The Ben Shapiro Show - To Push Abortion, The Left Promotes A Fetal Heartbeat Hoax | Ep. 1581

00:00:00.000 Failing Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams lays out a wild conspiracy theory about ultrasound machines, and the media rushes to defend her.

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00:02:38.000 Well, the other day, Stacey Abrams, the failing Georgia gubernatorial candidate, opened a can of worms when she decided to leap into the abortion debate. 1.00

00:02:46.000 Now, Stacey Abrams has been failing in this gubernatorial race. 1.00

00:02:48.000 She's down somewhere between six and eight points, according to most polls, to Brian Kemp, the person she supposedly beat last time around.

00:02:54.000 She didn't.

00:02:55.000 She lost by 50,000 votes.

00:02:56.000 And then the media decided to treat her as though she had actually won and made her the president of the universe in the Star Trek world and all the rest of this stuff.

00:03:05.000 Democrats treated her as the legit governor of Georgia, despite no evidence that she was actually robbed of the gubernatorial mansion.

00:03:12.000 Well, now she's out there running a terrible campaign. 1.00

00:03:15.000 And the sad truth is that Stacey Abrams is actually not that great a politician.

00:03:19.000 They keep trying to make Fetch happen, the Democrats.

00:03:21.000 They have so many people that they've tried to make popular, but they just can't make popular.

00:03:25.000 Whether you're talking about Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg or Stacey Abrams, there's just so many people out there that you try to promote as just world-beating candidates who it turns out fall flat, beta, or work.

00:03:35.000 There are tons of them.

00:03:36.000 Well, Stacey Abrams is sort of 1A.

00:03:40.000 She's exhibit 1A in this pattern.

00:03:43.000 So during this gubernatorial campaign in Georgia, she has taken a photo of herself completely unmasked, while all the kids behind her are masked, and then had to apologize and explain that.

00:03:51.000 And then, again, over the past 48 hours, she said that basically ultrasound machines are a hoax.

00:03:58.000 That ultrasound machines make up fetal heartbeats at six weeks.

00:04:03.000 So here she was explaining that the fetal heartbeat is actually not real, and therefore you don't have to worry about abortion now.

00:04:10.000 In a second, we'll get to the science of what she's saying because it's just not true.

00:04:13.000 But let's assume for a second that what she actually means is that a fetal heartbeat is when the valves open and close on the heart in a fetus.

00:04:20.000 That starts happening around 10 weeks.

00:04:21.000 Is she in favor of banning abortion beyond 10 weeks?

00:04:24.000 I noticed not.

00:04:25.000 So basically, as with most pro-choice rhetoric, it's all an excuse for, I feel like killing babies up until the point of birth.

00:04:31.000 But here she was just misconstruing the science and adding on this very bizarre conspiratorial twist wherein ultrasound manufacturers are trying to deceive women into having their babies by showing them fetal heartbeat before a fetal heartbeat is actually present.

00:04:47.000 Okay, this is crazy talk.

00:04:50.000 This is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman's body and waste it. 0.78

00:04:59.000 Okay, this is crazy talk.

00:05:01.000 It's a manufactured sound according to Stacey Abrams.

00:05:05.000 And not just as a manufactured, it's all a conspiracy in order so that men can promote pro-life positions.

00:05:11.000 So it's invented by pro-life men in order to fake the sound of the heartbeat.

00:05:15.000 This is much more conspiratorial than anything Donald Trump has ever said about the 2020 election.

00:05:19.000 This is really a wild, I mean, it's like up there with microchips are in the Vax conspiracy level stuff right here.

00:05:26.000 Now, it happens to also be biologically incorrect.

00:05:28.000 Put aside the conspiratorial side of it, just the biology of what she's saying is not true.

00:05:32.000 Dr. Tara Sandler Lee, Ph.D., who studied heart development at Harvard Medical School and serves as Director of Life Sciences at Charlotte Lozier Institute, responded, Even now, all it takes is one quick search of the public database of scientific and embryology research to confirm the heart is the first functioning organ in a developing human being, with the first heartbeat just 22 days after fertilization.

00:05:52.000 A baby's heart is actively beating at six weeks gestation and will have already beat nearly 16 million times by week 15.

00:05:58.000 In fact, at six weeks, when Stacey Abrams says a heartbeat does not exist, the baby's heart is actually beating at about 110 beats per minute.

00:06:04.000 Most American parents have seen their babies beating hard during prenatal ultrasound and discussed it with their obstetrician.

00:06:09.000 The mainstream media can perform Olympic-level semantic gymnastics all they want.

00:06:13.000 Most Americans instinctively understand a developing human organ which beats rhythmically and pumps blood throughout the body is, in fact, a heart.

00:06:20.000 So, what the media have attempted to do, as we'll talk about in just a minute, is pretend that what Stacey Abrams is talking about is whether a valve in the heart, whether the valves in the heart open and close, because those develop slightly later.

00:06:30.000 But, the early fetal form of the heart has already developed by the time she is talking. 0.99

00:06:35.000 And it's a very stupid point. 0.98

00:06:36.000 I mean, if you're going to pretend that what actually a heartbeat is, is not a prenatal heart that has not fully developed beating, Then you would also have to suggest, as they presumably do, that unless a brain is fully formed, which by the way happens when you're about 26 years old. 1.00

00:06:51.000 That's when your brain really stops growing and changing.

00:06:54.000 Up until that point, anything before that is just, you know, kind of pre-fulfilled brain function.

00:07:01.000 It's too basic.

00:07:02.000 It's not really full brain function. 1.00

00:07:03.000 So I guess we can kill you when you're like 18 years old, 17, 15. 1.00

00:07:05.000 I mean, after all, you don't have full brain function. 1.00

00:07:08.000 Your brain is still developing.

00:07:10.000 This is not how this works.

00:07:12.000 Peer-reviewed science on babies at six weeks gestation shows the heart is actively beating at six weeks.

00:07:16.000 Between fertilization and birth, the baby's heart will beat approximately 54 million times.

00:07:20.000 The baby's average heart rate is 110 BPM.

00:07:22.000 This will rise to 159 BPM by eight weeks gestation.

00:07:25.000 The presence of a heartbeat at 68 weeks gestation correlates with a live birth rate of 98% in normal pregnancies without any sort of intervention.

00:07:33.000 And there are a wide variety of sources that have talked about all of this.

00:07:36.000 Now, the media have rushed to try to clean up for Stacey Abrams by pretending that actually there is no fetal heartbeat. 0.99

00:07:42.000 So Twitter, which again is the most biased news source in America, Twitter will find a trend and then underneath the trend to explain the trend, they will basically just put something written by Media Matters.

00:07:52.000 Here's what they wrote about what Stacey Abrams said, quote, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said there is no such thing as a fetal heartbeat at six weeks of pregnancy.

00:08:00.000 And doctors agree one doesn't exist during this early stage of pregnancy.

00:08:03.000 Reports from NBC News and NPR confirm Abrams appeared on a panel at an event on Georgia in Tuesday on Tuesday and discussed various state bans on abortion at six weeks. She said, quote, there's no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. Doctors and scientists speaking with NBC News and NPR confirmed that while a fetus has cardiac cardiac activity at six weeks, a functional heart does not exist yet at this stage. Well, I mean, if it has cardiac cardiac activity, that's pulsing. That's what we normally call a cardiac heart beat.

00:08:32.000 Cardiac acti- heart beat.

00:08:36.000 You guys are working real hard to spin this one.

00:08:38.000 Glenn Kessler over at the Washington Post also trying to clean this one up for Stacey Abrams, and he steps into a real pile of scientific horse manure.

00:08:46.000 Quote, for what it's worth, fetal heartbeat is a misnomer.

00:08:49.000 The ultrasound picks up electrical activity generated by an embryo.

00:08:52.000 The so-called heartbeat sound you hear is created by the ultrasound.

00:08:54.000 Not until 10 weeks can the opening and closing of cardiac valves be detected by a Doppler machine.

00:08:59.000 Um, well, actually, no.

00:09:00.000 That is not what an ultrasound does.

00:09:02.000 Ultrasounds don't even detect electrical activity, as the name ultrasound would actually suggest.

00:09:08.000 Ultrasound is more like sonar.

00:09:10.000 You're listening to sounds.

00:09:11.000 You're not detecting electrical activity.

00:09:12.000 Ultrasound machines are not capable of doing this. 0.98

00:09:15.000 There is a scientist, a radiologist named Pradeep Shankar, and he pointed out ultrasound only detects density and motion.

00:09:22.000 It cannot detect electrical activity at all.

00:09:24.000 This is a scientific fact.

00:09:25.000 It's from a radiologist.

00:09:27.000 It is true that the valves in the heart develop later, but cardiac muscles that are located in the embryological heart are contracting.

00:09:32.000 They are, in fact, moving inward and outward.

00:09:34.000 That is how you define a beat.

00:09:37.000 He says the cardiac tissue is contracting, which is literally what a beat is, to say otherwise is scientific misinformation and cannot be treated otherwise.

00:09:44.000 So, again, this bizarre notion that you can just spin this away, there's no such thing as a heartbeat.

00:09:50.000 Literally, the National Institutes of Health, quote, baby's heart continues to grow and now beats at a regular rhythm, weeks six to seven.

00:09:57.000 How bad was this, all the cleanup?

00:10:00.000 It was so bad that Planned Parenthood had to walk this one back.

00:10:03.000 Okay, Planned Parenthood, on their own website, said just months ago, quote, a very basic beating heart and circulatory system developed during the fifth to sixth week of pregnancy.

00:10:11.000 This is abortion mill Planned Parenthood.

00:10:14.000 But Planned Parenthood later amended its website to more closely reflect the pro-abortion messaging against heartbeat laws, because again, people tend to think that if there's a beating heart there, then pretty obviously this is a human being that is not you.

00:10:25.000 It's not just a polyp inside your uterus.

00:10:27.000 Now the site says a part of the embryo starts to show cardiac activity, which is a very roundabout way of saying that there is a fetal heartbeat.

00:10:36.000 NBC News?

00:10:38.000 In May, reported that experts say the term fetal heartbeat is misleading and medically inaccurate, but the doctor, the article from NBC News months ago goes on to quote a doctor who says the heart does begin to develop at around six weeks, but says at this point the heart as we know it does not yet exist.

00:10:50.000 Again, if the argument is that full development of the heart as in adults, Is necessary in order to count it as a fetal heartbeat?

00:11:00.000 And presumably the same thing would have to be said about brain development.

00:11:03.000 And we know very clearly that early brain development in children is a lot more rudimentary than it will be as an adult.

00:11:09.000 Are you allowed to kill kids two years out of the womb unless you're Peter Singer from Princeton University?

00:11:13.000 He actually says yes.

00:11:14.000 He says because these are not fully developed human beings. 0.95

00:11:16.000 You can actually kill kids post-birth. 0.97

00:11:16.000 You can. 0.97

00:11:18.000 If Democrats want to play this game, they're going to win some stupid prizes. 1.00

00:11:22.000 But this is in the nature. 0.99

00:11:24.000 Of what Democrats have to do when reality runs in the face of their actual philosophical positions, reality must be ignored or called disinformation.

00:11:32.000 So Kamala Harris yesterday, the vice president of the United States, she was out there again attacking crisis pregnancy centers. 1.00

00:11:38.000 In other words, places that help women with their pregnancy, but encourage them not to kill the baby.

00:11:43.000 Which, last I checked, is actually a good thing.

00:11:45.000 Like, you're having a problem with your pregnancy, you don't have enough information, you need support, and these crisis pregnancy centers come and provide it for you.

00:11:51.000 You go to them and they provide you the kind of support that you need health-wise, and tell you not to kill your baby.

00:11:56.000 She'd prefer that you go to the place where they tell you to kill your baby, and none of it's really a big deal.

00:12:00.000 That's not a fetal heartbeat, that's just some weird cardiac activity stuff happening over there.

00:12:05.000 Well, it's not a fetal heartbeat.

00:12:06.000 So here is Kamala Harris calling crisis pregnancy centers disinformation. 1.00

00:12:10.000 Again, this is the same party that will suggest to you that basically a fetus is a cluster of cells up until a woman randomly chooses that it's not a cluster of cells, at which point it becomes the most beloved object in her life.

00:12:20.000 I met with many of you in my office at the White House, and we discussed the innovative strategies that you have used to defend women's reproductive freedom.

00:12:30.000 You are taking on rightly the crisis pregnancy centers.

00:12:35.000 Launching public education campaigns because I don't think I have it here but I'll show you all a map of the United States right now in terms of the patchwork of different laws in different states on this issue and the confusion it is creating and the need then for some of the most trusted elected officials to clarify the state of the law and in the midst of the vast amount of confusion the need of you as the truth tellers

00:13:04.000 To sort out fiction from fact and combat misinformation and disinformation, which we all know, often creates a situation that is ripe for predatory practices.

00:13:18.000 For predatory practices, wow.

00:13:20.000 By the way, notice how they can now conflate misinformation and disinformation.

00:13:22.000 Remember that time in 2016 when they said Russian disinformation changed the election, and then they shifted the language.

00:13:27.000 Now they call it misinformation.

00:13:29.000 And now they just say the two simultaneously, misinformation and disinformation.

00:13:32.000 Typically, disinformation means there's some sort of foreign source promoting propaganda that is false.

00:13:36.000 Now she's basically saying if there's purposeful misinformation and disinformation, they are the same thing.

00:13:41.000 Essentially you're a traitor if you believe a pro-life point of view seems to be the implication here or you're a liar and it's just a good thing you have people like Kamala Harris out there nodding at you with a weird hand motion and her slightly nasal voice telling you what the truth is about fetal development. 0.52

00:14:00.000 Man, they are truly bad at this.

00:14:02.000 Speaking of people who are truly bad at this, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, Titha Klacken, she was out there explaining that if you actually believe in the pro-life position, this means this is like repealing the 19th Amendment.

00:14:11.000 You know, the one that says that women can vote? 1.00

00:14:13.000 It's like that.

00:14:14.000 If you say that women should not kill babies in their womb, That in fact, the height of human existence is bearing children, which it is.

00:14:22.000 If you say that, then this means that you hate women and you want to repeal the right to vote, says this very, very good Catholic woman who's so Catholic.

00:14:32.000 Here she goes.

00:14:34.000 And didn't he also be part of a motion, a movement to repeal the 19th Amendment for women to have the right to vote?

00:14:43.000 What do I think of that?

00:14:45.000 I think I hear something like that every day around here.

00:14:49.000 When people say that women shouldn't be able to make their choices about contraception or their own reproductive health. 0.96

00:14:59.000 That's a sign of disrespect for women. 1.00

00:15:01.000 Just like removing the right to vote.

00:15:03.000 Now I noticed that the 19th amendment was actually passed.

00:15:09.000 In the year 1919.

00:15:10.000 And I noticed that Roe vs. Wade happened in 1973.

00:15:13.000 So for during that entire intervening period, apparently the same thing.

00:15:16.000 The same thing.

00:15:17.000 Aborting babies and letting women vote. 1.00

00:15:20.000 The same thing, according to Nancy.

00:15:21.000 I mean, she should remember this better since she was there in 1919.

00:15:24.000 She was 40 then.

00:15:27.000 And she was wearing dentures at that point.

00:15:29.000 Those wooden teeth are still in there.

00:15:31.000 In any case, there is a great irony to the fact that it really is a striking irony to how the left likes to treat the unborn.

00:15:38.000 The way that the left treats the unborn is they are completely disposable up until the point a woman decides that they are very valuable, at which point this is the most valuable thing in a woman's life.

00:15:46.000 That switch just flips and suddenly, magically, we're also, again, this is all about the idea that you define reality within yourself.

00:15:56.000 Reality is not an objective metric out there.

00:15:57.000 It's not something for you to discover.

00:15:58.000 It's not something for everyone to be able to agree on.

00:16:01.000 Reality is just defined through the prism of you.

00:16:03.000 So if you look at that baby and you say to yourself, that's not a baby, we're all supposed to go, you know what?

00:16:07.000 She says it's not a baby.

00:16:08.000 And then the minute you say it's a baby and I love it.

00:16:08.000 It must not be a baby.

00:16:10.000 Oh my God.

00:16:11.000 That's that's amazing.

00:16:12.000 Congratulations.

00:16:13.000 You see this in every headline.

00:16:15.000 From the celebrity driven media, right?

00:16:17.000 When Kim Kardashian is pregnant with a baby, and she's like, I'm pregnant.

00:16:19.000 This is, I'm so, I'm in love.

00:16:21.000 I'm already in love.

00:16:22.000 Ah, that's amazing.

00:16:23.000 And she's like, I would like to abort. 0.84

00:16:24.000 That's, that is just a woman's right to choose. 1.00

00:16:26.000 That is an incredible thing.

00:16:29.000 The media have this split all the time, right?

00:16:30.000 The same NBC News that is running segments explaining that there is no fetal heartbeat at six to seven weeks are also running segments on the Today Show admitting that the pre-born can react to things like flavor.

00:16:43.000 They react to the flavor of food, which we've known, by the way, since like 2013.

00:16:45.000 This is not new news for anyone who actually watches the science of embryology at all.

00:16:51.000 I mean, we've known about how sophisticated fetal development is for decades at this point.

00:16:55.000 The left just likes to ignore it because, again, if we ignore the reality out here, then we can pretend that you get to define reality from in here, from in your heart, which is fully developed because you're an adult.

00:17:04.000 Here we go, NBC News admitting that the pre-born exists here. 0.99

00:17:08.000 Look at this.

00:17:09.000 So researchers in Britain wanted to know if babies in the womb react when the mom ingests a flavor of food.

00:17:16.000 And this is what they saw.

00:17:17.000 Do you want to guess what was on the left?

00:17:20.000 So the left is a baby in its resting state.

00:17:23.000 And then on the right, you see how he smiles for 20 minutes?

00:17:26.000 The mom ate some carrots.

00:17:27.000 On the left were they?

00:17:29.000 They were just a resting state.

00:17:30.000 That was a resting state, but he liked the carrots.

00:17:31.000 She liked the carrot pills.

00:17:32.000 So were there other foods?

00:17:33.000 Yes, there were other foods.

00:17:34.000 I'm glad you asked.

00:17:35.000 You want to look at this baby's reaction before?

00:17:37.000 Mom had kale.

00:17:39.000 Wow, wow.

00:17:40.000 So here's the thing.

00:17:41.000 What about if mom had ice cream?

00:17:42.000 I don't know.

00:17:44.000 Why would they go with carrots and vegetables?

00:17:47.000 So the SETI's co-author says the images could just show muscle movements when a baby's reacting to maybe a flavor that's bitter.

00:17:54.000 So you shouldn't interpret it whether, you know, it's happy or distaste.

00:17:57.000 No, I think that's how I do it.

00:17:59.000 Because once they get out of the womb, it's that same look. 0.82

00:18:04.000 Wow!

00:18:05.000 You've discovered the pro-life position, guys.

00:18:07.000 Congratulations.

00:18:08.000 Now, they'll be walking this back as soon as possible, right?

00:18:10.000 Because the baby and the woman, they don't actually give the age of that baby and the woman.

00:18:13.000 That looks like that baby and the woman is maybe eight months, seven, eight months.

00:18:16.000 Okay, but they all believe, I guarantee you, that entire panel believes that if a woman decides that's not a baby and wants to abort it, boom, you can do it. 0.79

00:18:21.000 Because women's right to choose. 1.00

00:18:23.000 You cannot hold those two thoughts simultaneously.

00:18:25.000 You cannot.

00:18:26.000 And so, you have seen this from the media.

00:18:28.000 What they like to do is fact-check things that don't exist.

00:18:30.000 So, for example, The Washington Post did a fact-check on the quote-unquote right-wing talking point that Democrats are fine with abortion until point of birth, which they are in their platform.

00:18:41.000 The way they fact-checked this was by saying, Republicans imply that this happens all the time, a nine-month abortion.

00:18:45.000 No, that's not what we said.

00:18:47.000 We said that ideologically speaking, you guys seem to be fine and you have said that you are fine with abortion up until point of birth, no restrictions whatsoever.

00:18:54.000 And so they don't want to fact-check that because it's true.

00:18:56.000 So instead they fact-check an implication that nobody actually said.

00:19:01.000 By the way, they would never do the opposite, right?

00:19:03.000 When the left says, well, you know, you, you Republicans, you, you say that, that in, in cases of rape, that a woman should, should bear the child.

00:19:11.000 You say that.

00:19:12.000 They, that happens to be true, right?

00:19:15.000 I mean, the pro-life position is that the evil of rape does not justify the evil of abortion.

00:19:19.000 Two evils don't make the original evil go away.

00:19:22.000 But you never see the left fact check that statement by saying, you seem to be implying that pregnancy from rape is a wildly common occurrence.

00:19:29.000 And statistically speaking, as a matter of fact, it actually is not all that common.

00:19:33.000 They never do that, right?

00:19:34.000 It only works one way.

00:19:36.000 And the media spins so hard on behalf of the left that they end up defending things that are actually not even remotely science.

00:19:43.000 And then they ask us to believe that these are the scientific experts.

00:19:46.000 That these are the people that we ought to listen to.

00:19:48.000 And this holds true across the board.

00:19:50.000 You're supposed to believe it when the experts would go out there and say, yeah, your child may die from COVID.

00:19:55.000 Even though the stats were showing that children were more likely to die of pneumonia than COVID. 0.99

00:19:59.000 You're supposed to believe it when they say that boys can be girls and girls can be... Hey, the experts say, the experts say that if you chop off a pubescent boy's penis and you form a fake vagina, he will be happy the rest of his life if he believes he's a girl. 0.98

00:20:12.000 You're supposed to believe that despite lack of all evidence? 0.99

00:20:15.000 Because they're the experts.

00:20:16.000 And so, when they just tell you things, you wonder why you've blown out the credibility of science.

00:20:20.000 This would be the reason.

00:20:22.000 We'll get to more on that in just one second.

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00:22:30.000 And again, this is part of a broader left-wing push that suggests that everything in life can be redefined.

00:22:36.000 Reality itself can be redefined around what you feel.

00:22:40.000 What you feel is the only thing that matters. 0.88

00:22:43.000 And you have quote-unquote scientists who are promoting this crap on an ideological level, pretending that what they are saying is science. 0.86

00:22:52.000 So for example, on the trans issue, You may have noticed that there's been a lot of talk recently about the transing of the children in places like Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 0.94

00:23:02.000 It's something that my friend Matt Walsh has talked extensively about.

00:23:05.000 There's lots of evidence showing that they are giving puberty blockers to minors, that they are performing surgeries, gender reassignment surgeries on minors, and all the rest of this kind of stuff.

00:23:14.000 And then, if you question this, then you will see people say, well, you know, WPATH, WPATH, they are the ones who set the standard.

00:23:20.000 WPATH knows, this is the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

00:23:24.000 Well, as you may have noticed, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health is a left-wing activist group, and they promote the most extreme versions of non-science on a routine basis.

00:23:37.000 WPATH is not a scientific group, it's an ideological group masquerading as a scientific group.

00:23:41.000 Which is why, for example, as Wesley Yang reveals, during their 28th annual symposium which was held between September 17th and 20th in Montreal, they had a presentation by Thomas Johnson, a professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, discussing a chapter in the new standards of care for WPATH.

00:23:59.000 It designates those who identify as eunuchs, suffering from male-to-eunuch gender dysphoria, as subjects with a need for gender-affirming care, as part of a gender-diverse umbrella. 0.90

00:24:09.000 Johnson did a full presentation for WPATH, he's an anthropologist, about why eunuch is a new sexual identity and there are people out there who just need their balls removed. 0.85

00:24:20.000 That's what really needs to happen here.

00:24:22.000 Johnson also happens to be the author of an op-ed published in the Washington Post in 2014 encouraging ISIS to actually promote eunuchism.

00:24:32.000 I'm not kidding.

00:24:33.000 He wrote an article in the Washington Post titled, Islamic State Lacks Key Ingredients to Make a Caliphate Work.

00:24:38.000 Eunuchs That's a weird take. 1.00

00:24:42.000 He said in that particular piece, quote, all previous caliphates relied on a special class of bureaucrats to provide stability and statesmanship.

00:24:47.000 Those were eunuchs who were unable to impregnate the women sequestered in the palace. 1.00

00:24:51.000 Eunuchs were without family and dependent upon the caliph for support.

00:24:54.000 For four millennia and through many different Asian empires and caliphates, eunuchs proved themselves to be efficient governors.

00:24:58.000 Their presence was again a sign of power and authority of the rulers.

00:25:02.000 This is while it's been less than a century since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, it's clear that a key concept for continuity with the great caliphates of the past has been lost.

00:25:10.000 .

00:25:11.000 So, thank you.

00:25:12.000 So, amazing stuff there from Thomas Johnson.

00:25:14.000 He did an entire presentation for WPATH about the standards of care for eunuchs.

00:25:21.000 Not kidding.

00:25:22.000 He talks about eunuch is the oldest recognized gender outside the binary.

00:25:26.000 Castration was an important discovery for domestication. 0.92

00:25:29.000 The first documented production of castrated slaves was about 2100.

00:25:33.000 B.C.E.

00:25:34.000 They soon found roles in government.

00:25:35.000 I'm sure that many of these people were just like, they hit 15. 0.99

00:25:38.000 They were like, man, these balls are useless to me. 0.99

00:25:40.000 I'd love it if you could remove them so I could become a bureaucrat and keep watch over the Caliph's harem. 0.99

00:25:45.000 Voluntary eunuchs, according to Professor Johnson, were part of the Assyrian bureaucracy.

00:25:50.000 Even members of the royal family were castrated.

00:25:52.000 It was a route into bureaucracy or religious hierarchy.

00:25:55.000 Even military and district administrators.

00:25:56.000 It was frequent in early Christianity, including several patriarchs.

00:26:00.000 How magical.

00:26:01.000 And this is what WPATH is saying.

00:26:04.000 WPATH had a full presentation.

00:26:05.000 Again, this is the standard of care for transgender health, according to our media, our elite media.

00:26:12.000 This professor did a presentation saying, quote, again, this is over at Wesley Young Substack.

00:26:16.000 You can read the whole thing.

00:26:17.000 Quote, who seeks voluntary castration?

00:26:19.000 Biological men with extreme gender dysphoria. 0.88

00:26:21.000 They desire to be not male, but do not wish to be female either.

00:26:25.000 Others have an oppressive feeling their genitals are not a proper part of their body.

00:26:28.000 They fit a body integrity dysphoria diagnosis.

00:26:31.000 Or it could be an extreme fetish or paraphilic disorder.

00:26:33.000 There are a wide variety, but most common is religion-based.

00:26:37.000 So, obviously, this is the next step.

00:26:40.000 If a child identifies as a eunuch, probably we need to start deballing the children.

00:26:45.000 That is definitely the thing that we need to be doing.

00:26:47.000 In the name of science, of course.

00:26:50.000 You may have noticed that the science and the activism here seem to be crossing streams.

00:26:54.000 That science is now dictated by an extreme, atomistic individualism that denies the presence of outward reality, and if you notice, then they call you a bigot.

00:27:03.000 This, by the way, is happening in schools.

00:27:05.000 Did you notice how fast the movement for gay marriage went from, we just want to be left alone in the privacy of our own homes, to, we need to teach your children that all forms of sex are equally moral, and also that they can be members of the opposite sex? 0.94

00:27:17.000 That morphed super fast, did it not?

00:27:20.000 And there's a lot of talk about, well, the slippery slope argument, that's nonsense.

00:27:23.000 Yeah, the best graphic on the internet these days is a graphic that shows the slippery slope, right?

00:27:27.000 It looks like a slope that dives off, nosedives off a cliff.

00:27:31.000 And it says, the slippery slope argument is false.

00:27:33.000 And there's an arrow that points to the bottom of the slippery slope and it says, you are here.

00:27:37.000 Yeah, that's where we are.

00:27:38.000 So Chris Ruffo has a report over at his Substack talking about a teacher's union nationwide titled the LGBTQ Plus Caucus.

00:27:46.000 They have now created a website and badge for public school employees that promote non-binary identifies, not non-binary identities, a how-to guide for queer sex, and the idea that transgender men can get pregnant.

00:27:58.000 According to local reports, the National Education Association and its local affiliate in Hilliard, Ohio, have been providing staff in the Hilliard City School District with the QR code-enabled badges, which point to the NEA LGBTQ Plus Caucus website.

00:28:10.000 Is that part of the National Education Association?

00:28:12.000 Which, along with the AFT, those are the two big teachers unions in America.

00:28:16.000 And they include resources from gender activist organizations, including Scarlatine, Sex, etc., Gender Spectrum, The Trevor Project, and Teen Health Source.

00:28:23.000 One of those linked resources, Teen Health Source's Queering Sexual Education, which promises to empower youth, includes a how-to guide for really important things for the youth, right?

00:28:32.000 We have to teach the youth.

00:28:33.000 After all, this is science, guys.

00:28:35.000 And science is about sexual identity.

00:28:37.000 Because that's really the most important part of you.

00:28:40.000 And the realities of life and sexual development and morality and these things do not exist.

00:28:46.000 The only thing that matters is how you and we are going to teach you that sexual fluidity and that sexual profligateness. 1.00

00:28:53.000 These are the true pathways to happiness.

00:28:55.000 This is what the science says.

00:28:56.000 It's not ideological, guys.

00:28:58.000 It's what the science says.

00:28:59.000 So what exactly is the how-to guide? 0.99

00:29:00.000 Well, it teaches students how to perform anal sex bondage, rimming domination, sadomasochism, muffing and fisting. 0.99

00:29:07.000 The materials are extremely graphic, explaining how to, for example, put a fist or whole hand into a person's vagina or bum. 0.99

00:29:15.000 The NEA is the largest teachers' union in the country, representing more than 3 million public school teachers in all 14,000 local school districts, and it has been captured by radical gender theory, says Chris Ruffo, and its perverse ideology. 0.98

00:29:26.000 That, of course, is exactly right.

00:29:29.000 All of this, again, is about taking over cultural institutions and seizing them on behalf of an ideology that tears down traditional institutions and roles.

00:29:38.000 That is what this is.

00:29:40.000 And, you know, the best evidence of this is what's currently happening in the military.

00:29:45.000 So, yesterday, John Kirby Who is the spokesperson for the Defense Department.

00:29:51.000 John Kirby was asked on Dan Abrams Live about the quote-unquote woking of the military.

00:29:56.000 The fact that there's now equity training being done in the military.

00:29:58.000 The fact that we're now supposed to pretend that men can be women and women can be men in the military and public is supposed to fund those surgeries and all this.

00:30:06.000 And John Kirby was like, there's no wokeness in the military.

00:30:08.000 None of this is woke.

00:30:09.000 This is just normal.

00:30:11.000 It's a bogus claim.

00:30:12.000 There's no wokeness in the military.

00:30:13.000 The military is by, and it should be, a diverse organization.

00:30:17.000 We're supposed to represent and defend all Americans.

00:30:20.000 And our diversity, and I've seen this myself firsthand, aboard ships at sea, the diversity of the United States military makes us stronger, makes us smarter, helps us make better decisions.

00:30:29.000 There's no wokeness. 0.93

00:30:31.000 They're driving a stake through a straw man.

00:30:33.000 So, there's no wokeness in the military.

00:30:35.000 Also, the thing that makes the military the strongest is not military readiness, efficiency, objective metrics.

00:30:40.000 What makes it stronger is diversity.

00:30:42.000 But there's no wokeness in the military, says John Kirby before providing a pretty good definition of wokeness in the military.

00:30:48.000 By the way, according to dailywire.com, Biden's military is now telling people in the Air Force to stop using words like mom and dad.

00:30:57.000 Because after all, we wouldn't want to offend any- There's no wokeness in the military though, guys.

00:31:00.000 No wokeness in the mil- These traditional roles, the traditional notion that mom and dad are a good thing, and that a child should have a mom and a- When did it become controversial to suggest that a child deserves a mother and a father?

00:31:10.000 If you deprived a child of a mother or a father, this would make you a child abuser.

00:31:14.000 But in our society, we've decided that mother and father are no longer words that can be said because there are too many kids who have been brought into families who don't have a mother or father.

00:31:23.000 And after all, we can't pretend that there's a superiority of having a mother and a father over having two dads, two moms, three moms and a chicken.

00:31:29.000 It doesn't none of that matters.

00:31:30.000 It's all equally.

00:31:32.000 It's the same.

00:31:33.000 Exactly the same.

00:31:35.000 According to Daily Wire, in yet another indication of how wokeness has permeated the American military under the Biden administration, Air Force cadets have been instructed not to use gender-specific terms like mom or dad.

00:31:45.000 They've been told to replace such terms with words like parent or caregiver.

00:31:50.000 That instruction was featured at the Air Force Academy in Colorado as part of the Diversity and Inclusion Training.

00:31:55.000 Yes, there's no wokeness in the military except for the DEI training over in the military.

00:32:00.000 The New York Post reports that cadets were told our leaders have determined diversity and inclusion is a war-fighting imperative.

00:32:07.000 Is it though?

00:32:08.000 Truly.

00:32:09.000 Is a warfighting imperative pretending that moms and dads don't exist and that everybody's a parent or caregiver?

00:32:13.000 Again, I make a joke every single Father's and Mother's Day.

00:32:16.000 That it's either primary, caregiver of unspecified gender, or secondary, legal guardian of unspecified gender.

00:32:23.000 Every single Mother's or Father's Day.

00:32:24.000 People are like, why do you keep making that joke?

00:32:25.000 I keep making the joke because you guys don't get to pretend that you care about Mother's Day or Father's Day when you don't actually believe that we can celebrate Mothers or Fathers qua Mothers or Fathers.

00:32:34.000 It's amazing.

00:32:36.000 Representative Mike Waltz Green Beret told Fox Digital, it's been a tradition in the military to get letters from mom or dad or your boyfriend or girlfriend for as long as there's been a military.

00:32:43.000 Now we're instructing every cadet entering the Air Force not to say mom and dad, not to say boyfriend or girlfriend.

00:32:48.000 Again, the idea that this somehow makes military readiness better is an absurdity.

00:32:53.000 It's an absurdity because guess who tends to fight wars?

00:32:56.000 The people who tend to fight wars are typically very patriotic, very male people.

00:33:02.000 I mean, I'm sorry to break it to you, but this has been the truth about military warfare for literally all of human history.

00:33:07.000 And the institution of traditional masculinity has been core to that idea.

00:33:11.000 But we're a society that doesn't believe in traditional masculinity.

00:33:14.000 Traditional masculinity is an opponent, because traditional masculinity requires roles. 0.99

00:33:18.000 It says that men are supposed to protect, men are supposed to defend, men are supposed to be strong, men are supposed to be fathers and husbands.

00:33:25.000 These are apparently very bad things now.

00:33:27.000 You're not supposed to say these things because these things are restrictive.

00:33:30.000 And as we all know, true human happiness is to be found without any restrictions.

00:33:34.000 Roles must be exploded.

00:33:36.000 All cultural icons must be taken over.

00:33:39.000 All traditional masculinity must be discarded in favor of a kind of eunuchized masculinity that denies the reality of duty, denies the reality of manhood itself.

00:33:52.000 That is the goal.

00:33:54.000 It's why there's so much emasculation in popular culture these days.

00:33:59.000 It is why our popular culture basically says that men who pursue women are the baddies in movies now.

00:34:08.000 But all sorts of sexual profligateness of every other sort is the ultimate good.

00:34:13.000 It's a pretty amazing thing.

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00:35:48.000 Okay.

00:35:48.000 So meanwhile, central banks everywhere across the world, except for Turkey, because the Turks are trying to run directly into the teeth of financial pain, apparently.

00:35:58.000 Everywhere, central banks are now raising the interest rates because they understand that if they don't, inflation is going to eat up their economies.

00:36:03.000 According to the New York Times, a day after the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates sharply and signaled more to come, central banks across Asia and Europe followed suit on Thursday, waging their own campaigns to crush an outbreak of inflation that is bedeviling consumers and worrying policymakers around the globe.

00:36:17.000 Central bankers typically move slowly.

00:36:18.000 That's because their policy tools are blunt and work with a lag.

00:36:21.000 Well, I'm glad that we finally realized that the central bank should not be the first Stage of policy should be the last stage of policy.

00:36:27.000 But that only came after, you know, legislatures throughout the Western world decided to abdicate their responsibilities to central banks.

00:36:33.000 The interest rate increases taking place from Washington to Jakarta will need months to filter out across the global economy and take full effect.

00:36:39.000 Jerome Powell once likened policymaking to walking through a furnished room with lights off.

00:36:42.000 You go slowly to avoid a painful outcome.

00:36:44.000 But officials learning from a history that has illustrated the perils of taking too long to stamp out price increases have decided they no longer have the luxury of patience.

00:36:52.000 So they are now radically and aggressively increasing those interest rates.

00:36:56.000 The margin of error now is very thin, said Robin Brooks, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance.

00:37:00.000 A lot of this comes down to judgment and how much emphasis to put on the 1970s scenario.

00:37:04.000 In the 70s, Fed policymakers did lift interest rates in a bid to control inflation, but they backed off when the economy began to slow.

00:37:10.000 And this led to serious stagflation, significant levels of unemployment, significant levels of inflation.

00:37:16.000 The misery index was put together during this time to measure exactly that, the unemployment plus the inflation rate.

00:37:23.000 You could see something similar if the Fed moves too slowly, which is why they're now moving more aggressively.

00:37:29.000 Democrats in the United States have helped bring all this about.

00:37:31.000 They are just pretending that none of this is happening.

00:37:33.000 So, for example, Corinne Jean-Pierre, the wildly untalented press secretary for the President of the United States, she was on The View to the applause of her sycophants.

00:37:41.000 And she refused to acknowledge, for example, that the Inflation Reduction Act has nothing to do with reducing inflation, which it clearly does not.

00:37:47.000 I mean, it has nothing to do with reducing inflation.

00:37:51.000 While we are talking about lowering prices, we have Republicans out there who didn't vote for the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:37:57.000 They didn't vote on it.

00:37:58.000 They're bragging about it a lot right now.

00:38:00.000 They're bragging about it.

00:38:01.000 Is that because they just want to make him look bad?

00:38:03.000 They don't want to let him have a success?

00:38:05.000 I mean, I think they are not bringing forth solutions.

00:38:08.000 Do you think the name of it is a little misleading?

00:38:11.000 Because the only thing is the Congressional Budget Office says it would have a negligible effect on inflation.

00:38:16.000 Although it did lower prices, and I agree those are all good things, does it really affect?

00:38:20.000 It does.

00:38:21.000 I will point you to 126 economists who have said this is going to be a change maker.

00:38:27.000 It's going to have an effect on inflation.

00:38:29.000 It's going to lower costs for Americans.

00:38:31.000 Man, just talk your way through it, man.

00:38:34.000 Just keep babbling your way through it.

00:38:35.000 And I love how the people on the view are just treating her with kid gloves.

00:38:37.000 You know, it's not going to lower inflation, but you know, there's some people who are just mean to you.

00:38:41.000 They're just so mean.

00:38:43.000 It's just so nasty.

00:38:44.000 Meanwhile, Karine Jean-Pierre also said that Joe Biden understands how much inflation is crushing families.

00:38:48.000 No, he does not.

00:38:50.000 He clearly does not.

00:38:51.000 He went on 60 Minutes like a week ago and basically suggested that it was no big deal that inflation was up in the food markets like 13% year over year.

00:39:01.000 But here's Karine Jean-Pierre trying to walk back Joe Biden as sympathetic, empathetic leader.

00:39:06.000 Here's the thing about Joe Biden.

00:39:08.000 When he came into office, his entire shtick was he's a friendly grandpa.

00:39:12.000 Mildly senile, but friendly.

00:39:14.000 He likes you, right?

00:39:15.000 I mean, yeah, he's sniffing your hair, but he does give you nice toys and he's kind of like a decent old gent, even if he wanders into walls sometimes.

00:39:22.000 That was kind of the pitch for Joe Biden.

00:39:23.000 And then Afghanistan happened when it became absolutely clear he did not care how many Afghans were going to be shoved into black bags and into the basement if they were female or simply murdered if they'd once worked with the United States. 0.99

00:39:32.000 And everybody went, oh, this guy's kind of a jackass. 0.97

00:39:35.000 And they've never been able to quite get out of that. 0.72

00:39:37.000 This is why Joe Biden's approval rating has plummeted, because the actual image of him among the American public changed radically during the Afghanistan debacle.

00:39:45.000 And here, so here's Karine Jean-Pierre trying to pretend that Joe Biden is some sort of sympathetic, empathetic figure.

00:39:49.000 He is not.

00:39:51.000 Going into the midterms, how can the president assure Americans he feels their pain and has a plan to help?

00:39:56.000 So the president understands that when it comes to the economy.

00:39:59.000 He understands how much that's crushing families.

00:40:02.000 He gets it that people are sitting around their kitchen table and trying to figure out how are they going to pay for their groceries.

00:40:09.000 And so that's why he's made that his number one economic priority.

00:40:13.000 He's made it his number one economic priority.

00:40:14.000 And the way he's going to fight this is by taking this giant sack of money and just pouring it all over the place.

00:40:21.000 He's going to basically create one of those game show thingamajiggers, where it's essentially like a hurricane machine, but he's going to pour cash in it.

00:40:28.000 And you're going to go in there.

00:40:29.000 You're going to dance around, try to grab as much of that cash as you can.

00:40:31.000 And that's going to be how he fights inflation.

00:40:34.000 It's going to be amazing.

00:40:35.000 Meanwhile, Ronald Klain is trying to talk his way through it.

00:40:38.000 He was meeting with the the Jokers over at the Atlantic, which is completely blown out of its own credibility.

00:40:43.000 And he says, you know, when we took over, people were lined up for food.

00:40:46.000 They were like food lines.

00:40:48.000 Yes, because of COVID.

00:40:50.000 Because of COVID.

00:40:52.000 And the end of COVID had nothing to do with you.

00:40:54.000 Literally nothing.

00:40:55.000 You maintained the COVID stance until today.

00:40:58.000 Here's Ron Klain.

00:41:01.000 We had to address the problems that we found.

00:41:04.000 Right.

00:41:04.000 And the biggest problems that we found were a country with a pandemic that was killing, you know, literally thousands of people a day.

00:41:12.000 Hundreds of thousands of cases a day when we arrived.

00:41:15.000 And so we had to ramp up the response to that.

00:41:17.000 And then the economic consequences of that.

00:41:20.000 It's easy to forget that when Joe Biden came to office, we'd turn on the TV at night, people were in line in football stadiums waiting for a box of food.

00:41:29.000 The unemployment rate was nearly 10%.

00:41:30.000 We had 20 million people out of work and businesses closed and schools closed.

00:41:36.000 So we needed an economic response that addressed that.

00:41:39.000 Oh, did you?

00:41:40.000 Did you?

00:41:40.000 It seems like your economic response has made things a hell of a lot worse in terms of inflation.

00:41:44.000 Meanwhile, Janet Yellen, who admits that she completely blew inflation, right?

00:41:47.000 She's at the same conference with the Atlantic.

00:41:49.000 These are the people that the Biden administration talks to.

00:41:51.000 They would never answer a critical question in any serious way.

00:41:54.000 So they decided that they would hang out with Ronald Brownstein over at the Atlantic and answer questions about inflation.

00:41:59.000 So Janet Yellen, who may or may not be a cast member of Amazon's Lord of the Rings of Power as a Harfoot, I don't know. 1.00

00:42:08.000 Maybe not.

00:42:09.000 Anyway, Janet Yellen.

00:42:10.000 She says inflation is going to go down in 2023.

00:42:12.000 You should trust her because she's been so good at this in the past.

00:42:14.000 And if it doesn't, it's somebody else's fault, probably.

00:42:18.000 Do you see a possibility that inflation will be essentially under control by the end of next year before we are full on into the presidential race?

00:42:27.000 Or is this something we're still going to be dealing with in a serious way into 2024?

00:42:31.000 I believe it's going to come down certainly next year.

00:42:35.000 Although, let's be clear, there are risks.

00:42:38.000 The Russian invasion of Ukraine hasn't come to an end. We're seeing Putin weaponize oil and gas in fighting this war.

00:42:51.000 So we remain vulnerable to supply shocks.

00:42:55.000 Oh, so it'll heal, but if it doesn't, it's somebody else's fault.

00:43:01.000 Here's the real truth of it.

00:43:03.000 The truth is that Democrats, in the end, they love these policies, and so they don't care if the reality is inflation and stagnation.

00:43:09.000 I mean, they're saving the planet.

00:43:10.000 Nancy Pelosi says it herself.

00:43:11.000 The Speaker of the House said yesterday, guys, we're saving the planet.

00:43:14.000 When you're saving the planet, does it matter if there's a little inflation or high unemployment or misery?

00:43:17.000 None of that matters.

00:43:18.000 She's saving the planet.

00:43:19.000 This geriatric daughter is saving the planet. 0.89

00:43:22.000 I mean, when I think of people who save the planet, I think like Superman, the prophets, Nancy Pelosi?

00:43:31.000 We extended subsidies for three more years for lower costs for the Affordable Care Act.

00:43:37.000 And we saved the planet.

00:43:39.000 We're saving the planet with record $360 billion to save the planet and generating jobs and cleaner air and cleaner water and jobs and security for our country.

00:43:52.000 She saved the planet, guys.

00:43:53.000 She saved the planet.

00:43:55.000 I guess you can tell yourself you saved the planet when you define saving the planet internally.

00:43:59.000 And again, reality matters absolutely nothing to you.

00:44:03.000 All righty, guys.

00:44:03.000 The rest of the show is continuing.

00:44:05.000 Now you're not going to want to miss it.

00:44:05.000 We will be joined by Matt Walsh a little bit later on to talk about his crusade against Vanderbilt University transing the children.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 23, 2022

To Push Abortion, The Left Promotes A Fetal Heartbeat Hoax | Ep. 1581

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