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Sept. 20, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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How Howard Stern Avoided Cancellation

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	So, the rule is, in our media and in our international politics, as it turns out, that if you mirror the priorities of the left, then you can pretty much do whatever you want so long as you're not caught on camera doing it.
	Any other thing, you're pretty much okay.
	The reason I say this is because if you look at the disparate consequences for public figures, ranging from, say, Russell Brand on the one hand, to somebody like Howard Stern on the other, the public consequences are
	quite disparate.
	I'll use Russell Brand as an example here for just a second.
	So I've talked about Russell Brand at length this week. Russell, of course, has
	been accused now by four separate women of actions ranging from sexual assault to rape to
	sexual harassment. And whether those allegations are true or not, I don't know.
	One thing I do know is that at this moment, they are just allegations.
	There has been no actual criminal indictment brought against him.
	He's certainly not been convicted of anything, but YouTube has now suspended Russell Brand for making any money on the platform on Tuesday, days after that report broke from Channel 4 and BBC.
	And these are outlets that used to pay Russell Brand while he was in the midst of his most flagrantly vile behavior.
	And as I pointed out the other day, there is some irony to the fact, or something curious to the fact, that Russell Brand, when he was at his most vile, was being paid by all the same media outlets that are now investigating him when he's married and has a couple kids and is preaching heterodox political opinions.
	When it comes to YouTube, Brand's channel with 6.6 million subscribers, according to Daily Wire, has now been suspended for monetization following serious allegations against the creator, according to YouTube.
	Again, this is a very strange standard that YouTube is now purveying.
	So if there are serious allegations made against you of any sort, I suppose now all of your videos just immediately get demonetized, which is going to be very bad news for half the rappers on the block, as well as a significant number of actors.
	I mean, seriously, there are these allegations out there about an enormous number of public figures.
	If the new standard is an allegation is tantamount to a conviction in the court of public opinion, and an allegation alone is sufficient to have your ability to monetize your videos removed from you by YouTube, that is a horrible standard.
	You have now created a massive incentive structure for people to make allegations against people, true or false, in order to destroy their careers.
	Now again, I'm not saying that the women who are coming out and saying this stuff about Brand are lying.
	I don't know whether they are or not.
	What I do know at this point is that YouTube, I don't know how they could possibly uphold such a standard.
	That a public allegation comes out that's ugly about somebody, and they immediately demonetize everything having to do with Russell Brand.
	Now, does that have something to do with the fact that Russell Brand is, again, a heterodox political thinker?
	Somebody who says things about, for example, COVID that YouTube doesn't like very much?
	Somebody who says stuff about Joe Biden that YouTube might not like very much?
	These sorts of standards are certainly not going to be evenly applied.
	Obviously, they're not going to be evenly applied.
	And this is what brings me to Howard Stern.
	So Howard Stern has been making headlines the last couple of days by pushing very loudly to the left.
	Now, Howard Stern spent pretty much my entire life, from the time I was a teenager on, being one of the most famous people in America, being an absolute deviant, a degraded person beyond all measure.
	Just to remind you who Howard Stern is, the kinds of behavior that Howard Stern has regularly engaged in publicly throughout his career, are disgusting.
	I mean, they are disreputable, they are vile toward women, and all the rest.
	Just to remind you, here's a compilation of Howard Stern's randomly disgusting comments to just female guests on his show.
	You're wearing panties?
	Mm-hmm.
	What do you wear?
	A thong, or...?
	Mm-hmm.
	You do?
	Yeah.
	How you looking, then?
	I don't know.
	You know how you look.
	I don't know what day.
	That's right.
	Say something.
	First of all, your breasts are incredible.
	No, they're not.
	They're really not.
	No, they're normal, but thank you.
	When you walk down the street... You have some people on here with incredible breasts.
	When she starts doing that moaning, that uh-uh, what's going through your head when you do that?
	Sex.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I can see now.
	Yeah, and then I can see why you're moaning.
	Ooh, yeah, you got a nice stomach.
	That's what I dig.
	Okay, so I wasn't gonna pander that hard.
	No, that's fine what you're wearing.
	Panic is my own decision.
	Wait, just stand there for a second.
	Let me look at you.
	Your body's hot.
	This is some of the milder stuff that Howard Stern said on his show for years and years and years and years.
	I mean, this is a person who literally had women into his studio to sit on vibrators so that he could record their reactions and blast it out to millions of people in his audience.
	He's one of the most vile people in public life for decades on end.
	But now, Howard Stern is apparently one of our moral exemplars.
	So, over the last couple of days, for example, he has ripped into Lauren Boebert.
	Now, Lauren Boebert engaged in what I think is disgusting behavior.
	We talked about it and I made fun of her on the program because it's just insane to go with your boyfriend to a showing of Beetlejuice And then get handsy with your boyfriend while vaping and then to yell at people who do you know who I am when you're when you're removed from the venue is really gross behavior.
	But you know who doesn't have a leg to stand on talking about gross public behavior is Howard Stern.
	But Howard Stern apparently has no, he has no compunction about doing any of this now.
	He didn't have the same reaction when it was Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, you know.
	Receiving favors from Monica Lewinsky, I remember.
	But here is Howard Stern getting very upset about Lauren Boebert.
	Suddenly he is on my side of the aisle when it comes to apparent prudery.
	Lauren Boebert is a disgrace to this country.
	Not because of the video.
	You are 100% right.
	Forget the politics.
	She's in a d**k dress.
	If you saw the video, she's in a d**k dress.
	She's with some dude.
	Looks like she's, you know, obviously vaping, but also looks like she might be grabbing his penis during Beetlejuice.
	She was wearing a tight d**k dress.
	I've seen porn stars wear more.
	When I watched that tape, I go, God, she must be so much fun to f**k.
	Oh, my God.
	She's a hot girlfriend, but, you know, do we need her in Congress?
	Did you notice that when he reached?
	We need her in a strip club and we need her to give lap dances and we need her to play with guys.
	OK, that is Howard Stern.
	Right again.
	Now, we don't need her in Congress.
	She's a disgrace to Congress, says Howard Stern.
	Now, how is Howard Stern able to get away with all this stuff?
	Because again, he mirrors the political priorities of the left.
	You can be as gross as you want to be, so long as you mirror the political priorities of the left.
	We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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	All right, so back to Howard Stern.
	Again, Howard Stern has discovered the magic elixir that wipes away all of your past and present sins, and that is be far enough to the left.
	So Howard Stern, in the last couple of months, he's getting more and more to the left.
	Here he was just a little while ago, a couple months ago, going after Kid Rock and Travis Tritt, claiming that they are transphobic for pointing out that, for example, Dylan Mulvaney is not a woman.
	I wish I could call Kid Rock and have him come on the show and just tell me, what is it?
	Why are you so upset about this?
	Like, how is it hurtful?
	I'm really dumbfounded by why someone would care so much that they would blow up a can of Bud Light and say f*** Anheuser-Busch.
	I don't get it.
	Now again, remember that because Howard Stern is the kind of person who pays homage to our secular religious priesthood, this means that he can get away with pretty much anything.
	I mean, here he is committing sacrifices to the secular religious priesthood, the great sacrifice of all, which is to suggest that you should get as many booster shots as humanly possible.
	Here is Howard Stern literally yesterday talking about how he is now woke.
	He's a woke guy, says Howard Stern.
	I get every f***ing vaccine.
	Good.
	And for those of you who think the government's trying to kill you or implant chips... Or they're chipping you.
	I don't know why they're chipping you.
	Go for those conspiracies.
	But I am woke, motherf***er, and I love it.
	I want to be awake.
	I want to read legitimate news sources.
	Here's how woke I am.
	I believe the election was not rigged.
	Okay, again, he's saying all the nostrums that everybody on the left really wants to hear.
	And that means that it's fine for him to do all this stuff.
	So why is this important?
	Why is this sort of stuff important?
	Because when you have an immunized class of people, a class of people who are immunized by their association with certain left-wing clauses, first of all, it incentivizes bad behavior by those people, but second of all, It also creates this massive double standard where if you are heterodox, you can expect to be targeted.
	But if you are orthodox in your practice of leftism, well then you can expect that you're going to be given an enormous amount of breathing room.
	And everybody understands this.
	That the secular left priesthood that now prevails in the media, in Hollywood, when it comes to our government, that secular left priesthood gets to decide who are the favored and who are the disfavored.
	So, to take this to the international level, there's something sort of fascinating happening with the Ukraine war.
	And I'm not talking about the actual on-the-ground fighting.
	I'm talking about the perception of Ukraine in the Ukraine war.
	So one of the things that started pretty early in the Ukraine vs. Russia war is this bizarre left-right Split.
	That didn't seem to mirror reality at the beginning.
	At the very beginning, there was a lot of talk on the right about how Russia was in a religious state where Ukraine was irreligious.
	Well, by all available polling, the opposite was true.
	Far more people in Ukraine go to church, on average, than people in Russia.
	They go to church far more frequently.
	Ukraine is a far more socially conservative country than Russia in a lot of ways, despite Vladimir Putin's attempts to be more socially conservative from the top down.
	It's a far more secular, atheistic state is Russia than Ukraine.
	But the presumption on the part of Americans was the opposite.
	For a lot of Americans, Ukraine, because it was immediately adopted by the Democratic Party and because Joe Biden decided to make it his sort of cause on the international stage, immediately the assumption was on the left that Ukraine had to be some sort of San Francisco on the Volga.
	Which is absurd.
	It's not true.
	But very quickly, you know what Ukraine learned?
	What Ukraine learned is that they actually were able to get left-wing support by pandering exactly to this.
	It's a truly astonishing thing.
	So, for example, Vladimir Zelensky.
	He goes to the UN and he's trying to make a pitch for further funding.
	And he makes the usual pitch.
	He starts off by talking about how Russia is going to cross NATO's borders and it's going to engage in mass destruction.
	This is exactly what you would expect to hear from a country that is in the middle of a war.
	But then he moves beyond that.
	So here's Zelensky's original pitch, which is that it's really all about Russia and the battle between Russia and Ukraine for territorial integrity and the rest.
	Terrorists have no right to hold nuclear weapons.
	No right.
	But truly, not the nukes are the scariest now.
	While nukes remain in place, the mass destruction is gaining its momentum.
	The aggressor is weaponizing many other things, and those things are used not only against our country, but against all of yours as well.
	Okay, so, you can agree with this case, you can disagree with this case, but Zelensky then spent enormous amounts of his speech not talking.
	about the war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine.
	Instead, he spends an enormous amount of his speech talking about climate change.
	I have a question.
	Do you think the people of Ukraine give a good bleep about climate change at this point?
	Right now, they have bombs falling in their cities.
	They're in the midst of the biggest continental war in Europe since World War II.
	And Vladimir Zelensky is over there talking about climate change.
	Why is he doing that?
	Why is he doing that?
	Because if you talk about climate change, then this gives you, this is like the golden ticket to left-wing money.
	It's what earns you support from the left.
	If you talk about their favorite topics, the same way that Howard Stern buys a dispensation, a left-wing papal dispensation, by talking left-wing talk, Vladimir Zelensky has realized that he can do the exact same thing.
	That the bizarre split between right and left over the assumed politics of Russia versus Ukraine, if he actually plays into that, he can get Joe Biden to sign him more cash, he can get the left-wing media to support him in a higher order.
	This presumably is why Zelensky is talking about climate change.
	Here is Zelensky lecturing the world about climate change, which again is super weird.
	Even though humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives, this means that extreme weather will still impact the normal global life and some evil state will also weaponize its outcomes.
	What in the world is he jabbering about?
	Why is he even talking about this?
	Well, the reason he's talking about this is because this is the admission price.
	The artificial intelligence could be trained to combat well before it would learn to help the humanity.
	were going to use climate as a weapon. Thank God people haven't learned to use climate as a weapon,
	says Vladimir Zelensky. What the hell does this have to do with the price of a missile in Ukraine?
	The artificial intelligence could be trained to combat well before it would learn to help the
	humanity. Thank God people have not yet learned to use climate as a weapon.
	Presumably, this is also the reason why Ukraine is now trotting out a spokesperson for the military who is a transgender woman.
	I'm not kidding you.
	Now, same-sex marriage in Ukraine is not legal.
	Ukraine is not a left-wing country.
	The simple fact of the matter is that it is a culturally right-wing country.
	In a 2010 European study, for example, only 28% of Ukrainians polled believe that LGBTQ individuals should live freely and however they like.
	That was the lowest number of all European countries polled, except for Russia.
	Russia is the only other one that has lower numbers.
	The notion that this is like a wildly left-wing place is ridiculous.
	It is not a wildly left-wing place by any stretch of the imagination.
	But they understand that if they want buy-in from the left, they're going to have to pretend that they're a left-wing place.
	Presumably, this is why they are currently trotting out Sarah Ashton Cirillo, a trans woman from Nevada who came to Ukraine in March 2022 and has now become a spokesperson for the country's territorial defense force.
	Last week, according to France24, Russian television showed an hour-long special calling Ashton Sirilla a terrible disgrace to the Ukrainian people and a monster.
	19 months in, she's a junior sergeant and hosts live YouTube shows, says France24, from her studio called Ukraine in the Know and Russia Hates the Truth.
	Ashton Sirilla does not even speak Ukrainian.
	Her role includes monitoring international media.
	By the way, these are obviously France24's pronouns.
	In August, she announced a boycott of CNN after they called foreign fighters in Ukraine mercenaries.
	Okay, so this is what Ukraine is doing.
	Ukraine, as a propaganda ploy, is playing to the left, which is what they have to do, because the United States has now established a baseline standard, which is mirror the priorities of the left, or you will be excised, or at least you'll be at risk of being excised.
	Get to more on this momentarily first.
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	Why exactly is Zelensky mirroring the priorities of the left?
	Because this is how you get the money.
	The way you get access to the cash is by mirroring the priorities of the left.
	And Joe Biden spelled out those priorities at the U.N., by the way, even when he wasn't mumbling incoherently.
	So he spoke at the U.N.
	yesterday, and as you would predict, he sounded absolutely nonsensical.
	Here he was just babbling gobbledygook from his face hole.
	Now, he doesn't involve our institutions.
	and drive creative new partnerships. Let me be clear.
	Certain principles are in the national system are sacrosanct. Let me be clear.
	In terms of Steve Carell from Bruce Almighty.
	I had What in the world is wrong with that guy?
	But when he wasn't speaking incoherently, I mean at least physically incoherently, he was speaking incoherently about his values.
	What are the values that America most champions according to Joe Biden?
	Those values are climate change and LGBTQIA minus divided by sign.
	Right.
	Here was Joe Biden stumping for LGBTQIA plus divided by minus sign rights in a room with a bunch of countries that do not believe anything remotely like what Joe Biden believes.
	We have to continue working to ensure that women and girls enjoy equal rights and equal participation in their societies.
	That indigenous groups, racial, ethnic, religious, minorities, people with disabilities do not have the potential stifled by systemic discrimination.
	That the LGBTQI plus people are not prosecuted or targeted with violence because of who they are.
	These rights are part of our shared humanity.
	When they're absent anywhere, their loss is felt everywhere.
	Okay, so you wonder why Zelensky is appealing to Joe Biden's favorite priors?
	That's the reason, guys.
	That's the reason.
	And a standard has been set up, and if you fulfill the standard, you have access to the cash, and if you don't, you don't.
	You're tapped on the shoulder by the angel of leftism, and it gives you blanket immunity for pretty much anything, culturally, internationally.
	That's just the way that it works these days.
	By the way, how radical is this administration when it comes to climate change?
	Kamala Harris is now mirroring the most insane lessons of the climate change movements.
	She suggests that it's reasonable to not want to have kids because of climate change, which is totally wild.
	You know, I've heard young leaders talk with me about a term they've coined called climate anxiety.
	Right?
	Which is fear of the future and the unknown, of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children, whether it makes sense for you to think about aspiring to buy a home, because what will this climate be?
	This is how crazy these people are.
	And those are the priorities you're expected to mirror if you wish to be welcomed into polite company in the international meetings.
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	Okay.
	Meanwhile, just speaking of the value system over at the UN, one other piece of the value system we should add is that if you do not mirror the left-wing prescriptions, they'll censor you.
	Just as we've mentioned with Russell Brand, this is part of the goal.
	So Jacinda Ardern, who had to leave her job as the Prime Minister of New Zealand after basically turning it into a fascist island where everybody was forced into lockdown, and then nobody got vaccinated, as it turns out, which turned out to be a really, really bad policy, and who pursued censorship with tremendous enthusiasm.
	Well, she was over at the UN bragging about how we need more censorship because free speech is a weapon of war.
	How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?
	How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld when they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology?
	The weapons may be different, but the goals of those who perpetuate them is often the same.
	To cause chaos and reduce the ability of others to defend themselves.
	To disband communities.
	To collapse the collective strength of countries who work together.
	But we have an opportunity here to ensure that these particular weapons of war do not become an established part of warfare.
	I mean, this is crazy talk, what she's talking about, but it is part and parcel of what so many governments are now pushing for.
	And part of the necessary platform for the left is to censor all the voices they don't like, which presumably is why the UK is now about to pass the so-called online safety bill.
	It's ready to become law.
	According to the government of the UK, the online safety bill has now passed its final parliamentary debate and is now ready to become law.
	What exactly does it do?
	Well, it takes a quote-unquote zero-tolerance approach to protecting children and makes sure social media platforms are held responsible for the content they host.
	If they do not act rapidly to prevent and remove illegal content and stop children seeing material that is harmful to them, such as bullying, they will face significant fines that could reach billions of pounds.
	In some cases, their bosses may even face prison.
	So we're not talking here.
	about creating algorithms that get rid of just illegal activity.
	It goes much further than this.
	This goes to things like bullying, which is pretty vaguely defined, or inappropriate content, pretty vaguely defined.
	And making social media platforms responsible for all that obviously puts them in danger of bankruptcy.
	It's setting standards for platforms like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok.
	Technology Secretary Michelle Donilon said the bill was a, quote, game-changing piece of legislation.
	She said the UK will be the safest place in the world to be online.
	Well, why do I have a feeling that the government setting these standards is going to be very interested in what sort of material is now considered too disinformation laden to be allowed to cross your screen?
	Yeah, no one is in favor of quote unquote harmful social media content.
	The question is what constitutes harmful?
	Platforms have to show they are committed to removing illegal content, which, again, I hear.
	But, apparently, they also want to extend this into the realm of, for example, hate speech, which is really, really dangerous stuff.
	There's a reason why the monopoly on informational dissemination has to be maintained, and that is, again, just another way to create a barrier to entry for anyone who disagrees with a generalized agenda.
	Well all this is going to create a backlash.
	It's going to create a backlash internationally and it's going to create a backlash right here in the United States.
	You wonder why Donald Trump is pulling so well?
	A lot of it is because if the agenda of the United States supposedly is climate change and transgender rights and censorship on the back of those two things, That's not something most Americans are for.
	If you want to make the Ukraine war a proxy for cultural issues, it will become a proxy for cultural issues.
	This is one of the reasons why Republican enthusiasm for the Ukrainian war and for backing Ukraine in that war has waned tremendously.
	The minute it became a partisan issue, the enthusiasm began to decline markedly.
	Representative Byron Donalds in Florida, he says, listen, on the House level, we are not interested in providing more funding for Ukraine at this point.
	What is your message to Zelensky when he comes to the Capitol on Thursday?
	He wants more money from Congress.
	He claims that it's, you know, he says it's very important to stopping the war in Ukraine.
	What message does it send that so many conservatives are opposed to more money for Ukraine?
	The first thing I'll tell you is there's no money in the house right now for Ukraine.
	It's not there.
	You mean there's no support for money?
	No.
	And to be blunt, we're running a $2 trillion deficit.
	Any money we give to Ukraine, we're borrowing from our future.
	That's the facts.
	Those are the truth.
	You can feel how you want to feel about it.
	I'm here to tell you what's right and what's real.
	Okay, he happens to be correct about the fact that we are spending a boatload of money, but more importantly, it seems as though the leadership class in this country, particularly on the left, but I think overall, just doesn't have any connection to the things that people actually care about in the country.
	At the same time that they're driving the economy into a brick wall, they are simultaneously pursuing mass illegal immigration, for example.
	So on the one hand, you have the economy that is driving into a brick wall.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, the Fed is about to face $100 oil An almost uninterrupted rise in oil prices has now pushed benchmark Brent crude close to $100 a barrel, posing a new challenge for central banks in their battle against inflation.
	The rise is a victory for Saudi Arabia, which sought to bolster prices to fund a planned transformation of its oil-dependent economy.
	Russia is another winner.
	The two countries sparked a rally early this year when they said they would restrict supplies until the end of the year.
	Now, what is exacerbating that?
	Obviously, the unfriendly attitude of this administration toward more drilling and refining.
	That obviously has been a major problem.
	Meanwhile, the administration continues to back unions like the UAW, as the UAW puts the car industry in America on very, very tentative footing.
	As the Wall Street Journal points out, the United Auto Workers strike is going on day five.
	President Sean Fain has rejected the latest offer from Stellantis of a 21% pay raise over four years.
	He keeps suggesting that corporate greed is the issue, yet it was telling this weekend when he refused to discuss the union's impact on future job creation.
	Asked on CBS's Face the Nation how he would make the case to Detroit automakers to invest in more expensive union shops rather than moving to right-to-work states, Fain ducked.
	He said that UAW worker pay shouldn't be compared to how pitiful Tesla pays their workers and other companies pay those workers.
	He added, most of these workers and those companies are scraping to get by, so greedy CEOs and greedy people like Elon Musk can build more rocket ships and shoot herself into outer space.
	Mr. Fain can criticize Musk all he wants, says the Wall Street Journal, but Tesla is the chief competitor to the Detroit automakers in the government-mandated electric vehicle race.
	According to the SEC, the median worker at Tesla earned $34,000 last year in total compensation, compared to $80,000 at GM and $75,000 at Ford.
	Stellantis said its average worker is earning $68,000.
	These internal calculations include non-production-level workers as well as employees located in other countries.
	Yet the U.S.
	accounts for a larger share of Tesla's workforce than it does for Ford or Stellantis.
	A large reason for the pay disparity?
	Detroit's higher retirement costs.
	So again, the unions negotiated incredibly lucrative contracts and it's killed a lot of jobs in Detroit.
	So what is the Biden administration doing about all this?
	They're backing the unions again.
	So Randi Weingarten, who is another union head, who has a radically disgusting hand-in-glove relationship with the Biden administration.
	It was she who was standing four square behind school closures for two years for no reason.
	She's been backing the UAW strike.
	Look at what's happening in both the entertainment industry and look what's happening in the auto industry, look at what's happening in terms of AI.
	Every industrial revolution, sorry I'm a social studies teacher, every industrial revolution that has happened not only in the country but the world, There are winners and there are losers.
	And the workers always seem to be the losers in every one of these transitions.
	So I would actually root for the people in America to have a better life, to have this new industrial policy.
	Look what has happened.
	Manufacturing is coming back to America.
	Made in America is now a thing.
	So let's actually invest in the workers who have actually made these companies more profitable.
	Okay, they've not made these companies more profitable.
	Union contracts make the companies less profitable.
	The only thing that made the companies more profitable over the last couple of years was massive supply chain defects.
	I mean, which is why the prices are coming down and why, in the end, the Biden push for electric vehicles is going to make these companies far less profitable.
	So how is the Biden administration responding to all of this?
	To an ongoing strike in one of America's chief industries?
	Well, they're sticking their DOJ on Elon Musk.
	So if they can't make a deal between the UAW and the Big Three, instead they're going to go after Tesla, the competitors of the UAW, at this point.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, federal prosecutors are scrutinizing personal benefits Tesla may have provided Elon Musk since 2017 as part of a criminal investigation examining issues including a proposed house for the chief executive.
	Now, if you think this has nothing to do with Elon Musk's politics, and nothing to do with the fact that Tesla is the chief competitor to the Detroit Three, you got another thing coming.
	Of course it's political.
	Of course it's political.
	The reason the DOJ is going after Elon Musk on this, the reason they went after him on SpaceX, remember, they're right now, the Civil Rights Division, is suing Elon Musk for not hiring enough refugees over at SpaceX, despite the fact that, as Musk says, you have to have security requirements fulfilled in order to work at SpaceX because it's a federal contractor with access to classified material.
	The reason they're coming after Musk is eminently political.
	He violates the rules.
	Cross them, and this is what you face down.
	Meanwhile, the same administration that is pressing forward with a stagnating economy with inflation, that's prioritizing climate change, that's prioritizing LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign issues over the baseline kitchen table issues of everyday Americans.
	Meanwhile, they're facilitating illegal immigration at record levels.
	We'll get to that momentarily.
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	Okay, meanwhile, as the elites in our country decide that the big issues you care about are things like climate change, they're just allowing illegal immigrants to flow unimpeded into the country.
	According to Griff Jenkins, a national correspondent for Fox News, in the past four days, Friday through Monday, total migrant encounters at the southwestern border exceeded 35,000 at an average of nearly 9,000 per day, according to the Border Patrol.
	The exact count is 35,573 encounters, nearly 9,000 daily average.
	That does not include known gotaways.
	Those are huge numbers, obviously.
	And as it turns out, the illegal immigration problem is becoming a permanent feature of American life.
	According to a fascinating report by Spencer Lindquist over at the Daily Wire, There's a community called Colony Ridge in Texas.
	And apparently it has become basically a giant settlement spot for illegal immigrants.
	Spencer tweeted, Have you heard about America's largest illegal immigrant settlement that's said to be a hub of cartel activity?
	I visited Colony Ridge for Daily Wire to learn about a development that's home to 40,000 to 75,000 people and is in the midst of a rapid expansion.
	Here is what I found.
	You can see this giant grid.
	dead.
	I'm going to go get my coffee.
	House is being built, and all the rest.
	Well, according to Spencer, a Texas land developer has established a sprawling settlement north of Houston where thousands of illegal immigrants are believed to have settled, raising concerns among experts and elected officials that the development 400 miles in the interior of the United States could become a strategic asset for the cartels.
	Apparently, it sprawls across nearly 60 square miles about the size of Washington, D.C.
	It's 40 miles outside Houston.
	Much of Colony Ridge is a third-world shantytown where foreign flags outnumber American ones.
	How do we know that's a hotbed for illegal aliens?
	And he says, let me show you.
	And here he is driving through town.
	Got half-built houses with people living in them.
	People living in tents and trailers.
	Located in Liberty County, Texas, near the small town of Plum Grove, the Colony Ridge Development is a sprawling community that, based on an analysis of publicly available information, is growing.
	It's estimated to be anywhere between 50,000 to 75,000 people.
	Why?
	Because of a plan targeted at Texas' Hispanic population.
	The Daily Wire surveyed the development by helicopter to assess the true extent of its growth.
	Houses on the ground fly the flags of foreign countries.
	Many homes display their addresses on spray-painted pieces of plywood.
	Many structures, many of which are not hooked up to running water, were under construction.
	Others were unfinished but didn't appear to be actively getting worked on.
	At least one plot of land didn't have any structures at all, just a tent in the corner nestled between the shrubs.
	Despite what appeared to be poor living conditions throughout much of the development, Colony Ridge is exploding.
	The view from the sky revealed a sprawling labyrinth of roundabouts and endless rows of sidewalkless streets with empty plots waiting to be developed.
	Apparently, according to Daily Wire, Colony Ridge, owned and operated by a developer named William Trey Harris, is rapidly expanding, at least in part, to a financing arrangement that makes it possible for illegal aliens to buy land deep in the heart of Texas.
	While traditional financing methods require credit ratings and proof of income, Todd Bensman, a National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, told the Daily Wire that buyers at Colony Ridge are able to circumvent the usual requirements, even dodging the need to provide a social security number.
	Benzmann said because of the traditional bank loan you have to show you have a credit rating and proof of income.
	He says that now loans are being created where all you need is a few hundred dollars down as a down payment.
	The loan is directly from the developer bypassing traditional mortgages.
	The buyer might pay high interest rates near 15% but that's a great deal for somebody who has no other option to buy land at all.
	They encourage potential buyers to reach out via WhatsApp.
	The plots of land come with nothing on them at an affordable price.
	The current offer is two adjacent plots of land for $65,000.
	Ben's been told the daily where Collin Ridge is in the midst of maybe its greatest boom ever.
	So, again, we are just creating, apparently, massive cities filled with illegal immigrants, thanks to Joe Biden.
	So things are going spectacularly.
	Now, all Republicans have to do right here is pick up the chips, right?
	All the chips are on the table.
	That's all Republicans have to do.
	Avoid doing stupid stuff.
	That's pretty much it.
	Unfortunately, as we've been talking about a lot lately, the Republicans have an unfortunate habit of jumping with both feet onto every rake in sight.
	So now, apparently, the GOP is headed directly for a government shutdown.
	Matt Gaetz is saying openly he wants some sort of government shutdown.
	We can't blame Joe Biden and the Democrats for why the Republican-controlled House of Representatives hasn't passed single-subject spending bills.
	That's our fault.
	So we have to deal with that.
	We will likely have to endorse some degree of a shutdown.
	Okay.
	Or, alternatively, you have to deal with the reality on the ground, which is a Democratic Senate and, you know, a Democrat as the President of the United States.
	According to Politico, House GOP hardliners blocked debate on their own party's defense spending bill on Tuesday, making Pentagon funding the latest casualty of a civil war between McCarthy and his conservative critics.
	Republican rebels blocked the annual defense appropriations bill in a procedural vote, delivering their stunning loss to McCarthy and Hawks, who sought to break an impasse over federal spending that forced leaders to yank the legislation last week.
	Many conservatives withheld their vote on the Pentagon bill to force Republican leaders to take a harder line on a stopgap in order to keep the lights on.
	Ultimately, the procedural vote failed on the $826 billion defense spending bill, known as a rule, and it failed in a 212 to 214 vote on Tuesday.
	Five Republicans defected on the procedural vote, which almost always falls along party lines.
	Just phenomenal.
	Again, I don't even see what exactly is the ask at this point.
	of blocked military funding for the past week.
	And again, I don't even see what exactly is the ask at this point.
	What exactly is it that you are asking for?
	It makes very little sense at all.
	When you're getting made fun of by John Fetterman, you're doing things wrong.
	Here is John Fetterman, who I will say John Fetterman, he's been appearing on TV lately, with a mustache.
	So the beard is gone.
	Remember he had the Lincoln beard.
	Now he looks like an old-timey Western bartender who was once kicked in the head by a horse.
	Here he is with Chris Hayes, jabbering nonsensically.
	The House today looks like it's falling apart.
	You've already got 17 no votes in that House Republican caucus saying we're not passing anything.
	What do you think's happening here?
	Yeah, you know, like, truly, I was very proud of my colleagues, you know, because they're really about governance.
	That's what it is.
	And on the other, the House, the whatever they call themselves, Team America or whatever they call themselves, I just like, hey, I just like, bring your vote.
	You know, otherwise, you know, they need to go hump a different leg.
	Go hump a different leg, says Jon Fetterman.
	So yeah, I mean, that guy is not fully functional, and now we're setting up actual Senate rules to accommodate the fact that he wants to wear gym shorts, even though I'm not sure that he has ever worked out in his life by the look of him.
	Doesn't matter.
	When John Fetterman is making fun of you and succeeding, that's not exactly a win for Republicans.
	And meanwhile, again, there are tons of things for Republicans to talk about in this election cycle, ranging from Joe Biden's incompetence to his corruption.
	All that stuff is on the table to talk about.
	So what are Republicans talking about?
	Well, whatever is the latest revelation in the Donald Trump cases, of course.
	And again, that's not up to Trump now because he ceded that ground when he took activities, particularly with regard to classified documents that put him directly in the crosshairs.
	If you are a person who has the biggest target in human history on your back, which is probably the case of Donald Trump in terms of media hating you, why would you put yourself squarely in the crowd?
	Why would you make that target gigantic?
	We're now learning, according to particular sources, that one of Donald Trump's aides, a woman named Molly Michael, she apparently has told authorities that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice or suborn perjury.
	According to ABC News, sources said Michael told federal investigators that last year she grew increasingly concerned with how Trump handled a recurring request from the National Archives for the return of all government documents being kept in boxes at Mar-a-Lago.
	She felt Trump's claims about it at the time would be easy to disprove, according to the sources.
	Sources said that after Trump heard the FBI wanted to interview Michael last year, he said, quote, you don't know anything about the boxes.
	It's unclear what exactly he meant by that, but this is leading a lot of people to suggest that he knew that she knew about the boxes and therefore He was basically telling her to fib to the FBI.
	Again, none of this stuff is particularly good for Donald Trump.
	It just isn't.
	On the other hand, it is amazing how the DOJ continues to show its corrupt hand.
	So, as many of you know, there's been a large controversy surrounding Ray Epps.
	Ray Epps has been targeted by people including Tucker Carlson.
	He was a participant in the January 6th riots.
	There's tape of him telling people to go into the Capitol building.
	There's tape of him the night before telling people to head over and invade the Capitol building.
	And all the rest of this.
	And then he was never charged.
	And because he was never charged, the suspicion was, on the part of a lot of people on the right, that he must have been some sort of government plant.
	Well, now apparently the DOJ is charging him, but they are charging him with one misdemeanor count of disorderly or disruptive conduct on restricted grounds.
	Now, a lot of people on the right are going to say, why does he get charged with pretty much nothing when there are other people who did not all that much on January 6th, like wandered around the building and spent months or years in jail?
	Why is that?
	He's going to claim, law enforcement is going to claim it's because he cooperated, that when he saw his name on TV, he called up law enforcement.
	Apparently he's going to plead guilty to the charge.
	But slap-on-the-wrist charges, post facto, don't look much like justice to the vast majority of people who watch this stuff play out.
	Meanwhile, over in Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, who's the governor of Pennsylvania, is promoting Pennsylvania's brand new program for automatic voter registration.
	It's pretty much like California's motor voter law.
	There are apparently half a dozen states or a dozen states that already have this on the books.
	You're automatically registered to vote.
	When you get a driver's license, here's Josh Shapiro championing this in Pennsylvania.
	I am proud to announce that for the first time ever, Pennsylvania is an automatic voter registration state.
	That's right.
	From now on, when you get or renew your driver's license or an ID card at the DMV, you'll be registered to vote unless you choose not to.
	I made a commitment when I was campaigning for this office that we would bring automatic voter registration to Pennsylvania and break down the barriers for legal eligible voters.
	This is a key step to make our elections more secure.
	Adding important levels of verification to the voter registration process.
	And by expanding voter registration at our DMVs, we'll save taxpayers time and money, reduce the number of costly paper registrations, So I'm wondering how it actually adds voter security to have people simultaneously register to vote automatically.
	But okay, let's assume that's all the case.
	This makes Pennsylvania the 24th state to actually roll out this sort of automatic voter registration process.
	Now, I understand why there are a lot of people on the right who are very exercised over this.
	A lot of people think that You know, this paves the way for, for example, ballot harvesting.
	And they're not wrong.
	And the fact is that according to RealClearPennsylvania.com, Athen Koutsiorombis writing, He says, prior to the pandemic, Pennsylvania had passed an election reform law enabling mail-in voting.
	Unlike in-person voting, which requires no voter ID, Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot process requires the applicant to provide ID, either a driver's license or a social security number.
	County boards of elections are required to verify the information or a ballot can't be cast.
	Pennsylvania's mail-in voting has more fail-safes than traditional in-person voting.
	For fraud to occur with mail-in balloting at a scale that can affect a statewide election, it has to happen in two points.
	Harvesters illegally obtaining lists of driver's licenses or social security numbers to complete applications and then cast ballots without voters' knowledge.
	Or, Board of Elections workers conspiring to invalidate applications.
	So, is there a lot of ballot harvesting?
	Well, yeah, there's tons of ballot harvesting in Pennsylvania's suburbs.
	So is that going to be exacerbated ballots?
	Sure.
	I mean, the more eligible voters there are, the more you're going to have people who are basically paid by the parties to go pick up the votes.
	But Republicans have a couple of choices here.
	One, they can whine about it.
	They can complain about it.
	Two, they could just go out and make sure that every Republican is registered to vote.
	They could ballot harvest themselves.
	And one of the things I cannot stand is when Republicans complain about the playing rules with no plan to change them, while simultaneously ignoring, you know, actually being able to win with these rules.
	The reality is that in Florida, a lot of these rules are already obtained.
	And guess what?
	Florida is a big Republican state.
	I mean, the fact is that if you look at a list of the states that have automatic voter registration, that list is not all left-wing states.
	Some of the states that already have automatic voter registration, those include, for example, West Virginia, Michigan.
	They include the state of Georgia.
	There are a lot of states that don't have all those things, but there are some of those states that already do.
	Is it the end of the world in those states?
	No.
	Here's the answer.
	Win.
	The answer is win.
	You can make excuses or you can go out and you can win.
	And it seems to me that Republicans need to stop making excuses and go out and do whatever they can to do in order to win these elections.
	By the way, they are doing some of the right things in Pennsylvania.
	I am impressed with the fact that Doug Mastroianno, who is apparently considering a A senatorial run against Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania has decided not to do so.
	He has instead endorsed McCormick in his potential Senate run.
	McCormick was an excellent candidate who probably should have been the nominee last time against John Fetterman.
	He probably would run stronger than Mehmet Oz.
	So him running again, I think is a very good move.
	Okay, time for a quick thing that I like and then a thing that I hate.
	So, things that I like today.
	You gotta give credit where credit is due.
	The ladies of The View occasionally are correct.
	And apparently, they're now saying that it's dumb for the Senate to change its dress code just because John Fetterman likes to wear gym shorts.
	Wow, good for them!
	You know, really, congratulations on saying something occasionally right.
	And when constituents came in, they would even dress up.
	They'd be like, these are chambers that Abraham Lincoln walked in, John McCain, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson.
	There's a hallowed sort of ground to it, even if at times our current representatives tended to face it a bit.
	I too walked all of those halls, and I walked into the Supreme Court building, and I walked into federal courtrooms all the time.
	And you don't wear jeans, and you don't wear hoodies, and you don't wear what you would wear coming out of the gym.
	It's like the very least.
	Well, I mean, good for them.
	Wow.
	And there's a shock I did not, I will admit, I did not see that one coming.
	Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
	So, as you may notice, I'm here in Israel.
	You can see the backdrop of Jerusalem behind me.
	There's a new poll out from APNORC, and it finds that while Americans generally view Israel as a U.S.
	partner or ally, many question whether the two countries share the same interests and values.
	So first of all, no two countries share identical interests.
	Let's just be real about this.
	The UK does not share identical interests with the United States.
	Neither does France, neither does Germany.
	Countries have their own interests.
	That's just the reality.
	However, the notion that there is no crossover between Israel and the United States in terms of values is obviously untrue.
	Israel is, in fact, a multi-religious democracy.
	It is a Jewish state, but it has a sizable Arab minority, Muslim minority.
	Many Christians live here.
	It's a partisan breakdown question, and the reason it's a partisan breakdown question has less to do with Israel and more to do with the left's view of what American values are.
	So, according to this poll, about 4 in 10 Americans said Israel is a partner the U.S.
	should cooperate with, but doesn't share the U.S.' 's interests and values.
	Those results revealed a partisan split.
	More than half of Democrats said Israel is a partner that does not share American values and interests, but should be cooperated with, compared with 32% of Republicans who said the same.
	Because it turns out that Republicans overall believe that Israel does share values with the United States.
	Why?
	Because Israel's values generally include things like patriotism and Judeo-Christian values.
	In the Judeo part of Judeo-Christian, Judaic values, like religious values, some sort of communal These are things the left forcibly dislikes.
	And so when they look at a country like Israel, they don't like that very much.
	They don't like that Israel is a nationalistic country, despite the fact that America has historically been a very nationalistic and patriotic country.
	The fact that this is a partisan breakdown, it's pretty clear what's happening here and has less to do with the redefinition of Israel and much more to do with the redefinition of America along hard left lines.
	Joe Biden, for his part here, has really helped to fracture relations between the state of Israel and the United States.
	That's because he has been effectively intervening in Israeli politics, in domestic politics, in a way that is rather unprecedented.
	I mean, Israel, as far as I'm aware, has never really sounded off on, for example, how the Supreme Court adjudicates Roe versus Wade.
	But that's basically what Joe Biden has done with regard to judicial reform in the state of Israel.
	And that's because he believes, I suppose, that he can get an ally on the left to be the prime minister of Israel if he pushes hard enough.
	But, you know, again, I'll say it again.
	That is much more a reflection, this poll, of how the left thinks about America and American values than it is a reflection of Israel changing in any significant way.
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