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March 9, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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The White House vs. Tucker Carlson

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	The Biden White House goes after Tucker Carlson by name as other media members unleash their rage.
	Joe Biden celebrates International Women's Day by giving a medal to a dude.
	And the Justice Department cracks down on the Louisville Police Department.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
	Well, Tucker Carlson has ticked off all of the right people, apparently.
	So Tucker was given access to 41,000 hours of footage of the January 6th riots and what was going on inside the Capitol building by Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House.
	And this was considered very, very controversial.
	It was considered controversial because how dare he give access?
	To Justin Tucker Carlson.
	Well, as it turns out, the January 6th committee is now admitting that even they did not bother watching the videos.
	They had some of their staffers watch the videos that they themselves did not attempt to gain access to the videos.
	Elena Treen, who's a political reporter at CNN, reported this morning that Kevin McCarthy has now granted lawmakers the option to view the Capitol footage from January 6th if they request to see it.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene told CNN, quote, any one of us can go.
	You just have to schedule the time with the Speaker's office.
	I'm scheduled to go.
	I can take my staff with me.
	Green said she doesn't know who's all in the room or if the U.S.
	Capitol Police will be there, but said there are instructions her team has been given, including how to view the videos because there are so many hours.
	Benny Thompson, here's the key part, Benny Thompson, who is the former chair of the January 6th committee, said lawmakers were never given that type of access to the footage last Congress.
	So even the January 6th committee is admitting that other members of Congress were not given access to the footage that Tucker showed the other night, which is kind of mind boggling.
	Again, Congress is Congress.
	It's not supposed to be secret committees inside Congress.
	When we are talking about an incident that affected all of America and that was put on all of our TVs on January 6th, Thompson's quoted strictly a new policy that the new speaker has put in place.
	Thompson said he doesn't think any of the January 6th members themselves ever had access to the footage.
	They only let staff view it.
	So apparently, even the Capitol Police only allowed the staff of these committee members to view it, but the members of the staff themselves did not view it.
	He said, I'm actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access.
	We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.
	So, in other words, you were just kind of talking heads on behalf of ABC producers you guys gave access to.
	And somehow, that is significantly better than Speaker McCarthy giving access to all of the congresspeople and also Tucker Carlson?
	That's somehow significantly better.
	You don't get to play a stupid game in which you do a thing to one side, then the other side does the same thing, and it's bad when the other side does it.
	That's not how any of this works.
	Well, the White House has now gotten particularly upset with Tucker Carlson, and they have called him out by name.
	Now, this is not the first time that we've had a White House call out members of the right by name.
	Barack Obama used to do this on the regular with Rush Limbaugh.
	He would just cite Rush Limbaugh as kind of the font head of all evil.
	Well, Tucker has become the new font head of all evil for this White House.
	They're particularly upset that Tucker showed footage of QAnon shaman walking around the Capitol building.
	He was one of the first 30 people to break in, but then he's walking around and the police officers are guiding him.
	They say this is a de-escalation tactic.
	Okay, fine.
	Also, it kind of is weird.
	And not only is it kind of weird, there's tons of footage of people, like large crowds, kind of walking through the Capitol building.
	In other words, the footage from outside, which appears to be extremely violent and extremely chaotic, is not mirrored altogether by a lot of the footage inside, thereafter, in which people are kind of walking the halls, and many of them are not defacing things.
	Again, it's not as though the riots didn't happen.
	The riots definitely happened.
	The question is whether we were told the whole story, and the answer is we weren't told the whole story, and that footage was never revealed to the public at all.
	And now Tucker is being raked over the coals for this.
	Now the question is whether he's being raked over the coals for the angle that he's taking on it, which many people are suggesting downplays the idea there were riots at all, or whether he's being raked over the coals for revealing the footage.
	And it seems more like the latter.
	The White House went directly after Tucker Carlson by name yesterday.
	Of course, they went to their friends at Politico.
	Quote, In comments first shared with Politico, the White House joined Republican Senate leaders and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, who a day earlier assailed Carlson's broadcast of selected assault footage as, quote, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said, We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law, which cost police officers their lives.
	We also agree with what Fox News' own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law that Tucker Carlson is not credible.
	So they are now going directly after one particular host.
	Now, I was informed during the Trump administration that attacks on the press meant the death of the republic.
	Democracy dies in darkness, as the Washington Post suggested.
	Any attempt to frame the press as quote-unquote the enemy of the people, which is a phrase that Trump liked to use a lot, That was absolutely an assault on the First Amendment.
	It was violating our most cherished and deeply held beliefs.
	Right now you have the White House essentially going after one guy and suggesting by name that that guy is not credible.
	And then you have the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer going out publicly and suggesting that he should be taken off the air.
	Yeah, it seems to me that there's only one reason that the White House is really doing this.
	And it's not because they think that Tucker Carlson should actually be taken off the air.
	The reason they are doing this is because they actually enjoy controversies around January 6th because it means that people are talking about January 6th.
	And that is actually what the White House wants.
	Joe Biden wants nothing more than for January 6th to be the topic of discussion all the way up through the next election cycle.
	He thinks that that'll ride him back to the White House.
	And then maybe a smart political strategy, it also happens to be really, really toxic.
	Because the fact of the matter is that we all at this point should know what happened on January 6th.
	There was a riot.
	People got violent with police.
	It was not all the people who were at the rally, the original rally for Trump, not even remotely.
	And many of the people who entered the Capitol building were in fact trespassing, but were not in fact there to do violence.
	They were not there to beat up Congress people.
	There were some people who were.
	There were people there who were threatening violence and doing that sort of stuff.
	That was not everybody who was in the Capitol.
	All those things can be held in your mind at once.
	But the idea, as always, is that the American people can only handle a single black and white narrative and there can't be any shades of gray or any complexity to any situation at all.
	There's no nuance whatsoever.
	And the White House likes that fight.
	The White House enjoys that fight because, again, their goal is to portray everybody who's on the other side of the aisle as a rioter.
	It's tied up in a broader narrative that they have generated.
	Which is that not only was everyone there that day a rioter, all the ralliers were essentially rioters, even if they weren't.
	And all the Republicans who voted for Trump were essentially ralliers who were also rioters.
	And so by the transit of property, everybody who voted for Donald Trump was in favor of rioting.
	Now, if it turns out that a fraction of the ralliers were rioters and that a fraction of the rioters We're the ones who are like the most violent and that many of the people who are riding were actually just trespassing.
	Well, then that kind of breaks down the narrative.
	This was a dire threat to the Republic and that the entire democracy was in danger.
	And the only way to protect democracy from the predations of Donald Trump and his crew is to elect Joe Biden and allow them untrammeled power.
	That narrative starts to fall apart.
	The smaller those numbers get.
	And that's why people are so angry at Tucker for having revealed That footage in the first place.
	Again, you can disagree with the angle that Tucker took on the footage.
	I disagree with a lot of the angle that Tucker took on the footage.
	But that doesn't change the underlying fact, which is that the generalized narrative that January 6th was, as the White House suggested, the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War, is not true.
	And it's very hard to maintain that perspective in light of the footage of people walking down cordoned lines through the halls of the Capitol building with police officers standing on either side in some cases.
	We'll get to the media response, which has been just overwrought in the extreme in just one second.
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	Okay, so.
	Members of the media, of course, because Democrat media complex exists, they are going full bore against Tucker.
	Of course, they've disliked Tucker for a long time.
	That's not a shock.
	But the amount of vitriol that they are now unleashing is truly wild.
	It's truly kind of insane.
	So Whoopi Goldberg, who is, again, one of the least smart people in American public life, she suggested that the U.S.
	government should actually investigate Fox News over Tucker Carlson's broadcasts.
	How come this is not thought of as being recruiting?
	How come they're not thinking about this as radicalizing?
	Why is this not being scrutinized the way that they scrutinize other things?
	Because to me, this should be against the law.
	You should not be able to lie to the American, knowingly.
	I'm what?
	So it should be against the law for Tucker to broadcast what he broadcasts?
	I wonder how Whoopi would feel about that if Donald Trump were president.
	I mean, right now, the left is lying and maintaining that Ron DeSantis is violating First Amendment freedoms in Florida.
	He's not.
	But at the same time, they're going out and suggesting that Tucker Carlson should be literally jailed, presumably, for the kinds of broadcasts that he is doing.
	Who's the threat to democracy again?
	Is it Tucker?
	Is Tucker the threat to democracy here?
	Or is it more people like Whoopi who are more than happy to unleash the authoritarianism so long as it targets their political opponents?
	Meanwhile, you have Jon Stewart, Who, yeah, whatever talent he had has been washed out.
	I mean, he himself looks like he's gone through a dishwasher a few times and whatever talent Stewart has is now gone.
	He's become basically in somewhat elderly gentleman ranting at things he doesn't like without any of the wry humor that used to characterize his message.
	And his substitute for humor, because this is the laziest form of humor, is just dirty talk.
	When you are a lazy comedian, you have to rely a lot on curse words, on sexual imagery.
	Good comedians don't have to do that.
	Jon Stewart is no longer a good comedian, and so you have to rely purely on shock value.
	So he's going to do that in criticizing Fox News and Tucker.
	With the Dominion scandal, I mean, is that a defamation?
	I mean, to say, right, so that's why this stuff's coming out.
	That's right.
	It's the only reason why it's coming out.
	And it's the only reason why, and they were so comfortable with the idea that none of their private communications would ever come out, which is why it's so explicit.
	To the point of saying, these people are crazy with the stolen election narrative and the ways that they think it's stolen.
	They're crazy, but if we say that, we'll lose our audience.
	It's a fascinating look at At just sort of like, you know the Ouroboros?
	We call it the snake sucking its own s***.
	Like, America has become a snake sucking its own s***.
	Well, deep words there from from Jon Stewart, who, by the way, is part of the media problem in the first place.
	You'll recall that Jon Stewart, one of his great claims to fame is that very early in the 2000s, there used to be a show on CNN.
	It was called Crossfire and included Tucker Carlson on one side and Paul Begala on the other is actually a pretty good show in which they would go at every political topic every day.
	And it was actually really interesting.
	It's when CNN used to allow opposing points of view on the air.
	And Jon Stewart came from Comedy Central.
	Where he did what I would say is one of the ugliest political shows in modern American history because his show was, I will show a clip out of context and then I'll make a face.
	And he never made an argument.
	He never attempted to rebut an argument.
	He didn't actually bring data.
	It was just make a face.
	And that has become John Oliver.
	That's become Stephen Colbert.
	It's become pretty much all of late night.
	It's become the model for an enormous amount of news coverage and media coverage instead of actual, you know, politics.
	And he went on crossfire and he said, you guys are bad for America.
	The answer was John Stewart was actually quite bad for America because he reduced essentially all political conversation to a series of face memes.
	But, Jon Stewart is now suggesting that America is an Ouroboros, and by the way, just for the record, an Ouroboros is a snake that is eating its own tail.
	I don't know what in the world he's talking about, or why it necessitates him talking about snake genitalia, but there you have it.
	Jon Stewart, great intellectual of our times.
	His former deputy, Stephen Colbert, is doing the same exact thing.
	Again, he's got nothing, so he's going to go direct to shock value with regard to Tucker.
	Thanks in large part to the former president.
	There's a whole industry of people who make a good living trying to make you think you're insane.
	Well, I make a very good living reminding you that you're not.
	Now you'd think, you would think...
	You think that once the people gaslighting you on a daily basis have been revealed to be liars, say, in multiple text messages and a $1.6 billion court filing by Dominion Voting Systems, they would pump the brakes.
	But apparently, some people are just addicted to being b******.
	Case in point, Fox News host and toddler sucking on a dog turd, Tucker Carlson.
	Oh, wow.
	That's high levels of humor there.
	Tucker is a toddler sucking on a dog turd, according to Stephen Colbert.
	And Stephen Colbert would never provide you any misinformation.
	Stephen Colbert is just there to remind you what you're saying.
	He's the voice of common sense.
	He's an elite New Yorker.
	Stephen Colbert is just perfect.
	Perfect stuff.
	And what Tucker did is he put footage that you had not seen on TV.
	That's what they're angry at.
	That's what they're angry at.
	They can say it's about the angle.
	It's not really about the angle.
	It's that some of the narratives that they have been promoting, in fact, the biggest narrative they've been promoting over the course of the last three years, which is that American democracy is under unbridled attack from the right and that authoritarianism is there and that the images were on your TV on January 6th of authoritarianism in action.
	And that was a real threat to democracy.
	When that sort of thing starts to look a little more dicey, then they get really, really mad.
	Now, just a second.
	I want to get to how Republicans can overplay their hand on this thing, because they obviously can.
	We'll get to that in just one moment.
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	Okay, so, with all of this said, all the attacks on Tucker Carlson, obviously politically motivated, obviously.
	Well, one of the things that Republicans can do is overplay their hand here.
	The incentives are misaligned for both Democrats and Republicans.
	They're misaligned for Democrats in the sense that they are so tied into the democracy in danger narrative that they are now attacking freedom of the press in order to preserve the democracy is in danger narrative, which is really self-defeating.
	And on the right, the incentives are misaligned in that people are going to overplay their hand.
	They're going to suggest that it's not that there was footage we didn't see.
	That seems to be somewhat exculpatory of some of the people who may be prosecuted in January 6th, right?
	Like, their defense lawyers should now have access to all of that stuff.
	One of the defense lawyers was on with Tucker last night and suggested he did not have access to all of this tape, which, you know, that's going to be a legal filing, like, right away.
	It's not enough to just claim that.
	Now it's going to turn into everybody involved in January 6th was good.
	Everybody involved in January 6th didn't commit a crime.
	January 6th was actually just a mostly peaceful protest in BLM fashion.
	It was not a mostly peaceful protest.
	It was a riot and some of the people who were there were not engaging in the actual violent activity.
	But if Republicans overplay their hand, and again, a lot of the base is angry about this, and I get the anger about it.
	I get the upset.
	I get the feeling that you were lied to.
	I'm there for a lot of that.
	But what I'm not there for is the next two years, again, being a referendum on January 6th.
	We did this in 2022, and it didn't go amazing.
	It didn't go amazing because it turns out that most Americans already have an idea of what January 6th was, and they don't want to talk about it anymore.
	They don't actually think that it is the key issue in American life.
	And if either side makes it the key issue in 2024, That is going to be a problem for the American people.
	So, for example, when you see House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer or Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene saying their aides are working to set up a congressional delegation to visit individuals jailed on January 6th, the question is which individuals and who are you talking to and what's the plan?
	Or is it mainly a photo op that's going to allow the newspapers to suggest that you are in solidarity with some of the actual violent rioters on January 6th?
	Which, of course, is exactly what the newspapers would like to do.
	Politics requires a little bit of what we would call in Hebrew, requires a little bit of common sense.
	You actually have to use your head a little bit and figure out, be meticulous in the things that you are taking on as opposed to sort of broad-based blunderbuss attacks if you are running for re-election in 2024 and you're attempting to oust the Democrats who did not provide this footage in the first place from office.
	Meanwhile, International Women's Day was yesterday.
	You know, I'm really excited about International Women's Day, mainly because it's the only day of the year where we celebrate women.
	It's the only day of the year where anybody even knows that women exist, apparently.
	That's why we need an International Women's Day.
	Remember International Men's Day?
	I don't.
	But that means, I guess, that International Women's Day is one day a year.
	Any other 364 days?
	Gentlemen, those are ours.
	In any case, yesterday was international.
	Women's Day.
	And in celebration of International Women's Day, the left had themselves just a day for the ages.
	It began with Dr. Jill Biden, the second female president of the United States after Edith Wilson, and the greatest doctor in America.
	She is, it goes again, in terms of great doctors in American history, it goes like Dr. J, Dr. Jill, Jonas Salk, And sometimes Anthony Fauci is at the very top, if you're on the left, because he's the greatest doctor.
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	Anyway, Joe Biden was giving awards for International Women's Day.
	And there ain't nothing, there ain't no international woman quite like a dude.
	All the best ladies are men these days.
	And so on International Women's Day, Joe Biden gave the International Women of Courage Award to a man.
	This man's name is Albert Rueda.
	That is a man who identifies as a woman.
	He is the Special Envoy for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Argentina, and the country's first trans-identifying politician to hold a senior governmental position.
	According to the State Department, Daily Wire reports the award is meant for, quote, extraordinary women from around the world who are working to build a brighter future for all.
	Now, this is, in fact, an extraordinary woman.
	She's extra ordinary, by which I mean she is a he.
	Roida is a transgender activist and has long pushed woke politics in Argentina, which includes the Transgender Labor Quota Act, which would require 1% of all public sector jobs in the entire nation to be staffed by people who identify as transgender.
	Well, good luck with that one.
	That's going to go amazing in the firefighting industry.
	Roida also served as Argentina's Undersecretary for Diversity Policies in the Ministry of Women, Gender, and Diversity, as well as founding the group Argentina Trans Women.
	The diplomat has also campaigned to change the name of the National Women's Conference to the Plurinational Conference of Women and Lesbian, Cross-Dresser, Transsexual, Bisexual, Intersex, and Non-Binary Persons, which is rather unwieldy.
	I mean, I feel like that's a little long.
	I don't even know what the acronym there would be.
	There was a little bit of the award ceremony for a man.
	In Argentina, Alba Ruada is a transgender woman who was kicked out of classrooms, barred for sitting for exams, refused job opportunities, subjected to violence, and rejected by her family.
	Oh, Dr. Jill is so happy.
	But in the face of these challenges, she worked to end violence and discrimination against the LGBT community in Argentina.
	That's Anthony Blinken, kissing that dude.
	Yep.
	So much international courage.
	Wow.
	Just insane levels of international courage for the women who are not, in fact, women.
	So much going on on International Women's Day.
	Again, it's one of the most exciting days of the year for pretty much no one, but it's one of those things we're all supposed to pretend.
	We all wear the ribbon, right?
	It's International Women's Day, so we all must, like Kramer in Seinfeld, if you don't wear the International Women's Day ribbon, it's because you hate women.
	Don't you?
	Don't you?
	I'll get to the discussion on the view about international women in just one second because, again, the view is a repository of all stupidity in the universe apparently.
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	Okay, so in celebration of International Women's Day, The View kicked off International Women's Day by doing what they do best, attacking the Catholic Church.
	Yes, Whoopi Goldberg, when she is not declaring that Jews are white people, so when they're slaughtered by the Nazis, that's not actual racism.
	She's attacking the Catholic Church.
	On International Women's Day.
	Welcome to The View!
	So, The View today is International Women's Day.
	And the Pope, you know, recently said equal opportunities for women are the key to a better world.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	Where are the female priests?
	Listen, did I write this for him?
	Did I write this?
	This is what he said.
	Where are the female priests?
	Do you mean nuns?
	Are you referring to nuns, Joy?
	These morons.
	Oh my god.
	Now the cackling hyena-like laughter over at the view.
	Good times, good times.
	The Pope said that we gotta rip on the Pope.
	By the way, guys, he's your Pope.
	Okay, let's be real about this.
	The Pope is on the left.
	The Pope loves all your social values and you guys are like ripping on him.
	Oh, goodness gracious.
	Anyway.
	One thing that I will note here is that the same people who are decrying the Catholic Church and religion generally as repressive to women, they seem to ignore the fact that women are less happy now than they were in the 1970s.
	By all available polling data, women now, freer, more involved in the economy, more liberated, significantly less happy.
	Maybe it's because many of the traditional mores of society were quite good for women.
	And it turns out that women are still lagging.
	According to the Washington Post, quote, more women than ever are single.
	A new report says.
	And that has significant implications for the U.S.
	economy.
	That might actually have significant implications for, you know, women themselves.
	Forget about the economy.
	If more women are single than ever.
	Just going to put it out there.
	People don't like being single.
	All these sort of TV shows rooted in the idea that being single is wonderful and lovely.
	Not by poll data, Nate.
	People who are single are significantly less happy than people who are married.
	And yet, we are a society that promotes singlehood, and denigrates marriage, and suggests that traditional institutions are bad, and suggests that women are essentially doing themselves a grave injustice if they have children at a young age.
	And instead, what they really should do is they should slave away at 2,200 billable hours a year as an associate at a law firm until they're about 40, beyond their prime, and then try IVF.
	And then really, that's what an international woman's all about, man, is turning women into basically androgynous.
	Androgynous caricatures of effeminate men.
	That is what the left would like.
	That is what the secularist left would like, apparently, is you take away the thing that makes women most women, i.e.
	getting married and having children.
	You take those things away from them, and then that will make them the happiest they have ever been.
	There's only one problem.
	There is no data to support that anywhere, anywhere on earth.
	That is not correct.
	It just does not exist that way.
	The fact of the matter is that married women are happier than single women.
	Women with kids generally are happier than women who don't have kids.
	And if you see the number of women who are now hitting the age beyond which they can normally get pregnant and looking around and saying, oh, I made some bad decisions over the course of the last 20 years, thanks to the feminist movement.
	Again, you guys turned yourself into, it's so funny, all the same people who celebrate International Women's Day and then decry on International Women's Day that women are being paid less in the workplace.
	Also hate the capitalist system that they are feeding, that they are feeding by essentially suggesting that all value ought to be measured in terms of a woman's economic power outside the home.
	According to the Washington Post, single women who are postponing marriage or foregoing it altogether are a growing economic force, accounting for a larger share of growth in the job market, home ownership, and college degrees, according to an analysis of federal data.
	But while decades of changing norms around marriage and work have empowered women to carve their own paths, a stubborn wage gap continues to keep many women, especially single mothers, from enjoying the same economic gains as single men and married couples.
	Well, hold up.
	Single mothers are not the same thing as single men and married couples, I notice, because single mothers have children!
	And if they're not inside of a married couple, it turns out that they have to split their time.
	Marriage.
	You undermine all the fundamental institutions of society.
	And on International Women's Day, you're deriding religion the way the view is.
	And then you wonder why people are having a rough time.
	But what is International Women's Day really about for the media?
	For the media, International Women's Day is about suggesting that women still are not being provided equality of rights in the United States.
	And so we have a bevy of left wing kind of aspects of this particular argument that made themselves present yesterday.
	We have an article in the New York Times called More Black Women Run for Office, but prospects fade the higher they go.
	By the way, that is true of literally everyone.
	Lots of white dudes run for office.
	Their prospects fade also the higher they go because there are fewer positions to fill.
	The current vice president of the United States is the vice president only because she is a black woman.
	She has no other qualifications that would make her appropriate for the office.
	There are a bunch of other female senators who are better than she was.
	There are some black senators who are better than she was.
	And but she was the only black female who was on the list and they need a black female.
	So it's Kamala Harris.
	She was the one who was going to be.
	Really amazing stuff from the New York Times.
	Again, International Women's Day, black women hit hardest.
	Meanwhile, Cori Bush suggesting that the vicissitudes of life always and forever hit.
	Black, brown, women hardest.
	There's a famous New York Times faux headline, end of world coming.
	Blacks and minorities hit hardest.
	Women and minorities hit hardest.
	That is essentially the platform of the Democratic Party at this point.
	You described that the price increases had a disproportionate effect on black, brown, and low-income families.
	How did the administration's actions and the ensuing drop in gas prices, how did it help those same families?
	While there are a number of factors that affect the price of oil, in an interview with Oxford, I believe, Dr. B. did concede that the Strategic use of SPR did have an impact.
	It's hard to quantify and hard to tell, but it definitely had an impact in the price of oil.
	Always, always inequity, inequity.
	But whenever we celebrate a day, remember, it's not about celebrating the day.
	It's about ripping the system because the system is mean to people, apparently.
	I do enjoy people like Cori Bush talking about economics when she knows nothing about economics.
	The best economic clip of the day yesterday actually came Courtesy of her fellow member of the squad and card-carrying anti-Semite Rashida Tlaib, the representative from Michigan.
	She was talking about the economy and she was trying to explain to the Federal Reserve chairman about how the economy works.
	It didn't go amazing.
	Does that corporate profiteering does impact inflation?
	You don't have any stats of percentage wise, how much of it?
	Because you seem, you know, I played, I really paid attention to your testimony in the Senate.
	I don't know if the feds is paying closer attention to monopolies, copper, you know, corporate profiteering and executive egregious pay.
	All of it, even the side buybacks, you're saying all of that.
	Aside your focus more on wages and increasing the interest rate than on those other... Our focus is really on price stability, not so much wages.
	Wages play into that because they're an important cost for business, but we're not trying to achieve a particular level of wages.
	We're trying to achieve 2% inflation.
	She's like, why doesn't the Federal Reserve focus on CEO pay?
	Because that's literally not their job.
	That's not what the Federal Reserve does, lady.
	Just amazing stuff there from from Rashida Tlaib.
	These are we're sending our best to Congress as always and forever.
	Meanwhile, if you want to talk about actual inequities in American life, you know, things that actually affect how people live.
	How about crime levels?
	Crime levels do not descend on the American people in equitable fashion, as the left might have it.
	They affect certain areas significantly more than other areas, and those areas happen to be generally black and brown areas.
	There are higher crime rates in many black and brown areas than there are in white areas overall.
	That'd be a problem.
	The solution to that problem is more cops.
	The solution to that problem is more policing.
	And yet the left is very much focused on the idea that if There is a problem that exists disproportionately in a minority community that can't be solved by, you know, stopping the problem.
	It can only be solved by dissolving the system in general and then blaming the system for the problem in the first place.
	This is something that has been taken up now by the Biden administration.
	There's a game that left-wing administrations like to play with police departments all over the United States.
	Here's the game.
	They say, what we'll do is we'll go and we'll investigate your police department.
	We'll look at all the problems your police department has had over the course of the last five years.
	You can do this with literally any police department because the truth is you can do this with pretty much any institution, any institution or business.
	If you put a microscope on it, it's going to look pretty ugly.
	There are all sorts of problems inside every institution, business, corporate, financial, media, police.
	Firefighters, anywhere.
	You put a microscope on it because human beings are flawed and human beings do dumb and bad things.
	That is just a reality.
	So what left-wing administrations do is what they will do is they will go to a police department, a police department that has been tasked with policing a particularly violent area, for example, and then they will put a microscope on it.
	They will look at all of the problems that have existed there, and then they will cram down a consent decree that prevents policing from happening, and then the crime rates increase.
	This has happened consistently since 2014.
	Roland Fryer of Harvard, he did a study, and what he showed is that in areas that had high-profile police encounters with suspects, Michael Brown and Ferguson.
	What ended up happening after the federal scrutiny and after the national media scrutiny is the crime rates went up dramatically.
	Things got way worse for people in that area.
	Because again, if you put focus on the flaws of the system and then you try to dissolve the system, what you end up doing is dissolving the system.
	And in the aftermath of the system, things get way worse.
	Well, now the Justice Department is doing this in Louisville, Kentucky.
	So in the aftermath of the shooting of Breonna Taylor, And again, that was miscovered by the media because the media just picked up whatever the narrative was that was being spun out by Breonna Taylor's family and by people who were suing the Louisville Police Department.
	The real facts on the ground are in dispute, but the police officers, one of whom was shot and who actually wrote a book, four DW books, talking about what exactly happened that night.
	According to him, they did, in fact, knock.
	They did announce themselves.
	Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot the gun through the door, wounding the police officer.
	They shot back at him.
	And unfortunately, Breonna Taylor was killed in the crossfire.
	That is not how the media portrayed that particular situation, but this served as sort of the point of the spear for the Justice Department.
	So now the Justice Department is doing a report on the Louisville Metro Police Department.
	And the New York Times, predictably, says investigators paint a grim portrait of the Louisville Metro Police Department detailing a variety of serious, at times shocking, misconduct.
	They included the use of excessive force, searches based on invalid and so-called no-knock warrants, unlawful car stops, detentions and harassment of people during street sweeps, and broad patterns of discrimination against black people and those with behavioral health problems.
	Now, again, typically when they say that there is a broad pattern of disproportionate behavior, they usually don't have the granular data necessary to actually suggest that the disparity equals discrimination.
	In other words, what they will say is more black people were stopped on the street than white people were stopped as a percentage of the population.
	That doesn't explain what the behavior was of everybody who was involved in those particular stops.
	It doesn't involve any of the factors that the police took into account.
	But assume for a second there was some bad behavior inside the Louisville Police Department, which it appears there was.
	Hey, does that mean that the solution is going to be a consent decree from the DOJ on the Louisville Police Department that hampers their ability to enforce the law?
	Because that's exactly what's going to happen next.
	Attorney General Merrick Garland, he is now suggesting that the Breonna Taylor police officers violated the Civil Rights Act.
	Again, this is all predicate to cracking down on police departments.
	And then the crime rates go up and they're like, we don't know why the crime rates are going up.
	How could this be?
	Well, it's because of you.
	It's because of you guys.
	Members of the Place-Based Investigations Unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant of Ms.
	Taylor's home, that this act violated federal civil rights laws, and that those violations resulted in Ms.
	Taylor's death.
	Specifically, we allege that Ms.
	Taylor's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when defendants Joshua Jaynes, Kyle Meany, and Kelly Goodlatte sought a warrant to search Ms.
	Taylor's home knowing that the officers lacked probable cause for the search.
	Okay, so again, the final outcome of this, put aside every specific allegation, assume all the specific allegations are true, and the police officers involved in any of these things should be prosecuted to the fullest measure of the law if they violated the law.
	Assume all of that.
	The outcome of this is going to be a consent decree from the federal government on the Louisville Police Department that will end with a higher rate of crime.
	That's just how this is going to go.
	And then we'll hear more complaints.
	Because the complaints will be, look at all the inequities.
	Look at the inequality and inequity.
	It is worth noting at this point that Louisville is one of the most violent areas in America.
	And so, take away the cops and you will see what happens next.
	Which, by the way, is exactly what's also going to happen in Washington, D.C.
	Yesterday, the D.C.
	police chief said, you know what would be great is we could actually keep the crime down if we kept our criminals in jail.
	But the political forces have decided that it's inequitable to do so.
	What we got to do, if we really want to see homicides go down, is keep bad guys with guns in jail.
	Because when they're in jail, they can't be in communities shooting people.
	So when people talk about what we're going to do different, or what we should do different, what we need to do different, that's the thing that we need to do different.
	We need to keep violent people in jail.
	Right now, the average homicide suspect, the average homicide suspect, has been arrested 11 times prior to them committing a homicide.
	That is a problem.
	Guess what?
	Consent decrees on police departments aren't going to end the crime problems.
	And if you're voting Democrat and you're in a major city, maybe you should consider the fact that the reason that your life is not better is because of political people who are attempting to, quote unquote, tear down the very systems that are designed to protect you, even if those systems are abused by some of the people in power, because all authority is eventually abused by someone.
	In just a second, we're going to get to the abuse of authority by Joe Biden with regard to his presiding over documents.
	More documents discovered on Joe Biden.
	We'll get to that in a moment first.
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	Meanwhile, we have some bad news for Joe Biden, who is the husband of the President of the United States.
	If you recall him, he's the old man that they sometimes trot out and he tries not to stumble and then he occasionally does stumble.
	By the way, our entire geriatric class is, in fact, quite old.
	Mitch McConnell is now in the hospital after having tripped and fallen.
	That is because literally everyone in a leadership position in our nation is above the age of 75, which does not speak well of the future of the country, I would say.
	In any case, the Washington Free Beacon reports that the National Archives in November retrieved nine boxes of documents from the Boston office of Joe Biden's lawyer.
	The National Archives has not yet reviewed the documents to determine whether there is any classified material in them, but they did in fact go and pick up a bunch of documents from Joe Biden's lawyer.
	So once again, Captain, it's irresponsible to keep classified documents anywhere in your orbit.
	There are more boxes of documents that the National Archives is now going through.
	Meanwhile, Joe Biden remains under fire over the fact that drug cartels essentially control large swaths of the territory surrounding our southern border.
	According to The Hill, the kidnapping in Mexico this week of four U.S.
	citizens left two of them dead.
	has renewed the focus on the politically charged issue of southern border security and prompted calls from some lawmakers for the Biden administration to more seriously crack down on the cartels.
	Biden administration officials called the killings unacceptable, potentially escalating tensions around the already fraught issues of border security and U.S.-Mexico relations as authorities work to learn more about the circumstances of that particular incident.
	John Kirby tutted this a little bit earlier this week.
	He said attacks on U.S.
	citizens are unacceptable.
	We're going to work closely with the Mexican government to make sure justice is done in this particular case.
	Now, there are other Republicans who are suggesting that, you know what, if you can't protect Americans, if the Mexican government can't do it, then the U.S.
	government should probably do it.
	Lindsey Graham, senator from South Carolina, he says that the U.S.
	should actually label the drug cartels international terrorist organizations, which would allow us to help cut off more of their money, presumably.
	We're not doing enough about it.
	So Schedule 1 is the highest level you can put a drug on in terms of punishment.
	Fentanyl is due to come off that schedule at the end of the year.
	That's ridiculous.
	So we're going to keep it on Schedule 1.
	But I want to do more than that.
	The drug cartels that are sending this poison into our country need to be considered terrorist organizations.
	The law enforcement model is not working.
	This is not working.
	So we need to take a different approach.
	Let's call these drug cartels terrorists, because they're terrorizing America, and go after them with a different model.
	Okay, presumably that different model would involve a few Hellfire missiles, a few well-placed Hellfire missiles.
	That's something that Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas is also recommending, which is, you know, if we know where the drug cartels are, we know who their heads are, and they keep victimizing Americans and sending, you know, tons of fentanyl over the border to kill Americans, then perhaps we should just, you know, kill them.
	If ISIS and Al-Qaeda had set up shop in Juarez or Monterey or Tijuana, what would you expect your government to do if they were killing 100,000 Americans a year?
	And whatever that is, that's exactly what we should do to them in Mexico, with or without the Mexican government.
	We have a long history of our military protecting us from these threats from drug traffickers and narco-terrorists.
	It's well known they were present A few years back when El Chapo was arrested in Mexico.
	If the Mexican government will not or cannot stop these cartels from killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, then America should.
	Okay, he is not wrong about this.
	The fact of the matter is that Mexico is on the verge of being, if it is not already, a failed state.
	And if they can't control what's happening at our border, we have to control what's happening at our border.
	Meanwhile, the FBI director, Chris Wray, even he is admitting the federal government can't even keep tabs on the illegal immigrants who are entering the country right now.
	That basically, once we let them free, they just disappear into the interior.
	We're not able to keep tabs on every single person who comes in, certainly.
	We have all sorts of investigations into certain people who get in and we try to work very hard on both sides of the border to prevent, to support DHS's efforts and to some extent our neighbors south of the border from preventing them from coming in.
	Again, one of the great aspects of modern society is that the quote-unquote experts are given extraordinary authority over our lives to protect us, and then they do an unbelievably crappy job doing so.
	It turns out that what government typically is pretty good at is taking your money and also killing people and breaking things.
	Pretty much.
	That's almost the entire spectrum of what the American government is good at.
	And so if it doesn't fall into one of those baskets, then probably you're not going to be very good at it.
	Speaking of which, the expert class who've demanded tremendous power from us and then deceived us with that power.
	Yesterday, there was a major hearing on the Hill.
	over the COVID lab leak theory.
	It was a House panel charged with investigating the origins of the pandemic.
	The New York Times reported that the former director of the CDC accused top federal health officials of excluding him from discussions in early 2020 about whether COVID was the result of a lab leak.
	This would be CDC director, former CDC director Robert Redfield.
	You will recognize him from your TV during the pandemic.
	And Robert Redfield says fully out, yeah, absolutely, tax dollars funded gain-of-function research, an assertion that, of course, Anthony Fauci had openly denied in testimony with Rand Paul.
	Dr. Fauci was affirmatively told in an email that NIAID had a monetary relationship with the Wuhan Institute through EcoHealth Alliance.
	He was told this in January 27th of 2020.
	Do you think that Dr. Fauci intentionally lied under oath to Senator Paul when he vehemently denied NIH's funding of gain-of-function research?
	I think there's no doubt that NIH was funding gain-of-function research.
	Is it likely that American tax dollars funded the gain-of-function research that created this virus?
	I think it did, not only from NIH, but from the State Department, USAID, and from DOD.
	Okay, that is an extraordinary contention by Dr. Redfield.
	It's not going to receive virtually any mainstream television coverage because, again, what he is now asserting is that gain-of-function research funded by the NIH under the auspices of Dr. Anthony Fauci was sending money via EcoHealth Alliance, which of course has long been suspected, sending money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain-of-function research and that kind of gain-of-function research, as Dr. Rand Paul suggested, from the floor of the Senate, which Dr. Anthony Fauci denied.
	He's now saying that he thinks that Fauci perjured himself because he was under oath.
	That essentially that money was used to develop gain-of-function research that ended with COVID escaping a lab and killing 7 million people.
	That is what Redfield, again, the former CDC head who was in the government at the same time, he also asserted, did Redfield, in this kind of amazing story as well, that On February 1st, it was pretty clear that the lab leak theory was not crazy.
	By February 4th, a strategy had been formulated by Fauci and others, including a couple of scientists, to trot out papers suggesting the lab leak theory was totally crazy and that he had been cut out of all of those phone calls.
	He said that he was cut out of those phone calls.
	He doesn't know why he was cut out of those phone calls.
	He is not aware of any information that would have made the lab leak crazy between like February 1st and February 4th of 2020.
	Redfield said that he did not find out about the call until much later, when those emails became public.
	Those would be emails between Fauci and other scientists, including Francis Collins, who led the NIH.
	Again, there was a call with various scientists who had suggested that lab leak leakage was actually the problem here.
	The messages do not refer to or name Redfield.
	He told lawmakers when he learned of them, he concluded Fauci and Collins had intentionally excluded him because he believed in the lab leak theory.
	He said, I was told, it was told to me they wanted a single narrative.
	And I had an obviously different point of view.
	Here is Redfield saying the public health officials packaged the message so that it said what they wanted it to say.
	We've got to tell the truth.
	When you don't tell the truth, you've got a problem.
	And I think if you go back, there were many times when public health officials packaged the message to what they wanted to say, but it wasn't necessarily truthful.
	The second thing, you have to have the courage when you're a public health official to say, I don't know, when you don't know.
	That is amazing.
	That is amazing.
	I mean, he is saying it was LabLeak 1.
	2.
	We probably funded it.
	3.
	Dr. Fauci lied about it.
	And 4.
	Dr. Fauci held a phone call with other scientists in order to discard the LabLeak theory entirely.
	I mean, he is now opening the door wide, is Redfield, to the possibility of what, again, Dr. Paul, Senator Paul, had suggested, which is a perjury charge against Anthony Fauci.
	And man, would that be an extraordinary event in American political life.
	And frankly, there should be consequences to lying to the American people or attempting to cover your ass while you've been the highest paid employee at the federal government for years and years and years, as Dr. Anthony Fauci apparently was.
	Joe Biden is planning to lay out his budget blueprint today.
	He's going to recommend funding levels for programs across the federal government.
	Of course, the budget is not going to be passed this way, but his proposed budget is extraordinarily large, of course.
	He keeps saying that he's reducing the deficit, which, as I've said before, is the stupidest crap ever.
	Basically, what he is saying is that because the deficit ran to the highest levels in recorded history in 2020, And then it was slightly lower than that in 2021.
	And he's lowered the deficit in 2022 and 2023 by spending heretofore unheard of amounts of money.
	The budget request apparently is $5.8 trillion.
	I remember when a $4 trillion budget was considered extraordinarily big.
	Now we're talking about a budget 50% larger than that.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, most of the money the federal government spends in a year is already mandatory.
	That includes Social Security.
	Some is made up of interest payments on the federal debt.
	That's gotten a lot more costly because, of course, the interest rates have been rising.
	One of the things that is pushed in favor of lower interest rates by the Federal Reserve has been the idea that when we take out debt, we want to pay back that debt at 2%.
	We don't want to pay it back at 7%.
	So every time those interest rates increase, the federal government is going to tax you to pay for that, is pretty much the way that that goes, or borrow to pay off its other bills.
	So what exactly are the priorities?
	Well, apparently he says he wants to lower the deficit by $2 trillion over 10 years and extend the solvency of the Medicare trust fund by at least two decades.
	How's he going to do that?
	He said he's going to do that without cutting Social Security or Medicare, and he's going to raise taxes on Americans who are rich.
	No, that's not going to do it.
	I'm just going to tell you right now, it's not going to do it.
	It's not going to outpace the spending.
	Also, the taxes that he is talking about relieving Make no sense.
	He is talking right now about essentially ending pass-through corporations.
	Pass-through corporations are where you have an LLC, the money flows to the LLC, but you're essentially the only employee of the LLC, and then you pay income tax on the money that you receive from the LLC.
	Very, very common form of legal formation.
	It's designed in order to sort of regularize accounting procedures and put profits and losses in the LLC before you're paid.
	But that's a pass-through LLC, so the LLC doesn't pay the corporate income tax.
	He wants you to pay the corporate income tax at an income tax rate.
	at the LLC and then apparently pay the income tax again when you get it from your LLC.
	So you're getting double taxed is essentially his proposal.
	Now this is going nowhere.
	It's not going to pass.
	It's not going to go anywhere.
	But again, it shows you what Joe Biden wants.
	More taxing, more spending, always and forever.
	The good news, according to Karine Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary, is that his policies are fiscally responsible.
	By fiscally responsible, she means responsible like a raging alcoholic downing three bottles of vodka and then driving a car 100 miles an hour through a school zone in the middle of broad daylight.
	He's now kind of making budget deficit reduction a cornerstone of his policy.
	Why did this become more of a priority, and what does he think this does for everyday Americans?
	So as you just kind of alluded to and laid out, this has been a priority from the President when we talk about deficit reduction, when we talk about being fiscally responsible.
	This is something that the President has talked about since the campaign.
	And you hear me, just as I did moments ago, talk about the $1.7 trillion deficit that he did the first two years.
	And it was important to the president as he's going to put forward his budget tomorrow.
	And as you've probably heard us say, we see this as a value statement on what the president sees in the future of this country.
	And so he wanted to make sure it was fiscally responsible.
	Um, no.
	I'm sorry, the answer right there would be no.
	He's not fiscally responsible.
	Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.
	So, things that I like today.
	So there is a very famous YouTuber, maybe the most famous YouTuber, his name is MrBeast.
	And MrBeast does these really extraordinarily watchable videos on YouTube.
	He puts extraordinary amounts of time and effort into making these videos, which means that he is wildly successful on YouTube.
	Well, he also gives a lot of charity.
	And then he gets just enormous amounts of crap for giving a lot of charity.
	When I say he's successful on YouTube, I mean he has 137 million subscribers on YouTube.
	And he puts out videos like, I Survived 50 Hours in Antarctica, or Hydraulic Press vs. Lamborghini.
	These are some of his recently uploaded videos.
	He puts out maybe one a month, and these videos are very highly produced, extraordinarily well done, And then he gives a lot of charity.
	So a month ago, for example, he gave money via his charity so that a thousand blind people could have surgeries that would allow them to see for the first time.
	And then he just did another video in which he offered shoes to kids who had never had shoes in South Africa.
	Here was some of the video.
	For hundreds of thousands of kids in South Africa, the only thing standing between them and an education is a simple pair of shoes.
	But before tackling this major problem by donating 20,000 pairs of shoes, we flew to Johannesburg, South Africa, where we found a charity called Barefoot No More that uses these plastic granules and then it goes through all these tubes and does a bunch of other complicated mechanical stuff that eventually creates the perfect seamless shoe.
	Whoa, these are actually really nice.
	Okay, so he gives away the shoes, right?
	Nice thing to do.
	Pretty cool story.
	Naturally, the Twitterverse is filled with awful people, so they immediately start yelling at him.
	So you have people like, for example, Upward Boss.
	He tweets people praising things like this.
	Good guy, Mr. Beast.
	Ignore the reality that he makes a profit from these types of videos.
	This isn't really charity.
	So, first of all, the money that he makes from the videos does go to charity on these particular videos.
	The charity videos go to his charity.
	But beyond that, let's assume for a second that he actually made money from those videos and then he gave the money to charity.
	The problem is, Please explain.
	Please explain the problem.
	Well, the real problem is, according to a lot of the people who do not like Mr. Beast and they do not like his charitable giving, that your obligation is not to actually do good in the world.
	Your obligation is to fight the evil capitalist system.
	That is what you have to do.
	Fight the evil, terrible, no good, very bad capitalist system that has raised literally more than half, like 80% of the world from abject poverty.
	Fight that system.
	So one rather famous tweet about Mr. Beast from September of 2020 reads, quote, every heartwarming human interest story in America is like he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan crushing machine and then never asks why an orphan crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.
	Unless you're fighting the system, private charity is not only a waste of time, it's actually bad because it incentivizes a continuation of the system.
	Now, this is nothing new in terms of left wing philosophy.
	Bernie Sanders, back in 1981, ripped into private charity.
	Here's what he said, quote, I don't believe in charities.
	Why?
	Because he said, charity is a fundamental, he doesn't like the fundamental concept on which charity is based.
	He contended the government is supposed to do it.
	Because if you give charity, then you're upholding a system of profit making and profit making is bad.
	And so what we ought to do is not incentivize charity.
	Instead, what we ought to do is we ought to incentivize the end of the entire capitalist structure.
	The people who argue this are idiots.
	They do not understand the value of capitalism.
	They do not understand the value of free markets.
	They don't understand that free exchange of goods and services, again, has lifted billions of people from abject poverty.
	And they're kind of bad people as well.
	If you spend your days on Twitter ripping into people who are giving charity to people who can't see, I'm sorry, you're the baddie.
	You're the bad guy.
	It's amazing that these folks even are out there, but you know, they are.
	The world is filled with people with terrible, terrible ideas.
	Okay.
	Meanwhile, here's a thing that I like.
	So another thing that I like here is Ron DeSantis, again, the way that he's handling the media right now is really, really good.
	So the media have lied about him already.
	They've already turned him into a combo of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and they have decided That he's done a bunch of things he hasn't actually done.
	So the headline, for example, at Matt Drudge's Drudge Report, and Drudge has become sort of a left-wing tool in a wide variety of ways.
	His headline right now, it's a picture of DeSantis, and the headline is, DeSantis runs from Florida blogger bill.
	DeSantis runs from Florida blogger bill.
	He didn't run from it.
	It wasn't his bill.
	So what the media did is one dumb state senator in Florida proposed a bill to get bloggers who were paid by interest groups to register with the government.
	DeSantis' name was not in it.
	He didn't sponsor the bill.
	He didn't back the bill.
	Every story featuring this bill that he did not sponsor, back, support, call for, every story featured his picture.
	He says, I'm not even behind the bill, and he put my picture on the bill because you want to slander me with a bill I don't support.
	And the headline from Drudge then is, DeSantis runs from Florida blogger bill.
	It's just wildly dishonest.
	Wildly, wildly dishonest.
	And another lie that they keep saying that he's banning books in the state of Florida.
	Again, I live in the state of Florida.
	I can get any book I damn well please.
	I'm an adult.
	I can order on Amazon.
	It'll just come right to my door.
	It's amazing.
	Amazing this has been true in the United States for a very long time.
	What Ron DeSantis is saying is you should not have porn in school libraries, which seems fairly straightforward.
	Now, here's where we get to the part I like.
	Ron DeSantis did a presser yesterday in which he showed a video.
	The video that he showed was of the books that were in the school libraries and what exactly those books said.
	The books are so obscene that the networks were broadcasting had to tune away.
	So in other words, their argument is your seven year old should be able to access these books, but you as an adult should not be able to see what is in the school library on CNN because it's too obscene for you.
	There's a little bit of Ron DeSantis press conference yesterday.
	I didn't have to view what you just viewed, so I'm glad I didn't, but I think that we need to have truth prevail, and so today we're going to be exposing, we've already exposed with that video, I think, this idea of a book ban in Florida, that somehow they don't want books in the library.
	That's a hoax.
	And that's really a nasty hoax, because it's a hoax in service of trying to pollute and sexualize our children.
	So we have seen over many weeks.
	So first of all, I think that that video, I think some of the news had to cut the feed because it's graphic.
	DeSantis knows how to handle himself.
	He knows how to handle the media.
	And that is a good thing.
	OK, time for some things that I hate.
	I have to say that the parenting strategy by which you completely destroy your children, you usher them into chaos and confusion, sexual confusion, confusion about the realities of life, and then you exhibit them for the entire public to see is sick.
	There's something wrong with it.
	You should not be taking your 12-year-old and put them on the world stage in any case.
	Children deserve privacy.
	It is a thing that they deserve.
	And yet, this is exactly what Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union are doing.
	So, Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union.
	Again, their whole thing is that children should have privacy except, and we are taking our son, our 15-year-old son, and saying that he is a girl.
	And then, we should exhibit this 15-year-old minor on a catwalk debut at Paris Fashion Week.
	This is textbook terrible parenting.
	Textbook.
	And if there were a textbook and it said terrible parenting, pictures of Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union would appear apparently in that textbook.
	How you would take a 15 year old, of any persuasion by the way, and exhibit that person on a Paris Fashion Week stage while they were suffering any sort of issue that caused them pain or confusion, I don't know why you would do that.
	Especially when you're talking about something as deep and abiding, as a belief that you're a member, the why, that you're a member of the opposite sex.
	And then you exhibit this for your own glorification because look what a wonderful parent I am because I'm so tolerant, I'm so diverse that I can take my son, dress him up as a girl, usher him into hormone therapy and presumably genital mutilating surgery.
	And then as a minor, 15 years old, who's been identifying this way since 12, 12-year-olds don't make any decisions in our society because 12-year-olds are not capable of making decisions in our society.
	We'll do this and then we'll glorify ourselves by putting this boy in girls' clothing and in girls' makeup on a stage at Paris Fashion Week.
	I mean, I'm sorry, this is child cruelty.
	This is cruelty to a child.
	That's what this is.
	Here is the Instagram.
	That is Dwayne Wade with his son who is dressed as a girl.
	Zaya's birth mother, Siobhan Fletches Wade, was not in attendance, according to the Daily Mail, after she launched a petition to stop her trans child from legally changing her name and gender, and claimed the child was being pressured financially to make the decision.
	That petition failed after Wade argued in court he had full authority to make decisions on behalf of Zaya.
	On Tuesday, the NBA star and his wife, Union, beamed with pride as they watched Zaya make her catwalk debut.
	Again, Zaya is a boy who is 15 years old and is now being trotted out in public.
	And, um, you know, you can such heroism, such unbelievable parenting heroism, which is really all about attention getting on on the part of these parents.
	Meanwhile, One more thing that I hate.
	So I know that we've all forgotten about the time that Joe Biden decided to stab every Afghan ally in the back by pulling out of Afghanistan so precipitously that the government fell to the Taliban, and then essentially handing over the city of Kabul to terrorists, and then not providing any of the resources necessary for our military to evacuate the people we needed to evacuate, leaving hundreds, if not thousands of Americans behind, and getting 13 American service members killed in the process.
	Now, it really destroyed Biden's approval rating at the time, but I know that we have a short memory.
	And so people prefer to forget about these things.
	It was one of the worst things, if not the worst thing I've ever seen a president of the United States do.
	And yesterday, there was testimony from a U.S.
	Marine Corps sergeant.
	The U.S.
	Marine Corps sergeant's name is Tyler Vargas Andrews.
	And he gave testimony on the catastrophe of what happened in Afghanistan the weekend before the pullout.
	Here's what he had to say.
	We reassured him of the ease of fire on the suicide bomber.
	Pointedly, we asked him for engagement authority and permission.
	We asked him if we could shoot.
	Our battalion commander said, and I quote, I don't know, end quote.
	Myself and my team leader asked very harshly, well, who does?
	Because this is your responsibility, sir.
	He again replied, he did not know, but would find out.
	We received no update and never got our answer.
	Eventually, the individual disappeared.
	To this day, we believe he was a suicide bomber.
	We made everyone on the ground aware.
	Operations had briefly halted, but then started again.
	Plain and simple, we were ignored.
	About 1730, Staff Sergeant Darren Hoover, friend and mentor, came to get me from the tower to go help find an Afghan interpreter in the crowd.
	I stayed there waiting for the family members standing against a two-foot canal wall.
	Ten minutes passed.
	Then a flash and a massive wave of pressure.
	I'm thrown 12 feet onto the ground, but instantly knew what had happened.
	I opened my eyes to Marines dead or unconscious lying around me.
	This particular military member lost an arm and a leg and internal organs.
	He's had 44 surgeries to date.
	And according to Vargas Andrews, no one wanted to hear the post-blast report at all.
	At all.
	And no one should ever forget the stab in the back that that came from the Biden administration to our own military members.
	And again, our allies and to Americans were left on the ground there.
	It was the it was a signally cowardly pullout by Joe Biden in the manner.
	And even if you agree with the idea, the United States should not have been there.
	The manner in which the pullout was done was disastrous and horrifying.
	I know that we've forgotten about and put it in the rearview mirror.
	It is the single worst thing that Joe Biden has done to date.
	He's done an awful lot of bad things.
	It is by far the single worst thing that he has done.
	And the fact that you now have Marines who, again, where were the hearings when Democrats were in charge of Congress?
	I mean, I was under the impression that everybody was pro-military.
	So where were the hearings when it came to why 13 American service members were murdered by a suicide bomber in the middle of a supposedly well-planned pullout by the Biden administration?
	Why that's not at the top of the national news, even now, is beyond me.
	Like, this will not appear.
	That clip will not appear on the net.
	You know if Trump were president, it would.
	It's an amazing, amazing thing, and it is deeply upsetting and gut-churning, obviously.
	Okay.
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