Lori Lightfoot doesn t even make it past the first round of voting in Chicago, and we examine the reasons why. Plus, a St. Louis man shoots a homeless man point blank on the street, and the Supreme Court considers striking down Joe Biden's student loan bailout as Democrats wail. All that and more on today s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Ben Shapiro: Mayor Lori Lightfoot fails in her re-election bid, becoming the first mayor to fail in a re-elect bid in Chicago in 40 years. He also explains why she was a terrible mayor and why she should not have been elected at all, and why the Daley family should have kept her in office for a second term, because she was awful at her job and didn t do enough to fix the city s crime problem. The rest of the show is dedicated to why she failed, and what she should have done to fix it, and who should have won the election in the first place, and how she should be remembered for her incompetence and incompetence, and not her political career, and her inability to deal with racism, sexism, homophobia, and other issues that plagued her, not just as a woman, but as a lesbian, black woman, and as a black woman. a woman of color, a woman who was intersectional and a lesbian in a city where diversity is a virtue, not a virtue . He also points out that diversity is not a weakness, it s a strength, and that she s a weakness not a strength which is a strength. And that s a problem, not something to be talked about in this episode of the Bench Bureau show The Bench Bureau Show - Ben Shapiro This is a show about diversity and intersectionality, not diversity, not more, not less, not better than that a better than we need to be better than you ve had than you know where you ve got it right? Thank you for listening, Ben Shapiro, my friend. - Thanks to: for your support and support, and for listening and supporting the show, and thanks for being a good listen, and good vibing with us on this one, Ben, for listening to us, and Good Morning America, Good Morning Chicago Good Luck, Good Luck! - Your Support, Good Day, Good Life, and God Bless You, God Bless
00:00:14.000Well, Lori Lightfoot, the smeagol of American politics, a person who began as sort of a semi-charming hobbit and then ended up being really just a quite terrible person who helped wreck Chicago's politics even further.
00:00:33.000She has now failed in her reelect bid, the first mayor to fail in a reelect bid in Chicago in 40 years because Chicago is a one party town.
00:00:41.000Chicago is a place where when the party appoints someone the head of the party, that person stays there for literally ever.
00:00:46.000The Daley family ran that city for decades because of this.
00:00:49.000Lori Lightfoot did not last two terms because she was that bad a mayor.
00:00:53.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-elect bid by failing to garner enough votes to make even a runoff election.
00:01:01.000She was like number three in this election, which is pretty shocking.
00:01:05.000The top two, by the way, included a person who last time he ran for mayor actually was endorsed by the Chicago Republican Party, all seven of them.
00:01:13.000This is a stunning fall for a candidate who had won all 50 of the city's wards four years ago, but had sparred with powerful teachers' unions and been under fire for her response to rising crime.
00:01:21.000The Associated Press declared Tuesday night that Paul Vallis, a more moderate Democrat who had won the support of the city's police union, ah, there you are, and Brandon Johnson, a liberal teachers' union organizer, secured the top two spots in April's runoff election.
00:01:32.000Vallis, again, the guy who won the most votes, is actually police-friendly.
00:01:36.000He's a little bit more investor-friendly.
00:01:38.000He's somebody who's not nearly as radical as Lori Lightfoot.
00:01:42.000It was the first time in 40 years the city did not elect a sitting mayor who sought re-election.
00:01:47.000She told supporters on Tuesday that she had called Allison Johnson to congratulate them and that she appreciated the love that her supporters had shown her during the campaign.
00:01:54.000Unfortunately, there were only seven of them.
00:01:56.000So she actually didn't, she actually could hug them personally, which I guess was very exciting for Lori Lightfoot.
00:02:02.000And this should remind us that What goes up in American politics does come down.
00:02:08.000That the laws of political gravity apply.
00:02:11.000The real reason that Lori Lightfoot is no longer going to be the mayor of Chicago is because she was a terrible mayor.
00:02:21.000And she also happened to not do anything about the massive crime problems inside the city.
00:02:26.000In fact, according to wirepoints.org, Chicago's 2022 homicide rate is five times higher than that of New York City and 2.5 times higher than Los Angeles's.
00:02:35.000Those numbers aren't just post-George Floyd, post-COVID.
00:02:38.000About a year ago, Wirepoints looked at a study of Chicago's homicide rate, found the city broke ranks from New York and L.A.
00:03:07.000It wasn't just that she did a horrendous job, however.
00:03:09.000It is worth noting here that Lori Lightfoot, who was treated by the media as a godsend, because she was intersectional as all hell, Lori Lightfoot.
00:03:18.000She was a woman of color who was also a lesbian, which means that she was sent from on high by the angels to be mayor of Chicago.
00:03:25.000In fact, she was so intersectional, she was the closest thing that we have ever had to the most intersectional person in the United States, which meant she should have been amazing at her job, right?
00:03:35.000Because diversity is our strength in all of this.
00:03:37.000Well, it turns out she was crap at her job.
00:03:38.000David Axelrod, of course, is a Chicago insider among Chicago insiders.
00:03:42.000He said, everybody's strength is their weakness.
00:03:44.000Her strength is she's a very pugilistic person.
00:03:46.000She's fought for everything she's gotten in her life.
00:03:49.000Those chickens are coming home to roost.
00:03:52.000He said the uncompromising nature of her personality, the lack of relationships with other people she has to deal with constructively, they wind up being very, very damaging.
00:03:59.000Yeah, well, that happens to obviously be the case.
00:04:02.000And this requires us to take a bit of a journey through time to remind you all who Lori Lightfoot was.
00:04:08.000Because one of the things that Lori Lightfoot's ouster tells us is that the chickens are going to come home to roost, not just for Lori Lightfoot, but for the entire radical left.
00:04:19.000The Democratic Party, which is associated itself with the radical left, escaped the guillotine blade because Republicans decided to raid the local homeless shelter for candidates.
00:04:26.000But that does not mean that gravity is not going to apply.
00:04:30.000They're going to continue floating up there like the Chinese spy balloon.
00:04:34.000They will, in fact, be shot down and they will plummet to earth and it will crash and hurt when that happens.
00:04:40.000You remember back to the pandemic, there were three mayors, above all other mayors, who were treated by the media as amazing at their job.
00:04:46.000They were actually terrible at their job.
00:04:47.000Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles, Bill de Blasio in New York.
00:05:19.000So let's begin with Lori Lightfoot on crime, because crime is, in fact, a major issue for the people who live in Chicago.
00:05:26.000Well, it turns out that because Lori Lightfoot has not clamped down on the crime, a lot of major corporations are like, we don't feel like investing in your city.
00:05:34.000And Lori Lightfoot, because she is quite a terrible person, her response to this is to tell the CEOs that they need to educate themselves.
00:05:40.000This is Lori Lightfoot, September 2022.
00:05:42.000Any remarks to counter the McDonald's CEO who says people are afraid to come back to the headquarters?
00:05:52.000Well, I think that what would have been helpful was for the McDonald's CEO to educate himself before he spoke.
00:06:01.000So, when corporations asked Lori Lightfoot about crime, she immediately chided them this way.
00:06:08.000And that, of course, is no exception for Lori Lightfoot.
00:06:13.000And the kind of bizarre mix between Lori Lightfoot, the reality of living in Chicago, which means you might get shot, or you might get locked down at pretty much any time under Lori Lightfoot.
00:06:22.000And her bizarre demeanor really is not amazing.
00:06:26.000Back in April of last year, she was talking about how there was gonna be a summer of joy in Chicago.
00:06:30.000Meanwhile, people were getting shot en masse in her city.
00:06:33.000And folks, just wait till Memorial Day and our summer.
00:06:37.000It will be the summer of joy in Chicago.
00:06:42.000It was not, in fact, a summer of joy in Chicago because, of course, people were getting carjacked on a routine basis.
00:06:48.000And Lori Lightfoot always had somebody else to blame.
00:06:50.000She blamed remote learning for an increase in carjackings.
00:06:54.000It was not how you undermine the police, as we'll get to in just a moment.
00:06:59.000We started seeing this rise in cases in 2020, and I'll be frank and say, in Chicago, there was a correlation that we believe between remote learning and the rise in carjacking.
00:07:23.000It was Lori Lightfoot, who was helping to shut down the schools.
00:07:26.000And we'll get to more of Lori Lightfoot's glorious history as Chicago mayor, which has come to a crashing halt, as it should, in just a moment.
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00:08:37.000Okay, so again, why did the crime rates spike under Lori Lightfoot?
00:08:41.000Because she was dramatically opposed to the police department in every single step.
00:08:46.000Go back to the summer, the actual summer of love in Chicago.
00:08:50.000That would, of course, be 2020 during the George Floyd riots.
00:08:53.000And over and over and over again, Lori Lightfoot undermined the cops.
00:08:58.000So back in July of 2020, for example, she was yelling about not allowing Donald Trump's troops to come into the city to shut down riots in the city.
00:09:05.000Meanwhile, the loop was being completely vandalized.
00:09:09.000She tweeted out July 21st, 2020, quote, under no circumstances will I allow Donald Trump's troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents.
00:09:16.000Meanwhile, the residents are being terrorized by literal rioters in the streets.
00:09:21.000What are we gonna do and what do we tell our residents other than good faith people stand up?
00:09:26.000down crime and she starts yelling at her alderman and telling them that they are literally full of bleep right this is the kind of person that laurie lightfoot was what are we going to do and what do we tell our residents other than good faith people stand up it's not going to be enough thank you all right next question no i want an answer i bet you commented on everybody I want an answer.
00:10:02.000Who are you to tell me I'm full of s**t?
00:10:08.000Lori Lightfoot, again, go back to May and her initial comments about George Floyd is that she took Floyd's death incredibly personally and also went out of her way to rip Donald Trump.
00:10:17.000When you rip the cops, when you rip the president, when you suggest that there ought to be no federal presence in the city when you can't handle your own stuff, it turns out that crime goes up and the PD hated Lori Lightfoot as well they should have because she was terrible for the PD.
00:10:30.000She was consistently undermining the ability of the police to do their jobs.
00:10:33.000And it wasn't just with regard to crime, it was also with regard to COVID.
00:10:37.000So Lori Lightfoot was the lockdown fanatic extraordinaire.
00:10:41.000So it began with Lori Lightfoot really locking down the city as tight as you could possibly lock it down in March and April.
00:10:49.000You'll remember that all the way back in April of 2020, she actually went to her hairstylist and she was caught on camera visiting her hairstylist.
00:11:12.000The woman who cut my hair had a mask and gloves on.
00:11:17.000I'm practicing what I'm preaching and making sure I don't typically take pictures these days, but we are trying to do everything we can to emphasize the messages around social distancing, washing your hands, Staying at home.
00:11:32.000But I, as an elected official in the public face of the city, need to make sure that I am out there and visible through this crisis.
00:11:42.000And then, she didn't shut down COVID in the city, as it turns out, because not possible.
00:11:47.000But that didn't stop her from, in October of 2020, declaring herself Rona Destroyer.
00:13:18.000She said that she would impose a 10-person ceiling on gatherings like weddings, funerals, and other events, according to the Chicago Tribune, during the Thanksgiving holiday.
00:13:33.000Coronavirus apparently did not affect anybody who was sufficiently woke, including Lori Lightfoot.
00:13:38.000She could go and she could get her hair done, and she'd go and she could do rallies, and people could twerk in the streets for George Floyd in her city.
00:13:44.000The real problem was, of course, if you wanted to go to Grandma's funeral.
00:13:48.000That was the real issue for Lori Lightfoot.
00:13:50.000I mean, she was so radical, Lori Lightfoot, that after holding Lollapalooza in the city in October 2021, which is what she did, she actually held Lollapalooza in Chicago.
00:14:02.000At the exact same time, she was chiding the Chicago Police Department's union, the Fraternal Order of Police, For, quote, trying to induce an insurrection against her attempted VAX mandate.
00:14:12.000She wanted a VAX mandate on the police.
00:14:33.000And we're not just we're not having that.
00:14:35.000The contract is clear and has been known for a long time.
00:14:38.000The police unions are not authorized to strike.
00:14:41.000It's in their collective bargaining agreement and it's a matter of state law.
00:14:44.000What we've seen from the Fraternal Order of Police and particularly the leadership is a lot of misinformation, a lot of half-truths and frankly flat-out lies in order to induce an insurrection.
00:15:02.000If you didn't want to get vaxxed and you're a cop, and all you want to do is police crime, she wouldn't let you police crime, but she would try to force you to get the vax.
00:15:07.000And then she would call you an insurrectionist for not wanting to get the vax.
00:15:12.000I wonder why she was so unpopular, guys.
00:16:29.000But if we have to take drastic steps, we will take them.
00:16:31.000I hope we never ever have to get back there again.
00:16:35.000But it really depends upon the actions that people take here and now.
00:16:40.000We are in another crisis and we've got to act accordingly.
00:16:45.000Well, Lori Lightfoot's political career is dead.
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00:18:02.000But she was able to get away with it because, of course, she was a black lesbian.
00:18:05.000And this is the thing that matters more than anything else in American politics is your identity status, which is why she kept calling upon it.
00:18:10.000So back in July of 2021, for example, she literally said that she would she would only give interviews to black reporters, which is about as racist a thing as a public official has ever said.
00:18:38.000I'm happy to vouch for Craig Wall, for Heather Sharon and others.
00:18:42.000Well, look, I think in this one day when we are looking at the two year anniversary of my inauguration, As a woman of color, as a lesbian, it's important to me that diversity is put front and center.
00:20:10.000Intersectionality is always sword and shield.
00:20:13.000It also allows her to suggest that, of course, her own failures are the result of systemic racism.
00:20:16.000So back in June of 2021, as the murder rate was already skyrocketing in her city, disaster area, she was still doing COVID lockdowns and all the rest.
00:20:24.000She was declaring racism a public health crisis in June of 2021.
00:20:27.000When we think about racism, many of us think about its visible and audible forms.
00:20:35.000But the reality is the insidious nature of Systemic racism has other impacts that are every bit as deep and harmful.
00:20:48.000It allows you to claim that all the problems in your city are the result of systemic racism and also any critique of you is about that same exact sort of racism.
00:21:11.000So, we all bid a fond farewell to Lori Lightfoot.
00:21:13.000But the problem is, That the sort of thought process that put Lori Lightfoot in place in the first place, the sort of ideology that made Lori Lightfoot a hero to the left, that is still alive and well in major cities all across the United States.
00:21:27.000And the chickens, as I say, are not going to only come home to roost for Lori Lightfoot.
00:21:30.000They're going to come home to roost for a lot of the radical leftists who are in positions of local, state, and federal power, so long as they mimic the stupidity of the policies of people like Lori Lightfoot.
00:21:41.000That is particularly true in the city of St.
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00:23:00.000Louis, there's a video that has gone absolutely viral because it's the video of a person getting murdered.
00:23:04.000And it is a shocking, horrifying video.
00:23:09.000In the video, I'll describe for folks who can't watch, you will see there is a man, happens to be a black man, who is casually loading a gun.
00:23:58.000It's an... I mean, unbelievably horrific video.
00:24:02.000Apparently, according to the UK Daily Mail, witnesses said they saw the pair fighting outside the Shell gas station further up the street moments earlier.
00:24:08.000The shooter has now been charged with first-degree murder.
00:24:10.000He was arrested after entering a public library later in the afternoon.
00:24:14.000It remains unclear if the shooter, who has a forehead tattoo and a neck tattoo, which is always the sign of a vice president at Chase Manhattan Bank, has a criminal record, or if he was out on bond or probation at the time of yesterday's shooting.
00:24:28.000Louis residents say it's more proof that local leaders, including Soros-backed Progressive Circuit attorney Kim Gardner, do not have a handle on escalating crime.
00:24:58.000Louis started, unsurprisingly, in 2014.
00:25:01.000By 2014, the year of the Ferguson riots, that is when police all across the country stopped policing at the behest of public officials, people like Kim Gardner or Lori Lightfoot, people who suggested that the police were the problem.
00:25:14.000Louis spike from 120 a year in 2013 to 159, 188, 188, 205, 186, 194, 263 in 2020.
00:25:15.000a year in 2013. It's 159, 188, 188, 205, 186, 194, 263 in 2020. That was the George Floyd year, the year in which we decided the police were totally evil.
00:25:27.000263 people were murdered in the Louis, 200 in 2021, and at least 200 in 2022.
00:25:36.000And part of that is due to Kimberly Gardner.
00:25:38.000So Kimberly Gardner is the rogue prosecutor who has decided, like a bunch of other Soros-appointed prosecutors, that prosecuting crime is really bad and really terrible.
00:25:48.000So for example, Kim Gardner, she has taken on the cops in the city of St.
00:25:52.000Louis in 60 minutes, did a full story about her and her bravery.
00:25:57.000And here she is alongside the police union rep talking about how she has basically stopped the police from doing their job.
00:27:02.000And that means you weren't supposed to criticize her crap policy and the fact that she wasn't prosecuting crime.
00:27:07.000An investigation by a local TV station, according to Heritage, showed that in 2018, prosecutors in the city got guilty verdicts in just 51% of cases.
00:27:15.000Gardner's office loses half the cases it takes to trial, She says that she is not going to prosecute felonies because she wants to focus on the more difficult cases, but then she doesn't actually win those particular cases.
00:27:27.000And she is part of a broader problem in DA's offices across the country, ranging from Kim Foxx in Chicago to Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore's rogue prosecutor, who decided to simply let murderers off the hook in that particular city.
00:28:03.000Louis police said the crash that left the teen injured started when a 2023 Audi Q5 drove through a yield sign at the intersection of St.
00:28:09.000Charles Street and North 11th about 8.40pm.
00:28:11.000Apparently, a 2016 Chevy Malibu struck the Audi that was coming through the intersection and sent the Audi crashing into a parked car and there was a 17-year-old girl walking in the area and the car hit her.
00:28:22.000The girl was rushed to the hospital with critical injuries.
00:28:24.000She ended up apparently losing both of her legs.
00:28:30.000The 17-year-old girl was coming home from a volleyball tournament, and the person, the driver, who was arrested and charged with second-degree assault, driving without a valid license and multiple other crimes, and was going 20 miles per hour, over the speed limit, and did not try to brake before the crash, was out on bond at the time of the crash, and had committed multiple parole violations.
00:29:40.000The Circuit Attorney who's been there for six years, this incident and others have highlighted the fact that some improvements need to be made in her office because she's lost the trust of the people.
00:29:58.000So first, she said that she had, on three separate occasions, as recently as last month, requested the defendant's bond be revoked.
00:30:04.000But apparently, the defense attorney for this particular person contradicted Gardner's account and said she was falsifying the timeline.
00:30:11.000She literally put out two entries in her timeline of events that were completely fabricated, made up, because she's having to cover for the fact that she is soft on crime.
00:30:23.000Play stupid and dangerous games and win stupid and dangerous prizes.
00:30:26.000So how's Kim Gardner defending herself in St.
00:30:30.000Everybody who dislikes me and thinks I'm doing a bad job is a racist.
00:30:34.000Mayor Tashara Jones said the prosecutor lost the public trust, and if Kim Gardner was trying to restore it, it's hard to see how.
00:30:42.000In a combative press conference Thursday, she described herself as the victim, dodged direct questions, and dove further into division and deflection.
00:30:52.000In spite of the vitriol, the hate, the racist attacks, while it is true my office could have done more, To say we did nothing is only disingenuous, but it's willfully ignorant.
00:31:06.000There are numerous attacks on our office.
00:31:09.000There are numerous individuals that have an agenda to make sure that my office does not secede.
00:32:10.000He decided that he was going to put out a notice just before the election that he was going to relieve student loan debt amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:32:21.000And how was he going to get this through legally?
00:32:23.000What he was going to do is he was going to claim that no one actually had standing to sue him.
00:32:26.000So in other words, because no one is quote unquote damaged and because the general taxpayer can't sue, then there is no way for anyone to stop him.
00:32:32.000Which, if true, Would basically spell the end of any serious legal check on the powers of the executive branch.
00:32:39.000Because if the executive branch can just get rid of things willy-nilly without any legislative authority whatsoever, then what exactly are the limits on them?
00:32:50.000Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, the Supreme Court is skeptical of that argument.
00:32:53.000The administration apparently believes, said Justice Samuel Alito, that when it comes to handing out benefits, a trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there, that doesn't really make much difference to Congress.
00:33:01.000Adding that hardly seemed very sensible.
00:33:03.000Justice Neil Gorsuch asked whether Education Secretary Miguel Cardona was outside his area of competence in putting forth a regulation with such extensive economic impact.
00:33:09.000Quote, I understand the secretary has considerable expertise when it comes to educational affairs, but in terms of macroeconomic policy, do we normally assume that every cabinet secretary has that kind of knowledge?
00:33:20.000Liberal justices, of course, said when Congress authorized the Education Secretary to respond to national emergencies by waiving or modifying legal provisions applicable to the student financial assistance programs, that cancellation obviously was part of the equation.
00:33:31.000Elena Kagan, who is as far left as is possible to be on the court, other than Sonia Sotomayor, she said Congress doesn't get much clearer than that.
00:33:38.000Okay, the HEROES Act, again, was designed to alleviate student loan debt for veterans or in the case of, like, a terror attack.
00:33:44.000Joe Biden just declared a national emergency, an ongoing national emergency for COVID, an emergency he himself has said does not exist.
00:33:51.000And then he has used that as the predicate to cancel student loan debt.
00:33:54.000And my favorite is that he claims now that the inflation rates and the hard economy mean that we have to get rid of the student loan debt at the same time he is claiming that everything is wonderful and hunky-dory, economically speaking.
00:34:04.000Well, the Supreme Court is about to get rid of this thing.
00:34:21.000So he's hoping that if the Supreme Court strikes it down, he will then be able to campaign against the Supreme Court and all those evil Republicans who want to make you pay your debts and all the rest.
00:34:28.000I don't think it's going to play out that way.
00:34:29.000I think it's going to play out as another failure, another promise made by the Biden administration that wasn't real in the first place.
00:34:35.000I think he's playing a game that he thinks is too sophisticated by at least half.
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00:34:52.000In a world where we're more interested in coddling and affirming stupidity, Jordan is unafraid to tell you some pretty hard truths.
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00:35:10.000And I thought, well, that's what you think.
00:35:12.000But as a trained clinician, I think that I'm going to do you a lot more damage in the medium to long run by going along with your claim that you can just be anything you want moment to moment.
00:35:23.000You think that's freeing because you regard all social constraints as inhibitions on the Wonderful manifestation of your true self.
00:35:32.000But I know that in order to be healthy in the long run, you have to be integrated at multiple levels of social community.
00:35:39.000And when you introduce indeterminacy as to your status at the sex level, no one has any idea what to do with you.
00:35:48.000And so how are they going to play with you?
00:35:49.000They don't know what you are in some sense that even enables the Ball game to get off the ground.
00:35:57.000And so that's no recipe for long-term well-being, because that's always bandied about, that notion of well-being and harm.
00:36:04.000It's like, no, you have to negotiate an identity.
00:36:10.000Jordan is speaking tough truths to people, truths they actually need to hear.
00:36:13.000If you've got friends who are wondering, number one, why Jordan is popular, or number two, friends who are experiencing the chaos of life and don't have a guide, Jordan is a great guide.
00:36:21.000The first two episodes are out right now.
00:36:33.000Well, Democrats are, of course, whining and screaming and mewling about the fact that the Supreme Court is very likely to strike down what is obviously an unconstitutional seizure of power by the executive branch to get rid of hundreds of billions of dollars, maybe trillions of dollars over the course of time in student loan debt.
00:36:50.000Biden knew at the time he did this that this was not legal.
00:37:01.000And if I make that promise and then the promise gets struck down, I won't get blamed because, of course, I made the promise and it shows people I was willing to do it.
00:37:12.000You said that you could do a thing and you lied.
00:37:14.000And the American people are going to hold you accountable for that lie.
00:37:17.000By the way, on principle, if you take out a loan, repay your loans.
00:37:20.000I don't know when it became okay in this country to believe that if you take out a loan, you shouldn't repay your loans.
00:37:25.000That it's everybody else's responsibility for your crap decisions.
00:37:28.000You made a bad decision to take out $150,000 in loans to go get that sociology degree from the local community college or the overpriced private college.
00:37:37.000Your problem, not mine, not anyone else's.
00:38:10.000But this is, again, part and parcel of I think a broader democratic program at this at this point in American life, which is to make people lazy bums.
00:38:17.000I think the goal of the Democratic Party at this point is to make your life worse so that you will blame the system and then you will give them power to change the system.
00:38:26.000I think that they're top-level members of the Democratic Party and the press, who are perfectly happy with incentivizing bad and stupid behavior.
00:38:34.000Yeah, there shouldn't be any consequences for behavior.
00:38:36.000Get pregnant out of wedlock, be overweight, incur debts that you can't pay, drop out of school, do all the dumb things.
00:38:42.000Because after all, the reason you're failing is not because of those individual decisions, it's because of the system.
00:38:47.000Now, first of all, that is a recipe for individual unhappiness.
00:38:50.000If you actually wish to be happy in a free country, make good decisions.
00:38:54.000Make decisions that make your life better.
00:38:55.000But it's not in the interest of a lot of politicians to actually incentivize you to make those good decisions.
00:39:00.000It's in their interest for you to fail, because then they can say that your failure is the responsibility of a system, and they need the power in order to change the system.
00:39:08.000Bernie Sanders' entire schtick is exactly this.
00:39:11.000All failures are the system's failures.
00:39:13.000Now give me the power and I will take that power and I will use it on your behalf.
00:39:17.000I will restructure the entire... He's never produced a damn thing in his entire life.
00:39:20.000So we're now about to hear from a bunch of people who have never produced a thing in their entire life.
00:39:31.000And here they are explaining why you, a person who has produced all of those things, should pay the bill for somebody else who took out a bill to get their ed degree from... from the local community college.
00:39:41.000So, first we begin with Miguel Cardona.
00:39:43.000Again, so many career useless people in government at this point.
00:39:46.000One of the striking facts about the Biden administration and the Democratic Party in general is how few of these people actually earned a living before they actually went into government.
00:40:11.000Because I believe the concern might be that there will be future legal challenges.
00:40:18.000There are many things to consider when you forgive some loan debt, but not other loan debt.
00:40:25.000And then you have people who have paid off the debt.
00:40:27.000We know that after national emergencies, when loan payments are paused, when it's time to restart the loans, there's up to 20 times the amount of defaults that you would normally have.
00:40:41.000This is why we proposed targeted debt relief of $10,000, or $20,000 if you're a Pell recipient, to help those folks get back on their feet.
00:40:52.000And as far as folks who say... It is not pandemic-related relief.
00:40:56.000Well, that happened prior to the pandemic.
00:40:58.000This is pandemic-related relief that millions of Americans need.
00:41:04.000We poured trillions of dollars into people's pockets to stay home for two years.
00:41:08.000And here he is saying that it's pandemic-related relief.
00:41:09.000By the way, the reality is, one of the claims they're making is that inflation makes it harder for people because of the economic conditions to pay back their loans.
00:41:18.000If your wages went up and your actual student loan debt is on a fixed rate from a fixed base, that means that your actual price to repay your loan went down.
00:41:29.000Hey, if your income went up and the debt is the same, then it costs you less money, relatively speaking, in order to pay off the debt.
00:41:37.000But the real point here is a bunch of useless people suggesting that they get to steal your money and then use it for purposes of their own making and relieve other people of responsibility in the process because they want to incentivize stupid behavior.
00:41:47.000Here's Ilhan Omar, an anti-American useless person, talking about how we're not going to stop until everyone is freed from student loan debt.
00:41:56.000Regardless of what happens today, we are not going to stop, we are not going to rest until every single person who has student debt is freed from that and is able to have opportunity in this country.
00:42:16.000All these people, all these people, it's amazing.
00:42:19.000Cori Bush, the language here, Cori Bush, the mewling and the whining, the tears are sweet.
00:42:24.000I mean, it's filling up here because the Supreme Court is going to strike this thing down and then all these people are just going to whine and cry and they're going to cry and whine.
00:42:30.000Here is Cori Bush, again, another career useless person who has never produced a product, service, or business, talking about how everybody should be able to just not pay their debts, pretty much.
00:42:44.000So let me ask you, and I need to hear your response.
00:42:50.000Are the profits of a student loan servicer more important than the people's lives?
00:42:59.000If they catch revenue, which is what they're claiming, is it more important than people staying housed and fed?
00:43:08.000Should a far-right Supreme Court stop over 40 million borrowers from receiving student debt relief?
00:43:28.000According to Fox News, Missouri Democratic Representative Cori Bush's campaign told out $60,000 in private security payments last year to Courtney Merritt.
00:43:35.000Who she quietly married earlier this month.
00:43:38.000It seems like somebody is perfectly happy to, you know, embezzle.
00:43:43.000Merit's pocketed the security payments despite not having a St.
00:43:46.000Louis private security license, which is needed to perform security functions in the area.
00:43:50.000Merit's also received the campaign cash as it simultaneously paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a St.
00:43:55.000Louis security firm and another individual for personal protection.
00:43:59.000So, yeah, she's very much against profit unless her boyfriend soon-to-be husband is making it for being a security guard, even though he doesn't actually have a security license. Meanwhile, you have Ayanna Pressley, she says it's callous and spiteful not to relieve people's student loan debt. Well, as somebody who paid off my own student loan debt, as somebody who paid off my wife's student loan debt, let me just point out that it is callous and spiteful for you to expect me to pay off your student loan debt or anyone else to pay off your student loan debt. Pay your own damned bills.
00:44:26.000...burdened by unjust and egregious student loan debt. With the stroke of a pen and clear legal authority, he responded.
00:45:25.000And just know this, I've seen things come and go, you know, when folks coming off as coming go, but movement people don't go nowhere, right?
00:45:50.000And then your party's going to get blamed.
00:45:51.000Because you lied to the American people.
00:45:53.000And you lied to the American people, as it turns out, fairly regularly.
00:45:57.000God's justice is coming, and that writes swiftly for a party that consistently lies to the American population and promises things it just can't fulfill.
00:46:04.000This is also true, of course, of Joe Biden.
00:46:07.000Now, I have to say, I'm feeling a little bad today for Pete Buttigieg.
00:46:11.000He's the Secretary of Transportation who has now blown out his presidential prospects because he was a little nitpicky about going to East Palestine, Ohio for three weeks.
00:46:19.000He was too busy going on kind of Jaunt on private jets to talk about how there were too many white construction workers or something.
00:46:27.000Well, now Pete Buttigieg is trying, he's now put in the position of having to defend Joe Biden because Biden has also not gone to East Palestine, Ohio.
00:46:35.000He's been willing to jet off to Ukraine to do a photo op with Vladimir Zelensky and he's still out there doing political events.
00:46:41.000He's just not going to East Palestine.
00:46:42.000So here's Pete Buttigieg who's now being forced to defend Joe Biden not going to East Palestine.
00:46:47.000Now that you have been to East Palestine and you've seen the devastation firsthand, it's his decision ultimately, but I have to ask you, do you think that the President, President Biden, should visit and speak with families there?
00:46:58.000Well, what I know is he's been very concerned throughout this process about what the people of East Palestine are going through.
00:47:04.000I think also a visit of that level can sometimes have a lot of disruptive effects, so it would need to be thought of carefully.
00:47:20.000The problem for the Democrats, of course, is that Kamala Harris is the worst candidate in human history, and Pete Buttigieg just blew himself out.
00:49:36.000Whether it is the story about his father, my personal favorite, the best Joe Biden story ever is, of course, the one about his father telling him that two gay men going at it on a street corner in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1952, that those guys meant love, Joey.
00:49:52.000This is the one where apparently He had a pornographic dream about a nurse or something.
00:49:56.000A nurse named Pearl Nelson, military. She'd come in and do things that I don't think you'll learn in medical school, nursing school. She'd whisper in my ear and couldn't understand him. She'd whisper, she'd lean down. He'd actually breathe on me to make sure that I was, there was a connection, human connection.
00:50:57.000Meanwhile, I have to say, I am amazed by the number of commentators who are actively upset about the fact that the lab leak theory appears to be true.
00:51:05.000The FBI has now suggested that the lab leak theory, that the COVID-19 virus started in a Wuhan lab and then was accidentally leaked out and then the Chinese government covered it up.
00:51:17.000The only reason for it to be political is for people like Anthony Fauci, who supports gain-of-function research in Wuhan.
00:51:21.000But if your name isn't Anthony Fauci or Francis Collins, I don't really see why, per se, you'd be invested in this.
00:51:28.000But the answer is because the wrong people believe the lab leak theory.
00:51:33.000There's a fascinating exchange yesterday between Nate Silver and Mehdi Hassan.
00:51:37.000Mehdi Hassan is the political hack over at MSNBC who used to work for Al Jazeera.
00:51:42.000And he tweeted out yesterday, the simple reason why so many people weren't keen to discuss the lab leak theory is because it was originally conflated by the right with Chinese bioweapon conspiracies and continues to be conflated by the right with anti-Fauci conspiracies.
00:52:15.000So Stephen Colbert, a former comedian, he went on his late night show and he attacked the Department of Energy for operating outside their lane.
00:52:22.000The Department of Energy released a new report saying a lab leak is the most likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:52:28.000this kind of work. So they're actually not outside their lane. I love the comedian who is well outside his lane talking about how others should not be outside their lanes.
00:52:37.000The Department of Energy released a new report saying a lab leak is the most likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. Well, there it is. Chinese wet markets, you're off the hook.
00:52:50.000Let's order a round of pangolin poppers for the table.
00:52:55.000Now, if, like me, you're wondering why the Department of Energy is the one making this judgment, it's because that agency oversees a network of U.S.
00:53:03.000national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research.
00:53:30.000Stay in your lane, guys, says Stephen Colbert, the comedian who has never stayed anywhere remotely close to his lane.
00:53:35.000Worth noting here that Jon Stewart, who used to be the guy who made Stephen Colbert famous back when Stephen Colbert had the occasional funny moment.
00:53:42.000Stewart actually went on TV and he recalled the backlash to him talking about the Lab League.
00:53:46.000You'll remember in 2021, he did a very funny bit on Colbert's show in which he talked about the fact that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was in fact the source of of the lab leak.
00:53:58.000It was very funny about how if there was a chocolate leak in Hershey, Pennsylvania, you might assume it had something to do with Hershey.
00:54:03.000Well, here he was explaining the backlash he received.
00:54:05.000The Department of Energy came out with a report saying that they have, they said, low confidence, but that the covid-19 was a result of a lab leak.
00:54:21.000Are you trying to get me canceled again?
00:54:24.000It's not about certainty or the larger problem with all of this is the inability to discuss things that are within the realm of possibility without falling into absolutes and litmus testing each other for Uh, our political allegiances as it arose from that.
00:54:47.000My bigger problem with that was I thought it was a pretty good bit that expressed kind of how I felt and the two things that came out of it were I'm racist against Asian people and how dare I align myself with the alt-right.
00:55:05.000He's totally right about this, by the way, Jon Stewart.
00:55:07.000I mean, when he says that he was immediately categorized as a right-winger because of that, and he's as far left as it's possible to be, it is amazing.
00:55:14.000Now, the problem for Jon Stewart is, of course, he has, in fact, engaged in precisely the thing he's condemning, this sort of knee-jerk, I'm going to side with the left and not examine the evidence on other possible ideas stuff.
00:55:28.000Meanwhile, Rand Paul, senator from Kentucky, who was right about the gain-of-function research stuff all along, he told Sean Hannity last night that Anthony Fauci actually gave a waiver in order to bypass committee review when he was authorizing the Wuhan lab research.
00:55:46.000Then we got the emails from the NIH themselves that they had a strong belief that their money went to the Wuhan Virology Lab.
00:55:55.000So, for them to deny it, or, you know, aren't they just denying the science at this point?
00:56:02.000They don't want to tell us that they were wrong?
00:56:04.000I think they're trying to escape the culpability because ultimately, Anthony Fauci's advocacy, he had to go outside the boundaries of the normal process.
00:56:14.000There's a committee that's supposed to review these dangerous viruses and see if the experiments are too risky and shouldn't happen.
00:56:22.000This didn't occur in the Wuhan experiments.
00:56:26.000He was one of the few people in government who could give a waiver and said, the research doesn't have to be reviewed by the committee, we're just going to let it happen.
00:56:35.000Well, I think that may be one of the reasons why Anthony Fauci doesn't want this talked about.
00:56:38.000It's amazing how the media, many in the media, are actively jumping to defend Fauci and all of the rest.
00:56:45.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then some things that I hate.
00:57:49.000And I think that I proved to my constituents that, you know, I was a citizen going up there to try to do what they wanted me to do, but I wasn't going to play the game.
00:58:01.000And I think that you'll enjoy the full interview.
00:58:02.000Go check out YouTube for that or just wait until this weekend.
00:58:05.000We'll release the full audio on our on our feed.
00:58:08.000Also, time for some things that I hate.
00:58:15.000Alrighty, so now apparently McDonald's has decided that it's important to promote Cardi B and Offset.
00:58:20.000So, there are a lot of people who are McDonald's franchisees and they are not particularly fond of this.
00:58:24.000They're not particularly fond of this because Cardi B is pornographic and so is Offset.
00:58:28.000These are not people who are, I would say, models for the youngins.
00:58:33.000These are not people- Despite the fact that the left has tried to portray Cardi B as though she is an empowering figure for young adults, she is, in fact, not.
00:58:40.000She is a former stripper who has bragged about how she drugged and robbed men.
00:58:45.000And then she makes quasi-pornographic rap about her various lady parts.
00:58:50.000And she is now being mainstreamed by McDonald's.
00:58:54.000Which, again, a lot of people go to McDonald's.
00:59:36.000Well, I mean, I do love how they're hijacking, you know, actual, you know, like 1930s and 40s style vibes in order to try and class up the joint.
00:59:46.000But these are not particularly wonderful and classy people.
00:59:50.000You'll remember that Offset, it's amazing what you can survive to not be canceled so long as you are part of rap culture.
00:59:55.000You'll remember that Offset actually rapped the lyrics, quote, I cannot vibe with queers.
01:00:01.000He had to issue an apology, but the apology was sufficient because, of course, he is a member of the intersectional cadre, so that's totally fine.
01:00:06.000Well, a lot of the franchisees are looking at this and they're like, uh, we don't want any association with this.
01:00:10.000We don't think that Cardi B is child-safe.
01:00:15.000Division in recent weeks, several McDonald's franchisees, according to the Wall Street Journal, said the artist's lyrics and lifestyles are not aligned with the company brand.
01:00:22.000Some owners wrote that chosen celebrities could erode McDonald's family-friendly image and urged other franchisees to remove the advertising and merch associated with the Cardi B and Offset meal in their stores.
01:00:32.000McDonald's said Tuesday, the chain has received widespread support and excitement from owners and their restaurant employees regarding the Cardi B and Offset meal.
01:00:38.000Apparently, the couple's promotion was meant to focus on love and celebrating special moments.
01:00:44.000Oh, isn't that nice that it's focused on on love, right?
01:00:48.000I mean, like that's that's that's what it is.
01:00:50.000It's all about about love and really like classy forms of love.
01:01:01.000Cardi B shared a screenshot of explicit text messages she and husband Offset recently sent each other amid rumors that the rapper had been unfaithful.
01:01:09.000It all started Saturday with a Twitter troll reposting a meme of Spongebob Squarepants looking at a phone with the caption, Man, eat that D word.
01:01:17.000The user added, This is how Offset be with random women when Cardi B be away from home.
01:01:22.000Cardi wasted no time responding, Actually, this is how he be.
01:01:46.000That's what they are all about, is couples who are rumored to be cheating on one another, sending each other steamy text messages and putting them up on Twitter.
01:02:57.000Doesn't seem like a particularly masculine thing to do.
01:02:59.000Well, now, English pop singer Harry Styles is partnering with Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety's Students Demand Action.
01:03:06.000He has donated a million dollars in tour proceeds to secure more gun control in America, according to Breitbart.
01:03:12.000On February 27th, 2023, Stiles decided to join forces with Everytown.
01:03:17.000Stiles responded to a recent shooting saying he was absolutely devastated by the recent string of mass shootings in America and so he is going to use his money in order to promote gun control in a country where he does not live.
01:03:28.000To which we can only say that we fought a revolution so we don't have to listen to Brits.
01:03:32.000So Harry Styles can go back to making his crappy music and second-rate movies with Olivia Wilde and wearing dresses on the cover of magazines.
01:03:40.000You're not going to take our gun rights because you donated money to Michael Bloomberg's group.
01:04:06.000According to the Associated Press, Daniela Arroyo Gonzalez, who is best known for winning a federal lawsuit against Puerto Rico's government that allows people to change gender on their birth certificate, was chosen on Thursday.
01:04:22.000District Court Judge Carmen Consuelo wrote Arroyo and others who brought the lawsuit have stepped up for those whose voices, debilitated by raw discrimination, have been hushed into silence.
01:04:31.000Arroyo will compete with other candidates representing the island's 78 municipalities for the Miss Universe Puerto Rico title.
01:04:38.000Miss Universe pageant has allowed trans participation since 2012.
01:04:41.000The first transgender woman competed in the global event in 2018.
01:04:45.000Now, this is not a great shock because, of course, a trans activist who is a dude from Thailand bought the Miss Universe organization for about $20 million last year.
01:04:55.000And so you're now going to get to see a bunch of surgically enhanced dudes participate in the Miss Universe contest.
01:05:01.000At this point, I'm just wondering if there's any purpose to this.
01:05:03.000Why don't we just, honestly, why don't we just use computer-generated people and we'll have like a contest for that?
01:05:09.000Because let's face it, that's what's happening when you have a Miss Universe contest featuring surgically enhanced dudes.
01:05:14.000It's basically a contest among plastic surgeons, so maybe we should just call it the Plastic Surgery Contest.
01:05:18.000Because that's really what you're doing here, right?
01:05:20.000You're slicing off some d**ks and you're putting in some fake vaginas, and you're enhancing some chest tissue, you're implanting breast tissue and changing hormones, and you're shaving down jaws, and you're poofing up lips, and you're— Like, who's the best plastic surgeon?
01:05:35.000Because it certainly isn't who's the most beautiful woman, because these aren't women.
01:05:38.000I know it's uncomfortable for us to recognize the simple fact, but that is a simple fact.
01:05:42.000You are now looking at dudes who have been surgically enhanced to appear more feminine, to look like women.
01:05:48.000And so if you're saying that that is the best woman, then I guess women are all just assemblages of parts.
01:05:52.000Everything that you say in the feminist circles about how people should stop viewing women as an assemblage of parts is completely undermined by this.
01:05:59.000Because you are literally talking about a man with an assemblage of fake female parts who you are now calling a woman and having compete with the other women who apparently have not been surgically enhanced, generally speaking.
01:06:11.000So if this person wins, congratulations to his plastic surgeon, because that's really who's getting rewarded.
01:06:23.000Also, a thing I like that is related to a thing I hate, Mississippi is now banning transgender surgery on minors and hormone treatments on minors.
01:06:33.000Now, my friend Matt Walsh, what does a woman He went actually to the signing of the bill, and he appeared at the press conference with Governor Tate Reeds of Mississippi, who invited him.
01:06:44.000He was the only invited guest speaker, and it was great that Matt went.
01:06:48.000He also shellacked a couple members of the press who were asking very dumb questions about why boys can't be girls and all of the rest.
01:06:53.000The Mississippi bill banned for minors under the age of 18 puberty blockers, those would be chemical castration drugs, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minors.
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