Ben Shapiro

Historically, Russia was very, very good at what we call psyops, psychological operations designed to undermine the United States.They are still good at it. The Op is happening. It’s live, right in front of us. Candace Owens, Andrew Tate, and other Woke Right influencers have now landed in Moscow, and they’re basically Jane Fonda on the Vietcong anti-aircraft guns during the Vietnam War.They propagandize for our enemies.If you somehow believe that these people are just good-hearted folks who are invested in Christianity and the West and traditional conservative values, I hate to break it to you, but you are the sucker. If your head is attached to your shoulders, the Op has never been more obvious.The dictator who currently runs Russia is Vladimir Putin. He was a member of the KGB. His task: Intelligence and counter-intelligence. He worked under a man named Yuri Andropov, who was then leading the KGB. Later, Andropov became the Premier of the Soviet Union, the dictator of the Soviet Union.And here’s what Andropov said about psyops directed at Soviet enemies: “Disinformation is like cocaine. Sniff once or twice. It may not change your life if you use it every day, though it will make you an addict, a different man.”It seems like a lot of people in the West are now all coked up.Candace Owens is in Russia sitting on Russian propaganda panels. She’s praising what she describes as Russia’s approach to families.Spoiler alert: Statistically, the Russian approach to family is not to get married, never have children. Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing the same sort of stuff, signaling her support for Candace’s big Russian adventure. And Buckley Carlson (a.k.a. Tucker Carlson, minus the skincare regimen) is openly saying that Russia’s leader looks out for his people’s interests, and he wishes we had that here. Tucker, of course, says exactly the same thing.None of them are simply making critiques of America. They’re all saying that Russia is somehow better, that Russia’s leadership is somehow better.And that’s the tell: There’s a big difference between saying “countries act in their own national interest” or “America has problems,” and “I wish our country were run more like Vladimir Putin’s Russia.” Those are not the same arguments.One of those is rooted in realism. The other is just crazed fan-fiction conspiracy nonsense.That is what this has become: Geopolitical fan fiction for people who think America sucks so much that countries like Russia not only ought to be a model for us, but ought to have more global power.This is all part of what I have called a demoralization op.Demoralization is the effort to destroy basic moral principles and dogmas and replace them with divisive fringe ideologies. It is step one in collapsing your enemies.That is what is happening here. Enemies of America are using every resource at their disposal to do it — and there is good news for them: There’s an entire online repository of complete dunderheaded morons and conspiratorial America haters to do their dirty work for them, and lots of people online to click into the echo chamber.The exact same people who built their brands around “Don’t trust the regime” and “Don’t trust the media” and “Don’t trust the propaganda” are suddenly very much in favor of trusting a regime, (when it’s Russia), the media, (when it’s Russia Today) and the propaganda, (when they are controlled by the Russian government and tell them America is decadent and the West is collapsing and Putin is strong and Russia protects tradition).Suddenly, these people are on board all the way. They’re not investigating or questioning.This is not skepticism. This is credulity. This is absolute, credulous stupidity. And they are nodding along either because they are bought and paid for, or because the message actually flatters their priors, and their priors are obvious: America sucks. America is in decline. America, in fact, is evil.These are the ideas they parrot: We took the wrong side during World War II. We were vicious during the Cold War. We were the bad guys in the modern era. We were the great despoilers of innocent Muslims in the Middle East.In the end, the result is all the same. The only way to fix all of this is to unburden the brutalized, demonized the American soul, and give more power to America’s enemies.We need — wait for it — multi-polarity. That’s how the Op works. The goal is to convince you that America is irredeemably crappy morally, and that the people we’ve always seen as our geopolitical opponents are actually not that bad. Russia is not that bad. In many ways they’re better than we are. Iran is not that bad. They don’t bother us. Maybe they could be our friend. China is not that bad.That’s the Op, and it’s working on a large number of people who spend too much time online watching Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens or Sean Ryan or Andrew Tate or Megyn Kelly or any of the increasingly anti-American grifters and clickwhores willing to crap on America, either because they believe it, or for fame and money.

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Ben Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author.

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A big story that lit the internet on fire is the story of Jesse Ridgway, who is known online as McJuggerNuggets.

A big story that lit the internet on fire is the story of Jesse Ridgway, who is known online as McJuggerNuggets.He’s a 33-year-old YouTuber, filmmaker, actor, and director from New Jersey with 4 million subscribers. Back in March, Ridgway and his wife, Ashley, announced their first pregnancy with a pretty excited post. On April 8, they put out an ultrasound video.We are big fans of ultrasounds, specifically because many women don’t recognize what is growing inside them. That’s because they’ve been lied to. And this is why we team with pro-life organizations to provide ultrasounds for women who are pregnant and considering whether to abort their baby.On June 3, Jesse then posted a detailed statement on X, reposted by his wife, announcing that they had killed the baby in utero, which is what abortion is.He wrote:This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to Trisomy 21. The choice was not made lightly. We really appreciate all of the personal stories that you guys shared with us, especially the unconditional support we received from fans no matter what we decided. I know some of you may be very disappointed to hear this news. We are devastated. This has been extremely traumatic for both of us, especially Ashley. She underwent the procedure earlier this week and is on the mend. Thankfully, everything went smoothly, but emotionally we are drained. Trisomy 21, also known as Down Syndrome, is caused by an extra chromosome. It is caused by an error in cell division, like a glitch. The odds of a baby having it is 1 in 1000. When I first confronted this news, I was shocked but optimistic. If they’re a little slow intellectually, then we’ll make it work. I signed on to be a parent, come what may…but I just didn’t fully understand what Down Syndrome entailed. Once we made it public, it became clear that MOST people don’t know what Down Syndrome entails (and no, it’s not the same as Autism): 50% of babies with DS have heart defects. 75% will have hearing challenges. Over 50% will have vision problems. Impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, etc…Sadly, the list is long, feel free to look it up…Down Syndome isn’t a “blessing”, it is objectively sh*tty from a health perspective. I didn’t realize just how rough it is for the child, let alone the family…more often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life. The miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which made matters worse…they may never see the light of day and it puts Ashley further at risk. We spoke with doctors, friends, family and genetic counselors and learned that up to 90% of women terminate their pregnancy after learning the baby has Trisomy 21. This was WAY higher than I expected, I thought it would be lower given that I hear so many say they kept or would keep the baby. I believe that’s because most terminations happen privately, it feels shameful. A lot of judgment being cast. You never think you’d be in this type of situation until it happens to you and then things change. To all of my fans who have weighed in on this topic who have Autism, Down Syndrome or any other conditions…we appreciate you. You matter a lot and we’re glad you’re here. I commend you and your families for having the strength and courage to push forward. As for us, we made a difficult decision that we believe in the long-run will be beneficial for our family. Thankfully, we had a choice. It will take a little time to move on, but we are excited to try again in the future and hopefully have a better outcome. Love you guys & thank you for understanding.This is disturbing stuff.Now, to pretend that every parent doesn’t wish for, hope for, and pray for a healthy child is silly. I thank God I have four healthy children and a fifth — with the help of God — on the way.When you make the decision to get pregnant, this is obviously part of the calculation, because what is very clear from this entire story is that, from the very beginning, it was acknowledged as a human life.The ultrasound was done and they were excited. They weren’t excited because there was no human value.Not only that, this post demonstrates why his wife is devastated: This is not a meaningless cluster of cells. It is a preborn child. That is why it’s devastating.Once you understand that there is a moral component to the life of that child, killing the child becomes immoral.That doesn’t mean that morality is easy. Morality is not easy. Morality is very often incredibly difficult. That doesn’t mean life is always wonderful, beautiful, or simple.It does mean that doing the moral thing is required, whether or not it is difficult, and the only person in this scenario who really pays the price is the child. Was that child’s life not worth living? That is the actual presumption: that if you have all of these conditions, it’s better if the child is never born.This is immoral. What makes it even more immoral and absurd is that the same YouTuber had put out a post earlier this year talking about their dog being diagnosed with stage-four kidney disease last year. He wrote:Sweet’s Super Sixth Birthday. After she was diagnosed with stage four kidney disease last year around her fifth birthday, the vet said she had weeks to live. If we were lucky, maybe a few months. ONE YEAR LATER. She is still fighting. She is in the .0001% of superhero dogs that can continue living with no kidneys. We all need a hero in this life. Jenny has been one of mine.First: I have a dog. Second: Dogs are great.But a dog will never feel the way a human feels about life; a dog will never have the life experiences a human does.This disconnect is about convenience. I’m not going to pretend that convenience is an unimportant factor in life. It obviously is.But sacrifice and morality are about sacrifice and morality.Every child is a blessing. But that doesn’t mean all blessings are easy. We have this bizarre notion in our society that everything in your life is either all good or all bad, either all easy or all hard, and that hard equals bad and easy equals good.That’s not true. I have friends who have children with issues like Down syndrome, and it requires a lot from them. Sometimes it puts them on the verge of true, serious hardship.That’s why they are heroes for doing it.But being heroic means standing up for morality even when it’s hard. If we have a world full of people who simply dispose of babies for convenience, there is something truly evil happening on a societal level.When he says, “We really appreciate all of the personal stories that you guys shared with us, especially the unconditional support we received from fans with no matter what we decided,” you cannot make a decision about another person’s life and be supported in that decision when it horribly affects that other person’s life.The entire premise of this story, all of it, soup to nuts, is that this was a child. Otherwise, this would have no relevance to anyone.That is the buried lede. Everyone is affected emotionally by this particular story because there was an ultrasound, and it showed a baby, a human life with potential, and everyone recognizes it.If this were just the removal of a polyp, no one would care on either side. They also put out a video that showed them finding out that their child had trisomy 21.The reason that we’re commenting on this issue is that it’s public. They are the ones who made this public in the first place. And so it became an issue of public controversy.There may be a lot of people saying today, “It’s a private issue.”I think we all have something to say when someone does something morally wrong, and when it becomes a matter of public controversy, we certainly have something to say about it, because it’s a comment on what society’s standards are. And societal standards should protect human life, because otherwise people make decisions not based on the independent interests of human life with potential; they make decisions based on what they believe their lifestyle will be and how their life will be affected by that thing.That’s why you have moral rules and standards in the first place.

For years, much of the American media has operated under a peculiar assumption: That the best way to confront adversaries such as China and Iran is to accommodate them. If the United States applies pressure, the narrative quickly becomes that America is overextended, losing leverage or somehow empowering its enemies.

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