The Ben Shapiro Show - Freedom Is For Neanderthals | Ep. 1209

00:00:00.000 President Biden terms those who want to reopen society Neanderthals, eBay stops people from buying Dr. Seuss books, and we examine the radicalism of the Democrats' new voter registration law, H.R.

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00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:25.000 Alrighty, so we begin with a perfectly obvious truism at this point.

00:00:29.000 Joe Biden is not in control of his own administration.

00:00:31.000 This is not a person who is sentient.

00:00:32.000 He's not a person who is with it.

00:00:33.000 Joe Biden always was a Trojan horse, and Democrats are not really making a lot of bones about this at this point.

00:00:38.000 They're pretty obvious about the fact that Joe Biden is just a moderate face for radical policy.

00:00:42.000 In fact, Nancy Pelosi said this out loud just yesterday.

00:00:46.000 She was doing a presser with the White House.

00:00:48.000 And this is the same presser where Joe Biden basically said, I'm ready to take questions.

00:00:52.000 And then the person behind the camera just kind of slowly faded.

00:00:56.000 Well, Nancy Pelosi was talking about Joe Biden and she explained what Joe Biden is.

00:01:01.000 He is just an instrument.

00:01:02.000 He's an instrument of power for these folks because Joe Biden is not with it.

00:01:05.000 Nor was Joe Biden ever quite as moderate as everybody liked to make him out to be.

00:01:08.000 Just because you're moderate compared to Bernie Sanders does not mean that you are, in fact, a moderate.

00:01:12.000 So here is Nancy Pelosi at WhiteHouse.gov explaining that Joe Biden is basically just a gumball machine.

00:01:19.000 You throw your liberal quarter in there and out comes the gumball.

00:01:23.000 In order to open these doors, we do not say open Sesame.

00:01:28.000 We say open Biden.

00:01:31.000 That's our magic word.

00:01:35.000 Open Biden.

00:01:36.000 I love it.

00:01:38.000 What is wrong with that person?

00:01:40.000 I mean, my goodness.

00:01:42.000 She's like a Bond villain, Nancy Pelosi. 0.97

00:01:45.000 But she is not wrong, right?

00:01:46.000 That is the way that the left views Joe Biden.

00:01:48.000 That's the way the media view Joe Biden.

00:01:49.000 Joe Biden was always a Trojan horse for these policies.

00:01:52.000 Some of us were warning people of this beforehand.

00:01:54.000 And make no mistake, the radicals are celebrating this.

00:01:56.000 Ezra Klein, the newest opinion columnist over at the New York Times, he has a piece called, Biden is the anti-Trump and it's working.

00:02:02.000 If you dial down the conflict, you can dial up the policy.

00:02:05.000 Because all of America is now about optics.

00:02:08.000 So if Joe Biden appears to be moderate, then he can push some of the most radical policy changes that we have seen in our lifetimes.

00:02:13.000 According to Ezra Klein.

00:02:15.000 American politics feels quieter with Joe Biden in the White House.

00:02:17.000 The president's Twitter feed hasn't gone dark, but it's gone dull.

00:02:20.000 Biden doesn't pick needless fights or insert himself into the cultural conflicts.

00:02:23.000 It's easy to go dazed without hearing anything the president has said, unless you go looking.

00:02:27.000 Well, right, because he's not actually alive.

00:02:29.000 He's just a houseplant sitting in the corner that they bring out every so often and say, look at the pretty houseplant!

00:02:34.000 And then meanwhile, in the background, they're like, what if we push this particular radical policy?

00:02:37.000 The relative quiet is deceptive, says as reclined policy is moving at breakneck pace.

00:02:41.000 The first week of the Biden administration were consumed by a flurry of far-reaching executive orders that reopened America to refugees, rejoined the Paris climate accords and killed the Keystone XL oil pipeline to name just a few.

00:02:51.000 Now the House has passed and the Senate is considering the $1.9 trillion American rescue plan, a truly sweeping piece of legislation that includes more than a half dozen policies like a child tax credit expansion that could cut child poverty by 50%.

00:03:04.000 that would be presidency-defining accomplishments It goes on.

00:03:08.000 The White House just sent Congress the most ambitious immigration reform bill in years.

00:03:12.000 It midwifed a deal to get Merck to mobilize some of its factories to produce a Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and now Biden is saying there should be enough of a supply for every American adult to get vaccinated by the end of May.

00:03:22.000 Imagine the administration is also working on an infrastructure package that, if early reports bear out, will be the most transformational piece of climate policy and perhaps economic policy in my lifetime.

00:03:31.000 Biden is blitzing.

00:03:33.000 OK, so a couple of things.

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00:03:36.000 If Donald Trump had been soft-spoken, I really, really doubt that the media would have suggested that his policies were better than they were.

00:03:43.000 The fact is that the media hated Trump's policy, and so they also hated his personality.

00:03:47.000 It's not really the other way around.

00:03:48.000 Remember, Donald Trump was a favorite among the left-wing glitterati until he declared himself a Republican, at which point he became the enemy.

00:03:54.000 Now, Trump didn't do himself any favors by shooting himself in the foot a lot.

00:03:57.000 But that is not the same thing as what is happening here. 0.74

00:03:59.000 What is happening here is that Joe Biden is saying ridiculous things on a daily basis, and yet everybody continues to cover for him because he's a Democrat.

00:04:06.000 It is that simple.

00:04:07.000 Joe Biden has not returned a sense of normalcy to the White House.

00:04:09.000 He's returned a sense of senility to the White House and the radical policy that the media loves.

00:04:14.000 And make no mistake, this is radical policy.

00:04:16.000 It is deeply radical policy.

00:04:18.000 So, for example, Democrats have been pushing forward H.R.1.

00:04:21.000 Now, you haven't heard a lot about H.R.1 because H.R.1 is not going anywhere in the Senate, presumably, but HR1 is this sweeping piece of voter legislation that essentially federalizes all elections.

00:04:32.000 And what it really does is it makes it easier to enshrine the worst sort of voting practices from across the country.

00:04:38.000 It takes like all the worst parts of voting practice from various states and then it enshrines them and requires them at the federal level.

00:04:44.000 Heritage Foundation had a good breakdown of HR1.

00:04:46.000 Here are just some of the things that HR1 would do.

00:04:49.000 According to the Heritage Foundation, HR 1 would seize the authority of states to regulate voter registration and the voting process, forcing states to implement early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration, and no-fault absentee balloting.

00:05:02.000 Right, so the universal mail-in balloting?

00:05:04.000 That is a rich mine to vein.

00:05:07.000 For a rich vein to mine, for all the people who would love ballot harvesting and would love to be able to game the system, that would become universal.

00:05:17.000 And by the way, it would also make it pretty much mandatory that elections would go on for weeks at a time because these absentee ballots take a while to count.

00:05:23.000 So whatever faith in elections still remains would quickly be lost with H.R.

00:05:28.000 1, but of course, that doesn't matter to Democrats.

00:05:31.000 H.R.

00:05:32.000 1 would make it easier to commit fraud and promote chaos at the polls through same-day registration.

00:05:35.000 Literally, you would walk up, and you would cast a provisional ballot, and you would register at the exact same time.

00:05:39.000 It takes a little while to process all of that, and it makes it kind of easy to confuse the system.

00:05:45.000 H.R.

00:05:45.000 1 would mandate 15 days of early voting, which diffuses the intensity of get-out-the-vote efforts.

00:05:49.000 I am very much against early voting, unless you have an actual medical reason you cannot vote on the day of.

00:05:55.000 It is called Election Day, not Election Month.

00:05:58.000 HR1 would degrade the accuracy of registration lists.

00:06:00.000 It would require states to automatically register all individuals, not even citizens, illegal immigrants, from state and federal databases.

00:06:07.000 This would register large numbers of ineligible voters.

00:06:11.000 HR1 would open the door for hackers and cybercriminals to commit massive voter registration fraud through online voter registration that is not tied to an existing state record like a driver's license.

00:06:20.000 H.R.

00:06:20.000 1 would make it a criminal offense for a state official to reject a voter registration application even when it is rejected under color of law because the official believes the individual is ineligible to vote.

00:06:31.000 H.R.

00:06:32.000 1 would require states to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to register, which would effectively ensure that if you're underage, you could then vote.

00:06:39.000 Also, by the way, H.R.

00:06:41.000 1 gets rid of penalties for voting mistakenly or supposedly mistakenly or fraudulently.

00:06:48.000 HR1 would require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precincts, overriding the precinct system used by almost all states that allows election officials to monitor votes, staff polling places, provide enough ballots, and prevent election fraud.

00:07:02.000 HR1 would ban witness signature or notarization requirements for absentee ballots.

00:07:06.000 It would force states to accept absentee ballots received up to 10 days after Election Day, as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

00:07:12.000 What if they're not postmarked?

00:07:14.000 This was the big controversy over in Pennsylvania this last time around.

00:07:18.000 HR 1 would prevent election officials from checking the eligibility and qualifications of voters and removing ineligible voters.

00:07:24.000 It would ban state voter ID laws.

00:07:25.000 You would not be allowed to check somebody's ID at the polling places.

00:07:30.000 Voter intimidation or coercion that prevents someone from registering or voting is already a federal crime, but HR 1 would add a provision that criminalizing, hindering, interfering, or preventing anyone from registering or voting, which is so broad and vague that it could prevent providing any information to election officials about ineligibility, such as an applicant not being a U.S.

00:07:46.000 citizen, would be banned.

00:07:49.000 There's all sorts of other problems with H.R.

00:07:51.000 It is a truly radical piece of legislation.

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00:07:55.000 It would make it a violation of federal law to engage in quote-unquote partisan redistricting.

00:07:59.000 It would mandate the inclusion of the alien population, both legal and illegal, in all redistricting. 0.98

00:08:04.000 In other words, it would basically radically change the voting system of the United States.

00:08:07.000 It would not be status quo 2020, it would be much worse than that.

00:08:10.000 It essentially legalizes ballot harvesting, which I think is truly corrupt.

00:08:13.000 Ballot harvesting is the practice whereby you just go door-to-door with the Democratic list, and you only pick up their ballots.

00:08:19.000 And then Republicans only send out their people to pick up the ballots.

00:08:23.000 This is a pretty good way of ensuring that it is not about who casts the ballots, it is about who collects the ballots.

00:08:29.000 It's a serious problem, HR1, okay?

00:08:31.000 And this is being pushed forward, and the media love it, and the idea is if you oppose HR1, this is because you are some sort of vicious racist who doesn't want everybody to vote.

00:08:38.000 Everybody who's eligible should vote, and they should do all the things that they ought to do in order to vote. 0.99

00:08:42.000 But if you're too stupid to figure out how to register to vote, or if you don't feel like going down to the ballot box to vote on election day, this is your problem, frankly. 0.98

00:08:53.000 I am not against the idea that it ought to take a little more effort than simply clicking a box in order for you to vote. 1.00

00:09:01.000 Because guess what?

00:09:02.000 Voting is not just a right, it is also a privilege.

00:09:04.000 It is both.

00:09:05.000 It is both that you have a right to vote, but it is a privilege for you to be able to take part in our electoral system.

00:09:10.000 And if you choose not to do that, because you don't feel like following the steps, that one's on you.

00:09:17.000 I mean, frankly, if you can't follow the voting procedures, it's very easy to vote in the United States.

00:09:20.000 It truly is.

00:09:21.000 Then, I'm not sure that you should be voting.

00:09:24.000 If you literally cannot do it, right, if you have some sort of inability that makes you unable to do it, that is one thing.

00:09:28.000 But if you're a normal citizen and you just didn't do the steps, your fault.

00:09:32.000 Okay, in any case, all of this is being pushed forward by the Biden administration.

00:09:38.000 And again, this is considered perfectly fine because Joe Biden, it's open Biden, right?

00:09:42.000 So long as Biden is, this is the problem for Democrats.

00:09:44.000 If Biden were to plot, if something were to happen to Biden, God forbid, and Kamala Harris were to become president, she doesn't have a moderate mean.

00:09:52.000 She is not a person people see as moderate.

00:09:54.000 It would actually stymie their agenda in a lot of ways.

00:09:57.000 The media, by the way, are doing all of Biden's heavy lifting for him.

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00:11:30.000 Meanwhile, the media continued to provide cover for all of these radical plans.

00:11:34.000 Philip Bump, who's just awful, over at the Washington Post.

00:11:37.000 This is one of the most bizarre and overtly partisan pieces I have ever seen.

00:11:41.000 It is titled, While the Senate read the coronavirus relief bill, nearly 900 Americans may have died from the virus.

00:11:41.000 He wrote a piece.

00:11:46.000 Originally, it said 1,400 Americans.

00:11:48.000 Now, because fewer Americans are dying of COVID, he had to downgrade it to 900.

00:11:53.000 Okay, so his take is that the problem here is that the COVID relief bill needs to be rushed through.

00:11:58.000 Senator Ron Johnson and a bunch of other Republicans have held off on the process because they said, you know what?

00:12:03.000 We need you to read this.

00:12:05.000 It's a 700-page bill, 628 pages.

00:12:08.000 We need you to actually read it because we're not going to pass a $1.9 trillion spending bill without anybody having read the thing.

00:12:15.000 And this columnist fell a bump.

00:12:16.000 He's like, you know what?

00:12:17.000 If you read the bill, people will die.

00:12:19.000 We have now reached the point in American politics where if you read the bill, people will die is considered a good point.

00:12:24.000 Remember, Nancy Pelosi held up COVID relief for six months.

00:12:27.000 They held up COVID relief all the way through the election.

00:12:31.000 And the idea was that politics required that you hold up the COVID relief.

00:12:35.000 And by the way, COVID was much worse in October, November, December than it is right now.

00:12:40.000 Right now, thank God, COVID has waned in the United States.

00:12:42.000 We're at about 40,000 new cases every single day in the United States.

00:12:46.000 We are down dramatically in terms of the number of deaths we are seeing every day across the country.

00:12:51.000 We'll get to that in a second because the Democrats refuse to accept that, of course.

00:12:54.000 But the idea is if you even read the bill, people are dying. 1.00

00:12:57.000 This is how biased your idiotic media are. 1.00

00:13:00.000 Philip Bump of the Washington Post. 1.00

00:13:01.000 If you read the bill, people will die.

00:13:02.000 Oh, really?

00:13:03.000 How are those months where we didn't pass the bill?

00:13:04.000 How did that go?

00:13:06.000 Says Philip Bump.

00:13:09.000 At this moment, on this issue, time can be measured in human lives.

00:13:12.000 On average, nearly 2,000 people a day are dying from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.

00:13:16.000 That's a death about once every 44 seconds.

00:13:19.000 It's an improvement over the end of January, but it's still a far faster rate than the country had seen for much of the pandemic.

00:13:24.000 CBS's Frank Thorpe reported the reading of the bill began at about 3.22 p.m.

00:13:28.000 By 4.01, the reader had gotten only to page 40, a rate of about 37 pages an hour.

00:13:32.000 The bill is 628 pages long.

00:13:34.000 So, if the texts of the bill were consistently dense throughout, it would have taken about 17 hours to read it.

00:13:39.000 Reading it would end about 8 a.m.

00:13:40.000 on Friday.

00:13:41.000 The readers did pick up the pace.

00:13:42.000 The reading of the bill completed after 10 hours, 44 minutes.

00:13:45.000 Given the current rate at which people are dying of COVID, that means about 880 Americans likely succumbed to the disease during that period. 0.91

00:13:52.000 Now, this is a particularly stupid point because you know what would have happened to those people if they had not read the bill? 0.98

00:13:57.000 They would have died. 0.99

00:13:58.000 These two things are utterly disassociated.

00:14:00.000 There's no connection between reading the bill and people dying.

00:14:03.000 And Bump acknowledges this.

00:14:05.000 He says, So then why are you connecting the two things if they're irrelevant?

00:14:15.000 Because again, all of politics is just about taking advantage of a particular crisis or, as the case may be, ignoring a crisis.

00:14:22.000 Down at the border, we are seeing thousands of children arrive every month.

00:14:25.000 Unaccompanied minors arriving every single month.

00:14:28.000 We don't have the space to house them.

00:14:29.000 They've been re-erecting all of the evil Trump era cages and tents.

00:14:34.000 And yet, because the Democrats don't want it to be a crisis, it's not a crisis.

00:14:38.000 Here's Jen Psaki once again saying, it is not a crisis at the border, even though it's pretty obviously a crisis at the border.

00:14:43.000 Does that mean that you consider it an actual genuine emergency?

00:14:47.000 Well, I would say that that's probably a question for the Department of Homeland Security, who obviously oversees that, and the Department of Health and Human Services, who oversees the facilities and the shelters where these kids are.

00:15:01.000 Certainly one of our concerns is that there are, Well, I mean, is it a crisis?

00:15:06.000 I guess it's not a crisis.

00:15:06.000 talking about earlier, an influx of kids at a rate and a pace that is going to require us to make considerations about where we're going to safely house them.

00:15:18.000 Well, I mean, is it a crisis?

00:15:20.000 I guess it's not a crisis.

00:15:21.000 Of course it's not a crisis, because if you were declared a crisis, you might actually have to do something about it.

00:15:25.000 Alejandro Mayorkas, who's the head of the Department of Homeland Security, says the Well, it's a challenge, not a crisis.

00:15:30.000 It's a challenge.

00:15:31.000 See, COVID, which is now on the wane, is a crisis requiring us to blow out the spending to the tune of twice the actual amount, sorry, four times the amount of actual damage done to the economy in the year 2021 by COVID-19.

00:15:43.000 And we know that the shortfall is gonna be about $400 billion, $450 billion this year in terms of COVID-19 doing damage to the American GDP.

00:15:51.000 We are about to blow out the spending to the tune of $1.9 trillion and inflate the currency to boot.

00:15:55.000 But that's because we have a crisis, of course.

00:15:57.000 But when we have thousands of unaccompanied minors showing up at the border and no way to deal with them, that's just a challenge because we don't actually want to do anything about it. 1.00

00:16:03.000 Here's Alejandro Mayorkas.

00:16:06.000 What we are doing is building the capacity to address the needs of those children, and we are guided by some core principles.

00:16:15.000 Number one, we act in the best interest of the children, and we act in the best interest of the American people.

00:16:20.000 And thirdly, we adhere to our values and principles as a country.

00:16:25.000 And so in fact, the numbers are significant.

00:16:28.000 The challenge is significant and our plans are well underway as we build the capacity to address the needs of the children and we are rebuilding from scratch.

00:16:39.000 Nope.

00:16:40.000 Nope.

00:16:41.000 Here's what's actually happening.

00:16:42.000 According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration is preparing to convert its immigrant family detention centers in South Texas into Ellis Island style rapid processing hubs that will screen migrant parents and children with the goal of releasing them into the United States within 72 hours.

00:16:56.000 OK, so their solution is not to hold people until we know whether they ought to be here.

00:17:00.000 It is to process them and send them into the interior within 72 hours.

00:17:03.000 That is their plan.

00:17:04.000 And then they wonder why there is a surge at the border.

00:17:06.000 Of course, there's a surge at the border.

00:17:07.000 You're literally saying to people, if you show up here within 72 hours, you're just in the United States.

00:17:11.000 And we know that there is no real way to date these people.

00:17:14.000 And we know that the Biden administration wants to amnesty all of them.

00:17:17.000 Of course, you're going to get a massive surge at the border.

00:17:19.000 They're creating the crisis.

00:17:20.000 The crisis is Biden created.

00:17:23.000 Russell Haught, a senior official with ICE, notified staff of the rapid processing plan in an email on Thursday.

00:17:28.000 It said arrivals by unaccompanied minors and families this year are expected to be the highest numbers observed in 20 years.

00:17:34.000 20 years!

00:17:35.000 Not a crisis.

00:17:36.000 Just a challenge.

00:17:37.000 And not even really a challenge.

00:17:38.000 We know what to do here, which is to apparently just release people into the interior.

00:17:43.000 Don't worry, guys.

00:17:44.000 It is not actually a crisis that requires them to do anything.

00:17:49.000 In fact, it is a massive transformational change to the immigration system.

00:17:53.000 That is what we are actually watching.

00:17:54.000 According to the Washington Post itself, transforming family detention amounts to a wholesale repudiation not only of Donald Trump's policy, but also Barack Obama's.

00:18:03.000 Remember, Obama actually deported a lot of people.

00:18:05.000 It presents a significantly different vision of how to handle the fast-changing character of mass migration at the southern border.

00:18:11.000 For decades, single adults dominated the flows northward into the United States.

00:18:14.000 The number of families and minors has increased substantially.

00:18:17.000 Before the COVID pandemic, migrant families and unaccompanied minors were a majority of those taken into custody at the southwest border.

00:18:23.000 During the Obama and Trump administration, families were released or deported, but some were held in dormitory-style facilities for weeks or months.

00:18:30.000 Now, they're basically just going to release everybody.

00:18:33.000 So, You wonder why there's a crisis?

00:18:36.000 It is because it has been created by the Biden administration.

00:18:38.000 Don't worry, guys.

00:18:39.000 It's open Biden.

00:18:41.000 Open borders, open Biden.

00:18:42.000 That's all this is.

00:18:44.000 Because Biden's a moderate, of course.

00:18:46.000 Not only is Biden a moderate, Biden knows what's best for you.

00:18:50.000 See, the way that open Biden works is that if he declares that something is not a crisis, it's not a crisis.

00:18:55.000 And if he declares that something is a crisis, then it requires instant action this moment in accordance with his greatest wishes.

00:19:01.000 So, when we have thousands of people just entering the United States willy-nilly, that's not a crisis, so we should just release them into the interior. 0.99

00:19:07.000 If, however, we have a COVID pandemic that is clearly on the wane, if we have vaccines that are being put into arms at the rate of two million a day, if we have all of that, if the caseload in the United States is now at lows we have not seen for months, And has been dropping precipitously.

00:19:22.000 If all of that, that's still a crisis, because it's a useful crisis.

00:19:26.000 Make no mistake, for Democrats, the only question about a situation, and whether it is a crisis or not, is whether it is useful to their political agenda.

00:19:33.000 And right now, COVID is useful to the political agenda.

00:19:35.000 By the way, not just of the Biden administration, but useful to members of the media.

00:19:39.000 In one of the more shocking admissions recently, the CEO of WarnerMedia, which is the parent company of CNN, a person named Jason Killar, he was at a virtual tech conference on Thursday, and he actually said, he actually said out loud that the pandemic is a great thing for the news cycle.

00:19:57.000 Which, by the way, is the same remark that you'll remember Jeff Zucker originally made about Donald Trump in 2016, that he was great for the news cycle, so they gave him a billion dollars in free media coverage and made him president.

00:20:07.000 Well, because the media love COVID, so they're not going to let it go.

00:20:09.000 Here is Jason Killar saying exactly this, essentially.

00:20:13.000 If you take a look at the ratings and the performance, it's going well.

00:20:18.000 And I think it's going well because A, the team at CNN is doing a fantastic job.

00:20:22.000 And B, it turns out that the pandemic and the way that we can help inform and contextualize the pandemic, it turns out it's really good for ratings.

00:20:31.000 And then later he came out and he was like, I wish I could be more thoughtful about my communication.

00:20:34.000 But here's the thing.

00:20:35.000 We all know, we all know that the media have a very large stake in the continuation of crisis pandemic coverage.

00:20:44.000 They do, because they don't want to cover Biden as a crisis.

00:20:47.000 They don't want to cover the Biden administration as doing anything radical.

00:20:49.000 They don't want people to know about that.

00:20:51.000 What they do want is to mirror the priorities of the Democratic Party, and the priorities of the Democratic Party right now are to treat immigration as a non-crisis and to treat COVID as a massive crisis, despite the fact that what was a crisis even three months ago is not a crisis now.

00:21:05.000 COVID is no longer a crisis in the United States.

00:21:07.000 Our ICU beds are not being threatened.

00:21:10.000 The people are not getting this at the same rate.

00:21:13.000 We are reaching herd immunity, just as Marty McCary of Johns Hopkins University suggested.

00:21:18.000 But again, crisis is an opportunity.

00:21:21.000 So what does that mean for the Biden administration?

00:21:22.000 For the Biden administration, what that means is that anybody who attempts to end the crisis is a bad guy, which is why the other day you heard Joe Biden stumble out there and suggest between bites of oatmeal that those who wanted to reopen states and get rid of mask mandates were Neanderthals.

00:21:39.000 It was Neanderthal thinking. 0.62

00:21:40.000 It was Neanderthal thinking. 0.62

00:21:42.000 Yes, freedom is Neanderthal thinking.

00:21:45.000 You and your ability to choose what to do as an individual, that's Neanderthal thinking. 0.97

00:21:49.000 The galaxy brains out there, the ones who have been saying for months and months and months that lockdowns were the only sure policy, and the ones who say right now that schools cannot reopen, those galaxy brains, they should rule.

00:21:58.000 But you, the individual, deciding how you wish to live your life, what risk you wish to undergo, you, you are a Neanderthal. 0.93

00:22:07.000 Babylon Bee had a great headline about this.

00:22:09.000 Neanderthals out partying while civilized people hide in caves.

00:22:13.000 That's pretty much right.

00:22:14.000 Okay, so how much, by the way, do the members of the Biden administration disdain the American public and their ability to make decisions for themselves?

00:22:21.000 How much do they think that the people of the United States really ought not rule themselves?

00:22:25.000 A lot.

00:22:26.000 The fundamental distinction between left and right in the United States right now is that the left loves the people collectively, but hates individual decision-making.

00:22:35.000 And they love the people because they believe that they can mobilize the mob to do whatever they want, which seemingly is true a lot of the time.

00:22:43.000 On the right, we're kind of scared of the mob because the mob usually has terrible ideas, but we like individuals and wish they would make their own decisions.

00:22:50.000 Okay, so here is Jen Psaki deriding individuals making their own decisions. 1.00

00:22:53.000 In fact, she was asked specifically by a reporter whether Biden's Neanderthal comments went far enough.

00:22:59.000 And she basically agreed that they didn't go far enough. 0.83

00:23:02.000 That basically, if you are an individual who wants to go out and live your life after you've been vaccinated, for example, or you're not that afraid of COVID, or you're not dealing with people who are vulnerable, if you're one of those people, then you're a lizard brain. 0.99

00:23:13.000 You're a dum-dum. 0.98

00:23:15.000 Here is Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, basically deriding a huge number of Americans. 1.00

00:23:20.000 Why doesn't the president consider ratcheting up his rhetoric beyond Neanderthal and personalizing his concern?

00:23:29.000 Why doesn't, for example, why doesn't he think about saying, folks, here's the deal.

00:23:33.000 If you don't wear your mask, people are going to die because of you.

00:23:37.000 That would certainly get people's attention.

00:23:39.000 Well noted.

00:23:40.000 I will say the president has been clear that if people wear masks for 100 days, 60,000 lives could be saved.

00:23:48.000 I mean, it's just unbelievable.

00:23:51.000 What we really need is to scare people and tell them that they're killing people because they haven't heard that from the media for months.

00:23:55.000 They haven't heard it at all.

00:23:56.000 It's a brand new idea.

00:23:57.000 Then Jen Psaki specifically defended the Neanderthal comment with a tactic that you should never use in a personal relationship. 1.00

00:24:03.000 Here is Jen Psaki on Biden's Neanderthal comment specifically.

00:24:11.000 And how does comparing someone to a Neanderthal help convince them to change course and get on board with your public health message?

00:24:18.000 The behavior of a Neanderthal, just to be very clear, the behavior of. 0.72

00:24:23.000 Look, I think the president, what everybody saw yesterday, was a reflection of his frustration and exasperation, which I think many American people have, that for almost a year now, people across the country have sacrificed.

00:24:37.000 Okay, I mean, it's just, it's unreal.

00:24:40.000 And that is a horrible tactic in a personal relationship. 1.00

00:24:43.000 So, note, dudes, if you are dating a lady, And you say, you're acting like a bitch. 1.00

00:24:50.000 And she says, did you just call me a bitch? 1.00

00:24:52.000 And you say, no, no, no. 1.00

00:24:52.000 I said, you're acting like a bitch. 1.00

00:24:54.000 That's not going to work. 1.00

00:24:56.000 That's not going to work because it's unbelievably stupid. 1.00

00:24:59.000 Jen Psaki just said that about the American people. 1.00

00:25:01.000 No, he didn't call you a Neanderthal.

00:25:02.000 He said, you're acting like a Neanderthal.

00:25:04.000 Oh, that's so much better.

00:25:06.000 Thank you, Jen.

00:25:07.000 We all feel better now.

00:25:10.000 Come on! 0.61

00:25:11.000 But this is what they think of you.

00:25:11.000 Come on!

00:25:13.000 They think you are unable to make your own decisions.

00:25:15.000 Because again, the entire left worldview is dependent on the idea that people are the creation of systems.

00:25:19.000 So if people make their own decisions, and those decisions are bad, it's because the system is bad.

00:25:24.000 And that means that we have to change the system.

00:25:26.000 And the only way to change the system is with top-down control.

00:25:29.000 Top-down control is the only answer, always and forever.

00:25:32.000 And as the pandemic wanes, the media, who are just the PR wing of the Democratic Party, will not let it wane.

00:25:37.000 They will not let it happen.

00:25:39.000 The New York Times has a piece today titled, Plan to ditch the mask after vaccination?

00:25:43.000 Not so fast.

00:25:45.000 Here is the case they make.

00:25:48.000 With 50 million Americans at least partly immunized against the coronavirus, and millions more joining the ranks every day, the urgent question on many minds is, when can I throw away my mask?

00:25:55.000 It's a deeper question than it seems, about a return to normalcy, about how soon vaccinated Americans can hug loved ones, get together with friends, go to concerts, shopping malls, restaurants, without feeling threatened by COVID.

00:26:05.000 Certainly many state officials already.

00:26:07.000 On Tuesday, Texas lifted its mask mandate, along with Mississippi.

00:26:10.000 But the pandemic is not over yet, and scientists are counseling patients.

00:26:14.000 Ooh, the science to science!

00:26:16.000 It seems clear small groups of vaccinated people can get together without much worry about infecting one another.

00:26:22.000 Okay, so quick note.

00:26:23.000 Why small?

00:26:24.000 Why not large?

00:26:26.000 Any ideas here?

00:26:27.000 If you're vaccinated, what's the problem?

00:26:29.000 The answer is there really isn't one, but they're still pushing it.

00:26:32.000 When vaccinated people can ditch the masks in public spaces will depend on how quickly the rates of disease drop and what percentage of people remain unvaccinated in the surrounding community.

00:26:39.000 Why?

00:26:40.000 Scientists do not know whether vaccinated people spread the virus to those who are unvaccinated.

00:26:45.000 Well, actually, we do have some early data, and the answer is they really don't.

00:26:49.000 Again, the early data demonstrate that the transmission rates from people who are vaccinated is extremely low, extremely low.

00:26:55.000 But we have to hide this from the American public so we can scare them into staying in their houses so we can pass $1.9 trillion pork bills that do all the priority work that Democrats are looking for it to do.

00:27:05.000 And we have to keep the schools closed so we can keep paying off the teachers unions. 1.00

00:27:08.000 And we have to push all the left-wing priorities by suggesting that Americans are bad and stupid and Neanderthals. 1.00

00:27:15.000 They say it's not uncommon for a vaccine to forestall severe disease but not infection. 0.99

00:27:18.000 Inoculations against the flu, rotavirus, polio, pertussis are all imperfect in this way.

00:27:23.000 I mean, that's true, but you know what?

00:27:25.000 Pertussis is out there.

00:27:26.000 My daughter actually got pertussis after having the vaccine.

00:27:29.000 I mean, that does happen.

00:27:30.000 Pertussis weakens the symptoms.

00:27:32.000 Pertussis vaccine weakens the symptoms of pertussis.

00:27:35.000 Okay, does that mean that we all started wearing masks, like, all the time?

00:27:38.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:27:41.000 And now, coronavirus variants that dodge the immune system are changing the calculus.

00:27:44.000 Some vaccines are less effective at preventing infections with certain variants.

00:27:47.000 In theory, they could allow more viruses.

00:27:49.000 A lot of theory.

00:27:49.000 Yeah, a lot of theory here.

00:27:50.000 But guess what?

00:27:51.000 People are not going to keep living this way.

00:27:53.000 Especially because, what, we're going to do this for another year?

00:27:55.000 We're just going to do this interminably?

00:27:57.000 For a disease that, at its worst on average in America, killed five people per thousand who actually got it?

00:28:02.000 Disproportionately, people who are elderly in nursing homes and we can make special protections for and special provisions for?

00:28:08.000 The answer is no.

00:28:09.000 The answer is no.

00:28:10.000 But, again, there is an agenda here.

00:28:12.000 And the agenda is that we are never going to give up control.

00:28:14.000 Once people have control, they don't want to give up the control.

00:28:18.000 And it is amazing to watch, because the reality is this should not be, it really is not, a red-blue thing.

00:28:24.000 There is one state that people on the left are completely ignoring these days, by the way.

00:28:28.000 It is a state that just reopened.

00:28:30.000 And you know what state just reopened?

00:28:33.000 You ready for this?

00:28:33.000 The state is, wait for it, Connecticut.

00:28:37.000 Deep red Connecticut is now reopening as well.

00:28:41.000 According to the Hartford Courant, Governor Ned Lamont on Thursday announced he will roll back COVID-related restrictions in Connecticut starting March 19th, allowing restaurants to operate at full capacity, loosening rules on sports and entertainment venues, lifting the state's travel ban.

00:28:53.000 The state will maintain some key measures like a mask mandate.

00:28:56.000 Oh, well, you know, if it's got a mask mandate.

00:28:58.000 Social distancing rules, a curfew for restaurants, and closure of bars.

00:29:01.000 Restaurants, retail stores, houses of worship, other businesses will be allowed to reopen at full capacity within the confines of the remaining rules.

00:29:07.000 Okay, by the way, if you reopen a church at full capacity, or a restaurant at full capacity, and the mask mandate's still in place, at restaurants, people aren't gonna wear the masks.

00:29:18.000 Everybody knows what this is.

00:29:19.000 So Connecticut is doing the same thing, effectively speaking, that Texas and Mississippi are doing.

00:29:23.000 They're just lying about it by saying that they have a mask mandate.

00:29:25.000 You can't have a mask mandate at a restaurant.

00:29:27.000 People are eating and drinking.

00:29:28.000 So if you open the restaurants to full capacity, indoors, effectively speaking, the pandemic's over.

00:29:32.000 I mean, that is what you are saying.

00:29:35.000 But it's a blue state, so we're just gonna ignore that.

00:29:37.000 Texas, Mississippi, Florida, those are the bad ones, of course.

00:29:39.000 We're gonna get to the most vaunted of all doctors, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

00:29:43.000 We're gonna get to Dr. Fauci, who is loving this.

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00:31:12.000 But first, it is that glorious time of the week when I give a shout out to a Daily Wire member.

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00:31:39.000 Thank you for the picture, for being a Daily Wire member, and for standing up against the cancellation of Dr. Seuss. 1.00

00:31:44.000 Honestly, our society is so screwed and stupid. 0.99

00:31:46.000 Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of discussing minimum wage on my radio show with Representative Ro Khanna. 1.00

00:31:51.000 It is very refreshing to talk with people outside of your political safe space.

00:31:56.000 And what did we talk about?

00:31:57.000 We talked about minimum wage.

00:31:58.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:31:59.000 I thought that that discussion was interesting, and I thought that, frankly, the points made on minimum wage by By Representative Khanna, we're not particularly convincing.

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00:32:54.000 So quick note here.

00:33:01.000 The United States, this last month, added back 379,000 jobs.

00:33:03.000 379,000 jobs.

00:33:03.000 But, Remember, it's still a crisis.

00:33:09.000 We're still in the middle of a crisis, right?

00:33:10.000 We need more spending.

00:33:11.000 We need to blow out the spending.

00:33:12.000 More Fed spending.

00:33:13.000 Can't open the schools.

00:33:14.000 Crisis, crisis, crisis.

00:33:15.000 That is the message from the Biden administration and the best doctor of all time, except for Dr. Jill Biden, who is the greatest medical doctor I've ever seen.

00:33:21.000 I single-handedly watched as Dr. Jill Biden took a man who was clinically dead and sent him to a junior college.

00:33:27.000 Hey, Dr. Jill Biden is unbelievable at what she does. 1.00

00:33:31.000 Anyway, Dr. Fauci, who's the second best doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, he is now out there again, down-talking the possible reopening of American society, suggesting that we can never reopen, effectively speaking.

00:33:43.000 Here he was, on CNN, doing his routine, the song and dance, saying, I don't know why we're easing restrictions until we're below 10,000 cases per day.

00:33:52.000 We can't do it.

00:33:54.000 Maybe zero, maybe negative.

00:33:56.000 Maybe we'll have to go back in time and cure people.

00:33:59.000 For us to reopen.

00:34:00.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci.

00:34:03.000 I wouldn't want to see a light switch go on and off with regard to restrictions, Jake.

00:34:08.000 I would like to see, as we get the level of virus in the community to a very low level, well, well below the 60,000 to 70,000 new infections.

00:34:19.000 Somewhere, you know, I'll just pick a number, even though, you know, there's not a good model there yet, but I would say less than 10,000 and maybe even considerably less than that.

00:34:31.000 I mean, let's get it all the way down to zero.

00:34:32.000 I mean, that's what we should do.

00:34:34.000 And if we don't do that, we can never reopen.

00:34:36.000 So we're never reopening.

00:34:37.000 And then I can be on TV every single day.

00:34:39.000 And they'll give me prizes.

00:34:40.000 And they'll talk about how important I am.

00:34:42.000 And people will light votive candles to me.

00:34:44.000 And, um, people will call me sexy.

00:34:47.000 Even though I'm 80.

00:34:49.000 It's weird.

00:34:50.000 I mean, why are we listening to him?

00:34:52.000 I just don't know.

00:34:53.000 Honestly, he's a horrible advocate for his own position.

00:34:56.000 He down-talked the efficacy of vaccines.

00:34:58.000 He lied about the herd immunity numbers.

00:35:00.000 He lied about masking.

00:35:01.000 And why is that guy still... And the answer is that any tool for the crisis-as-progress mentality is a tool worth using.

00:35:10.000 So Fauci is now saying it's inexplicable why you'd want to... Is it inexplicable, though?

00:35:13.000 Really, question, is it inexplicable?

00:35:15.000 Because I can explain it.

00:35:17.000 Seriously, it's actually quite explicable.

00:35:20.000 All I have to do is look at the numbers.

00:35:22.000 I will bring them up right now.

00:35:22.000 Okay, the reason that it is explicable to reopen right now is because the daily new cases as of early January were 280,000, 300,000 on January 8th.

00:35:29.000 308,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 on January 8th.

00:35:30.000 300,000 on January 8th.

00:35:32.000 308,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 on January 8th.

00:35:37.000 Today, we are down to about 40,000 new cases a day.

00:35:41.000 And so, did I just explain it?

00:35:44.000 I feel like I explained it.

00:35:46.000 I have another number that would explain it.

00:35:47.000 ICU capacity was being challenged in January.

00:35:51.000 Right now, there's not an ICU department in America that is being challenged by COVID.

00:35:55.000 So, that was explicable.

00:35:57.000 In fact, I just did it.

00:35:58.000 Inside of like 10 seconds.

00:35:59.000 Isn't that amazing?

00:36:00.000 But it's inexplicable why you'd want to pull back now, says Anthony Fauci.

00:36:04.000 It just is inexplicable why you would want to pull back now.

00:36:09.000 I understand the need to want to get back to normality, but you're only going to set yourself back if you just completely push aside the public health guidelines, particularly when we're dealing with anywhere from 55 to 70,000 infections per day in the United States.

00:36:28.000 That's a very, very high baseline.

00:36:30.000 Okay, so again, this is like At this point, the reason that they don't want to reopen is because they don't want individuals to have free choice.

00:36:40.000 End of story.

00:36:41.000 They also don't want schools to reopen.

00:36:42.000 So Fauci, who's been on every side of this position, again, he's had more positions on school reopening than the Kama Sutra recommends, as I've said before.

00:36:47.000 He says that now schools need to change their ventilation systems before opening.

00:36:52.000 Okay, well, anything else?

00:36:54.000 Anything else, Bobbo?

00:36:55.000 Like, seriously, like, how many more things can you just throw out there?

00:36:59.000 We can't reopen until we have full ultraviolet lighting systems in all of America's schools, even though the data is that the schools should be open, like right now, in full, with kids there.

00:37:08.000 Here is Fauci.

00:37:10.000 We've got to make sure that the schools have the resources to do the kinds of things they need to do, which would be making sure they have masks and PPE, making sure that the ventilation system can be improved to be able to diminish the likelihood that there'll be spread of infection.

00:37:27.000 Okay, whatever.

00:37:28.000 I mean, honestly, whatever.

00:37:28.000 These are the same people who are touting Andrew Cuomo while he lied for months.

00:37:33.000 about what you can do, the kinds of things you can do, the steps, the masking, the distancing, the kinds of things that we know can help protect the children and the teachers.

00:37:44.000 Okay, whatever.

00:37:45.000 I mean, honestly, whatever.

00:37:46.000 These are the same people who were touting Andrew Cuomo while he lied for months.

00:37:49.000 The same people, I mean, Fauci said that Cuomo's response was like the ideal response.

00:37:54.000 Speaking of which, new report from the Wall Street Journal and now verified by the New York Times, Andrew Cuomo's aides rewrote nursing home reports to hide the higher death total.

00:38:02.000 So right now they're trying to oust him in New York, supposedly based on the sexual harassment stuff.

00:38:06.000 It has nothing to do with that.

00:38:07.000 He's just embarrassing to them and they're finding a different reason to take him out back and cap him.

00:38:11.000 It's that simple.

00:38:11.000 They want to bury him in a shallow grave in Iowa and fill it in while he's still breathing.

00:38:15.000 And the reason that he really has to do that, the reason they have to do that to him, is because of his COVID policy.

00:38:19.000 But they can never admit that it was his COVID policy because that would be admitting that it was their COVID policy that was bad.

00:38:25.000 The reality is that Andrew Cuomo shouldn't just be not in office.

00:38:27.000 He might need to be in jail for his actual activity during COVID.

00:38:32.000 But they touted him as the anti-Trump.

00:38:34.000 They cheered him.

00:38:35.000 And so now they have to look for some ancillary reason to get rid of the guy.

00:38:38.000 According to the New York Times, top aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo were alarmed.

00:38:41.000 A report written by state health officials had just landed, and it included accounts of how many nursing home residents in New York had died in the pandemic.

00:38:47.000 The number, more than 9,000 by that point in June, was not public.

00:38:51.000 And the governor's most senior aides wanted to keep it that way.

00:38:53.000 They rewrote the report to take it out, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the New York Times.

00:38:58.000 The extraordinary intervention, which came just as Cuomo was starting to write a book on his pandemic achievements, was the earliest act yet in what critics have called a months-long effort by the governor and his aides to obscure the full scope of nursing home deaths.

00:39:11.000 Again, this was in June.

00:39:12.000 It was in June.

00:39:14.000 Could you guys have done a little digging right then? 1.00

00:39:15.000 Or are you too busy flogging his stupid book about his leadership during COVID and cheering him as a possible nominee should Joe Biden fall off a short chair and die? 1.00

00:39:27.000 I mean, these people are just absurd. 1.00

00:39:29.000 The New York Times is absurd. 1.00

00:39:30.000 All these people are ridiculous. 0.95

00:39:32.000 I'm glad they can report on it in March of the next year when Andrew Cuomo becomes a liability. 0.99

00:39:37.000 Seriously.

00:39:38.000 And they were doing this while he was writing a book.

00:39:40.000 Of course he was doing it while he was writing a book.

00:39:41.000 Of course.

00:39:42.000 Of course.

00:39:43.000 Meanwhile, again, the down-talking of the possibility of reopening continues on a daily basis.

00:39:48.000 It's wild.

00:39:49.000 The reality is that things are going pretty well.

00:39:51.000 And one of the reasons things are going pretty well is because we are now tranching out vaccines developed under Trump with plans developed by governors all across the United States.

00:40:00.000 Really isn't because of the feds.

00:40:01.000 It's because of the governors.

00:40:03.000 And that is going well.

00:40:04.000 And the same administration that is pushing the idea that there is inequity in vaccine distribution, and kind of poo-pooing, or at least winking and nodding at the idea that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is a one-shot vaccine that is slightly less effective than the two-shot vaccines, but is still pretty damned effective, that if you have too many brown and black people who are getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, maybe that is a sign of systemic inequity.

00:40:26.000 The reality is that that Johnson & Johnson shot, just like all these other shots, is essentially a medical miracle.

00:40:31.000 Even the New York Times acknowledging that now.

00:40:33.000 Saying people are eager for Johnson & Johnson's vaccine.

00:40:36.000 But again, it's all about inequity in the distribution of the shots.

00:40:39.000 Simultaneously, the Biden administration is claiming we're doing a great job with our shots.

00:40:44.000 And also, nobody deserves credit for the vaccine.

00:40:47.000 So you have Rochelle Walensky over at the CDC saying, we are on track with these vaccines and tranching them out.

00:40:51.000 We're doing an amazing job.

00:40:53.000 And then you have Jen Psaki over at the White House saying, you know what?

00:40:57.000 I don't think we should give the Trump team any credit for the vaccine.

00:40:59.000 Nobody deserves credit for the vaccine, says Jen Psaki.

00:41:03.000 I don't think anyone deserves credit when half a million people in the country have died of this pandemic.

00:41:08.000 So what our focus is on and when the president's focus is on when he came into office just over a month ago was ensuring that we had enough vaccines.

00:41:17.000 We are going to have them now.

00:41:19.000 We had enough vaccinators and we had enough vaccine locations to get this pandemic under control.

00:41:25.000 There's no question and all data points to the fact that there were not enough of any of those things when he took office.

00:41:32.000 And so he is the magic man.

00:41:33.000 So Biden deserves credit for everything, but the development of the vaccine, no one deserves credit for that because a lot of people died.

00:41:39.000 Really well done there, Jen Psaki.

00:41:41.000 And by the way, this crisis mentality, the continuation of the crisis mentality so that Democrats can continue to push forward bad policy, that is on every single front.

00:41:48.000 It's on every single front.

00:41:49.000 It's not a crisis if it's immigration.

00:41:51.000 It is a crisis if it's COVID.

00:41:52.000 And by the way, it's also a crisis if you once heard a rumor from a guy on 8chan about how there was like a Boogaloo thing happening on March 4th.

00:42:01.000 So now we are learning that Nancy Pelosi and the Capitol Police are asking, are demanding more fencing, more troops, and more money for Capitol security.

00:42:10.000 They want to keep the troops there another two months.

00:42:13.000 Two months!

00:42:14.000 This is crazy towns.

00:42:16.000 January 6th was an act of evil.

00:42:18.000 Also would have been stymied by a few more troops there.

00:42:22.000 The response from Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats is perfectly political.

00:42:25.000 It is, we are going to keep troops here pretty much forever.

00:42:27.000 We're going to keep this barbed wire here as an immortal monument to the evils of President Trump and the people who supported him.

00:42:34.000 I mean, Nancy Pelosi is basically just saying that.

00:42:36.000 Nancy Pelosi came out yesterday.

00:42:37.000 She said, we have to keep these fences here and the barbed wire.

00:42:40.000 And, you know, it looks as though we're in a third world country now and we have troops here, like all the time, sleeping on the grounds.

00:42:44.000 And sure, they're not properly fed or kept, but, you know, we need them here.

00:42:48.000 Yesterday, no one showed up.

00:42:50.000 March 4th was supposed to be another one of these magical riot days, didn't happen, nothing.

00:42:54.000 Like zero zip zilch, no one showed up.

00:42:57.000 And Nancy Pelosi's like, well, we gotta keep these people here pretty much forever as a reminder, as an eternal reminder that Trump supporters are bad.

00:43:05.000 Between COVID, where we need to have vaccinations more broadly in the Capitol so that many more people can come here and do their jobs, and the threat of all the president's men out there, we have to ensure with our security that we are safe enough to do our job.

00:43:34.000 All the president's men out there?

00:43:36.000 Impeding.

00:43:37.000 All the president's men out there?

00:43:38.000 You know who was out there yesterday?

00:43:39.000 No one.

00:43:40.000 No one.

00:43:41.000 Washington Post today, quote, at the Capitol, a March 4th threat from militant Trump supporters proves a mirage.

00:43:47.000 Oh, who could have predicted such a thing?

00:43:49.000 On the day when former President Donald Trump's most delusional supporters swore he would return to power, Washington looked, on Thursday morning, much the way it has for the past two months.

00:43:56.000 National Guard members armed with M4 rifles braced for a rebellion that never came.

00:44:00.000 Razor wire lined miles of steel fencing that went unbreached.

00:44:04.000 Trump remained in Florida, where it was 70 degrees and sunny.

00:44:06.000 It was nice down here yesterday, actually.

00:44:07.000 Beautiful weather. 0.93

00:44:08.000 The angst stems from another misguided belief within QAnon, the extremist ideology that claims Trump has been working in secret to overthrow a cabal of blood-drinking, Satan-worshiping Democratic pedophiles.

00:44:17.000 After repeated unfulfilled prophecies, the group's supporters declared in recent weeks that Trump would retake office on March 4th.

00:44:24.000 Okay, now, here's the thing.

00:44:25.000 What is the good evidence that they were going to actually do anything yesterday?

00:44:29.000 At some point, it would be nice to see some of that evidence, considering we're now spending millions and millions of dollars to keep troops there and make sure that they never leave, apparently.

00:44:39.000 And now apparently, amazingly enough, they've decided in the media that the next state that we have to worry about is March 20th.

00:44:45.000 Where are they getting the information that we have to worry about March 20th?

00:44:48.000 I am not kidding you.

00:44:49.000 From a guy named Ken.

00:44:51.000 Not kidding.

00:44:53.000 According to Newsweek, quote, some QAnon supporters seem to rebrand the March 4th conspiracy in the wake of community suspicion.

00:44:59.000 While two individuals affiliated with the false theory simply suggested Trump's inauguration would take place sometime in the spring, one man, identified as Ken, told Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel the former president, quote, will be inaugurated again on March 20th.

00:45:12.000 Well, I mean, if Ken says so, I guess we have to spend hundreds of millions of... I guess we have to spend...

00:45:17.000 Millions of dollars.

00:45:18.000 Not hundreds of millions.

00:45:18.000 We have spent millions of dollars keeping thousands of troops in Washington, D.C.

00:45:22.000 because of Ken.

00:45:23.000 Because Ken said so.

00:45:24.000 No, this is not at all political.

00:45:26.000 At all.

00:45:26.000 We're just going to keep them there interminably as a reminder that all the President's men might be out there.

00:45:31.000 They might be out there waiting and watching.

00:45:34.000 All of this is a little over the top, if you have not noticed.

00:45:39.000 Okay, meanwhile, The book burning continues anew.

00:45:44.000 It continues each and every day.

00:45:46.000 Honestly, this story is in some ways even scarier than the story about the Dr. Seuss estate pulling six of his books, including classics like And I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo.

00:46:00.000 When they pull those books, that is terrible and awful.

00:46:03.000 And it is self-censorship of an extraordinary order.

00:46:06.000 It is a willingness to cave in the face of a woke, censorious, authoritarian left.

00:46:13.000 It degrades our culture.

00:46:14.000 It degrades our freedoms.

00:46:15.000 It is bad, okay?

00:46:17.000 I don't know when it became a controversial thing to say that self-censorship of classic children's literature is bad, but it's bad.

00:46:25.000 But it's now gone even further than this.

00:46:27.000 eBay is now taking down your ability to even list these books.

00:46:30.000 So, you said to yourself, listen, I had an extra copy if I ran the zoo.

00:46:34.000 And now those things are selling for like $650.

00:46:36.000 Because when you make things at Samizdat, when you ban material like they did in the Soviet Union, it turns out that people are going to try and get a hold of the material.

00:46:44.000 When that happens, The prices skyrocket.

00:46:47.000 So a lot of people went to eBay to sell this stuff.

00:46:49.000 Now, eBay has decided that they are going to remove the Dr. Seuss books.

00:46:53.000 You cannot, as a third party, sell these Dr. Seuss books.

00:46:58.000 Now, eBay is another one of these neutral service providers, right?

00:47:01.000 eBay is supposed to be, like Amazon was, supposed to be a neutral service provider, right?

00:47:06.000 They don't have an editorial point of view.

00:47:08.000 And in fact, if you looked at eBay yesterday, you could still buy copies of Protocols of the Elder's Design.

00:47:13.000 You could buy, which is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory first created in Tsarist Russia.

00:47:18.000 You could still buy copies of Mein Kampf.

00:47:20.000 Those were available at decent prices.

00:47:22.000 You couldn't buy copies, however, if I ran the zoo.

00:47:25.000 According to Newsweek, following Dr. Seuss Enterprises' recent decision to discontinue publishing and licensing on six of the famous children's authors' books because of problematic content, demand for the titles in question spiked.

00:47:36.000 But even though the resale market for the controversial Seuss books has been strong, eBay has started to remove listings for the titles, citing its policy on offensive material.

00:47:45.000 This writer actually has access to a worn copy of one of the out-of-print books and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street and listed it on eBay late Tuesday afternoon.

00:47:52.000 On Thursday morning, this writer received an email from eBay saying the listing was removed for violating an offensive material policy.

00:47:58.000 The automated email said, quote, Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren't allowed.

00:48:05.000 Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped publication of this book due to its negative portrayal of some ethnicities.

00:48:10.000 As a courtesy, we have ended your item and refunded your selling fees.

00:48:13.000 And as long as you do not relist the item, there will be no negative impact to your account.

00:48:16.000 So in other words, they're going to punish you for having listed a book you did not write and that you do not agree is a racist book.

00:48:22.000 They're gonna punish you if you refuse to abide by their strictures.

00:48:27.000 So now eBay is in on the act.

00:48:31.000 In its email on Thursday, eBay included the fine prints of its policy.

00:48:34.000 One portion of the message, which gives an overview of the policy, reads, quote, items including figurines, cartoons, housewares, historical advertisements, and gollywogs with racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise demeaning portrayals, for example, through caricatures or other exaggerated features.

00:48:49.000 An eBay spokesperson clarified the company's position further.

00:48:51.000 At eBay, we have a strict policy against hate and discrimination to ensure our platform remains a safe, trusted, and inclusive environment for our global community of buyers and sellers.

00:49:00.000 Please see our offensive policies material.

00:49:02.000 We're currently sweeping our marketplace to remove those items.

00:49:04.000 In absolute absurdity.

00:49:07.000 So, I guess that Huck Finn is next.

00:49:09.000 Can't list your second-hand copy of Huck Finn.

00:49:11.000 Because, I mean, Huck Finn has the N-word in it.

00:49:13.000 It does.

00:49:14.000 Just a reality.

00:49:15.000 And as we know from the New York Times, anything that has the N-word in it is bad.

00:49:18.000 Unless it's written by Nikole Hannah-Jones, in which case it is good.

00:49:22.000 So eBay has now removed your ability to even sell secondhand Dr. Seuss books when neutral platforms, neutral service providers, become the tools of the woke in their censorious attempts to remove and erase history.

00:49:35.000 And removing and erase, by the way, non-offensive children's books, there's not a single human being who, until the woke got ahold of it, ever looked at If I Ran the Zoo and said, wow, this is so brutally offensive, I can't believe it.

00:49:44.000 Or Mulberry Street, which is even less controversial.

00:49:48.000 It's amazing.

00:49:49.000 By the way, what is on the NEA reading list, according to Jared Stepman over at The Daily Signal?

00:49:53.000 What's on the NEA reading list?

00:49:55.000 Well, if you're a kid, you can't read.

00:49:57.000 And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street, which I read to my kids yesterday.

00:50:01.000 I did it just to show them.

00:50:02.000 Just to show them.

00:50:03.000 I felt a little sort of thrill of disregard for the woke when I read Mulberry Street. 1.00

00:50:10.000 This is how stupid everything has become. 0.99

00:50:12.000 What books does the NEA recommend you read? 1.00

00:50:14.000 You can't read to your kids about an imaginary parade in which a Chinese person carries chopsticks. 0.59

00:50:19.000 You cannot read that.

00:50:19.000 That is terribly bad.

00:50:21.000 But you should, and it is recommended by the NEA, the National Education Association, that you read to your children, Julian is a Mermaid, about a little boy who sees women dressed as mermaids and wants to dress like them.

00:50:31.000 Also, The Prince and the Dressmaker, about a prince who secretly wears dresses at night.

00:50:35.000 They recommend you read this.

00:50:36.000 Not you're allowed to.

00:50:37.000 They recommend it.

00:50:38.000 It is recommended by the NEA.

00:50:41.000 There's also Americanize, Rebel Without a Green Card about an illegal immigrant from Iran.

00:50:44.000 There's also We Are Here to Stay, voices of undocumented young adults also about illegal immigration.

00:50:50.000 There is also stamped racism, anti-racism, and you.

00:50:55.000 Oh, it is from Ibram X. Kendi.

00:50:57.000 So overt, bizarre racist, Ibram X. Kendi.

00:51:00.000 That guy, they recommend his books. 0.99

00:51:02.000 By the way, speaking of Ibram X. Kendi, Ibram X. Kendi is such an unbelievable, ridiculous, backwards racist that he actually tweeted this out yesterday. 0.94

00:51:11.000 And this is the Kafka move right here. 0.98

00:51:15.000 The heartbeat of racism is denial.

00:51:17.000 And too often, the more powerful the racism, the more powerful the denial.

00:51:21.000 The heartbeat of racism is actually hatred and bigotry, but he doesn't care about hatred and bigotry.

00:51:26.000 He cares about being able to label anyone he wants racist.

00:51:28.000 So if you deny that you are a racist, this makes you a racist.

00:51:31.000 That's why it's called a Kafka move.

00:51:33.000 Because, like Franz Kafka, in the trial, you are guilty if you say that you are innocent, and you are guilty if you say that you are guilty.

00:51:42.000 If you are a witch, then you will absolutely sink to the bottom of the river. 0.99

00:51:46.000 Then you will absolutely float if you're a witch. 1.00

00:51:47.000 If you're a witch, you will float. 0.99

00:51:49.000 And if you are not a witch, you will sink. 0.98

00:51:51.000 That's how we'll find out whether you're a witch or not. 0.98

00:51:53.000 So that guy wrote a crappy children's book, and we are going to use that as the basis for teaching children. 0.94

00:51:59.000 We're going to actively teach children about racial essentialism, but if they see a cartoon picture of Asian people carrying a mythical animal in a book about a child running a zoo, then obviously that is going to create all sorts of racist sentiment.

00:52:16.000 Amazing stuff.

00:52:17.000 Really solid stuff here from our culture.

00:52:19.000 Our culture is doing a great job.

00:52:20.000 And it's going to extend to movies now.

00:52:22.000 Long piece in the Hollywood Reporter by Rebecca Keegan today.

00:52:25.000 Racist. 0.98

00:52:25.000 Sexist. 0.98

00:52:26.000 Classic.

00:52:27.000 How Hollywood is dealing with its problematic content.

00:52:30.000 As streamers build out their lucrative libraries, they're experimenting with label warnings, context panels, and even purges.

00:52:36.000 These are valuable properties you cannot just disregard.

00:52:38.000 You want to keep them, but you have to make sure they don't damage the brand, they say.

00:52:41.000 Every month, Disney convenes an eclectic group of advisors via video conference to tell the media conglomerate what it and the many entertainment companies it has acquired over its nearly 100-year history have gotten wrong.

00:52:52.000 Every single month, they're doing these woke struggle sessions.

00:52:54.000 It's a long list.

00:52:55.000 Song of the South, Jar Jar Binks.

00:52:59.000 I mean, Jar Jar Binks is wrong, but I don't know why.

00:53:01.000 Why is Jar Jar problematic?

00:53:04.000 I mean, I understand that he's a terrible character, but we're canceling Jar Jar now?

00:53:09.000 MISA! 0.99

00:53:11.000 I mean, first of all, I will say that anybody who caps Jar Jar is a hero to me, but if they won't cap Jar Jar, that seems like they're on the dark side.

00:53:22.000 That episode of The Muppet Show where Johnny Cash sings a duet with Miss Piggy in front of a confederate flag.

00:53:26.000 You know how many people were radicalized by that?

00:53:28.000 You know how many people became white supremacists because they saw Johnny Cash sing a duet with Miss Piggy in front of a confederate flag?

00:53:34.000 So many people joined the KKK because of that?

00:53:36.000 We've had some raw conversation on these Zooms, says Gil Robertson, president of the African American Film Critics Association, who sits on Disney's advisory council alongside representatives from groups like the Coalition of Asian Pacifics and Entertainment and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, as well as representatives from various departments at Disney, including programming, public policy, diversity, and inclusion. 1.00

00:53:57.000 Disney asks Robertson and his colleagues to watch content that may contain stereotypes or insensitive imagery and offer their perspectives.

00:54:03.000 Here's the thing.

00:54:03.000 You are now outsourcing your wokeness to these groups.

00:54:06.000 These groups only survive by finding things to be offended by.

00:54:08.000 You know what would happen to these groups if there were nothing offensive?

00:54:11.000 Or if they actually reported the truth, which is that they are not offended by any of this stuff?

00:54:14.000 You know what would happen to them?

00:54:16.000 No one would need them!

00:54:17.000 They're not going to un-woke themselves out of a job.

00:54:21.000 When Disney hands over power to all of these interest groups, What they are doing is saying to them, you now have an incentive to call things racist so that we have to keep coming back to you for our latest re-up.

00:54:33.000 So now they're trying to reframe classic films on TCM.

00:54:37.000 TCM host Ben Manquat says, nobody's canceling these movies.

00:54:40.000 Our job is not to get up and say, here's a movie you should feel guilty about for liking, but to pretend the racism in it is not painful and acute.

00:54:45.000 No, I don't want to shy away from that.

00:54:47.000 This was inevitable and welcomed and overdue.

00:54:51.000 Or we could just let people make their own decisions about things.

00:54:55.000 I know, terrible, terrible idea.

00:54:57.000 So, Tropic Thunder, I guess, is bad.

00:55:00.000 It's offensive, Tropic Thunder now.

00:55:03.000 Robert Downey Jr.

00:55:04.000 got a Best Supporting Actor nomination for that, by the way.

00:55:07.000 Older shows and movies are still big business, says The Hollywood Reporter.

00:55:10.000 On Disney+, nearly 80% of the TV demand was for these streaming services licensed in library shows.

00:55:15.000 Only about 20% was for original shows like The Mandalorian, which also have to be wiped clean, by the way, of anyone who thinks differently, as we learned about Gina Carano.

00:55:22.000 In 2019, Miramax's 700-film library was valued at $750 million.

00:55:27.000 The libraries at Disney and WarnerMedia are multi-billion-dollar assets.

00:55:31.000 But the need for studios to reckon with their racist histories took on a new urgency last summer as Black Lives Matter protests were unfolding.

00:55:38.000 No, no, they didn't actually.

00:55:39.000 They seriously did not.

00:55:41.000 Nobody cared about this.

00:55:42.000 Nobody was clamoring for it.

00:55:44.000 You just decided to do it preemptively because the woke control your companies. 0.97

00:55:48.000 And because you know that the woke are loud and squeaky and they bother you. 1.00

00:55:52.000 So now they're gonna contextualize everything or maybe even remove it.

00:55:55.000 Maybe even remove it.

00:55:59.000 Drawing attention to problems in their own archives does carry risk for studios.

00:56:03.000 Kermit cancelled asked a headline on the conservative website, The Daily Wire, when Disney rolled out disclaimers on 18 episodes of The Muppet Show.

00:56:09.000 When the host of Fox & Friends asked Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton about disclaimers on February 24th, the lawmaker brought up the studio's relationship with China.

00:56:16.000 Yeah, that is correct.

00:56:18.000 These types of cancel culture critiques have not deterred the studios.

00:56:22.000 No, of course they haven't.

00:56:23.000 Why would they?

00:56:25.000 Because here's the thing, they have a monopoly on the entertainment properties.

00:56:28.000 They can always just remove it.

00:56:30.000 And that's what eventually will happen.

00:56:31.000 If you think that the content warnings are gonna be enough, they won't.

00:56:34.000 Eventually, the woke are going to demand that these things just go away permanently because they're harmful.

00:56:38.000 And no matter how many times you warn people about context, trigger warnings aren't enough.

00:56:41.000 They have to be removed.

00:56:43.000 And unlike in the real world, where Gina Carano can get fired by Disney and we can pick her up, If I could buy the rights to If I Ran the Zoo and just sell it via daily wire, I absolutely would.

00:56:53.000 But I can't, because Dr. Seuss Enterprises is taking it down and they own the rights.

00:56:57.000 Same thing is gonna happen at Disney.

00:56:58.000 They're just gonna take down intellectual property and bury it and kill it.

00:57:01.000 And the world will become a less interesting and fun and eclectic place.

00:57:05.000 Because this is what cancellation does.

00:57:08.000 This is what censorship does.

00:57:10.000 Even stuff you disagree with.

00:57:11.000 I know this is a hard thought for the same people who used to believe in the ACLU, but even the ACLU no longer believes in the ACLU.

00:57:18.000 And here's the thing.

00:57:19.000 There is no end to it.

00:57:20.000 Like, no end to it.

00:57:22.000 Michael Strahan, good example.

00:57:24.000 No matter how much you apologize, it will never be enough.

00:57:27.000 Disney can put the context warnings, TSTCM can do this new contextualizing series, they can do all that stuff.

00:57:32.000 It won't make one iota of difference, because in the end, there is no end.

00:57:36.000 So here's the thing about religion.

00:57:38.000 Religion, when you repent before God, God accepts it.

00:57:41.000 The woke, when you repent before the woke, they murder you. 0.83

00:57:44.000 They kill your career, they destroy your life, Chris Harrison, who's the host of The Bachelor, or was, and now has been deemed unfit to be the host of a silly dating show because he had the temerity to suggest that a woman ought to be given grace for going to an antebellum-themed party in 2018 after her black boyfriend on the show suggested she be given grace.

00:58:06.000 He's been canceled.

00:58:07.000 He went on Good Morning America, and he apologized for himself.

00:58:10.000 He said that he was insufficiently sensitive and all this.

00:58:14.000 Created the impetus for Michael Strahan to now declare that he was not sufficiently sincere.

00:58:19.000 His sincerity was not good enough.

00:58:20.000 And so he must remain canceled.

00:58:21.000 Here's Michael Strahan.

00:58:23.000 His apology is his apology.

00:58:25.000 But it felt like it got nothing more than a surface response on any of this.

00:58:30.000 And obviously, he's the man who wants to clearly stay on the show.

00:58:34.000 But only time will tell if there is any meaning behind his words.

00:58:38.000 Only time will tell.

00:58:39.000 But there's no way for him to prove it.

00:58:41.000 Because you're not going to let him back on the show.

00:58:42.000 Because you don't want him back on the show.

00:58:45.000 Our culture has shown its neck to the woke, and the woke are just cutting it off.

00:58:48.000 I mean, that is all that is happening here.

00:58:51.000 So, how do you fight back against it?

00:58:52.000 Well, first of all, make your voices heard.

00:58:54.000 Make it clear to Disney that if they begin to cancel shows that you like, you're not gonna take your money there.

00:59:00.000 Find alternatives.

00:59:02.000 Create new projects.

00:59:04.000 That's what we're doing here at Daily Wire, and we need your help.

00:59:06.000 This is why I recommend it to everybody.

00:59:07.000 Get a membership at Daily Wire.

00:59:08.000 We are pushing into the culture war because culture is upstream of politics.

00:59:12.000 But recognize that what the left does right now, their greatest trick, is that they will take a seminal piece of literature, like Dr. Seuss, they'll cancel it, and then they'll say, why are you even paying attention?

00:59:20.000 You ought to be paying attention.

00:59:22.000 Because these are indicators of a culture that is in complete collapse.

00:59:26.000 The only way to shore it up is to stand up for the culture, even stuff you disagree with.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 05, 2021

Freedom Is For Neanderthals | Ep. 1209

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