The Ben Shapiro Show - WTF Just Happened In SOUTH KOREA?

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00:00:08.000 So it seems that there was an attempt at a military dictatorship in South Korea over the course of the last 24 hours.

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00:00:33.000 Okay, so I'm gonna begin with the situation in South Korea.

00:00:37.000 So basically, yesterday...

00:00:39.000 Sometime yesterday morning, the president of South Korea issued a command for martial law, and it read like this, quote, to safeguard liberal democracy and protect the safety of the people against anti-state forces threatening to overthrow the Republic of Korea, the following measures are declared nationwide effective December 3rd, 2024.

00:00:57.000 One, all political activities, including the operations of the National Assembly, local councils, political parties, political associations, assemblies, and demonstrations are strictly prohibited.

00:01:07.000 Two, any act that denies or seeks to overthrow the liberal democratic system, including the dissemination of fake news, manipulation of public opinion, and false propaganda is prohibited.

00:01:15.000 Three, all media and publications will be subject to the control of the martial law command.

00:01:20.000 Four, strikes, work slowdowns, and gatherings that incite social disorder are forbidden.

00:01:24.000 Five, all medical professionals, including resident doctors currently on strike or absent from medical duties, must return to their work and perform their responsibilities within 48 hours.

00:01:32.000 Violators will be dealt with under martial law.

00:01:34.000 Six, measures will be implemented to minimize inconvenience for ordinary citizens except for anti-state forces and those attempting to overthrow the system.

00:01:42.000 And the president of South Korea...

00:01:45.000 Invoked his powers under Article 9 of the Martial Law Act and says that violators will be punished under Article 14 of the Martial Law Act.

00:01:53.000 Okay, so, what exactly is going on here?

00:01:56.000 Because that is a pretty extraordinary move.

00:01:59.000 Well, the president of South Korea is a person, and forgive the pronunciation here, named Yoon Suk Yeo.

00:02:05.000 Yunsook Yeo is a member of a party that controls the presidency but is in the minority in the actual parliament of the country.

00:02:15.000 And the claim that he is making is that the majority in the parliament, which is a party called the Democratic Party over in South Korea, that they're basically tools of the North Koreans, that they're crypto-communists, and that they are preventing the functioning of the government.

00:02:30.000 So he put out a statement, and the statement says this, quote, Honorable citizens, as president, I appeal to you with a feeling of spitting blood.

00:02:38.000 Okay, then.

00:02:39.000 Since the inauguration of our government, the National Assembly has initiated 22 impeachment motions against government officials.

00:02:44.000 Since the inauguration of the 22nd National Assembly in June, it is pushing for the impeachment of 10 more.

00:02:49.000 This is a situation that is not only unprecedented in any country in the world, but has never been seen since the founding of our country.

00:02:55.000 It is paralyzing the judiciary by intimidating judges and impeaching a number of prosecutors, and it is paralyzing the executive branch by trying to impeach the minister of the interior, the chairman of the communications commission, the chair of the board of audit, and the defense minister.

00:03:06.000 The handling of the national budget also undermined the essential functions of the state and turned Korea into a drug paradise and a public order panic by completely cutting off all major budgets for cracking down on drug crimes and maintaining public security.

00:03:17.000 The Democratic Party cut 4.1 trillion won from next year's budget, including 1 trillion won for disaster preparedness relief, 38.4 billion won for child care support allowances, and a project to develop a gas field in the city for youth jobs.

00:03:30.000 They even put the brakes on funding to improve the treatment of military officers, etc., etc.

00:03:34.000 The legislative dictatorship of the Democratic Party, which uses even the budget as a means of political struggle, did not hesitate to impeach the budget.

00:03:40.000 The government is paralyzed.

00:03:42.000 The people's size are growing.

00:03:43.000 The trampling of the constitutional order of the Free Republic of Korea and the disruption of legitimate state institutions established by the constitutions and laws is an obvious anti-state act that plots insurrection.

00:03:53.000 The lives of the people are of no concern.

00:03:55.000 The government is in a state of paralysis due to impeachment, special investigation, and the defense of the opposition leader.

00:04:00.000 Our National Assembly has become a den of criminals.

00:04:03.000 The National Assembly has become a monster that collapses the liberal democratic system.

00:04:07.000 Dear citizens, I declare emergency martial law to defend the Free Republic of Korea from the threats of North Korean communist forces and to eradicate the shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces that are plundering the freedom and happiness of our people and to protect the free constitutional order.

00:04:21.000 So, the president, again, is a member of a more right-wing party in South Korea.

00:04:27.000 The opposition party, the Democratic Party, is a significantly more left-wing party in South Korea.

00:04:31.000 And essentially what is happening here is that the Democratic Party, which again represents a large majority in the National Assembly, has been threatening and attempting to impeach all of the state prosecutors who are looking into the Democratic Party leadership.

00:04:48.000 So, the prosecutors were supposed to be looking into the family of the President of South Korea, and they had apparently decided to exonerate the wife of the President of South Korea.

00:04:59.000 Meanwhile, those same prosecutors were looking into the leadership of the Democratic Party of South Korea for corruption charges.

00:05:05.000 And so the Democratic Party of South Korea then attempted to impeach these prosecutors.

00:05:10.000 According to the Korean Herald, this would have been just yesterday, the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea on Monday submitted motions to the National Assembly to impeach the head of the state audit agency and three prosecutors involved in two different scandals surrounding First Lady Kim Kyung-hee.

00:05:25.000 The Assembly will put the motions to a vote during a plenary meeting scheduled for Wednesday in accordance with plans announced by the main opposition, which holds the majority in a 300-seat parliament.

00:05:34.000 So again, the opposition party, which controls the National Assembly, is attempting to fire these prosecutors who are not going to be prosecuting the president's wife and are instead apparently investigating some of the leadership of the Democratic Party.

00:05:49.000 Again, this is the Korean Times reporting this would have been A couple of days ago, quote, Which

00:06:24.000 is the ruling party in South Korea is saying the real reason that they keep trying to get rid of these prosecutors is because the prosecutors are looking into them instead.

00:06:31.000 And in fact, the Democratic Party in South Korea was attempting to unilaterally downsize the budget bill in order to effectively defund this prosecutorial office entirely.

00:06:42.000 So what exactly is happening here?

00:06:44.000 Basically, the South Korean president is looking...

00:06:48.000 At the opposition party, which controls the National Assembly and says, you are attempting to clean out the prosecutorial part of the government in order to protect yourselves or weaponize it against me.

00:06:59.000 And so therefore, I'm going to dissolve parliament and I'm going to basically declare dictatorial control of the country.

00:07:06.000 So all of this resulted yesterday in some pretty extraordinary images.

00:07:11.000 The military of South Korea entering the parliament, for example.

00:07:14.000 Here's what that looked like.

00:07:15.000 You can see there are members of the military who are coming through the bushes en masse, and they are getting ready to enter the parliament.

00:07:32.000 You're talking about armed members of the military.

00:07:34.000 Members of the assembly then attempted to enter the parliament in order to vote, because there is a provision of martial law that overrules the declaration of martial law by a vote in the national assembly.

00:07:45.000 And so here is some video of members of the assembly attempting to enter but being obstructed by the police in the process.

00:07:51.000 Things is a scrum outside the parliament.

00:07:55.000 Members of the assembly trying to push past the soldiers.

00:07:58.000 That would include, by the way, members of the president of South Korea's own party.

00:08:02.000 The People Power Party.

00:08:08.000 So, again, chaos outside.

00:08:11.000 Eventually, members of the assembly would make it in.

00:08:13.000 And the South Korean parliament voted to defy the country's president and lift his martial law declaration.

00:08:17.000 They did that unanimously.

00:08:19.000 Not everybody made it in.

00:08:19.000 It was like a 190-0 vote.

00:08:22.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration...

00:08:27.000 The New York Times, of course, tried to blame Donald Trump for all of this, hilariously enough.

00:08:48.000 The New York Times says, Has echoes of the effort by Donald Trump to prevent Mr. Biden from taking office after he won the 2020 election.

00:09:11.000 Well, actually, it doesn't, since Donald Trump did not, in fact, activate the military or attempt to declare martial law.

00:09:16.000 But the New York Times can connect anything bad in the universe to Donald Trump in some way, shape, or form.

00:09:22.000 So what exactly is happening here?

00:09:23.000 There's something deeper happening here because this sort of constitutional crisis is now taking place in a variety of countries, truly a variety of countries.

00:09:30.000 It's happening, for example, not just in South Korea, but it's happening in Israel, where there are fights between the prosecutorial wing of the government and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:09:40.000 It's happening in Hungary where there have been fights over state prosecutors.

00:09:43.000 It's obviously happening in Brazil where Lula da Silva, the authoritarian left-wing leader of the country, is now attempting to militarize the justice system against Jair Bolsonaro, his predecessor.

00:09:54.000 And, of course, there are shades of this in the United States.

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00:12:07.000 So, why exactly?

00:12:10.000 Is all of this happening right now?

00:12:12.000 To understand that, I think we need to understand the role of sort of the prosecutorial system in democratic republics because that has changed over time.

00:12:19.000 I mean, this has implications, by the way, for everything up to and including the Hunter Biden pardon or the DOJ weaponizing itself against Donald Trump.

00:12:26.000 So...

00:12:27.000 Democratic republics typically rely on checks and balances to prevent the government from engaging in authoritarianism.

00:12:33.000 And this is the basis of the United States Constitution.

00:12:35.000 We have the House and the Senate, which check one another.

00:12:38.000 We have both of them checked by the presidency.

00:12:39.000 We have all three of those bodies that are checked by the judiciary and vice versa.

00:12:44.000 Well, one of the checks and balances traditionally to avoid tyranny was impeachment.

00:12:49.000 If you didn't like members of the government or you suspected that members of the government were corrupt, a bipartisan majority would work to oust those corrupt officials.

00:12:56.000 Now, this was obviously problematic because when it comes to getting rid of corrupt officials, if the corrupt official happens to be a member of your party, then you are very unlikely to vote for their impeachment.

00:13:08.000 Now, in the United States, our founding fathers understood this.

00:13:11.000 So, for example, in Federalist No.

00:13:12.000 65, Alexander Hamilton discussed this at length.

00:13:16.000 He wrote, quote, The subjects of its jurisdiction, meaning the impeachment jurisdiction, are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

00:13:28.000 They are of a nature which may, with peculiar propriety, be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.

00:13:35.000 The prosecution of them for this reason will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.

00:13:43.000 In many cases, it will connect itself with the pre-existing factions and will enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence and interest on one side or on the other.

00:13:50.000 In such cases, says Alexander Hamilton, there will always be the greatest danger the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.

00:14:00.000 The convention, it appears, thought the Senate the most fit depository of this important trust.

00:14:04.000 Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified or sufficiently independent, what other body would be likely to feel confident enough in its own situation to preserve unawed and uninfluenced the necessary impartiality between an individual accused and the representatives of the people his accuser?

00:14:19.000 So...

00:14:20.000 This is the argument Alexander Hamilton is making for the fact that there is an impeachment trial that takes place in the United States Senate.

00:14:26.000 Because again, in Democratic Republics, the question of how you police corruption is a very real question.

00:14:31.000 Let's say you have a corrupt public official.

00:14:32.000 The United States Constitution says that person is impeached in the House and then there is a full trial in the Senate.

00:14:38.000 Why?

00:14:39.000 Well, Hamilton and the rest of the Founding Fathers believed the Senate would be the most objective body.

00:14:44.000 Back when the Constitution was designed, United States Senators were not appointed by party or by public approval.

00:14:50.000 They were appointed by the state legislatures and they served six-year terms.

00:14:54.000 And so the goal was that they would be more independent of sort of the public passions than the House.

00:14:59.000 So you couldn't have the judiciary do it because the judiciary could be hijacked.

00:15:02.000 But Senate was sort of half political, answerable to the public, but also indirectly answerable and thus more insulated from public pressures.

00:15:09.000 So Alexander Hamilton says that this sort of model, in terms of impeachment, was based on the British model.

00:15:16.000 He said, quote, the model from which the idea of this institution has been borrowed pointed out that course to the convention.

00:15:21.000 In Great Britain, it is the province of the House of Commons to prefer the impeachment and of the House of Lords to decide upon it.

00:15:26.000 Which makes, again, some sense.

00:15:27.000 The House of Lords was passed down paternalistically from parents to kids.

00:15:34.000 It was an accepted aristocracy and thus was not So Alexander Hamilton pointed out that if you tried to set up a separate impeachment court, which we might now call the DOJ, that wouldn't actually solve the problem because that too could be politicized.

00:15:49.000 So he writes in Federalist 65, quote, So again, the original solution for corruption in democratic republics was checks and balances of impeachment.

00:16:09.000 Particularly in a body that was going to be somewhat removed and insulated from public pressure.

00:16:14.000 Well, the problem is that over time, in a wide variety of countries, as democratic republics and their checks and balances have transitioned into administrative bureaucracies, in which enormous power is centralized in the executive branch, checks and balances have atrophied.

00:16:29.000 Until Donald Trump was impeached twice, the impeachment power was almost never used by the Congress of the United States, for example.

00:16:36.000 Instead, we made a decision at the outset of the 20th century, it's true in the United States, it's true in other burgeoning democracies as well, that law enforcement checking corruption was not to be done by the elected bodies of government.

00:16:48.000 Instead, it was outsourced to so-called independent branches of government.

00:16:52.000 So in the United States, that would be, for example, the Department of Justice.

00:16:55.000 In South Korea, that would be the state prosecutor's office.

00:16:58.000 In Brazil, the prosecutors, the police, the judiciary.

00:17:01.000 In Israel, the attorney general, etc.

00:17:03.000 Now, there is a problem that happens here.

00:17:06.000 And this is a problem with the administrative state.

00:17:08.000 The problem is, state prosecutors can also be corrupted by politics, as we have seen in the United States.

00:17:14.000 And then the solution isn't to change the people in government anymore, because these are independent branches.

00:17:19.000 They're unelected.

00:17:20.000 It's not a matter of just replacing some people with other people.

00:17:23.000 So if you fire some people, now that's considered interference with the magical objective branch.

00:17:28.000 And if you leave people in place, and they target your political opponents, it's weaponization.

00:17:34.000 That's what leads to constitutional crises.

00:17:36.000 Once you have outsourced the job of policing corruption from the elected branches of government like the Senate of the United States or like the National Assembly in South Korea to state prosecutors, sooner or later there will be an attempt either by the state prosecutors to go after the wrong people or by the legislature to go after the state prosecutors or the president to go after the state prosecutors in order to prevent weaponization.

00:17:59.000 This is the problem with sending up fake quote-unquote objective legal enforcement bodies.

00:18:05.000 It creates constitutional crises.

00:18:07.000 Because the only solution to a politicized law enforcement branch is to either overthrow the government for, quote, interfering with the system, which is what the president of South Korea is now attempting to do, or to call for the overthrow of the government for weaponizing the system.

00:18:22.000 Constitutional crisis are the result of being supposedly untouchable nonpartisan institutions that either can be weaponized or interfered with.

00:18:30.000 And you are seeing this happen across the West.

00:18:32.000 It's a major, major problem.

00:18:33.000 It's the problem with administrative government.

00:18:35.000 It's a major problem with this idea that there are these impartial legal bodies whose job it is to police corruption.

00:18:41.000 And so you are seeing democracies throwing themselves into crisis specifically over this.

00:18:47.000 Let's say that you are in the United States.

00:18:50.000 And let's say that you're really, really angry that Donald Trump became president in 2016. What do you do?

00:18:56.000 Well, you could try to impeach him.

00:18:58.000 It'll probably fail if you don't have the votes because it'll break down along strictly partisan lines.

00:19:03.000 So what do you do instead?

00:19:04.000 You rely on the DOJ. You rely on the FBI. You weaponize those institutions against Donald Trump.

00:19:09.000 And that prompts Donald Trump to, if he becomes president again, clean out those institutions.

00:19:14.000 In which case, he will be accused of weaponizing those institutions.

00:19:18.000 And so the constitutional crisis just continues to roll on.

00:19:21.000 All because...

00:19:22.000 The sort of bipartisan consensus around impeaching presidents who are guilty of crimes has gone away in the United States.

00:19:28.000 You can say it died during the Clinton era, and we are now feeling the after effects of that in the United States.

00:19:32.000 In Israel, it's the same sort of thing.

00:19:34.000 Just take another example, because it's happening in a wide variety of countries.

00:19:37.000 In Israel, the Attorney General's office has put Benjamin Netanyahu under three separate prosecutions.

00:19:44.000 All of them appear to be somewhat specious.

00:19:47.000 The goal is obviously political.

00:19:50.000 Netanyahu has been in power for something like 14 out of the last 15 years in Israel.

00:19:55.000 He's a masterful Machiavellian politician, just in pure, raw talent terms.

00:20:00.000 And so the Attorney General's office has been weaponized against him, claims Netanyahu, I think largely correctly, in a wide variety of cases. 0.62

00:20:08.000 But every time he tries to mess with the prosecution, he is accused of tampering with democracy.

00:20:14.000 Once you set up these institutions as the final arbiter of guilt and innocence, then anyone who tampers with them on either side is now considered a threat to democracy.

00:20:24.000 Even if the person who is actually militarizing law enforcement is the person who is in power.

00:20:31.000 This is the case in Brazil, for example.

00:20:34.000 So in Brazil, the law enforcement mechanisms have been weaponized by Lula da Silva against Jair Bolsonaro.

00:20:42.000 And that means that while Lula is cleaning out the judiciary institutions, he is being lauded as someone upholding the norms of democracy while he engages in widespread censorship.

00:20:53.000 And because instead of corruption being seen as a political issue to be answered by the political branches and eventually the people, because it's been outsourced to law enforcement, what that means is that the law enforcement branch can be routinely corrupted.

00:21:08.000 And that's what's happened in Brazil.

00:21:10.000 You'll recall that it was not all that long ago that Lula da Silva himself had been banned from running because of his own corruption convictions.

00:21:17.000 And then, in 2021, a left-wing Supreme Court judge annulled his corruption convictions and allowed him to run again.

00:21:26.000 And then he ran.

00:21:27.000 And then after he won, you now have the Brazilian police formally accusing former President Bolsonaro and his aides of an alleged 2022 coup attempt.

00:21:36.000 That happened just last week.

00:21:38.000 Police said their sealed findings were being delivered to Brazil's Supreme Court, which will refer them to Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet, who decides either to formally charge Bolsonaro and put him on trial or toss the investigation.

00:21:49.000 Apparently, the report here is 700 pages long.

00:21:54.000 Bolsonaro said he would fight the case and dismiss the investigation as being the result of what he called creativity.

00:22:01.000 Police said in a brief statement the Supreme Court had agreed to reveal the names of all 37 people who were accused to avoid the dissemination of incorrect news.

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00:24:23.000 Meanwhile, by the way, Lula Da Silva is openly consolidating power in the executive branch in wildly anti-democratic ways.

00:24:32.000 Lula, of course, has always been fond of left-wing authoritarians.

00:24:37.000 He has been praised by so many members of the media as an anti-authoritarian politician.

00:24:42.000 But the reality is that Lula has been a close ally of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro.

00:24:49.000 He has been a close ally of the Cuban regime.

00:24:52.000 In fact, it's rare to find some sort of authoritarian regime that Lula doesn't like.

00:24:58.000 From China to Nicaragua, from Iran to Russia, he is cozied up to authoritarians everywhere.

00:25:04.000 But because he's a left-wing authoritarian, this means he's not really an authoritarian, even if he engages in widespread censorship.

00:25:11.000 Again, this is what happens when...

00:25:14.000 Democratic Republics delegate the power to check political opposition to a supposedly objective nonpartisan branch of government.

00:25:23.000 It's not real.

00:25:24.000 It doesn't work.

00:25:24.000 Administrative states do not work for precisely this reason, because they're never dispassionate, ever.

00:25:30.000 And again, it's true in a wide variety of countries, from South Korea to Israel to Hungary to Brazil.

00:25:37.000 Well, the South Korean president has said that as soon as a full quorum is met, he will end this military lockdown.

00:25:44.000 That was the predictable result here.

00:25:47.000 But all of this breakdown is again happening because so many people across so many westernized countries have decided that they no longer trust the mechanisms of checks and balance of the democratic republic and instead they were going to delegate all of that power to these impartial institutions.

00:26:02.000 And then those institutions break down and then the entire country starts to break down.

00:26:06.000 You're seeing that here in the United States with regard to the fight over the FBI. So, for example, the left has now declared that Donald Trump is some sort of authoritarian fascist for attempting to clean the FBI by appointing somebody like Kash Patel.

00:26:21.000 They're freaking out over Kash Patel because Kash Patel has openly suggested that he's going to come into the FBI and clean out all the dead wood, going to look into the investigations, going to take a much more active role in determining what is investigatable and what is not.

00:26:34.000 The specific reason Donald Trump was elected is because there is so little trust in these so-called impartial institutions.

00:26:41.000 As Harry Enten points out, Americans do not trust the FBI. Here he was yesterday.

00:26:47.000 If you look here, FBI is doing an excellent or good job.

00:26:50.000 Look at this time trend line.

00:26:52.000 You go back to 2014, right?

00:26:54.000 It was 59% of Americans.

00:26:55.000 Then 57% in 2019. 50% in 2022. Look at where we are today.

00:27:01.000 My goodness gracious, just 41% of Americans think the FBI is doing an excellent or good job.

00:27:08.000 That is by far the lowest number this century.

00:27:12.000 Take a look at Republicans.

00:27:13.000 Here we go.

00:27:14.000 Look at this drop.

00:27:15.000 If you thought...

00:27:17.000 OGs. 0.79

00:27:18.000 OGs. 0.79

00:27:18.000 That's a very good word, Kate Baldwin. 0.79

00:27:20.000 If you look...

00:27:21.000 Two words.

00:27:22.000 The Gs is what I was going for.

00:27:23.000 Gs Louise.

00:27:24.000 There's two words right there.

00:27:26.000 Among Republicans, is the FBI doing an excellent or good job?

00:27:29.000 This is where you really see the drop-off.

00:27:31.000 You go back to 2014. I'm going to come to your side of the screen.

00:27:34.000 62%.

00:27:34.000 2019, look at that.

00:27:37.000 46%.

00:27:37.000 2022, 29%.

00:27:40.000 Now we're tied for the lowest point at this century among Republicans at 26%.

00:27:46.000 Why do you think that is?

00:27:47.000 That's because of the weaponization of the FBI against Donald Trump.

00:27:49.000 And the response to that will be a cleaning out of the FBI, which will lead the left to believe that the FBI has been weaponized.

00:27:55.000 At which point you have a bit of a constitutional crisis.

00:27:58.000 Because once the impeachment power has basically been done away with, How do you get rid of corrupt politicians at all?

00:28:06.000 No one trusts the law enforcement mechanisms of the United States to do a proper job.

00:28:11.000 And now nobody trusts the elected government to do the proper job because they haven't done the proper job on this sort of stuff for several generations at this point.

00:28:17.000 And so every election becomes a sort of blood sport election.

00:28:23.000 This is why you're going to get pardons from here till the end of time.

00:28:27.000 And this is why, for example, Joe Biden has suggested he had to pardon Hunter Biden.

00:28:31.000 Because after having politicized the FBI and after having politicized the DOJ, the Democrats know full well it can be politicized on the other end.

00:28:41.000 That is why Joe Biden is doing that.

00:28:44.000 The sort of destruction of norms, the destruction of institutions that has happened over the course of the last 20 years.

00:28:50.000 The willingness to abuse these institutions and just use them for your own maximization of power.

00:28:56.000 That has significant downstream effects.

00:28:59.000 It turns every election into a life or death scenario for pretty much everybody.

00:29:03.000 And that is a massive problem.

00:29:05.000 South Korea is just ahead of the curve.

00:29:06.000 South Korea is what it looks like when you have full scale open weaponization of law enforcement by one particular party.

00:29:16.000 Now, again, that may be well within the legal structure and the answer may be worse than the actual question.

00:29:20.000 But this is what happens.

00:29:23.000 You cannot delegate powers that are inherently political to a supposedly objective nonpartisan branch of the government.

00:29:29.000 You can't do it.

00:29:30.000 This is true in a wide variety of situations in the United States.

00:29:33.000 You've seen this, for example, with regard to gerrymandering.

00:29:35.000 So every so often there will be a big controversy in the United States over state legislatures drawing various congressional maps.

00:29:42.000 And the party that's out of power will complain that the gerrymander is unfair to them.

00:29:46.000 And then they will suggest some sort of nonpartisan commission to fix congressional boundaries.

00:29:50.000 And as it turns out, those nonpartisan commissions end up not being nonpartisan at all.

00:29:55.000 They always end up being partisan.

00:29:56.000 And then, whoever fills those roles ends up being treated as either an authoritarian or as a hero.

00:30:03.000 The bureaucracy by claiming objectivity.

00:30:05.000 The bureaucracy by claiming nonpartisanship.

00:30:08.000 The bureaucracy by claiming that it is in fact expert And absolutely apolitical.

00:30:14.000 Opens itself up wide to charges of precisely the opposite.

00:30:19.000 And creates massive constitutional problems.

00:30:21.000 And that's what's happening in South Korea.

00:30:24.000 It's happening across the West.

00:30:25.000 The only solution for it is to minimize the power of these prosecutorial offices to go after corrupt politicians and instead return the question to the people themselves.

00:30:35.000 This, by the way, is a case that Donald Trump actually made in this election cycle.

00:30:38.000 Donald Trump said in the United States, listen, The question of whether you think I'm corrupt or whether January 6th was a presumptive bar to the presidency, that is not a question for Jack Smith or for the DOJ. That is a question for the American people.

00:30:49.000 And guess what?

00:30:50.000 In a democratic republic, these are always questions for the American people.

00:30:55.000 They always are.

00:30:56.000 But too many Democratic Republics have abdicated on that question and have decided that instead they're going to appoint a bunch of special prosecutors to somehow police the boundaries of politics.

00:31:05.000 It doesn't work out and it makes things much, much worse in the end as a general institutional rule.

00:31:11.000 Okay, meanwhile...

00:31:13.000 President Trump is doing a good thing, and he's doing a not-so-good thing.

00:31:15.000 So, the good thing that President Trump is doing is he says that he's going to attend the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris on Saturday, which is his first major outing since winning the election, according to Politico.

00:31:25.000 This is pretty great, actually.

00:31:27.000 I think it's quite wonderful.

00:31:28.000 As I mentioned, Notre Dame is a wonderful symbol of Western civilization.

00:31:32.000 Obviously, Western civilization was born in the Church.

00:31:35.000 Western civilization is a creation, as I write in my book, The Right Side of History, of Jerusalem and Athens.

00:31:42.000 And churches like Notre Dame are an amazing part of that story.

00:31:46.000 The fact that President Trump is going to do that, I think, is a tribute to the history of our civilization.

00:31:54.000 Trump said Monday in a post on Truth Social, President Emmanuel Macron has done a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so, it will be a very special day for all.

00:32:05.000 So, that's it.

00:32:07.000 I think that's a great move by President Trump.

00:32:09.000 I think that it is well worthwhile.

00:32:12.000 And then there's something that he is doing that I don't particularly love.

00:32:16.000 It's something that actually he agrees with Joe Biden on, and I think both of them happen to be wrong.

00:32:21.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:34:06.000 Well, now to a thing that I don't like either the Biden administration or actually the Trump administration They agree on it.

00:34:11.000 And frankly, I think that they are both wrong.

00:34:13.000 To understand why I think they are both wrong...

00:34:15.000 We have to understand what China is doing on the world stage.

00:34:17.000 So China is flooding the world with cheap goods subsidized by debt right now.

00:34:22.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a deluge of cheap Chinese goods washing over the developing world is jacking up tensions between China and the global south, complicating Beijing's plans to build alliances as it confronts escalating train tensions with the United States.

00:34:34.000 Beijing is hoping to unload more of its excess factory production to developing world countries from Indonesia to Pakistan to Brazil.

00:34:42.000 There are a lot of countries that are worried about China undercutting their manufacturing base right now.

00:34:46.000 China also is retaliating against the United States by banning rare mineral exports to the United States.

00:34:54.000 They're apparently going to begin banning that export as an escalation of the trade war between the world's two biggest powers, according to The New York Times.

00:35:01.000 That move comes a day after the Biden administration tightened Chinese access to advanced American technology.

00:35:07.000 The ban signals Beijing's willingness to engage in supply chain warfare by blocking the export of important components used to make valuable products like weaponry and semiconductors.

00:35:14.000 Sales of gallium, germanium, antimony, and so-called superhard materials to the United States would be halted immediately on the grounds they have a dual military and civilian use.

00:35:23.000 The export of graphite would also be subject to stricter review.

00:35:27.000 So again, China is attempting to cut down on the ability of the United States to obtain materials that are necessary in manufacturing.

00:35:35.000 China has been supplying 54% of the germanium used by the United States that is typically used in infrared technology as well as fiber optics.

00:35:43.000 We also have not mined our own gallium used in semiconductors since 1987. Japan supplies 26% of our imports of gallium.

00:35:50.000 China supplies 21%.

00:35:53.000 So why does any of this matter?

00:35:55.000 Well, it matters because the one thing the United States cannot afford is to be economically inefficient at this point.

00:36:01.000 When we're in competition with China, we need to out-compete them. 1.00

00:36:04.000 And to out-compete China requires that we actually allow the free flow of goods and services with our allies.

00:36:10.000 So this has taken the form of investments by foreign countries and foreign companies in American products, for example.

00:36:18.000 And that's not a bad thing.

00:36:19.000 It creates American jobs.

00:36:21.000 One of the most obvious examples of this is Nipon Steel, which is a Japanese company attempting to buy U.S. steel.

00:36:30.000 So, Joe Biden has been against that.

00:36:33.000 Joe Biden has already said that he doesn't want that deal going through.

00:36:37.000 It's a $14 billion steel deal.

00:36:39.000 Now, Donald Trump has said he doesn't want it either.

00:36:41.000 He put out a statement yesterday saying, quote, I am totally against the once great and powerful U.S. steel being bought by a foreign company, in this case, Nipon Steel of Japan.

00:36:48.000 Through a series of tax incentives and tariffs, we will make U.S. steel strong and great again, and it will happen fast.

00:36:53.000 As president, I will block this deal from happening.

00:36:55.000 Buyer beware.

00:36:57.000 Okay, now why do I oppose this?

00:36:58.000 Well, first of all, U.S. Steel, just because it's called U.S. Steel, doesn't mean it's like owned by the U.S. government or something.

00:37:05.000 It's not like the government is selling a vital American industry to Japan, and that's now all going to be outsourced to Japan.

00:37:12.000 In fact, precisely the opposite.

00:37:14.000 U.S. Steel has been run wildly inefficiently.

00:37:17.000 It's run really poorly.

00:37:18.000 It's running at a deficit right now.

00:37:19.000 And in fact, if Nipon Steel is unable to buy U.S. Steel, a bunch of plants in the United States are going to simply close because Nipon Steel is going to invest a bunch of new resources that are simply not available right now.

00:37:31.000 And tariffs are not going to solve that problem because it turns out that the United States is a massive net importer of steel.

00:37:40.000 In fact, U.S. Steel is not one of the contracting entities, for example, for the United States military, when it comes to the use of steel.

00:37:48.000 As the Foundation for Economic Education points out, when U.S. Steel was formed through a merger in 1901, the United States was the global leader in steel.

00:37:56.000 In recent decades, however, U.S. Steel has fallen behind its competitors, including foreign companies and even domestic companies like Nucor.

00:38:03.000 U.S. Steel faces a number of problems.

00:38:05.000 Its technology is outdated.

00:38:06.000 Capital investment is sorely lacking.

00:38:07.000 Its workforce has shrunk.

00:38:09.000 Several projects have been canceled.

00:38:12.000 Those issues arguably have been exacerbated by our nation's long history of steel protectionism.

00:38:16.000 Protectionism tends in the short term to benefit an industry and in the long term to make it wildly inefficient.

00:38:21.000 U.S. Steel is not one of the 500 top companies in the United States as far as value.

00:38:28.000 It only employs about 20,000 people.

00:38:31.000 It ranks 27th in the world in crude steel output.

00:38:35.000 So, Nipon Steel, first of all, Japan is an ally of the United States.

00:38:39.000 Second of all, Nipon Steel was going to introduce technology to U.S. Steel that allows the company to produce the highest quality products for automotive construction and other industries.

00:38:48.000 And the sort of bizarre attempt to block Japan from owning assets in the United States in order to make those assets more efficient to create more American jobs is strange.

00:38:57.000 We're not talking about China owning U.S. Steel here.

00:39:01.000 The Defense Department doesn't even contract with U.S. Steel.

00:39:04.000 And in fact, the Department of Defense is not like a defense industry.

00:39:08.000 The Department of Defense needs apparently, according to Scott Lincecum and Alfredo Carrillo-Obrego of the Cato Institute, the Department of Defense needs just 3% of domestic steel production to meet its procurement obligations.

00:39:21.000 So, again, it's a bizarre move.

00:39:24.000 A lot of this is political.

00:39:26.000 It's a sop to some of the unions, presumably.

00:39:29.000 But it is not, in fact, a smart economic play, and it makes these industries significantly more inefficient at cost to American taxpayers and consumers.

00:39:39.000 And as I say, it will cost jobs.

00:39:42.000 The CEO of U.S. Steel himself, David Burrett, has said that.

00:39:47.000 Nipon Steel was pledging to invest $3 billion in the Pittsburgh company's older mills to revamp them.

00:39:54.000 And if that doesn't happen, they're just going to shut those steel mills down. 0.68

00:39:59.000 So you can see, again, for political reasons why there would be so much focus on U.S. Steel because it is a company called U.S. Steel with a historic pedigree.

00:40:06.000 But the pedigree don't pay the bills in the morning.

00:40:11.000 Again, steel represents just about 1% of total goods imported into the United States, according to the U.S. Trade Representative.

00:40:17.000 So I don't think it's a particularly smart move.

00:40:19.000 I think that making the West less economically efficient in the face of Chinese predations is not a smart move. 1.00

00:40:24.000 You can see the same thing happening, by the way, in the EU. The EU is destroying its own car industry.

00:40:29.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Europe's carmakers used to rule the world.

00:40:33.000 Now they're fighting battles on every single front.

00:40:35.000 At home, tougher emissions rules are forcing them to sell more electric vehicles, which are less profitable.

00:40:42.000 The turmoil is leading to thousands of job losses and risks, inflicting further damage on Europe's economy.

00:40:46.000 The automotive industry accounts for 7% of GDP in the EU, which is a very, very large chunk.

00:40:53.000 Volkswagen is getting shellacked.

00:40:55.000 Stellantis is getting shellacked.

00:40:58.000 An enormous number of these industries in Europe are getting hurt by domestic regulation and unwillingness to recognize economic efficiencies.

00:41:08.000 Bringing that to the United States for political reasons would be a rather large-scale mistake.

00:41:12.000 Joining us online is Mary Margaret Olihan.

00:41:14.000 She's senior reporter for The Daily Wire and the author of D-Trans, True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult.

00:41:19.000 She's outside the Supreme Court. 0.62

00:41:20.000 Mary Margaret, really appreciate the time.

00:41:22.000 Ben, it's so great to be here.

00:41:24.000 So obviously the oral arguments have begun in the Supreme Court case of United States versus Scrumetti.

00:41:30.000 What are we expecting from the oral arguments?

00:41:32.000 Well, what I've been hearing from people on the right is that they're very hopeful about how these arguments are going to go.

00:41:39.000 And not just in light of the recent election in which we saw so many Americans come out and support Donald Trump because of the transgender culture wars, but also based on the case itself. 0.90

00:41:50.000 You know, Ben, I'm sure you know that this case centers around a Tennessee law protecting kids from irreversible transgender interventions.

00:41:57.000 The merits of this case, the justices are going to be evaluating specifically whether it counts as sex discrimination to allow some kids to get testosterone if they're boys or estrogen if they're girls and not to allow kids to get these hormones if they're undergoing transgender interventions.

00:42:15.000 What I'm hearing from pro-family advocates on the right is that it's looking really good as far as these cases are concerned.

00:42:24.000 So obviously there are a bunch of votes that are sort of up for grabs.

00:42:28.000 Chief Justice John Roberts is always a little bit squirrely.

00:42:31.000 Justice Neil Gorsuch famously wrote the Bostock opinion, which suggested that sex discrimination might apply to men who behave in traditionally female ways or vice versa.

00:42:40.000 Is there any trepidation about, for example, Justice Gorsuch on this one?

00:42:44.000 Right.

00:42:45.000 Well, I've been asking some legal experts around here, and the common refrain that you hear is, well, we can't predict what the justices will say.

00:42:52.000 But again, the sentiment is very positive when it comes to this case.

00:42:57.000 And I think when you look, Ben, at the people on the left here, specifically the ACLU, the Biden DOJ, there's a lot of fear and trepidation about how this case will go.

00:43:06.000 The ACLU is sending their trans-identifying lawyer to argue this case before the court and there's been a lot of background and backlash among the ACLU lawyers specifically about this woman who identifies as a man because they're afraid that she's more interested in protecting and furthering transgender rights than protecting legal precedent as it pertains to As they say, as it pertains to gay rights themselves.

00:43:32.000 So there's a lot of drama going on here, and I'm excited to see how it goes.

00:43:37.000 So obviously, one of the big questions here is just how large this decision will be.

00:43:43.000 It could theoretically be rather restrictive, but could also be a pretty broad decision.

00:43:47.000 What do you think is at stake here?

00:43:49.000 So much is at stake here.

00:43:50.000 I mean, we're talking about trans-identifying children all over the country.

00:43:55.000 We know that they're not actually trans-identifying children.

00:43:57.000 They're actually children who are really in need of help, in need of loving families to help and guide them to adulthood, where they can make decisions for themselves.

00:44:06.000 And we hope they'll choose decisions that will protect the dignity of all life.

00:44:10.000 But these are families that are coming to the court and are asking the court to decide that all over the country, parents can transition their children before they reach the age of consent.

00:44:20.000 And we know, Ben, across the board, these are kids suffering with This is not a decision that they should be making on their own.

00:44:27.000 And so I was speaking with Chloe Cole.

00:44:29.000 She's a detransitioner, one of the most outspoken. 0.99

00:44:32.000 She told me that this case means everything to her.

00:44:35.000 She did not get the help that she needed when she was attempting a gender transition.

00:44:40.000 No one warned her.

00:44:41.000 And she wants this case to defend kids all over the country and to make a line in the sand, draw a line in the sand and show American families this is how you protect your children.

00:44:51.000 Don't be duped by these activist doctors and lawmakers.

00:44:54.000 So, Mary Margaret, what exactly is the timeline here?

00:44:57.000 You have oral arguments, then there could be a delay before the decision, obviously.

00:45:01.000 Yes, there could be a delay.

00:45:02.000 So we're not expecting a decision immediately.

00:45:04.000 But we're hopefully getting one, of course, by the end of the term.

00:45:09.000 And like I was saying earlier, Ben, there's a lot of legal experts on the right that are telling me they're really hopeful and they're really excited.

00:45:16.000 So we can't guess what the justices are going to rule.

00:45:20.000 But I can tell you that this is going to be a very impactful decision.

00:45:25.000 It's going to impact children all over the country.

00:45:27.000 And the ACLU, I think, is banking a lot on this decision because they know that it will impact their organization and their narrative and their rhetoric about hateful Republicans, about hateful laws, what they call anti-trans legislation.

00:45:42.000 It's harming trans youth, so-called banning care.

00:45:46.000 It's going to be narrative shifting.

00:45:48.000 So please God, we will see a ruling in favor of our children.

00:45:53.000 Well, Mary Margaret, really appreciate your time.

00:45:56.000 That is Mary Margaret Ohan.

00:45:57.000 She's outside the Supreme Court right now. 0.98

00:45:58.000 Go check out her book, Detrans, The True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult. 0.97

00:46:02.000 Mary Margaret, thanks so much.

00:46:04.000 Thank you.

00:46:05.000 Alrighty, guys, coming up, the new Disney Snow White trailer is out, and it's got some problems.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 04, 2024

WTF Just Happened In SOUTH KOREA?

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