The Ben Shapiro Show - The Results Of Ideal Left-Wing Parenting | Ep. 1653

00:00:00.000 A top House Democrat's transgender kid is arrested rioting with Antifa, Eminem says it wants to back out of the culture wars, and the Biden administration panics over abortion restrictions.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:11.000 Well, there does seem to be a bizarre spate of top level Democrats with weird kids.

00:00:22.000 Now, listen, parents are not always responsible for the sins of their children.

00:00:27.000 I have three children.

00:00:28.000 Soon I will have four, with the help of God.

00:00:30.000 I assume that sometime in their life they'll do something I don't approve of, because that is the way of the world.

00:00:34.000 You try to raise your kids the best that you can, and then, you know, whatever sort of happens, happens.

00:00:39.000 There is a very strange thing that seems to be happening with top House Democrats and one top Senate Democrat, where their kids end up rioting with Antifa.

00:00:48.000 Which seems like a pretty weird thing to be happening.

00:00:50.000 The latest example of this is according to National Review, the son of House Minority Whip Catherine Clark, Democrat of Massachusetts, was arrested in Boston for assaulting an officer and defacing a monument during an Antifa riot on Saturday night.

00:01:01.000 Clark's son, Riley Dell, 23, was detained by Boston police for allegedly spray-painting, No Cop City and ACAB, that would be All Cops Are Bastards, on the Parkman Bandstand Monument in the Boston Common.

00:01:12.000 Similar language was recently used by Antifa activists in Atlanta who were riding.

00:01:15.000 While attempting to place Dell under arrest, Boston police reported that protesters encircled the small detachment of law enforcement and struck an officer.

00:01:23.000 During the arrest of Jared Dowell, a group of about 20 protesters began to surround officers while screaming profanities through megaphones on the public street, causing traffic to come to a standstill.

00:01:31.000 While interfering with the arrest of Jared Dowell, an officer was hit in the face and could be seen bleeding from the nose and mouth, according to the Boston Police Department.

00:01:38.000 Dowell was charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, destruction or injury of personal property, and damage of property by graffiti slash tagging.

00:01:45.000 He is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court.

00:01:48.000 Those Antifa protests were apparently sparked in Boston following a fatal police shooting of a University of Massachusetts Boston student, Syed Faisal, in December 2022.

00:01:56.000 During that particular incident, the person who was shot by the Massachusetts police, he approached the police with a short sword.

00:02:04.000 They tried to then shoot him with a sponge round, which is a non-lethal round, and then they had to resort to lethal force.

00:02:10.000 Quick rule of thumb, folks, do not attack officers with a short sword.

00:02:13.000 It just does not go amazing for you.

00:02:15.000 Clark released a statement Sunday afternoon confirming that Dell, who is transgender and now goes by the name of Riley, was arrested.

00:02:21.000 Last night, said Clark, my daughter was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts, which comes as a shock on two fronts.

00:02:27.000 One, that this person's son is actually their daughter.

00:02:30.000 And two, that their kid was arrested with Antifa.

00:02:33.000 I love Riley.

00:02:34.000 This is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting.

00:02:37.000 There's definitely a way to put it.

00:02:39.000 A difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting.

00:02:42.000 This will be evaluated by the legal system.

00:02:43.000 I am confident in that process.

00:02:46.000 Now, you'll remember that this is the same House Democrat, again this is a top House Democrat, the House Minority Whip, who just a couple of years ago said that she remembered her middle child, this would be Jared, nay Riley, now Riley, waking up with nightmares about climate change.

00:03:04.000 Here is Catherine Clarke talking about this, not all that long ago.

00:03:08.000 Let me tell you what it means to me, coming in as a different generation.

00:03:14.000 I remember my middle child waking up with nightmares over concern around climate change.

00:03:22.000 Well, um, why?

00:03:23.000 What did you do?

00:03:25.000 I mean, seriously, that is a what-did-you-do kind of thing.

00:03:27.000 Because normally kids wake up with nightmares because they're thinking about death.

00:03:32.000 Something bad is going to happen to their parents.

00:03:33.000 Or they saw something in a movie and it was super scary.

00:03:36.000 Or they read something in a book and it was really, really upsetting.

00:03:39.000 They don't wake up with nightmares about climate change unless you are scaring them or exposing them to things they should not be thinking about climate change.

00:03:44.000 Because guess what?

00:03:45.000 Your son, who is not in fact your daughter, is not going to be killed by climate change.

00:03:49.000 Your son would have been fine.

00:03:52.000 Other facts to consider here.

00:03:54.000 It is very odd how many top-level Democrats, how many Hollywood folks, how many people who are sort of the elites in blue society have trans quote-unquote children. 0.65

00:04:06.000 Very odd, isn't it?

00:04:07.000 We have reached, it seems, a genetic bottleneck that only affects specific groups of children in specific parent groups.

00:04:13.000 It's very odd.

00:04:14.000 It must just be a weird evolutionary quirk.

00:04:17.000 It must be that suddenly Darwin has reached its apotheosis.

00:04:20.000 Like, I don't know how this happened.

00:04:23.000 For nearly all of human history, people who suffered from gender dysphoria were a percentage of a percentage, a tiny, tiny percentage of the population suffered from gender dysphoria.

00:04:31.000 Now, you've got a vast bevy of kids who are suffering from gender dysphoria or who are claiming that they are a member of the opposite sex, but only in very specific areas, only at our nation's top colleges, only if they are the kids of top Democratic legislators, or if they're the kids of Hollywood moms and dads.

00:04:47.000 Very strange, wouldn't you say?

00:04:50.000 It does raise some serious parenting questions.

00:04:52.000 Like maybe you're doing a bad job.

00:04:55.000 Maybe, overall, you're not talking about just a weird confluence of events.

00:05:00.000 Maybe it is that you are doing an insufficient job of teaching your kids the things they need to know.

00:05:05.000 Again, not every kid is going to fall close to the tree.

00:05:08.000 Not every apple falls close to the tree.

00:05:10.000 But when you are teaching your kids that climate change is going to kill everyone, and then your kid has nightmares.

00:05:14.000 And when you're teaching your kids that boys can be girls, and then your boy says that he is a girl, I gotta say, it feels like A and B are connected just a little bit.

00:05:24.000 And of course, as I mentioned, this is not the only top Democrat who has had a kid arrested during a riot.

00:05:30.000 You'll remember that back in 2017, Linwood Michael Cain, the son of Virginia Senator and former vice presidential candidate Tim Cain, was one of five protesters arrested after allegedly disrupting a pro-Donald Trump rally inside the Minnesota state capitol back in 2017, according to St.

00:05:44.000 Paul police spokesman Steve Linders.

00:05:47.000 Cain was charged by prosecutors in St.

00:05:48.000 Paul with fleeing on foot, concealing identity in a public place, obstructing the legal process by interfering with a peace officer.

00:05:54.000 Again, there are issues with parents who are right-wing, raising their kids in weird ways, and that having effects.

00:06:00.000 But if you're talking about kids who are being arrested, rioting with Antifa, and also saying they are members of the opposite gender, perhaps the problem is that you're not providing the roles and rules that are necessary to raise a healthy child.

00:06:12.000 Again, I'll say for the third time, It is possible that you do all the right things and your kid ends up the wrong way.

00:06:17.000 But when you teach your kid a thing and then your kid does the thing, that one is kind of on you.

00:06:23.000 And I mention this because there does seem to be an attempt now to treat parenting as though it is a form of virtue signaling to the rest of the world.

00:06:31.000 It is not about raising your child healthy.

00:06:33.000 It's about demonstrating to the rest of your blue check friends that you are doing the right things in their eyes. 0.87

00:06:39.000 You are training your children properly as good little left-wingers And this takes some very strange forms.

00:06:45.000 For example, the New York Times has a piece over the weekend by a person named Heather Kay.

00:06:50.000 The piece is titled, China Helped Raise My American Kids, and they turned out fine. 0.96

00:06:55.000 Quote, when COVID was raging across the world a couple of years ago, I came across a picture online of an American woman wearing a t-shirt that proclaimed, I refuse to co-parent with the government.

00:07:03.000 A response to perceived government overreach regarding school mask mandates.

00:07:06.000 I laughed out loud.

00:07:08.000 My own kids were, in a way, co-parented by the Chinese government.

00:07:11.000 So first of all, anytime you're claiming with pride that your kids are co-parented by the government, you are doing something wrong.

00:07:16.000 It is not the government's job to co-parent your kids.

00:07:17.000 This is a big enough problem in the United States.

00:07:20.000 We have a vast bevy of people who seem to believe that the government ought to play daddy in the sense that it ought to provide all of the resources necessary to explore yourself.

00:07:27.000 And also, the government ought to play mommy in the sense providing you the emotional comfort of accepting all of your behavior.

00:07:33.000 This is why you see so many people who want the Supreme Court to give the moral imprimatur to their personal behavior.

00:07:38.000 Because they want the government to be mommy in the sense that it makes them feel good about themselves, and they want the government to be daddy in the sense that it brings home the bacon.

00:07:45.000 But back to this person writing about how the Chinese government did an amazing job co-raising their kid.

00:07:48.000 My work in the fashion industry took my husband and me to Shanghai in 2006, where we spent the next 16 years and started a family.

00:07:54.000 In China, government co-parenting begins in the womb.

00:07:57.000 Well, I mean, it kind of begins in, like, killing kids in the womb. 0.82

00:08:02.000 They've killed tens of millions of children in the womb, or forcibly sterilized millions of women in China over the course of the last half century. 0.84

00:08:09.000 People in China are still legally barred from determining the gender of their unborn babies unless medically necessary because of a history of sex-selective abortions, according even to this columnist.

00:08:18.000 And those sex-selective abortions became necessary specifically because China said you could only have one kid, and Chinese people apparently generally wanted boys more than girls, which is why you have a surplus of boys over girls than numbers in the millions, which is a serious problem for China, its economy, and foreign policy.

00:08:33.000 Butt says this columnist, as foreigners, we were exempt from such rules.

00:08:36.000 But I had to accept that my growing belly had become community property, subject to unsolicited rubbing and sidewalk commentary, and that restaurants would refuse to serve me cold beverages.

00:08:44.000 Chinese people ascribe medicinal properties to simple hot water, rooted in hygiene concerns and the belief that it maintains a healthy balance in yin and yang.

00:08:51.000 I dreaded the earful I would get each time I ordered an iced latte, those usually served with a warm smile.

00:08:55.000 In 2008 and 2010, we delivered two healthy daughters in Shanghai and faced the choice of all expatriate parents in China between pricey international schools and enrollment in local schools overseen by the government and with an immersion in Chinese culture and values.

00:09:08.000 We weighed the pros and cons of the Chinese route and the cons.

00:09:12.000 The cons apparently were exposure to Communist Party propaganda and potential social isolation of being foreigners in a group of Chinese students, and they took the plunge.

00:09:19.000 Our stringent government co-parent quickly made its presence felt.

00:09:22.000 The girl's Chinese kindergarten teacher lectured us on everything, including how many hours our daughters should sleep, what they should eat, their optimal weight. 0.57

00:09:28.000 Each morning, all of the students performed calisthenics in straight rows and raised China's red flag while singing the national anthem.

00:09:34.000 Classroom windows were usually kept open to increase air circulation and prevent contamination by airborne illnesses even during the winter.

00:09:40.000 We sometimes felt as if our children were on montage for evenings and weekends to be delivered back to school each weekday.

00:09:45.000 Over time, though, the benefits kicked in.

00:09:47.000 Constantly served up moral, history, and culture lessons on pulling together for the sake of the Chinese nation, our girls came home discussing self-discipline, integrity, and respect for elders.

00:09:56.000 With school instilling a solid work ethic and a total drive for academic excellence, my husband and I didn't need to push the girls to complete homework.

00:10:02.000 The shame of letting their teachers and classmates down was enough to light their fires.

00:10:07.000 And this piece continues, basically talking up the joys of China and the wonders of Chinese parenting.

00:10:12.000 I guess so.

00:10:13.000 He said, there is no shortage of condemnation directed at China's Communist Party by critics in the United States.

00:10:17.000 Much of it justified.

00:10:18.000 But my family's experience in China taught us that immersion in a culture with different answers to everyday questions alters how one sees the world. 1.00

00:10:24.000 Practices that used to seem clearly right or wrong took on complexity and dimension.

00:10:28.000 I guess so, I see that they are very much in favor of social solidarity and national indoctrination so long as it's coming at the behest of the Chinese government.

00:10:37.000 As an American parent in China, says this columnist, I learned to appreciate the strong sense of shared values and of people connected as a nation.

00:10:42.000 Parenting, like governing, is an imperfect art.

00:10:44.000 Priorities must be set, tough choices made.

00:10:46.000 There's never been a more crucial time for us to learn from one another and build new bridges across the street, nation, and world.

00:10:52.000 Attention to the common good is a fundamental value I seek in an American government co-parent.

00:10:56.000 So they want the government to now inculcate the idea of a common good like the authoritarian Chinese government.

00:11:02.000 And then you wonder why the odd combination of social libertinism crammed down by a top-down government is so attractive to the left.

00:11:10.000 You wonder why that's happening?

00:11:11.000 By the way, the side effects of all this can be seen in everything from the rampant rate of LGBTQ identification that is wildly exceeding what it has ever been in human history. 1.00

00:11:20.000 It should be noted, by the way, sometimes you'll hear people make the idiotic argument, this is like left-handedness. 0.93

00:11:25.000 So, for generations, people suppressed left-handedness in the population. 0.96

00:11:28.000 They said, well, it's bad for kids to write with their left hand, and so people were taught to write with their right hand, right?

00:11:33.000 And then, That's the way people start right with the left hand and over the course of sixty years the population of left handers in the united states went up about three hundred percent.

00:11:42.000 The population of transgender is in the american population is now increasing at tens of thousands of percent in certain centers of our nation's population.

00:11:51.000 That has nothing to do with the natural.

00:11:56.000 Movement of genetic drift that has everything to do with social contagion and social contagion for which left demands both parental and government.

00:12:06.000 Green lighting.

00:12:08.000 The best parents are the ones who pretend that they are okay with their kids pretending they're members of the opposite sex, for example. 1.00

00:12:14.000 Those are the greatest parents.

00:12:15.000 And the way you know they're really good parents is because they say they're very accepting of this and they teach their kids they're probably going to die of climate change.

00:12:20.000 Also, if they ever got near a church, they would start to shudder and shake.

00:12:24.000 It's more on this in just one second.

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00:14:22.000 Other consequences of all of this?

00:14:24.000 Well, one of them is a massive spike in juvenile crime.

00:14:27.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a 13-year-old boy ran through the Bronx streets one May afternoon last year, chased by two teens on a scooter.

00:14:33.000 Surveillance video showed him frantically trying to open the doors of an assisted living facility.

00:14:37.000 The scooter peeled onto the sidewalk and sped toward him.

00:14:39.000 A 15-year-old boy riding on the back pointed a handgun and fired multiple times, police say.

00:14:43.000 Nearby, 11-year-old Kaihara Tei stood outside a beauty salon after school.

00:14:48.000 Eating chicken wings, waiting for her friends to finish getting their nails done.

00:14:51.000 A stray bullet struck the pavement in front of her.

00:14:52.000 Another pierced her stomach.

00:14:53.000 She was rushed in critical condition to Lincoln Hospital two miles away, and she died that night.

00:14:57.000 Violence among children, says the Wall Street Journal, has soared across the country since 2020, a stark reversal of a decades-long decline in juvenile crime.

00:15:05.000 In the United States, homicides committed by juveniles acting alone rose 30% in 2020 from a year earlier.

00:15:11.000 Those committed by multiple juveniles increased 66%.

00:15:14.000 The number of killings committed by children under 14 was the highest in two decades, according to the most recent federal data.

00:15:20.000 Now, one reason for that is because there have been so many kids out of school since 2020.

00:15:24.000 As it turns out, when you tell kids not to go to school, this is what they've always pretended.

00:15:27.000 There was a social science sort of misnomer where they said that hot weather causes kids to kill each other.

00:15:32.000 And the answer is, hot weather doesn't cause kids to kill each other.

00:15:35.000 Kids are out of school and thus they're in situations to kill one another.

00:15:38.000 But over the last couple of years, it turns out that government lockdowns, shutting down schools, combined with the fact that we have an enormous number of missing fathers in American society, means higher juvenile crime.

00:15:50.000 In New York City, police said 124 juveniles committed shootings during 2022, up from 62 in 2020 and 48 in 2019.

00:15:58.000 That's an extraordinary increase.

00:16:00.000 Bronx District Attorney Darcyl Clark said after Kyhara's death, quote, the tragedy here is we're talking about a gunman who's too young to be called a gunman because he's 15 years old.

00:16:09.000 The jump comes amid an overall wave of violent crime in the first two years of the pandemic, particularly homicides and shootings that swept through urban and rural areas alike.

00:16:18.000 So, again, things going great for the nation's youngest generation, confused, at sea, and not being given any sort of guide by their parents, who seem more bogged down in their own sense of authenticity and individuality than they are in actually the hard work of being a parent.

00:16:35.000 Okay, meanwhile, in the stupid culture war story of the day, M&M's has now announced that they are changing their policy regarding marketing.

00:16:43.000 They put out a statement yesterday. 0.95

00:16:44.000 This is actually pretty hilarious. 0.98

00:16:45.000 Essentially, there are enough people on the right who are making fun of them for their dumb marketing campaign. 0.95

00:16:50.000 And now they're pulling their marketing campaign. 0.95

00:16:52.000 They put out this message yesterday, quote, America, let's talk.

00:16:55.000 In the last year, we've made some changes to our beloved spokes candies.

00:16:58.000 We weren't sure if anyone would even notice.

00:17:00.000 We definitely didn't think it would break the internet.

00:17:01.000 But now we get it.

00:17:02.000 Even a candy's shoes can be polarizing, which was the last thing M&M's wanted since we're all about bringing people together.

00:17:08.000 Therefore, we have decided to take an indefinite pause from the spokescandies.

00:17:12.000 In their place, we are proud to introduce a spokesperson America can agree on, the beloved Maya Rudolph.

00:17:17.000 We are confident Ms.

00:17:18.000 Rudolph will champion the power of fun to create a world where everyone feels they belong.

00:17:23.000 So just to review here, basically Eminem decided that they were going to make some of the female candies look fatter so they wouldn't body shame women or something.

00:17:35.000 It was super weird and strange.

00:17:37.000 And then they had two of the female candies holding hands, and then they had their all-female marketing with just the female candies.

00:17:45.000 Which, again, as I suggested, might have been transphobic, except they also did it for the peanut M&M's, so some of the female candies had nuts.

00:17:51.000 So, it was not transphobic, as it turns out.

00:17:54.000 So now it turns out that when you go woke, people get mad at you and they get annoyed.

00:17:59.000 And people on the left now, they're making a big fuss out of this.

00:18:02.000 Oh my God, I can't believe that Eminem's caved to this.

00:18:04.000 Why did the right even care about this?

00:18:06.000 Why did, again, once again, this is a case of face tattoo syndrome.

00:18:09.000 Face tattoo syndrome, you change your entire marketing strategy in order to please people on the left, people on the right notice, and you get mad at people on the right for noticing.

00:18:18.000 I would also like to point out here that I'm not sure why Maya Rudolph is now your get-out-of-jail-free card.

00:18:22.000 That's kind of a weird one.

00:18:24.000 Maya Rudolph is funny. 0.92

00:18:26.000 I like some of her work.

00:18:27.000 But is she like the new corporate fixer? 1.00

00:18:30.000 So next time you're running a car manufacturer and things just start setting on fire, it's like, get Maya Rudolph's agent on the phone!

00:18:34.000 Get her on there right now! 1.00

00:18:35.000 You're like, who?

00:18:37.000 The lady from the good place! 0.63

00:18:40.000 Get her on the phone right now! 1.00

00:18:40.000 That lady! 1.00

00:18:42.000 She's the only one who can fix this!

00:18:44.000 The New York Times has an entire breakdown of what happened with the M&Ms.

00:18:49.000 Quote, M&Ms, the ubiquitous candy brand owned by Mars Wrigley, announced on Monday it would take an indefinite pause from its spokes candies, deciding the cartoon characters with arms, legs, and minimal facial features were simply too divisive for a polarized America to take.

00:19:01.000 Here's how we got here.

00:19:02.000 In a statement on Monday, Mars Wrigley began with the words familiar to anyone about to have a breakup conversation, America, let's talk.

00:19:09.000 So what exactly happened here?

00:19:12.000 Apparently, Gabrielle Wesley, Chief Marketing Officer for Mars Wrigley North America, said in a statement the decision to engage Ms.

00:19:17.000 Rudolph as the Chief of Fund and Spokesperson for M&M's had been in the works for a while.

00:19:22.000 The original colorful cast of M&M's Spokescandies are at present pursuing personal passions, Ms.

00:19:26.000 Wesley said.

00:19:27.000 It turns out, there's an appropriate level of sexiness that M&M's figures should display in their footwear.

00:19:31.000 America is divided on how sexy that should be.

00:19:33.000 In January 2022, M&M's gave the aching feet of its two female Spokescandies a break, replacing the green M&M's heels with flats and swapping the brown M&M's stilettos for smaller, more comfortable heels. 0.61

00:19:44.000 The decision to some was an injustice.

00:19:46.000 Tucker Carlson said, M&Ms will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous.

00:19:51.000 Until the moment when you wouldn't want to have a drink with any one of them.

00:19:53.000 That's the goal.

00:19:54.000 Obviously, one of my favorite things is when Tucker tells jokes or I tell jokes and the entire left pretends it's not a joke.

00:19:59.000 So obviously that's true.

00:20:00.000 It also happens to be true, again, that the reason that they changed it is because they were attempting to appease people on the left.

00:20:06.000 That's the reason to make the change in the first place.

00:20:08.000 That's why you did it.

00:20:09.000 Stop pretending that you did it for some other reason.

00:20:13.000 The Candy's new look was not exactly at the top of Carlson's concerns.

00:20:16.000 But this month, Carlson declared that the woke M&Ms have returned after Mars Wrigley introduced a new purple M&M to the roster, and the others got a new look.

00:20:24.000 Green M&M's got her boots back but is apparently now a lesbian, maybe. 1.00

00:20:26.000 Plus there's a plus-size obese purple M&M.

00:20:29.000 So we're going to cover that, of course, because that's what we do.

00:20:29.000 Sad.

00:20:31.000 So M&M's had to pull it.

00:20:33.000 And good for Tucker.

00:20:35.000 Frankly, good for Tucker.

00:20:36.000 It's funny.

00:20:38.000 And these corporations should know that when you declare a random culture war for no apparent reason, people will notice.

00:20:44.000 And then people won't like it.

00:20:45.000 And I guess Maya Rudolph's agent is all the happier today because more work for Maya Rudolph.

00:20:51.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is attempting to redirect his administration.

00:20:55.000 He has made some changes internally to his administration, you'll recall.

00:20:59.000 We talked about him dumping his former White House chief of staff.

00:21:04.000 They're saying that it was Ron Klain deciding to leave.

00:21:06.000 That's probably true.

00:21:07.000 But the new person who's coming in is Jeff Zients.

00:21:09.000 Jeff Zients was the COVID czar.

00:21:10.000 You'll remember him from, you're about to have a winter of death, discontent, despair, suffering, if you're unvaccinated.

00:21:17.000 That actually did not happen.

00:21:20.000 According to Politico, a longtime corporate executive, Zines had no public health experience and little in the way of expertise in fighting pandemics.

00:21:25.000 He ended up as the White House COVID response czar anyway.

00:21:28.000 Because why the hell not?

00:21:29.000 Let's get Jeff in here. 0.99

00:21:30.000 He doesn't know anything.

00:21:32.000 He led a sweeping governmental effort to rein in the virus.

00:21:34.000 Fail.

00:21:35.000 Spearheaded a complex national campaign to vaccinate the vast majority of the nation.

00:21:38.000 Kind of fail.

00:21:39.000 Ultimately charted a path for the nation out of a once-in-a-century health emergency.

00:21:43.000 Giant fail.

00:21:44.000 You guys still can't decide whether you have a pandemic on your hands or not.

00:21:49.000 It's that Zines who wants internal praise for his managerial prowess on course for his next high-profile job as Biden's newest chief of staff.

00:21:55.000 As Biden's top aide, Zines will now be expected to bring his logistical and organizational expertise to a West Wing facing another inflection point.

00:22:02.000 So, Zients apparently is going to try to figure out what happens next, but we should point out that the virus is still killing like 500 people a day.

00:22:12.000 So, excellent job there.

00:22:13.000 Also, you have totally undercut whatever faith anybody had in the vaccine in the first place by fibbing and fibbing and fibbing again.

00:22:18.000 You've undercut the faith of the American people that you're actually going to be honest about how exactly you go about quashing the virus.

00:22:27.000 You're just gonna lie to the American people?

00:22:30.000 So, um, well done to Joe Biden.

00:22:33.000 Joe Biden appears to be getting actually a little bit more radical over time.

00:22:36.000 So he thinks that one of the reasons he did fine in the election cycle is because of Roe versus Wade being overturned.

00:22:43.000 There's some evidence to this effect.

00:22:44.000 There's some evidence that Michigan, for example, Where the possibility of a serious abortion restriction was on the ballot, that that may have driven Democrats to the polls.

00:22:53.000 It's one reason why pro-lifers, there's some divisions among pro-lifers about the strategy to actually utilize in pursuing the most pro-life position.

00:22:59.000 I'm as pro-life as it gets.

00:23:01.000 I am pro-life from point of conception.

00:23:03.000 When it comes to the strategy that needs to be used in order to achieve the most saved unborn children, however, you have to take a look at the various states and look at a different strategy.

00:23:11.000 If you're talking about Mississippi or Alabama, you go for broke.

00:23:13.000 If you're talking about Michigan, what you're probably going to have to do is the same thing that's done in states like Florida.

00:23:17.000 States that are more purple are going to have to incrementally push back the time of abortion and get people used to the idea That abortion is unthinkable at this time, and then you gradually move the time back.

00:23:26.000 If you go for broke right away, you end up with a snapback effect in which the left ends up getting what it wants and legalizes abortion all the way up to a point of birth, which is essentially what happened in Kansas.

00:23:35.000 In any case, Joe Biden thinks that he has the upper hand on abortion, which I think is rather doubtful.

00:23:39.000 Yesterday, he tweeted out about Roe versus Wade.

00:23:43.000 He suggested, of course, quote, Today should have been the 50th anniversary of Roe versus Wade-a-boo.

00:23:49.000 Instead, mad Republican officials are waging a war on women's right to make their own health care decisions. 1.00

00:23:56.000 But this fight isn't over.

00:23:59.000 So, um, I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden said that he was kind of in favor of Roe v. Wade being overturned in actual state legislation on this matter because he was a Catholic who was sort of uncomfortable with abortion.

00:24:10.000 Now, of course, the entire Democratic Party has gone crazy in favor of abortion.

00:24:14.000 Kamala Harris, speaking of people who have gone crazy over this, over the last 24 hours, she started yelling at Republicans saying, how dare they?

00:24:20.000 How dare they?

00:24:22.000 How dare they call for a nationwide abortion ban? 0.95

00:24:24.000 I mean, all we want is a nationwide abortion celebration, like up to point of birth and maybe beyond, but Republicans are real bad.

00:24:31.000 Here's Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:24:33.000 Republicans in Congress are now calling for a nationwide abortion ban.

00:24:41.000 No.

00:24:44.000 Some even from the moment of conception.

00:24:50.000 The right of every woman in every state in this country to make decisions about her own body is on the line.

00:24:58.000 And I've said it before and I will say it again.

00:25:01.000 How dare they?

00:25:04.000 She's so mad.

00:25:05.000 So mad.

00:25:07.000 Okay, she's not mad at all. 0.96

00:25:08.000 She's a terrible actress. 1.00

00:25:10.000 I'll say it before and I'll say it- How dare- She has to get Greta Thunberg to like, repel from the ceiling and just say, How dare you? 1.00

00:25:16.000 Into the microphone and then just repel back up to the ceiling.

00:25:19.000 Kamala Harris also, over the last 24 hours, she was trying to quote the Declaration of Independence and I don't know what it is about the Declaration of Independence and Democrats, but they have a real tough time with it.

00:25:27.000 You recall that Joe Biden recently tried to quote the Declaration of Independence and just started talking about corn pop randomly.

00:25:31.000 Well, now Kamala Harris is quoting the Declaration of Independence and she forgot a little phrase in it called the right to life.

00:25:37.000 Remember, right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.

00:25:39.000 Remember that?

00:25:40.000 She just forgets about the right to life.

00:25:41.000 I guess it's the right to abortion or something.

00:25:44.000 America is a promise.

00:25:48.000 It is a promise of freedom and liberty.

00:25:53.000 not for some, but for all.

00:26:00.000 A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

00:26:16.000 Skip right over that in the abortion speech.

00:26:18.000 She can't say right to life.

00:26:20.000 You're endowed to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

00:26:22.000 And when she nods like this, you know, she's lying.

00:26:24.000 That's when that's when, you know, she starts nodding all weird.

00:26:28.000 By the way, remember that time that a bunch of pro-life clinics got bombed and it took the federal government under Joe Biden like a year and a half to realize that or do anything about it?

00:26:36.000 And they pretended the whole time it was not a big deal?

00:26:37.000 Well, now it turns out that pro-abortion protesters gathered outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home again to disrupt his evening on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which fell seven months after the ruling to overturn the landmark decision.

00:26:48.000 A video of what appeared to be about a dozen protesters wielding signs in the rain outside of Kavanaugh's home on Sunday was posted by Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olihan.

00:26:56.000 The demonstration outside, the personal residence, comes after protests in June outside the homes of several justices, so they are back again.

00:27:02.000 Things are going really well.

00:27:03.000 Now, one of the things about the abortion bit that's quite fascinating is how the left will only selectively talk about certain aspects of abortion.

00:27:10.000 So, there is an entire essay with full graphics from Drs.

00:27:14.000 Erika Bliss, Joan Fleischman, and Michelle Gomez.

00:27:16.000 They are co-founders of the My Abortion Network, and they have a piece in the New York Times called, Early Abortion Looks Like Nothing, What You've Been Told.

00:27:22.000 Looks nothing like what you've been told.

00:27:24.000 And, um, basically the entire article is just a series of pictures of very early stage fetal tissue.

00:27:33.000 And here's what these doctors write.

00:27:35.000 They say primary care clinicians, like us, who provide early abortions in their practice have long known that the pregnancy tissue we remove does not look like what most people expect.

00:27:43.000 After Roe vs. Wade was overturned last summer, And early pregnancy termination was banned across more than a dozen states.

00:27:48.000 We felt it was important to make this information public and show the images we have seen more widely.

00:27:52.000 It's important to us to counter medical misinformation related to early pregnancy because about 80% of abortions in the United States occur at nine weeks or earlier.

00:27:59.000 So they then released a bunch of pictures in the fetal tissue from essentially five through nine weeks of pregnancy. And as you would imagine, if you know anything about abortion or fetal development, it's very difficult to see anything, right?

00:28:18.000 I mean, it looks like just clusters of tissue.

00:28:21.000 That is not a giant shock.

00:28:23.000 Although the reality is by the time you get to nine or ten weeks, it is actually fairly well differentiated.

00:28:27.000 I happen to know that because I've seen fetal development pictures, including aborted fetuses, all throughout the process.

00:28:34.000 Okay, so that's just a simple fact of the matter.

00:28:36.000 There's a difference between what, to the naked eye, a fetus looks like at five weeks and what a fetus looks like at nine weeks.

00:28:41.000 Also, worth noting here, you notice the New York Times would never, not in a million years, print a picture of a 15-week-old fetus after an abortion.

00:28:49.000 Never, ever, ever.

00:28:50.000 Not for a million dollars.

00:28:51.000 Not for all the money in the world.

00:28:52.000 Why?

00:28:53.000 Because a 15-week-old fetus looks kind of like a baby.

00:28:56.000 So they would never do that.

00:28:57.000 Instead, they'll just do it at the earliest stage.

00:28:59.000 So let's say for a second, That I guess the premise of this article is that we are only supposed to care about the fetuses that look like babies.

00:29:07.000 Okay, let's start with that.

00:29:08.000 Does that mean that week 12 we can start caring?

00:29:10.000 Can we ban abortion after week 12?

00:29:11.000 What's the rule here?

00:29:13.000 It seems to me that you are shifting the logic of why an abortion is okay.

00:29:18.000 What they're really trying to fight here is the ultrasound because the reality is that the ultrasounds from the earliest stages, you're talking like from the very earliest stages, six, seven, eight weeks, you can hear the heartbeat.

00:29:27.000 You can actually see things on the ultrasound.

00:29:30.000 And so they're trying to debunk that.

00:29:31.000 But there is a media blackout on later stages of pregnancy and abortions and what they look like.

00:29:36.000 An absolute media blackout.

00:29:38.000 This I know for a 100% fact.

00:29:40.000 I know this because a couple of years ago in 2018, I did a midterm special for Fox News.

00:29:46.000 Fox News is a very conservative outlet, obviously.

00:29:48.000 I did a midterm election special.

00:29:50.000 And one of the monologues I did in the midterm election special is I actually spelled out what fetal development looked like at various stages of pregnancy.

00:29:58.000 And during that monologue, I actually sent to our producers at Fox, pictures of what fetuses look like at that stage of fetal development.

00:30:07.000 It included very graphic photos of what abortions look like.

00:30:10.000 Because it looks like a baby.

00:30:12.000 If you're looking at a 16-week-old, 15-week-old, 14-week-old fetus, you're looking at something that looks very much like a baby.

00:30:17.000 And Fox said we couldn't put it on the air.

00:30:19.000 Instead, Fox used a bunch of graphics that were essentially animations of what the fetus looked like.

00:30:26.000 That was the best that they were willing to do.

00:30:27.000 Okay, that's their prerogative.

00:30:28.000 They're their own network.

00:30:29.000 I don't blame them for that.

00:30:30.000 But the point is this.

00:30:32.000 If you are on the left and you're the New York Times, you will show what fetal tissue looks like at the very earliest stages, but you won't do it the rest of the time because it might cut against your argument.

00:30:39.000 It's such an unbelievably dishonest argument by the New York Times to do that.

00:30:44.000 And it's all the more reason why pro-life advocates actually should show people, as much as possible, what abortion looks like, what children in the womb look like.

00:30:52.000 It's why ultrasounds are so damned important and why Planned Parenthood is fighting them so hard. 0.90

00:30:57.000 Over the course of time, as science becomes better and better, and as we see better and better into the womb, the Democrats are going to lose on this issue, and they know this, and that is why they are freaking out.

00:31:05.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden's document scandal is not going well.

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00:34:10.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden's document scandal is not going anywhere.

00:34:14.000 And the Biden team really has no defense to it.

00:34:17.000 Joe Biden's, one of his top advisors, a person named Ian Sams, he appeared on national TV yesterday to talk about the fact that he can't actually explain how many documents have actually been found or are out there, which is not a good sign.

00:34:31.000 Can you give us a sense of how many classified documents we are now talking about total across all three locations?

00:34:38.000 Sure, it's a good question and actually the answer to it is a little bit complicated because of this point that I'm making about the integrity of an ongoing Justice Department investigation.

00:34:47.000 The Justice Department is going to be looking at all sorts of questions like that throughout their investigation.

00:34:52.000 So they don't know?

00:34:54.000 The answer is they don't know, which means that we're going to find more of them.

00:34:57.000 I mean, it's that simple.

00:34:57.000 By the way, it wasn't six documents that were found the other day.

00:34:59.000 It was like six documents plus other materials.

00:35:01.000 It was six items.

00:35:02.000 They don't know that those items were boxes.

00:35:04.000 So we really have no clue.

00:35:06.000 The Democratic Party is trying to, they're really breaking down into sort of two separate segments on this particular matter.

00:35:12.000 You have some, like Senator Chris Coons, who are trying to defend Joe Biden.

00:35:17.000 He was trying to do that yesterday, claiming that this document issue doesn't keep anybody up at night.

00:35:21.000 No document issue has ever kept anybody up at night.

00:35:24.000 None.

00:35:25.000 Hillary's emails didn't keep anybody up at night.

00:35:27.000 It irritated everybody that Hillary was getting away with it, but nobody was deeply worried that Hillary's emails were actually going to result in the Chinese having our nuclear codes. 0.57

00:35:34.000 Nobody is worried that Donald Trump is selling Chinese the nuclear secrets, and nobody's really worried that Joe Biden was trafficking with Iran or something.

00:35:41.000 That's not what this is about.

00:35:43.000 The thing that keeps people awake at night is lack of credibility and consistency in implementation of the law.

00:35:48.000 That's the thing that people are worried about.

00:35:50.000 Nobody's actually worried that Joe Biden has sitting in his Basement in Delaware.

00:35:55.000 A bunch of old documents from the time that he was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

00:35:59.000 What people are worried about is that there's one standard for him and there's another standard for you.

00:36:03.000 There's one standard for Trump and there's another standard for Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:36:06.000 That is the thing that does keep people up at night.

00:36:08.000 Anyway, here's Senator Coons trying to defend Joe Biden.

00:36:11.000 And how can he say he takes classified material seriously when some of what was found may have been in his home for more than a decade and he seemingly had no idea?

00:36:21.000 As you get more senior and as the matters that you're handling are more important and occasionally more classified, the volume gets higher.

00:36:28.000 So I do think this was inadvertent.

00:36:31.000 The whole point of having a special counsel is to ensure that and to give the American people confidence in that.

00:36:38.000 But frankly, Martha, I also don't think this is an issue that's keeping Americans up at night.

00:36:43.000 Again, if this is the new standard, there's not a single issue that Donald Trump had his entire term that kept people up at night.

00:36:49.000 Truly, there was not a lot happening.

00:36:52.000 People were waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.

00:36:53.000 Not unless you were a person who read Mary Trump's book as a devotional or something.

00:37:00.000 Every morning you just read a section of Mary Trump while on bended knee or something.

00:37:04.000 Most of us looked at Donald Trump doing what he was doing.

00:37:05.000 We're like, ah, well, I guess he's tweeting something on the toilet again.

00:37:08.000 It was only Democrats who was keeping them up.

00:37:10.000 And oh my God, what are we going to do?

00:37:11.000 Donald Trump's tweeting another thing.

00:37:13.000 That's not actually the standard, as you may have noticed.

00:37:15.000 And again, as I say, there is a divide that is broken out inside the Democratic Party.

00:37:19.000 You've got, again, people like Chris Coons or MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell trying to defend Joe Biden.

00:37:23.000 Here's O'Donnell doing that yesterday.

00:37:25.000 They should still be able to hold these two separate cases in separate silos and still charge Donald Trump if Donald Trump's case justifies charging him, regardless of what Joe Biden did.

00:37:39.000 Yeah, and everything we know about the Biden case is because of Biden cooperation.

00:37:44.000 Every single thing we know about it.

00:37:47.000 So much cooperation by Joe.

00:37:48.000 That's how we know about it.

00:37:49.000 Hold up.

00:37:51.000 It happened November 2nd.

00:37:52.000 We found out about it in the middle of January.

00:37:54.000 So no, actually, they weren't super cooperative with the American people, as it turns out.

00:37:59.000 Well, Politico is reporting on the gap.

00:38:00.000 They say, Senate Democrats returned on Monday after a long recess and after the Justice Department found additional classified documents during a 13-hour search of Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware.

00:38:08.000 The discovery of those documents, on top of classified materials found in November and December, has created a political headache after Democrats sought to hammer Trump for his handling of classified material.

00:38:17.000 The issue is also an unwelcome one for the party.

00:38:19.000 I hope they found them all, said Dick Durbin.

00:38:22.000 As for the president, Durbin said, he's done well by cooperating every step of the way, but he still has documents and I don't understand why he'd have those in his personal possession.

00:38:29.000 It's not a full-on rebellion.

00:38:31.000 Democrats are rejecting comparisons with Trump.

00:38:33.000 They argue that unlike Trump, Biden's legal team turned over the documents upon discovery and invited the DOJ to search for more.

00:38:39.000 But, Senate Minority Whip John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, says quite correctly, the discovery of the Biden documents neutralizes the issue politically.

00:38:48.000 He said they're trying to attack Trump.

00:38:49.000 Biden was chair of the Foreign Relations Committee.

00:38:51.000 He should know better.

00:38:52.000 That happens to be correct.

00:38:53.000 So this is an issue that is not going away for Joe Biden.

00:38:57.000 It just isn't.

00:38:58.000 And all this is going to carry forward into the debt ceiling debate.

00:39:01.000 One of the questions here is going to be just how hard can Joe Biden push back against the Republicans?

00:39:06.000 Now, his shtick here is that Republicans should never, ever, ever, ever challenge the debt ceiling.

00:39:12.000 That is a debt we've already taken out.

00:39:13.000 We can't stop paying it back today.

00:39:16.000 But the whole idea of holding up the debt ceiling is, let's get the government's fiscal house in order, in order so we extend another line of credit.

00:39:24.000 Now, Democrats who think this is crazy, we do this with like the International Monetary Fund all the time.

00:39:29.000 The IMF and the World Bank, when they give loans to a third world country, very often they'll say, you need to get your house in order before we extend the credit to you.

00:39:35.000 And if that country comes back a little later and says, okay, we took out the credit, we spent all the money, and now we need another loan.

00:39:41.000 They'll say, well, before we give you a second loan, we need to know how you're going to restructure your debt.

00:39:44.000 Like, what are you going to do to fix all of this?

00:39:47.000 But Democrats seem to be under the belief, and so do the media, that once you take out debt, you now have an endless supply of more debt you get to take out.

00:39:54.000 Just forever, for the rest of time.

00:39:57.000 This results in a bizarre set of arguments that are being made by the left.

00:40:03.000 The discussion of the trillion dollar coin is back, I noticed. 1.00

00:40:07.000 It's so stupid. 0.86

00:40:08.000 Okay, so every so often, there is a theory that the President of the United States should defeat the debt ceiling by coining a trillion dollar coin In case you don't understand what this is, Fortune magazine explains, The scheme, which proponents say is authorized by an obscure law which would involve the U.S. Treasury minting a special coin and depositing it with the Federal Reserve, a measure that could stave off an impending crisis triggered by Republicans in the House of Representatives, have said they will refuse to raise the country's borrowing limit, raising the so-called debt ceiling as necessary to cover Congress's existing obligations, 0.99

00:40:38.000 hence the appeal of the trillion-dollar coin.

00:40:40.000 So basically, they create a coin, and they say this is worth one trillion dollars, and they deposit it in the U.S.

00:40:46.000 Treasury.

00:40:46.000 And they say, hey, look at that!

00:40:48.000 We have a trillion dollars to pay back our debts.

00:40:50.000 Isn't that amazing, guys?

00:40:51.000 We just created this magic trillion dollar coin.

00:40:53.000 It says right on it, one trillion dollars, which is effectively the same thing as just doing Weimar Republic money printing, right?

00:41:02.000 So what exactly would the loophole be?

00:41:04.000 Well, in 1996, the U.S.

00:41:06.000 passed the Commemorative Coin Act, which allows the Secretary of the Treasury to mint platinum coins of any value It was supposed to be used to print collectibles.

00:41:14.000 You know, like their Bicentennial coin or something.

00:41:18.000 And now, commentators like Paul Krugman of the New York Times are advocating that the Treasury Department should print a platinum coin worth $1 trillion.

00:41:25.000 The Department would then give the coin, which is essentially unusable to the Federal Reserve, would then convert it into the cash the government can use to pay the bills.

00:41:31.000 It would be unable to cover without borrowing money. 1.00

00:41:35.000 It's a really stupid idea. 0.99

00:41:38.000 Krugman said that minting a trillion-dollar coin would almost certainly be legal, but there are others who are not morons who are being a little bit more cautious about all of that. 0.99

00:41:46.000 Gerard Comisio, a law professor at American University's Washington College of Law said, quote, I think it raises a lot of open legal questions about the Fed's authority to be involved in this kind of transaction. This is arguably not a monetary policy.

00:41:57.000 This is a fiscal problem.

00:41:58.000 That is not the Fed's primary goal.

00:41:59.000 In other words, this is not a problem that you solve.

00:42:01.000 When you have an outstanding debt of 31 trillion dollars, that's not a problem you solve by printing 31 trillion dollar coins and just handing them out to people.

00:42:10.000 That is not the way that works.

00:42:13.000 According to Janet Yellen, she had poured cold water on that idea this weekend. 1.00

00:42:17.000 She said, This is all so stupid. 1.00

00:42:18.000 How about this? 1.00

00:42:19.000 How about Republicans come forward with a list of demands in order to actually increase the debt ceiling?

00:42:22.000 gimmick. The Fed's not required to accept it. There's no requirement on the part of the Fed. It's up to them what to do. They're thinking about the possibility of doing it as a digital coin also. It's all so stupid. How about this? How about Republicans come forward with a list of demands in order to actually increase the debt ceiling and then Democrats negotiate over that?

00:42:38.000 Wouldn't that be the proper solution?

00:42:40.000 You might think so, but we have now reached the stage of impasse where Democrats refuse, like, the most basic demands to even negotiate on issues like this.

00:42:48.000 They just walk away from the table and claim that, essentially, they're done.

00:42:52.000 Okay, meanwhile, in the ongoing saga that is George Santos, uh, that, that, uh... So George Santos, you'll recall, is a newly elected Republican congressperson.

00:43:03.000 If that's even his real name, And now, according to the Business Insider, he partied in drag over a three-year period.

00:43:13.000 New videos appear to show, despite his suggestion, that it was a one-off.

00:43:15.000 So first of all, it's never a one-off.

00:43:17.000 Okay, dudes partying in drag typically party in drag a lot.

00:43:21.000 How many people do you know who are like, that was a one-time thing by the time I partied in drag.

00:43:26.000 Representative George Santos, who initially denied claims he performed as a drag queen, later appeared to admit he had once had fun at a festival dressing as a woman.

00:43:32.000 There was George Santos the other day saying, sue me for having a life!

00:43:35.000 Sue me for having fun!

00:43:37.000 Well, I mean, we're mostly, like, angry at you because you completely falsified every detail of your life. 0.99

00:43:42.000 And also, you're a liar in Congress. 0.97

00:43:45.000 That doesn't seem amazing. 0.99

00:43:48.000 This photograph that allegedly is George Santos in drag in Brazil at a festival.

00:43:59.000 Listen to his answer when asked about whether he dressed in drag.

00:44:03.000 Were you ever a drag queen in Brazil?

00:44:06.000 No, I was not a drag queen in Brazil, guys.

00:44:09.000 I was young and I had fun at a festival.

00:44:12.000 Sue me for having a life.

00:44:15.000 You are going to be sued for a variety of other reasons, as it turns out.

00:44:20.000 Apparently, this story just fell apart on him very, very quickly because there were other people who had seen him dressing in drag fairly routinely.

00:44:28.000 So the list of George Santos lies is really, really long.

00:44:32.000 Just going to point out one thing.

00:44:33.000 Everybody who is saying that George Santos, there's nothing in politics like this, Every single thing that Joe Biden has said about his history is pretty much fake.

00:44:41.000 So I'm just going to point out here, when it comes to politicians lying routinely about who they are and what they do, George Santos, I mean, I guess at least he's not president, is the best that we can say.

00:44:52.000 Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:44:53.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:44:55.000 We will be getting into Democrats proposing a program of nationwide rent control, plus a big fight breaking out in the House over whether Democrats should be allowed to appoint people like Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell to the intelligence panel.

00:45:06.000 Republicans are saying, nope.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 24, 2023

The Results Of Ideal Left-Wing Parenting | Ep. 1653

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