The Ben Shapiro Show - The Republican Dolts’ Caucus | Ep. 1284

00:00:00.000 Five Senate Republicans play the willing suckers for Joe Biden's big infrastructure plan.

00:00:04.000 And Biden continues to frighten everyone with bizarre public performances as Kamala Harris waits in the wings.

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00:01:37.000 So yesterday afternoon, Joe Biden came out and announced a deal had been reached on infrastructure.

00:01:43.000 Yay! 0.99

00:01:43.000 Okay. 0.99

00:01:44.000 First of all, let me just note, America's infrastructure is not in serious trouble.

00:01:48.000 The notion that America's infrastructure is just awful and bad in every way, and it's just horrifying, it's not true.

00:01:54.000 The vast majority of America's roads and bridges are pretty okay.

00:01:58.000 And the vast majority of the ones that are really not doing well are ones that are in particular states, which means they really should be state costs, not federal costs.

00:02:05.000 Like the notion that we have much worse infrastructure than anywhere else on earth or that we really need to pour like a trillion dollars, minimum, two trillion dollars into infrastructure is just not correct.

00:02:17.000 But this has become sort of the go-to whenever you are a member of government and you just want to blow money into things.

00:02:24.000 All you do is you just say infrastructure because this is something people on a basic level understand, right?

00:02:29.000 We all sort of understand that the government has a hand in building roads, for example.

00:02:34.000 Because the roads connect all sorts of different communities, and so you want the government to shoulder the cost of what is, in effect, a non-excludable, non-rivalrous good.

00:02:42.000 Right?

00:02:43.000 We all sort of get that roads are, at the very least, a public good.

00:02:46.000 Right?

00:02:46.000 Something the government does.

00:02:48.000 We understand that the government helping to foment the placing of broadband, even, is something that benefits a lot of Americans.

00:02:55.000 Although, if you just deregulate it, the truth is a lot of these companies can pay for it themselves.

00:02:58.000 But we all sort of get the idea that the government should be involved to a certain extent in the infrastructure project because public goods are typically, again, non-excludable, non-rivalrous goods in which private people sometimes can't agree.

00:03:13.000 OK, so does that mean that the federal government needs to spend hundreds of billions of dollars right now on this stuff in the middle of a giant inflationary spiral in which we have a shortage of materials and a shortage of labor?

00:03:24.000 Of course not.

00:03:25.000 Of course not.

00:03:26.000 But this has become Joe Biden's big bipartisan push because he figures that if he can get Republicans on board for infrastructure, then he can pretend that he is a bipartisan president when in fact he's an extremely partisan president.

00:03:37.000 Now, they already passed fairly recently a bipartisan bill that was supposed to Send a bunch of money toward, quote-unquote, research and development directed at fighting against China.

00:03:46.000 And it passed with wide bipartisan support, even though, again, it is a giant pork bill.

00:03:49.000 So this is another giant pork bill.

00:03:51.000 Now, Republicans, if they had any brains, would be like, nope, not interested. 0.74

00:03:56.000 Right? 0.90

00:03:56.000 Because the reality is that you aren't going to spend a lot more money than we would like you to spend. 0.90

00:04:01.000 And if you're going to do that, you can do that on your own.

00:04:03.000 Truly, if you just want to blow out the deficit for no appreciable gain, then you can just do that on your own.

00:04:07.000 Right?

00:04:08.000 Make you use reconciliation for it.

00:04:09.000 If you want to break the filibuster, then you're going to have to do it through the budget process because you only have two or maybe three of those per year.

00:04:15.000 Waste a bullet on this infrastructure package and let you own it.

00:04:19.000 But no, we have to have the quote unquote moderate wing of the Republican Party, including people like Susan Collins and Mitt Romney, who decide that it's important to lend bipartisan cover to Joe Biden.

00:04:28.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:04:29.000 They're being played.

00:04:30.000 They're obviously being played.

00:04:32.000 I'll explain how in just one minute.

00:04:34.000 According to the New York Times, President Biden struck an infrastructure deal on Thursday with a bipartisan group of senators signing on to their plan to provide about $579 billion in new investments in roads, broadband internet, electric utilities, and other projects in hopes of moving a crucial piece of his economic agenda through Congress.

00:04:51.000 Biden's endorsement marks a breakthrough in his efforts to forge an infrastructure compromise.

00:04:55.000 But here's the thing.

00:04:56.000 It was far from a guarantee the package would be enacted.

00:04:59.000 Both the president and top Democrats say the plan, which constitutes a fraction of the $4 trillion economic proposal Biden has put forth, can only move together with a much larger package of spending and tax increases Democrats are planning to try to push through Congress unilaterally over the opposition of Republicans.

00:05:15.000 So here is what Biden is doing.

00:05:17.000 And this is why these Republicans are just adults.

00:05:20.000 What he is doing is he's bifurcating this package.

00:05:22.000 He's saying, what if we pass this part here with bipartisan support, but I'm only going to sign the bipartisan part if you guys allow me to vote on and sign this giant other package.

00:05:35.000 Well, that's the same thing as just putting it all in the same package.

00:05:37.000 What are you talking about?

00:05:39.000 And so, in other words, he's going to get pretty much what he wants and he's going to get the veil of bipartisanship at the same time.

00:05:45.000 So here is Joe Biden announcing we have a deal.

00:05:48.000 We had a really good meeting, and to answer your direct question, we have a deal.

00:05:55.000 And I think it's really important.

00:05:58.000 We've all agreed that none of us got all that we wanted.

00:06:03.000 I clearly didn't get all I wanted.

00:06:04.000 They gave more than I think maybe they were inclined to give in the first place.

00:06:09.000 But this reminds me of the days we used to get an awful lot done up in the United States Congress.

00:06:15.000 We actually worked on it.

00:06:16.000 We had five parts of the deal.

00:06:19.000 We got a bipartisan deal, except they didn't get a bipartisan deal, as we'll explain in just a minute.

00:06:23.000 Now, Biden is using this, again, to pretend that he is a bipartisan president with wide public support.

00:06:28.000 He is not.

00:06:29.000 He's got 52% public approval rating right now.

00:06:32.000 Now, that is pretty much the exact same percentage of the popular vote that he won last time around.

00:06:36.000 Out of the popular vote, he won like 51, 52%.

00:06:38.000 He has not increased that.

00:06:40.000 He has not decreased that.

00:06:41.000 It's a pretty hard base of support, but it's also a hard level of support on the ceiling.

00:06:46.000 So as things start to accrue, as the crime rates continue to remain high, as the economy continues to flounder more than it is soaring, as all of that happens, he's likely to feel some economic pain, some sort of popular pain from that.

00:06:59.000 But Republicans are providing him a cover for no appreciable gain.

00:07:01.000 It makes no sense at all.

00:07:02.000 Here is Biden, however, saying, I'm not going it alone.

00:07:04.000 I'm not doing it.

00:07:05.000 I don't have to go alone anymore.

00:07:08.000 I know there are some of my party who discouraged me from seeking an agreement with our Republican colleagues, who said that we should go bigger and go alone.

00:07:19.000 To them, I say this.

00:07:21.000 I've already shown in my young presidency that I'm prepared to do whatever it needs to get done to move the country forward.

00:07:28.000 That's what I did with the American Rescue Plan, which is $1.9 trillion.

00:07:31.000 Let me say this.

00:07:34.000 We can find common ground, though.

00:07:37.000 Working across party lines, that is what I will seek to do.

00:07:40.000 Except he's not looking for common ground, as we will see.

00:07:43.000 What he's looking for is the veil of bipartisanship so he can ram through 95% of what he wants.

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00:08:54.000 Okay, so Mitt Romney playing the willing dupe as per his usual arrangement.

00:08:58.000 Here is the senator from Utah announcing how happy he is with this bipartisan compromise.

00:09:03.000 One of the big surprises I had coming to Washington was the sense that while everybody was fighting with each other, you know what, we get along really well.

00:09:10.000 This group gets along very well.

00:09:11.000 My colleagues in the Senate, we work together.

00:09:14.000 And it's been years and years, people have been talking about the infrastructure needs of our country.

00:09:18.000 We know that.

00:09:18.000 We recognize the crumbling infrastructure.

00:09:21.000 And this group came together and actually got a job done.

00:09:23.000 Oh my God, look what we got a job to do.

00:09:24.000 Except you didn't!

00:09:26.000 You didn't.

00:09:26.000 Quote, from the New York Times.

00:09:27.000 So, in other words, we will definitely sign on to this compromise package. 0.99

00:09:30.000 So long as you also accept this giant pile of manure that we've got right here for you that we're gonna hit you in the face with.

00:09:34.000 a second, much larger reconciliation package. 0.98

00:09:38.000 So in other words, we will definitely sign on to this compromise package, so long as you also accept this giant pile of manure that we've got right here for you that we're gonna hit you in the face with.

00:09:48.000 It really is an amazing thing.

00:09:49.000 And by the way, this is Joe Biden agreeing with this plan.

00:09:54.000 So Joe Biden is like, we came to a compromise.

00:09:56.000 And then with one hand, he's like, here's the compromise.

00:09:58.000 With the other hand, say, and here, right here.

00:10:02.000 What's in this hand?

00:10:02.000 Boom!

00:10:03.000 And he hits him with the other hand.

00:10:04.000 Not in a really strong punch.

00:10:05.000 There's not a lot of power behind Joe Biden's punches at this point.

00:10:08.000 But, at the same, I mean, here is Joe Biden saying, I support Nancy Pelosi's plan to hold the bipartisan infrastructure bill hostage until the Senate passes a big reconciliation bill.

00:10:18.000 Right?

00:10:18.000 Here he is saying that I'm going to, I'm not going to sign this bill alone.

00:10:21.000 Now, normally when you say I've reached a compromise with somebody, like if you've ever done a contract negotiation with somebody else, You do the contract negotiation.

00:10:28.000 You finally come to some sort of agreement.

00:10:29.000 Everybody breaks out the wine and cigars and you're lighting up.

00:10:32.000 And then if somebody in the room says, oh yeah, by the way, I'm not signing that unless you also sign this agreement that pays me X dollars.

00:10:39.000 That's not an agreement.

00:10:40.000 Okay, so to pretend this is an agreement, a triumphant moment of bipartisanship is a lie.

00:10:44.000 Here is Joe Biden pretty much making the lie clear.

00:10:47.000 Do you support Senator Pelosi's stated plan to hold the bipartisan bill in the House until the Senate also passes reconciliation?

00:10:55.000 Do you support that sequencing on her part?

00:10:57.000 Yes.

00:10:58.000 The bipartisan bill from the very beginning was understood.

00:11:00.000 There's going to have to be the second part of it.

00:11:03.000 Not just signing the bipartisan bill and forgetting about the rest that I proposed.

00:11:08.000 I proposed a significant piece of legislation in three parts.

00:11:13.000 And all three parts are equally important.

00:11:15.000 OK, so in other words, all three parts are equally important.

00:11:18.000 I put all the stuff that Republicans are OK with in one part so we can pretend they agree with it.

00:11:22.000 And then I'm going to ram through the other two pieces of the agreement that they don't agree with.

00:11:27.000 Pretty amazing stuff.

00:11:28.000 Now, here's the reality.

00:11:29.000 Joe Biden is not the president of this particular process.

00:11:32.000 Joe Manchin is the president of this particular process.

00:11:34.000 So here is Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia, who is signaling, well, I'm not so sure about this whole Nancy Pelosi, let's hold the bill hostage idea.

00:11:43.000 To say that one's being held hostage to the other doesn't seem to be fair to me, but they're going to make those decisions.

00:11:48.000 But we have to see what's in the other plan before I can say, oh, yes, you vote for this and I'll vote for that.

00:11:53.000 That's not what I have signed up for.

00:11:55.000 OK, so maybe Joe Manchin doesn't go along with what Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are planning here.

00:12:01.000 Okay, that's really the only holdup.

00:12:02.000 Maybe Mitt Romney and Susan Collins, maybe to their credit, maybe they think that they can rely on Joe Manchin to be the man in the gap here.

00:12:09.000 And Joe Manchin is going to be like, no, we're going to pass this bipartisan compromise bill on its own.

00:12:13.000 And also, I'm not going to kill the filibuster or vote for this particular bill if the reconciliation process is used in order to ram it through.

00:12:21.000 Maybe they're counting on Joe Manchin.

00:12:22.000 Let me just say, I don't think that that is a particularly wise move.

00:12:24.000 Instead, it looks much more like Joe Biden gets 99% of what he wants.

00:12:28.000 Plus, he gets this patina of Republican of Republican bipartisan notions to go along with it.

00:12:36.000 So Alipundit over at Hot Air writes about this.

00:12:38.000 He says, if the GOP had managed to negotiate Biden down to a much less expensive infrastructure bill with no tax hikes, that might be a worthy compromise.

00:12:45.000 But they haven't.

00:12:46.000 There are two parts to the Democrats' infrastructure plan.

00:12:48.000 One, a bipartisan bill that deals with roads and bridges, and the other, a party-line reconciliation bill that covers quote-unquote human infrastructure like climate change, spending, paid leave, and so on.

00:12:56.000 Spending that doesn't end up in the bipartisan bill will likely just be lateraled over to the reconciliation bill, which means Republicans aren't achieving much in terms of spending.

00:13:04.000 Essentially, they're pressing on one end of a water balloon, shrinking that end, but causing the other end to swell as the water is displaced.

00:13:10.000 The volume of the balloon is the same, whether they're pressing or not, it's purely a matter of distribution.

00:13:14.000 And frankly, if that's the case, maybe Republicans should have done the opposite of what they did, arguing to put more money into the True Roads and Bridges infrastructure component and thereby hopefully shrinking the Human Infrastructure Reconciliation Bill.

00:13:26.000 That would have been risky because Democrats could pass that human infrastructure bill, irrespective of how big the true infrastructure bill gets.

00:13:32.000 But maybe if the latter were bigger, Manchin would get nervous about blowout spending and be more inclined to shrink the other component.

00:13:38.000 Now, Biden and Pelosi are both nervous about being double-crossed by Manchin, who's been dogged about trying to compromise with Republicans.

00:13:44.000 So today, both the President and Speaker issued an ultimatum.

00:13:46.000 Unless and until both bills pass the Senate, they won't even move on the bipartisan bill.

00:13:51.000 So they're basically saying to Manchin, we're not even going to vote in the House on the bipartisan bill that Joe Biden just endorsed until you vote using reconciliation processes for these other blowout spending bills.

00:14:04.000 So essentially, they're going to hold that Roads and Bridges bill hostage in order to make sure that Manchin does what they want on the giant spending bill.

00:14:12.000 Well, except here's the problem.

00:14:14.000 Manchin was asked about Pelosi's strategy.

00:14:16.000 He says there's going to be a reconciliation bill, we just don't know what size it's going to be.

00:14:20.000 Manchin also said he was open to a reconciliation bill that changes the 2017 GOP tax law to raise taxes to pay for new spending programs.

00:14:27.000 He said reconciliation is inevitable because of Republican opposition to raising taxes, and he's open to it.

00:14:32.000 He said if it's the only strategy we have that's two-track, he says reconciliation is inevitable.

00:14:37.000 So maybe he's able to shrink it a little bit, But maybe Manchin, again, this just shows you that if Joe Manchin caucuses with the Democrats, he's still a Democrat.

00:14:49.000 And so you can count on Joe Manchin for one thing and one thing only, and that is not ending the filibuster for non-reconciliation bills.

00:14:54.000 But for reconciliation bills, a reconciliation bill is defined as a budget bill, basically.

00:14:59.000 For any budget bill, which is spending and taxation bill, he will just go along with the Democrats.

00:15:03.000 Which means Republicans got nothing here.

00:15:06.000 It means that, depending on which way Manchin goes, Mitt Romney and Susan Collins and the rest of these jokers got played.

00:15:13.000 So Manchin is the obvious winner.

00:15:14.000 He now gets to claim that he forged a bipartisan deal.

00:15:16.000 And Biden gets to claim that he forged a bipartisan deal.

00:15:19.000 Republicans get nothing.

00:15:21.000 Republicans get nothing.

00:15:23.000 OK, so it's just it's an amazing failure by these Republicans like Mitt Romney.

00:15:28.000 Again, there is a an aspect of conservatism that is institutionalist in structure, right?

00:15:34.000 The sort of the John Roberts constitutionalism in which John Roberts suggests that the key role that he plays on the Supreme Court to take an example of this sort of conservatism is to uphold the It doesn't matter if I have to rewrite Obamacare in order to make it comply with the Constitution.

00:15:50.000 It doesn't matter if I have to rewrite Obamacare in order to make it comply with the Constitution.

00:15:54.000 It doesn't matter if I am constantly forging 9-0 unanimous votes that are far smaller in scope in protecting American rights than a 6-3 majority decision would be.

00:16:03.000 John Roberts has upheld the institution.

00:16:05.000 And you get the same thing here from Mitt Romney.

00:16:07.000 Now, there is something to upholding the institution, right?

00:16:10.000 You want to uphold the institution of the filibuster even when you're in control.

00:16:12.000 This is what Mitch McConnell was saying.

00:16:14.000 He was saying, if you get rid of the filibuster here, then when Democrats take control, you're really going to regret it.

00:16:18.000 And I think he is right about that.

00:16:20.000 But what Mitt Romney is doing is beyond that.

00:16:22.000 What Romney and Collins are doing is they're saying, it is so important that the American people think that we can forge compromise here, that I will provide the lie that compromise was actually had here, even when it wasn't, so that you think, the American people, that the Senate can work.

00:16:36.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:16:38.000 When it comes to actual popular policy, the Senate does actually vote overwhelmingly.

00:16:43.000 You'll remember that just last week, the Senate voted 100-0 to make Juneteenth a national holiday, for example.

00:16:48.000 You'll remember that, again, there was a bipartisan bill that went forward to spend some hundreds of billions of dollars on research and development, supposedly.

00:16:55.000 They're basically going to be just subsidies to particular friends of the government to fight Chinese innovation.

00:17:02.000 So it's not that bipartisanship is dead. 0.99

00:17:04.000 It's that you have to be a not moron. 0.99

00:17:05.000 But unfortunately, there are too many Republicans who want to appear back home. 0.99

00:17:09.000 I understand Susan Collins.

00:17:10.000 I really do.

00:17:10.000 Susan Collins is from Maine.

00:17:12.000 Maine is a purple to blue state.

00:17:15.000 I understand why Susan Collins is doing it.

00:17:16.000 Mitt Romney is from the reddest state in America outside of West Virginia.

00:17:20.000 Utah is an extremely red state.

00:17:22.000 There is no reason why Mitt Romney has to sign on to a bill like this.

00:17:26.000 He's from the same exact state.

00:17:26.000 Mike Lee isn't.

00:17:29.000 There's no reason why Mitt Romney feels he should have to forge compromise in this way.

00:17:33.000 But for some reason, again, this goes to Mitt Romney's perception of himself.

00:17:36.000 And so much of politics really is how politicians perceive themselves.

00:17:40.000 Mitt Romney perceives himself as a deal maker and a person who brings people together in the same way that John McCain used to perceive himself this way, right?

00:17:48.000 You wanna be part of that gang of eight or that gang of 10 or that gang of four, whatever the gang is, because this means you're a very important person, a person who gets things done.

00:17:56.000 What if the goal of checks and balances is to prevent things from getting done, however?

00:18:00.000 What if we need to completely shift our mindset with regard to why are we bothering to get things done if they are bad things?

00:18:06.000 And let's face it, in the end, what Joe Biden is relying on to do what he wants to do here is the basic fist inside the velvet glove, which is the possibility of just killing the filibuster altogether, right?

00:18:21.000 Joe Biden is figuring that at a certain point, Manchin is going to cave one way or another, or Sinema is going to cave one way or another.

00:18:27.000 Or maybe, if he can just castigate Republicans enough, they'll kill the filibuster.

00:18:30.000 Bill Clinton I mean, it's amazing how far the Democratic Party has moved.

00:18:33.000 Bill Clinton's presidency was successful entirely because of bipartisan compromise.

00:18:38.000 Bill Clinton's first couple of years, he had a Democratic Congress, and he was an awful failure.

00:18:42.000 He tried to pass Hillary Care.

00:18:43.000 It bombed.

00:18:44.000 He raised capital gains taxes.

00:18:46.000 He raised income taxes.

00:18:48.000 And by 1994, Republicans had won back Congress for the first time in like 30 years.

00:18:52.000 So Bill Clinton's rest of his presidency was negotiating with Newt Gingrich in order to do things for the American people, like welfare reform, like a 1994 crime bill that actually were effective on behalf of the American people.

00:19:06.000 And now you have Bill Clinton and he has revised his opinion. 0.76

00:19:09.000 Now the filibuster must be murdered.

00:19:12.000 I understand the president's reluctant to get rid of it altogether.

00:19:16.000 And I sympathize with Joe Manchin who's trying to, you know, stand up for the right thing and represent people that voted more than two to one for President Trump.

00:19:25.000 But I think when it comes to preserving democracy, you know, I would suspend the filibuster because I think it's essential.

00:19:32.000 I don't think that we should be in the business of going backwards and trying to drive down voting rights.

00:19:40.000 I think we need to expand it.

00:19:41.000 Okay, so again, in the end, it's pure power politics for these Democrats to don't fall for the bipartisan trap.

00:19:47.000 It remains a source of amazement to me that so many Republicans are willing to fall for this sort of stuff.

00:19:54.000 The Romney's getting played.

00:19:56.000 Collins is getting played.

00:19:57.000 And they're getting nothing out of this.

00:19:58.000 They're getting nothing out of this.

00:20:00.000 Now, meanwhile, all they really have to do is just stand there.

00:20:02.000 That's all they have to do.

00:20:04.000 Because Joe Biden is not with us.

00:20:06.000 Joe Biden is not a strong president.

00:20:08.000 He is, in fact, a very weak president.

00:20:10.000 What he is capable of getting done under these circumstances, it's very limited.

00:20:15.000 Because, let's face it, Joe Manchin is not upholding the filibuster because he's a nice guy.

00:20:19.000 Joe Manchin is upholding the filibuster because he is a blue state senator from a red state.

00:20:24.000 Because he's a Democrat in a state that Donald Trump won by, I believe, 39 points in the last election cycle.

00:20:29.000 Kyrsten Sinema is not, I think, congenitally predisposed to loving the filibuster.

00:20:34.000 She just recognizes that she's got John McCain's old seat, basically, in Arizona, a very purple state, with a red governor and a red legislature.

00:20:43.000 And so she, I think properly and understandably, knows where her bread is buttered.

00:20:49.000 So with that said, Joe Biden can't get a lot done here.

00:20:53.000 So why are Republicans helping him to get things done here?

00:20:55.000 Why?

00:20:56.000 He's going to do it anyway.

00:20:57.000 Make him own it.

00:20:59.000 If he's going to do it anyway, make him own it.

00:21:01.000 I don't understand for the life of me what Mitt Romney and Susan Collins think that the Republican Party, broadly speaking, gets out of it.

00:21:07.000 Now, the reality is that this because of the Democrats trying to link these two things, that they're only going to vote on a bipartisan deal.

00:21:15.000 If they also get to ram through this reconciliation bill?

00:21:17.000 Because of that, I think that this thing will probably get filibustered anyway.

00:21:20.000 Remember, you need 60 votes to overcome the filibuster.

00:21:22.000 Getting 5 Republicans ain't enough.

00:21:23.000 You need 10 Republicans to kill the filibuster.

00:21:25.000 Where are they going to get those other 5 Republicans who go forward with the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan if they're simultaneously linking it with a piece of legislation that they're going to ram through in a 50-50 vote with one extra ding from Kamala Harris, who is sitting as the presiding officer in the Senate?

00:21:44.000 So I think all the talk about bipartisanship is a little bit too early.

00:21:48.000 I don't think this is going to actually go to a bipartisan vote on this particular bill.

00:21:52.000 And I and you watch the media will then call the Republicans obstructionist.

00:21:56.000 They'll then say it's the Republicans' fault.

00:21:58.000 So Republicans lose on both ends.

00:21:59.000 They give Joe Biden the veneer of bipartisanship, and then they themselves are called partisan when they obstruct the bill because it turns out that Joe Biden has already linked it to another bill that is in fact not bipartisan. 1.00

00:22:10.000 That is the stupid, play stupid games, win stupid prizes for the Republican Party. 1.00

00:22:14.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to our non-sentient presidents and Kamala Harris waiting in the wings. 1.00

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00:23:26.000 Joe Biden, just, I don't know what to say about this anymore other than Joe Biden is, he's a crazy person, guys. 1.00

00:23:33.000 He's a crazy person. 1.00

00:23:34.000 He's addled. 1.00

00:23:35.000 He's not with us. 1.00

00:23:36.000 He's crazy. 0.93

00:23:37.000 There's a reason why you don't see clips regularly of Joe Biden being played in the media. 0.94

00:23:41.000 Instead, they'll sort of print what he says, right?

00:23:43.000 You see it in the print.

00:23:44.000 But you'll never see these clips circulating anywhere but sort of oppo sources, right?

00:23:49.000 You'll see it, you'll hear it on my show.

00:23:50.000 You'll see it on Fox News.

00:23:51.000 You're never going to see this clip.

00:23:53.000 I got them $1.9 trillion in relief so far.

00:23:56.000 So they sort of got it, but you're not gonna see it repeated. Okay, so this is a live press conference yesterday at the White House and And here's the president of the United States Being like this is so weird. He's just a weird old dude, man. I mean like this is alright. Here we go They're gonna be getting checks in the mail that are consequential this week

00:24:22.000 I wrote the bill on the environment pay them more This is an employees Employees bargaining chip now Bye.

00:24:35.000 What's happening? 1.00

00:24:37.000 Um, okay, put aside what he's saying, which is insanely stupid. 0.97

00:24:42.000 I mean, what he's actually saying there is that if you want people to come back to work, you have to pay them more because the government is paying them to stay home and somehow this is good for the economy. 1.00

00:24:51.000 And then he says inflation is not the predictable result, which is stupid. 0.97

00:24:54.000 Okay, so put aside the content. 0.99

00:24:56.000 Why is he channeling the clown from it?

00:24:59.000 I just don't understand. 0.53

00:25:01.000 Why?

00:25:01.000 Because he's not with us, gang.

00:25:03.000 He's a weird old man.

00:25:05.000 He's like, Georgie, would you like your boat back?

00:25:09.000 It's worth 1.9 trillion dollars.

00:25:12.000 Pay your employees more, Georgie.

00:25:15.000 Come down and here's a balloon.

00:25:18.000 And what the eff is that?

00:25:20.000 I'll be honest.

00:25:23.000 That's like if you have nightmares at night about monsters hiding under your bed, that's the voice right there.

00:25:29.000 That that's what's going on.

00:25:30.000 OK, and then he just says like addled things all the time.

00:25:34.000 He just says addled things all the time.

00:25:37.000 So he was asked.

00:25:38.000 So he finishes a press conference yesterday.

00:25:40.000 And there's this horrifying situation in Surfside, Florida.

00:25:44.000 And our prayers go out to the folks over in Surfside.

00:25:48.000 There's been this horrifying condo collapse in Surfside, like half the building collapsed.

00:25:55.000 It appears likely that there were structural defects in the building that were revealed over time as maybe the building was sinking into the ground because it was built on the beach.

00:26:03.000 Very scary stuff.

00:26:05.000 100 people missing.

00:26:06.000 Really tragic.

00:26:07.000 And by the way, just gonna put this out there for folks who do want to give.

00:26:11.000 There is a website that has been set up by one of the big synagogues over there where you can give money to help out the families of the people who are suffering.

00:26:22.000 I'll give you the website.

00:26:23.000 It's thechesedfund.com.

00:26:25.000 That's a long web address, but they're trying to raise like a million bucks for the people who are suffering from that tragedy.

00:26:42.000 In any case, Joe Biden finishes his press conference yesterday and he just starts wandering out of the room and Kamala Harris has to remind him that this thing happened and he's just like, Oh my gosh, it's so awkward.

00:26:56.000 Here we go.

00:27:00.000 Will you travel to Florida, sir?

00:27:01.000 Can we ask you about Florida?

00:27:02.000 What you've learned?

00:27:03.000 Oh yes, I apologize.

00:27:04.000 Yes, thank you.

00:27:07.000 And he just starts laughing at himself.

00:27:10.000 It's so awkward to watch.

00:27:10.000 He's still my president, right?

00:27:12.000 He's your president too.

00:27:12.000 It is awkward to watch.

00:27:16.000 I mean, just a couple of days ago, he threatened to nuke Americans.

00:27:18.000 So there was that.

00:27:20.000 He also said yesterday that if he had his way, there would be no private contributions to campaigns at all.

00:27:24.000 All campaigns would be publicly funded.

00:27:26.000 What in the actual?

00:27:27.000 What?

00:27:28.000 What?

00:27:29.000 Okay, here we go.

00:27:31.000 There's a lot of ancillary pieces of this legislation I strongly support.

00:27:36.000 I strongly support the idea that there's no, if I had my way, there'd be no private contributions to see who gets elected, how much money you raise.

00:27:47.000 No private contributions to political candidates.

00:27:50.000 Okay, what he's talking about there is the supposed voting rights bill that sets up public funding for candidates.

00:27:55.000 So your taxpayer dollars should go to Joe Biden to run for office.

00:27:59.000 This is what he would prefer.

00:28:00.000 That's good.

00:28:01.000 Also, he's been using the term Latinx, which is a good indicator that you've never met a Latino or Latina person, right?

00:28:08.000 Because there's not a single Latino person on planet Earth who calls themselves Latinx. 0.98

00:28:12.000 It's only a bunch of upper-crust white idiots who took critical race theory studies who think that Latinx is an actual term that is used. 0.99

00:28:21.000 By the way, you know the origin of Latinx, right? 1.00

00:28:23.000 Latinx is because Spanish is a gendered language. 0.80

00:28:28.000 Okay, and Latino is for males and Latina is for females. 0.74

00:28:30.000 And so we wouldn't want to say Latino because we won't want to say Latinos because that inevitably includes women. 1.00

00:28:36.000 What?

00:28:38.000 So instead they set up Latinx. 1.00

00:28:39.000 That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. 1.00

00:28:41.000 It's unbelievably dumb. 1.00

00:28:42.000 Okay, Hebrew is also a gendered language, right? 0.99

00:28:45.000 When you say, for example, people, the word in Hebrew for people is anashim.

00:28:48.000 Okay, the suffix in English would be YM, but it's yudmem.

00:28:53.000 The suffix em.

00:28:54.000 is for males, but it includes females.

00:28:56.000 Just as when in English you say human, it includes the word man and not woman.

00:29:00.000 And when you say mankind, it includes man, but it includes women. 0.88

00:29:04.000 So now we are going to do this with foreign languages. 1.00

00:29:06.000 This is the stupidest thing I've, here he is being an idiot. 1.00

00:29:10.000 There's a reason why it's been harder to get African-Americans initially to get vaccinated. 1.00

00:29:18.000 Because they used to be an experimented on.

00:29:21.000 The Tuskegee Airmen and others.

00:29:23.000 So...

00:29:24.000 People have memories.

00:29:26.000 People have long memories.

00:29:28.000 It's awful hard as well to get Latinx vaccinated as well.

00:29:34.000 Why?

00:29:35.000 They're worried that they'll be vaccinated and deported.

00:29:39.000 That, um, what?

00:29:40.000 OK, so first of all, what he's saying there right there is that the the What he is saying there is racist.

00:29:52.000 He's saying that the reason that the Latino people are not getting vaccinated is because they're all afraid they're going to get deported.

00:29:58.000 Now, 18% of the American population is Latino.

00:30:00.000 I'm fairly certain the vast majority of those people are not illegal immigrants and are not afraid of being deported.

00:30:04.000 So, no on that.

00:30:06.000 And also, I fail to understand how it is good logic that because Between 1932 and 1972, there were Tuskegee experiments, racist experiments that were conducted that allowed essentially the syphilis to grow in black people to see how it was going to affect their minds.

00:30:25.000 I failed to see how an experiment that was first conducted in 1932 is a good excuse for not getting a vaccine in 2021.

00:30:30.000 Nonetheless, the It's weird.

00:30:38.000 It's a weird thing.

00:30:39.000 Also, I like how he calls it the Tuskegee Airmen Experiment.

00:30:43.000 No, those are two separate things.

00:30:45.000 Those are two separate things.

00:30:47.000 Okay.

00:30:47.000 The Tuskegee Experiment was a cruel and vicious racist policy.

00:30:52.000 Tuskegee Airmen were the black men who flew in jet fighters, who flew in fighters during World War II.

00:31:01.000 Not the same thing.

00:31:03.000 He's not with us.

00:31:04.000 Well, the good news is that we at least have Kamala Harris waiting in the wings. 0.98

00:31:06.000 Literally in the wings.

00:31:08.000 So yesterday, during this bipartisan press conference, things got really, really awkward.

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00:32:33.000 Meanwhile, you got Kamala Harris waiting in the wings, which is not... If you thought that it was creepy when Joe Biden was whispering at you just a few moments ago, how creepy is it what was going on in the background of this particular bipartisan photo?

00:32:45.000 So, you got Joe Biden, you got Kyrsten Sinema.

00:32:48.000 By the way, I just have to compliment Kyrsten Sinema's sense of style.

00:32:52.000 Like, it actually is kind of fabulous.

00:32:54.000 I am not a fashion reviewer, although I will say that I found it very odd and still find it odd that Nancy Pelosi has a face mask to match every outfit.

00:33:02.000 But Kyrsten Sinema really brings it.

00:33:04.000 I mean, that's a pretty cool outfit.

00:33:05.000 I kind of like that.

00:33:07.000 Kyrsten Sinema shows up wearing this red thing, and it's cool, and you've got this entire bipartisan group of senators, and then lurking in the background, There's something happening behind Mitt Romney's shoulder.

00:33:19.000 There's a white pillar, and then behind that pillar, in front of the White House, someone is waiting.

00:33:24.000 Someone is watching.

00:33:28.000 My God.

00:33:33.000 Oh, man.

00:33:35.000 Ain't that just a metaphor for what's happening in the country right now?

00:33:37.000 Kamala Harris just waiting off to the side. 0.86

00:33:39.000 Waiting, waiting.

00:33:43.000 Man, worst job in America, Joe Biden's food taster.

00:33:46.000 Do not walk down a set of stairs with Kamala Harris if you are Joe Biden. 0.97

00:33:50.000 That is for damn sure. 0.89

00:33:52.000 By the way, if you're Kamala Harris, you gotta be pissed at this point, right? 0.88

00:33:54.000 Because Joe Biden has basically put you in charge of all the most popular parts of his agenda, unpopular parts of his agenda.

00:34:00.000 So Joe Biden's like, you know, Kamala, why don't you like do the border thing?

00:34:05.000 And we won't change any of our policies, but you're in charge now.

00:34:10.000 And then she's like, And she doesn't go down to, by the way, she is headed down to the border.

00:34:17.000 All it took was Donald Trump saying he was headed to the border, and then she's rushing down to the border as fast as her feet can carry her.

00:34:23.000 Feet don't fail her now.

00:34:24.000 So good things happening over in the Biden-Harris administration.

00:34:28.000 This is why, guys, if you're a Republican, why are you providing them cover?

00:34:31.000 Make them own it. 0.69

00:34:34.000 First rule of politics, do not stop your opponents when they are making mistakes. 1.00

00:34:38.000 But again, everyone in politics apparently is stupid. 0.99

00:34:41.000 And meanwhile, The Democrats continue to double down on the Trump of it all. 1.00

00:34:47.000 Because here is the thing.

00:34:48.000 Without Trump, their policies become the issue in 2022 and 2024.

00:34:51.000 So we're going to continue to focus in on January 6th.

00:34:56.000 Now, no one on the right was harsher on January 6th than I was. 0.99

00:35:00.000 I thought it was a bunch of idiots and droogs for not only no reason, for counterproductive purposes, assaulting The center of our legislative branch attempting to do active physical harm to legislators. 1.00

00:35:13.000 I said all those people should be arrested and they should be prosecuted for having violated the law. 1.00

00:35:18.000 If you committed a crime, you get arrested, you get prosecuted.

00:35:19.000 I hold that standard whether you are rioting and looting in Kenosha, Wisconsin or whether you're doing it in the halls of Congress.

00:35:25.000 But the notion that this is some sort of cataclysmic occurrence that requires a much deeper look at the heart of America.

00:35:35.000 Well, not by Congress.

00:35:37.000 Nancy Pelosi, however, is launching a select committee.

00:35:40.000 The reason that she's announcing the select committee is because what she hopes is that when you get to your 2022 ballot, you think of January 6th as opposed to all the crappy policy that the Democrats are pushing.

00:35:49.000 They don't want you to be thinking about critical race theory.

00:35:51.000 They don't want you to be thinking about their subjugation of the police and destruction of law and order in our cities.

00:35:56.000 And they don't want you to be thinking about inflation.

00:35:58.000 They don't want you to be thinking about slow job growth or your inability to hire workers or higher prices at the supermarket.

00:36:03.000 They don't want you to be thinking about any of that.

00:36:04.000 They want you to be thinking solely and completely about Donald Trump. 0.99

00:36:08.000 Because Donald Trump is the worst person ever to walk the earth.

00:36:10.000 So here is Nancy Pelosi announcing a select committee. 0.97

00:36:12.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:36:12.000 What do we have to find out in the select committee?

00:36:14.000 Really, we already have a Senate committee that did a full investigation into the security failures.

00:36:20.000 And that really is the story. 0.99

00:36:21.000 Because it turns out there are lots of people all over the United States who in small groups believe unbelievably stupid and dangerous things. 0.99

00:36:27.000 It's a country of 330 million people. 1.00

00:36:30.000 In fact, it would be pretty difficult to find a single stupid Idiotic, insane cause for which you could not rally a couple of thousand people in the United States. 1.00

00:36:38.000 Because again, 330 million people. 1.00

00:36:40.000 It's a lot of people.

00:36:40.000 With the internet, not hard for those people to get together.

00:36:43.000 But the real goal here for the Democrats, of course, is to suggest that January 6th was a natural outgrowth of conservatism and right-wing thought.

00:36:50.000 Now, there is a certain irony to the fact that the Democrats, who full-scale embrace Ibram X. Kendi, and full-scale embrace Robin DiAngelo, and full-scale embrace Kimberly Crenshaw, they say that critical race theory has nothing to do with the indoctrination into wokeness of your nation's schoolchildren.

00:37:07.000 Right?

00:37:07.000 These are distinct fields of thought, but January 6th is indicative of the entire right-wing mindset in the United States.

00:37:14.000 That's the whole goal of this.

00:37:15.000 The whole goal of this is just to carry out this investigation for as long as possible, try and lump everybody in with January 6th.

00:37:20.000 I don't think it's going to work out for the Democrats.

00:37:21.000 Really, I don't.

00:37:22.000 But here's Nancy Pelosi announcing it anyway.

00:37:25.000 This morning, with great solemnity and sadness, Nope!

00:37:30.000 I'm announcing that the House will be establishing a select committee on the January 6th insurrection.

00:37:38.000 Again, January 6th was one of the darkest days in our nation's history.

00:37:43.000 I've said it now three times.

00:37:44.000 It is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure that an attack of that kind cannot happen and that we root out the causes of it all.

00:37:56.000 Okay, you know what one of the causes was?

00:37:58.000 The fact that the Capitol Police weren't properly staffed up.

00:38:00.000 Wait, who's in charge of the Capitol Police again?

00:38:03.000 Interesting.

00:38:04.000 So in just one second, we'll get to what Nancy Pelosi's actually doing with the Select Committee, of course, which is to try and connect January 6th with a broader ideology. 0.98

00:38:12.000 Because again, Democrats have to misdirect.

00:38:14.000 It's all sleight of hand at this point.

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00:42:12.000 Meanwhile, look, Nancy Pelosi, when she's pushing this Senate select, this House select committee rather on January 6th, we know what it's really all about, right?

00:42:24.000 It's not about getting to the bottom of the security failures.

00:42:26.000 It's not about actually trying to fix the problem.

00:42:28.000 What it really is about is trying to pin the droogs of January 6th on everybody.

00:42:34.000 And so we just end up with mad libs, like left-wing mad libs.

00:42:38.000 So here is Nancy Pelosi trying to explain the origins of January 6th with reference to her favorite mush words.

00:42:44.000 There are two actual paths.

00:42:48.000 One is about the root causes of it, the white supremacy, the anti-Semitism, the Islamophobia, all the rest of it that was so evident when you see a sweatshirt on one of the people saying, camp Auschwitz.

00:43:06.000 The other is the security of the Capitol and what it means to be ready for such an insurrection.

00:43:15.000 It's about white supremacy and anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

00:43:19.000 There were people in the building who were anti-Semitic. 0.81

00:43:21.000 She mentions one guy who's a white supremacist.

00:43:23.000 I'm sure there were white supremacists in the building.

00:43:25.000 January 6th, generally speaking, As far as I'm aware, has not been explicitly linked to, for example, Islamophobia.

00:43:33.000 Last I checked, what January 6th was about was people who thought that the election was fraudulent and wanted to stop the certification of the election.

00:43:41.000 I'm pretty sure if you're looking for like the approximate cause, it is that, like ideologically.

00:43:44.000 It's pretty specific.

00:43:46.000 And there's plenty to indict people for on that score with regard to rhetoric.

00:43:50.000 But you can't just stop there.

00:43:51.000 Instead, it's all things.

00:43:53.000 It's all the things.

00:43:54.000 Because this is what Democrats do. 0.98

00:43:56.000 You see, all of their opponents are the worst people in the world.

00:43:58.000 It is not just that the people who invaded the Capitol building are bad people or did a bad thing.

00:44:03.000 It is that everybody who's associated with a political cause that Nancy Pelosi doesn't like is in league with those people.

00:44:10.000 And you can see Democrats do this all the time.

00:44:12.000 So the most predictable move in American politics really was, and I predicted it openly on November 6th and on January 20th, I said, as soon as it becomes clear that there's another Republican in the Republican Party who may win the 2024 nomination, if Trump doesn't run or even if Trump does run and he just doesn't have the steam that he had in 2020 and many Republicans decide, you know, like the guy, but we want to move on.

00:44:35.000 As soon as that happens, as soon as there appears to be any sort of air appearance of the Republican nomination, that person will become worse than Hitler, i.e., worse than Trump.

00:44:43.000 Right?

00:44:43.000 Most predictable move in American public life.

00:44:45.000 Because it's happened every single time.

00:44:47.000 Right?

00:44:47.000 George W. Bush was, I mean, he is even worse than Ronald Reagan.

00:44:52.000 Just the worst. 0.85

00:44:52.000 I mean, just absolutely the worst. 0.85

00:44:54.000 Remember the good old days of, like, George H.W.

00:44:57.000 Bush?

00:44:57.000 George W.' 's so much worse than his dad.

00:44:59.000 And H.W.' 's so much worse than Reagan.

00:45:01.000 And Reagan's so much worse than Nixon.

00:45:04.000 And then Donald Trump is so much worse than Bush in every way.

00:45:08.000 He's worse than everyone. 0.84

00:45:09.000 And now Donald Trump, literally Hitler, it turns out that Ron DeSantis is even worse than Donald Trump.

00:45:15.000 And there are people who are skeptical of this.

00:45:16.000 They're like, no, the left won't do this.

00:45:17.000 I mean, they hate Donald Trump so much.

00:45:19.000 Probably.

00:45:20.000 And here's the thing.

00:45:22.000 Donald Trump used to make the point repeatedly, still does on occasion.

00:45:26.000 That it's not that the left hates Donald Trump.

00:45:29.000 Hate you because you like Trump.

00:45:31.000 Right? 0.78

00:45:31.000 No. 0.78

00:45:31.000 It's that they hate Trump because Trump likes you. 0.78

00:45:34.000 Okay?

00:45:35.000 They hate Trump because they hate you.

00:45:37.000 And you can replace Trump with another figure and they will hate you just as much.

00:45:41.000 All they will do is they will start downplaying Trump in order to play up the idea that whoever succeeds inside the Republican Party is worse than Trump.

00:45:49.000 They even did this in 2016, frankly.

00:45:50.000 There were a bunch of people like Jonathan Chait who were like, oh, well, you know, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are way worse than Trump.

00:45:55.000 OK, guys, be careful what you wish for.

00:45:57.000 So now you have Samantha Bee, who, honest to God, there was a running gun battle for, like, least funny comedian for a long time.

00:46:04.000 And it's still going, right?

00:46:05.000 Stephen Colbert is just not funny anymore.

00:46:07.000 He hasn't been funny for years.

00:46:08.000 He basically just exists as a Democratic prop.

00:46:11.000 And you have Jimmy Kimmel, who, again, used to be funny.

00:46:13.000 And is not anymore.

00:46:14.000 You got Trevor Noah out there.

00:46:16.000 But I think the person who easily takes the cake is Samantha Bee, who's not even trying at this point.

00:46:20.000 There's a phenomenon in the comedy world that is now known as claptor, where instead of people laughing at your supposed jokes, they just clap because they agree with you, which normally we would just call like a political speech.

00:46:30.000 How Samantha Bee's writers get paid to write for her is beyond me.

00:46:36.000 I don't understand.

00:46:37.000 There are certain things in life I just don't understand.

00:46:39.000 How Samantha Bee is a fully employed human, and people find her entertaining apparently, like a very small subset of the population, is beyond me.

00:46:46.000 So she did an entire hit on Ron DeSantis. 0.93

00:46:49.000 And of course, the premise of the hit was, wait for it, wait for it, worse than Trump.

00:46:54.000 That wasn't the most predictable move ever.

00:46:55.000 Because again, it's not about Trump.

00:46:57.000 It's about you.

00:46:57.000 They hate you.

00:46:58.000 You like DeSantis.

00:46:59.000 Therefore, DeSantis is bad.

00:47:01.000 They hate you.

00:47:02.000 If you like a company like Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A is bad. 0.91

00:47:04.000 They hate you.

00:47:05.000 It was never about Trump.

00:47:06.000 It's not about DeSantis.

00:47:08.000 It's about you.

00:47:08.000 Samantha Bee disdains you.

00:47:10.000 And if you like Ron DeSantis and you think he's a good governor, which by the way, he's an excellent governor.

00:47:13.000 He's the best governor in the country.

00:47:15.000 If you like Ron DeSantis and how he's handled in Florida, it's because you are a bad person. 0.97

00:47:19.000 Because Ron DeSantis is Hitler. 0.97

00:47:21.000 He's even worse than Trump, according to Samantha Bee. 0.88

00:47:24.000 DeSantis was also one of the first governors to attempt removing critical race theory from his state's education system.

00:47:31.000 And last month, he signed a restrictive voting rights law that racially discriminates against Black and Latino voters. 0.98

00:47:37.000 Of course DeSantis is doing whatever he can to pass racist laws—he's racist!

00:47:41.000 He's accepted money from a rich tapestry of racists, refused to return their donations, and after President Biden dared to talk about systemic racism, DeSantis couldn't wait to share his own nuanced opinion.

00:47:53.000 This proposition that we are a systemically racist country.

00:47:58.000 Your reaction? 0.99

00:47:59.000 Well, it's a bunch of horse manure. 1.00

00:48:01.000 Ron DeSantis is so racist, he refers to separating his white laundry from his colors as segregation. 0.99

00:48:08.000 Okay, that's the joke. 0.98

00:48:12.000 What?

00:48:12.000 No?

00:48:13.000 Somebody got paid to write that joke.

00:48:16.000 Well, understand that she's provided no evidence that Ron DeSantis is actually racist.

00:48:20.000 If you actually parse what she is saying there, at no point does she actually provide any hard evidence.

00:48:23.000 These are just a bunch of scurrilous slurs.

00:48:25.000 But, that's not the point.

00:48:27.000 The point is really not about DeSantis.

00:48:28.000 The point is about you.

00:48:30.000 Nancy Pelosi, the rest of the Democratic Party, they think that you're a bad person. 0.66

00:48:33.000 They think that you're a bad person and whoever you support becomes even worse than the person that you supported before.

00:48:38.000 Because your party is moving in only one direction.

00:48:40.000 So, here's my question to the quote-unquote moderates in the Republican Party who want to cut bipartisan deals with these folks.

00:48:45.000 Why?

00:48:46.000 Why not just let them own it?

00:48:47.000 Just let them own it.

00:48:48.000 Like really, try to paint Ron DeSantis as quote-unquote worse than Trump and see how that works out for you.

00:48:52.000 Keep calling every Republican and every American who opposes critical race theory a racist.

00:48:55.000 See how that works out for you.

00:48:57.000 It's a bold move, Cotton, and I very much look forward to seeing Democrats reap the whirlwind so long as Republicans stand out of the way and let them do it.

00:49:04.000 Alrighty, folks, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 25, 2021

The Republican Dolts’ Caucus | Ep. 1284

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