The Ben Shapiro Show - The LGBTQ+-&$# Cancellers Come For The New York Times | Ep. 1670

00:00:00.000 LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign half you face emoji cat emoji activists launch an assault on the New York Times for its shockingly objective coverage of the trans agenda.

00:00:09.000 Nikki Haley officially launches her 2024 campaign with a speech that slaps both Joe Biden and Donald Trump and the Congressional Budget Office reports that America's national debt is headed for disaster.

00:00:18.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:19.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:20.000 Well, folks, karma comes for everyone.

00:00:28.000 And the New York Times was slapped by karma yesterday when a bunch of LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign happy face emoji till that little squiggly thing that goes over the Spanish letters. 1.00

00:00:38.000 Hashtag dollar sign, pound sign, cat emoji.

00:00:43.000 When that group of people decided, along with some of their allies, that they were going to write a letter to the New York Times decrying their coverage of the trans agenda.

00:00:52.000 Now, the New York Times in the last six months has decided to finally cover the fact that there is something controversial about generally mutilating minors.

00:01:00.000 That there might be something controversial about giving kids untested, sterilizing drugs because they have a mental disorder that suggests that they are a member of a sex to which they are not in fact a member.

00:01:10.000 The New York Times has been covering things like the fact that there are a bunch of people who get these quote-unquote treatments and then want to detransition because it turns out that this was a giant mistake.

00:01:18.000 They've been covering the fact that there's been a huge scandal at the Tavistock Gender Clinic over in the UK where it turns out that quote-unquote experts in this field were essentially recommending hormone treatments to small children who had autism, for example.

00:01:33.000 They've been covering the fact that in Europe, places like Sweden and Finland, they've actually been banning a lot of this sort of, quote unquote, gender affirming health care for minors, specifically because it is highly damaging.

00:01:44.000 So the New York Times has actually been doing the unsayable.

00:01:47.000 They have actually been covering the news.

00:01:49.000 Now, this is something the left is not used to.

00:01:51.000 And you got to sympathize with the left, because for literally decades, all the New York Times did was basically cover the left wing agenda and do so in glowing fashion.

00:02:00.000 If there was any news that cut against the left-wing agenda, the New York Times would just not cover it.

00:02:04.000 It just would not be covered by the New York Times.

00:02:06.000 Journalism was foreign to the New York Times.

00:02:08.000 And so when they did an occasional act of journalism, you know, a couple of years too late.

00:02:12.000 And by a couple, I mean like a decade too late.

00:02:15.000 Then, of course, the LGBTQ plus divided by sign activists, they got very, very upset.

00:02:21.000 And you can understand why, because, again, they had it set in their brains that the New York Times was one of us.

00:02:26.000 They were on our side.

00:02:27.000 After all, the New York Times And this was the same exact group of people who decided that it was necessary to oust an op-ed editor for having greenlit an op-ed from Tom Cotton in the middle of the Black Lives Matter riots, pointing out that riots might need to be quelled using the National Guard.

00:02:43.000 And you recall that this op editor literally lost his job over this.

00:02:46.000 You'll recall this is the same New York Times that went after one of its top science writers for the great sin of suggesting that there might be contexts in which using the n-word to elucidate a point might be necessary.

00:02:58.000 And they literally fired the guy over this.

00:03:00.000 You'll recall this is the exact same New York Times that canceled Barry Weiss because Barry Weiss had the temerity to not agree with generalized agenda items of the New York Times despite the fact that Barry is a center-left person.

00:03:12.000 And Barry is not a conservative on the vast majority of issues.

00:03:15.000 But she happens to be pro-Israel.

00:03:17.000 She happens to be anti the transgender radical agenda. 0.94

00:03:22.000 And this was enough to make the New York Times absolutely insane.

00:03:25.000 And so Barry Weiss had to go.

00:03:27.000 And they allowed the Slack channel to be filled with people at the New York Times abusing Barry Weiss day in and day out.

00:03:30.000 This is the same exact New York Times.

00:03:32.000 That spent years defending the falsehoods, the outright falsehoods of Nikole Hannah-Jones.

00:03:36.000 Not just defending, promoting with millions of dollars in press.

00:03:39.000 Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is still given a role at the New York Times despite the fact that I'm not sure she's written anything for the New York Times in the past several years.

00:03:47.000 All she does is make crappy Hulu documentaries that continue to lie about American history. 0.99

00:03:51.000 So again, the left felt that the New York Times was its preserve.

00:03:56.000 And now the karma is coming for the New York Times.

00:03:58.000 The New York Times, which has spent years trying to cancel everybody on the right.

00:04:02.000 New York Times had a front page article just a few years ago and it featured pictures of people like me and Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin and it suggested that we were mainstreaming hate on the internet because what we were doing is we were acting as a sort of conduit to the alt-right.

00:04:16.000 The same New York Times that has spent reams of paper and barrels of ink going after people or even remotely on the right in order to get their advertisers to cancel them and in order to destroy their livelihoods, now the New York Times is being hit by the same people that it thought were fellow travelers.

00:04:33.000 Oh, it's so sad.

00:04:34.000 It's so sad.

00:04:35.000 So again, here's how it went down yesterday.

00:04:37.000 So there was an open letter that was released by 200 plus New York Times contributors.

00:04:42.000 So what makes you a New York Times contributor?

00:04:44.000 You once wrote an op-ed for the New York Times, which means by that definition, I am technically a New York Times contributor because I did write an obit for Rush Limbaugh in the pages of the New York Times.

00:04:55.000 And then there was a whole list of people who supported it.

00:04:58.000 And the list of supporters is almost endless because it's basically just a bunch of randos online who signed their petition.

00:05:04.000 So what exactly did the open letter say?

00:05:06.000 It says, Dear Philip, they are writing to Philip Corbett, the Associate Managing Editor for Standards at the New York Times.

00:05:10.000 Dear Philip, we write to you as a collective of New York Times contributors with serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspapers reporting on transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming people.

00:05:20.000 Wait, wait, you're suggesting the New York Times has editorial bias, guys?

00:05:26.000 The irony, the irony is too rich.

00:05:27.000 I don't know if I can handle this.

00:05:30.000 Plenty of reporters at the Times cover trans issues fairly, write these contributors.

00:05:34.000 Their work is eclipsed, however, by what one journalist has calculated as over 15,000 words of front page Times coverage debating the propriety of medical care for trans children published in the last eight months alone.

00:05:44.000 Wow, 15,000 words of front page Times coverage over the course of eight months?

00:05:50.000 I mean, just to get this absolutely clear, by the way, 15,000 words over eight months is not that many words.

00:05:56.000 That's the truth.

00:05:57.000 Because an average lengthy article in the New York Times might be 3,000 words.

00:06:02.000 You're talking about maybe five articles, four or five articles over the course of eight months.

00:06:05.000 The newspaper's editorial guidelines demand that reporters, quote, preserve a professional detachment free of any whiff of bias when cultivating their sources, remaining, quote, sensitive that personal relationships with news sources can erode into favoritism in fact or appearance.

00:06:17.000 Yet, the Times has in recent years treated gender diversity with an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic charged language while publishing reporting on trans children that omits relevant information about its sources.

00:06:29.000 So what exactly did the New York Times do wrong?

00:06:32.000 I love this.

00:06:33.000 They're angry, all these contributors, who are in fact friendly with the people at the New York Times.

00:06:37.000 They are contributors and many of them are personal friends with the people who work at the New York Times.

00:06:41.000 They're like, God, you guys are supposed to be absolutely objective and bias-free without a whiff of favoritism.

00:06:47.000 That's why we as your friends are writing you and telling you exactly what you should and should not print.

00:06:51.000 All the censors coming from the New York Times is so delicious.

00:06:53.000 For example, say these open letter writers, Emily Bazelon's article, The Battle Over Gender Therapy, uncritically used the term patient zero to refer to a trans child seeking gender affirming care, a phrase that vilifies transness as a disease to be feared. 1.00

00:07:06.000 Uh, no, that's that's idiotic. 0.98

00:07:08.000 Patient zero just means the first patient. 0.97

00:07:11.000 Bazelon quoted multiple expert sources who have since expressed regret over the work's misrepresentation.

00:07:17.000 Um, well, then they shouldn't have represented their work that way to the New York Times.

00:07:21.000 Another source, Grace Ladinsky-Smith, was identified as an individual person speaking about a personal choice to detransition, rather than president of GCCAN, an activist organization that pushes junk science and partners with explicitly anti-trans hate groups.

00:07:33.000 Well, but was Grace Ladinsky-Smith a person who detransitioned?

00:07:38.000 Because that would be the relevant category in which to place them.

00:07:41.000 They're talking about their personal experience in that particular case.

00:07:43.000 It doesn't matter.

00:07:44.000 They're going to pretend that there has been a journalistic sin committed.

00:07:47.000 There has not been a journalistic sin committed here.

00:07:49.000 The only journalistic sin by the New York Times is that they are years late on this thing.

00:07:52.000 The journalistic sin that these people are upset about is that the New York Times did a journalism.

00:07:57.000 They oopsed and did a journalism.

00:07:59.000 And now the Alphabet people are very, very angry at them and they're looking to cancel the New York Times and particular writers.

00:08:05.000 They want those writers punished.

00:08:06.000 That's really what this is about.

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00:09:16.000 Okay, so this open letter to the New York Times from its contributors continues.

00:09:19.000 In a similar case, Katie Baker's recent feature, when students change gender identity and parents don't know, So in other words, you don't quote the people we want you to quote, so that's bad journalism.

00:09:27.000 The piece fails to make clear that court cases brought by parents who want schools to out their trans children are part of a legal strategy pursued by anti-trans hate groups.

00:09:35.000 So in other words, you don't quote the people we want you to quote, so that's bad journalism.

00:09:40.000 No, there's nothing wrong with quoting parents who would have a right to know if the school is trying to tell their child they are a member of the opposite sex.

00:09:49.000 These groups, say these open letter writers, have identified trans people as an existential threat to society and seek to replace the American public education system with Christian homeschooling, key context Baker did not provide to Times readers.

00:10:01.000 Well, is that every parent who's upset?

00:10:05.000 Is a member of one of these groups? 0.99

00:10:06.000 Or are you just making this crap up because that's what you do? 0.99

00:10:10.000 The natural destination of poor editorial judgment is the court of law. 0.97

00:10:13.000 Last year, Arkansas's Attorney General filed an amicus brief in defense of Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which would make it a felony punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment for any medical provider to administer a certain gender-affirming medical care to a minor, including puberty blockers that diverges from sex assigned at birth.

00:10:28.000 The brief cited three different New York Times articles to justify its support of the law.

00:10:32.000 Then it cites Bazalon's piece, a piece by Azeen Gouraishi, titled Doctors Debate Whether Trans Teen Need Therapy Before Hormones, and Ross Douthat's How to Make Sense of the New LGBTQ Culture War. As recently as February 8th, 2023, attorney David Begley invited testimony to the Nebraska state legislature in support of a similar bill, approvingly cited the Times reporting, and relied on its reputation as the quote-unquote paper of record to justify criminalizing gender-affirming care. So, um, wait. So now your suggestion is that the New York

00:11:01.000 Times shouldn't have printed these pieces because people might use it in evidence in court?

00:11:06.000 That's not a case against printing the pieces.

00:11:09.000 That's a case against you guys actually having anything relevant to say.

00:11:13.000 If you can't defend the point on the merits, why are you blaming the New York Times for people actually using the New York Times in court cases?

00:11:20.000 And then, of course, they point out, quote, Douthat's piece was published in the opinion section, which lost one of the paper's most consistently published trans writers, Jennifer Finney Boylan, following the Times' recent decision not to renew her contract.

00:11:31.000 That's hysterical.

00:11:32.000 So how dare they print a piece from Ross Douthat about this issue if you are not going to pay this trans woman? 1.00

00:11:39.000 I'm sorry, I didn't realize this is how newspapers are supposed to be run, is that if I don't hire this affirmative action hire that you want me to hire, then I'm not allowed to print an opinion that you disagree with.

00:11:49.000 Got it.

00:11:52.000 This letter continues along these lines.

00:11:54.000 As thinkers, we are disappointed to see the New York Times follow the lead of far-right hate groups in presenting gender diversity as a new controversy warranting new punitive legislation.

00:12:02.000 Puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and gender-affirming surgeries have been standard forms of care for cis and trans people alike for decades.

00:12:09.000 Have they, though?

00:12:10.000 Because they've been banned in a wide variety of European countries.

00:12:13.000 And also, there is no actual lengthy history suggesting what happens when you give hormone blockers to pre-pubertal non-teenagers.

00:12:22.000 Legal challenges to gender nonconformity date back even further, with 34 cities and 21 states passing laws against cross-dressing between 1848 and 1900, usually enforced alongside so-called prohibitions against public indecency, that disproportionately targeted immigrants, people of color, sex workers, and other marginalized groups.

00:12:37.000 Such punishments are documented as far back as 1394, when police in England detained Eleanor Reichener on suspicion of the crime of sodomy, exposing her after an interrogation as John.

00:12:47.000 This is not a cultural emergency.

00:12:51.000 What in the actual, what? 0.86

00:12:53.000 So your suggestion is that the New York Times publishing well-researched pieces about the cost of dosing small children or minors with cross-sex hormones and then chopping off their breasts or their penises, that that coverage is somehow equivalent to laws from 1394?

00:13:09.000 And therefore, this is not a public controversy? 0.87

00:13:15.000 And then, of course, they compared this to homosexuality.

00:13:18.000 You no doubt recall a time in more recent history when it was ordinary to speak of homosexuality as a disease at the family dinner table, a norm fostered in part by the New York Times' track record of demonizing queers through the ostensible reporting of science.

00:13:29.000 In 1963, the New York Times published a front page story with the title, Growth of Overt Homosexuality in City Provokes Wide Concern, which stated that homosexuals saw their own sexuality as an inborn incurable disease, one that scientists at the time announced now thought could be cured.

00:13:41.000 The word gay started making its way into the paper.

00:13:44.000 Then in 1970, and it goes on and on, citing a bunch of pieces about the newspapers' coverage of homosexuality, which has literally nothing to do with their coverage of trans issues involving, again, the hormonal perversion and sterilization of minors, followed by surgical removal of healthy body parts.

00:14:08.000 The letter concludes, some of us are trans non-binary or gender non-conforming.

00:14:11.000 We resent the fact that our work, but not our person, is good enough for this paper of record.

00:14:15.000 Some of us are cis, and we have seen those we love discover and fight for their true selves, often swimming upstream against currents of bigotry and pseudoscience fomented by the kind of coverage we hear protest.

00:14:24.000 By the way, Not one scientific fact appears in this open letter.

00:14:28.000 Not one.

00:14:29.000 There's not a study that is cited.

00:14:30.000 There's not data that is cited.

00:14:32.000 Nothing.

00:14:33.000 It's just a foregone conclusion that their perspective is fact, and what the New York Times is promoting, which, by the way, is steeped in science, is actually not even worthy of the debate.

00:14:42.000 All of us dare say our stance is unremarkable, even common, and certainly not deserving of The Times' intense scrutiny.

00:14:47.000 A tiny percentage of the population is trans, an even smaller percentage of those people face the type of conflict The Times is so intense on magnifying.

00:14:52.000 There is no rapt reporting on the thousands of parents who simply love and support their children, or on the hardworking professionals at The New York Times enduring a workplace made hostile by bias, a period of forbearance that ends today.

00:15:03.000 We await your response.

00:15:04.000 Okay, so that is a tacit threat of legal action against The New York Times.

00:15:08.000 So, I feel a conflict.

00:15:10.000 One, the New York Times, its reporting on this has been shockingly decent.

00:15:14.000 Two, the New York Times deserves every iota of this.

00:15:17.000 It deserves every iota.

00:15:18.000 You guys decided to feed, pet, ride, join with the alligator.

00:15:23.000 You were the teeth in the cancel culture alligator, and now the alligator is eating you. 0.70

00:15:28.000 And you guys have it coming.

00:15:30.000 You have it coming.

00:15:31.000 I'm sorry to break it to you.

00:15:32.000 We'll go through some of the signatories in a second because it just shows you how absurd this whole thing is.

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00:16:38.000 Okay, so just a reminder, this letter from the New York Times, it was accompanied by a long thread from the President and CEO of GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

00:16:52.000 I'm glad is, of course, a radical interest group.

00:16:54.000 So radical that they actually put a billboard outside, it's like a mobile billboard on a truck, outside the New York Times.

00:17:00.000 It said, every major medical association supports gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth.

00:17:04.000 The science is settled!

00:17:06.000 Yet the New York Times continues to platform anti-trans activists over medical experts.

00:17:10.000 Dear New York Times, stop questioning trans people's right to exist and access to medical care.

00:17:14.000 Right to exist. 0.77

00:17:15.000 Right to exist is such a Euphemism for nonsense.

00:17:19.000 Trans people exist in the sense that there are people who believe they are members of the opposite sex.

00:17:22.000 This does not mean they are actually members of the opposite sex. 0.99

00:17:25.000 And access to medical care is a hell of a euphemism for chop off breasts and penises and construct fake vaginal canals. 1.00

00:17:31.000 Really, that is access to medical care. 0.99

00:17:33.000 The science is subtle.

00:17:35.000 I mean, if you guys, if you interest groups shout it, obviously it must be true.

00:17:40.000 Sarah Kate Ellis, who's the president and CEO of GLAAD, has an entire thread on this, accompanying the letter.

00:17:44.000 Again, it is a concerted campaign to try to defenestrate the New York Times' coverage of this issue.

00:17:51.000 You gotta silence people.

00:17:52.000 It's important.

00:17:53.000 People need to not know that there's controversy surrounding this issue, so we can continue to pretend that action to protect minors, particularly, or action to protect science itself from this pseudoscientific garbage, that that action is out of bounds.

00:18:07.000 So here's what Sarah Kate Ellis writes.

00:18:09.000 The New York Times has had a long reputation as a leader in the world of media.

00:18:12.000 The example they are setting for coverage of trans people is downright shameful. 0.77

00:18:16.000 From the front page to the opinion page, readers are too often getting an inaccurate view of trans people and issues important to them, with poor reporting that elevates and equates LGBTQ opponents' harmful opinions and concerns to actual facts that have widespread scientific and medical consensus.

00:18:30.000 The Times' inaccurate coverage has been cited in legal documents used to justify discrimination and targeting of trans people.

00:18:36.000 This is chilling.

00:18:37.000 It should give every reader and every leader of the New York Times pause.

00:18:39.000 The LGBTQ community, especially the trans community, is under attack.

00:18:45.000 It's time for the Times to stop this relentless misinformation disguised as disingenuous, just asking questions reporting and ridiculous and harmful opinion pieces that do not represent the reality of trans people's experience.

00:18:56.000 The Times must earn back the LGBTQ community's trust. 0.99

00:19:00.000 They have to earn it back, guys.

00:19:02.000 Start, and this is the demand, start by listening, hiring, and reporting accurately and inclusively on trans people.

00:19:08.000 By accurately and inclusively, they mean only the stuff we want you to report.

00:19:13.000 Which, by the way, is the way that GLAAD operates.

00:19:15.000 You do realize that in Hollywood, it is common practice for every major show to be pre-screened for GLAAD so GLAAD can determine whether it fosters anti-gay stereotypes.

00:19:24.000 This is why GLAAD put out a report after the Super Bowl saying there weren't enough gay characters in the commercials for the Super Bowl.

00:19:31.000 This is the kind of stuff GLAAD does on a daily basis.

00:19:33.000 Anything less than an intentional and meaningful effort to reach out to and listen to transgender experts is unconscionable, unacceptable, a violation of the public trust.

00:19:42.000 So, as I say, I am perfectly happy to see the New York Times take it on the chin.

00:19:47.000 I am pleased, however, that the New York Times is actually fighting back.

00:19:50.000 Charlie Statlander, the director of external communications, put out a statement, quote, we received the open letter delivered by GLAAD and welcome their feedback. We understand how GLAAD and the co-signers of the letter see our coverage. At the same time, we recognize GLAAD's advocacy mission and the Times' journalistic mission are different.

00:20:03.000 As a news organization, we pursue independent reporting on trans issues that include profiling groundbreakers in the movement, challenges and prejudice faced by the community, and how society is grappling with debates about The very news stories criticized in their letter reported deeply and empathetically on issues of care and well-being for trans teens and adults.

00:20:19.000 Our journalism strives to explore, interrogate, and reflect the experiences, ideas, and debates in society to help readers understand them.

00:20:25.000 Our reporting did exactly that and we're proud of it.

00:20:29.000 Good for the New York Times for defending itself.

00:20:32.000 And also, you guys, you had it coming, you had it coming. 0.99

00:20:35.000 You guys decided to feed the Slack idiots, all the people in your Slack channels, all the Nikole Hannah-Joneses in your channels, who thought they were gonna control editorial coverage from the inside. 0.98

00:20:43.000 And now you have a bunch of liberals who are very upset with you for not being left-wing enough, and they are trying to control you from the outside. 0.98

00:20:50.000 By the way, there is irony in some of the people who are signatories to this letter.

00:20:53.000 You have Lena Dunham, who is criticizing The New York Times for being soft on LGBTQ plus minus divided by time issues.

00:21:02.000 This is the same Lena Dunham who bragged in her memoir about essentially sexually harassing her sister. 0.96

00:21:09.000 You have Chelsea Manning as in the trans trader who took government secrets and then blew them out at WikiLeaks, who's a signatory to this letter. 0.95

00:21:18.000 Take that really seriously.

00:21:19.000 And also you have Allison Roman, who criticized Marie Kondo and Chrissy Teigen and talks about her own cancellation and now she's interested in canceling the writers at the New York Times.

00:21:30.000 Well done, everybody.

00:21:31.000 See, here's the thing.

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00:22:45.000 So again, so much of the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, happy face emoji, sad face emoji, cat emoji agenda relies on a conspiracy of silence. 0.96

00:22:55.000 It relies on there not being actual journalism on these issues.

00:22:59.000 It is desperate to promote a censorship campaign.

00:23:02.000 Because the thing is that when you actually look the science directly in the eye, it cuts directly against what they are saying.

00:23:09.000 It's the only way.

00:23:11.000 It's only by ignoring reality that you can come up with the absurd idea that the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, who is in fact a man, has some sort of scientific monopoly talking about whether parents should be able to know whether their child is being quote-unquote socially transitioned at school. 0.93

00:23:28.000 For those who don't speak the idiotic lingo, socially transition means your kid goes to school, expresses gender confusion at the age of seven, and the school immediately starts treating Billy as Jane. 0.92

00:23:39.000 Keeping dresses in the closet so Billy can change into cross-dressing material and then never telling you as a parent. 0.99

00:23:45.000 Rachel Levine, who, again, is a biological dude, is telling you that it is important that you as a parent not know.

00:23:53.000 One example would be the quote-unquote don't-say-gay law in Florida.

00:23:57.000 Studies show that one supportive adult, one supportive adult for an LGBTQI plus kid can make all the difference in terms of preventing suicide, in terms of them being able to navigate the world and to adulthood and leading a happy, successful, productive life.

00:24:17.000 One supportive adult.

00:24:18.000 I'd love if that was always the parent, but it's not always the parent.

00:24:21.000 Frequently it's a teacher, or a guidance counselor, or a coach, or another school personnel.

00:24:27.000 This law forbids kids... Or a random dude at the YMCA. 0.97

00:24:30.000 I mean, it could just be anyone.

00:24:31.000 It could be anyone who's not the parent.

00:24:33.000 Also, it means that if you tell a teacher, the teacher has to tell the parent.

00:24:38.000 You can't tell parents.

00:24:40.000 You shouldn't tell the parents.

00:24:41.000 Says the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.

00:24:43.000 Now, you may think that that's crazy.

00:24:46.000 You might think it's crazy.

00:24:47.000 Because it's crazy.

00:24:49.000 But this is what a science-is-settled crowd is telling you.

00:24:52.000 That your choice is between a dead kid, a kid who's going to commit suicide, and basically the school taking your kid away from you and separating them off from reality and having people like Rachel Levine explain the facts of life to them.

00:25:05.000 I don't trust a system that promotes this sort of stuff.

00:25:07.000 Do you?

00:25:09.000 This is why actual journalism on that would be good.

00:25:11.000 But this is also why the activist class opposes actual journalism on this matter.

00:25:16.000 And this is how you ended up with a widespread public perception, for example, that Leah Thomas in the media, in the sports media, is a woman. 0.50

00:25:22.000 Leah Thomas is a dude.

00:25:23.000 Leah Thomas is a very strong, large male who is defeating women in the pool.

00:25:27.000 And we were told Leah Thomas, he was literally labeled or nominated by the University of Pennsylvania.

00:25:35.000 As a, as a NCAA woman of the year, he was.

00:25:41.000 And any sort of pushback was considered absolutely absurd.

00:25:44.000 You can't, there's no pushback.

00:25:45.000 You're saying Leah Thomas, a male who apparently exposes his genitals to the women in the locker room, that that person should not be in the locker room with women. 0.71

00:25:53.000 That's because of bigotry.

00:25:53.000 You're saying that?

00:25:56.000 Well, the fact is that if the media had done half a second of digging, they might have realized that Leah Thomas has some real problems as a human.

00:26:02.000 And those problems mean that I would not want Leah Thomas anywhere near a locker room with my daughters, with my wife, with women of any sort. 0.99

00:26:10.000 Jake Crane of our show here at Crane & Company, he put out a thread yesterday going through some of the facts about Leah Thomas.

00:26:15.000 So Leah Thomas apparently has a couple of Instagram accounts. 0.53

00:26:19.000 There's a public account called Leah K Thomas, which features some generic photos promoting let trans kids play and all the rest.

00:26:24.000 And then there is a private account, apparently, that is called Leah Timmis.

00:26:29.000 And there is a bunch of stuff in this account that is super disturbing, including multiple Instagram posts liked by Leah Timmis.

00:26:38.000 Who allegedly is Lea Thomas, talking about autogynephilia, which again is one aspect of the trans community you're never allowed to talk about, which is the idea that men are turned on by the idea of themselves as women.

00:26:51.000 And so it's really not about they want to be a woman, it is they are turned on by, it's a sexual fetish essentially.

00:26:58.000 Autogynephilia, which has been written about very well by Helen Joyce in her book Trans, is a male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as female.

00:27:06.000 And Lea Thomas has apparently, allegedly, liked a bunch of posts along these lines.

00:27:12.000 Not only that, Lea Timmis is apparently, allegedly, a member of a polyamorous sex pod. 1.00

00:27:21.000 Lea Timmis apparently is Posting a series of photos or this person's boyfriend slash girlfriend because Leah Thomas's girlfriend is actually a man who says that he is a woman and has the surgeries to prove it.

00:27:37.000 A person named Gwen posted a series of himself.

00:27:41.000 A series of photos of himself and Leah with the caption cherries and scissors.

00:27:47.000 And and then when posted a mysteriously round shaped organ looking item in a clear ball jar.

00:27:52.000 So I mean like.

00:27:56.000 Leah Thomas is a person.

00:27:59.000 That person has some obvious issues.

00:28:01.000 That person should not be in a locker room with women. 1.00

00:28:03.000 I don't know why this is even remotely controversial.

00:28:05.000 But did the media do any of this digging before declaring Leah Thomas the woman of the year?

00:28:09.000 Of course not.

00:28:10.000 Because silence is the conspiracy.

00:28:10.000 Of course not.

00:28:13.000 Silence is the conspiracy.

00:28:14.000 This is true, by the way, throughout the entire quote-unquote scientific community.

00:28:19.000 Because science has spoken.

00:28:20.000 Perfect example of this on a slightly different issue.

00:28:23.000 So yesterday, CBS News reported that young people had been dying of an elevated rate of heart attack.

00:28:27.000 Here is how CBS News reported that story.

00:28:31.000 Cedars-Sinai Hospital, the number of heart attack deaths among 25 to 44 year olds in the U.S.

00:28:36.000 over the first two years of the pandemic, was 30% higher than predicted.

00:28:41.000 What stood out to you in this study?

00:28:43.000 I think the fact that you're seeing such a big increase specifically in the youngest age group, so the 25 to 44 year olds, you saw this 30% increase in the risk of death from heart attack.

00:28:54.000 And that really is quite striking.

00:28:56.000 That's not a group, an age group in which you normally see heart attacks, much less dying from a heart attack.

00:29:03.000 So CBS News tried to claim that this is because of COVID.

00:29:06.000 It is because young people have gotten COVID, now they're dying of heart attacks.

00:29:09.000 Alternatively, a possible cause could be the fact that an enormous number of young adults took the vaccines, particularly the Moderna vaccine, which has now been paused in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland for use in young people.

00:29:24.000 But that's not the kind of stuff that CBS News is going to report, because again, it cuts against the narrative.

00:29:28.000 The conspiracy of silence is the way things get done, and so when the New York Times breaks the silence, the New York Times has to obviously be clubbed about the ears for all of that.

00:29:35.000 Okay, meanwhile, Nikki Haley launched her official campaign yesterday. 0.99

00:29:40.000 She put out a campaign launch video a couple of days ago, but she officially launched her campaign with a big speech yesterday. 0.55

00:29:44.000 It was kind of fascinating for a couple of reasons.

00:29:46.000 There's some really interesting things about Nikki Haley's candidacy.

00:29:49.000 First, Nikki Haley is in fact running on a partially anti-woke agenda. 1.00

00:29:55.000 She is saying, for example, America is not a racist country, which, you know, used to be, I thought, sort of the road idea in the United States until Joe Biden declared that America is a systemically racist country.

00:30:05.000 But if this is going to be the battle, I think it's a battle that Republicans can win.

00:30:08.000 Here was Nikki Haley yesterday. 1.00

00:30:10.000 We must stop socialism before it's too late.

00:30:13.000 It's weakening America from within.

00:30:16.000 But there's something else that's eating away at our national core.

00:30:21.000 On Biden and Harris's watch, a self-loathing has swept our country.

00:30:27.000 It's in the classroom, the boardroom, and the backrooms of government.

00:30:31.000 Every day we're told America is flawed, rotten, and full of hate. 0.95

00:30:36.000 Joe and Kamala even say America's racist. 0.97

00:30:39.000 Nothing could be further from the truth.

00:30:42.000 The American people know better.

00:30:44.000 My immigrant parents know better.

00:30:47.000 And take it from me, the first minority female governor in history. 0.99

00:30:53.000 America is not a racist country!

00:30:58.000 No, naturally, this is prompting some people to claim that she is running, quote unquote, as a minority.

00:31:03.000 OK, that is not the reason why Nikki Haley is running. 0.82

00:31:05.000 Nikki Haley is running because Nikki Haley, like many politicians, would like to be president of the United States. 0.99

00:31:10.000 And her main pitch is actually the opposite of the affirmative action pitch.

00:31:12.000 It is I'm nothing special because I'm a minority, because I live in the United States of America where anyone can rise to the top, which.

00:31:17.000 Happens to be true. 0.64

00:31:19.000 Now, the thing that made a lot of headlines yesterday was her tacit slap at both Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the issue of age.

00:31:24.000 And this is smart play by Nikki Haley.

00:31:26.000 It is because I think most Americans look at the age of Joe Biden and they say, we do not need a president who is 80 years of age right now.

00:31:34.000 And by the way, we do not need a president in Donald Trump, who is currently 76 years of age.

00:31:40.000 And who after the election of 2024 would presumably be closer to 78 years of age, meaning that he would be in office in his in his early 80s, 82, 83 years old.

00:31:52.000 So here's Nikki Haley saying what I think a lot of people think, which is maybe we ought to have some mental competency tests for the elderly before we make them president of the United States.

00:32:01.000 When America is distracted, the world is less safe.

00:32:04.000 And today our enemies think that the American era has passed.

00:32:09.000 They're wrong.

00:32:11.000 America is not past our prime.

00:32:13.000 It's just that our politicians are past theirs.

00:32:17.000 In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire.

00:32:22.000 We'll have term limits for Congress. 0.98

00:32:25.000 And mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.

00:32:37.000 Thank you.

00:32:38.000 Thank you.

00:32:40.000 So that of course made a lot of headlines because everybody can read the tea leaves.

00:32:43.000 Donald Trump is currently 76 years old and so she's essentially saying you're too old to be president of the United States.

00:32:48.000 Now again, one of the things that I find really fascinating about Haley's candidacy is not her candidacy nearly as much as the media reaction to her candidacy.

00:32:55.000 As I said yesterday, If you're the media and supposedly Donald Trump is the root of all evil, wouldn't you be eager?

00:33:00.000 You keep saying things like, we need two viable parties and Donald Trump is Hitler and we need to get rid of this guy.

00:33:04.000 The minute that somebody actively declares a candidacy against Donald Trump, your first move is to label her Trump.

00:33:11.000 So S.E.

00:33:11.000 Cupp over at CNN, she says, yeah, Nikki Haley, she sounds exactly like Trump.

00:33:15.000 In what way does Nikki Haley sound like Donald Trump?

00:33:17.000 I mean, I'm really going to need a chart here or something.

00:33:21.000 This seems pretty messy.

00:33:23.000 I mean, how is this a straightforward argument as she enters this race? 0.99

00:33:30.000 No, her messaging over the past few years has been very contradictory, not just about Trump, but about January 6th, about wokeism, about Confederate flags.

00:33:42.000 She's going to really have to reconcile the messiness of her positions when she's challenged for the first time by an aggressive press. 0.87

00:33:52.000 She'll have to explain why being generationally new is actually new in terms of policy.

00:34:00.000 Because to me, she sounded a lot like Trumpism, just with, you know, bigger words.

00:34:10.000 Well, she sounds like Trumpism. 1.00

00:34:11.000 Everybody is Trump, guys.

00:34:12.000 Remember, I told you this years ago.

00:34:14.000 The minute that Donald Trump was off the scene, the first move would be whoever succeeds Donald Trump is just like Donald Trump.

00:34:19.000 The most absurd response to all of this, by the way, is after Nikki Haley suggested that people over the age of 75 should have a mental competency test before we elect them president of the United States, Don Lemon of CNN, he immediately suggested that she's not in her prime.

00:34:31.000 Now, if this was said by literally any other host on TV, we would recognize this for what it is, which is sexism.

00:34:37.000 Nikki Haley is 51 years old.

00:34:40.000 Nikki Haley is not over the hill.

00:34:42.000 Nikki Haley is not even remotely in the elderly category in the United States.

00:34:47.000 She is 51 years old.

00:34:48.000 Here is Don Lemon suggesting that she is not in her prime.

00:34:51.000 By the way, Don Lemon is currently 56 years of age.

00:34:56.000 Nikki Haley isn't in her prime. 1.00

00:34:57.000 Sorry.

00:34:58.000 When a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.

00:35:03.000 That's not according to me.

00:35:04.000 Prime for what?

00:35:05.000 It depends.

00:35:06.000 It's just like prime.

00:35:07.000 If you look it up, if you Google when is a woman in her prime, it'll say 20s, 30s and 40s. 0.99

00:35:13.000 I don't necessarily agree with that.

00:35:16.000 So I think she has to be careful about saying that, you know, politicians aren't in their prime.

00:35:21.000 I think we need to qualify.

00:35:22.000 Are you talking about prime for like childbearing?

00:35:23.000 Don't shoot the message where I'm just saying what the facts are.

00:35:27.000 Google it.

00:35:28.000 Everybody at home, when is a woman in her prime? 1.00

00:35:30.000 It says 20s, 30s and 40s.

00:35:31.000 And I'm just saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn't be in her prime according to Google. 1.00

00:35:41.000 Gilgol or whatever it is.

00:35:42.000 What an absurd human being Don Lemon is. 1.00

00:35:44.000 What an absurd, ridiculous, and sexist human being Don Lemon is. 1.00

00:35:47.000 Obviously, we're talking about political prime. 1.00

00:35:49.000 51 is very, very young in political terms.

00:35:52.000 We currently have a couple of octogenarians running for president of the United States.

00:35:57.000 And Don Lemon is saying 51 isn't in your prime politically?

00:36:02.000 Yes, there is a difference, I would assume, between your sexual prime and your political Or your childbearing prime and your political.

00:36:08.000 That is like the most sexist thing I've seen a mainstream host say on national TV. 0.97

00:36:12.000 And she can go, like, people are just going to ignore it because Don Lemon is gay and black. 0.89

00:36:15.000 And therefore, we have to pretend that everything that he says is decent and OK. 0.89

00:36:19.000 But literally any other host says that.

00:36:21.000 Like if somebody said, You know, Kamala Harris is not in her prime. 1.00

00:36:24.000 Kamala Harris.

00:36:25.000 You know how we know that she's not in her prime? 1.00

00:36:26.000 Because Kamala Harris, I mean, by age, Kamala Harris right now is 58 years old.

00:36:29.000 She's seven years older than Nikki Haley.

00:36:32.000 And you know, if you Google it, woman in an intersexual prime at 58. 1.00

00:36:35.000 She ain't.

00:36:36.000 So Kamala Harris, if I said that, boycotts galore. 1.00

00:36:39.000 Don Lemon says that sort of thing on CNN.

00:36:41.000 Well, you know, he is Don Lemon, so I guess it's...

00:36:43.000 Unbelievable stuff there from the journalismers over at CNN.

00:36:47.000 OK, in just a second, we'll talk about the vulnerability of the Biden administration in 2024, but really the vulnerability of the United States because of Joe Biden's policies, because on the economic level, there's a new report that came out yesterday.

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00:39:01.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden's economic agenda is a complete fail.

00:39:04.000 So, U.S.

00:39:05.000 retail sales apparently rebounded sharply in January.

00:39:08.000 The PPI rose dramatically.

00:39:10.000 Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, the consumer roared back last month with a 3% increase in retail spending.

00:39:15.000 It was the largest monthly gain in nearly two years, adding to evidence that U.S.

00:39:18.000 economic growth picked up at the start of the year.

00:39:20.000 The seasonally adjusted jump in U.S.

00:39:22.000 retail sales in January from December, which the Commerce Department reported on Wednesday, followed declines in the final two months of 2022 as shoppers spent more on vehicles, furniture, clothing, and eating out.

00:39:32.000 Hey, now there is a problem with this, which is that the wholesale prices rose 0.7% in January, more than expected, fueling another inflation increase.

00:39:40.000 Core PPI increased 0.5% compared to expectations for a 0.3% increase.

00:39:45.000 And this is all because the Federal Reserve blew too much money into the economy and because Joe Biden's entire political agenda is blowing money into the economy.

00:39:52.000 And so inflation is absolutely crushing consumers, which is why I have an article in the Wall Street Journal titled, To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast.

00:40:00.000 I think this should be the campaign slogan for Joe Biden 2024.

00:40:03.000 Joe Biden 2024 skip breakfast.

00:40:06.000 This is not a good pitch.

00:40:08.000 Several breakfast staples saw sharp price increases due to a perfect storm of bad weather and disease outbreaks and continued effects from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

00:40:15.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, egg prices increased 8.5% in January from a month earlier.

00:40:20.000 They're up 70% over the past year.

00:40:22.000 That is the highest annual rate since 1973.

00:40:26.000 Frozen non-carbonated juices and drinks, that includes frozen orange juice, rose by 1.5% in January from a month earlier.

00:40:32.000 That is a 12.4% annual increase.

00:40:34.000 That is the highest in a decade.

00:40:36.000 Breakfast cereal increased more modestly, but prices in the category were up 15% over the course of the last year.

00:40:43.000 Prices for roasted coffee declined by 0.1% last month.

00:40:46.000 Instant coffee rose by 3.6% monthly increase.

00:40:49.000 So again, the cost on everything is going up.

00:40:51.000 And while the inflation is continuing to ratchet up, The amount of money that Joe Biden has added to the national debt is absolutely astonishing.

00:40:59.000 It is astonishing.

00:41:01.000 The Congressional Budget Office released figures on Wednesday that should scare the living hell out of anyone who assumes that the future of the United States should last for more than about another decade.

00:41:09.000 According to the New York Times, the United States is on track to add nearly $19 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

00:41:17.000 $19 trillion over the course of the next decade.

00:41:20.000 Okay, just to put this in perspective, What this means is that if you exclude 2020 and 2021, which were the years of the pandemic, really should exclude 2020 but not 2021 because by 2021, again, the vaccines were already widely available, people should have been getting back to work, and all of the bailouts under Joe Biden were completely counterproductive.

00:41:40.000 Every single deficit for the next 10 years is larger than any year's deficit in American history.

00:41:49.000 That is, at least since the end of the Nixon administration.

00:41:53.000 These are astonishing numbers.

00:41:54.000 We are going to go from about $31 trillion national debt to $50 trillion national debt over the course of the next decade.

00:42:01.000 That is for sure an underestimate, by the way.

00:42:04.000 The new forecast projects a $1.4 trillion gap this year between what the government spent and what it takes in from tax revenues.

00:42:09.000 Remember, Joe Biden's out there lying to you that he brought down the deficit.

00:42:12.000 By brought down the deficit, he means we spent more money than any time in human history two years ago, and then we spent second most amount of money the following year.

00:42:19.000 But because it was the second most, that was a reduction from the first most.

00:42:23.000 To put those numbers in context, the total amount of debt held by the public will equal the total annual output of the United States economy in 2024.

00:42:31.000 That rises to 118% of the economy by 2033.

00:42:34.000 So in other words, if we had to pay off our debt all at once, thank God we don't, that would take the entirety of the American economy.

00:42:42.000 Congress's nonpartisan budget scorekeeper now projects that the U.S.

00:42:44.000 economy will barely grow this year at all, after adjusting for inflation.

00:42:48.000 That unemployment will rise above 5% before growth re-accelerates next year.

00:42:52.000 It attributes the slowdown in growth to the Federal Reserve's campaign to tame inflation by raising those interest rates again.

00:42:56.000 Inflation remains extraordinarily high.

00:42:58.000 As we mentioned yesterday, 6.4% annualized inflation rate in January follows.

00:43:02.000 Over the previous year, a 7.5% inflation rate.

00:43:06.000 So that means over the course of the last couple of years, you're talking about a 12-13% inflation rate.

00:43:11.000 The updated projections could supercharge a partisan debate between Biden and Republicans over taxes, spending, and the nation's debt limit.

00:43:19.000 And Joe Biden is lying to you when he says that he is fiscally responsible.

00:43:21.000 He's the least fiscally responsible president in American history.

00:43:24.000 He makes Barack Obama look like Bill Clinton.

00:43:27.000 And it is an amazing, amazing thing.

00:43:29.000 The CBO says, quote, if the debt limit is not raised or suspended before the extraordinary measures are exhausted, the government would be unable to pay its obligations.

00:43:35.000 But here's the reality.

00:43:36.000 If we don't long-term restructure our debt, we are going to have much bigger problems in our future.

00:43:40.000 Prediction right now.

00:43:41.000 Mark it down.

00:43:43.000 February 16, 2023, we'll have much bigger problems in our future.

00:43:46.000 Everyone will keep kicking the can down the road on this thing.

00:43:50.000 Newly enacted legislation in the past nine months alone adds about $1.5 trillion to cumulative deficits over the next decade, according to the Budget Office.

00:43:56.000 More than half of that increase comes from a single law, an expansion of health care benefits for military veterans who are exposed to toxic burn pits.

00:44:03.000 That passed overwhelmingly in both the House and the Senate.

00:44:07.000 Now, again, this effectively presumes that literally any American service member stationed in a combat zone for 32 years could have been exposed to a burn pit.

00:44:15.000 Which, I'm sorry, it sounds great and it's a bad law.

00:44:19.000 I also would like to have recompense for people who are exposed to toxic burn pits.

00:44:23.000 That is not every member of the military for the last 32 years.

00:44:27.000 Apparently, Joe Biden continues to claim that he is being fiscally responsible.

00:44:32.000 And of course, he's got his priorities straight.

00:44:34.000 Where is he putting his priorities?

00:44:34.000 Where is he?

00:44:35.000 Well, not on anything remotely like fiscal responsibility.

00:44:37.000 He says we need to build some electric charging stations.

00:44:39.000 Of course, you can't afford your eggs, but he thinks that you're going to replace your gas guzzler, your Toyota Corolla from 2007.

00:44:46.000 He thinks you're going to replace that like right now with a Tesla, which costs you $75,000 to $100,000.

00:44:52.000 Here's Joe Biden talking about electric vehicle charging stations.

00:44:56.000 This is going to have a major impact on the environment, what we're doing.

00:44:59.000 Specifically reducing carbon in the air as we begin to move these 500,000 charging stations around the world.

00:45:06.000 I mean, around the country.

00:45:08.000 And all of this is going to take millions of barrels of oil off the road.

00:45:15.000 Oh, the priorities.

00:45:16.000 Oh, the priorities.

00:45:17.000 Such wonderful priorities.

00:45:19.000 from the President of the United States.

00:45:21.000 So, we're only destroying the American economy for the next several decades.

00:45:24.000 There will come a point, by the way, where people stop buying our debt.

00:45:26.000 The only reason that people keep buying our debt is because we are still the least bad bet.

00:45:30.000 But there will come a point where some country gets wise, lowers its corporate tax rate to 7% instead of 15%, and starts eating our lunch.

00:45:37.000 It doesn't take a big country to do that, by the way.

00:45:40.000 Companies will just reshore.

00:45:41.000 They will take their money and they will put it in less regulated, less taxed systems.

00:45:46.000 And then, we're screwed.

00:45:48.000 That's really all it takes. 0.56

00:45:50.000 We're very lucky because it turns out that everybody is more socialistic than we are.

00:45:53.000 That doesn't mean that we are not increasingly socialistic in this country in terms of regulation, redistribution of income, nationalization of industry, and all the rest.

00:46:02.000 Meanwhile, the incompetence that just infects every aspect of the Biden administration we just talked about yesterday continues.

00:46:08.000 So you'll recall that the EPA, they blew up a train filled with toxic chemicals.

00:46:13.000 This was their solution.

00:46:15.000 And then they said, well, you know, it's okay.

00:46:16.000 You can still drink the water.

00:46:17.000 They said that for like five minutes.

00:46:18.000 And then the dead fish started popping up everywhere.

00:46:20.000 There was a video yesterday of what it looked like when dead fish started arriving on the shores of East Palestine, Ohio.

00:46:27.000 The EPA does say that the area well and groundwater are safe.

00:46:32.000 However, after this couple saw dead fish in this creek that you're looking at, they're deciding to not take any chances.

00:46:40.000 Oh, there was hundreds.

00:46:44.000 Russell Murphy is referring to the fish now belly up in Leslie Run.

00:46:49.000 He and his wife noticed them last night, barely 48 hours after the fiery derailment five miles away.

00:46:56.000 You know, is this stuff safe to drink?

00:46:57.000 At today's press conference, the EPA says it's safe.

00:47:01.000 We have been able to successfully control that runoff and contain the water and either treat it in place along with a robust sampling program for the water quality and we continue to expand that and that will continue throughout this operation.

00:47:19.000 Good thing Peabody judges focus laser-like on all the things that matter.

00:47:22.000 Too many white people on construction crews. 1.00

00:47:24.000 He apparently, according to Politico, is drawing newfound criticism from both sides of the aisle.

00:47:28.000 His response has been to blame everybody else.

00:47:31.000 He says, glad to see a new found bipartisan agreement here.

00:47:33.000 We could start by discussing immediate steps Congress could take to address rail safety and reduce constraints on the Department of Transportation in this area.

00:47:39.000 Give us a call.

00:47:40.000 We can do some good work.

00:47:41.000 Um, or theoretically you could do your job.

00:47:45.000 Representative guy, Wrench and Taylor.

00:47:50.000 Even Rashida Tlaib was sounding off on this thing.

00:47:51.000 dispute radical Green New Deal talking points, but when a train derailment causes one of the worst environmental disasters in history, he is silent for 10 days.

00:47:57.000 That is correct.

00:47:58.000 Even Rashida Tlaib was sounding off on this thing.

00:48:01.000 Because apparently she Googled Palestine and up came East Palestine.

00:48:03.000 Well, I have a question.

00:48:04.000 What has he done that's good?

00:48:05.000 Can anyone name a thing that Pete Buttigieg has done that's good?

00:48:08.000 You know, related to transportation.

00:48:09.000 Anyone?

00:48:09.000 Bueller, anything?

00:48:09.000 has burned off hazardous chemicals and fumes linked to cancer that are toxic to this community and our environment.

00:48:14.000 Secretary Pete must ensure this never happens again.

00:48:16.000 Well, I have a question.

00:48:17.000 What has he done that's good?

00:48:18.000 Can anyone name a thing that people who just has done this good, you know, related to transportation?

00:48:22.000 Anyone Bueller anything?

00:48:24.000 No.

00:48:25.000 Um, yeah, I, I don't, I don't think so.

00:48:29.000 I think that he was, again, a diversity hire, and diversity hires don't tend to do a very good job.

00:48:35.000 Speaking of incompetent government employees, there is a woman named Karen Decker, and she became an issue on the interwebs yesterday. 0.75

00:48:42.000 And the reason for this is because she is the charge d'affaires To the U.S.

00:48:47.000 mission in Afghanistan, which means she's now stationed not in Afghanistan because the place is run by the Taliban since Joe Biden decided to turn over the entire country to 8th century barbarians, again, a bunch of American soldiers killed in the process while lying to the American people as Afghans fell off of American wheel wells. 0.53

00:49:02.000 Well, now she's doing the important stuff.

00:49:04.000 She's doing the really important stuff, you know, the important work.

00:49:07.000 So right now you have 19 million Afghan women who are living under the repressive tyranny of one of the world's worst regimes. 0.97

00:49:14.000 But she is tweeting out the things that matter.

00:49:16.000 Here's what she tweeted out, February 15th, 2023, quote, Are Afghans familiar with hashtag Black Girl Magic and the movement it inspired?

00:49:24.000 Do Afghan girls need a similar movement? 1.00

00:49:26.000 What about Afghan women? 1.00

00:49:27.000 Teach me, ready to learn.

00:49:29.000 Hashtag Black History Month, at Beyonce, at Lizzo, at Regina King.

00:49:36.000 They can't go to school because we pulled out under your president. 0.62

00:49:40.000 And you are wondering if Afghan women know anything about Black Girl Magic?

00:49:48.000 It didn't stop there.

00:49:49.000 Could you possibly be more disconnected?

00:49:51.000 who happened to be black, made history in epic showdown.

00:49:53.000 Congrats to Chiefs for thrilling victory.

00:49:56.000 Afghan, what's the most exciting sports match you remember?

00:49:59.000 Hashtag Black History Month. 0.73

00:50:00.000 Could you possibly be more disconnected?

00:50:03.000 The most exciting sporting match that Afghans remember is that time that the Taliban played polo with a goat head. 1.00

00:50:10.000 That's like the most important sporting, or the time that the Taliban went to a sports arena and shot an adulterer in the head. 0.84

00:50:16.000 Or whipped a woman for not wearing her burqa properly.

00:50:19.000 That's the most exciting, like, the disconnect between the elite class who've been staffing the State Department for the last 30 years.

00:50:26.000 This lady's a career staffer at the State Department. 1.00

00:50:28.000 And actual situations on the ground. 0.99

00:50:30.000 And it's like this, like the whole month, the whole month she's been tweeting this crap. 0.96

00:50:34.000 Quote, Abe Lincoln, born today in 1809. 0.96

00:50:36.000 He did some stuff.

00:50:38.000 It's also NAACP day, home of grassroots activism, inclusive communities and making sure black voices are heard.

00:50:43.000 What does that look like for Afghans struggling to be heard?

00:50:45.000 Hashtag Black History Month at NAACP at Lincoln's Cottage.

00:50:49.000 It's good to know that Abe Lincoln did some stuff.

00:50:51.000 Also, what does it look like?

00:50:54.000 Grassroots activism? 0.96

00:50:55.000 Well, it looks like you get shot in the face.

00:50:57.000 That's what it looks like in Afghanistan. 0.99

00:50:59.000 Because the President of the United States, like a coward, cut and ran from Afghanistan and let a bunch of people take our military hardware on the ground. 0.97

00:51:08.000 That would be it. 0.97

00:51:09.000 Again, it's just like all of this.

00:51:10.000 International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

00:51:13.000 You go, Dr. Mae Jemison, also Alice Ball, and then a bunch of names.

00:51:16.000 The Afghan Girls Robotics Team.

00:51:18.000 Does that still exist?

00:51:18.000 The Afghan Girls Robotics Team?

00:51:20.000 I do not.

00:51:21.000 I do not think so.

00:51:22.000 I don't think so.

00:51:22.000 Charged Affair, Karen Decker.

00:51:24.000 Slow clap for these career employees over at the Deep State.

00:51:27.000 I ran up against the tweet limit.

00:51:28.000 She says, not the list of names.

00:51:30.000 Afghan women are being denied the chance to study science.

00:51:32.000 What kind of scientists does Afghanistan need? 1.00

00:51:34.000 Hashtag Black History Month. 0.73

00:51:35.000 Hashtag let Afghan girls learn well. 0.99

00:51:37.000 I mean, if you hashtagged it, it's going to happen, clearly.

00:51:40.000 What kind of scientists does Afghanistan need? 1.00

00:51:43.000 Maybe just any science.

00:51:45.000 Like any of it.

00:51:47.000 That would be good.

00:51:48.000 Since it is now a primitive barbaric backwater.

00:51:51.000 Maybe you'd be.

00:51:53.000 These these geniuses.

00:51:55.000 A heartfelt thank you to all the women and men who never gave up on voting rights for all Americans.

00:51:58.000 And a question for Afghans.

00:52:00.000 Where do you see the power of perseverance at work?

00:52:02.000 Hashtag Black History Month. 0.73

00:52:03.000 Where do Afghans see the power of perseverance? 1.00

00:52:05.000 Not in America, they don't.

00:52:07.000 Since we abandoned them to their fate.

00:52:09.000 This is the charged affair for the U.S.

00:52:11.000 ambassador in Kabul.

00:52:13.000 Just amazing, amazing stuff.

00:52:15.000 Amazing stuff.

00:52:16.000 So, these are the people who run your government.

00:52:18.000 Genius level material there.

00:52:20.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like and then we'll do some things that I hate.

00:52:22.000 So, things I like.

00:52:23.000 I like clarity.

00:52:24.000 I do enjoy clarity.

00:52:25.000 And so, it makes me happy when reality occurs.

00:52:29.000 And so, you are seeing this in California where, you know, after I led an exodus from California in which I parted the waters of the Colorado River and led forth a journeying assemblage into the wilderness and ended up in the promised land of Florida.

00:52:41.000 It turns out I wasn't the only one.

00:52:42.000 According to the LA Times, the California exodus has shown no sign of slowing down as the state's population dropped by more than 500,000 people between April 2020 and July 2022, with the number of residents leaving surpassing those moving in by nearly 700,000.

00:52:55.000 Woo! 0.99

00:52:58.000 That is a big number.

00:53:00.000 That population decrease was second only to New York, which lost about 15,000 more people than California, according to census data.

00:53:06.000 Yeah, they say that they are doing an amazing job, and then everyone is leaving.

00:53:09.000 Everyone who has money is leaving.

00:53:10.000 If you can afford to get out, you're getting out.

00:53:12.000 When I talk to my friends from California, the question for them isn't, do you want to leave?

00:53:15.000 It's, can I afford to leave?

00:53:17.000 Right?

00:53:18.000 Meaning I have a bunch of assets tied up here.

00:53:19.000 My business is still here.

00:53:20.000 I have family here.

00:53:21.000 No one is like, man, California is just doing amazing.

00:53:24.000 California is in great shape.

00:53:27.000 Not seeing a lot of that.

00:53:27.000 So, good for people for getting the hell out of California.

00:53:30.000 I welcome you to your new homeland of Florida as long as you leave the California values behind.

00:53:35.000 And meanwhile, again, I like clarity.

00:53:37.000 And this is why I really do appreciate the South Dakota State House of Representative District 10 representative, a person named Aaron Healy.

00:53:45.000 I really like this.

00:53:46.000 She tweeted out, quote, extremist group Family Heritage Alliance said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad.

00:53:54.000 What a dangerous and un-American belief.

00:53:58.000 Just to get this completely solid, it is a dangerous un-American belief to say the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad.

00:54:08.000 I urge all Democrats to run on this slogan.

00:54:10.000 Now, by the way, Democrats, largely in the elite class, believe this.

00:54:14.000 Not the rank-and-file Democrats.

00:54:15.000 Rank-and-file Democrats don't believe for a second what Aaron Healy is saying.

00:54:18.000 In fact, very few sane people believe that the safest place for a child is not in the home of a married mom and dad.

00:54:25.000 The best place for them is in a place with two dads, two moms, just a mom, just a dad, random relatives, the school system.

00:54:34.000 Married mom and dad has been the basis of child raising for literally thousands of years and is in fact the safest place because mom provides comfort and dad provides security and that is the basic bargain.

00:54:42.000 But the fact that this has become controversial, dangerous and un-American. 0.66

00:54:45.000 See, this is the thing.

00:54:46.000 People who are hardcore social leftists, they do believe it's un-American because their version of America is a libertine America in which transgression of social norms is the freedom that is promised to you.

00:54:56.000 The freedom for you is not the freedom of owning property in your own name, for example, and then dispensing with that property as you see fit.

00:55:05.000 It's not the freedom to raise your family within the boundaries of social of social institutions like the family.

00:55:12.000 True freedom is blowing up all those institutions.

00:55:14.000 Most American thing is destroying the family. 0.98

00:55:16.000 It is the most American thing that just happens to cross streams with the most extreme forms of Marxism.

00:55:20.000 But sure, it's the most American thing.

00:55:22.000 And so, you know, I really do appreciate when people show you who they are.

00:55:24.000 So thanks to Representative Aaron Healy on that one.

00:55:28.000 Also, people showing who they are.

00:55:29.000 So Chelsea Handler cannot let this thing go.

00:55:32.000 So we've talked about Chelsea Handler the last couple of days because again, she started it.

00:55:35.000 No one was talking about Chelsea Handler until Chelsea Handler decided that she was going to basically go online and put out a video talking about how wonderful it was not to have kids and how happy she is not to have kids.

00:55:47.000 And some of us looked at that and went, you don't look that happy.

00:55:49.000 And the life you're describing doesn't sound that happy.

00:55:51.000 And trying to model that behavior for young women and pretend that this is the height of human happiness is a lie. 0.96

00:55:56.000 And then Chelsea Handler responded to that, and then some of us responded to that.

00:55:59.000 So Chelsea Handler is neglecting the first rule of holes, which is to stop digging. 1.00

00:56:03.000 When you say that the height of human happiness is eating an edible at 6 a.m., going back to sleep and masturbating, and then getting up and drinking a lot of wine and doing Xanax, I gotta say, that doesn't sound like happiness to me.

00:56:16.000 But we've noted that.

00:56:16.000 Some of us have noted this.

00:56:17.000 Tucker noted this.

00:56:19.000 I've noted this.

00:56:20.000 A lot of us on the right have noted that Chelsea Helmer doesn't seem like a particular model of female happiness.

00:56:26.000 She's very angry about that.

00:56:27.000 But she's happy.

00:56:28.000 She's not angry.

00:56:29.000 She's not upset.

00:56:29.000 She's happy.

00:56:31.000 But let her tell you how happy she is.

00:56:33.000 Hold a day in the life of a childless woman. 0.73

00:56:35.000 The point is to make you feel good about being an aging, deeply unlikable woman who never had kids. 0.98

00:56:42.000 Narcissism, it makes you happy. 0.94

00:56:44.000 Feminists like Chelsea Handler, they've been lied to by their society forever. 1.00

00:56:48.000 This lady is miserable. 1.00

00:56:49.000 You're a boss and you can do anything a man can do, which everyone who's ever seen a woman back up a vehicle knows that's not true. 1.00

00:56:55.000 Your womb resembles a dried up tumbleweed blowing down an old Western town and your Valentine's Day date for the 10th year in a row is a 10 year old copy of Magic Mike and a half full bottle of Xanax and you're trying to pretend like you're happy, but you're not happy. 0.99

00:57:10.000 This lady is miserable. 1.00

00:57:11.000 I mean, she is miserable and it's written all over her face how miserable she is. 0.99

00:57:18.000 I woke up this morning, well, more like this afternoon, and noticed that there was an emergency meeting of the Receding Hairline Society to discuss a comedy video I filmed about not wanting kids. 0.63

00:57:30.000 Wow.

00:57:31.000 Why would I even need my own children when I get to hear these crybabies all the time?

00:57:36.000 I mean, I can't believe that bearded version of Tucker Carlson thinks I would take a half a bottle of Xanax. 1.00

00:57:43.000 I'd take way more than that, you silly goose. 0.97

00:57:45.000 Look, I don't want to debate whether or not I'm a girl boss, although I did just look at my bank account and think, that's pretty girl boss. 0.96

00:57:52.000 And then I thought about the 10 different people, plus, 10 plus different people I've been able to put through college.

00:57:58.000 And then I remembered my six New York Times best-selling books.

00:58:02.000 Or was it five?

00:58:03.000 Oh, no, no, no, it was six.

00:58:05.000 And then I remember my recent stand-up special that was just released on Netflix called Revolution, and I thought, yeah, you are a girl boss. 1.00

00:58:12.000 You guys seemed so triggered by me.

00:58:14.000 I mean, my goodness, Tucker, I think it is time for you to ask yourself a serious question.

00:58:20.000 Are you really upset about how much freedom I have?

00:58:23.000 Or are you upset that you haven't been able to take it away from me yet?

00:58:27.000 Oh, and quick shout out to Ben Shapiro.

00:58:29.000 Thank you for helping my cause of not having children.

00:58:32.000 Who needs the birth control pill when your voice is 100% effective? 0.97

00:58:36.000 I don't need a husband, Ben, because I'm in a relationship with myself.

00:58:40.000 And at least in my relationship, someone can get a woman to come. 1.00

00:58:43.000 And by all means, Tucker, if you want to respond to my triggers, I will be happy to keep putting out videos as long as you want. 0.99

00:58:51.000 I think we both know that you are hate masturbating to me. 0.99

00:58:56.000 And I'm down with that. 1.00

00:59:00.000 She is, uh, wow.

00:59:01.000 Try and convince yourself that she's happy.

00:59:03.000 I'm not even gonna bother responding to Chelsea Handler's specific commentary on my voice or sexual aptitude, um, because why would I?

00:59:12.000 I will just note the final results here.

00:59:14.000 Happily married for nearly 15 years.

00:59:16.000 My wife is currently pregnant with our fourth child.

00:59:18.000 She's a single 47-year-old woman who drowns her sorrows in enormous barrels of wine. 1.00

00:59:24.000 Again, the proof is in the pudding.

00:59:26.000 And she is a very unhappy person who just keeps going online to post cringe about how happy she is.

00:59:31.000 See, here's the thing about happy people.

00:59:34.000 They don't spend their whole life telling you how happy they are while their eyes tell you a different story.

00:59:40.000 And that is Chelsea Handler in a nutshell.

00:59:41.000 She is so happy, guys.

00:59:43.000 She's so happy.

00:59:43.000 She's really, really, really happy.

00:59:47.000 She's happy.

00:59:49.000 Sure.

00:59:50.000 Alrighty, guys.

00:59:51.000 The rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:59:52.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:59:53.000 We will be getting into Klaus Schwab and company.

00:59:55.000 They've been suggesting it's time for some global government.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 16, 2023

The LGBTQ+-&$# Cancellers Come For The New York Times | Ep. 1670

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