The Ben Shapiro Show - Do You Speak Woke? | Ep. 1159

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00:01:31.000 Okay, so there's an ongoing problem in the country.

00:01:34.000 It's something I've been talking about for a while.

00:01:36.000 That problem is, of course, political division, political polarization.

00:01:40.000 And some of that is rooted in the fact that there are real serious disagreements about the future of the country.

00:01:45.000 As I talk about in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, there are real divisions about what people think about the history of the United States, what people think about the philosophy of the United States, what people think about the culture of the United States, like real divisions on where we want to go.

00:01:58.000 Some people want to end up in Denmark.

00:02:00.000 They mistakenly believe that if we apply Denmark's policies in the United States, we'll end up with Denmark's results.

00:02:04.000 That is not accurate.

00:02:05.000 There are some people who wish to preserve traditional American liberties in the face of communalistic enterprises.

00:02:12.000 These are very, very different visions, but it used to be that thanks to the federalist structure, thanks to the localism of the United States government, thanks to the fact that the federal government was not in charge of everything, and we had a system of checks and balances that prevented mob rule and pure majoritarian cram downs, that because of that, we were all able to live in a country together.

00:02:30.000 You could live in California and live like a Californian and you didn't have to live like a Floridian or a Texan or an Alabamian and the same thing the other way around.

00:02:37.000 You could live in a town where people agreed with you and the next town over people would disagree with you and you know what?

00:02:41.000 Y'all shared the same country because you shared the same fundamental basic precepts.

00:02:45.000 A lot of that seems to have been lost and that is being exacerbated right now by the creation of what Charles Murray called in his great book, Coming Apart, he called the new elite class, the new upper class is what he termed them.

00:02:56.000 They really are the new ruling class.

00:02:58.000 And if you trace the origins of those terms, what you really get to is something called the managerial elite.

00:03:03.000 There was an author named James Burnham, famous conservative author who sort of started off as Marxist.

00:03:09.000 And he suggested back in the 1940s that capitalism was creating a new managerial elite, meaning a group of people who had graduated from college who were in charge of managing the economy, who thought they were smarter than everybody else.

00:03:22.000 They spoke their own language.

00:03:23.000 They created their own cadre.

00:03:24.000 And this has burst into full flower because right now what we have in the country Are a new managerial elite, a new ruling class, a new upper class, and they stand at the top of our institutions.

00:03:35.000 They stand at the top of the Hollywood infrastructure.

00:03:37.000 They stand at the top of our mainstream media.

00:03:39.000 They stand at the top levels of administrative government.

00:03:42.000 They stand at the top levels of sports, right?

00:03:45.000 Every area of American life where institutions have power, with possibly the exception of some churches, All of those institutions are rife with a managerial elite, a new elite class.

00:03:55.000 Now, when I say elite, I don't mean that these people are better than you in any real sense, or better than me in any real sense.

00:04:01.000 What I mean is that they are deemed elite because of credentialism, because they can point to their degrees, they can point to the fact they went to really good schools.

00:04:09.000 But there's something else that has happened.

00:04:10.000 And it's not just that the meritocracy has produced people who went to colleges and now are in charge of things because they went to colleges. 1.00

00:04:17.000 In fact, the truth is that so much of the credentialism that happens in our culture is a lie and stupid. 0.94

00:04:23.000 The fact is that if you graduate top of your high school class and you don't go to college, you're going to perform at least as well as the person who graduated middle of the high school class and went to college and graduated in the bottom 50% of their class in college. 0.96

00:04:35.000 So college is really not the dividing line.

00:04:37.000 It's just that companies People around the country typically use colleges as a sort of way of rating IQ.

00:04:43.000 We don't have these sort of broad IQ tests.

00:04:45.000 So instead, what we have is people looking at your degree and then thinking you're smarter because you went to college than if you didn't go to college, which is a really blunt instrument and very often untrue.

00:04:53.000 It's one of the reasons why we here at Daily Wire actually do not require a college degree in order to apply for our jobs.

00:04:59.000 And we'd be hypocrites if we did, considering that two out of the three people who are at the top of the company are not college graduates.

00:05:06.000 I'm the only college graduate at the top of our company.

00:05:09.000 And the other two people who help run the company, Jeremy Boring and Caleb Robinson, they're very smart guys.

00:05:13.000 Neither one of them graduated from college.

00:05:16.000 I went to Harvard Law School.

00:05:17.000 Does that mean that I'm superior to them in any real way?

00:05:20.000 No, of course not.

00:05:21.000 Of course not.

00:05:22.000 Okay, so first of all, the credentialism is really bad.

00:05:23.000 But there's something else that has happened here.

00:05:25.000 And I could talk about the problems of credentialism and the breakdown in America between sort of the college-educated quote-unquote elite and everybody else.

00:05:34.000 You could talk about that all day long because it has created tremendous pressures in the job market, particularly for non-college graduates.

00:05:40.000 It has led to the rise of people putting in job requirements, college admission, Even though they don't really need it, right?

00:05:47.000 If you're an administrative assistant, you really shouldn't have to have a college degree in order to get that.

00:05:51.000 But now, because 36% of Americans have gone to college, as opposed to back in 1960, when like 5% of Americans went to college, it has become the de rigueur job requirement, even though a degree in gender studies is not gonna make you a better administrative assistant, for example. 0.77

00:06:04.000 Okay, in any case, there's a bigger problem than that.

00:06:06.000 Okay, a bigger problem than just the divide between college educated and non-college educated.

00:06:10.000 That is the creation of a language.

00:06:12.000 That is the creation of an actual language that has happened inside the new elite ruling class.

00:06:18.000 So there's a process in evolutionary biology that is called signaling.

00:06:21.000 Signaling happens in a wide variety of contexts.

00:06:24.000 So signaling in evolutionary biology happens with regard to reproduction.

00:06:27.000 You will see that certain birds, for example, have certain plumage, and this signifies that they are ready to reproduce.

00:06:31.000 Okay, in evolutionary biology terms, signaling is a way of increasing your productive fitness.

00:06:37.000 Signaling is also a way of increasing group productive fitness.

00:06:41.000 So what I mean by that is that if you want your group to be more efficient, Then you can't afford to have kind of long conversations about who is in the group and who is out of the group.

00:06:49.000 Instead, you look for simple signifiers.

00:06:52.000 And the most simple signifiers are going to be things like the garb you wear.

00:06:56.000 You can tell by how somebody dresses what they do.

00:06:58.000 I can tell if somebody walks into a room wearing a white coat, there's a good shot that they're a medical doctor.

00:07:02.000 If there's somebody who walks into a room wearing a police uniform, that is a signifier.

00:07:05.000 These are all signifiers.

00:07:07.000 But it is not merely You know, dress that is a signifier.

00:07:10.000 It is also the activities that you take.

00:07:12.000 So in religious communities, they're signifiers.

00:07:14.000 So if you're an Orthodox Jew, you wear a yarmulke. 1.00

00:07:16.000 This is a signifier to the other Jews that you're an Orthodox Jew, and it comes along with a whole bevy of practices.

00:07:21.000 The practices themselves could be seen in evolutionary biology terms as signifiers, right?

00:07:26.000 They could be seen as things that show solidarity with other people who practice these things, as well as a gateway into the mind of the person who's doing it, right?

00:07:33.000 Because you've sacrificed things in order to do this sort of signaling.

00:07:37.000 And the signal is an establishment of social capital with other people who share that signal.

00:07:41.000 So this is why Thomas Sowell has talked about minority middlemen in various cultures, right?

00:07:46.000 It's not just Orthodox Jews in the diamond industry in New York, right? 0.63

00:07:50.000 who don't actually have to sign contracts because they have this sort of shared background, they have this shared social capital.

00:07:55.000 But for example, you will see, for example, Chinese expatriates in certain parts of Southeast Asia, and they have created very solid social capital connections where they can trade more easily, they can do more things in terms of commerce than they could do outside the group because they know and trust the people that they are working with.

00:08:13.000 Okay, so the United States used to have a set of shared signals, right?

00:08:16.000 All of us had a set of shared signals.

00:08:18.000 Those signals, and these are very important, are things like the flag.

00:08:21.000 Right?

00:08:21.000 The American flag.

00:08:22.000 I may disagree with you on tax rates, but we agree that the flag stands for something good.

00:08:27.000 Right?

00:08:27.000 You and I, we can disagree on a lot of things, but we agree that the military is good.

00:08:31.000 We agree that the founding fathers of the United States did something incredible.

00:08:34.000 We agree on the Declaration.

00:08:36.000 We agree on the Constitution.

00:08:37.000 All of these things are signaling.

00:08:40.000 Fourth of July parades are signaling.

00:08:41.000 Fireworks are signaling.

00:08:43.000 All of these things are signaling, and they are designed to create in-group cohesion, so that we all share something.

00:08:49.000 And they are designed to also identify people who are not going to share that in-group cohesion as people you quote-unquote don't trust.

00:08:55.000 What has happened in the United States right now is the creation of a new elite class who speaks a different signaling language.

00:09:01.000 They speak their own language.

00:09:02.000 And you can see the signals everywhere.

00:09:03.000 Once you see they're speaking their own language, you understand so much of what's going on in American politics.

00:09:08.000 We'll get to what exactly that language is in just one second, because it really is fascinating.

00:09:12.000 And we're watching it happen in real time.

00:09:13.000 And if you're wondering why there's this political polarization, it's because there's been the creation of a language that allows you access to the highest halls of power.

00:09:20.000 It opens any door.

00:09:21.000 It's like the shave and a haircut, shave and a haircut, two bits knock, right?

00:09:24.000 That gets you into the secret club of the ruling classes.

00:09:28.000 And it isn't that secret a language, right?

00:09:30.000 You can learn it.

00:09:31.000 But it's a really ugly language, and it's a bad language, and it has nothing to do with reality.

00:09:34.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:10:44.000 Okay, so, when we talk about signaling, the creation of the new upper class, the new elite, right, the new managerial class, it is not merely that they are united by their college degree.

00:10:54.000 That is not enough of a signal.

00:10:55.000 It is that they've created their own language, and that language requires you to speak A particular brand of jargon that most people find off-putting and also confusing because it is both off-putting and confusing.

00:11:07.000 It is not meant to convey information.

00:11:09.000 It is meant to do the opposite.

00:11:10.000 It is not meant to clarify.

00:11:11.000 It is meant to obscure.

00:11:13.000 It is not meant to make yourself understood.

00:11:15.000 It is meant to obfuscate because everybody is speaking in code.

00:11:18.000 And if you speak to code, this means you're a good person.

00:11:20.000 And if you don't speak to code, this means that you are a bad person.

00:11:23.000 So Thomas Edsel, he's on the left, but he writes a really interesting column for the New York Times.

00:11:28.000 It's kind of statistically based.

00:11:30.000 He has a piece today in the New York Times titled, America, we have a problem.

00:11:32.000 The rise of political sectarianism is putting us all in danger.

00:11:36.000 And of course he says that that is the Republicans, right, who are engaged in political sectarianism based on many Republicans' refusal to accept the outcome of the election.

00:11:44.000 Okay, but the reality is that what he's about to describe is a phenomenon that started on the left and then there has been a sort of a reverse sectarianism that has cropped up because people have been reacting to the fact that they've been excluded from the party.

00:11:59.000 So there was a group of people in the United States, they decided that everybody else who was not in that group was bad.

00:12:03.000 And then the people outside the party, they're like, you know what, you're bad.

00:12:07.000 That is the story of America over the last 10, 15, 20 years.

00:12:10.000 And so here is what Edsel says.

00:12:14.000 He says, on October 30th, a group of 15 eminent scholars, several of whom I also got a chance to talk to, published an essay, Political Sectarianism in America, arguing that the antagonism between left and right The author's right.

00:12:25.000 that words and phrases like effective polarization and tribalism were no longer sufficient to capture the level of partisan hostility.

00:12:32.000 The severity of political conflict has grown increasingly divorced from the magnitude of policy disagreement, the authors write.

00:12:38.000 So what they're saying is that people hate each other more than you would really think they should, given how our divides work in terms of philosophical questions.

00:12:45.000 They say that this would require the development of a superordinate construct, political sectarianism, the tendency to adopt a moralized identification with one political group and against another.

00:12:56.000 Political sectarianism, they argue, quote, consists of three core ingredients.

00:13:00.000 Othering, the tendency to view opposing partisans as essentially different or alien to oneself.

00:13:06.000 Aversion.

00:13:07.000 Tendency to dislike and distrust opposing partisans.

00:13:10.000 And moralization.

00:13:11.000 The tendency to view opposing partisans as iniquitous.

00:13:14.000 It is the confluence of these ingredients that makes sectarianism so corrosive in the political sphere.

00:13:19.000 What does this do?

00:13:20.000 Well, according to the authors, this incentivizes politicians to adopt anti-democratic tactics when pursuing electoral or political victories, since their supporters will justify such norm violation because, quote, the consequences of having the vile opposition win the election are catastrophic.

00:13:32.000 Okay, so I agree with a lot of this analysis.

00:13:34.000 I also think that we know who started this.

00:13:36.000 Okay, the fact is that for decades, people who are on the political right have been castigated as immoral.

00:13:42.000 People who are on the political left have been castigated by the right generally as misguided.

00:13:46.000 People on the left see people on the right as evil and terrible.

00:13:50.000 And this has been true my entire life.

00:13:53.000 There's a view on the political left that people on the right are bad human beings who ought not be in public company.

00:13:59.000 It's something I've noted on a personal level many times.

00:14:02.000 I've invited a thousand different people on the left onto the show. 0.95

00:14:04.000 Very few of them actually have the balls to appear on the show.

00:14:07.000 And I'm talking about for like a cordial conversation on the Sunday special. 0.97

00:14:10.000 And if you've ever watched the Sunday special, you understand it's not me grilling people.

00:14:13.000 It's an actual just conversation.

00:14:15.000 There are too many incidents like this to recall.

00:14:17.000 People rejecting invites just to have a normal conversation.

00:14:21.000 Not even a debate, just a normal conversation.

00:14:24.000 I remember one time I was with one of the top podcasters, if not the top podcaster on the left, and I said, we should do a crossover election special.

00:14:31.000 He said, your people would be fine with it, my people would kill me.

00:14:34.000 That is the general phenomenon I'm talking about.

00:14:35.000 I'm talking about what I've termed the happy birthday problem, which is even folks on the left, with whom I am friendly, will text me happy birthday, but they will never publicly say happy birthday on Twitter, lest they acknowledge that I was born of woman and am thus a human being.

00:14:47.000 That sort of thing is not actually uncommon when it comes to the left-right divide.

00:14:51.000 So let's go back to those ingredients for a second.

00:14:53.000 Othering, the tendency to view opposing partisans as essentially different or alien to oneself.

00:14:58.000 Do you get that more from the right or do you get that more from the left?

00:15:01.000 It certainly started on the left.

00:15:02.000 There was this view that Republicans were, in the words of Barack Obama, bitter clingers who were clinging to God and guns and xenophobia.

00:15:09.000 In the words of Hillary Clinton, if you were deplorable, you're a person who believed in religion and that belief in religion had to be rethought.

00:15:17.000 Okay, aversion, the tendency to dislike and distrust opposing partisans.

00:15:20.000 Okay, I mean, just in the last two days, General Malley Dillon, who's gonna be one of the top staffers in the Biden team, right?

00:15:26.000 She came out and she said that Republicans were effers.

00:15:29.000 And so aversion is definitely a strong reaction.

00:15:32.000 It is the reaction that people on the left have to people on the right.

00:15:34.000 People on the right do not have that same strong aversion to people on the left.

00:15:36.000 It's just not something I've seen.

00:15:38.000 If they do, it is a minority phenomenon and it is a very recent phenomenon, more importantly.

00:15:43.000 For as long as I have been alive, people on the right have been treated as though they are social lepers in the context of being in liberal environments.

00:15:51.000 And finally, moralization, the tendency to view opposing partisans as iniquitous.

00:15:55.000 So basically, we are talking here about what almost seems to be a religious worldview, which is why the authors of this study are using the term sectarianism.

00:16:01.000 Normally, when you use the term sectarianism, you're not talking about politics, you're talking about religion.

00:16:05.000 You're talking about Shia versus Sunni or Catholic versus Protestant before the Peace of Westphalia.

00:16:10.000 You're talking about sects that fight each other because they have mutually exclusive views of the world.

00:16:16.000 So how do those sects connect with one another?

00:16:18.000 How do you determine who is in what sect?

00:16:19.000 And here is where the signaling that I'm talking about comes in.

00:16:23.000 That signaling, again, has nothing to do with an actual cohesive political point of view.

00:16:29.000 It has to do with signaling to other people that you are part of the in-group.

00:16:32.000 And you can see it in how folks on the left now approach language.

00:16:36.000 I can see it clearly over and over and over again.

00:16:39.000 This is not meant... The linguistic tricks that the left likes to play are not meant to make politics more clear.

00:16:46.000 They are meant to be a screen, right?

00:16:49.000 They are essentially just a sifter to make sure that people who don't speak the language don't get through. 0.99

00:16:55.000 We'll get to what exactly that language looks like in just one second because the signifiers are everywhere around you.

00:16:59.000 And if you've been wondering what the hell people are talking about, They're just speaking in pig Latin, right? 1.00

00:17:04.000 It's pig Latin. 0.90

00:17:05.000 It's just a way for them and their friends to know what exactly they are talking about.

00:17:10.000 That they are part of the same in-group.

00:17:11.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:18:23.000 Okay, so the code that has been created is not a code that unifies members across classes.

00:18:32.000 It is, in fact, a class-based code.

00:18:34.000 In order to understand it, you have to have gone to a university, and you have to have studied inside the sort of intersectional philosophy of universities.

00:18:43.000 You have to get woke.

00:18:44.000 You have to understand that all the structures that surround you are simply structures of oppression and power.

00:18:50.000 This is a language.

00:18:51.000 It's not a philosophy as much as it is.

00:18:53.000 A language.

00:18:54.000 And it alienates everybody.

00:18:56.000 The folks on the left who push this sort of stuff are the sort of folks who insist on terms.

00:19:00.000 And you can see, again, here's the code, okay?

00:19:02.000 If somebody uses the word latinx, they are part of this. 1.00

00:19:05.000 If somebody uses the word latinx, it's because they are signaling to their other members of the left that they are a member of their sect.

00:19:10.000 And that you are not a member of the sect.

00:19:11.000 They speak the lingo.

00:19:13.000 This is why, by the way, Trump won a larger share of Hispanics than in the past. 0.73

00:19:18.000 Because many Latinos do not actually speak this language.

00:19:22.000 Many Latinos look at this language and say, what the hell are you talking about? 0.58

00:19:24.000 That's not how we talk about ourselves.

00:19:26.000 But if you're on the left, understand it is not about reaching out to Latinos by using the term latinxes.

00:19:31.000 The reason they are using latinx is because this is part of gender theory, right? 0.79

00:19:34.000 The basic idea is that the term Latino is male.

00:19:37.000 There are such things as female Latinas. 1.00

00:19:40.000 And so, since you are saying Latinos, and the plural encompasses Latinas as well, instead they just say Latinxs.

00:19:46.000 Okay, you know how many people who are Latino care about this?

00:19:48.000 Particularly women who are Latino?

00:19:49.000 Zero.

00:19:50.000 Zero.

00:19:51.000 It's like, they've taken polls of this. 0.99

00:19:52.000 Latinos do not want to call themselves Latinxs because it's bullcrap. 1.00

00:19:55.000 It's nonsense. 1.00

00:19:56.000 They understand how their own language works.

00:19:58.000 They understand how gendered terminology works.

00:20:01.000 Okay, but it's not about reaching out to Latinos.

00:20:03.000 It's about reaching out to fellow members of the intellectual elite.

00:20:07.000 It is about reaching out to other members of the ruling class.

00:20:10.000 Here's another way that you can tell, right?

00:20:12.000 Here's more of the signaling.

00:20:13.000 And again, it's about in-group signaling.

00:20:14.000 It's about creation of a hard uppercast caste who are not going to accept you into their realm unless you speak, unless you abide by their language. 0.99

00:20:25.000 So here's another example.

00:20:26.000 Anybody who puts their gender pronouns in their Twitter profile or in the bottom header of their email is part of this. 0.69

00:20:33.000 I'm not saying this is a conspiracy.

00:20:34.000 It's not a conspiracy.

00:20:35.000 We all do this sort of soft signaling every day, where we all use signals that generate commonalities between us and other people.

00:20:41.000 We do it all the time.

00:20:42.000 But this is its own language and it's developing into its own.

00:20:45.000 It's got its own lexicon.

00:20:46.000 It's got its own jargon.

00:20:47.000 It is connected to some deeper philosophical roots, springing all the way back to deconstructionism.

00:20:53.000 Spring back to Jacques Derrida and folks like Michel Foucault.

00:20:57.000 They're actual deep roots.

00:20:58.000 To get into those deep philosophical roots would take a little bit of time.

00:21:01.000 The basic synopsis is this.

00:21:02.000 The deconstructionist movement believed that there is no such thing as objective truth, that everything is shaped by the language we speak, and therefore that all language is representative of structures of power.

00:21:14.000 Okay, the left has taken that up, and they have grafted onto it identity politics.

00:21:18.000 So deconstructionists would have said that race itself is a social construct.

00:21:21.000 Many of the gender and identity politics folks will say simultaneously that race and gender are social constructs, but also that they are deeply important for understanding how the world works in terms of its systems of power.

00:21:31.000 These are mutually exclusive propositions.

00:21:32.000 None of that matters.

00:21:34.000 Because most people who speak this language don't even understand the philosophical roots of their language.

00:21:37.000 It's all about the signaling.

00:21:38.000 So, here's some of the signaling.

00:21:40.000 If you are using ji and zhe, And they and them, to refer to an individual human being.

00:21:46.000 This is because you're signaling in-group solidarity.

00:21:49.000 This is why, like, everyone could just assume that if you are a female who identifies as a female, that we're going to use she and her. 0.78

00:21:57.000 But you see people who are putting this in their Twitter profile, not out of solidarity with the transgender community, but because they wish to show that they are part of the woke.

00:22:06.000 They are part of the enlightened.

00:22:08.000 So now we have this, but, and the people who do this are at the tops of our institutional culture.

00:22:11.000 This is why you have Cartoon Network, which, it's a cartoon network.

00:22:14.000 Yes, they have Adult Swim, but it is a network that is meant for children.

00:22:18.000 Now attempting to indoctrinate children in this particular lexicon, because it's not enough that they speak this language, it's that you have to speak the language too.

00:22:25.000 In a sectarian war, you have to make sure that people know the rights.

00:22:28.000 And people know the rituals, and this is part of the rights and rituals, is adopting this sort of bizarre language and this bizarre philosophy of gender that nobody actually understands because it is utterly, internally incoherent.

00:22:39.000 So Cartoon Network put out a tweet yesterday.

00:22:41.000 Here's to not only normalizing gender pronouns, but respecting them too.

00:22:44.000 Whether you use he, she, them, or something else, we acknowledge and love you.

00:22:48.000 Right?

00:22:48.000 Because this is all the things, right?

00:22:50.000 This is the elements that were just mentioned in that Edsel column.

00:22:53.000 That tweet signifies all of them, right?

00:22:57.000 It's othering.

00:22:57.000 If you don't agree with us, then you are a member of an outgroup.

00:23:00.000 It is treating people as though they are bizarre and exterior, and it is moralizing.

00:23:06.000 You are not loving and you are not good unless you use the sort of language that we want you to use, even if that language is actually counter to reality, counter to biology, and counter to the ability to communicate clear ideas.

00:23:16.000 So they put out this tweet and it has several graphics of cartoon characters.

00:23:20.000 One cartoon character says gender pronouns describe a person's gender identity.

00:23:23.000 Another one says examples of pronouns are she her, they them, and she's her.

00:23:28.000 A third character says a lot of people are learning about gender.

00:23:32.000 If you're comfortable, you can share your own gender pronouns.

00:23:35.000 And then it says underneath, gender pronouns.

00:23:36.000 We can't tell someone's gender just by looking at them and shouldn't assume we know.

00:23:40.000 There are many gender identities beyond girl or boy.

00:23:42.000 Some people don't identify as any gender.

00:23:44.000 Okay, this is just indoctrination into nonsense because there is no biological basis to this.

00:23:48.000 It is just semantic game playing, but it's not about actually making the world a better place.

00:23:52.000 It's about in-group signaling that you are a member of the loving woke.

00:23:56.000 Hey, that's what Cartoon Network is doing right there.

00:23:58.000 And if you refuse to speak the language, then you are cast out into the outer darkness.

00:24:02.000 And this sort of language characterizes everything that is happening in our politics right now.

00:24:08.000 Gavin Newsom, yesterday, he was tweeting out about the Trump administration saying it would be cutting $200 million in federal health care funding to California because the state requires insurance providers to cover abortions, right?

00:24:18.000 Which is a normal political issue.

00:24:20.000 You'll see Democrats attempt to hold back funds based on pro-life positions.

00:24:23.000 You'll see Republicans attempt to hold back funds based on anti-life positions.

00:24:26.000 Here's Gavin Newsom's tweet.

00:24:27.000 That is in-group signaling.

00:24:28.000 like the pro-life party eliminating healthcare during a global pandemic. 0.97

00:24:32.000 California will survive without this dollars for now, but their frail, pathetic, patriarchal system, they are so desperate to protect won't. 0.96

00:24:39.000 Right, that is in-group signaling. 0.96

00:24:40.000 When he uses the word patriarchal, you might say to yourself, wait, Gavin Newsom is a dude, isn't he?

00:24:44.000 Yes, he is.

00:24:45.000 You might say, isn't he the governor of California?

00:24:47.000 You know, the head of that system?

00:24:49.000 Yes, he is.

00:24:49.000 You might say, well, isn't that system, well, wasn't that created by men?

00:24:52.000 The one that he's taking advantage of?

00:24:54.000 Yes, it is.

00:24:54.000 It's not about that.

00:24:55.000 It's about signaling to everybody else, he speaks the lingo.

00:24:58.000 The lingo, again, that secret knock, the lingo is terms like patriarchal, terms like systemic injustice, terms like, je jeur, zay, zam, whom, him, femme, plume.

00:25:07.000 All of this crap is designed for one thing and one thing only, and that is to create a secret handshake of the upper crust.

00:25:14.000 That's what that is. 0.96

00:25:16.000 We'll get to more of this in a second because you see how this is both driving a backlash and also how this has infused every aspect of the Democratic agenda.

00:25:23.000 This language is more important than the actual policy.

00:25:25.000 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:26:34.000 Alrighty, so the sort of in-group woke signaling does drive a reverse signaling on the part of the right.

00:26:41.000 But that signaling used to be stuff that people sort of considered rote and uncontroversial.

00:26:45.000 So for example, the left is very angry today because David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both the senators from Georgia, who are in very competitive runoff races right now, opposed renaming the Atlanta Braves.

00:26:56.000 And people are like, why are they even commenting on this?

00:26:57.000 The answer is because this is also a form of in-group signaling.

00:27:00.000 This is signaling to their own constituents that they are not a member of the woke elite class.

00:27:05.000 They are not going to speak that language. 0.98

00:27:06.000 So a counter language has formed in rejection of this language.

00:27:10.000 Now, I'm not saying they're wrong, because they're not.

00:27:12.000 I totally agree with them.

00:27:13.000 I don't think that the Atlanta Braves is an insulting name.

00:27:15.000 I don't think the Cleveland Indians was an insulting name.

00:27:18.000 I mean, even if you want to make the case that the Washington Redskins was an insulting name, which, again, is controversial and I don't really agree with, even if you want to make that case, there's a world of separation between using the term Redskin and using the term Indians, Braves, or like Kansas City Chiefs, right?

00:27:32.000 You can see the difference on its face.

00:27:34.000 Three of those terms cannot have even been construed as derogatory toward a particular group of people.

00:27:39.000 Okay, but the idea here from Leffler and Perdue is this is again a form of in-group social signaling.

00:27:46.000 It is saying that the wokes should not be able to take away sort of common items that we used to hold in common. 1.00

00:27:52.000 So, Leffler and Perdue released a joint statement on Monday.

00:27:55.000 They said not only are the Braves a Georgian institution, with a history spanning 54 years in Atlanta, they're an American institution.

00:28:00.000 The Braves name honors our nation's Native American heritage, which should not be erased.

00:28:03.000 Under no circumstances should one of the most celebrated teams in sports cave to the demands of the cancel culture and the radical left.

00:28:10.000 Only 20% of Georgia voters surveyed said they believe that the baseball team needs to change its name.

00:28:14.000 More than 70% of voters say the name should be kept.

00:28:17.000 That is one of the reasons why they are making that move.

00:28:20.000 That's one of the reasons they're saying this sort of stuff.

00:28:22.000 Because so much of our culture war is reliant on this linguistic semantic war.

00:28:26.000 The language is reflective of a deeper culture war that is taking place.

00:28:30.000 And now, you can see in the Biden team, the adoption of this language.

00:28:35.000 You can see it everywhere in the adoption of the language of the radical upper class elite.

00:28:41.000 So Joe Biden, he comes into office January 20th, the Electoral College has voted, and he's going to be speaking this language nonstop.

00:28:48.000 Now, he's going to lie.

00:28:49.000 He's going to say that he is a unifier, that if you speak this language, it is essentially a disunifying language.

00:28:54.000 It is the language that suggests the inferiority of your political opponents.

00:28:59.000 So, Biden has decided on a few of his appointments that are worthy of note.

00:29:03.000 So, his first appointment that was getting all sorts of play is, of course, Pete Buttigieg.

00:29:09.000 So, Pete Buttigieg was nominated as Secretary of Transportation, or he will be nominated as Secretary of Transportation when they have the ability to do so.

00:29:17.000 And the media, of course, are slobbering all over themselves that Pete Buttigieg will be nominated as Secretary of Transportation.

00:29:23.000 So, here is Jeff Bennett on MSNBC reporting.

00:29:27.000 This really is the culmination of Pete Buttigieg's meteoric rise in national politics over the last two years.

00:29:34.000 It is nothing short of remarkable that a president-elect would elevate someone to run an agency, a $90 billion agency with some 50,000 employees, and the person he's elevating has never worked in Washington politics and has never run any part of a federal bureaucracy.

00:29:50.000 But Joe Biden believes that Pete Buttigieg is a special case.

00:29:55.000 Okay, so I love how MSNBC is reporting this, right?

00:29:58.000 It's with a smile on their face, right?

00:30:00.000 Sure, Pete Buttigieg doesn't know the first thing about transportation policy.

00:30:02.000 Sure, he didn't even fill the potholes in South Bend, real story.

00:30:05.000 Domino's Pizza had to donate money to fill potholes in South Bend while he was mayor.

00:30:09.000 But he's a unique case.

00:30:11.000 So what makes him a unique case?

00:30:13.000 Hmm.

00:30:13.000 What could make Pete Buttigieg a unique case?

00:30:15.000 What makes him so unique?

00:30:16.000 Well, why don't you let the media tell you?

00:30:17.000 By the way, everything they're about to say here is false.

00:30:19.000 Rick Grenell was the first cabinet-level official who was openly gay under Trump, who was the acting DNI Director of National Intelligence for a period.

00:30:25.000 Anyway, here is the entire media suggesting what is actually special about Pete Buttigieg, and that is, of course, his identity as a gay man.

00:30:31.000 Buttigieg would become the first openly gay cabinet secretary confirmed by the U.S.

00:30:37.000 In nominating Pete Buttigieg, he is nominating someone who would be the youngest cabinet secretary ever.

00:30:37.000 Senate.

00:30:43.000 Also the first openly gay cabinet secretary in American history.

00:30:47.000 Buttigieg would be the first openly gay cabinet secretary in U.S.

00:30:50.000 history.

00:30:51.000 Former mayor of South Bend, Indiana would be one of the youngest cabinet members since Alexander Hamilton and the first openly gay cabinet secretary.

00:30:59.000 Pete Buttigieg, if confirmed, would also be the first openly gay member of Mr. Biden's cabinet.

00:31:04.000 So many historic firsts, I guess, as well.

00:31:08.000 Okay, so that's all that matters, right?

00:31:09.000 It doesn't matter whether he's qualified for the position.

00:31:11.000 And unless you feel that this is a very important thing, that somebody who is openly gay becomes the second. 0.95

00:31:17.000 Second.

00:31:18.000 person to serve in a cabinet, right?

00:31:20.000 You heard that the first person actually said one thing that you hear them qualifying it, right?

00:31:24.000 Some of them will say, well, he'll be the first openly gay cabinet secretary approved by the Senate, right?

00:31:29.000 Because Rick Grinnell was not approved by the Senate.

00:31:31.000 He was he was an interim replacement as acting director of national intelligence, which honestly, now you're having to really stretch.

00:31:37.000 Now you're like, well, look at that.

00:31:39.000 You know, this person was the first person to the Chinese were the first people to land on the moon, that side of the moon.

00:31:48.000 Okay, I mean, true as far as it goes, you might be missing some things in that particular story.

00:31:54.000 In any case, the real reason that Pete Buttigieg is beloved of the left is because he speaks the language of the left.

00:31:58.000 So here was Pete Buttigieg yesterday talking about transportation, and he's about to drop just a hot bevy of At its best, transportation makes the American dream possible.

00:32:10.000 Getting people and goods to where they need to be.

00:32:12.000 people to judge doing some in-group signaling about the power of transportation to shape and then insert woke buzzword. Here we go. At its best, transportation makes the American dream possible, getting people and goods to where they need to be, directly and indirectly creating good paying jobs. At its worst, misguided policies and missed opportunities can reinforce racial, economic and environmental injustice.

00:32:41.000 This administration can deliver policies and resources that will create jobs, rise to the climate challenge, And equitably serve all Americans.

00:32:52.000 Okay, so you can hear the lingo, right?

00:32:53.000 Equitably, right?

00:32:54.000 Not serve all Americans, you know, with regard to equal rights, but equitably, right?

00:33:00.000 It can change economic injustice.

00:33:02.000 What the hell is economic injustice?

00:33:04.000 And normally when you speak about justice, that's a term everybody understands.

00:33:07.000 People get what they deserve.

00:33:07.000 Economic injustice suggests that in a free market, he should be using the power of the roads, redistributing income, or environmental justice.

00:33:15.000 What does that mean?

00:33:16.000 Like justice for the earth?

00:33:17.000 No, it means that the entire system is, of course, broken and you need the government to come in and fix the system, right?

00:33:22.000 These are all buzzwords, right?

00:33:24.000 He's speaking of the lingo.

00:33:25.000 That is the important thing about Pete Buttigieg, which is one of the reasons why he... Pete Buttigieg shares a position as a member of the new ruling class with the members of the media who also speak this language.

00:33:35.000 They use exactly the same kind of buzzwords in their reporting.

00:33:38.000 Like, exactly the same kind of buzzwords in their reporting.

00:33:41.000 Okay, so they and Buttigieg have more in common than you and the media.

00:33:41.000 All the time.

00:33:45.000 The media have nothing in common with you.

00:33:47.000 You don't speak the language they're speaking, but they speak the language he is speaking.

00:33:50.000 They may as well be speaking Norwegian with each other, while you and the media just are speaking completely different languages.

00:33:55.000 This is why there's this wide disconnect that is opening, and this is why the media will just look the other way at the fact that Buttigieg has no qualifications whatsoever to be Secretary of Transportation.

00:34:03.000 I remember when Dr. Ben Carson was nominated the head of housing and urban development, a pick that even I thought was somewhat bizarre since he had no actual expertise in housing or urban development.

00:34:13.000 The media went nuts on that, and I thought, okay, well, you know, that's kind of true. 0.94

00:34:15.000 I mean, Dr. Carson was a neuroscientist, like, he was a neurosurgeon.

00:34:19.000 But I hold the same standard.

00:34:20.000 Pete Buttigieg has no expertise on this sort of stuff.

00:34:23.000 Doesn't matter.

00:34:23.000 The media are just in love with him.

00:34:25.000 By the way, what is Pete Buttigieg's actual claim to be qualified for this position?

00:34:31.000 Here was his actual claim to be qualified for this position.

00:34:33.000 I've also had a personal love of transportation ever since childhood.

00:34:38.000 More than once as a college student, I would convince a friend to travel nearly a thousand miles back to Indiana with me on Amtrak.

00:34:46.000 Though I know that in this administration, I will at best aspire to be the second biggest train enthusiast around.

00:34:53.000 I spent a spring break in graduate school aboard a cargo ship, studying there.

00:34:58.000 Travel, in my mind, is synonymous with growth, with adventure, even love.

00:35:04.000 So much so that I proposed to my husband, Chasten, in an airport terminal.

00:35:10.000 So, he should be Secretary of Transportation because he loves choo-choo trains.

00:35:14.000 And has loved choo-choo trains since he was a child.

00:35:17.000 By which metric, my four-year-old son should be Secretary of Transportation?

00:35:23.000 Also, I gotta say, if you think that airport terminals are like a really romantic place, I suggest you visit Newark, sir.

00:35:33.000 Yes, nothing says romance quite like being in a place filled with people who are farting and taking off their shoes.

00:35:40.000 That is the essence of romance to me as well.

00:35:44.000 It is the peculiar grime of LAX that really gets my heart aflutter.

00:35:48.000 Also, by the way, even if you love airport terminals, I mean, and you really have to love airport terminals, then I'm wondering how that makes you qualified to be Secretary of Transportation.

00:35:56.000 Like, I proposed to my wife, for the record, in her college residential dorm, and that would not qualify me to either be Secretary of Education or Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

00:36:07.000 So that's a weird take, but the media are just going to look right past that.

00:36:10.000 None of that matters because he speaks the language.

00:36:12.000 He speaks the language.

00:36:13.000 And we're going to speak in a second about people who Biden nominated who didn't quite speak the language.

00:36:18.000 And now he's going to have to replace those people because they didn't speak the language.

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00:39:17.000 So if you don't speak the upper crust lingo, it doesn't matter if you're even a political leftist. 0.99

00:39:26.000 It means that you are out on your butt. 0.99

00:39:28.000 Here's a great example. 0.97

00:39:29.000 So according to the New York Times, claims of a bleak environmental justice record appear to fell a Biden favorite.

00:39:34.000 Now, you're a normal human and you say, what the hell is environmental justice?

00:39:38.000 Are we talking about, like, the sun has filed a lawsuit?

00:39:40.000 Or the clean air or the water? 0.99

00:39:42.000 No, that's not what it means, you big silly! 0.94

00:39:44.000 What it actually means is that America's racist, systemically evil, and that even if you back anti-climate change policies like cap-and-trade policies or carbon regulations, that's not good enough because you have to redistribute income, you have to redistribute everything in order to wreck the system from the inside. 0.94

00:40:01.000 And if you don't speak the language of environmental justice, even if you are a far leftist when it comes to climate change, that's not good enough.

00:40:06.000 You don't speak the lingo.

00:40:07.000 So just like a lot of other religions, the more devoted you are to the religion, the more ritual you have to perform.

00:40:12.000 This is also true when it comes to woke signaling.

00:40:15.000 According to Coral Davenport, when Joe Biden won the presidential election, his top candidate to lead the nation's most powerful environmental agency appeared clear.

00:40:22.000 Mary Nichols, California's clean air regulator, arguably the country's most experienced climate change official.

00:40:27.000 Again, this is all jargon.

00:40:28.000 to run the EPA. Now Biden's team is scrambling to find somebody else, according to several people who have spoken with the presidential transition team. The chief reason, this month a group of more than 70 environmental justice groups wrote to the Biden transition, charging that Ms. Nichols has a bleak track record in addressing environmental racism.

00:40:44.000 Ah, environmental race, again, this is all jargon. Environmental racism is an interior, it's an internally foolish concept.

00:40:53.000 The environment applies to everyone equally, but, and we all share it, this is one of the problems, this is a tragedy of the commons, right?

00:40:59.000 But what they mean by environmental racism is that the impact of particular environmental policy fall unequally on people, and therefore it is the job of the government to fix all of that.

00:41:08.000 And this lady has not done enough to fix all of that, right? 0.75

00:41:10.000 In other words, she has not connected her sort of Green New Deal ideas with a redistributionist far-left program the way that the AOC wing of the party would like.

00:41:20.000 The environmental justice groups cited Nichols' role in pushing California's cap-and-trade program, which is designed to broadly reduce pollution of planet-warming greenhouse gases, but disproportionately does so at the expense, the group said, of communities of color by exposing them to more pollutants like smog and soot.

00:41:35.000 The groups charged that Ms. 1.00

00:41:36.000 Nichols had repeatedly disregarded or dismissed the concerns of those communities about the effects of the climate policies she enacted.

00:41:42.000 The letter appears to have resonated.

00:41:43.000 One of Biden's key campaign pledges was a promise to address environmental justice.

00:41:46.000 Again, these are all buzzwords.

00:41:48.000 Environmental justice, economic justice, systemic racism, right?

00:41:52.000 All of this stuff is meant just to signal your allegiance to a particular viewpoint and to a belief that you are superior to everybody else within the political realm.

00:42:02.000 And this is why you're starting to see somebody like a Brenda Mallory is going to be picked to run the White House Environment Office.

00:42:07.000 Why?

00:42:08.000 Here's the New York Times.

00:42:09.000 The office, the Council on Environmental Quality is expected to have an expanded focus on environmental justice under Ms.

00:42:15.000 Mallory.

00:42:16.000 There's that signaling.

00:42:16.000 There it is.

00:42:17.000 The New York Times understands it.

00:42:18.000 Biden understands it.

00:42:19.000 His people understand it.

00:42:20.000 You don't know what the hell they're talking about, but they know what they're talking about.

00:42:23.000 And that's the important part.

00:42:24.000 And if you don't understand what they're talking about, it's because you're a member of the unwashed.

00:42:27.000 So keep your mouth shut or just say environmental justice over and over until Tinkerbell redistributes income all over the United States, thus creating environmental justice.

00:42:36.000 Ms.

00:42:37.000 Mallory, according to the New York Times, who serves as Director of the Regulatory Policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center, a watchdog group, has worked on both pollution and land conservation issues throughout her career, including helping to create new national monuments under the Obama administration and fighting the dismantlement of those monuments under the Trump administration.

00:42:53.000 Biden has pledged to make addressing racial disparities in environmental policies a core part of his climate agenda.

00:42:59.000 Again, when it comes to the woke language, all this stuff is lumped together, right?

00:43:03.000 Environmental injustice, economic justice, racial injustice, all of this is just balled together so that the same policy solves all of it.

00:43:10.000 Redistributionism.

00:43:11.000 And if you don't repeat their nostrums, it can't be part of the cool kids crowd.

00:43:14.000 So who is part of the cool kids crowd?

00:43:16.000 Well, there are now a couple of people who Biden is considering for Secretary of Education, One is Leslie Fenwick, Dean Emeritus of the Howard University School of Education and Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership.

00:43:27.000 Okay, so we know something about Fenwick.

00:43:29.000 And the thing we know about Fenwick is that Fenwick is a person who speaks the lingo.

00:43:33.000 We also know that Fenwick is diverse.

00:43:36.000 As a candidate, Biden promised to choose a public school educator as secretary, raising expectations the nominee would come from K-12.

00:43:42.000 He's also expected to name a person of color to the post.

00:43:45.000 And most of the people considered have been Black and Latino.

00:43:48.000 Or Latino. 1.00

00:43:49.000 Fenwick is Black.

00:43:50.000 Okay, so here is Fenwick speaking very recently.

00:43:54.000 This is a video published in September.

00:43:56.000 Talking about ideas to broaden educational opportunities for black students, like for-profit charter schools and taxpayer-funded private school vouchers, right? 0.60

00:44:05.000 Things that allow school choice, particularly directed at inner cities, because kids in inner cities are stuck at their crappy public schools.

00:44:11.000 And what does she say about it?

00:44:13.000 She says they're bad.

00:44:13.000 They're not just bad, by the way, they're evil, right?

00:44:16.000 They are schemes, right?

00:44:17.000 She's engaged in exactly the sort of sectarianism, political sectarianism, that Thomas Edsel was decrying in the New York Times.

00:44:23.000 And she is being considered for the head of the Department of Education.

00:44:26.000 Here she is declaring school choice to be a scheme rooted in a desire to segregate, which is a really weird take considering that school choice would specifically be designed at unsegregating informal segregation, right?

00:44:37.000 It would allow people from the inner city to actually take their kids and put them in a school outside of their school district.

00:44:43.000 Here she was using the lingo, and all that matters is the lingo.

00:44:47.000 The courts have challenged vouchers, charters, the placement of teachers and training as teachers of record.

00:44:59.000 So this disproportionate.

00:45:01.000 Placement of non-certified teachers primarily in schools serving black, brown and poor children.

00:45:09.000 And these schemes are often viewed as new and innovative.

00:45:13.000 But when you look at the history of these schemes, and I use the word schemes purposely, you find that they are rooted in resistance to the brown legal decision. 0.81

00:45:27.000 Uh, it's all, it's all about, again, it's all about trying to connect everything to this broader narrative.

00:45:31.000 And you have to understand the narrative by speaking their magical language.

00:45:34.000 The good news is that all of Hollywood speaks the language.

00:45:35.000 So you have the entire educational infrastructure that speaks the language.

00:45:38.000 In fact, much of this language was created inside our ivory tower.

00:45:42.000 Members of the Democratic Party speak this language, and Hollywood, of course, speaks this language, which is why you are seeing folks like Bob Iger being considered for ambassador to China, which makes perfect sense.

00:45:51.000 Disney was recently ripped, like, up and down this year because they filmed Mulan in Xinjiang province, which is the area where the Uyghurs are being kept in concentration camps. 0.97

00:46:00.000 And ESPN has been ripped up and down for being pro-Chinese. 0.90

00:46:03.000 So naturally, Biden's like, you know who we should make ambassador to China?

00:46:05.000 The head of Disney, ESPN.

00:46:06.000 Makes perfect sense.

00:46:08.000 Makes perfect sense.

00:46:08.000 Other people who are being considered and also speak the lingo, people like Jeffrey Katzenberg, the head of DreamWorks.

00:46:14.000 Other people?

00:46:15.000 Susan Rice.

00:46:15.000 She stepped down.

00:46:16.000 She was on the board of Netflix.

00:46:18.000 And she stepped down to join the White House Domestic Policy Council. 1.00

00:46:21.000 Nicole Avant, former ambassador to the Bahamas during the Obama administration, wife of Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos, is seeking a return to diplomatic life.

00:46:29.000 Yeah, I mean, if you made me ambassador to the Bahamas, I'd also love to be in diplomatic life.

00:46:32.000 That sounds pretty spectacular.

00:46:34.000 So good times all the way around.

00:46:37.000 It's all about the creation of this specific elite cadre.

00:46:41.000 That is what the entire thing is about.

00:46:44.000 And you're not part of that cadre.

00:46:45.000 You are not, because you don't speak the language or you refuse to speak the language.

00:46:49.000 Now, the bad news is that inside the coalition of the new ruling class, the language is constantly shifting.

00:46:55.000 You always have to go one level up, right?

00:46:57.000 You thought that you were woke enough.

00:46:58.000 You thought that you were social justice oriented enough, but now there's another level.

00:47:03.000 All you have to do is pay the grifters a little bit more money so that you can learn the new language, and then you two will rise in esteem and you can maintain your membership.

00:47:10.000 It's like an ongoing club membership.

00:47:11.000 You have to just continue to use more and more bizarre language.

00:47:15.000 And this is what the squad is doing.

00:47:17.000 Because the squad are the most devout of the devout.

00:47:18.000 They're like the most devout members of the sect, and they get to dictate the terms for the most devout.

00:47:22.000 You want to be the interior core?

00:47:24.000 What you really need to do is acquiesce to their use of language.

00:47:28.000 Okay, and by the way, once you're in the club, you cannot be cast out of the club.

00:47:31.000 This is the good news.

00:47:32.000 Once you're in the club, so long as you don't piss off the other members of the club, no attack will have any impact on you.

00:47:37.000 So you can be Eric Swalwell. 1.00

00:47:39.000 In all likelihood, having sex with a Chinese spy. 0.99

00:47:42.000 And you will still maintain your position on the Intelligence Committee because you are a member of the club. 0.99

00:47:45.000 You speak the language.

00:47:46.000 Here's Hakeem Jeffries, one of the higher-ups in the Democratic Congress, saying that Eric Swalwell would... Why would we take him off the Intel Committee?

00:47:53.000 I mean, he was only probably effing a Chinese spy.

00:47:55.000 Why would we... You think that jeopardizes national security?

00:47:58.000 I mean, hell, it's not like... It's not like he had a phone call as the incoming national security advisor with the Russians or something.

00:48:05.000 He was only having sex with a Chinese spy, in all likelihood. 0.98

00:48:07.000 Here's Hakeem Jeffries. 0.76

00:48:09.000 Well, I believe Speaker Pelosi has addressed this issue.

00:48:11.000 She's got full confidence in Representative Swalwell.

00:48:14.000 I have full confidence in Representative Swalwell.

00:48:17.000 I served with him on the Judiciary Committee as well.

00:48:20.000 He's been a tremendous member.

00:48:21.000 Okay.

00:48:22.000 Meanwhile, you've got Jon Ossoff, who's running for Georgia Senate right now, and he too is engaged in this sort of buzz wordification.

00:48:29.000 Here he was saying that all the GOP attacks in Georgia I think that the GOP attacks at this point are garden variety, fear mongering, race baiting.

00:48:47.000 Look, they've been lengthening my nose in their ads to remind everybody that I'm a Jew.

00:48:51.000 They've been running racist attacks against Reverend Warnock.

00:48:54.000 It sounds like you're saying the Republican attacks are functionally racist and potentially anti-Semitic.

00:48:59.000 Well, when they're lengthening my nose in their ads, uh, and when they're, uh, calling Reverend Warnock dangerous, I mean, look, this is the playbook that they've run here since the 1970s.

00:49:08.000 The GOP's southern strategy in the south is to divide people alon- I had no idea Asaf was Jewish.

00:49:13.000 Like, really, like, no idea Asaf was Jewish.

00:49:16.000 I'm not sure why I would care exactly, but as far as Warnock being dangerous, he is dangerous.

00:49:23.000 He's a Marxist.

00:49:24.000 That's kind of dangerous to have in the United States Senate.

00:49:26.000 Now, the only good news for people who don't speak the lingo is that, again, the lingo gets more and more rigorous, which is why you have Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, Honorable Representative D-Twitch.

00:49:35.000 Saying that it may be time to move on to the next generation of people who speak the new lingo because of course the dictionary of wokeism gets remade every few years.

00:49:43.000 Here is Alexander Ocasio-Cortez saying it's time to move beyond the current democratic leadership into a new era of more woke language.

00:49:51.000 I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party.

00:49:55.000 I think one of the things that I have struggled with, I think that a lot of people struggle with, is the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there's very little option for succession, if you will, you know, and I think that one could just I think it's easy for someone to say, oh, well, you know, why don't you run?

00:50:20.000 But the House is extraordinarily complex and I'm not ready.

00:50:26.000 It can't be me.

00:50:27.000 I know that I couldn't do that job.

00:50:30.000 Oh, yeah.

00:50:31.000 Until the next five minutes, when she declares that the old folks, I mean, she already did this, right? 1.00

00:50:35.000 About a year ago, she suggested that she was going to turn the language woke on the Democratic leadership.

00:50:40.000 So that's the only good news, is that the woke tend to eat their own if they don't move fast enough with them. 1.00

00:50:45.000 Okay, so how do you reject all this?

00:50:47.000 The way that you reject all of this is by rejecting the language of wokeism.

00:50:50.000 The language of wokeism has to be rejected at every turn.

00:50:53.000 Okay, meanwhile, let us talk about the latest developments with regard to COVID.

00:50:57.000 So, Right now, a COVID relief bill is on the table.

00:51:01.000 According to CNN, congressional leaders, after months of a bitter stalemate, and as millions of Americans have been eager for relief, are finally indicating they're nearing a deal on a new rescue package that could pass both chambers within days.

00:51:11.000 And it's pretty obvious that Democrats were holding this thing up so they could blame Republicans.

00:51:14.000 Nancy Pelosi said so openly.

00:51:15.000 She said we weren't going to do this in the lead up to the election because now we've had an election and now things are magically different.

00:51:20.000 And Mitch McConnell acknowledged the other day that Pelosi has basically succeeded in this because the media are her lapdogs and they will do whatever she wants them to do.

00:51:29.000 And the media will simply suggest the Republicans held up a relief bill when they did not.

00:51:32.000 They proposed a relief bill, what, four months ago?

00:51:34.000 The Democrats have been holding up over and over and over.

00:51:37.000 They wouldn't even allow a vote on it.

00:51:39.000 Meanwhile, the Republicans have passed that relief bill a bunch of times in the Senate.

00:51:44.000 But the media, because they lap up whatever the Democrats tell them and then vomit it out on the rug like a good dog, Or like a bad dog is the case, maybe.

00:51:53.000 They have been able to promulgate the idea that Republicans are the obstructionists here.

00:51:57.000 So this has pushed McConnell into a bit of an uncomfortable position where something has to get passed or presumably the Georgia Senate race starts to get dicier even than it already is for Republicans.

00:52:06.000 According to CNN, the price tag for a stimulus deal could be close to $900 billion.

00:52:11.000 The deal is expected to include a new round of stimulus checks at $600 per individual.

00:52:15.000 No money for state and local aid.

00:52:16.000 Democrats have pushed that.

00:52:18.000 No lawsuit protections, which Republicans wanted.

00:52:19.000 So it sounds like McConnell actually is going to get his way.

00:52:21.000 He proposed this deal last week.

00:52:22.000 Pelosi rejected the deal.

00:52:23.000 That sounds like the deal that is going to go forward.

00:52:25.000 The measure is also expected to include an additional $300 a week in jobless benefits.

00:52:29.000 As well as up to $330 billion for small business loans and money for vaccine distribution, which means that, overall, you're talking about $600 per individual plus $300 a week in jobless benefits.

00:52:39.000 So a minimum of $1,800 per individual to take you for, presumably, the next couple of months.

00:52:47.000 That leaves aside the fact that, again, if it's $600 per individual, then there's usually more than one individual in the household.

00:52:55.000 Senate Majority Whip John Thune told CNN that there may be a simple way that the Democrats are disguising money for state and local governments because Democrats are trying to push to include $90 billion in aid to states administered by the FEMA agency, by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

00:53:09.000 It's still uncertain when Congress is going to vote and whether they're going to tie that $900 billion relief plan to a massive $1.4 trillion spending bill Congress is trying to pass by the time the government runs out of money on Friday night.

00:53:22.000 Because again, there's a budget issue that's also happening.

00:53:25.000 Congress may have to pass another stopgap measure to keep agencies afloat.

00:53:29.000 Mitch McConnell suggested that votes on final passage could slip into the weekend.

00:53:33.000 If that happens, it's possible there could be a temporary government shutdown until final passage.

00:53:36.000 That's gonna last for like five seconds.

00:53:39.000 McConnell said in a floor speech on Wednesday, Hill leaders are making major headway.

00:53:42.000 Again, this thing should have passed two months ago.

00:53:45.000 The fact that the Democrats are calling for unending aid in the middle of a pandemic in which they are calling for basically total shutdown until the end of time is somewhat telling.

00:53:55.000 There are a lot of people who are enjoying lockdown too much, and the people who are enjoying lockdown too much tend to be the people who don't have to work for a living.

00:54:01.000 Those people seem to be enjoying lockdown an awful, awful lot.

00:54:04.000 Or whoever is able to scam the government out of money.

00:54:07.000 This doesn't mean that we shouldn't be careful in how we approach the pandemic, but the reality is that every business that operates is an essential business for the people who operate it and the people who work for it.

00:54:16.000 And we have to find ways that those businesses can operate safely and securely.

00:54:20.000 Speaking of which, the notion that lockdowns are a cure-all, I'm wondering why that is that California, then, is experiencing this massive, massive spike.

00:54:28.000 According to the Washington Post, California is the new epicenter of America's coronavirus crisis, with unprecedented surges of seriously infected patients threatening to overwhelm hospitals and overflow morgues.

00:54:37.000 The state is reporting unnerving numbers.

00:54:39.000 California has set nationwide records for new cases again and again in the past week, most recently on Wednesday, when it posted more than 41,000 infections.

00:54:45.000 You know why?

00:54:46.000 Because people are not going to listen to blanket lockdowns.

00:54:48.000 End of story.

00:54:49.000 People are simply not, the tighter you grasp this thing, the more people are just going to avoid the grip.

00:54:56.000 If you told people to be responsible, and they're responsible for their own health, and now you need to actually act reasonably to protect other people, I think most people do that.

00:55:04.000 And the statistics show that people do mask up when they go into public areas, and people take seriously the pandemic when the pandemic starts to hit their area.

00:55:10.000 But when you tell people they have to lock down until the end of time, and there is no future of openness in sight, And then when you add on top of that ridiculous statement, like was made by Dr. Gupta on MSNBC yesterday, in which he suggested that people are still going to be masking and social distancing through like 2022, or that after you have the virus, you still shouldn't travel.

00:55:30.000 After you have the virus and you're okay, you shouldn't travel.

00:55:32.000 Or after you have the vaccine, you shouldn't travel.

00:55:33.000 Fauci said yesterday that we are not going to be able to stop the masking and the social distancing until like the end of 2021.

00:55:39.000 You think people are going to pay attention to that?

00:55:42.000 People are tired of this.

00:55:43.000 We've been doing this since March.

00:55:44.000 And guess what?

00:55:45.000 What we are seeing is that in places that lockdown incredibly tight, like California, we are still seeing this rapid increase.

00:55:52.000 Nonetheless, the push for more lockdowns continues.

00:55:57.000 Joe Biden came out yesterday.

00:55:59.000 He was asked about school reopenings.

00:56:00.000 Here's how radical the Democratic Party is on this lockdown stuff.

00:56:03.000 Here's what Joe Biden said, quote, This was his moderate position.

00:56:06.000 He was on a call with 31 governors on Zoom.

00:56:10.000 I know it's going to be controversial for some of you, but I'm going to ask that we're able to open schools at the end of 100 days.

00:56:15.000 At the end of 100 days?

00:56:16.000 The hell are you talking about?

00:56:19.000 The end of 100 days after Inauguration Day?

00:56:22.000 That would put you, like, the end of April.

00:56:24.000 Okay, that means that the school year's over.

00:56:26.000 You're already at the beginning of May.

00:56:28.000 What are you even saying right now?

00:56:30.000 The schools should be open today for elementary school students.

00:56:34.000 Today!

00:56:35.000 My kids have been in school since September.

00:56:36.000 There hasn't been an outbreak because you can act responsibly and you can make sure the precautions are taken.

00:56:41.000 The precautions at my kid's school involve that we have to actually sign a basically an affidavit every night saying that our kids aren't sick and they haven't been in contact with anybody with COVID.

00:56:50.000 And the kids are wearing masks and there are plexiglass shields.

00:56:53.000 And there are kids who, by statistics, are really not getting sick from this thing, and are also really not transmitting this thing in high numbers.

00:57:00.000 And Joe Biden is saying maybe after—what bravery from Joe Biden?

00:57:03.000 Moderate Joe Biden.

00:57:04.000 Maybe we'll open the schools after 100 days.

00:57:05.000 Maybe.

00:57:06.000 By May.

00:57:08.000 Yeah, no bleep, Sherlock.

00:57:09.000 By that period, everybody's going to be vaccinated.

00:57:13.000 That's something else Fauci said earlier this week. 1.00

00:57:16.000 I get the feeling our public health officials are kind of full of crap. 0.99

00:57:18.000 That's the impression that I'm just getting. 0.99

00:57:20.000 And again, the catastrophic coverage by the media is driving people to ignore all the rules.

00:57:24.000 Here's the way it works.

00:57:25.000 When you set up rules that people find are unreasonable, they just say, screw all of your rules.

00:57:29.000 So here's a piece from Natalie Compton in the Washington Post today.

00:57:32.000 What do you mean, though?

00:57:33.000 grapple with the CDC strong warning to stay at home this winter to stop the spread of COVID. Some are wondering if they're exempt from the recommendation if they've already recovered from the illness. People who had coronavirus can develop antibodies that circulate in the blood and can neutralize the pathogen.

00:57:46.000 But questions around immunity still linger. The CDC says cases of reinfection have been reported but are rare. It hasn't stopped people from traveling though. What do you mean though? Of course it hasn't stopped people from traveling. The information on reinfection is extraordinarily scanty.

00:58:02.000 There have been, as far as I'm aware, like double digit recorded cases all over the world of reinfection happening.

00:58:08.000 And in some of those cases, there are people who are wondering if they had a false positive the first time.

00:58:12.000 And if you believe that having this thing and getting over it does not provide immunity by the current data, you're operating against the science.

00:58:20.000 And yet you're being told by the media that if you have already had this thing, you still should not travel.

00:58:25.000 I mean, we're being told by the media that even after you've had the vaccine, you still may transmit it to people.

00:58:29.000 Then what the hell are we talking about here? 1.00

00:58:32.000 Nobody is going to abide by your dumb rules if you make your rules dumb. 1.00

00:58:35.000 So make your rules not dumb. 1.00

00:58:36.000 Say not dumb things. 0.87

00:58:37.000 Go with the science instead of against the science.

00:58:41.000 And by the way, trying to scare people into doing things is not going to work because eventually people are going to get bored with the scare tactics because either it materializes or it doesn't.

00:58:49.000 Last month, the Icelandic government announced that visitors who have recovered from COVID can skip the country's new border measures when they arrive.

00:58:55.000 Well, obviously the Icelanders are Trumpians.

00:58:56.000 That's what's happened there.

00:58:59.000 After recovering from COVID in March, travel blogger and author Matt Kepnes, 39, resumed traveling in the U.S.

00:59:03.000 and Mexico, albeit with caution.

00:59:06.000 But should you travel if you've already had COVID?

00:59:08.000 The short answer is no.

00:59:10.000 Is no, says the Washington Post.

00:59:13.000 Eric Feigl-Ding, epidemiologist, senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, agrees.

00:59:18.000 Early on in the pandemic, many scientists dismissed the threat of reinfection, he says.

00:59:21.000 But we now know there are many cases of reinfection, including among patients in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.

00:59:26.000 It's not a once-in-a-blue-moon kind of thing, he says.

00:59:27.000 It's kind of like car crashes are still rare, but when they do happen, it's really bad.

00:59:33.000 Okay, so, but, and then he says, that's why you should wear your seatbelt.

00:59:35.000 Yes, but now you're telling people that they should just never drive.

00:59:38.000 Or you're not telling people to wear a seatbelt.

00:59:40.000 You're telling people, you're not saying you can travel, but wear a mask.

00:59:43.000 You're saying don't drive at all.

00:59:46.000 It's just, it's wild stuff.

00:59:47.000 Meanwhile, Anthony Fauci has become the Grinch.

00:59:49.000 He has canceled Christmas.

00:59:50.000 He says you should not get together with your family.

00:59:53.000 And I understand what he's doing.

00:59:55.000 I understand that he is attempting to stop people who have COVID from traveling to areas that are unhit by COVID.

01:00:00.000 But people are gonna do what they're gonna do, and he should be encouraging people to be reasonable.

01:00:04.000 That's what he should be focusing on right now.

01:00:06.000 And I'm not aware that travel is the chief vector of transmission for the virus.

01:00:09.000 In fact, by statistics, we're pretty sure that it's not.

01:00:11.000 It's internal households that are the chief vector of transmission.

01:00:14.000 It is not restaurants.

01:00:15.000 New York did contact tracing.

01:00:17.000 It is not restaurants.

01:00:18.000 It is not schools.

01:00:19.000 It is not indoor or outdoor dining.

01:00:21.000 It is people in homes with other people who live in their family.

01:00:25.000 In any case, Fauci said, the Christmas holiday is a special holiday for us because Christmas Eve is my birthday.

01:00:31.000 Christmas Day is Christmas Day.

01:00:32.000 They're not gonna come home.

01:00:33.000 That's painful.

01:00:33.000 We don't like that.

01:00:34.000 That's just one of the things you're gonna have to accept as we go through this unprecedented, challenging time.

01:00:38.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

01:00:40.000 We'll see how that works out.

01:00:41.000 I have some doubts.

01:00:43.000 And meanwhile, speaking of media bias, I just have to bring you this.

01:00:48.000 Everything Trump does is bad, according to media, like every single thing, including things that are perfectly obvious.

01:00:52.000 So according to the Washington Post, in its waning days, the Trump administration is proposing that employee performance be a top factor during federal layoffs.

01:01:00.000 Now, I know what you're thinking.

01:01:01.000 That sounds pretty obvious, right?

01:01:02.000 Like, if you're gonna lay people off, you should do it by lack of performance?

01:01:04.000 Wouldn't that be, like, the place to start?

01:01:06.000 Well, apparently, according to the Washington Post, that's super bad.

01:01:09.000 In the latest of a string of moves to put its stamp on federal workplace policies, the Trump administration is set to propose rules to make employees' performance ratings a top consideration in deciding who stays or goes during layoffs.

01:01:20.000 I mean, that's evil, right?

01:01:21.000 We're actually gonna decide how people perform before we fire them?

01:01:24.000 As opposed to just saying the old guy gets to stay and the young guy gets fired?

01:01:28.000 A proposal to be published Thursday by the Office of Personnel Management would elevate job ratings among the considerations during the process called reduction in force.

01:01:36.000 The proposed rules come within a 30-day public comment period.

01:01:39.000 It's uncertain whether the rules could be in place before the inauguration January 20th.

01:01:44.000 The move reflects a provision in a 2018 executive order stating agencies should prioritize performance over length of service in determining who gets to keep their job.

01:01:53.000 Following those orders, the already testy relations between the administration and employee unions and their democratic allies deteriorated further.

01:02:00.000 The newly proposed regulations would affect procedures agencies use when cutting their workforces for reasons such as reorganizations or budget restrictions, basically creating a pecking order among employees.

01:02:12.000 Under current procedures, employees first are divided according to whether they are in permanent jobs or those with time limits.

01:02:17.000 Basically, seniority matters.

01:02:18.000 The only exception is the Defense Department, where performance ratings have been the top consideration because it turns out that we have to have a functioning military.

01:02:25.000 Jacques Simon, the public policy director of the American Federation of Government Employees, criticized the proposal.

01:02:31.000 There's nothing objective about performance ratings, she said.

01:02:33.000 Performance ratings are highly subjective.

01:02:35.000 Under Trump, they were highly politicized.

01:02:36.000 And now this.

01:02:38.000 And now this.

01:02:40.000 So, good times.

01:02:41.000 Apparently, the Democrats, when they gain power, plan to undo all of that and make it so that worse employees get to stay on government payrolls because, of course, unions.

01:02:51.000 Good stuff all the way around.

01:02:53.000 Okay, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.

01:02:56.000 While you wait, head on over to The Michael Knowles Show right now, where we'll be discussing British scientists demanding that we postpone Christmas.

01:03:02.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here later today.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 17, 2020

Do You Speak Woke? | Ep. 1159

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