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June 18, 2024 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Inside The Biden Plan To STEAL Democracy

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	The polls show that Joe Biden is losing the 2024 election.
	It's an unfortunate truth for the incumbent president.
	A series of swing state polls now out from Redfield-Wilton and The Telegraph show that Donald Trump is now in the lead in Pennsylvania by 2, Georgia by 5, Michigan by 1, Arizona by 2, North Carolina by 3, Florida by 6.
	Meanwhile, a new poll from the Des Moines Register, Ann Seltzer, who is the best pollster in the country.
	She, of course, has to get it right because the Iowa caucuses are a very important jumping point for every presidential race.
	She's an A-plus pollster, meaning she pretty much knows everyone personally in Iowa.
	She currently has Donald Trump Up 18 points on Joe Biden.
	50 to 32.
	Biden's net approval is at negative 39 in Iowa.
	Why does that matter?
	I mean, Trump won Iowa walking away last time.
	He won it by 8.
	Not by 18.
	By 8.
	So there are huge numbers that Trump is racking up in places like Iowa.
	Not just that, a new Washington Post study of the so-called deciders.
	These would be people who turn out to vote sporadically or who have switched their vote between Republican and Democrat.
	When it comes to the swing states, about 61% of people declare themselves deciders.
	Those would be people who voted in only one of the last couple presidential elections, or are between the ages of 18 and 25, or registered to vote since 2022, or who did not definitely plan to vote for either Biden or Trump this year or switch their support between 2016 and 2020.
	Well, among the non-deciders in the swing states, Donald Trump is in a very slight lead over Joe Biden.
	17% say that they will definitely vote for Trump.
	15% say they will definitely vote for Biden.
	That's out of a total of 39% among the non-deciders.
	Among the deciders, these are people who are sporadic voters or uncommitted voters.
	If you look at the uncommitted voters, probably Trump beats probably Biden by a couple of percentage points.
	These are all very close states, and what that means is that if Donald Trump is leading among both the deciders and also the non-deciders, then he's just leading overall.
	And right now, if you look at this Washington Post polling data, what you see is that among all key state voters, 31% say they would definitely vote for Donald Trump, compared to 26% who say they would definitely vote for Joe Biden.
	Another 17% say they would probably vote for Donald Trump, compared to 15% for Joe Biden.
	Most importantly, In terms of who people would definitely not vote for, or probably not vote for, 55% of voters in the key states say they will either definitely not or probably not vote for Joe Biden, compared to only 49% for Donald Trump.
	This means that right now Donald Trump is pretty obviously winning, which again is one of the reasons why The Economist, which does a forecast on who they believe is going to win, currently has Donald Trump's chances of winning the election at 72%.
	Which is extraordinary.
	Now, again, you'll recall that back in 2016, it was thought that Hillary Clinton had a 99% chance of winning the election, and of course, she then lost.
	But, the bottom line is, if you had to put your money on the election today, you would be betting on Donald Trump.
	CNN's Harry Enten was stunned yesterday, looking at the polling data and seeing what percentage of black voters, for example, are now examining the possibility of voting for President Trump.
	Here was Harry Enten yesterday.
	Look at black voters age 50 and older, and you'll see, look, Joe Biden was leading amongst this group at this point by 83 points back in 2020.
	Now, it's 74 points.
	So yeah, a slight decline in that margin, but nothing out of this world.
	Look at black voters under the age of 50.
	Holy cow, folks, holy cow, look at this.
	Joe Biden was up by 80 points among this group back at this point in 2020.
	Look at where that margin has careened down towards.
	It's now just, get this, 37 points!
	That lead has dropped by more than half, Mr. Berman.
	I've just never seen anything like this.
	I'm, like, speechless because you always look at history and you go, okay, this is a historic moment.
	If this polling is anywhere near correct, we are looking at a historic moment right now where black voters under the age of 50, which have historically been such a big part of the Democratic coalition, are leaving it in droves.
	Okay, what that means is that the gap for Donald Trump is down from 90-10 to about 70-30.
	That's what that actually shows among young black voters.
	And Joe Biden is in real trouble.
	We'll get to more on this in just a second.
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	Particularly for young voters, they look at Joe Biden and he does not seem like he is with it.
	And the Biden campaign is trying to walk their way past it.
	Basically, they're now telling you that your eyes are lying to you.
	Here's the problem.
	Your eyes are not lying to you.
	Just in the last 24 hours, we have tape of Babylon Joe at a fundraiser from Los Angeles with Barack Obama.
	It's the same fundraiser where we had to be led off the stage by the hand by Barack Obama.
	And we have Joe Biden just randomly babbling into the microphone.
	You want to know why the Department of Justice will not turn over the tape of Joe Biden talking to Special Prosecutor Robert Herr?
	Because hours and hours of Joe Biden mumbling into a microphone like a demented old man is not going to look good for him in a presidential race.
	That is the only reason they won't release the tape.
	We already have the transcript.
	It probably sounds a lot like this.
	Here is Joe Biden babbling when asked about jobs at this fundraiser.
	And guess what?
	It's growing.
	The economy's growing.
	People's doing better.
	We have the highest unemployment, the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.
	We have more people.
	We've had over 15 million people ready to hire and work for us.
	You know, my son says, you know, we all have various short-term descriptions for your jobs, for what you accomplish.
	He should say Joe Jobs.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And then there was yesterday when Joe Biden was at some sort of event at the White House and the press started yelling questions to him.
	And so he decided to just yell random things back at them.
	I don't even know what's going on here.
	And then he starts grinning like the Joker.
	What in the world was that?
	What was that?
	Imagine that coming at 3 a.m.
	We've been told by the media, of course, that there's nothing wrong with Joe Biden.
	In fact, yesterday, the Biden campaign co-chair decided to go on national television and suggest that no one should be questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity.
	I think Donald Trump is a joke.
	I mean, when this guy, when his lips are moving, he's lying.
	And then when he tries to confuse, when he tries to accuse somebody else of speaking improperly, he can't keep two thoughts in his mind.
	I would encourage Americans to go listen to Donald Trump's full speeches and try to put that word spaghetti together.
	And I wonder why anybody is questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity.
	Donald Trump can't string two sentences together.
	I mean, it's the biggest joke in the world.
	You're wondering why people are questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity?
	Really?
	Are we questioning this?
	Here is a short montage of Joe Biden simply getting lost, okay, and having to be guided by people.
	We could have done probably an hour of this, but this is the short version.
	There he is, being guided.
	He has to actually be told where to go.
	This is where he lives.
	It's the White House.
	Here is Barack Obama guiding him by the hand like a visiting angel.
	Yes, sir.
	guiding him by the back as he totters off the stage.
	Here is a Secret Service agent directing Joe Biden to make a right turn, but Joe Biden apparently
	does not understand how hand signals work, and so he just sort of glides on past into the grass,
	following the Secret Service agent, who has no idea Joe Biden is following him.
	Here he is at another event, having to be directed toward a specific spot on the floor
	so he can stand next to a TV.
	Here he is trying to follow a small child, but then having to be told that's not exactly
	where he is actually going.
	He doesn't know where he's going.
	Trying to go here?
	Sure.
	I suppose I'll go there.
	Here he was talking to a parachute.
	He doesn't even know he's talking to him.
	And George Maloney, Prime Minister of Italy, having to redirect him back into a picture where he looks confusedly.
	Here's the Easter Bunny directing Joe Biden.
	You remember this one?
	Joe Biden's talking to the press.
	The Easter Bunny doesn't want Joe Biden talking to the press.
	Here is Kamala Harris trying to redirect the old man.
	So that she can't get him to move away.
	Here is Joe Biden simply walking through a group of people.
	They don't know exactly where he's supposed to go.
	The Secret Service points him in the other direction.
	This is the problem.
	There's tons of tape.
	Your eyes and your ears are not deceiving you.
	The President of the United States is in a state of serious decline and everybody knows it.
	But the administration doesn't have a solution for this.
	The campaign doesn't have a solution for this because the problem is it's true.
	And so they've decided to try out their newest narrative.
	Their newest narrative is something they are calling cheap fakes.
	Get it?
	Get it?
	Because it rhymes with deep fakes.
	These branding geniuses over here.
	The same people behind Bidenomics, which has been jaboon for the Biden campaign.
	So now calling them cheap fakes.
	So Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary.
	Yesterday, she got very, very angry because it turns out that people have been distributing clips of Joe Biden looking mentally incompetent.
	She says that they're not true.
	They're all taken out of context.
	Now, here's the thing.
	We've played the full tapes and we've explained exactly what he is doing.
	So, for example, the claim by Democrats was that the tape of Joe Biden talking to the parachutist was somehow edited to make him look worse.
	Except for the fact we showed you the tape, including the parachutist, who doesn't seem to understand that Joe Biden, the President of the United States, is talking to him.
	We showed you the full tape of Joe Biden waving to the crowd before he randomly freezes on stage and has to be led by the hand like a small five-year-old child by the former President of the United States, Barack Obama.
	We've shown you everything, but apparently it's now cheap fakes and deep fakes, according to Corine Jean-Pierre.
	There seems to be a sort of rash of videos that have been edited to make the president appear especially frail or mentally confused.
	I'm wondering if the White House is especially worried about the fact that this appears to be a pattern that we're seeing more of often.
	Yeah, and I think you all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that's exactly what they are.
	They are cheap fakes video.
	They are done in bad faith.
	And some of your news organization have been very clear, have stressed that these right wing, the right wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation.
	It's not misinformation, it's not disinformation.
	It's not.
	It's not misinformation.
	It's literally a clip of the President of the United States doing things.
	It's not disinformation.
	It's not Russian propaganda.
	But you can see this narrative being laundered in real time.
	Here's Nicole Wallace on MSNBC doing her job as spokesperson for the White House.
	There's a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media broadcasts, print and social media.
	It is to take highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly from Republican National Committee social media accounts and then use those videos To spread messages virally to cast doubt on President Biden's fitness for office.
	Here is this headline from the New York Post.
	Quote, Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off stage by Obama at Megabucks LA fundraiser.
	The full video posted by Biden finance chair on Twitter shows something entirely different.
	Biden reacting to applause and then walking off stage with former President Obama.
	It comes less than one week after the New York Post made a cover out of another piece of deceptively edited tape, calling him meander in chief due to what they claim was Biden walking away during a skydiving demonstration during the G7 summit last week.
	The only problem is that the full video, which emerged almost instantly, shows Biden was going over to congratulate one of the skydivers who's cropped out of the video entirely.
	Both the articles are based on cheap fakes, videos of real events that are potentially This is so ridiculous.
	Okay, can I first point out that the original video from the fundraiser where Barack Obama has to lead him off by the hand was not from the RNC.
	It was from a reporter at the Hollywood Reporter, who subsequently was obviously called by the White House and then wrote a follow-up piece about how everybody was being mean to Joe Biden.
	We'll get some more on this in just one second.
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	Here's the thing.
	The White House's attempt right now is to say that the American people cannot believe their own eyes, they can't believe their own ears, they can't believe their brains, they can't believe their wallets, they can't believe any of those things.
	So if you are worried about inflation because you can't pay your bills, that's because you don't have the right mindset.
	If you look at Joe Biden and you see an incompetent elderly person who should not be in the White House, that is because you are being lied to via misinformation, disinformation, and cheap fakes.
	If you look at the world situation and see a world that is on fire and potentially is going to grow more on fire as time goes on, Then that is simply because you don't understand the brilliant 4D chess that Joe Biden is playing.
	None of this is going to play, by the way.
	None of this is going to play.
	And so what the Democrats are now doing is they are prepping the groundwork for saving democracy.
	Saving democracy.
	Now, the word democracy is used by Democrats in a way that does not mean democracy.
	Democracy is popular rule.
	When it is used colloquially, it can encompass terms like, for example, a democratic republic.
	Meaning that there are checks and balances in the system and it's not to wreck democracy.
	Typically, democracy technically means that if we're all in a room together and we want to make a decision, we all vote on that specific decision.
	A republic means you have representatives, which means you don't vote directly on many of the decisions that are being made.
	You instead delegate the power to vote on those decisions to a representative government.
	And typically, that representative government has a series of checks and balances.
	So the United States is a republic.
	It is not, in fact, a direct democracy.
	It's a democracy in the broadest sense, which is that we vote, but it's not a democracy in the technical sense, in which you vote on every issue or in which a pure majoritarian popular will gets to decide every single issue.
	In fact, the founders decried exactly such a system.
	They saw that as what they would call a mobocracy.
	That would be a problem for them.
	They would not want everyone voting on every single- They wouldn't want just a series of referenda on every single issue that go to the popular vote, which is why you have all of these intervening institutions in the government.
	It's why the Congress is represented on a popular level, but the Senate was originally supposed to be represented
	at the state level by the state legislature.
	State legislatures were originally supposed to pick their senators.
	It's why the Senate itself is not proportional.
	It's why Montana has the same number of senators with seven people and a cow as California
	with 45 million people or whatever it is.
	It is why you have a series of checks and balances between the executive branch, the legislative branch
	and the judiciary.
	It is why you have an electoral college.
	There are all sorts of institutions in our republic that are designed to check excesses of the mob.
	And if you read the Federalist Papers, that was very much forefront of the founders' concerns.
	Why is that important?
	Because there was a shift in the way that people thought of democracy in the United States.
	And it started in the early 20th century, late 19th century.
	It was a takeaway from German progressivism.
	So, weirdly enough, much of modern American government, our structures, particularly the administrative state, are drawn from the Bismarckian social compact in Germany.
	One of the big admirers of that system was Woodrow Wilson.
	So Woodrow Wilson, who was a pointy-headed professor, obviously he was the dean of Princeton University before he ran for president of the United States, So Woodrow Wilson wrote extensively about German progressivism and what he saw as his vision for what democracy should look like.
	What he believed is that the Constitution of the United States had outlived its sell-by date.
	All these checks and balances were useless.
	He wanted something that was more democratic and also less democratic.
	More democratic in the sense that he wanted a popular vote for one guy and that one big man would get to make all the decisions with the help of a bunch of administrative bureaucrats who are experts on the issues.
	In other words, he wanted a government of expertise, and he believed that all the checks and balances thwarted that government.
	So for example, in 1908, he famously wrote, quote, the president is at liberty,
	both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can.
	His capacity will set the limit.
	And if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution.
	It will be from no lack of constitutional powers on his part,
	but only because the president has the nation behind him and Congress has not.
	In other words, Congress has all these checks and balances.
	There's this weird sausage making in the background, but the president is elected by the public,
	effectively speaking, and that means that he should have as much power as humanly possible.
	Why was that important to Woodrow Wilson?
	Because he believed in the setup of an administrative state, an entire branch of the government that was effectively independent of the popular will.
	So in 1887, again, big admirer of what Otto von Bismarck had done in Germany with social welfare systems and with a government from the top of bureaucrats.
	He wrote, quote, administration lies outside the proper sphere of politics.
	Administrative questions are not political questions.
	Although politics sets the tasks for administration, it should not be suffered to manipulate its offices.
	Let me say large powers and unhampered discretion seem to me the indispensable conditions of responsibility.
	Public attention must be easily directed in each case of good or bad administration to just the man deserving of praise or blame.
	There is no danger in power, if only it be not irresponsible.
	If it be divided, dealt out in shares to many, it is obscured.
	And if it be obscured, it is made irresponsible.
	So, to put that in simpler language, what he is saying is that there should be a series of effectively Unaccountable, non-elected bureaucrats who are experts, and you can yell at them, but you can't get rid of them.
	And they should be given wide discretionary power to set how policy is done because they are the experts.
	So when Democrats say democracy, this is what they typically mean.
	They do not mean that they respect the institutions of the Republic.
	They don't, for example, respect the Supreme Court of the United States, except when it is giving them precisely what they want.
	Right?
	This is why you have seen this bizarre attempt to uphold the Supreme Court of the United States by the left at the same time as undermining it.
	So, for example, Jill Biden yesterday, she came out and she said, Joe and I respect the courts.
	She said this with respect to the conviction of Donald Trump in New York and also purportedly with respect to the conviction of Hunter Biden in Delaware.
	Although, again, I think that that sentence is very likely to be commuted if he gets any jail time at all.
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	Here is Jill Biden declaring her respect for the courts.
	Your husband, the president, has said he wouldn't pardon your son, he wouldn't commute his sentence.
	That's correct.
	As a mother, though, you must want to see this burden lifted off your son.
	Do you wish you could do that?
	Well, Joe and I both respect the judicial system, and that's the bottom line.
	Well, I mean, they don't, because here's Joe Biden over the weekend ripping into the Supreme Court, which is at the apex of the American judicial system.
	The next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees.
	Two more.
	Two more.
	He's already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals.
	The idea that if he's re-elected, he's going to appoint two more firing flags upside down is really... I really mean it.
	Could this be the scariest part of all of it?
	Well, I think it is one of the scariest parts of it.
	Look, the Supreme Court has never been as out of kilter as it is today.
	I mean, never.
	I taught constitutional law for nine years.
	This guy knows more about it than most.
	Look, the fact of the matter is that this has never been a court that's been this far out of step.
	That is obviously untrue.
	So undermining the court at the same time that he's upholding the court's system, supposedly.
	Again, the pitch here for Democrats is they like to say the word democracy because they want to portray Donald Trump as an incipient fascist.
	And so CNN did a big report yesterday setting up what will be the terms of the debate next week.
	The terms of that debate are going to be very simple.
	They're going to say that Donald Trump is undermining democracy while Joe Biden is upholding it.
	But as we're about to discuss, it's actually Joe Biden who is hell-bent on undermining the actual democratic republic.
	So, CNN went out and they interviewed a bunch of Trump supporters and they asked about Donald Trump undermining democracy.
	And the Trump supporters correctly said, we don't live in a democracy, we live in a republic.
	Which, as I've explained, is technically true.
	We do live in a representative democracy with a series of checks and balances that thwart the popular will On a regular basis.
	But here is CNN explaining it's very bad to say that we live in a republic, not a democracy.
	These words were used in different ways in the 18th century, and it's true the founders didn't want direct democracy, by which they meant people gathering on the town square.
	They wanted representative democracy.
	But I think the reason why this conversation about language has risen now is because There is a part of the Republican Party that would like to rule as a minority, and they need an excuse for why that's okay.
	And so they have begun to say, we're not a democracy, we're a republic.
	And it's not 100% clear what that means, but I think they mean, we want Donald Trump to be able to do whatever he wants.
	Okay, this is so Orwellian.
	The reason this is Orwellian is because it's total projection.
	The people who want the President of the United States to do whatever he wants, that any checks and balances, are typically Democrats.
	It's literally the program of Woodrow Wilson going back to the early 20th century.
	Not only that, the setup of the administrative state allows Democrats to overrule Both the democracy at large, as well as the institutions of the Republic.
	Because they are unelected bureaucrats who sit there for years on end and literally thwart the elected branches of government.
	And that is exactly what Joe Biden is planning.
	So Democrats are looking down the barrel of this 2024 election.
	It does not look good for them.
	And so they are already preparing to do what they want to do if Trump were to win.
	What is that?
	They wish to subvert the institutions of the Republic.
	I don't mean that in a soft sense.
	I mean that in a very hard, real sense.
	They are looking to subvert the democratic institutions of the republic.
	They're looking to subvert the legislature.
	They're looking to subvert the presidency.
	They're looking to subvert the courts.
	It is one of the reasons why, for example, they are hell-bent on ensuring that the Supreme Court does not overrule what's called Chevron deference, which says that administrative agencies are basically unanswerable to other parts of the government, including the courts.
	There's an article in the New York Times that went largely unmentioned yesterday, but it is unbelievably shocking because it is just Democrats saying the quiet part out loud.
	Quote, the resistance to a new Trump administration has already started.
	Now, this is quite insane because it turns out that in the United States, there is, in fact, an executive branch.
	There is no fourth branch of American government.
	Woodrow Wilson wanted one, but there isn't one.
	All of the executive agencies work for the president of the United States in our constitutional structure.
	And Donald Trump has come into office threatening to retitle and reclassify a bunch of federal employees so he can fire them, which he should be able to do anyway since they technically work for the executive branch, which, if he is president again, he will be leading.
	So what are Democrats doing?
	They are looking to subvert all of this.
	Quote, Opponents of Donald Trump are drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in November and carries out mass deportations, as he has vowed.
	One group has hired a new auditor to withstand any attempt by a second Trump administration to unleash the IRS against them.
	Democratic-run state governments are even stockpiling abortion medication.
	A sprawling network of Democratic officials, progressive activists, watchdog groups, and ex-Republicans has been taking extraordinary steps to prepare for a potential second Trump presidency, drawn together by fear that Trump's return to power would pose a grave threat not just to their agenda, but to American democracy itself.
	Now, again, understand how Orwellian that is.
	He gets elected president.
	He's gonna deal with Congress.
	That's what he did last time.
	And they are saying that they need to do a bunch of non-democratic things in order to save democracy.
	They need to burn down the village in order to save the village.
	So apparently, one of the things that they are going to do is stack the administrative state.
	That is one of their goals.
	We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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	Interviews with more than 30 officials and leaders of organizations about their plans revealed a combination of acute exhaustion and acute anxiety.
	Activist groups that spent the four years of Mr. Trump's presidency organizing mass protests and pursuing legal challenges, ultimately helping channel that energy into persuading voters to oust him from power in 2020, are now realizing with great dread they may have to resist him all over again.
	The Biden administration pushed through a flurry of regulations in the spring, meeting a deadline to ensure those rules could not be summarily overturned next year under a 1996 law if Trump wins the election and Republicans take total control of Congress.
	So you have various officials inside the Biden administration who are attempting to enshrine in law and via regulation an inability for Trump to change course once he's president of the United States.
	Okay, that is a thwarting of democracy.
	That is what that is.
	And it is hilarious to watch all the same people who are shouting to the rafters about the evils of Donald Trump and his attacks on democracy now attempting all the same measures that they say Republicans should never attempt.
	It's an amazing thing to watch.
	And it is all due to the fact that they believe that they do, in fact, rule a quote-unquote deep state.
	That there are people who are career appointees who must never be touched under any circumstances.
	Those are the people who make most of the policy you see and you say to yourself, what the hell is that?
	So for example, it is the deep state.
	It is career appointees in, for example, The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who are doing things like celebrating Pride Month by inviting agents to have the transgender flag painted on their nails, participate in a Pride Ally Challenge, and learn from a non-binary Philip Hinks activist who has taught children about her non-binary identity, according to the Daily Wire.
	A document that was distributed by the intelligence agency, which oversees the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and intelligence components, This document says, quote, for nail painting, we'll have our pro team of FV artists ready to decorate you for pride month with the option of celebrating pride or trans flag colors.
	If you don't normally paint your nails or have never done so, all the better.
	We'll do everything for you.
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	What better way to show your allyship to the community?
	It's this sort of stuff that exists in the deep state.
	I mean, and this is the more I would say the less nefarious stuff in the deep state.
	The more nefarious stuff is, for example, militarizing the FBI against the current president of the United States when Donald Trump was president of the United States.
	The fact that you have administrative agencies that are themselves designing a defense mechanism against their boss is truly amazing.
	But you have to understand, this is how the left thinks of its institutions.
	The way that the left thinks of its institutions is we own these institutions.
	Any outside threat to these institutions, including the future boss of the institution, must be destroyed.
	So Donald Trump coming back in, their idea is that he must be thwarted in his presidency.
	Again, when you talk about thwarting democracy, this is what we're talking about.
	We talk about stealing democracy.
	This is what we're talking about.
	Not just quote-unquote stealing elections, but actively setting up structures that prevent the fundamental working order of the government, so long as a Republican is the person who's running the government.
	But again, it's not just relegated to the government.
	One of the most amazing stories that I've ever seen in media is happening right now To the Washington Post.
	The Washington Post has turned into Al Jazeera West.
	It is a wildly left-wing publication that repeats dumb talking points from Islamists and radicals at every possible turn.
	They really are an awful organization.
	And they've been just losing money hand over fist.
	Just bleeding money.
	They have a gusher.
	And so, Jeff Bezos has decided to replace the editor-in-chief with somebody else.
	The person who is going to be replacing that editor-in-chief is the supposed new editor, Robert Winnett, deputy editor of The Telegraph in the UK.
	So what did the Washington Post's current management do in the interim before he takes over?
	They went and they got a person who was just fired from the Washington Post to come back in and lead an investigation into the new guy.
	So the career employees at the Washington Post are now effectively attempting a color revolution against the Washington Post to stop Jeff Bezos from resetting the agenda there.
	Because again, according to the left, once they've captured an institution, it remains captured forever.
	So they've released this big investigation.
	Again, this is unprecedented.
	Think about this.
	who self-described a thief who claimed role in his reporting.
	Unpublished book drafts and other documents raised questions about Robert Winnett's journalistic
	record just months before he is to assume a top newsroom role.
	Again, this is unprecedented.
	Think about this.
	Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
	He hires a new top editor.
	And before the new top editor can take the helm, a bunch of reporters, including the
	people who are going to be ousted, write a series of reports ripping into the new top
	editor in an attempt to forestall him from taking over the newspaper.
	It's an amazing thing, but it is a window into how the left thinks about institutions they have captured.
	It is why it is so difficult to take back those institutions, and why it is so much easier to simply destroy those institutions from the outside.
	Now again, The reality here is that the Washington Post, I think, is unfixable at this point, given the fact that the rock goes so deep.
	But it is quite indicative, again, of how the left approaches issues.
	That they are so all fired certain that their move needs to be to stop the Washington Post from moderating even just a little bit.
	And that's, again, the perspective of Democrats inside the federal government.
	This is why when they shout democracy, I just look at Joe Biden's record where he attempted to mandate 80 million Americans vaccinate.
	A move that was only stopped in part by the Daily Wire suing the federal government.
	I just think of Joe Biden unconstitutionally alleviating student loans.
	I think of Joe Biden unconstitutionally holding up aid that had already been allocated by Congress.
	And I think to myself, this is the guy who's lecturing us on democracy?
	I think not.
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	Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the misuse and abuse of the democratic system, Joe Biden magically has now discovered the ability to give legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States without the approval of Congress.
	The way to think of the quote-unquote threat to democracy question when it comes to Trump versus Joe Biden, a lot of people point out Trump's activities between November and January 2020 to 2021.
	See, that dude is a threat to democracy.
	Okay, now the reality is that Donald Trump said a bunch of things that I disagree with, a bunch of things I think are dumb and unverified by evidence between November and January of 2021.
	I made that absolutely clear on the show at the time and I continue to maintain that.
	However, all of that was filtered out by the same institutions that he didn't end up threatening.
	They were filtered out by the Senate of the United States, for example, and the Electoral College, for example, and the state certifying bodies, for example.
	The way to think about Donald Trump's quote-unquote threats to the Republic, if the institutions act as a sort of sifter, as sort of a colander, sifting out the bad attempts to thwart the working order of the Republic, Donald Trump's kind of myriad sillinesses amount to giant rocks that immediately get sifted out by the sifter or the colander.
	So you got a bunch of great material from President Trump and a bunch of stones.
	Okay, the bunch of great material goes right through the sifter and ends up as policy.
	The bunch of stones get filtered out by the constitutional system, which continues to maintain its working order.
	Joe Biden is a different story.
	Joe Biden is a toxic brew.
	He carves up his constitutional threats so fine that they just go right through the constitutional sifter, right through the colander, and end up as policy.
	He is much more adept at thwarting the Constitution, at overturning the measures of a Republican government in order to get what he wants.
	So he's doing that now with illegal immigration, according to the Wall Street Journal.
	Wait, where does he get the power to do that?
	The answer is he doesn't have the power to do that.
	He's going to do it anyway.
	a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the country illegally who are
	married to U.S. citizens, according to lawmakers and others familiar with the matter. Now, I know
	what you're saying to yourself. Wait, where does he get the power to do that? The answer is he
	doesn't have the power to do that. He's going to do it anyway. And then he's going to hope that the
	Supreme Court somehow looks the other way on this thing.
	Biden plans to make the announcement at the White House alongside members of Congress, immigration
	advocates, and U.S. citizens.
	citizens who, because of arcane immigration rules, haven't been able to sponsor their spouses for green cards.
	I love how the immigration rules become arcane when they are an obstacle to illegal immigrants becoming legal.
	That's when they become arcane, according to the Wall Street Journal.
	Again, remember, the Wall Street Journal editorial page conservative, the Wall Street Journal news page to the left of the New York Times.
	The program has the potential to benefit immigrants who have been living in the country at least a decade, offering them work permits, deportation protections, and a route for them to apply for green cards, a pathway to citizenship.
	The application process is expected to open by the end of the summer, an administration official said.
	This would make it one of the largest immigration initiatives that started in recent decades, rivaled only by DACA.
	Now again, it's not a shocker that in an election year, Joe Biden thinks he's gonna buy Latino votes by doing this sort of thing.
	The problem he has is that it turns out that the vast majority of Latinos are not in favor of this.
	There's a new poll out that showed 53% of Hispanic Americans believe there should be large-scale deportations.
	So again, Joe Biden attempting to split the baby.
	He's absolutely discombobulated in terms of policy.
	It was just a couple of weeks ago he was announcing that he was going to shut the border, which he didn't.
	And now he's announcing he's going to legalize illegal immigrants, which he will.
	So he's doing all that through the administrative state, through executive order.
	Does any of that, any of that pass constitutional muster?
	He doesn't care.
	Because the Democratic Republicans have no interest in him.
	For Democrats, all of this stuff is just a tool to get what you want.
	And meanwhile, I am always amused to see the level of dispensation politically the Democrats receive in the public eye.
	So on Sunday night, the Tonys happened.
	The Tonys used to be an award show that some people watched when they, you know, did musicals that people watched on Broadway.
	Now, it's basically just a series of people doing numbers from Rent.
	Punctuated by various Democrats showing up for a round of applause.
	Hillary Clinton showed up at the Tonys and she got a standing ovation.
	I only point this out to point out that I don't know what you have to do to be cast out of the circle of grace in the Democratic Party.
	It is amazing to me that Hillary Clinton is still championed by Democrats as some sort of great heroine.
	She lost to Donald Trump, you dullards.
	It seemed to me that if she lost to Donald Trump, you might want to be mad at her.
	All she had to do was visit Wisconsin and Michigan once, and she didn't.
	But here she was receiving a standing ovation while wearing a muumuu at the Tonys.
	I have stood on a lot of stages, but this is very special.
	And I know a little bit about how hard it is to make change.
	So I'm extremely proud of this original American musical by Shana Taub.
	Now two-time Tony winner.
	And of course it is about Some American originals, the suffragists who fought so valiantly for so long to give women in our country the right to vote.
	It's almost impossible to think about what a challenge that was, but now it's an election year and we need to be reminded about how important it is to vote.
	Again, I will never get over the fact they continue to lionize this person.
	The worst candidate in the history of the United States.
	Yeah, but she's just one of the Democrats who's being lionized by the media.
	So Cori Bush, the BLM congresswoman from Ferguson, Missouri.
	Horrible congressperson, doesn't know anything, says dumb things all the time.
	It turns out that a few years ago, she wrote in a book that she had faith-healed tumors.
	Which, I mean, if she did, she's definitely in the wrong line of work.
	I mean, think of all the people with cancer who could be cured by Cori Bush.
	Here she was being questioned about this.
	Look at the level of journalistic dispensation she's been giving here by PBS for talking about the insane proposition that she can literally heal people's tumors by putting her hands on them.
	I, along with a group of friends, we would go out on the street and just meet with people and pray with people and offer them food.
	And this lady came to us and she had these tumors.
	I mean, she wanted us to, like, feel them.
	And I just remember I put my hand on her and my hand just began to move.
	And the lumps that were there were no longer there.
	And she was so happy and she I went on about her day and I never saw her again.
	So you think the tumors disappeared?
	I do, I do.
	And this woman was unhoused.
	She's someone who, you know, had been sleeping in the shelters and sleeping on the street.
	I think we just solved our national healthcare problem, guys.
	All we need is Cori Bush putting her hands on randos, which of course is Bill Clinton's strategy too, but he didn't heal so many tumors.
	So, well done, well done for our mainstream media.
	As always, they're doing just an extraordinarily good job.
	Meanwhile, speaking of foreign policy, it turns out that the Russians have no intention of turning over Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who's been held for pretty much the entirety of the Biden administration.
	The Biden administration has done pretty much nothing to secure his release.
	Obviously, listen, we did trade the Lord of War, right?
	We traded like an actual arms dealer for a WNBA player.
	So that, I mean, that was a great deal.
	The only time a WNBA trade has ever been in the news.
	It's still a bad trade, by the way.
	Well, now apparently the Russians are going to try Evan Gershkovich.
	He, of course, is the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia for over a year.
	That judicial proceeding would be held in secret.
	They are accusing him of being a spy.
	He was detained by Russia's Federal Security Service while on a reporting trip for the Journal in March of last year.
	U.S.
	officials have designated Gershkovich as wrongfully detained and have been working to secure his release.
	The Wall Street Journal said Monday the latest development means a sham trial is imminent.
	He is being held in Moscow's L'Fortovo prison.
	Russia and the United States have been discussing a possible prisoner exchange that could bring his release.
	Again, amazing work by the Biden administration.
	This reporter, you know, remember, these are the great defenders of the press.
	Doing an amazing, amazing job.
	As always, Evan Gershwitz remains under the tender mercies of Vladimir Putin.
	Now again, speaking of foreign policy, the absolute delusional nature of the Biden administration is being made absolutely clear every single day in the Middle East.
	It's truly amazing.
	So, a report came out yesterday that finally the Biden administration has decided that after Hamas rejected the latest ceasefire proposal in the war between Israel and Hamas, initiated when Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 250 of them and is still holding hostages, that only now is the Biden administration willing to remove its embargo on arms against Israel.
	Which shows that they were lying a couple of weeks ago when they said that they weren't slow-walking the arms that had already been allocated to Israel by Congress.
	All of this is happening in the midst of a continuously astonished media who are always shocked to realize that the Palestinian population is radicalized, has been radicalized, and that, in fact, Palestinian identity is formed in opposition to Israel's existence.
	This is one of the things to recognize here.
	There were Arabs who lived in British Mandate Palestine.
	They did not see themselves as a cohesive ethnic or historical group until Israel was established in 1948.
	They literally did not exist as a group.
	Many considered themselves Turkish or Egyptian.
	Many considered themselves Sunni or Shia.
	But no one considered themselves a member of a quote-unquote Palestinian nation as a cohesive entity that only forms in the aftermath of the establishment of the State of Israel in 4748.
	So it is no surprise then that an identity that is rooted solely in hatred of Israel and willingness to exterminate it culminates in a population that hates Israel and wants to exterminate it.
	Which is why every poll ever taken, ever, in the history of this conflict has shown a vast majority of Palestinians want to obliterate the Jewish state and will not accept any solution in which a Jewish state remains in the Middle East.
	So why exactly would anyone be shocked, then, by the Wall Street Journal report that a 73-year-old doctor named Ahmad al-Jamal and his son, who worked with al-Jazeera, were holding actual Israelis hostage?
	These are the so-called innocent civilians.
	Another thing to understand, Nusayrat is not a refugee camp.
	When you think of a refugee camp, you're thinking of a bunch of FEMA trailers and tents.
	That is not what Nusayrat is.
	of his community. He worked mornings at a public clinic in the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Nusayrat.
	Another thing to understand, Nusayrat is not a refugee camp.
	When you think of a refugee camp, you're thinking of a bunch of FEMA trailers and tents. That
	is not what Nusayrat is. It's a city.
	The international community calls it a refugee camp so they can pretend that the people who
	live there are going to be granted citizenship in the Jewish state, which is not going to happen
	because it would obliterate the existence of the Jewish state.
	It's an absurdity anyway.
	None of them ever asked for Palestinian citizenship in an independent Palestinian state.
	They don't want it.
	In any case, When he finished his duty, every day, he would return home to the apartment he shared with his son, his daughter-in-law, and their children, and the three Israeli hostages they were hiding there for Hamas.
	It was common knowledge.
	In Nusayrat, the al-Jamal family was close to Hamas.
	They said few people in the densely populated area of central Gaza knew of the secret locked in the small darkened room of the family's apartment.
	That is to— Bull.
	Bull.
	Few people knew.
	Yeah, I'm sure.
	You're just hiding four Israelis in, like, a three-block radius, and no one knows.
	Mm-hmm.
	Sure.
	A few blocks away from the Al-Jamal home, another family of Hamas links called Abu-Nar was holding Noah Argamani.
	The Abu-Nar family was also killed and their building destroyed, local residents said.
	They were less prominent in the neighborhood than the Al-Jamals, according to residents.
	Again, the raid that Israel performed to free the hostages is just another indicator That everything that the West believes about this conflict tends to be a lie.
	It's actually a very simple moral conflict.
	The incredible unwillingness to acknowledge that reality is insane.
	I mean, but by the way, speaking of lies, the entire Gaza famine, the idea that people are starving to death in Gaza is not true.
	Israel's been shipping in thousands of calories per person per day into the Gaza Strip.
	It is not even remotely true.
	They undercounted the number of food trucks going into Gaza to deliberately lie to the public.
	So, again, the only reason this matters is because the West that lies to itself is likely to be victimized by people who are perfectly willing to take advantage of the West's stupidity.
	The reason why the Israel-Hamas conflict is important is because if you get this one wrong, it is very likely you're going to get your own civilization wrong.
	In America that refuses to get this one right, that can't see the moral difference or sees this as a cycle of violence or has sympathy for the group that takes hostages and murders women and children and participates in mass rape and civilians cheer it on, is a civilization that is likely to open itself wide to terror, infiltration, and a serious undermining of its actual principles.
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