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00:00:23.000Speaking of which, if we have learned anything over the past few years, it is that you cannot trust the big tech bros with your information and with your data, because here's the reality, they may not like you.
00:00:32.000And then they use the data to monetize their own platforms, which don't like you.
00:00:35.000So why exactly would you give your data to them?
00:00:37.000A few decades ago, private citizens used to be largely that, private, but the internet has changed all of that.
00:00:42.000Having your private life exposed for others to see, well, That used to be something only celebs worried about.
00:01:45.000It's a tough, dirty job, and not very many people want to do it.
00:01:47.000And if you make it tougher, and more dirty, and more difficult to get done, very, very few people want to do it.
00:01:52.000And that is precisely why you have seen the murder rate rise 30% in the course of one year.
00:01:57.000We are now re-entering 1960s, early 1970s crime territory.
00:02:02.000That is not where you want to be as a country.
00:02:04.000And the reason for that is we have decided that we are now the experts on how policing should work, even though very few of us have ever had to do any policing.
00:02:12.000Not only that, We believe things that we watch on TV about how policing works.
00:02:16.000So the same exact people who will say things like, why don't you shoot to wound?
00:02:20.000The president of the United States, Joe Biden.
00:02:22.000Back during the debates, he was like, why couldn't they just have shot to wound in the case of Jacob Blake?
00:02:26.000It's like, because you don't know anything about how any of this works.
00:02:29.000Why is it that they can't just shoot him from 100 yards away with a taser?
00:02:34.000All of this stuff is rooted in a basic misunderstanding of how policing works in the United States.
00:02:40.000And that misunderstanding, combined with the idea that America's police are systemically racist, another notion that is simply false on its face, the idea that America's police are disproportionately and specifically targeting black people for victimization, those two ideas combined lead to an awful lot of bad policy.
00:02:56.000The latest bad policy comes courtesy of the state of Maryland.
00:03:00.000So what exactly does all of that mean?
00:03:01.000the state legislature passed these sweeping police reforms.
00:03:04.000According to the New York Times, Maryland lawmakers voted on Saturday to limit police officers use of force, restrict the use of no-knock warrants, and repeal the nation's first bill of rights for law enforcement.
00:03:15.000So what exactly does all of that mean?
00:03:17.000Well, it means you ain't going to sign up any more police officers in Maryland is really what it means.
00:03:20.000One section creates a new statewide use of force policy and says that officers who violate those standards, causing serious injury or death, can be convicted and sent to prison for up to 10 years.
00:03:30.000The standard says that force can be used only to prevent an imminent threat of physical injury to a person or to effectuate a legitimate law enforcement objective.
00:03:38.000Well, that is an awful lot of wiggle room for prosecutors to go after cops, which is why the cops are opposing this sort of stuff.
00:03:45.000You can imagine an awful lot of situations in which the police have to do something to effectuate an arrest based on, for example, a violated warrant, and then the person dies, and then the cop is brought up on charges for really having not done anything wrong, just being caught on tape in a way that we don't particularly like.
00:04:03.000And we know this is happening across the United States anyway.
00:04:05.000The language there is extremely broad and extremely vague.
00:04:09.000The policy also says that force must be, quote, necessary and proportional.
00:04:13.000Well, necessary and proportional is a pretty tough standard because now you have a bunch of civilians deciding what exactly is necessary and proportional.
00:04:20.000Police reform groups said this is a much tougher standard than the traditional reasonableness standard.
00:04:24.000Which they said was not sufficient for holding officers accountable for blatant acts of violence.
00:04:28.000But reasonableness is rooted in the idea that police officers have to actually assess the situation on the ground and then make a determination.
00:04:34.000Necessary and proportional means that unless something is quote-unquote strictly necessary, you cannot do it.
00:04:39.000Well, who's to determine what is strictly necessary?
00:04:43.000In a second, I'm going to explain why all of these laws really are quite bad for policing and why they're gonna be horrible for public safety.
00:04:50.000Also, law enforcement agencies statewide must establish a system to identify police officers who are considered likely to use excessive force and to restrain, counsel, or if needed, reassign them.
00:05:00.000My guess is that Larry Hogan would assign that bill into law.
00:05:03.000But the legislature also repealed Maryland's Law Enforcement Officer Bill of Rights.
00:05:07.000That was the nation's first such law when it was enacted in the 1970s.
00:05:10.000It gave every officer statewide the right to appeal discipline to a local board regardless of a city's wishes.
00:05:15.000Instead, lawmakers replaced those protections by requiring every county to have a police accountability board to receive complaints of misconduct from the public.
00:05:22.000The problem with a lot of these police accountability boards is that they are heavily politicized.
00:05:25.000If you can get enough people in positions of power on the police accountability board who don't like the police, You'll just have a group of people cramming down on the police completely unworkable rules.
00:05:35.000Civilians will have a role on administrative charging committees that will review the findings of law enforcement agencies and recommend discipline for officers.
00:05:42.000Police chiefs will not be able to issue disciplinary actions more lenient than the levels recommended by those panels.
00:05:48.000Also, lawmakers limited the use of no-knock warrants Officers have said, because of the Breonna Taylor case, in that case that they actually did announce their presence, some witnesses disagreed, but no-knock warrants are sometimes necessary if you think that the person who's inside the residence is going to fire a gun at you if you knock on the door.
00:06:07.000So these sorts of bills, I mean, there's a reason why Larry Hogan, who is not a hardcore conservative, vetoed this bill.
00:06:13.000And then it was passed in spite of all of that.
00:06:15.000And the reason is because the level of civilian understanding of how policing works is abysmal, truly awful.
00:06:22.000Just to take a perfect example, over the past several nights, we've had these riots in Brooklyn Center, and they are full-scale riots.
00:06:28.000You have people attacking police officers.
00:06:30.000You've had the National Guard having to fire tear gas at people.
00:06:32.000You've seen people attempting to break in and loot stores.
00:06:36.000It looks like a war zone in parts of Brooklyn Center.
00:06:39.000Well, yesterday, the Brooklyn Center mayor said, I don't believe officers need to have weapons when they make arrests.
00:06:45.000I'm gonna need, he's gonna need to show his work on paper here for me to understand what in the hell he's talking about here.
00:06:51.000I don't believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons every time they're making a traffic stop or engaged in situations that don't necessarily call for weapons.
00:07:13.000We know that there are many other jurisdictions, even around the world, where that is not See, one of the things that is very odd about sort of the leftist worldview with regard to policing is the left wants a lot of very stringent regulations on how you live your life.
00:07:30.000And they want lots of regulations on how cigarettes are sold, for example.
00:07:34.000Or they want heavy regulations on how exactly you're able to operate your vehicle.
00:07:38.000They want heavy regulations on virtually every area of life, but they refuse to acknowledge the reality of regulations, which is that all regulations, in the end, are enforced at the point of a government gun.
00:07:46.000This is true with regard to your taxes.
00:07:48.000It is true with regard to environmental protections.
00:07:50.000In the end, if you resist arrest, if you refuse to obey the law, there will be a government gun at the end of it.
00:07:56.000So at the same time they want to promote heavy regulations, at the same time they want to ensure that the government has more power, they shy away from the idea that that power actually Exists.
00:08:05.000So, you have this bizarre situation where the mayor of Brooklyn Center is now saying that if you pull somebody over for drunk driving, for example, that the police officer shouldn't have a weapon.
00:08:13.000Okay, well what happens when the guy pops back in his car and takes off?
00:08:16.000You're supposed to stand there with nothing in your hands?
00:08:48.000But, again, when you have civilians who don't understand how any of this works, making the rules and doing so on the basis of bad data, that is a bad thing.
00:08:56.000Now, you should have civilian... I'm not arguing that the police should basically just, quote-unquote, control themselves, that the police should be the only authority in how they use their force.
00:09:07.000You can't have armed wings of the American government being the only court of appeal.
00:09:12.000However, the sort of loosening of regulations that you are seeing by Democrats in terms of how you prosecute officers, the attempt to prevent officers from doing their jobs, any sort of expert level understanding on this sort of stuff is really a problem.
00:09:26.000There's a recent study that came out and it showed that in America's major cities, the ones that were that were riven by protests from 2014 to 2019, ever since the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, That the number of police-avoidable deaths, according to this study, was something like 300.
00:09:43.000And the number of total deaths that were actually created, in other words, there were 300 fewer deaths because of interactions between cops and civilians, or cops and suspects.
00:09:53.000But the number of total deaths in those cities that were avoidable rose by something like 6,000.
00:09:58.000Because it turns out when you take cops off the streets, when you tell cops not to do their job, they won't do their job.
00:10:02.000And when they don't do their job, bad things happen.
00:10:05.000Some people on the left are at least honest enough to go all the way here.
00:10:08.000So, obviously you had Rashida Tlaib suggesting it's time to abolish policing in the United States overall, Jason Johnson on MSNBC saying the exact same thing.
00:10:15.000Honestly, if this is how Democrats want to play it, go for it.
00:10:19.000We'll see if Americans really feel like they are so safe from their fellow American that the police can just be disbanded.
00:10:25.000I've been saying we need to abolish American policing as it currently exists.
00:10:51.000What does he think the level of homicide solving, finding the actual perp in a homicide, what does he think that level would be if there were no police?
00:11:01.000Is the great obstacle to solving homicides the police being bad at their jobs or is it that a lot of people won't testify and give actual witness evidence with regard to homicides?
00:11:12.000Getting rid of the police doesn't solve the problem of homicide, it creates more homicides.
00:11:16.000If somebody is raped, who do you go to in this particular case?
00:11:21.000And the notion that black people are being shot by the police at five times the rate of white people is just not true.
00:11:27.000Okay, statistically speaking, that is not... I'm unaware of any stats that demonstrate that black people on a per capita level are being shot at five times the rate of white people.
00:11:36.000That is a bizarre, again, evidence-free statement so far as I'm aware.
00:11:40.000If somebody can disabuse me of that, I am happy to take a look at those stats.
00:11:44.000In actuality, something like 500 white Americans were shot by the cops between January of 2020 and March of 2021.
00:11:52.000And the number of unarmed black men, according to the Washington Post, who are shot every year by the police, generally less than 30.
00:12:00.000But this is all rooted in basic misunderstandings of how policing works.
00:12:06.000And also rooted in a certain animus for the police, which results in just lies.
00:12:12.000To take an example, Remember that whole Jacob Blake case?
00:12:15.000Remember that case where a man arrived at the site of his ex-girlfriend's house and who had accused him of penetrative rape with his finger earlier on in the year, I believe.
00:12:28.000And she called the police saying, this guy is back at the house.
00:12:59.000I'm unaware of a Democrat who said that those police officers were entitled to due process and that even the tape was not dispositive with regard to whether the police officers had done something wrong.
00:13:13.000You see the same sort of myth-making happening now with regard to the Daunte Wright case.
00:13:19.000This was fairly obviously an accident by the police officer, who will indeed end up being charged for manslaughter.
00:13:26.000A police officer drew a gun instead of a taser, which is an inexcusable mistake, and then shot Daunte Wright.
00:13:32.000Now, there are additional facts about Daunte Wright that we are learning about that cast some serious doubt on the idea that he is some sort of wonderful person, but that is not really indicative as to the crime committed by the officer in question.
00:13:46.000It does really blow up the narrative that whenever you have one of these situations, whether it's George Floyd or whether it's Daunte Wright or whether it's Jacob Blake, the initial reaction of the media is always, This person is a wonderful, tremendous human, and all of the police are evil and terrible.
00:14:05.000One, the person could be a criminal, and two, the police could have done something wrong, which tends to be more often the case in these controversial cases.
00:14:11.000But in any case, that's not even the myth-making I'm talking about.
00:14:13.000The real myth-making is the attempt to rewrite the evidence in the case to now suggest that this shooting of Daunte Wright was not an accident.
00:14:22.000So, for example, Did y'all not see my little great-nephew?
00:14:25.000of Daunte Wright speaking publicly and saying this was not an accident, it was outright murder.
00:14:30.000Now, we showed you the body cam footage yesterday. The woman literally yells, it's a female officer, she literally yells, taser, taser, taser, shoots the guy and says, oh my God, I shot him. It's going to be hard to come up with better evidence of accidents than that. But here's the aunt suggesting that it's murder anyway. Did y'all not see my little great nephew? Did y'all not see that beautiful baby? He is fatherless.
00:15:19.000Okay, and AOC is saying the same thing.
00:15:22.000Because again, the idea is that evidence is unnecessary in order to declare that the police are really bad.
00:15:25.000So AOC, the incredible, brilliant, insightful, fresh-faced, so fresh, so face, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, famous mostly for being very popular on Twitter, Oh, it wasn't?
00:15:45.000It was the repeated outcome of an indefensible system that grants impunity for state violence, rewards it with endlessly growing budgets at the cost of community investment and targets those who question that order.
00:15:58.000When she says that Daunte Bright's killing was not a random disconnected accident, which is exactly what it was, that it was the repeated outcome of an indefensible system that grants impunity for...
00:16:06.000This woman's gonna end up on manslaughter charges.
00:16:09.000Rewards it with endlessly growing budgets at the cost of community investment.
00:16:12.000I wasn't aware that when you actually invest in the police, that doesn't count as a community investment, considering that the single greatest factor in reducing crime rates is putting cops on the streets.
00:16:22.000And targets those who question that order.
00:16:24.000Weird, because AOC questions that order, and I'm not seeing the police pulling her over and or doing something terrible to her.
00:16:31.000Then she suggested cameras, chokehold bans, retraining funds, and similar reform measures do not ultimately solve what is a systemic problem.
00:16:38.000So she's saying that you can't even take actions that are likely to reduce the likelihood of bad circumstances.
00:17:03.000Speaking of which, the officer and the police chief in Brooklyn Center have now resigned.
00:17:10.000So, again, the notion that the system is completely, it's a complete failure, and that this particular incident is evidence of the complete failure of the system, the body cams gave you the evidence.
00:17:20.000The body cams are what let you know what happened here.
00:17:23.000The information was released to the public.
00:17:32.000The cops are a rampant fascist force out of control.
00:17:35.000And the undergirding so much of what Democrats talk about cops is this.
00:17:39.000They have this bifurcated view of cops.
00:17:41.000On the one hand, they will pay homage to them the same way that Joe Biden paid homage to a police officer who was killed at the Capitol yesterday.
00:17:50.000On the other hand, they will suggest that America's police are systemically racist.
00:17:53.000And it all depends on the circumstance.
00:17:56.000But in the end, can you trust Democrats to keep your city safe?
00:17:58.000I'm wondering because what I'm seeing right now is the Democrats who run every one of these major American cities are not keeping you safe.
00:18:06.000OK, in just a second, we're going to get to the latest in the Derek Chauvin trial, because if you're worried about the riots right now in Minneapolis, Wait about a week.
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00:19:26.000Okay, so this brings us to the latest in the Derek Chauvin trial.
00:19:29.000So the Derek Chauvin trial continues to pace.
00:19:31.000The defense began laying out its case yesterday.
00:19:35.000And it was basically two pieces of testimonial evidence that really mattered in the defense case with regard to Derek Chauvin yesterday.
00:19:44.000Now listen, if I have to ballpark where I think this is going, I don't think there's a chance in the world that Chauvin actually gets acquitted.
00:19:49.000I think that given the nature of the jury, the fact this is taking place in Minneapolis, I think it's very doubtful.
00:19:54.000You need a unanimous jury to either convict or to acquit.
00:19:56.000So I think the most likely outcome here is a hung jury.
00:19:59.000I think you'll get a couple of jurors who say, we're not going to convict on the basis of this evidence.
00:20:02.000You might get a conviction on the basis of the manslaughter.
00:20:04.000I think the murder charges are way too far.
00:20:07.000I think manslaughter is, at the very least, somewhat understandable coming from the jury.
00:20:14.000Maybe, if you view the evidence through a very skeptical prism toward the defense.
00:20:19.000Okay, but I think the most likely outcome here is a hung jury.
00:20:23.000So there are two pieces of evidence that were trotted out yesterday with regard to the Chauvin trial.
00:20:28.000Piece of evidence number one was this old arrest in 2019, because it looks a lot like the arrest that happened in 2020 with regard to George Floyd, an arrest during which he died.
00:20:39.000His behavior during one is sort of indicative of his behavior during the other.
00:20:42.000The other piece of evidence was a bunch of testimony from a police use of force expert named Barry Broad, who basically testified that Chauvin's use of force here was reasonable.
00:20:51.000Okay, well, that is what the defense needs to show.
00:20:55.000Broad's testimony, I will say, was not stellar.
00:20:59.000The body cam footage from the 2019 arrest is more probative.
00:21:04.000Okay, so we're gonna go through all of that, because remember, what the defense has to show here, or what the prosecution has to prove, and the defense has to debunk, is one, that Floyd died of not a drug overdose, or any underlying condition, but died because of what Chauvin did, and two, the prosecution has to show that Chauvin's use of force was objectively unreasonable.
00:21:24.000Okay, so the defense has to show, contrarily, that it's not beyond a reasonable doubt, that it could have been reasonable use of force, and two, Floyd could have died from these other causes.
00:21:34.000Okay, that's what a lot of the testimony was about yesterday.
00:21:36.000Okay, so we begin with the 2019 arrest.
00:21:41.000There were a couple of pieces of testimony here that actually mattered.
00:21:44.000One was the actual body cam footage from the 2019 arrest in which it was shown in court that Floyd had swallowed evidence when he was arrested.
00:21:52.000Presumably drugs, that's what you swallow.
00:21:53.000I assume it wasn't like a bag of cash.
00:21:57.000And the idea here, presumably, is that Floyd could have done the same thing here.
00:22:02.000That as the cops were approaching, he put a bunch of pills in his mouth, those pills drove up his heart rate, and then drove his heart rate down, and then he died.
00:22:09.000That would be the case that the defense is making here.
00:22:11.000They're saying he did the same thing as in 2019, it just went a lot more wrong in this particular case.
00:22:15.000And there's some ancillary evidence to that effect, namely that there were spit-out pills in the back of the cop car that were laced, apparently, with methamphetanil.
00:22:22.000Here is the flashback 2019 tape from George Floyd's arrest back then.
00:22:51.000Okay, so he obviously was not complying with officer orders there.
00:24:10.000Could it be because he's about to testify that he is complicit in the death of George Floyd by giving him a bunch of drugs in the car?
00:24:18.000Because why else would you have your drug dealer in the car with you?
00:24:21.000Right, so that's something the defense is arguing.
00:24:23.000They're also pointing out that there's other testimony that this guy had, for example, an FBI interview for like an hour and a half, and none of that testimony is being admitted in court.
00:24:31.000There are gonna be some cases on appeal here.
00:24:33.000The judge's behavior in this particular case, I have to say, is extraordinarily pro-prosecution.
00:24:38.000Not only did he allow a week of testimony of very little probative value, probative means actually goes toward proving the case, he allowed a week of testimony from bystanders talking about how upset they were by Floyd's death, which is not probative in any way, it is just prejudicial.
00:24:51.000Not only did he do that, not only did he reinstate a third-degree murder charge that certainly does not fit the elements here, not only did he refuse the defense's request to transfer the trial out of Minneapolis, where it's very difficult to get a fair trial, but now he's basically barring the defense from asking questions about excited delirium to prosecution witnesses.
00:25:09.000He's barring the defense from being able to admit testimony from the drug dealer who was in the car with George Floyd.
00:25:15.000You know, all that seems Frankly, extraordinarily pro-prosecution.
00:25:19.000Okay, so the other piece of evidence that came out in the Chauvin trial yesterday was the police use of force expert.
00:26:08.000I felt that Derek Chauvin was justified and was acting with objective reasonableness following Minneapolis Police Department policy and current standards of law enforcement and his interactions with Mr. Floyd.
00:26:22.000So the three-pronged analysis that he used to determine this, he said if the officer had justification to detain the suspect, which he did, how the suspect responded to the officer, and if the officer's use of force was proportionate to the level of resistance demonstrated by the suspect.
00:26:33.000It's that last one, whether the officer's use of force was proportionate to the level of resistance demonstrated by the suspect.
00:26:38.000That's the one that's really at issue.
00:26:39.000Because it's clear that Floyd was resisting arrest.
00:26:42.000It is clear that the officer had justification to detain the suspect because the suspect Was passing counterfeit bills and resisting arrest.
00:26:50.000The real question is whether Chauvin was justified in keeping Floyd face down and then staying on him as he passed out.
00:26:57.000Here's Broad explaining why he thinks they were justified in keeping Floyd face down in the first place.
00:27:01.000Why would it be safer for the suspect to keep him in that prone control?
00:27:05.000Because if they were to get up and run, handcuffed, trip and fall, sustain facial injuries, other injuries on the ground, their mobility is reduced, their ability to move is reduced, and the ability to hurt themselves is reduced.
00:27:20.000What if they became sick, for example?
00:27:22.000prone control, instead of having somebody lay on their back where they could aspirate on vomit, prone control, their face is down, airway is clear. If they vomit, it's not going to go down their trachea or down their throat. Okay, so that's actually a pretty good piece of testimony in favor of the defense that what Chauvin was doing here is basic police protocol, where the, where this witness, you know, really screwed up is he said that that was no use of force.
00:27:47.000That when you're suppressing Floyd by being on his back, that is a no use of force.
00:27:53.000It is just a very low level use of force is what he really should have said.
00:27:56.000And the prosecution, of course, jumped on this with both feet.
00:27:59.000A compliant person would have both their hands in the small of their back and just be resting comfortably versus like he's still moving around.
00:28:31.000Okay, so there the prosecution is honing in on what they think is the defense use of force expert's overstatement of the case.
00:28:39.000What the defense use of force expert was attempting to say, presumably, is that if Floyd had been compliant all the way throughout, he would not have been kicking at the officers, he would have not been attempting to push against the officers, he would have been lying there, and then they basically would have just been either sitting on top of him or not sitting on top of him at all.
00:29:19.000If he's convicted of manslaughter, there may be rioting.
00:29:22.000Because people will just say, well, he should have been convicted of murder.
00:29:25.000And this is how the media have set up this narrative.
00:29:27.000Even though the evidence here is quite shaded.
00:29:29.000Even though this is a much more complex story than people were originally led to believe.
00:29:33.000The media have set this thing up for riots, and riots you shall receive, because we now live in an America in which police killings that are unjustified are statistically extremely rare.
00:29:44.000They are very, very rare in the United States, given the number of interactions between police and suspects.
00:29:50.000Whenever there is a controversial situation caught on tape, or even not caught on tape, between a white police officer and a black suspect, You can be assured that in at least 50% of cases, I would imagine, there is some form of rioting or looting that breaks out into the public.
00:30:32.000They're perfectly in consonance with one another, but the media have set them up in complete opposite to one another.
00:30:36.000Because the idea is that if the cops do something wrong, then riots and looting, if not justified, are at least understandable.
00:30:42.000And that's the way the media have been covering this stuff throughout.
00:30:44.000That is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:30:46.000It would not be allowed under any other rubric in American life, but the media have basically decided, as Nikole Hannah-Jones said, 1619 riots.
00:30:54.000All right, coming up, we're gonna get to the perversion of test science under Joe Biden and the Democrats.
00:31:00.000They've been told science, they are just guided by the science.
00:31:03.000Yes, there are 1,200,000 33 genders, but they are guided by the science on everything.
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00:33:04.000♪♪ All righty, so the left, the Democratic Party, the media, they've decided to pervert the science on every possible front.
00:33:14.000We'll get to how they are screwing it up on the vaccines in just one second, because it truly is one of the great public health failures of our time.
00:33:21.000I should note at this point that the scientific community has basically become, in many ways, a propaganda outlet on behalf of the left.
00:33:27.000This is true in regards to everything from transgender hormone therapy and surgery for children to climate change.
00:33:41.000I've used this word a lot because, frankly, I see it everywhere now.
00:33:44.000Ultracrepidarianism is the thing where you speak out of turn, where you don't know anything about a particular topic, and then you speak as though you do know something about a particular topic.
00:33:53.000Ultracrepidarianism, for example, would be the CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, declaring that racism is a public health problem, which is absurd.
00:34:00.000That's like saying stupidity is a public health problem.
00:34:02.000It turns out lots of bad things in life have impacts on public health.
00:34:05.000That does not make them a public health problem.
00:34:16.000is the reverse effect, where politics cloaks itself as science, and then people treat it as though it is science.
00:34:22.000What I call the bleed-over effect, which is a bunch of people suggesting unscientific things are in fact science.
00:34:28.000This would be Joe Biden suggesting that gender ideology is in fact science, when it clearly is not.
00:34:33.000You see both of these things from Scientific American.
00:34:35.000Scientific American has become more and more politicized these days.
00:34:38.000They openly endorsed Joe Biden for president.
00:34:40.000It was Not a complete shock, but you saw Nature do the same thing.
00:34:44.000A bunch of these quote-unquote scientific magazines suddenly have a very strong political bent.
00:34:48.000Who could have predicted such a thing?
00:34:49.000Okay, there's a piece in Scientific American in which the magazine announces that they are no longer going to use the term climate change.
00:34:57.000Instead, they're going to use the term climate emergency.
00:35:00.000Now, I was not aware that there's a scientific designation that amounts to emergency.
00:35:05.000There is such a thing in medicine, for example, it's like emergency medicine.
00:35:07.000Right, which is the person's gonna die if you don't do something about it right now.
00:35:11.000But climate emergency is not as though a certain level of climate change occurring over the course of the century turns it from just change to emergency.
00:35:18.000This is a completely political designation.
00:35:21.000And by the way, I do not consider it a quote-unquote emergency if the climate were to warm four degrees Celsius over the course of the next century.
00:35:28.000I consider that a gradual change that human beings are going to have to adapt to with increased technological know-how, as well as innovation, which human beings have been doing for literally all of the history of humankind.
00:35:43.000In any case, Scientific America now says that it is a scientific duty for them to call this a climate emergency, which is just a lie.
00:35:50.000It's just a way for them to create a certain level of alarmism that is unjustifiable by the facts on the ground.
00:35:57.000The fact is, the economies around the world are growing at such a rapid clip that the amount of damage to be done to humankind on the basis of climate change is a small percentage of global GDP on an economic level.
00:36:10.000And in terms of actual human damage, we should be focused on how to mitigate that human damage, but we are not talking, as so many people have suggested, about billions of people dying, or hundreds of millions of people dying, or anything like that.
00:36:20.000We're not even talking about tens of millions of people dying.
00:36:22.000We're not talking about probably millions of people dying through climate change directly.
00:36:26.000In any case, Scientific American has now declared it a climate emergency.
00:36:42.000Multiply those individuals by millions of people who have similar symptoms, and it constitutes the biggest global health emergency in a century, the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:37:14.000Hurricanes have been hitting Florida for a very, very long time.
00:37:17.000And as it turns out, actually, the amount of damage being done by hurricanes has only been increasing because of what we call the bullseye effect.
00:37:23.000Namely, people are building more stuff in the way of hurricanes.
00:37:26.000So you're going to say there was a cold snap in Texas, therefore, climate change is an emergency?
00:37:32.000I was informed reliably by you guys that weather is not climate.
00:37:36.000In fact, every time there's a cold snap, there are people on the right, they're like, oh, climate change isn't happening because it's snowing.
00:37:40.000And people on the left are like, hey, you're confusing weather with climate.
00:37:49.000And you see this now being applied in the realm of vaccinations.
00:37:53.000I've never seen the sort of public health debacle that we are seeing from the Biden administration in terms of their public facing statements toward vaccination.
00:38:01.000These vaccines, with regard to COVID-19, are a godsend.
00:38:05.000You're talking about vaccines that have a nearly 100% efficacy rate with regard to reducing death and serious disease.
00:38:12.000And your take is nobody should ever go to a restaurant again?
00:38:17.000And not only that, your take is that if there is an upswing, it is so dangerous we have to shut down all of American society.
00:38:22.000But if we have a vaccine in which there are six adverse reactions among seven million people who have taken the vaccine, we have to pause on that vaccine?
00:39:08.000Then the CDC blew it about eight times over for a variety of reasons.
00:39:12.000And your take is that the government knows what they are doing here?
00:39:15.000Okay, so the latest indicator on all of this, the latest move on all of this, is that the Biden administration has decided via the FDA to halt the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
00:39:25.000The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a DNA-based vaccine as opposed to the mRNA vaccines, which means it is slightly more traditional than the mRNA vaccines.
00:39:33.000It also happens to be extremely durable because DNA vaccines don't have to be stored at 30 degrees below zero or whatever it is that you require in order to actually store the Pfizer vaccine, for example.
00:39:45.000So these things are really, really useful, especially when you need to quickly wave them into a community and have the shots rolled out, which is what you need right now, for example, in Michigan.
00:39:54.000Instead, the Biden administration's FDA, and it is the Biden administration FDA, they announced that they are pausing the J&J vaccine because there were six, six cases, Or the serious blood clotting disorder that emerged after 6.8 million people had been given the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
00:40:10.000Your chances, based on these statistics, of having this condition are less than one in a million.
00:40:15.000We stopped the rollout of vaccine in the middle of a pandemic.
00:40:18.000We're not talking about just generally.
00:40:21.000By the way, I would imagine that the rate of Guillain-Barré for the flu vaccine is way higher than the rate that you are talking about right now.
00:40:28.000In terms of the number of people with adverse consequences.
00:40:32.000And yet, we don't pause the flu vaccine rollout.
00:40:36.000Okay, but here was Anthony Fauci, the greatest doctor in all the land, after Dr. Joe Biden, suggesting we're not being too hasty in pausing.
00:41:24.000The message to the American people on the vaccine is, I told you all, I made sure we have 600 million doses.
00:41:33.000Yeah, but that doesn't mean that they've all been rolled out evenly, right?
00:41:37.000AstraZeneca. So there's enough vaccine that is basically 100% unquestionable for every single solitary American.
00:41:47.000Yeah, but that doesn't mean that they've all been rolled out evenly, right? According to Mitch Smith and Michael Shearer over at the New York Times, quote, the student union had been converted into a vaccination center. The doses had arrived on campus.
00:41:58.000The first appointments were minutes away.
00:42:01.000on Tuesday, news of the pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccinations reached Youngstown State University.
00:42:05.000We're ready to go, said Shannon Turone, an associate VP at the University in Eastern Ohio, who instead started calling students to tell them they would not be able to get the vaccine after all.
00:42:14.000Similar scenes played out across the country, as the abrupt halt in the use of the J&J vaccine because of concerns about potential blood clots upended plans to vaccinate some of the country's hardest-to-reach populations.
00:42:24.000In California, Mobile vaccine clinics in rural areas were canceled.
00:42:27.000In Chicago, vaccination events for restaurant employees and aviation workers were postponed indefinitely.
00:42:33.000At colleges in Ohio, New York, and Tennessee, where the one-dose vaccine offered a chance to quickly inoculate students before they left campus for the summer, appointments were called off en masse.
00:42:41.000So no, you can't just cancel this thing and believe that it has no immediate impact.
00:42:45.000Not only does it have immediate impact, it completely undercuts the entire case that you have been making, which is that people ought to get the vaccine in the first place.
00:42:53.000You keep saying that the vaccines are safe.
00:42:55.000Then, you roll this thing out and on the basis of six cases out of seven million people who've gotten the vaccine, you're going to tell people that we were pausing it?
00:43:02.000Okay, there are a bunch of people out there right now who are worried about the fact there's no longitudinal studies on these vaccines.
00:43:18.000And I can't imagine it has anything to do at all with the apparent desire of the Biden administration to prolong the pandemic indefinitely.
00:43:27.000To continue to play down the efficacy of the vaccines so that we can continue to proclaim that we're in the middle of a crisis and require giant government action in order to get out of it.
00:43:35.000All right, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:43:37.000We'll be talking about Joe Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan.
00:43:40.000We'll talk about new information about Andrew Cuomo, who is apparently like super anti-Semitic.
00:43:45.000Like really, like I have a line from Andrew Cuomo here.