Dec 5, 2023
Ben Shapiro Busted After Right-Wing Con DETERIORATES In Real Time
Ben Shapiro accidentally destroys his own logic and right-wing attacks against the LGBTQ community during an interview about latest insane far-right movie. John Iadarola and Viviana Vigil break it down on The Damage Report.
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I know you're not a woman.
>> Speaker 2: You don't
know how he identifies.
>> Speaker 1: If you can beat them.
>> Speaker 1: What do you know about
the US Opens for the global games?
>> Speaker 2: You want us to
compete as women, $5000 prizes.
>> Speaker 3: My lover says you
were a great coach back in the day.
>> Speaker 3: Join them.
>> Speaker 2: This is
the way the world is now.
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>> Speaker 2: My eight year old
daughter told me all about it.
>> Speaker 2: So a guy can become
a girl with no physical changes at all.
>> Speaker 1: That's called gender fluid.
>> Speaker 2: So I can be a woman on
the court and man in the bedroom,
I can't believe it.
Nice.
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>> Speaker 3: It's just
a terrible trailer.
I mean, even if your entire personality
is that you became in the last two
years a transphobe,
it's just not a well put together trailer.
But anyway, the idea is you see, the trans
people are gonna destroy the sports and
they're making this because it's a big
threat, they would have you believe.
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Or do they actually believe that?
Here is Ben Shapiro.
>> Speaker 4: You said we should make
a fictional film about this topic.
Now to be fair,
I think I'd actually suggested to
the Crane Boys that they do this as a doc.
>> Speaker 2: Yes.
>> Speaker 4: I originally went to
them and I said you guys should go try
out for a bunch of ladies leagues.
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And that became not possible because as it
turns out, most ladies leagues don't allow
in actual men and they weren't willing to
go the full distance [LAUGH] in terms of
what it would require in order to
the actual hormone treatments and
everything to play in some
of the ladies leagues.
But in any case, it turned into this.
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So explain.
>> Speaker 3: I think you just explained,
actually I think that
you explained perfectly.
The caricature that you
give of this doom and
gloom scenario where you pretend to be
worried about the future of women's
sports because of trans participation
isn't at all what you say it's gonna be.
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That's not what it is.
So we decided to just make a funny movie
about it, pretending that that's the case.
He just admitted it openly on the show.
I mean, look, we've pointed out for
literally years that all of this is a con.
They're just trying to get
conservatives to focus on this so
that they won't pay attention to the fact
that they're voting in people who
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are gonna economically ruin them.
But he's openly admitting it now.
Viviana, what do you think?
>> Speaker 1: My gosh, John, I absolutely
loved this so much [LAUGH] because
it is every argument we've ever told
to these hate mongers of like, but
you're not gonna go and change your whole
life just to play volleyball, guys.
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They finally seem to get it,
but it's not clicking.
Also, it's another example of how
everything in Hollywood's already
been done.
Rodney Dangerfield did it with Ladybugs,
get over it, and
it was probably done better back then.
So just move on, Ben.
Get over your self.
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Ben has some stuff going on in
his mind that he really just,
I don't know why he's picked this topic
to go so hard against, no pun intended.
But I don't see how the cognitive
dissidents keeps happening with him and
how his followers are not seeing it.
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Because it's very clear that his argument
that he's made for, I don't know,
since he's been on air that men are trying
to get into women's sports and ruin it for
women when, like you said, he made this
argument against his own argument.
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And it seems as simple as that, but
it just went right over his head.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah.
And again, they don't care about
women's sports in general,
they don't at all,
they're not remotely interested.
I don't even think that he focuses
as much on it as some of the others.
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He talks about it constantly and
he obviously loves this movie that looks
like it's not gonna be remotely
funny even if you're a transphobe,
but others, Matt Walsh, are more.
They pretend even more that this is
something that they truly care about.
And again, I just wanna point out,
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I feel like facts have rarely
been a part of this conversation.
20 states, the Olympic Committee and
the NCAA have allowed trans athletes
to play sports for literally decades.
So why is every winner in
these sports not trans?
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We have decades of case studies
across dozens of states and
international athletics.
So why don't we see it?
And also at the same time that the focus,
I guess the main course is
attacking trans athletes.
You also saw in that, they had the CIS
female athletes, they couldn't play sports
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because they had to show that they weren't
able to throw the ball or whatever, so
that then the fake trans athlete would
look like they don't actually respect
these athletes at all.
All of this is so fake.
And I would say, why are they doing it?
Well, look, they're doing it,
again all of these culture war things
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are designed to allow Republicans to be
elected that are only gonna do the biding
of the wealthiest in America, and
you need to distract poor conservatives.
That's why they're doing all of this.
But why it works, I think is there
are a lot of men out there, young, white,
conservative men, or whatever,
who are having some difficulty.
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They feel left behind, they feel blah,
blah, blah, whatever, incl stuff.
And they're trained to be as incapable of
functioning in modern society as possible
by people like Ben Shapiro and
the others who want them to be weak and
subservient to them.
And so what do you need if you've been
put into that horrible low position?
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You need someone to feel superior to,
someone that you can openly mock, and
hate, and denigrate.
And so they provide that.
And trans people aren't the only
people that they offer up on
a silver platter to these pathetic men,
but it's certainly one of them,
it's a very popular one these days.
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>> Speaker 1: Well, LGBTQ movement
has made a lot of strides, and
particularly gay men have become a lot
more accepted in today's society,
even in politics, all over,
across the board.
And so you can't use them as a pinata
anymore, you can't really just knock
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at people, calling them F words, degrading
them, so now we need a new target.
But it's still toxic masculinity,
it's still misogyny.
I would love to see Ben Shapiro
go up against Naomi Osaka or
Serena Williams and see if he can
even stand one of their serves.
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So, like you said,
it has nothing to do with women's sports.
In fact, they absolutely have zero
respect for female athletes, and
that is why they wanna mock anybody who
is a trans person trying to get into.
I mean, they're obviously athletes,
whether you're trans or not.
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Hopefully, we will see the day where we
are more accepting like we are with gay
men because gay men are more
accepted than gay women.
Hopefully, we will see the day when we
will be accepting of trans people as well,
and we're not there yet, and it's sad.
Ben Shapiro, his days are numbered.
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I can't stand him.
>> Speaker 3: And look,
I hope that we get to that point too.
Sometimes when I see this hyper focus,
there's not a day that Michael Knowles,
and Matt Walsh, and
Ben Shapiro don't wake up and
talk for an hour straight about how trans
people are coming to ruin your life or
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something, and
you see all the laws being passed.
It makes you think,
how are we ever gonna get to that spot?
But I try to remember, they did this with
gay marriage for literally decades, and
I think it arguably might
have had the opposite effect.
These are horrible, hateful,
pathetic, weak people.
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Do you want to be associated with them?
I don't think most people do.
And seeing them constantly
whine about trans people,
I think might actually drive more
reasonable people to be like,
if it bothers them so much,
maybe it's not actually an issue.
That's my hope anyway.
>> Speaker 1: They're being lied to,
though, John.
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They're being lied to, the people are
being scared that their children are being
taught this and they're being encouraged.
And it's like all this rhetoric and
it's frightening people,
and a lot of people don't understand
a trans person's journey.
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I for one, I'm a CIS person,
I don't understand it.
I have to say, okay, let me dive in,
let me do some research.
Let me learn about it.
Let me listen to people.
And other people that are so
affected by this fear mongering,
they run with it, especially parents.
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Protect the children,
what about the children?
You know what I mean?
They go right into it.
And so they know that it gets the views,
they know it gets the clicks.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, for
the psychological reasons we talked about.
For now, though, I would like to continue
the challenge that I've put forward
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towards all of these right
wing guys is a challenge.
You say you are so
focused on women's sports,
go to one event, go see one match,
one game, one -.
>> Speaker 1: I don't like any sports,
zero sports for me.
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[LAUGH] Yeah.
>> Speaker 3: Okay.
>> Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm working.
>> Speaker 3: Sorry,
Cosmo, I'll be done soon.
Anyway, with that said,
I'm gonna read a few of your comments and
we're gonna get into another
topic in just a sec.
Armed Liberal says in
a Super Chat Turk of the year,
Dark John's typo during a preport
about Trump cucking others.
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I think that was in the title, actually.
Man, you remember that.
Rick says in a Super Chat,
dump truck is projecting again, he is for
sure has an AI ad in
the works on Joe Biden.
I don't remember if he was involved.
No, I guess it was Ron DeSantis's wider
campaign thing that had the Trump hugging.
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We defended Trump in
that because he actually
was the target of deepfakes in that case.
So again, I know I'm supposed to
have Trump derangement syndrome, but
I have a functioning brain.
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