The Ben Shapiro Show - The Short-Lived Biden Ministry Of Truth Is Dead | Ep. 1498

00:00:00.000 Nina Jankiewicz resigns from the Biden Ministry of Truth.

00:00:03.000 The stock market plunges in dramatic fashion as recession fears loom.

00:00:06.000 And Democrats on the Hill call their friends to talk about abortion.

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00:01:33.000 Well, the stock market took a massive dive yesterday.

00:01:37.000 It continues to be on a severe downturn thanks to recession fears.

00:01:41.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.

00:01:43.000 stocks fell sharply.

00:01:44.000 Two of the major indices suffered their worst day since 2020, as the latest set of disappointing earnings from large retailers raised investors' fears of a recession.

00:01:53.000 Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Wednesday down 1,164.52 points or 3.6% to 31,490, its lowest closing level since March of 2021.

00:02:02.000 The S&P 500 dropped 4% or 165 points to 3,923.

00:02:07.000 The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite slid 4.7%.

00:02:11.000 The Dow and S&P recorded their worst percentage declines since June of 2020, which was like dead center of the summer swing of the pandemic.

00:02:18.000 The moves marked a U-turn from a day earlier when technology shares led a rebound in markets.

00:02:22.000 Major retailers said their profits were hurt by rising costs, sluggish sales, and supply chain disruptions.

00:02:26.000 Shares of Target sank 25%, or $53.67 to $161 after the company posted quarterly earnings that missed analysts' expectations.

00:02:35.000 Shares of Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Costco Wholesale recorded their largest single-day percentage declines in years in Costco's case since 2003.

00:02:43.000 That, of course, is very scary for all the folks who are relying on the hot demand to continue to support an inflated economy.

00:02:50.000 The results are prompting Wall Street to wrestle anew with the idea that the global economy could be headed for recession.

00:02:54.000 Though that debate is far from settled, it has rattled stocks and other risky assets throughout the year, with the latest data illustrating the degree to which inflation has hit U.S.

00:03:00.000 consumers.

00:03:02.000 A couple of weeks ago, you had the economic experts estimating that about 28% shot there'd be a recession in the next six months.

00:03:09.000 And I said at the time, it seems more like 50-50 to me.

00:03:11.000 Well, it's been a couple of weeks and now it's looking a lot more than 50-50 at this point.

00:03:15.000 Nick Giacomicus, president and founder of NIRG Wealth Management said inflation is hitting every aspect of an earnings report, whether it be the transportation side or supply chain disruption.

00:03:25.000 Customers are no longer buying the more expensive items they would typically buy.

00:03:28.000 All this trickles through to an earnings report.

00:03:30.000 Consumer discretionary consumer staples were the worst performing sectors in the S&P 500 on Wednesday.

00:03:35.000 Both recorded their largest single day percentage losses since March of 2020.

00:03:38.000 As it turns out, when you just pay people to stay home for a very, very long time.

00:03:42.000 And then eventually they have to go get jobs and inflation.

00:03:46.000 Because of that fire hosing of the money has outpaced wages, you end up with people shopping less.

00:03:50.000 That is not a particular shock at this point.

00:03:52.000 And yet everybody is treating it as though it is a shock.

00:03:55.000 And you're starting to see more and more sources openly stating that we are on the road to a recession.

00:04:00.000 Goldman Sachs' CEO, for example, he came out yesterday and he said the recession is coming and there's pretty much no way to stop this.

00:04:06.000 David Solomon.

00:04:08.000 From your perspective, the House view, the David Solomon view, what does it look like?

00:04:12.000 Are we in a recession?

00:04:14.000 Well, the House view is slowing economic activity, higher rates, and probably a 30% chance of recession as you look forward over the next 12 to 24 months.

00:04:25.000 Okay, but just because when he says recession, recession has a technical definition, that means two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.

00:04:31.000 That is what a recession technically means in econ speak.

00:04:34.000 So you can have a really slow, sluggish, bad economy without it being a full-scale recessionary economy.

00:04:40.000 A 30% shot of, like, two straight quarters of negative GDP growth is really, really, really bad, considering the fact that, again, we had a historically good economy before COVID, and then governments all over the world decided to basically anesthetize the economy.

00:04:53.000 And then the coma was supposed to be ended about January of 2021, and instead what we've got is inflation running unbelievably hot, and now all the consumer demand is starting to drop off.

00:05:04.000 Wells Fargo is now seeing an end-of-the-year U.S.

00:05:06.000 recession.

00:05:07.000 They cut their GDP view, according to Reuters.

00:05:09.000 Wells Fargo Investment Institute said on Wednesday it reduced economic expectations of the mild U.S.

00:05:13.000 recession now on the horizon in its base case scenario for the end of 2022 and early 2023, making it one of the more bearish big U.S.

00:05:19.000 banks.

00:05:20.000 Goldman Sachs calculated the odds of recession, as you just heard, at perhaps 15% for this year and 35% for the next two years.

00:05:27.000 Morgan Stanley says 25% probability for recession starting in the next 12 months.

00:05:31.000 Bank of America most recently said it sees recession risks as low for now but elevated for 2023, which of course would be a disaster for Joe Biden.

00:05:37.000 In his reelection efforts, Wells Fargo's research arm cut its year-end 2022 GDP growth targets to 1.5%, which is extraordinarily weak, from 2.2%.

00:05:46.000 It cut its year-end 2023 target to a decline of 0.5% from its previous expectation for GDP growth of 0.4%.

00:05:54.000 That is a full percentage point dip on their 2023 target growth.

00:05:59.000 These are bad, bad numbers.

00:06:01.000 While the first quarter 2022 economic contraction was due primarily to strong imports and inventory changes, Wells Fargo notes that consumer activity has weakened since then.

00:06:09.000 It cited the development of all three major risks identified in its December 2021 outlook, including new COVID-19 outbreaks and restrictions, higher for longer inflation, and a much stronger dollar.

00:06:18.000 It said these issues were due to Russia-Ukraine war and aggressive Federal Reserve policy, said these shocks are taking an economic toll.

00:06:24.000 The Biden administration has no answer for all of this.

00:06:27.000 Karine Jean-Pierre, the Incompetent new White House press secretary. 0.96

00:06:31.000 What you can say about Jen Psaki is Jen Psaki was a good liar. 0.99

00:06:34.000 Karine Jean-Pierre happens to be a bad liar, which may say more for her character, frankly.

00:06:37.000 Here's Karine Jean-Pierre trying to answer the stock market dump that has been happening.

00:06:44.000 The Fed chair, you know, the Federal Reserve is independent.

00:06:47.000 We leave them to make their own policy decisions.

00:06:49.000 We do not get involved in that.

00:06:51.000 And nothing has changed on how we see the stock market.

00:06:54.000 We do not, that's not something that we keep an eye on every day.

00:06:57.000 They don't keep an eye on the stock market every day, guys.

00:06:59.000 Nobody in the White House has ever looked at the DJ, the DJIA.

00:07:02.000 No one.

00:07:02.000 Isn't that amazing?

00:07:03.000 Or alternatively, they're lying and they know that the stock market is really bad and that it's an indicator that this administration is doing a particularly terrible job.

00:07:10.000 And it could get a lot worse.

00:07:12.000 According to Spencer Jacob, writing for the Wall Street Journal, U.S.

00:07:15.000 stocks could well bounce back from their awful start to the year.

00:07:18.000 How they do in the longer run is another matter.

00:07:19.000 Heading into 2022, expectations were great.

00:07:22.000 And a Texas survey of individual investors in 24 countries in 2021 showed U.S.

00:07:26.000 investors had the highest projections of the group at 17.5% annual returns going forward.

00:07:30.000 The difference between that and historical experience is stark.

00:07:33.000 Compared with long-term annual U.S.

00:07:34.000 stock returns of around 9.8%, a $10,000 investment would grow to about $50,000 in 10 years instead of $25,000.

00:07:41.000 But even stocks more restrained long-run returns seem aspirational now.

00:07:44.000 Investors' optimism is easier to understand if one looks at the 10 years through the end of 2021, during which the compound annual return of the benchmark S&P 500 was a very good 16.6%, not so far from what those surveyed extrapolated.

00:07:57.000 Pundits like to talk about earnings growth, but it hardly accounted for the excellent decade that ended last December.

00:08:01.000 S&P 500 earnings per share grew at an average of 7.7% per year, according to figures from Semper Augustus Investments Group.

00:08:07.000 That rapid pace was achieved when corporate profit margins went from an already respectable 9.2% to a nosebleed 13.4%.

00:08:13.000 Returns would have been about 4 percentage points lower if margins hadn't expanded.

00:08:18.000 In other words, businesses seemed to get more efficient.

00:08:21.000 And there was earnings growth, so there was more spending over the course of time.

00:08:24.000 But with labor and material costs rising and the Trump administration's corporate tax cuts behind us, it is not unreasonable to expect that margins will boost, stall, or reverse.

00:08:33.000 That margin boost may stall or reverse.

00:08:36.000 Even during tech and housing booms, it was unusual for S&P 500 operating profit margins to exceed 9%.

00:08:41.000 So you might start to see those margins come down.

00:08:43.000 Plus, if people have less money to invest in the stock market generally, then they're just not going to be spreading that money around as quickly in the stock market.

00:08:50.000 And that means that the increase in the stock market price is not going to be nearly as fast.

00:08:55.000 The Fed has a perfect record popping bubbles.

00:08:57.000 They aren't likely to fail this time, according to Christopher Bloomstrand, a value investing veteran who's president of Semper Augustus.

00:09:03.000 Another prominent value investor, Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of the asset manager GMO, wrote in January, U.S.

00:09:08.000 stocks had entered their fourth super bubble of the past hundred years.

00:09:10.000 He expected them to drop by half.

00:09:13.000 In addition to quantitative reasons, such as statistical deviation from long-term trends, he cited a more subjective, historical cue akin to ringing a bell near the top.

00:09:20.000 Crazy speculation, this time in meme stocks, EV makers, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs.

00:09:25.000 As sour as the mood has seemed lately, the S&P 500 would drop by another 45% if both margins and price earnings multiples reverted to their long-run averages, which is what Grantham has been suggesting, taking the benchmark back to a level it first crossed five years ago.

00:09:38.000 That sounds alarmist, but stocks' level in 2031 could be the same, whether Grantham is right or not about a sharper bear market.

00:09:45.000 The alternative could be a milder selloff and recoveries along the line of what we've experienced recently.

00:09:48.000 So in other words, you don't have to be a catastrophist to see that the stock market could be in really, really dire trouble here over the course of time.

00:09:57.000 And that, of course, would contribute to lack of liquidity in the markets.

00:10:00.000 That'd make it much harder to do IPOs.

00:10:02.000 It would mean that lenders are less sanguine about giving out money for businesses to start.

00:10:07.000 And it means that your pension fund is worth a lot less.

00:10:11.000 Again, Arthur Laffer is warning that we may see a full lost decade here.

00:10:17.000 We read about this at the beginning of May.

00:10:18.000 At the beginning of May, it was Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore suggesting that we might see a full decade in which the Dow is basically stuck at maybe 29,500.

00:10:27.000 They wrote, again this is just a few weeks ago, if Biden does not change course and the bear market cycle from the late 60s through the early 80s returns, the DJIA would fall from its recent peak of $36,800 to less than $29,500 in 2038.

00:10:38.000 Adjusting for inflation, the index would drop even further.

00:10:43.000 Right now, by the way, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hovering around $31,500.

00:10:48.000 I mean, these again are really, really bad directional numbers.

00:10:52.000 And Joe Biden was foreseeing that his own economic policies would create a big boost at the beginning.

00:10:57.000 And then within like three, four years, you were going to get 1.5% GDP growth, 1.6% GDP growth.

00:11:02.000 Nothing really blow the doors off good.

00:11:05.000 Regulation, higher taxes, a massive deficit that requires debt servicing.

00:11:10.000 All of that would be really bad for the long-term and mid-term U.S.

00:11:13.000 economy.

00:11:14.000 So what exactly is this administration planning to do about it?

00:11:16.000 The answer is pretty much nothing.

00:11:18.000 They are just going to keep talking happy talk.

00:11:21.000 So you got Jennifer Granholm, the Secretary of Energy, saying that if Americans are worried about gas prices right now, the solution is electric vehicles.

00:11:27.000 I mean, listen, I can afford an electric vehicle.

00:11:29.000 The vast majority of Americans cannot afford an electric vehicle because a good electric vehicle is going to cost you at a minimum $35,000 and a great electric vehicle could cost you $100,000, $120,000.

00:11:40.000 Is that going to make up for the fact that gas is $5 a gallon?

00:11:43.000 $6 a gallon?

00:11:44.000 $7 a gallon in places like California?

00:11:46.000 Here's Jennifer Granholm, your Energy Secretary, talking about how electric vehicles are going to solve the problem.

00:11:52.000 If China opens up and they increase more demand for oil, and that will put more upward pressure on prices.

00:12:01.000 If the EU decides, as they have been contemplating, to also ban Russian oil, that will put additional upward pressure on prices.

00:12:09.000 So ultimately, what we need to do, the strategy that will work best, is to reduce demand by moving to electrification.

00:12:18.000 Okay, that is not a solution.

00:12:20.000 That is like saying, you know, the solution in 150 years to the gas prices right now, somebody will finally discover the secret of cold fusion.

00:12:29.000 That ain't going to solve the problem.

00:12:31.000 So Democrats can't talk about the economy because then people might notice the economy is bad and not vote for them.

00:12:35.000 So they're going to talk about a lot of other stuff, including...

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00:13:45.000 Democrats have to talk about something beside the economy, because if they talk about the economy, they're just going to get wrecked.

00:13:50.000 As Donnie Deutsch said on MSNBC, we don't have the economy, so this means let's talk about race.

00:13:55.000 Always the go-to.

00:13:56.000 Always the go-to.

00:13:57.000 Here's Donnie Deutsch on MSNBC just sort of saying the quiet part out loud.

00:14:01.000 We don't have the economy on our side as Democrats.

00:14:03.000 So you have to scare the bejesus out of people. 1.00

00:14:06.000 The way to scare it is say, you know, this replacement theory, this is not just coming from some dark corner of the web.

00:14:11.000 This is the Republican platform.

00:14:13.000 Make them own it. 0.69

00:14:14.000 Democrats run from this fist fire.

00:14:15.000 I know in the previous segment, Eugene Daniels, he talked about the president not wanting to call out names.

00:14:19.000 Call out Tucker Carlson.

00:14:21.000 Call out the politicians and make this, make them own it. 0.90

00:14:24.000 This is a Republican platform.

00:14:26.000 It's the racist Republican replacement theory.

00:14:29.000 We don't have the economy.

00:14:30.000 Let's talk about the Great Replacement Theory. 0.66

00:14:32.000 Let's talk about race, which is always the go-to for the Democratic Party because, again, their entire electoral strategy is based on extraordinarily high minority turnout in communities they think are very supportive of them and college-educated white women.

00:14:45.000 That is the Democratic coalition.

00:14:46.000 They've been banking on this since about 2012, and they're just going to continue to double down on this.

00:14:51.000 And so you're seeing them focus in laser beam-like on the argument that America is discriminatory, that half of your neighbors hate your guts because of your race or your sex.

00:14:59.000 Kamala Harris, Racism is real in America.

00:15:00.000 at this out there yesterday, making this case, talking about racism and sexism, which, by the way, if these were the dominant forces in American life, it would be very hard for a black woman to be the vice president of the United States. 1.00

00:15:12.000 But here is a person who is the vice president of the United States, specifically because she is a black woman, talking about how America is rife with racism and sexism.

00:15:21.000 Racism is real in America. 0.52

00:15:24.000 It has always been.

00:15:28.000 Xenophobia is real in America.

00:15:31.000 It has always been.

00:15:33.000 Sexism too.

00:15:37.000 Wow, I mean, profound words.

00:15:39.000 Yes, it's true.

00:15:40.000 Racism exists and sexism exists.

00:15:42.000 But the Democratic Party platform is basically that everyone I don't like falls into those categories, which is why you should continue to give power to me, despite the fact that I'm really bad at my job.

00:15:50.000 Not only should you give power, as it turns out, we should also crack down on dissemination of any ideas that we don't like by labeling them racist and sexist and demanding top-down control of those ideas.

00:15:59.000 This is why you have Kathy Hochul.

00:16:01.000 Yesterday, the governor of New York, I mean this is really ugly stuff, the governor of New York saying that there are no protections for hate speech in America, which is just not true.

00:16:08.000 There is no technical category called hate speech in law in the United States.

00:16:13.000 It is protected under the First Amendment, hate speech, because again, these are terms that have no content.

00:16:18.000 The left calls it hate speech when you say that Caitlyn Jenner is a man.

00:16:21.000 Caitlyn Jenner is a man, that's not hate speech, that's biological fact.

00:16:24.000 There's Kathy Hochul saying it shouldn't be allowed to be said, these sorts of things.

00:16:28.000 I'll protect the First Amendment any day of the week, but you don't protect hate speech.

00:16:33.000 You don't protect incendiary speech.

00:16:35.000 You're not allowed to scream fire in a crowded theater.

00:16:38.000 There are limitations on speech, and right now, we have seen this run rampant.

00:16:42.000 Okay, first of all, you are actually allowed to shout fire in a crowded theater.

00:16:46.000 Shank is bad law.

00:16:47.000 Second of all, when she says that there are no protections, she's a defender of the First Amendment, there are no protections for hate speech.

00:16:52.000 Definitionally, this means you are not a protector of the First Amendment.

00:16:54.000 Definitionally, that is what that means.

00:16:57.000 And this, of course, has been the agenda for the Democratic Party and for this White House for a while, which is why it is heartening to see that the White House had to pull back from its plans for the Department of Homeland Security to have a Ministry of Truth.

00:17:08.000 According to CNN yesterday, the disinformation expert hired to run the Department of Homeland Security's newly created disinformation board has resigned after the department paused the board.

00:17:17.000 Nina Jankiewicz, a disinformation expert with experience working on Ukraine and Russia issues, was tapped to helm the Disinformation Governance Board earlier this month.

00:17:24.000 The interagency team was meant to coordinate department activities related to disinformation aimed at the U.S.

00:17:29.000 population and infrastructure.

00:17:30.000 The problem, of course, is that they hadn't properly defined disinformation because the left has spent the last several years conflating disinformation, meaning like actual Russian propaganda, from misinformation, meaning stuff I don't like.

00:17:42.000 And in fact, Nina Tchenkovich had basically trafficking both disinformation and misinformation when she suggested that Hunter Biden's laptop was actually just a Russian plant with no evidence whatsoever.

00:17:53.000 According to CNN, Jankiewicz's appointment quickly drew condemnation from GOP lawmakers and right-wing media, who pointed to her past tweets and statements regarding Hunter Biden's laptop and Christopher Steele, the author of the so-called Steele dossier.

00:18:03.000 Jankiewicz told CNN Wednesday evening she resigned because the board's future was uncertain.

00:18:07.000 Quote, I had hoped we would be more transparent about how the board was going to operate, what it was going to do.

00:18:11.000 For whatever reason, that didn't happen.

00:18:13.000 The information vacuum only grew.

00:18:14.000 I think the information vacuum kind of directed a lot of the attacks and digging around in my personal life.

00:18:19.000 By the way, the digging around in her personal life was mainly relegated to looking at her old tweets and videos of her singing about disinformation, like Mary Poppins.

00:18:31.000 I mean, it was very weird theater kid kind of stuff.

00:18:35.000 Ultimately, she said that she had resigned because she wasn't sure whether the board had a future after the debacle of the last few weeks.

00:18:41.000 She said she was deeply disappointed by the administration's announcement it would conduct a review of the board.

00:18:45.000 She thinks it should continue even in her absence.

00:18:47.000 She said the board was simple and anodyne and largely revolved around coordinating efforts within DHS to combat misinformation related to threats to public safety, like natural disasters.

00:18:55.000 Okay, but that's not what you actually said.

00:18:56.000 That's not what you actually said.

00:18:59.000 Despite her expertise, critics argued she held biases on certain issues.

00:19:02.000 For example, in a TikTok video posted prior to her appointment to lead the board, Shankwood singled out Rudy Giuliani and TikTok influencers to a Mary Poppins jingle.

00:19:09.000 They didn't quote her, of course, because if they quoted her, it would demonstrate that she shouldn't have been in charge of this office and that the office never really should have existed in the first place.

00:19:18.000 The White House, for its part, tried to defend Jankiewicz and simultaneously explain why it was getting rid of the Ministry of Truth.

00:19:24.000 So, Corinne Jean-Pierre, again, not good at her job. 0.79

00:19:26.000 Yeah, man.

00:19:26.000 says, Jankowicz had very strong credentials.

00:19:29.000 Uh, yeah, man.

00:19:30.000 Uh, no.

00:19:32.000 Neither Nina Jankowicz nor the board have anything to do with the censorship or with removing content from anywhere.

00:19:40.000 Their role is to ensure that national security officials are updated on how misinformation is affecting the threat environment.

00:19:50.000 She has strong credentials and a history of calling out misinformation from both the left and the right and that's our focus.

00:19:57.000 Uh-huh, uh-huh.

00:19:58.000 Well then, uh, Kareem Jean-Pierre was asked a very awkward question, which is, okay, so, you're saying, and you guys have been saying, that the reason you are disbanding this Ministry of Truth is because it's not a Ministry of Truth at all, it's actually a disinformation board, and so, you're basically just caving to what you call a bunch of conservative-oriented lies.

00:20:16.000 So, you're ditching the disinformation board because of disinformation?

00:20:20.000 Here's Peter Doocy.

00:20:22.000 So if it's pausing because you think the board was mischaracterized, then the disinformation board is being shut down because of disinformation?

00:20:30.000 Is that what's happening here?

00:20:31.000 Look, I mean, the board was put forth for a purpose, right?

00:20:35.000 To make sure that we really did address what was happening across the country when it came to disinformation.

00:20:42.000 It's going to pause.

00:20:45.000 There's been a mischaracterization from outside forces.

00:20:50.000 And so now what we're going to do is we're going to pause it and we're going to do an assessment.

00:20:58.000 The Washington Post trotted out the world's worst journalist, Taylor Lorenz.

00:21:01.000 Jankowitz goes away because she was awkward.

00:21:02.000 And we just sort of quietly bring this thing back and start targeting political opponents.

00:21:06.000 The media for its part is doing its best to spin on behalf of the administration and on behalf of the Ministry of Truth.

00:21:12.000 The Washington Post trotted out the world's worst journalist, Taylor Lorenz.

00:21:16.000 She's not a journalist, she's an activist who specializes mainly in digging up old tweets of people she doesn't like and also whining an extraordinary amount about how rough her life is. 0.99

00:21:24.000 And then crying on MSNBC about how everyone is mean to her by digging up her old tweets and by pointing out that she's really bad at her job.

00:21:30.000 That is sort of her job at the Washington Post.

00:21:32.000 And the editors of the Washington Post like to frame everything They allow her to frame every story through the prism of how does it affect Taylor Lorenz and why is Taylor Lorenz the most important person on planet Earth.

00:21:42.000 She sort of replaced Jim Acosta in the pantheon of journalists who have actual shrines to themselves, surrounded by seven different mirrors.

00:21:49.000 There's infinities of Taylor Lorenzes in every direction.

00:21:52.000 So the Washington Post runs a piece by Taylor Lorenz today called How the Biden Administration Let Right-Wing Attacks Derail Its Disinformation Efforts.

00:21:59.000 And the article is quite astonishing.

00:22:02.000 Alrighty, coming up we'll jump right into the Taylor Lorenz piece. 0.99

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00:23:15.000 Here's what Taylor Lorenz writes today, quote, On the morning of April 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the first Disinformation Governance Board with the stated goal to coordinate countering misinformation related to Homeland Security.

00:23:27.000 The Biden administration tapped Nina Jankiewicz, a well-known figure in the field of fighting disinformation and extremism, as the board's executive director.

00:23:33.000 In naming the 33-year-old Jankiewicz to run the newly created board, the administration chose someone with extensive experience in the field of disinformation, which has emerged as an urgent an important issue.

00:23:43.000 The author of the books, How to Be a Woman Online and How to Lose the Information War, her career also featured since in multiple nonpartisan think tanks and nonprofits, and included work that focused on strengthening democratic institutions.

00:23:54.000 But within hours of the news of her appointment, Janklitz was thrust into the spotlight by the very forces she dedicated her career to combating.

00:24:02.000 The board itself and DHS received criticism for both its somewhat ominous name and scant details of specific mission.

00:24:08.000 Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorca said it could have done a better job of communicating what it is and what it isn't.

00:24:12.000 But Jenkiewicz was on the receiving end of the harshest attacks, with her role mischaracterized as she became a primary target on the right-wing internet.

00:24:20.000 She has been subject to an unrelenting barrage of harassment and abuse, while unchecked misrepresentations of her work continue to go viral.

00:24:26.000 By unchecked misrepresentations of her work, do you mean that we played actual clips of her talking on shows like this one?

00:24:31.000 And that people just brought up her old tweets?

00:24:34.000 Which is literally what Taylor Lorenz does for a living? 0.50

00:24:38.000 Taylor Lorenz, for a woman who's obsessed with herself, apparently she has an unbelievable capacity never to actually see what she is in a mirror. 1.00

00:24:47.000 She sees herself, but she doesn't quite see herself, you know?

00:24:50.000 According to Taylor Lorenz, just three weeks after its announcement, the Disinformation Governance Board is being paused, according to multiple employees at DHS, capping a back-and-forth week of decisions that changed during the course of reporting this story.

00:25:01.000 On Monday, DHS decided to shut down the board.

00:25:03.000 By Tuesday morning, Jankiewicz had drafted a resignation letter.

00:25:05.000 By Tuesday night, Jankiewicz was pulled into an urgent call with DHS officials, who gave her the choice to stay on, even as the department's work was put on hold because of the backlash it faced, according to multiple people with knowledge of the call.

00:25:16.000 Nina Jankiewicz has been subjected to unjustified and vile personal attacks and physical threats, a DHS spokesperson told the Washington Post, in congressional hearings and in media interviews The secretary has repeatedly defended her as eminently qualified and underscored the importance of the department's disinformation work, and he will continue to do so.

00:25:30.000 So basically what happened here is that it became clear that Jankowicz was going to get thrown under the bus, and then it was clear that the administration was going to get flack for that.

00:25:38.000 So now the administration is wildly backtracking and pretending that they actually had Jankowicz's back after throwing her out there.

00:25:44.000 Chankowitz's experience, says Taylor Lorenz, is a prime example of how the right-wing internet apparatus operates, where far-right influencers attempt to identify a target, present a narrative, and then repeat mischaracterizations across social media and websites with the aim of discrediting and attacking anyone who seeks to challenge them.

00:26:00.000 This is solid reportage, right?

00:26:02.000 This is journalisming at its very finest.

00:26:04.000 The hot, sticky journalism just getting everywhere.

00:26:06.000 It also shows what happens when institutions, when confronted with these attacks, don't respond effectively.

00:26:12.000 This article goes on and on and on.

00:26:15.000 And the whole idea here is that it's evil right wingers who dug up stuff that she said. 0.99

00:26:20.000 Oh, no.

00:26:22.000 That's wow.

00:26:23.000 I mean, people pointed out what she what she said. 0.91

00:26:26.000 That's crazy.

00:26:27.000 Just hours after Jenkins tweeted about her new job.

00:26:29.000 Far-right influencer Jack Posobiec, says Taylor Lorenz, posted tweets accusing the Biden administration of creating a ministry of truth.

00:26:35.000 You mean people questioned the establishment of a government agency with no clear agenda that called itself a disinformation governance board?

00:26:43.000 I mean, that is scandalous that people noticed.

00:26:43.000 Wow.

00:26:45.000 You mean people questioned the establishment of a government agency with no clear agenda that called itself a disinformation governance board? Wow, I mean that is scandalous that people noticed it's bad. Unlike the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 that became a derogatory comparison point, neither the board nor Jankowicz had any power or ability to declare what is true or false or compel internet providers, social media platforms, or public schools to take action against certain types of speech.

00:27:10.000 In fact, the board itself had no power or authority to make any operational decisions.

00:27:14.000 So then what exactly was the point of the board?

00:27:17.000 The board's purpose has been grossly mischaracterized.

00:27:19.000 Well, not police speech.

00:27:20.000 A DHS spokesperson said quite the opposite.

00:27:21.000 Its focus is to ensure that freedom of speech is protected.

00:27:24.000 Yeah, I don't believe you.

00:27:26.000 And most people, it turns out, didn't believe you.

00:27:30.000 Dozens of websites, including Breitbart, the Post Millennial, and Daily Caller, and New York Post began mining Jankiewicz's past social media posts and publishing articles to generate controversy.

00:27:37.000 Some were simply mocking, making fun of her for parodying a song from Mary Poppins to talk about misinformation.

00:27:42.000 In another instance, a performance where Jankiewicz sings a popular musical theater song about a person's desire to become rich and powerful was misrepresented to imply that Jankiewicz herself was after money and power and would sleep with men to get it.

00:27:52.000 What?

00:27:55.000 As this online campaign played out, DHS and the Biden administration struggled to counter the repeated attacks.

00:27:59.000 And by the way, there are a bunch of sort of libertarian and civil rights-oriented groups, ranging from the ACLU to Reason Magazine, with some pretty serious questions about this Disinformation Governance Board and what it was going to do.

00:28:09.000 None of this gets mentioned by Taylor Lorenz.

00:28:11.000 It was all just Jack Posobiak and the Postmillennial and the Daily Caller and the Daily Wire, etc.

00:28:17.000 It was all just about how everyone is mean.

00:28:19.000 A textbook disinformation campaign, says Taylor Lorenz.

00:28:22.000 Experts say that right-wing disinformation and smear campaigns regularly follow the same playbook, and it's crucial that the public and leaders of institutions, especially in the government, the media and educational bodies, understand more fully how these cycle operates.

00:28:34.000 The campaigns invariably start with identifying a person to characterize as a villain.

00:28:38.000 Attacking faceless institutions is difficult.

00:28:40.000 So a figurehead, almost always a woman or a person of color, is found to serve as its face.

00:28:49.000 What does that person mean to you?

00:28:51.000 So basically, the entire article is about how the Disinformation Governance Board was not going to be targeting political opposition.

00:29:05.000 And then the entire article is about how really we do need something to stop political opposition from mobilizing.

00:29:11.000 We really need to stop all of these right-wingers from, you know, posting old posts of people.

00:29:16.000 We really need to cut that out.

00:29:19.000 Amazing solid stuff there from Taylor Lorenz demonstrative once again of the fact that what the left really would like to do is police speech.

00:29:25.000 And they'd like to police speech because when they are losing, this is what they do.

00:29:28.000 One of the ways they would like to police speech is by going after corporations.

00:29:32.000 Corporate wokeness is their newest and most Powerful tool.

00:29:34.000 This is the new thing they've come up with over the course of the last 20 years, and that is seize the governing boards of major American corporations and then twist them to your own political design, whether it is Disney or whether it is Target.

00:29:45.000 Take a major corporation, get it to buy into pretty much all of your priorities, and then say the free market has spoken.

00:29:53.000 Now, the free market hasn't really spoken because, of course, you're intimidating all of these corporations into getting involved in ultra crepedarian pursuits, pursuits that are outside of their purview. 0.99

00:30:02.000 You're basically saying to them via the power of anti-discrimination law or through sexual harassment law or through laws in the state of California telling you how you have to compose the board of your company.

00:30:12.000 You're doing all of this and saying to them, if you do the things that we want you to do, we will leave you alone.

00:30:16.000 If you don't do the things we want you to do, we won't leave you alone.

00:30:19.000 We will initiate media coverage of you.

00:30:22.000 We will try to astroturf boycotts of you. 0.95

00:30:24.000 We might mobilize governmentally against you.

00:30:26.000 We'll structure laws in order to change the incentive structure for you as a company.

00:30:31.000 We'll do all of these things.

00:30:32.000 And corporations, by and large, have gone along with this, at least up until the last five minutes or so.

00:30:37.000 So it's no shock to see that the White House is now trying to encourage Tucker Carlson's advertisers to drop him, right?

00:30:42.000 This has been a longtime sort of media matters goal to go after the advertisers of people they disagree with.

00:30:48.000 Now, on this program, I've said before, advertisers should advertise, you know, pretty much everywhere.

00:30:53.000 And there are advertisers who advertise on Pod Save America and good for them.

00:30:56.000 That's fine.

00:30:58.000 I don't believe that all those advertisers hold the exact same priorities as Pod Save America.

00:31:02.000 And in fact, go ahead and advertise on that program and this program and all the other programs.

00:31:05.000 The left doesn't feel that way because of course their goal is to leverage all of these corporations into doing their dirty work.

00:31:05.000 It's fine.

00:31:11.000 Their goal is to act as sort of a Henry II Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest attitude toward corporations?

00:31:20.000 If you do our dirty work, then we don't have to do our dirty work.

00:31:23.000 And if you don't do our dirty work, then we will cudgel you in some way, shape, or form.

00:31:26.000 So, according to Mediaite, senior White House aides are now suggesting that Fox News host Tucker Carlson's advertisers would be more effective than Joe Biden at pushing him over the racist great replacement theory that inspired the Buffalo mass murder.

00:31:38.000 Politico's Jonathan Lemire and Eugene Daniels performed a deep dive on the president's decision not to name and shame people like Carlson and Republican Representative Elise Stefanik and others who espoused Replacement Theory.

00:31:46.000 Now again, this has just become now a truism in the media, including mediaite, that this is what Republicans do.

00:31:52.000 They espouse Replacement Theory.

00:31:53.000 That is not true.

00:31:54.000 There is a radical difference, as we've talked about in depth, between Replacement Theory, which suggests the racial stock of a country is being perverted and lessened somehow by Jewish Elites bringing in brown people versus the idea that demographics matter when it comes to voting patterns, which again, the left is the one that initiated that conversation in the first place. 0.65

00:32:15.000 The White House has given a series of explanations for not naming names, including a tantalizing notion from unidentified senior aides who put the onus on Carlson's advertisers.

00:32:22.000 quote is from Politico, senior aides have felt that pressure from fellow Republicans and importantly advertisers would be more effective in pushing individuals like Fox News host Tucker Carlson to distance themselves from replacement theory.

00:32:32.000 As one senior aide put it, there's no desire to give Carlson a clip of a presidential attack that the host could use in his A block every night.

00:32:38.000 We totally understand the desire to call people out who have been pushing this disgusting rhetoric, but I also think it's worth remembering that many of these demagogues would love nothing more than the oxygen and attention that come from the president blasting them.

00:32:48.000 A person familiar with the White House's thinking said, And in turn, that attention and notoriety may help them further spread those lies.

00:32:54.000 It doesn't mean you never call them out, but I think it means you need to be judicious about doing so and cognizant it may have unintended consequences.

00:33:00.000 So instead, the White House is trying to create a groundswell of pressure on Carlson's advertisers.

00:33:09.000 That is pretty amazing.

00:33:11.000 I mean, the White House openly now pressuring advertisers to drop media members they don't like is a demonstration, once again, that trusting these folks with the basics of free markets and free speech is a very, very bad move.

00:33:27.000 And one other area in which this is cropping up is, of course, in the attempt to target Elon Musk.

00:33:32.000 So the latest attempt to do this is the attempt to remove Tesla from the S&P 500 ESG index.

00:33:39.000 So ESG is Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance index.

00:33:42.000 The ESG index is basically just a proxy for leftism.

00:33:45.000 If your corporation is not a leftist corporation, that doesn't mimic all of the stakeholder interests of the left.

00:33:51.000 Then you don't get listed, right?

00:33:52.000 So we'll give you a cookie if you're a good little corporation and you do exactly what we want you to do.

00:33:57.000 So just to get that straight, the world's leading manufacturer of electric vehicles, Tesla, has now been removed from the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Index.

00:34:08.000 Environmental, the world's lead... No, don't worry guys, it's not a leftist proxy group.

00:34:14.000 They have real principles about environmentalism and all this.

00:34:18.000 As Elon Musk pointed out, Exxon is rated top 10 best in the world for environment, social, and governance by S&P 500.

00:34:23.000 Tesla didn't make the list. 0.71

00:34:25.000 ESG is a scam.

00:34:26.000 It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.

00:34:28.000 This, of course, is completely correct.

00:34:30.000 It is completely correct.

00:34:32.000 He tweeted out, despite Tesla doing more for the environment than any company ever.

00:34:35.000 And then he tweeted a meme of Dwayne The Rock Johnson saying, what is an ESG score?

00:34:39.000 And there's a woman in backseat saying, it determines how compliant your business is with the leftist agenda.

00:34:45.000 Dwayne The Rock Johnson looking all freaked out about it.

00:34:48.000 And this is correct.

00:34:49.000 They're targeting Tesla because Elon Musk came out the other day as a Republican and explained why he was going to vote Republican and because he has gone after Twitter.

00:34:58.000 He tweeted the other day, Yeah, well, the first step on that is remove the leading manufacturer of electric vehicles on planet Earth from the ESG index.

00:35:02.000 the party of division and hate so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.

00:35:05.000 Now watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold.

00:35:08.000 Yeah well the first step on that is remove the leading manufacturer of electric vehicles on planet Earth from the ESG index. 0.95

00:35:15.000 Again, woke capitalism must die. 0.98

00:35:17.000 It must die.

00:35:18.000 I'm a big fan of what my friend Vivek Ramaswamy is doing and trying to challenge woke capitalism by providing counter incentives here.

00:35:24.000 But it just demonstrates, again, the reason you don't trust the government with things like a ministry of truth is because those same people are very interested in using governmental power to pressure and cudgel all these corporations into doing what they want and getting their allies in the media and the corporate sphere to do exactly the same.

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00:38:38.000 ♪♪ Now, speaking of narratives, the Democrats have attempted to weaponize.

00:38:47.000 They did the racism narrative, and they've also tried to do the sexism narrative You notice how fast abortion has sort of disappeared from the headlines?

00:38:53.000 There's this Buffalo shooting and the entire media swiveled into place in unison, as a unit, because that is what they are.

00:38:59.000 They are just an adjunct of the Democratic Party.

00:39:02.000 And they all started talking about Great Replacement Theory and how the entire Republican Party was racist.

00:39:05.000 Well, that was after having swiveled in unison to call the entire Republican Party sexist.

00:39:09.000 Well, that abortion Narrative, it sort of just disappeared.

00:39:12.000 You notice that?

00:39:13.000 Like, people just aren't talking about it anymore.

00:39:14.000 It seems like that would have had more legs, right?

00:39:16.000 I mean, if you were going to cover the overturning of a half-century Supreme Court world-shaking precedent in Roe versus Wade, you would imagine it might have more legs than like a week and a half of news coverage, but apparently not.

00:39:28.000 Well, maybe one of the reasons for that is because every time Democrats talk about this issue for more than 32 seconds, it gets extremely ugly.

00:39:34.000 That was on full display yesterday.

00:39:36.000 It was on full display When the Democrats in the House held a hearing at which they welcomed a variety of pro-abortion witnesses.

00:39:44.000 And things just went really, really sideways.

00:39:47.000 It was very, very awkward.

00:39:49.000 What do you say a woman is? 1.00

00:39:52.000 I believe that everyone can identify for themselves.

00:39:58.000 Do you believe then that men can become pregnant and have abortions?

00:40:03.000 Yes.

00:40:04.000 Okay, so that is a Democratic witness trying to explain that abortion is a sexism issue.

00:40:09.000 Her name is Amy Arambide.

00:40:11.000 And she is a pro-abortion activist.

00:40:14.000 She calls herself this.

00:40:16.000 And she's asked if men can give birth.

00:40:19.000 Hard to make the case that this is a sexist issue if you're saying that men can give birth.

00:40:22.000 Also, she fails to understand apparently basic biology because men don't have those parts.

00:40:28.000 I know this is really difficult for Democrats.

00:40:30.000 Somehow, I gotta tell you, it's amazing.

00:40:32.000 I can ask my two-year-old daughter, and invariably she can tell the difference between boys and girls, but you can ask sophisticated pro-abortion witnesses in front of Congress what a girl is and they can't explain it. 0.98

00:40:43.000 Truly, these people are either the greatest sophisticates the world has ever seen, uncovering new truths day by day, or they are some of the biggest morons that have ever been capable of performing basic breathing functions on this planet. 0.97

00:40:56.000 Anyway, she also had some other words to say that were quite ugly. 0.97

00:41:00.000 So she was asked by a congressman named Johnson, She was asked about abortion, and when abortion is appropriate, and can you make any logical distinction between aborting a two-year-old child who's already been born, or a nine-month-old child, or a baby who is just about to be born?

00:41:14.000 And here's her answer.

00:41:17.000 So abortion should be allowed then, by your definition, for any reason, for any purpose, at any stage, right?

00:41:23.000 I trust people to make decisions about their body, and then when relevant, I think that they need to consult their medical Listen, let me just ask you this question.

00:41:33.000 If it is not lawful and morally acceptable to take the life of a ten-year-old child, I assume you agree with that, right? 0.99

00:41:38.000 That would be wrong, correct?

00:41:41.000 I believe that is wrong.

00:41:42.000 And a two-year-old child, same thing, that would be murder.

00:41:44.000 We would all agree that's wrong.

00:41:45.000 Then what is the principal distinction between the human being that is two years old, or nine months old, or one week old, or an hour old, than one that is eight inches further up the birth canal in the utero?

00:41:56.000 What's the difference?

00:41:58.000 I trust people to determine what to do with their own bodies.

00:42:00.000 Wow.

00:42:02.000 Full stop.

00:42:03.000 Full stop indeed.

00:42:03.000 Wow.

00:42:05.000 Full stop.

00:42:07.000 You gotta love the verbal fry there.

00:42:08.000 Full stop.

00:42:09.000 Yeah.

00:42:10.000 I trust women. 0.89

00:42:12.000 These people have not thought through the issues.

00:42:14.000 There is this really funny moment in that clip where he asks, you know, I assume that you think killing 10 year olds is wrong.

00:42:19.000 And she actually has to pause for a second because she's trying to figure out where he's going with this and now it's going to be awkward for her.

00:42:25.000 It's like, so killing 10 year olds is wrong, right?

00:42:30.000 Yeah. 0.94

00:42:32.000 I guess.

00:42:33.000 Hey, well, that should be an easy one, right?

00:42:35.000 But it's not an easy one. 0.96

00:42:36.000 Because when you've been brought up to believe that every dumb sentence that comes out of your mouth is some sort of pearl of wisdom, this is how you get there.

00:42:42.000 Of course, this is not a shock because there is a quick indicator, honestly, there's a quick indicator as to people that you should trust when it comes to science. 0.51

00:42:49.000 Or morality, as it turns out.

00:42:51.000 And that is whether they list their pronouns in their Twitter bio.

00:42:54.000 If you do this, if you're a pronoun lister in your Twitter bio, And you don't happen to be a transgender person who's attempting to get people to call them by biologically inappropriate and inappropriate pronouns. 0.59

00:43:05.000 You're just a cisgender person who does this, and this means that you've bought into a completely non-scientific ideology that has nothing to do with reality. 0.93

00:43:12.000 And so, I don't think we should trust you on these issues.

00:43:15.000 When you lead off your congressional testimony by announcing your pronouns, things get awkward.

00:43:19.000 Here is this same witness.

00:43:22.000 My name is Amy Arambide.

00:43:24.000 I use she, her pronouns, and I'm a We Testify abortion storyteller. 0.61

00:43:28.000 and the Executive Director of Avow, an organization that strives for unrestricted abortion care and reproductive rights for all Texans through community building, education, and political I don't know why she identifies as she-her.

00:43:41.000 I mean, pronouns are just descriptors of nothing, apparently, because you can just determine what you wish to be called at any given time.

00:43:47.000 So that's exciting stuff.

00:43:50.000 She was called in the affirmative.

00:43:51.000 I mean, like, the Republicans should have called that witness.

00:43:54.000 That is not a good witness.

00:43:56.000 Speaking of bad witnesses, the Democrats also called a witness to testify as to when there should be abortion restrictions.

00:44:03.000 And this witness is like, never, ever, at all, for any reason, ever, What point in pregnancy should having an abortion no longer be an option?

00:44:12.000 As a medical doctor, I understand that every pregnancy is unique and different.

00:44:18.000 I also understand that patients need to have access to care, pregnant people, as the pregnancy progresses, and that may be for various reasons.

00:44:26.000 Okay, so that is Dr. Yoshiko Robinson explaining that you should be able to abort a baby, like, forever.

00:44:31.000 Like, all the way.

00:44:33.000 And one of the representatives there says, if a child is halfway delivered out of the birth canal, is it permissible to have an abortion?

00:44:39.000 She said, I can't fathom that ever happening.

00:44:41.000 And the congressman said, I'm not asking if you can fathom it.

00:44:44.000 Can you support it?

00:44:45.000 And the doctor said, I can't imagine.

00:44:47.000 I can't answer a question that I can't imagine.

00:44:50.000 Um, what?

00:44:52.000 So, you've never answered these questions? 0.97

00:44:56.000 Perhaps the dumbest defense of abortion was left to Democratic Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee. 1.00

00:45:00.000 This is just idiotic. 1.00

00:45:03.000 Here he is trying to explain that the Constitution protects abortion because it doesn't say the word fetus in it. 1.00

00:45:10.000 Now abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution, but fetus is not mentioned in the Constitution either.

00:45:16.000 And the Constitution doesn't say anything about when life starts.

00:45:20.000 That is something the courts have to decide because it's not mentioned in the Constitution.

00:45:25.000 And for the courts to Absolve themselves of it and get away from it is wrong.

00:45:29.000 That's amazing!

00:45:29.000 So he says it's not mentioned in the Constitution, so the courts have to decide.

00:45:33.000 No, that's not the way this works.

00:45:34.000 If it's not mentioned in the Constitution, legislatures get to decide.

00:45:37.000 You're a member of a legislature.

00:45:39.000 Ugh.

00:45:40.000 You wonder why Democrats moved on from that abortion issue so fast?

00:45:42.000 Remember, this was supposed to be their big get-out-the-vote effort?

00:45:44.000 And they moved off of that real fast because it's bad for them.

00:45:47.000 You know what else is bad for them?

00:45:48.000 The economy.

00:45:48.000 You know what else is bad for them?

00:45:49.000 Race talk.

00:45:50.000 People don't like it.

00:45:51.000 People are annoyed by it.

00:45:52.000 They're annoyed by it because it's usually predicated on basic lies about the nature of your neighbors. 0.95

00:45:57.000 Most Americans don't actually believe that their neighbors are vicious, horrible racists.

00:46:00.000 What they do believe is that their money is going less far.

00:46:03.000 So Democrats, they're cruising for a bruising.

00:46:04.000 All of these misdirect tactics are not going to work, and they are beginning to realize it, which means things are going to get a lot uglier before they get better in this country pre-election.

00:46:12.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:46:14.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Nolan Show that's available right now.

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00:46:47.000 The abortion industry sends its best and brightest to flop on Capitol Hill.

00:46:51.000 Joe Biden compares mass murder in Buffalo to the Capitol protest on January 6th.

00:46:57.000 And the Disinformation Governance Board takes a brief pause.

The Ben Shapiro Show - May 19, 2022

The Short-Lived Biden Ministry Of Truth Is Dead | Ep. 1498

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