The Ben Shapiro Show - The International Anti-Woke Backlash Has Begun | Ep. 1582

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden delays calling Florida Governor Ron DeSantis before Hurricane Ian slams the state, the White House fights to trans the children while blaming Russia for a weakening economy, and right-wing parties gain steam all over Europe.

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00:02:45.000 Alrighty, so as you may have noticed, we are not actually broadcasting from our usual studio.

00:02:49.000 Instead, we are broadcasting from my home, actually.

00:02:53.000 So if you hear screaming children in the background, that is because there is a hurricane that is currently hitting the state of Florida.

00:02:59.000 The current status, as of this morning, was that this thing was trending from a Cat 4 into maybe a Cat 5.

00:03:05.000 It is likely to hit Orlando.

00:03:07.000 It's likely to hit The panhandle, it really is kind of hitting the middle to the upper end of the state.

00:03:14.000 We are not in that part of the state, but the sort of dirty side of the storm is hitting where we are.

00:03:19.000 So that means that we didn't want too many of our employees coming into work today because obviously it's not particularly safe.

00:03:25.000 on the roads.

00:03:26.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Ian Sensor was forecast to approach the West Coast on Wednesday afternoon.

00:03:32.000 The storm strengthened to a Cat 4 hurricane early Wednesday.

00:03:34.000 It's expected to make landfall between Tampa and Fort Myers.

00:03:36.000 It's a shift south from the earlier forecast that puts a lot of people directly in harm's way.

00:03:42.000 Almost 2.5 million people are under an evacuation order right now.

00:03:45.000 The latest forecasts say that the storm surge could be the highest up to 12 feet from Naples to the Sarasota region.

00:03:51.000 If what happened in Cuba is any sort of indicator, things could get extremely rough.

00:03:55.000 Cuba's entire electrical grid was knocked out on Tuesday night, and this thing is strengthening as it enters Florida.

00:04:03.000 It's going to essentially hover over Florida apparently for the next 72 hours or so, according to the latest tracking models.

00:04:10.000 It's not going to actually come off the east coast of Florida until basically midday on Thursday.

00:04:16.000 So one of the problems here is that it's not ripping through particularly quickly.

00:04:19.000 It's really taking its time to move over the state.

00:04:22.000 It's going to cause extraordinary loss of property.

00:04:26.000 We'll see how many lives it costs.

00:04:28.000 Now, normally in these situations, when you have a natural disaster, everybody sort of comes together no matter your political persuasion.

00:04:33.000 Unfortunately, we now live in a country where this is no longer the case because the governor of Florida is Ron DeSantis.

00:04:38.000 This means that he's very good and no bad, so look for very hot takes from the media about how this is all Ron DeSantis' fault, both because of global warming and also because Ron DeSantis is a very bad man.

00:04:46.000 There's sort of a pagan element that has taken over the radical left that suggests that things like COVID, natural disasters, this is actually Some sort of divine revenge for right-wing governance, but only when it strikes a right-wing area.

00:04:58.000 When it strikes a left-wing area, then we don't know why such a thing would happen.

00:05:02.000 When it strikes a right-wing area, it must be because the gods of COVID have descended or because the hurricanes have decided to punish Ron DeSantis or some such nonsense.

00:05:09.000 The reality is, of course, a natural disaster is a natural disaster, and thoughts, prayers, resources all need to go toward the people who are directly in the path of this thing.

00:05:18.000 Ron DeSantis yesterday, the governor of Florida, He warned of the conditions across the state.

00:05:23.000 Schools across the state have been shut down.

00:05:25.000 People are staying home.

00:05:27.000 He was warning people if you're directly in the pathway of the storm to get out as fast as possible.

00:05:31.000 Here was the governor yesterday.

00:05:34.000 There's still uncertainty with where that exact landfall will be, but just understand the impacts are going to be far, far broader than just where the eye of the storm happens to make landfall.

00:05:46.000 In some areas, there will be catastrophic flooding.

00:05:50.000 And life-threatening storm surge.

00:05:52.000 And so if you're on Florida's Gulf Coast, from Naples all the way through the Tampa Bay area and some of the counties north of that, that could be something that happens.

00:06:03.000 And it will certainly happen in some parts of Florida's Gulf Coast.

00:06:08.000 Meanwhile, the President of the United States said that his administration was on alert to help the people of Florida.

00:06:12.000 He was President Biden yesterday.

00:06:15.000 My administration is on alert and in action to help the people of Florida.

00:06:19.000 I've approved Florida's request for emergency assistance immediately upon receiving it from the governor when they received it.

00:06:26.000 And I directed my team to surge federal assistance there before the storm hit.

00:06:31.000 FEMA has already deployed 700 personnel to Florida, and the governor has activated 5,000 State National Guard with another 2,000 guards coming from other states.

00:06:41.000 There was some controversy yesterday, given the fact that President Biden, for most of yesterday, had not called Governor DeSantis, which is not the usual procedure.

00:06:48.000 Normally, the first person you call when there is a hurricane about to hit a state is the governor of that state.

00:06:52.000 According to the New York Post, President Biden called three Florida mayors on Tuesday as Hurricane Ian neared Florida's west coast hours before reaching out to Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:07:00.000 Apparently he first spoke with Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, St.

00:07:04.000 Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch, Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbert, Castor and Welch are Democrats.

00:07:07.000 Hibbert is a Republican.

00:07:09.000 The President waited a fairly long time to call.

00:07:12.000 This prompted the FEMA Administrator to have to go on national television and explain why Joe Biden had not called Ron DeSantis as of yet.

00:07:18.000 As we say, Biden corrected that late afternoon after there was enormous blowback for him not calling Ron DeSantis because the two obviously are political rivals.

00:07:26.000 Here is the FEMA Administrator trying to explain this away.

00:07:29.000 He's made conversations with the mayors, so is there any reason why not the governor?

00:07:35.000 Again, we have a strong team that's in place supporting the governor right now, working side-by-side with him and his staff.

00:07:40.000 We'll continue to stay engaged with him.

00:07:42.000 So that would be avoiding the question, obviously.

00:07:44.000 Joe Biden was under pressure to call DeSantis, so in fact he did call DeSantis.

00:07:47.000 Again, this is like baseline, baseline sort of stuff.

00:07:50.000 Apparently, according to the White House press secretary, Corine Jean-Pierre, the steps the federal government is taking to help Florida prepare for Hurricane Ian were discussed.

00:07:57.000 The president and governor committed to continue close coordination.

00:08:00.000 This is not the first time that DeSantis has handled some sort of crisis in his state, but a crisis of this magnitude is a completely different beast.

00:08:07.000 Obviously, in Florida, we've had the Surfside building collapse, where a couple of hundred people were killed when buildings on the beach just fell down, literally just fell down, and Governor DeSantis handled that very well.

00:08:17.000 This, however, is a major hurricane and is going to cause complete chaos in the state because, again, you're talking about a hurricane that's Essentially the size of Hurricane Katrina, because it's trending toward a Cat 5 as it nears very, very populated areas.

00:08:33.000 Now, this has not stopped the media from immediately jumping into, let's discuss this through a political lens, because this is what they do, of course.

00:08:40.000 So, one member of the media tried to say to Ron DeSantis that he had not actually prepped for the hurricane, which of course is really silly.

00:08:46.000 DeSantis has been warning for days.

00:08:48.000 I mean, even before I went into the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, there were warnings from DeSantis and the governor's team about if you're in the path of the hurricane, get ready to leave, make sure that you batten down the hatches, make sure that you have all the resources necessary.

00:08:59.000 A media member tried to go after DeSantis on his yesterday, and DeSantis just clocked him.

00:09:04.000 FEMA Administrator Criswell said today that she acknowledged concerns that Florida, as it was said, lacks response to the storm so far.

00:09:12.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:09:13.000 Give me a break.

00:09:14.000 That is nonsense.

00:09:15.000 Stop politicizing, okay?

00:09:17.000 Stop it.

00:09:18.000 We declared a state of emergency when this thing wasn't even formed.

00:09:21.000 We've had people in here, you've had counties doing They've done a lot of hard work and and honestly you're trying to attack me I get but like you're attacking these other people who've worked very hard and so so that's just totally false.

00:09:33.000 I don't think we've ever certainly since I've been governor declared a state emergency this early.

00:09:38.000 We made sure that we were very inclusive with it.

00:09:40.000 We said that there was a lot of uncertainty and and we've worked to make sure The preparations that have been done and all the stuff.

00:09:47.000 You talk to the people at the counties when they've needed something, stuff gets there very quickly because of what Kevin and his team have done.

00:09:54.000 And the members of the media who are more radical are doing exactly what you would think they would be doing.

00:09:58.000 MSNBC's Joy Reid, who's one of the worst people in all of media, she suggested that this is going to test Ron DeSantis because after all he's a bad, bad Republican man who's bad.

00:10:07.000 Here's Joy Reid yesterday.

00:10:09.000 Florida prepares for a monster storm with landfall expected tomorrow.

00:10:14.000 Governor Ron DeSantis is going to be put to the test, forced to actually do his job.

00:10:18.000 When he's used to spending most of his time hanging out on Fox News and owning the libs, is he up to the task?

00:10:24.000 Just unbelievable.

00:10:25.000 I'm sorry.

00:10:26.000 Ron DeSantis has an approval rating well above 50 percent in the state.

00:10:28.000 He's going to win re-election in a walk come November.

00:10:31.000 Any governor who's in charge of a major state in the middle of a natural disaster is put to the test.

00:10:35.000 The notion that Ron DeSantis' chief mode of governance in Florida has been to go on Fox News is an absurdity, but it is pure joy read to suggest, of course, that this is really the first time that Ron DeSantis has ever been put to the test.

00:10:49.000 Meanwhile, Don Lemon over on CNN tried to do the routine that we frequently hear with regard to global warming, which is Anytime there's a singular weather event that is really out of the box and kind of crazy, whether it's a freeze in Texas or whether it's a large hurricane about to hit Tampa, we hear people in the media immediately jump to, this must be due to climate change and global warming.

00:11:06.000 Now, here's the deal with climate change and global warming.

00:11:09.000 You cannot trace any single weather event to climate change.

00:11:12.000 It's not possible.

00:11:13.000 Everybody, every climatologist will tell you this is not climate denial.

00:11:16.000 This is simple fact.

00:11:18.000 Climate is weather over a large period of time.

00:11:20.000 Any single weather event cannot be traced to a singular trend.

00:11:24.000 There is just no way to do that.

00:11:26.000 But members of the media, because all they do all day is just respond to headlines, what they like to do is if there is a singular weather event, they immediately start saying, well, this is because of global warming.

00:11:37.000 You know, I live in Florida.

00:11:38.000 Up until now, this was an extraordinarily calm hurricane season.

00:11:41.000 I mean, there's literally nothing up until now.

00:11:43.000 And last year was a pretty calm hurricane season.

00:11:46.000 In fact, what the data tends to show is that there's very little correlation between the frequency of hurricanes and global warming entirely.

00:11:53.000 And when it comes to the amount of damage done by hurricanes, that has been going down fairly consistently.

00:11:58.000 If it goes up, it's typically because the hurricane is hitting a very populated area.

00:12:02.000 So people build directly in the path of a hurricane, then the damage numbers go up.

00:12:06.000 But that has little to do, it's called the target effect.

00:12:08.000 It has very little to do with the intensity of the hurricanes.

00:12:11.000 Three hundred years ago, if a cat five hurricane hit Florida, it hit like seven people.

00:12:15.000 Today, if a cat five hurricane hits Florida, it's going to hit three or four million people.

00:12:18.000 So obviously the amount of damage is going to go up, even if the frequency of the hurricanes is the same or lower or the intensity is the same or lower.

00:12:25.000 But people in the media don't actually want to give you the truth about what global warming does and what can be traced to global warming.

00:12:32.000 So instead, what they point out is that When there is a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, and it moves over warm water, it tends to intensify.

00:12:40.000 And so because of global warming, that means that the water is warmer.

00:12:42.000 So that means that the hurricane is more intense.

00:12:44.000 The question is more intense than what?

00:12:45.000 Because that water has been warm for a very, very long time in human history.

00:12:49.000 The Gulf of Mexico has been known for its warm waters for pretty much as long as we've known about the Gulf of Mexico.

00:12:54.000 And beyond that, there is no actual There's no actual data demonstrating that hurricanes are becoming more frequent.

00:13:01.000 Anyway, put all that aside.

00:13:02.000 Don Lemon thinks that he knows things.

00:13:04.000 So there was this extraordinarily funny exchange last night on CNN.

00:13:08.000 Don Lemon had on the NOAA administrator.

00:13:12.000 This person works for Joe Biden's administration, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

00:13:19.000 And Don Lemon decided to ask him about global warming.

00:13:24.000 And it didn't go amazing for Don Lemon.

00:13:26.000 Here was Don Lemon.

00:13:28.000 Listen, I'm just trying to get that you said you want to talk about climate change, but what effect does climate change have on this phenomenon that is happening now?

00:13:36.000 Because it seems these storms are intensifying. That's the question.

00:13:39.000 I don't think you can link climate change to any one event.

00:13:42.000 On the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making storms worse, but to link it to any one event, I would caution against that.

00:13:53.000 Okay, listen, I grew up there and these storms are intensifying.

00:13:58.000 Something is causing them to intensify.

00:14:00.000 I gotta say, that's really, really funny.

00:14:04.000 So, just to get that straight, that was the NOAA administrator saying what I said, right?

00:14:07.000 You can't trace any singular weather event to global warming.

00:14:11.000 And Don Lemon's like, yes, but I am from Florida, and this is worse than it was when I was a kid.

00:14:15.000 That's, I'm sorry, that is not actual data, Don.

00:14:19.000 You know, when you were a kid, all the adults looked enormous.

00:14:22.000 That doesn't mean that the adults got smaller as you got older. 1.00

00:14:25.000 This is so stupid. 1.00

00:14:27.000 This is how members of our media treat childhood memories. 1.00

00:14:29.000 Like, well, you know, when I was a kid, it used to snow even harder.

00:14:32.000 I mean, I remember the snowdrifts being like eight feet tall, right?

00:14:34.000 Because you were two and a half feet tall.

00:14:35.000 That would be the reason, right?

00:14:38.000 These are the people who love the science.

00:14:39.000 Okay, so bottom line in all of this, don't follow any of the politicization.

00:14:43.000 There's going to be an extraordinarily large-scale attempt to preemptively claim that Ron DeSantis botched the hurricane.

00:14:49.000 Because I remember when they did this to George W. Bush, Hurricane Katrina, that was really botched by state and local authorities.

00:14:53.000 The problem was that the local authorities in New Orleans were Democrats.

00:14:57.000 The governor was a Democrat.

00:14:58.000 But George W. Bush was a Republican, so it became a national issue.

00:15:01.000 And so, on this one, watch for the media to immediately spin into, Ron DeSantis is a terrible person, it's all his fault, if somebody got killed in Tampa, it's because Ron DeSantis didn't nuke the hurricane or something.

00:15:13.000 That is where this is going, so just be on the lookout for that sort of media coverage, because it is just inaccurate.

00:15:17.000 And in the meantime, if you're a decent person, pray for the people who are actually in the path of a major hurricane.

00:15:23.000 That likely will be tearing roofs off of buildings and harming a great number of people.

00:15:28.000 And if you have it in your budget to give some charity, do that too.

00:15:32.000 That'd be an actual useful thing that you can do over the next 72 hours, as opposed to watching the dullards over at CNN and MSNBC blame Ron DeSantis for a natural disaster that is rather actually frequent when it comes to the Gulf Coast.

00:15:44.000 Okay, meanwhile, over in Virginia, the Democrats are fighting mad.

00:15:48.000 They're fighting mad because Glenn Youngkin is actually keeping one of his promises.

00:15:53.000 One of his promises is that he is not going to allow transgender policy to change how children go to school.

00:16:00.000 So what he means by this is that he is no longer going to allow people who simply identify as a member of the opposite sex to walk into the bathrooms at public schools.

00:16:08.000 And this follows hot on the heels of a story that was largely broken by the Daily Wire in which a student dressed in a skirt allegedly went into a girl's bathroom and sexually assaulted a girl.

00:16:20.000 And so, and then was told by the school board in Loudoun County, this sort of stuff never happens.

00:16:24.000 If you have transgender bathrooms, it really is no problem whatsoever.

00:16:27.000 So, Glenn Youngkin has now changed the policy, and he has gone back to the original policy, which, until the last five minutes, was considered not only normal, but perfectly logical, that boys should go pee-pee in the boys' room, and girls should go pee-pee in the girls' room, and that boys should not go pee-pee in the girls' room just because they say that they are boys, and that girls should not go pee-pee in the boys' room because they're not capable of using the urinal.

00:16:47.000 I mean, like, this is really not difficult stuff, but apparently it's now driving outsized outrage.

00:16:52.000 So, according to BuzzFeed News, students at almost 100 schools in Virginia on Tuesday participated in walkouts to protest a proposed policy put forward by Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin that would heavily restrict the rights of transgender students in public.

00:17:04.000 How about the rights of girls not to be in a bathroom with a teenage boy? 0.94

00:17:08.000 That seems like a pretty big right, but apparently no.

00:17:10.000 No rights privacy for girls who actually would like to, you know, go to the bathroom in peace that a teenage boy in there saying he's a girl. 1.00

00:17:16.000 No, no, no.

00:17:17.000 They have no rights.

00:17:18.000 It's only this particular set of people who apparently has rights.

00:17:21.000 Under the new policy, parents would be given the decision-making power about whether their child expresses a gender that differs with their child's sex while at school and what pronouns their child uses at school, because this is the other part of the policy the left really objects to.

00:17:31.000 The left would like to kidnap your children and allow the teachers at the NEA to explain to your kids that they actually are a member of the opposite sex, to socially transition them at school, and to never tell you.

00:17:41.000 This is the left's actual position.

00:17:42.000 This is the position of people who are opposing Youngkin's policy.

00:17:45.000 Because all Youngkin's policy says is that if a kid comes to school and says, I'm Bob, but I'd like to be called Jill, that you have to call the parents and tell them.

00:17:54.000 Apparently, this is very bad according to the left.

00:17:55.000 You should socially transition them at school.

00:17:58.000 And if you refuse to socially transition them, then this means that you're a bigot.

00:18:01.000 And you should definitely not tell the parents because you never know, Bob might go home and mom and dad might take out the belt.

00:18:07.000 So the teachers are your real parents.

00:18:09.000 Randy Weingarten, Is really your parent.

00:18:13.000 Horrific childless Granny Weingarten, who again is... Her relationship to children over the past couple of years has been to simply prevent them from going to school and wreck their lives and force them to wear masks at two years old. 1.00

00:18:24.000 She should be in charge of your children. 1.00

00:18:26.000 That is the person who matters most of all.

00:18:29.000 The proposal says that a student's legal name and sex cannot be changed without an official legal document or court order, which makes a lot of sense, right?

00:18:35.000 You can't just come in and tell the teachers one day that you should be called Ji Jim And your new name will be Trans Dinosaur, and they start calling you that stuff.

00:18:44.000 Instead, you actually have to go through a legal process to change your name, like, you know, you would in a normal country.

00:18:50.000 The policy says the teachers and other school officials must refer to each student using only the pronouns appropriate to the sex appearing in the student's official record.

00:18:55.000 In other words, if the student comes in and says, I'm a Xi Jin, and the teacher looks at you and you're a boy, the teacher is perfectly well within his rights and should, in fact, call you He Him. 0.61

00:19:06.000 Transgender students would also be forced to use school facilities that match the sex assigned to them at birth.

00:19:11.000 So the original policy from Democratic Governor Ralph Northam, who was quite fond of the idea that abortion should be allowed up to and including apparently after birth, allowed schools to let students use their chosen names and pronouns that reflect their gender identity without needing any legal documentation.

00:19:25.000 So a bunch of these students walked out.

00:19:27.000 All that's happening right here is that a bunch of teachers who work for the NEA decided to rabble-rouse among the students.

00:19:31.000 Then the students are like, hey, I get out of class.

00:19:33.000 This is how protests work, by the way, when you're in high school.

00:19:36.000 Very few of these students are really, really involved with these issues.

00:19:39.000 The number of trans students in Virginia is vanishingly low.

00:19:43.000 But if you can get a teacher to excuse you from class, are you going to go or are you not going to go?

00:19:48.000 Are you going to stay in class and do your math homework?

00:19:49.000 Are you actually going to, you know, walk out of the school and pretend that you're a social justice warrior?

00:19:54.000 According to BuzzFeed News, so often in issues around education, students are excluded from the conversation, especially queer students.

00:20:00.000 Yes, if there's one thing we know about America, it's that LGBTQ people don't get enough media coverage.

00:20:04.000 They've totally been excluded from the conversation.

00:20:06.000 They're utterly silent in our media landscape.

00:20:09.000 This is according to 17-year-old Casey Kalabia.

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00:22:28.000 Now, it is not just a bunch of foolish youngsters who are walking out of class to protest this, or their teachers, as pushed by the National Education Association of the American Federation of Teachers, Run by people again like Randy Weingarten.

00:22:40.000 It is also the actual White House of the United States.

00:22:43.000 And this is the important thing to remember when it comes to social policy of the left in the United States.

00:22:47.000 It is promoted at the most radical levels by the most radical people with the most radical power.

00:22:53.000 You're talking about the President of the United States promoting the idea that if your 15 year old girl goes to school, because and she's gender confused for any reason whatsoever because she's been watching TikTok.

00:23:03.000 She goes to school and she says, I wish to be treated as a member of the opposite sex. 1.00

00:23:06.000 All of the teachers, all the other students should be forced to say that she is a boy and parents should not be told about this because after all, the parents might be, this is like the policy of the White House in the United States. And here's Corrine Jean-Pierre saying just that yesterday.

00:23:20.000 Students across Virginia today walked out of their classroom to protest the governor's new guidelines restricting the rights of transgender students.

00:23:29.000 Does the White House support these students? We believe and he believes transgender youth should be allowed to be able to go to school freely, to be able to express themselves freely, to be able to have the protections that they need to be who they are.

00:23:45.000 Again, I have not seen these reports, but we can say with all confidence, and you all know have covered him for some time, when it comes to this community, he is a partner and he is a strong ally.

00:23:57.000 Okay, so parents should not be part of the conversation.

00:24:00.000 Teachers, Joe Biden should be your old grandpa telling you that you're actually a member of the opposite sex.

00:24:06.000 Glenn Youngkin, new governor of Virginia, elected on precisely this basis.

00:24:10.000 Glenn Youngkin, he came back at this pretty easily.

00:24:12.000 He's like, so basically you're saying you want to cut parents out of the loop.

00:24:16.000 If you're against the guidelines, it means you're against having parents involved in students' lives, and I don't think that's where Virginia is.

00:24:23.000 Virginia spoke loudly last year in our election that parents were really important to have involved in kids' lives, and so I think this is a chance for us to reflect, please read the guidelines, and then work towards making sure that we do include parents in these fundamentally important decisions.

00:24:39.000 Okay, but the fact is that our elite case in the United States, they actually just believe that they should be able to run social policy top down.

00:24:46.000 And this isn't just true for social policy, it's obviously true for economic policy as well.

00:24:49.000 The only problem is they botched it every way it is possible to botch this thing.

00:24:53.000 So on the domestic front, obviously, you've seen the Federal Reserve Keep those in these inflation rates incredibly high by keeping the interest rates incredibly low for far too long.

00:25:03.000 And this has now led them to have to ramp up those interest rates really fast.

00:25:07.000 And this means, of course, that we are likely to see a significantly harder landing than would otherwise be the case.

00:25:12.000 And they're going to have to ramp it up even faster, according to Susan Collins, the new president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

00:25:17.000 Wall Street Journal reporting.

00:25:18.000 She said she is committed to bringing inflation down to 2% even if it means slowing the economy.

00:25:22.000 Collins, in her first public remarks as Boston Fed leader, said Monday she supported further interest rate increases as projected by Federal Reserve officials last week.

00:25:29.000 They showed the central bank raising aggressively through next year despite rising fears of an economic slowdown or recession.

00:25:34.000 She said in a speech prepared for delivery Monday at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, quote, accomplishing price stability will require slower employment growth and a somewhat higher unemployment rate. Returning inflation to target will require further tightening of monetary policy.

00:25:46.000 She said history has shown price stability is a precondition to achieving maximum employment over the medium and longer term. This, of course, is exactly right.

00:25:55.000 The only problem is that this would have been completely unnecessary if it hadn't been for the Federal Reserve botching this thing and for the Biden administration pouring money, just pouring it almost physically into the American economy.

00:26:06.000 Meanwhile, home prices have started to dump.

00:26:08.000 So this increase in interest rates is starting to bite in the economy.

00:26:12.000 We've seen the fastest slowdown in home pricing in, I think, my lifetime at this point, actually.

00:26:18.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.

00:26:20.000 home prices slid in July from June The first monthly decline in years, the latest sign that higher mortgage rates are starting to weigh on home prices in many of the country's biggest markets.

00:26:28.000 Home prices are still rising on a year-over-year basis, even though the pace of growth has slowed.

00:26:32.000 The National Index rose 15.8% in the year that ended in July, down from an 18.1% annual rate the prior month.

00:26:38.000 Housing economists expect home price growth to slow significantly by the end of the year.

00:26:43.000 July's report reflects a forceful declaration, said Craig Lazera, Managing Director at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

00:26:48.000 As the Federal Reserve continues to move interest rates upward, mortgage financing has become significantly more expensive.

00:26:53.000 We now have mortgage rates that in many cases are exceeding 7%.

00:26:58.000 Like a year ago it was 2, 3%.

00:27:00.000 We were talking about historic lows, now we're talking about highs that we haven't seen in most of my lifetime.

00:27:07.000 So the experts are doing an amazing job.

00:27:09.000 Larry Summers, who's warning about all this, former Clinton Treasury Secretary, he said yesterday, listen, a hard landing is extremely likely at this point.

00:27:17.000 Neil said that unless we get a miracle on the supply side, unless we get a lot of happy news on the supply side, it's likely to be a hard landing.

00:27:26.000 I think that's right.

00:27:28.000 And I don't know what reason there is for thinking that we're going to get some kind of sudden major increase in productivity.

00:27:36.000 I supported the Inflation Reduction Act and a number of other steps that are directed at strengthening the economy's potential.

00:27:46.000 But none of those policies have serious arguments associated with them that they're going to produce huge supply-side benefits quickly.

00:27:56.000 Okay, well, with all of that said, the administration's take on this is not that they actually are going to get things under control, it's that they're going to blame Vladimir Putin.

00:28:04.000 Now, as I've said before, if you are not a fan of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, pretty much everybody's not a fan of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, The stupidest thing you could do to undermine that, the support for the pushback, is to blame all economic problems on that invasion.

00:28:19.000 Because that would obviously suggest that the way to bring those economic problems to an end would be to come to a negotiated agreement.

00:28:24.000 Which, by the way, may be correct, but that's not the position of this administration.

00:28:28.000 So, Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, he continues to suggest that all economic problems on planet Earth are basically due to the Russian war in Ukraine, which is not true.

00:28:37.000 Okay, just on a fiscal level, it is not true.

00:28:39.000 We had massive inflation in the run-up to the war in Ukraine.

00:28:42.000 The war in Ukraine has exacerbated a lot of those problems, but it doesn't matter whether it's true or not.

00:28:47.000 What matters to Tony Blinken and the Biden administration is finding someone to blame who is not the experts, who is not them.

00:28:54.000 We saw the aggression, the threat of the aggression mounting.

00:28:58.000 from Russia against Ukraine last year. We warned the world about it, and we tried everything possible to avert it through diplomacy. Unfortunately, tragically, President Putin pursued his aggression nonetheless. And now the Ukrainian people, but also the world, are reaping the consequences. We're seeing the consequences in everything from rising food insecurity to the energy prices that we've talked about. So it's profoundly in everyone's interest

00:29:26.000 for Russia to stop its aggression. Okay, well, you can lecture Russia as much as you want, but the fact is that Russia is not going to stop this unless they have some sort of off-ramps.

00:29:34.000 So once again, the experts are wrong.

00:29:35.000 Okay, the experts keep saying that the harder we push Russia here, the better it's going to be. 0.98

00:29:40.000 The reality is that some off-ramp is going to have to be provided at some point here, or things are going to get an awful lot worse.

00:29:46.000 Vladimir Putin right now, he has staked his entire legacy on not completely losing the war in Ukraine, which means he is threatening tactical battlefield nuclear weapons.

00:29:53.000 He is also calling up a million reservists and people who are trying to leave the country to avoid being called up are now being arrested.

00:30:00.000 Meanwhile, Russia yesterday ran a sham referendum in the areas that it annexed.

00:30:05.000 in which it essentially claimed these are now parts of Russia.

00:30:07.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Russia is set to formally annex occupied territories in Ukraine after staging referenda that involved coercion threats and in some places, soldiers going door to door and forcing people to vote at gunpoint.

00:30:17.000 One of the things that I always find really funny about these forced votes is if you're going to do a forced vote, shouldn't you at least give it the appearance that it's contested? And like, why bother having a vote if the results are going to be 99% in favor of annexation?

00:30:30.000 Like, why do you even bother doing that?

00:30:32.000 It makes no sense at all.

00:30:33.000 If you're trying to fake an election to make it look as though you're going through some sort of democratic process, wouldn't you be like, that's a 63-37 result?

00:30:41.000 Instead, they're like, what if we go 99% in favor of annexation?

00:30:45.000 Then everyone will believe that it was a free and fair election.

00:30:47.000 Kiev and Western governments have described the vote as a sham designed to confer a veneer of legitimacy to Moscow's seizure of Ukrainian land seven months on from its invasion.

00:30:55.000 They could also enable Moscow to claim any effort by Ukrainian forces to recapture the territories amounts to an attack on Russia itself.

00:31:00.000 That would be the idea, is that now you've invaded Russia because we claimed this territory and so we're going to come in, we're going to re-invade into Ukraine because you're now the aggressors. 0.88

00:31:08.000 Residents in the occupied areas said Russian soldiers compelled them to vote, guns drawn, in a choreographed show of support for Moscow's plan to make their regions part of Russia.

00:31:15.000 They said some Russian sympathizers were brought in from other regions to cast their votes at polling places to create the impression that it was in fact a regular vote.

00:31:22.000 The official results?

00:31:24.000 Ended on Tuesday afternoon.

00:31:26.000 And again, basically 100% support.

00:31:29.000 According to official results, 93% of voters in Russian-controlled parts of the Zaporizhia region checked the box in favor of joining Russia.

00:31:36.000 In Luhansk, it was 91%.

00:31:37.000 In Kherson, it was 87%.

00:31:40.000 Yeah, man.

00:31:41.000 Those are not real results, obviously, but none of that matters.

00:31:44.000 What really matters here is that Russia continues to make aggressive moves.

00:31:47.000 Meanwhile, things are getting extraordinarily dicey over in Europe with regard to oil and natural gas supplies going into the winter.

00:31:56.000 Very mysterious and bizarre circumstances happening with the Nord Stream pipeline.

00:32:00.000 According to the New York Times, explosions under the Baltic Sea and the rupture of major natural gas pipelines from Russia to Germany appeared to be a deliberate attack, officials across Europe said on Tuesday, deepening uncertainty about European energy security amid soaring prices and fears of running short of fuel over the winter.

00:32:15.000 This is so weird, because again, Russia controls Nord Streams 1 and 2, so if they wish to simply shut off the gas, as they've done before, they could.

00:32:23.000 Or maybe they just don't want to be fined by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund or something, and so they are faking it.

00:32:28.000 But it's really unclear at this point why exactly they would blow up their own pipelines, but that seems to be the going theory in Western circles, is that it is not in fact A Ukrainian attack or an American attack that is somehow a Russian attack on their own pipelines.

00:32:40.000 Again, very strange scenario.

00:32:43.000 According to the New York Times, three separate leaks erupted from both Nord Stream 1 and 2, which were already caught up in the conflict over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, sending swirling steams of methane to the surface of the waters off Denmark and Sweden.

00:32:53.000 Top Polish and Ukrainian officials blame Moscow.

00:32:55.000 Russian state media suggested US or Ukrainian involvement.

00:32:58.000 Denmark's Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, told reporters while on a trip to Poland to open a new undersea pipeline that will carry Norwegian gas.

00:33:04.000 It's hard to imagine that it's accidental.

00:33:07.000 On Tuesday evening, Jake Sullivan, the president's national security advisor, called the incident apparent sabotage in a tweet.

00:33:13.000 Again, unclear exactly why Russia would sabotage its own pipelines.

00:33:18.000 They've done this sort of thing only in the sense that they've suggested, oh, we had a pipeline breakdown.

00:33:21.000 Oops, not our fault.

00:33:22.000 Oh, that's so sad.

00:33:23.000 Well, you know, so you don't have your gas.

00:33:24.000 Oh, that's too bad.

00:33:26.000 It's possible they're doing this again.

00:33:27.000 But again, if Russia really wants to essentially broaden its war to Europe, there's no reason for them to actually break the pipeline. 0.55

00:33:34.000 Apparently Nord Stream 2 had never gone into service, so it really didn't have any immediate effect on the oil supply.

00:33:39.000 Nord Stream 1 has been shut down since August.

00:33:43.000 But the leaks hammered home the message that Europe and its energy infrastructure are vulnerable, even if Europe succeeds in its mission of weaning itself off of Russian energy.

00:33:49.000 The CIA had warned in June that Nord Stream pipelines could be attacked.

00:33:53.000 They declined to say whether that warning identified Russia as a possible attacker.

00:33:57.000 They had reached no conclusion about who is responsible.

00:33:59.000 Bottom line is things are going to get a lot more dicey in this region.

00:34:02.000 And the more the experts tell you that everything is hunky dory over there, the more you should start to check for your wallet.

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00:36:32.000 Meanwhile, these same experts who have presided over record inflation, they've presided over the slowing of the economy, they've presided over the blowing out of the Western debt, and they're presiding over radical increases in energy prices, they continue to maintain that the most important thing in the world for Western citizens is climate change.

00:36:49.000 They continue to pretend that this is a thing.

00:36:51.000 So Janet Yellen, who apparently may be on her way out, the Secretary of the Treasury, formerly a not particularly good Federal Reserve President, she says that climate change is the biggest threat to everyone on the planet.

00:37:02.000 The climate.

00:37:04.000 Let me touch on the risks of climate change to our economy.

00:37:09.000 Of course, unmitigated climate change is an existential threat to everyone on our planet.

00:37:17.000 In a world that continues to warm, regions that are prosperous today may eventually become unsuited for productive economic activity.

00:37:27.000 In many regions, human mortality is projected to rise, and labor productivity to fall, with the size of the impacts depending on the degree of warming.

00:37:39.000 So again, they're just going to continue to push on climate change.

00:37:41.000 Now, the general public's in these areas.

00:37:44.000 General public's in Europe, in the United States.

00:37:44.000 I have a question.

00:37:47.000 Are we supposed to believe that the top issue for these public's right now are things like transing the children, climate change, Blowing out the spending and handing it over to experts.

00:37:58.000 Is this really the thing that we're supposed to believe?

00:38:01.000 Because it's not true.

00:38:03.000 It turns out that we had elite global left-wing rule during COVID and people didn't like it.

00:38:07.000 They didn't like it so much that one of the most popular people on the world scene Jacinda Ardern, who is the New Zealand Prime Minister, you'll remember her as the great heroine of COVID, right?

00:38:16.000 Everybody on the left in the media, they suggested she was amazing because she shut down the island where the hobbits are and she said that no one could come in and that no one could go out and then she stopped death, except that She didn't vaccinate anybody.

00:38:27.000 And so when COVID actually hit the island, there were some people who actually died.

00:38:30.000 Well, now Jacinda Ardern, she continues to call for social media crackdowns because it turns out that leftism, when people are actually made aware of its consequences, people don't like it very much.

00:38:39.000 So here was Ardern yesterday suggesting that she needs social media crackdowns.

00:38:43.000 So combine all of these issues, climate change, She says, this is the reason by the way, she says that there ought to be social media crackdowns so people can't freely discuss issues surrounding climate change because if you're going to transform the world economy on the basis that over the next hundred years the climate is going to warm somewhat slightly, then you have to be, like if that's how you're going to, you do need to shut down the free speech mechanisms because no one is going to buy that.

00:39:04.000 Here is Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister and great heroine of the left.

00:39:09.000 This week we launched an initiative alongside companies and non-profits to help improve research and understanding of how a person's online experiences are curated by automated processes.

00:39:20.000 This will also be important in understanding more about myths and disinformation online, a challenge that we must as leaders address.

00:39:29.000 I can say with complete certainty that we cannot ignore it.

00:39:33.000 To do so poses an equal threat to the norms we all value.

00:39:38.000 After all, how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but noble?

00:39:48.000 How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?

00:39:52.000 How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld when they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology?

00:40:00.000 Ah, so just shut down free speech.

00:40:01.000 You'll notice that on the back of bad policy always comes the call to shut down free speech.

00:40:05.000 Jacinda Ardern, again remember, a year and a half ago, she was the greatest hero of the West.

00:40:11.000 CNN would play clips of her, MSNBC would play clips of her. 0.98

00:40:13.000 They're not playing clips of her now because she's about to lose an election. 1.00

00:40:16.000 According to One News in New Zealand, Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has remained steady in her preferred Prime Minister rating, but Nationals, Christopher Luxon, he's dipped a little bit.

00:40:26.000 It doesn't matter because the National Party is now outranking Labour.

00:40:29.000 The National Party is at 37%, Labour is at 34%.

00:40:34.000 In the party results, again, National with the ACT has a plurality.

00:40:40.000 Labor with the Green Party is coming in second right now.

00:40:43.000 So this means that translated to seats, Jacinda Ardern does not end up in the majority here. 0.77

00:40:50.000 So this unbelievably popular left-wing politician is now not particularly popular.

00:40:56.000 It turns out that people, basically left-wing governance, it's essentially like a temporary high.

00:41:03.000 It's like you took a pill.

00:41:04.000 They have a temporary high and everything feels amazing and then the come down in the morning is just brutal and people are reacting to that and that is what you're seeing internationally.

00:41:10.000 So now you're starting to see a reaction internationally.

00:41:14.000 As we will talk about in a second, the reaction to the reaction is that everybody who doesn't like left-wing governance is a fascist.

00:41:19.000 This is the way this works.

00:41:20.000 But internationally speaking, what we are watching is a right-wing move, a right-wing nationalist move, and this is across the board.

00:41:26.000 So one of the figures who is now leading this is the new prime minister of Italy, a woman named Giorgia Maloney.

00:41:33.000 So Maloney is not in fact a fascist.

00:41:35.000 There's an attempt to paint her as such.

00:41:36.000 She is not.

00:41:38.000 Georgia Maloney is the head of the Brothers of Italy.

00:41:41.000 They carry 26% of the vote in Italy.

00:41:44.000 The other conservative parties brought the total up to 44%, so she's the undisputed leader of a conservative coalition that will have a majority in Italy's new parliament.

00:41:52.000 The media immediately because this is what they do.

00:41:55.000 Her main pitch, this is the pitch that she's making. 0.74

00:41:57.000 It's making her popular with right-wingers in the United States. 0.92

00:41:59.000 Her pitch is family, God, country, right?

00:42:02.000 Things that the right has been castigated for in the United States.

00:42:06.000 People on the left are, of course, calling her Benito Mussolini.

00:42:09.000 So what exactly makes her Benito Mussolini? 1.00

00:42:11.000 Well, here is a clip.

00:42:13.000 of Georgia Maloney speaking in 2019 at a conference about family.

00:42:18.000 And let's just say that there are a lot of people across the world who are not on board with the climate change, open borders, trans the children agenda of the international left.

00:42:28.000 And she speaks pretty well for a lot of those people.

00:42:33.000 She says this is about what we are doing here today.

00:42:37.000 Why is the family an enemy?

00:42:38.000 Why is the family frightening?

00:42:41.000 There's a single answer to all these questions.

00:42:44.000 Because it defines us.

00:42:45.000 Because it is our identity.

00:42:47.000 Because everything that defines us is now an enemy.

00:42:51.000 For those who would like us to no longer have an identity.

00:42:54.000 And to simply be perfect consumer slaves.

00:42:58.000 So they attack national identity.

00:43:00.000 They attack religious identity. 0.93

00:43:01.000 They attack gender identity. 0.97

00:43:04.000 They attack family identity.

00:43:08.000 I can't define myself as an Italian Christian woman mother, no.

00:43:13.000 I must be a citizen X, gender X, parent 1, parent 2.

00:43:16.000 I must be a number.

00:43:18.000 Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators.

00:43:28.000 The perfect consumer.

00:43:29.000 That's the reason why we inspire so much fear.

00:43:33.000 That's why this event inspires so much fear.

00:43:39.000 Because we do not want to be numbers, we will defend the value of the human being.

00:43:45.000 Every single human being, because each of us has a unique genetic code that is unrepeatable.

00:43:50.000 And like it or not, that is sacred.

00:43:51.000 We will defend it.

00:43:52.000 We will defend God, country, and family.

00:43:56.000 Those things that disgust people so much.

00:43:58.000 We'll do it to defend our freedom.

00:44:02.000 Because we will never be slaves and simple consumers at the mercy of financial speculators.

00:44:08.000 That is our mission, that's why I came here today.

00:44:13.000 She quotes G.K.

00:44:14.000 Chesterton, famous British conservative.

00:44:16.000 She says, Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four.

00:44:24.000 Sores will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.

00:44:30.000 That time has arrived.

00:44:30.000 We are ready.

00:44:31.000 Thank you.

00:44:31.000 Okay, so this speech went completely viral on the right for a reason.

00:44:35.000 When she's talking about the attack on family, the attack on traditional rules and institutions, people all over the West resonate to that.

00:44:41.000 Now, her little spin there that the reason that people are doing this is because there's sort of a global capitalist order that is driving people to be individualist consumers.

00:44:49.000 That is a very sort of Fundamentalist, integralist idea that has taken root on parts of the nationalist right.

00:44:55.000 But, she also happens to be a fan of tax cuts and more financial freedom in Italy because Italy is heavily, heavily regulated.

00:45:00.000 So, again, you can hold by the idea of individual property rights and also that those individual property rights must be undergirded by institutions that promote virtue.

00:45:08.000 That is actually the theory of Adam Smith.

00:45:09.000 Adam Smith, arch-capitalist, he is the person who wrote before Wealth of Nations A theory of moral sentiments, right, which is all about the idea that morality has to actually undergird the markets in order for the markets to properly work.

00:45:23.000 Alrighty, guys, we have run out of time.

00:45:25.000 We're going to be getting into a lot more, including the left's reaction to the right's reaction. 0.95

00:45:29.000 Namely, everyone we don't like is a fascist. 0.61

00:45:31.000 You're not going to want to miss it. 0.98

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 28, 2022

The International Anti-Woke Backlash Has Begun | Ep. 1582

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