The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Ain’t All There | Ep. 1150

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden does a bizarre interview with CNN, AOC releases a set of expensive t-shirts to decry capitalism, and Republicans are getting concerned over Georgia's Senate races.

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00:00:23.000 Well, you may have noticed that Joe Biden, the media ignored him like the entire election because he wasn't an important person.

00:00:29.000 He was just the not Trump person.

00:00:31.000 He just sat in his basement being Joe Biden and saying incoherent things all the time.

00:00:35.000 Well, there's only one problem.

00:00:36.000 They now think that he has been elected president-elect of the United States.

00:00:39.000 Obviously, the electors don't meet until the middle of December to certify the election forms and the election certifications from the various states and all of that.

00:00:47.000 But the media have declared that Joe Biden is the winner.

00:00:49.000 And now they are starting to ask him questions.

00:00:51.000 But there is one thing that is clear.

00:00:54.000 They don't want to ask him anything tough.

00:00:55.000 Every question for Joe Biden is going to be just some sort of massage for Joe Biden.

00:01:00.000 So last night, he did this long form interview with CNN with Kamala Harris, sitting right there, looking a lot like Kathy Bates in Misery with the hammer.

00:01:07.000 Just waiting to put the old man out of his misery.

00:01:11.000 A lot of this interview was about the dynamic between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, in which Joe Biden kind of repeatedly kept saying to her, I'm going to leave soon, Kamala.

00:01:20.000 And she was like, yes, yes, you are going to leave soon, aren't you, Joe?

00:01:24.000 And so.

00:01:26.000 The most telling moment of this interview came when Joe Biden was asked about his disagreements with Kamala Harris.

00:01:31.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:01:32.000 Kamala Harris has tried to morph herself into a decent vice presidential candidate. 1.00

00:01:37.000 The reason she has done this is because, of course, she wants the power.

00:01:39.000 She used to call Joe Biden a racist on public stages.

00:01:42.000 She did this in the middle of a debate.

00:01:43.000 She suggested he should step down after allegations of sexual harassment about Joe Biden. 0.98

00:01:48.000 And then he picked her for VP and suddenly she fell into line because she is just a craven, ambitious, terrible politician. 1.00

00:01:56.000 She's really bad at this. 0.97

00:01:57.000 And most politicians, to be fair, are craven and ambitious.

00:02:00.000 But Kamala Harris happens to be extraordinarily overt about the fact that she is craven and ambitious. 1.00

00:02:05.000 So she started mirroring all of Joe Biden's policy positions.

00:02:08.000 But this only works if Joe Biden keeps saying to her, Kamala, I'll be gone soon.

00:02:12.000 I'll be gone soon.

00:02:12.000 So last night, this is the most bizarre moment I've seen by a president, by a presidential candidate ever, maybe?

00:02:21.000 I mean, this one is so weird.

00:02:23.000 And the fact that everybody just ignored it, that this isn't a mean headline today is beyond me.

00:02:27.000 So Biden was asked about disagreeing with Kamala Harris.

00:02:30.000 And here was his response.

00:02:33.000 When we disagree, it'll be just like so far.

00:02:35.000 It's been just like when Barack and I did.

00:02:37.000 It's in private.

00:02:38.000 She'll say, I think we should do A, B, C, or D. And I'll say, I like A. I don't like B and C. And it's OK.

00:02:45.000 And like I told Barack, if I reach something where there's a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I'll develop some disease and say I have to resign.

00:03:00.000 What?

00:03:00.000 Now?

00:03:01.000 Huh?

00:03:02.000 Okay, now it's one thing for him to say that to Barack Obama, that he would find a way to resign if he had a fundamental disagreement with Barack Obama.

00:03:10.000 He's the one at the top of the ticket.

00:03:11.000 Kamala Harris works for him.

00:03:14.000 So is the basic idea here that if he disagrees with Kamala Harris, that he's going to develop a disease and resign?

00:03:19.000 Like, does he even know what he's saying?

00:03:21.000 I mean, this is the question.

00:03:22.000 Is he incoherent or is he actually saying, like, if I disagree with Kamala Harris, I guess I'm going to make my way out that door right there because I've fulfilled my lifetime goal of entering the White House in the first place.

00:03:32.000 It's pretty radical stuff.

00:03:34.000 It's like, that's kind of amazing because everybody knows that he's not serving two terms, right?

00:03:39.000 I mean, this was sort of the foregone conclusion beforehand.

00:03:41.000 We were supposed to ignore all of that.

00:03:42.000 We're supposed to ignore the fact that he is not going to be a bulwark against the radical left.

00:03:47.000 That, at best, he is a temporary stopgap for mainstream Democrats against the radical left.

00:03:53.000 But he's probably not even that, because he is still caving to many of the sort of intersectional, woke narratives that the radical left would want.

00:04:02.000 See, there's something you have to understand about the Democratic Party.

00:04:04.000 It used to be the Democratic Party was a party that was interested in broadcasting, in the sense of like TV broadcasting.

00:04:08.000 They were interested in broadcasting, like attempting to propagate a message that was going to win a majority of American voters, right?

00:04:15.000 This was their thing.

00:04:16.000 They were going to put out a message about broader progressive values and bigger governments all across the land.

00:04:22.000 Then in 2012, Barack Obama shifted how politics was done inside the Democratic Party.

00:04:27.000 In 2012, Barack Obama lost about three and a half million votes from his performance in 2008.

00:04:32.000 He had done a terrible job as president.

00:04:33.000 The economy was stagnant.

00:04:34.000 He had gotten us in a lot of hot water on foreign policy.

00:04:37.000 He had led to the rise of ISIS already.

00:04:39.000 He had pulled out precipitously from Iraq.

00:04:41.000 He was making overtures to Vladimir Putin.

00:04:44.000 And he had to come up with some explanation as to why his policies were so unpopular.

00:04:48.000 And the explanation that Barack Obama came up with in 2010-2011 was one that fit with his generalized worldview, which is if people did not like Barack Obama's policies, it was because they hated him personally.

00:04:58.000 Now, there have been references to this in 2008, when Barack Obama had suggested that the reason people didn't like him is because I have a funny name and I look different than the other guys on the dollar bill.

00:05:07.000 Well, in the 2012 election, he brought that out like full force.

00:05:10.000 He said, we are not going to bother broadcasting.

00:05:12.000 Instead, we are going to narrowcast.

00:05:14.000 Instead of attempting to put out a broad message that maybe people will resonate to, we are going to go in and group by group, we are going to cobble together an intersectional coalition.

00:05:24.000 And that intersectional coalition will be a minority-majority coalition that's going to be largely driven by extensive voter turnout from minority groups.

00:05:32.000 And it worked!

00:05:33.000 He won about 80% of the non-white vote in 2012, and he got the same percentage of the white vote Barack Obama did in 2012 that Michael Dukakis got in 1988 when he lost about 87 states.

00:05:43.000 So Democrats were seduced by that vision.

00:05:45.000 to the difference in demographics in the United States, Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney going away in that election, even after losing three and a half million votes.

00:05:52.000 Okay, so Democrats were seduced by that vision.

00:05:53.000 They were seduced by the vision that Barack Obama's coalition was capable of imitation.

00:06:00.000 And Joe Biden has run a very similar sort of campaign to Barack Obama in the sense that he was making overt plays for particular minority groups, an intersectional coalition.

00:06:11.000 Now, what unified the intersectional coalition of Barack Obama were two things.

00:06:15.000 One, Barack Obama's personal Appeal.

00:06:17.000 The man was charismatic.

00:06:19.000 He also happened to be the first black president, which means that he got extraordinary black turnout in 2012.

00:06:23.000 In fact, increased black turnout in places like Ohio basically meant that he won the election, as opposed to losing the election to Mitt Romney.

00:06:30.000 If the black turnout in 2012 had been the same as the black turnout in 2004, for example, then Mitt Romney would have been elected president in all likelihood.

00:06:38.000 Okay, so Barack Obama in 2012.

00:06:41.000 He was able to turn people out because of his unique personal appeal, and also because he directed everybody against the Republicans by unifying them and saying the Republicans were going to take you back to the 50s, right?

00:06:51.000 This was his pitch to the intersectional coalition.

00:06:53.000 If you're gay, Republicans want to take away your ability to live with somebody who you love. 0.98

00:06:58.000 If you are black, they're going to put you all back in chains, as Joe Biden himself said in 2012. 0.98

00:07:02.000 If you're Latino, Republicans are going to reinitiate Eisenhower's Operation Wetback, that was the name of the national operation, and deport everybody in the United States who's an illegal immigrant. 0.97

00:07:11.000 And Obama sort of passed out goodies to various interest groups, and he cobbled together this coalition, and his slogan was forward.

00:07:16.000 We're moving forward from the evil vision of the Republicans of the 1950s and the 1980s.

00:07:21.000 And Mitt Romney has returned to the past.

00:07:23.000 Okay, in 2020, Joe Biden ran a fairly similar campaign, except that instead of saying that he was running against somebody who wanted to bring us back to the 1950s, he said, I'm running against somebody who wants to bring you back to the 1850s.

00:07:34.000 He suggested that Donald Trump was the worst person who has ever been and whoever will be.

00:07:38.000 And he cobbled together this intersectional coalition of anti-Trump people.

00:07:41.000 Now the problem is, the only way that you can continue to maintain that coalition is by maintaining those intersectional priorities.

00:07:47.000 You have to get more and more radical with each element of the intersectional coalition.

00:07:52.000 And the real problem is that where Barack Obama could unite that intersectional coalition through sheer force of personality, Joe Biden doesn't have any ability to do so.

00:07:59.000 So he is going to be forced to parcel out approval to a variety of these sort of smaller interest groups that he's glomming together in order to create his coalition.

00:08:09.000 In other words, he doesn't run the coalition the way that Obama does.

00:08:11.000 The coalition runs him.

00:08:12.000 We're going to get to that in just one second.

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00:09:45.000 Okay, so Joe Biden is run by his intersectional coalition.

00:09:50.000 And he thinks that the way that he's going to be able to please the intersectional coalition is by putting a few token faces in place.

00:09:57.000 Okay, that is the kind of... When I say token, I'm not saying that because I think that you should select people based on race.

00:10:03.000 I'm saying that because that's what Joe Biden believes.

00:10:05.000 Democrats believe this. 0.76

00:10:06.000 There's a whole line of thought inside the Democratic Party that he has to have a certain number of black people, Hispanic people, Asian people, gay people inside his cabinet.

00:10:13.000 That somehow, this quote-unquote represents America.

00:10:16.000 Now last I checked, what represents America is a diversity of viewpoint because Americans disagree on a wide variety of issues.

00:10:22.000 And also what represents America is the belief that individuals are more than simply their race or their ethnicity or their sexual orientation, but not according to Joe Biden.

00:10:31.000 So Joe Biden, during the CNN interview last night, he says he's going to make sure that his cabinet looks like America, which I presume means that it's going to be 50% male and 72% white, right?

00:10:41.000 I mean, or not, maybe not.

00:10:43.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:10:45.000 This is going to be an incredibly diverse.

00:10:47.000 I'm going to keep my commitment that the administration, both in the White House and outside in the cabinet, is going to look like the country.

00:10:56.000 Every advocacy group out there is pushing for more and more and more of what they want.

00:11:01.000 That's their job.

00:11:03.000 My job is to keep my commitment to make the decisions.

00:11:06.000 And when it's all over, people will take a look and say, I promise you, you'll see the most diverse cabinet representative of all folks.

00:11:14.000 Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ, across the board.

00:11:21.000 OK, so he says, you hear him say it right there.

00:11:24.000 The coalition is going to come to me and they're going to say they want things.

00:11:26.000 And then I'm just going to give it to them.

00:11:28.000 I'm just going to give them whatever they want.

00:11:30.000 And that is the hope for the Democratic Party, is that they can put together this sort of progressive slash racially based coalition. 0.81

00:11:37.000 This new emergent majority, and that they're going to paper over all of it with the veneer of progressivism.

00:11:43.000 That's going to be the glue that holds it together.

00:11:46.000 That ain't going to hold it together, because the problem is there's some pretty significant cross-cutting tensions inside that coalition.

00:11:51.000 Those are cross-cutting tensions that, by the way, were starting to fissure even during this election cycle.

00:11:57.000 One of the reasons that Donald Trump won an increased share of the Hispanic vote is because the radical progressives inside the Democratic Party were pushing for things a lot of Hispanics didn't like.

00:12:07.000 I would suggest that it also has something to do with the fact that the Democratic Party decided in this election cycle that because they wanted additional black turnout, they were going to solely and completely focus on black voters in a way that they didn't in 2012.

00:12:18.000 There were complaints in 2012 when Barack Obama put together the intersectional coalition that he was pleasing every element of the coalition except for black Americans.

00:12:25.000 There are articles in CNN about this.

00:12:27.000 The article suggested that he was giving DACA to Latinos, and he was giving same-sex marriage to gay Americans, and that he was pushing forward policies for women, but he was basically ignoring black Americans and taking them for granted.

00:12:38.000 And it didn't hurt him at all, because, of course, Barack Obama was the first black president, and in his very personage, there was an idea that he was going to serve the interests of black Americans particularly.

00:12:48.000 Again, this is not me saying this.

00:12:49.000 These are articles at CNN in 2012 talking about this.

00:12:53.000 Joe Biden doesn't have the same ability to do that, obviously.

00:12:55.000 There's no reason that black Americans should think that Joe Biden is going to stand for them any more than any of the other candidates on that stage, except that he was once hanging out with Barack Obama through sheer charity of Barack Obama.

00:13:06.000 And so that means that in this election cycle, he went out of his way to attempt to paper over, for example, the violence and looting associated with Black Lives Matter rioting.

00:13:16.000 It meant that he denounced his own crime bill from 1994.

00:13:20.000 It meant that he picked Kamala Harris, right?

00:13:22.000 All of this was designed specifically in order to cater to the black voting base and turn them out at a higher rate.

00:13:28.000 Well, a lot of Latinos probably looked at that and said, well, what about us?

00:13:31.000 Like, why is it that you are catering to certain members of the intersectional coalition and not other members of the intersectional coalition?

00:13:37.000 There are a lot of tensions roiling under the surface of this democratic coalition that was, for just a brief moment, united by anti-Trump sentiment.

00:13:44.000 And I can't imagine that that coalition is going to last the long term.

00:13:48.000 But Biden's strategy is that he's going to continue to try to paper over all of those divisions with that veneer of progressivism.

00:13:55.000 So he's wrapping everything up into a ball.

00:13:58.000 This is the goal.

00:13:58.000 The goal is to wrap everything up into a ball.

00:14:00.000 Racial justice, meaning the intersectional priorities.

00:14:03.000 Racial justice is the same thing as sexual justice, is the same thing as climate change, is the same thing as economic progressivism, is the same thing as COVID policy.

00:14:12.000 Now, for just a minute, if you think about that, it makes no sense.

00:14:16.000 It is a fact of the matter that various members of the intersectional coalition I have very different views about these issues.

00:14:21.000 So, for example, if you're black, why in the world would you be in favor of illegal immigration?

00:14:25.000 That makes a lot of sense, right?

00:14:27.000 I mean, particularly if you're talking about blue-collar black workers, many of whom are working in the same industries in which illegal immigrants are coming in and taking jobs, why exactly would you be in favor of an illegal immigrant, a pro-illegal immigration policy from Joe Biden?

00:14:43.000 You wouldn't be.

00:14:44.000 But the goal of the Democrats is to obscure all divisions by directing everybody towards some sort of progressive utopia.

00:14:49.000 I don't think that's going to work.

00:14:51.000 And I think Joe Biden fears that's not going to work.

00:14:53.000 So here is Joe Biden trying to pull this sleight of hand, this bit of verbal leisure domain.

00:14:57.000 This is clip eight, talking about how all of these crises are the same.

00:15:00.000 They all serve the same purpose.

00:15:02.000 This isn't going to work.

00:15:03.000 It isn't.

00:15:05.000 The irony is we have four crises.

00:15:08.000 The first crisis is COVID.

00:15:10.000 Second is the economic close to recession and maybe worse.

00:15:14.000 The third crisis is the inequity that exists and the racial inequity exists.

00:15:20.000 And the fourth crisis is climate.

00:15:22.000 Ironically, they all work for one another.

00:15:25.000 The first time the American people looked out there and said, my lord, I guess all those things I heard about, and even though I don't live in neighborhoods that have large black populations, I didn't realize police actually do those kind of things like I saw with George Floyd.

00:15:40.000 OK, so again, he's trying to say that everybody is on the same page.

00:15:42.000 There is only one problem here.

00:15:44.000 Not everybody is on the same page and kind of everybody inside the coalition knows it.

00:15:47.000 So what you're going to get with Joe Biden and with Kamala Harris is an extraordinary amount of jockeying inside the Democratic coalition.

00:15:55.000 You're going to get the Democratic Party basically riven from within.

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00:16:01.000 And you can see it already happening in the form of the battle that is now taking place between the illustrious, honorable representative, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, debartending.

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00:17:28.000 Okay, so.

00:17:29.000 All of the coalitional politics of the Biden coalition are about to break out into the open.

00:17:35.000 And we've already started to see this with the battle between Senator Joe Manchin and the illustrious representative, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, D-Twitch.

00:17:43.000 I don't call her AOC because I've been informed that that's not nice, even though her actual Twitter handle is AOC, and even though she puts the initials AOC on her own brand of clothing, as we'll discuss in just one moment.

00:17:53.000 So, Senator Joe Manchin in the Senate, much more powerful, much more important figure than Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:17:59.000 The Alexander Ocasio-Cortez Justice Democrats, that is not a large-scale group of people inside the House of Representatives.

00:18:06.000 It takes up an enormous amount of mental energy from the media because the media fapped to it, but that is not because they are actually extending any sort of power inside the House.

00:18:16.000 They don't have that much power inside the House.

00:18:18.000 The number of Justice Democrats, or people who are associated with the Justice Democrats, I believe it's under a dozen members of the House right now.

00:18:25.000 And she has not pushed forward any major legislation to any real effect.

00:18:28.000 She's built no coalitions.

00:18:30.000 She's launched primaries against people. 1.00

00:18:31.000 And sometimes those primaries have been successful for her.

00:18:34.000 More often, they have not.

00:18:35.000 Very often, she has gotten candidates to a level of unsuccess that is absolutely stunning.

00:18:42.000 Moderate Democrats have done better across the country, particularly in purple races, than any of the Justice Democrat-backed candidates.

00:18:47.000 In any case, Senator Joe Manchin, last week, he took a jab at AOC's abilities as a lawmaker, according to the New York Post, describing her as, quote-unquote, more active on Twitter than anything else.

00:18:57.000 Which, of course, is 100% true.

00:18:59.000 Manchin was specifically responding to AOC posting a photo to Twitter last month, in which she could be seen staring daggers at the West Virginia Senator as he looked away.

00:19:06.000 And Manchin said, quote, I guess she put the dagger stare on me.

00:19:09.000 I don't know, the young lady, I really don't.

00:19:11.000 I never met her.

00:19:12.000 I'm understanding she's not that active with her bills or in committee.

00:19:14.000 She's more active on Twitter than anywhere else.

00:19:16.000 We're not going to defund the police.

00:19:17.000 We're not for the Green New Deal.

00:19:18.000 That's not going to happen.

00:19:19.000 We're not for Medicare for All.

00:19:20.000 We can't even pay for Medicare for Some.

00:19:23.000 And this, of course, ticked off AOC.

00:19:26.000 A spokesperson for AOC then told the New York Post, the congresswoman had submitted more amendments than 90% of other freshman lawmakers.

00:19:32.000 Wow!

00:19:32.000 Amendments!

00:19:34.000 Well then.

00:19:35.000 That's definitely coalition building.

00:19:37.000 By the way, submitting an amendment just means that you basically go to House leadership and you're like, I'd like to add this to the bill.

00:19:41.000 And House leadership says, no, that's crazy.

00:19:43.000 And then you go back to your office.

00:19:45.000 The spokeswoman also noted that Ocasio-Cortez had missed fewer votes than Manchin.

00:19:50.000 AOC spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said the Congresswoman has earned a reputation as a tough, prepared member in committee hearings. 0.77

00:19:55.000 Hmm.

00:19:55.000 Okay.

00:19:58.000 Also, he is not, Manchin is not the first person to go after her, obviously.

00:20:02.000 Very quickly after the election, Abigail Spanberger suggested that they defund the police sloganeering that was being pushed by people like the Honorable Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

00:20:12.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez had basically nearly cost Democrats the House, nearly cost Spanberger her Congressional seat because they were pushing radical insanities like defund the police. 1.00

00:20:24.000 Well now, she is firing back. 0.99

00:20:26.000 So she tweeted back at Joe Manchin, quote, I find it amusing when politicians try to diminish the seriousness of our policy work, movement organizing, and grassroots fundraisings.

00:20:35.000 She just tweets, as though serious politics is only done by begging corporate CEOs for money through wax-sealed envelopes delivered by Raven.

00:20:42.000 Okay, so, yeah, that's exactly what he's saying.

00:20:47.000 Mm-hmm.

00:20:48.000 He's not saying that your economic proposals are completely useless and going nowhere.

00:20:52.000 He is saying that he's really mad that you used the interwebs, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:20:56.000 But here is the thing.

00:20:58.000 The momentum is not with Joe Manchin.

00:21:00.000 The momentum is not with Joe Manchin.

00:21:02.000 And should the Alexander Ocasio-Cortez wing of the Democratic Party gain ascendancy?

00:21:06.000 Which, again, they have in the media.

00:21:09.000 I would not be surprised to see somebody like Joe Manchin, who I believe is up for re-election in 2022, switch parties in the same way that there was a senator named Jim Jeffords from, I believe, New Hampshire, way back in the day, who switched parties.

00:21:21.000 You could see that happening because West Virginia is a very red state.

00:21:26.000 Alexander Ocasio-Cortez doesn't care about any of that because she is into the posturing and she is part of the intersectional coalition.

00:21:33.000 And the problem for the Democrats, again, is that there is no energy for Joe Biden per se.

00:21:38.000 All of the energy inside the Democratic caucus is not coming from the policy-minded progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

00:21:45.000 It is coming from the intersectional identity politics coalitional wing of the Democratic Party.

00:21:50.000 Those are the people who they need agitated.

00:21:52.000 Those are the people the Democrats need roiled.

00:21:54.000 They want to channel that energy. 0.74

00:21:57.000 Now, I will say that Manchin's critique of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it seems somewhat accurate in light of the fact that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does spend most of her time on social media.

00:22:07.000 Now, here's the thing about spending time on social media.

00:22:10.000 I also spend a lot of time on social media.

00:22:11.000 I also am not an elected congressperson.

00:22:13.000 I'm a political commentator.

00:22:14.000 That's literally my job.

00:22:16.000 Her job may involve some of the tweeting, but every once in a while you would assume that she would want to actually hold a meeting with people to push legislation, but that's not something she's interested in. 0.98

00:22:24.000 Instead, apparently she's interested, again, in making a quick buck for her campaign off of rubes, off of suckers. 1.00

00:22:32.000 Politics is such a, it is such a dirty con game. 0.99

00:22:35.000 It really is.

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00:22:43.000 or providing you with a service or good that you enjoy, but simply off of making you promises that are unfulfillable and then getting you to become billboards for them.

00:22:51.000 I'll get to Alexander Ocasio-Cortez's t-shirts in just one moment because it's pretty spectacular.

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00:24:09.000 Okay, so I have to point out what was, you know, it is the greatest indicator of the unworkability of the Democratic coalition.

00:24:17.000 That Alexander Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Manchin are expected to occupy the same space.

00:24:21.000 And in fact, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez has said this.

00:24:23.000 She has said, I don't understand why Joe Manchin and I are part of the same party.

00:24:27.000 Nobody does.

00:24:28.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:24:29.000 And when you look at the forward thinking of the Democratic Party, it doesn't look like Joe Biden.

00:24:35.000 It doesn't look like Joe Manchin.

00:24:37.000 It looks like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. 0.79

00:24:39.000 Again, partially because Barack Obama put the Democratic Party on this trajectory in 2012 when he decided not to push for a broadly popular policy platform.

00:24:49.000 He instead decided to abandon that entire aspect of politics and focus in on identity groups and then empower those identity groups and empower the radicals among the identity groups with promises of glory.

00:25:00.000 That coalition would be directed against the status quo.

00:25:03.000 There were these two kind of conflicting ideas inside democratic circles for decades that have been kind of papered over because that conflict was not really, it was not available for remedy.

00:25:15.000 There was no way to rectify the breach.

00:25:17.000 One idea was that government was all powerful and could solve all your problems.

00:25:20.000 And the other was that government was racist and terrible.

00:25:24.000 and was initiated in sin, and therefore everything needed to be torn to the ground.

00:25:27.000 Barack Obama somehow squared that circle by essentially saying both, right? Government is all powerful, but only if I run it. Because you see, I am a rebel from within the system.

00:25:35.000 And because I'm the rebel from within the system, you should trust me. Well, nobody can characterize Joe Biden as the rebel from within the system, which means that he is currently standing atop a powder keg because he has emboldened all the people who want to tear down the system and simultaneously claimed that he can fix all your problems with government.

00:25:50.000 And that is not capable of being held.

00:25:53.000 That is not a gap that can be bridged. 0.93

00:25:56.000 Anyway, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she is out to make a quick buck off of her sloganeering nonsense. 1.00

00:26:03.000 So, one of the great things about capitalism is that socialists love making money off of capitalism.

00:26:07.000 Everybody loves making money off of capitalism.

00:26:10.000 So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez started pitching her new line of gear.

00:26:15.000 Now, she's a congressperson. 0.98

00:26:16.000 Like, we here at Daily Wire, we sell gear too.

00:26:19.000 For example, we have a new sweatshirt.

00:26:21.000 We have a new sweatshirt that we are going to discuss in just one second at Daily Wire.

00:26:24.000 But that's because that's what we do for a living.

00:26:26.000 And Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has her own woke store.

00:26:29.000 So, a couple of examples from the woke store for Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

00:26:35.000 So, she has a sweatshirt.

00:26:36.000 The sweatshirt says, tax the rich upon it.

00:26:41.000 Okay, and this sweatshirt, Tax the Rich, with the little AOC slogan over there.

00:26:47.000 I mean, this is a great buy for you.

00:26:50.000 Okay, it's available at the Alexander Ocasio-Cortez store.

00:26:53.000 The lady who hates capitalism and says it's exploitative and evil. 0.78

00:26:56.000 It is made in the United States.

00:26:57.000 It is union printed.

00:26:58.000 It is 100% cotton.

00:26:59.000 It is a gender neutral fit.

00:27:01.000 It says Tax the Rich.

00:27:02.000 It is $58.

00:27:02.000 $58!

00:27:02.000 $58. $58. I mean, what a deal. So you can demonstrate how much you hate capitalism by spending $58 on a sweatshirt.

00:27:13.000 Tax the rich.

00:27:14.000 The only person who can afford this is somebody who's rich.

00:27:17.000 Can you just imagine a bunch of poor people who just spent, like, half their daily salary minimum on a tax-the-rich sweatshirt to pitch AOC's brand of bullcrap?

00:27:26.000 It's amazing.

00:27:27.000 Like, good for her.

00:27:28.000 Seriously, anybody can make it in America.

00:27:29.000 It's pretty fantastic.

00:27:33.000 I did offer an alternative to the Tax the Rich sweatshirt, by the way.

00:27:36.000 We decided not to go with it.

00:27:37.000 We went with a different sweatshirt here at Daily Wire. 0.93

00:27:40.000 The one that I suggested in response to Tax the Rich was Leave Me the F*** Alone.

00:27:45.000 But we decided not to go with that one here at Daily Wire. 0.98

00:27:47.000 Instead, we went with our response, which is cheaper than AOC's garbage sweatshirt.

00:27:53.000 It says Insert Woke Slogan.

00:27:55.000 Because, I mean, we'll charge you less for that, and that way it serves all your purposes, right?

00:27:59.000 You can do all the same things that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez wants you to do, right?

00:28:02.000 You can signal your support for a basket of crappy policies. 0.53

00:28:05.000 It is also 100% cotton.

00:28:06.000 It is also made in the United States.

00:28:07.000 It is also a gender-neutral fit.

00:28:09.000 And it is cheaper than AOC's socialism sweatshirt, because it turns out that capitalism is always better than socialism.

00:28:14.000 Free markets drive down the price and increase the quality.

00:28:17.000 Tax the rich is not as good.

00:28:18.000 It's not as useful as a slogan that says, insert woke slogan.

00:28:21.000 Because see, ours, it's appropriate for any occasion.

00:28:24.000 You have this insert woke slogan sweatshirt, and then if it's Black Lives Matter today, it doesn't matter.

00:28:27.000 You don't have to change your sweatshirt.

00:28:29.000 It just counts.

00:28:30.000 If it says tax the rich today, it doesn't matter.

00:28:32.000 You can still wear the insert woke slogan sweatshirt, and you are good to go.

00:28:35.000 Okay, but I just love the fact that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, critic of the evils of capitalism, is selling on her website a $58 sweatshirt that says tax the rich. 0.97

00:28:44.000 Spectacular, spectacular stuff.

00:28:47.000 But that's not the only stuff that AOC is selling on her website.

00:28:51.000 She is also selling a t-shirt It is a t-shirt of herself.

00:28:57.000 It is an imitation of a painting called Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog.

00:29:01.000 This is a very influential romantic era painting in which it showed originally a man standing on a rock looking over a sea of fog.

00:29:10.000 And the basic idea was that enlightenment ideals could allow man to scale the heights and then survey the vistas.

00:29:15.000 So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, being her own biggest fan, has now commissioned a painting of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez standing on that same rock, looking out over a beautiful vista like the cover of the Pocahontas VHS.

00:29:29.000 And above it, it says, The Green New Deal.

00:29:32.000 That one will only cost you $27.

00:29:33.000 So you can love AOC nearly as much as AOC loves AOC for just $27.

00:29:38.000 Okay, also, she has put out a great t-shirt It's a student debt, but it's crossed out.

00:29:45.000 That's all the t-shirt is.

00:29:47.000 First of all, you could get this for like seven bucks on Amazon.

00:29:49.000 Let's just be real about that.

00:29:51.000 This is like the cheapest t-shirt in history to produce.

00:29:53.000 It's one color, it doesn't have multi-colors on it.

00:29:55.000 Any case, it's a student debt, but it's crossed out with a black line.

00:29:59.000 So instead of paying back your student debt, instead of taking that $27 and paying down your debt and being a responsible person since you voluntarily took out the debt in the first place, instead you could give AOC's campaign $27 to promote her bullcrap and never pay back your student loan debt.

00:30:15.000 Sounds awesome.

00:30:16.000 Okay, but that's not even the most expensive item in the AOC market.

00:30:20.000 Okay, the most expensive item is this extraordinary sweatshirt from Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:30:25.000 Just a wonderful sweatshirt.

00:30:27.000 Social, economic, and racial justice.

00:30:31.000 Okay, those are just words.

00:30:32.000 Thank you for that.

00:30:33.000 Social, economic, and racial justice.

00:30:35.000 AOC.

00:30:37.000 Now, all it will cost you to demonstrate how virtuous you are by wearing a sweatshirt that says social, economic, and racial justice, all it will take you is $65.

00:30:48.000 Nothing says economic justice and social justice like spending $65 on a sweatshirt.

00:30:53.000 Nothing.

00:30:54.000 That is stellar, stellar stuff.

00:30:56.000 The entitlement mentality of the very critics of capitalism who then use capitalism in order to make bucks is pretty spectacular stuff.

00:31:06.000 And the self-pitying nature of all of this is also pretty spectacular.

00:31:09.000 AOC sees herself as this messianic figure inside the Democratic Party.

00:31:12.000 She's gonna push for hope and change and Barack Obama, true fashion. 1.00

00:31:16.000 But she also really pities herself a lot.

00:31:18.000 So last night she tweeted out, the thing conservative senators don't seem to understand is I've actually had a physically difficult working class job without good health care most of my adult life.

00:31:28.000 I bring that work ethic to Congress and my community.

00:31:30.000 They sit around on leather chairs all day.

00:31:32.000 She had a tough guys because she was a waitress. 1.00

00:31:34.000 Okay, so my dad worked in a restaurant for 20 years.

00:31:39.000 20 years?

00:31:40.000 And most of the people he was friends with were waiters and waitresses.

00:31:44.000 That is, in fact, a difficult job.

00:31:46.000 And guess what?

00:31:46.000 A huge number of Republicans did not start off as senators.

00:31:49.000 Actually, you know who has been sitting in a leather chair all day since 1973?

00:31:52.000 Joe Biden.

00:31:54.000 Joe Biden was elected to Senate in 1973.

00:31:57.000 So she might want to direct her error elsewhere.

00:31:59.000 Also, quick note on AOC.

00:32:01.000 You gotta love the political incoherence of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez calling for Medicare for All. 1.00

00:32:07.000 She says she didn't have healthcare, right?

00:32:08.000 That she's had a physically difficult working class job without good healthcare most of her adult life.

00:32:13.000 Okay, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she's 31 years old.

00:32:16.000 She's 31, right?

00:32:17.000 That means that in 2010, I think her birthday, I looked this up yesterday for purposes of this tweet.

00:32:24.000 I believe that her birthday is sometime in October, I think?

00:32:28.000 So she is 31 years old.

00:32:29.000 That means that she was 20 when Obamacare passed.

00:32:32.000 I thought Obamacare was going to solve all of our problems, guys.

00:32:34.000 I thought Obamacare was like the greatest thing to ever happen to healthcare.

00:32:37.000 She has been her entire adult life living under the auspices of Obamacare.

00:32:42.000 So what is she talking about?

00:32:43.000 She doesn't have healthcare. 1.00

00:32:44.000 I thought Obamacare solved all the problems.

00:32:46.000 Yeah, subtle slap at it.

00:32:48.000 Barack Obama there.

00:32:49.000 Okay, in any case, is this coalition capable of being held together?

00:32:49.000 AOC.

00:32:53.000 I don't think so.

00:32:54.000 I think they've got some real problems inside that coalition.

00:32:57.000 But only if Republicans can get their bleep together.

00:33:00.000 This is the problem.

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00:37:06.000 So as I keep saying, the Democratic coalition, that coalition is extraordinarily fragile.

00:37:17.000 And the predictable effect of the coalition being very fragile is that there has to be a cram down in the cultural sphere in order to get you to shut up.

00:37:25.000 And they need to shut you up.

00:37:27.000 There's a reason why cancel culture has become such a thing over the past few years.

00:37:30.000 And the answer is, when you have a really fragile coalition, that coalition can only be held together so long as there is not a majority, a loud and vocal majority, that is rejecting certain aspects of the coalitional of the coalitional agenda. So for example, you're trying to create a coalition as a Democrat between Black Democrats and gay Democrats and Asian Democrats, and you push an item that most Americans don't like very much. So let's say that you are in an attempt to placate the LGBT group inside your coalition. What you do is you say, okay,

00:38:00.000 from now on, we are all adding pronouns to our profiles and And we are also going to try to pass legislation to suggest that men can go into women's locker rooms and vice versa, so long as they believe they're members of the opposite gender.

00:38:11.000 And most Americans go, that sounds crazy.

00:38:13.000 We're not going to do that.

00:38:14.000 Well, what you then have to do is you have to get involved in the cultural sphere and cram down those views on everybody else.

00:38:18.000 You have to shut people up in order to engage in cultural renormalization. 0.62

00:38:22.000 And that's why you have seen over the past few years so much attempt inside corporations and inside the media and inside the halls of academia and on social media to actually shut people up who have various opinions on these issues.

00:38:35.000 Because if ever the silenced majority were to get together and just say no to any of this, Then the Democratic coalition would start to fracture because they'd have to make a choice.

00:38:42.000 Do they want to win a majority of the vote by jettisoning some of the more radical policy proposals?

00:38:48.000 Or do they want to continue to placate the intersectional coalition at the cost of maybe losing a majority?

00:38:53.000 So they have to shut people up.

00:38:54.000 That is a big thing.

00:38:55.000 They must shut people up.

00:38:57.000 Well, that means that the way you fight back against this stuff is by not shutting up, not just on the cultural level, but also politically.

00:39:04.000 In other words, do not let Democrats have a majority in the Senate of the United States.

00:39:08.000 Do not let them take over the cultural milieus that run the country.

00:39:12.000 Don't let them do any of this. 0.99

00:39:13.000 This is why it is so unbelievably stupid that Republicans are even talking about right now the possibility of not voting in Georgia. 1.00

00:39:20.000 This is crazy. 0.99

00:39:22.000 I'm not going to cite polls to you because polls are very often wrong.

00:39:25.000 But I'm now about to cite a poll to you, okay?

00:39:27.000 Just because it does demonstrate that what we were talking about in Georgia, at least the only information we have is that this is not a blowout on behalf of Republicans.

00:39:34.000 We have two races.

00:39:35.000 One is against Raphael Warnock, who is an extraordinarily radical candidate.

00:39:40.000 I mean, this is a Jeremiah Wright fan.

00:39:41.000 He has spoken out in defense of Jeremiah Wright, suggesting that 9-11 was the chickens coming home to roost.

00:39:46.000 He said that was a great speech.

00:39:47.000 Raphael Warnock has suggested that America is a racist country.

00:39:50.000 He's extraordinarily radical.

00:39:52.000 He's a full-on Jeremiah Wright-type character who is now running for the United States Senate.

00:39:56.000 He's running for one seat.

00:39:57.000 The other person running is Jon Ossoff, who's a trust fund socialist.

00:40:00.000 His parents are very rich.

00:40:01.000 They got him a house in Washington, D.C. 0.96

00:40:03.000 He's basically been a career useless person like Beto O'Rourke. 0.81

00:40:05.000 And now, he is running once again. 0.88

00:40:07.000 He ran for Congress and lost against Karen Handel.

00:40:10.000 Then he ran again and he lost for some other office and now he is running.

00:40:13.000 He ran again and he and he lost against David Perdue.

00:40:17.000 But the problem is David Perdue didn't get over 50% and so they now have to rerun that race because in Georgia you have to win over 50% in a Senate race in order to enter the United States Senate.

00:40:27.000 Right now, he ran a very narrow race against Purdue, separated by less than two percentage points.

00:40:32.000 Raphael Warnock was in what they call a jungle primary, meaning that everybody is voting for every candidate.

00:40:38.000 It's not just like a Democratic primary and a Republican primary.

00:40:41.000 It's a primary where everybody can vote for any candidate.

00:40:43.000 And Warnock actually ended up with the most votes in that because Republicans split their vote.

00:40:47.000 He won something like 33% of the vote in that so-called jungle primary.

00:40:51.000 That's literally the name of the primary.

00:40:53.000 And so he was the front runner there.

00:40:55.000 And now, according to a new poll from SurveyUSA and WXIA in Atlanta, the poll shows Ossoff narrowly leading Purdue, 50-48, and showing Warnock holding a lead over Kelly Loeffler, the GOP senator, in Georgia.

00:41:12.000 Okay, that's nuts.

00:41:14.000 That's nuts.

00:41:14.000 Now, I'm gonna take all that polling with a grain of salt.

00:41:16.000 I think Republicans still have an institutional advantage.

00:41:18.000 But, if you guys don't go out and vote because you are pissed off at the way that Georgia's voting has gone presidentially, you are shooting yourself directly in the foot.

00:41:26.000 There is no rationale for this whatsoever.

00:41:29.000 Which is why, on Wednesday, a group of 19 prominent Georgia Republicans, including former Governor Nathan Deal and two former U.S.

00:41:35.000 Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, issued an open letter warning that focus on fraud allegations could, quote-unquote, detract from the runoffs, which will determine which party controls the U.S.

00:41:43.000 Senate.

00:41:44.000 They wrote, quote, we have watched with increasing concern as the debate surrounding the state's electoral system has made some within our party consider whether voting in the coming runoff election matters. They warned that if Republicans didn't turn out, the trajectory of our state and nation will be irreparably altered on January 5th. And that, of course, is exactly right. 0.94

00:42:00.000 This comes directly on the heels of Lin Wood, who apparently is a crazy person, and Sidney Powell, who appears to be more and more of a crazy person, suggesting that Republicans should skip the Senate elections because they're so pissed off at what they think happened to Trump in Georgia. 0.52

00:42:13.000 And listen, I'm not even saying they shouldn't be pissed off over what happened with Trump in Georgia. 0.82

00:42:18.000 You can be pissed off if you want to be.

00:42:20.000 I mean, I will tell you that I don't see widespread proof of voter fraud in Georgia.

00:42:24.000 I'm going to talk in a second about a video that's been making the rounds and the sort of countervailing claims that are now being made by the state of Georgia because that's been making a lot of headlines. 0.99

00:42:35.000 But if your solution to anything that happened in Georgia is, oh, let's put the Democrats in charge of the Senate, you're a crazy person. 0.98

00:42:41.000 That is a completely nutty, batty proposition. 1.00

00:42:44.000 Nobody should be standing in favor of that.

00:42:46.000 Nobody.

00:42:48.000 If Republicans lose those two Senate races in Georgia because they were so frustrated by how Trump was treated in Georgia, that's not just cutting off your nose to spite your face, that's cutting off your head to spite your face. 0.96

00:43:00.000 It's committing political suicide to spite your face. 0.84

00:43:04.000 It's just, it's patently nuts that people are even considering that.

00:43:06.000 Okay, now, as far as people being pissed off at what is happening in Georgia, I am here to provide you only the full story.

00:43:12.000 So, a very suspicious tape emerged last night.

00:43:14.000 This is a tape that was presented by an election lawyer in Georgia.

00:43:19.000 And this election video that was then blasted out to social media by Team Trump supposedly showed some election workers in Georgia clearing the room, telling people to, poll workers and observers, to leave the room, and then pulling out suitcases filled with ballots from underneath a table and then running them through the counting machines while there was no one there to observe, right?

00:43:39.000 This was the allegation that was being made.

00:43:41.000 There was some of that video being narrated by this Georgia lawyer.

00:43:46.000 So now they're going to start pulling these ballots out from under this table.

00:43:51.000 This table, the black one, was placed there by the lady with the blonde braids at about 8.22 a.m.

00:43:59.000 in the morning.

00:43:59.000 So she put that table there.

00:44:02.000 So the same person who's staying behind now, the same person who cleared the place out under the pretense that we're going to stop counting, is the person who put the table there at 8.22 in the morning.

00:44:14.000 Yeah, I saw four suitcases come out from underneath the table.

00:44:18.000 Okay.

00:44:18.000 And then the suggestion is that she hid basically all of these fake ballots underneath the table.

00:44:22.000 She took the ballots out.

00:44:23.000 She started handing them to the poll workers and the poll workers started processing these ballots.

00:44:26.000 And then because they did this hour after hour on end, these are all fraudulent.

00:44:29.000 Now, on the surface, it looks really bad, right?

00:44:32.000 I mean, if you just look at the tape and you listen to the narration, that looks pretty terrible and deserving of a full investigation.

00:44:38.000 And it should be fully investigated because any allegation of that sort ought to be fully investigated all the way down to the ground.

00:44:44.000 Now the countervailing story is being told by some Georgia folks over at leadstories.com, Alan Duke and Haley Golden.

00:44:52.000 And here's what they write.

00:44:53.000 Does security camera video show a Fulton County, Georgia, election supervisor suspiciously pulling suitcases filled with ballots from under a table after telling poll workers to leave the room?

00:45:01.000 Did that election official continue to illegally count ballots without required monitors and a manager that calls into question Joe Biden's narrow win over Donald Trump in Georgia?

00:45:09.000 According to Lead Stories, no, those claims are not true.

00:45:11.000 Two high-level officials with the Georgia Secretary of State's office and a state elections board monitor each told Lead Stories their investigations revealed nothing suspicious in the video.

00:45:19.000 The officials said the ballots seen in the video were in regular ballot containers, not suitcases.

00:45:24.000 and they'd been removed from their envelopes and processed.

00:45:26.000 Well, news media and election observers for the Republican Party and Trump campaign were present.

00:45:30.000 The media and party observers were never told to leave because counting was over for the night, but they apparently followed workers who left once their job of opening envelopes was completed.

00:45:37.000 The chief investigator for the Secretary of State told these stories.

00:45:40.000 The observers were free to return at any time, she said.

00:45:42.000 Georgia law allows observers, but does not require them to be there for ballots to be counted.

00:45:46.000 Those claims were originally made, of course, at this hearing before the Georgia State Senate.

00:45:53.000 Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, Georgia's voting system implementation manager, told Lead Stories during a phone call that what can be seen on the video is normal procedure and nothing looks quote-unquote bizarre or odd.

00:46:01.000 He said election workers known as cutters, because their job was to open absentee ballot envelopes and verify ballots for eventual scanning and counting, were dismissed for the night sometime after 10 p.m.

00:46:10.000 on November 3rd because they were done.

00:46:11.000 Those workers who remained were responsible for conducting the scanning portion of the process because ballots couldn't be left without being scanned overnight.

00:46:18.000 He said, if you look at the videotape, the work you see is the work you would expect, which is you take the sealed suitcase, looking things, you place the ballots on the scanner in manageable batches, and you scan them.

00:46:26.000 Frances Watson, the chief investigator for the Georgia Secretary of State, told these stories during a phone call on December 3rd, 2020.

00:46:32.000 The ballots were in standard containers.

00:46:34.000 The work during the time in question had nothing to do with pulling ballots from under a table.

00:46:37.000 She said, there wasn't a bin that had ballots in it under the table.

00:46:40.000 It was an empty bin.

00:46:40.000 The ballots from it were actually out on the table when the media were still there.

00:46:43.000 Then it was placed back into the box when the media were still there, and then placed next to the table a little bit later.

00:46:48.000 There was never an announcement made to the media and other observers about the counting being over for the night and them needing to leave, according to Watson, who was provided information by the media liaison who was present.

00:46:56.000 She said she just followed the Cutters as they left.

00:46:58.000 She said nobody told them to stay.

00:46:59.000 Nobody told them to leave.

00:47:00.000 Nobody gave them advice on what they should do.

00:47:02.000 They could stay or they could leave.

00:47:03.000 And there is no actual requirement that people be in the room.

00:47:07.000 It just gives them the right to be in the room.

00:47:09.000 A state election board monitor who asked for his name not to be used due to safety concerns told lead stories that he was present at the vote counting location beginning at 11.52 p.m.

00:47:17.000 after leaving briefly earlier in the evening.

00:47:19.000 He stayed until about 12.45 a.m.

00:47:21.000 when the work that night was completed.

00:47:23.000 The deputy chief investigator for the Secretary of State's office was present beginning at about 12.15 a.m.

00:47:26.000 on November 4th.

00:47:29.000 The Election Monitor also told lead stories between 8 p.m.

00:47:32.000 on November 3rd and 1243 a.m.

00:47:34.000 on November 4th when they stopped counting.

00:47:35.000 The scanners had scanned about 10,000 ballots, which, again, is not the 12,000 ballot gap.

00:47:40.000 So, who do you choose to believe there?

00:47:43.000 The lawyer who is showing you the tape or the person who's explaining the tape from the other side?

00:47:46.000 I don't know the answer to that.

00:47:47.000 A full investigation seems necessary.

00:47:49.000 And I understand why people would be suspicious.

00:47:52.000 I certainly do.

00:47:53.000 But it is imperative to get to the bottom of it without jumping to conclusions.

00:47:56.000 And no matter what your conclusions are on that, Don't not vote for Republicans in Georgia.

00:48:01.000 The hell's wrong with you?

00:48:03.000 Why would you not vote for the Republican in Georgia? 0.91

00:48:05.000 Because you are ticked off at what happened in Georgia because you think Democrats... So your idea here is Democrats stole the election in Georgia, so give them control of the Senate?

00:48:13.000 That's the logic there?

00:48:15.000 That is one hell of a hot take.

00:48:18.000 That may be the hottest take I've ever heard.

00:48:20.000 That take is so piping hot that it actually just outshone the sun and burned up the universe, that take.

00:48:26.000 Really, really solid stuff there.

00:48:29.000 How about we don't do that?

00:48:29.000 How about this?

00:48:30.000 How about go out and vote against Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff, no matter what you think of David Perdue or Kelly Loeffler.

00:48:36.000 Meanwhile, the Michigan Attorney General came out and said, listen, if Detroit vote count observers are saying that illegality went on, they should file criminal complaints.

00:48:45.000 They should go down to the police station.

00:48:47.000 They should file criminal complaints.

00:48:48.000 Dana Nessel said, last night, Americans watched as Michigan Republicans used tax dollars to sponsor an event wherein a representative called witnesses brave and courageous for calling Detroit one of the most corrupt cities in America and making baseless debunked attacks on our elections.

00:49:01.000 And then she said, You have embarrassed our state and defamed Michigan's most populous city.

00:49:04.000 I call on the Republicans to renounce these statements or take any evidence of election law violations to the various attorney's offices for investigation.

00:49:12.000 Put up or shut up.

00:49:13.000 Now, it is perfectly legit to present this information in front of a House committee if you're trying to convince legislators to switch your vote. 0.93

00:49:20.000 It is also the case that full investigations should be initiated into anything credible.

00:49:25.000 No matter what.

00:49:26.000 And she points out, Matthew Schneider, U.S.

00:49:27.000 Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, which has Detroit within its jurisdiction, is a Trump appointee, who previously served as Chief Deputy under AG Bill Schruette.

00:49:35.000 So why exactly aren't they filing lawsuits?

00:49:37.000 And the answer is they should be filing lawsuits.

00:49:39.000 They should actually be filing criminal complaints if what they believe happened, happened.

00:49:43.000 That would be the way to stop this if you actually want the election over.

00:49:45.000 I keep saying this.

00:49:46.000 There's stuff that you do for PR, and then there's stuff you do to actually overturn the purported results of the election.

00:49:51.000 If you want this stuff overturned, you gotta prove it in court.

00:49:53.000 It's not enough just to have open hearings.

00:49:55.000 You have to prove it in court.

00:49:56.000 So go out and do it!

00:49:57.000 Like, seriously.

00:49:58.000 Now.

00:49:59.000 At the very least, stop encouraging people not to vote for Republicans in runoff Senate races in Georgia, for God's sake.

00:50:06.000 Okay.

00:50:07.000 Meanwhile, COVID continues to rack the nation.

00:50:11.000 The numbers on COVID are rising all over the place.

00:50:14.000 There was indeed a post-Thanksgiving spike, as far as we can tell at this point.

00:50:18.000 So I was kind of hopeful late last week, and I mentioned it, and even early this week, that there might not be this giant Thanksgiving spike in terms of total diagnosed cases, because there seemed to be sort of a peak in mid-November, and then it came down all the way to the beginning of December.

00:50:32.000 But it now seems that it is jumping again in the aftermath of Thanksgiving, as many of the critics predicted.

00:50:39.000 Full disclosure to them.

00:50:40.000 And when you're wrong, you're wrong.

00:50:42.000 And it looks like we are about to enter another peak here.

00:50:45.000 And maybe that has something to do with Thanksgiving and people acting irresponsibly.

00:50:48.000 Maybe it has to do with the fact that these stay-at-home orders are simply not effective.

00:50:52.000 And these mask mandates, which have been in place in places like California for a long, long time, that those are not effective either.

00:50:58.000 Nonetheless, California is once again going into full-scale lockdown.

00:51:02.000 I mean, full-on, total lockdown.

00:51:05.000 According to the New York Times, California, the first state to impose far-reaching lockdowns because of COVID, announced on Thursday its strictest new measures since the earliest days of the pandemic in an effort to keep a surge in cases from overwhelming hospitals.

00:51:16.000 Governor Newsom said the new round of regional stay-at-home orders would take effect as ICU beds filled up.

00:51:21.000 Millions of people across Southern and Central California are likely to see outdoor dining shuttered.

00:51:25.000 Again, there's no evidence that shows that outdoor dining is conveying disease.

00:51:28.000 There is none.

00:51:29.000 If you are outdoors, it is not the same as being indoors.

00:51:32.000 They're going to rope off playgrounds. 0.99

00:51:33.000 Again, playgrounds, not a vector for the disease.

00:51:36.000 Surface-to-surface transmission.

00:51:38.000 Like, you touched a thing because somebody else had touched it.

00:51:40.000 That is not a main source of transmission.

00:51:42.000 Early on, there was a lot of talk about how you had to use Lysol and wipe down everything you got from the grocery store and all this.

00:51:47.000 And it turned out that that was wildly overblown.

00:51:50.000 Roping off playgrounds for children who are the least vulnerable to COVID makes no sense at all.

00:51:54.000 Hair salons will be closed within days if the available ICU capacity in these areas dips below a 15% threshold.

00:52:00.000 By the way, hardest hit Nancy Pelosi, who is always up for a visit to the hair salon. 1.00

00:52:05.000 The new restrictions will last for at least three weeks.

00:52:08.000 Strictly limit store capacity.

00:52:09.000 Allow restaurants to serve only takeout or delivery.

00:52:12.000 The governor also said people should temporarily call off all non-essential travel.

00:52:16.000 He said if we don't act now, our hospital system will be overwhelmed.

00:52:19.000 If we don't act now, we will continue to see our death rate climb.

00:52:22.000 This is the same kind of stuff they tried back in March and April.

00:52:25.000 They had mask mandates in place for a very long time.

00:52:27.000 California never really reopened.

00:52:29.000 It didn't seem to help very much because California is getting hit really, really hard.

00:52:34.000 California has now recorded 1.2 million virus cases and 19,468 deaths.

00:52:38.000 On Thursday, Newsom delivered a grim tally via remote video.

00:52:43.000 He said that California is seeing its sharpest increase in cases since the pandemic took hold.

00:52:47.000 Even as its coronavirus prevention measures have become more stringent, some early measures such as mask wearing were voluntary.

00:52:53.000 If hospitalization rates keep soaring, California's 40 million residents could all be under new stay-at-home orders by Christmas, which is just incredible.

00:53:02.000 People are pushing back because, of course, as it turns out, these stay-at-home orders have not been wildly effective.

00:53:07.000 They have not.

00:53:08.000 People can be reasonable.

00:53:10.000 People can make reasonable decisions.

00:53:13.000 But again, this all falls part and parcel as part of the broader COVID take by Democrats, which is that if you just shut everything down, you'll magically make the virus go away.

00:53:22.000 So last night on CNN, Joe Biden talked about COVID, and he actually suggested a bunch of things that are anti-scientific.

00:53:27.000 He said, we cannot open elementary schools, which is just a teacher's union talking point.

00:53:31.000 It happens not to be true.

00:53:33.000 We can safely open those elementary schools where the highest risk of people transmitting the disease, number one.

00:53:40.000 Number two, we can make it safe for teachers if we invest in what needs to be done.

00:53:46.000 Number one, sanitizing the schools.

00:53:49.000 Number two, making sure that they have ventilation.

00:53:52.000 Number three, making sure there's smaller pods of children, meaning you need more teachers.

00:53:57.000 You got to pay for this stuff.

00:53:59.000 It was estimated that we could open those schools for somewhere around a hundred billion dollars nationwide.

00:54:07.000 Okay, um, so, that is, um, that is not correct.

00:54:10.000 Okay, that elementary schools are supposed to remain closed because they don't have precautions in place or anything like that.

00:54:16.000 Again, my kids have been in elementary school for months at this point, there have been no outbreaks.

00:54:19.000 The middle school, where my kids go, because it goes K through 8, the middle school has been open, they have had some cases, people have been sent home, and then people who are associated with them were sent home, and then they came back a couple of weeks later, and that was the end of it.

00:54:32.000 Even Anthony Fauci doesn't believe this.

00:54:34.000 Anthony Fauci believes the schools should be open.

00:54:36.000 Fauci, right?

00:54:37.000 A guy who reversed himself several times?

00:54:39.000 Fauci said the schools should be open.

00:54:41.000 But Biden has a solution.

00:54:43.000 Don't worry.

00:54:44.000 He has a solution.

00:54:44.000 His solution is he's going to ask you to wear a mask.

00:54:47.000 That was his big plan all along.

00:54:49.000 Back in 1968, Nixon said that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War.

00:54:53.000 It was a secret plan to end the Vietnam War.

00:54:56.000 And then it turned out that it wasn't such a secret plan.

00:54:58.000 Well, Joe Biden's secret plan to end COVID is that the old man is going to tell you to wear a mask, and this will magically end COVID, which is weird since they've had a mask mandate in Germany, in Italy.

00:55:06.000 There's a spike anyway.

00:55:07.000 Here was Joe Biden suggesting that if he takes office in January, he's going to ask people to put on a mask for 100 days.

00:55:13.000 Well, since you bamboozled us the first time with 15 days to slow the spread, and we are now what?

00:55:18.000 nine months into this, right?

00:55:20.000 It was 15 days to slow the spread.

00:55:22.000 Last I checked, eight or nine months does not mean 15 days, it's different.

00:55:27.000 He's now saying he wants 100 days to slow the spread if he enters the White House.

00:55:31.000 Here he is saying that those masks should stay on full time for 100 days.

00:55:35.000 I think my inclination, Jake, is on the first day I'm inaugurated to say I'm gonna ask the public for 100 days to mask.

00:55:46.000 Just 100 days to mask.

00:55:48.000 Not forever, 100 days.

00:55:50.000 And I think we'll see a significant reduction if we occur that.

00:55:54.000 That occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerably.

00:55:59.000 Okay, now as I keep saying, here's the thing.

00:56:03.000 What's actually going to happen here is that the cases are going to continue to spike.

00:56:05.000 They're going to spike through December.

00:56:06.000 Then they're going to start coming down in January.

00:56:07.000 Here's my prediction, okay?

00:56:09.000 And either I'll be right or I'll be wrong, so I'm at least putting it out there.

00:56:12.000 They're gonna start to come down.

00:56:13.000 By the time of the inauguration, whether it's Trump or Biden, regardless of what happens in January, the numbers have already started to drop.

00:56:21.000 The vaccinations will have started to come out in December.

00:56:23.000 By the end of February, supposedly about 100 million people will be vaccinated.

00:56:27.000 And at that point, if Biden is in the White House, the media will declare that Joe Biden did it.

00:56:31.000 They'll declare it was only because of Joe Biden's logistical genius in getting the vaccine out to people before he was even in the White House.

00:56:38.000 And developing the vaccine that he had nothing to do with.

00:56:40.000 That did it.

00:56:41.000 He will declare that the mask mandate did it.

00:56:43.000 Asking people to wear masks did it.

00:56:45.000 Because this has been the pattern.

00:56:46.000 The pattern has been when a Democrat says something and it does not work, then they just wait until the curve goes down and then they declare that it worked.

00:56:53.000 And if a Republican does something, then it's always bad.

00:56:55.000 No matter what.

00:56:57.000 But Joe Biden telling people to wear masks ain't gonna change a damn thing.

00:57:00.000 It is not going to change one thing.

00:57:02.000 Zero things will it change.

00:57:05.000 It's just incredible that this is taken as follow the science stuff from Joe Biden.

00:57:10.000 It is not follow the science stuff.

00:57:11.000 The schools should be open.

00:57:12.000 And again, shutting it all down is not a solution.

00:57:15.000 It has not been a solution in Germany.

00:57:16.000 They've been shutting things down there for a very, very long time.

00:57:19.000 And there are real life consequences to this sort of stuff.

00:57:22.000 In Michigan, they are continuing this push for a massive shutdown order.

00:57:28.000 They continue to suggest that there must be more statewide shutdowns, that Christine Whitmer, what is it, Gretchen Whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, the governor over there, that she is, her husband doesn't have to abide by those.

00:57:41.000 He can still go fishing.

00:57:42.000 Everybody else is screwed, but her husband can go fishing. 0.89

00:57:44.000 Well, here is a Michigan restaurant owner who was caught in the background of a report that was being done about shutting down businesses, saying, you guys are destroying my life. 0.60

00:57:52.000 Can we stop pretending for a second there are no downsides to these shutdowns?

00:57:56.000 There was enough money to give every family, every family in this country, $20,000 to go home for two months.

00:58:03.000 They chose to give it to special interest and campaign donors, the Kennedy Space Center, and they abandoned us.

00:58:11.000 If you could have given me money, I'd gladly walk away for 60 days and let this virus settle down.

00:58:15.000 I'm not going to do it alone.

00:58:17.000 Okay.

00:58:18.000 Are you going to continue to violate the state's orders and stay open?

00:58:20.000 This is a state order.

00:58:21.000 This isn't an order.

00:58:22.000 This is a conspiracy.

00:58:24.000 This is a tyranny.

00:58:25.000 What do you want to tell other restaurant owners who... Wake up!

00:58:28.000 Stand up!

00:58:29.000 This is America!

00:58:29.000 Be free!

00:58:30.000 Okay, I gotta say, all sympathies to the restaurant owner.

00:58:34.000 Seriously.

00:58:35.000 If you... Make your own decisions.

00:58:38.000 In a free country, we do risk assessment every single day.

00:58:41.000 Every single day, we do risk assessment.

00:58:43.000 We should be doing risk assessment now.

00:58:45.000 And sort of scaremongering from the media, which is that everybody is equally susceptible to the virus, as I keep saying.

00:58:51.000 Every single time they report the number of people who have died, or the susceptibility of the virus, or the death rates of the virus, they should be doing it striated by age and health condition.

00:58:59.000 Every single time.

00:59:01.000 To do otherwise is an act of malfeasance.

00:59:03.000 It is journalistic and informational malfeasance not to point out that this disease does not affect everybody equally.

00:59:09.000 That we should not be treating 89-year-olds People with congestive heart failure the same way that we treat 18 year olds in universities.

00:59:18.000 There's a whole article in the in the New York Times today suggesting that we should shut down universities.

00:59:23.000 I do love this.

00:59:24.000 OK, so the New York Times.

00:59:25.000 I'm sorry.

00:59:26.000 The Washington Post has an editorial today that basically just repeats all of all of Joe Biden's talking points as per our usual arrangement.

00:59:32.000 And here is what they say.

00:59:34.000 They say, we must not act as a collection of free spirits in denial, but rather as a cohesive nation that recognizes the enormity of the threat. Every single person in the United States should commit themselves to wearing a face mask in public. So presumably you're like out walking your dog, you should wear a face mask. To rigorously following the rules of distancing and good hygiene to avoid tightly enclosed spaces and events that could recklessly transmit the virus.

00:59:55.000 And this is my, this is my favorite part.

00:59:59.000 So they say in here that we need to do everything that would do what is right.

01:00:03.000 What is right?

01:00:04.000 Here we go.

01:00:04.000 You ready?

01:00:05.000 No more pockets of college students partying without masks.

01:00:09.000 That's your solution?

01:00:10.000 College students have to stop partying without masks?

01:00:12.000 College students are the least vulnerable group of people outside of small children to the virus.

01:00:18.000 Like that's where you're putting your chief focus?

01:00:19.000 On college students partying without masks?

01:00:22.000 Let me be clear about this.

01:00:23.000 If it were up to me and I were running national COVID policy, I would have told every college student in America to be on campus.

01:00:28.000 I would have told everybody above the age of 45 to basically clear out, let them party it up without the mask for two months, and then no one would have died.

01:00:35.000 Okay?

01:00:36.000 And then there would not be vectors of transmission.

01:00:38.000 Just don't go home until you are recovered.

01:00:40.000 The big problem is that they did shut down the colleges and they sent kids who were infected with COVID back home to their parents and grandparents.

01:00:46.000 That was actually a bigger vector of transmission than if you just kept the kids on campus in the first place.

01:00:50.000 But according to the Washington Post, we can't have college students partying without masks.

01:00:53.000 That's the big danger.

01:00:55.000 This one's my favorite.

01:00:57.000 No more demonstrations threatening to liberate states.

01:01:00.000 Well, I noticed that you're getting very, very specific about what demonstrations are allowed and which ones are not, Washington Post.

01:01:07.000 So, demonstrations about how America is systemically racist and the police are evil.

01:01:11.000 Those are okay.

01:01:13.000 But no more demonstrations threatening to liberate states.

01:01:15.000 Stop that.

01:01:16.000 Because the virus knows your message.

01:01:19.000 The virus cares what placard you're carrying at a public demonstration.

01:01:22.000 No more motorcycle rallies.

01:01:25.000 What about big indoor funerals for big public figures like, say, John Lewis?

01:01:28.000 How about those?

01:01:29.000 Those okay?

01:01:30.000 Those okay?

01:01:30.000 What do you think?

01:01:32.000 No more summer camps.

01:01:34.000 Summer camps!

01:01:35.000 We had summer camps over the summer.

01:01:36.000 You know what happened?

01:01:37.000 Kids didn't get infected.

01:01:38.000 Kids didn't die.

01:01:40.000 Because they're little.

01:01:41.000 And what's been happening, and this is what happened in California, is that schools, private schools, wanted to reopen.

01:01:46.000 And so they declared themselves summer camps in order so they could reopen.

01:01:48.000 So now California is cracking down on them.

01:01:51.000 So the first three recommendations by the Washington Post of what to do are completely anti-scientific.

01:01:56.000 They're suggesting the chief factors of transmission are college students partying without masks.

01:01:59.000 Wrong.

01:02:00.000 Demonstrations threatening to liberate states.

01:02:02.000 Again, very ideologically oriented there.

01:02:05.000 Summer camps.

01:02:06.000 They say church choirs and weddings that ignore mitigation measures and become super spreading events.

01:02:12.000 I've noticed that you have not incorporated any other indoor events that become super spreaders.

01:02:18.000 And there have been many of them.

01:02:20.000 So again, this is the take.

01:02:22.000 The take is shut everything down that we don't like because we don't like them.

01:02:26.000 And that's kind of where things are at.

01:02:30.000 Here's the reality about COVID.

01:02:31.000 It ain't going away.

01:02:32.000 We're going to live with it.

01:02:34.000 If you want to hunker down until the vaccine is ready, by all means do so if you are particularly vulnerable.

01:02:38.000 Seriously.

01:02:40.000 If you are 80 and you have some sort of cancer, then stay home until the vaccine is available.

01:02:46.000 If you are 40 and you are morbidly obese, stay home until the vaccine is available.

01:02:50.000 I'm not kidding.

01:02:51.000 Mitigate your own risk.

01:02:53.000 And if you're a person who knows one of those people, stay away from them.

01:02:55.000 Mitigate the risk for others.

01:02:57.000 But this basic idea that you can lock down everything or that Joe Biden shouting masks at the wind is going to solve all of it is just a bunch of propagandistic nonsense.

01:03:04.000 Alrighty.

01:03:04.000 Well, later today we have two additional hours of content, so tune in for that.

01:03:07.000 In the meantime, tune in to Matt Walsh's show.

01:03:09.000 He's talking about critical race theory and how it's being crammed down on people at the public school level.

01:03:14.000 So give his show a listen.

01:03:14.000 It's always worthy of that.

01:03:16.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here later today or on Monday.

01:03:18.000 Have a great weekend.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 04, 2020

Biden Ain’t All There | Ep. 1150

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