The Ben Shapiro Show - George W. Bush’s Delusional 9-11 Call For Unity | Ep. 1336

00:00:00.000 Former President George W. Bush speaks at the 9-11 memorial in Shanksville and compares the January 6th rioters to the 9-11 terrorists.

00:00:07.000 Joe Biden's surrender to Al Qaeda continues on 9-11, and Democrats turn to internecine warfare over their $3.5 trillion budget buster.

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00:01:42.000 I will admit to a sneaking fondness for President George W. Bush.

00:01:45.000 He was the president for most of my late childhood.

00:01:48.000 I was 16 years old when George W. Bush took office in 2000.

00:01:52.000 And in 2001, so I was 17.

00:01:55.000 16, 17, right on that cusp.

00:01:57.000 And he was president, obviously, for the next eight years.

00:02:00.000 That was a quite defining time in my thinking.

00:02:03.000 And I remember defending George W. Bush from all the people who called him Bush Hitler, and all the people who said that he lied us into war, and all the people who suggested that he was a war criminal.

00:02:11.000 And the main gripe that many people who are George W. Bush fans had is that George W. Bush spent eight years being a very nice person.

00:02:19.000 He spent eight years basically allowing everybody to attack him with alacrity and never defending himself.

00:02:25.000 It always felt as though there were millions and millions of Americans who were out defending his policies and he was not doing a good job of defending his own policies.

00:02:32.000 And then he left and when he left he was very unpopular because of the economic downturn and he essentially disappeared for years from the American political scene because like his father, he believed that ex-presidents shouldn't really be seen and they really shouldn't be heard.

00:02:45.000 They should just sort of go away and allow their successors to do what they're going to do.

00:02:48.000 But then George W. Bush started cropping up in places from time to time.

00:02:52.000 You would see him doing an ad campaign with the Clintons and the Obamas.

00:02:54.000 You'd see him hobnobbing with Michelle Obama.

00:02:57.000 And every time he spoke out politically, it seemed like he was doing so in order to ding the right.

00:03:01.000 It seemed as though he would never speak out with regard to the left because that would have been insulting.

00:03:04.000 But he would speak out about Ted Cruz, for example, or he would speak out about Black Lives Matter.

00:03:10.000 He put out a statement last year that was very sympathetic toward Black Lives Matter.

00:03:13.000 And now George W. Bush showed up at the 9-11 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the 20th anniversary Of 9-11 and I think that George W. Bush represents a certain sort of delusional conciliatory attitude that some establishment Republicans still have with regard to politics.

00:03:31.000 Now, I think that you can have worthwhile, useful discussions with people on the opposite side of the political aisle.

00:03:37.000 I do it all the time.

00:03:39.000 On our Sunday special, we routinely invite people who are not of my political thinking, and we have long-form discussions about that.

00:03:45.000 I may do that more than anybody else on the right.

00:03:47.000 I appear on shows where people disagree with me pretty frequently, and I think it's important to do so.

00:03:52.000 But to pretend that we are at a level of unity in American politics, where we simply are not, is to mistake the moment.

00:03:59.000 It is to ignore where we are in American politics and frankly where we have been for a very long time because the truth is that American politics was very broken even during the Bush era.

00:04:07.000 I know that we're supposed to look back and think that the world began spinning during the Trump era or during the Obama era.

00:04:13.000 The reality is it did not take long after 9-11 for the left immediately to swivel and start beating George W. Bush with a hammer.

00:04:20.000 It did not take long for Hillary Clinton to appear on the floor of the Senate saying, what did Bush know and when did he know it about 9-11?

00:04:26.000 The implication being that the Bush administration had ignored the intelligence that would have prevented 9-11, for example.

00:04:32.000 It did not take long for Howard Dean to start talking about how George W. Bush was essentially a war criminal. 0.96

00:04:38.000 It did not take very long for the Democratic media To try to suggest that George W. Bush was a liar, that he was a fool, that he was attempting to lie us into war in Iraq, that he was a warmonger, and all the rest. 0.97

00:04:51.000 That he had gotten us stuck in a quagmire. 0.97

00:04:52.000 That was the word of the day in 2003.

00:04:56.000 And George W. Bush never really seemed to understand what had happened.

00:04:59.000 I think after 9-11, he was still working in the 9-11 mode because there was a transformative moment for just a moment in American politics.

00:05:06.000 It's the only time I can remember it in my entire lifetime.

00:05:08.000 After 9-11, there was a feeling among Americans that yes, actually there is an existential enemy out there, and that enemy is not us.

00:05:16.000 We may not like our neighbors.

00:05:17.000 We may think that the people who disagree with us on politics in America have it wrong.

00:05:20.000 But there is a difference in kind between the guy who lives down the street and disagrees with you about tax law and the person who is attempting to fly a plane into a building resulting in 3,000 American deaths and the pictures of human beings jumping to their death from the 85th story of the World Trade Center.

00:05:38.000 There was a difference in kind.

00:05:40.000 For a brief moment in America, there was a feeling like, okay, we're unified as a country.

00:05:45.000 And it went away almost immediately.

00:05:46.000 It went away very, very, very quickly.

00:05:50.000 And I don't think that George W. Bush ever really took stock of that.

00:05:53.000 I think he's always been longing for that moment.

00:05:55.000 Again, I understand it.

00:05:55.000 I understand the nostalgia for that moment.

00:05:57.000 But to pretend that that is the underlying reality of America right now, that when you get right down to it, we still are all friends, we still all agree, we still are all on the same page, I think ignores how much has changed over the course of the last 20 years.

00:06:11.000 I think it's why we are in such a dire situation.

00:06:13.000 It's why I've written Three separate books now about why it seems like our unifying principles are coming apart.

00:06:19.000 Principles that we actually did sort of commonly hold even in 2000.

00:06:23.000 Principles about the general role of government in American life.

00:06:25.000 It was Bill Clinton who was saying in the 1990s that the era of big government was over.

00:06:29.000 Principles that we held about the necessity for treating other human beings as individuals.

00:06:34.000 It was Bill Clinton, who in 1992 was having a sister-soldier moment, meaning he was literally saying to people that the sort of equity talk you hear from the left, the racial talk that you hear from the left today and is celebrated by the White House, was then rejected by the Democratic Party.

00:06:47.000 The colorblind notions that Martin Luther King Jr.

00:06:50.000 was promoting, those notions had taken predominance in American life as of 2000.

00:06:55.000 That is not the case in America in 2021.

00:06:57.000 There's a very serious rift in American life and in American philosophy and in American politics.

00:07:04.000 That's a rift in values and I don't think George W. Bush really understands that and so what that ends with is George W. Bush At the 9-11 memorial saying something that I think it ends up he's trying to be unifying and it ends up being divisive because he doesn't understand the nature of modern America.

00:07:20.000 And it's this disconnect between establishment politicians and people who are sort of in the elite coterie of American life.

00:07:28.000 It's a disconnect between those folks and the rest of America that leads to the rise of populism on both the left and the right.

00:07:34.000 Because at the top of the chain, there are people who are like, yeah, we understand that politics is really sort of just rock'em, sock'em robots.

00:07:39.000 It's all just a game.

00:07:40.000 It's sort of as though if you're a fan of a baseball team and you watch the players on the field, you want them to be competitive with each other because you understand that something is at stake.

00:07:48.000 And then somebody hits a home run, it ends the game, and the other guys go out there and they're giving each other hugs.

00:07:53.000 They're out for drinks that night.

00:07:55.000 As a fan, you're like, why are you doing that?

00:07:57.000 Well, politically speaking, it's sort of the same thing, except in baseball, you understand.

00:08:00.000 Okay, well, the players, you know, it's still a game.

00:08:02.000 Politics is really not a game.

00:08:03.000 Politics is deadly serious business when you're talking about how you impact 300 million American lives.

00:08:08.000 Okay, so we'll get to what George W. Bush actually said at Shanksville in just one second.

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00:09:16.000 Okay, so George W. Bush goes to the 9-11 memorial in Shanksville, and he proceeds to say some very, very nice things.

00:09:25.000 And then he says one thing that ends up being the headline, of course, because he was trying to say something unifying and he failed.

00:09:32.000 So he starts off by talking about how Americans, when we are forced together, are exceptional, which of course is true.

00:09:39.000 20 years ago, terrorists chose a random group of Americans on a routine flight.

00:09:45.000 To be collateral damage in a spectacular act of terror.

00:09:50.000 The 33 passengers and 7 crew of Flight 93 could have been any group of citizens selected by fate.

00:09:59.000 In a sense, they stood in for us all.

00:10:04.000 The terrorists soon discovered that a random group of Americans is an exceptional group of people facing an impossible circumstance.

00:10:14.000 They comforted their loved ones by phone, braced each other for action, and defeated the designs of evil.

00:10:21.000 Okay, and all of that was true.

00:10:25.000 And this is the world that George W. Bush, I think, wishes to occupy.

00:10:28.000 Frankly, it's a world I wish to occupy as well.

00:10:30.000 I mean, I think that what happened on Flight 93 is a great indicator of what Americans are when put to the test.

00:10:35.000 George W. Bush continued along these lines, and he talked a little bit about the men and women who have served in harm's way.

00:10:42.000 And you start to see the first Inklings here of why the Bush presidency, which again, I think that Bush in many ways is a man of principle, but the Bush presidency was a disappointing failure in many ways.

00:10:52.000 And I think one of the reasons was because, again, he just did not defend his own policies.

00:10:57.000 He did not defend what he was doing.

00:10:58.000 So here he was.

00:10:59.000 It's 20 years later.

00:11:00.000 We've now surrendered in Afghanistan to the very people who perpetrated 9-11. 0.98

00:11:04.000 And George W. Bush has had not a word to say about that, really.

00:11:07.000 He's had not one word about the policy.

00:11:09.000 He sat aside.

00:11:10.000 Well, Joe Biden surrendered the entire country back to the exact people who did 9-11. 0.65

00:11:15.000 I mean, like the exact people who did 9-11.

00:11:18.000 He's had nothing to say about that.

00:11:19.000 Instead, he has sort of comforting words for the members of the military, which is fine.

00:11:22.000 But where is he when it comes to the actual serious questions of policy?

00:11:28.000 Let me speak directly to veterans and people in uniform.

00:11:32.000 The cause you pursued at the call of duty is the noblest America has to offer.

00:11:37.000 You have shielded your fellow citizens from danger.

00:11:41.000 You have defended the beliefs of your country and advanced the rights of the downtrodden.

00:11:48.000 You have been the face of hope and mercy in dark places.

00:11:53.000 You have been a force for good in the world.

00:11:56.000 Nothing that has followed, nothing, can tarnish your honor or diminish your accomplishments.

00:12:04.000 To you and to the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

00:12:10.000 That's a rather oblique critique of the Biden foreign policy in Afghanistan.

00:12:14.000 OK, so if you're going to do a unity speech, then what you really need to talk about are unifying principles, right?

00:12:20.000 You need to talk about what brings America together.

00:12:22.000 And George W. Bush did many of those things in that speech.

00:12:26.000 But if you are going to critique, then the critique has to be pointed and it has to be specific, or at least it has to be broad enough to encompass the big problems in American society.

00:12:36.000 People on the right, I think, responded with the Trump era because of the Obama era, but also because of the Bush era, as we'll see in just one second.

00:12:43.000 Because here is George W. Bush.

00:12:44.000 This is the clip that made all the headlines, right?

00:12:46.000 It wasn't all of the talk about unity.

00:12:47.000 It wasn't all the talk about bringing Americans together.

00:12:50.000 It was this line from George W. Bush that brought all the commentary.

00:12:53.000 This is the line where he compares the January 6th rioters to the 9-11 hijackers.

00:12:59.000 We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, But from violence that gathers within.

00:13:08.000 There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home.

00:13:16.000 But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit.

00:13:30.000 And it is our continuing duty to confront them.

00:13:35.000 Okay, so, everybody took this as a critique of the 1-6 rioters.

00:13:40.000 Now, it's possible to read it as a broader critique than that, right?

00:13:42.000 That he's talking about white supremacists, or that he's talking about Antifa, or that he's talking about Black Lives Matter.

00:13:47.000 The problem is, of course, that he released a statement in favor of Black Lives Matter last June, in which he talked about systemic American racism and all of the rest of the left-wing buzzwords.

00:13:56.000 And it is also possible to say that the 1-6 rioters did something evil.

00:13:59.000 I have said that.

00:14:00.000 Many, many times.

00:14:02.000 I think that storming the Capitol building on the basis of a falsehood Both that the election was stolen and that the election results were capable of being overturned after having been certified at the state level.

00:14:12.000 That was all a lie, that was not true.

00:14:14.000 And they stormed the Capitol building to compare those people, still, to the 9-11 hijackers who literally murdered 3,000 Americans.

00:14:21.000 The only American who was actually killed at the Capitol on 1-6, like died at the Capitol on 1-6 because of direct action by another human being.

00:14:28.000 The only person who actually died because of that was Ashley Babbitt, right, who was shot at the Capitol and she was one of the rioters.

00:14:34.000 That is not remotely the same thing as the 9-11 hijackers, either in their aims.

00:14:40.000 I mean, the goal of the 9-11 hijackers was to completely overthrow the system of the United States, not because of a quote-unquote stolen election or anything like that, but because they didn't believe in elections.

00:14:50.000 They believe in full-on Sharia law, right? 0.99

00:14:52.000 They wanted the kind of governance that you see in Afghanistan.

00:14:56.000 The comparison fails on nearly every level.

00:14:59.000 But what's more important is I think George W. Bush thought that he was saying something unifying here, right?

00:15:02.000 Which is that attacks on American institutions and attacks on American principles are unacceptable across the board.

00:15:07.000 But the feeling that people get on the right is that he doesn't mean it across the board.

00:15:10.000 And by the way, that was the feeling on the left as well.

00:15:12.000 Because if the left thought that he meant that across the board, if they thought that he equally meant the one six rioters and the people who burned down American cities last summer resulting in at least $5 billion in property damage, now $2 billion of insured, if they felt that he was applying that to Antifa with the same sort of alacrity that he was applying that to white supremacists, then there might be some sort of unity, but they don't feel like that.

00:15:35.000 And neither is the left.

00:15:36.000 And the reason you can tell the left doesn't feel like that is because they were giving him the strange new respect treatment.

00:15:40.000 And this is what's truly going after eight years of defending George W. Bush and his policies, after eight years of going to political battle for the Bush administration on behalf I disagreed with George W. Bush a lot, and sometimes I'd critique him.

00:15:55.000 But if you go back and read my columns, I defended many of George W. Bush's big moves when he wouldn't defend himself.

00:16:01.000 After eight years of that, to feel as though the ex-president of the United States, who you defended, only emerges to critique one side of the political aisle, even if that side deserves critique, even if those radicals deserve critique.

00:16:13.000 But he is not attempting to critique everybody.

00:16:15.000 He's only critiquing a certain group, a certain radical subsection of a movement, as opposed to, you know, the people who actually destroyed his presidency at every point.

00:16:26.000 And then to receive the strange respect from the same people who spent eight years declaring him a warmonger and a bad human being, that's how you get Trump.

00:16:33.000 That's how you get Trump, and you deserve Trump.

00:16:35.000 That's how it comes to that.

00:16:37.000 And you can see the left celebrating Bush.

00:16:39.000 You have Joe Biden, who says that Bush made a great speech about who we are.

00:16:43.000 Why do you think Joe Biden is celebrating George W. Bush?

00:16:45.000 He spent years ripping on George W. Bush.

00:16:49.000 In 2008, when Biden was running alongside Barack Obama, he labeled John McCain a continuation of the horrific Bush era.

00:16:57.000 That was the main line.

00:16:58.000 George W. Bush was so bad, and John McCain will be more of that.

00:17:01.000 I mean, Joe Biden spent years trashing George W. Bush, but now he's very happy with George W. Bush.

00:17:07.000 Which makes you think, has Joe Biden changed?

00:17:10.000 Or is George W. Bush just paying homage to a delusional conciliation that does not exist in American politics?

00:17:17.000 Here is Joe Biden.

00:17:19.000 I thought that President Bush made a really good speech today.

00:17:23.000 Genuinely good speech.

00:17:26.000 About who we are and what we're not.

00:17:28.000 The core of who we are is not divided.

00:17:36.000 The core of who we are is not divided, says Joe Biden.

00:17:39.000 This is the part where, again, I think Bush is misreading the situation.

00:17:43.000 And I think a lot of the right-wing establishment, the so-called conservative establishment, is misreading the moment.

00:17:49.000 I'll explain more of this in just one second, because when Joe Biden said that he was trying to generate unity when he was inaugurated, I said at the time, we still have to define what he means by unity.

00:18:00.000 By unity, does he mean they were going to attempt to come together around common principles and leave people alone, let them live their lives?

00:18:07.000 Or by unity, does he mean you shut the hell up and I will tell you what to do?

00:18:10.000 And it is extremely obvious at this point that Joe Biden means the latter.

00:18:13.000 And if George W. Bush means the former, then unity does not mean the same thing to George W. Bush that it means to Joe Biden.

00:18:20.000 And yet George W. Bush is using the exact same language, which is a dangerous thing to do.

00:18:24.000 It obscures clarity.

00:18:26.000 It makes things opaque.

00:18:27.000 And not only that, it grants weapons to the people who actually wish to infringe upon your freedoms each and every day and divide Americans each and every day.

00:18:34.000 So as you see, Joe Biden is praising George W. Bush for the unity speech, but he's really praising him because he believes that George W. Bush is attacking people purportedly of the right, but never anybody.

00:18:45.000 On the left, right?

00:18:46.000 This is what unity means to people of Joe Biden's ilk. 0.95

00:18:50.000 Unity means we are right and you are wrong and you shut up.

00:18:53.000 And if you disagree, there's no unity.

00:18:56.000 That's what Joe Biden means.

00:18:57.000 And I don't take seriously that Joe Biden is particularly upset about January 6th because January 6th is worse in kind than the riots we saw that wrecked the cities across the summer and have led to a radically exacerbated murder rate in every major city in America.

00:19:13.000 I just don't believe that he even believes that.

00:19:16.000 I think that he believes that people who agree with his agenda are basically good and people who disagree with his agenda are basically bad.

00:19:22.000 That is not a unifying perspective.

00:19:23.000 Kamala Harris is doing the same thing.

00:19:26.000 You're granting, this is why I'm very frustrated with George W. Bush's speech, not because of the critique of one sex, but because of the inability to know and understand that radicalism on all sides of all aisles is a major, major problem.

00:19:41.000 When you only critique one side of the aisle, and then you say that unity is in the offing, you are incorrect.

00:19:47.000 All you're doing is granting favor to people who have actively promoted the disunity.

00:19:52.000 If you're not willing to condemn all of the bad things, you're only willing to condemn some of the bad things, you're fomenting others of the bad things.

00:19:59.000 The left knows this, which is why they were using Bush's speech over the weekend.

00:20:02.000 Here's Kamala Harris doing the same thing, calling for unity.

00:20:04.000 This is absolutely galling stuff coming from Kamala Harris.

00:20:09.000 I mean, here she is calling for unity.

00:20:13.000 Unity is imperative in America. 0.99

00:20:18.000 It is essential to our shared prosperity, She's a liar. 1.00

00:20:23.000 our national security and to our standing in the world.

00:20:28.000 And by unity, I don't mean uniformity.

00:20:32.000 We had differences of opinion in 2001, as we do in 2021.

00:20:38.000 And I believe that in America, our diversity is our strength. 0.99

00:20:47.000 She's a liar. 0.97

00:20:47.000 When she says that she doesn't believe that unity is uniformity, no, she 100% does. 0.97

00:20:52.000 She does not believe in diversity of opinion in any serious way.

00:20:56.000 You can look at her legislative record on this.

00:20:58.000 This is not a person who deeply cares about diversity of opinion.

00:20:58.000 It is pretty clear.

00:21:01.000 This is a person who's part of an administration that is attacking other Americans for diversity of opinion.

00:21:08.000 Yet the same thing from the media.

00:21:09.000 You got Jim Acosta doing the same thing.

00:21:10.000 What happened to our unity?

00:21:11.000 What happened?

00:21:12.000 We didn't just become divided.

00:21:15.000 We let hate into our hearts for each other.

00:21:20.000 There was an expression used after 9-11, all gave some, some gave all.

00:21:27.000 We don't really do that anymore.

00:21:30.000 Some of us don't want to give anything at all.

00:21:33.000 We live in separate worlds now.

00:21:36.000 We don't agree on the same facts anymore.

00:21:38.000 We can't even agree on wearing masks or getting vaccinated to end this pandemic.

00:21:45.000 Why isn't there unity?

00:21:46.000 Because of you people who won't mask after being vaccinated.

00:21:50.000 Yeah, I wonder why there's not unity.

00:21:52.000 We're gonna get into that in a second because that is the crux of the matter.

00:21:55.000 Why isn't there the unity?

00:21:56.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

00:21:58.000 First, let us talk about the fact that now is not a great time to go to the auto parts store because never is a great time to go to the auto parts store, right?

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00:23:05.000 Alrighty, so, George W. Bush calls for unity, and in the process of calling for unity, he basically name-checks the 1-6 rioters, but nothing else, right?

00:23:15.000 That is where he's putting his sole focus.

00:23:17.000 Which is inherently un-unifying, because it turns out that there are a lot of Threads in the fabric of America that are being torn asunder, many of them by the leadership of the United States, which George W. Bush has studiously ignored, as long as it is coming from the left, since 2008.

00:23:29.000 And this is coming from somebody who voted for George W. Bush in 2004 and supported much of his agenda.

00:23:38.000 It is extremely frustrating, and it's extremely frustrating to watch people who ripped him and wrecked his presidency now use George W. Bush and his statements as a tool to wield on behalf of an inherently ununifying agenda.

00:23:51.000 Disunifying agenda.

00:23:52.000 You got Kamala Harris saying that she also believes in unity, and Jim Acosta saying he believes in unity.

00:23:57.000 No, you don't. 0.98

00:23:57.000 You're liars. 0.98

00:23:59.000 You absolutely do not. 0.95

00:24:00.000 I know you don't, because last summer, Kamala Harris was backing rioters. 0.85

00:24:03.000 Last summer, Kamala Harris was tweeting out about how we could actually bail out rioters in Minneapolis.

00:24:10.000 You remember her famous tweet on this, her infamous tweet on this, in which she tweeted out, if you're able to, chip in now to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.

00:24:20.000 The people in jail were not protesters, they were rioters.

00:24:23.000 But don't worry, she's not for uniformity, she's only for unity.

00:24:27.000 My message to unvaccinated Americans is this.

00:24:28.000 What more is there to wait for?

00:24:30.000 It's time for us to come together.

00:24:31.000 It's time for last week, he was labeling the unvaccinated the worst among us.

00:24:36.000 And nevermind if they're, by the way, no exceptions for natural immunity, no exceptions for other health conditions.

00:24:41.000 If you're unvaccinated, you're a bad person according to Joe Biden, and he's going to lecture you about it, but he's for unity, you see.

00:24:46.000 My message to unvaccinated Americans is this, what more is there to wait for?

00:24:54.000 What more do you need to see?

00:24:58.000 We've made vaccinations free, safe, and convenient.

00:25:02.000 Thank you.

00:25:03.000 The vaccine has FDA approval.

00:25:06.000 Over 200 million Americans have gotten at least one shot.

00:25:11.000 We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin.

00:25:16.000 And your refusal has cost all of us.

00:25:20.000 That's Captain Unity over there, right?

00:25:23.000 The man who's bringing us all together.

00:25:24.000 The person with whom George W. Bush is meeting across the table to talk about unity.

00:25:28.000 You have the media.

00:25:29.000 You have Jim Acosta, one of the most divisive media figures of the last several years, out there talking about how we can't even have unity.

00:25:35.000 Why can't we have unity like we had in 9-11?

00:25:37.000 We can't even have unity about masking.

00:25:38.000 Right, because there are serious questions to be asked about the necessity of masking in a time when every American adult has the ability to go get vaccinated.

00:25:46.000 There are serious data questions to be asked about the efficacy of particular types of masks.

00:25:51.000 And there are studies that demonstrate that cloth masks against the Delta variant are not particularly effective, for example.

00:25:56.000 But according to Jim Acosta, if you don't do what he wants you to do, you are threatening unity.

00:26:01.000 And this is the shtick of the left, and George W. Bush played right into it.

00:26:04.000 The shtick of the left is, That unity is offered by monopoly.

00:26:09.000 And if you are a person who exists outside of the monopoly, then you have now created two poles, which means polarization.

00:26:15.000 Polarization is a simple result, according to the left, of your failure to agree with them.

00:26:21.000 The same media who are decrying lack of unity on 9-11 spent most of 9-11 trying to jabber about how COVID was like 9-11.

00:26:29.000 COVID is not like 9-11.

00:26:31.000 I mean, it's certainly not like 9-11 in the sense that you guys won't even blame the people who are responsible, namely the Chinese government.

00:26:37.000 But not only that, COVID's not like 9-11 because it's hit everywhere.

00:26:40.000 It's a global pandemic.

00:26:41.000 And yet the left kept saying over and over that it was like 9-11.

00:26:44.000 The implication being that people who refuse to do what we want are like the terrorists.

00:26:48.000 That is the implication.

00:26:50.000 MSNBC, Chuck Todd, over the weekend compared 9-11 to COVID.

00:26:53.000 This is not a comparison.

00:26:55.000 I guess the best way to look at the two battles that the country engaged in, we had an outside invader in Al-Qaeda, and so we were able to unite.

00:27:05.000 We had a common enemy.

00:27:06.000 With COVID, this invisible enemy, we're not able to do it.

00:27:09.000 And you know, Willie, thinking about this all week, when you actually, sadly, you look at the arc of American history, polarization in some ways is more common than us coming together.

00:27:22.000 I mean, and then you get from Nicole Wallace that it's like 9-11 every couple of days COVID.

00:27:26.000 No, it is not.

00:27:27.000 It is like a health problem that is killing a lot of people.

00:27:31.000 By the way, a health problem to which we have a solution, namely, go get yourself vaccinated.

00:27:34.000 And if you don't want to, then you bear the consequences of that.

00:27:36.000 That's not like 9-11 in any way, shape, or form.

00:27:38.000 That's like if, on 9-11, you had the option to leave the building before.

00:27:43.000 Okay, that is not the same thing.

00:27:44.000 At all.

00:27:45.000 And also, it's as though the attackers on 9-11 had no actual will or agenda.

00:27:50.000 Because viruses don't.

00:27:51.000 But here's Nicole Wallace making that absurd comparison again, the implication being that the people who refuse to go along with the agenda here are the ones who are leading to disunity.

00:28:00.000 I think there are so many parallels to how much more difficult it is to do any of the things that anyone who has spoken today has done, to call the country to a higher purpose.

00:28:10.000 You've got politicians and prominent folks in the media outraged by steps that a president, not too many presidents after the one we heard from today, would try to save his country from an unthinkable death toll.

00:28:27.000 I mean, as many people die every two days as died on September 11th in this country, who don't have to die?

00:28:35.000 And yet there's no unity, no unity, no unity.

00:28:37.000 Why isn't there unity?

00:28:38.000 We all know why there's no unity.

00:28:40.000 And it's because the basic principles that used to unite the United States have gone the way of the dodo bird.

00:28:45.000 They were barely there even when Bush was president.

00:28:47.000 In fact, many of them crumbled while Bush was president.

00:28:51.000 And this is what's so frustrating, I think, to so many people on the right watching George W. Bush's speech and looking at many in the Republican establishment who seem to feel the same way as George W. Bush.

00:29:01.000 That unity is just around the corner.

00:29:02.000 If only I condemn this specific set of people, but not, broadly speaking, all people who commit these sorts of sins.

00:29:10.000 Like that?

00:29:12.000 It's playing right into the hands of people who actively use unity as a guise for a uniformity.

00:29:23.000 And again, I do find it galling that George W. Bush apparently only emerges to critique the perspectives of people he purports to see as on the right.

00:29:30.000 That is particularly galling to me.

00:29:32.000 Especially when you have the President of the United States who just destroyed George W. Bush's legacy in Afghanistan.

00:29:36.000 Let's be frank about this.

00:29:38.000 George W. Bush went into Afghanistan with uniformity of purpose.

00:29:40.000 There was uniformity.

00:29:41.000 One member of Congress voted against it.

00:29:44.000 Everyone wanted to go into Afghanistan.

00:29:46.000 Even Barack Obama in 2008 was calling it the good war.

00:29:49.000 In 2008.

00:29:50.000 And Joe Biden decided to pull out and hand the country directly back to the Taliban.

00:29:53.000 And then on the 20th anniversary of 9-11, he was talking about why he was right to do so and talking about and setting up these false binaries where, I mean, it's unbelievable.

00:30:02.000 He's in places like Shanksville.

00:30:05.000 He's meeting with he's meeting with first responders.

00:30:08.000 And he's talking about how, you know, we really have to be circumspect in how we fight al Qaeda.

00:30:13.000 If you had told anybody that we were going to spend 300 million bucks a day for 20 years to try to unite the country after we got bin Laden, after Al-Qaeda was wiped out there, can Al-Qaeda come back?

00:30:29.000 Yeah, but guess what?

00:30:29.000 It's already back other places.

00:30:32.000 What's the strategy?

00:30:34.000 Every place where Al-Qaeda is, we're going to invade and have troops there?

00:30:38.000 Come on! 0.61

00:30:41.000 Well, no. 1.00

00:30:41.000 The strategy is everywhere Al-Qaeda is, we're going to go in and we are going to kill them. 1.00

00:30:44.000 I mean, I thought that was literally the point of the war on terror. 0.98

00:30:47.000 The entire point of it. 0.99

00:30:49.000 That any place they were using as a base to threaten the United States, we were going to go in and kill them. 0.98

00:30:54.000 That was the basic idea of the war on terror.

00:30:57.000 And so all of this leads to Trump.

00:30:58.000 Because Trump isn't having this, right?

00:31:00.000 You want to know why Trump is durable in the Republican imagination?

00:31:03.000 The reason Trump is durable in the Republican imagination is because Trump is not having any of this bullcrap He's not going to sit around and pretend that Joe Biden is a unifying figure.

00:31:15.000 He's not going to make patty cake with the Obamas, who are highly polarizing figures in American political life.

00:31:22.000 He is not going to sit around and pretend that Joe Biden is some sort of figure of great magnanimity who simply wants us all to come together.

00:31:30.000 And so while normally it is sort of considered uncouth on 9-11 to talk about the failures of an administration currently in power, it becomes a lot less uncouth when you have an entire administration that has directed itself to destroying the purpose of the American response to 9-11.

00:31:46.000 So when Trump just doesn't operate inside the same sphere as the Republican establishment, the Republican establishment is still making nice and doing shoulder massages with the people who are using unity as a club, and Trump's like, I'm just not going to play that game.

00:31:57.000 You wonder why he's popular at the Republican base still?

00:32:00.000 That is the reason he is popular at the Republican base still.

00:32:02.000 Now he's not the only one who can do this.

00:32:03.000 There are other people on the right who are doing this as well.

00:32:06.000 You want to know why Ron DeSantis in Florida is popular with the Republican base?

00:32:09.000 It's because he does this with regard to COVID in the media all the time.

00:32:11.000 But the reason that Trump is popular with the Republican base is he is not going to pretend that he and Joe Biden are on the same page when it comes to things like Afghanistan.

00:32:19.000 It is somewhat mad.

00:32:20.000 Again, it is maddening to me that Joe Biden, who spent years backing the Afghanistan campaign under George W. Bush, but then simultaneously undermined Bush at every available turn.

00:32:29.000 20 years later destroys what's going on in Afghanistan. 0.79

00:32:32.000 By the way, everything going on with COVID, everything going on with the budget, it is all an attempt to distract from his failure in Afghanistan.

00:32:37.000 That is what this is.

00:32:37.000 It's why he's trying to ram it through.

00:32:39.000 And Trump wasn't having any of that.

00:32:41.000 So his presidential message, oh, it's not presidential.

00:32:43.000 Why couldn't it be presidential like Bush?

00:32:45.000 Maybe because he's being realistic, unlike Bush.

00:32:48.000 Here was Trump yesterday.

00:32:50.000 It is also a sad time for the way our war on those that did such harm to our country ended last week.

00:32:57.000 The loss of 13 great warriors and the many more who were wounded should never have happened. 0.90

00:33:04.000 The leader of our country was made to look like a fool, and that can never be allowed to happen. 0.79

00:33:11.000 It was caused by bad planning, incredible weakness, and leaders who truly didn't understand what was happening. 0.92

00:33:20.000 This is the 20th year of this war, and should have been a year of victory and honor and strength.

00:33:26.000 Instead, Joe Biden and his inept administration surrendered in defeat.

00:33:34.000 Okay, not only is he not wrong, he is correct about what time it is, as they say.

00:33:38.000 He is correct that we don't live in a world where unity of purpose is a thing.

00:33:43.000 And anybody on the left or on the right who tells you that unity of purpose in America is still a thing is missing the game.

00:33:49.000 They're missing the game that is being played.

00:33:53.000 In Afghanistan right now, the Taliban started flying their flag over the presidential palace in Kabul on the day of the 20th anniversary of 9-11.

00:34:01.000 The white banner with the Shahada, that's the testimony written across it, was raised at an 11 a.m.

00:34:06.000 ceremony on Saturday to mark the beginning of the work for the Taliban's caretaker government.

00:34:11.000 The Taliban did not issue a formal statement on the anniversary of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks that preluded them being driven from power 20 years earlier, but the image of the flag was a stunning reminder, of course.

00:34:22.000 Meanwhile, The Biden administration, it now turns out, on their way out of Afghanistan, remember they had this quote-unquote successful drone attack to go after the ISIS members who perpetrated that terror attack that killed 13 Americans?

00:34:35.000 Well, it turns out that in all likelihood, according to the New York Times, they did in fact kill an Afghan translator and members of his family.

00:34:43.000 But they had no idea who they were hitting.

00:34:45.000 Is that unity?

00:34:47.000 The Taliban are going around literally beating women in the streets.

00:34:51.000 There's video of it emerging.

00:34:52.000 Is that unity?

00:34:53.000 Women are now in hiding all over Afghanistan.

00:34:55.000 And we're supposed to pretend that unity is just, it's just under the surface.

00:34:58.000 If only we could get at it.

00:34:59.000 If only!

00:35:00.000 And we're supposed to pretend that we don't know the reasons for the disunity.

00:35:02.000 We know the reasons for the disunity.

00:35:05.000 Don't gaslight the American people by telling them that we are all in favor of unity.

00:35:11.000 You are not.

00:35:13.000 You are not!

00:35:13.000 The folks on the hard left and in the Biden administration are not in favor of unity.

00:35:18.000 They don't want to explain what they're doing politically.

00:35:20.000 They don't want to explain why their policies are right.

00:35:22.000 They don't want to brook dissent.

00:35:24.000 They want to use the powers of the federal government to ram through anything that they can without regard for the constitutional process.

00:35:30.000 They want to do it in top-down fashion.

00:35:32.000 They want to completely rewrite the American national bargain.

00:35:35.000 And they want to castigate all of their opponents as inherently polarizing for things like Really, you're telling me I need to mask up my five-year-old?

00:35:44.000 The answer there is no.

00:35:46.000 Which is why, again, you want Trump, you're gonna get more of him.

00:35:48.000 This is how you're gonna get more of Trump.

00:35:51.000 And we'll get to the disunifying democratic budget campaign.

00:35:55.000 This is what they're pushing forward to.

00:35:56.000 It's a world-breaking budget campaign in just one second.

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00:37:35.000 Also, you may have noticed that what is happening in America right now is the antithesis of what the founders sought.

00:37:41.000 The President of the United States has decided to go the authoritarian route and mandate vaccines for all businesses with over 100 employees or testing of all employees.

00:37:49.000 Or you gotta fire the employees.

00:37:51.000 That includes all of us here at The Daily Wire.

00:37:53.000 They're doing this not through the legislative process, not through the states.

00:37:56.000 They're doing this through OSHA.

00:37:58.000 And this is just administrative bureaucratic dictatorship.

00:38:01.000 We are not going to stand for that.

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00:38:05.000 I'm anti these mandates.

00:38:07.000 I think they are a direct encroachment, a federal encroachment on the constitutional order.

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00:38:31.000 Meanwhile, these so-called unification Democrats are just seeking unity.

00:38:39.000 They love diversity of opinion.

00:38:40.000 I mean, it's just what they love.

00:38:42.000 They're seeking to ram through a world-breaking $3.5 trillion budget buster in the middle of a divisive news cycle with inflation at the highest rate for businesses since 2010.

00:38:55.000 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a producer price index, which monitors changes in input prices for businesses and other domestic producers, rose 0.7 percent in August, slightly beating the 0.6 percent rate predicted by economists.

00:39:06.000 Inflation for businesses has now reached a year-over-year rate of 8.3 percent.

00:39:10.000 That's the metric's highest level since 2010.

00:39:14.000 And it's not just rising inflation.

00:39:16.000 It is also an economy that is pretty much crapping out.

00:39:19.000 As you'll recall, Joe Biden's employment statistics have been pretty dire.

00:39:23.000 He was supposed to hit 780,000 new jobs last month.

00:39:26.000 He hit instead about 235,000 new jobs last month.

00:39:30.000 But Democrats are pushing forward with their budget plan anyway.

00:39:34.000 This is a budget plan that is, as the New York Times described it, cradle to grave.

00:39:39.000 Here is what is in this $3.5 trillion plan.

00:39:41.000 Remember, this is on top of the $1.9 trillion we spent earlier this year and the $1.2 trillion, $1.1 trillion in these so-called infrastructure bipartisan bills.

00:39:51.000 So that means that if these things were all to pass this year, you'd be talking about a minimum of $6.5 trillion spent in this year, right?

00:39:59.000 Or at least passed in this year and spent over the next few years because there'll be more money spent next year.

00:40:04.000 So what exactly is in this package?

00:40:06.000 Well, it would be including paid family and medical leave, subsidized child care, an extension of the expanded child tax credit, universal pre-K for three and four-year-olds despite the failures of Head Start, two years of tuition-free community college.

00:40:18.000 It would also provide green cards to millions of immigrants.

00:40:20.000 You may have noticed that that has nothing to do with the budget. 0.98

00:40:23.000 Democrats are going to shovel that crap in there as well, according to the Wall Street Journal. 0.99

00:40:23.000 Doesn't matter. 0.99

00:40:26.000 It would also extend Expanded ACA subsidies, Obamacare subsidies, approved earlier this year in the COVID-19 aid package.

00:40:34.000 So we're just going to continue to expand emergency measures that were taken during COVID-19.

00:40:39.000 The plan would broaden Medicare benefits to cover now dental, vision, and hearing, and would aim to reduce the cost of prescription drugs by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices, among other steps.

00:40:48.000 Allowing Medicare to negotiate prices, of course, destroys all of the incentives for pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs in the United States in the first place.

00:40:54.000 Also, Democrats are proposing a series of ideas, including tax credits for clean energy investments, and a plan resembling a clean electricity standard aimed at reducing carbon emissions in the electricity sector by 80%.

00:41:06.000 Also, Democrats are proposing polluter import fees.

00:41:09.000 So how exactly are Democrats going to pay for all of this?

00:41:12.000 So, they released a plan yesterday.

00:41:14.000 Explaining how they are going to pay for all of this.

00:41:17.000 And the answer is they're going to raise taxes in a radical fashion that we have not seen for decades.

00:41:21.000 The House Democrats are now proposing a plan for $2.9 trillion in new taxes.

00:41:26.000 Notice that even though they're raising $2.9 trillion in new taxes, we're spending, as I said, $6.5 trillion approved in this year alone.

00:41:32.000 So it still doesn't pay for any of this nonsense.

00:41:34.000 And what exactly are they going to do?

00:41:36.000 Well, they're going to increase the top tax rate on Americans earning over $435,000 a year from 37% to 39.6%.

00:41:44.000 Also, there's going to be a 3% surcharge on top of that.

00:41:49.000 And then there's going to be an NIIT, which is a surcharge on top of that.

00:41:52.000 So the actual top tax bracket would go to 46% before any state taxes were actually applied, meaning that the actual state tax for people in the top income bracket in, say, California, would be nearly 60% on income.

00:42:05.000 It also calls for a new corporate tax rate of 26.5% for large profitable businesses up from the current rate of 21%.

00:42:12.000 This would put our corporate tax rate above China's. 0.74

00:42:15.000 So it'll be fun to watch all of the businesses rush and scurry for the exits and watch the job loss that comes along with that.

00:42:26.000 Many items in the new draft scale back the more ambitious tax increases sought by Biden earlier this year, but the ideas taken together amount to a significant unwinding of the tax cuts enacted by Republicans.

00:42:35.000 The draft tax also included some surprises, including an expected increase in the capital gains rate paid by investors to 25%.

00:42:45.000 So basically, you paid taxes on your income.

00:42:47.000 You then took that income and you put it in the stock market.

00:42:49.000 Now, they're going to tax any capital gains that you make from the stock market at 25%.

00:42:54.000 Which, of course, is going to hurt a lot of people who have, say, pensions in the stock market.

00:42:59.000 Biden's plan originally suggested approximately doubling the capital gains tax rate.

00:43:05.000 Also, they're, as I say, going to have that new surtax on quote-unquote high-income individuals.

00:43:10.000 Democrats are floating a tiered system for the corporate tax rate.

00:43:13.000 Only firms with incomes above $5 million would pay the new 26.5% rate.

00:43:19.000 Which, of course, is most businesses that hire a significant number of people in the United States.

00:43:24.000 Also, the proposal is going after new tobacco taxes.

00:43:27.000 So remember he said he was not going to raise taxes on people who are poor?

00:43:30.000 Yeah, that's not true.

00:43:31.000 Tobacco and nicotine taxes are directed at poor people because poor people in the United States disproportionately smoke.

00:43:38.000 That proposal calls for increasing taxes on tobacco and nicotine by roughly $100 billion, while also raising $16 billion from changing rules to, quote, treat cryptocurrency the same as other financial instruments.

00:43:47.000 So they're going to crack down on cryptocurrency?

00:43:49.000 Of course they are.

00:43:49.000 They have to crack down on cryptocurrency.

00:43:51.000 The reason they're cracking down on crypto is because crypto is a way for people to escape the predations of the federal government inflating its own currency.

00:43:59.000 The next step, presumably, will be for the federal government to create a Fedcoin, to create its own sort of digital currency, and then the federal government will take its benefits and it will directly deposit them into your bank account, and then will charge you a negative interest rate.

00:44:15.000 So they'll just force you to spend it, basically.

00:44:17.000 They'll do fiscal policy directly into your bank account.

00:44:21.000 That is the next step with a Fedcoin.

00:44:23.000 So in order to do that, they have to kill crypto.

00:44:25.000 That is their actual goal here.

00:44:28.000 So this is the House Democrats tax plan.

00:44:31.000 If Democrats get their way, they're going to radically increase taxes and that will have a dire effect on the economy.

00:44:35.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are hurtling toward a debt ceiling fight.

00:44:39.000 It turns out there are some rank-and-file Democrats who are not going to vote for increasing the debt ceiling unless they get a bigger spending bill.

00:44:48.000 According to Politico, Democrats' threadbare majorities in Congress are leaving the party with little time to wriggle out of a dangerous economic morass that could overwhelm other priorities, from voting rights to tax increases on the wealthy to a sweeping expansion of the social safety net.

00:45:00.000 Top Democrats say they have a plan, but they don't want to talk about it yet.

00:45:03.000 Government funding runs out in 18 days, according to Politico.

00:45:06.000 The Biden administration says the debt ceiling must be raised shortly after that.

00:45:10.000 Senate Republicans say that they are not voting for it.

00:45:13.000 The House also doesn't come back until September 20th.

00:45:15.000 So this means that you're going to see the progressives now try to hold up the quote-unquote bipartisan infrastructure plan in order to get the $3.5 trillion plan.

00:45:22.000 This has turned into a fight between the progressive wing and Joe Manchin.

00:45:25.000 Joe Manchin yesterday said, to his credit, he's not going to support this $3.5 trillion boondoggle.

00:45:30.000 The realistic number is more like $1.5 trillion.

00:45:34.000 He's moving, quote, full speed ahead with this package.

00:45:37.000 Will he have your vote?

00:45:37.000 And that's fine.

00:45:38.000 He can't.

00:45:39.000 He will not have my vote on 3.5, and Chuck knows that.

00:45:41.000 But what's the overall number for the budget bill?

00:45:44.000 I think that you're going to have to look at it and find out what you're able to do through a reasonable, responsible way.

00:45:49.000 So then how do you know that it's not 3.5?

00:45:50.000 If it's going to be at 1, 1.5, we don't know where it's going to be.

00:45:54.000 So you think ballpark 1, 1.5?

00:45:55.000 It's not going to be at 3.5, I can assure you.

00:45:59.000 Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders going directly after Joe Manchin and trying to take him out.

00:46:03.000 Here's Bernie Sanders saying, well, if you won't pass our $3.5 trillion plan, then we're not going to pass your $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill that's bipartisan.

00:46:11.000 Your colleague, Joe Manchin, just explicitly told me, repeatedly, he will not support your $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill.

00:46:19.000 He wants to see something more in the ballpark of $1.5 trillion.

00:46:24.000 Is that acceptable to you?

00:46:26.000 No, it's absolutely not acceptable to me.

00:46:28.000 I don't think it's acceptable to the president, to the American people, or to the overwhelming majority of the people in the Democratic caucus.

00:46:35.000 Okay, so that infighting will be fascinating to watch.

00:46:40.000 But again, it is indicative of the fact that the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which now has control over the Democratic Party, is moving radically to the left.

00:46:46.000 So it calls for unity.

00:46:48.000 Would that sort of move, I think, Overstated, to say the very, very least.

00:46:54.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:46:57.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Mills Show.

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00:47:01.000 You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's Show.

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George W. Bush’s Delusional 9-11 Call For Unity | Ep. 1336

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