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00:01:31.000Alrighty, so last night was the Met Gala.
00:01:34.000And the Met Gala is an excellent reminder that Marxists in the United States are cosplaying revolution.
00:01:40.000They don't actually want a revolution.
00:01:42.000They don't really want much of anything beyond simple moral virtue signaling about how little they like the systems under which they have grown rich and famous.
00:01:51.000So what they do is they hobnob with one another, and they go to very fancy parties, and they wear very fancy clothes, and they talk about how dedicated they are to the revolution.
00:01:59.000See, the thing is, when you're an actual revolutionary, you kill people who go to the Met Gala, right?
00:02:04.000If you are looking at the old school communist revolution, you go to the Tsar's palace and you murder him and his family.
00:02:09.000If you're looking at the French revolution, The sans collo, they go over to the royals and they execute them.
00:02:14.000What they don't do is go to the party with the royals and then wear slogans that say, down with the royals.
00:02:20.000Because then it just looks, frankly, like you're kind of a tool.
00:02:24.000And in fact, that is what the Met Gala is.
00:02:26.000It is a bunch of Marxists cosplaying Marxism.
00:02:29.000It is a bunch of radicals cosplaying radicalism.
00:02:43.000We are fighting the patriarchy by doing this event on behalf...
00:02:49.000of the Met Gala to raise money for an institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that's been around for over 100 years and is an institution largely staffed by men.
00:03:00.000And also, we are fighting capitalism by wearing these expensive gowns and these expensive tuxedos made by companies that rake in money.
00:03:09.000But they also put slogans on them, so that means, I mean, we're real revolutionaries, so they're cosplaying the revolution, but they are also Cosplaying what Marxists think capitalists are.
00:03:26.000I know some of the richest people on earth, actually.
00:03:28.000And let me tell you, they don't live like the people at the Met Gala dress.
00:03:32.000The people at the Met Gala want you to think that this is what capitalists live like, but the only people who live like this are the people at the Met Gala.
00:03:38.000It is these celebrities who spend their nights dressing like fools, wearing $10,000 gowns that look like a child made them in art class.
00:04:00.000It was originally printed in New York Magazine.
00:04:03.000It was about a party at Leonard Bernstein's house.
00:04:07.000And that party was Leonard Bernstein and his then wife, and they get together in a penthouse with a bunch of Black Panthers.
00:04:15.000This is a cover story for New York Magazine.
00:04:18.000And the whole thing is hysterically funny because it is a bunch of upper crust radical leftists who have benefited from the systems of the United States patronizing the Black Panthers who show up and are telling them how white pigs should be killed and all the white people are just clapping for them.
00:04:37.000Well, the only difference between Radical Chic, that Tom Wolfe essay, and what happens at the Met Gala every year is that they are actually not even bringing in the Black Panthers.
00:04:47.000They don't actually bring in any radicals.
00:04:48.000They don't even bring anybody in to act as sort of like the exhibit at the museum that they can stare at and say, ooh, those are the radicals, we love them.
00:04:58.000It's as though at Leonard Bernstein's dinner party, Leonard Bernstein had dressed up as a Black Panther and then declared himself brave for doing so.
00:05:04.000That is what the Met Gala is every single year.
00:05:11.000And so we saw a lot of that last night.
00:05:14.000We'll get to the, we'll save the best for last because we have to.
00:05:19.000But it began with folks like Megan Rapinoe showing up and Megan Rapinoe shows up wearing a red, white, and blue outfit and holding a small purse that says, In Gay We Trust.
00:05:33.000See, because it's not God, it's in gay we trust, you see?
00:05:46.000Every single day she's standing up to the patriarchy by making money from the patriarchy.
00:05:51.000And appealing for the help of male politicians, and spending all day long whining about her position as a very wealthy white woman who gets to play a sport that no one watches other than once every four years, and be a social activist that has not actually achieved things.
00:06:12.000That's pretty exciting, in gay we trust.
00:06:13.000Because we had Megan Rapinoe, and then we had Cara Delevingne, And I may be screwing up her name, but frankly, I don't care because I really don't know very much who she is.
00:07:43.000We'll get to more of this in just one second because it is indicative of the culture gap that has emerged in the United States and that actually has basically divided the country.
00:07:51.000Everybody thinks in the intelligentsia that it's economics that divides America.
00:08:01.000But more than that, it is this cultural divide where you have half the country that believes that their politics are values and that their values are better.
00:08:32.000Like, the chairs of the 2021 Met Gala are Timothee Chalamet, who most recently was Oscar nominated for playing a gay person in a film, which is still okay, by the way.
00:08:42.000You're allowed to be straight and play a gay guy, which, frankly, I don't understand that.
00:08:44.000That seems like that violates all the strictures that we have been told exist when it comes to you're not allowed to act like a person you are not.
00:08:51.000Billie Eilish, Obviously very homophobic.
00:09:19.000First, let us talk about a simple fact.
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00:09:32.000After all, as John Dillinger once says, the reason that he robbed banks is because that's where the money was.
00:09:37.000The basic concept exists when it comes to home equity as well.
00:09:40.000Home title theft is one of the fastest growing crimes.
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00:11:13.000So, if your idea is, I will take this very dangerous weapon and I will melt it down into a slightly less dangerous weapon, this just makes you seem stupid.
00:11:23.000Which, unfortunately for us, our celebrity class, most certainly are.
00:11:51.000So Carolyn Maloney is a congresswoman from New York.
00:11:54.000Her net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 13 million dollars.
00:11:58.000She's been a congressperson since 1993.
00:12:01.000So, she is not a victimized woman in the United States because, let's face it, women in the United States are not, as a class, victimized.
00:12:07.000That is a silly, silly contention, especially given the fact that not only do a majority of college students, not only are they female, a vast majority of college students are female.
00:12:14.000In fact, there's pretty good evidence that males are dropping out of the college force at exorbitant rates and nobody wants to talk about it because, of course, males are the baddies.
00:12:39.000And I'm just going to point out in this particular photo.
00:12:42.000Karen Maloney, she's wearing this thing that says equal rights for women.
00:12:46.000By the way, she's most famous in Congress for having back at the beginning of the Afghan war, worn a full burqa on the floor of the house to demonstrate how much she cared about equal rights for women in Afghanistan.
00:12:56.000Meanwhile, let's say that her criticism of the Biden administration for pulling out of Afghanistan and those women being stuffed back into burqas has been at least somewhat muted.
00:13:03.000Anyway, in this particular photo, Karen Maloney Cosplaying, which has these equal rights for women, these banners coming off.
00:13:09.000And in the background, there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 women, all staffers for the Met Gala, who are all masked.
00:13:18.000She is not wearing a mask, because you see, she is a special.
00:13:22.000Now, one of the things that we have been told is that if you are vaccinated, you are still supposed to mask, right?
00:13:27.000This is what the CDC now says because they're idiots.
00:13:30.000This is because they have decided that we have to protect the unvaccinated from the vaccinated.
00:13:34.000We have to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated.
00:13:36.000None of it makes any sense, but these are the rules.
00:13:39.000We have been told the rules by our moral betters that you're supposed to mask no matter where you go.
00:13:44.000And it does not matter if everybody at the ball had already been tested.
00:13:49.000It doesn't matter if everybody at the ball have been vaccinated.
00:13:51.000They're still supposed to wear the mask unless you are one of the special people.
00:13:55.000If you're Carolyn Maloney and you want equal rights for women, equal rights for some women, you see.
00:13:59.000If you're the staffing help, If you are the poor suckers who got roped into providing the stage support for this little show, then you have to mask up in the background.
00:15:41.000One of the other reasons that I love Ring is because it allows me to keep an eye on my kids.
00:15:43.000So I've got three kids that are constantly running all over my property and if I can't find one of them, which sometimes happens, I just pop up that Ring app on my phone and now I can check out exactly where they are.
00:16:12.000Now, nothing says Woman of the People like showing up to a gala where the average ticket costs $30,000.
00:16:18.000Now, I assume she didn't pay for that.
00:16:19.000I assume that she was gifted the ticket by somebody in the management at the Met Gala.
00:16:25.000She wore a white dress from a... I actually was wondering who the maker of the dress was.
00:16:34.000Apparently, the maker of the dress is some famous shoe designer.
00:16:38.000I guess they don't even sell dresses normally, so they made it special for her.
00:16:42.000And she was wearing a special white dress with a slogan on the back of it, reading, tax the rich.
00:16:48.000Tax the rich at the Met Gala, surrounded by all of the rich people, including AOC, who makes $174,000 a year not being a barmaid, but being a person who is in Congress mouthing off on Instagram.
00:17:04.000She is not a member of the lower classes in the United States, gang.
00:17:08.000Bernie Sanders is a millionaire who owns three homes.
00:17:11.000AOC is not a member of the blue-collar working class any longer.
00:17:14.000Okay, so AOC shows up to the Met Gala to hobnob with the rich and famous.
00:17:19.000Now notice, again, this is cosplaying the revolution.
00:17:21.000She isn't outside yelling at the people going into the Met Gala that they need to be taxed more.
00:17:26.000She's not outside telling them that they should be giving all of the money, not to the Metropolitan Museum of Fashion, but to actual poor people.
00:17:34.000Because let me tell you something, if you donate to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that money ain't going to the poor.
00:17:40.000Instead, the idea here is that she is, she's a heroine.
00:17:43.000It's iconic, according to reporters for Rolling Stone.
00:18:28.000I noticed a lot of these people are not big on actually the giving of the charity or the signing of larger checks to the federal government, I've noticed.
00:18:35.000But AOC decides to show up and she's going to shame them!
00:18:39.000And they all look deeply ashamed, right?
00:18:41.000They all look as though they have been just slapped in the face with a wet fish.
00:18:44.000Or, alternatively, they know that she's just part of the game.
00:18:49.000Because again, Robespierre didn't show up at Versailles wearing a culot that said, kill the monarchs.
00:19:28.000I didn't see this piece of work at the Met Gala.
00:19:30.000There she was, the mech ally hobnobbing with all of her fashionable friends, standing up to the patriarchy, standing up to capitalism with all of these beneficiaries of capitalism, who are dancing with the mask of the Red Death at the ball that protects them from being part of the rest of the pandemic.
00:19:47.000It is galling to say the least, for sure.
00:19:51.000Now, I guess the dress designer was Aurora James, and she went with her dress designer, And she discussed what it means to be working class women of color at the Met.
00:20:08.000She was sitting in her kitchen, doing an Instagram post about how to make a smoothie.
00:20:12.000And she looked over into the fire and she just began sifting through the ashes for a potato, a crumb to eat.
00:20:20.000And that's when they began calling her AOCinderella.
00:20:24.000And Eo Cinderella then had Billy Porter arrive as the fairy godmother and grant her her wish, which was to go to the ball with all of the special people wearing a dress that said on the back, tax the rich.
00:21:01.000When Aurora and I were first kind of partnered, we really started having a conversation about what it means to be working class women of color at the Met.
00:21:33.000We're standing outside with a sign saying, give all the money to the poor.
00:21:36.000You're inside, after having been gifted, given a seat by the Met and partnered with Aurora James, who apparently is the creative director and founder of a luxury accessories brand called Brother Vellies, which by the way, I should know.
00:21:49.000Brother Vellies, I'm just gonna read you some of the prices from their website.
00:21:53.000Okay, the Brother Vellies products, Um, I'm gonna just look at their, at their, their shoes right now.
00:22:01.000Okay, they have a Trist sandal for $285.
00:22:07.000They have socks for $35 a pair, which seems kind of expensive for socks, I will note.
00:22:12.000She has shoes called the Beirut Slide for $615.
00:22:14.000But Aurora, these are working class women of color, fighting back against capitalism and the patriarchy.
00:22:22.000So, in a second, I'm gonna explain why all of this matters, because it really does.
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00:23:41.000Why does AOC and all this, why is this important?
00:23:44.000The reason it's important is because the same people who call for tearing down the systems are the beneficiaries of the system.
00:23:50.000If you're gonna do something like the Met Gala, it should be a celebration of capitalism.
00:23:54.000Because frankly, that's what makes all of this possible.
00:23:56.000It should be a celebration of free markets, and competition, and creativity, and entrepreneurship.
00:24:01.000Which is really what is happening at the Met Gala.
00:24:03.000Instead, it's a bunch of masturbatory idiots talking about how terrible are the systems under which we live, while simultaneously living the highest on the hog it is possible to live, and making mockeries of themselves in the process.
00:24:28.000Okay, the political stance is not some sort of deeply rooted belief system for a lot of these folks.
00:24:32.000It is not about what they believe in their heart of hearts because they are willing to shed that in order to go to a cocktail party with all the famous folks.
00:24:39.000What it is really about more than anything All of the radical left's most ardent proposals are AOC's dress.
00:24:47.000They are all expensive dresses, built on the back of an incredibly prosperous system, saying, tax the rich.
00:24:56.000All it is, is I'm a good person because, like, I'd be a bad—AOC would be a bad person if she'd just gone to the Met Gala and didn't say, tax the rich on the back.
00:25:02.000But it did say, tax the rich on the back, so now she's a good person.
00:25:07.000Carole Delevingne, wearing a stupid bib that probably cost a couple thousand dollars, wearing, if it hadn't said anything, we would just think, look at these decadent idiot celebrities.
00:25:16.000But, but, she had embroidered on it, peg the patriarchy, and that means that she is a morally praiseworthy person.
00:25:25.000Megan Rapinoe would just be a whiny soccer player, playing a sport that very few people watch except once every four years when the media decide it's important.
00:25:33.000And then whining about a salary contract that she herself signed.
00:25:37.000Except for the fact that she walks around talking about how victimized she is in American society and how the institutions are bad.
00:25:45.000The greatest grift in America is living on the back of the greatest system ever put to paper, and then talking about what a victim you are while living high on that system.
00:25:55.000It is the most amazing grift I've ever seen, and so many of our politicians do it.
00:25:59.000This is Joe Biden, who has never taken a private sector paycheck.
00:26:15.000And here he is talking about the evils of the system that have made him worth millions and millions of dollars.
00:26:22.000Hey, and by the way, that system, the political patronage system that made him millions and millions of dollars because that's why he's rich.
00:26:28.000See, there's a difference between politicians who are rich before and then go into politics and people who are not rich and then became rich because they were politicians like Joe Biden, which is kind of despicable.
00:26:38.000The amazing spectacle in the United States of people who...
00:27:14.000You don't see the deep roots of evil in the system.
00:27:17.000Well, you know, getting $10 million checks from Jack Dorsey over at Twitter.
00:27:22.000And running a center for anti-racism research that to date has produced zero research at Boston University.
00:27:27.000You're just a person who runs a business and tries to make sure that your employees have money to take home and you try to put food on the table for your kids and maybe you try to service your customers.
00:27:37.000But you don't stand up against the institutions, which means that you're bad and you're stupid.
00:27:55.000What that really means is that we are just supposed to ignore everything they actually do on the ground in favor of the proposition that you are bad and you are morally blameworthy.
00:28:16.000If they actually caught the car, they wouldn't know what to do with it.
00:28:20.000Really, if Tom Ford and Timothee Chalamet and AOC, if they ever caught the car and they instituted the socialist revolution that they apparently so ardently seek, they might be quite unhappy with the results.
00:28:34.000The most ardent communists in the United States have never lived under communism, and the most ardent capitalists in the United States have.
00:28:40.000There's a reason that Cuban expatriates come to the United States and they understand the evils of communism, while all the communists in the United States were born in the United States and went to our top universities.
00:28:50.000And again, it comes down to the way that they are going to re-instill, reinforce their own sense of moral superiority is to crap on you.
00:29:02.000And it comes out in everything they do.
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00:30:54.000It's affecting all of us because when you have the federal government override federalism and decide that they are simply going to cram down rules on the little people, that is wrong.
00:31:02.000We're going to talk about it tonight on an all-new episode of Backstage with me, Jeremy Boring, Michael Molls, Matt Walsh, and Andrew Clavin.
00:31:08.000I'm sure the Met Gala will come up as well.
00:31:39.000It came from Americans looking at stuff like this and just saying, you're declaring yourselves our moral betters?
00:31:44.000Here is a giant orange pulsating middle finger to you.
00:31:48.000And by the way, here's a person who's unrepentantly capitalist.
00:31:51.000By the way, that's still the part of Trump that I actually find charming and always found charming, was the fact that Trump was like, yeah, I'm a capitalist, and guess what?
00:32:01.000But again, for all of these folks, once they have declared themselves the morally fit and you the unfit, it doesn't matter whether the policies that they are actually in charge of.
00:32:09.000Now, AOC, remember, is a congresswoman.
00:32:46.000It doesn't really matter if a few little people lose their jobs.
00:32:48.000Overall, there will be job gains because then all of the vaccinated will feel comfortable to go back to work and we can reopen the economy if we do these vaccine mandates.
00:32:56.000But you lost your job because you had natural immunity and didn't want to get the vaccine.
00:32:59.000Well, tough beans for you because we are the elect.
00:33:03.000Are you concerned at all this could have a worse impact on the worker shortage we currently have?
00:34:32.000And the reason we know you're good is not because of your policies.
00:34:35.000Not because your policies are actually good, or right, or fair, or rights-based.
00:34:40.000No, it's because you're a good person.
00:34:41.000And we know you're a good person because of who you are in opposition to.
00:34:45.000And consistency is of little consequence here.
00:34:48.000You can switch your position at random.
00:34:51.000Because once you are a member of the elect, Then there's nothing you can do that gets you kicked out of the elect except to sympathize with the unelect.
00:35:01.000Right, so for example, yesterday, the great and sainted Dr. Fauci, second best doctor in America after Dr. Joe Biden, he came out and he said he's now for mandates when it comes to air travel.
00:35:11.000Now, this is completely anti-scientific.
00:35:13.000Air travel has not been a vector of disease this entire time.
00:35:17.000They have HIPAA filters on the planes.
00:35:19.000Even at the beginning of the pandemic, when there were no vaccines available, There was very little transmission on planes.
00:35:24.000In fact, you were safer on a plane than you were in pretty much any other area because of the ventilation.
00:35:31.000The CDC has an entire report where they said, we were surprised to learn that planes really were not being used as vectors of transmission.
00:35:37.000Now you have Anthony Fauci basically saying, we want to ban an entire group of people in the United States from being able to fly and travel.
00:35:42.000They're basically, we want to put you on a no-fly list, like you're a terrorist, if you won't get vaccinated.
00:35:54.000Kamala Harris tweeted this out yesterday.
00:35:56.000Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, actually tweeted out, by vaccinating the unvaccinated, increasing our testing and masking, and protecting the vaccinated.
00:37:22.000I know that you don't get as much exercise as you should.
00:37:26.000That's Dr. Anthony Fauci, Circuit 2019.
00:37:28.000But now, to be a member of the elect, you have to do what Dr. Anthony Fauci says, even in direct contradiction to- It is amazing, by the way.
00:37:34.000We've gone this entire pandemic, and there's been no systematic discussion of whether Americans should exercise.
00:37:52.000That does not mean there aren't people who struggle with it, but there are a lot of people who are not doing their exercise and not eating healthy.
00:37:58.000That is just a reality in the United States.
00:37:59.000Whenever people talk about the health gaps in the United States versus Scandinavia, it's because we're way fatter than Scandinavia.
00:38:04.000It's not because our medical system sucks.
00:38:06.000It's because our medical system can't fix the fact that many of us are gigantic.
00:38:13.000But again, Anthony Fauci is a member of the elect, so you have to listen to him.
00:38:17.000And if you don't listen to him, then you are cast into the outer darkness.
00:38:20.000And now they're making it more and more radical, right?
00:38:22.000Zeke Emanuel says you'll be cast into the outer darkness if you don't want to mask or vaccinate your small children.
00:38:28.000Now, again, I'm wondering where, like, there better be some pretty exorbitant data on the lack of risk to children from this vaccine, because the lack of risk from COVID is well substantiated at this point.
00:38:38.000In the United States, the number of children under the age of 18 who have died in the United States from COVID is 412 over the course of a year and a half during this pandemic, as opposed to well over 950 who've died from pneumonia in that same exact period of time.
00:38:50.000Here is Zeke Emanuel, however, saying we need to actually mandate that small school children get the vaccine.
00:38:57.000Only 40% of those kids, 12 to 15, have gotten fully vaccinated.
00:39:01.000We really need that number to go way up.
00:39:04.000Just to give you a contrast, adults between 65 and 75, who were so threatened before, 85% of them are vaccinated.
00:39:12.000We need to really mandate, I think, 12 to 15-year-olds to get the vaccine all across the country.
00:39:19.000Okay, what he's saying, he just compared vaccination rates among 12 to 15-year-olds, for whom we are talking about maybe a few dozen deaths, Everyone terrible, but a few dozen deaths over the course of a year and a half.
00:39:29.000He's comparing that to people and their rates, 65 and older, which is everyone who died in the United States.
00:39:36.000It's a disease that heavily skews toward killing the elderly.
00:39:40.000Meanwhile, the administration, again, contra the science, is saying that everybody should get boosters.
00:39:46.000The CDC and the WHO are both like, yeah, we're not seeing it, guys.
00:39:50.000Like, we looked at the data, and what we are saying is that the vaccination had 95% effectiveness against severe disease from both Delta and Alpha, more than 80% effectiveness in protecting against infection from those variants.
00:40:03.000They noted that waning antibody levels don't necessarily correlate with a decrease in effectiveness against severe disease because you got T cell and B cell immunity, right?
00:40:12.000Boosters may eventually be needed, say the scientists, but there could be risks if boosters were widely introduced too soon or too frequently.
00:40:18.000Because it might create adverse reactions when you do too many shots too fast.
00:40:23.000And yet the Biden administration is rushing forward with this sort of stuff.
00:40:27.000And apparently if you note any of this, then you will be cast into the outer darkness.
00:40:56.000It's whether you are oriented against the institutions of the country and are therefore part of the revolutionary vanguard while benefiting from it, or if you're not.
00:41:08.000I mean, there's a poll that just came out, a Scott Rasmussen National Survey, and this is backed by other data.
00:41:14.000I mean, Kirsten Soltis-Anderson did a poll last year, basically finding the same thing.
00:41:18.000And what this poll found is that 57% of Democratic voters believe that supporters of Donald Trump are a serious threat to the nation.
00:41:27.000So they literally believe that half of their fellow Americans are a serious threat to the nation itself.
00:41:32.000That is as opposed to, say, the Taliban.
00:41:36.000Only 44% of Democrats believe that the Taliban are a threat to the country, or believe that China is a threat to the country, or believe that defund-the-police activists are a threat to the country.
00:41:47.00056% of Democrats believed unvaccinated Americans are a threat to the country.
00:41:52.000Again, once you're vaccinated, they're not a threat to you.
00:41:56.000Only 37% believe that Russia is a threat to the country.
00:42:00.000Fully 57% believe that Donald Trump supporters are a threat to the country.
00:42:06.000Now, if you look at how non-identifying voters rank these issues in terms of who they think is a threat to the country, not GOP, not Dem, in this poll, The top threats, according to the independent voters, are, in order, Taliban, China, defund the police activists, unvaccinated Americans, Russia, Donald Trump supporters, illegal immigrants, and socialists.
00:42:30.000And Trump supporters and socialists are basically on par with one another, according to sort of independent voters.
00:42:36.000Okay, but when you take a large percentage of the country, 40% of the country, and you say, what makes you good or what makes you bad is your agreement with my dumb slogan on the back of my dress and anything that we say together that is oriented against this other group of people who don't care if they lose their jobs, they're the baddies.
00:42:51.000Then what you end up with is a country that is broken beyond repair.
00:42:55.000And it's not a shock that you're going to end up with the sorting mechanism that you've seen in terms of American population movements.
00:43:00.000It is not a shock that you've seen people like me and my family move from California to Florida.
00:43:05.000Because who wants to live in an area where your neighbors look at you cross-eyed because you voted a way that didn't want you to vote?
00:43:12.000Or because you live a lifestyle they don't want you to live?
00:43:16.000And so what you're gonna end up with, because of the culture war stuff, it is all culture war all the way down.
00:43:21.000Donald Trump was not elected because of his economic program.
00:43:24.000Donald Trump was not elected because of his foreign policy program.
00:43:27.000No one could name what those programs were in 2016.
00:43:29.000He was elected because Donald Trump was a giant F.U.
00:43:33.000to this entire group of people who say that anyone who disagrees with them is part of the damned and are going straight to hell.
00:43:41.000There is a paganistic religious perspective and what you see at the Met Gala every single year is the pagan priesthood at work.
00:43:48.000And if you can't see that, that is why it's amazing because I think the independent voter, the Republican voter, they look at Democrats and like, I don't understand why people are treating Joe Biden or treating this administration or treating Barack Obama for that matter, treating these people like they're good at what they do.
00:44:05.000Like who looks at the way that these folks handle the issues and thinks to themselves, those people need more control over my life.
00:44:49.000And Solomon says, my solution is I'm gonna cut the baby in half.
00:44:53.000And the woman whose baby died says, fine.
00:44:55.000And the woman whose baby lived says, no, I don't care whether or not this is, it doesn't matter to me if she, I'd rather she have the baby than that the baby die.
00:45:04.000And Solomon immediately says, okay, you're obviously the mother because you care whether the baby lives or dies.
00:45:10.000Understand that for the radicals in our society, the destruction is the point.
00:45:13.000It is not about what it is replaced with.
00:45:15.000And it is not about destruction of the system.
00:45:18.000It is about destruction of people who do not think like they do.
00:45:20.000They don't care if they have to take the hit in New York by vaccinating, by vaccine mandates, and you gotta take a vaccine to get on a plane, because it doesn't affect them.
00:45:44.000What they care about most deeply is their continuing sense of moral superiority and your continued feeling of moral inferiority.
00:45:52.000And if they can elect somebody who is going to bang on all of the people they hate most, then all the rest of it They can go to whatever fancy cocktail parties they want and be as hypocritical as they want.
00:46:02.000They can hang out with AOC and the celebs at whatever Tony Ritzy gala they want to go to.
00:46:12.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon as The Matt Wall Show, it airs at 1.30pm Eastern.
00:46:17.000Be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com.
00:46:19.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.