Stocks continue to crumble as the Dow drops below 30,000 for the first time since before the pandemic.

America is in the midst of a great moral disintegration, and the Audubon Society wants you to listen

to a man dressed as a woman, dressed as a bird for Pride Month. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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off your very first month. Well, the Joe session is here. According to the Wall Street

Journal, U.S. stocks tumbled on Thursday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial average below

$30,000 for the first time since January 2021, as volatility continued

to rock the market. Major indices have notched big declines in 2022 as high inflation, rising interest

rates, growing concerns about corporate profits and economic growth, dense investors appetite

for risk. The blue chips are down 18% this year. The S&P 500 is down 23%. The tech-heavy NASDAQ

composite has fallen 32%. Stox did rally a little

bit on Wednesday, but then dropped again on Thursday. Optimism fizzled. Stocks declined across the

market as investors reassessed the risks ahead. Again, these are really, really poor numbers,

and they are reflective underlying economic uncertainty driven by the simple fact that the Biden administration not only has no plan, all of their plans are bad.

This is the Joe session. We are in the middle of Joe Biden's recession because the fact is that this was not supposed to happen.

I said when Joe Biden took office that he was the luckiest son of a gun ever to take the office, not only because of the wonderful surprise he must be to him every morning

to realize that he's president and new, but also because he was inheriting this awful situation

that we were already coming out of. Basically, the patient had been put into an artificial coma,

and now the patient was coming out of it and was on the road to recovery. And the new doctor,

all the new doctor had to do was just stand there and then smile and give a good prognosis. And that's all. And instead, the new doctor came in and started putting leeches all over the patient and then was surprised when the bloodletting actually was bad for the patient. That's precisely what happened. Go back to my podcast, the day that Joe Biden took off and I said, this guy is going to have a very easy two years. I was wrong because I didn't think it was possible for him to screw this up this badly. Again, I should have listened to Barack Obama, who said, don't underestimate Joe Biden's ability to F things up. Amazing. He was given a vaccine. He was given a new variant. By the way, the new, the new Omicron variant was actually quite good in the sense that it actually gave widespread immunity with very low risk of death

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