America is in the middle of a moral and economic crisis, and these two things are deeply interconnected. A really interesting article from Axios by a columnist named Zachary Basu exposes how a lack of shame can be a crucial survival skill in a post-shame society, and why we are reaching the pinnacle of a post shame society forged by Donald Trump and reinforced by powerful patrons. But is this a good thing or a bad thing? And what is the difference between a shame-based society and a guilt-based one? And why are we so obsessed with shaming people for not doing the things we're supposed to do? In this episode, we talk about why we don't have a "post shame society," and how we have gone from a society where people felt an internal sense of guilt to one where society sets the standard, and makes you feel ashamed for not having done the things you were told to do, to a society that makes you lose face, and what the public thinks of you because you don't do the things society says you should do, and you're shamed into saying things you should have done, and that you should apologize for them. And that's why we need a shame based society, not a guilt based one, and we need to learn how to be a better version of ourselves, and how to apologize for what we've been told we should be doing, and not apologize for the things that have been done wrong. This episode is brought to you by a cultural anthropologist. . Guest: Dr. David Rothkopio, a professor at the University of Toronto, who specialises in the history of American shame and shame, and whose work focuses on the evolution of post-based societies, and his new book, "Post-shaming America." The Post-Shame Society: How We Became a Post Shame Society: The New York Times Bestseller, The Postshame Society. He's also a regular contributor at the New York Magazine, and a frequent contributor at The Daily Beast, and is a writer at The Huffington Post, as well as a writer for The Daily Wire, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New Republic, The Onion, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. Thank you for listening to this episode of the podcast, and I hope you enjoy this episode and tweet me what you think of it! Tweet me to let me know what you thought of it.
00:00:00.000America is in the middle of a very serious moral and also economic crisis, and these two things are deeply interconnected.
00:00:07.000There is a really interesting article from Axios by a columnist named Zachary Basu.
00:00:13.000It's interesting because of what it exposes.
00:00:15.000The article is titled, Never Back Down, Rich and Powerful Exploit, Post-Shame Society.
00:00:21.000And here's what he says, America is reaching the pinnacle of a post-shame society forged by Donald Trump and reinforced by powerful patrons.
00:00:28.000Nearly 50 years after Richard Nixon resigned before ever being charged with a crime, the GOP is a month away from nominating a convicted felon to be president.
00:00:34.000Polls suggest the race is extremely close.
00:00:37.000While he may represent the most extreme example, Trump isn't the only one who has realized a lack of shame can be a crucial survival skill.
00:00:43.000Well, put aside the fact that our quote-unquote post-shame political society actually arrived with Bill Clinton when it turned out that you could overtly make the case that it was fine to shtoop the interns because that was, you know, just a sex issue.
00:00:56.000Post-shame society has been in place for a very long time in the United States.
00:01:00.000The real question in the United States is why, in fact, we don't have a guilt-based society.
00:01:05.000So cultural anthropologists distinguish between two different types of society when it comes to sort of internal feelings about things that you have done wrong.
00:01:13.000What they call guilt-based societies and shame-based societies.
00:01:16.000So guilt-based societies are internally directed.
00:01:20.000They are typically linked with Judaic and Christian moral systems.
00:01:23.000These would be systems where you feel guilty before God because you have violated God's moral scruples.
00:01:31.000You feel like an internal sense of guilt.
00:01:32.000Whether or not anybody knows about what you did, you feel internal guilt.
00:01:36.000A shame-based society is one in which society sets the standard.
00:01:40.000And society makes you feel ashamed, And makes you quote-unquote lose face.
00:01:44.000This is very much associated by cultural anthropologists with countries like Japan or China.
00:01:50.000The sort of idea is that you will be shamed into doing the right thing.
00:01:54.000Now something has happened in America over the course of the last several decades as religion has declined.
00:01:58.000Guilt-based society has shifted into shame-based society, which has shifted into a post-shame society.
00:02:06.000So we used to be a guilt-based society where, you know, people felt an internal obligation to do the moral thing.
00:02:10.000On the political level, what this meant is that politicians felt an actual sense of responsibility to solve the problems they were charged with solving.
00:02:18.000Not that they had to be shamed into doing it as much, but they felt like an internal moral compulsion to try to do things that they'd been tasked with doing.
00:02:28.000That they actually had a moral duty to do the right thing.
00:02:31.000And then, since the decline of religion, since the decline of people believing in moral absolutes, people started to believe in a shame-based society, and political correctness basically replaced, in our moral system, God.
00:02:43.000People were going to shame you into saying or feeling certain things.
00:02:47.000And that, of course, has sort of reared its ugly head again in wokeness.
00:02:49.000This idea that you can be shamed into using the proper pronouns.
00:02:53.000You have to be shamed into saying untrue things about how America is a white supremacist society.
00:02:58.000A shame-based society, which is the reason why you see people put flag emojis in their Twitter profiles, or why you see people put the dumb lawn signs on their lawn that talk about, in this house we believe... That's a shame-based society.
00:03:09.000Because, again, it's all directed toward the public.
00:03:14.000So we shifted from a guilt-based society in which your own internal moral standard, which typically had been shaped by your moral upbringing, made you feel certain ways about doing what you were supposed to do into a shame-based society in which the society itself is going to shame you I don't think that has to do with Donald Trump, per se.
00:03:30.000if you didn't do those things, you had to post the black square during BLM,
00:03:34.000and you had to proclaim your solidarity with people who are rioting,
00:03:36.000or you would be shamed in public for not having done so.
00:03:40.000And now we have reached the sort of reaction to that, which is the post-shame society.
00:03:43.000I don't think this columnist is wrong in the sense that we are a post-shame society.
00:03:47.000I don't think that has to do with Donald Trump per se.
00:03:49.000I think that has to do with our entire rootless, godless system.
00:03:54.000That once you have a society that cast out God in favor of societal shaming,
00:03:58.000and then replace societal shaming with the blowback to that, which is,
00:04:01.000okay, well, obviously the standards of the society are just wrong.
00:04:04.000So we're not gonna go back to internal feelings about.
00:04:08.000A moral God and what he demands of us.
00:04:10.000We're just going to go to effectively moral relativism in which society has set really bad standards.
00:04:15.000So we're just going to have no standards at all.
00:04:17.000And what you end up with is shamelessness on every single side and the political realm.
00:04:22.000What that means is that our politicians are frivolous.
00:04:25.000And they are shameless, and they are stupid, and they don't care about the actual problems that are facing the United States of America on a broad scale, which is why I'm quite pessimistic about the possibility that our politicians actually solve our problems, because they don't feel that they are somehow implicated in our country's problems on a moral level.
00:04:42.000They don't feel a higher moral impulse to do the right thing because it's the right thing.
00:04:48.000Because very few Americans these days, unless they are, I would say, regular churchgoers, people who are deeply ensconced in a religious community, people don't feel that anymore.
00:04:56.000The internal compulsion to do the right thing.
00:04:58.000They feel the shame-based society if they're on the left, or the post-shame society if they are on the right.
00:05:03.000And what you end up with in any case is just frivolity.
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00:06:15.000So at the White House, which is supposed to be there to solve, you know, serious American problems.
00:06:20.000And we'll get to the serious American problems in a moment.
00:06:22.000Things have just evolved into ridiculous displays of solidarity with particular interest groups, lest they be shamed by those interest groups.
00:06:32.000Because again, the White House is subject to the woke mandates of the society to which it holds itself standard.
00:06:39.000So Jonathan Van Ness from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, I suppose, he showed up to the White House, and he arrived at the White House, was greeted by Kamala Harris at the White House, There's still, by the way, families of the soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan who have never been to the White House.
00:06:55.000But Jonathan Van Ness has been to the White House.
00:06:57.000Not just that, here he was in the White House press room addressing the journalists assembled.
00:07:04.000Today, everyone, to the White House, I'd like to briefly answer some questions.
00:09:01.000The signs of a post-shame stupid and frivolous society in which no moral standard is actually upheld other than perhaps sometimes the societal shaming that comes from the very woke left.
00:09:11.000This is an opportunity to redeem yourself.
00:09:14.000And if you could name three LGBTQ advisors for your campaign, and three drag queens in San Francisco.
00:09:24.000Can you name three drag queens in San Francisco?
00:09:27.000The issues that the American people demand that there be answers to.
00:09:31.000And listen, we can all laugh at San Francisco, but the reality is that so much of our politics these days revolves around the frivolous and the stupid.
00:09:38.000And the reality is that the world is a very serious place.
00:10:30.000And in the United States, we've got serious problems as well.
00:10:34.000In fact, the serious problems facing the United States have worldwide ramifications.
00:10:38.000And yet the political class is totally frivolous, totally stupid.
00:10:43.000The political class in the United States, there are some serious people in Congress who I think are there for the right reasons.
00:10:48.000I think that you do have particular politicians who may be interested in solving problems from time to time.
00:10:54.000But overall, the general arc of the political universe in the United States bends towards foolish frivolity, toward bread and games, as the Republic dies from the inside.
00:11:06.000So here is a chart of the Republic dying from the inside.
00:11:09.000This is a chart from the Federal Reserve, and what it shows here is the federal government's national defense consumption expenditures and gross investments, that is the defense budget, and the federal government current expenditures on interest payments on our debt.
00:11:24.000Our debt now exceeds, it now exceeds what we pay, the interest payments on our debts, now exceed what we spend on national defense every year.
00:11:35.000If what we are paying to bondholders, many of whom are foreign bondholders, exceeds what we are spending on our national defense, that is the sign of an unstable and sick governmental structure.
00:11:48.000It means that we are not going to have the actual resources in order to arm up to face a hostile world, to keep the seas free.
00:11:56.000We are not going to have the ability to ensure shipping lanes.
00:11:58.000We're not going to have the ability to, for example, defend Taiwan in case of a Chinese blockade of Taiwan.
00:12:03.000A Chinese blockade of Taiwan, disrupting the semiconductor market, by the way, would amount to a global depression of extreme severity.
00:12:12.000Meanwhile, Jonathan Van Ness is at the White House gallivanting around in a dress.
00:12:15.000I mean, I guess that's the really, really important stuff that's happening.
00:12:18.000Because obviously, the post-shame society demands that you do whatever you can to pander to particular constituencies.
00:12:24.000In fact, the national debt is now so extreme that by 2034, it's going to exceed $50 trillion.
00:12:34.000According to the Congressional Budget Office, they projected yesterday that the federal debt will exceed 122% of the U.S.' 's annual economic output by 2034.
00:12:41.000The deficit will swell to $1.9 trillion this fiscal year and keep growing until the overall national debt hits $50.7 trillion a decade from now.
00:12:51.000That is according to the nonpartisan bookkeeper for Congress.
00:12:53.000By the way, it's going to go way higher than this, because if you think that the debt numbers that we're looking at right now are the end of the debt problem, you got another thing coming.
00:13:01.000The budget in the United States continues to expand.
00:13:04.000Medicare and Social Security are running low on funds.
00:13:06.000Within just a few years, the interest on the debt is going to exceed the payments that we owe for Social Security.
00:13:13.000Now again, this is a bipartisan problem because our frivolous political class doesn't feel any sort of guilt-based Moral impetus to solve serious problems.
00:13:21.000In fact, you were supposed to push those serious problems into next week for the purposes of winning today.
00:13:26.000And then once you win, what are the actual demands that are made upon you?
00:13:31.000The demands of a party on its leaders, once those leaders are in power, seem to be somewhat minimal at best, particularly when it comes to the very serious issues of the day.
00:13:40.000You also have a collective action problem.
00:13:42.000In order to solve very serious problems, you're going to have to do things that are generally unpopular with the populace that looks at the impact of the policies here and now, rather than 10 or 15 years from now.
00:13:52.000This is one of the reasons why we have a republic, not a democracy.
00:13:55.000Because the mob, the general public, tends to think in terms of what do I want today?
00:14:00.000It is the job of politicians to telescope and balance those needs with the needs of a country in the future.
00:14:06.000But our politicians don't want to do this anymore.
00:14:08.000They've abdicated any sort of guilt-based obligation.
00:14:13.000To do the unpopular thing because it happens to also be the right thing.
00:14:17.000So the debt continues to shoot up under both Republicans and Democrats.
00:14:19.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:15:23.000Myama Guinness, the President of the Committee for Responsible Federal Budgets, said at a moment we should be looking At what spending to reduce and how to increase revenue, The National Agenda is full of conversations about huge new tax cuts and major spending initiatives.
00:15:33.000The risks we run from this growing mountain of debt run the gamut from slower economic growth to lower incomes, an inability to respond to emergencies, and a weaker role in the world.
00:15:41.000Nothing could be more urgent, but none of the leaders have a plan to address this glaring problem.
00:15:45.000Now, I don't believe that tax increases are going to result in quite the boon to tax revenues that Democrats seem to think that they will because already Americans pay fairly hefty federal taxes at the upper end of the scale.
00:15:57.000The reality is that if you want to really increase tax revenue in the United States, you're going to have to do exactly what the European countries have done and actually lower the taxable basis, meaning that you're going to have higher tax rates kick in at a lower number.
00:16:09.000Right now, people who are making over $400,000 a year are paying the lion's share of the taxes in the United States, or at least a huge percentage of the taxes, far disproportionate to their actual earnings in the United States.
00:16:19.000If you look at Europe, the only way that they can even pretend to support those gigantic,
00:16:23.000unhinged budgets is by taxing people who make $40,000, $50,000, $60,000 a year at 60 or 70%.
00:16:29.000But according to the Washington Post, the debt burden could present risks in bond markets as
00:16:35.000creditors look increasingly skeptically at the government's ability to make good on its ballooning
00:16:41.000That, by the way, will lead to inflation.
00:16:43.000Because the reality is that in order to buy back the bonds, for example, you're going to have to pay in inflated dollars.
00:16:50.000If you don't have the regular dollars, you're gonna have to make up those dollars somewhere, typing a zero on a keyboard.
00:16:56.000At the Federal Reserve is going to be an easier way of generating the money to pay back debt than is generating the sort of economic growth necessary to support the kind of budgets that we have been blowing out here.
00:17:08.000This is why it's so unthinkable what Joe Biden has been doing with the federal budget.
00:17:12.000It is one thing to suggest in 2020 in the middle of a pandemic where nobody knew whether you were even allowed to go outside for the first few months.
00:17:19.000That the budget had to increase in order to compensate for that, because basically the government said you couldn't run your business.
00:17:24.000And so they had to compensate people for that.
00:17:26.000It's another thing to say, once people are back at work, we're still going to blow out the budget to the tune of $7 trillion a year.
00:17:33.000Michael Peterson of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, he says, the harmful effects of higher interest rates fueling higher interest costs on a huge existing debt load are continuing and leading to additional borrowing.
00:17:45.000So because we now have increased the interest rates in order to lower the inflation, that also means that we are paying higher rates on our debt.
00:17:53.000The new bonds that are going out the door are higher rates.
00:17:56.000Because of that, that is increasing our national debt, or at least the interest payments on that national debt.
00:18:01.000The problem is if we lower those interest rates, then the inflation goes back up.
00:18:06.000These numbers, if anybody understood them, would be terrifying.
00:18:11.000Federal banking regulations have been slow to recover payments from recently failed institutions.
00:18:15.000Projected Medicare outlays increased by $50 billion.
00:18:18.000Again, the annual budget spending versus revenue is going to continue to increase.
00:18:26.000That delta is going to continue to increase.
00:18:29.000And that's the thing that nobody wants to actually take responsibility for, is solving the serious problems that face the country, let alone face the world.
00:18:37.000We're happy to argue at the tip of the iceberg over Frivolous issues or issues that maybe are not frivolous but implicate deeper moral policies but in terms of the actual reasons the government was instituted you know in order to provide for the national defense or if you are looking at the rationale for having a government that provides goods and services to its people at some point you're going to have to have a stable basis for that government but none of our politicians are capable of even looking down the line at that because they have
00:19:08.000They have no, again, there's no internal compass driving them to solve the problem.
00:19:12.000And that is a real bipartisan problem.
00:19:14.000Neil Ferguson talks about the consequences of this in a piece over at the Free Press.
00:19:17.000So Neil's a terrific historian, and he's writing now over at Barry Weiss's Free Press, which is an excellent publication that is well worth your time.
00:19:25.000He has a piece basically asking whether the United States has become the Soviet Union, not because we have a centralized economy, but because we seem to be a state that's in a bit of collapse.
00:19:35.000He says, there's a world of difference between the dysfunctional planned economy Stalin built and bequeathed his heirs, which collapsed as soon as Mikhail Gorbachev tried to reform it, and the dynamic market economy we Americans take pride in.
00:19:45.000In America today, the bad conditions of the Soviet Union exist only in the bottom quintile of the economic distribution.
00:19:52.000But he says a chronic soft budget constraint in the public sector, which was a key weakness of the Soviet system.
00:20:37.000defense budget does indeed exceed those of all the other members of NATO put together, but what exactly does that defense budget actually buy us?
00:20:43.000Senator Roger Wicker has a brand new report talking about the status of the military.
00:20:48.000He says that our military is not nearly enough to contend with the coalition against democracy being built by China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
00:20:54.000In Whitaker's words, quote, America's military has a lack of modern equipment, a paucity of training and maintenance
00:20:59.000funding, a massive infrastructure backlog.
00:21:01.000It is stretched too thin, outfitted too poorly to meet all the missions assigned to it at a reasonable level of risk.
00:21:06.000Our adversaries recognize this. It makes them more adventurous and aggressive.
00:21:11.000And apparently, according to the CBO, again, the share of GDP going on interest payments on the federal debt will be
00:21:16.000double what we spent on national security by 2041.
00:21:20.000You're going to be spending twice as much on just the interest payments on the debt as we currently spend, or as what we will spend, on national security by 2041.
00:21:29.000And again, that is also due to the fact that we are squeezing defense spending down at a time when Russia and China are getting significantly more aggressive.
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00:22:38.000I mean, in today's foreign policy news, the Russians are meeting with the North Koreans.
00:22:43.000Mainly because they're looking for armaments from the North Koreans.
00:22:46.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Kim rolled out the red carpet for the Russian despot with a glitzy welcome ceremony at an airport in Pyongyang.
00:22:53.000The two dictators were pictured shaking hands, hugging each other on the runway, before entering the same limousine, which set off behind a huge motorcade involving dozens of motorbikes.
00:23:02.000Making his first trip to North Korea in 24 years, Putin said he appreciates the country's firm support of his military actions in Ukraine.
00:23:07.000The Kremlin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, of course, in 2022.
00:23:10.000he said the countries would continue to quote resolutely oppose what he described as western
00:23:15.000ambitions to hinder the establishment of a multipolar world order based on justice,
00:23:19.000mutual respect for sovereignty, considering each other's interests. By the way, who thinks that the
00:23:23.000Russians are really looking for a multilateral world order based on justice, mutual respect
00:23:28.000for sovereignty, and considering each other's interests?
00:23:30.000Has Russia ever considered the interests of another country?
00:23:54.000Americans seem to believe, we do, we all seem to believe, that we live in this magical utopian fantasy, post the Cold War, where history has ended, where the world is filled with nice people now.
00:24:07.000And so the United States can blow all of its money on a variety of gags and stupidities, and meanwhile, lower our military budget, and not think about our structural problems in a serious way, and everything will just sort of be okay.
00:24:21.000We saw the consequences of this stupid thinking based on the inflation that jumped into play in 2020-2021.
00:24:30.000Up to then, the kind of highest form of this, the apex predator of this theory that everything was fine and we lived in the post-historical world was the Elizabeth Warren modern monetary policy idiocy that suggested that you could endlessly spend money and it would never come due at all.
00:25:18.000But what is true is that you don't require a noblesse oblige to see duties to your fellow citizens, and duties to your country, and duties to your God.
00:25:27.000A society in which everyone has been freed of the guilt of a moral order in which you have obligations, a society in which everybody has been freed of the shame of the people around them who also believe in that moral order, is a society completely unmoored.
00:25:43.000You're just gonna have a bunch of frivolous people tap dancing on the deck of the Titanic.
00:25:48.000I mean, it's what our politics feels like.
00:25:49.000I think it's what's making everybody so despondent about the current presidential race and our politics just generally, is it is, in fact, a clown show.
00:25:58.000And that is why it rings so hollow when Joe Biden, who has been a frivolous president, he's been a frivolous, foolish president, when he attacks Donald Trump with an ad suggesting that Donald Trump is really concerned about himself, but Joe Biden is concerned about you and higher principle, it doesn't ring true.
00:26:16.000Donald Trump, as I've said many, many times, is not the killer of American politics, he's the coroner.
00:26:22.000He stumbled upon the dead body of American politics, and he said, look, it's dead, and everybody blamed him and suggested that he was responsible for the death and frivolity of American politics, but it long predated him.
00:26:32.000And in fact, his administration, in terms of policy, was far more serious than the administration that immediately preceded it, Barack Obama's, and the administration that immediately took over, Joe Biden's.
00:26:44.000But here is Joe Biden trying to pretend that he is still living in this sort of morality-based world.
00:26:49.000Joe Biden hasn't lived in that world his entire political career.
00:26:51.000He's a lifelong corrupt politician who's shifted his position on every major issue.
00:26:56.000He doesn't feel any sense of obligation, moral obligation, to solve the major problems of the country.
00:27:04.000But here's the ad that he's unleashing on Donald Trump.
00:27:07.000In the courtroom, we see Donald Trump for who he is.
00:27:10.000He's been convicted of 34 felonies, found liable for sexual assault, and he committed financial fraud.
00:27:18.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden's been working, lowering healthcare costs, and making big corporations pay their fair share.
00:27:26.000This election is between a convicted criminal who's only out for himself, and a president who's fighting for your family.
00:27:34.000I'm Joe Biden, and I approve this message.
00:27:37.000The only family that Joe Biden has ever fought for is his own, and that's only in terms of the cash to bring in.
00:27:43.000He's perfectly willing to deploy his drug-addled son all over the world to pick up bags of cash on behalf of the family business.
00:27:49.000It's like a freighter where the actual godfather is Joe Biden.
00:27:53.000The reason, by the way, that he's unleashing these ads right now is because he's getting clobbered in the polls right now.
00:27:58.000I mean, the polls for Joe Biden continue to be just bad.
00:28:00.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:29:03.000According to internal sources of the Democratic Party, reporting to Politico, We've seen in polling since the conviction, the more the conviction is in front and center in voters' attention, the worse it is for Trump.
00:29:14.000The pollsters said their research concluded Trump's conviction could effectively be used in a broader depiction of Trump as being self-centered and unwilling to take responsibility for his actions.
00:29:21.000But of course, Joe Biden is the same thing.
00:29:25.000Once you have two candidates who the American public generally dislikes and considers frivolous, they're just going to ask the simple question, which one will be better for me?
00:29:33.000And the answer is pretty obviously, Donald Trump will be better for them.
00:29:37.000This is why I think every attempt by the Biden administration to play their man as some sort of serious thinker and serious doer, a person with a moral compulsion to fix the problems of the country, I think all of that is doomed to failure.
00:29:49.000When Rachel Maddow is out there saying that Joe Biden has made the United States the envy of the world, the question is, which world is she talking about?
00:30:41.000This is a White House that welcomes Jonathan Van Ness to prance around in the White House press corps room and hang out with Kamala Harris.
00:30:48.000And I'm supposed to believe these are serious people?
00:30:51.000In just one second, we'll get to more serious policy from the Biden administration.
00:30:54.000Again, one of our very serious problems in the country is a vast wave of illegal immigration that has been spurred by Joe Biden himself.
00:31:19.000The nation is barreling toward disaster, with soaring inflation, a border crisis, urban decay, and rising crime.
00:31:23.000That's why The Daily Wire is bringing you front-row access to watch every second of this crucial debate live at Daily Wire+.
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00:31:51.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the immigration situation, Joe Biden has in fact decided to waive penalties for undocumented spouses of American citizens.
00:32:01.000So we have a massive crisis at the border, a wide open border, some seven plus million people illegally in the United States since Joe Biden took office that we know about.
00:32:12.000And his decision is that he is going to now legalize many of the illegal immigrants who are already here.
00:32:17.000According to the Washington Post, the policy shift is a bold move for the Democratic president months before the November elections.
00:32:26.000And a rebuke to congressional Republicans who have ignored his calls to expand border security and to create a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, many for decades.
00:32:36.000So there was going to be a celebration at the White House to mark the 12-year anniversary of DACA.
00:32:41.000Well, now he's accelerating more of this.
00:32:45.000Is this a person trying to solve a problem?
00:32:47.000Or is this a person who's tap dancing on the deck of the Titanic, hoping to win enough votes to maintain his seat until he plots it and leaves Kamala Harris in charge?
00:32:56.000He's doing this even as cities that are ruled by Democrats are whining and complaining about the influx of illegal immigrants.
00:33:02.000I say whining and complaining because when you call yourself a sanctuary city, and then people are like, oh, we'll take you up on that, and then you complain about it, you're a whiner.
00:33:09.000However, the New York Times is reporting that all over the country, Cities are saying, we don't have any room for you.
00:33:17.000According to the New York Times, the bright orange flyers from the state of Utah were blunt.
00:33:21.000There is no room in shelters, no hotels for you.
00:33:24.000It continues, housing is hard to find and expensive.
00:33:28.000Utah has been in recent days urging newcomers at the border and in the United States to consider another state.
00:33:34.000After traveling to the Texas border from Venezuela with their two sons, An illegal immigrant man and an illegal immigrant woman crossed into the United States last September and were soon on a bus chartered by the state of Texas, bound for Denver.
00:33:45.000The couple expected that the man would quickly find a job and they'd begin building a new life.
00:33:48.000Like many of the other migrants, he couldn't work legally.
00:33:50.000He was competing with odd jobs with other migrants in the same predicament.
00:33:54.000Their hotel stay was paid for by the city of Denver.
00:33:57.000So now they headed on over to Salt Lake City.
00:34:00.000But it turns out that people there aren't willing to pay the bills either.
00:34:03.000So what is Joe Biden's solution to all this?
00:34:04.000What if we just create a new legalized system for people to get in the country and become citizens, and then presumably, again, be dependent on public services?
00:34:16.000You know, again, all of this is happening in the middle of reports suggesting, according to Breitbart, that after 12 years of DACA, after 12 years of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Apparently, some 68,000 illegal immigrants with prior arrest records have been granted DACA as of October 2019.
00:34:36.000Fewer than 30,000 illegal aliens with prior arrests were denied DACA or had their DACA status terminated as a result.
00:34:42.000More than 25,000 illegal aliens were granted DACA despite having been arrested for drunk driving.
00:34:47.000Along with roughly 3,300 previously arrested for assault, nearly 1,500 previously arrested for burglary, almost 600 previously arrested for hit-and-run, 259 previously arrested for sex, abuse, or child rape were given DACA.
00:34:59.000More than 170 previously arrested for kidnapping.
00:35:05.000The lack of vetting in the process, as Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughn recently warned.
00:35:13.000She said the lenient eligibility criteria and light and lean background checks directed by Director Alejandro Mayorkas meant that many individuals with criminal histories were able to obtain DACA.
00:35:23.000According to a USCIS report, about 12% of all DACA applicants had arrest records, including assault, battery, and driving under the influence.
00:35:30.000And 85% of those applicants were then approved.
00:35:33.000And Joe Biden solved for this problem?
00:35:35.000What if we waive penalties for undocumented spouses?
00:35:39.000So obviously this is an election year stunt.
00:35:40.000It's an attempt to garner Hispanic votes, presumably far left youth votes.
00:35:45.000But Kareem Jean-Pierre says it's not an election year stunt, of course.
00:35:49.000Look, I'm not here to talk about election year.
00:35:56.000That's not what I'm here to talk about.
00:35:57.000I'm here to talk about the president's policy and why he's doing this because we have a broken immigration system.
00:36:03.000The president did this on his first day when he put forth that comprehensive immigration system.
00:36:17.000She was also asked whether the immigration system can actually handle the increased strain of Joe Biden's immigration policy.
00:36:23.000She has no answers on that, of course.
00:36:24.000The administration confident that U.S.
00:36:27.000citizenship and immigration services can handle possibly hundreds of thousands of new applications, given the current backlog of other immigration applications.
00:36:37.000So, look, we have always said, and I said this at the top, like the way that we would love to move forward is in a more balanced approach, obviously.
00:36:47.000and get that bipartisanship from Congress.
00:36:50.000The first day of his administration, as I've already stated, and I've stated this many times,
00:36:55.000we wanted to see a comprehensive immigration process, a legislation.
00:37:00.000That's what the president put forward.
00:37:03.000Again, it is just amazing to me how this administration continues to avoid the big issues,
00:37:08.000like most of our political class, in favor of simple electioneering.
00:37:25.000It's just frivolous nonsense combined with bad policy.
00:37:29.000Meanwhile, speaking of the world of frivolous politics, there is a congressional election, a special election primary, well, it's a primary anyway, that is going to be held in the district where the seat is currently occupied by Representative Jamal Bowman.
00:38:22.000He fits into a clown car along with the rest of the squad.
00:38:25.000Well, Jamal Bowman has come under serious fire because, of course, Jamal Bowman is openly anti-Semitic.
00:38:30.000He says things all the time that are patently insane.
00:38:33.000In late spring 2022, for example, he apparently reached out to a local Jewish leader in Westchester County to ask for an unusual favor as he prepared to defend his seat in an August primary against two Democratic challengers who were gaining support from his district's sizable Jewish community.
00:38:48.000His district has a lot of Jews who live in it.
00:38:50.000So he texted the Jewish leader, quote, do you have pics of us so I can show the world I'm friends
00:39:04.000So that's the actual thing that Jamal Bowman did.
00:39:05.000He texted a Jew and was like, do you have a picture of me with a Jew so I can show people I like Jews?
00:39:10.000The Jewish leader, who described the exchange on the condition of anonymity to protect his privacy, did have at least one photo on hand from a Jewish community gathering in Bowman's district months earlier, at which the then-freshman Democrat had vowed to sign onto a House bill aimed at strengthening the Abraham Accords.
00:39:24.000But by the time Bowman sent his request to the Jewish leader in an apparent effort to counter mounting dissatisfaction with his record on Israel amid the campaign, the New York legislator had since reversed course and then pulled his support for the bill.
00:39:35.000Which would, it was named it, further normalizing relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
00:39:40.000I was uncomfortable, the Jewish leader said.
00:39:41.000I kind of joked around with him about it.
00:39:42.000I said, oh, I'm sure you guys have it.
00:40:32.000People in politics are incredibly frivolous, incredibly stupid, and pandering to the most radical population available.
00:40:39.000And that is certainly true of Jamal Bowman, who I certainly hope will lose his primary next week.
00:40:44.000He is claiming that if he loses, it's because of the machinations of AIPAC, not because he's a moron who consistently does stupid things, and says stupid things, and says anti-Semitic things.
00:40:55.000He's not anti-semitic at all, of course.
00:40:57.000Meanwhile, I have to say, Rachel Maddow just made the best case for Donald Trump I may have ever heard.
00:41:02.000So she was on The View yesterday, and apparently, she says that she and Joy Behar, another genius, they say that they are very afraid that if Donald Trump wins the election, that Donald Trump will take them off the air.
00:41:12.000Man, don't threaten me with a good time.
00:41:14.000You said recently that you thought that you, as an outspoken critic, could be a target yourself.
00:41:20.000Some people think that sounds overdramatic, but I'm right there with you.
00:41:23.000I think that he is so vindictive that he will go after however he has to, through the IRS maybe, or even through sponsors to get us off the air maybe, or you.
00:41:36.000How seriously should we be taking that?
00:41:39.000Well, so I was asked, am I worried about me?
00:41:42.000And my answer was, I'm worried about all of us.
00:41:44.000I'm no more worried about me than I am worried about everybody in the country.
00:41:47.000I think it's bad to have somebody saying, give me as much power as you can in this country so I can use it to go after other Americans.
00:41:57.000So I can use it to go after these subhuman internal enemies and I'll destroy them.
00:42:02.000That's just not a good system for anybody.
00:42:05.000Wow, maybe you should take a look at Joe Biden, who literally declared that it was going to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and then did a speech in front of a blood-red-lit Independence Hall in Philadelphia, declaring his political enemies enemies of democracy and the Republic.
00:42:18.000Okay, listen, I've poured a lot of scorn on the frivolous among the Democrats.
00:42:23.000On the Republican side of the aisle, the Wall Street Journal now reports that the House Ethics Committee said on Tuesday it's investigating Florida Republican Representative Matt Gaetz.
00:42:31.000You remember Matt Gaetz from such special episodes as Matt Gaetz decides that Kevin McCarthy shouldn't be Speaker of the House for some unspecified reason and blows up the entire system and nothing gets better.
00:42:43.000Anyway, he's being investigated over allegations that he may have engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use.
00:42:49.000The secretive 10-member panel released a letter Tuesday in which it said it was clarifying its investigation into the fourth-term lawmaker because of the significant and unusual amount of public reporting on the case.
00:42:58.000Gates has denied wrongdoing, he said on social media.
00:43:00.000Past probes, quote, emerged from lies intended solely to smear me.
00:43:03.000The committee is, quote, now opening new frivolous investigations.
00:43:05.000He said the panel is doing this to avoid the obvious fact that every investigation into me ends the same way, my exoneration.
00:43:11.000The DOJ had investigated Gates for several years, beginning in 2020, for allegations of sex trafficking, which he denied.
00:43:16.000That investigation was, in fact, closed without charges.
00:43:18.000The House Ethics Committee continued to probe Gates.
00:43:21.000Gates is facing a primary challenge in his district right now.
00:43:24.000He's likely to win that particular primary.
00:43:26.000It's not a particularly competitive primary, from what I understand.
00:43:28.000The ethics panel said it had difficulty in obtaining relevant information from Gates, and they said they've spoke with more than a dozen witnesses, issued 25 subpoenas, reviewed thousands of pages of documents.
00:43:37.000Apparently, the panel has determined some of the allegations merit review.
00:43:41.000The panel says that it is investigating whether Gates accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges, and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.
00:43:50.000My complaint with Matt Gates is that his frivolity is largely rooted in a disdain for the normal workings of politics inside the House of Representatives, where it's much more interesting to be notorious in social media than it is to actually engage in the hard work of doing the thing that actually is necessary if you're the House of Representatives, which, of course, there are a lot of people in the House who are not interested in doing that.
00:44:10.000This month marks two years since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
00:44:13.000Did you know the number of abortions have actually increased since then?
00:44:16.000New estimates show that more than a million babies were killed by abortion in 2023.
00:44:19.000That's the highest number of abortions since 2012.
00:44:21.000The overturning of Roe v. Wade has unfortunately made the abortion pill more readily available.
00:44:25.000It now accounts for up to 64% of all abortions.
00:44:28.000But Preborn continues to stand strong.
00:44:30.000Preborn is the largest pro-life organization in the country.
00:44:33.000They provide free ultrasounds to moms dealing with unplanned pregnancies to introduce them to the precious life growing inside them.
00:44:38.000When a mother meets her baby on ultrasound and hears the heartbeat, she's twice as likely to choose life.
00:45:09.000And meanwhile, more controversy from the Middle East, of course.
00:45:13.000So, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel yesterday, released a video.
00:45:16.000In which he said to the Biden administration that it was about time that they stopped their quasi-arms embargo.
00:45:22.000This apparently pissed off the White House.
00:45:24.000So the way that it works in this relationship is that the Biden administration can openly attempt to oust Netanyahu from office by deploying Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, to declare that Netanyahu should literally be thrown out of office.
00:45:37.000Their favorite columnist, Barack Ravid, can stump against Netanyahu's coalition every single day.
00:45:42.000Tom Friedman, the utter dullard of the New York Times foreign policy page, who gets all of his opinions from local cab drivers in various locales, wrote a column, I kid you not, in which he claimed just yesterday that, effectively speaking, Netanyahu had to go and Sinwar had to stay.
00:46:01.000That's what Thomas Friedman was effectively saying.
00:46:03.000He said that leaving Sinwar in charge of the Gaza Strip would be a victory He said, yes, yes, I can hear the criticism from the Warhawks right now.
00:46:12.000Friedman, you would let leader Yahya Sinwar come out of his tunnel and declare victory?
00:46:17.000In fact, I wish I could be at the news conference in Gaza when he does, so I could ask the first question.
00:46:20.000And then he writes this little fictional exchange, because Thomas Friedman, my God, that guy, he, there's nothing between his ears, nothing.
00:46:27.000Except for pure venom for Netanyahu, apparently.
00:46:30.000Here's what he writes, I mean, This guy is the leading foreign policy columnist for the New York Times, just to explain how stupid that paper is.
00:46:36.000Quote, I wish I could be at the news conference in Gaza when he does so.
00:46:39.000There will be no news conferences in Gaza!
00:46:42.000What in the hell are you talking about, Thomas Friedman, you dullard?
00:46:57.000A total Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a stable ceasefire.
00:47:00.000If you don't mind, I'd like to stick around for a few days to watch you explain to Gazans how you started an eight-month war so you could get Gaza back to exactly where it was on October 6th in a ceasefire with Israel and no Israeli troops here.
00:47:09.000Another victory like this in Gaza will be permanently unlivable.
00:47:18.000The alternatives, Israel running Gaza or Gaza becoming another Somalia are far worse.
00:47:23.000So we've now come all the way around because Friedman is basically a proxy for the Biden administration from the Biden administration saying that Israel has a duty to extirpate after October 7th to Thomas Friedman saying, He's such a fool.
00:47:37.000He doesn't understand how mentality in the Middle East works at all.
00:47:40.000Yahya Sinwar does not have to run Gaza as a functional government.
00:47:43.000If he did, he would have been ousted long ago.
00:47:59.000Anyway, so Netanyahu cuts a video in which he says that it's about time for the United States to stop the slowing of the flow of weaponry to Israel so they can finish the war in Gaza and move on.
00:48:31.000Israel, America's closest ally, fighting for its life, fighting against Iran and our other
00:48:36.000common enemies. Secretary Blinken assured me that the administration is working day and night to
00:48:42.000remove these bottlenecks. I certainly hope that's the case.
00:48:45.000Okay, so the White House responded with How dare Netanyahu say what we already said publicly?
00:48:52.000Remember, it was Joe Biden who went on CNN and said publicly that he was going to stop the shipment of weapons to Israel if Israel went into Rafah, and then proceeded to actually slow the flow of weapons to Israel.
00:49:03.000So here's Kareem Jean-Pierre, World's Worst Press Secretary, saying we have no idea what he's talking about when he says that the flow of weapons has been slow.
00:49:11.000You literally said that you were going to do that, so I'm confused.
00:49:14.000There was a shipment of bombs paused in early May at the start of the Rafah offensive, but has the administration been withholding weapons and ammunitions for months like Netanyahu seems to be saying?
00:49:26.000Let me just start off by saying that we generally do not know what he's talking about.
00:49:40.000Apparently the White House has now canceled a meeting with the Israelis over Iran policy because they're mad.
00:49:46.000According to Barak Ravid, who again is the sycophant and massager-in-chief for Joe Biden's administration, President Biden's top advisors were enraged by the video.
00:49:55.000The White House decided to go a step farther by cancelling Thursday's meeting.
00:49:58.000Quote, this decision makes it clear there are consequences for pulling such stunts.
00:50:11.000There's an actual war in the Middle East involving an exterminationist terror group and a Democratic ally of the United States, and Joe Biden is very upset because Bibi Netanyahu made a video saying that maybe he should get the weapons.
00:50:22.000By the way, Vladimir Zelensky says that every single day.
00:50:25.000Every day, Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine says that.