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00:00:00.000The Washington Post concludes that higher numbers of black traffic deaths are the result of infrastructure racism, before the People Act dies an ignominious death to the whales and teeth gnashing of the media, and Don Lemon declares himself bias-free.
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00:02:07.000Whoever wins the Democratic nomination in the city of New York is going to end up as mayor of New York.
00:02:12.000Because New York has now engaged in what it calls ranked choice of voting, that means that you can win the most votes in the first round, but you may not end up as the overall winner.
00:02:19.000Because let's say that somebody who had 10% loses and the second choice on that person's ballot was the person who came in second.
00:02:27.000Well, then the vote shifts to the person who is second.
00:02:30.000Now, Realistically, this race is pretty much over because the number of ranked-choice voting situations in America where somebody has a 10-point lead after the first round, where that person ends up losing, is pretty much zero, according to Harry Enten over at CNN New York Times.
00:02:45.000Eric Adams appears to be the winner at this point.
00:02:48.000Eric Adams, who of course is the former police officer and a rather moderate candidate, at least so far as New York City goes.
00:03:00.000He is leading right now in the clubhouse about 30%, coming in second.
00:03:04.000Somewhat shockingly is Maya Wiley, who until recently was considered sort of an also-ran.
00:03:08.000She was the only member of de Blasio's administration to actually run.
00:03:11.000She was occupying the left lane, so I guess it's not really that big a surprise that about 20% of voters showed up for Maya Wiley, since everybody else was trying to crowd each other out of the technocratic moderate lane.
00:03:20.000So Adams ended up at about 30%, Wiley ended up at about 21%, Catherine Garcia ended up at about 20, and Andrew Yang ended up at about 11.
00:03:27.000Now, you assume Andrew Yang's votes are going to shift over?
00:03:30.000Now he's out and he's acknowledged he's out.
00:03:33.000You assume that Andrew Yang's votes are now going to shift over to Catherine Garcia, which would jump her up into the low 30s.
00:03:39.000But you would also assume that in the second round, Maya Wiley's votes are probably going to be split between the rest of the candidates.
00:03:47.000And what that means is that Eric Adams is not gonna stick around at 30%.
00:03:50.000Presumably many of the people who voted for somebody else first on their ballot voted for Eric Adams second on their ballot.
00:03:57.000So I think it is a fair presumption that Eric Adams is likely to emerge as the mayor of New York, which once again demonstrates the complete rejection of the defund the police strategy.
00:04:05.000Adams was very open about wanting to refund the police.
00:04:09.000Adams was pretty strenuous in his position that crime had to be stopped inside New York City.
00:04:15.000It was only Maya Wiley who took the far left position that the police were really the problem.
00:04:19.000According to the New York Times, 82% of the results in Adams, the Brooklyn Borough President, was the first choice of 31.6% of those who voted in person on Tuesday or during the early voting period, as New Yorkers chose a leader to steer the city's reopening and economic recovery.
00:04:41.000Because Adams seemed unlikely to earn more than 50% of the vote, the contest will now be decided under that ranked-choice voting system.
00:04:47.000And New Yorkers were allowed to rank up to five candidates in order of preference.
00:04:51.000Absentee ballots also must be counted, so it could take until mid-July before a Democratic primary victor is actually declared.
00:04:57.000And then there's the actual general election, where the Democrat, of course, is favored.
00:05:01.000New Yorkers also render judgment on other vital positions in primary races that will test the power of the left in the nation's largest cities.
00:05:07.000The city comptroller race, Manhattan district attorney's race, a slew of city council primaries, among other contests, offer imperfect but important windows into democratic attitudes and engagement levels.
00:05:17.000But, of course, the mayor's race is at sort of the top of the slate, and the reality is that this is a pretty ringing rejection of the de Blasio rule in New York City.
00:05:25.000Because it turns out that the sort of radicalism that the Democratic Party has fallen for does not offer solutions.
00:05:34.000The deeper point here is that when you attribute everything in the world to miasmatic forces of racism, it makes it very, very difficult to solve problems.
00:05:42.000When you make problems difficult to solve, and then you implicate the entire system, The notion is that you're going to have to tear down the entire system in order to solve the problems.
00:06:37.000That would be a natural thought in the same way that if you read a statistic that said that black people are being murdered at a rate far higher than white people.
00:06:44.000And we know that the vast majority of murder is intraracial.
00:06:47.000It is black on black or white on white.
00:06:50.000But black people are being murdered at a way higher rate.
00:06:51.000You might think to yourself, well, that's probably the reason is that a lot of black people are murdering a lot of black people.
00:06:57.000So if you see a stat in which it says that a lot of black people are dying in traffic accidents, you might think to yourself, What is the behavior of the drivers?
00:07:05.000Right, because you would think that that's literally your first question.
00:07:08.000Forget about groups with regard to individuals.
00:07:11.000Right, if you hear that anybody has died of anything, your first question is what were the circumstances surrounding their death?
00:07:17.000Right, this is true for anybody's death.
00:07:18.000If somebody you know dies in a car accident, your first question is how?
00:07:22.000Right, you don't ask questions typically about the roads.
00:07:25.000You don't ask questions typically about the lights.
00:07:26.000Typically, you ask, OK, were they speeding?
00:07:28.000And if somebody says, oh, they were speeding, you go, oh, OK, well, you know, that's terrible.
00:07:32.000Like you should probably pay attention to the traffic signs.
00:07:35.000This entire Washington Post piece is designed specifically to ignore the question of who is doing the speeding.
00:07:41.000Because if it turns out that black drivers are speeding more often than white drivers, that at least partially explains the discrepancy between black and white death statistics with regard to traffic accidents.
00:07:50.000Instead, the entire Washington Post article is dedicated to the proposition that it's institutional racism that causes higher levels of black deaths.
00:08:00.000So here's what the Washington Post wrote.
00:08:02.000And again, what this means is that solutions become a lot more difficult.
00:08:05.000Because let's say, for example, that the problem really is disproportionate speeding inside the black community.
00:08:10.000And the reason I say that is because we have fairly good evidence from the past that there is, in fact, disproportionate speeding inside the black community.
00:08:16.000So to take an example, in the early 1990s, there was a big hubbub during the Clinton administration about supposed racial profiling on the New Jersey Turnpike.
00:08:28.000Even though it was at night, it's kind of hard to see the color of the person who's driving, but they're pulling over black drivers at a rate higher than white drivers.
00:08:34.000That must be the latent racism of the New Jersey state.
00:08:39.000They're just pulling black people over.
00:08:43.000And the study was put out only about almost a decade later.
00:08:48.000And what the study found is that a very high percentage of the speeders were black.
00:08:53.000It turns out that black drivers were just driving faster as a general rule than white drivers were, according to this particular study.
00:09:00.000It was an actual Justice Department study in conjunction with the state offices of New Jersey.
00:09:07.000And what they found, it was leaked to the New York Times, what they found is that while black drivers were making up about 16% of the drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike, 25% of the speeders in the 65 mile per hour zone, where profiling complaints were the most common, were black.
00:09:21.000Black drivers sped about twice as much as white drivers and sped at reckless levels even more.
00:09:26.000In fact, according to that particular Justice Department study, blacks were actually stopped less than their speeding behavior would predict.
00:09:32.000Okay, so all of this is to not make any linkage between genetic skin color and how fast you drive.
00:09:39.000But if the question is, which groups of people are driving the fastest in American life and how does that link to traffic stops?
00:09:45.000You might think that that might be like a consideration in the Washington Post piece.
00:09:47.000No, they weren't even going to consider it.
00:09:50.000In fact, and especially they weren't going to consider it because if that were in fact a problem, if the problem were a disproportionate number of people are speeding in a particular area, therefore a higher number of people are dying in that particular area.
00:10:00.000More people are driving recklessly in this particular area, therefore more people are dying.
00:10:04.000The answer to that, right, the very easy policy answer to that is, okay, so you set up a speed trap, right?
00:10:10.000You get a bunch of cops, you put them in the area, and you have them sign a lot of traffic tickets because you create an incentive structure where it makes no sense to speed.
00:10:19.000That is the perfect, obvious policy solution.
00:10:22.000The Washington Post does not want that policy solution.
00:10:24.000So they go out of their way to find alternative explanations that are far less explained.
00:10:29.000They literally do not even posit the possibility that people are speeding at higher rates on a correlative level with regard to race.
00:10:38.000Even though they're saying that you can measure traffic deaths on the basis of race, but you can't measure traffic behavior on the basis of race.
00:10:45.000Which seems like you're ignoring kind of a rather large factor, are you not?
00:10:49.000It's sort of like the move that people in the media are constantly making where they look at big tech and they're like, well, there's just not enough engineers who are in big tech who are black.
00:10:58.000You're like, right, but how many qualified applicants are coming from the black community who are qualified engineers to be in big tech?
00:11:22.000roads found that Black people were killed in traffic crashes at a rate almost 25% than white people in recent years, a disparity that appears to have worsened during the coronavirus pandemic.
00:11:31.000Last year was especially grim on the roads.
00:11:32.000The number of miles driven decreased as many people stayed home, yet traffic deaths rose 7%, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in large part because of people driving faster on empty highways.
00:11:43.000Okay, so right off the bat, they're acknowledging that when people drive faster, you end up with more people dead, right?
00:11:50.000So this is true across the broad population, but we cannot even measure the traffic behavior differential between groups when trying to explain the traffic death differential between groups, because to do so would imply a solution they don't want, and would also imply that racism isn't the problem, and so you don't have to tear down the entire system.
00:12:08.000The number of black people killed according to the Washington Post climbed 23%.
00:12:10.000The reason for the spike in black deaths is not noted in the federal report, but experts say, ah, the experts.
00:12:18.000Experts say, just as the virus itself spread more readily through communities of color, the increase was probably a result of existing inequities being compounded.
00:12:26.000Or possibly it was a result of the differential in behavior being compounded.
00:12:33.000Because if you have more people who are speeding on the roads during this time generally, you're going to end up with more people who speed as a percentage of that being killed.
00:12:41.000Researchers have previously concluded that black communities tend to be crisscrossed by more dangerous roads.
00:12:45.000During the pandemic, people of color were more likely to be employed in essential jobs without the option to stay home.
00:12:50.000People were driving faster amid lower traffic levels meant crashes were more likely to be deadly.
00:12:56.000The basic premise here is that the roads are racist, right?
00:12:59.000The roads, because they're in poor communities, and because these are bigger roads with fewer trees and people tend to speed more on those roads, that this is the real rationale.
00:13:06.000So presumably we should have traffic bottlenecks in these areas, which I'm not sure how that would solve many other problems having to do with the economy, having to do with transport.
00:13:14.000If you're living in a poorer area with fewer businesses, you need to get to work.
00:13:17.000You actually don't want fewer lanes on the roads.
00:13:19.000But, put all that aside, the basic notion that this has to do with race as opposed to with class is another confound.
00:13:26.000It turns out that poorer areas very often are crisscrossed with more dangerous roads.
00:13:29.000I mean, those poorer areas generally exist around, for example, highways, because people who are richer don't want to live next to highways.
00:13:35.000People who are richer don't want to live next to big roads with lots of traffic, which is why people who are richer tend to move out to the suburbs, for example.
00:13:42.000The NHTSA estimated that 38,680 people were killed in crashes nationwide last year, said 7,494 of them were black.
00:13:50.000A new study released Tuesday by the Governor's Highway Safety Association highlights the disparities.
00:13:54.000It analyzed data from 2015 to 2019, right, so not including the pandemic.
00:13:58.000And found that in different types of traffic crashes, black people were killed at rates higher than white people.
00:14:02.000Black pedestrians were killed at a rate twice as high.
00:14:08.000And what levels of speed were they attaining while they were driving the cars?
00:14:12.000And by the way, what was the behavior of the pedestrians?
00:14:13.000These are all relevant factors to whether people are being killed in traffic accidents or not.
00:14:18.000And none of these factors are taken into account in the Washington Post.
00:14:21.000Charles Brown, professor at Rutgers University School of Planning and Public Policy, said the figures leave at transportation officials facing a simple question, quote, we've all been socialized in a way to believe that black death is due to black behavior, when instead we know infrastructure influences behavior. If that is true, we need investments in quality infrastructure in black communities. How many more black people do we have to lose before that is the number one priority? Okay, so it can't be that we focus on lowering rates rates of reckless driving, lowering rates of speed,
00:15:26.000Hey, now, what's kind of amazing about all of this is that then you look at some of the statistics that are sort of buried down in here, right?
00:15:33.000First, you get the typical equity speak from the Biden administration of Pete Buttigieg, issuing a statement that the administration is now proposing a $20 billion, yeah, we're gonna spend 20 billion bucks on this, traffic safety proposal to reduce crashes and road deaths as part of its infrastructure plan.
00:15:47.000Buttigieg said, last year's traffic fatality rates and the racial disparities reflected in them are unacceptable.
00:15:52.000This reflects broader patterns of inequity in our country, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:15:56.000Okay, so then you get to the actual differences among racial and ethnic groups.
00:16:01.000Now what's fascinating about this is who is getting killed in these traffic accidents because it turns out that it is not solely income-based.
00:16:10.000Hispanics as well as Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders were killed at rates slightly lower than whites.
00:16:17.000Weird, because on a household income level, Hispanics do pretty significantly worse right now than white Americans do.
00:16:23.000Not only that, they tend to live in lower income areas because of that.
00:16:27.000Presumably, many of the same lower income areas that are crisscrossed with the same kind of roads that are being blamed for higher black fatalities.
00:16:34.000American Indians and Alaska Natives were killed at much higher rates, more than twice the rate of black residents.
00:16:41.000Guillermo Narvaez, a lecturer at the University of Minnesota who has studied traffic safety in tribal areas, said American Indian communities are often remote and suffer from unsafe road designs.
00:16:50.000So it must be the unsafe road designs.
00:16:52.000Now, nowhere in here is contemplated the possibility that there are higher levels of reckless driving in American Indian reservations, for example.
00:17:01.000Or higher levels of DUI in American Indian reservations, for example.
00:17:04.000Like that's not like these possibilities are never taken into account.
00:17:07.000Human behavior is of no consequence because equal outcome is the supposed norm, except that it's not the supposed norm.
00:17:13.000Again, in any human endeavor, you can take groups of people, you can take this office and the office next door, and there will be complete disparities and differentials between the two offices, not based on race.
00:17:23.000Because equal outcome among groups is not human norm.
00:17:26.000It doesn't exist anywhere on Earth at any time, in any place.
00:17:29.000Okay, but what does this all cover for?
00:17:31.000I'll tell you that in one second, because it really is, they kind of give away the game late in this article from the Washington Post.
00:17:36.000And the reason that this is so important is because when you insist that equal outcome must be the goal, regardless of behavior, and then you militantly refuse to look at individual behavior or how behavior agglomerates in groups, You are dictating unfairness, injustice, and violation of individual rights, and making life worse for the people who actually aren't engaging in the behavior.
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00:19:16.000Here's where the Washington Post goes with this.
00:19:19.000They first try to say that it's about the roads, that because minority communities are bisected very often by many lanes, long distances between stoplights, few trees, this signals that drivers can go fast.
00:19:33.000We're not going to talk about, again, racial differentials and speeding.
00:19:37.000We're going to talk about what the roads signal.
00:19:40.000Okay, this is where, okay, buried all the way down to the bottom of the article is the actual solution to this, okay?
00:19:46.000Traffic stops, okay, the GHSA study says, enforcement of traffic laws is an effective way to improve safety.
00:19:53.000Now, remember, Very early on in this article, the Washington Post said the GHSA offers no opinion as to the cause of these traffic accidents.
00:20:08.000The GHSA study says enforcement of traffic laws is an effective way to improve safety, but acknowledges that police stops of black people are under renewed scrutiny, saying they should be conducted only in a way that has the support of local communities.
00:20:20.000Traffic stops sometimes involve police confronting black drivers to pursue criminal investigations not related to road safety.
00:20:26.000The GHSA analysis also found that black people were killed in crashes involving a police pursuit at a rate four times higher than white people.
00:21:23.000It results in more dead black people, just like with crime.
00:21:27.000Okay, when you don't police crime, you end up with more dead black people.
00:21:29.000You don't police traffic, you end up with more dead black people.
00:21:33.000Because if it turns out that the underlying rationale for the disparity is individual behavior and you won't police the individual behavior, you get more of the individual behavior.
00:21:43.000Today, police in Oregon's largest city are being advised to no longer pursue low-level traffic infractions, including expired plates and broken headlights, unless related to an immediate safety threat.
00:21:52.000Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced Tuesday.
00:21:55.000In addition, if police do stop a driver, they must receive recorded consent before searching the vehicle and clearly inform the person they have the right to refuse.
00:22:02.000Wheeler said both changes are an attempt to refocus on immediate threats and are also occurring in response to data showing a disproportionate impact on Black drivers for traffic stops and vehicle searchers.
00:22:22.000But when you buy into the lie that equal outcome is the natural state of things and that equal behavior is happening across every group, you are going to pursue bad policy that results in really, really bad results.
00:22:33.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:22:34.000First, let's talk about leading a healthier life.
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00:23:50.000When you pursue the lie that equal outcome is the natural state of things, regardless of behavior, and when you do as Ibrahim Kendi says, and you say, well, if there is a differential in behavior, then you're implying racial inferiority.
00:24:17.000And refusal to acknowledge simple facts on the ground means you're going to end up not only in la-la land, but in dangerous la-la land.
00:24:24.000Like, for example, undermining the police and suggesting that the police are responsible for these disparities.
00:24:29.000Because if it's not individual behavior that agglomerates in communities at different rates, well then it must be the police who are really the problem.
00:24:36.000So here's Mayor Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, for example, boasting of decline in crime in her city while the murder rate is up 30% this year.
00:24:43.000The reality is, June over June, so from last year to this one, what we've seen is a downward trend in both homicides and shootings.
00:24:52.000And if you look at where we were in January to where we are now, we're also seeing a downward trajectory in both homicides and shootings.
00:25:02.000We're different than other cities across the country.
00:25:05.000Every major city in the United States last year and this year has seen an unprecedented rise in violence.
00:25:13.000We're down on every other major category, but particularly in shootings and homicides related to gun violence.
00:25:33.000I've also noted that dozens of people are being shot every weekend in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
00:25:38.000And you've declared racism a public health problem.
00:25:41.000So murder, not a public health problem in Chicago.
00:25:44.000Racism, a public health problem in Chicago.
00:25:46.000And again, you can fill in any gap with racism.
00:25:48.000If you say, OK, well, the murder rate is higher in the black community in Chicago, so maybe we should focus in on, you know, what we can do to stop that.
00:25:55.000Like, for example, putting more police in the community.
00:25:56.000Then you'll get from Lori Lightfoot that racism is responsible for the higher murder rate in the black community.
00:26:01.000OK, but if you're using racism as an excuse not to solve the problem, you are just making life worse for everyone.
00:26:08.000You see the same thing from the Biden administration all the damn time.
00:26:12.000So police are now complaining of lagging morale.
00:26:15.000I mean, you've basically said across the United States that the police are the bad guys in every major metropolitan area and that every racial discrepancy is not the result, again, of basic stats.
00:26:24.000It is instead the result of evil cops.
00:26:27.000So there's a report on MSNBC, of all places, in which police departments are talking about how they have lagging morale, which of course they do.
00:26:35.000Morale, I think, is at an all-time low now.
00:26:37.000We're being held responsible for the actions of an officer that's across the country, and I don't think that's fair.
00:26:44.000We're dealing with rioting at a level and a sustained violence that we've never seen before.
00:26:48.000Nonviolence in a city like we've never seen before.
00:26:51.000We're looking at the most catastrophic staffing levels we've ever seen before.
00:26:54.000It all boils down to these three main concepts of being underfunded, understaffed, and undersupported.
00:27:16.000And here is Jen Psaki's unbelievable answer about falling police morale.
00:27:19.000Remember, the White House says that it has the capacity to control everything in your life, from toilet flow and electricity use, all the way to Whether your child should learn about transgenderism in third grade.
00:27:33.000Like all of this should be federal policy.
00:27:35.000All of this should be controlled by the government.
00:27:37.000But they have nothing to say about falling police morale.
00:27:41.000Why does the president think that there's low morale with police officers on the beach?
00:27:47.000I don't think we're the right entity to give an assessment of that.
00:27:49.000I'd certainly look to the police departments to give that assessment.
00:27:52.000But what I would say to you is that the president has never supported defunding the police.
00:27:57.000Oh, well, they have no opinion on that.
00:28:00.000And look to the police when that's the problem.
00:28:02.000Weird, because they wouldn't do this about any other issue in American public life.
00:28:06.000If you said that there's underperformance in black communities with regard to high school graduation, and somebody said, what does the president say about that?
00:28:12.000I would suggest you look to those communities and ask what they think about that.
00:28:22.000Because One of the great avoidance strategies for members of government is to blame problems bigger than themselves, so they don't actually have to take the easy measures that are available for them on the ground.
00:28:34.000Meanwhile, it's also politically palatable to say that everything is racist, because when you call things racist, it means you get to condemn your political opponents.
00:28:39.000Which brings us, of course, to the death of Senate Bill 1.
00:28:44.000Senate Bill 1 died an ignominious death yesterday.
00:28:48.000When Republicans did not vote for the advancement of the bill in a procedural vote, they didn't kill the filibuster just to move along with this thing.
00:28:57.000It was a 50-50 split in the Senate, and you require 60 votes in order to advance the bill.
00:29:02.000According to Axios, Senate Republicans filibuster Democrats' signature voting rights bill on Tuesday, denying it the 60 votes needed to advance the bill and start debate.
00:29:10.000First of all, let me just point this out with the media.
00:29:12.000The media always call this a quote-unquote voting rights bill.
00:29:16.000It is a federalized voting procedures bill.
00:29:20.000They just use propaganda terms straight from the Democratic playbook.
00:29:23.000And Democrats will say, well, this is a voting rights bill.
00:29:25.000And immediately, the media will start parroting that this is a voting rights bill.
00:29:29.000And if there is a bill that suggests that boys be allowed to compete with girls in girls sports, they will call it a transgender rights bill.
00:29:36.000They won't call it a reclassification of sex in sport bill, which is far more informational.
00:29:43.000They always just take whatever is the Democratic euphemism for the thing, and then they just call it the thing.
00:29:46.000So if you were just a normal reader who doesn't follow this stuff very closely, you'd be like, oh my God, the Democrats were pushing a voting rights bill, and Republicans opposed that.
00:29:55.000This is why the media are just garbage at their jobs.
00:29:59.000According to Axios, it's an expected but significant blow to Democrats' hopes of passing a sweeping federal elections overhaul to combat a wave of new voting restrictions in Republican-led states.
00:30:07.000Again, wave of new voting restrictions includes things like, we're not going to extend our early voting period for a month because it's voting day, not voting month.
00:30:13.000You should have voter ID, which is a widely popular measure across the United States.
00:30:17.000We're not going to allow ballot harvesting, which basically puts it in the hands of party activists to go door to door and pick up ballots from people, which creates not only the incentive for voter fraud, but also for packing the ballot box.
00:30:27.000The far-reaching bill was co-sponsored by every Democratic senator except for Senator Joe Manchin, who called it too partisan and introduced his own compromise bill, which was promptly rejected by Republicans.
00:30:36.000Manchin ultimately voted yes to move forward and allowed debate on the bill, even though he opposes the original legislation, by the way.
00:31:07.000And Mitch McConnell explained why exactly he was opposing it.
00:31:12.000Later today, the Senate will vote on whether to advance Democrats' transparently partisan plan to tilt every election in America permanently in their favor.
00:31:22.000By now, the rotten inner workings of this power grab have been thoroughly exposed to the light.
00:31:29.000We know that it would shatter a decades-old understanding that campaign finance law should have a bipartisan referee and turn the Federal Election Commission into a partisan majority cudgel for Democrats to wield.
00:31:42.000I mean, the number of bad provisions in this bill, it's insane, right?
00:31:58.000Naturally, Democrats are portraying the failure to advance this bill as some sort of defeat for democracy and also a giant victory for, you guessed it, Racism!
00:32:10.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
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00:34:34.000All righty, so the media response to the defeat of the For the People Act is, of course, predictably overwrought and insane.
00:34:54.000Okay, just let's put it where it belongs in the lie category.
00:34:57.000Now, very often people say things and it's out of ignorance.
00:35:00.000Joe Biden is not ignorant that defeating the Florida People Act is not Jim Crow.
00:35:05.000Everyone knows it's not Jim Crow because you know what Jim Crow was?
00:35:07.000An actual specific regimen of law by which black people were discriminated against in law in the South by the state.
00:35:15.000Is there anything remotely like that in defeating the For the People Act?
00:35:18.000All of that crap has been illegal since the mid-60s.
00:35:21.000It is now, and I checked my calendar today just to make sure, 2021.
00:35:25.000We are three generations removed from a time when it was legal in the United States to discriminate in law.
00:35:31.000A fully 60 years since this has happened, or almost 60 years, 57 years since the Civil Rights Act.
00:35:37.000And the notion here is that this is a restoration of what was going on in 1962 in Alabama to defeat the fourth of the people.
00:35:46.000This isn't even we are repealing a bunch of laws that protect black people.
00:35:50.000This is we are failing to pass a law that completely transforms the nature of how voting is done in the United States and sucks it up to the federal level.
00:36:25.000You cannot demonstrate any evidence of systematic voter suppression in the United States at all.
00:36:30.000The notion that showing a voter ID is voter suppression is nonsense.
00:36:33.000The notion that if you get rid of drop boxes that have never existed in American elections before, up until an actual active pandemic, And then you get rid of those drop boxes because you don't have a way of supervising them properly.
00:36:43.000That this is Jim Crow, voter suppression.
00:36:50.000There is, if you are, the pervasive myth that voter suppression is an ongoing threat in the United States is significantly more held by Americans because of the media than the notion that Donald Trump legitimately won the election.
00:37:03.000But I see that you only care about one untruth about the election.
00:37:06.000The other untruth, you just keep promulgating over and over because it pushes your political regime.
00:37:12.000Says Joe Biden, unfortunately, a democratic stance protect our democracy met a solid Republican wall of opposition.
00:37:18.000Senate Republicans even opposed a debate, even considering legislation to protect the right to vote and our democracy.
00:37:23.000Well, no, they said that they were going to filibuster the bill, which is something that you guys do regularly.
00:37:30.000I'm old enough to remember last year when you filibustered Tim Scott's police reform bill.
00:37:35.000It was the suppression of a bill to end voter suppression, another attack on voting rights that is sadly not unprecedented.
00:37:40.000The creed we shall overcome is a longtime mainstay of the civil rights movement, says Joe Biden.
00:37:46.000I'm sorry, Joe Biden singing from the hymnal of We Shall Overcome is like a little nauseating.
00:37:51.000And I love that Kamala Harris goes right along with it.
00:37:52.000Five seconds ago, she was calling him a vicious racist who was trying to keep her out of school.
00:37:56.000Little girls like her out of desegregated schools.
00:37:59.000By coming together, says Joe Biden, Democrats took the next step forward in this continuous struggle and a step forward to honor all those who came before us.
00:38:05.000People of all races and ages who sacrificed and died to protect the sacred way.
00:38:09.000OK, so just to be straight about this, No one sacrificed and died so that the election procedures of the United States would be federalized, ballot harvesting legalized, and public funding of elections made law.
00:38:25.000Amazing how the conventional wisdom shifted so fast on the left from America's democracy will survive and thrive under Barack Obama to, if we don't pass this bill right now, American democracy is dead and we're finished.
00:38:45.000This is about the American people's right to vote unfettered.
00:38:50.000It is about their access to the right to vote in a meaningful way, because nobody is debating, I don't believe, whether all Americans have the right to vote.
00:38:59.000The issue here is, is there actual access?
00:39:53.000They were pushing this crap months in advance of the election.
00:39:55.000Then it turned out, as the polls shifted, heavily in Biden's favor, it went to, well, you know, probably the big threat is that Joe Biden, that Donald Trump won't accept the outcome of the election.
00:40:06.000This is going to be the cleanest election ever run.
00:40:07.000It's amazing how fast they shifted from this election is probably going to be dirty to this election is the cleanest election ever run, completely dependent on the polls.
00:40:14.000So, the whole goal here, of course, is to not push forward good legislation.
00:40:19.000The point is to polarize the American electorate along the lines of race.
00:40:39.000I feel like there have been some pretty dark hours in American history.
00:40:41.000I mean, in fact, I seem to recall that we were honoring one a couple of weeks ago with like, you know, there was Juneteenth because slavery was kind of a bad hour in American history.
00:40:52.000Also, there was like the Tulsa race massacre where the president went to Tulsa and talked about it.
00:40:55.000And that was a pretty dark hour in American history.
00:40:58.000Seems like You know, the darkest days of World War One, World War Two, pretty bad hours.
00:41:02.000Seems like we just went through a kind of rough one with the pandemic.
00:41:23.000Here's Mara Gay again in New York Times editorial board member.
00:41:26.000They just work for the Democratic Party. Here's Mara Gay just being an idiot.
00:41:30.000I think this is historic for actually a much darker reason today, and that's that we have not seen access to the ballot debated in this way and turned into this partisan issue since, in fact, the 1960s and 1970s.
00:41:45.000So if you're an American who grew up with parents who lived through Jim Crow, as I did, this is your history books, some of the darkest hours of your history books coming to life.
00:41:58.000What in the- And reminding us that progress is not inevitable.
00:42:03.000Mara Gay is on the editorial board of the New York Times and she is a black woman speaking on MSNBC about how this is a return to the dark ages?
00:42:11.000And she's comparing the plight of black Americans today to black Americans in 1960?
00:42:21.000I love Ari Melbridge sitting there nodding as though this makes any sort of sense.
00:42:24.000I guess when your head is so far up your ass that it's coming out your head again, it makes it very difficult to do anything other than nod.
00:42:29.000Here is another MSNBC guest explaining, the same show, that this is actually a form of apartheid.
00:44:19.000It would take you not even an hour to read the Constitution of the United States.
00:44:22.000And then you actually know what the founders thought about things like voting procedures, because it's in the Constitution.
00:44:27.000But here's Yamiche Alcindor explaining that unless the federal government completely takes over voting procedure, provides public funding to candidates, taxpayer funding to candidates, Promotes ballot harvesting, gets rid of voter ID.
00:44:37.000The founders would have been so upset about it.
00:44:39.000By the way, I do love the switch also from the left.
00:44:42.000From, the founders were a bunch of rich, white, slave-holding racists who must be ignored about everything to, I can't believe that they're not upholding the legacy of the founders who definitely wanted pure majoritarianism.
00:44:55.000I'm sorry, the stupidity here and the outrageous race baiting here on display is truly astonishing.
00:45:03.000In talking to activists and talking to White House officials, this is going to be a debate about what whether or not we want America to be the place that the founders flaunt as they may have been.
00:45:12.000The founders wanted it to be, which is a place where people could vote and people could have access to who were the elected officials.
00:45:20.000Oh, is that that's what the founders wanted?
00:45:22.000And we know that because it's not true.
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