Biden terms those who want to reopen society " Neanderthals," eBay stops people from buying Dr. Seuss books, and we examine the radicalism of the Democrats' new voter registration law, H.R. 1. President Joe Biden is not in control of his own administration. This is not a person who is sentient. He's not even in a place where he's actually with it, and Democrats are not making a lot of bones about this at this point. They're pretty obvious about the fact that Biden is just a moderate face for radical policy. And make no mistake, the left views Joe Biden as a Trojan horse for these policies, and they're celebrating this. Ben Shapiro: Biden is the anti-Trump and it's working. If you dial down the conflict, you can dial up the policy. Because all of America is now about optics. And if Joe Biden appears to be moderate, then he can push some of the most radical policy changes that we have seen in our lifetimes. According to Ezra Klein, American politics feels quieter with Joe Biden in the White House, the president s Twitter feed hasn t gone dark, but it s gone dull. The relative quiet is deceptive, says Ben Shapiro. It s easy to go dazed without hearing anything the president has said, because he s not actually alive. And then meanwhile, in the background, what if we do not say, "Open Biden"? That s our magic word? What is wrong with that person? I love it. - Ben Shapiro - The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN? - Subscribe to the show by Express VPN? Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's show on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and become a supporter by becoming a supporter of the show on Audible Connect with Ben Shapiro on his podcast, Podchaser on the App Store or wherever else you get your ad preferences are available. Subscribe to his podcast on the show? Learn more at bit.ly/BenShannonShoes Subscribe on Podcharts Connect with him on social media and other podcasting about the show Ben Shapiro is a fan of Ben Shapiro s work on the Ben Shapiro show on on . and his new book, is out now on the podcharts on the podcast, The New York Times on The FiveThirtyEight Podcast on the Four Seasons
00:00:00.000President Biden terms those who want to reopen society Neanderthals, eBay stops people from buying Dr. Seuss books, and we examine the radicalism of the Democrats' new voter registration law, H.R.
00:02:20.000Biden doesn't pick needless fights or insert himself into the cultural conflicts.
00:02:23.000It's easy to go dazed without hearing anything the president has said, unless you go looking.
00:02:27.000Well, right, because he's not actually alive.
00:02:29.000He's just a houseplant sitting in the corner that they bring out every so often and say, look at the pretty houseplant!
00:02:34.000And then meanwhile, in the background, they're like, what if we push this particular radical policy?
00:02:37.000The relative quiet is deceptive, says as reclined policy is moving at breakneck pace.
00:02:41.000The first week of the Biden administration were consumed by a flurry of far-reaching executive orders that reopened America to refugees, rejoined the Paris climate accords and killed the Keystone XL oil pipeline to name just a few.
00:02:51.000Now the House has passed and the Senate is considering the $1.9 trillion American rescue plan, a truly sweeping piece of legislation that includes more than a half dozen policies like a child tax credit expansion that could cut child poverty by 50%.
00:03:04.000that would be presidency-defining accomplishments It goes on.
00:03:08.000The White House just sent Congress the most ambitious immigration reform bill in years.
00:03:12.000It midwifed a deal to get Merck to mobilize some of its factories to produce a Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and now Biden is saying there should be enough of a supply for every American adult to get vaccinated by the end of May.
00:03:22.000Imagine the administration is also working on an infrastructure package that, if early reports bear out, will be the most transformational piece of climate policy and perhaps economic policy in my lifetime.
00:03:36.000If Donald Trump had been soft-spoken, I really, really doubt that the media would have suggested that his policies were better than they were.
00:03:43.000The fact is that the media hated Trump's policy, and so they also hated his personality.
00:03:48.000Remember, Donald Trump was a favorite among the left-wing glitterati until he declared himself a Republican, at which point he became the enemy.
00:03:54.000Now, Trump didn't do himself any favors by shooting himself in the foot a lot.
00:03:57.000But that is not the same thing as what is happening here.
00:03:59.000What is happening here is that Joe Biden is saying ridiculous things on a daily basis, and yet everybody continues to cover for him because he's a Democrat.
00:04:18.000So, for example, Democrats have been pushing forward H.R.1.
00:04:21.000Now, you haven't heard a lot about H.R.1 because H.R.1 is not going anywhere in the Senate, presumably, but HR1 is this sweeping piece of voter legislation that essentially federalizes all elections.
00:04:32.000And what it really does is it makes it easier to enshrine the worst sort of voting practices from across the country.
00:04:38.000It takes like all the worst parts of voting practice from various states and then it enshrines them and requires them at the federal level.
00:04:44.000Heritage Foundation had a good breakdown of HR1.
00:04:46.000Here are just some of the things that HR1 would do.
00:04:49.000According to the Heritage Foundation, HR 1 would seize the authority of states to regulate voter registration and the voting process, forcing states to implement early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration, and no-fault absentee balloting.
00:05:02.000Right, so the universal mail-in balloting?
00:05:07.000For a rich vein to mine, for all the people who would love ballot harvesting and would love to be able to game the system, that would become universal.
00:05:17.000And by the way, it would also make it pretty much mandatory that elections would go on for weeks at a time because these absentee ballots take a while to count.
00:05:23.000So whatever faith in elections still remains would quickly be lost with H.R.
00:05:28.0001, but of course, that doesn't matter to Democrats.
00:05:45.0001 would mandate 15 days of early voting, which diffuses the intensity of get-out-the-vote efforts.
00:05:49.000I am very much against early voting, unless you have an actual medical reason you cannot vote on the day of.
00:05:55.000It is called Election Day, not Election Month.
00:05:58.000HR1 would degrade the accuracy of registration lists.
00:06:00.000It would require states to automatically register all individuals, not even citizens, illegal immigrants, from state and federal databases.
00:06:07.000This would register large numbers of ineligible voters.
00:06:11.000HR1 would open the door for hackers and cybercriminals to commit massive voter registration fraud through online voter registration that is not tied to an existing state record like a driver's license.
00:06:20.0001 would make it a criminal offense for a state official to reject a voter registration application even when it is rejected under color of law because the official believes the individual is ineligible to vote.
00:06:32.0001 would require states to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to register, which would effectively ensure that if you're underage, you could then vote.
00:06:41.0001 gets rid of penalties for voting mistakenly or supposedly mistakenly or fraudulently.
00:06:48.000HR1 would require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precincts, overriding the precinct system used by almost all states that allows election officials to monitor votes, staff polling places, provide enough ballots, and prevent election fraud.
00:07:02.000HR1 would ban witness signature or notarization requirements for absentee ballots.
00:07:06.000It would force states to accept absentee ballots received up to 10 days after Election Day, as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
00:07:25.000You would not be allowed to check somebody's ID at the polling places.
00:07:30.000Voter intimidation or coercion that prevents someone from registering or voting is already a federal crime, but HR 1 would add a provision that criminalizing, hindering, interfering, or preventing anyone from registering or voting, which is so broad and vague that it could prevent providing any information to election officials about ineligibility, such as an applicant not being a U.S.
00:08:31.000And this is being pushed forward, and the media love it, and the idea is if you oppose HR1, this is because you are some sort of vicious racist who doesn't want everybody to vote.
00:08:38.000Everybody who's eligible should vote, and they should do all the things that they ought to do in order to vote.
00:08:42.000But if you're too stupid to figure out how to register to vote, or if you don't feel like going down to the ballot box to vote on election day, this is your problem, frankly.
00:08:53.000I am not against the idea that it ought to take a little more effort than simply clicking a box in order for you to vote.
00:09:21.000Then, I'm not sure that you should be voting.
00:09:24.000If you literally cannot do it, right, if you have some sort of inability that makes you unable to do it, that is one thing.
00:09:28.000But if you're a normal citizen and you just didn't do the steps, your fault.
00:09:32.000Okay, in any case, all of this is being pushed forward by the Biden administration.
00:09:38.000And again, this is considered perfectly fine because Joe Biden, it's open Biden, right?
00:09:42.000So long as Biden is, this is the problem for Democrats.
00:09:44.000If Biden were to plot, if something were to happen to Biden, God forbid, and Kamala Harris were to become president, she doesn't have a moderate mean.
00:09:52.000She is not a person people see as moderate.
00:09:54.000It would actually stymie their agenda in a lot of ways.
00:09:57.000The media, by the way, are doing all of Biden's heavy lifting for him.
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00:13:42.000The reading of the bill completed after 10 hours, 44 minutes.
00:13:45.000Given the current rate at which people are dying of COVID, that means about 880 Americans likely succumbed to the disease during that period.
00:13:52.000Now, this is a particularly stupid point because you know what would have happened to those people if they had not read the bill?
00:14:05.000He says, So then why are you connecting the two things if they're irrelevant?
00:14:15.000Because again, all of politics is just about taking advantage of a particular crisis or, as the case may be, ignoring a crisis.
00:14:22.000Down at the border, we are seeing thousands of children arrive every month.
00:14:25.000Unaccompanied minors arriving every single month.
00:14:28.000We don't have the space to house them.
00:14:29.000They've been re-erecting all of the evil Trump era cages and tents.
00:14:34.000And yet, because the Democrats don't want it to be a crisis, it's not a crisis.
00:14:38.000Here's Jen Psaki once again saying, it is not a crisis at the border, even though it's pretty obviously a crisis at the border.
00:14:43.000Does that mean that you consider it an actual genuine emergency?
00:14:47.000Well, I would say that that's probably a question for the Department of Homeland Security, who obviously oversees that, and the Department of Health and Human Services, who oversees the facilities and the shelters where these kids are.
00:15:01.000Certainly one of our concerns is that there are, Well, I mean, is it a crisis?
00:15:06.000talking about earlier, an influx of kids at a rate and a pace that is going to require us to make considerations about where we're going to safely house them.
00:15:31.000See, COVID, which is now on the wane, is a crisis requiring us to blow out the spending to the tune of twice the actual amount, sorry, four times the amount of actual damage done to the economy in the year 2021 by COVID-19.
00:15:43.000And we know that the shortfall is gonna be about $400 billion, $450 billion this year in terms of COVID-19 doing damage to the American GDP.
00:15:51.000We are about to blow out the spending to the tune of $1.9 trillion and inflate the currency to boot.
00:15:55.000But that's because we have a crisis, of course.
00:15:57.000But when we have thousands of unaccompanied minors showing up at the border and no way to deal with them, that's just a challenge because we don't actually want to do anything about it.
00:16:06.000What we are doing is building the capacity to address the needs of those children, and we are guided by some core principles.
00:16:15.000Number one, we act in the best interest of the children, and we act in the best interest of the American people.
00:16:20.000And thirdly, we adhere to our values and principles as a country.
00:16:25.000And so in fact, the numbers are significant.
00:16:28.000The challenge is significant and our plans are well underway as we build the capacity to address the needs of the children and we are rebuilding from scratch.
00:16:42.000According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration is preparing to convert its immigrant family detention centers in South Texas into Ellis Island style rapid processing hubs that will screen migrant parents and children with the goal of releasing them into the United States within 72 hours.
00:16:56.000OK, so their solution is not to hold people until we know whether they ought to be here.
00:17:00.000It is to process them and send them into the interior within 72 hours.
00:17:44.000It is not actually a crisis that requires them to do anything.
00:17:49.000In fact, it is a massive transformational change to the immigration system.
00:17:53.000That is what we are actually watching.
00:17:54.000According to the Washington Post itself, transforming family detention amounts to a wholesale repudiation not only of Donald Trump's policy, but also Barack Obama's.
00:18:03.000Remember, Obama actually deported a lot of people.
00:18:05.000It presents a significantly different vision of how to handle the fast-changing character of mass migration at the southern border.
00:18:11.000For decades, single adults dominated the flows northward into the United States.
00:18:14.000The number of families and minors has increased substantially.
00:18:17.000Before the COVID pandemic, migrant families and unaccompanied minors were a majority of those taken into custody at the southwest border.
00:18:23.000During the Obama and Trump administration, families were released or deported, but some were held in dormitory-style facilities for weeks or months.
00:18:30.000Now, they're basically just going to release everybody.
00:18:44.000Because Biden's a moderate, of course.
00:18:46.000Not only is Biden a moderate, Biden knows what's best for you.
00:18:50.000See, the way that open Biden works is that if he declares that something is not a crisis, it's not a crisis.
00:18:55.000And if he declares that something is a crisis, then it requires instant action this moment in accordance with his greatest wishes.
00:19:01.000So, when we have thousands of people just entering the United States willy-nilly, that's not a crisis, so we should just release them into the interior.
00:19:07.000If, however, we have a COVID pandemic that is clearly on the wane, if we have vaccines that are being put into arms at the rate of two million a day, if we have all of that, if the caseload in the United States is now at lows we have not seen for months, And has been dropping precipitously.
00:19:22.000If all of that, that's still a crisis, because it's a useful crisis.
00:19:26.000Make no mistake, for Democrats, the only question about a situation, and whether it is a crisis or not, is whether it is useful to their political agenda.
00:19:33.000And right now, COVID is useful to the political agenda.
00:19:35.000By the way, not just of the Biden administration, but useful to members of the media.
00:19:39.000In one of the more shocking admissions recently, the CEO of WarnerMedia, which is the parent company of CNN, a person named Jason Killar, he was at a virtual tech conference on Thursday, and he actually said, he actually said out loud that the pandemic is a great thing for the news cycle.
00:19:57.000Which, by the way, is the same remark that you'll remember Jeff Zucker originally made about Donald Trump in 2016, that he was great for the news cycle, so they gave him a billion dollars in free media coverage and made him president.
00:20:07.000Well, because the media love COVID, so they're not going to let it go.
00:20:09.000Here is Jason Killar saying exactly this, essentially.
00:20:13.000If you take a look at the ratings and the performance, it's going well.
00:20:18.000And I think it's going well because A, the team at CNN is doing a fantastic job.
00:20:22.000And B, it turns out that the pandemic and the way that we can help inform and contextualize the pandemic, it turns out it's really good for ratings.
00:20:31.000And then later he came out and he was like, I wish I could be more thoughtful about my communication.
00:20:35.000We all know, we all know that the media have a very large stake in the continuation of crisis pandemic coverage.
00:20:44.000They do, because they don't want to cover Biden as a crisis.
00:20:47.000They don't want to cover the Biden administration as doing anything radical.
00:20:49.000They don't want people to know about that.
00:20:51.000What they do want is to mirror the priorities of the Democratic Party, and the priorities of the Democratic Party right now are to treat immigration as a non-crisis and to treat COVID as a massive crisis, despite the fact that what was a crisis even three months ago is not a crisis now.
00:21:05.000COVID is no longer a crisis in the United States.
00:21:07.000Our ICU beds are not being threatened.
00:21:10.000The people are not getting this at the same rate.
00:21:13.000We are reaching herd immunity, just as Marty McCary of Johns Hopkins University suggested.
00:21:21.000So what does that mean for the Biden administration?
00:21:22.000For the Biden administration, what that means is that anybody who attempts to end the crisis is a bad guy, which is why the other day you heard Joe Biden stumble out there and suggest between bites of oatmeal that those who wanted to reopen states and get rid of mask mandates were Neanderthals.
00:21:45.000You and your ability to choose what to do as an individual, that's Neanderthal thinking.
00:21:49.000The galaxy brains out there, the ones who have been saying for months and months and months that lockdowns were the only sure policy, and the ones who say right now that schools cannot reopen, those galaxy brains, they should rule.
00:21:58.000But you, the individual, deciding how you wish to live your life, what risk you wish to undergo, you, you are a Neanderthal.
00:22:07.000Babylon Bee had a great headline about this.
00:22:09.000Neanderthals out partying while civilized people hide in caves.
00:22:14.000Okay, so how much, by the way, do the members of the Biden administration disdain the American public and their ability to make decisions for themselves?
00:22:21.000How much do they think that the people of the United States really ought not rule themselves?
00:22:26.000The fundamental distinction between left and right in the United States right now is that the left loves the people collectively, but hates individual decision-making.
00:22:35.000And they love the people because they believe that they can mobilize the mob to do whatever they want, which seemingly is true a lot of the time.
00:22:43.000On the right, we're kind of scared of the mob because the mob usually has terrible ideas, but we like individuals and wish they would make their own decisions.
00:22:50.000Okay, so here is Jen Psaki deriding individuals making their own decisions.
00:22:53.000In fact, she was asked specifically by a reporter whether Biden's Neanderthal comments went far enough.
00:22:59.000And she basically agreed that they didn't go far enough.
00:23:02.000That basically, if you are an individual who wants to go out and live your life after you've been vaccinated, for example, or you're not that afraid of COVID, or you're not dealing with people who are vulnerable, if you're one of those people, then you're a lizard brain.
00:23:51.000What we really need is to scare people and tell them that they're killing people because they haven't heard that from the media for months.
00:23:57.000Then Jen Psaki specifically defended the Neanderthal comment with a tactic that you should never use in a personal relationship.
00:24:03.000Here is Jen Psaki on Biden's Neanderthal comment specifically.
00:24:11.000And how does comparing someone to a Neanderthal help convince them to change course and get on board with your public health message?
00:24:18.000The behavior of a Neanderthal, just to be very clear, the behavior of.
00:24:23.000Look, I think the president, what everybody saw yesterday, was a reflection of his frustration and exasperation, which I think many American people have, that for almost a year now, people across the country have sacrificed.
00:25:48.000With 50 million Americans at least partly immunized against the coronavirus, and millions more joining the ranks every day, the urgent question on many minds is, when can I throw away my mask?
00:25:55.000It's a deeper question than it seems, about a return to normalcy, about how soon vaccinated Americans can hug loved ones, get together with friends, go to concerts, shopping malls, restaurants, without feeling threatened by COVID.
00:26:05.000Certainly many state officials already.
00:26:07.000On Tuesday, Texas lifted its mask mandate, along with Mississippi.
00:26:10.000But the pandemic is not over yet, and scientists are counseling patients.
00:26:27.000If you're vaccinated, what's the problem?
00:26:29.000The answer is there really isn't one, but they're still pushing it.
00:26:32.000When vaccinated people can ditch the masks in public spaces will depend on how quickly the rates of disease drop and what percentage of people remain unvaccinated in the surrounding community.
00:26:40.000Scientists do not know whether vaccinated people spread the virus to those who are unvaccinated.
00:26:45.000Well, actually, we do have some early data, and the answer is they really don't.
00:26:49.000Again, the early data demonstrate that the transmission rates from people who are vaccinated is extremely low, extremely low.
00:26:55.000But we have to hide this from the American public so we can scare them into staying in their houses so we can pass $1.9 trillion pork bills that do all the priority work that Democrats are looking for it to do.
00:27:05.000And we have to keep the schools closed so we can keep paying off the teachers unions.
00:27:08.000And we have to push all the left-wing priorities by suggesting that Americans are bad and stupid and Neanderthals.
00:27:15.000They say it's not uncommon for a vaccine to forestall severe disease but not infection.
00:27:18.000Inoculations against the flu, rotavirus, polio, pertussis are all imperfect in this way.
00:27:23.000I mean, that's true, but you know what?
00:28:33.000The state is, wait for it, Connecticut.
00:28:37.000Deep red Connecticut is now reopening as well.
00:28:41.000According to the Hartford Courant, Governor Ned Lamont on Thursday announced he will roll back COVID-related restrictions in Connecticut starting March 19th, allowing restaurants to operate at full capacity, loosening rules on sports and entertainment venues, lifting the state's travel ban.
00:28:53.000The state will maintain some key measures like a mask mandate.
00:28:56.000Oh, well, you know, if it's got a mask mandate.
00:28:58.000Social distancing rules, a curfew for restaurants, and closure of bars.
00:29:01.000Restaurants, retail stores, houses of worship, other businesses will be allowed to reopen at full capacity within the confines of the remaining rules.
00:29:07.000Okay, by the way, if you reopen a church at full capacity, or a restaurant at full capacity, and the mask mandate's still in place, at restaurants, people aren't gonna wear the masks.
00:31:08.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to the greatest doctor of all time, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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00:31:59.000I thought that that discussion was interesting, and I thought that, frankly, the points made on minimum wage by By Representative Khanna, we're not particularly convincing.
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00:33:15.000That is the message from the Biden administration and the best doctor of all time, except for Dr. Jill Biden, who is the greatest medical doctor I've ever seen.
00:33:21.000I single-handedly watched as Dr. Jill Biden took a man who was clinically dead and sent him to a junior college.
00:33:27.000Hey, Dr. Jill Biden is unbelievable at what she does.
00:33:31.000Anyway, Dr. Fauci, who's the second best doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, he is now out there again, down-talking the possible reopening of American society, suggesting that we can never reopen, effectively speaking.
00:33:43.000Here he was, on CNN, doing his routine, the song and dance, saying, I don't know why we're easing restrictions until we're below 10,000 cases per day.
00:34:03.000I wouldn't want to see a light switch go on and off with regard to restrictions, Jake.
00:34:08.000I would like to see, as we get the level of virus in the community to a very low level, well, well below the 60,000 to 70,000 new infections.
00:34:19.000Somewhere, you know, I'll just pick a number, even though, you know, there's not a good model there yet, but I would say less than 10,000 and maybe even considerably less than that.
00:34:31.000I mean, let's get it all the way down to zero.
00:35:22.000Okay, the reason that it is explicable to reopen right now is because the daily new cases as of early January were 280,000, 300,000 on January 8th.
00:35:29.000308,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 on January 8th.
00:36:00.000But it's inexplicable why you'd want to pull back now, says Anthony Fauci.
00:36:04.000It just is inexplicable why you would want to pull back now.
00:36:09.000I understand the need to want to get back to normality, but you're only going to set yourself back if you just completely push aside the public health guidelines, particularly when we're dealing with anywhere from 55 to 70,000 infections per day in the United States.
00:36:30.000Okay, so again, this is like At this point, the reason that they don't want to reopen is because they don't want individuals to have free choice.
00:36:41.000They also don't want schools to reopen.
00:36:42.000So Fauci, who's been on every side of this position, again, he's had more positions on school reopening than the Kama Sutra recommends, as I've said before.
00:36:47.000He says that now schools need to change their ventilation systems before opening.
00:36:55.000Like, seriously, like, how many more things can you just throw out there?
00:36:59.000We can't reopen until we have full ultraviolet lighting systems in all of America's schools, even though the data is that the schools should be open, like right now, in full, with kids there.
00:37:10.000We've got to make sure that the schools have the resources to do the kinds of things they need to do, which would be making sure they have masks and PPE, making sure that the ventilation system can be improved to be able to diminish the likelihood that there'll be spread of infection.
00:37:28.000These are the same people who are touting Andrew Cuomo while he lied for months.
00:37:33.000about what you can do, the kinds of things you can do, the steps, the masking, the distancing, the kinds of things that we know can help protect the children and the teachers.
00:37:46.000These are the same people who were touting Andrew Cuomo while he lied for months.
00:37:49.000The same people, I mean, Fauci said that Cuomo's response was like the ideal response.
00:37:54.000Speaking of which, new report from the Wall Street Journal and now verified by the New York Times, Andrew Cuomo's aides rewrote nursing home reports to hide the higher death total.
00:38:02.000So right now they're trying to oust him in New York, supposedly based on the sexual harassment stuff.
00:38:35.000And so now they have to look for some ancillary reason to get rid of the guy.
00:38:38.000According to the New York Times, top aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo were alarmed.
00:38:41.000A report written by state health officials had just landed, and it included accounts of how many nursing home residents in New York had died in the pandemic.
00:38:47.000The number, more than 9,000 by that point in June, was not public.
00:38:51.000And the governor's most senior aides wanted to keep it that way.
00:38:53.000They rewrote the report to take it out, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the New York Times.
00:38:58.000The extraordinary intervention, which came just as Cuomo was starting to write a book on his pandemic achievements, was the earliest act yet in what critics have called a months-long effort by the governor and his aides to obscure the full scope of nursing home deaths.
00:39:14.000Could you guys have done a little digging right then?
00:39:15.000Or are you too busy flogging his stupid book about his leadership during COVID and cheering him as a possible nominee should Joe Biden fall off a short chair and die?
00:39:49.000The reality is that things are going pretty well.
00:39:51.000And one of the reasons things are going pretty well is because we are now tranching out vaccines developed under Trump with plans developed by governors all across the United States.
00:40:04.000And the same administration that is pushing the idea that there is inequity in vaccine distribution, and kind of poo-pooing, or at least winking and nodding at the idea that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is a one-shot vaccine that is slightly less effective than the two-shot vaccines, but is still pretty damned effective, that if you have too many brown and black people who are getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, maybe that is a sign of systemic inequity.
00:40:26.000The reality is that that Johnson & Johnson shot, just like all these other shots, is essentially a medical miracle.
00:40:31.000Even the New York Times acknowledging that now.
00:40:33.000Saying people are eager for Johnson & Johnson's vaccine.
00:40:36.000But again, it's all about inequity in the distribution of the shots.
00:40:39.000Simultaneously, the Biden administration is claiming we're doing a great job with our shots.
00:40:44.000And also, nobody deserves credit for the vaccine.
00:40:47.000So you have Rochelle Walensky over at the CDC saying, we are on track with these vaccines and tranching them out.
00:40:53.000And then you have Jen Psaki over at the White House saying, you know what?
00:40:57.000I don't think we should give the Trump team any credit for the vaccine.
00:40:59.000Nobody deserves credit for the vaccine, says Jen Psaki.
00:41:03.000I don't think anyone deserves credit when half a million people in the country have died of this pandemic.
00:41:08.000So what our focus is on and when the president's focus is on when he came into office just over a month ago was ensuring that we had enough vaccines.
00:41:41.000And by the way, this crisis mentality, the continuation of the crisis mentality so that Democrats can continue to push forward bad policy, that is on every single front.
00:41:52.000And by the way, it's also a crisis if you once heard a rumor from a guy on 8chan about how there was like a Boogaloo thing happening on March 4th.
00:42:01.000So now we are learning that Nancy Pelosi and the Capitol Police are asking, are demanding more fencing, more troops, and more money for Capitol security.
00:42:10.000They want to keep the troops there another two months.
00:42:50.000March 4th was supposed to be another one of these magical riot days, didn't happen, nothing.
00:42:54.000Like zero zip zilch, no one showed up.
00:42:57.000And Nancy Pelosi's like, well, we gotta keep these people here pretty much forever as a reminder, as an eternal reminder that Trump supporters are bad.
00:43:05.000Between COVID, where we need to have vaccinations more broadly in the Capitol so that many more people can come here and do their jobs, and the threat of all the president's men out there, we have to ensure with our security that we are safe enough to do our job.
00:43:41.000Washington Post today, quote, at the Capitol, a March 4th threat from militant Trump supporters proves a mirage.
00:43:47.000Oh, who could have predicted such a thing?
00:43:49.000On the day when former President Donald Trump's most delusional supporters swore he would return to power, Washington looked, on Thursday morning, much the way it has for the past two months.
00:43:56.000National Guard members armed with M4 rifles braced for a rebellion that never came.
00:44:00.000Razor wire lined miles of steel fencing that went unbreached.
00:44:04.000Trump remained in Florida, where it was 70 degrees and sunny.
00:44:06.000It was nice down here yesterday, actually.
00:44:08.000The angst stems from another misguided belief within QAnon, the extremist ideology that claims Trump has been working in secret to overthrow a cabal of blood-drinking, Satan-worshiping Democratic pedophiles.
00:44:17.000After repeated unfulfilled prophecies, the group's supporters declared in recent weeks that Trump would retake office on March 4th.
00:44:25.000What is the good evidence that they were going to actually do anything yesterday?
00:44:29.000At some point, it would be nice to see some of that evidence, considering we're now spending millions and millions of dollars to keep troops there and make sure that they never leave, apparently.
00:44:39.000And now apparently, amazingly enough, they've decided in the media that the next state that we have to worry about is March 20th.
00:44:45.000Where are they getting the information that we have to worry about March 20th?
00:44:53.000According to Newsweek, quote, some QAnon supporters seem to rebrand the March 4th conspiracy in the wake of community suspicion.
00:44:59.000While two individuals affiliated with the false theory simply suggested Trump's inauguration would take place sometime in the spring, one man, identified as Ken, told Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel the former president, quote, will be inaugurated again on March 20th.
00:45:12.000Well, I mean, if Ken says so, I guess we have to spend hundreds of millions of... I guess we have to spend...
00:45:46.000Honestly, this story is in some ways even scarier than the story about the Dr. Seuss estate pulling six of his books, including classics like And I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo.
00:46:00.000When they pull those books, that is terrible and awful.
00:46:03.000And it is self-censorship of an extraordinary order.
00:46:06.000It is a willingness to cave in the face of a woke, censorious, authoritarian left.
00:46:17.000I don't know when it became a controversial thing to say that self-censorship of classic children's literature is bad, but it's bad.
00:46:25.000But it's now gone even further than this.
00:46:27.000eBay is now taking down your ability to even list these books.
00:46:30.000So, you said to yourself, listen, I had an extra copy if I ran the zoo.
00:46:34.000And now those things are selling for like $650.
00:46:36.000Because when you make things at Samizdat, when you ban material like they did in the Soviet Union, it turns out that people are going to try and get a hold of the material.
00:46:44.000When that happens, The prices skyrocket.
00:46:47.000So a lot of people went to eBay to sell this stuff.
00:46:49.000Now, eBay has decided that they are going to remove the Dr. Seuss books.
00:46:53.000You cannot, as a third party, sell these Dr. Seuss books.
00:46:58.000Now, eBay is another one of these neutral service providers, right?
00:47:01.000eBay is supposed to be, like Amazon was, supposed to be a neutral service provider, right?
00:47:06.000They don't have an editorial point of view.
00:47:08.000And in fact, if you looked at eBay yesterday, you could still buy copies of Protocols of the Elder's Design.
00:47:13.000You could buy, which is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory first created in Tsarist Russia.
00:47:18.000You could still buy copies of Mein Kampf.
00:47:20.000Those were available at decent prices.
00:47:22.000You couldn't buy copies, however, if I ran the zoo.
00:47:25.000According to Newsweek, following Dr. Seuss Enterprises' recent decision to discontinue publishing and licensing on six of the famous children's authors' books because of problematic content, demand for the titles in question spiked.
00:47:36.000But even though the resale market for the controversial Seuss books has been strong, eBay has started to remove listings for the titles, citing its policy on offensive material.
00:47:45.000This writer actually has access to a worn copy of one of the out-of-print books and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street and listed it on eBay late Tuesday afternoon.
00:47:52.000On Thursday morning, this writer received an email from eBay saying the listing was removed for violating an offensive material policy.
00:47:58.000The automated email said, quote, Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren't allowed.
00:48:05.000Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped publication of this book due to its negative portrayal of some ethnicities.
00:48:10.000As a courtesy, we have ended your item and refunded your selling fees.
00:48:13.000And as long as you do not relist the item, there will be no negative impact to your account.
00:48:16.000So in other words, they're going to punish you for having listed a book you did not write and that you do not agree is a racist book.
00:48:22.000They're gonna punish you if you refuse to abide by their strictures.
00:48:31.000In its email on Thursday, eBay included the fine prints of its policy.
00:48:34.000One portion of the message, which gives an overview of the policy, reads, quote, items including figurines, cartoons, housewares, historical advertisements, and gollywogs with racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise demeaning portrayals, for example, through caricatures or other exaggerated features.
00:48:49.000An eBay spokesperson clarified the company's position further.
00:48:51.000At eBay, we have a strict policy against hate and discrimination to ensure our platform remains a safe, trusted, and inclusive environment for our global community of buyers and sellers.
00:49:00.000Please see our offensive policies material.
00:49:02.000We're currently sweeping our marketplace to remove those items.
00:49:15.000And as we know from the New York Times, anything that has the N-word in it is bad.
00:49:18.000Unless it's written by Nikole Hannah-Jones, in which case it is good.
00:49:22.000So eBay has now removed your ability to even sell secondhand Dr. Seuss books when neutral platforms, neutral service providers, become the tools of the woke in their censorious attempts to remove and erase history.
00:49:35.000And removing and erase, by the way, non-offensive children's books, there's not a single human being who, until the woke got ahold of it, ever looked at If I Ran the Zoo and said, wow, this is so brutally offensive, I can't believe it.
00:49:44.000Or Mulberry Street, which is even less controversial.
00:50:21.000But you should, and it is recommended by the NEA, the National Education Association, that you read to your children, Julian is a Mermaid, about a little boy who sees women dressed as mermaids and wants to dress like them.
00:50:31.000Also, The Prince and the Dressmaker, about a prince who secretly wears dresses at night.
00:51:02.000By the way, speaking of Ibram X. Kendi, Ibram X. Kendi is such an unbelievable, ridiculous, backwards racist that he actually tweeted this out yesterday.
00:51:11.000And this is the Kafka move right here.
00:51:33.000Because, like Franz Kafka, in the trial, you are guilty if you say that you are innocent, and you are guilty if you say that you are guilty.
00:51:42.000If you are a witch, then you will absolutely sink to the bottom of the river.
00:51:46.000Then you will absolutely float if you're a witch.
00:51:49.000And if you are not a witch, you will sink.
00:51:51.000That's how we'll find out whether you're a witch or not.
00:51:53.000So that guy wrote a crappy children's book, and we are going to use that as the basis for teaching children.
00:51:59.000We're going to actively teach children about racial essentialism, but if they see a cartoon picture of Asian people carrying a mythical animal in a book about a child running a zoo, then obviously that is going to create all sorts of racist sentiment.
00:52:27.000How Hollywood is dealing with its problematic content.
00:52:30.000As streamers build out their lucrative libraries, they're experimenting with label warnings, context panels, and even purges.
00:52:36.000These are valuable properties you cannot just disregard.
00:52:38.000You want to keep them, but you have to make sure they don't damage the brand, they say.
00:52:41.000Every month, Disney convenes an eclectic group of advisors via video conference to tell the media conglomerate what it and the many entertainment companies it has acquired over its nearly 100-year history have gotten wrong.
00:52:52.000Every single month, they're doing these woke struggle sessions.
00:53:11.000I mean, first of all, I will say that anybody who caps Jar Jar is a hero to me, but if they won't cap Jar Jar, that seems like they're on the dark side.
00:53:22.000That episode of The Muppet Show where Johnny Cash sings a duet with Miss Piggy in front of a confederate flag.
00:53:26.000You know how many people were radicalized by that?
00:53:28.000You know how many people became white supremacists because they saw Johnny Cash sing a duet with Miss Piggy in front of a confederate flag?
00:53:34.000So many people joined the KKK because of that?
00:53:36.000We've had some raw conversation on these Zooms, says Gil Robertson, president of the African American Film Critics Association, who sits on Disney's advisory council alongside representatives from groups like the Coalition of Asian Pacifics and Entertainment and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, as well as representatives from various departments at Disney, including programming, public policy, diversity, and inclusion.
00:53:57.000Disney asks Robertson and his colleagues to watch content that may contain stereotypes or insensitive imagery and offer their perspectives.
00:54:17.000They're not going to un-woke themselves out of a job.
00:54:21.000When Disney hands over power to all of these interest groups, What they are doing is saying to them, you now have an incentive to call things racist so that we have to keep coming back to you for our latest re-up.
00:54:33.000So now they're trying to reframe classic films on TCM.
00:54:37.000TCM host Ben Manquat says, nobody's canceling these movies.
00:54:40.000Our job is not to get up and say, here's a movie you should feel guilty about for liking, but to pretend the racism in it is not painful and acute.
00:54:45.000No, I don't want to shy away from that.
00:54:47.000This was inevitable and welcomed and overdue.
00:54:51.000Or we could just let people make their own decisions about things.
00:55:04.000got a Best Supporting Actor nomination for that, by the way.
00:55:07.000Older shows and movies are still big business, says The Hollywood Reporter.
00:55:10.000On Disney+, nearly 80% of the TV demand was for these streaming services licensed in library shows.
00:55:15.000Only about 20% was for original shows like The Mandalorian, which also have to be wiped clean, by the way, of anyone who thinks differently, as we learned about Gina Carano.
00:55:22.000In 2019, Miramax's 700-film library was valued at $750 million.
00:55:27.000The libraries at Disney and WarnerMedia are multi-billion-dollar assets.
00:55:31.000But the need for studios to reckon with their racist histories took on a new urgency last summer as Black Lives Matter protests were unfolding.
00:55:59.000Drawing attention to problems in their own archives does carry risk for studios.
00:56:03.000Kermit cancelled asked a headline on the conservative website, The Daily Wire, when Disney rolled out disclaimers on 18 episodes of The Muppet Show.
00:56:09.000When the host of Fox & Friends asked Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton about disclaimers on February 24th, the lawmaker brought up the studio's relationship with China.
00:56:43.000And unlike in the real world, where Gina Carano can get fired by Disney and we can pick her up, If I could buy the rights to If I Ran the Zoo and just sell it via daily wire, I absolutely would.
00:56:53.000But I can't, because Dr. Seuss Enterprises is taking it down and they own the rights.
00:57:38.000Religion, when you repent before God, God accepts it.
00:57:41.000The woke, when you repent before the woke, they murder you.
00:57:44.000They kill your career, they destroy your life, Chris Harrison, who's the host of The Bachelor, or was, and now has been deemed unfit to be the host of a silly dating show because he had the temerity to suggest that a woman ought to be given grace for going to an antebellum-themed party in 2018 after her black boyfriend on the show suggested she be given grace.
00:59:08.000We are pushing into the culture war because culture is upstream of politics.
00:59:12.000But recognize that what the left does right now, their greatest trick, is that they will take a seminal piece of literature, like Dr. Seuss, they'll cancel it, and then they'll say, why are you even paying attention?