The Ben Shapiro Show - To The Left, Conservative Authoritarians, Not Communist Dictators, Are The Problem | Ep. 1295

00:00:00.000 The Biden administration downplays the evil of the communist Cuban regime while simultaneously labeling American conservatives authoritarian racists.

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00:00:22.000 Well, the Biden administration had a choice.

00:00:24.000 When faced with the fact that there's this massive movement in Cuba against the regime, the Biden administration could have taken the Obama attack or they could have taken the more traditional Democratic attack.

00:00:33.000 So you'll recall that the Democratic Party was not pro-Cuba for the vast majority of Cuba's Communist existence.

00:00:39.000 It was JFK who was the leading sponsor of attempts to overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba.

00:00:45.000 And Democrats after that were not big fans of the Castro regime or the communism that it was pushing.

00:00:51.000 And yet now the Democratic Party seems split.

00:00:53.000 And this is reflected in the attitude of the Biden White House toward the current Cuban dissident movement.

00:00:59.000 What we are watching in Cuba right now is perfectly predictable.

00:01:01.000 We are watching as the As the Cuban regime cracks down on dissidents, there's a dissident named Luis Emanuel Alcantara, who I spoke with just a few weeks ago via phone.

00:01:14.000 He was in Cuba.

00:01:15.000 The Cuban security services cut off the call.

00:01:17.000 He talked about the movement.

00:01:18.000 He explained what the movement was.

00:01:19.000 It was not based merely on the economic circumstances in Cuba.

00:01:23.000 It was not based merely on the lack of vaccines in Cuba.

00:01:26.000 It was not based, in other words, on things that had arisen in the last five minutes.

00:01:29.000 It was in fact a movement that was rooted in a lack of liberty.

00:01:32.000 It was a movement rooted in opposition to the communist regime itself and its unwillingness to allow for basic human freedoms in the state.

00:01:41.000 Until now, Luis Manuel Alcantara has been detained by the Castro regime.

00:01:46.000 His family and friends have no idea where he is.

00:01:48.000 And this is happening to dissidents all over the island, as is perfectly predictable, because as it turns out, communist regimes, authoritarian regimes, the way that they treat dissidents is by picking them up and tossing them in dank cells and leaving them there for as long as humanly possible or outright killing them.

00:02:02.000 Those are usually the chief available and useful options to these regimes.

00:02:07.000 And so this does raise the question, what should the United States' position be?

00:02:11.000 Now, on a moral level, the United States' position should be pretty obvious.

00:02:14.000 It should be the position of traditional Democrats, which is that the Cuban regime ought to be condemned, and we ought to do everything in our powers to see that regime topple.

00:02:22.000 And then there is the Obama position.

00:02:23.000 The Obama position was that the U.S.

00:02:25.000 embargo on Cuba had created the conditions that allowed for the continuation of the regime.

00:02:31.000 See, Obama's view on foreign policy was always that the United States was at fault, and the way for the United States to allow other regimes to change is to be warm to them, be cuddly to them, be friendly to them.

00:02:41.000 This is why he suggested that the way to open up Iran's authoritarian dictatorship was to pass them into the economy of the world, make them part of the family of nations. 0.79

00:02:52.000 It didn't work.

00:02:53.000 Iran continued to fund terrorism all over the region.

00:02:55.000 And then Obama tried the same thing with Cuba.

00:02:57.000 He suggested that if we just opened up Cuba's economy, if we got rid of the travel embargo, if we got rid of many of the sanctions, this would somehow make Cuba thrive.

00:03:05.000 Cuba would become a better place to live and the regime would be less stable.

00:03:09.000 Of course, precisely the opposite happened.

00:03:11.000 The Cuban regime became slightly more stable because when you give dictators more money, it turns out they use that money in order to solidify their rule over the areas in which they have total control.

00:03:21.000 Hey, so this has led to a bit of a conflict inside the Biden White House.

00:03:25.000 There are a bunch of old Obama holdovers who seem to continue to have the perspective that the United States is the problem in Cuba and that the Cuban regime ought to be treated with a certain level of respect, with kid gloves, And then there's some old school Democrats who, including Joe Biden, by the way, who seem to be less sanguine about the Cuban regime.

00:03:44.000 And this is evident from the sort of statements that are being made by the Biden administration, which are in conflict with themselves.

00:03:51.000 They are not internally consistent.

00:03:53.000 So, Joe Biden did put out a statement.

00:03:56.000 Here was Joe Biden's statement.

00:03:58.000 He said, we stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic.

00:04:02.000 And from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they've been subjected by Cuba's authoritarian regime.

00:04:08.000 The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights.

00:04:11.000 Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected.

00:04:16.000 Okay, so far that statement is not bad, right?

00:04:19.000 So far, he's calling the regime authoritarian.

00:04:22.000 He's talking about its repression and its economic suffering due to the regime.

00:04:27.000 He's talking about the universal rights of the Cuban people.

00:04:30.000 And then he gets to the final sentence.

00:04:31.000 The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment, rather than enriching themselves.

00:04:38.000 Now, that is not a call for the Cuban regime to respect the human rights of its people.

00:04:42.000 That is not a call for the Cuban regime to respect the individual ability of Cubans to dissent from the evils of the regime, to use those supposedly universal rights like the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future.

00:04:54.000 And Cuba's been subverting those rights for six decades at this point, for 62 years, since the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

00:05:00.000 The last sentence, where the United States calls on Cuba not to allow for free speech, not to allow for freedom of assembly, but to take care of the problem.

00:05:10.000 That is Obama-speak.

00:05:11.000 Okay, the Obama-speak there is, well, if the Cuban regime would just give its people a little bit more medicine, if the Cuban regime would just take care of the social welfare of its people, well, then the communist regime could stay and the human rights are completely secondary.

00:05:24.000 This is a perverse view of the Cuban regime, and it's a perverse view of what exactly is going on in the first place.

00:05:29.000 Because the reality, once again, is that the Cuban regime is the problem. 0.73

00:05:35.000 It is not that the current problems in Cuba are a result of any sort of extraneous force.

00:05:40.000 They are not.

00:05:41.000 They are the deepest effect of the underlying problems.

00:05:45.000 It's so funny.

00:05:46.000 The left in the United States will suggest that everything that happens in the United States is the result of underlying structural racism.

00:05:52.000 This is their big shtick.

00:05:53.000 But when it comes to Cuba, the left in the United States wants to separate off the current economic circumstances, the current inability to pass out vaccines from supposedly this incredible national healthcare system.

00:06:06.000 They don't want to attribute any of that to the obvious underlying structural problem, which is not something vague like structural racism that has been alleviated in the United States over the course of the past six decades.

00:06:16.000 No, this is absolutely clear.

00:06:18.000 This is a country that has repressed the ability of its own citizens to hold private property, The way that you go to the supermarket in Cuba is the government hands you this script that you can only use at the supermarket, and then they give you the products at prices that Cuba's regime thinks you ought to pay.

00:06:35.000 It is an unfree society, which is again why tens of thousands of human beings have attempted to float their way from an island 90 miles off the coast of Florida through shark-infested waters, all the way to places like Miami.

00:06:47.000 In just one second, we'll get to the continued conflict inside the Biden regime, because once again, there's this internal division in Biden's own mind, I think, between the old Biden, who is the quote-unquote moderate Biden, and the new Biden, who is woke and Bernie Sanders-esque on all of this.

00:07:01.000 By the way, we are now talking about 72 hours of this going on without any comment from Bernie Sanders, who's busily tweeting about the evils of Jeff Bezos from his lake house.

00:07:11.000 It's very convenient to be a communist in the United States.

00:07:13.000 It's not nearly as convenient to be a communist subject of authoritarian regimes in Cuba or Hong Kong, for example.

00:07:18.000 We'll get to more in a second.

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00:08:37.000 So part of what drives the sort of Obama-esque view of how Cuba ought to be treated is a particular view of the United States and its values.

00:08:45.000 There's a view that Obama made mainstream on the left, and had been mainstream back in the 70s, but kind of fell out of favor with the rise of the Reagan era.

00:08:54.000 Which is that America was inherently bad.

00:08:55.000 America's involvement in Vietnam was bad.

00:08:57.000 America's involvement in Iraq was bad.

00:08:58.000 And America's involvement in Cuba is bad.

00:09:01.000 America is the nefarious force in the world.

00:09:03.000 And the real problems that Americans need to face down are the problems here at home.

00:09:06.000 America doesn't have anything to say about what happens in the rest of the world.

00:09:09.000 Because after all, America is just too perverse.

00:09:11.000 Cuba people demanding their freedom from an authoritarian regime.

00:09:13.000 America's just too much of a problem.

00:09:14.000 So this has led, as I say, to this conflict inside the Biden administration.

00:09:18.000 On the one hand, you have Joe Biden, who is speaking sort of classical Democrat language from the JFK days, talking about how the people of the United States stand firmly with the people of Cuba.

00:09:25.000 Here was the president of the United States saying the right thing with regard to Cuba yesterday.

00:09:30.000 Cuban people demanding their freedom from an authoritarian regime.

00:09:36.000 And I don't think we've seen anything like this protest in a long, long time.

00:09:43.000 quite frankly ever.

00:09:45.000 The United States stands firmly with the people of Cuba as they assert their universal rights.

00:09:51.000 And we call on the government, the government of Cuba, to refrain from violence or attempts to silence the voice of the people of Cuba.

00:09:59.000 Okay, this is the right statement.

00:10:01.000 Credit where credit is due.

00:10:02.000 Joe Biden is saying the right thing.

00:10:03.000 The problem is His administration immediately started trying to walk a lot of this stuff back.

00:10:07.000 So first, they said that the statement that he put out was written for him, right?

00:10:11.000 Not by him, for him.

00:10:12.000 Then, Jen Psaki tried to downplay what was happening in Cuba as merely a sort of spontaneous eruption at the lack of economic opportunity and the problems with regard to vaccine distribution in Cuba.

00:10:24.000 This is not true.

00:10:25.000 It is not true.

00:10:26.000 I've been talking to Cuban dissidents for the last several weeks.

00:10:29.000 They were planning this sort of stuff for weeks on end.

00:10:31.000 There was a burgeoning democratic movement in Cuba.

00:10:35.000 I knew weeks ago that people were going to get out in the streets.

00:10:37.000 People in Cuba knew weeks ago that they were going to get out into the streets.

00:10:40.000 This is not just about the way the Cuban regime is handling its problems right now.

00:10:43.000 And this, again, is a sort of pattern in the way the Democrats view the world.

00:10:47.000 When a bad thing happens out there, they like to say not that it's a pattern that springs from the nefarious evil of underlying institutions.

00:10:55.000 Right.

00:10:55.000 When it was Benghazi, it wasn't the nefarious evil of ISIS that was to blame.

00:10:59.000 Or America's soft stance with regard to security in places like Libya that was to blame.

00:11:03.000 No, it was just a spontaneous eruption of upset over a random YouTube video.

00:11:08.000 And now, according to Jen Psaki, what's going on in Cuba is a spontaneous eruption thanks to economic dislocation.

00:11:13.000 That is untrue.

00:11:14.000 It is not true.

00:11:16.000 The Cuban people do not wish to live under the boot heel of this regime any longer.

00:11:21.000 And downplaying what is happening in Cuba as some sort of like spontaneous reaction to current economic circumstance ignores the fact that a huge percentage of South Florida's population are Cuban expatriates who fled from the country specifically because it is an oppressive hell hole. 0.81

00:11:36.000 Hey, here's Jen Psaki sort of downplaying the cause that people are fighting and now being imprisoned and probably dying for in Cuba. 0.96

00:11:42.000 There's every indication that yesterday's protests were spontaneous expressions of people who are exhausted with the Cuban government's economic mismanagement and repression.

00:11:53.000 And these are protests inspired by the harsh reality of everyday life in Cuba, not people in another country.

00:12:01.000 I'm saying that because I think there have been a range of accusations out there, as you well know.

00:12:06.000 OK, and then she says, well, you know, it was really the lack of vaccines that caused all of this.

00:12:10.000 Trying to downplay this as lack of vaccines or spontaneous eruptions over the economy ignores the fact there have been people on the ground planning this sort of stuff for decades, fighting this sort of stuff for decades, not just in Cuba, but also outside of Cuba.

00:12:22.000 We've talked to them on the program.

00:12:24.000 Here is Jen Psaki again, taking the sort of Obama-esque approach here. 1.00

00:12:28.000 Obviously, one of the issues that Okay, now here's the problem.

00:12:30.000 that protesters are justifiably out there in the streets protesting about is hunger, is lack of access to vaccines, et cetera.

00:12:39.000 But we are continuing to provide a range of assistance, which we will continue to do.

00:12:43.000 Okay, now here's the problem.

00:12:44.000 One of the big problems is not just the moral problem with sort of making light of the underlying evil of the Cuban regime. 0.75

00:12:50.000 The bigger problem is that the solution that would seem to be called for by diagnosis of the problem as just COVID vaccines or lack of economic opportunity is you ship some money and some vaccines over there.

00:13:00.000 Just throw them some cash, throw them some vaccines, and then call it a day.

00:13:04.000 That would seem to be the dictated solution.

00:13:06.000 But that, of course, is not a solution.

00:13:08.000 The solution is the fall of the regime.

00:13:10.000 The United States can't necessarily effectuate that from the outside, but we certainly can do a whole hell of a lot more than simply talk about how, you know, they may have botched this one.

00:13:18.000 Peter Doocy from Fox News was back in the White House press room and asking the tough questions.

00:13:23.000 So he said, yeah, so you guys keep saying it's about vaccines and the economy. I've noticed that they are not shouting vaccines and the economy. They are shouting freedom and enough. Here's Peter Doocy grilling Jen Psaki. When these protesters are yelling freedom and enough, there are people within the administration who think they're saying freedom from rising COVID cases. Again, I would say that when people are out there in the streets protesting and complaining about the lack

00:13:48.000 of access to economic prosperity, to the medical supplies they need, to a life they deserve to live, that can take on a range of meanings.

00:13:58.000 There's a global pandemic right now.

00:14:00.000 Most people in that country don't have access to vaccines.

00:14:03.000 That certainly is something we'd love to help with.

00:14:05.000 It could take on a range of meanings.

00:14:07.000 No, they're being very, very, they're marching with the American flag.

00:14:11.000 And this is the point.

00:14:12.000 This is where it gets very uncomfortable for Jen Psaki and the Biden administration.

00:14:16.000 Again, they're of divided mind.

00:14:17.000 On the one hand, Joe Biden wants to say that he's a patriot who loves the American flag.

00:14:21.000 On the other hand, Joe Biden refuses to say to his left flank that they are doing something wrong in burning the American flag or stomping on the American flag or kneeling for the American flag.

00:14:29.000 And this makes for a very uncomfortable situation for them when Cuba breaks out like this.

00:14:33.000 Because when people of Cuba are flying the American flag and saying we want our freedom, And people on Joe Biden's left are saying America shouldn't get involved because America is the problem.

00:14:41.000 America is bad.

00:14:42.000 The true authoritarian threat is not from actual authoritarians.

00:14:45.000 The true authoritarian threat is here at home.

00:14:48.000 It puts Joe Biden in the middle of a vice.

00:14:50.000 He's not willing to stand up to his left, and he's not willing to stand up for his own principles.

00:14:54.000 Here was Jen Psaki having a tough time explaining why dissenters in Cuba are even flying the American flag. 0.95

00:14:58.000 Now, for any normal person, any normal American, this is a very easy answer.

00:15:02.000 The reason that Cuban dissenters, Cuban patriots are flying the American flag, and not just the Cuban flag, is because America stands for liberty.

00:15:09.000 Because the Declaration of Independence promulgates principles that are universal in nature.

00:15:14.000 Because the United States has been a beacon of hope for oppressed people around the world for centuries at this point.

00:15:20.000 That is a very simple answer.

00:15:23.000 And yes, it is wrong for Americans to disdain their own flag.

00:15:27.000 There's something deeply ungrateful and wrong with it. 1.00

00:15:29.000 Yes, they have a right to do it, but you have a right to do lots of stuff in America that's incredibly dumb and wrongheaded. 1.00

00:15:34.000 You have a right in the United States of America to write moron on your own forehead. 1.00

00:15:38.000 That would be a stupid thing to do. 1.00

00:15:40.000 Just because you have a right to do something doesn't mean you ought to do it or that you are right to do it. 0.99

00:15:44.000 But the Biden administration does not have the stones to simply tell its own left, you guys are wrong on this sort of stuff.

00:15:48.000 So this leads to the uncomfortable realization that Jen Psaki can't even just acknowledge the realities, which is that the Cuban dissenters are right and a lot of Americans are wrong.

00:15:58.000 Does the administration support international protesters flying the American flag and what message do you have to Americans who are wary of flying it here in the U.S.?

00:16:07.000 Well, I would say first, the president certainly values and respects the symbol of the American flag. He's someone who certainly waves it outside of his house or does in Delaware and other places where he's lived throughout his time. But he also believes that people have the right to peaceful protest and he thinks both can be true.

00:16:29.000 Well, both are true. You have the right to peaceful protest and also the people who are protesting by disdaining the American flag are morons. 0.99

00:16:36.000 They're world historical idiots. 1.00

00:16:38.000 Both of those things can be true, but she won't say that. 1.00

00:16:40.000 She won't say that.

00:16:41.000 Instead, she'll downplay the Cuban protest as sort of a situational problem. 0.99

00:16:46.000 She will ignore the fact that it is idiotic to protest the beacon that is the United States. 0.96

00:16:50.000 And by the way, the more that the United States refuses to stand up for itself as a beacon of freedom, the less that American flag actually means to people around the world. 0.97

00:16:57.000 You want to see dissenters stop flying the American flag?

00:16:59.000 Please keep promulgating policy like this.

00:17:02.000 In just one second, we'll get to the folks that Democrats are really threatened by, the folks that they really are worried about.

00:17:07.000 It's not Cuban authoritarians.

00:17:09.000 It is not the Chinese regime that just stomped all over Hong Kong. 0.88

00:17:12.000 It's not the Iranian terrorists who run the country. 0.64

00:17:14.000 No, they're worried about you. 0.79

00:17:16.000 Really, they are worried about you.

00:17:17.000 Anybody who is conservative, anybody who's center, right?

00:17:20.000 Anybody who's center.

00:17:21.000 All of you people are the people who they are worried about.

00:17:23.000 You're the true authoritarian threat.

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00:18:30.000 So, while the Biden administration seems of, at best, a split mind over how to handle the problems in Cuba, and again, Joe Biden gets personal credit for being mostly right, but then his administration, as so often happens, tends to walk this stuff back.

00:18:43.000 Meanwhile, the language with regard to the supposed voting crackdown by Republicans is far harsher from Democrats than anything they have to say about the Cuban authoritarian regime.

00:18:54.000 You got a regime 90 miles off the coast of the United States that is currently taking dissidents and throwing them in prison and or shooting them.

00:19:01.000 And the language Democrats use with regard to that particular regime is significantly nicer, significantly more measured than the kind of language that this White House uses with regard to people who disagree on voter ID.

00:19:13.000 For example, Chensaki, I mean, there's a certain, there's got to be an irony here to the fact that the administration calls, uses the same exact term to refer to a Cuban regime that has not held an honest vote in 62 years and Texas legislators who want voter ID.

00:19:29.000 It's an astonishing thing.

00:19:31.000 It really is.

00:19:32.000 Here's Jen Psaki yesterday saying that voter suppression laws being pushed right now. 1.00

00:19:37.000 Suppression laws.

00:19:37.000 They're not suppression laws.

00:19:39.000 There's yet to be any evidence that these suppress the vote in any meaningful way or even designed to suppress the vote.

00:19:44.000 But Jen Psaki says, we are now watching voter suppression laws so authoritarian that they are the worst threat to democracy since the Civil War.

00:19:53.000 Now, I can think of a few threats to democracy since the Civil War.

00:19:56.000 I can think there was a hundred years of Jim Crow.

00:19:59.000 That's pretty big threat to democracy.

00:20:00.000 It turns out, you know, actual overt laws designed to stop black people from voting in the South.

00:20:05.000 That seems like a threat to democracy.

00:20:06.000 Seems like a threat to democracy under these terms that women couldn't vote until there was an actual amendment to the Constitution in the 1910s. 1.00

00:20:16.000 I mean, we're talking since the Civil War here.

00:20:17.000 You know what seems like an awful threat to the democracy?

00:20:21.000 Woodrow Wilson's willingness to imprison dissidents.

00:20:23.000 Or FDR's crackdown on a federal level on people who wouldn't fly the Blue Eagle.

00:20:28.000 Or for that matter, the Nazi attempts to destroy the United States during World War II.

00:20:33.000 Or for that matter, the 1960s attempts to wreck America's institutions from within.

00:20:38.000 Like, all of these seem like pretty significant threats to democracy.

00:20:41.000 You're not talking about threats to democracy.

00:20:42.000 How about the fact that we had riots in major cities across the United States last year and the media didn't seem to care?

00:20:47.000 And frankly, it seems like kind of a threat to democracy that the intelligence apparatus was activated against a presidential campaign last time around.

00:20:53.000 But according to Jen Psaki, what we are watching right now is an authoritarian threat from Republicans.

00:20:57.000 Remember, they are using the exact same words to describe the Cuban regime that they are using to describe Republicans.

00:21:04.000 That's unreal.

00:21:06.000 It's unreal, okay?

00:21:07.000 Using the exact same terminology to describe the... In fact, they're nicer about the Cuban regime.

00:21:12.000 After all, the people who are protesting the Cuban regime, they're really just fighting, you know, economic discontent and vaccine shortages.

00:21:18.000 I mean, really, I mean, like, do we really know what they're fighting for?

00:21:20.000 But we perfectly well know why people are angry at Republicans.

00:21:24.000 And it's because they're an authoritarian threat to the United States, worse than any threat since an attempt by an armed band of rebels to break away from the country in 1860.

00:21:35.000 That's a hell of a contention.

00:21:36.000 We'll get to more of that in just one second.

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00:22:40.000 Alrighty, so, Jen Psaki literally said yesterday, on the same day that Cuban dissidents were in the streets attempting to overthrow an actual authoritarian regime, she used that word not to describe the authoritarian regime so much of Cuba, but to describe Republicans who want to do things like make you apply for an absentee ballot.

00:23:05.000 Kind of the same as, you know, rigging an election for 62 years.

00:23:08.000 Feels the same.

00:23:09.000 Or they want you to use voter ID.

00:23:11.000 Or they're getting rid of, wait for it, drive-by balloting.

00:23:14.000 Feels exactly the same as, you know, shooting people in the streets over in Havana.

00:23:18.000 Here is Jen Psaki using the same word. 0.95

00:23:21.000 He'll also decry efforts to strip the right to vote as authoritarian and anti-American and stand up against the notion that politicians should be allowed to choose their voters or to subvert our system by replacing independent election authorities with partisan ones.

00:23:36.000 And he will highlight the work of the administration against this, the necessity of passing the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and how we need to work together with civil rights organizations to build as broad a turnout and voter education system to overcome The worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War.

00:23:53.000 The worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War? 0.99

00:23:55.000 Are you out of your damn mind? 0.99

00:23:58.000 By the way, if you're talking about the authoritarian threats of the country right now, the culturally authoritarian threats of the country, that is coming from institutions that will unperson you if you happen to cross their preferred politics. 1.00

00:24:08.000 That is the Democratic Party that is hoping to seize control of the voting apparatuses of all 50 states and bring them up to the federal level so they can then skew elections through things like mandatory ballot harvesting.

00:24:18.000 If you want to talk about like actual authoritarian threats, it is not coming from states that have their own voting laws, many of which are more liberal than blue states.

00:24:26.000 But the unbelievable contrast between the language that the Democrats use with regard to Cuba and the language they use with regard to Republicans, it is an astonishing thing.

00:24:36.000 And it also allows Democrats to be just as undemocratic as they want to be.

00:24:40.000 The same people who are saying it's an authoritarian threat to our democracy to call for voter ID say it is not an authoritarian threat to our democracy for the entire Texas Democratic delegation to literally abscond from the state.

00:24:51.000 So this is what happened yesterday in Texas, according to the New York Times, quote, Texas Democrats fled the state on Monday in a last-ditch effort to prevent the passage of restrictive new voting law by the Republican-controlled legislature, heading to Washington to draw national attention to their cause.

00:25:05.000 Nothing, by the way, is going to speak to the common Texan quite like Texas Democrats absconding to Washington, D.C., the center of all federal power, to suggest that they are being put upon.

00:25:15.000 By the way, in a private jet.

00:25:17.000 Unmasked, I should note.

00:25:19.000 These are real representatives of the people.

00:25:21.000 These are dirt under the fingernails, gritty, hard-working lawyers who take private jets to Washington, D.C.

00:25:30.000 while talking about how courageous they are.

00:25:32.000 The group left Austin in mid-afternoon on a pair of chartered flights that were scheduled to arrive by early evening.

00:25:36.000 An official involved with the effort said more than 51 of the 67 statehouse Democrats had signed on, enough to prevent Texas Republicans from attaining a quorum, which is required to conduct state business.

00:25:47.000 The hastily arranged departure added a cinematic element to the partisan wrangling in a state with a colorful political history.

00:25:52.000 I love how the New York Times treats this.

00:25:54.000 Like, oh, well, isn't this just colorful fun?

00:25:55.000 Isn't this wonderful?

00:25:56.000 Just like they treated it as colorful fun when the Wisconsin State Legislature, just a few years back, in the middle of some anti-union and free labor bills, Was invaded by a bunch of union members and taken over Wisconsin Capitol and when a bunch of Wisconsin Democrats fled to Illinois in order to deny a quorum.

00:26:13.000 Whenever Democrats do this sort of stuff, it's not undemocratic.

00:26:15.000 So just to get this straight, the filibuster is undemocratic because Republicans won't give Democrats enough votes to kill the filibuster.

00:26:23.000 But it is not only Democratic, it is colorful fun when Democrats who don't have a majority, let alone, they certainly don't have a super majority, they don't have enough to deny Republicans the ability to do their business.

00:26:33.000 Instead, they literally pick up and leave the state to deny a quorum.

00:26:38.000 You want to talk about thwarting the democratic process?

00:26:41.000 It seems like, you know, not going to the legislature just to deny the quorum.

00:26:45.000 That's probably not something that was originally intended by the people who wanted there to be a quorum.

00:26:51.000 What if an entire party just decides they're not going to go to work that day and they call out sick?

00:26:55.000 By the way, the reason they're fleeing the state is because they can be compelled to show up at the Texas State Legislature.

00:26:59.000 You can actually send the cops to go and bring them so you have a quorum.

00:27:02.000 You can actually do that in most states.

00:27:06.000 The hastily arranged departure says the New York Times added a cinematic element to the partisan wrangling in a state with a colorful political history.

00:27:11.000 Democrats have fled to neighboring states in the past to try to block legislation, including in 2003 when they traveled to New Mexico and Oklahoma in an effort to avoid Republican attempts to redraw congressional districts.

00:27:21.000 The move could paralyze the legislature for weeks if Democrats remain out of the state until the special session ends in August.

00:27:26.000 Still, it lays bare their limited options long-term in a legislature where the Republicans hold the majority in both chambers.

00:27:32.000 Parliamentary procedures and efforts to add amendments can delay the process but not derail it.

00:27:36.000 Republicans said on Monday the Democrats' gambit would ultimately fail.

00:27:39.000 State Representative Briscoe Cain, a Houston-area Republican who chairs the House Elections Committee, said the Democrats' departure, quote, slows things down, but would not prevent Republicans from prevailing.

00:27:48.000 It's just denying the inevitable.

00:27:49.000 Mr. Cain said describing the move as political theater will eventually get it done, one way or another.

00:27:55.000 Nevertheless, by traveling en masse to Washington, the Texas Democrats were hoping to apply pressure to Democrats in the U.S.

00:28:00.000 Senate, who so far have been unable to pass federal legislation to address the issue.

00:28:04.000 So, we now have the specter of Texas Democrats leaving the state where they have a legal duty to show up, showing up in Washington, D.C., and asking Senate Democrats to kill the filibuster in order to pass federalizing legislation that violates the Constitution of the United States.

00:28:19.000 But don't worry, it's the Texas Republicans who are an authoritarian threat worse than anything we've seen since the Civil War.

00:28:25.000 Fairly incredible.

00:28:26.000 Now, I know, you may be asking yourself, what exactly is in this awful, awful Texas Republican bill?

00:28:30.000 Like, what's so bad about this Texas voting bill?

00:28:33.000 I will tell you.

00:28:34.000 Nothing.

00:28:36.000 The latest bill in Texas, according to NPR, not a warm-tort Republican source, includes new ID requirements for people voting by mail.

00:28:43.000 And also, local election officials are not allowed to send vote-by-mail applications to people who haven't requested one.

00:28:49.000 Well, because very often you are sending vote-by-mail applications to people who no longer live at those addresses.

00:28:49.000 Why?

00:28:55.000 We moved to Florida. 1.00

00:28:56.000 Apparently one of these things showed up in our mailbox in California because they have these sorts of stupid rules in California. 0.98

00:29:01.000 Also, Texas was going to ban drive-thru voting and extending hours during early voting. 0.98

00:29:06.000 Republicans in the state say that these innovations opened the door to voter fraud.

00:29:10.000 Again, these were mostly procedures that were put in place temporarily thanks to the pandemic.

00:29:14.000 And then Democrats said it's the new normal, just like everything else in government.

00:29:18.000 The ratchet only works one way.

00:29:19.000 Once you ratchet in these emergency options, then they become the de facto new normal.

00:29:24.000 And once you push back on them, then Democrats claim that you are undermining the system that was implemented like 37 seconds ago, thanks to, you know, a global pandemic.

00:29:33.000 I will say the funniest specter in all of this is Democrats declaring themselves heroes for all of this.

00:29:37.000 So there's a guy named James Tallarico.

00:29:37.000 This is really funny.

00:29:40.000 He's a Texas state representative.

00:29:42.000 And here is what he tweeted.

00:29:44.000 He's a Democrat.

00:29:45.000 Quote.

00:29:47.000 Just landed in Memphis on our way to DC.

00:29:50.000 Thank y'all for your well wishes.

00:29:52.000 We left behind our families, our livelihoods, and our beloved Texas.

00:29:56.000 But our sacrifice is nothing compared to the sacrifices brave Americans have made throughout history to protect the sacred right to vote.

00:30:08.000 Oh, the heartbreaking beauty.

00:30:09.000 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:30:11.000 Your sacrifice, you say that your sacrifice is nothing compared to sacrifice?

00:30:14.000 No, your sacrifice is nothing.

00:30:17.000 The sentence should have ended after the word nothing.

00:30:19.000 You're not sacrificing anything.

00:30:20.000 You got in a private jet, you went to Washington, D.C., you're gonna stay at a five-star hotel, you're gonna have whiskey with a bunch of your Democratic colleagues, the media are going to treat you as though you're a wonderful hero, and then you will go back to Texas and nothing will have changed.

00:30:30.000 So really, slow clap, golf clap, before all of you yell.

00:30:35.000 Really, really impressive stuff.

00:30:37.000 We left behind our families.

00:30:39.000 You're not fleeing from Cuba, gang!

00:30:41.000 You know how I know?

00:30:43.000 Because if you were fleeing from Cuba, Democrats would probably oppose you. 1.00

00:30:47.000 Oh my god, the sort of pathetic, self-indulgent nonsense of our politics. 1.00

00:30:54.000 It's so blech. 1.00

00:30:56.000 It's so just gross.

00:30:58.000 Fighting authoritarianism in Texas because of voter ID.

00:31:01.000 So, folks like me, when I say that the left is engaged in authoritarianism, my proposed solution is more liberty.

00:31:09.000 Right, it's leave me the hell alone.

00:31:10.000 Generally leave people alone.

00:31:12.000 When the left suggests that they are against authoritarianism, their rule is we need more top-down control.

00:31:20.000 Which means they're really not anti-authoritarian.

00:31:22.000 They're just kind of anti their political opponents.

00:31:24.000 There's a reason I wrote, I have a brand new book.

00:31:26.000 It's coming out called The Authoritarian Moment.

00:31:28.000 It comes out July 27th.

00:31:29.000 You should go pre-order it right now because it is all about this.

00:31:32.000 It's about the militarization and weaponization of every institution in major American society and how we can reverse that course.

00:31:39.000 But again, the left is so fond of declaring things authoritarian unless they're actually authoritarian apparently.

00:31:46.000 It's very, very troubling.

00:31:48.000 Speaking of authoritarianism, we'll get some cultural authoritarianism on the trans issue in just one second. 0.77

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00:32:57.000 Okay, we will get to The authoritarianism, the cultural authoritarianism of the trans movement in just one second because it is growing. 0.94

00:33:03.000 First, again a reminder, whether we're talking totalitarian lockdown measures that destroyed the middle class while telling you that it was wonderful to go out and protest for George Floyd, or whether we are talking about the indoctrination of school children, whether we are talking about the attempts by Hollywood to cram down a particular point of view and fire everyone who disagrees, The freedom of everyday Americans is under assault.

00:33:22.000 You can feel it.

00:33:23.000 You talk to conservatives, even moderates across the spectrum.

00:33:25.000 They feel like they are being silenced because they are.

00:33:28.000 This is the reason I wrote The Authoritarian Moment to help people like you learn as much about how we got here and how you can fight back as you possibly can.

00:33:35.000 The big thing here is how to fight back.

00:33:37.000 There are a couple of different types of authoritarianism.

00:33:39.000 There's governmental authoritarianism, like you see in Cuba, and then there's the social authoritarianism that suggests you must be excised from polite society for disagreeing and the weaponization of institutions on behalf of that perverse notion.

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00:34:00.000 Now, speaking of cultural authoritarianism, there is a fascinating piece that has been being presented now by the Journal of Medical Ethics, the June 2021 issue, declaring that LGBT children should be allowed to get whatever treatment they seek.

00:34:24.000 We're talking about minors.

00:34:25.000 Without parental veto power.

00:34:28.000 And the reason for this, of course, is because we have declared that parents are an obstacle to the new utopia.

00:34:33.000 We have declared that you are wrong and immoral and bad if you so much as stand up for science.

00:34:39.000 If you so much as stand up for the notion that male and female are categories that exist, then you are the bad one.

00:34:45.000 There's a reason why the ACLU is declaring people authoritarian for suggesting that boys and girls play in separate leagues.

00:34:52.000 There's a reason why Jen Psaki is doing the same thing. 1.00

00:34:55.000 There's a reason why Texas Democrats are declaring Texas Republicans authoritarian for making the suggestion that biological men should not compete with biological women in college sports.

00:35:06.000 And the reason is because they have a totalitarian view of right and wrong and a totalitarian view that is completely contrary to science.

00:35:13.000 So you're now saying, I promise you, within five years, there will be active measures taken in states like California to remove children from homes where children have exhibited any level of gender confusion and parents refuse to go along with the program.

00:35:27.000 It's already happening in places like Seattle.

00:35:28.000 So you're going to see it happen in California and more broadly across America.

00:35:32.000 That's authoritarianism.

00:35:33.000 You call CPS on somebody because little Bobby shows up to school and says that he's Janice.

00:35:39.000 And instead of the teachers setting him straight or allowing parents to set him straight, the teachers immediately start mainlining him into the entire gender industry and telling parents they have no right to parent their own children.

00:35:52.000 That is the next move.

00:35:54.000 It's going to lead to some pretty wild side effects.

00:35:57.000 And again, it's the mainstreaming of delusion, obviously.

00:36:00.000 You want to see mainstreaming of delusion?

00:36:02.000 There is apparently a series that is called Nine Months with Courtney Cox.

00:36:08.000 It's a docu-series about various couples having children.

00:36:12.000 This went viral yesterday.

00:36:14.000 It is a video from, apparently, Season 3, Episode 8 of Nine Months with Courtney Cox.

00:36:22.000 And it features a transgender man, meaning a biological woman, Who pushed, is a biological woman who had a baby. 0.90

00:36:29.000 There's not a man who had a baby because that's not possible.

00:36:31.000 There's a biological woman who used her uterus to create a baby and then pushed the baby out through her vagina because she's a biological woman once more. 1.00

00:36:37.000 And no amount of testosterone that produces facial hair or growing the hair out or mastectomies changes the fact that this is a biological woman as evidenced by the fact that biological men cannot give birth.

00:36:49.000 I promise you, babies can't fit through the urethra.

00:36:53.000 I think a kidney stone is bad.

00:36:54.000 Try fitting a watermelon through there.

00:36:55.000 In any case, this particular episode of this bizarre show features a transgender man, meaning a biological woman, who is married to a transgender woman, meaning a biological man. 0.58

00:37:09.000 So, this means a man who is married to a woman, but they believe they are members of the opposite gender.

00:37:14.000 So, in this particular scenario, the quote-unquote husband, the faux husband, meaning a biological woman, gave birth.

00:37:21.000 And the faux woman, meaning a biological man, is the quote-unquote mother in this scenario.

00:37:27.000 And this leads to the bizarre situation that apparently the parents have now refused to accept ID for their newborn baby because that would require the birth mother, you know, like the actual woman, to identify as a mother and not the male.

00:37:42.000 Hey, by the way, you're a bigot if you disagree.

00:37:47.000 Not only are you a bigot, if you bring up your children to disagree, the left will sick. 0.98

00:37:51.000 The authoritarian regime on you.

00:37:54.000 I mean, this is the way this is going to go over the next few years.

00:37:56.000 You watch.

00:37:57.000 And here is the bizarre new world we have created for ourselves.

00:38:00.000 The counter-reality new world we have created for ourselves.

00:38:03.000 Not only are we not assigning a sex to the baby, DC is forcing me to label myself as the mother.

00:38:10.000 And that's not the case, but Drona is the mother. 0.78

00:38:14.000 This whole birth certificate thing is really, it's really causing me a lot of hurt.

00:38:22.000 Trans women can be mothers. 0.96

00:38:25.000 Oh, I have to put it on here. 0.60

00:38:28.000 Okay, this is perverse.

00:38:30.000 Pause it for a second to understand what just happened, okay, if you're not watching this.

00:38:33.000 The video then cuts to the quote-unquote mother, a biological male, attempting to feed a human child with his chest.

00:38:43.000 Now, this is not going to work because it turns out that biological males do not have Milk ducts.

00:38:49.000 So it's gonna be rather difficult for the baby to get any sort of nutrition from all of this, of course.

00:38:55.000 But it doesn't matter, so long as these people feel better about themselves.

00:38:58.000 Sure, the baby's gonna starve to death, but at least the delusional parents feel better about themselves, and this is being championed.

00:39:05.000 These are civil rights heroes. 0.53

00:39:06.000 Civil rights heroes is a man who's sticking his nipple in the mouth of a child, in the mouth of a small baby, in a bizarre attempt to nourish the baby with literally nothing, And you're a bigot if you disagree.

00:39:18.000 Don't you see? 0.94

00:39:18.000 Don't worry. 0.94

00:39:20.000 You're the authoritarian for suggesting there is a problem here.

00:39:23.000 Or that perhaps it is not in the best interest of a child to grow up under these circumstances.

00:39:29.000 In fact, if you suggest that, maybe the CPS should come for your kids if you suggest that sort of thing.

00:39:35.000 And we can continue with this.

00:39:40.000 Does anyone give a damn about the kid?

00:39:41.000 Apparently not.

00:39:42.000 Kids are just a purse. 0.99

00:39:43.000 They're just a tool for people to use for their own personal enjoyment, apparently.

00:39:48.000 You're not supplementing.

00:39:49.000 That's not supplementing.

00:39:51.000 it to produce any milk.

00:39:52.000 Because you're a dude.

00:39:54.000 Because we're going to supplement the feeding with formula so that my baby is still getting the nutrients that they need.

00:40:01.000 But I'm still feeling hopeful.

00:40:04.000 You're not supplementing.

00:40:05.000 That's not supplementing.

00:40:07.000 Supplementing assumes that there is a baseline of nutrition that is being provided.

00:40:10.000 My wife nursed all of our children, and then at a certain point, because she was working and she didn't have time to pump, you had to supplement with formula.

00:40:19.000 Supplementation means not the whole thing.

00:40:24.000 What kind of perverse damage are you doing to a baby?

00:40:26.000 You're having the baby latch to a male nipple, and then you're like, oh yeah, I'm supplementing with formula.

00:40:31.000 Yeah, we've created a hell of a society for ourselves, haven't we?

00:40:34.000 We're a society of science, by the way.

00:40:36.000 We are a society that is dedicated, foursquare, to science.

00:40:40.000 It's all we care about.

00:40:41.000 In fact, we are so dedicated to science right now, like so unbelievably dedicated to science, Then apparently, California has now declared that all children K through 12 next year will be mandated to wear masks in the classroom.

00:40:52.000 That's how dedicated to science the left is.

00:40:54.000 They are so dedicated to science, man.

00:40:56.000 Really well done, everybody.

00:40:57.000 And if you disagree, if you disagree, you should be shut down.

00:41:00.000 If you disagree, then you should be banned from social media.

00:41:02.000 If you disagree, the weapons of government should be used against you.

00:41:06.000 If you disagree, and if you elect people who disagree, then the minority party should abscond and deny them a quorum.

00:41:12.000 All of this in the name of democracy, don't you see?

00:41:15.000 And you're the authoritarian for suggesting that objective things like science, biology, logic, that these sorts of things should apply. 0.72

00:41:24.000 You are the brutal, vicious authoritarian.

00:41:29.000 This country... 0.96

00:41:31.000 You know, I guess that we got so fat and happy that we no longer had to engage in the world of reality.

00:41:35.000 And that is really the end of it.

00:41:36.000 Because I'll tell you what, the folks who are protesting in Cuba right now, the people who are marching in Cuba at risk to their own lives, I highly doubt that these sorts of idiocies are the things that they worry about on a day-to-day level. 0.99

00:41:46.000 At a certain point, a country gets so fat and so rich and so bored and so stupid because the country hasn't been challenged, that we start to just imbibe from the well of idiocy. 1.00

00:41:57.000 And then we become more and more idiotic. 1.00

00:41:59.000 And as we become more and more idiotic, we declare anybody who disagrees the real threat to the country. 1.00

00:42:07.000 Yes, the American flag remains a beacon of liberty so long as the truly authoritarian left loses. 0.98

00:42:14.000 If the authoritarian left wins, then we have a bigger problem, and so do people all over the world.

00:42:20.000 Wow.

00:42:21.000 Things are going great, guys.

00:42:22.000 Things are just going spectacularly well.

00:42:26.000 One additional note.

00:42:30.000 Apparently, there's a representative in Arizona who is also making sure that we have the proper representation on our nation's high courts. 0.98

00:42:38.000 There's another element of the stupid authoritarian notions that we're not pushing for. 0.97

00:42:43.000 There is a representative, Greg Stanton, from Arizona. 0.99

00:42:45.000 He says that we have to make sure that all of our courts are represented by sexual orientation.

00:42:49.000 He says it's a problem.

00:42:50.000 There's only one gay member of the Ninth Circuit.

00:42:52.000 My home state of Arizona is part of the Ninth Circuit.

00:42:56.000 Currently there is only one openly gay member of the bench in the Ninth Circuit.

00:43:01.000 So I want to hear from Admiral Cruz and Ms.

00:43:03.000 Diaz-Jaeger on this one.

00:43:04.000 Lack of diversity in the federal judiciary hurts our justice system.

00:43:09.000 How do we go about making a plan to address such vast disparities in making up our federal bench?

00:43:15.000 Yes, we definitely need to focus in as a high priority on how many gay judges sit on a particular judicial bench.

00:43:22.000 Things are, ah, how depressing.

00:43:25.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show coming up soon.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 13, 2021

To The Left, Conservative Authoritarians, Not Communist Dictators, Are The Problem | Ep. 1295

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