Elon Musk tweets that the left has gotten more radical, and the media are enraged, and America is now one quarter away from recession and the Biden administration continues to pursue insane economic policy. Ben Shapiro explains why this is not true, and why the right has actually gotten more progressive over the last 20 years. He also points to a meme that shows a spectrum, left, center, and right, and it shows a stick figure labeled "Me, slightly to the left of center," and then it says "My fellow liberal, and then all the way to the center." And then, it says, "The center is LOL where the center is where the right always was. And then the right is now the hell out of the way, and me is now center right to the hell. And the left is...the hell out to the right." This is an accurate meme, and there is a good case to be made that the far left is actually more socially and economically liberal than it was in 2008. Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, and thousands of my listeners have already secured their network data. Join them at Expressvpn.me/BenShapiroShow and get 20% off your first month with discount code "ExpressVPN" at checkout! Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show! Today s show is brought to you by PragerU and The Daily Wire. Subscribe to our new weekly newsletter, The Bench Bureau, wherever you get your eardrums are listening to the latest news and views on the world's most influential podcast, Ben Shapiro's newest podcast. Subscribe and subscribe to the Ben Shapiro show. Learn more about what's going on the show. Subscribe today, learn more about your ad choices, what s going on in the world, and who's getting the most important things going on around you, and what's trending on the internet, and where you can expect to get the most authentic version of the most powerful podcast on the most listened to by Ben Shapiro and why you should be listening to it! Subscribe today! Get exclusive ad-free and more! Subscribe to Ben Shapiro s latest podcast? Subscribe to his new show? v=1PJCRYVU? Subscribe & subscribe to his newest podcast, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts? Get the latest episode coming soon, wherever else is the most influential and the most profound podcast on this is going to be most influential?
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00:01:48.000Well, it has been very clear for a long time in the United States that the left has moved further left over the course of the last 20 years than the right has moved right.
00:01:56.000And this is clear in pretty much every area of politics.
00:01:59.000You'd be hard pressed to find an issue on which the right has actually moved right, meaning the Republican Party has moved right.
00:02:05.000You can make the case that the Republican Party has gotten tactically More radical.
00:02:09.000So, for example, holding up the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
00:02:13.000But that was in direct response to Harry Reid nuking judicial nomination filibusters.
00:02:18.000For example, you can say that the right has gotten more radical in terms of how it interprets elections.
00:02:25.000But that followed a pattern of Democrats doing exactly that in 2000 and 2004.
00:02:31.000So you can say that the right has gotten more reactionary in terms of its tactics.
00:02:35.000But in terms of actual political positioning, there is no question That the right has not gotten more radical, and the left has gotten significantly more radical over time.
00:02:42.000The reason this comes up today is because Elon Musk put out a tweet, and it's a tweet of a meme.
00:02:46.000And it demonstrates how people perceive American politics to have gone, and the left is just wildly upset with this meme.
00:02:58.000It shows conservatives standing on the right.
00:03:00.000The center, located at the center of the line.
00:03:02.000And it shows a stick figure labeled me, Slightly to the left of center, and then my fellow liberal all the way on the left.
00:03:11.000Shows same spectrum, now it's wider, the spectrum.
00:03:13.000The conservative is still standing on the right.
00:03:15.000The center has actually moved to the left, and where it says me, still slightly left of center, and says my fellow liberal, and then all the way to the left, like running to the left.
00:03:31.000And then the center has now moved way to the left, and me is now center right, and woke progressive is way the hell out to the left, far away from everyone, shouting bigot at everybody else.
00:03:44.000The reason that independents largely poll like moderate Republicans now is not because the right got more right and the left got more left.
00:03:51.000It's because the right is basically stagnant in terms of its positions.
00:03:54.000In fact, there's a good case to be made that the right is actually more socially liberal and economically liberal than it was back in 2008.
00:04:01.000In 2008, it was the position of both major political parties.
00:04:05.000The traditional marriage was the actual way that marriage was to be done in the United States.
00:04:10.000In 2008, it was the position of both major political parties that the police were good.
00:04:15.000In 2008, it was the position of both major political parties that America was at root a place of liberty and decency and that the American story was a good one.
00:04:23.000Barack Obama ran on this platform in 2008.
00:04:26.000By 2021, the left had abandoned virtually all of those issues and has now embraced radicalism on every one of those issues.
00:04:32.000And by the way, so have many Republicans.
00:04:35.000The untold story of the Republican Party is that the Republican Party, there are members of the Republican Party who voted in favor of the so-called Equality Act, which enshrines gender identity in the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
00:04:48.000There are members of the Republican Party who have embraced gay marriage in total, including, by the way, President Trump, who basically did so.
00:04:56.000Hey, that is the Republican Party moving left on social issues.
00:04:59.000And yet the media are wildly upset with this meme.
00:05:02.000They suggest that Elon Musk has it all wrong.
00:05:16.000The difference is that the left is moving so far, so fast to the left, that the reaction is now very, very strong, and the left has left a lot of people behind.
00:05:24.000If you actually spent some time last night reading through the 2008 Republican platform, there is nothing in the 2008 Republican platform that has massively changed other than the strong defense of traditional marriage in the 2008 Republican platform.
00:05:38.000In 2020, that plank had been somewhat watered down, shall we say.
00:05:43.000But other than that, platforms are virtually identical.
00:05:46.000You can say, by the way, fiscally, that the Republican Party has gotten more liberal.
00:05:51.000Fiscally, the Republican Party has stopped talking about deficit reduction.
00:05:54.000The Republican Party has stopped talking about balanced budget amendments.
00:05:58.000The Republican Party doesn't talk about spending anymore.
00:06:00.000And that is a legacy of President Trump, because he realized that that was a political liability.
00:06:24.000At a time when our nation's officers are being asked both to provide traditional law enforcement services and to help protect the homeland, taking police off the street is neither tough nor smart.
00:06:35.000This is the Democratic Party Platform 2008.
00:06:37.000We support and will restore funding to our courageous police officers and will ensure that they are equipped with the best technology, equipment, and innovative strategies to prevent and fight crime.
00:06:46.000Circa 2020, the Defund the Police movement was part and parcel of the Democratic Party.
00:06:51.000I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.
00:07:34.000By the way, it was Barack Obama's presence on the ballot in 2008 that probably got Prop 8 to pass in California.
00:07:40.000Black voters showed up in droves to vote for Barack Obama in 2008 in the presidential election, and they simultaneously voted to enshrine traditional marriage in the Constitution of the state of California.
00:07:49.000Which Democrats then appealed, and Kamala Harris refused to defend, and all the rest of this.
00:07:53.000Okay, so Elon Musk's tweet is correct.
00:07:55.000And the reason it matters, folks, is because when you look at how the political spectrum is shifting, the left has to insist, they have to gaslight you, they have to lie.
00:08:02.000They have to insist that the right is radical.
00:08:05.000Now, again, when it comes to tactics, you can make the case that the right is more radical because, of course, President Trump is very Trumpy.
00:08:12.000President Trump said things about the rule of law that I disagreed with and criticized him for.
00:08:17.000President Trump said things about the election of 2020 that I disagreed with him about and don't think are backed in evidence.
00:08:23.000But when it comes to the actual political positions, which is what people typically vote for, when people vote for the generalized political perception of each party, the right has not gotten more radical by any stretch of the imagination.
00:08:33.000The right has embraced in large part Obamacare.
00:08:35.000Remember that time when they said they're going to repeal Obamacare?
00:08:39.000Remember that time that the right was suggesting it was for balanced budgets and not blowing out the deficit and then spent $7 trillion in 2020?
00:08:48.000But the media can't, they can't allow this argument.
00:08:50.000The Elon Musk argument cannot be allowed because, again, if you go back to the meme that Elon Musk put up, the natural consequence of the argument that Elon Musk puts up is that Democrats are going to lose and they're going to continue to lose a lot.
00:09:06.000If you actually examine the constituency of the Democratic Party, Only about 10 to 15% of the Democratic Party considers itself woke progressive.
00:09:14.000But those are also the most active and the youngest contingent of the Democratic Party.
00:09:18.000Those are the people most passionate about Democratic Party politics.
00:09:21.000And so the Democratic Party is beholden to those people.
00:09:24.000So if you follow this pattern, right, if Elon Musk's meme tweet is essentially correct, And the woke progressives continue to move to the left and the right just kind of continues to hover where it is.
00:09:34.000And the center continues to be dragged to the left.
00:09:37.000And everything right of center votes for the right.
00:09:39.000You're going to end up with waves of Republican elections from here on out.
00:09:43.000And that is precisely what you're seeing in the polls right now.
00:09:46.000What you're seeing in the polls in swing districts is voters believe that Democrats are the party of defund the police.
00:09:50.000That they are the party of abortion to and past birth.
00:09:53.000That they are the party of men can be women and women can be men.
00:09:57.000That they are the party of America is systemically racist and true anti-racism is in giving government complete and total power over your life?
00:10:05.000And that we shouldn't indoctrinate your kids in radical genderqueer theory at the age of six?
00:10:10.000People believe this is what the Democratic Party is about, mainly because this is what the Democratic Party is about.
00:10:14.000And to pretend that that is not a radicalization is completely incorrect.
00:10:18.000This is why there are moderate liberals, even somewhat progressive liberals, people ranging from Roy Tishera to David Shore, who are saying to the left, are you guys insane?
00:10:57.000Joe Rogan and I disagree on, I would say, at least 60% of our policy prescriptions.
00:11:03.000The difference is that we are not crazy.
00:11:06.000And the left has gone completely, utterly, bat bleep, insane.
00:11:10.000And so what they are afraid of is that Elon Musk is going to come in at Twitter and he's going to allow people to say these things.
00:11:16.000Because the left relies on we have to shut down the conversation so that you don't realize that the left has moved to the left.
00:11:23.000If you can move the center to the left and you can foreclose the right in order to make this chart even for the Democrats, if Democrats are going to win, then you have to go to that 2021 line, right?
00:11:31.000That shows that the center Now excludes both me and the conservative and that all of those people are to the right.
00:11:38.000If you can just cut off that chart before it gets to conservative and reorient the center, then you can reorient American politics completely.
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00:13:23.000So the guy who was poised to buy Twitter once again successfully drew attention to Twitter by offering a visual analysis of how American politics has changed in recent years.
00:13:31.000The unsubtle point is in keeping with most of Musk's other non-Rocket related tweets, since it was announced that Twitter would accept his buyout bid.
00:13:37.000The American left had run him up, literally to the left in the illustration, leaving even one-time allies behind.
00:13:42.000Meanwhile, the right had just been sitting there watching its opponent's head to the fringe.
00:13:46.000One can see how this is appealing to Musk, who has leaned into the idea that Twitter is dangerously influenced by extreme left-wing thinking, and whose recent engagement on the platform has been to express sympathy toward overt right-wing trolls.
00:14:06.000It is not a differential interpretation.
00:14:08.000It is just wrong, according to Philip, but factually incorrect.
00:14:12.000Not solely in its obvious exaggeration for effect, but in its understanding of how the country has changed over the past decade or two.
00:14:19.000And then Philip Bump drags out a couple of measures that are just ridiculous.
00:14:22.000One is the average ideological score using a metric called DW-Nominate, shown for each party's caucus in each chamber of Congress.
00:14:30.000The score runs from a minus one to plus one, with lower scores representing more liberal ideologies, as expressed in votes centered on support for government power.
00:14:39.000The biggest changes have been in the Senate, where since the start of the 111th Congress in 2009, the Republican caucus has gotten 0.13 points more conservative on average.
00:14:47.000In each of the other caucuses, the shift has been about 0.04 points toward the polls.
00:15:02.000They basically just look at how they bootstrap their own standard errors.
00:15:10.000There are deep problems with this particular measurement.
00:15:12.000Basically, it just looks at the center of the parties and it looks how often parties vote in unison.
00:15:17.000If parties vote in unison more often, it assumes they are more ideologically rigid.
00:15:21.000Democrats were always ideologically rigid and they always voted in unison.
00:15:24.000Republicans increasingly have voted in unison.
00:15:26.000Therefore, it looks like Republicans have moved more.
00:15:29.000That doesn't mean Republicans move more.
00:15:31.000The center of the Republican Party is basically where it always was.
00:15:34.000It's just that they are voting more often against the Democrats together.
00:15:39.000They say there are a lot of valid criticisms of DW-Nominate in general that we could examine, but it's not a great measure of what Musk is talking about anyway.
00:15:45.000Well, then why did you bring it, Philip Bump?
00:15:47.000So instead, he says, let's consider how Americans actually identify their own politics.
00:16:04.000And then it shows how Americans have shifted.
00:16:07.000And what it shows is that Democrats are more often identifying as liberal and Republicans are more often identifying as conservative.
00:16:14.000But that doesn't actually measure the positions of the parties.
00:16:18.000Again, conservative people on the right are identifying more as conservative in opposition to people on the left who are in fact saying and doing more woke things.
00:16:28.000The actual change in ideology is a real thing.
00:16:32.000But they can't allow this to be the case.
00:17:14.000He has just continued to stand there and you're angry that he's standing there.
00:17:19.000So in what is clearly an echo chamber environment in the media, there are several simultaneous hit pieces out there about Ron DeSantis today.
00:17:25.000Two from the Washington Post, one from the New York Times, all about how the right is moving, they're running, screaming toward the right.
00:17:33.000That's all we've been doing the whole time.
00:17:36.000And the way that you can tell this, by the way, the way that the media treat it as a revelation every time, for example, the Pope says he still believes in traditional marriage demonstrates the case.
00:17:46.000The Pope, as it turns out, has had this position on marriage since literally the inception of the Catholic Church a couple of thousand years ago.
00:17:54.000This has been the position of every major world religion for several thousand years at this point.
00:17:59.000And yet every time a major religious thinker says something like, men and women make a marriage.
00:18:04.000Men are not women and women are not men.
00:18:05.000The media immediately come out and they say, my God, they're getting more right wing.
00:18:09.000Or perhaps what we have here is the Doppler effect.
00:18:13.000And you are in the car that's speeding away and everything sounds different because you are speeding that way.
00:18:29.000Maybe by insisting that Andrew Cuomo was a godsend and that kids should be indoctrinated in radical gender ideology and critical race theory, maybe you did it.
00:18:37.000But here's what the New York Times says.
00:18:38.000Again, this is a reported piece, not an opinion piece.
00:18:41.000Quote, Florida feels like a state running a fever.
00:18:44.000It's very identity changing at a frenetic pace.
00:18:45.000I'm sorry that it feels that way to you.
00:19:39.000To the New York Times, if you wish to prohibit this, this means that you are running a political fever and you are implementing your fascism from the right to prohibit such things.
00:19:49.000Math textbooks rejected en masse for what the state calls indoctrination.
00:19:53.000Well, I mean, were you trying to push critical race theory about how every disparity, racial disparity in America is a result of American racism in math books?
00:20:43.000And perhaps most stunning of all, Disney, long an untouchable corporate giant, stripped of the ability to govern itself for the first time in more than half a century in retaliation for the company's opposition to the crackdown on LGBTQ conversations with young school children.
00:20:55.000It does have the feeling of, oh, what the hell just happened, said Kristen Arnett, a novelist and Rolando native who now lives in Miami.
00:21:13.000But this is the line of the left, and this is why Democrats are going to get their asses handed them in November.
00:21:18.000I mean, they're just going to get clocked.
00:21:19.000There are new polls out today showing Republicans have a generic ballot, 10 point congressional advantage.
00:21:24.000To put that by way of contrast, in 2010, a Republican wave election, going into the election, they had like an R plus 4, R plus 6, not R plus 10.
00:21:57.000The Jordan Harbinger Show features in-depth interviews with some of the world's most interesting people, ranging from Charles Koch to Kobe Bryant to Colonel Oliver North, Scott Adams.
00:22:05.000Maybe you want to listen to the episode with Dan Carlin.
00:22:08.000It's really clear that Jordan goes in the weeds when he is Researching the people he's interviewing, so he asks them really fascinating questions you're not going to hear anywhere else.
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00:23:43.000I challenge anybody on the left to bring me one issue Where the governmental structure of the United States, the legislative structure of the United States, has moved to the right over the course of the last 30 years.
00:23:54.000The only case you can make is in some states on abortion, and that's only because there was an artificial quash on abortion law put in place in 1973 by the Supreme Court in Roe.
00:24:04.000Every other issue, literally all of them, we have moved to the left.
00:24:18.000Again, Amber Phillips says, DeSantis acknowledges critical race theory is not part of public school curricula in Florida.
00:24:22.000Though it originated as an academic construct that argues that racial inequality is woven into society and its systems, the term has become a catch-all on the right for teachings or discussions about race conservatives oppose.
00:24:32.000He also directly takes on the left's allegations that the focus is inherently rooted in white grievance.
00:24:38.000DeSantis said, quote, it's required in Florida statutes to teach about all segments of American You have to teach about the Holocaust, African-American history.
00:24:46.000You teach about the institution and the abolition of slavery.
00:24:48.000You teach about the failure of the post-Civil War amendments to take hold and how you need to fight for civil rights.
00:24:52.000We teach that because it's real history and it's important.
00:24:55.000What we will not do is let people distort history to try to serve their current ideological goals.
00:25:18.000So Paul Waldman says, when a Republican state legislator unashamedly announces his intention is not only to ban books from school libraries across the state, but to burn the offending books, you know something has changed.
00:25:29.000So the idea is that Republicans who are now asking that school libraries pre-screen their books for young children, that this is something that has changed?
00:25:36.000This has been part of local governmental structure for literally all of time.
00:25:41.000Not every book is available in every library in the United States, and left-wing school districts ban books just as right-wing school districts do when it comes to the library.
00:25:49.000But, says Paul Waldman, there might not be state-sponsored book burnings in Tennessee in the near future, but who knows?
00:25:55.000Perhaps more profound than even the fury of the new right-wing culture war is the way it appears to be completely reconfiguring what we understood American conservatism to be.
00:26:03.000It's manifest in the ongoing wave of speech-restricting gag laws being passed by Republican states.
00:26:09.000These laws are being passed at a furious pace.
00:26:11.000Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a group of laws on Thursday to restrict what teachers can say about race, gender, and sexuality, as well as forbidding transgender children from playing sports.
00:26:24.000That's a reaction to the fact that you guys now say that boys should race girls.
00:26:29.000If you mistake the reaction for the initiation of the fight, You're going to lose because you will continue to make excuses for why you haven't moved.
00:26:37.000Anybody again, anybody who argues that the left hasn't moved just the Republicans have been saying this about JFK for decades, right?
00:26:42.000If you if you look at JFK's platform in 1960, it looks like the Republican platform circa about 2004.
00:26:48.000And if you look at the Democratic platform circa 2008 on policing.
00:26:52.000If you look at Barack Obama's comments on marriage circa 2008, if you look at how Democrats talked about gender in 2008, there's not anybody in 2008 in the Democratic Party who would have recognized as a White House related notion that small children should be given access to puberty blockers.
00:27:38.000So, for example, literally yesterday, Miguel Cardona, the Secretary of Education, he came out and he says that he is concerned that parents are holding schools accountable.
00:28:24.000This is why they're so angry at Elon Musk.
00:28:26.000They're deeply afraid that if Elon Musk allows people to say these things out loud, things will get worse for the left.
00:28:31.000Because again, the only solution to this is censorship.
00:28:34.000The only solution to the fact that you guys have rushed way to the left and you left the mainstream behind, you left the center behind, you pushed everybody to the right, and you forced people with views as politically disparate as me and Brett Weinstein and Joe Rogan and Bill Maher into the same corner.
00:28:53.000And the only way that you can avoid the consequences of your own action is to silence the right.
00:28:58.000It's to pretend that people like me are the aggressors, or Ron DeSantis is the aggressor, or maybe Bill Maher is the aggressor, or Joe Rogan is.
00:29:03.000I mean, they go after Joe Rogan and Bill Maher with similar alacrity to the way they go after people like me.
00:29:09.000So if you just keep slicing off that, if you just keep moving the Overton window to the left, then you can pretend that there isn't anybody outside the Overton window.
00:29:18.000When you wish every single other person you don't like out into the cornfield, it turns out there'll be a lot of people out in that cornfield, and they will grab pitchforks, and they will come for you.
00:29:27.000And that's what's happening politically right now.
00:29:28.000And this is why they are so afraid of what Elon Musk is about to do at Twitter, because he's about to open the Overton window again.
00:29:33.000And my God, if the right is allowed back into the Overton window, the left has no chance whatsoever politically.
00:30:45.000According to the New York Times, Elon Musk had a plan to buy Twitter and undo its content moderation policies.
00:30:50.000On Tuesday, just a day after reaching his $44 billion deal to buy the company, Musk was already at work on his agenda.
00:30:55.000He tweeted that past moderation decisions by a top Twitter lawyer were, quote, obviously incredibly inappropriate.
00:31:00.000Later, he shared a meme mocking the lawyer, sparking a torrent of attacks from other Twitter users.
00:31:04.000Mr. Muck's personal critique was a rough reminder of what faces employees who create and enforce Twitter's complex content moderation policies.
00:31:11.000His vision for the company would take it right back to where it started, employees said, and force Twitter to relive the last decade.
00:31:21.000Twitter executives who created the rules said they had once held views about online speech similar to Musk's.
00:31:25.000They believe Twitter's policies should be limited, mimicking local laws.
00:31:28.000But more than a decade of grappling with violence, harassment, and election tampering changed their minds.
00:31:33.000Now, many executives at Twitter and other social media companies view their content moderation policies as essential safeguards to protect speech.
00:31:39.000Well, yes, which is why Twitter is a failure and why Musk is coming in to fix it.
00:31:44.000Twitter employees wrote in an internal list of questions they hope to ask Musk, quote, You have said you want more free speech and less moderation on Twitter.
00:31:57.000And if not, do you have ideas for how to both increase free speech and keep the door closed on harassment?
00:32:03.000So again, the line here is going to be that Twitter is going to be terrible and horrible and no good and very bad because people will be allowed to talk and people can't be allowed to talk because the far left has to be perceived as the new center.
00:32:16.000That's the only way this is ever going to work.
00:32:19.000Well, the problem is that eventually the truth gets out.
00:32:22.000Well, when the left is losing, there's one solution for them and that's to shut everybody up.
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00:34:19.000Rosas exposes the Black Lives Matter riots that broke out across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, for the sham that they were.
00:34:26.000Rosas, who is reporting from the ground, gives his first-hand experience.
00:34:29.000He tells you about the media's attempts to lie to you, to tell you that these destructive riots were mostly peaceful.
00:38:16.000Pretty much everyone now estimates that we're going to hit a recession sometime inside the next year and a half.
00:38:19.000I think it's going to be sooner rather than later.
00:38:22.000The estimates range from maybe six months from now, full-blown recession, to a year and a half from now, which would be the worst case scenario for Joe Biden.
00:38:28.000It would be going into a presidential election.
00:38:29.000Presidents do not survive actual recessions on their watch.
00:38:33.000I mean, I don't mean physically survive because I'm not sure that Joe Biden has already physically survived his presidency.
00:38:37.000But here was Joe Biden yesterday saying he is not concerned about a recession.
00:38:43.000Every morning somebody wakes him up and tells him he's president and he's excited about it.
00:38:47.000How concerned are you about a recession given the GDP reports today show the contraction of 1.4% of the forest program?
00:38:54.000Well, I'm not concerned about a recession.
00:38:59.000I think what you're seeing is enormous growth in the country that was affected by everything from COVID and the COVID blockages that occurred along the way.
00:39:27.000I don't care if it's right-wing or if it's left-wing.
00:39:29.000When your entire leadership class is two generations removed from the national average age, that is a problem.
00:39:36.000Some of these folks are older than the boomers.
00:39:40.000Holding on to power this way is not indicative of a healthy body politic.
00:39:44.000Here is Nancy Pelosi explaining that actually they're doing an excellent job lowering costs at the pump and at the table, which comes as a shock to everyone who has gone shopping in the last year or anybody who buys gas ever.
00:39:57.000There are many aspects to this, but the price of gas and the price of oil have an impact on the price of many other things, including the price of food.
00:40:08.000So lowering costs at the pump, lowering costs at the kitchen table, That's what Democrats are about.
00:41:10.000I mean, it's not just that they are pursuing economic policy that sinks the possibility for future innovation and investment.
00:41:17.000It's not just that regulation and tax policy recommended by this administration, the fundamental belief that governmental spending is somehow superior to private sector spending.
00:41:25.000It's not just that that is deeply damaging to the economy.
00:41:28.000It's that even the governmental policies they pursue are actually regressive.
00:41:31.000So, for example, they're now talking very seriously about student loan relief.
00:41:41.000I paid off my loans and I paid off my wife's loans.
00:41:44.000It benefits people who did not pay off their student loans.
00:41:46.000They took out $100,000 to get a gender studies degree from NYU so that they can become a professional useless person at a diversity, equity, and inclusion symposium for Rochester University or something.
00:42:08.000So Joe Biden is openly talking about that.
00:42:10.000And these, by the way, are the people who, as an economic contingent, are the people with the highest income potential in the United States if you're talking about college graduates with student loan debt.
00:42:19.000Here is Joe Biden talking about how he wants to relieve that student loan debt in the middle of an inflationary cycle as we are about to enter a recession.
00:42:26.000I am considering dealing with some debt reduction.
00:42:30.000I am not considering $50,000 debt reduction.
00:42:34.000But I'm in the process of taking a hard look at whether or not there will be additional debt forgiveness.
00:42:41.000And I'll have an answer on that in the next couple weeks.
00:42:45.000Okay, so they're thinking about relieving student loans.
00:42:47.000Meanwhile, this unbelievably regressive, I mean, it really is amazing, this unbelievably regressive administration is now moving to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes.
00:42:56.000Now, I'm not an advocate of cigarettes.
00:43:02.000However, if you are looking at policies that directly target the poorest Americans, particularly black Americans, banning menthol cigarettes is actually the way that you do that.
00:43:12.000According to the New York Times, the FDA on Thursday announced a plan to ban sales of menthol-flavored cigarettes in the United States, a measure many public health experts hailed as the government's most meaningful action in more than a decade of tobacco control efforts.
00:43:22.000The ban would most likely have the deepest impact on black smokers, nearly 85% of whom use menthol cigarettes, compared with only 29% of white smokers, according to a government survey.
00:43:32.000If effective in reducing smoking, the ban could significantly diminish the burden of chronic disease and limit the number of lives cut short by one of the most hazardous legal products available.
00:43:39.000Now again, I'm not a fan of cigarettes.
00:43:42.000I also am going to point out here that it was Democrats who used to claim that the killing of Eric Garner in New York City, which was because he was selling what are called Lucy's, and he was selling Lucy's because of the high tax on cigarettes in the city of New York.
00:43:57.000They're now proposing more restrictions that will lead to presumably more illegal activities for the large number of black people who use menthol cigarettes.
00:44:04.000So this administration's position right now is relieve student loan debt on rich white people and ban the sale of menthol cigarettes for poor black people.
00:44:14.000Genius stuff from the most progressive administration in modern American history.
00:44:19.000Meanwhile, other wonderful policies that they are pursuing.
00:44:22.000Jen Psaki says, you know what, maybe in order to relieve inflation at this time, perhaps we should get rid of some tariffs on the Chinese.
00:44:29.000So the Chinese are providing the sole economic outlet for the Russians right now.
00:44:33.000We are in effectively an economic proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
00:44:37.000We're trying to cut them off at the knees.
00:44:38.000Meanwhile, China has cast its eyes upon Taiwan.
00:44:41.000China is militarizing faster than ever before.
00:44:44.000China is cutting itself off from the rest of the world in an attempt to weaponize up.
00:44:50.000And this administration's policy is, what if we help them out by getting rid of the tariffs because our own inflationary policy is too crappy?
00:44:57.000Here is Jen Psaki announcing this one.
00:44:58.000I mean, these folks are so incompetent.
00:44:59.000They are cruising for an extraordinary bruising in November.
00:45:03.000To what extent are you looking at cutting tariffs on Chinese goods as a way to ease inflation?
00:45:09.000Well, there's an ongoing review of that, led by Ambassador Tai at USTR, and we are certainly continuing to look at where these tariffs put in place by the prior administration don't make sense.
00:45:20.000And one of the factors that we're looking at as a part of this review is certainly the impact on jobs and wages.
00:45:26.000We're also looking at where we have concerns about the economic policies and approaches of China, but I don't have any Amazing, amazing stuff.
00:45:39.000So this administration is a disaster area, which is why, again, they must focus on shutting down your ability to speak inside the Overton window.
00:45:46.000It has to happen because if people actually realize how far left the left has moved, the left will just not win.