The Ben Shapiro Show - Davos Elitists Want To Rule The World | Ep. 1501

00:00:00.000 Davos' World Economic Forum begins as Klaus Schwab informs the world that the future will be built by him and his friends, Joe Biden frets that he can't unite America while AOC promotes conspiracy theories, and Bill Maher speaks truth about trans issues.

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00:01:34.000 Well, Davos.

00:01:35.000 The elites are meeting over at Davos.

00:01:37.000 When I say elites, I really mean elitists.

00:01:39.000 Because, listen, I am by pretty much all available metrics, elite.

00:01:44.000 Meaning, I went to an Ivy League law school, and I have a really good income, and I own a company, and all of that.

00:01:50.000 But I don't mean that people who are rich are elites.

00:01:53.000 What I mean are people are elitists.

00:01:54.000 They believe that they ought to run the world, they ought to have power to control your life, and they ought to have that power because they're so good at what they do.

00:02:01.000 Because they're so special.

00:02:02.000 Because they're so brilliant.

00:02:03.000 They should be able to take control of your life.

00:02:07.000 They are basically just the apotheosis of genius.

00:02:10.000 All public opinion will be telescoped into them personally.

00:02:14.000 They are the apex creatures when it comes to the political system globally.

00:02:19.000 And these are the people who ought to run things.

00:02:21.000 You know, when I went to Harvard Law School, First day, orientation.

00:02:25.000 Elena Kagan was the dean.

00:02:26.000 She now, of course, is on the Supreme Court. 0.83

00:02:27.000 And I vividly remember her standing in a giant hall in the middle of the Harvard campus.

00:02:34.000 And the place looked like it was something out of Harry Potter.

00:02:35.000 It was all mahogany and beautiful seats and velvet and all the rest.

00:02:38.000 And she gets up on stage and she says, you guys will be the rulers of the universe.

00:02:43.000 You'll be ruling the world.

00:02:44.000 The people in this room will be on the Supreme Court.

00:02:46.000 They'll be the people in the halls of power.

00:02:46.000 They'll be in Congress.

00:02:48.000 And I thought to myself, why?

00:02:50.000 Because we did really well on the LSAT?

00:02:51.000 Why exactly would that qualify us to be in control?

00:02:55.000 Because here's the thing.

00:02:56.000 Most of the systems by which we live are systems that have evolved over time.

00:02:59.000 They've been tried.

00:03:00.000 They have been tested.

00:03:01.000 They have been attempted in a great variety of societies.

00:03:05.000 And then over time, we have evolved into what we are in terms of the systems that we occupy.

00:03:11.000 That doesn't mean that we can't help change those systems or progress those systems.

00:03:14.000 But one of the great sort of chimeras, one of the great Mirages of politics is the idea that the crazy idea you have in your head is better than whatever has evolved over time.

00:03:26.000 Because whatever has evolved over time, very often, not always, very often, those things have evolved for a reason.

00:03:33.000 They are a form of tried and tested wisdom.

00:03:34.000 What is in your own head?

00:03:36.000 The supposed rational idea in your own head, that's never been tried anywhere.

00:03:39.000 And so, you actually have to make a very compelling case as to why what was ought to be overthrown in favor of the grand idea that you have concocted inside your own brain.

00:03:47.000 This is the point that Michael Oakeshott makes when he talks about rationalism.

00:03:50.000 We as human beings have a tendency to do things, not because they're rational, but because they're the way that we have been taught, or because they're the way that society has imprinted us, or the way evolution has changed us.

00:04:00.000 Because of that, We tend to act in a certain way and then we make up excuses in our own mind for why we do the things that we do.

00:04:06.000 There's a point that Jonathan Haidt has made also with regard to his work in the field of psychology.

00:04:11.000 Very often, the reasons we do things have nothing to do with the actual reasons that we do things.

00:04:16.000 In fact, they've done experiments with people who have had forms of brain damage.

00:04:20.000 What they will do is that their brain will be telling them to perform a particular act and they won't know why they're performing a particular act.

00:04:27.000 It doesn't make sense in context.

00:04:29.000 And then when people are asked, they will immediately shift into trying to explain in a rational way why they are doing what they're doing.

00:04:35.000 They'll just randomly pick up a pen and they'll look down, they'll realize the pen is in their hand and they won't know why there's a pen in their hand.

00:04:40.000 And so they'll be asked, why do you have a pen in your hand?

00:04:42.000 Then they'll make up a giant excuse as to why they have a pen in their hand and try to convince themselves, basically, that this is why things work the way they do.

00:04:49.000 Well, this is the way that elitists think.

00:04:52.000 They think that the systems that have evolved all over the world differently in different places, that all of those systems basically ought to be overthrown by them and by their friends because they have high IQ.

00:05:01.000 And I've sat in rooms with people who are like this, who believe that because they are very smart and because they are very good at what they do, because they have risen through the ranks, gone to the best schools, because they got the best grades, because they earn a lot of money, because they do all of these things, they ought to be able to change the systems at will.

00:05:15.000 Not by looking at the things that already exist and then figuring out where we can tinker to make them better, but instead by completely remaking the system to make it fairer and more just.

00:05:24.000 All of these ideas, of course, coming again directly out of their own brain.

00:05:27.000 Their idea of fairness and justice is not generally a well-accepted societal idea of what fairness and justice constitutes.

00:05:33.000 It is instead their own generalized feeling about what society should look like and they will shape society according to those predilections.

00:05:40.000 And they will do so in the name of you.

00:05:42.000 They will say that you are the ones who want this.

00:05:44.000 This is why, for example, you have Klaus Schwab, who is the head of the World Economic Forum, talking about why people like Klaus Schwab should basically run things.

00:05:54.000 So he said yesterday, in what has to count as one of the creepiest clips I've ever seen at the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab said, the future is being built by us.

00:06:04.000 He also said this with a very thick Germanic accent, which makes it really weird and creepy. 0.99

00:06:09.000 Here we go.

00:06:11.000 The future is not just happening.

00:06:13.000 The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room.

00:06:22.000 We have the means to improve the state of the world.

00:06:28.000 That is an incredible statement.

00:06:29.000 The future is built by us!

00:06:31.000 With the fist and everything.

00:06:32.000 By us!

00:06:32.000 It's built by us!

00:06:33.000 You will obey!

00:06:34.000 You will enjoy our rulership because we are very wise!

00:06:37.000 And we have the power in this room, among the communities, in their communities, to change how the world works.

00:06:44.000 Now, your people?

00:06:45.000 Meh.

00:06:46.000 But, we in this room are very smart.

00:06:49.000 We have power ties on.

00:06:51.000 We wear thousand-dollar suits.

00:06:52.000 And this explains, because we run major corporations and because we run governments, how we will be able to change the world to make it a great, better place for you.

00:07:02.000 This is backed by his general feeling about how systems of economics should work.

00:07:08.000 Already coming up more from Klaus Schwab.

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00:08:16.000 Back in 2020, October 2020, he wrote an entire piece, Klaus Traub, titled, A Better Economy Is Possible, But We Need to Reimagine Capitalism to Do It.

00:08:25.000 By reimagining capitalism, he means that he should be able to pick and choose winners and losers, and he should be able to dictate the rules of the game to everybody else.

00:08:33.000 See, the thing about capitalism, as F.A.

00:08:34.000 Hayek, who's probably the greatest expositor of capitalism in human history, as F.A.

00:08:39.000 Hayek wrote, capitalism is not a system that was quote-unquote designed.

00:08:43.000 Capitalism is a system that arose over the course of centuries.

00:08:46.000 To allow people to keep the fruits of their own labors and then freely trade the fruits of their own labors.

00:08:52.000 It's an evolutionary system.

00:08:53.000 It's not something that people got in the back room and they're like, how do we benefit a small cadre of society?

00:08:57.000 That's how Marxists think of capitalism.

00:08:59.000 They think of a bunch of old white people smoking cigars in the back room, figuring out how they keep their own property, and then they came up with the system called free markets. 0.95

00:09:06.000 This is what the Marxists think.

00:09:07.000 In the same way that racial Marxists like Ibram X. Kendi think that free speech was a concoction by old white men in order to protect their own political prerogatives.

00:09:15.000 But that's not how any of this works.

00:09:17.000 Free speech evolved through centuries of Western discourse based on battling and a generalized assumption, correct, that if you didn't have the ability to speak freely or to dissent, that it would eventually dissolve into internecine warfare, like full-scale hundred years warfare, thirty years warfare, right?

00:09:33.000 That's what would happen.

00:09:35.000 And so we need free speech.

00:09:36.000 We need to allow people to dissent.

00:09:38.000 When it comes to markets, same sort of thing.

00:09:39.000 Over the course of centuries, there's a basic understanding that comes to be that we are better off allowing people to keep the fruits of their own labor and to freely alienate, to trade the fruits of their own labor with one another.

00:09:50.000 That's not something that somebody came up with in a backroom.

00:09:52.000 Adam Smith didn't invent capitalism.

00:09:54.000 F.A.

00:09:55.000 Hayek didn't invent capitalism.

00:09:56.000 They noticed a thing that was going on and then they provided a rationalistic basis for the thing that was going on that actually did match what was going on in the real world.

00:10:04.000 But Klaus Schwab thinks that he should be able to design systems.

00:10:07.000 People who think they should be able to design systems are the last people who should be in charge of anything because typically speaking, The world is not a computer.

00:10:14.000 People are not widgets.

00:10:15.000 And the attempt to design systems for people, top-down, in centralized fashion, is not only a failure, it typically ends with tyrannical failure.

00:10:23.000 So here's what Klaus Schwab writes, and I'm talking about this because, again, Davos is happening right now, and these are the rules of the world community that are going to be set and have a major impact on how all of us live.

00:10:33.000 Klaus Schwab wrote this back in October of 2020.

00:10:35.000 In the immediate months that followed the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world as we knew it was turned upside down.

00:10:40.000 Like most people, I was constrained to observing the situation from inside my home and the World Economic Forum's empty offices, and I relied on video calls to know how others were doing.

00:10:48.000 Since those early moments of the crisis, it has been hard to be optimistic about the prospect of a brighter global future.

00:10:53.000 The only immediate upside, perhaps, was the drop in greenhouse gas emissions, which brought slight temporary relief to the planet's atmosphere.

00:10:58.000 It shouldn't have come as a surprise that many started to wonder, will governments, businesses, and other influential stakeholders truly change their ways for the better after this?

00:11:06.000 Or will we go back to business as usual?

00:11:08.000 Now, this language of stakeholders is a proxy for me and my friends.

00:11:13.000 Because normally, if you're the head of a corporation, you're answerable to creating a profit margin for the people who own shares in your company, which is good.

00:11:21.000 It gives you a metric of success, as Milton Friedman suggested.

00:11:24.000 Shareholder capitalism is the idea that you, as a company, need to take the interests of the people who actually own the company, the shareholders, into account, and then maximize your pursuit of making goods and services that people want to buy at the highest available profit margin, and this is your mission.

00:11:39.000 Stakeholder capitalism is something else.

00:11:41.000 Stakeholder capitalism is the idea that boards of directors should basically ignore their own shareholders in favor of people who don't have skin in the game, in favor of people who don't own stock, who aren't going to pay the price.

00:11:50.000 Those people, you're supposed to make policy on their behalf.

00:11:53.000 So now, you are not answerable to your own shareholders, you're answerable to the world at large, which really means you're answerable to nobody because the world at large can't vote you out of position as the CEO of a major corporation.

00:12:05.000 So when you say stakeholder, what you really mean is appointed king by nobody.

00:12:09.000 But you get to claim that you're acting in everybody's interest.

00:12:11.000 You're a benevolent dictator without answerability to your own shareholders, because after all, you're taking into account stakeholders beyond your own shareholders.

00:12:18.000 So here is what Klaus Schwab wrote.

00:12:20.000 He said, it's true, there are no easy ways out of this vicious cycle, even though the mechanisms to do so lie at our fingertips.

00:12:25.000 Every day we invent new technologies that could make our lives and the planet's health better.

00:12:29.000 Free markets, trade and competition create so much wealth that in theory they could make everyone better off if there was the will to do so.

00:12:35.000 But this is not the reality we live in today.

00:12:37.000 And so one of the great dangers of the elitists, the people at Davos and company, is they always make it seem, always, that because they are high IQ, they have all the solutions.

00:12:46.000 And if they have all the solutions, the only thing that separates us from utopia is the will to power!

00:12:51.000 That's it!

00:12:52.000 If you just had the will, if the American people, if the people of the globe, more broadly, could just access that will, then we could change the situation and utopia would arise.

00:13:00.000 It's not a question of us not being able to do the things that we claim that we're able to do.

00:13:05.000 It's not a question of the experts ever being wrong.

00:13:06.000 It's always a question of just the willpower.

00:13:08.000 And we see this in everything from COVID-19 policy...

00:13:11.000 to economic policy, to international warfare, when it comes to the great geniuses in the room.

00:13:16.000 They propose solutions.

00:13:17.000 Their solutions generally fail because they are not in consonance with human nature or how people actually work.

00:13:23.000 And then, when they fail, you get blamed because it was just that the will wasn't there, guys.

00:13:27.000 If we had just tried harder, we could have fixed everything.

00:13:30.000 So instead of Klaus Schwab saying, listen, free markets, trade and competition are creating an enormous amount of wealth, maybe those things which are inherently decentralized, free trade is inherently decentralized, Free markets, inherently decentralized, right?

00:13:43.000 They're a leveling mechanism.

00:13:44.000 Free markets are a leveling mechanism.

00:13:46.000 It means there is no person at the top determining who wins and who loses.

00:13:49.000 We all just go to work every day, and then things shake out how they're going to shake out.

00:13:53.000 That is a leveling mechanism.

00:13:54.000 It has created more wealth than any system in human history, and it has evolved to affect more and more in the globe in extraordinarily positive ways.

00:14:01.000 Instead of saying maybe if we gave up more control, things would get better for everybody, it's if we could only harness The power of the 1.21 gigawatts of the global economy, and then channel it into the flux capacitor, everything would be fine.

00:14:13.000 And all it takes to make all of that happen is just ze vir. 0.93

00:14:16.000 If we only had ze vir, then that would make things happen.

00:14:19.000 More power to us?

00:14:20.000 That's the only way you can manifest ze vir.

00:14:22.000 After all, you can't do anything.

00:14:23.000 You're smart people.

00:14:24.000 But we, we here at the center, you manifest your power by giving us The power.

00:14:31.000 You show your will by giving us the power.

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00:14:34.000 Power.

00:14:34.000 Will.

00:14:35.000 Willpower.

00:14:35.000 That will solve all the problems.

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00:15:55.000 According to Klaus Schwab, technological advances often take place in a monopolized economy and are used to prioritize one company's profits over societal progress.

00:16:05.000 Well, I mean, the way that you develop technologies is through the profit margin.

00:16:09.000 They do not get built absent the profit margin.

00:16:12.000 Either that or they are built by states, which then tend to use them in ways that benefit only the state and nobody else.

00:16:17.000 The same economic system that created so much prosperity in the golden age of American capitalism in the 50s and 60s is now creating inequality and climate change.

00:16:25.000 That that is an absurd contention.

00:16:28.000 It's an absurd contention because he's correct that the same economic system that created all that prosperity in the 50s and 60s exists today.

00:16:34.000 It's created all the prosperity today.

00:16:35.000 Also, we lifted literally half the world's population was in pure abject poverty in 1980 and is not today because of those systems that he didn't control.

00:16:45.000 He says, the same political system that enabled our global progress and democracy after World War II now contributes to societal discord and discontent.

00:16:52.000 And so we have to change things, of course.

00:16:55.000 He says that if you look at how we did COVID-19, man, we did great.

00:17:01.000 We did great.

00:17:02.000 He said there was strong cooperation between governments and businesses to secure the funds needed for vaccine development and distribution.

00:17:07.000 OK, that was an emergency situation in which the government basically said, try a vaccine.

00:17:12.000 If it fails, we'll still pay for it because we need to get through this.

00:17:14.000 Hey, that was good.

00:17:15.000 That is not true in every area of the economy.

00:17:18.000 What that ends with is the kind of subsidization of industry that is sinking China's economy right now.

00:17:21.000 But that's exactly what Klaus Schwab calls for.

00:17:23.000 He says, looking forward, such virtuous instincts can become a feature of our economic systems rather than a rare exception.

00:17:29.000 Rather than chasing short-term profits or narrow self-interest, companies could pursue the well-being of all people and the entire planet.

00:17:35.000 Which again is a way of saying, give us all the power and we will take care of all of you.

00:17:38.000 That's all.

00:17:39.000 We'll be benevolent dictators in your life.

00:17:41.000 That's what we'll do.

00:17:42.000 Building a virtuous economic system is not a utopian ideal, says Klaus Schwab.

00:17:46.000 And this is from October 2020.

00:17:47.000 Most people, including business leaders, investors, and community leaders have a similar attitude about their role in the world and the lives of others.

00:17:53.000 Most people want to do good and believe that doing so will ultimately benefit everyone, including a company's shareholders.

00:17:58.000 But what's missing in recent decades is a clear compass to guide those in leading positions in our society and economy.

00:18:05.000 And so what we need is to move away from that.

00:18:08.000 We need a more virtuous capitalist system.

00:18:11.000 We need stakeholder capitalism metrics, non-financial metrics, disclosures that will be added to companies' annual reporting, making it possible to measure their progress over time.

00:18:20.000 Doing so requires answering questions like, what is the gender pay gap inside companies? 0.98

00:18:25.000 How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted?

00:18:27.000 What progress has the company made toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

00:18:30.000 How much did the company pay in taxes globally and per jurisdiction?

00:18:33.000 What did the company do to hire and train employees?

00:18:36.000 Again, this is all top down.

00:18:38.000 We're going to control it.

00:18:39.000 We have to create utopia because we are the powerful nonsense.

00:18:42.000 Instead of just letting the market shake things out because it turns out that the collective knowledge of human beings is far wider and broader and deeper than the individual knowledge of centralized decision makers.

00:18:51.000 Instead of acknowledging that, Klaus Schwab is doubling down on the idea that the geniuses ought to be in control.

00:18:56.000 And very often this is what happens at places like the World Economic Forum.

00:19:00.000 Davos is centered on the theme this year of history at a turning point, government policies, and business strategies.

00:19:05.000 A variety of issues will be tackled according to Fox Business, including the COVID-19 pandemic, global conflict, economic uncertainty, and climate change.

00:19:13.000 Climate Envoy John Kerry, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are expected to deliver remarks at the five-day event.

00:19:13.000 U.S.

00:19:25.000 The war in Ukraine and the resulting tragedy calls for global moral action, says Gail Markovits and Beatrice DiCaro of the World Economic Forum.

00:19:31.000 Leaders will address urgent humanitarian and security challenges as they simultaneously advance long-standing economic, environmental, and societal priorities.

00:19:39.000 Whose priorities will those be, precisely?

00:19:39.000 Mmm.

00:19:41.000 See, here in the United States, we have a thing called democracy.

00:19:43.000 We get to vote for our priorities.

00:19:44.000 But who votes for the priorities of the World Economic Forum, exactly?

00:19:48.000 Who decides what those priorities should be?

00:19:49.000 They say, sort of at Woodrow Wilson once said that the Constitution was completely defunct, it was useless, and what you needed at the heart of the American experiment was a big man, a man who could capture all of the inherent will of the American people, bring all the will of the American people to the forefront, and that was best epitomized by the President of the United States, a central, powerful figure.

00:20:10.000 And this is what you see over at the World Economic Forum.

00:20:12.000 This is what the future will be built by them.

00:20:15.000 Well, here's the problem.

00:20:16.000 The people who are talking about building our future scare the living hell out of me, and they should scare the living hell out of you.

00:20:20.000 For example, yesterday at Davos, the Australian e-safety commissioner, Inman Grant, said that, you know, it's time for us to globally recalibrate what free speech means.

00:20:29.000 Again, notice this is not a broadening of freedom.

00:20:32.000 It's a narrowing of freedom so that elites like Inman Grant, elitists like Inman Grant, can decide what you ought to be able to say.

00:20:40.000 We are finding ourselves in a place where we have increasing polarization everywhere.

00:20:47.000 And everything feels binary when it doesn't need to be.

00:20:50.000 So I think we're going to have to think about a recalibration of a whole range of human rights that are playing out online.

00:20:55.000 You know, from freedom of speech to the freedom to be free from online violence.

00:21:02.000 Or the right of data protection to the right to child dignity.

00:21:08.000 Okay, what's she saying right there with all of these very wise people sitting there?

00:21:11.000 I mean, literally King Solomon is sitting right next to her.

00:21:14.000 People who are sitting there, nodding along.

00:21:17.000 When you speak with a lot of people who believe themselves to be high IQ, in control, and they say, we ought to recalibrate things like free speech.

00:21:23.000 You didn't invent free speech.

00:21:24.000 No one gave you the power to recalibrate free speech.

00:21:27.000 The fact that you're talking about doing this on an international stage with a lot of people who disagree about the limits of free speech should be a clue that this is scary stuff.

00:21:36.000 Whenever you have these international institutions that get together, There's a famous line from a Leon Uris book in which he says that international law is that which the virtuous studiously ignore and the evil just ditch.

00:21:50.000 That's basically the idea, is that the virtuous refuse to enforce it, international law, because enforcing it actually requires cost and the evil simply ignore.

00:21:59.000 But what international law really does is it sets a backdrop against which all global conversation is now supposed to happen.

00:22:04.000 That's really what these international institutions are about.

00:22:07.000 Because again, all this has to be implemented top down in these countries by separate governments.

00:22:10.000 All the acts have to then be adopted.

00:22:12.000 But the goal is to reshift the Overton window in terms of what is acceptable and what we should all be striving for.

00:22:18.000 And that's why these international convocations are really quite frightening in the way they address these issues.

00:22:23.000 And we should be a little frightened of them.

00:22:26.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we are going to get to the London School of Economics writing about what the WHO is doing in terms of this pandemic treaty.

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00:23:35.000 Which brings us to the WHO.

00:23:37.000 So there has been a lot of talk About the WHO proposing a new pandemic treaty.

00:23:42.000 And it's not clear what the hell's going to be in this thing.

00:23:44.000 It's supposed to be a global pandemic treaty.

00:23:47.000 There's a piece.

00:23:48.000 Over at the London School of Economics, from a wide variety of sources, Makey Voss, Claire Wenham, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Bianca Dettering, March 30, 2022, a new pandemic treaty, what the World Health Organization needs to do next.

00:24:00.000 Well, some would say that the World Health Organization needs to be disbanded and that you need an actual League of Democracies to enforce its will when it comes to information sharing.

00:24:09.000 The WHO has been an enormous failure.

00:24:11.000 And they literally had one job, to stop a global pandemic.

00:24:14.000 Not only did they fail to stop that, they also provided cover for the world's most evil government at this point, the Chinese government, which engages in vast human rights privations, which steals technology, steals intellectual property, massively expands its military footprint, subjects a billion people to abject tyranny. 0.87

00:24:33.000 And the WHO just bent over backwards for those people, and lied on their behalf.

00:24:37.000 But the WHO now wants to draw some new international rules.

00:24:40.000 Now, those international rules, it's not clear how quote-unquote binding they're going to be.

00:24:45.000 Because when it comes to international treaties, typically the way that it works in American domestic law, there are two types of international agreements.

00:24:50.000 There's executive agreements, and then you have treaties.

00:24:52.000 Treaties are how all international agreements are theoretically supposed to be done.

00:24:56.000 If you read the Treaty Clause of the United States Constitution, typically what you're supposed to do is submit to the Senate for two-thirds approval, any treaty that you sign with a foreign country.

00:25:05.000 However, of late, I mean by the last 50 years or so, what instead you have is presidents who just adopt executive agreements.

00:25:12.000 And then the idea is that we are going to have congressional legislation with a simple majority vote that is called enabling legislation that basically just crams down the treaty provisions on the American domestic political scenes.

00:25:23.000 You no longer have to get two-thirds approval, now 50 plus one will do it.

00:25:27.000 But even putting aside the advice and consent of the Senate, even putting aside the enabling legislation that is necessary to effectuate international law on the domestic stage, even if you put all of that aside, what you end up with with these international agreements is a moral suasion, right?

00:25:43.000 That's what they are designed to do.

00:25:44.000 They're designed to create a moral suasion to try to commit the American people to these... After all, we made an international agreement.

00:25:50.000 Sure, we never actually ratified it, but we have that international agreement and we've betrayed that.

00:25:55.000 Perfect example.

00:25:55.000 The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, was all about global warming.

00:25:59.000 The United States never actually adopted the Kyoto Protocol.

00:26:01.000 The Kyoto Treaty never became law in the United States.

00:26:03.000 It was not voted up or down by the Senate.

00:26:05.000 The Senate rejected it when it was given the opportunity to look at it.

00:26:08.000 But it did become the basis for all future agreements made by the United States when it came to global warming.

00:26:13.000 And that's what happens with a lot of these international agreements.

00:26:16.000 The president goes and signs something.

00:26:18.000 He gets a big photo op.

00:26:19.000 It never gets adopted as American law.

00:26:21.000 But then it is used as the basis for American policy anyway.

00:26:25.000 Or they'll adopt an executive agreement like the Iran agreement, and it becomes the basis for American foreign policy without ever having been approved by the Senate, for example.

00:26:32.000 That sort of stuff is pretty, pretty common in American law, unfortunately.

00:26:36.000 So when we talk about a WHO pandemic treaty, understand that when people say things like, correctly, like this thing is not self-effectuating, it would require enabling legislation in order to go forward.

00:26:47.000 That's true.

00:26:48.000 It is also true that it will serve as the basis for all discussion.

00:26:52.000 As the basis for all commitment keeping for the next 10, 15, 20 years.

00:26:57.000 So what exactly will be in this thing?

00:26:59.000 According to the London School of Economics, a draft text is expected August 1, 2022.

00:27:03.000 To get there, a member state-led transparent, inclusive, and fair procedure is necessary with full participation of all member states with meaningful inclusion of non-state actors.

00:27:13.000 The treaty is expected to be modeled as a framework convention, complemented by additional instruments like protocols, guidelines, or standards for adoption by governance bodies created through the treaty.

00:27:22.000 This approach allows parties to reach consensus on high-level legally binding principles and commitments within the initial convention, i.e.

00:27:27.000 the meaning of equity or solidarity in a health emergency, and states that parties give a commitment to act in solidarity during such an emergency Followed by agreements adding detailed commitments regarding operationalizing these commitments, i.e.

00:27:38.000 a protocol regarding pathogen sharing or one on equitable access to vaccines, etc.

00:27:42.000 So, for example, one of the things that they're now considering under the WHO is that we have to tranche out, let's say we create a vaccine here in the United States, we have to tranche that out in equitable fashion around the globe.

00:27:50.000 Well, if you're an American citizen, the first thing you should be thinking is, wait, hold up, if we develop a vaccine, shouldn't we get first crack at it?

00:27:57.000 Let's say it takes all of the vaccine in order to inoculate our population.

00:28:00.000 We're American citizens.

00:28:01.000 We're the ones who are footing the bill for creating a vaccine.

00:28:04.000 Shouldn't we get it first?

00:28:05.000 Now, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't help out other countries.

00:28:08.000 And there may be situations in which it is vital that we help out other countries.

00:28:10.000 But why should we be treaty-bound to do that?

00:28:13.000 Shouldn't that be a case-by-case, let's analyze the situation thing?

00:28:17.000 Instead, the idea is that we are going to pre-write into a code that is not fully adopted into American law, but serves as the basis for all discussion.

00:28:25.000 And you're going to have future Democratic presidents, presumably, who are going to cite this as a rationale for doing these sorts of things unilaterally, because foreign policy very rarely gets done via legislation anymore.

00:28:34.000 It mostly gets done The executive branch action.

00:28:36.000 They'll sign an agreement that's non-binding and then they will say that they are bound by the agreement that is non-binding.

00:28:41.000 That is what usually happens in cases like this.

00:28:44.000 So what exactly are they looking at?

00:28:46.000 According to the London School of Economics, the thematic wishes include anchoring the treaty in human rights, addressing the principles of the right to health, equity, solidarity, transparency, trust, and accountability.

00:28:56.000 Now if that all sounds incredibly vague to you, that's because it is incredibly vague.

00:29:00.000 But those are just buzzwords that will then be used in order to cram down things that Americans may not like on Americans.

00:29:05.000 Using a One Health approach for pandemic prevention and early detection, stronger health systems information and reporting mechanisms, including a better use of digital technology for data collection and sharing, a reform of the WHO alarm mechanism, investments in health system strengthening, increased financing for pandemic preparedness and response.

00:29:25.000 So much is being touted for inclusion that achieving it all seems unlikely.

00:29:29.000 But there will be consensus on things like vaccine distribution.

00:29:33.000 Now, there again, there's some people who are going overboard on this and saying, well, you know, we haven't even read what this document looks like, that this is going to be the basis for some sort of grand kind of lockdown crackdown, basically.

00:29:44.000 There'll be an international agreement where, in violation of American law, a president just decides, internationally, we're now going to lockdown.

00:29:49.000 That would still require the president to make an independent decision to lockdown.

00:29:52.000 It's not like an international body, free of the president of the United States, could say, everybody's locking down, and the president goes, well, you know, I'm trumped.

00:29:59.000 I mean, there's an international... But!

00:29:59.000 Now.

00:30:01.000 He could theoretically say that, right?

00:30:03.000 He wouldn't be bound by law.

00:30:04.000 There's no enforcement mechanism.

00:30:05.000 What's the WHO gonna do?

00:30:06.000 Invade?

00:30:07.000 We'll fund them.

00:30:07.000 It's not gonna happen.

00:30:08.000 But what you could have, and this is most likely, is an international agreement.

00:30:12.000 We're all locking down.

00:30:13.000 The president says, hey, we're part of that international agreement.

00:30:16.000 It's my excuse for locking down.

00:30:17.000 It's my excuse.

00:30:18.000 It is my justification.

00:30:19.000 We signed this international agreement.

00:30:21.000 So when people say there's no enforcement mechanism, that's true so far as it goes.

00:30:24.000 It's just not the whole story.

00:30:26.000 Now, the WHO director general Who's just awful at his job.

00:30:31.000 Again, Chinese defending Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. 0.93

00:30:35.000 He says, you know what?

00:30:36.000 Our agenda is open.

00:30:37.000 You guys are scaremongering about all of this.

00:30:39.000 Anytime you have international leaders get together and say that they're going to create an international treaty and that it's not fully enforcing, it's not self-enforcing, but it is setting a set of standards that we all ought to aim toward, understand that as the predicate to action.

00:30:51.000 There's no other reason to do it.

00:30:52.000 If it doesn't do anything, why are you doing it?

00:30:54.000 Here is the WHO director.

00:30:56.000 I want to be crystal clear.

00:30:59.000 WHO's agenda is public, open and transparent.

00:31:05.000 WHO stands strongly for individual rights.

00:31:08.000 We passionately support everyone's right to health and we will do everything we can to ensure that the right is realized.

00:31:17.000 Okay, um, well, no, you don't support that, which is why the WHO again covered for the Chinese government.

00:31:22.000 Meanwhile, the WHO Director General, he also said we are building an overarching global legal framework.

00:31:27.000 So again, if you're not building anything, why do you say you're building something?

00:31:30.000 We need adequate and efficient financing domestically and internationally.

00:31:36.000 We need a stronger and sustainably financed WHO at the center of the global health security architecture.

00:31:43.000 And I will return to this in a few moments.

00:31:48.000 Again, when all these folks get together, very rarely something good happens.

00:31:52.000 And meanwhile, speaking of wealth redistribution over at Davos, Oxfam spoke to the international charity, and they said it was time for a global wealth tax to support the less fortunate.

00:32:00.000 One time global wealth tax.

00:32:01.000 They never mean one time.

00:32:04.000 According to Oxfam executive director Gabrielle Boucher, quote, billionaires are arriving in Davos to celebrate an incredible surge in their fortunes.

00:32:09.000 The pandemic and now the steep increase in food and energy prices have simply been put a bonanza for them.

00:32:15.000 Well, I mean, that's weird because most of the people who are heavily invested in the stock market took a massive hit over the course of the last couple of months.

00:32:21.000 Meanwhile, decades of progress on extreme poverty are now in reverse.

00:32:24.000 Millions of people are facing impossible rises in the cost of simply staying alive.

00:32:27.000 Oxfam called for a one-off solidarity tax on billionaire's pandemic windfall to support people facing soaring prices, as well as to fund a fair and sustainable recovery from the pandemic.

00:32:36.000 Again, centralized government being called for by Oxfam.

00:32:39.000 Complete Redistribution of wealth.

00:32:42.000 This is what it means when you have all of these elitists get together in a room.

00:32:46.000 And unfortunately, this is what you get when you have elitists on the American stage.

00:32:52.000 The generalized mechanism by which the left wishes to effectuate its policy in the United States looks somewhat similar to the international mechanisms that are being afforded by people like Klaus Schwab or like the head of WHO.

00:33:02.000 The idea is give us all the power And then all that separates us from Utopia is the will to do what is necessary.

00:33:09.000 Why won't everyone get out of our way?

00:33:10.000 Why won't there be unity?

00:33:11.000 So you remember when President Biden took office, he gave this long speech, this long flowing speech about unity.

00:33:18.000 He was going to come in, he was going to restore unity.

00:33:20.000 The American bargain is fine. 0.87

00:33:23.000 People, it's fraying, folks, it's fraying.

00:33:26.000 Everything's fraying.

00:33:27.000 And with unification, unifamity, And what he meant by that, I said at the time.

00:33:32.000 It's unclear whether by unity he means, we have a few things we agree on and then we agree to disagree on many things, or if he meant, shut up and do what I say.

00:33:39.000 It is now increasingly clear that Joe Biden means, shut up and do what I say. 0.98

00:33:43.000 And then he is surprised when people don't like the things that he says because many of them are stupid or bad or their policies do not achieve what they seek to achieve. 0.99

00:33:51.000 Get to that in just a moment. 0.99

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00:36:37.000 So Joe Biden came into office saying, I want unity, but also I want to build back better.

00:36:47.000 Which sounds exactly like Klaus Schwab.

00:36:49.000 I'm going to build back better.

00:36:50.000 I'm going to take all of these powerful forces in American life.

00:36:52.000 I'm going to channel them toward what I want.

00:36:55.000 I'm going to channel them in a way that makes the world a better place.

00:36:58.000 And I know this because in my addled brain, that basically looks like an Atari game from 1987 in there.

00:37:04.000 You have to like take out the cartridge from the Nintendo and you have to like blow it just to make sure that it still works.

00:37:10.000 This is how it works.

00:37:12.000 In that brain, I know the solutions.

00:37:14.000 And when people don't give me what I want, I get very, very upset.

00:37:17.000 So, I think the leading indicator of this is how Joe Biden thinking comes from a column by Thomas Friedman, who is one of the worst columnists in America and has been for several decades at this point.

00:37:28.000 Basically, Thomas Friedman's formula in every column is, I went to an exotic place.

00:37:32.000 Someone put me up at a hotel and I talked to the cab driver.

00:37:34.000 Here is my deep insight.

00:37:36.000 That's pretty much all of his columns.

00:37:37.000 I talked to the cab driver in Tunisia.

00:37:39.000 And that's when I realized that the Smells of turmeric were really indicative of the world economy.

00:37:45.000 I was in Iran the other day, staying at the beautiful hotel in downtown Tehran.

00:37:50.000 And I realized that this was a people blah blah blah.

00:37:52.000 That's always what's up.

00:37:53.000 So he had lunch with Biden.

00:37:54.000 And so he writes about this because all Thomas Friedman is is the obnoxious neighbor who just won't stop name dropping.

00:38:00.000 It's all he does.

00:38:00.000 He just name drops all day long.

00:38:02.000 Like, you know, I was at the ballpark the other day and I was sitting in my luxury suite and Klaus Schwab walked in.

00:38:06.000 I was unbelievable.

00:38:07.000 We had a great conversation because, you know, me and Klaus were like best friends.

00:38:11.000 I mean, look on my cell phone, right?

00:38:12.000 I just texted him like two minutes ago.

00:38:13.000 That is Thomas Friedman.

00:38:14.000 So my lunch with President Biden, quote.

00:38:17.000 President Biden invited me for lunch at the White House last Monday, but it was all off the record, so I can't tell you anything he said.

00:38:23.000 So what are you writing about this for? 0.99

00:38:25.000 Who gives a shit? 0.99

00:38:26.000 Like, what? 0.99

00:38:27.000 Like, who does? 1.00

00:38:30.000 Dumbass, Tom Friedman. 0.97

00:38:32.000 Well, you know, I was speaking with the President of the United States, but what we talked about was super secret. 0.97

00:38:36.000 So I'm mentioning it just to show you that I know an important person, but I can't tell you what he said.

00:38:40.000 Now I'm going to tell you what he said.

00:38:42.000 I can tell you two things.

00:38:44.000 What I ate and how I felt after.

00:38:46.000 I didn't realize that we were going to get a full-on column about your digestive tract, but here we go.

00:38:51.000 I ate a tuna salad sandwich with tomato on whole wheat bread, with a bowl of mixed fruit and a chocolate milkshake for dessert.

00:38:56.000 That was so good, it should have been against the law.

00:39:00.000 Wow, well, now that changes everything right there.

00:39:02.000 What I felt afterward was this.

00:39:04.000 For all you knuckleheads on Fox who say that Biden can't put two sentences together, here's a newsflash.

00:39:08.000 He just put NATO together, Europe together, the whole Western alliance together, stretching from Canada up to Finland, all the way to Japan, to help Ukraine protect its fledgling democracy from Vladimir Putin's fascist assault.

00:39:19.000 In doing so, he has enabled Ukraine to inflict significant losses on Russia's invading... Okay, can I just point out that Joe Biden brought up the rear on every one of these issues for, like, several weeks here?

00:39:27.000 I mean, I'm... I actually like what he's done on Ukraine for the most part, but to pretend that he is the one who mobilized, like, Japan and Britain is silly.

00:39:35.000 It's ridiculous. 1.00

00:39:35.000 And Finland is applying for NATO membership because they border Russia, you idiot! 1.00

00:39:39.000 But you did have a tuna salad sandwich with the President of the United States, and then you watched him poop in his Depends or something. 0.99

00:39:45.000 It has been the best performance of alliance management and consolidation since another president, whom I covered and admired, who is also said to be incapable of putting two sentences together, George H.W.

00:39:54.000 Bush.

00:39:55.000 Alas, though, I left our lunch with a full stomach, but a heavy heart.

00:40:01.000 Oh, this guy, I think he's won a Pulitzer, Tom Friedman.

00:40:04.000 A full stomach, but a heavy heart.

00:40:06.000 How'd your kidney feel, dude?

00:40:08.000 That appendix doing all right?

00:40:11.000 I won't consider this column a success unless I get a full description of the functioning of each of his internal organs.

00:40:16.000 Went to a CAT scan with Tom Friedman, and here's what we found out about the Lebanese trade policy.

00:40:21.000 Biden didn't say it in so many words, but he didn't have to.

00:40:23.000 I could hear it between the lines.

00:40:25.000 He's worried that while he has reunited the West, he may not be able to reunite America.

00:40:28.000 He didn't reunite the West. 0.72

00:40:29.000 Vladimir Putin reunited the West in the same way that the Iranians reunited the Middle East against Iran. 0.80

00:40:34.000 Like, okay.

00:40:36.000 He may not be able to reunite America, but this is The key, right?

00:40:39.000 So Thomas Friedman is where it comes down to the Build Back Better agenda, the Klaus Schwab, it's all the same.

00:40:43.000 It's a bunch of elitists who think they ought to control your life.

00:40:46.000 And if you refuse to acquiesce to this control, this means that you are an evil bad censor who just doesn't wish to access the willpower that will allow us to reach unicorn farting energy utopia. 0.97

00:40:57.000 It's you, not him, not you, not the doddering old fool in the White House who literally every day says something, his own White House comms shop has to then walk back. 0.97

00:41:05.000 The night, the night nurse team. 0.99

00:41:08.000 It's not him.

00:41:09.000 It's not that he inherited a vaccine and he inherited an economy on the upswing and he inherited peace in the Middle East and then he blew all of it.

00:41:15.000 It's not that he did any of that.

00:41:17.000 It's you and you're being mean to the old man.

00:41:17.000 It's you.

00:41:20.000 Stop being mean to the old man and let him drink his insure in peace while he unites America and the West.

00:41:25.000 He is in fact a godlike figure, Joe Biden.

00:41:28.000 According to Thomas Friedman, who knows, because he had a tuna sandwich at the White House with a chocolate milkshake.

00:41:34.000 Quote, it's clearly his priority above any Build Back Better provision.

00:41:37.000 And he knows that's why he was elected.

00:41:39.000 A majority of Americans worried that the country was coming apart at the seams and that this old war horse called Biden, with his bipartisan instincts, was the best person to knit us back together.

00:41:48.000 It's the reason he decided to run in the first place, because he knows that without some basic unity of purpose and willingness to compromise, nothing else is possible.

00:41:54.000 Is that why he decided to run?

00:41:56.000 Is that also why he decided to run in 1988 and also in 2008 and also then again in 2020?

00:42:03.000 Like, it was all about unity, was it?

00:42:05.000 It wasn't about his desire for power?

00:42:07.000 Like, since he was 30 years old and in the United States Senate?

00:42:10.000 He literally entered the United States Senate when he was too young to enter the United States Senate.

00:42:13.000 So yeah, I'm pretty sure it's not that, Tom.

00:42:15.000 Anyway, he says, with every passing day, with every mass shooting, every racist dog whistle, every defund the police initiative, every nation-sundering Supreme Court ruling, every speaker run off a campus, every claim of election fraud, I wonder if he can bring us back together.

00:42:27.000 I wonder if it's too late.

00:42:29.000 I fear we're going to break something very valuable very soon.

00:42:31.000 Once we break it, it will be gone.

00:42:32.000 We may never be able to get it back.

00:42:35.000 I'm talking about our ability to transfer power peacefully and legitimately, an ability we have demonstrated since our founding.

00:42:41.000 It is one thing to elect Donald Trump and pro-Trump candidates who want to restrict immigration, ban abortion, slash corporate taxes, pump more oil, curb sex education in schools, and liberate citizens from mask mandates in a pandemic.

00:42:50.000 Those are policies where there can be legitimate disagreement, which is the stuff of politics.

00:42:53.000 Okay, we can stop right there for a second because it is important to note that on every one of those issues, people who disagree with Thomas Friedman have been demonized as Hellspawn.

00:43:02.000 If you are a pro-life person in this country, you have been demonized as a person who wants to murder women by the mainstream left.

00:43:08.000 If you are a person who does not want sex education about gender theory taught to kindergartners, you have been labeled a homophobe and a bigot. 0.66

00:43:17.000 If you are a person in this country who said that mask mandates and lockdowns post-vaccination were bad, you have been labeled as someone who wanted to kill grandma and your own child.

00:43:27.000 There is going to be a winter Of death for people who disagreed with Joe Biden on these issues.

00:43:32.000 Don't lecture us about unity.

00:43:35.000 What they mean by unity is you have to agree with us.

00:43:38.000 You have to agree with us.

00:43:41.000 So he suggests, does Thomas Friedman.

00:43:45.000 He says, ally leaders have privately said to Biden, as he and his team have revived the Western Alliance from the splintered pieces that Trump left it in.

00:43:52.000 Thank God America is back.

00:43:53.000 And then they add, but for how long?

00:43:55.000 Biden can't answer that question because we, capital W, capital E, we cannot answer that question.

00:44:01.000 Biden is not blameless in this dilemma, nor is the Democratic Party, particularly as far left wing.

00:44:06.000 Under pressure to revive the economy facing big-ticket demands from the far-left, Biden pursued expansive spending for too long.

00:44:11.000 House Democrats also sullied one of Biden's most important bipartisan achievements, making it hostage to other excessive spending demands.

00:44:17.000 The far-left saddled Biden and every Democratic candidate with radical motions, like defund the police.

00:44:21.000 To defeat Trumpism, we need only, say, 10% of Republicans to abandon their party and join with a central-left Biden, which is what he was elected to be and still is at heart.

00:44:29.000 But we may not be able to get even 1% of Republicans to shift.

00:44:32.000 If far-left Democrats are seen as the party's defining feature, that is why I left my lunch with the president with a full stomach, but a heavy heart.

00:44:38.000 I love the fact that he repeats that twice in the same column.

00:44:41.000 His full stomach.

00:44:41.000 He was so clever, he had to say it twice.

00:44:43.000 Hey, but here's the thing.

00:44:44.000 What Joe Biden really means is shut up and agree with me. 0.99

00:44:47.000 Shut up and agree with me. 0.93

00:44:49.000 And this, unfortunately, Is what many Democrats at this point, I don't think mainstream people who voted for Democrats believe this. 0.92

00:44:55.000 I think many of them are willing to live with their neighbors.

00:44:58.000 But the mainstream Democratic Party increasingly does not believe that.

00:45:01.000 They believe that people who disagree with them are threats to the world order.

00:45:04.000 They're the people who are stopping the ascension of utopia.

00:45:08.000 They are preventing all of us from living a better life.

00:45:11.000 And if only they would shut up and do what we want, then everything would be better.

00:45:16.000 Which is why they have to be demonized.

00:45:17.000 It's why we have to lie about what they back.

00:45:20.000 It's why we have to pretend that they're trying to suborn the vote.

00:45:23.000 It's why we have to pretend that they are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes for doubting things like illegal immigration or wondering why it is that we should teach that boys are not boys and girls are not girls and everybody can be pansexual. 0.93

00:45:35.000 Those people have to be treated as the worst among us.

00:45:39.000 That is the only way that we can achieve true unity.

00:45:41.000 Because in the end, when the elitists are scorned, they must have their revenge.

00:45:45.000 Either you have to shut up, or they have to stop claiming that they have the will of the people behind them.

00:45:49.000 So you can guess which one of those they support. 1.00

00:45:52.000 Okay, so a perfect example of the elitists is the irrepressibly imbecilic Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. 1.00

00:45:59.000 She truly is a whirlwind of stupidity. 1.00

00:46:03.000 This human being, Who is, in fact, an elitist. 1.00

00:46:06.000 And I say an elitist not because, again, I don't consider being wealthy to be a referendum on your moral value.

00:46:13.000 I don't think that if you're poor, you're a good person, or if you're rich, you're a bad person.

00:46:16.000 Likewise, I do not believe that if you're rich, you're a good person, if you're poor, you're a bad person.

00:46:19.000 I think there are good and bad people in every income class.

00:46:22.000 I also think there are elitists in every income class, meaning there are people who believe that they ought to control your life in every mode and fashion, from the top down, And they ought to do so because they are smarter and better equipped and fairer and better people than you.

00:46:35.000 And those people exist at every class.

00:46:37.000 And that is not just rich people.

00:46:39.000 It happens to be rich people in Davos, but it also happens to be not so rich people, like AOC, who believes that because she has a misbegotten degree in economics from Boston University, they should revoke that degree immediately because that sucker apparently you can get in any, with every five Cracker Jack box tops or something. 1.00

00:46:56.000 It comes along with a secret Red Rider decoder ring.

00:46:59.000 It's that degree from Boston University in econ.

00:47:01.000 If AOC can have it, man, this is a great country.

00:47:04.000 Everyone can have a degree in economics from Boston University, apparently.

00:47:06.000 So AOC, she did another one of her Instagram live streams, which, by the way, is now the job of our congresspeople.

00:47:12.000 Congress, as Yuval Levin has pointed out, it's no longer a place for the deliberative consideration of legislation.

00:47:19.000 It is now a platform for people to get more famous and raise a lot of money for themselves and become personas.

00:47:24.000 So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, whose main job consists of co-sponsoring legislation that will never pass, and crying in photo ops, and also doing Instagram Lives. 1.00

00:47:34.000 This is her entire job.

00:47:35.000 She did an Instagram Live the other day, where she, I think, really exposed what a lot of your elitist Democrats think about you.

00:47:42.000 They think that everyone who opposes them is part of a global conspiracy to harm them.

00:47:47.000 That is what they think.

00:47:48.000 And I think that there are a lot of people on the left who oppose me on taxes.

00:47:51.000 They're not part of a global conspiracy.

00:47:52.000 I think there are a lot of people in this country who oppose me on a lot of social issues, ranging from abortion to same-sex marriage.

00:47:58.000 I don't think they are part of a giant conspiracy.

00:48:00.000 I think there are people who can largely good faith disagree with me on these issues, which is why I believe in localism.

00:48:06.000 It's why I believe in the sort of Montesquieu idea that people should live differently in different parts of the country.

00:48:11.000 But if you are Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, you don't believe that.

00:48:14.000 You believe that everyone who opposes you is motivated by the worst instincts among humanity, and also that these worst instincts have been organized and weaponized by people who are extremely wealthy.

00:48:25.000 Because what you're about to hear from AOC right here is a full-fledged conspiracy theory.

00:48:29.000 You hear a lot about the right's conspiracism.

00:48:31.000 And there is conspiracism on the right, no doubt.

00:48:33.000 But the conspiracism that is promoted by AOC here, and just taken for granted, nobody even comments on this, is truly wild.

00:48:41.000 This is right after the Buffalo, New York shootings.

00:48:43.000 This happened a couple of days ago.

00:48:45.000 She went on her Instagram live wearing this shirt that has a picture of an ice machine that says on it abolish.

00:48:51.000 That says abolish ice.

00:48:52.000 Get it?

00:48:53.000 Get it?

00:48:53.000 She also doesn't like ice because it's very cold, as we found out from another one of her Instagram lives.

00:48:57.000 Not kidding.

00:48:58.000 That was a thing that happened.

00:48:59.000 So AOC decides that she's going to describe how the Buffalo, New York shooter is not an isolated incident, though statistically he is an isolated incident.

00:49:07.000 Doesn't diminish the evil to point out that statistically speaking, this is an isolated incident in a country of 330 million people.

00:49:13.000 She says it's not an isolated incident.

00:49:15.000 This person's ideology is apparently, according to AOC, not rare.

00:49:18.000 Not only is it not rare, it's well-organized and well-funded.

00:49:21.000 So there is an attempt, presumably according to AOC, at actual genocide against black people, well-funded and well-organized by the right wing, including people, ironically, like me and Candace Owens, a Jew and a black person.

00:49:32.000 So that's interesting. 0.90

00:49:34.000 So here is AOC spewing out her conspiracy theory, complete with crazy eyes and air quotation marks. 1.00

00:49:42.000 This is organized.

00:49:44.000 He cites Tucker.

00:49:45.000 These people have cited Tucker Carlson.

00:49:49.000 They cited Ben Shapiro.

00:49:50.000 They cited Candace Owens as justification for their murders. 0.51

00:49:56.000 And these are efforts that are being funded.

00:50:00.000 They're being funded by billionaires.

00:50:04.000 They're being funded by oligarchs. 0.93

00:50:07.000 They're being funded by networks like the Koch brothers and the Mercers.

00:50:14.000 They've got money.

00:50:15.000 They've got weapons.

00:50:16.000 They've got propaganda.

00:50:18.000 They've got, this is an organized effort.

00:50:22.000 She's Alex Jones.

00:50:25.000 I'm sure she is.

00:50:26.000 She's Alex Jones.

00:50:27.000 She's Alex Jones to the left and she's celebrated.

00:50:29.000 She's on magazine covers.

00:50:31.000 And then you wonder why there's no unity.

00:50:33.000 It's because everyone who opposes the agenda is apparently an enemy of the state.

00:50:39.000 Enemy of the people, you might say.

00:50:42.000 So it is fascinating to hear people call for unity on the left while simultaneously feeding the alligator that is the AOCs of the world. 0.92

00:50:49.000 But there is something in common, which again is the will to power, the real will to power, which is you give us the power and we will then do whatever we want to you.

00:50:55.000 We will restructure the entire world system.

00:50:58.000 This is what we'll do.

00:50:59.000 Now the problem is that Democrats, the left globally, they're running up against the fact that people are not into this sort of stuff.

00:51:05.000 They're running up desperately against the fact that people have begun to buck this because, as it turns out, people sort of want to rule their own lives.

00:51:12.000 And so all of the propaganda efforts are just falling apart.

00:51:15.000 And they can continue lying to you about how they are doing you a service by doing what they are doing, but nobody believes them any longer.

00:51:21.000 And increasingly, Americans are not being distracted by ancillary issues.

00:51:25.000 Issues that may be important, but they're not willing to continue to sign a blank check for politicians to do what they please while undermining their own well-being.

00:51:34.000 Perfect example of this is what is currently happening in Ukraine.

00:51:36.000 So I'm a big backer of the United States supporting Ukraine with heavy military weaponry.

00:51:40.000 I think it depletes Russian forces, which is good. 0.97

00:51:43.000 I think that it prevents Russia from becoming more aggressive on its own borders.

00:51:45.000 I think it acts as a signal to China that we will prevent them from doing the same with Taiwan.

00:51:50.000 I think all of those are good things.

00:51:51.000 I also think that the American people have to have some sort of end plan here.

00:51:55.000 Because if there's no end plan, you can't expect the American people to continue funding this thing to the tune of $40 billion.

00:52:01.000 You don't know where any of that money's going, by the way.

00:52:03.000 And there's no watchdog on it.

00:52:04.000 You can't expect the American people to do that while continuing to watch inflation rates rise and watch their economic futures collapse.

00:52:10.000 They're not willing to do that.

00:52:11.000 And that's not the American people not being sympathetic.

00:52:14.000 The American people are overwhelmingly sympathetic to the Ukrainian military efforts against the Russians.

00:52:19.000 What it means is that they want the government to walk and chew gum at the same time.

00:52:22.000 You want to support the Ukrainians, that's fine.

00:52:24.000 But we also aren't going to simply allow you to use what's happening in Ukraine as an excuse for your own bad governance, which is exactly what the Biden administration is doing.

00:52:32.000 According to a new AP poll, Americans are now less supportive of punishing Russia for launching its invasion of Ukraine if it comes at the expense of the U.S.

00:52:38.000 economy, a sign of rising anxiety over inflation and other challenges, according to a new poll.

00:52:42.000 While broad support for U.S.

00:52:43.000 sanctions has not faltered, the balance of opinion on prioritizing sanctions over the economy has shifted, according to the poll from the AP.

00:52:49.000 Now 45% of U.S.

00:52:51.000 adults say the nation's bigger priority should be sanctioning Russia as effectively as possible.

00:52:54.000 Slightly more, 51%, say it should be limiting damage to the United States economy.

00:52:59.000 In April, those figures were reversed.

00:53:01.000 In March, shortly after Russia attacked Ukraine, a clear majority said the bigger priority should be sanctioning Russia as effectively as possible.

00:53:06.000 In other words, the American people aren't willing to hear Joe Biden use Ukraine as an excuse for his bad economic policy.

00:53:11.000 That's really what this is about.

00:53:12.000 If they believe that Joe Biden was doing the best he could for the economy, and wasn't just blaming Vladimir Putin for everything bad, they might be more willing to countenance the idea of sending billions of dollars to Ukraine.

00:53:21.000 But when the billions... I mean, that's Joe Biden's fault.

00:53:23.000 When Joe Biden says, we have to spend billions of dollars in Ukraine and sanction the Russians, and yes, it will hurt the American economy, and that's really what's costing us this.

00:53:30.000 It's not true.

00:53:30.000 What's really harming the American economy is not what's going on in Russia and Ukraine, which is fractional compared to what Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve have done to the United States economy.

00:53:38.000 But if you connect those two issues, you can't then turn around and expect the American people not to connect those two issues.

00:53:43.000 So meanwhile, you got Joe Biden out there saying, you know, his policies are going to continue to grow the economy.

00:53:47.000 He's whistling past the graveyard.

00:53:49.000 The notion that if we give him more control, things will be fixed is just silly and the American people know it.

00:53:54.000 This is going to be a haul.

00:53:56.000 This is going to take some time.

00:53:58.000 But in the meantime, it seems to me the best thing I can do, in addition to try to get the Middle Eastern countries, including OPEC, to raise their production of oil and move along that route, is to see to it that we continue to grow our economy, create jobs.

00:54:18.000 He's not creating jobs.

00:54:20.000 All he can do is get out of the way.

00:54:21.000 But he won't get out of the way because, again, he is the one in control.

00:54:24.000 I mean, he's literally saying out loud that while we are having massive gas costs that are impoverishing American families to the tune of sometimes hundreds of dollars per month, that, you know, it's just the middle of a transition.

00:54:36.000 It's just an incredible transition on gasoline.

00:54:38.000 It's a transitional phase, guys.

00:54:41.000 We're going through an incredible transition.

00:54:44.000 That is taking place, that God willing, when it's over, we'll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over.

00:54:54.000 Oh, we're transitioning to electric energy.

00:54:56.000 Okay, great.

00:54:58.000 Joe, again, the idea, if only you guys had the willpower, he would get us out of all of this.

00:55:03.000 Meanwhile, when it turns out that he's created the crisis, it's still not his fault.

00:55:06.000 So, the FDA, under Joe Biden, not only shut down a plant that so far is not real evidence, produced the bacteria that led to the death of a couple of kids in Michigan, they shut down one of the big formula plants in the United States, and then they didn't alleviate any of the any of the formula shortages by allowing the shipping of formula from Europe, right, by getting rid of FDA regulations. Instead, now Joe Biden is doing like emergency flights of formula, quote. This is him tweeting. Folks, I'm excited to

00:55:36.000 tell you that the first flight from Operation Fly Formula is loaded up with more than 70,000 pounds of infant formula about to land in Indiana, our team is working around the clock to get safe formula to everyone So first of all, I don't know who named Operation Fly Formula, but it sounds gross.

00:55:56.000 I'm not interested in my kid having fly formula.

00:55:58.000 But in any case, 70,000 pounds of formula is like one day supply of formula.

00:56:03.000 You know what you could do?

00:56:03.000 Relieve the regulations.

00:56:05.000 But now you have Kamala Harris, who's saying that it's all their top priority.

00:56:09.000 It's all their top, you know, they're solving all your problems, guys.

00:56:12.000 You're just too ungrateful to acknowledge it.

00:56:15.000 I know this is a scary situation for our parents and the caregivers who are taking care of these babies.

00:56:24.000 Our administration is working around the clock to ensure that there is enough safe baby formula available for all who need it and it is truly one of our highest priorities.

00:56:38.000 It is one of their highest priorities.

00:56:39.000 That's exciting.

00:56:40.000 Babies are one of... By the way, Kamala Harris also noted that children of the community are also children of the community.

00:56:46.000 She is, as we have suggested before, a predictive text mechanism come alive.

00:56:51.000 She is just... What an unbelievable order Kamala Harris is. 1.00

00:56:55.000 I can see why she was picked as vice president. 0.83

00:56:57.000 Certainly not because she was a black woman, even though Joe Biden specifically said it's because she was a black woman. 0.96

00:57:00.000 Probably it's because she's so skilled at all this. 0.94

00:57:03.000 Again, she should be in control.

00:57:04.000 We should give her more power, probably. 1.00

00:57:06.000 You know, when we talk about our children, I know for this group, we all believe that when we talk about the children of the community, they are the children of the community.

00:57:18.000 Oh! 0.60

00:57:19.000 Oh, well, here's the thing.

00:57:20.000 Children are typically not children of the community primarily.

00:57:23.000 They're children of their parents.

00:57:24.000 Which brings us to perhaps the biggest issue facing the Democrats electorally in the next few years, and that is that they have decided, when you're an elitist, when you're a full-scale elitist, and you believe you should rule things top-down, that means trumping all of the intervening institutions.

00:57:36.000 When you believe that you are the great godsend, that you have the keys to unlock human prosperity and fairness and justice, all the intervening institutions that have their own visions of what that should look like have to go away.

00:57:48.000 That includes the family, that includes local schooling, that includes your religious community, that includes your state.

00:57:53.000 All of that stuff has to be trumped.

00:57:55.000 It has to be trumped.

00:57:56.000 And the leading indicator of this is when it comes to the social issue of boys being boys and girls being girls.

00:58:02.000 This is the issue.

00:58:03.000 I really believe that this is going to be the death of the modern Democratic Party if they continue along these lines.

00:58:08.000 Because it is one thing to say to people, you need to give us more power and we'll solve your economic problems.

00:58:12.000 Increasingly, people don't like the sound of that.

00:58:14.000 But the thing that people have never liked the sound of is, we need to train your kids in a bunch of radical genderized nonsense because we, the elitists, Understand that true human happiness lies only and solely in the fulfillment of the sexual impulse which will broaden out to include all human beings, screwing all other human beings, and identifying as everything up to and including fictional characters and cats.

00:58:35.000 Right?

00:58:35.000 This is their idea.

00:58:38.000 of what is going to solve the universe's problems.

00:58:41.000 They keep running up against reality here.

00:58:43.000 And it's going to be very ugly for them.

00:58:46.000 I think we've reached the breaking point on this.

00:58:48.000 So the bleeding indicator of them reaching the breaking point is Bill Maher.

00:58:50.000 So Bill Maher is like mainstream center-left 1996 Democrat.

00:58:54.000 That's what Bill Maher is.

00:58:55.000 I've interviewed him.

00:58:56.000 We're friendly.

00:58:56.000 I know Bill.

00:58:58.000 So Bill Maher on his show last week, he pointed out that the trans agenda to experiment on kids and to teach your kindergartners that they can be members of the opposite sex. 0.86

00:59:07.000 The answer can't always be that anyone from a marginalized community is automatically right, trump card, mic drop, end of discussion.

00:59:12.000 damaging children.

00:59:13.000 Here's Bill Maher speaking what is just basic truth and would have been acknowledged as basic truth three years ago. 0.96

00:59:18.000 But now your elitist class is telling you that if you say it, it means that you're a very bad person.

00:59:22.000 Here's Bill Maher.

00:59:24.000 The answer can't always be that anyone from a marginalized community is automatically right. 0.95

00:59:29.000 Trump card, mic drop, end of discussion.

00:59:32.000 Because we're literally experimenting on children.

00:59:35.000 Maybe that's why Sweden and Finland have stopped giving puberty blockers to kids.

00:59:40.000 Because we just don't know much about the long-term effects.

00:59:43.000 Although common sense should tell you that when you reverse the course of raging hormones, there's going to be problems.

00:59:51.000 We do know it hinders the development of bone density, which is kind of important if you like having a skeleton.

00:59:59.000 I mean, Bill Maher is saying this stuff.

01:00:01.000 Again, you're elitist, you can continue preaching what you're preaching, economically, socially, it ain't gonna hold.

01:00:06.000 He continued along these lines, he got a little more graphic.

01:00:09.000 If this spike in trans children is all natural, why is it regional? 0.99

01:00:15.000 Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them.

01:00:19.000 If we can't admit that in certain enclaves there is some level of trendiness to the idea of being anything other than straight, then this is not a serious science-based discussion.

01:00:30.000 It's a blow being struck in the culture wars using children as cannon fodder.

01:00:35.000 I don't understand parents who won't let their nine-year-old walk to the corner without a helmet, an EpiPen, and a GPS tracker.

01:00:45.000 And God forbid their lips touch dairy. 0.97

01:00:48.000 But hormone blockers?

01:00:50.000 And genital surgery?

01:00:51.000 Fine. 0.66

01:00:53.000 Talk about a nut allergy. 0.97

01:00:55.000 Maybe childhood makes you sad sometimes, and there are other solutions besides hand me the d*** saw. 0.93

01:01:00.000 If kids knew what they wanted to be at age 8, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. 0.88

01:01:06.000 Correct.

01:01:07.000 Correct.

01:01:08.000 But the elitists in our society have decided that the only thing separating us from gender happiness is you handing them power.

01:01:14.000 Which is why you need, for example, trans teachers saying that they get validation from three-year-olds. 0.70

01:01:14.000 It's the world's power. 0.70

01:01:19.000 This is courtesy of Libs of TikTok.

01:01:22.000 We're seeing more and more videos like this on TikTok, which of course is the repository.

01:01:26.000 It's an online mental asylum.

01:01:27.000 That's all it is.

01:01:28.000 So here is a person explaining that he gets his validation from a bunch of three-year-olds.

01:01:32.000 And by he, I mean she.

01:01:34.000 So today was full of little Happy gender euphoria moments. 0.98

01:01:39.000 I got called Mr. Micah a lot today.

01:01:42.000 Well, completely femme. 1.00

01:01:43.000 And that was really heartwarming that the kids just got it.

01:01:48.000 But my favorite reaction, and it sums me up so well, I feel like, is I was in a new classroom and I took off my mask to blow my nose and I just hear a kid loudly whisper, oh, she's a boy.

01:02:05.000 I was like, yeah, you got it, kid.

01:02:07.000 You totally got it.

01:02:08.000 These are three-year-olds that this person is talking about.

01:02:10.000 Most people are bucking against this, which is why you are seeing, as you should, major American companies, which have kind of, in covert fashion, backed this agenda because they've been told by the elitists, they are the elitists, right?

01:02:22.000 Stakeholder capitalism, that's the only reason State Farm is endorsing gender theory, okay? 0.99

01:02:27.000 Because they, the stakeholders, like Klaus Schwab talks about, the stakeholders, the elitists in our society, they've decided they get to reshape society through the will to power.

01:02:35.000 And so now people are saying no, and now they're backing off, as they should if they are smart.

01:02:40.000 According to the Washington Examiner, the insurance company State Farm is discontinuing its support for the controversial Gender Cool project amid backlash following reports the company was donating books about transgender issues targeted at five-year-olds to schools.

01:02:53.000 State Farm's support of a philanthropic program, Gender Cool, has been the subject of news and customer inquiries the company said in a statement.

01:02:59.000 This program that included books about gender identity was intended to promote inclusivity. 0.82

01:03:03.000 Conversations about gender and identity should happen at home with parents.

01:03:06.000 We don't support required curriculum in schools on these topics.

01:03:09.000 We support organizations providing resources for parents to have these conversations.

01:03:12.000 We no longer support the program allowing for distribution of books in schools.

01:03:15.000 We'll continue to explore how we can support organizations that provide tools and resources that align with our commitment to diversity and inclusion, which of course are the priorities of Klaus Schwab.

01:03:24.000 He talks about them openly when it comes to stakeholder capitalism.

01:03:26.000 But here's the thing.

01:03:27.000 No.

01:03:27.000 The answer is no.

01:03:28.000 You can continue down this path.

01:03:30.000 And by the way, a myriad of companies have decided that they wish to continue down this path.

01:03:35.000 They will pay the price.

01:03:36.000 It's not just State Farm.

01:03:37.000 Allstate has done this.

01:03:38.000 There are a bunch of major American companies that have nothing to do with gender theory.

01:03:44.000 Allstate.

01:03:44.000 These are car insurance companies, for God's sake.

01:03:46.000 They sell house insurance.

01:03:48.000 And they are telling your kids that they can be girls. 0.89

01:03:50.000 If the elite is continuing down this path, there will be pop- You wonder why populism is rising?

01:03:54.000 It's because you guys overreached.

01:03:56.000 It's because you decided that you were in control of systems that you didn't create and didn't control, and now you want control of them, and the people of America- And by the way, all over the world are saying no.

01:04:04.000 That's likely to have some deleterious effects, because when you seize control of good systems, and then you attempt to twist the systems, sometimes the opposition takes the form not just to you, but of the entire system, and that's a problem.

01:04:14.000 When you pervert the system, when you say, what we're doing is stakeholder capitalism, then people say, we're not just going to oppose stakeholder capitalism, we're going to oppose capitalism broad read.

01:04:22.000 That's a problem.

01:04:24.000 But the attempt to wrest power away from the people who say that they ought to control you, the people who say that they ought to build the future, that is not misbegotten.

01:04:35.000 It is very, it is widely appropriate at this point.

01:04:38.000 In fact, it's beyond the point where it became appropriate.

01:04:40.000 We're several decades beyond that.

01:04:42.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with additional content.

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