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00:01:31.000Okay, so there's an ongoing problem in the country.
00:01:34.000It's something I've been talking about for a while.
00:01:36.000That problem is, of course, political division, political polarization.
00:01:40.000And some of that is rooted in the fact that there are real serious disagreements about the future of the country.
00:01:45.000As I talk about in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, there are real divisions about what people think about the history of the United States, what people think about the philosophy of the United States, what people think about the culture of the United States, like real divisions on where we want to go.
00:01:58.000Some people want to end up in Denmark.
00:02:00.000They mistakenly believe that if we apply Denmark's policies in the United States, we'll end up with Denmark's results.
00:02:05.000There are some people who wish to preserve traditional American liberties in the face of communalistic enterprises.
00:02:12.000These are very, very different visions, but it used to be that thanks to the federalist structure, thanks to the localism of the United States government, thanks to the fact that the federal government was not in charge of everything, and we had a system of checks and balances that prevented mob rule and pure majoritarian cram downs, that because of that, we were all able to live in a country together.
00:02:30.000You could live in California and live like a Californian and you didn't have to live like a Floridian or a Texan or an Alabamian and the same thing the other way around.
00:02:37.000You could live in a town where people agreed with you and the next town over people would disagree with you and you know what?
00:02:41.000Y'all shared the same country because you shared the same fundamental basic precepts.
00:02:45.000A lot of that seems to have been lost and that is being exacerbated right now by the creation of what Charles Murray called in his great book, Coming Apart, he called the new elite class, the new upper class is what he termed them.
00:02:58.000And if you trace the origins of those terms, what you really get to is something called the managerial elite.
00:03:03.000There was an author named James Burnham, famous conservative author who sort of started off as Marxist.
00:03:09.000And he suggested back in the 1940s that capitalism was creating a new managerial elite, meaning a group of people who had graduated from college who were in charge of managing the economy, who thought they were smarter than everybody else.
00:03:24.000And this has burst into full flower because right now what we have in the country Are a new managerial elite, a new ruling class, a new upper class, and they stand at the top of our institutions.
00:03:35.000They stand at the top of the Hollywood infrastructure.
00:03:37.000They stand at the top of our mainstream media.
00:03:39.000They stand at the top levels of administrative government.
00:03:42.000They stand at the top levels of sports, right?
00:03:45.000Every area of American life where institutions have power, with possibly the exception of some churches, All of those institutions are rife with a managerial elite, a new elite class.
00:03:55.000Now, when I say elite, I don't mean that these people are better than you in any real sense, or better than me in any real sense.
00:04:01.000What I mean is that they are deemed elite because of credentialism, because they can point to their degrees, they can point to the fact they went to really good schools.
00:04:09.000But there's something else that has happened.
00:04:10.000And it's not just that the meritocracy has produced people who went to colleges and now are in charge of things because they went to colleges.
00:04:17.000In fact, the truth is that so much of the credentialism that happens in our culture is a lie and stupid.
00:04:23.000The fact is that if you graduate top of your high school class and you don't go to college, you're going to perform at least as well as the person who graduated middle of the high school class and went to college and graduated in the bottom 50% of their class in college.
00:04:35.000So college is really not the dividing line.
00:04:37.000It's just that companies People around the country typically use colleges as a sort of way of rating IQ.
00:04:43.000We don't have these sort of broad IQ tests.
00:04:45.000So instead, what we have is people looking at your degree and then thinking you're smarter because you went to college than if you didn't go to college, which is a really blunt instrument and very often untrue.
00:04:53.000It's one of the reasons why we here at Daily Wire actually do not require a college degree in order to apply for our jobs.
00:04:59.000And we'd be hypocrites if we did, considering that two out of the three people who are at the top of the company are not college graduates.
00:05:06.000I'm the only college graduate at the top of our company.
00:05:09.000And the other two people who help run the company, Jeremy Boring and Caleb Robinson, they're very smart guys.
00:05:13.000Neither one of them graduated from college.
00:05:22.000Okay, so first of all, the credentialism is really bad.
00:05:23.000But there's something else that has happened here.
00:05:25.000And I could talk about the problems of credentialism and the breakdown in America between sort of the college-educated quote-unquote elite and everybody else.
00:05:34.000You could talk about that all day long because it has created tremendous pressures in the job market, particularly for non-college graduates.
00:05:40.000It has led to the rise of people putting in job requirements, college admission, Even though they don't really need it, right?
00:05:47.000If you're an administrative assistant, you really shouldn't have to have a college degree in order to get that.
00:05:51.000But now, because 36% of Americans have gone to college, as opposed to back in 1960, when like 5% of Americans went to college, it has become the de rigueur job requirement, even though a degree in gender studies is not gonna make you a better administrative assistant, for example.
00:06:04.000Okay, in any case, there's a bigger problem than that.
00:06:06.000Okay, a bigger problem than just the divide between college educated and non-college educated.
00:06:12.000That is the creation of an actual language that has happened inside the new elite ruling class.
00:06:18.000So there's a process in evolutionary biology that is called signaling.
00:06:21.000Signaling happens in a wide variety of contexts.
00:06:24.000So signaling in evolutionary biology happens with regard to reproduction.
00:06:27.000You will see that certain birds, for example, have certain plumage, and this signifies that they are ready to reproduce.
00:06:31.000Okay, in evolutionary biology terms, signaling is a way of increasing your productive fitness.
00:06:37.000Signaling is also a way of increasing group productive fitness.
00:06:41.000So what I mean by that is that if you want your group to be more efficient, Then you can't afford to have kind of long conversations about who is in the group and who is out of the group.
00:06:49.000Instead, you look for simple signifiers.
00:06:52.000And the most simple signifiers are going to be things like the garb you wear.
00:06:56.000You can tell by how somebody dresses what they do.
00:06:58.000I can tell if somebody walks into a room wearing a white coat, there's a good shot that they're a medical doctor.
00:07:02.000If there's somebody who walks into a room wearing a police uniform, that is a signifier.
00:07:07.000But it is not merely You know, dress that is a signifier.
00:07:10.000It is also the activities that you take.
00:07:12.000So in religious communities, they're signifiers.
00:07:14.000So if you're an Orthodox Jew, you wear a yarmulke.
00:07:16.000This is a signifier to the other Jews that you're an Orthodox Jew, and it comes along with a whole bevy of practices.
00:07:21.000The practices themselves could be seen in evolutionary biology terms as signifiers, right?
00:07:26.000They could be seen as things that show solidarity with other people who practice these things, as well as a gateway into the mind of the person who's doing it, right?
00:07:33.000Because you've sacrificed things in order to do this sort of signaling.
00:07:37.000And the signal is an establishment of social capital with other people who share that signal.
00:07:41.000So this is why Thomas Sowell has talked about minority middlemen in various cultures, right?
00:07:46.000It's not just Orthodox Jews in the diamond industry in New York, right?
00:07:50.000who don't actually have to sign contracts because they have this sort of shared background, they have this shared social capital.
00:07:55.000But for example, you will see, for example, Chinese expatriates in certain parts of Southeast Asia, and they have created very solid social capital connections where they can trade more easily, they can do more things in terms of commerce than they could do outside the group because they know and trust the people that they are working with.
00:08:13.000Okay, so the United States used to have a set of shared signals, right?
00:08:16.000All of us had a set of shared signals.
00:08:18.000Those signals, and these are very important, are things like the flag.
00:09:02.000And you can see the signals everywhere.
00:09:03.000Once you see they're speaking their own language, you understand so much of what's going on in American politics.
00:09:08.000We'll get to what exactly that language is in just one second, because it really is fascinating.
00:09:12.000And we're watching it happen in real time.
00:09:13.000And if you're wondering why there's this political polarization, it's because there's been the creation of a language that allows you access to the highest halls of power.
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00:10:44.000Okay, so, when we talk about signaling, the creation of the new upper class, the new elite, right, the new managerial class, it is not merely that they are united by their college degree.
00:10:55.000It is that they've created their own language, and that language requires you to speak A particular brand of jargon that most people find off-putting and also confusing because it is both off-putting and confusing.
00:11:07.000It is not meant to convey information.
00:11:30.000He has a piece today in the New York Times titled, America, we have a problem.
00:11:32.000The rise of political sectarianism is putting us all in danger.
00:11:36.000And of course he says that that is the Republicans, right, who are engaged in political sectarianism based on many Republicans' refusal to accept the outcome of the election.
00:11:44.000Okay, but the reality is that what he's about to describe is a phenomenon that started on the left and then there has been a sort of a reverse sectarianism that has cropped up because people have been reacting to the fact that they've been excluded from the party.
00:11:59.000So there was a group of people in the United States, they decided that everybody else who was not in that group was bad.
00:12:03.000And then the people outside the party, they're like, you know what, you're bad.
00:12:07.000That is the story of America over the last 10, 15, 20 years.
00:12:14.000He says, on October 30th, a group of 15 eminent scholars, several of whom I also got a chance to talk to, published an essay, Political Sectarianism in America, arguing that the antagonism between left and right The author's right.
00:12:25.000that words and phrases like effective polarization and tribalism were no longer sufficient to capture the level of partisan hostility.
00:12:32.000The severity of political conflict has grown increasingly divorced from the magnitude of policy disagreement, the authors write.
00:12:38.000So what they're saying is that people hate each other more than you would really think they should, given how our divides work in terms of philosophical questions.
00:12:45.000They say that this would require the development of a superordinate construct, political sectarianism, the tendency to adopt a moralized identification with one political group and against another.
00:12:56.000Political sectarianism, they argue, quote, consists of three core ingredients.
00:13:00.000Othering, the tendency to view opposing partisans as essentially different or alien to oneself.
00:13:20.000Well, according to the authors, this incentivizes politicians to adopt anti-democratic tactics when pursuing electoral or political victories, since their supporters will justify such norm violation because, quote, the consequences of having the vile opposition win the election are catastrophic.
00:13:32.000Okay, so I agree with a lot of this analysis.
00:13:34.000I also think that we know who started this.
00:13:36.000Okay, the fact is that for decades, people who are on the political right have been castigated as immoral.
00:13:42.000People who are on the political left have been castigated by the right generally as misguided.
00:13:46.000People on the left see people on the right as evil and terrible.
00:13:50.000And this has been true my entire life.
00:13:53.000There's a view on the political left that people on the right are bad human beings who ought not be in public company.
00:13:59.000It's something I've noted on a personal level many times.
00:14:02.000I've invited a thousand different people on the left onto the show.
00:14:04.000Very few of them actually have the balls to appear on the show.
00:14:07.000And I'm talking about for like a cordial conversation on the Sunday special.
00:14:10.000And if you've ever watched the Sunday special, you understand it's not me grilling people.
00:14:15.000There are too many incidents like this to recall.
00:14:17.000People rejecting invites just to have a normal conversation.
00:14:21.000Not even a debate, just a normal conversation.
00:14:24.000I remember one time I was with one of the top podcasters, if not the top podcaster on the left, and I said, we should do a crossover election special.
00:14:31.000He said, your people would be fine with it, my people would kill me.
00:14:34.000That is the general phenomenon I'm talking about.
00:14:35.000I'm talking about what I've termed the happy birthday problem, which is even folks on the left, with whom I am friendly, will text me happy birthday, but they will never publicly say happy birthday on Twitter, lest they acknowledge that I was born of woman and am thus a human being.
00:14:47.000That sort of thing is not actually uncommon when it comes to the left-right divide.
00:14:51.000So let's go back to those ingredients for a second.
00:14:53.000Othering, the tendency to view opposing partisans as essentially different or alien to oneself.
00:14:58.000Do you get that more from the right or do you get that more from the left?
00:15:02.000There was this view that Republicans were, in the words of Barack Obama, bitter clingers who were clinging to God and guns and xenophobia.
00:15:09.000In the words of Hillary Clinton, if you were deplorable, you're a person who believed in religion and that belief in religion had to be rethought.
00:15:17.000Okay, aversion, the tendency to dislike and distrust opposing partisans.
00:15:20.000Okay, I mean, just in the last two days, General Malley Dillon, who's gonna be one of the top staffers in the Biden team, right?
00:15:26.000She came out and she said that Republicans were effers.
00:15:29.000And so aversion is definitely a strong reaction.
00:15:32.000It is the reaction that people on the left have to people on the right.
00:15:34.000People on the right do not have that same strong aversion to people on the left.
00:15:38.000If they do, it is a minority phenomenon and it is a very recent phenomenon, more importantly.
00:15:43.000For as long as I have been alive, people on the right have been treated as though they are social lepers in the context of being in liberal environments.
00:15:51.000And finally, moralization, the tendency to view opposing partisans as iniquitous.
00:15:55.000So basically, we are talking here about what almost seems to be a religious worldview, which is why the authors of this study are using the term sectarianism.
00:16:01.000Normally, when you use the term sectarianism, you're not talking about politics, you're talking about religion.
00:16:05.000You're talking about Shia versus Sunni or Catholic versus Protestant before the Peace of Westphalia.
00:16:10.000You're talking about sects that fight each other because they have mutually exclusive views of the world.
00:16:16.000So how do those sects connect with one another?
00:16:18.000How do you determine who is in what sect?
00:16:19.000And here is where the signaling that I'm talking about comes in.
00:16:23.000That signaling, again, has nothing to do with an actual cohesive political point of view.
00:16:29.000It has to do with signaling to other people that you are part of the in-group.
00:16:32.000And you can see it in how folks on the left now approach language.
00:16:36.000I can see it clearly over and over and over again.
00:16:39.000This is not meant... The linguistic tricks that the left likes to play are not meant to make politics more clear.
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00:18:34.000In order to understand it, you have to have gone to a university, and you have to have studied inside the sort of intersectional philosophy of universities.
00:20:13.000And again, it's about in-group signaling.
00:20:14.000It's about creation of a hard uppercast caste who are not going to accept you into their realm unless you speak, unless you abide by their language.
00:21:02.000The deconstructionist movement believed that there is no such thing as objective truth, that everything is shaped by the language we speak, and therefore that all language is representative of structures of power.
00:21:14.000Okay, the left has taken that up, and they have grafted onto it identity politics.
00:21:18.000So deconstructionists would have said that race itself is a social construct.
00:21:21.000Many of the gender and identity politics folks will say simultaneously that race and gender are social constructs, but also that they are deeply important for understanding how the world works in terms of its systems of power.
00:21:31.000These are mutually exclusive propositions.
00:21:40.000If you are using ji and zhe, And they and them, to refer to an individual human being.
00:21:46.000This is because you're signaling in-group solidarity.
00:21:49.000This is why, like, everyone could just assume that if you are a female who identifies as a female, that we're going to use she and her.
00:21:57.000But you see people who are putting this in their Twitter profile, not out of solidarity with the transgender community, but because they wish to show that they are part of the woke.
00:22:08.000So now we have this, but, and the people who do this are at the tops of our institutional culture.
00:22:11.000This is why you have Cartoon Network, which, it's a cartoon network.
00:22:14.000Yes, they have Adult Swim, but it is a network that is meant for children.
00:22:18.000Now attempting to indoctrinate children in this particular lexicon, because it's not enough that they speak this language, it's that you have to speak the language too.
00:22:25.000In a sectarian war, you have to make sure that people know the rights.
00:22:28.000And people know the rituals, and this is part of the rights and rituals, is adopting this sort of bizarre language and this bizarre philosophy of gender that nobody actually understands because it is utterly, internally incoherent.
00:22:39.000So Cartoon Network put out a tweet yesterday.
00:22:41.000Here's to not only normalizing gender pronouns, but respecting them too.
00:22:44.000Whether you use he, she, them, or something else, we acknowledge and love you.
00:22:57.000If you don't agree with us, then you are a member of an outgroup.
00:23:00.000It is treating people as though they are bizarre and exterior, and it is moralizing.
00:23:06.000You are not loving and you are not good unless you use the sort of language that we want you to use, even if that language is actually counter to reality, counter to biology, and counter to the ability to communicate clear ideas.
00:23:16.000So they put out this tweet and it has several graphics of cartoon characters.
00:23:20.000One cartoon character says gender pronouns describe a person's gender identity.
00:23:23.000Another one says examples of pronouns are she her, they them, and she's her.
00:23:28.000A third character says a lot of people are learning about gender.
00:23:32.000If you're comfortable, you can share your own gender pronouns.
00:23:35.000And then it says underneath, gender pronouns.
00:23:36.000We can't tell someone's gender just by looking at them and shouldn't assume we know.
00:23:40.000There are many gender identities beyond girl or boy.
00:23:42.000Some people don't identify as any gender.
00:23:44.000Okay, this is just indoctrination into nonsense because there is no biological basis to this.
00:23:48.000It is just semantic game playing, but it's not about actually making the world a better place.
00:23:52.000It's about in-group signaling that you are a member of the loving woke.
00:23:56.000Hey, that's what Cartoon Network is doing right there.
00:23:58.000And if you refuse to speak the language, then you are cast out into the outer darkness.
00:24:02.000And this sort of language characterizes everything that is happening in our politics right now.
00:24:08.000Gavin Newsom, yesterday, he was tweeting out about the Trump administration saying it would be cutting $200 million in federal health care funding to California because the state requires insurance providers to cover abortions, right?
00:24:28.000like the pro-life party eliminating healthcare during a global pandemic.
00:24:32.000California will survive without this dollars for now, but their frail, pathetic, patriarchal system, they are so desperate to protect won't.
00:24:55.000It's about signaling to everybody else, he speaks the lingo.
00:24:58.000The lingo, again, that secret knock, the lingo is terms like patriarchal, terms like systemic injustice, terms like, je jeur, zay, zam, whom, him, femme, plume.
00:25:07.000All of this crap is designed for one thing and one thing only, and that is to create a secret handshake of the upper crust.
00:25:16.000We'll get to more of this in a second because you see how this is both driving a backlash and also how this has infused every aspect of the Democratic agenda.
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00:26:34.000Alrighty, so the sort of in-group woke signaling does drive a reverse signaling on the part of the right.
00:26:41.000But that signaling used to be stuff that people sort of considered rote and uncontroversial.
00:26:45.000So for example, the left is very angry today because David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both the senators from Georgia, who are in very competitive runoff races right now, opposed renaming the Atlanta Braves.
00:26:56.000And people are like, why are they even commenting on this?
00:26:57.000The answer is because this is also a form of in-group signaling.
00:27:00.000This is signaling to their own constituents that they are not a member of the woke elite class.
00:27:05.000They are not going to speak that language.
00:27:06.000So a counter language has formed in rejection of this language.
00:27:10.000Now, I'm not saying they're wrong, because they're not.
00:27:13.000I don't think that the Atlanta Braves is an insulting name.
00:27:15.000I don't think the Cleveland Indians was an insulting name.
00:27:18.000I mean, even if you want to make the case that the Washington Redskins was an insulting name, which, again, is controversial and I don't really agree with, even if you want to make that case, there's a world of separation between using the term Redskin and using the term Indians, Braves, or like Kansas City Chiefs, right?
00:27:32.000You can see the difference on its face.
00:27:34.000Three of those terms cannot have even been construed as derogatory toward a particular group of people.
00:27:39.000Okay, but the idea here from Leffler and Perdue is this is again a form of in-group social signaling.
00:27:46.000It is saying that the wokes should not be able to take away sort of common items that we used to hold in common.
00:27:52.000So, Leffler and Perdue released a joint statement on Monday.
00:27:55.000They said not only are the Braves a Georgian institution, with a history spanning 54 years in Atlanta, they're an American institution.
00:28:00.000The Braves name honors our nation's Native American heritage, which should not be erased.
00:28:03.000Under no circumstances should one of the most celebrated teams in sports cave to the demands of the cancel culture and the radical left.
00:28:10.000Only 20% of Georgia voters surveyed said they believe that the baseball team needs to change its name.
00:28:14.000More than 70% of voters say the name should be kept.
00:28:17.000That is one of the reasons why they are making that move.
00:28:20.000That's one of the reasons they're saying this sort of stuff.
00:28:22.000Because so much of our culture war is reliant on this linguistic semantic war.
00:28:26.000The language is reflective of a deeper culture war that is taking place.
00:28:30.000And now, you can see in the Biden team, the adoption of this language.
00:28:35.000You can see it everywhere in the adoption of the language of the radical upper class elite.
00:28:41.000So Joe Biden, he comes into office January 20th, the Electoral College has voted, and he's going to be speaking this language nonstop.
00:28:49.000He's going to say that he is a unifier, that if you speak this language, it is essentially a disunifying language.
00:28:54.000It is the language that suggests the inferiority of your political opponents.
00:28:59.000So, Biden has decided on a few of his appointments that are worthy of note.
00:29:03.000So, his first appointment that was getting all sorts of play is, of course, Pete Buttigieg.
00:29:09.000So, Pete Buttigieg was nominated as Secretary of Transportation, or he will be nominated as Secretary of Transportation when they have the ability to do so.
00:29:17.000And the media, of course, are slobbering all over themselves that Pete Buttigieg will be nominated as Secretary of Transportation.
00:29:23.000So, here is Jeff Bennett on MSNBC reporting.
00:29:27.000This really is the culmination of Pete Buttigieg's meteoric rise in national politics over the last two years.
00:29:34.000It is nothing short of remarkable that a president-elect would elevate someone to run an agency, a $90 billion agency with some 50,000 employees, and the person he's elevating has never worked in Washington politics and has never run any part of a federal bureaucracy.
00:29:50.000But Joe Biden believes that Pete Buttigieg is a special case.
00:29:55.000Okay, so I love how MSNBC is reporting this, right?
00:29:58.000It's with a smile on their face, right?
00:30:00.000Sure, Pete Buttigieg doesn't know the first thing about transportation policy.
00:30:02.000Sure, he didn't even fill the potholes in South Bend, real story.
00:30:05.000Domino's Pizza had to donate money to fill potholes in South Bend while he was mayor.
00:30:16.000Well, why don't you let the media tell you?
00:30:17.000By the way, everything they're about to say here is false.
00:30:19.000Rick Grenell was the first cabinet-level official who was openly gay under Trump, who was the acting DNI Director of National Intelligence for a period.
00:30:25.000Anyway, here is the entire media suggesting what is actually special about Pete Buttigieg, and that is, of course, his identity as a gay man.
00:30:31.000Buttigieg would become the first openly gay cabinet secretary confirmed by the U.S.
00:30:37.000In nominating Pete Buttigieg, he is nominating someone who would be the youngest cabinet secretary ever.
00:30:51.000Former mayor of South Bend, Indiana would be one of the youngest cabinet members since Alexander Hamilton and the first openly gay cabinet secretary.
00:30:59.000Pete Buttigieg, if confirmed, would also be the first openly gay member of Mr. Biden's cabinet.
00:31:04.000So many historic firsts, I guess, as well.
00:31:08.000Okay, so that's all that matters, right?
00:31:09.000It doesn't matter whether he's qualified for the position.
00:31:11.000And unless you feel that this is a very important thing, that somebody who is openly gay becomes the second.
00:31:39.000You know, this person was the first person to the Chinese were the first people to land on the moon, that side of the moon.
00:31:48.000Okay, I mean, true as far as it goes, you might be missing some things in that particular story.
00:31:54.000In any case, the real reason that Pete Buttigieg is beloved of the left is because he speaks the language of the left.
00:31:58.000So here was Pete Buttigieg yesterday talking about transportation, and he's about to drop just a hot bevy of At its best, transportation makes the American dream possible.
00:32:10.000Getting people and goods to where they need to be.
00:32:12.000people to judge doing some in-group signaling about the power of transportation to shape and then insert woke buzzword. Here we go. At its best, transportation makes the American dream possible, getting people and goods to where they need to be, directly and indirectly creating good paying jobs. At its worst, misguided policies and missed opportunities can reinforce racial, economic and environmental injustice.
00:32:41.000This administration can deliver policies and resources that will create jobs, rise to the climate challenge, And equitably serve all Americans.
00:32:52.000Okay, so you can hear the lingo, right?
00:33:07.000Economic injustice suggests that in a free market, he should be using the power of the roads, redistributing income, or environmental justice.
00:33:25.000That is the important thing about Pete Buttigieg, which is one of the reasons why he... Pete Buttigieg shares a position as a member of the new ruling class with the members of the media who also speak this language.
00:33:35.000They use exactly the same kind of buzzwords in their reporting.
00:33:38.000Like, exactly the same kind of buzzwords in their reporting.
00:33:41.000Okay, so they and Buttigieg have more in common than you and the media.
00:33:45.000The media have nothing in common with you.
00:33:47.000You don't speak the language they're speaking, but they speak the language he is speaking.
00:33:50.000They may as well be speaking Norwegian with each other, while you and the media just are speaking completely different languages.
00:33:55.000This is why there's this wide disconnect that is opening, and this is why the media will just look the other way at the fact that Buttigieg has no qualifications whatsoever to be Secretary of Transportation.
00:34:03.000I remember when Dr. Ben Carson was nominated the head of housing and urban development, a pick that even I thought was somewhat bizarre since he had no actual expertise in housing or urban development.
00:34:13.000The media went nuts on that, and I thought, okay, well, you know, that's kind of true.
00:34:15.000I mean, Dr. Carson was a neuroscientist, like, he was a neurosurgeon.
00:34:25.000By the way, what is Pete Buttigieg's actual claim to be qualified for this position?
00:34:31.000Here was his actual claim to be qualified for this position.
00:34:33.000I've also had a personal love of transportation ever since childhood.
00:34:38.000More than once as a college student, I would convince a friend to travel nearly a thousand miles back to Indiana with me on Amtrak.
00:34:46.000Though I know that in this administration, I will at best aspire to be the second biggest train enthusiast around.
00:34:53.000I spent a spring break in graduate school aboard a cargo ship, studying there.
00:34:58.000Travel, in my mind, is synonymous with growth, with adventure, even love.
00:35:04.000So much so that I proposed to my husband, Chasten, in an airport terminal.
00:35:10.000So, he should be Secretary of Transportation because he loves choo-choo trains.
00:35:14.000And has loved choo-choo trains since he was a child.
00:35:17.000By which metric, my four-year-old son should be Secretary of Transportation?
00:35:23.000Also, I gotta say, if you think that airport terminals are like a really romantic place, I suggest you visit Newark, sir.
00:35:33.000Yes, nothing says romance quite like being in a place filled with people who are farting and taking off their shoes.
00:35:40.000That is the essence of romance to me as well.
00:35:44.000It is the peculiar grime of LAX that really gets my heart aflutter.
00:35:48.000Also, by the way, even if you love airport terminals, I mean, and you really have to love airport terminals, then I'm wondering how that makes you qualified to be Secretary of Transportation.
00:35:56.000Like, I proposed to my wife, for the record, in her college residential dorm, and that would not qualify me to either be Secretary of Education or Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
00:36:07.000So that's a weird take, but the media are just going to look right past that.
00:36:10.000None of that matters because he speaks the language.
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00:39:17.000So if you don't speak the upper crust lingo, it doesn't matter if you're even a political leftist.
00:39:26.000It means that you are out on your butt.
00:39:42.000No, that's not what it means, you big silly!
00:39:44.000What it actually means is that America's racist, systemically evil, and that even if you back anti-climate change policies like cap-and-trade policies or carbon regulations, that's not good enough because you have to redistribute income, you have to redistribute everything in order to wreck the system from the inside.
00:40:01.000And if you don't speak the language of environmental justice, even if you are a far leftist when it comes to climate change, that's not good enough.
00:40:07.000So just like a lot of other religions, the more devoted you are to the religion, the more ritual you have to perform.
00:40:12.000This is also true when it comes to woke signaling.
00:40:15.000According to Coral Davenport, when Joe Biden won the presidential election, his top candidate to lead the nation's most powerful environmental agency appeared clear.
00:40:22.000Mary Nichols, California's clean air regulator, arguably the country's most experienced climate change official.
00:40:28.000to run the EPA. Now Biden's team is scrambling to find somebody else, according to several people who have spoken with the presidential transition team. The chief reason, this month a group of more than 70 environmental justice groups wrote to the Biden transition, charging that Ms. Nichols has a bleak track record in addressing environmental racism.
00:40:44.000Ah, environmental race, again, this is all jargon. Environmental racism is an interior, it's an internally foolish concept.
00:40:53.000The environment applies to everyone equally, but, and we all share it, this is one of the problems, this is a tragedy of the commons, right?
00:40:59.000But what they mean by environmental racism is that the impact of particular environmental policy fall unequally on people, and therefore it is the job of the government to fix all of that.
00:41:08.000And this lady has not done enough to fix all of that, right?
00:41:10.000In other words, she has not connected her sort of Green New Deal ideas with a redistributionist far-left program the way that the AOC wing of the party would like.
00:41:20.000The environmental justice groups cited Nichols' role in pushing California's cap-and-trade program, which is designed to broadly reduce pollution of planet-warming greenhouse gases, but disproportionately does so at the expense, the group said, of communities of color by exposing them to more pollutants like smog and soot.
00:41:52.000All of this stuff is meant just to signal your allegiance to a particular viewpoint and to a belief that you are superior to everybody else within the political realm.
00:42:02.000And this is why you're starting to see somebody like a Brenda Mallory is going to be picked to run the White House Environment Office.
00:42:24.000And if you don't understand what they're talking about, it's because you're a member of the unwashed.
00:42:27.000So keep your mouth shut or just say environmental justice over and over until Tinkerbell redistributes income all over the United States, thus creating environmental justice.
00:42:37.000Mallory, according to the New York Times, who serves as Director of the Regulatory Policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center, a watchdog group, has worked on both pollution and land conservation issues throughout her career, including helping to create new national monuments under the Obama administration and fighting the dismantlement of those monuments under the Trump administration.
00:42:53.000Biden has pledged to make addressing racial disparities in environmental policies a core part of his climate agenda.
00:42:59.000Again, when it comes to the woke language, all this stuff is lumped together, right?
00:43:03.000Environmental injustice, economic justice, racial injustice, all of this is just balled together so that the same policy solves all of it.
00:43:11.000And if you don't repeat their nostrums, it can't be part of the cool kids crowd.
00:43:14.000So who is part of the cool kids crowd?
00:43:16.000Well, there are now a couple of people who Biden is considering for Secretary of Education, One is Leslie Fenwick, Dean Emeritus of the Howard University School of Education and Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership.
00:43:27.000Okay, so we know something about Fenwick.
00:43:29.000And the thing we know about Fenwick is that Fenwick is a person who speaks the lingo.
00:43:50.000Okay, so here is Fenwick speaking very recently.
00:43:54.000This is a video published in September.
00:43:56.000Talking about ideas to broaden educational opportunities for black students, like for-profit charter schools and taxpayer-funded private school vouchers, right?
00:44:05.000Things that allow school choice, particularly directed at inner cities, because kids in inner cities are stuck at their crappy public schools.
00:44:17.000She's engaged in exactly the sort of sectarianism, political sectarianism, that Thomas Edsel was decrying in the New York Times.
00:44:23.000And she is being considered for the head of the Department of Education.
00:44:26.000Here she is declaring school choice to be a scheme rooted in a desire to segregate, which is a really weird take considering that school choice would specifically be designed at unsegregating informal segregation, right?
00:44:37.000It would allow people from the inner city to actually take their kids and put them in a school outside of their school district.
00:44:43.000Here she was using the lingo, and all that matters is the lingo.
00:44:47.000The courts have challenged vouchers, charters, the placement of teachers and training as teachers of record.
00:45:01.000Placement of non-certified teachers primarily in schools serving black, brown and poor children.
00:45:09.000And these schemes are often viewed as new and innovative.
00:45:13.000But when you look at the history of these schemes, and I use the word schemes purposely, you find that they are rooted in resistance to the brown legal decision.
00:45:27.000Uh, it's all, it's all about, again, it's all about trying to connect everything to this broader narrative.
00:45:31.000And you have to understand the narrative by speaking their magical language.
00:45:34.000The good news is that all of Hollywood speaks the language.
00:45:35.000So you have the entire educational infrastructure that speaks the language.
00:45:38.000In fact, much of this language was created inside our ivory tower.
00:45:42.000Members of the Democratic Party speak this language, and Hollywood, of course, speaks this language, which is why you are seeing folks like Bob Iger being considered for ambassador to China, which makes perfect sense.
00:45:51.000Disney was recently ripped, like, up and down this year because they filmed Mulan in Xinjiang province, which is the area where the Uyghurs are being kept in concentration camps.
00:46:00.000And ESPN has been ripped up and down for being pro-Chinese.
00:46:03.000So naturally, Biden's like, you know who we should make ambassador to China?
00:46:18.000And she stepped down to join the White House Domestic Policy Council.
00:46:21.000Nicole Avant, former ambassador to the Bahamas during the Obama administration, wife of Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos, is seeking a return to diplomatic life.
00:46:29.000Yeah, I mean, if you made me ambassador to the Bahamas, I'd also love to be in diplomatic life.
00:46:45.000You are not, because you don't speak the language or you refuse to speak the language.
00:46:49.000Now, the bad news is that inside the coalition of the new ruling class, the language is constantly shifting.
00:46:55.000You always have to go one level up, right?
00:46:57.000You thought that you were woke enough.
00:46:58.000You thought that you were social justice oriented enough, but now there's another level.
00:47:03.000All you have to do is pay the grifters a little bit more money so that you can learn the new language, and then you two will rise in esteem and you can maintain your membership.
00:47:46.000Here's Hakeem Jeffries, one of the higher-ups in the Democratic Congress, saying that Eric Swalwell would... Why would we take him off the Intel Committee?
00:47:53.000I mean, he was only probably effing a Chinese spy.
00:47:55.000Why would we... You think that jeopardizes national security?
00:47:58.000I mean, hell, it's not like... It's not like he had a phone call as the incoming national security advisor with the Russians or something.
00:48:05.000He was only having sex with a Chinese spy, in all likelihood.
00:48:22.000Meanwhile, you've got Jon Ossoff, who's running for Georgia Senate right now, and he too is engaged in this sort of buzz wordification.
00:48:29.000Here he was saying that all the GOP attacks in Georgia I think that the GOP attacks at this point are garden variety, fear mongering, race baiting.
00:48:47.000Look, they've been lengthening my nose in their ads to remind everybody that I'm a Jew.
00:48:51.000They've been running racist attacks against Reverend Warnock.
00:48:54.000It sounds like you're saying the Republican attacks are functionally racist and potentially anti-Semitic.
00:48:59.000Well, when they're lengthening my nose in their ads, uh, and when they're, uh, calling Reverend Warnock dangerous, I mean, look, this is the playbook that they've run here since the 1970s.
00:49:08.000The GOP's southern strategy in the south is to divide people alon- I had no idea Asaf was Jewish.
00:49:13.000Like, really, like, no idea Asaf was Jewish.
00:49:16.000I'm not sure why I would care exactly, but as far as Warnock being dangerous, he is dangerous.
00:49:24.000That's kind of dangerous to have in the United States Senate.
00:49:26.000Now, the only good news for people who don't speak the lingo is that, again, the lingo gets more and more rigorous, which is why you have Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, Honorable Representative D-Twitch.
00:49:35.000Saying that it may be time to move on to the next generation of people who speak the new lingo because of course the dictionary of wokeism gets remade every few years.
00:49:43.000Here is Alexander Ocasio-Cortez saying it's time to move beyond the current democratic leadership into a new era of more woke language.
00:49:51.000I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
00:49:55.000I think one of the things that I have struggled with, I think that a lot of people struggle with, is the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there's very little option for succession, if you will, you know, and I think that one could just I think it's easy for someone to say, oh, well, you know, why don't you run?
00:50:20.000But the House is extraordinarily complex and I'm not ready.
00:50:47.000The way that you reject all of this is by rejecting the language of wokeism.
00:50:50.000The language of wokeism has to be rejected at every turn.
00:50:53.000Okay, meanwhile, let us talk about the latest developments with regard to COVID.
00:50:57.000So, Right now, a COVID relief bill is on the table.
00:51:01.000According to CNN, congressional leaders, after months of a bitter stalemate, and as millions of Americans have been eager for relief, are finally indicating they're nearing a deal on a new rescue package that could pass both chambers within days.
00:51:11.000And it's pretty obvious that Democrats were holding this thing up so they could blame Republicans.
00:51:15.000She said we weren't going to do this in the lead up to the election because now we've had an election and now things are magically different.
00:51:20.000And Mitch McConnell acknowledged the other day that Pelosi has basically succeeded in this because the media are her lapdogs and they will do whatever she wants them to do.
00:51:29.000And the media will simply suggest the Republicans held up a relief bill when they did not.
00:51:32.000They proposed a relief bill, what, four months ago?
00:51:34.000The Democrats have been holding up over and over and over.
00:51:37.000They wouldn't even allow a vote on it.
00:51:39.000Meanwhile, the Republicans have passed that relief bill a bunch of times in the Senate.
00:51:44.000But the media, because they lap up whatever the Democrats tell them and then vomit it out on the rug like a good dog, Or like a bad dog is the case, maybe.
00:51:53.000They have been able to promulgate the idea that Republicans are the obstructionists here.
00:51:57.000So this has pushed McConnell into a bit of an uncomfortable position where something has to get passed or presumably the Georgia Senate race starts to get dicier even than it already is for Republicans.
00:52:06.000According to CNN, the price tag for a stimulus deal could be close to $900 billion.
00:52:11.000The deal is expected to include a new round of stimulus checks at $600 per individual.
00:52:23.000That sounds like the deal that is going to go forward.
00:52:25.000The measure is also expected to include an additional $300 a week in jobless benefits.
00:52:29.000As well as up to $330 billion for small business loans and money for vaccine distribution, which means that, overall, you're talking about $600 per individual plus $300 a week in jobless benefits.
00:52:39.000So a minimum of $1,800 per individual to take you for, presumably, the next couple of months.
00:52:47.000That leaves aside the fact that, again, if it's $600 per individual, then there's usually more than one individual in the household.
00:52:55.000Senate Majority Whip John Thune told CNN that there may be a simple way that the Democrats are disguising money for state and local governments because Democrats are trying to push to include $90 billion in aid to states administered by the FEMA agency, by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
00:53:09.000It's still uncertain when Congress is going to vote and whether they're going to tie that $900 billion relief plan to a massive $1.4 trillion spending bill Congress is trying to pass by the time the government runs out of money on Friday night.
00:53:22.000Because again, there's a budget issue that's also happening.
00:53:25.000Congress may have to pass another stopgap measure to keep agencies afloat.
00:53:29.000Mitch McConnell suggested that votes on final passage could slip into the weekend.
00:53:33.000If that happens, it's possible there could be a temporary government shutdown until final passage.
00:53:36.000That's gonna last for like five seconds.
00:53:39.000McConnell said in a floor speech on Wednesday, Hill leaders are making major headway.
00:53:42.000Again, this thing should have passed two months ago.
00:53:45.000The fact that the Democrats are calling for unending aid in the middle of a pandemic in which they are calling for basically total shutdown until the end of time is somewhat telling.
00:53:55.000There are a lot of people who are enjoying lockdown too much, and the people who are enjoying lockdown too much tend to be the people who don't have to work for a living.
00:54:01.000Those people seem to be enjoying lockdown an awful, awful lot.
00:54:04.000Or whoever is able to scam the government out of money.
00:54:07.000This doesn't mean that we shouldn't be careful in how we approach the pandemic, but the reality is that every business that operates is an essential business for the people who operate it and the people who work for it.
00:54:16.000And we have to find ways that those businesses can operate safely and securely.
00:54:20.000Speaking of which, the notion that lockdowns are a cure-all, I'm wondering why that is that California, then, is experiencing this massive, massive spike.
00:54:28.000According to the Washington Post, California is the new epicenter of America's coronavirus crisis, with unprecedented surges of seriously infected patients threatening to overwhelm hospitals and overflow morgues.
00:54:37.000The state is reporting unnerving numbers.
00:54:39.000California has set nationwide records for new cases again and again in the past week, most recently on Wednesday, when it posted more than 41,000 infections.
00:54:49.000People are simply not, the tighter you grasp this thing, the more people are just going to avoid the grip.
00:54:56.000If you told people to be responsible, and they're responsible for their own health, and now you need to actually act reasonably to protect other people, I think most people do that.
00:55:04.000And the statistics show that people do mask up when they go into public areas, and people take seriously the pandemic when the pandemic starts to hit their area.
00:55:10.000But when you tell people they have to lock down until the end of time, and there is no future of openness in sight, And then when you add on top of that ridiculous statement, like was made by Dr. Gupta on MSNBC yesterday, in which he suggested that people are still going to be masking and social distancing through like 2022, or that after you have the virus, you still shouldn't travel.
00:55:30.000After you have the virus and you're okay, you shouldn't travel.
00:55:32.000Or after you have the vaccine, you shouldn't travel.
00:55:33.000Fauci said yesterday that we are not going to be able to stop the masking and the social distancing until like the end of 2021.
00:55:39.000You think people are going to pay attention to that?
00:56:35.000My kids have been in school since September.
00:56:36.000There hasn't been an outbreak because you can act responsibly and you can make sure the precautions are taken.
00:56:41.000The precautions at my kid's school involve that we have to actually sign a basically an affidavit every night saying that our kids aren't sick and they haven't been in contact with anybody with COVID.
00:56:50.000And the kids are wearing masks and there are plexiglass shields.
00:56:53.000And there are kids who, by statistics, are really not getting sick from this thing, and are also really not transmitting this thing in high numbers.
00:57:00.000And Joe Biden is saying maybe after—what bravery from Joe Biden?
00:57:33.000grapple with the CDC strong warning to stay at home this winter to stop the spread of COVID. Some are wondering if they're exempt from the recommendation if they've already recovered from the illness. People who had coronavirus can develop antibodies that circulate in the blood and can neutralize the pathogen.
00:57:46.000But questions around immunity still linger. The CDC says cases of reinfection have been reported but are rare. It hasn't stopped people from traveling though. What do you mean though? Of course it hasn't stopped people from traveling. The information on reinfection is extraordinarily scanty.
00:58:02.000There have been, as far as I'm aware, like double digit recorded cases all over the world of reinfection happening.
00:58:08.000And in some of those cases, there are people who are wondering if they had a false positive the first time.
00:58:12.000And if you believe that having this thing and getting over it does not provide immunity by the current data, you're operating against the science.
00:58:20.000And yet you're being told by the media that if you have already had this thing, you still should not travel.
00:58:25.000I mean, we're being told by the media that even after you've had the vaccine, you still may transmit it to people.
00:58:29.000Then what the hell are we talking about here?
00:58:32.000Nobody is going to abide by your dumb rules if you make your rules dumb.
00:58:37.000Go with the science instead of against the science.
00:58:41.000And by the way, trying to scare people into doing things is not going to work because eventually people are going to get bored with the scare tactics because either it materializes or it doesn't.
00:58:49.000Last month, the Icelandic government announced that visitors who have recovered from COVID can skip the country's new border measures when they arrive.
00:58:55.000Well, obviously the Icelanders are Trumpians.
01:00:43.000And meanwhile, speaking of media bias, I just have to bring you this.
01:00:48.000Everything Trump does is bad, according to media, like every single thing, including things that are perfectly obvious.
01:00:52.000So according to the Washington Post, in its waning days, the Trump administration is proposing that employee performance be a top factor during federal layoffs.
01:01:02.000Like, if you're gonna lay people off, you should do it by lack of performance?
01:01:04.000Wouldn't that be, like, the place to start?
01:01:06.000Well, apparently, according to the Washington Post, that's super bad.
01:01:09.000In the latest of a string of moves to put its stamp on federal workplace policies, the Trump administration is set to propose rules to make employees' performance ratings a top consideration in deciding who stays or goes during layoffs.
01:01:21.000We're actually gonna decide how people perform before we fire them?
01:01:24.000As opposed to just saying the old guy gets to stay and the young guy gets fired?
01:01:28.000A proposal to be published Thursday by the Office of Personnel Management would elevate job ratings among the considerations during the process called reduction in force.
01:01:36.000The proposed rules come within a 30-day public comment period.
01:01:39.000It's uncertain whether the rules could be in place before the inauguration January 20th.
01:01:44.000The move reflects a provision in a 2018 executive order stating agencies should prioritize performance over length of service in determining who gets to keep their job.
01:01:53.000Following those orders, the already testy relations between the administration and employee unions and their democratic allies deteriorated further.
01:02:00.000The newly proposed regulations would affect procedures agencies use when cutting their workforces for reasons such as reorganizations or budget restrictions, basically creating a pecking order among employees.
01:02:12.000Under current procedures, employees first are divided according to whether they are in permanent jobs or those with time limits.
01:02:18.000The only exception is the Defense Department, where performance ratings have been the top consideration because it turns out that we have to have a functioning military.
01:02:25.000Jacques Simon, the public policy director of the American Federation of Government Employees, criticized the proposal.
01:02:31.000There's nothing objective about performance ratings, she said.
01:02:33.000Performance ratings are highly subjective.
01:02:35.000Under Trump, they were highly politicized.
01:02:41.000Apparently, the Democrats, when they gain power, plan to undo all of that and make it so that worse employees get to stay on government payrolls because, of course, unions.
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