The Ben Shapiro Show - The Greta Thunberg Idiots’ Revolt

00:00:00.000 Greta Thunberg, you remember her.

00:00:01.000 She's the, how dare you? 1.00

00:00:03.000 Go, how dare you? 1.00

00:00:05.000 She's a cretinous little dweeb. 1.00

00:00:07.000 She always was, but we weren't allowed to say it because she wasn't 18. 0.98

00:00:09.000 She was a child.

00:00:10.000 You can't attack the child.

00:00:12.000 Well, she's now been 18 for three years, so we can totally say it.

00:00:15.000 She was trotted out for years as some sort of moral exemplar because she was under 18 and she mouthed nasty little platitudes about how her elders had ruined the world.

00:00:24.000 We would hold you accountable.

00:00:26.000 How dare you?

00:00:27.000 She's treated as a political Joan of Arc. 0.98

00:00:29.000 She said how day the whole world trembled at her supposed moral superiority as she called for the impoverishment of nearly all of humanity in the name of the earth becoming incrementally warmer slightly less quickly supposedly in reality. 0.69

00:00:43.000 Greta Thunberg was always a child-sized Trojan horse for anti-Western radicalism, socialism, deindustrialization. 0.93

00:00:49.000 Well, now the mask is off and it's pretty instructive.

00:00:52.000 So yesterday, Greta Thunberg showed up at a protest in Malmö, Sweden. 0.96

00:00:56.000 What exactly was being protested?

00:00:58.000 The thing that was being protested was a singer for the Eurovision contest from Israel.

00:01:03.000 That singer's name is Eden Golan.

00:01:07.000 Young woman, younger than Greta Thunberg.

00:01:09.000 who was literally just singing a song in a dumb contest that they hold in Europe that's kind of like American Idol every year.

00:01:16.000 And this drew thousands of people to protest, including Greta, who showed up wearing a keffiyeh, which is a symbol of solidarity with terrorism.

00:01:27.000 So she showed up and she then explained how she was standing against destruction of the environment and also the Jews. 0.99

00:01:35.000 Here we go.

00:01:37.000 They should be everywhere, and once again, young people are leading the way, showing the world how we should react to this.

00:01:49.000 Young people, we're the heroes!

00:01:51.000 The heroes!

00:01:52.000 I want it now! 0.81

00:01:53.000 I want the destruction of Western civilization now, mummy!

00:01:57.000 So of course, Gorda Thunberg was there.

00:01:59.000 Because this is the coalition. 1.00

00:02:00.000 It's an army of losers. 0.99

00:02:02.000 And it's a very large army. 0.99

00:02:04.000 Here is some video of what the protest looked like outside, again, of Eurovision.

00:02:09.000 Of Eurovision.

00:02:10.000 Because an Israeli singer was singing a song.

00:02:13.000 This is what the protest looks like.

00:02:17.000 Look at that.

00:02:19.000 It's like 12,000 people showed up to yell about the Jews.

00:02:24.000 Because a Jewish singer showed up at an event in Sweden.

00:02:30.000 Well, it's no surprise this is happening in Malmo, which is about 25% Muslim. 0.89

00:02:34.000 In fact, if you flashback to about 2022, the Swedish prime minister literally said that Sweden had failed to integrate vast numbers of immigrants it had taken in over the past two decades, leading to parallel societies and gang violence.

00:02:46.000 That's according to Reuters.

00:02:48.000 She said that after violent riots left more than 100 police injured in April of 2022.

00:02:52.000 And that erupted after a Swedish-Danish politician burned the Koran at a rally.

00:02:59.000 The Prime Minister blamed criminals and said both Islamism and right-wing extremism had been allowed to fester in Sweden.

00:03:06.000 She said, segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden.

00:03:10.000 Well, that's true.

00:03:12.000 Radical Muslims are quite prevalent in Sweden, which is why Jews are not in Malmo. 0.99

00:03:16.000 Malmo has become basically a no-go zone for anyone Jewish, for a reason. 1.00

00:03:20.000 Some of the things that this crowd was chanting, the crowd that Greta Thunberg joined, one of the slogans they were chanting was, Sinwar, we will not let you die.

00:03:28.000 That would be a reference to Jechia Sinwar, who is the head of Hamas.

00:03:32.000 He's the person who plans October 7th and is currently hiding in terror tunnels, allegedly surrounded by 15 hostages in the hopes that that will protect him from death.

00:03:41.000 So these protesters want Sinwar to survive because they're not just anti the war in Gaza or anything like that.

00:03:48.000 They like Hamas. 0.99

00:03:49.000 They are in solidarity with Hamas. 0.96

00:03:51.000 That is who Greta was marching with. 0.82

00:03:53.000 She was marching with people who literally attacked Jews.

00:03:58.000 According to Ynet News, on the Copenhagen train to Malmo, there were no signs of the pro-Palestinian demonstration yet.

00:04:05.000 According to Zev Avrahami, who's a reporter for Ynet News, is that I spoke with a Danish couple who lamented the disruption to their annual celebration.

00:04:13.000 Exiting at Momo Central Station, it resembled Jeannine.

00:04:16.000 Jeannine is a reference to a Palestinian city that is largely terrorist-run in the West Bank, in Judea and Samaria.

00:04:22.000 Flags were unfurled, elders with determination and children in festive attire, stickers and drums.

00:04:26.000 Locals stood with placards mounted on wooden poles, bearing the inscription on both sides, Boycott Israel.

00:04:31.000 The Swedes were organized.

00:04:33.000 He says, I pulled out my phone, began snapping photos.

00:04:35.000 After a few seconds, a woman around 60 dressed in a Kathia pattern dress, her head covered with a Palestinian scarf, her mouth masked with a Palestinian mask, jumped on me and demanded I stop my photography. 0.75

00:04:46.000 I said, we live in a democracy and in a public place.

00:04:48.000 She demanded I stop photographing and delete the picture.

00:04:51.000 Her friends surrounded me.

00:04:51.000 She went to call the police.

00:04:54.000 She then approached another officer and called more people from the demonstration who started photographing me relentlessly.

00:05:00.000 I went inside.

00:05:00.000 Within minutes, she appeared accompanied by seven or eight young Muslims with all the accessories.

00:05:04.000 They demanded to see documents and prove that I wasn't Jewish or Israeli.

00:05:08.000 I said I was Jewish and Israeli and I wouldn't give them the IDs. 1.00

00:05:11.000 They surrounded me and suddenly a blunt object hit me hard on the head.

00:05:15.000 I crumbled down, put my hands on my head and just looked for a way to escape.

00:05:18.000 The Swedish officers protected only the perimeter of the occupied square.

00:05:21.000 They did not intervene.

00:05:22.000 I caught a few kicks and punches.

00:05:24.000 I thought either I retaliate and the police see who's returning it or I let the wave pass.

00:05:29.000 So, that's how it was.

00:05:31.000 That is the protest that Greta Thunberg joined.

00:05:34.000 Okay, so more on this in just a moment.

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00:06:31.000 And of course, it wasn't just the protesters outside, they were also inside.

00:06:39.000 So, Eden Golan, who is the Israeli singer, she was doing her song rehearsal.

00:06:45.000 The song is just a song called Hurricane, which is largely about the reaction of Israelis to October 7th.

00:06:51.000 And she was booed inside the hall.

00:06:53.000 The only person who was booed inside the hall, by the way.

00:06:55.000 You hear them booing this young woman who just happens to be a Jew from Israel.

00:07:09.000 That is the only reason they are booing.

00:07:11.000 Literally the only reason they are booing.

00:07:14.000 In fact, the expectation in these European left-wing centers is so strong.

00:07:19.000 There is one Finnish European singer who did a little dance with Eden Golan behind the scenes.

00:07:26.000 This person's name Three, two, one, go!

00:07:29.000 So they dance together.

00:07:30.000 Conan, known by his stage name of Kha'ariyah, who came in second performing for his country in 2023

00:07:37.000 at Eurovision.

00:07:37.000 And he was filmed dancing with Ed and Golan.

00:07:42.000 Three, two, one, go.

00:07:44.000 Choo, choo, choo. 0.99

00:07:45.000 So they danced together.

00:07:52.000 And then the very next thing that happened is that this doofus apologized for ever having danced

00:07:59.000 with this 20 year old Israeli woman, even though she was singing his song

00:08:04.000 and they were dancing together.

00:08:07.000 They laugh and they clasp hands in the video.

00:08:09.000 And then he posted on Instagram, quote, I happened to meet Israel's Eurovision representative today and a video was filmed of us.

00:08:15.000 It was then posted on social media without my permission.

00:08:18.000 Despite my request for removal, it has not been taken down.

00:08:20.000 I would like to clarify and emphasize the video is not a political statement or an endorsement of any kind.

00:08:26.000 Absolute cowardice.

00:08:27.000 You must never acknowledge that you have met a Jew or an Israeli in Malmo, Sweden. 0.78

00:08:31.000 You must not. 0.91

00:08:33.000 You must never, ever recognize that the Israelis are human and that they ought not be killed en masse. 1.00

00:08:40.000 The army of losers is very, very large in the West. 0.95

00:08:44.000 It includes drag queens who go on the BBC to explain that they are canceling their Eurovision contest watching in order to demonstrate solidarity with Hamas. 0.89

00:08:55.000 Here is a drag queen explaining That he will not be holding any sort of Eurovision watch party because somebody from Israel might be shown. 0.99

00:09:07.000 You're protesting by banning your own event.

00:09:11.000 So what have you done, and what do you normally do, and how has it changed?

00:09:15.000 It's been different every year, but I am a huge Eurovision fan.

00:09:17.000 This year I was hosting my own screening event in Dalston, which was going to be 800 people screaming, cheering along at the screen.

00:09:25.000 It was going to be a really great time.

00:09:27.000 I've decided to join the boycott because of Israel's inclusion, and I feel because the EBU has forced my hand, unfortunately, by deciding to keep them in the contest. 1.00

00:09:36.000 Yeah, the European Broadcasting Union.

00:09:40.000 Oh, wow.

00:09:41.000 His hand was forced.

00:09:42.000 His very large man hands were forced right there.

00:09:46.000 Folks, this is the coalition. 0.99

00:09:48.000 It is an army of losers, and it's a very serious problem. 0.97

00:09:52.000 Global losers, fans of Palestinian terrorism, who cannot succeed in a meritocracy, who emigrate en masse to Europe, where they form Entire population centers that do not participate in the Western system and hate the system in which they are given welfare and given education and in which they are largely unsuccessful. 1.00

00:10:12.000 Useless socialists who have performed zero service of public value their entire lives but are very angry at capitalism. 0.97

00:10:18.000 People like Greta Thunberg. 0.97

00:10:19.000 They're all marching together in Malmo against, wait for it, of course, the Juden! 1.00

00:10:27.000 Now, the Jews here are religious to stand in for the West, because these anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists believe that the Jews control the West.

00:10:34.000 Their entire theory of the world is predicated on belief, a very evil belief, that failure inherently means victimization, and that success inherently means exploitation.

00:10:44.000 And because the Jews are disproportionately successful, this means they are disproportionately exploitative.

00:10:49.000 And the United States is an argument made by critical race theorists about white people. 0.96

00:10:54.000 That white people built the system for the benefit of whites, which is why whites are so darn successful. 0.92

00:10:58.000 The problem, of course, is that there are other groups that are very successful who are not white. 0.91

00:11:02.000 Jews historically not categorized as white.

00:11:05.000 Now they've been included in that rubric.

00:11:08.000 So if Jews are disproportionately successful, then they can certainly not be victims.

00:11:12.000 So the argument is that Jews built the system for the benefit of the Jews. 0.83

00:11:16.000 So it's perfectly appropriate to beat Jews in the streets or try to mob a Jewish singer on a continent where Jews were slaughtered by the millions a couple of generations ago. 0.99

00:11:23.000 After all, the system has to be destroyed. 1.00

00:11:25.000 This is an army of losers. 1.00

00:11:27.000 Losers of the world unite. 1.00

00:11:29.000 That's what you're watching in Malmo. 0.99

00:11:31.000 It's what you're watching on America's college campuses.

00:11:33.000 It's what you're watching in large precincts of the Democratic National Committee. 0.96

00:11:37.000 It's an army of losers, a coalition of losers, who are all getting together in order to tear down the civilization that has given them disproportionate wealth and power for no merit of their own. 0.61

00:11:49.000 The people who are sitting on our college campuses right now, occupying the college centers while demanding food during a hunger strike, those members of the army of losers are the most privileged people in world history, but they hate the system that has given them the privilege, and they feel morally virtuous For dissociating from that system and ripping at the system. 0.98

00:12:07.000 And the Jews are just a convenient excuse. 1.00

00:12:10.000 And the same thing is true in Malmo, Sweden. 0.95

00:12:12.000 And the same thing is true in London.

00:12:15.000 These people hate the West. 0.99

00:12:16.000 The Jews are just the tip of the spear right there. 1.00

00:12:18.000 That's just the ugliest manifestation of the hatred for the West. 0.99

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00:13:35.000 Now, why Joe Biden has decided to cave to these people is absolutely beyond me, because that's absolutely what he is doing.

00:13:40.000 When he says to Israel, we will deprive you, we will essentially embargo you, offensive weaponry, in the middle of a war with Hamas.

00:13:50.000 If you dare to go into populated centers, which is literally Hamas's entire strategy, go into populated centers, hide among civilians, and wait for Joe Biden to be a weakling. 0.53

00:13:59.000 So far, the strategy is working amazing.

00:14:02.000 The White House clarified yesterday that this wasn't a senior moment for Joe Biden when he went on CNN and declared that they were going to deprive Israel of the offensive weaponry necessary to fight Hamas.

00:14:14.000 In fact, the White House, John Kirby, national security spokesperson, he said that it's the White House's opinion that going into Rafah emboldens Hamas.

00:14:22.000 Now, how you arrive at this logic?

00:14:25.000 The answer is there is no logic.

00:14:26.000 This is a lie.

00:14:27.000 And he knows it's a lie.

00:14:28.000 And Joe Biden knows that this line is a lie.

00:14:31.000 There are only a few reasons why the White House is actually doing this.

00:14:35.000 One is because Joe Biden is just... His brain is no longer there.

00:14:40.000 It was never there and now it's really no longer there.

00:14:42.000 That's possibility number one.

00:14:43.000 Although I don't think that's the reality.

00:14:45.000 Number two. 0.99

00:14:46.000 Joe Biden is trying to pander to the army of losers. 0.92

00:14:49.000 And number three, Joe Biden actually believes, like the army of losers, that the West is inherently bad and Israel's an outpost of the West, is inherently part of some sort of discriminatory, exploitative superstructure that has made the Palestinians disproportionately successful. 0.98

00:15:01.000 Now, in reality, the reason that the Palestinian population is disproportionately unsuccessful is because they've decided on a governance structure that is directed at terrorism and murdering Jews. 1.00

00:15:09.000 That is the reason.

00:15:10.000 It's been true for literally three generations.

00:15:14.000 You know how you can tell?

00:15:16.000 Because Israeli Arabs, who are ethnically undifferentiatable from Arabs who are living in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, have a much higher income trajectory. 0.94

00:15:24.000 Why?

00:15:25.000 Because they live in Israel. 0.99

00:15:28.000 It turns out that how you choose to govern yourselves, how you choose to live your lives, has a pretty significant impact on how successful you are in a free market democratic system.

00:15:40.000 But Joe Biden is trying to make excuses now.

00:15:42.000 So here are some of the worst excuse-making I've ever heard from John Kirby, who should be ashamed of himself.

00:15:48.000 Our view is that RAFA operations, certainly any kind of major RAFA ground operation, would actually strengthen Hamas's hands at the negotiating table, not Israel's.

00:16:05.000 That's our view.

00:16:07.000 Okay, so what is the logic there?

00:16:09.000 So if Israel were to go into Rafah and start killing Hamas members, that would strengthen Hamas' hand? 0.99

00:16:13.000 Now you're gonna have to explain that one real slowly, like I'm a child, because that's the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life. 0.69

00:16:21.000 That is like suggesting that if America just stopped fighting the Japanese in the middle of World War II, that would have put more pressure on Japan to surrender.

00:16:29.000 That's not how anything works ever.

00:16:33.000 So Kirby tried to spin this one.

00:16:34.000 And you know, points for effort.

00:16:36.000 Here's what he said, quote, If I'm Mr. Sinwar and I'm sitting down in my tunnel, I think that's where he is, and I'm seeing innocent people falling victim to major significant combat operations in Rafah, I have less and less incentive to want to come to the negotiating table and deal.

00:16:49.000 What in the actual world is he talking about?

00:16:53.000 So his suggestion is that Yahya Sinwar will want to deal if Israel is nice to the people in Rafah?

00:17:03.000 Then he'll want to make a deal.

00:17:04.000 He's operating from an assumption that Yahya Sinwar cares about the people in Rafa.

00:17:08.000 Yahya Sinwar is killing people who are attempting to get humanitarian aid.

00:17:12.000 Yahya Sinwar built an entire 300-mile network of tunnels where all the terrorists are hiding and no civilians are allowed.

00:17:20.000 Yahya Sinwar is attempting to maximize civilian casualties.

00:17:23.000 He wants civilians to die.

00:17:25.000 That is his goal. 0.94

00:17:27.000 Because then he can wait for John Kirby and Joe Biden to do his dirty work for him.

00:17:32.000 If the idea is that Yahya Sinwar needs an incentive... If Yahya Sinwar wanted to prevent civilian casualties before anything started, he could have surrendered October 8th.

00:17:43.000 Or better yet, not even have done October 7th.

00:17:45.000 But it turns out that he doesn't give any at all.

00:17:49.000 Nothing.

00:17:49.000 He does not care at all.

00:17:51.000 He cares less.

00:17:52.000 The reverse. 1.00

00:17:52.000 He wants Palestinians to die. 1.00

00:17:55.000 So what is John Kirby even talking about? 0.98

00:17:58.000 He said, I can cast Israel in the worst possible way because of the way they're behaving.

00:18:00.000 And I can just, well, say, well, clearly they're not interested in a good faith way to get to a ceasefire.

00:18:04.000 Look at what they're doing in Rafah.

00:18:06.000 It just gives him more ammunition for his twisted narrative.

00:18:08.000 No, you know who gives him more ammunition for his twisted narrative?

00:18:10.000 You! 0.99

00:18:11.000 Because you're backing his twisted narrative.

00:18:13.000 You and Joe Biden are out there saying that Israel is using bombs to kill civilians, when in reality, Israel has the lowest terror to civilian kill ratio of all time in an urban combat situation.

00:18:24.000 The Prime Minister of Israel yesterday announced that the stats that the IDF has show 14,000 dead terrorists and 16,000 dead civilians.

00:18:31.000 Every one of those dead civilians is a tragedy and every one of those dead civilians is on Hamas. 0.82

00:18:35.000 That is the lowest terrorist to civilian kill ratio in human history in an urban area.

00:18:42.000 Because Hamas is literally embedding in schools and mosques and underneath apartment buildings.

00:18:49.000 According to Kirby, smashing into Rafah will not advance the objective, will not get to the sustainable, enduring defeat of Hamas.

00:18:54.000 Well, I mean, we'll take that for a grain of salt, with a grain of salt, because Joe Biden literally handed over Afghanistan to the Taliban.

00:19:01.000 Joe Biden has not won a single military victory his entire presidency.

00:19:05.000 What's even more amazing is the line from John Kirby.

00:19:10.000 This is an incredible line.

00:19:12.000 He was asked about the negotiations that are taking place between Hamas and Israel, which have now broken off.

00:19:16.000 Hamas broke off the negotiations because they got what they wanted already.

00:19:19.000 What they got is Israel's chain being held by the United States. 0.69

00:19:23.000 What they got is the United States now doing propaganda work on behalf of Hamas by suggesting that Israel is the real danger to peace in the region.

00:19:31.000 So what did Kirby say?

00:19:32.000 Quote, we believe there's a path forward, but it's going to take some leadership on both sides.

00:19:39.000 On both sides.

00:19:40.000 It's going to take a little bit of moral courage on both sides to finally be able to come across that table and ink the steel.

00:19:47.000 Moral courage on both.

00:19:48.000 So you're literally both sides in this thing?

00:19:52.000 You're talking about a democratic ally of the United States, the unity government, including opponents of the current prime minister.

00:19:58.000 And on the other side, an actual, honest to God, evil, genocidal terror group holding Americans hostage.

00:20:03.000 And he says, well, they just need to show a little moral courage.

00:20:05.000 If they could just show a little more courage.

00:20:07.000 There's a cartoon from back, I think, 2014.

00:20:09.000 It is the only cartoon that matters in the last 50 years of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the Americans acting as quote-unquote honest broker.

00:20:18.000 And it shows John Kerry, who was then Secretary of State, sitting between Bibi Netanyahu on the one hand and a Palestinian terrorist on the other. 0.96

00:20:25.000 And the Palestinian terrorist is saying, we just want to kill the Jews. 0.97

00:20:29.000 And John Kerry is saying to the Israelis, can't you just meet them halfway? 0.99

00:20:34.000 That is what John Kirby is doing.

00:20:37.000 Moral courage from Hamas? 0.99

00:20:41.000 Honestly, it makes it hard for me to believe that they actually believe this stuff. 0.99

00:20:44.000 Because even as stupid as I think many of the members of the State Department are, as truly bereft of knowledge and wisdom as I think many members of the Obama administration are, Even despicable people like former Obama officials like Ben Rhodes. 0.99

00:20:58.000 I don't think... You know how truly vegetable-like mentally you have to believe that Hamas is going to show moral courage? 0.99

00:21:07.000 There was a ceasefire October 6th, and then they murdered 1,200 people, and they're still holding Americans hostage.

00:21:13.000 And John Kirby is calling them for some moral courage.

00:21:14.000 This is the same nonsense they declared about the Taliban.

00:21:19.000 Remember this?

00:21:20.000 When the Taliban were taking over Afghanistan.

00:21:22.000 John Kirby and Joe Biden, they went out there and they talked about how now the Taliban are our friends and they're gonna guarantee security in Kabul.

00:21:29.000 That was shortly before the Taliban allowed ISIS-K to simply blow up 13 American soldiers and kill hundreds of Afghan civilians who were attempting to escape their clutches.

00:21:40.000 They've now killed presumably tens of thousands of those people. 0.99

00:21:44.000 It turns out that trusting terrorists, either you're a moron to trust terrorists, which, you know, people are very stupid, Or there's something else going on, which is you believe, as Barack Obama once suggested, that the reason that people become terrorists is because of Western exploitation and evil. 1.00

00:21:58.000 That it's all blowback. 1.00

00:22:00.000 That's the deeply held belief of the army of losers that you see in Malmo, and it seems to be a belief with an increasing level of credibility inside democratic circles.

00:22:11.000 It does also lead to bizarre, bizarre gaps in public relations like this.

00:22:16.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.

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00:23:18.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden literally tweeted out, quote, on my watch, when we make promises, we keep them and we leave no one behind.

00:23:27.000 That's an insane tweet.

00:23:29.000 He literally just cut off arms to an American ally seeking to free American hostages.

00:23:35.000 And he says we leave no one behind other than the thousands of American citizens in Afghanistan, other than allies.

00:23:42.000 In Ukraine, other than allies in Israel, other than hostages in the Gaza Strip, he doesn't leave anybody behind.

00:23:49.000 You know who used to know about this?

00:23:50.000 A guy named Joe Biden, circa 2019.

00:23:53.000 So here was Joe Biden, 2019, saying, we can't just cut off military aid to an ally.

00:23:57.000 News this week, to the extent that some of the Democrats are saying that if, because of Israel's settlement policy, that they would look at cutting off military aid to Israel as a result of that.

00:24:12.000 That'd be a tragic mistake.

00:24:13.000 I strongly oppose Israel's settlement policy on the West Bank.

00:24:19.000 I've made that clear to Bibi when I was Vice President.

00:24:23.000 I've made it crystal clear to the Israelis.

00:24:26.000 But the idea that we would cut off military aid to an ally Our only true, true ally in the entire region is absolutely preposterous.

00:24:40.000 It's just beyond my comprehension anyone would do that.

00:24:44.000 Yes, that is beyond comprehension.

00:24:46.000 Senator Biden from 2019.

00:24:49.000 So what changed? 0.97

00:24:50.000 The answer is that Joe Biden, when we talk about him being a coward, it's not just that he's a moral coward. 0.99

00:24:54.000 He's also a political coward. 0.88

00:24:56.000 Joe Biden's entire career is he holds his finger in the wind of the Democratic Party and then tries to put himself directly in the center of where he thinks the Democrats are. 0.99

00:25:03.000 So sadly, what this indicates is that Joe Biden actually believes that the center of the Democratic Party is in alliance with the army of losers.

00:25:11.000 By the way, he used to think this sort of stuff was an impeachable offense.

00:25:13.000 Here's a Biden tweet from 2019.

00:25:14.000 Quote, President Trump withheld congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine unless they granted him a political favor.

00:25:23.000 It's the definition of quid pro quo.

00:25:24.000 This is no joke.

00:25:25.000 Trump continues to put his own personal political interest ahead of the national interest.

00:25:28.000 He must be impeached.

00:25:31.000 Well, one could say the same of a president of the United States desperately attempting to buy off pro-Hamas voters in the army of losers by cutting off military aid to an ally In the middle of a war to extirpate Hamas.

00:25:43.000 By the way, it is, again, it will never cease to be a source of amazement to me that there are people from the White House, the White House, who are literally saying that Hamas ought to show moral courage.

00:25:52.000 Here's the kind of moral courage Hamas has shown. 0.85

00:25:54.000 This is a clip of a top-ranking member of Hamas asked on Arabic TV about their greatest achievement in ruling the Gaza Strip for the last 17 years.

00:26:05.000 Here is the answer.

00:26:07.000 You've been in the Gaza Strip for 17 years, asked the reporter on Al Arabiya.

00:26:14.000 What have you accomplished for the people?

00:26:17.000 You've served five wars.

00:26:19.000 We are now in the most violent war we are currently witnessing.

00:26:22.000 What are Hamas's national achievements?

00:26:25.000 He says it means non-demanding.

00:26:27.000 All national achievements, I will tell you, the achievements of October 7th.

00:26:31.000 First, it brought the Palestinian issue back into the spotlight.

00:26:34.000 The achievement is October 7th.

00:26:37.000 That is the achievement.

00:26:40.000 That is the goal.

00:26:42.000 October 7th is the culmination, he says.

00:26:44.000 The October 7th operation could not have been carried out had it not been for the fact that there was a resistance that built itself.

00:26:53.000 If there was a security authority like PA inside the Gaza Strip in the West Bank, the resistance would have been suppressed.

00:26:59.000 The Palestinians could not defend themselves. 1.00

00:27:04.000 They want, like Sabria and Shatila, the Palestinian forces withdrew.

00:27:09.000 And they executed a massacre in Sabra and Shatia.

00:27:11.000 He's talking there about Christian phalangists massacring Palestinians in Sabra and Shatia in the early 1980s.

00:27:18.000 Okay, so the major achievement of Hamas that they brag about is October 7th. 0.89

00:27:24.000 And the White House is calling on them for moral courage.

00:27:27.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.

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00:28:46.000 Now, speaking of moral cowardice, just in case you thought that Joe Biden's cutoff on military

00:28:52.000 aid to Israel in the middle of this war is just like a general cutoff on military aid, wrong.

00:28:57.000 Literally the day before the Biden administration announced that they would withhold weapons from Israel, they issued a sanctions waiver to allow arms sales to Qatar and Lebanon, both proxy states of Iran.

00:29:09.000 The Washington Free Beacon learned that on Tuesday, the State Department informed Congress it intends to bypass laws that bar the United States from selling weapons to nations that boycott Israel.

00:29:19.000 The Biden administration extended the waiver through April 30th, 2025 to Qatar and Lebanon, which is basically an Iranian-backed Hezbollah-controlled state.

00:29:33.000 So the United States is currently sending weaponry to the people attempting to destroy the state of Israel.

00:29:39.000 But they won't give the weaponry to Israel to get rid of Hamas.

00:29:43.000 And again, why is this happening?

00:29:44.000 Because the Democratic Party is shot through with radicals.

00:29:47.000 For example, the Director of Intelligence and Defense Programs in the U.S.

00:29:51.000 National Security Council is a person named Maher Bitar.

00:29:56.000 He was already appointed by the Obama administration, where he managed the Israeli-Palestinian case.

00:30:00.000 Before that, he was a member of Students for Justice in Palestine, which is a terror-backing group at Georgetown University.

00:30:09.000 In 2007, he worked for the UNRWA, which is a Palestinian Hamas-led proxy group.

00:30:15.000 That is an advisor to Joe Biden right now.

00:30:18.000 Now, this is precipitating a clash inside the Democratic Party, as well it should. 0.92

00:30:23.000 You have radicals like Senator Chris Van Hollen, who's been awful throughout, who says, this isn't political, we should be withholding offensive aid.

00:30:31.000 So my view is that the United States should not be transferring offensive weapons to the Netanyahu government.

00:30:38.000 Zero.

00:30:39.000 Until and unless, let me be very clear, until and unless the President has assurances that the U.S.

00:30:49.000 values and U.S.

00:30:50.000 interests are met.

00:30:52.000 And the President's been very clear about that.

00:30:54.000 You know, my view is that this cannot be just a blank check to the Netanyahu government.

00:30:59.000 If you're going to have a partnership, which we have, it has to be a two-way street.

00:31:03.000 It cannot be a situation where the president makes reasonable requests, and those requests are repeatedly ignored by the Netanyahu government, and then expect the United States to provide a blank check.

00:31:18.000 Well, that is one perspective inside the Democratic Party.

00:31:20.000 The other comes courtesy of a bunch of other Democrats.

00:31:23.000 So Joe Biden is splitting his own party over this.

00:31:26.000 He tried to play both sides, and now he's splitting both sides of his own party.

00:31:29.000 Senator Jackie Rosen, Democrat of Nevada, said, quote, And that demonstrates our unwavering support, particularly as Iran and its proxies escalate their attacks.

00:31:39.000 Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said, I don't know what the president meant.

00:31:42.000 I haven't seen what the actual Operation Rafa is.

00:31:44.000 I certainly hope we'll continue to provide support militarily and diplomatically that Israel needs to defend itself.

00:31:50.000 Senator Fetterman, who has been the surprise of the season, he said this was all deeply disappointing.

00:31:57.000 Then there are the quote-unquote moderates like Ben Cardin. 0.98

00:32:00.000 You know, just cowards. 0.98

00:32:02.000 Who won't weigh in. 0.98

00:32:03.000 I'm having conversations with the administration on this, he said.

00:32:08.000 But, Representative Jared Golden, Democrat of Maine, he says, the President's actions signal weakness to Hamas, to our allies and adversaries abroad and at home.

00:32:16.000 Representative Brad Schneider, Democrat of Illinois, I'm deeply concerned about the administration's recent decision.

00:32:21.000 I fear the U.S.

00:32:22.000 is sending dangerous mixed messages, not just to the government and people of Israel, but also to Hamas.

00:32:27.000 So Joe Biden is successfully breaking apart his own party.

00:32:30.000 Comedian Michael Rappaport, a lifelong Democrat, came out yesterday and basically unendorsed Joe Biden over this.

00:32:35.000 There will be consequences to Joe Biden doing what he is doing right now politically. 0.97

00:32:40.000 And you dumb old... You have the... You... You... You're not sending weapons to Israel during a war while American hostages American hostages and hostages from 22 countries are still in that. 1.00

00:33:02.000 You're not sending weapons now, you dumb. 1.00

00:33:06.000 You, let me tell you something. 1.00

00:33:08.000 I never, ever, ever thought I would say this.

00:33:11.000 Okay.

00:33:12.000 But I could promise you this right now.

00:33:14.000 Smoking Joe Biden, cadaver Joe Biden, me, Michael Rappaport, I'm not voting for you. 1.00

00:33:20.000 You're not getting my vote and plenty of us also ain't voting for you, you **** you. 0.99

00:33:30.000 And he's not the only one and he ain't wrong. 0.99

00:33:33.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is responding to all this as he should.

00:33:35.000 He says this is disgraceful.

00:33:36.000 He's abandoning Israel.

00:33:37.000 Of course, President Trump is totally right.

00:33:40.000 What Biden is doing with respect to Israel is disgraceful.

00:33:48.000 If any Jewish person voted for Joe Biden, they should be ashamed of themselves. 0.60

00:33:52.000 He's totally abandoned Israel and nobody can believe it. 0.99

00:33:59.000 I guess he feels good about it because he did it as a political decision.

00:34:03.000 You have to do the right decision, not the political decision.

00:34:07.000 He's right about that.

00:34:08.000 Senator Tom Cotton is saying, hey, listen, you guys impeached Donald Trump of removal of aid to Ukraine temporarily.

00:34:14.000 This is an impeachable offense.

00:34:16.000 Now some people say Joe Biden is doing this for his re-election, which would be bad enough.

00:34:22.000 It would also, I have to add, be grounds for impeachment under the Democrats' Trump-Ukraine standard withholding foreign aid to help one's re-election.

00:34:33.000 Only with Joe Biden, it's true.

00:34:37.000 He's right about that.

00:34:38.000 Meanwhile, points to Brian Mast for the way that he dealt with this Code Pink protester.

00:34:42.000 Brian Mast is a representative from down here in Florida, who served in the American military and lost both legs in war.

00:34:48.000 Here he was.

00:34:49.000 Now that Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire, do you think Israel should reduce it? 0.99

00:34:56.000 I think Israel should go in there and kick the s**t out of them. 1.00

00:35:00.000 Just absolutely destroy them, their infrastructure, level, anything that they touch. 1.00

00:35:06.000 Fair enough?

00:35:08.000 Yep.

00:35:09.000 Meanwhile, the New York Times is trying to save Joe Biden from himself, because even the New York Times is realizing this is a bad political boo-boo for Joe Biden.

00:35:16.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:36:01.000 Meanwhile, the New York Times is recognizing that Joe Biden is splitting his own party,

00:36:06.000 So what do they do?

00:36:06.000 They ran a headline today called, quote, So, um, in other words, yes, Israel is now being supported by the Republican Party.

00:36:19.000 And sure, Joe Biden just undercut Israel in a totally unprecedented way.

00:36:24.000 What he is doing right now is even worse than what Barack Obama did, which is something I never thought I was going to say.

00:36:28.000 Because Barack Obama was legitimately the worst president In my lifetime, and certainly for the state of Israel.

00:36:35.000 And Joe Biden has surpassed him. 0.99

00:36:37.000 Joe Biden is clown show moral disaster. 0.98

00:36:41.000 So, what is the New York Times doing? 0.99

00:36:42.000 They're saying, well, secretly, even though the Republicans are really supportive of Israel and want to see Hamas exit, secretly, they're the real anti-Semites.

00:36:49.000 Because you see, what anti-Semitism is about for the New York Times, Is pretending that you like Seinfeld, having a bagel every so often, and then going and marching with Hamas.

00:36:59.000 That's what Judaism really- it's social justice warrioring, you see. 0.98

00:37:02.000 It's tikkun olam. 0.82

00:37:03.000 If you just say the magical tikkun olam reconstructionist Judaism nonsense, And then you go out there and you bash Israel and call for its extirpation and destruction, then that's the real- J Street is the real Judaism, don't you see? 0.94

00:37:16.000 Students, like, if not now, those are the real Jews. 0.98

00:37:20.000 But you know, like, those are the people who really love- the people who love the Jews are the far leftists who want Israel destroyed. 0.74

00:37:26.000 They're standing for the real Judaism. 0.93

00:37:28.000 But the right-wingers, who like Israel and want it to preserve itself, And backed the Jews in Israel. 0.96

00:37:34.000 Those people are secretly anti-Semitic.

00:37:35.000 You know why?

00:37:36.000 Because they once made a reference to George Soros on their Twitter!

00:37:39.000 Even though George Soros is one of the people backing the campaign against Israel.

00:37:45.000 So the New York Times, this entire piece, is predicated on the idea that secretly, the real anti-Semites are all the people who openly support the Jews.

00:37:57.000 So, for example, in a July 2023 email to supporters, a Trump campaign employed an image that bears striking resemblance to a Nazi-era cartoon of a hook-nosed puppet master manipulating world figures.

00:38:06.000 George Soros as puppet master, pulling the strings, controlling President Biden.

00:38:10.000 In number one, George Soros is a major contributor to Joe Biden's campaign and to all of the things that are very radical on the left.

00:38:17.000 Number two, The attempt to paint Donald Trump as the anti-Semite in this race is so insane, considering what Joe Biden is doing right now.

00:38:26.000 But they got to try something, obviously.

00:38:28.000 They got to try something.

00:38:31.000 So again, the idea here is that Rashida Tlaib isn't the real anti-Semite.

00:38:35.000 The real anti-Semite is people who vote in favor of Israel, but posted something awkward about About George Soros, like five years ago on Twitter.

00:38:44.000 That's the real problem.

00:38:45.000 That ain't gonna work.

00:38:46.000 And meanwhile, for Israel's part, Israel has been increasing its operations gradually and steadily in Rafa.

00:38:51.000 It looks like they're trying to draw a middle path that basically gives Biden a way out of this self-created political gunshot wound.

00:38:57.000 What they're doing is they're going in slowly to Rafa, it appears, as opposed to sort of an overwhelming invasion.

00:39:02.000 This allows Biden to suggest that this is not a full-scale, quote, invasion of the population centers.

00:39:08.000 But, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he says, listen, if it really comes down to it, we'll stand alone.

00:39:13.000 Which, by the way, any sovereign country is going to say that, as they should.

00:39:16.000 Here's the Prime Minister.

00:39:18.000 Eighty years ago, in the Holocaust, the Jewish people were totally defenseless against those who sought our destruction.

00:39:28.000 No nation came to our aid.

00:39:32.000 Today, we again confront enemies bent on our destruction.

00:39:37.000 I say to the leaders of the world, no amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum will stop Israel from defending itself.

00:39:50.000 As the Prime Minister of Israel, the one and only Jewish state, I pledge here today, from Jerusalem, on this Holocaust Remembrance Day, if Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.

00:40:07.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden and his reelect efforts here, the reason he's becoming more and more radical and more and more desperate is because he's in really, really bad shape, electorally speaking here.

00:40:16.000 And the polls for him are just brutal.

00:40:19.000 The latest polls show Donald Trump up nationally.

00:40:22.000 They show Donald Trump up in every single swing state, in all of them.

00:40:26.000 Even the polls that are showing Joe Biden up are within margin of error.

00:40:30.000 When you go to the state level, Joe Biden is now losing slightly in Wisconsin, heavily in Arizona, heavily in Georgia, slightly in Michigan, slightly in Pennsylvania, heavily in North Carolina, heavily in Nevada.

00:40:43.000 And it doesn't look like things are getting better here.

00:40:46.000 So Joe Biden is now lying about the economy and also doing the routine.

00:40:50.000 You know you're losing when you have to tell the American people that their feelings are wrong.

00:40:53.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden, in this same CNN interview, this disastrous CNN interview, he claimed that inflation was at 9% when he took over.

00:41:00.000 That is wrong.

00:41:01.000 Inflation was at 1.4% when he took over.

00:41:03.000 He quickly spiked it to well over 9%.

00:41:05.000 No president's had the run we've had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation.

00:41:12.000 It was 9% when I came to office. 9%.

00:41:16.000 Nope, it wasn't.

00:41:18.000 And he was asked by Aaron Burnett about inflation.

00:41:21.000 His answer was, don't worry, people have a lot of money, they can spend it now.

00:41:24.000 That is not comforting to people because their wages have not kept up with inflation for full-on three years at this point.

00:41:30.000 More in food and groceries than they have at any time, really, in the past 30 years.

00:41:34.000 I mean, that's a real day-to-day pain that people feel.

00:41:37.000 No, it really is.

00:41:40.000 And it's real.

00:41:41.000 But the fact is that If you take a look at what the American people have, they have the money to spend.

00:41:47.000 It angers them and angers me that you have to spend more.

00:41:53.000 Good luck to you with this message. 0.94

00:41:54.000 Even CNN's John King was like, maybe you don't want to tell the American people they have enough money to afford your garbage inflation.

00:42:00.000 In Michigan, we met with those younger voters.

00:42:02.000 We also are starting to put together a group of auto workers.

00:42:04.000 Their union has endorsed Biden.

00:42:06.000 Most of them are going to vote for Biden.

00:42:07.000 But you ask them what life is like, and they can't buy a bigger house because of mortgage rates.

00:42:12.000 They still, when you talk about grocery prices.

00:42:15.000 And so the president has to be careful here.

00:42:17.000 That sounds like somebody in Washington telling people you're wrong.

00:42:21.000 And whatever your party is, voters don't process it that way.

00:42:24.000 They don't like that.

00:42:26.000 That is correct, obviously.

00:42:28.000 One great indicator that Joe Biden is in serious trouble here is that many of his political allies are now abandoning him.

00:42:34.000 So, for example, Sherrod Brown, who is in a rough race in Ohio, right?

00:42:40.000 Sherrod Brown has won fairly easy re-election a couple of times in Ohio.

00:42:43.000 Well, now he's in real trouble.

00:42:44.000 He is planning to back a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Biden administration's rules implementing the electric vehicle tax credit, according to Politico.

00:42:53.000 Brown, who's facing a tight reelect race in a manufacturing-heavy state, blasted the domestic content rules after they were finalized last week as too lenient on China and stripping jobs away from Ohio.

00:43:04.000 When you're getting abandoned by your red state, purple state senators, you got a problem. 0.56

00:43:09.000 And meanwhile, Joe Biden's solution to this is to shovel more money out the door.

00:43:12.000 According to Axios, Joe Biden is attempting desperately to find projects to spend his trillion dollars on.

00:43:19.000 You remember that Inflation Reduction Act that involved spending a trillion dollars?

00:43:22.000 Well, it turns out there aren't enough things to spend it on, so he's gonna shovel that money out anyway.

00:43:27.000 Apparently, out of $1.1 trillion for direct investments in energy and infrastructure, less than 17% of the funds have been spent.

00:43:35.000 So he's still trying to find ways to shovel money into an overheated economy.

00:43:39.000 Good luck to him.

00:43:41.000 Good luck to him.

00:43:42.000 This is the worst re-elect campaign I have seen in my lifetime.

00:43:47.000 If Joe Biden wins this election, he's gonna have to turn things around pretty dramatically.

00:43:50.000 It's hard to see how he does that, considering that he's no longer alive.

00:43:53.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.

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00:45:01.000 Okay guys, so you know that Mr. Bircham is coming out on the 12th.

00:45:04.000 They're just days away from the premiere of Mr. Bircham over at DailyWirePlus.

00:45:07.000 So Adam Carolla is stopping by the show.

00:45:09.000 Currently hosts the Adam Carolla Show, of course.

00:45:12.000 And he is the creator and star of the brand new DailyWirePlus animated series, Mr. Bircham.

00:45:17.000 Adam, thanks so much for joining the show.

00:45:19.000 Thanks for having me, Ben.

00:45:22.000 So first off, congrats on the project.

00:45:24.000 This is a project that's been like 30 years in the making.

00:45:26.000 So what is the origin of Mr. Bircham?

00:45:30.000 In 1994, I was a boxing coach.

00:45:33.000 I was training Jimmy Kimmel to box.

00:45:37.000 Jimmy, the sports guy back then for K-Rock Radio for a morning stunt.

00:45:42.000 He thought I was funny.

00:45:44.000 He said, I think I can get you on the radio, but you got to come up with a character.

00:45:49.000 I said, I don't do characters.

00:45:51.000 He said, you better come up with one.

00:45:53.000 And I came up with a character called Mr. Bircham.

00:45:56.000 30 years ago on KROQ Radio in Los Angeles for the morning show, and it immediately became insanely popular.

00:46:04.000 And that was how I got into show business.

00:46:09.000 So let's talk about the character of Mr. Bertram and what he was and sort of what he represents in the show.

00:46:16.000 And then I want to hear you tell the story about like, this is not the first iteration of Mr. Bertram as an animated series.

00:46:20.000 We'll get into that in a moment.

00:46:21.000 But who's Mr. Bertram?

00:46:22.000 What was the character?

00:46:23.000 Why did it become so popular?

00:46:26.000 He's an amalgamation of every mean shop teacher I had in junior high.

00:46:32.000 I went to Walter Reed Junior High and I had Mr. Cage and Mr. Smith and all all these horrible shop teachers.

00:46:42.000 There were angry guys with big mustaches and big forearms who loved woodworking and hated kids.

00:46:51.000 And even as a 13 or 14 year old, I thought it was Interesting that these guys went to school every day to work with kids, but hated kids.

00:47:01.000 They loved their shop and they looked at it as their shop.

00:47:06.000 And the kids were sort of a nuisance and an annoyance who are coming in or using their tools.

00:47:12.000 That's sort of the approach for every shop teacher I had.

00:47:15.000 And so as I went through life, I would tell people, did you ever have a mean shop teacher?

00:47:20.000 And they'd go, Oh, mine was the worst, the worst, you know, I started realizing that everyone had a shared experience of horrible, mean shop teachers, and I thought, I've never seen an SNL sketch about a mean shop teacher.

00:47:33.000 No one has captured this guy, but I'll capture him, and that's where Mr. Burcham was born.

00:47:42.000 So you proposed this and you actually made a pilot episode of Mr. Bertram like 20 years ago.

00:47:47.000 And it was nearly greenlit by the networks.

00:47:50.000 And then they decided effectively that it was too politically incorrect even then.

00:47:53.000 Why don't you talk about that a little bit?

00:47:57.000 Yeah, it was a little over 10 years ago.

00:48:00.000 I did the pilot for Fox, which is called an animatic for those who are keeping score.

00:48:06.000 And, and it was good and it was Bertram and it was Probably a little ahead of its time, but it was what I was seeing when I was seeing it.

00:48:16.000 As you and your generous dad know, I wrote a book called In 50 Years We'll All Be Chicks.

00:48:22.000 And that book's about 15 years old.

00:48:25.000 But 15 years ago, I was sort of seeing which way the wind was blowing from a societal standpoint.

00:48:31.000 And I thought, this is something we got to get into.

00:48:34.000 But I was the only one who wanted to get into it.

00:48:37.000 No one else wanted to get into it.

00:48:39.000 And so it was like too early for Fox and, you know, Fox was doing Bob's Burgers and crap like that.

00:48:48.000 So now we're bringing it to the small screen over at Daily Wire plus May 12th, 2024.

00:48:54.000 And it's got a huge cast and you've really put together an amazing cast here from Rob Riggle to Patrick Warburton to Roseanne Barr and Danny Trejo.

00:49:01.000 How'd you get this cast together?

00:49:04.000 Um, they're mostly just people I've worked with over the years and socialized with over the years and became friends with over the years and thought, you know, uh, this guy would be good for this role and that guy would be great for that role.

00:49:19.000 And I knew they're all pros and I knew they were all really good and they all just hit it out of the ballpark.

00:49:25.000 I was surprised how, how spot on everyone was in the casting department.

00:49:31.000 So, Just calling in favors with old friends.

00:49:37.000 Well, the show, again, is going to come out this Sunday, and it is about a no-nonsense shop teacher who's attempting to navigate Teddy Roosevelt Junior High with his family, faced with all of the political correctness that you would imagine, plus a fanatical social justice warrior named Carpanzi.

00:49:53.000 It's hilarious.

00:49:54.000 You should totally check it out.

00:49:55.000 Adam, congrats on the show, and I'm sure people can't wait to see it.

00:50:00.000 Thanks for the opportunity, Ben.

00:50:02.000 And yeah, you will not be disappointed if you watch Mr. Burcham.

00:50:09.000 Adam, really appreciate it.

00:50:10.000 Great talk to you.

00:50:12.000 Thanks, Ben.

00:50:13.000 Well, folks, in other huge news, a cat custody battle has erupted in Nashville, Tennessee.

00:50:19.000 On the line, we now have the judge in that case, Matt Walsh.

00:50:24.000 The host of the Daily Wire Plus series, judged by Matt Walsh.

00:50:28.000 So, Judge Walsh, your honor, I know this is a vital case, I think, to the future of America.

00:50:35.000 I've heard a few details, but I'd love your take on a cat custody battle that, wow, just, okay, just go.

00:50:47.000 Well, Mr. Shapiro, you sound like you're not taking the case seriously to begin with.

00:50:53.000 Am I correct in that assumption?

00:50:54.000 I mean, yes, your honor, you are correct in the assumption that I could not possibly care less about a cat custody battle.

00:51:05.000 This is a cat, and it's a custody battle between two people.

00:51:09.000 In fact, in this case, this is, I believe, two roommates.

00:51:14.000 And, you know, it's a very interesting case because it has to do with the cat, and also to do with the name of the cat.

00:51:20.000 So there's a dispute over what the cat is named, and you have one, you have the plaintiff in the case, And that's the one, I believe, that actually brings the lawsuit.

00:51:32.000 And then you have the defendant in the case, who's the one who's getting sued, essentially.

00:51:38.000 I don't want to get too particular with all the legalese and that sort of thing.

00:51:43.000 But you have one person who says that the cat should be named Midnight, another one that says the cat should be named Pepsi.

00:51:49.000 Now, I don't want to give away any spoilers or anything like that, but, you know, this is a courtroom and we have to come up with Very creative ways sometimes of dealing with these sorts of issues.

00:52:01.000 So we may bring the cat into the courtroom, release the cat in the courtroom, let the cat decide who has custody of it.

00:52:12.000 You still don't sound interested at all.

00:52:15.000 Wow, I mean, what would have been interesting is if you had used the Bible as your guide and actually offered to just carve the cat in half.

00:52:25.000 And then see what the reactions of the plaintiff and defendant were.

00:52:29.000 I guess that's animal cruelty and illegal.

00:52:32.000 I did in fact suggest that.

00:52:33.000 That suggestion was made.

00:52:36.000 I was informed that for various reasons, both moral and legal, that option would not be allowed.

00:52:44.000 As much as I would have loved doing that, it was not allowed.

00:52:51.000 Well, I mean, that is a sad, sad story.

00:52:54.000 Well, you know, since I have you here, Judge Walsh, in all of your legal expertise, I do have to ask your opinion of the hottest legal battle of our time, Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump.

00:53:06.000 So apparently that's a thing that's actually happening in our country right now, is that the former president of the United States and possible future president Is being brought up on charges, having to do with campaign finance reform, which seems more like just an excuse for a star to kind of read her penthouse letters aloud.

00:53:21.000 But I wanted to get your legal take on this situation.

00:53:26.000 I mean, look, in my courtroom, we deal with very petty, petty issues, petty, petty cases.

00:53:33.000 There's really no case that's too petty for the Judge Walsh courtroom.

00:53:37.000 But this case, actually, I said there's no case that's too petty.

00:53:40.000 This case actually might be even too petty for me. 0.97

00:53:43.000 Of course, it's completely ridiculous. 0.56

00:53:45.000 And, you know, on top of that, it's like we're supposed to believe that Donald Trump is the first president in history who's ever paid someone to make a story, to make a, you know, an unflattering 0.63

00:54:01.000 story go away, which is basically what's being accused, what he's being

00:54:03.000 accused of here.

00:54:04.000 You know, it's the, as I, as I've been saying all along with this, with this case, it's like,

00:54:09.000 if you, the only way you could get away with actually charging him with a crime here

00:54:15.000 is if we are, it's like basically if we're in a spot where every single ex-president

00:54:22.000 is charged, we just find some sort of crime to charge them with and throw them all in jail,

00:54:26.000 I could actually be in favor of that.

00:54:29.000 Like, that's a system that I might be okay with.

00:54:31.000 But we're not doing that.

00:54:33.000 Of course, Donald Trump is the only president we've done this to, which is what I think makes it terribly unfair.

00:54:38.000 But as I said, I would be in favor of if we want to just make this what we do from now on, where if you become president, you automatically have to go to jail afterwards.

00:54:47.000 That's an interesting system.

00:54:49.000 That's something worth thinking about, I think.

00:54:54.000 Well, folks, tune in to the latest episode of Judge to hear the verdict on this deeply important cat custody case.

00:55:01.000 Keep checking back every week for exciting new cases premiering Tuesdays exclusively at DailyWire+.

00:55:05.000 Judge Walsh, I had heard, actually, a rumor that Season 2, you'll be given the power over criminal law, not just civil law.

00:55:12.000 So I'm very much looking forward to the penalties that you'll be dealing out in Season 2 of Judge.

00:55:17.000 I had not heard that, but that makes me very excited.

00:55:21.000 One, I don't want to give any spoilers away for this, but we are talking about one addition in season two is finally adding the powdered wig.

00:55:28.000 So, I've been pushing for it and we'll see.

00:55:32.000 We'll see what happens.

00:55:34.000 As one would as an American judge, because that's something that they do in America.

00:55:38.000 In any case, go check out Matt Walsh judged by Matt Walsh.

00:55:42.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.

00:55:44.000 We'll be getting into a new segment we call Ben After Dark.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 10, 2024

The Greta Thunberg Idiots’ Revolt

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