The Ben Shapiro Show - Foreigners Who Love The American Flag vs. Americans Who Hate It | Ep. 1294

00:00:00.000 Massive pro-freedom demonstrations break out in Cuba.

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00:01:35.000 Alrighty, so at long last, there is an actual on the ground revolution going on in Cuba.

00:01:43.000 It's being described as unprecedented by nearly everybody who's been watching Cuban politics for the last several decades.

00:01:48.000 We are talking massive protests in the streets of this totalitarian dictatorship.

00:01:53.000 I had the opportunity just a couple of weeks ago to go down to Miami and speak with many of the leaders in the Cuban dissident movement who are expatriates here in the United States and speak to some of the dissidents on the island itself, actually during one of the phone calls that I was holding with a dissident in Cuba.

00:02:08.000 This dissident, he and I were speaking about what exactly this is all about.

00:02:13.000 Spoiler alert!

00:02:13.000 It was not just about vaccine shortages, which as we will see as the media spin on this thing, it is about the brutal communist dictatorship that has repressed nearly all personal freedom on the island.

00:02:22.000 It is a cross-political movement in Cuba.

00:02:25.000 It is not just a bunch of sort of Reaganite right-wingers.

00:02:28.000 It is everybody who wants to see personal liberty win.

00:02:31.000 The people who are leading this movement have deliberately kept it apolitical.

00:02:35.000 Many of these people are artists who have a leftward bent on politics, but they understand the difference between being left with regard to some economic matters and also recognizing that you have to have human freedom.

00:02:44.000 In any case, I was speaking with this dissident on the phone and the Cuban security services cut off the call with a pre-recorded message explaining, That the call had been cut off because it violated security protocols in Cuba.

00:02:55.000 That is what kind of a country Cuba is.

00:02:57.000 That's what that regime is.

00:02:58.000 And that's why it was so evil, frankly, for the United States under Barack Obama to try to make nice with Raul Castro.

00:03:04.000 Those pictures of Barack Obama holding hands with Raul Castro, going to baseball games with Raul Castro, standing in front of giant buildings with emblems of Che Guevara, one of the great mass murderers of the 20th century behind him.

00:03:17.000 It was a disgrace to the United States.

00:03:19.000 And unbecoming of any president of the United States to participate in.

00:03:22.000 So far, the Biden administration has been completely silent on all of this.

00:03:25.000 I've yet to see a statement, at least as of Monday morning, from the Biden administration on protests that have been rocking the island of Cuba since Saturday, according to the New York Times, shouting freedom and other anti-government slogans.

00:03:37.000 Which, by the way, should tell you all you need to know about Cuba.

00:03:41.000 If freedom is an anti-government slogan in Cuba, that says something about the nature of the government.

00:03:47.000 Shouting freedom and other anti-government slogans, thousands of Cubans took to the streets and cities around the country on Sunday to protest food and medicine shortages in a remarkable eruption of discontent not seen in nearly 30 years.

00:03:57.000 Again, this is a deliberate misconstruction by the New York Times.

00:04:00.000 It is not just about food and medicine shortages.

00:04:03.000 Cuba has had food and medicine shortages for quite a while.

00:04:05.000 And by the way, I was reliably informed by all of the international community's most trusted sources that Cuba has one of the best medical systems on the planet.

00:04:14.000 Why should they have medicine shortages?

00:04:16.000 I was told that their nationalized healthcare system by Michael Moore, no less, no less a source than Michael Moore made an entire movie talking about the wonders of the Cuban healthcare system.

00:04:24.000 There shouldn't be.

00:04:25.000 I mean, it's a communist paradise.

00:04:26.000 There shouldn't be any food or medicine shortages over there.

00:04:29.000 That's not really what it's about.

00:04:30.000 It's the fact that they have been imprisoning dissidents.

00:04:31.000 They've been imprisoning young artists.

00:04:33.000 They've been imprisoning college students over there.

00:04:35.000 Thousands of people.

00:04:36.000 March through San Antonio de los Paños, southwest of Havana, with videos streaming live on Facebook for nearly an hour before they suddenly disappeared.

00:04:43.000 Why would they disappear?

00:04:45.000 This is a beautiful left-wing communist dictatorship.

00:04:48.000 What is the problem?

00:04:49.000 As the afternoon wore on, other videos appeared from demonstrations elsewhere, including Palma Soriano in the country's southeast.

00:04:55.000 Hundreds of people also gathered in Havana itself.

00:04:58.000 Where a heavy police presence preceded their arrival.

00:05:00.000 People are dying of hunger, one woman shouted during a protest filmed in the province of Artemisa in the islands west.

00:05:05.000 Our children are dying of hunger.

00:05:07.000 One clip circulating on Twitter showed protesters overturning a police car in Cardenas, 90 miles east of Havana.

00:05:12.000 Another video showed people looting from one of the much-detested government-run stores, which sell wildly overpriced items and currencies most Cubans do not possess. 0.98

00:05:19.000 Because as it turns out, communism just sucks. 0.99

00:05:21.000 It's just terrible. 0.99

00:05:23.000 And I know that Bernie Sanders has this sort of warm feeling about bread lines.

00:05:26.000 And I know that the Democratic Socialists of America, the folks like Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who have never spent an instant living under communist repression, have a very soft spot for communist dictatorship.

00:05:37.000 I get it. 0.97

00:05:37.000 But let's be real, living under communist dictatorship absolutely sucks. 0.97

00:05:41.000 There is a reason that since the rise of the Castro regime in the late 50s, Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people have fled the island of Cuba. 0.76

00:05:51.000 There's a reason why people will take the risk of putting their children on floating cars and attempting to float the 90 miles from Cuba to the south tip of Florida.

00:06:01.000 There's a reason for that.

00:06:03.000 As the New York Times reports, in a country known for repressive crackdowns on dissent, the rallies were widely viewed as astonishing.

00:06:08.000 Activists and analysts called it the first time so many people had openly protested against the communist government since the so-called Malaconazo uprising, which exploded in the summer of 1994 into a huge wave of Cubans leaving the country by sea.

00:06:19.000 And there is another sort of wave coming is sort of the widely expected response by the government because the government either is going to imprison everyone or beat up everyone or expel everyone.

00:06:29.000 And so the United States should be ready to take in Cuban patriots.

00:06:32.000 Who are attempting to overthrow the repressive regime that has condemned their country to living in the 1950s under zero freedom for literally three generations at this point.

00:06:43.000 Carolina Barrero, a Cuban activist, went even further.

00:06:46.000 She said, it is the most massive popular demonstration to protest the government we've experienced in Cuba since 1959.

00:06:52.000 She called the public outpouring on Sunday spontaneous, frontal, and forceful.

00:06:55.000 She said, what has happened is enormous.

00:06:57.000 So what exactly is the New York Times' take on this?

00:07:00.000 It's absolutely predictable.

00:07:01.000 It's not because of the Cuban government, you see.

00:07:03.000 It's because of the West.

00:07:04.000 It's because the West has been so mean to Cuba.

00:07:06.000 Yes, we have had an embargo on Cuba for 60 years, but it really is just because we're embargoing them now.

00:07:12.000 It's Donald Trump's fault that all this is happening.

00:07:14.000 Otherwise, everybody would be super happy with the Cuban regime.

00:07:17.000 So terrible that people have been living in abject poverty for three generations and are still driving around 1955 Chevys.

00:07:23.000 The protests were set off by a dire economic crisis in Cuba, where the coronavirus pandemic has cut off crucial tourism dollars.

00:07:28.000 People now spend hours in line each day to buy basic food items.

00:07:32.000 Many have been unable to work because restaurants and other businesses have remained on lockdown for months.

00:07:35.000 Now, what's so weird about that, you may have noticed, is that all we heard from the American press is how horrible America's response to the coronavirus was because we were a capitalist country.

00:07:44.000 Oh, our capitalist institutions are failing.

00:07:45.000 Oh, we need more state intervention.

00:07:47.000 Cuba is a completely state-run system, and it's a giant fail when it comes to COVID.

00:07:53.000 The desperate conditions have triggered an uptick in migration by both land and sea.

00:07:56.000 Since the start of the fiscal year last October, the U.S.

00:07:58.000 Coast Guard has intercepted more than 512 Cubans at sea, compared with 49 for the entire previous year.

00:08:03.000 On Saturday, the Coast Guard suspended the search for nine Cuban migrants whose vessel overturned at sea off Key West, Florida.

00:08:08.000 Again, the enormous risk that people take simply attempting to, they literally take like buoys and then just try to float themselves 90 miles.

00:08:15.000 You know how horrific your living conditions have to be in order for you to try that?

00:08:19.000 Would you try that?

00:08:20.000 With your kids?

00:08:21.000 Would you try that?

00:08:22.000 That's how bad things are in Cuba.

00:08:24.000 And we have allowed that communist dictatorship to stand for nigh on 60 years.

00:08:28.000 More than 60 years at this point.

00:08:29.000 Which is a disgrace to the United States and a disgrace to the Western world.

00:08:32.000 Period.

00:08:33.000 That regime is a disgrace to the Western world.

00:08:35.000 And the fact the United States has allowed a tin pot dictatorship to flourish off its coast Threatening America, by the way, in the middle of the Cold War for 60 years, it just demonstrates how little willing the United States actually is to project power.

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00:09:56.000 The American left has had a tough time condemning what's been going on in Cuba.

00:10:02.000 This has been true for decades.

00:10:03.000 And the American left has always had a bit of a soft spot for Cuba.

00:10:06.000 It's just an experimental regime. 1.00

00:10:07.000 You see American leftists on college campuses wearing t-shirts of Che Guevara, who, as I mentioned, is a mass murderer and an evil piece of human scum. 0.99

00:10:13.000 I was honored to meet one of the men who helped capture him just last month here in Florida. 0.99

00:10:18.000 It was a pretty amazing experience over at a museum for the brigade that fought in the Bay of Pigs.

00:10:25.000 It is amazing the contrast between the Cuban protesters and the Americans who don't like the American flag.

00:10:31.000 So this just struck me forcibly last night.

00:10:34.000 One of the videos that was coming out of Cuba was protesters.

00:10:37.000 And you'll notice that one of the flags that they are carrying around is the American flag.

00:10:40.000 You can see it in this photo.

00:10:42.000 There they are carrying around the American flag.

00:10:44.000 And this, this is not a shock.

00:10:46.000 Okay, this is it.

00:10:48.000 They're shouting libertad de Cuba.

00:10:51.000 They're talking about freedom.

00:10:54.000 And they're carrying around American flags!

00:10:55.000 Because everywhere on earth that you go, where you find people who want freedom, they are not carrying the flag of the Russians, or the Chinese, or the Swedes, or the Brits, or the French, or the Germans.

00:11:06.000 They are carrying the American flag, and it is not true merely in Cuba.

00:11:09.000 It is true in places like Hong Kong.

00:11:11.000 Here's footage from Hong Kong.

00:11:13.000 You'll remember just before the Chinese crushed the Hong Kong dissident movement.

00:11:17.000 You'll recall that there were members of the Hong Kong dissident movement, and they were carrying the American flag.

00:11:22.000 That is not a shock.

00:11:23.000 Again, the rule is that if you are a dissident who seeks freedom, America is your beacon.

00:11:28.000 The American flag is your symbol.

00:11:30.000 Again, here is the footage from just about a year ago when Hong Kong dissidents were marching in the streets carrying the American flag.

00:11:41.000 There is a reason they are pushing the American flag.

00:11:43.000 There's a reason they're flying the American flag.

00:11:46.000 Again, no other country has its flag flown as a symbol of freedom around the planet.

00:11:51.000 None.

00:11:51.000 Zero zip zilch.

00:11:53.000 Again, from Cuba to Hong Kong, wherever communist tyranny reigns, those who stand up to it carry the American flag.

00:11:59.000 Not just communist tyranny, by the way.

00:12:01.000 In Iran, when you have dissidents who are standing up to Islamic dictatorship, you will see that protesters, dissidents, refuse to step on the American flag.

00:12:08.000 This is an amazing video from just a couple of years ago, where dissidents were protesting against the Iranian regime, and they were stepping around the American flag.

00:12:16.000 The Iranian regime had painted the American flag On the pavement.

00:12:19.000 And the dissidents, instead of disrespecting and walking on the American flag, decided to walk around the American flag to demonstrate that they were not anti-America, they were actually pro-America.

00:12:29.000 I mean, that's amazing stuff right there.

00:12:32.000 The contrast between that and the number of Americans who hate and spit on the American flag is truly astonishing.

00:12:37.000 And so I have a proposal.

00:12:39.000 One for one trade.

00:12:41.000 Every single dissident who wants to fly the American flag and believes in American freedom, for all of the Americans who spit on the American flag and see it as a symbol of repression and evil.

00:12:48.000 How about that?

00:12:49.000 Will we make that trade right now?

00:12:51.000 Now, in reality, American citizens can't be expelled simply because they don't like the flag, because we do have freedom of speech.

00:12:57.000 But in principle, the folks who are marching in Cuba for liberty right now and flying the American flag are better Americans than the Americans who stand around spitting on the American flag and pretending that it is a symbol of repression and evil.

00:13:08.000 You know who those people are?

00:13:09.000 People who have never lived under true repression and evil.

00:13:12.000 Seriously.

00:13:13.000 If you live under the threat of true repression and evil, the American flag is the symbol of liberty.

00:13:17.000 If you live in America, a place of liberty, we have this ungrateful, rather despicable distaste for our own freedom.

00:13:28.000 We've gotten so used to being fat and lazy and rich and free that we seem to forget that there are people all over the planet who live like that.

00:13:36.000 And that for most of human history, none of that was the rule.

00:13:40.000 And when you see the contrast between people in Cuba who are risking life and limb, I mean, the security services are shooting people right now.

00:13:46.000 There's video that was emerging from Cuba yesterday of the police in Cuba gunning down, like firing live ammunition, according to these videos, at dissidents, at protesters.

00:13:56.000 You can see some of the video.

00:13:58.000 We see people being arrested, people being shot at.

00:14:21.000 And it's wonderful stuff happening over there.

00:14:23.000 When you see that sort of activity by actual repressive regimes, and then you have the United States, the left of the United States, mainstream, going completely silent on it while spitting on the American flag, it does tell you something because they have been completely silent on it.

00:14:38.000 The left simply has nothing to say about the liberty of people in Cuba.

00:14:42.000 And by the way, the people who are protesting in Cuba would not.

00:14:44.000 I mean, I met with many of them.

00:14:46.000 Many of them would not identify as right-wing American Republicans.

00:14:49.000 They would not.

00:14:50.000 Many of them would identify, I'm sure, as Democrats.

00:14:53.000 They believe in large social services.

00:14:55.000 They're not people who nationally, who oppose naturally, for example, nationalized healthcare.

00:15:02.000 They might like nationalized healthcare, but what they understand, on a root level, is that a government that represses its people, and abolishes private property, and cuts against profit motive, and decides that human beings ought not have rights that preexist government, We'll inevitably slip into tyranny that they understand at a gut level.

00:15:17.000 And meanwhile, you have, again, the sickening specter of Americans kneeling for the American flag while living in the richest and freest country in the history of the world.

00:15:26.000 I promise you Colin Kaepernick would not trade places with any one of these Cuban dissidents. 1.00

00:15:30.000 I promise you Ilhan Omar would not be trading places with any one of the people living in Hong Kong right now.

00:15:36.000 None of these people ever willing to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to ripping the United States and talking about how evil it is.

00:15:42.000 None of these folks actually believe that the United States, like I really doubt the sincerity of many of these folks, or if I don't doubt their sincerity, I doubt their knowledge level.

00:15:50.000 There's a tremendous level of ignorance.

00:15:52.000 If you never look outside the borders of the United States, it's very easy to identify the problems of the United States.

00:15:57.000 If you ever look for five seconds outside the border of the United States, or beyond the time period of today, what you will see is that the vast majority of history, and today, in the vast majority of countries, the kind of liberties that we expect, that we demand from our government, are not available to the vast majority of people.

00:16:12.000 Which is why those people march with our flag while we, here in the United States, are giving millions of dollars to athletes who disdain the American flag.

00:16:21.000 And yes, flags stand for something.

00:16:23.000 You know who knows that?

00:16:24.000 The people who are marching with our flag in Cuba right now at risk to their own life and limb.

00:16:30.000 Meanwhile, the way that the Biden administration is downplaying this so far is truly an amazing thing.

00:16:35.000 It's truly an astonishing thing.

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00:17:47.000 So here is it really is an amazing thing.

00:17:49.000 Here is what the acting assistant secretary for U.S.

00:17:53.000 Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs tweeted out.

00:17:56.000 And this, so far, is the only statement that I've been able to find from the White House of Joe Biden.

00:18:02.000 Quote, peaceful protests are growing in Cuba as the Cuban people exercise their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID cases, deaths, and medicine shortages.

00:18:11.000 We commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.

00:18:16.000 Oh, so you're just going to completely miss the point there.

00:18:17.000 So there are a few things about this tweet that are truly amazing. 0.97

00:18:20.000 Ignorant, backwards, counterproductive, and yes, promoting support for an evil regime. 0.90

00:18:26.000 One, there's no right to peaceful assembly in Cuba. 0.98

00:18:29.000 That's what makes this unprecedented.

00:18:30.000 People do not have the right to get together and protest the government.

00:18:33.000 Why?

00:18:33.000 Because it's a communist dictatorship.

00:18:35.000 Second, if you are trying to reduce this down to COVID policy, that is just incorrect.

00:18:39.000 It is wrong.

00:18:40.000 I talked to many of the leaders of the Cuban dissident movement personally.

00:18:44.000 Not one of them mentioned COVID policy as the chief rationale for what is going on in Cuba right now.

00:18:49.000 This is like three weeks ago.

00:18:52.000 The notion that all of this is happening because of lack of vaccinations in Cuba is nuts.

00:18:57.000 But trying to boil it down by this is a way for the United States not to have to take a position on the evil of the Cuban government.

00:19:02.000 Because the truth is that the Biden administration really has no idea what to do with the Cuban government.

00:19:07.000 I mean, as of March, 80 U.S.

00:19:10.000 House representative Democrats were urging Biden to repeal Trump's quote-unquote cruel sanctions on Cuba and renew engagement.

00:19:17.000 The idea being that if we establish trade ties and capitalism, that this will somehow moderate Cuba.

00:19:23.000 Weird, because we've tried that with China and all it's done is strengthen the regime and created a world historical opponent for the United States. 0.80

00:19:31.000 Let's do the same thing with Cuba. 0.65

00:19:32.000 Makes perfect sense.

00:19:33.000 Let's uphold their regime by ending the sanctions that have made them economically weak and vulnerable to protests like this.

00:19:40.000 The fact that the United States has remained largely silent or that we'll mouth a few platitudes about the right to free assembly without any sort of comprehensive consequences is pretty astonishing.

00:19:51.000 Again, this is a tin-pocked dictatorship.

00:19:55.000 The fact that it's like North Korea on our border without a nuclear weapon.

00:20:00.000 And we do nothing.

00:20:01.000 It really is quite wrong.

00:20:03.000 It is quite despicable in pretty much every way.

00:20:06.000 But it doesn't matter because in the United States we are too busy beating up on ourselves.

00:20:10.000 We're too busy talking about how terrible the United States is again.

00:20:13.000 You can talk about the flaws in the United States and uphold freedom for other places and acknowledge that the United States is a beacon for freedom at the same time.

00:20:18.000 But that is not what the American left does.

00:20:20.000 The American left does not give a damn about the freedom of people anywhere else on Earth.

00:20:25.000 In their perspective, the Noam Chomsky foreign policy perspective, the United States is a colonialist imperialist power.

00:20:30.000 And if we project freedom in other places on Earth, this makes us the villain.

00:20:34.000 We are bad.

00:20:36.000 We should just withdraw.

00:20:37.000 This is part and parcel of foreign policy isolationism that is present on the left, not out of a drive to preserve American security, and not out of a drive to preserve American resources, but out of a drive to undermine the basic fundamental notion that the United States has been a force for good in the world, which it undoubtedly has.

00:20:55.000 It undoubtedly has.

00:20:57.000 The United States' failure to help Batista sufficiently defeat the Cuban regime led to a 60-year dictatorship.

00:21:05.000 And we're seeing the consequences of it right now.

00:21:08.000 Again, it's, it is remarkable to me that the Biden administration can't, Joe Biden can't be woken up from his Sunday nap to make a statement about what is going on in Cuba.

00:21:19.000 But you'll have the same Biden administration talking about how we must teach children in school classrooms critical race theory.

00:21:25.000 The notion that the United States is not built on freedom the way that Cuban dissidents think it is, or that Hong Kong dissidents think it is, or that Iranians think it is.

00:21:32.000 No. 0.95

00:21:33.000 Actually, America is built on racism and bigotry and homophobia and cisgender patriarchy and all the rest of this nonsense.

00:21:39.000 It wasn't five minutes ago, I mean literally the end of the week last week, Jen Psaki was saying to the White House press corps that critical race theory teaching in classrooms was an active good.

00:21:49.000 There is a connection between these two things.

00:21:52.000 It is not a coincidence that the same people who promote teaching critical race theory have nothing to say in defense of Cuban dissidents.

00:21:59.000 That is not a coincidence at all.

00:22:01.000 It is not a coincidence that the same people who disdain the Iranian dissidents and the Hong Kong dissidents, that those people are the same people who spend all their time talking about how evil and terrible the United States is.

00:22:13.000 These are not folks who simply want a better America. 0.89

00:22:16.000 These are folks who see America as an active evil and anywhere we put our dirty, grubby little fingers, the world gets worse in their perspective.

00:22:23.000 Here is Jen Psaki's take on critical race theory being taught in America.

00:22:26.000 I'm glad that we've put our focus here, as opposed to, you know, projecting the most powerful economic and military force the world has ever seen to even a little bit, like a drop, just to help assure the liberty of freedom-seeking people.

00:22:41.000 The president believes that in our history, there are many dark moments.

00:22:45.000 And there is not just slavery and racism in our history.

00:22:49.000 There are systemic racism that is still impacting society today.

00:22:52.000 And he believes, as I believe, as a parent of children, that kids should learn about our history.

00:22:58.000 So as the spouse of an educator and as somebody who continues to believe that children should learn not just the good, but also the challenging in our history.

00:23:07.000 And that's part of what we're talking about here, even as it's become politically Charged.

00:23:11.000 Okay, that is not what we are talking about here.

00:23:13.000 That is a deliberate misreading of the entire controversy over critical race theory, which really is about what America fundamentally is.

00:23:20.000 People in the United States believe the American flag is fundamentally bad because America is fundamentally bad.

00:23:24.000 And it is not a coincidence that those people are completely silent today as Cuban dissidents get clubbed in the streets.

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00:24:41.000 Again, what we are watching in Cuba is just a reminder, as Hong Kong was a reminder, that not only are there people who do seek their liberty and see the United States as a symbol of that liberty, but that without some level of American or foreign support, these people just get crushed.

00:24:56.000 What we saw in Hong Kong was massive protests.

00:24:59.000 Millions of people in the streets.

00:25:00.000 And then the Chinese just walked in and decided they were going to make it another principality of China in violation of treaty.

00:25:05.000 And the West did nothing.

00:25:06.000 And I have 7 million people who are living under the open tyranny of the Chinese government.

00:25:11.000 And now you have China threatening Taiwan, as well as Japan by extension, by the way.

00:25:15.000 The same thing is likely to happen in Cuba unless the United States actually grows some stones at a certain point and provides some sort of credible threat to the Cuban government with regard to protecting these dissidents.

00:25:26.000 Because the reality is that the Cuban government can go in and break a few heads and then Cuba won't be in the headlines anymore and then everybody in the United States will forget because this is the way the United States does foreign policy.

00:25:35.000 When it comes to foreign policy, unfortunately, the United States is not a serious country.

00:25:38.000 We are not interested in foreign policy.

00:25:40.000 We find it to be something unworthy of our time until it sort of pops its head up.

00:25:46.000 through some sort of deeply disturbing foreign policy headline like the mass slaughter of the Yazidis in Iraq, for example, or more or more obviously a terrorist attack on an American entity.

00:25:59.000 When that sort of stuff happens, we pay attention to foreign policy for about five seconds, and then we get bored.

00:26:03.000 And then we're like, OK, well, you know, should we do we really care about this?

00:26:06.000 Should we really care about this?

00:26:08.000 Latest evidence of this, of course, is what's going on in Afghanistan, where Boredom, ignorance, and antipathy for America's role in the world have created this vast confluence which is leading to the United States' surrender in Afghanistan, which is effectively what is going on right now.

00:26:22.000 The United States is pulling out of Afghanistan for no discernible reason.

00:26:25.000 There really is no discernible reason.

00:26:26.000 When Joe Biden goes on national television and he says things like, how many more American troops have to die in Afghanistan?

00:26:33.000 This was a line that may have worked like 10 years ago.

00:26:35.000 It should not have worked at any time in the past five or six years, considering the number of Americans who are actually dying in Afghanistan was lower than the number of Americans who are dying in Chicago pretty much every weekend, except over the course of a year.

00:26:44.000 In Afghanistan, we were spending some money to uphold the Afghan government.

00:26:48.000 Yes, it had corrupt serious corruption problems.

00:26:50.000 Yes, there is serious tribalism in Afghanistan.

00:26:53.000 But there was, in fact, a unified government over the country of Afghanistan.

00:26:56.000 And now, for no apparent reason, to no end, we are pulling out of Afghanistan.

00:27:01.000 And there are people who are celebrating it.

00:27:04.000 For the life of me, I can't understand why.

00:27:05.000 I do not understand why.

00:27:07.000 We are not at the point in Afghanistan where crisis was upon us.

00:27:10.000 We are not at the point where tens of thousands of American troops were in harm's way, or hundreds of American troops were dying, or even tens of American troops were dying.

00:27:18.000 And so the unilateral pullout is meant for only a couple of audiences.

00:27:21.000 One, the isolationist audience at home that believes the United States really shouldn't be involved anywhere in the world, that we are a deleterious force in the world.

00:27:28.000 And two, a bunch of people who don't care about foreign policy and anytime they see American troops abroad, get uncomfortable because they don't really understand that foreign policy is not a vacuum.

00:27:37.000 And we are seeing full-scale foreign policy is not a vacuum.

00:27:40.000 I mean, the reality is the Taliban is going to retake the country and that is going to have some pretty significant downstream effects.

00:27:46.000 Yes for the United States and yes for our allies.

00:27:48.000 There are going to be downstream effects because it turns out that when a regime that you defeated 20 years ago in about three weeks, the Taliban, when you defeat that regime and you drive them to the hills and then you establish a government and then you let that government fall back to the people you drove out, You are demonstrating that America is, in fact, a paper tiger. 0.75

00:28:05.000 Also, you are demonstrating that we are a bad ally.

00:28:07.000 If you are a freedom-seeking person, how long are you going to keep looking to the United States if the United States no longer backs you?

00:28:13.000 If you know that the minute the American voter gets bored, There's going to be a pullout and that you are probably going to die and your family is going to be killed along with you.

00:28:21.000 How many people are going to stand up for freedom then?

00:28:23.000 How many people are going to be willing to stand up against the predations of the Taliban or against the Iranian regime?

00:28:27.000 How many times can the United States over the course of the last 10, 15 years screw our allies?

00:28:33.000 Seriously, I'm just wondering how many times can we screw our allies before people start to say, you know what?

00:28:37.000 We got to work on our own.

00:28:39.000 I'm talking about the Kurds in Iraq.

00:28:41.000 I'm talking about the Yazidis in Iraq.

00:28:43.000 I'm talking about The anti-Taliban forces amassed in Afghanistan.

00:28:49.000 I'm talking about the people of Hong Kong.

00:28:51.000 How many times can the West screw its allies before it has no more allies?

00:28:55.000 Really serious question.

00:28:57.000 It's because clearly our willingness to pay any price for freedom, as John F. Kennedy once famously suggested, is no longer there.

00:29:05.000 At least that is the message from Joe Biden.

00:29:07.000 The Biden administration is openly acknowledging at this point we're handing the country back to the Taliban, which, by the way, will provide a safe haven once again for terrorism, because this is what they did to begin. 0.96

00:29:15.000 There was the Pentagon spokesperson basically admitting to Chris Wallace, yeah, you know, the Taliban could take over.

00:29:21.000 It's not the Taliban could take over.

00:29:22.000 It is only a matter of time until the Taliban take over.

00:29:26.000 We're certainly watching with deep concern, Chris, the deteriorating security situation and the violence, which is, of course, way too high, and the advances and the momentum that the Taliban seems to have right now.

00:29:36.000 I mean, we're not unmindful of that, Chris.

00:29:38.000 We're watching it and monitoring it, which is why we are, again, working with our Afghan partners to encourage them to use the capacity and the capability that we know they have, and we know that they know how to defend their country.

00:29:49.000 This is a time for them to step up and to do exactly that.

00:29:53.000 Except that the Taliban has taken back one-third of the country without serious combat.

00:29:57.000 And everybody in foreign policy circles knows that the Taliban are likely to topple the Afghan government almost immediately upon the exit of the United States.

00:30:04.000 This has led to a rather uncomfortable reality for the Democrats, who are having to acknowledge that they are, in fact, engaging in the same sort of pullout in Vietnam that led to the imprisonment of millions of people, hundreds of thousands of people floating in boats off the coast of Vietnam, and the murder of millions of people in Cambodia.

00:30:18.000 The Democrats have a long history of doing this sort of stuff, and it is never good.

00:30:22.000 In fact, here is a Democrat trying to suggest, this is Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the senator, the chair of the Armed Services Committee, trying to suggest that, you know what, pulling out is the best of bad options.

00:30:31.000 Well, actually, it isn't.

00:30:33.000 It isn't.

00:30:33.000 You know what is the best of bad options?

00:30:35.000 Keeping a skeleton force in Afghanistan to prevent the takeover of the Taliban.

00:30:38.000 That's actually the best of bad options.

00:30:40.000 The United States currently has troops in dozens of countries doing just that.

00:30:43.000 And you know what?

00:30:45.000 That's alright.

00:30:46.000 Here's Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, though, basically saying that surrender is the best of bad options.

00:30:51.000 I think the president was presented with a bad series of choices.

00:30:59.000 The Trump administration had said we were leaving by May 1st.

00:31:03.000 The Taliban had no real responsibilities in that agreement, none that they carried out that I can see.

00:31:10.000 And yet that date, I think, would have prompted an incredible increase of violence and directed against the United States.

00:31:17.000 I think the president made a difficult, but the best of many poor choices.

00:31:22.000 Oh really?

00:31:23.000 He actually wasn't presented with the choices, the reality.

00:31:25.000 He could have done whatever he wanted, just as presidents have done for decades at this point.

00:31:30.000 But...

00:31:31.000 Underlying all of this is a fundamental lack of confidence in what the United States is and what the United States' role in the world is, and that is a serious problem.

00:31:40.000 Because again, there are people out there who do not lack our confidence.

00:31:43.000 I'm talking about China.

00:31:44.000 I'm talking about Russia.

00:31:45.000 I'm talking about Iran.

00:31:46.000 There's a reason why there's a headline in the Washington Post today.

00:31:48.000 Iran cheers U.S.

00:31:49.000 withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:31:51.000 Yes, I know why.

00:31:52.000 I've noticed.

00:31:54.000 Tehran is worried about the Taliban because Afghanistan, returning to civil war, Afghanistan, you'll remember, is on Iran's border.

00:32:00.000 And so this creates some external effects for Iran.

00:32:02.000 But Iran has cultivated ties with some Taliban factions and softened its tone toward the extremist group.

00:32:07.000 That gamble has elicited fierce debate in Iran, supposedly.

00:32:10.000 Iran's increasingly public overtures to the Taliban continue.

00:32:16.000 One of the experts over there says Iran believes they are using the Taliban.

00:32:19.000 Some could argue the Taliban is using Iran to present themselves as more powerful and worthy of ruling a country.

00:32:26.000 The Taliban, thought to control around a third of Afghanistan, has so far largely gained ground without full-scale fighting, has instead relied on cutting deals with local leaders.

00:32:32.000 And the reason they can do that is because there is no counterweight in the region.

00:32:35.000 There is no counterweight.

00:32:37.000 Meanwhile, in recent weeks, Iranian hardliners aligned with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, who himself is a terrorist mass murderer, have gone on the offensive and publicly painted a rose-tinted picture of a changed Taliban.

00:32:50.000 So it is just wonderful to see how the United States is complicit in all of this.

00:32:54.000 We've now pulled out of Afghanistan in order to facilitate the rise of the Taliban.

00:32:57.000 We are openly making overtures to an Iranian regime that rigged an election on behalf of a mass-murdering terrorist. 0.79

00:33:02.000 We have allowed Hong Kong to fall to the Chinese. 1.00

00:33:05.000 If pattern holds, we'll do very little as Cuban dissidents are clubbed into submission on the streets of Cuba, of Havana.

00:33:14.000 America is going to need to figure out exactly what it is if we wish to be a beacon of liberty in the world.

00:33:20.000 But given that the United States is own citizenry, at least half of them apparently believe the United States is not even a beacon of liberty inside its own borders, there's a fundamental lack of confidence that is setting in.

00:33:30.000 And the world is not gonna be better off for that.

00:33:31.000 Americans aren't gonna be better off for that because there are malign influences in the world at work.

00:33:35.000 The United States is not going to have a better future if vicious totalitarian powers gain power internationally and inside the United States, Those who seek to tear down the fundamental institutions of freedom are successful here.

00:33:47.000 None of that is going to be good for American citizens or for human beings the world over.

00:33:51.000 Because let's face it, the radical increase in prosperity and freedom that has occurred since the end of World War II is almost solely due to the massive power and influence of the United States, a confident United States bestriding the world stage.

00:34:02.000 When that ends, So does all of the wealth, so does all of the prosperity, and so does all of the freedom.

00:34:06.000 We can go right back to what things were before the United States was the most prosperous and powerful force on planet Earth.

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00:35:41.000 Whether it is totalitarian lockdown measures that destroyed the middle class while big business thrived or the blatant indoctrination of schoolchildren into critical race theory, there's no denying the freedom of everyday Americans is under assault.

00:35:52.000 And you can tell it's gone too far when just questioning the mainstream narrative inspires fear of retribution and creates waves of silence where otherwise there would be dissent.

00:36:00.000 You feel it at your job.

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00:36:04.000 We are living through an authoritarian moment, which is why I wrote the book, The Authoritarian Moment, to help people like you learn as much about how we got there as you can, and more importantly, how you can fight back.

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00:36:28.000 It feels like if you just express a basic opinion about the goodness of America, you may find yourself on the social outs, and you have all the most powerful institutions of society weaponized against you.

00:36:38.000 This is what the authoritarian moment is all about.

00:36:40.000 The left has suggested that people on the right are the totalitarians.

00:36:44.000 There's certainly totalitarians on the far right, but the great threat to the United States right now is the mainstream left, which has imbibed from the authoritarian well and sees itself as a utopian group capable of cramming down on you all of their own ideas.

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00:37:22.000 ♪ Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to be in a running gun battle with his teleprompter.

00:37:30.000 It is not going well.

00:37:31.000 Even the New York Times has now noticed this.

00:37:34.000 According to the New York Times, even the president labeled a speech boring recently, an emission that highlights a tendency towards delivering minutiae-filled discourse over scaling oratorical heights.

00:37:43.000 I love how they really have to obscure even their own message.

00:37:45.000 Voters chose boring over bombast.

00:37:47.000 They got Biden's penchant for pontificating, according to Michael Scheer.

00:37:51.000 Even President Biden thought he had been ponderous.

00:37:53.000 I know it's a boring speech, the 46th president said at the end of 31 minutes and 19 seconds filled with statistics, academic studies, global growth, domestic product, comparisons, and predictions of 7.4% economic growth.

00:38:04.000 The president's remarks on Wednesday delivered to a friendly and respectful crowd of supporters at McHenry County College in the Chicago suburb even included reconciliation, which Mr. Biden quickly admitted was a fancy Washington word.

00:38:15.000 As the president travels the country, pitching his plan for spending trillions of dollars to reshape the American economy, he is facing a rhetorical reality that has long plagued many of his predecessors.

00:38:23.000 There's a vast difference between explaining and inspiring.

00:38:26.000 And Mr. Biden, who was recently called the explainer-in-chief by his press secretary, often struggles to reach the potential oratorical heights of the office he holds.

00:38:34.000 Mr. Biden's ambitions are vast.

00:38:36.000 The substance of his presidency has been dramatic at times.

00:38:38.000 He sometimes describes his agenda as a way to prove that the very concept of democracy itself can deliver for the people.

00:38:45.000 The White House is perfectly fine with Mr. Biden's ability to turn down the political heat in Washington after four years of chaotic governance.

00:38:50.000 But like former President Barack Obama once delivered a 17-minute answer to a healthcare question, and Bill Clinton was forced to apologize to a late-night comic for a dreadful convention speech, Mr. Biden can sometimes get lost in the minutia.

00:39:02.000 Okay, I love how the New York Times is framing this.

00:39:04.000 Joe Biden cannot string together a sentence off teleprompter.

00:39:07.000 When he is on teleprompter, he is in a running battle with the teleprompter.

00:39:10.000 And the New York Times frames this as he's too much of an expert.

00:39:13.000 He's just too with it, guys.

00:39:14.000 It's not that Joe Biden is entering the early stages of dementia.

00:39:18.000 It is that Joe Biden is just so unbelievably with it.

00:39:21.000 He is so into all of the minute details of his own policy proposals.

00:39:25.000 He didn't cite you a chapter and verse.

00:39:27.000 He'll bore you to teeters with all of the minutiae.

00:39:29.000 You've noticed, by the way, I love that paragraph.

00:39:32.000 Barack Obama, that man was just a policy wonk, just so wonky.

00:39:36.000 Bill Clinton, so unbelievably wonky.

00:39:38.000 I'm noticing you're leaving out like a few presidents that happened between here.

00:39:41.000 They all have ours by their names? 1.00

00:39:43.000 Because as it turns out, according to the media, every Republican is an idiot dunderhead who can't speak a sentence and every Democrat is world-beatingly genius. 1.00

00:39:51.000 Just brilliant. 1.00

00:39:52.000 Remember, they made the same excuse about Al Gore.

00:39:54.000 Al Gore was unbelievably boring, a terrible speaker, no charisma.

00:39:58.000 And their excuse for why he lost to George W. Bush is, of course, that Al Gore was too smart for the room.

00:40:03.000 They said the same thing about John Kerry in 2004.

00:40:05.000 John Kerry has never been in a room where he was too smart for the room.

00:40:08.000 He has not been in a first grade classroom as an adult where he was too smart for the room. 1.00

00:40:13.000 I mean, John Kerry is one of the stupidest people alive. 1.00

00:40:16.000 And yet, according to the New York Times and according to the rest of the media, the big problem for every Democrat incapable of properly communicating is, of course, that they are just too brilliant for the room. 1.00

00:40:24.000 Well, one of the other people who is obviously too brilliant for the room is Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:40:28.000 The reason that Kamala Harris is having her political struggles right now is clearly because Kamala Harris is just so smart. 0.98

00:40:35.000 She's smarter than you. 0.85

00:40:37.000 That's why.

00:40:38.000 And you may be looking at her and watching her on TV and thinking to yourself, this lady is not super bright. 1.00

00:40:44.000 Like she says lots of dumb crap routinely. 1.00

00:40:46.000 You might, I know, you might be thinking that to yourself. 1.00

00:40:50.000 And then, you should know, it's you.

00:40:53.000 It's not her, it's you.

00:40:55.000 So, like for example, over the weekend, when she did an interview with BET, In which she explained that voter ID is racist because rural people can't get photocopies.

00:41:08.000 That's just because she's smart. 0.94

00:41:09.000 It's not because she's dumb or out of touch or a time traveler from 1971. 0.95

00:41:13.000 It's because she's actually just so brilliant. 0.99

00:41:17.000 It's your fault.

00:41:18.000 It's like all the conversations that the media critics now have about Hollywood.

00:41:23.000 Whenever a crowd doesn't like a particular movie or an aspect of a particular movie that the media want them to like, it's that the crowd is filled with toxic fandom.

00:41:30.000 Whenever people are like, yeah, you know, wasn't so into that That character from Last Jedi?

00:41:37.000 I didn't really like that.

00:41:38.000 And they're like, TOXIC FANDOM.

00:41:42.000 People weren't into Lady Ghostbusters.

00:41:44.000 It's the same thing about Democrats.

00:41:46.000 If you don't like a Democrat, it's you.

00:41:48.000 It's Principal Skinner from The Simpsons.

00:41:50.000 It's not me.

00:41:51.000 It's the children who are the problem.

00:41:53.000 It's not Kamala Harris.

00:41:54.000 It's you who are the problem.

00:41:55.000 So listen to the world-breaking genius of our Vice President of the United States, who was selected Largely and almost solely on the basis of her intersectional qualifications.

00:42:04.000 Here she was demonstrating her full-scale genius.

00:42:07.000 In some people's mind, that means, well, you're gonna have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove you are who you are.

00:42:19.000 Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don't, there's no Kinko's, there's no Office Max near them.

00:42:26.000 People have to understand that when we're talking about voter ID laws, Be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are.

00:42:35.000 Um... What?

00:42:39.000 So here's the thing.

00:42:41.000 Photocopiers were invented in the United States in the 1930s.

00:42:43.000 They were widely available pretty much everywhere by the 1970s.

00:42:46.000 So unless she's a time traveler from 1971, I don't know what the hell she is talking about.

00:42:50.000 Also, when is the last time you actually used a photocopier?

00:42:53.000 You have a printer at your house, I assume, because most people have printers at their house, rural or urban. 0.79

00:42:58.000 Also, you don't even have to print crap now.

00:42:59.000 All you have to do is take a picture of something and you can email to somebody to print it out for you.

00:43:04.000 Or you could just do a scan directly from your phone.

00:43:08.000 If you got an iPhone, all you gotta do is go to your notes section.

00:43:10.000 I don't mean to guide you through how to actually scan a PDF on your phone, but you can just do it.

00:43:16.000 Okay, but apparently, world-breaking genius.

00:43:18.000 It's all world-breaking genius.

00:43:19.000 You know, it is this sort of coverage that I think leads people to a radical level of institutional distrust.

00:43:26.000 A radical level of distrust of media.

00:43:29.000 And this has some predictable effect.

00:43:31.000 Andrew Sullivan has a really good and interesting piece over at his Substack about how he has been disconnected from the left.

00:43:37.000 How the institutional left has basically moved beyond the populace.

00:43:42.000 His piece, Andrew Sullivan again, is a center-left figure.

00:43:47.000 He's sort of right-wing on foreign policy a little bit during the Bush years, in the early years of Bush. 0.85

00:43:51.000 But aside from that, Andrew Sullivan is a very openly gay man.

00:43:56.000 He was a very early advocate of gay marriage.

00:43:58.000 Andrew Sullivan is also the guy who suggested that Trig Palin was not, in fact, Sarah Palin's child, right?

00:44:03.000 Andrew Sullivan's left-wing bona fides were pretty much in order until the last five minutes.

00:44:07.000 There's a piece on Substack called What Happened to You?

00:44:09.000 He says, What happened to you?

00:44:11.000 That's a question I get a lot on Twitter.

00:44:12.000 When did you become so far right? 0.97

00:44:14.000 Why have you become a white supremacist, transphobic, misogynistic eugenist? 0.97

00:44:17.000 Or a eugenicist? 0.98

00:44:19.000 Or, of course, see, I told you who he really was.

00:44:21.000 Just take off the hood, Sully.

00:44:23.000 It's trolling mainly, and it's a weapon for some in the elite to wield against others in the emotional kind of blackmail spiral that was first pioneered on elite college campuses.

00:44:31.000 But it's worth answering a year after I was booted from New York Magazine for my unacceptable politics because it seems to me that the dynamic really should be the other way around.

00:44:38.000 The real question is, what happened to you?

00:44:41.000 The critical race theory debate is just the latest squall in a tempest brewing and building for five years or so.

00:44:45.000 And yes, some of the liberal critiques of a Fox News-hyped campaign are well taken.

00:44:49.000 Is this a wedge issue for the GOP?

00:44:50.000 Of course it is.

00:44:51.000 Are they using the term critical race theory as a cynical marketing boogeyman?

00:44:54.000 Of course they are.

00:44:55.000 Are some dog whistles involved?

00:44:56.000 A few.

00:44:57.000 Are crude bans on public servants' speech dangerous?

00:44:59.000 Absolutely.

00:45:00.000 But does that mean there isn't a real issue here?

00:45:02.000 Of course it doesn't.

00:45:04.000 Take a big step back.

00:45:05.000 Observe what has happened in our discourse since around 2015.

00:45:08.000 Forget CRT for a moment.

00:45:09.000 Ask yourself, is nothing going on here but Republican propaganda and guile?

00:45:12.000 Can you not see that the Republicans may be acting, but they are also reacting?

00:45:16.000 Reacting against something that is right in front of our noses?

00:45:19.000 What is it?

00:45:19.000 It is, says Andrew Sullivan, I'd argue, the sudden, rapid, stunning shift in the belief system of the American elites.

00:45:25.000 It has sent the whole society into a profound cultural dislocation.

00:45:29.000 It is, in essence, an ongoing moral panic against the specter of white supremacy, which is now bizarrely regarded as an accurate description of the largest, freest, most successful multiracial democracy in human history.

00:45:39.000 We all know what's happened.

00:45:40.000 The elites, increasingly sequestered within one political party and one media monoculture, educated by colleges and private schools, that have become hermetically sealed against any non-left dissent, have had a, quote, social justice reckoning these past few years.

00:45:52.000 And they have been ideologically transformed, with countless cascading consequences.

00:45:56.000 Take it from a woke New York Times star, Kara Swisher, who celebrated this week that, quote, the country's social justice movement is reshaping how we talk about, well, everything.

00:46:05.000 She's right, and certainly about the New York Times and all mainstream journalism.

00:46:09.000 This is the media hub of the social justice movement, and the core point of that movement, its essential point, is that liberalism is no longer enough.

00:46:16.000 Not just not enough, but itself a means to perpetuate white supremacy, designed to oppress, harm, and terrorize minorities and women, and in dire need of dismantling.

00:46:24.000 That's a huge deal, and it explains a lot.

00:46:27.000 A specter of invisible and unfalsifiable systems and structures and internal biases arrived to hover around the world.

00:46:34.000 Some of this critique was specific and helpful, the legacy of redlining, the depth of the wealth gap, but much was tendentious post-modern theorizing.

00:46:41.000 The popular breakthrough was Ta-Nehisi Coates' essay on reparations in the Atlantic and his subsequent gut-wrenching memoir Between the World and Me.

00:46:47.000 He combined the worldview and vocabulary of critical race theory with the vivid lived experience of his own biography.

00:46:52.000 He's a beautifully gifted writer.

00:46:54.000 I'm not surprised he had such an emotional impact, even if, in my view, the power of his prose blinded many to the radical implications of the ideology he surrendered to in what many of his blog readers called his blue period.

00:47:06.000 The movement is much broader than race, as anyone who's dealing with matters of sex and gender will tell you.

00:47:10.000 The best moniker I've read to describe this mishmash of postmodern thought and therapy culture ascendant among liberal white elites is Wesley Yang's coinage, the successor ideology. 0.52

00:47:20.000 The structural oppression is white supremacy, but it can be also expressed more broadly to describe a hegemony that is saturated with anti-blackness, misogyny, transphobia, and a miasma of social, cis-heteronormative, patriarchal white supremacy.

00:47:32.000 And the term successor ideology works because it centers the fact that this ideology wishes first and foremost to repeal and succeed a liberal society and democracy.

00:47:43.000 In this successor ideology, there's no escape, no refuge from the ongoing nightmare of oppression and violence.

00:47:47.000 You're either fighting this and on the right side of history, or you're against it and abating evil.

00:47:51.000 There is no neutrality.

00:47:52.000 That is the world the left is building for you.

00:47:54.000 And that is why you are right to lie about Kamala Harris's wild qualifications and Joe Biden fighting his teleprompter.

00:48:00.000 It is why you are correct to ignore dissidents in Hong Kong and Cuba as they fly the American flag and instead rip on the American flag because it represents systems and structures of oppression.

00:48:09.000 This is, in fact, the great ideological battle of our time, and it's going to continue.

00:48:12.000 It is not slowing down anytime soon.

00:48:15.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:48:17.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Mould Show today.

00:48:19.000 He discusses Chicago's decision to provide free condoms to all students ages 10 and up.

00:48:26.000 Oh, goody.

00:48:26.000 You can hear more details about this story over on Michael's Show.

00:48:28.000 That's available right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 12, 2021

Foreigners Who Love The American Flag vs. Americans Who Hate It | Ep. 1294

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