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00:01:54.000Remember earlier this week when the Washington Post was saying every moment that this bill is delayed, people are dying.
00:02:00.000So they delayed for like 24 hours so he could sign the bill.
00:02:02.000Then of course he signed the bill and then he left without answering questions because President Houseplant must be protected at all costs.
00:02:50.000This is the longest stretch that we have gone without a presidential press conference in modern American history, I believe, for a person who just entered office.
00:02:59.000So he gave a big primetime address last night.
00:03:01.000And the media found it absolutely inspiring because, of course, they're going to find anything the man does inspiring.
00:03:06.000If he if he hot boxes them, if he farts in a car with them, it is inspiring stuff for the media.
00:03:11.000So ABC, I just have to show you how ABC trotted this thing out because it is indicative of how the news media treat Joe Biden.
00:03:19.000So whenever Trump did a speech would be controversial, embattled President Donald Trump gives a speech from the Oval Office.
00:03:25.000Will he be able to pull out of his tailspin?
00:04:14.000year. How soon will help arrive? And as a country honors more than 528,000 lives lost, we must also ask about our future and how soon before America can find some form of normalcy. Tonight in primetime, President Biden addresses the nation. I mean, that's unbelievable. That's cut directly by the DNC, right? Except it's ABC. Wrong initials. That is your news media. Joe Biden bringing us hope.
00:04:55.000He continues to maintain the fiction that COVID is going to burst out at any second and eat your face, that COVID is going to rise in any moment, and that he must maintain control, and also that apparently he created the vaccine, he created the vaccine rollout, and he ended COVID.
00:05:08.000Amazing for a man who has been asleep for the last several years.
00:05:27.000In the United States, it was spreading by February.
00:05:29.000This dude was doing rallies as of March 10th of last year.
00:05:32.000Okay, currently, today, it is March 12th, So he's like, well, you know, a year ago we met and people were just dismissing the virus.
00:05:39.000Yeah, literally a year ago, you were doing rallies, man.
00:05:42.000OK, here here's Joe Biden pretending that all of his predecessors, particularly Trump, ignored the virus, even though I seem to remember everybody being locked in their home last year around this time.
00:05:52.000A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked.
00:06:04.000That led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness.
00:06:10.000Weird, because, you know, one of the people you guys were championing was Andrew Cuomo, the number two guy in terms of deaths per million.
00:06:15.000Also Phil Murphy, number one guy in terms of deaths per million.
00:06:18.000So what exactly is your suggestion, Joe Biden, considering that it was people like Dr. Anthony Fauci telling people not to mask up, and that the major metros of the United States actually did lock down?
00:07:57.000Florida outperformed all of Joe Biden's favorite states.
00:08:00.000Then Joe Biden starts taking credit for stuff.
00:08:02.000And this part is the most ridiculous thing.
00:08:03.000By the time he took office, we were already giving a million shots a day.
00:08:06.000We were already on pace to give 100 million shots in 100 days because we were already giving a million shots per day by the time the guy took office.
00:08:11.000Okay, and now he's taking credit for the elderly getting their shots.
00:08:14.000Remember, by the end of February, he was supposed to have set up 100 federal sites all around the country for mass vaccination.
00:08:19.000The actual number of sites set up by Joe Biden, according to the Associated Press, seven.
00:08:25.000So, no, you don't get to take credit for the elderly getting their shots.
00:08:28.000You know who gets to take credit for that?
00:08:29.000The various governors who've actually made sure that the elderly get their shots.
00:08:33.000Because there are certain areas where they've done a crappy job making sure the elderly can get their shots because they've been instead tranching out the vaccines based on equity, meaning based on race, as opposed to based on age, which makes no sense at all.
00:08:45.000But here is Joe Biden taking credit for stuff that he's not responsible for, as he has pretty much his entire career.
00:08:50.000Remember, the only reason he's president is because he was Barack Obama's vice president.
00:08:54.000He's not responsible for anything that he has done over the course of the last several months.
00:08:58.000He was the default against Bernie Sanders because basically everybody said, I'd rather vote for the corpse than vote for the socialist.
00:09:04.000And then he was the default against Trump because they said, I'd rather vote for the corpse than vote for orange man bad.
00:09:09.000And then he takes advantage of a vaccine program not created by him and a distribution program not headed by him, and then says that he is the guy who made all of it happen, which is just not true.
00:09:17.000And the media, of course, are just They're just sycophantically drooling over the guy.
00:09:30.000The president being a houseplant does not make him a leader.
00:09:32.000You can't simultaneously be a leader and a houseplant.
00:09:35.000Here's President Houseplant taking credit for things.
00:09:38.000When I took office 50 days ago, only 8% of Americans, after months, Only 8% of those over the age of 65 have gotten their first vaccination.
00:10:15.000If you look at the actual line as to the percentages of people who are getting vaccine, What you'll see is it does not look exponential.
00:10:21.000It does not look like it was a low rate and then Biden came in and magically fixed the program and then all of a sudden it started to skyrocket.
00:10:51.000The CDC standards took into account equity.
00:10:53.000They suggested that frontline workers who were 20, because they were disproportionately minority, ought to be given the vaccine alongside 75-year-olds, which made no sense at all.
00:11:03.000It was only under pressure the CDC even walked that back.
00:11:06.000So, the way that this works is that Joe Biden is going to take credit for everything Ron DeSantis did well, and then he's going to yell at Ron DeSantis for being a bad governor.
00:11:13.000That's the way all of this works, basically.
00:11:15.000He is not responsible for any of this.
00:11:22.000His one job was to obtain the vaccine.
00:11:24.000Any president worth his salt would have done so.
00:11:26.000He has now obtained, for some odd reason, four times the amount of vaccine that the United States actually needs.
00:11:31.000And now he's claiming credit for a vaccine distribution program that he does not head.
00:11:35.000It is all headed locally and state based.
00:11:37.000Hey, now Biden makes a big announcement.
00:11:39.000So you saw it in that ABC News, that ABC News sexual favor to Joe Biden, where he said, wow, he's going to he announces that everyone will be eligible to get the shot by May 1st.
00:12:49.000Tonight, I'm announcing that I will direct all states, tribes, and territories to make all adults, people 18 and over, eligible to be vaccinated no later than May 1.
00:14:05.000We all know, except it's not a miracle.
00:14:07.000We all know that the trajectory is to this point.
00:14:11.000In fact, Joe Biden is so ridiculous that he is now reversing trajectory on things like school reopenings.
00:14:18.000So on some things, he's like, yeah, it looks like there are going to be enough shots tranched out for people to get it by May 1st, and I'll take credit for that.
00:14:23.000On other things, he is actively moving against best medical and scientific advice.
00:14:28.000So here he was last night saying, we're accelerating plans to open schools.
00:14:31.000What the F do you mean, accelerating plans to open schools?
00:14:34.000My kids have both been in school since September.
00:15:04.000And what is maddening about this is the gaslighting.
00:15:07.000The media declaring that this is transformative stuff.
00:15:09.000He just used COVID as an excuse to cram down a $2 trillion boondoggle designed to pay off all of his political allies at the state and local levels, and to pay off the unions, and to set up these massive entitlement programs that he intends to keep around far beyond the lifespan of COVID.
00:15:26.000And now he's declaring victory. Amazing. A week ago it wasn't victory, today it's victory.
00:15:30.000Here he says we're accelerating plans to open schools. Accelerating plans.
00:15:33.000His entire administration has been run by the teachers unions top to bottom. Ridiculous crap.
00:15:39.000With the passage of the American Rescue Plan, and I thank again the House and Senate for passing it, and my announcement last month of a plan to vaccinate teachers and school staff, including bus drivers.
00:15:55.000accelerate massive nationwide effort to reopen our schools safely and meet my goal that I stated at the same time about 100 million shots of opening majority of K through eight schools in my first 100 days in office.
00:16:13.000The majority of K through eight schools are already open.
00:16:34.000Because if you follow politics on a day-to-day basis, you know that what he's saying is untrue.
00:16:38.000You know that him claiming credit for stuff that is not his responsibility is untrue, and that he has reversed progress in things like school reopenings.
00:16:47.000But again, the media have a stake in endless Democratic rule, and so they will continue to pump this guy up.
00:16:51.000They'll continue to prop up Bernie and wheel him around as though that guy's leading the parade.
00:16:56.000Okay, in just a second, we'll get to some more of his ridiculous pronouncements in this speech, which again, was treated as a hopeful speech by the media.
00:18:10.000Again, check them out at blinds.com right now, and when you check out, remember to let them know that you heard about them here on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:18:16.000Okay, so, Ben Joe Biden says you should listen to Anthony Fauci about the vaccines.
00:18:38.000They demonstrate that transmission rates are 90% down for people who've had the vaccine.
00:18:43.000That the effectiveness rate in terms of preventing serious illness is something like 97%.
00:18:48.000And the effectiveness rate in preventing death is like 99%.
00:18:52.000As Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins University has said, once you have the vaccines and once it has taken, meaning the first month, one month after you take that first vaccine, you should be able to go out, take off the mask, and live your life.
00:19:04.000Fauci has continued with this line pushed out by the Biden administration that we have to be cautious.
00:19:08.000Now, why do the Democrats want to be cautious?
00:19:10.000Because the more cautious you are, the more the economy suffers.
00:19:13.000And the more the economy suffers, the more they can blow out the spending with everybody clamoring for more money.
00:19:18.000The reason that this bill is popular is because people still perceive that COVID is a crisis and they believe that this is just a one-time giveaway.
00:20:44.000I needed permission from this old coot telling me what I can and cannot do.
00:20:48.000I've needed permission from my politicians all the way along because, you see, I'm not a sentient human being with the ability to assess risk.
00:20:54.000I'm not a person who looks at risks and then makes my own assessment, even though that's exactly what I, like all other human beings, do.
00:21:00.000I'm the kind of person where when I saw that the virus was spreading widely last year, it was around Purim time in the Jewish community, before any of the lockdowns went into effect, I told my parents we're not going to Purim parties because I can see this is a problem.
00:21:11.000I was an advocate of masking when there was widespread in the community.
00:21:14.000I was never an advocate of mandatory mask programs because I didn't think they were effective and they wouldn't be enforceable, but I was an advocate of masking.
00:21:21.000I was always one of the more cautious people I knew about COVID.
00:21:25.000And yet the idea is that I'm not allowed to make my own assessment.
00:21:27.000I need Joe Biden to make an assessment for me.
00:21:29.000Okay, so now he lays out something that is completely ascientific.
00:21:33.000The standard that Joe Biden is about to lay out right here is completely anti-scientific.
00:21:38.000It is not what his own CDC standards recommend.
00:21:41.000Once again, he is downplaying expectations, knowing that we're going to meet those expectations long before the date that he's setting.
00:21:48.000And so one of the problems for President Trump in politics is that he kept over-promising then under-delivering, which was weird because he had a lot to deliver, right?
00:21:54.000He would say, we're going to have 97% economic growth, and then we have like 5% economic growth, which is really good.
00:22:17.000You can get together with small groups right now if you're vaccinated.
00:22:20.000In fact, scientifically speaking, you can get together with large groups right now if you are vaccinated.
00:22:24.000But here's Joe Biden telling you what you can and cannot do because you need advice from this old codger.
00:22:28.000If we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by July the 4th, there's a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout and a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day.
00:22:48.000That doesn't mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together after this long, hard year.
00:22:59.000Small groups will be able to get together, according to Joe Biden.
00:23:02.000Okay, in a second, I'm going to explain to you why this is so unbelievably stupid, okay, and anti-scientific, according to his own administration.
00:23:11.000First, let us talk about the fact that a lot of people have a balance on their credit cards, and you got a higher interest rate than you would prefer.
00:23:16.000I mean, the fact is, one of the ways that people get in serious trouble is they rack up the charges on the credit card, and then they don't pay it off.
00:23:21.000And then all of a sudden, you're getting charged just insane percentages on your interest rate, and you get really behind the eight ball.
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00:24:17.000Subject credit approval rates range from 5.95% APR to 19.99% APR and include 0.50% Okay, so you heard Joe Biden right there say, maybe by July 4th.
00:25:08.000Fully vaccinated people can quote, visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing.
00:25:15.000Visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for severe COVID disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing.
00:25:22.000Refrain from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic.
00:25:26.000In other words, today, not July 4th, today, March 12th, if you are fully vaccinated, you can get together with small groups of people, according to the CDC.
00:25:35.000And the CDC guidelines are way the hell too restrictive.
00:25:40.000I'm going to read that last line again.
00:25:42.000They say that if you're fully vaccinated, you can refrain from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if you're asymptomatic.
00:25:49.000Which means they are not worried that you are going to get it if you are vaccinated.
00:25:53.000They are not worried that you are going to spread it if you are vaccinated.
00:25:56.000Which means if you're vaccinated, you should be able to go out and do whatever the hell you want.
00:25:59.000Okay, so the CDC is too restrictive, and then Biden's like, the CDC standard that applies today, if we're good little boys and girls, then I will grant you the crumb of freedom that on July 4th, you'll be able to do.
00:26:32.000And my favorite part of this entire speech is he did this whole thing about how what we really learned is that we have to trust government.
00:26:38.000No, that's pretty much the last thing we learned here.
00:26:40.000The last thing we learned is that we need to trust government.
00:26:42.000What we actually learned is that we need to trust Big Pharma.
00:26:45.000That's what we actually learned here, because Big Pharma did the heavy lifting.
00:26:49.000The government provided financial incentives that were perfectly obvious to everyone.
00:26:54.000But the reality is that it was individual decision-making.
00:26:56.000It was state and localities that allowed people to live their lives.
00:26:59.000It was Big Pharma developing a vaccine in record time.
00:27:02.000Those are the people who ought to deserve credit.
00:27:04.000If we're going to look at big government Democrats and how they did during this pandemic, the answer is they did unbelievably horribly.
00:27:11.000Again, the worst states in America were the ones that locked down places like New York and New Jersey.
00:27:16.000California wrecked its economy, locked everyone in their house for a year, and have the same death per million rate as Florida, which didn't lock anybody up, opened all of its schools, and told people to go live their lives.
00:27:26.000And by the way, Joe Biden just wants to let you know that while he is saying that you might be able to get together in small groups by July, also he might shut it down again.
00:27:34.000There might have to be more shutdowns.
00:27:43.000But here's Joe Biden threatening you again.
00:27:45.000If you're not good little girls and boys and non-gender binary humans, then I guess that, you know, maybe if you're bad, if you don't listen to Joe Biden, then he might lock you down again.
00:27:57.000Old man might lock you in the closet again.
00:28:00.000Unity is what we do together as fellow Americans.
00:28:06.000Because if we don't stay vigilant and the conditions change, then we may have to reinstate restrictions to get back on track.
00:28:14.000And please, we don't want to do that again.
00:28:28.000Okay, so, this all plays into the broader Democratic narrative, which is that Joe Biden is curing COVID by spending oodles of money we don't need to spend.
00:28:35.000Because the reality, again, is that COVID is on the way, and we are at the lowest infection rates since the beginning of the pandemic.
00:29:08.000We're going to be back to normal because we can all go back to work, and we can go to parties, and we can go to concerts, and we can go to baseball games.
00:29:14.000We're not going to be back to normal because you sent a bunch of checks to people who weren't unemployed in the first place.
00:29:19.000Here's Chuck Schumer saying just stupid crap.
00:29:49.000It spends hundreds of billions of dollars on states and localities that have run their businesses like crap, and they are fining, essentially, states that have stayed open in favor of states that have stayed closed.
00:30:06.000It is kind of weird that one of the chief advisors to the President of the United States on COVID-19 is a person who wrote a column not all that long ago saying that he wanted to die at the age of 75.
00:30:16.000COVID kills people over the age of 75.
00:30:31.000How about, like, months ago, people were back to living their lives.
00:30:34.000They were just socially distancing and wearing masks.
00:30:37.000And how about the fact that once they have the vaccines, as in, like, now, particularly the people who are most vulnerable, because if you're 20, you ain't dying of COVID by the statistics.
00:30:44.000Your chances of dying are extraordinarily low by the stats.
00:30:48.000Hey, how about once all the people who are most vulnerable have been vaccinated, we go back to our regular lives?
00:30:53.000No, we have to have the experts tell us.
00:30:54.000You need the guidance of a man who said he would like to die at 75 about the deadliness of a disease that kills people mainly over the age of 75.
00:31:03.000We don't know exactly where herd immunity and sort of killing the spread happens, but somewhere in that time.
00:31:10.000So it does look like summer, early fall, we will be getting back to normal.
00:31:17.000And it's really important, I think, Katie, you know, what normal isn't COVID goes away entirely.
00:31:23.000Normal is, you know, the background risk of COVID goes to something like the background risk of flu.
00:31:30.000And it just becomes part of the everyday life.
00:31:33.000Oh, well, I guess that if he says so, then I guess we'll all just lock up until, you know, late summer or early fall.
00:31:39.000Or we won't do any of that because these people are not in charge, nor should they be in charge.
00:31:43.000But again, they have to give you the impression that they did it, that the experts did it.
00:31:47.000The government experts, the public health experts, not the actual experts who created the vaccine, not the The governors who let you live your life?
00:32:47.000He says, well, you know, we have a different emotional climate, that the pandemic has magnified a climate of insecurity and precarity.
00:32:53.000These realities have produced an intellectual revolution.
00:32:55.000It was assumed, even only a decade ago, the Fed could not just print money with abandon.
00:32:59.000It was assumed the government could not rack up huge debt without spurring inflation and crippling debt payment costs.
00:33:04.000Both of these concerns have been thrown out the window by large numbers of thinkers.
00:33:07.000Well, I mean, if the thinkers say so, we've seen years of high debt and loose monetary policy, but inflation has not come.
00:33:13.000I mean, it has not come because the demand did not show up in mass number.
00:33:18.000So you didn't get the price inflation.
00:33:20.000And because all the other countries around the world were doing the same thing that we were, which meant that we were still a good bet when it came to the dollar.
00:33:26.000But if we decide to blow this thing out in unilateral fashion, no people are not going to buy our debt.
00:33:32.000But, says David Brooks, the restraints have been cast aside.
00:33:34.000We are now experiencing monetary and fiscal policies that would have been unimaginable a decade ago.
00:33:39.000The role of government is being redefined.
00:34:48.000The Washington Post has an editorial today saying, there are two assertions we can confidently make about the level of federal debt the U.S.
00:35:02.000Congress needs to take both of these points into account as it considers what to do now that President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package has passed with a proposal for another $2 trillion or more in infrastructure spending on the way.
00:35:13.000The right answer isn't to pivot to deficit reduction, of course.
00:35:17.000We had reservations about the size of the newly approved bill.
00:35:20.000The $350 billion allocated to state, local, and tribal governments seems excessive, given their strong recent tax revenue recovery.
00:35:27.000Nevertheless, there's a case for borrowing a lot of money, but let's be real, we need higher revenues, reduced spending on lower priority items, a mix of the two.
00:35:36.000They say that debt that is large and uncontrolled would be unprecedented in American history, and according to the CBO, risky.
00:35:42.000So even the Washington Post is starting to get nervous about the kind of spending that Biden is proposing.
00:35:47.000But don't worry, they'll come around because they're the Washington Post and the media will prop up Biden.
00:35:53.000Again, I keep saying it over and over, but President Houseplant is necessary for the Democrats because he's an unthreatening face on a very threatening policy.
00:36:02.000His threatening policy of top-down COVID control, his threatening policy of we're gonna spend more money than has ever yet been created, his threatening policy of we're going to take over every institution of the American government and outside the American government in favor of equity-based wokeness, is deeply dangerous to American society.
00:36:19.000They just have to slap this oldster's face on it because he has an unthreatening face.
00:36:26.000By the way, how threatening is this administration getting?
00:36:29.000According to Axios.com, President Biden is now being encouraged to effectively pack the nation's top campaign finance regulator with officials who will more doggedly enforce laws regulating political money.
00:36:40.000The FEC has been gridlocked for years.
00:36:43.000Now, some are pushing Biden to abandon protocol by sidestepping congressional Republicans and nominating regulators who will more aggressively enforce campaign finance rules.
00:36:52.000They want to just get rid of the Republicans on the commission.
00:36:57.000By law, the six-member FEC can have no more than three commissioners from either major political party, but there is one independent right now, and one of the two new Republican commissioners, Sean Cooksey, was confirmed in December.
00:37:08.000Biden could nominate a true Democrat to replace Cooksey, giving the commission a four-member pro-enforcement majority.
00:37:14.000This, of course, would completely undermine the ability of Republicans to fight back.
00:37:18.000Understand that campaign finance reform is a direct response by Democrats to the threat of new media.
00:37:23.000Hey, the old media is a giant in-kind contribution to the Democratic Party.
00:37:28.000New media and super PACs and people spending corporate money in order to elect Republicans, that is a direct response to the fact that the corporate media is designed on behalf of Democrats and operates on behalf of Democrats at this point.
00:37:40.000So if you can stack the FEC so that everybody gets regulated except for the labor unions and big media, you know what the outcome is going to be.
00:37:47.000And that is what Biden is being encouraged to do at this point.
00:37:50.000Already coming up, we're going to get to the Pentagon attacking Tucker Carlson, which, you know, it's weird.
00:37:56.000I seem to remember people suggesting it was fascist for members of the government to attack the press.
00:38:00.000Now you have the Pentagon literally commenting on Fox News shows and not to deny reports, but just to rip on a commentator.
00:38:13.000I truly believe the world would be a better place if people spent a lot more time reading books.
00:38:19.000And that is why they need to pick up a copy of Andrew Klavan's next book.
00:38:23.000It's the next installment of Another Kingdom.
00:38:26.000Another Kingdom is a terrific kind of fantasy noir series.
00:38:29.000He just released the third and final installment in his Another Kingdom series.
00:38:33.000The Emperor's Sword finds Austin Lively on the run between two realities as his enemies close in on all sides.
00:38:38.000Despite wild success in life, he begins to realize a recurring vision is actually a nightmare in disguise.
00:38:42.000He's caught in the coils of a terrible magic.
00:38:44.000The only way he can save his soul, give up his success, reenter the Elven lands, and find the Emperor Anastasia so he can restore Queen Elinda to her throne.
00:38:51.000If you haven't read the first two books, you have no idea what I'm talking about, but this is why you should read the first two books.
00:38:54.000And then, Pick up The Emperor's Sword.
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00:40:16.000So remember that time when President Trump was a fascist dictator?
00:40:37.000So, Tucker Carlson did a segment the other night on Joe Biden making a speech about how we are creating new military uniforms for pregnant mothers, or some such.
00:40:46.000And Tucker made a suggestion, which was, you know, typically pregnant mothers are not going to be on duty, so that's a very weird thing to trot out as sort of your top of line as sort of your top line change to the military.
00:40:59.000In a time where our military really requires building up in the face of a Chinese threat, it seems weird to lead with.
00:41:04.000Also, we created a uniform for pregnant ladies or pregnant people because, sorry, forgive me, some men can get pregnant.
00:41:11.000So Tucker said this, and the world was set aflame.
00:41:14.000How dare he say anything remotely like this?
00:41:17.000Now, let me make this absolutely clear.
00:41:18.000Everybody who's serving in the military and has volunteered for duty is doing something I didn't, and they are braver than I, okay?
00:41:24.000Also, it is kind of a weird thing to lead with.
00:41:27.000Our military policy is we created uniforms for pregnant women, because pregnant women aren't typically going to be the ones who are doing the fighting.
00:41:33.000They're not gonna be the ones who are Flying the jets.
00:41:36.000They're not going to be the ones who are on the frontline combat teams.
00:41:42.000But for Tucker saying this, he was taken to task by the Pentagon itself because we are now in the business of having government agencies respond directly to journalists they don't like and owning them because the Pentagon, I kid you not, put out an actual headline yesterday about owning the cons.
00:41:57.000They put out a headline like the Pentagon destroys Tucker Carlson, which is a different headline than the Pentagon destroys a terrorist with a drone.
00:42:05.000Okay, so, according to Axios, the Pentagon condemned Tucker Carlson for mocking women in the military.
00:42:13.000During the segment, Carlson said that President Biden's acknowledgment that policies are changing to encourage more women to join and stay in the armed forces was a mockery of the United States military.
00:42:21.000Well, that's not exactly what he said, but Kirby, who is the Pentagon press secretary, He called out Tucker Carlson.
00:42:30.000He said, I want to be clear right up front, the diversity of our military is one of our greatest strengths.
00:42:39.000The strength of our military is one of our greatest strengths.
00:42:41.000Having a lot of people who can meet basic fitness standards, that is a great strength.
00:42:45.000Having a lot of people great at their jobs, that's a great strength.
00:42:47.000Diversity in its purest term is obviously not one of the great strengths of the military, not meaning that it's a bad thing to have a bunch of people who are racially diverse in the military.
00:42:58.000But if you're talking about the chief strengths of the American military and you're talking about diversity, you don't have a lot of fat people in the military.
00:43:03.000You shouldn't have a lot of fat people in the military because you need them to actually do things.
00:43:07.000You shouldn't have a bunch of people who have congenital heart disease in the military.
00:43:10.000There are actual standards to get into the military.
00:43:13.000And those standards to get in the military are good, because what we are actually interested in creating is an effective fighting force.
00:43:19.000So if you are looking for criteria on how to judge the quality of a military, diversity ranks fairly low on the list.
00:43:27.000It's like effectiveness, physical fitness, ability under fire, and then the racial makeup of the military, that one is kind of irrelevant.
00:43:41.000That's, like, it's nice, but it's not relevant to the actual fighting fitness of a fighting force, obviously.
00:43:48.000Okay, but the idea that diversity is like the number one priority of the military, which is sort of what Biden and the Pentagon are now saying, is very bizarre.
00:43:55.000The military is generally not supposed to be the place for social engineering.
00:44:00.000It's supposed to be the place where you kick the hell out of people who try to attack us.
00:44:03.000That's what the military is generally for.
00:44:04.000We have lots of places for social engineering in American society.
00:44:08.000The military is not the A number one place for that.
00:44:09.000Now, the military has been used in the past for some pretty excellent social engineering, namely the desegregation of the military by Harry Truman, right?
00:44:17.000And I'm glad that Harry Truman did it.
00:44:19.000But the notion that that is the purpose of the military, as opposed to an attempt to broaden the scope of the military to encompass more people who are qualified at a basic level to do the job, that is a different thing.
00:44:28.000Okay, so Kirby says, quote, I want to be very clear up front, the diversity of our military is one of our greatest strengths.
00:44:34.000I've seen it for myself in long months at sea and in combat waged by our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
00:44:38.000I've seen it up on Capitol Hill just this past month.
00:44:40.000I see it every day right here at the Pentagon.
00:44:41.000What we absolutely won't do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military.
00:44:45.000Maybe those folks feel like they have something to prove.
00:45:03.000Imagine if the Pentagon had done this under President Trump.
00:45:07.000Imagine if Jonathan Chait had said something about why the military's transgender policy is super bad and the Pentagon had just put out a bunch of memes attacking Jonathan Chait.
00:45:16.000You'd be like, why is the administration doing that?
00:45:18.000Why is the executive branch attacking journalists this way?
00:45:21.000But apparently it's totally fine to do it so long as it's Tucker Carlson and it's in favor of the woke ideology.
00:45:27.000That diversity is like the chief priority of the military.
00:45:30.000Okay, so this sort of stuff, unfortunately, is becoming more and more common.
00:45:34.000Obviously, not just from the government, but also socially speaking.
00:45:37.000There's an attempt to bully out of public existence anybody who happens to be on the right.
00:45:41.000This is why you have MSNBC's Nicole Wallace now saying that any single company that donates to the GOP is a racist company.
00:45:48.000She, of course, says this on Joy Reads Bizarre Show.
00:45:51.000The Republicans are now openly trying to disenfranchise voters.
00:45:56.000They're acknowledging that the more people vote, the worse the margins for Republicans will be.
00:46:02.000And any company that thinks they can give money to Republicans because maybe they like their positions on regulations or taxes needs to understand that they're voting for voter suppression.
00:46:11.000And if it's a company that has a product, they need to, I think, understand that that product will be associated with racist disenfranchisement of black voters.
00:46:19.000So here's Nicole Wallace openly calling on people to boycott any company that associates with her political opponents.
00:46:27.000But that is the world in which we now live.
00:46:30.000A top-down government control pushed by Joe Biden, and the government attacking its political opponents outside of government via the Pentagon, which again, if Trump had done it, would be considered authoritarianism.
00:46:43.000And of course, members of our vaunted media now trying to use their power to cudgel everybody else into shutting up.
00:46:50.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of cuddling people into shutting up, Amazon has now announced it will not be selling books.
00:46:57.000Will not be selling books framing LGBTQ plus identities as mental illnesses.
00:47:01.000I assume that also includes mental disorders.
00:47:03.000If it includes mental disorders, then they're going to have to ban the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual No.
00:47:07.0005, which labels gender dysphoria in its actual listing of mental disorders.
00:47:11.000Because it is, in fact, a mental disorder.
00:47:14.000Now, they banned Ryan Anderson's book.
00:47:15.000So, Ryan Anderson, formerly of Heritage Foundation, now the Ethics and Public Policy Center, he had a book called When Harry Became Sally.
00:47:24.000And the entire book is very well considered.
00:47:25.000It does not attempt to say bad things about people who suffer from gender dysphoria.
00:47:30.000It talks about the various medical solutions that have been proposed and how effective they are or are not.
00:47:35.000It's a very well-considered, well-thought-out, sympathetic book.
00:47:38.000Does not matter, Amazon pulled it down.
00:47:40.000So people tried to get answers from Amazon as to why the book was pulled down, because that is digital book burning.
00:47:45.000Now, Amazon is saying, according to the Wall Street Journal, that it recently removed a three-year-old book about transgender issues from its platforms because it decided not to sell books that frame transgender and other sexual identities as mental illnesses.
00:47:57.000The company explained its decision in a letter Thursday to Republican Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana, and Josh Hawley of Missouri.
00:48:04.000The Senators had written last month to Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, requesting an explanation of why the Ryan Anderson book was pulled down.
00:48:13.000When Harry Became Sally, of course, focuses on a variety of issues, including gender dysphoria.
00:48:15.000not to sell books that frame LGBTQ plus identity as a mental illness, Amazon said in the letter, which was signed by Brian Huseman, Amazon's vice president of public policy, referring to sexual identities that include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, among others. When Harry became Sally, of course, focuses on a variety of issues, including gender dysphoria. Anderson says, quote, everyone agrees gender dysphoria is a serious condition that causes great suffering.
00:48:39.000Okay, so what exactly are they banning?
00:48:42.000And the answer is that they're not banning every book that says that gender dysphoria is a mental disorder, because it clearly is a mental disorder.
00:48:49.000That is why treatment is recommended or not recommended, depending on your point of view.
00:48:53.000Instead, what Ryan Anderson points out is there is a debate which Amazon is seeking to shut down about how best to treat patients who experience gender dysphoria.
00:49:01.000They called the book an important contribution to that conversation.
00:49:04.000They said, Amazon is using its massive power to distort the marketplace of ideas and is deceiving its own customers in the process.
00:49:11.000Okay, the fact that Amazon is now banning books on the basis of suggesting, for example, that watchful waiting is a better idea than puberty blockers for children, or the idea that transgender surgery might not actually be super effective in fighting the symptoms of gender dysphoria, that it's banning those books, I mean, that's full-fledged authoritarianism from the corporate media.
00:49:34.000And you know that this is Amazon's perspective, right?
00:49:35.000I mean, this is not scientifically settled material by any stretch of the imagination at all.
00:49:40.000And yet Amazon has decided that the debate is over.
00:49:43.000So it is only a matter of time before they start banning books that do not take the preferred line on climate change.
00:49:47.000For example, if you are like Michael Schellenberger or Bjorn Lomberg, and you suggest that climate change is occurring, but the solutions provided by the left are not actually the solutions, those books will be taken down.
00:49:57.000If you believe that America is not systemically racist, those books presumably will be taken down.
00:50:01.000And all you have to do to find out what Amazon is going to take down next, and this is gonna happen over the next couple of years during the Biden administration, what you're gonna see as Amazon continues to do this, all you have to do to tell what they take down next is go take a look over at their movie page because you can see what they are recommending on the ideological side.
00:50:16.000So, producer Savvy sent over an email from one of our listeners showing that Amazon is currently, for Women's History Month, Or for Independent Women's Day or something?
00:50:30.000One of the movies that they are honoring as female-directed for women in film is The Matrix by the Wachowski brothers, who are now the Wachowski sisters, right?
00:50:40.000So Amazon is openly making the statement that The Matrix, which was directed by men, Okay, it was directed by men.
00:50:46.000Not only do these people happen to still be biological men, when they directed the film, they even identified as men.
00:50:52.000It was only later that they started identifying both as transgender women.
00:50:56.000Now, that is considered a female-directed film because, again, transgender politics means that we change not only the laws of biology, pretending that men are women, but also the laws of physics, pretending they were always women even when they were men.
00:51:30.000So Amazon, when they decide that they are going to push the notion that America is systemically racist, you know the next books that they're gonna punish are gonna be books like Heather McDonald's, which claim that America's police are not systemically racist.
00:52:12.000Here's a crazy story from Georgetown Law.
00:52:14.000According to the Washington Post, A Georgetown Law professor was terminated, and a second was placed on leave after a video clip showed a conversation between the pair that included what an official called reprehensible statements about black students.
00:52:27.000Officials said Thursday the conversation between adjunct professors Sandra Sellers and David Batson had triggered an investigation by Georgetown University's Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Affirmative Action, which is an Orwellian title for an office that basically exists just to punish people for saying the wrong things.
00:52:42.000There's an entire billion-dollar industry in the United States, offices of diversity at virtually every company, designed to avoid liability.
00:52:50.000You can limit your liability and exposure to federal lawsuit if you have an office of diversity that polices inside your institution, quote-unquote racism, even if it's not actually racism.
00:53:00.000The school's Black Law Students Association had called for Sellers' firing.
00:53:04.000The video clip, shared on Twitter this week, showed Sellers discussing student performance.
00:53:09.000Sellers said in the video, quote, Meaning a lot of my lower-performing students.
00:53:26.000Hey, now, the way this was interpreted is that black students are inherently dumber.
00:53:29.000That is not at all what the professor is obviously saying.
00:53:33.000The professor is saying that one of the problems with lowering standards of admission to have affirmative action people to have people get in via affirmative action means That you're going to have people who are misaligned with the school.
00:53:44.000This has been a long-supported thesis.
00:53:46.000Abigail Thornstrom wrote about this years ago in The Atlantic, when The Atlantic was not a left-wing garbage salon knockoff.
00:53:52.000It used to be that everybody understood that if you lower standards for admission, a lot of the people who would have done really well at a school not as highly ranked as Georgetown actually underperform at schools like Georgetown, because they got in having lower scores than the rest of the population at these particular schools.
00:54:06.000So this professor says, some of my best-performing students are black, but A disproportionate number of my lower-performing students are black, and this makes me sad.
00:54:37.000If you even note that black students are disproportionately underperforming at some of these schools, which statistically they are, this means that you are a racist.
00:54:45.000And if you're sad about it, you're upset about it, you want black students to do better, this means that you're even more of a racist, according to Georgetown Law.
00:54:53.000All you have to do is pour a few billion more dollars into the Office of Diversity to re-indoctrinate everybody into the idea that you can't have any standards at all, and then all of this will go away.
00:54:59.000By the way, if Georgetown Law really wants to fix this problem, they should just get rid of grades.
00:55:03.000for more anti-bias training, there it is.
00:55:05.000All you have to do is pour a few billion more dollars into the Office of Diversity to re-indoctrinate everybody into the idea that you can't have any standards at all, and then all of this will go away.
00:55:14.000By the way, if Georgetown Law really wants to fix this problem, they should just get rid of grades.
00:55:17.000All grades should just go away. No more grades.
00:55:37.000She was saying that if she could have had the ability to do so, she would have graded black students better.
00:55:41.000But it's a problem because they're not performing as well.
00:55:45.000Sellers shared a resignation with the Washington Post in which she apologized for the hurtful and misdirected remarks that were part of a longer discussion about patterns in class participation.
00:55:53.000I would never do anything to intentionally hurt my students or Georgetown Law and wish I could take back my words, Sellers said in the letter, regardless of my intent, I have done irreparable harm.
00:56:32.000But just like everybody who is intimidated, she put her neck out there and they're going to chop it right off.
00:56:39.000Hassan Ahmadi, Georgetown Law student who posted clips of the remarks on Twitter, said the conversation happened at the conclusion of a negotiations class.
00:56:45.000The recording was online for about two weeks before students noticed the conversation.
00:56:49.000The video was reported Monday morning and then taken down soon after.
00:56:53.000Treynor, who's the dean, said he had learned this week about a conversation between two faculty members that included reprehensible statements concerning the evaluation of black students.
00:57:03.000I'm sorry, it's just, this is ridiculous.
00:57:04.000It's a deliberate misinterpretation of what is very obviously a sympathetic position toward black students.
00:57:13.000Tiffany Wright, a former Supreme Court law clerk who graduated from Georgetown Law in 2013, they dug this person up to comment for the Washington Post.
00:57:20.000Now a practicing attorney and co-director of the Human and Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University, said she's been dealing with a kind of microaggressions espoused by Sellers since she was a student.
00:57:29.000She's used to people doubting her abilities and seeing black people held to different standards than their white peers.
00:57:33.000Quote, it also has an effect over time on our mental health.
00:57:36.000You start to absorb and believe those lies.
00:58:01.000By the way, the Black Law Students Association also accused a professor named Kerry Menkel-Meadow, a professor emerita at Georgetown Law and professor at UC Irvine, of using the N-word in a class.
00:58:15.000She said it was in an article she had assigned to students about regulating hate speech.
00:58:18.000And the Black Law Students Association tried to have her fired for assigning a piece about hate speech that included the N-word, which is necessary to explain hate speech.
00:58:29.000And by the way, this whole woke cancel culture nonsense, it's going international now.
00:58:33.000Apparently a white translator was removed from an Amanda Gorman poem in Europe.
00:58:38.000So Amanda Gorman is this bizarrely popular, National Youth Poet Laureate.
00:58:44.000Can't say I'm supremely enamored with her work.
00:58:47.000Will also admit I'm not a huge poetry fan, so maybe she's amazing, and I just don't know it.
00:58:50.000But I've never heard a poem of hers that I didn't think was just prose divided up into kind of random doggerel.
00:58:57.000In any case, there is a Catalan translator, apparently in Spain, who's been removed from a job translating a poem by Amanda Gorman because he did not, quote, fit the profile.
00:59:11.000The move by the Barcelona publisher, Universe, marks the second instance of controversy in Europe around the choice of a white person being chosen to translate The Hill We Climb by Gorman, who is black.
00:59:20.000Translator Victor Obials told AFP on Wednesday Universe had commissioned him last month to translate Gorman's work into Catalan.
00:59:25.000After he completed the job, the publishing house informed him he was not the right person.
00:59:29.000He said, They told me I am not suitable to translate it.
00:59:31.000They did not question my abilities, but they were looking for a different profile, which had to be a woman, young, activist, and preferably black.
00:59:38.000So you can't even translate words now, unless you are a person who absolutely mirrors the person who wrote the word in every respect.
00:59:46.000In fact, only Amanda Gorman can translate Amanda Gorman into Catalan.
00:59:49.000All she has to do is learn Catalan, and then it'll be no problem.
00:59:53.000This is the absurdity of our divisive and polarized culture, and it is only going to get worse from here on in.
00:59:59.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of divisive and polarized culture, I'd be remiss if I did not comment on the Myers-Leonard situation.
01:00:07.000So Myers-Leonard is a forward for the Miami Heat.
01:00:10.000Okay, and Myers-Leonard is very controversial in the NBA because he chose not to kneel for the National Anthem.
01:00:16.000That's why he first became controversial in the NBA.
01:00:18.000You see, in the NBA, it is considered good taste to kneel for the National Anthem and bad taste to stand for the National Anthem.
01:00:42.000It comes from the German term for circle, because Jews back in the early 19th century were forced to wear a circle in public.
01:00:50.000And so that turned into the term that rhymes with Mike, but starts with K, okay?
01:00:56.000I don't like to say racial slurs on the program, So that term was used by Myers Leonard.
01:01:02.000Now, as a person who's received more anti-Semitic comments than I would probably say any American, like literally all the Americans, in 2016, I was named this by the ADL.
01:01:16.000The one that says I was the most targeted person by anti-Semitism on Twitter for all of 2016.
01:01:21.000So I know what anti-Semitism looks like, and I know what it's like to be targeted by anti-Semitism.
01:01:26.000You don't get the K-word a lot, except from kind of alt-writers.
01:01:29.000That's pretty much the only place that you get the K-word.
01:01:31.000Myers-Leonard is not a member of the alt-right.
01:01:33.000My guess is that Myers-Leonard was playing video games a lot, and there were a bunch of gabbers in there, you know, 8chan folks, and some of those people were using the word.
01:01:41.000He didn't know what the word meant, and so he used the word one time.
01:01:43.000I don't think that he thought, oh Jew, that means k-word.
01:02:34.000Myers Leonard was hit with a $50,000 fine, the maximum allowed by league policy, and suspended from using all Miami Heat facilities and activities for one week in response to his use of the term.
01:02:44.000Adam Silver said that he believes Leonard is genuinely remorseful.
01:02:47.000He said Myers-Leonard's comment was inexcusable, hurtful, such an offensive term has no place in the NBA or in our society.
01:02:52.000He's going to be required to participate in a cultural diversity program.
01:02:57.000Silver said, we have further communicated to Myers that derogatory comments like this will not be tolerated and he will be expected to uphold the core values of our league, equality, tolerance, inclusion, and respect at all times moving forward.
01:03:07.000So that was the maximum fine that could be issued by Adam Silver for anything.
01:03:12.000It's unclear how this will affect Leonard's standing with the Miami Heat.
01:03:16.000The Miami Heat said Leonard would be away from the team indefinitely.
01:03:19.000And they said that they are going to continue to communicate with Myers as he educates himself and all of this.
01:03:24.000Okay, so, that's what happened to Myers-Leonard.
01:03:37.000Another person who has been a star for the Miami Heat.
01:03:40.000When, for example, Dwayne Wade defended Nick Cannon.
01:03:42.000You remember that Nick Cannon was fired because he went on this wild anti-Semitic diatribe in the middle of a podcast?
01:03:49.000Dwayne Wade came out and tweeted, we are with you with an emoji of a black fist.
01:03:53.000Keep leading, he tweeted to Nick Cannon.
01:03:57.000Was Dwyane Wade hit with any fine by the NBA?
01:04:01.000And even if he was retired by that point, he's still associated with the league, he's still associated with, I believe, one of the teams, I think the Heat.
01:04:08.000So was there anything that happened to Dwyane Wade?
01:04:11.000How about, you know, actually other active players?
01:04:13.000Like, for example, it turns out that other players, including Kevin Durant, expressed sympathy for Deshaun Jackson.
01:04:21.000Deshaun Jackson had issued a wild anti-Semitic statement.
01:04:25.000He had suggested that Jewish people own all the banks.
01:04:28.000And he had put up anti-Semitic content on Instagram, including a quote misattributed to Adolf Hitler.
01:04:35.000He was defended by former NBA player Steven Jackson.
01:05:11.000So, do I think that the NBA cares about bigotry, or do I think that the NBA is wildly biased in how it applies its standards of justice?
01:05:19.000Yes, I'm talking about the same NBA that thought that it was completely fine for LeBron James to undercut the Hong Kong Freedom Movement because they're making money in China, but continue to suggest that black men are under existential threat in a country where LeBron James is one of the most powerful cultural figures in America earning literally $100 million a year.
01:05:37.000Yes, it turns out that the NBA has a bit of an agenda here, and that agenda has something to do with race, and that agenda has something to do with politics, and it has very, very little to do with principle.
01:05:48.000None of that's an excuse for Myers-Leonard.
01:05:49.000But Myers-Leonard, if he's going to be fined, then certainly all these other players should have been fined.
01:05:54.000And by the way, I happen to believe that Myers Leonard did that by accident.
01:05:57.000I do not think that it was by accident when you defend Nick Cannon saying openly anti-Semitic things, or when you put up posts that say, getting that Jewish money, to the applause apparently, and non-punishment of the NBA.
01:06:08.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
01:06:11.000First, you cannot forget to end your week by checking out the Andrew Klavan Show.
01:06:14.000Drew's show is every Friday, he's got an exciting night planned for you.
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