The Ben Shapiro Show - This Women’s History Month, All The Best Women Are Men | Ep. 1679

00:00:00.000 Hershey's celebrates Women's History Month by featuring a dude who says he's a lady.

00:00:04.000 Lori Lightfoot claims she lost her mayoralty because Chicago is mega country. 1.00

00:00:09.000 And Greta Thunberg gets herself arrested again for the cameras.

00:00:12.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:12.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:23.000 There is a strategy that is being implemented, whether consciously or unconsciously, by the elites in our society, and it is to make everybody a loser.

00:00:30.000 The reason I say this is because if everybody feels dispossessed by the system, then this allows people in power to claim that they have all of the incentive in order to change the system.

00:00:40.000 The system, of course, being the enemy.

00:00:41.000 Everything that has to do with the status quo is bad.

00:00:45.000 Now, you might think to yourself, wait, hold on, I know that if I make good decisions in a free country, in a country where I have rights, then I tend to do better.

00:00:53.000 And if I make bad decisions, I tend to do worse.

00:00:54.000 Yes, but that doesn't allow people in power to have the impetus to change the system. 1.00

00:00:58.000 And so their goal is to create as many losers as humanly possible.

00:01:02.000 Their goal is to incentivize people to make bad decisions, to act as fringe as they possibly can, so they have more foot soldiers in the fight against the system.

00:01:11.000 Now, this strategy involves sort of three separate steps.

00:01:14.000 Step one is you glorify people who make bad life decisions.

00:01:18.000 Or people who are exceptions to a rule.

00:01:20.000 People who are left out by the system.

00:01:22.000 You glorify those people.

00:01:23.000 You put those people at the center of the conversation.

00:01:25.000 You re-center things.

00:01:26.000 The Left talks about re-centering a lot.

00:01:28.000 They like to talk about how the center of the conversation for too long has been on the average Joe.

00:01:33.000 It's been on secious white men. 0.78

00:01:35.000 Or it's been on capitalism.

00:01:37.000 It's been on the normal person, supposedly.

00:01:40.000 They say statistically normal, like the average person.

00:01:44.000 No.

00:01:44.000 It's time to re-center the conversation around the marginalized.

00:01:47.000 You hear this sort of talk a lot on college campuses.

00:01:49.000 You hear it a lot in the media.

00:01:50.000 Center the conversation on the marginalized.

00:01:52.000 Now, the goal of doing that, of course, is to suggest that the marginalized ought to make all the rules or that the rules ought to be radically changed so that the marginalized are no longer marginalized.

00:02:01.000 And there are two types of marginalized people in free societies.

00:02:04.000 Marginalized people can be marginalized because they are statistically not the norm or they act in ways that are contra the normal rules. 0.97

00:02:12.000 Or you can marginalize yourself.

00:02:14.000 You can marginalize yourself by making really crappy decisions.

00:02:17.000 So you marginalize yourself from sort of mainstream society by making decisions to, for example, not finish high school.

00:02:22.000 You've marginalized yourself economically now.

00:02:25.000 Or you marginalize yourself by having a baby before you're married.

00:02:27.000 That is a way that you economically and societally marginalize yourself in certain ways.

00:02:31.000 And then the left says, okay, we glorify those people.

00:02:34.000 We uphold them as just a new standard.

00:02:36.000 They're just living differentially.

00:02:38.000 These are just people who are living differently.

00:02:40.000 It's diversity.

00:02:42.000 And then comes step two, which is you suggest that the reason for their life problems is not the decisions that they have made or the ways in which they are acting, right?

00:02:51.000 What has to change is the system itself.

00:02:52.000 Now, again, there are two separate categories of people here.

00:02:54.000 There are people who are marginalized because the system has legitimately left them out for bad reasons, right?

00:02:58.000 This would be the story of the civil rights movement would be the idea that there are people who are marginalized by the system because the system was indeed wrong because people have immutable characteristics that They have no control over and make no difference in life and should make no difference in life.

00:03:10.000 And so the system should take account of them.

00:03:12.000 Perfectly fine.

00:03:13.000 Perfectly true.

00:03:13.000 And then there is what the left has done now, which is conflate that with marginalized people who are self-marginalized, people who are making decisions in their lives that marginalize them.

00:03:24.000 We glorify those people.

00:03:26.000 And then we say that the system is bad because the system isn't taking account of those people.

00:03:30.000 The reason for their troubles isn't their own decision-making process.

00:03:33.000 We shouldn't incentivize them to make better decisions.

00:03:36.000 Instead, what we should suggest is the system itself is bad.

00:03:38.000 It needs to be torn down and needs to be changed.

00:03:41.000 And so when you look at the sort of random chaos of modern culture, you have to understand that there is one unifying grand theory, and that is opposition to the status quo.

00:03:50.000 That is the thing that unites all of the disparate parts in American society.

00:03:54.000 It helps explain why certain bizarre things seem to be happening in terms of media and culture.

00:04:01.000 It explains why the Biden administration, the White House, is pushing equity in all of its executive policy.

00:04:07.000 We have to rejigger the entire system to take account of the quote-unquote marginalized, even if we're not actually talking about people who are marginalized anymore.

00:04:15.000 Now we're just talking about people who make bad decisions, for example.

00:04:18.000 Because the left essentially suggests that all disparity in outcome is a result of disparity in treatment, which of course is not true.

00:04:26.000 It also explains the bizarre nature of the cultural waters in which we now swim.

00:04:32.000 So today's example of the weirdness of our culture comes courtesy of Hershey's.

00:04:36.000 So Hershey's, for the last three years, has been celebrating Women's History Month.

00:04:41.000 And so they have now released Hershey Bar.

00:04:44.000 Get it, get it?

00:04:44.000 It's like her, but also she.

00:04:47.000 Do you get it?

00:04:48.000 It doesn't have the Y at the end, because that'd be weird.

00:04:50.000 So it's just her for she. 0.94

00:04:52.000 This is their new campaign.

00:04:53.000 It's the third year Hershey's has created the product according to a press release from the company.

00:04:57.000 This is Fox Business Reporting.

00:04:59.000 They are now selling the Hershey's She Bar, which will be available in two sizes, a 1.55 ounce standard chocolate bar and a 4.4 ounce extra large chocolate bar.

00:05:09.000 It will help Single, lonely 40-year-old women relieve their depression by eating as much chocolate as possible, presumably. 0.94

00:05:15.000 And also, it will cost 77 cents on the dollar.

00:05:17.000 Neither of those last two things are true.

00:05:19.000 The Hershey Company, headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, now partnered with the North Carolina-based Girls on the Run for the second year for the special offering to build upon their shared mission of uplifting women to recognize their limitless potential.

00:05:29.000 Okay, fine.

00:05:30.000 So you want to do some sort of weird left-wing virtue signaling about chocolate and Women's History Month? 1.00

00:05:37.000 All right.

00:05:38.000 I mean, I guess that's better than if Hershey's had made a really awkward and terrible move like doing Hershey's of Color History Month or something.

00:05:46.000 That would have been weird.

00:05:49.000 They do Pride Month products also.

00:05:51.000 We now have the intersectional Hershey bar.

00:05:54.000 It's a pun, guys.

00:05:55.000 It's a pun.

00:05:57.000 Here's the thing.

00:05:58.000 When they released this Hershey's bar, the Hershey, the she bar, they decided to also release a commercial.

00:06:05.000 The commercial that they released featured one of the best women in the world. 0.67

00:06:09.000 One of the best women in the world.

00:06:10.000 A dude.

00:06:11.000 So here is the ad for Her4She featuring a human who is, in fact, male.

00:06:19.000 My name is Faye Johnstone.

00:06:20.000 I'm the executive director of Wisdom to Action.

00:06:23.000 We can create a world where everyone is able to live in public space as their honest and authentic selves.

00:06:29.000 See the woman changing how we see the future at Hershey's Canada. 1.00

00:06:35.000 See how Hershey's Canada is changing the future by featuring a dude.

00:06:40.000 The best women changing the future are dudes. 1.00

00:06:43.000 Isn't that exciting?

00:06:44.000 That right there is a man.

00:06:48.000 She is a beautiful woman changing the future with a voice deeper than my own.

00:06:53.000 By a significant margin.

00:06:54.000 But so you ask yourself, what in the world is happening?

00:06:57.000 Why is that happening?

00:06:58.000 Or, for example, why is Women's History Month being touted by actual male Dylan Mulvaney?

00:07:05.000 Why?

00:07:05.000 Why is that happening?

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00:08:13.000 So, Women's History Month, it features For Hershey, a dude.

00:08:17.000 Faye Johnstone, who's the dude, as the spokesperson.

00:08:21.000 Or maybe you have Dylan Mulvaney, celebrating Women's History Month.

00:08:24.000 Dylan Mulvaney is, of course, also a dude.

00:08:27.000 in a creepy video in which he, having waxed his mustache and beard apparently, has to put on makeup and then gallivant around like a caricature of a cartoon girl.

00:08:38.000 I like pink. Pink. Oh, no, it's a TikTok video. Oh, no. Oh, my God.

00:08:47.000 Pink.

00:08:48.000 Dylan Mulvaney is wearing things that are pink, like a dress that is pink, and then smiling hysterically creepily into the camera for Women's History Month!

00:08:56.000 Do you feel all the feminine history happening right here? 0.90

00:08:58.000 Dylan Mulvaney's history as a woman is less than two years old.

00:09:04.000 And in fact, doesn't exist at all because Dylan Mulvaney is in fact a dude.

00:09:06.000 So why exactly is this happening?

00:09:08.000 Or why, for example, is it that the Democrats in the Senate, they had a hearing the other day about the Equal Rights Amendment.

00:09:16.000 Now, the Equal Rights Amendment has been DLA for decades at this point.

00:09:20.000 There's a hard push for it in the 1970s.

00:09:21.000 It didn't make it across the finish line because a lot of conservatives pointed out you're obliterating the distinctions between the sexes in law. 1.00

00:09:28.000 So what exactly are you doing?

00:09:29.000 Well, Democrats have been trying to revive the Equal Rights Amendment for a while.

00:09:33.000 They've been doing so on the faulty legal basis that if an amendment is voted for over the course of like 40 years by various states, that there's no time limit on the amendment, which of course is ridiculous.

00:09:43.000 But in any case, The main point here is what a pro-ERA witness named Kathleen Sullivan, who's a lawyer at Quinn Emanuel, said about protecting the differences between men and women.

00:09:53.000 So she was asked about, you know, Women's History Month is coming up.

00:09:56.000 You're talking about the Equal Rights Amendment.

00:09:57.000 If you're going to protect women, then shouldn't there be distinctions between women and men that are actually protected?

00:10:02.000 She says, no, no, not really.

00:10:06.000 The ERA would simply make constitutional bedrock something we already recognize, which is Women and men should not be treated unequally.

00:10:16.000 How that gets worked out when there are real differences between men and women is a question for the future.

00:10:22.000 And this court, this court excuse me, the Senate need not specify to courts of the future how to work those questions out.

00:10:31.000 We don't even have to bother with determining how men and women are different, actually, according to the newfangled left, which of course led Dick Durbin, one of the dumber senators in America from Illinois, to dismiss all concerns about women in men's sports or men in women's sports.

00:10:46.000 Now we hear that what's at stake really is not a constitutional right for women, but the fate of field hockey.

00:10:53.000 I mean, I'm trying to keep up with the arguments here.

00:10:57.000 It might not mean a lot to you, sir, but it means a lot to the girls who play.

00:11:00.000 See, I believe you have a sincere belief in that.

00:11:03.000 And I believe those girls would probably feel very strongly about the issue if they're field hockey players. 1.00

00:11:09.000 Particularly when they're displaced by males on the varsity team.

00:11:12.000 But you see, that's what the argument comes down to.

00:11:15.000 The fate of field hockey.

00:11:16.000 And I think it is much more fundamental.

00:11:19.000 We are talking about the role of women in the United States of America.

00:11:24.000 Yes, we are.

00:11:24.000 We are talking about that.

00:11:25.000 But the whole point is that you are destroying the role of women in the United States of America by saying that women don't exist, that men can actually be women.

00:11:32.000 That's why you're doing it culturally.

00:11:33.000 That's why you're doing it in the halls of power.

00:11:36.000 It's why we are treated to our cultural betters to the sight of a man dressed as a woman who is the Assistant Human Health and Services Secretary.

00:11:46.000 Talking about health.

00:11:47.000 An overweight man dressed as a woman explaining to you about human health. 0.99

00:11:52.000 This is the sort of thing that we are now treated to and we are supposed to treat it as normal.

00:11:55.000 We are supposed to treat it as though it is regular.

00:11:57.000 We are re-centering the conversation around the fringes, of course.

00:12:01.000 Why?

00:12:01.000 Because all the systems that would impede your ability to see this as the normal, that's your problem.

00:12:06.000 It's because you've been indoctrinated by society.

00:12:08.000 Society has to change its rules.

00:12:09.000 Society has to change how it thinks about things like men and women. 0.54

00:12:13.000 All the powerful systems in which you have been indoctrinated need to be exploded.

00:12:17.000 And that's how you end up with the bizarre spectacle of Rachel Levine, HHS Assistant Secretary, who is a dude talking up health during Women's History Month or something.

00:12:27.000 March is National Nutrition Month, and the Biden-Harris administration is taking action to support public health by offering evidence-based guidance on nutrition.

00:12:38.000 The 2025-2030 Federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee just met for the first time to begin its review of the relationship between diet and health throughout our lives.

00:12:50.000 This committee will make recommendations for the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans based on a number of important factors, including socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and culture.

00:13:02.000 Each of these factors impacts the food that we eat, the food that we're able to access in our overall nutritional outlook.

00:13:10.000 This work is very timely because our country is facing a genuine crisis of diet-related diseases.

00:13:19.000 Oh, I mean, we're not supposed to mention what those diet-related diseases are?

00:13:22.000 Do you mean like people being fat?

00:13:24.000 We're not supposed to mention that because fat positivity and all of that.

00:13:27.000 Man, when you look at the weirdness of American society, you have to wonder, why are you seeing so much of it?

00:13:31.000 Because the whole goal is the weirdness!

00:13:32.000 The whole goal is to re-center all of the weirdness, so that all those people can then feel marginalized, and they can feel bad about the system, and then you have enough people who feel bad about the system, and then you get to wreck the system.

00:13:42.000 And this is how you end up with Lori Lightfoot, the former mayor of Chicago. 0.99

00:13:47.000 She just got her ass kicked in a Democratic first-round race. 1.00

00:13:51.000 She lost to two other Democrats. 0.99

00:13:52.000 She didn't even finish second in that runoff election. 1.00

00:13:56.000 Lori Lightfoot, she's also a victim. 0.78

00:13:58.000 We have a society that incentivizes victimhood, that wants to make you into a loser. 0.99

00:14:02.000 You're supposed to be more prominent if you are a loser. 0.99

00:14:04.000 That's the whole point. 0.99

00:14:06.000 It's more of that in a second.

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00:15:12.000 Meanwhile, in the in the quest to glorify the losers, Lori Lightfoot, this is just amazing to me.

00:15:18.000 So Lori Lightfoot loses her Chicago mayoralty. 0.95

00:15:22.000 She becomes the first sitting mayor of Chicago to lose a reelect effort in 40 years.

00:15:27.000 And she had a reason.

00:15:29.000 So she was asked by a reporter after a concession address if she'd been treated unfairly over the course of the campaign.

00:15:34.000 And her reply was, quote, I'm a black woman in America, of course.

00:15:39.000 She'd said the same thing to the New Yorker back in February, quote, I'm a black woman. Let's not forget. Certain folks, frankly, don't support us in leadership roles.

00:15:46.000 So that's weird because you'll remember that she actually won 73.7% of the vote in 2019 to become mayor of Chicago. And And the other 27% of the vote or so went to Toni Preckwinkle, who is also a black woman.

00:16:00.000 But the whole point here is that she's a victim.

00:16:02.000 You see, she's a victim of Americans. 0.81

00:16:03.000 She's a marginalized member of American society.

00:16:05.000 Now, I will say, I did not see coming that Lori Lightfoot, the Smeagol of Chicago politics, intersectional Smeagol, I did not see that she was actually just Jussie Smollett, that she actually is Jussie Smollett.

00:16:17.000 She's now claiming that she was victimized as a black woman in Chicago. 0.83

00:16:22.000 A black liberal woman in Chicago.

00:16:26.000 She was victimized. 0.66

00:16:27.000 Because Chicago's mega country!

00:16:30.000 I'm just waiting for her to tell her story about how she was walking down the street at 2am in the middle of a polar vortex getting a Subway sandwich when she was attacked by two dudes in red hats who decided to garret her.

00:16:38.000 And then she walked back to her apartment wearing the rope line around her neck.

00:16:43.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:16:45.000 By the way, you wonder why Jussie Smollett said what he said?

00:16:48.000 He said it for the same reason that all these people are saying these kinds of things.

00:16:51.000 They are victims of the society in which they live.

00:16:53.000 That is the most important thing for you to remember.

00:16:55.000 We have a society that embraces victimhood, that glorifies victimhood, because that is the impetus to change the system.

00:17:01.000 It is all about wrecking the institutions around us, the institutions that actually create and enshrine our freedoms.

00:17:06.000 The institutions that allow for predictability to life, the institutions, the intermediate institutions that I've been talking a lot about in American society, church, family, local government, community events, right?

00:17:16.000 All these things are the things that people on the left would love to rip apart because they need to build something else in the wake of those systems.

00:17:23.000 And the only way to tear down the systems is to focus on the marginalized.

00:17:28.000 And that is why if you lose power in the system, like Lori Lightfoot said, you immediately declare it's because of your marginalized status, even though the reality is the only reason Lori Lightfoot became mayor of Chicago was, at least in part, her marginalized status in the first place.

00:17:41.000 This leads, by the way, to bizarre spectacles like one of the most absurd arguments online that I've ever seen.

00:17:48.000 And of course, it features another person who claims victimhood while being one of the least victimized people in American society, Nicole Hannah-Jones.

00:17:54.000 She is the pseudo-journalist and creator of the Garbage 1619 Project, who's been turned into a national intellectual hero by the left.

00:18:02.000 for telling a pack of lies about American history in an attempt to quote-unquote recenter, right?

00:18:06.000 The whole goal is to recenter American history around slavery as though slavery wasn't already a deep and implicit part of American history that gets taught to literally all schoolchildren.

00:18:15.000 Nope, she created the 1619 Project and now she's gotten herself in an argument with a survivor of the Maoist cultural revolution.

00:18:25.000 According to the New York Post, She sparred with Critical Race Theory opponent, G. Van Fleet, on Twitter on Sunday after the malice survivor challenged Jones's rejection of American exceptionalism.

00:18:35.000 In a three-part thread, Hannah-Jones argued that black history is under attack because, quote, our very presence on these lands is the greatest rebuke to the narrative of American exceptionalism.

00:18:44.000 Van Fleet fired back, yourself and I, an immigrant from China with 200 borrowed dollars in my pocket when I arrived more than 30 years ago, are proof of American exceptionalism, which is 100% true.

00:18:53.000 Nicole Hannah-Jones, being a, a, Pseudo-historian liar, a professional pseudo-historian liar has made herself millions of dollars. 0.86

00:19:04.000 She's gotten herself a permanent chair at Howard University in a country that she says is terrible to her, in which the systems are geared against her. 0.59

00:19:13.000 Van Fleet points out that I came here from China as a victim of the Cultural Revolution with 200 borrowed dollars, and I was asked to succeed.

00:19:21.000 Van Fleet argued natural rights are unique to America's founding, telling Jones that quote, because of it, we were able to abolish slavery, Jim Crow, anti-Chinese laws to allow individuals to succeed.

00:19:30.000 She said, what is not unique to America is slavery, which still exists today.

00:19:34.000 People fighting for human rights in China are jailed by the CCP.

00:19:37.000 Hannah Jones retorted, ma'am, the idea of natural rights may have been unique, but one fifth of the population was enslaved at our founding and had no natural rights.

00:19:44.000 Further, do you not think protesters in the United States face state violence and arrest?

00:19:47.000 has no political prisoners?

00:19:47.000 You think the U.S.

00:19:49.000 And then she instructed Van Fleet to watch episode five of her Hulu docuseries.

00:19:54.000 Fanfleet responded, her interpretation of America is not a vision, as Hannah-Jones suggested, but is a lived experience under the enslavement of communism, freedom in America, and the current woke revolution aiming to undo America.

00:20:03.000 Black Americans are enslaved no more thanks to the persevering principles and humanity of this country, she told Hannah-Jones.

00:20:09.000 Now again, it is just amazing to have Nicole Hannah-Jones, one of the most privileged human beings who has ever lived on the face of this planet.

00:20:14.000 Nicole Hannah-Jones went to a college in the United States.

00:20:17.000 Nicole Hannah-Jones worked at the New York Times.

00:20:18.000 She has never written a thing of value, and she's extremely famous and rich.

00:20:23.000 And here she is, informing a victim of Mao's Cultural Revolution, who came here and became successful, that America is truly a terrible place.

00:20:29.000 That's the whole point.

00:20:30.000 The whole point, over and over and over again, is to censor the marginalized, thus to declare victimhood from American society.

00:20:38.000 And that's gross, because American society is pretty great.

00:20:41.000 The intermediate institutions of America are pretty awesome.

00:20:44.000 Those are the things that allow for success for not only the hundreds of millions of people who live in the United States, but billions of people around the world.

00:20:50.000 In fact, there are so many people who are arrayed at tearing down those institutions by refocusing all the focus on the marginalized.

00:20:57.000 And there are bad reasons for marginalization and good reasons for marginalization.

00:21:02.000 Bad reasons for marginalization include immutable characteristics.

00:21:04.000 Good reasons for marginalization, meaning that you are economically marginalized, or that you've had a worse life, or that the system hasn't quote-unquote worked for you, is because you made bad decisions.

00:21:13.000 And we have a society that is actively, actively incentivizing bad decision-making.

00:21:18.000 Get to more of that in a second.

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00:22:23.000 Okay, so, and the call to treat bad decision-making as victimhood is a pace.

00:22:30.000 Randy Weingarten is one of the people who has led this charge because, of course, she is a failure in her job.

00:22:35.000 She is the leader of the American Federation of Teachers.

00:22:37.000 The American public school system under her auspices has failed and failed and failed again.

00:22:40.000 The American Federation of Teachers is explicitly directed against the interests of students.

00:22:44.000 They wanted to keep the schools shut when there was no reason to do it during COVID.

00:22:47.000 They want no metrics of success in terms of whether students can read, write, or do basic work.

00:22:53.000 What they actually just want is money out of your pocket.

00:22:56.000 And then they want to claim that you're a victim.

00:22:57.000 Not a victim of their system, the system that they themselves created, but victims of a broader system.

00:23:01.000 So Randi Weingarten is out there stumping for free college.

00:23:05.000 She's stumping for Joe Biden to illegally simply get rid of student loan debt.

00:23:10.000 And she's going crazy in doing so because, again, she's a member of the marginalized, don't you see?

00:23:14.000 Here we go.

00:23:15.000 All of a sudden, what it's about are students!

00:23:20.000 They challenge it!

00:23:21.000 The corporations challenge it!

00:23:23.000 The student loan lenders challenge it!

00:23:26.000 That is not right!

00:23:28.000 That is not fair!

00:23:29.000 And that is what we are fighting as well!

00:23:32.000 So I have a nearly three-year-old, and she's gotten into a very whiny phase.

00:23:36.000 And so she likes to break into tears as a ploy to gain attention. 1.00

00:23:41.000 And I have no idea what she's saying.

00:23:42.000 She starts crying, and all that comes out of her face is that sound.

00:23:46.000 Except she's almost three.

00:23:48.000 Randy Weingarten is head of the American Federation for Teachers, and Randy Weingarten is, right now, 65 years of age.

00:23:55.000 When you're 65 years old, you shouldn't sound like my three-year-old.

00:23:58.000 But there she is, screaming! 0.98

00:23:59.000 Screaming! 0.98

00:24:02.000 Woo, lady! 1.00

00:24:03.000 Okay, so.

00:24:04.000 And the goal here is to suggest that she is a victim.

00:24:07.000 You're a victim.

00:24:08.000 She's saying you're a victim.

00:24:09.000 You're a victim of American state.

00:24:10.000 You took out a loan to go to college, and then you went to a college, and then people ask you to pay back that loan, and you're a victim.

00:24:16.000 That's how this works.

00:24:17.000 Always a victim.

00:24:18.000 Always, always, and forever.

00:24:19.000 Okay, or internationally.

00:24:22.000 Again, same sort of deal.

00:24:23.000 Always, playing the victim is like the best thing that you can do in global Western civilization right now.

00:24:30.000 It is the best thing you can do.

00:24:31.000 So this is the game that Greta Thunberg is now playing.

00:24:34.000 So she's outlived the child prophetess routine because she's now the age of majority, which means I can make fun of her as much as I could possibly want to make fun of her, which is an awful lot because she's terrible.

00:24:42.000 So Greta Thunberg got herself detained again. 1.00

00:24:45.000 And this is a thing that she does every so often now because she needs to be in the press.

00:24:51.000 And she can't be in the press anymore for being a small child who dresses down and wear pigtails. 1.00

00:24:55.000 So she looks like she's six years junior to what she actually is in charge. 1.00

00:24:58.000 and the adults! How dare you! 0.92

00:25:01.000 How dare you?

00:25:02.000 No one cares about her anymore.

00:25:03.000 So now she has to go get herself fake arrested. 0.98

00:25:06.000 So according to Reuters, environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, by the way, how is that an actual job?

00:25:12.000 Like who pays you to do that?

00:25:13.000 How do you get employed as an environmental campaigner?

00:25:16.000 Like who pays you to just go get arrested at places?

00:25:19.000 She was twice detained during a demonstration in support of indigenous rights in Oslo on Wednesday.

00:25:23.000 Police removed her and other activists from the finance ministry and later the environment ministry.

00:25:28.000 Hilariously, what was she protesting?

00:25:32.000 I do love it when the woke eat themselves. 0.98

00:25:34.000 It is fun to watch when the far left radicals who hate the system, they start eating the system that they themselves have stumped for.

00:25:41.000 So on Monday, she joined protesters.

00:25:44.000 Demanding the removal of 151 wind turbines.

00:25:49.000 I thought she liked wind turbines.

00:25:50.000 I thought wind turbines were everybody's favorite friend in the environmental community.

00:25:53.000 I thought wind turbines were, like, the greatest thing.

00:25:55.000 We should all attach them to the top of our cars, and we should just go down the street powered by the wind turbines, like a giant pinwheel on the top of our Ford F-150s.

00:26:03.000 Well, if she wanted the removal of 151 wind turbines from reindeer pastures used by Sammy Herders in central Norway, They say a transition to green energy should not come at the expense of indigenous rights.

00:26:14.000 Well, I have some good news for them.

00:26:15.000 There will be no transition to green energy because, factually speaking, Norway is one of the biggest oil producers on planet Earth and their entire social infrastructure relies on them having a giant slush fund made of oil.

00:26:27.000 The demonstrators have in recent days blocked access to some government buildings, putting the central left minority government in crisis mode.

00:26:32.000 Yeah, as you see, the revolution is ongoing because even central left governments, not far left, even central left governments sometimes have to uphold the institutions that they purport to run.

00:26:40.000 Here was a Greta Thunberg happily being being, quote unquote, detained yesterday.

00:26:44.000 She looks very upset. 0.76

00:26:53.000 What I love is all the people, the cops who are carrying her, like, oh, I can't believe we have to carry on this dead white human. 0.93

00:26:59.000 The cops are just carrying her around. 0.97

00:27:01.000 She's like, she's enjoying herself.

00:27:03.000 Again, another thing, a lot of kind of comps to my three-year-old today.

00:27:08.000 This is also what my three-year-old does when she just doesn't want to walk places.

00:27:11.000 Just sits down on the pavement and then I have to carry her around and schlep her around. 1.00

00:27:15.000 It's half my exercise.

00:27:17.000 Thunberg, holding a red, blue, yellow, and green Sami flag, was lifted and carried away by police officers from the finance ministry, while hundreds of demonstrators chanted slogans.

00:27:24.000 She told Reuters, quote, We want to make it very clear.

00:27:27.000 It is the Norwegian state that is committing the real crime here for violating human rights by building wind turbines.

00:27:34.000 Wind turbines!

00:27:35.000 Reindeer herders say the sight and sound of the giant wind power machinery frighten their animals and disrupt age-old traditions.

00:27:43.000 And how is Santa ever going to have his reindeer if the wind turbines frighten away the reindeer?

00:27:49.000 The most delicious thing about the radical leftists, who again, feature the marginalized, there will always be marginalized.

00:27:55.000 The marginalized shall always be among you.

00:27:58.000 What that means is even if you build your new system, even if the central left is running things, even if they're as green as green can be, there will always be a more marginalized group that is out there awaiting a new radical to tear down the system.

00:28:10.000 Which is why it is worthy of note here that hilariously, Germany and Italy, both of whom signed on to all this Green New Deal garbage over in Europe, both of whom essentially disconnected power plants and tried to move toward more environmentally friendly energy.

00:28:25.000 And meanwhile, we're kind of shuttling in Russian oil through the back door.

00:28:28.000 Well, now Germany and Italy are signaling that they are going to kill the EU's attempt at a internal combustion engine ban.

00:28:34.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a group of large European countries is threatening to block a plan by Brussels to effectively ban the internal combustion engine, endangering the bloc's ambitious agenda to combat climate change.

00:28:44.000 Germany and Italy said this week they could block the plan's formal approval at crucial meetings this week and next.

00:28:49.000 Berlin said it would oppose the plan unless Brussels agrees to allow so-called synthetic fuels that can burn like gasoline and diesel, but spew fewer climate-damaging emissions alongside fully electric vehicles.

00:28:59.000 Now, the reality, of course, is that Europe is going to be relying on oil for a long time to come.

00:29:03.000 They do not have the geography that is necessary in order to support, for example, solar energy.

00:29:07.000 Solar energy, we don't have the battery power on planet Earth to actually allow us to use solar energy as a substitute for hardier forms of energy.

00:29:16.000 Also, Europe tends to have very short days at certain times during the year and not a lot of sun.

00:29:21.000 It turns out that Europe is not actually all that land rich, so having wind power things is not going to do it.

00:29:27.000 So all of this kind of nonsense about how they're going to do this green transition, even Germany's like, yeah, we can do it.

00:29:32.000 See, here's the thing.

00:29:33.000 The radicalism, it is a privilege of the systems that you guys hate so much.

00:29:39.000 All the radicalism, all the attempts to tear down the system, those only exist in systems that are already extremely wealthy and extremely beneficial to the vast majority of their citizens.

00:29:50.000 Because then you get to claim that you're marginalized from a system that has generated enormous success.

00:29:56.000 See, if no one is successful, it's hard to claim marginalization because everyone is unsuccessful.

00:30:01.000 But if you can find a system in which a lot of people are very successful and then you claim to be marginalized to tear down the system, it is success itself that creates the marginalized who then claim that the success must be torn down.

00:30:11.000 All the systems must be torn down.

00:30:13.000 In other words, these are first world problems.

00:30:15.000 And it is fun to watch as the first world problems swing back around on the left.

00:30:19.000 There is never any position that will be so radical that the left will not take it in order to tear down whatever the prevailing system is.

00:30:24.000 The revolution must go on and the revolution always and forever eats its own.

00:30:30.000 Meanwhile, on the Hill yesterday, Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, came up to testify on his job thus far.

00:30:36.000 He has done an unbelievably poor job over at the DOJ.

00:30:41.000 Now, there is some kind of fascinating news that the Washington Post reported the other day regarding exactly how Merrick Garland is running the DOJ.

00:30:51.000 According to Hot Air, did the FBI get a bad rap in the wake of the raid on Mar-a-Lago?

00:30:55.000 According to the Washington Post, the raid took place only after months of debate between the FBI and prosecutors from the DOJ.

00:31:00.000 The FBI argued a request for a full search of the property would have sufficed, according to two senior officials from the bureau.

00:31:05.000 But the prosecutors wanted a raid.

00:31:07.000 The DOJ agreed.

00:31:09.000 Remember the very non-political DOJ under the late Merrick Garland?

00:31:12.000 He was supposed to be on the Supreme Court, but he's not.

00:31:14.000 Thank God.

00:31:15.000 While prosecutors argued that new evidence suggested Trump was knowingly concealing secret documents at his Palm Beach home and urged the FBI to conduct a surprise raid at the property, two senior FBI officials resisted the plan as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump's permission to search the property.

00:31:30.000 Prosecutors ultimately prevailed.

00:31:32.000 In the tug of war between two arms of the DOJ and then the FBI conducted the unprecedented raid.

00:31:38.000 So basically Merrick Garland's DOJ ended up pushing right past the objections of members of the FBI in order to push the raid of Mar-a-Lago.

00:31:48.000 So Merrick Garland doing just an amazing job.

00:31:50.000 Merrick Garland had to sit in front of a bunch of senators.

00:31:53.000 And it turns out it did not go unbelievably well for him.

00:31:56.000 So it began with Senator Ted Cruz grilling Merrick Garland on the fact that the DOJ really did virtually nothing to stop people from protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices in the aftermath of the leak of the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

00:32:10.000 Merrick Garland could have arrested a lot of those people because it turns out that it is illegal to attempt to use intimidation against a judge.

00:32:15.000 It's against federal law.

00:32:16.000 He didn't do any of that.

00:32:17.000 So Ted Cruz pushed him on this.

00:32:18.000 Merrick Garland, of course, had no answer.

00:32:20.000 So, you just said yes, it's a crime to protest at the home of a judge.

00:32:26.000 Same goes for jurors, by the way, with the intent of influencing a case.

00:32:30.000 But in the wake of the leak of the Dobbs decision, When rioters descended at the homes of six Supreme Court justices, night after night after night, you did nothing.

00:32:44.000 The department did nothing.

00:32:46.000 When these same groups posted online information about where the justices worship, or their home addresses, or where their kids went to school, you again sat on your hands and did nothing.

00:33:02.000 Your failure to act to protect the safety of the justices and their families was an obvious product of political bias.

00:33:11.000 Hey, he happens to be true. 0.99

00:33:13.000 That's true.

00:33:14.000 Merrick Garland got very angry and then he's like, I want to answer the question.

00:33:16.000 But his answer to the question was, I put people from the DOJ outside the justice system.

00:33:22.000 Yes, but did you arrest anyone?

00:33:23.000 Because I noticed that you have a lot of eagerness to arrest people who disagree with your political point of view.

00:33:29.000 This is the point that Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri was making when he asked Merrick Garland.

00:33:33.000 He said, you know, I noticed that you guys are perfectly fine targeting Catholics.

00:33:36.000 That's that's it's strange.

00:33:38.000 You won't arrest people outside justices' houses.

00:33:39.000 You have no record of that.

00:33:40.000 But you're perfectly willing to, at gunpoint, go and arrest a Catholic activist who was involved in a bit of a tussle with a person who was insulting his 12-year-old son.

00:33:52.000 Here's Josh Hawley going after Merrick Garland.

00:33:54.000 We're supposed to hate long guns and assault-style weapons.

00:33:58.000 You're happy to deploy them against Catholics and innocent children. 1.00

00:34:01.000 Happy to.

00:34:02.000 And then you haul them into court and a jury acquits them in one hour.

00:34:07.000 I notice a pattern, though.

00:34:09.000 The FBI field office in Richmond on the 23rd of January of this year issued a memorandum in which they advocated for, and I quote, the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development against traditionalist Catholics, it's their language, including those who favor the Latin mass.

00:34:31.000 Attorney General, are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin mass parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country?

00:34:38.000 The Justice Department does not do that.

00:34:40.000 It does not do investigations based on religion.

00:34:43.000 I saw the document you have.

00:34:45.000 It's appalling.

00:34:46.000 It's appalling.

00:34:47.000 I'm in complete agreement with you.

00:34:51.000 Well then, why was it put out?

00:34:53.000 And why does this seem to be, unfortunately, a pattern inside Merrick Garland's DOJ?

00:34:57.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:35:00.000 First, it seems almost everywhere you turn in the world wants to make you woker, but not Dennis Prager.

00:35:03.000 Dennis would like to make you wiser.

00:35:06.000 My good friend, the founder of PragerU, he's going to do just that.

00:35:08.000 He has a brand new series exclusively at DailyWirePlus.

00:35:10.000 It's called The Master's Program.

00:35:12.000 The Master's Program takes decades of wisdom and experience from one of the most influential conservative thinkers in America today and distills it all down in a way that is relevant and accessible.

00:35:20.000 When you watch it, you'll come away better equipped to navigate the world through a lens of truth and virtue to counter woke ideology and all of its lies and deception.

00:35:27.000 I've known Dennis for literally decades at this point.

00:35:30.000 My parents became Orthodox, at least in part, by listening to Dennis Prager.

00:35:34.000 The first five episodes Okay, meanwhile, the questioning of Merrick Garland by Republican senators continued apace yesterday and Garland had very bad answers to what exactly he thinks the DOJ does for a living.

00:35:42.000 become a member, watch PragerU master's program and more.

00:35:45.000 That's dailywire.com slash subscribe today. Okay, meanwhile, the questioning of Merrick Garland by Republican senators continue to pace yesterday and Garland had very bad answers to what exactly he thinks the DOJ does for a living.

00:35:57.000 So he was asked about the fact that pro-life protesters are getting prosecuted.

00:36:05.000 But meanwhile, people who are firebombing clinics, those people are not getting prosecuted.

00:36:09.000 Firebombing like pro-life clinics. 0.82

00:36:11.000 And Garland was like, well, that's because people firebomb things at night.

00:36:15.000 Oh, what?

00:36:16.000 In 2022 and for the first couple of months of 2023, DOJ has announced charges against 34 individuals for blocking access to or vandalizing abortion clinics.

00:36:31.000 There have been over 81 reported attacks on pregnancy centers, 130 attacks on Catholic churches since the leak of the Dobbs decision, and only two individuals have been charged.

00:36:43.000 So how do you explain this disparity by reference to anything other than politicization of what's happening there?

00:36:52.000 There are many more prosecutions with respect to the blocking of the of the abortion centers, but that is generally because those actions are taken with photography at the time during the daylight and seeing the person who did it is quite easy.

00:37:15.000 Oh, so basically the DOJ will not expend resources if you firebomb things at night, is the note.

00:37:22.000 And this DOJ, they're doing an amazing job.

00:37:24.000 They are totally about enforcing the law, which is why America also says that it's good to send biological males to female prisons. 1.00

00:37:31.000 Because, you know, everyone deserves dignity, except for the females who might be raped in the prison by the biological male, but they don't deserve dignity. 0.99

00:37:37.000 Some women who rape other women have penises, according to the DOJ. 1.00

00:37:42.000 What is our policy when it comes to allowing a male prisoner to be transitioned into a female prison? 0.99

00:37:52.000 I think if you're generally asking the question of how trans people are dealt with in the Bureau of Prisons, my understanding is that these are determinations about where they're placed or where people are placed in general have to do with individualized determinations regarding The security of that individual and the management of the prison.

00:38:14.000 These are done on a case-by-case basis.

00:38:17.000 Are you concerned that if a biological male is sent to a female prison, that could be a risk to female prisoners?

00:38:22.000 I think every person in prison has to be dealt with dignity and respect.

00:38:28.000 The determinations of the safety questions you're talking about have to be made on an individualized basis.

00:38:35.000 Mmm.

00:38:36.000 Mmm.

00:38:36.000 So much wisdom happening here from our DOJ.

00:38:39.000 Garland also denied that he activated the DOJ to go after parents, which is weird because there was an actual letter issued from the DOJ talking about the threat to school boards at the behest of a school boards group that suggested that anyone who objected to what school boards was doing, those people were effectively terrorists.

00:38:55.000 Here's Garland denying that the DOJ had anything to do with going after parents.

00:39:00.000 Didn't you understand The chilling effect that it would have to parents.

00:39:11.000 When you issued your directive, when you directed your criminal divisions and your counter-terrorism divisions to investigate parents who are angry at school boards and administrators during COVID.

00:39:31.000 Senator, if you'd just give me a moment to put to full context, I did not do that.

00:39:36.000 I did not issue any memorandum directing the investigation of parents who are concerned about their children.

00:39:43.000 Quite to the contrary, the memorandum that you're talking about says at the very beginning of the memorandum that vigorous public debate is protected by the First Amendment and the kind of concerns that you're talking about are, as expressed by parents, are of course completely protected Yeah, but he's talking about the chilling effect of putting out these giant notices that basically say, but if you cross the line, you know, and you just cross the line, and we've been seeing all over the country a vast swath of violence against school.

00:40:12.000 When you do that, it does have a chilling effect.

00:40:13.000 Again, they're not sending their best.

00:40:14.000 These are the people who are supposed to be expert bureaucrats.

00:40:17.000 They're going to usher in the new age.

00:40:19.000 Now, speaking of the expert bureaucrats who are going to usher in the new age, John Kirby, who is the national security spokesperson for the Biden administration, he said something the other day that kind of went without notice, and it's crazy.

00:40:29.000 So, John Kirby was asked about further gain-of-function research.

00:40:33.000 So, gain-of-function research is, of course, where you take a virus and then you make it more deadly, more transmissible.

00:40:39.000 It depends on whether you're using the technical definition or not technical definition, but let's use the non-technical definition for a second.

00:40:44.000 You let it jump species.

00:40:45.000 So, instead of it just being transmissible bat-to-bat, now it's transmissible bat-to-human, for example.

00:40:50.000 Gain-of-function research is super risky because if it leaks outside the lab and you haven't come up with a cure for it, that's a real problem.

00:40:56.000 So, John Kirby was asked about it and here was John Kirby's answer.

00:41:00.000 Does the President believe, though, that the reward outweighs the risk when it comes to gain-of-function research?

00:41:09.000 Does the reward outweigh the risk when it comes to gain-of-function research?

00:41:13.000 That type of research is prudent.

00:41:14.000 I got a history degree.

00:41:14.000 You're going to have to say that again?

00:41:18.000 Does the President believe that this type of gain-of-function research is prudent?

00:41:23.000 He believes that it's important to help prevent Future pandemics, which means he understands that there has to be legitimate scientific research into the sources or potential sources of pandemics so that we understand it so that we can prevent them and we can prevent them from happening obviously.

00:41:50.000 So that's a yes on the gain-of-function research.

00:41:52.000 So, yes, more of the gain-of-function research.

00:41:54.000 It went so well in Wuhan.

00:41:55.000 We need more of the gain-of-function research. 0.97

00:41:57.000 Now, I'd be a little warmer to the case for you guys doing gain-of-function research if you weren't a bunch of political hacksaw garbage at your jobs. 0.97

00:42:05.000 See, here's the thing. 0.85

00:42:06.000 The same NIH that is suggesting they need to do gain-of-function research and fund gain-of-function research all over the world.

00:42:11.000 Gain-of-function research, like, exactly the stuff that may have created COVID-19.

00:42:17.000 Those exact people are now promoting DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion on scientists.

00:42:25.000 So I don't think that you guys are really into science.

00:42:28.000 I think that what you guys are really into is a particular brand of politics and you act outside your area of expertise all the time. 0.99

00:42:32.000 I just think you're garbage at your jobs. 0.96

00:42:34.000 I mean, I'll be honest with you, not all of you. 1.00

00:42:35.000 I think some of you are good at your jobs, but I think that a lot of you are kind of garbage at your jobs. 0.66

00:42:38.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, John Saylor writing, In 2020, the National Institutes of Health created the Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation program to enhance and maintain cultures of inclusive excellence in the biomedical research community. 0.97

00:42:52.000 The program will give 12 institutions a total of $241 million over nine years for diversity-focused faculty hiring.

00:42:59.000 Under the terms of the grant, only candidates who demonstrate a quote, strong commitment to promoting diversity and inclusive excellence can be hired through the program.

00:43:06.000 To apply, candidates must submit a diversity statement.

00:43:10.000 So what exactly are the rubrics for evaluating diversity statements?

00:43:14.000 The University of South Carolina's program currently seeks faculty in public health and nursing.

00:43:18.000 The University of New Mexico's program seeks faculty studying neuroscience and data science.

00:43:22.000 Their rubrics call for punishing candidates who espouse race neutrality, dictating a low score for anyone who states an intention to ignore the varying backgrounds of their students and treat anyone the same.

00:43:31.000 So yeah, I don't trust you guys to actually do science, since the people who are doing the gain-of-function research may have been appointed based on affirmative action considerations.

00:43:40.000 Thanks to the NIH.

00:43:43.000 The expert class has not earned the trust to be able to do risky things anymore.

00:43:47.000 They've actually actively unearned whatever trust they had.

00:43:51.000 This is a point made by our friend, Dr. Marty McCary.

00:43:53.000 He was sort of our go-to guy during the pandemic here on the show over at Johns Hopkins University.

00:43:58.000 Yesterday, he pointed out that there are a bunch of top scientists who very early on in the pandemic had essentially found that this was a lab leak, that this was probably a lab leak.

00:44:06.000 And then, coincidentally, as soon as they reversed themselves on the question, they received a $9 million grant from the federal government.

00:44:13.000 He insisted that he was sure that the coronavirus research that the U.S.

00:44:18.000 taxpayer dollars funded at WIV was completely unrelated to SARS-CoV-2.

00:44:25.000 And I was wondering if any of the three of you had any thoughts on that.

00:44:29.000 Two leading virologists, maybe the two Top virologists in the United States, Dr. Michael Farzan from Scripps and Dr. Robert Gary from Tulane, told Dr. Fauci on his emergency call in January of 2020 when he was scrambling soon after learning that the NIH was funding the lab, they both said that it was likely from the lab.

00:44:55.000 Both scientists changed their tunes days later in the media And then both scientists received $9 million subsequent in funding from the NIH.

00:45:05.000 It's a no-brainer that it came from the lab.

00:45:10.000 Well, again, he's not wrong.

00:45:13.000 And the expert class shut everything down.

00:45:14.000 Jay Bhattacharya, who's legitimately targeted by members of the federal government, up to and including doctors Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, targeted because he suggested the proper strategy.

00:45:24.000 He ripped bureaucrats yesterday for acting like dictators.

00:45:26.000 And he, of course, is right.

00:45:27.000 This is Dr. Bhattacharya of Stanford.

00:45:30.000 By early 2022, about 95% of Americans had contracted COVID despite the harsh countermeasures in most states, including confinement of broad populations, business closures, cessation of religious and other gatherings, school closures, and widespread violation of civil liberties.

00:45:47.000 Very clearly, these measures failed to protect Americans from COVID.

00:45:51.000 This fact is confirmed by a comprehensive Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis which included that lockdowns had failed to contain the spread of COVID.

00:45:58.000 At best, they temporarily protected the laptop class who could work from home without losing their jobs, perhaps 30% of the population, while being served by the working class.

00:46:08.000 Vaccine mandates forced many frontline workers, heroes who contracted COVID early in the pandemic while doing essential work, to choose between their careers and a vaccine that provides less protection than the natural immunity they already had.

00:46:21.000 Many faced with these anti-scientific choices will never trust public health authorities again, even on vital topics such as the necessity of traditional childhood vaccines.

00:46:31.000 Public health bureaucrats operate more like dictators than scientists during the pandemic, sealing themselves off from credible outside criticism.

00:46:40.000 Bhattacharya is right, but here's the dirty little secret.

00:46:43.000 The folks who are acting like dictators, they were backed by the political chattering class. 0.91

00:46:46.000 They were backed by the political class who used their political point of view to promote, quote-unquote, the science.

00:46:52.000 This was admitted by Whoopi Goldberg yesterday, of all people.

00:46:55.000 She actually admitted that politics got in the way of truth when it came to the lab leak theory.

00:47:01.000 The larger problem with all of this is the inability to discuss things that are within the realm of possibility without falling into absolutes and litmus testing each other for our political allegiances.

00:47:17.000 And the two things that came out of it were, I'm racist against Asian people, and how dare I align myself with the alt-right?

00:47:27.000 Now, he's right that politics got in the way of a lot of looking for the truth.

00:47:33.000 But they still are not saying definitively.

00:47:37.000 And that's a problem.

00:47:38.000 They still don't know for sure.

00:47:43.000 I love that.

00:47:43.000 She admits it.

00:47:43.000 But then she's like, well, I still won't accept, you know, the real possibility that this is a thing that happened.

00:47:49.000 Ah, the genius is over at The View.

00:47:50.000 But this is why you shouldn't trust the expert class, because the expert class is talking to people like Whoopi.

00:47:54.000 Those are the people who insist that you give them more power, of course, to change the system from within or destroy the system from without.

00:48:00.000 OK, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:48:03.000 So, things that I like today.

00:48:05.000 This story, it's actually a tragic story.

00:48:07.000 It's a sad story of transphobia.

00:48:08.000 A really sad story of transphobia.

00:48:10.000 According to American Wire News, Kayla Lemieux, the biological high school teacher who became famous for strutting around school dressed as a woman with Z-size prosthetic breasts, has now been placed on leave from Oakville Trafalgar High School.

00:48:22.000 Now, You might say to yourself, well, isn't that a good thing?

00:48:24.000 Why is that a tragic story?

00:48:26.000 I mean, after all, this is a male who is walking around with fake prosthetic breasts that were size Z. They were obviously ridiculous with like fake nipples poking out through the shirt. 0.99

00:48:38.000 Why is that person teaching children? 0.99

00:48:40.000 Well, it turns out the reason this person has been suspended is not because he was wearing giant Z-sized prosthetic breasts at school in front of high school students.

00:48:49.000 No, the reason this person was suspended is because he wasn't wearing the Z-sized prosthetic breasts outside of school.

00:48:56.000 I'm not kidding.

00:48:58.000 The development comes roughly two weeks after the New York Post discovered Lemieux allegedly dresses like a regular dude outside of work.

00:49:03.000 The discovery was made by simply following him after he left work.

00:49:06.000 The Post reported the teacher, who until a few years ago went by the name Carrie, left Ontario's Oakville Trafalgar High School this week wearing gigantic breasts and blonde wig and glasses.

00:49:13.000 It wasn't long until the cartoonish clothing came off.

00:49:16.000 After shopping at a department store and pet supplies shop dressed as a woman, Lemieux headed home to get changed, and emerged dressed as a man 30 minutes later.

00:49:22.000 Lemieux then spent the afternoon in public wearing men's sweatpants, trainers, a gray t-shirt, and a navy puffer vest without breasts, makeup, glasses, or a wig.

00:49:29.000 The post then obtained witness testimony from Lemieux's neighbors.

00:49:32.000 Quote, he wears prosthetic breasts extremely infrequently.

00:49:35.000 He put the breasts on to teach occasionally when he goes for a walk or when the cops visit, said one neighbor.

00:49:39.000 According to the neighbor, the prosthetic breasts appeared out of nowhere last May when Lemieux was spotted parading them around while walking down a busy road.

00:49:45.000 I was driving past.

00:49:45.000 You can see the breasts from so far away when you're driving.

00:49:47.000 He puts the whole outfit on, just walked up and down Gulf Line.

00:49:50.000 No bags, just walking.

00:49:51.000 Everyone slows down because you can't believe what you're seeing.

00:49:54.000 Following the post-investigation, Lemieux contacted them to tell them his side of the story, which was that his obviously fake breasts were somehow real.

00:50:01.000 He said, I'm not wearing prosthetic breasts.

00:50:03.000 These are real.

00:50:04.000 He also denied being transgender, claiming instead to be intersex.

00:50:07.000 He said, my condition is classified as gigantomastia, which can also be referred to as macromastia or breast hypertrophy.

00:50:13.000 It's rare.

00:50:14.000 There's no doubt about it.

00:50:15.000 It affects women on a very rare basis.

00:50:16.000 In my case, I believe my doctor thinks because I have XX chromosomes as well.

00:50:19.000 That has something to do with it.

00:50:20.000 And hormone sensitivity to estrogen has caused it, even though these are obviously prosthetic breasts.

00:50:26.000 He said, this is who I am.

00:50:28.000 This is how I look.

00:50:28.000 You've been talking to people in my building.

00:50:30.000 What they're telling you is not the truth.

00:50:32.000 It's not the truth.

00:50:34.000 It wasn't me.

00:50:36.000 He said, I'm always going out looking the way that I am.

00:50:39.000 So, in other words, it was totally fine for this person to make a mockery of the classroom in the most bizarre, fetishistic way.

00:50:48.000 That was fine.

00:50:50.000 The moment that he wasn't doing it like the rest of his life, that's when the, oh, well, I guess it's not, that's not authentic.

00:50:54.000 If it's not authentic, then we can't, but if it were authentic, if this dude were wearing around the fake prosthetic breast full time, well, then it's a civil rights issue.

00:51:02.000 Yes, that's how backwards we as a society have become.

00:51:05.000 It is worse for you not to wear the fake prosthetic breasts around the rest of your life than it is for you to wear them in school among high school children. 0.64

00:51:13.000 Slow clap for the Canadian system.

00:51:16.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:51:18.000 So, Bill Maher did an interview with Jake Tapper the other night.

00:51:20.000 Bill Maher's show now appears on CNN because CNN is dying in the ratings and Maher actually draws flies.

00:51:25.000 And Bill, I'm friendly with Bill, he did a very good interview with Jake Tapper in which he discussed what it's like to actually do his job.

00:51:32.000 He says when he's trying to hire writers for the writers room he has a real problem because everybody is ideologically monolithic.

00:51:38.000 So every year I read these packets of proposed writers, and I read them this year as I do every year, and it's just stunning how uniform their points of view are.

00:51:49.000 And it hasn't always been that way.

00:51:50.000 Exactly.

00:51:51.000 I don't remember, but I don't think it was ever quite this bad.

00:51:54.000 It's the exact same point of view on every single issue, and it's very predictable.

00:52:00.000 I have a relationship with people who want to hear what I think is the truth, and I'm going to present both sides.

00:52:08.000 Ammar also pointed out that the woke left, they love diversity, but they don't like diversity of ideas very much.

00:52:14.000 So you talk about the Democrats being so hemmed in by identity politics.

00:52:18.000 The counter-argument would be, it's always been identity politics, it's just always been white people, so people like you and me didn't notice.

00:52:26.000 And now it's just an effort at inclusion, which I'm sure, theoretically, you support.

00:52:31.000 Yeah, I support it in fact.

00:52:35.000 But, I mean, you know, Democrats sometimes can take it too far.

00:52:41.000 You know, I would categorize liberal as different than woke.

00:52:44.000 You know, woke, which started out as a good thing, alert to injustice, who could be against that.

00:52:49.000 But it became sort of an eye roll because they love diversity except of ideas.

00:52:57.000 And that's not really where we should be.

00:52:59.000 I mean, they have a trail of very bad ideas.

00:53:04.000 Yes, yes they do.

00:53:05.000 Bill Maher, it's amazing.

00:53:07.000 Remember if you go back to my first book that I wrote in like 2003 when I was still in college.

00:53:12.000 If you go back and you look at that book, I talk about Bill Maher.

00:53:14.000 I'm pretty disparaging about Bill Maher because he and I were on opposite sides of every single issue.

00:53:17.000 Well, Bill Maher is no longer on the opposite sides of every issue.

00:53:20.000 It's just that the entire political spectrum has moved so far to the left that him being mildly reasonable now makes him a right winger in the eyes of the left.

00:53:28.000 Pretty amazing stuff.

00:53:29.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:53:33.000 Let's go. 1.00

00:53:37.000 So the situation over in Israel domestically is incredibly stupid right now. 1.00

00:53:41.000 I say it's incredibly stupid because you're seeing hundreds of thousands of people who are going into the streets to protest an overhaul of the judiciary. 1.00

00:53:49.000 Now, in reality, they're not protesting the overhaul of the judiciary. 0.99

00:53:51.000 The people who are in the streets right now and who are very angry are really just angry that Benjamin Netanyahu and the right wing won the last election cycle.

00:53:57.000 After a series of sort of stalemate elections, Netanyahu won an overwhelming victory in the last election, got 64 seats in the 120-seat parliament.

00:54:05.000 And one of the first things that he took on was an obvious flaw in the Israeli governmental system, which is the judiciary.

00:54:11.000 The judiciary in Israel is very weird.

00:54:13.000 Essentially, the people who are on the Supreme Court of Israel can make rulings striking down legislation, not on the basis of a constitution, because there is no constitution in Israel.

00:54:22.000 They just basically say they don't like a thing and strike it down, which means that they're not actually a judiciary.

00:54:26.000 They're just a super legislature.

00:54:28.000 They appoint their own successors, effectively speaking.

00:54:31.000 The legislature is not really involved.

00:54:33.000 The prime minister is not really involved.

00:54:36.000 It's an outside body that selects the people who can actually be the justices on the Israeli Supreme Court, and that includes past Supreme Court justices and members of the Israeli Bar Association and all the rest.

00:54:45.000 It doesn't work like the United States does.

00:54:46.000 In the United States, it works pretty rationally.

00:54:50.000 The president selects a justice.

00:54:52.000 The Senate has the power of advice and consent.

00:54:55.000 And then vote on the Supreme Court justice.

00:54:58.000 The justices are then bound to uphold a written constitution in the face of other legislation, and the constitution overrules.

00:55:04.000 There is no constitution in Israel, and the judicial branch is basically impervious to any sort of public input in the form of, say, the Prime Minister selecting the justices who are going to be on the Supreme Court, and then the Parliament being able to up or down it.

00:55:20.000 Netanyahu came in and he said, I've looked at the Supreme Court.

00:55:23.000 The Supreme Court has been a stalwart instrument for the hard left in Israel for literally the entirety of Israel's existence.

00:55:30.000 And so he wanted to pass a rule, some laws that would change how the Supreme Court was run in Israel.

00:55:35.000 And here are effectively what the changes are.

00:55:37.000 There are essentially four.

00:55:38.000 One was the Knesset, the parliament, would be allowed to override Supreme Court decisions by majority vote.

00:55:44.000 Okay, well, that makes sense if the court is not speaking on behalf of a constitution, on behalf of a higher law.

00:55:52.000 All that's saying is that the legislature in Israel rules, which makes sense unless there's going to be, again, another higher document that the Supreme Court can use to strike down legislation.

00:56:00.000 You have to have some sort of basis for striking things down.

00:56:04.000 The changes would have removed the Supreme Court's ability to judge Knesset legislation for reasonability.

00:56:10.000 This is one of the standards they were using, and they weren't judging it against the Constitution.

00:56:13.000 They were saying, is it reasonable?

00:56:15.000 Reasonability.

00:56:16.000 Well, that's not a judicial category.

00:56:19.000 Reasonability.

00:56:20.000 If a legislature passes a law, it is not up to the judiciary to decide whether the law was quote-unquote reasonable.

00:56:25.000 It's up to them to decide whether it conflicts with some sort of higher law.

00:56:29.000 Reasonability, as it turns out for the leftist members of the Israeli Supreme Court, just meant anything we don't like, we'll strike down.

00:56:34.000 So that's a problem.

00:56:36.000 They're going to change that.

00:56:37.000 It was also going to give the most control over appointing judges to the ruling coalition rather than to the legal experts and representatives who are sort of this independent body.

00:56:45.000 So it's going to look more like the American system than it looks right now.

00:56:49.000 And finally, one of the weird things in Israel is that every department in the Israeli Executive branch has its own legal advisors.

00:56:58.000 OK, but those legal advisors don't give advice to the heads of those branches. 1.00

00:57:01.000 They literally just strike down legislation inside the department.

00:57:04.000 So imagine if Joe Biden went to his EPA and he said, I want you to do X. And the head of the EPA is like, OK, I'm going to implement that.

00:57:12.000 And there was a legal advisor inside the EPA who just said, nope, you can't do it.

00:57:16.000 You can't.

00:57:17.000 Sorry, you can't.

00:57:18.000 Well, I mean, you weren't elected.

00:57:19.000 You're a bureaucrat.

00:57:20.000 That is not how that works.

00:57:22.000 So what this would have done is it would have allowed the legal advisors to be advisors as opposed to, you know, sort of independent judicial bodies who are striking down regulations and legislation inside the executive branch.

00:57:30.000 Those were the changes.

00:57:31.000 None of those seem wildly earth shattering.

00:57:33.000 There might be some wiggle room in terms of negotiation on these things.

00:57:36.000 You could see that.

00:57:37.000 And that's probably what's going to end up happening in Israel because the simple fact is the Supreme Court of Israel is going to strike down any law that doesn't get made via negotiation here.

00:57:46.000 And they have sort of a catch-22.

00:57:47.000 They want to pass a law changing the nature of the judiciary, but the judiciary still has the ability to strike down the law changing the nature of the judiciary.

00:57:53.000 Because again, when you don't have a constitution in the United States, this isn't a problem.

00:57:56.000 In the United States, when you want to change the constitution, you make an amendment.

00:57:59.000 The amendment prohibits the judiciary from speaking on a particular topic.

00:58:02.000 Israel doesn't have a constitution, so there's no way for them to quote-unquote overrule the judiciary.

00:58:06.000 The judiciary basically gets to decide what the judiciary gets to do, which is part of the problem.

00:58:12.000 But all of this is relatively complex.

00:58:14.000 There's wiggle room.

00:58:15.000 Instead of a negotiation taking place, or instead of the people who oppose Netanyahu and the current coalition just saying, OK, fine, so you want to do that?

00:58:23.000 You're going to feel the pain at the ballot box next time around and we're going to win.

00:58:25.000 Then we're going to reverse everything you just did, which they could do.

00:58:28.000 Instead of them doing that, they send hundreds of thousands of people into the streets to protest.

00:58:31.000 Now, again, protest is totally fine, but they were shutting down freeways.

00:58:34.000 Not only that, there have been rumored, say this is a rumor, high level officials in the opposing coalition In Israel who have been literally encouraging businesses in Israel to divest from Israel over this because they want power again.

00:58:48.000 They want to harm actively some of them.

00:58:50.000 The economy of the state of Israel, which is really kind of gross stuff.

00:58:54.000 And then beyond that, yesterday you had a really bad situation in which some of the quote-unquote protesters decided that they were going to surround the hair salon where Bibi Netanyahu's wife was getting her hair done yesterday in Tel Aviv.

00:59:05.000 And security forces, according to the Jerusalem Post, actually had to rescue Sarah Netanyahu from the salon, where hundreds of thousands of protesters stood blocking the exit, preventing her from leaving.

00:59:14.000 So what security forces did is they acted like she was still inside, and then they evacuated her to a vehicle and drove away from the scene.

00:59:20.000 And they didn't leave until they were notified.

00:59:22.000 The forces didn't leave until notified that the vehicle had been managed to get away.

00:59:27.000 Well, even some of the opposition was saying this is too much.

00:59:30.000 You have to actually let the prime minister's wife go home. 1.00

00:59:32.000 But the continuation of this really suggests that a lot of the protests that is happening right now has very little to do with the actual proposed legislation and more to do with the fact that there are a lot of people who just didn't like they lost the last election.

00:59:42.000 And this ties into broader politics across Western civilization right now.

00:59:47.000 There's been this claim by folks on the left that authoritarian rule is on the way.

00:59:51.000 It is coming.

00:59:52.000 It's coming in Brazil.

00:59:53.000 It's coming in Hungary.

00:59:53.000 It's coming in the United States.

00:59:54.000 It's coming in Israel.

00:59:56.000 What do these places have in common?

00:59:57.000 They're places where the right won or had won.

01:00:01.000 The left is constantly suggesting that democracy is under threat.

01:00:04.000 But when you keep suggesting that democracy is under threat, when you lose, who's putting democracy under threat?

01:00:10.000 What is the name, the specific anti-democratic action that is being taken so we can determine whether it's anti-democratic or not?

01:00:16.000 What Netanyahu is doing in Israel on the judiciary is actually pro-democratic because it means that people get to vote on issues as opposed to having the judiciary strike things down in the name of a non-constitution that doesn't exist.

01:00:26.000 It's very hard to make the case that Netanyahu, who was popularly elected with his coalition and now wants to make judicial decisions subject to more popular feedback, that that is somehow anti-democratic.

01:00:38.000 It is more democratic, technically speaking.

01:00:41.000 But this is what the left does right now.

01:00:42.000 And it's really dangerous.

01:00:44.000 It's a dangerous game that is being played by the left internationally.

01:00:47.000 Anytime you lose an election, democracy is under threat.

01:00:49.000 Anytime you win an election, democracy has been saved.

01:00:51.000 What that suggests is that democracy is not actually your chief goal.

01:00:56.000 Victory is the only thing that matters to you.

01:00:57.000 And that's really, really bad.

01:01:00.000 Again, not a threat that's unique to the left.

01:01:02.000 We saw this in 2020, I think, on the right.

01:01:03.000 I think on the right, there are a bunch of people who said if we lose the election, democracy has not had its way.

01:01:07.000 That's not true.

01:01:09.000 Because there will be future elections and you will win those future elections.

01:01:11.000 I have faith that the American people are going to turn away, for example, from Joe Biden.

01:01:14.000 I think he's done a really bad job.

01:01:16.000 I don't think he's going to win again.

01:01:19.000 I do not believe that this election is the last election.

01:01:22.000 And people who tend to say things like this election is the last election without actual evidence are the people who are promoting the this is the last election idea.

01:01:28.000 Because what they're essentially saying, if you think democracy is going to end, then everything and everything is on the table.

01:01:33.000 And that really does break apart societies.

01:01:36.000 It's really, really quite terrible.

01:01:38.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

01:01:40.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

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