The Ben Shapiro Show - Visual PROOF Press Is In Biden's Pocket

00:00:00.000 Well, having a president of the United States who is 80 years old and is looking to run for re-election, he would be 86 when he finishes his second term.

00:00:08.000 That's weird in and of itself.

00:00:09.000 It's even more weird when that person is obviously in a state of cognitive decline.

00:00:12.000 I know a lot of 80-year-olds who are not in a state of cognitive decline, actually.

00:00:16.000 There are a lot of people who are in really good shape at 80.

00:00:18.000 People have spent their lives exercising.

00:00:20.000 People have done brain exercises.

00:00:21.000 People who have really aged well.

00:00:24.000 Joe Biden is not one of these people.

00:00:26.000 Joe Biden is very much not one of these people.

00:00:28.000 So President Biden yesterday, he was doing some sort of event was bring your child to work day over at the White House.

00:00:34.000 And so a bunch of people brought a bunch of kids in for Joe Biden to meet.

00:00:38.000 And it went really, really badly because Joe Biden is just not capable any longer.

00:00:41.000 He is a doddering elderly fellow who cannot answer the most basic questions, even from tiny children. 0.85

00:00:46.000 So, for example, Joe Biden combined Mental incompetence with actual moral incompetence in this particular clip. 0.66

00:00:53.000 He's asked by a small child about the location of his grandchildren and it doesn't go well.

00:00:59.000 One granddaughter lives in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.

00:01:05.000 One granddaughter lives in New York.

00:01:08.000 One granddaughter lives in Washington.

00:01:11.000 One granddaughter lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

00:01:15.000 And the other grandsons, my grandson lives in California.

00:01:19.000 I left somebody out, didn't I?

00:01:21.000 Anyway, I did say five, you're right.

00:01:24.000 So let me see, I got one in New York, two in Philadelphia.

00:01:32.000 No, three, because I got one granddaughter who is... I don't know.

00:01:40.000 Oh lord.

00:01:41.000 That's not great.

00:01:42.000 What makes it even more not great is that he does it like twice.

00:01:45.000 He goes through this thing twice where he tries to name all of his grandkids.

00:01:48.000 That's obviously cognitive decline.

00:01:51.000 Tremendous fail.

00:01:53.000 My parents have a bunch of grandkids and They can name where all the grandkids are.

00:01:56.000 They have four kids, and they have a bunch of grandkids, and they can name where all the grandkids are because it's not actually all that difficult.

00:02:01.000 In fact, I can name where all my nieces and nephews are located. 0.92

00:02:03.000 It really isn't all that difficult.

00:02:05.000 Of course, I'm 39, and this person is more than twice as old as I am, and he is President of the United States, and again, I am not 25.

00:02:12.000 So, that is not a great number.

00:02:14.000 But, here's the real moral problem.

00:02:16.000 The real moral problem is he names six grandkids.

00:02:19.000 There is, in fact, a seventh grandkid.

00:02:21.000 That he is not supposed to talk about.

00:02:22.000 Why?

00:02:22.000 Because he is squaring around Hunter Biden as though Hunter Biden is still a wonderful, decent human being.

00:02:27.000 Hunter Biden is a garbage bag of a human being. 0.99

00:02:30.000 Not only a person who has committed obvious crimes in his past and who may be involved in funneling cash to the rest of the Biden family, but also is the father of a child by an alleged stripper. 1.00

00:02:42.000 And that child has never been acknowledged by Joe Biden.

00:02:45.000 There's been actual DNA tests that show that the kid is Hunter Biden's.

00:02:48.000 Hunter still refuses to pay for the kid or acknowledge the kid is his.

00:02:52.000 According to Fox News, President Biden has yet again refused to acknowledge his son Hunter's estranged four-year-old daughter, while speaking about his grandchildren as an Arkansas paternity case involving the ordeal heats up.

00:03:01.000 On Thursday, Biden spoke to the staffers' kids on Take Our Kids to Work Day, saying he speaks to his six grandchildren daily and is crazy about them.

00:03:08.000 But Biden ignored.

00:03:09.000 His seventh grandchild, Navy Joan Roberts, who Hunter had with ex-stripper London Roberts, a trend that has continued for some time.

00:03:15.000 Biden has repeatedly acted as if the kid doesn't exist.

00:03:17.000 December 2022 marked the second Christmas season in a row that the White House left Hunters out of wedlock daughter out of a Christmas stocking display.

00:03:23.000 Before that, in 2020, Biden said he and his wife, Jill Biden, had five grandchildren forgetting about a newborn Hunter had just had with his wife, Melissa Cohen.

00:03:30.000 And the stumble later forced a correction from the first lady who said they have six, again, leaving out Navy Joan. 0.96

00:03:36.000 Not wonderful stuff.

00:03:38.000 Not wonderful stuff.

00:03:39.000 I mean, at some point you would expect that the President of the United States might at least note that he has this grandkid.

00:03:46.000 I mean, he is the President of the United States, so not a wonderful thing. 0.83

00:03:50.000 But again, back to the sort of mental incompetence. 0.90

00:03:52.000 This is not the only evidence of mental incompetence from the President of the United States yesterday. 0.98

00:03:56.000 Being grilled by the tiny kids. 0.79

00:03:58.000 So the tiny kids ask him, when was the last time you went out of the country?

00:04:01.000 The answer is Ireland.

00:04:02.000 It was like last week.

00:04:04.000 You don't have to have an amazing memory to remember when he went over to Ireland, especially if you're the person who went over to Ireland.

00:04:10.000 Here is Joe Biden being flustered and confused by the question.

00:04:14.000 What was the last country you traveled to?

00:04:17.000 The last country I've traveled, I'm thinking what's the last one I was in?

00:04:21.000 I've been to 89 I met with 89 heads of state so far.

00:04:27.000 So I'm trying to think, where was the last place I was?

00:04:30.000 It's hard to keep track.

00:04:35.000 I mean, yeah, you're right, Ireland.

00:04:37.000 That's where it was.

00:04:40.000 How'd you know that?

00:04:42.000 How'd the kid know that?

00:04:44.000 Because you were on the TVs in Ireland.

00:04:48.000 The small child knows.

00:04:49.000 So, you know, this guy, he's losing it, obviously.

00:04:54.000 And not only is he losing it, he also happens to be in charge of our nation's policy. 0.98

00:04:57.000 So he says silly things like this.

00:04:58.000 He said yesterday, he says, the right to life means the right to have a good life. 0.89

00:05:01.000 No, it's what?

00:05:04.000 No, actually, no, because that's a really arbitrary definition.

00:05:07.000 There was the president yesterday endowed by their creator, endowed by God with certain inalienable rights, meaning rights that are just they have just because they're born.

00:05:18.000 And those rights are life, to have a good life, liberty, In the pursuit of happiness.

00:05:26.000 The right to have a good life.

00:05:27.000 No, okay.

00:05:28.000 So there's a reason that this is relevant.

00:05:31.000 The reason is because any press worth its salt would actually be asking this person difficult questions.

00:05:37.000 He's the most powerful person on the face of the earth.

00:05:40.000 And every day they're given the privilege of asking questions to the most powerful person on the face of the earth and a person who's supposed to be answerable to the demands of 340 million Americans.

00:05:50.000 But they're not doing that.

00:05:51.000 And they're not doing that because the press are Joe Biden's Praetorian Guard.

00:05:53.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:06:53.000 Okay, so the press, theoretically, should be asking difficult questions of this doddering old fool who happens to be in charge of the most powerful engine of economic growth and military power in the history of humanity. 0.94

00:07:13.000 I mean, what a privilege, right? 0.67

00:07:16.000 I mean, you actually get to ask questions of a person who's in charge of the most powerful military force On the planet, in all the planetary history, and the person who's in charge of the most powerful economy in human history.

00:07:26.000 Instead, what you do is, like a bunch of sycophantic, sycophantic servants, you submit your questions in advance to the president's team, so that he can call on you, and you can pretend to ask the question back to him.

00:07:42.000 So, if they were just submitting a bunch of written questions and then you were answering, right, you're just reading it off a list, that'd be one thing.

00:07:46.000 But he's pretending.

00:07:47.000 It's all pretend.

00:07:49.000 It's all a show.

00:07:51.000 That's what was shown the other day when Joe Biden was actually pictured holding a card.

00:07:56.000 On the card is a picture of the reporter, Courtney Subramanian.

00:08:01.000 OK, and Courtney Subramanian, there's a picture of her.

00:08:04.000 There's a phonetic spelling of her name.

00:08:06.000 It says question number one.

00:08:08.000 And then you can see the actual question says foreign policy slash semiconductor manufacturing.

00:08:13.000 How are you squaring your domestic priorities like reshoring semiconductor manufacturing with alliance based foreign policy?

00:08:20.000 This may turn into a theme about friction around... and then you can't really see the rest of what she's saying.

00:08:25.000 So, that's what it says on the card, right?

00:08:26.000 It sums up the question.

00:08:28.000 Here was Supermanian's actual question, right?

00:08:30.000 Here is what she actually asked.

00:08:32.000 Your top economic priority has been to build up U.S.

00:08:36.000 domestic manufacturing in competition with China.

00:08:40.000 But your rules against expanding chip manufacturing in China is hurting South Korean companies that rely heavily on Beijing.

00:08:48.000 Are you damaging a key ally in the competition with China to help your domestic politics ahead of the election?

00:08:56.000 Okay, now imagine that he hadn't been fed that question in advance.

00:08:59.000 Imagine that she had just hit him with that right off the top, right?

00:09:01.000 Question number one would have been, are you damaging your alliance with South Korea by reshoring semiconductor manufacturing to the United States in order to avoid Chinese dominance?

00:09:11.000 That's an actual pretty good question, right?

00:09:13.000 There's nothing wrong with the question itself.

00:09:14.000 But when you submit it in advance to Joe Biden so his team can create spin around it, you don't actually get an honest answer.

00:09:20.000 And that's the whole point.

00:09:22.000 The press don't want honest answers.

00:09:23.000 They want a rehearsed answer from the current president of the United States so he doesn't look bad.

00:09:28.000 Who are you going to believe?

00:09:29.000 Your own eyes?

00:09:29.000 I just showed you the evidence.

00:09:30.000 The actual picture of the card with the question on it juxtaposed with the actual reporter's question.

00:09:36.000 The Los Angeles Times is denying submitting questions to the White House, according to Fox News, ahead of Wednesday's press conference.

00:09:42.000 The vice president of communications for the L.A.

00:09:44.000 Times, Hillary Manning, provided the following statement to Fox News Digital, quote, Our reporter did not submit any questions in advance of the Q&A with President Biden.

00:09:50.000 Courtney Subramanian covers the White House for the L.A.

00:09:52.000 Times.

00:09:52.000 As such, she's in regular contact with the White House press office seeking information for her reporting.

00:09:57.000 You'd have to ask the White House, who prepared the document for the president.

00:10:00.000 And why they included that question.

00:10:02.000 The White House has not responded to any sort of actual question about any of that.

00:10:08.000 Caitlin Collins, who's the CNN White House correspondent, she said, quote, it's not uncommon for the White House to prepare these types of briefing materials for the president, but it's the level of specificity that's in the spotlight.

00:10:17.000 As you note, the note card included the name and the photo of the reporter and a possible question.

00:10:21.000 Now, it's worth noting her question was not identical to what was on the note.

00:10:24.000 Yeah, it was.

00:10:25.000 I mean, it really was pretty much identical to what was on the note card.

00:10:29.000 This is not just amazing advance work by Joe Biden's team.

00:10:33.000 Somebody gave him the answers.

00:10:35.000 Somebody gave him the cheat sheet.

00:10:36.000 And this has been true throughout his presidency.

00:10:38.000 You've seen him because he's not with it.

00:10:40.000 Spill that over and over in press conferences.

00:10:42.000 He will literally go up there with a list of questioners.

00:10:45.000 And then he will say, Subramanian from Los Angeles Times.

00:10:49.000 And then if somebody asks a question, you're not on my, I don't know, you're not on my list.

00:10:53.000 I'm not sure.

00:10:55.000 The White House is trying to pretend that this is normal.

00:10:57.000 It is not normal in any way, shape or form.

00:10:59.000 This is why Joe Biden has been absolutely avoiding serious press conferences for years on end at this point.

00:11:06.000 Here's Corrine Jean-Pierre, who also should avoid serious questions because she's really bad at it, trying to pretend this is all normal. 0.84

00:11:12.000 The LA Times said that their reporter did not submit any questions in advance of yesterday's press conference.

00:11:17.000 So, to the people who saw that pocket card, can you explain how that ended up there and why the President needed something like that?

00:11:25.000 So, just to step back, and I'm actually glad you asked that question.

00:11:29.000 Clearly, I would let the reporter for Los Angeles Times speak for herself.

00:11:34.000 It is entirely normal for a president to be briefed on reporters who will be asking questions at a press conference and issues that we expect they might ask about.

00:11:43.000 It is not surprising that yesterday we would anticipate questions that he did receive, right, on the visit with the South Korean president.

00:11:54.000 We are just amazing at predicting the exact wording of questions from exact reporters.

00:11:57.000 It's like amazing.

00:11:59.000 We're so good at this, guys.

00:12:00.000 That's the answer.

00:12:01.000 Now, even some members of the media who happen to be slightly more honest are like, yeah, no, that doesn't wash.

00:12:06.000 John Avalon at CNN, for example, he's like, yeah, that doesn't look very good.

00:12:10.000 Biden at 80 is the oldest president in American history, and if re-elected, he'd be 86 by the end of his second term.

00:12:16.000 What do you make of how he addressed it?

00:12:18.000 It was not very artful.

00:12:20.000 I mean, look, I know that President Biden is frustrated by the constant questions about his age, but they exist for a reason.

00:12:26.000 I mean, you know, ending a second term at age 86 is unprecedented territory.

00:12:30.000 Eisenhower was in his 60s.

00:12:31.000 Even Jim Clyburn said this is a really legitimate question to ask.

00:12:34.000 Absolutely is.

00:12:35.000 And it doesn't help matters when, you know, you see him getting cheat sheets for, you know, questions and interviews and things like that.

00:12:41.000 He has been a consequential president, but this is a totally legitimate area of concern, and polls bear that out.

00:12:48.000 Paul Farhi from the Washington Post says the same thing.

00:12:50.000 He says it's very common for the White House to ask the press pool kind of what's on your mind and get sort of advanced notions of what kinds of questions could be answered.

00:12:58.000 But the specificity is very different.

00:12:59.000 According to Farhi, in their advanced conversations, reporters rarely offer anything as specific as Subramanian's topic.

00:13:04.000 The typical answer is news of the day, which leaves the options for questioning the president open.

00:13:08.000 You don't want to give away your questions to the veteran reporter.

00:13:10.000 It's incredibly bad form to do that.

00:13:12.000 Subramanian has not responded to a request for comment.

00:13:14.000 The L.A.

00:13:14.000 Times says that Subramanian did not provide the White House officials with a specific or even general question in advance of the news conference.

00:13:20.000 However, on Tuesday, the reporter mentioned to official semiconductors one of several topics she might want to cover.

00:13:25.000 And the White House is just pretending they're amazing at this.

00:13:27.000 No, they're lying.

00:13:28.000 They're lying.

00:13:29.000 Okay, the press are acting in cahoots with this administration that is perfectly clear at every step of the way.

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00:14:41.000 Okay, so this president is not capable of answering questions.

00:14:43.000 from small children, let alone the press.

00:14:45.000 So it's a good thing that the press are guarding him closely.

00:14:48.000 For the Democrats.

00:14:49.000 Because if he were ever exposed to the actual harsh sunlight, the disinfecting sunshine of actual harsh questioning, he would collapse.

00:14:56.000 He's been lying his entire administration from the debacle in Afghanistan to the economy.

00:15:01.000 He lies on the routine.

00:15:02.000 And everybody pretends that he's honest.

00:15:04.000 Daniel Dale has been put in the Witness Protection Program over at CNN. 0.88

00:15:07.000 This is the guy who needs to bring on during the Trump administration to talk about how Donald Trump was the worst liar who had ever lied.

00:15:14.000 He made Pinocchio look like Jesus, right? 0.79

00:15:17.000 That's how bad Donald Trump was?

00:15:19.000 Well, now, it's an amazing thing. 0.81

00:15:22.000 Now, Joe Biden, who is a habitual liar, I mean, he lies about, is there an element of his past he has not lied about?

00:15:27.000 He literally lied two days ago about the hospital where he was born, and he's told lies about every single element of his life up to now. 0.70

00:15:34.000 He was a civil rights hero who was jailed.

00:15:36.000 No, he wasn't.

00:15:37.000 He was somebody who was in favor of gay marriage in 1952.

00:15:39.000 No, he wasn't.

00:15:41.000 He's somebody who has served in absolutely spotless, clean public.

00:15:46.000 No, what?

00:15:47.000 Hunter Biden is the smartest person he knows.

00:15:48.000 I mean, all he does is lie.

00:15:50.000 He lies day in and day out.

00:15:52.000 And it's not just lying about his past.

00:15:53.000 It's lying about the present.

00:15:55.000 He lies that Jim Crow 2.0 is the big threat in Georgia.

00:15:58.000 And then you get record black turnout in Georgia.

00:16:01.000 He lies by saying democracy is under threat because a couple of hundred criminals decided that they were going to attempt violence at the January 6th riot and hundreds of others just sort of milling around.

00:16:11.000 And this was a threat to our democracy so grave that he must win a second term. 0.57

00:16:15.000 He's a liar when it comes to his policy with regard to China.

00:16:18.000 China is threatening Taiwan. 0.96

00:16:19.000 He's like, well, maybe we should just be nice to them.

00:16:21.000 I mean, is there a thing that Joe Biden has not lied about?

00:16:24.000 His dishonesty is part of his entire appeal.

00:16:27.000 Joe Biden has been lying since he first ran for president in 1988 while plagiarizing speeches from Neil Kinnock. 1.00

00:16:32.000 He is a liar, a really, really bad liar. 0.96

00:16:37.000 I recall that in 2012, when Paul Ryan was debating him in the vice presidential debate, he just started randomly lying about French presidents in Lebanon and American presidents. 0.99

00:16:46.000 He just started making up stories.

00:16:48.000 It was crazy towns.

00:16:50.000 But nobody calls him on it.

00:16:51.000 He slaps on the Joker grin, the Ray-Bans, and the media just start oohing and aahing.

00:16:54.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:16:57.000 So, you would imagine that maybe somebody should ask him some tough questions once in a while.

00:17:00.000 Nope, the press are in his pocket. 0.96

00:17:02.000 Legacy media are gross.

00:17:06.000 They're in the pocket of the Democratic Party.

00:17:07.000 Even pretending that they are a separate organ from the Democratic Party at this point is a lie.

00:17:11.000 They simply work for the Democratic Party.

00:17:13.000 Again, the transformation happened in 2009.

00:17:14.000 When Barack Obama was elected in 2008 and he took office in 2009, the media decided that they were the White House press office.

00:17:20.000 There was no distinction.

00:17:22.000 They were one and the same.

00:17:25.000 It's an amazing thing to watch.

00:17:26.000 And this is why Joe Biden is able to count on the fact that the media will presumably continue to not ask him tough questions about his economic policy, for example.

00:17:36.000 To take the latest battle that is an example of this.

00:17:40.000 The Republicans passed what is, in fact, an incredibly mild law with regard to cuts.

00:17:45.000 Okay, so they're talking now about the debt ceiling.

00:17:48.000 Kevin McCarthy, who the media portrayed as a complete incompetent boob, he was never going to be able to get a majority together for anything as Speaker of the House.

00:17:55.000 Well, he did.

00:17:55.000 He put together a 217 vote majority.

00:17:58.000 There's sort of four Republicans will never vote for anything because this is their game.

00:18:01.000 But you got 217 Republicans to vote in favor of this debt ceiling bill.

00:18:05.000 The debt ceiling bill raises the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion or one year, whichever comes first.

00:18:10.000 And in return, it asks for discretionary spending to be cut to 2022 levels.

00:18:16.000 Okay, you may remember in 2022, we spent a boatload of money.

00:18:20.000 In 2022 levels, that's not like a major ask.

00:18:22.000 We're not talking about we have to cut discretionary spending back to 2010 levels even.

00:18:27.000 No, we're talking about like a year ago.

00:18:28.000 Just keep the discretionary spending at 2022 levels and then increase it year on year by 1%.

00:18:33.000 That is what Kevin McCarthy is asking for.

00:18:36.000 So the media are playing this as though Kevin McCarthy is asking for the moon and

00:18:40.000 is attempting to take a broad axe to government spending, which is not even remotely true, 0.75

00:18:46.000 all in an attempt to prop up Joe Biden's pathetic economic policy.

00:18:51.000 Even some members of the media are being forced to recognize that they didn't expect McCarthy to actually get this thing through.

00:18:57.000 Now that they did get the thing through, they're presumably going to portray the Republicans as the bad guys in all of this.

00:19:02.000 They do have a serious problem on their hands, however, and this is something they're beginning to face up to in the Senate right now.

00:19:09.000 The Democrats have a problem.

00:19:10.000 They have a 51 vote majority.

00:19:12.000 However, one member of the Senate, Dianne Feinstein, has shingles. 0.96

00:19:17.000 The reason I put shingles in air quotes right there is because the reason that she's not in the Senate is because she, like Joe Biden, is mentally incompetent, but way more so. 0.89

00:19:23.000 Everyone in the Senate knows this. 0.99

00:19:24.000 The Senator from California does not have brain function. 1.00

00:19:29.000 John Fetterman has mental problems. 0.98

00:19:30.000 Dianne Feinstein is not active. 0.99

00:19:33.000 She's off the stage.

00:19:35.000 Everyone knows this, including the Democrats, which means she is not available to actually vote, which means it is currently a 50 to 49 split in the Senate, granting extraordinary power to Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Jon Tester.

00:19:47.000 These are all sort of red state, but blue seat Senate members.

00:19:53.000 All of them are going to have to negotiate now this debt ceiling battle.

00:19:56.000 Democrats have painted themselves in the corner.

00:19:57.000 The good news is they can always count on the media to get them out of it.

00:19:59.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:21:08.000 Okay, so.

00:21:10.000 As I say, the Democrats have a problem when it comes to this debt ceiling bill.

00:21:14.000 Republicans have passed it.

00:21:16.000 It includes what are, by any historic measure, extraordinarily mild cuts.

00:21:21.000 The Democratic press is going to play this as though Republicans are standing in the way of increasing the debt ceiling, and therefore the economy is going to fall on its face.

00:21:27.000 The problem is that because Dianne Feinstein has basically brought the number of Democratic senators down to 50 from 51, this means that the Democrats are now going to have to make a deal with Joe Manchin, or Kyrsten Sinema, or Jon Tester, and when I say or, I mean all three.

00:21:43.000 Manchin is running in West Virginia, probably against the West Virginia governor.

00:21:48.000 So the West Virginia governor right now is, I believe, Jim Justice.

00:21:51.000 Jim Justice has said, pretty popular over there, he has said that he's going to run for the Senate, or he's implied he's going to run for the Senate.

00:21:57.000 Manchin is looking forward to losing his job, unless he actually scores a win off of Joe Biden.

00:22:02.000 Joe Biden just jacked him on the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:22:04.000 Remember on the Inflation Reduction Act, it was Joe Manchin who signed on the dotted line in return for some special giveaways for coal and natural gas in his home state.

00:22:11.000 And now Joe Biden is not giving any of those subsidies for the coal or the natural gas.

00:22:15.000 And so now Manchin is ticked at him.

00:22:17.000 So theoretically, Joe Biden is going to have to go negotiate with Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona, who is now relabeled as an independent and is not running as a Democrat anymore, or Jon Tester, who is from Montana, a state where he could easily lose his seat if he decides to vote too much to the left.

00:22:30.000 So all three of them could score concessions in conjunction with Republicans from Joe Biden.

00:22:34.000 The good news is, the Democrats are set because the press will continue to defend them no matter what.

00:22:40.000 According to Politico, the White House and Congressional Democrats are preparing to ramp up attacks on House Republicans over the bill, targeting swing district members for endorsing policies that would strip investments in their home districts and gut funding for popular programs.

00:22:51.000 By the way, some of the things that the Republicans have proposed are like, maybe you need to work in order to receive Medicaid.

00:22:56.000 Like, if you wish to actually get welfare dollars, there have to be work requirements attached.

00:23:01.000 You know who approves of that?

00:23:02.000 Pretty much everybody in the United States.

00:23:04.000 We all believe that if you want to get some government largesse, then you have to actually put your feet on the pavement and start actually going to work.

00:23:11.000 Biden's party insists it's feeling little pressure to deliver on House Speaker McCarthy's biggest ask, a true negotiation over the debt ceiling.

00:23:19.000 Chris Coon says if you reward hostage taking, it simply repeats.

00:23:22.000 I don't expect the president to now say, oh my gosh, you passed a bill with two votes that imposes draconian cuts across programs most Americans would never support.

00:23:29.000 Biden is refusing to budge from his demand Congress pass an unconditional increase to the debt ceiling.

00:23:33.000 Well, again, there are some Democrats who want Biden to negotiate.

00:23:37.000 What's hilarious is watching the obvious pardons at, for example, the Washington Post, try to square the circles.

00:23:42.000 The editorial board over there.

00:23:45.000 Even they are saying it's time for Joe Biden to call McCarthy.

00:23:48.000 A lot.

00:23:49.000 They say, in an ideal world, House Republicans would do their duty and lift the debt limit without exacting a ransom.

00:23:54.000 Later, they acknowledge, it's true President Biden and Congress need to discuss spending.

00:23:58.000 The nation is on a fiscally unsustainable course.

00:24:01.000 But they don't care.

00:24:02.000 They think that Joe Biden is, you know, is in the right and Republicans should not even negotiate over this thing.

00:24:08.000 So again, Biden is stuck sort of between a rock and a hard place.

00:24:12.000 But no matter what happens, he will have the love of the media to back him up.

00:24:16.000 Presumably this includes, on the economic front, where U.S.

00:24:19.000 economic growth slipped in the first quarter in the midst of still high inflation and rising interest rates, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:24:24.000 U.S.

00:24:24.000 GDP, a measure of the value of all the goods and services produced in the country, rose at an inflation and seasonally adjusted 1.1% annual rate from January to March.

00:24:33.000 That is a significant slowdown from 2.6% growth in the fourth quarter, according to the Commerce Department.

00:24:38.000 Consumption continues to be high because of the inflation.

00:24:41.000 Businesses, however, are pulling back sharply, drawing down inventories, cutting equipment purchases, reducing housing investment.

00:24:46.000 Many economists are predicting a recession in the second half of the year as the Federal Reserve continues its campaign to cool the economy and lower inflation.

00:24:53.000 Meanwhile, the systemic banking problems that have plagued this economy are not going away.

00:24:58.000 According to the Wall Street Journal's Greg Ip, quote, the biggest question facing the economy lately has been how bad will the banking turmoil be?

00:25:05.000 Though two U.S.

00:25:05.000 banks failed a month ago and a third is still struggling, emergency lending by the Federal Reserve seems to have prevented broader harm.

00:25:10.000 But the question should be, will it spread beyond the banks?

00:25:13.000 And that is because the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank a month ago, which touched off this bout of turmoil, was a symptom, not a cause, of broader forces at work in the financial system and the economy.

00:25:22.000 A lot of banks own devalued bonds, just like Silicon Valley Bank.

00:25:26.000 But that's just the tip of a debt iceberg.

00:25:27.000 Since the end of 2009, total debt owed by government, business, and households has risen 90% to $68 trillion.

00:25:35.000 That's the total debt owed by government, business, and households.

00:25:38.000 All outstanding debt is $68 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve.

00:25:41.000 Since early last year, interest rates have risen at their fastest pace since the early 1980s.

00:25:46.000 When the interest rates go up, the value of an existing loan or a bond goes down.

00:25:50.000 Regardless of accounting treatment, the economic reality is bonds and loans are worth a lot less than when they were issued, and somebody is going to have to bear those losses.

00:25:57.000 Banks are the most visible debt holders, but collectively, just as much debt is held by pension and mutual funds, private credit funds, life insurers, business development companies, hedge funds, and other non-banks, or as they're called, shadow banks.

00:26:08.000 For a long-only investor who doesn't borrow such as a pension or mutual fund, the losses have few systemic consequences beyond feeling a little poorer.

00:26:14.000 But for financial intermediaries, it's a lot more complicated because what they earn on their assets has now shrunk a lot relative to what they pay for the funding.

00:26:20.000 So in other words, we are not remotely done with the fiscal crisis that has been caused by the inflation followed on by radical increases in the interest rates that were necessary in order to tamp down the inflation.

00:26:31.000 So why are members of the media not asking the Biden administration about this?

00:26:34.000 No comment from the White House?

00:26:36.000 They're just going to whistle their way through the dark on this one?

00:26:39.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden's administration continues to facilitate the worst border crisis in American history.

00:26:45.000 They've had over 6 million encounters between border patrol and people crossing the border over the course of Joe Biden's administration.

00:26:52.000 Over 1.3 million gotaways.

00:26:54.000 Those are the known gotaways.

00:26:55.000 That does not include the unknown gotaways.

00:26:58.000 A huge percentage of the people who are coming to the border are then shipped into the interior of the United States and are not receiving appointments at the border for literally years on end, which means by the time they do, they're already well integrated into American society or receiving state welfare dollars or emergency benefits or whatever it is.

00:27:12.000 Well, now the Biden administration is announcing new efforts to limit the flow of unauthorized migrants across the southern border, including the opening of processing centers in the region.

00:27:20.000 The announcement came two weeks before the scheduled court-ordered lifting of Title 42.

00:27:25.000 So prepare for a giant wave of illegal immigration when Title 42, which was the rule that allowed our border patrol to simply turn people away at the border saying you might have COVID, when that expires, you're going to see a giant wave at the border.

00:27:36.000 In a joint appearance at the State Department on Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said would-be migrants should not mistake the expiration of Title 42 for a green light to cross the border.

00:27:47.000 So, Mayorkas tried to claim that our border is not open, which is going to be heard by precisely no one since the Biden administration policy has been, if you make it across the border, you get to stay, basically.

00:27:57.000 Our border is not open and will not be open after May 11th.

00:28:03.000 And yet, Mayorkas still, the incompetent Department of Homeland Security secretary, he still says, guys, we're going to get another surge.

00:28:09.000 Here it comes.

00:28:11.000 We have been preparing for this transition for more than a year and a half.

00:28:14.000 Notwithstanding those preparations, we do expect that encounters at our southern border will increase.

00:28:22.000 Now, Mayorkas says that he's going to use Title 8, which allows people to be basically barred for five years from the United States if you're caught crossing illegally and potential criminal charges for people trying to enter the country illegally repeatedly, which sounds very Trumpy, right?

00:28:35.000 Except for the fact that the actual solution posited by the Biden administration on all of this is hemispheric.

00:28:41.000 So Mayorkas says the real problem here is not our border policy.

00:28:44.000 The real problem is not that we don't have enough border patrol agents or that we should be turning people away or remain in Mexico or any of the rest of that.

00:28:49.000 The real problem is in El Salvador.

00:28:52.000 Unless we solve this problem hemispherically, then we're just going to have to absorb the 0.96

00:28:56.000 blow.

00:28:58.000 As the Secretary described, this is a hemispheric challenge that demands hemispheric solutions.

00:29:05.000 Working with our neighbors in the region, we can and will reduce the number of migrants who reach our southern border. 1.00

00:29:13.000 The Regional Processing Centers announced today will be a critical addition to the programs and processes DHS has in place for qualifying individuals to obtain authorization to enter the United States before arriving at our borders.

00:29:30.000 So does anyone actually believe they're going to effectuate this?

00:29:33.000 Why is it that this immigration problem has been allowed to percolate for years on end under Joe Biden?

00:29:38.000 The answer is, again, because all of the members of the press who are hardcore on Donald Trump being a cruel, inhumane person at the border, they have nothing to say about Joe Biden leaving the border pretty much open.

00:29:49.000 It's pretty astonishing stuff.

00:29:49.000 In just one second, we'll get to the Republican front runner on the other side, the person who, right now, by the polls, is most likely to take on Joe Biden.

00:29:55.000 That, of course, is President Trump.

00:29:57.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:32:43.000 So Joe Biden is vulnerable, but not from the media.

00:32:46.000 Obviously, they're going to protect him every step of the way, which means that Republicans need an There are a couple of options, but obviously the person who is currently front running in the polls is former President Trump by the available polls.

00:32:56.000 If you look at the national primary, he's up by somewhere between 20 and 30 points.

00:33:01.000 That is a big lead.

00:33:02.000 Now I'll remind you that if you go all the way back to like the 2008 election season, Hillary Clinton also had a very big lead on Barack Obama before all of that fell apart.

00:33:09.000 And we've seen various people who have leading races this early on, but Trump is obviously the guy with the momentum.

00:33:15.000 He's obviously the guy in the lead right now.

00:33:17.000 And that brings us to today's episode of Good Trump.

00:33:19.000 Bad Trump.

00:33:21.000 Good Trump, Bad Trump, which one will begin today?

00:33:27.000 Okay, so we begin today with, yes, some good Trumpy.

00:33:30.000 Yay! 0.99

00:33:30.000 Good Trump. 0.99

00:33:31.000 It's always fun when we get a little bit of good Trump.

00:33:32.000 So yesterday, Trump did a rally.

00:33:34.000 The most trafficked part of his rally is where he did his routine imitating a female weightlifter trying to pick up a weight and then a male lifter trying to pick up the weight.

00:33:42.000 It went viral because it was taken out of context to suggest physical actions of a different kind and so on.

00:33:47.000 But the good Trump part of this rally is in Manchester, New Hampshire, is where he mocked Joe Biden for not being able to take questions, which, of course, is a pretty rich vein for attack.

00:33:58.000 Now you have a whole little time to think about it, but we'll take a few questions, OK?

00:34:03.000 You think Biden takes questions?

00:34:05.000 I don't think so.

00:34:07.000 I don't think so.

00:34:09.000 You saw yesterday he had the cue card.

00:34:11.000 He said, call this one.

00:34:13.000 This is what she's going to ask.

00:34:14.000 And here's the answer.

00:34:15.000 They never did that with me in the White House.

00:34:17.000 I can tell you.

00:34:21.000 Fact check true.

00:34:22.000 He also said, you know, we are going to settle unfinished business.

00:34:26.000 Now again, this is going to be the pitch.

00:34:29.000 This sort of medium Trump, right?

00:34:31.000 Again, I think best Trump is my agenda while I was president was way better than Joe Biden's agenda.

00:34:36.000 We're way more successful than Joe Biden.

00:34:38.000 Joe Biden is a failure on every front.

00:34:41.000 And that was being hampered by the media and being hampered by the deep state.

00:34:44.000 Put me back in and you will get something better than you have right now.

00:34:47.000 That is the best form of Donald Trump.

00:34:49.000 And I'm standing in the way of the predations that Joe Biden wishes to visit upon you, right?

00:34:52.000 That's his actual campaign.

00:34:54.000 We're going to settle unfinished business stuff.

00:34:55.000 It's kind of smacks of 2020 election nonsense.

00:34:58.000 And I don't think that is particularly useful, but he sort of halves the baby here in this pitch.

00:35:03.000 With your vote on November 5th, 2024, we're going to crush Joe Biden and the White House, that gorgeous, beautiful White House.

00:35:14.000 We have to take it back.

00:35:16.000 We're going to beat him at the ballot box and we're going to settle our unfinished business.

00:35:21.000 It's unfinished.

00:35:24.000 It's beautiful.

00:35:25.000 Magnificent.

00:35:26.000 They call it the White House.

00:35:27.000 It's unbelievable.

00:35:29.000 He also made the suggestion, again, correct, that the true threat to democracy in the United States is Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, who have been attempting to centralize power in the executive branch, who wish to overrun all state authority.

00:35:40.000 I mean, for God's sake, they have the Department of Justice now attacking the state of Tennessee for trying to ban mutilation of children.

00:35:47.000 Here was Donald Trump.

00:35:50.000 In it he says he's running because Trump and MAGA pose a threat to democracy.

00:35:54.000 Can you believe it?

00:35:58.000 Better explain.

00:35:59.000 MAGA is Make America Great Again, right?

00:36:06.000 No, no threat there.

00:36:08.000 No, it's Biden who poses the threat to democracy because he is grossly incompetent, has no idea what he's doing. 0.69

00:36:17.000 And basically, he doesn't have a clue.

00:36:19.000 And that's a very bad position to put our country in.

00:36:22.000 OK, again, fact check crew, fact check crew, by the way, Jim VandeHei of Axios is reporting now that White House officials say it's actually difficult to schedule public or private events with Joe Biden in the morning, in the evening or on weekends.

00:36:36.000 Like, so what's left?

00:36:39.000 Apparently, the vast majority of Biden's public events happen on weekdays between 10 a.m.

00:36:42.000 and 4 p.m.

00:36:44.000 That's when he goes to sleep, and that's when he wakes up.

00:36:45.000 Okay, well, that basically exhausts the good Trump for yesterday in Manchester.

00:36:51.000 Again, he's a very entertaining guy.

00:36:53.000 He's going to continue to be entertaining.

00:36:54.000 But unfortunately, he also does, you know, the bad Trump kind of stuff.

00:36:57.000 Unfortunately, he does some of this.

00:36:58.000 So, here are some bad Trump.

00:37:00.000 He has decided that now Hillary Clinton is lovely and beautiful.

00:37:06.000 But why?

00:37:07.000 But why?

00:37:08.000 Because he wants to repurpose.

00:37:10.000 Crooked Hillary! 1.00

00:37:11.000 You call her Crooked Hillary? 1.00

00:37:13.000 He wants to repurpose it, as we'll see.

00:37:16.000 I will be retiring the name Crooked from Hillary Clinton and her moniker. 0.97

00:37:23.000 And I'm going to give her a new name.

00:37:25.000 I don't know, like maybe lovely Hillary or beautiful Hillary. 0.98

00:37:28.000 But I'm going to retire the name Crooked so that we can use the name for Joe Biden, because he'll be known from now on as Crooked Joe Biden.

00:37:42.000 As Crooked Joe.

00:37:45.000 His nickname game is off.

00:37:47.000 I gotta just say it.

00:37:48.000 Rhonda Sanctimonious is a bad nickname. 1.00

00:37:50.000 Crooked Joe is a bad nickname.

00:37:52.000 I guess he doesn't want to reuse Sleepy Joe because he already exhausted the possibilities on Sleepy Joe.

00:37:58.000 But Crooked Joe?

00:37:59.000 I mean, like, again, Crooked Hillary was pretty good branding. 1.00

00:38:03.000 I need, I need, like, yeah, exactly.

00:38:06.000 Somebody is suggesting bent Biden, bent Biden.

00:38:08.000 I don't know.

00:38:09.000 That's pretty British.

00:38:10.000 He's bent.

00:38:11.000 But there's gotta be something better than that.

00:38:14.000 Crooked Joe!

00:38:15.000 Okay, so, but I also love that he's now trying to rehabilitate Hillary Clinton.

00:38:19.000 Like, this is the thing about Trump.

00:38:20.000 It's why people love him.

00:38:21.000 It's also why people hate him.

00:38:23.000 He has no principles at all when it comes to which angle he's going to attack from.

00:38:27.000 As I said, all the way back in 2016, he's the guy you didn't want to fight in high school, not because he was like an amazing fighter, but because you never knew whether he was just carrying like a brick in his backpack.

00:38:36.000 Right?

00:38:36.000 You're just going to be like having a fist fight and suddenly he reaches in and grabs a brick and hits you with it.

00:38:41.000 He's like a cartoon character, President Trump, when it comes to these fights.

00:38:43.000 He's like a cartoon character who goes into his Mary Poppins bag and he takes out like a stick of dynamite and just hands it to you.

00:38:49.000 You don't know what's coming.

00:38:52.000 Let's take, for example, Lindsey Graham.

00:38:54.000 Lindsey Graham doesn't know whether he's going or whether he's coming.

00:38:56.000 I mean, Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina, who's been a lackey and a sycophant for President Trump for years. 0.51

00:39:04.000 So I go to a Passover program down here in Florida, and President Trump very often will kind of stop by that Passover program.

00:39:10.000 And say hello to people.

00:39:12.000 A couple of years ago, he stops by with Lindsey Graham in tow.

00:39:16.000 And they're going golfing, right?

00:39:17.000 Because it's at one of Trump's properties.

00:39:20.000 And Lindsey Graham is in tow. 0.80

00:39:22.000 This is really funny.

00:39:23.000 And Lindsey Graham, apparently, he comes up to the crowd and he's like working the crowd.

00:39:29.000 And he's saying like, you know, guys, we've got to stop that Iran deal.

00:39:32.000 We worked real hard to stop that Iran deal.

00:39:34.000 Everybody starts clapping and cheering.

00:39:36.000 And Donald Trump muscles in and literally pushes Lindsey Graham aside.

00:39:40.000 And he says, why are you listening to Lindsay?

00:39:42.000 No one cares what Lindsay has to say.

00:39:43.000 It's like... Ah, President Russo.

00:39:48.000 This is the thing that again, it's one of the reasons why people have faith that he's going to attack Joe Biden using literally anything at his disposal, because he will.

00:39:55.000 I mean, he's the guy who showed up in 2016 with a bunch of Bill Clinton sexual harassment victims in tow.

00:40:01.000 He is that guy.

00:40:02.000 But it also means that there's no predictability as to what he's actually going to do.

00:40:06.000 No one knows what's coming next.

00:40:07.000 So I don't even know whether to put this in good Trump or bad Trump.

00:40:09.000 It's just kind of like wild Trump.

00:40:11.000 We need like a new category of wild.

00:40:13.000 Here he was attacking Lindsey Graham.

00:40:15.000 He's like his biggest backer as a progressive and then walking it back and talking about how awesome Lindsey Graham is.

00:40:19.000 I don't know.

00:40:20.000 I don't know what's happening here.

00:40:21.000 Do you know what's happening here?

00:40:22.000 It's funny, but I don't know what's happening.

00:40:25.000 So if India charges our companies 100, we charge their companies 100. 0.87

00:40:29.000 It's very simple.

00:40:31.000 And yet we have people in Congress that say, no, I don't think that's good.

00:40:35.000 Anybody that says that's no good.

00:40:37.000 Very interesting.

00:40:38.000 Lindsey Graham, the progressive from South Carolina.

00:40:43.000 No, he's a progressive.

00:40:44.000 Everyone's booing him.

00:40:45.000 But he's got some good things to do.

00:40:46.000 But he's good.

00:40:47.000 But Lindsey Graham, I said to him, Lindsey, you've got to go along with this.

00:40:50.000 We were all set to get it done.

00:40:52.000 You've got to go along with this.

00:40:53.000 He says, so let me get this straight.

00:40:56.000 If they charge us, we charge them the same thing.

00:41:00.000 He said it's not his strength.

00:41:02.000 Other things are his strength.

00:41:04.000 He said, so they charge us, we charge them.

00:41:07.000 Same thing, right?

00:41:07.000 Yeah.

00:41:08.000 You got my vote.

00:41:09.000 That's so easy.

00:41:10.000 Again, the question for who you want to run against Joe Biden is going to be this.

00:41:20.000 We did this already, right?

00:41:21.000 In 2020, Donald Trump did.

00:41:22.000 He threw everything to think of at Joe Biden, including the Hunter stuff, and it didn't really seem to stick to Joe Biden, mainly because there was no sense of solidity about Donald Trump as president.

00:41:31.000 This is really the problem for Trump in 2020.

00:41:33.000 It became a referendum on Trump, not on Biden.

00:41:35.000 If you would like it to be a referendum on Joe Biden, what you need is a sense of solidity.

00:41:40.000 A sense of stability.

00:41:40.000 That's what the American people keep saying over and over in every single election, basically since 2016.

00:41:46.000 Since 2016, every election has been.

00:41:48.000 Can we get back to like some sense of normalcy here?

00:41:50.000 Like just like where I don't have to think about what's going on at the top level every day.

00:41:53.000 That's what people thought they were electing when they elected actual inanimate object warmed over corpse, room temperature level corpse, Joe Biden.

00:42:01.000 They thought, hey, if we elect this mold-wearing body, nothing will happen.

00:42:05.000 And then Joe Biden turned out to be, he stripped off his suit, he's like, and he goes, say, hello, I'm Bunley and I'm here.

00:42:12.000 Like, whoa, where'd that come from?

00:42:14.000 And so now everybody's looking for stability and solidity.

00:42:17.000 Joe Biden does not look solid.

00:42:18.000 He does not look stable.

00:42:19.000 He does not even look as though he is capable of answering questions in non-benighted fashion.

00:42:24.000 I mean, he does not look mentally stable.

00:42:27.000 Or physically, by the way.

00:42:28.000 He might, as I've said before, watching Joe Biden walk up a flight of stairs is like watching the Walendas cross a volcano on a tightrope. 0.96

00:42:34.000 You don't know exactly what's going to come next.

00:42:37.000 And the reason you watch the Walendas is not because you're hoping they'll make it across. 0.74

00:42:40.000 It's because you want to be watching if, God forbid, they don't.

00:42:44.000 Joe Biden, every time he goes up Air Force One and then falls upstairs, which is nearly impossible, by the way, and he falls upstairs.

00:42:50.000 I could be watching like the death of a president in real time, God forbid.

00:42:53.000 So all Republicans have to do is provide somebody who has the capacity to attack, but also seems somewhat stable.

00:43:00.000 So that's going to be the question.

00:43:02.000 Is freewheeling, like, I understand it's very satisfying to watch the cartoon attack, the kind of like out of nowhere, let me pull out, like he's going into his bag.

00:43:11.000 Is he pulling out a rubber hammer or is it going to be a chainsaw?

00:43:13.000 No one knows.

00:43:15.000 I understand.

00:43:16.000 I'm entertained by it too.

00:43:17.000 It's funny.

00:43:18.000 Is it going to be successful is the question because there is no substitute for victory.

00:43:22.000 Joe Biden has the entire media on his side, the entire media on his side, the legacy media.

00:43:27.000 They will not ask him tough questions.

00:43:28.000 Who's going to make him answer the tough questions?

00:43:32.000 That's gonna be the question of the 2024 campaign.

00:43:35.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to a stunning new report that suggests that 25% of all high schoolers in the United States now say they are LGBTQ plus minus divided by a sign, ampersand, hashtag, poop emoji.

00:43:48.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:44:56.000 Well, meanwhile, there is a brand new study out. 0.84

00:44:58.000 And as predicted, it suggests that generation on generation, every new generation of Americans is increasingly more gay. 0.99

00:45:04.000 This is not Alex Jones saying, we're turning the frog.

00:45:07.000 OK, this is the actual data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

00:45:11.000 They have a biannual youth report.

00:45:12.000 It found that 75.5 percent of 14 to 18 year olds said they were heterosexual in 2021.

00:45:18.000 This is two years old, which means it's higher now.

00:45:21.000 75.5% which means that 24.5% one quarter one in four high schoolers in the United States as of two years ago was saying they were LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign ampersand hashtag emoji.

00:45:36.000 The remainder say they are bisexual 12.1% which by the way is like That's the easy way out of the LGBTQ conundrum. 1.00

00:45:45.000 Because as it turns out, the vast majority of people who identify as bisexual in the United States also have sex exclusively with one sex. 0.67

00:45:51.000 So you see, high school girls are like, yes, I'm bisexual, and then every person they date is a boy.

00:45:55.000 Gay or lesbian, 3.2%, which is, again, oodles higher than it has ever been.

00:46:00.000 Other, 3.9%, I don't know what other means.

00:46:02.000 Or instead, they question their sexu- I guess other is like pansexual, polysexual, polyamorous.

00:46:09.000 Random sexual, randosexual, or said they questioned their sexuality 5.2%, which again is an easy way of joining the cool kids group. 0.79

00:46:17.000 Because to be fully authentic, as we've discussed before, the cult of authenticity, individual authenticity in the United States, you claim that you're a victim.

00:46:24.000 The easiest way to claim that you are a victim in the United States is to claim that you are a member of a sexual minority.

00:46:28.000 Because here's the thing, all the other members of minority groups in the United States actually have ethnic minority status.

00:46:34.000 They actually have a thing that you can look at them and be like, oh yes, you're a member of a formerly or currently victimized group.

00:46:39.000 However, if you declare your own sexual desire, this now places you in the category of victimized group without you actually having to do anything that gets you victimized and actually gets you valorized in today's media.

00:46:48.000 As we've been told by the Biden administration, the greatest heroes among us are the trans youth.

00:46:52.000 That's literally something that Joe Biden said, said the bravest people in America are little boys who think they are little girls.

00:46:58.000 The percentage of students who do not view themselves as straight has more than doubled in recent years from 11% in 2015 to 25% in 2021.

00:47:02.000 percent in 2015 to 25 percent in 2021.

00:47:06.000 So I have a question.

00:47:07.000 Is this all biological?

00:47:10.000 It's all biological, right?

00:47:11.000 I mean, that is how you double the percentage of people who view themselves as not straight, more than double it, from 11% eight years ago to 25% in 2021.

00:47:20.000 Two years ago.

00:47:22.000 So that's a six year gap and a more than doubling of the percentage of high schoolers who say they are LGBTQ plus IA divided by sign.

00:47:30.000 Does that sound like we've reached like a Darwinian evolutionary bottleneck?

00:47:33.000 I keep saying this over and over because the great lie that we have been told for 30 years is that sexual orientation and behavior is entirely genetic.

00:47:41.000 The evidence to back this does not exist.

00:47:43.000 They did a study from the Human Genome Project.

00:47:45.000 It was buried by the media because they didn't like this study.

00:47:47.000 I know because I talked to some of the people who performed the study and what it found is that there is no such thing as a quote-unquote gay gene.

00:47:53.000 There is no gay gene. 0.88

00:47:54.000 The linkage is between genetic profiles for risk-taking behavior And differently oriented sexual behavior doesn't mean there's no genetic component to gay, lesbian, bisexual.

00:48:06.000 What it does mean is the idea that there is like a binary on off switch or gay or lesbian or a binary on off switch that is yet to be found in the genetic profile.

00:48:14.000 But we're all operating under that assumption.

00:48:16.000 Why is that important?

00:48:17.000 The only reason that's important, like I don't care about that, actually, because to me, no matter what your biology drives you to do, that does not excuse your behavior.

00:48:25.000 Male biology drives men toward polyamory, right? 1.00

00:48:29.000 Male biology drives men to have sex with as many women, typically speaking, as humanly possible, and yet we've developed entire social systems around the idea that men should be monogamous with one woman.

00:48:37.000 That's a denial of the biological imperative for men to procreate with as many women as humanly possible. 0.95

00:48:41.000 We've decided, you know what?

00:48:43.000 As a society, correctly, we have decided over the course of thousands of years, this is a useless and bad and counterproductive way of men approaching their sexual behavior.

00:48:52.000 So I don't really care about biological, not biological.

00:48:54.000 The reason this matters is because the argument that's constantly made is that you can change social standards.

00:48:58.000 You can explode rules and explode roles, and it will not change the percentages of behavior among young people because the only people who are going to act this way are the people who are biologically driven to do that, and that's unchanging.

00:49:08.000 This is why you will see people pointing out that there's been a 2000% increase in transsexual identification, transgender identification.

00:49:18.000 You'll point that out and they'll say, well, you know, way back in the day, fewer people identified as left-handed.

00:49:23.000 Because left-handedness is a genetic trait.

00:49:26.000 So first of all, that stat is absolutely meaningless because you're talking about basically a doubling of the population of left-handers based on, we used to try to force left-handers to write right-handed in a lot of cultures.

00:49:37.000 That is not the same thing as a 2,000% increase in a fringe identification.

00:49:44.000 Or in sexual behavior.

00:49:46.000 Not remotely close.

00:49:47.000 So what they try to do is they say, well, it's just our increased tolerance.

00:49:49.000 But then at the same time, they'll say our increased tolerance does not make up for the fact that we are a wildly discriminatory society.

00:49:55.000 So they'll say that you have 25% of young people identifying as LGBTQ plus because of increased tolerance in American society for this behavior.

00:50:02.000 So everyone, one quarter of the population was always gay. 0.96

00:50:05.000 One quarter of the population was always trans, bisexual, only now they feel free to flower like a butterfly coming out of the cocoon because our society is so open and caring, you see, but also our society is brutal and vicious and terrible. 1.00

00:50:17.000 Our society makes all these people victims.

00:50:19.000 The worst thing you can be in America is an LGBTQI plus person, but American society is also so wonderful and tolerant that you have one quarter of all young people who are now identifying this way. 1.00

00:50:28.000 None of this makes any sense.

00:50:29.000 None of this makes any sense.

00:50:30.000 It is all part of a general progressive ideology that is not progressive, it is transgressive.

00:50:34.000 It's about the idea that the only thing that matters about you is your subjective sense of self-identity and any imposition, institutional, religious, legal, any institution that imposes on what you feel on the inside this very moment.

00:50:49.000 Those all need to be done away with so you can be your most authentic self and authenticity is heroism.

00:50:54.000 Guess what?

00:50:54.000 Authenticity is not heroism.

00:50:55.000 Doing things for other people is heroism.

00:50:57.000 Acting in ways that help society, that's heroic.

00:51:00.000 You know what's not heroic?

00:51:01.000 Waking up in the morning and taking a piss.

00:51:02.000 That's not heroic.

00:51:03.000 That is you being yourself.

00:51:04.000 That's you fulfilling a biological imperative.

00:51:06.000 It's not heroic.

00:51:08.000 It's amazing to see how this, again, look at the way that this is pitched.

00:51:12.000 Dr. Molly, by the way, Another reason this is important is because, shockingly, one-third of U.S.

00:51:16.000 teen girls seriously considered attempting suicide in 2021.

00:51:20.000 I know we're pretending that all this has to do with the pandemic.

00:51:22.000 It does not all have to do with the pandemic.

00:51:23.000 The wild increase that we have seen in both alternative sexual identity and mentally ill, suicidally ideated behavior among teens, these are heavily associated.

00:51:33.000 The way that you can tell this is because the suicidal ideation rate and actual suicidality rate among LGBTQ plus minus divided by signed teens is leagues higher than it is for straight identified teens.

00:51:43.000 So if you have a bunch more people identifying this way that has a identifying as an alternative sexual orientation or gender identity and that group has attendant upon it a much much like leagues higher rate of suicidal ideation and actual suicidal attempt.

00:52:01.000 Then why would you be shocked?

00:52:03.000 At the association between both of those numbers going up extraordinarily wildly.

00:52:08.000 And yes, a lot of this is located among young girls because that is where you are seeing a wild uptick in this sort of behavior. 0.78

00:52:14.000 A huge percentage of this is driven by social media.

00:52:17.000 But how does the scientific community answer this?

00:52:19.000 Instead of saying this is a social contagion that you may want to protect your kids from, so they can actually flourish and they can actually find out who they are without the imposition of a perverse social media incentive structure.

00:52:30.000 Instead, they're like, no, no, no, it's just that everyone was always like this.

00:52:33.000 Everyone's gay. 0.74

00:52:34.000 Dr. Molly Blackburn, who teaches sexuality studies at Ohio State University, so a professional useless person, she says, quote, it's an increase in acceptance from both parents and society. 0.99

00:52:42.000 Accepting people creates a context where a child will be more willing to say they are gay.

00:52:46.000 She does not think the actual number of children who are truly gay, lesbian, or bisexual has changed in recent years, but that young people are more willing to admit it now. 0.99

00:52:52.000 That's such, it's obvious crap. 0.97

00:52:54.000 I'm sorry. 0.97

00:52:54.000 That's so, that's so clearly untrue. 0.97

00:52:58.000 Name another behavior that was biologically ingrained, okay, that was the same across all human societies for all time.

00:53:04.000 Because remember, there should not be a differentiation in the biology, male and female, between us and Afghanistan, between us and China.

00:53:12.000 And yet you see these wildly variant rates.

00:53:14.000 Is that all just about, so I guess one quarter of the Chinese are also LGBTQI plus minus divided by seven.

00:53:18.000 One quarter of Nigerians, the same.

00:53:21.000 One quarter of all humanity is like this.

00:53:22.000 Minimum, because the numbers are continuing to go up.

00:53:24.000 It's probably 40%.

00:53:26.000 Now you're going to have to explain exactly how humanity has continued to grow.

00:53:30.000 Like how the numbers have actually continued to grow.

00:53:33.000 Jay Richard, Senior Research Fellow at the Conservative Think Tank Heritage, said the US was an outlier.

00:53:37.000 Correct!

00:53:37.000 He said the rise of gender studies in American schools was partly behind the rise.

00:53:40.000 He says there's no doubt in my mind schools are absolutely playing a role in this growth.

00:53:44.000 Of course that's true.

00:53:45.000 And social media.

00:53:46.000 And TikTok.

00:53:46.000 And all the rest of this.

00:53:48.000 And is it making kids happier?

00:53:50.000 Are they healthier?

00:53:51.000 Are they better off?

00:53:52.000 All you parents who have been taught that your chief role in life is to validate your children, to accept all of their behavior.

00:53:58.000 Wrong! 0.86

00:53:59.000 This is not your chief role.

00:54:01.000 That is the recipe for horrific parenting. 1.00

00:54:03.000 Your chief role in society is to teach your kids the rules of the road, to civilize your children, to tell them what is good for them, what has been societally proved to be good for them.

00:54:14.000 You know what the proof is?

00:54:15.000 The proof is in that suicidal ideation rate.

00:54:17.000 It's not a coincidence.

00:54:19.000 The left knows this, by the way, which is why the left is increasingly pushing for fascistic solutions to cram down terrible ideas on children.

00:54:27.000 Dylan Mulvaney, hero of the republic, man who says he's a woman for a grand total of a year.

00:54:32.000 Actually, he's just a flamboyant gay man, but dresses in women's clothing and gets all sorts of lucrative endorsement deals. 0.99

00:54:38.000 Now says we should use the federal government to criminalize anybody who refuses to pretend that Dylan Mulvaney, a man with a d***, is actually a woman. 0.99

00:54:46.000 Here's Dylan Mulvaney. 0.99

00:54:48.000 Like the articles written about me using he pronouns and calling me a man over and over again.

00:54:56.000 And I feel like that should be illegal.

00:54:59.000 I don't know.

00:55:00.000 That's that's just bad journalism.

00:55:03.000 Oh, so the journalists should be forced to use your your preferred pronouns.

00:55:08.000 By dint of law, I have a question.

00:55:10.000 Who's cramming down what on whom?

00:55:13.000 You literally want to force people to lie about reality.

00:55:16.000 This is what you want.

00:55:17.000 Because you have to.

00:55:18.000 Because the reality is that, guess what?

00:55:20.000 Reality always wins.

00:55:21.000 As I always say, and it's easy to get depressed about this stuff, but let's be real about this.

00:55:24.000 Reality is always going to win.

00:55:26.000 Societies that don't obliterate the distinction between male and female, they will be successful. 0.80

00:55:30.000 Societies that obliterate that distinction will be unsuccessful.

00:55:32.000 Societies that incentivize sexual behavior that is Statistically abnormal.

00:55:41.000 Societies that do this sort of thing are likely to not prosper.

00:55:44.000 Societies that do not incentivize that are likely to prosper at least demographically.

00:55:49.000 But, you know, our entire media class have decided to buy into this as a sign of virtue.

00:55:53.000 My least favorite form of this is when we have people who know so little about the Bible that it would make their head spin.

00:55:58.000 Like, they can't name the first five books.

00:56:00.000 They probably can't name the first two books.

00:56:02.000 Talking about the Bible, here is Whoopi Goldberg, great intellectual of our age, explaining that the Bible supports parents getting trans surgeries for their children.

00:56:09.000 I'm gonna need an explanation, Whoopi.

00:56:12.000 This is a party that says we believe in parents' rights.

00:56:17.000 You're telling me that as a parent, I'm not smart enough to decide if my child and I need to have gender-affirming or doctors are not involved?

00:56:29.000 So I can't decide what my kid reads.

00:56:31.000 I can't decide...

00:56:33.000 For my child, what my child says is going on.

00:56:36.000 You're telling me your beliefs, and they keep saying it, and I keep saying, what Bible are you reading?

00:56:43.000 Because God was really clear!

00:56:48.000 God was really clear that you should be able to trans your kids.

00:56:50.000 I'm pretty sure God says not anything remotely like that.

00:56:53.000 And the only analog to what we are currently doing to our children is child sacrifice to Molech. 1.00

00:56:59.000 That's literally the only analog that I can find in the Bible to anything remotely like what Hilary, what Will B. Goldberg here is talking about.

00:57:07.000 But again, this has become part and parcel of sort of the Democratic agenda.

00:57:09.000 And the Democratic agenda is to mainstream this garbage and then do it in the name of God, which is just, I mean, you want to talk about a violation of the commandment not to use God's name in vain? 0.93

00:57:21.000 This would be it. 0.98

00:57:22.000 Here is Joe Biden doing it.

00:57:24.000 I want you to know that your president sees you.

00:57:27.000 Jill, Kamala, Doug, our entire administration sees you for who you are, made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect and support.

00:57:37.000 But we know it's hard when there are those out there who don't see you and don't respect you.

00:57:42.000 For example, the onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong.

00:57:51.000 And he says, the image of God, the image of God, right?

00:57:54.000 This is the language that Joe Biden uses, the image of God.

00:57:56.000 He doesn't even finish reading the verse, because if you finish reading the verse, you've got a problem.

00:57:59.000 The literal verse in Genesis says that man was made in the image of God.

00:58:04.000 Male and female, he made them. 0.94

00:58:07.000 Joe Biden just ignores that part.

00:58:09.000 This is all part and parcel of a broader social contagion that is being promoted by the left in order to explode institutions they see as patriarchal and discriminatory.

00:58:16.000 That's what this is all about.

00:58:17.000 It's about the transgressivism.

00:58:19.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:58:21.000 So, things that I like today.

00:58:23.000 There are a couple of people I saw online, not many, who are giving flack to Mattel for now creating a Down syndrome Barbie.

00:58:31.000 I don't see the problem.

00:58:32.000 Not only do I not see the problem, I think this is a good thing.

00:58:34.000 I'm frankly confused as to why anyone would think that this is a bad thing.

00:58:37.000 We are not talking about creating a Barbie doll that is differently sexually oriented in order to indoctrinate your children in a particular viewpoint about the world.

00:58:46.000 We're talking about making people with Down syndrome, an actual genetic condition, feel accepted in society.

00:58:55.000 That's a good thing, considering the left's generalized push right now to eugenicize birth. 0.95

00:59:01.000 In the left makes a case about abortion that basically if you are a Down syndrome person in the womb, you should be killed.

00:59:06.000 So I'm very pleased that Mattel has taken the pro-life stance, which is that being Down syndrome does not mean that there is something horribly wrong with you.

00:59:13.000 It is just a condition that some people have and we should and we should make society more accepting for people.

00:59:18.000 Like I don't see any problem with this whatsoever.

00:59:19.000 In fact, I think it's a good thing.

00:59:22.000 She's saying, I found my place in society and I want to share my experience.

00:59:29.000 She's saying, I found my place in society and I want to share my experience.

00:59:39.000 This is a French girl who has Down syndrome.

00:59:42.000 And show the world that you can live happily with Down syndrome.

00:59:46.000 This is very nice.

00:59:46.000 And we're dedicated to combating social stigma and enabling all children to see themselves

00:59:53.000 in Barbie, as well as have a Barbie that reflects the world around them. 0.52

01:00:00.000 This is very nice.

01:00:01.000 Anybody who says this is not very nice, this is not woke.

01:00:05.000 It's not woke to say that Down syndrome people and Down syndrome kids should have a Barbie that looks like them.

01:00:11.000 I don't see anything woke about that whatsoever.

01:00:14.000 In fact, as I say, I think it's a pro-life argument, even if they don't intend it to be a pro-life argument.

01:00:18.000 Okay, meanwhile, other things that I like.

01:00:19.000 So it is hysterical to me that California has failed so many times that now they've been kind of shocked rudely back into some form of reality.

01:00:25.000 According to the Los Angeles Times, California is now shifting to an experiment in coercion to treat the homeless.

01:00:30.000 Wait, you mean that your idea of simply letting them live on the streets and then giving them You know who's been calling for this for literally decades at this point?

01:00:38.000 that that wasn't actually solving the homeless problem, oh, be still my beating heart.

01:00:42.000 According to the Washington Post, in a few months, altering its past path,

01:00:46.000 California will begin an experiment in what amounts to coercive compassion,

01:00:50.000 an initiative that unlike today's mental health system will force people into treatment programs instead of jail

01:00:54.000 and monitor their progress for at least a year.

01:00:56.000 You know who's been calling for this for literally decades at this point?

01:01:02.000 That would be me. 0.90

01:01:03.000 If you are a person who is living on the street because you have schizophrenia

01:01:06.000 and you're not taking your pills, You need to not be on the streets.

01:01:09.000 We should be getting you the care that you require, even if you don't consent to that care because you are schizophrenic and are not capable of taking care of yourself. 0.96

01:01:17.000 In California, sharp criticism has been raised, including by medical associations and civil rights groups, that the system Governor Gavin Newsom has pushed will stigmatize people with certain mental illnesses and fail to provide enough protection for them from being drawn into the proposed process.

01:01:28.000 Severe housing shortages for the mentally ill are key questions that have yet to be answered.

01:01:32.000 But Newsom is now being shocked into reality by the fact that tens of thousands of mentally ill people are living on the streets, being a danger to themselves and others. 0.97

01:01:40.000 So, um, again, the fact that there are people on the left who oppose this, I'm going to need an explanation as to why it is better for a person with severe schizophrenia to live on the street in their own filth than it is to push them into a program where they can get the care that they actually require.

01:01:52.000 left to oppose this, I'm going to need an explanation as to why it is better for a person

01:01:55.000 with severe schizophrenia to live on the street in their own filth than it is to push them

01:01:59.000 into a program where they can get the care that they actually require.

01:02:02.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

01:02:04.000 When I talk about people who are deliberately transgressive, this obviously applies to these

01:02:12.000 climate change activists. 0.99

01:02:15.000 They're criminals who have decided that they are going to attempt to deface works of art, or at least areas around works of art, in order to draw attention to their idiotic cause. 0.98

01:02:24.000 According to the Washington Post, protesters have now smeared black and red paint on the case and pedestal of Edgar Degas' little dancer, age 14, sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 0.98

01:02:34.000 The protesters slathered their hands, then crouched down to paint the pedestal on which the ballerina's sculpture is displayed.

01:02:39.000 Then they stood up and smeared their hands across the clear case protecting the artwork.

01:02:43.000 Police removed the two people in handcuffs and ushered out the people inside the gallery. 1.00

01:02:46.000 Here is a little bit of footage of these morons. 0.99

01:02:48.000 Where's security? 1.00

01:02:56.000 I'm sorry.

01:02:57.000 I'm gonna go.

01:02:58.000 Where's security?

01:02:59.000 Seriously, why are you just standing around?

01:03:05.000 Look at that guy in the back.

01:03:05.000 He's a security.

01:03:06.000 He's just standing around. 1.00

01:03:07.000 Tackle these idiots. 1.00

01:03:09.000 Slap their handcuffs on them. 1.00

01:03:10.000 There's like multiple security members right there.

01:03:13.000 Do something.

01:03:15.000 We are adults.

01:03:15.000 We should be at home working.

01:03:17.000 I have a job that requires... Yeah, you should.

01:03:20.000 ...health and safety, but I can't do my job unless I have a government that does their job of looking out for the health and safety of our children.

01:03:31.000 Hmm.

01:03:32.000 You can't do your job unless you, uh, well, I mean, I doubt you have a job.

01:03:36.000 Number one.

01:03:36.000 Uh, apparently one of the, uh, the woman who's sitting there, she says, this is why we decided to come visit this beautiful, beloved child.

01:03:42.000 The world knows she's imperfect.

01:03:44.000 Like we are all imperfect, but she's strong and she's not resigned to destruction.

01:03:47.000 Um, first of all, she's an inanimate object.

01:03:49.000 Second of all, Degas created something of actual beauty.

01:03:52.000 All you guys do is destroy things and deface things on behalf of your own political point of view.

01:03:57.000 And it's gross.

01:03:58.000 So here is what security should do. 0.99

01:04:00.000 When people do this, you should tackle the living crap out of them. 0.98

01:04:03.000 They're engaging in a crime. 1.00

01:04:04.000 You should tackle them. 1.00

01:04:05.000 You should slap the cuffs on them. 1.00

01:04:06.000 They should go to jail. 1.00

01:04:07.000 You do this like three times and all this crap will stop. 0.99

01:04:10.000 We've now seen this done to paintings by Van Gogh. 0.96

01:04:13.000 There have been a multiplicity of paintings that have now been defaced or attempted to.

01:04:17.000 I think they tried to do this to the Mona Lisa, if I recall correctly.

01:04:20.000 Like, I don't understand why security stands around and allows that.

01:04:24.000 What is your job?

01:04:24.000 What is it you would say you do?

01:04:27.000 Prosecute these people to the fullest extent of the law, slap them behind bars, and then listen, if you want to protest, go outside with a sign.

01:04:31.000 Don't deface works of art in the name of supposedly bettering humanity.

01:04:36.000 Meanwhile, speaking of people who are entirely disconnected, Barack Obama is now doing a new series where he talks to people who work for a living.

01:04:42.000 It's really exciting.

01:04:43.000 It's a Netflix documentary.

01:04:45.000 Now, again, it must be wonderful to be a former Democratic president because you can have lit the world on fire and then, you know, let and then just left and you get $100 million deal from Netflix.

01:04:54.000 So now he has a new Netflix documentary called Working What We Do All Day.

01:04:57.000 Well, not him.

01:04:58.000 I mean, he's, you know, in Martha's Vineyard, but Working What We Do All Day.

01:05:02.000 So CNN has a new trailer.

01:05:03.000 Here we go.

01:05:05.000 We may not think about it, but we're all a part of something larger than any single one of us.

01:05:11.000 And our work is one of the forces that connects us.

01:05:13.000 It looks crazy downtown.

01:05:18.000 Good morning, kids.

01:05:19.000 How can I help you?

01:05:20.000 A revolution is happening right before our eyes.

01:05:24.000 What happens if they replace you with a machine?

01:05:26.000 Artificial intelligence, remote work, spiraling inequality.

01:05:30.000 It can be hard to make sense of where we're going.

01:05:33.000 What if people from three different industries, from the service entrance to the C-suite, invited us into their lives and told us, what makes a good job good?

01:05:45.000 I just want to be at home.

01:05:46.000 My fridge runs full.

01:05:47.000 We work to provide.

01:05:47.000 My bills is paid.

01:05:48.000 That's peace.

01:05:50.000 We have it all.

01:05:51.000 What responsibility do you have to other people?

01:05:54.000 What comes from people should go back to people multiple times over. 0.98

01:05:57.000 Oh, here we go.

01:05:57.000 I got a jam coming.

01:05:58.000 I can hear it.

01:06:00.000 They don't believe in working on 9 to 5.

01:06:01.000 Oh, he's so cool, man.

01:06:02.000 He's so cool.

01:06:04.000 Sure, he wrecked the country, but he's cool.

01:06:06.000 I'm working nine more years.

01:06:07.000 What responsibility do we have to other people?

01:06:09.000 We have the responsibility to steal other people's money and then give it around.

01:06:16.000 Working, what we do all day.

01:06:18.000 Not if Barack Obama had his way or the Democratic Party.

01:06:21.000 They are literally attempting right now as we speak to remove work requirements from welfare bills.

01:06:26.000 This is what they do.

01:06:28.000 Because again, it's going to be fascinating.

01:06:30.000 Honestly, I'll be interested to watch what his case is.

01:06:32.000 Is his case that we should not be working?

01:06:35.000 That work is bad?

01:06:36.000 Or is the case that work is good?

01:06:37.000 And why does it provide us meaning?

01:06:38.000 Because if he gets into that, then he might have to get into things like family structure.

01:06:42.000 He might have to get into things like community and religious meaning.

01:06:46.000 I don't think this is the direction in which this is going to go.

01:06:48.000 I think it's going to go in a very Bernie Sanders direction, which is all about the evils of your employers.

01:06:51.000 All right, we'll find out.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 28, 2023

Visual PROOF Press Is In Biden's Pocket

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