The Ben Shapiro Show - Throw Grandpa Joe From The Train | Ep. 1529

00:00:00.000 Democrats begin openly talking about dumping Joe Biden in favor of other candidates.

00:00:04.000 We meet some new Democratic faces making waves.

00:00:06.000 And Boris Johnson resigns as leader of the Conservative Party in the UK.

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00:01:27.000 Well, the breaking news this morning is that Boris Johnson has now been basically ousted as the leader of the Conservative Party in the UK.

00:01:35.000 Now, this doesn't mean that he is no longer prime minister.

00:01:38.000 He's basically going to hold on to the prime ministership until he is forced out of office by the next election.

00:01:43.000 But he says he's no longer going to lead the Conservative Party because all of his ministers have resigned on him.

00:01:48.000 He announced that this morning in the UK.

00:01:50.000 OK, here's what he had to say.

00:01:51.000 Hi, everybody.

00:01:56.000 Good afternoon, everybody.

00:01:58.000 you Good afternoon.

00:02:00.000 Thank you, thank you.

00:02:04.000 It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new Prime Minister.

00:02:14.000 And I've agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now.

00:02:23.000 And the timetable will be announced next week and I've today appointed a cabinet to serve as I will until a new leader is in place.

00:02:33.000 Okay, so the way that it works in Great Britain, just like a lot of other parliamentary democracies, is that the Conservative Party was elected to lead the government.

00:02:39.000 Boris Johnson, by resigning as the leader of the Conservative Party, does not lose his slot as Prime Minister, because the Conservative Party still was the elected majority, and until they have appointed a new leader inside the Conservative Party, that means that he is basically just the serving Prime Minister of Great Britain.

00:02:55.000 It does mean that he is on his way out.

00:02:57.000 According to CNN, Johnson's departure marks a remarkable downfall for a prime minister who's once seen as having political superpowers with an appeal that transcended traditional party lines.

00:03:05.000 He won a landslide victory in December 2019 on the promise of delivering a Brexit deal and leading the UK to a bright future outside the EU.

00:03:11.000 And he proceeded to do that.

00:03:12.000 You'll recall that he got into a massive fight with Parliament.

00:03:14.000 He actually had Parliament suspended for a few weeks.

00:03:17.000 The British Supreme Court later suggested that this was unconstitutional in Great Britain, and he had to apologize to the Queen and all of this.

00:03:24.000 But he ended up getting Brexit done, and he was seen as a pretty popular leader at the time.

00:03:28.000 And then COVID hit, and his leadership during COVID became extremely controversial.

00:03:32.000 And now, basically, a series of scandals have supposedly taken him down.

00:03:36.000 But here is the reality.

00:03:37.000 This is true throughout the West.

00:03:39.000 I've suggested for years that the only scandals that truly bring down politicians are sex and cover-ups.

00:03:43.000 That's it.

00:03:44.000 Those are the only things that bring down politicians.

00:03:46.000 Because otherwise, you can get away with nearly anything.

00:03:48.000 If you're Andrew Cuomo and you kill every old person in the state of New York with your bad nursing home policy, you can get away with that. 1.00

00:03:53.000 But the minute that we found out that you grabbed somebody's ass against their will, you are gone, man. 0.99

00:03:58.000 That is something... Killing old people? 1.00

00:03:59.000 Okay. 1.00

00:04:00.000 Grabbing some ass? 1.00

00:04:01.000 Very, very bad. 1.00

00:04:02.000 Gotta go.

00:04:03.000 Same sort of thing now appears to have happened to Boris Johnson.

00:04:05.000 Not really because the scandals that bring down these politicians are those scandals, but because these are the scandals that we can pin directly on you.

00:04:12.000 And this means that we can use these as a sort of lever to get you out of office.

00:04:16.000 Because if you look at the list of scandals that supposedly plagued Boris Johnson, it's pretty mild.

00:04:22.000 And Fox News has a pretty good roundup of the supposed scandals that brought him down.

00:04:26.000 The biggest one, and this was really the one that brought him down.

00:04:28.000 It just took a long time for it to manifest.

00:04:30.000 Where he started to lose popularity is his lockdown policies.

00:04:33.000 During COVID, the UK took an extraordinarily strict stance in the early going with regard to lockdown.

00:04:38.000 And while that lockdown was happening, Boris Johnson had a big birthday party and he invited all of his friends.

00:04:43.000 According to Fox News, the most enduring and infamous controversy with which Johnson wrangled involved parties that occurred on government grounds during the most strict COVID-19 lockdown periods.

00:04:51.000 Rules at the time mandated individuals could not socialize indoors except with their household or support bubble. 0.77

00:04:56.000 Police issued a total of 126 fixed penalty notices to 83 people in government for the gatherings that totaled eight different parties between May 2020 and April 2021, which showed that they were hypocrites.

00:05:05.000 It showed that they did not actually believe the standard that they were forcing everybody else to abide by.

00:05:10.000 A report by senior civil servant Sue Gray on the matter claimed Johnson at one point provided wine and cheese to the staff from a May 2020 party in the gardens of 10 Downing Street, another party in the same venue.

00:05:20.000 Partygoers raged well into the night, wrapping up at around 4 a.m.

00:05:23.000 There's another party allegedly happening around April 16, 2021, the night before Queen Elizabeth buried her husband, Prince Philip, where party attendees drank wine, ordered four large pizzas to share, and took turns going down a slide belonging to Johnson's son, Wilf, according to eyewitness accounts and photos reviewed by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

00:05:39.000 Someone spilled wine on a copy machine and almost damaged the laptop that served as the jukebox for the evening.

00:05:44.000 And so, again, this was the thing that really brought down Johnson.

00:05:47.000 And it was a couple of years of trailing bad feeling because it is one thing for a left-wing politician to issue lockdown notices and then proceed to violate lockdown, whether it is Gavin Newsom in California or Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, whether it is Muriel Bowser in Washington, DC, or whether it is Lennon Breed in San Francisco.

00:06:04.000 People expect left-wingers to be hypocrites on this kind of stuff because, frankly, left-wingers are always in favor of lockdown and they don't abide by any of their own social standards. 0.95

00:06:11.000 But when it is somebody like Boris Johnson, who's supposed to be standing up for small businesses, somebody who is not supposed to engage in harsh lockdown policies, when it turns out that you're the hypocrite, then the fire is coming from inside your own party. 0.98

00:06:23.000 And that's exactly what happened to Johnson. 0.96

00:06:24.000 There are a couple of other scandals that started to creep up on him. And again, they have more to do with sort of inaction than action.

00:06:32.000 So for example, Johnson had promoted a member of parliament named Chris Pincher to the position of deputy chief whip, who's one of the people responsible for lining up votes along party lines for conservative positions. Pincher took over the role February 8th, he resigned June 30th after allegedly groping two men at the Carleton Club in Piccadilly.

00:06:48.000 So this is why I say the sex scandals were the coverups, right? 0.95

00:06:50.000 So, this guy, it wasn't even Johnson who was grabbing ass in this particular circumstance, it was Chris Pinscher who was doing so.

00:06:56.000 And supposedly Johnson said that he didn't know about it, Johnson kept him in the party, he insisted the matter was closed, and then it turns out there were more allegations that Johnson had known about earlier, and then he admitted that. 0.70

00:07:06.000 And then there was, you know, a very brief report of a sex scandal involving Boris Johnson, but it was old, it was from like 2018, when his current wife was then his mistress, and apparently they were engaged in sexual congress.

00:07:18.000 in his office at the time.

00:07:21.000 So those are sort of the big scandals that supposedly plagued him and a couple other staffing scandals.

00:07:27.000 But the reality is that what really brought down Boris Johnson is the fact that his own party grew tired of the antics.

00:07:34.000 His own party was annoyed by the fact that he had locked down the country in large measure and taken very strict protocols with regard to COVID and then violated those.

00:07:42.000 And then this was all just trailing.

00:07:43.000 It was all just trailing.

00:07:44.000 And this is one of the things that we are going to see politically.

00:07:47.000 I think everybody believes that because of the pandemic is effectively over for most people, meaning that everybody is going out living their lives, have gone back to work, they've gone back to school.

00:07:54.000 Because of that, there's this belief in politics by a lot of politicians that that issue is dead, that COVID is dead.

00:07:59.000 People have long memories.

00:08:01.000 People are very, very angry and that anger is not going to go away.

00:08:05.000 In fact, I think this is true in the United States as well.

00:08:07.000 The fact that Joe Biden is president of the United States does not alleviate the fact that most Americans are not on board and were not on board with the lockdown-friendly policies pushed by Democrats across the country.

00:08:19.000 That's why you've seen a mass exodus from blue states to red states in the United States during the course of the pandemic.

00:08:25.000 It's why, for example, Florida went from a swing state to a pretty solidly red state.

00:08:29.000 All of this is pandemic backlash.

00:08:30.000 So much of what we are seeing in politics right now is pandemic backlash that's just delayed.

00:08:35.000 It's Boris Johnson being gone.

00:08:36.000 That's pandemic backlash that is now coming to fruition after a couple of years of delay.

00:08:41.000 And you're about to see that in the United States in November 2022 because there was so much associated with the pandemic.

00:08:46.000 The keeping kids out of school.

00:08:48.000 People know who to blame for that.

00:08:49.000 The riots in the streets.

00:08:50.000 People know who to blame for that.

00:08:52.000 The fact that businesses were shut down en masse.

00:08:55.000 People know who to blame for that.

00:08:56.000 And the long tail effect of pandemic policies that extended well beyond the chief time period of the pandemic.

00:09:03.000 Economic policies that are coming to fruition in the form of really, really high inflation.

00:09:07.000 And what will soon be a recession if we're not already in one.

00:09:11.000 All of that is going to bear really ugly fruit for the party that's going to get blamed.

00:09:14.000 And in the United States, that party is the Democratic Party.

00:09:17.000 In the UK, by the way, Just because Boris Johnson is out does not mean that the Conservative Party is going to lose the next election to Labour.

00:09:24.000 Labour is in complete disarray over in the UK.

00:09:27.000 Remember, they had to basically oust their own erstwhile leader, Jeremy Corbyn, because he's a rabid anti-Semite.

00:09:33.000 People aren't willing to trust the Labour Party with nearly anything over there.

00:09:36.000 They just didn't think that Boris Johnson was the person to lead the Conservative Party.

00:09:41.000 So, distrust inside the Conservative Party is actually pushing the Conservative Party to the right in the UK.

00:09:45.000 There are a bunch of other candidates who are up for the post of Prime Minister over there, but in the United States, don't mistake what's happening to Boris Johnson for some sort of left-wing move.

00:09:54.000 That's not what's happening in the UK and that's not what's happening in the United States.

00:09:57.000 Boris Johnson seems to be on his way out.

00:09:57.000 Either.

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00:11:10.000 Which brings to mind Slow Joe Biden.

00:11:13.000 80-year-old geriatric Joe Biden.

00:11:15.000 So basically, all of the consternation is now breaking out into the open.

00:11:18.000 This is a guy with a 36% approval rating.

00:11:20.000 He's underwater on every major issue.

00:11:21.000 He's underwater in every major swing state.

00:11:23.000 If the Republicans had nominated a better slate of candidates this year for the Senate, they would be picking up three to four seats in the Senate.

00:11:28.000 As it stands, they might still pick up these seats, despite the fact that they have candidates who are running weak in polls.

00:11:33.000 In Pennsylvania, Dr. Oz is running weak in the polls right now.

00:11:36.000 In Georgia, Hershel Walker is running very weak in the polls.

00:11:38.000 Those are eminently pick-upable seats.

00:11:41.000 In Arizona, it's unclear at this point who's going to be running against Mark Kelly, but that too is a vulnerable seat.

00:11:46.000 New Hampshire is a vulnerable seat for Democrats.

00:11:49.000 There are a bunch of vulnerable seats for Democrats, and if Republicans had picked, I think, a more solid slate of candidates, there would be a significantly better shot that Republicans would pick up a lot more of those Senate seats.

00:11:57.000 But this is about to be a terrible year for Democrats.

00:12:00.000 Now, the terribleness of the year for Democrats is going to be mitigated by the fact that ideological sorting has increased radically in the United States, meaning the number of people who live in districts in the United States that voted for, say, George W. Bush for president in 2000, but also went for a Democratic candidate in Congress.

00:12:17.000 That number was actually pretty high.

00:12:19.000 The number of people who live in districts that voted for Joe Biden, but also voted for Republican for Congress is pretty low.

00:12:26.000 And you're likely to see the same thing this year.

00:12:29.000 I mean, the number of seats that are actually vulnerable in the House has really shrunk.

00:12:33.000 A lot.

00:12:34.000 So even if Republicans have a big wave year, it's unlikely they get to 50, 60 seats the way they did in 2010.

00:12:39.000 First of all, they won a bunch of seats last time.

00:12:41.000 So my guess is that you're probably looking at, in a wave election year, 30 seats picked up by the Republicans.

00:12:45.000 But it's almost impossible at this point for Republicans to lose the House of Representatives.

00:12:48.000 So Democrats are looking at their leadership.

00:12:51.000 And they're blaming Joe Biden, which actually is incorrect.

00:12:53.000 This is the hilarious thing.

00:12:55.000 Joe Biden is very bad at this, yes?

00:12:57.000 But Barack Obama had a horrible, horrible record with regard to state-level elections.

00:13:01.000 He lost all the governor's houses.

00:13:03.000 He lost like a thousand seats across the country.

00:13:05.000 Because as it turns out, maybe Democratic policy just is not popular.

00:13:08.000 Maybe the problem is not.

00:13:11.000 Believe me, this is not a defense of Joe Biden, who's a horrible president, who's terrible at every aspect of the job, who's simply not up to it, who seems to be bordering on the senile.

00:13:19.000 But!

00:13:20.000 To a certain extent, it's not really Joe Biden's personality that's the problem.

00:13:24.000 It's the fact that Joe Biden has always been a paper mask for a Democratic Party that is promoting policies nobody likes and nobody wants.

00:13:32.000 So the Democratic Party has two choices.

00:13:33.000 One is they could moderate, right?

00:13:34.000 This has been true since the very beginning of the Biden administration.

00:13:36.000 Since the very beginning, if Joe Biden had moderated in any way, shape, or form, he'd be a lot more popular.

00:13:41.000 Instead, he ran to his hard left because Joe Biden has always, throughout his career, reflected the center of the Democratic Party.

00:13:46.000 He really is just a buoy that floats along the tips of the waves of the Democratic Party.

00:13:51.000 So if the tide in the Democratic Party is moving to the left, he just moves right along with it, which is why he's governed like Bernie Sanders, despite running more like Scoop Jackson.

00:14:00.000 So, if they don't like what they are seeing in terms of the results of Joe Biden, perhaps they should look in the mirror.

00:14:05.000 Not just at Joe Biden's wild incompetence, he is incompetent, but at the actual policies that he has been promoting.

00:14:10.000 Instead, they have decided on their narrative, and their narrative is that it's Joe Biden's singular personal unpopularity that is the problem.

00:14:17.000 Which, it doesn't help, but again, let's be real.

00:14:21.000 Barack Obama was a singularly popular president.

00:14:24.000 By polling data, people really liked the guy.

00:14:26.000 I wasn't one of them.

00:14:27.000 I didn't like him. 0.57

00:14:28.000 I thought he was arrogant and obnoxious, but a lot of people really liked Barack Obama.

00:14:32.000 In 2010, he got his clock cleaned.

00:14:35.000 Joe Biden is less popular than Barack Obama.

00:14:37.000 He will similarly get his clock cleaned in November 22.

00:14:39.000 That's really not a Joe Biden problem.

00:14:40.000 That's a Democratic Party problem.

00:14:41.000 But the Democrats have an answer.

00:14:43.000 As always, the Democrats in the media have an answer. 1.00

00:14:45.000 When Democratic policy fails, the answer is you're stupid. 1.00

00:14:48.000 The answer is that if Joe Biden were just a better communicator, well, then he would be able to talk you into believing all of the nonsense that they have been pushing. 1.00

00:14:55.000 And this is why you're seeing a concerted push from inside the Democratic Party to now throw grandma off the back of the train. 1.00

00:15:00.000 And grandma in this case would be Joe Biden. 0.94

00:15:04.000 So here is CNN reporting that members of Joe Biden's own party are ready to get rid of the guy.

00:15:09.000 President Biden will speak on the economy and this sticker shock that's hammering all of us.

00:15:15.000 And he will announce new protections for workers and their pensions.

00:15:18.000 His remarks come as members of his own party and key supporters are getting more frustrated.

00:15:23.000 They're questioning if the White House can muster the urgency to deal with huge challenges from the economy to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

00:15:32.000 And the rattled confidence is widespread.

00:15:33.000 A Monmouth poll just found 88% of Americans think the U.S.

00:15:37.000 is on the wrong track.

00:15:39.000 That's an all-time low.

00:15:41.000 And the respondents' top concern?

00:15:43.000 inflation.

00:15:44.000 So even the media are beginning to turn on Joe Biden.

00:15:50.000 OK, so Joe Biden is trying to pull his irons out of the fire here. He went to Ohio to give a speech to the blue collar workers of Ohio, because after all, he's Scranton Joe.

00:15:59.000 Hardscrabble beginnings in Scranton, where daddy told him on a street corner in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1952 that two men making out on a street corner was just love, Joey.

00:16:10.000 I'm never going to get over that story because it's the single most absurd story that Biden has ever told.

00:16:16.000 Joe Biden being hardscrabble Joe, while wearing a fairly nice Rolex, and having multiple houses, and leaving voice messages for his son Hunter, who is picking up bags of cash on foreign soil, while he is vice president.

00:16:29.000 It doesn't play.

00:16:30.000 And it also doesn't play when it turns out that your agenda is directly opposed to the interests of millions of Americans.

00:16:34.000 So Joe Biden, his strategy is, what if I just keep running against Trump?

00:16:38.000 There's only one problem.

00:16:39.000 Trump ain't on the ballot.

00:16:40.000 The referendum is now on you and your party.

00:16:42.000 So he was speaking in Ohio about the wonders of the American Rescue Plan, which by the way, the American Rescue Plan has contributed pretty notably to the inflation that we are seeing right now.

00:16:51.000 And so he is just going to lie to you.

00:16:53.000 Here he is explaining that Donald Trump's economy was very bad.

00:16:56.000 Now, for anyone with one iota of memory, somebody who doesn't have short-term memory loss, I mean, I understand Joe Biden may have short-term memory loss, but for the rest of us, we all remember that the economy was actually excellent up until about February 2020.

00:17:07.000 And then there was this giant thing that happened.

00:17:09.000 It was a worldwide pandemic that shut down the world for about a year.

00:17:12.000 And that had some real impacts on the employment stats.

00:17:14.000 But here's Joe Biden just lying and pretending the pandemic never happened.

00:17:18.000 You all remember what the economy was like when I was elected?

00:17:21.000 A country in a pandemic with no real plans how to get out of it. 1.00

00:17:26.000 Okay, he's just a ridiculous person. 0.99

00:17:27.000 out of their jobs. Families and cars, remember, backed up for literally miles waiting for a box of food to be put in their trunk. Just a box of food to be put in their trunk because they never have to eat. Previous administration lost more jobs on its watch than any administration since Herbert Hoover. That's a fact. Okay, he's just a ridiculous person. I'm sorry, that's the most ridiculous statement. The prior administration lost more 0.99

00:17:56.000 jobs on its watch.

00:17:57.000 Oh, you mean when the entire state-level government in blue states just shut down every job in America for like a year?

00:18:05.000 Like that time?

00:18:06.000 Is that what you're talking about?

00:18:07.000 Joe Biden?

00:18:09.000 Okay, so he's gonna lie.

00:18:11.000 And then he's gonna try to blame Republicans for inflation, which is a weird one, considering that he's the president and he has a Democratic Congress.

00:18:18.000 Do you have enough money to pay for everything you need?

00:18:21.000 Well, Republicans do nothing to obstruct our efforts to lower your gas taxes.

00:18:26.000 I propose that.

00:18:27.000 I've asked the Congress to eliminate the federal gas tax for the next, as long as this crisis goes on.

00:18:33.000 Lower food prices, lower health care costs.

00:18:35.000 Hopefully soon, lower your prescription drug costs.

00:18:38.000 By the way, you got a Republican leader in the United States Senate.

00:18:46.000 He's just he's unreal. He's unreal. So the inflation is all the fault of the people who have no actual power in the United States Congress. And then, of course, he falls back on Joe.

00:18:55.000 It's all about Vladimir Putin and Skidam, but you and his tax manager, Green Greece and then Stamiches to play. We made incredible progress on the progress on the economy from where we were a year and a half ago. We got a long way to go because of inflation, because of the I call honestly the Putin tax increase. 0.62

00:19:19.000 Putin because of gasoline and all that grain he's keeping from being able to get to the market.

00:19:24.000 Now I'm fighting like hell to lower costs on things that you talk about around your kitchen table.

00:19:30.000 My dad used to say, at the end of the day, it's just when you sit at that table, do you have enough money to pay for everything you need?

00:19:36.000 Not a lot over, do you have enough money to pay for everything you need?

00:19:40.000 That was not a word.

00:19:42.000 Those were not words that were coming out of his face hole.

00:19:44.000 That was something that resembled... Okay, so, yesterday, my two-year-old daughter was extremely tired.

00:19:48.000 She'd been in the pool a little bit.

00:19:49.000 She got out of the pool.

00:19:50.000 She was really tired.

00:19:51.000 She came to tell me something, and it sounded exactly like that.

00:19:54.000 I kid you not.

00:19:54.000 There were no consonants.

00:19:55.000 It was just all vowels for, like, a minute.

00:19:58.000 And I turned to my wife, and I said, I have no idea what she just said to me.

00:20:01.000 That's the president of the United States.

00:20:03.000 So, sure, I mean, the communication strategy isn't helping. 1.00

00:20:05.000 But, by the way, what he's actually saying there is really stupid. 1.00

00:20:08.000 The reason it's really stupid is two-fold. 0.99

00:20:10.000 Okay, so he says that all of the domestic hardship that you're currently experiencing is Putin's tax magic. 0.99

00:20:15.000 It's Putin's... and the oil and the... and Putin.

00:20:23.000 So, two problems with this.

00:20:24.000 One, it's not.

00:20:26.000 A huge run-up in the inflation happened before Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine.

00:20:31.000 Two, Joe Biden is simultaneously pushing the idea that we need to maintain this war with Ukraine ad infinitum.

00:20:37.000 Like, until the end of time.

00:20:38.000 So, you can't have it both ways.

00:20:41.000 If you wish for the American people to get behind the war in Ukraine, if you wish the American people to continue to support Ukraine in the face of Russian predations, you cannot then say to them, the reason that you are paying for high gas, the reason you are paying for high food prices, the reason that you are paying more for pretty much every area of your life is because of Putin's war and I have no plan to end it.

00:21:04.000 Like, all you're doing is undermining both yourself and also the war that you are supposedly stumping in favor of.

00:21:09.000 You're now telling the American people that you are not willing to take the measures to lower the prices of all of these goods, right?

00:21:14.000 You're not going to drill more.

00:21:16.000 You're not going to relieve environmental regulations.

00:21:17.000 You're not going to do any of that stuff.

00:21:19.000 You're going to blame Putin instead.

00:21:21.000 And then you're going to say that that war with Putin is what's causing the problem.

00:21:24.000 But we have to maintain the war with Putin.

00:21:26.000 Like, it's incoherent.

00:21:28.000 Right now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting Russia's tactical shift in Ukraine raises prospects of protracted war.

00:21:33.000 Yeah, you think?

00:21:34.000 I mean, so that means endless war in Ukraine.

00:21:36.000 Okay, well, I mean, if that were the case, then at least you would figure we might have to take some long-term policies that would lower the prices at home, but he's not doing any of that.

00:21:42.000 He's just blaming Putin.

00:21:43.000 So he's undermining the war effort in Ukraine while simultaneously trying to avoid responsibility for the inflation and economic situation at home.

00:21:51.000 It makes no sense.

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00:22:55.000 I mean, we are headed, if we're not already in a recession, we are headed toward one right fast.

00:22:59.000 According to the New York Times, the Federal Reserve is now moving toward another big rate increase as inflation lingers, which is, of course, what they have to do.

00:23:04.000 If they want to crush the inflation, they have to raise the interest rates.

00:23:04.000 They have no choice.

00:23:07.000 And raising them to 1.5% ain't going to do it.

00:23:10.000 It's going to need to be in the 5% to 6% range by most available economic estimates in order to really crush the sort of inflation that we've been seeing.

00:23:16.000 According to the New York Times, the Federal Reserve determined to choke off rapid inflation before it becomes a permanent feature of the American economy is steering toward another three-quarter point interest rate increase later this month, even as the economy shows early signs of slowing and recession fears mount.

00:23:29.000 Economic data suggests the United States could be headed for a rough road.

00:23:32.000 Consumer confidence has plummeted.

00:23:34.000 The economy could post two straight quarters of negative growth.

00:23:36.000 New factory orders have sagged.

00:23:38.000 Oil and gas commodity prices have dipped sharply lower this week as investors fear an impending downturn.

00:23:42.000 That weakening is unlikely to dissuade central bankers.

00:23:45.000 Some degree of economic slowdown would be welcome news for the Fed, which is actively trying to cool the economy.

00:23:49.000 And a commitment to restoring price stability could keep officials on an aggressive policy path.

00:23:54.000 Inflation measures are running at or near the fastest pace in four decades.

00:23:57.000 The job market, while moderating somewhat, remains unusually strong, with 1.9 available jobs for every unemployed worker.

00:24:02.000 Fed policymakers are likely to focus on those factors as they head into their July meeting, especially because their policy interest rate is still low enough it's likely spurring economic activity rather than subtracting from it.

00:24:12.000 But pretty much all of the talk from the central bank is driving down the stock market because everybody sees these interest rate increases coming.

00:24:19.000 Because they have to.

00:24:20.000 Because of Joe Biden's policy.

00:24:21.000 Not because of Vladimir Putin.

00:24:23.000 And again, even if you blame Vladimir Putin, it's like a lose-lose.

00:24:26.000 If he doesn't blame Vladimir Putin, it's his fault.

00:24:27.000 If he does blame Vladimir Putin, then the question for Americans is going to be, okay, so how do we stop this war, right?

00:24:31.000 What do we do to get to the end of this war so we can get back to our normal life where gas does not cost six bucks a gallon?

00:24:38.000 Joe Biden is not capable of leading his way through this, obviously.

00:24:42.000 In the first 10 minutes of his speech yesterday in Ohio, he said the phrase, not a joke, about nine different times.

00:24:50.000 Here is Joe Biden yesterday just repeating himself over and over because, again, this is a man whose brain is no longer functioning.

00:24:57.000 This is a man, as I have said before, who could not pour urine out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

00:25:02.000 Here is Joe Biden.

00:25:04.000 There was only one word you heard most often in my family.

00:25:07.000 Not a joke.

00:25:08.000 Bananas do well!

00:25:10.000 Everybody does well!

00:25:12.000 Everybody does well!

00:25:14.000 Not a joke!

00:25:15.000 There's a middle class for one reason. 0.82

00:25:17.000 American unions.

00:25:20.000 That's the only reason there's a middle class. 0.99

00:25:22.000 Not a joke!

00:25:23.000 Love you, Marcy.

00:25:24.000 You are the best.

00:25:26.000 She does it all.

00:25:27.000 Unions and foreign policy.

00:25:30.000 You think I'm joking?

00:25:31.000 I'm not joking.

00:25:32.000 The Trumpers would literally take them out.

00:25:35.000 Not a joke.

00:25:36.000 You know, I'm not joking.

00:25:38.000 Ask yourself this question.

00:25:40.000 What is a Republican platform?

00:25:42.000 No, no, not a joke.

00:25:43.000 I would have thought, had I not seen it on paper and heard them talk about it, that I was making this up.

00:25:47.000 Not a joke.

00:25:48.000 No, I'm not joking.

00:25:53.000 I think he's joking.

00:25:55.000 He must be joking.

00:25:57.000 Because this is your great orator.

00:25:58.000 This is the sterling orator.

00:26:00.000 Listen, I can see why Democrats are trying to hang their hat on Joe Biden as a poor communicator.

00:26:04.000 I get it.

00:26:05.000 This is the same hobby horse that they've been riding since Al Gore.

00:26:09.000 When Al Gore lost to George W. Bush, Before he declared the world was on fire and had his chakras touched by a masseuse.

00:26:17.000 The answer was, he was too sophisticated for the room.

00:26:20.000 Like, Al Gore has not been too sophisticated for a room since like second grade.

00:26:23.000 But Al Gore was too sophisticated for the room.

00:26:25.000 He just knew too much.

00:26:26.000 He was too bright.

00:26:26.000 He couldn't connect with the American people.

00:26:28.000 Particularly not when he was sticking his tongue down Tipper's throat at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.

00:26:33.000 A thing that happened.

00:26:34.000 Yes.

00:26:35.000 Life is weird.

00:26:37.000 In 2004, John Kerry, who's been wrong on every single issue his entire life, ranging from accusing his fellow troops of being rapists and murderers in Vietnam, to suggesting that peace would never break out in the Middle East until Israel surrendered to terrorists.

00:26:49.000 John Kerry ran for president in 2004, and he lost.

00:26:52.000 And the answer from the media was, John Kerry is too sophisticated for the room.

00:26:58.000 He knows too many things. 0.88

00:27:00.000 When Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, the answer was not that she is a charmless cackle witch. 1.00

00:27:07.000 The answer was that Hillary Clinton was too sophisticated for the room. 1.00

00:27:11.000 She knew too much.

00:27:12.000 She knew too much.

00:27:14.000 And now the answer, of course, is that Joe Biden, he has a communication problem.

00:27:17.000 See, even when Barack Obama was president, he was a really good communicator by all available metrics, right?

00:27:22.000 He was great at giving speeches, saying nothing, and bloviating, and using empty platitudes combined with extraordinarily radical racial rhetoric.

00:27:30.000 When Barack Obama, that developed over the course of his presidency.

00:27:32.000 Early on, he was a moderate with racial rhetoric.

00:27:34.000 By the time we hit like 2013, 2014, that had changed radically.

00:27:37.000 But Barack Obama, when he was failing in policy terms, because he did, basically from 2010 on, he was a massive failure at everything he tried to do policy-wise, Barack Obama.

00:27:48.000 So the answer was, of course, well, my communication strategy needs to be better.

00:27:52.000 It's all about the comms.

00:27:54.000 It's all the comms.

00:27:55.000 Um, guys, it's not the comms. 1.00

00:27:58.000 It's because you suck. 1.00

00:27:59.000 That's the answer. 1.00

00:28:01.000 It's not just the comms.

00:28:02.000 It can be the comms as well as something else.

00:28:04.000 Joe Biden is a bad communicator, because again, dead people tend to be bad at communication, but it is not fundamentally the comms.

00:28:12.000 But Democrats think that it's really about the fighting.

00:28:14.000 They need more fighting and fighting.

00:28:15.000 They want Joe Biden to be a combative old man, not just an old man who's falling asleep, an angry old man who yells at the walls.

00:28:21.000 That's what they need.

00:28:22.000 If only Joe Biden would get angrier and shout into the microphone.

00:28:26.000 That would probably fix everything.

00:28:28.000 According to the New York Times, 48 hours after a horrific mass shooting on the 4th of July, President Biden flew to Ohio on Wednesday for a speech on pension plans.

00:28:36.000 With inflation soaring and Democrats still fuming about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Mr. Biden's public schedule included no events or announcements on either topic.

00:28:44.000 In response to last week's blockbuster testimony about the January 6th attack on the Capitol, Mr. Biden has said almost nothing, pledging deference to the Congressional Committee investigating the violent assault on American democracy.

00:28:54.000 At a moment of broad political tumult and economic distress, Mr. Biden has appeared far less engaged than many of his supporters had hoped.

00:29:00.000 First of all, I don't know why you'd hope for this.

00:29:02.000 He went into a basement and fell asleep for eight months during the election cycle.

00:29:06.000 And he woke up and was president.

00:29:08.000 I don't know why they thought he was like an engaged fighter.

00:29:10.000 Was this somebody who appeared to you to be an engaged fighter?

00:29:14.000 He was basically in hospice.

00:29:16.000 What are you talking about?

00:29:17.000 But now they're surprised.

00:29:18.000 While many Democrats are pleading for a fighter who gives voice to their anger, Mr. Biden has chosen a more passive path, blaming Congress, urging people to vote, avoiding heated rhetorical battles.

00:29:27.000 Bill Neidhart, former spokesperson for Bernie Sanders, said, quote, The economy seems to be running out of control.

00:29:32.000 Fundamental rights are being stripped away and the White House just isn't coming with anything.

00:29:37.000 Inside the White House, administration officials say Biden has been quick to respond to the country's crises, even if he doesn't get the credit they believe he deserves.

00:29:43.000 The president came into office promising competence and deliberative action after four years in which his predecessor governed by angry Twitter posts and frequent tirades.

00:29:50.000 By contrast, Biden touted his sober experience as a legislator.

00:29:53.000 By the way, Joe Biden never had a sober experience as a legislator. 0.98

00:29:56.000 That's ridiculous. 1.00

00:29:57.000 Joe Biden was a logarithmic idiot for his entire time in the United States Senate. 1.00

00:30:02.000 He campaigned on knowing how to wield the authority of the presidency. 1.00

00:30:05.000 On the big issues of the day, the president keeps citing the limits of his power.

00:30:08.000 So they're trying to portray him as like a soft moderate.

00:30:11.000 And if only he would be more passionate, then this would jog the American people into action.

00:30:16.000 And so Joe Biden, predictably enough, because his Twitter account is run by Ron Klain, he starts tweeting about these things.

00:30:24.000 So yesterday he tweeted, Congress must act to codify Roe Blue and the filibuster should not stand in the way.

00:30:30.000 Come on, man.

00:30:32.000 But right now, Jack, we don't have the votes to change the filibuster.

00:30:35.000 That means we need to elect more Democratic senators and re-elect our House Majority Leader. 0.99

00:30:41.000 He fell asleep before the end of the tweet, which was unfortunate.

00:30:44.000 But yeah, so his combative version is we need to codify Roe and I'm going to kill the filibuster if you give me the votes to do so.

00:30:50.000 That is not going to do it.

00:30:52.000 Well, there is a reason that the White House comms director, Kate Bedingfield, is stepping down. 0.94

00:30:57.000 She doesn't want to be blamed for the coming tsunami because then she'll never get a job again.

00:31:01.000 According to Chief of Staff Ron Klain, without Kate Bedingfield's talent and tenacity, Donald Trump might still be in the White House, the rescue plan and infrastructure law might still be unrealized, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson might not be sitting on the Supreme Court.

00:31:13.000 By the way, Klain's misspelled Ketanji Brown-Jackson.

00:31:16.000 She has played a huge role in everything the president has achieved, from his second term as vice president, through the campaign, and since coming to the White House.

00:31:16.000 Racism!

00:31:22.000 Her strategic acumen, intense devotion to the president's agenda, and fierce work on his behalf are unmatched.

00:31:27.000 This is basically Ron Klain saying, we're going to push her out and pretend that comms have now shifted at the White House. 0.99

00:31:32.000 That's what this is.

00:31:33.000 Apparently, Bedingfield had been weighing the decision to leave the White House for a number of weeks.

00:31:37.000 She only gave official notification to Klain in recent days.

00:31:40.000 She wants to get off that ship before that Titanic hits that iceberg. 1.00

00:31:44.000 A person widely seen as Bedingfield's likely replacement is Liz Allen, another longtime Biden loyalist who worked for him when he was VP and was Deputy Communications Director for Barack Obama.

00:31:52.000 She was also tasked with working with Kamala Harris after Harris was chosen to be Biden's VP running mate.

00:31:58.000 Which, wow.

00:31:59.000 What a resume.

00:32:00.000 She was in charge of Kamala Harris's comms. 0.93

00:32:02.000 We all know how great Kamala Harris is at comms. 0.98

00:32:06.000 The staffing changes.

00:32:08.000 Comments the White House grapples with soaring inflation, a war in Ukraine, and the President's low approval rate.

00:32:12.000 So they're trying to shift course on the comments, by the way, even in announcing this.

00:32:16.000 The White House totally undercut its own comms message. 0.76

00:32:19.000 So for example, apparently this story was originally Politico's Alex Thompson's.

00:32:24.000 He had the scoop.

00:32:25.000 He asked the White House for comment.

00:32:26.000 They completely ignored his request for comment.

00:32:28.000 And then they gave the story to the Wall Street Journal with a statement from Ron Klain.

00:32:31.000 So just really solid comms work from the White House as usual.

00:32:34.000 But all of this is building up to a broader attempt to throw Joe Biden overboard.

00:32:39.000 Like after the midterm elections, get rid of him.

00:32:41.000 And they're attempting to push in place of Joe Biden.

00:32:44.000 They can't do Kamala Harris. 0.71

00:32:45.000 Again, Kamala Harris makes Hillary Clinton look like Winston Churchill. 1.00

00:32:50.000 Instead, what they're going to try and do is apparently shoehorn in Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, which is fairly incredible since he has one of the worst economic track records of any government in the country.

00:33:00.000 His track record on COVID is not particularly stellar.

00:33:04.000 Age adjusted, about the same death rate as Florida, except Florida never shut down and California did.

00:33:09.000 He has repeatedly broken his own COVID protocols. 1.00

00:33:13.000 He's a massive hypocrite. 1.00

00:33:14.000 This week, he's vacationing in Montana. 1.00

00:33:17.000 California employees are not allowed to spend taxpayer dollars to go vacation or even visit places like Montana because Gavin Newsom has declared that these places are hell on earth for LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign people.

00:33:29.000 He's over there.

00:33:30.000 His original response to that story that he's vacationing in Montana was he's not using taxpayer dollars to do it.

00:33:35.000 When asked if he was using taxpayer dollars to cover his security because he's governor of California, he went completely silent.

00:33:41.000 But this is the person that they are pinning their hopes on.

00:33:43.000 Like the two ones that you keep hearing are JB Pritzker, the monstrously large governor of Illinois, and Gavin Newsom, the androgynous Ken doll.

00:33:52.000 From California.

00:33:54.000 Good luck to you, folks.

00:33:55.000 This is why Gavin Newsom is now running ads in Florida telling people to flee for California, which is hilarious because I fled California to get over here, to get away from you and your 13% income tax rate, which will soon rise to 20% if you have your way.

00:34:08.000 It's amazing.

00:34:11.000 As the Wall Street Journal's Kenneth Kachigian writes, He says, Once Mr. Newsom takes his show on the road, he'll quickly find the scrutiny that has escaped him in California.

00:34:21.000 His slick-backed act will not play in Iowa, New Hampshire, or South Carolina.

00:34:24.000 It's politically perverse that Newsom's ad asks Floridians to come to California when his own constituents are leaving for friendlier business and cultural climates in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and elsewhere.

00:34:33.000 His claim that he will take the fight to Republicans is laughable.

00:34:35.000 His own record of collapsed leadership is ripe for exploitation.

00:34:38.000 Days ago, six miles from the home where I was raised in Tulare County, The Highway Patrol arrested two suspected drug traffickers with 150,000 fentanyl pills.

00:34:46.000 They were released by an order signed by the Tulare County Superior Court Commissioner.

00:34:50.000 Before Sheriff Mike Boudreaux was informed or asked about the risks to public safety, he placed the blame directly on Governor Newsom and the legislators in California, who are really soft on crime.

00:34:58.000 Homicides in San Francisco are up 36% over the last two years.

00:35:01.000 Things are much the same in Los Angeles, where homicides and robberies with guns are on the rise.

00:35:05.000 The city has lost 40,000 residents in the past year.

00:35:07.000 By the way, if you extend that back a couple of years, that includes me and my family.

00:35:10.000 Residential users of electricity in California pay 66% more than homeowners in the rest of the United States. 0.99

00:35:16.000 And that is because of all these stupid green policies pursued by people like Gavin Newsom. 0.89

00:35:21.000 And this is leaving out, of course, the French laundry and the high-speed rail that Gavin Newsom once told me on the air that he did not support but then tried to put back in place as soon as he was elected governor. 0.98

00:35:33.000 So good luck to you, Gavin Newsom.

00:35:35.000 If Democrats believe that this is an issue of messaging rather than policy, they are likely to be headed for a bruising.

00:35:40.000 But this is why they're going to rely on the media to shut down all of the other messaging.

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00:36:59.000 So the Democrats are running on the strategy that Joe Biden is the real problem.

00:37:08.000 It's all a comms issue if we just replace.

00:37:10.000 So they have a backup strategy.

00:37:11.000 If it's all a comms issue, there's one way that we can change this.

00:37:14.000 And that is we can prevent anyone else from getting out their alternative message.

00:37:17.000 So the Democrats are going back to the drawing board with their friends in the media.

00:37:19.000 But I repeat myself.

00:37:21.000 Their new message is, everything we don't like is disinformation.

00:37:24.000 When I say new, I mean it's the same old message.

00:37:26.000 Everything we don't like is disinformation.

00:37:28.000 So the New York Times has a very long piece about the victimized, horribly victimized Nina Jankowicz.

00:37:34.000 Now you remember that she was the head of the Biden administration disinformation board, this dystopian feature of the Homeland Security Department that was going to look at misinformation and disinformation, had a very broad mandate, it was unclear what it was going to do.

00:37:49.000 This entire article from the New York Times is about how so many people, how so many people here are engaging in disinformation about this woman, Nina Jankiewicz.

00:38:00.000 But they can't name a single piece of disinformation that was put out about her.

00:38:04.000 According to the New York Times, there is wide agreement across the federal government that coordinated disinformation campaigns threaten to exacerbate public health emergencies, stoke ethnic and racial divisions, and even undermine democracy itself.

00:38:15.000 The board's fate, however, has underscored how deeply partisan the issue has become in Washington, making it nearly impossible to consider addressing the threat.

00:38:22.000 The failure to act according to experts, according to, well, if I can cite anonymous experts, it must be true. 0.73

00:38:27.000 According to experts, has left openings for new waves of disinformation ahead of November's midterm elections.

00:38:32.000 And even for violence, like the racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket in May, which was motivated by a baseless conspiracy theory that global forces aimed to replace white Americans with immigrants.

00:38:40.000 I think we're in a really bleak situation here in this country, said Nina Jankiewicz, who briefly served as the board's director before resigning when the controversy boiled over.

00:38:47.000 A prominent author and researcher in the field of disinformation who once advised Ukraine's government, Ms.

00:38:52.000 Jankiewicz became a focus of the Fuhrer, targeted online by false or misleading information about her role in what critics denounced as a ministry of truth.

00:39:00.000 It's hard to imagine how we get back from this, she said in an interview, when this is how our elected representatives are behaving, when we can't agree on, you know, what is the truth.

00:39:06.000 Okay, she still has not named a lie.

00:39:08.000 And nobody in this article actually names a lie that was told about her.

00:39:13.000 The threats from disinformation today, says the New York Times, involve issues that not long ago might have transcended partisan politics.

00:39:18.000 Instead, disinformation has become mired in the country's deepening partisan and geographical divides over issues like abortion, guns, and climate change.

00:39:26.000 I have a question.

00:39:26.000 When was there ever agreement about abortion, guns, and climate change?

00:39:29.000 In my entire lifetime, there has not been.

00:39:32.000 Even during the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security recognized the threat.

00:39:35.000 So the goal here of the New York Times is If we can label everything we don't like disinformation, then we can ban all of that stuff.

00:39:41.000 And we can lament the disinformation used to prevent the government from banning all of that stuff without actually naming any of the disinformation.

00:39:49.000 You know, the singular fact that they cannot point to, and we all know why Nina Jenkins went away.

00:39:55.000 The reason is because she had a long history of being a wild leftist on social media, including doing bizarre Mary Poppins skits talking about disinformation. 0.97

00:40:04.000 Promoting the notion that the Russian laptop was not, that Hunter Biden's laptop was in fact a Russian laptop.

00:40:10.000 Promoting the Alphabank lie.

00:40:12.000 And so there's a lot about Nina Jankowicz that was really worthy of scrutiny.

00:40:16.000 But according to the New York Times, all of that was bad.

00:40:18.000 It is no coincidence, by the way, the New York Times is pushing the idea that the government must crack down on disinformation while actively purveying disinformation.

00:40:24.000 One of those aspects of the actively purveying disinformation is to try and fight back against the fact that Republicans are now doing really, really well with Hispanics.

00:40:31.000 So if you look at the polling data right now, Joe Biden has about a 35% approval rating with Hispanics.

00:40:36.000 And this is freaking the hell out of the Democratic Party.

00:40:38.000 Because the Democratic Party had counted on a rising coalition of racial minorities, plus a few college-educated white ladies, in order to win a permanent majority in Congress and in the presidency. 1.00

00:40:47.000 And as it turns out, Hispanics do not want to be categorized as just another racial group that can be counted in the Democratic Party playbook.

00:40:54.000 Instead, it turns out many Hispanics, and many black people as it turns out, and most Americans as it turns out, like to be thought of as individuals who have their own thoughts, dreams, and hopes, and wish to actually vote on the basis of those.

00:41:04.000 The New York Times is going to crack down on this.

00:41:06.000 So while they are saying disinformation is bad, they are now purveying disinformation about Representative Mayra Flores.

00:41:12.000 They have an entire piece today in the New York Times by Jennifer Medina called The Rise of the Far-Right Latina.

00:41:18.000 So first of all, what happened to Latinx?

00:41:20.000 What happened to Latinx? 1.00

00:41:22.000 These intolerant bigots! 1.00

00:41:23.000 Don't they know Latina is sexist? 1.00

00:41:26.000 But apparently she's very, very far right.

00:41:28.000 And here is what the New York Times says.

00:41:29.000 For years, Texas Republicans tried to win the Hispanic vote using a Bush-era brand of compassionate conservatism.

00:41:34.000 The idea was that a moderate's touch and a softer rhetoric on immigration were key to making inroads with Hispanic voters, particularly in Democratic strongholds across the southern border.

00:41:43.000 Such was the Texas of old.

00:41:44.000 The Trump age has given rise to a new brand of Texas Republicans, one of whom is already walking the halls of Congress, the far-right Latina.

00:41:52.000 Far-right Latina. 0.99

00:41:52.000 Everyone's far-right, by the way. 0.99

00:41:54.000 They can't define the definition between quote unquote mainstream right and far right because to the left, everybody is far right.

00:41:54.000 Everyone.

00:42:02.000 Representative Mayra Flores became only the second Republican to represent the Rio Grande Valley after she won a special election last month and flipped the congressional seat from blue to red.

00:42:09.000 What is most striking is that Ms.

00:42:10.000 Flores won by shunning moderates, embracing the far right, and wearing her support for Donald Trump on her sleeve.

00:42:16.000 Her campaign slogan, God, Family, Country, was meant to appeal to what she calls traditional values of her majority Hispanic district on the border city of Brownsville.

00:42:24.000 She called for President Biden's impeachment.

00:42:27.000 She tweeted QAnon hashtags.

00:42:28.000 By the way, when they say tweeted QAnon hashtags, that means her social media team included one hashtag of QAnon in one post on Facebook, so far as I'm aware.

00:42:36.000 And this means that she must be some sort of conspiracy theorist because she included one hashtag in one Facebook post ever.

00:42:43.000 She called the Democratic Party the greatest threat America faces.

00:42:45.000 So I have a question.

00:42:47.000 What makes that far right?

00:42:50.000 The Democratic Party routinely calls the Republican Party the greatest threat America faces.

00:42:53.000 Joe Biden says that Republicans are a threat to democracy.

00:42:55.000 This New York Times piece is saying that far right Republicans are a threat to democracy.

00:43:00.000 So what exactly is so extreme about her? 0.99

00:43:03.000 They can't name a single thing.

00:43:05.000 In an interview in her still barren office the day after her swearing in, Flores was asked whether she considered Biden the legitimately elected president.

00:43:11.000 Quote, he's the worst president of the United States, she said.

00:43:14.000 When asked three more times, she repeated the same non-answer.

00:43:17.000 Okay, and?

00:43:18.000 So she said he's bad.

00:43:19.000 I'm unaware that saying that he's a very terrible president makes you a far-right person.

00:43:25.000 Two other Latino Republicans, Monica de la Cruz in McAllen and Cassie Garcia in Laredo, are also on the ballot in congressional races along the Mexican border.

00:43:32.000 All three share right-wing views on immigration, the 2020 election, and abortion.

00:43:36.000 Oh my gosh.

00:43:38.000 Wow.

00:43:39.000 You mean that they're Republicans?

00:43:42.000 That's crazy.

00:43:43.000 Republicans are Republicans and are also Hispanic, but are Republican?

00:43:47.000 Wow, but we have to crack down on disinformation, guys.

00:43:49.000 There's too much disinformation out there, according to the New York Times.

00:43:53.000 By the way, speaking of disinformation, The Washington Post put out a piece today titled, Police kill another black man and the same old questions arise.

00:44:02.000 Speaking of disinformation, police kill another black man.

00:44:04.000 Who's the black man they're talking about? 0.87

00:44:06.000 Jalen Walker, who fired a gun at the cops before getting out of his car and running and being shot for his trouble.

00:44:12.000 The Washington Post editorial board, quote, We hope that after George Floyd's death, departments would reassess the use of deadly force, improve training, and question the wisdom of tactics like giving chase to drivers with broken headlights.

00:44:23.000 That this young man is dead after being stopped for a traffic violation is not only a needless tragedy, it is just plain wrong.

00:44:28.000 He fired a gun at the cops while driving away from them.

00:44:31.000 It's on video.

00:44:32.000 And then you guys are lecturing us about disinformation?

00:44:35.000 Well, when you're losing, I guess you have to come up with some reason why you are losing.

00:44:40.000 I guess you have to come up with something.

00:44:42.000 Well, you know, this is the Democratic Party.

00:44:45.000 So when that doesn't work, then they have a new strategy also.

00:44:48.000 So they have the strategy of saying that it's all Joe Biden's fault.

00:44:51.000 Then they have the strategy of saying that we need to crack down on disinformation, by which we mean just stuff we don't like.

00:44:56.000 And then finally, it's please can we give Joe a break?

00:44:58.000 He's old.

00:44:59.000 Can we just give him a break?

00:45:00.000 I mean, give him a break.

00:45:01.000 Dana Milbank, opinion columnist at the Washington Post.

00:45:04.000 That is literally the title of his piece today.

00:45:06.000 Give Biden a break.

00:45:08.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:45:09.000 Does he need to lie down for a little while?

00:45:11.000 Does he need a nap?

00:45:12.000 Does he?

00:45:13.000 Oh, you know, he's only the president of the... He ran for the job, guys!

00:45:16.000 It wasn't like we just appointed him randomly.

00:45:18.000 See, here's the thing.

00:45:19.000 When you run for a job, and then you get the job, and then you're bad at the job, you don't get a break.

00:45:25.000 By the way, if he wants a break, he can resign anytime, and he can hand the country over to the wonderful and intersectional Kamala Harris anytime he pleases.

00:45:32.000 But we need to give Joe Biden... The man needs a break.

00:45:34.000 He needs a break.

00:45:36.000 I remember all those pieces about Donald Trump needing a break or George W. Bush needing a break.

00:45:39.000 We need to give Joe Biden a break, according to Dana Milbank.

00:45:42.000 Here's the deal, Democrats.

00:45:43.000 You need to give Joe Biden a break, says Dana Milbank.

00:45:45.000 For weeks, Democrats have arrayed themselves in traditional circular firing formation, complaining about the president's failure to channel outrage about mass shootings, the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe, And MAGA Republicans' assaults on democracy.

00:45:57.000 This produced post-Independence Day fireworks in a trio of news outlets.

00:46:00.000 The Post reported some Democrats think Biden, quote, risks a dangerous failure to meet the moment, and quoted a Democratic consultant lamenting Biden's leadership vacuum.

00:46:08.000 Politico reported Democrats have grown increasingly frustrated at what they perceive has been the White House's lack of urgency, and Biden seems to be lacking fire.

00:46:14.000 And CNN reported that top Democrats are complaining the president isn't acting with the urgency the moment demands.

00:46:20.000 Accompanying this hat trick of own-goal scoring by Democrats were unfavorable comparisons between Biden and J.B.

00:46:25.000 Pritzker of Illinois and California Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:46:28.000 There's just one problem with the two cool Joe complaints.

00:46:31.000 Biden has been saying heatedly and repeatedly exactly that which she's accused of avoiding.

00:46:35.000 Biden has been hammering Ron DeSantis, for example, for his hateful don't-say-gay bill, for book burnings, for trying to ban books, even math books, for a dangerous abortion bill eroding women's constitutional rights.

00:46:44.000 AOC scolded Biden for failing to come to terms with the crisis of our democracy.

00:46:48.000 And Politico reports Democrats criticizing Biden for lacking fire against escalating threats to democracy.

00:46:52.000 But Biden, who frequently warns of the dire threats, was just a few months ago criticized for being too hot when he said of those restrictive voting rights, do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor?

00:47:02.000 So Dana Milbank says you have to leave him alone.

00:47:04.000 It's fair for Democrats to ask whether in 2024 they should re-nominate a man in his 82nd year.

00:47:09.000 But this Goldilocks tale about Biden's too hot and too cold rhetoric needs to be put to bed sustainably.

00:47:13.000 Give the man a break.

00:47:14.000 Just please give him a break.

00:47:16.000 He needs a break, say the members of the media.

00:47:20.000 Or throw him off the train, one of the two.

00:47:22.000 He needs a break or we need to throw him off the train.

00:47:24.000 And in any case, what we really need to do is we need to shut down disinformation by which we mean all the things we don't like.

00:47:29.000 That's a good thing that the Democrats Always have the media to cover for them because otherwise Democrats might be forced to answer awkward questions about their most awkward candidates.

00:47:37.000 So there is one hallmark of the media when it comes to coverage of Republican politicians.

00:47:40.000 If you can find a Republican anywhere in America who has said something bizarre or crazy, you then ask every Republican you can find about this.

00:47:47.000 This has been true since like Todd Akin running for Missouri Senate.

00:47:51.000 If you can find one Republican who says something bizarre or weird, then it becomes the obligation of every Republican to answer for it.

00:47:57.000 Meanwhile, if the Democratic Party chooses as its rising stars some of the oddest and strangest and most off-putting people imaginable, no one answers for it.

00:48:08.000 No one.

00:48:08.000 Ever.

00:48:09.000 At all.

00:48:09.000 So it's time to talk about some of the Democratic rising stars.

00:48:11.000 They've been making some waves.

00:48:13.000 We've got to look to the future, guys.

00:48:14.000 What does the Democratic Party look like beyond Joe Biden and even beyond Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg?

00:48:20.000 What does the Democratic Party look like?

00:48:22.000 Well, we have a couple of Democratic thought leaders who are worthy of featuring today.

00:48:27.000 One is a Democratic Rhode Island state senator.

00:48:30.000 Her name is Tiara Mack.

00:48:32.000 She is intersectional AF.

00:48:34.000 She is a black queer woman, a woman of color who is black and queer, and also cuts campaign videos, twerking upside down. 1.00

00:48:45.000 She went to Brown University, apparently on full scholarship, Her skill set has yet to be determined.

00:48:53.000 She sits in the State Senate of Rhode Island.

00:48:56.000 And here she is, instructing her constituents to vote Senator Mack.

00:49:01.000 She is 28 years old.

00:49:03.000 And, um, here we go.

00:49:04.000 So there she is twerking upside down. 1.00

00:49:13.000 Vote Senator Mack! 0.97

00:49:14.000 In the sand.

00:49:17.000 Vote Senator Mack.

00:49:17.000 Well, she makes a pitch.

00:49:20.000 That is the pitch.

00:49:23.000 Is that she can twerk upside down, and is intersectional, and went to Brown.

00:49:29.000 But is also a victim, apparently.

00:49:30.000 Because the minute that you notice this attention-grabbing behavior, is attention-grabbing behavior, she's offended. 0.93

00:49:36.000 This is the way that we work in our society now. 1.00

00:49:38.000 It's the dumbest crap imaginable. 1.00

00:49:40.000 People go on TikTok. 1.00

00:49:41.000 They do stuff that begs for attention, cries out for attention, desperately seeks attention.

00:49:45.000 And the minute you notice and you're like, yeah, that's bad.

00:49:47.000 How dare you notice that I'm doing this bad thing?

00:49:50.000 I didn't want attention.

00:49:51.000 I'm like a humble man here at the monastery.

00:49:54.000 I'm here at the convent just minding my own business.

00:49:57.000 Worshipping?

00:49:59.000 In solitude?

00:50:00.000 I am a classy politician from the Victorian era.

00:50:04.000 How dare you notice that I put up a video on TikTok of myself twerking upside down and asking people to vote for- How dare you, sir? 1.00

00:50:12.000 It's the stupidest nonsense. 1.00

00:50:14.000 We are such a mentally ill society. 1.00

00:50:16.000 We truly are. 1.00

00:50:17.000 And it's true everywhere, right?

00:50:19.000 There are people who are engaging in attention seeking.

00:50:21.000 It's the attention seeking of young people in American society is beyond compare.

00:50:26.000 It's amazing.

00:50:27.000 It's amazing stuff.

00:50:28.000 And then the media give attention to the people they should not.

00:50:33.000 And then tell you you're not allowed to pay attention to the people who are actually in elected politics.

00:50:37.000 So according to many members of the media, we should ignore this story.

00:50:40.000 A young Democratic legislator, on the come as they say, who is now going to rise to the highest levels of American politics on the back of twerking upside down on TikTok.

00:50:50.000 We're supposed to, if we notice this, this makes us racist.

00:50:52.000 That's the way this works.

00:50:54.000 Meanwhile, the media will pay endless attention to mass shooters who post videos of themselves seeking attention, thereby driving the next mass shooting.

00:51:01.000 Again, I would love to have an answer.

00:51:02.000 I mentioned it yesterday on the show.

00:51:03.000 Can you give me an answer from a single major media outlet as to why they feel the necessity to print the photos, videos, names, and manifestos of mass shooters on a routine basis?

00:51:13.000 What is the public value in that when it drives more mass shootings?

00:51:16.000 What?

00:51:18.000 So, but when it comes to... That we should pay attention to, even if it incentivizes more mass shooters.

00:51:22.000 But when it comes to tear... Stop.

00:51:23.000 Don't notice.

00:51:24.000 Don't notice.

00:51:26.000 And again, this goes to, as I say, the state of the young in America.

00:51:30.000 You walk into a Starbucks and you see some woman with a mohawk in seven different colors, eight earrings, a nose ring in the shape of a pig, and a tattoo that runs all the way up one arm and down the other. 0.98

00:51:45.000 And this young woman calls herself they. 0.95

00:51:48.000 And then, if you notice at all, then this is because you're an intolerant bigot.

00:51:54.000 Could there possibly be more attention-seeking behavior than this?

00:51:56.000 I mean, it's clearly, you're doing it in public.

00:51:58.000 I mean, it's attention-seeking, obviously.

00:52:00.000 But, she says, this is hysterical, this is Tiara Mack's comment, you ready?

00:52:04.000 Quote, these are folks who don't care about policy.

00:52:06.000 Oh, points for audacity, the audacity of hope happening here.

00:52:17.000 These are folks who don't care about policy. 0.97

00:52:20.000 So, here I am, a video of me, twerking upside down, shaking my ass at the camera, and then asking you to vote for me. 0.97

00:52:26.000 I noticed that you did that. 0.89

00:52:29.000 And I feel like that's not a good pitch for votes.

00:52:32.000 Well, that's because you don't care about policy, sir!

00:52:34.000 If you cared about policy, you wouldn't have even noticed that I cut that video.

00:52:38.000 It's all about the policy. 0.99

00:52:39.000 Well, is shaking your ass upside down a policy? 0.99

00:52:41.000 Apparently it is. 0.99

00:52:42.000 Apparently it is an actual policy position.

00:52:45.000 You know, there's like a bunch of positions.

00:52:46.000 And then there's the policy position. 0.99

00:52:48.000 Apparently, shit, I didn't know there was a name for it. 0.99

00:52:50.000 Apparently, that's the policy position. 1.00

00:52:52.000 Being upside down on a beach, shaking your rump at the camp.

00:52:54.000 That is a policy position.

00:52:56.000 Quote, they care about attacking a young energetic person who is filled with joy and undeterred by their hate.

00:53:03.000 Undeterred by their hate, filled with joy.

00:53:04.000 Hmm.

00:53:06.000 She added, I was elected saying the F word as an unapologetically queer woman.

00:53:10.000 Sounds like an agenda. 0.79

00:53:12.000 This is the same person that was elected in 2020, who's going to lead with empathy, compassion, love, and silliness.

00:53:18.000 So, apparently, one person had the temerity to ask the current Rhode Island governor, a Democrat named McKee, about this.

00:53:23.000 He said, I've not seen it.

00:53:24.000 What was the term you used?

00:53:25.000 Twerking?

00:53:25.000 I don't even know what that means.

00:53:27.000 I don't believe you, sir.

00:53:29.000 I think that is not true.

00:53:32.000 By the way, apparently, the video was shared with more than 7,000 TikTok followers and sparked a strong reaction She captured the clip, it promised Senator Thirst Trap at Block Island.

00:53:45.000 Yeah, so that is amazing, amazing stuff.

00:53:51.000 We do have to follow, policy is what this is all about after all.

00:53:54.000 It's all about the policy.

00:53:57.000 Good stuff happening.

00:53:58.000 Okay, so that is rising Democrat number one.

00:54:01.000 Rising Democrat number two, a key member of the Biden administration.

00:54:05.000 And I mean, these are folks who are You know, truly the best and brightest among us.

00:54:10.000 The people who should be in charge of important policies like the dispensation of nuclear waste.

00:54:16.000 If we're going to talk about high-level scientific positions, clearly what we need are good young folks like Sam Brinton.

00:54:23.000 Sam Brinton is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy.

00:54:32.000 He is also an LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign activist and top Biden administration nuclear official.

00:54:38.000 He has courted controversy with his open advocacy of sexual fetishism and puppy play, a sexual kink involving role-playing as animals. 0.96

00:54:48.000 So, yeah. 0.78

00:54:50.000 I mean, the good news is, I suppose, that we live in a fully shame-free society.

00:54:53.000 So it used to be, in the olden days, that if somebody was engaged in this sort of behavior, that would be like blackmail material.

00:54:59.000 Now, it's why you get it appointed to a presidential administration, actually.

00:55:03.000 If you used to have like a dog fetish kink, then that was something the Russians would blackmail you over. 0.98

00:55:08.000 And now, it actually is something you put on your resume to get into the Biden White House, apparently.

00:55:15.000 This person, in 2017, he had a hearing, apparently, at a campus event, a college campus event, with nuclear policy experts in Britain.

00:55:31.000 He was wearing all black, except for his red glittery heels, and the words, ropes, whips, and kinks.

00:55:35.000 Oh my! 0.58

00:55:36.000 projected behind him.

00:55:37.000 He began by addressing the description for the event we had all seen online.

00:55:41.000 I went in expecting a talk, says one of the students, about his political experiences working to end conversion therapy, sexuality, and the LGBT community, mostly because that is what the description told me.

00:55:49.000 Britton dispelled this, describing the event as a modern sex ed and an exploration of kink.

00:55:54.000 He began by giving us the history of kink and sex education, including the Kama Sutra, The Making of Taboo, by Richard von Kraft-Epping, and Sigmund Freud, The Leather Era, and the rise of the term BDSM.

00:56:04.000 On the subject of kinks directly, Britton explained the difference between headspace and physical types of play.

00:56:09.000 Headspace involves the use of the mental state and includes kinks like adult babies and diaper lovers, primal play, humiliation, degradation, and pup play. 0.92

00:56:18.000 Okay, so this is the person who was appointed.

00:56:21.000 Also, as it turns out, this person also wrote an essay for The Advocate.

00:56:27.000 The LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign magazine, in which he defended a site called Rentboy.com, which, as the name might suggest, is a male prostitution site. 0.87

00:56:36.000 Brinton wrote in 2015, Rentboy may or may not have broken the law.

00:56:40.000 I don't know.

00:56:40.000 But I do know from the frantic emails filling my inbox, the raid on its headquarters has thrown many gay, bisexual and transgender young adults into turmoil as their main source of income has been ripped away due to irresponsible and archaic views of sex work.

00:56:52.000 That column ran shortly after federal prosecutors charged the CEO of Rentboy and six Rentboy employees with conspiring to violate the Travel Act by promoting prostitution.

00:57:02.000 And it was also shortly after there was an attempt by Rentboy to not verify the age of the escorts, so underage sex trafficking.

00:57:12.000 And Britain wrote that the prosecutors were victimizing young male sex workers, not protecting them.

00:57:18.000 This is a person who is in charge of our nuclear waste program.

00:57:22.000 So, things are going great.

00:57:24.000 I look forward to the next generation of democratic, gender-fluid, puppy kink. 1.00

00:57:30.000 Upside-down twerking politicians.

00:57:31.000 It will be very, very exciting stuff.

00:57:33.000 I can't imagine why the American... It's probably a comms issue, guys.

00:57:36.000 Probably just a comms issue.

00:57:37.000 Probably in your... The fact that you've embraced every single radical element in American society ideologically.

00:57:43.000 It probably isn't the fact that your policies are wildly counterproductive.

00:57:48.000 It probably isn't the fact that you think that the best idea in American life is to Elect some of the strangest people in American life, put those people in positions of high power.

00:57:58.000 It probably is just comms.

00:57:59.000 If you get rid of Kate Bedingfield, probably it's all fixed.

00:58:02.000 You know, it's all about Joe Biden not being able to talk right.

00:58:05.000 That's probably the issue.

00:58:06.000 All righty.

00:58:07.000 We'll be back here later with additional content.

00:58:08.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Mullins show today.

00:58:10.000 He discusses the Democrats' attempt to try to paint Ron DeSantis as worse than Donald Trump.

00:58:14.000 Yeah, this one's funny, by the way.

00:58:16.000 The Democrats are already in full scale worse than Trump mode.

00:58:18.000 Because remember, Trump was worse than Romney and Romney is worse than McCain.

00:58:20.000 You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's show.

00:58:23.000 That's available right now.

00:58:24.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:58:54.000 Joe Biden's approval ratings dropped to the lowest levels ever.

00:58:58.000 Democrats try to paint Ron DeSantis as worse than Trump, and the libs continue to push weird pedo stuff.

The Ben Shapiro Show - July 07, 2022

Throw Grandpa Joe From The Train | Ep. 1529

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