The Ben Shapiro Show - March 17, 2023


The Elites Who Control Our Lives Are F***ing Weird

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Kamala Harris gives an inspiring speech after losing to Kansas in the first round of the NCAA tournament, and then gets booed by the fans at the arena where she was shown on the jumbotron. It was the most inspiring speech anyone has ever given, and it was delivered by a woman who was booed when she showed up to the game and then proceeded to give a pep talk to the entire arena. It was a moment that stood out to me the most, not because of her performance, but because it was in response to a team that had just lost a game they were supposed to win, and she still showed up and delivered a speech that was so inspiring, it made me so proud of all the Bison. I hope you're proud of them, and I'll see them at the White House on Friday afternoon. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by Express VPN. Get ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVPN.me/TheBenShapiroShow and use the promo code: "ExpressVPN" to get 20% off your first month with discount code "BONUS" at checkout. You won't want to miss it! Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, podcaster, and podcaster. His work can be found on all major podcast directories, podcasting platforms, and social media platforms. If you're looking for the best of the best, listen to the Ben Shapiro, tweet me , and tell me what you thought of Ben Shapiro's work, if you like what you think of it's work? or if you think it's good work, tweet him and he's great, if he's good, and he'll like it's a tweet me a review or a tweet about it's great work, and/or he's cool, I'll say so I'll tell me about it :) tweet me what he said it's awesome or not good enough. ;) linktr.ee/Ben Shapiro is an amazing guy. . Thank you, Ben Shapiro Thanks Ben Shapiro - - tweet me! - or you're cool, right? - Ben Shapiro: ? Timestamps: 5:30 - 5:00 - 6:15 - What do you think about this episode? 7:40 - What's your favorite moment? 8:10 - How do you like it?

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00:00:07.000 Well, March Madness began yesterday and it was, you know, a spectacular beginning.
00:00:12.000 There was a 15 seed that beat a 2 seed.
00:00:14.000 You know, it's all begun, but there was one moment that really shone above all the others during March Madness.
00:00:21.000 So, there was a 16-1 game.
00:00:23.000 Okay, meaning a 16 seed playing a 1 seed.
00:00:26.000 That 16 seed was Howard University.
00:00:28.000 They haven't been in the tournament for a long time.
00:00:31.000 And the one seed was Kansas.
00:00:33.000 So, you know, not a shock that the one seed won and won pretty handily, 96 to 68.
00:00:39.000 But the real headline here is that Kamala Harris showed up.
00:00:41.000 So Kamala Harris apparently showed up to the game and then proceeded to get booed, actually. 1.00
00:00:47.000 She got booed when she showed up to the game when she was shown on the arena's jumbotron. 0.99
00:00:50.000 So that is, I think, you know, deserved.
00:00:56.000 But that wasn't the real headline here.
00:00:58.000 The real headline is what Kamala Harris did right after.
00:01:00.000 And I saw this clip last night.
00:01:02.000 And I have to give credit to Javier, our security guy, because he's the one who made me aware of this.
00:01:08.000 And he deserves all the credit for what's about to grace your screens and your ears.
00:01:13.000 Because this is just the most spectacular Kamala Harris performance of all time. 0.60
00:01:18.000 So Howard has just gotten its butt handed to it by Kansas. 0.96
00:01:22.000 And again, no shame in that. 0.96
00:01:23.000 They're a 16 seed playing a 1 seed.
00:01:24.000 They're supposed to lose, and the first half was relatively close.
00:01:26.000 The second half, they sort of fell apart.
00:01:29.000 Not atypical in a game like this.
00:01:30.000 But imagine that you've spent the entire season trying to play into the NCAA tournament.
00:01:35.000 You finally get there and you get whooped by almost 30 points.
00:01:39.000 And then in strolls the Vice President of the United States.
00:01:43.000 One of the most charmless, graceless people ever to walk the political stage.
00:01:48.000 And she is there to give you a pep speech.
00:01:51.000 A pep speech after you've just lost by 30 points.
00:01:54.000 She's going to give an inspirational, uplifting talk.
00:01:57.000 This is our political class in a nutshell.
00:01:58.000 It's all Veep.
00:02:00.000 It is all just a giant joke, and these are all jokers.
00:02:02.000 Just imagine, honestly, imagine the feelings of the players who have played the whole year to get to the tournament, they've just lost, and they're like, God, all I want to do is take a shower, and if I'm of age, have a beer, and go home.
00:02:16.000 And in strolls the Vice President of the United States with the cameras to give an uplifting, inspiring speech.
00:02:21.000 But it's Kamala Harris style, so here we go.
00:02:26.000 You played hard.
00:02:28.000 You played to the very last second.
00:02:31.000 You made all us Bison so, so proud.
00:02:36.000 You hustled down there.
00:02:37.000 You are smart.
00:02:39.000 You are disciplined.
00:02:41.000 You put everything you had into the game.
00:02:44.000 And you know that's what it's about, right?
00:02:46.000 Until the last minute.
00:02:49.000 You guys did that.
00:02:50.000 You didn't stop until the last second and you did not stop.
00:02:54.000 And that is so inspiring.
00:02:57.000 So you keep playing with chin up and shoulders back.
00:03:02.000 Because you showed the world who bison are. 1.00
00:03:08.000 Right?
00:03:09.000 Sweet baby.
00:03:10.000 I mean, literally what you have done is in historic proportion.
00:03:16.000 You know, I was at Howard back in the day, where we were just happy that there was a game!
00:03:21.000 Much less getting to this place!
00:03:24.000 Right?
00:03:25.000 And I see Bison literally all over the world, and we've been talking about you, this team, this team, you all, this team, this year, this team.
00:03:35.000 Oh, she's so terrible.
00:03:36.000 You make us so proud.
00:03:39.000 So I know you may not be feeling great right now.
00:03:42.000 Okay?
00:03:43.000 But know who you are.
00:03:46.000 You are excellent.
00:03:49.000 You are hard work.
00:03:50.000 You are powerful.
00:03:51.000 And you are winners.
00:03:54.000 Alright?
00:03:54.000 So please know that.
00:03:56.000 Please know that.
00:03:57.000 And I'll see you later.
00:03:58.000 And if you guys ever want to come and do a White House show, where's Coach?
00:04:02.000 Where's Coach?
00:04:04.000 There you are!
00:04:06.000 Come, so we should, we plan, if you guys want at some point, right?
00:04:10.000 When it's like a, you know, when you feel like playing hooky on Friday afternoon, whatever, just come and we'll do a White House tour, okay?
00:04:17.000 Alright, I'm so proud of you guys.
00:04:19.000 So proud of you.
00:04:21.000 Alright, I'll see you later.
00:04:24.000 They're like, please, I hope we don't see you later.
00:04:26.000 Goodbye.
00:04:26.000 Well, that wasn't that inspiring.
00:04:27.000 That was the most inspiring speech since that one time that that girl played in the in the football game and then she kicked a squib kick and then she gave a picker upper talk at halftime.
00:04:36.000 That is just inspiring stuff from Kamala Harris.
00:04:37.000 Just slow clap for the vice president of the United States. 1.00
00:04:40.000 All of politics is morons. 1.00
00:04:42.000 Hey, they're all stupid. 1.00
00:04:43.000 I'm just going to say it right now. 1.00
00:04:44.000 They're all idiots. 1.00
00:04:45.000 Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States. 1.00
00:04:48.000 She has no sense of time.
00:04:49.000 She has no sense of place.
00:04:50.000 She has no sense of the emotional reality of losing an NCAA basketball game.
00:04:55.000 She strolls on in and makes a political speech with no content whatsoever. 0.93
00:04:59.000 And everybody is just supposed to nod.
00:05:01.000 Oh, my God. 0.90
00:05:02.000 She's so terrible. 0.90
00:05:03.000 She's so awful at this. 0.91
00:05:05.000 And the reason that I begin with this is because that's all of them!
00:05:08.000 They're all like this!
00:05:10.000 I've met many politicians.
00:05:12.000 The number of politicians...
00:05:14.000 Who have this extraordinary sense of egotism that the entire world revolves around them.
00:05:19.000 They walk into a room and the only thing that matters is the words that are going to spill from their mouths, like pearls from the mouth of Demosthenes.
00:05:28.000 Like, it's amazing.
00:05:30.000 It's amazing.
00:05:30.000 The lack of self-awareness, just the utter self-censored narcissism of these people.
00:05:36.000 And that is why our policies suck everywhere and for all time, because that's who politics draws, apparently. 0.95
00:05:43.000 We'll get to what that means for us in just one second.
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00:06:49.000 Alrighty, so it has now been three years, the anniversary was yesterday, of 15 days to slow the spread.
00:06:56.000 Isn't that exciting?
00:06:56.000 You remember that happened March 15th, 2020.
00:06:58.000 15 days to slow the spread.
00:07:00.000 One of the signal moments in American history.
00:07:02.000 Now, it's understandable at the time.
00:07:05.000 I don't want to do this routine where 2020 is hindsight.
00:07:07.000 At the time, people didn't know that much about the virus.
00:07:10.000 It was arguable as to what exactly should be done.
00:07:14.000 But the broad smiles on the faces of the people who are about to implement 15 days to slow the spread, which actually meant three years to slow the spread, trillions of dollars blown into the economy, an inflationary spiral, a shutdown on hundreds of thousands of small businesses, the destruction of children's lives for two years.
00:07:31.000 The smiles on their faces ushering this thing in.
00:07:34.000 are creepy in retrospect.
00:07:36.000 Let's just say that.
00:07:37.000 Because this was the beginning, right?
00:07:39.000 This did not turn out the way they said it would turn out.
00:07:41.000 It wasn't, in fact, a concerted strategy.
00:07:44.000 It was not, in fact, a way of gaining control over the virus because it didn't do that.
00:07:50.000 It was an element of one ultra crepedarian side of society, the expert class, deciding for the rest of us what life was going to be like. 1.00
00:07:59.000 Here is the clip for those who don't remember that terrible day, March 15th, 2020.
00:08:04.000 He was my mentor, so I'm going to have to let him speak.
00:08:07.000 The small print here, it's really small print.
00:08:11.000 In states with evidence of community transmission, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.
00:08:25.000 And look how happy he is.
00:08:26.000 Look how pleased they are with themselves.
00:08:27.000 They are so pleased with themselves.
00:08:30.000 Now, of course, the big problem here is that President Trump had the right instincts, which was don't shut everything down, but he was essentially encouraged to defer to the quote-unquote expert class.
00:08:40.000 And the expert class blew it.
00:08:41.000 They blew it for three long years.
00:08:42.000 They are still blowing it.
00:08:44.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci, who just will not leave.
00:08:47.000 I mean, I thought he was going to leave already, but apparently he is still here.
00:08:49.000 And let me just ask you, I know it's radical, but let me ask a doctor a medical question.
00:08:55.000 How are we doing in the COVID battle right now?
00:09:00.000 We can do better than we're doing.
00:09:02.000 We've got to get that death rate, which is around 400 or so, sometimes as high as 500, sometimes down to 300 per day. We've really got to do better than that. I mean, if you look at the relative percentage of people who have are updated on their boosters, we have less than 20% of the eligible people have received that updated BA four or five boost. So we've got to do better than that,
00:09:29.000 even though we're doing much better than we were. Shots and shots and shots and shots.
00:09:34.000 It's the only way out.
00:09:35.000 80% of your body mass must be made up of the vaccine, despite the fact that, again, the data tend to show that natural immunity is just as durable, if not more durable, than the actual vaccines themselves, particularly when it comes to Omicron, which is not nearly as deadly as the original variant.
00:09:49.000 But the key to understanding Anthony Fauci and what the last three years have been is this clip.
00:09:53.000 He says, you know what?
00:09:54.000 When we've been giving you data, when we've been out there saying contradictory things, it's not because we're flip-flopping.
00:09:59.000 It's because we're learning.
00:10:00.000 I wish that were true.
00:10:02.000 I wish that were true.
00:10:02.000 I wish that Anthony Fauci, I wish the expert class had been transparent the whole way.
00:10:06.000 But they're not.
00:10:07.000 They're not.
00:10:07.000 They believe in an esoteric, exoteric distinction when it comes to politics.
00:10:11.000 Very famously, there's a philosopher named Leo Strauss who talks about Plato.
00:10:15.000 And what he suggests is that there are people who read Plato and then they sort of just read it at face value, but there's a deeper meaning to it.
00:10:20.000 And the deeper meaning is planted there for the specific elite and everybody else.
00:10:24.000 That's the esoteric.
00:10:25.000 And then the exoteric is what everybody else is able to read.
00:10:28.000 When it comes to your job as a public servant, providing information to the public, There should not be an esoteric-exoteric distinction.
00:10:35.000 It shouldn't be that the elites get one message, and everybody else gets the other.
00:10:37.000 There shouldn't be platonic lies.
00:10:39.000 Anthony Fauci insists there were not platonic lies, but we know for a fact that there were platonic lies.
00:10:43.000 And that is why the elites blow it, and they continue to blow it.
00:10:46.000 Here was Anthony Fauci yesterday.
00:10:48.000 What have you learned three years in about COVID?
00:10:52.000 The big surprise of all, when we expected that it would go up and then go back down and then sort of disappear and go into the background, we wound up having variant after variant and surge after surge.
00:11:07.000 Right up to what we're having right now, which are sub-lineages of the Omicron surge, which started well over a year ago.
00:11:14.000 So this has been really a moving target.
00:11:17.000 And that's the reason why we've had many times change some of the things that we said and recommended.
00:11:24.000 People saying that's flip-flopping, but it isn't.
00:11:27.000 It's learning as you go along and making your recommendations according to the new data as it evolves.
00:11:35.000 If they had been fully transparent, that would be true, but it is not true.
00:11:38.000 There were no new data suggesting that masks suddenly became effective after Anthony Fauci said they weren't effective after saying that they were effective.
00:11:44.000 There was no new data suggesting that protesting certain causes was okay, but protesting other causes was not okay.
00:11:49.000 There was no new data suggesting that certain types of outdoor activity should be banned, but other types of outdoor activity should not be banned.
00:11:55.000 Like, the data were pretty clear in the early days exactly what COVID was and what COVID was not.
00:12:01.000 The data changed when it came to, for example, or they were just lying about the data and falsifying the data with regard to transmissibility after vaccination.
00:12:08.000 But this is this is the key.
00:12:10.000 The experts keep claiming over and over and over that they are able to control all the vicissitudes of life, all of the risks of life.
00:12:17.000 And then they blow it.
00:12:18.000 And then they wonder why people look at them.
00:12:19.000 And they say, you experts don't know bleep.
00:12:22.000 We do not trust you anymore.
00:12:23.000 They have blown all institutional trust.
00:12:25.000 Which brings us to the state of the economy.
00:12:27.000 And to that in just one moment.
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00:13:32.000 Okay, so this brings us to the financial situation.
00:13:35.000 Our experts keep claiming that everything is under control.
00:13:38.000 And the minute that our experts now say that everything is under control, I start to check my wallet.
00:13:42.000 Because I have serious, serious doubts.
00:13:44.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the biggest banks in the United States swooped in to rescue First Republic Bank with a flood of cash totaling $30 billion yesterday in an effort to stop a spreading panic following a pair of recent bank failures.
00:13:54.000 The bank executives came together in recent days to formulate the plan, discussing it with Treasury Secretary Jenny Yellen and other officials and regulators in Washington, D.C., people familiar with the matter said.
00:14:03.000 Apparently, the banks have already taken out, I kid you not, something like $168 billion from the Federal Reserve in terms of borrowing from the Federal Reserve in order to shore up their balance sheets in expectation of possible future runs.
00:14:18.000 The possibility of a real recession now is becoming larger and larger, which is exactly what Goldman Sachs says.
00:14:25.000 The attempt to save the First Republic is probably how they should have done it with Silicon Valley Bank.
00:14:28.000 But as you'll recall, the Federal Reserve decided, the FDIC decided they were not going to allow a full bidding process to just pick up and save Silicon Valley Bank by other big banks.
00:14:38.000 Instead, they were going to make you, the taxpayer, bear the burden of filling in all of those Unsecured depositors, which puts the Federal Reserve on the hook for trillions of dollars in unsecured deposit holdings if one of these banks goes under.
00:14:54.000 All of these banks, their stock dropped yesterday.
00:14:57.000 JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, they're each making a $5 billion uninsured deposit into First Republic in order to, again, shore up their balance sheets.
00:15:05.000 Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are each kicking in $2.5 billion apiece.
00:15:08.000 Five other banks are contributing $1 billion apiece.
00:15:11.000 The Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, FDIC, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said, quote, this show of support by a group of large banks is most welcome and demonstrates the resilience of the banking system.
00:15:22.000 Now, again, this sounds a little too easy, honestly.
00:15:27.000 So yesterday, Janet Yellen gave testimony on the Hill where she suggested that our banking system remains sound.
00:15:34.000 Again, this is the same lady who suggested that inflation was going to be transitory and that blowing money into the economy was not going to be a permanent problem.
00:15:41.000 I can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system is sound and that Americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them.
00:15:53.000 This week's actions demonstrate our resolute commitment to ensure that our financial system remains strong and that depositors' savings remain safe.
00:16:06.000 Well, do you feel secure now that she said it?
00:16:07.000 All the experts are saying they're under control.
00:16:09.000 It's under control.
00:16:09.000 Just like COVID was under control, 15 days to slow the spread.
00:16:12.000 They always have it under control until precisely the moment that they do not.
00:16:16.000 One big problem when it comes to First Republic is that the systemic problems that actually attend to First Republic are slightly different than the systemic problems with Silicon Valley Bank.
00:16:23.000 The Silicon Valley Bank over-invested in U.S.
00:16:26.000 government bonds or mortgage-backed securities.
00:16:29.000 That was one of their big problems.
00:16:32.000 15% of First Republic's $212 billion in assets are investment securities, mostly made up of municipal bonds.
00:16:37.000 Now, muni bonds have the advantage, according to the Wall Street Journal, of being tax exempt, and they bear a low risk weighting for the purposes of calculating capital to meet the regulatory standards.
00:16:46.000 Most muni bonds are held by households and mutual funds that are thinly traded on the secondary market.
00:16:51.000 Muni bonds also have a similar duration risk to other long-dated government securities, but they can't be rapidly sold to redeem deposits.
00:16:56.000 So that means that First Republic is actually not all that liquid.
00:17:00.000 So another illustration of how Dodd-Frank failed.
00:17:03.000 First Republic's tier one leverage ratio is greater than that of most big banks, but it might not be enough to absorb all of the losses.
00:17:08.000 So in other words, you know, this notion that simply shoring up their current holdings is going to be enough.
00:17:13.000 If they're not liquid, it may not be enough if there were to be a run on the bank.
00:17:18.000 Jenny Ellen also admitted yesterday, by the way, that the SVB bailouts of uninsured deposit holders, unsecured deposit holders, she admitted that that sort of bailout is not going to apply to rural community banks.
00:17:28.000 So apparently it only applies to the ones that are quote-unquote too big to fail or too properly located to fail.
00:17:34.000 Every bank, every community bank in Oklahoma, regardless of the size of the deposit, will they get the same treatment that SVBP just got or Signature Bank just got?
00:17:45.000 A bank only gets that treatment if a majority of the FDIC board, a supermajority, a supermajority of the Fed board and I in consultation with the president determine that the failure to protect uninsured depositors would create systemic risk So it won't create systemic risk if a small bank fails and it's a bunch of farmers.
00:18:15.000 But if it's Silicon Valley Bank and they are tied into the entire system because it is elite people who are using those institutions, all those people get bailed out.
00:18:24.000 By the way, this is the same Jenny Ellen.
00:18:26.000 Again, her expertise is supposed to make you feel secure.
00:18:28.000 This is the same Jenny Ellen who said literally yesterday in testimony that reckless spending did not contribute to the collapse.
00:18:32.000 She was asked if reckless spending contributed to the collapse.
00:18:34.000 She's like, no, not at all.
00:18:37.000 Will this administration acknowledge that their reckless tax spending contributed to not only the challenges that we see in everyday households, but also to challenges that we're facing today with SVB?
00:18:49.000 Look, inflation is too high and it is the President's top priority to bring it down.
00:18:56.000 And there are many contributors to why inflation is too high.
00:19:01.000 Importantly, fallout from the pandemic and Russia's war on Ukraine that boosted food and energy prices.
00:19:10.000 Many countries around the world suffer from the same problem.
00:19:15.000 So it wasn't the reckless spending.
00:19:18.000 So we'll keep going with the reckless spending and then she will assure you that everything is going to be just fine.
00:19:23.000 Again, I have doubts.
00:19:24.000 I have serious doubts.
00:19:25.000 Because Janet Yellen, Kamala Harris, these are all part of the same broad political class.
00:19:31.000 Anthony Fauci.
00:19:32.000 Now the notion that the expert class in politics is different from the political class generally is a category error.
00:19:36.000 A lot of these people are not, in fact, predominantly experts in their fields who are concerned with getting the answer right.
00:19:42.000 Many of them are very much in favor of being in charge of the levers of public policy and that requires a certain level Of self-confidence that often crosses over into narcissistic arrogance that allows you to make predictions that simply are not true and play with people's money and lives in the process.
00:19:58.000 In just one second, we'll see the kind of people who are now being incentivized to get into positions of responsibility at banks like Credit Suisse.
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00:20:55.000 Okay, so Credit Suisse was one of the other banks that was sort of on the chopping block here.
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00:21:08.000 Okay, so Credit Suisse was one of the other banks that was sort of on the chopping block here.
00:21:13.000 They've had an infusion of cash from the Swiss National Bank.
00:21:17.000 It is unclear, other than Credit Suisse's kind of general mismanagement over the course of the last three years, what makes them more systemically risky than other banks.
00:21:25.000 But that mismanagement has been presided over by the head of global markets at Credit Suisse, a person named Pipps Bunce.
00:21:34.000 Well, Pipps Bunce is an interesting human.
00:21:34.000 Pipps Bunce.
00:21:38.000 Pipps Bunce, his name is Philip Bunce.
00:21:41.000 He is a dude, but he is known, according to the Evening Standard in the UK, to sometimes go to work in a wig and women's clothing.
00:21:47.000 It was also named on the Financial Times and Heroes' Champions of Women in Business list, an annual ranking of 100 company leaders who support women in business.
00:21:56.000 This is Gender Fluid, Senior Director at Credit Suisse.
00:21:59.000 This is back in 2018.
00:22:02.000 So, this man is one of the 100 best women in business, according to the Financial Times.
00:22:08.000 Known as Pip Spuns, the director of who is Credit Suisse's head of global markets core engineering integration components, came in 32nd on the Financial Times list of 100 female business champions, despite the fact that he is in fact a male who is married to a woman and has a couple of kids.
00:22:23.000 After receiving that award, he said in a statement, I am truly honored and humbled by this award and I'm proud of the progress we are making toward all forms of gender diversity and equality.
00:22:31.000 These are the people who are running our institutions increasingly.
00:22:34.000 If this seems strange to you, it shouldn't be because we are a society that is completely devoted to the idea that.
00:22:40.000 Forms of forms of oddity and weirdness are not indicators of any of any failures of risk assessment whatsoever.
00:22:48.000 It's just, this is the normal.
00:22:50.000 It's the new normal, guys.
00:22:51.000 It's just normal.
00:22:52.000 Here is McKenzie celebrating Pips Buns.
00:22:56.000 I think as an LGBTQI leader, I think some of the things that's really helped me on my own journey is, you know, A, being really proud of who I am, you know, really owning my authenticity because I think people relate and can relate to you so much better when they know you're being totally genuine, sincere and honest.
00:23:10.000 I think also, you know, having had certain amounts of adversity on your own journey, I think that in-builds into you a fair amount of sort of extra resilience, which then really helps empower your own sort of leadership skills.
00:23:22.000 Intersectionality to me means, you know, we don't all fit into a nice single one box.
00:23:25.000 You know, I'm non-binary, I'm gender fluid, I'm trans, I'm many different things.
00:23:29.000 We all, you know, have so many different amazing attributes.
00:23:30.000 Alliance LGBTQ conference talking about what intersectionality means to him.
00:23:35.000 Intersectionality to me means, you know, we don't all fit into a nice single one box.
00:23:41.000 You know, I'm non-binary, I'm gender fluid, I'm trans, I'm many different things.
00:23:45.000 We all, you know, have so many different amazing attributes.
00:23:48.000 To me, we're all the same, uniquely different.
00:23:51.000 Remember, power should never be concentrated in too few hands, because very often people are strange and weird. And the people who often seek that power in today's modern world are people who are not doing so out of a sense of duty to their fellow human beings.
00:24:06.000 They are seeking that power not because they believe that they are going to quote unquote better the world for anyone except for their own particular type.
00:24:13.000 It's it's a Strange and terrifying move on behalf of Western civilization when the great experts of our time are mostly concerned about whether they get on magazine covers rather than what they are actually accomplishing in the world.
00:24:28.000 Which brings us to the strangest clip of the day.
00:24:31.000 We've played a few already, but this is definitely the strangest clip of the day.
00:24:34.000 So, Dylan Mulvaney.
00:24:36.000 Dylan Mulvaney is a man who believes that he is a woman.
00:24:39.000 Dylan Mulvaney has spent one year being a girl, by which I mean he is a man who pretends that he is a girl for a year, and this means that he gets makeup contracts, and it means that he performs at the Rainbow Room, sponsored by major corporations, and has major Hollywood stars come out in support of him pretending to be a woman.
00:24:53.000 Now, we are supposed to believe that in some internal way, Dylan Mulvaney is one, actually a woman, not just a gay man, actually a woman.
00:25:02.000 And two, not attention seeking.
00:25:04.000 That's what we're supposed to believe.
00:25:06.000 The culture has told us that we must believe this.
00:25:08.000 We must repeat this. 0.53
00:25:09.000 Well, it's unfortunate then that there is tape of Dylan Mulvaney being a gay man like a few years ago. 0.93
00:25:16.000 And it turns out that Dylan Mulvaney imitating a woman is precisely the same thing as Dylan Mulvaney being a flamboyant gay man. 0.85
00:25:22.000 Here is a clip of Dylan Mulvaney on The Price is Right, circa 2020.
00:25:27.000 See if you can tell the difference between Dylan Mulvaney's behavior in this clip and Dylan Mulvaney's behavior now.
00:25:31.000 The only difference being that now Dylan Mulvaney wears more makeup and a dress.
00:25:36.000 You get to spin the wheel, but guess what?
00:25:38.000 You get a second chance in this game first.
00:25:43.000 So you know two prices already, which is a great thing.
00:25:46.000 $3.99 and $5.99.
00:25:46.000 Which one do you want to keep?
00:25:49.000 I'm going to keep the $5.99.
00:25:50.000 Keep $5.99.
00:25:52.000 Something else up here is $5.99.
00:25:53.000 Oh, good.
00:25:54.000 Tell me what it is.
00:25:56.000 Oh, good lord.
00:25:58.000 I'm going to say the soup.
00:25:59.000 Get ready, guys.
00:26:00.000 Get ready.
00:26:01.000 Soup!
00:26:01.000 $5.99.
00:26:02.000 It's pretty fancy.
00:26:03.000 It is... Yes!
00:26:05.000 You got it!
00:26:07.000 Dylan's a winner!
00:26:09.000 Dylan's a winner!
00:26:11.000 Dylan, nice job, man.
00:26:12.000 Dylan is not an attention-seeking person.
00:26:14.000 Look at that.
00:26:15.000 We're going to spin the wheel right after this.
00:26:17.000 Don't go away, folks.
00:26:18.000 Here goes Dylan Mulvaney.
00:26:20.000 And the camera stays on Dylan Mulvaney.
00:26:24.000 Wait, no, no.
00:26:25.000 Is it over?
00:26:25.000 It's not over.
00:26:27.000 Nope.
00:26:28.000 We're going to fade it.
00:26:29.000 Nope.
00:26:30.000 There's more.
00:26:30.000 I'm going to go to commercial.
00:26:32.000 Nope.
00:26:33.000 Nope.
00:26:34.000 It's still going.
00:26:35.000 Nope.
00:26:36.000 All right, well, now he's running around and waving his hands.
00:26:38.000 Now he's kissing the camera, jumping up and down.
00:26:41.000 And now he's doing a weird dance.
00:26:47.000 And more weird dancing.
00:26:48.000 You think it's over, guys?
00:26:50.000 It's over, right?
00:26:51.000 No?
00:26:53.000 Oh, it's continuing.
00:26:55.000 Wow.
00:26:57.000 Oh, now picking up a pool cue.
00:26:59.000 Oh, wow, like doing step kicks.
00:27:02.000 Okay, is it over?
00:27:04.000 Rowing the boat, rowing the boat, rowing the boat.
00:27:07.000 Still in Mulvaney, guys.
00:27:09.000 A humble individual simply seeking personal happiness and in no way attention seeking.
00:27:14.000 Again, I will note that Dylan Mulvaney's behavior as a flamboyant gay man in this clip is precisely the same as Dylan Mulvaney's behavior as a woman. 0.93
00:27:21.000 So the new definition of woman now actually just matches up with Jack Nicholson's description of a woman in As Good As It Gets.
00:27:29.000 A man but without reason or accountability. 0.61
00:27:33.000 Literally, that is Dylan Mulvaney's definition of a woman.
00:27:36.000 My friend Matt Walsh, he constantly asks, what is a woman?
00:27:39.000 We know the answer.
00:27:40.000 The answer is a woman is Dylan Mulvaney, which means exactly the same as Dylan Mulvaney Gay man, but wearing a dress and some high heels and some makeup and having some surgeries. 0.79
00:27:53.000 So exactly.
00:27:54.000 So a man without reason or accountability is the is apparently now that was a joke when Jack Nicholson said it and as good as it gets.
00:27:59.000 And now it's the actual definition of woman, according to members of the far left.
00:28:03.000 So things are going great in our society.
00:28:05.000 All the experts.
00:28:06.000 I mean, this person sat with the president of the United States talking about policy with regards to hormone treatments and surgeries for minors.
00:28:14.000 This is where we are and all the experts, the expert class, they are amazing at this.
00:28:18.000 I'm so glad that they proved their mettle during the pandemic and then proved their mettle again in 40 year highs in inflation, proved their mettle socially by pushing this sort of nonsense.
00:28:27.000 They're also proving their mettle when it comes to the environment.
00:28:31.000 So I'm excited to announce to you that the left, which told you about six weeks ago that there was no attempt to come after the gas stoves.
00:28:39.000 Remember this?
00:28:39.000 And the Biden administration had talked about they were going to investigate whether to get rid of gas stoves or not.
00:28:44.000 Well, and they're like, no, no, no, we're not getting rid of gas stoves.
00:28:47.000 No, guys, we would never do something like that.
00:28:49.000 We know you love your gas stoves.
00:28:50.000 You know, it's a lot easier to cook on flame than it is to cook on an electric stove, which, by the way, is true.
00:28:54.000 It is much better to cook on an open flame than it is on an electric stove.
00:28:58.000 Um, but they said, no, no, you're not supposed to pay any attention.
00:29:00.000 We're not, we're not going to do any of that.
00:29:02.000 Uh, they were lying.
00:29:04.000 They were lying.
00:29:04.000 We'll get to that in a moment.
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00:30:10.000 Also, last week I was visited here in Florida by none other than comedian, free thinker, and all-around fascinating dude, Russell Brand.
00:30:17.000 We had a...
00:30:18.000 Terrific conversation.
00:30:19.000 I'm excited to share it with you now as the premiere episode for season two of my show, The Search.
00:30:24.000 Here's a sneak peek of the episode.
00:30:26.000 Ben, I can smell weed right now.
00:30:29.000 Right now.
00:30:29.000 Are we gonna just sit here?
00:30:31.000 Ben!
00:30:34.000 There's a difference between innocent and good.
00:30:37.000 Ah, cool.
00:30:39.000 Let me think about that for a couple of months.
00:30:42.000 Give me the Talmud, because if it's not in there, I want to know what the hell's going on.
00:30:47.000 Can you spell it?
00:30:48.000 I'm not going to be the one who says the weed is kosher.
00:30:49.000 I'm 20 years clean.
00:30:51.000 I didn't think this is how I was going to fall off the wagon.
00:30:53.000 I've been with Bill Maher.
00:30:54.000 I thought it was you and Rogan.
00:30:56.000 I've been with Rogan.
00:30:57.000 Marge, Shapiro and it takes me down.
00:31:00.000 For God's sake.
00:31:05.000 It's a great episode.
00:31:06.000 Russell is a phenomenal person.
00:31:08.000 He's just hilarious and really, it's a great episode.
00:31:11.000 We go through a lot of really deep topics ranging from religion to how to raise kids.
00:31:15.000 You're going to love it.
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00:31:32.000 Also this Sunday, James O'Keefe is going to be on the Sunday special.
00:31:36.000 So James O'Keefe, you remember he just got ousted from his own organization, Project Veritas.
00:31:39.000 We'll talk about what comes next for James.
00:31:41.000 He has announced a new organization.
00:31:42.000 I want to find out about what new investigations he's going to be undertaking.
00:31:46.000 So you're going to have to check out the Sunday special to find out the answers to those questions.
00:31:50.000 Okay.
00:31:51.000 Meanwhile, Here's the thing that our weird class, our weird class, they want like epic levels of control over your individual life.
00:31:57.000 See, here's the thing about traditional rules and traditional rules.
00:32:00.000 These are pieces of time tested wisdom that have lasted over the course of thousands of years across civilizations, as it turns out.
00:32:07.000 And we are discarding all of that in favor of a few weirdos who have decided that they get to control everything about your life all the way down to the level of should you have a gas stove in your house?
00:32:18.000 I don't trust them because why would I trust them?
00:32:19.000 Why would I give these people control over my life?
00:32:22.000 So the Biden administration lied.
00:32:23.000 Remember that they said they weren't coming after your gas stove.
00:32:25.000 Well, now, according to the Washington Examiner, the simmering controversy over a Biden administration gas stove ban has reignited.
00:32:31.000 Not one, but two separate federal agencies are proposing or studying regulations that would severely curtail the use of gas stoves for new construction.
00:32:38.000 That has renewed the culture war battle over the appliances.
00:32:40.000 Instead of working to lower food prices for families and lessening inflation, the Biden administration's priority is working to target as many as 40% of Americans and arbitrarily ban their gas stoves, according to the Heritage Action Executive Director Jessica Anderson.
00:32:52.000 The Department of Energy has now proposed new efficiency standards, which the vast majority of today's gas stoves would not meet.
00:32:58.000 The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seeking information on quote, chronic hazards associated with gas ranges and proposed solutions to these hazards potentially in advance of its own rule.
00:33:06.000 DOE says that its proposal would not be a ban per se, but 96% of gas stoves the DOE physically tested did not meet the new regulations.
00:33:15.000 So it's not a ban, but it's kind of a ban.
00:33:21.000 Meanwhile, Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Ted Cruz teamed up for a bipartisan bill to block a gas stove ban.
00:33:26.000 Again, one of the things that is driving all of this is this notion that if we de-hook houses to natural gas, this is somehow going to lower carbon emissions to the extent necessary to lower climate change.
00:33:38.000 That's absurd.
00:33:38.000 It's not even going to come close to doing any of that, but that doesn't matter.
00:33:41.000 It's all about feeling good about yourselves and really not you feeling good about yourself having to cook on a crappy electric range.
00:33:46.000 No, it's really about, you know, the people who are in power feeling good about themselves.
00:33:50.000 That's that's what really matters.
00:33:52.000 What matters is their sense of self-satisfaction because they're not here to reinstill any sense of duty or traditional morality.
00:33:59.000 They're here to make themselves.
00:34:00.000 feel really good about all the things, which means that they have to feel as though they are changing the world.
00:34:05.000 They are changing.
00:34:06.000 So New York lawmakers, according to Politico, are now on track to enact a statewide ban on gas heating and appliances in new buildings, a major marker in a partisan fight over fossil fuels and consumer choice.
00:34:16.000 The State Assembly and Senate, both controlled by Democrats, included different versions of a natural gas ban in their budget proposals.
00:34:22.000 Those are expected to be reconciled, and Governor Kathy Hochul will apparently sign that thing.
00:34:28.000 The Energy Department, of course, has been proposing efficiency regulations for cooktops and ovens and gas stoves, but New York is looking to ban all this for real.
00:34:36.000 It would be the first state to enact a full natural gas ban for new building developments, effectively requiring them to use electric heating and stoves.
00:34:43.000 Now, again, there's a serious problem here, which is that all of the electrical grids are still run off of fossil fuels.
00:34:50.000 I mean, that is natural gas, coal, oil, right?
00:34:53.000 These are the way that most of the electrical grids are still fueled because all other forms of energy are either seasonal or time-dependent, right?
00:35:01.000 Solar only works when the sun is shining.
00:35:02.000 Wind only works when the wind is blowing.
00:35:05.000 Natural gas, oil, coal, these are physical forms of energy that can then be utilized in order to generate electricity around the clock.
00:35:13.000 But they're attempting to, I guess, make it unclear where exactly you're getting your power by making it so that your building can't hook up to natural gas anymore.
00:35:19.000 Now it's going to hook to the electrical grid, which is just going to use natural gas in order to power the electrical grid.
00:35:24.000 So all of that is very exciting.
00:35:25.000 Again, all of this is designed to make people feel good about themselves.
00:35:28.000 It doesn't actually change the trajectory in any major way with regard to carbon emissions.
00:35:32.000 Meanwhile, California regulators are doing the same thing.
00:35:34.000 According to the Washington Free Beacon, California regulators voted on Wednesday to ban gas furnaces and water heaters in one of the state's most populated regions, a move that will likely require locals to undergo costly home renovations.
00:35:44.000 The Bay Area Air Quality District Board, a panel of appointees tasked with curbing pollutants for nine California counties, voted on Wednesday to block the installation of all gas-powered appliances beginning in 2027.
00:35:54.000 The board acknowledged homeowners will have to spend thousands of dollars to install electric appliances, and the pivot away from natural gas will increase energy costs.
00:36:01.000 California, man.
00:36:02.000 They are wrecking that place one regulation at a time.
00:36:06.000 The Bay Area ban does not apply to gas stoves, but that offers little relief to residents.
00:36:09.000 The ban will already raise the cost of living in the overpriced Bay Area, where the good news is, you won't be able to use any sort of gas oven or gas heating or gas water heater, but you will be able to subsidize every black resident of San Francisco to the tune of $5 million. 0.96
00:36:22.000 So excellent governance taking place from, again, our nation's strangest people is spectacular stuff, which brings us full circle all the way back to Kamala Harris.
00:36:31.000 Again, Kamala Harris is In the dictionary, under politician, there's just a picture of Kamala Harris.
00:36:37.000 The people who run our country are all Kamala Harris.
00:36:39.000 They don't know what their job is.
00:36:41.000 They don't know what their permit is.
00:36:42.000 They don't know exactly what their purview is.
00:36:45.000 They don't know any of these things.
00:36:47.000 All they know is that they've been thrust into positions of power and they have to do stuff that makes them feel good about themselves.
00:36:51.000 Kamala Harris the other night had a very awkward moment. 0.69
00:36:54.000 Another awkward moment.
00:36:54.000 It was a deep thought with Kamala Harris.
00:36:58.000 And now, deep thoughts with Kamala Harris.
00:37:04.000 We have a lot of Kamala today, which always makes you want to buy some life insurance. 0.99
00:37:09.000 But just quick note, life insurance does not protect you against the fallout from suicide.
00:37:13.000 Anyway, deep thoughts with Kamala Harris.
00:37:16.000 So Kamala was on with Stephen Colbert and she was asked what the job of the vice president is.
00:37:22.000 She is, lest you forget, the actual vice president of the United States.
00:37:25.000 She did not have an answer.
00:37:27.000 It's a high constitutional office, but it's not prescribed so much about what you're supposed to be doing.
00:37:31.000 Does that ring true?
00:37:34.000 What is the actual role on a daily basis as you have found it?
00:37:39.000 Well, I have the great privilege of serving with Joe Biden, who was president of the United States.
00:37:45.000 He really is a true partner, and he understands the job.
00:37:48.000 And remember, we came in during the height of the pandemic.
00:37:51.000 Yes.
00:37:51.000 And so, so much of the work was about, OK, we've got to cover a lot of bases, and let's figure out how between us we can do it.
00:37:58.000 But he is an extraordinary leader, and I wish that people could see what I see.
00:38:04.000 The question was, what is the job of the vice president?
00:38:07.000 And your answer is part of the job, I'm guessing.
00:38:12.000 Uh, no.
00:38:13.000 Thank you, Steven, for trying to rescue Kamala Harris from her own failure there.
00:38:16.000 But no, she did not actually have an answer.
00:38:18.000 So remember, weirdos want power.
00:38:20.000 Now, here's the thing.
00:38:22.000 A lot of human beings are strange.
00:38:23.000 Human beings have weird quirks.
00:38:24.000 That's what human beings are.
00:38:26.000 But that is why the ones that you actually want in power are the ones who don't actually want to exercise that power in order to overthrow all of the traditional structures of society.
00:38:34.000 Now, what's amazing is also what the media consider to be weird versus what is actually weird.
00:38:38.000 So according to the media, the head of global markets at Credit Suisse being a gender fluid False woman who is married to a woman and has a couple of kids.
00:38:49.000 That's not weird.
00:38:51.000 Dylan Mulvaney claiming to be a woman and then sitting with the President of the United States.
00:38:55.000 That's not weird. 0.89
00:38:56.000 Kamala Harris not speaking English and wandering aimlessly into NCAA locker rooms to give crappy speech.
00:39:04.000 That's not weird.
00:39:06.000 What's weird is that one time Ron DeSantis was on a plane and he ate pudding with his fingers.
00:39:09.000 This is the weirdest thing.
00:39:10.000 This is how we define weird.
00:39:12.000 The way we define weird is whatever the left thinks is weird is weird.
00:39:15.000 Men being women, not weird.
00:39:18.000 So this is the big story of the day on the left.
00:39:20.000 The only story that matters, according to the left today, is not the prospective financial meltdown.
00:39:26.000 It is not the fact that the Democrats are now really indeed looking in major states to ban gas stoves.
00:39:31.000 None of that matters.
00:39:32.000 The only thing that truly matters, according to the left, is this story.
00:39:35.000 So the Daily Beast now reports that according to two sources, the Florida governor once ate, not repeatedly, once ate chocolate pudding with his fingers.
00:39:44.000 The chatter over DeSantis' public engagement has also surfaced past unflattering stories about his social skills, particularly his propensity to devour food during meetings.
00:39:51.000 He would sit in meetings and eat in front of people, a former DeSantis staffer told the Daily Beast, always like a starving animal who has never eaten before, getting bleep everywhere.
00:39:59.000 Enshrined in DeSantis' lore is an episode from four years ago.
00:40:02.000 During a private plane trip from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C.
00:40:04.000 in March of 2019, DeSantis enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert by eating it with three of his fingers, according to two sources familiar with the incident.
00:40:13.000 Um, but that's all that matters, right?
00:40:17.000 That's a huge story.
00:40:18.000 Now, you have never eaten food with your fingers, of course, because you were brought up in the court of Queen Victoria.
00:40:26.000 So you've never eaten food with your fingers. 1.00
00:40:28.000 And if we're gonna go on like the scale of weirdness, obviously eating pudding with your fingers on a plane in the middle of a campaign, way weirder than actually believing that a man who cuts off his dick is a woman. 0.99
00:40:38.000 I mean, on a scale of weirdness, the President of the United States sitting there and calling it sinful not to trans the children. 0.99
00:40:45.000 Way, way less weird.
00:40:46.000 Now, here's the thing. 0.60
00:40:47.000 The current president of the United States actually has pudding for brains.
00:40:50.000 So it is significantly less important to me how people eat pudding than the fact that the current president of the United States actually has pudding between his ears.
00:40:57.000 Like, that is actually a real problem.
00:40:59.000 But this is going to be the ongoing campaign.
00:41:01.000 So the ongoing campaign against DeSantis, they've been struggling for this, right?
00:41:04.000 Normally, they say a couple of things about Republican candidates. 1.00
00:41:06.000 They say stupid, corrupt, or evil. 1.00
00:41:08.000 Those are the big three. 1.00
00:41:09.000 Stupid, corrupt, and evil. 1.00
00:41:10.000 They can't say that DeSantis is stupid because he clearly is not. 1.00
00:41:12.000 He went to Yale and then he went to Yale Law School. 1.00
00:41:16.000 You can't, right?
00:41:16.000 And then went to Harvard Law School.
00:41:18.000 You can't say that he is corrupt because there's no evidence of corruption with Ron DeSantis.
00:41:22.000 They've tried evil, but it doesn't really play because most of the policies that he's pursuing are widely popular.
00:41:27.000 So now they're going with this fourth off-the-board option, which is weird.
00:41:31.000 I don't think that is going to play, not at all, because here's the thing.
00:41:33.000 If you watch DeSantis on the campaign trail, he's not weird.
00:41:36.000 He's like a normal person.
00:41:37.000 So if the best that they can do is he ate pudding with his fingers, good luck with that.
00:41:41.000 Meanwhile, they have another angle that they are taking with regard to the Republicans out of the media because they have to defend the Democrats at all costs.
00:41:47.000 They're going back to the well on Republicans are really pessimistic and say mean and dark things.
00:41:53.000 Here's a headline by Ashley Parker at The Washington Post, quote, Much of the 2024 GOP field focuses on dark, apocalyptic themes.
00:42:00.000 Now, I remember this exact headline after Donald Trump's convention speech in 2016.
00:42:03.000 It was dark and apocalyptic.
00:42:06.000 And then he won.
00:42:07.000 Here's the rule of thumb.
00:42:08.000 When you're out of power, you say bad things about what's happening in the country.
00:42:11.000 When you're in power, you say good things about what's happening with the country.
00:42:14.000 Specifically because when you're out of power, you're running to be in power.
00:42:17.000 What are you gonna just say?
00:42:18.000 Like everything is bright and hunky-dory out there?
00:42:19.000 Of course not.
00:42:21.000 I seem to recall the entire media declaring that the apocalypse was upon us in the middle of an economic boom while Trump was president, while peace was breaking out in the Middle East.
00:42:28.000 But apparently, if you mention that things are going poorly in the country or that we have some real serious societal fractures, this means dark and apocalyptic things.
00:42:36.000 And the problem is that the American people kind of agree that things are not looking amazing in the United States right now.
00:42:41.000 So the legacy media have this whole shtick, right?
00:42:44.000 It's that if you say that things are going poorly in the country, this means you have a dark vision of the country.
00:42:48.000 Remember, the entire Washington Post that prints this entire piece talking about how the 2024 GOP field is focusing on dark apocalyptic themes.
00:42:56.000 They literally put a subheader on their paper called Democracy Dies in Darkness After Trump was Elected.
00:43:03.000 The darkness was upon us and they were the guiding light.
00:43:07.000 It's just, it's absurdity at the highest level.
00:43:09.000 This is also why they are focusing in on a little video that Donald Trump cut yesterday.
00:43:15.000 It's driving them up a wall.
00:43:16.000 It's also why Trump is popular.
00:43:18.000 I mean, I hate to break it to folks, but Trump remains popular with a lot of people specifically because his interests seem to be In favor of what's going on in the country first.
00:43:27.000 And there's a lot of talk in both sort of interventionist Republican circles and on the Democratic side about the split inside the Republican Party over Ukraine.
00:43:34.000 The truth is there is not a massive split.
00:43:36.000 There are some people who are full isolationist on Ukraine or like we shouldn't be involved at all.
00:43:40.000 And then there's kind of the vast middle of the Republican Party that thinks it is important to stand Russia off from fully invading Ukraine.
00:43:47.000 But it's asking what the end goal here is.
00:43:49.000 What is the actual end point here?
00:43:52.000 Everybody in the legacy media is yelling at Trump about this video that he did yesterday.
00:43:56.000 They're calling him unpatriotic for a video that he did yesterday because what he suggested is the great threat to world empires, historically speaking, is interior collapse, internal failure.
00:44:08.000 This is nothing new.
00:44:10.000 I'm sorry, this is not dark.
00:44:11.000 It is not apocalyptic.
00:44:12.000 It happens to be quite true.
00:44:13.000 Here is Donald Trump.
00:44:15.000 But the greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia. 0.84
00:44:20.000 It's probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible, USA-hating people that represent us.
00:44:31.000 It's the abolition of our national borders.
00:44:33.000 It's the failure to police our own cities.
00:44:37.000 It's the destruction of the rule of law from within.
00:44:40.000 It's the collapse of the nuclear family. 0.57
00:44:44.000 Fertility rates like nobody can believe is happening.
00:44:49.000 It's the Marxists who would have us become a godless nation worshipping at the altar of race and gender and environment.
00:44:58.000 And it's the globalist class that has made us totally dependent on China and other foreign countries that basically hate us.
00:45:06.000 So what they're saying is that if he says that Russia is not our greatest threat, that the greatest threat is internal to the United States, that this means that he hates the United States.
00:45:13.000 Well, Democrats believe the same thing about Republicans.
00:45:17.000 I mean, this is what Joe Biden literally said every day in 2022.
00:45:21.000 He said that Republicans were segregationists who wanted to reimpose Jim Crow 2.0.
00:45:25.000 He said that Republicans were in league with people who wanted to overthrow the democracy, that we are on the verge of a fascist overthrow, a fascist coup d'etat in the United States.
00:45:34.000 He said that in front of a blood red Independence Hall in one of the most authoritarian speeches I've ever seen in the United States.
00:45:41.000 So pretend that this is like a unipolar argument, that if the other side gets control, it's gonna be bad for the country, is absolutely absurd.
00:45:48.000 But here's the thing, no matter how much you try to yell at Trump for being negative, or yell at DeSantis for being quote-unquote negative about the current administration or about the state of the country, of course they're negative!
00:45:58.000 They're in the opposition.
00:46:00.000 And also, most Americans happen to agree with them.
00:46:02.000 Most Americans do happen to agree with them.
00:46:05.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:46:08.000 So, things that I like today.
00:46:10.000 So, Netflix has now cancelled an animated preschooler show that was promoting transgenderism and non-binaryness.
00:46:16.000 I kid you not, this is why DW Kids is going to exist in very short order.
00:46:21.000 We need kids content where you can put your kids in front of the TV and know that they are not going to be turned into gender non-binary widgets.
00:46:29.000 So this was an actual clip From a show called Ridley Jones about a bison who comes out as nine binary to its grandma, played by Cindy Lauper, the creator of the show.
00:46:29.000 It's insane.
00:46:42.000 Naturally, as a lesbian, as I say, the people who have cultural power are people who use that cultural power basically in order to legitimize their own feelings of importance.
00:46:50.000 So Ridley Jones was canceled for good reason.
00:46:52.000 Here is a clip from Ridley Jones.
00:46:54.000 That's because I'm non-binary and Fred is the name that fits me best.
00:46:59.000 And I also use they and them because calling me a she or a he doesn't feel right to me.
00:47:06.000 I'm sorry I used the wrong name and pronouns.
00:47:10.000 So they're lecturing.
00:47:12.000 I mean, this is a show you can see by the animation.
00:47:13.000 This is a show for like preschoolers.
00:47:15.000 This is for like three, four, five year old kids.
00:47:18.000 And if you couldn't hear that properly, that is a gender non-binary bison. 0.99
00:47:23.000 Explaining that the bison wants to use they-them pronouns. 0.93
00:47:29.000 The director, the creator, is a lesbian mom. 0.99
00:47:31.000 Quote, doesn't surprise me Netflix has quietly dumped the first preschool show that has a non-binary character coming out.
00:47:36.000 I realize in this day and age, dumped means many things.
00:47:39.000 Just zero promotion of the episode.
00:47:40.000 Oh, and yes, this is the end of the series.
00:47:42.000 They canceled us after what they just put out.
00:47:44.000 They threw out all the specials, the Christmas special, the feature-length episode, the Cyndi Lauper episode, just quietly slipped it in onto the service.
00:47:49.000 So this is it.
00:47:52.000 Amazing stuff.
00:47:54.000 Trying to program the small children.
00:47:55.000 Of course Netflix had to cancel it because who wants to watch that?
00:47:58.000 Who wants to put their kids in front of it? 1.00
00:47:59.000 And again, this is why you should go subscribe right now at dailywireplus.com because we're not going to provide this kind of crap to your kids at any point. 0.90
00:48:06.000 We're not going to put it up and then take it down. 0.92
00:48:07.000 We're just not going to give it to your kids because it turns out that those values are bad for your children.
00:48:12.000 And that you should not have values that run directly counter to your own and the tradition and wisdom of history injected into programs meant for kids.
00:48:20.000 If you think they're not coming for your kids, they are coming for your kids.
00:48:22.000 That is the reason you put that in a preschool show. 0.51
00:48:23.000 That is the only reason to put it in a preschool show.
00:48:25.000 So at least Netflix has been forced to back off, but not for long.
00:48:29.000 Not for long, of course.
00:48:29.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:48:31.000 One of my favorite things about our elite class is again, they are so damned weird. 0.72
00:48:42.000 But we're supposed to pretend that they are not, in fact, weird.
00:48:44.000 That they are, in fact, totally normal, and they are legit.
00:48:47.000 So, everybody sort of acknowledges that Gwyneth Paltrow is a weirdo. 0.96
00:48:49.000 She has her goop magazine, in which she has sold genitalia-smelling candles and such. 0.89
00:48:55.000 But, um, she is still a famous and well-respected person in left-wing circles. 0.94
00:49:00.000 You're like, oh yeah, she's a little kooky. 0.99
00:49:02.000 She's a little kooky. 0.99
00:49:04.000 Um, well, I mean, it's not just that she, like, these are the same people who think that Gwyneth Paltrow is worth listening to are the people who are like, I have, I never took off my mask.
00:49:12.000 I'm still wearing my mask.
00:49:14.000 What's the weirdest wellness thing that you've done?
00:49:15.000 is great, which is why they are apparently putting ozone therapy in their behinds.
00:49:23.000 So she was on an episode of The Art of Being Well, and she says that this is the weirdest thing that she is doing right now. What's the weirdest wellness thing that you've done?
00:49:38.000 I have used ozone therapy rectally.
00:49:47.000 I didn't know this about you.
00:49:49.000 It's pretty weird.
00:49:50.000 It's pretty weird.
00:49:54.000 Well, you should fill that ozone hole.
00:49:58.000 That's yeah.
00:50:00.000 Oh, no.
00:50:01.000 Yeah, that way, you know, the Goop brand is actually worth like hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:50:08.000 I'll just point out once again, everybody's weird.
00:50:10.000 Everybody has their own weirdnesses.
00:50:12.000 This is why we tend to in life navigate by using heuristics, meaning shortcuts, right?
00:50:18.000 We have to, we have to find people that we can trust.
00:50:19.000 And those people typically have to have like a broad record of success in a particular field in order for us to trust them.
00:50:24.000 They have to actually have a bunch of data backing them.
00:50:27.000 This is why traditional wisdom matters.
00:50:29.000 But we've basically dispensed with that because of celebrity and because of mass media culture.
00:50:32.000 And so that means anybody who appears on your TV is now an expert that you should listen to. 0.60
00:50:36.000 So Gwyneth Paltrow is a celebrity you should listen to on matters of health because she's shooting ozone up her anus or whatever it is. 1.00
00:50:44.000 And these are the same exact people who want more and more.
00:50:46.000 If they want to be as weird, listen, Gwyneth Paltrow can do whatever she wants with the ozone. 1.00
00:50:52.000 It's her problem.
00:50:55.000 But what I will, no pun intended, but what I will say is that the more power you give any individual, the worse things are going to be.
00:51:04.000 And this is precisely what the left insists on.
00:51:06.000 Centralized power in a bunch of institutions, and then trust the people who run the institutions to fix everything for you.
00:51:11.000 Not, again, based on any sort of time-tested data, but based on the fact that they are the experts.
00:51:15.000 The answer should be no.
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