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April 20, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Want To Visit The White House? Don't Be White!

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	Alrighty, so we begin with updates on my friend Matt Walsh.
	So as you know, Matt Walsh had his phone hacked.
	He actually had his SIM card duplicated.
	The suggestion is that somebody actually got access to either Matt's phone directly or somebody called up the phone company, got a duplicate SIM card sent to him.
	This person was then able to access All of Matt's emails for the last 20 years or so and it appears that things are now under control to the extent that he's no longer being hacked.
	But one of the pieces of fallout from all of this is that a reporter, a supposed reporter, a pseudo reporter from Wired has now been permanently suspended from Twitter.
	And the reason he was permanently suspended from Twitter is because He had actively solicited hacked materials from the person who was hacking Matt's phone.
	He literally, like, asked, just asked for the materials.
	He tweeted out, spoke with a hacker who says he compromised Matt Walsh's account and who was able to supply some convincing proof they'd gained access to his personal email account.
	Story to come.
	And that followed after he had suggested that he actively wanted it.
	They got into everything.
	And then he said, prove me wrong, kids.
	Send Matt Walsh DMs to dellcameron at wired.com.
	Well, this violates pretty much all of Twitter's rules.
	You're not allowed to solicit hacked materials from people.
	You're not allowed to ask people to do a hack.
	So he was permanently suspended and this led to NBC's Ben Collins spreading misinformation, this is what he does, about the suspension of the Wired writer, suggesting that what happened here in the suspension, the permanent suspension, of Del Cameron is the same thing that happened when the Hunter Biden story was silenced by all of social media in October of 2020.
	That is a lie.
	What happened with Hunter Biden is that Hunter Biden literally left his laptop at a repair shop, a computer repair shop, For years on end, at which point it became property of the shop, and then those materials ended up in the public view and were reported on by the New York Post.
	That is not remotely the same thing as the New York Post actually soliciting hacked materials in criminal fashion.
	There may be actual criminal liability, certainly for the hacker.
	We'll see about for any reporter who is involved in actually soliciting this sort of activity.
	This is not the only challenge that Matt is facing at present.
	Apparently, YouTube has now demonetized Matt's show entirely.
	And this means that Matt is now going to be shifting his show to Twitter.
	He's going to be broadcasting his entire show on Twitter now.
	He's also going to be broadcasting his entire show for free over at dailywireplus.com.
	So you should go over there and to support Matt's show, you should actually become a member at dailywireplus.com.
	But this is just part and parcel, unfortunately, of what it means to be a prominent right-wing commentator in the United States these days.
	This is what comes along with this.
	Matt spoke last night, for example, at University of Iowa, and far-extremists, far-left extremists, actually took marbles.
	They lost their marbles.
	Literally, they took marbles and rolled them all over the floor in an attempt to get people to slip and fall as they were walking into the talk.
	Of course, Matt has been the victim of an extraordinary number of death threats.
	He's had to have full-time security on his house.
	He's had to actually cancel trips in order to protect his family.
	This is unfortunately what it means to now oppose the far-left agenda and do so very publicly and attempt to effectuate change.
	It's hard to think of anybody in American life who's effectuated more change in the last couple of years than Matt Walsh has.
	My co-founder here at Daily Wire, Jeremy Boring.
	He tweeted out a thread last night that's worth going through.
	He said, I don't know.
	I'm sure I said things in my 20s.
	his Twitter account hacked last night, what you might not know is the attack went well beyond Twitter.
	The hackers have managed to gain access to, well, everything, including 20 years of Matt's emails.
	What scandalous information will the hackers find in Matt's email?
	I don't know.
	I'm sure I said things in my 20s.
	I wouldn't feel great about having aired publicly.
	What will Daily Wire's response to be, be to things 20-year-old Matt may have said?
	Hashtag LOL.
	This hack, as terrible and invasive as it is, is just another day at the office for us.
	Here's a brief look at just the last 48 hours at Daily Wire.
	First, Matt Walsh was demonetized on YouTube for violating some opaque, arbitrarily applied standard or another related to speaking the biological truth about Dylan Mulvaney.
	I can't be more specific because the capriciousness is the point for these platforms.
	Just 24 hours later, Brett Cooper was permanently banned from TikTok.
	Her crime?
	We don't know, because again, the capriciousness is the point.
	We literally reached out to TikTok.
	They have no idea.
	They're certainly not telling us why Brett Cooper was banned permanently from TikTok.
	At the exact moment that Matt Walsh was being hacked by criminals, Michael Knowles was being evacuated from University of Pittsburgh because of a violent riot protesting his speech in which trans activists and sundry other leftists burned Michael in effigy and tussled with police.
	That's the last 48 hours.
	He says tech giants like YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and until Elon Musk were to check Twitter, flagging, banning, throttling, shadowbanning, and demonetizing us is a constant occurrence.
	We're continually fact-checked.
	Almost all the fact-checks are removed on appeal, by the way, but not before they have the desired effect of stunting our reach and effectiveness and making it impossible to earn revenue.
	Billionaire-funded nonprofits like Media Matters for America pay people to post out-of-context clips from our show and pressure advertisers not to spend money with us.
	The entire ad industry creates bogus, euphemistic policies to, quote-unquote, protect brand safety by discouraging advertising on shows with controversial political opinions.
	If you're openly pro-choice, that's not controversial.
	If you're pro-life, that is, which means we don't get any so-called brand advertisers, the ones who pay almost double.
	If we were on the left and our positions were certified brand safe, we would make almost twice as much money.
	The advertisers we do get have to be brave enough to stand up against all of the organized pressure that comes their way.
	And all this comes, as Jeremy points out, while dealing with organizations like HubSpot and JW Player and Eventbrite and other back-end infrastructure companies who take our money and then decide they're not going to service us.
	Why do they hate us?
	They hate us because we won't do what they say.
	The fact is that Daily Wire, and this is true, the majority controlling interest in this company is held by me, that'd be Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boring and Caleb Robinson.
	The three of us own the controlling share of Daily Wire.
	No investor, no board of directors can tell us what to do.
	And we're not going to let the machinations of the left force our hand.
	We're going to use our power to push for change on all of these platforms and to hold these institutions accountable.
	We'll press our claims in court through government with the public.
	But the fact is that this is the challenge that the right is up against in the public sphere, and Matt is just the latest canary in the coal mine for how the left would act if they had total power in the United States.
	In just one second, we'll get to an extraordinary and shocking dichotomy between how Joe Biden treats victims of gun crime.
	We'll get to that momentarily first.
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	Okay, so, meanwhile, in national news, the President of the United States has now invited Ralph Yarle to the White House.
	He tweeted out an invitation to Ralph- Ralph Yarle, for those who have missed it.
	Well, you must have been under a rock, because the President of the United States has now invited him to the White House.
	What did Ralph Yarle do?
	Now, maybe Ralph Yarle deserves, like, as a person, to visit the White House, but not for the reason why he's being invited to the White House.
	He's being invited to the White House because he got shot by a white guy.
	He's a 16-year-old black kid, and he knocked on the wrong door, and an 84-year-old crazed homeowner, apparently, shot him twice through the door.
	Shot him once in the head and once in the arm.
	And because he is black, and because the shooter is white, Ralph Yarle gets a White House invite.
	Apparently.
	The teenager is also set to meet with the mother of Ahmed Arbery.
	You remember Ahmed Arbery?
	He is the black Georgian who was jogging through the neighborhood or alternatively running from some sort of empty lot, like a house under construction.
	And he was confronted by some white guys in a truck who attempted to block his pathway.
	They struggled over a gun and then he got shot.
	And those guys are in jail for first degree murder.
	Well, now they're meeting together to talk about, you know, the inherent racism of American society, presumably, and all the rest of this.
	And Joe Biden tweeted out about all of this.
	Joe Biden has decided that Ralph Yarle should visit the White House.
	It's just a very moving display from the President of the United States.
	His tweet is, you know, typical Joe Biden.
	He suggests about gun violence, but really we know that this is about race because there are certain people he's not inviting to the White House.
	I mean, for example, some of the people he's inviting to the White House to talk about gun violence, not the families of the actual victims of the national shooter who shot a bunch of Christian kids.
	Those families still have not been invited.
	The people who have been invited are, of course, the Tennessee Three.
	According to the New York Post, President Biden has invited the three Tennessee Democrats who faced expulsion votes to the White House.
	A day after two of them were ousted from the state legislation for protesting against gun violence.
	This goes back to about a week and a half ago.
	The White House still, at that point, had not invited any of the families of the victims in the Covenant school shooting.
	And that happens to be the case still.
	So people who get invited to the White House include people like Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two of the three, Tennessee three, grandstanding racial conflagrationist idiots in Tennessee.
	And also, Ralph Yarle, a black victim of a white shooter, All of this, of course, is because of race.
	This is the rule in the White House.
	The narrative for the White House is that if you are a minority in the United States, you are inherently victimized by the white supremacist system.
	And therefore, if we can use you as sort of the case par exemplar, that this is going to be the case that shows that our agenda is real, you will get an invite to the White House.
	If it's not, well, we don't care about you at that point.
	And Corinne Jean-Pierre was asked directly about this.
	She's like, so why is it that the national victims still haven't been invited, but pretty much everybody else is being, so long as they have the right color?
	She has no answer.
	So Monday, you're going to have three of the lawmakers who protested.
	Peacefully protested.
	Who peacefully protested after the Nashville Covenant School shooting.
	Have any of the victims or the victims' families been invited to the White House?
	I don't have anything to read out to you about any invite.
	Why?
	I just don't have anything at this time to read out to you at any invite.
	What I can say to you right now is that the president is focused on getting things done.
	He's focused on getting things done.
	Yes, getting things done means inviting a couple of grandstanding morons from Tennessee, cosplaying the revolution, and also inviting a 16-year-old black kid who got shot by a white homeowner.
	That's getting things done.
	See, that's how it works in the White House.
	Getting things done is grandstanding.
	It is the same thing.
	It is grandstanding.
	All because it ties into the agenda.
	Yarle's family attorney, he says that what they really need to push for is legislation in Missouri to protect blackness.
	Here is the family attorney for Ralph Yarle.
	White 84-year-old man charged with shooting and wounding a black teenager last week in Kansas City, Missouri, freed last night on bond, due in court today.
	We need new legislation to protect blackness in this country because blackness is under attack.
	What is this case about?
	It's a case about blackness.
	Lee Maritz, the attorney for Tina Ralph-Yarl's family, called it a hate crime.
	Oh, blackness is under attack.
	Now, as we've discussed a couple of days ago, we went through all the statistics on interracial violence in the United States with regard to black and white.
	In 2019, 84% of all violent crimes committed between blacks and whites was committed by blacks against whites.
	But we don't talk about any of that sort of stuff because it's uncomfortable.
	So instead, we have to promote the agenda, which is why, again, Joe Biden is inviting idiots.
	And they really are.
	They're intensely stupid people, like Justin Jones in Tennessee.
	So Justin Jones, There's a person who deserves to go to the White House.
	Well, why?
	Well, because he's the kind of person who shows up at the Tennessee State Capitol with a fake child's coffin.
	Carrying a fake child's coffin.
	Which is not there to signify, you know, the Dead children and abortions, obviously.
	No, no, no.
	That's there to signify the kids at Covenant School whose families Joe Biden will not invite to the White House.
	It's just grandstanding of the highest and most disgusting order.
	I mean, literally carrying around the graves of children to pretend that you are somehow morally virtuous.
	And meanwhile, calling everybody else racist.
	It's just gross.
	It's just gross.
	Here we go.
	You can walk with me, but this is... You have a right to bring this in.
	Well, I mean, you don't have a right to bring props, so far as I'm aware, onto the floor of the house.
	I'm bringing this in as a representative of my district's 78,000 people who sent me here.
	No other members told what they can bring into this building.
	You all are going to have to go up.
	First of all, we're not being allowed to go up.
	You cannot.
	You can't remember.
	I have my badge here.
	And I'm a guest.
	And he's coming to the house floor. You can call the sergeant in the hall.
	I mean, really gross.
	And by the way, has anybody asked the families of the victims whether they are okay with Justin Jones carrying graves to symbolize, like, actual coffins, child-sized coffins to symbolize their kids?
	Has anybody asked that?
	You know if this were somebody on the right doing this, there'd be people at the family's house asking those questions.
	But it's not.
	It's somebody on the left.
	And it's a black man from the left who's doing this, which means the media don't ask any questions.
	This person is obviously a hero.
	And Justin Jones then says, he signs off on the, signs into the Ralph Yarle debate too.
	He says, well, you know, if Ralph Yarle had been white, then things would have been totally different.
	Here we go.
	Say Ralph to Ralph who's 16 that you are a child and you are a young man who we should have protected and that this system has failed to protect that our politics have failed to protect and you deserve better than that and that no gun is worth your life no bullet no worship of this gun culture is worth your life and your well-being and so I hope that you recover and and
	I hope that his family knows that we stand with them and that we're sending them strength and encouragement from Tennessee, whether from here or there, you know, that we stand together and that we are going to do this and that until this attack against a young black man is treated as abhorrent, as the attack if it was a young white man, that we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.
	What?
	The guy who shot him is going to go to jail for the rest of his life and should go to jail for the rest of his life.
	But again, this all ties into the broader lie.
	It is a lie that America is a white supremacist country that is inherently victimizing black people.
	That's what this is about.
	But I'm going to tell you the story of a person who is going to get no White House calls.
	Somebody who's not going to get any coverage on MSNBC.
	Somebody for whom no one will speak.
	There's a very obvious reason why this person is not going to be.
	We're going to mention his name on the show.
	You're not going to know it tomorrow because the media are going to stop saying it.
	Because this is not an important person.
	The way we can tell whether somebody is important in the mainstream media is whether it fits the narrative or if it doesn't fit the narrative.
	You know the names of black victims of white perps.
	You know their names.
	You know Arbery's name.
	You know George Floyd's name.
	You know Ralph Yarl's name.
	I'll tell you a name that you're not going to know.
	Before I say it, and then not much after I say it, because the media don't care about people like this.
	We'll get to that momentarily.
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	It's a story that you don't know and you're not going to hear again, probably for the rest of time.
	Because, again, it doesn't fit the narrative and that's all that matters to our media.
	This is not a hero of the Republic in the way that Ralph Yarle is now a hero.
	Again, Ralph Yarle sounds like kind of an extraordinary kid, but he should be celebrated because he's an extraordinary kid, not because he got shot by an old white guy.
	But that's not the way it works.
	So here's a person who, again, you'll never hear of again.
	His name is Blake Mose.
	Hey, Blake Mose is a Home Depot security guard.
	And as the New York Post reports, a California Home Depot security guard and Boy Scout leader was murdered Tuesday when he tried to stop a woman from stealing an electrical item before she and her boyfriend fled with their toddler in the back of the car.
	Blake Mose, 26, caught Benicia Knapps allegedly in the process of snatching what may have been a phone charger from the store shelves around 2.15 p.m., according to Pleasanton Police.
	A struggle ensued after Mose chased her to the store's loading dock, but Knapps fired her gun and ran off, cops allege.
	Knapps, 32, allegedly escaped into a getaway car driven by her boyfriend, David Guillory, 31, with her two-year-old child in the backseat.
	As Mose heavily bled inside the home improvement store, he was rushed to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries.
	These are pictures of the perpetrators.
	They're both black.
	Blake Mose is a white guy.
	By the way, these are the perfect specimens of wonderful humanity here.
	Not because of race, but because they are evil shooters who have a toddler in the back seat while they murder someone and steal a phone charger.
	But this is not a national, this is a local news story.
	Naps and Giller were stopped in Oakland, 20 miles from the Home Depot and arrested by deputies 15 minutes after the shooting.
	Naps, a licensed security guard with priors for theft, was charged with murder, robbery, child endangerment, and conspiracy.
	Hillary was arrested on a child endangerment charge and evading police and driving the wrong way.
	Naps was then placed on a mental hold after she choked herself with a seatbelt in the back of the Alameda Sheriff's Department police cruiser until she lost consciousness.
	Cops found a handgun at the intersection near the store.
	The Naps toddler was released to relatives.
	Apparently, Mose was an active community leader who had an interest in pursuing law enforcement as a career and had plans to get married this summer.
	Well, he won't be married, obviously, because he was murdered.
	He was murdered.
	He was a volunteer for the Boy Scouts of America after he'd been a member, long-time member.
	This is a picture of Mose with his fiancée.
	They're scheduled to get married this summer.
	He's dead.
	The people who shot him are a black woman accompanied by a black male with their toddler in the back seat of the car.
	Is Blake Mose going to get a call from the White House?
	Anybody think he's going to get a call from the White House?
	His family?
	His fiancee?
	You think?
	I don't think so.
	You think she's going to be invited to the White House to talk about the evils of gun violence?
	Don't think so.
	Have serious doubts.
	Why?
	Because for Joe Biden, it's not about gun violence.
	It's about the race.
	It's about the race.
	This is all racial pandering nonsense.
	It all ties back into, all the way back to Ferguson.
	And the Trayvon Martin debate and Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.
	The narrative that the left has decided to draw is that America is in a battle between a white supremacist system that must be destroyed from within and minorities who are being victimized by that system.
	You are not getting an invite from the White House unless you are a black victim of a white crime.
	And it does not matter.
	It does not matter that twice as many on a raw level, white people are killed by black people every year as black people are killed by white people every year in the United States.
	And if you draw that in proportion, it does not matter that if one out of every million white people shoots a black person and kills them in the United States, and 12 out of every million black people murders a white person in the United States, that disparity does not matter.
	The only thing that matters is the lie.
	That's the lie.
	That's the lie that's being promoted at the top levels of our government by this White House.
	And it's vile.
	In just a second, we'll get to Joe Biden, who's just falling apart.
	I mean, the man is falling apart first.
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	Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden is completely falling apart.
	I mean, as a human being, he's falling apart.
	I'm gonna go over and sign that executive order.
	out in public, he appears to be on the verge of mental and physical collapse.
	So yesterday, for example, he finished a speech and he just started wandering around the stage again, just wandering around the stage.
	This is our president of the United States.
	It is kind of humiliating.
	I'm going to go over and sign that executive order.
	Actually, he's not.
	He's going to wander around and not know where to go.
	I'm going to go on your side.
	Oh, and here I am, standing.
	Just standing.
	Where am I?
	Here I am, standing.
	Well, everybody's looking at me, because I'm just standing there, not knowing where I am.
	Also, he has some interesting ideas on how to spell simple words that my nine-year-old daughter can easily spell.
	Here is Joe Biden, not knowing either math or English.
	This is an interesting one.
	But you have, we have a thousand billionaires in America.
	Know the average tax rate they pay?
	Eight.
	E-I-G-H percent.
	Eight percent.
	Wow.
	Eight.
	E-I-G-L-B-O-N-Y seven percent.
	That is our president of the United States.
	Inspiring, isn't it?
	By the way, he's lying.
	The notion that billionaires pay 8% tax rate, that may be their overall tax rate because of capital gains, which are taxed differently than, for example, income.
	Billionaires largely don't earn their money through income.
	He's a liar, but he's also a mentally...
	Unbalanced liar.
	It's amazing.
	And then he did his routine.
	How many times can you tell people not to jump?
	It's such a weird thing.
	He does this like every speech now.
	He tells people not to jump.
	Like I understand.
	Maybe he understands that people get suicidal at his speeches because it's almost impossible to watch him.
	It gives you just a vast sense of cringe that's almost impossible to escape.
	But it's weird, isn't it?
	And he just keeps telling people not to jump.
	You know, when I speak to the business roundtable and the muckety mucks are good, a lot of decent people.
	The very, all the business enterprises, they look at me like, hey guys, don't jump, okay?
	What?
	Hey guys?
	Who's he even talking to?
	I don't even know what...
	He's talking to Casper the Friendly Ghost again.
	Hey, well, even as this occurs, there's new evidence emerging that Hunter Biden, his son, who may well have been the bag man for the entire Biden family, including Joe Biden.
	That dude has lived large for a long time, has Joe Biden.
	And the fact that he was casually corrupt for nearly his entire career.
	I mean, getting sweetheart deals from Delaware credit card companies, for example.
	All that gets ignored because obviously, sweet old man, Joe Biden.
	A breaking story.
	The attorney for an unnamed IRS criminal supervisory special agent says his client has now asked Congress for protection to speak out about allegations that a years-long, high-profile, politically sensitive investigation has been hindered by preferential treatment and politics, according to a letter obtained by CBS News.
	That investigation is the one probing potential tax crimes by Hunter Biden.
	My client wants to come forward to Congress, said attorney Mark Little, who's representing the agent.
	He discussed his client's allegations with CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Jim Axelrod in an exclusive interview.
	According to the lawyer, he's ready to be questioned about what he knows and what he experienced under the proper legal protections.
	So this is very troubling, obviously.
	The allegation here from the IRS whistleblower is that the tax investigation is basically being hamstrung by the Biden executive branch to protect Hunter.
	Apparently, Biden left.
	David C. Weiss, the Trump-appointed Delaware U.S.
	Attorney General overseeing Hunter Biden's probe, in his post to avoid appearances of interference, DOJ officials have vowed publicly to protect the probe from political interference.
	But the reality is that Weiss was basically a political appointee.
	I mean, he received endorsements from Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, who are both Democrats.
	There are a bunch of U.S.
	attorneys appointed by Trump who were asked to resign, but not this guy.
	In the letter, Little, the lawyer, claims his client's information would contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee.
	In a March Senate hearing, AG Merrick Garland pledged he would not interfere with that investigation.
	He said, I promise to ensure he's able to carry out his investigation and that he be able to run it.
	So it'll be fascinating to see what exactly is the evidence that this person can provide.
	Regarding any sort of cover up at the IRS of the tax investigation.
	Meanwhile, the fact that Joe Biden is still traveling around with Hunter Biden just demonstrates the levels of insularity he feels from any sort of serious media scrutiny.
	Hunter Biden is one of the most disgusting people walking American politics today.
	I mean, he's a gross human being just by any stretch of the imagination.
	The latest evidence that he's a gross human being is a 2019 text conversation with his cousin, Caroline Biden.
	Joe Biden's niece.
	Apparently, according to the UK Daily Mail, they were texting and Caroline was discussing setting him up with her rich model friends.
	And in the conversation, she asked her cousin, do you want foreign or domestic?
	I can't give you effing Asian.
	Sorry, I'm not doing it.
	And the president's son replied, domesticated foreigner is fine.
	No yellow.
	So first of all, totally unclear if he is, um, if he's talking about people that he wants to date or if he is talking about, you know, prostitutes, which he was very fond of using.
	There's a person who's engaged in, at least as a john, sex trafficking.
	And there's no, there's no doubt about that.
	I mean, there's literally pictures on his computer of him engaging in prostitution, of having sex with prostitutes and filming it and all the rest of it and doing drugs and apparently violating gun laws while doing all of these things.
	And violating, it appears, probably tax laws, and picking up bags of cash from foreign entities that mysteriously seem to disappear, and some of that money tends to make its way into the pockets of other Biden family members.
	And apparently that's still okay for Hunter to travel with Dad.
	That's how secure Joe Biden feels in the knowledge that the media will never actually cover this sort of stuff or dig into it.
	That's how secure he feels, that he's able to travel with Dad.
	That's kind of amazing, is it not?
	He literally went to Ireland with Hunter, squattering him around.
	And he lies routinely to the press about Hunter.
	I never said anything about Hunter.
	Hunter is one of the smartest people I know.
	Amazing, amazing stuff.
	Well, maybe this is one of the reasons why RFK Jr., who just announced that he's going to run for president, RFK Jr.
	is, for those who don't know, a radical environmentalist nut who spent most of his early career railing about how vaccines were causing childhood autism, the evidence for which is zero.
	And here was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	announcing his run for the presidency last night.
	This is what happens when you censor somebody for 18 years.
	I got a lot to talk about.
	They shouldn't have shut me up that long, because now I'm going to really let loose on them for the next 18 months.
	They're gonna hear a lot from me.
	So he has a very famous last name, obviously, Robert Kennedy Jr.
	Again, he was most famous for pushing the lie that childhood vaccines cause autism.
	Again, that is based on a completely debunked study, like thoroughly debunked study.
	And he's still picking up 14% of the vote among Democrats.
	Joe Biden is stuck at 67% in the latest polling.
	That guy's the current president of the United States.
	We're talking about Democratic primary voters.
	We're not talking about overall.
	Only two thirds of Democratic primary voters say they will vote for Joe Biden.
	That is a terrible number for an incumbent president Who, again, is sitting in the office right now.
	Kennedy, who, as I've said, is an environmentalist whack job, but also has said some things, like he was very, because he's skeptical of vaccines in general, he's also very skeptical of COVID vaccines.
	So he's saying things about COVID vaccines that were then being censored by Facebook and being censored by Twitter at the time and all this.
	He feels like he was silenced.
	A lot of Democrats feel like they were silenced on that particular topic.
	He's currently at 14%.
	Marianne Williamson, who, again, is a woo-woo magic crystals lady, she's at 5%.
	13% say that they are undecided.
	That shows that he is pretty vulnerable.
	That doesn't mean he won't wrap up the nomination when he announces his run.
	He will.
	The incumbent president virtually always does.
	The only exception is 1968 when LBJ would have won the nomination but decided to step away because he was afraid of Robert Kennedy Sr.
	running for the office against him.
	But the fact that Robert Kennedy Jr., who's basically considered at the wild margins of American life, He's picking up 14% against Joe Biden.
	Just shows how weak Joe Biden is.
	There's a reason for that.
	He's very bad at the presidenting.
	We'll get to him being bad at the presidenting momentarily.
	First, let's talk about the fact that over the past few years, if you own a business, it's been a rough ride.
	And first you had COVID and the government maybe shutting down your business.
	Then you had the government basically regulating how you could do your business.
	Then you had Biden inflation.
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	Also, I get it, folks.
	You guys are outraged by the incredibly stupid woke corporations.
	They're erasing women.
	They're spitting on your values.
	But instead of just talking the problem away or ignoring it, Jeremy Boring and we here at Daily Wire got proactive.
	When Harry's condemned us and all of you, Jeremy made Jeremy's razors.
	When Hershey's celebrated women with a man, Dylan Mulvaney, well, Jeremy launched Jeremy's chocolate.
	And now that chocolate is here.
	It is here, folks.
	It is shipping as we speak.
	So, it comes in two types, for those who don't know.
	One is the he-him bars.
	One is the she-her bars.
	One has nuts, one is nutless.
	If you can't tell the difference, you should not buy Jeremy's chocolate.
	Well, thanks to you, we've sold over 32 tons of Jeremy's chocolate.
	Even though Jeremy already has like a 300 bedroom house, he couldn't store that much chocolate.
	So we said, you know what?
	Let's get a fulfillment center.
	And then we did.
	We told you we were building a parallel economy.
	We meant it.
	Jeremy's may be the greatest joke we ever told, but it's also very real.
	It's doing serious damage to the woke corporations that hate you.
	I need to try some of this.
	Honestly, this is literally the first time I've tried Germany's chocolate.
	It was not available to me before.
	It is kosher, by the way.
	I would not be eating it otherwise.
	So, let's take a bite of this.
	Magnificent!
	I don't know what I'm talking about.
	I'm sure I call him the Abnerferal.
	Mmm.
	Magnificent.
	Tastes like truth.
	There are still a few bars left in the first batch of Jeremy's chocolate.
	Go get them before they're gone.
	Go to Jeremy's chocolate dot com today.
	Well, meanwhile, our intrepidly foolish president of the United States, he's suggesting that we should just pass a clean debt ceiling increase.
	Let's just keep racking up that debt.
	After all, what could go wrong?
	According to the Washington Post, Joe Biden on Wednesday rejected a Republican plan to slash government spending and raise the debt limit, assailing the proposals as wacko.
	And he said that they would cause a catastrophic government default.
	Actually, they wouldn't.
	You're refusing to sign into law the debt ceiling increase is what would cause the government default.
	So Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, He announced yesterday what his debt ceiling plan would be.
	It is eminently reasonable.
	The debt ceiling plan would include cutting federal spending to 2022 levels, which, by the way, is extraordinarily high.
	Federal spending at 2022 levels is like insanely high, as in the highest in human history.
	Limiting growth in the budget to 1% per year.
	Which, uh, okay, like, I failed to see the problem.
	Repealing enhanced IRS enforcement funding because we don't need, you know, 87,000 more people working for the IRS.
	Undoing Joe Biden's federal student debt forgiveness because, of course, that's unconstitutional garbage.
	And rescinding unspent pandemic relief funds because, of course, if you haven't used the money already, then why exactly are we paying you?
	The pandemic ended, like, two years ago.
	So, this, which part of this is supposed to be super controversial?
	McCarthy told reporters that the bill would lift the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion or extend it through March 31st, whichever comes first.
	The 320-page bill, which was published moments after the speech, will be led by House Budget Committee Chair Jody Arrington, Republican of Texas.
	Republicans have a narrow majority.
	Republicans presumably will be able to pass this thing.
	But Joe Biden's like, no, we're not passing anything.
	You're going to pass it clean because I need more spending.
	I need more.
	And then he says, we've never, ever defaulted on the debt.
	It would destroy the economy.
	By the way, again, Joe Biden back during the 1990s voted against raising the debt ceiling unless it was actually accompanied by tax increases or certain cuts.
	Yeah, but this is the Democratic plan is just ignore reality and then get the voters to also ignore reality.
	After all, there's money enough for everyone if you are socialistic enough and you can borrow enough money.
	This apparently is why the Biden administration is now pushing a rule set to take effect that will force good credit homebuyers to pay more for their mortgages to subsidize the loans to higher-risk borrowers.
	Now, this is fun.
	Didn't we just do this with the real estate meltdown in 2007-2008?
	This is according to Fox News.
	Experts believe borrowers with a credit score of about 680 would pay around 40 bucks more per month on a $400,000 mortgage under rules from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that go into effect May 1st.
	Those costs will help subsidize people with lower credit ratings also looking for a mortgage.
	Isn't that exciting?
	So, um, if you have good credit, and you've done your job by paying your bills, you now get to subsidize a bunch of people who don't pay their bills nearly as well.
	So they can buy houses they can't afford, and then presumably they'll default.
	Because that's the important thing, is to get people into houses they can't actually afford.
	board.
	Ian Wright, senior loan officer at Bay Equity Home Loans, says, quote, the changes don't make sense.
	Penalizing borrowers with larger down payments and credit scores will not go over well.
	It overcomplicates things for consumers during a process that already feels overwhelming.
	Confusing the borrower is never a good thing.
	The Federal Housing Finance Agency oversees federally backed home mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
	And again, they are pushing the idea that they are going to push people into buying houses they can't afford, paid for by other people.
	Which was exactly what led to the meltdown in 2007-2008.
	Subprime mortgages were essentially subsidized and backstopped by the federal government, particularly Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
	And people bought houses they couldn't afford on the notion that if, God forbid, they couldn't pay their bills, they could again resell the house because the market would continue to go up.
	Then the market didn't continue to go up.
	They were underwater and all the banks had to foreclose on the homes.
	And then because all of that bad debt had been spread throughout the economy with credit derivative swaps, it ended up basically melting down the economy, forcing things like TARP, the bailout plan.
	So Joe Biden wants to do that all again because there's no plan stupid enough that Joe Biden won't repeat it.
	Why exactly?
	Someone is going to have to explain to me why he's so unpopular.
	He seems like he's doing an amazing, amazing job.
	Meanwhile, the media and Donald Trump have decided the great enemy of the Republic is not the current president of the United States.
	The person who is standing in the way of our success is, of course, you guessed it, Ron DeSantis.
	Ron DeSantis is the bad man today.
	Both the media and Donald Trump have decided this.
	Every story that's coming out from the mainstream media these days is talking about the inevitable failure of Ron DeSantis.
	It's headline after headline after headline, which suggests that they really, really do not want this guy to even run.
	There's a piece today from the Washington Post titled, After a High Flying Start, DeSantis Hits Stumbling Blocks on Road to 2024.
	Well, that's weird since he hasn't actually launched a campaign yet.
	And also, he's currently pulling About 16 points behind the former president of the United States, who is running again, and who has declared already.
	No other Republican candidate is clocking in the double digits.
	So, for a guy who's supposed to be failing, he doesn't seem to be failing all that badly.
	And then they quote Republican megadonor Ken Langone.
	He said he's eager to support Ron DeSantis for president in 2024, but he has concerns about the Florida governor, particularly because DeSantis signed into law a six-week abortion ban, and he wants him to moderate his stance on the issue.
	Donors, activists, other supporters are increasingly voicing worries as the Washington Post that DeSantis has made unforced errors or embraced extreme positions that could hurt him in a general election.
	OK, give me give me a break.
	You're right, guys.
	Probably you should support the guy who is who lost the last election and then proceeded to lose pretty much every Senate race he invested in.
	Like that's the choice here.
	If you're a Republican donor, you can pretend that there's going to be another candidate coming in from the wings who's going to suddenly pick up the support of the base.
	But I have news for you.
	That's not going to happen.
	And there's a reason the media are doing this.
	The reason the media are doing this is because they would like to see Ron DeSantis fail so that Donald Trump will be the nominee.
	It means that they make a lot of money.
	It means that they get to clear a lot of ratings, and it means they get a candidate they think is extremely beatable.
	That is the reason they are doing this.
	You know who else agrees with this is Donald Trump.
	So Trump has spent an extraordinary amount of his ire so far on a candidate who is not yet declared.
	Yesterday, he essentially just threatened to take his ball and go home if he doesn't win the primaries.
	He basically said, if Ron DeSantis runs against me, I will take my voters and I will tell them not to show up.
	Guys, question.
	Do you really want to nominate a candidate who is so self-centered that he believes that it is in the best interest of you to lose an election to Joe Biden rather than if he loses?
	I mean, Trump could just win.
	I mean, if he just wins the nomination fair and square, fine.
	I mean, that's how the process works.
	But the baseline idea that in a Republican primary, you're threatening your rivals with, I'll take my supporters and tell them not to vote in a general to defeat you and let Joe Biden be president again.
	That's pretty wild stuff.
	Here is Donald Trump threatening, threatening Ron DeSantis yesterday.
	Ron DeSantis is a young man who is not doing well against me in the polls, to put it mildly.
	I believe that if he decides to run for president, which will only hurt and somewhat divide the Republican Party, which we don't need, he will lose the cherished and massive MAGA vote and never be able to successfully run for office again.
	I believe that.
	If he remains governor, which is what Florida voters assumed he would do, it would be a whole different story.
	Just saying.
	But who knows.
	Just saying, just saying.
	And hell, I'm not saying that your store is going to burn down if you don't pay me this protection.
	But if it sets on fire, I don't know.
	It could.
	I don't know.
	This is very ugly stuff, obviously.
	There are a lot of reasons to oppose Ron DeSantis that I'm sure Donald Trump can find to run on.
	But threatening to basically destroy the Republican Party from within and re-elect Joe Biden to the presidency if you should lose the primary is really not a great way to enshrine the belief in the base that you actually care about the issues that matter.
	Now, Reagan had what was called the 11th Commandment.
	The 11th Commandment was you don't attack the fellow Republicans, you go after the opposition.
	Donald Trump has been spending his time going after Ron DeSantis nonstop, which is how he's ended up in the peculiar position of defending both Bud Light and Disney.
	Very weird.
	Very strange position for Donald Trump, a supposed culture warrior, to be doing that.
	Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis continues to win legislative victories in the state of Florida.
	According to CNN, you can read the tears coming off the page.
	The Florida State Education Board voted on Wednesday to ban teaching students about sexual orientation and gender identity all the way through high school, which of course makes perfect sense.
	You want to learn about that stuff?
	Go home.
	Go talk to your parents.
	Go talk to people in your community.
	You know what you don't need?
	A public school teacher funded by the NEA Union or the AFT teaching your kids about sexual fluidity and the equivalent morality of all sexual activity.
	That's what you don't need, actually, as it turns out.
	That's what Ron DeSantis said yesterday.
	But it also is important to me because my wife and I have a six, five and three year old kids at home.
	So we're looking at it through the lens of parents ourselves.
	And we just believe that parents should be able to send their kid to school, have them watch cartoons, just be kids without having some agenda shoved down their throats all the time.
	So gender ideology has no place in our K through 12 school system.
	And we've made that very, very clear.
	It is wrong for a teacher to tell a student that they may have been born in the wrong body or that their gender is a choice.
	And so we don't let that happen in Florida.
	And if Disney objects to that, well, so be it.
	We're going to do what's right.
	Okay, I wonder why any Republican would oppose that.
	Why would any conservative oppose that?
	This is all very easy baseline stuff.
	As the stanza says, all they're saying is basically the teachers can't come in the room and start asking people pronouns or start pushing their own pronouns.
	Which by the way, I was never aware that it was a matter of deep concern that teachers be able to tell their students about their sexuality.
	I don't know why that is a priority in any way, shape, or form.
	Where I come from, teachers don't actually have to tell their kids about their personal lives.
	In fact, they're not supposed to.
	There's supposed to be a distant respect and remove for teachers.
	Being close to the teacher means liking the teacher as a teacher.
	It doesn't mean knowing everything about the teacher's personal life or sexual proclivities.
	And DeSantis is very clear on these issues, which is one of the reasons I think that Trump is and many of the media are afraid of him.
	Here's DeSantis yesterday saying a man in a dress is not a woman.
	Again, this is very clear and concise.
	If we as a society say that a man that puts on a dress, dresses as a woman, and then, quote, identifies as a woman, is actually a woman, that is not true, okay?
	If you're telling me that I have to accept that that is a woman, you're asking me to be complicit in a lie.
	And that I will not do.
	And so, part of this is about, are we going to have a society that's rooted in truth?
	Or are we going to have a society that's unmoored from truth and is basically being swept away with different ideological currents?
	Because if you're saying that that is a woman, you're putting ideology ahead of truth and reason.
	It'll be interesting to see how Trump attacks DeSantis on this sort of stuff again, considering that he has basically come to Disney's defense over Disney's attempts to move socially left.
	Okay, in just one second, we'll get to more on all of this.
	Plus, Jon Fetterman returns to Congress first.
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	Meanwhile, I've said before that Congress is a collection of people who do not have full brain function.
	Usually I'm speaking at least half facetiously.
	Unfortunately, these days I'm not.
	I mean, it's actually literally true.
	Dianne Feinstein is not with us, and she sits on the Judiciary Committee.
	There was a bit of hilarious back and forth between Republicans and Democrats this week.
	Democrats were trying to shift her off the very important Judiciary Committee and onto another committee, but they needed Republican votes to do it.
	Republicans are like, no, we're not going to give you that out.
	She's going to sit there until you guys decide to remove her.
	Your problem, not ours.
	Which, by the way, is the right political move.
	If you're a party and you decide to leave people in place who don't have full mental function, that one's on you.
	Speaking of which, the cruelty of Pushing a man who has had a debilitating stroke into the Senate of the United States and then expecting him to fulfill his duties with aplomb was on full display yesterday.
	John Fetterman returned to the Senate.
	I'm glad that he's mentally well enough to be back at his job.
	However, all the problems that we were told were supposed to go away, those are still not going away.
	Here he was yesterday.
	he does not sound back to his original self pre-stroke obviously.
	Senate Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research to order.
	Chairwoman Stabenow and Ranking Member Boozman, thank you so much for coming.
	I thank you for your leadership on this committee and I look forward to working with you to pass a farm bill.
	SNAP is one of the most effective programs to fight hunger and piraty in the country.
	In my time and effort in IFAS, as the mayor of Braddock, to lieutenant governor, to now, I have heard from Pennsylvanians about their support for a SNAP.
	Um, oh, yeah.
	And then he asked a question.
	It, again, did not go amazingly for the senator from Pennsylvania.
	Food banks Like filibustments and knowing personally the kind of quality of the work that you do in my own state.
	They distribute 85% of TFAP foods nationwide.
	As Americans struggle with high food costs, how have you been able to allow you to continue to provide food support?
	Things are going amazing in the United States Senate.
	Truth is that even in his current state, John Fetterman probably is smarter than at least, I don't know, 30% of the Senate.
	Meanwhile, in Congress, things are not going much better.
	So yesterday, Marjorie Taylor Greene, frankly, I find this hilarious.
	So one thing that I like about British Parliament is they basically just Smack each other around.
	It's really funny.
	So watch British Parliament is really entertaining.
	There are all these sort of rules of decorum in the United States Congress.
	You're not allowed to call witnesses liars and all the rest of it.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene found that out the hard way yesterday when she called Alejandro Mayorkas, who is a liar, a liar.
	She called him that.
	You're not allowed to do that.
	Her words were struck.
	She was barred from from actually speaking further on the committee because that's how the rules work.
	But this was kind of funny.
	She was Marjorie Taylor Greene was just waiting for her moment to smack Eric Swalwell upside the head.
	Eric Swalwell is, of course, the representative from California most famous for possibly farting on camera and also having sex with a Chinese spy.
	It was the latter issue that Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out yesterday.
	After Eric Swalwell did a whole bizarre lecture about the House Judiciary Committee and Elon Musk and Kanye West and all the rest of it, Marjorie Taylor Greene jumped in with both feet.
	Off the top rope, Marjorie Taylor Greene, here we go.
	That was quite entertaining from someone that had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy.
	And everyone knows it.
	I move to take our words down.
	She's so happy, man.
	The gentleman will state the words that he wishes taken down.
	Everything that the gentlelady from Georgia has said.
	No, you need to be more specific.
	The accusations of an affair with a Chinese spy, those are engaging in personalities.
	And those words should be taken down and the gentlelady should not be able to speak anymore in this hearing.
	The latter part of that is not an appropriate motion, but we will evaluate the striking of those words.
	The chair recognizes the gentlelady from Georgia and asks if she would like to retract those words.
	No, I will not.
	Okay, the chair rules that those Words that were spoken are not going to be stricken from the record.
	So, in the congressional record, you will now find Marjorie Taylor Greene telling Eric Swalwell that he nailed the Chinese spy.
	So, you know what?
	Fine.
	More of this.
	More of this.
	It's fine with me.
	Our congresspeople are a class of dolts in the first place.
	That is fine with me on pretty much all sides.
	Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
	So things that I like today.
	This is hysterical to me.
	So now, according to the New York Post, ex-Biden official Sam Brinton is going to undergo a mental health evaluation in his luggage theft case.
	So Sam Brinton is the disgraced former Biden administration official who was stealing luggage on at least two separate occasions and then wearing around the clothing.
	And there was an African lady who had made like custom clothing and he was just wearing around this lady's clothes.
	He is now agreeing to undergo a mental health evaluation as part of his Minnesota Adult Diversion Program.
	Brinton, says the New York Post, who is non-binary and uses they-them pronouns, appeared remotely Monday at a Hennepin County Court hearing stemming from that luggage theft incident.
	In addition to having to undergo a mental health evaluation, Brinton will be required to write a letter of apology to the victim, return any stolen property, and perform three days of community service.
	So, um, I'd just like to point out here that he's having a mental health evaluation now?
	What was your first clue there was something mentally wrong with this person?
	But were there any other clues or was it completely out of the blue?
	He seemed like such a nice young man, said his next door neighbor.
	No, I have.
	There were some clues.
	There was something mentally unwell about this person.
	Just a few clues.
	I don't know.
	Like maybe this picture.
	That seems like a clue.
	It's like a bald dude wearing a dress, like a ball gown, and claiming that he has no gender.
	That seems like kind of a clue that maybe this person shouldn't be in charge of our nuclear waste, which was his position at the by- By the way, they celebrated him for- for this.
	Okay, this- this... wackadoo, with the mustache and the bald head, wearing a ball gown, at some sort of public event with other members of the- of the administration.
	This- this one, who went to, like, the French embassy.
	Yeah, like, There are no mental health evaluations, apparently, to handle the nation's nuclear waste.
	But after you steal- Were there- There are no clues, guys.
	None!
	This seems- This was perfectly- In our modern society, this is perfectly- Stealing the luggage was the first time we had ever had any clue there might be something screwy about Sam Brinton.
	Otherwise, this is heroism.
	He went from hero to villain so fast.
	Or, alternatively, he had problems the whole time.
	I know, it's shocking to think, absolutely shocking to think that a man who dressed up in a dress and did lectures on college campuses with other men who are kneeling there in dog outfits with collars around their neck, that that person might have some unexplainable problems.
	No, no, no, we can't, no.
	Wow, how the worm turns when heroes like Sam Britton fall so far.
	No one could have predicted this.
	There were no clues, none, no red flags, zero.
	I'm just glad that now he's getting the mental, or they, or it, whatever the pronouns of the day are, that Xi is getting the help that Xi needs.
	Meanwhile, MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hassan, who was formerly of the Qatar-funded Al Jazeera propaganda network, He has now been accused of plagiarizing a column he wrote in favor of child spanking a couple of decades ago.
	He seemed to have copied full paragraphs from a U.S.
	News & World Report article, tweaking only a couple of words, according to Li Feng, journalist.
	That's, um, that's not great for him.
	Now, I don't tend to think that Mehdi Hassan is a particularly excellent anchor, but the good news for Democrats and people who are on the left is that you can plagiarize as much as you want and be perfectly okay.
	After all, there's a Princeton professor.
	Kevin Cruz, who's accused quite plausibly of plagiarism, he's still teaching there, no problem.
	Those sorts of scandals only take down people on the right.
	Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
	So, there is this new mode when it comes to journalism and in the world of business, where bosses are not allowed to tell people to suck it up and do their work.
	I don't understand this at all.
	You know, now I am a boss.
	For much of my life, I was an employee.
	And when you are an employee, your job is to do your job.
	That's why it's called a job.
	You're supposed to work, right?
	Like, actually do the work.
	And if you refuse to do the work, then there will be consequences for refusing to do the work.
	Like, for example, you might get fired.
	If you are insufficiently enthusiastic about doing your work, then you might get zip recruited, right?
	Things could happen to you.
	But apparently now, if you are a CEO and you tell people, listen, suck it up, buttercup, then apparently you are the font head of all evil, the root of all evil.
	It's not good to be in the situation we're in today, but we're not going to be here forever.
	It is going to get better.
	of the furniture company, Miller Knoll.
	It's a publicly traded company.
	She is now facing backlash after a video of her telling staffers worried about not getting a bonus to leave Pity City went viral.
	So here's what she said.
	It's not good to be in a situation we're in today, but we're not going to be here forever.
	It is going to get better.
	So lead, lead by example, treat people well, talk to them, be kind and get after it.
	Don't ask about what are we going to do if we don't get a bonus.
	Get the damn 26 million dollars!
	Spend your time and your effort thinking about the 26 million dollars we need and not thinking about what you're going to do if we don't get a bonus.
	All right?
	Can I get some commitment for that?
	I would appreciate that.
	I had an old boss who said to me one time, You can visit pity city, but you can't live there.
	So people leave pity city.
	Let's get it done.
	And people were very mad.
	They were very, very mad.
	Miller and all said bonuses aren't determined until after the fiscal year ends in May.
	And the goal here was to rally people.
	Like if you want the bonus, we have to hit our numbers.
	We're not hitting our numbers right now.
	Go hit the numbers.
	Maybe you'll get a bonus, but stop sitting there and worrying about your bonus until you actually start moving toward hitting the numbers.
	This merited this little speech here.
	I mean, this isn't even like Patton slapping a soldier or something during World War II.
	This is just a CEO being like, guys, your bonuses are dependent on us actually hitting our numbers.
	No numbers, no bonus.
	Get back to your desk.
	This apparently is cause for a full scale article in the Wall Street Journal.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, Much of business leadership takes place via easily recorded and shared video these days, and more than one top executive has spiked viral outrage as a result.
	In 2021, Vishal Garg, chief executive of online mortgage lender Better.com, apologized and took a brief leave of absence after a video of him firing hundreds of workers on a Zoom call was posted on TikTok and viewed by millions.
	Others have drawn scrutiny for more impromptu moments shared online.
	Okay, here is the deal, folks.
	If you decide that you wish to take pay from a particular company, then you should just go and do your job.
	If you do your job and you keep your head down, And you perform well, you will get the bonuses.
	And if you feel like you've earned a bonus, go ask for a bonus.
	And your boss will say yes, or your boss will say no.
	Everybody needs to stop with this whole sensitivity garbage when it comes to, you know, doing your job.
	It really is quite ridiculous.
	Okay.
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