The people in charge of our government are idiots. President Joe Biden has a brilliant new plan that will heal the economy, AOC has some incisive thoughts on the border crisis, and Dr. Jill Biden isn t only a great doctor, she speaks Spanish beautifully. April Fools! Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Thousands of my listeners have already secured their internet, join them at ExpressVpn.me/BenShapiroShow and you'll get to all the news in just one moment because we can. Slash Ben, we ll get to it in just ONE moment, because we ve all heard about it. Si, c'est pas duage. We ll talk about it all on today's show, and then we'll talk about why I think Joe Biden is not a sentient human, and yet you re telling him that you want him to be in charge? And yet you're telling Joe Biden that you re a not sentient human? You're not even a human, are you? And he just fell asleep and then woke up and then went back to sleep and then fell asleep? I don't think it's fair that he should do that because he fell asleep because he's not a human. I think he's a dum-dum, because he doesn't know what's best for his family, and he doesn t have the ability to make his own rules for himself. him and yet he wants to make them He just says things that make no sense to us. and then falls asleep. And then he wakes up and says they should do something that makes no sense because he thinks they should be . in a routine basis I'm excited about some of the things he's saying that makes me very excited about it so I don t think he s not a smart enough but then he goes to bed and then goes to sleep So let me tell you what I think about it, because I think it s not fair That's what I m excited about that. - Ben Shapiro does not know what s best for my family and I think that s what he s going to do with his life - he s a smart, smart, but he s just not smart enough to know what he needs to do or he s too smart for that s good enough to be a smart guy
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00:01:36.000Alrighty, so when you look at our political class, I have to admit, I do not understand so many Americans who look At our political class, at shows like this one, or shows on CNN, or MSNBC.
00:01:47.000And they see these talking heads who are our elected officials, who are our regulators, and they think to themselves, these people are geniuses.
00:01:53.000These people need to be in charge of my life.
00:01:54.000They clearly know what is best for me.
00:01:56.000They clearly know what is best for my family.
00:01:58.000They clearly know what is best for my business.
00:02:01.000How do you look at these people and you think to yourself, I require them to have more control over my life.
00:02:08.000Honestly, if that's what you want, it's what you're going to get, good and hard.
00:02:11.000But it's not right, guys, because it turns out that the people who are in charge are stupid.
00:02:25.000There, they tend to think out what they do.
00:02:27.000There, they have to live with the consequences of what they do.
00:02:29.000Personal responsibility is a fabulous teacher, but when you cast all responsibility off to the government to either take care of you or make the rules for your life, you can blame them for your own failures, which I guess is the attraction, and also Those people can then be given all of the power to shape your life as they see fit.
00:02:58.000And yet you're telling Joe Biden, this not sentient human, this houseplant of a human, you are telling him that you want him to be in charge of your life.
00:03:05.000And he just says things on a routine basis that make no sense at all.
00:03:08.000Now, today, I want to talk to you about how excited I am about some of the things he's saying.
00:03:13.000In fact, I think that we ought to do many of the things he is saying.
00:03:15.000For example, he apparently did an interview on ESPN with Sage Steele, in which he said, I'm not kidding you, Joe Biden, said, I don't think it's right.
00:03:35.000And then they woke him up and they fed him some Ensure, and then he went back to sleep.
00:03:38.000So he thinks that female athletes should be paid the same as male athletes, right?
00:03:41.000Which is the same thing that he said over the past couple of weeks when he did that ridiculous press conference with one of the biggest whiners in American society, Megan Rapinoe, who is far more famous than her accomplishments really, I think, would warrant.
00:03:53.000I mean, she's really famous for political purposes.
00:03:55.000There are a lot of other women soccer players who are on that team.
00:03:57.000None of them are as famous as Megan Rapinoe.
00:04:00.000She might be the most famous player on that team because she's the most talented.
00:04:03.000Still, there are many other famous and talented soccer players over the course of female soccer history who don't have her level of notoriety, and that is solely because of politics.
00:04:11.000In any case, Joe Biden does that presser about how women and men aren't paid the same, and it's really unfair, and the women should be paid the same as men in soccer.
00:04:18.000I notice that you know what they never discuss is basketball.
00:04:36.000I don't want to live in an America in which Dawana Bonner, the highest paid player in the WNBA, which is just a fabulous league, a wildly popular league, the WNBA.
00:05:14.000The systems of white supremacy have extended so far into American society.
00:05:18.000They've extended into every area, every nook and cranny of American life.
00:05:22.000I don't want to live in an America where Juana Bonner, the highest paid player in the WNBA, earns $215,000 a year.
00:05:31.000For the same exact work, the same exact work, mind you, as Steph Curry, who makes $43 million a year.
00:05:38.000I don't want to live in that kind of America.
00:05:40.000Just because Duana Bonner happens to identify as female and Steph Curry happens to identify as male, he makes $42 million $800,000 more than Dawana Bonner?
00:05:55.000And I call on the Democratic Party, which is in favor of equity, to immediately call for the collectivization of all player earnings in the WNBA and the NBA, and redistribution evenly along sex lines.
00:06:07.000Dawana Bonner immediately needs to take half of Steph Curry's salary.
00:06:10.000She should be making $21 million a year.
00:06:13.000In fact, not only that, that's not even fair, because it turns out that Tawana Bonner is the highest paid player in the WNBA.
00:06:18.000What we really need to do is we need to take all the players in the WNBA and all the players in the NBA, we need to pool all their salaries, and then we need to divvy them up equally.
00:06:26.000Because let me tell you this, Tawana Bonner, she is just as valuable a person in every respect as LeBron James.
00:06:36.000And just because LeBron James Might be bigger and stronger and male just because of that.
00:06:44.000That he ought to be earning as much money as he is earning.
00:06:47.000Why is it that he ought to be earning the same amount of money, like $41 million a year, while Sue Bird of the Seattle Storm, the massively popular Seattle Storm, is earning only $215,000 a year?
00:06:57.000I mean, Brittany Griner on the Phoenix Mercury is only earning $215,000 a year.
00:07:01.000And meanwhile, you have Giannis, and that guy's earning $40 million.
00:07:10.000Joe Biden needs to sponsor federal legislation to make sure that everything is redistributed.
00:07:16.000Or alternatively, Joe Biden is a very stupid man who says stupid things on a routine basis, like many of our politicians and like all the people who want to control your life.
00:07:24.000If I think everybody is stupid, the only smart politician is the one who recognizes his own stupidity enough to know that he should let you run your own life.
00:07:31.000Speaking of people Screwing things up.
00:07:35.000The greatest doctor in our land, Dr. Joe Biden, who is, I mean, again, the rankings go like Dr. Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. J, Dr. Pepper, Jonas Salk, Hippocrates.
00:07:51.000Historically, not just in American society, over time, historically.
00:07:55.000Okay, Dr. Jill Biden, the greatest doctor of all, if you have a heart attack, Dr. Jill will immediately arrive on scene and recommend to you how to fix the community college program.
00:08:03.000So yesterday, she was giving a speech in which she was talking about something that nobody knows.
00:08:10.000She was talking about illegal immigration.
00:08:13.000She was talking about labor to honor the birthday of Cesar Chavez.
00:08:38.000Now, listen, as somebody who routinely screws up foreign languages, I have a little bit of sympathy here, but not much, because si se puede happens to be the most commonly spoken Spanish sentence by white people in America.
00:09:05.000whatever. Somehow, Joe Biden screwed up. This is not an obscure phrase. And again, this is coming from a guy I understand. I don't speak Spanish well. I screwed up La Quinta yesterday. I get it. But this one, it's a little much even for me. Here was it, Joe Biden not even coming close to a si se puede.
00:09:23.000So say it with me, si se puede, the future is ours. Thank you.
00:09:41.000Not only is she America's greatest doctor, she's also a translator for the United Nations, according to the establishment media, according to our partisan media.
00:11:02.000There's going to be an uptick in certain states that didn't get the vaccinations out fast enough and where there are not enough people who had natural immunity from the virus.
00:11:09.000This is why you have not seen a massive uptick in states like Texas and Florida.
00:11:13.000And you have seen an uptick in places like New York, New Jersey, Maryland.
00:11:17.000In other words, the places that locked down the hardest are still getting natural herd immunity through people transmitting the virus.
00:11:23.000But places like Florida that did not lock down, those places had a certain baseline level of transmission that created a natural growth in the virus, in the numbers, so that herd immunity was closer than it was for some of these other places.
00:12:35.000According to the New York Times, the theory is that public spending Is the key to competitiveness, because as we all know from history, you know what makes a country super competitive?
00:12:44.000Taking enormous amounts of money and then redistributing it via government to people.
00:12:49.000The Soviet Union tried this for like 80 years, worked out fantastically, fantastically.
00:13:32.000Let's go back to the government running everything.
00:13:34.000According to the New York Times, Patricia Cohen, Is the reporter President Biden's ambitious plan to increase corporate taxes does more than just reverse much of the overhaul pushed through by his predecessor.
00:13:44.000It also offers a profoundly different vision of how to make the United States more competitive and how to flip the bill.
00:13:49.000When President Trump and Republican Congress rewrote the tax code in 2017, most of the benefits went to the wealthiest Americans with lower rates on businesses and on profits from investments.
00:13:57.000Well, Here's the thing, whenever people say this kind of crap, they're like, most of the benefits of a tax cut went to the people who are the wealthiest.
00:14:28.000But the animating idea, according to the New York Times, behind Biden's tax plan is that the best way to increase America's competitiveness and foster economic growth is to raise corporate taxes to finance huge investments in transportation, broadband, utilities, and more.
00:14:40.000So if you liked the Solyndra scam of the Obama years, the giant stimulus package, get ready, gang.
00:14:46.000We're about to get that, except times three, plus a bunch of labor restrictions as well.
00:14:53.000Chamber of Commerce, and National Association of Manufacturers all welcomed the idea of pumping money into repairing and building the nation's infrastructure, but recoiled at raising corporate taxes to do so.
00:15:01.000So first of all, the idea that America's infrastructure is in a state of complete collapse is just not true.
00:15:04.000We have about the 13th best infrastructure, according to international sources, of any country on Earth.
00:15:08.000State infrastructure varies widely by state.
00:15:11.000Most of the infrastructure that is failing is not federal infrastructure.
00:15:13.000It is state infrastructure, which means it should be paid for by state tax dollars.
00:15:17.000If infrastructure in California is failing, there's no reason that taxpayers in Florida should be paying for that state infrastructure.
00:15:23.000Also, it happens to be the case that when you measure GDP stats, one of the big problems with GDP is GDP only measures dollars spent.
00:15:29.000So if a government spends a dollar, that is the same as if you or I spend a dollar.
00:15:33.000The difference is that if you or I spend a dollar building a business, that creates add-on effects in terms of creating new jobs, creating new products, creating new services.
00:15:41.000That is why GDP is not actually a wonderful measure of how well people are doing.
00:15:45.000If you're getting more for the same money, then why exactly is the GDP the same?
00:15:49.000GDP has always been a very flawed measure of economic growth, but...
00:15:52.000It is particularly flawed when it comes to government spending, which can artificially boost the GDP.
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00:17:36.000Biden's plans are, of course, massive.
00:17:39.000They blow out the budget to the tune of another $2 trillion.
00:17:42.000Even the Washington Post is going, this is a lot of money.
00:17:44.000According to Heather Long, when the White House released what it hailed as its historic infrastructure plan on Wednesday, it said corporate tax changes would, quote, more than pay for the mostly one-time investments in the American Jobs Plan.
00:17:56.000The $2.3 trillion in spending would take place over the next eight years.
00:18:00.000It would take until 2036, 15 years, for Biden's proposed corporate tax hikes to generate that much revenue.
00:18:06.000So, in other words, the vast majority of this is deficit spending.
00:18:09.000The disconnect is one of several controversies that Biden's proposal is already facing, especially as the president tries to garner bipartisan votes.
00:18:15.000They're not trying bipartisan votes, by the way.
00:18:16.000They've already said they're not trying bipartisan votes.
00:18:18.000Democratic Representative Beyers says we're going to use reconciliation.
00:18:21.000That means we're ramming the sucker through with 50 votes plus Kamala Harris.
00:18:24.000Remember that time when I said that Republicans who didn't show up in Georgia to vote for those Senate seats were doing the country an enormous disservice?
00:19:21.000How much of it goes toward roads and bridges? 5%.
00:19:25.0005% of the $2 trillion goes toward roads and bridges.
00:19:28.000The other 95% goes toward various basically buyoffs for a bunch of Democratic constituencies, particularly unions.
00:19:35.000That's what's really in the bill, is a radical rethinking of the relationship between labor and employment in the United States and the federal government.
00:19:43.000So Joe Biden says, don't worry, we're just going to ram this thing through.
00:19:48.000The divisions of the moment shouldn't stop us.
00:19:50.000The right thing is for us to just do it.
00:19:54.000Then he fell asleep and his handler shooed everybody away.
00:19:58.000I don't think you'll find a Republican today in the House or Senate, maybe I'm wrong gentlemen, who doesn't think we have to improve our infrastructure.
00:20:06.000They know China and other countries are eating our lunch.
00:20:11.000So there's no reason why it can't be bipartisan again.
00:20:14.000The divisions of the moment shouldn't stop us from doing the right thing for the future.
00:20:59.000We abide by every jot and tittle of the National Labor Relations Act.
00:21:03.000I have to say that, otherwise the National Labor Relations Board sends me a nasty note about how they're going to infringe on my First Amendment rights.
00:21:09.000But the National Labor Relations Act is a piece of crap legislation.
00:21:13.000We abide by every single aspect of it because we have to by federal law.
00:21:17.000But it basically means that if you get 50% of employees in a particular industry to sign on to a union, then the employer is forced by federal law to negotiate with that 50%.
00:21:28.000Yeah, which is crazy because you still have 49% of people who didn't actually want to join the union.
00:21:34.000And now you have the 51% collectively bargaining on behalf of people who never wanted to join the union in the first place.
00:21:40.000Well, what happened is that in the private sector, there were right-to-work laws that were passed in about 27 states.
00:21:46.000These right-to-work laws said that you, as a non-member of the union, did not have to pay union dues to the union until people stopped paying union dues.
00:21:52.000And at that point, people stopped joining the union.
00:21:54.000And when people stopped joining the union, the union didn't have money.
00:22:37.000And Biden is not making any bones about this, right?
00:22:40.000He's admitting straight off exactly what his agenda here is.
00:22:43.000So let's listen to Joe Biden with his real agenda.
00:22:45.000So Joe Biden's actual real agenda here is to push the unions because the unions have the most openly corrupt bargain in American politics.
00:22:51.000The unions take money from people who are not members of unions in non-rights work states.
00:22:56.000They then use that money to elect Democrats.
00:22:58.000Then they use those Democrats to either pass more favorable union laws or in the public sector, they bargain directly with the Democrats for more lucrative contracts.
00:24:15.000Unions have been on the wane in the United States since the 1970s, and the vast majority of people who were in the middle class became upper middle class.
00:24:22.000When you hear this myth that the middle class disappeared in the United States, no, what happened is that most of the people who were in the middle class joined the upper middle class by statistics.
00:24:32.000None of the real economic reality doesn't matter because it's not about economic reality.
00:24:39.000We had a historically good economy before Covid and we had an artificial downturn because of Covid.
00:24:44.000And now we are coming out of the artificial downturn.
00:24:46.000And on top of that, Joe Biden wants to quote unquote build back better, which means presumably that he wants to completely restructure the American economy that had generated unprecedented wage growth for the last 50 years.
00:24:56.000And he wanted an economy that had produced three point five percent unemployment naturally.
00:25:02.000So he's proposing these massive tax increases.
00:25:39.000Biden's corporate tax increase amounts to the restoration of the Obama-era corporate tax burden.
00:25:43.000Only much more so, the GOP tax reform of 2017 was designed to fix a corporate tax system that was uncompetitive and convoluted.
00:25:50.000Companies paid taxes in countries where they earned the income.
00:25:52.000Then again, if they returned the money to the U.S., trillions of dollars piled up overseas.
00:25:56.000Remember the string of corporate inversions when CEOs moved their headquarters?
00:25:59.000Those inversions all but ended after 2017 because reform lowered the top corporate tax rate to 21% from 35% and moved the U.S.
00:26:06.000closer to a territorial tax system where you pay tax where the income is earned.
00:26:11.000However, Biden wants to raise the corporate tax rate up to 28, but he also wants to add penalties that would make inversions punitive.
00:26:16.000So if you take your company offshore, then he would try to penalize you.
00:26:20.000He would impose a global minimum corporate tax of 21%.
00:26:23.000So if you earn all of your money overseas, you get penalized for basing yourself in the United States.
00:26:28.000This would shoot the tax burden on U.S.
00:26:29.000companies back toward the top of the developed world list.
00:26:31.000At least nine major countries have cut their corporate tax rates since 2017, including all of the left's favorite, supposedly socialistic countries like Sweden and the Netherlands.
00:26:41.000The larger Biden goal is to end global tax competition, much as its ban on state tax cutting seeks to end income tax competition among the 50 states.
00:26:49.000The United States can lead the world to end the race to the bottom on corporate tax rates.
00:26:53.000Yeah, except that people aren't going to do that.
00:26:56.000Yeah, the reality is that if you want to have a rich country right now, you lower your taxes, then you draw all the businesses there.
00:27:00.000Hilariously, the Biden administration is making the claim, number one, that this will have no impact on people at the bottom levels of the economy, and number two, that if you raise the corporate income tax, somehow this is going to not let people flee.
00:27:12.000Okay, so here is Joe Biden saying nobody making under $400,000 will see a tax increase.
00:28:04.000Right now, a middle-class couple, a firefighter and a teacher, with two kids, Making a combined salary of, say, $110,000, $120,000 a year, pays $0.22 for each additional dollar they earn in federal income tax.
00:28:20.000But a multinational corporation that builds a factory abroad, brings it home and sells it, they pay nothing at all.
00:28:31.000These multinational corporations pay extraordinary tax over and over again.
00:28:35.000People are always saying Amazon doesn't pay tax.
00:28:36.000They pay sales tax in virtually every state in the union.
00:28:40.000The notion that the employees of Amazon pay income tax.
00:28:46.000Notice also how he shifts the topic there.
00:28:47.000Because the reality is that the couple making $120,000 a year on a percentage basis of income, they're not paying nearly what a person who makes a million dollars a year is paying based on percentage income.
00:28:57.000I know because I've made a wide variety of salaries and wages over the course of my years in the workforce.
00:29:02.000I know exactly what I've paid every single year.
00:29:05.000And let me tell you, it escalates real fast.
00:29:07.000The basic idea that people at the top end of the income spectrum aren't paying their quote-unquote fair share is just an overt lie.
00:29:13.000In terms of net tax, like getting things back from the government, the top 10% are paying all of it, all net tax in the United States, according to the American Enterprise Institute.
00:29:23.000So the Biden plan here is to blow out the spending.
00:29:26.000It's to rethink the government's relationship with labor.
00:29:29.000It's to make everybody basically a union member so that they can be a de facto bargainer with the government.
00:29:35.000And it's to spend a bunch of crap, just a crap load of money on sillinesses.
00:29:39.000Brad Palumbo has a pretty good list over at the Freedom and economic enterprise institute foundation for economic education rather.
00:29:46.000There's $10 billion to create a civilian climate corp.
00:29:50.000A civilian climate corp. The White House claims the $10 billion investment will put a new diverse generation to work in serving our public lands and waters.
00:29:58.000That sound like infrastructure to you?
00:29:59.000$20 billion to advance racial equity and environmental justice.
00:30:04.000That's more than the latest COVID package spent on vaccines, by the way.
00:30:07.000For a program that will reconnect neighborhoods cut off by historic investments and ensure new projects to increase opportunity, advance racial equity and environmental justice.
00:30:15.000$175 billion in subsidies for electric vehicles.
00:30:18.000Except for the fact that, you know, people are already buying electric vehicles if they're good and not if they suck.
00:30:22.000$213 billion to build and retrofit 2 million houses and buildings.
00:30:27.000$100 billion new dollars for new public schools and making school lunches greener.
00:30:32.000They're going to get rid of paper plates and other disposable materials in schools.
00:30:37.000Billions to eliminate racial and gender inequities in science, technology, engineering, and math.
00:30:42.000All this sounds like infrastructure spending to you, doesn't it?
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00:33:24.000Well, meanwhile, as the Biden administration pushes this world breaking change on an economy that really doesn't need it, because obviously these are the smartest people and they should be in charge, the smartest people who are in charge of the border have decided basically to just leave the border open.
00:33:40.000And they're not going to do anything about it.
00:33:42.000The deputy border patrol chief admitted yesterday there would be over a million apprehensions or experiences at the border this year.
00:33:49.000Face-offs between border patrol and people attempting to cross the border illegally, here was that.
00:33:54.000Whole factors are attracting more migrants to the South Texas border where Deputy Chief Raul Ortiz predicts overall a record-breaking year.
00:34:02.000Based upon what we've already apprehended and looking at what's remaining in the fiscal year that we will have approximately about a million apprehensions or encounters this year.
00:34:19.000Between Sonnenambulance Joe and Dr. Jill, the greatest of all doctors, and the rest of this genius administration, they've decided they're putting Vice President Harris in charge of the border.
00:34:29.000I mean, because what we definitely need is somebody whose first reaction to every awkward question is to cackle like the Joker.
00:34:35.000She's been put in charge of the border.
00:35:21.000Well, I'm noticing on the border, there are some people who seem disproportionately Hispanic in origin, and help isn't there, as it turns out.
00:35:29.000It turns out that in some of these facilities, you're holding people at like a thousand percent of capacity.
00:35:59.000I mean, not just a fresh face, so fresh and so face, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:36:04.000In fact, she is so fresh and so face that she brought her super fresh, super face all the way down to the border, you'll remember, during the Trump administration.
00:36:11.000Where in a totally spontaneous, non-planned public relations act, she ended up at a fence in front of a parking lot that was a ways away from a border facility.
00:36:22.000And there she broke down in a pure display of unbridled compassion and emotion in which she stared directly into camera, for some reason, while wearing a perfectly white outfit, because feminist power.
00:36:39.000And you remember these amazing pictures of just the incredible emotion on display when she saw the cruelty, the malevolence, the malice, the brutality of the Trump administration and their treatment of illegal immigrants at the border holding kids in cages.
00:36:56.000And she went down there, and like Sarah Connor in Terminator 2, in the dream sequence, she put her hands in the chain link fence, and she screamed to the heavens, why, oh God, why would you allow such evil to take place on this planet and in this country?
00:37:10.000Well, now Joe Biden is holding like a multiple of that number of kids in cages, and they're like packed together in the middle of a COVID pandemic.
00:37:19.000And AOC has not been down to the border.
00:37:21.000Probably she just hasn't had time or something.
00:37:24.000She probably just hasn't had time to be down at the border.
00:37:27.000Or maybe that white outfit is still at the dry cleaners.
00:37:29.000I mean, it's been like a couple of years, but it's not a great dry cleaners, to be honest with you.
00:37:33.000And maybe that photographer was, I don't know, like booked.
00:37:38.000But she hasn't been down to the border or anything, but she did have time to do an Insta She did Insta.
00:37:44.000And when she did her Insta, she discussed what is happening on the border.
00:37:47.000And let me just say, the pearls of wisdom floweth like water from that so fresh, so face.
00:37:53.000Here was AOC talking about the border crisis and saying some of the most intellectually incisive things I have ever heard about the border.
00:38:03.000It's like when Einstein, I'm sure, would give a disquisition on the physics of relativity.
00:38:23.000Here she was, really sounding off, in emotional fashion about what's happening under President Biden at the border, where again, a multiple of children are now being held, and were ever held, under Trump.
00:38:35.000Anyone who's using the term surge around you consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic frame.
00:38:39.000about it in this way. Well, we're talking about it, they just don't like how we're talking about it, because it's not a border crisis, it's an imperialism crisis, it's a climate crisis, it's a trade crisis. Anyone who's using the term surge around you consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic frame. And that's a problem, because these, this is not a surge. These are children,
00:39:40.000Sure, you're blaming all this on a hurricane that happened like months and months and months ago, and then the surge started, and the surge happened like way after the hurricane.
00:40:00.000I don't have to pay attention to any of the stats.
00:40:03.000All I have to do is watch whether AOC is taking an emotionally overwrought photo at the border to tell whether we have a climate crisis or a border crisis.
00:40:33.000We've been having this massive trade standoff with the Chinese government, and that's what we've been getting, is just an enormous number of Chinese expatriates just leaving, just right there on the border.
00:40:58.000Don't use the word surge because if you use the word surge, you are invoking in-surge-ince.
00:41:06.000You see, she put a prefix and a suffix.
00:41:09.000She put in an ince before and after the word surge and boom, you're using a militaristic frame.
00:41:14.000When you say there's a surge, Normally, this is what I think, when, let's say the lights go out in my house, and I think, oh my gosh, maybe there was a power surge.
00:41:22.000I'm using a militaristic frame, because what I really mean is that my electricity is a guerrilla force.
00:41:30.000When I put a surge protector into the wall to stop that sort of thing from happening, that's because I'm an imperialist, and I'm attempting to stop those guerrilla insurgent electrics from invading my toaster.
00:41:54.000And she knows that when you say there's a surge of people at the border, what you mean, you bastard, what you mean is that children are like terrorist militants.
00:42:05.000Also, she knows that not only does surge mean that, follow the logic here, okay?
00:42:11.000When you say surge, what you really mean is that one time you knew an Eastern European guy named Surge, and Surge was not the best guy.
00:42:21.000Surge was the kind of guy who wouldn't pick you up at the airport.
00:42:24.000And that made you think of insurgents.
00:42:27.000So when you said Serge, you meant that guy Serge, who's a bad guy, and also made you think of insurgents.
00:42:33.000And so you are just slamming all that together to rip on the children.
00:42:58.000Okay, but if that's not good enough for you, I'm gonna bring you some more brilliance from the Democratic Party, because it is just... And by the way, again, there are morons in the Republican Party, too.
00:43:14.000If I'm given the choice between a moron who wants to control my life and a moron who doesn't want to control my life, I will always pick the moron who doesn't want to control my life.
00:43:20.000But we have more morons for you today.
00:43:22.000Today is Moron Day on the April Fool's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:43:26.000John Kerry is here, the climate envoy.
00:43:32.000Because when I think of a man who takes climate very seriously, I think of a guy who goes around in a personal jet, windsurfs for fun, really in touch with the commoners, is John Kerry.
00:43:41.000You know, not all of us had the ability to marry a ketchup heiress and then use her money to run for office.
00:44:00.000Sure, the solar panels won't connect to anything, and they'll still have to burn dung for fuel, and they'll die at early ages because they don't have carbon-based technologies, but John Kerry is there for them.
00:44:07.000And you know he's sympathetic to them because he flies around in a private jet and says so.
00:44:12.000So John Kerry is pushing climate change, again.
00:44:15.000He's doing this as part of the infrastructure plan, because again, you thought the infrastructure bill was all about roads and bridges.
00:45:05.000Now, my favorite part of this is where John Kerry fully admits that the Paris Climate Accord that he helped negotiate is a complete piece of crap.
00:45:11.000He's like, Also, by the way, if we had kept to our commitments in the Paris Climate Accord, the climate still would have gotten a lot warmerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Your policies suck, dude!
00:45:31.000I can totally understand that the climate is getting warmer, but all of your policies are not geared toward making the climate less warm.
00:45:37.000They are geared toward redistributionism internationally, and you openly acknowledge it.
00:45:40.000Here's John Kerry saying, That Paris Climate Accord we used to brag about, it doesn't do anything!
00:45:44.000But we were gonna make you do it anyway, weren't we?
00:45:54.000But even if we did everything that we promised to do in Paris, Earth's temperature will still rise to about 3.7 degrees if we did everything in Paris.
00:46:27.000We should absolutely wreck the economy because he's not going to debate the science.
00:46:31.000The science is clear, except for how it's not clear.
00:46:33.000And the IPCC has an estimate anywhere from like 2 to 5 degrees Celsius increase by the end of the century, which is a pretty wide range.
00:46:40.000And also, we don't know the sensitivity of the climate.
00:46:41.000And even if we did know the sensitivity of the climate, it's pretty obvious that if America went to zero carbon emissions today, net zero, it still would not prevent the amount of global warming that is baked into the cake.
00:46:50.000And so we should really be focusing our income, not so much on mitigation as on adaptation.
00:47:15.000A man who's never built a job in his entire life and lived off the back of either the public fortune or his wife's fortune.
00:47:21.000Here he is saying, it's an economic opportunity!
00:47:24.000This is the greatest economic opportunity we've ever had to build our countries.
00:47:29.000Every job we need to do to do this, build out a grid, build solar power, wind power, do hydrogen, every list, building batteries, switching to electric vehicles, all require jobs.
00:47:45.000Every one of those are people working.
00:47:48.000Oh, it's great, you know, because every time you wreck the economy, that requires jobs.
00:47:52.000If we just have you, like, make mud pies on the side of the road, because it turns out that your job was really carbon emitting, but you know it's a job that isn't carbon emitting, you digging a hole and filling it back in, that's an economic opportunity.