The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Is The Most Transformational Inanimate Object In History | Ep. 1211

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00:01:33.000 Joe Biden is not with us.

00:01:34.000 Joe Biden has not been with us for some time.

00:01:36.000 And I remember back during the campaign, if you said this out loud, people would suggest that you were being an ageist.

00:01:41.000 How could you possibly?

00:01:41.000 Where are the indicators that Joe Biden is not with us?

00:01:44.000 Where are the indicators that Joe Biden is falling apart, that his health is obviously not excellent upstairs, that that attic, the lights are not all on, that not all the marbles are there, that he's now like Tootles from Hook.

00:01:56.000 Confundish marbles! 0.99

00:01:58.000 Well, I mean, It's like right in front of you guys.

00:02:02.000 He ain't all there.

00:02:03.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden, the President of the United States, God help us, he was doing a speech, and he literally forgot who the Secretary of Defense was, and also that he was at the Pentagon, and also what is going on in the world.

00:02:18.000 We have an inanimate object for president of the United States.

00:02:20.000 And honestly, listen, I made the case during the campaign and long before the campaign.

00:02:24.000 I mean, as early as 2017, the best candidate Democrats could run was an inanimate object because you put up an inanimate object against Trump and it becomes a referendum on Trump.

00:02:33.000 And then the inanimate object doesn't actually have to govern.

00:02:35.000 You just put a bunch of old Obama staffers around him and they'll just govern like Obama would, except with the inanimate object as the front.

00:02:42.000 And here's the thing about the inanimate object.

00:02:43.000 He's non-threatening.

00:02:44.000 Nobody finds Joe Biden to be particularly Scary or threatening, mainly because your houseplant is also not scary or threatening and has about the same level of liveliness as Joe Biden.

00:02:56.000 Here was Joe Biden, president houseplant yesterday.

00:02:59.000 Completely not.

00:03:00.000 I mean, he does not know what is going on around him.

00:03:02.000 It's amazing.

00:03:04.000 So I want to thank you both, and I want to thank the the former general, I keep calling him general, my my the guy who runs that outfit over there.

00:03:16.000 I want to make sure we thank the Secretary for all he's done to try to implement what we just talked about.

00:03:24.000 Do you mean Lloyd Austin, your Secretary of Defense?

00:03:27.000 And the thing over there, is that the Pentagon?

00:03:29.000 The thing over there?

00:03:31.000 You know, where they, you know, the thing.

00:03:34.000 Okay, so we elected an inanimate object.

00:03:36.000 And I get it.

00:03:37.000 I do.

00:03:38.000 I understand.

00:03:38.000 A lot of Americans, they're like, you know what?

00:03:40.000 I'm tired of all this hubbub.

00:03:41.000 I'm tired of all this commotion.

00:03:42.000 I'm tired of the tweets. 0.52

00:03:43.000 Instead, how about we just elect this corpse?

00:03:46.000 This corpse that is barely walking around.

00:03:49.000 And we'll pretend like he's cool and the media will put him in a car and let him drive around like it's Weekend at Bernie's and it'll all be great.

00:03:56.000 And then he'll get in and maybe things will relax.

00:03:58.000 But here's the thing, guys.

00:03:59.000 Here's the thing.

00:04:00.000 Just because Joe Biden is inanimate does not mean that his administration is inanimate.

00:04:04.000 In fact, he is the most transformational dead person I've ever seen in my life.

00:04:08.000 It's incredible.

00:04:09.000 I mean, for a person who's not actually ambulatory at this point, he's getting an awful lot done.

00:04:14.000 And it's something to wonder about.

00:04:15.000 Because what this means is that, effectively speaking, the United States has a caretaker government.

00:04:19.000 Right now, the United States, and this has been true for quite a while, the president is basically a figurehead.

00:04:23.000 You have a bunch of administrators who actually do all the hard work.

00:04:26.000 There are a bunch of people around the president who actually do policy.

00:04:29.000 And the president's job is just to be the person who goes out there and says things.

00:04:33.000 That's pretty much it.

00:04:35.000 Nobody expects the president to be a policymaker, to compromise, to actually shape policy.

00:04:39.000 The president is just there for us to see him.

00:04:42.000 He's sort of like the empath in chief.

00:04:43.000 This is why Biden is appealing.

00:04:45.000 It's why he has a 60% approval rating right now.

00:04:47.000 Because people look at Biden, and again, he's not threatening, and he appears to be empathetic in the way that your grandparents at the old age home Wants to hear about your life.

00:04:55.000 Joe Biden wants to hear about your life.

00:04:57.000 And meanwhile, in the background, all the administrators are doing all the work that, you know, completely shifts the nature of the bound between government and the individual.

00:05:06.000 None of this is going to change, by the way.

00:05:07.000 This is the model.

00:05:08.000 It's also one of the reasons why the Democratic Party is actually kind of reliant on Biden, because the minute that Biden goes away and Kamala Harris, a far more A far more threatening politician is in charge, meaning that you can actually see her radicalism.

00:05:21.000 Painting Biden as a radical is a difficult task because Biden doesn't appear to be radical.

00:05:25.000 Because again, neither does this cup, right?

00:05:27.000 I mean, like things that are just not moving and barely can speak are not typically perceived to be extremely threatening.

00:05:34.000 But Kamala Harris says things and laughs crazily and is much more threatening to the American public just in terms of optics, not because of race and not because of sex, obviously, just because as a politician, she doesn't appear to be moderate in any way, which is why she was a complete failure in the Democratic primaries. 1.00

00:05:48.000 So the Democratic Party is reliant on the continuation of the Trojan horse.

00:05:51.000 The Trojan horse is necessary. 0.99

00:05:53.000 You need the face of the Trojan horse. 0.82

00:05:55.000 And they're going to preserve Joe Biden as long as they can here.

00:05:58.000 They're not going to.

00:05:59.000 They're going to continue to pretend that Joe Biden is with it and completely OK.

00:06:03.000 And the way they will do this is by minimizing the amount of time he spends in public.

00:06:06.000 They did this during the campaign.

00:06:07.000 The pandemic was a great help in this. 1.00

00:06:09.000 Biden was not expected to be on the campaign trail where he never had the risk of a Bob Dole falling off a stage moment.

00:06:14.000 He never had to risk the possibility of Hillary Clinton collapsing into a car. 0.93

00:06:18.000 Instead, he just sat in his basement for six months and did nothing.

00:06:21.000 And watch Matlock, and become President of the United States, and that will be the plan for his administration.

00:06:25.000 Every so often, they will wheel him out, and he will say a thing, and then he will be wheeled right back down to the White House basement.

00:06:31.000 Jen Psaki basically said this. 1.00

00:06:33.000 She was asked if Joe Biden is going to do press conferences.

00:06:35.000 Now, I remember when Donald Trump not doing press conferences himself for a long time.

00:06:39.000 This was considered bad form.

00:06:41.000 Now, Joe Biden's like, I'm never going to talk to the press again or answer a question.

00:06:44.000 And in fact, if I say so much as maybe I'll answer questions, my own aides will cut off the feed.

00:06:49.000 They literally did this last week.

00:06:51.000 We played the clip.

00:06:52.000 Here is Jen Psaki saying, I'm not sure that Joe Biden's ever going to answer questions again.

00:06:57.000 I mean, Joe Biden is just a figure in a wax museum at this point.

00:07:01.000 He has done about 40 Q&As since he took office, but in terms of a formal press conference, which I understand there's a big focus on, yes, we will have one before the end of the month.

00:07:12.000 And what does it mean going forward?

00:07:14.000 Will we see more of President Biden?

00:07:18.000 More than 40 Q&As in the last month?

00:07:21.000 Or?

00:07:21.000 Where he will be submitted to more extensive questions, follow-ups, the kind of things we're doing today.

00:07:29.000 Will we see him regularly?

00:07:32.000 I don't know that you'll see him more than 40 times a month, but I'm happy to ask him that question.

00:07:37.000 Okay, now that is such a lie by omission, that he's done 40 Q&As.

00:07:43.000 The questions in these Q&As are pre-screened.

00:07:46.000 Very often they are pre-screened by the White House Press Corps.

00:07:48.000 I mean, by the White House Press Secretary's office.

00:07:50.000 This has been widely reported.

00:07:53.000 When Joe Biden is being asked questions, there are no follow-ups.

00:07:56.000 Again, this is all, you must protect this fragile mask for a radical movement underneath.

00:08:01.000 Because what's happening in terms of policy is extremely radical.

00:08:05.000 Very, very radical indeed.

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00:09:36.000 Okay, so the stimulus bill that was just unleashed, this $1.9 trillion monstrosity that was just unleashed by the federal government is a radical shift in the nature of the relationship between the government and the individual.

00:09:51.000 It involves a massive bailout to all of the states and localities that have done a horrible job running their own business.

00:09:57.000 It has also created, essentially, a brand new welfare program.

00:10:00.000 Okay, the welfare program rolls back welfare reform.

00:10:03.000 Welfare reform in the 1990s was designed to get people off the welfare rolls and encourage people to work.

00:10:08.000 And there was a lot of talk at the time, well, this is going to create child poverty.

00:10:10.000 It didn't create child poverty. 0.85

00:10:11.000 All it did was push people back to work.

00:10:13.000 Well, the new plan from Joe Biden, this stimulus bill, essentially creates a baseline universal basic income for people with kids.

00:10:22.000 Now, it is not connected to work.

00:10:24.000 It is not connected to unemployment.

00:10:26.000 It is not connected to anything.

00:10:27.000 It's a new entitlement, okay?

00:10:29.000 And the way that you can tell it's a new entitlement is the way the media are talking about it.

00:10:32.000 It's supposed to sunset next year, but Republicans are then going to be in the position of saying, okay, it needs to go away.

00:10:38.000 And Democrats know this, which is why they passed it in the first place.

00:10:41.000 The New York Times calls it a policy revolution in aid for children.

00:10:45.000 According to Jason DeParle, a year ago, Anique Hope, a single mother in suburban Atlanta, was working as a letter carrier running a side business catering picnics and settling into a rent-to-own home in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where she thought her boys would flourish in class and excel on the football field.

00:10:58.000 Then, the pandemic closed the school as the boys' grades collapsed with distance learning.

00:11:01.000 She quit work to stay home in hopes of breaking their fall.

00:11:04.000 Expecting unemployment aid that never came, she lost her utilities, ran short on food, was recovering from an immobilizing bout of COVID when a knock brought marshals with eviction papers.

00:11:12.000 Depending on when the snapshot is dated, Ms.

00:11:14.000 Hope might appear as a striving emblem of upward morbidity or a mother on the verge of homelessness.

00:11:18.000 But in either guise, she's among the people Democrats seek to help with a mold-breaking plan on the verge of congressional passage to provide most parents a monthly check of up to $300 per child.

00:11:29.000 Obscured by other parts of President Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus package, the Child Benefit has the makings of a policy revolution.

00:11:34.000 See, this is the thing.

00:11:35.000 There's a lot in there.

00:11:36.000 Okay, it is not just that people who are unemployed get checks.

00:11:40.000 That would make some sense, right?

00:11:41.000 If you're talking about the government forcing people into unemployment lines, then the government compensating them for forcing them into unemployment lines makes some sense.

00:11:48.000 That is a taking.

00:11:49.000 When the government takes your job, the government has to compensate you for the taking of your job.

00:11:52.000 Okay, but what we are talking about now is setting up what is effectively a permanent welfare program.

00:11:59.000 Though framed in technocratic terms as an expansion of an existing tax credit, it's essentially a guaranteed income for families with kids akin to children's allowances that are common in other rich countries.

00:12:09.000 It's just like Europe. 0.75

00:12:10.000 So that means it's good.

00:12:11.000 The basic idea here is that the child tax credit, which used to be applied against the taxes you paid, right?

00:12:16.000 That's why it's called a tax credit.

00:12:18.000 If you didn't pay taxes, you didn't get the child tax credit.

00:12:20.000 Well now, it doesn't matter whether you pay taxes, you still get what we're going to lie about and call a tax credit.

00:12:25.000 It's not a tax credit, because you're not paying taxes.

00:12:27.000 It's just a redistribution check.

00:12:29.000 The plan establishes the benefit for a single year, but if it becomes permanent, says the New York Times, as Democrats intend, it will greatly enlarge the safety net for the poor and the middle class at a time when the volatile modern economy often leaves families moving between those groups.

00:12:40.000 More than 93% of children, 69 million, would receive benefits under the plan at a one-year cost of more than $100 billion.

00:12:47.000 It raises the maximum benefit most families will receive by up to 80% per child, extends it to millions of families whose earnings are currently too low to qualify under existing law.

00:12:54.000 Because again, it was a child tax credit.

00:12:56.000 So they're just backdooring.

00:12:57.000 They're saying it's not a child tax credit anymore.

00:13:00.000 Now it is a check.

00:13:01.000 Now, one of the things that the government did in the 1960s is they dramatically increased the single motherhood rate in both the black and the white communities.

00:13:10.000 In 1960, the black single motherhood rate was 20%.

00:13:11.000 Today, it's in excess of 70%.

00:13:13.000 In the white community, the white single motherhood rate was somewhere on the order of 5%.

00:13:17.000 Today, it's in excess of 40%.

00:13:19.000 That is specifically because of welfare policies that incentivize people to have kids and not have a husband in the home.

00:13:24.000 Because if the income got too high, you didn't get the credit from the welfare program.

00:13:28.000 This is not quite that, but the similarities are pretty stunning.

00:13:32.000 While the current program distributes money annually as a tax reduction to families with income tax liability or a check to those too poor to owe income taxes, the new program would send both groups monthly checks to provide a more stable cash flow.

00:13:44.000 By the standards of previous aid debates, opposition has been surprisingly muted.

00:13:49.000 The bill hasn't won any Republican votes, but critics have focused on other elements of the rescue package.

00:13:53.000 Some conservatives call the child benefit welfare and warn that it's going to bust budgets and weaken incentives to work or to marry.

00:13:59.000 Which of course is correct.

00:14:00.000 When the government becomes a parent and essentially is footing all your bills, then your incentive to actually create an upwardly mobile family unit is greatly lessened.

00:14:09.000 You see less income mobility, less family formation.

00:14:14.000 Less productive, I would say less productive trajectory for children in a situation in which the government plays father.

00:14:21.000 It's a problem.

00:14:22.000 Okay, but Democrats are pushing that forward. 0.89

00:14:24.000 So it's a reversion back to 1960s standards of how the war on poverty was to be fought.

00:14:28.000 By the way, we have now spent $22 trillion in the war on poverty over the course of the war on poverty, and we have not budged the percentage of people who are living below the poverty line in the United States pretty much at all.

00:14:39.000 The economic shock and racial protests of the past year brought new momentum to the plans, says the New York Times, whose reach, while broad, would especially help Black and Latino families who are crucial to the Democrats' coalition. Okay, so in other words, it's a specialized giveaway to a particular voting bloc that Biden wants to help out. Mr. Biden's embrace of the subsidies is a leftward shift for a Democratic Party that made deep cuts in cash aid in the 90s under the theme of ending welfare.

00:15:00.000 As a senator, Biden supported the 1996 welfare restrictions.

00:15:04.000 As recently as August, his campaign was noncommittal about the child benefit.

00:15:06.000 Now, the president promotes projections that the monthly checks, up to $300 for young children and $250 for those over five, would cut poverty by 45% for children and by more than 50% among black families.

00:15:17.000 Okay, so here's the question.

00:15:18.000 Is that true?

00:15:19.000 Because we've had these sorts of benefits before.

00:15:21.000 It has not cut poverty.

00:15:23.000 It turns out that you can sign checks to these families, and that doesn't mean that poverty is going to be cut in the end.

00:15:28.000 Because in order to get out of poverty, you actually have to make a series of decisions that get you out of poverty over time.

00:15:34.000 It is not merely a question of signing people checks.

00:15:36.000 If it were merely a question of signing people checks, again, $22 trillion spent over the last 60 years in the United States would have been a pretty good way to alleviate poverty.

00:15:43.000 It has not alleviated poverty in the United States.

00:15:46.000 In fact, the black middle class was growing faster in the 1950s than it has after that, thanks largely to the intervention of the federal government in welfare programs like this.

00:15:54.000 But again, this is the kind of policy that Joe Biden is now pushing, or at least his administration is, while he's asleep on the couch or at the Denny's for the early bird dinner.

00:16:06.000 So that is a major policy shift for Biden.

00:16:08.000 And of course, he's going to be championing that tonight.

00:16:09.000 He's going to deliver a primetime address on Thursday, actually, marking the first anniversary of the virus restrictions.

00:16:15.000 And he's going to champion his own role in overcoming the virus.

00:16:19.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:16:20.000 His own role in overcoming the virus has been pretty limited.

00:16:23.000 And you want an indicator of just what Joe Biden has done on a personal level?

00:16:26.000 There are supposed to be 100 mass vaccination sites set up by the federal government by the end of February.

00:16:30.000 By the end of February, there were seven.

00:16:32.000 The systems were in place.

00:16:34.000 It is governors who have been doing the heavy lifting here.

00:16:36.000 All the federal government could do was help actually obtain the vaccines and the dosages.

00:16:40.000 Any federal government worth its salt would have done all of that.

00:16:43.000 But you're going to see a victory lap here by Joe Biden.

00:16:48.000 And again, this is a heady time because we're spending all the money.

00:16:51.000 And that's fine.

00:16:51.000 We're going to spend all the money and it's going to all be great because we're going to spend all the money.

00:16:54.000 We did this in the 60s.

00:16:56.000 In the 1960s, we blew out the spending.

00:16:57.000 If you look at the growth rates in the early 60s and GDP in the American economy, very, very high.

00:17:01.000 That was because the rest of the world had been devastated by World War II.

00:17:04.000 They were still trying to move beyond their own socialistic policies.

00:17:08.000 Many of them had to curb those policies.

00:17:10.000 In the 1960s, the United States decided it was going to become a social democratic country.

00:17:14.000 It was going to become much more European in its view of the welfare state.

00:17:17.000 We blew out the domestic spending.

00:17:19.000 We actually blew out military spending as well for a period there.

00:17:22.000 And we ended up with the stagnation of the 1970s, an awful time for economics, so bad that there was a backlash in the form of the Reagan revolution in the 1980s.

00:17:29.000 So that is what we are about to relive.

00:17:31.000 We're basically just reliving the mid-1960s to late-1970s.

00:17:36.000 And this began over the course of the past couple of years with the pandemic.

00:17:41.000 It began with the racial protests and riots in America's major cities.

00:17:46.000 It feels very much like about 1968 right now.

00:17:49.000 It feels a lot like that in terms of where we are and what the next decade is going to look like.

00:17:54.000 And of course, Joe Biden is in on it.

00:17:56.000 I mean, he's loving this stuff.

00:17:58.000 And it's not just Joe Biden's stimulus plan that is a major move.

00:18:01.000 Joe Biden is also moving to kill due process on college campuses.

00:18:05.000 So one of the good moves by the Trump administration, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos had put in place due process rules on college campuses.

00:18:11.000 If a guy, if a man, a young man was accused of sexual assault, he actually had due process on his college campus.

00:18:18.000 He had the right to face his accuser.

00:18:19.000 He had the ability to actually bring evidence to defend himself.

00:18:22.000 Joe Biden is gonna roll all of that back.

00:18:23.000 So we're gonna go back to the kangaroo courts that were the presumptive rule under Barack Obama, where if somebody accused you, that was tantamount to guilt, and now you could be expelled from campus.

00:18:33.000 According to the New York Times, President Biden on Monday directed the Education Department to conduct an expansive review of all policies on sex and gender discrimination and violence in schools, effectively beginning his promised effort to dismantle Trump-era rules on sexual misconduct that afforded greater protections to students accused of assault.

00:18:48.000 Now, we used to believe, in this country, in due process of law.

00:18:51.000 On college campuses, due process of law does not apply.

00:18:54.000 Democrats don't want it to apply.

00:18:55.000 And now, they're actually mandating, under Title IX, that due process not apply.

00:19:00.000 With two executive orders, one ordering the new education secretary to review the policies, the other establishing a gender-focused White House policy council, Mr. Biden, an author of the Violence Against Women Act, waded into an area that has been important to him but has been politically charged for more than a decade.

00:19:13.000 The Obama administration issued guidance to schools, colleges, and universities That critics in and out of academia said leaned too heavily toward accusers and offered scant protections or due process for students and faculty accused of sexual harassment, assault, or other misconduct.

00:19:27.000 The Trump administration swept those aside, delivered the first ever regulations on sexual misconduct.

00:19:32.000 It is unclear whether Biden's review of all policies under Title IX, a 1972 law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in federally funded schools, will return to the Obama administration's approach or find some middle ground.

00:19:44.000 They're not making it clear, but it's going to go back to the Obama approach.

00:19:46.000 Because remember, this is just Obama's third term.

00:19:48.000 Biden ain't sentient.

00:19:49.000 Okay?

00:19:49.000 Everybody around him is an Obama holdover.

00:19:51.000 Every single person.

00:19:53.000 Everyone around him is an Obama holdover.

00:19:55.000 This is Obama's third term.

00:19:58.000 So, we are going to return to the bad old days when anybody who was accused of a sexual harassment or a sexual assault receives no due process on college campuses.

00:20:09.000 Jennifer Klein is leading the re-established White House Gender Policy Council with Julissa Reynoso, the Chief of Staff to Joe Biden.

00:20:15.000 She told reporters on Monday, everybody involved in a sexual complaint, accused and accuser, was entitled to due process, but that's not right.

00:20:20.000 Okay, that is not what they believe.

00:20:22.000 Instead, what they believe is that sexual harassment should be broadly defined, there should be no cross-examination, and schools don't have to find beyond a reasonable doubt or even beyond preponderance of the evidence.

00:20:33.000 Basically, a claim is tantamount to guilt.

00:20:35.000 That is what we are going back to.

00:20:37.000 That is a major shift in policy.

00:20:39.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to push forward the idea that men are women and women are men.

00:20:43.000 So we have a gender policy council in which the rights of women are supposed to be upheld by declaring that men can be women, which is super exciting stuff.

00:20:52.000 Jen Psaki is now saying that for Biden, boys racing against girls in sports, that's a human right.

00:20:58.000 This is the White House press secretary.

00:21:01.000 The president's position on the rights of transgender kids to play sports is clear.

00:21:05.000 He signed an executive order and he believes transgender rights are human rights and wants to see kids have the opportunity to play sports and participate in a range of activities.

00:21:16.000 So, it is a human right for boys to participate in sports against girls, so long as they believe that they are girls.

00:21:21.000 That is a human right.

00:21:23.000 These are major policy shifts.

00:21:24.000 Because remember, when they say that that's a human right, what they also mean is that if a boy identifies as a girl in your house, and that boy goes to school, to a public school, that the school should be allowed to prescribe puberty blockers to the kid without your permission.

00:21:37.000 We know this because the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Rachel Levine, has said as much to Roger Severino, former staffer at the Trump administration.

00:21:48.000 This is madness.

00:21:50.000 This is going to be federal policy.

00:21:52.000 This is a transformational presidency under the guise of a dead person.

00:21:56.000 Under the guise of a person who is not with us.

00:21:58.000 That, of course, is the entire draw.

00:22:01.000 There is something quite perverse, by the way, about the Gender Policy Council in favor of women suggesting that men can be women. 0.93

00:22:06.000 Sort of undercuts the generalized point, you would think, but apparently not.

00:22:10.000 In just a second, we'll get to more of this first.

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00:23:26.000 And we're all supposed to ignore this because Biden has cute dogs.

00:23:28.000 By the way, side note on Joe Biden's dogs.

00:23:30.000 Apparently those cute doggies, you know, like he slipped in the shower and he hurt his foot because he was chasing his dog naked around.

00:23:36.000 Again, this is the president.

00:23:38.000 And we've had it's been a wild ride here the past few years.

00:23:41.000 I got to say this is like having a having a guy who chases his dog around the bathroom naked to grab its tail.

00:23:52.000 We're either living in the world's darkest sitcom or the world's funniest tragedy.

00:24:02.000 I'm not really sure which.

00:24:04.000 In any case, Worth noting, the two German shepherds belonging to President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, I can't, wait, hold on, Dr. Jill Biden, CNN, cut that crap right now, were returned to the Biden family home in Delaware last week after aggressive behavior at the White House involving Major Biden.

00:24:19.000 Major, who was adopted by Biden in November 2018 from a Delaware animal shelter, had what one of the people described as a biting incident with a member of White House security.

00:24:26.000 The exact condition of the victim is unknown, but the episode was serious enough the dogs were subsequently moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where they remain.

00:24:33.000 Man, I can't believe they're this cruel to the dog.

00:24:35.000 I mean, the cruelty to animals here?

00:24:38.000 I remember when Mitt Romney strapped a dog to the top of his car, and it was a presidential story.

00:24:41.000 I remember when Ted Cruz left his dogs in the care of an actual dog sitter while he was in Cancun, Mexico, and that was him being cruel to the dog.

00:24:48.000 Here, you have biting incidents, and the dog's being sent back home to Delaware.

00:24:51.000 But it's okay, because after all, You know, it's Joe Biden, so who cares?

00:24:55.000 I mean, he likes ice cream.

00:24:56.000 Meanwhile, the policy gets more and more radical.

00:24:59.000 Jen Klein, the head of the White House Gender Policy Council, because this is what we do now. 1.00

00:25:03.000 We just divvy up Americans by immutable characteristic, and then we decide how reality should conform to the demands of the wokest among us.

00:25:12.000 She says, maybe we should add a third gender to federal forms. 1.00

00:25:15.000 Yeah, that'll be clarifying.

00:25:16.000 That makes perfect sense.

00:25:17.000 Actually, I have a question.

00:25:18.000 Why a third?

00:25:20.000 I've been informed that there are 57 genders.

00:25:22.000 Frankly, according to the description of gender theorists, I don't understand why there aren't infinite genders.

00:25:27.000 If gender is a complete spectrum, that means that you should be able to change and name your gender at any time of any day.

00:25:33.000 And since we no longer care about objectively verifiable data, why a third gender? 0.97

00:25:36.000 Why not, like, a million genders? 1.00

00:25:39.000 I mean, if you want to identify as an attack helicopter today, you should be able to do so, and I believe you should be able to do so on federal forms.

00:25:44.000 Frankly, I find this whole conversation panphobic.

00:25:49.000 We are phobic of people who are pan-gender and or we are phobic of actual metal hardware pans that you cook eggs in. 1.00

00:25:56.000 One of those two things.

00:25:57.000 Anyway, here's Jen Klein from the rostrum of the White House press room yesterday saying maybe we should add more genders to federal forms. 1.00

00:26:04.000 Yes, this is definitely going to help things.

00:26:07.000 The President and the Vice President campaigned during the election on giving a third gender option on federal government IDs to individuals who want them.

00:26:17.000 Does the President see value in signing an executive order to make that happen?

00:26:23.000 I haven't looked yet to see whether that requires an executive order.

00:26:27.000 I mean, I would note that we are very inclusive in our definition of gender, and we intend to address all sorts of discrimination and, you know, fight for equal rights for people, whether that's LGBTQ plus people, women, girls, men.

00:26:45.000 So, you know, that's certainly something that we will look at.

00:26:49.000 Okay, you're not gonna fight for the rights of men.

00:26:51.000 Unless you're fighting for the right of a man to identify as a woman, then I assume that you'll fight for that. 1.00

00:26:55.000 In contravention to the needs of women. 1.00

00:26:56.000 By the way, it is incredible how LGBTQ+, has become just a giant phrase that we all say together.

00:27:01.000 And the reality is that there are significant internal distinctions between each one of these groups, in terms of the view of sex and gender.

00:27:09.000 It is very difficult to make the case for lesbian and gay, which are fully reliant on the idea that there are distinctions that matter between the two sexes, and transgender, which assumes that all distinctions between the sexes are completely arbitrary. There's an ideological distinction there that is completely glossed over in the desire to tear down fundamental institutions of our society, because all that matters is tearing down the institutions. I tweeted yesterday that we don't have in the United States a culture and a counterculture.

00:27:36.000 What we just have is an anti-culture.

00:27:38.000 We have an entire political and media culture designed to just destroy old institutions.

00:27:43.000 It is not about building anything new.

00:27:44.000 It is not about creating some sort of alternative.

00:27:47.000 It is about just destroying what is there.

00:27:50.000 That's all this is.

00:27:51.000 And when you're talking about nonsensical stuff the way that people are talking about nonsensical stuff, that can only be seen as a sort of deconstructionist attempt to get rid of institutions, which is what Jen Klein is talking about right there.

00:28:02.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden pushing radical immigration policy as well.

00:28:05.000 His immigration policy is pretty obvious.

00:28:07.000 Open the borders and let everybody come. 0.99

00:28:08.000 This has some pretty dire side effects, by the way.

00:28:11.000 But even New York Times reporters at this point are acknowledging that migrants are showing up en masse on the southern border, specifically because of Joe Biden.

00:28:18.000 I was actually just at the border and some of the families I spoke to who had recently arrived did say that another reason is the transition to a new administration.

00:28:30.000 They perceive President Biden, who campaigned on a more compassionate approach to the border than his predecessor, as potentially being more lenient at the border.

00:28:40.000 So, yes.

00:28:41.000 I mean, that's perfectly obvious.

00:28:43.000 By the way, the unintended side effect of this is that, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, Joe Biden is keeping kids in cages.

00:28:49.000 Now, I'm old enough to remember because, again, I'm more than three years old.

00:28:52.000 I'm old enough to remember when having to house kids in temporary detainment facilities was considered Nazi-esque. 0.94

00:28:58.000 Donald Trump was a Nazi. 0.57

00:28:59.000 This was Nazi Germany, America. 0.97

00:29:01.000 Well, now we know that kids are being held in cages.

00:29:06.000 Literal cages.

00:29:07.000 Okay, the New York Times reporting, a surge in migrant children detained at border is straining shelters.

00:29:12.000 Quote, the number of unaccompanied migrant children detained along the southern border has tripled in the last two weeks to more than 3,250, filling facilities akin to jails.

00:29:21.000 I love how they say this, right?

00:29:22.000 Facilities akin to jails.

00:29:24.000 What would we call a facility akin to a jail?

00:29:28.000 Could we look to the thesaurus, please?

00:29:30.000 Facility akin to a jail.

00:29:33.000 Oh, you're talking about kids in cages.

00:29:34.000 That's what you mean.

00:29:35.000 That's what you mean, New York Times.

00:29:37.000 You mean we have over a thousand children who are being held in cages in defiance of federal law because you don't have the resources?

00:29:41.000 You know who else did this?

00:29:42.000 More than 1,360 of the children have been detained beyond the 72 hours permitted by law before a child must be transferred to a shelter, according to one of the documents dated March 8th.

00:29:51.000 You mean we have over a thousand children who are being held in cages in defiance of federal law because you don't have the resources?

00:29:59.000 You know who else did this?

00:30:00.000 Had a little mustache, spoke German.

00:30:03.000 Bye.

00:30:03.000 Yep.

00:30:04.000 Yep.

00:30:05.000 You know who I'm talking about.

00:30:08.000 The figures highlight the growing pressure on President Biden to address the increased number of people trying to cross the border in the belief he will be more welcoming to them than former President Donald J. Trump was.

00:30:16.000 Yes, even the New York Times is acknowledging that this is all about Joe Biden saying, we are going to let everybody in.

00:30:21.000 When you tell everybody they're gonna let them in and just give them asylum, and they're gonna release them into the interior, what the hell do you think is going to happen? 0.94

00:30:27.000 These are radical policy shifts, guys.

00:30:30.000 We're going back to the welfare policies of the 1960s.

00:30:32.000 We're going back to the immigration policies Essentially of amnesty.

00:30:38.000 Like full-scale amnesty.

00:30:39.000 Come to the border and we will let you in. 1.00

00:30:41.000 And we are going to gender policies that are so radical that they would have been beyond the radical feminists of the 1990s.

00:30:47.000 That is where we have gone.

00:30:49.000 And all of this is being done as a non-functional member of the upper echelon of American politics stumbles around into objects and chases after his dog naked.

00:31:00.000 That is what we are as a society.

00:31:01.000 That is what we have become.

00:31:03.000 A non-sentient person is now running administration.

00:31:07.000 He ain't running it, right?

00:31:09.000 It runs itself.

00:31:10.000 It runs itself, because all we do every four years is just elect the team of administrators who are going to dictate our lives.

00:31:16.000 Meanwhile, other transformational changes?

00:31:19.000 The Democrats are pushing forward H.R.

00:31:21.000 1.

00:31:21.000 We've discussed this on the program before.

00:31:23.000 This is a radical shift to how voting is going to be done in the country.

00:31:25.000 Now, remember, according to the Democrats, there was no voter fraud and no voter irregularity in the last election cycle.

00:31:30.000 It was the cleanest election in American history, according to Democrats.

00:31:33.000 And that's why it resulted in a Joe Biden win, because it was such a clean election.

00:31:37.000 Well, now Democrats are claiming we need a massive overhaul of every voting system in the United States, which is weird, since if you guys are so concerned about voter fraud and irregularity, why exactly are you doing this?

00:31:46.000 H.R.

00:31:47.000 1 is not merely a vote broadening procedure.

00:31:51.000 1 is a complete overthrow of the federalist structure with regard to voting, and it is an attempt to backfill American voting law so as to make it easier for people to commit voter fraud and irregularity.

00:31:51.000 H.R.

00:32:01.000 That's what H.R.

00:32:02.000 1 is.

00:32:03.000 That is being pushed by the Biden administration as well.

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00:33:18.000 All righty, we're gonna get to much more in just a second, including the Biden administration now announcing that they will allow you a dollop, just a dollop, of freedom if you have gotten a vaccination.

00:33:29.000 First, last November, We made a major announcement.

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00:34:58.000 So what is in HR one?

00:35:05.000 1?

00:35:05.000 What is in this massive new voting bill that Democrats are pushing forward?

00:35:09.000 According to National Review, it would be an understatement to describe H.R.

00:35:12.000 1 as a radical assault on American democracy, federalism, and free speech.

00:35:15.000 It is actually several radical left-wing wishlists stuffed into a single 791-page sausage casing.

00:35:21.000 It would override hundreds of state laws governing the orderly conduct of elections, federalize control of voting and elections to a degree without precedent in American history, end two centuries of state power to draw congressional districts, turn the Federal Elections Commission into a partisan weapon, and massively burden political speech against the government while offering government handouts to congressional campaigns and campus activists.

00:35:39.000 Merely to describe the Village to Dammit, and describing it, is a Herculean task in itself.

00:35:43.000 States have long experienced running elections.

00:35:45.000 Different states have taken different approaches.

00:35:46.000 The federal government traditionally intervened only to prevent serious abuses of voting rights.

00:35:51.000 HR1 would upend that balance for no good reason, wrecking carefully refined state regimes for securing the vote.

00:35:56.000 It also throws out much of the work of federal election laws passed with extensive bipartisan support in 1993 and 2002.

00:36:03.000 The first target is wiping out state laws that allow voters to be checked against a pre-existing list of registrations.

00:36:08.000 HR1 mandates states provide same-day registration and allow people to change their name and address on the rules at the polling place on election day, then forbids states from treating their votes as provisional ballots that can be checked later.

00:36:20.000 Which is a recipe for massive voter fraud.

00:36:22.000 It mandates online registration without adequate safeguards against hackers.

00:36:25.000 It mandates automated registration of people who apply for unemployment, Medicaid, Obamacare, and college, or who are coming out of prison.

00:36:32.000 Right, so basically anybody who's government dependent is going to be automatically registered to vote, which you can see why Democrats are pushing this.

00:36:38.000 The bill's authors expect this to register non-citizens.

00:36:40.000 They create a safe harbor against prosecution of non-citizens who report they've been erroneously registered.

00:36:46.000 State voter ID laws are banned.

00:36:48.000 They're replaced simply by a sworn voter statement.

00:36:50.000 The dramatic expansion of mail-in voting during COVID is enshrined permanently in federal law.

00:36:54.000 States are banned from the most elementary security methods for mail-in ballots.

00:36:57.000 They must provide a ballot to everyone without asking for ID and may not require notarization or witness to signatures.

00:37:03.000 States are compelled to permit ballot harvesting so long as the harvesters are not paid per ballot.

00:37:08.000 So Democrats can just pay you per hour and you just go pick up a bunch of Democrat ballots.

00:37:11.000 Curbside voting, ballot drop boxes, 15 days of early voting are mandated nationwide.

00:37:15.000 The bill micromanages the location and hours of polling stations, early voting locations, and drop boxes.

00:37:20.000 States must accept voter registrations from 16-year-olds, even though they can't vote before turning 18.

00:37:27.000 The bill shifts the job of signing up young voters to the federal government, which will pay to teach 12th graders how to register, create a campus vote coordinator position on college campuses, and award grants to colleges for demonstrated excellence in registering students to vote.

00:37:39.000 Restrictions on felon voting in federal elections are overridden.

00:37:44.000 And H.R.

00:37:44.000 1 takes the drawing of congressional districts out of the hands of elected state legislatures, who have done the job since the founding, and turns them over to quote-unquote independent commissions.

00:37:52.000 It also counts inmates as residents of their last address, even if they are serving a life sentence.

00:37:58.000 And there are crackdowns on political speech.

00:38:00.000 One provision could be read to bar corporations from political activity if they have a single foreign shareholder.

00:38:06.000 New disclosure rules would treat huge amounts of speech and advertising as if they were campaign contributions.

00:38:11.000 This would require donors to say the AARP, to be identified as supporters of any candidate if the AARP demands the candidate keep a promise to protect social security.

00:38:20.000 501c4s would be required to disclose their donors.

00:38:23.000 I mean, it's a mess.

00:38:24.000 It's a complete mess.

00:38:24.000 And this is what's being pushed forward by the Biden administration.

00:38:26.000 So moderate.

00:38:27.000 So much unity.

00:38:28.000 You can see it happening.

00:38:30.000 Now, if you get the feeling that these folks just want to control your life in pretty much every way, and then rig the system so that they always win elections through ballot harvesting and through unverified ballots, and make it less trustworthy.

00:38:43.000 Okay, remember, I am not one of the people who thought that voter fraud and regularity decided the 2020 election.

00:38:47.000 In fact, I spoke out against that idea.

00:38:49.000 I didn't think the evidence was provided.

00:38:51.000 I was willing to hear evidence if it was provided.

00:38:53.000 There was not a lot of evidence provided.

00:38:55.000 Okay?

00:38:55.000 I'm not one of the people.

00:38:57.000 Who is saying that I don't trust results of elections? 0.96

00:39:00.000 I am saying I will not trust the results of future elections if they are done under the auspices of this garbage bill.

00:39:05.000 It's gonna be very difficult to trust elections when you are literally just registering voters on the same day as they change their names and addresses and those ballots are not counted as provisionals.

00:39:15.000 That alone is enough to undermine voter integrity.

00:39:19.000 And meanwhile, our masters of control in the federal government, they are now deeming that you can have at least a little bit, a little bit of freedom if you get vaccinated.

00:39:26.000 According to the CDC, the vaccinated can get together in small groups alone.

00:39:31.000 Rochelle Walensky, who is the politically motivated head of the CDC, remember, she at one point said that teachers didn't need to be vaccinated in order to get back to school.

00:39:39.000 And then she was undercut by Joe Biden, right?

00:39:42.000 Because don't worry, this is the administration of science.

00:39:45.000 Walensky spells out the new CDC standard with regard to vaccinations.

00:39:49.000 If you and a friend or you and a family member are both vaccinated, you can have dinner together wearing masks without distancing.

00:39:58.000 You can visit your grandparents if you have been vaccinated and they have been too.

00:40:03.000 CDC recommends that fully vaccinated people can visit with unvaccinated people from one other household indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing as long as the unvaccinated people and any unvaccinated members of their household are not at high risk for severe COVID-19 disease.

00:40:26.000 Okay, I mean, it makes no sense.

00:40:27.000 None of this makes any sense.

00:40:29.000 Okay, if the CDC is saying that fully vaccinated people can gather indoors with others who are fully vaccinated and in small groups, why in small groups?

00:40:36.000 Why not in big groups?

00:40:37.000 Everyone's vaccinated.

00:40:38.000 Okay, so there's that.

00:40:40.000 Why is it that I can get together in a small group with people who are unvaccinated, not knowing whether they have COVID?

00:40:48.000 If you're afraid that I'm going to give them COVID, I shouldn't be getting together with them at all because they're unvaccinated. 1.00

00:40:53.000 And if they are going to give me COVID, then why should only be one household?

00:40:57.000 None of this makes any sense.

00:40:59.000 The real standard should be, if you're vaccinated, you can go live your life.

00:41:01.000 And we can all get back to normal.

00:41:02.000 That should be the standard.

00:41:03.000 Everybody knows it.

00:41:04.000 Even folks on the left are recognizing how nonsensical these standards are.

00:41:07.000 What are they really designed to do?

00:41:08.000 What they're really designed to do is give the ability for teachers' unions to say, even if our teachers are vaccinated, they can't be back in schools.

00:41:14.000 That's really what this is about.

00:41:15.000 Because under these standards, if teachers are vaccinated, they still can't be back in schools.

00:41:20.000 Right?

00:41:20.000 Teachers with a bunch of unvaccinated students.

00:41:23.000 Remember, students can't be vaccinated.

00:41:24.000 These vaccines have not been cleared for kids.

00:41:27.000 Okay, if teachers are in the school, they are by definition now violating the rules of the CDC.

00:41:33.000 They are in the presence of multiple household members who are unvaccinated, which violates the CDC standard.

00:41:40.000 So even if teachers are vaccinated, they can't teach.

00:41:42.000 That is the purpose here.

00:41:43.000 That is the implicit goal here.

00:41:47.000 Even CNN's medical analysts were like, this makes no sense. 1.00

00:41:50.000 Here was Leanna Nguyen making the case that this is idiocy. 1.00

00:41:55.000 This is one of these examples where I think the CDC is being far overly cautious in a way that defies common sense. 0.98

00:42:02.000 Because look at what they're saying about quarantine.

00:42:04.000 So they're saying that if somebody knowingly is exposed to an individual with COVID-19 and they're fully vaccinated, they don't need to test or get quarantined.

00:42:12.000 If you're sitting on a plane, you're not necessarily sitting next to people with COVID-19.

00:42:16.000 You're wearing a mask.

00:42:17.000 Ideally, you're keeping distance.

00:42:19.000 And so It just doesn't make sense that you can't travel, especially if you now can get together with loved ones.

00:42:26.000 Okay, none of it makes any sense.

00:42:27.000 Because one of the CDC standards is you're not supposed to travel either. 0.98

00:42:30.000 So basically, the CDC is just pulling this directly out of their own rectum. 0.97

00:42:33.000 That's all this is. 1.00

00:42:34.000 They're just pulling it out of their own butts. 0.95

00:42:36.000 Apparently, the original CDC standards said vaccinated people can travel. 0.53

00:42:40.000 And then apparently, the reason that there was a delay in the CDC standards being released is because the politicos at the head of the Biden administration got involved and decided to reset the standard.

00:42:48.000 Don't worry, guys.

00:42:49.000 This is the party of science.

00:42:50.000 All they care about is the science.

00:42:51.000 That's all they care about.

00:42:53.000 It's amazing.

00:42:54.000 Meanwhile, as I say, the goal here really is to keep teachers out of schools.

00:42:58.000 Because the teachers unions don't want to be back in schools.

00:43:00.000 How do we know this?

00:43:01.000 Well, here is the United Teachers L.A.

00:43:03.000 president, Cicely Meyert-Cruz, openly stating that if you reopen schools, you are a racist.

00:43:10.000 If you condition funding on the reopening of schools, that money will only go to white and wealthier schools that do not have the transmission rates that low-income black and brown communities do. 0.77

00:43:27.000 This is a recipe for propagating structural racism, and it is deeply unfair to the students we serve.

00:43:37.000 So in other words, we don't want to go back to school.

00:43:39.000 And if you condition funding on us going back to school, then everybody's going to go to the wealthier private schools.

00:43:45.000 Yes, they are, which is why you should go back to school.

00:43:49.000 It's why you should go back to school.

00:43:50.000 But again, the Biden administration is just making excuses for their political allies, as always.

00:43:55.000 This child tax credit routine is designed in order to shore up a voting base.

00:43:59.000 Their CDC standards are designed in order to shore up a voting base.

00:44:03.000 We are watching a radical redefinition of the relationship between the individual and government.

00:44:07.000 It's being done under the auspices of COVID.

00:44:08.000 Even, by the way, as we are now experiencing the slowest spread of COVID cases since the pandemic began.

00:44:15.000 With the broadest seeding, right?

00:44:16.000 Just remember, a couple of months ago, we were seeing 300,000 new cases every single day diagnosed in the United States.

00:44:23.000 And we know that for every diagnosed case, there are probably another four or five cases minimum that were out there.

00:44:26.000 It's probably a million new cases a day of COVID were happening in the United States.

00:44:31.000 And yet, now we are at the lowest rate ever, and Biden is out there still talking as though we're in crisis.

00:44:36.000 Why?

00:44:37.000 Because crisis is opportunity.

00:44:38.000 Crisis is always opportunity for these people.

00:44:41.000 According to the Bloomberg News, with the U.S.

00:44:46.000 vaccination effort picking up speed, new COVID cases in the U.S.

00:44:48.000 rose 1.5% in the weekend of Sunday, the slowest increase since the pandemic began almost a year ago.

00:44:54.000 The U.S.

00:44:55.000 reported 420,000 infections for the week after recording 471,000 cases in the prior seven days.

00:45:00.000 According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg, the percentage gain was the smallest since Bloomberg began tracking cases in January of 2020.

00:45:08.000 Some of this is the vaccinations.

00:45:10.000 A lot of this is herd immunity.

00:45:11.000 A lot of people have already had COVID.

00:45:13.000 Many of those people are asymptomatic. 1.00

00:45:14.000 This is why all the stupid headlines you see about, oh my god, spring break, they're gonna party in Florida. 1.00

00:45:17.000 Yeah, they did last summer. 1.00

00:45:18.000 You know what happened?

00:45:19.000 Nothing.

00:45:20.000 Remember how Tampa Bay was going to turn into a COVID hotspot after the Super Bowl and it didn't? 0.51

00:45:24.000 You know why?

00:45:25.000 Because we are getting very close to herd immunity in wide areas of the United States.

00:45:29.000 But this can never be admitted.

00:45:31.000 And so the CDC, which is a political tool of the Biden administration at this point, they're just going to keep saying that you have to socially distance and wear masks because, again, the point is not saving lives at this point.

00:45:40.000 The point is to continue to perpetuate a feeling of crisis that requires massive government interventionism.

00:45:47.000 That is the goal here.

00:45:49.000 It is perfectly obvious from every available angle.

00:45:51.000 So just recognize that the Democratic agenda requires It requires a façade.

00:45:58.000 Either the façade is a crisis that requires a wartime mobilization, or the façade is a genial old man who can't string together a paragraph.

00:46:05.000 Those are the façades.

00:46:06.000 Because if you ever gotta gander at their actual policy, like boys are girls and girls are boys, or an actual policy like, what if we just paid everybody to stay home and not do anything, and also incentivized people not to keep fathers in the home?

00:46:19.000 Or what if we just completely opened our southern border?

00:46:21.000 If you actually got to gander at those sorts of policies, you might start to doubt the policy.

00:46:25.000 So instead, follow along as Joe Biden eats ice cream and look at his loving relationship with his wife, the greatest doctor in the world, Dr. Jill Biden.

00:46:32.000 And also, aren't we in the middle of the world's worst crisis?

00:46:34.000 Not on the border where we actually have a crisis, but you know, in terms of COVID, even though we have the slowest spread since the beginning of the pandemic, it's still a crisis.

00:46:41.000 They need the misdirection.

00:46:42.000 The misdirection is that Joe Biden is a moderate unifier and that we are in the middle of a COVID crisis.

00:46:46.000 Neither of those things are true.

00:46:49.000 Neither of those things are true.

00:46:51.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:46:52.000 This does mean they are reliant on the crisis.

00:46:53.000 So if you see through it, if you see the crisis is not there, and that Joe Biden is not a moderate unifier, and also that Joe Biden is just a facade for this stuff, then the entire facade collapses, which is what they are most anxious to avoid.

00:47:05.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today for an additional hour of content.

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Biden Is The Most Transformational Inanimate Object In History | Ep. 1211

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