumane, it is unacceptable, and I hope every human being in this country understands that when you take away a woman's right to make her decisions about her health and well-being, she is no longer a full citizen.
00:34:43.000Women are no longer full citizens unless they can kill their baby, unless they can decide on their own whether a baby is a baby or a cancer.
00:34:51.000Turning your own child into your enemy is real pagan type stuff.
00:34:56.000The child growing in your womb as your bodily enemy seeking to destroy you is pretty evil, I think.
00:35:04.000I think it's fair to say that if your view widespread is that women should view the child growing within them as a potential enemy, as opposed to, you know, the thing that you are supposed to generally lay down your life for, men and women.
00:35:15.000Adults are supposed to get in the way of bullets for kids.
00:35:19.000You have an entire political party that now suggests that kids ought to be devalued based on the subjective opinion of a woman at the time, encouraged by people like Kristen Gillibrand.
00:35:28.000Democratic language on abortion is so hideous.
00:36:54.000Well, it is that glorious time of the week when I give a shout-out to a Daily Wire member.
00:36:57.000Today, it's Colin Pesch on Twitter, who understands the importance of raising your children right.
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00:37:13.000Yes, that's some excellent dadding right there.
00:37:29.000We're going to take a bunch of leftist arguments and we are going to debunk them.
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00:37:38.000I expose leftists for the frauds they are.
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00:38:43.000I believe in the right to an abortion.
00:38:46.000And this is something I came to over many years.
00:38:48.000I grew up in the deep south in a religious community where the question of abortion was almost unequivocally no.
00:38:55.000But it took my exposure to a broader set of conversations, including to a friend, a dear friend in Mississippi who had to make a tough choice without the support she needed, without support from me, for me to start to think about what does that mean?
00:39:10.000So she is an unequivocal abortion supporter because she had a friend.
00:39:25.000I mean, Representative Pramila Jayapal, she says this is government-mandated pregnancy, which is sort of like saying that digesting your food Is not the natural outgrowth of eating it.
00:39:36.000Like, generally speaking, when you have sex, it carries the risk of having children.
00:39:41.000That is a natural outgrowth of having sex.
00:39:42.000But here's Pramila Jayapal suggesting governmental mandated pregnancy as though it's a matter of complete neutrality.
00:39:48.000Whether your body creates a baby once there is a baby inside it.
00:39:53.000Our doctors and our loved ones that we want to bring in, but nobody else is going to carry this child.
00:39:59.000This is government-mandated pregnancy, and it is an outrage, and I think it is... No, it's biologically mandated pregnancy.
00:40:06.000It really undermines and delegitimizes the Supreme Court as a body that can make decisions that are not just purely political, and Supreme Court justices that frankly lied under oath.
00:40:21.000The evil dehumanization of those who are pre-born, those in the womb, which, by the way, represents every single person you see talking today on the screen.
00:40:28.000Every single one of those person was once in the womb, without variation.
00:40:34.000All those people being treated as though they do not exist, as though their interests have no bearing on the case.
00:40:39.000That dehumanization, I was told by people on the left, dehumanization is the root of all evil.
00:40:44.000It is definitely the root of all evil, and you guys engage in it on a daily basis.
00:41:13.000Having kids is about releasing control, okay?
00:41:15.000As the father of three, let me say, having kids is about understanding that you don't control everything in life and that you have to give up a lot of your life priorities in favor of these tiny human beings.
00:41:25.000For the left, it's about control, which is why they think it's okay to kill kids, to maintain control.
00:42:04.000Again, it's amazing how folks on the left They will pretend that they don't think that what's going on in the womb is a child, just because they can't stand the cognitive dissonance of actually acknowledging what they're doing.
00:42:15.000Some of them will, and then it's really ugly.
00:42:17.000You'll see a few wild leftists will be like, yeah, I know it's a baby and I don't care about the baby and I'll kill it.
00:43:45.000Phrasing like pregnant people or people who seek an abortion seeks to include people who have those experiences but do not identify as women, such as some transgender men and some non-binary people.
00:43:56.000Such phrasing should be confined to stories that specifically address the experiences of people who do not identify as women.
00:44:02.000See, gender, sex, and sexual orientation.
00:44:03.000Okay, so understand what the AP is doing right here.
00:44:05.000They're making a linguistic excuse for why you can make a war on women argument about abortion, and then switch right over and say that some men are women.
00:44:14.000They're saying that when you're writing about abortion, you should use the term women so that you can talk about how women are being attacked by men.
00:44:21.000But then when you're talking about transgenderism, then you should use pregnant people so as not to offend the women who believe they are men.
00:44:28.000Language is just a pure tool of political narrative and power.
00:44:30.000That's what the AP is saying right there.
00:44:34.000And in the end, that's what it comes down to for the left.
00:44:38.000It will always continue to be about the power.
00:44:41.000And that power to apparently kill the unborn is of deep importance to the left, deep and abiding importance to the left in a fundamental way.
00:44:50.000Which should say something pretty deep and abiding about leftist perspectives on the world and why they should never be allowed this sort of power.
00:44:57.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:45:00.000In the meantime, end the week by tuning into The Andrew Klavan Show.
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