The Ben Shapiro Show - Truth vs. Pride

00:00:00.000 Well, societally, we are in a battle right now between truth and pride.

00:00:04.000 A battle between things that matter and things that make certain groups feel good.

00:00:08.000 That is the battle that is taking place across American society, across European society, across the West right now.

00:00:14.000 And last week, that battle manifested And whether you would be allowed to see the documentary, What is a Woman? 0.92

00:00:19.000 You'll recall that last week we were going to release on the one year anniversary of Matt Walsh's hit documentary, What is a Woman?

00:00:24.000 The entire documentary for anyone to see on Twitter for 24 hours.

00:00:28.000 And Twitter's immediate response was that they were going to shadow ban any content from the film.

00:00:33.000 On grounds of quote-unquote misgendering.

00:00:34.000 Now, misgendering is an Orwellian term.

00:00:36.000 The idea that if I say that a man is a man, this is somehow a form of misgendering as opposed to properly gendering.

00:00:42.000 And that if a man says that he is a woman, that is his true self. 0.75

00:00:45.000 That, of course, is Orwellian nonsense.

00:00:46.000 It is directly opposed to truth.

00:00:48.000 It predicates, it prioritizes the feelings of a person above the realities of life, and insists that all of society reflect the feelings of the person, which may shift moment to moment, as opposed to a truth that we all can share and then debate.

00:01:02.000 Well, we obviously fought back against that, and Elon Musk, to his great credit, decided to take off the clamps.

00:01:08.000 And now, the statistics on how many people have seen what is a woman are absolutely astounding.

00:01:12.000 So I wanted to bring you the updated statistics on how many people have seen what is a woman at this point.

00:01:18.000 The number of video impressions on What Is Woman, that tweet, the tweet that we put out there, that Elon Musk then tweeted himself and then pinned at the top of his account, 171 million impressions on that tweet.

00:01:30.000 171 million impressions, which means, at the very least, tens and tens of millions of people have seen the actual documentary, making it, by any metric, perhaps the most watched documentary in the history of humanity.

00:01:42.000 It is also the number one documentary on planet Earth for the second Pride Month in a row over on Rotten Tomatoes, which, again, pretty impressive stuff.

00:01:50.000 And the reason people are engaging with the film, the reason that people love What Is A Woman is not just because it's super funny and because it's super interesting, but also because it says it is OK to speak a baseline truth.

00:01:59.000 Here's some quick stats on how the viewership for What Is A Woman compares to the viewership of other online events, for example.

00:02:06.000 So this this video, this documentary has more views than Anderson Cooper's show all week combined.

00:02:11.000 On CNN.

00:02:13.000 Then the 2023 Oscars, then Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union address, then Lizzo's most recent music video special, which is four months old.

00:02:20.000 And that's over the course of like 48 hours, 72 hours over the weekend.

00:02:24.000 More viewers in the Game of Thrones finale.

00:02:25.000 These are huge numbers because people want to engage with the truth.

00:02:29.000 They're sick of being told lies.

00:02:31.000 These are bigger numbers than the numbers on massive documentaries like Making a Murderer from Netflix, which had 19 million views over the course of five weeks.

00:02:40.000 It's over the course of like 72 hours.

00:02:42.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:02:43.000 Trended in the UK with 129,000 tweets.

00:02:46.000 It trended in the United States.

00:02:47.000 It trended in Germany.

00:02:48.000 It trended in Canada.

00:02:49.000 It trended in New Zealand.

00:02:50.000 People are hungry for truth and they are sick of being lied to.

00:02:53.000 They are tired of being lied to.

00:02:54.000 They are sick of being told that somebody's sense of subjective individual identity is more important than, again, all of our shared concept of the truth.

00:03:03.000 And this goes to a broader question that has now arisen in Western civilization.

00:03:07.000 And that is, what is the norm?

00:03:09.000 What is the thing that we can all share?

00:03:12.000 What is the thing we can all share?

00:03:13.000 And that doesn't mean there are people who are always going to fit into the norm.

00:03:16.000 There are some people who don't fit into the norm.

00:03:18.000 But as a society, we have to share certain norms and standards.

00:03:21.000 And if we don't, then society fragments.

00:03:24.000 Society is about the things that we share.

00:03:27.000 Now, again, if you think of society, That's essentially a solar system.

00:03:31.000 And the truth, that thing that we all share, is the sun.

00:03:34.000 And then there are planets, right, in orbit.

00:03:37.000 And those planets are not expelled from the solar system of truth.

00:03:41.000 They're kind of just orbiting it.

00:03:43.000 They're not part of the truth, but they're certainly at least accepting the presence of the central gravitational force that is holding the entire system together.

00:03:52.000 So take, for example, the idea of quote-unquote heteronormativity.

00:03:55.000 And so during Pride Month, there's a lot of talk about heteronormativity, exploding the myth of heteronormativity.

00:04:00.000 That's not a myth.

00:04:01.000 That is a central guiding proposition of any fundamentally durable civilization.

00:04:05.000 The notion that man, woman, and child lies at the basis of any functional and durable civilization is unquestionably true.

00:04:12.000 Because any civilization at which this does not lie at the root will die.

00:04:16.000 There will just not be propagation of the civilization.

00:04:17.000 It won't exist.

00:04:19.000 The notion that man, woman, and child, we ought to be apathetic as to the choices that people make and the behaviors in which people engage that actually progenerate the species and allow civilizations to survive is absurd.

00:04:30.000 Well, that is a norm.

00:04:32.000 Now, we in the West, because that was sort of the background noise, because that was something that we all assumed, we all just assumed it was in the air and in the water, that a fish doesn't understand that it's swimming in water, it's just what is around it.

00:04:43.000 For most of human history, people didn't think about, you know, the air that surrounded them, it's just what you lived in.

00:04:48.000 In the same way, most of the norms that support how we live are things we don't think about at all.

00:04:52.000 Nobody ever thought, for virtually all of human history until the last five minutes, nobody ever thought about, like, you know what's a fundamental norm?

00:04:59.000 That we all rely on man, woman, child.

00:05:01.000 That would have been an absurd thing to even think about, because of course that's the norm.

00:05:05.000 What else would the norm be, exactly?

00:05:06.000 Again, all of human propagation relies on this norm.

00:05:10.000 And then there were exceptions to the norm.

00:05:11.000 There were people who didn't live like that.

00:05:13.000 There were people who had other desires.

00:05:14.000 There were people who had other orientations.

00:05:16.000 And those people, in the best of all possible worlds, you would say, OK, well, those are people who don't fit the norm.

00:05:20.000 That doesn't challenge the norm itself.

00:05:23.000 The norm itself is the norm.

00:05:24.000 And hopefully we can have tolerance for people who don't necessarily fit the norm, but they aren't hurting anybody else.

00:05:30.000 But the norm is still the norm.

00:05:32.000 And then people in the 1960s and earlier, I mean, the 1960s is the culmination of it, but beginning in the early 19th century with the Romantic movement, there was a challenge to the norm itself.

00:05:40.000 The idea was the norm is bad.

00:05:43.000 The norm is an inhibition on who you are.

00:05:45.000 The norm has to be destroyed.

00:05:47.000 Heteronormativity has to be destroyed because what the left has pointed out really since the 1960s in America and across Europe, what the left has pointed out is that that is an assumption.

00:05:56.000 And they're right.

00:05:57.000 It is an assumption.

00:05:59.000 And so what they say is that's not neutral.

00:06:01.000 It's not a neutral assumption.

00:06:02.000 Heteronormativity isn't a neutral assumption.

00:06:04.000 It is, in fact, a set of values.

00:06:06.000 Well, they're right about that.

00:06:06.000 It is a set of values.

00:06:08.000 But it's a good set of values.

00:06:09.000 And that's the point.

00:06:10.000 Now, people on the right responded by saying it's not a set of values at all.

00:06:13.000 It's neutral.

00:06:14.000 If we're just neutral about our values, then that's fine.

00:06:17.000 What if we're just neutral about the question of heteronormativity versus non-heteronormativity?

00:06:20.000 What if we're neutral about the question of what is a man and what is a woman?

00:06:23.000 We'll just be neutral on that, you know?

00:06:25.000 Like, because that's the way that we thought about it until five seconds ago.

00:06:28.000 We didn't think about it as an actual moral norm that had to be re-inculcated with every generation.

00:06:33.000 It was just the water we swam in.

00:06:34.000 It was the air that we breathed.

00:06:37.000 So neutrality would have just meant continuing to go along as it went along.

00:06:41.000 What the left pointed out correctly is that we are swimming in water and we are breathing air.

00:06:45.000 And they said we don't like the air that we're swimming in.

00:06:47.000 We don't like the water that we're... We don't like the air that we're breathing or the water that we're swimming in.

00:06:51.000 We don't like any of those things.

00:06:52.000 Those norms are bad.

00:06:54.000 What if we change the norms?

00:06:55.000 What if we made those norms go away?

00:06:57.000 And the answer is societal chaos.

00:06:59.000 This is the great challenge that the West is going to have to face right now.

00:07:03.000 It is the challenge between the norms that are good and alternative forms of living that insist not on being a marginalized but accepted part of the community and being the new norm.

00:07:15.000 That is a difference.

00:07:16.000 That is not the same thing.

00:07:18.000 A lot of people have made over the course of time, the course of my lifetime, the distinction between tolerance and acceptance and celebration completely be obliterated.

00:07:26.000 The notion that you would tolerate behavior that deviates from the norm has now been turned into, well, it's not enough to tolerate, you have to accept as completely moral.

00:07:34.000 And then you have to celebrate.

00:07:36.000 We went very fast in American society from people should be allowed to do what they want to do behind the closed doors of their bedroom to we have to have entire months, pride months, in which we celebrate the violation of the norm. 0.87

00:07:47.000 Once you celebrate the violation of the norm, what you're really saying is that the norm is bad.

00:07:50.000 Think of another area of life in which there is a rule and we celebrate the violation of the rule.

00:07:55.000 We have a full-scale month celebrating the violation of what we think of as the societal norm.

00:07:59.000 You can't think of another example of this behaviorally.

00:08:01.000 It doesn't exist.

00:08:03.000 Any other example of, here's a societal norm, a thing that we all think of as good, and then we have a full month celebrating the violation of that norm.

00:08:10.000 A full month celebrating it.

00:08:12.000 Because what is that really saying?

00:08:13.000 It's really saying the norm is bad.

00:08:14.000 And when you say the norm is bad, that is not a neutral position.

00:08:17.000 Get some more on this in just one second.

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00:09:22.000 Okay, so the reason that this comes up is because to pretend that we are not actually in a battle between truth, meaning good, durable, valuable norms, and an alternative system of morality is to deny reality.

00:09:35.000 There is no neutral in this battle.

00:09:37.000 The left was right.

00:09:39.000 The set of norms that existed was not a neutral set of norms.

00:09:42.000 And I think it was neutral in the sense that it reflected reality a lot better than the new set of nonsensical norms in which men and women don't exist, in which all forms of sexual activity are equally valuable to society.

00:09:52.000 It's obviously not in consonance with reality.

00:09:55.000 But they are right to say that there was a set of norms, and that we assumed they weren't norms, we just assumed it was reality, but they were norms, and that those norms can be destroyed.

00:10:03.000 And what the left has argued is that the norms should be destroyed.

00:10:06.000 And so this is how they now make the affirmative case for performing drag shows in front of small children. 1.00

00:10:11.000 Make the affirmative case for pride parades involving assless chaps in front of small people. 1.00

00:10:17.000 Right? 0.97

00:10:17.000 Not in front of kids. 0.97

00:10:19.000 Right?

00:10:20.000 The idea here is that it is an active good to explode the norm that society is rooted in.

00:10:27.000 Make no mistake, that's what the Pride Month challenge is.

00:10:31.000 Because these things are not, these are not Mutually acceptable in a society as the central norm.

00:10:39.000 Again, you can have a society that has a central norm and that accepts people who vary from the central norm.

00:10:42.000 That happens all the time.

00:10:43.000 It happens in every religious community.

00:10:45.000 It happens in every school.

00:10:46.000 It happens in every society.

00:10:47.000 In every society, there are the people who don't fit the established norm and society says, okay, well, you know, that's Bill.

00:10:53.000 And then we move on with our lives.

00:10:55.000 But that's not what's happening.

00:10:56.000 When you have not only, by the way, a full Pride Month, you have something like 144 days on the calendar that are celebrated now in America as International Lesbian Visibility Day, International Queer Awareness Day, International Two-Spirit Native American Little Person Day.

00:11:11.000 When you have that, that is an overt attempt to change the norm.

00:11:14.000 And it's not like the ball is being hidden here.

00:11:16.000 It's not a conspiracy theory when people just say it right out in the open.

00:11:19.000 The idea is that heteronormativity is bad.

00:11:21.000 Heteronormativity is somehow a restriction on the true you.

00:11:27.000 And after all, what's more important in life than the true you?

00:11:31.000 And I can see this really come into conflict over the course of this weekend.

00:11:35.000 There's been an overt attempt on the part of some states to protect children from the violation of these norms, because many societies in the United States properly and in good faith believe, because it's true, that children should be taught the norm of man, woman, child.

00:11:54.000 That that should be the thing that children are indeed inculcated with from the time they are very young, because all of human society relies on exactly this norm.

00:12:03.000 And so, in order to prevent kids from having their little brains exposed to toxic societal idiocy, there have been a series of laws that have been passed in a wide variety of jurisdictions that ban, for example, overt sexual material from being placed before children. 0.94

00:12:19.000 And that's now been extended in some states, like Tennessee, to include men gallivanting around dressed as women and thrusting their pelvises in graphic ways near kids. 0.97

00:12:30.000 That's what Tennessee passed a law to do. 0.98

00:12:32.000 Well now, that law has been struck down in Tennessee because the government is supposed to be quote-unquote neutral on this matter.

00:12:38.000 But the point the left made a long time ago is there is no neutrality.

00:12:41.000 There is no neutrality.

00:12:42.000 Once you say that a society is apathetic about the norm, that's not a neutral position.

00:12:47.000 If society is apathetic about a norm, it means the norm no longer exists or is worth upholding.

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00:13:58.000 Okay, so there's this case in Tennessee.

00:14:01.000 A federal judge who's actually appointed by President Trump has decided that a law that placed strict limits on drag shows was unconstitutional.

00:14:09.000 According to the judge, the law was, quote, unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad and encouraged discriminatory enforcement.

00:14:16.000 The judge named Thomas Parker and he wrote, there's no question that obscenity is not protected by the

00:14:20.000 First Amendment, but there's a difference between material that is, quote,

00:14:22.000 obscene in the vernacular and material that is obscene under the law.

00:14:26.000 Simply put, no majority of the Supreme Court has held that sexually explicit,

00:14:29.000 but not obscene speech receives less protection than political, artistic, or scientific speech.

00:14:34.000 Now, you can put the blame on Parker for this decision, this judge.

00:14:38.000 I don't think the blame is actually on Parker.

00:14:39.000 I think the blame here is on what the Supreme Court has done with the First Amendment since really the 1960s with regard to obscenity generally.

00:14:46.000 So it used to be widely accepted in the United States that obscenity law could go pretty far on the local level.

00:14:51.000 The First Amendment, first of all, was never designed to apply to the states, and it certainly was not designed to apply to localities.

00:14:56.000 The original language of the First Amendment to the Constitution simply says the Congress shall establish no law Inhibiting freedom of speech.

00:15:04.000 Congress is the actor in question in the First Amendment to the Constitution.

00:15:08.000 It is not the state legislature and it is certainly not a municipal body.

00:15:11.000 Now there are a lot of states that have also put in place their form of the First Amendment.

00:15:15.000 But there is no reading of the First Amendment, the original First Amendment, that includes anything like sexually explicit material.

00:15:21.000 Or material that protects cross-dressing. 0.84

00:15:24.000 Hey, that was never... To pretend that that was in the history of the First Amendment, that America has a long history of protecting cross-dressing as a First Amendment activity, is ridiculous.

00:15:33.000 And cross-dressing in front of kids as a First Amendment activity? 0.63

00:15:37.000 It's an absurdity on its face.

00:15:39.000 But again, the idea here is that government is supposed to now be neutral, and that neutrality is going to be crammed down by the federal government.

00:15:45.000 Is that a neutral position?

00:15:46.000 My point is that that's not neutrality.

00:15:48.000 When the federal government says that you, as a local community, cannot ban drag shows in front of five-year-olds, that is not a neutral position.

00:15:55.000 That is a very, very strong position held by the federal government to prohibit you from protecting your kids in your community and setting up a centralizing norm.

00:16:03.000 That's what that is.

00:16:04.000 Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose.

00:16:06.000 And the government, in the form of the federal government here, is deciding that you, your local community, cannot do this thing to establish a norm.

00:16:14.000 That, for example, kids should be taught that boys and girls dress differently as a general rule because masculinity and femininity are distinct.

00:16:21.000 Again, that doesn't mean there aren't exceptions to the rule, but those are the rule, and it is good that boys learn masculinity, and it is good that girls learn femininity.

00:16:28.000 The fact that this has become Some sort of controversial proposition that boys ought to learn to be men and that girls ought to learn to be women and that men and women are distinct categories with the areas of crossover, but they are largely distinct.

00:16:41.000 The fact that that is a controversial proposition is one of the reasons why you are seeing a decline in masculinity and a decline in femininity and a decline in childbearing and childrearing and complete breakdown of relations between the sexes.

00:16:51.000 When the sexes are no longer distinct, it's hard to have relations between them, is it not? 0.96

00:16:55.000 The norm has to be maintained.

00:16:57.000 If the norm is not maintained, there is no norm.

00:16:59.000 And the absence of a norm is a norm.

00:17:04.000 The breakdown of an actual societal rule.

00:17:07.000 When the sun explodes, there is no gravity.

00:17:10.000 There is no center of gravity anyway.

00:17:12.000 The planets are going to spin off into the emptiness, into the void.

00:17:18.000 That's what happens in terms of norms.

00:17:20.000 Once that sun is wrecked, either there's a new center of gravity, There's a black hole that is going to act as the new center of gravity, or there is no center of gravity and everything spins off.

00:17:31.000 And that's what you're watching right now.

00:17:33.000 And again, you can see the battle over the norm.

00:17:37.000 The battle over the norm right now involves, as I say, the destruction of the norm.

00:17:43.000 Here's another case.

00:17:44.000 Another example.

00:17:46.000 Over the weekend, a Utah school district banned the Bible in elementary and middle schools due to vulgarity and violence.

00:17:51.000 Again, they're saying, That this is an aspect of neutrality.

00:17:55.000 They're saying this is neutrality.

00:17:57.000 Neutrality is that if you don't want a seven-year-old having access to Genderqueer, a book in which little boys are taught about gay sex, Through pictures, through cartoons.

00:18:08.000 If you don't want that available to a seven or an eight or a nine-year-old, then that kid also should not be exposed to the Bible.

00:18:13.000 That is the quote-unquote position of neutrality.

00:18:14.000 Is that a neutral position?

00:18:16.000 It's equating the two things.

00:18:18.000 But we're not a society that traditionally has equated biblical morality, which says that you ought to be responsible in the use of your genitalia, with an entire worldview that says that all forms of sexual activity ought to be promoted to children.

00:18:30.000 The Bible is not quite saying the same thing as genderqueer, or even the converse of the thing.

00:18:36.000 To equate the two things is a perversion, and everyone knows that it's perversion, which is precisely why the left is pursuing it.

00:18:41.000 According to the Associated Press, the Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent, frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools, convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children.

00:18:52.000 Now again, the teaching of the Bible used to be a rigorous prerequisite to going to school in the United States, including in most public schools across the United States.

00:19:01.000 Most public school kids knew the Bible.

00:19:03.000 At the end of the 19th century, in the early 20th century, most kids were familiar with the Bible, if not from school, then certainly from church.

00:19:09.000 Most of them went to parochial school.

00:19:12.000 But now we are a society that equates the two.

00:19:16.000 And it's the easy, lazy person's position.

00:19:18.000 The easy, lazy person's position is to say, there are no norms.

00:19:20.000 I'm neutral on this question.

00:19:22.000 No, you're not.

00:19:23.000 No, you're not.

00:19:24.000 Neutrality is a position.

00:19:25.000 Neutrality with regard to biblical morality versus anti-biblical morality.

00:19:29.000 There is no neutrality.

00:19:30.000 Let's take a different example.

00:19:34.000 Here's the, the norm is murder is bad.

00:19:37.000 You say, well, you know, maybe murder's not so bad.

00:19:39.000 And not in all cases.

00:19:40.000 In fact, maybe there shouldn't be a norm about murder.

00:19:42.000 Let's just, there's no norm.

00:19:43.000 In fact, we're going to be neutral as to whether murder is bad or good.

00:19:46.000 Who does that favor? 0.97

00:19:47.000 Is that, is that a neutral position or does that actually kind of favor murder?

00:19:51.000 Right?

00:19:51.000 Pick any norm and the same thing applies on the moral level.

00:19:55.000 And that is why you are seeing, again, it is not a neutral proposition to ban the Bible from Utah school districts while also banning genderqueer. 0.57

00:20:01.000 That is not a neutral position.

00:20:03.000 That is an anti-biblical position, and everybody knows that it's an anti-biblical position.

00:20:07.000 When judges are striking down laws prohibiting drag queens from gallivanting in front of children, that is not a neutral position for the government to take.

00:20:13.000 That is a very pro-drag queen position, which is why drag queens were celebrating yesterday in Tennessee as they got to flaunt their wares in front of eight-year-old children. 1.00

00:20:21.000 Corporate America is not neutral on this question.

00:20:23.000 When they pretend neutrality, they are not neutral.

00:20:26.000 They're very much in favor of the new norms and the new standards.

00:20:28.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:21:32.000 Okay, so corporate America obviously has taken sides when it comes to the norm battle. 0.99

00:21:37.000 That is presumably why we, you want to see how idiotic society has become, right? 0.97

00:21:42.000 You want, this is like a perfect example of how marginalized becomes the new norm. 0.99

00:21:46.000 And this is it.

00:21:47.000 So, Bugs Bunny.

00:21:48.000 Remember watching Bugs Bunny cartoons when you were a kid?

00:21:50.000 And you'd get up on Saturday morning, or for me, Sunday morning, and Bugs Bunny would be on the telly, and you'd turn on the TV, and you'd watch Bugs Bunny.

00:21:56.000 Okay, well, there are a bunch of jokes in which Bugs Bunny dresses in drag because it's funny. 0.90

00:22:02.000 Because we're laughing at it.

00:22:04.000 Not because Bugs Bunny is expressing his alternative sexual orientation.

00:22:09.000 Not because Bugs Bunny is a queer icon. 0.94

00:22:11.000 Because it is funny when a man dresses a woman because it is absurd. 1.00

00:22:14.000 Because men dressing as women is stupid and absurd. 1.00

00:22:16.000 That is why. 1.00

00:22:18.000 That's literally the point of Bugs Bunny dressing in that way.

00:22:22.000 Every time he does so, in order to fake out Elmer Fudd, it's a joke, guys.

00:22:26.000 It's a joke.

00:22:28.000 But no, Looney Tunes.

00:22:30.000 A cartoon for kids has now decided that we have to be absolutely serious about all of this.

00:22:34.000 In fact, they put out a rainbow-paletted series of images of Bugs Bunny in drag.

00:22:42.000 Again, because it was funny.

00:22:44.000 And now they say, happy pride, get your drag on, rainbow flag, Looney Tunes.

00:22:49.000 So now Bugs Bunny is a queer icon. 1.00

00:22:50.000 Who knows?

00:22:51.000 Bugs Bunny may in fact be pansexual.

00:22:55.000 I mean, that may threaten the future species of bunnies, but That's the way it works. 1.00

00:23:00.000 This is also stupid. 0.99

00:23:01.000 We're now retconning what exactly... So you're telling me now that Some Like It Hot, which was mocking drag, is now a pro-drag movie. 0.99

00:23:09.000 That's the whole thing. 0.98

00:23:11.000 It's so silly. 0.99

00:23:13.000 It's so silly. 0.99

00:23:14.000 And that wasn't the only thing that they were celebrating. 1.00

00:23:18.000 Again, they put out a series of tweets surrounding this new idiotic trope. 1.00

00:23:25.000 Here we go. 1.00

00:23:27.000 Oh, look at that. 0.95

00:23:35.000 Tom is now a gay icon. 0.96

00:23:40.000 Sorry, Sylvester the Cat is now a gay icon. 1.00

00:23:43.000 Really exciting. 0.73

00:23:44.000 Sylvester is chasing Tweety Bird and turning into a gay icon in the process. 0.89

00:23:50.000 For children! 0.91

00:23:52.000 Amazing.

00:23:54.000 Amazing.

00:23:55.000 And people are tweeting out things like, I love her, what a woman.

00:23:57.000 And Looney Tunes writes back, what a maroon.

00:23:59.000 So the entire corporate sphere, for kids, again this is for kids because Bugs Bunny is directed at children.

00:24:03.000 When's the last time you watched Bugs Bunny?

00:24:05.000 You're probably 10.

00:24:08.000 This is the new norm.

00:24:09.000 It's a norm.

00:24:10.000 You take pride in a new norm.

00:24:11.000 You don't take pride in violation of a norm.

00:24:14.000 Pick another Any norm in life.

00:24:18.000 Is there a month celebrating the violation of the norm?

00:24:20.000 I'm gonna need like an example of it.

00:24:22.000 Meanwhile, Microsoft is partnering with GLAAD to improve LGBTQ plus minus divided by 10 representation in Xbox games.

00:24:29.000 Again, this is directed at the kids, and the reason it's directed at the kids is because this is what you do.

00:24:33.000 As an adult, you teach kids norms.

00:24:35.000 Everybody keeps wondering, why is this all directed at the kids?

00:24:37.000 Why are they trying to trans the kids? 1.00

00:24:38.000 Why are they trying to teach genderqueer to eight-year-olds?

00:24:41.000 Because the whole point is to inculcate a new set of norms so that they themselves feel better about the set of norms that they are living by.

00:24:48.000 They are trying, the advocates for the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, new norm, are trying to change the norm.

00:24:54.000 The way that you change the norm is by recruiting the children.

00:24:57.000 That's why I've suggested before, it's not about sexually grooming children, it's about ideologically grooming children.

00:25:01.000 Now if those kids become confused and sexually oriented in various directions, so much the better for this movement.

00:25:07.000 I mean, I don't see anybody making the argument on that side of the aisle that something has gone wildly wrong when there's a 1300% increase in trans identification inside of a couple of years.

00:25:19.000 That's all just to the, that's to the good.

00:25:21.000 And it's just more expressive sexual behavior.

00:25:24.000 But that's not really the goal.

00:25:25.000 The goal is change all of society's views about the norm, substitute the new norm for the old norm, and then everyone will live better, happier lives.

00:25:32.000 This is why, in the end, this is a battle against biblical morality and traditional morality.

00:25:36.000 That's what this is.

00:25:37.000 Now, Taylor Swift, her silence was deafening.

00:25:40.000 You remember that time that Taylor Swift used to just be like a person who sang songs and without autotune didn't sound amazing?

00:25:45.000 Well, now, she has decided that she's a political leader of sorts, so she was doing a concert And one of the things that makes me feel so prideful is getting to be with you and watching you interact with each other, being so loving and so thoughtful and so caring.

00:26:09.000 And so being with you during Pride Month, getting to sing the words to you need to calm down where

00:26:15.000 there are lyrics like, can you just not step on his gown or shade never made anybody else gay and you guys are 0.62

00:26:21.000 screaming those lyrics.

00:26:23.000 In such solidarity, in such support of one another, in such encouraging beautiful acceptance and peace

00:26:35.000 And I wish that every place was safe and beautiful for people in need.

00:26:44.000 Right, so notice the language here.

00:26:46.000 The language that is pitched to the public is, we just want to be safe.

00:26:48.000 We just want to be left alone.

00:26:49.000 That's not what's happening.

00:26:50.000 Have you noticed that's what's happening in society?

00:26:53.000 They literally lit up the Department of Agriculture with gay pride flag.

00:26:56.000 Does that sound like a safe space?

00:26:58.000 Or does that sound like an actual religious movement that is seeking to substitute one set of morals for another?

00:27:03.000 That's seeking to supplant truth about human relations and about progeneration and about the decency of certain sexual activity.

00:27:12.000 Or the utilitarianism of certain sexual activity, if you wish to remove morality from the equation, and replace that with subjectivist pride.

00:27:20.000 It is truth versus pride.

00:27:21.000 That is what this is about.

00:27:23.000 Which is why it's so necessary for the left to make sure that the truth is never spoken.

00:27:27.000 Because if the truth is spoken, it's considered insulting and bad.

00:27:30.000 It's why things can't be said.

00:27:31.000 Because if you speak out against the new religious norm of the secular left, if you speak out against that norm, it's blasphemy.

00:27:38.000 And blasphemy must be stopped.

00:27:40.000 It must be stopped.

00:27:42.000 Because if you speak the truth, you might explode what exactly is going on.

00:27:46.000 It's why they're trying to stop what is a woman. 1.00

00:27:48.000 It's why they're constantly attempting to boycott out of existence anybody who says the reality about human relations.

00:27:55.000 These are things that cannot be said.

00:27:57.000 These are things that you're just not supposed to say.

00:27:59.000 And if you do say them, then the secular tsunami comes for you. 0.75

00:28:04.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the battle between truth and wokeness, we'll get to that in just one second.

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00:29:12.000 Also, we just had the fight of our lives here at DailyWire over free speech, and we won.

00:29:16.000 It was the beginning of Pride Month, the one-year anniversary of Matt Walsh's groundbreaking documentary, What Is Woman?

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00:29:24.000 And everybody kind of thought for a second that pre-Elon Twitter was coming back from the ashes

00:29:29.000 because they tried to actually mark all of our content on the film as hateful conduct

00:29:34.000 and they suggested that it was misgendering.

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00:29:36.000 And of course, massive, massive success.

00:29:39.000 He personally tweeted out the film, said every parent should watch it, which they should.

00:29:42.000 That tweet now has over 170 million views, made headlines all around the world.

00:29:47.000 Well, again, this is just one reason why you should be a member over at Daily Wire.

00:29:51.000 You should be a member over at Daily Wire because these are the battles we fight.

00:29:53.000 We are not just fighting battles with regard to saying things that need to be said.

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00:30:01.000 It's really, really important, right?

00:30:02.000 The free speech battle allows us to say the things that need to be said.

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00:30:11.000 We build staff so that we can fight for free speech.

00:30:14.000 You can see what all of us are up against, but this is the part of the battle that you join when you become a subscriber.

00:30:18.000 If you're not yet a DailyWare Plus subscriber, now would be the time.

00:30:21.000 If you sign up today, you get 25% off your membership when you use code WOMAN Meanwhile, speaking of the battle between truth and wokeness, and pride, of course, is just one aspect of the woke mind virus, which suggests that how you would wish reality to be ought to supplant what actually is, right? 0.93

00:30:40.000 Truth has to be discarded in favor of stupid utopianism. 0.54

00:30:44.000 Well, this is now what is happening in Chicago at Walgreens. 1.00

00:30:47.000 This is an unbelievable thing.

00:30:49.000 So apparently, Walgreens has been experiencing so much theft In Chicago they have now locked up the entire store like the entirety of the store.

00:30:59.000 There are two aisles in the entire Walgreens where customers can shop for themselves.

00:31:03.000 The rest is locked up and you need to order from a kiosk.

00:31:07.000 Because too many people are just the rates of breakage, as they call it in the industry, are just too high.

00:31:12.000 People are running in and they are robbing the store so often that Walgreens had two choices.

00:31:15.000 Either they shut down the store entirely or they literally lock everything.

00:31:19.000 They lock down the aisles.

00:31:20.000 And then in order for you to order, you can like go to a kiosk and order everything.

00:31:24.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, a Chicago branch of Walgreens has been redesigned with just two aisles where customers may shop for themselves.

00:31:30.000 The rest must be done via a kiosk.

00:31:32.000 The new anti-theft store at 2 East Roosevelt in downtown Chicago will trust shoppers to pick up essentials for themselves in the two free aisles.

00:31:38.000 Everything else must be ordered and picked up via a counter.

00:31:41.000 The store took weeks to construct and it opened to mixed reviews on Tuesday.

00:31:46.000 One shopper told WBBM News Radio their experience was positive.

00:31:49.000 Quote, it's nice that for the essentials, you no longer have to call security to get them to open the glass case.

00:31:53.000 So I guess that the default before that is that even for the essentials, you had to ask somebody to unlock.

00:31:57.000 It's been a long time thing that when you go to a grocery store, there are certain items that are probably high theft

00:32:01.000 items like razors, for example, where you actually have to have the store employees unlock it for you.

00:32:06.000 You go to the local CVS and there's the stuff they keep behind the counter because that stuff was like very high

00:32:10.000 rates of stealing.

00:32:11.000 In Chicago, apparently that's just all the things that's like everything in the store.

00:32:17.000 We should be able to be trusted to go in without having to have cameras and people watching us and all that stuff,

00:32:20.000 said one person.

00:32:21.000 Well, I mean, if people weren't stealing everything, probably that'd be, that'd probably be better.

00:32:26.000 The move comes after Walgreen's chief financial officer told investors on an earnings call this year executives may have overstated the effects of organized shoplifting.

00:32:32.000 So maybe we cried too much last year.

00:32:35.000 He said that the company had probably mischaracterized how much theft took place in the chain stores and may have spent too much introducing security measures.

00:32:42.000 Well, or alternatively, you guys don't have the actual stones to go up against municipal governments that have failed to arrest criminals.

00:32:49.000 When I say truth versus wokeness, this would be the example. 1.00

00:32:52.000 We live in a society in which high rates of criminality, if they happen to be, Congregated, in particular racial sectors of the population, have to be ignored. 1.00

00:33:04.000 So instead of saying, say a disproportionate number of people who are shoplifting in downtown Chicago are black, but that has nothing to do with them being black.

00:33:10.000 It has to do with you need to arrest people who are shoplifting. 0.53

00:33:13.000 Instead of just saying that, they're like, it means too many black people are being arrested.

00:33:16.000 If we ask for people to be arrested, we're going to look like racists.

00:33:19.000 And that means that the best possible solution is we lock up the entire store.

00:33:23.000 Our solution is not to stump for criminals to go to jail, which, by the way, would make life better for all the non-criminals in Chicago, including mainly, by the way, people living in low-income communities that are disproportional and minority.

00:33:34.000 No, instead, what we're going to do is we'll make everybody suffer so we can continue along with the myth that if a disproportionate number of black men are going to prison, it's because America is racist rather than a disproportionate number of black men are committing certain types of crime. 0.59

00:33:47.000 It's not just Walgreens, of course. 1.00

00:33:49.000 Every element of our media and our corporate infrastructure has been suffused with this stupidity. 0.98

00:33:55.000 Instead of looking at individuals in America and their performance and then deciding whether or not they hit the metrics, we have decided that if the metrics are disproportionately hit by certain groups but not hit by other groups, that must be some reflection of underlying racial animus. 0.97

00:34:08.000 That's how you end up with this story in the New York Times about Stoyvesant High School.

00:34:11.000 Quote, Stuyvesant High School admitted 762 new students.

00:34:15.000 Only seven are black. 0.93

00:34:16.000 Okay, so just from that headline, it makes it sound like the people who are leading Stuyvesant are just, they must be the worst racists ever. 0.97

00:34:22.000 I mean, 762 new students and only seven are black? 0.98

00:34:24.000 Do they hate black people or something? 0.95

00:34:26.000 Well, no. 0.89

00:34:27.000 They don't actually select the people who enter Stuyvesant.

00:34:29.000 There's an entry exam.

00:34:30.000 The people who pass the entry exam get in.

00:34:32.000 The people who don't, don't.

00:34:34.000 They're not equally apportioned by race.

00:34:37.000 The numbers, which have remained stubbornly low for years since the New York Times, placed a fresh spotlight on racial and ethnic disparities in the nation's largest school system.

00:34:44.000 Now again, a disparity does not mean discrimination.

00:34:46.000 It might just be a disparity.

00:34:48.000 There's a disparity between the percentage of men and the percentage of women who go to prison.

00:34:52.000 Is that discrimination?

00:34:53.000 Is it because society hates men that 95% of the people in prisons are men?

00:34:57.000 Or is that called a disparity?

00:34:59.000 At Stuyvesant High Schools in Manhattan, the most selective of the city's so-called specialized schools, 7 of the 762 offers made went to Black students, down from 11 last year and 8 in 2021.

00:35:08.000 20 Latino students were offered spots at Stuyvesant.

00:35:12.000 So obviously, this is white supremacy, right?

00:35:15.000 Except that only 158 of those slots went to white students.

00:35:16.000 489 went to Asian students. 0.99

00:35:21.000 Obviously, New York is just a wildly pro-Asian, anti-white, anti-Latino, anti-black place. 0.97

00:35:28.000 Clearly, that's what's happening here. 0.87

00:35:29.000 The Asians have gotten control of the levers of power in New York, which is why Andrew Yang is currently the mayor. 1.00

00:35:35.000 I can't believe it.

00:35:36.000 I can't believe the Asian supremacy that is happening is stoicisant. 0.74

00:35:40.000 Or maybe there are some differences in how Asian students study, and family and parental structure, and the kind of time they spend on homework.

00:35:48.000 Maybe it would be those things.

00:35:49.000 But no.

00:35:50.000 Instead, we are going to yell at Stoyvesant High School.

00:35:53.000 You remember that Mayor Bill de Blasio actually, because he wanted to reject reality so much, actually proposed replacing the entire entrance exam, which would have raised the share of Black and Latino students accepted to more than 40%.

00:36:03.000 That would have involved, of course, just exploding all the standards in the first place.

00:36:08.000 And this has now suffused so much of what's happening across our society.

00:36:12.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, assaults in school have ratcheted up since the return to in-person learning, adding to broader concerns about safety in school.

00:36:23.000 Across the United States, violence against teachers has ratcheted up since the widespread return to in-person learning in 2021.

00:36:28.000 In some areas, the problem is worse than it was pre-pandemic.

00:36:30.000 The data are limited because many states don't specifically track teacher assaults or use the same methodology to make data comparable.

00:36:35.000 From September through May of the current school year, the number of assault-related workers' comp claims filed at some 2,000 schools in different regions of the United States topped 1,350, a five-year high.

00:36:46.000 So why exactly is all of that happening?

00:36:47.000 1,350 workers across the United States, that'd be mainly teachers you'd imagine at these schools,

00:36:52.000 have experienced assault.

00:36:54.000 The average cost of those claims has increased 26% to around $6,700 compared with the same period in 2018,

00:37:00.000 2019.

00:37:01.000 So why exactly is all of that happening?

00:37:04.000 Well, one of the reasons is because schools have stopped expelling or suspending students who assault people

00:37:10.000 or sending them to jail.

00:37:11.000 In a nationwide American Psychological Association survey of nearly 15,000 teachers and staff

00:37:17.000 from July, 2020 to June, 2021, 14% of teachers reported physical violence from students.

00:37:23.000 49% of teachers said they wanted to quit or switch schools.

00:37:26.000 While teachers are frequently hurt intervening in fights, some are targeted.

00:37:30.000 Now, here's where things get fun.

00:37:34.000 Why exactly is all of this happening?

00:37:36.000 Why this vast uptick in the amount of violence against teachers?

00:37:41.000 Well, the reason is because everyone is afraid of sending kids to the school-to-prison pipeline.

00:37:48.000 The so-called school-to-prison pipeline, right?

00:37:50.000 There's been a big bugaboo of the left for a long time.

00:37:51.000 It's the idea that if you put law enforcement officers in schools, if you put support officers in schools to prevent this sort of stuff, they might arrest kids and those kids might end up in jail.

00:38:02.000 And we can't have that.

00:38:03.000 So just like Walgreens, what we'll do is we'll pretend that the problem isn't happening.

00:38:06.000 Quote, Over the past decade, many U.S.

00:38:08.000 school districts have begun relying less on out-of-school suspensions in favor of so-called restorative practices, which can include group-based social skills training sessions and conferences, where those affected by an incident jointly discuss how to resolve the situation, said Anne Gregory, professor in Rutgers University's school psychology program.

00:38:23.000 Out-of-school suspensions raise a student's odds of dropping out and being arrested, she said, and disproportionately affect black students.

00:38:29.000 Oh, they disproportionately affect black students, do they?

00:38:32.000 Why?

00:38:34.000 Why? 0.93

00:38:34.000 Are you suggesting that a disproportionate number of black students are committing assaults against teachers? 0.93

00:38:38.000 And if so, what does that have to do with their race?

00:38:40.000 And if so, like, if a black student beats up a teacher, why should that student... Why should we redesign the entire system so that student isn't punished because of the color of the student? 0.65

00:38:50.000 And ignoring reality, ignoring truth, in favor of comforting lies happens to be the way things are done.

00:38:56.000 And the way that that is done on a general societal level is by elite cram downs. 0.99

00:39:00.000 Because normal citizens don't like this crap. 0.99

00:39:01.000 Normal citizens are not up for this. 0.99

00:39:03.000 Normal citizens are not up for every corporation in America mirroring Pride Month. 0.72

00:39:07.000 The common man in America is not up for a full month of corporate cram downs about why your child needs to learn that all forms of sexual behavior are morally equivalent.

00:39:15.000 The normal American citizen is not up for locking up entire Walgreens just so people won't get arrested.

00:39:22.000 That's not what normal people... They would like to be able to go to a Walgreens and then shop there and then for people who are criminals to be arrested.

00:39:27.000 The normal American citizen is not up for the idea that teachers just have to accept a certain amount of assault in the schools in favor of racial and ethnic disparities being wiped away by not paying attention to the stats.

00:39:40.000 But the elites are very much in favor of this because, for them, they want to create a new system.

00:39:45.000 And elite consensus is created really easily.

00:39:48.000 There's this idea out there that the way that elite consensus is created is people in a room getting together and then they conspiratorially talk things over and they come to a conclusion.

00:39:55.000 They are aiming at a thing and they decide to hit the thing.

00:39:57.000 And sometimes that's true.

00:39:59.000 More often, it's just elites talk to each other, and they're in an echo chamber, and then they start mirroring each other.

00:40:05.000 That is a perfect example of this.

00:40:07.000 And it's indicative, again, of how policy gets done in the West these days.

00:40:11.000 The brand new CDC director, a person named Mandy Cohen, who is the North Carolina health director and was selected for this job by President Biden.

00:40:20.000 A clip has now emerged of Mandy Cohen talking about how common standards were set between North Carolina and Massachusetts during lockdowns.

00:40:29.000 Listen to how casual she is about elite cram downs of policy that affects tens of millions of people based on we had a conversation, me and my friends thought so.

00:40:38.000 So I would call, probably the person I called most was the Secretary of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts.

00:40:44.000 She worked for a Republican governor. 0.97

00:40:47.000 But when she was like, are you going to let them have professional football?

00:40:53.000 And I was like, nope.

00:40:54.000 And she's like, OK, neither are we, neither are we.

00:41:00.000 Okay, so again, the elite consensus is created just by people talking with each other.

00:41:14.000 That's it.

00:41:14.000 It's just the same way that you and your friends decide where to go to a restaurant.

00:41:17.000 This is how they decide to control the lives of tens of millions of people, hundreds of millions of people.

00:41:21.000 They can decide to explode entire societal norms.

00:41:23.000 They can shut down your business.

00:41:24.000 They can do anything based on just this elite consensus that is created by them getting on the phone with their friends and then being risk averse because there is safety in corporate numbers.

00:41:32.000 There is safety in elite numbers.

00:41:33.000 If you can blame your elite friends and your elite friend group decided to make the rules, well then everybody else has to comply.

00:41:40.000 Americans are not up for this.

00:41:41.000 The answer to all of this, by the way, is actual localism.

00:41:43.000 The answer to all of this is to stop allowing elites at the governmental and corporate level to control everything that we do and hear and see.

00:41:51.000 Because when we actually have the option to opt for truth, when we have the options to establish societal norms from our local communities, everybody is happier.

00:41:59.000 You want to establish your weird norm in San Francisco?

00:42:02.000 Go for it, man.

00:42:02.000 You want to establish green hair norm in San Francisco?

00:42:05.000 Well, you know, I'm not morally indifferent about that, but you're the one living in San Francisco.

00:42:10.000 But what we've done as a society is we've said that moral neutrality involves implementing San Francisco values all over the country in every way, from criminality to Pride Month, To COVID.

00:42:23.000 The elite consensus that exists on the coast is now being crammed down on America via corporate power, via governmental power, and we can all feel it and we can all see it.

00:42:32.000 This is why the norms are disintegrating in real time.

00:42:34.000 And meanwhile, remember that time that Joe Biden fell down real hard on a stage and we were all supposed to ignore it, pretend it never happened?

00:42:41.000 Well, you know, I'd have more faith in the authorities telling us that there's nothing wrong with Joe Biden if I didn't see him falling downstairs every five seconds or falling upstairs every five seconds.

00:42:49.000 And also, We have a long history in this country of people falling and hurting themselves and then the media pretending it never happened.

00:42:56.000 Remember that time near the end of the 2016 campaign that Hillary Clinton collapsed into a van?

00:42:59.000 You remember that?

00:43:01.000 I think it was a September 11th memorial and she was walking away from it and just like fell overhead long into the van.

00:43:08.000 They pretended it was like walking pneumonia.

00:43:10.000 And then a year later we found out that she was still having double vision because of it.

00:43:14.000 The media have a very long history of covering up serious health problems among Democrats.

00:43:18.000 I'm going all the way back to JFK, going all the way back before that to FDR.

00:43:22.000 The media love covering up for Democrats who have health problems.

00:43:24.000 So even if Joe Biden had a health problem...

00:43:27.000 And he doesn't have to.

00:43:28.000 I mean, we just know he's super old.

00:43:29.000 Even if he had a health problem, we just wouldn't know about it.

00:43:31.000 The media are not going to cover it because they want him to be president of the United States.

00:43:35.000 So, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked by one intrepid reporter whether Joe Biden had had an exam after he fell down that hard.

00:43:40.000 He is 80 years old and he did fall.

00:43:42.000 And Karine Jean-Pierre's like, no, no, no, no.

00:43:44.000 He doesn't need an exam.

00:43:45.000 He's fit as a fiddle and ready for love.

00:43:49.000 Just to make sure we clear the record here, he tripped over a sandbag on the stage and briefly he tripped and got up and he got right back up and continued what he was there to do.

00:44:05.000 There was no need for the doctor to see him as it was related to the fall and he's doing fine.

00:44:11.000 Some of you saw him last night when he returned getting off Marine One on the South Lawn.

00:44:17.000 He spoke to this.

00:44:20.000 That's, yeah, I believe you.

00:44:22.000 He's probably fine.

00:44:24.000 The New York Times is doing its best to cover up Joe Biden's problems.

00:44:27.000 They have an entire article today on the front page titled, Inside the Complicated Reality of Being America's Oldest President.

00:44:33.000 It's not a complicated reality.

00:44:35.000 He's really old and he is not with us any longer.

00:44:38.000 He's occasionally sentient.

00:44:40.000 He can barely make words happen from his face hole.

00:44:43.000 There's not a lot going on upstairs.

00:44:44.000 I mean, there never was with Joe Biden, but there's even less going on upstairs now than there was 10 years ago.

00:44:49.000 But listen to how the New York Times reports this, quote, The portrait that emerges from months of interviews with dozens of current and former officials and others who have spent time with him lies somewhere between the partisan cartoon of an addled and easily manipulated fogey promoted by Republicans and the image spread by his staff of a president in aviator shades commanding the world stage and governing with vigor.

00:45:07.000 It is one of a man who has slowed with age in ways that are more pronounced than just the graying hair common to most recent presidents during their time in office.

00:45:13.000 Mr. Biden sometimes mangles his words and looks older than he used to because of his stiff gait and thinning voice.

00:45:18.000 Yet, people who deal with him regularly, including some of his adversaries, say he remains sharp and commanding in private meetings.

00:45:25.000 Diplomats share stories of trips to places like Ukraine, Japan, Egypt, Cambodia, and Indonesia, in which he often outlasts younger colleagues.

00:45:31.000 Democratic lawmakers point to a long list of accomplishments as proof he still gets the job done.

00:45:37.000 And then they go on and quote a bunch of his aides who talk about what a virile man he is.

00:45:44.000 Quote, like many of his age, Mr. Biden repeats phrases and retells the same hoary, often fact-challenged stories again and again.

00:45:49.000 He can be quirky.

00:45:50.000 When children visit, he may randomly pull a book of William Butler Yeats off his desk and start reading Irish poetry to them.

00:45:55.000 At the same time, he is trim and fit, exercises five days a week, and does not drink.

00:45:59.000 He has at times exhibited striking stamina, such as when he flew to Poland, then boarded a nine-hour train ride to make a secret visit to Kyiv, spending hours on the ground, then endured another nine-hour train ride and a flight to Warsaw.

00:46:10.000 Oh my God, he sat on a seat for long periods of time?

00:46:13.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:46:14.000 It's like he was riding the Tour de France or something.

00:46:17.000 That's crazy.

00:46:18.000 I mean, you mean he sat on a plane and then he sat on a train and then he stood upright for a bit and then he and then he sat back down again.

00:46:28.000 Wow.

00:46:29.000 That is some strong stuff right there.

00:46:33.000 Apparently, they then go after Trump, and they suggest that Trump, of course, was absolutely terrible.

00:46:39.000 But then they get to, this is the best quote of the piece, Aides say it is clear he actually reads the briefing books

00:46:44.000 because of the questions that follow.

00:46:45.000 There is no one who is better at asking questions to get to the bottom of an issue.

00:46:49.000 Calling your bluff, asking the tough questions, said Stephanie Feldman, White House staff secretary.

00:46:53.000 He asks just as tough questions today as he did 10 years ago.

00:46:56.000 below.

00:46:58.000 Wow.

00:46:58.000 That's... His own aides say that he's an amazing guy.

00:46:59.000 Wow.

00:46:59.000 Astonishment and his ability to keep up when Italy's new leader pushed for a meeting while the president was in

00:47:03.000 Poland He readily agreed to it

00:47:06.000 During a trip to Ireland people with him said he was energized and wanted to talk at length on Air Force One

00:47:10.000 rather than rest Wow, that's it

00:47:14.000 His own aid say that he's an amazing guy. Wow. Wow, I mean Not not to put to find a point on this

00:47:22.000 But I promise you that if you ask my staff to comment by name in the newspapers about what a wonderful dude I am

00:47:28.000 They will tell you by name.

00:47:30.000 If they're going to crap all over me, I assume they would do it anonymously.

00:47:33.000 So if you're quoting the White House staff by name, talking about how awesome their boss is, that's not like an amazing source.

00:47:40.000 It's fun to watch Democrats try to pretend that Joe Biden is doing amazing.

00:47:44.000 the Democratic congressperson from Maryland. He says that older leaders are wise. Yes,

00:47:51.000 great. I'm sure he'd be saying the same about Trump, who is going to be running for

00:47:56.000 the presidency at the age of 78. Sure.

00:47:57.000 Are voters wrong to be worried about reelecting a man who would be closer to 90 at the end of

00:48:04.000 his second term than 80? You know, America is a country that loves youth and vitality,

00:48:10.000 which is why we have laws against age discrimination, because we tend to favor

00:48:15.000 youthfulness and the new thing.

00:48:17.000 In a lot of countries, people who've been in office a longer period of time are praised for their wisdom.

00:48:23.000 And I think that Joe Biden rightly says that he has grown very wise in his many decades in public office.

00:48:32.000 So, he's grown.

00:48:35.000 By grown, he means that his arteries have hardened.

00:48:41.000 By what measure?

00:48:42.000 By what measure?

00:48:42.000 How desperate are the Democrats at this point?

00:48:44.000 Hilarious piece over in The Messenger, positing that perhaps Joe Biden will throw a 2024 Hail Mary by kicking Kamala Harris off the ticket and adding to the ticket, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.

00:48:55.000 Former President Barack Obama.

00:48:57.000 Now, I know what you're saying.

00:48:58.000 That's not legal.

00:48:59.000 And you are right.

00:49:00.000 It is not legal.

00:49:01.000 But!

00:49:01.000 Wait until you hear the justification for adding Barack Obama, a two-term president, as VP.

00:49:07.000 At first blush, the 22nd amendment might be thought to preclude Obama from being on the 2024 ticket.

00:49:11.000 That amendment provides no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.

00:49:15.000 While Obama is precluded from ever running again for election as president, the amendment does not prohibit him from running for any other office, including vice president.

00:49:22.000 Nor does the last sentence of the 12th amendment disqualify him.

00:49:25.000 It stipulates that no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to the office of vice president of the United States.

00:49:31.000 For several reasons, this requirement does not expand Obama's inability under the 22nd Amendment to run for election as president.

00:49:39.000 So I guess the idea here is that you can be a two-term president and then run for vice president because you're not being elected as president.

00:49:46.000 And then if you assume the office after the president dies, you can serve a third term.

00:49:51.000 Which seems like, by the way, an amazing way of just ending around the Constitution.

00:49:54.000 Because by this very same logic, you could just run as VP on a ticket, put some empty Placeholder at the top of the ticket.

00:50:00.000 That person can retire day one and you're the president again in perpetuity.

00:50:04.000 Exciting stuff they've discovered in the Constitution of the United States.

00:50:06.000 Now, it is illegal.

00:50:08.000 There's no way that a court were to allow Obama to be on the ticket, but this is how desperate they are at this point.

00:50:16.000 They're like, yeah, Joe Biden, not a good candidate.

00:50:19.000 He's falling apart.

00:50:20.000 By the way, As we're noting here that the markets are getting a little skittish.

00:50:26.000 The S&P 500 has been stagnating.

00:50:28.000 It's probably ready for a drop.

00:50:30.000 It's worth pointing out right now that the measure that I typically use to determine whether the stock market as a whole is overvalued is price to earnings ratio for the entire S&P.

00:50:37.000 So typically, the sort of rule of thumb used by investment guru Ben Graham, that rule of thumb Was that if it's trading, if the price to earnings ratio for the S&P 500 is above 20, it's probably overvalued.

00:50:53.000 Like significantly over 20, it's overvalued.

00:50:55.000 Right now, it's about 24, 25.

00:50:56.000 So that means that it's overvalued right now.

00:50:59.000 It's probably going to go up because again, the earnings are going to come in short and people are still investing in the stock market hedge against inflation, which means that the stock market is probably overvalued a little bit right now.

00:51:09.000 The Wall Street Journal points out that we are now in what they call a full employment recession.

00:51:13.000 And there's been a historic drop in productivity.

00:51:15.000 So what does that mean, that there's been a drop in labor productivity?

00:51:18.000 It means that employers right now are hesitant to fire people, even if they don't have enough work for them, because it's been so hard to get them to come back to work after we inflated a bunch of money into their pockets.

00:51:27.000 So there's all of this kind of weird disconnect between the market and employment rates right now, which suggests that if we enter a prolonged period of economic stagnation, which is very likely to happen over the course of the next few years, then the employment rates will in fact drop.

00:51:42.000 So get ready for that.

00:51:43.000 Look, Joe Biden has done a terrible job, which is why he's vulnerable, and that is why they're speculating about the possibility of somebody like Barack Obama being his VP candidate, which, of course, is silly in the extreme.

00:51:52.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:51:55.000 So, speaking of things that I like, I just mentioned Benjamin Graham.

00:51:58.000 Benjamin Graham is the investment guru who taught Warren Buffett.

00:52:03.000 He has an excellent book if you are interested in investing on your own.

00:52:07.000 He invests using a strategy called value investing.

00:52:10.000 I am a big advocate of value investing.

00:52:11.000 The basic proposition of value investing is that when you invest in an asset, The underlying value of the asset is what you are investing in.

00:52:18.000 You should not buy into bubbles.

00:52:19.000 You should not buy into busts.

00:52:20.000 And basically, when you buy a piece of stock, instead of thinking of a piece of stock as a thing that goes up and down in market value based on the vagaries of the stock market, you should look at the actual company and think about you are owning a piece of that company.

00:52:32.000 Is that a company that you wish to own a piece of?

00:52:34.000 Do you think that is a successful and well-managed company?

00:52:37.000 His book is called The Intelligent Investor.

00:52:39.000 It is definitely worth the read.

00:52:41.000 It's got an excellent additional commentary on it.

00:52:44.000 Free chapter by Jason Zweig.

00:52:45.000 It's really, it's not the easiest financial read, but it's certainly not the most difficult.

00:52:49.000 It's definitely made for the lay person.

00:52:51.000 It is worth the read.

00:52:51.000 The Intelligence Investor by Ben Graham.

00:52:53.000 So people who are constantly asking me for investment advice, my answer is read that.

00:52:57.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:52:58.000 Sam Brinton, dude.

00:53:00.000 Remember that guy who was in charge of our nuclear waste? 0.71

00:53:02.000 Well, it turns out that he himself is a bag of nuclear waste.

00:53:05.000 He is now being charged again with grand larceny in a third airport baggage theft case. 0.83

00:53:11.000 So that dude has a weird fetish for stealing luggage to the point that he is now being arrested a third time for stealing other people's bags.

00:53:21.000 According to county records reviewed by Fox News Digital, Brinton was taken into custody in Rockville.

00:53:26.000 A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said the arrest was related to theft of airport luggage, the third such criminal case involving Brinton.

00:53:35.000 Brinton, of course, has made a habit of not only being a generalized weirdo, but also stealing people's luggage and then wearing it around.

00:53:42.000 It's gone poorly.

00:53:44.000 It's been very, very strange.

00:53:45.000 So, yeah.

00:53:47.000 Well done, Sam Britton.

00:53:48.000 Good hiring decisions being made on the basis of non-binary gender diversity there at the Biden administration.

00:53:53.000 It all worked out fantastically.

00:53:55.000 Alrighty, guys.

00:53:56.000 The rest of the show continues right now.

00:53:57.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:53:58.000 We'll be joined by Bjorn Lomborg, who, of course, is the debunker of all global warming hysteria.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 05, 2023

Truth vs. Pride

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