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May 24, 2024 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Joe Biden Doesn’t Give A S*** About You

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	Joe Biden's campaign strategy in 2024 is really puzzling.
	He has not been running to the middle.
	He has not been trying to unite the country.
	Joe Biden's campaign strategy is apparently now completely banking on people believing that Joe Biden is a sympathetic elderly man who cares about people like you.
	It's a weird strategy, but you have to understand why Joe Biden is employing it.
	And to understand that, you have to understand the changing nature of the way that Americans view the candidates in this election and the way that the American people view the two political parties.
	So basically, when it comes to presidential elections since 2008, there basically have been three types of elections.
	There have been unity elections.
	Elections where the referendum was really about unity.
	Are we going to come together as a country?
	What's the kind of person who can unify us?
	Revolution elections, where it was, let's overturn what has previously been.
	And let's completely revamp the system.
	And cares about me elections.
	Elections in which it is the level of how much compassion the candidate supposedly has for you that is going to decide the election.
	So, as examples of these three types, unity elections would be like 2008.
	So Barack Obama campaigns as, I am the great uniform.
	I, I'm not black, I'm not white.
	There's no red America.
	There's no blue America.
	There's just America.
	And that was a unity election.
	We would all come together.
	We would end our racial conflagrations by electing a half-black president who in his very personage embodied the American dream.
	That was the 2008 election.
	And then weirdly enough, that was also the 2020 election.
	The 2020 election took place in the middle of massive riots, in the middle of huge controversy about COVID.
	And so the question was, for the American people, who can bring us together?
	Who can restore some sense of calm, tranquility, social fabric?
	And people opted for Joe Biden in that election, mainly because Donald Trump seemed to be incredibly volatile.
	So 2008 and 2020 were about calm and unity.
	That's not what emerged from them.
	That's what the American people were thinking in 2008 and 2020.
	A revolution election is like 2016, where the American people are just deeply unhappy with the way that the country is going, and so they want a revolution.
	And the revolution was Donald Trump.
	And then you have the cares-about-me election.
	The cares-about-me election, there really have not been that many of these in American history, where it was the candidate who was perceived as most caring who won.
	This was the campaign that Barack Obama ran in 2012.
	Now, the flip side of that is that Barack Obama really did not care about people who opposed him.
	Those people were bad.
	But he believed that he had a coalition of people who had great, personal, emotional connection with him, and he would drive to victory on that basis.
	So if you're Joe Biden, what kind of election do you want 2024 to be?
	Now, it's very difficult for Joe Biden to run on unity because he has not unified the country.
	He's now been precedent.
	It was easy for him to run on a unity platform in 2020, when he was basically a doddering elderly man, and in this corner was Orange Hulk, who was just running around shouting and doing things.
	But what happens when Joe Biden has been president for three years and not only is the country not unified, things are way worse than when he took over on pretty much every metric.
	He can't run a unity election.
	He also can't run a revolution election.
	He's not Bernie Sanders.
	He was elected to be a moderate.
	And not only that, how do you run a revolution election against yourself?
	Revolution elections are typically won by the non-incumbent party because you have to be overturning something.
	And so that leaves Joe Biden with one kind of election and one kind of election only that he can run.
	And that is a compassionate election.
	An election about who cares more about people like you.
	And you can see this in Joe Biden's tactics over the last few weeks.
	Pretty much everything that Joe Biden has done is geared toward this particular line, that he cares about people like you.
	And I'll show you the evidence of that in a moment, but I first want to explain why this is a failing strategy for Joe Biden.
	So again, to understand that, you have to understand the nature of the past few American elections.
	So if you look, for example, at the 2012 election, this is the election that Joe Biden clearly wants to copy.
	You had an incumbent president, Who won by a large number of votes in 2008, Barack Obama, and then in 2012, he won re-election despite losing 5 million votes in the popular vote.
	And the question is how he won.
	It wasn't on the basis of his policy.
	His policies were incredibly unpopular, actually, at the time.
	It turns out that by all of the available exit polling, Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney in 2012 on one metric and one metric alone.
	Who cares more about people like you?
	This is from the ABC News exit polling in 2012.
	Notably, across three of the four most important candidate qualities offered to voters, Romney won.
	By 13 percentage points among voters who prioritized a candidate who shares my values.
	By 23 points among those focused on a strong leader.
	By 9 points among those who cared most about the candidate with a vision for the future.
	But the one attribute that Obama won, the candidate who cares about people like me, he beat Romney, not by 9 or 13 or 23 points, but by a whopping 63 points.
	That is why Barack Obama won the election in 2012.
	It is because Mitt Romney was perceived as a stiff.
	He was perceived as a Wall Street, Bain Capital, hoity-toity white guy who didn't believe in the middle class, who didn't understand blue-collar people, and all of the rest.
	And so Barack Obama won on that metric by 63 points.
	And he was able to drag himself over the finish line because of that.
	So 2012 was a cares-about-people-like-me election.
	Then you had 2016.
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	2016 was a revolution election.
	How can you tell?
	Because the exit polling from Washington Post in 2016 described candidate qualities.
	The difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
	On three out of four qualities, Donald Trump lost.
	And on one, he kicked her ass.
	On three of the qualities that he lost, has the right experience.
	Hillary, 90 to 7.
	Has good judgment.
	Hillary, 65 to 25.
	Cares about people like me.
	57 to 34.
	What is the one quality where Donald Trump skunked Hillary Clinton in 2016, leading him to victory?
	Can bring needed change.
	82 to 14.
	That was a revolution election.
	People did not like what they had seen over the course of eight years from Barack Obama, and they wanted a change.
	And Donald Trump was the change candidate.
	Move forward to 2020.
	Now you look at those same candidate qualities, and what you see is an interesting split.
	So there are two qualities where Trump actually beats Biden, and then there are two qualities where Biden beats Trump.
	The qualities where Biden beat Trump in 2020 were can unite the country, 75 to 24, and has good judgment, 68 to 26.
	Donald Trump won on two categories.
	Is a strong leader, 72-28, and cares about people like me, believe it or not, 52-49.
	Now that is a sea change for the Republican Party.
	The thing that Donald Trump has done better than any Republican candidate in living memory.
	is he has made a significant slice of the electorate believe that he cares about people like them.
	And here I'm speaking predominantly of blue-collar white Americans.
	A huge percentage of the electorate believes the Democratic Party has abandoned them, and Donald Trump makes them feel connected to him.
	And that is because he connects with them on an emotional level.
	If you watch Donald Trump actually do events, he is connecting with people on a one-to-one level, and also he speaks the language that they speak.
	It's been said for almost a dozen years at this point, but Donald Trump speaks like your uncle at the bar.
	And that connects with people in a way that certainly Mitt Romney could not.
	In 2020, that wasn't enough.
	Because again, there was so much chaos that the American people believed that the qualities of a can unite the country and has good judgment were more important than is a strong leader and cares about people like me.
	So the question becomes, what about 2024?
	Well, now Joe Biden has no choice because even the qualities where he was leading Donald Trump, he is now losing.
	Again, go back to those four qualities.
	Can unite the country, is a strong leader, cares about people like me and has good judgment.
	Joe Biden has failed signally in the two categories that he was winning.
	Can unite the country and has good judgment.
	He is getting skunked in those categories, or at least he has fallen off dramatically in those categories.
	So if you look at a Gallup poll, April 2024, again on qualities that you want in a president, there were five qualities that were polled.
	Can effectively manage the government.
	Trump, 49-39.
	Displays good judgment in a crisis.
	Trump, 45-40.
	Now look at that swivel.
	Look at that swivel.
	The exit polling in 2020 from CNN had Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the category of has good judgment, 68-26.
	That is, for those counting at home, a 42-point advantage on the question.
	According to Gallup, displays good judgment in a crisis, Trump is now leading 45 to 40.
	That is a 47-point swing in favor of Donald Trump because Joe Biden is such a crappy president.
	is a strong and decisive leader.
	Trump, 57 to 38.
	He's led that consistently.
	Cares about the needs of people like you.
	Even according to Gallup, April 2024, Joe Biden leads, but only very slightly, 48 to 42.
	That's the only quality where he leads.
	The other quality of is likable, 57, 37, but that's not really important in an election anymore because Joe Biden isn't particularly likable.
	It's just that nobody likes either of these guys in terms of like, they're a likable human being.
	Because Donald Trump has closed the gap on the cares about people like me argument, and because Joe Biden has failed so signally on every other aspect of the presidenting, Joe Biden has a serious, serious problem here.
	Morning Consult did a fascinating study of shifts in perceptions of the two political parties on questions of cares about people like me from 2016 to 2023, which is the Trump era.
	In 2016, 43% of Americans believed that the Democratic Party cares about people like me.
	By 2023, that number was 41%.
	So they basically were stagnant or a little down.
	On the question of whether the Democratic Party cares about middle-class Americans, in 2016, 47% of Americans said the Democratic Party cares about people in the middle class.
	That number is now 46%.
	So the Democratic Party is stagnant.
	Now look at the action on the Republican side of the aisle on this one.
	Republican Party cares about people like me in 2016.
	Only 30% of Americans said yes.
	Only 30% of Americans said yes.
	In 2023, that number was 39%.
	39%.
	So that went from a 13 point gap on Democratic party cares about people like me
	versus Republican party to a two point gap on which party cares about people like me.
	you That is all Donald Trump.
	That is a Donald Trump move.
	Okay, now, as to the question of caring about middle-class Americans, in 2016, the Republican Party, only 33% of Americans said the Republican Party cared about middle-class Americans.
	By 2023, that number was now 42%.
	What that means is that a 14-point gap in favor of the Democrats shifted to a 4-point gap in favor of the Democrats.
	This is why you have a systemic problem for Joe Biden.
	It does not seem curable.
	And he has to rely, in the end, on the cares-about-me election.
	Because it can't be a revolution election.
	It can't be a unity election.
	He's not unified the country.
	His leadership is awful.
	His policies are bad.
	The big problem for him is how do you convince people that an 80-year-old senile man who stumbles into walls, yells at people on a regular basis, is crotchety and nasty to people around him?
	How do you convince people that that guy cares about people like them?
	This is inherently the massive problem that the Biden campaign has.
	I mean, start with the fact that his age actually does play into this.
	His age does play into this.
	The reason that his age plays into this is because, again, when you think of sympathetic people, people who care about people like you, you tend not to think of people in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
	Does anyone look at Joe Biden and think he cares about people like me?
	Even when Joe Biden is trying to do the routine that he was much better at 20 years ago, the hand-holding, the sympath- I mean, how much of media coverage about Joe Biden has been, well, this is a man who knows what it's like to suffer.
	And he's suffered just like you've suffered.
	But the problem is that how many times can you drag out Beau Biden's story in the wrong context before you stop looking sympathetic and you start looking manipulative?
	And that's Joe Biden.
	Joe Biden's constant state of confusion makes it impossible for people to believe that he is a deeply sympathetic person to their concerns and needs, capable of carrying out the work they want done on their behalf.
	That's why every clip of Joe Biden looking confused is terrible for him.
	And here he was yesterday, looking extremely confused.
	Okay, next.
	Do I ask the next question as well?
	What was my question?
	Sir, your question was Haiti.
	Can the United States and Kenya or the nations collectively break the backs of this coordinated militia that has the grips of the nation?
	Yes.
	He doesn't even know, like he looks what's going on because he doesn't know what is going on.
	In fact, he knows so little of what's going on that even Jill Biden, who is his designated
	caretaker leading him from place to place, even she is getting impatient with having
	to try to figure out where to lead the old man.
	Where I go.
	I don't know.
	And there's Jill.
	She's like trying to pat him.
	Come on, Joe, let's go.
	And then he's still like standing out there, pointing at things, not knowing exactly.
	She's like, I don't know where you're pointing.
	She's like, Joe, let's go.
	What?
	Joe?
	Joe, are you with me?
	Joe?
	Bye.
	You know what?
	I've had it.
	Goodbye.
	You know what?
	Bye.
	Joe Biden is not capable of winning a cares about me election.
	He is not.
	But he's going to try.
	He's going to try.
	And that is why you have seen, as I say, in the past few weeks, a shift toward this sort of language from Joe Biden.
	We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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	So I played this clip yesterday, but I want to play it again in this context.
	Joe Biden, he is trying to make it seem as though he cares about people like, for example, Jews.
	That's a very difficult uphill climb for Joe Biden, considering that he has been basically hamstringing Israel in its attempts to extirpate a terrorist group that is currently holding American hostages while simultaneously giving massages to full-on anti-Semites in his own caucus.
	So what does he do?
	He finds a dumb Ridiculous issue where literally a generic AI program put together a Trump ad and that included some headlines in sort of stock footage that make a bizarre, vague reference to a unified Reich.
	And then he pretends that Donald Trump like literally sat there and found a newspaper that made a reference to the Nazis so that he could pump it out there.
	But it's the final message here that Joe Biden keeps saying, and it's not, it's not going to work.
	What's next for America?
	Is this on his official account?
	Wow.
	A unified Reich?
	That's Hitler's language.
	That's not America's.
	He cares about holding on to power.
	I care about you.
	I care about you.
	Okay, here's the thing.
	When you read off a teleprompter... Reminder, I care about you.
	It doesn't work.
	But that's the language that Joe Biden continues to use.
	So this came up yesterday in the context of the border.
	So yesterday, with regard to the border, Joe Biden, his party, tried to push forward again in the Senate another piece of quote-unquote border security legislation.
	Now that piece of border security legislation is the same piece that Republicans rejected a few months ago because, as it turns out, there were significant problems with the actual legislation.
	It seemed to embody in law many of the Many of the softer-on-illegal immigration policies of the Biden administration were released to give leeway there.
	And because the Republicans have said, listen, if you want to shut the border, you got the power to do it, like, right now.
	Joe Biden had the Senate Democrats put that up there because he wants to try to wrong-foot Republicans on immigration.
	What was his line though?
	Right?
	They don't care.
	Republicans do not care about securing the border or fixing America's broken immigration system.
	I care.
	If they did, they would have voted for the toughest border enforcement in history.
	Instead, today, they put partisan politics ahead of our country's national security.
	They don't care. I care. The problem is that nobody believes that.
	Now, the Democratic Party has always attempted to play this game where they suggest that policies, Democratic policies themselves are evidence of caring.
	That stealing Joe's money and giving it to Bob, that is evidence that I care deeply.
	That restricting business in how it's operated, that that is an element of
	sympathy and decency.
	And nationalizing health care shows you're a good person, that it speaks to who you are
	as a human, you're more compassionate.
	Nevermind, it doesn't work very well.
	It shows that you're a compassionate human being.
	The problem is that Joe Biden can't even put the smiley face on the jackboot of these particular
	policies.
	He can't even do that.
	So while Joe Biden is saying that Donald Trump and the Republicans don't care about border
	security, his administration is going out there simultaneously claiming in the face
	of all available evidence that their policies are working.
	But we know they're not.
	How do you claim that you care about the border issue when you clearly don't care about it and your team clearly is lying about it?
	Here was Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, suggesting that America's border policies are working.
	Do you believe that ending these agreements has yielded a net positive result as it relates to U.S.
	interests?
	Well, I think we are seeing positive, necessary, but still insufficient results.
	We've seen, for example, as a result of the work that we were doing with Mexico, encounters decreased significantly from where they were in December by a cut by about half.
	The different things that we're putting into play.
	I'm sorry to interrupt on that, but December was the record-breaking all-time high.
	Yeah, I'm talking about... No, I agree with you.
	So to do better than that is... I wouldn't call that the bar of success.
	Well, of course, there's a bill before Congress right now.
	Again, a bill that unfortunately wasn't passed a few months ago that I believe is back before Congress.
	That would, we believe, that the President strongly supports, would make a very meaningful difference in dealing with the challenges at our border, and hopefully it will pass.
	But nobody believes that you guys care about this stuff.
	So you're saying Republicans don't care, but you clearly don't care.
	You clearly don't.
	Here's footage of Bill Malugan of Fox.
	He does an amazing job over at Fox News.
	Encountering people at the border from a variety of nationalities.
	This is under Joe Biden.
	Where are you guys from?
	What country?
	Pakistan.
	Pakistan.
	India.
	India.
	Turkey.
	Turkey?
	Yeah.
	Turkey.
	Okay.
	India.
	India.
	Where are you guys from?
	Turkey.
	Turkey.
	Turkey?
	Where are you guys from?
	China.
	China.
	Ecuador.
	Ecuador?
	Where are you guys from?
	India.
	Sagarbaba.
	India.
	Iran.
	Iran.
	Why'd you come?
	No freedom.
	No freedom?
	Yes, in Iran.
	Iran is dangerous country.
	No freedom for speak, for writing, for singing, for thinking.
	No one believes Democrats are taking this seriously because they very clearly are not.
	In fact, yesterday, there was a bill that was brought up in the House of Representatives to repeal a Washington, D.C.
	law that would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections.
	A majority of Democrats voted to allow noncitizens to vote in Washington, D.C.
	elections.
	And then you expect the American people to believe that you guys care deeply about illegal immigration?
	You literally are trying to give them the vote in Washington, D.C.
	That's crazy.
	And the same thing holds true on the economy.
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	So Joe Biden and company, they keep claiming that they are sympathetic to the American people on the economy.
	And then they keep saying to the American people that the American people have it wrong and they're stupid.
	They don't understand just how good they have it.
	That doesn't seem like a very sympathetic and caring perspective.
	And when you combine that non-sympathy with crappy policy, it turns out people don't like it very much.
	In fact, according to Axios, the share of US adults who say they are doing at least okay financially
	has been in a state of steep decline if you are a parent living with children
	under the age of 18 in the United States.
	If you don't have kids, then basically 75% of you think that you're doing okay.
	If you do have kids under the age of 18, it has dropped dramatically.
	It is down 11 points from 2021.
	In 2021, there are 75% of parents with kids under age of 18
	who said they were doing okay financially.
	That is down to 64%.
	And it's down to 64% because of Joe Biden's policies.
	In fact, more than half of Americans now think the United States is in a recession.
	So the Democratic Party policy has been to tell them that they're wrong.
	And they've just got it wrong.
	A new poll conducted by Harris for The Guardian shows .
	That 70% of Americans say cost of living is their biggest economic concern, followed by inflation at 68%.
	Two-thirds of Americans, including 65% of Democrats, report it's difficult to be happy about positive economic news when they feel financially squeezed each month.
	55% of Americans believe the U.S.
	economy is shrinking this year rather than growing, and they say, well, that's not true.
	But here's the thing.
	If your wage stagnated versus the prices that you are paying, for you, it is a recession.
	It doesn't matter what the GDP stat says.
	If you are earning less money against what you are paying every month in bills, it feels like a recession to you.
	And so the Democrats can't run this as a cares election.
	First of all, who cares more is not really on the table because neither party has a monopoly on this issue.
	The vast majority of Americans do not believe that either Trump or Biden care deeply about them.
	So it's not gonna be a referendum on that issue.
	But number two, how do you claim that you are the party of caring When the vast majority of Americans are not happy with the situation and your strategy is to run out people to appeal to your radical base.
	In the middle of all of this, the Democratic Party continues to double and triple down on all of the measures that make things more expensive.
	So John Kerry, who until five seconds ago was the climate envoy for the Biden administration, he continues to push this idea that we're going to transition away from fossil fuels.
	Yet tell it to the guy who can't afford the electric car, which is nearly all Americans.
	Here is John Kerry saying that we have to transition from fossil fuels.
	And this was his message when he was working for Joe Biden.
	So you can make the argument, okay, we've made a lot of progress between now and when we did Paris.
	And with Dubai, we have made it crystal clear what the mandate is.
	Dubai said, almost 200 nations, we have to transition away from fossil fuel So as to achieve net zero 2050, accelerating in this decade in a way that is fair and orderly and equitable according to the science.
	Again, if that is your pitch to the American people, good luck to you.
	And it's also very difficult to look like you care about the American people when you keep catering to the nut jobs.
	This administration and its allies continue to cater to the nutjobs.
	These campus protesters are not popular with Americans.
	They are spoiled brats or radical Islamists or both.
	And everybody knows it.
	And yet the Biden administration keeps treating them with kid gloves.
	So yesterday, a bunch of university presidents were called to the Hill to talk about anti-Semitism on campus because there are students who are Jewish, who have been harassed, who have been barred from walking across particular areas of campus, for example.
	And these university presidents continued to make excuses for their inability or unwillingness to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act with regard to Jews, perfectly willing to enforce it against white people.
	On behalf of minorities, not willing to enforce it against minorities on behalf of Jews.
	Again, I have serious problems with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
	I think it's quite violative of First Amendment freedoms.
	With that said, it is the law and Democrats on campus only apply it in one direction.
	These students at higher institutions of higher education, which are churning out good little left-wing apparatchiks, they continue to be a joke.
	Yesterday at Harvard, a bunch of students walked out Of their own graduation.
	Why?
	Because, as it turns out, Harvard had basically prevented people who violated the law from graduating.
	They then proceeded, by the way, to host a bunch of speakers who said wildly antisemitic things, but that's what it was.
	So here were a bunch of these spoiled brat students paying 80 grand a year walking out of their graduation.
	And they're chanting, let them walk, let them walk.
	Let them walk!
	After violating the law.
	So that's how it was at Harvard.
	Meanwhile, over at UCLA, my alma mater, both of these places are my alma mater, actually, so I have a lot of experience on these particular campuses.
	Over at UCLA, pro-cum-mas protesters took over Dodd Hall, and they were shoving reporters down the stairs.
	Here's what that looked like.
	Stop touching my stuff!
	Stop pushing me down the stairs!
	I'm calling people a neo-nazi for opposing them.
	Stop pushing me. Stop pushing me. Stop pushing me. Stop.
	We are not evil! We are not evil!
	And to spoil brat radicals, we'll get to more on this in just one moment.
	First, I just got off a flight that landed at 12 a.m.
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	Meanwhile, UCLA faculty member, people who are being paid by the American taxpayer, particularly in California, they are whining about the lack of food and water at the encampment that they set up themselves.
	Because they're a joke.
	Part of their justification is that it is a so-called illegal or unpermitted... What's the adjective?
	Unlawful It's an unlawful assembly Apparently Michael Beck came and delivered that message earlier But here's the thing Even if this is unlawful, which I of course don't think it is and that will be adjudicated legally you cannot deny people food and water in an effort to get them to do something against their will because they say, oh, they're free to leave if they're hungry You cannot use a mechanism of torture to make people do something against their will.
	So student affairs seems to be trying to communicate about this, but if we could start getting this out on social media and maybe like reaching, you know, I assume that it is all kinds of legal violations.
	Look at these morons.
	Hey, this lady's name, this idiot's name, she's an associate professor of anthropology.
	It's a professional useless person.
	Associate Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA, her name is Hannah Appel, and she complains that Student Affairs is torturing protesters because they won't ship in food and water to the protesters.
	You think the American people like this sort of stuff?
	You think this is what the American people like?
	They don't.
	Especially because it has some pretty widespread ramifications for the nation as a whole.
	This entire philosophy of radical DEI crap is something Americans do not like.
	In a groundbreaking piece from Aaron Siberian over at The Free Beacon, he points out how UCLA Medical School, which is my wife's alma mater actually, is now churning out so-called doctors who do not pass basic skills tests because of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	Siberian says, long considered one of the best medical schools in the world, UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine receives as many as 14,000 applications in a year.
	Of those, it accepted just 173 students in the 2023 admissions cycle.
	The median matriculant took difficult science courses in college, earned a 3.8 GPA, and scored in the 88th percentile on the MCAT.
	So when it came time for the admissions committee to consider one such student in November 2021, a black applicant with grades and test scores far below the UCLA average, some members of the committee felt this particular candidate, based on the available evidence, was not the best fit for a top-tier medical school.
	Their reservations were not well received.
	When an admission officer voiced concerns about the candidate, the dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero, exploded in anger, quote, Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than anyone else?
	The candidate scores shouldn't matter, she said, because, quote, we need people like this in the medical school.
	Now, here is the problem.
	This has now turned UCLA into, quote, a failed medical school, according to one former member of the admissions staff.
	We want racial diversity so badly, we're willing to cut corners to get it.
	Within three years of Lucero's hiring in 2020, UCLA dropped from sixth to 18th place in U.S.
	News & World Report's rankings for medical research.
	In some of the cohorts she admitted, more than 50% of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.
	Those are shelf exams taken at the end of each clinical rotation.
	Though only 5% of students fail each test nationally, the rates are super high at UCLA.
	They've increased tenfold since 2020.
	So left-wing ideology is creating fake doctors who you would never want to go to.
	This is what the left has decided to cater to, and then they say they care about people like you.
	Explain.
	Gonna need some explainers on that one.
	Meanwhile, as far as the radical student protesters, people like Ilhan Omar, again, a treasured member of the Democratic Caucus, open anti-Semite.
	She spent yesterday berating the Chancellor of UCLA.
	Why?
	Despite the fact the Chancellor of UCLA has been basically giving foot massages to the protesters.
	She's very angry because counter-protesters showed up and showed footage of October 7th to the protesters.
	She says that's bad.
	You could have prevented this by protecting the diverse groups of pro-Palestinian students that were peacefully gathered on campus to share meals, stand in solidarity against a brutal genocide.
	You could have prevented this by protecting these students' First Amendment right to assemble.
	You could have prevented this when you learned about rats being released into the encampment You could have prevented this when there was an anonymous group funded and constructed, again, a giant video with loudspeakers to play vile and disturbing footage.
	You could have prevented this when you saw an angry mob on campus on the night of April 30th, but you did not.
	This is who the Democratic Party is defending.
	You think that makes the American people feel cared about?
	Again, even if you want to run a CARES election, he's going to lose a CARES election.
	That's the amazing thing.
	This is not going to be an election about who cares more.
	Biden is forced to run along those lines because he's such a bad president, but he can't even win that.
	We'll get to more on that in just one moment, looking at his Middle Eastern policy, where he continues to split the baby between a Democratic ally of the United States and, you know, an actual honest-to-God terror group.
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	Also, tune in this Sunday for my latest episode of Sunday Special.
	I was joined by Riley Gaines.
	She, of course, has become a notorious figure for the great sin of pointing out that dudes should not swim against the ladies.
	Here's a little bit of what that sounded like.
	I remember when I testified before the Senate, Senator Cory Booker came up to me before.
	He sits down, he says, Hey, I play football at Stanford.
	I'm in full agreeance.
	You know, this is crazy.
	I'm an athlete.
	I know what you're talking about here.
	And then gets on the other side of the table and starts grilling me.
	These people are weak-kneed, morally bankrupt, spineless cowards, is what they are.
	That's who we're being governed by.
	And whether that's our government or corporate America or academia,
	even seemingly our spiritual leaders, that's the consensus.
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	Okay, meanwhile.
	Again, for a party that wants to show that it is sympathetic to middle-class Americans, it turns out that when your party is split down the middle between supporting, say, Israel and Hamas, that's not a particularly good look.
	Rashida Tlaib, another member of the Hamas caucus, charter member, founding member of the Hamas caucus in Congress, she says that the protesters, the pro-Hamas protesters, are on the right side of history.
	I know that dissent is a fundamental American value.
	Can you imagine the attacks on dissent in our country?
	It continues to happen, but imagine that we just wipe it off.
	I know from the Civil Rights Movement, to the Vietnam War, to the end of apartheid in South Africa, to the Movement for Black Lives, our country has a long history of students leading non-violent, civil disobedience and demanding change in our country.
	Students have been on the right side of history time and time again.
	It is utterly disgraceful that university administrators and government officials are sending, again, militarized police forces to stop students from exercising their First Amendment right.
	How much does this appeal to middle-class Americans?
	How much does this appeal to the normies?
	The answer is not at all.
	So much so that Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, he has to walk out there and pretend that his own party isn't radically divided over these issues.
	Here he was yesterday.
	The divide is overstated.
	The Republicans have repeatedly tried to make Israel a partisan political issue and divide Democrats, and they have failed!
	Republicans have.
	Oh, weird.
	They have failed.
	Okay, well, if they've failed, then I'm going to need an explanation on how.
	Because it's Democrats who have divided themselves on this.
	Again, it's Democrats who have taken these radical positions that are at odds with the American people and then declared themselves the compassionate ones.
	And it doesn't work.
	Best evidence of this, yesterday, Ted Cruz, not necessarily known publicly as Captain Compassion.
	It's not really his brand.
	But Senator Cruz, from Texas, he was grilling a Biden judicial nominee.
	Her name is Sarah Netburn.
	She is being... The Biden administration attempting to elevate her, nominate her for a higher position.
	It turns out that in her job as a judge, she decided that it would be an amazing idea to place a 6'2 dude who is a... in a female prison because he claimed he was a woman.
	Here's how the exchange went.
	Who seems more compassionate and sympathetic here?
	Senator Cruz, not exactly famous for being Captain Sympathy.
	Or the Biden administration's nominee?
	Did this individual have male genitalia?
	Yes.
	So you took a six-foot-two, serial child with male genitalia, and he said, you know, I'd like to be in a women's prison.
	And your answer was, that sounds great to me.
	Let me ask you something.
	The other women in that prison, do they have any rights?
	Is that a question you're asking me?
	Yes.
	The other women in that prison, do they have any rights?
	Of course.
	Do they have the right not to have a six-foot-two man who is a repeat serial r***** put in as their cellmate?
	Senator Cruz, I considered the facts presented to me and I reached a decision based on what the law is.
	I asked you a question.
	I asked you a question.
	Do they have a right not to have a six-foot-two man who is a serial r***** put in as their cellmate?
	Do those women have a right to that?
	Every person who's incarcerated has the right to be safe in their space.
	But you didn't think so.
	You didn't think so.
	Again, if this is the way the Democratic Party chooses to run, good luck to them.
	Their policies are not compassionate.
	Their policies are damaging.
	They are not compassionate.
	They are compassionate to a small sliver of the electorate, and they are deeply non-compassionate to a huge, giant chunk of the electorate.
	And this is why Donald Trump is holding rallies in the Bronx where thousands of people are showing up.
	Yesterday, Donald Trump is relegated to basically campaigning in New York because of this dumb court case surrounding Stormy Daniels.
	And yesterday, he held a rally in the Bronx.
	Several thousand people showed up in the Bronx to the consternation of much of the mainstream media.
	Hard to tell how many of these people are from the Bronx.
	Especially in how many are sort of coming in from Queens, but doesn't really matter.
	The fact is that the fact that Donald Trump can get this many bodies at a rally in the Bronx says something.
	Here was some footage of Donald Trump in New York City talking about radical left pro-crime policies.
	Now for all the talk about Donald Trump not being sympathetic, guess what is a message that works in New York?
	People should not get pushed in front of subways.
	In recent years, we have also seen our city destroyed by bad radical left pro-crime policy that virtually everyone, Republican, Democrat, Independent, everyone, you all know it's a disaster.
	You know the names of these lunatic policies.
	No cash bail.
	Somebody kills somebody.
	Go out.
	No bail.
	Don't worry.
	Go out and kill a couple of more people.
	Defund our great police, defund the police, sanctuary cities, release violent repeat offenders from jail.
	Joe Biden supports all of this insanity and much more, but millions of people across New York know it's crazy.
	So in the end, in the end, what Democrats are going to be forced to rely upon here because Joe Biden can't win a sympathy election, they're going to be forced to rely on trying to scare you about Trump.
	That's it.
	They're just going to try and tell you that he's Orange Hitler and that his people are Nazi droogs.
	Here is Representative Dan Goldman, who's involved in the impeachment of Donald Trump.
	Here he is saying that Donald Trump is going to become Sure, Putler.
	A mix-up of Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler.
	He's running out of dictators.
	Also Mao.
	Also perhaps Stalin.
	Also Pol Pot.
	But orange.
	And there's no question that Donald Trump has visions, as we saw from his video with the Unified Reich, which was a completely knowing and intentional inclusion in that video.
	Let's be real here.
	He is paving the way to become a Vladimir Putin or to become an Adolf Hitler or a Kim Jong-un.
	That's what he wants to be.
	Good luck with this particular argument.
	Kathy Hochul went even further.
	She's talking about Trump and his rally in the Bronx.
	And she says he's bringing his clowns to the Bronx.
	Everybody who votes for Trump in New York is a clown.
	Again, there's nothing new about this in New York.
	Andrew Cuomo once suggested that anybody who voted Republican should basically leave the state.
	Here's Kathy Hochul, the inherited governor of New York.
	New York will never, ever support Donald Trump for president.
	We know him better than anyone, and that means we understand what he's all about.
	It's just for himself.
	So this state will go solidly behind Joe Biden for president, as it has in the past.
	So he wants to spend his time doing these made-up fake rallies and pretending they're supporting him.
	Be my guest, because while you're doing that, Donald Trump, Joe Biden's out there on the other side, making sure he's delivering for all Americans.
	And so go ahead, spend all your time you want in New York, because we'll be with Joe Biden and Joe Biden's out there winning over the rest of the battleground states.
	Joe Biden is not winning any of the battleground states at current polling rate, nor will he, which is why Nate Silver came out yesterday and was like, dude, if you're still losing in August, you need to get out of the race.
	Nate Silver's taking a lot of slings and arrows for trying to be accurate about the status of this race.
	He says, if Biden is still struggling in August, he needs to consider stepping aside.
	It's not a great situation for Dees either way, but you have to do due diligence on the question.
	It's an important election, obviously.
	It shouldn't be taboo to talk about.
	Democrats are not going to pull him.
	They're going to run this sucker directly into the ground.
	We'll get to more on this in just one moment first.
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	Meanwhile, the Biden administration, which had set the predicate for all sorts of international ire against the state of Israel and its war to destroy a terrorist group currently holding American hostages, well, the shoe is about to drop.
	So today, the International Court of Justice, which is the dumb judicial organ of the dumb United Nations, all of these organizations are absolute trash, should be disbanded forthwith.
	When President Trump is re-elected, God willing, he needs to pull the United States completely out of the United Nations, burn the building to the ground in New York, salt the earth, and build a hotel.
	It is a disgusting, despicable organization.
	There's nothing new.
	It's been like this for literally as long as I've been alive, and much longer than that.
	Well, now the International Court of Justice, which is run by a Lebanese judge, has ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah, and ordered Israel to open the Rafah crossing, which is weird since Egypt has it closed.
	It's literally not possible for Israel to do that.
	The ICJ has suggested that it is not possible for Israel to evacuate Rafah.
	Israel has currently evacuated over a million Palestinians from Rafah.
	They've been undergoing operations in Rafah for weeks on end at this point.
	But now, all of this gets sent to the UN Security Council and then the question becomes whether the Biden administration is going to veto some sort of resolution attempting to force a ceasefire on Israel.
	And nobody knows the answer to that.
	Because Joe Biden doesn't know the answer to that.
	Because again, his party is split between people who love Hamas and people who are lukewarm on Israel.
	That is where his party is.
	So for example, Joe Biden can't even answer basic questions like whether Israel is using starvation as a weapon, which they clearly are not.
	According to the latest reports, food delivery through the crossings has provided a mean of 3,163 calories per person per day for Gazans.
	That is higher than the accepted humanitarian standard for daily calorie intake by 40%.
	So Israel has shipped in fat people calories into the Gaza Strip.
	3,100 calories per day per person in the Gaza Strip.
	Including for women, where like the recommended daily dosage for calories for women is well under 2,000.
	And yet, Joe Biden still can't answer a basic question.
	Like, whether Israel is attempting to starve out Gaza, which clearly is not happening.
	And it's because of that the ICJ feels they can do what they did.
	It's why the ICC feels that they can prosecute Benjamin Netanyahu.
	By the way, the German government now says that if the ICC does issue an arrest warrant for the Israeli Prime Minister, Germany will effectuate the arrest warrant if, for example, Netanyahu ends up visiting Germany.
	Wouldn't be the first time Germans have had a good time arresting Jews.
	In any case, here is Joe Biden failing to answer basic questions.
	I do very briefly have a question on whether the United States has any evidence at all that would substantiate the ICC prosecutors' specific allegations against Israeli leaders that they are using starvation as a tactic of war in Gaza, or exculpatory evidence for that matter, and if you would commit to releasing that information before any potential issuance of ICC arrest warrants.
	Look, we made my position known on ICC.
	You guys never keep the deal, but that's okay.
	That, you know, we've made our position clear on the ICC.
	We don't think the, we don't recognize the jurisdictions, the ICC, the way it's being exercised, and it's that simple.
	We don't think there's an equivalence between what Israel did with Hamas did.
	That is a completely different question. The question asked is whether we have evidence that
	Israel is abusing human rights in the Gaza Strip. He avoids the question. Why? Because his own party
	is split on that particular question. Meanwhile, the vice president of Spain,
	Spain declared this week that they would recognize a Palestinian state unilaterally,
	a state that does not exist. It has no borders, no government, no citizenry.
	Here is the Vice President of Spain, mouthing slogans that are basically just Hamas slogans.
	She says we live in a time in world history where doing the bare minimum is both heroic and insufficient.
	That is why we cannot stop.
	Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
	That is the vice president of Spain calling for the extirpation of the state of Israel.
	That's what that slogan means.
	It means the destruction of the state of Israel.
	That's the vice president of Spain calling.
	At least she's saying the quiet part out loud at this point.
	By the way, one more note on the ICJ.
	The ICJ is represented by the United Nations, of course.
	It's a representative body of the United Nations.
	The Israelis, yesterday, found three dead bodies of hostages found beneath a UNRWA facility.
	Beneath it.
	With a doorway from the UNRWA facility into the tunnels.
	The UN is an illegitimate institution.
	It always has been an illegitimate institution.
	It's stupid.
	The West never should have signed on to it.
	It's crap.
	And the message that Israel should be taking away from all of this is do what you have to do to protect your own security in the same way that the United States ought to do what it ought to do in order to protect our own security.
	Trying to make yourself subject to the whims of a bunch of countries that we want to see wiped off the planet Earth seems to be a bad policy predilection.
	Alrighty, coming up, we'll jump into the Vaunted Ben Shapiro Show Mailbag.
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