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Aug. 29, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Democrats Blame Republicans For Latest White Supremacist Shooting Spree
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So people really, really, really are not interested in a Joe Biden-Donald Trump matchup for 2024 by every available poll, and yet that is likely, beyond likely at this point, to be the actual matchup going into the 2024 election.
And by the polling data, people really don't like either one of these candidates.
According to the Associated Press, President Joe Biden is old and confused.
Former President Donald Trump is corrupt and dishonest.
Those are among the top terms American Jews when they're asked to describe the Democrat in the White House and Republicans' best position to face him in next year's election.
There's a new poll from the Associated Press and ORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
For Biden, the largest share of U.S.
adults mentioned his age.
At 80, Biden is just three years older than Trump, but he also looks like he's half dead.
Trump, meanwhile, has been eliciting words like corrupt and crooked, 15%.
Bad and other negative comments, about 11%.
Liar and dishonest, 8%.
About 8% offered generally positive comments, like good.
So the general breakdown here is that when it comes to Joe Biden, 26% of respondents used words like old or outdated to describe Biden.
Another 15% mentioned things like slow or confused.
Another 10% gave generally negative comments about the president.
6% used words like corrupt and crooked.
Only 6% offered words like president and leader and 5% like strong and capable.
Even among Democrats, 28% mentioned his age, significantly higher than leadership or strength and capability.
Trump's negative comments, according to the AP, center not on age, but on his moral standing and conduct, along with things like loudmouth, which was 6% and angry, crazy and dangerous 6%, narcissist 6%, 5% used words like strong and capable.
62% of Americans say they have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, which is not a good recipe for winning an election.
52% say the same thing about Joe Biden.
Also not an amazing stat for winning an election.
So once again, we are going to run a couple of very, very unpopular people against one another in the odd belief by both sides that the other guy is way more unpopular than their own guy and therefore your own guy really doesn't matter and you cannot lose.
Well, here's the problem for Joe Biden.
Joe Biden can lose.
So if Joe Biden were somehow to lose to Donald Trump, it would be the single worst defeat for Democrats of my lifetime.
Like worse than 2016 when Trump beat Hillary Clinton because nobody actually thought Trump was going to win that one.
But now everybody understands that Trump can win that one.
So if Biden somehow loses to Donald Trump post January 6th, post his 2020 defeat, post all the rest of this stuff, that'd be the single most humiliating defeat for Democrats in my lifetime and probably ever.
Which means that Joe Biden's in a little bit of trouble here.
I mean, if you look at the RealClearPolitics polling average in the Trump versus Biden race, and again, it's very early, so it's not as though it is definitely going to be Trump versus Biden, but you have to look at the frontrunners for both parties right now.
Right now, Joe Biden in the RealClearPolitics polling average is up just one percentage point.
Just one.
According to Emerson, Trump is actually up two points, 46 to 44.
Now, do I believe that it's actually quite that close?
I don't.
The reason being when you look under the top line of these stats, very often what you're seeing, for example, there's a stat yesterday that came out that showed Joe Biden just 61% minority support.
That is not going to be the actual number when the election comes around.
No Democrat has won less than 70% of minority support for probably four decades.
But with that said, is this election too close for comfort for Joe Biden?
You bet.
Karina Jean-Pierre was asked about this polling data showing that even Democrats think that Joe Biden is old, slow, and not with it.
Here's her answer.
Look, I appreciate the question.
he can continue to do the job at his advanced age and kind of allay some of those concerns?
I mean, look, I appreciate the question. I get it often, as you know. And what I would say,
and I've said this many times and many of my colleagues have said this, the president says
this, if you watch him, if you've seen what he's done in the last two years, this is a president
has had a historic administration in just two years.
If you look at the 13.5, more than 13.5 million jobs that he's been able to create, if you look at how he's been able to turn the economy around so that it works for middle class Americans.
Yeah, so avoid the question.
Avoid the question, because you can't say he's obviously vigorous, because that's obviously untrue.
She's pointing to, quote unquote, the accomplishments.
Well, the truth is that that's going to matter as much for Joe Biden as Donald Trump's accomplishments mattered for him in 2020.
Donald Trump could have pointed to all the amazing things he did over the course of the first three years of his administration before 2020.
And he did some of that.
But in the end, people Yeah, basically voted in a referendum on Donald Trump as a human.
And the same thing is going to happen to Joe Biden.
And while she's out there saying that Joe Biden is with it, everything is fine, Joe Biden is like coughing into his hands and shaking hands with people and getting weirdly close with teenagers and just being a generalized elderly weirdo.
There he goes, coughing into his hands.
He keeps coughing over and over and over.
And then he just keeps, you know, shaking hands with the folks.
We're all supposed to be very worried about COVID, by the way.
That's something else that we'll get into in just one second.
Meanwhile, the Hunter questions are not going away.
The White House is going to continue to ignore them.
Corinne Jean-Pierre, she was asked about Hunter Biden again, because remember, the plea deal broke down, which means that now presumably there should be an investigation into where Hunter Biden got all of his foreign money and whether he violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
And if there's anybody worth their salt in this prosecutor's office, which, you know, we will see, I have doubts, then they have to ask the pretty obvious question, which is, he was selling access to Joe.
What kind of access was that?
Well, Corinne Jean-Pierre isn't going to answer that question.
The Secret Service is paying $16,000 a month now to stage near Hunter Biden in Malibu.
Who's paying for that?
That's a question for the Secret Service.
Okay.
Hunter Biden is reportedly selling art to pay for his $15,800 a month rent in Malibu.
How can you guarantee that people are not going to be buying this art to gain favor with the president?
That is a question for Hunter Biden and his representatives.
I hear your question.
I'm not going to get involved in this.
We know that one of our buyers got a job from the Biden administration.
Can you guarantee that there is no quid pro quo?
I hear your question. I'm not going to get involved in this.
That is a question for Hunter Biden's representatives.
No, it isn't!
It's a question for Joe.
So they're just going to continue to not answer questions about Joe Biden being too old for the job and decrepit and bad at it.
They're not going to answer any questions about the fact that Hunter Biden is pretty obviously money laundering.
I mean, it's pretty... When you are selling paintings for $500,000 a piece, and the people who buy those paintings are magically getting appointments to daddy's administration, that's a little weird, is it not?
A little bit weird, but you won't answer any questions about that.
And it's going to get worse for Joe Biden before it gets better.
Kevin McCarthy apparently is going to launch an impeachment inquiry in September, according to Breitbart.
McCarthy has initiated strategies to open a sweeping impeachment inquiry into Biden to
uncover the depth of his involvement in his family's foreign dealings, according to multiple
Republican sources, they told CNN. McCarthy previously demanded that Biden come clean
about his involvement. The president has continued to stonewall and lie about his
family's business over 16 times, according to the House Oversight Committee. None of this is
going away. And by the way, September is next month.
Like, we are in the middle of it right now.
We're about to hit, in just a few days, all of this.
So none of this is very good for Joe Biden.
And so he is pulling out some old standbys, strategically speaking.
We'll get to that momentarily first.
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And in that playbook over the past several years, they've had two big plays.
Play number one, all of our opponents are racists.
So they're now attempting to use this playbook with regard to this horrific shooting in Jacksonville.
Where a a person who's on like a 72-hour mental hold a couple of years ago so obviously somebody with with some pretty significant emotional problems and also happened to be a neo-nazi like put a bunch of swastikas on his gun and then went to a dollar general and shot three black people.
Horrifying story.
Ron DeSantis showed up in town in order to pay tribute to those people and pledge to help out the local community and all of the rest.
And the Democrats and the media immediately spun this into yet another story of evil Republican white racists.
So it was people like Ron DeSantis who caused some nutjob to pull the trigger on black people.
Steve Peoples, who is the chief political reporter for the AP.
He should be fired for this tweet, honestly.
Like, if they have any level of objectivity whatsoever, he should be fired for this tweet.
Okay, this is absurd coverage.
That's absurd coverage.
ACP issued a travel advisory this spring warning black people to use extreme care of traveling to
Florida. Just three months later, DeSantis is leading his state through the aftermath of a
racist attack that left three African-Americans dead. Black leaders in Florida and across the
nation say they're outraged by his actions and rhetoric ahead of the shooting. My story with
Brendan Farrington. Okay, this is absurd coverage. That's absurd coverage. So because Ron DeSantis
and his school board said that they were going to put together an educational curriculum free
of critical race theory, which is not in fact history.
It is a bunch of anti-American propaganda.
And because they did that, apparently there was a neo-Nazi who shot three black people in the state of Florida.
And Ron DeSantis is responsible for that, according to Steve Peoples and the Associated Press, which is an insane take.
But it is also the take that Democrats are going to start using.
So here is the NAACP Jacksonville president Isaiah Rumlin saying that the white supremacy in Florida is palpable, that's why you see Trump flags.
So any state in America that voted for Trump apparently is a hellhole for black people.
Jacksonville specifically is a breeding ground of neo-Nazism, that they have been tracking this and seeing this.
I mean, what can you tell me and tell us about the climate there in Jacksonville with these hate groups?
I think the federal government and the Justice Department are going to have to do a better job in exercising exactly where these hate groups exist.
I mean, we see these Confederate signs, we see the Trump signs constantly on our streets.
Okay, that is amazing.
So if you see a Trump flag, anybody who voted for Trump or who has supported Trump is obviously a racist, right?
This is how Joe Biden is going to run.
Whether it's against DeSantis or whether it is against Trump, the rip is always and forever going to be that if you are not in line with Joe Biden's political priorities or the political priorities of the left, then you must be in favor of black people getting shot.
Charlemagne the God, who is some sort of podcast host, don't really know his show particularly well.
I think he's at the Breakfast Club.
Is that Charlemagne?
Anyway, he also is doing this routine, suggesting that Ron DeSantis fueled the anti-blackness.
Now, do they have any evidence of this?
Of course not, but they don't need evidence.
They just need the accusation.
I hate using woke terms like anti-anything, but yeah, Ron DeSantis has absolutely fueled a lot of anti-blackness in Florida.
So yeah, he deserves a lot of that smoke.
He deserves a lot of that smoke.
It was Ron DeSantis who's responsible for all this.
So I have a question.
When a crap load of black people get shot every weekend in Chicago, who's fueling that?
Who's fueling that?
Do we talk about that?
No, we shouldn't.
We probably shouldn't talk about any of that.
Because some black people getting shot is useful for the media narrative.
And some black people getting shot is not useful for the media narrative.
So we only cover the shootings that are useful for a manufactured media narrative.
Where, by the way, we're on the right side of this.
I mean, again, name me, the mainstream politician anywhere in America.
Who is in favor of black people randomly getting shot on the basis of race.
It's totally an insane accusation, but again, it plays back into how Joe Biden hopes to win an outsized share of minority voters, particularly black voters.
We'll get into that momentarily.
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OK, so again, this all ties into Joe Biden's reelect effort.
So yesterday he spent an awful lot of time sounding off about white supremacy as the greatest threat to the American homeland, which I got to tell you, White supremacy is tremendously evil.
I know because I receive an enormous number of death threats from people who are white supremacists because I'm an orthodox Jew.
And the FBI has literally arrested people who are white supremacists for threatening my family.
Also, the notion that the greatest terrorist threat to America is isolated white supremacists is lunacy.
In terms of what the federal government can, like, what exactly is the federal government also supposed to do about that, presumably?
This is all tied into a broader agenda item for Biden, as we'll see in a moment.
The intelligence community is determined, the U.S.
intelligence community is determined that domestic terrorism rooted in white supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat we face in the whole world.
The greatest threat.
Okay, by the way, he was also jabbering about his history with civil rights, which is a little bit more checkered than he likes to make it out to be.
But here he was jabbering nonsensically about how he got Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act, which is weird since he was 21 when the Civil Rights Act passed.
And Strom Thurmond, I believe, delivered the longest filibuster to date against the Civil Rights Act at the time.
So, strange story here from an addled old man.
I thought things had changed.
I was able to literally, not figuratively, talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died.
And I thought, well, maybe there's real progress.
But hate never dies.
It just hides.
I don't know what he's talking about, but all of this is tied into the broader Biden agenda of equity in everything.
So here's top Biden advisor, Steve Benjamin, yesterday.
He's a senior advisor and director of the Office of Public Engagement, talking about how equity is at the center of everything the Biden administration does.
When they say equity, what they really mean is racial preferences.
The administration has, since day one, since the president signed his first executive order on making sure that everything we've done is focused on equity in this administration.
It's, um, yeah.
So that's part of the broader agenda item.
Now, the real answer to what happened in Jacksonville actually comes courtesy of a Democratic Jacksonville councilwoman named Jacoby Pittman.
We talked about her yesterday.
She's the person who got up when DeSantis got booed for visiting Jacksonville and said, listen, bullets don't have parties on them.
Absolutely correct.
Here she was yesterday saying DeSantis wasn't invited, but there's no reason for him to be booed.
The governor was getting heckled and you stood up to essentially quiet those people down.
Yet, Councilwoman, there are critics who say that Florida's governor has enacted policies that created an environment that allowed this kind of attack to take place, whether on guns or on race.
What's your response to those critics?
Well, first of all, let me make myself clear.
I had no idea that the governor was coming.
And so I just want to make myself clear.
I wanted the audience to calm down because I wanted him to sit down And I wanted it to be the event that was for the residents and the community that had come together for unity.
That's what that event was about, not the governor.
Okay, well, she's right about that.
And DeSantis knew that, too.
So, I mean, that would be the proper response to, you know, a racial shooting where everybody of any sort of goodwill is on the same side.
I mean, again, who is arguing in favor of the shooter in this particular situation?
The answer is nobody.
But the media have to manufacture some sort of narrative for Joe Biden to run on, and so the narrative of the day is going to be, Republicans are racist.
You knew it was going in this direction.
Meanwhile, Democrats are actually going to try to run on COVID again.
This is starting anew, which is amazing.
COVID is such a devastating disease that it arises every election cycle.
It's pretty incredible.
Yesterday, Corinne Jean-Pierre, she pointed out that we have rising COVID numbers.
By the way, those rising COVID numbers are not resulting in mass death across the nation.
Those rising COVID numbers are largely resulting in people getting colds.
Here she was suggesting people continue to be vaccinated with their 97th booster shot.
We are going to encourage Americans to get their updated COVID-19 vaccine in addition to their annual flu shot.
Let's not forget that is important for Americans to get.
And an RSV immunization for people over 60 and for infants.
That is something that we're going to continue to make very clear to Americans across the country.
Really?
We're doing this routine again?
The answer, apparently, is yes.
According to CBS News, as doctors warn COVID is on the rise, some Northern California hospitals are bringing back an old COVID-19 requirement, mask mandates.
The current spike is being blamed on summer travel with more people staying indoors to avoid the brutal heat.
Nowadays, very few people wear masks.
But now, apparently, there are a bunch of health facilities that are going to put the masks back in place.
In California, you've seen some universities across the country already establishing mask mandates for people to return to school.
All this is crazy.
Meanwhile, the New York Times is suggesting that in order for schools to reopen, you have to install some sort of clean air apparatus.
Quote, on a Sunday afternoon, in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a desk in an adjoining office.
The ceiling fans were off to prevent the sheet music from scattering.
The windows were sealed shut.
East High is Denver's largest high school and among the oldest, and there is no modern ventilation system.
Woo-hoo!
Wow, the windows wouldn't open?
And so the idea here is that we're going to have to spend, you know, probably billions of dollars in order to establish better ventilation systems in schools, lest the children get the COVID.
Again, reminder, very, very, very few people under the age of 18 in the United States actually died of COVID by CDC statistics.
That is inarguable.
They want $200 billion that was included in the American Rescue Plan, another $350 billion allotted to state and local governments.
To be used for ventilation in schools.
All of this is the predicate to possible future shutdowns.
And you can see, by the way, the predicate being set by people like Mehdi Hassan over at MSNBC.
So one of the things we know from the pandemic is that it absolutely devastating school.
It destroyed school learning.
This is Brookings Institute.
Brookings Institute, quote, has reached the two-year mark of the initial wave of pandemic-induced school shutdowns.
Academic normalcy remains out of reach for many students, educators, and parents.
This is from March of 2022.
As we outlined in our new research study released in January, the cumulative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students' academic achievement has been large.
We tracked changes in math and reading test scores across the first two years of the pandemic using data from 5.4 million U.S.
students in grades 3 through 8.
Average fall 2021 math test scores in grades 3 through 8 were 0.2 to 0.27 standard deviations lower relative to same-grade peers in fall 2019.
Reading test scores were down 0.09 to 0.18 standard deviations lower.
The math drops are significantly larger than estimated impacts from other large-scale school disruptions, including Hurricane Katrina.
And test scores increased between students in low-poverty and high-poverty elementary schools.
But don't worry, Democrats are going to try to talk you into the possibility of more school lockdowns now, apparently.
I don't know why they would run on this, but apparently they think that it might be a good strategy.
We'll get to that momentarily first.
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Okay, so Mehdi Hassan, he's trying already to pave the groundwork for the possibility of more school shutdowns.
Here he was yesterday claiming, it's a myth!
It's a myth that there was any problem in the classroom.
Today I want to address this thorny and very emotive issue of kids, schools and COVID because we have seen a blatant and bad faith rewriting of history on this issue from a lot of people who should know better.
And so I think this today, what you're about to watch.
is one of the most important deep dives I've ever done on this show.
Because the myths about children and COVID, that kids aren't really harmed by it, that school closures were a massive and avoidable mistake, that they cause learning loss and mental health issues.
Those myths, and they are myths, dangerous myths, have endured for so long, become so ingrained, so pervasive, that they're not just something Fox viewers believe.
I'm sure many of you watching at home have sadly come to accept many of these myths as true.
It's a myth, guys.
Everything about the learning loss, not a myth.
Or mental health problems with kids who are staying home, not a myth, right?
All that's a myth, according to Mehdi Hassan.
So get ready for it.
As COVID upticks going into the winter, you're gonna watch some Democrats come out again for this sort of thing, which is a hell of a thing to run on.
So they're gonna run basically 2020 back.
They're gonna run on COVID lockdowns, and they're gonna run on race.
Well, good luck to them on that.
That does not seem like a winning strategy to me.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, the Democrats in the judiciary are doing an amazing job of setting up the calendar in favor of Donald Trump.
So apparently, the trial in the January 6th indictment in Washington, D.C.
is slated to start on March 4th.
That is one day before Super Tuesday.
So, uh, that's weird.
It's super weird.
Trump's allies lambasted the timing of the trial, which U.S.
District Judge Tanya Chutkin announced after rejecting both an expedited timeline from Special Counsel Jack Smith and a request from Trump's lawyers to delay the trial until 2026.
Ohio Senator J.D.
Vance dubbed it straight-up election interference, as you're starting the trial the day before the biggest primary day?
It's called Super Tuesday for a reason.
It's the biggest day of the primaries.
That's when you start the trial?
Trump said that he's going to try to appeal on the basis of this.
It's not clear if he's going to show up to court.
The truth is that this is probably going to boost Trump because if the dynamics of the race so far are a reflection of what's going to happen in the future, every time Trump is targeted in court, it seems to boost him electorally.
But if you look at how this calendar is setting up right now, it's pretty wild.
Right now you have March 4th, the day before Super Tuesday, for the Trump January 6th trial.
And then you have the fraud suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
That's going to go to trial this October 2nd.
Then you have the defamation lawsuit that is going to go to trial on January 15th, 2024.
That is the date of the Iowa Republican Presidential Caucus.
You got the hush money criminal case brought by Manhattan D.A.
Alvin Bragg.
That's the garbage case in Manhattan about Stormy Daniels and such.
That's going to go to trial March 25th.
That is the middle of the primaries.
And then you have the documents case against Trump and two of his aides.
That date is set to begin May 20th in Florida.
There's a bunch of primaries right around that one, and we don't know when the Georgia case is going to come to trial either.
So yeah, I mean, it's just going to be trials from here on in.
It's just going to be trials for the rest of the election cycle.
President Trump has responded.
How do you have an indictment that is based almost entirely on the findings of the January 6th unselect committee on Marxist, fascist, and political hacks, when these same lowlives who have been caught lying for years about Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, FISA, and the fake dossier, and more, purposefully and illegally destroyed and deleted all the evidence, findings, and proof of the January 6th committee?
Well, again, that's not going to happen, but he is not wrong to complain about the date.
Is any of that going to help Trump in a general election?
I keep asking this question because this is the question for Republican primary voters.
Not, are you more warm to him now that he's being unfairly targeted by law enforcement?
I'm more warm to him if he's being unfairly targeted by law enforcement.
But that's really not the question.
The question is whether this is going to help Trump in a general election.
Trump, meanwhile, is focused laser-like on a rumor about Ron DeSantis.
By rumor, we mean R-O-O-M-E-R.
I don't even know what's happening right now.
He put that out on Truth Social yesterday.
I had not heard that rumor.
R-O-O-M-E-R.
His presidential run is a shambles.
His poll numbers have absolutely crashed, putting him third and fourth in some states.
We'll be dropping out of the presidential race in order to run in Florida against Rick
Scott for Senate.
Now, that's an interesting one, isn't it?
He put that out on Truth Social yesterday.
I had not heard that rumor, R-O-O-M-E-R.
I had not, in fact, heard that rumor because it's not true.
But, you know, if this is where Republicans choose to nominate, like, this is where you
want your focus?
I'm Alright, Tim Scott, who I think is going to be out of the race fairly soon because he doesn't have any electricity, he doesn't have any base support, he doesn't have any momentum, but he said something true yesterday.
He said, listen, tough and loud is not going to be enough to win a general election.
That's true.
I think sometimes people mistake decency and kindness for a lack of resolve.
Sometimes people confuse fighting with being cruel.
Is there a place for a happy warrior in modern day politics?
Can you be a rule follower, be fair in your critiques, and still be successful in politics?
Oh, absolutely.
You can, certainly.
As you know, Trey, I grew up in some really tough neighborhoods.
You've got to be tough to get out of the neighborhoods that I grew up in.
The question I keep asking myself, is tough enough?
And for the Republican Party, the answer is really clear.
We've lost seven out of the last eight national elections and 2022 was a disaster.
If tough and loud was enough, we'd be winning election after election after election.
But our results have unfortunately been exactly the opposite.
He is right about that, which is why I think actually, again, there are a lot of people who wrote off Governor DeSantis for dead in this national race.
I don't see the evidence that he's dead quite yet.
The latest polling shows Donald Trump in the Republican nominating race dropping now below 50 percent in some of the numbers.
The latest Insider Advantage poll, for example, has Trump at 45 and DeSantis at 18 and nobody else with an even remote spitting distance.
There's some other polls that have Trump up near 60.
Messenger, Harris X, which has been a poll that's very, very warm toward Trump, currently has Trump at 59 and DeSantis at 14.
Overall, Trump is ahead of the field by 40 points.
It also happens to be a very fragmented field.
But with that said.
DeSantis, if what you think is that tough and loud isn't enough, but you do need tough, right?
And you do need to be able to kick back, but you also need to be able to govern.
DeSantis is going to get an opportunity to show that off this weekend.
It's a terrible opportunity, obviously.
There's this hurricane that's about to hit the panhandle of Florida.
According to the latest reports, that hurricane could come in at possibly a Cat 3.
Maybe even a Cat 4.
AccuWeather meteorologists are rating Edalia as a three on the real impact scale for hurricanes right now.
And officials have issued mandatory evacuation orders for parts of Pinellas and Hillsborough County in Florida because of the life-threatening conditions anticipated.
You're gonna see a big storm surge and all the rest.
Well, this is one area where DeSantis actually thrives is in handling crisis in his home state.
We've seen it before.
Here was Governor DeSantis doing his job yesterday talking about the approaching storm.
Tropical Storm Idalia continues to gather strength.
It will become a hurricane today, and it is forecast to reach landfall as a major hurricane, a Category 3.
I think it's important to point out, if we were sitting here three days ago, a lot of people thought it would end up being a tropical storm.
Then they said, well, maybe a Category 1.
Then yesterday it was, oh, maybe it'll hit Cat 2.
Now, there really doesn't seem anything to prevent it from continuing to strengthen.
And we've seen this before with something like Hurricane Michael that continued to gather strength.
So this is going to be a major impact and Floridians should expect that this storm will be a major Cat 3 plus hurricane.
Okay, the truth is that it was DeSantis' crisis leadership during COVID that was really, really excellent.
He's gonna give an example of how to do that, I would assume, this week and this weekend.
Yesterday, this is also a perfect example of what DeSantis does really, really well.
Right, so DeSantis was asked by a reporter about climate change, which is always the go-to for idiot reporters who don't know about hurricanes and how hurricane targets have now expanded because there are a lot more people living in the path of hurricanes and all the rest of it.
And they keep suggesting hurricanes are more common because of, again, not a lot of evidence to suggest that.
There's some evidence to suggest that the hurricanes may be more powerful now
because of the warmer water that they're using to churn, essentially.
But here was DeSantis being asked about climate change on the hurricanes, and he knows what he's talking about.
This is where DeSantis is a unique character and very fluid.
He was true with COVID.
I remember the first time I talked with Governor DeSantis, I talked to him when he was a congressperson,
but when he was governor, it was in June of 2020.
And he called because he wanted to lay out his COVID strategy and his fluency with the numbers
was obvious.
He had actually spent a lot of time with the data.
Here's a perfect example of him knowing things.
This is the storm that's really quickly intensifying more than originally planned, and it's going into the Gulf,
which many scientists say that it's the warm water contributed by climate change.
Climate change is really intensifying these storms.
What do you think is contributing to this?
Well, I think it's, I mean, you know, unfortunately, I mean, I see a lot of parallels with Hurricane Michael.
Hurricane Michael, if you remember, a few days before, we knew there would be a storm.
Nobody was saying that it was going to be a Category 5 storm.
I mean, that just was not what people were saying.
And then it intensified and that it delivered a major, major impact to Northwest Florida that we're still recovering from.
Okay, again, he then went into a longer speech going through, like, the history of hurricanes.
This is the thing that DeSantis is good at, is the actual governing.
Whether that's going to make a difference in the Republican primaries?
Unclear.
Whether it should?
Absolutely.
Because you want to win over Democrats and Independents, it turns out being good at your job is one of the things that makes you a better candidate than not being particularly good at your job or not being involved in your job.
In just one second, we'll get to some more colorful areas of the 2024 campaign.
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Okay, meanwhile, stupidest story of the day from the campaign trail.
Eminem is apparently very angry at Vivek Ramaswamy.
Why?
Well, because Vivek, as you recall, he's at the Iowa caucuses, and he wrapped his tune on the campaign trail.
There's a lot of, like, Vivek is millennial, I believe, just technically speaking, but this is real boomer energy, because Eminem's Lose Yourself, I believe, came out in 2002, so this is a 21-year-old song, which, you know, honestly, is the equivalent at this point of singing a Doobie Brothers song.
And here is Vivek on the campaign trail.
Look at all the people in Iowa, like, what is happening?
One thing you have to say for Vic, at least he's having fun.
One thing you have to say for Vic, at least he's having fun.
And Kim Reynolds is standing there like, what is happening right now?
She's standing on the corner of the stage like, I don't, like, why is this happening?
Why is this a thing that's happening?
What is happening?
That is, that is so, wow.
The levels of cringe are just astounding.
I know this because I've done a few cringe things in my career.
You may have noticed.
I believe that in a cringe-off, Vivek wins, hands down.
In any case, all of that's fine and all this just stupid campaign tricks, that's all fine.
Eminem literally wrote a letter to Vivek Ramaswamy, threatening him with legal action.
He sent a letter to Vivek's lawyer, quote, This letter serves as a notice to you, pursuant to BMI
music license for political entities or organizations entered into by BMI and Vivek 2024, that BMI has received a
communication from Marshall B. Mathers, the third, professionally known as Eminem, objecting to the
Vivek Ramaswamy campaign's use of Eminem's musical compositions and requesting that BMI
remove all Eminem works from the agreement. So Eminem works are excluded from an
agreement.
So apparently Vivek's team had an agreement with BMI to use some of their music and M&M wrote to BMI and was like, I don't want that terrible man using my music.
You're right.
Only, only people who shoot each other and do drugs should be able to use M&M music from now on.
I'm just like, I'm, it's so tiresome.
Honestly, all these musicians, I am above all, what is M&M above exactly?
Seriously, what is Eminem's personal history?
They're like, this man, this is a man of moral rectitude, whose music... For God's sake, we use Bach in like, in like, Cheez-It commercials.
We literally, the Cheez-It commercials, it wasn't Bach, it was Edvard Grieg.
Okay, we use Beethoven's Fifth Symphony for selling like, cat litter.
Come on, Eminem.
It's just ridiculous, ridiculous crap.
Okay, speaking of other ridiculous crap, Pope Francis is a terrible pope.
So just gonna put that out there.
He's really bad at the poping.
Now, I don't have any stake, obviously, in the Catholic doctrine of Pope Francis.
I was a big fan of Benedict.
I thought Benedict was an excellent pope because I do have a stake as a citizen of the Western world in the Catholic Church actually standing true to its historic religious principles when it comes to morality and ethics because they've shaped billions of people over the course of history.
Pope Francis is a liberation theologist, pretty obviously.
He is a person with a Marxist orientation toward economics and a real disdain for sort of traditional Catholicism in terms of social areas.
I mean, I can't tell you how many times at this point Pope Francis has said something that is in violation of church doctrine historically with regard to, say, divorce or gay marriage or any of that sort of stuff.
And then his team comes out, oh, he was misinterpreted.
You just don't speak Italian well.
Well, at a certain point, you got to imagine that maybe he's just the guy we all kind of think he is, which is why the left is very warm toward Pope Francis.
He made a couple of big boo-boos over the last 48 hours.
So first, he was speaking by video to a gathering of Roman Catholics in St.
Petersburg, and he urged them to follow in the path of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, whom he called rulers of a great enlightened empire of great culture and great humanity.
Which is a weird take, since both Peter and Catherine were wild territorial expansionists.
It is what they are known for, and they are also the two figures that Vladimir Putin most cites as sort of historical inspirations for his territorial aggressions.
This, of course, has ticked off pretty much everybody in Ukraine.
Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, called the Pope's words
imperialist propaganda, of the kind the Kremlin uses to justify its invasion of Ukraine, quote,
it is a shame that Russian great power ideas, which are actually the cause of Russia's chronic
aggressiveness, are voiced knowingly or not by the Pope.
The leader of Ukraine's Greek Catholic Church, Major Archbishop Sviatolov Shevchuk, said in a
statement the Pope's words had caused great pain in the church hierarchy and great disappointment in
Ukrainian civil society.
The Pope's remarks drew angry reactions on social media from a wide variety of sources.
And then, of course, the Vatican tried to walk it back, as they've had to do with Pope Francis multiple times.
They rejected suggestions that Pope Francis might have encouraged young Russian Catholics to draw inspiration from historical Russian figures known for imperialistic and expansionist ideas and actions that negatively impacted neighboring populations, including the Ukrainian people.
Francis has decried Ukrainian suffering, but he has not condemned Moscow for the war.
He's been very careful not to condemn Moscow for the war.
And...
By the way, it is worthwhile noting that his relationship with the Catholic Church was pretty fraught.
Peter the Great.
His relationship with the Catholic Church was actually fairly fraught.
It was not the easiest relationship.
So that is boo-boo number one for the Pope.
Boo-boo number two is that apparently the Pope has now blasted the, quote, backwardness of some conservatives in the U.S.
Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology.
He's one to talk.
I mean, seriously, honest to God, you want to talk about a Pope who's replaced faith with ideology?
He keeps writing encyclicals about how we have to stop hurting Mother Earth while at the same time proclaiming the doctrine of social liberalism in very soft form.
France's comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the U.S.
Catholic Church, which has been split between progressives and conservatives who long found support in the doctrinary papacies of St.
John Paul II and Benedict XVI, particularly on issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.
Like, even the AP knows.
Like, yeah, conservatives liked John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
They liked those guys because, you know, they actually hewed to historic Catholic doctrine on morality.
This guy, he's creative.
When you're Barack Obama's favorite pope, there's something wrong.
Many conservatives have blasted France's emphasis on social justice issues, such as the environment and the poor, while branding heretical his opening to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive the sacraments.
Which, um, you know, that used to be called just the doctrine.
So, during a meeting, a Portuguese Jesuit told Francis he had suffered during a recent sabbatical year in the United States because he came across many Catholics, including some U.S.
bishops, who criticized Francis' tenure papacy as well as today's Jesuits.
The 86-year-old Argentine acknowledged his point, saying there was a very strong organized reactionary attitude in the U.S.
church, which he called backward.
He said, Wait, hold on.
When you go backwards, you're disconnecting from the roots of the church?
have support. In other words, ideologies replace faith. The vision of the doctrine
of the church as a monolith is wrong. When you go backward, you make something
closed off, disconnected from the roots of the church. Wait, hold on. When you go
backwards, you're disconnecting from the roots of the church? I noticed that when
you're reflecting the political priorities of far-left figures in Latin
America as well as the United States, you might be moving away from the roots of
the church.
He says, I want to remind these people backwardness is useless.
I got to tell you, like for the Pope to say when he says backwardness, I assume what he means is, you know, the history of his church, which is supposed to be the rock of faith, correct?
Again, not a Catholic, but pretty sure that's what it is.
They must understand there's a correct evolution in the understanding of questions and faith and morals.
Oh, interesting.
There's a correct evolution in faith and morals.
Which is, he also said it was an honor to be attacked by Americans at some point.
So, yeah.
By the way, worth noting, the only segments of Catholicism on planet Earth that are growing right now are not left-leaning Catholic churches.
They're all right-leaning Catholic churches.
They're people who are traditionalist.
It's the Latin mass Catholic churches that are still full.
It's the ones who are moving softly toward embracing The Pope's own soft embrace of social leftism that are emptying out by the bushel.
Because why would you bother going to church on a Sunday if you can hear the same crap on MSNBC?
It really is amazing.
Okay, time for some quick things I like and then some things that I hate.
So, things that I like today.
Thomas Sowell, he continues to churn out books.
I mean, you want to talk about somebody who is totally with it.
Thomas Sowell is currently 93 years old.
He's 93.
Hey, Joe Biden can't even walk.
Joe Biden is 80.
Thomas Sowell is 13 years older than Joe Biden.
13 years older.
And he's still churning out books that are great.
So he just put out another one called Social Justice Fallacies.
It's a series of essays on the failures of social justice.
And he goes into why it is that inequality is not inequity.
Why group differences are not always attributable to discrimination.
And they're not always attributable to biology either.
Sometimes it's due to environment or geography or culture.
The book is great.
Very clearly thought, as always, from Dr. Searle.
Really good stuff.
Social Justice Fallacies, Thomas Searle.
I literally have, like, in my library, it's all of Thomas Searle's books.
Thomas Searle, one of the great thinkers of the last 50 years in the United States, and it is a pleasure whenever he brings out a new book.
Okay, time for some things that I hate.
So, Jake Tapper did an interview with Chris Christie the other day.
And Christie has been ripping on other Republicans for saying that in a binary election between Biden and Trump, they would vote for Trump.
And Tapper then asked him a question that a lot of people in the left-leaning media are constantly asking, which is, do Republicans have an authoritarian problem?
Now, let me first explain.
Authoritarianism is not what people in the left media think it is.
They think authoritarianism is like Donald Trump tweeting things or Donald Trump making efforts that are then stymied to change the results of an election.
There are many forms of authoritarianism.
In fact, fascism is an element of both left and right.
It is not merely a right-wing thing.
Authoritarianism can just as easily be done by a series of executive orders that go outside the Constitution and radically reshift the balance between people and their government.
Joe Biden does that with alacrity.
Here is Jake Tapper's answer.
Jake Tapper asking the question and Chris Christie, who actually, you know, kind of gave not a horrible answer actually here.
You do describe the conduct.
of Donald Trump trying to overturn the election as reprehensible.
You do condemn it.
But so many people in your party, and I'm not just talking about people running for president or on Capitol Hill, but I mean voters, Republican voters, don't seem to have a problem with it.
And I'm wondering, do you think that your party has an authoritarian problem?
That they really honestly don't have a problem with violently trying to stop a free and fair election from going forward?
No Jake, I absolutely don't think that we have that problem.
I think what we have is a Donald Trump problem.
And that right now what's gone on is that people view Donald Trump synonymously with the Republican Party.
And that if you oppose Trump, that's somehow favoring Biden.
And many Republicans don't want to do that for very obvious reasons.
Okay, so, that last part.
The rest of it's garbage, but that last part where he says, which is, Donald Trump is seen as synonymous with the Republican Party, and so if you tell people it's either Biden or the Republican Party, of course a lot of people are going to vote Republican.
That part is true.
But what's insulting to the intelligence is this generalized narrative that the media are constantly drawing, in which they suggest that fascism, or authoritarianism, or tyranny, is an element of the right, and that the left is completely free.
That his hands are completely clean.
It's obviously not true.
In fact, we have a YouTube video, a latest episode in our facts series, talking about whether fascism is right-wing, what are the roots of fascism.
The truth is that fascism as an ideology is closer to the American left than it is to the American right.
Fascism as an ideology was generalized in response to communism, but it drew from Marxism, it drew from Hegelian politics, it drew from progressive era ideas, which is why many of the early supporters of Mussolini were members of the left.
Including people who had worked in the Woodrow Wilson administration, who would go on to work in the FDR administration.
So, again, this sort of media lie, which is that the right is universally authoritarian and the left is for freedom, I don't see any evidence of that whatsoever.
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