The Ben Shapiro Show - China Is Winning Because We're Surrendering | Ep. 1262

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00:01:34.000 The Chinese government, it appears, may not only have hid COVID-19 in their borders and just held on to that information long enough for COVID-19 to escape their borders and kill millions of people, but now appears that mounting evidence shows that this thing probably started or could have started in a Chinese laboratory. 0.52

00:01:53.000 Apparently this Chinese laboratory was performing gain-of-function research, where scientists take viruses, they make them more deadly, so they can learn exactly how to fight those viruses, except the containment protocols at this Chinese lab were not proper, and so some scientists got the virus and then proceeded to transmit it to others outside the lab, beginning the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed millions of lives and completely destroyed the world economy for a full year. 0.82

00:02:17.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, just a couple of days ago, three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S.

00:02:27.000 intelligence report that could add weight to growing calls for a fuller probe of whether the COVID-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory.

00:02:34.000 The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness.

00:02:50.000 The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization's decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into COVID-19 origins.

00:03:02.000 Current and former officials familiar with the intelligence about the lab researchers expressed differing views about the strength of the supporting evidence for the assessment.

00:03:08.000 One person said it was provided by an international partner and still needed further corroboration.

00:03:12.000 Another person said the intelligence was a lot stronger.

00:03:15.000 November 2019 is roughly when many epidemiologists and virologists believe that COVID-19 first began circulating around the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

00:03:23.000 Now, there are a bunch of things to be noted here.

00:03:25.000 One, China did two things wrong here, if it turns out that the lab leak theory is correct. 0.68

00:03:30.000 One, they developed the virus and allowed it to escape in November 2019.

00:03:33.000 And two, In November 2019, they didn't tell anybody about it because as soon as China released the actual genomic sequencing of this virus, within a week, the mRNA vaccine sequencing was done.

00:03:45.000 So imagine if China had said, okay, we've got this thing, it's released in Wuhan right away.

00:03:51.000 And the rest of the world said, okay, we're shutting our borders right now.

00:03:54.000 Meanwhile, developing that mRNA vaccine, how many millions of lives would have been saved?

00:03:59.000 How many hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved?

00:04:01.000 Even if you just move up the timeline in terms of the vaccine development to, say, August instead of the release in November, you save everybody from that last wave of COVID.

00:04:11.000 You save hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States.

00:04:14.000 So what this means is that the United States, politically speaking, now has an excellent club to wield against the Chinese government.

00:04:21.000 And they should, because the Chinese government is an authoritarian menace. 0.76

00:04:24.000 The Chinese government is trying to expand its its appeal to countries around the world using its Belt and Road Program. Basically, they pledged that they will build infrastructure and help you with your 5G Wi-Fi and all of this. And in exchange, all you have to do is become a quasi-satellite of the Chinese state. They've been expanding their military presence in the South China Sea. They've been building bases in the middle of the ocean by just creating man-made islands. They took over Hong Kong a couple of years ago and nobody said boo.

00:04:53.000 No massive international sanctions, no nothing.

00:04:55.000 Hong Kong, which was guaranteed its safety and security and freedom, guaranteed by treaty with the British, the British did nothing.

00:05:00.000 The West did nothing.

00:05:02.000 And the Chinese marched right into Hong Kong and just took the place over. 1.00

00:05:06.000 And nobody did anything. 0.98

00:05:08.000 So this would be an excellent time to push back because, hell, has there ever been a better time to push back against an authoritarian garbage state than when they just unleashed a virus on the rest of the world that killed millions of human beings? 0.94

00:05:22.000 And the evidence here is looking stronger and stronger.

00:05:25.000 Scott Gottlieb, former FDA chair, and certainly a man not prone to exaggeration, he says there is mounting evidence that this thing came out of a lab based in Wuhan.

00:05:35.000 We haven't found the true source of the virus.

00:05:37.000 And with MERS and SARS, at this point with those outbreaks, those epidemics, we had found the intermediate host.

00:05:44.000 And it's not for lack of trying.

00:05:45.000 There's been an exhaustive search for what the animal host was for this virus, and it hasn't been found.

00:05:50.000 So I think the ledger on the side of the lab continues to grow.

00:05:54.000 And the question for a lot of people is going to be when are too many coincidences too much?

00:05:58.000 When does it just seem that there's too many things suggesting that this could have come out of a lab?

00:06:03.000 And right now, you know, there's more and more circumstantial evidence, certainly.

00:06:07.000 So what should the American administration be doing?

00:06:10.000 What should Trump have done?

00:06:11.000 Now what should Biden do?

00:06:12.000 First thing is you don't make this thing subservient to a WHO report.

00:06:16.000 The WHO was doing propaganda for the Chinese from the beginning of this pandemic.

00:06:19.000 First, they suggested that it wasn't airborne.

00:06:21.000 Then they suggested that China had done a wonderful job locking it down. 0.91

00:06:25.000 They did all of these reports in late January, early February.

00:06:28.000 The WHO is a Chinese tool throughout this process. 0.98

00:06:31.000 They were a wall, not a window.

00:06:32.000 They weren't providing transparency into China.

00:06:34.000 They were just doing the Chinese bidding. 1.00

00:06:36.000 They continued to propagandize on behalf of Chinese government for months after the beginning of this pandemic.

00:06:42.000 And yet, when asked questions about whether the WHO should lead this investigative process, the White House is punting.

00:06:49.000 Again, now, the White House has said, I mean, Joe Biden said in his last fake State of the Union address, I know it was garbled and it came out not in English because the President of the United States doesn't speak English anymore, he speaks potato, but the President of the United States did say in that speech, That China is a rising threat and we have to deal with that rising threat.

00:07:08.000 Now, the way that Biden wants to deal with the rising threat is by crippling the United States economy and leading on climate change or some such nonsense.

00:07:15.000 But here would be a great way to fight the rising and looming authoritarian threat of China, would be standing up to China, using this as the lever to actually effectuate change inside of China and get the rest of the world to isolate China.

00:07:28.000 Right now would be an excellent time to do all of that.

00:07:30.000 See, here's the thing.

00:07:31.000 It's not that China is eating our lunch because China is strong.

00:07:34.000 China is not strong.

00:07:35.000 If China wins, it's because we are surrendering. 0.93

00:07:37.000 If China wins, if China continues to gain global power, it's because the West has decided they're just not going to stand up to Chinese aggressiveness.

00:07:45.000 China's economy is not all that strong.

00:07:46.000 It is based on extraordinary amounts of debt.

00:07:49.000 It is based on being able to cram that down on its billion citizens.

00:07:53.000 And the fact of the matter remains, The Chinese government is an authoritarian, horrifying state that enslaves people and treats people as chattel. 0.94

00:08:03.000 And the fact the West isn't standing up to them is a stain on us, frankly.

00:08:08.000 Okay, so how's the White House dealing with all this?

00:08:09.000 They're saying, well, you know what, let's not jump to any conclusions here.

00:08:11.000 And they're saying, we are not going to launch an American-led investigation into what happened at this Wuhan lab and an investigation into why the Chinese covered it up for months.

00:08:20.000 Now instead, we're just going to leave it to the WHO.

00:08:22.000 You know, let's not jump to any conclusions.

00:08:23.000 They're downplaying an actual opportunity to get the world to side against China, which is what the West should want right now. 0.68

00:08:30.000 Here is Jen Psaki downplaying this. 1.00

00:08:33.000 An international investigation led by the World Health Organization is something that we've actually been pressing for for several months in coordination with a range of partners around the world.

00:08:43.000 We need that data.

00:08:45.000 We need that information from the Chinese government.

00:08:47.000 What we can't do and what I would caution anyone doing is leaping ahead of an actual international process.

00:08:53.000 We don't have enough data and information to jump to a conclusion at this point in time.

00:08:56.000 It's an international process led by the WHO, which is a Chinese proxy group at this point.

00:09:02.000 And meanwhile, Maggie Haberman at the New York Times, she says, well, you know, the fact that we're downplaying the lab leak hypothesis and the fact that it was downplayed for a full year and that social media was banning people, that's really just because of Trump.

00:09:12.000 OK, here's the deal.

00:09:13.000 If in America you are more concerned about the quote unquote threat of Trump than you are about the international rise of an authoritarian communist state, I think that probably you've lost the thread here.

00:09:22.000 Here is Maggie Haberman saying it's really Trump's fault that we didn't believe the lab leak theory.

00:09:25.000 Or you could have looked at the evidence, guys.

00:09:27.000 Instead of just yelling at Tom Cotton about how evil Tom Cotton is for mentioning the lab leak theory, you could have investigated it.

00:09:32.000 I mean, you do work for the most powerful newspaper in the United States, Maggie Haberman.

00:09:37.000 Part of the issue when this was first being reported on and discussed back a few months after the pandemic had begun was that then-President Trump and Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, both suggested they had seen evidence that this was formed in a lab, and they also suggested it was not released on purpose, but they refused to release the evidence showing what it was.

00:09:56.000 And so because of that, that made this instantly political.

00:10:00.000 I think that it was, you know, example 1000.

00:10:03.000 When the Trump administration learned that when you have burned your own credibility over and over again, people are not immediately going to believe you, especially in an election year.

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00:10:14.000 It's not, except that everybody decided it wasn't worth discussing, and we'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:11:24.000 Okay, so the fact remains that the media decided that they were going to attack the lab leak theory basically from the very beginning.

00:11:33.000 According to a piece in The Federalist, Christopher Bedford writing, A New York Times business correspondent in Hong Kong, a weekend editor at The Guardian who lives in New York, a British business insider reporter with a focus on the Saudis, and an executive editor of The Daily Beast.

00:11:45.000 A 48-year-old blogger who works for Rachel Maddow, a union activist who covers extremism, far-right politics, and media disinformation for The Huffington Post, and the 29-year-old editor of The Arkansas Times.

00:11:54.000 A breaking news reporter at The Washington Post, who wrapped up her most recent internship in May 2016.

00:12:00.000 A 2016 University of Pennsylvania graduate who covers young people doing big things for Forbes.

00:12:04.000 A 45-year-old former George Will intern who writes for CNN and David Frum.

00:12:08.000 What do these people have in common, aside from their political ideology?

00:12:11.000 Every one of them is part of a machine that launders smears and opinions through newspapers, magazines, and television channels, presents the cleaned-up product as unimpeachable truth to the public, and then uses the fresh-minted facts to protect friends and herd enemies.

00:12:22.000 It's called the news, and here's how it worked for Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton's completely plausible theory that COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab.

00:12:29.000 That Hong Kong business correspondent?

00:12:31.000 She wrote this headline for the Times in February 2020.

00:12:34.000 Senator Tom Cotton repeats fringe theory of coronavirus origins.

00:12:37.000 Scientists, the slug reads, have dismissed suggestions that the Chinese government was behind the outbreak. But it's the kind of tale that gains traction among those who see China as a threat. Republican who floated virus conspiracy says common sense has been my guide, The Weekend editor at The Guardian dismissively explained.

00:12:54.000 A GOP senator, our award-winning Saudi investigator declared, keeps pushing a thoroughly debunked theory that the coronavirus weapon, that the Wuhan coronavirus is a leaked Chinese biological weapon gone wrong.

00:13:05.000 Senator Tom Cotton flogs conspiracy theory dismissed by actual scientists, the editor of the Daily Beast howled.

00:13:11.000 Tom Cotton's veiled threats aren't really helping, Maddow's blogger chimed in.

00:13:16.000 So, the bottom line is that none of this was true because they didn't bother to actually investigate it.

00:13:22.000 In fact, PolitiFact had a fact-checking article.

00:13:25.000 You'll remember.

00:13:26.000 They fact-checked a Tucker Carlson Tonight guest who repeated the lab leak theory.

00:13:30.000 That fact-check was written by Daniel Funke in September of 2020.

00:13:35.000 Funke graduated from the University of Georgia in 2017.

00:13:39.000 He received a News Lab Fellowship from Google.

00:13:41.000 They placed their student at the Poynter Institute in Florida.

00:13:45.000 Which works for PolitiFact.

00:13:46.000 It's the institute behind PolitiFact.

00:13:49.000 In his new job, Fiumke fact-checked a number of COVID claims, smacking down the largely acceptable lab origin one more than once, and making himself an authority on the facts.

00:13:58.000 But here's the thing.

00:14:00.000 He was wrong.

00:14:00.000 And now he covers misinformation for USA Today.

00:14:03.000 Okay, so the reality is, of course, that the media decided very early on that the lab leak theory was a bunch of nonsense, and then they just repeated this ad infinitum, and they were just wrong in the same way that they were wrong about so many things with regard to COVID throughout the pandemic, because they decided that Trump was more of an enemy than China.

00:14:19.000 They decided that Trump was more of a threat to the country than China, and so anything Trump said, or anything a Trump associate said, or anything that targeted China must be wrong.

00:14:26.000 They went from China is a threat to China is not a threat in record time.

00:14:34.000 And now, they refuse to acknowledge that China ought to be punished for what they did here. 0.99

00:14:39.000 China did, in fact, inflict this virus on us, regardless of whether there was a lab leak or not. 0.85

00:14:44.000 China did not let anybody know about this stuff, even though it was circulating since November, December, they didn't let anybody know.

00:14:50.000 Even a month would have saved 100,000 lives.

00:14:51.000 They didn't let anybody, and now, that it appears that this appeared in a Chinese government-run lab, and that the containment protocols that failed, and they still didn't let anybody know, so they knew from the very outset what this was, That is what the mounting evidence appears to suggest, at the very least.

00:15:08.000 This would be an opportunity to fight back against Chinese dominance, and instead, nobody's doing it. 0.97

00:15:13.000 Instead, Facebook cracked down on people who mentioned the lab leak theory.

00:15:19.000 According to the New York Post, January 5th, 2021, New York Magazine's latest cover story, The Lab Leak Hypothesis, concludes that COVID-19 is a human-engineered virus that escaped from a Wuhan lab.

00:15:29.000 The very same theory that moved Facebook to suppress a Post opinion piece for weeks last year.

00:15:34.000 Steven Mosher only called it a possibility in these pages in February of 2020.

00:15:38.000 Facebook quickly moved to suppress the column as false information and wouldn't unblock it until April 17th.

00:15:44.000 Nicholson Baker's feature goes into great length on issues most are touched on.

00:15:47.000 Baker believes the virus was made more infectious in the laboratory, perhaps as part of a scientist's well-intentioned but risky effort to create a broad-spectrum vaccine, and then it accidentally escaped.

00:15:56.000 But Facebook's fact-checkers put a false information alert on the New York Post column in February of 2020 and blocked Poster's friends from reading it for themselves, never mind the careful caveats and the Post's own clear opinion label on the piece.

00:16:08.000 Media figures accused the Post of spreading a conspiracy theory, so Facebook shut this down originally.

00:16:12.000 And it wasn't just Facebook shutting it down.

00:16:14.000 Twitter suspended a Chinese virologist who claimed that coronavirus was created in a lab and fled to the United States.

00:16:22.000 According to the UK Independent, in September of 2020, Twitter has suspended the account of a Chinese virologist who claimed COVID-19 was man-made and created in a Wuhan lab.

00:16:30.000 Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who claims to be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hong Kong School of Public Health, had her Twitter account suspended by the social media site earlier this week.

00:16:40.000 The virologist, who had more than 60,000 followers on Twitter before her account was suspended, made headlines when she claimed to have evidence the Chinese government was involved in creating the virus.

00:16:48.000 Twitter introduced a policy in May to label posts that contain information about COVID-19 which has been disputed or is controversial.

00:16:55.000 The site said the policy was introduced to quote, provide additional explanations or clarifications in situations where the risks of harm associated with a tweet are less severe or people may still be confused or misled by the content.

00:17:05.000 Okay, so there are a couple of strains that have crossed here.

00:17:08.000 One is the pro-Chinese bent of so many people in the modern marketplace and in government.

00:17:14.000 And the second, is the social media willingness to do whatever the work of the Democratic Party is on a given day, including shutting down information being disseminated that actually turns out may be accurate.

00:17:26.000 I mean, we knew that already.

00:17:28.000 All of this is incredibly dangerous because China is not waiting around. 0.99

00:17:31.000 China is using its own disinformation processes.

00:17:34.000 China lies on a regular basis. 0.63

00:17:35.000 In fact, the countries that didn't get hit all that hard by COVID were the ones who didn't believe China at the beginning.

00:17:40.000 Taiwan wasn't hit particularly hard.

00:17:43.000 Because they immediately said, okay, we know the Chinese government lies, so we're just going to ignore whatever they say and shut down travel.

00:17:49.000 And yet the West was like, completely credulous about this stuff and continues to be completely credulous and continues to push forward the WHO.

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00:19:06.000 Okay, so there are a couple of things that are crossing, a couple of sort of strains that are crossing here to create the space for China to continue to ascend despite the fact that it just unleashed a virus on the rest of the world. 0.89

00:19:19.000 Strain number one is the cowardice of the media that refuses to investigate issues that an authoritarian government tells them are not an issue, so long as Democrats are kind of soft toward that authoritarian government.

00:19:31.000 Joe Biden for years has been saying that China is sort of an opponent.

00:19:35.000 We're not seeking to stifle their growth.

00:19:37.000 We're not seeking to check them.

00:19:38.000 They're not an enemy.

00:19:39.000 They're more of a geopolitical competitor.

00:19:43.000 The Democratic Party has taken this line for a long time.

00:19:44.000 Then, when Trump was president and became quite militant with China, and became a lot more competitive with China, then all of a sudden, the Democratic Party shifted into high-dudgeon.

00:19:54.000 Oh, how dare he shut down travel from China? 0.91

00:19:55.000 That's racist. 0.89

00:19:56.000 If you say China virus, that's racist. 0.90

00:19:58.000 If you say Wuhan virus, that's racist. 1.00

00:19:59.000 Let's go down to Chinatown and start just licking people on the face. 1.00

00:20:04.000 To make sure that nobody is racist against the Chinese because Trump said Chinese virus, even though every sentient human being knows that what Trump meant is that the virus began in Wuhan and that the Chinese government covered it up. 0.96

00:20:15.000 Every sentient human knew that's what that meant, not that Asian Americans were somehow to blame for the Chinese government's actions.

00:20:22.000 But the Democratic Party shifted into anti-Trump gear rather than into a unifying gear in which we asked serious questions about the actions of the Chinese government.

00:20:31.000 By the way, there is kind of a high level of bipartisan agreement that China is a problem, and yet somehow this doesn't turn into actual action.

00:20:37.000 So that's number one.

00:20:38.000 Number two, and this is a broad and deep issue in the American economy, the change in strategy that was effectuated by Henry Kissinger and the Nixon administration in opening China.

00:20:49.000 At the time, you can see why they did it.

00:20:51.000 They were attempting to Take China off the chessboard as sort of an ally of Russia and then turn China against Russia and split the two.

00:20:59.000 You understand why they were trying to do that?

00:21:00.000 And there was a going theory that if market forces were allowed to percolate in China, that this would somehow effectuate an opener, a more open regime in China.

00:21:10.000 It turns out that instead what happened is that American consumers and American producers and American business people became completely dependent on the Chinese.

00:21:19.000 So one of the horrible things about the expansion of capitalism into China.

00:21:23.000 The expansion of capitalism into China has had a couple of great things about it and a few horrible things.

00:21:27.000 Number one, that is good.

00:21:28.000 It has raised the living standards of actual Chinese people by leaps and bounds.

00:21:33.000 And poverty has been greatly alleviated in China because they have addressed free markets and allowed free markets to provide cheaper and better products to China.

00:21:41.000 At the same time, however, they've used free markets in order to establish a broader base and a more strengthened base for authoritarianism.

00:21:52.000 Not only that, it turns out that corporations are not great defenders of free markets and free market liberties, they're more defenders of profit margin.

00:22:00.000 And so what that means that they're willing to do business with the Chinese, even if the Chinese are not truly engaging in free markets, they're engaging in mercantilism, right? 0.66

00:22:08.000 State-sponsored industry, which is really what the Chinese government does.

00:22:11.000 And so capitalism, Capitalism does allow for the free exchange of products and that is good for consumers.

00:22:17.000 But what capitalism cannot do is overthrow regimes.

00:22:21.000 Capitalism allows for states that actually utilize it to become more powerful.

00:22:28.000 States that engage in the free market become more powerful.

00:22:30.000 But that's also true for authoritarian states that engage in the free market.

00:22:33.000 So, the key there would be, if you were facing down the Soviet Union, for example, to strengthen free markets in the United States, grow the economy extraordinarily, and then spend on the military.

00:22:41.000 This is how Reagan impacted the Soviet Union to the point where they had to basically pull out of Eastern Europe and collapse.

00:22:49.000 But if the Soviet Union had instead been engaged in the world market, if the Soviet Union had embraced elements of capitalism to strengthen its own regime, the Soviet Union would probably still be around.

00:22:59.000 China is proof positive of this. 0.99

00:23:01.000 And this is why it is so disquieting when you see so many prominent Americans who are speaking up on behalf of China.

00:23:07.000 They're so shy about offending China because they're afraid that their market share in China is going to go down.

00:23:13.000 Capitalism has a set of underlying values, but you can embrace profit margin without embracing the underlying values of capitalism, which is what China is doing and what so many business people in America are doing as well.

00:23:25.000 And that's truly frightening.

00:23:27.000 So for example, John Cena, actor, former WWC star, WWE star rather, John Cena, he made the mistake of suggesting that Taiwan is a country.

00:23:39.000 Now, Taiwan is indeed a country.

00:23:42.000 Taiwan is a separate country from China.

00:23:45.000 And China likes this formulation, that it's basically one country, but that Taiwan is sort of an extension of China.

00:23:54.000 But Taiwan is its own independent country.

00:23:56.000 It has been since the late 1940s, when Chiang Kai-shek fled China and Mao took over in China.

00:24:02.000 Taiwan is a free state.

00:24:05.000 The United States gives weaponry to Taiwan to protect itself from Chinese aggression.

00:24:10.000 And yet more and more we are seeing celebrities who are coming out and just doing the bidding of the Chinese. 1.00

00:24:14.000 So here is John Cena apologizing for calling Taiwan its own country.

00:24:19.000 Speaking in Mandarin.

00:24:21.000 I have to say that I have done a lot of interviews on the topic of speed.

00:24:28.000 A lot, a lot, a lot.

00:24:30.000 The fact that John Cena came out and said he loves China and that he is and that he apologizes for suggesting that Taiwan is its own country is insane.

00:24:44.000 Right?

00:24:44.000 So what exactly did he do?

00:24:46.000 So apparently, Sina gave an interview to a Taiwanese broadcaster promoting Fast and Furious 9, right?

00:24:52.000 F9.

00:24:53.000 And he said Taiwan is the first country that can watch F9.

00:24:57.000 CNN Business says Taiwan is a self-governing democratic island, but China claims it as its sovereign territory despite the two sides being ruled separately since the end of a civil war over 70 years ago.

00:25:06.000 Beijing considers any suggestion of Taiwan's independence crossing its red line and has been increasingly trying to use economic power to police speech on the topic around the world.

00:25:13.000 On Tuesday, Sina offered an apology on Weibo, China's popular Twitter-like social media platform.

00:25:19.000 Speaking again in Mandarin, Sina did not refer to Taiwan by name or discuss the incident in detail, but he did say he did a lot of interviews and made a mistake.

00:25:25.000 He said, I'm sorry for my mistake.

00:25:26.000 I must say now, it's very, very, very important that I love and respect even more China and the Chinese people.

00:25:32.000 Now, you will note that F9 took in $160 million over the weekend.

00:25:35.000 $136 million came from China.

00:25:39.000 So the reason John Cena is doing this is, of course, because he wants to make money, because his studio wishes to make money.

00:25:46.000 In the same way that the NBA has defended China for taking over Hong Kong, for the same reason LeBron James came out and ripped at Daryl Morey, then the GM of the Houston Rockets, for having the temerity to say that Hong Kong ought to be free.

00:26:00.000 Instead, LeBron James, great civil rights crusader, came out and said that Daryl Morey didn't know what he was talking about, which is a shot coming from LeBron James, who never knows what he's talking about.

00:26:08.000 But LeBron makes his money from China.

00:26:11.000 The NBA makes its money from China.

00:26:15.000 If you make your money from China, then you seem quite willing to overlook China's human rights violations.

00:26:22.000 So China is picking on a couple of vulnerabilities in the West. 0.67

00:26:25.000 One, the West has lost a sense of self-confidence, lost a sense of its own values.

00:26:29.000 It's lost a willingness to defend its own values in the face of Chinese aggression.

00:26:32.000 And so it refuses to call out China.

00:26:34.000 And two, China, Because it can cram down suffering on its own citizens has been able to use its mercantilist style of economics. 0.76

00:26:43.000 It's economically fascist style of economics in order to provide giant markets for foreign products while pumping out cheap goods and services.

00:26:50.000 Making the rest of the world more dependent on China than China is on the rest of the world. 0.73

00:26:53.000 Now, the dirty secret, of course, is that China is incredibly dependent on the rest of the world, but the rest of the world never wants to pull that trigger.

00:27:00.000 The rest of the world never wants to say to China, no.

00:27:02.000 The rest of the world doesn't want consequences for China.

00:27:04.000 And so China could win this thing by default.

00:27:07.000 China could continue to grow, despite the fact that it is an internally weak economic regime, despite the fact that China is bordered by countries that are not in love with it.

00:27:19.000 The fact that the West has decided to give up here and not press back on what is a great leverage point with regard to COVID-19 and the lab leak, and the possible lab leak, it's demonstrative again of a West that is in a process of slow-moving retreat.

00:27:33.000 Now, meanwhile, as we've mentioned, social media did a wonderful job of doing Chinese propaganda work.

00:27:37.000 They shut down any mention of the lab leak theory.

00:27:40.000 And this is just one impetus.

00:27:42.000 For the crackdown on social media that is now occurring around the United States.

00:27:46.000 There's a lot of talk by red states about what can we do to reopen social media to the dissemination of information.

00:27:51.000 Remember, all of these ridiculous fact-checkers shut down your ability to disseminate information with regard to the lab leak thesis.

00:27:59.000 It's pretty amazing. 0.82

00:28:01.000 The way that social media works is they have all of these bullcrap fact-checking institutions.

00:28:05.000 Those fact-checking institutions then push out their own opinion pieces, quote-unquote rebutting other people's opinions, and then Facebook just uses those fact-checkers as an excuse to shut down anything that the fact-checkers say shouldn't be on the platform.

00:28:19.000 So yesterday, Ron DeSantis in Florida pushed forward a bill he signed into law, a bill that cracks down on social media's ability to ban you.

00:28:25.000 Now, I haven't read the bill.

00:28:27.000 What I have seen of the bill, I think that it's got some legal problems with it.

00:28:30.000 But the basic idea that DeSantis is pushing forward, which is that social media cannot be allowed to willy-nilly ban people on the basis of completely arbitrary and obfuscating rules, he's not wrong about this for sure.

00:28:44.000 Right, DeSantis pointed out yesterday, you know, that for a year, if you contradicted the WHO on anything, then they would just pull down your information.

00:28:53.000 Well, now Anthony Fauci is suddenly signaling that he's willing to hear the lab leak hypothesis.

00:28:58.000 So DeSantis is like, okay, so are they going to pull Fauci off social media now?

00:29:02.000 Now we have information that this very well may have emanated from the Wuhan lab, that it was a leak from the lab.

00:29:10.000 But you remember when people last year were raising that as something that needed to be investigated, they were deplatformed for talking about the lab leak.

00:29:20.000 They were censored for having said that, and now even Fauci admits that this may be something that very well is the case.

00:29:29.000 Are they going to now censor Fauci and pull him down off social media?

00:29:34.000 Okay, the corporate world is moving in tune to China.

00:29:38.000 Right, according to National Review, the Disney-owned studio Searchlight pressured the American magazine Filmmaker to remove a quote from its profile of Chinese director Chloe Zhao because it was critical of China's authoritarian regime, according to a Hollywood Reporter article published on Friday.

00:29:51.000 Speaking with Filmmaker about the inspiration behind her first film, Songs My Brother Taught Me, Zhao said she identified with the main character, a Native American teenager looking to flee South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, because she hoped to escape the dictatorial grip of the Chinese Communist Party when she was a child.

00:30:06.000 It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, said Zhao, being in a place where there are lies everywhere. 0.87

00:30:09.000 You felt like you were never going to be able to get out.

00:30:11.000 A lot of info I received when I was younger was not true, and I became very rebellious toward my family and my background.

00:30:16.000 I went to England suddenly and relearned my history.

00:30:18.000 Studying political science at a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real.

00:30:22.000 Arm yourself with information and then challenge that too.

00:30:25.000 Spotlight, and by extension Disney, then demanded the American media outlet filmmaker omit Zhao's testimony, trying to appease its Chinese business partners, especially because Zhao is the director of their big new property, The Eternals.

00:30:38.000 So Zhao, who just won an Oscar for Nomadland, and she had said all of this anti-Chinese government stuff, and now Disney is trying to crack down on the magazine that printed it.

00:30:51.000 China is going to win because so many people in the United States are unwilling to put aside greed in favor of the national interest.

00:30:57.000 And China is going to win because the American government does not even wish to stand up for American values in the face of the Chinese authoritarian threat. 0.95

00:31:05.000 That is a full-scale disaster area.

00:31:08.000 Okay, in just one second, we are going to be getting to the one-year anniversary of the George Floyd death.

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00:32:19.000 Alrighty, so, meanwhile, your garbage media, which continue to cover up the situation with regard to the Wuhan virus, Your garbage media continue to suggest that great things have happened since the death of George Floyd one year ago.

00:32:35.000 It's always weird to call it an anniversary because an anniversary sort of connotates, has positive connotations. 0.78

00:32:40.000 Obviously, there are no positive connotations to the now legally adjudicated murder of George Floyd.

00:32:47.000 But the media are trying to suggest that great and wonderful things have happened since the death of George Floyd.

00:32:50.000 I'm just wondering where the evidence is of this.

00:32:53.000 Eugene Robinson has a piece over at the Washington Post today, titled, The Great Work of Art That Followed George Floyd's Death.

00:32:59.000 What exactly is that great work of art?

00:33:01.000 It is the giant painting, Black Lives Matter, on the streets of Washington, D.C.

00:33:08.000 Says Eugene Robinson, I remember waking up June 5th to see the words Black Lives Matter unfurling in 35-foot-tall, bright yellow letters on what had been the southernmost two blocks of 16th Street Northwest, directly across Lafayette Square from the front windows of the White House.

00:33:19.000 It was, for me, an electrifying moment.

00:33:23.000 With her stirring and audacious counterattack on President Trump, D.C.

00:33:26.000 Mayor Muriel Bowser showed Trump how wrong he was.

00:33:29.000 She had city workers block off the street and asked artists to begin painting the slogan around 3 a.m.

00:33:33.000 Once protesters realized what was happening, they joined in as willing assistants.

00:33:37.000 The moment I decided to create Black Lives Matter Plaza was when I came face-to-face with a line of federal police blocking a street in my legal jurisdiction, Bowser wrote in an op-ed in The Post later that month.

00:33:45.000 Here we were in my hometown in the capital of the United States of America, With people all around us protesting for change, demanding reforms to the racist, broken systems that killed George Floyd and so many black Americans before him.

00:33:55.000 But instead of bringing the country together, the federal government was blocking the streets.

00:33:59.000 It was clear the president was doing everything he could to tear us apart.

00:34:03.000 The plaza's importance, says Eugene Robinson, owes not just to what it says and how boldly it expresses that sentiment, but where it is.

00:34:09.000 Because, of course, it's dead center in the middle of Washington, D.C.

00:34:14.000 Cities across the country admirably emulated Bowser and established their own Black Lives Matter plazas, including on 5th Avenue in Manhattan in front of Trump Tower.

00:34:22.000 But none equaled the scale, scope, slyness, or perfection Of the original.

00:34:26.000 Bowser now has plans to make the lettering more permanent because it needs to endure as long as does the nation it instructs as Eugene Robinson.

00:34:26.000 It's good.

00:34:33.000 Ah, wow.

00:34:33.000 The glory.

00:34:34.000 The glory.

00:34:35.000 Meanwhile, the murder rate in Washington, D.C.

00:34:38.000 is up tremendously.

00:34:41.000 I mean, like, a large percentage.

00:34:43.000 Murder rate in Washington, D.C.

00:34:45.000 over the last year, it has risen to its highest number in 15 years, according to The Washingtonian.

00:34:54.000 So, apparently, the legacy of Black Lives Matter in Washington, D.C.

00:34:59.000 is a lot more black people getting killed in Washington, D.C., which, of course, is the legacy of Black Lives Matter all over the country. 0.92

00:35:03.000 Because if you actually cared about black lives, you might want to pay attention to how many black people have been murdered since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, which is predominantly dedicated to ripping on the police and suggesting that they were the chief threat to black life. 0.91

00:35:15.000 In fact, if you want to go to the city where George Floyd actually died, if you want to go there and see what the legacy of George Floyd's murder has been and the aftermath, The BLM movement, their legacy?

00:35:27.000 Well, it turns out that the legacy has been one of tremendous crime and murder in the aftermath of the BLM movement, which has done nothing good for the country. 0.98

00:35:35.000 I'm still waiting to hear the good thing that BLM has done for the country.

00:35:38.000 I keep hearing there's a racial reckoning.

00:35:40.000 Okay, so where is the good that has come out of this?

00:35:44.000 If the best you can come up with is that a bunch of yellow letters were painted on a street in Washington, D.C.

00:35:49.000 while more black people were being killed in Washington, D.C.

00:35:51.000 last year, then I don't see the good that came out of this.

00:35:56.000 Maybe just like big yellow letters, but if the yellow letters say Black Lives Matter and more black people are getting killed, I fail to see how exactly you have effectuated the message that you are seeking to effectuate.

00:36:05.000 The same thing is true in Minneapolis.

00:36:07.000 According to Heather McDonald in the Wall Street Journal, 19 children in Minneapolis have been shot this year, an increase of 171% over the same period in 2020.

00:36:16.000 Their relatives wonder where the protesters are.

00:36:18.000 Why ain't nobody mad about a 10-year-old, my grandson, fighting for his life?

00:36:21.000 Asked Sherry Jennings.

00:36:23.000 Because a cop didn't shoot him, is that why?

00:36:25.000 Minneapolis homicides between January 1st and last week were up 108% compared with the same period in 2020.

00:36:31.000 Shootings were up 153%. 0.64

00:36:33.000 Carjackings were up 222%.

00:36:36.000 The crime increase began after Floyd's death and has never let up.

00:36:38.000 Nor has the assault on law enforcement that began with the arson destruction of the 3rd Precinct building on May 28th, 2020.

00:36:44.000 Officers are routinely punched, kicked, and hit with projectiles.

00:36:46.000 There was a near-riot in downtown Minneapolis in the early hours of May 22nd following a shootout among club patrons.

00:36:52.000 Two people were killed in that shootout.

00:36:54.000 Eight people were wounded.

00:36:55.000 Responding officers called for backup across the Twin Cities at what the department called an exceptionally chaotic scene.

00:37:00.000 The previous weekend, officers were maced and pelted with rocks and debris while trying to disperse disorderly crowds.

00:37:07.000 So, um, 200 officers, by the way, have gone on leave or left the Minneapolis Police Department since May 2020.

00:37:14.000 So right now, Minneapolis PD is understaffed by nearly a third.

00:37:17.000 Same thing has happened in Seattle, where 20% of the PD has quit.

00:37:20.000 You're seeing the same thing happening in New York.

00:37:22.000 You're seeing the same thing happening in Los Angeles.

00:37:26.000 So what exactly is the great legacy here of Black Lives Matter?

00:37:28.000 According to the media, which is celebrating the one-year anniversary as though this is something worth celebrating.

00:37:33.000 Number one, the death of a person is never worth celebrating.

00:37:35.000 Maybe one-year commemoration is a better way of putting it.

00:37:38.000 Media are commemorating one year since George Floyd's death, suggesting that great and excellent change has been wrought upon the United States.

00:37:44.000 Where is the great and excellent change?

00:37:47.000 The answer is, there is no great and excellent change.

00:37:49.000 All that's happened is America is more racially polarized.

00:37:51.000 Lies have been told about the police. 0.87

00:37:52.000 Lies have been told about America as a systemically racist country.

00:37:56.000 And you are told that if you disagree with this, then you are part of the problem. 0.99

00:37:59.000 And meanwhile, more black people are getting killed this year. 0.99

00:38:02.000 So well done, everybody. 0.99

00:38:03.000 By the way, the Biden administration has no answer on this.

00:38:06.000 They still cannot explain exactly how something good has happened this year.

00:38:09.000 Jen Psaki was asked about the rising crime problem across the United States.

00:38:13.000 She blamed guns.

00:38:14.000 Weird, because there were lots of guns the year before.

00:38:16.000 But it seems like only this year has there been a massive increase in murder.

00:38:19.000 Here's Jen Psaki. 1.00

00:38:21.000 Is there a crime problem in this country?

00:38:24.000 Well, I would say certainly there is a guns problem. 0.80

00:38:27.000 And that's something the president would say.

00:38:29.000 And there are communities where local violence and community violence is an issue.

00:38:33.000 And that's one of the reasons that we have proposed and have now are implementing funding for community violence prevention programs across the country.

00:38:43.000 Unbelievable.

00:38:44.000 Is there a crime problem?

00:38:45.000 No, there's a guns problem.

00:38:46.000 Weird, because the guns were there before the last year.

00:38:48.000 There is a crime problem fostered and pushed by a Democratic administration, fostered and pushed by Democrats in Congress, fostered and pushed by a Democratic media.

00:38:57.000 Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, actively attempted to bail out rioters in Minneapolis in the middle of the George Floyd protests.

00:39:06.000 And then you... Yeah, so what a great reckoning we have wrought here.

00:39:09.000 What an incredibly great reckoning.

00:39:11.000 In a second, I'm gonna bring you the story of a Black Lives Matter activist who actually was shot in Britain the other day because the story has something to say about where the threat to black lives truly comes from in Western countries.

00:39:21.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:41:56.000 All righty, so this is a really indicative story as to where the threat to black lives truly is. 1.00

00:42:06.000 A British Black Lives Matter activist named Sasha Johnson was critically injured after a shooting in London.

00:42:12.000 So, the original reports suggested that perhaps it was political.

00:42:15.000 It appears it was not, in fact, political.

00:42:16.000 It appears that this was an act of gang violence in which she was caught in the crossfire, tragically.

00:42:20.000 According to the Washington Post, a British Black Lives Matter activist is fighting for her life after being shot in the head During the early hours of Sunday morning, Sasha Johnson, a 27-year-old mother, is in critical condition after the incident, which comes amid numerous death threats, according to a statement from the political party she is affiliated with.

00:42:35.000 Police did not name Johnson, but confirmed the woman was shot in London Borough of Southwark at around 3 a.m.

00:42:40.000 on Sunday.

00:42:41.000 Now, notice the Washington Post coverage.

00:42:44.000 If you just read that first paragraph, you would assume that this was a result of the death threats coming from political opponents.

00:42:50.000 But the reality is, according to the police, that there is nothing to suggest the shooting in South London was targeted or linked to her activism.

00:42:57.000 Detective Chief Inspector Jimmy Telley said, this was a shocking incident that has left a young woman with very serious injuries.

00:43:03.000 Our thoughts are with her family, who are being provided with support at this terribly difficult time.

00:43:08.000 Speaking to the BBC on Monday, Johnson's friend Imarn Aiton said she did not think the activist was the intended target, saying she believed instead the incident was linked to a disagreement between rival gangs.

00:43:19.000 Okay, so this was not political.

00:43:22.000 This was not people who oppose Black Lives Matter.

00:43:24.000 This was just a gang shooting, and that is far more typical of black people who are being killed in the United States and in Britain than the notion that the cops are out there murdering people.

00:43:34.000 And yet the lie is that the reckoning, the racial reckoning that has to take place on both sides of the Atlantic apparently, that racial reckoning is about the systems of the United States.

00:43:43.000 Here's the problem. 0.95

00:43:44.000 When you start to dismantle those systems, including the system of policing, more black people die. 1.00

00:43:48.000 And that is the legacy that Black Lives Matter is going to have to carry forward here. 1.00

00:43:52.000 Meanwhile, our media really focusing in on the most important things.

00:43:56.000 The media have an entire, there's an entire article in the Washington Post today called Weightlifting Gatorade Birthday Calls Inside Biden's Day.

00:44:04.000 I mean, this is some heavy duty stuff right here from the Washington Post.

00:44:06.000 I remember when they used to write these puff pieces about Trump and what his day looked like.

00:44:11.000 Oh wait, no, they used to write how terrible he was for ordering two scoops of ice cream and having a button on his desk for Diet Coke.

00:44:16.000 But Joe Biden, man, we need articles about how fit he is, how with it.

00:44:20.000 I mean, the real reason they're writing this article about weightlifting, Gatorade, and birthday calls, the reason that you're reading about his weightlifting and Gatorade is because you're supposed to believe that the guy plays linebacker for University of Florida rather than being a doddering old coot who can't string together a sentence. 1.00

00:44:32.000 Here, by the way, is Joe Biden versus the teleprompter as per his usual arrangement.

00:44:37.000 This is the Rumble in the Jungle, Battle Royale.

00:44:41.000 Joe Biden versus his, this time he's not even versus his teleprompter.

00:44:44.000 This time the teleprompter tagged in a sheet of paper and Joe Biden gets confused by a sheet of paper sitting right in front of him.

00:44:50.000 But there's, you know, there to be, you know, beginning this effort for 2021 is, I think we've learned a few lessons from last year as well.

00:45:04.000 There's helpless, there, you know.

00:45:07.000 Being there to help clear roads, rebuild main streets.

00:45:12.000 And so that the families can get back to their lives.

00:45:15.000 That's a theme it does every single day.

00:45:17.000 Okay, so you see a barely animate man stumbling through his own notes.

00:45:22.000 That's what you see.

00:45:23.000 Here's what the Washington Post sees.

00:45:25.000 During a speech in Pittsburgh in March, President Biden held up the index card he keeps in his right breast pocket to track the nation's COVID deaths, inadvertently revealing a glimpse of his private schedule on the backside.

00:45:34.000 930, join videotapings with the First Lady.

00:45:35.000 945, proceed to Oval Office.

00:45:38.000 950, hold for Ron, shorthand for a meeting with Chief of Staff Ron Klain.

00:45:41.000 As Biden proceeded through the day, from a 30-minute lunch to a prep session for a cabinet meeting, he had ticked through each item with a slash from a black pen.

00:45:48.000 Check, check, check.

00:45:50.000 My God, the efficiency, the massive virality of that guy, that man, who, again, looks like something from Tales of the Crypt, right?

00:45:58.000 The door... Come on, man, and you know, and the thing, and...

00:46:08.000 But according to the Washington Post, that dude is the most alive dude you have ever seen.

00:46:11.000 He is so alive.

00:46:12.000 He's like from the movie Alive.

00:46:14.000 He is that alive.

00:46:16.000 It was a rare glimpse inside the president's actual life.

00:46:19.000 The extreme scripting and almost surreal regimentation that defined Biden's days from his arrival in the Oval Office just after 9 a.m.

00:46:26.000 to his brief walk back to the White House residence for dinner with his wife by 7 p.m.

00:46:30.000 More than most public figures, Biden has sought to keep one foot in the normal world as he has ascended the rungs of power.

00:46:37.000 But the presidency is testing that impulse in an entirely new way.

00:46:40.000 Current and former advisors say Biden's typical day reveals a creature of habit with well-worn routines and favorite treats.

00:46:46.000 Okay, now they're just describing him like you would describe your dog.

00:46:49.000 Right, it's a creature of habit with well-worn routines and favorite treats, from orange Gatorade to chocolate chip cookies.

00:46:54.000 A tactile politician eager to escape the Washington bubble who meets privately with people who write him letters. The patriarch of a sprawling Irish Catholic clan who abruptly interrupts high-level meetings to take calls from family members.

00:47:04.000 It marks a sharp contrast with former President Trump, whose days often ran both early and late with tweets that were frequently angry or inflammatory, and whose time was often consumed by rambling rallies, spontaneous calls to TV hosts, and random unscripted activities.

00:47:17.000 Did it ever occur to the Washington Post the reason that Biden has to be scripted is because he's not alive?

00:47:22.000 Literally this week, we found out that Joe Biden said he was going to scale back his infrastructure package to try and make a deal with Republicans.

00:47:28.000 And then the White House staff said, oh, actually, we're just going to ignore Joe.

00:47:31.000 And no, we're not doing that anymore because he's not running his own administration.

00:47:34.000 But the good news is The Washington Post has an entire article about how wonderful and alive Joe Biden is.

00:47:39.000 The man drinks Gatorade and he weightlifts, too.

00:47:42.000 I mean, if you were worried that the guy falls downstairs, let me just tell you, he weightlifts like a champ.

00:47:47.000 He begins his mornings with a workout that often includes lifting weights.

00:47:50.000 He meets regularly in person with a trainer.

00:47:52.000 His current Peloton preferences are something of a state secret, but apparently he rides his Peloton.

00:47:57.000 Wow!

00:47:58.000 Wow!

00:47:59.000 Put that man in a triathlon?

00:48:03.000 That's how this is gonna work out.

00:48:05.000 Amazing.

00:48:07.000 They are just state-run media.

00:48:08.000 They are just state-run media.

00:48:10.000 All righty.

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