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00:01:16.000Well, before we begin, I just want to give you a quick reminder.
00:01:18.000You should go check out the Sunday special we just did with our friend Gina Carano.
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00:01:22.000Express at vpn.com slash Ben right now. Well, before we begin, I just want to give you a quick reminder, you should go check out the Sunday special we just did with our friend Gina Carano. It really is I think, quite spectacular. It is it is moving, and it is clarifying.
00:01:36.000Gina explains exactly what went down at Disney Plus and Lucasfilm when she was fired from The Mandalorian and the sort of culture that had been created there.
00:01:43.000This woke culture in which you were bullied into saying things that you didn't actually believe or silence.
00:02:22.00094 to 95% of the deadliness of the disease and prevent you from getting the disease in most cases in the first place.
00:02:30.000Not only that, we now know that one of the things that happens with the Pfizer and the BioNTech vaccine is that it actually does stop the COVID spread, which is perfectly commonsensical.
00:02:39.000Okay, when you get a measles vaccine, you now no longer can pass measles because if you cannot obtain measles, then you cannot pass measles.
00:02:46.000Now there was this bullcrap nonsense going around that you would take the vaccine and then you were still passing the thing.
00:02:51.000Or you already had COVID and now you're still passing the thing.
00:02:53.000The evidence to back that was extraordinarily scanty.
00:02:56.000In fact, there was virtually no evidence to the idea that after you'd had COVID, you were still a major cause of COVID spread.
00:03:01.000And yet that was pushed out there as though that was the Apotheosis of science.
00:03:09.000Well now, according to Bloomberg, the Pfizer and BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine appeared to stop the vast majority of recipients in Israel becoming infected, providing the first real-world indication that the immunization will curb transmission of the coronavirus.
00:03:21.000The vaccine, which is being rolled out in a national immunization program that began December 20th, was 89.4% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed infections, according to a copy of the draft publication that was posted on Twitter and confirmed by a person familiar with the work.
00:03:34.000That means that not only are you not going to die from the thing, you're probably not even going to get the thing.
00:03:38.000Nine out of ten cases, you are not going to get the thing, and even if you do get it, it's not going to be severe.
00:03:42.000It's not going to be life-threatening.
00:03:44.000The companies worked with Israel's health ministry on the preliminary observational analysis, which was not peer-reviewed.
00:03:50.000The results were also reported in Der Spiegel in Germany.
00:03:53.000They're the latest in a series of positive data to emerge out of Israel, which has given more COVID vaccines per capita than anywhere else in the world.
00:03:59.000Almost half of the population has had at least one dose of the vaccine.
00:04:03.000Also, Israeli authorities said that the Pfizer-BioNTech shot was 99% effective at preventing deaths from the virus.
00:05:22.000It was always on this consistent, arithmetically increasing trajectory.
00:05:26.000Okay, so Joe Biden is just continuing to lie about this.
00:05:28.000He keeps saying that there was no plan when they took office.
00:05:30.000And it is of high irritation that the same media that declared that every time Trump opened his mouth, it was a lie, just refuses to acknowledge that this administration lies like fury when it comes to COVID.
00:05:41.000They lie repeatedly and routinely about COVID in order to cover for the fact that they really didn't do anything, in order to cover for the fact that their plan has been, meh, basically the same as Trump's plan.
00:06:09.000In the same way that Joe Biden came into office promising a million shots a day, and the day he was inaugurated, there were a million shots.
00:08:39.000When it goes way down and the overwhelming majority of the people in the population are vaccinated, then I would feel comfortable in saying, you know, we need to pull back on the masks.
00:09:08.000When you keep saying things like you can't go back to normal, and then you base it on unknowns in science when we kind of know, all you are doing is encouraging people to not get vaccinated.
00:09:43.000Then the half the population that gets vaccinated is good to go.
00:09:47.000And by summer, the transmission is down.
00:09:49.000Transmission is already dropping radically.
00:09:52.000Okay, transmission is way down by the summer, and you have a bunch of people who have not gotten vaccinated going out there, and they're still not vaccinated, and then the winter hits, and then we get another round of this, and all those people who are not vaccinated because you told them they couldn't go back to normal life have already gone back to normal life because transmission is down, except they're not vaccinated.
00:10:09.000And then you get another uptick in the winter.
00:10:11.000There's no third choice here, by the way.
00:10:13.000People keep suggesting there is a third choice.
00:10:14.000The third choice is, well, you know, we tell everybody to get vaccinated, but they also have to lock down for you.
00:10:21.000Because why would I take the additional risk and annoyance of getting a vaccine when I am young and healthy, if you're telling me I still can't go back to regular life?
00:10:29.000You know what the chances are of somebody who's 20 years old dying from COVID?
00:11:00.000Because that's exactly what Israel is doing.
00:11:01.000Right now, Israel has what they are calling vaccine green cards.
00:11:05.000There are problems with this particular strategy, but it at least encourages people to get the vaccine.
00:11:09.000The argument that Israel is making is if you would like to go to this restaurant, if you would like to go to this bowling alley, if you'd like to go to this crowded scenario, get the vaccine.
00:11:15.000That is a good public relations campaign for getting the vaccine, because now there's an incentive.
00:11:20.000You know what is a bad public relations campaign?
00:11:37.000Fauci should... Again, I'm not saying he should have been fired while Trump was president.
00:11:40.000I'm saying he should be fired while Biden is president.
00:11:42.000If Biden wants to actually have some sort of clear, forward-thinking standards for how this stuff gets rolled out, Here's Dr. Fauci saying, I don't want to say grandparents can see their grandkids after the vaccine.
00:11:52.000Then what the hell are we all getting vaccinated for?
00:12:40.000If you go to Israel right now, where everybody above the age of 65, essentially, has now been vaccinated, the death rates for seniors are lower than the death rates from COVID for people who are 40.
00:12:51.000So the answer here, if you want to encourage people to do the vaccinations, should be yes.
00:12:59.000Because at this point you've got to say it's because they want control.
00:13:02.000They want control and they are propagandists for the idea that you must continue to lock down in abject fear of a disease that post-vaccination is not particularly dangerous.
00:13:11.000And we'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:13:12.000First, let us talk about the fact that every responsible person should get life insurance.
00:13:17.000On the off chance that, God forbid, something should happen to you, you need to make sure that your family is taken care of.
00:15:43.000And to not promote that message is the height of idiocy, especially given the fact that what we now see is that transmission rates are dropping like a stone.
00:15:51.000Remember when we were told that Tampa Bay was going to be like the center of all COVID insanity?
00:16:08.000The problem is that if you have a bunch of people who don't get the vaccine because summer is coming, And the weather's gonna warm up, and the transmission rates are gonna go down, and then we get hit again within December.
00:16:18.000Then all those people are not vaccinated.
00:16:20.000So, you know, you should be telling them, get the vaccine.
00:16:22.000Instead, you got Dr. Fauci out there saying, we don't know how durable the vaccine's gonna be.
00:16:50.000This is a mainstream scientific view, is that to encourage people to get vaccines, you have to tell them that they can get back to their regular life.
00:16:57.000And yet you have the entire Biden administration, backed, by the way, by the American Federation of Teachers, saying, no, even after the vaccines, we can't get back to regular life.
00:17:04.000Here is Dr. Fauci, the great and sainted Dr. Fauci, votive candle Dr. Fauci, the Mother Teresa of the medical profession, out there saying, you know, we still don't know how durable the vaccine is going to be, so why the hell would I take it then?
00:18:22.000Okay, well, right now, even if he doesn't believe it, shouldn't he be out there saying that the vaccines help you so much that you can get back to regular life?
00:19:23.000Fauci can only point to the CDC's recommendations, which are so far mum about exceptions for vaccinated people getting together.
00:19:33.000What experts also need to learn, the vaccines are highly effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19, but no one yet knows how well they block spread of COVID.
00:19:40.000They block spread of COVID really, really well.
00:19:42.000There are studies out of Israel demonstrating that this is in fact the case.
00:19:46.000There is very little counter-evidence that people, I mean, as far as I'm aware, know counter-evidence that there is a significant mode of transmission via people who have already been completely vaccinated.
00:19:56.000The looming question, Fauci said during a White House COVID response briefing last week, is whether a person infected despite vaccination can still unwittingly infect someone else.
00:20:04.000Studies are underway to find out, and hints are starting to emerge.
00:20:08.000Fauci pointed to recent research from Spain showing the more coronavirus an infected person harbors, what's called a viral load, The more infectious they are.
00:20:15.000That's not surprising, as it's true with other illnesses.
00:20:18.000Yes, but you don't get a viral load when you're being vaccinated.
00:20:33.000Again, the science should not follow whoever the administration is.
00:20:36.000The science should follow the science.
00:20:37.000But here he is just doing propaganda on behalf of the Biden administration over and over and over.
00:20:42.000Again, the sainted, the incredible, objective Dr. Fauci, suggesting, you know, when Kamala Harris said that you should be vaccinated before we reopen the schools, the teachers, she didn't mean that.
00:20:58.000I mean, that's literal, yes, when she says it's a priority to get teachers vaccinated before we reopen schools, Americans are going to think that means the teachers have to be vaccinated before we reopen the schools.
00:21:08.000Here's Fauci in full spin defense mode for Kamala Harris.
00:21:12.000With Vice President Harris said it should be a priority.
00:21:15.000She did not say it's a sine qua non that unless you get vaccinated, you cannot come into the school and teach. So what we're saying, and let me state it clearly, because I believe strongly that it is completely compatible with both with with Dr. Walensky said and with the vice president said, is that clearly, we want to make the vaccination of teachers a high priority.
00:22:11.000But if you're a 30-year-old teacher, you're not in any more risk than somebody who's a 30-year-old grocery store worker, or a 30-year-old mailman, or a 30-year-old anything else.
00:22:38.000The CDC standards do not make any sense.
00:22:41.000The new CDC standards recommend that 99% of all school children, according to Jake Tapper on CNN, are in areas where the schools should be hybrid or home learning only.
00:22:51.000That is not even close to what's happening now.
00:22:53.000That would mean reclosing 50% of schools that are open.
00:22:56.000And yet you have Dr. Fauci, the greatest doctor of all time, except for Dr. Joe Biden, saying that we're not being too careful on reopening.
00:23:07.000Are schools being too cautious, do you think?
00:23:09.000And are there schools closed right now that should be open in person?
00:23:15.000You know, I mean, obviously it's a very difficult situation to get an absolute definitive answer.
00:23:21.000What the CDC has tried to do is look at the risks that you have and try, if you follow the CDC guidelines, to get the children back in school, at least with hybrid and maybe even when you actually have an increased spacing with them, that you can get it in what's called a decreased capacity.
00:23:43.000It's hard to say that we've been... No, it is not hard to say at all.
00:23:46.000Schools around the world have been open throughout this thing.
00:23:49.000Around the world, particularly elementary schools.
00:23:52.000And all of this is just to back the Biden AFT agenda.
00:24:02.000And she said, well, even if there's vaccinations, even if there's funding, even if there's everything, we might not reopen the schools because all they want is control, folks.
00:24:08.000This is no longer... I was willing to do the good faith thing for about a year.
00:24:35.000Okay, before it became obvious that the lockdowns weren't actually accomplishing what they sought to accomplish.
00:24:39.000Because all they were doing was pushing forward the infection into the future, as you see in New York.
00:24:43.000Okay, but you have Jen Psaki, like, at this point, I can no longer maintain the pretense that there is no aspect of political control being attempted here.
00:24:50.000Here's Jen Psaki suggesting that even, maybe we'll never reopen the schools.
00:24:59.000You receive funding, you bring students back.
00:25:02.000That's not a contingency that we're recommending to go in the bill or in legislation, John.
00:25:09.000I think what he believes is that school districts, working with our Secretary of Education, who we certainly hope will be confirmed this week, need to make a determination about what works best for them based on these CDC guidelines.
00:25:22.000Or maybe they should just make the determination on what's best for them along federalist guidelines, as they already have, as opposed to the CDC guidelines, which are a bunch of crap created by the AFT.
00:25:41.000All she cares about is the kids staying home and teachers never having to teach.
00:25:44.000Other than that, she's great, Randi Weingarten.
00:25:46.000By the way, Biden considered her for Secretary of Education.
00:25:50.000There's no perfect solution, but frankly, I think that New York City has done a pretty good job in terms of showing the way.
00:25:59.000Big school district, lots of issues in terms of old buildings, and we learned a lot from what New York City did in September and October.
00:26:11.000And in fact, my members, I just did a survey of my membership, And 85% have said that they would be comfortable being in school if they had the kind of testing, layered mitigation, and vaccine prioritization.
00:26:31.000And that's what New York City is doing.
00:26:55.000Is there a single case in the United States of a teacher where it is clear the teacher actually got COVID from a student, not from a fellow teacher, not from a fellow adult, not from the grocery store at home, that a teacher got the disease from a student and then died?
00:27:07.000I'm unaware of a single case in the United States in which this has happened.
00:27:13.000If it has, it is extraordinarily rare.
00:27:16.000And yet the schools, according to Biden and team, should maintain, should continue to be closed.
00:27:20.000You had Fauci last week saying, we need to pass a stimulus package that's going to spend tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars into the future, right?
00:27:28.000Into like 2024 in order for them to open now.
00:27:53.000Not many children have died from COVID.
00:27:54.000Statistically speaking, this is a disease that is not particularly deadly in children.
00:27:58.000When I say not particularly deadly, I mean less deadly than the flu in kids.
00:28:01.000Well established that for young kids, this thing is really, really, really not deadly.
00:28:05.000At least not nearly as deadly as the flu.
00:28:07.000And we don't shut down all of American life for the flu, obviously.
00:28:11.000It is much more deadly for people who are elderly.
00:28:13.000It is more deadly for people who are above the age of essentially 20.
00:28:16.000But if you are below the age of 20, it is not as deadly as the flu for you.
00:28:20.000And if you are below the age of 10, it is certainly not as deadly as the flu for you.
00:28:23.000And you have an entire multi-thousand word article in the Washington Post trying to scare parents by talking about every single kid who has died in the United States of COVID.
00:28:33.000Nearly 3% and 3 million children in the United States have tested positive for the coronavirus, about 12% of all the cases.
00:28:40.000And the number of kids who have died is extremely low.
00:28:48.000Out of 3 million children who have had this, and those are the ones who have been diagnosed.
00:28:53.000And what we know with this disease is that for every kid who's diagnosed, there are probably 6 to 10 who have not been.
00:28:58.000So you're talking about 18, maybe 18 million kids, maybe 30 million kids who've already had this, and 271 deaths.
00:29:05.000Every one of those is a tragedy, but we cannot pretend this is a national trend worthy of a multi-thousand word report in the Washington Post designed to scare the living hell out of parents.
00:29:13.000That is not what media coverage is designed to do.
00:29:16.000Unless it is what media coverage is designed to do in order to promulgate an agenda.
00:29:20.000In just a second, we're going to get to the media covering up for Andrew Cuomo in a continuing way, and the Biden administration covering up for Andrew Cuomo.
00:29:27.000It's amazing how the worm has turned on Andrew Cuomo.
00:29:29.000Right now, we're allowed to make jokes on SNL about him.
00:29:31.000A year ago, he was the greatest thing that ever happened to American politics.
00:29:33.000A year ago, they were talking about replacing Biden with him on the ticket.
00:29:37.000Now, everybody is pointing out the same thing we have known for literally months, which is that he was lying overtly about how many people died in nursing homes.
00:29:44.000I first reported that on this program, I believe, mid-last year.
00:29:47.000It was perfectly obvious he was doing that, because it would have made explicit the fact that his entire program was idiotic of shipping COVID-positive seniors back into nursing homes.
00:29:55.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:31:14.000OK, so now the worm has finally started to turn on Andrew Cuomo.
00:31:17.000We're finally allowed to talk about the fact that Andrew Cuomo is a garbage governor who got a lot of people killed with his bad policy.
00:31:22.000In fact, there's a piece in The Week today by Ryan Cooper titled Resign Andrew Cuomo.
00:31:28.000He points out that his administration concealed data about coronavirus cases in nursing homes, reportedly for fear of federal prosecution.
00:31:34.000Stories of his vitriolic abuse and threats directed at other Democratic New York politicians are coming out.
00:31:39.000Yet even all that is only the start of Cuomo's deadly corrupting competence.
00:31:43.000So in keeping with judging him by his results, Cuomo should resign immediately and free New York state from his dismal misrule.
00:31:49.000Says Ryan Cooper of The Week, and not a right-wing outlet.
00:31:52.000The nursing home scandal has been bubbling for nearly a year now.
00:31:54.000It starts with Cuomo's inexplicable decision back in March 2020 to order nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients, even if they were still testing positive.
00:32:02.000A recent AP investigation found that at least 9,000 recovering patients were sent back to nursing homes and long-term care facilities, a number that is 40% larger than his administration had previously admitted.
00:32:12.000This unquestionably worsened the pandemic as it ripped through New York's elderly population.
00:32:17.000That's not the only number Cuomo fudged on nursing homes.
00:32:19.000New York Attorney General Letitia James investigated the situation, found that his people may have undercounted the number of deaths associated with nursing homes by 50%.
00:32:27.000Cuomo then admitted that instead of the 8,500 dead they'd been reporting, the true number was over 15,000, about a third of the state's deaths.
00:32:35.000And then, of course, the New York Post reported comments from Cuomo's top aide, Melissa DeRosa, seemingly admitted that they deliberately faked the numbers as part of a cover-up.
00:32:44.000His officials froze, she said, for fear the truth was going to be used against us by federal prosecutors. Ryan Cooper says Cuomo bungled the pandemic basically from the jump.
00:32:53.000The New York City metro got hammered with the worst regional outbreak in the country.
00:32:57.000In the following months, Cuomo's compulsive bullying and control-free habits gradually drove an exodus of public health professionals from the state government, including the state's health department, director of its Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, its medical director for Epidemiology and the state epidemiologist. And then...
00:33:13.000His micromanagement tangled up the early stages of the state's vaccine rollout.
00:33:17.000He threw out the plan the state health department had worked up over months, substituting his own.
00:33:21.000He put in place strict requirements that only people who qualified could get shots, but then added threats of punishments for organizations that didn't distribute their shots fast enough.
00:33:32.000Cuomo has been a garbage governor, and the media didn't just cover for him, they featured him.
00:33:36.000He was the greatest governor in America.
00:33:38.000Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis, greatest villain in America, down in Florida, with the number two population of seniors in America by percentage, after Maine, which has seven people.
00:33:44.000Okay, so easily the oldest state in the union, if you don't count Maine.
00:34:30.000So I said, throughout the Trump administration, people kept saying, you don't treat him the same way that you treat Obama.
00:34:35.000You know, when Obama would lie, you'd be really on him.
00:34:37.000And when Trump lies, you're like, yeah, that's just Trump.
00:34:40.000And I said, yes, because you have to take into account the nature of the people who are lying to determine whether they are doing so through carelessness, which is mostly Trump, or recklessness, which is mostly Trump, or whether they're doing so in deliberate fashion in order to mislead people.
00:34:56.000This is an administration that in organized and serious ways covers up and lies to you.
00:35:01.000Here is Jen Psaki pushing the Cuomo cover-up.
00:35:04.000Does President Biden still consider Andrew Cuomo the gold standard when it comes to leadership on the pandemic?
00:35:11.000We work with Governor Cuomo just like we work with governors across the country.
00:35:14.000He's also chair of the NGA, so he's played an important role in ensuring that we're coordinating closely and getting assistance out to people of his state and to states across the country.
00:35:25.000But Jen, my question was, does President Biden still believe that Andrew Cuomo is the gold standard, represents the gold standard on leadership during this pandemic?
00:35:37.000Well, John, the president... Well, it doesn't always have to be a yes or no answer.
00:35:43.000No, it kind of does when you're asked a direct yes or no question.
00:35:45.000And especially when the premise of the question is very, very obvious.
00:35:49.000Do you still think that Cuomo's done a good job?
00:35:51.000They won't answer the question, of course.
00:35:53.000Meanwhile, the media in full spin mode, at least the fact-checkers.
00:35:56.000So here's the thing about fact-checking.
00:35:57.000You have to understand that what fact-checking really is, that entire industry, is just laundering liberal opinions into some sort of faux objective standard.
00:36:27.000Certainly there are things to criticize about how the former administration handled data.
00:36:33.000But the heart of the matter goes back to last year when the state was asking nursing homes to take in patients, COVID patients, who were ready to be discharged from the hospital.
00:36:45.000We don't see hard evidence that that made a significant difference in COVID deaths.
00:36:52.000Okay, we don't see any hard evidence that it increased COVID deaths, so she's just buying.
00:36:57.000The McKinsey report was contracted for by the New York State government.
00:37:01.000And the McKinsey report found, yeah, sure, we were shipping a bunch of olds back into the nursing homes who had COVID, but we're gonna say that it was asymptomatic transmission of healthcare workers that caused the breakout in the New York old age homes.
00:37:11.000Okay, the evidence of that is extraordinarily scanty.
00:37:25.000By the way, the other person you see on that split screen there is Daniel Dale.
00:37:27.000One of the things you may have noticed about Daniel Dale, he was the CNN fact checker during the Trump administration, and he became famous for doing this very nitpicky thing where every time Trump would speak, he would take every single statement and then he would analyze it down to the nth degree, like hair splitting, so that he could call it a lie.
00:37:41.000So if Trump would say, I have unbelievable black support, he'd be like, he does not have unbelievable black support.
00:37:46.000He has slightly more than he did last time, but it's not unbelievable.
00:37:50.000It was that kind of crap from Daniel Dale.
00:38:05.000Well, since joining CNN in June of 2019, Dale has appeared or been mentioned on the network more than once every other day, on average, according to Internet Archive.
00:38:12.000That exposure dropped sharply after November 4th.
00:38:15.000And according to the TVI's media monitoring database, since Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20th, Dale has only appeared on the network once.
00:38:23.000That appearance last Friday was to fact-check Donald Trump's lawyers.
00:38:29.000I wonder what happened, why it's almost as though they only care about fact-checking when they are simply attempting to check people on the right.
00:38:36.000Okay, we'll get some more media coverage of the Biden administration in just one second, which continues to be egregious, sycophantic, and drooling.
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00:40:01.000Alrighty, well, yesterday, I had the privilege of sitting down with the newest addition to our entertainment team, Gina Carano.
00:40:06.000This was her first sit-down interview since she found out on social media she'd been canceled by the woke mob.
00:40:12.000Gina is a real person, and this is the thing.
00:40:14.000The folks on the left wanted to treat her as some sort of cardboard cutout of an evil conservative, and she is not in any way that is perfectly obvious from the interview.
00:40:22.000They tried to ruin her career and wreck her dream, and they failed.
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00:41:48.000One of the things that you see so clearly right now is the media continuing to just cover in every possible way for the Biden administration.
00:42:02.000So, the Washington Post has a piece today.
00:42:05.000It is titled, Biden's Low-Key Approach to Storm Wins Praise, but Courts Risks.
00:42:09.000Now, You will have noticed that Ted Cruz was ripped up and down, up and down for not going and visiting Texas and handing out water bottles or something, instead going to Cancun.
00:42:20.000And I said, that's real bad optics, right?
00:42:23.000Joe Biden has been completely absent, like really absent.
00:42:26.000He signed the emergency declaration, I believe, over the last 48 hours.
00:42:28.000Okay, and the take from the politics section at the Washington Post is that Biden is doing amazing.
00:42:36.000His low-key approach to storm wins praise, but courts risks.
00:42:40.000Democratic State Representative James Tallarico says the most he's heard of federal help in his area during the devastating winter storm is a FEMA water truck that apparently got stuck in ice.
00:42:48.000KP George, the top elected official in Fort Bend County, Texas, said federal officials have told him help is on the way, just not fast enough.
00:42:54.000We can't wait another 72 hours to get food and blankets and things like that, he said.
00:42:59.000Representative Colin Allred, Democrat of Texas, said what would help most beyond an infusion of federal dollars is a visit from President Biden.
00:43:06.000This has been something like the Dark Ages here in Texas, Allred said.
00:43:08.000I mean, people are burning their furniture and their fences for warmth and heat.
00:43:11.000They're finding older folks literally frozen to death in their beds.
00:43:14.000When the president has toured, seen the damage, spoken to the people who are affected, I think that makes it a little bit hard to say, well, I'm sorry, you're going to be on your own.
00:43:21.000As the Biden administration faces its first natural disaster, says the Washington Post, the president himself is taking a notably low-key approach.
00:43:28.000He has not visited the stricken region or delivered primetime remarks.
00:43:31.000He did not mention the disaster at a recent town hall.
00:43:34.000And he is studiously avoiding the controversy over whether wind energy or fossil fuels are to blame for the widespread power failures.
00:43:40.000It's a marked contrast to former President Donald Trump.
00:43:46.000So the opening paragraphs are every Democrat's like, you know, Biden should visit here and probably he should, you know, meet with some people and sign the emergency declaration, make sure the federal aid gets here.
00:43:55.000And the Washington Post is like, yeah, so he's asleep in his basement and he's been catching all the latest episodes of Matlock.
00:44:09.000They say he famously tossed paper towels to hurricane victims, excoriated Californians for gross mismanagement of forests, and called Puerto Rican leaders corrupt and incompetent for their handling of aid money.
00:44:18.000Okay, well, first of all, I remember when you yelled at him for not visiting the hurricane victims.
00:44:21.000Then he went and he gave paper towels to people.
00:44:23.000And then when he said that they mismanaged their forests in California, that's because they did.
00:44:27.000As far as the Puerto Rican leaders and their corruption and incompetence, they found millions of water bottles lying on the tarmacs in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the hurricane.
00:44:34.000So, I mean, there's something to be said for at least part of that response.
00:44:38.000But that's really not what the piece is about.
00:44:53.000They've now said twice in this article that he's taking a low-key approach and he is receiving praise for it.
00:44:56.000the risk that he and the federal government can appear almost absent.
00:44:59.000State and local officials say a big test will come in the months and years ahead as Texans replace burst pipes in flooded homes, clear out dead crops and livestock, and investigate the collapse of an electrical grid that left millions shivering in the dark.
00:45:11.000They've now said twice in this article that he's taking a low-key approach and he is receiving praise for it.
00:45:18.000So I'm just wondering, where's the praise?
00:45:20.000They've yet to cite, we're now like 11 paragraphs in.
00:45:23.000There's no praise cited anywhere in here about what exactly he's been doing.
00:45:28.000But according to the Washington Post, it is praiseworthy.
00:45:30.000You have to get down to paragraph, you know, 20 until you get to this.
00:45:35.000The president has authorized FEMA to provide physical resources and financial resources, just as important, officials said, is what Biden has not done.
00:45:46.000Several credited him with not politicizing the disaster.
00:45:49.000He has not weighed in on some Texas officials' widely disputed claim that the failure of wind turbines was largely responsible for power failures.
00:45:55.000Well, that would be the smart thing to do, right?
00:45:56.000Because if he weighs in on that, he's going to be wrong.
00:46:00.000Well, right, because if he gets enmeshed in that particular thing, that is a battle he is going to lose.
00:46:10.000Nonetheless, Biden has been silent about the storm since February 14th.
00:46:15.000You know what the headlines would be if Trump were silent about the storm since February 14th, right?
00:46:18.000He has tweeted that he and First Lady Jill Biden were keeping Texas, Oklahoma, and other impacted states in our prayers.
00:46:24.000Officials say it is a marked difference from Trump.
00:46:45.000For the media that has an agenda, the only Democrat who ever gets criticized is one they have lost use for.
00:46:51.000Andrew Cuomo can now be duly tossed out of the boat because Andrew Cuomo is no longer useful.
00:46:57.000If you look at Biden, Biden is still useful.
00:47:00.000Maybe there will come a point where he's no longer useful.
00:47:02.000But for the media, trying to generate a narrative, the only good Democrat is a Democrat who is useful.
00:47:07.000And when a Democrat becomes not useful, that's when you can report on him.
00:47:10.000You're allowed to report on Hunter Biden after the election.
00:47:12.000You're allowed to report on Andrew Cuomo after the election.
00:47:15.000You're allowed to do all sorts of these wonderful things.
00:47:17.000As soon as the time for actually doing them, when it would have made a difference, is over.
00:47:24.000There's such a thing as a lie by omission.
00:47:26.000And when your media ignore major stories for a year in order to prop up certain politicians, and then as soon as those politicians become a liability, they immediately just stab them directly between the shoulder blades, at that point, you might start to distrust your institutional media.
00:47:43.000All right, meanwhile, woke idiocy continues to be the rule of the day.
00:47:48.000So I've said before that there is a feeling in the United States, and it is not an unjustified one, that your employer is looking over your shoulder, that you don't feel free to say what it is that you want to say, and that if you do say what it is you want to say, that you might be fired.
00:48:01.000You can see that this is happening on virtually every cultural level from all the major corporations It's pretty incredible how political all of American life has become.
00:48:11.000I have a bevy of stories about this today.
00:48:12.000So, Coca-Cola has now decided that they are going to force their employees to take anti-racism training with the ex-Scribble Robin DiAngelo.
00:48:22.000Robin DiAngelo is the worst public intellectual in America.
00:48:27.000If you read her book, her garbage book, White fragility?
00:48:31.000The entire argument that she makes is that black people cannot take care of their own future, that white liberals like Robin DiAngelo have to take care of black people's future, that black people, by dint of being black, are systematically discriminated against, and that white people who fail to recognize this suffer from white fragility, the only solution to which is to listen to Robin DiAngelo and what she tells you.
00:48:49.000The only way that you can clear yourself of the racist... of the racist...
00:48:54.000Drippings that have adhered to you is by taking a $20,000 diversity course from Robin DiAngelo.
00:49:00.000So Coca-Cola duly did this because this is what corporations do.
00:49:05.000They're afraid that someone will sue them for discrimination.
00:49:08.000And so they hire people like Robin DiAngelo to give them the cover to continue to do business.
00:49:15.000They feel like, okay, fine, so for 20 grand, now I can say when I'm sued by some upset employee that we gave everybody the anti-racism training.
00:49:24.000So Rob and D'Angelo was doing this training, and we have some screen caps from this particular training.
00:50:03.000Now, we need to take a moment here to explain what exactly Robyn D'Angelo is saying.
00:50:06.000Again, this is Coca-Cola employees being subjected to this overt racism.
00:50:10.000Because if you're white, this means that you're oppressive, arrogant, certain, defensive, ignorant, humble, not humble, you need to listen and believe, you're apathetic, and you have white solidarity if you're white.
00:51:32.000Okay, by listen and believe, she means that if someone tells you that they feel that they have been subjected to some sort of predation by another person, you can't evaluate the evidence.
00:51:42.000You can't say, okay, well, I understand you feel that way.
00:51:44.000The feeling may be authentic, but what is the evidence to back whether the feeling is justified?
00:51:48.000Authentic and justified are two very different things.
00:51:50.000A lot of people feel things authentically that are not justified by the underlying fact pattern.
00:52:38.000Because what she means by break with apathy is you just have to mirror everything she says or you're apathetic.
00:52:42.000And finally, you have to break with white solidarity because you understand if you refuse to go along with what she's saying, this means that essentially you're a white solidarity supremacist.
00:52:50.000Okay, then here's more from Robin DiAngelo training the unlucky suckers over at Coca-Cola.
00:53:18.000The civil rights movement socialized us to believe that people should be treated as individuals.
00:53:23.000It is your educational training that makes white people feel that they are superior because it is only white people who can solve the problems for black people.
00:53:29.000That's something Shelby Steele pointed out in his own book, White Guilt.
00:53:33.000Which is one of the beautiful things about being somebody like Robin DiAngelo is the only person who can solve the problem is white people!
00:53:39.000You still get to be superior if you're Robin DiAngelo.
00:53:42.000You still get paid 20 grand to fix America's racial problems.
00:54:35.000There's a study, I've cited it before, from Harvard Business Review.
00:54:37.000It showed that if you put together a focus group of people from all different political sides of the aisle and you ask them about a corporation, and you ask them about the corporation being formed in three different ways.
00:54:47.000One, as a politically neutral corporation.
00:54:49.000Two, as a politically liberal corporation.
00:54:52.000And three, as a conservative corporation.
00:54:54.000The crowd's reaction would be wildly different.
00:54:56.000If you just said, same corporation, it's neutral, people are like, okay, sounds good.
00:54:59.000If you said it was liberal, people are like, okay, sounds good.
00:55:01.000If you said it was conservative, the positivity ratings dropped by 33 percentage points, all among people who are lefty.
00:55:09.000If they are perceived to be the lefty corporation, they understand that people on the right will still buy Coke, and people on the left will be more apt to buy Coke, and less apt to go after them.
00:55:19.000Reason number two, it shields them from liability.
00:55:21.000And reason number three, because most of the people who now run these corporate boards are people who are liberal, they have no systemic intellectual defense against the hard left.
00:55:31.000People who are liberal, You can't both believe that America's ideas start in 1619 and that America's ideas start in 1776.
00:55:35.000but they also believe in certain individual rights.
00:55:37.000The problem is if you believe in the innate guilt of the United States and the innate evil of the United States, it's very hard to also believe in the goodness and rightness of the individual rights upon which the United States is predicated.
00:55:47.000You can't both believe that America's ideas start in 1619 and that America's ideas start in 1776.
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00:57:16.000This program includes negative depictions and or mistreatment of people or cultures.
00:57:19.000These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.
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00:57:35.000You want to make money off the content while dissociating far enough from the content that you can claim that you're not making money off the content because it's all about the money-making.
00:57:43.000It is unclear exactly what Disney considers to be offensive on the show.
00:57:47.000Some characters have depicted Native American, Middle Eastern, and Asian people.
00:57:56.000Bambi's okay, because it's just about deer, right?
00:57:57.000Aristocat, Dumbo, Peter Pan, and of course, Swiss Family Robinson.
00:58:02.000All great movies, all apparently unmentionable.
00:58:06.000Hey, and then you've got Cartoon Network now pushing anti-racism.
00:58:09.000Okay, so you've got Robin DiAngelo not just teaching Coca-Cola, but mainstreamed into Cartoon Network.
00:58:14.000Now, it's one thing to get mad at the Muppets from 1987 for telling a joke.
00:58:17.000That you now consider culturally insensitive 30 years later?
00:58:20.000It's another thing to get mad at Cartoon Network when Cartoon Network is literally just putting out PSAs mirroring, for children, mirroring Robin DiAngelo's talking points on racism and indoctrinating kids into overtly racist garbage.
00:58:33.000Here is the Cartoon Network pushing what is obviously racism.
00:58:38.000Well, I'm not an alien, but it definitely matters to me that I'm black.
00:58:42.000Yeah, it makes a difference that I'm white.
00:58:43.000I know the two of us get treated very differently.
00:58:46.000My experience with anti-black racism is really specific.
00:58:49.000Other people of color experience other forms of racism, too.
00:58:53.000But you won't see any of that if you don't see color.
00:58:55.000Can we get a rewrite where we appreciate each other without erasing what makes each of us different?
00:59:01.000Okay, but it's gonna add a couple hours to the shoot.
00:59:21.000So yes, we are all supposed to see each other as people of different colors whose experiences are completely non-understandable.
00:59:27.000I cannot understand your experience in any way.
00:59:29.000And because I can't understand your experience, this is the Robin DiAngelo stuff, I have to listen and believe.
00:59:33.000I can never try to assess whether Your opinion on a matter is non-factually or evidentiarily based.
00:59:40.000Instead, I have to listen and believe, because you see, I see color.
00:59:43.000So I'm an anti-racist, which means I have to listen and believe whatever you say, and presumably accept all of your policy recommendations as well, in order to destroy the systems of power.
00:59:50.000This is being taught to children at Cartoon Network.
01:00:01.000Here's another great story, this one courtesy of the New York Post today.
01:00:04.000A veteran Bronx superintendent, once praised by Chancellor Richard Carranza for her successes in the classroom, claims her career was derailed by his equity agenda, forcing her to take a demotion in a desperate bid to preserve her pension, according to a $150 million lawsuit.
01:00:21.000Karen Ames is a 30-year Department of Education employee.
01:00:24.000She said she was targeted by Carranza's Disrupt and Dismantle campaign to oust or marginalize longtime employees because she's over 40 and Jewish.
01:00:32.000The agenda of Chancellor Carranza and his senior leadership team was euphemistically touted as an equity platform, right?
01:00:37.000We've talked about the difference between inequality and inequity and how the left conflates the two.
01:00:41.000Inequity meaning that everything is unfair and any element of American life where an outcome is not equal means that something unfair happened.
01:00:48.000She says, in reality, the equity platform was a platform used to create gender, age, racial, and ethnic divisions in the New York City school system.
01:00:56.000Ames was grilled about her ethnic background, chastised by a colleague at her training session when she shared her grandparents' experiences during the Holocaust in Poland, and admonished when she declined requests at superintendent meetings to take part in the comic book movie-inspired Wakanda Forever Salute to Black Power she charges in the legal filing.
01:01:15.000Caranza had heralded Ames' success in raising math scores at struggling schools.
01:01:19.000But instead of celebrating Ames' work, Cheryl Watson-Harris, Caranza's top deputy, who left last year to become schools chief in DeKalb County, Georgia, interrogated Ames during a chauffeured car ride about her Department of Education history, her family, residency, and improperly inquired about her ethnicity, she claimed.
01:01:36.000At an implicit bias workshop where superintendents were asked to tell their personal stories, Ames talked about her grandparents' loss of two children during the Holocaust.
01:01:43.000Only to have colleague Rashida Amon tell her, you better check yourself, the lawsuit alleges.
01:01:56.000In August 2018, Ames was summoned to the Department of Education headquarters where Watson Harris handed her a termination letter telling her the department was moving in a new direction.
01:02:06.000A month later, Ames was given a choice.
01:02:08.000Take a demotion or be removed from the payroll in 24 hours.
01:03:07.000She's a lifelong liberal, alumna of the college.
01:03:10.000She has a front row seat to the illiberal, neo-racist ideology masquerading as progress.
01:03:14.000In October, 2020, after Shaw felt she had exhausted all internal options, she posted a video on YouTube, blowing the whistle on what she says is an atmosphere of racial discrimination at school.
01:03:23.000I ask that Smith College stop reducing my personhood to a racial category, stop telling me what I must think and feel about myself, stop presuming to know who I am or what my culture is based upon my skin color, stop asking me to project stereotypes and assumptions onto others based on their skin color.
01:03:38.000Now she is resigning from the college and she is turning down a settlement that would have given her a much easier way out.
01:03:44.000She says that the climate at Smith College changed dramatically in July 2018 when the culture war arrived on campus when a student accused a white staff member of calling campus security on her because of racial bias.
01:03:54.000The student, who is black, shared the account on social media and drew a lot of attention to the college.
01:03:58.000Before even investigating the facts of the incident, the college immediately issued a public apology to the student, placed the employee on leave, and announced its intention to create new initiatives, committees, workshops, trainings, and policies aimed at combating systemic racism on campus.
01:04:12.000There was an independent investigation into the incident and found no evidence of racial bias.
01:04:15.000The college ramped up its initiatives aimed at dismantling the supposed racism that pervades the campus.
01:04:21.000This only served to support the now prevailing narrative the incident had been racially motivated and Smith's staff are racist.
01:04:28.000She was told that she was basically her career was ended.
01:04:32.000Because she was supposed to create a program about library orientation in which she used rap, but because she was white, that could be viewed as cultural appropriation.
01:04:41.000She was up for a full-time position in the library.
01:04:43.000She was told her candidacy was dependent upon her ability.
01:04:46.000And she was told to reinvent a program that she had devoted months of time to creating.
01:04:51.000And so she moved into a current lower-paying position as student support coordinator.
01:04:55.000And then she was told on multiple occasions discussing her personal thoughts and feelings about skin color was a requirement of her job.
01:05:01.000She says, quote, I endured racially hostile comments, was expected to participate in racially prejudicial behavior as a condition of my employment, I endured meetings in which another staff member violently banged his fist on the table, chanting, I listened to my supervisor openly name preferred racial quotas for job openings in our department.
01:05:24.000Every day, I watch my colleagues manage student conflict through the lens of race, projecting rigid assumptions and stereotypes on students, thereby reducing them to the color of their skin.
01:05:34.000This woman at Smith College, she says, The last straw came in January 2020, when I attended a mandatory resident life staff retreat focused on racial issues.
01:05:41.000The hired facilitators asked each member of the department to respond to various personal questions about race and racial identity.
01:05:47.000I said I don't feel comfortable talking about that.
01:05:49.000Later, facilitators told everyone present the white person's discomfort at discussing their race is a symptom of white fragility.
01:05:55.000They said the white person may seem like they are in distress, but it's actually a power play.
01:05:59.000In other words, because I am white, my genuine discomfort was framed as an act of aggression.
01:06:02.000I was shamed and humiliated in front of all of my colleagues.
01:06:08.000Hey, this sort of stuff is happening at corporations all over the United States.
01:06:11.000It's happening at colleges, it's happening at Coca-Cola, it's happening at Disney, it's happening at Cartoon Network, and maybe happening where you work.
01:06:17.000Unless we get together and we fight back against this, and there are many ways to do it, which we'll be discussing in future episodes, and in my new book, which will be coming out shortly.
01:06:24.000Unless we fight back against this, it's going to win.
01:06:26.000We're all going to have to unite and fight back against this.
01:06:29.000You're listening to The Ben Shapiro Show.
01:06:30.000Make sure that later today, you check out the Michael Muller Show.
01:06:33.000He discusses the Vatican mandating the vaccine.
01:06:35.000You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's show that is available right now.
01:06:38.000Also, this Wednesday, February 24th, we're supposed to have a backstage.
01:06:43.000It's going to be magical, mystical experience.