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00:00:00.000President Biden gives his inaugural address, Biden unleashes his early policy, and the media realize they won't have Donald Trump to kick around anymore.
00:00:59.000Well, the inauguration yesterday was supposed to be a very special inauguration, a magical inauguration, because the specter of Orange Man Bad was finally gone and a new day was dawning.
00:01:09.000The sun was rising, speckling the sky with colors of gold and pink.
00:01:14.000It was an incredible, incredible, magical moment.
00:01:18.000We're gonna get to Joe Biden's inaugural address in just one second.
00:01:22.000Let it just be noted that all of the talk that we've had about unity over the past several months from Joe Biden, it is very unclear whether by unity Joe Biden means that you should be respected in your opinion, and we should have open and honest discussions, and we should leave each other alone, or whether by unity Joe Biden means I want you to obey me.
00:01:41.000And if you don't obey me, I will use the federal government to make you obey me.
00:01:44.000So unity can be had in one of two ways.
00:01:47.000And he's been rather vague about what he means by unity.
00:01:50.000So on today's show, we're going to explore what Joe Biden means by unity, what the left means by unity, because the real battle that Joe Biden is going to have to fight if he wishes to be a great president for all Americans, as he says he does, is not a battle against the right.
00:02:02.000It's going to be a battle against the left.
00:02:03.000It's going to be a battle against his own flank.
00:02:05.000Which is demanding vengeance on people who disagree, censorship of people who disagree, control of all of the institutions of power in the United States in order to make people who disagree agree.
00:03:23.000And we, like all Americans, pray for the success of the president when he protects our rights and for his failure when he does not protect our rights and in fact invades those rights.
00:03:31.000That should be the same standard for all presidents, Republican or Democrat.
00:03:34.000It is pretty incredible on a personal level to see a man who's been striving for the presidency since he was 30 years old finally achieve the presidency at the age of 172.
00:03:46.000We have now learned over the past several decades that pretty much anybody can be president so long as they stick around in politics long enough.
00:03:52.000Joe Biden is older than every ex-president who attended his inauguration.
00:04:06.000And I will say this was kind of hilarious.
00:04:08.000So Sonia Sotomayor, who is the Supreme Court Justice, very much on the left, she swears in Kamala Harris and proceeds to botch her name.
00:04:15.000Now, I was informed by our mainstream media that if you botch Kamala Harris's name, if you call her Kamala as opposed to Kamala, that is an element of racism.
00:05:58.000Also, quick note, the Betsy Ross flag is okay again.
00:06:01.000Remember when we had a whole controversy like two years ago because Colin Kaepernick, that moron, suggested the Betsy Ross flag was racist?
00:06:07.000Even though it had flown at the Barack Obama inauguration.
00:06:09.000Well, it was flying again yesterday at the inauguration.
00:06:11.000I guess we don't have to worry about that.
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00:09:16.000Okay, so all of that brings us to the magical moment when Joe Biden gets up and he gives the inaugural address.
00:09:21.000And of course, what he said was fairly wrote, but all of it was against the backdrop of And so because the specter of Trump has been built up to such an extraordinary proportion, because Trump was supposed to be this gigantic threat to democracy, and because of January 6th, which actually was an insurrection attempt, A failed, ridiculous insurrection attempt, but an insurrection attempt nonetheless.
00:09:45.000This came against a backdrop of ugliness and it made the speech seem a little bit different than it normally would have felt without that as backdrop.
00:09:51.000So here was Joe Biden talking about this being Democracy's Day.
00:10:36.000At this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.
00:10:40.000Okay, well, actually, democracy prevailed before the inauguration.
00:10:43.000Democracy prevailed when the Electoral College did its work.
00:10:45.000Democracy prevailed when the states certified their votes.
00:10:47.000Democracy prevailed when Vice President Mike Pence did his duty under the Constitution of the United States, and Senator Mitch McConnell did his duty under the Constitution of the United States.
00:10:56.000As far as the fragility of democracy, there are a couple of ways in which democracy is fragile, and they don't all come from the right-wing authoritarians who decided to storm the Capitol building.
00:11:05.000The threat to democracy that is inherent in the invasion of your individual rights, that is very much on the table.
00:11:11.000The militarization of all of the major institutions in American society against people who dissent, that is very much on the table.
00:11:18.000So if you think that democracy has prevailed and will prevail forevermore, let me just...
00:11:23.000Note here that the authoritarians are very much in control of a lot of institutions in our society.
00:11:29.000In fact, I will say that if you are worried about the threat to individual rights, you should be worried pretty deeply about the backlash to January 6th.
00:11:36.000You can think that January 6th was incredibly evil, that the act of evil that was perpetrated on January 6th was disastrous.
00:11:44.000You can also say that the backlash, which has involved the attempt to de-platform and to dismiss and to investigate people who are not involved, to lump in everybody together, to suggest that everybody on the right was like the Capitol rioters or incited the Capitol riots, and therefore we need to crack down on all of that.
00:12:00.000That is indeed an extraordinarily large threat to democracy and a longer-lasting threat to democracy than a bunch of moronic criminal yahoos going into the Capitol building and doing property damage and threatening life.
00:12:14.000Right, so no, the threat to democracy is certainly not over.
00:12:18.000And in fact, may be accelerating, as we'll get to in a second.
00:12:20.000Okay, so Joe Biden then suggests that he is going to confront crises that are facing the country.
00:12:27.000The way he defines crisis, every politician has to have a crisis.
00:12:29.000Because if you have a crisis, then you can suggest some sort of outside solution.
00:12:33.000It's the crisis that gives you power if you're a politician.
00:12:35.000If you're a politician and you walk into office and you say, you know what?
00:12:38.000Everybody goes, okay, leave us alone then.
00:12:40.000But if you can name a crisis, then you can take extraordinary, powerful action against that crisis.
00:12:46.000So how you define the crisis is quite important to how you define the solution to that crisis and what kind of powers you believe you need in order to solve that crisis.
00:12:53.000So here was Joe Biden defining the crises that face the nation.
00:12:57.000We'll press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibilities.
00:13:07.000Much to repair, much to restore, much to heal, much to build, and much to gain.
00:13:13.000A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us.
00:13:19.000The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer.
00:13:23.000A cry for survival comes from the planet itself.
00:13:28.000Okay, so let's talk about the crises he's mentioning here.
00:13:30.000any more clear and now arise a political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
00:13:41.000Okay, so let's talk about the crises he's mentioning here.
00:13:43.000So he started off with a couple of crises that we kind of skipped over here because they are real crises and uncontroversial, obviously.
00:13:49.000COVID-19 and the economy, which has been largely shut down.
00:13:53.000And that will require action, obviously.
00:13:55.000Now, we'll get to his COVID-19 action, which is basically lackluster.
00:13:58.000He has no plans to really elevate the vaccine distribution system from what it is, at least not very much.
00:14:03.000OK, but then he has a few other crises he talks about.
00:14:06.000He says the cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us.
00:14:28.000What is the racial justice he's calling for?
00:14:29.000The answer, of course, is that he is calling for a new government-run regime that sees any inequality as inequity and sees any inequality as systemic in nature.
00:14:40.000That if black people earn less than white people, that is definitely attributable to a system, and that means that the system of the United States must be changed and rights must be violated.
00:14:51.000Your economic rights, your freedom of association rights, your contractual rights, all of those have to be violated by the federal government.
00:14:59.000Okay, so you might have looked at the United States, and you might have said, wow, it looks as though black Americans are earning more than they ever have, or at least were up until the pandemic.
00:15:07.000You might say that we now have a system that bars discrimination.
00:15:11.000But according to Joe Biden, the system requires fundamental change, and so he has to pose the system as a crisis, right?
00:15:16.000The system is the crisis, in Joe Biden's view.
00:15:19.000Then he talks about the crisis of climate change.
00:15:29.000I'm a fan, but let's be real about this.
00:15:31.000If the planet warms, the planet ain't gonna care because it is not sentient.
00:15:34.000Okay, the question is how we are going to deal with it, and when you declare that climate change is a crisis, this provides you with the impetus to be able to basically do whatever you want, no matter how bad the policy is.
00:15:44.000One of the amazing things is when you talk to people who are left-wing, Behind closed doors on climate change, they will fully acknowledge that an enormous amount of climate change is already baked into the cake, that the best that we can do right now is adaptation, that mitigation is not going to be the chief mechanism whereby human beings deal with climate change.
00:15:59.000But when they go out in public, then it's like, we should all stop flying planes.
00:17:09.000At the National Museum of African American History that suggests that white supremacy is the reason for people believing in the meritocracy.
00:17:17.000We have colleges teaching people that white supremacy is saying things like I am colorblind and judge people on their individual merit.
00:17:23.000White supremacy is anything and everything that opposes the left's agenda according to the left, right?
00:17:27.000That's why they've been using the term white supremacy because they completely ran out of steam with the term racist.
00:17:32.000It was thrown around so much that it lost all meaning.
00:17:34.000So now they've moved over into white supremacy.
00:17:36.000Now, normally what white supremacy means is that you believe, as the term would suggest, that white people are superior to other people, right?
00:18:05.000How you fill in the vessel that is defined as white supremacy is going to define whether we remain a country or not.
00:18:11.000Because if you're just saying we are going to keep an eye on and monitor people who actually believe in a white ethnostate, then first of all, there's First Amendment protections for them, but at least you're targeting the right ideology and the right people.
00:18:24.000If, however, Your idea of white supremacy is disagrees with Joe Biden or Barack Obama?
00:18:32.000I think it's pretty clear which way the left is moving on this.
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00:19:52.000This is why when Joe Biden says he's gonna target white supremacy and the rise of white supremacy, Unless he's very clear that what he means by the rise of white supremacy is the rise of actual Nazi groups.
00:20:27.000It is titled, The Media Had a Role to Play in the Rise of Trump.
00:20:30.000It's Time to Hold Ourselves Accountable.
00:20:33.000She says, in his inaugural address, Biden spoke about a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
00:20:40.000The laudable frankness about the threat of white supremacy surprised me, but I wish I could share his confidence about confronting and defeating it.
00:20:47.000She says, since the Capitol siege of January 6th, the federal and local officials have been scrambling to fortify Washington and its institutions against the threat of white supremacy and violence, but one national institution remains painfully vulnerable, the mainstream media.
00:20:59.000The breaches to our fourth estate came long before January 6th, of course.
00:21:02.000From the moment Trump entered the 2016 race, endless oxygen was given to his racism and lies.
00:21:07.000White supremacists were deemed worthy of profiles, noting their haircuts and wardrobes, or allowed NPR airtime to rank the intelligence of the races.
00:21:14.000The breaches continued as ex-Trump officials were allowed to profit from distorting the truth to the American people through TV analyst spots, book deals, and Harvard fellowships.
00:21:22.000So she's saying that Elise Stefanik, the Republican congresswoman from New York, is a white supremacist.
00:21:27.000And if you had a TV analyst spot, after having worked in the Trump administration, that was white supremacy.
00:21:31.000If you had a book deal, Josh Hawley is a white supremacist.
00:21:35.000Our media ushered all this through the door under the aegis of balance and presenting both sides, says Karen Atia of the Washington Post, as if racism and white supremacy were theoretical ideas to be debated, not life-threatening forces to be defeated.
00:21:46.000Never would I have imagined that I would say Biden's stance on white supremacy is more progressive than the media's.
00:21:52.000It took white blood being spilled and elite lawmakers being threatened for other sectors to confront the need to forcefully guard against extremism.
00:21:59.000In the wake of the Capitol insurrection, which left five dead, corporations pulled support from GOP politicians who supported the assault.
00:22:04.000Okay, no GOP politicians supported the assault.
00:22:18.000Twitter kicked Trump off its platform.
00:22:20.000Apple and Google removed Parler, which has increasingly become a haven for extremism, from their app stores.
00:22:24.000But, says Karanati, here's where it gets really good, the media still seems unwilling or unable to reform itself.
00:22:30.000There have been no major efforts as an industry to systemically, to systematically examine the role we played in America's journey to the brink.
00:22:37.000Just this week, the New York Times devoted a podcast episode to the feelings of Trump supporters.
00:22:41.000See, if you actually ask about what Trump supporters are feeling, you're devoting time to white supremacy.
00:22:47.000Barely a week after the siege, Politico came under fire for allowing right-wing personality Ben Shapiro to guest-write its popular playbook newsletter, despite his history of racist and Islamophobic statements.
00:22:56.000Politico editors defended platforming Shapiro by putting on the rusty armor of both-sides-ism, noting they had published MSNBC's Chris Hayes as a voice from the left.
00:23:04.000Politico editor Matt Kaminsky also said mischief-making has always been a part of Politico's secret sauce.
00:23:09.000After the past four years, it was startling to see a comment so in the spirit of CBS chairman Leslie Moonves' mercenary 2016 assessment of Trump's campaign that it may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS.
00:23:27.000I'm reminded that in this country, white people once gathered to watch the public lynching of black people and even made souvenir postcards of the event.
00:23:34.000I'm reminded that in America, white racism against minorities is titillating, not disqualifying, because it is profitable.
00:23:39.000And that is why I worry America will find itself in this place again.
00:23:45.000So this means that we need to push uncompromising anti-racism.
00:23:49.000We need to push everybody out of the media who we don't like.
00:23:53.000She literally is saying that because Politico had me write the playbook, because Politico, a political insider website, had me write the not particularly well-trafficked playbook, this was white supremacy.
00:24:07.000Literally the number one target of white supremacists in 2016.
00:24:11.000If you print a column by me, you're now complicit in white supremacy.
00:24:14.000So let me just say, I have very little trust that the left's definition of white supremacy is limited to actual white supremacists.
00:24:22.000By the way, it's not just Karen Attia.
00:24:24.000This is a very commonly held perspective on the left.
00:24:26.000Everything you don't like is the outgrowth of white supremacy.
00:24:30.000And we've had people suggest the national anthem is a white supremacist anthem.
00:24:33.000We have had people suggest the American flag stands for white supremacy.
00:24:37.000We've had people suggest over and over and over again that if you voted for Trump, you, in fact, are in favor of white supremacy.
00:24:44.000And if you think that the levers of government are not going to be turned against everyday Americans, let me present to you the actual criminal, John Brennan, who lied when he was head of the CIA.
00:24:53.000He lied to Congress about monitoring their communications.
00:24:56.000Here he was yesterday explaining that intelligence is going to be targeting white supremacy.
00:25:00.000And then listen to the way he describes white supremacy.
00:25:04.000So I know looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed.
00:25:12.000are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas, where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.
00:25:38.000So just to be clear, the way he cobbled together that group of people was religious extremists, authoritarians, fascist biggest racist nativists, even libertarians.
00:25:48.000Okay, so I have a feeling that you are using this term white supremacy to just mean anything I don't like, which makes perfect sense, by the way, because this is actually what Ibram Kendi, who's kind of the popularizer of all this nonsense, has said.
00:26:00.000If you're a critical race theorist, like Ibram Kendi is, what you believe is that all of the structures of America are inherently white supremacist.
00:26:06.000If you believe in the 1619 Project, You believe that America is inherently a white supremacist country.
00:26:11.000And in order to fight white supremacy, you have to fight against all those structures.
00:26:14.000And if you stand up for the structures, if you stand up for the Constitution or the Declaration, if you stand up for individual rights, those are all just the superstructure of white supremacy that must be defeated.
00:26:24.000So when Joe Biden says that he wants to fight white supremacy, does he mean that he wants to go after, you know, the Richard Spencers of the world?
00:26:30.000Does he mean that he wants to go after the Unite the Right rallies of the world?
00:26:35.000Or does he mean that he just wants to go after everybody who believes in the Constitution of the United States and Declaration of Independence?
00:26:42.000This is why I say Joe Biden's presidency is going to be judged on whether he has the stones to actually stand up to his own side, which has broadened the definition of deplorable and awful out to include everyone who disagrees.
00:26:53.000And then Joe Biden gets to his talk about unity.
00:26:56.000So back to his inaugural address, he talks about unity.
00:26:59.000And again, I wish that I had more faith that when he talks about unity, what he actually meant was unity of purpose in fighting things like COVID or unity of purpose in believing in the individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.
00:27:11.000But his left does not believe that, not in the slightest.
00:27:14.000So here is Joe Biden talking about unity.
00:27:17.000To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words.
00:27:26.000It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy.
00:28:56.000And this was either a wonderful unifying speech or highly dishonest, and we're gonna find out in very short order which one it was.
00:29:04.000And if you say that I'm being a little bit cynical about his call for unity, that when he talks about unity, he really means it, that he understands that we can disagree, maybe you'll be right.
00:29:16.000But I think there's a little bit of a reason for the cynicism.
00:29:19.000Okay, so here he continued along these lines.
00:29:21.000He said, politics doesn't have to be a raging fire.
00:29:23.000We can take the sting out of politics.
00:29:25.000Again, I don't know if what he means by this is basically cool your passions because I'm in charge now, or I really wanna hear your opinions and we'll have a discussion.
00:29:32.000Then we'll come to a mutually agreeable exchange of ideas and find a conclusion.
00:29:37.000It's not clear to me which one of these he means.
00:29:40.000I think I have a few indicators, which I'll get to in just a moment.
00:29:43.000I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation.
00:29:52.000But the answer is not to turn inward, to retreat into competing factions, distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, or don't get their news from the same sources you do.
00:30:07.000We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue.
00:30:40.000He immediately calls for unity, right?
00:30:41.000I mean, we have to get some unity going here.
00:30:43.000So here's Barack Obama in 2009 using exactly the same kind of terminology as Joe Biden.
00:30:49.000On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear.
00:30:55.000Unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
00:31:00.000On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.
00:31:11.000Remember all the unity that broke out right after that when he started pushing enormous stimulus packages, a complete rewriting of the American healthcare system and identity politics?
00:33:57.000I thought this was the best inaugural address I ever heard.
00:34:00.000It was just wonderful, because he said, he said we have to end this uncivil war, and then he proceeded to sign a bunch of incredibly divisive executive orders into law, and Is he going to hold that left in check?
00:34:12.000Barack Obama said exactly the same kind of stuff as Joe Biden did yesterday, okay?
00:34:16.000It did not end with America coming together.
00:34:18.000It ended with an extraordinarily more divided America, which by the way, resulted in the election of Donald Trump.
00:34:23.000The rest of the media were even worse than Wallace.
00:34:25.000So CNN's John King, he was like, oh my God, it's like a breath of fresh air.
00:34:43.000President Bush is happy today to be there as a Republican.
00:34:46.000Even Mitch McConnell, who was with President Trump for most of the last four years in recent days, has made it pretty clear he wants to shove President Trump to the sidelines if he can, to be part of the Republicans trying to do that.
00:35:15.000Whether or not related to the former president's absence, a bipartisan lightness seemed to prevail across the stage at President Joe Biden's inauguration.
00:36:31.000There was not one part of that that wasn't just medicine in the wound.
00:36:36.000And if you have any doubt that one person can make a difference, that one person's voice, one person's commitment, one person's bedrock faith can be the pivot point for a nation, just watch that speech again and look at how the country responds.
00:36:53.000I mean, there's one man who can make a difference.
00:36:55.000It is this geriatric old corrupt politician from Delaware who's going to bring us together.
00:37:07.000Again, the media coverage here is just astonishingly ridiculous.
00:37:10.000So my favorite here is The tweets from the celebrities.
00:37:14.000The tweets from the celebrities are always the best.
00:37:15.000Because when I need a little bit of edification, I go to extraordinarily rich and famous people explaining to me why we need elites running our lives.
00:37:24.000Oprah Winfrey tweeted out, decency and compassion restored.
00:37:31.000I know, it was like the birth of my child, frankly, was watching this old doddering guy take office.
00:37:34.000Today, I feel hopeful for the future of our nation.
00:37:36.000frankly, was watching this old doddering guy take office.
00:37:39.000While the division in our country is still painfully real, I'm optimistic this is a moment of recommitment to each other, a commitment to becoming a United States again.
00:37:46.000Today, I feel hopeful for the future of our nation.
00:37:51.000If a Republican had taken office and then given that exact same speech, like a not-Trump Republican had taken office and given that exact same speech, they would not be saying any of this.
00:37:59.000George W. Bush said that kind of stuff all the time.
00:38:02.000Jimmy Kimmel, who's just an activist masquerading as a comedian, said, Congratulations to our new President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris.
00:38:08.000We know you will do your best to make America good again.
00:38:19.000Again, all these are Democratic activists.
00:38:21.000So much work to do, but today I want to celebrate and pray and revel in our tremendous power, even against all odds, to make history happen.
00:38:28.000Yeah, that's the part they care about, right?
00:38:36.000This is Mindy Kaling, an extraordinarily rich, famous, talented, and powerful woman tweeting out a picture of her daughter watching the inauguration of Kamala Harris and saying, it matters.
00:38:50.000Honestly, until Mindy Kaling's daughter saw Kamala Harris become vice president, she'd never known that women could be powerful and rich, except for her mother, who's extremely powerful and rich.
00:39:01.000I mean, she needed to see Kamala Harris on TV.
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00:41:21.000We picked up Run Hyde Fight after Hollywood Studios turned it down because it was, quote unquote, distasteful.
00:41:26.000Hollywood didn't like the film because it is not a leftist talking points film.
00:41:30.000It wasn't pro-gun control, and it celebrates bravery.
00:41:32.000Run, Hide, Fight follows a 17-year-old girl named Zoe who's just trying to get through the last days of high school when she has to face down a bunch of evil school shooters.
00:41:41.000Reviewers are saying things like, while I found this film considerably less distasteful than I imagined I might going in, it's still being released by some despicable people.
00:41:48.000The film's underlying themes are gross.
00:41:50.000That said, more entertaining than one might assume.
00:41:57.000At literally no point in this weirdly lumbering, sluggish movie's narrative does this grotesque tastelessness ever appear to have occurred to anyone involved.
00:42:44.000Because Joe Biden wants unity and we know it's going to be a very unifying time full of unity-ing.
00:42:48.000Here's Nicole Wallace on MSNBC suggesting that Republicans should just be banned.
00:42:53.000It would be my policy that a Republican must Assert the truth before they're allowed to share any other views.
00:43:02.000And Lindsey Graham, I understand, appeared somewhere today and refused to really go far enough in beating down the lie.
00:43:10.000If we can protect against counterfeit dollar bills, we should be able to protect against fake news that we now know has the potential to kill people as it did two weeks ago.
00:43:21.000Oh, so we're going to crack down on fake news, are we?
00:43:35.000The fiction writer made national security advisor to Barack Obama overtly admitted that he lied to an echo chamber of people about the Iran nuclear deal and use them as his propaganda tools.
00:43:47.000And here he was explaining that in order to in order to protect national security, we have to detox lies and hate.
00:43:54.000I mean, the gaslighting over the next four years is going to be so strong.
00:43:58.000That's why you should listen to this show, because we're going to remind you that you're not the crazy one.
00:44:03.000Some of these folks are the crazy people.
00:44:04.000Here is Ben Rhodes, again, absolute liar, awful human being, suggesting that national security must be upheld by, quote-unquote, detoxing the lies and hate.
00:44:14.000This doesn't sound authoritarian at all.
00:44:17.000There's a broader societal issue that it's going to take many years to detox the disinformation, the lies, the hate that has been spread.
00:44:25.000A whole segment of the American population has been radicalized by what has happened over the last four years and by the fact that Donald Trump is no longer there.
00:44:34.000They can no longer see Donald Trump representing their grievances in the highest office.
00:44:38.000And so those grievances are going to go back underground.
00:44:41.000And I think there's a lot of work to be done to deal with the broader societal issues that go beyond what even national security, homeland security professionals could do.
00:45:52.000I have not had the opportunity to dig into that today, given the number of executive actions, orders, the inauguration, a few things happening.
00:46:01.000I will venture to get you an answer on that, and maybe we can talk about it in here tomorrow.
00:47:14.000President Joe Biden fired an independent federal labor regulator within hours of taking office on Wednesday, an unprecedented move that was cheered by labor unions.
00:47:21.000Within minutes of his inauguration, Biden threatened to fire National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Peter Robb if he did not voluntarily resign his position as top prosecutor at the agency.
00:47:30.000Rob, whose four-year term was set to expire in November, rebuked Biden's demand, saying it would undermine the independence of the agency and the enforcement of federal labor law.
00:47:38.000It was my understanding the incoming administration intended to foster civility and unity in this country and in the governing of this country, promising to adhere to the rule of law and enabling its chief law enforcement officers the independence free from White House interference to enforce the laws of the United States, said Rob.
00:47:51.000A presidential removal of the NLRB's general counsel prior to the expiration of his or her term violates these promises and principles.
00:47:59.000Well, yeah, but it doesn't matter because, you see, Biden's doing it.
00:48:02.000If Donald Trump came in and he fired a bunch of people like Preet Bharara, it was the end of the world.
00:49:51.000So what exactly are the executive orders?
00:49:55.000So according to CNN, there were 17 of them.
00:49:59.000Nine of them were directly reversing things that Donald Trump had done.
00:50:04.000He extended an existing nationwide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures.
00:50:08.000He extended the pause on student loan payments, all of which is fine for the moment.
00:50:11.000He rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, which should be a treaty and should be submitted to the Senate as a treaty, but Captain Constitution over here, he's perfectly happy with joining all of these non-binding agreements and pretending that they are not in fact treaties.
00:50:22.000He canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, which even pissed off Justin Trudeau, right?
00:50:27.000Handsome Bernie up north, he was like, this is really bad.
00:50:30.000Like, that's a good way for us to remain competitive on the world market.
00:50:34.000Also, he rescinded the Trump administration's 1776 commission and directed agencies to review their actions to ensure racial equity.
00:50:49.000They're going to just go right back to teaching 1619 propaganda about how America's evil and terrible and white supremacist and how the only way to fight white supremacy is by changing the structure of the system and how government is the only body capable of changing those underlying evil structures.
00:51:05.000He also signed an executive order preventing workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, so that'll be exciting, as he applies that to all sorts of federal contractors who wish to uphold their own religious and or factual values, by the way.
00:51:18.000When you're talking about basically mandating that all sorts of government-sponsored or government-funded agencies now have to go along with radical gender ideology.
00:51:31.000So Abigail Schreier points out, on day one, Biden unilaterally eviscerates women's sports.
00:51:35.000Any educational institution that receives federal funding must admit biologically male athletes to women's team, women's scholarships, et cetera.
00:51:43.000A new glass ceiling was just placed over girls.
00:51:45.000So that sounds unifying to me, right, is that we are now going to be essentially forcing all sorts of women's-only groups to allow in men who believe they are women, including in sports.
00:51:57.000He's going to change the census, requiring non-citizens to be included in the census and apportionment of congressional representatives.
00:52:03.000So the idea here is you're going to maximize the number of illegal immigrants who enter the United States, then you're going to count them in the census, and they are all going to centralize, because they tend to, in heavily blue areas where benefits are given, and then we're just going to apportion more congressional seats on the basis of people who can't legally vote because they're not in the country legally.
00:52:21.000He is also going to be Undoing Trump's expansion of immigration enforcement within the United States.
00:52:26.000We're going to stop enforcing the law on immigration.
00:52:29.000He's also going to direct the OMB director to develop recommendations to modernize the regulatory review and undoing Trump's regulatory approval process.
00:52:37.000He's going to make it easier to issue recommended regulatory restrictions.
00:52:42.000So all of this sounds super unifying to me, does it not?
00:52:44.000I mean, this is really, really unifying stuff.
00:52:48.000In other news, Joe Biden has announced that they are worried that the virus is spinning out of control.
00:52:53.000So remember, five minutes ago, before he was president of the United States, it was, I'm going to come in here and I'm going to quash the virus.
00:52:58.000Remember, he says, I'm not going to crush you.
00:53:03.000So that was out the window in literally the first five minutes of the administration.
00:53:06.000According to Bloomberg, President Joe Biden's team is increasingly worried the coronavirus pandemic is spiraling out of control, imperiling his promise to contain the outbreak.
00:53:13.000As cases and deaths mount, vaccinations lag, and a more transmissible strain emerges in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.
00:53:18.000Love how the media is just lowering expectations for sleepy old Joe here.
00:53:34.000it. Biden himself has warned of a dark winter and has flatly said the pandemic will worsen before it improves. The stakes are escalating. U.S.
00:53:41.000hospitalizations are at near record levels.
00:53:43.000Of course, the Washington Post, by the way, they have an excellent newsletter they put out called the Health 202. Paige Cunningham writes it.
00:53:59.000By this, Page Cunningham presumably means that he's not actually going to do all that much that is different from what is actually being done. His aim, 100 million shots administered in the next 100 days, would require a roughly 25% ramp up from the current daily rate, which is hovering about 800,000 shots administered each day. That daily rate achieved in the final days of the Trump administration has remained flat over the past few days, but has more than doubled what it was two weeks ago. So we've doubled it in two weeks, and Biden's going to be like, well, you know what, we'll shoot slightly higher than that, and then that's about it.
00:54:27.000Biden seems to be taking an under-promise and over-deliver approach, after his predecessor repeatedly made unrealistic promises about immunizations that did not transpire.
00:54:35.000At least, Paige Cunningham is reporting that honestly.
00:54:37.000That's pretty obviously what they're doing here.
00:54:39.000They're putting together a plan that supposedly does not actually help things all that much, and then they're gonna claim when they exceed the plan, look how wonderful we are.
00:54:46.000Typical political thing, and not rare.
00:55:07.000OK, so meanwhile, by the way, Amazon, if you believe that corporate America is not in the tank for the Democrats, they are so in the tank for the Democrats.
00:55:14.000It's insane how in the tank for the Democrats they are.
00:55:16.000So remember how like one week after the election took place?
00:55:20.000Remember, like one week later, Pfizer was like, hey, guess what?
00:55:36.000You know what would've been helpful, Amazon?
00:55:38.000Considering how much money you have made off of this pandemic and the fact that everybody, and I'm a big Amazon fan, right?
00:55:42.000I use Amazon, I'm an original Amazon Prime member.
00:55:45.000You know what would have been really helpful, as people were dying of COVID over the last couple of months, and we've been having vaccine distribution problems?
00:55:50.000If you had come around, say, right after the approval of the vaccines, and said to the Trump administration, which was already outgoing, it was after the election, hey guys, we would love to help distribute the vaccine.
00:56:03.000Instead, you waited till literally the day that Joe Biden took office, and magically, just day of days, it's incredible, truly incredible.
00:56:09.000Today, Amazon has now offered its help.
00:56:13.000According to NBC News, Amazon has extended an offer to President Joe Biden to assist with the national distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, a move that could expedite the federal effort to combat the pandemic.
00:56:22.000Dave Clark, CEO of Amazon's consumer business, one of the company's highest-ranking executives, sent a letter to the president shortly after he was sworn in Wednesday.
00:56:30.000He said, as you begin your work leading the country out of the COVID-19 crisis, Amazon stands ready to assist you in reaching your goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of your administration.
00:56:40.000We are prepared to leverage our operations, IT and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration's vaccination efforts.
00:56:47.000Our scale allows us to make a meaningful impact immediately in the fight against COVID-19.
00:56:51.000We stand ready to assist you in this effort.
00:56:54.000Well, you know what would have been really great is if you had not been politically driven jerks and actually done that, you know, like before Biden took office.
00:57:04.000I'm sensing all of the unification and the coming together right here.
00:57:06.000I mean, honestly, it's very, very strong.
00:57:08.000Speaking of which, Joe Biden's immigration priorities are very much open and they are transformational.
00:57:14.000Byron York has a piece of the Washington Examiner talking about it.
00:57:17.000He says, the new Biden administration says it must act quickly with a flurry of executive orders because the nation is experiencing not one, not two, not three, but four crises.
00:57:25.000So, President Biden should undo much of what Trump did as quickly as possible.
00:57:29.000Of Biden's 17 actions, three dealt with coronavirus, two dealt with the economy, two dealt with climate, two with racial equity, one with the census, one with ethics, one with regulation, and five with immigration.
00:57:39.000So it is pretty clear the top priority here is immigration.
00:57:43.000It is perhaps the top issue for the Democratic base, says Byron York, from grassroots organizers to big tech billionaires, and so it is the top issue for the new Democratic president.
00:57:51.000During the Democratic presidential primary debate, Biden refused to advocate a deportation freeze, instead defending the Obama administration's deportation policy, but he came under heavy pressure from Hispanic activist groups and then changed his position.
00:58:03.000He said in a March 2020 debate, the first 100 days of my administration, no one, no one will be deported at all.
00:58:10.000So, the current process has now stopped coal.
00:58:13.000Apparently, Biden's order says the U.S.
00:58:15.000can deport an illegal immigrant if there's a written finding by the director of ICE that the immigrant had engaged in or is suspected of terrorism or espionage or poses a danger to the national security of the United States.
00:58:26.000And ICE can deport people who have arrived in the United States since November 1st, which means the election.
00:58:32.000But those are options, and Biden doesn't have to exercise them.
00:58:34.000And again, he has promised he's not going to deport anyone in the first 100 days.
00:58:38.000So all of this is, I think, greatly unifying.
00:58:40.000You can feel the unity breaking out all over.
00:58:42.000This is not gonna be just Biden exercising power from the executive branch in defiance of a constitutional mandate.
00:58:48.000It is not Joe Biden just ignoring one half of the country to push forward a bunch of lefty causes to the clapping seal claps of the media.