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July 14, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show
01:04:27
The White House Cocaine Snorter Escapes!
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Well, the investigation into who left cocaine at the White House has ended.
And shock of shocks, there is no one who has been identified as a suspect.
No one.
There are no suspects whatsoever.
So here's the thing.
This is the most protected building on planet Earth.
I've been there multiple times.
There are cameras pretty much everywhere.
And now we are being told that a baggie of cocaine that was left in a pretty highly trafficked area, they have no idea who left that baggie of cocaine.
And they've closed the investigation after just 11 days.
It is a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
According to the New York Post, the Secret Service ended its investigation into cocaine found in the West Wing of the White House after just 11 days without identifying a suspect, enraging congressional Republicans who demanded answers about how an illegal drug got into one of the most secure buildings in the world.
The protective agency said its probe was closed due to a lack of physical evidence.
After FBI forensic testing on the bag, the cocaine was found and failed to turn up fingerprints or sufficient DNA, which in and of itself is a little bit weird.
I mean, why aren't there any fingerprints on the baggy would be an interesting question.
I mean, you would imagine that might be true during the winter when people are wearing gloves walking into the White House, but it is the middle of the summer.
So you'd imagine that somebody had their hands on this thing.
Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule Where the cocaine was discovered, the service said.
Now, as others have pointed out, if this was Anthrax, I don't think the Secret Service would be shutting down the investigation quite so quickly.
Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee stormed out of a briefing offered to lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee moments after it began, calling the conclusion bogus and the investigation a complete failure.
He said, they know who goes into the White House.
They have facial identification.
You can't go into the White House without giving your social security number to say it's some weekend visitor.
That's bogus.
Nobody exactly is buying any of that.
Meanwhile, Democrats are happy as clams that this investigation is done.
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland says, we're done here.
There's nothing to see.
It's all over.
I'm satisfied that the Secret Service and the White House are on top of it.
You know, I was reading a book about Lincoln recently, and anybody in Washington could just walk right into Lincoln's White House, go directly in and try to find the president and talk to him.
And obviously, we're in a very different security environment than that.
But I don't know how many people would want to go to the White House if they were going to be administering a drug test on the way in, which is what some of my colleagues have suggested.
Some people are saying everybody should be drug tested on the way into the White House.
These are the same people who are opposed to COVID-19 tests.
So I don't see a lot of coherence in the criticism.
That works the other way around also.
All of you are in favor of COVID-19 tests for everyone.
And in fact, you shut down the entire country over COVID-19.
But you're like, yeah, it would be too much to ask that somebody not be high on cocaine when they visit the White House.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said they were able to narrow down a list of approximately 500 people that had left a small bag of cocaine.
My question to them was, have they drug tested this list of 500 potential suspects that brought an illegal substance or drug, cocaine, into the White House?
Their answer was no, and they are unwilling to do so.
President Biden's staff is subjected to routine drug tests, but White House visitors, including those given West Wing tours by invitation only, are not.
Also, you know, who is not a member of the White House staff would be a man named Hunter Biden.
That guy is not a member of the White House staff, technically.
Obviously, there are a lot of suspicions that a person who's been addicted to crack cocaine, there's pictures on his laptop of himself doing crack cocaine while going 172 miles an hour down the road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, that maybe that guy might be a suspect in all of this.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Fox News the probe was a farce.
He said, you can't tell me in the White House with 24-7 surveillance in a cubbyhole by a Situation Room, they don't know who delivered it there.
We should get an answer to the question.
It seems to me that in America, anything today involving Biden Inc.
gets treated differently than anything else.
And that shouldn't exactly be the case.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has his own theory.
He says that it is not, in fact, Hunter who's responsible for the cocaine.
Perhaps it is just Joe.
Whatever is the plausible answer, Donald Trump, one ups, two ups, nine ups.
Here is President Trump.
What is your reaction when you see cocaine in the White House?
Can you even believe that's possible?
Well, you saw I put out a truth.
I know most of your people aren't truth, because I think truth is better than anything out there.
But I put out a truth.
It's, in my opinion, it's Hunter and probably Joe.
Because, you know, you watch Joe at the beginning of a speech, and he's got a little life.
Not much, but he's got a little life.
By the end of the speech, he's a disaster.
He can't even find his way off the thing.
So, there's something going on there, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was for both of them.
I think it's for both of them, but that's my opinion.
I said, great minds think alike.
I said that on my TV show just this morning.
I said it's either Hunter or it's Joe because he's so bad that before each speech and interview they probably need to give him something to juice him up.
I said exactly that.
No, I think they pump him up.
And we can't have a president that's on cocaine when you're dealing with nuclear weapons and everything else.
This is our country, folks.
This is what we have come to.
We can't have a president on cocaine.
Meanwhile, we are now learning that the Secret Service actually discovered pot twice in Joe Biden's White House, and they did nothing about it.
The possession of less than two ounces of marijuana is not a crime in D.C., but marijuana is in fact federally banned and prohibited on federal property, according to Breitbart.
The Secret Service said that in both cases, the marijuana found was under two ounces, a weight that could cost a buyer on the street upwards of $700.
Honestly, this is an easy one for the White House.
Just sit Kamala Harris on the case.
L.A.
has jailed more people for marijuana than anybody else in America.
She put Kamala Harris on the one thing she's competent at doing, tracking down the person who brought the pot into the White House.
The Secret Service initially revealed the information to members of Congress on Thursday.
They said no one was arrested in these incidents because the weight of the marijuana confiscated did not meet the legal threshold for federal charges or D.C.
misdemeanor criminal charges.
The marijuana was collected by officers and destroyed.
destroyed. So that is excellent. How much institutional failure can one country take?
It goes from the small to the large. Every institution of American government seems to
be failing in its most basic function. And the Secret Service is apparently no different at
this point. And are you suspicious of all this?
I'm at least a little bit suspicious, given the fact that we know for a fact that the Secret Service attempted to insert itself into the Hunter Biden gun case.
You'll recall that way back in 2018, President Biden's son, Hunter, and his daughter-in-law, Haley, were involved in a bizarre incident, according to Politico, in which Haley took Hunter's gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
She took his gun and threw it away because he was high on Coke at the time, apparently.
And she was scared that he was going to use the gun in a terrible way.
Secret Service agents then went to the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale, according to two people, one of whom had first-hand knowledge of the episode, the other was briefed by a Secret Service agent after the fact.
The gun store owner refused to supply the paperwork to Secret Service, suspecting that they wanted to hide Hunter's ownership of the missing gun in case it were to be involved in a crime.
The owner later turned over the papers to ATF and then of course all of that resulted in a plea deal in which Hunter Biden received no actual charges on applying for a gun license while being high as a kite.
So yes, has Secret Service intervened in this way before?
Absolutely.
The institutional failures in this country are stacking them.
Then they wonder why institutional trust is gone.
This would be the reason why institutional trust is absolutely gone.
And just a second, we have more on the Hunter Biden corruption stuff because that continues to percolate.
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The smart investors diversify, particularly when it comes to the Okay, meanwhile, The Daily Caller has an exclusive about Hunter Biden in which they find that Hunter Biden and his business associates attempted to get Burisma founder Mykola Slavchevsky a U.S.
visa shortly after the president's son became a board member of that Ukrainian energy firm.
The emails in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop archive show a coordinated attempt to obtain a visa for Slavchevsky while he's being investigated by Ukrainian authorities for corruption.
By the way, it is amazing how for just a couple of years here, really since the Ukraine scandal regarding the Bidens burst into the open, there's been an overt attempt by the media to pretend there is no corruption in Ukraine.
Ukraine is by far one of the most corrupt countries in all of Europe, including Eastern Europe.
Ukraine has serious corruption problems.
Everyone who's spent any time examining the situation knows this.
The New York Times has covered it.
The Wall Street Journal has covered it.
The Washington Post has covered it.
Even people who are very sympathetic to the plight of people in Ukraine recognize the government there has been plagued with corruption for decades.
And so it shouldn't be a shock that Hunter Biden was playing around there because obviously that is where the guy makes his money.
Biden and some of his associates were potentially engaging in registrable lobbying activity.
One email indicates that the Foreign Agents Registration Act violations could have been occurring outside of the exchanges.
A FAIR expert who reviewed the emails told the Daily Caller, From 2014 to 2016, Hunter worked with former Burisma board member Devin Archer, Rose Montenegro advisor Eric Schwerin, former Boyce Schiller and Flexner LLP partner Heather King and other business associates to assist Mykola Zlochevsky with his visa reapplication process after the State Department revoked his visa back in 2014.
Slavchevsky is the foreign national involved in a bribery scheme with Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, according to Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
She said that she's viewed a redacted version of an FBI form where an informant details how Slavchevsky spoke to him about making a $10 million bribe to the Bidens.
FBI Director Chris Wray redacted the foreign national's name according to Green, but within the same sentence it says him slash Burisma.
So in other words, it looks as though the person who may have been attempting to bribe the Bidens was also lobbying Hunter Biden to try and get his visa renewed in the United States.
And none of this should be shocking.
The Biden family is, in fact, a funnel for cash from foreign sources.
So that is not going away for Joe Biden.
You know, this is a serious problem.
It really is.
Because again, so much of presidential politics relies not just on the policies of who the president is and the popularity of those policies.
If that were true, Donald Trump would still be president.
So much of presidential policies relies on the popularity of the figure at the top.
Joe Biden has not budged in the polls in terms of popularity since the Afghanistan pullout.
When the mask came off of Joe Biden and this carefully constructed facade that both he and the media had been complicit in building, this facade that suggested that he was a kindly old gentleman who truly cared about people like you, that was ripped off his face.
And what was underneath was something quite ugly.
It was, in fact, an incredibly self-interested politician who was very selfish, a person who really only cares about the people who are very close to him, and was perfectly willing to subject people, including American troops, to greater danger for his own personal glorification.
Since that time, Joe Biden has not recovered.
And the Hunter Biden stuff just underscores that.
Not just the Hunter Biden stuff.
The fact that, for example, he has disowned one of his grandchildren.
Disowned her because apparently Hunter Biden doesn't want to take responsibility for this grandchild.
So that grandchild doesn't exist to Joe.
Because in Joe's world, the only people who matter are people with the last name Biden.
So you deny the last name Biden to a four-year-old girl, the only asset that the Biden family has, by the way.
The only reason Hunter Biden is a wealthy man today is because of that last name.
The only reason Frank Biden is a wealthy man today is because of that last name.
They deny that to a four-year-old girl because the only people that matter to Joe Biden are the people in his immediate circle.
Now, again, venal corruption on a familial level is nothing new in politics in Washington, D.C.
The Clinton family was deeply corrupt also.
However, the gap between sort of the garrulously charming Bill Clinton and the elderly octogenarian corruptocrat Joe Biden, that's pretty significant.
And that means that Joe Biden is a very vulnerable candidate.
Everybody around him knows it.
The problem for the Democrats, as we've talked about a thousand times, they don't have anyone waiting in the wings.
Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the strike in Hollywood.
Actors are now joining the strike.
The writers are already on.
We'll get to that in a moment.
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And again, people in Hollywood fighting each other?
Basically the Iran-Iraq War.
Like, alright.
All right.
The writers and the actors are very upset because the margins in the business have gone down markedly.
Now, they're not wrong to be upset about the margins going down markedly.
What they're wrong about is the simple fact that there's any alternative.
There really is not.
The business has destroyed itself.
Streaming has destroyed the traditional Hollywood model.
The traditional Hollywood model has not worked for at least 10, 15 years.
Basically, everything that goes into a theater, if you're a movie actor, there are only a couple of types of movies.
One of these indie movies that make no money, unless you have sort of a breakout horror hit.
And the other is these giant tentpole films that these studios are spending $300 million on so that presumably some no-name director can make the Oscar bait that they can brag to their friends about at the cocktail parties that no one has ever watched.
In other words, you make a Marvel movie so that somebody else can make Moonlight.
That's typically the way this works in Hollywood.
But one of the things that's been happening is the Hollywood star system is dead.
The system by which any sort of sorting has happened is dead because of the prevalence of material, because there's such a hunger and demand for material, because of the plethora of streaming services, because of the ability to substitute in one actor for another actor, or one writer for another writer, because the supply of writers is higher right now than the demand for writers, because the margins again have gone down.
The same thing is true in the acting industry, and so the union, which is designed to jack up the pay of these people, They're attempting now to push Hollywood to grant higher margins for them, greater pay for them, believing that this will somehow be sustainable.
The answer, unfortunately for them, is that it is not.
It's not stopping anybody from going forward with this thing.
According to the New York Times, the Hollywood Actors Union approved a strike on Thursday for the first time in 43 years.
Bringing the $134 billion American movie and television business to a halt over anger about pay and fears of a tech-dominated future.
The leaders of SAG-AFTRA, the union representing 160,000 television and movie actors, announced the strike after negotiations with studios over a new contract collapsed, with streaming services and AI at the center of the standoff.
On Friday, the actors joined screenwriters who walked off the job in May on picket lines in New York, LA, and dozens of other American cities where scripted shows and movies are made.
Apparently, actors and screenwriters have not been on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was actually head of the Actors Union.
Dual strikes pit more than 170,000 workers against studios like Disney, Universal, Sony, and Paramount, as well as Netflix, Apple, and Amazon.
Fran Drescher, who is the president of SAG-AFTRA, gave a news conference in which she explained the demands.
So it came with great sadness that we came to this crossroads, but we had no choice.
We are the victims here.
We are being victimized by a very greedy entity.
I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us because at some point the jig is up.
You cannot keep being dwindled and marginalized and disrespected and dishonored.
The entire business model has been changed by streaming, digital, AI, Apparently their demands total 48 pages that's triple the size of the list during their last negotiations in 2020.
So what exactly are the big issues that they are striking over according to the Washington Post?
They want more money.
They're upset that the length of seasons has gone down, which it has.
Remember that Friends, for example, had 24 episodes a season.
Bridgerton had just 8 on Netflix.
And the reason for that is because people binge these days, as opposed to the entire basis for the sort of terrestrial platforms, the TV-based platforms being that you have to stick around week to week, series like Bridgerton The entire idea of it is that you're releasing two, three, four, maybe even eight episodes at one time.
These mini-series have become the way that streamers actually get an advantage over their competitors.
For writers, pay issues dovetail with concerns over streaming and the use of mini-rooms.
Mini-rooms are these writer rooms where you have kind of core writers and then you bring in supplemental writers to sort of help out, as opposed to having these giant writers rooms.
Again, that is one way of bringing down the cost structure if you are one of the studios.
For actors, a combination of outdated contract terms and rapidly changing media landscapes means shorter season orders and longer hiatuses between seasons.
Also, they're deeply worried about the use of AI.
They're worried that the studios are going to start using AI in order to generate script Now, I've seen some of the AI scripts.
They're not particularly good, but they are going to get better.
And guess what?
That's just the way tech works.
Now, we're looking at all this from the producer's side.
If you're an actor or you're a writer, I totally understand why you're upset about all of this.
However, if you're a consumer of TV, if you're a consumer of the product, the product is getting cheaper.
The people you don't like very much are getting paid less?
Is this really like the end of the world?
It's going to depress wages on one side, but it's certainly going to depress costs on the other.
Right now, if you want to subscribe to all the various streaming services, it's going to cost you probably more than it did to pay for your bundled cable package way back when.
Well, that's probably going to go down now, because again, the cost structure is declining, and it has to, because again, the profit margins have been declining for a very, very long time.
When it comes to AI, many of the SAG-after actors are worried about their likeness, voice, or performance being used without their consent or without compensation, because AI can mimic all of that.
But the truth is, the star system is basically dead.
Aside from Tom Cruise, maybe Chris Pratt, name a star who can open a film.
It doesn't exist anymore.
And this, I'm just going to put directly on both the studios and the actors.
So it used to be that if you wanted to create a star, the way that you created a star in Hollywood is scarcity.
The only time you saw a star in Hollywood in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s is when they were in the film.
Their personal life, there would be sort of gossip tabloids that would try to get a hold of it, but the studio did a good job of guarding its people from becoming publicity figures outside of the movies.
Outside of Marilyn Monroe, who is of course having affairs with nearly every major person in sight, the fact is that the biggest stars of the 40s, 50s, and 60s were guarded by the studios.
And that no longer happens.
And once you take away the veneer of celebrity and glamour from people, and it just turns out that they're kind of losers who lead dissolute lives, people will actually have a hard time separating when they go over to the movie theater.
So the star system is basically dead.
And once the star system is dead, you can just hire anybody to be an actor.
There are a thousand talented actors out there, and not all that many are members of SAG-AFTRA.
So what we have here is just a mismatch between the way the industry actually works and the way that everybody who used to work in the industry wishes that it worked.
And there's something mildly delicious about this, not for the grips and not for the kind of people on set who are doing the actual hard work of putting things on film, but for the talent, for the actors, for the writers, the same people who are telling all of the people in middle America five seconds ago, learn to code.
All those people now being slapped with AI.
There's something kind of funny about all of that.
We'll get to more on that in just one second first.
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OK, so we're seeing some virtue signaling from Democrats on the on the basis of this Hollywood strike.
So, for example, the execrable Adam Schiff, who is trying to run for Senate in the state of California, he signaled his support for the actors and writers strike.
Today over 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members went on strike for better pay and better working conditions.
And I want you to know I stand with you.
This is personal for me.
So many of you are my constituents.
So many actors and stunt performers.
So many voiceover artists and broadcast journalists.
You're my friends.
You're my neighbors.
And what's more, your fight is the fight for workers all over the country.
This is a fight to make the economy work for people again.
The industry is very profitable, and you should share in those profits.
After all, you're the folks who make that magic happen.
So I'm going to be out there in the picket lines by your side.
I'll be yelling through that bullhorn.
I'll be supporting you until you get the deal that you have earned with good pay and good working conditions.
So, proud of what you're doing, and I stand with you.
If this was the deal that they had earned... See, he's so pathetic.
If this were the deal that they had earned, they were already making the pay.
Because the fact of the matter is that the actual business expertise that has generated enormous profits in places like Netflix, that is not the actors and the writers.
The actors and writers are valuable, no question.
They're some of the inputs in terms of labor.
But the simple fact is that it's been strategic decision-making at the top levels of these companies that have made them profitable.
There are a lot of movie and production companies that have a lot of talent working for them that are not profitable.
Well, Bob Iger, who I really do not like as a human being, he's the head of Disney, but he also happens to be a competent business person.
So he said, listen, simple fact is these demands are unrealistic.
He is not wrong about this.
We're in the midst of a writer's strike and very likely it would seem to have a actor's strike.
How is that going to impact things and what are your expectations there?
Well, I think it's very disturbing to me.
You know, we've talked about disruptive forces on this business and all the challenges we're facing and the recovery from COVID, which is ongoing.
It's not completely back.
This is the worst time in the world to add to that disruption.
I understand any labor organization's desire to Work on the behalf of its members to get the most compensation to be compensated fairly based on the value that they deliver.
We managed as an industry to negotiate a very good deal with the Directors Guild that reflects the value that the directors contribute to this great business.
We wanted to do the same thing with the writers and we'd like to do the same thing with the actors.
There's a level of expectation that they have that is just not realistic.
And they are adding to a set of challenges that this business is already facing that is quite frankly very disruptive.
So they're not being realistic?
No, they're not.
So a lot of people are angry because Bob Iger makes a big payday.
Makes $27 million a year.
Okay, let's assume that he made $1 million a year.
Let's assume he made zero.
Distribute all that cash out to the actors.
You know, 160,000 people.
And it turns out that's not going to be all that much money per person.
Like a hundred bucks per person.
I mean, it's not a huge amount of money that you are talking about distributing to everybody else.
That's not going to solve the problem.
It isn't about the executive pay of these companies.
The biggest problem is, as Iger says, the model has completely changed in Hollywood.
Now, here is the biggest problem for the actors and for the writers and for the companies.
No one has any sympathy for any of them.
No one has any sympathy for any one of them.
And no one has sympathy for Disney because Disney has decided to become extremely political.
As I mentioned before, nobody has sympathy for the actors because no one knows who any of the actors are.
You might have had sympathy for actors back in the 1960s, 50s, 40s, because you had great allegiance to them on screen.
The star system was very much in play.
So if Cary Grant had decided that he was going to lead a strike with Ronald Reagan and with the rest of the members of SAG-AFTRA, then everybody would be like, whoa, where's my favorite star?
Where did they go?
Right now, if Tom Holland disappears from your screen, are you going to be thinking about that very much?
If suddenly Timothee Chalamet isn't in every movie, are you going to be like, weeping, heartbroken, if Zendaya doesn't show up?
If she doesn't show up on your screen, are you going to be like, whoa, oh no, what are we going to do?
Or are you just going to wait for them to cast the next 22-year-old beautiful person who is fairly decent as an actor?
So the sympathy level for all of these people is very, very low.
And it's particularly low for the corporations as well.
So again, I don't think most Americans feel a stake in this particular labor fight.
That's particularly true because the same Bob Iger, who's making a correct business argument, also happens to be a person who injects himself into politics, alienating half of the American people on a regular basis.
Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration is upping the ante over in Ukraine.
So, according to Politico, President Biden wrapped up his visit to Europe on Thursday, touting the strength of NATO and the alliance's ability to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But diplomatic breakthroughs overseas came with lingering uncertainties about the future of the war.
Biden capped off his trip in Helsinki, projecting a dramatically different presence than the last American president to visit the Finnish capital.
Five years ago this week, Trump sided with Putin over America's intelligence agency's conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
As it turns out, the Russian interference in the 2016 election was actually quite minimal, and Trump wasn't entirely wrong about that.
All the intelligence agencies suggested that Russia had some sort of mass scale effect on the 2016 election, and that was not true.
However, Biden patted himself on the back and said, Putin's already lost the war.
Putin has a real problem.
How does he move from here?
What does he do?
And so the idea that it's going to be what vehicle he is used, he could end the war tomorrow.
He could just say, I'm out.
Well, but he's not going to just say he's out.
And he's particularly not just going to say he's out given the set of incentives that the West has currently set up.
A set of incentives in which the West keeps saying that Zelensky is going to take back the whole thing.
Putin has no interest in Zelensky taking back the whole thing.
Plus, the United States has said Zelensky gets to lead the charge here.
He's going to say that he takes back the whole thing.
And also, we're not going to let him into NATO until he finishes.
Which leads Putin to want to, presumably, continue the war as long as humanly possible.
So, the Ukrainian counteroffensive, this much-vaunted Ukrainian counteroffensive, which was supposed to set up the Ukrainians for a better stance in negotiation against Russia, that has turned into a pretty long slog.
Biden has said that he is going to guarantee the U.S.
would remain in NATO, which, of course, I don't think is in serious contention.
I know that Donald Trump has talked about the possibility of pulling the United States out of NATO, but that seems, I think, exaggerated to me.
Meanwhile, Putin has now ordered 3,000 reservists to be ready for European deployment.
Although it's not clear whether Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin plans to actually deploy these reservists anytime soon, the move suggests the United States' training mission in Europe, along with deployment of several new brigades after the invasion, has now stretched its active duty forces.
So we're not even involved in an actual ground war in Ukraine.
We don't actually have troops in Ukraine in any large numbers.
We have advisors there apparently, but we don't have massive troops in Ukraine.
Joe Biden had to call up 3,000 more reservists.
The level of reservists that he's calling up are like the backups to the backup.
That's how thinly stretched the American military is right now.
The president's order for the first time designates Operation Atlantic Resolve, according to Politico, the U.S.
effort in Europe as a contingency operation, which allows the Pentagon to call up reserve forces and implement sped-up acquisition authorities to supply those troops with equipment.
The designation not only allows the president to mobilize reservists, it also provides support for families and dependents of reservists who might be deployed.
The U.S.
had rushed 20,000 more troops to Europe after the Russian invasion, so we have over 100,000 on the continent, including rotations of 10,000 troops in Poland.
The big story here is not that we're sending additional troops to Europe.
Again, we have 100,000 troops there already.
Big story is that we are so stretched militarily because of our recruitment failures under the Biden
and yes, the Trump administrations, because of the military's woke problem,
because of the military constantly failing in its missions thanks to political leadership,
because of the frankly out of shape American youth who are not capable of passing basic fitness tests
to get into the military.
Because of all that, the American military is stretched absolutely thin
and the Ukraine war has stretched us thinner even if we're not directly involved in the Ukraine war.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues on its quest to appease the Chinese.
So they're playing this kind of weird inside outside game with the Chinese, where on the one hand,
you have Joe Biden saying, absolutely we'll fight over Taiwan.
On the other hand, you have John Kerry refusing to label Xi Jinping a dictator.
So here is John Kerry, the climate advisor to the Biden administration yesterday,
refusing to call Xi Jinping a dictator.
The president called Xi Jinping, called him a dictator.
Do you believe he wields the power of a dictator today in China?
Meaning, is his ability similar to Putin's ability to affect what he says he will do such that if he makes a promise he can keep it?
There's no question at all that President Xi is the Is he in fact effectively a dictator?
of the direction and of the policies of China.
Is he in fact effectively a dictator?
Well, I'm not, you know, I don't think it's useful to get into, I don't, I'm not going
to get into.
But he does wield the power of.
He wields enormous power as the leader of China, absolutely, and everybody understands
that.
By the way, let me point out right here, that when John Kerry says things like, I'm not
going to get into whether he's a dictator, this is the same administration that claims
that it's a fight for democracy in Ukraine.
This is why you shouldn't use language like that, truthfully.
You should just say, here's what America's interest is, and then say what America's interest is.
And nobody believes you when you say that you're in a fight for democracy, but you refuse to call Xi Jinping a dictator.
That was not the dumbest thing that John Kerry said yesterday.
John Kerry also claimed that he has never personally owned a private jet, which means that he is a man of the people, John Kerry.
I should mention at this point that his wife owned a charter jet company, Theresa Hines Kerry, and that he flew those private jets around.
But he hasn't personally owned it.
So that means, like, I too am a man of the people.
Despite the fact that I've ridden in private jets many times, I'm a man of the people because I don't personally own a private jet.
Did you know that?
Here's John Kerry.
I just don't agree with your facts, which began with a presentation of one of the most outrageously persistent lies that I hear, which is this private jet.
We don't own a private jet.
I don't own a private jet.
I personally have never owned a private jet.
And obviously, it's pretty stupid to talk about coming in a private jet from the State Department up here.
Just, honestly, if that's where you want to go, go there.
He is just, he is just the worst.
He is just the worst.
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We have run out of enough racism in America to power the machine.
So there is a left-wing media machine that demands racism, demands it.
And the demand is wildly outstripping supply, which means that we now have to create kind of ersatz racism.
So the latest non-troversy involves Representative Eli Crane of Arizona, who accidentally referred to people of color or black people as colored people.
He did this on the House floor, and this, of course, drove people into spasms of apoplexy.
Now, is that current language?
It is not.
Is it a mistake?
Sure.
Does it mean that the guys are racist?
No, it doesn't.
Here is the actual clip of Eli Crane yesterday.
My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people or black people or anybody can serve, okay?
It has nothing to do with color of your skin, any of that stuff.
What we want to preserve and maintain is the fact that our military does not become a social experiment.
We want the best of the best, we want to have standards that guide Who's in what unit, what they do, and I'm going to tell you guys right now, the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans, they are not doing this because they want the strongest military possible.
I'd like to be recognized to have the words colored people stricken from the record.
I find it offensive and very inappropriate.
Okay, so now we're going to be told that this is because this member is racist.
It wasn't just a flub.
It wasn't just that he meant to say people of color.
He meant to say black people, and he said colored people instead.
This means that deep down in the cockles of his heart, he's a vicious, brutal racist.
You have Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas, tweeting out, Colored people.
You can't make this up.
This is who these people are and who they've always been.
We have Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, saying something very similar.
Wow, Republicans are just openly calling my colleagues colored people on the House floor now.
They're bringing amendments to the floor to stop bases named after Confederate traitors from getting new names.
The GOP is not even hiding the racism.
Okay, so, you might be wondering when exactly the language of colored people went out.
doing the same routine.
After a day where Republicans fought to rid the government of diversity and inclusion,
one of them finally let the hood slip.
You remember the KKK, because he said colored people as opposed to people of
color or black people or African-American.
In the 21st century, I never thought I would hear black people called colored
on the floor of this House of Representatives.
Surely we are better than this.
Okay, so you might be wondering when exactly the language of colored people went out.
And well, fortunately NPR covered this back in 2014.
Again, I don't use that language on the air because it is passe.
It is older language.
It is language that was used for a very, very long time in the United States, but it was not like using the N-word.
In fact, you may remember that the NAACP, right, which is still the most prominent black rights organization in the United States, the NAACP was originally the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, right?
Is that because they were calling themselves the N-word?
No, it's because that was the parlance that was used for a very long time.
Now, it's passé, you don't use it because it's passé, but the notion that this is inherently, like, way, it's so insulting, it's like, it's just deep and abiding, like, give me a break.
It's just not true.
And we all know it's not true, and you know it's not true, and you're just trying to turn this into a major issue when it's clearly a slip of the tongue.
NPR says, quote, Language is, and always will be, an essential element in the struggle for understanding among peoples.
Changes in the words and phrases we use to describe each other reflect whatever progress we make on the path toward a world where everyone feels respected and included.
A Google Ngram search compared the frequency of the use colored people, minorities, and people of color delivers interesting results.
The use of the phrase colored people peaked in books published in 1970.
For minorities, the top ranked year was 1997.
Since then, the term has steadily declined but continues to significantly outstrip the use of people of color.
So, if you look at the actual origin of people of color, it was originally used in 1807 in an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States.
The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest references to people of color is from the French, homme de couleur, in the late 18th century.
Person or people as a term for human beings, that's pretty much uncontroversial.
Color is a word packed with history, prejudice, and confusion.
The adjective form of colored, the Oxford English Dictionary says, quote, usually considered offensive.
But now, because colored was adopted in the United States by emancipated slaves as a term of racial pride after the end of the American Civil War, it was rapidly replaced from late 1960s as a self-designation by black and later by African-American, although it is retained in the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In Britain, it was the accepted term for black, Asian or mixed race people until the 1960s.
In a 1988 New York Times column about the phrase, William Sapphire, who's big into language, he talked about Martin Luther King referring to citizens of color in his speech at the March on Washington.
He said times change and terms change.
Racial designations go through phrases.
At one time, the word Negro was accepted, like the Negro Leagues.
At an earlier time, colored, and so on.
This organization has been in existence for 80 years.
The initial NAACP are part of the American vocabulary, firmly embedded in the national consciousness.
We feel it would not be to our benefit to change our name.
That's an NAACP spokesperson talking.
So again, does that mean that we should all start using that term?
No, I mean, it's passé and we shouldn't use it because some people find it offensive.
That's fine.
And one term is better than another today.
But the notion that this congressperson didn't just slip of the tongue, this was meant as like a racist reference is absolutely ridiculous.
And this is the game that we now play.
The game we now play is not, is the Biden administration's policy to benefit one racial group over another in American law?
Is that racist?
Is it racist?
Is that racist?
Don't talk about that.
Let's talk about whether this Arizona congressperson used the phrase colored people rather than people of color, which clearly means that he's a closeted member of the KKK.
This sort of stuff is so dumb.
I mean, truthfully, it is so dumb.
If you spend your days deeply worried over what is... I mean, the guy tries to correct himself in real time.
He realizes he has flubbed and that is why he corrects himself.
And then it turns into a national scandal.
Guys, how about we concentrate on some real problems in the United States, including problems of racism that have real world effects, particularly on people of other minorities.
It's just ridiculous, but again, people must have their quotient of racism in everyday media coverage, and so they'll manufacture it if they can't come up with the really good stuff.
Okay, it's time for something that we haven't done for a while here on this program, and that is story time.
So there are some books that you've seen on the shelves when you walk into Barnes & Noble, and we're going into a weekend, so we have to have some fun.
It's time for story time with Uncle Ben.
Today's story time is titled, Let It Lizzo.
Apparently this was found by one of our producers.
I won't say who, Justin.
And it was found at the local bookstore near the front of the bookstore.
Presumably to scare away the customers.
And it's titled, 50 Reasons Why Lizzo is Perfection.
I think we have to read this because this is obviously directed at, you know, teenage girls for whom Lizzo is a thing.
And so we're just gonna, it's a long book.
Believe it or not, there are many reasons why Lizzo is perfection.
Like, This book has to be 75 to 100 pages of why Lizzo is perfection.
And so I thought that it was necessary for us to examine the various reasons why, you know, like a religious figure, Lizzo is perfection.
So for example, Lizzo is the undisputed queen of coconut oil.
Wow.
I had never thought about that before.
Who are the competitors to that title, by the way?
Who are the other competitors for the queen of coconut oil?
Apparently none.
She's the undisputed queen.
She performed in front of a giant inflatable and show-stopping ass at the 2019 VMAs.
Wow.
I mean, that is just wow.
Well, who else could perform in front of a giant inflatable tuchus?
The magic that is Lizzo.
Our world is becoming so much better because of all of this.
Also, she is living proof that twerking is good for the soul.
It's true.
When you read various traditions in religion, various religious traditions from all over the world, who've been searching for some sort of spiritual placidity, some sort of connection with a higher way of life, very few of them had stumbled upon the magic that is, in fact, thrusting your ass in the air repeatedly.
Okay, next.
Apparently, according to Let It Lizzo, 50 Reasons Why Lizzo's Perfection, She owns Batman underwear.
And confirm that yes, they make my butt look really good.
So first of all, factories in India are being kept afloat by the manufacture of Batman underwear for Lizzo's tuchus.
Second of all, those must be truly magical underwear to apparently achieve that effect.
But that is deeply exciting stuff.
This is why she is perfection, folks.
This is why she is indeed perfection.
And I get to make fun of her because she has made her intense body positivity the center of her entire thinking.
In fact, that is the next page here in the Lizzo being perfect routine.
There we go.
It says, I think it's lazy for me to just say I'm body positive at this point.
It's easy.
I would like to be body normative.
I want to normative my body.
I want to normalize my body and not just be like, oh, look at this cool movement.
Being fat is body positive.
No, being fat is normal.
Well, unfortunately in America, that's true.
And she has helped make it even more normal.
The reality being fat, very bad for you.
Yeah, I mean to preach.
But, um, go to the gym.
Stop eating so much.
The fact is, obesity makes literally every disease you have worse.
All of them.
There's not a single thing that obesity does for you that you would not better be doing if you were not obese.
And yet, we are now being told that apparently all you need is a pair of Batman underwear and it fixes all your problems.
That's exciting stuff.
And the reason I point this out is because these are the cultural shapers.
These are the people who make the magic happen.
These are the people who decide what your kids see.
The values that your kids are hearing are people like Lizzo.
She embodies self-love, and we love her for it, says Lizzo.
Can I just say this?
I don't think that self-love is the best thing.
In fact, I think self-love is a form of idolatry.
Love has to typically be earned.
I'm not a big fan of this unearned love routine.
Like, a small child gets unearned love.
Like, my babies get unearned love.
Because they're small children.
But now you're an adult.
So it's time for you to earn some love.
Meaning, like, do something useful in life.
This idea that self-love is the root of all good.
Self-esteem is the root of all healthiness.
It's a lie.
It's not true.
It's really bad for you.
It leads to a narcissistic obsession with yourself and with your feelings that actually serves no one except for you.
And it doesn't even really serve you because it makes you more obnoxious and disliked by everybody around you.
Here's another one.
When a Hollywood medium predicted that Lizzo's future would see her swept off her feet, she scoffed, You know, I'm a strong black woman.
I'm not trying to get swept off my feet.
So first of all, that would have to be a very large dude to sweep Lizzo off her feet.
Have to take a linebacker for the New York Giants to sweep Lizzo off those feet.
That is a heavy lift, my friends.
No, I'm not a snack at all.
Look, baby, I'm the whole damn meal.
It speaks for itself.
That's at least fair.
At least she had...
True, true.
Okay.
This book is very, very long, so we're only taking selections of her perfection.
We've only gone through a few of the various reasons why she is, in fact, perfection.
She has brought together the worlds of classical flute and classical twerking.
Ah yes, as Mozart once sought.
This is what Schubert longed for, was uniting the variegated worlds of classical flute and classical twerking.
Is there, like, what would be the, like, new verm?
Is there, like, jazz twerking?
Are there multiple brands of twerking?
I thought that twerking is just, like, the shaking of the rear in a particular fashion.
I didn't realize that... Do you have to be classically trained to classically twerk?
Do you have to go to, like, ballet school?
Like, classic ballet twerking school?
I don't know how this works, exactly.
I'll plead ignorance.
Just your daily reminder that black trans women need to be protected and prioritized, says Lizzo.
We ain't free till we all free.
Also bad grammar.
Thank you for choosing me.
I don't take my allyship lightly.
This one I actually think is true.
So, her Ursula cosplay made our poor unfortunate souls leave our bodies.
I don't know if it made you die.
That'd be weird.
Like if you gazed upon her in horror and then you were stripped dead.
I don't think that that actually happened.
But, would that have been amazing casting?
I mean, Lizzo as Ursula would have been pretty strong casting.
I have to say.
That would have been better casting than what they actually ended up going with.
Young girls and femme people around the world can look to Lizzo.
Femme people.
This is their euphemism for dudes who want to act like ladies.
As a new ideal of femininity.
It's true.
The ideal of femininity used to be strong, independent woman who gets a job, gets married, has kids.
Strong, independent woman used to be a person who cared for her husband and children around her.
Now a strong, independent woman is a very, very large person who talks about her largeness and her empoweredness while twerking.
Well, I think we all learned something today from this book.
Let it Lizzo.
I think we all learned something.
And this would make a fabulous gift for all the leftists in your life, so they too can be more like Lizzo.
As beautiful as Lizzo.
Which is what they all aspire to be, obviously.
Which is why that is the greatest compliment you can pay to anyone, is you look just like Lizzo tonight, honey.
Okay, meanwhile, there's an interview between Tucker Carlson and Andrew Tate that's getting all sorts of attention.
It has 25, 30 million views over at Twitter.
It's the biggest episode of Tucker's show that he's done on Twitter for probably a couple of months.
And it's fascinating.
It's really, really long.
It's like two and a half hours long.
So we pulled a few of the clips to analyze them.
Here's a little bit of it.
It's a very uncertain situation to be picked up on just before New Year's Eve and thrown in a cell without charge.
And I'm asking different prison guards and different prisoners, how long am I going to be here?
One person was like, I've been here two years.
I was like, have you been charged?
She goes, yeah, but I haven't gone to court yet.
Everyone's been there for years.
I thought I was going to be there for years.
And it certainly takes a mental toll on you.
And I think jail is a different experience when you know you're innocent.
There was a guy in there for murder.
He's like, yeah, I murdered someone.
I'm in jail.
Your soul and your mind can accept the punishment for a crime.
But when you've actually done nothing wrong, I think jail is a lot harder.
I mean, one of the things that makes Tate sort of an interesting person and character is this tough-minded approach that he projects toward everything.
Now, as far as the actual specificity of the charges, my understanding is that his characterization of the charges is not what the Romanian government is saying what the charges are.
You would expect that, obviously.
He's defending himself, so it's not a giant shock that his account of the charges is somewhat different than theirs.
There are also some civil suits against him in Britain regarding sexual assault and all the rest.
What is the Matrix?
details of this are going to come out over time, but he was held in jail for a couple
of months and then he was released, but he is still under charging. So again, the outcome
is less than assured.
What is the matrix?
Good question. I guess some Americans call it the deep state, but I like to look at it
in a more global way.
When I say the matrix, I think there are certain agendas which are being pushed.
I think the media machine and the judicial systems of the world work together hand in hand.
I think the goal is to control people's minds to a point where they don't discuss anything that's important.
Now, again, a lot of what he is saying right here is true, Andrew Tate.
I mean, there is an overwhelming consensus between members of the media and members of the government and members of corporate America.
And that's true globally as well.
And they can create a narrative that just is not true.
We saw this with the Trump-Russia narrative.
We saw this with the idea that everyone, including small children, had to be vaxxed for COVID or everyone was going to die and all of the rest.
He's not wrong about that.
I think that he over-attributes to the Matrix.
In other words, every symptomatic failure is obviously attributable to the Matrix.
So it's, again, I think that there is such a thing as middle-level bureaucracy in the United States government who are responsible for doing bad things.
Does that mean that every bad thing that happens is attributable to that middle-level bureaucracy?
I don't think so.
But his overall take, that there are forces at work that are consolidated with one another and pursuing certain narratives, obviously that's true, and that's one of the reasons his message is popular.
Why do you think support for the war in Ukraine, support for Ukraine's side in the war against Russia, support for a war against Russia in the West, is kind of the bottom line issue for the people who run the U.S.
government and for the American media.
Why?
I mean, I guess you could argue about it, but there isn't an argument about it in the United States.
There's a position, and anyone who doesn't hold it is attacked and punished.
Why?
Why is that so important?
Well, the first thing I think we should all do is I think we should all give Putin credit for curing COVID.
Right?
Because when his invasion happened, COVID went away.
I hadn't thought about that.
Think about it.
It's almost to the day.
So we have to give him some credit, at least, for doing that.
He may be the bad guy of the world, but at least he cured COVID for everybody nearly instantly.
Fair.
Thank you, President Putin.
Yeah.
I, up until this point, never really commented too heavily on politics.
Yes.
But I understand very well, I like to believe what's happening with Ukraine and Russia.
And what I will say to the people who are watching this at home is that if you are naive enough to believe that there are good guys and bad guys in wars and it's as simple as good and bad and that the bad guys are crazy and the good guys want freedom then you need to do a little bit more investigation into what's really happening and when you look at
The vested interest of any country or any person... Can I just ask you to pause and just comment?
That's the truest thing, what you just said.
And anyone who doesn't understand that should shut the f*** up.
And I mean it.
Having seen war.
Anyone who's telling you that it's Churchill versus Hitler...
Okay, but even in Tucker's last statement that everyone's telling you that it's Churchill versus Hitler, but that was a case where you had an actual, like, evil person versus forces of good on one side.
So, Tate is making a global statement that there's never any conflict in which it's good versus evil, or in which one side is completely right and the other side is completely wrong.
It's all more complex than that.
I think that's always true.
I think there are certainly cases in which one side is right and the other side is wrong.
I think that happens, actually, fairly frequently.
Now, does that mean there isn't complexity to every war or that the rationales that are presented to the public for war are the same as the rationales behind closed doors?
No.
But the kind of generalized moral relativism that is being expressed there is something with which I fully disagree.
World War II was not a battle between two sides who had competitive but understandable versions of what was true.
World War II was a battle between a fascist force that wished to wipe every Jew off the planet And a force that wished to preserve Western democracy and civilization.
I mean, that is what World War II was.
The same thing happens to be true with regard to, for example, the Civil War.
One side in the Civil War wanted to preserve slavery.
The other side in the Civil War wanted to overrun slavery.
Now, is there more complexity than that?
Yeah, sure, there's more complexity than that, but the overall narrative is not false.
And what I see here is that complexity, the scales of gray are being used to eliminate the colors black and white.
Now, if you want to say that there is grey to the picture, that's fair.
That's fine.
I mean, there's grey to World War II also.
There's the phony war that occurred when the West seemed to be wanting to appease Hitler, right?
There's a lot of stuff happening in the lead-up to any war.
But at the end of the day, if you're deciding which side you want to side with, a moral component does exist.
And eliminating that moral component is, I think, a mistake and a strawman.
You've said depression isn't real, or it's not as the way we describe depression isn't accurate.
What do you think of depression?
When I say depression isn't real, what I'm... That really upset the world, especially the liberals, because they all live on medication, right?
When I say depression isn't real, I'm saying that because I don't believe in things that can take away power from me.
If I believed in depression, I would have been depressed in jail.
But I can't be depressed if I don't believe in it.
If you don't believe in ghosts, how can you be haunted?
You have two people in a haunted house.
One believes in ghosts, one doesn't.
There's a knock in the night.
One wakes up, calls an exorcist, is terrified, looks for a ghost.
The other guy doesn't believe in ghosts.
Knock on the night.
Goes back to sleep.
It's the belief in the ghost that gives it the power.
I don't believe in depression.
I believe in feeling depressed.
Sure, we're humans, we have emotions.
Sometimes we feel depressed, sometimes we feel happy.
I don't believe in the idea of becoming a depressed person who has depression.
I don't believe in that.
I don't think that's possible for me.
So if I don't believe in it, how can it happen?
Okay, again, I think that's spoken of somebody who doesn't have depression.
So, I don't have depression either, but there are certainly people who are manic depressives, right?
That's an actual mental condition where people go from absolute mania to absolute depression.
Now, one of the things that he is saying that I generally agree with is that very often, depression should be overcome with cognitive behavioral therapy, right?
That's actually what he's talking about there, is where you say, listen, my chain of thought here is wrong, and so I'm gonna correct that chain of thought.
But the idea that depression just overall doesn't exist if you ignore it, for some people, it pretty clearly does.
And sometimes it's caused by, you know, tragic life events, and sometimes it's caused by actual brain issues.
But to kind of dismiss wholesale all depression, again, I think this one is actually more complex, and I think foreign policy is a little bit less complex than he's suggesting.
So, yeah, are there people who require medication for depression?
Yes.
Is it way less than the number, is it way fewer than the number of people who are currently taking medication for depression?
I think also yes.
So, he's right that for a person who does not suffer from preconditions that lead to depression, or a person who doesn't have manic depression, or something like that, that the way to overcome depressive states is to kind of work your way through it.
That obviously is true, but that's not even in conflict with, you know, sort of the best of psychotherapy.
So men are replacing genuine sexual relationships with just the computer screen and porn, and it's becoming a very, very big problem.
And that's also exasperated by the fact that I think the sexual marketplace has become globalized.
This is the thing I say to young men.
A lot of men come to me with problems, and my only answer to them is masculine excellence.
I say that in the world we live in today, being a normal man or below normal is gonna be terrible.
You have to be an exceptional man, because the sexual marketplace, especially, even if you just want to find a wife, is globalized.
If you, in 1955, if you met the hot girl in the Nebraskan town, she was the hot girl in the Nebraskan town.
If you meet her today, she's being offered to go to Courchevel and go skiing in France, and she's being offered to fly to Dubai, and there's millionaires who can just fly her anywhere and give her anything she wants.
And who are you?
Right?
It's getting harder and harder as a man to even find the most basic human function of reproduction.
Even to just find a woman you can reproduce with.
It's becoming more and more difficult.
You also couple that with the fact that they've destroyed morality in women also.
So when you destroy the morality in men and you destroy how a man should act and then you destroy how a woman should act, you're both going in the opposite direction.
Most women out there are very happy to share a man who's just rich and famous and they don't care.
So you're the normal guy.
There's this rich famous guy with 30 girls.
That's 29 dudes who are lonely.
And they end up watching porn.
And if you have a porn addiction or you have a problem with porn, you have a problem with yourself.
Because I guarantee if you were the kind of man you're supposed to be, you would have no time for that.
And you wouldn't need it.
Okay, so everything he's saying here is true.
So I have a lot of quibbles with Andrew Tate.
This is not one of them.
What he is saying here is absolutely true.
That the big imbalance between men and women, which has been created by the sexual revolution in which men and women were not expected to marry one another and then pair off one-on-one, has created tremendous imbalances just population-wide.
And also he's correct that obviously you have to be more successful in order to achieve appeal to women in today's day and age because they have many more options with regard to men.
But also because men aren't pairing up one-to-one with women, women aren't pairing up one-to-one with men.
That's just statistically reality.
What he's saying is right.
You can see this in every time you see a poll where women are saying, I just want a man who's six foot and makes 200 grand a year.
That's like a very tiny percent of the population.
But there are a lot of women who are attractive who feel that they can achieve that because, again, there is a global marketplace.
What he's saying there is right.
Now, there is an element that, again, I think is missing, and that is that if you actually wish to society-wide cure this problem, he's right on the individual level.
There's no substitute for excellence and achievement and success and all the rest.
I fully agree with that.
On a society-wide level, that's not going to solve the problem.
On a society-wide level, the only solution to this is a return to the sort of values that build families.
In other words, one solution here is become more successful so the attractive girl is attracted to you as opposed to the millionaire 45-year-old who's got a wife.
The other solution is inculcate from the time people are young a set of values in which men and women are meant to marry each other and raise children so that the values you're looking for in the other person are an important component of how you date and marry.
That's the part that I always feel like is missing in some of these conversations.
If a black billionaire and a white billionaire meet somewhere, I don't think there's much conversation about race.
No!
I don't think there's any racism.
Interesting.
They're not that interested in the topic, actually.
They don't care, right?
But amongst the lower echelons of the populace, they seem very interested in trying to turn us all on each other.
Yes.
I wonder why that is.
And I wonder why they deliberately make laws and push media matters which are designed to do exactly that.
I wonder why that is.
We can sit and I have my own theories.
Okay, so the sort of classism argument, the reason that this is being pushed is on behalf of the upper class elite.
He's right in one sense and I think incorrect in another.
So he's certainly right that when you go to upper class enclaves, the amount of racism is virtually non-existent because, again, people tend to identify by class more than they do by race.
If you go to very poor areas of the United States, very often you see black and white people living together pretty much okay, right?
Go to the rural south and you see this actually a fair bit.
And if you go to very rich areas, like San Francisco, you see very rich black and white people living right next to each other with no actual gap.
So why is it that the elite, or what he would call the matrix, are pushing the racism narrative?
I don't think that that's necessarily for the preservation of economic power.
I think that that is because a lot of those people actively believe that people who are not like them are bad.
Like all of them.
Like people who are not living in my little San Francisco enclave.
They are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes who despise each other, just as Barack Obama talked about.
The people he was meeting with in San Francisco when he was talking about the bitter clingers, they're all like Barack Obama, but everybody else is actually bad.
So it's not that they are doing this to preserve their own power as much as they have this very self-centered view of the world in which they're the only good people.
Everyone else is in fact racist, which is why you need racial preferences programs, for example.
So I was a little bit surprised to see Greta Thunberg with Zelensky this morning.
What's interesting to me is this.
Firstly, I would never kill myself.
Secondly, imagine these people are so detached from reality.
Imagine going, you know what we need to do?
Brainwave!
We need to drum up support for this garbage.
Let's take the most loved woman, Greta, And the most loved man, Zelensky, let's make a meet.
Think about the PR.
Let's bring a camera.
And imagine people sitting around a table going, that's great.
That's going to really make people support this.
Who gives?
Oh, I don't want to swear.
I'm sorry, but some young girl turns up to a war zone who has nothing.
Why is she there?
What are they going to talk about?
No.
But what's their conversation?
I think she only yells.
I don't think she does talk.
I don't understand.
Is she going to talk about how the childhood has been stolen from all those million Ukrainian men who have been blown to pieces?
Like she talks about childhood being stolen because we drive, you know, cars?
I don't think she is.
I don't think she's going to mention that.
Not wrong.
Correct.
I mean, again, when he talks about the Matrix, the Matrix is, you know, this kind of generalized A net between people like Greta Thunberg, who really should not be a world-famous figure.
She was a child when she was exploited for her political point of view.
And people like Vladimir Zelensky, who's an actual world leader in the middle of a war.
The obvious imbalance there, but the attempt by the Matrix to paint that as a sort of meeting of equals is ridiculous on his face.
So every survey of female happiness in the West shows just a straight decline since about 1970 till now.
Women are becoming less happy in the West.
I think it's very obvious.
What accounts for that?
How can you be happy when all the men around you aren't men, right?
We are the most beautiful union that God has possibly Created on the planet, a feminine woman and a masculine man.
It's the most beautiful union that can possibly exist.
It raises children the best.
Both parties are happier.
Both parties gain.
It's a net positive for everybody.
There's no negative.
There's no downside.
But if you destroy one side of the equation, then the other side is going to be completely and utterly miserable and unhappy.
How as a woman can you be happy if you can't find a man who you believe can protect you, provide for you, sticks up for you, has morals, has principles?
There's none of those men left.
So then what they do is just go from man to man trying to find it.
And by the time they've been through enough men to maybe find someone semi-close to it, they've been through too many men to ever be happy.
And then you have the absolute destruction of Western society.
We talk about why men don't get married anymore.
I can tell you why I wouldn't want to get married in America.
I don't see the point in being married to a woman who's had so many partners before me that she can't properly pair bond with me and then giving her the opportunity to financially destroy me.
I think that would be a bad chess move.
I mean, again, everything he's saying is true.
So he should get married and he should be monogamous and have kids.
Because the union that actually provides all of this is the marital union.
It is not, in fact, cam girls.
So many of the things he's saying are absolutely right.
As I've said before, I think that Andrew Tate's big gift is that Andrew Tate is very good at diagnosing problems.
I think many of his solutions don't meet the test of the problem.
I think very often the solutions are incomplete or very often the solutions are correct in rhetoric but not in action.
But when it comes to diagnosing problems, I mean, this is the reason he's popular.
If he weren't putting his thumb on something real, he wouldn't have millions and millions and millions of followers, obviously.
Alrighty, the rest of the show is continuing right now.
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