The Ben Shapiro Show - Everything Is Republicans’ Fault | Ep. 1040

00:00:00.000 As coronavirus reemerges, the media and Democrats blame Republicans, cultural icons move to appease the woke left, and Chaz meets its untimely demise.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:24.000 Well, I want to get to everything COVID related in just a moment.

00:00:26.000 First, I do want to announce a piece of actual good news.

00:00:28.000 Like I actually think this is very good news.

00:00:30.000 So NASCAR released a photo of the noose that wasn't a noose in Bubba Wallace's garage.

00:00:36.000 And it looks like a noose.

00:00:37.000 It does.

00:00:37.000 I mean, there's a picture, and I am not an expert on knots in any way.

00:00:41.000 If I had seen this, I would have thought this looks like a noose.

00:00:44.000 I don't know why NASCAR didn't release it in the first place.

00:00:44.000 I would have.

00:00:47.000 The FBI did a full investigation.

00:00:49.000 Apparently, they found that this was the only hand-tied pull-down rope in, like, all of NASCAR that looked like this.

00:00:55.000 So, to be immediately suspicious of this would not have been wrong.

00:00:57.000 For NASCAR to be suspicious wouldn't have been wrong.

00:00:59.000 For Bubba Wallace to be suspicious of this wouldn't have been wrong.

00:01:01.000 So, I'm very glad about that because, honestly, race hoaxes are really bad.

00:01:05.000 People just making mistakes.

00:01:06.000 Normal human life.

00:01:07.000 And that's fine.

00:01:08.000 And that's good.

00:01:09.000 It means that everybody went into this with good intentions and is coming out with good intentions.

00:01:12.000 And I prefer that story a lot more than some sort of nefarious race hoax happened here in order to gin up outrage or anything like that.

00:01:19.000 Now, NASCAR should have gone through the full investigation before they ran with the story, obviously.

00:01:24.000 But at least when it comes to Bubba Wallace, Bubba Wallace seems like he was acting in good faith throughout.

00:01:28.000 And that's really good.

00:01:29.000 And so any implication to the contrary, I apologize for if that implication was made, because Now that the photo's out, you can see why Bubba Wallace thought that this thing looked, in his words, like a straight-up news.

00:01:40.000 I totally get it.

00:01:41.000 So that's good news.

00:01:42.000 Again, better intentions on everybody's part is a very good thing, I think.

00:01:47.000 I mean, good intentions is better than bad intentions.

00:01:49.000 Just as I said that Bubba Wallace should be happy, as he said yesterday he was, that this wasn't a hate crime, I am very happy that nobody was trying to put anything over on anybody.

00:01:56.000 It was just a good-faith mistake.

00:01:58.000 Like that's a much better story for the country all the way around.

00:02:02.000 Okay, so meanwhile, coronavirus is resurging across the United States, also in Europe.

00:02:08.000 So people are neglecting that it's resurging in Europe.

00:02:09.000 The reason they're neglecting that it's resurging in Europe is because there's a narrative the media have to push.

00:02:13.000 The narrative the media are pushing in the United States is that it's only happening in red states.

00:02:16.000 It is not happening in blue states.

00:02:17.000 Now, on its face, that is simply not true.

00:02:19.000 It is resurging very, very strongly in California right now.

00:02:23.000 County is apparently now the county with the most coronavirus cases in America.

00:02:23.000 L.A.

00:02:27.000 It's resurging in states like Washington state, which is where it started in terms of the Chinese strain of the virus.

00:02:33.000 New York was European strain of the virus, meaning it had passed from China to Europe and then finally onto New York.

00:02:39.000 So it's just inaccurate to suggest it's only red states that are experiencing this.

00:02:42.000 But the media's new game is to pretend that blue state governors have been doing an amazing job with this and red state governors have been doing a terrible job with this.

00:02:49.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:02:50.000 It isn't really true.

00:02:51.000 But one of the big problems with that narrative is that this thing is resurging all over the world.

00:02:54.000 It's not just resurging in the United States.

00:02:56.000 It's resurging in Europe as well, according to the BBC.

00:02:59.000 In 11 places, including Armenia, Sweden, Moldova, and North Macedonia, accelerated transmission has led to a very significant resurgence, said regional director Dr. Hans-Henry Kluge.

00:03:09.000 His warnings about the risk of resurgence had become reality, he said.

00:03:11.000 If left unchecked, he warned health systems would be pushed to the brink again.

00:03:15.000 More than 2.6 million cases of COVID-19 And 195,000 deaths have been reported in the WHO's European region, which is expansive, covering 54 countries and seven territories across Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

00:03:28.000 Almost 20,000 new cases, more than 700 new deaths are being recorded daily.

00:03:32.000 Those numbers look very much like the United States' numbers, frankly.

00:03:35.000 Not in terms of the number of cases being identified, but the number of deaths being recorded daily.

00:03:39.000 That looks very much like the United States across the WHO's European region.

00:03:44.000 And the population of the United States, broad scale in terms of number of people, looks very much like Europe.

00:03:49.000 So this idea that the United States is being vastly outplayed by Europe, it's just not true.

00:03:54.000 Again, the WHO's European region has seen 195,000 deaths.

00:03:56.000 We've seen about 120,000 deaths here in the United States.

00:04:00.000 All of this is horrifying, of course.

00:04:02.000 In several countries across Europe, the risk has now become a reality.

00:04:05.000 30 countries have seen increases in new cumulative cases over the past two weeks, and 11 of those countries accelerated transmission has led to very significant resurgence that, if left unchecked, will push health systems to the brink once again, said the WHO.

00:04:17.000 Dr. Klug said that countries like Poland, Germany, Spain, and Israel had responded quickly to dangerous outbreaks associated with schools, coal mines, and food production settings, and brought them under control through rapid interventions.

00:04:26.000 He said the WHO anticipates that the situation will calm down further in the majority of the countries over the summer, but in the fall when COVID-19 may meet seasonal influenza, pneumonia, and other diseases, because ultimately the virus is still actively circulating, there's no effective treatment, no vaccine yet, We have to prepare for the fall.

00:04:42.000 And this has led to enormous repercussions in the United States and worldwide about what happens when kids go back to school.

00:04:48.000 Various regions of the United States are treating this differently.

00:04:51.000 For example, there's been talk in Massachusetts about reopening with full course load.

00:04:55.000 In Fairfax, Virginia, however, Fairfax, Virginia, that county has already announced that they're only going to go two days per week of school.

00:05:02.000 I know that in my child's school, what they've been talking about is all the kids coming back, but the kids being forced to sit at little cubicles and not eat lunch together, and they're supposed to be taking their food from different sort of little cubby holes, and their work from different cubby holes, so they're not sharing any of the pens, any of the erasers, any of the markers and all this.

00:05:21.000 Honestly, they're children.

00:05:22.000 I don't understand how that's going to work.

00:05:23.000 I think it's going to be very, very difficult for that to be workable.

00:05:25.000 I think there are going to be serious questions to be asked about whether reopening the schools is even possible if COVID-19 continues to be resurgent this way.

00:05:33.000 Now, there's some good news about COVID-19, and that is the CDC says that COVID-19 cases in the U.S.

00:05:38.000 may be 10 times higher than reported.

00:05:40.000 The estimate comes from a nationwide look at antibody tests.

00:05:43.000 Now, why is that good news?

00:05:44.000 Well, the reason that's good news is because if not that many people are dying, but tons of people are infected, that means the infection fatality rate of this thing is a lot lower than originally supposed.

00:05:52.000 Remember, originally the infection fatality rate Was calculated by the WHO at like 3.5%, meaning out of 100 people, 3.5 died.

00:06:01.000 And then the CDC last month announced that they thought the actual infection fatality rate was 0.26, meaning that out of every 10,000 people, 26 people died, which is a lot, a lot lower, right?

00:06:12.000 A lot lower.

00:06:13.000 And then they are now suggesting that maybe for every case that's reported, there are actually 10 other infections.

00:06:19.000 Which would mean that it's quite possible that the actual infection fatality rate looks more like the flu.

00:06:24.000 It's just way, way more transmissible than the flu.

00:06:26.000 The flu has a reproduction rate of a little below 2, is my understanding.

00:06:30.000 The reproduction rate on this virus, if left unchecked, is well above 3.

00:06:33.000 So that means, like, if everybody in the country got the flu, more people would die of the flu, even if the flu were just the flu.

00:06:38.000 Well, it's possible.

00:06:39.000 That's actually what we're seeing right here.

00:06:41.000 It does hit different populations in different ways, by the way.

00:06:44.000 Obviously, for young people, it is significantly less deadly than the flu.

00:06:47.000 If you're younger than the age of 25, by all statistics, it's less deadly than the flu.

00:06:50.000 If you're over the age of 25, it's a multiple of how deadly the flu is, depending on, again, how many outstanding, untested cases you believe there are.

00:07:01.000 According to NBC News, the assessment comes from looking at blood samples across the country for the presence of antibodies to the virus.

00:07:07.000 For every confirmed case of COVID-19, 10 more people had antibodies, Redfield said, referring to proteins in the blood that indicate whether a person's immune system has previously fought off the coronavirus.

00:07:15.000 The samples aren't just from people who have had antibody testing.

00:07:18.000 They also come from testing performed on donated blood at blood banks or from other laboratory testing of blood.

00:07:24.000 Currently, there are 2.3 million COVID-19 cases reported in the United States.

00:07:28.000 The CDC's new estimate pushes the actual number of coronavirus cases up to at least 23 million.

00:07:33.000 So there's good news and there's bad news.

00:07:35.000 The good news is that if you get it, and it turns out that lots of people are asymptomatic, then that means that maybe the chances aren't that great that you die. 1.00

00:07:42.000 Which is fantastic news, right?

00:07:43.000 You get it, it's not a death sentence.

00:07:45.000 On the other hand, if it's really transmissible, that means that there's a better chance that you are going to get it and experience that risk in your life.

00:07:51.000 Redfield said the virus causes so much asymptomatic infection.

00:07:53.000 The traditional approach of looking for symptomatic illness and diagnosing it obviously underestimates the total number of infections.

00:07:59.000 On Thursday, the CDC expanded its list of who is at greatest risk for COVID-19 complications, removing the age cutoff of 65.

00:08:08.000 Dr. Jay Butler, the head of the COVID-19 response at the CDC, said there's not an exact cutoff of age at which people should or should not be concerned.

00:08:14.000 He said, rather, a person's risk increases with age, but that does not preclude younger adults from complications.

00:08:19.000 Indeed, people of any age with underlying health conditions have a higher risk, obviously.

00:08:23.000 CDC also clarified other conditions that might increase a person's risk of severe illness.

00:08:27.000 That includes asthma, high blood pressure, neurologic conditions like dementia, cerebrovascular disease, such as stroke and pregnancy.

00:08:33.000 The CDC is incentivized by the way to be extremely careful about this sort of stuff so that means that if you have high blood pressure it's not going to be quite as deadly as if you have like type 2 diabetes or something so lumping it all together is a little bit inaccurate but the bottom line is That when you look at the rate of death from the behavior, that is the rates of death from behavior may be a lot lower than originally suspected.

00:08:56.000 That does not mean that the danger is gone, obviously, or that the virus is not dangerous, obviously.

00:09:01.000 And again, we still don't know how many people are asymptomatic.

00:09:03.000 Very difficult to test for people who are asymptomatic, except with sort of broad scale.

00:09:08.000 Antibody testing.

00:09:10.000 And we still don't know, by the way, if the antibodies are truly protective, which is a serious problem, right?

00:09:13.000 I mean, if you get the antibodies, it's not necessarily guaranteed that there's not going to be a second reinfection.

00:09:18.000 People get the flu every year, and then the next year they get the flu again.

00:09:21.000 So there's still a lot of open questions about all of this. 1.00

00:09:22.000 Now, we're going to get We'll get to the political side of this, which is really stupid and really ugly, but that's our time, stupid and ugly. 1.00

00:09:28.000 We'll get to that in just a moment. 0.99

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00:10:46.000 Hey, so here's where it gets really, really stupid. 0.93

00:10:48.000 The media have decided they're really going to cover in large scale only Texas, Florida, and Arizona. 0.99

00:10:53.000 California just is not going to get the same kind of coverage.

00:10:55.000 So California, which again is experiencing a massive resurgence of COVID-19 right now.

00:11:00.000 And California, which was locked down heavily, it still is locked down heavily.

00:11:03.000 Like you can't go to a restaurant in California right now.

00:11:05.000 If you try to go to a restaurant in California, they basically just reopened in the last couple of weeks.

00:11:10.000 Many restaurants still have not fully reopened because they can't Actually fulfill all of the basic prerequisites for reopening.

00:11:18.000 Major businesses are still not open in places like Los Angeles.

00:11:21.000 Los Angeles has been very slow to come around on this thing.

00:11:24.000 Over the past few weeks, really since the protests, you've started to see L.A.

00:11:28.000 open up a lot more and California open up a lot more.

00:11:31.000 And it is perfectly obvious that everybody was basically abiding by the stay-at-home orders until these massive protests broke out and the entire media infrastructure decided that you were immune to COVID if you went out to a major protest.

00:11:42.000 And then precisely two weeks later, exactly as everybody suspected, You started to see this massive uptick in places like California.

00:11:49.000 Now everyone wanted to blame that on Memorial Day, but Memorial Day happened May 25th.

00:11:53.000 Protests started May 26th.

00:11:54.000 So it's really, really difficult to suggest that it was just Memorial Day and not, you know, the obvious problem of hundreds of thousands of people out in the streets in America's major cities.

00:12:03.000 So California has been really hard hit in this resurgence.

00:12:06.000 There are states like Idaho that have been very hard hit in the resurgence.

00:12:09.000 Washington State, which, as I say, was a starter state for this thing, has been very hard hit in the resurgence.

00:12:15.000 But the media have decided they are only going to cover Abbott and DeSantis.

00:12:18.000 They're going to cover Greg Abbott in Texas.

00:12:21.000 Texas has now paused reopening as hospitals have been inundated with an explosion of COVID-19 cases.

00:12:27.000 Officials in Texas yesterday reported 47 more deaths, nearly 6,000 infections, a quote-unquote grim new daily record.

00:12:33.000 Now worth noting, New York State yesterday still recorded, I believe, more deaths than that.

00:12:37.000 So New York is supposed to be in the downswing of this thing, and they are.

00:12:40.000 But even in their downswing, they're recording more deaths on a daily basis than, I believe, either Texas or Florida.

00:12:45.000 If not more, then absolutely in the same ballpark.

00:12:48.000 The governor of Texas hit the brakes on reopening his state Thursday as hospitals were inundated with an explosion of COVID-19 cases, according to NBC News.

00:12:55.000 The last thing we want to do as a state is go backwards and close down businesses, Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement.

00:12:59.000 His temporary pause will help our state corral the spread until we can safely enter the next phase of opening our state for business.

00:13:05.000 Abbott urged all Texans to do their part to slow the spread of COVID-19 by wearing a mask, washing their hands regularly, socially distancing from others.

00:13:12.000 He said the more we all follow these guidelines, the safer our state will be, the more we can open up Texas for business.

00:13:18.000 Now, that makes perfect sense.

00:13:19.000 Again, I've been saying for a long time, if you want the economy to be reopened, then put on a mask.

00:13:24.000 Like seriously, slow the spread of the thing.

00:13:25.000 Make sure the elderly aren't being killed.

00:13:27.000 The question is what good policy looks like here.

00:13:30.000 Here's what good policy looks like to me.

00:13:31.000 And I've been saying this literally for months.

00:13:33.000 Protect the elderly and the vulnerable, particularly at the nursing homes where a disproportionate number of deaths have taken place.

00:13:38.000 Wear a mask if you are in a public place where this thing is easily transmitted.

00:13:42.000 And socially distance if you can.

00:13:45.000 That's pretty much all you can do.

00:13:46.000 Those are all the things.

00:13:47.000 There are no more things than that.

00:13:49.000 And limit giant public gatherings, obviously, because giant public gatherings are where these things spread and where people tend to take off the masks and where... By the way, masks don't reduce risk to zero.

00:13:57.000 If you're wearing a surgical mask...

00:13:59.000 You might reduce the risk by 30-40%, as Dr. Marty McCary from Johns Hopkins University said, but you're not going to reduce the risk by 100%.

00:14:07.000 But a lot of people reducing it by 30-40% is definitely a good thing.

00:14:11.000 Texas Medical Center in Houston has reported all of its ICU beds are now occupied.

00:14:15.000 So Houston has been particularly hard hit.

00:14:18.000 The United States saw a record number of new coronavirus cases in a single day, 45,557 reported on Wednesday, according to a tally by NBC News.

00:14:27.000 Southern and Western states like Arizona and Florida that began aggressively reopening around Memorial Day are now seeing staggering spikes that make clear the deadly virus is showing no signs of going away.

00:14:36.000 Now, this is where the media's coverage bias starts to come in.

00:14:40.000 Okay, the reality is a lot of these states started opening before Memorial Day.

00:14:44.000 A lot of these states started opening like mid-May, and they didn't see a spike.

00:14:48.000 In fact, everybody was sort of puzzled.

00:14:49.000 Why aren't we seeing a spike?

00:14:50.000 And the answer was that people were going about their business, but they were being responsible in how they went about their business.

00:14:55.000 In fact, I'm gonna look it up right now.

00:14:57.000 When did Florida reopening?

00:15:01.000 I wanna actually see the calendar.

00:15:03.000 So, the original reopening, let's see.

00:15:08.000 Florida reopened certain businesses through much of the state May 4th.

00:15:12.000 May 4th, right?

00:15:13.000 Starting May 4th, restaurants were allowed to offer outdoor seating with six foot spaces between.

00:15:16.000 So they started their reopening May 4th.

00:15:18.000 Nothing for a month.

00:15:20.000 Nothing for a month.

00:15:21.000 Then, massive protests.

00:15:24.000 Suddenly resurgence.

00:15:25.000 Don't tell me it was Memorial Day.

00:15:26.000 Okay, when you start reopening at the beginning of May, and there were other states that did this too, right?

00:15:30.000 Georgia started reopening beginning of May.

00:15:33.000 No massive resurgence.

00:15:34.000 Giant protests.

00:15:35.000 Massive resurgence.

00:15:36.000 So you're gonna try and put it on the reopening?

00:15:38.000 As opposed to, like, people who are attending restaurants and sitting six feet apart from each other?

00:15:42.000 As opposed to, you know, giant protests where people are up on each other yelling and spitting?

00:15:47.000 And by the way, the yelling and spitting is a key thing here, right?

00:15:49.000 One of the chief vectors of the spread of COVID-19 is projection.

00:15:55.000 This is why churches have been a place where people are getting very sick.

00:15:58.000 Because if you go to a church and everybody's singing together, when you sing, you aerosolize a lot of the particles in your body, a lot of your spit, and then it goes in the air, and then lots of people can get infected.

00:16:07.000 But again, the media are focusing only in on Florida and Arizona.

00:16:10.000 They're trying to blame Republicans for this, is the bottom line.

00:16:12.000 Buried way down in the article is California, which was among the first to put in place a statewide lockdown, has also been reporting record numbers of new cases, many of them young people.

00:16:21.000 And there was no evidence yet that the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the nation after the police killing of George Floyd were fueling the sudden rise.

00:16:27.000 Okay, so you're gonna have to explain why California, which has been completely locked down but allowed massive protests, is also seeing a significant spike.

00:16:33.000 Where was the other giant public activity?

00:16:35.000 It did not exist.

00:16:36.000 I'm from L.A.

00:16:37.000 No one was going out of their house.

00:16:39.000 Then, L.A.

00:16:40.000 was locked down during curfew.

00:16:42.000 And then, shockingly, the cases rise.

00:16:45.000 Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said it's important for the American people to know this is a localized situation.

00:16:51.000 It's not everywhere.

00:16:52.000 It's in certain places particularly.

00:16:55.000 Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, he said, we reopened against the backdrop of a lot of persistent spread in those states.

00:17:00.000 It's inevitable the cases were going to go up.

00:17:01.000 I think they've gone up more than most people expected.

00:17:03.000 I've certainly been surprised by the acceleration in the cases as well.

00:17:06.000 I think most of us were.

00:17:07.000 In Texas, Dr. Faisal Mazood, the medical director of critical care medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital System, said they were managing for now.

00:17:15.000 But, quote, if this trajectory is what it was the last 10 days when we literally had a tripling of our cases, we can't do that for a couple of weeks at all.

00:17:22.000 He said, this isn't good.

00:17:23.000 The explosion of patients all across that explosion has to slow down.

00:17:26.000 One of the things that's happening is people are assuming that all the ICU beds are available for COVID-19.

00:17:30.000 COVID-19 represents about a quarter of the number of people who are in the ICU.

00:17:34.000 People are in the ICU for a number, but like you have a heart attack, you're in the ICU.

00:17:37.000 You don't have COVID-19.

00:17:40.000 Meanwhile, in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo insisted he was serious about enforcing a two-week quarantine.

00:17:44.000 Can governors of New Jersey and Connecticut want all visitors from current coronavirus hotspot states like Texas, Florida, and Alabama to follow?

00:17:52.000 And this is where we get into the real hardcore media bias.

00:17:56.000 Okay, so in a second, we're gonna hear the Washington Post try to blame Sean Hannity for the uptick in COVID-19.

00:18:01.000 And we're also gonna hear the media try and tout governors Andrew Cuomo and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, two of the worst governors in America.

00:18:09.000 If you are a governor, there are really only a few things you can do.

00:18:11.000 One is bar large gatherings.

00:18:13.000 Two is you can have a statewide mask mandate, but it's very difficult to enforce.

00:18:17.000 Basically, you rely on the compliance of the American people is all you can really do.

00:18:21.000 And three is you protect your nursing homes.

00:18:24.000 Whitmer and Cuomo both shipped old people with COVID-19 back into nursing homes.

00:18:29.000 And they killed a huge percentage of the old people in nursing homes in their state.

00:18:33.000 And they're being touted by the media because there is now a time delay between when we watched New York get walloped and Michigan get walloped.

00:18:39.000 And now?

00:18:41.000 Now we're supposed to believe that they were great at this, that they did an amazing, amazing job.

00:18:45.000 Because after we lost, what, 25,000 people in New York City?

00:18:48.000 Something along those lines?

00:18:51.000 After we lost tens of thousands of people in New York City because Governor Cuomo and Bill de Blasio are terrible at their jobs, now they're good at their jobs because they're on the other side of the decline.

00:18:58.000 Yeah, you killed off everybody who's vulnerable.

00:19:00.000 Turns out that now the spread isn't as grave in New York as you thought.

00:19:03.000 By the way, my prediction, in the next couple of weeks, because of the protests, you will in fact see a spike in cases in New York as well.

00:19:09.000 I don't think this is gonna be restricted to places like Florida or California.

00:19:13.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:19:14.000 First, let us talk about the fact That while you're on pandemic living, it is very easy to put on weight.

00:19:21.000 It really is.

00:19:21.000 Like you're sitting home, you can't go to the gym.

00:19:24.000 It's really, really rough.

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00:20:34.000 Okay, so the media are now trying to turn this on Republicans.

00:20:37.000 It's all Republicans' fault.

00:20:38.000 You guys are gaslighting us.

00:20:39.000 You're gaslighting us.

00:20:40.000 You spent weeks explaining that going out and protesting in the streets was fully justified because racism was more dangerous than COVID.

00:20:46.000 Now COVID is spreading across the country unchecked, and you're like, oh, it's the Republicans' fault.

00:20:50.000 By the way, this is why it was political malpractice for the President of the United States to start holding indoor rallies.

00:20:55.000 He should have immediately said, listen, I'm taking this seriously.

00:20:58.000 Look who's not taking this seriously.

00:20:59.000 Everything that happens from here on in, that's on the Democrats who said it was okay to get together in giant, giant groups and scream and yell.

00:21:06.000 It's political malpractice not to have done that, frankly.

00:21:10.000 Okay, so Florida and Texas, acting responsibly, are slowing down the reopening.

00:21:15.000 Ron DeSantis said that he never said when Florida would move to the next phase.

00:21:19.000 He said that South Florida is on its late reopening schedule.

00:21:23.000 Most businesses have resumed in Florida, including bars and nightclubs, with the exception of the hard-hit Miami metropolitan area, but there are still strict capacity limits and other rules as well.

00:21:32.000 Which I know about.

00:21:33.000 I mean, these things are accurate.

00:21:34.000 People are not crowding into spaces.

00:21:36.000 People are mostly eating outside.

00:21:37.000 But according to the media, again, the only people to blame here are members of the Republican Party and or conservative members of the media.

00:21:44.000 Not Andrew Cuomo suggesting this was not a big deal in early March.

00:21:46.000 Not Bill de Blasio telling people to come on down to Chinatown.

00:21:49.000 Not Bill de Blasio telling people to go to theaters.

00:21:51.000 Everything was all fine.

00:21:52.000 Not Nancy Pelosi explaining that everybody should celebrate Chinese New Year's in downtown San Francisco.

00:21:58.000 Like, none of that.

00:21:58.000 The only people to blame ever are Republicans.

00:22:01.000 There's an awful piece in the Washington Post today called New Research Explores How Conservative Media Misinformation May Have Intensified the Severity of the Pandemic.

00:22:10.000 Big emphasis on May.

00:22:12.000 Big emphasis on May.

00:22:14.000 In recent weeks, three studies have focused on conservative media's role in fostering confusion about the seriousness of the coronavirus.

00:22:20.000 Taken together, says the Washington Post, they paint a picture of a media ecosystem that amplifies misinformation, entertains conspiracy theories, and discourages audiences from taking concrete steps to protect themselves and others.

00:22:31.000 The end result, according to one of the studies, is that infection and mortality rates are higher in places where one pundit who initially downplayed the severity of the pandemic, Fox News' Sean Hannity, reaches the largest audience.

00:22:41.000 The study's awful.

00:22:42.000 Like, I've looked at the study. 1.00

00:22:44.000 The study is just garbage. 0.91

00:22:45.000 The study basically suggests that they put aside all confounds and then basically suggest that if you watch Sean Hannity, you are more likely to go out and act in an irresponsible way. 0.98

00:22:57.000 And here's their final conclusion.

00:23:01.000 The authors used anonymous location data from millions of cell phones to explore how the popularity of Fox News in a given zip code related to social distancing practices there.

00:23:09.000 By March 15, they found a 10% increase in Fox News viewership within a zip code reduced its residents' propensity to stay home in compliance with public health guidelines by about 1.3 percentage points.

00:23:19.000 That's not even close to causality.

00:23:22.000 Do you think that people spend all day watching Fox News in a county?

00:23:26.000 That's all they do?

00:23:27.000 There are no confounding factors there?

00:23:31.000 I'm sorry, this is just absurd.

00:23:32.000 It's plausible, of course, this difference in behavior could be attributed to other characteristics of Fox viewers, such as their age, or political ideology, or the fact that they live, by the way, in more rural areas where people are not as afraid of coronavirus because they don't think they're in a big city.

00:23:46.000 There are plenty of reasons.

00:23:47.000 But it seems to me that New York, Michigan, New Jersey got absolutely walloped by this thing.

00:23:53.000 These are not Sean Hannity centers of gravity.

00:23:56.000 The attempt to paint this is a Sean Hannity problem.

00:23:57.000 I mean, it's truly amazing.

00:23:59.000 And blame it on, it's all Sean's fault. 1.00

00:24:01.000 What absolute horse crap. 1.00

00:24:03.000 What absolute horse crap. 1.00

00:24:05.000 Meanwhile, Democrats being played up as heroes during all this. 0.99

00:24:08.000 So Chris Cuomo, who's been giving just propaganda slots to his brother, Andrew Cuomo, yesterday, he did this routine praising his brother, Andrew Cuomo.

00:24:14.000 He is the best.

00:24:15.000 He's the bestest governor.

00:24:17.000 He's my favorite, favorite, bestest governor, and he's my bro, and he's the bestest governor.

00:24:21.000 So Chris Cuomo did this sickening, sycophantic routine with his brother, who completely botched the effort to contain COVID in his own state.

00:24:29.000 Here is Chris Cuomo praising Andrew Cuomo.

00:24:31.000 This is real news right here.

00:24:33.000 I hope you are able to appreciate what you did in your state, and what it means for the rest of the country now, and what it will always mean to those who love and care about you the most.

00:24:42.000 I'm wowed by what you did, and more importantly, I'm wowed by how you did it.

00:24:46.000 This was very hard.

00:24:47.000 I know it's not over.

00:24:49.000 But obviously, I love you as a brother.

00:24:51.000 Obviously, I'll never be objective.

00:24:53.000 Obviously, I think you're the best politician in the country.

00:24:56.000 But I hope you feel good about what you did for your people, because I know they appreciate it.

00:24:59.000 Nothing's perfect.

00:25:00.000 You'll have your critics.

00:25:01.000 Thank you.

00:25:02.000 But I've never seen anything like what you did.

00:25:04.000 And that's why I'm so happy to have had you on the show.

00:25:08.000 Absolutely incredible.

00:25:09.000 So proud of you, bro.

00:25:10.000 You've just done the best job.

00:25:11.000 Yeah, talk to the people whose relatives died alone in nursing homes.

00:25:15.000 Talk to those people.

00:25:16.000 And then, Andrew Cuomo had the gall.

00:25:19.000 The gall.

00:25:20.000 I mean, unmitigated gall.

00:25:22.000 I will say, the dude has Has stones to say something like this.

00:25:26.000 He goes on national TV and he says that red state governors played politics and lost.

00:25:30.000 Played politics and lost.

00:25:31.000 Let me just make this clear.

00:25:33.000 To date, to date, New York state, I'm gonna read you the statistics, okay?

00:25:38.000 New York state has COVID-19 deaths.

00:25:42.000 New York state total COVID-19 deaths at this point.

00:25:46.000 Let's see.

00:25:47.000 About 24,800 COVID-19 deaths in New York.

00:25:51.000 Now, I'm gonna look at Florida.

00:25:53.000 Florida, to date, with the same population as New York, effectively.

00:25:58.000 3,327 deaths.

00:25:59.000 In New York, again, just so I can repeat that, slowly, for those of you in the mainstream media who don't seem to understand basic statistics, New York had nearly 25,000 deaths from COVID-19.

00:26:10.000 Florida is still well under 4,000 deaths.

00:26:12.000 Texas, another horrible state, a hellscape for all of this.

00:26:17.000 Texas has had under 2,300 deaths so far.

00:26:22.000 Arizona, another hellscape, completely botched because of terrible, terrible Governor Doug Ducey, has had less than 1,500 deaths so far.

00:26:30.000 But don't worry, Andrew Cuomo's the real hero in this.

00:26:32.000 Here's Andrew Cuomo explaining that it was the Republicans playing politics and they lost.

00:26:36.000 How is it possible that they lost when you're the one who lost almost literally ten times the number of people in your state with the same population?

00:26:43.000 Explain, Andrew Cuomo, explain.

00:26:46.000 Look at the numbers.

00:26:47.000 You played politics with this virus and you lost.

00:26:50.000 You told the people of your state and you told the people of this country, White House, don't worry about it.

00:26:56.000 Just open up, go about your business.

00:26:58.000 This is all Democratic hyperbole.

00:27:02.000 Oh, really?

00:27:04.000 Now you see 27 states with the numbers going up.

00:27:06.000 You see the death projections going up.

00:27:08.000 You see the economy going down.

00:27:10.000 It was never politics.

00:27:11.000 It was always science.

00:27:13.000 And they were in denial.

00:27:15.000 And denial is not a life strategy.

00:27:18.000 Okay, they're in denial and then denial is not a life strategy.

00:27:21.000 No one's in denial except for you.

00:27:23.000 Okay, you are the one who's shipping people with COVID-19 back into nursing homes and then blaming Trump for it and pretending that it was all about Trump not telling you the source of the virus was Europe, not China.

00:27:30.000 I mean, like, it's just absurd.

00:27:32.000 It's absurd.

00:27:32.000 And this guy gets played as a person who knows what he's doing.

00:27:35.000 I mean, you want like clearest case media bias ever.

00:27:38.000 This is clearest case media bias ever.

00:27:41.000 Okay, other example of media bias today.

00:27:43.000 An insane New York Times profile of Governor Gretchen Whitmer It's got the photo of her looking off into the distance, this black and white photo of her looking off into the distance from Phil Montgomery.

00:27:55.000 And here's the headline.

00:27:56.000 A governor on her own, with everything at stake.

00:27:59.000 From her living room, Gretchen Whitmer has led Michigan through a pandemic, an economic meltdown, and even a dam collapse, all at a time when government itself seems broken.

00:28:06.000 Okay, just gonna read you the stats from Michigan.

00:28:09.000 Michigan has over 6,000 deaths.

00:28:11.000 Michigan has over 6,000 deaths.

00:28:13.000 Texas, again, still has less than 2,500.

00:28:16.000 Florida still has less than 3,500.

00:28:18.000 Arizona still has less than 1,500.

00:28:19.000 Her state has 6,000 deaths already.

00:28:23.000 They lost 18 people yesterday in Michigan.

00:28:27.000 And yet she's getting the just the royal treatment, the absolute wonderful royal treatment in her state.

00:28:34.000 I'm going to need some evidence as to why Gretchen Whitmer, who also, by the way, was shipping people back into nursing homes with COVID-19, which is like the number one thing you do not do. 0.97

00:28:41.000 Why she is getting this sort of treatment from the mainstream media other than the media are trying to play up Democrats.

00:28:47.000 Some of the quotes from this thing, I mean, it's like her press office wrote it.

00:28:51.000 The New York Times says, Whitmer is not naturally introspective, recounting the almost incomprehensibly consequential decisions she was making on a daily basis.

00:28:59.000 She rarely lingered on how she felt or the magnitude of the moment.

00:29:02.000 She was more inclined to review events and discuss strategy, approaching it all with the same practical mindset and vocabulary she brought to more manageable government challenges, like fixing potholes.

00:29:11.000 The effect wasn't necessarily stirring.

00:29:12.000 There was no soaring rhetoric about the need to rise to this historic challenge, but it was oddly reassuring.

00:29:17.000 She was channeling panic into process.

00:29:20.000 Oh, what an amazing, amazing person.

00:29:22.000 As the days passed, the decisions facing Whitmer came to seem less complicated.

00:29:25.000 The next time I talked to her, she had just returned from a march through Detroit with a group of local religious leaders.

00:29:30.000 She went with one of her two teenage daughters who'd been pestering her for days to let her attend a protest.

00:29:34.000 It was a peculiar development, a head of government participating in a protest against the government.

00:29:38.000 But it also made perfect sense in this deeply disorienting moment.

00:29:41.000 There's a lot of pain across this country, she said, when I asked what had inspired her to go to the protest.

00:29:45.000 This is a righteous cause, and I wanted to be there in person.

00:29:48.000 In the middle of a pandemic.

00:29:49.000 Well, chiding other people.

00:29:51.000 What, what, what, what?

00:29:53.000 What a heroine. 1.00

00:29:54.000 What a heroine. 1.00

00:29:55.000 I mean, just incredible stuff.

00:29:56.000 So, I think we can all get the picture here.

00:29:59.000 The picture is very simple.

00:30:00.000 If you're a Republican, you're a bad guy.

00:30:01.000 If you're a Democrat, you're a good guy.

00:30:04.000 All this does translate into some of the national polling that we are seeing right now, amidst all of the chaos on race, which we'll get to in a moment.

00:30:12.000 Amidst the fact that this pandemic continues to spread across the country, somewhat unabated, the death rates are significantly down, but still, obviously, it's a dangerous virus.

00:30:21.000 People think that, according to particular estimates, there'll be 200,000 people dead by the end of summer, which obviously would be a tragedy of historic proportions.

00:30:28.000 President Trump is down in even the Fox News swing state polls.

00:30:32.000 According to Fox News, President Trump is down nine in Florida, 49-40.

00:30:38.000 He's down two in North Carolina, which he won last time, 47-45.

00:30:41.000 He won all of these states, by the way.

00:30:43.000 Biden is up two in Georgia, 47-45.

00:30:46.000 And Biden is up one in Texas, according to the Fox News poll.

00:30:49.000 Okay, if those polls are anything close to accurate, then the president's got a serious problem.

00:30:54.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is just basically sleeping through this campaign.

00:30:58.000 I mean, really sleeping through it.

00:30:59.000 Where is his great leadership?

00:31:00.000 This isn't about Trump.

00:31:01.000 It's not about Biden's great leadership.

00:31:02.000 This is almost solely about Trump's behavior.

00:31:05.000 Truly.

00:31:05.000 The American people are not willing to undergo a pandemic without leadership.

00:31:09.000 They're not willing to watch statues torn down and the country riven by race riots without any sort of leadership.

00:31:15.000 They're not willing to see republics of Chaz set up without any sort of presidential leadership.

00:31:19.000 This is not about Biden.

00:31:20.000 The way you can tell it's not about Biden is Biden's still in crack in 50%.

00:31:23.000 In the national polling, the ones that show up like 14%, it shows him at like 50 to 36.

00:31:27.000 It's not showing him at 60 to 40.

00:31:29.000 It's not showing him in 60, 40.

00:31:31.000 It's not showing him 55 to 40.

00:31:33.000 It's showing him at 49, right?

00:31:35.000 He's always below 50, which means that this is not about Joe Biden.

00:31:38.000 It is purely about the unpopularity of president.

00:31:40.000 And that makes, that makes perfect sense.

00:31:42.000 What Joe Biden right now is showing is that it is very difficult, literally, to beat a dead horse.

00:31:47.000 That's what we're seeing right now.

00:31:48.000 It is almost impossible to beat a dead horse, because that's all he is.

00:31:51.000 He's just a stand-in for inanimate objects.

00:31:53.000 Now, as we're about to discuss, he actually is not an inanimate object, and that's what's dangerous.

00:31:58.000 What makes him a dangerous candidate is the fact that how he acts as president is not going to be anything like the dead horse that he is as a candidate.

00:32:05.000 And he is, you know, obviously not performing as a candidate.

00:32:08.000 People are like, it's a brilliant campaign.

00:32:09.000 No, it's not a campaign at all.

00:32:11.000 He understands that all his campaign has to be is just there.

00:32:14.000 It just has to be breathing.

00:32:15.000 And that's pretty much all you're getting.

00:32:16.000 I mean, even when he's supposed to be speaking about things like COVID, he's just blowing it, right?

00:32:20.000 I mean, he said yesterday that we have 120 million dead from COVID, which I feel like would be bigger news if that were true.

00:32:25.000 Here is Joe Biden staggering his way through another interview.

00:32:28.000 But This guy's in the lead, and he's only in the lead for one reason.

00:32:31.000 The feeling of chaos, the feeling of volatility, and the feeling that these things aren't getting locked down, and that Joe Biden represents some sort of return to normalcy.

00:32:38.000 Now, as we will see, he does not represent a return to normalcy.

00:32:40.000 That's what makes this election so dangerous.

00:32:42.000 Here's Biden.

00:32:44.000 People don't have a job.

00:32:45.000 People don't have anywhere to go.

00:32:47.000 They don't know what they're going to do.

00:32:49.000 And a lot of people you have unnecessarily, now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.

00:32:56.000 A hundred and twenty million dead from COVID.

00:32:58.000 Wow.

00:32:59.000 Figured wouldn't known about them.

00:33:00.000 Yeah, we're gonna get to in a second why it's dangerous for this man to become president of the United States, because the quick, quick spoiler alert.

00:33:07.000 The answer is because Joe Biden, like most members of the Democratic Party, he's beholden to his radical left.

00:33:13.000 It's hard to portray him that way because he's old and because he's doddering and because he's unthreatening and because he explicitly disassociated from sort of the Bernie Sanders wing of the party.

00:33:21.000 But He won't actively disassociate from some of the more radical planks that people in his party want.

00:33:27.000 He's a weakling, in other words.

00:33:28.000 We're gonna get to that in a second. 0.88

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00:34:42.000 Okay, so.

00:34:43.000 The reason that Joe Biden remains a danger to the country, despite the fact that he's effectively senile and not with it at this point, is specifically because he is not going to be stymying his left-wing base.

00:34:56.000 The left-wing base is taking control of the party, completely.

00:34:58.000 How do you know this?

00:34:59.000 Well, over the past several days, there has been this real push, this very, very hard push, To tear down all the statues, right?

00:35:08.000 Not just the statues of Confederate generals.

00:35:10.000 To blow up Mount Rushmore.

00:35:11.000 I mean, I predicted this, but there's a campaign afoot to change Mount Rushmore.

00:35:15.000 There's a campaign afoot to get rid of the Jefferson Memorial.

00:35:21.000 There's a campaign to get rid of statues of George Washington.

00:35:25.000 Nancy Pelosi is now caving to this. 1.00

00:35:26.000 Nancy Pelosi was asked yesterday about tearing down statues.

00:35:30.000 And she said, well, maybe we should consider whether any statues are to exist.

00:35:35.000 I mean, this is...

00:35:36.000 This is wild stuff.

00:35:38.000 These mainstream Democratic politicians who run the party, caving to the woke base of their party that wants to rip down statues of the founders of the country, which again is endemic of a certain ideology that is truly ugly about the United States.

00:35:50.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi yesterday with the Washington Post.

00:35:54.000 These Confederates, Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stevens, they committed treason against the United States.

00:36:05.000 In the name of slavery. 0.95

00:36:07.000 I think that's a different story.

00:36:09.000 But you know what?

00:36:11.000 Subject everything to scrutiny and make a decision.

00:36:15.000 But I do think we should do it in a safer way rather than a more dangerous way.

00:36:19.000 Subject it all.

00:36:20.000 Subject it all to scrutiny.

00:36:22.000 Jefferson, Washington.

00:36:24.000 She says, yeah, it's different.

00:36:25.000 It's different for like Jefferson Davis, which of course is true.

00:36:27.000 But then she's like, well, maybe we should, let's consider all of it.

00:36:30.000 Joe Biden's campaign.

00:36:31.000 When I say that this has infected the entire democratic infrastructure, The Daily Caller reached out to the Biden campaign and asked them if the former vice president agrees with Democrats who want to tear down statues of George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and some depictions of Jesus.

00:36:44.000 The campaign was given over 24 hours to respond to the inquiry.

00:36:47.000 They did not do so.

00:36:49.000 That is not a shock at all.

00:36:50.000 Of course they're not going to do so.

00:36:51.000 The entire campaign of Joe Biden is to play dead, to appease his woke base.

00:36:54.000 Now, what will he do when he's in office? 0.98

00:36:56.000 So, I don't think he's stupid enough to actually attempt to tear this sort of stuff down, but I also do not think that he is in control of his own party. 0.72

00:37:02.000 And I think that his own party has gone so far off the rails at this point that it's being dictated to by the likes of Nicole Hannah-Jones, the founder of the 1619 Project. 0.96

00:37:12.000 There's a whole now nationwide discussion prompted by a bad essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones on slavery reparations that likens the death of Michael Brown to lynchings from 1910 in Oklahoma.

00:37:23.000 I mean, it's an absurd piece.

00:37:24.000 It's being discussed ad nauseum on television today because the Democratic Party has been taken over by the wokest members of the wokest members of their political of their political clique. 0.81

00:37:36.000 By the way, I think it's important to note where Nicole Hannah-Jones is coming from.

00:37:41.000 So, here's the thing. 0.96

00:37:42.000 If you wrote something like 25, 30 years ago, and then you repudiate it and you say, yeah, that was a bad idea, that was a stupid thing to write, I get it. 0.96

00:37:48.000 I've done it myself.

00:37:49.000 I was writing from the time I was 17 years old, and when you write publicly, you are subjected to scrutiny, as you should be. 0.67

00:37:54.000 I have an entire list online of things that I have said from the time I was young that I regret having said and thought was stupid or bad.

00:38:00.000 That's all normal. 0.89

00:38:01.000 That's a normal thing in public discourse.

00:38:03.000 So, it is not outside the realm of reality to ask about Nikole Hannah-Jones.

00:38:07.000 Uh, about this, this letter to the editor that she apparently wrote this according to the Federalist reporting today.

00:38:14.000 Jordan Davidson reporting over at the Federalist.

00:38:16.000 A letter from Nikole Hannah-Jones to the editor of the school newspaper at Notre Dame.

00:38:21.000 Now, this doesn't mean anybody should be cancelled.

00:38:22.000 I'm not saying Nikole Hannah-Jones should be cancelled.

00:38:24.000 She shouldn't be cancelled. 0.99

00:38:25.000 In fact, I think it's very good that the New York Times is just allowing her free reign over there so we can see that the New York Times is a trash compost heap, that it's just garbage. 0.61

00:38:32.000 Because, frankly, the 1619 Project is garbage in and of itself enough that Like, I don't need further cause to think that Nikole Hannah-Jones is very bad at her job. 0.98

00:38:41.000 I've read you enough quotes of her saying crazy things that I don't think you need more proof that she's bad at her job. 1.00

00:38:45.000 But it does go to the question of sort of motivation and whether she has changed her opinion on any of this stuff, because it's coming from a lot of the same places.

00:38:52.000 Here is what she wrote back when she was in college. 0.91

00:38:55.000 I find it hard to believe that any member of the white race can have the audacity and hypocrisy to call any other culture savage. 1.00

00:39:01.000 The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world. 1.00

00:39:05.000 Europeans have colonized and destroyed the indigenous populations on every continent of this planet. 1.00

00:39:09.000 They've committed genocide against cultures that have never offended them in their greed and insatiable desire to control and dominate every non-white culture. 1.00

00:39:15.000 Christopher Columbus and those like him were no different than Hitler. 1.00

00:39:18.000 The crimes they committed were unnecessarily cruel and can be only described as acts of the devil.

00:39:22.000 Africans had been to the Americas long before Columbus or any Europeans.

00:39:25.000 The difference is that Africans had the decency and respect for human life to learn from the Native Americans and train technology with them. 0.72

00:39:31.000 This is a weird thing.

00:39:32.000 The pyramids of the Aztecs and the great stone heads of the Olmecs are lasting monuments to the friendship of these two peoples.

00:39:39.000 Well, that's an interesting take on where those monuments came from.

00:39:43.000 But as David Walker wrote in his Appeal of 1829, the white men acted, quote, more like devils than accountable men. 0.97

00:39:48.000 Whites have always been an unjust, jealous, unmerciful, avaricious, and bloodthirsty set of beings, always seeking after power and authority. 1.00

00:39:54.000 It was not enough for whites to come to the Americas and learn. 1.00

00:39:56.000 They looked upon the native people as inferior and a people to be annihilated.

00:39:59.000 Their lasting monument was the destruction and enslavement of two races of people. 1.00

00:40:03.000 Using Christianity as their excuse, the white race denied the native people their humanity. 0.96

00:40:06.000 Not only did they rape and murder the indigenous peoples of America, they killed off many more by introducing diseases which came from filth and uncleanliness to the native people. 0.99

00:40:14.000 Poop only existed in Europe. 0.98

00:40:15.000 The white race used deceit and trickery, warfare and rape to steal the land from people who had lived here for thousands and thousands of years. 0.98

00:40:21.000 Over and over again, whites made peace treaties with the Native Americans, telling them if they moved just this one time and gave up their land to the greedy settlers just this one last time, they would never have to move again. 0.97

00:40:30.000 It was common knowledge that the white man's word could not be trusted. 0.98

00:40:33.000 Even today, the descendants of these savage people pump drugs and guns into the black community, pack black people into the squalor of segregated urban ghettos, and continue to be bloodsuckers in our communities. 0.99

00:40:42.000 Yes, it was Columbus that set the platforms for these racist American institutions. 0.99

00:40:46.000 A devil calling someone a savage is like a pot calling the kettle black. 0.98

00:40:49.000 But, after everything these barbaric devils did, I do not hate them or their descendants. 0.95

00:40:54.000 I understand that because of some lacking, they felt they needed to constantly prove their superiority. 0.91

00:41:01.000 Okay, wild stuff, right?

00:41:03.000 So, here's the thing.

00:41:04.000 Again, she shouldn't be canceled over this, because I don't think people should be canceled over opinions generally.

00:41:08.000 I think it's a complete waste of time.

00:41:09.000 And it's not like we didn't know that this is the kind of stuff that she was writing back in college, because she basically writes a watered-down version of this today.

00:41:15.000 It is just a very, it seems to me, very important to recognize the root ideology that is now being promulgated in the Democratic Party at its most crude form.

00:41:24.000 And by the way, it's not just Nikole Hannah-Jones.

00:41:25.000 Like, she's an ideological thought leader and obviously the de facto editor of the New York Times at this point.

00:41:29.000 But it's people like Jamal Bowie.

00:41:31.000 Jamal Bowie literally just said the other day, quote, Instead, the slaves freed the slaves.

00:41:39.000 Emancipation was, quote, something they took for themselves.

00:41:41.000 The most that can be said of Lincoln and the nation's political leadership is that they, quote, helped set freedom in motion and eventually codified it into law with the 13th Amendment.

00:41:49.000 Bowie says that the Union Army basically only delivered the news of the Emancipation Proclamation. - Yeah.

00:41:56.000 Um... What?

00:41:59.000 What?

00:42:00.000 Yes, black Americans were very important in contributing to the abolitionist movement.

00:42:04.000 Also, hundreds of thousands of white men died to free black slaves. 0.50

00:42:09.000 Abraham Lincoln spent his presidency working to free black slaves.

00:42:14.000 Abolitionism was a longtime cause in the white community in the United States.

00:42:20.000 William Lloyd Garrison, right? 1.00

00:42:21.000 I mean, like, this is just so, it's so ignorant on every level and stupid on every level and divisive on every level. 1.00

00:42:28.000 But, you know, this is the new narrative. 1.00

00:42:30.000 The new narrative is that America is root evil, and that it's root evil and racially divided in its entirety.

00:42:37.000 That's the ideology that's taken over the Democratic Party, and it's really, really, really dangerous stuff.

00:42:41.000 It's really dangerous stuff.

00:42:42.000 And the fact that Biden is not forcibly disavowing that sort of ideology, that does not speak to a moderate presidency, should he ever gain power.

00:42:50.000 We're gonna get to more of this in just a second.

00:42:52.000 The cultural revolution continuing apace.

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00:43:59.000 Okay, we're gonna get more into the cultural revolution and The very, very sad death of Chaz. 0.64

00:44:04.000 Chaz, not a person, the place. 0.76

00:44:07.000 Chaz has met its untimely demise.

00:44:09.000 The best story of the year.

00:44:10.000 I mean, really, it's been a terrible year.

00:44:13.000 Chaz is a fantastic story.

00:44:14.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:44:28.000 I wrote back in December and January.

00:44:29.000 I talked about the coming dissolution of the country.

00:44:32.000 I talked about how the 1619 project was destroying our history. 0.99

00:44:36.000 How there was an attempt afoot by what I call disintegrationists to divide America along racial and class lines.

00:44:41.000 How America's philosophy was being destroyed in real time.

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00:45:00.000 Why are all these things worthy of being upheld?

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00:45:10.000 The book is called How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.

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00:47:19.000 So the cultural revolution, as I say, continues apace.

00:47:25.000 There's now a push to replace the Star Spangled Banner, because it was written by Francis Scott Key.

00:47:29.000 There's a piece by Lindsay Parker, the editor-in-chief of Yahoo Music, suggesting that we replace, I am not kidding you, we replace the Star Spangled Banner with Imagine.

00:47:38.000 With the worst song ever written in human history.

00:47:40.000 And by the way, maybe we should just do it.

00:47:42.000 We've fallen further from God's grace every day here in this country.

00:47:46.000 And I think that if God has really decided to punish us this way, perhaps Imagine is the final shameful adoption of that which has become our national credo.

00:47:54.000 A nation without any sort of principle, borders, religion, concept of sin, a vindictive, horrifying nation of people enacting intolerable cruelties like singing Imagine to them on each other.

00:48:05.000 So there's a push to get rid of the national anthem. 1.00

00:48:08.000 Also, it's all stupid posturing at this point. 1.00

00:48:10.000 Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to paint Black Lives Matter on the street outside Trump Tower, which is just idiotic. 1.00

00:48:17.000 Congratulations, Mayor de Blasio. 0.99

00:48:18.000 You solved all the problems in New York City, including the massive spate of shootings that has happened in your city over the last 14 days because you have decided to castrate the police.

00:48:27.000 So, more dead people, but also paint on the sidewalk to make fun of Trump.

00:48:32.000 You owned him.

00:48:33.000 You owned him. 0.99

00:48:33.000 All those dead people, they feel really great about Mayor Bill de Blasio painting crap outside. 0.99

00:48:38.000 I love that you're painting Black Lives Matter outside Trump Tower while black people get shot in New York. 0.99

00:48:42.000 Really, the irony is, I think, lost on very few people.

00:48:47.000 Really, really amazing stuff.

00:48:48.000 And Trump is so easily goaded.

00:48:50.000 He then tweeted in response.

00:48:51.000 He said he referenced de Blasio's plan to, quote, paint the fabled and beautiful Fifth Avenue right in front of Trump Tower slash Tiffany.

00:48:59.000 And then he went after Black Lives Matter and pointed out that the Black Lives Matter group is incredibly radical, which, of course, is true. 1.00

00:49:05.000 But these sort of fulminations, are these super useful?

00:49:09.000 Meanwhile, even minor violations of our new creed in America must be expunged.

00:49:17.000 So, good news, they're changing Splash Mountain.

00:49:19.000 Splash Mountain will now be the Princess and the Frog.

00:49:21.000 Do I really care about that?

00:49:22.000 Not really.

00:49:23.000 I kind of like Princess and the Frog.

00:49:25.000 And if you ever go to... I'm a big Disneyland person.

00:49:27.000 We have annual passes.

00:49:28.000 If you ever go to Mickey's Magical Map, the culmination of that whole show, is a number from Princess and the Frog.

00:49:35.000 So it's a lot of fun.

00:49:36.000 You want to do that?

00:49:37.000 Fine.

00:49:37.000 It's on Disney to do that.

00:49:38.000 But the reason they are doing it is because apparently Splash Mountain was giving out like subtle racist messages because it uses Zippity-Doo-Dah, which comes from Song of the South, which is an actual racist cartoon.

00:49:38.000 That's cool.

00:49:47.000 But nobody who has ever sung Zippity-Doo-Dah for the last 50 years is aware of the origins of Zippity-Doo-Dah.

00:49:52.000 Like no one.

00:49:53.000 I've been on Splash Mountain a thousand times.

00:49:56.000 It has never occurred to me it has anything to do with race at all.

00:49:58.000 There are not even people on the ride, right?

00:49:59.000 It's Br'er Rabbit and the weird bear and all this.

00:50:02.000 Like, that... Okay.

00:50:04.000 Anyway, they're changing that because even the mildest hint of something bad in history has to be expunged.

00:50:08.000 Also, the Dixie Chicks are changing their name.

00:50:11.000 They're no longer the Dixie Chicks.

00:50:12.000 Now they will be known as the Chicks. 0.99

00:50:14.000 Which doesn't really seem to me to solve the problem.

00:50:16.000 I feel like that's just radically sexist.

00:50:19.000 Shouldn't they be the Wimmicks?

00:50:21.000 Shouldn't they be the pronoun of unspecified gender?

00:50:28.000 Chicks seems a little bit, it seems a little bit demeaning, the chicks. 0.89

00:50:32.000 So they're getting rid of Dixie because apparently this means that, like if you ever say Dixie, so like Winn-Dixie, does Winn-Dixie have to change its name?

00:50:39.000 If you use the term Dixie, which is like a geographic region, if you use that term, do you have to get rid of it?

00:50:45.000 By the way, was anybody under the misimpression that the Dixie chicks were like confederates?

00:50:48.000 I'm just wondering. 1.00

00:50:50.000 So all of this seems very stupid, but the good news is at least we can find humor in this stupidity. 1.00

00:50:54.000 So this is the best story of the day. 1.00

00:50:56.000 Chazz is falling apart, guys.

00:50:57.000 It's falling apart.

00:50:58.000 And it's falling apart in the most hilarious possible way.

00:51:00.000 Apparently, people are just leaving.

00:51:02.000 People are fleeing the beautiful, beautiful landscape of democracy-ridden Chazz. 1.00

00:51:08.000 A block party of joy.

00:51:09.000 Where people are just getting shot kind of randomly.

00:51:11.000 They're just leaving this peaceful preserve away from the predations of American capitalism and the brutality of America's racist cops.

00:51:18.000 And they're fleeing this wonderful utopia for the racist, violence-ridden hellscape of the United States.

00:51:25.000 So they've left the independent Republic of Chaz and they're moving back into the United States.

00:51:30.000 A statement from a Twitter account that claims to be associated with the protest zone said, only a few people remain in our beloved CHOP.

00:51:38.000 Only a few people.

00:51:39.000 That's the super, super sad stuff.

00:51:41.000 By the way, Mayor Jenny Durkan, who had declared this thing like a democracy protest and all of this, she had said that we're going to clean this thing out in the next few weeks because it turns out people keep getting shot in Utopia.

00:51:51.000 Thousands of protesters occupied it, and then everybody left.

00:51:54.000 By the way, a bunch of business owners now suing the city properly for not protecting their property.

00:51:57.000 Properly.

00:51:58.000 Hip-hop artist and de facto chop warlord Raz Simone acknowledged the protesters have drawn attention from critics.

00:52:04.000 You're in CHAZ!

00:52:04.000 You're not in America!

00:52:05.000 So that's on you, dude!

00:52:06.000 That is an issue.

00:52:07.000 A lot of peaceful protesters are being harmed.

00:52:09.000 So it's sad that's where we're at in America.

00:52:11.000 You're not in America. 0.97

00:52:13.000 You're in Chaz.

00:52:14.000 So that's on you, dude.

00:52:15.000 If you're the leader of Chaz and people are getting shot in your territory, I feel like that's you. 1.00

00:52:19.000 The best quote on this is from a Seattle community leader named Andre Taylor.

00:52:24.000 He said, it's over because of the violence.

00:52:26.000 I've told people here, don't be focused on the location.

00:52:28.000 CHOP is not a location.

00:52:30.000 It's an idea.

00:52:31.000 It's an idea.

00:52:32.000 True CHOP has never been tried.

00:52:33.000 True CHAZ has never been tried. 0.74

00:52:35.000 It's an idea, guys.

00:52:37.000 Sure, the reality is people bleeding out in the streets, and us trying to farm by dumping topsoil on cardboard and calling it a farm, and us sitting out there and Mao-shaming each other, doing Maoist struggle sessions about our white privilege.

00:52:47.000 But really, it's more an idea than it was a reality.

00:52:50.000 True chop has never been tried.

00:52:52.000 It's really great.

00:52:53.000 Chop really was the friends we made along the way, except the ones who are dead.

00:52:56.000 Those ones, we don't remember them.

00:52:58.000 But everybody else, it was the journey.

00:53:00.000 Chop was the journey, not the destination, guys.

00:53:03.000 Chop was the idea, it wasn't the reality.

00:53:07.000 Indeed.

00:53:07.000 Chop.

00:53:08.000 A sad R.I.P.

00:53:10.000 to Chop.

00:53:11.000 We hope that it will one day be resurrected in a newer, better form.

00:53:14.000 Sort of like Venezuela versus Cuba.

00:53:15.000 Probably it'll work out exactly differently.

00:53:18.000 Probably it won't be... It'll be great.

00:53:19.000 It'll be great.

00:53:20.000 Alrighty.

00:53:21.000 Well, come back here later today for two additional hours of content.

00:53:23.000 Otherwise, try to have yourself a weekend.

00:53:26.000 Don't pass on an infection to anybody.

00:53:28.000 Try not to tear down a statue accidentally.

00:53:31.000 Try not to burn down the country.

00:53:32.000 I keep encouraging people to do this over the weekend, then everybody just ignores it.

00:53:36.000 Maybe I should go the other way.

00:53:38.000 Maybe I should just encourage people to do evil things, and then they'll ignore me and do the right things.

00:53:41.000 Because it seems like my attempts to push people to be better have failed dramatically.

00:53:47.000 Sorry about that.

00:53:47.000 It's on me, guys.

00:53:48.000 It's on me.

00:53:49.000 I accept my own white privilege, as Robin DiAngelo might say.

00:53:52.000 We'll see you here next week.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 26, 2020

Everything Is Republicans’ Fault | Ep. 1040

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