The Ben Shapiro Show - January 25, 2022


Biden’s The Stupid SOB | Ep. 1419

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00:00:03.000 The U.S. 1.00
00:00:03.000 prepares to deploy 8,500 troops to Europe. 1.00
00:00:06.000 And the Supreme Court prepares to consider whether affirmative action is still constitutional.
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00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:01:43.000 Alrighty, so yesterday, the President of the United States, he's having a bad day, as all of his days are lately.
00:01:49.000 He was considering the possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
00:01:53.000 Plus, the stock market was taking an absolute rollercoaster ride yesterday.
00:01:57.000 It tumbled dramatically, and then it rose again dramatically.
00:02:00.000 But according to Bloomberg.com, the stock market has never been down this much 16 trading days into a year.
00:02:07.000 The S&P 500 has dropped 11%, heading toward what would count as a correction so far this year.
00:02:11.000 That is the most on record at this juncture.
00:02:13.000 According to Bloomberg data that goes back over nine decades, Though drawdowns have been faster in prior years before quick rebounds, most notably in 2009.
00:02:22.000 The downturn comes as traders brace for the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy, and a surge in U.S.
00:02:26.000 Treasury yields weighs on the outlook for stocks.
00:02:29.000 A host of technical signals also suggest more volatility may be coming up ahead.
00:02:33.000 Rich Roche, the technical strategist at Evercore ISI, he says, the Fed pulled the punchbowl.
00:02:38.000 Liquidity has evaporated.
00:02:39.000 The S&P and NDX broke below their 200 DMA for the first time since the COVID outbreak.
00:02:46.000 A bear market down to the 3800 level is likely for the S&P 500, Ross said, given the dramatic erosion of the technical backdrop in conjunction with the highest inflation, tightest policy and most uncertain political and geopolitical condition in years.
00:02:58.000 So we went from this is going to be a boom time to we could be looking at a bear market really, really fast.
00:03:04.000 So Joe Biden, yesterday he came out.
00:03:06.000 And he spoke to the press.
00:03:08.000 And then, of course, the press were ushered out without being able to ask any serious questions of him.
00:03:12.000 Well, on their way out, the press do what they usually do, which is they start yelling questions to the president of the United States in the hopes that he responds.
00:03:18.000 And Peter Doocy caught a fish, right?
00:03:20.000 He threw his line in the water and he caught a fish.
00:03:22.000 This time, Joe Biden did respond to him, but it was on a hot mic.
00:03:26.000 And here's what it sounded like.
00:03:28.000 What do you think of President Donald Trump?
00:03:30.000 Do you think he plays good for political?
00:03:36.000 That's a great asset.
00:03:38.000 More inflation. 1.00
00:03:41.000 What a stupid son of a bitch. 1.00
00:03:45.000 Okay, so the actual question that Ducey asked was, do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms? 1.00
00:03:51.000 And Biden responded, it's a great asset.
00:03:53.000 More inflation. 1.00
00:03:53.000 What a stupid son of a bitch. 1.00
00:03:55.000 He said that about Peter Ducey. 1.00
00:03:59.000 A few things here that are kind of hilarious.
00:04:01.000 First of all, I don't care very much about presidents saying things that we all say about one another, except they happen to get caught on a mic.
00:04:08.000 As somebody who's on a mic half of the day, I'm sure that there's audio of me saying things on a hot mic that I really wouldn't want to be public, so I really don't care too much about this.
00:04:17.000 However, the hypocrisy of the media here is astonishing.
00:04:21.000 Astonishing! 1.00
00:04:21.000 Because you'll remember that Donald Trump once called a reporter A son of a bitch, right, at a rally. 1.00
00:04:27.000 This is in September of 2017. 0.98
00:04:28.000 of 2017. And Chris Hayes posted, today the president called American citizens who express their political views, sons of bitches. And then yesterday, after this happened with Peter Doocy, he tweeted, literal LOL. Or how about Brian Stelter from CNN, the watchdog of the media. 0.99
00:04:45.000 He said, calling a journalist a son of a bitch, it was wrong when Trump was just a candidate. 0.98
00:04:48.000 It's even worse now that he's president because he did it again in March of 2018. 0.98
00:04:51.000 So what did he have to say yesterday?
00:04:54.000 Quote, at the end of a Biden photo op, when reporters shouted cues hoping he'd respond, Fox's Peter Doocy asked, do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms? 1.00
00:05:03.000 Biden deadpanned, it's a great asset, more inflation, what a stupid son of a bitch. 1.00
00:05:06.000 So it was totally fine with Brian Stelter this time around. 1.00
00:05:10.000 Meanwhile, you'll recall that in 2020, Donald Trump called somebody a name.
00:05:15.000 And here was Joe Biden's tweet.
00:05:16.000 Trump deflects legitimate questions with attacks.
00:05:19.000 He bullies members of the press instead of taking responsibility for his failures.
00:05:22.000 His efforts to undermine public confidence in the integrity of reporting violate our core values and threaten our very system of government.
00:05:29.000 It was all pearl clutching all the way down when it was Trump.
00:05:32.000 But when it's Biden, he's just a genial old fellow who sometimes gets a little bit codgery, you know.
00:05:37.000 NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, who, by the way, is the incoming president of the White House Correspondents Association, she said yesterday on the air about Biden, quote, Oh, so it's OK now.
00:05:52.000 Got it.
00:05:53.000 Because it was Joe Biden.
00:05:54.000 So it's OK.
00:05:55.000 Remember, Joe Biden said just a couple of months ago that he would fire anybody who is disrespectful to other reporters.
00:06:00.000 That was after one of his one of his press secretaries, T.J.
00:06:04.000 Ducklow, called up a reporter and started yelling at her. 1.00
00:06:06.000 So here is Biden just a few months back.
00:06:10.000 I'm not joking when I say this.
00:06:13.000 If you're ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone.
00:06:19.000 I promise you I will fire you on the spot.
00:06:23.000 Well, sadly, we cannot fire him on the spot.
00:06:26.000 That is too bad.
00:06:27.000 Apparently, Biden did call Peter Doocy on Monday evening.
00:06:30.000 And Doocy said, after years of clips of the president and me mixing it up on the campaign trail and during the transition here at the White House, within about an hour of that exchange, he called my cell phone.
00:06:38.000 He said, it's nothing personal, pal.
00:06:40.000 We went back and forth and we were talking about just kind of moving forward.
00:06:42.000 I made sure to tell him I'm always going to try to ask something different than what everybody else is asking.
00:06:45.000 And he said, you got to.
00:06:46.000 And that's a quote from the president.
00:06:47.000 So I'll keep doing it.
00:06:49.000 And when asked if Biden actually apologized, Ducey said, he cleared the air and I appreciated it.
00:06:55.000 We had a nice call.
00:06:57.000 And that is not an apology. 0.99
00:06:58.000 So Joe Biden did not in fact call to apologize for calling Peter Ducey a son of a bitch. 0.98
00:07:02.000 He just said it's nothing personal. 0.97
00:07:04.000 By the way, it did make it into the White House transcript, which is one of the great transcripts ad in American history.
00:07:09.000 That is right there in the White House transcript.
00:07:11.000 It's like George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, basically.
00:07:14.000 President Biden.
00:07:15.000 Now, again, what this comes back to is a basic perception of politics that the left has just gotten wrong, and many on the right got it wrong, too, which is that Donald Trump was the murderer of American politics, not the coroner.
00:07:26.000 I've said this a thousand times.
00:07:28.000 Donald Trump was elected president because he stumbled upon the body of American politics.
00:07:31.000 It was still warm, and there was a knife directly in its back, and then he crouched over it and looked at the knife in the back, and everybody went, he did it!
00:07:37.000 It was him!
00:07:38.000 He must have murdered politics.
00:07:40.000 Nope.
00:07:41.000 It was like this before.
00:07:42.000 It'll be like this afterward.
00:07:43.000 Again, Joe Biden is not all that different from Donald Trump.
00:07:47.000 He's just more used to Washington, D.C. 0.99
00:07:51.000 The belief that Donald Trump was a difference in kind in terms of being rude and nasty to people is ridiculous. 0.98
00:07:57.000 And Barack Obama was a pretty prickly fellow. 0.96
00:07:59.000 And Joe Biden has been routinely prickly with people for years.
00:08:02.000 You remember that on the campaign trail, he literally called one of his constituents fat.
00:08:06.000 And there's a Bernie Sanders supporter who is asking him questions.
00:08:10.000 He goes, look, fat, you're never, you're never. 0.98
00:08:12.000 Push-up contest right now, fat man. 0.99
00:08:14.000 You want to do it, fat guy? 1.00
00:08:16.000 It was just, he's a ridiculous person. 0.99
00:08:19.000 But again, it's the media's double standard here that is truly astonishing. 0.98
00:08:22.000 When Joe Biden does it, it is perfectly appropriate and totally cool.
00:08:25.000 And when it is anybody else who is Republican, then it's because they're bad and mean and it's the death of democracy and democracy is at stake and the free press is about to be trampled upon.
00:08:34.000 It's amazing how many reporters made a mint off of the period in which the free press was supposedly in existential danger.
00:08:41.000 Meanwhile, you've got Joe Biden holding a press conference once every 300 days, and then yelling at anybody who asks him a question, but the press is definitely not in danger from Joe Biden.
00:08:50.000 Okay, meanwhile...
00:08:51.000 The situation continues to deteriorate over in Eastern Europe.
00:08:56.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, President Biden said on Monday that he and European leaders had total unanimity about the situation in Ukraine, although he declined to provide more details on what they agreed upon. 0.92
00:09:05.000 Now, that is a switch in language from Joe Biden, who is a wild incompetent.
00:09:08.000 Remember that just a few days ago, he had a press conference in which he announced that the Europeans were completely split over what to do if Russia were to just walk into Eastern Ukraine.
00:09:17.000 Which is true.
00:09:18.000 The Germans are very conciliatory toward the Russians because the Russians are shipping them natural gas.
00:09:22.000 The French are very conciliatory towards the Russians because the French are the French.
00:09:27.000 So none of that is a major surprise.
00:09:29.000 However, that was sort of something you're supposed to keep under wraps.
00:09:31.000 You're not supposed to say publicly that NATO was split over Putin's action because that gives him room to operate.
00:09:37.000 So yesterday, the Pentagon announced that the United States would be alerting 8,500 U.S.
00:09:42.000 troops To be prepared to deploy, not to Ukraine, to surrounding countries.
00:09:49.000 Now, here's the thing.
00:09:50.000 Vladimir Putin isn't going to invade the surrounding countries.
00:09:51.000 He's not invading Latvia.
00:09:52.000 He's not invading Lithuania or Estonia or Bulgaria.
00:09:56.000 Any of the countries that are actual members of NATO, he's not going to invade.
00:09:59.000 All he wants to do is shift Ukraine from being an independent country into being a country in the Russian sphere of influence.
00:10:05.000 That is what he desires.
00:10:06.000 Ukraine was not about to enter NATO, by the way.
00:10:08.000 Ukraine tried to enter NATO back in 2008, 2009.
00:10:11.000 That didn't happen.
00:10:12.000 And then there was the Orange Revolution in 2014.
00:10:15.000 And that ended with the ouster of Viktor Yanukovych, who was the then Ukrainian president.
00:10:21.000 He was sort of a Russian plant, and he was replaced by a more Western-friendly government, but it was never on the table that Ukraine was about to enter NATO. 0.74
00:10:29.000 So when Putin says that he wants a guarantee that Ukraine will never be able to enter NATO, what he is really saying is we want Ukraine back in our sphere of influence, and that means us occupying certain parts of Ukraine and putting such heavy pressure on Ukraine to kowtow to our demands that they just do so.
00:10:45.000 Secretary Austin has placed a range of units in the United States on a heightened preparedness to deploy, which increases our readiness to provide forces if NATO should activate the NRF, or if other situations develop.
00:11:06.000 All told, The number of forces that the Secretary has placed on heightened alert comes up to about 8,500 personnel.
00:11:18.000 So that is the response is we're going to put more personnel in the surrounding areas, but without any actual ability to stop Putin from going into Ukraine.
00:11:28.000 I know there are a lot of people on the right who have been saying that they don't care whether Putin goes into Ukraine.
00:11:32.000 Here's the point.
00:11:33.000 I don't really care about Ukraine per se either, except that Ukraine is a country that has been trending toward the West.
00:11:40.000 By every available poll, this is a country that is trending toward the West, which is a good thing.
00:11:43.000 And arresting countries away from the sphere of influence of a nefarious dictator like Vladimir Putin is definitely a good thing.
00:11:50.000 If you don't stop nefarious dictators early, they tend to get worse.
00:11:53.000 They do not tend to get better.
00:11:55.000 This belief system that you can sort of treat every foreign policy issue in isolation as opposed to part of a grand strategy is negated by the fact that our enemies don't treat it like that.
00:12:06.000 Our enemies are not like every single foreign policy decision is separate from every other foreign policy decision as part of a grand strategy.
00:12:12.000 Russia is extremely aggressive on its borders because it wishes to reestablish the USSR's sphere of interest. 0.80
00:12:19.000 Yeah, that's the goal.
00:12:19.000 And China is doing the same thing.
00:12:21.000 So, when we allow for vacuums to occur, then those vacuums are filled.
00:12:25.000 And then, all those countries that we dislike, all the countries that, for example, unleash pandemics on the globe that kill several million people, and attempt to twist American corporations in their favor, those regimes get stronger, like China. 0.93
00:12:37.000 Regimes like Russia start to exert more pressure and influence inside Europe, which makes it more difficult for us to do business with Europe to stop China, for example.
00:12:44.000 All of these issues are interlinked.
00:12:46.000 The attempt to disconnect all foreign policy issues is an exercise in silliness and failure.
00:12:52.000 In any case, Joe Biden led a meeting with leaders from the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK.
00:12:59.000 It lasted about 90 minutes.
00:13:00.000 Biden spoke from the White House's Situation Room.
00:13:02.000 It was closed to press, but the White House posted a photo of it to its social media accounts.
00:13:06.000 Apparently, the group discussed their joint efforts to deter further Russian aggression against Ukraine, including preparations to impose massive consequences and severe economic costs on Russia for such actions, as well as to reinforce security on NATO's eastern flank.
00:13:19.000 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the leaders agreed there would be severe cost to Russia if Moscow invaded Ukraine.
00:13:25.000 He said, we agree any further aggression by Russia against Ukraine will have severe costs.
00:13:29.000 A Downing Street spokeswoman said, should a further Russian incursion into Ukraine happen, allies must enact swift retributive responses, including an unprecedented package of sanctions and that leaders resolve to continue coordinating closely on any such response.
00:13:42.000 She added, the leaders agreed on the importance of international unity in the face of growing Russian hostility.
00:13:46.000 The prime minister underlined the real human cost of any Russian aggression and the need to take all steps within our power to prevent that outcome.
00:13:53.000 They agreed the international community should not tolerate any action which undermines Ukrainian sovereignty.
00:13:57.000 The Prime Minister outlined the steps the UK has taken to increase Ukraine's defensive capacity.
00:14:02.000 He emphasized the need to support Ukraine's defenses against the full spectrum of malign Russian activity.
00:14:07.000 Apparently, Emmanuel Macron, the French President, will be speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in the coming days.
00:14:15.000 And apparently, President Macron expressed his deep concern over the situation and the need to work collectively to de-escalate it quickly.
00:14:21.000 The de-escalation must involve strong and credible warnings to Russia, requiring constant coordination among European partners and allies, as well as a stepped-up dialogue with Russia, which we are in the process of conducting, said the readout of the call from the Elysee Palace.
00:14:34.000 So, that is where things stand right now.
00:14:35.000 Hopefully, this is enough to deter the Russians from walking into Ukraine. 1.00
00:14:39.000 Right now, apparently, 50,000 troops are being considered for deployment into Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, all of which are NATO countries.
00:14:46.000 There are already 35,000 US troops stationed in Germany.
00:14:49.000 There are already about 12,500 troops stationed in Italy.
00:14:53.000 And of course, there are Russian troops in Belarus that are going to take part in exercises beginning February 10th.
00:14:59.000 And there are a bunch of Russian troops that are stationed in Crimea as well, about 30,000 troops stationed illegally in Crimea, as well as the Russian Black Sea Fleet based in Sevastopol.
00:15:09.000 So, You know, the controversy over Ukraine continues to marinate, and we will obviously keep an eye on it.
00:15:16.000 The people of Ukraine, for their part, are preparing for the possibility of a significant incursion by the Russians.
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00:16:32.000 Meanwhile, over in Ukraine, the normal Ukrainian citizens are preparing their kids for the possibility of an actual open battle According to the Wall Street Journal, computer whiz Danilo Khovshin has taught his children to handle a pistol.
00:16:47.000 Confectioner Roman Nabashnyak is training colleagues to run his business so he can focus on fighting Russians. 1.00
00:16:52.000 Bar owner Vitaly Kreschenko keeps his gas tank full in case he needs to get out fast.
00:16:56.000 Ukraine has struggled to maintain a sense of stability since it's fully established itself as a sovereign country in 1991.
00:17:02.000 They've been at war since 2014.
00:17:05.000 But with 100,000 Russian troops gathering nearby, threatening Europe's biggest land war since the 1940s, people there say something different this time.
00:17:12.000 It became kind of normal to say, what, again?
00:17:13.000 Said Mr. Khovzhun, 46 years old.
00:17:15.000 On the other hand, I tend to be panicky.
00:17:17.000 I think it's going to be a nightmare, like Syria. 1.00
00:17:18.000 That's the only thing Russians can do. 0.99
00:17:21.000 So the theory is that this turns into like a full-scale guerrilla war, that if the Russians wander across the border, and the Ukrainian army is unable to hold them back, people will basically start doing guerrilla attacks on Russian forces, and it will end up looking like Afghanistan, except right in the middle of Europe.
00:17:36.000 Which does have the possibility for serious spillover, because obviously the Ukrainian rebels would be backed by outside forces, the Russians could respond in kind, it could get really, really ugly.
00:17:47.000 All of this is because Europe has failed to stop the Russians earlier, always and forever. 1.00
00:17:52.000 Ukrainian officials have in recent days urged people to remain calm, fearing Russia could try to take advantage of panic.
00:17:58.000 Officials complain that U.S.
00:17:59.000 warnings that Russia appears ready to invade will provoke alarm.
00:18:01.000 Prominent Ukrainians are posting advice on Facebook with a hashtag in Ukrainian, meaning hashtag WeAreReady, including a child psychologist describing how to prepare kids for emergencies like bombings and fires, and how to explain war without traumatizing young ones.
00:18:15.000 So far this has been working.
00:18:16.000 There have been no bank runs.
00:18:16.000 The currency has only lost a little value against the U.S.
00:18:18.000 dollar.
00:18:20.000 However, everybody is sort of prepared for things to get much, much uglier in Ukraine in the very near future. 0.96
00:18:26.000 Meanwhile, it's just worthwhile noting here that all of this really was precipitated by the fact that Joe Biden decided to pull out of Afghanistan for no apparent reason.
00:18:35.000 When, again, when the West creates a vacuum, the West's enemies decide to move.
00:18:40.000 Jen Psaki is trying to call that Russian propaganda. 1.00
00:18:42.000 It's not Russian propaganda, it's reality.
00:18:44.000 Here's Jen Psaki. 1.00
00:19:00.000 The president ended a 20-year war in Afghanistan, something he had talked about consistently doing for some time as he was running for president and even before then.
00:19:10.000 So what I would say to that is that sounds like the old Russian propaganda playbook, something we've talked about in the past, and I'd encourage anyone to be mindful of that.
00:19:22.000 Everything I don't like is Russian propaganda, seems to be the formula from this White House.
00:19:26.000 Meanwhile, by the way, ISIS is back, so if there's anything else that the Biden administration can set on fire, they're avidly looking to do so.
00:19:32.000 According to the New York Times, fighting between a Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States and ISIS militants spread on Tuesday to neighborhoods around an embattled prison in northeastern Syria that is at the center of the biggest confrontation between the American military and ISIS in three years.
00:19:46.000 The U.S.
00:19:46.000 military joined the fight on Monday to back its allies in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces against ISIS, days after the militant group attacked a makeshift prison in the city of Hasakah in an attempt to free ISIS fighters held there.
00:19:57.000 The U.S.
00:19:57.000 has launched airstrikes and provided intelligence, and ground troops and Bradley fighting vehicles are helping to cordon off the prison.
00:20:03.000 ISIS now controls about one-quarter of the prison and is holding hostages, including child detainees.
00:20:09.000 The U.S.-led coalition said the fight has become the biggest battle between the U.S.
00:20:11.000 and ISIS since the group lost the last piece of territory it controlled in Syria in 2019.
00:20:16.000 So that's good news.
00:20:17.000 ISIS is also on the move.
00:20:19.000 I mean, is there anything else that Joe Biden can screw up around here?
00:20:23.000 I mean, seriously, he's just looking... I mean, the answer is yes, Taiwan, right?
00:20:27.000 The answer is always yes.
00:20:28.000 There's always more things for Joe Biden to screw up.
00:20:30.000 But if you're America's enemies, at this point, why wouldn't you move?
00:20:33.000 Seriously, what is the convincing case for not moving?
00:20:36.000 You have a split America on the domestic front.
00:20:37.000 You have a president of the United States who has not taken the measures necessary to deter our enemies from acting.
00:20:43.000 You have the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians holding joint naval exercises.
00:20:48.000 Why exactly would they not move if they could?
00:20:51.000 By the way, this is having predictable impacts as well, some good, some bad.
00:20:54.000 The predictable impacts are that countries now considering whether to enter the Western sphere of influence or whether to join with China or Russia are having to seriously consider because the West is just not a reliable ally.
00:21:05.000 It's also true that you're starting to see non-aligned countries beginning to sort of come together in their own bloc, right?
00:21:11.000 That's what you're seeing with the Abraham Accords. 0.91
00:21:13.000 As countries begin to see that the United States is making overtures to Iran, all the other countries are like, well, we better ally among ourselves because otherwise there is not much that we can do in the face of Iranian aggression. 0.89
00:21:23.000 Alrighty, in just a second, we'll get to the continued panic over Omicron from the left.
00:21:28.000 It's an actual mindset.
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00:22:51.000 They won't let go of it.
00:22:52.000 It does not matter, by the way, that the WHO is essentially saying that we may have reached the end of this pandemic, effectively speaking.
00:22:59.000 It does not matter.
00:23:01.000 The reason it does not matter is because people have gotten invested in this thing now.
00:23:05.000 They cannot allow it to end.
00:23:07.000 They have to just, no matter what, they have to continue it.
00:23:11.000 For a perfect example, check out the reaction to Barry Weiss and Bill Maher.
00:23:17.000 So, Barry Weiss is, I would say, a centrist liberal.
00:23:22.000 She's somebody who has a lot of liberal ideas about social policy as well as social welfare spending, for example.
00:23:29.000 She tends to be much more hawkish on foreign policy.
00:23:31.000 But when it comes to COVID, Barry has had an awakening, right?
00:23:34.000 Barry used to be, like a lot of people living in big cities, very COVID fearful.
00:23:38.000 And Barry came out over the weekend and she was like, uh, no, I'm done with this, right?
00:23:42.000 My life, I've already been vaccinated.
00:23:44.000 Everybody I know has Omicron.
00:23:45.000 I'm not doing this any longer.
00:23:46.000 And people went nuts.
00:23:49.000 According to Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times, Weiss described making an all-out effort to avoid COVID early on, and then we were told you get the vaccine.
00:23:55.000 You get the vaccine, you get back to normal.
00:23:56.000 And we haven't gotten back to normal, and it's ridiculous at this point.
00:23:58.000 And the audience was cheering, right?
00:24:00.000 Because this is true.
00:24:01.000 Even folks on the left are tired of this.
00:24:03.000 They are sick of this.
00:24:04.000 Bill Maher said the same thing.
00:24:06.000 But the left cannot accept this as an answer.
00:24:09.000 And so Whoopi Goldberg yesterday, she got very angry at Bill Maher for pointing out that many people have been living normally in the United States for a year at this point.
00:24:15.000 Here's Whoopi Goldberg slapping a Bill Maher.
00:24:19.000 Nobody on the planet really wants to go through this.
00:24:22.000 This is not something we're doing because it's sexually gratifying.
00:24:27.000 This is what we're doing to protect our families.
00:24:29.000 And you don't have to do it, but stay away from everybody.
00:24:32.000 Because if you're the one who's not paying attention, and you're coughing and sneezing, then stay out of the public, man.
00:24:41.000 Nobody wants this.
00:24:44.000 I don't want it.
00:24:45.000 And I think he's forgetting that people are still at risk who cannot get vaccinated.
00:24:50.000 People who can't get it.
00:24:51.000 Little kids under the age of five.
00:24:54.000 Yeah.
00:24:54.000 Or people with health conditions.
00:24:55.000 How dare you be so flippant, man?
00:24:57.000 How dare you be so flippant?
00:25:01.000 Well, I have a question.
00:25:01.000 Do vaccines work or do they not work to prevent hospitalization and death?
00:25:04.000 OK, so do we all wear masks and stay home like forever when we are asymptomatic from the flu?
00:25:09.000 Is that is that how this works?
00:25:11.000 Typically speaking, But that is what Whoopi Goldberg is asking of everybody.
00:25:16.000 And yes, there is a perverse sense from a lot of these folks that they are enjoying this.
00:25:22.000 Yes, I'm not saying it is sexually gratifying, but it is mentally and emotionally gratifying to a lot of people to be living like this.
00:25:29.000 It makes them feel morally superior.
00:25:30.000 It makes them feel like they are part of a common cause.
00:25:33.000 Well, you're not part of a common cause because you're still going to work, Whoopi Goldberg.
00:25:37.000 You're still seeing people.
00:25:39.000 You're still going out and doing things.
00:25:41.000 Like, all of the people who are claiming that they're still walking around masked and that they're in no close contact with other people, I think the vast majority of them are lying.
00:25:49.000 And because the fact is that they don't want to live like this on a personal level, but they want everybody else to live like this and they want to be able to lecture everybody else.
00:25:56.000 They want this to be the new normal.
00:25:57.000 They want this to be the new permanent.
00:25:58.000 Some of them are even clearer than Whoopi Goldberg.
00:26:00.000 Sarah Haines, also of The View.
00:26:01.000 She literally says, she might not feel comfortable ever again without a mask.
00:26:06.000 And therefore, you must mask.
00:26:08.000 Hey, not she's got her own weird hang-ups about she's gonna wear a mask the rest of her life.
00:26:12.000 It's that you have to wear a mask the rest of your life because she has a weird hang-up. 0.97
00:26:16.000 Here we go.
00:26:18.000 I think there's a prudence we've learned with the masks, the hand sanitizing, that kind of like 9-11 with flying is always going to be here now.
00:26:26.000 There's a new normal.
00:26:27.000 In the beginning, post 9-11, people didn't want to fly.
00:26:30.000 And the security measures felt like, how do we do this?
00:26:34.000 And now it's the norm.
00:26:36.000 I think some of the things we've learned in this pandemic are going to stay the same.
00:26:39.000 I may never ride a subway again without a mask.
00:26:41.000 I may never go indoors to big crowds and ever feel comfortable without a mask.
00:26:45.000 And that's up to me to do that.
00:26:48.000 That is up to you to do that, but that's not what you want.
00:26:50.000 You want it to be up to everybody to do that.
00:26:51.000 You know, this is the natural health consequence of the entirely ridiculous worldview that your feelings get to decide everybody else's thoughts.
00:27:00.000 And this is a big thing on the left.
00:27:01.000 There's a philosophy.
00:27:04.000 That's been termed by a philosopher named Robert Bella, expressive individualism.
00:27:07.000 And the idea is that the true you is what lives inside your feelings.
00:27:11.000 It is not how you react to society or to the people around you.
00:27:14.000 The true you is your feelings.
00:27:16.000 And because the true you is your feelings, anytime your feelings are affected by anyone else, this is an attack on you.
00:27:22.000 And we see this mostly when it comes to sexual proclivities or gender proclivities, that we are all supposed to reflect your opinion of you.
00:27:29.000 You call yourself a woman and you're a man.
00:27:31.000 We're all supposed to do that so that you feel better on the inside.
00:27:33.000 Otherwise, it's an attack on you.
00:27:34.000 But now they're taking this to the next level with health.
00:27:36.000 So now you have Sarah Haines saying, I feel uncomfortable in public without wearing a mask, but you refuse to go along with me.
00:27:43.000 That's an attack on me.
00:27:45.000 Well, Sarah Haines seems to be a healthy human being, right?
00:27:47.000 She seems to have been vaccinated 97 times.
00:27:50.000 So what exactly is she worried about?
00:27:51.000 And the answer is that as long as she feels that her health might be affected, And this means that we are all supposed to act in conjunction with that.
00:27:59.000 By the way, the reason that everybody is getting uptight now, when they weren't all uptight about taking these measures at the beginning of the pandemic, because here's the deal.
00:28:06.000 You can go back and listen.
00:28:08.000 All the way at the beginning of the pandemic, I said masks might be necessary.
00:28:11.000 I said that social distancing is probably a good idea when we didn't know how deadly this was and who it affected.
00:28:16.000 I was with my parents all the time at the beginning of the pandemic.
00:28:18.000 My parents are 65, so that means that we were basically bubbled.
00:28:21.000 We were taking a lot of precautions as well.
00:28:23.000 And then the data became clear.
00:28:25.000 And then we got the vaccines, which made things much clearer.
00:28:27.000 And then we got Omicron, which made things even clearer than that.
00:28:30.000 If you didn't change your opinion based on the data, Then that's because you didn't care about the data, and these people don't care about the data.
00:28:36.000 So Michelle Goldberg over at the New York Times, she says, the desperate desire to get back to normal is understandable.
00:28:42.000 What's odd is seeing the absence of normality as a political betrayal instead of an epidemiological curveball.
00:28:47.000 But it is a political betrayal.
00:28:49.000 Because the political players in our society said, we will follow the data and then we will give you best guidance.
00:28:54.000 But they're not doing that.
00:28:55.000 They're doing precisely the opposite.
00:28:57.000 They're pretending that Omicron doesn't evade vaccination in terms of infection.
00:29:01.000 They're still pretending that boosters are going to stop Omicron.
00:29:04.000 Not gonna happen.
00:29:05.000 They're still pretending that masks are going to stop Omicron.
00:29:07.000 Not gonna happen. 0.97
00:29:09.000 None of that crap is happening. 0.81
00:29:12.000 But according to Michelle Goldberg, the reason things aren't normal isn't that power-mad public health officials went back on their promises. 0.95
00:29:18.000 It's because a new coronavirus variant emerged that overwhelmed hospitals and threw schools and many industries into chaos.
00:29:23.000 And because not everyone has the luxury of being insouciant about infection.
00:29:27.000 Okay, the vast majority of people who are, quote-unquote, having the luxury of being insouciant about infection, okay, that's the vast majority of the population because they all got vaccinated, had prior immunity from having gotten this thing already, or they're healthy to begin with.
00:29:42.000 But here's the real key to Michelle Goldberg's piece over at the New York Times.
00:29:45.000 This is the key.
00:29:45.000 She says, Even with Omicron around, there's a fair bit of normality available, especially if you don't have kids.
00:29:51.000 Here in New York City, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, theaters are generally open, though shows are closing at the last minute when cast members fall ill.
00:29:57.000 You can have a party or go on vacation.
00:29:58.000 What you can't do is force other people, whose vulnerabilities might be greater than your own, to agree with your risk assessments and join you in moving on while the pandemic still rages.
00:30:06.000 But you've moved on, Michelle Goldberg.
00:30:08.000 You're, from what I understand, a single lady living in New York. 0.96
00:30:13.000 Normality exists for the people who are trying to cram this down.
00:30:15.000 Listen to, again, her description of what life is like in New York.
00:30:18.000 There's normality available if you don't have kids.
00:30:21.000 Because you can still go to restaurants and bars and nightclubs and theaters if you're vaccinated and you don't have... What about all those people who do have kids?
00:30:28.000 What about all those people with prior immunity?
00:30:32.000 Again, this is disconnected from the data, but they refuse to accept that they've disconnected from the data, specifically because they enjoy pushing this.
00:30:39.000 They enjoy the unearned sense of moral superiority.
00:30:42.000 Here's Mehdi Hassan doing the same thing, ripping into Barry Weiss.
00:30:46.000 We haven't gotten back to normal.
00:30:48.000 And it's ridiculous at this point. 0.92
00:30:51.000 Oh, it's ridiculous, is it?
00:30:53.000 On the same day that Weiss and Ma were complaining about our obsessive focus on COVID-19 and urging us all to move on from the pandemic, 3,506 Americans died from COVID.
00:30:59.000 That's a higher death toll than on 9-11.
00:31:01.000 In fact, that's the highest COVID death toll since last winter and one of the deadliest days of the pandemic so far.
00:31:05.000 And it isn't just deaths.
00:31:06.000 Hospitals are full.
00:31:07.000 Three out of four of them nationwide are under high or extreme stress.
00:31:09.000 In Utah, they're hospitalising unvaccinated under-5s, including babies.
00:31:13.000 And look, the people who should be complaining right now are our overworked and burned-out healthcare workers.
00:31:16.000 But no, it's never them moaning or whinging about the pandemic.
00:31:19.000 It's the Barry Weiss's and Bill Maher's and Tucker Carlson's of this world.
00:31:23.000 Does he have a solution?
00:31:23.000 Does he have any solution?
00:31:26.000 Of course he doesn't have a solution, because there's no solution!
00:31:28.000 It's hit everywhere, it's spiked, we're already on the downside of the spike, and death trails infection.
00:31:33.000 The reason that our death toll is high right now is not because Omicron is extremely deadly, it's because it's extremely infectious, and it evades all of the things that you guys are using as your mitigating factors.
00:31:44.000 We've seen massive spikes in places including New York, including Vermont, like some of the most vaccinated places on the planet.
00:31:51.000 But again, if they just try to scare you, then the idea is that if you refuse to be scared, or if you try to actually define your own risk, with reference to your own particular health scenario, then you are the bad guy.
00:32:03.000 You're the bad guy.
00:32:04.000 Because these are the experts, and they know what's best for you.
00:32:07.000 And unless things are imposed on you, you are evil.
00:32:11.000 Everything not compulsory is forbidden.
00:32:14.000 Everything Not Compulsory is Forbidden should be the theme song for these guys.
00:32:17.000 Jen Psaki did the same thing yesterday. 0.84
00:32:18.000 She said public health officials, not parents, make the best decisions for their kids.
00:32:21.000 Really?
00:32:22.000 Name my kids, Jen. 1.00
00:32:24.000 Like seriously, do you know my kids?
00:32:25.000 You don't know my kids.
00:32:26.000 You don't know their health conditions.
00:32:28.000 You don't know how many times they've had the flu in the past couple of years.
00:32:31.000 You don't know if they've had Omicron.
00:32:32.000 You don't know any of that stuff.
00:32:34.000 But apparently she and Dr. Fauci are going to define for my kids what is best for my kids.
00:32:38.000 Insane.
00:32:38.000 Here's Jen Psaki doing this again.
00:32:41.000 Who does the president think knows best for students?
00:32:45.000 School board members or parents?
00:32:48.000 Well, the president believes that public health officials have the best guidance on what we can all do to protect ourselves.
00:33:00.000 Okay, but that's not the question.
00:33:01.000 The question is whether public health officials give their guidance and then parents get to assess for their kids what is right.
00:33:07.000 I've wanted my kids unmasked in school since the beginning of the year.
00:33:09.000 You know why?
00:33:09.000 Because a vast number of kids are not dying from this disease.
00:33:14.000 Nearly all the kids who are getting this are completely fine.
00:33:17.000 Thank God.
00:33:19.000 But again, we're supposed to listen to Dr. Fauci about all of this, and if you refuse to do this, it's because you're bad and babies are being hospitalized or something, according to Medihazon.
00:33:29.000 By the way, Dr. Fauci is still out there trying to push his own brand. 0.62
00:33:34.000 A dead giveaway as to whether someone is an asshat or not is whether, in all of their interviews, they have a great picture of themselves behind them. 0.59
00:33:40.000 And in half of Fauci's interviews, he does.
00:33:42.000 Here was Dr. Fauci yesterday being asked about the missed messaging coming from the public health establishment, whether this has undercut the credibility of the public health establishment.
00:33:49.000 Here he was yesterday.
00:33:52.000 Information and communication around boosters has been really problematic.
00:33:56.000 Even today, the pivoting of communication around what it means to be vaccinated, that is really difficult for people and it's causing people to not go get the booster.
00:34:06.000 How do you fix that?
00:34:09.000 Well, you try to be clear and concise and articulate.
00:34:13.000 Let me try.
00:34:13.000 You think that's what's happened so far?
00:34:15.000 Well, I'm not going to comment on that.
00:34:19.000 Of course he's not going to comment on that.
00:34:20.000 The one thing he won't do is walk away, right?
00:34:22.000 He is completely blown out of his own credibility by taking every available position during this pandemic, but he's definitely not going to walk away.
00:34:28.000 That's all Anthony Fauci knows.
00:34:29.000 I mean, why should he?
00:34:29.000 He's earning the best salary in the entire federal government.
00:34:33.000 This is too important.
00:34:34.000 This is the kind of thing that I've devoted my entire career, certainly over the last 40 plus years, in public health, science, and medicine, and we are in a crisis right now, and there's no chance I'm going to walk away from this.
00:34:49.000 Of course not.
00:34:50.000 Why would he?
00:34:51.000 Again, that's a big check he's taken home.
00:34:53.000 Also, it would completely undermine his entire history of claiming to be the great savior when it comes to medicine.
00:34:58.000 By the way, we still have our public health officials trying to cram down on parents what they ought to do about masking school kids, even though the data are very clear and they are in.
00:35:05.000 According to the Washington Post, seven school boards in Virginia have now sued to stop Governor Glenn Youngkin's mask optional order on the day it takes effect.
00:35:13.000 The school boards, led by the Board for Fairfax County Public Schools, the largest, most prominent district in the state, argue the Yunkins order violates the Virginia Constitution.
00:35:21.000 They filed a lawsuit asking for an immediate injunction barring enforcement of the order, which seeks to leave masking decisions to parents, contravening federal health guidance and the masking mandates most Virginia school districts have maintained throughout the COVID pandemic.
00:35:33.000 So they just will not let this go, despite the fact that they have no data, no data to back their case.
00:35:39.000 Alrighty, coming up, we'll get to the Supreme Court accepting a very controversial case on school race-based admissions.
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00:38:53.000 Alrighty, so meanwhile, the Supreme Court has now said that it will decide whether to prohibit the use of race conscious admissions in higher education.
00:39:06.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, it's agreeing to consider challenges to policies at both Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
00:39:13.000 The court, in a brief written order on Monday, said it would consider a pair of challenges by a group called Students for Fair Admissions.
00:39:18.000 It's been led by the conservative legal activist Edward Blum.
00:39:21.000 They sued both schools on the same day in 2014.
00:39:24.000 The lawsuit against Harvard alleged that the school uses quota-like racial balancing tactics that artificially raise the standards of admission for Asian-American applicants in violation of federal civil rights law.
00:39:33.000 The challengers alleged Asians were admitted at a lower rate than whites, even though their overall academic scores were better.
00:39:39.000 Harvard rejected the claims of discrimination, said it only considered race in a flexible way as one factor among many in building diverse classes of students.
00:39:45.000 Well, why is it even being considered as a factor at all?
00:39:48.000 Couldn't you just look at, for example, life challenges without looking at race?
00:39:51.000 Why is race considered a life challenge in the United States explicitly?
00:39:55.000 And why is it even a matter of inquiry for schools to determine that your race is a relevant factor in whether you ought to be admitted to a school?
00:40:04.000 I mean, it is a pretty overt racism when students get in with 200 points less on the SATs than this Asian student over here, just because this Asian student happens to be Asian.
00:40:15.000 This is what they used to do to Jews at colleges in the United States.
00:40:18.000 Now they're doing it to Asians in the United States.
00:40:19.000 It's absurd on its face. 0.76
00:40:21.000 It is wild racism from the left. 0.75
00:40:23.000 And yet, the left continues to double down on this, because obviously, Asians are a supposed model minority, according to the left, whereas black Americans are indubitably put upon.
00:40:32.000 And therefore, black Americans only need a 1300 or a 1200 to get into Harvard, whereas Asians need a 19,000 to get on, they need to get a 19,000 on their SATs in order to get into Harvard. 0.91
00:40:42.000 Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department actually supported that lawsuit.
00:40:46.000 The Biden-era department abandoned that position and offered support for Harvard in a legal brief last month, urging the Supreme Court to turn away the challenge.
00:40:54.000 The lawsuit against the University of North Carolina was similar to the Harvard allegations, though it added claims that the flagship public university in Chapel Hill violated the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
00:41:04.000 So, with a private school, the challenge is going to be that it violates the Civil Rights Act.
00:41:08.000 With a public school, the challenge is going to be that it violates the 14th Amendment.
00:41:12.000 The challengers allege that the school unlawfully factored students' race into the admissions process, favoring Black, Hispanic, and Native American applicants, and even caused them harm by inviting them into classrooms for which they weren't prepared.
00:41:22.000 Which is true.
00:41:24.000 The Thernstroms Who used to write for The Atlantic, they documented very well the phenomenon of misalignment in which students are admitted to schools that they actually are not prepared for and then they tend to flunk out of those schools at a higher rate.
00:41:38.000 UNC in court papers says it has made progress on diversity but continues to face challenges in admitting underrepresented minorities.
00:41:44.000 Now the truth is that Supreme Court precedent here has been ridiculous because Supreme Court said that for some reason diversity is in and of itself a public good.
00:41:51.000 I'm not sure why.
00:41:52.000 They never really explained why diversity is a public good.
00:41:54.000 If they said that a wide range of human experiences is worthwhile to pursue in student body settings, that might be better.
00:42:02.000 But when they say racial diversity itself is some sort of public good, there's no reason why that should be. 1.00
00:42:08.000 Also, the diversity standards tend to be wildly inaccurate.
00:42:12.000 So, for example, if you have a classroom full of black students, this is considered diverse.
00:42:15.000 If you have an entire classroom filled with Asian students, it's considered not diverse enough.
00:42:20.000 Nobody can explain why.
00:42:21.000 Both are monochrome, but only one type of monochrome is diverse, according to the left.
00:42:25.000 Here is Jen Psaki, however, trying to defend the Biden administration, pushing overt racism against Asian Americans.
00:42:33.000 We strongly believe this administration in the benefits of diversity in higher education and we take very seriously our commitment to advancing equity and equal opportunity for historically underserved populations.
00:42:46.000 Okay, but they're going to have to explain why this is capable of violating constitutional precepts.
00:42:52.000 Now, the fact the Supreme Court is even considering it again is really interesting because in 2016, the court ruled that the University of Texas at Austin's process passed constitutional muster despite the fact that it took race into account.
00:43:03.000 That was an absurd ruling.
00:43:04.000 It was a 4-3 court, and Justice Anthony Kennedy was the deciding justice in that particular case.
00:43:09.000 He joined the left, of course, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor, saying universities are defined by intangible qualities which make for greatness.
00:43:16.000 He said considerable deference is owed to a university in defining those intangible characteristics.
00:43:20.000 Well, they seem pretty tangible when you're barring Asians. 1.00
00:43:23.000 Just to be fair, it seems like kind of tangible to the Asian student who scored a 1580 on his SAT then got barred because he happened to be Asian.
00:43:31.000 But this is something that the left loves to push.
00:43:32.000 This is one of their favorite things.
00:43:34.000 By the way, they don't just want it to apply at colleges because nothing that starts in college ends in college for the left.
00:43:39.000 The Washington Post editorial board has an entire piece today about how every company in America should be forced to quote-unquote diversify its boardroom.
00:43:47.000 Quote, the Securities and Exchange Commission last summer approved a proposal by NASDAQ to require that most boards of directors among the exchange's approximately 3,000 companies include at least one woman as well as at least one person of color and or one LGBTQ person.
00:44:02.000 Nasdaq's initiatives was groundbreaking for U.S.
00:44:04.000 Securities Exchange.
00:44:05.000 It's not very novel in other contexts.
00:44:07.000 California already had laws mandating the public companies headquartered in-state have women, and by 2023, members of underrepresented communities on their boards. 1.00
00:44:15.000 Many European countries require more gender diversity than the Nasdaq even envisions.
00:44:21.000 But this is good, according to the Washington Post.
00:44:23.000 It's very encouraging, because more progress is needed.
00:44:27.000 Luckily, there are plenty of incentives for firms to make such strides, and not just political and public pressure.
00:44:31.000 Okay, so here's the deal.
00:44:32.000 These companies, all they do is they find some sort of placeholder, and they just add seats to the board, and then they put that placeholder on the board to ensure that they are not sued by the government.
00:44:41.000 But the reality, of course, is that businesses are going to continue to run. 0.87
00:44:44.000 It's an absurdity on its face, and it's very, very silly.
00:44:47.000 But again, it is unearned moral superiority of the left that is the deciding factor here, even when that means active discrimination against more qualified applicants in college or against members of the board who ought to be there as opposed to being leveraged onto the board by the government.
00:45:02.000 The government has no business in this area.
00:45:03.000 And by the way, neither does NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange. 0.90
00:45:08.000 It's ridiculous.
00:45:10.000 The solution the companies are going to find is to have a useless board member that they add and pay a little bit of a salary, or never go public in the first place. 0.93
00:45:17.000 That will be the actual answer to this problem.
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