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Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!

Fri, 7 Feb 2025

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Democrats and the media go insane over Elon Musk’s young DOGE team; we analyze ‘Beast Games’; and Kanye West is back on X. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE Ep.2134 - - - Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings - - - DailyWire+: Go to https://JeremysRazors.com now. Get the 2nd Gen razor and embrace the future. "Identity Crisis" tells the stories the mainstream media won’t. Stream the full film now, only on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3C61qVU Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today's Sponsors: PureTalk - Switch to PureTalk and start saving today! Visit https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO Lifelock - Visit https://LifeLock.com/BEN and save up to 40% your first year! Good Ranchers - Visit https://goodranchers.com and subscribe to any box using code BEN to claim $25 off, free express shipping, and your choice of free ground beef, chicken, or salmon in every order for an entire year. Black Rifle Coffee Company - Head to https://BlackRifleCoffee.com now and use code DAILYWIRE for 20% off America’s Coffee. - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB

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Chapter 1: What is the controversy surrounding Elon Musk's Doge team?

00:00 - 00:19 Ben Shapiro

Well, folks, there's one kind of young person that Democrats like, and there's one kind of young person that Democrats really don't. The kind of young person Democrats like, as it turns out, the theater kid. That is the type, the theater kid. And when I say the theater kid, I mean very specifically performative young people who cast aspersions at everyone who is older than they are, cast blame.

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00:19 - 00:37 Ben Shapiro

Those people are tools of the Democratic Party. They are tools of the left. The left does not wish to generate young people who are self-sufficient, who create things, who are innovative, who are trying to build for the future. Those young people are kind of bad. They're part of the system. What they want are young people that they can use as batons to wield against the system.

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00:38 - 00:52 Ben Shapiro

The young people who are bad are the people who are actually good at things. Those young people who might be, you know, engineers, who might be building companies, who might be innovating. Those young people... They're too weird. We can't allow them anywhere near the levers of power.

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00:52 - 01:13 Ben Shapiro

This has come to a head today because the left has decided that the worst young people in existence work for Elon Musk's doge. And this has specifically become a central feature of the democratic angst because there is one young person in particular, a young technologist. who is being targeted by Wired Magazine and now the entire unified left. Why?

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00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

Because this young technologist is known online as Big Balls. Yes, that's a meme. It turns out that many of the people who are in sort of online meme world, which is Elon Musk's domain. Elon is the king of meme world. That if you are in that world, you tend to throw out silly memes, foolish names for yourself, silly nicknames.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

And meanwhile, you're using AI technology to decode thousands of years old memes. encrypted Greek texts, basically. So you're doing genius things, but also you're doing super stupid things by calling yourself big balls on LinkedIn. Apparently, Wired is very angry about this.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

They had a report that says that a young technologist known online as Big Balls, who works for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has access to sensitive U.S. government systems. But his professional and online history call into question whether he would pass the background check typically required to obtain security clearances. Yeah, sure.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

That is the thing that I think people are deeply worried about, is whether they would pass a security clearance, the kind of security clearance that, for example, allowed Biden administration appointees to full-on leak Israeli war plans to the press. Those security clearances have been doing a hell of a lot of work. They've been doing an amazing job over there.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

The engineers that Elon Musk has working for him typically are young and incredibly smart, which is why they work for Elon Musk. So the six young men who are sort of leading the charge are apparently all between the ages of 19 and 24. And this has been determined to be a very, very bad thing, again, by so many of the people on the left. Just terrible.

Chapter 2: Why are Democrats upset about the young technologist known as Big Balls?

15:34 - 15:54 Ben Shapiro

They want permanent David Hogg. That's what they want. They want people who never build anything, who never do anything useful. What they want is people who are perennially 16 and complaining about the world. And by the way, ruining their own lives in the process. A perfect example of this sort of person is a representative from Michigan. named Lori Pohutsky. Lori Pohutsky is not a young person.

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15:54 - 16:18 Ben Shapiro

Lori Pohutsky is 36, which in the old days would have put you squarely in sort of the lower middle-aged category. Lori Pohutsky announced yesterday that she had undergone surgery to ensure that you'd never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump's America and thus had sterilized herself. Perennial childhood, perennial lack of responsibility, and then blaming the system for it.

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16:18 - 16:39 Ben Shapiro

Now, you might say to yourself, wait, hold up. You know, there are many things that human beings can do, it turns out, to avoid getting pregnant. I mean, that is just a fact. You might say to yourself that Michigan abortion law is actually quite permissive, that actually the Michigan Constitution guarantees a right to an abortion. Yeah, but that's not the point.

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16:39 - 17:03 Ben Shapiro

The point is yelling at the system and then harming yourself in the process is heroism on the left. It is Greta Thunberg forever. It is 80-year-old Greta Thunberg filling the Democratic Party. So yeah, I'm not going to take you seriously that you're very, very upset over big balls going through the budget at the transportation department for waste and fraud. The answer is no.

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00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

Listen, I hope Democrats fight this one all the way. I really hope they fight this one all the way because their fight against Doge is one of the dumbest political fights I've ever seen anyone pick. They will be able to ding Elon Musk as a human just in terms of his individual polling numbers. But what they are fighting right now is against government bureaucracies being cut.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

That is what they are fighting against. And Doge is doing a really good job, so is the Trump administration generally, of calling out the waste and fraud that have been happening inside the system. Now, look, the real reality when it comes to America's national debt and bending the cost curve is that trimming around the edges, getting rid –

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

of even many of the billions of dollars that are put out by USAID. That is a worthy cause that is not going to truly bend the cost curve for the United States. The entire budget of the USAID is $40 billion. The United States is running trillion-dollar deficits every single year. We currently have a $36 trillion national debt.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

Unless you change the actual entitlement systems, which nobody is willing to do, you're not going to cure the problem. With that said, is it very good that it's happening? Sure. And is it hilarious the Democrats are trying to find a way to defend the massive bureaucracy they have created, this giant cash cow that they created and controlled for 100 years?

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

They're trying to defend it against the predations of big balls? Isn't that kind of hilarious? Absolutely it is. And their arguments, of course, make zero sense at all. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, she's very upset because there is a rumor that Doge had basically plugged into the FAA in order to help correct the aviation systems. And again, cut out the waste, fraud and abuse.

Chapter 3: How does the media portray young tech workers under Elon Musk?

51:56 - 51:57 Emily Austin

Thank you.

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51:58 - 52:23 Ben Shapiro

Well, meanwhile, Kanye West is back at it, and he is over on Twitter doing things again. Now, a wise man once said about Kanye West, live by the Kanye, die by the Kanye. That wise man was me, and that was in 2018. There are some who decided that, in fact, Kanye was a deeply wise and trustworthy individual and, in fact, should be a hero to people on the right.

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52:24 - 52:44 Ben Shapiro

Now, there are two things that are possible to say about Kanye West. One is that he's mentally ill, and he clearly is mentally ill. He clearly is bipolar. He's manic depressive. He now says that he's not manic depressive, that he's actually autistic. Okay, sure. Autism is now being used as a catch-all term for pretty much any strange behavior out there, like all of it.

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52:45 - 53:02 Ben Shapiro

I'd love to see a medical diagnosis, but... If there's a mental problem, then he is not totally responsible for his actions, which might explain why he does evil things, but it's not responsible for those. The other possibility is that actually he's not mentally ill and that he ought to be taken seriously, which is an argument made by many people on the right.

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00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

Okay, if he's not mentally ill and we ought to take him seriously, then he's evil. And he's an evil person because I don't know what else to make of a person who trots his wife out stark naked in front of the cameras, has suggested starting a pornography company, shows pornographic pictures to people who work with him. and proclaims himself a Nazi. Those seem like not amazing behaviors.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

Well, he took to X again today and was manically tweeting over and over and over. Everything from tweets about Bianca Sansori, his nude wife, to Adolf Hitler. Quote, Hitler was so fresh, according to Ye. He undoubtedly would have been murdered by Hitler. Quote, call me Adolf Hitler, and your still wants to F. It's this sort of genius that made him world famous, obviously.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

I'm going to normalize talking about Hitler the way they talking about killing N-words has been normalized. When was kill? I'm just confused when it was normalized to talk about killing N-words. By whom and why? Quote. I'm cold when I feel an ounce of feelings. O-N-C-E. A once of feelings. I assume it means ounce.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

I stand still and hold my eyes open like a psychopath till that feeling of feeling anything goes away. I have no heartstrings. People, pull out your heartstrings to control. People, use your feelings against you. I can say Jew as much as I want. I can say Hitler as much as I want. Matter of fact, I do say it when I want.

00:00 - 00:00 Ben Shapiro

Well, I mean, I think we all have the capacity to say both Hitler and Jew as many times as we want. But, yeah, I think it's kind of what you say. By the way, he's now come out in favor of P. Diddy. So just in case if you're wondering if there are any evil people he's not siding with, the alleged rapist, he's apparently in on that one. Quote, Puff, get one call a morning. All right. Free Puff.

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