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May 1, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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The Most Vomit-Inducing Event Of The Year

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	So, it's the worst event of the year.
	Well, other than the State of the Union.
	I hate the State of the Union.
	But this one may be even worse.
	The State of the Union is about the monarchic institution of the presidency and the legislature pretending that we actually have a constitutional monarchy in some way.
	The White House Correspondents' Dinner is just a perfectly open celebration of the elite class who scratch each other's back.
	And it's really disgusting.
	It's truly gross.
	It's like the Met Gala, except the Met Gala actually included journalists, and Republicans and Democrats all getting together to prove
	the thesis that there is in fact a quote unquote uni-party of elites who really like each other and
	hang out behind closed doors and actually don't care very much about the people they are supposed to
	represent. Remember all of these people are supposed to be representing you right the press
	are supposed to be out there asking hard questions of all politicians so that you the consumer the
	voter you get the choices that you have been promised.
	The politicians, they are supposed to be your representatives, representing your opinions in the hall of power, representing your interests in the halls of power.
	Instead, they're all getting together, and they're patting each other on the back, and then they're rewarding each other for having patted each other on the back.
	And it really is like the Hollywood elites, and the journalistic elites, and the media elites, they all get together with the political elites, and then they demonstrate that they're all part of the blob, right?
	When people talk about the blob in Washington, D.C., this is what they are talking about.
	Now again, there's nothing wrong with having friends who are across the political aisle from you.
	There isn't.
	There's nothing wrong with going to confabs with people you disagree with so that you can speak with them about the matters of disagreement and maybe give them your point of view.
	There is something wrong with people all getting together to celebrate why they are so superior to everyone else and none of the standards apply to them.
	And that's what the White House Correspondents' Dinner has turned into pretty much every year.
	It's why Donald Trump To his credit, boycotted the White House Correspondents Dinner.
	Also, he was willing to recognize, as apparently many other Republicans are not, that the White House Correspondents Dinner is just a place where people hate Republicans, at least hate conservatives, hate people who do not follow the party line.
	And so Trump was like, I'm just not in.
	I'm not going to go because it's just the same thing as a Comedy Central Democratic Party roast.
	But a bunch of Republicans showed up to this one.
	And you can tell who's who by who showed up.
	According to Politico, Brittany Griner showed up with Gayle King.
	RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel walked over to DNC Chair Jamie Harrison, their first in-person meeting.
	Kellyanne Conway chatted with Maine Governor Janet Mills.
	Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Pose with Julia Fox in black swan makeup.
	NRCC Chair Richard Hudson became starry-eyed when he met Justin Hartland from his all-time favorite TV show, This Is Us.
	A climate activist obstructed Ron Klain's path into the Hilton.
	Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson confronted a woman for pushing his fiancée.
	Stars and reporters at the Fox News table looked uncomfortable during jokes about Tucker Carlson.
	Jonathan Karl chatting with Anthony Fauci.
	Anthony Blinken talking to Dasha and Yulia Navalnaya.
	Jeff Nussbaum chatting with Chris Tanuno.
	It's all the glitterati, and they're all together because they're all part of the same general coterie.
	Parties are parties, but this is a public party, and it is designed to demonstrate to the American public that these are the members of your governing class.
	It all feels very Hunger Games.
	All these people getting together and patting themselves on the back for just how much they actually like each other.
	Like, underneath it all, we like each other.
	Now, here's the question.
	What common values unite these people?
	Right?
	If you're going to have an event where everybody gets together, and then, again, they sort of discuss the issues from a variety of different viewpoints, that's a different thing.
	But if you're talking about an event that just celebrates what we share, and the thing that you share is that you all make a lot of money, and that you all share a common political viewpoint, which is generally socially liberal, And that you all generally share a widespread belief that you are sort of superior to the common man.
	Don your tux.
	You go to a place where they give you all sorts of swag and really nice dinners, and then you listen to famous comedians talking, and you're sitting at the same table with people who you supposedly are fighting day in and day out.
	It all looks like a bit of a sham, doesn't it?
	It all looks like a bit of a sham.
	Just to introduce you to what the White House Correspondents' Dinner is, this is kind of symbolic.
	This whole thing is very symbolic.
	So, here is John Legend walking into this thing with Chrissy Teigen.
	In the background, you can see a bunch of left-wing protesters carrying signs that say, Biden, end fossil fuels.
	And the left-wing glitterati, who presumably took a private jet in from Los Angeles, they are walking through this crowd, and Chrissy Teigen is having her train, she has a dress with a train, handled by a couple of servants, like a couple of people who work for her, as she walks through the crowd toward the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
	There you can see it.
	And you got some trans protesters over there.
	They're just walking right through, and there she is, having her train held by not one, not two, but three separate people who are holding her train as she walks into this event in Washington, D.C.
	And just to demonstrate how close are the connections between all the people who are in the room, at the very top of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, ABC News' Karen Travers gave an award to The Washington Post's Matt Visor.
	As the best journalist of the year, what exactly did Matt Visor report on?
	Let her explain.
	Although Beckman Award for overall excellence in White House coverage is named for a former
	association president, the late Chicago Tribune correspondent Aldo Beckman.
	This year, the award goes to Matt Visor of The Washington Post.
	The judge.
	The judges said Matt Visor stood out among his competitors for work that went beyond
	the humdrum of covering the managed events of the presidency in the White House.
	Visor captured the spirit of Joe Biden, particularly with stories about the president's brother and how his Catholic faith influenced his strategic vision of the office.
	So, for kiss-assery, the award goes to Matt Visor of the Washington Post.
	And then, Matt Visor of the Washington Post, he gets up, he accepts the award, and then he's making kissy face with Joe Biden.
	This is the relationship between the press and the Democratic administration.
	And by the way, half of the Republicans, apparently.
	This is the relationship.
	And it's really gross.
	And you wonder why the outsider appeal of people like Donald Trump was so big in 2016?
	It is because of this thing.
	It is because there are many of us out here who take politics quite seriously.
	And who actually care about the policies that emerged from Washington, D.C.
	and don't understand why these people, why John Legend and Chrissy Teigen and Matt Visor and Joe Biden are the people who are sort of controlling how policy works in the country and why idiot Republicans would go to this thing and then go along with it.
	Like, why?
	What is the point of it?
	Is the hobnobbing making the world better?
	Again, this is not an exchange of ideas.
	This is a celebration of what we share in common.
	What do you share in common?
	What is it that you share in common?
	Do you share in common the perspective of the great leader?
	As we'll see, Joe Biden did a quote-unquote comedy routine that was not particularly comedic.
	We'll get to that momentarily first.
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	Okay, so.
	The White House Correspondents Dinner, again, the reason I'm spending a lot of time on this is because the White House Correspondents Dinner is indicative of the nature of American politics.
	An elite glitterati who have merged Hollywood, journalism, and the Democratic Party.
	And they all work in tandem with one another.
	This is why Barack Obama, who is a politician, has a Netflix deal in Hollywood.
	It is why Hollywood makes movies about journalists who then cover D.C.
	It's all the blob.
	It's all the same.
	And there are many blobs in D.C.
	You know, you've heard Donald Trump talk about the blob of the State Department and the administrative state.
	Agreed.
	All of that is true.
	But all of those people are worshipping at the altar of the smaller, higher-class blob.
	And the White House Correspondents' Dinner?
	Is within the radius of a few hundred yards.
	That correspondence dinner is the cultural blob that from which virtually all big ideas spring and where consensus is created that is very different from the consensus of the American people.
	So the person who was the emcee was a person named Robert Wood Jr.
	I guess I'd never heard of this person.
	I guess this guy is on Comedy Central and he's done some guest spots on Trevor Noah's Comedy Central program.
	So he is a a fraction of the fame of Trevor Noah, who had like seven viewers in the first place, which means that they love him over in Washington, D.C.
	So here he was introducing Joe Biden at the at the White House Correspondent Center.
	Y'all give it up for Dark Brandon.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Happy to be here.
	Real quick, Mr. President, I think you left some of your classified documents up here.
	You can get them.
	Roy Wood, Jr., rather.
	That's how little I know about this human being.
	CNN, meanwhile, is offstage doing the red carpet thing because, again, there's no difference between e-entertainment and CNN.
	They're all the same.
	Here is CNN covering the White House Correspondents' Dinner as Joe Biden surprises them by getting up to the podium.
	Now I want to toss back to one of my favorite reality TV stars, John Berman and Jessica Dean.
	Thank you, yeah.
	Phil is, oh there's the president right there walking into the ballroom at the Capitol Hilton.
	President Roy Wood we already saw up there on the dais, the vice president as well, and now the president himself is there.
	Harry, if we still have you, as we're watching this.
	Yes.
	Harry, will you just ask Phil if he hasn't walked away who he's wearing tonight?
	Did you hear that question, Tom?
	Who are you wearing?
	It's so obnoxious.
	It's so obnoxious.
	Hollywood is Hollywood.
	Journalism should be journalism.
	The politicians should be the politicians, but they're not.
	They're all the time.
	You know who knows that?
	Joe Biden.
	Joe Biden, he is going to exploit that to the hilt.
	So Biden gets up and he does a half quasi-comedy routine and half a stump speech.
	So he begins by talking about how the free press is a pillar of American democracy.
	Of course, by free press, he means people who just are stenographers for him.
	He means the Praetorian Guard who prevent him from having to answer any difficult questions.
	Of course he thinks they're pillars of democracy because they never ask him a tough question.
	They allow him to get away with everything.
	In fact, half of his routine was laughing at the press for not asking him tough questions.
	Here was Joe Biden last night.
	Jill, Kamala, Doug and I and members of our administration are here to send a message to the country and quite frankly to the world.
	The free press is a pillar Maybe the pillar of free society, not the enemy.
	Well, they're not your enemy.
	And they're not even your opponents.
	They're in your pocket.
	They literally submit their questions, as we found out last week, in advance to you so you can write them on note cards because you cannot speak English.
	Because you are no longer mentally functional.
	And then Joe Biden did this routine where he pretended that he cares deeply apparently about
	a Wall Street Journal reporter who's been kidnapped and held essentially for ransom
	by the Russian government. Joe Biden was willing to trade the merchant of death for a basketball
	player. Don't worry, he talked about that too. But he began by expressing sympathy for the Wall
	Street Journal reporter's parents who showed up to this thing. To Evan's parents, Ella,
	Mikhail and sister Danielle, as I've told you in person, we, not just me, we all stand with you.
	That is Evan Gershkovich.
	He's not training anybody for Evan Gershkovich so far as I'm aware, but he did champion his own genius in freeing Brittany Griner.
	This is very important to him, obviously.
	Tonight, unlike last year, Brittany Griner's here with her wife, Cheryl.
	Brittany, where are you, kid?
	Stand up, come on.
	I love this woman.
	Can I just point out that they are giving a standing ovation to a woman who was arrested
	in Russia for bringing drugs into the country and then we had to trade an actual terror supplier
	to free this person?
	You may think that that was a good deal.
	I don't think that was a great trade.
	That was like the only WNBA trade anyone has ever cared about.
	But, putting that aside, does the person who was freed deserve the applaud?
	It's like, I just don't understand the logic there.
	But, obviously, listen, it's all about the journalists who are applauding.
	They're really not applauding Brittany Griner.
	I mean, Brittany Griner didn't do anything.
	They're applauding Joe Biden.
	Obviously.
	Okay, then we'll get to, in one second, we're gonna get to Joe Biden and the press.
	And they are just, their lips have been surgically glued to Joe Biden's ass.
	And he knows it.
	And he is willing to gyrate around with their lips connected to his ass.
	In the most bizarre fashion, they're just going with it because they don't have a choice.
	Or if they do, they don't seem to care.
	Get to that momentarily first.
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	Okay, so Joe Biden did this long routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and this one clip really sums up his relationship with the press.
	He is mocking them.
	They don't understand that he's mocking them.
	They think he's mocking him.
	He's actually mocking them.
	Here we go.
	A lot of ways this dinner sums up my first two years in office.
	I'll talk for 10 minutes, take zero questions and cheerfully walk away.
	And the entire press is laughing and he's grinning at them.
	Of course he's grinning at them as he as he gradually turns into.
	I mean, watching Joe Biden is like a slow motion replay of that scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade after the guy drinks the wrong cup of wine.
	It's like a slow motion, like his hair is getting longer.
	It's very odd.
	And he's like grinning weirdly at the audience.
	And they're all like, yeah, it's true.
	It's so true.
	He does walk away.
	That's an indictment of you, you morons.
	It's an indictment of you.
	You're the ones who are supposed to be asking him questions.
	And you're sitting there laughing about the fact that he is willing to walk away from you without answering any tough questions.
	He saved virtually all of his ire for all the people who are critical of him in the media,
	obviously. He had pretty much nothing to say about all the people he is fans of.
	So he had a joke about NPR. The joke was not about NPR. The joke was about Elon Musk. Somehow
	he made a joke about NPR, which is one of the most perverse and foolish news outlets in America,
	government funded. And he has nothing to say. NPR is great.
	The only problem is Elon Musk.
	Here we go. I love NPR. I'm sure you do.
	Because they whisper into the mic like I do.
	But not everybody loves NPR.
	Elon Musk tweeted that it should be defunded.
	Well the best way to make NPR go away is for Elon Musk to buy it!
	Laughter and applause And that's more true than you think, anyway.
	I will say this about Joe Biden's comedic chops.
	The dude has a habit of telling a joke and then taking a brick to the head of the joke after he's told it.
	He does it nearly every time.
	He tells a joke and then he's like, I'm not joking.
	It's more for anything.
	Okay, Rodney Dangerfield.
	So Joe Biden continued along these lines.
	Other opponents of his he targeted during this particular White House Correspondents' Dinner.
	Tucker Carlson.
	This dinner is one of the two great traditions of Washington.
	The other one is underestimating me and Kamala.
	Cheers!
	He's the best, guys!
	But the truth is, we really have a record to be proud of.
	Vaccinated the nation, transformed the economy, earned historic legislative victories and midterm results, but the job isn't finished.
	I mean, it is finished for Tucker McCarles, huh?
	And then the crowd, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!
	Because Tucker got fired!
	Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
	What a delight this president is.
	He's just, he's amazing.
	He also had jokes for Ron DeSantis.
	Now, one of the things that was kind of fascinating about this White House Correspondent's routine from Joe Biden, he mentioned Donald Trump once, and it was only in the context of age.
	He had no harsh words, no harsh jokes, really, for Donald Trump.
	Virtually every joke was about somebody that he would like to see not run, Ron DeSantis.
	Here he was going after DeSantis.
	At Ron DeSantis, I had a lot of Ron DeSantis jokes ready.
	But Mickey Mouse beat the hell out of me and got there first.
	Now look, can't be too rough on the guy.
	They're so happy.
	After his re-election as governor, he was asked if he had a mandate.
	He said, hell no, I'm straight.
	I'm straight.
	I'll give you time to think that one through.
	There he goes, getting the joke in the head with the brick right after it.
	So first of all, very bad jokes, but the crowd loves it.
	The crowd's eating it up because they're all part of the same constituency.
	He's speaking to this crowd is the same as a rally crowd for Joe Biden, which should tell you something about the nature of our media.
	I don't know who finds this funny.
	I find it not only off-putting, but enraging.
	All these people are doing amazing.
	They did amazing during the pandemic.
	None of them lost their jobs.
	They don't care that your business got shut down.
	They don't care you couldn't visit grandma while she was dying in the hospital.
	They don't care that they were going to force you to vax in order to work.
	All of them were on the same boat.
	All of them.
	They don't care right now that Joe Biden is using the DOJ to try to trans the children.
	They don't care about any of that.
	They're all in the same boat.
	They're all friends.
	They're all buddies.
	They all work in the same circles.
	There's a good case at this point, as I've said before, now that we have remote voting, we should actually just do that.
	We should make everybody go back to your home districts and you actually have to live there if you're a politician.
	And if you're a journalist, you shouldn't be centralized in New York.
	You should be out reporting from the area you're supposed to be covering.
	But we don't do that anymore.
	And then, of course, again, a lot of jokes about Fox News.
	Here is Joe Biden, this is clip 10, going after Fox News.
	Look, it's great the cable news networks are here tonight.
	MSNBC owned by NBCUniversal.
	Fox News owned by Dominion Voting Systems.
	Last year.
	Thank you.
	Your favorite Fox News reporters were able to attend because they were fully vaccinated and boosted.
	This year, with that $787 million settlement, they're here because they couldn't say no to a free meal.
	And hell, I'd call Fox honest, fair and truthful.
	But then I could be sued for defamation.
	Hahaha!
	As opposed to his friends at CNN, who are the best.
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	Okay, so Joe Biden has harsh words for Tucker Carlson, has harsh words for Ron DeSantis, and his only joke about CNN is that CNN doesn't have amazing ratings.
	See, the problem with Fox News is that they're wildly dishonest, according to Joe Biden.
	The problem with CNN, who again, are just his press office.
	The big problem for them is that they're poor.
	Look, I hope the Fox News team finds this funny.
	My goal is to make them laugh as hard as CNN did when they read the settlement.
	But then again, CNN was like, wow, they actually have $787 million.
	Whoa.
	Maybe his only decent joke of the night.
	OK, so Biden then concluded with a whole lecture about the press and his whole lecture about the press is how wonderful the press is.
	And of course, he thinks the press is wonderful.
	They are in his pocket.
	Literally.
	He literally has their questions in his pocket.
	He is able to evade all scrutiny.
	Because he's a member of the coterie.
	If you're a member of the coterie, you get away with it.
	If you're a normal person and you ask a tough question of a Democratic presidential candidate, they will wreck your life.
	Ask Joe Wurzelbacher.
	Remember Joe the Plumber back in 2008?
	Committed the great sin of asking Barack Obama a question?
	about tax policy, you remember this?
	And then they wrecked his life, they went after him on like a personal level and dug up his tax records.
	You remember that?
	If you have the temerity to ask a difficult question of a Democrat, as a common man,
	the press will investigate you.
	But if you're the president of the United States, the press will give you an award for writing pieces
	like Matt Visor about how wonderful the president of the United States is.
	They are all the same.
	But here's Joe Biden talking about in the most hypocritical, gross fashion,
	oh, the truth matters, it matters so much.
	The truth matters.
	As I said last year at this dinner, a poison is running through our democracy
	and parts of the extreme press.
	you Truth buried by lies and lies living on as truth.
	Lies told for profit and power.
	Lies of conspiracy and malice repeated over and over again.
	Designed to generate a cycle of anger, hate, and even violence.
	A cycle that emboldens.
	History to be buried.
	Books to be banned.
	Children and families to be attacked by the state.
	And the rule of law and our rights and freedoms to be stripped away.
	Where elected representatives of the people are expelled from state houses.
	We're standing for the people.
	I made clear that we know in our bones, and you know it too, our democracy remains at risk.
	Okay, so this is just a campaign speech, and the crowd are journalists, and they're all clapping because they agree with the campaign.
	If they had any balls at all, they would actually be asking him questions about the things that he is saying right now, and they never do.
	So, for example, he says in this one clip, there are a bunch of lies.
	Lie number one, he says, a cycle that emboldens history to be buried.
	So, apparently, that would be the Republicans who are trying to bury history by avoiding teaching critical race theory, which is not history.
	Somebody should ask him, which history are they actually trying to bury?
	Which history are they rewriting?
	Because it seems to me that you are rewriting American history when you suggest that American history is rooted, inherently, in racism.
	And when you say that critical race theory is the same as teaching history, you're lying.
	That's lie number one.
	Books to be banned.
	Okay, so I want to ask Joe Biden, which books are they trying to ban?
	Which books?
	If you mean that children should not be subjected to Genderqueer, a book with gay pornography in it, then yeah, are you in favor of that?
	So that'd be line number two.
	Children and families to be attacked by the state.
	Which children and families are being attacked by the state?
	Do you mean, sir, that the children and families are being attacked by the state if doctors are not allowed to genitally mutilate and hormonally sterilize children?
	So that'd be line number three.
	This is in one sentence.
	The rule of law and our rights and freedoms to be stripped away.
	Which rule of law and which rights and freedoms?
	Are you talking again about this Jim Crow 2.0 nonsense from Georgia?
	Where you pretend that Republicans are trying to stop people from voting?
	So that's line number four.
	That is in one sentence.
	Will journalists ask Joe Biden about any of that crap?
	Of course not!
	Because they are on his side.
	They are on his side.
	And then line number five.
	Elected representatives of the people are expelled from state houses for standing for the people.
	Wrong!
	They are not!
	They are expelled from state houses for violating the law and the rules of the legislature.
	Again, when Republicans who back Donald Trump riot and go into the Capitol building, you arrest them and you put them in jail for years on end.
	When members of the Statehouse in Tennessee go on the floor with a loudspeaker and embolden people to trespass and then they're expelled, then you say that this is a violation of their rights.
	Explain.
	But nobody asked for an explanation because they're all on Joe Biden's side.
	They're all on Joe Biden's side.
	And Joe Biden knows this.
	He knows this.
	And again, this is all part and parcel of the generalized angst that American people, the American voter, have with our elite class.
	And they are an elite class.
	They're the people who hang out together.
	And who pat each other's back.
	And who consider each other close friends.
	And so the question is...
	Are these friendships despite political differences, or are these friendships because the political differences don't actually matter very much?
	Because they don't actually have political differences.
	Another indicator of just how close this elite class is comes courtesy of the Wall Street Journal.
	Apparently, the nation's spy chief, a longtime college president, and a top woman in finance, the circle of people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein, years after he was a convicted sex offender, is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of documents that includes his schedules.
	William Burns, director of the CIA since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014 when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show.
	They first met in Washington and then Burns visited Epstein's townhouse in Manhattan.
	By the way, this is long after the allegations that Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking young girls.
	Catherine Rumler, a White House counsel under Barack Obama, had dozens of meetings with Epstein in the years after her White House service and before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs.
	Epstein planned for her to join a 2015 trip to Paris and a 2017 visit to Epstein's private island in the Caribbean.
	That would be the rape island.
	Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, invited Epstein, who brought a young female guest to the campus.
	Noam Chomsky was scheduled to fly with Epstein to have dinner at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse in 2015.
	None of their names appear in Epstein's now public black book of contacts or in the public flight logs of passengers who traveled on his private jet.
	The documents show Epstein arranged multiple meetings with each of them after he had served jail time in 2008 for a sex crime involving a teenage girl and was registered as a sex offender.
	The documents, which include thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017, have not been previously reported.
	Most of those people told the Journal they visited Epstein for reasons relating to his wealth and connections.
	Several said they thought he had served his time and rehabilitated himself.
	Botstein said he was trying to get Epstein to donate to his school.
	Chomsky said he and Epstein discussed political and academic topics.
	Burns met with Epstein about a decade ago as he was preparing to leave government service, said CIA spokeswoman Tammy Cooperman Thorne.
	The director didn't know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector.
	They had no relationship.
	Well, Google existed back in 2014, I noticed.
	So, again, the elite class, they hobnob with one another, not because they're having honest disagreements in which they're trying to hash out solutions, but because very often they sympathize with one another and they see each other as members of the same class.
	From Epstein Island to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, they're members of the same group.
	This is, again, when people say the Uniparty or the Blob, or they say that there's a group of people who really don't care very much about you, but they care very much about maintaining that seat at the round table at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
	This is what people are saying.
	This is what they mean.
	And this is the alien— Again, when all power— It was just a bunch of schmucks getting together in Washington, D.C.
	to pat each other on the back, and they didn't have power over your life.
	I wouldn't care, and you wouldn't care.
	We might make fun of them, and presumably that'll be the Met Gala, but when they actually have power over your life, then you start to say, wait, hold up a second.
	Hold up a second.
	Not seeing a lot of truck drivers in that room.
	Not seeing a lot of school teachers in that room.
	Not seeing a lot of cops in that room.
	I am seeing a bunch of people who sympathize with each other very largely on the most controversial issues of the day, and who see the rest of America as sort of a group of rubes, and they're willing to joke about it.
	And just one second, we'll get to the fact that again, this press contention that is in Joe Biden's pocket, they're hiding the fact that Joe Biden is actually extremely, extremely weak as a candidate.
	We'll get to that momentarily first.
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	Meanwhile, the fact is that Joe Biden needs the blob because the blob helps defend him against the fact that he's an awfully weak candidate, like a very, very weak candidate.
	So they're now trying out Bernie Sanders as a surrogate.
	This is how far left the Democratic Party has moved that Bernie Sanders, who is a nutcase socialist, who's been useless for his entire adult life.
	This guy is now like your best surrogate.
	Here's Bernie Sanders crazed socialist loon bag from Vermont.
	You're one year older than President Biden.
	Is his age something that voters should consider in 2024?
	If you believe in democracy, you want to see more people vote, not fewer people vote, I think the choice is pretty clear, and that choice is Biden's.
	And second of all, what I do believe is the Democrats and the President have got to be stronger on working class issues.
	They've got to make it clear that we believe in a government that represents all, not just the few.
	Take on the greed of the insurance companies, the drug companies, Wall Street, all the big money interests, and start delivering for working class people.
	You do that, I think Biden is going to win in a landslide.
	By the way, it is amazing how, look, Bernie Sanders' appeal is entirely the same appeal that I'm making when I talk about the White House Correspondent Center.
	And he's saying they're a group of elite people and they live out there and they really agree with each other's values and they're not fighting for the working man, right?
	That's Bernie Sanders' shtick.
	Now, he then uses that in order to push forward Joe Biden, who's part of the blob.
	I mean, Bernie is an adjunct member of the blob.
	He just pretends that he's not.
	He's been living off government largesse literally for as long as he has been 18 or older.
	But he's trying to prop up Joe Biden.
	And here's the thing.
	Joe Biden requires being propped up because he is falling over.
	I mean, literally.
	So over the weekend, he had some sort of college sports team that was going to give him like a jersey and a helmet.
	You started randomly walking away, just randomly into the crowd.
	He doesn't know where the hell he is.
	And here's Joe Biden, he's being handed a jersey.
	They're trying to give him a football and a helmet.
	Everybody's like, where are you going, Joe?
	I don't know where I'm going.
	Goodbye.
	See you later.
	I don't know.
	Everybody's like, where is he going?
	Where's that guy going?
	He's like, I need oatmeal.
	Meanwhile, Joe Biden's voters can't even explain why they like him.
	So Martha Raddatz had a very awkward exchange on ABC's This Week with a random Very a colorfully haired person talking about Joe Biden.
	She's very enthusiastic about Joe Biden.
	She could not explain why.
	Despite having voted for Biden last time, 21-year-old Elena Symes couldn't point me to anything that would make her want to vote for him again, except- What do you like about Joe Biden?
	Awkward.
	awkward. Crickets. Um. Trump. That he's not Trump.
	Bye.
	That would be it.
	That would be the only thing, right?
	This is why Donald Trump, as the nominee in 2024, understand that that is the main appeal of Joe Biden.
	It always was the main appeal of Joe Biden, but it ain't going to be enough because Joe Biden is a terrible, terrible president, which is why RFK Jr.
	is now... RFK Jr., by the way, He has said some things about the COVID vax that are true, and he's been censored for it.
	But also, he says crazy stuff about vaccines, like, all the time.
	He has been on the train of vaccines cause autism based on a completely false study for literally decades.
	He's an environmental nutcase, okay?
	But it doesn't matter, because right now, he's the only person who has really declared who has any name recognition in the Democratic primaries outside of Joe Biden, and he's currently pulling close to one-fifth of the Democratic vote.
	According to certain polls, he's pulling at 19%. 19!
	And again, RFK Jr.
	has been a wild nutbag for like his entire adult life, his entire political career.
	Here he was with Piers Morgan talking about the vaccinations and actually sounding not quite as crazy as many members of the left sound these days.
	You've been opposed to vaccines now for a long time.
	Very heavily critical of the Covid vaccine.
	That's not true.
	You're not a vaccine denier, but you are a very, very sceptical, very public voice of scepticism about the efficacy of vaccines.
	Would that be fair?
	What I've said is vaccines, I'm not anti-vaccine.
	I think vaccines should be subject to the same level of rigorous testing as other medications.
	And that is the only thing, my only position.
	Listen, I fought to get mercury out of fish for 40 years and nobody called me anti-fish.
	I'm not anti-vaccine just because I want safe vaccines.
	And I think everybody wants safe vaccines.
	And as we all now recognize, the COVID vaccines were neither safe nor effective.
	Now, by the way, I mean, RFK Jr., again, as I say, the guy is wild.
	RFK Jr., I understand that a lot of Republicans are rooting for him because they don't like Joe Biden.
	And it's kind of funny because he didn't win the nomination.
	So it's funny to watch somebody who's completely a loon.
	I mean, RFK Jr.
	is a loon.
	out there winning 20% of the Democratic vote.
	Here's why I say he's a loon.
	It's not because of the COVIDVax stuff.
	The reason he's a loon is because he literally suggested that the measles vaccine was causing a, quote, holocaust.
	Okay, that was back in like 2015.
	He has talked about, for example, the idea that Hugo Chavez was like a wonderful, wonderful leader.
	He's a nutcase, RFK Jr.
	He suggested that Charles Koch, quote, should be in jail enjoying three hots and a cot at the Hague with all the other war criminals.
	And that anybody who disagrees with him about global warming is, quote, a contemptible human being.
	And he wished there was a law that you could punish them under.
	That's who RFK, he called the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Prosperity, pretty much every conservative institution, quote, front groups that are, quote, snake pits for sociopaths.
	This is the person.
	And that guy is winning like 19% against Joe Biden right now.
	He is super duper weak.
	So Joe Biden has a strategy.
	His strategy is make sure that you got the press in your pocket.
	He's got that.
	And then he's going to try the same exact routine that Barack Obama tried in 2012 and Hillary Clinton tried in 2016, except that the sort of added benefit of he is hoping that he's running against Donald Trump.
	So the Barack Obama strategy in 2012 was different than in 2008.
	In 2008, Obama's strategy was, I'm going to run a unity campaign.
	No red states, no blue states, just the United States.
	And then by 2012, it was like, nope, we all hate each other.
	I got my group over here, my group over here.
	That'll be a lot of minorities, a lot of young people, some college educated white ladies.
	And all together, we're going to overcome the white people who back Mitt Romney.
	That's going to be our campaign.
	You got Joe Biden out there being like, yeah, Mitt Romney's going to put you all back in jail.
	It's the black people, right?
	That was the campaign in 2012.
	In 2016, Hillary tried to run that exact same campaign.
	Donald Trump is back by the deplorables, right?
	That was her routine.
	And she lost.
	And then Trump made himself really unpopular between 2016 and 2020.
	And then he lost to Joe Biden, who ran a very similar campaign to what Hillary ran in 2016.
	So he's going to do that again in 2024.
	He is going to essentially run a campaign rooted in the base, and he's going to hope that independents break for him.
	The reason he can do that is because there is a wide divide now.
	The middle of the country is fairly small.
	There's a very wide divide between Republicans and Democrats on the key issues of the day.
	So there's an interesting pullout from NBC News showing wide political polarization on a range of social issues.
	Do you want government to promote greater respect for traditional social and moral values?
	65% of Republicans say yes.
	27% of Democrats say yes.
	Do you want government to encourage greater tolerance of people with different lifestyles and backgrounds?
	66% of Democrats say yes.
	Only 18% of Republicans say yes.
	Our country needs to do more to increase social justice.
	66% of Democrats, yes.
	21% of Republicans, no.
	I mean, yes.
	21% of Republicans, yes.
	Our country needs to reduce political correctness and cancel culture.
	67% of Republicans, yes.
	19% of Democrats, yes.
	You believe we have gone too far promoting LGBTQ lifestyles in our culture?
	70% of Republicans, yes.
	12% of Democrats, yes.
	60% of Democrats think that the country needs to become more tolerant and accepting of LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign.
	10% of Republicans, agree.
	How about independents?
	Independents are fairly split.
	49% of independents pick traditional values.
	41% side with greater tolerance, which means that Joe Biden's section of the aisle is actually smaller among independents than the conservative section of the aisle.
	But he is hoping that if Republicans run somebody polarizing, namely Donald Trump, that he will be able to overcome all of that.
	And meanwhile, he will get out his base.
	This is why he's going increasingly radical on a wide variety of issues, particularly on sexual orientation and on race.
	Again, when it comes to, for example, the country going, have we gone far enough or too far or not far enough in accepting quote-unquote trans issues among independents, 50% of independents say society's gone too far.
	Only 36% say that society hasn't gone far enough, which means that independents side with Republicans on the issues.
	But that's not what Biden is hoping for.
	He is banking.
	I mean, he's purely banking on Donald Trump being the nominee because what he's hoping is the base gets out and the independents break for me because they hate Trump.
	Same formula as in 2020, which is the only reason why they continue to push forward extraordinarily radical policies with regard to LGBTQ plus IA divided by sign.
	It's also why it's idiotic for Republicans, by the way, to compromise on these issues.
	They're actually winning these issues with independents.
	And the media, doing the bidding of the Democratic Party, have decided they're just going to go full bore.
	So Chuck Todd, for example, he had on Vivek Ramaswamy, who's running for president on the Republican side of the aisle, and he starts using kind of typical far-left gender ideology rhetoric to suggest there are more than two genders.
	But below the age of 18, I think it's perfectly legitimate to say that we won't allow genital mutilation or chemical castration through puberty blockers for the purpose of gender transition.
	You're calling it that, but how do you know it's that?
	Again, how do you know?
	Are you confident that you know that gender is as binary as you're describing it?
	Are you confident that it isn't a spectrum?
	I am.
	Do you know this as a scientist?
	Well, there's two X chromosomes if you're a woman, an X and a Y. That means you're a man, so there's a biological basis for this.
	There's a lot of scientific research out there that says gender is a spectrum.
	Chuck, I respectfully disagree.
	Gender dysphoria for most of our history, all the way through the DSM-5, has been characterized as a mental health disorder, and I don't think it's compassionate to affirm that.
	I think that's cruelty.
	I just love, so Vic does a great job here.
	What I love is that Chuck Todd is just mirroring the far-left priorities of the Democratic Party.
	Because independents don't even like that stuff.
	That's what's truly amazing here.
	Independents don't even like that stuff.
	So Joe Biden is banking on the media backing him and independents breaking for him because Trump is the nominee.
	That is his basic strategy.
	And so he's doubling down and doubling down and doubling down.
	are the most radical parts of his agenda for the 2024 election.
	So again, the Democratic Party, they're just gonna keep doubling down on the radicalism here, which is why they are now promoting, as hero of the republic, Zooey Zephyr, who's a dude in Montana who says that he is a lady.
	This means that you are going to make all sorts of news, because Zooey Zephyr went on the floor of the Montana House and suggested that all of his fellow legislators had blood on their hands for not wanting to do the literal thing that puts blood on your hands, you know, generally mutilate the kids.
	Here was Zooey Zephyr saying, being trans means freedom, You can't ban gender-affirming care that's cruel and inhumane and unconstitutional, says the man.
	What does being trans mean to you, Zoe?
	Being trans is like coming home into myself.
	Now I feel fully in resonance with my own body and I am able to move forward with a life that would not have been possible prior to transition.
	A life full of joy, a life where I can For the first time, be myself and, you know, have that pursuit of happiness that our country was founded on.
	I get that now.
	It's true.
	The Declaration of Independence was founded on the idea that dudes can cut off their own junk and then pretend to be ladies.
	That is what the Declaration of... Just ask John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
	Jefferson told... Man, if you could go back in time and just ask those dudes about that, they'd have been like, yeah, freedom to be a lady.
	That's what we are all about here.
	Zephyr, of course, is hero of the Republic today because, again, Democrats have decided that cosplaying civil rights revolutions is the way that you're going to win future elections.
	So here's Zephyr with Jonathan Capehart and MSNBC doing the same routine.
	Now that Senate Bill 99 has been signed into law, what does this mean for transgender minors and the LGBT community in Montana?
	So it's important to note that this bill doesn't go into effect until October 1st, and we're going to do everything in our power to stop this bill.
	There will be court challenges and ultimately, like bills across the country, it will get defeated in these courts.
	We know these bills are as unconstitutional as they are cruel.
	Cruel and unconstitutional.
	You know what sounds even more cruel?
	It's the boyfriend of Montana Representative Zoe Zephyr, who is apparently another transgender woman.
	Apparently, Aaron Reid is an infamous trans activist on TikTok who posts videos about how children can't get access to hormones.
	These are the heroes.
	These are the heroes of the republic.
	Chelsea Clinton, by the way, is now joining the battle.
	So, Chelsea Clinton, who, again, has never earned her way through a single day of work, she tweeted out, So, I'm just going to point out at this point that no one has banned books for adults.
	books with LGBTQ plus characters and themes. Books are a vital way that children, adolescents
	and adults learn about themselves and our world. Bans such as these are nothing but
	harmful. So I'm just going to point out at this point that no one has banned books for
	adults. We have all attempted to stop children from like genderqueer is there's actual cartoons
	in this book of gay boys giving each other blowjobs.
	It's a good thing.
	That's what Chelsea Clinton wants.
	I mean, that Clinton last name, I guess.
	That's what Chelsea Clinton wants kids to be reading.
	And this is what Democrats are going to run on.
	This is why it would be so foolish for Republicans to abandon social issues.
	Asa Hutchinson apparently wants to do that.
	Asa Hutchinson was going after Ron DeSantis for going to war with Disney.
	This is a really good litmus test for Republican voters.
	If a candidate says that they side with Disney over Ron DeSantis on the question of whether Disney should get special tax breaks, benefits, a special tax district, subsidies from the state, and then turn around and use all of that largesse in order to indoctrinate small children in sexual orientation and gender identity, I don't think I want that person as the nominee.
	Here is Asa Hutchinson, who has no shot at the nomination.
	As a small government conservative, which you just repeated here, what's your take on leaders in your party, Ron DeSantis among them, who are actively using the government to change social policy and wage culture wars?
	Well, let's be more specific about Disney.
	I don't like what Disney said about the legislation that I would have supported in Florida, but it's not the role of government to punish a business when you disagree with what they're saying or a position that they take.
	Well, is it the role of business to, in absolutely ultra crepedarian fashion, speaking outside their purview, go after sexual indoctrination of children and take tax benefits at the same time?
	I didn't realize that Disney had a right to its own tax benefits.
	But this is, you know, presumably going to be the fight the Democrats want to wage.
	Meanwhile, on the race fight, same sort of thing.
	So that NBC News poll, by the way, showed that some 59% of Americans say that America is a racist country, which is why, presumably, Joe Biden is going to double down on that come the campaign.
	It's why they've decided to make cosplay civil rights heroes out of Tennessee State Representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones.
	Those are the Tennessee legislators who, again, went on the floor of the Tennessee Statehouse and yelled in bullhorns and violated all the rules and then got expelled from the chamber before they're reinstated by their local city councils or whatever.
	Here is Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson saying the status quo is propping up white supremacy and patriarchy, he said, from his position of extraordinary Cultural power, because the media love him so.
	You and your generation and people like you and Zoe Zephyr and Maxwell Frost, you're not afraid to break the china.
	Ah, so much realism.
	We have to realize that we are in a really important moment in the movement, not just in a moment.
	And for our entire generation, which recognizes that the opportunity that we have cannot be wasted by going along with the status quo as usual.
	The status quo has propped up white supremacy and patriarchy and injustice.
	Man, this dude is such a bad actor.
	He's such a bad actor.
	But he's, again, new hero of the Republic.
	So watch for Joe Biden to run his campaign the same way Barack Obama did in 2012, Hillary in 2016, Biden in 2020.
	It's the same campaign over and over.
	American society is racist and terrible and bigoted and homophobic and all the rest of it.
	Vote for me.
	And then hope that Republicans run somebody really, really unpopular.
	That's got to be his only campaign because he can't run on the economy.
	He cannot run on the economy.
	Over the weekend, First Republic Bank was seized and sold to JP Morgan.
	So according to the Wall Street Journal, regulators seized First Republic Bank.
	They struck a deal to sell the bulk of its operations to JP Morgan.
	Morgan said it will assume all of First Republic's $92 billion in deposits, insured and uninsured.
	It's also buying most of the bank's assets, including about $173 billion in loans and $30 billion in securities.
	As part of the agreement, the FDIC is going to share losses with JPMorgan on First Republic loans.
	The agency estimated its insurance fund would take a hit of about $13 billion.
	That means you.
	JPMorgan also said it would receive $50 billion in financing from the FDIC.
	This would be the second largest bank to fail in American history.
	It lost $100 million in deposits in March following a run, rooted again, on Silicon Valley Bank.
	And that was rooted on the fact that the Joe Biden administration created 40-year inflation and then had to jack up those interest rates in order to jack down the inflation.
	By the way, the inflation is not over yet.
	Apparently, the Federal Reserve is still considering, again, more interest rate increases, which it must, because they've got another problem.
	Their bigger problem right now is that if that inflation rate continues to be 6, 7, 8 percent, this is going to get baked into the American economy beyond repair.
	Wages are going to continue their decline.
	Apparently, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet is loaded with bonds purchased to support the economy during the crisis.
	It might currently be insulating Wall Street from the effects of its interest rate policy.
	So in other words, the Federal Reserve bought its own bonds in order to inflate the currency, and so now they'll take the hit.
	Which means higher taxes for you later, or more inflation later, but maybe they'll stop it right now.
	And it's all just, it's just garbage, which is why, according to Tyler Durden, writing for Zero Hedge, the U.S.
	recession probability has now reached 67%.
	Very, very, very high possibility of a serious recession.
	Assuming the Fed follows through on hiking federal funds rates by another quarter point next week, the probability of official recession will continue to rise.
	So get ready for it.
	This is what Joe Biden has brought you.
	He's brought you an actual recession.
	And meanwhile, Joe Biden apparently wants to exacerbate that by not even negotiating over the GOP debt ceiling proposal.
	They think that this will force President Biden to come to the negotiating table.
	administration. He says that the debt limit bill that was passed by Republicans in the House,
	which essentially cut spending, and by cut spending I mean to 2022 levels with a 1%
	increase year over year, that apparently is too radical for James Clyburn and Joe Biden to even
	negotiate. They think that this will force President Biden to come to the negotiating table.
	Does it? Absolutely not.
	That bill's gonna get over to the Senate.
	In fact, it may die somewhere around Statuary Hall before it ever gets over to the Senate.
	So it will be dead on arrival.
	It's dead on arrival.
	They're not even gonna negotiate.
	In the middle of an economic downturn.
	Slow clap for these geniuses.
	They're doing an amazing, amazing job.
	Alrighty, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
	So, things that I like today.
	A white councilperson in Indiana is now identifying as female and black.
	And it is hilarious to watch the media attempt to take this seriously.
	Because remember, what the media would prefer right now is to pretend that a man can become a woman, but that a black person can't become white and a white person can't become black.
	So they say that even though race is less a biological component of human existence with way fuzzier boundaries than, for example, sex.
	Sex is completely dichotomous in human and all mammalian biology.
	They want to pretend a man can become a woman, but a white man can't become a black man.
	But here is a white man who says he is a black woman.
	And now the media are forced to actually treat this idiocy with respect.
	So I love it.
	Consequences for your own stupid ideas.
	Here is the Indiana media coverage.
	A councilman is coming out as transgender and a woman of color.
	Delaware County Councilman Ryan Webb announced that he now identifies as an Indian American woman.
	Since that announcement, he's received some support, but a lot of backlash.
	Many calling him childish, despicable, even calling for things like execution.
	In a statement Webb gave to ITMate, he says, quote, it is unfortunate that I cannot simply be given the same
	space and respect to explore my identity that so many of those targeting me demand for themselves.
	It's possible I may change my mind down the road.
	The process of identity exploration is complex, and oftentimes, at the end of our personal journey, we end right back where we started.
	Webb goes on to tell IT Mate this is just his true, authentic self.
	Okay, so, the entire left is like, this is not legitimate!
	This is terrible!
	How could he do such a thing?
	Well, I don't think you have to use he.
	She.
	She said that she was an Indian-American woman of color.
	And so you will respect the pronouns.
	You WILL respect the pronouns.
	According to the UK Daily Mail, a white Republican councilman in Indiana has sparked outrage after jokingly declaring himself a lesbian woman of color in a Facebook post made earlier this month.
	The announcement sparked outrage from people calling Webb pathetic and for his perceived mockery of LGBT groups as well as marginalized groups.
	Charlize Jamison, a transgender resident, said his words not only embarrass himself, but you, the county council.
	Other members have now called him out for inciting hate against transgender people.
	How could they?
	He is one of them.
	I don't understand.
	Why is this a problem?
	Webb first shared his true self with the world on April 12th.
	He said, whoo, that finally felt good to get that out there and start living my life as my true self.
	I'm excited to bring some diversity to the county council.
	Until today, we didn't have any females of color or LGBTQIAPC++ on the council.
	I'm glad that we do now.
	He said he will still go by Ryan, he will still keep his pronouns he-him, but this will in no way diminish my true identity as a woman of color, he says.
	In a later edit, he doubled down on his statements, declaring himself the first lesbian woman of color in the county council's history.
	He says it has come to my attention.
	I'm more than likely the very first lesbian woman of color in the history of Delaware County to ever serve on the Delaware County Council.
	I'm honored to be the one to shatter that glass ceiling.
	Hashtag girl power.
	And people are very angry.
	Very, very angry.
	Why are you angry, guys?
	I understand.
	This beautiful woman is just coming out as who she is.
	How dare you?
	How dare you?
	Dana Black, host of the Turn Left podcast said, I'm hoping this individual is not making a mockery of what it means to be more in a marginalized community.
	I have a feeling that's exactly what's happening.
	That's exactly what's happening.
	I'm sorry that your own stupid ideas came back to bite you directly on the ass.
	Now, I do have to demonstrate to you how far we have come as a society.
	So here is a clip.
	This is from the show, The Doctors, a few years back.
	And it featured a person who called themselves TransBlind.
	Her name is Jewel.
	I mean, it's a horrifying story.
	TransBlind is a person who felt that they were a blind person in a sighted body, and so she blinded herself with cleaning fluid.
	Now watch as the doctors, again, this is on a network daytime show, watch as the doctors explain that this is horrible and actually morally evil.
	Here we go.
	I believe I should have been born blind, and I'm happy the way I am.
	I do have some regrets about the way I did it, but in the end I'm happy the way I am.
	Dr. Phil, with all due respect to Jewel, but I am having a really hard time.
	Really hard time.
	Sitting so close to someone who traumatized herself, who damaged herself.
	We took an oath in medicine to help people.
	We see horrible tragedies every single day as doctors and people who would give anything to go back and restore Their vision, their health.
	My heart is beating out of my chest.
	I can't even make sense of the emotions I'm feeling because to hear someone say, I've always felt I should be blind.
	Well, I've always felt I should be the Queen of England, but I'm not going out to become the Queen of England.
	And there's the crowd clapping.
	It was just a few years ago, guys.
	Now, if that woman had said, I always felt like a man, so I sewed a fake penis onto myself, the entire crowd would be like, oh, hero.
	Hero of the Republic.
	That's a man.
	Or maybe we've all gone crazy, and our society is insane because we've lost all objective standards of truth, knowledge, right, and wrong, and we've decided that subjective happiness, as defined by the person in the moment, is the only thing that matters.
	Well, there are consequences to that.
	The consequences are you have to accept all of this.
	You have to pretend all of this is good and decent.
	Do that same exact segment now, and I dare somebody to say what that doctor says on Dr. Phil right there.
	No one would say.
	You couldn't get that same doctor to say that same exact thing about the same exact person today.
	It would just be too awkward.
	You can't do it.
	Okay, time for some things that I hate.
	Okay, so thing that I hate today.
	It is amazing how the media are capable of changing a narrative that is clearly about illegal immigration into a narrative about guns.
	So, there is a horrific story over the weekend in which a 38-year-old illegal immigrant named Francisco Oropesa started shooting at a random family.
	Apparently, here is what happened.
	Apparently, he shot and killed five Honduran nationals after one of them complained of him firing a rifle outside shortly before midnight on Friday night.
	Of the ten people living at the home at the time of the shooting, five are now dead.
	The five decedents are aged 31, 25, 21, 18, and 8.
	The eight-year-old boy reportedly died at the hospital.
	The four other victims were found dead at the scene.
	And then this person fled.
	He's considered armed and dangerous.
	So the original story, as sort of reported by the media, is that there was a Texas man and he was shooting in his backyard and people confronted him about shooting a gun in his backyard and he proceeded to murder five people.
	That's not the actual story here.
	The actual story is, you know how many times this person has now been deported?
	According to Breitbart, immigration officers deported the Mexican man wanted in connection to Friday night's alleged murder of 500 nationals on three occasions.
	The most recent removal came in 2016.
	San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told Breitbart Texas on Sunday, U.S.
	ICE officers deported this shooter, a Mexican national now wanted for the five alleged murders, three separate times.
	Three times!
	And this person ended up back in the United States murdering five people.
	The media, of course, pretended that none of this occurred.
	Virtually every headline featuring this shooting in Texas that left five dead, Virtually every single thing left left out the illegal immigrant background.
	So I'm just going to read you a series of headlines.
	Quote, five dead in Texas shooting armed suspect on the loose.
	That's Reuters.
	NBC News authorities say they have zero leads in manhunt for suspects who allegedly killed five neighbors in Texas.
	So, Governor Abbott pointed out this is an illegal immigrant.
	He shouldn't have been in the country in the first place.
	Thanks, federal government.
	And people are mad at him for saying that.
	The AR-15 is obviously the problem.
	Not the illegal immigration system that has allowed this person to illegally cross the border three separate times in order to murder five people in the United States.
	The media can turn anything into the narrative that they so choose.
	It is perfectly obvious this is a story about illegal immigration.
	It's a person who crossed the border, he's a criminal, crossed the border three separate times, ended up in the United States, committed a horrific crime.
	Is that about the gun?
	Or is that about the person?
	Meanwhile, in an attempt to avoid, you know, any real headline about illegal immigration, I have to say, the great irony of Democrats complaining about illegal immigrants arriving in their city, it's amazing.
	So, According to WTTW.com, which is a PBS offshoot, Chicago is now facing a humanitarian crisis amid a renewed surge of migrants from the southern border.
	The Chicago City Council will soon be asked to spend $53 million from the city's budget surplus to care for the thousands of people who have already made their way to Chicago, according to city officials.
	More than 8,100 people, most of them from Central and South America, have arrived in Chicago since August 31st.
	That is when Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent the first bus of migrants to Chicago.
	According to a letter, Mayor Lori Lightfoot sent to the City Council on Friday, acknowledging that once again the city's shelter system is bursting at the seams.
	That has forced dozens of men, women, and children to sleep on the floor of police stations across the city while they wait for beds, according to officials.
	Immigrants who arrived by plane are also sleeping at O'Hare.
	Lori Lightfoot is really mad about it.
	Alderman Brian Sigcho Lopez with the 25th Ward says this is inhumane.
	Officials are saying we're using every tool in our toolbox.
	They're begging Greg Abbott not to send more illegal immigrants to Chicago.
	Yeah, it's all fun and games when tens of thousands of people are arriving every single month on the southern border in the United States and then being let loose into Texas cities.
	The minute they arrive in Chicago, it's a humanitarian crisis.
	Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
	You guys all vote for the administration that likes the open border?
	Deal with it.
	Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.
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