Podbit · The Ben Shapiro Show
Gorsuch wrote a children's book because only 13% of 8th graders are proficient in American history. The Declaration was built on three radical ideas — equality, God-given rights, and self-governance — and the people behind it risked everything. One signer, Thomas Nelson, died so poor he was buried in an unmarked grave.
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The trans athletes case draws Shapiro's sharpest sarcasm. He finds the 6-3 ruling correct but the fact that it was even litigated 'purely insane.' Kavanaugh's majority holds that Title IX's use of 'sex' in 1972 unambiguously meant biological sex, that biological differences justify separate sports, and that the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit states from applying that principle universally. But Shapiro's real admiration is reserved for Thomas's concurrence, which cuts through the majority's careful tiptoeing to say outright: gender dysphoria is a mutable mental condition, it does not create a suspect class requiring heightened scrutiny, and calling boys girls is a lie. Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench — a signal of intense displeasure — arguing that excluding even hormonally treated trans girls is discriminatory overreach. Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented too, arguing Title IX makes room for gender identity beyond birth sex. Shapiro dismisses both dissents as 'incompetent and incoherent,' observing that you cannot maintain separate leagues if you cannot define the categories.
SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in West Virginia v. BPJ that Title IX permits states to ban biological males from competing in girls' sports.
SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that Title IX permits states to ban biological males from girls' sports. But the real courage was Thomas's: gender dysphoria is a mutable mental condition, not an immutable characteristic like race or sex, and it creates no protected class requiring heightened constitutional scrutiny.
Justice Gorsuch noted that approximately one third of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had their homes burned or destroyed as a consequence of signing.
The Bostock decision — written by Gorsuch himself — said the Civil Rights Act protects men who identify as women from employment discrimination. That precedent forced the majority to contort its logic in the trans sports case, creating a distinction between Title VII (employment) and Title IX (sports) that barely holds.
Factories that replaced coal engines with electric ones in the early 1900s got only 6% efficiency gains. Those that redesigned their entire factory around electricity got a 3x productivity improvement. Swapping AI tools into your existing structure will give you 6%. Rebuilding around AI will give you 10x.
Lebanese terrorists backed by Iran were holding American hostages throughout the Reagan presidency. Reagan had loudly campaigned against negotiating with terrorists — putting him in an impossible position that his team quietly decided to ignore.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the US openly supplied Iraq with weapons, training, and intelligence. At the same time, Oliver North was secretly funneling missiles to Iran. The US was playing both sides of a shooting war.
Oliver North traveled to Iran under the alias 'William P. Goode' with a fake passport. CIA Director William Casey allegedly gave him cyanide pills so he could kill himself rather than be tortured if captured. He returned safely and the deal moved forward.
The Pentagon sold missiles to the CIA for $3,700 each. The CIA sold them to Richard Secord at cost. Secord sold them to Iranian middleman Ghorbanifar for $10,000 each. Ghorbanifar charged Iran even more. The profit — including $3 million in interest in one Swiss account — was diverted directly to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran in 8 shipments over more than a year. Only 3 of 7 hostages were released. Three more were taken. The net result was zero freed hostages and a full-blown constitutional scandal.
On October 5, 1986, a CIA Contra supply plane flew a weapons drop at 2,500 feet in broad daylight. A Sandinista soldier shot it down. The only survivor, Eugene Hasenfuss, had borrowed a parachute from his skydiving brother. He was captured, paraded in front of cameras, and told the Sandinistas everything he knew.
The CIA supply operation used a front company called Southern Air Transport, widely known to be a CIA cover. Crew members of the downed plane carried their Southern Air Transport employee IDs in their wallets. One also had a business card directly linking him to Oliver North's office in Washington.
When the scandal broke, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall conducted what became known as a 'shredding party,' destroying a day's worth of documents. The full truth of Iran-Contra may never be known because of what was fed through that shredder.
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