Red and purple states gain congressional seats as blue states lose population, the anti-police movement continues to gain steam, and we discuss the worst example of woke mob targeting I ve ever seen in my life. This show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. It s time to stand up to big tech. Protect your data at ExpressVPN, where you can get 20% off your first month, and up to 50% off the rest for the rest of the year. That s POUND250, which stands for Protect Your Data. You ll get $250 in free credit when you sign up, and you ll get access to all the features you need to protect your data, including the ability to access, store, and monetize your data. You can get a FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help you build your portfolio, and save you time, money, and money on your next bill. You get a better deal on everything else, including insurance, car insurance, and finance, too! Want to upgrade your credit score? Rate/subscribe in Apple Pay! Learn more about your ad choices and become a supporter of The Daily Wire Podcast by going to gimlet.fm/TheVaultUp. Subscribe to our newest episode of VaynerMedia's New York Times bestselling podcast, "The Daily Wire" featuring Ben Shapiro and his co-host, Rachael Keyser, wherever you get her work gets the most amazing reviews. And don t forget to rate and review the show on Apple's newest podcast, The Most Beautiful Things? Subscribe and review it on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe & subscribe to his podcast is the most authentic, the most beautiful podcast on the best podcast in the service you can do it is also and most authentic in the podcast is going to be the best thing you can go on the most awesome place in the place you get the most of it s a podcast is also online is also on it s most authentic and most beautiful is also goes to go to it is the best of it is that goes most of the place is , and more like that s truly authentic, and he gets it goes it is truly authentic and goes it goes that is the is a review and he s truly like that is also that is truly that is that really goes it s truly is that is , and more of it really is that s really that and he really has it is really that is it truly, really is it really truly, truly and he truly has it really goes that really is truly , really really really really truly ...
00:00:00.000Red and purple states gain congressional seats as blue states lose population, the anti-police movement continues to gain steam, and we discuss the worst example of woke mob targeting I've ever seen in my life.
00:00:23.000Slash Ben, well before we go any further, let me remind you, you're spending hundreds of dollars too much on your cell phone bill every single year.
00:00:36.000Instead, why don't you switch over to Pure Talk USA, just like thousands of my customers.
00:00:40.000Instead of charging you obscene fees to pay for their massive mainstream media campaigns, corporate campuses, retail outlets across the country, Pure Talk will pass the savings on to you.
00:01:12.000So instead of taking that one-size-fits-all plan from a giant cell coverage provider, charging you hundreds of dollars too much every year, instead, check out Pure Talk USA by dialing pound 250 and saying, my name, Ben Shapiro.
00:01:23.000You'll save 50% off your first month and hundreds for the rest of the year.
00:01:32.000Well, before I get to the news, quick announcement about our job openings here at The Daily Wire.
00:01:39.000We've got some exciting news for freedom-fighting creative masterminds out there looking to join The Daily Wire at our headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee.
00:01:58.000You have a heavy hand in our creative strategy here, so if you're up for the challenge, visit dailywire.com slash careers and send us your resume.
00:02:04.000Now is your chance to work for Daily Wire.
00:02:32.000And I'm not the only one, because Florida just picked up a congressional seat, thanks to the Census Bureau.
00:02:37.000Texas picked up a couple of congressional seats, thanks to the Census Bureau.
00:02:40.000By the way, that was actually sort of an underestimate.
00:02:43.000Most people thought that Florida was going to pick up at least two, not just one.
00:02:47.000But the states that gained are almost entirely purple or red, and the states that lost are almost entirely blue.
00:02:53.000The sole exception, I believe, there is probably Ohio, which lost a congressional seat, and that is because the Rust Belt has been moving a lot into the Sun Belt.
00:03:01.000According to the Washington Post, political power in the United States will continue to shift south this decade, as historically Democratic states that border the Great Lakes give up congressional seats and electoral votes to regions where Republicans currently enjoy a political advantage, according to new data from the U.S.
00:03:16.000You wonder why your corporate media in New York and L.A., why they despise Texas and Florida?
00:03:22.000Why they are constantly ripping on Texas and Florida?
00:03:24.000It's because all of the people who earn money in these states and have the ability to move and don't have their heads so far up their own rectums, it's coming out their head again.
00:03:32.000are moving away from New York and Connecticut and New Jersey and California, and they're moving instead to states where they can actually live comfortable, nice, free lives.
00:03:40.000Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, three states that voted twice for President Trump, are set to gain a combined four additional seats in Congress in 2023 because of population growth, granting them collectively as many new votes in the Electoral College for the next presidential election as Hawaii has in total.
00:03:53.000So this does shift some of the Electoral College math.
00:03:56.000Not only that, it shifts the nature of the House.
00:03:58.000Most political prognosticators believe that Republicans, because of that reapportionment, basically just gained three seats in the House.
00:04:04.000Well, Democrats are only up by five or six seats in the House right now.
00:04:06.000So that means that Republicans are already, just thanks to the Census Bureau, on the verge of retaking the House of Representatives.
00:04:11.000Now, that changes based on redistricting in a lot of these states.
00:04:15.000We know that in New York, for example, there are a bunch of Republican seats in New York.
00:04:18.000New York is going to redistrict, and they're attempting to get rid of a lot of those Republican seats.
00:04:22.000But the same thing is presumably true in Republican states down South, which, again, are gaining population.
00:04:28.000Four northern states with Democratic governors that President Biden won in 2020, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York, will each lose a single congressional seat.
00:04:38.000That's the only actual red state that lost a seat, so far as I'm aware.
00:04:41.000The data released Monday was better for the Democrats than expected.
00:04:44.000Earlier Census Bureau estimates had suggested congressional gains in Florida and Texas would be even bigger.
00:04:48.000The margins in certain states that determined the final congressional count were razor thin.
00:04:52.000New York lost a seat because of a shortfall of only 89 people.
00:04:55.000So thank you to Hero of the Republic, Governor Andrew Cuomo, the greatest of all governors.
00:04:59.000It turns out that killing your own population, as well as raising taxes, making life basically unlivable in your state, led to the loss of a congressional seat in your state.
00:05:08.000The release marked the start to a constitutionally mandated effort to redraw congressional districts across the country in advance of the 2022 election, a tangled litigious process likely to benefit Republican officeholders more than Democratic ones next year.
00:05:20.000Frankly, if Republicans don't regain the House in 2022, given Joe Biden's performance, given the fact that they are the out-of-power party in an off-year election, and given the fact that Republican states are gaining seats in the Census Bureau reapportionment, If they somehow fail to regain the House in 2022, that is an act of extraordinary incompetence.
00:05:42.000I've told as many Republican legislators as I can find, and that's many of them since I recently spoke at a House Republican caucus meeting.
00:05:50.000I told them, if you guys don't retake the House in 2022, frankly, y'all should lose your jobs.
00:05:54.000Because this is a target-rich environment politically for you.
00:05:57.000Joe Biden is running up massive debt, massive deficits.
00:06:00.000He's proposed $10 trillion in spending this year so far.
00:06:04.000So, you guys, you have a lot of room to run here.
00:06:09.000All of this is a stark threat to Democratic control of the House, which will rest on a seven-vote margin with four outstanding vacancies once newly elected Representative Troy Carter, Democrat of Louisiana, takes office in the coming weeks.
00:06:19.000The results show that the country grew over the past decade by the second slowest rate in history, owing to an aging population, decreased fertility, and slowing immigration.
00:06:27.000A slightly lower rate of growth was recorded between 1930 and 1940.
00:06:30.000So the downturn, thanks to COVID, COVID itself, which killed off a lot of people, the fact that people aren't having babies, particularly in urban centers, what this is leading to is a slowing of growth in the United States, which actually is a serious problem for a country that continues to take on debts that there will be no one alive to pay.
00:06:48.000Right now, the redistricting landscape is of heavy advantage to Republicans.
00:06:51.000There are many, many states where Republicans control the state legislature, and redistricting is going to happen in those states.
00:06:56.000That includes places like Ohio, West Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Texas.
00:07:01.000We're still not going to know the partisan effect of the shift, because states have to sift through the population data.
00:07:06.000It's going to be fun to hear from the media how Republican redistricting is super racist and terrible, but Democratic redistricting is wonderful and enjoyable.
00:07:14.000Republican control of the redistricting process in states like Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, according to the Washington Post, is likely to increase the number of congressional contests where Republicans have a chance of winning.
00:07:25.000Republicans will control line drawing for 187 congressional seats over the coming year.
00:07:30.000The remaining seats that need to be drawn will be decided by independent commissions or divided governments, according to the Cook Political Report.
00:07:37.000Mike Thumb, battleground director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said redistricting favors Republicans.
00:07:42.000It's not going to win back the majority on its own, but certainly it benefits Republicans at this point.
00:07:47.000All of which demonstrates, once again, that when you govern your states like garbage, people leave.
00:08:20.000You've done an excellent job of driving people from your states, even though the media talk about how wonderful you are.
00:08:24.000It turns out that the people who live under you don't feel the same way, which is why so many people have been leaving, and taking their votes, and taking their congressional seats, and taking their cash, and moving to states that are not seeking to destroy their liberty.
00:08:37.000Again, there's a great hilarity to the fact that New York lost a house seat because it came up 89 people short on the census.
00:08:42.000My favorite part of that, by the way, is that members of the New York delegation were saying, well, you know, if we just kept recounting, we'd certainly find 89 more people.
00:08:50.000Because, um, I was informed that if you did that with regard to votes, that was, uh, that was stealing the election.
00:08:55.000But if you do it with regard to Census Bureau, then I guess that that's good.
00:08:59.000You just keep recounting until you get exactly what you want.
00:09:02.000Never forget, guys, it's all about cynical power grabs.
00:09:04.000Meanwhile, over in California, the governor of California is now officially going to be recalled, Gavin Newsom, the garbage governor of California.
00:09:13.000First, if you run a business, you know you need to constantly make your business better.
00:09:16.000The way we make our business better here at Daily Wire is that we make sure that our employees are the best.
00:09:21.000And that means adding the best employees at ZipRecruiter.com.
00:09:25.000I'd say a bunch of the employees who work in this office were received through ZipRecruiter.com.
00:09:30.000And all of our employees know That they could be replaced at a moment's notice with ZipRecruiter.com, which means that everybody works super hard here at The Daily Wire.
00:09:38.000When you post a job on ZipRecruiter, it gets sent out to over 100 top job sites with just one click.
00:09:43.000Then, ZipRecruiter's matching technology finds people with the right skills and experience for your job and actively invites them to apply.
00:09:49.000In fact, ZipRecruiter is so effective that four out of five employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the very first day.
00:09:55.000It's no wonder over 2.3 million businesses have come to ZipRecruiter for their hiring needs.
00:09:59.000So, While other companies overwhelm you with way too many options, ZipRecruiter will find you what you are looking for.
00:10:22.000is about to put Gavin Newsom on the ballot for recall. Now, it's still unlikely that he actually gets recalled because it's a two-step process. First, a majority of Californians who are voting have to vote for his recall. Then he doesn't appear on the recall ballot. Then somebody else replaces him. Maybe Governor Caitlyn Jenner, the first female governor of the state of California, who ironically enough would be a man.
00:10:42.000But in any case, in an effort to recall, California Governor Gavin Newsom, according to the Huffington Post, officially qualified for the state's ballot on Monday, thrusting him into a fight for his job midway through his first term in office.
00:10:53.000To make it onto the ballot, the Republican-led recall petition needed signatures from just shy of 1.5 million people, equal to 12% of the number of voters in the last election for the office.
00:11:02.000Supporters had until March 17th to meet that threshold.
00:11:05.000Election authorities just finished tallying.
00:11:07.000In the end, recall supporters submitted 1.626 million ballot signatures.
00:11:12.000So again, two questions will be asked.
00:11:13.000One, do you want to recall the governor?
00:11:15.000And if so, who do you want to replace the governor?
00:11:18.000Some officials estimate it'll cost 400 million bucks for this recall to happen.
00:11:23.000Newsom has wanted to run for president for quite a while, but his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has been egregious.
00:11:30.000They shut down all the outdoor spaces, they shut down all the outdoor restaurants, and then he was eating indoors at the French Laundry.
00:11:35.000He's allowed homelessness to spiral completely out of control in his state.
00:11:38.000He's allowed crime to spiral out of control in his state.
00:11:41.000And now the people of California are having second thoughts about the Ken doll, who is Gavin Newsom.
00:11:46.000So again, we've been told by the media that he's a wonderful governor, just like Andrew Cuomo's a wonderful governor.
00:11:50.000There's only one problem, none of these people are good at their jobs.
00:11:53.000And the way you can tell that none of these people are good at their jobs is that people are leaving places like New York and California.
00:11:58.000Again, there's a reporting bias, a self-reporting bias when it comes to polling.
00:12:02.000If you ask people in California if they're happy with California, many of them will say, sure.
00:12:06.000And then a lot of those people will be like, also, if I can get a job in Nevada, I am gone.
00:12:40.000If you don't like what you had in New York or California, leave that crap behind and move to a free state that actually gives a damn about your liberty.
00:12:48.000And also, by the way, that is interested in protecting its own citizenry.
00:12:51.000So all of this is being exacerbated by a federal government, by a Democratic Party, that is eager to exacerbate problems that exist, particularly in the blue states.
00:12:59.000Red states are resisting a lot of the mandates that are being crammed down by the Democratic government right now, but blue states are just gonna go right along with it, and it's gonna make these places a lot worse places to live.
00:13:10.000I'm gonna take a couple lifestyle issues here that really do matter, because one is actual Legal changes that are being pushed by the Democratic government.
00:13:19.000And one is a sort of attitudinal change that has taken over in blue states.
00:13:27.000Right now, there is a hard push by the left, by the Democratic Party, to basically destroy policing across the United States.
00:13:33.000The way that they do this is by cramming down consent decrees on police departments without any serious evidence that those police departments have acted In racist ways.
00:13:43.000Instead, what they do is they look at stats and like, oh, well, it looks like you're pulling over as many black people.
00:13:48.000So I guess that we're going to have to cram down a consent decree on you.
00:13:51.000And these police departments, because they do not have the resources to actually resist the federal government, the DOJ has an enormous budget.
00:13:57.000These police departments compared to the DOJ when it comes to their legal budget, not close.
00:14:01.000If the federal DOJ comes after you and threatens you with civil rights violations, Then you are simply going to have to sign a consent decree.
00:14:09.000We saw this happen in Seattle during the Obama administration and 20 other cities during the Obama administration.
00:14:14.000Eric Holder's DOJ was used as a club, wielded against major metropolitan police departments.
00:14:20.000The predictable result is that the police were not able to do their jobs and crime started to rise in many of America's biggest cities.
00:14:27.000Well, the same thing is already happening.
00:14:28.000The murder rate is up some 30% in 34 of America's largest cities over the course of the last year.
00:14:33.000The solution to that would be to, you know, allow the police to do their job and actually add police officers.
00:14:38.000Instead, the Democrats and the media are firmly on the side of destroying police all over the country.
00:14:44.000And they're using individual cases as a lever in order to destroy those police departments.
00:14:48.000So, for example, The Justice Department has now announced that it wants to investigate the Louisville police practices in Kentucky after Breonna Taylor's fatal shooting.
00:14:57.000Now, I talked about the Breonna Taylor shooting.
00:15:00.000What the facts in the Breonna Taylor shooting tend to show is that there was a legal warrant that was taken out for the apartment where Breonna Taylor was staying.
00:15:09.000It was served not with a no-knock warrant.
00:15:11.000Believe it or not, it was served with a knocking warrant that was changed on the day of.
00:15:14.000The police officers, by their own testimony, knocked on the door repeatedly.
00:15:19.000They then entered the apartment when nobody answered the door, and Breonna Taylor's boyfriend proceeded to shoot one of the cops in the leg.
00:15:26.000Actually hit him in the femoral artery, apparently.
00:15:37.000She was not the target of the investigation.
00:15:39.000She was not the target of the warrant.
00:15:42.000But there is no criminal activity, certainly no racist criminal activity, by the cops here.
00:15:47.000They were fired upon, they returned fire, she got caught in the crossfire.
00:15:50.000The person who actually should be blamed for Breonna Taylor's death is the boyfriend who is the subject of the drug warrants and who also happened to be firing a gun at the police officers.
00:15:58.000Okay, but the Breonna Taylor case, which has ended with, as far as I'm aware, no indictments at this point.
00:16:04.000A federal investigation which has ended with no actual indictments in that case.
00:16:07.000They're using the Breonna Taylor case as a lever in order to investigate the entire Louisville Police Department.
00:16:11.000And they do this over and over and over, the Democratic DOJ.
00:16:16.000is in fact a weapon on behalf of democratic policymaking.
00:16:19.000For all the talk about how Attorney General William Barr was a partisan hack who was working for Trump, Barr's partisanship did not extend to becoming Trump's lackey in a wide variety of areas.
00:16:29.000Eric Holder literally called himself Barack Obama's wingman and now Merrick Garland.
00:16:33.000Who was almost on the Supreme Court for goodness sake.
00:16:36.000Merrick Garland is basically now just using the power of the DOJ to crack down on police departments without any evidence that the inciting incident was actually an incident of racism or even deep police misconduct.
00:16:48.000Attorney General Garland announced Monday the Justice Department will open a civil investigation of the Louisville Metro Police Department 13 months after the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a black woman whose killing was among the flashpoints that sparked mass social justice protests across the nation last summer.
00:17:01.000Garland said the federal pattern or practice probe will seek to determine whether the Louisville police have engaged in systemic abuses and unlawful tactics with little accountability, marking the second time in five days he has sought to use federal power to examine a local law enforcement agency's use of deadly force.
00:17:15.000So, in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, he announced that there would be a DOJ investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department.
00:17:21.000Sounds like a great idea, considering that Minneapolis crime has spiked, Minneapolis Police Department officers are quitting.
00:17:28.000And you'll see this happen over and over.
00:17:29.000Anytime there's a controversial event, The DOJ will immediately step in and use its power in order to cram down a bunch of consent decree nonsense on police departments that make it more difficult for cops to do their jobs and lead to cops quitting the force.
00:17:42.000Here's Merrick Garland announcing he's going after the Louisville Police Department on the basis of a case which really did not violate criminal statute.
00:17:49.000The Justice Department is opening a civil investigation into the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government and the Louisville Metro Police Department.
00:18:01.000To determine whether LMPD engages in a pattern or practice of violations of the Constitution or federal law.
00:18:09.000The investigation will assess whether LMPD engages in a pattern or practice of using unreasonable force.
00:18:25.000When there's a DOJ investigation into Hunter Biden, you didn't hear anything about it for several years.
00:18:28.000The DOJ launching an investigation is not newsworthy.
00:18:31.000The DOJ bringing indictments is newsworthy.
00:18:33.000So what is the purpose of launching an investigation?
00:18:35.000The purpose of openly announcing that you're launching an investigation into a police department is to generate the political capital to go after the cops.
00:18:46.000What do you think are the chances that Merrick Garland launches an investigation into the Louisville, Kentucky PD and then turns around and goes, you know what?
00:18:56.000Of course, this is driven toward pressuring the Louisville PD into signing some sort of false confession about how racist and terrible they are and changing their practices and procedures in line with what Joe Biden and Merrick Garland would like.
00:19:08.000Or even worse, the people who work for Merrick Garland, who are going to include several serious racial radicals by their own records.
00:19:16.000Justice Department officials say that the Louisville investigation will be separate from an ongoing criminal civil rights probe into Taylor's death.
00:19:22.000The broader civil investigation, Garland said, will seek to determine whether the city's police force engages an unreasonable force on constitutional searches and seizures and unlawful executions of search warrants on private homes.
00:19:32.000It will also examine how Louisville police tactics affect racial groups.
00:20:01.000And what they were told is that they were deliberately informed that they could not write too many tickets to black motorists.
00:20:08.000And if they gave too many tickets to black motorists, this would be perceived as systemic racism.
00:20:11.000And so instead, the cops would simply look for white motorists to give tickets to, so they could artificially boost the stats there.
00:20:18.000Hey, this is what you end up with when the only thing that matters is not underlying individual criminal activity.
00:20:23.000The only thing that actually matters is the racial constitution, the racial constituency, rather, of particular cities and the racial constituency of the people who are arrested.
00:20:32.000Well, the problem here is that, obviously, police officers just are not going to do this.
00:20:37.000Police officers are not going to involve themselves here.
00:20:40.000The Democrats are making life worse in major cities by targeting the cops.
00:21:11.000Okay, so, the notion that the cops are running around shoo- There are some- There are hundreds of mil- Literally, hundreds of millions of police interactions with civilians every single year.
00:21:20.000But Karen Bass believes that the police are going around shooting people willy-nilly, which is, of course, why you require Justice Department cram-downs on police departments all over the country.
00:21:29.000We have to find a way to hold officers accountable so they will stop shooting people.
00:21:35.000You know, for example, we need to spend a lot more time, resources and emphasis on de-escalation training.
00:21:43.000Many officers I've talked to have said when they go through training, they spend very little time, a few hours on de-escalation, but an awful lot of time on, of course, how to protect yourself.
00:21:55.000But when you shoot, that you shoot to kill.
00:22:00.000She's repeated this in so many interviews, that you're supposed to shoot to wound.
00:22:03.000The tremendous ignorance it takes to even say that is truly astonishing.
00:22:09.000And we all know the pressure campaigns that are being brought to bear against the cops in cities all over the United States.
00:22:14.000As I've said before, we are now living in a situation in which we have the complete bigotry of no expectations.
00:22:20.000Anytime there's a controversial shooting, we have to please the mob standing outside as opposed to going through the legal process.
00:22:27.000So the latest example of this comes courtesy of Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
00:22:31.000Mayor Betty Parker of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, according to Charlotte Pence Bond, writing for the Daily Wire, declared a state of emergency on Monday before body camera footage is released of a shooting involving a deputy and a 42-year-old black man that happened last week and sparked protests in the city over the weekend.
00:22:45.000So we are now preemptively declaring states of emergency in metropolitan areas before body cam footage is released because of the expectation there will be riots if people don't like what they see on the body cam footage.
00:22:59.000If you're expecting that a population is going to engage in mass criminal activity because the police officers did something controversial and body cam footage is released before the legal process is taking place, this is called the bigotry of no expectations.
00:23:12.000In the declaration, the mayor, Parker, she said, in order to ensure the safety of our citizens and their property, city officials realized there may potentially be a period of civil unrest within the city following the public release of that body camera footage.
00:23:22.000Parker directed all departments and agencies of Elizabeth City to take whatever steps necessary to protect life and property, public infrastructure, and provide such emergency assistance deemed necessary to preserve public safety.
00:23:34.000On Wednesday, Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old black man, was reportedly killed following an encounter with law enforcement authorities.
00:23:39.000As reported by the AP, Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II has said deputies shot and killed Brown while serving drug-related search and arrest warrants, but released few other details.
00:23:49.000An eyewitness said deputies fired shots at Brown as he tried to drive away, and a car authorities removed from the scene appears to have multiple bullet holes and its back windshield shattered.
00:23:57.000So we don't actually know what happened here yet.
00:23:59.000The body cam footage presumably will be released and then we'll all know whether the police engaged in an act of brutality.
00:24:06.000We still won't know, even if they did, whether that has anything to do with race or racial differentiation.
00:24:10.000Again, the DOJ's case against these police departments is based on a presumption of racism that has yet to be proved.
00:24:17.000Just like in the Chauvin case, he was convicted not just of the charges of which he was convicted, but a broader charge of racism which was never even alleged.
00:24:24.000Minneapolis Police Department has been accused of racism, again, without evidence.
00:24:28.000America more broadly has been accused of racism without evidence.
00:24:31.000The predictable effect of all this is making life worse.
00:24:34.000Democrats nationwide are making life worse based on their desire to trash the cops.
00:24:40.000They're making a higher crime America.
00:24:43.000They are creating a belief that it is perfectly okay to riot and loot more generally, that this is just a form of acceptable social outreach when something goes wrong in American public life.
00:24:54.000There are other people who live in these cities and there will be a backlash.
00:24:57.000If they're living in North Carolina, the backlash will be electing presumably a Republican governor of North Carolina.
00:25:02.000And if they're living in a blue state and they feel no hope whatsoever that the situation is rectified, people will just leave.
00:25:08.000They'll take their stuff and they will go to Florida.
00:25:22.000There's a feeling that the culture in which you stew, the culture in which you live, the milieu that surrounds you in blue states is becoming increasingly difficult to live with.
00:25:31.000That there is a group of people out there who celebrate each time somebody who thinks like you, each time somebody who does not move along with the woke mob is destroyed.
00:25:42.000I can tell you, those sorts of feelings do drive people to take action.
00:25:47.000One of the reasons we left California was not just because of the exorbitant tax rates and the problems with homelessness and crime that were plaguing the area that we were living in.
00:25:55.000One of the reasons that my family left California was the feeling that we were surrounded by people who would be happy to watch us burn politically.
00:26:02.000The feeling that there would be a move, that everything cultural would end in politics.
00:26:07.000And so the move against synagogues and churches would grow stronger, and then within five to ten years, there'd be a move by the state government of California to crack down on my ability to raise my children as I see fit, or send them to a synagogue that believes what I believe, or send them to a school that believes what I believe.
00:26:22.000All of the cancel culture stuff, all of the cultural attempts to destroy the lives and careers of people who you disagree with, all of that does have an impact.
00:27:02.000Let's say you're a Republican, or a conservative, or even a moderate.
00:27:06.000Maybe you're even just a moderate liberal who doesn't believe all of the things the woke left are saying.
00:27:10.000And you're afraid of living next to people who think like LeVar Burton.
00:27:14.000You're fine with living next to anybody, but you're not willing to live next to somebody who is happy to watch your life ruined if you say the wrong thing.
00:27:20.000But here's LeVar Burton talking up exactly that sort of idea.
00:27:24.000In terms of cancel culture, I think it's misnamed.
00:27:42.000So I think that there are good signs that are happening in the culture right now.
00:27:48.000And I think it has everything to do with a new awareness on people who were simply unaware of the real nature of life in this country for people who have been othered since this nation began.
00:28:00.000Okay, so he's saying this with great sincerity.
00:28:02.000You know, there are consequences to hurting people.
00:28:06.000What if it turns out that the aggressive nature of the woke mob makes life rather unlivable in many areas?
00:28:13.000And then it's projected out into the media landscape and repeated by people who should know better in the media and agreed with by all the people in the major cities in these blue states.
00:28:28.000We are creating a worse culture and people want to escape that culture and find a place where they don't feel like they are under assault from this sort of stuff day in and day out.
00:28:36.000I'm gonna give you the best example I've ever seen of this in just one second.
00:28:39.000It truly is the best example of the woke mob coming after somebody just in the most vicious possible way that I've ever seen.
00:28:46.000Again, this sort of stuff does have consequences for how people live and the decisions that they make.
00:28:49.000Get to more of this in just one second.
00:28:50.000First, if you've got a medical issue, there's no reason to wait around on it.
00:28:53.000You should solve a medical issue because those things tend to get worse over time and not better.
00:28:56.000Well, if you've got something that is nagging and annoying, something like erectile dysfunction, why not just go get it solved?
00:29:02.000I know you don't want to talk to a doctor about it.
00:29:50.000You get 15 bucks off your very first month of ED treatment.
00:29:52.000Okay, in just one second, we're gonna talk about The best example of the woke mob coming for somebody in a despicable way that I think maybe you've ever seen.
00:30:01.000First, join us tomorrow for a special episode of Backstage.
00:30:04.000We'll be watching Joe Biden's first congressional speech live, his fake State of the Union.
00:30:47.000Also, another high-energy episode of Candace is coming at you this Friday.
00:30:50.000This week, Candace hosts political commentator and interviewer Dave Rubin, where they will have a lot to discuss, including the recall election of California Governor Gavin Newsom and his brand new opponent, Caitlyn Jenner.
00:31:01.000Yeah, that's a thing that's happening because we live in an alternative reality.
00:31:20.000Be sure to leave a five-star review if you like what you hear.
00:31:22.000here you're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:31:30.000Now when we moved our company from California to Tennessee, I can tell you it's like everybody sort of took a deep breath, a sigh of relief.
00:31:37.000Same thing when I moved my family from California to Florida.
00:31:39.000And one of the reasons is because we had self-selected into an area where more people were not going to be savagely looking for our destruction.
00:32:10.000A white Holiday Inn Express worker has a nervous breakdown after he got scolded by a black customer because of a mistake in the reservation system.
00:32:17.000So if you just read that, what you would imagine is here is a white employee who's having a nervous breakdown because he's a racist.
00:34:53.000Okay, forget about whether you're mentally ill or not mentally ill.
00:34:56.000Every single human being you know has bad days.
00:34:59.000You can either be the person who's forgiving about people having bad days, or you can be the person who's a jackass.
00:35:04.000You can be the person who seeks to destroy somebody's life.
00:35:07.000You can be the person who trolls Twitter for people who have made inappropriate comments or a joke you didn't like, and then you can try and wreck them.
00:35:13.000You can find the person who was having a crappy day and made a bad comment at a supermarket, and you can tape them.
00:35:21.000See, social trust relies on us being able to be at least somewhat forgiving with one another, and understand that human beings are sinful, and that human beings are vulnerable, and that human beings say bad things to one another all the time.
00:35:32.000And if you're a good person, you let a lot of that stuff go, because you have sympathy for other human beings.
00:35:37.000I was at an event in the not-too-distant past, and I was talking to this one guy, and he was obviously very drunk, and he came up, and he made what I thought was kind of an anti-Jewish reference, and he was very, very drunk.
00:35:52.000And at that point, I thought to myself, okay, well, I can turn this into a confrontation, or I could take out my camera, and I... Here's the truth.
00:36:00.000I didn't even go through this calculation.
00:36:01.000I just figured the guy's drunk, he's having a bad day.
00:36:09.000It wouldn't have been appropriate for me to ruin his life.
00:36:11.000But we live in a culture that prizes you.
00:36:13.000You are a hero if you ruin somebody's life.
00:36:15.000We live in a culture where if you are a student in high school and you post a video of yourself celebrating getting your provisional driver's license and you quote a rap lyric using the n-word, A member of your class will take that video and then they will hold it over your head for several years and then destroy your dreams by sending it to the university where you've just been admitted and getting it thrown off the cheerleading team and then getting it thrown out of the university.
00:36:39.000And then you'll get a feature piece in the New York Times about how brave and wonderful you were.
00:36:43.000So how do you think people react to that sort of thing?
00:36:47.000They say, I don't want to live in an area where people act like this.
00:36:50.000I don't want to be around people who act like this.
00:36:53.000Not with regard to race or ethnicity or any other immutable characteristic.
00:36:57.000I don't want to live around people who are this unforgiving and this nasty.
00:37:01.000People who are not gonna treat me like a fully rounded, nuanced human being who's never allowed to have a bad day.
00:37:05.000You know, one of the things that, I was recently watching this Michael Jordan documentary, and there's this fascinating part of the documentary, it's the last dance on Netflix, and there's a fascinating part of the documentary where Michael Jordan is in his hotel room, And the cameraman's in there with him.
00:37:22.000They say, you know, Michael, you basically own the city.
00:37:24.000Why are you just sitting around the hotel room?
00:38:00.000Or, alternatively, you could live in a community that has a baseline level of trust, and that baseline level of trust is a little bit of forgiveness, a little bit of flexibility in what people say and what people do, and understanding that somebody can be having a bad day and it doesn't make them a bad person.
00:38:14.000That somebody can say something inappropriate, and it could be accidental, or it could be something slipping, or it could be just a bad tendency that the person has, but they happen to be out of control that day.
00:38:23.000And that the best response to that is not to publicly shame that person and ruin their life, but maybe to go to them privately and say, you know, that was really hurtful and you shouldn't have said that.
00:38:32.000The lack of forgiveness in our society is leading people to find more forgiving communities.
00:38:36.000You know, I have some faith that there will be a re-uptick in religious affiliation, specifically because religious affiliation does do this.
00:38:42.000It creates a feeling of unity inside communities where you are, in the Hebrew phrase, likely to engage in dan lechav schlus, which means to see people for their merits, as opposed to see people for their demerits.
00:38:53.000But we're a society that now has this LeVar Burton-esque accountability culture.
00:39:13.000Would you rather be the guy behind the counter?
00:39:15.000Or would you rather be the guy who's in front of the counter filming him and mocking him?
00:39:18.000Or would you rather be the person who doesn't have to deal with any of that because they live in a community where people treat each other decently?
00:39:24.000The left, which says that everybody has to be treated nicely, everybody's identity has to be protected and sheltered, and their self-identification has to be prized and cheered by society.
00:39:33.000That same left will destroy you if they cross you.
00:39:36.000They will destroy you if you disagree with them.
00:39:42.000An ideological sorting is happening in this country.
00:39:45.000It's being exacerbated by national media.
00:39:47.000And it's going to happen in every area of American life.
00:39:49.000It's going to happen in corporate America too.
00:39:51.000So for example, Simon & Schuster has now had this massive problem with hundreds of employees demanding that there be no book deals for any author tied to the Trump administration.
00:40:01.000According to the Daily Beast, a petition submitted Monday asking Simon & Schuster to stop publishing books with former Trump administration officials gathered 216 signatures from the company's employees, as well as several thousand from outside supporters.
00:40:13.000The petition asks that Simon & Schuster not treat the Trump administration as a quote-unquote normal chapter in American history.
00:40:18.000It also demands an upcoming memoir by former VP Pence be canceled.
00:40:22.000Saying it's legitimizing bigotry to even allow people to read Mike Pence's words.
00:40:26.000And they want the company to cut off its relationship with the conservative publishing house, Post Hill Press.
00:40:31.000Post Hill Press, by the way, is simply a publishing house where, basically, they select authors, the authors almost self-publish, and then Post Hill Press uses Simon & Schuster just for distribution.
00:40:41.000And major publishers offer their distribution services to small publishing houses.
00:40:46.000So, the predictable results of that, Good for them and Simon & Schuster.
00:40:49.000They're saying we're not going to do this.
00:41:22.000Maybe the accelerationist tendencies that we now all have, let's just let this thing hit rock bottom, maybe that will actually bring about some level of awareness in the American public that they're gonna have to choose sides here.
00:41:32.000One good indicator is there is a company called Basecamp.
00:41:35.000Basecamp, according to Wesley Yang of Tablet, terrific writer, He says the Basecamp was reputed to be the most aggressively woke company in Silicon Valley.
00:41:45.000They have now announced that there will be no more political conversations and no more committees.
00:41:49.000They said back to basics, back to individual responsibility, back to work.
00:41:53.000They put out a statement saying no more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account.
00:41:58.000Today's social and political waters are especially choppy.
00:42:35.000We're turning things back over to the person or people who are distinctly hired to make these decisions.
00:42:41.000Say back to basics, back to individual responsibility, back to work.
00:42:45.000The big sort is happening and it's happening in real time and it is not going to be good for the Democrats.
00:42:49.000It is really, really bad for the Democrats.
00:42:53.000Okay, and you can see it happening in Hollywood as well.
00:42:55.000Right here at Daily Wire, we're starting to engage in the business of making film and TV content that you really enjoy.
00:43:01.000That does not pay attention to the woke standards.
00:43:04.000Well, the American people are ready for it.
00:43:06.000One of the reasons the American people are ready for it is because Hollywood has decided that it hates you.
00:43:10.000The Oscar ratings were down to fewer than 10 million people tuning in.
00:43:14.000According to the New York Times, Sunday night's pandemic restricted telecast to 58% fewer viewers than last year's record low.
00:43:20.000People are leaving New York, California, and the Oscars.
00:43:24.000According to Brooks Barnes and John Koblen, for the film industry, which was already fighting to hold its place at the center of American culture, the Nielsen ratings for Sunday night's 93rd Academy Awards came as a body blow.
00:43:33.000Only about 9.85 million people watched the telecast, a 58% plunge from last year's record low.
00:43:40.000Among adults 18 to 49, the Oscars suffered an even steeper 64% decline.
00:43:46.000Now, the Academy had been bracing for a ratings drop because of the pandemic, but the reality is that between 1998 and 2020, they lost some 30 million viewers on the Oscars.
00:44:51.000Apparently, USA Today appeared to have bizarrely allowed retroactive edits of an op-ed written by Stacey Abrams in an effort to water down her previous justifications for boycotts.
00:45:00.000In a piece published on March 31st, just days before Major League Baseball announced it was relocating its game due to the backlash over Georgia's election reform bill that was signed into law, Abrams seemed to defend the national response to what she called the racist classist legislation.
00:45:13.000Originally, she wrote, the impassioned response to the racist classist bill that is now the law of Georgia is to boycott in order to achieve change.
00:45:21.000Events hosted by major league baseball, world-class soccer, college sports, dozens of Hollywood films hang in the balance.
00:45:26.000At the same time, activists urged Georgians to swear off of hometown products to express our outrage.
00:45:31.000Until we hear clear, unequivocal statements that show Georgia-based companies get what's at stake, I can't argue with an individual's choice to opt out of their competition.
00:45:38.000Now, you'll notice that Twitter, over the last couple days, tried to lie and say that Stacey Abrams opposed boycotts.
00:45:43.000What they said, actually, is that she opposed the boycotts after MLB announced the boycott.
00:45:47.000That's true, because she freaked out and she realized that they've gone too far and they're going too far.
00:45:52.000Hey, she continued to sort of defend these boycotts.
00:45:56.000Okay, well now the article was updated on April 6th.
00:45:58.000Now, she says the impassioned and understandable response to the racist classist bill that is now the law of Georgia is to boycott in order to achieve change.
00:46:06.000Her revisions say, rather than accept responsibility for their craven actions, Republican leaders blame me and others who have championed voting rights and actually read the bill.
00:46:14.000Their full outrageous design tied the fact they prioritized making it harder for people of color to vote.
00:46:18.000To add to the injury, the failed former president is now calling for cancellation of baseball as the national pastime.