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March 22, 2024 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Illegal Immigrants Storm Texas National Guard

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	Well, folks, every day under Joe Biden's administration is a political ad cut for Donald Trump.
	The latest example comes courtesy of America's southern border.
	And there is so much going on at the southern border.
	If you watch Divided States of Biden episode one, which is where we actually went down to the border and checked it out, you can see that the border is basically wide open.
	There are no border patrol agents where they should be.
	They are all too busy processing illegal immigrants and letting them into the country.
	Well, yesterday, at the border, there was a major conflagration when, in Texas, about 300 illegal immigrants decided to storm one of the sections of the Texas State National Park where they had erected some border wire.
	They stormed across the border, most of them being young males, and started toppling over American soldiers, started assaulting the American Border Patrol.
	Here is what it looked like.
	So this is insane.
	It's effectively riotous circumstances.
	You can see these illegal immigrants who push their way through the border, and then they just start pushing their way past the soldiers, past the border patrol, and they rush up to the fence.
	Now the fence is still closed, so they're rushing their way past the border wall, but there's another fence.
	And now they are waving their arms to suggest that this is how borders normally work is totally crazy.
	Of course, this is not true.
	And it's being facilitated by the Mexican drug cartels.
	To understand what's going on the border, you have to understand the people in control of the southern border are in fact the Mexican drug cartels who decide Where every single illegal immigrant gets dropped off.
	There are no, this is not the days of 1980s when you have illegal immigrants singly or in pairs or as families attempting to cross the desert to get into the United States.
	You now have drug cartels that literally take people on trucks directly to the border and drop them off where they want to be dropped off.
	For a couple purposes.
	One, they understand that if those people arrive at the border and are then processed, they're going to enter the country.
	And two, if you can force Border Patrol to congregate around places like this, you know where the Border Patrol ain't, the Border Patrol is not in the areas where it needs to be, interdicting all of the fentanyl that is crossing the border by literally tens of thousands of pounds and then killing 100,000 Americans a year.
	That's episode two of The Divided States of Biden on fentanyl.
	That is coming on Monday, where we go inside that story.
	It has a lot to do with the border crisis.
	They are very much Intertwined.
	This is Joe Biden's policy.
	Joe Biden's policy is to have an open border.
	Understand that the Biden administration legitimately sued the state of Texas to prevent them from passing a law to make it illegal to be an illegal immigrant in the state of Texas and make you subject to deportation.
	Joe Biden wants the illegal immigrants in the country.
	And he wants the illegal immigrants in the country For presumably one of three reasons.
	Those reasons would either be economic, meaning he wants an underclass of people who are not going to be paid the prevailing minimum wage to make sure that the economy does not collapse on his watch even as he artificially boosts wages for his union cronies.
	Two, he wants to make sure that a huge number of people cross Across America's southern border and then eventually gain their citizenship because a lot of these young men who are crossing the border will get married to American citizens and then gain their citizenship that way.
	And then he hopes that those people will become Democratic voters.
	And three, ideologically, there's a huge segment of the Democratic Party that believes that America is bad and should not have borders.
	And that actually, any westernized country should not have borders.
	That somehow, the West being an exploitative capitalist system, that system has been terrible to people all over the world, and therefore, the West owes it to people all over the world, entry.
	That people should just be able to cross borders willy-nilly.
	Not even a libertarian point of view, an anti-Western point of view.
	That is a large swath of the democratic political base.
	Same sorts of people who really like Hamas over in Dearborn, Michigan, for example, or the people who are protesting on college campuses.
	So, those reasons are motivating Joe Biden here, obviously, in whatever proportion you seek to attribute to that.
	Whatever the case.
	It is very clear that the Democratic Party does not care about illegal immigration or is actively facilitating it.
	This is not the only example, by the way, is what was happening down at the border wall in El Paso, Texas.
	In fact, I think a significantly worse example is what was said yesterday by the Massachusetts governor, Maura Healey.
	So she was asked about an illegal immigrant raping a 14-year-old in her state.
	And here was her answer.
	We asked Governor Healey if she can prevent this type of incident from happening again.
	Unfortunately, we have security and systems in place.
	We have vetting in place.
	It is unfortunate that from time to time things will happen.
	It's unfortunate that from time to time things will happen.
	Or you could attempt to pressure your own party to shut the border since they are in control of the border.
	Joe Biden could make it hard to cross the border today.
	He dismantled all of the systems that Donald Trump had put in place on America's southern border.
	He dismantled Remain in Mexico.
	He changed the definition of what it meant to apply for asylum.
	These two changes alone are responsible.
	We're 7 to 10 million illegal immigrants entering the country since Joe Biden took office.
	We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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	So, yesterday, we held an event over at the Trump Doral.
	I was co-hosting a fundraiser for President Trump.
	I had a chance to speak with President Trump about the border, about the fentanyl crisis.
	I will say the President is in very, very good spirits about the election, as he should be, given the polling data.
	And what we talked about at some length was the simple fact that his policies on the border were significantly better than Joe Biden's.
	What he actually said is, this issue is a horrible issue for America and a great issue for Republicans, specifically because Joe Biden has made it such a horrible issue for the United States.
	And he is right about that.
	Joe Biden has opened that border wide.
	He has opened it absolutely wide.
	It's insane.
	And that's not going to bear benefits for Joe Biden in the upcoming election.
	Now, what's funny about this is that Joe Biden really believes that he has to do this also because he's under the weird misimpression.
	I know who his political advisors are.
	Joe Biden's political advisors are complete befuddled morons because they're selling him a bill of goods.
	Basically, he staffed his entire administration with Bernie Sanders acolytes who tell him that his unpopularity is a result of him not moving far enough to the left.
	Which is idiotic.
	Why he switched horses in the middle of the stream and moved away from his supposed moderation in 2020 toward the Bernie Sanders left is absolutely beyond me.
	He seems to think, again, politically speaking, that this will be a base election.
	That if he can turn out enough Democratic voters, he will win.
	This will not be a base election.
	The only true base election of my lifetime was 2012.
	That is the only election in which independence went one way, but the election went the other way.
	Where independence tended to split for Mitt Romney, but Barack Obama being a unique political figure, with a unique appeal to black Americans particularly, was able to turn out his vote in numbers high enough to win the presidency, despite the fact that he had alienated the middle.
	Every Democrat since 2012 has attempted to emulate the Barack Obama model, and every Democrat since 2012 has failed.
	The only reason that Joe Biden won in 2020 is because all the voting rules changed because of COVID, and because Democratic ballot harvesting meant that literally tens of millions of people Who had never voted before, voted because people were showing up at their doors three months in advance of the election, picking up their ballot and dropping it off in the nearest mailbox.
	That is not going to replicate itself in 2024.
	But Joe Biden's political advisors seem to be telling him he needs to skew to the left.
	And so you've seen Joe Biden, as we'll talk about a little bit later, skew against Israel in the belief that he's going to win over 10,000 voters in Dearborn, Michigan, and somehow it's going to win in Michigan.
	He's not losing Michigan because he is pro-Israel or supposedly pro-Israel.
	The reason that Joe Biden is losing Michigan is because he is alienating every blue-collar voter he can find in the state of Michigan.
	The moron is passing laws and regulations that basically kill the domestic American car industry.
	And then he's wondering why he's losing Michigan?
	That would be the reason, sir, that you're losing Michigan.
	But his own people won't tell him that because they're staffed by environmentalist do-gooders And radical leftists.
	And the same thing is true on the American border.
	Joe Biden seems to believe that if he's soft on the American border, this is going to win over Hispanics.
	This is one of the biggest myths in American politics is that Hispanics, Latinos in America
	are desperately in favor of a wide open border.
	That is not true by polling data.
	I don't know where they're getting this idea that Hispanic Americans are like,
	yeah, just open up the vast majority of Hispanic Americans came here legally, not illegally.
	They're legal citizens of the United States.
	And because of that, they think the same way that pretty much all other Americans think,
	which is, you know what we should do, control our borders.
	But Joe Biden seems to think that if he leaves the border wide open,
	that everybody is in favor of that And here's the thing, he is bleeding Hispanic and Latino support.
	And there are a wide variety of reasons for why he is bleeding Hispanic-Latino support, but he's focused on exactly the wrong minorities in terms of electoral turnout.
	One of the most amazing things about the way that we have broken things down in terms of the intersectional hierarchy is that because the left believes that victimhood status is the ultimate arbiter of value, they've politically appealed to people on the basis of their victimhood status Which is politically stupid, because if you are actually going to game out how to create a victorious coalition, you should look at the number of people in each supposed subgroup.
	But Democrats don't do that.
	They decide that they're going to focus on subgroups based on where they stand in the intersectional hierarchy.
	So, for example, they'll talk about transing the kids.
	It doesn't matter.
	That a very, very small percentage of Americans are in favor of that.
	A vanishingly small percentage of Americans are in favor of that.
	That is an issue that's high on the intersectional hierarchy, so it gets a lot of attention, and it alienates the other 98% of voters.
	The Democratic Party will talk about systemic racism, keeping black Americans down, never mind the fact that most Americans don't actually believe that.
	They'll talk about that because they believe that that ranks high on the intersectional values list.
	And never mind the fact That black Americans are actually not the largest minority group in the United States.
	By far, the largest minority group in the United States is Hispanic Americans.
	And you can't even get them right.
	Everybody mocked Donald Trump when he ate from a taco bowl.
	He said, happy Cinco de Mayo.
	And they're like, OK, well, you know, he's obviously mocking Hispanic.
	He doesn't understand the plight of Hispanic Americans.
	But it is Jill Biden who's going out there telling people how Hispanics are like breakfast tacos.
	And it's Joe Biden who's out there saying that Hispanics must love open borders.
	I mean, let me tell you something.
	Donald Trump eating a taco bowl is certainly less offensive to Hispanic Americans than the baseline idea that all Hispanic Americans are in favor of vast illegal immigration.
	It's not true.
	And not only that, it turns out that if you want to alienate Hispanic Americans, the best way to do that is to suggest that there's an intersectional hierarchy in which Black Americans are put down by the evil boot of the United States, and Hispanic Americans are somehow exempt from that.
	Because here's the thing about Hispanic Americans.
	Hispanic Americans are upwardly mobile by numbers.
	Hispanic Americans, by numbers, agree with the idea of the American Dream.
	You know why?
	Because they have participated in the American Dream in terms of upward economic mobility.
	Now, so have a lot of black Americans, obviously, but the entire media are dedicated to the proposition that black Americans are kept down by the evil racist American system, and Hispanic Americans are not kept down by the evil American system, according to that same media.
	Which means that either they're participants in it, or they're sort of ignored by it.
	And Hispanic Americans look at America, they say, you know what?
	This is a pretty great place.
	This is a pretty awesome place.
	I came here with literally nothing.
	I crossed that border with nothing, with my wife, maybe a kid.
	And I started off working a job at a restaurant for nothing, and now I own the restaurant.
	Now, I'm looking at the numbers right here, and again, this bizarre vision of white upper-crust liberals that Hispanic Americans are a bunch of impoverished people mired in absolute penury for their entire lives, that's not true at all.
	It's simply not true.
	The simple reason that Latino voters have been turning to the right, even the left is recognizing this in terms of the media now, the reason that's happening is because they are upwardly mobile, economically speaking, somewhat socially conservative, significantly more socially conservative than the Democratic Party.
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	According to Keith Humphries, this is, again, on MSNBC, November 2022.
	Most Latinos voted for Democrats in the 2022 elections, but Republican support among Hispanic voters has grown by 10 points since 2018, continuing a dozen-year trend of America's largest ethnic minority group drifting in a more politically conservative direction.
	So why exactly is this happening?
	Because start with health and upward mobility.
	Latino's life expectancy in the United States exceeds that of whites by about three years.
	In the five years prior to the pandemic, Hispanic median household income grew more than twice as much as whites and faster than black and Asian Americans as well.
	Both of these advantages are buttressed by Hispanic gains in education.
	According to the National Center on Educational Statistics, from 2010 to 2020, the high school dropout rate of Hispanics fell by more than half, from 15.1% to 7.4%, approaching the national average of 5.3%.
	percent, approaching the national average of 5.3 percent.
	From 2000 to 2018, the college enrollment rate of Hispanics aged 18 to 24 increased
	by more than half, from 22 percent to 36 percent, also approaching the national average, which
	is 41 percent.
	In this year's entering class at the University of California, this is 2022, the largest racial
	and ethnic group is Hispanics.
	So, thank you.
	Some observers were surprised more Latinos didn't vote to restore affirmative action in the UC system, but if you're the largest group being amended, you don't need affirmative action in the UC system.
	All of these successes have shaped Hispanics' view of their country.
	A 2021 survey by Pew found Latinos see the United States as offering more economic opportunity, better conditions for raising children, and better access to healthcare services than the countries in which they were born.
	Or, in the case of US-born Hispanics, in the countries in which their ancestors were born.
	So in other words, Hispanics think this is a pretty freaking great country.
	Because it is, in fact, a pretty damned great country.
	And guess who thinks that this country stinks and needs to be fundamentally transformed?
	Democrats!
	That does not agree with the Hispanic population.
	Another fascinating poll about Latino voters from November 7, 2022.
	This is a Pew Research poll.
	And it breaks down Republicans by group.
	They say, effectively, that there are five Republican groups.
	And these five Republican groups are what they call faith and flag conservatives, who have become traditional conservatives, conservative on nearly every issue.
	They want Christianity more prominent in public life.
	Only about 16% of Hispanics who are Republicans, or lean Republican, consider themselves faith and flag conservatives.
	Then there are committed conservatives, who can be very conservative on most issues, particularly economics, and favor a hawkish foreign policy.
	Those people, only 12% of Hispanics, consider themselves in the committed conservative group.
	So that's only 28% of Hispanics who consider themselves faith and flag conservatives or committed conservatives.
	Then there's the populist right.
	That'd be highly restrictive views about immigration, very critical of the fairness of the economic system.
	This would be sort of the J.D.
	Vance right.
	Only 14% of Hispanic voters count themselves in that group.
	Then there's the ambivalent right.
	Those are people who are sort of moderate on immigration and some social issues.
	They don't really feel at home in either party, but they have conservative views about the government and the social safety net.
	21% of Hispanics consider themselves part of this group.
	And then there are these stressed sideliners.
	And here's how Pew describes these people.
	Mixed political views, lean slightly liberal economically, more conservative in other domains.
	27% of Hispanics count themselves part of this group.
	So in other words, the areas of the right where Hispanics are overrepresented are among people who are ambivalent right and stress sideliners.
	So what happened here?
	The Democrats actively alienated these people by moving too much to the left.
	That's what happened.
	The Democrats said to these people that you are a minority that we don't care about because you're too economically mobile.
	The Democrats said to this subgroup of people, you probably just want an open border.
	And if we cater to an open border, you'll probably like that.
	They don't want an open border.
	And so Joe Biden is bleeding minorities.
	Here is CNN's Harry Enten explaining that Joe Biden is getting smoked among Hispanics.
	And President Biden has been courting Latino voters in the Southwest.
	Where does he stand?
	Yeah, so you know, you might think, you know, that Hispanic voters might be the types of folks who would have a backlash against Donald Trump's remarks, right?
	Ain't the case.
	If you ask Hispanic voters who do they trust more on border security and immigration, overwhelmingly they trust Donald Trump more by a tremendous margin.
	Look at that, 49% to 24%.
	And that is in line with what we're seeing in the polls in general amongst Hispanics.
	Okay, if Joe Biden gets those numbers, he's going to lose.
	If he doesn't draw Hispanic voters, he's going to lose.
	By the way, his number among black voters, not very high.
	And it is not just Harry Enten who's pointing this out.
	It's at the New York Times as well.
	The New York Times has an entire piece from David Leonhardt talking about Joe Biden bleeding minority support.
	He says, quote, after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, many political scientists
	and pundits came forth with a simple explanation. Trump had won, they said, because of white
	Americans' racial resentment. I never found this argument to be persuasive. Yes, race played a
	meaningful role in Trump's victory, but politics is rarely monocausal.
	And there are good reasons to believe the 2016 election was complex, too.
	Eight years later, the it's all racial resentment argument doesn't look merely questionable.
	It looks wrong.
	Wrong.
	Remember, this is the entire basis of Joe Biden's campaign.
	Joe Biden's campaign is Donald Trump is a white supremacist.
	If he could have, he would've been marching with the marchers at Charlottesville.
	If Donald Trump could do it, he would be making little Nikki Fuentes his secretary of defense or some such nonsense.
	That is garbage, and it's not true.
	Not only is it not true, it's a bad campaign tactic.
	As David Leonhardt points out, a defining feature of American politics has been the rightward shift of voters of color.
	Asian, Black, Hispanic voters have all become less likely to support Democratic candidates and more likely to support Republicans, including Trump.
	In each group, the trend is pronounced among working-class voters defined as those without a four-year college degree.
	Now, I think Republicans can make a similarly foolish mistake by thinking that the reason that these voters are moving into the Trump camp is because big government spending.
	That is not why.
	They're being alienated by the left.
	By and large, Americans believe that this is an awesome country and the things that made America awesome, namely, The ability to pursue the American dream, to build something for your family, the fact that your parents or grandparents came here with nothing and now you live a pretty good life and your kids will live an even better life.
	That is the thing that they want and they don't think the government is the thing that helped their grandparents or parents do that or them do that.
	They think they did it or their parents did it or their grandparents did that.
	According to David Leonhardt, He says, if anything, Democrats' weakness among voters of color appears to have intensified since 2022.
	Among white voters, President Biden has about as much support as he did four years ago.
	Nate Cohn, the Times' chief political analyst, has pointed this out.
	But Biden's support among Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters has plummeted.
	As John Burns Murdoch, the chief data reporter at the Financial Times wrote last week, quote, I think this is simultaneously one of the most important social trends in the United States today and one of the most poorly understood.
	And that is right.
	That is right.
	It is one of the most poorly understood trends.
	And it's because Democrats have embraced the precise opposite of what many minority groups in America want.
	Upward mobility.
	Stability.
	Family-based conservatism.
	Meaning, leave my family alone and let me go to my church.
	These are things that most people who come to the United States want.
	And those are things that the Democrats are currently fighting against.
	And that is why Joe Biden is bleeding support, and it's true in every area of his campaign.
	Every area of his campaign, he continues to pander to the most radical members of his group.
	And I don't understand what his logic is, just on a political level.
	It's unbelievably stupid.
	And then he thinks that he's going to please people by doing performative politics.
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	So the latest example of performative politics from the Biden administration is that the Biden DOJ is now suing Apple.
	Now let me just tell you something about Apple.
	There are not that many people who hate Apple.
	There just aren't.
	About 70% of Americans own an iPhone.
	Most Americans are pretty happy with their iPhone.
	You know how you know, because they're paying more for their iPhone than they are paying for an Android.
	They like the iPhone because it is an extremely user-friendly product.
	They like Apple's products.
	Their computers, their AirPods, the iPads.
	They like all of those things because they're incredibly effective and user-friendly.
	So naturally, the Biden DOJ is now going after Apple.
	What is the constituency for this?
	Who are the people who are like, oh man, I'm so glad they're finally gonna make Apple less effective and break it up and make it work worse.
	What I really need is for the government to step in and break up Apple so that my iPhone doesn't work as well as it does right now.
	The entire argument, by the way, between Apple and, for example, Microsoft, is that Steve Jobs wanted Apple to build closed systems.
	Microsoft is an open system, meaning that Microsoft can be uploaded on Android, it can be used with a variety of technologies, and this was a big ideological debate between Steve Jobs, who wanted everything self-contained, so when you opened the phone, everything was kind of working within a system, and Bill Gates, who wanted everything to be much more open on an ideological level.
	And there are good arguments on both sides.
	But the idea that Apple presents an actual monopolistic problem in a market where they control maybe 60, 65% of the market, on a statistical level, it's absolutely not a monopoly.
	And when it comes to the idea that this is bad for consumers, you're gonna have to make the case that it's really, really bad for consumers when consumers continue to consume the product at extraordinarily high rates and be happy with the product.
	What this really is, is an attempt to gain headlines with the upper crust white liberals Who really hate Apple or something?
	I just don't know who's the constituency for this.
	It's bad as a matter of antitrust law, but how many people actually care about antitrust law?
	Does he think that blue-collar workers like, man, I'm so glad they're going to break up Apple now.
	Blue-collar workers aren't going to vote for Joe Biden because his DOJ is going after Apple.
	Here's Merrick Garland slamming Apple yesterday for some of the dumbest possible reasons.
	And, as any iPhone user who has ever seen a green text message or received a tiny, grainy video can attest, Apple's anti-competitive conduct also includes making it more difficult for iPhone users to message with users of non-Apple products.
	It does this by diminishing the functionality of its own messaging app and by diminishing the functionality of third-party messaging apps.
	By doing so, Apple knowingly and deliberately degrades quality, privacy, and security for its users.
	For example, if an iPhone user messages a non-iPhone user in Apple Messages, the text appears not only as a green bubble, but incorporates limited functionality.
	The conversation is not encrypted, videos are pixelated and grainy, and users cannot edit messages or see typing indicators.
	As a result, iPhone users perceive rival smartphones as being lower quality because the experience of messaging friends and family who do not own iPhones is worse.
	Wait, so you mean that Apple doesn't want to subsidize Android?
	That's what he's saying right there.
	He's saying Apple doesn't want to do cryptography for messages with Android.
	And if Android wants to upgrade its own abilities, then it should upgrade its own abilities.
	Is that a monopoly problem?
	Like who's the crowd for this?
	This is like the big headline.
	So what happened?
	Apple stock gets hit.
	You know how much Apple stock is being held by 401ks right now?
	By teacher pension funds?
	A lot.
	The answer is a lot.
	But these are the kind of... Joe Biden is just appealing to this very small cadre of people who are so in their own heads.
	And frankly, up their own colons, that they don't even know what the American people want anymore.
	It's truly an amazing thing.
	Apparently, Biden thinks that he's going to be able to escape the impact of his terrible presidency with cash.
	So Joe Biden right now has a monster cash advantage over Donald Trump in terms of the presidential race.
	According to Axios, his presidential campaign committee has $71 million on hand compared to Trump's $33.5 million.
	The DNC has $27 million on hand compared to the RNC's $11 million.
	And so that massive funding advantage he thinks is going to translate to victory.
	So I have a theory.
	I have a theory.
	The theory is that money is not going to matter all that much in this election.
	The reason I say that is because money is no longer a proxy for victory in elections.
	Money can help you, marginally, but it's not as though there's no name recognition for Donald Trump.
	If this were, for example, Joe Biden dumping hundreds of millions of dollars on, say, Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis, then you could say that the money might have an effect.
	But everyone knows what they think of Trump already, and everybody knows what they think of Biden already.
	The people in the middle are just gonna have to make a call, which is, was I better off in 2019?
	I'm skipping 2020 because it's nobody's fault what happens during a pandemic.
	It is your fault if you continue to blow out the money after the pandemic in 2021, but in any case, Were you better off in 2019 or are you better off in 2024?
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	Meanwhile, Joe Biden, like this snide kind of insanity where
	the stupidest legal case I've ever seen.
	Like there are a bunch of legal cases against Donald Trump.
	And I've been honest with you about which ones are stronger and which ones are weaker.
	By far the strongest case against Donald Trump is the classified documents case from Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
	That is the strongest case against Donald Trump.
	Now, is that a politically motivated case?
	Of course it's a politically motivated case.
	Joe Biden was keeping classified documents in his car, everywhere else for dozens of years.
	With that said, the case against Trump, legally speaking, is strongest there.
	But the single weakest case against Donald Trump is the civil fraud case brought by Letitia James against Donald Trump in the state of New York, where they are currently holding him up at gunpoint for almost $500 million.
	And the goal of this is to bankrupt Trump, and apparently to allow Joe Biden to talk about bankrupting Trump.
	Well, it looks to me as though you have an administration and its allies that are targeting the political opponent of that administration and trying to personally bankrupt him by charging him hundreds of millions of dollars in order to convict him civilly of something you couldn't do criminally.
	They couldn't charge him with criminal fraud because they couldn't meet the burden.
	So they went to civil fraud, which is a preponderance of the evidence standard.
	And then they fined him half a billion dollars based on loans that he took that he repaid Which is totally crazy.
	But you still have Joe Biden who's joking about Trump being in debt because of this.
	Does this look like a winning strategy to you?
	Because when Donald Trump says they are trying to stop me by using every means that they will throw the kitchen sink at me, he's not wrong.
	He happens to be right.
	And the more Joe Biden says stuff like this, the more sympathetic Trump becomes.
	And it's not just Joe Biden.
	It's all of his allies.
	You have Jimmy Kimmel joking about Donald Trump's wealth.
	Here is Jimmy Kimmel making fun of Donald Trump.
	Now, again, they're fining him half a billion dollars for not really doing anything to damage anyone.
	But Jimmy Kimmel is going to mock Trump now about that.
	The great white supremacist has until money to come up with.
	A $464 million bond or the state may seize and sell his property.
	Trump said nobody has ever heard of anything like this before.
	Trump needs cash and we never heard it and most of the crazy stuff you do before but I mean nobody ever heard of the president changing the weather with a sharpie before either.
	Something tells me over the weekend Trump's going to start talking about how strong Vladimir Putin is and then suddenly a dump truck full of rubles will pull up and cover this for him.
	But of course the real loser here is Melania.
	She may end up with half of the nothing he owns now.
	I hope she got an advance on that prenup because if you think she hates him now, wait until he's poor.
	I'm sorry, this is such obnoxious garbage.
	So first of all, the notion that Russia paid off Trump is so stupid and discredited, but there's still trafficking in this.
	Remember, Donald Trump is fake news and untrustworthy, but they will still have Jimmy Kimmel years later suggesting that Vladimir Putin paid off Donald Trump for some unspecified reason.
	Meanwhile, even CNN is admitting that a huge percentage of the Letitia James case is just bullcrap.
	So, for example, Trump had suggested a value on Mar-a-Lago, and Letitia James suggested that that value was inflated.
	What did she suggest the value of Mar-a-Lago was?
	She suggested the value of Mar-a-Lago was like $18 million.
	That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
	That's unbelievably stupid.
	Have you ever been to Mar-a-Lago?
	It's a giant hotel complex.
	It is not worth $18 million.
	That's absurd.
	$18 million in like a nice neighborhood of Florida.
	A nice, like a really nice neighborhood of Florida.
	$18 million will buy you maybe five houses.
	Not a giant ass complex like Mar-a-Lago.
	Here's CNN admitting as much.
	You need at least 30 days to get any of these properties sold.
	But the property that you alluded to, Mar-a-Lago, potentially, that could be something that could be sold quickly.
	I think the valuation is something in the hundreds of millions, and I think there could be a buyer for something like that.
	So, alright, now that's $240 million estimated.
	I mean, who knows?
	You know, he's a desperate seller.
	In this case, someone picks up the phone and makes that call this week.
	Okay, so again, it's just an absurdity.
	The entire case is an absurdity, but Democrats are jumping on it and they're reveling in it.
	So here's the thing, when you revel in the political targeting of your opponent, maybe it feels good, but it actually is not going to write down to your political benefit.
	It's not going to work well for you.
	All right, coming up, we'll get to the Republicans in the House who are trying to cram through another giant $1.2 trillion spending bill that contains just a grab bag of junk.
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	Now, speaking of the Biden administration being completely disconnected from the American people, again, when you're talking about upward mobility and the disconnection that the Biden administration has from regular Americans, it's not just, you know, kind of on an imagistic level, making fun of Trump and all that kind of stuff.
	They really do hate capitalism.
	A lot of the Democrats.
	This is why when Joe Biden always says, I don't hate capitalism.
	Make money again.
	Just pay your fair share.
	And then he falls over.
	When that happens, nobody believes him.
	And the reason no one believes him is because the left flank of his party does not actually like capitalism.
	Again, going back to the idea that Hispanic Americans particularly like upward mobility.
	And most Americans actually are a huge fan of upward mobility.
	This is why whenever anyone says that America is built on the middle class, no, America is built on the people who at some point in their lives are middle class and then spend the rest of their life trying to get out of the middle class and up to the upper middle class or the upper class.
	There is no such thing in the United States as a permanent middle class.
	That is not a thing.
	The people who constitute the middle class...
	Very often that is a transitory state.
	I was middle class for a large portion of my life, and then I wasn't middle class anymore.
	And that's what everyone is trying to do.
	This is why even when Republicans talk about, you know, there's the lower class and the middle class and the upper class, that is not a class.
	When people talk about American classes the same way they talk about like the British class system from the 18th century, not the same thing.
	There are no Lords or Lairds here.
	That is not a thing.
	Many of the people who are the richest people you know started off as very, very not rich people.
	Including, for example, Elon Musk, who started off dirt poor in the United States.
	No, he was not the scion of an emerald mine.
	Read his biography or talk to him.
	But the Democrats seem to believe this sort of crap, and that's not a particularly nice vision of the American dream that they are selling.
	So, for example, yesterday, the Squad held a press conference talking about how the government should spend more money on housing.
	You know we have a housing affordability crisis, which means, presumably, that the government should step in to make everything more affordable.
	Because if there's one thing that we know about the government, it's that it makes things more affordable.
	Oh wait, that's precisely the opposite of every single good or service the government has ever gotten involved in.
	Every single good or service that the government has ever gotten seriously involved in, in terms of subsidization, for example, has gotten wildly more expensive over the years, whether you're talking about education or healthcare.
	But here's Jamal Bowman, A man so stupid he can't tell the difference between a fire alarm and a door opening device.
	Suggesting that if you pay more than 20% of your salary in rent that you are a member of the plantation capitalism class.
	But how many people aren't so lucky and aren't so fortunate and have been left behind by our elected officials for far too long?
	Too many!
	And that's why we have this unhoused crisis all over this country.
	It is plantation capitalism to have someone paying 40, 50, 60% of their salary towards rent.
	That is plantation capitalism.
	Rent should be capped at 20% of someone's salary.
	That's where we need to take it.
	And AOC's standing there like the dolt that she is, just smiling at, yeah, we should cap it at 20%.
	Okay, you got any, how?
	How?
	You'd have to put rental caps on the amount of money people can charge, which means no one will build a building ever again.
	Or you're going to have to inflate the currency, which will temporarily increase the amount of pay vis-a-vis rent, and then rent will increase.
	That's pretty much all you got.
	When you say that you're going to build affordable housing from the government, for example, those turn into the housing projects that are complete crap and garbage that end up having to be torn down.
	It's just, it's ridiculous.
	But AOC says we need a Green New Deal for public housing.
	A Green New Deal.
	Yeah, that's what we need.
	We need another... God.
	The use of the term New Deal to mean anything that you think that it should mean, despite the fact the New Deal was one of the least effective programs in American history?
	And probably lengthened the Great Depression by solidly eight years, according to UCLA economists.
	Here is AOC promoting... Her Green New Deal was so successful, she's now ready to do an Affordable Housing New Deal.
	This new deal for public housing would immediately replenish the multi-billion dollar backlog for public housing repairs.
	It would repeal the Fair Cloth Amendment.
	It would invest up to $234 billion over 10 years to preserve, upgrade, and expand our public housing stock.
	It would bring public housing down to zero carbon emissions while creating 280,000 jobs in America.
	80,000 jobs in America. It would end the era of government neglect,
	demolition and privatization of our public housing.
	Bye-bye.
	.
	Just... Absurd people.
	Absurd people.
	The pathway to the American dream is not the government building you affordable housing.
	It is not.
	You know who had affordable housing built by the government?
	The Soviets.
	It didn't work out amazing.
	It's always funny to me when people are like, why can't we have architecture like the Russians do?
	Walk outside of central Moscow and you will see why.
	Brutalism is like the dominant theme in architecture in Russia for a reason.
	Meanwhile, the Republicans are now infighting over the latest giant budget buster that they're going to pass, presumably.
	As I said, when Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker of the House, the problem is not the leadership of the House Republican Caucus.
	The problem is you have a tiny, tiny majority, and a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic President, and it didn't switch any of the incentive structures to simply swap out McCarthy for Mike Johnson.
	I like Mike Johnson.
	I think Mike Johnson is a great guy.
	I don't understand why everyone thought this was going to magically solve the problem.
	As Thomas Sowell has said repeatedly, as he says in his book, Knowledge and Decisions, it's the incentive structures that make the decision happen.
	It's not switching out the individuals in the vast majority of circumstances.
	Well, currently, according to Politico, Speaker Johnson is plowing forward with his plan to fund the government at a cost.
	House conservatives have renewed their threats that any action against the Louisiana Republican are now on the table, incensed over the latest spending deal that Johnson reached with Democrats, and how quickly he's pushing the legislation to the floor.
	And this is what happens.
	When you can't come to consensus within your own caucus, you end up at 2.30 in the morning dropping 1,200-page bills.
	He's got a fractious caucus with a tiny majority, and he understands that a government shutdown is going to be very bad for, for example, Donald Trump's re-elect prospects, which is why Trump has really not said very much about this minibus, as they're calling it, bill.
	In the past, Representative Ralph Norman, according to Politico, had broadly defended Johnson and dismissed talk of taking direct action against him, such as calling a vote to remove him from the speakership.
	After leadership released legislative text for the massive spending bill in the middle of the night, Norman fired a direct warning shot.
	He said, we'll just see.
	I like Mike as a person.
	He's honest.
	I just don't know if it's in his DNA to fight.
	This is just sad.
	So the reality is that, again, it's a bad bill and all these bills are going to remain bad until Republicans actually have control of the Senate and the presidency.
	And then maybe the bills will get slightly better if passed is any indicator.
	Because when Trump was president and Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, they also passed giant spending bills.
	So what exactly is in this bill?
	Well, an enormous amount of pork.
	A huge amount of pork.
	So Chip Roy, who's the most consistently conservative person in terms of spending in the House of Representatives, he was ripping on the bill.
	He basically said any Republican who votes for this should be ashamed.
	If you care about the border, you're getting nothing here.
	It is completely false to say that we're getting anything here that will help, and in fact, what we're going to get is more money to process more people, which means you're going to get more people at the border.
	Nothing is going to stop the flow of the border in this bill, so we're funding open borders, we're funding the mass releases of people in violation of the law, using parole, the same laws that were violated to release the individual who came in and killed Lake and Riley.
	I can't do that.
	No Republican should.
	Any Republican who votes for this bill should be ashamed of themselves.
	Okay, well, he is not wrong that in a vacuum, that is true.
	Now, Republicans are not getting much out of this bill.
	This is the biggest problem, is that, let's be real about this.
	Of the $1.2 trillion that will be spent to fund the government, the vast, vast, vast majority is not on all the earmarked projects you're gonna hear about.
	And many of those earmarked projects are indeed garbage.
	You're talking about like hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups that push trans propaganda, or you're talking about millions of dollars, literally millions of dollars, to groups that facilitate illegal immigration at the southern border.
	All of that is crap and it should be stripped out, and Republicans should make it an issue to strip that stuff out, politically speaking.
	They should.
	They should say, we're not going to pass this with this provision in it.
	We're just stripping it out.
	But the real debt drivers are not this.
	The real debt drivers are all the massive income transfers that amount to Social Security, Medicare, welfare programs.
	All of that stuff is the stuff that is currently driving the amount of spending in these bills.
	And until there's a fundamental restructuring of how spending is done in the United States, everything is going to be cutting around the margins.
	And this is why Mike Johnson is saying defunding the government is not going to fix the problem.
	It's not as though the spending is going to go to a level that is actually appropriate.
	Now, what that means is that if Republicans promise that when they get into office, they're going to bring this under control, they actually have to do it.
	And you can talk about the power of the purse all you want, but when you have a five-seat majority in the House of Representatives and a very high possibility that you lose the House of Representatives and Democrats then get to spend as much as they want, Is that what you want in a contentious election year?
	That is the big question.
	Well, meanwhile, the Biden administration in a very bizarre attempt to, again, gain back these radical voters.
	There are just not enough of these voters to make the difference up between loss and victory in states like Michigan.
	Brand new poll from CNN shows Donald Trump up in Michigan by 8.8.
	That is not because of our voters in Michigan.
	That is because blue collar workers in Michigan hate Joe Biden and think he's a bad president.
	That's the reason.
	But Joe Biden thinks that he is going to appeal to Michiganders who presumably hate the state of Israel.
	Maybe some people like the like the devotees of this Michigan imam who suggested in a recent speech that Muslims will slaughter Jews like sheep.
	This is not in the Gaza Strip.
	This is in Michigan.
	One Jewish man in New York was talking to a businessman, a Palestinian.
	Palestinian said, don't worry!
	Don't worry, Jewish man.
	One day we'll come.
	We will slaughter you like a sheep.
	And the stone and the tree will work with us like an undercover.
	To tell us, hey, Muslim, come.
	Somebody is hiding here.
	Come kill me.
	Okay, by the way, this sentiment, unfortunately, is not supremely uncommon, even in the United States.
	Brand new poll out from Pew Research Center, asking about whether Israel and Hamas have valid reasons for fighting.
	49% of American Muslims, a broad plurality, believe that Hamas' reasons for fighting Israel are valid.
	That's insane.
	Only 18% believe that Israel's reasons for fighting Hamas are valid.
	Again, if that's the population that you want to appeal to and you think that's going to win you Michigan, good luck to you.
	You're toast at that point, honestly.
	If Joe Biden thinks that somehow creating daylight between the United States and Israel is going to win him Michigan, good luck.
	It's a really, really dumb strategy.
	But this is now the new kind of phraseology of the Biden administration, apparently.
	Sherrod Brown, who's running for re-election in Ohio, he's pushing moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas.
	He was caught on mic doing this.
	I would be remiss.
	A lot of conversation on TikTok is talking about Palestine and Gaza.
	So I know you guys have to go, but do you support a ceasefire in Gaza?
	I think what Schumer did, what Biden's... I would answer that question for weeks, no, only because I don't trust that either Hamas or, frankly, Netanyahu would live up to that ceasefire.
	It's got to lead to a two-state solution.
	Okay, so, again, Democrats are trying to create a moral equivalence right now, presumably in the hope that they're going to win some of these states.
	Well, if you decide that you're going to cater to, like, Representative Al Green from Texas, It's not going to save you.
	Here's Representative Al Green, Democrat, talking about how, you know, Palestinians never consented to Israel becoming a state.
	Yes, that's the entire problem.
	If they would consent to Israel becoming a state, then there wouldn't be no war.
	It would all be over over there.
	But here he is basically taking the totally Israel doesn't deserve to exist position because the Palestinians never consented to Israel becoming a state.
	By the way, the opposition to a Palestinian state is not just by Israel in the moment.
	Israel has tried to make attempts since Oslo to establish a Palestinian state.
	They have no peace partner.
	Jordan does not want a Palestinian state under the PA.
	Egypt does not want a Palestinian state under Hamas.
	How do we know?
	Because Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip in 1948-67.
	Zero Palestinian states founded during that time.
	Same thing in the West Bank.
	Jordan controlled it.
	From 48 states, zero Palestinian states.
	In fact, the time that they tried to establish a Palestinian state in Jordan, which is 70% Palestinian, the Hashemite dynasty killed thousands of Palestinians and expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians.
	In any case, here's Representative Al Green being the doofus that he is.
	This letter goes to the President because I wanted to just remind him of something that I'm sure he's acutely aware of.
	And that is that 14th of May 1948, Israel declared itself a state.
	And President Truman, who was the President of the United States at that time, was the first major world power or country to recognize Israel as such.
	And that has created an imbalance.
	I'm hoping that we will understand that at that time the Palestinians did not consent to Israel becoming a state.
	In fact, they were vehemently opposed.
	I don't think that now we need to have Israel's consent to have Palestine become a state.
	I think that Palestine declares itself a state.
	I think if we would recognize it, I think that would help us to move this process along.
	Okay, it will do precisely the opposite, because when you reward terrorism, especially from people who don't want the entire state of Israel to exist, giving them a state then uses that as a launch... Israel literally tried this strategy with Gaza.
	They tried it.
	And you know what happened?
	October 7th.
	But again, the Biden administration seems to believe that if they push to the left, if they push to the anti-Israel left, they're going to win Michigan.
	Ain't gonna happen.
	You ain't making up an eight-point deficit with a few thousand voters in Dearborn, Michigan.
	It's just not going to happen.
	All right, coming up, we'll get into the latest controversy engulfing Nickelodeon, which for years basically looked the other way at some pretty dicey behavior with regard to kids on set.
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