I am the most free market person on the right.
I mean, I'm an extraordinarily pro free market person.
I don't believe that generally the government should crack down on
the operations of businesses.
I think more freedom for businesses are good.
I think that lower taxes for business are good for the economy of Florida.
The company for the economy of the United States more broadly.
However, [SOUND] >> Ben Shapiro is about to tell you
when he's in favor of regulation and
it has to do with his feelings getting hurt over opinions he disagrees with.
>> Corporations have to stand up for their own free market bonafides and
they have to not become tools of the people who wish to destroy freedom
in this country on behalf of leftist group think.
If you decide to just become a woke corporation that does the bidding
of your democratic taskmasters, don't be surprised when you get clocked with
a legislative two by four f around and find out.
F around and that's what Disney did.
Disney decided that it was going to inject itself into social politics in the state
of Florida.
It decided that it was going to try to use its massive corporate power,
in the state of Florida employs tens of thousands of people here.
They're just gonna try to use that power in order to cudgel the state government of
Florida to do the bidding of executives in New York and Burbank California.
And instead what it is finding out right now is that the people of Florida are not
up for it.
>> All right, there's a lot to unpack there.
Let me just say shout out to Burbank California, am I right,
go san Fernando Valley.
Although I think it might be its own area, not part of that anyway,
it doesn't matter.
Like to hear a shout out from for Burbank.
But anyway, putting that aside.
Ben Shapiro also has shown us the seriousness of that legislative four by
four, which Cody Johnson reminded us all of under that video on Twitter.
I just wanna show you that a legislative four by four from Home Depot of
all places.
Let's also talk about the actual issue at hand here, which is, man,
it's interesting how much conservatives love the free market.
Until these corporations might have a political opinion that goes
against their conservative ideology.
And might even threaten to withhold campaign donations from politicians who
push for legislation that they condemn.
And that's exactly what happened here with Disney speaking out against the so
called don't say gay bill in Florida and
the government in Florida decided to retaliate against Disney for doing so.
Which might have some free speech implications there,
first Amendment implications.
But it is interesting to see these people jink,
twist themselves into a pretzel in regard to regulation.
If the corporations are abusing you, if you're working full time at Disney,
but aren't making enough money to afford housing and have to live in your car.
Which by the way,
there are plenty of Disney employees who are dealing with that.
Ben Shapiro thinks that's good, it's good.
Free market is good in that regard.
Companies abusing you.
Good.
No regulation, companies speaking out against terrible bigoted laws.
No, we gotta regulate, we gotta crackdown.
>> Yeah.
So first the amusing stuff, two by four is what for example,
Hacksaw Jim Duggan used to use back in the old WWF days.
And he'd come out with it.
It's a significant piece of wood that you hit people with, right.
It's not a flat board like that.
He doesn't know anything.
[LAUGH] Okay, he's, I went and bought it two by four,
no that's not a two by four at all brother, at all, try harder.
Okay, so now the onto the substance.
Like they used to call him intellectual,
I don't know if New York Times is still doing that.
New York Times loves the right wing,
there isn't a right wing guy online that they haven't fluffed, right.
Here he is admitting, I have no principles at all.
Like, the whole thing was like, I'm an intellectual cuz I have principles and
I have been talking about my principles all day long.
>> Facts don't care about your feelings.
Well, dude, you're either say that the government should regulate companies or
they shouldn't.
It's not a principle thing to say,
we shouldn't regulate them if they're hurting the workers,
they're outsourcing jobs etc, that's their beloved writers, corporations.
But if they hurt my feelings and they support gay people and
I hate gay people, we should hit him with a two by four.
You can say a lot of things, but you can't say that's principled.
That's just you saying, all the things I told you before,
I was totally full of crap.
I didn't mean any of it.
It's all about my feelings.
>> So I wanna get to the context of what's transpiring in Florida.
Governor Ron DeSantis has signed the legislation that does
away with Disney's self governing rights.
So although Florida republicans say that the move against Disney was made to
eliminate corporate perks.
Critics argue that the legislature only acted after the company announced it would
no longer make political contributions.
>> That's what Ben loves, when you could do political contributions.
What is otherwise known as legalized bribes.
He loves that cuz that rips you off and makes corruption 1000 times worse.
But God forbid Disney should say, hey, maybe we shouldn't despise gay people.
He's got his principles, hilarious.
>> And remember, in a state like Florida,
Disney gives pretty equally to democrats and republicans.
The remaining republican.
I mean, remaining democrats in Florida, at least.
And the threat here is, well, anyone who pushed for or
supported this legislation, we're gonna stop donating to which by the way,
they're responding to their own employees who demanded that.
And republicans aren't in favor of it.
Obviously, that would give it a financial advantage,
at least to the few Democratic lawmakers in the state legislature.
But the point that I really wanna drive home here isn't just that Ben Shapiro is
a hypocrite on corporate regulations, right.
Of course.
I mean that in my opinion at this point is a pretty boring argument to make,
it's par for the course.
But I do want people to be very aware of what the right wing is willing to
regulate corporations for.
And what they're willing to allow corporations to get away with.
As they notice this populist climate in the country,
obviously they wanna tap into that for political reasons.
And what you hear them say over and over again is, these corporations are too woke,
they don't wanna hold corporate power accountable for
the abusive work environments that they've created.
They don't wanna hold corporate America accountable for having employees that
literally work full time yet don't make enough money to afford basic housing.
Like a one bedroom apartment in the area that they're working in.
Okay, Ben Shapiro, along with all the other republicans in the country,
had no problem with Disney employees in Orange county California,
living out of their cars.
Even though they were working full time jobs.
They don't care about the economic anxiety of Americans,
which is what's fueling the populist climate in the country.
They wanna co opt it, but they do so with a completely different talking point,
which is, these corporations are out of control.
Yeah, they abuse their employees, but we kinda like that, we wanna support that,
that's the free market.
But if they speak out against our ideology, if they're too woke for us,
that's when we retaliate, that's when they should be held accountable.
And I think that says a lot about where right wing populism really stands.
>> Yeah.
Now, one more thing about his hypocrisy.
If Disney is responding to their own employees,
they're making a business decision that, hey, our business is going to be more
hurt if we lose valuable employees because of our position here.
Bench bureau is saying, I don't care about your business decisions,
even though you're a private corporation or a public corporation but
you're running in the private market, right.
You should do what I say, cuz I'm offended by your feelings.
I don't care if it hurts your business,
I want the government to regulate and force you to make business
decisions that might be counter to your actual financial interests.
That's the big government, two by four that he's talking about.
That is counter to every single thing he has ever said.
Okay, now to Ana's point.
So when a corporation, the corporations in mass, do trillions,
literally trillions of dollars in tax loopholes,
which then redistributes the tax burden on to all of us.
The middle class, the poor and by the way, the upper middle class,
it redistributes to the doctors, accountants, lawyers, etc, right?
He's totally fine with that.
Hey, let him take as much money as they want.
They don't have to pay their fair share.
You should pay it instead of them,
even though they're the richest corporations in the world.
When they outsource jobs,
he doesn't think the government should use a two by four at all.
That is their God given right to take American jobs and
ship them to other countries.
But if they dare say that gay people are equal to straight people.
Then all of a sudden big government and the jack booted thugs of tyrannical
government should come into Disney's headquarters and
change all their policies.
So, thank you Ben for proving that you never meant anything you ever said.
You have no principles at all.
And your ideology is, I want power and I don't want you to have it and
I don't really like the private markets or the free markets.
I don't really like democracy.
I really don't like any of this stuff.
I just want to be able to enforce my ideas on other people.