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March 14, 2024 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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The Clock Chimes Doom For TikTok
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Alrighty, so TikTok has now been almost banned in the United States.
I say almost because the House of Representatives has now passed a bill that would effectively force TikTok to divest its Chinese ownership, which makes perfect sense.
TikTok is a viral psy-op that was created by the Chinese government.
It's incredibly sophisticated.
Algorithmically, it is amazing at picking up viral content and then magnifying it, but There are editorial choices made inside that algorithm about which content to magnify.
In the United States, the content that gets magnified on TikTok is the most politically polarizing.
Huge amounts of the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign agenda are pushed by TikTok.
And you can tell the difference because TikTok in China doesn't do any of those things.
And to understand just what the Chinese are doing with TikTok, really, you should pick up a copy of Peter Schweitzer's new book, Blood Money.
He talks at length about TikTok and what TikTok is doing.
So what they're really attempting to do is dissolve the Social unity of the United States through social division.
Social media division.
That is the goal with regard to TikTok.
That's the thing they are attempting to do.
And really, there's nothing new there.
This has been a long-time communist strategy.
During the Vietnam War, for example, the North Vietnamese understood they didn't have to beat the United States on the battlefield.
Far from it.
They weren't capable of beating the United States on the battlefield.
All they really had to do was keep up the internal pressure in the United States Push their agenda with the peaceniks, and then have the peaceniks undermine the war effort in Congress, thereby essentially handing South Vietnam over to the North Vietnamese.
China is figuring the same thing.
What they are figuring is that if they wreck whatever social fabric exists in the United States through the means of culture, which is what TikTok is, they create this very highly addictive, highly watchable medium And then they control exactly what people see while gathering data about you.
If they can do all of that, then they can undermine the power of the United States, not only at home, but in the world more largely.
Well, the House recognizes that, of course.
TikTok, first, I should first start with this.
TikTok is, in fact, a viral psyop.
As evidence of this, I point to a new poll that shows, according to Gallup, almost 30% of Gen Z women now identify as LGBTQ+, most as bisexual.
That is not a biological bottleneck that is happening in real time.
If the claim now is that one-third of all Gen Z women are either bisexual, homosexual, or gender non-binary, or trans.
If that's the claim, that makes no biological sense.
It has never made sense of any subpopulation anywhere in world history ever at any time.
The only way that could be happening is if people are glued to their iPhones, and they are depressed, and they're upset, and then, because they are depressed and upset, they start blaming it on their own sexual ambiguity, which is something that TikTok is clearly pushing at this point.
This makes no sense on any sort of biological evolutionary level.
It is also worth noting, by the way, that this huge number of women who are now identifying as bisexual, and bisexuals predominate among people who are identifying as LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, the reason that you are seeing that huge predominance is because you can claim that you're bisexual while simultaneously not actually acting in sexual ways with a member of the same sex, which is actually what happens with a lot of these girls.
In any case, That is just one piece of evidence, but we know that TikTok has created these viral sort of sensations where people act in strange ways.
And all of this has been mainlined into American politics.
Trans politics was not part of American politics 15-20 years ago.
It certainly is now, despite the fact that in more sane places, like apparently Great Britain, where children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, according to the National Health Service of England, don't worry, in the United States that's still being pushed as a positive good by New York Magazine.
And again, that's only happening because you do have outside forces that are really pushing this quite hard.
And China knows this, which, once more, is why China's version of TikTok is very different from the American version of TikTok.
Well, in early March, Representative Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, who's a Democrat, they actually introduced the so-called Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
That bill prevented app store availability or web hosting services in the United States for ByteDance-controlled applications, including TikTok.
So what exactly is ByteDance?
ByteDance is the parent company of TikTok or the majority holder of TikTok.
Mike Gallagher, who full disclosure, I'm very friendly with, he said, this is my message to TikTok.
Break up with the Chinese Communist Party or lose access to your American users.
America's foremost adversary has no business controlling a dominant media platform in the United States.
TikTok's time in the United States is over unless it ends its relationship with CCP-controlled ByteDance.
Ranking member Krishnamoorthy, a Democrat, joined Gallagher in saying this.
Congressperson says, so long as it is owned by ByteDance and thus required to collaborate with the CCP, TikTok poses critical threats to our national security.
Our bipartisan legislation will protect American social media users by driving the divestment of foreign adversary-controlled apps to ensure Americans are protected from the digital surveillance and influence operations of regimes that could weaponize their personal data against them.
So again, large-scale bipartisan backing for this ranging from Representative Elise Stefanik to Representative Seth Moulton, who's a Democrat from Massachusetts, One representative said the dangerous link between TikTok and the Chinese Communist Party has never been more apparent.
When TikTok's CEO came before the Energy and Commerce Committee last year, he readily admitted that ByteDance employees in China have access to U.S.
user data.
This alone should serve as a wake-up call.
We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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Okay, so, honestly, like a shockingly good thing, Apparently, Congress has now voted overwhelmingly to ban ByteDance from owning TikTok in the United States.
The vote was 352 to 65.
One member voted present.
That act, which was originally pushed, as we say, by Representatives Gallagher and Krishnamoorthy of the House Select Committee on Chinese Communist Party, it took about a week and a half for it to pass.
TikTok has been using all of its powers in an attempt to push people not to vote in favor of forcing ByteDance's divestment.
That doesn't mean TikTok dies.
It means that ByteDance is going to have to sell its share to an American company, which would make TikTok significantly less of a threat to national security.
certainly wouldn't be any more of a threat to national security than other American-owned
social media companies. And we can have a whole conversation about the threat to America's
elections and national security that such companies pose in the United States, but it
is way worse when the Chinese Communist Party is controlling one. And again, there's wide
bipartisan consensus on this. So, for example, Senator Ted Cruz says the TikTok is a CCP front,
which of course it is.
Would you be a yes on the bill as it currently stands, Senator? Well, it depends.
It depends what the bill specifically says.
I will say this.
I'm glad the House is acting.
I am deeply concerned about TikTok.
I've been very vocal about my concerns in TikTok.
We had the CEO of TikTok testify before the Judiciary Committee just a few weeks ago, and I vigorously questioned him.
Really, on two fronts, I'm concerned about TikTok.
Number one, I'm concerned about Chinese surveillance and espionage.
TikTok is controlled by the Chinese Communist government.
It has 170 million users in the United States, and it gives the Chinese government the ability to monitor, number one, what they're saying, number two, their physical location using GPS, number three, potentially what they're searching for and what they're doing with their phone.
It's a second set of concerns.
is the propaganda that the Chinese government pushes on TikTok and pushes in particular at kids.
And I think it is deeply, deeply harmful.
So, he's right about all of that, obviously.
Even Nancy Pelosi on the other side says that she's in favor of banning Chinese ownership of TikTok.
Here she was, but she does it in the weirdest possible way because, again, Congress is a refuge for the low IQ.
Here's Nancy Pelosi.
First of all, this is not a ban on TikTok.
I'm a grandmother of teenagers.
I understand the entertainment value, the educational value, the communication value, the business value for some business on this.
This is not an attempt to ban TikTok.
It's an attempt to make TikTok better.
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Now, there were some people who were a no on this, and it was a weird horseshoe of people who said no about this.
So you had some members of the libertarian right, people like Rand Paul, who just don't like legislation on virtually anything.
At least Rand Paul has the virtue of consistency.
Here was Senator Paul from Kentucky.
You say no ban.
Why are you opposed to this?
Well, there's this little thing called the Bill of Rights, which is an impediment.
180 million Americans use TikTok to express themselves.
You're going to tell them they're not allowed to do that anymore?
You're going to take the company away, destroy the value of the company?
There's also the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution says you can't take someone's property without due process.
So 60% of TikTok is owned by international investors.
You're just going to take their investment?
What happens to their investment if it gets to the deadline and they haven't made a sale?
The day after the deadline, all the value of their company is gone.
If you don't like what they do on TikTok or Facebook or Google, don't use them.
All of these information, all of these internet companies take up information.
And so I think if you destroy TikTok, you may well make its competitors bigger.
Okay, so the question here, on a First Amendment level, is there are places like the ACLU that are arguing that this violates the First Amendment, the attempt to divest TikTok of its Chinese ownership.
The claim being that what you post on TikTok is free speech, therefore that speech is protected, therefore TikTok can't be collaterally attacked.
That's a bit of a weird argument.
The other argument is, of course, that the That the property rights that are inherent in TikTok, which is what Senator Paul is talking about right there, are not owned all by people who are a national security risk, and therefore you can't divest them of their property without due process of law.
That'd be a Fifth Amendment claim.
That is what he's talking about there.
On the other hand, the claim is going to be that this is a national security risk because it's the Chinese Communist Party that basically runs the place.
And I come down, obviously, on the second side of that.
That, at least, is a principled argument.
Then you have the unprincipled argument.
So you have the argument of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who basically is opposing the TikTok ban because she likes being on TikTok.
Because she's the TikTok Congresswoman.
So she says, quote, Yeah, that's right.
No, on the TikTok forced sale bill.
This bill was incredibly rushed from committee to vote in four days with little explanation.
Yeah, that's right.
AOC is sitting around reading these bills.
I am sure that's happening.
I'm sure that every bill she has voted on, she has read in detail and can cite these specific provisions of.
She says that there are serious antitrust and privacy questions here and any national security concerns should be let out to the public prior to a vote.
I'm pretty sure we know about the national security concerns.
Maybe it's that you like TikTok because you're popular on TikTok and also you're kind of soft on China.
We'll get some more on this in just one moment.
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Speaking of soft on China, Eric Swalwell, the Democratic congressperson from California, also came out against the TikTok ban.
I mean, that dude did shtup a Chinese spy, so there's that.
Many people look at this as a TikTok potential ban in the United States.
How will you vote on this?
I don't like bans on speech, John.
I don't like the Republican book bans.
I don't like the bans on bodies that Republicans have put in place across the country.
I want to find ways to better restrict the use of data without taking away a platform Uh, that so many small businesses rely upon and so many young people, you know, use to communicate.
And this would do nothing to look at other social media companies and, you know, and their data.
So I, I just, I don't like bans on speech, John.
So, um, it's gonna be hard to support that one.
Uh, I don't believe you.
I don't believe you at all.
I think that you're just a little soft on China.
Maybe a little sweet on China, too.
Just a little bit.
In any case, this thing now heads to the Senate, where it is likely to pass.
There's enough bipartisan support to pass this thing.
Joe Biden has already said that he would sign the bill if it passed.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre acknowledged the White House is providing technical support in the crafting of the legislation.
Donald Trump used to be in favor of a ban on TikTok, and then he has flipped in the recent past.
Speculation attached to that flip has to do with the fact that there is a Republican billionaire named Jeff Yass, who's a hedge fund manager, who's a big investor in TikTok.
His fund has a $33 billion stake in TikTok, and he started spraying money around to a lot of Republicans recently.
And so the speculation was that because Yass is a big donor, who has funneled $130 million since 2020 into PACs and right-of-center think tanks like the Club for Growth, that this is what led Donald Trump to change his mind.
Apparently, Yass has been calling Congress people and saying that he is pulling funding if they support a TikTok ban.
One source described it as bullying to the New York Post.
If he's able to persuade an enclave of libertarian Republicans to fight tooth and nail against this, he'll scare off votes, said one Hill source.
Whatever the case may be, TikTok is in fact a danger to national security.
That is the reality.
Again, it's likely to pass in the Senate, Joe Biden is likely to sign it into law, and is a tactical, political mistake for President Trump to oppose the attempt to divest TikTok of its Chinese ownership.
Because it allows...
Joe Biden, who is unbelievably soft on China, whose son was paid by China, who's been just extraordinarily, indescribably soft on China's production and shipping of fentanyl into Mexico and then into the United States, where it's killed over 100,000 citizens a year.
Joe Biden's been unbelievably soft on China.
But this allows Joe Biden to outflank Trump on China.
So it's a bad political move by Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to struggle in the polling data.
According to brand new polling, you remember right after Joe Biden's State of the Union address, people like me said it was divisive and awful.
And the media told you that it was feisty and wonderful.
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It turns out that most people agreed with me, including independents.
According to a brand new poll from Harris X and Forbes, The question was, did President Biden do an adequate or inadequate job addressing immigration during the State of the Union Address?
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Meanwhile, more and more poll analysts are looking at Joe Biden's lack of support in the Black and Hispanic community and they're pulling the fire alarm.
Not just Jamal Bowman.
According to Axios, new data shows the Democrats' longtime advantage with Black, Latino, and Asian-American voters has shrunk to its lowest point in more than 60 years, creating a massive vulnerability for President Biden and Congressional Democrats.
The big picture is that Latinos, the nation's largest non-white group, still lean Democratic, but they've been shifting Republicans over the last two decades.
They are no longer the slam-dunk Democrats they were in 1960.
A New York Times-Siena College poll out March 2nd found that Biden led Trump by just 56-44 among non-white Americans.
That is a group Biden won by almost 50 points in 2020.
So again, these are terrible numbers for Joe Biden.
It is a disaster area for him.
And yet he keeps doubling down on the idea that the only way to appeal to people who are non-white is to move to the political left, which is crazy because, let's be real about this, on social issues, black voters are more moderate than the typical upper crust white college graduate lady in the suburbs that Joe Biden relies upon.
On immigration, Hispanics are way more conservative.
Then Joe Biden thinks that they are.
And we're about to undergo another massive migration crisis on our southern border due to what is happening in Haiti.
So according to the Washington Post, the United States has now sent a specialized Marine unit to help secure the U.S.
Embassy in Haiti as the country struggles through a political transition amid rising gang violence, according to authorities.
Haiti, the Caribbean community, and the United States are setting up a committee of Haitian leaders to take over for embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry and lead the beleaguered nation to new elections.
Henry is under pressure to resign.
Apparently, the person who is currently in charge of Haiti is, I kid you not, a person who calls himself BBQ.
Which is always great.
When a person who calls himself Barbecue is running your country, probably things are gonna go amazing.
I mean, first of all, anybody with a real nickname like that, probably bad.
Barbecue, really bad.
Now, the guy's actual name, Jimmy Charizier, he insists that his name, Barbecue, comes from his mother's roadside fried chicken.
Others insist that the name comes from a reputation for burning people alive.
I will let you guess which one that is.
It was either his mom's fried chicken, or he burns people alive.
Which one do you think BBQ is named after?
He's an ex-police officer turned violent warlord.
He moved against the government, he cast himself as a revolutionary, and he organized a mass jailbreak of 3,800 prisoners.
Well, the Prime Minister Errol Henry, who may or may not have been complicit in the murder of the prior Prime Minister, was out of the country.
So things are going amazingly well in Haiti, obviously.
Many of the gangs in Haiti are believed to have ties to members of Haiti's elite, according to the Irish Times.
Charizier has a gang called G9, which is in a federation of nine gangs.
And apparently, it receives half of its income from the prior government, before his death.
Haiti has been a failed state for a very long time, at this point.
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This is why in the state of Florida, we've been preparing for this.
According to the New York Post, border agents in Miami have been told to prepare for a wave of migration from Haiti following the takeover of the country by bloodthirsty gangs, including, by the way, cannibals.
So things are, like, it's a full-scale zombie hellscape out there.
An internal agency email leaked to The Post pointed out it is unlikely Haitians who take to the sea and enter Florida illegally will be repatriated back to their home country given its instability.
The message also warned that even one vessel of migrants landing would overwhelm agency capabilities in the area.
So, you're going to see a massive number of people who are attempting to cross the water into Florida.
You're gonna see a lot of people go to Mexico and try to cross the southern border.
Roughly 15,000 people, according to the United Nations, have already been internally displaced in recent days due to the gang takeover of the country.
According to the email, with the breakdown of the government in Haiti, repatriating Haitians may not be happening for the foreseeable future.
If this is the case, the Coast Guard may not be stopping Haitian sail freighters.
If the ships actually reach Florida's shores, it'll be difficult to contain the groups or transport them in timely fashion for processing or to identify fraudulent family claims.
So what is Joe Biden doing about the southern border in the wake of all of this?
Not much of anything.
One Department of Defense official said today that we are already alerted to maritime mass migration from Haiti, so get ready.
The number one push factor that drives these Haitians into Broward County, Palm Beach County, where they don't disperse throughout the country.
They stay in Southeast Florida.
That driving factor is the deterioration of conditions in Haiti.
So what are we doing to prepare for that wave and to ensure that these people are
not paroled into the United States as the administration has done with people
on the southern border but instead are repatriated back at the dock at Port-au-Prince?
Congressman, we're doing a number of things to ensure that we're
keeping track of the situation and we're prepared.
At the moment, we have not yet seen large numbers, what we would characterize as a maritime mass migration, but we are alert to that.
Do you anticipate a mass migration, though?
We are alert to that possibility.
I think you're right that the driving conditions in Haiti could very well press more people.
We've recently approved some additional assistance that we can provide to the Coast Guard.
I think that that has now fully been approved.
We'll be providing notifications if we haven't already.
Well, this might call for, you know, the President of the United States to do what many of us have long wanted him to do, which would be to close the southern border.
A couple of executive orders would do that.
And a couple of weeks ago, there was some talk about Joe Biden doing that because he was getting all sorts of pressure on the immigration front.
So naturally, Kareem Jha and Pierre picked today to explain that Joe Biden actually will not be doing any of that.
There will be no executive action on the southern border.
The President said yesterday that he was hoping executive action on the border would happen by itself, that Congress would legislate it.
Can you just confirm for us that this indicates that he's no longer considering executive action on the border?
Well, the President has been very clear, and I've been very clear, anytime I've asked about executive actions here, the bottom line, the bottom line is, in order to actually have change, extensive change, real change, comprehensive change, that Senate bill that was negotiated between Republicans and obviously Democrats in the Senate would have been the best way to go.
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The president is trying to make it very clear no executive action would have that effect,
the effect that this bipartisan negotiation would have had.
So she's really bad at her job.
Not as bad as the president is at his job.
So in the middle of what is going to be another mass migration wave from Haiti, because again, it's a failed state.
Nobody's been able to fix Haiti for decades at this point.
Given that fact, again, now would be an excellent time for Joe Biden to actually take control of the border.
He's not going to do that.
He's just going to **** about how Republicans won't move a bill that he wants them to move.
Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams, I don't know how many times we can play this stupid game again where liberal mayors talk about how wonderful, how wonderful other places are and how we need more migrants and then the migrants arrive in their cities and like, oh no, what did we do?
Reminds me of one of my favorite tweets.
I can't believe this leopard is eating my face, says woman who voted for the leopards eating people's faces party.
That is where we are right now.
Mayor Eric Adams tweeted, quote, So first off, let me say, literally no one calls New York City the Port-au-Prince of America.
For good reason.
If Haiti were the Port-au-Prince of America, there would be people literally eating other people in the streets.
And New York may be bad, but it hasn't reached that level quite yet.
we stand with you today and always.
Because I've been told by Eric Adams that they can't take any more mass migration.
Bad policy has consequences.
Joe Biden on the border, it's going to get worse over the course of the next few weeks.
Watch for it.
Meanwhile, Janet Yellen, our terrible Treasury Secretary, she says the number one priority of this administration is fighting inflation.
Well, as always, they're doing a stellar job of it.
But if you go back and look at month over month, December, January and February, it showed an increase of inflation.
Is inflation coming back?
Well, look, inflation is down almost two thirds from the high it reached in 2022.
And the trend is clearly a favorable one.
I wouldn't look at Expect this to be a smooth path month to month, but the trend is clearly favorable.
That said, President Biden's top priority is addressing the issue of high costs that concern so many Americans.
Okay, so then why aren't you good at it?
Like at some point you might want to get better at it.
She also did apologize for saying that inflation was transitory two full years ago and it turned out not to be so transitory actually.
In 2021, though, you did say that inflation was transitory.
Do you regret saying that now?
I regret saying it was transitory.
It has come down, but I think transitory means a few weeks or months to most people.
And by the way, transitory typically means that you would then get a deflationary cycle that would bring prices back to normal, not that everything would remain 20-25% more expensive than it was.
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By the way, it is still unclear at this point what the Fed is going to do.
Now, it's amazing that the Federal Reserve, despite the fact that inflation remains hot,
they keep talking about when they're going to cut rates, which demonstrates once again,
is a political entity.
They want Joe Biden to be reelected president.
They believe the only way to do that is to keep the economy overheated.
Because if they increase the interest rates again, for example, just to take down those last vestiges of inflation, they're afraid that the economy will, in fact, avoid the supposed soft landing that it is currently undergoing.
And so they're already talking about heating up the economy again, even as inflation remains well over 50% too high.
So just well done, Joe Biden, on the economy.
Again, everything they touch is turning to political gold, which leaves them with one final argument.
One final argument.
That, of course, is abortion.
The Democrats are betting it all on abortion.
They're going to bet that there are enough ladies out there who are afraid that the Republicans are going to ban abortion, they're going to need one, that they will vote Democrat.
I think this is unlikely to be true.
The reason I think this is unlikely to be true is that, first of all, people in purple states are kind of purplish on abortion.
What I mean by that is they don't actually want full-scale abortion up to point of birth.
So when Donald Trump makes the argument, as he apparently is going to, that there ought to be something like federal action against abortions past the 16th week, which is really late, Again, for those who are bad at math, that's four months in.
That's plenty of time.
I mean, as a pro-lifer, I think that all of this should be off the table, but even if you are not pro-life, four months is plenty of time for you to figure out whether or not you want to kill the baby that's growing inside you.
If that's Donald Trump's position on the federal law, a plurality of Americans believe that.
About 50% of Americans are in favor of a 16-week ban on abortion.
And then there's another 20 or so percentage who believe that it should be restricted far earlier.
And then only about 24% of people who believe in the full Joe Biden abortion to the point of birth position.
Nonetheless, Democrats are going to see if they can run on Roe vs. Wade, and they are calling— You know they're getting desperate when they're calling out the celebs.
And they're calling them out early.
So remember, Hillary Clinton did this a lot in 2016.
Remember the star-studded DNC that featured all of these celebrities singing fight song in what was one of the most obnoxious displays of entertainment-slash-politics of my lifetime?
Like, Elizabeth Banks singing fight song alongside Hillary Clinton.
It's like, oh no!
Well, now we're doing it again.
This time, it's Jill Biden.
First of all, you can't trust Joe around the ladies, because he might start sniffing hair.
So they tried out Jill, who's a doctor, so she knows a lot about abortion.
She's a doctor of education.
She's not a real doctor.
But, in any case, she appeared alongside someone who looks something like Christina Aguilera.
Oh wait, I'm being told that is Christina Aguilera.
Okay, well, okay, this waxwork of Christina Aguilera standing alongside Dr. Joe Biden, and they are discussing Roe versus Wade and abortion, which is just terrific.
It was shocking and devastating.
From state to state, abortion bans went into effect, threatening the health and lives of women across the country, while also threatening doctors with prosecution for simply doing their jobs.
And now, extremists are even threatening the right to access IVF and contraception for so many families.
Secrecy, shame, punishment, danger, even death.
Extremists are working harder than ever to drag us back to a past we thought was long over.
But we say our reproductive health care decisions should be made by us and our doctors, not politicians.
We should have the freedom to make our decisions about our own bodies.
I will not let my daughter live in a world where politicians make decisions about her body.
I thought she was going to stop that sentence.
I will not let my daughter live since she's pro-abortion.
Our reproductive rights will be on the ballot in all 50 states together.
OK, OK, OK.
So this is going to be the shtick.
OK, so you're going to trot out Jill Biden, this charmless person, to make the case about abortion standing next to Christina Aguilera, who was last relevant in the entertainment world.
What, 10 years ago?
That's like the late end of her relevance.
She was most relevant in the entertainment world when I was like 15 years old.
So it's been a while.
In any case, this is what you guys got.
You had a crappy president.
He was bad at everything.
He was leaving the borough wide open.
Got inflation.
Got complete social decay.
But you do have Christina Aguilera standing next to Joe Biden lecturing you about abortion.
Meanwhile, you also have Olivia Rodrigo pushing abortion.
So she apparently at her concerts has been handing out Plan B. According to PopBase, one of the world's most trusted sites, Olivia Rodrigo's G.U.T.S.
World Tour in St.
Louis, always a great name for a world tour is G.U.T.S., handed out free Plan B pills to fans who wanted them from the Missouri Abortion Fund.
Funding abortion.
It's a good idea, right?
That's what it says on the on the pills.
We can help you find abortion care.
And then it's emergency contraceptives in case you decide to, you know, have that fling after the Olivia Rodrigo concert and then get pregnant so that you can make it.
She's handing out abortion pills at concerts.
Well, this is the world liberals want, I suppose.
So, I guess you can vote for that if you do want that.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to battle in court.
We'll get to that momentarily first.
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Okay, meanwhile, Donald Trump is apparently not going to face some charges in Georgia.
According to The Hill, a Georgia judge dismissed some of former President Trump's charges in the sweeping election interference case against him due to a lack of detail.
Judge Scott McAfee tossed six charges total contained in the indictment, including three counts against Trump.
Those charges involve his pressure campaign on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, including the infamous call in which Trump asked Raffensperger to find enough votes, exactly 11,779, to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the state.
The charges dropped all relate to alleged efforts to solicit Georgia officials to violate their oaths of office.
So that's weird, because those are sort of the key charges.
The judge said the charges contain essential elements of the crime, but they failed to provide enough detail for the defendants to mount their offenses.
Under the current charges, McAfee said the defendants could have violated the laws in dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct ways.
So, that really takes the wind out of that particular case.
They've been putting aside all the Fannie Willis craziness in Georgia.
So, there's that.
But the media are now, they've decided, they're going to bank it all.
They're going to bank it all on the classified documents case in Florida.
Now, to be fair, that is in fact the legal case in which Donald Trump is in the most jeopardy.
The January 6th case put forward in Washington, D.C.
by Jack Smith alleges crimes that really do not apply to the circumstances in January 6th.
The Alvin Bragg case in New York City is a complete joke of a case.
It's a ridiculous, ridiculous, stupid case in which Alvin Bragg is claiming that somehow Donald Trump violated campaign finance law federally for which he was not charged, but that somehow amounts to some sort of bootstrapped state crime that Alvin Bragg is going to hit him with.
It's ridiculous.
The Georgia case is a trumped up RICO charge that really doesn't apply.
And now even the central elements of that have been tossed out.
So that leaves the Florida documents case.
And this, of course, is Donald Trump shifting around classified documents and not turning them over to the National Archives after being asked to do so.
Now, the problem politically with this is that Joe Biden just got let off the hook for the same thing.
Joe Biden took home documents.
He hid those documents in his house for decades, actually, going all the way back to his Senate days.
When he was faced with that, he turned them over.
But that doesn't change the original crime any more than if I murder someone and the police come to me and I admit to the crime.
That means that I now get a lesser sentence.
That's not the way that that works.
Admitting to doing the crime and working with the authorities does not mean that the original crime never happened.
If I commit white-collar fraud and then the police come to me and ask to search my papers and I'm like, sure, here are my papers.
I still get hit with white-collar fraud.
So the fact that Joe Biden did not commit obstruction of justice doesn't change the underlying offense.
The slam on Trump is that he both screwed around with the classified documents and then he committed obstruction by By trying to get other witnesses to perjure themselves or pressuring other witnesses or whatever it is, but I think everybody sees the underlying issue is very very similar.
So the media have decided they are now going to try out Trump employee number five, a person named Brian Butler.
This is a longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who's a central witness in the investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents.
He gave an interview to CNN in which he said he does not believe the criminal case against Trump is a witch hunt.
He gave testimony to federal investigators that informed crucial portions of the criminal obstruction charges against Trump and his two co-defendants, Walt Nauda and Carlos de Oliveira, a property manager at Mar-a-Lago, who was very close friends with Butler until Butler apparently flipped.
Here is Brian Butler.
Given how other people who have been in Trump's orbit and left and told the truth, and how they've been treated, did it ever make you hesitate to... No, look, I was always going to tell the truth, but you know...
After one of the interviews with the investigators on this case, I think it got real when at the end of it, it was either my second or third, fourth time talking to them, where they said at the end of it, oh, by the way, all of your grand jury testimony and witness testimony has been turned over to the Trump defense.
At that point, you're like, oh boy.
Did it make you nervous?
Yeah, a little bit.
But, you know, I don't want to live in fear.
I mean, we're only here for a finite time.
To me, I refuse to live in fear like that.
I mean, yes, cautious, but, you know, I'm going to tell the truth.
OK, so CNN played this as a bombshell.
Is this like an actual bombshell that he moved around papers?
We all know that Trump moved around papers.
On a political level, is this going to hurt Donald Trump in any serious way after what just happened with Joe Biden?
I think not.
Speaking of legal matters that have now bounced back against Trump's detractors, according to ABC News, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, you remember that she testified about what she was told of then-President Trump's actions on January 6th.
She told some crazy stories.
Remember Cassidy Hutchinson?
She was an aide and she came out and she said that Donald Trump had tried to reach across the back seat of the Beast, which is the presidential limousine, and grab the wheel and steer it toward the riot that was happening on January 6th so he could join in or something like that.
Well, apparently, Trump's driver that day has now testified, and he contradicts all of this.
Among other details, Hutchinson testified she was told Trump was irate on that day and attempted to go meet with supporters at the Capitol.
Hutchinson recalled the conversation she had at the White House with Bobby Engel, part of Trump's security detail, who was sitting in the chair looking discombobulated, and Tony Ornato.
Well, there's only one problem.
An 81-page report from the House Administration Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight called Hutchinson's account into question.
The new report cites testimony that was given by four other Trump White House employees
to the previous January 6th committee and the account of Trump's Secret Service driver.
According to the report, none of the White House employees corroborated Hutchinson's sensational story
about Trump lunging forward of the steering wheel.
So, oops.
She was hero of the Republic for a day, but that's a great way to become hero of the Republic is to
crap on Trump.
Again, I think all of this is baked into the cake for Trump.
The real question for Trump is what additional bombshells he's going to throw into the middle of the race that have nothing to do with his personal foibles.
As I've said, people have been asking me a lot recently, obviously, when I'm, you know, out and about, if I think Trump is going to win.
And my answer typically has been, if he can stop from shooting himself in the foot too much, I do think he will win.
That is a very, very big if.
Okay, meanwhile, Republicans keep being weird and bad at this.
And this is not good.
Again, does anyone know how to play this game?
Like, anyone?
You know, it's really funny.
I've been getting a lot of flack over the course of the last 48 hours about my comments about Social Security and changes to the retirement age and such.
I prefaced all of that by saying it's not my job to run for office.
I'm not running for office.
I totally understand why candidates on the right side of the aisle kick the can down the road because it is, in fact, a political third rail, as George W. Bush learned to his regret in 2005, 2006.
However, that would then assume that our politicians on both sides of the aisle would actually have to be good at the actual politics thing.
They are shockingly not.
The weirdest story of the day comes courtesy of Governor Kristi Noem, widely perceived to be one of the candidates for the vice presidency under a Donald Trump nomination.
She tweeted out a video about a local dental group.
Now, you have to assume that there was some sort of in-kind contribution that was made, like somebody's braces got done or something, but this is super weird.
Sitting governors should not do dental commercials.
I know it's a weird rule, but I didn't have to use the rule until now, because nobody did this.
It's strange.
Well hi, I'm Christine Noem.
I'm the governor of South Dakota and had the opportunity to come to Smile, Texas to fix my teeth which has been absolutely amazing for years.
I have needed to have an adjustment to my teeth from a biking accident and they have been What's happening right now?
I'm doing right now.
Years ago I was out bike riding with all of my kids when they were little and had a biking
accident and knocked out all of my front teeth.
And so several years ago I did a consultation here at Smile Texas and did it by Zoom.
I mean, I'm sure it's a great dentist and all but it's weird.
And recently, got the chance to work with Dr. Davis.
Dr. Dooley's always been fantastic to me too.
What's happening and why?
Was remarkable and finally gave me a smile.
Okay, that's enough.
Republicans, stop being weird!
Stop it!
Just stop being big weirdos all the time.
For like five seconds, please!
I beg you, as someone who wishes for conservative policy to occasionally win a victory, please stop being so damned weird.
Please stop.
Again, I sort of have sympathy for... Ken Buck is getting a lot of crap today.
Ken Buck is the congressman from Colorado.
I disagree with Ken Buck on a lot of things.
But Ken Buck has decided that he's going to drop out of Congress.
He put out a statement.
He said, today I'm announcing I will depart Congress at the end of next week.
I look forward to staying involved in our political process.
Buck leaves the Republicans with just a five-seat majority.
It was already a super slim majority.
Here was Buck's comment on why he was leaving.
Congressman Buck, talk to me about a bit what has frustrated you so much
about this era of politics in this and particularly Congress.
What's made it so difficult?
You really need me to say that.
You need me to explain what's so difficult about this place.
I was, as you see, the number three in the seniority on that committee, and I asked questions last.
And you need me to explain what is so complicated about that, or how we try to impeach somebody I mean, just on a human level?
Do you blame him?
I mean, Congress is a clown show.
a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept.
This place just keeps going downhill and I don't need to spend my time here.
I mean, just on a human level? Do you blame him?
I mean, Congress is a clown show. I don't blame him.
I would hope that other Republicans take his place.
But on just like a person-to-person level, yeah, Congress is filled with dullards
and those dullards are constantly yelling at each other on social media.
You know, again, these are the wages of a failed politics in the United States.
Alrighty folks, we are not allowed to talk about Dylan Mulvaney, you know, and everything related to Dylan Mulvaney.
And that's all I can honestly say here.
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