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June 22, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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The Schiff Hits The Fan

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	Well, you'll recall that Adam Schiff, the congressperson from California, he's currently running for Senate, and as always, two things can be true at once.
	Republicans ought to have censored him in the House of Representatives.
	He is a liar, and he has been lying for years on end.
	He spent years with a pup tent right outside the CNN green room,
	waiting to be called in so he could explain that Donald Trump was in the
	coordination of Russia, that he was essentially a cat's paw for
	Vladimir Putin and all the rest.
	It turns out all of that was a lie.
	He kept saying that he had access to special information that was gonna blow
	the cover off of this entire scandal.
	And he's one of the people who kept throwing gasoline on the flames
	in that particular non-scandal.
	Well, now he has been censured by the House of Representatives.
	That is one thing that can be true.
	The other thing that can be true is that because the Republicans just did this, it probably elevates him in his senatorial primary race in California to replace the late Dianne Feinstein.
	She's not dead, but she may as well be at this point because she is going to be out of Congress in the next run, and she is not fully sentient even in the moment.
	According to Roll Call, Schiff was censured by the House Wednesday.
	But as he stood in the well to hear Speaker Kevin McCarthy announce the finding, fellow Democrats jammed the aisles, shouting shame and disgrace at the GOP majority while cheering Schiff and patting him on the back.
	Because the way that this works in Democrat land is the more lies you tell about Republicans, the more you are treasured among Democrats.
	Here is what it looked like on the House floor when the vote went through to censure Adam Schiff.
	On this vote, the ayes are 213 and the nays are 209, with six answering present.
	The resolution adopted.
	Without objection, the motion to consider is laid on the table.
	House will be in order.
	These are Democrats cheering shame.
	They're chanting shame.
	Apparently not realizing that it's the bad guys in Game of Thrones who chant shame at people.
	They're standing in the well of the House, an intimidating group of elderly white people chanting shame over Adam Schiff.
	And then he comes through and he's being patted on the back by the Democrats and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
	Floor representative Ana Paulina Luna was the one who offered the resolution to censure the former House Intelligence Committee chairman.
	By the way, there was a big non-troversy.
	Just a week ago, when the censure was brought forth in the House, and some representatives on the Republican side voted against it, not because they didn't want to censure Adam Schiff, but because the original form of the censure was actually unconstitutional, it required something like a $16 million fine of Adam Schiff, and Thomas Massey, a great congressperson from Kentucky, Massey had suggested that we don't want to set this precedent where the House is simply removing wealth From its members over political disagreements, because that's a really, really bad way to go.
	Democrats will undoubtedly use it on the other side.
	So a better form of this thing passed with 213 votes all from the Republicans, 209 against all Democrats.
	The resolution argued that Schiff abused his power as the ranking member and chair of the panel, and falsely spread allegations about Trump's 2016 campaign collusion with Russia.
	Democrats said that Schiff was being targeted as Trump faces legal troubles.
	The vote came a week after, as I say, 20 Republicans voted with Democrats to table a similar measure.
	Again, a lot of people were very angry at Thomas Massie at the time, but Massie was right, and a lot of people who were angry at him were wrong.
	He had suggested change the form, and we'll vote it out of committee, and then we'll do this thing.
	Schiff, yesterday, tried to defend himself.
	He called himself a truth teller.
	Adam Schiff needs to grow a third arm so he can pat himself on the back a little bit more.
	You honor me with your enmity.
	You flatter me with this falsehood.
	You, who are the authors of a big lie about the last election, must condemn the truth-tellers, and I stand proudly before you.
	Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and I am grateful.
	Representative Tom McClintock said that this was really not punishing him for the things that he was saying.
	It was really more about specific acts, quote, most particularly the abuse of his position as intelligence
	chairman by implying he had access to classified information that
	did not exist and his placement into the congressional record of the Steele
	dossier that he knew or should have known was false.
	Schiff, of course, has been fundraising off of all of this.
	He sent out an email on Tuesday night saying, quote, these political smear tactics divert the resources of the House away from pressing priorities.
	This is always my favorite thing is when people like, oh, the Congress, they have pressing.
	The Congress has never had a pressing priority.
	They are a useless legislative body that achieves very little on a daily basis.
	They should go to part time like most state legislatures do.
	Meanwhile, Representative Bennie Thompson.
	These attempts to censor Adam have been orchestrated to distract, but no one is fooled.
	Extreme mega-Republicans are targeting Adam because he's everything they wish they could be.
	be jealous of Adam Schiff. That's like, what is there to be jealous of? But here we go anyway.
	These attempts to censor Adam have been orchestrated to distract, but no one is fooled.
	Extreme mega Republicans are targeting Adam because he's everything they wish they could be.
	He's tough, he's principled, and he's effective.
	He is so tough, he's so principled, and he is so effective that he
	was involved in a couple of impeachments of Trump.
	Neither one of them ended up sticking in the Senate.
	And also now he has been censured by the House of Representatives.
	But it shows you the kayfabe that really is at the heart of so much congressional politics these days.
	The truth is that censures very rarely have any material effect.
	Sure, they have a symbolic impact when you censure somebody who's in the house, but it's not as though you're kicking them out.
	You're not impeaching them.
	It has no real impact on anything that they are doing in their life.
	They didn't strip him of his committee assignments, for example, which theoretically they could have done.
	Maybe that's the next step here.
	You know, Schiff benefits, the people who are attacking him benefit.
	So everybody goes home happy at the end of the day.
	Representative Daniel Goldman, who again is one of the lawyers, he was one of the lawyers in the impeachment attempt against Donald Trump.
	I believe the Ukraine impeachment attempt.
	He was very upset.
	He suggested the Republicans have no ground to stand on because they're the party of George Santos.
	Now again, the problem for Schiff is not that he lied about his own personal activities, which is what George Santos has done.
	George Santos is a running joke.
	It's not as though the censure of George Santos would make any difference, but I suppose you could do it.
	But Adam Schiff was literally lying about abusing his position as intelligence chair.
	Here's Goldman.
	Boy, is Adam Schiff powerful.
	He can at once be the chairman of the intelligence committee, the special counsel investigating Donald Trump, Manage and run the FBI and be a judge ruling on FISA applications.
	It is remarkable that he, from his perch in Congress, can do all of that.
	There is nothing in this motion, this resolution, that is true.
	One of my colleagues says, we will hold members accountable.
	I'm going to yield the gentleman an additional 20 seconds.
	Gentleman's recognized.
	One of my colleagues says, we will hold members accountable.
	You are the party of George Santos!
	Who are you holding accountable?
	The guy is an alleged and acknowledged liar and indicted, and you protect him every day.
	What a warrior for truth is Daniel Goleman, who's involved in both impeachment attempts.
	Worth noting here, just at this point for all the class warriors on the left who are big Daniel Goleman fans, he is the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.
	He's worth about $250 million, that particular congressperson.
	All on merit, guys.
	Just all on merit.
	In just a second, we'll get to the other big congressional event of the day, and that was the arrival of Special Counsel John Durham on Capitol Hill to testify about his bombshell report from a little bit earlier this year.
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	Okay, meanwhile, the other big event on Capitol Hill yesterday, was the testimony of Special Counsel John Durham.
	According to Politico, Durham testified for over five hours before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday over the details of a 360-page report that he released earlier this year that was all about the origins of the so-called Crossfire Hurricane investigation that was the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion.
	That report, if you'll recall, was just an absolute disaster for Democrats.
	I called it maybe the worst political scandal in American history.
	Nobody actually took it seriously in the press because to do so would have been devastating for the Obama administration in particular.
	As I wrote at the time, Crossfire Hurricane was an initiative based on sheer conjecture.
	That was conjecture that was created whole cloth by Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
	Durham reports that in late July 2016, Australia provided information to the U.S.
	Embassy in London surrounding conversations between Australian diplomats and a low-level Trump foreign policy advisor named George Papadopoulos, in which Papadopoulos had allegedly suggested that the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist in the process of releasing information about Hillary Clinton.
	That information was the predicate for the entire Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
	The FBI basically greenlit the investigation within days of receiving that flimsy information, Peter Strzok, who is an ardent Trump hater, he helped initiate that investigation.
	The investigation, Zoram notes, was launched before any dialogue with Australia or the intelligence community prior to any critical analysis of the information itself.
	So basically, they heard a rumor that a very low-level Trump official had mentioned Russia in a conversation, and they launched the Trump-Russia investigation.
	So what exactly prompted their eagerness to launch?
	The FBI, as Jerome acknowledges, was already in possession of the Steele dossier, which is the lies and innuendo compiled by Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton's law firm, at the behest of the Clinton campaign.
	The FBI had also been approached by a second source working with Fusion GPS in July of 2016.
	Apparently, there was a push for an investigation prompted by the desires of the Clinton campaign and the perceived necessity of stopping Trump.
	The FBI's assistant legal attache in London knew that this information was not good enough to be the predicate for an investigation.
	He said that the FBI management was pushing the matter so hard there is, quote, no stopping the train, making it his job to grease the skids.
	Meanwhile, in July 2016, U.S.
	intelligence agencies already knew that Russia was saying that Hillary was basically trumping all of this up.
	On August 3rd, CIA Director John Brennan, quote, met with the president, vice president, and other senior administration officials, including but not limited to the attorney general and the FBI director, and briefed them on the so-called the Clinton plan.
	The Clinton plan was, of course, her plan to turn Trump-Russia into a major campaign issue by laundering this into public view.
	Nobody at that point decided to put a hold on the Trump-Russia investigation to investigate whether it was coming from Hillary.
	Instead, they just jumped full-scale both feet into the middle of this thing.
	As I wrote at the time, that collusion is significantly worse than Watergate, involves the former Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for president laundering false intelligence information to the FBI, and the FBI overseen by that candidate's political allies in the Obama administration using that information as the predicate for a full-scale investigation, knowing full well that the Clinton campaign could well be behind the allegations in the first place and they went forward with it anyway.
	And that is essentially what Durham testified yesterday.
	He testified yesterday that FBI agents had actually come to him personally to apologize for having been involved in the thing at all.
	Here was John Durham yesterday.
	Mr. Durham, in your report, and again here today, you said that your findings and conclusions are sobering.
	Could you unpack a little bit more what that means?
	Why do you say sobering?
	Well, let me give you some real life views on that.
	I have had any number of FBI agents who I've worked with over the years, some of whom are retired, some are still in place, who have come to me and apologized for the manner in which that investigation was undertaken.
	I take that seriously.
	These are good, hardworking, majority of people in the FBI, decent human beings who swear under their oaths to abide by the law.
	In fact, Durham went on to explain that James Comey had full knowledge that the Hillary Clinton campaign was attempting to launder the Steele dossier into public view, and he didn't inform his lower-down FBI agents that this was happening.
	So he basically created a Chinese screen between the information about the Hillary Clinton campaign laundering this stuff, and the FBI agents who are then tasked with investigating the underlying material, which is insane.
	So the same FBI agents who were being tasked with tracking down false information, information that had largely been propagated by the Hillary Clinton campaign, had never been told that Hillary Clinton was actually the one behind all of this and that her campaign was the one behind all of this.
	Here's Durham testifying that James Comey, then the head of the FBI, hid Clinton's campaign plan from his own FBI agents.
	Mr. Durham, in the summer of 2016, did our government receive intelligence that suggested Secretary Clinton had approved a plan to tie President Trump to Russia?
	Yes.
	Did he share it with the agents on the case, working the Crossfire Hurricane case?
	No.
	Didn't share with the agents on the case.
	Can you tell the committee what happened when you took that referral memo and shared it with one of those agents, specifically Supervisory Special Agent Number One?
	We interviewed the first supervisor of the crossfire investigation, the operational person.
	We showed him the intelligence information.
	He indicated he had never seen it before.
	He immediately became emotional, got up and left the room with his lawyer.
	Spent some time in the hallway, came back.
	He was ticked off, wasn't he?
	He was ticked off because this is something he should have had as an agent on the case.
	This is important information that the director of the FBI kept from the people doing the investigation.
	The information was kept from him.
	As Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air points out, in other words, the director of the FBI knowingly withheld evidence pertinent to an FBI investigation that resulted not just in errors made by the agents conducting the investigation that might have resulted ending what turned out to be a witch hunt, but also contributed to misrepresentations to the FISA court about the nature of the evidence they were using to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign figures.
	That FISA court, you'll recall, was handed a warrant to surveil Carter Page, who was, again, a low-level Trump campaign foreign policy advisor.
	And they put forward a FISA warrant on the basis of essentially false information that was being trafficked by the Hillary Clinton campaign, not knowing that it was false information being trafficked by the Hillary Clinton campaign because James Comey had refused to actually tell them.
	As Ed points out, Comey knew it, but made sure the agents assigned to the case did not.
	So did Obama, Lynch, and Biden.
	All of those officeholders lied publicly about the nature of the rumors and innuendo consistently for months.
	Obama himself ramped up his rhetoric about Russian interference in the weeks following this briefing, which certainly seems as though Brennan's briefing resulted more in a political campaign strategy than in concern over the security of American elections.
	All the top officials in the Obama administration knew that Hillary Clinton was behind the Trump-Russia collusion narrative entirely, and they went out and they promoted it anyway.
	Which, you want to talk election interference, that is high-level election interference.
	As Durham says, the FBI itself, they had tons of red flags, they ignored all of them.
	We'll get to that momentarily first.
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	Okay, so...
	John Durham testified yesterday that the FBI basically ignored all the red flags in initiating this investigation into Donald Trump and Trump-Russia collusion.
	Again, this is relevant also to the censure of Adam Schiff because Adam Schiff was fully aware of virtually all of this stuff when he was still promoting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax for years on end, saying that he had access to secret information via the Intelligence Committee when apparently he had none.
	Here's John Durham saying every red flag was ignored here.
	From the report, I gathered that key FBI leaders all the way at the top Yes.
	were predisposed to go after candidate Trump.
	This bias likely affected the conduct of FBI personnel in this investigation.
	Is that true?
	Yes.
	Can you describe that for a moment?
	How did confirmation bias play into this?
	Confirmation bias, as was alluded to, has to do with our human tendency to accept things
	that we already think are true and to reject anything else.
	In this instance, there are any number of significant red flags that were raised that
	If there's evidence that was inconsistent with the narrative, they didn't pay attention to it.
	They didn't explore it.
	They didn't take the logical investigative steps that should have been taken.
	Well, all this ticked off the Democrats to no end because what he is suggesting here is systemic failure.
	And it's not just a question of a few bad apples, the Andy McCabe's and the James Comey's.
	This was a rot at the top of the FBI.
	There was open political coordination.
	Here was Durham saying, we need some form of accountability here.
	Well, I'm encouraged by some of the reforms that have been implemented by the FBI.
	The problems identified in this report, anybody who actually reads the report and the details of the report, The documented portions of the report, I think, would find that the problems identified in the report are not susceptible to overnight fixes.
	As we said in the report, they cannot be addressed solely by enhancing training or additional policy requirements.
	Rather, what is required is accountability, both in terms of the standards to which our law enforcement personnel hold themselves, And in the consequences they face for violation of laws and policies.
	One of the things that was amazing here was the response by Democrats on the committees.
	The response by Democrats on the committee was not specific questions that actually targeted the content of what Durham was saying.
	Instead they just went after him personally.
	So Steve Cohen...
	Who's a Democratic congressperson from Tennessee, started ripping into Durham and saying, you've sullied your reputation, says a man with hair directly.
	He looks like Jerry Garcia in his later days at this point, does Steve Cohen.
	Here we go.
	Your reputation will be damaged.
	As everybody's reputation who gets involved with Donald Trump is damaged, he's damaged goods, there's no good dealing with him, because you will end up on the bottom of a pyre.
	I yield back the balance of my time.
	Sure.
	Can we presume the gentleman's undecided on how he feels about the former president?
	Gentlemen, witness can respond.
	Yeah, my concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect, my family and my Lord, and I'm Perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir.
	Well, that is a very, very good answer.
	We'll get to more Democratic attacks on Durham for the crime of speaking the truth on all this in just a second, including Adam Schiff, who decided to sign into the conversation first.
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	Rules and restrictions Okay, so Democrats continued their assault on John Durham, the special counsel for the great crime of unveiling the level of coordination between the Obama White House, the FBI, the DOJ, and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
	Representative Cori Bush, and this really speaks to, again, the mentality the Democrats have about Donald Trump.
	Everything is fair in love and destroying Donald Trump.
	Representative Cori Bush, the BLM congresswoman from Missouri, she says that what Durham is trying to do is redeem a former white supremacist-in-chief.
	Wow, that sort of really well-thought-out language is what's going to convince people there, Cori.
	St.
	Louis and I are here today to set the record straight about this political investigation conducted on behalf of the twice-impeached, twice-indicted former white supremacist-in-chief Donald Trump.
	From the start, this entire investigation has been an attempt to undermine the findings of the Mueller investigation and distract the people of this country from Donald Trump's corruption.
	Again, this is all that it comes down to for Democrats, is that as long as you're going after Donald Trump, anything is justified, which explains exactly why Adam Schiff made a liar of himself.
	Here was Schiff himself signing into this debate, saying that, you know, the real question here is whether Donald Trump is a good man or a bad man.
	Well, that isn't the question.
	The question here is rule of law and whether you ought to exploit the office that you hold in order to lie to the American public to get somebody you don't like.
	What did you make of that exchange?
	And his responses are in direct contradiction to the Mueller report.
	Well, he was really trying to downplay the significance of the President's son being offered dirt on Hillary Clinton, something that was represented to Don Jr.
	as part of the Russian government's effort to help the Trump campaign, taking a secret meeting to receive that information, along with the campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, along with his brother-in-law, Jared Kushner.
	He wanted to downplay it.
	He wanted to minimize it.
	He wanted to suggest, well, this happens all the time.
	And in that answer, And so many others, what it really betrayed is exactly what he accused the FBI of, and that is confirmation bias.
	You could really see his bias into thinking that what the Trump campaign did was fine, that he wasn't going to call it collusion, even though there is no other name for what the Trump campaign tried to do.
	Well, I mean, there is another name.
	Because if that's collusion, then so is Hillary Clinton coordinating with Ukrainian sources to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign, which is something that actively happened during the 2016 campaign.
	There's a reason Adam Schiff was censured.
	He should be censured.
	He is just a smarmy.
	He is a smarmy corrupt politician.
	And meanwhile, one other thing happened on the Hill yesterday, and this is worth noting, mainly because it's hilarious to watch as the left continues to be Completely unable to define the difference between men and women.
	So yesterday, there was a hearing in the House with regard to whether women should be allowed their own spaces in sports.
	That men, like Leah Thomas, are not allowed to walk full twig and berries into ladies' locker rooms a-dangling.
	And this became a point of hot contention among Democrats.
	It was pretty awkward when Kelly Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, was asked about, are there any differences between men and women?
	And Kelly Robinson was like, well, I don't know.
	Ms.
	Robinson, do you agree with Ms.
	Gaines that there's a difference between women and men?
	If the question is about trans women... I'm just asking, is there a difference between women and men?
	What I can say is that the NCAA has rules in place.
	They've had rules in place for the last decade, and when this competition happened, the rules were clear.
	Okay, I'm going to try again.
	Do you believe there's a difference between women and men?
	It's a yes-no question.
	Do you believe there's a difference?
	Oh, I think that we're talking about this case with the NCAA.
	No, I'm asking a question.
	Do you believe there's a difference between women and men?
	Most people could answer this very simply.
	I'm curious if you're willing to do so.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I'm just putting it into the context of the conversation that we're having.
	I think that there are definitions related to sex.
	So I'm trying to get a yes or no.
	I'm not trying to get a speech.
	Is there a difference between women and men?
	I think that there are definitions for biological sex.
	The inability of these people to just say the obvious because they have convinced themselves they must never say the thing that is true is truly amazing.
	Actually, the same Democratic witness from the human rights campaign just got absolutely...
	BTFO by Riley Gaines.
	So Riley Gaines, the former champion swimmer who's out swam by a dude in Leah Thomas and has been talking about the predations of men in women's sports for a while.
	This Democratic witness was asked whether if there's no difference between men and women, then why is it that men who compete in women's sports are dominating them?
	And she actually tried to make the case that women can dominate and routinely dominate men in sport.
	And so she was asked specifically to name such a situation.
	It went very, very poorly.
	You don't believe that a biological male has a physical advantage in sports over a biological female?
	Not as a definitive statement.
	Give me an example.
	Well, no, I don't think... How many female members of the NBA do you see?
	Well, I can say that, you know, there's been this news article about men that think that they could beat Serena Williams in tennis, right?
	That they think that they could actually score a point on her.
	And it's just not the case.
	She is stronger than that.
	What's your experience, Ben?
	Male, female.
	Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player, which they're phenoms for women.
	My experience, my husband, he swam at University of Kentucky as well.
	In terms of accolades and in terms of national ranking, I was a much better swimmer than him.
	He could kick my butt any day of the week.
	If you want to check out a YouTube interview I did with Riley Gaines on particularly this topic, it's really entertaining and worthwhile.
	That's very funny.
	When the human rights campaign lady's like, well, Serena Williams beats men, and then Riley Gaines is like, no she doesn't.
	By the way, worth noting, in that particular Serena Venus Williams story, they wanted to play a man, so the 203rd ranked man, not only did he defeat them in straight sets, He also did so while smoking between the actual sets.
	He was smoking and having beer between the sets.
	Again, that is not a rip-off.
	I mean, Serena has said this herself, but once the lie has been promulgated by the left, they must keep repeating it until it becomes true.
	Which is how you end up with the bizarre situation that six in ten Democrats now claim that a woman can become a man and a man can become a woman, which is just amazing, amazing stuff.
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	They thought yesterday that they were hearing knocking from the seafloor.
	It now turns out that they're not sure whether that knocking was actually coming from the submersible or whether it was just equipment that was dropping off of the Titanic because the Titanic itself continues to decay, of course.
	According to the UK Daily Mail, the Coast Guard is still saying that they are hunting for these Titanic 5.
	And they're looking for survivors, but oxygen supply has apparently run out.
	The Ocean Gate co-founder says that it's possible that they have more oxygen down there or it's possible that if in fact they go unconscious because of lack of oxygen, they will be consuming less oxygen, but...
	It seems almost certain that this is going to end in absolute tragedy.
	According to the Daily Mail, Rear Admiral John Malgar of the U.S.
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	Asked about the banging noise, he said initial analysis suggested they were background ocean noise, but this was still being examined.
	So yesterday there was a lot of talk about the idea that maybe the banging that they were hearing was people inside the submersible banging to try and send some sonar Indicators that they were still down there or where they were, but they haven't even found the submersible as of this morning.
	Those stuck on board the sub include British billionaire Hamish Harding, Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush, French Navy veteran Ph.
	Nargileh, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his son Suleyman, who's just 19.
	A deepwater robot sub reached the Atlantic floor.
	Another is descending the 12,500 feet of ocean fast.
	The Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic has deployed an ROV that reached the sea floor and began its search for the missing sub, according to a spokesperson.
	A friendship viewed as the best and final hope of finding the missing Titanic submersible has also dropped its remote-controlled sub to find the five missing adventurers.
	Now, again, as we mentioned yesterday, This just there's certain things that seem like a bad idea and it turns out that getting into a jerry-rigged contraption to travel 13,000 feet below sea surface is a bad idea.
	Here was Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush in one of his last interviews over the course of last year talking about how he wasn't worried that much about safety.
	I couldn't help noticing how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised.
	We can use these off-the-shelf components.
	I got these from Camper World.
	We run the whole thing with this game controller.
	Come on!
	It seems like this submersible has some elements of MacGyver-y jerry-rig-ness.
	I mean, you're putting construction pipes as ballasts.
	I don't know if I'd use that description of it, but there's certain things that you want to be buttoned down.
	So, the pressure vessel is not MacGyvered at all, because that's where we work with Boeing and NASA and the University of Washington.
	Everything else can fail.
	Your thrusters can go, your lights can go, you're still going to be safe.
	Okay, but the problem is that basically if there's one point of failure, if you're always one point of failure and there are no backup systems available, which is essentially the case with the submersible, you're dead.
	If your ballast fails, right, you can't get rid of it, it's dragging you to the bottom and it fails,
	what's your backup?
	And what happens if your oxygen, you're dead, right?
	There are a lot of points of failure in this particular system.
	He said, I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed, don't get in your car,
	don't do anything.
	At some point, you're going to take some risk.
	It really is a risk reward question.
	Now, one of the questions here is why people are paying this much money to do this sort of thing.
	I will say that one of the draws, I think, for a lot of very wealthy people
	who are doing this sort of stuff is the price point.
	Meaning that there comes a point where you have a lot of money, you're a billionaire like some of the people who are aboard this submersible, and somebody says you can have this experience for an incredible High price point, you immediately go, it must be safe.
	I mean, if somebody is actually charging you that much money, it's not as though he's going to put me aboard a jerry-rigged vessel using parts from camping world.
	Well, not so much, actually, as it turns out.
	Again, it is quite possible that the controller that was running this thing was a $49.99 video game controller.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, it's unclear if Oceangate Expeditions was using a Logitech controller on the Titan when it started its mission on Sunday.
	A spokesperson for Oceangate declined to comment.
	Logitech did not respond to requests for comment.
	The Titan, which is the name of this submersible, lost contact with the ship, monitoring it from the surface one hour and 45 minutes after it began its dive in the North Atlantic on Sunday morning.
	The Titanic, again, is 900 miles off Massachusetts' Cape Cod.
	It's in the middle of nowhere.
	The controller the Titan used in the past was a modified Logitech F710 gamepad with extended joysticks.
	An earlier version was using the Sony PlayStation 3 controller.
	So, I mean, again, this does go to one of the questions that people are asking about this, which is why people would do this.
	Risk of death is mentioned at least three times on a waiver they signed before boarding.
	As they dive deep into the ocean, according to the Wall Street Journal, untethered to the surface, sunlight faded away.
	In pitch black waters, luminescent creatures became visible through a small porthole.
	The bone-chilling cold bloomed on the Titans' curved walls, according to past travelers.
	One comedy writer brought a pad and pencil on a trip last summer.
	If the vessel failed, said Mike Rice, he'd write jokes from the bottom of the ocean as his last gift to the world.
	Joseph Wortman, who went on a trip in 2021, said it was sobering to be inside the Titan.
	He said, this is pretty extreme.
	If something goes wrong, there's no real out.
	You can't call 911.
	You're going to have to figure it out on your own.
	And again, the air was slated to run out as of Thursday morning.
	One of the things that is fascinating about this is just how our country is so polarized that everybody goes to sort of politics immediately.
	It's hard for me to find the political angle on what is obviously a tragedy.
	I think there are a couple of human angles that are pretty obvious.
	What drives people to do extreme things?
	And spend a lot of money to do them.
	So one perspective says this is adventuring, right?
	This is exploring.
	This is bravery.
	Another says that this is basically a form of very high-end tourism.
	And so the question for me is, if this were an SAT analogy, is this more like you are traveling to space and helping to fund a project that is going to lead to future discoveries, for example, like Richard Branson or Elon Musk or something?
	Or is this more like you went on a safari?
	And this seems to me more like a safari.
	It's sort of disaster tourism, to a certain extent.
	And so I don't think that you get the explorer points for something that has already been explored and in which there is no new discovery really to be made.
	That doesn't mean what they're doing is quote-unquote morally wrong, although I'm not a big fan of putting yourself in dangerous situations that you don't need to be in unless there is some sort of real upside to it.
	I think there may be a morality question there, just in terms of the value of human life.
	If there is no real exploratory upside, and the safety risk is so high, is that something that you morally should be doing?
	That's a real question.
	But that's not the question that people are asking today.
	The question people are asking today over at the New Republic is, who did the guy donate to?
	The CEO.
	Which is just, I'm sorry, ridiculous.
	The New Republic actually ran a headline that said, quote, Well, I mean, I guess that means that he had it coming.
	I guess it means all those people should die.
	You know, if he donated to some local congressional Republicans or even to Donald Trump, that means that he should probably, you know, suffocate to death 13,000 feet below the ocean.
	Ooh, gross stuff there from the New Republic.
	And you can always count on Eli Mistel of MSNBC to sign in and be terrible as well.
	He actually tweeted about Sam Alito, quote, next time some rich white person wants to take Sam Alito on an expensive trip, please take him to see the Titanic.
	Eli Mistel, continuing to be one of the more disgusting people in American politics.
	There is a sense of glee with a certain crowd when it comes to this, where they're like, oh, billionaires, billionaires doing stupid things and dying.
	Well, again, it seems to me That the status of their wealth has very little to do with the moral worth of the decision.
	Either it's a good decision or it's a bad decision.
	Them being wealthy doesn't make them worse people for doing the thing.
	You can say there's better uses for the money, and I would tend to agree with you.
	But that does not mean that these are people who are innately horrible.
	I mean, I haven't seen their charitable giving, have you?
	And in terms of bad use of money, I don't see that there's a massive difference between spending $250,000 to take a submersible down to see the Titanic or spending $250,000 on a random Lamborghini that loses half its value the minute you drive it off the lot in terms of if we're going to critique people's spending habits.
	All these weird strains of antagonism are rising to the surface on the back of a tragedy, and that really is ugly, because this is a tragedy.
	Now, with that said, should we be devoting the kinds of efforts to saving migrants who are drowning in the Mediterranean, getting from Libya to Italy?
	Should we spend more efforts doing that, or as many efforts, saving those 300 migrants who are doing that, than the five guys who took the submersible voluntarily, spending that much money?
	I think there's a case to be made for that, for sure.
	Alrighty, in just a second, We'll get to Joe Biden basically completely blowing it on China in every possible way.
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	I like balloons.
	They're pretty.
	Meanwhile, you remember that time that Joe Biden was spending weeks trying to kiss up to the Chinese
	in an attempt to avoid conflict with the Chinese? Even as China becomes more and more militant,
	they're opening military bases in Cuba. Joe Biden was going out of his way. You remember
	that time that he was saying, oh, yeah, there's a big balloon. They flew a big balloon over the
	United States. It was a mistake. I like balloons. They're pretty. Oh, shiny balloon.
	And then he got sleepy and went, just nodded right off after having a can of Ensure.
	Well, his entire State Department was mobilized in order to kiss the ass of Xi Jinping, the dictator of China.
	Well, now Joe Biden blew all of it.
	So he was trying to approach them all and that failed because he's an old man who doesn't know what he is doing.
	So apparently he was doing a fundraiser near San Francisco on Tuesday evening and he called Xi Jinping a dictator.
	Well, she is a dictator, but that is really stupid.
	If your strategy right now is how do I do a rapprochement with the dictator of China and you
	really mobilize all resources, including the Secretary of State, to go over to China and
	smooch some butt.
	And then meanwhile, you go to a fundraiser like, that guy's a dictator, right?
	Well, that seems real stupid. According to Jude Blanchett, China specialist at the Center for
	Strategic and International Studies, to have the world's leading power refer to him in ways
	that de-elevate him. I think Xi Jinping will take that personally.
	He wants to be seen as a peer with the United States.
	China's foreign ministry then termed Biden's characterization extremely absurd and extremely irresponsible.
	The White House then declined to comment.
	I love that Joe Biden just crapped all over himself, just crapped the bed.
	Meanwhile, the State Department came out and tried to defend this.
	They're simultaneously trying to defend the rapprochement with China and Joe Biden claiming that Xi Jinping is a dictator, thus Scuttling the rapprochement.
	Good job, Joe.
	He is... Oh man, clean up on aisle seven, guys.
	Joe pooped his pants again.
	The progress the secretary had appeared to have made, do you think that has faded or
	wasted?
	Absolutely not at all.
	We believe that engagement and dialogue and diplomacy are integral to a number of the issues that we think are important as it relates to our bilateral relationship with the PRC.
	That is a lot of us to obscure the fact that the President of the United States no longer has functional brain waves at this point.
	Meanwhile, Andrea Mitchell was making excuses for Joe Biden as well.
	Like, think about how stupid this is.
	We mobilized all the resources of the government, up to and including Joe Biden, downplaying Chinese aggression just so he could call China a dictator and then reverse everything he was trying to do.
	Here's Andrea Mitchell trying to save the President from himself.
	Let's pull back the curtain a little bit and explain how these fundraisers work.
	Because one person can go in, a pooler, to take notes, one or another, but no cameras, no audio that we can play.
	And they have a transcript of it.
	And he's speaking It's the West Coast.
	It's late at night.
	He's done four of these, plus that meeting on artificial intelligence earlier in the day, so he's had a very busy schedule.
	And this is how he, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton at these events sometimes say things.
	Clinton with deplorables.
	Obama talked about guns out there in San Francisco.
	Get themselves in trouble, because they become more relaxed when you don't see a camera platform, and you're surrounded by donors who want to hear the inside stuff, and you kind of get too casual, right?
	Yeah, it's all casual.
	Thanks for trying to walk that one back there, Andrew.
	I really, really appreciate it.
	Speaking of failures by the Biden administration, remember Randi Weingarten?
	She, of course, is the head of the American Federation of Teachers and one of the most nefarious forces in the country.
	It is worth noting at this point that her lockdown strategy when it came to schools has destroyed the educational experience and performance of literally tens of millions of American school kids.
	Story from the Washington Post, national test scores plummeted for 13 year olds according to new data that shows the single largest drop in math in 50 years and no signs of academic recovery following the disruptions of the pandemic.
	It's people like Randy Weingarten pushing for lockdowns and simultaneously pushing that we have to pay our teachers more.
	It's always weird to me that every time our education system fails, the push from the left is, what if we paid our teachers more?
	Imagine if you were so bad at your job that you achieved 40-year lows in outcome and you went into your boss for a raise.
	How do you think that would go for you?
	Well, Randy Weingarten is getting some special treatment from the Department of Homeland Security.
	It was announced on Wednesday that they were going to create 22 members for their school safety board ahead of their first public meeting in the coming months.
	One of those members?
	Randi Weingarten.
	She's going to be on the public school safety board, is Randi Weingarten, because she is just so good at her job.
	Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
	So things I like.
	Kind of like, I suppose?
	Well, um, I didn't see epic rap battles of history, me versus Nicki Minaj happening, but apparently that's a thing that is now happening.
	And the reason that's happening is because I had the temerity to critique Pound Town 2.
	Revenge of the pound.
	Um, and, um, for those who missed it, I did this a few days ago, the single worst song maybe ever recorded, Poundtown, but then there was a sequel called Poundtown 2, which is apparently too pound too furious.
	Even more pounding.
	Pound 2, pound harder.
	Pound 2, live free or pound hard.
	Um, I, I, yeah, so.
	I can't wait till Poundtown 4, The Quest for Peace.
	P-I-E-C-E.
	Anyway, it's a terrible song by a person who calls herself Sexy Red.
	There are multiple Y's at the end of her name for no reason that anyone can explain other than I guess that it is sort of a prereq in rap that you can't spell.
	I think that's the way that this works.
	Anyway, Nicki Minaj co-starred on Poundtown 2.
	Now, in the original critique, I actually mentioned only that she co-starred in it, did Nicki Minaj.
	I did not actually critique her verse in Poundtown 2.
	Because after all, I think we'd had enough.
	But now, Nicki Minaj has decided to sign into the chat.
	She was unhappy with me critiquing the brilliant lyrics and extraordinary flow of a song in which the main artist, Sexy E Red, describes the colors of her various bodily orifices.
	And Nicki Minaj was very insulted.
	Very insulted indeed.
	It's as though I had, it's as though I had shat upon Shakespeare.
	And she had to sign in.
	So she went on Twitter and she tweeted, Roman said, leave his ass out of it, sir.
	No pun intended.
	Directed at me because there's a clip of me going around.
	It's, uh, so I had to first decode what this means because I don't speak stupid people.
	And Roman said, leave his ass out of it, sir.
	No pun intended.
	So Roman, I guess, is one of Nicki Minaj's various alter egos.
	So she has many alter egos is my understanding.
	And Roman is apparently, I had to look this up, a homosexual man who she plays sometimes or takes on that persona, which is weird.
	And strange.
	But in any case, Roman said, leave his ass out of it, sir.
	To which I replied, not possible, Nicki Minaj, since you have apparently never recorded a song that left your ass out of it.
	Which is true.
	I mean, like, that's her entire brand, is it not?
	My favorite version of rap battles is where you have a person like Nicki Minaj, whose entire brand is just rapping about sex.
	And then you note that this is vulgar and crude.
	And then she's like, you, leave my ass out of it.
	You put your ass in it, lady.
	It ain't my fault.
	And she replied to that, So you can suck it.
	S-U-K.
	Again, not being able to spell is a prereq.
	So you can suck it.
	Love you.
	Various emojis.
	To which I replied, surprise twist.
	Nicki Minaj was the one with the anaconda all along.
	But in any case, I think what this requires now is that we actually look at the cultural context and pure joy of Poundtown 2, because we actually critiqued mostly the lyrics from Poundtown 1 last time.
	First of all, before I even get to Nicki Minaj's verse here, I should point out that 6E Red She did an interview in which she described the rules of Poundtown.
	Apparently, there is law in Poundtown.
	Poundtown is not a lawless, anarchic place.
	I don't know who the sheriff is in Poundtown, but apparently there is a full law enforcement body that is not systemically racist.
	That's exciting to learn.
	And one of the rules that we learned from SexyRed is that you should not get chlamydia.
	Twice.
	She got two...
	She got two rounds of chlamydia, one for each pound town.
	So, here we go.
	Sexy Red.
	I had chlamydia before, though, twice.
	Okay.
	That's the most pretty common.
	Yeah, very common.
	Well, let's do a PSA right now.
	No, but how did you... So you felt it like you was burning?
	No, it be a smell.
	From chlamydia?
	Yeah.
	And you went to the doctor and they were like... Because me and my... This what happened.
	Me and my n***a was together.
	Mm-hmm.
	And we broke up because he was cheating on me.
	So then we broke up.
	Then I went and did me.
	And then you did him.
	And then we got back together.
	We missed each other, came back together.
	And something wasn't right.
	We both was like, what the fuck is this smell?
	Oh, shit.
	I'm like, ugh, what's going on?
	So then we both went to the doctor together.
	And then we both was like, well, you fucked two people.
	And he like, you fucked two people, too.
	I'm like, we don't know who did it.
	We still don't know who called it.
	Also, for those who cannot see this clip.
	The sexy you read is also apparently she gets hairstyling tips from Tony the tiger.
	Thank you.
	From the Frosted Flakes box.
	Thanks, uh, to the producers for that hat tip.
	That is, uh, that is correct.
	But, um, yeah, so that's Sexy Ered.
	These are the kind of people that Nicki Minaj does songs with, because they are just the most brilliant, classy people that ever were.
	And if you make fun of them, then Nicki Minaj will come at you with her male homosexual persona.
	Who is apparently known as... What was it?
	Roman?
	Okay.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Got so much stupid in such a small... Oh, my God.
	Anyway.
	What are the actual lyrics from Nicki Minaj?
	You thought that that clip of Sexy E Red talking about not only the color but the smell of various bodily orifices was bad.
	Well, Nicki Minaj, well, she has some lyrics for you from her version of Sexy E Red's Pound Town 2.
	As opposed to Pound Town 3 starring Mr. T.
	Here we go.
	Hey yo, my name is pink. I made him go get that ink. Let him eat that pretty b****. Now he keep trying to link. I'm
	pimpin' pinky ring. His ex is his makey dink. I'm bout to pop a thingy then sip on his drinky drink. Get a grip from
	my b**. Dip b with my tip. I'm a flip like a hundred bricks. Get back on my lick. I'm a b**. I want fish and
	grits. Throwing hissy fits. I'm a cup of tea.
	No I'll be tweaking on it. It's so bad. Oh my god missionary
	doing split. She is She is a female role model.
	She is what your daughters should all be looking up to is Nicki Minaj.
	She is a strong, powerful woman who raps consistently about her own vagina.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	This is what you this is the height of female power, female empowerment.
	Indistinguishable, actually, from like 17th century prostitution, but also on record.
	So that's exciting.
	For those who don't actually know what the hell she was saying, I'm not gonna read you that part of the lyrics because I don't want to.
	But here is part of the lyrics that she quote-unquote sings.
	Scare quotes around singing.
	Anyway, I'm out in Miami, ho.
	He like feet, suck on this camel toe.
	Eat the pound cake down.
	I'm waxed up, booty hole waxed down.
	Ah, the words of The words of Lord Alfred Tennyson.
	That's strong stuff there.
	From Poundtown 2.
	From Poundtown 2.
	Oh no.
	Poundtown 2.
	I can't get over that this is our culture.
	And then we're all supposed to pretend that this is like high culture.
	This is the part that drives me absolutely up a wall.
	We're all supposed to pretend that this is somehow a reflection of intelligence, that it's a reflection of emotional depth, that it's all just playful witticisms and lyricisms.
	Wow, that our culture has not degraded in any way.
	Pound town, too.
	Red, white, and pound.
	Good stuff there from Nicki Minaj.
	And again, never thought I'd be in epic rap battles of history.
	Me versus Nicki Minaj.
	That was not one I saw coming.
	Okay.
	You know what?
	No time for things I hate.
	That was basically a thing I hate anyway.
	So, yeah, we're done here.
	Alrighty, guys.
	We're gonna talk to Dr. Marty McGarry now about a more serious topic like vaccinations and their efficacy.
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