The Ben Shapiro Show - Greta Thunberg Has Been Detained | Ep. 1649

00:00:00.000 The World Economic Forum at Davos is underway, and the rulers of the universe are hard at work.

00:00:04.000 The Department of Justice declines to monitor the Biden team's search for classified documents, and Greta Thunberg is detained by the police.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:11.000 This is the Benchmere O show.

00:00:12.000 Well, some protesters are true heroes.

00:00:22.000 Some protesters are the heroes of our age.

00:00:25.000 And then there's Greta Thunberg, who is one of the great heroes in human history.

00:00:28.000 Greta Thunberg, yesterday, was arrested in Germany in what was a harrowing experience with the German authorities.

00:00:36.000 According to Sky News, the Swedish environmental activist, Twenty, has been taking part in protests against the demolition of the village of Lutserath, which is due to be cleared to make way for the expansion of a nearby coal mine.

00:00:47.000 Apparently, she was arrested because she decided to obstruct this thing. 1.00

00:00:50.000 It is the second time this week that the Swedish activist has been moved on by the police in the village.

00:00:55.000 The local Aken police force said that Thunberg was part of a group of protesters who stormed toward the edge of the opencast mine, described by officers as quote, steep and extremely dangerous.

00:01:04.000 The force said the activist was not arrested, but was instead carried along with other protesters for identification.

00:01:09.000 She was released after a brief detention, according to the police.

00:01:11.000 And we have some harrowing video of what it looks like when an extraordinarily privileged Now woman, she used to be a small girl who they trotted out as the face of global warming so that no one could criticize her.

00:01:23.000 Now she is a young woman so we can make fun of her as much as we like.

00:01:26.000 This is the face of a very privileged white lady who is being quote-unquote arrested at a coal mine in Germany.

00:01:33.000 And apparently this is what it looks like when you get arrested at a coal mine in Germany while being an extraordinarily privileged environmental activist.

00:01:42.000 She's laughing with the cops.

00:01:43.000 There are two cops in full uniform who are standing next to her.

00:01:46.000 She's smiling, enjoying herself, laughing.

00:01:51.000 The police are holding her arms while posing for the cameras.

00:01:56.000 And there she is, looking somewhat happy about the situation.

00:02:01.000 And this is what it looks like.

00:02:02.000 This is a brutal arrest.

00:02:03.000 There it is.

00:02:04.000 Wow, she's being walked.

00:02:06.000 She's walking and the police are holding her arms.

00:02:08.000 All that's left there is you need AOC's pretend handcuffing.

00:02:12.000 Remember when AOC, quote unquote, got herself arrested and she held her hands behind herself as though she was being handcuffed, even though she wasn't handcuffed.

00:02:21.000 I'm sorry, the staginess of this is just, it's truly amazing and cringe.

00:02:24.000 There's a picture of Greta Thunberg.

00:02:28.000 actually smile. This is the first time I've ever seen Greta smile, which, you know, it's, which is great. I mean, I'm glad that Greta has found her happy place. Her happy place is apparently being carried in the arms of the police while posing for the camera. She's like grinning as they carry her away. Greta Thunberg. So that again, glad that she has found happiness.

00:02:45.000 My honest take on Greta being arrested actually is that I'm wondering if this is all sort of the setup for a reality TV romance in which she is arrested and put in jail. And it turns out that her cellmate is Andrew Tate. And that that that.

00:03:01.000 I'm out.

00:03:02.000 I'm out. 0.98

00:03:03.000 You remember their weirdly tension-filled exchange on Twitter in which Andrew Tate tweeted her pictures of his Bugattis and she suggested that he had quote-unquote small dick energy.

00:03:14.000 I'm wondering if this is all the setup to the prison romance that is to follow between Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate, the unlikeliest of romances.

00:03:24.000 Proposed title of the show, Hot Takes, with Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate in prison.

00:03:30.000 And so much of our environmental movement is about this sort of virtue signaling nonsense.

00:03:34.000 There are people in the world who have real problems.

00:03:36.000 There are people in the world who don't get to spend their days standing at an open coal mine and then posing for the cameras as they are, quote unquote, arrested.

00:03:43.000 And by arrested, we mean moved 25 feet for the sake of the cameras.

00:03:48.000 And yet we are supposed to believe that Greta Thunberg is a great environmentalist hero that she is undergoing serious risk.

00:03:52.000 And in order for you to be a true hero in any sense of the word, you have to undergo serious risk.

00:03:56.000 You have to be risking something.

00:03:57.000 What exactly is it that Greta Thunberg risks?

00:03:59.000 The answer, of course, is nothing.

00:04:01.000 Greta Thunberg risks the possibility of being even more famous, of being even more lauded by the very society that she claims is evil and terrible and victimizing her.

00:04:11.000 What a lovely job she has. 1.00

00:04:12.000 There's a whole cadre of people in our society whose job it is, essentially, to criticize the very institutions that make them famous and the people who watch them for a living, essentially.

00:04:24.000 And this is like the Prince Harry model.

00:04:26.000 The very institutions that made you rich and famous are the ones that you're going to criticize.

00:04:29.000 Greta Thunberg's like, the West, it's full of terrible people. 0.99

00:04:31.000 Terrible. 0.94

00:04:31.000 How dare you? 0.94

00:04:32.000 How dare you?

00:04:33.000 I want my pony and I want it now.

00:04:37.000 The virtue signaling of our modern radical movement is truly beyond compare.

00:04:50.000 And that brings us to Davos.

00:04:52.000 At Davos, you have people who are interested in the virtue signaling.

00:04:54.000 They're interested in taking their private jets to Davos, Switzerland, in order to talk with other very famous, powerful, and rich people about how they control the world and how much power they can wield on behalf of the world.

00:05:06.000 And that's pretty dangerous stuff.

00:05:07.000 When people get it in their head that it is their job to rule the world on behalf of others, that they are the elite and the elite have the ability because of their superior brain power, because of their superior celebrity, because of their superior wealth to run everybody else's life.

00:05:21.000 This is what takes you from being an elite to an elitist.

00:05:24.000 So I sometimes, you know, I think I do it, but I think a lot of people do it even more often than I do mix up the word elite and elitist.

00:05:31.000 These are not quite the same thing.

00:05:32.000 If you are an elite, this means that maybe you are among the top 1% of people who are wealthy, or maybe you're in the top 1% of people of IQ, or you're the top 1% of people who are the most athletic.

00:05:41.000 Those are elite.

00:05:42.000 Okay.

00:05:42.000 And there's nothing wrong with being elite there.

00:05:44.000 Those are very often the people who create the most innovation.

00:05:46.000 Those are the people, the people who create enormous value for the rest of society.

00:05:50.000 There is something wrong with being elitist.

00:05:52.000 Where you believe that because you are an elite, therefore you get to rule everybody else.

00:05:56.000 And that is the essence of Davos.

00:05:58.000 This is expressed by no one better than John Kerry. 0.99

00:06:03.000 So John Kerry, the Biden administration climate envoy, because we must be ruled by octogenarian morons who have been career losers, who have never said a useful thing in their lives. 0.99

00:06:12.000 John Kerry, whose face is collapsing like a home in the Hollywood Hills during a rainstorm, and who more and more is morphing into the Easter Island head. 0.97

00:06:22.000 I mean, if they encapsulate him in stone, they can just put him right there on Easter Island and he will fit in forever.

00:06:28.000 In any case, he went to Davos.

00:06:31.000 And he kind of spilled the beans on what it is they think that it is their job to do.

00:06:34.000 He says that it's our job to fix the world.

00:06:36.000 To fix the world.

00:06:37.000 It's your job.

00:06:38.000 Because we're powerful and we're rich and we're famous and we have all the means.

00:06:41.000 And that does raise the question of how well have you guys done so far?

00:06:45.000 And over the past few years, as we'll get to, the answer is you've done quite an awful job.

00:06:50.000 And yet there you are suggesting that it is your job to fix all of the planet's problems and all you will require is utter control.

00:06:59.000 And when you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary.

00:07:03.000 That we, a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet.

00:07:18.000 I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet.

00:07:24.000 And if you said that to most people, most people, they think you're just a crazy tree-hugging, lefty, liberal, you know, do-gooder, whatever.

00:07:35.000 Yes, correct. 0.94

00:07:38.000 As one online commenter noted, this is the closest that John Kerry has ever come to just admitting that they are the lizard people.

00:07:46.000 You're into online bizarre conspiracy theories.

00:07:48.000 But something touched us at one point in the past and it gave us the power.

00:07:52.000 So what touched John Kerry?

00:07:53.000 Well, it turns out that what touched John Kerry and gave him the power to do this was marrying into an extraordinarily wealthy ketchup family.

00:08:01.000 I don't know if you were able to marry into an extraordinarily wealthy ketchup family and then run unsuccessfully for president of the United States and then be given a career jet-setting around the world and complaining about global carbon emissions. 0.85

00:08:12.000 But that's what touched John Kerry.

00:08:14.000 He was not touched by the hand of God with incredible intelligence.

00:08:18.000 He's never really accomplished anything on his own.

00:08:21.000 What I mean by that is in the business world, for example, he's been in government essentially since the time that he was Back from Vietnam, where he proceeded to prey on his fellow Vietnam veterans by calling them war criminals and mutilators of prisoners, etc.

00:08:34.000 And he has parlayed that into an entire career.

00:08:38.000 That characterizes a lot of the professional class over at Davos, who believe that it is their job to restructure the world.

00:08:44.000 And right now they're worried.

00:08:46.000 They're worried because as it turns out, their own failed leadership has ushered in an era of chaos.

00:08:50.000 The Washington Post has a report on this.

00:08:52.000 A decade ago, political power brokers and corporate bigwigs gathered here in the Swiss Alps under an upbeat theme.

00:08:52.000 Here's what they say.

00:08:57.000 It was time for resilient dynamism, declared the organizers of the 2013 meeting of the World Economic Forum.

00:09:03.000 After the travails of the global financial crisis they explained, the world was now in a post-crisis stage.

00:09:07.000 It was incumbent on the elites convened at Davos to usher in further reforms in service of economic sustainability and competitiveness.

00:09:14.000 Perennial W.E.F.

00:09:16.000 watchwords that tap into the liberal dogma that long underlay its proceedings where the desire to do good need not interfere with profit margins.

00:09:22.000 Well, it's precisely the opposite.

00:09:24.000 The profit margins need not interfere with the desire to do good.

00:09:26.000 Because the reality, of course, is that the profit margins were always secondary.

00:09:30.000 See, profit margins make you answerable to an actual ruler and metric of success.

00:09:35.000 Do-gooderism has no metric of success.

00:09:36.000 It's just what's in your own head.

00:09:38.000 This is why you see so many people on the left who are fond of the idea of stakeholder capitalism.

00:09:42.000 Shareholder capitalism means that we can tell how well you are doing by looking at your share price.

00:09:46.000 Stakeholder capitalism means we can't look at debt.

00:09:48.000 We have to look deep into the cockles of your heart and decide whether you are doing a good job or not.

00:09:52.000 10 years on, says the Washington Post, there seems to be less optimism.

00:09:55.000 Instead of a post-crisis moment, it's more common to talk of a permacrisis, of a world buckling under a never-ending cascade of calamity, war, climate catastrophe, energy price chaos, inflation, epidemics of hunger and disease, political instability, and widening economic inequity.

00:10:08.000 This year's WF theme, a plaintive appeal to find cooperation in a fragmented world, seems more possessed by the ruptures that have already taken place.

00:10:15.000 In a press call with reporters last week, WF President Borges Brende said the meeting will, quote, happen against the most complex geopolitical and geoeconomic backdrop in decades.

00:10:24.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:12:28.000 So I have a question.

00:12:29.000 What happened over the course of the last decade?

00:12:31.000 Supposedly, we were in post-crisis.

00:12:33.000 We were not.

00:12:34.000 2013 was not actually post-crisis.

00:12:36.000 The reality is that we're just in an era of economic stagnation in 2013, thanks to the pathetic recovery of the Obama administration after the 2007-2008 crisis.

00:12:46.000 But, assume that that's correct.

00:12:48.000 Assume for a second that 2013 was stability and joy and happiness, right?

00:12:51.000 Obama was president, everything was going great, according to the left.

00:12:54.000 The world was a stable and secure place.

00:12:56.000 Not true, but okay.

00:12:57.000 Let's pretend that was the case.

00:12:59.000 So what happened in the intervening 10 years?

00:13:01.000 The answer is, you guys.

00:13:03.000 You guys!

00:13:04.000 And so, as always, for the elitists, the answer to, we failed, is, we need more power.

00:13:09.000 We try a thing, we want control, we get control, we implement policies, the policies fail, give us more control.

00:13:17.000 And then they sort of spill the beans on what it is they wish to do with that control.

00:13:21.000 And what they wish to do is suck money out of the system.

00:13:23.000 Your money out of the system.

00:13:24.000 Not their own, they'll be fine.

00:13:26.000 Your money out of the system in order to pay for priorities that they think make them better people.

00:13:33.000 So they can sleep at night on their giant piles of money.

00:13:36.000 They will take your piles of money and then they will dedicate those piles of money to failed projects all over the world.

00:13:43.000 John Kerry says as much.

00:13:45.000 Here's John Kerry, a man who is wealthy because he married wealthy, saying that we have to fight global warming and the only way to fight global warming is money, money, and money.

00:13:58.000 Because that's the only way we keep 1.5 degrees alive.

00:14:02.000 So how do we get there?

00:14:03.000 Well, the lesson I've learned in the last years, and I learned it as secretary and I've learned it since, reinforced in spades, is money, money, money, money, money, money, money.

00:14:15.000 Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money.

00:14:19.000 But not his.

00:14:21.000 Yours.

00:14:22.000 The global economic system's money.

00:14:24.000 That's the really thing.

00:14:26.000 That is the thing that is really important.

00:14:28.000 Is how much of your money they're going to spend.

00:14:30.000 How much they're going to make your life worse.

00:14:32.000 So, Davos has, of course, a bevy of speakers, but some of these speakers, say the quiet part out loud.

00:14:37.000 Nicole Keller is one of those people.

00:14:38.000 She's the managing director of a non-profit called GreenUp.

00:14:41.000 And then the nonprofit world, by the way, is just filled with people who are perfectly happy to seize the reins of control and use them against you.

00:14:49.000 After all, they're in the nonprofit world.

00:14:51.000 They're answerable to no one.

00:14:52.000 There's this bizarre.

00:14:54.000 And counterintuitive idea out there that profit is inherently bad, that there is something wrong with profit, that it makes you morally lesser to profit.

00:15:01.000 Incorrect.

00:15:02.000 Profit is simply a metric of how many people are interested in the service, good that you are providing, and whether you can run your business in a decent way so as to continue to provide that good and service.

00:15:11.000 That's what profit is.

00:15:13.000 It is a ruler.

00:15:14.000 It is a measurement.

00:15:15.000 And when you get rid of the ruler or measurement, you have nothing.

00:15:17.000 It becomes entirely subjective.

00:15:19.000 Which is why in the non-profit world, they don't like profit.

00:15:22.000 In the non-profit world, because they've gotten rid of that, their metric for success is whatever's in their own head.

00:15:27.000 And what's in their own head is pretty ugly.

00:15:28.000 Here's Nicole Keller saying that what she actually would like and what Davos should aim for is zero growth.

00:15:35.000 We have to save this planet to save our freedom and the way we are living.

00:15:41.000 And we are not good enough yet.

00:15:42.000 We have to improve.

00:15:43.000 Thank you, Nicole.

00:15:46.000 So, um, Well, I feel that you were talking about the word development.

00:15:50.000 I think, indeed, we don't need, like, growth or development.

00:15:55.000 I really think less is more.

00:15:57.000 And I'll leave it at that.

00:16:00.000 Less is more, she says, sitting in Davos, Switzerland, with a bunch of billionaires.

00:16:05.000 Less is more.

00:16:05.000 For whom, exactly?

00:16:07.000 For you?

00:16:08.000 I don't see you existing on less.

00:16:13.000 I don't see her becoming an ascetic.

00:16:16.000 Do you?

00:16:17.000 Meanwhile, Alan Zangor, Director for Climate and Health at Wellcome Trust, another one of these non-profit organizations, he suggests that we have to fight global warming and we have to use the power of the elites in order to fight global warming because climate change is making people insane.

00:16:31.000 It's going to turn into a zombie apocalypse, guys.

00:16:35.000 The other massive ecosystem-mediated pathway between climate change and health is the impact on our mental health.

00:16:43.000 And we're really only beginning to scrape the surface there.

00:16:46.000 And there is no health without mental health, as my mental health colleagues repeatedly remind me.

00:16:51.000 And we see these two... It's a two-directional pathway.

00:16:56.000 Number one, young people are petrified about the future, and that is having a substantial impact on their mental health.

00:17:04.000 Okay, why are they petrified about the future?

00:17:07.000 Why?

00:17:08.000 Could it be because you are petrifying them about the future?

00:17:10.000 Is it because we have lost all moorings in our society to anything real and true?

00:17:14.000 And instead we have substituted a bunch of alarmism that allows you guys to centralize control.

00:17:18.000 Perhaps that right there is the problem.

00:17:20.000 I love it.

00:17:21.000 You drive people insane. 0.96

00:17:22.000 They're like, hey, everybody's insane. 0.98

00:17:23.000 Maybe you should give me more power to make people stop being insane. 0.68

00:17:27.000 Pretty amazing.

00:17:28.000 And again, the elites gathered at Davos and the elitists, more importantly, gathered at Davos.

00:17:33.000 They fully admit that pretty much everything that they are about is the global warming agenda, which is really a redistributionist agenda.

00:17:40.000 The global warming agenda is really less about lowering carbon emissions, which is why they're not predominantly pushing nuclear energy or innovation.

00:17:47.000 And instead, they are pushing signing giant checks to different parts of the world.

00:17:51.000 The Belgian prime minister said that the new trade agenda must be focused about stabilization, but also really about decarbonizing, about decarbonizing the world. Well, I mean, if you have a trade agenda that's focused on decarbonizing the world, that is how you end up with zero growth, because it turns out that carbon-based emissions are the chief physical pathway toward economic development, particularly in the developing world. The second element is

00:18:16.000 that this trade agenda, It's about stabilizing the world, but it's also about decarbonizing the world.

00:18:26.000 And there, honestly, I think the world can only be happy with the fact that the United States has moved to the right side of the table.

00:18:37.000 Well, it's so that they're happy now, right?

00:18:39.000 Because the Biden administration is filled with people who agree with with this guy who I've never heard of, DeCruz.

00:18:43.000 Now, nobody's heard of this, but the United States has now moved to the right.

00:18:46.000 And what is the right side of the table?

00:18:47.000 Confiscating the wealth of its own citizenry and using it on behalf of a global agenda of redistributionism and less growth.

00:18:55.000 And I mean, this is what the Democratic Party really stands for.

00:18:57.000 This is why you have Governor J.B.

00:18:59.000 Pritzker of Illinois, who went to Davos.

00:19:01.000 What's he doing in Davos?

00:19:02.000 He's the governor of a state.

00:19:04.000 Why are you in Davos, which is in economic form globally?

00:19:07.000 Anyway, people are still shooting each other in Chicago, but J.B.

00:19:10.000 Pritzker has got some time on his hands.

00:19:11.000 So he heads on over there and he says, you know, the important thing is that we're going to be fossil fuel free in Illinois by 2050.

00:19:17.000 Will you, though?

00:19:18.000 I have I have doubts.

00:19:21.000 You were out there saying that Illinois should be 100% based on net zero or renewables by 2050.

00:19:31.000 Was that something that was well received during your campaign?

00:19:35.000 Extremely well received.

00:19:36.000 And in fact, we passed a Climate and Equitable Jobs Act for the state of Illinois, which is significantly increasing our focus on clean energy.

00:19:47.000 We're actually going to be fossil free by 2050 in the state of Illinois.

00:19:55.000 Ursula von der Leyen, who is the head of the of the EU, she says that the next decades are going to see the greatest industrial transformation of our time.

00:20:03.000 And of course, it will be controlled by these folks.

00:20:06.000 In the next decades, we'll see the greatest industrial transformation of our times, maybe of any times.

00:20:17.000 And those who develop and manufacture the technology that will be the foundation of tomorrow's economy will have the greatest competitive edge.

00:20:32.000 That is the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

00:20:35.000 We wield outsized power and therefore we should wield outsized influence and we should determine the future of the world.

00:20:40.000 And if you think that it's just about your money, it's not.

00:20:42.000 It's also about your rights.

00:20:44.000 So, Davos had an enormous number of media members who were there to discuss the big problem of misinformation.

00:20:50.000 Misinformation.

00:20:52.000 And leading their panel on misinformation was, of course, Brian Stelter, who was booted off of CNN for low ratings, which is an amazing thing.

00:20:58.000 I wasn't even aware that you could be booted off of CNN for low ratings because CNN essentially has no ratings.

00:21:03.000 Brian Stelter, he started talking about how we need to crack down on social media.

00:21:08.000 The elitists will decide what you can see and what you can't see and what is misinformation, what is not misinformation.

00:21:13.000 Brian Stelter says, I don't even have a way of disproving that I'm alive right now, says Brian Stelter.

00:21:20.000 I leave CNN, and there's a crazy website that posts an article saying I was arrested by military police.

00:21:25.000 And then I have a fact-checking email, and I don't know whether to reply to the fact-checker and bother with this, right?

00:21:30.000 Same website, a month later, says I've been executed at Guantanamo Bay.

00:21:33.000 So the fact-checker emails me again.

00:21:35.000 And I say, well, do you want to take my pulse?

00:21:38.000 How do I disprove that I wasn't executed? 0.97

00:21:40.000 And so, to me, that is amusing and ridiculous.

00:21:43.000 To other journalists, it might be really disturbing, and it might be worrisome to them.

00:21:48.000 Worrisome.

00:21:49.000 And that is why, look, what this is really going to be about for a lot of these folks is cracking down on the dissemination of information.

00:21:56.000 By the way, Brian Stelter is increasingly looking like Stellan Skarsgård from Dune.

00:22:02.000 Yeah, Harkonnen.

00:22:04.000 That's, yeah.

00:22:06.000 It's not a great look.

00:22:07.000 Now, before the fact-checkers call, I'm not saying that his head is actually fusing into his shoulders.

00:22:11.000 He does have a cervical spine, so you don't have to fact-check that.

00:22:14.000 But in any case, this is all part of a broader agenda, which is for elitists, they get to crack down on the dissemination of information.

00:22:21.000 And this is something that the EU already does, and brags about doing.

00:22:24.000 That they crack down on hate speech, so-called hate speech, which is anything that the ruling regime disagrees with.

00:22:31.000 They crack down on misinformation, which is anything the ruling regime disagrees with, which is what we found out about during COVID.

00:22:37.000 And to promote all of that, of course, you have the owner of the New York Times, Pinch Solzberger, showing up to explain what a wonderful job the New York Times is doing.

00:22:45.000 So here is Solzberger explaining the amazing thing about the New York Times, that when they make mistakes, they acknowledge them publicly.

00:22:50.000 Oh, really?

00:22:51.000 Is that a thing that you do frequently?

00:22:53.000 I suspect you're teaching them to recognize trustworthy sources.

00:22:55.000 time that you gave back to Pulitzers that you guys won on the basis of that. The 1619 project, I noticed that you have not acknowledged publicly what a garbage heap that is. Instead, you have spent millions upon millions of dollars promoting it. So I know I noticed that, but no, these are the good guys, right? The elites are the good guys. I suspect you're teaching them to recognize trustworthy sources, whether that's, you know, an institution like the Times or the Post or the 0.72

00:23:20.000 Journal, whether that's scientists, whether that's academia, for example, an institution like mine, when we make mistakes, we acknowledge them in public and we correct them.

00:23:33.000 Oh, is that what you do?

00:23:35.000 Is that what you do?

00:23:35.000 So, yeah, the only answer, they do such an amazing job, and this is why we have to shut off all the other disseminators of information.

00:23:41.000 This is why Sulzberger actually compared Donald Trump saying the words fake news to Stalinist Russia and Hitler.

00:23:47.000 It's just a hell of a comparison right there.

00:23:50.000 Terms like fake news and enemies of the people have been popularized cyclically in society and in some of the most, you know, you know, repressive and dangerous moments, you know, Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, right?

00:24:04.000 It's just like that.

00:24:07.000 Just like that.

00:24:08.000 And just to top off what Davos really is about, just to prove what Davos is about, again, it is about elites, people who are at the top of their industry or profession, who are elitists and believe they should be able to control you.

00:24:17.000 And the merging of the elite with the elitist is really, really dangerous stuff.

00:24:21.000 This is why you have the bizarre spectacle of people like Renee Fleming, who's an amazing artist, right?

00:24:25.000 She's a tremendous opera singer, out there talking about art and healthcare at the World Economic Forum.

00:24:30.000 But why?

00:24:32.000 You are good at singing classical music.

00:24:34.000 Why?

00:24:35.000 Explain.

00:24:37.000 I've had the privilege of performing on six continents, witnessing the power of music to move people to joy or tears, and now I've come to believe that the art should be fully embedded in our healthcare systems.

00:24:54.000 Oh, well, I don't even know what that means, that the art should be fully embedded in our healthcare system.

00:24:57.000 That doesn't even mean anything, but at least you're here being elite.

00:25:00.000 Idris Elba, same sort of thing.

00:25:02.000 So, you know, fresh off of, um, The poor of this world are not just looking for aid and handouts.

00:25:17.000 They are looking for investment.

00:25:19.000 Investment in people, in nature, in innovation, in partnership.

00:25:25.000 As Sabrina said, please invest in small farms and the small to medium businesses that support With greater access to finance, to markets, to resources, to technology, to knowledge, and to people.

00:25:43.000 Well, if Idris Elba says so, I guess we should all take it super seriously.

00:25:49.000 Everything's going great.

00:25:50.000 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:25:50.000 How did these guys do?

00:25:52.000 They've had control, so how's it been going?

00:25:54.000 I mean, you have the elitists in control in the United States, all over Europe.

00:25:57.000 How's everything going?

00:26:00.000 The answer is, not amazing.

00:26:03.000 We were lied to about virtually everything with regard to COVID by all of the most valuable sources in American and international life.

00:26:10.000 People who disseminated true information were shut down on social media.

00:26:14.000 Anybody who did not push in favor of governmental mandates was cast as the other.

00:26:19.000 And only now, at the end, are we allowed to actually hear some truth.

00:26:23.000 So only now, like years later, are we allowed to find out that Pfizer never actually researched whether the vaccines prevented transmission before going out there and claiming, pretty publicly, that vaccines prevented transmission, which was the basis for a huge number of healthy people taking the vaccines when they didn't actually need to.

00:26:36.000 Only now do we find out from CNN's Leanna Nguyen that the so-called conspiracy theory that was never a conspiracy theory, we reported on it in real time.

00:26:43.000 That COVID deaths were being overcounted.

00:26:46.000 That actually, that was true.

00:26:47.000 You were called a conspiracist if you said this two years ago.

00:26:49.000 If you said, you have to distinguish between deaths from COVID and deaths with COVID, which is, that is a fundamental distinction.

00:26:56.000 If you go into the hospital because you had a heart attack, and then it turns out that you had a mild case of COVID, like it came up positive for COVID, they attributed that to COVID death.

00:27:05.000 If you went in there with a gunshot wound, and it turns out that you had COVID when you were shot to death, they attributed that to COVID.

00:27:13.000 And so the numbers were somewhat inflated.

00:27:16.000 You weren't supposed to say that, though, because that was taking it too lightly.

00:27:18.000 You weren't allowed to do that.

00:27:19.000 You're not allowed to take it lightly.

00:27:20.000 Now you're allowed to, though.

00:27:21.000 Here's CNN's Leanna Nguyen, who is one of the biggest alarmists with regard to COVID, out there suggesting that we overcounted the COVID deaths.

00:27:29.000 Can you explain why you believe COVID deaths are being overcounted?

00:27:35.000 I think it's important for us to be intellectually honest in this case, and that includes recognizing that circumstances have changed.

00:27:42.000 At the beginning of the pandemic, we had a situation where there were many people dying from COVID pneumonia, including healthy young people were dying because of severe shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, they were hospitalized because of it.

00:27:55.000 Then, as a result of vaccines and as a result of a lot of people getting COVID and having some level of immunity to it, we're seeing far fewer cases of that kind of severe COVID Oh!

00:28:07.000 severe COVID pneumonia specifically. And yet hospitals are still routinely testing everyone who's getting admitted for COVID.

00:28:14.000 Oh, oh, you mean you mean that they're getting a lot of COVID deaths that are actually from COVID?

00:28:22.000 Fascinating.

00:28:23.000 We're allowed to find this out right now.

00:28:24.000 And you undermine all the trust in yourself.

00:28:26.000 And then you're like, why is the world so fragmented?

00:28:28.000 Why are people so angry?

00:28:29.000 Because of you.

00:28:31.000 And this holds true not just on the scientific level, not just with regard to the policies that you've undertaken economically, which have led to inflation all over the world and another recession.

00:28:39.000 Not just because of that, but culturally.

00:28:41.000 On the cultural level, the elitists in our society have decided they must cram down their version of values on pretty much everybody.

00:28:47.000 And you can see it, particularly in the United States.

00:28:48.000 The United States, believe it or not, is actually more woke on these issues than Europe is.

00:28:52.000 And this manifests in everything from diversity trainings at companies to the attempt to cram down on everybody the sort of Seinfeld-esque ribbon-wearing that is necessary in order for you to succeed in your chosen profession.

00:29:05.000 Remember, there's an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer gets the bleep kicked out of him because he refuses to wear a ribbon for a parade.

00:29:11.000 That is the society that we've now become, crammed down by the elitists in our society.

00:29:15.000 So, for example, there is a player for the Philadelphia Flyers, his name is Ivan Provorov, and he did not want to wear a rainbow jersey during his pregame skate on Tuesday night.

00:29:32.000 It was LGBTQ, plus minus, divided by sign, happy face emoji, tilde, percentage sign, star, sad face emoji, pride night. 0.91

00:29:42.000 And he was supposed to wear a rainbow warm-up jersey.

00:29:45.000 And he said, I'm not going to do that.

00:29:47.000 People can do what they want, but I'm not going to do that.

00:29:49.000 And all hell broke loose on him.

00:29:52.000 I respect everybody's choices.

00:29:53.000 My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion.

00:29:57.000 That's all I'm going to say.

00:29:59.000 And, um, that apparently was not enough for the media.

00:30:02.000 He said people can do what they want, but it's really, really bad.

00:30:05.000 They asked the coach about it.

00:30:06.000 Good for the coach, John Tortorella.

00:30:08.000 He said he's being true to himself and to his religion.

00:30:10.000 This has to do with his belief in his religion.

00:30:12.000 It's one thing I respect about him.

00:30:13.000 He's true to himself.

00:30:13.000 That's where we're at with that.

00:30:15.000 He said he did not contemplate scratching Provrov.

00:30:17.000 The fact that this was even a question is insanity.

00:30:21.000 The fact I mean, the NHL has decided against all business sense to go again. 0.99

00:30:25.000 This just demonstrates once again that when you have elitist in charge of institutions that used to be profit making institutions, they do unbelievably stupid things. 0.98

00:30:31.000 The crowd for hockey is disproportionately conservative. 0.98

00:30:35.000 If you look at all the major sports leagues and you look at it by political affiliation of the crowds that watch the NHL and NASCAR happen to be the two most Republican-leaning professional sports leagues.

00:30:45.000 And meanwhile, the NHL, because at the top level it has decided to go woke, is now promoting this sort of nonsense.

00:30:51.000 It doesn't wear well.

00:30:53.000 The American people don't like it.

00:30:55.000 At your business place, you've been forced to take diversity training. 1.00

00:30:57.000 It turns out that was a bunch of crap pushed by elitists. 0.98

00:31:00.000 And it accomplishes nothing. 0.98

00:31:01.000 Jesse Singel, who is a person of the left, has a piece in the New York Times today called, What if diversity trainings are doing more harm than good?

00:31:08.000 You think?

00:31:08.000 I mean, obviously that's true.

00:31:11.000 He says DEI trainings are designed to help organizations become more welcoming to members of traditionally marginalized groups.

00:31:18.000 The American market for DEI reached an estimated $3.4 billion in 2020.

00:31:23.000 Advocates make bold promises.

00:31:24.000 Diversity workshops can foster better intergroup relations, improve the retention of minority employees, close recruitment gaps, and so on.

00:31:30.000 The only problem?

00:31:31.000 There's little evidence that many of these initiatives work.

00:31:33.000 The specific type of diversity training that is currently in vogue, mandatory trainings that blame dominant groups for DEI problems, may well have a net negative effect on the outcomes managers claim to care about.

00:31:43.000 Over the years, social scientists who have conducted careful reviews of the evidence for diversity trainings have frequently come to discouraging conclusions.

00:31:49.000 Though diversity trainings have been around in one form or another since at least the 1960s, few of them are ever subjected to rigorous evaluation, those that are mostly appear to have little or no positive long-term effects.

00:32:00.000 In fact, there are pretty significant downside effects because people are annoyed by these training approaches.

00:32:05.000 People feel off-put.

00:32:06.000 People start to become tribal.

00:32:09.000 The history of diversity training, Singles says, is, in a sense, a history of fads.

00:32:13.000 Well, that of course is true. 0.66

00:32:14.000 But these are the fads that are driven by elitists.

00:32:15.000 They don't require evidence in order to promote the overthrow of traditional institutions and ideas.

00:32:20.000 They just do it.

00:32:21.000 Because after all, they are the people who know the best.

00:32:23.000 They are the people who are the elite.

00:32:24.000 And what could be the consequences?

00:32:25.000 What would go wrong?

00:32:27.000 And the answer is, all the things around you are the consequences.

00:32:29.000 Because who's been running things up until now?

00:32:33.000 The bizarre nature of our elitist class who have been running things, turning around and saying, but why are things so chaotic?

00:32:40.000 Because you're running things.

00:32:42.000 That's the reason.

00:32:43.000 It's because of you.

00:32:45.000 Maybe you ought to buy a mirror.

00:32:46.000 You have a lot of, you have enough money.

00:32:47.000 Why don't you just shine up the side of that private jet and look into the reflection for one second.

00:32:52.000 It's you. 0.95

00:32:53.000 You are the problem.

00:32:55.000 And your substitution of your own supposed wisdom for the traditional wisdom and practice of the past has had dire side effects.

00:33:02.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:35:21.000 Okay, so, with the elitists ruling our society, the downsides have been pretty unbelievable to watch.

00:35:28.000 And there's a lot of talk about how the elitists are pushing globalization.

00:35:32.000 The thing that the elitists really are pushing is global control.

00:35:34.000 That's not the same thing as globalization.

00:35:36.000 Globalization is the idea that there ought to be as much widespread trade as possible without endangering national security.

00:35:41.000 I have no problem with that general idea.

00:35:43.000 However, global control is what they're really pushing.

00:35:45.000 The idea that they get to set the rules for everything in your life at the top level.

00:35:49.000 Elitists over at Davos getting together and figuring out how your life should run.

00:35:53.000 And they ought to do this on a cultural level as well.

00:35:55.000 They're going to decide the cultural hallmarks of elitism and you must obey. 0.99

00:36:00.000 You must repeat.

00:36:02.000 You must enthusiastically celebrate.

00:36:04.000 You must use the pronouns. 0.93

00:36:05.000 You must fly the pride progress flags. 0.92

00:36:07.000 You must speak the Black Lives Matter nostrums. 1.00

00:36:10.000 It's a new religion, in other words.

00:36:11.000 And it's a religion with a priesthood.

00:36:13.000 And the priesthood are the people who meet at Davos.

00:36:15.000 They are the people, as John Kerry explicitly said, who are touched by something, touched by perhaps the divine, to take power and leverage it down on you. 0.99

00:36:23.000 A problem with this is they are a really crappy priesthood, and the religion that they are preaching is real garbage. 0.99

00:36:28.000 And it is no substitute for traditional religion. 0.99

00:36:31.000 The decline of traditional religion made room for this group of false prophets to sort of take control and then claim that they were going to fill the hole left in the human heart by religion.

00:36:41.000 But that hole cannot be filled this way.

00:36:43.000 There's a fascinating new study out.

00:36:45.000 It's a working paper from Tyler Giles of Wellesley College, Daniel Hungerman of the University of Notre Dame, and Tamar Oostrom of Ohio State University.

00:36:52.000 They looked at the relationship between religiosity and mortality from deaths of despair.

00:36:56.000 And what they found, unsurprisingly, is that as religiosity in a society decreases, deaths of despair increase.

00:37:02.000 Now, the metric that they use is really what's fascinating here.

00:37:05.000 So, what they noticed is not just that there was a massive decline in people who say they are religious in the United States.

00:37:12.000 What they found is that the actual association between increases in death of despair and decline in religion, decline of religion in their view is defined by lack of religious practice.

00:37:24.000 Not how often you say you pray.

00:37:26.000 Not religious thought.

00:37:27.000 Not spiritual, but not religious.

00:37:28.000 The thing that actually defines whether you are more likely to die a death of despair is whether you have dropped out of religious practice.

00:37:36.000 Which again, demonstrates that religion is a way of life.

00:37:38.000 And when you lose religion, you lose your way of life.

00:37:41.000 Religion is praxis. 1.00

00:37:43.000 It is not merely theoretical.

00:37:45.000 Secular society basically says that religion, if you are a believer, ought to be relegated to the realm of your mind.

00:37:49.000 That is not how religion has worked historically.

00:37:51.000 It's not how religion works practically.

00:37:53.000 Religion has a very Aristotelian cast. 0.78

00:37:55.000 Aristotle, of course, suggested that if you wish to be virtuous, you must practice virtue.

00:37:59.000 That if you wish to be a good person, you must practice doing good things.

00:38:02.000 If you want to be generous, you have to do generous things over and over and over until you get in the habit of doing generous things.

00:38:07.000 Religion says exactly the same thing. 0.72

00:38:09.000 In my own religion, we are We are hemmed in by literally thousands of arcane details of how you ought to live your life.

00:38:17.000 The point of those arcane details is to train you to think about something higher.

00:38:22.000 It's to train you to think about doing the good and right thing in the most minute everyday activities.

00:38:28.000 And when you drop out of religious practice, the idea of sort of broad speck from religious ideas is not a substitute for that.

00:38:35.000 What the secular world basically contended is that you could practice a secular life while having religious thoughts, and that is not the way this works.

00:38:41.000 And that's what this study finds.

00:38:42.000 And it finds that when you drop out of religious practice, you are more likely to drop into despair and into nihilism and into confusion and into chaos.

00:38:48.000 And you're also more likely to make yourself subject to false prophets like the people over at Davos. 0.97

00:38:52.000 There's a reason why secularists buy into all of the garbage that you're hearing spewed by the elitists over in Davos.

00:38:58.000 The authors of this study noted that many measures of religious adherence began to decline actually in the late 1980s. 0.93

00:39:03.000 They found that the large decline in religious practice was driven by the group experiencing subsequent increases in mortality.

00:39:09.000 White middle-aged Americans without a college degree.

00:39:12.000 States that experienced larger declines in religious participation in the last 15 years of the 20th century saw larger increases in deaths of despair.

00:39:19.000 The researchers looked at the repeal of blue laws in particular.

00:39:22.000 Blue laws limited commerce, typically on Sunday mornings. 0.67

00:39:25.000 These laws have been shown to be strongly related to religious practice, creating discrete changes in incentives to attend religious services that are plausibly unrelated to other drivers of religiosity, they said.

00:39:34.000 The repeal of blue laws had a 5 to 10 percentage point impact on weekly attendance of religious services and increased the rate of deaths of despair by two deaths per 100,000 people they found, which is a reasonably large share of the initial rise in the deaths of despair.

00:39:46.000 As the study found, it's about formal religious participation.

00:39:50.000 It's not belief or personal activities like prayer that people dropped out of that actually impacted their lives.

00:39:54.000 It is formal religious participation.

00:39:56.000 It makes you a member of a community.

00:39:57.000 It binds you to a system.

00:39:58.000 People require systems.

00:40:01.000 There are radical individualistic libertarians who believe that systems are all impositions on you.

00:40:05.000 That is incorrect.

00:40:05.000 People are embedded in systems of one sort or another.

00:40:08.000 You get to choose the system in which you are embedded.

00:40:10.000 You should choose to embed yourself in the system that is the most durable, embodies the most traditional wisdom, and is the best for you and your family.

00:40:18.000 These results underscored the importance of cultural institutions like religious establishments in promoting well-being, they said.

00:40:22.000 They further added they didn't know of any cultural phenomenon that matches the mortality patterns, which are seen for both men and women, but not in other countries, and in both rural and urban settings, but mostly middle-aged, less-educated white individuals.

00:40:32.000 The decline in religiosity matches mortality trends in all these characteristics, they wrote.

00:40:37.000 They pushed back on the opioid theory.

00:40:38.000 They said OxyContin was first introduced as a prescription drug in 1996, but by then, deaths of despair for middle-aged white Americans were already well above trend.

00:40:46.000 By the way, one thing that is worthy of note is that no-fault divorce really became a national law in the 1980s.

00:40:55.000 So if you're talking about what exactly shifted, no-fault divorce in the United States is essentially the thing that shifted.

00:41:03.000 And with that came family breakdown, came the rise of Individualistic, subjective autonomy, the belief that you were to be disconnected from institutions, and that bled all the way down the chain.

00:41:17.000 One of the great ironies, by the way, when it comes to the elitists is that they don't actually live like they preach.

00:41:21.000 If you look at the elitists, many of them are married.

00:41:22.000 Many of them have kids.

00:41:23.000 Many of them went to college.

00:41:24.000 Most of them made pretty good life decisions, which is how they got to be successful.

00:41:28.000 But the stuff that they preach is precisely the opposite of that.

00:41:30.000 And it's ingested by pop culture and then spewed out there.

00:41:33.000 And people who are sort of lower down on the economic scale, those are the people who tend to embody that.

00:41:37.000 And then those are the ones who suffer.

00:41:40.000 The elitists who, if you believe, like John Kerry does, that the elitists were given the power to rule, which is not something that I traditionally believe.

00:41:48.000 I believe that God was given the power to lead and that it was your job to follow God, right?

00:41:52.000 But they believe that they are the new gods.

00:41:54.000 If they believe that, then shouldn't they get the blame when things fall apart?

00:41:57.000 And the answer, of course, is they won't get the blame when things fall apart because they are the special people and they get to also control the dissemination of punishment.

00:42:05.000 So, of course, it's everybody else's fault, but their own. 0.72

00:42:09.000 All righty, meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to be in serious trouble over these classified documents found at his home.

00:42:17.000 They were found at his home.

00:42:17.000 They were found in his garage.

00:42:18.000 It turns out that his son, Hunter, who is a derelict, was in the home, maybe renting the home, at the same time that he was picking up bags of cash all over the world.

00:42:25.000 Well, there is something weird about this situation.

00:42:27.000 According to the Department of Justice, they actually declined to search with Joe Biden's legal team in Wilmington, Delaware, for classified documents.

00:42:35.000 According to dailywire.com, DOJ and the Wall Street Journal, DOJ officials considered sending FBI agents to monitor the search conducted by Biden's personal attorneys, but decided against the oversight to avoid complicating the investigation.

00:42:46.000 And because Biden's legal team had been cooperative, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:42:50.000 After 10 classified documents were found in Biden's office at a think tank in D.C., Biden's attorneys prepared to search the president's other properties for sensitive government papers.

00:42:57.000 DOJ officials met with the Biden attorney ahead of the search.

00:42:59.000 The two sides agreed to allow Biden's team to conduct the search without immediate oversight from the FBI.

00:43:04.000 Why?

00:43:06.000 Simple question.

00:43:06.000 Why?

00:43:08.000 If you say that you have classified documents that you have found in the guy's office and now you're going to go search his garage.

00:43:13.000 Number one, how do you know that?

00:43:14.000 I mean, these lawyers do not have classified clearance is my understanding.

00:43:18.000 Shouldn't you have people on scene with classified clearance to be able to determine what is classified and what is not in the documents so they can actually see it?

00:43:24.000 Because presumably they will have to use the power of sight in order to identify the classified documents.

00:43:28.000 And yet the DOJ was like, no, they're doing a great job.

00:43:31.000 It'll be fine.

00:43:32.000 Hands off.

00:43:32.000 It'll be totally fine.

00:43:34.000 You think they would have given that sort of benefit of the doubt to Donald Trump, even if he had not been obstructionist about the documents?

00:43:40.000 I have doubts.

00:43:41.000 Classified documents connected with Biden were first found in his private office at Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C.

00:43:45.000 on November 2nd, less than a week before the 2022 midterm elections.

00:43:49.000 Since then, Biden's attorneys have located more classified documents at Biden's home in Wilmington on three separate occasions.

00:43:54.000 An unspecified number found in the garage on December 20th, one document found in Biden's study on January 11th, and five more found in the study on January 12th.

00:44:03.000 Very strange that the DOJ decided that the lawyers did not need any oversight, like any help at all in order to do all of this.

00:44:11.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration is trying out all of its friends to make excuses.

00:44:14.000 Ben Rhodes, the bizarre and ridiculous national security advisor to Barack Obama and a failed novelist.

00:44:22.000 Who has no knowledge about foreign policy and yet was given a position of high power in the administration. 0.55

00:44:26.000 He says, really what this was, something went wrong in the boxing process.

00:44:29.000 Oh, is that what happened?

00:44:30.000 Something went wrong in the boxing process.

00:44:32.000 That's what we're calling this now?

00:44:33.000 Putting classified documents in the box.

00:44:35.000 I guess that's a way to say it.

00:44:38.000 That's like saying that a man cheats on his wife and he says something went wrong in the hotel reservation process.

00:44:44.000 You might say that, sure.

00:44:46.000 Here's Ben Rhodes.

00:44:48.000 Could you give us some insights into how these things can get mixed in with other pieces of paper?

00:44:55.000 I think it's trickier for a president or vice president, who obviously have far more documents in their offices, in their residences, than I did as a White House official.

00:45:06.000 And so clearly what happened here is something went wrong in the process of packing up those documents.

00:45:10.000 Documents got co-located.

00:45:11.000 And they could have been co-located, by the way, at any time.

00:45:13.000 It might have happened months before things were packed up.

00:45:16.000 A memo gets put in the wrong place here.

00:45:19.000 Oh, it's just a collation problem.

00:45:21.000 I guess that's what we'll call it now.

00:45:22.000 Meanwhile, Karine Jean-Pierre, world's worst press secretary, she was grilled on why she didn't tell people in the press corps that more documents had been found when the timeline suggests that she kind of knew that more documents had been found. 0.97

00:45:33.000 And she's like, oh, no, I've been completely honest.

00:45:35.000 And I'll just keep saying that until you believe me.

00:45:38.000 On Friday, you stood here, though, and were asked about the documents issued by our account some 18 times.

00:45:43.000 At that point, the president's lawyers had found these five additional pages of classified documents.

00:45:48.000 So did you not know on Friday that those documents had been found when you were at the podium?

00:45:52.000 Or are you being directed by someone to not be forthcoming on this issue?

00:45:56.000 I have been forthcoming from this podium.

00:45:58.000 What I said yes to was what the statement at the time that we all had, right?

00:46:03.000 You all had the statement, and I was repeating what the council was sharing at that time.

00:46:12.000 Oh, so you weren't transparent then.

00:46:16.000 Or you were lied to by Biden's people, and they sent you out there with false information.

00:46:20.000 Great job.

00:46:21.000 She got very mad when she was asked more about this, by the way.

00:46:23.000 Here was Kareen Jean-Pierre getting angry when asked about this.

00:46:26.000 But the White House Counsel was the one to go and facilitate the documents, to look for the documents.

00:46:33.000 Again, they have been working very closely with the Department of Justice.

00:46:36.000 I would refer you to them.

00:46:38.000 If you want to know specifically about their actions, specifically about what they're doing, I would point you to the White House Counsel's Office.

00:46:45.000 Guys, you guys can ask me this a hundred times, two hundred times if you wish.

00:46:50.000 I'm going to keep saying the same thing.

00:46:52.000 I hear your question.

00:46:53.000 It's been asked.

00:46:54.000 It's been answered.

00:46:55.000 It's been noted.

00:46:56.000 And we're just going to try to move on here.

00:46:57.000 Oh, I'm sure that you're going to try to move on here.

00:47:03.000 I noticed that.

00:47:04.000 Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:47:06.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:47:07.000 We'll be getting into how Republicans are staffing the House Oversight Committee.

00:47:10.000 It is fascinating.

00:47:11.000 They're going to get very aggressive very quickly.

00:47:13.000 Plus, we'll be getting to a suburban LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign pedophile ring that has now been actually uncovered. 0.99

00:47:21.000 Pretty horrifying stuff.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 18, 2023

Greta Thunberg Has Been Detained | Ep. 1649

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