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00:00:00.000Time magazine acknowledges that elites manipulated the levers of power during election 2020 and the New York Times fires a reporter for not being racist.
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00:01:32.000OK, so few quick notes to begin about last night's Super Bowl.
00:01:37.000It is the only NFL game I have watched this season because of all the wokeness.
00:01:40.000And I will say it was kind of astonishing how missing in action the wokeness was at the Super Bowl, which makes sense because the NFL is not stupid enough to try and cram that down the throats of 100 million Americans during their biggest broadcast of the year and the biggest event in American entertainment.
00:02:27.000I know that when people think of like Chief Demographic for The Weeknd, they don't think of me because I listen to classical music and read straight the lyrics of Cardi B. But with that said, I thought that even for a weird halftime show, this one was super duper weird.
00:02:42.000I think my favorite part, there were a couple parts that were pretty great.
00:02:45.000One was when he was The Weeknd, which I assume was his given name.
00:02:48.000Like he was born, his mother looked at him and called him The Weeknd.
00:02:51.000But in any case, I assume that he was stumbling through the mirrored halls with a camera up in his face.
00:02:57.000That was like me after a second COVID shot right there.
00:03:00.000And then, I don't know if this was meant to be like Joe Biden's COVID troops mask coming for you if you don't wear a mask, or what this was supposed to be.
00:03:08.000But the creepy, red-coated, fascist marchers with no faces coming at you in the night was a vision.
00:03:17.000Also, he should pay some royalties to Michael Jackson.
00:03:20.000This is just the Thriller video, isn't it?
00:03:22.000So we had him doing a little bit of Michael Jackson dancing, and then we have the Thriller video here, and now we have the COVID fascist troops coming for you, so that's exciting stuff.
00:03:44.000OK, so in any case, that was one sort of weird highlight of the show.
00:03:48.000But when it came to the commercials, the commercial that everyone is talking about this morning, the commercial that's got everybody hot and bothered is this commercial narrated by Bruce Springsteen for Jeep.
00:04:01.000Okay, so there's always one of these commercials during the Super Bowl where some major company is like, wouldn't it be great if America got together?
00:04:07.000A few years back during the recession, Clint Eastwood did one for one of the car companies.
00:04:12.000I'm trying to remember which car company, which shows you how successful the ad was in retrospect.
00:04:15.000But Jeep had this ad with Bruce Springsteen narrating.
00:04:19.000And when I think of people who represent middle America, I think of the guy from New Jersey with the earring.
00:04:56.000Because the ad is super boring and it says nothing, and it just demonstrates sort of where we are politically, is that this sort of pap is now popular with the left, specifically because the ad says nothing.
00:05:06.000It says that we are all supposed to be reunited.
00:05:07.000The idea here is that Donald Trump is gone, of course, and therefore we can all reunite around shared values, like churches, that the left wants to invade and revoke its nonprofit status.
00:06:43.000That's the subtext there because when you think of unifying political figures Bruce Springsteen is a partisan Democrat has performed it like every DNC since 1873 that guy is is not a unifying figure in any way shape or form and so I Calls for unity that actually have content like why don't we recommit to our local communities and helping one like that would be nice But that's not what that's about right.
00:07:02.000It's the reunited States of America because Trump tore us apart and And now, now we can be reunited.
00:07:09.000Nobody mentioned that Trump won Kansas.
00:07:15.000All of this is part of a broader manipulation that is currently happening in the United States, in which we are all supposed to have bought into the new golden age, the post-partisan age of unity, ushered in by Joe Biden's administration.
00:07:29.000And in fact, we should celebrate the accession of Joe Biden to the presidency, and we should celebrate everybody who helped make that happen, including people who sort of manipulated the system.
00:07:40.000Now, note what I am not going to contend here.
00:07:42.000I'm not going to contend that voter fraud and voter irregularity decided the election.
00:07:46.000I did not make that contention since literally day one.
00:07:48.000I said that I did not think it was true.
00:07:49.000I did not think there was evidence to back it, and the evidence was not brought.
00:07:52.000However, I did say since day one that there are systems of power in this country, institutions of power controlled by the left at the top level, and those were in fact manipulated in order to Rig the body politic in favor of particular points of view.
00:08:08.000And this can happen when you have an entire mainstream establishment media on one side of the political aisle.
00:08:12.000This can happen when, for example, you black out an entire late-breaking story on the president's son and his relationship with foreign powers and what the president knew about that and when.
00:08:22.000As did happen with all of social media to the New York Post story.
00:08:25.000This can happen when you have the social media giants cracking down on people with dissenting points of view and downgrading traffic to particular websites that do not reflect that point of view.
00:08:36.000If you have the institutions of power in the United States all controlled by one side of the political aisle and those institution of powers kick into gear, that is going to have an effect on the election, obviously.
00:08:45.000You don't have to expressly suggest that people had their votes switched or their votes stolen in order to point out that when you have institutions of power that have a heavy impact on how people live and how people think and how people consume information, And that that certainly can have an impact on how an election goes.
00:09:02.000Molly Ball over at Time Magazine has a piece that the left is celebrating, but really should scare the living hell out of everybody.
00:09:07.000Molly Ball, who is on the left, wrote a piece for Time.
00:09:09.000It's called The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election.
00:09:12.000This is one of my favorite things that is happening in the media right now.
00:09:15.000And when I say favorite, I mean least favorite.
00:09:16.000You have members of the media who are openly acknowledging that blue America has taken control of the levers of power in every major institution and are wielding those levers of power against you.
00:09:26.000In order to manipulate you, in order to change your life.
00:09:29.000And then if you say, hey, wait a second, all of these institutions seem like they're controlled by the left and they're being wielded against me.
00:09:35.000Then the same media will say, you're paranoid.
00:09:39.000They have Jim VandeHei from Axios literally writing that blue America is in control of every major institution in the United States, from Hollywood to sports, to corporate America, to social media, to government.
00:09:52.000And that they are using that power in order to rethink how freedom of speech is done.
00:09:56.000And then when people like me say that on the show, then Axios reports, Hey, look at these right-wingers.
00:10:03.000You literally wrote that narrative because you happen to be telling the truth about this.
00:10:06.000We're going to get to what Time Magazine said actually happened during election 2020.
00:10:09.000Because again, The institutional obstacles to open debate in the United States are massive, and they are becoming ingrained, and it's extraordinarily dangerous.
00:10:27.000First, let us talk about some of that manipulation.
00:10:29.000So one of the things that you may have noticed is that big tech companies are now changing all of their standards.
00:10:33.000They have these sort of arbitrary and capricious standards they apply when they feel like it against people they don't like or outlets they don't like.
00:10:41.000The way they're monetizing is they're using your data.
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00:11:49.000As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action, but crickets.
00:11:53.000When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on November 7th, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the United States to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump's ouster.
00:12:03.000A second odd thing happened amid Trump's attempts to reverse the result.
00:12:08.000Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump's candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede.
00:12:13.000To the president, something felt amiss.
00:12:15.000It was all very, very strange, Trump said on December 2nd.
00:12:17.000Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner even while many key states were still being counted.
00:12:23.000In a way, says Molly Ballentine magazine, Trump was right.
00:12:26.000There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.
00:12:33.000Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.
00:12:37.000The pact was formalized in a terse little-noticed joint statement of the U.S.
00:12:41.000Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day.
00:12:44.000Both sides would come to see it as some sort of implicit bargain, inspired by the summer's massive, sometimes destructive racial justice protests, in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.
00:12:56.000So she's talking about the post-election period there, but then she says, oh yeah, there's the pre-election period too, right?
00:13:04.000The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election, an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote, but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.
00:13:18.000For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America's institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless panic and an autocratically inclined president.
00:13:27.000So the way that Molly Ball is pitching this is that all of these left-wing institutions, they threw themselves into high gear in order to ensure free and fair and wonderful and clean elections.
00:13:37.000And wow, what an amazing job they did.
00:13:39.000And the result of that amazing job is Joe Biden as president.
00:13:41.000Now, to somebody who's not on the left, What that actually looks like is, hey, look at all these institutions of power that kicked into high gear in order to sometimes suppress opinion, in order to downgrade particular informational dissemination, in order to change the rules of voting.
00:13:53.000So they had universal mail-in voting five months early in many of these states before much of the information for the election was actually relevant or available.
00:14:02.000But remember, Molly Ball's on the left, so this is a celebratory article, right?
00:14:05.000She says, Well, actually, it was kind of more like the Trump victory.
00:14:23.000These people, generally speaking, were pretty concerned with the outcome of the vote, not merely the mechanisms of the vote.
00:14:29.000That is a lot of revisionist history right there.
00:14:32.000Says Molly Ball, their work touched every aspect of the election.
00:14:34.000They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding.
00:14:40.000They fended off voter suppression lawsuits.
00:14:42.000Voter suppression lawsuits are also things like voter ID and lawsuits that challenge whether votes should be cast in a particular way.
00:14:49.000Things like vote gathering, ballot harvesting.
00:14:52.000They recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.
00:14:58.000campaign. They successfully pressured, here's the part that's great, they successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. Oh, you mean they rigged the levers of informational determination in the United States so that they would be the sole arbiters of what information should actually be spread during the election. Sounds on the up and up.
00:15:20.000They executed national public awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days and weeks.
00:15:25.000After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure Trump could not overturn the election.
00:15:34.000So, Malibal says, the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream. A well-funded cabal of powerful people ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage, and control the flow of information.
00:15:56.000That's what was... By the way, if Trump had won and they'd done all the exact same things, do you think Molly Ball would be writing about the fortified election?
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00:17:37.000Okay, so Molly Ball writing in Time Magazine.
00:17:40.000And she talks about how all of these groups basically got together in order to quote-unquote fortify the election.
00:17:47.000So what exactly did that fortification look like?
00:17:50.000Well, it looked like an alliance between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce.
00:17:56.000And one of the heads of these unions was a guy named Mike Podhorzer.
00:18:02.000He was the senior advisor to the president of the AFL-CIO.
00:18:04.000He put together a memo, and he started making connections with people.
00:18:07.000On March 3rd, Podhorzer drafted a three-page confidential memo titled, "'Threats to the 2020 Election.' Trump has made it clear this will not be a fair election, that he will reject anything but his own." They kicked into high gear for rapid mail-in voting.
00:18:17.000he wrote on November 3rd to the media report.
00:18:19.000Otherwise, he will use the right wing information system to establish his narrative and incite his supporters to protest.
00:18:24.000The memo laid out four categories of challenges, attacks on voters, attacks on election administration, attacks on his political opponents, and efforts to reverse the results of the election.
00:18:33.000They kicked into high gear for rapid mail-in voting.
00:18:38.000And by the way, they started, and this is the part that's scarier to me, they started securing the methods of informational distribution.
00:18:46.000So according to Malibal, time. Bad actors spreading false information is nothing new.
00:18:50.000For decades, campaigns have grappled with everything from anonymous calls claiming the election has been rescheduled to flyers spreading nasty smears about candidates' families.
00:18:57.000But Trump's lies and conspiracy theories, the viral force of social media, and the involvement of foreign meddlers made disinformation a broader, deeper threat to the 2020 vote.
00:19:04.000Okay, so there's something you have to understand about the whole disinformation, misinformation nonsense that's been pushed by the left.
00:19:09.000Since 2016, the left has completely flipped On social media.
00:19:13.000So, in 2012, social media was a godsend.
00:19:15.000Because the Obama administration knew how to use it.
00:19:18.000They were using data in new and innovative ways.
00:19:21.000Then, Trump used that same information in very similar ways in 2016, and the meme became, the reason that Trump won in 2016 is because Facebook and Twitter and YouTube didn't shut off the mechanisms of informational distribution and misinformation had decided the election.
00:19:51.000So, says Time Magazine, Laura Quinn, a veteran progressive operative who co-founded Catalyst, began studying this problem a few years ago.
00:19:57.000She piloted a nameless secret project, which she has never before publicly discussed, that tracked disinformation online and tried to figure out how to combat it.
00:20:04.000One component was tracking dangerous lies that might otherwise spread unnoticed.
00:20:08.000Researchers then provided information to campaigners or the media to track down the sources and expose them.
00:20:12.000Okay, so first of all, what that sounds like is that the media are just doing the work for progressive groups.
00:20:19.000Catalyst will send these media updates to members of the media, who will then ram them into their fact checks, the same way that Media Matters does.
00:20:26.000The most important takeaway from Quinn's research, says Time, was that engaging with toxic content only made it worse.
00:20:32.000When you get attacked, the instinct is to push back, call it out, say this isn't true.
00:20:35.000But the more engagement something gets, the more popular, the more the platforms boost it.
00:20:39.000The algorithm reads that as, oh, this is popular, people want more of it.
00:20:44.000So instead of countering the information, instead of somebody putting out something that you disagree with, and you counter the information, which by the way, you see all the time in the media, and by the way, half the time the media calls something false, it actually isn't false.
00:20:56.000I saw that last week when Snopes decided to fact check The idea that AOC was in the Capitol by admitting that she was not in the Capitol building, but saying that it was mostly false to say that she had exaggerated her account because she was not in the Capitol building.
00:21:11.000Because the way the fact checkers typically work is that if conservatives say something false, they fact check it as false, which is correct.
00:21:17.000If the left says something false, they fact check it as mostly true.
00:21:21.000And if conservatives say something true, they fact-check it as mostly false.
00:21:24.000That's the way these fact-checkers often work, and they do it by biasing exactly what they're fact-checking, as we discussed last week.
00:21:30.000What the left was pushing for was not more engagement, or even more of a boost to content that rebutted things they thought were not true.
00:21:36.000Instead, the solution, she concluded, was to pressure platforms to enforce their rules, both by removing content or accounts that spread misinformation, and by aggressively policing it in the first place.
00:21:49.000The platforms have certain policies against certain types of malignant behavior, but they haven't been enforcing them, she says.
00:21:53.000Quinn's research gave ammo to advocates pushing social media platforms to take a harder line.
00:21:58.000In November 2019, Mark Zuckerberg invited nine civil rights leaders to dinner at his home, where they warned him about the danger of the election-related falsehoods that were already spreading unchecked.
00:22:07.000Here's the best part of this entire article.
00:22:09.000It took pushing, urging, conversations, brainstorming, all of that to get to a place where we ended up with more rigorous rules and enforcement, says Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, who attended the dinner and also met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and others.
00:22:24.000It was a struggle, but we got to the point where they understood the problem.
00:22:29.000Yes, but it was really important, given the level of official disinformation, that they had those rules in place and were tagging things and taking them down.
00:22:37.000So remember that I said the person who said that last quote is a person named Vanita Gupta, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, who's saying, we got the social media platforms to mirror our recommendations and start taking down content we didn't like.
00:22:50.000Gupta is Joe Biden's current nominee to Associate Attorney General.
00:22:56.000Does that sound a little corrupt to you?
00:22:59.000That people who are about to enter the Biden administration and were essentially part of the adjunct Biden campaign were bullying and pressuring social media companies into taking down and banning information they didn't like?
00:23:22.000Oh, it was people cheated on the vote.
00:23:24.000Or it could be the reality, which is that there are a lot of people who are pushing at the top levels from powerful positions in order to pull every lever of influence they could, including ones that have an impact on you and have an impact on me daily.
00:23:41.000That is, they call it fortifying the election.
00:23:44.000Sounds a lot like rigging, does it not?
00:23:46.000I mean, rigging can, again, for the third time, I'm not talking about voter fraud or voter irregularity, when you pull every lever of power in order to achieve a particular result and you do it top down, does that sound like respect for the American people?
00:23:58.000Or does that sound like you want to run the place?
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00:25:35.000Okay, so the manipulation continues apace because the members of the media have an agenda.
00:25:40.000This is why when you see ads like the Bruce Springsteen ad from Jeep, When that pretends that that's an apolitical ad, it's not an apolitical ad.
00:25:48.000The suggestion that we need reuniting after the age of Trump, as opposed to, you know, during the age of Obama, when we actually did have race riots, when we did have an extraordinarily slow recovery, when we had incredible divisions in the body politic.
00:26:51.000The left is moving, and they're moving in strong fashion in order to subject you, the citizen, to the curtailment of your rights so they can reach the sort of unity that they wish.
00:27:02.000Okay, and this is happening inside supposedly liberal institutions.
00:27:06.000I mean, this is an unbelievable story.
00:27:29.000is apparently a health reporter, and he has a long history of being an excellent reporter.
00:27:34.000He was nominated for a Pulitzer for his COVID work.
00:27:37.000Now, he has resigned and apologized for his quote-unquote extraordinarily bad judgment over his use of the n-word after his Pulitzer Prize winning colleague Nicole Hannah-Jones threatened to launch her own investigation of him because she is the de facto editor-in-chief of the New York Times now.
00:27:50.000This pseudo-journalistic, lying, fictionalized, anti-American... Nicole Hannah-Jones, like, Honestly, she's a figure who deserves contempt.
00:28:41.000In a letter to staff on Friday, Donald McNeil Jr.
00:28:43.000announced he was standing down from the paper after 45 years, saying he, quote, originally thought the context in which I use this ugly word could be defended, but now realized it cannot.
00:28:52.000So it sounds like he had, you know, called someone the N-word, right?
00:28:54.000I mean, usually when you have a scandal and you get fired for using the N-word, it's because you called somebody the N-word, right?
00:30:33.000Well, the ousting of the man, as according to the Daily Mail, who is the paper's star COVID-19 reporter, came after a group of 150 staffers sent a letter to the executive leadership Wednesday saying they were deeply disturbed by the paper's handling of the incident and demanding a full investigation into quote-unquote newly surfaced complaints against McNeil.
00:30:49.000Hannah Jones, the reporter behind the 1619 Project, also vowed to call parents and students who took part in the trip in question to find out what McNeil said and in what context, sources told the Daily Beast.
00:31:00.000The Daily Beast first reported last week multiple students and parents had lodged complaints against McNeil back in 2019 after he allegedly used the N-word, said white privilege does not exist, and made disparaging comments about black people during a company-sponsored school trip to Peru.
00:31:13.000Now, there's only one thing there that really got him fired.
00:31:16.000The thing that got him fired is that he said that he doesn't believe in the concept of white privilege.
00:31:33.000I was asked at dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur.
00:31:40.000To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title.
00:31:45.000In asking the question, I used the slur itself.
00:31:52.000Right, this report, a person asked, a high school student asked, I know a 12-year-old who used the N-word, and McNeil said, oh, well, did they use the word bleep as like a rap lyric, or did they use it not as a rap lyric?
00:32:08.000That should make it, right, that is literal, what he is literally saying is, what was the intent?
00:32:17.000The Times has rejected the standard, however, to even say the N-word to clarify means that you have done something racist.
00:32:25.000Even if you are attempting to clarify, like, if I were to get on the air today and say that N-word is a racist term that should never be uttered by anyone, but I would actually say the N-word, the left would demand that I be cancelled.
00:33:37.000He needs to apologize to aliens who have not yet visited Earth.
00:33:41.000My lapse of judgment has hurt my colleagues in science, the hundreds of people who trusted me to work with them closely during this pandemic, the team at The Daily that turned to me during this frightening year, and the whole institution which put its confidence in me and expected better.
00:34:00.000Liberals, do you feel like kneeling before the woke diktats of Hannah Nicole Jones?
00:34:04.000Is that the world you want to live in?
00:34:06.000Is that the unity that you are willing to achieve?
00:34:09.000That you're willing to go along with people who get people fired from their jobs for saying things that are not racist because you don't like their political point of view?
00:35:16.000Glenn Greenwald, who I disagree with about, like, all the things, is now a voice of sanity when it comes to this sort of stuff.
00:35:20.000He says the profound pathologies driving all of this were on full display on Saturday night as the result of a reckless and self-humiliating smear campaign by one of the New York Times' Star Tech reporters, Taylor Lawrence.
00:35:30.000She falsely and very publicly accused Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Mark Andreessen of having used the slur word during a discussion about the Reddit GameStop uprising.
00:35:40.000And rather than apologize and retract it, she justified her mistake by claiming it was a male voice that sounded like his, then locked her Twitter account as though she was the victim.
00:37:15.000Always good when you have the ACLU, their lawyer, calling for the censorship of people they disagree with and smearing them as white supremacist fellow travelers.
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00:39:00.000All right, we're gonna get to more of this in just a second, because this campaign, the misinformation campaign, the real misinformation campaign, the real manipulation, it is aimed at you and shutting you up.
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00:41:16.000If you are a normal human being, Then generally, you're a little uncomfortable about the idea of the mob, but you like people individually, right?
00:41:22.000You like people on an individual level.
00:41:24.000You want those people to be treated decently.
00:41:26.000But the idea of the mob, you know, the idea of the people collectively being the big deciders, that's a little bit uncomfortable, right?
00:41:32.000That's why we like checks and balances in the United States.
00:41:34.000If you are on the left, they love, quote-unquote, the people, but they hate individuals.
00:41:38.000And if you are in their way, they will run you over as though they're in a Ford F-150 truck, and you are just standing out there in their way.
00:41:45.000That is, that is, All that the left is.
00:41:47.000I mean, the left is just a machine for running people over in their pursuit of utopia.
00:41:52.000And so if you believe, as a good-hearted liberal who just disagrees with me about tax rates and about abortion and about key issues, right?
00:41:59.000But if you agree with me about individual rights, like freedom of speech and the ability to disseminate information and have discussions with people across the other side of the aisle, Then you're gonna have to make a decision.
00:42:09.000Do you wish to move along with the woke left because you'll agree with them on policy and run over rights in the process?
00:42:15.000Or do you wish to preserve rights and maybe it'll make it a little bit tougher for you to convince people of your political agenda, but at least you'll have preserved the rights.
00:42:21.000That's the decision that's going to be up to people who are liberals but not leftists.
00:42:38.000On the left, what they actually believe is that your belief system, it's so weird.
00:42:41.000They believe that your belief system is what makes you good or bad.
00:42:44.000You can be a perfectly crappy human being, but if you believe the right things, this makes you a good human being.
00:42:49.000Normal people believe that it's the things you do on a daily basis that make you a good human being.
00:42:53.000It's your aspiration to continue to do more good things on a daily basis.
00:42:55.000That's what makes you a good human being.
00:42:58.000Folks on the left, On the hard left, they believe that you can be the nicest person in the world, but if you believe the wrong things, they will run you over.
00:43:19.000The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.
00:43:29.000How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?
00:43:33.000On some level, of course, I realize I owe them thanks.
00:43:37.000And man, it really looks like the guy backdragged the driveway like a pro.
00:43:52.000Back in the city, people don't sweep other people's walkways for nothing.
00:43:56.000Maybe it's like what Eddie Murphy discovered in that old Saturday Night Live sketch, White Like Me.
00:43:59.000He goes undercover in white makeup and finds that when white people are moving among their own, they pop free champagne and live the high life.
00:44:05.000As Murphy puts it, Hezbollah, the Shiite Islamist political party in Lebanon, also gives things away for free.
00:44:16.000The favors Hezbollah does for people in the cities Tyre and Sidon probably don't involve snowplows, but like other mafias, Hezbollah tends to its own.
00:44:23.000The Shiite, sick, elderly, and hungry.
00:44:25.000They offer protection and hospitality and win loyalty that way.
00:44:28.000And they also demand devotion to their brutal us-versus-them anti-Sunni cause.
00:44:32.000Some of us are family, the favors say.
00:44:38.000This person needs to be in a rubber room, like, immediately.
00:44:41.000Like, put this person in a straitjacket and drag them to the hoo-hoo house.
00:44:44.000This is like... While the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies him as a dangerous anti-Semite, much of his flock says he's just a little screwy and unfailingly magnanimous.
00:44:53.000When someone helps you when you're down or snowed in, it's almost impossible to regard them as a blight on the world.
00:44:57.000In fact, you're more likely to be overwhelmed with gratitude and convinced of the person's inherent goodness.
00:45:02.000You might end up like the upper-class family I stayed with in France as a teenager.
00:45:06.000They did not attend a citywide celebration for the 100th birthday of Charles de Gaulle, the war hero who orchestrated the liberation of his country from Nazi Germany in 1944.
00:45:13.000They did have several portraits of Philippe Petain, Nazi collaborator, on their wall.
00:45:17.000When I screwed up the courage to ask how it was for them during the occupation, the lady of the house replied we were happy because the Nazis were very polis.
00:45:23.000I didn't know the word, so I excused myself to consult a French-English dictionary.
00:45:27.000I was in tears when I found the entry.
00:45:29.000So when I accept generosity from my pandemic neighbors, acknowledging the legitimate kindness with a wave or a plate of cookies, am I also sealing us in as fellow travelers who are very polis to each other, but not so much to them?
00:45:40.000Now let it be said, there are certain perspectives on the world That can actually make you a bad person, right?
00:45:45.000If you believe that slavery is a good idea, this can make you a bad person.
00:45:49.000If you believe in the murder of all members of X group, this can make you a bad person.
00:45:55.000But she is currently likening a Trump supporter who plowed her driveway for her to Hezbollah, Louis Farrakhan, and the Nazis.
00:46:06.000I have a feeling that this person's beliefs are making her an actual, honest-to-goodness, in-daily-deed bad person.
00:46:12.000As this person says, loving your neighbor is evidently much easier when your neighborhood is full of people just like you.
00:46:24.000She has no evidence of that whatsoever, other than her own unjustified moral superiority and belief that her next-door neighbors for being Trump supporters must be vicious Nazi racists who would only do this for a person living next door who is white.
00:46:37.000Literally, the only two things she knows about them Or that they're nice, and plowed her driveway for her, and did her a favor, and that they voted for Trump.
00:46:43.000So instead of her saying to herself, instead of her saying to herself, you know, maybe it's possible that some Trump supporters are nice people, and I've miscast and mischaracterized many Trump supporters and their belief systems.
00:46:55.000Instead of her thinking that, it's, no, it must be they who are wrong.
00:47:00.000It must be I who am the morally wonderful one.
00:47:04.000Okay, I don't care what dirt this person lives on with me, we ain't in the same country.
00:47:12.000She says, what do we do about the Trumpites around us?
00:47:14.000Like Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who spoke eloquently this week about her terrifying experience during the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th, Americans are expected to forgive and forget before we've even stitched up our wounds or gotten our vaccines against the pandemic that former President Trump utterly failed to mitigate.
00:47:30.000My neighbors supported a man who showed near murderous contempt for the majority of Americans.
00:47:34.000They kept him in business with their support.
00:48:12.000Is it a nice thing for you and have different views on politics?
00:48:15.000And your answer is they're asking you for absolution but you can't give it?
00:48:20.000Honestly, if I was this lady's neighbor and I read this piece, I would take my snow plow, I would go out into the street, I would gather as much snow as humanly possible and dump it directly on her driveway.
00:48:29.000I'd plow that sucker like eight feet high and she can dig that out with a trowel for all I care.
00:48:44.000And I especially feel the unity when elites in our society mirror this perspective and then mobilize the levers of power in order to push forward this perspective, such that if you disagree with them, it's because you just want to break the country.
00:48:55.000She says, So in other words, I don't care that you did a nice thing for me.
00:48:57.000make amends, not with a snowplow, but by recognizing the truth about the Trump administration, and more important, by working for justice for all those whom the administration harmed.
00:49:05.000So in other words, I don't care that you did a nice thing for me.
00:49:08.000Only when you bow before Zod, only when you agree with me, will you be deemed one of the morally elect.
00:49:18.000Do you want to be on the side of Virginia Heffernan?
00:49:20.000Does she sound like somebody that you want to live next door to?
00:49:22.000Or, would you like to live in the same neighborhood as the Trump supporter who disagrees with you on tax rates and immigration, but also might plow your driveway once in a while and recognizes that you actually are brothers in arms against many of the myriad ills that wreck countries all over the world historically?