The Ben Shapiro Show - There Are Always Red Flags | Ep. 1528

00:00:00.000 While Democrats push gun control and red flag laws, we find out all about the red flag surrounding the latest mass shooter.

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00:01:30.000 Well, the entire world of the left is now consumed with the idea that gun control is the solution to all of our problems.

00:01:37.000 Whenever there is some sort of mass shooting, the answer is that there must be some form of violation of your Second Amendment rights as a law-abiding American citizen.

00:01:37.000 Always.

00:01:46.000 And there's one problem with this.

00:01:48.000 None of the measures that the left likes to propose when it comes to gun control actually would stop the mass shootings that they supposedly are attempting to stop.

00:01:54.000 And this is particularly true when you look at this latest mass shooting in Highland Park.

00:01:57.000 There's a much deeper thing going on in America than simple access to guns.

00:02:03.000 You can say that that's a problem for people who are mentally ill, for people who are criminals, but there is something much deeper going on than just the access to the guns because there are a lot of young men, apparently, who are deeply troubled, who are engaged in evil, And who then carry out those acts of evil on other human beings.

00:02:21.000 And no matter what laws you pass in Illinois and have extraordinarily heavy gun laws, that is not going to stop these acts of evil.

00:02:27.000 There is a systemic problem.

00:02:28.000 There are a lot of broken minds in the United States.

00:02:30.000 And until we actually start to tackle the question of why so many minds are broken in the United States, it's going to be very hard to stop additional acts of evil.

00:02:38.000 Law is merely a mechanism for hemming in human evil.

00:02:41.000 Well, as human evil grows, the thicket of laws is not going to hem that in.

00:02:47.000 As mental illness, I'm talking violent mental illness, grows, no matter what laws are in place, it's not going to hem that sort of stuff in.

00:02:53.000 Because the law is typically directed at those who are likely to be deterred by the law.

00:02:59.000 And when it comes to people who are either completely evil or who are violently mentally ill, the law, as a sort of incentive structure, does not apply to those people.

00:03:09.000 And this is obviously true in the case of this Highland Park shooter.

00:03:11.000 We now know that this Highland Park shooter was known by the police.

00:03:16.000 According to The Hill, officials say the suspect in the shooting at the July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, which left seven people dead, threatened to kill everyone at his house in September of 2019, leading police to arrive and confiscate the knives he had collected.

00:03:31.000 Chris Covelli is a spokesperson for the Lake County Major Crime Task Force.

00:03:34.000 He did a press conference on Tuesday and he explained that this Highland Park shooter had tons of red flags.

00:03:41.000 I'm gonna relay some information from two prior instances that occurred here in Highland Park.

00:03:47.000 The first was in April of 2019.

00:03:48.000 An individual contacted Highland Park Police Department a week after learning of Mr. attempting suicide.

00:04:01.000 Uh, this was a delayed report.

00:04:03.000 So Highland Park still responded to the residents a week later, spoke with parents, and the matter was being handled by mental health professionals at that time.

00:04:14.000 There was no law enforcement action to be taken.

00:04:18.000 It was a mental health issue handled by those professionals.

00:04:21.000 The second occurred in September of 2019.

00:04:24.000 A family member reported that Said he was going to kill everyone and had a collection of knives.

00:04:31.000 The police responded to his residence.

00:04:34.000 The police removed 16 knives, a dagger and a sword from his home.

00:04:38.000 At that time, there was no probable cause to arrest.

00:04:42.000 There were no complaints that were signed by any of the victims.

00:04:46.000 The Highland Park Police Department, however, did immediately notify the Illinois State Police of the incident.

00:04:55.000 Okay, so, we now know that this person had suicidal ideation a couple of years ago.

00:04:59.000 We know that in 2019, this person threatened to kill everyone in his family.

00:05:05.000 We now know that that is the case.

00:05:06.000 We know the police arrived and took away this person's knives.

00:05:10.000 But there's no mechanism in the law by which we actually treat the violently mentally ill.

00:05:14.000 It just doesn't exist because we basically have cleaned out our mental health system.

00:05:19.000 The basic idea is that we're supposed to have essentially mental health first responders.

00:05:23.000 You can put somebody in involuntary commitment for 48 or 72 hour holds if they are possibly violent to themselves or others to sound like this didn't even happen with this person.

00:05:33.000 But we do not have a mechanism by which we actually keep people who are violently mentally ill off the streets, preventing them from killing innocent people.

00:05:40.000 It does not exist in the United States anymore.

00:05:42.000 It used to exist en masse in the 1950s and the 1960s.

00:05:44.000 And then we decided that that was violative of basic individual freedoms and that the system didn't work well enough.

00:05:50.000 And then we decided to basically release those people onto the streets and rely on various mental health drugs in order to hem that in.

00:05:59.000 The problem is a lot of these people don't take their drugs.

00:06:02.000 If you make that on a voluntary basis, a lot of people who are mentally ill don't like taking their drugs because they feel that it blurs sensations, that it makes them feel dampened.

00:06:10.000 And so you have no mechanism for hemming this in.

00:06:13.000 And if you have no mechanism for hemming this in, I'm not talking about gun control here.

00:06:16.000 I'm talking about basic structures that do not exist in our society for taking care of people who are violently mentally ill and keeping them away from people who are innocent. 0.73

00:06:25.000 This sort of stuff is going to happen a lot.

00:06:27.000 So no red flag law would have stopped this because the red flags were everywhere.

00:06:30.000 Illinois has a red flag law.

00:06:33.000 This person was reported to the police.

00:06:35.000 And by the way, then went and legally purchased weapons.

00:06:37.000 So this person, three years ago, had knives removed from them by the cops, and then this person was able to go into a gun shop and apparently legally buy five firearms.

00:06:50.000 According to Mediaite, police say that this person dressed as a woman climbed atop a roof and opened fire on a 4th of July parade.

00:06:58.000 Apparently the dressing as a woman has nothing to do with transgenderism or anything.

00:07:00.000 He was doing this in order to avoid detection by the police. 0.96

00:07:04.000 This person There are pictures of this person online in women's getup, but not because presumably they're transgender or gender dysphoric in any way, just because they're kooky and crazy and mentally ill in some other way. 0.90

00:07:19.000 The suspect apparently fired a rifle fitted with at least one high-capacity magazine into the crowd.

00:07:23.000 He then fled and left the rifle behind.

00:07:24.000 They found him because his DNA was on the rifle.

00:07:26.000 He was arrested roughly eight hours later.

00:07:28.000 So again, Officers said on Tuesday there was no basis to prevent the shooter from purchasing the weapons.

00:07:36.000 At least one firearm was purchased in 2019 after this person threatened suicide and was visited by officers.

00:07:41.000 His dad reportedly sponsored the application in that particular gun purchase.

00:07:45.000 Which, by the way, demonstrates, again, when it comes to red flag laws and all the rest, if you don't have social structures that are designed to create responsibility in the community for those who are damaged, Then people will fall through the cracks and they'll go on to hurt other human beings.

00:08:02.000 There's a certain level, again, just on a human level, you have to feel for the family, not just because the family has a person who is a violent killer amongst them, but because how many parents, how many relatives are willing to report their own relatives for potentially being violent threats?

00:08:20.000 Parents tend to want to protect their own kids, but at the expense of the broader community, that is why strong community ties matter.

00:08:26.000 Because you have to care enough about the community that you are willing to make the moves necessary to preserve the lives of innocent people in your community, even at the expense of your own kid, if your kid happens to be violently mentally ill, as it appears that this shooter is and was.

00:08:41.000 So, for example, the uncle of the shooter was on TV yesterday saying there were no warning signs.

00:08:45.000 Well, I mean, we know about a few.

00:08:48.000 And there was no signs of trouble.

00:08:50.000 I saw no signs of trouble.

00:08:52.000 And if I did see signs, I would have said something.

00:08:54.000 But there was no signs of trouble.

00:08:57.000 And no mental problems or psychological problems in the past?

00:09:01.000 Not that I know of, no.

00:09:02.000 He's a real quiet kid.

00:09:04.000 He keeps everything to himself.

00:09:05.000 And he doesn't express himself out.

00:09:07.000 So he just sits down on his computer and there's no interaction between me and him.

00:09:16.000 Okay, so it sounds like this particular uncle didn't have a lot of knowledge for the kid, but parents have to notify the authorities of their kids.

00:09:23.000 This has happened over and over and over again.

00:09:24.000 In these mass shooter cases, it turns out that the people who are closest to the mass shooter, they tend to know that the person is really screwed up in a serious way, and they don't report it, and so the red flag laws don't mean a damn thing.

00:09:35.000 And when it comes to mental health, if somebody, again, is violently mentally ill, we in this country have decided, for bad reasons, that you cannot involuntarily commit people who will not take their medication and are violently mentally ill.

00:09:43.000 We just won't do it.

00:09:45.000 We'll either put them in jail, which is not where they belong, or we'll put them in a mental institution for 48 hours and then we'll let them out, even if they are not taking the medication that would make them sane again.

00:09:55.000 None of this is a solution.

00:09:57.000 And all of this is going to multiply over time.

00:09:59.000 Not just because we have a massive contagion problem when it comes to mass shootings in this country.

00:10:04.000 There's no question that that is what's happening, by the way.

00:10:06.000 There's a reason why, when you listen to this show, when you watch this show, when you look at my site, Daily Wire, We do not mention the names of shooters.

00:10:13.000 We will not provide the impetus for contagion of these mass shootings by featuring this person's face on the news, by mentioning their name.

00:10:21.000 Because it turns out that these people, a lot of the mass shooters, they're people who are desperately craving attention.

00:10:25.000 That's particularly true in this case, where this person was putting out horrific, scary rap with videos of school shootings on YouTube in order to garner attention for himself.

00:10:37.000 People want attention.

00:10:38.000 And then when they get attention from the media, when they see someone else get attention, they think, oh, how can I get attention as well?

00:10:43.000 And then they go out and they commit a heinous act of murder.

00:10:46.000 We're not going to contribute to that.

00:10:47.000 So when the media talks about how guns are the problem, I can tell you that the bigger problem when it comes to the minds of these people is the mass contagion that the media foment.

00:10:56.000 How many of these media outlets are willing to look in the mirror and then commit to a... I mean, the social science on this is fairly solid.

00:11:02.000 How many of these media outlets, I'm talking NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox, all of them, how many of them are willing to commit to not showing you the faces of killers?

00:11:10.000 are not willing to show you their names and make them famous.

00:11:14.000 You know the name of the Sandy Hook shooter.

00:11:15.000 You know the name of the Parkland shooter.

00:11:17.000 You now know the name of this Highland Park shooter.

00:11:19.000 I won't mention them on the show.

00:11:21.000 The reason you know their names is because the media have decided that they are more interested in the cliques than they are in preserving human life, apparently.

00:11:28.000 Because this is a pretty clear cut case of just what media members can do to actually stop violent activities.

00:11:36.000 But we've decided in the mass media age that we're not interested in what we can do anymore.

00:11:40.000 We'll blame big tech for not shutting down the videos. 0.87

00:11:43.000 We'll blame everybody else, but members of the media, they'll just go completely silent on this stuff and then continue to churn out coverage of people who desperately crave attention, incentivizing the next mass shooter to go out and do this sort of stuff in his sick mind.

00:11:56.000 I say his because nearly all the time it's men.

00:11:59.000 And then there is the broader, again, societal problem.

00:12:01.000 And that is that as we develop into an atomized, individualistic society that has no social ties to anybody else, it foments violence.

00:12:09.000 It foments suicidal ideation.

00:12:10.000 The broader mental health crisis that we are suffering in the United States is not a coincidence.

00:12:15.000 We're a country that has basically decided that all social bonds are forms of repression of you.

00:12:20.000 And that the best thing that you can do to find yourself, to find your true center, is to ignore all the roles and institutions that society has traditionally placed around you in order to provide you some sort of basis for living.

00:12:32.000 We've decided instead that subjective self-worth is the only metric by which we are to decide whether human happiness has been achieved.

00:12:38.000 Well, as it turns out, this actually creates more mental illness.

00:12:41.000 It actually creates more confusion and chaos in the minds of young people.

00:12:46.000 I do not think it is a coincidence that we have seen this rapid increase in the number of mass shootings by young people.

00:12:52.000 At the same exact time, we are seeing a vast increase in the number of young people who are reporting that they are suicidal.

00:12:59.000 The vast number of young people who are reporting that they are suffering from depression and mental illness.

00:13:04.000 Those numbers are skyrocketing in the United States.

00:13:06.000 And to pretend there is no association whatsoever is to ignore the elephant in the room.

00:13:13.000 Again, social connections, commitments, duties, things that we give kids to actually form them into civilized human beings.

00:13:21.000 When you blow all those things up in the name of a broader ideology that speaks of individual self-gratification, and then a bunch of people are left behind because they can't actually either pursue that self-gratification or they are disappointed in what they wish their lives were, you're gonna get more of this stuff.

00:13:38.000 That doesn't mean that any particular politician is to blame for a mass shooting or anything like that.

00:13:42.000 What it does mean is you cannot expect that when you put a fire under a pot of water, the water is not going to boil.

00:13:48.000 And when it boils, there are going to be occasional times when the lid pops off the pot.

00:13:52.000 And that is exactly what we have done, culturally speaking.

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00:15:00.000 You know, the West right now is experiencing a mass, a mass mental illness problem.

00:15:07.000 A few years ago, there was a woman named Leah Greenfield, professor over at Boston University, short of peace.

00:15:14.000 For the Wall Street Journal.

00:15:15.000 It's actually in May.

00:15:17.000 Titled, The West's Struggle for Mental Health.

00:15:19.000 And here's what she wrote.

00:15:20.000 She wrote, quote, The more a society is dedicated to the value of equality, and the more choices it offers for individual self-determination, the higher its rates of functional mental illness.

00:15:28.000 These rates increase in parallel with the increase in the available occupational, geographical, religious, gender, and lifestyle-related choices.

00:15:34.000 This explains why, since the 1970s, the U.S.

00:15:36.000 leads the world as the country most affected by functional mental illness, though other prosperous liberal democracies aren't far behind.

00:15:43.000 So there are lots of reasons for violence between young men.

00:15:45.000 And violence between young men has been the way of the world since literally the Stone Age.

00:15:51.000 When young males are aggressive, they have testosterone, they fight each other.

00:15:54.000 But there is a difference in kind between the aggressive male instinct, taking it out on each other, which is what you see in gang warfare, not just in the United States, but across the world.

00:16:03.000 There's a difference between that and the mentally ill loner who's going out and trying to gun down innocent people. 0.69

00:16:08.000 That is going to multiply as you increase the number of mentally ill loners who are out there.

00:16:12.000 And if you are a society that is dedicated to the idea of loneliness, And you remove all of the boundaries around young men, you're going to get more of this.

00:16:20.000 You simply will.

00:16:21.000 And to pretend that there is no relationship between the two is whistling past the graveyard almost literally.

00:16:27.000 It's a tragic reality and a tragic outgrowth of a society that has, in many ways, lost its way.

00:16:33.000 If we are just talking about mass shootings by young men against innocent people, then let's talk about that. 0.87

00:16:39.000 Because the reality is, if you want to talk about bastard gun crime or whatever, You're committing a category error.

00:16:44.000 Not all quote-unquote gun crime is committed the same. 0.71

00:16:46.000 Gang warfare is not the same thing as a school shooting.

00:16:49.000 And pretending that all those problems are solved simply by railing about guns is missing the point.

00:16:54.000 If you're actually going to target this specific problem, we have to talk about this specific problem, which is violently, mentally ill young men, isolated from society, who are going out and murdering innocent people.

00:17:03.000 And then you have to look at the forces that are actually militating on behalf of those young men, and preventing people from doing anything about it, and incentivizing people to do nothing about it.

00:17:12.000 Because again, the laws ain't working.

00:17:14.000 There are plenty of red flags here, and it didn't solve the problem.

00:17:17.000 It didn't solve the problem.

00:17:20.000 And by the way, that's not just me saying that.

00:17:21.000 Andy McCabe, who's a far leftist, right?

00:17:23.000 Andy McCabe was working for the FBI.

00:17:25.000 He was one of the people involved in Russiagate, former FBI deputy director, who sort of had to resign in shame.

00:17:31.000 He is right, however.

00:17:32.000 He said red flag laws weren't going to do anything here.

00:17:32.000 He's on CNN.

00:17:36.000 You know, there's been a lot of excitement over the fact that the recent national legislation provides incentives to the states to institute red flag laws.

00:17:45.000 Well, if we have yet another situation where we have a mass shooter who is putting out plenty of signals that possibly his network of associates and family knew about, but yet no word was ever passed on to law enforcement, really calls into question how effective can these red flag laws possibly be?

00:18:05.000 Well, this is the question.

00:18:06.000 This is the question.

00:18:08.000 And that question is not going to be answered by anybody who's actually promoting legislation.

00:18:12.000 Thankfully, we have the federal administration, the Biden White House, that is pushing ineffective policy and pretending that they have solutions to these sorts of problems.

00:18:20.000 And it comes in the form of Kamala Harris, the least talented politician of her generation, who has failed upward in every job she's ever been given. 0.99

00:18:26.000 Here she was speaking on the shooting yesterday.

00:18:30.000 We've got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are, because you have been forced to have to take it seriously.

00:18:35.000 The whole nation should understand and have a level of empathy to understand that this can happen anywhere, in any peace-loving community, and we should stand together and speak out about why it's got to stop.

00:18:55.000 Man, she is just a word salad of a human being. 1.00

00:18:59.000 Well, all of this, this feeling of chaos, this feeling that there are no stable social standards.

00:19:03.000 The feeling that so much of what we are in the country and what we are as a civilization is collapsing and about us and that the person who's supposed to be standing between us and the monsters is a geriatric daughter. 0.95

00:19:14.000 And there's a reason why Joe Biden's approval rating right now is just brutal.

00:19:18.000 So brand new Monmouth poll out yesterday.

00:19:20.000 Joe Biden's approval rating is in the aftermath, by the way, of the Roe versus Wade overrulings.

00:19:24.000 You'd have expected a spike for Joe Biden since he is fighting the Supreme Court and we all love abortion and all the rest of it.

00:19:29.000 Joe Biden's approval rating, according to Monmouth, is 36%.

00:19:31.000 He is 23 points underwater.

00:19:35.000 23 points underwater.

00:19:37.000 These are worse approval ratings than Donald Trump during his presidency.

00:19:41.000 By the way, that is not an outlying poll.

00:19:42.000 Harvard-Harris has him at 38%.

00:19:43.000 Emerson has him at 40.

00:19:45.000 Reuters has him at 38.

00:19:45.000 Rasmussen has him at 41.

00:19:46.000 Economist has him at 39.

00:19:47.000 them at 41. Reuters has them at 38. Economist has them at 39. This dude cannot break 40% with a jackhammer. And when you look to the state polls, it's significantly worse, by In Arizona, he is riding at 26% approval rating.

00:20:00.000 Nevada, 29%.

00:20:00.000 Iowa, 30%.

00:20:00.000 Georgia, 26%.

00:20:00.000 Pennsylvania, 30%.

00:20:01.000 Wisconsin, 33%.

00:20:01.000 New Mexico, 31%.

00:20:01.000 Michigan, 32%.

00:20:02.000 Remember, he won Michigan and Wisconsin.

00:20:03.000 Michigan, 32%.

00:20:04.000 New Jersey, 34%.

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00:20:04.000 Wisconsin, 33%.

00:20:05.000 New Hampshire, he's at 35%.

00:20:06.000 New Mexico 31% Michigan 32% Wisconsin 33% remember he won Michigan and Wisconsin.

00:20:11.000 Michigan 32% Wisconsin 33% New Jersey 34% New Jersey.

00:20:15.000 New Hampshire is at 35%.

00:20:18.000 He is in a world of hurt.

00:20:20.000 And there are a bunch of reasons for this.

00:20:25.000 The most obvious is that Americans really are struggling with inflation and with the economy, but it also is the feeling that this dude does not have a handle on anything.

00:20:33.000 He does not represent a unifying vision for the country in any way, shape, or form.

00:20:35.000 He does not have any central worldview that coheres.

00:20:39.000 All he is is a basket of leftist policy priorities rammed through over the objections of the American people.

00:20:46.000 All the Democrats, by the way, who right now are saying that abortion is going to jog them to victory in November. 0.68

00:20:51.000 Man, they are just delusional.

00:20:53.000 According to that Monmouth poll, more than 4 in 10 Americans, 42%, say they are struggling to remain where they are financially.

00:20:59.000 This is the first time since Monmouth started asking the question five years ago, the number even topped 3 in 10.

00:21:04.000 Just under half, 47%, say their current financial situation is basically stable.

00:21:08.000 Only 9% say it is improving.

00:21:11.000 Nearly half the public names either inflation, 33%, or gas prices as the biggest concern facing their family right now.

00:21:17.000 The economy in general is at 9%.

00:21:18.000 Paying everyday bills is at 6%.

00:21:21.000 Which means the total, you're talking 48, 57, 63% of Americans say the economy is their top concern.

00:21:29.000 Abortion is named by 5% as their top concern.

00:21:33.000 Predominantly Democrats, 9%.

00:21:36.000 So yeah, you guys are in serious, serious trouble.

00:21:40.000 Because as it turns out, you're not making people's lives better.

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00:22:53.000 And by the way, the inflation stats that we are following are significantly better than what the actual inflation experience is like for the vast majority of Americans.

00:23:01.000 Henry Olsen has a really good piece over at the Washington Post talking about this today.

00:23:05.000 He says, quote, if you're having trouble grasping why inflation is so politically potent, consider that Americans who enjoyed a 4th of July cookout on Monday paid 17% more for their food than last year, according to a survey from the American Farm Bureau Federation.

00:23:16.000 Now, you'll remember that the Biden administration last year put out a graphic saying that you had saved something like 11 cents on your meal on 4th of July.

00:23:24.000 Look at what a wonderful job we are doing in bringing down costs.

00:23:27.000 Well, now Americans are paying 17% more for that 4th of July meal.

00:23:30.000 That's a perfect illustration of a poorly understood aspect of inflation.

00:23:33.000 For most Americans, the inflation they actually experience is much worse than the 8.6% headline rate.

00:23:38.000 The official government inflation rate comes from the Consumer Price Index.

00:23:41.000 That measures the prices of a basket of goods that reflect the overall annual consumption of items and services an average urban household pays for.

00:23:48.000 As a national average, it can never reflect what a particular household faces in any particular city.

00:23:53.000 It assumes the average family purchases all these goods and services in the same quantities.

00:23:56.000 But that isn't true.

00:23:57.000 It unintentionally hides how high inflation is for millions of people.

00:24:00.000 Prices for the goods people regularly purchase are rising much faster than for the things they don't.

00:24:04.000 Food, used at home for example, rose by 12% over the past year.

00:24:08.000 Gas prices jumped 50%.

00:24:10.000 Prices for eggs skyrocketed 32% in the last year.

00:24:14.000 Those categories are less than 20% of the overall consumer price index, but they are the products that people buy every single week.

00:24:20.000 As a result, the political impact of these double-digit increases is likely to be worse than that of infrequently purchased goods, like visits to the doctor.

00:24:27.000 Even some of the goods people don't often purchase likely produce extreme inflation anxiety for most households.

00:24:32.000 Most people don't move, for example.

00:24:33.000 The majority of those who have stayed past in the last year likely have mortgages whose repayment amounts don't fluctuate.

00:24:38.000 But those who did buy a new home almost surely experienced massive sticker shock.

00:24:42.000 The same is true for people who bought a new or used car in the past year.

00:24:45.000 So inflation is much worse than Joe Biden is letting on for the vast majority of people.

00:24:50.000 And this administration, as always, seems to be operating in a completely different sphere than the rest of us.

00:24:56.000 So back to Kamala Harris, the nation's most inspirational politician picked Specifically because of her intersectional qualifications, certainly not because she's very good at this. 0.66

00:25:05.000 Here she was trying to talk about inflation yesterday.

00:25:08.000 We, first of all, need to deal with it.

00:25:10.000 And the president and our administration, we have been in terms of being probably one of our highest priorities, which is to bring down gas prices and to deal with the cost of living, including what has been happening with prices on various goods that are almost directly related to a pandemic that impacted the supply chain in a profound way.

00:25:31.000 Russians, Russia's and Putin's war in Ukraine and what that has meant in terms of gas and oil.

00:25:37.000 And so we're working on bringing down basically the cost of what life requires for people.

00:25:45.000 Man, she's still going with Putin and the pandemic.

00:25:47.000 We are now in July of 2022.

00:25:49.000 This pandemic has been effectively over for the vast majority of Americans for fully a year because the vaccines got tranched out in March of 2021.

00:25:57.000 And she's still talking about how we're paying too much at the grocery because of supply chain problems due to the pandemic.

00:26:03.000 She's still talking about Putin's price hike and all this nonsense.

00:26:05.000 It's not going to work.

00:26:07.000 It's particularly not going to work when Americans are having to tap into their savings to cope with inflation.

00:26:11.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Americans are starting to dip into the huge pile of savings they accumulated over the first two years of the pandemic.

00:26:17.000 From the start of the pandemic to the end of 2021, U.S.

00:26:19.000 households built up $2.7 trillion in extra savings, according to Moody's.

00:26:23.000 COVID-19 lockdowns kept people at home with nowhere to spend money.

00:26:26.000 Three rounds of stimulus payments boosted their incomes.

00:26:28.000 Now, with inflation at its highest point in decades and wage gains trailing behind, Americans are turning to that stash to cover their costs.

00:26:34.000 The personal saving rate, a measure of how much money people have left over after spending in taxes, reached 5.4% in May.

00:26:40.000 That figure is below the average of the last decade.

00:26:42.000 It is far below the record of 34% in April 2020, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

00:26:47.000 Families are tapping about $114 billion of their pandemic savings so far, and it's likely to get worse.

00:26:53.000 Meanwhile, the price of gas continues to spike and this administration continues to laugh.

00:26:58.000 So it is truly amazing how committed this administration is to the idea that oil and natural gas are just bad.

00:27:06.000 So Pete Buttigieg was asked yesterday on Neil Cavuto's show on Fox News, he is the transportation secretary who is so useless that he went completely missing for two months and no one even knew it.

00:27:15.000 He was on paternity leave because it was very important. 0.66

00:27:18.000 Anyway, Pete Buttigieg Who, again, was like, where's Waldo?

00:27:22.000 He's just gone and no one cared.

00:27:23.000 Now he's back.

00:27:24.000 He's done such a crappy job that we still have massive supply chain bottlenecks.

00:27:28.000 And we still don't know, by the way, where any of that massive transportation bill stimulus boondoggle, we don't know where that money's going.

00:27:33.000 Anyway, Pete Buttigieg, he tried to explain why gas prices are so high and laughed about it in the process, which is always good luck.

00:27:40.000 A major oil-producing country launched a war of aggression and destabilized so much of the world economy when they did.

00:27:48.000 Half of that increase started prior to the first Russian soldiers arriving near Ukraine.

00:27:56.000 You can't blame it all on Ukraine, right?

00:27:58.000 What about the other half?

00:28:00.000 What about the other half?

00:28:01.000 That's a pretty important half.

00:28:06.000 That's about half of it.

00:28:07.000 What about the other half?

00:28:07.000 And Buttigieg starts laughing about it, of course.

00:28:09.000 Well, the reason that he's laughing about it is because this administration's stated policy is to make gas expensive.

00:28:15.000 This is their stated policy.

00:28:17.000 Literally this week, according to the United Press International.

00:28:21.000 Biden proposed to block offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

00:28:25.000 This is his actual proposal. 0.99

00:28:26.000 We're in the middle of a massive gas shortage, and this idiot is attempting to block offshore drilling. 0.97

00:28:32.000 Quote, the Biden administration has proposed blocking all new drilling, all of it, in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 0.95

00:28:37.000 But we'll allow some drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in a five-year development plan.

00:28:40.000 The plan released on Friday proposed no more than 10 potential lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, an option for one potential lease sale in the northern portion of the Cook Inlet of Alaska, and no lease sales for the Atlantic or Pacific planning areas anywhere from 2023 to 2028.

00:28:53.000 And then Joe Biden has the gall to explain to individual gas station owners that it's their fault that the gas prices are high?

00:29:03.000 By the way, gas stations don't make their money from the gas.

00:29:06.000 As a general rule, the price margin on gas is extremely low.

00:29:06.000 You should know.

00:29:09.000 It's from all the other stuff that the gas stations make their money.

00:29:12.000 It's when you go inside and buy a Snickers bar.

00:29:14.000 That's where they actually make their cash. 0.95

00:29:16.000 Most of the gas stations are getting it from a few refiners.

00:29:18.000 The number of refiners in the United States has been dropping dramatically since the 1970s, specifically because of the crap environmental policy that the left has pushed.

00:29:25.000 And then we're shocked when there are shortages.

00:29:28.000 By the way, you know who knows this?

00:29:29.000 The Europeans!

00:29:31.000 The Europeans know this.

00:29:32.000 Hilariously, the Europeans are now on the verge of declaring that natural gas is actually green energy.

00:29:41.000 So we have been told by the left, by this administration, that natural gas is bad.

00:29:45.000 Now, the reality is natural gas is very, very good.

00:29:47.000 Fracking has brought down the carbon emissions of the United States markedly over the course of the last 10 years.

00:29:53.000 Natural gas is significantly less carbon unfriendly than, for example, coal or oil.

00:30:00.000 Okay, but we have been told by the environmental left that we are supposed to ignore all of that because Greta is super mad. 1.00

00:30:04.000 Greta is so angry at you. 1.00

00:30:06.000 Greta, by the way, is very angry at this. 0.99

00:30:08.000 The Europeans are now, again, considering whether nuclear and natural gas ought to be labeled green sources of energy.

00:30:15.000 And, um, and the scoldy, the scoldy Claude from Sweden, she said, tomorrow, the European Parliament will decide whether fossil gas and nuclear will be considered sustainable in the EU taxonomy.

00:30:27.000 But no amount of lobbyism and greenwashing will ever make it green.

00:30:32.000 We need desperately real renewable energy, not false solutions.

00:30:35.000 Hashtag not my taxonomy.

00:30:37.000 How dare you?

00:30:38.000 How dare you? 1.00

00:30:40.000 Well, the moron Europeans who followed her down the primrose path to Russian gas dependency. 1.00

00:30:46.000 They're finally breaking their dependency on the scoldy Swedish teen. 1.00

00:30:50.000 And they've decided, according to the New York Times, in a landmark vote for Europe's climate and energy policies, lawmakers said on Wednesday, some gas and nuclear energy projects should be considered green and receive access to cheap loans and even state subsidies.

00:31:01.000 You see, the Europeans have gone further than we have on the environmental front. 0.96

00:31:04.000 And this is why they are now completely dependent on Vladimir Putin pumping them oil.

00:31:08.000 A European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg, France, voted in favor ...of accepting a proposal by the European Commission, the EU executive, with 328 votes backing the proposal, 278 against.

00:31:17.000 Both inside the parliamentary chambers and outside the building, detractors of the policy booed in protest.

00:31:22.000 The Commission's proposal to label gas and nuclear as green is part of a broader new EU law that classifies various types of energy investments as environmentally friendly.

00:31:30.000 and lays out detailed rules on how to assess them.

00:31:33.000 The policy, known as the taxonomy, is meant to stop greenwashing, a pervasive practice of mislabeling energy products as environmentally friendly.

00:31:39.000 It would also give the bloc, which brings together 27 industrialized and wealthy nations, added wiggle room as it scrambles to replace Russian energy sources in its effort to penalize the Kremlin for its invasion of Ukraine this year.

00:31:50.000 But the classification remains controversial in environmental circles. 0.98

00:31:53.000 Yes, because the Europeans decided that they weren't going to be held hostage to the idiot Greens. 0.54

00:31:58.000 Critics of the proposal contend the attempt to classify gas and nuclear projects as green isn't in itself greenwashing and runs counter to European efforts to slash carbon emissions by 55% by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. 0.90

00:32:10.000 So while the Europeans are loosening up their own energy policy, Joe Biden is tightening America's energy policy.

00:32:16.000 When asked about this sort of stuff, Corinne Jean-Pierre, who's just an utterly untalented press secretary, I mean, Jen Psaki, She lied with fluidity.

00:32:24.000 Maybe Karine Jean-Pierre is a more honest person.

00:32:26.000 I mean, I'm trying to explain why she's so much worse at this than Jen Psaki is. 1.00

00:32:26.000 Maybe. 1.00

00:32:31.000 Her typical move is the I know nothing move. 0.56

00:32:34.000 So she was asked specifically about a conversation that was held between Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic in Europe last week.

00:32:41.000 And that conversation, Macron said to Joe Biden, you can't keep going to OPEC and asking for more oil.

00:32:45.000 They can't pump any more oil.

00:32:47.000 She was asked about this.

00:32:48.000 And she's like, I don't know.

00:32:52.000 There's video of the French president running up to President Biden and relaying a message saying that the Saudis are about at capacity through the UAE.

00:33:01.000 Did President Biden ask the French to ask the Saudis to pump more oil through the UAE?

00:33:07.000 I did not hear this conversation, so I can't speak to that conversation.

00:33:13.000 She doesn't know.

00:33:13.000 She can't.

00:33:14.000 She doesn't know.

00:33:14.000 By the way, among other things, she doesn't know.

00:33:17.000 Apparently, she was asked yesterday about the simple fact that, according to the Daily Wire, millions of barrels of oil Joe Biden released from the U.S.

00:33:23.000 Strategic Petroleum Reserve found their way to European and Asian nations, including China, according to a Tuesday report from Reuters.

00:33:30.000 Reuters found, through customs data, at least 5 million barrels of oil were exported to Europe and Asia last month, as the Strategic Reserve drains to its lowest level since 1986.

00:33:39.000 American oil refiner Phillips 66 shipped 470,000 barrels of sour crude from Texas to Italy, while Atlantic Trading and Marketing, a division of the French entity Total Energies, exported two cargos of 560,000 barrels each.

00:33:51.000 Meanwhile, industry sources told the outlet more crude oil was sent to China, India, and the Netherlands.

00:33:56.000 So Corinne Jean-Pierre, do you have any idea why we are shipping oil from the Strategic Reserve to China?

00:34:02.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:34:03.000 She doesn't know anything.

00:34:06.000 More than 5 million barrels of oil that were released from the emergency oil reserves were exported to Europe and Asia last month and some of it reportedly was actually heading to China.

00:34:18.000 Is the administration aware of those reports and does the president mind that some of this oil that was meant to ease pain for consumers is headed overseas?

00:34:29.000 I have not seen that report, so I would honestly have to go look into it and see what the truth is in that statement that you just laid out and see exactly what's happening.

00:34:40.000 I just have not seen that report.

00:34:42.000 I wonder why this administration is so wildly unpopular.

00:34:45.000 By the way, the only thing holding up the economy of the United States right now is all the states Joe Biden hates.

00:34:49.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, red states are winning the post-pandemic economy.

00:34:52.000 Well, we've known this for a while.

00:34:54.000 I've been citing you unemployment stats state by state since the middle of the pandemic, and it has been obvious that the best states for the economy are all red states that didn't lock down their economies. 0.83

00:35:03.000 It is blue states that locked down their economies and have heavy regulations and have heavy taxation.

00:35:08.000 All of those states are lagging far behind.

00:35:10.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the pandemic has changed the geography of the American economy.

00:35:14.000 By many measures, red states, those that lean Republican, have recovered faster economically than Democratic-leaning blue ones, with workers and employers moving from the coast to the middle of the country and Florida.

00:35:23.000 Hmm.

00:35:24.000 Death Santas. 0.99

00:35:25.000 Since February 2020, the month before the pandemic began, the share of all U.S.

00:35:28.000 jobs located in red states has grown by more than half a percentage point, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Brookings Institution.

00:35:34.000 The Brookings Institution is a left-wing think tank.

00:35:36.000 Red states have added 341,000 jobs over that time.

00:35:39.000 Blue states were still short 1.3 million jobs as of May.

00:35:44.000 So the red states actually picked up jobs since the beginning of the pandemic.

00:35:47.000 The blue states are still 1.3 million jobs below where they were at the beginning of the pandemic.

00:35:52.000 Several major companies have recently announced moves of their headquarters from blue to red states.

00:35:56.000 By the way, that includes The Daily Wire, which moved from Los Angeles to Tennessee, and we have a branch in Florida as well.

00:36:01.000 Hedge fund company Citadel said it would move its headquarters from Chicago to Miami.

00:36:04.000 Caterpillar is moving from Illinois to Texas.

00:36:07.000 Moody's Analytics developed an index of 13 metrics, including the value of goods and services produced, employment, retail sales, and new home listings.

00:36:14.000 11 of the 15 states with the highest readings through mid-June were red.

00:36:17.000 8 of the bottom 10 were blue.

00:36:19.000 Behind those differences is mass migration.

00:36:22.000 46 million people moved to a different zip code in the year February through February 2022.

00:36:26.000 That is the most in any 12-month period in records going back to 2010.

00:36:30.000 The states that gained the most.

00:36:32.000 The places the death traps.

00:36:34.000 Oh, the horror escapes. 0.69

00:36:35.000 The fascist states.

00:36:37.000 Which ones gain the most?

00:36:39.000 Florida, Texas, North Carolina.

00:36:41.000 Hmm.

00:36:42.000 Yes, well, it's a good thing that the red states exist. 0.93

00:36:44.000 Otherwise, Joe Biden's economy would completely collapse in on itself.

00:36:48.000 But don't worry, Joe Biden's bad policy doesn't stop there.

00:36:51.000 He has now decided to stick his DOJ on Arizona because Arizona wants to use voter ID for voting.

00:36:56.000 We'll get to that in just a moment.

00:36:57.000 Well, folks, hope you all had an amazing 4th of July with friends and family.

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00:40:29.000 So the Biden administration apparently in a weird quest to completely destroy its own credibility on every score.

00:40:41.000 They've destroyed their credibility on the economy.

00:40:43.000 They've destroyed their credibility on social policy.

00:40:45.000 They're also looking to destroy their credibility on, for example, immigration and voting.

00:40:50.000 So now the Biden administration is sicking the DOJ on Arizona.

00:40:54.000 They're saying the state violates federal law by requiring proof of citizenship to vote for president.

00:40:58.000 I'm sorry, that's crazy.

00:41:00.000 They're going to lose that lawsuit, by the way.

00:41:01.000 The DOJ has limited resources, so they're not going to track down, apparently, all the people who are firebombing pro-life clinics, but they are definitely, definitely going to go after the state of Arizona for the great crime of requesting that you show ID when you vote for President of the United States so we don't have people illegally voting.

00:41:15.000 That would be super bad, according to the DOJ.

00:41:17.000 The Wall Street Journal reports in its latest challenge to Republican-backed changes to state voting procedures, the Justice Department said that Arizona's newly enacted requirement that residents provide documentary proof of citizenship The state law is set to take effect in January.

00:41:28.000 certain federal elections.

00:41:30.000 The state law is set to take effect in January.

00:41:32.000 Quote, it turns back the clock by imposing unlawful and unnecessary requirements that would block eligible voters from the registration rolls, said Kristen Clark, head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, which is the weaponized form of the DOJ on behalf of leftism.

00:41:44.000 This has been true since the Obama administration.

00:41:47.000 Clark called Arizona's House Bill 2492, which requires proof of citizenship to vote by mail in any federal election, a textbook violation of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act.

00:41:56.000 A provision requiring election officials to reject registration forms based on mistakes that aren't relevant to a voter's eligibility also violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

00:42:04.000 But hold on.

00:42:07.000 It's now illegal to ask people to show that they are citizens when they vote?

00:42:11.000 It requires proof of citizenship, like a passport or a birth certificate, on a federal voter registration form.

00:42:17.000 Voting rights advocates warned such a measure could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters.

00:42:21.000 State lawmakers who wrote the bill said it's aimed at curbing fraud.

00:42:23.000 I'm so confused as to why this is remotely controversial.

00:42:27.000 Why is showing a birth certificate so that we know you are who you say you are a big deal?

00:42:33.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:42:34.000 In 2013, the Supreme Court did reject an earlier attempt by the state to impose similar proof of citizenship requirements for federal elections, saying such a mandate interfered with Congress's prerogative to set election laws.

00:42:44.000 However, Mark Brnovich, Republican Arizona Attorney General, he says, I'll see you in court again.

00:42:54.000 He said he was prepared to defend the new law all the way to the Supreme Court and defeat the federal government's efforts to interfere with our state's election safeguards.

00:43:01.000 So again, the Biden administration suing people so that they don't have to show ID when they vote by mail is pretty amazing stuff.

00:43:09.000 So wide open southern border.

00:43:11.000 And also, we don't want people to show ID when they vote. 0.66

00:43:14.000 Sounds like great, great policy.

00:43:17.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden's personal popularity continues to sink, largely because people know that he is not the person he was purported to be.

00:43:24.000 So Joe Biden was supposed to be the most... He was Scranton Joe.

00:43:28.000 Uncle Joe.

00:43:29.000 He was the blue-collar guy. 0.99

00:43:31.000 And all of the sins of his son, Hunter, who was running around the world picking up bags of cash, well, snorting cocaine off hookers' asses, all of that had nothing to do with Joe Biden. 0.98

00:43:39.000 He didn't know anything about it. 0.97

00:43:40.000 Well, now it turns out that Joe Biden actually knew about it.

00:43:42.000 According to the New York Post, Joe Biden called his son, Hunter, in late 2018 to discuss a New York Times article detailing the younger Biden's dealings with a Chinese oil tycoon accused of economic crimes, telling him, I think you're clear, according to a report, Last week, the voicemail discovered on a cell phone backup contained on Hunter Biden's infamous discarded laptop would appear to contradict Biden's continued denial he ever talked with his disgraced 52-year-old son about his overseas business transactions and was aware they could be improper.

00:44:06.000 Hey, pal, it's dad, Joe Biden said.

00:44:08.000 It's 8.15 on Wednesday night.

00:44:10.000 If you get a chance, just give me a call.

00:44:11.000 Nothing urgent.

00:44:12.000 I just wanted to talk to you.

00:44:13.000 I thought the article released online it's going to be printed tomorrow in the Times was good.

00:44:16.000 I think you're clear.

00:44:17.000 And anyway, if you get a chance, give me a call.

00:44:19.000 I love you.

00:44:20.000 So Joe Biden, by the way, said the next year, I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. So Corrine Jean-Pierre was asked about this. And of course, she had no answer because there is no answer. Why is there a voicemail of the president talking to his son about his overseas business dealings? If the president has said he's never spoken to his son about his overseas business? Well, first, I'll say that what the president said stands.

00:44:47.000 So, if that's what the President said, that is what stands.

00:44:50.000 And second... He's leaving a voicemail about a New York Times article concerning Hunter Biden's business dealings.

00:44:56.000 And he says, I think you're clear.

00:44:58.000 How is that not him talking to his son about his overseas business dealings?

00:45:02.000 We're not- from this podium, I am not going to talk about alleged materials from the laptop.

00:45:07.000 I will- I'm not- I'm not going to talk about alleged materials on the laptop.

00:45:13.000 It's not happening.

00:45:15.000 Peter, I refer you to, uh, to his son's representative.

00:45:21.000 To his son's representative?

00:45:22.000 But it's him who's on the voicemail!

00:45:24.000 Yes, the American people are, yes, we should definitely trust this guy.

00:45:27.000 By the way, this entire administration, which is based on the notion that they have some sort of high-level moral superiority, I'm waiting to see it, like, really, demonstrated at some point here.

00:45:36.000 I mean, they can't even generate moral superiority on the basis of being pro-institutions.

00:45:42.000 Karine Jean-Pierre, again, unbelievably untalented press secretary.

00:45:45.000 Jen Psaki would have handled this much, much better. 0.98

00:45:48.000 Karine Jean-Pierre is just bad at this.

00:45:50.000 I mean, she's terrible.

00:45:51.000 Anyway, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked why it is that January 6th was insurrectionary, but Joe Biden and the Democratic Party basically encouraging people to go to justices' houses in order to threaten them to not overturn Roe v. Wade, why that was okay.

00:46:05.000 She has no answers, of course.

00:46:07.000 What's the difference between President Trump not doing anything while the Capitol was being attacked and President Biden not doing anything while the protesters, while the Supreme Court justices were under attack in their own homes with their families and with their children?

00:46:23.000 Well, there are two major differences here.

00:46:27.000 First of all, Our predecessor was very... We have said that his behavior on that day, on January 6th, was atrocious.

00:46:42.000 The president has said that.

00:46:43.000 We are talking about a very dark day that the person who was here before us, seemingly, if you watch, was very involved.

00:46:53.000 So that's very, very different.

00:46:57.000 Okay, she didn't actually explain why it was different.

00:46:59.000 She didn't actually explain anyway why it was different.

00:47:01.000 I mean, Jen Psaki, from that same podium, basically encouraged people to go outside justices' houses. 1.00

00:47:06.000 So, um, no.

00:47:07.000 They have no answers on any of this stuff.

00:47:09.000 Which may be the reason why the entire Democratic Party is now looking at Joe Biden and saying, you are just driving us directly into the ground.

00:47:15.000 The Democrats have a massive problem on their hands.

00:47:17.000 That massive problem comes in the form of the They're a bevy of pieces out there.

00:47:26.000 Like the groundswell is beginning, and if Democrats get shellacked in November, wait for the movement to start to oust this guy.

00:47:31.000 Now the question is on behalf of whom?

00:47:33.000 And they keep talking about who?

00:47:35.000 Kamala Harris?

00:47:35.000 She's awful.

00:47:37.000 Kamala Harris is the worst single politician I have ever seen, and I have covered Hillary Clinton, among other people. 1.00

00:47:42.000 She makes Hillary Clinton look like Winston Churchill. 1.00

00:47:45.000 It's amazing how bad Kamala Harris is. 1.00

00:47:47.000 Pete Buttigieg?

00:47:48.000 Pete Buttigieg?

00:47:50.000 He might be able to win a high school debate contest, but he ain't winning any states of major national popularity outside of like New York and California in a presidential election.

00:48:02.000 Who else they got?

00:48:02.000 Gavin Newsom.

00:48:03.000 Gavin Newsom, by the way, is hilarious.

00:48:05.000 They're now pushing Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who is so bad that he drove businesses like mine out of his state and then ran commercials to us here in Florida trying to tell us to come back.

00:48:13.000 Yeah, good luck, dude.

00:48:14.000 Gavin Newsom, who ate at the French Laundry in the middle of the pandemic, his state currently, because of Gavin Newsom, has a travel ban on employees using state dollars in order to visit 22 separate states because they're not pro-LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign tilde enough.

00:48:31.000 They're not pro all of that agenda enough.

00:48:33.000 That includes the state of Montana.

00:48:34.000 Where is Gavin Newsom vacationing right now, today?

00:48:38.000 Montana. 1.00

00:48:39.000 Because these people are all hypocrites. 0.97

00:48:40.000 I look forward to seeing Gavin Newsom in Miami enjoying the beaches and the freedom over here in Florida, just like all of his other Democratic predecessors. 0.95

00:48:47.000 So who do they got waiting in the wings?

00:48:48.000 The answer is nobody.

00:48:50.000 And so they're just railing at the wind at this point.

00:48:52.000 According to Politico, however, Dems wonder if Biden can rise to the moment.

00:48:56.000 This is their lead today.

00:48:58.000 Quote, is President Joe Biden meeting the moment?

00:49:00.000 That's the question driving the political zeitgeist as some of the loudest members of the Democratic Party vent their frustrations to major news outlets.

00:49:06.000 The gist of their complaints, Biden and Democrats need a vibe shift, fast.

00:49:10.000 They want the president to reflect their anger and angst.

00:49:13.000 They want him to project strength and that he has a plan for meaningful action.

00:49:16.000 Well, he can't project... He can project, like, irritation.

00:49:20.000 Like, Metamucil-based irritation.

00:49:22.000 That he can project.

00:49:24.000 That kind of like, yeah well get off my lawn, I'm sorry!

00:49:27.000 Like daddy can do.

00:49:28.000 But, but, no.

00:49:31.000 Project strength?

00:49:32.000 The dude can't stand up straight for more than 45 seconds.

00:49:35.000 That he has a plan for meaningful action?

00:49:37.000 He does not.

00:49:38.000 They want him to pick fights at the right time with the right opponent.

00:49:41.000 Messaging on teams that get reinforced time and again, but he can't do that.

00:49:44.000 And they feel all of this is missing from the White House right now.

00:49:46.000 According to Politico, there are currently three big stories on this.

00:49:49.000 First, Christopher Catalego and Jonathan Lemire report on the differences between Biden's response to the mass shooting in Highland Park on Independence Day and that of Democratic Governor J.B.

00:49:57.000 Pritzker, whose name is popping up more and more in conversations about 2024.

00:50:00.000 By the way, J.B.

00:50:01.000 Pritzker was just a giant Democratic donor who basically paid his way into the Illinois gubernatorial slot.

00:50:06.000 He's a bad governor.

00:50:08.000 The comparison, quote, where Pritzker demanded that people make politics of the moment as grisly as it may be, the president initially made just passing reference to the shooting.

00:50:15.000 Later on the South Lawn, he said Biden has more work to do and called for a moment of silence.

00:50:19.000 You've got to get this under control, Biden said.

00:50:21.000 Perhaps no issue better encapsulates the Biden administration's viewpoint and tactics than how it has chosen to tackle the epidemic of gun violence.

00:50:27.000 The president makes no secret of his bolder legislative ambitions, but those efforts have been stymied by Republicans in Congress, and he has had to balance dueling demands.

00:50:35.000 Righteous indignation of fellow Democrats and the plodding incremental progress that comes with bipartisan compromise.

00:50:41.000 Meanwhile, The Washington Post's Ashley Parker and Matt Visor write that Democrats continue to grow impatient with the Biden approach, which they describe as a mix of scolding Republicans urging Americans to vote Democrat and voicing broad optimism about the country.

00:50:53.000 Quote, as the Democrats rank and file thirst for a more combative attitude becomes increasingly evident, other party leaders are beginning to showcase an alternative tone, one that goes far more sharply at Republican attitudes and tactics.

00:51:04.000 Along with Pritzker, they point to Gavin Newsom, who ran an ad in Florida on Monday knocking Ron DeSantis' policies.

00:51:10.000 Adam Jentleson, inaptly named, former top aide to Harry Reid.

00:51:15.000 Quote, there is a leadership vacuum right now.

00:51:17.000 Biden's not filling it.

00:51:19.000 Meanwhile, CNN's Edward Isaac Tavir has a dishy piece on the fatalistic mood among Dems both inside the White House and out.

00:51:25.000 The big picture.

00:51:26.000 Rutterless, aimless, and hopeless is how one member of Congress described the White House.

00:51:30.000 Two dozen leading Democratic politicians and operatives, as well as several within the West Wing, tell CNN they feel this goes far deeper than questions of ideology and posture.

00:51:37.000 Instead, they said, it gets to questions of basic management.

00:51:41.000 So here is the biggest problem here.

00:51:43.000 The Democrats are perceiving this as a problem of personality.

00:51:46.000 It is not a problem of personality.

00:51:47.000 Joe Biden is just a reflective surface for the Democratic Party.

00:51:50.000 He has been this entire career.

00:51:51.000 Joe Biden is not a thought leader in any way, shape, or form.

00:51:54.000 He is a trial balloon sometimes from time to time, like on same-sex marriage for Barack Obama.

00:51:58.000 Other than that, Joe Biden has always reflected the center of his party.

00:52:02.000 So when he moves to the left, it's because the Democratic Party has moved to its left, and he is now reflecting that.

00:52:07.000 So if they don't like what they're seeing in terms of his approval ratings, they ought to look in the mirror.

00:52:10.000 Because he reflects them, and the American people don't like any of that stuff.

00:52:15.000 Okay, another piece of news that I just have to mention here.

00:52:18.000 Dave Rubin has now been suspended from Twitter.

00:52:21.000 He's been suspended for the great crime of noticing that Jordan Peterson was suspended from Twitter.

00:52:24.000 So Jordan has been banned from Twitter.

00:52:26.000 By the way, folks, if you want Jordan Peterson, you need to go over to DailyWirePlus.

00:52:29.000 Jordan has tons of material there.

00:52:30.000 We're talking, like, all of his speeches.

00:52:32.000 We're talking a brand new series, Dragons, Monsters, MN.

00:52:35.000 It is Jordan, like, completely unpacked over at DailyWirePlus.

00:52:38.000 Head on over to DailyWirePlus right now and subscribe.

00:52:40.000 I mean, the reason you need to go there is that you don't have to worry about big tech censoring, Jordan.

00:52:44.000 You want full-on censored Jordan, head on over to DailyWirePlus right now and become a subscriber.

00:52:47.000 So you'll recall that last week Jordan Peterson was suspended from Twitter for noting that Elliot Page was actually Ellen Page.

00:52:55.000 That she changed her name because we use biological pronouns here on The Ben Shapiro Show because those are the only pronouns that convey actual information about human beings.

00:53:02.000 And Ellen Page is a woman who changed her name to Elliot Page and then got a bunch of surgeries to make her look more like a man.

00:53:10.000 Jordan noted this, and he was banned from Twitter for that.

00:53:13.000 Then Dave Rubin, we now have like a daisy chain of bannings.

00:53:17.000 Dave Rubin then noted that Jordan Peterson had been banned.

00:53:20.000 He tweeted, quote, the insanity continues at Twitter.

00:53:22.000 Jordan Peterson has been suspended for this tweet about Ellen Page.

00:53:25.000 He just told me he will, quote, never delete the tweet.

00:53:28.000 Paging Elon Musk.

00:53:30.000 So he was suspended on Twitter for this.

00:53:34.000 So for mentioning that Jordan tweeted about Ellen Page, which Jordan did, He was banned because you're not allowed to... It's like Voldemort.

00:53:40.000 You're never allowed to say Ellen Page.

00:53:42.000 If you say Ellen Page, Voldemort will show up on your doorstep. 0.84

00:53:45.000 Whereas transgender ideology violates all science. 1.00

00:53:49.000 Biology, it violates the basic norms of logic.

00:53:52.000 And apparently it violates physics.

00:53:53.000 You're supposed to be able to go back in time now and erase the fact that Ellen Page ever existed.

00:53:58.000 You want to talk about female erasure? 1.00

00:53:59.000 There was never a woman named Ellen Page.

00:54:01.000 There was always a male named Elliot Page who didn't exist until five minutes ago.

00:54:06.000 But was, that was not a woman. 0.99

00:54:08.000 When you were watching Juno, the story of a young pregnant girl, what you were actually watching was a pregnant man named Elliot Page who looked exactly like a girl because, you know, was a girl.

00:54:21.000 You didn't know Elliot Page was the star of Juno because Elliot Page didn't exist yet.

00:54:24.000 But now, because we have a time machine, the trans time machine, Elliot Page is now the star of Juno.

00:54:30.000 Elliot Page starred in Inception.

00:54:31.000 And in fact, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, his romantic interest in Elliot Page was actually a homosexual love affair.

00:54:37.000 I don't know if you know that.

00:54:38.000 That was the subtext right there.

00:54:40.000 It may have been buried so deep that you didn't notice it in Inception.

00:54:42.000 And when Joseph Gordon-Levitt kissed Ellen Page, she was actually kissing Elliot Page, who was a man.

00:54:48.000 I know, it's a little confusing.

00:54:50.000 But if you stick with this, you'll know.

00:54:52.000 Twitter will not allow you to say the name Ellen Page.

00:54:54.000 If you say Ellen Page, this is quote-unquote deadnaming.

00:54:55.000 Deadnaming is when you note that somebody has changed their name.

00:54:59.000 So instead, we just kill the entire past and pretend that this person never existed and does not exist currently as a biological female.

00:55:06.000 And if you note this, then you will be among the elect.

00:55:09.000 So, Dave Rubin put out a statement.

00:55:10.000 He said, I've been suspended by Twitter for posting a screenshot of Jordan Peterson's tweet, which got him suspended.

00:55:16.000 Well, it's unclear how I broke their terms of service.

00:55:18.000 It's clear they are breaking their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders by letting a bunch of woke activists run the company.

00:55:23.000 I hope Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter goes through so he can blow up their servers and humanity can move past this pervasive, twisted, self-imposed mental institution.

00:55:30.000 In the meantime, you can find me over at RubinReport.Locals.com, the platform I created to fight big tech censorship, something we need now more than ever.

00:55:38.000 But this is the perversity of big tech.

00:55:40.000 Big tech will literally erase you from existence for having noticed that a person was erased from existence.

00:55:46.000 It's like the old photos of Stalin.

00:55:48.000 So in the Soviet Union, they'd have photos of Stalin next to one of his best friends.

00:55:52.000 And then like two years later, that best friend would end up being liquidated.

00:55:55.000 In the basement of Lubyanka.

00:55:56.000 And then they would go back to the photo and they just airbrushed the person out of existence.

00:55:59.000 There are lots of Soviet photos like this.

00:56:01.000 Ellen Page never existed.

00:56:02.000 And if you remember Ellen Page, that's because it's a figment of your imagination.

00:56:06.000 Understand, we're all under a collective delusion that a person named Ellen Page ever existed.

00:56:11.000 It's just, it never happened.

00:56:13.000 Elliot Page was the star of Juno.

00:56:16.000 If I say it often enough, And if you believe it and if you repeat it, this makes you a good person.

00:56:20.000 Elliot Page, a man, was the star of Juno.

00:56:23.000 Elliot Page, a man, was the star of Inception.

00:56:26.000 Elliot Page, a man, was the star of the Umbrella Academy.

00:56:31.000 Even in the first season, when Elliot Page was Ellen Page and was a woman who was straight in the series.

00:56:37.000 That's it.

00:56:39.000 All of it.

00:56:40.000 None of it existed.

00:56:42.000 You will be forced by Big Tech to obey and repeat.

00:56:47.000 No, it's funny.

00:56:48.000 I tweeted about this.

00:56:48.000 I did not get banned.

00:56:49.000 Why?

00:56:50.000 Because the game that I played with Twitter is that I said something extraordinarily sarcastic and they can't ban me for it because Twitter's algorithms don't pick up sarcasm.

00:56:58.000 So that is the fortunate part. 1.00

00:56:59.000 You know, you can actually play around with their stupid standards because their standards are unbelievably stupid, obviously. 1.00

00:57:05.000 But the fact of the matter is, that if you mention basically true things, it's a problem. 1.00

00:57:08.000 Here's what I tweeted, okay?

00:57:09.000 They haven't banned me yet, so, you know, the day is young.

00:57:12.000 Quote, Rubin Report has now been suspended for posting news about Jordan Peterson's suspension.

00:57:16.000 All because we are not allowed to mention that until five minutes ago, Elliot Page, who is very, very, very male, was a female actress named Ellen Page.

00:57:23.000 So we'll see if that gets me banned.

00:57:25.000 By the way, if that gets me banned, there's literally no way to describe what actually happened here.

00:57:30.000 So that of course is their goal.

00:57:31.000 You must not say true things.

00:57:33.000 Never, ever, ever say true things on places like Twitter.

00:57:37.000 And then they wonder why their credibility is shot.

00:57:39.000 What's funny, however, is to watch people on the left run afoul of the insane, woke left on this sort of stuff.

00:57:45.000 So Bette Midler, who is just beloved of the left, right? 0.95

00:57:49.000 She's been on Broadway, and she's been in movies for years, and she's beloved of the LGBT plus minus divided by sign group. 0.89

00:57:56.000 She ran afoul of them yesterday in one of the saddest twists in American political history.

00:58:02.000 Get out your tiny violin.

00:58:03.000 Here we go.

00:58:03.000 She tweeted, quote, Women of the world, all caps.

00:58:06.000 We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives, and even of our name.

00:58:10.000 They don't call us women anymore. 0.99

00:58:11.000 They call us birthing people or menstruators and even people with vaginas. 1.00

00:58:14.000 Don't let them erase you. 0.99

00:58:16.000 Every human on earth owes you.

00:58:18.000 Wow, Bette Midler.

00:58:21.000 Standing up for women.

00:58:22.000 Well, of course, she's not allowed to do that. 1.00

00:58:24.000 Silly Bette Midler. 0.94

00:58:25.000 You had a bunch of people on Twitter, ugh, not Bette Midler too, parroting right-wing transphobic false dilemmas. 0.98

00:58:32.000 Well, no, it's not a false dilemma.

00:58:33.000 I mean, when you say that women don't exist and men can be women, that sort of defeats the point of the term woman.

00:58:40.000 People are tweeting, cis woman's insistence on not being called people is really fascinating. 0.75

00:58:44.000 Also, stop comparing people using inclusive language to the bigots who are taking our rights away.

00:58:49.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:58:50.000 Then you had Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, signed into debate.

00:58:53.000 So she has decided that she is going to become newly relevant by just repeating woke nostrums, even though she has not done anything of career note since, like, the 1970s.

00:59:02.000 So she tweeted out on this topic as well, quote, I cannot think of anything that helps women's rights less than pinning the blame on trans women.

00:59:09.000 They face so much violence and scrutiny as it is.

00:59:11.000 Leave them alone and focus on the real war on women. 1.00

00:59:13.000 It's happening in the courts and legislatures around this country.

00:59:16.000 Now erasing women as an actual, existent part of the species, that's not a war on women. 1.00

00:59:19.000 Saying that women should not kill their unborn children, that's the real war on women, according to the left.

00:59:26.000 So...

00:59:27.000 Really, well done.

00:59:29.000 The left has gone so far.

00:59:30.000 They've gone so far around the horn that now they are attacking Bette Midler for the crime of noticing that women exist. 1.00

00:59:36.000 Why, oh why, is the left losing the culture war?

00:59:38.000 They are.

00:59:39.000 This is the first time in my lifetime the left is losing the culture war and the answer is they pushed so hard that eventually they had to drive a backlash.

00:59:45.000 Well, the backlash is coming.

00:59:46.000 It's going to form itself in November and it's going to be really, really ugly for Democrats, as well it should be because they've pursued bad policy on every single front Beyond the dissolution of all the social bonds that we used to rely upon to tie the country together.

00:59:59.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with additional content.

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There Are Always Red Flags | Ep. 1528

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