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00:01:47.000474747 again text ben to 474747 alrighty so as i was saying the fact is that every evening i put together the schedule for this show the sort of preliminary schedule and then it very often changes Rarely does it get completely overhauled.
00:02:03.000This morning was one of those mornings, because AOC decides that she is going to be aggressively awful about everything in the world at the same time.
00:02:12.000Now, listen, I understand that we now live in a political time.
00:02:17.000When aggressive ignorance is actually a benefit in politics.
00:02:21.000The more you know about various issues, the more nuanced your thinking tends to be.
00:02:25.000Or at the very least, the more you tend to understand the ins and outs of the opposing side's thinking.
00:02:30.000When you don't know things, you tend to speak in Easy bumper stickers.
00:02:34.000You tend to say things that are bumper sticker slogans, and then people who don't know much cheer you on.
00:02:39.000And the nice thing about easy bumper sticker slogans is that when they are revealed to be aggressively ignorant, then you can always backfill the ignorance.
00:02:46.000You can always create a nuanced backstory to try and backfill the fact that you didn't know what you were talking about in the first place.
00:02:53.000When you add on to this the benefit of being an intersectional leftist, the soft bigotry of low expectations that attends being a minority or a woman or ranking high on the intersectional scale, people are willing to let you off the hook, people are willing to attribute aggressive ignorance to different viewpoints, That makes it pretty easy to be a popular politician like an AOC.
00:03:17.000She's getting the benefit of the doubt every which way and she simply does not deserve it because she continues to make mistakes and not just make mistakes, say things that are aggressively bad.
00:03:28.000So let's start today with her take on the Afghanistan war.
00:03:32.000So she has decided that she is going to defend, obviously, Ilhan Omar.
00:03:36.000So you'll recall that Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite, that she has repeatedly said anti-Semitic things over and over and over again.
00:03:44.000She has apologized no less than three times in the last six weeks for anti-Semitic remarks because she is, in fact, saying things that reflect her underlying worldview, which is that the Jews are a nefarious force in the world and particularly in United States politics with regard to support for Israel.
00:03:59.000Well, AOC, who is one of the fresh faces, incredibly fresh as well as face, of the New Democratic Congress, along with Ilhan Omar.
00:04:06.000Remember, they both appear on the cover of this month's Rolling Stone with Nancy Pelosi.
00:04:12.000She has decided to come out and defend Ilhan Omar against her fellow Democrats, by the way.
00:04:16.000So, for example, Representative Juan Vargas.
00:04:19.000He said it is disturbing that Representative Omar continues to perpetuate hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes that misrepresent our Jewish community.
00:04:27.000And the response from AOC was, Now that, right off the bat, is a lie.
00:04:30.000if Representative Vargas will further explain his stance here that it's unacceptable to even question U.S. foreign policy.
00:04:36.000Now that, right off the bat, is a lie.
00:04:38.000He is not saying that he can't question America's foreign policy.
00:04:41.000What he says is that questioning support for the U.S.-Israel relationship on the basis of conspiracy theories about Jews is unacceptable.
00:05:04.000I mean obviously and perfectly comfortable with it.
00:05:07.000No less than two weeks ago, she tweeted out her joy at speaking with open anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn, who's the head of the British Labour Party.
00:05:16.000She hangs out with anti-Semites on a regular basis and defends them on a regular basis.
00:05:21.000Meanwhile, you see folks on the political left, particularly Jewish folks on the political left, some of whom happen to be pro-Israel, Ringing their hands and clutching their pearls and, oh, isn't it sad, isn't it terrible that AOC just doesn't know things?
00:05:36.000This is where aggressive ignorance really helps you.
00:05:38.000Because, again, this isn't a matter of aggressive ignorance.
00:05:41.000She knows what she's saying, she just doesn't care very much.
00:05:52.000You're just deliberately mischaracterizing Vargas's statement so that you can pretend this is about free speech when it really is about embracing antisemitism.
00:05:59.000And then she continues, and here's where she veers from the defense of antisemites into ridiculously ignorant territory, for which she will be excused by the media.
00:06:07.000She says, All of Congress was wrong, including both GOP and Dem Party, and led my generation into a disastrous and wrong war that virtually all would come to regret, except for the one member who stood up, Barbara Lee.
00:06:22.000Well, Barbara Lee was basically a communist who actually stood against the authorization for use of military force in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
00:06:30.000When corrected on her aggressive ignorance, AOC then said, Or now, even with a disastrous choice like Elliott Abrams at the helm, a man guilty of crimes related to Iran-Contra, including misleading Congress, it still seems like critiquing U.S. interventionism is taboo.
00:06:43.000History shows that making some questions unacceptable is a mistake, which is a hilarious take from AOC, who wants to make all questions about her Green New Deal unacceptable.
00:07:45.000So she tweets out, following some blowback about this, that what she really means, Jake Tapper asks her a question about it.
00:07:52.000Jake Tapper asks her, so what exactly do you mean by this?
00:07:56.000And she immediately responds by saying, well, perhaps, perhaps what we should have done, she says, I think our decision to enter unlimited engagement in Afghanistan, particularly through the AMF, AUMF, the Authorization for Use of Military Force, and Congress's abdication of power and decision-making with the passage of the AUMF, was a mistake.
00:08:47.000And I'm old enough to remember when President Bush asked the Taliban to turn over Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network, and Mullah Omar refused, which led directly to the use of force in Afghanistan.
00:09:14.000Now, Congress may have later abdicated its responsibility.
00:09:17.000But the AUMF itself was actually limited.
00:09:21.000And not only that, you're gonna say in the aftermath of the most devastating terror attack in the history of the United States, that you would not have authorized the president to take action against terrorists?
00:09:31.000How does she think that the president actually targeted terror finance networks?
00:09:43.000But that's no shock, because this is what she does.
00:09:47.000And she's not just aggressively incorrect and aggressively wrong about Afghanistan, obviously.
00:09:51.000She's also aggressively defending anti-Semitism, as I mentioned.
00:09:56.000So she is now engaging in obvious whataboutism.
00:09:58.000So whataboutism is this term that has come about in the aftermath of President Trump, really, which suggests that when someone says something bad about Trump, people say, yeah, well, what about Hillary?
00:10:22.000That is pointing out consistent standards.
00:10:24.000But AOC engages us in full-on whataboutism with regard to antisemitism, essentially suggesting that we should let Ilhan Omar off the hook for her antisemitism, because in her view, other bigotry has not been excoriated harshly enough.
00:10:39.000And even in the process of making this defense, she's aggressively ignorant.
00:10:42.000So she tweets out, She's not even right about this.
00:10:44.000the extent to which reprimand is sought of Ilhan is that no one seeks this level of reprimand when members make statements about Latinx and other communities.
00:10:52.000During the shutdown, a GOP member yelled, go back to Puerto Rico on the floor.
00:10:58.000During the shutdown, Republicans yelled at Democrats, go back to Puerto Rico, not because the Democrats were Puerto Rican, but because Democrats were vacationing in Puerto Rico during the government shutdown.
00:11:12.000And I'm old enough to remember when the House, including Republicans, voted to censure Steve King on the floor of the House, and they stripped him of his House assignments.
00:11:22.000And yet here she is saying that Ilhan Omar should undergo nothing.
00:11:27.000She says, it's not my position to tell people how to feel, or that their hurt is invalid, which is of course exactly what she is doing, but incidents like these do beg the question, where are the resolutions against homophobic statements?
00:11:40.000For a member saying he'll send Obama home to Kenya?
00:11:43.000And I assume she's talking about Mark Meadows now, who said in a rally back in 2012 something about this, which nobody even remembered or knew anything about until now, basically.
00:11:53.000But Steve King is the best available comp, and she just ignores the fact that Steve King was just stripped of all of his committee assignments.
00:12:00.000She says, It's the difference between calling in and calling out.
00:12:01.000others we should actively check anti-semitism anti-blackness homophobia racism and all other forms of bigotry and the most productive end goal when we see it is to educate and heal it's the difference between calling in and calling out this is where we get into her her minority studies classes at boston university where she starts lecturing people like a psychologist like she knows anything about what she's talking about Calling out is one of the measures of last resort, not first or second resort.
00:12:25.000We do it when repeated attempts to call in are disrespected or ignored.
00:12:28.000And I believe that Ilhan, in her statement a few weeks ago, has demonstrated a willingness to work and listen with impacted communities, which is absolute sheer horse nonsense.
00:12:38.000She has legitimately dropped three anti-Semitic slurs in the course of six weeks.
00:12:43.000And here is AOC saying, well, you know, we just need to educate Ilhan.
00:12:48.000You're the one who's hanging out with Jeremy Corbyn and defending open anti-Semitism.
00:12:52.000Even Batya Unger-Sargon, who's the editor of the far left newspaper, The Forward, she says, how exactly is it hurtful when the right thing is done for Jews just because it wasn't done elsewhere?
00:13:01.000Shouldn't that mean we work harder to condemn other forms of hurtful speech?
00:13:32.000We'll get to more of AOC's aggressive, aggressive ignorance and the painful excuses being made for her and for Ilhan Omar and for Rashida Tlaib in just one second.
00:13:41.000First, let's talk about something we can all agree on, saving money.
00:14:55.000Okay, so AOC's aggressive ignorance doesn't stop there, believe it or not.
00:14:59.000So, she also is aggressively ignorant when it comes to her own policies.
00:15:03.000So, AOC, for example, suggests that she's upset when she gets 10 plastic bags at the store.
00:15:11.000She's trying to make excuses for the fact that she is a consumerist, the way that most Americans are.
00:15:16.000She says that she gets upset at how many plastic bags she is handed at the store.
00:15:21.000I wouldn't be upset that I get ten plastic bags at the grocery store and then have to toss out my plastic bags because the recycling program in the area is tough and that's okay.
00:15:35.000All of these are not reasons to stop fighting.
00:15:38.000All of these are reasons to keep fighting.
00:15:41.000And these are all reasons and pieces of evidence to say, hey, we need to make it easier to recycle.
00:15:46.000Okay, well, again, you know it's one solution to people handing you ten plastic bags at the grocery?
00:15:55.000I love that according to folks on the left, personal choice, at least on the radical left, personal choice is not something you engage in.
00:16:02.000The only time you should make a choice is when government forces you to do it.
00:16:04.000So AOC will continue taking the 10 plastic bags and then throwing them away in the garbage to be flushed away into the ocean and kill the dolphins or something until the government tells her not to do it.
00:16:14.000But she's going to stump for the government to tell her not to do it.
00:16:16.000Until then, she just won't do any of it.
00:16:20.000In L.A., they don't give you bags unless you ask for the bags, and sometimes they make you pay for the bags.
00:16:25.000And very often, I will say no to the bags.
00:16:27.000I believe New York has the same rules.
00:16:29.000So I'm not sure what she's whining about, but nonetheless, she is indeed whining about All of that.
00:16:34.000Also, AOC says that we should be talking about investigating President Trump.
00:16:38.000So add to the to the ignorance and hypocrisy bandwagon for AOC.
00:16:42.000She says that the real issue in American politics right now is that we are not aggressive enough about talking about President Trump's money.
00:16:48.000So here she is going off on President Trump and his lack of transparency.
00:16:54.000I think in oversight, we should be talking about taxes, taxes, taxes and his bank account, his bank account, his bank account, his financial statements.
00:17:04.000Because that's where I think actually some of the most troubling practices are with direct relevance to the American people under the scope of oversight.
00:17:15.000Okay, all of that is fine and dandy, unless it turns out that your chief of staff was funneling a million dollars in slush funds from the campaign to LLCs run by him with no actual transparency as to where the money went.
00:17:27.000That's according to Ilana Goodman over at the Washington Examiner.
00:17:30.000Two political action committees founded by AOC's top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the FEC on Monday.
00:17:40.000The cash transfers from the PACs, overseen by Saikat Chakrabarty, the freshman Socialist Democrat's chief of staff, run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of dark money in politics.
00:17:52.000Chakrabarty's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used.
00:17:58.000The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to a complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.
00:18:10.000Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as really weird and an indication there is something amiss.
00:18:16.000They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went, meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.
00:18:23.000In other words, what happened is that AOC's campaign basically funneled, or a super PAC associated with AOC, funneled a million dollars, a million dollars to two shell companies controlled by her chief of staff, and then no one knows where the money went.
00:18:39.000And FEC lawyers are looking into this now.
00:19:06.000They're really just paying themselves and they're concealing it by using the LLC.
00:19:09.000The other is that there's actually another recipient that the money is going to the LLC and then being dispersed in some other way that they want to conceal.
00:19:17.000So none of this is very good for AOC, but here's the thing, none of it matters for AOC because in the end, the Democratic Party is going to continue to defend its fresh faces.
00:19:24.000Why do they continue to defend the fresh faces?
00:19:27.000Because the higher ups in politics understand that at this point in time, it is better to have a bunch of aggressively ignorant but attractive faces at the head of your party than it is to have somebody who knows what the hell they're talking about.
00:19:39.000Nancy Pelosi is happy to have AOC out there pushing the envelope, broadening the Overton window, raising the issues, even if it means that she's going to say dumb things every once in a while, because the Democrats are fully aware that they can walk this stuff back.
00:19:53.000This is one of the benefits to having a media that is willing to cover for any amount of insanity on your side of the political aisle.
00:20:00.000The media bias that allows Democrats to get away with legitimately everything is pretty amazing.
00:20:07.000So, for example, the Democrats right now have been engaging in a cover-up of open anti-Semitism, and Politico is covering for them.
00:20:14.000Politico has an article today, says House Dems will take floor action to confront Omar's latest Israel comments.
00:20:19.000And their big question here is not whether Ilhan Omar should be personally called out, of course, because we can't personally call out Ilhan Omar the same way that Steve King was personally centered on the floor of the House.
00:20:32.000No, Ilhan Omar shouldn't be personally called out.
00:20:35.000The real issue here, according to Politico, is that GOP leaders have begun to pounce.
00:20:44.000The New York Times headlined about all of this.
00:20:45.000Ilhan Omar's criticism raises the question, is AIPAC too powerful?
00:20:51.000What in the living hell is that headline?
00:20:53.000So her anti-Semitism did not raise the question, is her anti-Semitism correct?
00:20:57.000When Steve King said what he said about white nationalism, the New York Times did not ask the question.
00:21:02.000Steve King's comments raised the question, is white nationalism stigmatized?
00:21:07.000Like what in the hell are they talking about?
00:21:09.000The answer is the New York Times is fine with sliding over into anti-Semitism because they are so radically anti-Israel they don't even see the line.
00:21:21.000I thought AIPAC did a garbage job when it came to stumping against the Iran deal.
00:21:25.000You can criticize the state of Israel.
00:21:26.000I've criticized a bunch of administrations, including Bibi's.
00:21:30.000But there is a distinction between that and claiming that general support for Israel is pushed by Jewish money and Jewish dual loyalty, which is what Ilhan Omar actually said.
00:21:38.000It's what Ilhan Omar actually... It must be beautiful to have the media on your side to this extent.
00:21:47.000Now, what it does lead to when the media are constantly parroting talking points is these awkward moments when reality breaks through.
00:21:54.000I'm gonna get to that in just one second.
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00:23:07.000Well, as I say, the media's willingness to cover for virtually any left-wing narrative benefits the left, not only in allowing them to defend against the insane things that so many folks on the radical left say, But it also pushes a narrative that benefits the left.
00:23:21.000A narrative of impending doom and crisis.
00:23:23.000A narrative that America is a terrible place that requires deep-seated change in the nature of the American bargain in order for justice to be done.
00:23:33.000And every so often, this media experience runs up against reality.
00:23:59.000So the impact of media coverage on stuff like this is a constant feeling of crisis, which of course would require constant government intervention, bigger government intervention, more cover for people like AOC, who after all are just trying to do the right thing.
00:24:13.000In the end, the defense that the media make of people like Ilhan Omar and AOC and Rashida Tlaib and Jeremy Corbyn, the defense that they are constantly making of these folks, is heavily reliant on the fact that they think that if you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, you break a few eggs to make an omelette, because the world is in peril.
00:24:28.000And this leads millions of people into a certain crisis mentality about the state of the world that simply is not accurate.
00:24:34.000So, indicator of that crisis mentality, there's amazing video from the BBC of this crazy group of women who are now suggesting that they are not going to have children because of the danger of global warming.
00:24:46.000And listen to the rhetoric these women are spouting.
00:24:47.000And the BBC humoring it, patting them on the head, basically suggesting that maybe they're right.
00:25:45.000Okay, so she's suggesting humanity's wiped out 60% of animal population since 1970.
00:25:49.000That is according to a particular environmental report.
00:25:53.000It is very questionable as to whether this is actually true.
00:25:58.000Ed Young over at The Atlantic says that that finding has been widely mischaracterized.
00:26:03.000The team behind Living Planet Index relied on previous studies in which researchers estimated the size of different animal populations, whether through direct counts, camera traps, satellites, or proxies, like the presence of nests or tracks.
00:26:13.000The teams collated such estimates for 16,700 populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish across 4,000 species.
00:26:21.000That covers just 6.4% of the 63,000 or so species of vertebrates, that is backbone animals that are thought to exist.
00:26:29.000And then they calculated that the size of vertebrate populations has declined by 60% on average, which does not mean that humans have culled 60% of animals.
00:26:38.000The report itself says that's not true, but the media covered it as though 60% of animals were dying.
00:26:45.000The media have an interest in promoting the idea that the world is in grave danger so that we hand more power over to ignorant people who pledge to fix everything because the media agrees with their general agenda.
00:26:56.000Now, here's the reality about the world we live in.
00:27:14.000Today, and this will get a lot less coverage than the idea that we are on the verge of a meltdown in terms of human life and that we must give all control of government to government because of great inequality and burgeoning civil war and all this.
00:27:30.000HIV reported cured in a second patient.
00:27:33.000Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first long-term remission 12 years ago.
00:27:38.000With the so-called London patient, they seem to have succeeded.
00:27:40.000For the second time since the global epidemic began, a patient appears to have been cured of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
00:27:48.000The news comes nearly 12 years to the day after the first patient known to be cured, a feat that researchers have long tried and failed to duplicate.
00:27:55.000The surprise success now confirms that a cure for HIV infection is possible, if difficult, researchers said.
00:28:01.000Publicly, the scientists are describing the case as a long-term remission.
00:28:04.000In interviews, most experts are calling it a cure, with the caveat that it is hard to know how to define the word when there are only two known instances.
00:28:12.000We live in a time when we are developing toward cures for diseases that have wiped thousands of people, and in Africa, tens of thousands of people off planet Earth.
00:28:21.000We live in a time when we have wiped out some of the gravest diseases that have ever threatened mankind.
00:28:25.000We live in a time with more prosperity and more freedom than any time in human history.
00:28:29.000And we are being told by the media at every turn that everything is a crisis.
00:28:32.000And if everything is a crisis, then we look for an easy solution.
00:28:35.000And the easy solution comes in the form of a bumper sticker.
00:28:38.000The truth is, there are very few easy solutions.
00:28:40.000The only easy solution is to let people live.
00:28:52.000But when the media are constantly promoting the idea of doom and gloom, it's the end of the world, we're all gonna die, The natural instinct is to turn to people who share radical solutions.
00:29:04.000And that aggressive ignorance, again, is not only promoted by media.
00:29:07.000Anybody who cuts against the aggressive ignorance, anybody who cuts against that narrative is deemed not sufficiently woke.
00:29:14.000So for example, best story of the day along these lines, Google has done a study.
00:29:27.000Because then Google tried to walk back the results of its own studies so as to agree with the generalized narrative that America is sexist, including Google.
00:29:35.000Wokeness, this belief that America is naturally bad, that the West is naturally filled with inequality and poverty and cruelty and malice and that the Earth is dying because of the West, This belief has been so inculcated into the media and by the media, That we are willing to buy sheer nonsense from politicians who mirror that belief, even as they say crazy things on every other score.
00:30:00.000And we're willing to overlook all of the worst things they say, because after all, they are morally right.
00:30:05.000As AOC has said before, factually wrong doesn't matter.
00:30:35.000But that is not the same as saying that females, who represent a majority of the voting population and a majority of college-degreed people, Are a victim class in the United States.
00:30:47.000If we say that, we're undercutting the narrative of cataclysmic horror that apparently is overrunning the American bargain.
00:30:53.000We'll talk about that in just a second.
00:30:55.000We'll talk about how the media have convinced themselves that reporting fiction is more important than reporting fact, simply to maintain the woke bargain.
00:32:08.000Okay, in just a second, I'm gonna get to some more of the media.
00:32:11.000Just absolutely pushing a particular line that results in the victory of the most ignorant among us and the people who are lying about the state of the West, the state of the world, at this point in time.
00:33:21.000We are the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in America.
00:33:24.000So as I say, the victory of people like AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and to a certain extent, Donald Trump relies on the media pushing this notion of crisis that we are constantly And that notion of crisis is simply not true.
00:33:41.000And when reality butts up against that narrative of crisis, the media don't know what to do.
00:33:48.000Neither do our big tech overlords who want to push that narrative.
00:33:52.000So Google has been pushing the narrative that women are victimized in American society.
00:33:55.000Then, it turns out, they conducted a study to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups.
00:34:01.000Instead, Google found, to the surprise of just about everyone, that men were paid less money than women for doing similar work.
00:34:08.000The study is done every year, but the latest findings arrived as Google and other companies in Silicon Valley face increasing pressure to deal with gender issues in the workplace, from sexual harassment to wage discrimination.
00:34:20.000To a large extent, that pressure is coming from outside woke groups that are interested in promulgating a narrative that counters the facts.
00:34:26.000Women are treated better in Western civilization, and yes, in places like Silicon Valley, than pretty much anywhere else on Earth.
00:34:32.000That, again, does not mean that there are not evil men who do evil things.
00:34:35.000It does not mean that there are individual women who are not deeply mistreated and preyed upon by men.
00:34:39.000It does mean that if we are going to say that, generally, women are victimized in American society, that is a load of crap.
00:35:27.000As early as 2010, there was a study reported in Time magazine, and it found that in 147 out of the 150 biggest cities in the United States, the median full-time salaries of young women were 8% higher than those of guys in their peer group.
00:35:43.000In 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the United States.
00:35:48.000And that figure, by the way, has not budged.
00:35:52.000The gap is huge in places like New York City, LA, and San Diego.
00:36:35.000in Chicago and was accosted by two MAGA-hatted Trump fans, who then garroted him with a noose, poured bleach on him while shouting, this is MAGA country, again, at 2 a.m.
00:36:47.000in the middle of a polar vortex in the city of Chicago.
00:36:50.000It was a ridiculous story on its face.
00:36:52.000Everybody took it seriously, including Robin Roberts, who did a full interview with Jussie Smollett, where she basically allowed Smollett to claim that half the country, at least, was racist, sexist, bigoted, and homophobic.
00:37:02.000And then Robin Roberts was asked about this.
00:37:13.000And if the woke narrative does trump everything else, that means it trumps ignorance, it means it trumps stupidity, it means it trumps the fact that people don't know what they're talking about very often.
00:37:22.000Because as long as the narrative is preserved, nothing else matters.
00:37:24.000And the narrative right now, when it comes to Congress, is that the fresh faces of the Democratic Party have something new and exciting to say, that they are the leaders who are going to change the future, that America is a deep, dark, terrible place, that the West is a deep, dark, terrible, racist, bigoted place, and that we need brash newcomers, even if they're a little bit on the Jew-hating side, we need those brash newcomers to come forth and lead us to a better future.
00:37:48.000So here's Robin Roberts on Chelsea Smollett.
00:37:50.000You'll notice that what she says, it's truly amazing.
00:37:52.000She says it was a no-win situation doing the interview.
00:37:55.000So what she says is, quote, I'll be completely honest.
00:37:59.000I was like, I don't know if I want to do the interview or not.
00:38:03.000I said, I don't want to sit down with him if he's going to lawyer up.
00:38:06.000And then I was told he wants to speak with you because he was outraged by people making assumptions about whether it had happened or not.
00:38:11.000And then she finally agreed to do the interview, she said, after being told she'd be able to ask Smollett about all the red flags that were surrounding his story and perhaps shed some light with new information.
00:38:21.000She said she was hoping to remain neutral, but as a gay black woman interviewing a gay black man, she felt like she was put in a tight spot.
00:38:46.000But she is admitting openly that if she was too hard on Jussie Smollett, she was afraid of the blowback she was going to get from her own community for not being woke enough.
00:38:55.000The media are invested in these narratives.
00:38:57.000These narratives of social inequality and tremendous American injustice and tremendous American bigotry.
00:39:02.000So invested that they're willing to overlook blatantly false stories.
00:39:06.000They're willing to overlook the anti-Semitism of some of the members of their own caucus.
00:39:09.000Because in the end, the only thing that matters is the preservation of the narrative.
00:39:17.000It's vile and it's why the most aggressively ignorant and bigoted among us are probably going to have an upper hand in politics for some time to come.
00:39:26.000Speaking of which, coming up, I'll talk in a second about that sort of aggressive ignorance.
00:39:34.000She ran for governor of New York against Andrew Cuomo and she got shellacked.
00:39:37.000Now, when you get beat by Andrew Cuomo, like a rug, when you get beat like a rug by Andrew Cuomo, that means you're a bad politician.
00:39:43.000It means people don't like what you have to say.
00:39:45.000I mean, Andrew Cuomo has about as charisma as a stump, a tree stump.
00:39:51.000And Cynthia Nixon, She lost to him, but now she pressured Joe Biden.
00:39:55.000So here is the woke narrative suggests that people on the other side of the aisle are inherently bad.
00:40:02.000They're inherently bad for disagreeing about mainstream political issues.
00:40:05.000It's not bad to be an anti-Semite if you're on the right side of the woke.
00:40:07.000But if you're on the wrong side of the woke, then it is very bad to take political positions like, say, traditional marriage is a good thing.
00:40:15.000and that traditional marriage is superior on a social level to same-sex marriage.
00:40:18.000To take such a position, which was officially the position of the Democratic Party until, what, six years ago?
00:40:23.000To take that position makes you a vile, bad human being.
00:40:26.000So Cynthia Nixon went after Joe Biden, Why?
00:40:31.000Because Joe Biden said that Mike Pence was a decent human.
00:40:34.000And then she was like, no, Mike Pence is not a decent human because he disagrees with me on LGBT issues.
00:40:40.000And Joe Biden, caving to the woke scolds, immediately surrendered and said, you're right.
00:40:57.000So, Duplass is a verb meaning to cowardly stab somebody in the back who you have no relationship to.
00:41:03.000It was coined after Mark Duplass, an actor-director, did the same thing to me.
00:41:06.000He said I was a decent guy online, people attacked him, he took down his tweet, and then suggested that I was a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
00:41:57.000He issued an executive order in March 2015 allowing distribution of needles, while also acknowledging that there are serious public health concerns about needle exchanges.
00:42:06.000She said he suggested support for so-called conversion therapy.
00:42:36.000You don't have evidence that America is a terribly bigoted, homophobic, racist, sexist place?
00:42:41.000You don't have any evidence that America is a terrible place?
00:42:43.000Or that it requires the solutions of full-on socialists?
00:42:47.000Then the left will say, well, that's because your eyes have not been opened because you don't see the truth.
00:42:53.000But once you see the truth, you can't unsee the truth.
00:42:56.000And this is how you end up with the ridiculous spectacle, the ridiculous, insane spectacle of Brie Larson, an actress who does not know things, speaking at the Women in Film Festival.
00:43:46.000Here she is going off, again, backing the woke narrative.
00:43:49.000And what this is really meant to do, seriously, what this is meant to do is provide cover.
00:43:54.000Because for people who are at least half clever, if they understand that the media is willing to provide cover for anyone who echoes the woke narrative, then the best thing to do is to echo the woke narrative, right?
00:44:04.000That way, if your movie is a bomb and it sucks, then they can just blame all of those terrible, no good, very bad boys.
00:44:10.000It's all those boys who wouldn't go see the movie because they were sexist.
00:44:14.000It's that these evil, terrible boys... You remember, we did this with Lady Ghostbusters.
00:44:20.000Lady Ghostbusters is not a good movie.
00:44:23.000I'm not even a fan of the original Ghostbusters.
00:44:24.000Lady Ghostbusters is not a good movie.
00:44:27.000But because it was made with women, and because it didn't do well at the box office, it turned into... Its non-success was not a referendum on the filmmakers.
00:44:34.000It was a referendum on America's deep sexism.
00:44:38.000Well, Brie Larson is playing right into that.
00:44:40.000Here is Brie Larson actively alienating her chief audience so that I guess later she can claim that it's not her fault if and when the movie bombs.
00:44:47.000Our industry has gone through a major growth.
00:44:50.000We are expanding to make films that better reflect the people that buy movie tickets.
00:44:56.000But they are not allowed enough chances to read public discourse on these films by the people that these films were made for.
00:45:03.000I do not need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn't work for him about A Wrinkle in Time.
00:45:23.000Who does she think buys tickets in this country?
00:45:26.000Does she think that when Disney sunk $100 million into A Wrinkle in Time, that they were looking to actively alienate 40-year-old men who, by the way, who do you think is bringing their daughters to these movies?
00:45:53.000But she also knows that the media are now going to lay the groundwork for the failure of her film.
00:45:57.000So if her film falls apart, if it's just a mediocrity, it's going to turn into, America's a deeply terrible place.
00:46:02.000Now, what's hilariously unfalsifiable about this is that if Black Panther does unbelievable business, that is not proof that America is not racist.
00:46:09.000America's still racist even if Black Panther does a bajillion at the box office and gets nominated for Best Picture despite being, in my opinion, the fourth best comic book movie of the last year.
00:46:18.000America's still racist even if Black Panther does well, but if Captain Marvel fails, it'll be because of American sexism, therefore we need more women empowerment, therefore AOC.
00:46:29.000It's ridiculous, it's insipid, America's a pretty wonderful place, and ignorance should not be excused simply because the ignorant tends to support the woke narrative.
00:46:38.000Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.
00:46:44.000So, I had heard a lot about this Marie Kondo thing, and I actually went out and got her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and I have been going through it, and I will admit, I like this thing.
00:46:55.000Now, I know, it's a little touchy-feely.
00:46:58.000There's a lot of stuff in there about thanking objects before you throw them out, but contrary to popular opinion, I actually do have feelings, particularly about the stuff in my house, and She is not wrong that thanking objects before throwing them away, for example, is not about the objects, obviously, taking account of your feelings, but it is about you recognizing that your memories are going to remain even if you throw away a particular item of clothing that you haven't worn for 30 years.
00:47:23.000There's a lot of good advice in this book.
00:47:29.000Because they take out their toys, I tell them to put them away, they argue with me, they put away three quarters of the toys, and then the other quarter of the toys are left until I have time to actually put them away.
00:47:39.000But, she is correct that going through one large spate of cleaning your house is significantly better than constantly cleaning.
00:47:46.000I just went through my wardrobe a couple of days ago.
00:47:48.000And I gave away like half the stuff in there to goodwill.
00:48:05.000So I have to acknowledge, when we're talking about the woke media and the woke narrative, there are certain questions that the woke media can ask that nobody else is allowed to ask because these questions are actually racist.
00:48:14.000So Bernie Sanders was asked by Charlemagne Tha God on one of these podcasts, About, Charlamagne Tha God is what, a rapper?
00:48:22.000So Bernie Sanders, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, a near-octogenarian socialist who has never done a productive thing in his life, he was asked about whether America needs another white president.
00:48:32.000Now, let's just stop there for a second.
00:48:35.000You know how wildly and insanely inappropriate that is?
00:48:38.000Why wouldn't America need another white president?
00:48:40.000Can you imagine anybody saying, listen, we had Barack Obama, dude, suck, do we really need another black president?
00:50:05.000Now, this has pissed off the woke left.
00:50:07.000The woke left is upset about this, because in their view, Bernie Sanders is too post-racial.
00:50:12.000You need someone who's going to back the idea that we need a black president to fix a country that is historically racist, even though we just had a black president for eight years, and the country actually got more racially polarized as a result of his deliberate stoking of racial flames.
00:50:26.000Good for Bernie Sanders for refusing to back down on this issue.
00:50:29.000Honestly, I would rather have Bernie Sanders' view on race than Kamala Harris' views on race.
00:50:35.000And I think that Bernie Sanders' views on class are actually less dangerous to the country than Kamala Harris' views on race.
00:50:41.000Because America is not going to be divided by class.
00:50:44.000There's too much income mobility in the United States.
00:50:47.000The vast majority of people who earn inside the 1% this year will not earn inside the 1% in 10 years, and have not earned inside the 1% 10 years before.
00:50:54.000Class distinctions in the United States are largely artificial.
00:50:58.000The attempt to tribalize people by race is much more dangerous to American politics.
00:51:02.000That's what I like about burning inside the Democratic Party.
00:51:06.000So, alright, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:51:13.000Well, there comes a point with the woke when you're so woke that your brains fall out.
00:51:17.000One of these incidents comes courtesy of the Daily Mirror today.
00:51:20.000So the Daily Mirror is a newspaper in London.
00:51:59.000If sex is not innate, and you can simply change your sex, well then sexual orientation is also malleable, and you can actually just change your sexual orientation.
00:52:08.000I mean, this is the first line of the article.
00:52:10.000Childhood sweethearts Ty and Aniyah Kennedy were both females when they started dating five years ago, but they now identify as husband and wife in a straight relationship after Tay began to undergo the transitioning process to become a man.
00:52:24.000Folks on the left were trying to get out of this rather illogical conundrum by suggesting that they're both bisexual, but they don't consider themselves bisexual.
00:52:31.000The girl, apparently, the one who actually stayed a woman, according to the left's logic, became straight.
00:52:43.000But apparently, her sexual orientation was malleable, which is not allowed.
00:52:47.000But sex was also malleable, which is allowed.
00:52:52.000Or it could be that male and female are innate categories and that sexual orientation is not nearly as malleable because a lot of this stuff is innate.
00:53:00.000Maybe all of that is true, but again, the left is so confused they don't even know how to characterize this stuff anymore.