The Ben Shapiro Show - The Joecession Is Here | Ep. 1517

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00:01:33.000 Well, the Joe session is here.

00:01:36.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.

00:01:37.000 stocks tumbled on Thursday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average below 30,000 for the first time since January 2021, as volatility continued to rock the market.

00:01:47.000 Major indices have notched big declines in 2022 as high inflation, rising interest rates, growing concerns about corporate profits and economic growth, dents investors' appetite for risk.

00:01:55.000 The blue chips are down 18 percent this year.

00:01:57.000 The S&P 500 is down 23 percent.

00:01:59.000 The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has fallen 32 percent.

00:02:02.000 Stocks did rally a little bit on Wednesday, but then dropped again on Thursday.

00:02:06.000 Optimism fizzled.

00:02:07.000 Stocks declined across the market as investors reassessed the risks ahead.

00:02:11.000 Again, these are really, really poor numbers, and they're reflective of underlying economic uncertainty driven by the simple fact that the Biden administration not only has no plan, all of their plans are bad.

00:02:20.000 This is the Joe session.

00:02:21.000 We are in the middle of Joe Biden's recession, because the fact is that this was not supposed to happen.

00:02:27.000 I said when Joe Biden took office that he was the luckiest son of a gun ever to take the office, not only because of the wonderful surprise it must be to him every morning to realize that he's president anew, but also because he was inheriting this awful situation that we were already coming out of.

00:02:42.000 Basically, the patient had been put into an artificial coma, and now the patient was coming out of it and was on the road to recovery.

00:02:49.000 And the new doctor, all the new doctor had to do was just stand there and then smile and give a good prognosis.

00:02:53.000 And that's all.

00:02:54.000 And instead, the new doctor came in and started putting leeches all over the patient and then was surprised when the bloodletting actually was bad for the patient.

00:03:03.000 That's precisely what happened.

00:03:04.000 Go back to my podcast the day that Joe Biden took office and I said, this guy is going to have a very easy two years.

00:03:10.000 I was wrong because I didn't think it was possible for him to screw this up this badly.

00:03:13.000 Again, I should have listened to Barack Obama, who said, don't underestimate Joe Biden's ability to F things up.

00:03:19.000 Amazing.

00:03:19.000 He was given a vaccine.

00:03:21.000 He was given a new variant.

00:03:22.000 By the way, the new Omicron variant was actually quite good in the sense that it actually gave widespread immunity with very low risk of death to a huge swath of the population, even faster and more durable than the vaccine did for a lot of people.

00:03:36.000 So he was given the vaccine, a less viral variant, a more viral but less deadly variant in Omicron.

00:03:44.000 He was given an economy in the full state of recovery.

00:03:48.000 The economy was ready and rip-roaring and ready to go.

00:03:51.000 And all he had to do was stand, and he couldn't do it.

00:03:52.000 He couldn't do it.

00:03:53.000 He had to quote-unquote build back better and restructure the entire American economy with new spending and regulations and tax proposals.

00:03:59.000 And so what we get now is an ESG-governed stock market that is basically ideologically committed, but economically undercapitalized now.

00:04:09.000 And now it's becoming undercapitalized because of all of the measures that are being taken.

00:04:13.000 All of this is a real problem.

00:04:15.000 And as the Wall Street Journal points out, the U.S.

00:04:17.000 economy is starting to slow.

00:04:18.000 I mean, like technically slow.

00:04:20.000 economy is starting to slow under the combined weight of soaring inflation and climbing interest rates, including the highest mortgage rates since 2008.

00:04:20.000 The U.S.

00:04:26.000 Recent reports show sharp declines in key sectors, raising the prospects of a stalled economic recovery and possibly a recession.

00:04:33.000 Home construction across the United States fell sharply in May, the Commerce Department said on Thursday.

00:04:37.000 Factories in the Mid-Atlantic region reduced activity for the first time in two years this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said, and Americans broadly cut spending at retailers for the first time this year in May, the Commerce Department said earlier this week.

00:04:49.000 Economists have slashed their productions for second quarter output growth in recent days.

00:04:54.000 When closely watched forecasts, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's GPN Now tracker estimates the gross domestic product is on track to remain unchanged at an annual rate over the three months through June 30th.

00:05:04.000 Output fell at 1.5% annual rate in the first quarter.

00:05:06.000 We were told that when it fell, that was sort of an artificial decline in the first quarter.

00:05:11.000 But as it turns out, now it looks like negative growth in one quarter, zero growth in a second quarter.

00:05:17.000 If that's not a recession, it is right on the verge of a recession.

00:05:19.000 And given the fact that the Federal Reserve is about to kick in these higher interest rates and to increase them rather dramatically over the rest of the course of the year, you can bet your bottom dollar, and this is what most people are doing, that a recession is just around the corner.

00:05:32.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, those figures suggested that persistent supply shortages, a 40-year high in inflation, and the Federal Reserve's aggressive efforts to tame price pressures by raising interest rates are cooling the world's largest economy.

00:05:42.000 The Fed on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage points.

00:05:46.000 That's the biggest increase since 1994.

00:05:49.000 The moves have helped push up borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, meaning that not only are prices for goods and services rising, so is the cost of loans that are used to buy houses, cars, and other items.

00:05:57.000 Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage soared to 5.78% this week.

00:06:02.000 That is a really high rate.

00:06:04.000 That is the highest rate in more than 13 years.

00:06:06.000 And again, stocks are tumbling.

00:06:08.000 So you've got mortgage rates going up.

00:06:09.000 You've got your stock market investments going down.

00:06:12.000 You've got people buying less.

00:06:14.000 And you've got the Federal Reserve raising the interest rates.

00:06:16.000 All of that is a recipe for a recession.

00:06:18.000 And we are there.

00:06:19.000 Again, those mortgage interest rates?

00:06:21.000 That is devastating to a lot of folks.

00:06:23.000 The higher cost of an interest rate over the course of a 30 year loan is really, really significant.

00:06:27.000 If you're talking about the difference between a 3% rate and a 6% rate on a mortgage, which is what we are talking about in terms of changing on the mortgage rate over the course of the last three, four months alone.

00:06:39.000 If you're talking about like a $250,000 home, according to the Washington Post, over the course of the loan, you will pay an additional $128,000 on that loan just because of that 3% interest rate increase.

00:06:49.000 If you're talking about a $500,000 home, you're talking about paying, over the course of the life of the loan, $256,000 more.

00:06:53.000 And if you're talking about a $750,000 home, you're talking about $384,000 more.

00:06:56.000 I mean, these are big, big numbers for people.

00:06:57.000 $38,000 home, you're talking about $384,000 more.

00:07:00.000 And these are big, big numbers for people.

00:07:03.000 And again, you can't blame that on Ukraine.

00:07:06.000 You cannot blame that on COVID.

00:07:08.000 You can only blame that on the person who is in charge and the people that he left in charge.

00:07:13.000 There's a good case to be made that Jerome Powell should have been fired.

00:07:15.000 I mean, the guy had one job and he blew it.

00:07:17.000 His job was keep inflation under control.

00:07:19.000 And somehow he ends up with a 40-year high in inflation and he gets to keep his job?

00:07:24.000 And we're supposed to rely upon him?

00:07:26.000 And Jerome Powell is a disaster, Ari.

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00:08:39.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is saying that a recession is not inevitable.

00:08:44.000 He said, they shouldn't believe a warning.

00:08:46.000 They should just say, let's see, let's see which is correct.

00:08:48.000 And from my perspective, you talked about a recession.

00:08:51.000 First of all, it's not inevitable.

00:08:52.000 Secondly, we're in a stronger position than any nation in the world to overcome this inflation.

00:08:56.000 If it's my fault, why is it the case that in every other major industrial country in the world, inflation is higher?

00:09:00.000 You ask yourself that.

00:09:01.000 I'm not being a wise guy.

00:09:02.000 Well, he's not even capable of being a wise guy.

00:09:05.000 If you look at inflation rates by country right now, the United States is not in fact the lowest of any industrialized nation.

00:09:12.000 It is not true by a long shot.

00:09:16.000 The latest figures on inflation for the following countries, all lower than the United States.

00:09:21.000 Germany is 7.9%, France 5.2%, Japan 2.5%, India 7.4%, Canada and Italy 6.8%, Saudi Arabia 2.2%.

00:09:30.000 Meanwhile, data released last week showed the U.S.

00:09:32.000 inflation rose in May to a four-decade high of 8.6%.

00:09:33.000 So where are all the fact-checkers?

00:09:36.000 Over at Facebook, making sure that Joe Biden and the White House are dinged for all of this.

00:09:36.000 Where are they?

00:09:41.000 Meanwhile, the price of gas continues to skyrocket, and the preferred solution of this administration, which is that we not drill, is starting to look real bad.

00:09:51.000 So Karine Jean-Pierre continues to double down on this.

00:09:52.000 It is unbelievable.

00:09:53.000 Again, an administration where ideology trumps the simple facts on the ground.

00:09:58.000 Karine Jean-Pierre, incompetent White House press secretary explaining, we definitely don't need to drill more. 1.00

00:10:01.000 Also, we need to ask the oil companies to produce more without actually drilling more.

00:10:06.000 Because, again, it's just about finding somebody to blame.

00:10:09.000 That is what the problem is.

00:10:10.000 We need them to actually refine the crude oil, which is not happening, and that's what we're calling on oil companies to do.

00:10:17.000 Why not just drill more here in the U.S., though?

00:10:19.000 Because we don't need to do that.

00:10:21.000 What we need them to do is, with the oil that's out there, we need them to refine that oil so that prices, so that the capacity could go up, and then prices would go down, inherently go down.

00:10:32.000 And so, you know, the President once said that he was going to end fossil fuel.

00:10:36.000 Is that now off the table?

00:10:38.000 No, we are going to continue to move forward with our clean energy proposal, our climate change proposal.

00:10:48.000 So we need more production.

00:10:51.000 We need more refineries doing more refining.

00:10:53.000 Also, we want all of that to stop.

00:10:55.000 That sort of conflicting message is probably not going to result in more production.

00:10:59.000 Again, if I have a dollar to invest today, am I going to invest it in the oil industry knowing it's going to take a while for that dollar to actually turn out a benefit?

00:11:08.000 Knowing that five years from now, the chances are that this administration, or an administration like it, are going to crack down on the ability of the industry that I invested in to actually produce?

00:11:18.000 All of these things have a tale.

00:11:19.000 When you invest a dollar in an oil company, it's not because that dollar is now going to produce oil tomorrow, it's because that dollar is going to produce oil a couple of years from now, three, four, five years from now.

00:11:29.000 But if you have no faith that the government is going to allow for that to happen three, four, five years from now, why are you going to invest right now?

00:11:35.000 A future possibility of supply affects price today.

00:11:39.000 But this administration likes to pretend that that's not happening. 0.99

00:11:41.000 Meanwhile, they've been sending all of their idiot spokespeople out there to claim that we should just buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. 1.00

00:11:48.000 Well, here's the problem, guys. 1.00

00:11:49.000 Number one, fuel-efficient vehicles are pretty expensive.

00:11:51.000 Number two, You can't even get one.

00:11:53.000 Okay, I ordered a Tesla back in like October.

00:11:56.000 It was supposed to be delivered in May.

00:11:58.000 It is currently nearly the end of June.

00:12:00.000 We're getting toward the end of June.

00:12:02.000 It probably ain't gonna arrive till August, September at best, given what's going on in the world economy right now.

00:12:07.000 The Wall Street Journal is pointing out that car shoppers looking for more fuel-efficient vehicles, they literally cannot buy them.

00:12:14.000 Quote, with gasoline prices topping $5 a gallon, fuel economy is suddenly top of mind again for car shoppers, reinvigorating interest in the small car sedans and hybrids that have fallen out of favor in recent years.

00:12:23.000 The problem?

00:12:23.000 Those are among the vehicles in the shortest supply.

00:12:25.000 In recent months, the average price of gasoline in the United States has soared to new records, pushing up fuel costs for drivers and prompting many Americans to seek out smaller, more economical rides, dealers and executives say.

00:12:36.000 The shift is sending yet another shockwave through the car business, which has spent much of the past decade giving priority to pricey, fuel-thirsty pickups and SUVs that drive big profits.

00:12:44.000 Supply chain disruptions have further complicated the market, leaving dealership lots sparse of any type of vehicle, both new and used, and automakers are scrambling to restock.

00:12:53.000 Right now, if you wish to buy a compact car or a hybrid, you're waiting, on average, just for the supply.

00:13:01.000 15 right now, the hybrid, they only have 22 days worth of hybrids in stock.

00:13:09.000 These are not numbers that are going to help you cure your high gasoline prices by bringing new green energy on the market.

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00:14:28.000 Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs is out there saying, yeah, you know, we probably should have invested a little bit more in, you know, the oil industry.

00:14:33.000 Instead of trying to green the oil industry, maybe we should have let them do what they actually do. 0.99

00:14:37.000 According to Wendell Gusebo, who's reporting for Breitbart, American energy is suffering from a lack of long-term investment, which temporary fixes cannot alleviate.

00:14:45.000 Global head of commodities at Goldman Sachs, Jeff Curry, said on Thursday.

00:14:48.000 Downplaying the Ukrainian war's impact on oil prices, Curry said soaring energy prices are due to a lack of U.S.

00:14:54.000 investments in the fossil fuel sector.

00:14:56.000 The global slowdown, let's say it's Fed-induced.

00:14:58.000 Curry said about the Federal Reserve increasing rates to combat inflation.

00:15:02.000 It may create a pullback in oil prices, but it is not a long-term fix.

00:15:05.000 I want to emphasize demand destruction or demand slowdown is not a fix to this problem.

00:15:10.000 In other words, we need more supply.

00:15:11.000 But if nobody's investing because everybody believes there's going to be a crackdown, that's a problem.

00:15:16.000 What are the reasons for the lack of capital investment, Curry asked?

00:15:18.000 He named ESG, Environmental Social Corporate Governance.

00:15:22.000 Curry says, too much focus on left-wing investment strategies is one of the main reasons the U.S.

00:15:26.000 is unprepared for energy price shocks produced by a variety of factors.

00:15:28.000 In other words, it looks a lot like the European energy policy, which was, we are going to crack down on these oil companies.

00:15:33.000 We need to stop them from producing the oil.

00:15:35.000 And then quietly, sotto voce, to Vladimir Putin, if you can keep shipping in the oil, that would be great because we have to keep our economy running.

00:15:42.000 And this is all the reflection of really crappy policy.

00:15:46.000 And the oil companies have pointed out that while Joe Biden is telling them that they need to increase production, he's preventing them from increasing production.

00:15:55.000 ExxonMobil responded by saying they've been in regular contact with the administration to remind them of the extraordinary efforts the company has made in investing in energy production.

00:16:02.000 They say that's more than any other company.

00:16:04.000 The company said in the short term, the U.S.

00:16:06.000 government could enact measures often used in emergencies following hurricanes or other supply disruptions, such as waivers of Jones Act provisions and some fuel specifications to increase supplies.

00:16:14.000 Longer term, government can promote investment through clear and consistent policy that supports U.S.

00:16:19.000 resource development, such as regular and predictable lease sales, as well as streamlined regulatory approval and support for infrastructure such as pipelines.

00:16:25.000 Again, this is all just common sense stuff.

00:16:27.000 It's all just common sense stuff.

00:16:29.000 The simple fact is, if you make business easier to do, you will get more supply.

00:16:33.000 This will bring down the prices, because demand is relatively stable right now.

00:16:38.000 And when you do that, inflation will be crushed.

00:16:41.000 Instead, you have not only been hit with an exogenous bottleneck in the supply chain, you've exacerbated that bottleneck with bad regulatory policy and proposals for new taxes and global taxes on corporations.

00:16:54.000 And then you are shocked when the supply continues to decrease?

00:16:57.000 You're shocked when the economic coma that these companies went through in 2020-2021 is exacerbated?

00:17:06.000 You don't get to play that game.

00:17:08.000 There's one person who owns this recession, and his name is Joe Biden.

00:17:11.000 That does not mean that there aren't global factors that are contributing to a recession.

00:17:15.000 It means the United States is, was, and will be the most powerful economy on the face of the Earth.

00:17:20.000 And when that economy decides to cut its own Achilles, then this is what happens.

00:17:26.000 If you cut your own tendons and then you can't walk, that's your fault.

00:17:30.000 This administration has every ability to alleviate the pressures on businesses right now.

00:17:34.000 They're not doing it.

00:17:35.000 They're increasing the pressures on businesses.

00:17:39.000 Well, even some Democrats are starting to get very worried about this because now they're stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:17:44.000 As I mentioned just a couple of days ago, the fact is that Democrats are looking down the road at 2024 and they're figuring, OK, well, we are screwed. 0.72

00:17:51.000 And the reason we are screwed is not just because we have a dead man for president, but also because we now have a choice.

00:17:56.000 Our choice is we tamp down the inflation by killing the economy or we allow the economy to continue to sort of bubble along at mid-range pace and we allow the inflation to soar out of control.

00:18:07.000 None of those are really good options.

00:18:09.000 According to the New York Times, a recession would hurt Democrats.

00:18:12.000 Some warn it would also hurt democracy.

00:18:14.000 Some warn, typical New York Times, what they really mean by this is, God forbid people recognize the Democratic policy sucks, a Republican could win in 2024.

00:18:21.000 Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, made the understatement of the year on Wednesday when he noted offhandedly to reporters, Quote, clearly people do not like inflation.

00:18:31.000 And how?

00:18:32.000 According to Fox News latest national poll, 41% of registered voters said inflation and higher prices represented the most important issue influencing their ballot decision in November.

00:18:40.000 Just 12% of voters called guns their top priority, the second place issue.

00:18:43.000 71% disapproved of the job President Biden is doing on inflation.

00:18:46.000 71%!

00:18:47.000 That's a lot of Democrats and Independents who do not like Joe Biden's policies on inflation.

00:18:53.000 The Fed might be Joe Biden's best hope.

00:18:55.000 After the Federal Open Market Committee announced Wednesday it would raise short-term interest rates by three quarters of a percentage point, Powell said the Fed's goal is to bring inflation closer to its 2% target while keeping the labor market strong.

00:19:05.000 He hastened to add, we're not trying to induce a recession.

00:19:07.000 Now, let's be clear about that.

00:19:08.000 But some commentators like David Frum of The Atlantic, who's become a big Democrat, have begun to fret that in trying to tame inflation, the Fed will do exactly that, start a recession just in time to doom Biden or whomever Democrats nominate in his stead in 2024.

00:19:21.000 From noted the historically tight link between economic growth and a president's chances of re-election, citing the possibility that an unrepented Donald Trump will run again, he argued a downturn this year or next could result in a democracy wrecking election the next year.

00:19:32.000 And so the basic idea here is that Maybe we have to keep inflation high to prevent a recession so as to prevent Donald Trump from sweeping back into office.

00:19:42.000 Or, theoretically, you could pursue, you know, good economic policy.

00:19:45.000 The reason people disapprove of Joe Biden is because they can see statistics in front of their face.

00:19:50.000 The inflation rate under Joe Biden has climbed virtually every month since he became President of the United States.

00:19:55.000 The only downtick was very mild and it was a couple of months ago.

00:19:59.000 And then it went up again.

00:20:01.000 So the Biden administration has no handle on this.

00:20:04.000 They're just going to keep saying the word transition over and over again.

00:20:06.000 And I have to say that this line of attack that we're just in.

00:20:10.000 Don't worry, guys.

00:20:11.000 Everything is fine.

00:20:11.000 This is just a transitional period.

00:20:13.000 No one believes this because the question is a transition toward what?

00:20:16.000 A transition toward what?

00:20:17.000 Normally, when you say making a transition from A to B, I want to know what B is.

00:20:20.000 If we mean transition toward a low growth market for the foreseeable future, that's bad.

00:20:25.000 That's a bad thing.

00:20:27.000 But here's Karine Jean-Pierre, who keeps Kind of suggesting that if she says the word transition over and it's not just her, it's Brian Deese.

00:20:34.000 It's the entire economic team over there.

00:20:37.000 Like everyone, Jared Bernstein, they're all saying the same thing.

00:20:40.000 Transition, transition.

00:20:41.000 Well, no one believes this is transitional.

00:20:43.000 You said inflation was transitory.

00:20:46.000 Trans is not every issue, guys.

00:20:48.000 Here is Kareem Jean-Pierre trying to explain that the economy is just, we're in the midst of a big transition, you know, toward green energy.

00:20:54.000 We're in the midst of a booming economy.

00:20:57.000 We don't believe you.

00:20:59.000 We believe that we are in a transition right now coming out of a economic recovery, a historic economic recovery, because of the work that the president has done this past year and a half.

00:21:11.000 And so we believe that we'll be in that transition.

00:21:14.000 We're going into that transition of stable and steady growth.

00:21:18.000 And we're going to continue to do the work that the president has laid out to lower inflation.

00:21:25.000 No one believes her.

00:21:26.000 No one believes Joe Biden.

00:21:27.000 This is why his approval ratings are awful.

00:21:29.000 Harry Anton of CNN, he says we're going to look at a Republican wave year this year because of Joe Biden's economic policies.

00:21:36.000 He points out that there's never been a president with this kind of approval rating who didn't just get absolutely shellacked in the midterms.

00:21:41.000 And again, when Joe Biden says recession is not inevitable, that's not what CEOs are saying.

00:21:45.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, most top executives say they think a recession is looming or already here, according to a new survey.

00:21:50.000 More than 60% of CEOs expect a recession in their geographic region in the next 12 to 18 months, according to a survey of 750 CEOs and other C-suite executives released Friday by the conference board, a business research firm.

00:22:01.000 An additional 15% think the region of the world where their company operates is already in a recession.

00:22:06.000 Because here's the thing, you only find out when you're in a recession after you're in a recession.

00:22:09.000 Because the way that we typically measure a recession is two straight quarters of negative growth.

00:22:13.000 But if you're in the midst of that second quarter of negative growth, you're not going to find out that you're already in a recession until we release the stats at the end of quarter two.

00:22:20.000 But the simple fact is everybody already perceives that there is a drawback in spending.

00:22:24.000 We can see the home prices are climbing.

00:22:25.000 Homes are homes are sitting on the market for longer.

00:22:27.000 Mortgage rates are going up.

00:22:29.000 You're spending too much money at the gas pump.

00:22:31.000 Everyone feels this.

00:22:32.000 Everybody knows this.

00:22:34.000 In late 2021, 22% of CEOs surveyed by the firm reported seeing recession risk.

00:22:38.000 That total was down from 39% a year earlier.

00:22:41.000 Now it is 60%.

00:22:42.000 That data was collected in May before the Federal Reserve approved its largest interest rate increase since 1994.

00:22:48.000 We need to be prepared for tougher times, said Ilham Khadri, CEO of Solvay S.A., a Brussels-based chemical maker who added that rising inflation could hurt demand for products.

00:22:58.000 Joe Biden can try to blame this on everybody else, but again, he's the President of the United States and he's the one who is going to pay the price as well he should, because a lot of this was preventable.

00:23:06.000 Not all of it.

00:23:07.000 A lot of it was preventable.

00:23:08.000 And Joe Biden decided to steer right into this hurricane.

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00:24:21.000 And meanwhile, all of this is being exacerbated by a sense that America is coming apart at the seams morally.

00:24:28.000 And you can see this on every available front.

00:24:30.000 It feels as though there are two very different visions for what America should look like morally, and they are in complete contradiction with one another.

00:24:41.000 It really is amazing.

00:24:42.000 There's a poll that came out from Gallup, and it showed that 50% of Americans rate U.S.

00:24:46.000 moral values as poor.

00:24:48.000 Now, the 50% of Americans who rate U.S.

00:24:51.000 moral values as poor, that actually is bipartisan.

00:24:54.000 Because there are a bunch of Republicans who think it, and there are a bunch of Democrats who think it, but for completely different reasons.

00:24:58.000 And this is the key.

00:24:59.000 There are two very different moral visions for the country.

00:25:01.000 This is particularly true with regard to children.

00:25:03.000 On the left, there's a generalized perception that the great risk to children is Judeo-Christian values, traditional roles, Moral rules?

00:25:11.000 These things are a threat to your child's development, according to the left.

00:25:14.000 Your child needs to be left free to explore their own identity, to find their gender fluidity, to find their inner peace through your facilitation of hormone treatment. 0.66

00:25:24.000 They have to be, at the same time, trained that they might be a little racist and that they need to understand the historic injustices of the United States that have now been Instantiated in them as human beings.

00:25:35.000 And if you teach them Judeo-Christian, if you take them to church, that is an imposition of an external morality that is bad for kids. 0.73

00:25:41.000 This is the view of large swaths of the left, which is why you're starting to see all the talk about Drag Queen Story Hour in public schools and why it's so important.

00:25:48.000 And why you have the Biden administration openly attempting to trans the kids. 0.95

00:25:51.000 Because the idea is that all of these impositions on children are dangerous for them.

00:25:54.000 The right's view is precisely the opposite.

00:25:56.000 that kids need inculcation of moral rules, that traditional Judeo-Christian ideas are good for kids, that kids need boundaries, they need to be taught about civilizational roles, and that it is good to act in accordance with both evolutionary biology and the inherited wisdom of the ages when it comes to enacting the way that you live your life.

00:26:14.000 These are in complete contradistinction to one another.

00:26:18.000 And you can see that this moral conflict is now becoming incredibly acute.

00:26:21.000 Because as the left moves ever to the left, as they feel their oaths, as they believe that the wave of history is with them, they've pushed so far so fast that the right, which has been asleep at the wheel for literally my entire lifetime culturally, has decided we're done with this.

00:26:35.000 And a lot of people in the middle are looking and looking at what the left has done to kids.

00:26:38.000 And they're saying, we're not interested in this.

00:26:41.000 You can see the conflict in this poll from Gallup.

00:26:43.000 It's really fascinating.

00:26:44.000 According to this Gallup poll, a record high 50% of Americans rate the overall state of moral values in the United States as poor.

00:26:50.000 Another 37% say only fair.

00:26:52.000 Just 1% think the state of moral values is excellent and 12% good.

00:26:56.000 But when you break this down, what you see is two very different reasons why people believe that the moral values of the United States are bad.

00:27:03.000 The right believes the moral values of the left are bad, and the left believes the moral values of the right are bad.

00:27:07.000 So the only thing they have in common is they believe the moral values of the United States are bad.

00:27:11.000 It's just that the left believes that the right is in control, and the right believes the left is in control.

00:27:14.000 These findings from Gallup's May 2nd through 22nd Values and Beliefs Poll are generally in line with perceptions since 2017.

00:27:22.000 On average, since 2002, 43% of U.S.

00:27:24.000 adults have rated moral values in the United States as poor, 38% as fair, 18% as excellent or good.

00:27:30.000 Republicans' increasingly negative assessment of the state of moral values is largely responsible for the record high overall poor rating.

00:27:36.000 At 72%, Republicans' poor rating of moral values is at the highest point since the inception of the trend and up sharply since Donald Trump left office.

00:27:43.000 At the same time, 36% of Democrats say the state of moral values is poor.

00:27:47.000 Only a 48% plurality rate it as only fair, 15% as excellent or good.

00:27:52.000 So why exactly do people believe that the moral values of the United States are bad?

00:27:58.000 Republicans are more negative than Democrats about the deteriorating state of moral values.

00:28:03.000 The 93% of Republicans who think moral values are getting worse is the highest measured for the group.

00:28:07.000 By one point, it comes after a sharp uptick in 2021 when Joe Biden became president.

00:28:12.000 Meanwhile, only 68% of Democrats now say moral values are getting worse.

00:28:16.000 Again, because Democrats control all of the institutions of our society, ranging from the actual government to, at the federal level at least, to the educational system, to the entertainment system, to the media.

00:28:27.000 And so when they look at all of the institutions reflecting their moral values, naturally, fewer of them think that the morality of the country is getting worse.

00:28:35.000 So what exactly do Americans think is the top problem?

00:28:38.000 So, according to the polling data, 18% of Americans, and this is very consistent, think consideration of others is the top problem.

00:28:45.000 Now, again, that's very vague, and people break that down very differently.

00:28:49.000 I think consideration for others means, for example, that you respect my religious freedom.

00:28:53.000 People on the left believe consideration for others means that they get to invade my religious freedom and declare that Yeshiva University has to have a pride club.

00:29:00.000 In terms of racism and discrimination, 8% of Americans now believe that this is the top problem with the state of moral values.

00:29:05.000 8% say racism and discrimination.

00:29:07.000 That, of course, is the aftermath of the BLM movement.

00:29:10.000 There's actually been a decline since 2012 to 2022 in lack of faith or religion or lack of morals.

00:29:17.000 So 17% of Americans in 2022 thought lack of religion or lack of morals was the key issue.

00:29:22.000 Today, that's only 14%.

00:29:25.000 Lack of family structure, that worry has declined as well.

00:29:28.000 So what you've seen is that the left has basically given up on sort of the mainstream view that people should go to church, that people should have traditional family structure, and they've decided to pour all of their moral ire into the racism issue.

00:29:43.000 Among Republicans, about 11% name a lack of faith or religion as the most important moral problem.

00:29:48.000 Democrats are at least twice as likely as Republicans to mention racism as a top moral problem.

00:29:52.000 So we have a massive gap that has emerged in our culture.

00:29:56.000 And so as the economy declines, and as the sort of materialism of a very rich society starts to run up on the shoals of bad democratic policy, all of the moral conflicts that are boiling under the surface are going to start to break through.

00:30:09.000 Because materialism and material comfort can mask a lot of things, like the fatty layer on your body.

00:30:14.000 It can mask a lot of things.

00:30:15.000 But as that fat starts to decline, and whatever is underneath starts to show through, things are going to get really, really ugly really fast.

00:30:21.000 And this is becoming, again, most clear when it comes to the treatment of children.

00:30:26.000 The treatment of children in religion is the biggest one.

00:30:28.000 According to the Washington Post, caught in the culture wars, teachers are being forced from their jobs.

00:30:33.000 And so the right would say, okay, well, if you're teaching my kid gender orientation, sexual theory, then yeah, you should lose your job.

00:30:40.000 If you're teaching my kid America's inherently bad, you should lose your job.

00:30:42.000 The left says, if you teach prayer in the classroom, you should lose your job.

00:30:46.000 These are two incompatible visions of what it means to raise children in the United States, which is, of course, what we're all fighting about all the time.

00:30:52.000 Because if we're not fighting about just our pocketbooks, we have to be thinking about what the moral future of the United States looks like.

00:30:58.000 The Washington Post, of course, is on the side of the left.

00:31:01.000 A Florida teacher lost her job for hanging a Black Lives Matter flag over her classroom door and rewarding student activism.

00:31:06.000 A Massachusetts teacher was fired for posting a video denouncing critical race theory.

00:31:10.000 A teacher in Missouri got the axe for signing a worksheet about privilege.

00:31:12.000 And still another in California was fired for criticizing mask mandates on her Facebook page.

00:31:16.000 They're among the more than 160 educators who were either fired or resigned from their jobs in the past two academic years due to the culture wars that are roiling many of the nation's schools.

00:31:25.000 And the reason, by the way, that this is boiling down to schools is because there's a baseline libertarianism that Americans have when it comes to adults, which is adults sort of like, as long as you're not hurting anybody else, do whatever you want.

00:31:34.000 That's sort of the baseline libertarian ideal in America.

00:31:37.000 But when it comes to kids, libertarianism does not apply.

00:31:40.000 Because kids do not have the power of consent.

00:31:42.000 Kids do not have the power of choice.

00:31:44.000 There's no such thing as a sort of classical liberal moral standard to be applied to children.

00:31:49.000 Because somebody's going to have to teach children.

00:31:51.000 Somebody's going to have to determine what standards they ought to be inculcated with.

00:31:54.000 And that's why all of this is really boiling down to the question of how we raise our kids.

00:32:00.000 And you're starting to see this in real ways, breaking out everywhere in the culture, everywhere from the schooling system to your entertainment culture.

00:32:10.000 Again, I think it's very important to just mention that the wild difference between how the left sees raising kids and how the right sees raising kids is very, very important.

00:32:22.000 So for example, Chris Evans is now saying that you are a terrible person and very bad if you don't wish to take your kids to see Lightyear.

00:32:32.000 This is now a moral test.

00:32:34.000 This is what the left likes to do.

00:32:35.000 They like to do something transgressive and they say it's very important.

00:32:38.000 What they're doing is an incredible, important moment.

00:32:41.000 We have the first gay kiss in a children's movie.

00:32:43.000 Made by Pixar.

00:32:44.000 Very important.

00:32:45.000 You should all take note how important this is.

00:32:47.000 And then you say, okay, I agree that it's important because you're trying to inculcate a system whereby you claim that a certain sexual morality and lifestyle is equivalent to another sexual morality and lifestyle.

00:32:59.000 Where you claim that female-female couples are entirely morally equivalent to male-female couples producing children.

00:33:06.000 That's the claim that you're making.

00:33:08.000 And I disagree with that claim.

00:33:09.000 So I agree that what you're doing is important.

00:33:10.000 And also, I don't wish to indoctrinate my kids in a belief system that I think is morally incorrect.

00:33:16.000 And Chris Evans says this makes you a bad person, right?

00:33:18.000 You're not allowed to notice.

00:33:19.000 It should be that it's his wording, I think, that is really important here.

00:33:22.000 So Chris Evans, who is the star of the film, he says, I mean, it's great, as great as it is.

00:33:26.000 And, you know, I've been asked the question a few times.

00:33:27.000 It's nice and it's wonderful.

00:33:28.000 It makes me happy.

00:33:29.000 It's tough not to be a little frustrated that it even has to be a topic of discussion.

00:33:33.000 So, we do something that changes the moral standard, and it's sad that we even have to discuss it.

00:33:37.000 We shouldn't have to discuss it.

00:33:38.000 It's important for kids to see this stuff.

00:33:40.000 Quote, that it is this kind of news.

00:33:44.000 The goal is that we can get to a point where it is the norm, and this doesn't have to be some uncharted waters, that eventually this is just the way it is.

00:33:50.000 It is the norm.

00:33:51.000 Okay, now, statistically, evolutionarily speaking, male-male-female-female couples are not the norm.

00:33:57.000 That's just the simple fact of the matter.

00:33:59.000 All of human biology, all of human reproduction relies on this not being the norm, in fact.

00:34:05.000 That's not to make the case against tolerance.

00:34:07.000 That's not even to make the case against same-sex marriage.

00:34:09.000 That's just to make the case that to teach small children that the norm is male-male or female-female is statistically and morally incorrect.

00:34:17.000 And yet, that is exactly what is being pushed.

00:34:20.000 And if you object, this makes you a bigot.

00:34:21.000 Okay, well, that sort of stuff is going to boil to the surface when you have a country that is so divided along these lines.

00:34:27.000 There's an article in the Orlando Sentinel that just came out that I think underscores all of this.

00:34:32.000 The Orlando Sentinel put out an editorial called GOP loves parental choice unless parents choose drag queens.

00:34:38.000 Well, yes. I mean, yes.

00:34:44.000 We think there are things that you can do to your child that are damaging to your child, and bringing them to strip clubs where they view men dressed as women, dance around twerking, seems like damaging stuff to children.

00:34:56.000 Correct?

00:34:57.000 Again, these conflicting visions of the world are going to divide the country.

00:35:01.000 They're going to continue to divide the country in the middle, particularly, of a Joe session.

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00:37:52.000 So the moral conflict between right and left and this great moral conflict in our country, it's now infected every institution.

00:38:05.000 And things that used to be considered relatively uncontroversial, it just demonstrates the actual cultural imperialism of the left.

00:38:13.000 They attempt to infiltrate institutions that have historically rejected their values, and then they get angry when those institutions say no.

00:38:18.000 So, perfect example.

00:38:20.000 Yesterday, Yeshiva University said that they did not want to have a Pride Club on campus because they are an Orthodox Jewish school.

00:38:28.000 And a court in New York was like, nope, you got to.

00:38:30.000 It's important.

00:38:30.000 You got to.

00:38:31.000 Your institution is now a secular university that must abide by our standard of morality.

00:38:36.000 Also, apparently it is very controversial that a Catholic church says that you're not allowed to fly at Catholic institutions the BLM flag or the Pride flag.

00:38:46.000 Why this is controversial is absolutely beyond me, but apparently it's wildly controversial in the same way that the media declared it controversial every five minutes when the Pope says that he's against same-sex marriage.

00:38:55.000 The doctrine has not changed in any way, shape, or form, but it was like, oh my God, well, the Pope, yes, the Pope.

00:39:00.000 The pope, why are we even having this discussion?

00:39:03.000 But the answer is because the left wishes to take over all of the traditional institutions of society and wreck them from within.

00:39:08.000 According to the Washington Post, quote, the stark dual colored letters of the Black Lives Matter flag and the bright rainbow stripes of the pride flag had flown above the Massachusetts Catholic school for more than a year before the local bishop registered his opposition.

00:39:20.000 The Black Lives Matter flag, Bishop Robert McManus said in April, has been co-opted by some factions, which also instill broad-brush distrust of police.

00:39:26.000 And the LGBTQ flag could be used to contrast church teaching, that marriage is between a man and a woman, he added.

00:39:32.000 What do you mean, could?

00:39:33.000 Could?

00:39:34.000 Does?

00:39:34.000 I mean, forget about marriage.

00:39:37.000 The Catholic Church, last I checked, is not in favor of homosexual activity, period.

00:39:41.000 Not just marriage.

00:39:43.000 When Nativity School of Worcester didn't budge, McManus issued a severe ruling.

00:39:47.000 The tuition-free middle school, which serves boys facing economic hardship, can no longer identify itself as Catholic because the flags are inconsistent with Catholic teaching.

00:39:54.000 He said the flying of these flags in front of a Catholic school sends a mixed, confusing, and scandalous message to the public about the church's stance on these important moral and social issues. 0.96

00:40:02.000 Despite my insistence, the school administration removed these flags because of the confusion and the properly theological scandal that they do and can't promote.

00:40:09.000 They refused to do so.

00:40:11.000 The decision, which comes during Pride Month! 0.98

00:40:12.000 left him no other choice but to strip the Jesuit-run school of its Catholic affiliation.

00:40:15.000 The school can also no longer celebrate mass or the sacraments or use diocesan institutions to raise funds.

00:40:21.000 It was not included Thursday in the diocese's list of Catholic schools in the region.

00:40:26.000 The decision, which comes during Pride Month.

00:40:28.000 Man, how many...

00:40:30.000 I'm so tired of the media doing this routine.

00:40:32.000 You said this during Black History Month.

00:40:35.000 Well, I would have said any other time.

00:40:36.000 Yes, but it's Black History Month. 0.98

00:40:37.000 You're supposed to take all of your values and trash them. 0.99

00:40:39.000 It's Black History Month. 0.98

00:40:40.000 It's Pride Month, guys.

00:40:42.000 You said that you oppose same-sex marriage during Pride Month of all times!

00:40:46.000 During Pri- Yes, like the other 330 days of the year. 0.90

00:40:52.000 I also opposed it then, but during Pride Month. 0.93

00:40:56.000 The vapors.

00:40:58.000 We're supposed to believe that this is somehow a controversy.

00:41:00.000 It's not a controversy.

00:41:01.000 The Catholic Church has beliefs.

00:41:02.000 This school is not reflecting the beliefs.

00:41:04.000 The Washington Post is featuring that story.

00:41:05.000 Because again, the idea is cultural imperialism from the left.

00:41:09.000 What the left really wants is to be able to take all of these traditional institutions and turn them inside out and then pretend that they are representative of the institutions.

00:41:17.000 They want a Hannibal Lecter-like, rip-off-the-face-of-the-institutions-and-wear-it-around-as-a-skin-mask.

00:41:21.000 That's what Nancy Pelosi is doing. 0.99

00:41:22.000 She's out there saying how Catholic she is and also she loves abortion.

00:41:25.000 No, it don't work that way, Nancy.

00:41:26.000 It really do not.

00:41:27.000 It does not work that way.

00:41:30.000 A woman has a right to choose, to live up to her responsibility, it's up to her, her doctor, her family, her husband, her significant other, and her God.

00:41:43.000 This talk of politicizing all of this, I think It's something uniquely American and not right.

00:41:51.000 Other countries, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, have had legislative initiatives to expand a woman's right to choose. 0.91

00:42:01.000 Very Catholic countries.

00:42:03.000 I'm a very Catholic person.

00:42:06.000 And I believe in every woman's right to make her own decisions.

00:42:12.000 You're not a very Catholic person if you believe that a woman gets to define whether the life in her womb is in fact the life in her womb.

00:42:18.000 That's like saying I'm a very Jewish person, also the Sabbath doesn't exist and you should violate it as often as possible. 0.97

00:42:23.000 That's not the way any of that works.

00:42:25.000 But again, the goal of the left is to basically gut these institutions and then pretend that they are representatives of the institutions.

00:42:30.000 And they're doing this, like, from the smallest to the largest to all of them.

00:42:34.000 Take just the most absurd example of the day.

00:42:36.000 So I have to say, this Pride Month has been the most pridey of all the Pride Months. 0.73

00:42:39.000 I mean, man, the LGBTQ plus minus divided by a sign, pizza emoji. 1.00

00:42:44.000 The movement this month, it has been the most prideful Pride Month in all the history of Pride.

00:42:51.000 It's amazing.

00:42:52.000 So much so, that even institutions as insignificant as the Autobahn Society, now you're thinking to yourself, wait a second.

00:42:58.000 The Audubon Society?

00:42:59.000 What does that have to do with Pride Month?

00:43:02.000 I mean, doesn't the Audubon Society do, like, protection of birds?

00:43:06.000 Isn't that what they do?

00:43:08.000 It's an environmental organization that's trying to preserve, like, birds?

00:43:12.000 No, you've got that wrong.

00:43:14.000 They're all about drag over at the Audubon Society now.

00:43:17.000 So, they tweeted out, this Pride Month, Audubon partnered with drag queen and intersectional environmentalist, Patti Gonia, to bring you, birds tell us, the song of the meadowlark.

00:43:27.000 A message of hope for the future of the planet as we face climate change, if we choose to listen.

00:43:31.000 First of all, I'm never going to listen to a person who's dressed like this.

00:43:35.000 I'm just not going to.

00:43:35.000 Because I feel like they've made poor life decisions.

00:43:39.000 I know, call it judgmental, but if you are in an Audubon Society video, as a man, dressed up as a woman, dressed up as a bird, I'm just not taking you seriously.

00:43:49.000 I'm sorry.

00:43:50.000 If anybody walked into a meeting at my company dressed like that, I wouldn't take them seriously.

00:43:53.000 If I had a plumber who came to my house and was trying to just unclog the shower dressed like that, I wouldn't take them particularly.

00:44:01.000 This is inherently unserious, but this is how far we have come.

00:44:05.000 Every single institution in American society must not only be forced to kneel before the Zod of LGBTQ plus minus spiral emoji, they must also now Actually, purvey it. 0.90

00:44:18.000 You have to become a loud megaphone for it by putting up the most ridiculous videos I have ever seen in my entire life.

00:44:27.000 This is what Audubon Society— Audubon Society! 0.99

00:44:29.000 Man, I can't wait for the Natural Museum of History to put out the gay dinosaurs. 1.00

00:44:34.000 I mean, this is really, really fascinating stuff.

00:44:36.000 Here's the Audubon Society.

00:44:38.000 Birds tell us.

00:44:53.000 Birds tell us that the world is changing.

00:44:58.000 Bye.

00:44:59.000 That the climate is changing.

00:45:01.000 They sing it over us.

00:45:05.000 And around us.

00:45:06.000 In their songs.

00:45:07.000 And in the songs they no longer sing.

00:45:15.000 So, uh, yeah.

00:45:18.000 But why, don't worry.

00:45:19.000 The status of our society, we are in great moral shape here, folks.

00:45:23.000 We are in just fantastic moral shape.

00:45:24.000 You know the kind of moral shape we are in?

00:45:26.000 We're in the kind of moral shape where the Miss Universe contest is now insisting that not all women who menstruate are, not all people who menstruate are women.

00:45:33.000 Which comes as a shock to, you know, all of mammalian biology.

00:45:38.000 That males can now menstruate.

00:45:40.000 Miss Universe, of all places, is claiming that not all people who menstruate are women, and shared inclusive language guidelines to its Twitter account on Tuesday, instructing the public to say people have periods, not women.

00:45:49.000 According to Breitbart, inclusive language is important, especially when speaking about periods, Miss Universe tweeted on Tuesday.

00:45:55.000 In honor of this, Miss Universe needs to stop being so heteronormative by having a bunch of beautiful, actual biological women walking around in their underthings on stage. 1.00

00:46:06.000 Instead, what they need is a bunch of big, fat, hairy dudes who identify as women to walk around. 1.00

00:46:11.000 And one of them needs to win Miss Universe because we are in a brave new universe where you get to pick, man.

00:46:16.000 This is really exciting stuff.

00:46:18.000 Really exciting stuff.

00:46:19.000 And this, this is what's going to make our moral society, and your refusal to accept it.

00:46:23.000 This makes you bad. 0.99

00:46:24.000 If you refuse to accept it, we will destroy you. 1.00

00:46:26.000 We will wreck you. 0.98

00:46:27.000 You must accept that the Autobahn Society is now the purveyor of drag queens doing bad poetry while dressed up as a Tim Burton character dressed up as a bird. 0.96

00:46:37.000 And you have to accept that Catholic institutions are going to fly the LGBTQ pride flag.

00:46:41.000 And if you do not, then you are intolerant.

00:46:43.000 You must, by force of law, you must take your child to see Lightyear.

00:46:46.000 You must.

00:46:47.000 You can't just say, use your best judgment.

00:46:49.000 I wouldn't.

00:46:50.000 You can't do that.

00:46:50.000 You have to take it because otherwise you are a dinosaur, says Chris Evans, the actor who has zero kids.

00:46:58.000 Vital, vital stuff.

00:47:00.000 And if you cross them, man, they will break you on the wheel.

00:47:04.000 Which, of course, is what's happening now to Rainn Wilson.

00:47:06.000 So Rainn Wilson, the former star of The Office, who I'm not aware has done a single thing since then.

00:47:12.000 He played Dwight Schrute on The Office, and he's a wild leftist.

00:47:15.000 I mean, if you read his Twitter feed, the guy is as far left as anybody in American celebrity culture.

00:47:21.000 Well, he tweeted something out, and then he had to apologize for it.

00:47:24.000 Here's what he tweeted.

00:47:26.000 Today I learned you can no longer say nursing or breastfeeding mother.

00:47:29.000 You have to say chest-feeding person.

00:47:31.000 Just FYI.

00:47:33.000 Okay, well, this is actually true.

00:47:35.000 There are people on the left, including the BBC, I believe, which now refers to breastfeeding as chest feeding, as though a normal male chest produces milk, which it does not.

00:47:47.000 Typically, you have to have breasts. 1.00

00:47:50.000 Everyone has now been returned to the status of small children who don't know things. 0.97

00:47:55.000 It's insane.

00:47:56.000 Again, my baby daughter is two, and she knows the difference between chest and breasts. 1.00

00:48:00.000 Like, this is, like, why, what?

00:48:03.000 Because she because she knows that mommy nursed her using her breasts. 1.00

00:48:07.000 Like what?

00:48:08.000 What in the actual?

00:48:10.000 What is going on?

00:48:11.000 So Wilson tweets that today he learned that you're not supposed to say nursing or breastfeeding mother.

00:48:15.000 You have to say chest feeding person because some people with breasts are male and some people with chests are female, etc, etc.

00:48:22.000 He had to delete it.

00:48:23.000 And then, and then, he had to tweet an apology.

00:48:27.000 Which, of course, is always the best move, because people are very forgiving in our society.

00:48:29.000 So he tweeted out, Yesterday, I tweeted a MEAN CRACK about breastfeeding versus chestfeeding.

00:48:35.000 A MEAN CRACK.

00:48:36.000 After speaking with some trans friends and educating myself a bit more, I want to apologize for the tweet.

00:48:40.000 It was adding to misinformation and meanness.

00:48:43.000 I'm sorry.

00:48:44.000 And again, this just underscores that for the left, misinformation just means anything they object to.

00:48:47.000 It changes day by day.

00:48:49.000 And you will be punished. 1.00

00:48:50.000 You will be forced to do a malice struggle session online if you point out that chest feeding is an idiot term for idiots. 1.00

00:48:59.000 If you point that out, Rainn Wilson, who is like a Bernie Sanders follower, must now be forced to apologize. 0.98

00:49:06.000 But the apology was not enough for some fans.

00:49:08.000 Now do something to materially benefit trans people, one person demanded.

00:49:11.000 Now you're gonna have to give us money!

00:49:13.000 Do it! 0.96

00:49:14.000 Trans activist Parker Malloy replied to the original tweet saying, Dwight freaking Schrute over here, sputtering nonsense straight up Breitbart. 0.93

00:49:21.000 Nobody is telling anyone they have to say chest feeding. 0.65

00:49:23.000 That's just not a thing.

00:49:24.000 JFC.

00:49:25.000 Really?

00:49:25.000 It's not?

00:49:26.000 Then why do you have to apologize?

00:49:28.000 Really?

00:49:28.000 No one's saying that?

00:49:30.000 Malloy went on to mock the idea of chest feeding being a mainstream word, claiming no organizations were trying to make the general public use the term and place a precedent.

00:49:37.000 So this is where we get into the hole.

00:49:39.000 It's not happening, and it's good if it is, and you must do it or you're a bigot.

00:49:44.000 Because every time the left says, don't, don't, we're not going to make you say chest feeding.

00:49:47.000 Two minutes from now, this will be the typical term used by the entire mainstream media.

00:49:51.000 And if you refuse to use it, they will call you a bigot and then ban you from social media.

00:49:53.000 And it doesn't matter how powerful you are in our society.

00:49:57.000 If you cross these people, they will destroy you.

00:49:59.000 So for example, let's say that you are a 75 year old writer who has written more than 300 books and sold more than 500 million copies and is worth $800 million like James Patterson.

00:50:11.000 And let's say that you point out what is perfectly obvious from the entire publishing industry these days, which is that intersectional credentials win you publication.

00:50:17.000 And if you're a white male, you're at a severe disadvantage in terms of getting published.

00:50:21.000 This is obviously true.

00:50:23.000 It's so true that you have people who are now masquerading as minorities in order to publish books, and then when they're found out, then it's a big scandal. 1.00

00:50:29.000 And it's actually happened with a book written by a woman all about illegal migration from Central and Latin America into the United States, and it turned out that she was not Latin American, and this means that she was cancelled because of this.

00:50:42.000 The simple fact of the matter is that back in like 1850, you had to have women masquerading as men to get published.

00:50:46.000 Today, you have to masquerade as a member of a sexual, racial, or gender quote-unquote minority in order to be published.

00:50:54.000 Those are like extra points on your SAT scores at Harvard these days.

00:50:58.000 So this is clearly true.

00:50:59.000 And if you talk to any person in the publishing industry, you know this is true.

00:51:02.000 They openly say that they are seeking intersectional candidates as authors.

00:51:06.000 So James Patterson pointed this out.

00:51:09.000 He said in an interview with the Sunday Times in London, he said white male authors faced a problem.

00:51:13.000 He said, quote, what's that all about?

00:51:15.000 Can you get a job?

00:51:16.000 Yes.

00:51:16.000 Is it harder?

00:51:17.000 Yes.

00:51:18.000 It's even harder for older writers.

00:51:19.000 You don't meet many 52 year old white males.

00:51:22.000 Hey, that is statistically true.

00:51:23.000 This is all true.

00:51:25.000 But this is bad.

00:51:27.000 This is very, very bad.

00:51:30.000 So all of the Twitter users went off on him.

00:51:33.000 It was just terrible, just awful.

00:51:37.000 And then they cite a bunch of surveys done by publishers trying to determine how many of their contributors were white, black, and Hispanic.

00:51:48.000 They say that the New York Times did one of these things in 2020, saying 11% of books written in 2018 were by authors of color.

00:51:54.000 But that's not what Patterson's talking about.

00:51:56.000 He's talking about the authors that are most prized by the publishers.

00:52:00.000 If you write a fiction book and you submit it to a publishing company, it is harder to get that book published.

00:52:06.000 Of equal quality.

00:52:07.000 If you're white, then if you're black. 0.91

00:52:09.000 There is an affirmative action program in place of publishers.

00:52:12.000 Again, everyone in the publishing industry knows this.

00:52:14.000 Every agent will tell you this.

00:52:16.000 As somebody who's quite familiar with the publishing industry, I can tell you, this happens to be the case.

00:52:19.000 Patterson is not wrong.

00:52:20.000 I mean, he's intimately familiar with all of this.

00:52:22.000 Okay, but.

00:52:23.000 Ben Patterson had to tweet an apology.

00:52:25.000 Quote.

00:52:26.000 It's not just an apology for saying, oh, I got the stats wrong.

00:52:28.000 My bad.

00:52:28.000 You know, I guess I misinterpreted.

00:52:30.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:52:30.000 It was amazing.

00:52:31.000 Quote.

00:52:32.000 I apologize for saying white male writers have trouble finding work.

00:52:34.000 It's a form of racism.

00:52:37.000 That's even further.

00:52:39.000 I'm right.

00:52:40.000 White male writers are having trouble finding work, but that's not racism.

00:52:42.000 If they're being discriminated against because they are white males, that is not racism, according to James Patterson.

00:52:47.000 I absolutely do not believe that racism is practiced against white writers.

00:52:52.000 Please know that I strongly support a diversity of voices being heard in literature, in Hollywood, everywhere.

00:52:59.000 Now, it's not just that he's not even claiming that he was wrong.

00:53:02.000 He's claiming that it can never be racist to deny a white male a job.

00:53:07.000 It cannot be racist to discriminate against white males.

00:53:10.000 That's not possible.

00:53:12.000 When the moral gap in the country is growing wider by the day, that is not going to come back together.

00:53:18.000 It's not going to come back together, which means that the divides in the country are going to be exacerbated more and more often, unless we get some localism in here real, real damn fast.

00:53:28.000 Joe Biden, however, is not in favor of localism.

00:53:29.000 So at the same time that he's wrecking the economy, he's also in favor of nationalizing most issues, which is why even as we approach the possibility of Roe versus Wade being overturned, the White House is now talking about cramming down national policy by executive order.

00:53:43.000 That is going to prevent states from legislating how they wish on abortion. 1.00

00:53:46.000 According to the New York Times, President Biden's top aides are weighing whether he can or should take a series of executive actions to help women in Republican-controlled states obtain abortions if the Supreme Court eliminates a woman's right to end her pregnancy, according to senior administration officials.

00:53:59.000 First of all, you really have to love the language of the New York Times.

00:54:02.000 A woman's right to end her pregnancy. 1.00

00:54:04.000 Oh, you mean a woman's right to kill her unborn child? 1.00

00:54:06.000 Is that what you're talking about? 0.95

00:54:08.000 Her quote-unquote right to kill an unborn child? 0.97

00:54:10.000 Some of the ideas under consideration include declaring a national public health emergency.

00:54:14.000 Some of us were very displeased with the idea of declaring public health emergencies all the time.

00:54:20.000 Or declaring things national emergencies because we felt like that was a tool that was going to swing back around.

00:54:24.000 Yeah, we're here.

00:54:26.000 Readying the Justice Department to fight any attempt by states to criminalize travel for the purpose of obtaining an abortion and asserting that FDA regulations granting approval to abortion medications preempt any state bans, the official said.

00:54:37.000 Well, I'm not sure how that's going to work.

00:54:39.000 So the idea here is that if the FDA says that you can use a drug and the state says you can't use a drug, that magically the state law is now trumped.

00:54:46.000 And he's going to do this via executive order, right?

00:54:47.000 He's not going to do this via the legislature.

00:54:50.000 According to Maria Torres, Senior Director of Policy Development and Strategy at Planned Parenthood, we're in a crisis moment for abortion access in this country.

00:54:56.000 Officials at all levels of government must respond, including the executive branch.

00:55:01.000 But Biden and his team, they're talking about legal and policy vetting of potential executive actions.

00:55:08.000 They're attempting to trump all state law via the White House.

00:55:12.000 But don't worry, guys, they're very much in favor of democracy.

00:55:14.000 They love democracy.

00:55:15.000 They love it so much that it can't be allowed to operate.

00:55:17.000 Joe Biden is just going to tell everybody what to do from the top level down. 0.99

00:55:20.000 That's the really important thing to remember, because this doddering old fool must remain in control. 0.99

00:55:25.000 It is the most important thing. 0.97

00:55:27.000 Alright, we'll be back here later today with additional content.

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The Joecession Is Here | Ep. 1517

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