The Democrats are beginning to get desperate, and the reason is because it looks more and more like 2022 is going to be a red wave election for the Republicans, which always seems to come as a shock to Democrats and members of the media who have declared to themselves that the political argument in the United States is essentially over. In 2016, when Donald Trump won, it rocked their world. They thought that some sort of extraneous force, that couldn t be predicted, that undermined their inevitable victory. And so they blamed the Russkies. And now that Joe Biden has been elected, they are realizing that the wokeness from which they have been imbibed is actually poisoning the party. And they are looking at themselves in the mirror and realizing that they have created a durable coalition that is never going to lose again. The reason they are getting desperate is because they have no idea how to deal with the fact that most Americans don t like their agenda, and are not willing to vote for it. They have no good answer to this, and so they are now looking for a way to get their message out there that they can sell to the American people. The problem is, the message they are trying to sell is not resonating with the American public, and it s not going to work. Ben Shapiro breaks it down the problem, and shows that the problem is not going away, and that it s going to get worse, not better. Links From This Episode: Free Training From The Daily Beast - Download MP3" Subscribe to the Daily Beast! Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show! Learn more about Ben Shapiro's newest book, "The Dark Side of Politics: How to Win at Work and Get a Seat at the Same Time as Your Best Reputation?" Get Exclusive Testimony from a Democratic Strategist Who's Winning at the 2020 Democratic Party Convention? Learn how much Ben Shapiro gets it all for less than $10,000 and get 10% off your first purchase of a copy of his new book, The Devil Next Bigger than You Can Win It All! FREE Training From Ben Shapiro s New York Times bestselling book, The Dark Side Of It All? Subscribe to his newest book is out now! Get a FREE 7-day VIP Passport to Ben Shapiro book, Only $99.99 and get 20% off the Testimonial Edition of The Devil Can t See It? Get the Deal of It All, No Limit?
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00:01:44.000Alrighty, so the Democrats are beginning to get desperate.
00:01:47.000And the reason they're getting desperate is because it looks more and more like 2022 is going to be a wave election for the Republicans, which Always seems to come as a shock to Democrats and members of the media, who since 2012 have declared to themselves that the political argument in the United States is essentially over.
00:02:03.000In 2012, after Barack Obama won, despite winning fewer votes in 2012 than he did in 2008, and despite his rather large-scale unpopularity, the unpopularity of Obamacare, the lack of success of his financial aid programs and the slow economic growth, he won re-election.
00:02:18.000And he did so on the basis of polarizing the American population and then appealing to members of the American population by racial and sexual orientation subset.
00:02:26.000And the Democrats thought, we have now created a coalition for the future that we'll never lose again.
00:02:30.000And so in 2016, when Donald Trump won, It rocked their world.
00:03:19.000And so yesterday, for example, you saw Stephanie Rule from MSNBC raising the question about a potential red wave in 2022.
00:03:27.000She spoke with a political scientist named Rachel Beitkofer about her correctly predicting Democratic gains in 2022, and her concerns about Republican gains in 2018, and her concerns about Republican gains in 2022.
00:03:41.000Cities across the country are grappling with a serious surge in violent crime.
00:03:46.000Now Republicans, like former President Trump, are seizing on that and trying to tie Democrats and their defund the police messaging to heading into next year, claiming that messaging is the reason for this spike in crime.
00:04:01.000It's very bad news for Democrats with a razor-thin House majority and a tie in the Senate.
00:04:06.000If Democrats do not fight back, what are the odds of a red wave?
00:04:16.000And he knows that basically after 22, his presidency is over.
00:04:20.000Because if the Republicans win back the House in 2022, he no longer has any ability to pass any of this giant legislation he wishes to push.
00:04:27.000He understands that he is probably a one-term president because he is fading and fading quickly.
00:04:31.000His daily battles with the teleprompter are simply taking it out of the old man.
00:04:35.000And this is a problem for the Democrats because waiting in the wings is the least charming politician in modern America.
00:04:40.000Kamala Harris, who makes Hillary Clinton look like Cary Grant in terms of charm.
00:04:44.000And so the fact that you've got a party that is sort of on the ropes but in control of all of the major levers of the government leads the Democrats to some pretty outrageous maligning of their political opposition.
00:04:56.000They can't simply push forward their own agenda because their own agenda is not particularly popular.
00:05:00.000Instead, they have to claim that everybody on the right is a racist, a sexist, a bigot, a homophobe.
00:05:06.000They've been doing this for years, but now they've ratcheted into high gear.
00:05:09.000Joe Biden, a man who was elected, as he said in his inaugural address, to unite America.
00:05:14.000He was a president for all Americans, the ones who voted for him and the ones who didn't vote for him.
00:05:19.000He was going to bring the country together around shared values.
00:05:22.000Well, now Joe Biden has declared that if you are for voter ID, or if you don't like universal mail-in voting, or if you don't think that the state government should send people absentee ballots without them actually having to apply for an absentee ballot, Well, this means that you're basically akin to a Jim Crow racist, and not just that.
00:05:36.000Anyone who promotes these policies is inherently tied to the droogs and idiots who decided to storm the Capitol building on January 6th.
00:05:42.000And so the rallying cry for the Democrats has been January 6th.
00:05:45.000Now, you may notice that January 6th, which was, again, a bunch of idiots, Taking President Trump's words and then using them as batons to wield against actual police officers, literal batons to wield against actual police officers, invading the Capitol building.
00:06:01.000You may notice that the hundred million Americans, 150 million Americans who agree generally with conservative policies, were not involved in that.
00:06:10.000But for Democrats, you have to link the outrageous to the fully sane.
00:06:14.000Because that way you can treat the fully sane as outrageous.
00:06:17.000And so this is what Joe Biden busily did yesterday.
00:06:21.000Joe Biden gave a speech yesterday that was the most polarizing of his presidency thus far, which is saying quite a lot, because he has already declared that if you want to pass voter ID, this means that you are a Jim Crow racist.
00:06:30.000You remember, he said this over and over and over with regard to this Georgia voter law, which was actually more permissive with regard to voting than Joe Biden's home state of Delaware.
00:06:38.000Well, Joe Biden did another speech yesterday in which he suggested once again that you need to vote Democrat not because they are going to propose good policies, not because they're going to fix any of your problems.
00:06:46.000You need to vote Democrat because the other guys are Jim Crow racists who want to bring us back to the Civil War.
00:06:52.000Now, if you believe this, I have to say you're an idiot.
00:06:55.000If you truly believe that Republicans in places like Arizona and Georgia and Texas are trying to disenfranchise Black people, I would love to see a shred of evidence, like any shred of evidence, that this is the intent or the real impact.
00:07:08.000Because the fact is, the Black population in the United States has been voting in very large numbers.
00:07:12.000The reason that Raphael Warnock is in the Senate in Georgia is because Black Americans voted in large numbers.
00:07:17.000The reason that Barack Obama was elected not once but twice is because of heavy Black turnout.
00:07:21.000So the notion that black people are having their votes suppressed by the evil Republican Party is just unmoored from reality.
00:07:27.000The same people who claim that it's utterly insane for Republicans to be doing vote audits with regards to the 2020 election promote their own form of conspiracism when they suggest that Republican voter ID laws are going to disenfranchise black people by the hundreds of thousands or millions.
00:07:41.000But that's exactly what the President of the United States is claiming.
00:07:43.000And he is linking that to the people who decided it would be a great idea to storm the Capitol building and threaten legislators.
00:08:26.000He's using that's not hyperbole the way that most other people who are idiots use the word literally.
00:08:31.000Usually when your friend says literally, they mean not literally.
00:08:34.000When Joe Biden says this is not hyperbole, and then he proceeds to explain that voter ID laws in states like Texas, Arizona, Florida, and Georgia, that these are the worst threat to democracy since the Civil War, that is the dumbest thing I have heard, at least for the last seven minutes, from Joe Biden.
00:08:54.000No need to go through the, you know, century-long history of Jim Crow, where black people were actively disenfranchised in states across the country, where black people were told that they had to pass a literacy test in order to vote, that they had to be poll-taxed in order to vote, when black people were actively pushed out of voting booths, when their families were threatened if they voted.
00:09:11.000No, this is just like that, according to Joe Biden.
00:09:13.000It's the worst threat since the Civil War.
00:09:19.000It's vicious because he is labeling half the country who simply want to see voter procedures shored up and who have serious questions about the conduct in the last election.
00:09:26.000By the way, I don't think you have to think the last election was stolen to have serious questions about why it was, for example, that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided to simply overrule the Pennsylvania state constitution and rewrite voter law in Pennsylvania.
00:09:37.000I don't think you have to think that the last election was stolen or that Donald Trump was the actual winner in order to wonder about the veracity of large-scale mail-in balloting as a trustable form of voting, generally speaking.
00:09:51.000You can mitigate risks without having to say that the last election was stolen, but Joe Biden wants to tie all this stuff together and wrap a bow on it and then say that his political opponents are exactly the same kinds of people who are rushing the Capitol building.
00:10:04.000Here is Joe Biden continuing along this path again.
00:10:06.000He's lumping together everybody who agrees with voter ID, which, by the way, is more than half the country.
00:10:10.000If you take polls, more than half of black Americans agree with voter ID.
00:10:13.000He's lumping together all these people with people who stormed the Capitol building, and then also with Confederates, apparently.
00:10:19.000Here is Joe Biden labeling more than half the country again, the enemy.
00:10:23.000In America, if you lose, you accept the results.
00:10:49.000Okay, I have to say that there is something truly maddening about the fact that Joe Biden goes out there and gaslights like this.
00:10:57.000He says things like, if you lose an election, you just accept that you lost the election.
00:11:00.000Weird, because for four years, we heard from Democrats, including people like Joe Biden, that Russian collusion had decided the election.
00:11:05.000We had Adam Schiff out there every day on national television, on CNN, Wolf Blitzer, breaking news, that there was going to be some sort of fact that emerged showing that the Russians had subverted the 2016 election, and that the actual president of the United States should have been Hillary Clinton.
00:11:19.000We saw the intelligence apparatus of the United States under Barack Obama militarized against Michael Flynn, for example.
00:11:24.000We saw the intelligence apparatus target Carter Page with a bad FISA warrant based on the Steele dossier, which turned out to be a gussied up piece of a DNC operative junk.
00:11:34.000And then he has the temerity to talk about accepting election results.
00:11:38.000According to Democrats, there hasn't been a legitimate Republican president elected in this country since 1988.
00:11:43.000Hey, 2000 was a stolen election, according to Democrats.
00:12:06.000It seems like this is a problem that seems to be spanning all parties because respect for American institutions has hit the toilet in the last decade particularly.
00:12:23.000If you believe that your attempts to vote in 2021 are akin to your grandfather's attempts to vote in 1952 Alabama, You need to have your head examined, or you were dropped as a baby, or both.
00:12:35.000Here is Joe Biden saying a morally egregious thing, and the media is just going along with this.
00:12:39.000I'm noticing that there are not any sort of chyrons from CNN about how this isn't true, even though it is quite clearly not true.
00:12:46.000Here is Joe Biden saying a quite clearly untrue and morally benighted thing.
00:12:50.000This year alone, 17 states have enacted, not just proposed, but enacted 28 new laws to make it harder for Americans to vote.
00:13:01.000Not to mention, and catch this, nearly 400 additional bills Republican members of the state legislatures are trying to pass.
00:13:13.000The 21st century Jim Crow assault is real.
00:13:23.000Hell, he was friends with half the Jim Crow senators.
00:13:25.000So, Joe Biden doesn't... According to Kamala Harris, it was people like Joe Biden who tried to stop little girls from her, from going to desegregated public schools.
00:13:33.000And this tool bag is out there saying that we're experiencing a new 21st century Jim Crow?
00:13:37.000In what magical world are we experiencing a 21st century Jim Crow right now?
00:13:43.000The most celebrated figures in America today Are black intellectuals or pseudo-intellectuals like Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
00:13:51.000Joe Biden is only a household name because he served as vice president under that black president.
00:13:55.000Black voters out-represent, outstrip their percentage of the population in national elections these days.
00:14:00.000In what way is this anything remotely like Jim Crow?
00:14:02.000But again, they need the specter of Jim Crow in order to turn off your brain.
00:14:07.000If you just listen to Joe Biden, you can't even consider voting for a Republican because after all, these people are all basically Bull Connor.
00:14:13.000These people all just want to stop black people from voting.
00:14:23.000This is the thing that has truly undermined our faith in our institutions.
00:14:26.000It used to be that if you didn't have faith in American institutions, at least you had some faith the media was going to hold those institutions accountable.
00:14:32.000When the media decide that they are just the propaganda outlet for the institutions, so long as the institutions are run by Democrats, that's when Republicans start to feel like all of the odds are stacked against them to the point where they can no longer have their voices heard through any process.
00:14:45.000We'll get to more of this in just one second, because truly, the supposed calm, unifying President of the United States is actually just a senility-ridden radical.
00:14:57.000And it's an ugly prospect for the country.
00:14:59.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:16:07.000And now, in order to fight the supposed Republican Jim Crow assault, this means that Democrats have every ability to undermine the actual functioning workings of democracy.
00:16:29.000Meanwhile, Texas Democrats, in order to stymie Republicans from pursuing this new Jim Crow, get to simply abscond from the state of Texas, violate the law, and shut down basic majoritarian democracy in Texas.
00:16:43.000Unlike on the national level, where we have a 50-50 split in the Senate, there is no 50-50 split in Texas.
00:16:48.000Republicans have an overwhelming majority in the state assembly in Texas.
00:16:52.000And so Democrats came up with a strategy.
00:16:54.000They didn't want to pass this voter ID law.
00:16:55.000They didn't want to pass a couple of bills that suggested that boys should play with boys and girls with girls in sports.
00:17:00.000And so they got on a plane and they flew to Washington, D.C.
00:17:03.000in order to deny Republicans a quorum.
00:17:06.000And these are the heroes of the day, according to the media.
00:17:08.000If you undermine democracy by simply walking out of the chamber and leaving the state so that you can't be brought back to the chamber to vote in majoritarian fashion, now you're a hero.
00:17:18.000A long-held standard in the United States Senate that's supposed to promote debate and conciliation, that's really bad and anti-democratic.
00:17:26.000But if an entire political party in Texas picks up That's on a private jet and flies to Washington, D.C.
00:17:32.000while patting themselves on the back in order to deny the workings of democracy.
00:17:35.000That's not only not anti-democratic, it is pro-democratic, you see.
00:17:39.000Now, you may be saying to yourself, I don't see a consistent standard here.
00:17:45.000When it comes to the Democratic Party and the media, the answer is whatever forwards the agenda is good and whatever does not forward the agenda is Jim Crow.
00:17:52.000And Joe Biden is fully on board with this because the way you hold political power, according to Joe Biden, is you gin up an enormous amount of faux outrage.
00:18:00.000And then you claim that your political opponents are the equivalent of George Wallace standing in a schoolhouse door.
00:18:05.000OK, so Texas Democrats absconded over the course of the last couple of days.
00:18:09.000They just picked up and they got in a private jet and they left.
00:18:20.000And they brought along a case of Miller Lite, just in case any of them decided that their drinking habit couldn't last for the four-hour flight from Texas, from Austin to Washington, D.C.
00:18:29.000Gene Woo, a Texas legislator, tweeted out a picture of what appears to be a Caesar salad with croutons.
00:19:06.000A bunch of Texas state legislators are standing, very solemnly, but happily, in front of the United States Capitol, because nothing says appealing to Texas voters quite like absconding to Washington, D.C., and asking the federal government to step in and quash the workings of the Texas state legislature.
00:19:44.000Yes, it's just like Malala Yousafzai trying to stump for Afghan women not being crammed into basements and clubbed and acid in the face for the crime of going to school.
00:20:09.000OK, so some of these Texas Democrats have been asked about their obvious hypocrisy and the ridiculousness of flying first class private jet, no masks to D.C. to appeal for the federal government's help.
00:20:22.000And one Texas Democrat says, you know, we need to fly private.
00:20:48.000Number two, you know, to get a flight out of town at a time certain with, you know, getting everybody to come in from across the state, you need to fly privately.
00:20:57.000And as you can see from the picture, we're talking about using the same kind of plane that the public uses every day.
00:21:03.000There's no fancy couches or anything like that.
00:21:05.000This was just a regular plane that moved us from one state to another.
00:21:08.000Well, they needed to, because they needed the reassuring picture of all of the Texas Democratic legislators fleeing the state.
00:21:14.000The sort of self-congratulatory nature of this, that's just the beginning.
00:21:17.000Texas Democrats, then, in one of the most cringeworthy political videos of the last couple of years, they gathered together to sing, We Shall Overcome.
00:21:25.000You know, like the civil rights anthem, We Shall Overcome.
00:21:28.000Because it turns out that stumping against voter ID and making sure that biological boys can play against girls, and then absconding from the state in order to ensure that, requires you to sing civil rights marching songs as though you are Martin Luther King and Selma.
00:22:15.000Number two, you know, I'm noticing usually when people do civil rights marches and they sing things like we shall overcome, I'm noticing an awful lot of lack of anyone giving a crap.
00:22:24.000See, the difference between Selma and that is, you know, the dogs, the hoses, the armed police.
00:22:28.000Here, it's just a bunch of Texas Democrats standing there, and their arm has stretched three inches from their inability to pat themselves on the back properly, without an actual physical arm stretching.
00:22:38.000Okay, we'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:22:40.000Because again, these people are fighting Jim Crow.
00:22:41.000They're fighting the worst excesses we have seen since the Civil War, said every idiot in the media.
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00:25:15.000Oh, the unbelievable sacrifice of being booked on Lawrence O'Donnell and somebody having to plug in your phone so it doesn't run out of battery.
00:25:20.000The incredible sacrifice of being welcomed by the vice president of the United States and then heaped with praise.
00:25:36.000It's like the civil rights marchers willingly being beaten in the streets for their beliefs.
00:25:40.000That's you getting on a private jet, eating a crouton salad, and then sitting with Kamala Harris while she talks about how wonderful you are.
00:25:56.000Joe Manchin was also expected to meet with the Democratic members of the Texas legislature, although a date and time have not been set yet.
00:26:03.000This all is geared toward pressuring Manchin, really, because really the solution the Democrats are proposing is not what will eventually happen.
00:26:10.000Texas Democrats go back to their houses and nothing happens and Republicans pass their bill.
00:26:14.000Instead, what they are attempting to do is leverage Joe Manchin into passing the For the People Act, which is this garbage federalization of all voting policy, including mass ballot harvesting, including outlawing voter ID in the original iteration.
00:26:27.000What they want is for Joe Manchin to throw out the filibuster.
00:26:30.000And so they're going to try and pressure him with all of these dumb tactics.
00:26:33.000And again, this is something the media love to do with Texas.
00:26:36.000They did this with Wendy Davis a few years back when Wendy Davis was yelling about how she loved abortion and she was wearing pink shoes and she was such a heroine.
00:26:45.000And then she ran for governor and just got absolutely swamped by Greg Abbott.
00:26:47.000It's the same thing with Texas Democrats.
00:26:50.000Meanwhile, the Texas governor says, you know, I can't just arrest you.
00:26:54.000And if you come back here, I can't arrest you.
00:26:56.000And by the way, he does have the legal ability to arrest them.
00:26:59.000Under Texas law, the rule is that you can basically go compel legislators to show up because they understand that this is sort of a problem, and if you're denied quorum, it stops all of the business.
00:27:10.000According to House rules adopted at the beginning of the regular session, according to the Texas Tribune, two-thirds of the 150-member chamber must be present to conduct business.
00:27:17.000When the House is in session, legislators can vote to lock chamber doors to prevent colleagues from leaving, and can order law enforcement to track down lawmakers who have already fled.
00:27:24.000If a quorum is not present when the House convenes, any House member can move to make known what's known as a call of the House to, quote, secure and maintain a quorum to consider a certain piece of legislation, resolution, or motion under chamber rules.
00:27:35.000That motion must be seconded by 15 members and ordered by a majority vote.
00:27:38.000If that happens, the missing Democrats become legislative fugitives.
00:27:42.000It's just like, I mean, there's such, it's like Harris and Ford.
00:27:44.000They're going to throw themselves over a waterfall while Tommy Lee Jones goes, I don't care.
00:27:49.000The House rules say, all absentees, for whom no sufficient excuse is made, may, by order of a majority of those present, be sent for and arrested, wherever they may be found, by the Sergeant-at-Arms, or an officer appointed by the Sergeant-at-Arms, for that purpose, their attendance shall be secured and retained.
00:28:01.000The House shall determine on what conditions they shall be discharged.
00:28:04.000Now, it's difficult to compel Democrats to shut- the reason they fled the state is because it's difficult to send, like, the Texas Rangers over to Washington, D.C.
00:28:15.000The House voting bill is passed by the committee over the weekend would rein in local voting initiatives like drive-thru and 24-hour voting.
00:28:20.000Because as it turns out, 24-hour voting is very difficult to keep tabs on.
00:28:24.000But further tighten the rules for voting by mail, bolster access for partisan poll watchers, and ban local election officials from proactively sending out applications to request mail-in ballots.
00:28:32.000Okay, so that is where things currently stand.
00:28:35.000Meanwhile, the Texas, again, the Texas state Democrats are so obnoxious.
00:28:39.000I mean, just on an objective level, they are obnoxious.
00:28:42.000Texas State Representative James Tallarico tweeted out this.
00:28:53.000Come and take it. And what a hero, James. Such heroism.
00:28:58.000Mitch McConnell rightly pointed out, I've noticed that you guys are suddenly very concerned about legislative minority rights.
00:29:03.000You're the same people who want to wreck the filibuster on the federal level. So that's weird.
00:29:05.000Notice that the Democrat minority in the Kentucky, in the Texas legislature is up here today. And I think it's quite interesting to see the Democratic majority in the Senate concerned about minority rights in the state senate in Texas.
00:29:26.000I I guess if you live long enough, you'll see almost anything around here.
00:29:32.000But again, this is all part and parcel of the broader Democratic push, which is going to fail, by the way, because Americans don't believe this.
00:29:37.000They do not believe that we are on the verge of a new Jim Crow because we aren't.
00:29:39.000They don't believe that Republicans are attempting to widely suppress the vote because they're not.
00:29:44.000And so if this is the best Democrats can do, they're going to get swamped.
00:29:47.000And the reason they're going to get swamped is because they suck at this.
00:29:49.000It turns out that standing athwart the government and shouting at Donald Trump is a lot more lucrative politically than actually having to run the country.
00:29:56.000And Democrats have been focused on blowing out the budget And backing woke movements that are anti-American in orientation.
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00:33:08.000Alrighty, so meanwhile, the Biden administration, while declaring that, you know, American racism is at an all-time high and that Jim Crow is on the way, while they run the entire government, by the way, Bye.
00:33:24.000They're now pursuing an anti-American policy.
00:33:28.000I don't know how else to describe this tweet from Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
00:33:31.000Now, I've given Blinken credit in the past for, for example, saying some relatively decent things about the Israel-Gaza conflict, for example.
00:33:41.000I've given Blinken and the foreign policy team some credit for the things that Joe Biden said with regards to Vladimir Putin.
00:34:15.000The United Nations is a- is the Mos Eisley of international politics.
00:34:18.000It is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
00:34:21.000The notion that we should have auditors from Sudan and China and Russia and Malaysia and all of these other countries that can't hold a calendar to us in terms of human rights come and audit domestic American racism.
00:34:33.000It's a political tool by Antony Blinken.
00:34:36.000Which, so often, foreign policy is to Democrats.
00:34:39.000This is why Barack Obama, in his very early days, before he was even president, did a European tour.
00:34:43.000A lot of people in the United States were saying to themselves, why is Barack Obama, a senator in the United States, running for the American presidency, attempting to go abroad and do speeches in, like, Berlin and Paris?
00:34:53.000And the answer is, because what Democrats really wish to do is suggest that other countries, their opinions ought to matter with regard to domestic American politics.
00:35:06.000And so, Antony Blinken literally wants to have members of the UN come and judge American racism.
00:35:11.000That's pathetic, and it's anti-American.
00:35:13.000No one has the moral stature to come into the United States, the most racially diverse place on Earth, most racially diverse democracy on planet Earth, and most racially tolerant diverse democracy on planet Earth, by the way.
00:35:26.000And then start lecturing us on how racist we are.
00:35:28.000And the fact that this administration is welcoming them in, they're welcoming them in in the same way that the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland is going to go into police departments and simply make up reports about how police departments are racist and then cram down consent decrees.
00:35:40.000The idea here will be the UN issues a report on how terrible and racist America is.
00:35:43.000And there it is, magically, the only way to alleviate this deep and brutal and abiding racism is to do all the things that Joe Biden wants to do.
00:35:52.000So, Joe Biden and Antony Blinken can't convince you that America is racist and terrible, so they will bring in international institutions to call America racist and terrible, and deride the United States on the international stage, so that they can say we need to do all the things we already wanted to do, because after all, the world expects it of us.
00:36:13.000The reality is that, as I talked about on the show yesterday and the day before, To most people who are seeking freedom on planet Earth, the United States is the place you go.
00:36:22.000The United States is the place you go for racial tolerance.
00:36:25.000The United States has a higher household income for Nigerian Americans than it does for white Americans.
00:36:30.000It has a higher household income for Asian Americans than for white Americans.
00:36:33.000For a supposedly white supremacist country, we're doing a horrible job of it here in the United States.
00:36:38.000And yet, the continuous push from the Democrats is that America is deeply racist, and the whole goal here is to mobilize minority voters who supposedly are going to fight the revanchist Republican racism that inevitably will fall.
00:36:50.000Despite the fact that, again, it does not exist, and it is very silly.
00:36:54.000All of this is part and parcel of treating American foreign policy as basically a domestic political weapon.
00:36:58.000It's not about spreading American values abroad.
00:37:10.000It is all about doing things that benefit the Democrats politically, domestically.
00:37:15.000I mean, that is why Joe Biden is pulling out of Afghanistan.
00:37:16.000Make no mistake, that is not about forwarding American interests.
00:37:18.000It's not about making America more safe, and it is not about protecting American troops.
00:37:22.000It is about Joe Biden wanting to be able to say that he withdrew from Afghanistan, unlike all of his predecessors, and then thinking that the American people are going to cheer, even as women are stuffed back into burqas and stuffed back into basements, and the Taliban take over the country and continue to foster terrorism in the region.
00:37:37.000Because Joe Biden wants the political win.
00:37:40.000And now when Secretary Blinken is welcoming in UN special reporters to talk about American racism, you know how much I care about what the UN has to say about anything having to do with morality?
00:38:07.000The answer should be, by any patriotic president and any patriotic administration, no.
00:38:11.000But instead, we're actively seeking out the opinions of the UN on American racism, which of course is designed solely to create pressure domestically.
00:38:17.000And meanwhile, speaking of people we apparently refuse to judge...
00:38:21.000The Iranians, the Biden administration has been desperate to make a nuclear deal with the Iranians again.
00:38:26.000Not because the United States, under Biden, believes that it's in our best interest to make a nuclear deal with Iran.
00:38:30.000No, it's all about domestic political consumption.
00:38:32.000It's about the idea that he gets a win for somehow putting his name on a piece of paper, even if he's Neville Chamberlain and the mullahs are Hitlerian.
00:38:40.000Put his name on a piece of paper and he gets the diplomatic win.
00:38:44.000He signed an Iran nuclear deal and then it was touted by the media as a big win, even though it actually fostered Iranian terrorist regime.
00:38:53.000And you'll notice the discrepancy between how the media covered this story and how the media covered, for example, the Saudi killing of Jamal Khashoggi, who was a Muslim Brotherhood-associated journalist who would write for the Washington Post.
00:39:04.000You remember that Jamal Khashoggi was murdered at the Saudi embassy in Turkey, and this became an international scandal, and it caused a rift between the United States and the Saudi administration.
00:39:13.000The media were really pushing that rift hard.
00:39:14.000Well, now we have news that Iranian operatives planned to kidnap a Brooklyn author.
00:39:20.000So the Iranians were trying to kidnap an Iranian-American journalist living in Brooklyn, according to the New York Times, who has been a sharp critic of the Iranian government and was the target of an international kidnapping plot orchestrated by an intelligence network in Iran, according to federal prosecutors.
00:39:32.000In an indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan, four Iranians were charged with conspiring to kidnap the journalist and author Masih al-Najjad.
00:39:39.000Alinashad was not identified by prosecutors but confirmed in an interview she was the intended target of the plot.
00:39:45.000Last year, Alinashad wrote in a newspaper article the Iranian government had unleashed a social media campaign calling for her abduction.
00:39:51.000The four defendants all live in Iran and remain at large, the prosecutors said.
00:39:56.000A fifth defendant accused of supporting the plot but not participating in the kidnapping conspiracy was arrested in California.
00:40:03.000The indictment describes a plot that included attempts to lure Alinehjad, an American citizen, to a third country to capture her and forcibly render her to Iran.
00:40:10.000So very much the same thing that the Saudis were doing to Khashoggi, although Khashoggi was in fact not an American national.
00:40:16.000The intelligence official, Mr. Farahani, and his network used private investigators to surveil, photograph, and video record Alinehjad and members of her household in Brooklyn.
00:40:24.000So, the Iranians were seeking to kidnap an American who is critical of them, and then essentially rendition her back to Iran where presumably she would have been jailed or executed.
00:40:33.000Here is the response from the American State Department.
00:40:44.000When you're poo-pooing an administration that's attempting to actively kidnap Americans because you want to sign an appeasement deal with them, I don't know what else to call that except anti-American.
00:40:54.000Here is the State Department statement.
00:40:56.000Quote, The Iranian government continues to deny Iranians their rights, including through severe restrictions on the rights to peaceful assembly, freedom of association, freedom of religion or belief, and freedom of expression.
00:41:05.000The Biden administration will continue to call out and stand up to Iran's human rights abuses and will support others who do so, both here and in Iran.
00:41:11.000This is a law enforcement matter, and we refer you to the Department of Justice for any further inquiries.
00:41:18.000Because it seems to me it's an international relations matter.
00:41:21.000When a foreign country attempts to abduct an American citizen, critical of them, it seems that that might implicate our foreign policy.
00:41:29.000But you see how the Biden administration wants to sever any connection between their appeasement of Iran and Iran attempting to abduct an American citizen.
00:41:36.000These are the same people, by the way, who are endlessly critical of the Saudi regime for what they did to Khashoggi, and largely correctly so.
00:41:44.000When it comes to Iran, suddenly they've lost all willpower to link this to foreign policy at all.
00:41:49.000Not a shock at all, because again, the policy of the Biden administration is to downplay any sort of rift or conflict with totalitarian countries, and to upplay the notion that the real threat to America is domestic and Republican in form.
00:42:03.000The real authoritarians you need to worry about are Texas Republicans, not Cuban dictators, or Iranian mullahs, or Chinese dictators, or Russian authoritarians.
00:42:11.000You don't have to worry about any of those people.
00:42:12.000The people you need to worry about most are your next-door neighbors who voted for Trump.
00:42:15.000Those are the people who are the greatest threat.
00:42:18.000Meanwhile, by the way, I've noticed it is astonishing how quickly the Biden administration has flipped.
00:42:23.000So you'll remember that during the Trump administration, there were a bunch of Syrian refugees, and there was a lot of talk about how many Syrian refugees we ought to allow into the country.
00:42:30.000And Trump limited the number of Syrian refugees on the basis that we couldn't vet who these folks were.
00:42:34.000We didn't know they were going to integrate well into the United States.
00:42:37.000Maybe we should seek third-party places for them to live.
00:42:40.000Maybe they could be taken in in Turkey.
00:42:41.000Maybe they could be taken in in other Muslim countries.
00:42:43.000There was no way to vet the people who were coming in.
00:42:46.000However, there is a very, very long history in the United States of taking in Cuban refugees.
00:42:53.000The Chevys from 1954 off the coast of Cuba and to Miami in an attempt to find freedom.
00:42:59.000And in fact, the Miami community, which is filled with Cuban American expatriates, is one of the most patriotic communities in the United States.
00:43:24.000If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.
00:43:30.000The time is never right to attempt migration by sea.
00:43:35.000To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking again.
00:43:42.000I repeat, do not risk your life attempting to enter the United States illegally.
00:43:48.000Now I've noticed that it was the same Biden administration.
00:43:50.000This Biden administration was attempting to end the third party holding of people who are applying for asylum status in Mexico.
00:43:58.000And they were saying, no, no, no, people shouldn't have to stay in Mexico in order to apply for asylum.
00:44:02.000So if you're crossing the Mexican border, then presumably that's okay.
00:44:05.000We're supposed to catch you and we're supposed to release you, according to the Biden administration.
00:44:09.000If, however, you flee Cuba because you hate communism, and you do so at the risk of your life and your family's life by floating a derelict craft 90 miles through shark-infested waters to Florida, then we are going to pick you up.
00:44:22.000The Coast Guard is going to pick you up and drop you right back off in Cuba.
00:44:25.000I wonder what the difference could be between their treatment of the Cubans who are attempting to escape a national communist tyranny and people who are attempting to cross the American southern border not because they are fleeing tyranny, not because they are seeking asylum, but simply because they are seeking economic opportunity in the United States.
00:44:41.000I wonder what the difference could be.
00:44:42.000Could it be that a huge percentage of the people who are coming through the Mexican border are likely to vote Democrat and a huge percentage of the people who are floating from Cuba to Florida are likely to vote Republican?
00:44:52.000Could that have anything to do with it?
00:44:56.000And I'm not seeing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crying on the coast of Florida.
00:45:00.000I'm not seeing her in her white outfit weeping at the inherent cruelty of taking families who have braved, again, shark-infested waters for 90 miles attempting to float cars to escape communist fear.
00:45:11.000I'm not seeing her weeping on the coast.
00:45:14.000I'm not seeing the kids in cages headlines anymore.
00:45:20.000Except, of course, that it is not strange.
00:45:21.000Once again, it's about domestic politics because for the Biden administration, it's always about domestic politics.
00:45:26.000And if we have to make American interests subservient to the domestic politics of the Democratic Party, that is precisely what we will do.
00:45:33.000Let me repeat, it is unpatriotic to welcome the United Nations to do a report on supposed American racism.
00:45:39.000Let me repeat, there's a wild inconsistency in the Department of Homeland Security suggesting that we should let everyone through the southern border of the United States, but no one arrive from Cuba to Florida.
00:45:52.000There is something going on here, but it is not anything remotely approaching a consistent policy.
00:45:58.000It remains a rather shocking development that this administration has gotten as radical as it did.
00:46:03.000I mean, some of us were warning about it, right?
00:46:04.000Some of us were warning this was Bernie Sanders with Joe Biden's face on it.
00:46:08.000That basically this administration was Bernie Sanders as Hannibal Lecter and he's just wearing around Joe Biden's not particularly sentient face at this point.
00:46:39.000America's back to the Obama years, where we led from behind, where we were in America in retreat, on foreign policy, and where we spent all of our time navel-gazing about microaggressions in the United States so as to pretend that the great utopian program of the Democrats is somehow justified.
00:46:53.000And if you are offended by something that you saw on Facebook, this means the Democrats get to radically expand the size, scope, and power of government in order to cure your personal ills.
00:47:02.000The undermining of American principles and American rights continues apace.
00:47:07.000It is a shocking and disappointing development.
00:47:09.000The good news is that the blowback has become Democrats know it, which is why they're getting so rabid and hysterical about basically malign, basically benign voting laws in places like Texas and Arizona and Georgia.
00:47:22.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:47:24.000In the meantime, go check out the Michael Moll's show that is available right now.
00:47:59.000Texas Democrats flee the state in order to impede election integrity bills.
00:48:04.000Robin DiAngelo's new anti-whiteness, white racial theory book totally flops, even though it's still being listed on the New York Times bestseller list.
00:48:13.000And elite liberals are defending socialism against Cuban protesters who actually have to live under it.