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00:00:00.000The Biden administration downplays the evil of the communist Cuban regime while simultaneously labeling American conservatives authoritarian racists.
00:00:22.000Well, the Biden administration had a choice.
00:00:24.000When 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.
00:00:33.000So you'll recall that the Democratic Party was not pro-Cuba for the vast majority of Cuba's Communist existence.
00:00:39.000It was JFK who was the leading sponsor of attempts to overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba.
00:00:45.000And Democrats after that were not big fans of the Castro regime or the communism that it was pushing.
00:00:51.000And yet now the Democratic Party seems split.
00:00:53.000And this is reflected in the attitude of the Biden White House toward the current Cuban dissident movement.
00:00:59.000What we are watching in Cuba right now is perfectly predictable.
00:01:01.000We 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.
00:01:19.000It was not based merely on the economic circumstances in Cuba.
00:01:23.000It was not based merely on the lack of vaccines in Cuba.
00:01:26.000It was not based, in other words, on things that had arisen in the last five minutes.
00:01:29.000It was in fact a movement that was rooted in a lack of liberty.
00:01:32.000It was a movement rooted in opposition to the communist regime itself and its unwillingness to allow for basic human freedoms in the state.
00:01:41.000Until now, Luis Manuel Alcantara has been detained by the Castro regime.
00:01:46.000His family and friends have no idea where he is.
00:01:48.000And 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.
00:02:02.000Those are usually the chief available and useful options to these regimes.
00:02:07.000And so this does raise the question, what should the United States' position be?
00:02:11.000Now, on a moral level, the United States' position should be pretty obvious.
00:02:14.000It 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.
00:02:25.000embargo on Cuba had created the conditions that allowed for the continuation of the regime.
00:02:31.000See, 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.
00:02:41.000This 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.
00:02:53.000Iran continued to fund terrorism all over the region.
00:02:55.000And then Obama tried the same thing with Cuba.
00:02:57.000He 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.
00:03:05.000Cuba would become a better place to live and the regime would be less stable.
00:03:09.000Of course, precisely the opposite happened.
00:03:11.000The 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.
00:03:21.000Hey, so this has led to a bit of a conflict inside the Biden White House.
00:03:25.000There 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.
00:03:44.000And this is evident from the sort of statements that are being made by the Biden administration, which are in conflict with themselves.
00:03:58.000He said, we stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic.
00:04:02.000And from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they've been subjected by Cuba's authoritarian regime.
00:04:08.000The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights.
00:04:11.000Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected.
00:04:16.000Okay, so far that statement is not bad, right?
00:04:19.000So far, he's calling the regime authoritarian.
00:04:22.000He's talking about its repression and its economic suffering due to the regime.
00:04:27.000He's talking about the universal rights of the Cuban people.
00:04:30.000And then he gets to the final sentence.
00:04:31.000The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment, rather than enriching themselves.
00:04:38.000Now, that is not a call for the Cuban regime to respect the human rights of its people.
00:04:42.000That 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.
00:04:54.000And Cuba's been subverting those rights for six decades at this point, for 62 years, since the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
00:05:00.000The 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.
00:05:11.000Okay, 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.
00:05:24.000This is a perverse view of the Cuban regime, and it's a perverse view of what exactly is going on in the first place.
00:05:29.000Because the reality, once again, is that the Cuban regime is the problem.
00:05:35.000It is not that the current problems in Cuba are a result of any sort of extraneous force.
00:05:46.000The left in the United States will suggest that everything that happens in the United States is the result of underlying structural racism.
00:05:53.000But 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.
00:06:06.000They 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.
00:06:18.000This 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.
00:06:35.000It 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.
00:06:47.000In 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.
00:07:01.000By 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.
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00:08:37.000So 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.
00:08:45.000There'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.
00:08:54.000Which is that America was inherently bad.
00:08:55.000America's involvement in Vietnam was bad.
00:08:57.000America's involvement in Iraq was bad.
00:08:58.000And America's involvement in Cuba is bad.
00:09:01.000America is the nefarious force in the world.
00:09:03.000And the real problems that Americans need to face down are the problems here at home.
00:09:06.000America doesn't have anything to say about what happens in the rest of the world.
00:09:09.000Because after all, America is just too perverse.
00:09:11.000Cuba people demanding their freedom from an authoritarian regime.
00:09:14.000So this has led, as I say, to this conflict inside the Biden administration.
00:09:18.000On 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.
00:09:25.000Here was the president of the United States saying the right thing with regard to Cuba yesterday.
00:09:30.000Cuban people demanding their freedom from an authoritarian regime.
00:09:36.000And I don't think we've seen anything like this protest in a long, long time.
00:10:12.000Then, 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.
00:10:26.000I've been talking to Cuban dissidents for the last several weeks.
00:10:29.000They were planning this sort of stuff for weeks on end.
00:10:31.000There was a burgeoning democratic movement in Cuba.
00:10:35.000I knew weeks ago that people were going to get out in the streets.
00:10:37.000People in Cuba knew weeks ago that they were going to get out into the streets.
00:10:40.000This is not just about the way the Cuban regime is handling its problems right now.
00:10:43.000And this, again, is a sort of pattern in the way the Democrats view the world.
00:10:47.000When 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.
00:11:16.000The Cuban people do not wish to live under the boot heel of this regime any longer.
00:11:21.000And 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.
00:11:36.000Hey, here's Jen Psaki sort of downplaying the cause that people are fighting and now being imprisoned and probably dying for in Cuba.
00:11:42.000There's every indication that yesterday's protests were spontaneous expressions of people who are exhausted with the Cuban government's economic mismanagement and repression.
00:11:53.000And these are protests inspired by the harsh reality of everyday life in Cuba, not people in another country.
00:12:01.000I'm saying that because I think there have been a range of accusations out there, as you well know.
00:12:06.000OK, and then she says, well, you know, it was really the lack of vaccines that caused all of this.
00:12:10.000Trying 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.
00:12:44.000One of the big problems is not just the moral problem with sort of making light of the underlying evil of the Cuban regime.
00:12:50.000The 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.
00:13:00.000Just throw them some cash, throw them some vaccines, and then call it a day.
00:13:04.000That would seem to be the dictated solution.
00:13:06.000But that, of course, is not a solution.
00:13:08.000The solution is the fall of the regime.
00:13:10.000The 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.
00:13:18.000Peter Doocy from Fox News was back in the White House press room and asking the tough questions.
00:13:23.000So 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
00:13:48.000of 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.
00:14:17.000On the one hand, Joe Biden wants to say that he's a patriot who loves the American flag.
00:14:21.000On 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.
00:14:29.000And this makes for a very uncomfortable situation for them when Cuba breaks out like this.
00:14:33.000Because 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.
00:14:42.000The true authoritarian threat is not from actual authoritarians.
00:14:45.000The true authoritarian threat is here at home.
00:14:48.000It puts Joe Biden in the middle of a vice.
00:14:50.000He's not willing to stand up to his left, and he's not willing to stand up for his own principles.
00:14:54.000Here was Jen Psaki having a tough time explaining why dissenters in Cuba are even flying the American flag.
00:14:58.000Now, for any normal person, any normal American, this is a very easy answer.
00:15:02.000The reason that Cuban dissenters, Cuban patriots are flying the American flag, and not just the Cuban flag, is because America stands for liberty.
00:15:09.000Because the Declaration of Independence promulgates principles that are universal in nature.
00:15:14.000Because the United States has been a beacon of hope for oppressed people around the world for centuries at this point.
00:15:40.000Just because you have a right to do something doesn't mean you ought to do it or that you are right to do it.
00:15:44.000But the Biden administration does not have the stones to simply tell its own left, you guys are wrong on this sort of stuff.
00:15:48.000So 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.
00:15:58.000Does 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.?
00:16:07.000Well, 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.
00:16:29.000Well, both are true. You have the right to peaceful protest and also the people who are protesting by disdaining the American flag are morons.
00:16:41.000Instead, she'll downplay the Cuban protest as sort of a situational problem.
00:16:46.000She will ignore the fact that it is idiotic to protest the beacon that is the United States.
00:16:50.000And 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.
00:16:57.000You want to see dissenters stop flying the American flag?
00:16:59.000Please keep promulgating policy like this.
00:17:02.000In just one second, we'll get to the folks that Democrats are really threatened by, the folks that they really are worried about.
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00:18:30.000So, 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.
00:18:43.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:18:54.000You 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.
00:19:01.000And 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.
00:19:13.000For 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.
00:19:39.000There's yet to be any evidence that these suppress the vote in any meaningful way or even designed to suppress the vote.
00:19:44.000But Jen Psaki says, we are now watching voter suppression laws so authoritarian that they are the worst threat to democracy since the Civil War.
00:19:53.000Now, I can think of a few threats to democracy since the Civil War.
00:19:56.000I can think there was a hundred years of Jim Crow.
00:19:59.000That's pretty big threat to democracy.
00:20:00.000It turns out, you know, actual overt laws designed to stop black people from voting in the South.
00:20:05.000That seems like a threat to democracy.
00:20:06.000Seems 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.
00:20:16.000I mean, we're talking since the Civil War here.
00:20:17.000You know what seems like an awful threat to the democracy?
00:20:21.000Woodrow Wilson's willingness to imprison dissidents.
00:20:23.000Or FDR's crackdown on a federal level on people who wouldn't fly the Blue Eagle.
00:20:28.000Or for that matter, the Nazi attempts to destroy the United States during World War II.
00:20:33.000Or for that matter, the 1960s attempts to wreck America's institutions from within.
00:20:38.000Like, all of these seem like pretty significant threats to democracy.
00:20:41.000You're not talking about threats to democracy.
00:20:42.000How about the fact that we had riots in major cities across the United States last year and the media didn't seem to care?
00:20:47.000And frankly, it seems like kind of a threat to democracy that the intelligence apparatus was activated against a presidential campaign last time around.
00:20:53.000But according to Jen Psaki, what we are watching right now is an authoritarian threat from Republicans.
00:20:57.000Remember, they are using the exact same words to describe the Cuban regime that they are using to describe Republicans.
00:21:07.000Using the exact same terminology to describe the... In fact, they're nicer about the Cuban regime.
00:21:12.000After all, the people who are protesting the Cuban regime, they're really just fighting, you know, economic discontent and vaccine shortages.
00:21:18.000I mean, really, I mean, like, do we really know what they're fighting for?
00:21:20.000But we perfectly well know why people are angry at Republicans.
00:21:24.000And 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.
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00:22:40.000Alrighty, 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.
00:23:05.000Kind of the same as, you know, rigging an election for 62 years.
00:23:11.000Or they're getting rid of, wait for it, drive-by balloting.
00:23:14.000Feels exactly the same as, you know, shooting people in the streets over in Havana.
00:23:18.000Here is Jen Psaki using the same word.
00:23:21.000He'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.
00:23:36.000And 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.
00:23:53.000The worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War?
00:23:58.000By 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.
00:24:08.000That 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.
00:24:18.000If 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.
00:24:26.000But 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.
00:24:36.000And it also allows Democrats to be just as undemocratic as they want to be.
00:24:40.000The 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.
00:24:51.000So 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.
00:25:05.000Nothing, 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.
00:25:19.000These are real representatives of the people.
00:25:21.000These are dirt under the fingernails, gritty, hard-working lawyers who take private jets to Washington, D.C.
00:25:30.000while talking about how courageous they are.
00:25:32.000The group left Austin in mid-afternoon on a pair of chartered flights that were scheduled to arrive by early evening.
00:25:36.000An 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.
00:25:47.000The hastily arranged departure added a cinematic element to the partisan wrangling in a state with a colorful political history.
00:25:52.000I love how the New York Times treats this.
00:25:54.000Like, oh, well, isn't this just colorful fun?
00:25:56.000Just 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.
00:26:13.000Whenever Democrats do this sort of stuff, it's not undemocratic.
00:26:15.000So just to get this straight, the filibuster is undemocratic because Republicans won't give Democrats enough votes to kill the filibuster.
00:26:23.000But 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.
00:26:33.000Instead, they literally pick up and leave the state to deny a quorum.
00:26:38.000You want to talk about thwarting the democratic process?
00:26:41.000It seems like, you know, not going to the legislature just to deny the quorum.
00:26:45.000That's probably not something that was originally intended by the people who wanted there to be a quorum.
00:26:51.000What if an entire party just decides they're not going to go to work that day and they call out sick?
00:26:55.000By the way, the reason they're fleeing the state is because they can be compelled to show up at the Texas State Legislature.
00:26:59.000You can actually send the cops to go and bring them so you have a quorum.
00:27:02.000You can actually do that in most states.
00:27:06.000The hastily arranged departure says the New York Times added a cinematic element to the partisan wrangling in a state with a colorful political history.
00:27:11.000Democrats 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.
00:27:21.000The move could paralyze the legislature for weeks if Democrats remain out of the state until the special session ends in August.
00:27:26.000Still, it lays bare their limited options long-term in a legislature where the Republicans hold the majority in both chambers.
00:27:32.000Parliamentary procedures and efforts to add amendments can delay the process but not derail it.
00:27:36.000Republicans said on Monday the Democrats' gambit would ultimately fail.
00:27:39.000State 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.
00:27:49.000Mr. Cain said describing the move as political theater will eventually get it done, one way or another.
00:27:55.000Nevertheless, by traveling en masse to Washington, the Texas Democrats were hoping to apply pressure to Democrats in the U.S.
00:28:00.000Senate, who so far have been unable to pass federal legislation to address the issue.
00:28:04.000So, 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.
00:28:19.000But don't worry, it's the Texas Republicans who are an authoritarian threat worse than anything we've seen since the Civil War.
00:29:19.000Once you ratchet in these emergency options, then they become the de facto new normal.
00:29:24.000And 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.
00:29:33.000I will say the funniest specter in all of this is Democrats declaring themselves heroes for all of this.
00:29:37.000So there's a guy named James Tallarico.
00:30:20.000You 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.
00:30:30.000So really, slow clap, golf clap, before all of you yell.
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00:32:57.000Okay, we will get to The authoritarianism, the cultural authoritarianism of the trans movement in just one second because it is growing.
00:33:03.000First, 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.
00:33:23.000You talk to conservatives, even moderates across the spectrum.
00:33:25.000They feel like they are being silenced because they are.
00:33:28.000This 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.
00:33:35.000The big thing here is how to fight back.
00:33:37.000There are a couple of different types of authoritarianism.
00:33:39.000There'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.
00:33:51.000This is why you need the authoritarian moment.
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00:34:00.000Now, 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.
00:34:28.000And the reason for this, of course, is because we have declared that parents are an obstacle to the new utopia.
00:34:33.000We have declared that you are wrong and immoral and bad if you so much as stand up for science.
00:34:39.000If you so much as stand up for the notion that male and female are categories that exist, then you are the bad one.
00:34:45.000There's a reason why the ACLU is declaring people authoritarian for suggesting that boys and girls play in separate leagues.
00:34:52.000There's a reason why Jen Psaki is doing the same thing.
00:34:55.000There'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.
00:35:06.000And the reason is because they have a totalitarian view of right and wrong and a totalitarian view that is completely contrary to science.
00:35:13.000So 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.
00:35:27.000It's already happening in places like Seattle.
00:35:28.000So you're going to see it happen in California and more broadly across America.
00:35:33.000You call CPS on somebody because little Bobby shows up to school and says that he's Janice.
00:35:39.000And 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.
00:36:14.000It is a video from, apparently, Season 3, Episode 8 of Nine Months with Courtney Cox.
00:36:22.000And it features a transgender man, meaning a biological woman, Who pushed, is a biological woman who had a baby.
00:36:29.000There's not a man who had a baby because that's not possible.
00:36:31.000There'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.
00:36:37.000And 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.
00:36:49.000I promise you, babies can't fit through the urethra.
00:36:54.000Try fitting a watermelon through there.
00:36:55.000In 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.
00:37:09.000So, this means a man who is married to a woman, but they believe they are members of the opposite gender.
00:37:14.000So, in this particular scenario, the quote-unquote husband, the faux husband, meaning a biological woman, gave birth.
00:37:21.000And the faux woman, meaning a biological man, is the quote-unquote mother in this scenario.
00:37:27.000And 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.
00:37:42.000Hey, by the way, you're a bigot if you disagree.
00:37:47.000Not only are you a bigot, if you bring up your children to disagree, the left will sick.
00:39:06.000Civil 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.
00:40:07.000Supplementing assumes that there is a baseline of nutrition that is being provided.
00:40:10.000My 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.
00:40:19.000Supplementation means not the whole thing.
00:40:24.000What kind of perverse damage are you doing to a baby?
00:40:26.000You're having the baby latch to a male nipple, and then you're like, oh yeah, I'm supplementing with formula.
00:40:31.000Yeah, we've created a hell of a society for ourselves, haven't we?
00:40:34.000We're a society of science, by the way.
00:40:36.000We are a society that is dedicated, foursquare, to science.
00:40:41.000In 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.
00:40:52.000That's how dedicated to science the left is.
00:40:54.000They are so dedicated to science, man.
00:41:36.000Because 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.
00:41:46.000At 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.
00:41:57.000And then we become more and more idiotic.
00:41:59.000And as we become more and more idiotic, we declare anybody who disagrees the real threat to the country.
00:42:07.000Yes, the American flag remains a beacon of liberty so long as the truly authoritarian left loses.
00:42:14.000If the authoritarian left wins, then we have a bigger problem, and so do people all over the world.
00:42:30.000Apparently, there's a representative in Arizona who is also making sure that we have the proper representation on our nation's high courts.
00:42:38.000There's another element of the stupid authoritarian notions that we're not pushing for.
00:42:43.000There is a representative, Greg Stanton, from Arizona.
00:42:45.000He says that we have to make sure that all of our courts are represented by sexual orientation.