The Biden administration has been steadily moving toward the idea that we need to move beyond the pandemic. The data did not change, but now they are changing their policies, which demonstrates once more that it was never about what was best for them. It was always about ideology and pandemic response. Joe Biden has been focused on two things: "Build Back Better" and "Better Things." In both of those things, he has failed. So what has changed? The answer is that people are done with this crap and have been done with it for quite a while. The economic data prove it. The Biden administration was preparing us all for a really bad jobs report in January. Why? Because they said that Omicron was going to shellack the economy. You know why? Because most people just went to work. And the great irony is that it came in spite of the fact that it should have been really bad, not just because of Joe Biden's failure to pass a bill that would have revitalized the economy, but because of the failure of the Biden administration to pass it. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down in this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal. His work has been featured in the Hollywood Reporter, CNN, and many other publications. His music is also can be heard on the radio stations. He can be found on SoundCloud, and is available on iTunes, and other streaming platforms. If you like what you listen to, you can find Ben Shapiro on his podcast on Soundcloud, wherever you get your favorite podcast on the internet, subscribe to Ben Shapiro's newest podcast, The Weekly Standard, and subscribe to his podcast, . if you're looking for a good time to listen to him on social media listening to the Ben Shapiro show, Ben Shapiro s latest podcast on all things political and much more! Subscribe to his work, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, tweet him on your favorite streaming platform, tweet me and let him know what he's listening to you know what you think of Ben Shapiro does you like Ben Shapiro did you like it? on Insta: or what you're listening to him's work is Ben Shapiro thinks about it on Instapaper or what he thinks about Ben Shapiro should do on his social media is great and what he s listening to on his feed?
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00:02:06.000It was never about the best available policy, because when you've got the best available policy, you don't have any problems discussing that policy and discussing the data and showing your work.
00:02:15.000But nobody was ever willing to show their work.
00:02:17.000All it was, for literally a year and a half, was, if you disagree with us, it's because you hate toscience, TM.
00:02:30.000If you are that confident in your science, you know what scientists do?
00:02:33.000They typically spend a lot of time showing data to one another in order to verify that the measures that they are prescribing are the ones that are proper.
00:02:40.000For a year and a half, we've been told that to show your work means showing lack of faith.
00:02:44.000It was a matter of faith and heresy for the left-wing community.
00:02:48.000The answer is that people are done with this crap, and they've been done with this crap for quite a while.
00:02:52.000The economic data prove it, by the way.
00:02:54.000You'll recall that just about four days ago, the Biden administration was preparing us all for a really, really bad jobs report in January.
00:03:11.000And the great irony of the booming economy of January Is that it came in spite of the fact that according to Joe Biden, it should have been really bad, not just because of Omicron, but because of the failure to pass Build Back Better.
00:03:22.000Remember, he suggested that the revitalized American economy was reliant on us spending trillions of dollars in Build Back Better.
00:03:29.000Then Joe Manchin murdered Build Back Better with an axe and buried it in Iowa cornfield in late December.
00:03:36.000And it didn't pass, and then the economy boomed.
00:03:39.000So the two things that Joe Biden has been focused on, quote-unquote pandemic response and build back better, both of those things failed and the economy boomed.
00:03:46.000In other words, every time Joe Biden fails to get what he wants, life gets better for everyone is the basic synopsis here.
00:03:52.000And so now they're attempting to move off of this because if they get stuck in full pandemic restriction mode forever, they're toast.
00:04:01.000We got three weeks until Joe Biden gives his much ballyhooed State of the Union.
00:04:05.000I promise you, by the time we hit the State of the Union address, it's not going to be Nancy Pelosi saying that there are only 25 people in the Capitol Rotunda.
00:04:11.000Instead, she's going to be saying that there are tons of people who are available for the joint session of Congress.
00:04:16.000Everybody who's vaxed gets to be unmasked.
00:04:17.000If you're vaxed, if you're unvaxed, then we're going to tell you not to come so that she can create controversy about the evil unvaxed Republicans.
00:04:48.000I mean, Omicron defeated COVID because the more deadly strain, Delta, was killed off basically because Omicron out-competed it because it's 70 times more transmissible than Delta.
00:04:56.000So that means it moved way faster through the population.
00:04:58.000It gave a huge percentage of the population natural immunity, including, by the way, people who already had vax immunity.
00:05:03.000So for me, I had vax immunity, and now I also have natural immunity, I think.
00:05:07.000And what that means is that I am good to go.
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00:07:04.000And Gavin Newsom was right next to him, unmasked.
00:07:07.000And Gavin Newsom tried to make excuses for it, and he said he had his mask on his hand as though his hand was transmitting COVID or something.
00:07:12.000But everybody understood that for the specials, the rules do not apply.
00:07:16.000So it looked really bad for Gavin Newsom.
00:07:42.000And then Stacey Abrams made the gigantic, enormous Terry McAuliffe-like political boo-boo of appearing in front of a classroom filled with small children, all of whom are masked, and she is sitting there grinning her ass off, sitting in front of the kids, no mask on her.
00:08:00.000I mean, this photo is going to be in every campaign ad that is run by whichever Republican wins the primary in Georgia from now until Election Day.
00:08:05.000This will be the most famous photo in America.
00:08:07.000And it should be, because it's everything.
00:08:10.000In fact, in her excuse making for why this happened, Stacey Abrams, she explained the reason this happened is because she insisted that if she was going to unmask, everybody else be masked.
00:08:20.000So it was at her behest that everybody was masked in that classroom.
00:08:25.000There's a representative named Elise Slotkin from New York, and she also appeared in a public setting, and you can see kids behind her, see adults behind her, they're all wearing N95s, and there she is, completely unmasked.
00:08:35.000So everybody knows this is ridiculous, and the blowback has been intense.
00:08:38.000Stacey Abrams got hit so hard that by the next day, after releasing that photo, and then deleting the photo, by the way, by the next day she was looking for a new online director.
00:08:47.000She said she'd done nothing wrong, but a good indicator that you've done something wrong is when you start firing the people who did it.
00:08:54.000And the polling for the Biden administration has been really bad.
00:08:56.000There are polls showing more than half of Americans believe that America is moving in the wrong direction.
00:09:00.000And the reason for that is because a huge percentage of Americans believe that their government officials are out of touch with them and what they need and what the realities are of the situation on the ground.
00:09:10.000And so now you've started to see the Biden administration move, and not just the Biden administration, states across the country.
00:09:17.000So the Biden administration has been caught flat-footed on this.
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00:11:24.000And so you've got, I mean, too little too late, but I'm glad they're doing it now.
00:11:28.000Now you've got, for example, New Jersey announcing that they want to end school masking.
00:11:32.000Now remember, right now in Virginia, you got the left yelling at Glenn Youngkin for doing the exact same thing.
00:11:37.000Glenn Youngkin was like, listen, I ran on, we're unmasking the kids, we're unmasking the kids.
00:11:41.000And then you have Glenn Youngkin going into stores where there is no mask mandate for adults and getting yelled at by random people.
00:11:47.000But when Phil Murphy in New Jersey says that this makes him good, even though he's doing it five minutes after Glenn Youngkin did it.
00:11:54.000Phil Murphy, by the way, the real reason that Phil Murphy in New Jersey is doing this, he's been an awful governor.
00:11:58.000He has one of the worst death rates from COVID of any governor in America.
00:12:02.000He has apparently, according to Statista, the third worst death rate from COVID of any state in the Union, New Jersey, despite his massive restrictions.
00:12:58.000You just got wise to the fact that Americans are sick of this nonsense, even in most blue states.
00:13:02.000Here's Phil Murphy, unable to answer any basic questions on why mask mandates ought to apply.
00:13:08.000Have you seen data that definitively proves that these mask mandates have worked?
00:13:15.000I mean, the numbers you just presented are impressive, but are they different from the numbers in states where they didn't have mask mandates?
00:13:23.000Yeah, again, I know Jersey Jake the best, but I'm highly confident and I'm sure our health officials could say it definitively.
00:13:51.000Anyway, Bill Murphy has now decided to reverse himself.
00:13:54.000So according to the New York Times, he says that he's going to stop forcing masks on kids in school.
00:14:00.000He said, quote, this is not a declaration of victory as much as an acknowledgement that we can responsibly live with this thing.
00:14:06.000The new policy will take effect the second week of March, two years after New York and New Jersey became the early epicenters of a virus that has since mutated and resurged, killing more than 900,000 people nationwide.
00:14:17.000Why is he doing it second week of March?
00:14:19.000What's so great about second week of March?
00:14:21.000Okay, the reason that he is doing it the second week of March is that Joe Biden is giving his State of the Union address the first week of March.
00:14:28.000That's why he's doing it the second week of March.
00:14:30.000Joe Biden is going to announce that we are done basically with pandemic measures and the next week magically all the blue states will reopen and the sun will shine and the clouds will clear and all the rest of us who have been saying for literally a year and a half that you ought to be following the data.
00:14:45.000All of a sudden, we will be the bad guys again.
00:14:48.000Because what they will say is, you know, we were the ones who were always, we just wanted a real reopening with following the data.
00:15:12.000And now, the polls cut against them, and suddenly we're supposed to believe that they were good faith actors all along, despite the fact that they never showed the data, ever.
00:15:20.000Murphy's move follows a decision last month by the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, to rescind his state's school mask mandate.
00:15:27.000And then, Democratic leaders in Connecticut, Delaware, and Oregon also announced they would end their state's in-school mask mandates.
00:15:33.000Connecticut will permit students and staff members to stop wearing masks by no later than February 28th.
00:15:37.000Delaware and Oregon will end their mandates by March 31st.
00:15:41.000Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom in California, he announced that the indoor mask mandate will end next week, but only for the vaccinated.
00:15:46.000Because of course, we have to keep pretending that the unvaccinated are somehow killing everybody while the vaccinated are not killing anyone.
00:15:54.000So Gavin Newsom's gonna pretend that it's because Omicron is waning.
00:15:56.000He says, citing a 65% drop in COVID-19 cases since the peak of the Omicron surge, California will end its statewide indoor mask mandate for vaccinated individuals next week, nearly two years after it was first implemented, according to Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday.
00:16:13.000On February 15th, California's statewide indoor mask requirement will expire.
00:16:17.000Unvaccinated people must still wear masks in indoor public settings.
00:16:22.000Notice how this basically justifies him taking a photo next to Magic Johnson with no mask on, right?
00:16:28.000Because he's vaxxed, so it's okay now.
00:16:31.000So the attempt by the left to now move into the rational category after spending two years being completely irrational about this entire thing is pretty astonishing.
00:16:41.000Same thing is happening in New York, by the way.
00:16:43.000Governor Kathy Hochul apparently is hinting that she may soon end the COVID-19 pandemic-related statewide mask mandate for public indoor spaces.
00:16:50.000But she says it may not come for another month, which again would put you, wait for it, right at the beginning of March, a week after Joe Biden does his State of the Union address in which he declares that he has ended the pandemic.
00:17:00.000Again, it is amazing to watch all of these people who've prolonged crappy public policy measures and have completely sunk the future of the American economy based on a $30 trillion national debt declare that they have created victory.
00:17:14.000I mean, just a couple of days ago, Joe Biden was out there in public suggesting That we cut the COVID crisis in half is clip eight.
00:17:21.000Here's Joe Biden, like a couple of days ago, trying to take credit for the ending of COVID in the United States, which, honest to God, I've never seen somebody find parades to jump in front of faster than Joe Biden.
00:17:48.000The COVID crisis has been cut in half, down in half in just three weeks.
00:17:54.000Still too many cases, still we have to be on the alert.
00:17:59.000But to be clear, this is a dramatic decline.
00:18:05.000I mean, look at the magic of Joe Biden standing there and not doing anything.
00:18:09.000It's like he fixed COVID just by not even doing anything.
00:18:14.000Honestly, if he had not done anything, the economy would be in much better shape right now.
00:18:17.000We wouldn't have had a wildly inflated economy last year in which our wage gains are being eaten up by the rates of inflation because he decided to blow money into the economy for no apparent reason.
00:18:25.000Again, America only succeeds when Joe Biden's policies fail.
00:18:29.000When he doesn't get what he wants, America does great.
00:18:31.000When he gets what he wants, America just gets blown up.
00:18:54.000So, for example, the Biden administration is amazing.
00:18:56.000According to Politico, they're now trying to recalculate COVID-19 hospitalizations.
00:19:00.000So, for two years, it was considered a conspiracy theory to suggest that the stats that were being kept by hospitals were not very good when it came to hospitalizations and COVID.
00:19:09.000There are a lot of people who are saying there's a difference between being hospitalized of COVID and hospitalized with COVID.
00:19:14.000If you break your leg and then you test positive for Delta, you're not hospitalized because of COVID.
00:19:21.000And the same thing is true for a lot of people who are elderly who are dying.
00:19:24.000Did they die of COVID or did they die of a bunch of complicating factors, which means that if they got anything, they were going to die.
00:19:30.000This disease killed disproportionately very elderly people with multiple underlying conditions.
00:19:35.000And if you said that, this was considered wild conspiracy theory insanity.
00:19:39.000Now, the Biden administration, which is being hit by the case rates of Omicron, because people on the left are like, wait a second, you want to relieve the pandemic restrictions?
00:19:47.000We still have a lot of cases of Omicron.
00:19:49.000So what is the Biden administration trying to do?
00:19:51.000Now they're trying to recalibrate how hospitals count the stats.
00:19:55.000According to Politico, the Biden administration is working on recalculating the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States, according to two senior officials familiar with the matter.
00:20:04.000A task force comprised of scientists and data specialists at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working with hospitals nationwide to improve COVID-19 reporting.
00:20:13.000You know when this would have been useful?
00:20:15.000In the middle of the pandemic, not two years later, you idiots!
00:20:19.000The group is asking hospitals to report numbers of patients who go to the facility because they have COVID, separate from those individuals who go in for other reasons and test positive after being admitted, the two officials said.
00:20:30.000The administration's goal is to get a more accurate sense of COVID-19's impact across the country and whether the virus is causing severe disease.
00:20:37.000Senior Biden health officials have increasingly relied on hospitalization numbers rather than case counts to determine how to respond to the virus, as well as the efficacy of the vaccines.
00:20:45.000Lower hospitalization rates could inform the administration's thinking on public health measures such as masking.
00:21:02.000I'd just like to note here that our public health establishment is just hot garbage.
00:21:05.000They're just terrible with their jobs.
00:21:07.000There are a few questions that we needed to know, like, right up front.
00:21:09.000Like, for example, the number one question, what is the infection fatality rate of this disease based on age and pre-existing health condition?
00:21:17.000That is the number one question of this pandemic.
00:21:19.000And you still cannot get a straight answer.
00:22:08.000That was just, you want to talk about science denial, suggesting that there's no natural immunity after you get the disease, that's science denial.
00:22:14.000And half of our public policy was rooted in that science denial.
00:22:16.000And they would do no studies at all in order to verify their own position.
00:22:21.000In fact, they would suppress anybody who said something different.
00:22:26.000The amount of public health establishment suppression of good information.
00:22:31.000It's truly amazing, which is why I don't trust them when they say that they just want Joe Rogan off the air because of misinformation, or they just want to have big tech shut down misinformation.
00:22:39.000The biggest promoters of bad information throughout this entire pandemic are the people in the public health establishment.
00:22:44.000When I say the biggest promoters, I mean the people who affected the most people.
00:22:47.000Because yes, of course, there are people who just said silly things like COVID is not a threat at all, and no one's going to die, or it's just like the flu, or that kind of stuff, or the vaccines are completely ineffective.
00:22:56.000That stuff is ridiculous, and it is silly, and people who took that advice were taking bad data.
00:23:01.000The public health establishment are the people you're supposed to trust, and they never provided the data for what they were talking about in any serious way, and they never did the studies to even find the data for the stuff that they were talking about this whole way.
00:23:13.000And so when they say now the data have shifted, that's a lie.
00:23:48.000It was not a big deal, but it reminded me that masks have both benefits and costs.
00:23:51.000They can slow the transmission of COVID-19, especially medical-grade masks worn properly.
00:23:55.000See, this is the part nobody ever wanted to talk about, is the fact that if you wear a mask improperly, it does not do its job.
00:24:01.000The masking study is typically done where they would put a mask fitted properly over a mannequin, and then they would fire particles at the mask.
00:24:08.000That is not how anyone in the United States has been wearing a mask for two years.
00:24:11.000What you've actually been doing with masks is putting it in your pocket, taking it off, putting it back on, fussing around with it, adjusting your face, pulling it down to eat, pulling it back up to drink.
00:24:18.000You know, like all of this stuff means that you are not using PPE properly.
00:24:22.000I know this because, again, my wife is a doctor who went through medical training at a hospital.
00:24:30.000David Leonhardt is pointing out that the national debate over mask mandates in schools is picking up again.
00:24:35.000Yesterday, Democratic governors in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Oregon all announced the end of their statewide mandates to take effect in coming weeks.
00:24:41.000It's a sign that more Americans, not just Republicans, are ready to move to a new phase of the pandemic.
00:24:47.000Polls found that many Democrats, especially younger Democrats, seem to be overstating their personal risk from COVID.
00:25:37.000When it became convenient for Democrats to ditch all of this, or rather inconvenient for them not to ditch all of this, then they started talking about the rights of free American citizens.
00:25:46.000Until that point, they had nothing to say.
00:26:18.000But here's the thing, the members of the media are even less trustworthy than the people in the public health establishment.
00:26:24.000A great story out of the Wall Street Journal.
00:26:25.000Apparently, the folks at CNN are still ticked off that CNN president Jeff Zucker had to resign.
00:26:31.000Now you'll recall that Jeff Zucker's great crime is that he was schtuping his top associate, the CNN chief marketing officer, Allison Golas.
00:26:38.000So apparently he's been schtuping, according to Rolling Stone, since 1996.
00:26:41.000And then he's been elevating her throughout her career to the point where she was actually slated to take over CNN as a whole, as a network, based on the fact that she was nailing Jeff Zucker, right, for 25 years, since I was 12 years old.
00:26:55.000So she was about to take over the network.
00:26:56.000He was going to get elevated up in Discovery.
00:26:58.000And then it turns out that both of them were hanging out with Andrew Cuomo and basically giving him political advice.
00:27:02.000And this came out in the Chris Cuomo investigation.
00:27:04.000And Chris Cuomo wanted all sorts of documents related to this, so Jeff Zucker was forced to resign.
00:27:09.000So are the CNN anchors upset about Jeff Zucker being corrupt and awful?
00:27:15.000The CNN anchors are actually really, really upset that Jeff Zucker is gone, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:27:21.000Some of CNN's biggest on-air hosts during a meeting Monday pressed WarnerMedia chief executive Jason Killar for details regarding CNN president Jeff Zucker's resignation.
00:27:29.000Zucker resigned last week, citing his failure to disclose a consensual relationship with a close colleague.
00:27:34.000New York-based anchors including Don Lemon, Brian Stelter, Richard Quest, and Alison Camerota asked Mr. Killar a range of questions relating to Zucker's departure and its aftermath, including what to tell network viewers and employees about the executive shuffle.
00:27:46.000Killar appeared in the meeting through a video connection.
00:27:49.000Mr. Quest, the anchor of CNN's Quest Means Business, asked Mr. Killar during the question-and-answer session whether he considered alternate decisions that would have allowed Zucker to stay on.
00:27:58.000Quest said, there was the possibility of a more imaginative result that would have allowed you to keep the captain instead of throwing the captain overboard while the ship is about to go through iceberg.
00:28:05.000Oliver Darcy, a reporter who covers media at CNN, asked Kilar whether CNN would pay former Cuomo primetime host Chris Cuomo a severance package.
00:28:13.000Zucker had previously said CNN would not pay Chris Cuomo severance.
00:28:17.000Lemon followed up on Darcy's question, asking whether Killar had weighed the signals he might be sending by compensating individuals who break with company standards.
00:28:25.000Lemon said he was asking on behalf of people who posed that question to him.
00:28:28.000He said, did you think about what message it sends to the journalists in the company and also to the larger public?
00:28:33.000Someone can be found to break with journalistic standards and then get paid handsomely for it.
00:28:36.000I noticed that you're asking this about Chris Cuomo, but you are not asking this about Don Lemon, I noticed.
00:29:02.000These are the people who are supposed to be our trustworthy sources of information.
00:29:07.000Alrighty, coming up, the media, they've been defending the public health establishment and Jeff Zucker, but they are really, really mad at one guy, Joe Rogan.
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00:33:17.000Meanwhile, while our media have been defending the public health establishment and defending Jeff Zucker, they are very, very angry at Joe Rogan because they want their competition And Joe Rogan's very bad because he has been providing misinformation about COVID by interviewing a wide variety of people ranging from Sanjay Gupta to Robert Malone.
00:33:41.000And now, of course, there's this concerted hit job on Joe Rogan to try and take him down from Spotify based on a compendium of him saying the N-word over the course of the last 20 years.
00:33:52.000By the way, it's worth noting here that Joe stopped saying the N-word in rap lyrics like a few years ago and actually explained why on the air.
00:33:57.000But none of that matters because none of this is done in good faith.
00:34:00.000So Brian Stelter, who's supposed to be the reliable source.
00:34:03.000Again, there is no more ironically named show in America than reliable sources.
00:34:06.000Here is Brian Stelter explaining that Spotify does not have to do a deal with Rogan.
00:34:11.000And if Rogan gets thrown off of Spotify, this puts freedom of speech in no danger at all.
00:34:15.000It is highly amusing to watch journalists suddenly determine that there's no threat to freedom of speech unless it comes directly from government.
00:34:22.000Like, these are the people who are supposed to be the broadest advocates for freedom of speech.
00:34:26.000Now, they just want anyone who is not them shut down.
00:34:30.000Daniel Akko last night in his memo, the CEO of Spotify, he said, well, we don't want to silence Rogan.
00:34:44.000Spotify has an exclusive deal with him.
00:34:46.000If he wanted to just put up his podcast on Spotify, just like I do, he could go right ahead and do that.
00:34:50.000But Spotify pays him tens of millions of dollars to be promoted exclusively on Spotify.
00:34:55.000This is really a media relationship between Spotify and Rogan that has gone sideways, and that's Okay, this is hilarious.
00:35:03.000So, Brian Stelter is just jealous that his crappy podcast gets put up on Spotify for free, and they're willing to pay Joe Rogan an inordinate amount of money so that they have the exclusive license to his show.
00:35:14.000But of course, Spotify has exclusive license to a bunch of shows, with a variety of different viewpoints, and to a bunch of music, with a variety of different artists.
00:35:22.000So the media are trying to bully Rogan off of Spotify, is the basic idea here.
00:35:27.000And they're using their all-purpose tool now.
00:35:29.000Because for the left, there is one tool that they always go back to no matter what, and that is racism.
00:35:34.000So this is why the N-word tape came out.
00:35:36.000It's not because anybody on the left actually thinks Rogan's a racist.
00:36:18.000I've handled this, I mean, as any brand that still wants to be able to say that they can profit off of
00:36:28.000A podcast that not only frequently has dehumanized Black people and other groups, women, but, you know, it's Black History Month, and I feel like these sort of brands are the types that will be like all, you know, hashtag Black Lives Matter one minute and curate Black History Month's Spotify playlist for us one minute and then say that, well,
00:36:52.000We aren't going to do anything about Joe Rogan and this podcast because we want to promote quote-unquote open debate.
00:37:02.000Okay, so open debate is of no consequence, because after all, if he says things that we don't like, he has to go away, which I thought was sort of the purpose of open debate.
00:37:12.000One is to get rid of Rogan, because Rogan actually is the tip of the spear for people hearing a bunch of voices they wouldn't otherwise hear in the mainstream media.
00:37:19.000Okay, so that is one thing that's happening.
00:37:20.000The other thing is bully all of Rogan's friends into silence, and by proxy, the rest of America.
00:37:44.000He's been a guest with Rogan as well, as far as I'm aware, I think a couple of times.
00:37:48.000And he had started his own party and all of this.
00:37:50.000Well, Andrew Yang, I mean, I'm disappointed in him just as a human, because here's what happened with Andrew Yang.
00:37:55.000Apparently, according to Yahoo, he had put up a tweet defending Joe Rogan and saying that Joe Rogan isn't racist.
00:38:02.000And then he was forced to delete the tweet.
00:38:04.000According to Yahoo, former Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang has now apologized for saying that podcast host Joe Rogan isn't racist because he works with black people.
00:38:12.000Yang, who has since deleted the tweet, stepped into the furor surrounding the embattled Spotify host over the weekend when Rogan and the company were compelled to address a compilation video showing Rogan repeatedly using the N-word on the Joe Rogan experience.
00:38:23.000The politician defended Rogan Sunday by tweeting, I don't think Joe Rogan is a racist.
00:38:26.000The man interacts with and works with black people literally all the time.
00:38:31.000Yang then added, do I know black friends of Joe's who would swear by him?
00:39:15.000The dirty secret of politics is that if you've never gone through the fire, you are likely to be burned by it and do exactly what the arsonists want.
00:39:22.000You wonder why so many public figures do this?
00:39:24.000It's because they've never expected it.
00:39:25.000Okay, there are people like me who've been under constant media attack for 20 years.
00:39:29.000I've been doing this for a very, very long time.
00:39:31.000And we literally built a company in order to shield ourselves from the predations of the left.
00:39:38.000I wouldn't sell our company to Spotify specifically because of this kind of thing because I don't trust the people at Spotify to back our play.
00:39:44.000And we hope to set up new wings of the free speech movement where people of a lot of different perspectives can say what they want to say safely and without fear that they are going to be deplatformed or that the left is going to be able to cow them into silence.
00:39:56.000But if you're Andrew Yang, then you've never been hit.
00:40:44.000If you can't be useful to them, your apologies have no consequence.
00:40:47.000And then, you're just Ned Stark, and they're Joffrey, and you've offered your fealty, and they chop off your head.
00:40:53.000If you can still be of use, then they turn you into Reek, and they castrate you, and then, they have you trot around the castle, doing their little spying errands for them.
00:41:02.000So, these are your options, if you surrender to the left.
00:41:05.000You can either be Ned Stark, or you can be Reek.
00:41:07.000These are the two choices, in this particular universe.
00:41:10.000So, look at some other companies that are now being attacked this way.
00:41:31.000And so, it was only a matter of time before the media tried to find an employee to accuse the company of racism, and now this is what they have done.
00:41:38.000According to the Daily Beast, Last week, former Tesla employee Kailyn Barker filed a lawsuit against the electric car maker for allegedly disregarding her complaints of racial discrimination, saying that being black worker at Tesla's renowned California factory is to be forced to step back in time and suffer painful abuses reminiscent of the Jim Crow era.
00:41:56.000Okay, so first of all, that ain't true.
00:41:57.000And I'll tell you why that ain't true.
00:41:58.000Because in the Jim Crow era, you wouldn't have been working at the Tesla factory.
00:42:02.000It is hilarious to me that people don't seem to understand what Jim Crow was in the first place.
00:42:06.000The 25-year-old, who is black and gay, claims a white co-worker at the company's Lathrop plant called her the N-word and assaulted her with a hot grinding tool.
00:42:14.000After Barker complained to Human Resources, Tesla allegedly retaliated by withholding her wages.
00:42:26.000You don't go to HR, you go to the cops.
00:42:28.000If someone assaults you with a hot grinding tool, if someone calls you the N-word, you think any HR department in America doesn't fire that person and do a full investigation?
00:42:37.000Any HR department in America, this is literally their job.
00:42:40.000And Tesla is a company worth billions and billions and billions.
00:42:44.000It's the most valuable car maker on planet Earth.
00:42:46.000You think their HR department is going to blow off a claim that someone called you the N-word at work?
00:42:52.000I don't believe this for half a second.
00:42:55.000Barker's civil suit is one of multiple cases in recent months to paint a disturbing picture of a hostile work environment for women and people of color at the clean energy giant's factories.
00:43:03.000And it comes a mere four months after the jury awarded another former employee, Owen Diaz, nearly $137 million over racism he encountered in the workplace, which included co-workers hurling racial epithets and telling him to go back to Africa.
00:43:16.000Now Tesla is facing a civil rights complaint from California regulators over employees' accusations of pervasive racial discrimination.
00:43:22.000Last month, the California Department of Fair Housing and Employment issued a Notice of Cause Finding and Mandatory Dispute Resolution following an investigation into undisclosed allegations of race discrimination and harassment at unspecified Tesla locations.
00:43:49.000So what we now know is something bad allegedly happened at a time in a place.
00:43:54.000We don't know what the thing is, where it happened, or when.
00:43:57.000Let's open a government investigation.
00:44:00.000The agency gave notice that based upon the evidence collected, it believes it has grounds to file a civil complaint against Tesla.
00:44:06.000As for Diaz's multi-million dollar case, Tesla's report said the company does not believe the facts in law justify the verdict and that it has requested a retrial or reduction in the jury's award.
00:44:17.000Tesla's report also noted it received an SEC subpoena last November requesting information on how billionaire CEO Elon Musk was complying with a 2018 settlement with the securities watchdog that required his tweets to be vetted by a company lawyer.
00:44:30.000So you now have the government cracking down on Elon Musk's tweets.
00:44:35.000Yes, clearly this is not a power game.
00:44:36.000This is really just about preventing racial discrimination.
00:44:38.000It's not a power game in which you find a company you don't like, and then you target it with racial discrimination, and then the media whips everybody into a frenzy, and then government regulators of the left decide to come in and crack down on the company.
00:44:50.000I mean, this is truly frightening stuff.
00:44:52.000Now, good for Musk for not surrendering to it.
00:45:27.000All of the statutes that are cited are not justified.
00:45:30.000There's no class action because the plaintiffs are not similarly situated.
00:45:35.000Brian Flores himself has said on Open TV that he has no justification for suggesting that any specific incident involving him was motivated by race rather than maybe by the fact that he hasn't developed the Miami Dolphins quarterback and that his record with the Dolphins kind of sucks.
00:45:51.000Instead, he sued the NFL, and the NFL, because they believe that the publicity is bad, started doing what all these companies, except for Musk, do, and he started self-flagellating.
00:46:01.000So he issued a memo on Saturday morning to all 32 teams, in which he said we must, quote, acknowledge that the results of their efforts to promote diversity with respect to head coaches have been unacceptable.
00:46:11.000Ah, the efforts have been unacceptable because there aren't enough black coaches.
00:46:15.000Seems like it's acceptable with regard to the players.
00:46:17.000And by the way, since when is the player pool the coach pool?
00:46:21.000I mean, really, this is two separate pools.
00:46:23.000If you take a look at college coaches, how many of those college coaches were wildly successful players?
00:46:29.000Many of them are just people who coached high school, and then they coached Division 3, and then coached Division 1.
00:46:35.000But no matter, Goodell has to pretend obeisance to this ridiculous lawsuit.
00:46:41.000So Goodell's memo is his first reported comment since former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores filed that lawsuit.
00:46:46.000In the memo, Goodell says the league will re-evaluate all policies, guidelines, and initiatives relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including as they relate to gender.
00:46:53.000The league will also retain outside experts to assist in this review.
00:46:57.000He says racism and any form of discrimination is contrary to the NFL's values.
00:47:01.000We have made significant efforts to promote diversity and adopted numerous policies and programs, which have produced positive change in many areas.
00:47:07.000However, we must acknowledge that, particularly with respect to head coaches, the results have been unacceptable.
00:47:12.000So not unacceptable with result with regard to special teams coaches or offensive line coaches or D-line coaches, but with results of head coaches, all you have to do is see that there are not enough black head coaches.
00:47:24.000Now, they're gauging that by percentage of the NFL that is black.
00:47:28.000Well, why not gauge it by percentage of the American population that's black?
00:48:14.000Well, I mean, first of all, today ending in Y, so Stephen A. Smith is pissed.
00:48:16.000But Stephen A. Smith is also pissed because after Brian Flores was fired, the Dolphins hired to replace him the San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator, Mike McDaniel.
00:49:01.000This was a conversation last week about black men.
00:49:04.000What I'm saying is the conversation last week pertaining to the Brian Flores situation is the scarcity of black men who have been given opportunities to be head coaches in the National Football League.
00:49:18.000His father is of black descent, by the way.
00:50:19.000He couldn't develop a quarterback no matter what he did.
00:50:21.000And then he went to Tampa Bay in 2014-2015.
00:50:24.000And his record with Tampa Bay was a whopping 8-24.
00:50:28.000And now, lest you think that that is a good record, that means that he won 8 times and lost 24 times for a winning percentage of 250.
00:50:35.000So Lovey Smith is not like some great shakes as a head coach.
00:50:38.000But the Houston Texans decided to promote Lovey Smith to their head coaching role.
00:50:44.000Apparently, they decided that they were going to interview three candidates twice.
00:50:48.000Josh McCown, the Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator, Jonathan Gannon, and Brian Flores.
00:50:54.000Okay, so they actually interviewed Flores.
00:50:57.000Herein lies the problem, and this is the really funny part.
00:51:00.000So after they hired Lovey Smith, Brian Flores then said, so Brian Flores put out a statement about Lovey Smith, and this is my favorite thing.
00:51:09.000Okay, because supposedly this is just about empowering black men, right?
00:51:13.000This is the only reason why he filed the lawsuit was to empower black men.
00:51:16.000Well, actually, Brian Flores is upset that Lovey Smith got hired.
00:51:20.000Quote is from his his lawyer's statement.
00:51:23.000Mr. Flores is happy to hear that the Texans have hired a black head coach, Lovey Smith, as Mr. Flores.
00:51:27.000His goal in bringing his case is to provide real opportunities for black and minority candidates to be considered for coaching and executive positions within the NFL.
00:51:35.000However, We would be remiss not to mention that Mr. Flores was one of three finalists for the Texans head coach position.
00:51:41.000And after a great interview and mutual interest, it is obvious the only reason Flores was not selected was his decision to stand up against racial inequality across the NFL.
00:51:50.000So they hired a black guy, Lovey Smith, and Brian Flores is like, you're still racist because you didn't hire me.
00:52:10.000The Dear White Staffers Instagram account is a long overdue reckoning.
00:52:13.000It's by a woman named Melissa Sullivan.
00:52:15.000And she talks about how she landed an internship on Capitol Hill and people were abusing her because she was a first generation Latina American.
00:52:21.000And then there is this new Instagram account by a bunch of people of color.
00:52:27.000called Dear White Staffers on Instagram, that is supposed to be ripping into the treatment of people of minority status in the legislative offices.
00:52:37.000And so she says she's very happy about all of this.
00:52:41.000She says, in response to that launch, hundreds of current and former Hill staffers began submitting anonymous stories about their bosses, pay inequity, sexual harassment, racism, and the harmful consequences of working on Capitol Hill.
00:53:23.000And the answer is there is no lawsuit.
00:53:25.000What is the end goal according to this piece?
00:53:28.000Quote, the survey has spurred an unprecedented conversation about salary disparities and how staff can institute more workplace protections.
00:53:34.000House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a handful of other members now openly say they support unionization efforts for Hill staff.
00:53:44.000Buying off all of their own racism and supposed sexism and all of this by saying it's time to unionize, which is precisely what they wanted to do in the first place.
00:53:52.000Charges of racism as just another tool in the portfolio toward the pursuit of power, as always, as always.
00:54:19.000What the left just wants is to throw out accusations of things that they can't verify and then get you to kowtow to them and give them enormous power.